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Savannah Internal Improvements.
We make the following extracts from a letter
dated ’“South Western Georgia, Jan. 24/’
which appears in the New York Express:
Great confidence seems to be felt in whatever
Georgia lays her hand to. I have often heard
it wondered how the citizens of Georgia had
succeeded so in building railroads, keeping out
of debt, and making their roads pay well.
Great caution and prudence were observed
in requiring a good liberal bona fide subscription
before starting, rather than relying on “finan
ciering/’ or selling bonds of the company at a
ruinous discount; and then the most watchful
economy in the expenditures of the money ;
this characterized the early beginning and pro
gress of Georgia railroads,
Such things are not perhaps generally looked
for “down South,” but it has been true of the
past,'contrary practice even now, with the Cali
fornia and Australian mines showering gold,
would be one more honored in the breach than
the observance.
The first great private enterprise, the building
of the Central Road. 190 miles long, was com
menced in 1834 when the times were hard and
money scarce. At the time of its completion,
it was the longest single road in the United
States ; it has been a sort of model or example
for others. The ‘personal of this road had much
to do with its success. As exhibiting this and
showing with what caution and economy he
•proceeded, I may state that William W. Gor
don, Esq., a distinguished member of the Savan
nah bar, at the time a member of the State Sen
ate possessing largely the public confidence, a
most practical thorough-going man, was elec
ted President. Mr. Gordon applied to a gen
tleman of high reputation at the North, as Civil
Engineer, to survey and locate the road ; his
salary, I think, was to be SOOOO a year. lie
carne, and very unexpectedly brought with him
some twenty assistant engineers. Harnessing
six mules to a carriage, with his champagne
baskets up behind, he proceeded to place some
half dozen corps in the field. The cautious
and astute President looked on in utter constern
ation, and finally said to him, “Sir, you have
mistaken us entirely, we are poor, we look to
our subscribers through the country to do the
grading, or to contribute the means for it, they
may be able, while we hope to raise as much
money from the citizens of Savannah as will
enable us to buy the iron, and erect the super
structure; but we cannot afford the expense of
your numerous corps of engineers for a single
year,” The result was that they were paid off’
the matter satisfactorily arranged, and they left
the work.
Among the assistant engineers was F. P. Hol
comb, a young man barely at majority, but with
considerable experience, and had attracted the
attention of Mr. Gordon, and Mr. L. O. Rey
nolds, the latter now tne able and efficient Pres
ident of the South Western road. It was arrang
ed that Mr. Reynolds should take the chiefship,
and he gave to Mr. Holcomb the location of the
road. Upwards ol four years were occupied by
him with his single small corps in this survey,
the road passing through a country of difficult
topography, a great part of it a wilderness, and
intersected by immense swamps, the corpse liv
ing in their tents summer and winter, sleeping
on their blankets in the absence of mattresses
and the annual expense of the whole engaged
probably equaling the salary of the former
Chief Engineer. 1 may remark, as showing the
good judgment of Messrs. Gordon and Reynolds,
that from the admirable location Mr. Holcomb
was universally conceded to have made of this
road, he was recommended by the Chevalier
Bodisco, the Russian Minister, to his govern
ment, as an engineer of high capacity and es
tablished reputation. Mr. H. did not go to
Russia, but has since located the South-Wes
tern, the Columbus branch, the Waynesboro’
and Augusta, and is now engaged with his corps
in a preliminary survey of the Savannah and
Pensacola road: I hcse roads all have connec
tion with the Central, in most of them it is direc
tly interested; their length when completed,
including the Central will be some 700 miles.
Among the early employers of the Central
Railroad, in a very subordinate capacity, was
W. M Wodley, whose talents and great business
energies were discovered, and who became su
perintendent of the road, managing it and its
great freight business with an efficiency and
success unsurpassed. He is now managing
the State Road, under an Executive appoint
ment from Gov. Cobb ; the poor mechanic boy
may now be said to be the “Railroad King” of
Georgia. He is the same gentleman to whom
your citizen G. B. Lamar, Esq., recently ad*
dressed a letter through the public press, as the
prominent internal improvement man of this
State, on the subject of the caloric engine,
Mr. Gordon, who died before the completion
ot this road, and to whose memory Savannah
should erect a statute, since he started her for
a growth and commercial importance that will!
be unrivalled in the South, was succeeded by R.
