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COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 15, 1853.
FOR GOVERNOR:
JIERSCIIEL V. JOHNSON,
OF BALDWIN.
FOR CONGRESS:
A. 11. COLQUITT, of Baker.
The Girard Railroad.
It is generally supposed that the subscription of one
million of dollars, by Mobile, secures the completion of
this great enterprise. There never was a greater blun
der. It is doubtful whether the Mobile subscription
•ver will be made available to the ‘Girard Road. In
deed it is certain that without a prompt and munificent
subscription by the city of Columbus to the work, it
will be lost entirely, and appropriated to securing a
connection between Mobile and Montgomery. The
Mobile subscription is clogged with conditions. At a
late meeting in that city, the following limitations were
annexed to the subscription :
3d. That the moneys or other means derived from
this subscription, be appropriated exclusively to the work
between this cit’ and a point in Butler county, at or near
Greenvi 11“ , which appropriation and also the sale of the
bonds issued under this act, shall be under the special
supervision and direction of the Mobile portion of the
board of Directors.
4th. That the location of the road near and at the Mo
bile terminus, shall be under the sole control and direction
of the city of Mobile.
sth. That the authorities of this city be assured by the
most satisfactory evidence of the ability of the Company to
put the whole road in complete running order within
three years.
bth. That branches from Montgomery and Selma,
and other points in the State of Alabama, shall be per
mitted to join the road at any time and place they may
select, and that no discriminating charges shall be exacted
at any time, on any party of said road.
7th. That no bonds shall be issued by virtue of this or*
dinanee until the location of the road shall have been
made by the city, and the Mayor shall have been duly
notified by the said Girard Railroad Company that the
subscription is received and accepted, subject to the fore
going conditions.
It is perfectly apparent, therefore, that Mobile is not so
much solicitous about the completion of the Girard
Railroad, as for a Railroad from any quarter, which
will connect her with the Atlantic ocean- Hence, the
proviso in relation to “branches from Montgomery aod
Selma, and other points in the State of Alabama.’’—
She is bent on building a main trunk to Greenville,
but once this point is reached, she will strike a bargain
with the best bidder. In order, therefore, to link Mo
bile on to the Girard Road, we must meet her at Green
ville. Nay, more, we must meet her there in three
years. Look at the sth proviso. She will do nothing
towards the completion of the Girard Road unless she
is “assured by the most satisfactory evidence of the
ability of the company to put the whole road in com
plete running order within three years.” There is no
mistaking this language. She requires us to respond
to her munificence, and place the early completion of
the road beyond contingency, or she will dissolve all
connection with us, accept the proposition now being
rigorously urged to unite with Montgomery in building
a road from that city to Mobile, for which a charter
was granted by the last Legislature, and thus force the
Girard Railroad company to build its road alone and
unaided from terminus to terminus, or from a disadvan
tageous connection with the Mobile and Montgomery
Railroad at Grennville.
What is the remedy ? We answer, emphatically,
the city of Columbus ought to subscribe for three
hundred and fifty thousand dollars additional stock in
the Girard Railroad. There is no mistake ab ‘Ut the
proposition. She must do it or lose her vantage
ground. It is impossible for the Girard Railroad com
pany to build the road from Girard to Greenville with
her present means. Columbus can, however, do it
without trouble, without risk and without taxation.—
The corporation owns one hundred and seventy thou
sand dollars worth of Muscogee Railroad stock, which
is now selling at 95 cents on the dollar, and which will
beat par in a month. Let her sell this stock and is
sue her bonds payable ill 25 years for one hundred and
eighty thousaud more, and invest the proceeds in the
Girard Railroad. In three years the ears will run from
Mobile to Columbus in a day ; and long, long before the
first bonds mature for which the city is liable, the stock
of the Girard road will be at par and can be sold and
the debt paid without the loss of a dollar to the city.—
But, though we make this suggestion, we have no idea
that the city of Columbus will plunge into this seeming
extravagance. She is a cautious city, and her council
is an exceedingly cautious body. Notwithstanding, we
think somewhat can be done by the city of Columbus.
It was generally agreed that the iron for the road as
far as Union Springs, a distance of fifty-two miles,
should be furnished by the city; and by the estimates
then made, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars was
thought to be enough to accomplish this object ; and if
the bonds of the city had been promptly issued, the
iron could have been bought with the city subscription.
