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GEORGIA TELEGRAPH.
News Summary.
I)r>irut-lir<i C'oullnRrntion in Romr, (<».—
By no Extra from the Office of the Courier and
Statesman, jre learn thnt a fire occurred in fbnt
city in the afternoon of Friday last, which destroyed I WO uld be mined.
an entire equare, including, with the Exchange CoUi „ ioM on , hc Hlntt , K on.t -A slight col-
Building and Post Office, some twenty store, and !isioni „ we , pfirn from thfi Atlanta Intenigeno er,
offices, and involving a loss estimated at from sev- tQok on ^ gt#te Road last We dncsday morn
From Indin and t hinn.—Xew-> by the Kan
garoo is that the British troops under Sir Colin '
Campbell have evacuated Lucknow and Oude, and |
the insurgents were pushing for the Southern parts
of the Province. From China it was stated that the I
Admiral and the greater part of the fleet have gone j
up the Canton river. It was reported that Canton
MACON, Gh^V.,
Tuesday Morning, Feb. 2, 1858
o. Tlmlberg’s Concert
*—jfia w jth great pleasure, says the Charleston
Courier, that we welcome one of the most eminent of
living artists, Sigsmund Thalburg, whose perform
ances hare been for more than twenty years the
wonder and delight of all the capitals of Europe.
>i»tv five to one hundred thousand dollars. Among I. ~~~ *•“•* I The announcement wUl, of conrse, attract a large
sorrv to see that of the bet,rccn 1,16 down Finger, and tbo np freight brilJinnt audience. The fame of Thalberg is weU
theoffiCMdostroyed wo^o sonyto see that of L,e trfiins> abont midway from ^ Chattahoochee to d ;n oldandne „- woli ds. Aa a per-
wero sivod n a d^nged efn Bnt 1Utle dama 8° «■ done ‘° trt termer on the piano, he excels all men living. Such
ln ,‘ h9 in the of the and n ° ne t0 tho cars ' No per30 " 7“ is the -swiftness of his movement, and marvellous
dltton. The firo S • I The heavy rains which havo recently fallen have dd - y 0 fhis touch, it often seemsto those who are
quarc and spread both ways, wholly, as appears, !mposed n tho condncf0 rs ot the trains unusual f.. his motiong> lhat there are two per-
from tb. want of means and appliance to arrest it v i, ibl nce, as the time they havo to make is greaUy ia ^ t0 be produced
There was no Fire Engine or evon a Hook & Lad- i mpeded( we learDi by the damage done in many Iwwmew inEtcaa
dor apparutus in town. The citizens, however, were p i aces t0 tj, e trac k by the rains.
fortunately able to confino ‘be firo to the single TJie Bichmoll ., stntac.-Crawford’s Equestri- j sll0nld imaRine tb i s exercUo to be, Thalberg never
square, although buildings on the opposite side of gtatne of Washington, executed for tho State of . .
the street, (among them the Choico Hotel,) frequent- VirginUi wag Ea f c]y ra ; scd t0 its pedestal on tho 20d 1 ra,:SC3 a note '
ly caught from tho intonsoheat of the conflagration. I ^ b b not, however, to be uncovered and ex-
Nc«r Vork I-cgiulntnro.—After a triangular I posed until the 22d inst. The Enquirer says of it:
contest of twenty days the New York House of Be- I “The statue is still clothed in its canvass wrap-
preaontativea succeeded in electing a Speaker (Al- I pings. After it shall be uncovered, on the 22d Feb-.—-.— - v . has
vord, a Democrat,) on Wednesday last, by a combi- Tuary, wo shall express our opinion of it as a work science and the most finished style. VieuxtempShM
nation of Democratic and American votes. of art. We cannot forbear saying that even in it. reached the climax of fame in Europe, «*»**“*
I.nter from the UtnU Army.—Tho N. O. Pic. canvass covering, there is a spirit and life abont the allrivalty. No living v.olunst would over dremn of
has correspondence to tho 1st December from Camp group which bespeak a masterly triumph of genins.’ | attempting to vie with him
Scott The army waa patiently waiting on low diet Fugitive Slaves and the Rnil Road.—The
and without salt for spring. No salt was sent with | Supreme Court of Hlinois decides that a Kail Road
tho subsistence supplied, but only popper kettles to I Company cannot be held responsible for the escape
make it from the water of Salt Lake a thing which I 0 f a g j avo> The case is that of a slave who escaped
will doubtless be done when they get there. Bacon | 0TCr t], e road summer. His master pursued
waa scant and three quarters of a pound per week
the allowance for officers and men. Flour rations
were reduced to thirteen ounces per day. Two
quarts of salt in possession of an attaches of the ci
vil officers, «ent out with the army, sold for fifteen
dollars. Capt Marcy had been despatched to New
Mexico for a supply of mules-a periloua expedition I Liverpool market for the week ending Xfith January, | poieni »«*««»*> ~
which he was accompanied by a party of picked were 35.000 bales at a deefino elsewhere noticed of either Mr. Thalberg
!n r ..„j *hg> MnrmnrN wD An simomlq n I Id., speculators taking 1,400 bales and exporters | charge one dollar and a half, ana we na\ o tnem do
j“ r i eg £ d iZjTTlL IflOO The sMes ofFridaVwere 5.000 bales-1,000 for *2. It is but once in our lifetime that wo can
a friendly Indian, reported them in force at Echo I 1 * Kava * wn «n/*h nrtists as them* and all who can af-
Cm non whom thov had fortified tho defile by a wall I of which were taken on speculation and for export- I have two such artists as tnem,
across each end, mountod with canon, and protected ^ e '“ arbet cloaed < t uiet The followlnR were tho ^Thesale o/Tleketafor M.'tijazbiRos only Grand
with a fosse which they could flood at any momen | M - d orfeang> CJd Conccrtin this city commences on Wednesday morn-
“ Mobile, 6fd «• Mobile 6 5-16d ; n g at 9 o’clock precisely. We find that the price
•• Uplands 6Jd J (no quotations Middling) I fixed for ticbeti f or this grand entertainment meets
The stock on hand is 415,000 bales of which 222,- ly5th genera i satisfaction, and the management will
000 ore American. undoubtedly reap the benefit of the arrangement in
TUc Public Printing.—The Herald’s Washing- [ a house crowded to overflowing. The diagram of
ton correspondent says:
‘The gross amount of expense ineorrcil for the pub-
lio printing, binding, engraving, Ac., of the thirty-
third and thirty-loath Congresses has j ost been ascer
tained. The account stands as follows:
Viecxtkhps.—Great violinists there.are and havq
been; each great for some quality or some great gift,
but Vieuxtemps has all tho good qualities, possesses
all .the great ones, together with the profoundest
J - Mad Johansen, theprima donna who assists Mr^
Thalberg, brings with her the most flattering repnta.
| tion. She ranks among the prominent prima don-
is.