R. Cuyler, Esq., who, to fine financial talents, !
joins that of industry, order care and attention
to busiuess, so necessary in a good executive;
officer. Ihe annual receipts ot the road under 1
Ins administration have reached one million of I
dollars ; the stockholders are receiving eight
per cent, dividend, with a handsome surplus on
hand tne stock being above par, the road out
ot debt, and its receipts annually increasing.—
Ihe system ot check and accountability is the
most perfect I have ever seen, full reports/in
\\ riting being required of each conductor] of
every day’s operations. J
feo much for the persouel, and i have dwelt
the more upon this subject because it has, pro- j
bably, generally as much to do with the success
of railroad enterprise as the character and ca
pacity of the general and officers of an army
have to do |with the success of military cam
paigns.
Ihe Savannah road starts Sunder favorable
auspices. Dr. Screven, a man of large wealth,
a citizen of Savannah, is devoting his fortune to
the great enterprise, and he is strongly co-opera
ted with by the merchants and others of Savan
nah, and a large amount of stock has already
been subscribed. But the immediate destina
tion should be Pensacola, then while greatly
benefiting Borgia and Florida, it will partake
in the objects it will accomplish of that national
character that will make it one of interest to the
whole country.
Singular Marriage of the Emperor's Physician.
The marriage of the physician of Louis Na
poleon, Dr. Conneau, is announced. We learn
from the Courier des Etats Unis that he has,
lin imitation of his ro\ T al master, espoused a
lady thirty years younger than himself, —
Conneau, who ts said to be a most excellent
j man, had been the tutor of this young lady
; from her infancy, having bestowed upon her ali
the tender care and solicitude of a farther. Some
time ago, finding his charge ol an age and in
a position to be married, he offered his services
in making for her an advantageous selection.-
But I have already made my choice, replied
the young lady, and I am ready to be married
at any time. How! rejoined the astonished
doctor, have you indeed selected your husband ;
and who is the happy man ? It is yourself, res
ponded the damsel ; 1 love you with all my
heart, and I am now ready to become your
wife. Too much surprised at this declaration to
believe his pupil in earnest, the doctor turned it
off* as a pleasantry. She insisted that she was
serious, he at length made a formal and distinct
refusal of the hand she had offered him. The
young lady, however, as it seems, well consid
i ered the subject, and her purpose was not to be
i changed. She reproached her tutor with un
| kindness, and with a willingness to make her
miserable. Ths doctor yielded so far as to
take the subject again into consideration, and
after consulting with his master and friend, the
Emperor, at length decided to accept the lady’s
offer and become the happy husbandofhis now
happy pupil.
2ij* Sim.es xmb Smtmd
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. ’ ~
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MARCH 23, 1853.
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A General Summary and Review.
Our readers of course vviil excuse us if in this issue
of our paper we bring up our rear of news which has
lagged behind during the storm and rain and accidents
of the last few days.
The subject of most interest now is the distribution
of the spoils by the new administration. All that we
have learned on this head will be found in one place
under a neat caption of its own. Hope deferred ma
ketli the heart sick 5 and we crowd all the names of the
fortunate competitors for honor and office in a small
place, so that those who are interested may find them
quick. And to save our own neighbors the trouble of
search we will now annouuee that the Post Master for
Columbus has not been selected.
The report of the small pox in Oglethorpe and else
where in South-western Georgia and in Russell county
in Alabama, has produced quite a panic from Savannah
to Montgomery ; nor is this alarm unfounded. The pa
pers report that one case has broken out in Albany, Geo.,
and the disease is spreading in Russell county, Ala.
The Lawyers in that county have very properly notified
the public that there will be no Circuit court at Craw
ford this spring, and advise their clients to remain at
home. The commissioners appointed to guard the
health of the community, have placed Mr. Bass’resi
dence in Russell county under quarantine, and forewarn
all persons not to approach the neighborhood, or else
they will be subjected to the heaviest penalties of the
law.
