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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 13, 1853.
FOR GOVERNOR:
11ERSC11EL V. JOHNSON.
FOR CONGRESS:
A. H. COLQUITT.
Increase of Advertising Patronage.
While all other interests are rejoicing in the in
crease of business which has flowed in upon the com
pletion of our Rail road and the commencement of oth
er great enterprises of the same sort by which Columbus
will be made the center of the immense region lying
between Savannah and Mobile, we will be permitted to
felicitate ourselves, at the brightening prospects which
are opening upon us. We are in propinquity to Savan
nah and our readers will trade in her stores; Mobile
will soon be our near neighbor, and our citizens will be
at her door. Commercial men will therefore see the
importance of introducing themselves and their busi
ness to the public through our columns; and farmers
and traders along the line of either road can find pur
chasers for their lands and produce here as readily as
at their own doors.
An earnest of what will be, has already been receiv
ed. We call the attention of our readers to the card
of Messrs. Lockett, Long & Cos., who have recently
formed a copartnership in the “shipping and forward
ing business,” and located in Savannah. They are well
known to our readers as prompt and efficient business
men, and will receive a liberal share of public patronage
from this section.
We also invite attention to Mr. Beckham’s advertise
ment of his valuable lands and negroes. Persons who
wish to make investments in this species of property
cannot probably do better than give him a call.
The Conservative men of Georgia and the Ad
ministration.
The Hon. Robert Toombs, who is the embodiment
of “the Conservative men of Georgia,” has uniformly
declared in a'l his speeches that he sanctioned the In
augural Addriss of President Pierce, and would give
his Administration a cordial support if he adhered to
the principles therein set forth. The only instance of
departure from these principles specifically charged by
Mr. Toombs upon the Administration is in the appoint
ment of Abolitionists and Free soilers to the re
sponsible positions of Ministers to Fereign Courts. If
this charge be well founded, it constitutes a valid objec
tion to the Administration in the mouths of Southern
Rights men, though it would be only a political clap
trap when used by Messrs. Toombs and .Jenkins, who
not only gave Fillmore’s Administration a cordial sup
prt, but advocated the election of Webster to the J
Presidency, both of whom were Free soilers.
Is the charge however true? The following is a list i
of our Foreign Ministers: James Buchanan, Minister 1
to England—in the discussion of the Wilmot Proviso !
he advocated the extension of the Missouri Compro- J
mise line of 30° 30’ to the Pacific ; Pierre Soule.
Minister to Spain, the eloquent Senator from Louisiana,
who has always been in the front rank in the deffenceof
Southern Rights; James Gadsden, Minister to Mexico,
an eminent citizen of South Carolina, and a devoted
follower of John C. Calhoun; William Trousdale,
Minister to Brazil, the candidate of the Democracy of
Tennessee for Governor in opposition to the Compro
mise Measures, and a brave soldier of the Republic
in the war with Mexico; Solon Borland, Senator
from Arkansas, and one of the leaders of the opposi
tion to the Compromise— he aiso won laurels in the
Mexican war. To this long list of eminent men who
have, in every conflict with Northern avarice and am
bition, led the van of Southern resistance, we point
with pride and exultation as a palpable refutation of
the charge that our Foreign appointments have been
given to Free soilers and Abolitionists. Indeed,
if Governor McDonald had had the appointing
power he could not have filled these high offices with
men more devoted to the South. In opposition to this
long array of men devoted to the South, our opponents
point to Peter D.Vroom, the Minister to Prussia, and
charge that he is a Free soiler. No body seems to
know much about Mr. Vroom. The charge rests !
with the N. Y. Evening Post , itself an abolition print, i
but recently read out of the Democratic Par'.y by the i
Washington Union, the supposed organ of the Admin- i
istration. We may therefore reject its testimony, i
and believe upon the authority of his endorsement by
the President that he always has been opposed to Free :
soilism, or has recanted his errors. It is also charged
that Jno. A. Dix has been tendered the Mission to
France. This is only a Washington rumor, and they
are more usually false than true. Jno. A. Dix is not
Minister to France, and we verily believe never will be.
