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&imts aru? SmimtL 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