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About A Friend of the family. (Savannah, Ga.) 1849-1??? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 18, 1851)
eeen ? Possiblv her <-nco to the various objects of interr.st .n tha tmost interesting of cities rntg u be attributed in ? o,ne , t 0 >n^ these causes; but certun it u.t>,. that with the grave figure of Mr. Sevens bv her •!<-, Kiln cared lit tle where she went, nr what she saw, so long as she was likely to be ia time for the conveyance which was to take her farther north, an, so j much nearer to the goal of all her present expectations ami desires.—j Jn time she therefore was, and much earlier than was necessary, leaving the public libraries, and even the castle very slightly explored; and never dreaming at that moment, how often she would regret in alter life, having received so faint an impres sion of the whole place, as never to be able to recall it with any force or distinctness. “ 1 shall see everything when I re turn,” snid Ella, more than once, to which her companion grvely re plied, each time—“ That may de pend upon how you return. As I take it, for the most part there is nothing like the present time.” Mr. Stevens did not add, that he himself had a little claim—just a little upon the child ot one whom he had served so faithfully and so long; and that although a rich young ladv might calculate upon seeing many cities many times, to a poor clerk the important fact ot be ing able to see what was new and striking, in this was an event in a life-time, which he could never rea sonably calculate upon ever having repeated. Ella never once thought of this: she would luive waited a full hour for Mr. Stevens if she had, or perhaps she would h ive waited two; but the bare existence of such an ind i vid ua 1 was ac i rcu mst ance which never crossed her mind, except as she saw his small spare figure dress ed in black, moving along with her as she moved, very much like her shadow, and not in any respect ex citing more interest, or calling forth more consideration. In fact, she would just as soon have thought of making way for her shadow, and of consulting it where to go, as of re ferring her actions in any way to the decision of her father’s clerk ; and this not for want of feeling, but pure ly from want of thought. After some stages performed in an almost empty vehicle, and en dured by Ella with a degree of im patience which it was well there was no eye to witness, the happy meeting with her friends took place, and a warm north country welcome made the young traveller feel at once at home amongst the numer ous friends who had come to meet her. Tartly in honour of their guest, and partly for the sake of a pleasant excursion a whole party had come on horseback and in carri ages to express their welcome, and to conduct their young friend to her new residence amongst the hills and lakes of Scotland. And very frank and merry did this party seem, and very different in their speech, man ner, and address, from any society which Ella had been accustomed to meet with in London. Even Mr. Stevens fell some comfort in com mitting his fair charge to so moth erly a person as Mrs. Stuart, and when he had seen the goods under his care all safely delivered, he made his respectful bow to the whole party with more satisfaction than he had experienced during anv oth- i er portion ot the journey. As if suddenly recollecting something, however, be stepped back to Ella, and said in his precise and quiet j way—“ Any message home, Miss, that I could take?” “Ah ! my best love, of course,” said Ella, “and you can tell them all about the journey.” “ Perhaps 1 might state,” added Mr. Stevens, “when they would be likely to hear from yourstdf.” “Ah! yes immediately,ofcourse,” replied Ella: “I dare say 1 shall write to-night before I go to bed, or at all events very early in the mor ning.” “ And in case,” said Mr. Stevens lowering Ins tone—“ in case there should beany change for the worse?” “ In that case,” replied Ella, “ I shall return home at any hour, with out a moment’s delav.” “And in case Mamma,” continu ed Mr. Stevens, “should be too much occupied to write?” “ 1 shali depend upon you,” re plied Ella. But the Stuarts’ carriage was now ready. Some half dozen kind hands were stretched out to help the young traveller in, and such a heaping -of warm shawls around and about her took place, and such an adjustment of luggage, the whole of which the family insisted upon taking with diem, that the last words of her taitlitul protector were lost to Ella’s ear nnd before she could utter her good bye, the horses were scram- up a steep stony street, and Mr. Stevens was forgotten. Ella wondered within