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THE GEORGIA TELEGRAPH.
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS.
REGULAR MEETING.
Council Chambor, /
Macon, Ga., November 26th. \
Present—A. 13. Adams, Mayor.
Aid.—Kimllay. Flanders, Bostick, Bloom, tllia.
Absent—Winshlp, Johnston, Elf*.
The minutes of too last meeting were read, when
Aid. Bloom moved that so much of tbe minutes ss
refers to the Issuing of an execution against D. Demp
sey for filling np bis lot be stricken from the min
utes s which was carried, and the minutes were then
oosfinned. ,
The Bridge Keeper reported tolls for the week
'"rim Clerk of Market reported fees for the week to
' The^Guard House Keeper reported fees for tho
week, 74
The Finance Committee reported in favor of the
following accounts, via :
J. B. * W. A. Ross, *26 79: W. G. Little, 95.
The Chief Marshal reported Deputv Marshal Coop
er as having been absent from the city most of tho
time for a weeks, when
On motion Aid. Bostick, .
Resolved, that bis honor, the Mayor, be authorized
to appoint some suitable person to act as Deputy
Marshal in the place of H. J. Cooper, at the same
wage; that Deputy Marshals receive;
Passed. „ ., „
B. Fiudlay, F. S. Bloom, A. G. Bostick, Commit
teo.
Council then adjourned. n CURD c c
MA.C03ST, Gr-A-.
Tuesday Morning, Pec. 1, 1857.
ARRIVAL OF THE
Steamship Vanderbilt.
PANIC-RALLY—IMPROVEMENT.
New York, Nov. 24.—The United States
Steamship Vanderbilt, from Havre and Liv
erpool, November 14th, touched at St. Johns,
on Sunday, in a snow Morm. The eastern
lines being out of working order in con°e-
quenco of the storm, prevented an entire
transmission of the news.
Commercial.—The cotton market has been
very much depressed, and during the carlv
and middle portion of the week a general
panic prevailed and prices declined Id. to 2d.
On Friday tho market rallied, and C,000 bales
were sold at Id advance from the lowest point
of the week, and the market closed with an
advancing tendency.
All qua'ities of breadstuffs had s'ightly de
clined and provisions were also declining.
Suspension in England —A fearful finan
cial panic occurred on the day after the stcam-
r hip Atlantic sailed. All the banks refused to
discount in any shape. The Treasury De-
S artinent issued an order suspending the
lank of England’s charter, and authorizing
the issue of small notes to any amount. The
effect was an instantaneous cessation of the
panic.
The news was telegraphed to all the prin
cipal cities on the continent, and was received
with furious acclamations of pleasure.
Cotton nnd produce of all kinds immediate
ly appreciated in value. The cotton quota
tions are nominal and irregular.
Fair Orleans7|d; Middling Orleans; 7|d;
Fair Mobile 7Jd; Middling Mobile, no re
ceipts; Fair Uplands, 7Jd; Middling Upland
7d.
General News.—The English ship Dun
bar was wrecked near Sydney, and 140 pas
sengers and all (he crew were lost.
The English Parliament meet immediately.
. Jt is reported that Nena Sahib has again be-
sciged Lucknow with 50.000 rebels.
The Gwaticr mutineers had been subdued.
All of the city people found in Delhi were ,
bayonetted.
Many Europeans were fouud in the ranks of
the rebels at Delhi.
The news by the Vanderbilt was obtained
off Cape Race nnd telegraphed via Quebec.
Consols quoted from 891 to $9$.
Our Oaguerrcotypists,
Wood, it will be seen, has removed his quarters
to the new Washington Hall Block, and has fitted
up ;his new rooms with a taste and elegance un
rivalled before. Peon lias enlarged and beautified
bis sphere of operations. Our Macon pictures
stand No. 1 in Georgia—(took all the premiums
nearly)—and it Is hard to find better ones any'
where.
Lecture l>y Dr. Talinagc.
Don’t forget the Lecture to-night before the
Young Men’s Christian Association. Dr. Talmage
is confessedly one of the most accomplished men
in the country, and Macon should show him a house
worthy of the speaker.
YOUNG MEN’S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION.
Tho second Lecture of the Course before the As
sociation, will be delivered by the Rev. Dr. Samuel
K. Talmage, at Concert Hall, This (Tuesday) eve
ning, December I, 1857, at 7 o’clock. Subject—
Language, its origin ami its changes. The public,
especially the Ladies, are respectfully invited.
Cosmopolitan Art Association.
The 4 th award of Premiums by this Association
takes plaee on the 28th January next, and subscri
bers of three dollars up to that date, will be enti*
tied to a chance in this award—the Cosmopolitan
Art Journal, a splendid quarterly, one year—a
splendid engraving for framing, and a free admis
sion to the Di-sscldorf Gallery, which is now the
property of the Association, for one year. The
ist of Premiums embraces Powers’ celebrated Stat
ue of the Greek Slave, some other renowned works
of Sculpture, and several hundred valuable pictures
of tho best American Artists. R. L. Wood, Esq*
is the Agent for this city.
Concert Hail,
To-morrow night, llallcr, a pupil of the celebra
ted Adrien, gives an exhibition at Concert Hall.
He is last from Montgomery, where the papers all
speak highly of his performances. Drittan’s Daily
Messenger, say.,:
Go and See Him.—M. Haller delighted his audi
ence at Concert Hall on Saturday night, and a gen
tleman who was present, and who has seen the Mc
Allisters and Adriens, says that Haller is the great
est Magician of them all. The favorable reports of
his nstonisliing magical performances will crowd
the house to-night. —
The Kansas Constitution.