The continued prevalence of this disease in Ogle
thorpe has scared all the hands but one out of the of
fice of the Democrat , published in that city, and the
paper comes to us “half made up.” If this loathsome
disease should happen to visit our goodly city, of which
we presume there is no probability, since a guard lias
been stationed at the bridge to prevent the approach of
suspected persons, we will be fortunately relieved from
the disagreeable necessity imposed upon the Democrat ,
as we have at least one printer who has seen the Ele
phant.
The prevalence of the disease at Oglethorpe is doing
our merchants serious damage. The great body of
their spring goods were shipped via Savannah to Ogle
thorpe, where many of them were landed several weeks
ago, but a fatal stampede has taken place among the
wagoners and none of them can be persuaded for love
or money to go after them.
The Griffin papers emphatically deny that there is
a case of small pox in that city.
The whirlwind, which did so much damage to this
city on Thursday last, passed a few miles north of
Chunnenuggee, and swept every thing before it. Its
breadth however was not over fifty yards. Wo can
not hear what has become of the monster.
The weather is still unsettled. Sunday was a glo
rious spring morning, an unclouded sun shed its en- ;
livening beams over the fair face of nature, and the air j
was as bland as a young maiden’s smile. Monday was a j
helpmeet for Sunday and promised the near approach |
of spring ; but clouds overcast the evening sky and the j
day closed with the falling of a flood of waters, which
continued to descend the live long night.
A correspondent of the Federal Union has suggested
Henry G. Lamar, of Bibb, as the most suitable candi
date of the Democratic Party, for Governor of Georgia.
In making the selection we presume the party will be j
careful to select some citizen upon whom all the mem- |
bers of the party can unite and at once and forever j
break down the miserable attempt to perpetuate the :
Union organization. We will cordially support any !
nominee who recognizes the great conservative princi- j
pies of state rights and state remedies. There are two
classes of persons to whom we have a mortal aversion.
The first are spoilsmen—men who attach themselves to
a party for the sake of the loaves and fishes, and are
ready to quit it as sooti as some body else’s claims are
preferred to their own, and begin to make signs to the
enemy. They are the Arnolds of politics, and are trusted
only to betray. The other class are old Federalists,
who, under the covering of the lamb, are ravening
wolves. They deDy the sovereignty of the states and
are not prepared to uphold the honor of the state,
when lust of power, or pelf, may drive the Federal Gov
ernment into a breach of her constitutional rights.
llenry R. Jackson, Hugh A. Haralson or llen
rt G. Lamar would be quite acceptable to us. We
want only sound men who have the nerve to meet the
future.
The Hon. Solomon Foot, Senator from Vermont, and
President of the Brunswick Rail road, has arrived in
Georgia. We do not admire Yankee politics, but
Yankee Presidents of Rail roads are well enough, pro
vided they have plenty of cash, the characteristic ener
gy of New England, and the wisdom of Solomon —Foot.
Col. Benton has published Us letter on the Pacific
Rail road. It has not yet come to hand. We learn
however that the old gentleman is opposed to the
southern route. Since the north has acquired the pre
ponderance in the electoral college, all of Col. Benton’s
i TitWß have strangely approximated to the North Pole.
He is no doubt fully satisfied that, though the northern
passage mav not be the shortest round the world, it is
the nigh cut to the Presidency. A wicked friend sug
gests that this icy tendency may be explained by his
desire to get thoroughly cooled before he takes up his
final abode in the warmer regions to which he will be j
transported in the future. We can’t say whether this is i
the true explanation.
The spiritual rappers are largely on the increase.
The delusion has taken hold of some very prominent
politicians at Washington city. The congressmen ot the
United States are said to be fond ot “spirits, ’ and of
late have been much given to ‘’rapping” —each other—
it is not to be wondered at therefore that they should
be “spiritual rappers.” Two very distinguished South
Carolina politicians, whose characters in these respects
are very well established, have both become converts to
) the delusion.
Mrs. Bostwick’s Concert.
This renown Canialrice will give one of her supe rD
concerts in this city, on Monday night, 28th inst.< at
Temperance Ilall. Herjsuccess in New Orleans, Mobile
and Montgomery has been unprecedented. The New
Orleans Picayune gives the following flattering notice
of her last concert in that city :
Mrs. Bostwick’s Last Concert. —The third and
last of Mrs. Bostwick’s concerts in this city was givenjlast
evening at Armory Hall, and was much better attend
ed and by a larger and more appreciative audience than
either of the previous concerts. Mrs. Bostwick made
a decidedly favorable impression here on her first ap
pearance, increased it the second evening, and succeeded
so perfectly last evening that, we believe a number of
additional concerts would be largely patronized.