her own mind who all the people were sur rounding her as they did with an at mosphere ot kindness, and seem ing to he all of one family, and household ; though far too numer ous to be likely to dwell under the same roof. Her friend Agnes was close beside her in the carriage, hut there was an awkwardness in ma king such inquiries all at once, and she therefore kept her wonder to herself, until there cantered past the carriage, on a fleet and high-! mettled poney, the light figure of a very auractive-looking youth, ‘who more than once contrived in passing to make the lash of his whip run round the neck of Agnes Stuart by a manoeuvre which was acknowl edged without anv symtoms of dis approbation on the part of theyoung lady. Indeed it would not be very easy to be angry with such a youth, for he looked the very personifica tion of mirth and good humour, and Ella, finding it impossible longer to restrain her curiosity, asked at last in plain terms who he was. “ Oh!” said Agnes laughing,“that is Frazer Cunningham. I ought to have introduced him before, for if I mistake not you are already pretty well acquainted with eacli other.— How do you like the look of him ?” “Oh! very much,” said Ella, and as if he had heard this discus sion, the youth at that very moment drew up his impatient poney, and bringing it close to the side of the carriage, he threw in a handful of beautiful wild roses which he had gathered from the hedge. While facing the carriage, which the po ney seemed shy to approach, Ella had an opportunity of forming a better judgement of the appear ance of the rider; and, with a rap id transition of thought, she glanced immediately from his face to that of her friend Agnes; and, strange to say, perceived just then, for the first time, that her friend was rather plain. F r uzer Cunningham was indeed a handsome youth, once the joy of his mother’s heart, now the pride of his proud father. He was amiable, too, light-hearted, and very pleasant to chat with ; but he warned stabil ity and depth, and the great point with all.who were interested in his welfare, was to keep him to one purpose for a sufficient length of : time to pursue it with success. I W ilhout this could be done, his : friends saw plainly that he had no change whatever in the profession which had been his early choice, although to hear him speak of it ; now, any one would suppose that | he had been forced into it by com | pulsion, rather than allowed to fol low the bent of his own inclina tions. The father of this youth was not rich, although he held him self in point of rank a little higher than some with whom he condes | eroded to associate ; and for this reason, as well as many others, there appeared to be much depend ing upon the position which his on ly son should lake in the world. On the present occasion the young man was just taking his plea sure in the Highlands on leave of absence for a limited period, and under the most strict and imperative injunctions to return to Edinburgh before the arrival of a certain great personage eminent in the law, to whom the father was particularly anxious that his hopeful son should be introduced under the most fav ourable auspices. This personage was considered to have considera ble influence in the way of obtain ing appointments in the East, and was on the eve of returning to India himself so that the present chance of his visiting Edinburgh, his own written promise of being while there the guest of Mr. Cunning ham, added to the fact of his having already been fully informed on the subject of the sou’s undisputed qualifications tor the law, were cir cumstances of no small weight in the calculations of the ambitious father, and every one acquainted with them, saw plainly that it would neither be kind, nor strictly speak ing honourable, to urge the son to trespass upon the time allowed him even for a single day. But these things concerned not Ella. Her young mind was full of interest, and of delightful expecta tion. It is true the highland resid ence of the Stuarts presented in some respects a more uncouth as pect than her London life had pre pared her to expect; but a little roughness and homeliness of exte rior was made up for a thousand fold by the cordial hospitality, good cheer and comfortable arrangement of every thing within. The evening of Ella’s arrival was one of peculiar brilliancy and beauty. Not altogether forgetful of her parents, but deceived by the lengthened daylight, Ella thought she should have time to write home after a stroll along the side of a mountain, from w hence her friends told her she*-must see the setting sun. So after a most plentiful re freshment, the whole party sallied forth, and it need scarcely