The Kansas question, in its present shape
is stated to be now the all-absorbing topic of
discussion at Washington. All accounts con
cur in representing the administration as pre
pared to take decided ground for the admis
sion of Kansas under the Constitution, and wo
judge that the bulk of the conservative De
mocracy North will back the measure. The
leading democratic prints generally supportit;
for example: tho Washington Union, Penn
sylvanian, Albany Atlas and Argus, New
York News, Cincinnati Enquirer, and Boston
and Providence Post; but, on the other band,
opposition has appeared in quarters where we
were altogether unprepared to anticipate it.—
Tho Philadelphia Press and the Chicago re
puted organ of Mr. Douglas are decided in
their denunciations of the Constitution, and
join with the Black Republican prints in anath
ematizing it as a fraud upon the popular sov
ereignty principle. The exceptions taken,
however, have so far been founded upon mani
fest misconception and misrepresentation.—
The Convention has, in fact, provided a full
and fair submission of the only question in
debate (the slavery question) to every free
white voter in the Territory. The “Provi
sional Revolutionary Government,” which was
represented as so alarming a usurpation, is no
more than the ordinary provision by schedule
and ordinance to take the popular sense under
authority of the Convention. It would be
manifestly illogical and uhsurd for the people
of Kansas to pass judgment upon their Consti
tution and the acts of delegates of their sover
eign power through mere federal agents. The
Tribune, which raves about this usurpation
and challenges all history for a precedent
need go no further back than Florida, where the
vote upon the adoption of the Convention was
taken wholly under authority of the Conven
tion, although the Territorial Government was
in full force, and remained so for eight years
afterward. Except in the siuglo point that
iu event the slavery clause he voted down
Slaveholders now in the Territory are not
thereby dispossessed of their property, there
is nothing of which the most rabid free soilcr
could complain, and upon this point the judg
ment of the country North and South will sus
tain tho Convention. Nevertheless the edict
Bank of Pennsylvania.
THE ALIBONE FRAUD—CAREER OF A FI
NANCIER.
A Philadelphia letter appears in one of tho New
York prints, giving a minute history of the upris
ing and down-falling of Thomas Alibone, tho de
faulting and absconding President of the Bank of
Pennsylvania. He began life as a clerk upon the
wharf—one of eight orphan children reared by the
morals of N. York, Ac., and a Free
SOIL DEDUCTION
In Gotham, and parts adjacent, Satan is ev
idently “going about like a roaring lion.”—
Three or four columns in every daily issue for
the past ten days or fortnight have been occu
pied with the details of crime committed the
preceding day or night, and these generally
Arrival of tin* Africa.
New Yobk, Nov. 27.—The steamship Af
rica has arrived with Liverpool dates to tbc
14th, same as brought by the Vanderbilt.
Private despatches by the Africa state that
confidence has been restored, that spinners’
stocks of cotton are exhausted, and that the
sales on Friday peached 8,000 bales.
News by the Fulton.
Monetart—The financial advices are of absorb'
ing interest. The money market is firmer, and the
good effects by the suspension of the Bonk Charter
act, arc everywhere visible. The demand for dis
count is less apparent.
The rate of interest at Hamburg had declined 4
per cent.
Failvres.—Several failures are reported in
France, among which arc Uordcn, Dubant &. Co.,
and Philips A Yiber. No suspension had occurred
of houses interested in the American trade.
Markets—The sugar market had improved in
Loudon fully -is. Rice inactive. No report of the
Liverpool market.
The Liverpool papers of the 17th state that cot
ton quotations are nominal, none arc given. Sales
of American on Tuesday 1500 to 2,000 bales. The
quotations for India Cotton arc jd higher. The
market closed very flat, operators awaiting finan
cial developments. Wheat declined 18d. to 2s
Flour declined 8s. to 4s. fid. Com flat.
In London a panic had originated in Breadstuffs.
Wheat had declined 2s. to 8s., the lower nnd infe
rior qualities beingjunsalenblc. Rice flat.
The Wolverhampton and Staffordshire banks had
suspended, liabilities very heavy, great excitement.
Judtgc A. 1£. Longstrcct.
Columbia, S. C., Nov. 26.—The Trustees
of the South Carolina College lost night elect
ed Judge A. B. Longstrcct President of the
College.
The Bengal Sepoys.
An intelligent American shipmaster, who
hns been much in the Calcutta trade, in a re
cent letter to friends, has taken a somewhat
different view of the rebellion from that which
is entertained by many persons, and bis opin
ion pos8esiies some interest for those engaged
in the East India trade, as well as to general
readers. He says;
“ I look upon the mutiny as of very short
duration. It is confined wholly to the com
pany’s soldiers, but few of whom arc in tact
natives of Bengal. They are nearly all emi
grants from Arnbin and other parts of Asia,
nnd are mostly Mahometans and Hindoo Bra-
mins. They were brought into Bengal by the
East India Company officials as hewers of
wood and drawers of water for them. The
moss of the Hindoo population, who arc ns fifty
to one of the sepoys or soldiers, arc deadly
cuemics to them, and would be glad to see
every one of them put to death. Tho sepoys
have nothing to do with tilling the ground,
but are a poor, miserable race of idle loafers,
nnd with the force England lias on the way,
there will not be a sepoy left alive when the
planting season arrives next spring. Trade
may be interrupted for a short time, but I
cannot think the interruption will lust long.
You think I take a wrong view of the matter,
hut it is my opinion, founded on much obser
vation in that country, and I always have more
faith in what I see myselftlian in what I hear
from others.”
Good.
Some three days ago, n distinguished mili
tary gentleman of this city, was called upon
by‘a gentleman for whom he had endorsed,
saying that he could not meet the note that
was due in one of the city banks the next day.
Our military friend began to “flax around,”
went to the bank, told the Cashier how be was
situated and offered notes on thirty and sixty
days for the payment. The Cashier told him
to come again, when he would meet the Presi
dent. Our military friend weut on the time
appointed, saw the President, explained mat
ters, and the President taking him by the but
ton bole, volunteered advice to the following
effect; “ Mr. you should never put your
endorsement on a note unless you arc sure of
its being paid at the time agreed.” Mr.
said nothing, but when on Wednesday the
city banks had suspended, he happened to
meet the President, took him by the button
hole, and edressed him as follows—“.Mr.
I want to give you a little advice. Never put
your name on a note unless you are sure it will
be paid at the time agreed. 1 have noticed a
great many notes floating about with your
name upon them, but they were refused re
lic mption!’’ Tho emotions of the President
over powered him.— Worcester Bay Stale.
Snodgrass, being sick of single blessedneta
advert ses for a wilt!. The next day he re
ceived a note from Mrs. McPherson, inquiring
•what he wanted of her,"
Reform Medical Practice.