Miss KE*r. the young American contralto who
over the road last summer, Mis master pursue expressly for the production of
him ineffectually, and then sued the Company for opeSIt the AcadJy of Muric, Now York,
“aiding and abetting’! tho escape. The Supremo P 0 one of tho moat va i uab l 0 attractions ;
Court, Judge Skinner presiding, has just rendered a ARDXVARN , u the baritone of theCompany.
| decision in favor of the Company. | The combination i» an event in musical history.—
Cotton New. by the Cnpnd^-Tbe sales in The price of admission, taking into consideration the
| Liverpool market for the week ending lGth January, | potent attraction, has not been fixed too high, as
from Echo Creek. They had also fortified the height*
with breast works. Ben Simonds said they had ta.
ken a federal officer prisoner, with a largo sum ol
money, who was snrmised to bo Jack Hays, recent
ly appointed Surveyor General ol Utah Terxitoiy.
Or n. Havelock.—The flags of the New York
shipping were at half mast last Wednesday, in hon
or to the memory of this gallant officer.
Drolls of Col. Ilngb irenrr.—Tho Wakulla
Times, of tho 27 th nit., announces tho death of CoL
Hugh Archer, Collector of tho Port ofSt. Marks,
and for aevoral yean Speaker ot the Florida House
of Representatives.
Cotton itlarfarta.—In Net? York, on Friday, Cot-
the hall will bo laid beforo the public, at Mr. John
son’s, and tho first come will be the first served.—
We advise our friends to bo eariy, if they wish to
in HexfeiOi
If, as General Nir-3- »g'.:a Walk' ’--i; report
ed toliaveaffirmrd at r.t-mt/.ciine*’ - , admin
istration quarrelled wiih him r.-i i tbivartcd his
plans in Nicaragua out of spite and disappoint
ment, at his refusal to kick up a difficulty la
Mexico, which should furnish it a pretest to
annex that country (the General knew he was
a good way from salt water when he told that
story), we say, if the administration were in
search of such a pretext, it is certainly made to
their hand in the atrocious condition of affairs
there now—and the certainty, after so many
years of steady declension, that they can never
get any better except by foreign intervention.
It is scarcely a month since Commonfort, re
puted the ablest and most intelligent of the
wretched partisan leaders in that unhappy coun
try, was formally installed Dictator, and now
affairs arc in a- state of entire demoralization
and anarchy—the people without a government
—no right or property interest whether nativo
or foreign under any responsible gnardianship,
and a miserable triangular fight going on in the
capital for the supremacy of ono of three fac
tions, neither of which can promise to hold it
a month. A Mexican correspondent of the
Picayune, writing from the scene of this wretch
ed civil strife and disorder, says :
Beally the United States must do something
for or with Mexico. The United States has
Macon & Western Kail Road.
We arc in receipt of the 12th Annual Report of
the business operations of this company for the
fiscal year which closed the 30th November last.
It is a document compiled with great care and
elaboration—containing tabular returns o r every
item of income and expense compared with that of
the preceding year, and exhibiting some remar
kable facts growing out of the short crops of 1850
and 1857. A summary statement clipped from the
President’s Report exhibits a fair business as fol
lows :
The gross receipts from all sources
amount to $293,260 58
And Expenses 159,633 66
Net Earnings 133,627 02
Add balance as per last Report 64,819 99
“ Amount received on New Stock. 84,060 00
“ Am’t received on Suspense Ac’ts 218 10
$272,725 11
Tlie Superintendent’s Report classifies these
earnings and compares them with those of 1856.
as follows:
Pastengen. Freight. Mails. Total
1856 - 899,300 80 8235,557 12 813,730 14 *348,538 06
1857- 91,590 01 190,118 02 10,271 10 291,979 13
Deur’se 7,710 79 45,439 10 3,450 04 56,688 93
This heavy decrease in Freight earnings is due
mainly to a falling off in Cotton of 27,421 bales
Flour 9,172 barrels; Corn 75,925 bushels ; Bacon
2,543,407 pounds; Copper Ore 5,274,386 pounds.
There is but one single article in which Chere was
an increase—made up af tlie fag end of the fiscal
interests here in commerce; your government j from t he redundant crop of last summer—
has manifested its desire to Lave more to do j h With the busine-s of the
with Mexico: bnt how can you espect your I ’ ’ ,. . ,
commerce to grow, with this naturally most H oad the work,ng e *P c ™ s werc ’ howc ' er > . redu
gifted country on God’s footstool, if you do ced almost pan passu. The nett reduction m ex-
oot protect tboso who have been robbed, mur- I pensc from tbo year 1856 is $45,375,04, although
dered or insulted ? I a somewhat heavy extra expense was incurred in
And so says common sense, Mexico has I repairs of breaches from the deluging rain of last
placed herself by her own acts, out of the fam- I July. The road has conveyed during the year
ily of nations. She has no Government either 44,537 passengers without accident of any kind,
to discharge the duties or be held to the re-1 ana with but one faiIuri: t0 connect-resulting from
sponsibilities of a nation, nor can she have one
the storm before mentioned. The following is a
list of its officers for the current year:
Thirty-third Congress *2,800,000
Thirty-fourth 1,600,000
Total in Four years 84,400,000
The sum of *790,000 ia called for to make up the
of ninety days’ duration. Foreign intervention | Pretident ^ Isaac Scott, Esq. Directors: Chas.
becomes therefore, not only aright, bnt a July; Moran, Drako Mills, Adam Norric, N. C. Munroe,
and upon whom should it devolve, bnt upon our Robert Collins, J. B. Ross, Andrew Low, J. C,
own country 1 Late European advices and Levy, Edward Padlcford, Wm. A. Ross, Hcndly
Washington gossip speak of the great proba- Varner, S. Mowry, Jr.
bility that Spain means to push her quarrel General Superintendent, Alfred L. Tyler, Esq,
-.-the most desirab !o seLs? 1 opportunUy of j Mexico to the point of hostilities. Now | Secretary and Treasurer, Col. Ira H. Taylor,
hearing Thalbero and Vieuxtemps may never our government has sundry unsettled claims of
again occur. indemnity from Spain. Let us, therefore, off-
sett with Spain—square her account with Mex-
Amcrlcan Almanac for 1858.
This may now be found at the Bookstore of »co—take possession of that country and re
ton advanced from a quarter to three-eighth., with deffi ^ e S n C 'f es ° in the appropriations°for tliTs*branch of Mr. Boardmau, to whom we are indebted for a dace tilings to order. What say you, Master lcajjt tho
sales of 2,500 bsles.^ Sales of the three days 4,700 j (he pub i ic wor k.^ copy. The American Almanac, it is needless | Brook . | Dub i; cprint ;,
bales. Middling Uplands were quoted at 10) to 10).