But unfortunately the issue of the bonds was delayed
a twelvemonth, and in the meantime iron had risen
100 per cent. The city subscription therefore will on
ly pay for one half the iron needed on the road as far
as l nion Springs. The city is therefore in some sort
bound to double her subscription or fail to keep Iter
promise of providing the iron for the first 52 miles of
the road. This she can do either by selling her in
terest in the Muscogee Railroad or by the issue of her
bonds. Lither mode would be acceptable to the Girard
Railroad company. This much the city of Columbus
ought to do, and we believe will do, but here she iciil
stop.
When the road reaches Union Springs, the full
benefit of the enterprise will be realised by our com
mercial interests. All the trade that we can hope to
secure by the completion of the entire line will be se
cured as soon as the road reaches Union Springs.—
From that point westward, Mobile will be our success
ful competitor. Bv the completion of the road we would
gain somewhat by the trade it would bring through
our city and over the Muscogee road, and some slight
facilities would be s afiorded to our Grocers at particular
seasons of the year. But this interest is too slight to
induce us to hope that the city will strain her credit to
fill up the gap between Union Springs and Greenville,
when it is evident that other interests are more imme
diately interested in making the connection complete.
The city of Savannah, th** Central, the South-western
and the Muscogee Railroads, are all more immediately
interested in the completion of the Girard Railroad
than is the city of Columbus. If Mobile shall unite
with Montgomery in connecting these two cities by raiL
and the Girard road shall stop at Union Springs, the
immense western trade and travel which will seek the
Atlantic by Railroad will pass over the Montgomery
and West Point road, and the bulk of it be lost to Sa
vannah, the Central, the South-western and the Mus
cogee Railroads; whereas, bv the completion of the
Girard road the whole of it will pass over this line and
pour its enriching flood over the roads which connect
us with Savannah. We confess our surprise at the in
difference of these corporations to this great enterprise.
The timely expenditure of a very small amount of mon
ey now on the gap between Union Springs and Green
ville will secure to Savannah a Gulf eonueetion in three
years, which will quadruple the money invested long
before she can hope to reach Pensacola or any other
point on the Gulf by any other route. We invite the
attention of the Savannah press to a discussion of this
very interesting subject; as we are sure, if the immense
advantages of this connection were properly considered,
there would not be a moment’s delay in its early com
pletion.
The Spirit of the South.
We regret to find in the last Sj4rit of the South
that E. C. Bullock, Esq., has retired from the editori
al chair of that paper, for the present. He thinks the
harmony of the party demands that that paper be neu
tral in the contest between Clopton and Abercrom
bie in their race for Congress, and as he is decidedly in
.avor of the election of Abercrombie, “for his recent
manly and Southern course,” lie retires to a private
position, in order that he may be free to follow the con
victions of Ills judgment. The paper will in future be
edited by J. M. Buford, Esq. We are not disposed
to quarrel with Mr. Bullock for the course he has pur
sued. We know be has been actuated by the sincerest
convictions of duty. We are compelled to pursue a
diametrically opposite course. We give all praise to
Capt. Abercrombie for his patriotic position in oppo
sition to the faction which would have surrendered
Southern honor and interests to the abolition influences
which would have triumphed in the election of General
Scott to the Presidency; but when the alternative is
presented before us of giving our votes to a man who
stood up fearlessly for Southern Rights in the dark
hour of our terrible agony, and lias through life steadi
ly and consistently advocated the Democratic principles
which so signally triumphed in the election of Frank
lin Pierce to the Presidency, and another who wag
ed a bitter war upon both, and has only learned to ad
mire them since his own party has given tha clearest
indications of abolition tendencies, we cannot hesitate
in the course which honor and duty dictate. We go
for CLorToN heart and soul. We regret that we have
not the co-operation of so able a man as Mr. Bullock
in this good work.
The Watermelon.
Peabody must write a special essay upon Watermelons.
We, with some of our friends, discussed one in our
office the other day of liis raising, which, by unani
mous consent, was the watermelon of the season.
It weighed thirty-five pounds—“red meat and black
seed”—and its size was its smallest recommendation.
It beat his Strawberries all hollow.
Come, Peabody, show us your hand upon Water
-melons in the next number of “The Soil.”
[FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.J
Mr. Editor : The figures of my communication in Wed
nesday’s tri-weekly Times and Sentinel require correction,
and through an inadvertence are likely to convey false in
formation.
I said that from $350 to $400,000 additional aid to the
capital stock of the Girard and Mobile Railroad Company
was required to carry the road to Union Springs. This can
be effected with an additional capital of only $150,000 to
$200,000.
The resources of the company in round numbers are as
follows ;
Resources applicable to the route between Girard and
Greenville, 110 miles, $1,300,000. Resources applicable to
the route from Greenville to Mobile, including city of Mo
bile subscription, $1,400,000,-making the total capital of the
company $2,700,000. To complete the road from Girard
to Greenville will require $600,000, and a now subscription
of from $350,000 to $400,000 will enable the company to
reach Greenville, using its credit for the deficiency. And
this is what I should have said, instead of saying that it
would lake the figur©s"mentioned to reach Union Strings.
Now, the real interest of the city of Columbus in this
road, does not, in the opinion of many persons, go beyond
Union Springs. If we tap that country and the road stops
there, it is supposed that we draw all the trade from that
direction which can be available to us. Although not giv
ing in to this contracted view of the question, 1 am willing
to assume that Columbus should put forth her power and
credit no further than is necessary to reach that point.
Mobile and her partners in interest along the line will
build from the Southern terminus to Greenville. The city
of Montgomery, the M. and W. P. Railroad and the Geor
gia Railroad interests will be sure to fill the gap of 45
miles from Greenville to Montgomery, thus making a con
tinuous line of road from Mobile Bay to Augusta and
Charleston. There then remains a gap between Union
Springs and Greenville, and that gap, the city of Savannah
and the Railroad companies between Savannah and this
place, can never allow to remain open without a palpably
short-sighted disregard to their own interests. If they do,
the upper roads will always take the lion’s share of the bu
siness. This then would seem to be the natural division
oi the burthens of this great enterprise. Mobile, having the
heaviest stake in it, takes the heaviest part of the work, (in
distance, at least, although a great part of the work is
through a country highly favorable lor Railroad work,) and
builds the 115 miles to Greemrille ; Columbus builds 52
miles to Union Springs; and the Muscogee, South Western,
and Central Roads complete the chain by 80 miles of road
to Greenville.
There are some considerations why the last mentioned
companies and the city ol Savannah should not be slow in
taking hold of this project. This is a fast age iiu which we
live. Men’s brains are teeming with projects, and they fol
low so fast on the heels of one another, that the aspects of
the enterprise to-day may be seriously affected aud changed
by those of to-morrow. The people of Savannah, alarmed
at the rising importance of Brunswick, and dreading the
rivalry of so near a neighbor, with so fine a harbor and
competitor for a vast trade from the same country that now
seeks its outlet at Savannah, are spending a great deal of
i nk, and perhaps money, to counteract the efforts of the
Brunswickers and their friends to open channels for this
trade to rhat port. Instead of running a road to tap the
Brunswick enterprises at the nearest point —and which, at
last, is the whole amount of defensive and counteractive
effort they can make—they speak of extending that road to
Pensacola. When they have completed this gigantic un
dertaking they will find that they have been working as
much for Brunswick as for Savannah—for Brunswick has
only to join that road to derive all the benefits from it that
Savannah can.
The great object of Savannah should be to reach the
Gulf of Mexico in the shortest time and by the most practi”
cable route. By way of Columbus 300 miles of a route is
already in operation. The means for the remaining 230
miles is more than two-thirds provided for. Does it not
seem the dictate of reason to seize upon and help complete
this line at the earliest possible moment ? Let Brunswick
build railways where she pleases—to the moon or any of
the planets—Savannah will have done all the can do, to
draw trade from Westward of Brunswick when she lays
down a rail between that city and her own port.