Tha Reiorm Practice, with a History of Medicine,
from the earliest period to the present lime, and a
I 1 - s»» forti “ ii »*
College of Georgia. First Edition. Macon, Go., must stay away from the polls and throw up
on Congress and the Administration the
onus of admitting Kansas under a Constitution
framed and ratified, as is alleged, by a small
minority of the Kansas voters. By this game
it4s hoped to embarrass the timid among the
Northern Democratic Congressmen and defeat
the application. Blustering threats of civil
war are made in case Congress should attempt
to force the Constitution upon the unwilling
majority, who thus propose to stay away from
the polls _to gain advantage of their pwn
wrong. We believe the country will dispose
of this matter as it now stands by admitting
Kansas with this Constitution.
M. £. Thompson, M. I)., publisher for the Faculty.
Georgia Telegraph Steam Power Press, 1857.—
Octavo, pages 1136.
This is probably the largest work—no doubt, the
largest scientific work ever printed in Georgia. —
It has liccn got up primarily to meet a pressing
want of the College—a text Book containing the
description, causes and diagnosis of disease, with
the method of treatment prescribed by the Reform
School. Until this publication no such work was in
existence, and the students had been compelled,
at much expense, ta resort to standard allopathic
books in tlicir studies upon the origin, character
and sypmtomatic developments of disease. The
work, however, is of equal convenience and adap
tation to the Reform practitioner in the field.—
“ Nc sutor ultra crepidani,” saitli the proverb, and
we slinil not, therefore, set up as censor upon the
manner in which the learned doctors have per
formed their task. We are no physician, and
thnnk God, never had much occasion for personal
interest in Medicine. Our idea, however, is that
there lias been altogether too much mere scholas
ticism in medicine, and that probably every exist
ing school had its origin in a discovery of means
or theory worthy of patient and scientific investiga
tion. We think, there is already a growing dis
position to latitude of inquiry and resource among
the doctors, nnd that there is occasion for it. It
is a fact startling to the uninitiated who may have
a life interest in the solution of it, that his doctor
is applying remedies whicl other physicians, equal
ly skilled, it may be, pronounce to be death deal
ing, ineradicable poisons. What satisfaction is
there in the lancet, when it has just been demon
strated to you by the Chroi.o-Thermalist, that in
losing blood you arc losing life—that Washington
himself was actually bled to death ! We knew a
question of bleeding argued in a sick room—one
physician said to bleed, was to kill in five minutes
—the other said bleeding was the true remedy.—
The point was decided by the friends in favor of
the lancet, and death gained a minute and a half
on the doctor’s prognostication. There is no field
of human thought or inquiry, which ought to be
ranged with more unfettered step—more unbiass
ed mind than that of medicine. The book before
us is one which will hardly fail to IeaTc its impress
upon the mind of the inquirer.
This publication Is itself a striking cvidenco of
the Reform School and the stable prosperity of the
College. Both nre ' unmistakoably progressing.—
The College has for its Faculty men not only of
literary and scientific ability—but men earnestly
devoted to their system—thoroughly impressed
witli its value, and energetically pushing it for
ward. This College is now as efficiently endowed
as any in the State—has probably larger classes
than any. It has, it is true, received the benefit
of two appropriations from the State Treasury, but
it has also sustained great losses by fire. We sup
pose it to be the most prosperous Medical School
in Georgia. Of the typographical execution of the
work it docs become us to speak, except to say,
that although it was crowded out in a very short
space of time and done upon ordinary material,
we hope it will do no discredit to the Georgia
Press.
Tlic Wise ami Hunter Controversy.
We publish to-day the much talked of letter of
Gov. Wise to the Richmond Enquirer, presuming
that the space could be hardly occupied with more
acceptability to the reader, whether he agrees with
the positions assumed by Gov. Wise or not. Gov.
Wise is a clear, bold and vigorous writer, dashing
away at bis object with a fearless unreserve and
abandon altogether without a parallel antoug our
public mon. It will be seen that he in fact dis
claims controversy and conflict with Senator Hun
ter, and in his views of the course ofWalker in Kan
sas conflicts materially with the general position
of the Georgia Democracy and of the Telegraph.
Hals anil Claps!
Can it be that tbc flinty heart of STONE is a t
last touched with poetic fire t If so, hope is left
yet. There is a chance. Caps may be set for hifn,
and somebody “take his hat,”—who kpows? After
this, let us never despair of the Republic.
Oil’ at Last.
The new steamer Adriatic, of the Collins line, is
off for Europe at last, after the expiration of over
a year from the time it was first advertised to sail.
The delay was due to new experiments upon her
engines, which must have sunk several small for
tunes as well as lost a year’s time on the immense
investment. The Adriatic is the fastest and finest
specimen of ocean steamships afloat She aailed
last Monday, 23d, nftei;a chapter of small accidents
in getting off. She took 38 passengers and $400,-
000 in specie.
Valii;il>!e Information. ’
If one has much to do, he cannot aflord time to
go to a professional tonsor in his morning toilet—
If Lis time is worth much it would cost him a thou
sand or two dollars a year to shave in that way.—
A good razor is, therefore, a sina qua non. About
n year ago, Mr. Weed dropped into our pocket a
brass backed thin blade razor, made by Elliott,
and which we have been using all this time without
a hone, and without a doubt that it is about the
sharpest razor in Macon. The reader who takes
this voluntary testimony and buys one of those
razors, will find this the most valuable paragraph
to him personally that has ever appeared in the
Telegraph.
The Foreign News.
The past week has been signalized by foreign
news of an extraordinary character. After the re
ception of the Atlantic's news on the 11 tli, the j>au
ic took them, and a perfect commercial crash en
sued. Cotton went down immediately three cents
a pound. The next day an Order in Council ap
peared, substantially authorising an unlimited issue
by the Bank of England to meet the crisis. The
Bank by its charter is restricted in its issues to the
amount of its capital stock, £11,558,000, aud eve
ry note beyond that sum must be based upon an
equal amount of bullion in its vaults. The orde r
suspended penalties and authorised any required
amouut of excess. It is not a suspension of specie
payments, but must probably lead to it. It was a
desperate remedy for what was felt to be a des
perate case.
In the wild joy and excitement which followed
this expedient, a great reaction immediately took
place. Cotton recovered one half its decline in a
day, and sales of 800 bales were noted. Middling
Uplands were quoted at 7J.
The Fulton from Southampton on the 18th,
brought later dates, but no cotton quotations are
reported.
Consols had improved 4, and money matters were
decidedly easier. Several heavy failures are re
ported. Breadstuff* have u declining tendency,
and there was something like a panic with holders.