M hen he is appointed, it will be time enough to blame
the President for it.
This charge then of appointing Free soilers and Abo
litionists to office, which is intended to be the chief
corner stone of the Conservative party of Georgia, j
amounts to this : President Pierce has given/our of the 1
highest foreign appointments to ultra Southern men ;
one to the most conservative man at the North, who
has always stood square up to the rights of the South ;
and one to a man of doubtful position. This plain
statement of facts utterly condemns the sweeping charge
of the Conservatives that Abolitionists and Free soilers
have been appointed to the Foreign Missions. It is a
foul slander upon the character of a pure and Southern
Administration. Desperate men will catch at straws ; I
on no other ground can we account for the fatuity of
charging Franklin Pierce with sympathy with Abo- ;
litionists and h ree soilers. Ilis long public career has
been distinguished by hostility to ‘hem from the time
he stood by John C. Calhoun iu Congress in his war
upon Abolition petitions to the hour in which he or- l
ganised opposition to Atwood, the Democratic nominee
for Governor of New Hampshire, because he tampered
with the foul fiends, and succeeded in defeating his elec
tion by elevating a friend of the South to the high
office.
No less conspicuous is his hostility to this despicable i
faction at this late hour when he has reached the high
est pinnoc'.e of earthly grandeur. In a late issue of the
M asbington Vnion , the metropolitan Organ of the
Democratic party, two papers, distinguished for the ex- |
tent of their circulation and the ability of their conduc
tors, have been proscribed for their Abolitionism, and
enounced as abolitionists sailing uuder Democratic col- |
ors. Let sound thinking men read the article below and
pon er well its contents before they are lured from
their association with a party so true to the South by !
the demogoguieal cries of a faction more intent on
persona aggrandizement than the good of the country,
and which is yet reeking with the odor of a foul em
brace with a Free soil Administration.
[From the Washington Union. J
The New York Evening Post and the Buffalo
Republic.
The democratic party has suffered more from its asso
ciations for a few years past than from its open enemies.
One of the great objects of the compromise, which was
effected in the Baltimore Convention in 1852, was that
for the future the party might be relieved from all con
nexion with those quasi democrats who claimed fellow
ship with us, but who were constantly furnishing material
to our enemies with which to assail us. The New York
Evening Post s id the Buffalo Republic belong to that
class of hangers-on to the democratic party who sail un
der demociatic colors, but who are in reality the worst
enemies of the party. 11 y are abolitionists, in fact, and
yet, claiming to be denur _ ts. they have .urnished the
main grounds upon which the whigs have kept up their
warfare. We deem it our duty to our party to repudiate
all sympathy or connexion with them, and, as far as our in
fluence goes, to denounce them as abolitionists sailing un
der democratic colors. They have never stood upon the
creed adopt?d by the party at Baltimore in 1852—they
do not now recognise that creed as the test of democracy—
and for that reason it is an utter perversion of language
and a slander upon our party to call them democrats. —
They do not deserve the respect due to open and avowed
abolition journals ; for, whilst their abolitionism is their
ruling characteristic, they prove themselves dishonest in
i prorees'ng to belong to a party which they know repudi
ates all sympathy or fellowship with abolitionism.