Mrs. Bostwick possesses one of the sweetest and most
flute-like voices we have ever heard. Its range Ts more
contracted than Jenny Lind’s, but with that range—and
she never oversteps it— it is equal to any vocalist’s who has
ever visited this city. She sings with taste and feeling,
and with an ease and gracefulness that adds interest to
the melody and enchains the entire audience. The
“Gipsy Song,” from, Meyerbeer’s “Camp of Silesia,”
!as sung by her last night, was exquisite. The Scotch
ballad, “’Twos within a mile cf Edinboro’ Town,” was
one of the most beautiful little things we have ever lis
tened to, and was loud encored ; so, too, was “Home,
Sweet Home,” with which the performances closed’
We commend her to our Mobile friends as a finished
artist and delightful vocalist.
COMMUNICATION
FOR THE TIMES & SENTINEL.
A Singular Coincidence.
Several years ago, it was the misfortune of the writer
to lose a very near and dear relation, by whose death
his heart was beggared and his home made desolate.
| In the quiet of a Sunday afternoon some weeks after
| wards, he was meditating, all alone, upon the extent of
his loss, and the loneliness of his future, in a room hal
lowed by the occupancy of the loved and lost. Very
unexpectedly a stray leaf was blown at his feet; lie
picked it up and returned it to its place, without look
ing at it, and continued his promenade. He had scarce
ly reached the same point, before the leaf again fell at
his feet; lie again returned it to its place without notice.
Upon reaching the same spot the third time the same
leaf arrested his steps 5 startled somewhat by the cir
cumstance, he stooped down and picked it up, wonder
ing in his own mind, if it might not edatain some word
of consolation in his bereavement. a leaf from
a book which belonged to his deceased friend, and had not
been touched since her death. You can well imagine
his surprise and joy when the first words which met
his eyes were those of the following beautiful verses—
and will pardon the superstition which regarded them
as the voice of his beloved that had thus reached him
from her far off homo in heaven. L.
tiiou’rt not alone.
w ritten un hearing a young lady exclaim , u Jllas ! Pm all alone.' 1
BY K. CURTISS STINE.
Thou’rt not alone—the greenwood’s shades are round thee,
When summer comes, with all her joyous train ;
And playful winds at eve have often found thee,
And murmured in thine ear hope’s sweetest strain:
Thou’art not alone—each gaily tinted flower,
That smiling greets us on the dewy lea,
The painted clouds at sunset’s golden hour,
To me are friends, and should be so to thee.
Thou’rt not alone—the red stars gleaming o’er thee,
At midnight lone, with whispering voices tell,
Old tales of those who passed away before thee,
In brighter lands beyond the sun to dwell.
And when the robe of autumn gaily shining,
With rainbow hues, is o’er the lorest thrown,
Go list the winds among their boughs repining,
And learn on earth thou ne’er canst dwell alone.
Thou’rt not alone—the shades of the departed,
On radiant wings are soaring softly by—
Thou canst noffsee them, but the gentlo hearted,
To visit thee, oft leave the azure sky.
What though the world in chasing flying pleasure,
With icy hearts should past thee coldly hie ‘?
Look—look on high—thou hast a richer treasure,
Than all its gems and glittering dross can buy.
The Disposition of Foreign Missions, &c.
Washington, March Id.
Mr. Belmont, the Austrian Consul of New York is a
candidate for the Chargeship at Naples, and is backed ‘
up by many of the leading men throughout the Union,
but the indications arc that the office is destined for
Gov, Seymour, of Connecticut.
Gen. Shields has been a candidate for the office of
Minister to Spain, which he desired on account of his
health, but it is understood that Senator Soule will re
ceive the appointment. Gen. Shields will probably get
some other foreign appointment.
Mr. Marshall, of California, has a good chance of
being appointed Commissioner to China.
Ex-Secretary Buchanan for England, and Hon. John
A. Dix, for France, are still spoken of.
Thomas N. Carr, formerly Consul at Tangier, is a
candidate for that consulate.