The Bank of France 1ms been discounting liber-
ailv.
Another Steamboat Disaster.
The steamboat Rainbow was burnt about ten
miles'below Napoleon, on the Mississippi river, on
tbo 21st ult. The bad three hundred and forty-sev
en passengers—seventy-five of whom arc supposed
to be lost. The officers of the boat were saved.—
The fire is attributed to incendiarism. The boat
was run ashore and then burnt to the water’s edge.
Her books and papers were destroyed, and there is
consequently no list of her passengers. Ti e Rain
bow was a fine boat, of four hundred and eighty-
seven Ions, and was built at New Albany, Indiana,
in 1854.
The Bauft Bill
Which passed the House last Tuesday—was sub
soqucntly reconsidered, and which we are inform
ed is likely to pass the House again to-day, (Mon
day) reads as follows :
AN ACT to declare and define the duties of the
Governor in relation to the several banka in
this State, which have suspended specie pay
ments.
The General Assembly do enact that the Gover
nor, be, and he is hereby authorized and required,
not to institute proceedings against either of the
banks in this State that have suspended specie pay
ments for the forfeiture of their charters, provided
they resume on or before the first day of June next,
or within thirty days after a general resumption of
specie payments, except in the case of such banks
as the Governor shall be satisfied, upon proper evi
dence, were obliged to suspend because they lmd
not been doing a legitimate banking business.
Provided that they shall pay specie upon sueli of
their notes * > shall lie required by the Treasurer
for the payment of the public debt or the interest
thereon.
We clip tliis'copy of the bill from the Georgian,
and if it is * t-uc one, it needs re-wording badly.—
It leaves a wide discretion to the Governor. What
is “ a legitimate banking business,” and how is the
Governor to satisfy himself whctlier the Banks
have done it, or not ?
From Mexico.
The Tennessee arrived from Vera Cruz at New
Orleans, on Tuesday last, with twenty-three politi
cal exiles on board. She bad dates from the city Oj.
Mexico to tlic loth, and reported that anotliqr re.
volution is about drawing to a bead, which will dis
place Commonfort and re-instate Santa Anna as
Provisional President of the Republic.
Loss of the Opelousas.
From the narratives of the survivors of this un
happy wreck tlic catastrophe was the result of in
excusable negligence. The right was clear und
pleasant, and the steamers met at the usual time
and place. The conclusion appears to be irresista-
blc that no watch was kept on cither vessel, and
indeed, one correspondent of the New Orleans pa
pers testifies to having seen the man at the Galves
ton’s wheel asleep, a abort time before the catas
trophe. The loss of life on board the Opelousas
was twenty-one.
The Third District.
31r. Lockett, one of the Representatives from
this county, has introduced a bill changing the
third Congressional District by substituting the
counties of Twiggs and Pulaski for Talbot and Har
ris—the former of which is attached to the second,
and the latter to the 4th District.
industry of a widowed mother. Ho rose to wealth I of a dye supposed to be a favorite one with
as a partner in the house of Alibone & Troubat— that potentate—that is to say, crimes of the
indebted for his success to the capital, sagacity and deepest dye, whether black or red. One mur-
judgmont of his partner, who was unfortunately der per diem we take to be about a fair av-
drowned while bathing at Cape May. After Tou- era g C 0 f that grade of crime, and as a sample
bats death Alibone dashed ahead in business with p r0 g ram me, we quote the heading of one day’s
a recklessness and impetuosity that confused oper- , ^ Tribune 0 f tbe 2 3d :
ations, and to get him out of the way, he was made m. , , , .. , . r , ,,
p .7 , . “The club and tho knife—probable murder
President of the Bank in 1853. e , , „
With this elevation, says the narrative, the man- of apoheeman—another officer beaten by bur
ners of the President underwent a great change.— glars—a man stabbed in the face—stabbing
He assumed new airs of importance, and his whole I affray in Cherry Street—garrote robbery in
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would appear almost that his head was turned, that sassins arrested—Mr. Hamilton’s murderer
he bad got beyond bis depth. At the same time I locked up—three murders and a suicide on
his whole style of living became unjustifiably, ex-1 T T . .
travagant. *The last two years of his incumbency I • l,ou 1j i8| ana
afford melancholy evidence of folly in this respect, All this is shocking enough, but really not an
a folly that was either childish or criminal. His I unusual breakfast of horrors to the readers of the
IlTresidence wThimrTe^ U large t sum Pr Tetc^ New York morning papers in the last fortnight,
up a separate country seat in New Jersey, drove a And the details of these crimes have not, as
fine carriage, kept ten servants in his family, and contrasted with the caption, the comet-like
lived at the most expensive watering places in the ,, . _ , XT v . •
most expensive style. He was absurdly lavish of I sen iblanco of most New \ ork newspaper m-
presents among his friends. To one he sent a telligence—to wit: a portentous and fiery
handsome carriage, and he bought immense billsjof heading followed only by a rapidly diminish
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religion, he scattered tracts at watering places generally astonish the readers with details of
whenever lie appeared there, and obtruded "with a universal depravity—a disgusting absence of
ostentatious frequency his pious exhortations, un-| decency and virtue all round—in principals,
til pleasure from social intercourse was marred by J . . , , r . * .
tlic persistent introduction of these topics. To I accessories, victims and witnesses, so that the
those who visited his house this habit became abso-1 shock of the caption deepens into amazed and
lately offensive. A new church at West Pbiladel* loathin g horror M the tale progresses,
phia, built at lus instigation, is now about being I _ _ _ t _ .
finished. The philosophers of the I nbunc and other
The new bank building in Chestnut street is also New York prints are speculating upon the
rapidly approaching completion. The folly of the caus(J of tbis f t , arful ava lanchc of crime. One
He knew, if no one else did, that the bank was in-1 attributes it to idleness, want of employment
solvent. Yet in the face of this knowledge he urg- another to the Black Republican police—anoth-
edthc erection of a building which would cost er t 0 the corruption of the Courts and the in
$250,000. There it stands, its elaborate granite I ,. .
front an enduring monument of his faithlessness I efficient administration of justice
and weakness. No cost seems to have been spared These are all but streams from the source
in its construction. Iron doors of splendidly or- and only show what the crimes themselves
namcntal patterns, an iron counter cast from pat- . .... , . , .