We have been induced to make these remarks in view
of the late course of the Post and Republic in regard to
the rumored interference of Great Britain in converting
j Cuba into a blac!. government. Our views on this subject
have not had reference to the simple question of the eman
! cipation by Spain of the Slaves in Cuba, but they have
| looked to the policy of Great Britain in eventually filling
| the island with free blacks, and converting it into a black
government, in furtherance of her scheme of breaking up
our confederacy through the agency of the abolition agi
tation. We have looked at it as an effort on the part of
j Great Britain, through her pretended philanthropy, to
make Spain, in the first place, subservient to her policy of
! destroying our government; and having succeeded in in
j troducing into Cuba a population of free blacks, then to
I avail herself of it as the rendezvous and rallying point of
| abolitionism. We have regarded it as a scheme by Great
; Britain, under the guise of humanity, to become virtually
the owner of the island ; and in this point of view, we
have declared that the administration cannot be too vigi*
lant in watching the movement We have not assumed
to speak by authority on this subject, nor do we suppose
| any authority could be necessary in a case which was al
ready so fully and distinctly covered by the foreign policy
of the administration as avowed in the Inaugural. The
Post and Republic place their opposition to these views
distinctly on abolition grounds, and for this reason we
deem any further notice of their positions to be unneces
sary. We wash our hands of all further association or
connexion with thesejournals, and we treat them as stand
ing as clearly without the pale of the democratic party as
the New York Tribune or the National Era.
[FOR the times and sentinel.]
Mr. Editor: —The Mobile and Girard Railroad enter
prise is stronger at the Mobile end than at this end. This
is a fact that should attract the serious attention of the city
of Columbus, and of all those who, living on the line be
tween Girard and Greenville, Ala., are interesled in the
speedy construction of the work.
The million subscribed*by the city of Mobile 13, by the
terms of the subscription, to be expended on the southern
end of the route, between Greenville and Mobile. This
condition Mobile had a right to make, and exercised only
a common prudence in making. And this million, added
to the private subscriptions in the city of Mobile and in the
counties through which the line will pass, has rendered
the completion of the lower end of the route more certain
than the Girard end. What is the conclusion ? It is that
renewed and more vigorous efforts than have yet been made,
must be put forth to hold up our corner of the great work.
We must put our shoulders to the wheel—we must put our
hands in our purees. This is the only way to carry for
ward great enterprises. Presidents, and Directors, and En
gineers, good wishes, ardent aspirations and warm lauda
tions will not answer the purpose. They will not turn up
a spadeful of earth, or produce a yard of excavation or em
bankment. There must be money in it—there must be the
power ofassoeiated effort applied to it. “Many mickles
make a muckle,” and wdiile no one man need break his
back in the lift,if all hands take hold with a cheerful spirit
and good will, it is astonishing how much can be accom
plished. It requires, 1 understand, some $350,000 to $400.-
000 additional capital to take the road to Union Springs.
This is a big pile of money /icr se, but it is small in propor
tion to the magnitude off 3 resulting benefits. It will turn
30,000 bags of cotton to Columbus. It will open a market
for Columbus goods, heretofore entirely closed to them. It
will bring thousands of people to our streets who are now
strangers to them. The time has come, Mr. Editor, to
make a great effort. The enterprise is started —all are sat
isfied that it is a great enterprise and bound to be a paying
one. Those who have put their hands to the plough must
not look back. Those who have done nothing must be
appealed to to do their part of a great public duty. The
city of Columbus should come forward with its credit to
pmh ffie work. There is no danger of loss. If the route
of a railway is a good one, credit can be not only safely
but profitably employed. If the writer possessed the credit
of the city of Columbus, and could raise a million of dollars
on his bonds at 20 years to invest in this road, he would
not hesitate an instant to do it, not doubting that the stock
and profits would handsomely recompense him. The only
danger to a city subscription of this sort is to roads on bad
routes. Ascertain that the route lies through a region pro- j
ductive of commodities for transportation and travel, j
and there is no longer room for hesitation and doubt. I j
believe, sir, that the city of Columbus can, with entire sale- ‘
ty and with every reasonable prospect of handsome reinu- j
neration, subscribe half a million of dollars to the Girard
Road. This was the view taken in Mobile. The people
therewith perfect unanimity satisfied themselves that it was
a paying route, and they were as ready to subscribe two
millions as one. They did cheerfully, and at once, sub- |
scribe for all that was asked.