But there is another idea started, which is growing rapid
ly into probability, and in this rapid age, may soon grow
into a reality. It is an air line from the city of Colum
bus to the port of Brunswick. In two years 100,000 bags
of cotton will be distributed from this point, and as Bruns
wick is 60 miles nearer as a shipping port than Savannah,it
requires small skill in figures to show which direction this
trade would take. With such a road, and a branch con
necting this city with West Point, Brunswick would become
the shipping city of ail of South-Western and Western
Georgia, and would compete with Savannah for the great
flux of trade that is destined to flow down the State Road
I from and through Tennessee and the West. With a road
hence to Brunswick, what would become of the Muscogee
Road, and how far would the profits of the South-Western
and Central Roads be curtailed ? Nay, how dimmed would
be the now brilliant prospects of the ci y of Savannah,
which is just entering upon the fruition of its grand and
sagacious enterprise ? Now’, there is sometimes great wis
dom in taking “time by the forelock,” and instead of mak
ing nervous and spasmodic efforts to prevent a rival from
reaping a trade due her, by the legitimacy of her natural
position, would it not be wiser in Savannah to secure and
lay fast hold of the prizes she has already done so much to
make her own ? Had she not better establish the Gulf
route by her own road, the Muscogee and Girard and
Mobile roads,and by so doing secure allies here to oppose
the direct line hence to Brunswick, and in so far, do away
with the necessity of another line ? CITIZEN.
[FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.]
* * * “We do not say that Major Colquitt would not
fight if it were necessary, we only say that as deputy pay
master he was not expected to fight. It was not his voca
tion. He was not sent to Mexico to fight, and didn’t fight.”
f Enquirer .
The Enquirer is singularly unfortunate in the statements
of this paragraph. The truth is just the reverse of the state
ment. The fact is this : Maj. Colquitt w’ent to Mexico
as an officer in the Pay Department, not to fight, but when
he got there he did fight. He was at Head Quarters at
Buena Vista, when Santa Anna with a picked army of
20,000 men was advancing on Gen. Taylor with a handfull
of regulars and 4500 volunteers. The enemy was numerous,
the Americans few. Maj. Colquitt, although not in the
fighting department of the army, lelt that his countrymen
needed all the help that was possible on that eventful day ;
and he promptly volunteered his services as an Aid to Gen.
Taylor. His services were accepted, and he served through
out the whole battle, by the side of Gen. Taylor, except
when dispatched by him on the more dangerous duty of
carrying orders to the different regiments engaged over that
wild field of carnage. If Gen. Taylor was exposed to peril
and fought on that day, so did Maj. Colquitt, for while we
suppose that Gen. Taylor did not with his own hand “slay
a Mexican” at Buena Vista, it will net be contended on that
account that Gen. Taylor “did not fight” at Buena Vista.
And while it is not likely that Maj. Colquitt killed anybody
with his own hand, his exposure to the most dangerous
duty on the field of battle—that of Aid-de-Camp to the Gen
eral in command—entitles him to the merit of having
fought at Buena Vista.
The Enquirer could not have made a more palpable
mistake; and as a friend of the Democratic candidate, I
am obliged to the Editor for bringing this subject before the
people. And I submit, if Gen. Taylor’s labors and perils
on that memorable day entitled him, unfitted as be confess
edly was by education and habit, to be made President of
this great Republic, that Major Colquitt by the same token
earned the more humble place of a representative in Con
gress.
And now, Mr. Editor, since the Enquirer has thought pro
perto discuss with disparaging flippancy the claims of the
y®ung Democratic candidate, permit me to ask what has
the Hon. James Johnson ever done for his country or man
kind, to win for him the applause of the public ? Show us
his monuments. Show us the first trace of his public spirit
on the annals of his District. Did he ever volunteer to fight
the battles of his country ? Has he ever done any thing as
a civilian to exhibit him in the light of an active, useful,
energetic and enterprising member of society ? What en
terprise of a public character has he ever headed or aided ?
When and where did he ever make a speech, or wield a
pen in behalf of any movement in which the community
of which he forms a part was interested ? I say as a public
spirited man his life has been a blank. Railroads, Tele
graphs, Gas Works, Water Works, all projects in short
which challenge the energies and stir the spirit of a soul that
sympathises with the well-being and progress of civilized
society, have all got along without the slightest assistance
from Mr. Johnson. Not that Mr. Johnson has not vivacity
enough—not that he has not talent enough to have enabled
him to make his mark, wide aud deep, on the current events
of the active times in which he lives —but all this vivacity
and all this talent has been expended on party politics, and
Mr. Johnson’s own private and personal affairs. And pray,
what has Mr. Johnson done during two sessions of Con
gress to entitle hint to the applause which your neighbor
bestows on him for “statesmanship,” &c. ? We ask again
for his monuments in this field of effort? Where are they 1 j
Echo answers “where ?”