terns of elaborate design and workmanship, a huge I evince, to wit: the conceded fact that in some
vault of chilled iron plates, erected in the center way or other society has become unhinged aud
of the banking room and covered with designs of demoralized. The philosophers in search of a
high artistic beauty, trescoed ceilings, marble floors I . % . r
throughout, and everything in corresponding style, I cause, are simply assigning one effect tor anoth-
give evidence of the lavish waste of money stimu- er. Now when a row and crime happens in
lated by this man’s insane prodigality. But in the I Mississippi, Alabama or Georgia, and becomes
decorations and appliances of his own private room . 9
in the bank his folly has run wild. Unknown to a ma ^ cr °f comment with the Tribune, every
tho building committee, he gave orders for furni- body knows how philosopher Greeley accounts
ture and decorations which more than doubled the | f or jt v It illustrates nothing more or less to
a bath-room replete with every convenience, were I . m * n ^ *h an demoralizing, influence of
the adjuncts of this luxurious parlor. It occupies I African Slavery ! Southern Society is radi-
thc second story of the building, and wts approach-1 cally wroug in its organization, and crime is
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combination of luxurioos appliances—no such su-1 uot that your invariable argument and deduc
premely foolish outlay has ever been witnessed in tion, Mr. Tribune ? Can any 131ack Repub
1-^n.ho
opposite, contained no such evidences of absurd I free sou cant for twenty,years past;
expenditure as Young America lavished on the Well, then, here is Northern “free” society
B TvhRe ffibouul“waa going on, the whole capi- confessedly getting worse and worse every
tal of the bank, amounting to $1,875,000, with a day, until its own enormities have startled lt-
surplus of £400,000, had been utterly sunk. Strange self and it begins to look about for a reason.—
as it may seem, the Directors appear to have been Th ; 3 gcncra i declension i 8 no t confined to a
studiously kept in ignorance of this fact. The I ** v . w - v e ,
state of the bank, as laid before them weekly by spot not peculiar to New York, though we
the President, was shown to be sound, and no_ evi- I speak of an illustration there. It is universal,
deuce has been produced to show that a single a jj over jj 1(J n o n . s lavebolding States. Al-
niembcr of the Board entertained the least suspi-1 , . . , , e
cion of the wholesale frauds upon its funds. Their I niost every day brings forth new aud surprising
confidence in the integrity of the President grew I developements—not only of b'ood, murder and
out of long business acquaintance with him, and the more henious crimes, but of all kinds of
they w ere all men of fortune. Tins commence re-1 ...... ... .
niaincd unshaken up to the hour of his ignominious I outrage upon social and religious obligations;
flight. As he had slummed religion, so bad he I breaches of faith in the most unexpected quar-
shainmed sickness, and in both cases the cheat was I s0 frequent that they crowd upon the
successful. For days together his fastest friends I, , , , , , , . , . • •
among the Directors pleaded with him to change I heels of each other and make a staple topic in
his purpose of going to Europe into a retirement the prints ; and recent statistics of Churches,
at his beautiful country scat on the edge of the I an( j religious bodies show that the religious
New-Jerscv Pines, there to remain in quiet seclu-1 , „
sion until the embarrassments of the bank were I clement has actually diminished in strength
removed, and to assist in that removal by his ex-1 during’the last ten years at the North—that
planations and advice. His intimate friend Bishop it has not on) not kcpt up in numb ers with
Totter, ottered to accompany him if he would de-1 . • „ _
lay his departure for a fortnight. But no friendly I increase of population, but fallen oil from
entreaty could avail, and horrified by the conse- what it was ten years ago.
quenees of the rapidly impending discovery he Wbat , tbeu , Messrs. Pphilosophers, shall we
sailed for Europe with Ins wile and daughters, both I , r 1
unconscious of the real cause of his voyage, the I borrow the deduction you Apply to the South,
former leaving a baby six months old, and he leav-1 and say these are the fruits of Northern social
g the bank a helpless wreck. organization. Why not ? If we should say
Immediately after lus departure, the Directors . . . c . :
succeeded in ascertaining the cause of the ruin.— I m extenuation of Southern crime our courts
They were thunderstruck at the deliberate, syste- are corrupt—our people idle—our politicians
malic, skillful and long-continued falsification of the demoralized, your cuchinnations would soon
books and accounts. Any Board of Directors in the . „ „
world would have been deceived by the skillful I us " 0 wer C assigning no cause of public
figuring of this man, even in the absence of that en- demoralization, but only confessing the fact
tire confidence which they placed in his integrity. I jj olv will you escape your own deductions ?—
A private loan-book, kept m the private desk of the I , J . 1 J .
President, and now first brought to the knowledge I “°w snow that free society as it exists m the
of the Board, reveals astounding facts. Men who non-slaveholding States is not proving itself a
never borrow a dollar are here charged as being I f„;i ure i Q ar f orm 0 f society is as old as the
large debtors to the bank. Other who had bor- J . .
rowed, on being sent for and payment demanded, I world yours but a mere experiment of sixty
produce evidence that they have refunded the loans, or seventy years. There is not on the face
Envelopes, indorsed as containing valuable securi- 0 f ( bc earth a social organization like yours—
ties, on being opened arc found to have had the I . . . .. , . ,
securities abstracted, and mere memoranda, techui-1 where a perfect theoretic;! civil and socia
cally known as “ ghosts,” occupying their places, equality exists among all classes—where
Large transactions made without the knowledge of I t ba fierce competition and strife for mastery
the Board, arc detected with the brokers, and it is , , ... . , ... , Z,
confidently believed that from these quarters many _ f n0 cur * J Either in habit, usage or law. It
assets may bo recovered for the bank. Vogue is iu fact a mere experiment. How know you
hopes arc entertained that enough may be recover- tbat j t ; s not prov ing a failure i
ed from the wreck to enable the bank to go on and 1
preserve its valuable charter, which has just been
extended twenty years. Already the stoek is on .
..... ... . . .. .. . ... tbe
FROM MILLEDGEVILLE.
Private Correspondence of the Georgia Telegraph
3HLLEDGE VILLE,
Nov. 28, 1857.
In House.—Bills Passed.—To amend the
various laws in relation to allowing Tax Col
lectors an insolvent list by the Grand Juries
of the several counties in this State.