Our Council, Mr. Editor, has proved itself to be a timid j
body. It lacks all the qualities of enterprise. Its policy is
“masterly inactivity,” and it depends for the approbation of
the people upon its well established character for doing
nothing. These are not the qualities for the times. This
is a movement age, and while all the world besides is put
ting forth its energies, our people are not pleased to see its
1 eity authorities asleep like a great fat turtle on the waters
which are heaving with the energy of grand enterprises.
Mr. Editor, let our Aldermanic fathers be waked up from
this lazy sleep. Let the demands of the expanding age be
thundered in their ears, until Rip Van Winkle shall shake
the slumber of apathy from heavy eyelids and open them to
the light of gigantic progress, which bathes in its rays of
hope and civilization all around him. I suggest a public j
meeting of the people of Columbus, to speak tneir senti
ments on this subject. I know, sir, that the go-ahead spirit
is in our people as in others. I know that others teel
ashamed, as does the writer, that Columbus has been ever
lastingly a laggard behind all her sister communities in the
spirit of improvement. 1 know that we built the Muscogee
Road 5 years too late, and while we were talking about the
expense and the expediency, we lost trade, travel, interest
and money enough to have built another of the same length.
1 know that the people of Columbu3 do not wish their pres*
ent and greatest enterprise to drag along its crippled exis
tence for ten years, when a combined and hearty pull will
put it through in three years ; and I know that all we w ant
is a man of action and energy, like Maj. Howard a man
who will take no negative to a true proposition, and who
practically adopts the Richelieu motto of“never say fail”
to arouse our people to an efficient action and crown our
grand enterprise with success.
I beg to enquire in passing, why the Muscogee Railroad
has done nothing to encourage and help the Girard Road.
Do they mean to rest content with the branch feeder from
Opelika, and do nothing to open a trunk that will pour its
full tide of profits into its coffers 1 Can this be the narrow
policy of the Muscogee Road ? Within a few days a con
centration of the various chartered interests of Alabama,
Mississippi and Tennessee has been effected, and a railway
from Mobile to New Orleans is now a fixed fact. The
Girard Road lies right in the track of transit over that road
I for the trade and travel from Boston to San Francisco.
! When the New Orleans and Mobile Road is done, from
i Girard to Mobile will be the only gap. Who does not see
i the vast importance of filling it up ? and who can calculate
the mighty flow of profitable business that will be attracted
to it? Let us have action. CITIZEN.
[ for the times and sentinel.]
The Gas Works.
Mr. Editor : We had the pleasure, a few days since,
of visiting the Gas works of our city and of being shown
through the premises, with a detailed description of the
modus operandi, the prospects of the company, &c., &c.,
by the very courteous and obliging superintendent, Mr.
Kennedy. All of the buildings are of the most finished
and massive workmanship. The boilers, machinery,
&c., the most complete and elegant. Indeed, the heav
iest and most massive parts are so arranged as to give
an air of embellishment to the structure. Neatness
and order pervades every feature, and the thorough
completion of the whole secures for us an unlimited
and never failing supply of gas.
We were informed that 36,000 feet could be gener
ated daily ; the great gasometer will hold 12,000 feet,
and the works are so planned that another may be put
in holding an equal amonnt, so there need be no appre
hension of a short supply. The gas is generated from
rosin, one foot of which, we learn, is equal, on account
of its density, to two feet of cool gas. Wlrch brings the
price—seven dollars per 1000 feet—to the popular
price ($3,50) in large cities. Four miles of pipe are
already laid, and next week our houses may be lighted
up with the fluid. We hail the completion of this en
terprise as a great step in the march of progress—which
at the present day means money and labor saving with
augmented comfort and convenience. There need now
be no more Catnphine explosions—which, it ; s estimated,
caused more loss of life than Railroad and Steam Boat
disasters. No spoiling of carpets by the breaking of oil
lamps—no more blacked and smutted ceilings and dim,
ill lighted halls and churches and other public buildings.