be told, that on their return there was little time, and perhaps as little inclina tion, for writing letters. In the morning, as was quite natural, after such unwonted excitement and fatigue, Ella overslept the appoin ted time of rising. The Stuart family, however, were as kind in making allowances, as they were in hospitalit y ; but the fact of the post boy being already gone with his daily budget of letters to the near est village, convinced the young sleeper that she must make a better use of another day, it she w r as really in earnest in desiring that i her parents should be spared the anxiety of waiting in vain for her own account of her safely and happiness. Gladly would Ella, on this occa sion, have claimed the privilege of an uninterrupted half-hour for the purpose of writing her letter ; but to Iter astonishment the carriage and horses were actually in readi ness for a long day’s excursion be fore she had finished her breakfast, which, but for the urgent solicita tions of her friends, she would cer tainly have, left untouched. Mr. Stuart was rather a hasty man, the whole family w r ere accustomed to early hours, and there seemed really no alternative but leaving the letter until another day. How many long summer days elapsed before it was actually writ ten and sent off, we decline, for Ella’s sake, to state ; neither would we undertake the task of describing wffiut were the feelings of her par ents when clay after day parsed over, and still there was no letter. Carelessness, and want of thought can sometimes occasion as much real pain, as intentional unkind ness; but it requires the experience of neglect towards ourselves, to teach us to what extent the human heart may be made to suffer from such causes. Ella More, like many other per sons, was quick to sympathize on points which had at any time oc casioned suffering to herself; and she could say, as feelingly as these words are often said, “Ah ! I fell for you from my heart, because 1 know what it is to suffer thus.” Until tins knowledge had been ac quired by experience, she sometimes appeared remarkably difficult to teat h ; or rather she was usually too much interested in some other emotions or pursuits of her own, to lend a willing ear to that most pre cious instruction which makes wise by the experience of others. If, therefore, some of Ella’s best feel ings might seem to have been left behind her on this her first journey from home, it urns because she nev er was before—and she seldom was afterwards—so entirely absorbed in the pleasures of the moment, as during her short but happy resi dence in Scotland. The freedom of the life which all the pleasant party met beneath the Stuarts’ hospitable roof were now leading—the universal kindness which manifested itself in a thous and different ways—in litiie acts of constantly-recurring service, hut chiefly in proofs of consideration, interest, and feeling—that genuine flattering of the heart which no stoicism can resist ; lids of itself would have been sufficient to make happy a young heart like Ella’s, and to add brighter sunshine to her hitherto unclouded life. But to all this was now added anew charm m the aspect of nature, such as she had never beheld it before. A garden,or a green field, or the blue and gently undulating hills, seen from the out skirts of London, were all the scenes of a rural nature with which Lila had hitherto had ah opportuni ty of making herself intimately ac quainted ; and although she had often felt a thrill of delight when contemplating these, she “had form ed no conception of the degree to which that delight might he extend ed by contemplating the bolder, wilder, and more romantic scenery which met her enchanting gaze while rambling amongst die moun tains lf the north. To feel all this for the first time, and to feel along with it so many emotions of affec tion, gratitude, and enjoyment, was almost to live months in the space of days ; and yet how rapidly those happy days were actually fleeting; —too rapidly, it seemed, for Ella, or she might surely have found time to w’rite the letter to her parents which they were so ardently antici pating. To he Continued. Active Virtue. —l cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unex ercised and. unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and beat. This was the reason why our sage and serious poet, Spencer, describing true tempemace under the person of Guion, brings him in with his palmer through the cave of Mam mon and the bower of earthly bliss, that he might, see and kuow, and yet abstain.