To compel persons residing out of this State
to return all lands owned by them in this State
in the county where the land lies.
To require the citizens of tlii3 State to give
in the Number, District, Section and County
where their lands lie, &c.
To reimburse John H. Howard for expenses
incurred by him in the Courts of Alabama and
of the U. S. in defence of the State line, as de
scribed in the compact of 1803.
To allow compensation for transcribing the
numerical land Books in the Executive. Dc
partmeut.
To pay the Clerk the cost due him in crim
inal pauper cases returned to the Supreme
Court of this State, and to explain the 17th
Sect, of the Act organizing the same.
To amend the Act, regulating the rights of
husbands in and to the property of their de
ceased wives.
The remainder of the day was consumed in
reading Bills a second time.
November 28, 1857.
In Senate.—Bills Introduced.—To lay out
and organize a new county from the counties
of Macon, Marion and Sumter.
The Senate agreed to a Resolution instruct
ing our Senators and Representatives in Con
gress to urge the passage of a law granting a
pension to the soldiers of the war of 1812.—
Also to the soldiers of the Indian Wars be
tween the years 1790 and 1815.
The Bank question, which was tho unfinish
ed business of yesterday, was called, and con
siderable discussion had on the same, in which
Messrs. Gibson, Whitaker, and Ward for, and
Buchanan against the Banks, participated.—
Daring the afternoon the discussion between
Gibson and Buchanan grew to an exciting per
sonal character, the former, however, recanted,
and there tho matter dropped. The question
will be again resumed on Monday, but no one
can form a correct idea of the result of the is
sue, or fate of the Banks : at any rate the
subject is momentous, and hasty legislation
should be avoided. It would be the most pro
fitable for the Senate to lay this matter on the
table for the balance of the session, rather
than endorse or encourage the present un
wholesome and defective system of Banking.
In my judgment, when the charter of each
suspended Bank in this State is declared for
feited, and the Legislature shall have repealed
all existing Acts, by the passage of a law up
on sound, judicious and correct principles,
then the Banks will be safe, the people will be
safe, and the country will be in a safe, sound,
and solvent condition. But so long as the
present system is endorsed, the confidence of
the people will continue to grow “beautifully
less,” until a sound reaction comes, bringing
with it substantial security with the full assu
rance that the people are in the safe enjoy
ment of their rights and property.
HIBERNIA.
the list of fancies, nnd having gone down from
$112 to $(1, now vibrates up to $10.
Though this bank had in former times been rob'
bed by burglars, and was plundered in 1840 by a
Native Genius In Kansas.
“ Necessity, ” saith the proverb, “ i
mother of invention,” and this same matron
has developed some striking illustrations of
confidential clerk of many hundred thousand dol-1 inventive faculty in the Territory of Kan'
hire, who escaped the State prison by a hasty sas. The conscientious sharp rifle legion, di
flight, his guilty consci^ from the shades of New Haven, and of
he was suspected, yet it largely enjoyed the confi-1 . ’ ‘
deuce of the community. It had been for many I course of a religious turn of wind, could not
years under tbo management of members of the for one moment permit tho thought of qualify-
Socicty of Friends, and this circumstance attracted ; to f raudulcnt election returns . Th .
numerous women, trustees for orphans, for chanta- °
bie institutions, churches and schools, to purchase I spectors were therefore sent up into a second
its stock as a safe investment. The dividend was story room, and receiving the votes through a
10 per cent per annum. Even the Mormon church- knot h , ; a ^ wcre cnabled conscici ,_
es invested their money in it. Some of these ! . . . , •
stockholders have great stakes at risk, varying from tiously to swear that they saw no fraud or
100 up to 700 shares. Some families, composed malpractice at the polls. But Kansas ingenu-
wholly of females, have their all in the stock while ; ty ran ; nto mattera 0 f finance, also. Wo cut
others are only measurably impoverished by the I f . , , , ,,
loss. Already"the bitter fruits of this swindle have *-‘ ie Btclosed from the Charleston Mercury ;
been tasted by some. Widows with families of “A Kansas Bank.—During the debate on
daughters have been compelled to give up the com- the banking articles of the Kansas bogus Con
torts of a genteel home and go into a single room, stitution, it came out that in making up a
Tbo ruin is, indeed, wide-spread and almost com- ban k at Lecompton, last summer, it was nc-
plcte. It ought to admonish all that bank stock is cessary , in accordan ce with the charter, to
mentor orphan cb'M^m en Twrmuch ,, fa , tanrt6d W m I ° f do1 *
thc virtue, feeble at best, of poor, weak human na-1 i 8 ”!_ ™ e ., the Governor counted one bag at
a time, the other was carried out and brought
in again, and this was done until $50,000 were
counted and certificates obtained.
South Carolina Senator.
A second ballot took place on Saturday, result
ing Hammonds 71; Pickens 50; Chester 80 ; Rhctt
1. Election postponed till 3Ionday.
ture.
Resumption.
All tho Banks in New Orleans and Mobile arc
now paying specie, and the Herald says that the
New Y'ork City Banks are ia effect doing tho same
—that is to say, they are redeeming their hills,
when asked, although they might not honor the
cheeks for specie of depositors to large amounts.
From Washington.—Washington, Nov. 23d.—
The War Department designs sending two columns
of military into Utah from tho Pacific side. One
from Oregon and the other from California.
While the President was receiving company to-
claims to the President, who quietly withdrew to I r, < oaler ^’' 11 ^ in S I alr Hi* Charleston, Middling
the private office which ai(joins the audience room Fair at 12. In New Y’ork the market was dull,
and remained there until the cause of it reluctant- with sales of onlv 300 bags,
ly retired. 1
The sovcrcigiupcople of Georgia were robbed in
the person of one of their Representatives, Mr
Stephens, at the So. Ca. R. R. Depot last Thursday.
Cotton Markets.
Of very little value arc quotations a day old in
theso unsteady times. Cotton in Augusta on Sat
urday, was quoted at 11 to 11$, with sales of 400
hales. In Savannah, 269 hales were sold at 11 to
South Carolina Scuator.
- Columbia, Nov. 27.—On the first ballot for
Senator in the Legislature to-day, ex-Gov.