On Saturday the market was firm with sales of 2.000 I , tosa D is a ™ rk full of just such facts in current
bales. Friday's sales in Savannah, were 400 bags. | J. Savannah P*Pe». dated Mobile the 26tb, J American History as every intelligent, literary
Tlie Congressional Printing.
There is one point in government economy which
seems to be watched with argus eyed jealousy, and
to invoke a most undue share of public attention, or
attention of the press. This is the
public printing ; and the great place it occupies in
newspaper exposition and comment, may perhaps
at 9) to 10). On Saturday, 800 at 9 to 10). In Au
gusta, on Friday, 1000 bales sold, with a buoyant
market and 10) for Middling Fair. On Saturday
demand contained very active and all lots offered
were sold. Good Middling to Middling Fair, 10) to
10)—lower grades not in demand. The total de
crease in receipts at 'Angnsta and Hamburgh last
Saturday from same date last year is 65,758 bales.—
The price last Saturday according to the “Constitn-
the public work.^_
“A »evciopmcM”i>oin Walker.—Despatch-1 to say, is a work full of just such facts in current J Tlie Kansas Controversy,
Wc are yet without complete and reliable I be accounted for on the score that it is inthepro-
‘A lanro and enthusiastic^icaratrua meetim* was I ^ bus5ness man has most occasion to know. I returns from Kansas, and the newspaper state- \fessional line of the commentators. It may be
held inthis city last night.‘Speeclms were made by I No one who has once learned its value will j mcn ts arc exceedingly contradictory. Mr. I the Spring of trade rivalry, and more intimate
says:
Walker, Parson Brownlow and others. Walker dis- j ever be without it willingly
closed in course of his speech, the secret of the Gov
ernment's opposition to his schemes against Nica-
ragus. He said that the Government had made him
a proposition to go to Mexico and incite war, with
the view of the United States coming in and acquir
ing that country by treaty. Resolutions were adopt
Pebble Spectacle, &c.
Mr. Kahn, a Scientific optician, offers an ex-1
cellent chance to be fitted with improved and
tionalist," ruled in that market two cents lowerthan Renouncing the Government and demanding the oseopic views fill all who sec them with won-
at same date last year. At Mobile, on Friday, the
decrease in receipts amounted to 99,000 bales. The
receipts of the week, however, are 23,000 against
21,000 last year. Middlings were quoted at 9).
Iowa.—Ex-Governor Grimes has been elected
U. S. Senator by the Legislature of Ohio.
Tbc Rirlimoud fiquratrinn Slnfne of Wash
ington.—We copy the following description of tbis
work from a eulogy upon Crawford, its author, late
ly delivered in Boston, by Thomas Hicks:
“The Virginia monument is nobly conceived. The
colossal statue of Washington, including the horse,
is 25 feet high. Tho pedestal rests upou a star-
shaped elevation with six points, upon which stand
colossal statues of Lee, Mason, Nelson and Patrick
Henry, who, with his arms raised and extended, is in
the act of speaking, while Jefferson, in an earnest
trial of Commodore Panlding/
“Tiinbrr Cotters’ Bnak.”—We learn by the
Savannah Republican that the new bank will go in
to operation on the 20th inst.,—the stock *200,000 be
ing all taken and twenty per cent, paid in. The Di-
der and admiration.
Clarkson, bearer of tbc Lecompton Constitu- knowledge of and interest m the matter may su-
tion and tbc official returns of the election of I*> rind “ cc sharper cr.Ucum. Be this as it may,
21st December, passed through Boonville, Mis- t l0rc ,» ccrtam ‘ y 110 ,te . m ° pubbc .
s r wr , • x ai n/»Ai I closely scanned or so sharply criticised, and upon
soun, en route for Washington, on the S6tb. I none b pubIic credu Uty more readily invoked, be-
rcliablc classes See advertisement His Store- I accordiu S to tbc Louis papers, and his des- causc the masses cannot see value in printing as
reliable glasses, bee adtertisemcut. H s b c c I patcllC3 wlll doubtless be before Congress this casi!y M they rccog nize it in a ship, a house, a
week. Tho Washington papers state that they I barrel of pork or flour, or in timber or broadcloth,
would not be transmitted through the Presi- I it thus happens that, although the proportionate
Thalberg and Vieuxtemps.^ | dent, but be placed directly in custody of Con-I outlay of government for printing is but a small
Wc are glad to see that our impression gathered I gress. The ball has therefore probably been I one, and although we have not a doubt it has been
from the tenor of a previous announcement, for- opened. Meanwhilo events are daily tending generally performed at a more reasonable rate
rectors are John Cooper, John Rutherford, H. W. I warded to the Telegraph from Virginia, that 11 0 a solution of the difficulty. The Kansas I than has obtained in many, if not most, of tho oth-
HoUester, C. V. Spencer and D. D. Spencer. Vieuxtemps only was to appear before a Macon f ree soilers themselves, who are now conceded er branches of the public service, there lias been a
Senator mason’s Rrport, as chairman of the I audience, proves incorrect. The reader willsec the j 0 jj avo c lected their State Officers under the constant builibaloo and clamor kept up about it
Judiciary committee, upon the recent filibuster case announcement to-day. Ralston’s Hall will he bril- j cconlDtou Constitution at the election on the e * cr sine0 tho g° vcrnment had existence. The
concludes bvresolutionsdeclorimr. 1st. That no forth- I liantly inaugurated by such masters, and an audi- . . , J divided ibo’utthc noliev ofortran- n0 ‘ FC is out of aU P ro P ortion with tbe . importance
-ttuuK., . F } . of the subject, or any conceivable sacrifice of mon-
izing under that instrument. Several of tbeir 1
concludes by resolutions declaring, 1st. That no farth
er provisions of law are necessary to confer authority
on the President to cause arrests or seizures to be
mads on the high seas for offences against the neu
trality law of 1818, snch powers being necessarily im
plied in the 8th section of the act on that subject.
2d. That the place were Walker was arrested being
out of the jurisdiction of the United States, his ar-
cncc, wo have nodoubt, such as rarely before ever
gathered in Macon. In Savannah and Augusta
thousands were disappointed in procuring scats, and
I hundreds will be in the same category here.
contemplation, holds a pen, with the Declaration of regt wag without warrant of law> but in view of cir .