We humbly think, Mr. Editor, that the Enquirer has got
enough to do, to sustain with fact and argument, the puffed
up dimensions of its own candidate, without detracting
with sneers that illy become that Editor’s lips, from the
modest reputation of the young Democrat who has been
called to the field of contest for Congressional honors, j
Look to your own doors, and beware that the fancied and
charmed invincibility of your candidate who has done noth
ing for society or for mankind, is not broken by a youth,
whose private character is spotless, and who has exhibited
public spirit and love of country enough to ride by the side of
Zachary Taylor, throughout the whole of the bloody day of
Buena Vista. Prove your candidate’s claims to the admi
ration of his countrymen—show us his deeds. We ask for
one of them —a single one —and when you make the show
ing, we bar the production of the only claim you can pro-;
duce—and that was that two years ago he deserted the j
Democratic party and went over to the Whigs. If this j
makes Mr. Johnson great —then he is great—besides this, he :
has done nothing. DEMOCRAT.
j
Whig Nomination. —The Hon. Charles Murphey, i
the defeated aspirant before the Democratic Conven
tion recently held in the Fourth District, we see by
the Newnau Banner , has been recommended by the
Whig Convention assembled in that town, as the can- j
didate of the Whig party of that District for Congress.
Consular Appointments. — Washington, July B.
The Republic announces the appointment of E. Wor
rell, of Delaware, as Consul at Matanzas, and J. L.
Nelson, of Maryland, as Consul at Turks Island.
Buenos Ayres. —Accounts from Buenos Ayres to
the 22d of May announce that the Bolivian and Bra
zilian Ministers, finding it impossible to come to terms,
had broken off the negotiations for peace. The block
ade of the port by Urquiza had been vigorously en
forced since the 13th of May, and was acknowledged by
all the foreign agents —vessels which arrived previous
to the 13th, however, were allowed till the 3d of June
to discharge. The Buenos Ayreans were making the
most strenuous exertions to defend themselves, and the
Legislature had authorized the issue of ten millions of
dollars in paper money (worth about six cents on the
dollar) for the purpose of prosecuting the war to the
last extremity. The importations of produce had en
tirely ceased, provisions and fuel were becoming scarce,
and it would be extraordinary if the inhabitants should
be able to hold out many months longer. Rumors
were current, that the Constituent Congress, in session
at Santa Fe, had deposed Urquiza, as Provincial Direc
tor, and ordered the siege to be abandoned under pen
alty of excommunication. But it is doubtful whether
the Director would pay any attention whatever to the
demands of the Congress ; indeed, at the latest dates,
it was reported that he was preparing to make a sys
tematic attack on the city ; if so, the unfortunate people
are probably, by this time, again subject to his mercy.
__ [N. Y. Herald.
I'he Telegraph. —Elam Alexander, Esq., of Macon,
Ga., President of the Washington and New Orleans
Telegraph Company, declined a re-election at the late
annual meeting of the Stockholders, at Washington
city, and Mr. S. Moeney, of Charleston, has been elec
ted President of the Company in his place.
A dividend of five per cent, from the profits of their
operations was declared, and the Report of the Presi
dent exhibited a satisfactory condition of the affairs of
the Company.— Sav. Rep.
Immense Lump of Gold. —The “Union” is informed
by Mr. Young, from Nevada, that on Friday last a
miner brought into that plaoe a lump of gold, mixed
with quartz, which weighed forty-five or fifty pounds,
of which twenty-five pounds consisted of pure gold.
This magnificent nugget was dug on Hopkins’ Creek.
COUNCIL CHAMBER, Macon, July S, 1853.
At a joint meeting of the Macon Volunteers and
Floyd Rifles, the following preamble and Resolutions
were unanimously passed, and the undersigned were ap
pointed a committee to notify the Commanders of the
Military Companies of Columbus of the passage of the
same.
Lieut. BUTTS, ) Com.
Serg’t DIBBLE, > of
Priv. TRACY, ) M. Volunteers.
Lieut. HARDEMAN, ) Com.
Serg’t HARRIS, V of
Priv. MIX, ) Floyd Rifles.