To-day, in reply to a gentleman who asked him how
he liked the air of Washington, Gen. Pierce said, ;; I
don’t know, for I have not had the opportune ty of get
ting a breath of fresh air. Have not even time to !
shave which was evident by looking at the President’s
face.
At the Cabinet councils held on Saturday evening
and to-day, the Mosquito affair was anxiously discoursed,
I cannot furnish you with the details, but I have reason
to belive there will be no wank of pluck. Gen, Pierce i
has declared that his administration will, at all events, j
be an effective one. The government received a tel- j
egraphic message on Saturday from New Orleans in j
reference to this affair. M. J.
Jeremiah Colburn has been appointed Assistant Ap
praiser at Boston. :
It is rumored that Gideon G. WescotUwill have the
Post Office at Philadelphia.
W. H. Farrar, of Boston, lias a good prospect of
being appointed Attorney General of Oregon.
The withdrawal of Cartter leaves but three competitors
for the office of Commissioner ofPaleuts, viz.: 11. Bur
dan, of Chicago, Deßow, of New Orleans, and C. L.
Woodbury, of Boston. The first named of the three
has the best chance.
From Illinois there is hut one applicant for each office,
the Delegation having agreed upon a list which was de
posited in the several departments having the disposa
ble office.
Mr. Marcy has told the Clerks in the State Depart
ment that none will be removed who faithfully discharge
! their duties —at which Democrats complain.
South-Carolina Appointments.
Washington, March 17.
Tho President will send into the U. S. Senate, this,
Thursday morning, the following nominations, for con
firmation, relative to South-Carolina, viz. : The Hon.
W, F. Colcock, for Collector of the port of Charleston,
and Thomas Evans, for United States District Attorney.
I Zeb. Davis, Esq., has resigned the office of Timber
! Agent for North Alabama ; and Nathaniel Davis, Esq.,
i who was the bearer of the Electoral vote of Alabama
’ to Washington has been appointed by President Fillmore,
as his successor. So says a letter writer to the Tus
cumbia Enquirer.
Appointments Confirmed.
Baltimore, March 18.
Thomas Evans, Esq., lias been confirmed by the U.
i S. Senate as 17.. S. District Attorney for Charleston ;
! and J. D. B. Deßovv, Esq., editor of Deßow’s Reviciv,
jas Superintendent of the Census, vice Kennedy. Mr.
: Deßow entered upon his duties on Friday.
Appointments Confirmed.
Charleston, March 16. |
J. C. Toulman, Postmaster at Mobile.
Gen. Lane, Governor of Oregon.
Thomas Campbell, of Illinois, George W. Thomson,
of Virginia, and Alpheus Welch, of Michigan, Commis
sioners to settle land titles in California, with numbers
of California officers, and. all Boston officers.
! The following nominations will be sent to the Senate
to-morrow :
Robert B. Campbell, of Texas, Commissioner of Mexi
can Boundary.
Mr. Baldwin, Collector of Key West.
Ferdinand Morino, Marshal of Florida. George S.
; Hawkins, Collector of Apalachicola.
Jack Hays, Surveyor General of California,
Washington, March 17.
! The Senate has confirmed the appointment of Loren
| P. Waldo, as Commissioner of Pensions.
Western & Atlantic Hail Road
i
We are indebted to Mr. E. B. Walker for the fol
lowing statement of the business of the Western and
Atlantic Rail Road, during the month of February,
compared with the same month last year : —Exchange
Paper,
INCOME FOR FEBRUARY, 1853.
; Up Freight from Georgia Railroad 7,132 58
I Down “ to “ “ 16,018 56
|Up “ from M. &W.R. R 1,794 01
• Down “ to “ “ “ 7,716 71
Local Freight 4,678 21
; Passage Sales 10,214 95
| Mail service 1,166 66
$48,721 68
INCOME FOR FEBRUARY, 1852.