Independence. These figures, which are to be in
bronse, excited great admiration when they were ex
hibited in Rome.”
tliunriHotn.—A bill was reported to Senate last
Tuesday, by Mr. Douglas, Chairman of the Commit
tee on Territories for Minnessota as a State of the
cutrstances and results, the act does not call for cen-
. . . ey which may have resulted from over charges.—
newspaper organs are decidedly in favor of it, I 'p bere j 3 a general and awful outcry just now, and
and by last accounts a very “ pretty quarrel” I the utmost of overcharge we have seen alleged
was brewing* between them and the Topeka for the printing of tlie last Congress is by the Tri-
paity. Moreover the conceded success of the I bune, which claims it to be about $100,000 and
this all gucs3 work. We hold this fuss to be su-
Congres-
Sliefiield Cutlery.
Our neighbor Wise has just received direct I freesoilers reduces to a still more meagre ab
from Wostenholmcs celebrated Sheffield works, I straction the point of admission under the Le- | perflnons and disgraceful to the craft,
sure except by Nicaragua. It is thought the report I 3 g ne j oj . 0 f p^tet Cutlery, manufactured ex- C ompton Constitution, since admission only I sional printing should be liberally paid for—it is
will be adopted by a large majority. pregg1y to his order . p ers0DS in want of the places the frcesoil party in full and undisputed donc at S™ 4 «P<mse-in great urgency, under
. had declined an eighth in the Liverpool market most- |^ I:U8 assortment. \\ c are glad to see our I w jjj t ifthey can find out what it is. If there- Thp clamor uDon mis suDiect nas aroused me
tnion. Her population, so far reported, is 136,461, 1 Jy in Fa ; r ^ Middling qualities. Breadstuffs were merchants ordering directly from the European f orc a , i„ s t reported, these freesoilers mean L . . .. P nn „- ntinn j
with seven counties and port of another to be heard and declining and tho provision market quiet, manufacturers, and it needs but a few experi- p ty thcir hand at yet another Constitution, ?° US ? m ° th ° apP °“ ° f “ Com f t *? ° f
The Bank o. Ln 0 landhad redu-1 mente of the kind to open our eyes to the losses the 8ho rtest road to it would be by admission witIl a vicw t0 information upon three modes of
sustained in buying from New York Jobbers at once . Their first State Legislature could procuring printing, thus stated:
and thus employing two middlemen between provide for a vote to call a Convention of the
themselves and the manufacturer.
from.
Kxprnaire War.I*.—According to ofiicial doc
uments the expenses incurred in the suppression of
Indian hostilities in Washington Territory ia nearly
one million five bnndred thousand dollars; and the
total expenses unpaid in Oregon for similar purposes
is four million five hundred thousand dollars; for
maintaining the volunteer force in the former Terri
tory, not including the pay of volunteers, nine hun
dred and aixty-one thousand dollars; and in the lat
ter Territory over three million dollars.
Arrival of the Kangaroo.—The Kangaroo
with Liverpool dates to the 13th nit. armed on the
27th:
The sales of Cotton in Liverpool market for the
three dates reached 14,000 bales of which speculators
took 1,400, and exporters 1,400 bales. Prices un
changed—the market dosing quiet and steady. Rich
ardson, Spenoe A Co., say that prices are easier, and
had in some cases declined MCd.
Accounts from Manchester were unfavorable, and
prices ot goods weaker.
Money was slightly easier.
Consols had declined ).
Affair* in Mexico.—Wo were too fast in promis
ing a government of one month’e permanency nnder
the dictatorship of Commonfort. The last accounts
from that unhappy country represent it sll in disor
der again. Special dispatches to New Orleans re
port that the dty of Mexico had been bombarded,
Money was easier,
cod its rate of discount to five per cent. Consols 94)
94).
Abolition in Knnoa*.—St. Lonis dates to the
25th say that the Kansas territorial House of Repre
sentatives have passed a bill abolishing slavery in
that territory alter the 1st ol March next. If the time
con es when these amiable Kansas free-soilers can
feel that their mischief making concerns nobody ont
of Kansas, they’ll do better.
.U nin Trunk Rail Bond.—Tbo Tbomssville
Rep Drier says that Dr.Scriven addressed the people
. . 1. The present inode of electing a Printer for
People to frame a Constitution as cross-grained I each House and engaging to pay him n stipulated
The I P rice f° r tbe wor k.
2. The establishment of a National Printing Of
fice, wherein all Government Printing shall hence-
Call at Pugh’s fine Art Gallery, and see his splcn- J and unreasonable as they might desire
ded pictures. His Photograps, plain and colored, j Union of the 2/th, wc sec, contains an article
are unsurpassed, as well as the beautiful Arabro-1 gravely arguing tbe ability of the People of I forth be executed; a,id
types which he has such a reputation for produ- Kansas under a State Government to over-ride 3. The advertising for proposals and awarding
**■ I aConstitutional prohibition to amend or change j l^kj'forcwh claMrospwtivelj-.'”” rcsp0D8 "’* e
their own Constitution. That strikes us as a ’' „ . ,
of that place ou the 25th in advocacy of this enter- I trait from Nature, by Mr. Freeman from N. Y., I s i Kna l waste of logic. The People, as the foun- I 8 iese >^ cll,c n » ou . ’ ie re an 0
prise. Thenmonntsnbscribed is insufficient to bring I whose studies are at this Gallery, and who will be I ta ; n 0 f „ji nolitical Dower, can certainly make prese . n4 ouu ‘ s 0 e noise to t ie contrary
tt. ,o.d ,o IM, .,i)d .ubscriplion, pta*, „ ed , iMt u, p^U W U »p „l,o mv O* ”» bp U,
be made. These subscriptions can be paid altogeth- ^ lu Go and ^ tbcm tliev sneak for themselves. , , “ C {, . on J ust and equitable rates, easily determined and
er in money, or partly in money and partly in stock. I ! they please, upon evidence that it is they who exsily enforced, can effectually secure itself against
It is proposed that Decatur county begin at Bain-1 Congress. I do it. It is as groundless to contend that one I all imposition, while under the third proposition it
bridge and work towards Thomasville, Thomas be-1 ses8 ; on 0 f Congress was ever so far more Convention of the People can bind another, as could, and probably would, be placed at the mer-
airitba^Lcvrndes begin ilt^onpvUlfa^wortAo barren of events, than the present one. In tbe that one.session of a Legislature can bind an- | cy of corrupt coalitions. More ingenious swindles
wards the Alapaha. This we think an excellent plan, | way of absolute achievements, we may set down [ other withinlConstitutional limitations. Both
are perpetrated upon the Government now under
and if the surveys were made, doubtless the work I the passage of the Treasury Note Bill, and the I have equal authority, drawn from the same I the contract system than in any other way. Prop-
conla commence at once. I confirmation of appointments by the Senate, as source, and each successive Legislature may I oslt " 10n2 53 °P° n t0 tbo most sor ‘ ou3 ob J ec ‘
r 1 - 1 tions. The Government Printing Office would bc-
gldefandpu/backfor'cor^whioh^ortohereacffied I reluctancc to take hold of business untU this I Constitutional prohibitions interpose them- ISTweATod^dMe^M^d^^
with all on board safe. I Kansas controversy is disposed of, and up to selves. I increased expense. Wc believe such a concern
rn „ n , uinj General New* by tbo Canada.-Another ef- thc P rcsent timc that T^tion has not been in Washington gossips say that tbe President would entail an expense in a few years little short
and that there had been bloody fighting for several I fort b,d been made to destroy the life of the Empe- aba P® f or action, .Headers, therefore, who is preparing a message in support of the Le- of that of the army, while, as adding vastly to the
days. Over one hundred persons were killed. There I ror Napoleon, of France, bnt had proved unsuccess-1 find little in the Telegraph about Congress must I compton Constitution, but we have strong faith 1 already overgrown patronage of the Federal Gov-
waa a coalition force marching on the city. Psrti- f»l- The projectile pierced bis bat. The attempt was accept the apology that there ia little to tell, that the daily more apparent fact, that this is ernment, it isliahls to the gravest objections. If
■ana of Santa Anna held the citadel and San Angus
tine. Tbe civil war had fairly begun.