Besides all the conveniences, there will be a great sav
ing of money by the introduction of gas, There is not
the slightest danger to be apprehended from its is
ordinary caution being but requisite.
We understand that the number of subscribers are
as yet but limited, but we feel assured that iis soon as
a trial has been made there will hardly be a store, pub
lic building or private dwelling but will resort to this
much more commodious and cheap mode of lighting.
We learn—to the shame of our city authorities, be it
said—that not a lamp post has been procured for light
ing the streets. This is an outrage upon the generosity
of our citizens—a reflection—a dark one, we admit—
upon the ability of our present authorities either to pro
vide for or appreciate the wants of the city. After an
expenditure by the city they are content to be deprived
of the advantages of this expenditure. If our authori
ties do not change their pace, we had better resolve
ourselves into a “committee of the whole” and disband
a body which seems so insensible to every prompting
of duty, responsibility and public good.
We trust that both citizens and city authorities will
arouse themselves to a full sense of what is due them
uelves in availing themselves of an enterprise which can
contribute so much to convenience, comfort and econo
my. LIGHT.
O’ Gardner, of the Alabama Journal , has been com
mitting matrimony again. A fascinating widow ofTal
lapoosa county has consented to make him happy this
time, and we suppose the happiness will be mutual.
He has had rather a dry time for a gard’ner, but we
still hope that his young plants will be numerous and
thrifty.— Ex.
Democratic Meeting in Bibb—Union Demo
crats in it.
In noticing this meeting, which was held in Macon
on Saturday, the Georgia Citizen says :
“We notice that Gen. J. W. Armstrong, a Union
Democrat, was president of the meeting, and that Judge ;
C. B. Cole, another Union Democrat, was appointed on i
the Committee to report business. From a letter in the j
last Journal & Messenger, we perceive that Col. A. 11.
Chappell, another Union Democrat, has also given in his
adhesion to the re-organized dynasty. Thus we go.—
The most of those in this section who were Constitutional
Union Democrats in 1850, and who then co-operated
with Jenkins in erecting the ‘Georgia Platform,’ have |
no confidence, whatever, in the political wisdom of these
who met at Milledgeville on the 22d June. Col. Chap
pell expressly repudiates the idea that the convention ot
that day revived or re-organized the Union Party ot Geor- j
gia, and positively-declines identifying himself with those
under whose banner he would inevitably find himself in a
position of alliance with the National Whig Party and ot
hostility to lie National Democratic, to which lie has
been long attached, and in which he still has eon
fidence.
“We are not prepared to say that Col. Chappell is in
error in his views of the case, though his position with
the P mthern Rights Party is certainly not free from dis- !
ficul‘ es. He is honestly op] jsed to disunion sentiments
and yet finds himself co-operating with those who but
lately held them. Three years since he battled manfully
as a leader in behalf of the Union and the Constitution.
Now, he goes to the foot of the class in the Southern
Rights school, and must spell up, if he is not remarkably
favored above others of his stamp ! Well, this was ail the
Colonel could well do, under the circumstances, unless
he stood aloof entirely from both parties. Mr. Toombs’
new sectional party lias certainly no fascinations for any
lover of the National Union , and we do not marvel at the
Union Democrats refusing alliance with it.”
Excommunication. —lt is reported that the Presi
dent has repudiated the New York B iruburner wing j
of the Democratic party, and that its adherents will |
receive no more appointments.
Governor Cobb and family arrived in this :
city Friday night, and left on Saturday in the 1
steamship Augusta for New York.— Savannah Re - j
publican 11 th inst.
Mail Corner Arrested. —The Augusta Censtitu- j
tionalist learns from J. D. Frierson, Esq., the in
defatigable Post Office Agent, that on the second
instant he arrested George Smith, a mail carrier on
the route between Miffedgeville and Covington, and
succeeded in recovering a portion cf the money ta
ken by him. Smith has been committed to jail in
Milledgeville.