; From Freights 19,630 62
“ Passengers 7,751 40
“ Maii service 1,000 00
j $23,382 02
hTotarincreasb over February, 1852... $20,339 66
E. B. WALKER, Bookkeeper.
Distinguished Arrivals.—We notice among the av- j
: rivals at our hotels last evening, the names of Mr. Glidj .
j don, of “Egyptian Mummy” celebrity, and Mr. ThackM
j eray, the well known novelist and lecturer. Gfthl'l
I latter, we learn, and are pleased to announce, that lie
will deliver a course of four lectures before the “Young
Men’s Literary Association, ,v of this city. The sub
jects of his discourses and their order will be as follows :
Ist. “Swift;” 2nd. “Congreve and Addison 3d.
“Steele and the Times of Queen Anne;” 4th. “Prior,
Gay and Pope.’’— Sav. Nevjs.
One Hundred Miles per Hour. —“A Maine Yan
j kee” announces, through the National Intelligencer.
the invention of a form of road and improved locomotive, ,
| which, he says, will safely transport the mails and ;
passengers at the rate of one hundred miles per hour. I
• The Mormons.— -Schism has already begun to work j
among the Mormons. A party calling itself the New j
Church, has sprung up and separated from the original ;
| Mormon Society. The New Church has appointed ;
seven rulers, answering to the branches of the golden j
; candlestick, and the authority descends from one to the |
other, so that it can never cease while one is left.
-
Col. Henry G. Lamar is recommended by a writer in j
the Milledgeville Federal Union , as the Democratic j
candidate for Governor.
Gov. Foote, of Mississippi, has issued his proclamation J
for the election of five members of Congress from the
i State at large.
The Griffin, Ga., Jeffersonian of the 17th inst., says
that there has not been a case of Smali Pox in that city
for years past. There have been a number of eases of j
measles, but none of small pox.
A Mormon paper published at Liverpool, professes to !
circulate 23,000 copies.
It is said that 95 ships were announced to sail from
London, this month, for Australia.
A young lady, with SIO,OOO, advertises in the New
York Tribune for a “Presbyterian or Dutch Reformed
Husband. ”
Y early >a’ies of Oysters in New York amount to
five miliions of dollars; two thirds come from Virginia,
A prohibitory Liquor Law went into operation in
Vermont on the Bth inst.
Subscription books were openad on the Ist inst., at
Memphis, for the Arkansas Central Rail Road between
that city and Little Rock.
There are in Cincinnati, 59 ‘'spiritual circles 5 ’ regu
larly organized, ana-310 mediums.
The Hungarians in lowa.—A. letter from the
Hungarians of New Bnd.t, contradicts the report of
their intended removal to Texas* Uj hazy, alone,
having sold his land to a German Em gra it Society
leaves in the Spiing, with his fumilv, for >San An
tonio, in the neighborhood of which place he has
purchased some hundreds of acres of land. The
Hungarians have elected Joseph YUjlhenyt, former
ly member and secretary of the Upper House of
Hungary, their chairman, in place of Ujha/.v.
Pacific Railroad.
Col. Benton ha 9 published his letter to the per
pie of Missouri on the subject of a National Highs
way from the Mississippi river to the Pacific,
advocates the Central route, for which Col Frenioig
has long expressed a preference, and which has
mained unoticed for three years, while the Southern
(Memphis) route has monopolized attention and
acquired an engrossing prominence.’’
Col. Benton is in favor of reserving a tract ■
mile wide for all sorts of roads, rail and macadamised
and a plain old English road and two rnatgins om
hundred feet wide for independent and rival tele ,
graph lines. He thinks the U. State should build
the road and the fixtures, and let out the use ot it
for terms of 7 and 10 years.
He says all the railways from the Mississippi
to the Atlantic must converge in St. Louis and cr 0
thence to San Francisco.
Congressional.
On Monday the President laid tho Senate
a communication from the Postmaster General 5q
relation to the contract for carrying the mails from
Vera Cruz to San Francisco.
The Senate considered the resolution of Mr. Clay.
; ton, calling upon the President of the United States
| for copies of certain papers relating to the Clayton
! and Bulwer treaty.
Mr. Masoti replied to the declaration of Mr. Clay
ton, that the Belize is in Mexico, in the State of
Yucatan, and insisting that the British settlements
are in Central America. He further said that British
: aggressions on this -Continent had gone far enough.
| Mr. Clayton replied, saying that Honduras itself
does not claim the Belize; and further defended
his course in making the Clayton Bulwer treaty.
| Mr. Macrady, the actor, has sustained another heavy
; affliction. His son. Walker Francis Sbiel, aged twelve
yeats, died at the Sherborne House, on the Bth of Feb
ruary.