From California.—Dates to the Sth nit, were
rt-ceived last Wednesday by tbe steamer Moses Tay
lor, which also brought a million and a half specie.
The most noticeable among her nows items is the
destruction of the town of Downieville by fire, with
an estimated loss of half a million.
Population of California.—The San Jose
, made with an infernal machine wbilo the Emperor
waa entering the opera house. Sixty persons were
^ wounded at the time, and three killed. The Conspi
rators were Italians.
Queen Isabella has accepted the mediation of Eng
land and France in relation to her Mexican difficul
ties.
Several engagements had taken place in India,
| with varied success.
The launching of the Leviathan is nesriy comple-
Tiie most interesting sight in the
World.
One day, the Kev. Henry Venn, author of
the “New Whole Duty of Man,” told his child
ren that in the evening he would take them to
sec one of the most interesting eights in thc
world. They were anxious to know what it
practically, so far as the freesoilers in Kansas Congress would heed these clamors about tho prin-
are concerned, a mere question of goat’s wool, * * * "
will shame opposition.
From tho Savannah Republican of last Saturday.
[Communicated.]
Mr.. Editor:—Wc notice the following
from in the Republican of this morning:
Savannah Banks—A dispatch was publish-
ting so far as to provide rates intelligently adjusted
and enforced, and exercise a little care, judgment
and economy about what they print and how much
of it, wc believe they would take the course of true
wisdom, in thc premises.
Fortune in a Knggctt.
Thc London Times, in its Australian correspon-
/Pal i IMInuin Mftmatiiu ttia . .. . n ... I O — in tivnilj I 1 UUVaB/m/* MJunno xx uw|»iuvu -wu- I 114U JjQUUUil JLJIRCJ 1 , IH JW iURJiraiJUli UUITUSUUH*
i. ™ OM t. . n .a Ca,lfor ' I ted - But litUo el8e is to bo done, as it is believed t^as, but be deferred gratifying tbeir curiosity e d in tbe Macon Telegraph some days since, dence, sneaks as Mows of a « nuggett” recently
Of the local us 6mc*b. Of this tXlation 3322M th ^ igh tides ®f i f a " uary ? 0,t bo . r off - . till ho bad brought them to the scene itself.— to the effect that the Banks of Savannah had found and valued at 8Cven thousand pounds ster-
populntion 332,250
are Americans, 65,500 Indians, 38,500 Chineso, 15,000
French, 15,000 Mexicans, 18,000 Irish, 2,000 English,
and about 4,000 oolored persons.
Fire in Nn*hviilie.—Alargo and destructive fire I dis, but nothing later had been heard from Cawn- I said he, “my dear children, can any one that I Telegraph was one sent to a person
*—r I r«. ««. to „,.d, a ,v,a,otod habitation a, thin bo bbSS U» that tbo liank.Wo bad rofn.cd I
Cotton.—The Savannah Republican's weekly Ro-1 happy? Yet this is not all; a poor young t0 iecei veins remittance on dcposite, about I i mraense flate of gold, two feet two inches long,
■* “ *“* • man lies upou amiserahlc straw bed within it, ^^^W^rhXtoV^Au^ 8 “ chc ? w , ide at its ^ atcst brCftdth ’ and
. , , . I city. Tho balance of Charleston and Aiuus- on j y f rom one lncb to ono and a quarter inch
dying of disease, at the age of oaiy nineteen, ta Banks . Tho Augusta and Charleston bills thick. Its weight is 1,743 troy ounces, and it is
consumed with constant fever, and afflicted I were kept in safe so me days and finally sold I nearly pure. There was very little other gold
with nine painful ulcers.” “How wretched a I to an outsider at a discount. I round about it, but it was in the line of a lead
situation!” they all exclaimed. He then led Tho abovo is not d,e oa] 7 ? n “ in 0Ul ‘ CX P C ‘ I ^ ic , b I la3 ., y . iel i ed , ab _°"‘. ^’ 00 .° S uac , e i of nu |S ets ;
U,,„to,« t b=c«.l, s o.»dadd, c „to e „,op.<„ ri Sd”4. 0 S?id b r.rS“t» y
young man, said, “Abraham Midwood, I have 1 * * «...
lug property to tne amount ol *so,ooo.
Java Conor iu New York.-.The New York
Poet of Thursday says .-
“All the Java coffee In this market held in first
hands, embracing 1,000 mats, was sold this morning
at 16 centa four months. The stock of this descrip
tion of coffee is now entirely exhausted at all tho
ports in the United States, and the prospective ar
rivals are exceedingly small. We only know of one
invoice expected in March, which, at 18 cents per
pound, would ncarcely cover the cost laid down here
The confiscated ship Adriatic, which c«no into He led them to a miserable hovel, whose ruin- resolved to throw out all notes on Banks in Ung or in round numbcra tbirt five thousand dol .
collision with Lyonnais, sum escaped from Marseilles 1 i «hh nk«*ia B fAn iinnn winmnr i j
The Spanish Ministry has been organized. HI
A week’s later news had been received from In- tremo degree of poverty and want. “Now,” Wc prasamc t ho despatch in the Macon , A beautiful nugget ivas brought down last week
elegraph was one sent to a person in Macon, from Kmgower, and has been lodged m the Bank
of Victoria. It was found embedded in sand only
.. I hnnnv T Yet this is not all: n noor vonnn-1 to receive his remittance on dcposite, about! nn imniAticfifl:
port on Friday last gives the following comparative ]
| quotations.