[From the Savannah Georgian.]
Columbus in 1828.
In looking over an old work, Travels in North
America, in the years of 1827 and 1828, by
Captain Basil Hall, of the English Navy, we
came across the following description of the
! foundation of the city of Columbus. It will not,
we opine, he read without interest at this time.
Twenty-five years ago, this city existed hut j
upon paper, and in the dreams and hopes ol j
speculators. The advance of Georgia in a quar
ter a of century, has no better commentary than
the description here given by Captain Hall,
placed in contrast with a detail of the late Rail
road festivities between Columbus and Savan* !
nah : j
“On the 31st of March we reached the Creek
Agency, lying on the right or western bank ol
the Chattahoochee, and from that point made an
| expedition to a very curious place.
“About a year before the period of our visit,
that is to say in the course of 1827, an arrange
ment was completed by the government ot the
United States, by which the Creek nation of In
dians were induced to quit the territory lying be- ;
; tween the Chattahoochee and the Flint rivers and
to move westward within the limits of the State, j
of Alabama ; thus leaving the vast intermediate
district of country at the disposal of the Geor
gians. It seems that, according to the laws of
Georgia, any land so acquired, by what is called
the extinction of the Indian claims, is divided, by
lottery, amongst the inhabitants of the State.—
j Every citizen 21 years of age lias one draw, as it
l is called, a married man two draws, a married
| man with a family, three. I forget the farther J
I particulars, and have mislaid the act of the leg
islature upon the subject. 1 believe, however,
that the lots were of 202 1-2 acres each. Be
ihese details, however, as they may, the whole |
of the country, formerly occupied by a few In -i
dians, was no sooner acquired than it was di
| vided, in the way I have mentioned, amongst the
people of that State.
“When this distribution took place, however,
the State government reserved a portion of the j
country, five miles square, upon which they pro
posed to found a city. The situation chosen for
this purpose was a spot on the left hank of the ;
Chattahoochee, which is the boundary line be* j
tween the State of Georgia and Alabama. The j
new city was to commence at the lower end ot j
a long series of falls, or more properly speaking, |
rapids over which this great river dashes for some
miles in a very picturesque manner. The per
pendicular fall being about 200 feet, an immense
power for turning mills is placed at the disposal
of the inhabitants of the future city, within the
limits of which the whole of this valuable por
j tion of the river has been included. All the way
down to the Gulf of Mexico, also, the navigation
of the Chattahoochee is unimpeded, so that sev
eral steamboats had already made their way up
to tiie spot I am speaking of.
“By a law of the State of Georgia, it was ar
ranged that 60 days should elapse, after this
portion of land reserved for the city was eom
j pletely surveyed, before any of the building lots
! could be sold. These lots were to consist of
: half an acre each, and the whole five miles square
| was to he distinctly marked out in the streets, j
on paper, and being numbered and lettered ac
cordingly, they were to he advertised for sale j
over the whole Union. These sixty days were
considered sufficient to enable adventurers, set
tlers, land-speculators, merchants, and all others
so disposed, to come to the spot preparatory to
the auction.
“The project took like wildfire; and the advan- j
tages of the new city being loudly proclaimed
over the land, people flocked from all quarters ;
to see and judge of it for themselves. We arriv
ed, fortunately, just in the nick ot time to see
the curious phenomenon of an embryo town —a
’ city as yet without a name, or any existence in
! law or fact, but crowded with inhabitants, ready
I to commence their municipal duties at the tap
of an auctioneer’s hammer.
“On leaving the Creek Agency, we drove for
some miles along the Indian, or Western side;
j of the river, and then crossed over by a ferry |
! to the left bank. In order to see things better, j
we sent on the carriage, and walked towards j
Columbus, which, it was understood, was to be
the future name of the future city.