A villainous pickpocket abstracted all of Mr. St^ I Hammond received 61 votes ; Hon F. W.
phen s fluids in hand, hut w*> cons,derate enough John S . p re3 ’ t0Di 18) No eIect!on . Thc Lc _
to cat e his papers untouched. gislaturc adjourned without taking another
While Wellington rode along the line on I ballot,
the day of Waterloo, lie reigned up on seeing
his friend themarquis of Anglesea, lifted bleed-1 From Washington.
ing from the ground. “I have lost my leg Washington, Nov. 27 It is understood
gcncrai,” sa ,(1 Anglcsca to Ins commander— that tbe p rcs!de nt and thc entire Cabinet
1 he devil you have! ’said the “ iron” duke, *. • , . . .. “ , 1
and put spurs to his horse. This laconic sym- umtc , m SU8tamm S tlle action of tho Kansas
pathy was too much for poor Anglesea, and he I Constitutional Convention relative to tho
never forgave. | mode of deciding the question of slavery,
From another Correspondent.
MILLEDGEVILLE, Nov. 28, 1857.
Bear Telegraph: YVhat is the Legislature doing?
every body out of Mifledgcvillc asks, and no body
in Alilledgevillc can answer.
Nothing is yet perfected here—with the excep
tion of thc Bank Bill, which has been thoroughly,
lengthily, and by many speakers prosily debated
for the last week or ten days. In tho debate some
young men have made reputation, a few old mem
bers have added somewhat to their fame, but in
most instances thc speeches have been dry, stale
and unprofitable.
In the House, Gordon of Chatham, Gloss ofNcw-
ton and Hillyer of Walton, have shown that they
have the stuff in them, of which great men are
made.
Gordon of Chatham, by his able and dexterous
management of the Bank Bill, reported by the
Committee of which he is Chairman, has won the
approval of all impartial hearers. He is destined
to become a prominent man in our State if he lives.
Glass of Newton and Ilillyer of Walton, are also
graceful and eloquent speakers, not as thoroughly
trained ,however, as thc member from Chatham
The best speech made in thc House thus far du’
ring thc session, was thc impromptu effort of Col,
Kenan of Baldwin, on the Bank Bill. I have heard
it spoken of in terms of the highest commendation
and praise. He is by far the best Parliamentarian
in thc House, and makes a highly useful member,
Mr. Diamond of DeKalb, is a man of business
and excellent jadgment. There- nre others who
deserve a passing notice, but want of time prevents.
I may give you sketches of thc leading men before
the close of session
Your Senator, Mr. Stubbs, made an excellent
speech on the Bank Bill on yesterday, YVard of
Chatham, also, a long telling speech.
Buchanan of Coweta, ably leads thc anti-Bank
squadrons.
I think a Bill will pass, legalizing thc suspension
with proper guards and restrictions.
- The State Aid Bill—The Ylilitary Institute—Deaf
and Dumb—Blind, and Lunatic Asylum Bills, are
all got to come up. Nothing will be done with the
State Road, and this is probably the best that can
be done—it is now under excellent management.
Thc impression is, that the Legislature will ad
journ about tbe 20th, in time fdr the members to
take Christmas dinner at home.
Yours, &e. “ON THE WING.”
CITY DEMOCRATIC MEETING.
At a meeting of the Democratic Party of
the City of Macon, held on Saturday last, at
the Council Chamber, to prepare for thc next
Municipal Election, the meeting was organ
ized on motion of J. A. Nisbet, by calling Dr.
E. L. Strohccker to the Chair, and requesting
Mr. S. F. Gove to act as Secretary.
The Chairman having stated Uie object
the meeting, J. A. Nisbet, Esq. introduced
the following resolution, which was unanimous
ly adopted, viz;
Resolved, That a committee of 21 be ap
pointed by this meeting to arrange and select
a ticket for Mayor and Aldermen, to bo sup
ported by the Democratic Party at the ap
proaching Charter Election, and report to an
adjourned meeting to be held at Concert Hall,
at 7 o’clock p. in. on Saturday next.
The following named gentlemen were duly
appointed that committee :•
Jas A Nisbet, Ch’n., E L Stroheckcr, J T
Boiffeullett, J B Ross, Geo 31 Logan, A 31
Smith, E C Rowland, J J Gresham, L N
Whittle, T R Bloom, S F Gove, G W Adams,
Dr Damour, T W Brantley, A P Powers, Jos
Clisby, W C Wilson, J 3Iassctt, J S Iloge,
E E Brown, B A Wise.
On motion, it was
Resolved, That tho proceedings of this
meeting be published in thc Georgia Tele
graph and State Press.
E. L. STROIIECKER. Ch’n.
S. F. Gove, Secretary.
liriiuswcck aud Main Trunk*
We are glad to see that a compromise lias at
last been effected by these rival Houses, and a bill
;cd thc Senate and sent to the House last Fri-
ay, which will clear the way for the Main '1 rank
“Too Anxious, by n. llf r^
Our American friends are alto - .n ’
ious about tli G issue aud the ext,, nur-?! '-k
Georgia Democrats and the Ad : .“***»>
relation to Kansas. Does any
that if 3Ir. Fillmore had been el
resuU in Kansas-any e.ourse of hi 5
tration there would hare driven Ge * ^
Nothingism into hostile attitude
administration? It sacrificed^] K
and swallowed the Blissouri restriai “ ^
barren privilege of sustaining hinT' 03 ^
date ! Does any one imagine that
outside the Democratic party conh ^
South one solitary Northern vote i r'*'
for the admission of Kansas with ,
ing Constitution or for the admisri! 7*^
slaveholding State ? Notone' Y 0#f
the determination of any question of’ ”° rf *
interest in favor of the South. Wk
South might lose by the Democrat ^
not the most sanguine American coatT*'
her a hope of gaining by any other' Tf 5
then, there is no possibility of a chan - ,
better in thc Union—that we confess*]^
not substitute the Northern Democr ,
more friendly party, are these ve^ “‘l
schismatics in favor of a dissolutioa^Tl* I
constitutional remedies 7 Ob.no ri M
us that the “Union is the paramount J J 4
good.” Such is the declaration of Z
tional American” last Saturday, x f I
strife for mere party ends with no’rationa]?'
of bettering the condition of the South - .' I
shown to be their only object. U I
But what should constitutional Dem I
do ? Recognizing the fact, too appa*!?
controversy, that in Democracy we hav
bodied the great mass of Northern (w I
tional conservatism-r-that, if divide w e - \
a dissolution of the Union is the onlv
alternative—there is no course left Jr!
avoid issue and strife so long as w# ca *
sistently with dignity and duty. Fihw
liberal construction of measures and cofo'
should be maintained, and an impartial
ment exercised from the stand
Point of fi,
Constitution and the law, i nstead of that *
mere sectional self-interest. We have s JI
to believe—we ought to believe from tier'
dence of the recent past, that th e demoo^l
of this Union are willing and anxious tot I
minister its affairs patriotically—nni ec f . I
ly—for thc common benefit of the whole-*-' I
on the broad basis of the Constitution aad«-1
tional equality of rights? There is no 'ood |
ground to doubt it, and we expect to seefaT
dicatcd in the disposition of the Kansas ^
every other question having a sectional ba
ing.