— Milton. It is contended that the accept ance of a Papal bishoprick in Eng land is not incomputable with loyal alty. We are afraid, adds Punch , that the only loyalty it is consistent w ith is that of an Ignatius Loyal ist. Punch has lately heard of a Pro testant who has just discharged an old and faithful servant, because the poor fellow happens *to have a Roman nose. Be not affronted at a jest. If one throw salt at thee thou wilt receive no harm unless thou hast sore places. The attempt to light Paisley with , red-haired girls has been abandon ed. But the girls have not, SAVANNAH PORT SOCIETY. Ttiis Society celebrated their Seventh Anniversary at the Penfield Mariners’'Church, on Monday eve ning, 13th instant, before a respect able audience. The exercises were made exceedingly interesting by an eloquent and appropriate address by the Rev. Mt. Thomas of South Carolina, followed by some few, but animated and well chosen re marks, by the Rev. Mr. Hutchings, the present incumbent of the Mar iners’ Pulpit. The Annual Repout of the Board of Managers was then read by the President of the Society , ac companied by a synopsis of the Treasurer s account for the year IS-50. The old Board ot Managers were then re-elected, viz: WILLIAM CRABTREE, President. BENJAMIN SNIDER, 1 st. Vice President. JOSEPH FELT, 2d Vice President.. o. A. WOOD, 11. LATHROr, 11. BRIGHAM, 11. J. GILBERT. A. A. S.VIETS, GEO. S. HARDING, J. T. THOMAS, 11. F. WILLINK, C. F. MILLS, D. VEADER. SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE BOARD OF MANAGERS OF THE SAVANNAH PORT SOCIETY, Delivered at tha Mariners Church, on Monday Evening, Jan. 13th, 1350. Gt n tie men of the Port. Society : Seven years have’elapsed since this edifice, consecrated to the spiri tual welfare of Seamen, was com mitted to your care. A solemn duty w r as then imposed upon you, which God, in his mercy, lias ena bled you to fulfil, namely : To see the Gospel preached to the Sailor. Though difficulties luive beset your Cl */ path on every side, you have yield ed to none ot them, but have pur sued the even tenor of your watv, through good and through evil re port. Where benevolence • has a bouuded, so has vour zeal—and when the love of many has waxed cold.it has only served to double your diligence, and to animate vour exertions. With fervent thankful ness for the continued favor bestow ed upon us, your Board proceed to detail their doing-* for the past year. They trust that no small amount of good has been accomplished by the spiritual ministrations kept up from Sabbath to Sabbath within these walls. The sailor has ever found these doors open during regular service hours, both by day and by night—and if your Board may judge from what they themselves see— within and without the Bethel—the habits and deportment of the sea faring portion of ibis community, as well as of those who occasionally visit this port, have been sensibly improved, and as a natural conse quence, the order and observance of the Sabbath, in those portions of the city formerly noted for distur bance, and for desecration of holy time, been greatly changed for the belter. Tiie folds of the Bethel flag, the banner of the Dove aryl the Olive Branch, waving over this sa cred building, is of itself calculated to inspire respect ami to quell tumult and strife, even were the sound of the Preacher’s voice not heard from within. Were th • keeping up of the Mariners’ Church in this city sustained by no stronger argument than this, it would seem to vour Board, that the labor of this Society would be to a considerable degree compensated. But w hen it is added that the Gospel of Christ has been thrice dispensed to an attentive au dience oti each Sabbath, (w’ilh some small exceptions,) within its walls, the good that may have been done , seems almost incalculable Your Board seek not to magnify their own services, or to arrogate to them selves a praise that belongs to God alone. They simply present them selves before you this night, as the humble agents of a higher power, and the grateful administrators of your benevolence. They claim for themselves nothing. They trust however that they may say, without being charged with a feeling incon sistent with this disclaimer, that they have exercised their best judg ment in the administration of the powers, and the disbursing of the funds, you have in your liberality committed to them. The original list ot annual subscribers was amply sufficient to pay all the expenses of the institution, including salary for the preacher. But for four years past that list has been materially diminished. Death, removals from the city, and the natural and very common declension of interest, which many feel and exhibit towards benevolent institutions, after having tor a while contributed to their sup port, havealloperated as conspiring causes to