QUOTATIONS.
THIS WEEK.
Zgw Middling 9)a^-
Jliddling 13 f
Strict Middling... .10)9 —
Good Middling....io)-0 —
Middling Fair 10} 9 —
Fair lo|9 —
EAST WEEK.
— » —
10 9 -
10)310)
10]» —
10)910)
11 9 —
The Sales of the week were 4,458 bales. The nett J brought my children here, to show them that
I.arge Fire in Hartford.—^The largest fire decrea ? 6 >n receipts at all the ports was 559,853. Dc '
known in Hartford, Cocnectient, for twenty years, | reaso ’ D ®t° c k* 246.480.
occurred last Saturday week and destroyed, in at in- I x r ~ j anl P°' cl ^ “““ | package of Augusta and Charleston money,
gle building and contents, upwards of *100,000 value -u°m: Demand for Negroes—The Coun-1 ^ ns not so.” 1 he dying youth, with a sweet I , ° “ Dkpositors.”
of property. | cil-General of Guadaloupe has just voted an smile of benevolence and piety, immediately | Savannah, Jan. 29
I believe this the largest mass of gold ever found
in one lump. Thc nugget exhibited at the Great
Globe, in 1854, weighed 138 lbs., but contained
I it is possible to be happy in a state of disease j gentleman that every Bank in this city has
and poverty and want, and now, tell them' if I “ to-day” refused to receive on dcposite a
tion of the Banks, but was perfectly true in ul00 , c j ln ,™.gneu i 38 ms., out contained a
all it meant and said. Wo are informed by a | ® f: Ais has vcr ^ htt,e < J uartz ’ and
Negro Emaucipatlon i«i the West
INDIES.—OPINION OF THE LONDON flMES.
We have already published articles from
the London Times, which—inasmuch is that
organ reflects with wonderful accuracy tbe
public sentiment of the British nation—would
seem to indicate a decided change in tie opin
ion of the English people in relation to the in
stitution of domestic slavery. Wo add the
following article from the same paper :
After tlie lapse of a quarter of a century
since the final emancipation of thc negro, we
ought to find ourselves in a position to speak
irilh some confidence on the several points con
nected with that important question. The
facts, indeed, ar^ clear enough, but the con
elusion is not sa .isfactory, nor the escape very
easy to find. The philanthropists can un-
doubtly appeal to one great achievement
The liberation of the black has been complete,
unqualified, and permanent. All the cruelties
or miseries which may have accompanied the
institution of slavery in our colonies, whether
avoidable or otherwise, have absolutely ceased:
no British planter any longer possesses human
property, nor can it be said than any vestige
of the old system is now discernable. What
the anti-slavery agitators sought to abolish
they have abolished utterly, and the shame
and the scandal have disappeared from our
territories as entirely as if they had never been
known. With this admission, however, ice fear
the approval of ou' policy must be terminated
On every other point predictions have been falsi
fied and expectations disappointed. The negro
himself, though he has become free, has out become
wise or industrious. Our planters have not
found that free blacks make good laborers.—
Our colonies have not risen in prosperity and
affluence above slaveholding colonies of other
States; and, though tbe trade in slaves has
decreased upon thc whole, its vitality is so
plain and strong, that at this very moment
we are making a considerable addition to thc
force of our African squadron. Everything,
in short, has failed, except emancipation itself.
Negroes are free, but they are also brutalised ;
the West Indies have been ruined; immense
tracts of the most productive soil in the world
are lejt uncultivated for the want of labor, and
other nations, discerning in our policy a warn
ing rather than an example, are pushing the
opportunities of slavery to the utmost, and
making fortunes over the heads of British col
onists.
These results arc traceable In the main to
the spirit of a legislation directed exclusively
to the eradiction of Slavery without regard to
any of the functions which slaves had until
then discharged. The agriculturists of our
tropical colonies were suddenly deprived of
the labor by the aid of which their crops were
produced, and the controlling authorities in
stead of assisting them in replacing the lost
element appeared to charge themselves only
with the duty of scrutinizing and impeding all
efforts in thi3 direction, lest anything resem
bling Slavery should be introduced in another
form. This was not unnatural, nor perhaps
unnecessary; but in the mean time cultivation
was suspended and property destroyed, while
British consumers repaired to foreign markets
for the very commodities which our own coun
trymen had been forbidden to produce. The
emancipated negro would do no work_ at all.
No attempts have succeeded in inspiring him
with the wants and yearnings of civilized life,
and as his needs are small, his exertions are
small also. The climate enables him to dis
pense with refinements of shelter or apparel;
the soile provides him with sustenance, and
vagrancy and indolence leave him at least as
much like a beast as ever, though he is no
longer a beast of burden. The obligation of
labor no longer rests on these members of the
race of Ham. The West India squatter can
vegetate in absolute idleness without compul
sion or enticement to employ his faculties in
work.
To complete the force of this case it should
be remembered that while fertile estates are
lying unfilled for want of labor, and European
manufacturers are anxiously looking for the
cotton which such labor would supply, an in
exhaustible store of the agency required is left
unemployed and useless in other hands. After
what has been asserted on impartial testimony
respecting the interior economy of African
States, it must, perhaps, be considered im
practicable to devise a free labor market on
that coast, although the difficulty, be it ob
served, is wholly unconnected with the pro
posed employment of thc Negro. No person
asserts that the actual condition oj the black on
his native soil would not be bettered by his re
moval to a country where he ivould learn the dig
nity and the profit-of labor, and be accessible to
the influences of civilization and religion. No
person denies that in the present state of our
colonies negroes could be put to work there
without the least fear of their engagements
degenerating into Slavery. AU the embar-
rasment arises from the fact that if once blacks
were known to be wanted and to be salable
on the coast for some sort of price, they would
forthwith be kidnapped for consignment by
their own chief—-a proceeding which would re
vive all the horrors of internal war, and dis
sipate the chances of improvement which hon
est traffic is beginning to yield. By tranj
porting Africans from their own country to thc
West Indies we could benefit all parties together
—the colonist, the laborer, and die European
consumer of tropical produce, but we are afraid
to show our desire for such supplies lest man
stealing should be commenced anew. If we
could but surmount this difficulty, we should
be not only restoring thc prosperity of oar
own colonies, with advantage even to the
blacks themselves, but we should probably be
going too far to suppress the Slave-trade as it
survives. That free labor can beat slave la
bor is undoubtedly true, but unfortunately the
free labor is not forthcoming, and slave labor
wins in default of opposition.
From tho Charlcstbh N-„.