“ A gentleman—one of the assembled inhabi- 1
tan ts—had been kind enough to accompany us
from the agency, to show off the Lions of this
singular place. The first thing to which he
called our attention, was a long line out through
the coppice wood of oaks. This, ourguide beg- |
ged us to observe, vas to be the principal street;
and the brushwood having been cut away, so as j
to leave a lane four feet wide, with small stakes
driven in at intervals, we could walk along it i
easily enough On reaching the middle point,
our friend, looking around him, exclaimed, in
raptures at the prospect of the future greatness
of Columbus—‘Here vouare in the centre of
the city !’ In a very short time—he assured us
—it would be no longer a mere path, but a street
sixty yards wide, and one league in length! By
keeping a bright lookout as we proceeded, we
could detect other similar cuts into the forest,
branching off at the right angles to this main
avenue—as it was to he cubed. As yet, how
ever, these cross streets were only indicated by
a few stakes driven in by the surveyors.
“After treading our way for some time amongst
the trees, we came in sight, here and there, of
huts made partly of plank, partly of hark, and
at last reached the principal cluster of houses,
very few ot which were above two or three
weeks old. 1 hese buildings were of all sizes,
from a six-feet box or cube, to a house with half
a-dozen windows in front. There were three
hotels, the sign belonging to one of which, I
could observe, was nailed to a tree still grow- j
iug untouched, in the middle of the street. An
other had glazed windows, hut the panes of glass
were fixed in their places merely for the time, by
a little piece ot putty at each corner. Every
thing indicated hurry.
u direction and width alone of the future
streets were adhered to, but no other description
ot regularity could he discovered. As none of
the city lots were yet sold, of course no one was
sure that the spot upon which he had pitched
his house wouid eventually become his own.—
Every person, it seemed, was at liberty to build
where he could find room, it being understood,
that forty days after the sale would he allowed
him to remove his property from the ground on
which it stood, should he not himself become
its purchaser. In consequence of this under
standing many of the houses were built or
trucks—a sort ol low, strong wheels, such •!
cannon are supported by—for the avowed pur
pose of being hurled away when the land should
be sold. At least sixty frames of houses were
pointed out to me, lying iu piles on the ground
and got up by the carpenters on speculation
ready to answer the call of future purchasers—l
At some parts of this strange scene, the forest
which hereabouts consists ol a mixture of pines
and oaks, was growing as densely as ever; and
even in the most cleared streets some trees were
left standing, I do not well know why. As vet
there had been no time to remove the stumps of
the felled trees, and many that had been felled,
were left in their places ; so that it was occa
■ sionally no easy matter to get along. Anvils
| were heard ringing away merrily at every cor
! ner ; while saws, axes, and hammers were seen
flashing amongst the woods all round. Stage
i coaches, travelling-wagons, carts, gigs, the
whole family of wheeled vehicles, innumera
ble, were there. Grocery stores and bakeries
I were scattered about in great plenty—and over
several doors was written,* Attorney at Law.’
“One of the commissioners, from the State of
j Georgia, who had the management of this extra
ordinary experiment in colonization, assured me,
I there were upwards of nine hundred inhabitants
already collected together, though it was ex
! pected that four months must still elapso before
the sale could take place, or the city have any
legal existence !
“Many of these people a being without houses,
or even sheds, were encamped in the forest.—
Some lived in wagons, and many persons strol
led about, to pick up quarters and employment
where they best could. As all sorts ot artifi
cers were in demand, it was a fine harvest tor
carpenters and blacksmiths. I was told that
upon a moderate computation there would pro
| bably be assembled, on the day of sale, between
’ three and four thousand people, ready to inhabit
the new city. 1 can well believe this, for, du
i ring the short period we were there, many ne\+*
i comers drooped in from different directions, out
of the forest—like birds of prey attracted by the
scent of some glorious quarry.
