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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. Ggzzr- : ~ 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. ‘