'Mu: Issues six Washing^,,,
Facts are ever important tiling,
they enter into the morale, of any en
they arc only secondary in significance to tt!° n ’
which determine the constitutional an 1 i 9e
character of the question itself. r n, f e & a '
stated in the following article from the w a
ington States, are of this kind. Yet ii '
must be proof of their vrnth, before even a” 6
moral force can be admitted. That the ' ° ,r
also, an actual majority for the Leco' 5 ***’
Constitution at the Kansas election of ri^S! 011
December : that the said oW*;™ — ie -1st
Some KiiFcrcncc.
Last winter hides sold iu the streets at eight
cents a pound—they now sell for four cents.
TUcArinritii'tnl.,—ThewarDcpartmenthavc Uddrcsg to the Ministry of Marine and Colo- replied, “Oh, yes, sir! I would not change I [Comment.—Thc statement copied above I sheepskins a year ago sold at $2 each; they
“ d I nies ’ P rayine the im Penal Government to | my state with that of tho richest person upon from our issue of Wednesday, was made upon now se ll at prices varying from G2 cents to
,5 - - ® — blessed regions where Lazara3 now dwells
SbJ T °r d ‘ y the ,f me . p °- ad ™ 8S1 ? n of tobacco ’ having long forgotten all his sorrows and mis-
1*.. — ^wonth*! atoofloRraadi—11 ratio—. | Thc lino of telegraph between St. Peters- cries. Sir, there is nothing to bear, whilst the
tnaiui He lost half 0 f hu/ho'r* , * w * 3 C T' burg and tho P rinci P aI towns in the Crimea presence of God cheers my soul, and whilst I
of mules. Dnml,er will bo very shortly completed. The whole “ n ba ' c ao f “ 3 T t0 bhn ’ T b ^ constant prayer,
NewMexic
armv with a volunteer force, 2,000 strong, frill re
■urns Us match as soc
mule
ficient
verbatim, which was true to thc letter, rather
. , . , , .mu . than, under semblance of giving its “ effect"
...i.. ’" 11 despatched to | engineers. who has brought me from a state of darkness or substance, to put the Telegraph in position
a _ '• i .' m spring, when tho Lisbon has been declared free from yellow | Juto liis marvelous light, and has given me to 0 f having stated what was not true. Thc fol-
- I f ? ve - Flic official report of thc ravages of |enior the unsearchable riches of Lis grace!” I low - that 6tatclnent .
ClKuIcstou rtitci Auffiista Money
THROWN OUT.
By a private despatch received to-day, (Mon-
$1- Leather in a year lias fallen about 12
cents a pound. Mutton, which l ist year sold
for 9 cents a pound, now sells for !> and G cents,
policy of others. Our informant, it seems, B utter was 31 cents . j t n0 iv sells from 1G to 22
-vas mistaken, at least so far as bomo or ou *' cents.Potatoes are a little dearer than Ihcy were
Banks were concerned. Ln. Li.i’.J J last winter, caused, doubtless, by the rot. Hams,
It would have been easier for thc Kepubli- shoulders, pork, flour, sugar, lard, molasses,
can to have copied the Telegraph’s statement I & c '» are much cheaper than they were a year
Ia< " 1 "* di I'. Ioma,!c circles »*> afate that thc cupola of thc Sepulchre threat- they wish to get teeth inserted gratis, to go 1 day,) we learn that all the Banks in Savannah tons. The ship now lies :
“it'll. '‘‘i ■ l ,a,n will certainly soon mako * <ms to fall, and that some accident is dreaded and seal fruit where his watlich dog is on refused this morning to receive Charleston and wharf, on the western bank
i MMKnaenw Mexico I if it be not immediately repaired. guard j Augusta Bank bills on deposit. | near tho New Bridge, where
J ago. A dollar to-day will purchase ai much
food as a dollar and a half would have brought
| in January, 1857.—Troy (JY. Y.) paper.
The Charlesto.y and Savannah Rail
road.—Tho Charleston Mercury of the 14th
says:
‘The first cargo of iron for this Road reach
ed this city on Friday last, in the ship Ocean
Star, from Cardiff, amounting to about 800
The ship now lies at the Company’s
of Ashley river,
she will discharge. |
The Mormon War—Extraordinary
NEWS.
Mr. Charles J. Humbert has written a letter
to Mr. J. II. Nolen, of Believille, N. J., sta
ting that himself and ten others were attacked
by the Mormons, about the middle of October,
near Devil’s Gap. Ho says :
They took our two wagons and. burnt
them to ashes before our eyes, searched aud
took from us every thing we had, money, &.C.,
and tore the clothes off our backs, and then
tied us to a tree and kept us tied three days
and nights without a bite to eat. You do not
know how I suffered. The third day they
ave us a pound of bread, and told us that
ve days from that time we should be put to
death ; and the d n brutes gaveus choice,
either to be burnt to death, or be chopped in
to pieces by degrees! Here we were tied up
to a tree and trembling with fear; not that
we feared death, but only the way they bad
chosen for us to die. But the night after wo
got our bread, it was about twelve o’clock at
night, as God would Lave it, the fellow who
stood guard ove. us went to sleep, and two of
our boys got loose from the tree where wc
were tied, and slipped round find untied us
all, and oh God, our merciful Parent, we
thanked and prayed for our relief! After our
escape from our enemies, in two days’ travel
wc overtook Col. Johnston’s command, on his
way to the Great Salt Lake City. We were
stark naked when we entered the camp of Col.
Johnston, and hungry. The first man we
were taken to was Col. Johnston, and to him
we told all our sufferings, and he gave us
clothing and plenty to eat. Col. Johnston
sent out two companies of dragoons after the
Mormons who had us prisoners, and the dra
goons killed twenty of the Mormons and took
thirty of them prisoners. We ten swore here,
in thc name of God, to have revenge, aud we
will have it! We all volunteered into Col.
Johnston’s command to have revenge and see
the American flag wave over the Mormons.—
We have been iu service since the 17th of Oc
tober—wc volunteered for ten mouths. We
have made several marches since we entered
the service, and arc now in winter quarters at
Mormon fort called Fort Bridger. Our
company (Third Dragoons) was at the head of
the batteries when wo fought aud drove the
Mormons from this old fort. Wo killed about
eighty Mormons and took ten prisoners.—
There were twelve of our men killed and live
wounded. Wc took Fort Bridger, auc.^ shall
remain here till spring ; and in the spring it
shall be—Salt Lake City or death !”