Small Fox Scene in Oglethorpe.
It appears that the small pox is riot in Ogle
thorpe, but in the vicinity. The following ex
; tract from a letter, dated in that place and pub
lished in the Macon Messenger , contains a
graphic account of a small pox scene :
For several weeks the Mayor and Aldermen
have employed guards near the infected dwell
ings, to prevent all ingress and egress. Sup
ples, in the mean time, were duly furnished the
■prisoners . One of them, who had been two
moths roiling , as he called it, shut out from so
ciety, and desperate for liberty and lresh air,
broke through the cordon, and appeared in our
I streets a few days ago‘ He was a ghastly spec
’ tacle. His friends gave a wide margin to hi
; perambulatioas, and civilities were exchanged as
Ia distance. The fugitive considered himselt in
noxious, and therefore claimed his area of free
dom. Anothsr Small Pox culprit, encouraged
by this example, sallied forth his scars more ver
dant and odorous. , The guWd ordered him to
; keep within proper limits ; but the ratio of ad-
I vance by one party, was the retreat ol the
other, and thus the insurrection began.
All Ilerringville was in a blaze of excitement;
ail of Oglethorpe was appalled at the outrage.--
j Our worthy and [splendid, Cos). Sorrel, dashed
| into the rebellious province, to maintain the su
premacy of law and order : but the chief insur
| gent swore that he would go out, at very hazard,
i and hunt with his neighbors.
On Saturday, a meeting of citizens was held
at the Council Chamber, to devise some remedy
for the novel occasion. Resolutions were adop
i ted sustaining the action of Mayor and Aider
men, and requesting them to call on the Colon
iel of the Regiment for a force, not exceeding
: fifty men, with arms in hand, to prevent all in
| fected persons from leaving their premises, and
! others from going in. The requisted was
| promptly made, and as promptly answered by
i Col. Horne, who asked for volunteers. One
general shout, “Set me down, set me down,”
rang through the house. The drum beat, fire
locks appeared, and old charges shot off to make
room for fresh ones. The sentinels forthwith
took their stations —camp-fires illuminated the
vicinity of danger at night, and exposed to view
the gallant citizen-warrior as he paced within
his lines, anticipating the happy time when he
could cry, “All is well.” The lepers of Jerusa
lem have always been confined within a certain
district of the city, and are we not entitled to
equal protection from a more terrible malady •
The two cities resemble each other in former
glory and present decay. Both have been de
populated ; yet as the Jews still look for a res
toration of their beloved city, to its more than
ancient splendor, so we “behold as through a
glass darkly,''’ a huge pile of cotton bale3 at —
Brunswick, or some other terminus of a Railroad.
At all events, what is good for Jerusalem, as a
sanotary regulation, is not less applicable to
Oglethorpe.
Now, Mr. Editor, you have the facts. YY e are
cut off from the world. Heaven alone knows
j when we shall be received into cordial fellow
ship again. You outsiders look upon us all, by
Oglethorpe, as so many lepers, dangerous o
conduct. I admit the plausibility of the suspi
cion, but not its justice. We, of the city proper
have been cautious to avoid the position ; and
from general vaccination, and by God’s bless
ing, we hope to be released from quarnantine in
thirty days, if not sooner.
Distressing.— The Cassville Standard says
On Monday night last, one of the houses of
, Jesse Windsor, of this county, was destroye 1
by fire, and in it oneot his sons, who was burnt
to death.
The lad, some 12 or 14 years old, having res
cued two of his younger brothers, rushed in
amid the flames, thinking that a third brother
was left but was overpowered and never retim
ed.
A merchant of this city has just executed an
order for a small lot of sugar to go to Decatur,
DeKalb county, Georgia. This town is located,
on the railroad six miles beyond being’
near the conveyance of the Charleston, Savan
nah and other roads, the sugar is intended to-’
a merchant at Decatur and was purchased in
this market as an experiment. Should it prove
satisfactory, we may look for Ftrade to sonic
extent from that quarter. ‘