shorten our list of annual subscribers, and make it necessary for your Board to fall back upon the occasional charities which circum stances from time to time have thrown within their reach. With out these Providential aids, your Board must have, ere this, resigned their trust, struck the Mariners’ Hag, and closed the Seamans’ house of prayer. They have laboured long and laboured hard to avoid the His grace, and to save the community from the charge,ot suffering a House of Worship for Seamen to fail for want of pecuniary aid. To save themselves, the Society they repre sent, and the city in which they live from this obloquy, your Board have applied themselves to every proper source .within their reach, and have thus far been able to discharge all their pecuniary obligations to the preacher; and to pay all incidental expenses, pertaining to the support of the house, including the insur ance on the Church building, which item of expense by compact with the Trustees, devolved upon this so ciety. But they are compelled to say, that they hav<*but a very small surplus iu the Treasury, wherewith to commence another year, and if, the liberality of the community, which they now invoke, is not exhi bited for the support of the cause in future, your Board see not how the house is to be kept open another year. The present incumbent of the Mariner's pulpit, is, in the opinion of your Board, the most acceptable Mariner’s preacher that the seamen have ever had in this city; and every proper exertion should be used to keep him, when he is so em inently useful. With a disinterest edness truly honorable, he has ex pressed a readiness to continue his ministrations — Salary or no Salary. But your Board cannot for a mo ment entertain the determination to retain a man whose services they may not be able to compensate ; and they believe that their feeling on thishead will be cordially recip rocated by the Society, and bv all those who now listen to this Report. The alternative then is to raise the means for his support; the mode oi doing this will doubtless exercise the ingenuity and discretion of the new Board of Managers. The present occupants of that trust cannot but feel a strong, and an abiding confidence in the libe rality and proper feeling of the public toward the Seaman’s cause ; and on that they base the hope that the Seamans’ (lag will yet wave, through years to come, over this sa cred roof. They are reluctant to close this branch of their Report, without disclosing the sources from vvhtnce proceeded the funds that have, for the three last years, sup plied the deficiency in their Trea urv, left by the lulling off of annual subscript ions. They are indebted mainly to certain Charitable Radies, uncon nected with any special Society, and whose only bond of union was, a love tor the cause, for more than sl-500 paid into the Treasury, as the avails of three several Annual Fairs. held by them, and prosecuted with much labor and industry. It is al most superfluous to add, that these Benefactresses of the cause have kept alive the Mariners’ Church un til this lime. \\ hat meed of praise is their due, need not here he insis ted on. Were they consulted, tliev wouid doubtless shrink from this disclosure of their labours of love. ‘1 hose who can do such things, seek for no acknowledgment from man. Real benevolence is ever modest, and that charily which comes from the heart, is ever unob trusive. It is hoped by vour Board that some other mode may be resorted to hereafter, less onerous and less ardnous to supply the means neces sary to support the gospel in this house. They are of opinion that the:e is no iack of good feeling in the public for ‘he cause of Seamen. It becomes the duty of those who shall hereafter regulate the affairs of this institution, to stir up this feeling and by persevering and respectful application, to present this subject to those who have the means of aid in their hands, and who value the spiritual welfare of Seamen—these are, in truth,the nail parties on whom the support of the Mariner’s Church should rest. And to these vour Board think an appeal may he made without fear of rejection. The pre sent incumbent of the Mariner’s pul pi!, the Rev. Thomas Hutchings. has been engaged by vour Boarj] for another year, provided the meaps for paying him can be raised. His services have been highly accepta ble to Seamen and to many others who from Sabbath to Sabbath, .at tend at the Mariner’s church. These latter are persons living in the vi cinity of the church, who have no regular place of worship of their own, and who probably would not otherwise attend Divine service on the Sabbath. During the Summer months, while few Seamen visit this