December; that the said election was r
and legal; and that the absente f rom thT ,f
of the free soil voters, did not vitiate V s
by tbeir own default, destroyed their « bnt ’
tiou to that .Constitution all, are facts $*";
higher, because legal, potency. 31,11
It cannot but be admitted that a resort
the pro-slavery party to fraudulent vote, ■
entirely indefensible, and a reflection ou tv, •*
causc. If there has been fraud, let it be 1 i
ly investigated and punished. But it does,
vitiate the election, and its result must be m ^
tained. After the admission of Kansas
the Constitution it endorsed, the people fi M
can arrange matters to suit themselves r
one wrong must not bo perpetrated to "rJ f
another. The election of the 4th January
far as the Lecompton Constitution was naM!
upon, was utterly unconstitutional and ilU i
THE KANSAS IMBROGLIO. &U
We gave yesterday, in our telegraphic m i
umn, a report of the result of the late eWc
in Kansas. Wo learn from other sourejw
information that these reports are probibl
correct. By them it would seem that th
were returned, as the vote of the 2lst cf lh
cember, G,143 votes “for the constitution
slavery,” and 569 votes “for the constitutirn
without slavery,” beiug a majority of 5 5-4
votc3 “for the constitution with slavery. ’ 4
Despatches and statements from’lette
writers in Kansas have been published, s ta*
i:ig that more than one-half of these votes f
the constitution with slavery, were framJnW
These statements we have not noticed hereto
fore, as they seemed to be without authorit-
but we leara from a gentleman just from K^l
sas, who has been a steady and constant frieni
of the Lecompton constitution, that these al
legations of fraudulent voting are true, and
that-at the three precincts of Oxford, in Jotj.
son county, and Kickapoo and Delaware Cros
sing, in Leavenworth county, near 3,000 fraud
ulent votes were polled, or returned as bavin,
been polled, “ for the constitution with slave
ry.”
It also seems that on the 4th instant, at tie
election held under the authority of the Lee-
islature of the Territory, that upwards of ht
000 votes were cast “against the constitution.”
The legality of this vote as connected with
the determination of the pending question
relating to that Territory, having been recoe-
nized by thc President, through the letter of
Gen. Cass to Acting-Governor Denver, and
by Gov. Denver iu his address to the people
of Kansas, we are authorized to look at that
vote with the vote cast on the 21st ultimo npoa
the features of the Constitution.
A comparison of these votes show that, ad
mitting the entire vote cast on the 21st to have
been fair, just and legal, there is a majority
of about four thousand votes against the con
stitution. And, deducting for these alleged
facts (of the truth of which we are not fully
prepared to speakj there is a majority of near
seven thousand against tlie Lecompton consti
tution. Anxious as we have been to have this
territorial difficulty settled by the people of
Kansas themoelves, we are not prepared to
say, if the reports above stated shall prove
correct, that Kansas ought to be taken into
the Union with this constitution, which the
people, by a majority of three to one, hove
disapproved.
In addition to these facts, it seems to be
now settled that the “free-State men,” as they
are called, have elected all the State officers,
and have 13 of the 19 members of the Senate,
aud 29 of the 44 members of the House—thus
giving them 21 “free State” majority cnjoii;
ballot, and securing two United States Sa-
2tors, who will probably be Jim Lane and
Charles RobinsoD, while Mr. Parrott has been,
by the same election, placed in the House of
Representatives of the United States.
These statements and probabilities of fe
results of the election in Kansas, give an en
tirely new aspect to this question, which ks
been so noisily discussed iu the political pi
pers of the country.
Moths in Carpets—A Good Beiiedf-
An experienced housekeeper says:
“ Carhphor will not stop the ravages rf
moths after they have commenced eating.—
Then they pay no regard to the presence d
camphor, cedar, or tobacco—in fact I rather
think they enjoy the latter, if anything eh?
than humanity can. Nor will the dreaded aui
inconvenient taking up and beating, alwri
insure success, for I tried it faithfully, im
while nailing it down, found several of tbe
worms * alive and kicking’ that had reauiaed
under the pile unharmed. I conquered tbra
wholly in this way; I took a coarse crash tor-
el, and wrung it out of clean water, andsprei-
it smoothly on the carpet, then ironed it drj
with a good hot iron, repeating the operation
on all suspected places, and those least use-..
It does not injure the pile or color of the cu-
pet, in the least, and it is not necessary to
press hard, heat and steam being tbe agents.
and they do the work effectually on worw
and eggs; then the camphor will douluc*
prevent future depredations of tbe millers.
A Great Park ia New York.
The Central Park of New York promise? to b?
a grand affair. The whole amount allowed by -
Legislature to be expended in laying it out is
600,000. It will contain 770 acres. 150 ot w/
will be sc t apart for a Croton reservoir,in aaliup
lion of tlie rapid growth of the city, and tie M
quenb necessity for an inexhaustible supply ot
ter. The commissioners have already deem?
there shall be four or more crossings from
west, across tho park; that it shall contain h
rade ground of from twenty to forty “ cre ^ ,, ^
play grounds of three to ten acres each, a ,
exhibitions and concerts, an observatory, a s »
ground, and an indefinite number of'O’
towers, entrances, arches, statuary ana no »
dens. Ono thousand one hundred and tweuy^
are engaged in breaking stone aud laying, m-- .,
wall that i3 to enclose the grounds.
to be about six feet in height, buiit of to „ , M
but very evenly laid, aud is principally m
keep cattle from entering the park. A ‘ . j(i .
able portion of it is already construct*®; j
timatad tiiat the park will be entirely j,jj f
in every way completed for the use ot 1 - a
in three years, but its value will, of c
crease with time.
The Oyster Trade.—It is 1
275 vessels, varying in capacity from ‘
400Qbusbcls and employing 725
ployed in tbe oyster trade of Balhmor*^.
Fair Haven 80 vessels varying ja
from 2000 to 7000 bushels were ownedm ; '
which were exclusively employed in t >s
besides a large number wl ich vrcrec • ^
by its inhabitants during the busy - casoa ' j ^
ia estimated that nearly a hundred res ^
this trade arc now owned at that po.• ^
very large number of vessels owned m
ton, Now York and Philadelphia for
are not known- Six years ago a cap ^
forms us that he knew of sixty in - ® p
city. Boston is known, to have at ^
vessels. Providence, New - boni ‘ e!b ^ji it
port, and New Bedford each owns ^
lcast of large vessels, and other
ces on Long Island and elsewbc ^ cos-
others. Wc may assert without^. *
tradiction that 100,000 tons of - »
now employed in the °y st ®. r . tra t It tbeq®* 3 '
It is exceedingly dillmult to ge- r(;nt ^
tity of oysters taken to t5lC , d .. s< inquire
from Virginia; but from nrnnbcr^,5:
in every direction, wc arejustmeu y0C
(and we speak within bounds) tn^ !?
to New York city and vicinity ;
Boston ; 2,000,000 to Philadelphia’"j K y
friot inr-.lm linn- those TVOTU th® AlSO
(not including those from the At- I
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