The Opelousas Catastrophe.
x ITp to our last issue a brief telegraphic noteal
the sinking of the steamer Ope!oasa.= by a colly* I
with the Galveston, was all theirformation lehj
of the disaster. We append the narrative of Hi J
rison H. Hobart, one of the surviving pisscagisl
Fifteen are reported as certainly lost, ladi^oql
them Gen. James Hamilton, of South CaroWl
The Opelousas was a new, staunch boat, aadm I
sidered one of the safest sea-going crafts out o'5.
Orleans.
NARRATIVE or A SrRTIVOB.
I was a passenger on thc Opelousas, Ci]iEi|
bound from Berwick’s Bay to Galveston. Otfe|
night of the loth, about a quarter past li oYj,
' was awakened in my berth by a shock, as its
vessel was struck by lightning. I rushed a fc
and found it crowded with passengers, aHhfrl
wildest state of excitement—the ladies scresixl
and the gentlemen running to and fro. Thefal
consciousness I had of danger was hearing tbect l
and steward calling on the pa3sei gerstosjvete |
selves, as there were two life-preservers in es.:|
stateroom. I hastily made for the cabin to pul
life-preserver, but on reaching it found tie is I
in it ankle deep. I hastily retraced mv steps,si
on reaching the deck again found the steamer ssl
to her gunwales. The passengers then ran toil
hurricane deck, but in about three minutessh*h I
sunk to that deck. The scene of wild coafnl
and dismay which then presented itself begad I
description. Thc life boat was cut away and sm [
fifteen or twenty jumped into her, and others j;
ed into one of the quarter boats, when both tel
started for the Galveston, then some distance ai|
the wreck. (At this time did not see tbe Gil®
ton, and was totally unconscious of thc cause eft I
disaster.) The life boat before reaching tic 7
veston was capsized, and several of tbe ptasnr
sunk to rise no more. I held on to tbe sim«
the Opelousas, and while in that position ns j®
ed by the second engineer. This officer had*-
cured a plank, which enabled him toshoreoffra
the wreck. I did not do so, believing tie t 1 ;*
sas was aground. In a few moments, bores
the Opelousas, from the weight, 1 suppose,
machinery, broke in two and turned bottom »
wards. Seeing the Galveston in the dim*
struck out for her, and, alter swimming, I
about a quarter of a mile, I was picked up b;»
of the Galveston’s boats. Captain Ellis, rk r -
clinging to a pirougue bottom, was also pbici?
at the same time. The first engineer, Hs rii
man whose name I do not recollect, twtt neg*s &
and some others, I believe, clung to a port- 1 :
the wreck, after she turned bottom up«rii=*
daylight, when they were picked up. 4
namcnot known, who had rescued a little H'-'
also found next morning holding on to a log.:
himself and the boy are among the savei 1 -
Tho mate of the steamer Jasper, Scfc* 1
running to Sabine Pass, was one of the pis*?;
of thoiOpelousas, and was rescued. Heifertn
left the Galveston to endeavor to save wna**
other passengers, and unfortunately penshw t
attempt. . —
From all thc information I could obtain,
confused state of affaire, after I was saved, ?
pears that both boats being under led fctr "
the Galveston struck thc Opelousas on thesta. ^
side, a little forward of the wheolhouse,oah*f
nearly in two, and smashing her mai'inncry - ^
the steam from her boilers soon idled ® .
rendering ic impossible to distinguish onje * ~
tinctly. The second mate of thel)pelous»#»
first mate of the Galveston were ca warn .
respective boats at the time of the colhsm
tain Washburn, of the Galveston, was notinc--^
of the Galveston that trip, having kit u
Galveston, on account of sickness. LapL ‘gj
I understand, had charge of thc G. ir I
asserts that he was in his right W™ . ^ I
when the collision took place. Immcei '-•.I
the collision,Capt. Ellis leaped oa b0 . 3 ‘ U.U l
veston with a rope, for thc purpose
latter boat fast to the wreck °f ^7 „ ; I
order to save the passengers, hut he 10 ! . ^1
accomplish his purpose, leaped blM j ^7,1.5^ I
The Galveston lay by the wreck during , I
and her officers and men used every ^ ■
save those floating in the water.
and attention to the survivors, while ^ j.
G., and until they were placed on
ion, at the flats, outside of Berwick; s . -
be remembered by them with grati-u
An odd use for
A review of Irving's life of "
has the following anecdote:
The capitulation of Charleston w ^
blow to the American cause, W ^
commander too rapidly calculated t ^
plied the full subjugation of the ^
ordinary enemy might have beenf f .
but every volunteer in the Amcnca 11 ^ •. _
an extraordinary man, and stoo ^
with extraordinary tenacity. Amon 0
est was Caldwell, the Presbytensn -
who was wont in former years, ^
with a pair of pistols on tit1 P ,
whom the Tories styled a ^ asiB g&
firebrand, 1 ’ and the patriots > at tb-
preacher.” His wife was murdered
of a village by the British, wh yrij
was marauding tbc Jerseys* **. -
Springfield, Caldwffl dealt retw
his foes. . ; |
“None showed ns'iv 0" " •• - I
Caldwell, Chaplain. The ;
dcred wife was before his ^'7'!!o'7
men in want of wadding, ho S\'Vj the
Presbyterian church, and b r01 = a l.
quantity of Watts’ psalm a: ‘' , s ... *
which lie distributed tor the pt"Y^ ^* jt
soldiers. 1 Now,’ cried* he, ' 1"
them, boys!"'