port, the audiences are principally made up of this description of per sons, so that the house is never emp ty on the Sabbath. In the Winter months and during the business season, the audiences vary from 20 to 100 persons. The Marine Church, properly so-called, com prizes 56 names; the ordinance of the Lord’s Supper has been cele brated four times during the past season—nine new members have been admitted —90 new names have been added to the total abstinence pledge. A synopsis of our yearly finances is here subjoined, shewing the state of our funds. The total expense of keeping up Divine Ser vice in the Church for one yearmav be estimated at S7OO. The amount | of annual subscription is about S2OO. The present incumbent of the pul pit lias voluntarily taken upon him self the duties of chorister and sex ton, for the two last years, and there by has saved to die Church the sev eral amounts formerly paid for those services, say $156 per annum. And lie may be fairly considered a donor to the Church funds in that sum annually, tor the last two years. Your Board would now once more tender you their thanks, for the confidence you have reposed in them, and take their leave on this occasion, with the expression ot a hope, that the friends of Seamen will still rally around the Bethel standard, and that the sons of the Ocean may ever find the Bethel doors open, and that ihe voice of in struction may still reach them bom the Mariner’s pulpit. WM. CRABTREE, BENJAMIN SNIDER, Committee of the Board. SynDp3i3 of Treasurer’s Account, For Ihe year ending December 1 dth, 18-30. Dr. By balnnee on hand, Jan. 14, 1330,....5117,51 A n’toollwted lY’m A'lmnl Subset il>. rs , up to December 19, 1330, - 154,00 Ain’t of voluntary Donations, 11,00 Amount of C Ilections received at the doors at Aanu it Meeting, .1 inuary, 1350 17,98 Avails of Li li s’ Fair, in the month of Min-h, 1830, 309.17 Sabbath Collections in Church Plates, 100.9 5 Collections to buy Hymn Books, 24,00 Hymn Books 501d,..... 2.G2 $7 45,53 Cr. To Ministers’ Salary up to December 19, 1830, 12 months, at S3O, SGOO.OO Expenses of lighting and cleaning nit Church, and other incidental ex pen"<, 44.9 G Hvinu 800 \s purchased May, 1350 . 18,59 Balance carried down, 81,98 $745,53 By’ B ilaoc * brought down in hands of W . Crabtree, Treasurer, Dec-in her 19, 1830 $Bl 93 WM. CSABTREE, Treasurer. Savannah, Dec. 19, 1850. FRIEND OF THE FAMILY. E. J. PURSE, CITY PRINTER. PROCEEDINGS OF COUNCIL. Savaxxah, Jin. 16th, ISSO. Council mel. Present —His Hon or R. Wayne, Mayor, Aldermen Posey, Turner, Lipptnan, Mullery, Screven, Ciiifin, Cumming, Saus sv, Walker, O’Byrne and Purse. The minutes of ihe last meeting were read and confirmed. The in formation and line dockets were read and confirmed. His Honor the Mayor laid before ihe Board ihe resignation of Alder man Cohen. Ald.Grilfiu moved to accept the same. Motion not sec onded, and resignation declared not accepted. Reports Read and. Adopted. The Committee on Pumps report that the same are in order, and are -ready to be delivered to the new contractor. J< USE PH LI PPM AN, ) ROB’T D. WALKER, >Ccm. JOHN MALLERV. ) His Honor the Mayor and the Committee on Public-Buildings to re port relative to a Keeper of the City Clock, reported that they had ap pointed George M. Griffen as such keeper at SIOO for the year. Report Read. The Committee on Health, to whom was referred the subject of supplving the sick poor with medi cines, have had the same under con sideration, and after a careful exum- ination of all the circumstances con nected with the system hitherto in practice, have arrived at the conclu sion that that system should be aban doned. It would be unnecessary to enter into a lengthy statement of the reasons which directed them to this conclusion—suffice it to say, that ns the supplying of medicine to the sick poor is a humane and benevolent act, intended to confer benefit, it ought to be done in that mode which would promise the greatest benefit to that unfortunate class of our fel low-citizens. After a most careful examination of all the plans sug gested to their minds to carry out th;s system in an efficient and econ omical manner, they hesitate not to recommend that Council should di vide the city into fourdispensary dis tricts, and elect for each district a Physician, whose duty it shall be to attend and supply with medicines the sick poor of their 1 several dis tricts, paying to each Physician dollars as a compensation for said services. The Committee recom mend therefore the passage of the folio wing Ord in an ce. J. It. SAUSSY, ? Health It. D. WALKER. Com’tee. Ordinances. An Ordinance for the establish ment of a dispensary system, for the relief of the