“It must have been a curious sight after the
: auction, to witness the scatter which took place
j when the parties came to claim each his own
I property —to demolish ro remove the old, and
I raise the new dwelling—to say nothing of the
entangled machinery of police and other muni
cipal arrangements —the mayor and aldermen
to get up—the town taxes to levy—the school
—the jail—the court ho use—the church, all to
be erected. In other places, these things rise
up by degrees—but here they must have taken
j date all at once, and all in a body !
“1 could form no idea, from what I saw or
heard on the spot, how this strangely concoc
ted town would get on ; —nor have I ever since
‘been able to learn one syllable respecting its
progress.’’
| The author has been long since dead, and his
work, popularity read a quarter century ago,j
has been Jong since consigned to the shelves ot
I libraries. Were he living at this moment, he
j would find no difficulty “in learning a syllable re
-1 specting its progress,” and this strangely con
cocted embryo town, he would acknowledge,
I had reached the expectations of its original
! founders. — lb.
Mohtle axd Nf.w Orleans Railroad.— The
1 President of this company, Colin J. Mcßae,
gives official notice in this morning’s paper, of
the union of the Mobile and New Orleans # and
Pontchartrain Railroad Companies. TfTe ob
ject of this arrangement is to connect the two
cities by the shortest practicable railroad route.
The survey will be commenced immediately by
Col. A. A. Dexter, of this State, and within a
few months the work of graduation, &e., will be
undertaken with vigor.
The route from Mobile will be run as near
the coast as the nature of the ground will per
mit to the Rigolets ; crossing that channel and
a branch of the Pearl river, it will follow a line
on the main laud to within twelve or fifteen
miles of the Bay of St. Louis. This will prove
to be a very important improvement, and frorrfN
the amount of travel and freight that must pass
over it, bring in handsome dividends to the stock
holders. Its completion simultaneously with
the Mobile and Ohio, and the Girard and Mobile
Railroads, will give an impetus to our commerce
and augment our population to an extent little
dreamed of by our unprogressives.
It will also be seen by the advertisement
that books of subscription for $500,000 of the
stock will be opened at the office of Messrs.
Humphries, Walsh & Cos., on the 12th inst. Me
consider an investment in this way to be one ot
the safest and most profitable, and expect to hear
of the whole amount being taken within a week
after the books are opened.— Mobile Tribune.
Fighting for Congress. — On the Ist inst.. at
Vicksburg, Messrs. Barksdale, and Davis, the two
democratic opponents for Congress in the districi,
had an affray in the Vicksburg hotel, in which
Barksdale received nine stabs. The wounds were
not considered serious. How much the other was
hurt is not stated.
Riot at Annapolis. —At Annapolis, Md., an 1
| occurred between some passengers on board the
steamer Powhatan, bound on an excursion from
Baltimore, and some of the inhabitants of Anuaf- j
; ous ; the latter fired muskets, pistols, stones and
j ether missiles into the boat as she was leaving the
wharf, badlv wounding some of those who were
; on board. One person was shot in the neck and is
supposed fatally injured; another is reported to have
j been shot dead in Annapolis, where the riot fi- 1
originated.
There were over five hundred inen, women ant
chilnren on board the boat afj the time and dm' 1
! the prevalence of the riot, tiie escape of many (:
whom from death is surprising. _
Neuralgia. —This formidable disease, which seems
baffle the skill of physicians, yields like magic to Carte! s
Spanish Mixture.
Mr. F. Borden, formerly of the Aster House,
York, and late proprietor of the Exchange Hotel, R l '-* 1
mond, Va., is one of the hundreds who have been cunA
of severe Neuralgia by Carter’s Spanish Mixture.
Since his cure, he has recommended it tp numbel s
others who were suffer.ng with nearly every form ot
ease,w th the most wonderful success.
He says it is the most extraordinary medicine he mis
ever seen used, and the best blood purifier kno” ti.
See advertisement in another column.
July B—lm8 —lm