indigent sick, was read the first time. An Ordinance for laying offinto lots, certain parts of thetract ofland known as the Springfield Plantation purchased by virtue of an Ordinance passed June 10th, 1850, and for dis posing of the same—read the first time at the last meeting of Council, was again read, and passed under thc_ title thereof, An Ordinance entitled, An Ordi nance to require the supension of lighted lamps at night, on all Ve3 , s cls ami craft in the River Savan. nan, under weigh, was read th e first and second times, and on motion passed, under the title thereof. c An Ordinance altering ihe mod. y di r s, i'? ‘t 11,0 c,t ? ‘-ns i„ •New t ran klin Ward— Wits rend ihe hist and second limes, and on ra „. tion passed under the tide thereof An Ordinance to he entitled. An’ Ordinance to restore to the Clerk of Council the salary and fees affixed to sail office by the Ordinance sed 2nd August, 1839, and for the increase ot the salary of the Jailor was read the first add second times, and on motion passed under the title thereof. An Ordinance to amend the exis ting Ordinances regulating the p u h. lie Market iu the City of Savannah —was read the first time. Elections. John Roden was unanitnusly el ected a Measurer and Inspector oi Lumber for tbe City of Savan nah. Petitions. Ihe petition ol James J. & Joseph H. Hines, representing th al they had purchased Lots No.?, la iJ> 15, 1 6 L , and 13, of the track of Land known as the Spring field Plantation, for the pu-pose of erecting thereon a Steam Saw Mill, and requesting Council to grant them permission to make basins as are necessary, and guaran teeing a free flow of water, no in jury to health, &c—was read and on mo’ions of Alderman S reven referred to the Com mittee on Health and Cemetery. The petition of Elijah Hender son, praying a lease of 99years for lot No. 5. New Franklin Ward, was read—no action taken, as au Ordinance had been passed relating to same. The petition of Enas Reed, owner of east halt of lot No. 27, Franklin Ward, praying permission to pay to ihe City the valuation on said half, and obtain a fee simple title—was read and referred to the Committee on public sales and City Lo[s. The petition of Thomas B. Max well et al.j city Constable, praving an increase of salary, was read and referred to the Committee on Fi nance. Resolutions read and adopted. By Alderman Purse seconded by Alderman Screven : Resolved , That the Surveyor lay off*, according to the plan of the city, that portion of the city Com mon, north of Gordon and east of Dray ton-streets, and that the Com mittee on Public Sales and City Lots repor an Ordinance for dis posing of the satne. Bv Alderman Purse, seconded by Alderman Griffin: Resolv'd , That His Honor the Mayor, in conformity wiih the sth and Gili sections of the amended Charier of the city, appoint five freeholders to often Price, Presi dent and Gordon-sireets. His Honor the Mayor appointed as such Committee Aid’men Purse, Cumming and O Byrne ; citizens Aaron Champion and Charles Ha Horn. By Alderman Mallery, seconded by Alderman Posey — ’ Resolved, That the Measurers and Inspectors of Lumber, and other City Officers requiring license, be required to take <>ut their licenses wit Inn twenty days from the time of their election, or their election be comes void. Miscellaneous. Alderman Purse, in behalf of the Central Rail Road and Banking Company of Georgia, asked permit sion for stiid Company to Iron Bridge, 14 feet high,across fiat Road Street ; and on motion of A** derman Griffin, the same was refer red to the Committee'on Streets an Lanes, with power to act. His Honor the Mayor laid before the Board the following communi cations, which were read —to “ ll • From t’lie Hon. Joseph W .Jackson, in replv to the Mayor’s letter enclos ing a copy of the Resolution pas$ cl at the last meeting of Council, re questing that a company ot Artillery might he stationed at c thorpe Barracks. The Hon. Jusep W. Jackson says:— , “On the -27th December, I un dressed a communication to the 3r Department, asking that a garrisn of artillery might be stationer Oglethorpe Barracks. It ) VJ | S , ferred to the General-in-Chief on the 4th inst., through the A< J taut General, reported to die j retary of War that, at present, the is not a disposable company fori purpose, but ‘that it is the inten of the General-in-Chief to r e P a the necessary garrison at as ear.’ day as practicable.’” r ... From His Excellency the <*o ernor of the State of Georgy reply to the Mayor’s letter enc the resolution passed at the meeting of Council, directing . Military Store Keeper at Sa'‘ ,a to deliver to His Honor the A sixty muskets with accoutred complete, for the use of tn° Watch.