Whereas, In this utilitarian age, the social relations
are almost forgotten and the obligations of society entire -
ly overlooked in the selfishness of individuals. And
whereas, in our recent visit to the city of Columbus, we
have witnessed an exception to these generalities, in the
generous feelings and unbounded hospitalities of the citi
zens and Military of that beautiful city. Therefore, be it
Resolved, That to the citizens of Columbus (the ladies
especially) we are under lasting obligations for their
untiring exertions to render our visit pleasant and agree
able.
Resolved, That to the Military Companies of Columbus,
we owe a debt of gratitude we feel we can never repay,
for their wholesome generosity and unparalleled hospitali
ty manifested in every word and act during our sojourn
with them, and that for those acts of kindness we tender
them the grateful acknowledgments of soldier hearts.
Resolved, That for Capt. Hall, the Quarter-Master of
the Camp, we will ever cherish the warmest emotions of
respect and gratitude for his generous nature —liis ac u
commodering disposition—his gentlemanly deportment,
and for his repeated acts of kindness towards our corps,
we will ever hold his memory in grateful remembrance.
Resolved, That our city papers be requested to copy
these resolutions, and a copy be forwarded to the Officers
of the Military Companies of Columbus.
At a called meeting of the Macon Volunteers held at
Council Chamber, July Bth, 1853, the following reso
lutions were unanimously adopted, and a committee ap*
pointed to notify Lieut. Hardeman and Mr. Dorsey of
their passage:
Rmolved . Ist, That the Macon Volunteers are deeply
indebted to Lieut. Hardeman of the Floyd Rifles for the
eloquent response delivered by him in behalf of the Floyd
Rifles and Macon Volunteers, to the receptional address
delivered by Capt. Cooper, of the City Light Guards, to
the two companies on their arrival at Camp Montgomery.
2 nd. That the Macon Volunteers hereby tender their
warmest thanks to Mr. Dohsey of the Planters’ Hotel for
his kindness and hospitality so cordially extended to them
on their return passage through Fort Valley.
Lieut. BUTTS, )
Serg’t. DIBBLE, > Committee.
Priv. TRACY, )
[From the Mobile Tribune.]
Mobile and New Orleans Railroad.
Now that the company for carrying this enterprise in
to execution is fully organized and the work itself is as
suming importance, a brief history of it will not be unac
ceptable to our readers. The company was incorporated
by the Alabama Legislature oil the fourth of December,
1851, and by that of Mississippi on the 25th February,
1852. The first meeting of the corporators —Colin J.
Mcßae, P. Phillips, Benj. Toomer, Mm. F. Cleveland,
W. 11. Nevili, Joseph Krebs and James Sands—was
held in this city on the 23d of April last, P. Phillips in the
chair and James Sands acting as secretary.
At that meeting it was resolved that books of subscrip
tion to the capital stock of said company be opened and
kept open under the direction of the secretary until fif
teen hundred shares of the stock should be subscribed
aud paid for in cash, as provided for by the act of incor
poration. On the 26th of April the secretary reported
that the required amount had been subscribed for and
ten per cent, thereon paid in. The secretary was then
directed to notify the stockholders that the corporate s j
had discharged the duties assigned them by the charter
and were ready to deliver into their hands the books, pa
pers and moneys of the company.
At a meeting of the stockholders, held on the 2d of
May last, it was resolved that five directors for the man- j
agement of affairs of the company, should be annually ,
chosen in the city of Mobile on the first Monday of May
in each year. Not less than three directors to form a
quorum. The following named gentlemen were then !
elected directors for the current year : Colin J. Mcßae,
Joseph Krebs, James Sands, Henry G. Humphries and
Win. F. Cleveland. The board organized and elected
Colin J. Mcßae president of the company. It will thus
be seen that the work is in able and experienced hands.—
We look for the most prompt and energetic action on the
part of the board of directors, and feel assured that neither
the stockholders nor the publie will have cause for dis
satisfaction as to the progress of the enterprise.
The two charters granted by the States of Alabama
and Mississippi are now in press and will be ready within
a few da_vs for gratuitous distribution.
The Tehuantepec Grant. — In the Supreme Court
of N. Y., in the matter of Francisco P. Falconet
against Albert G. Sloo, to recover $600,0J0 with
5i5,000 interest, an attachment was granted on the
30th ult., against the defendant in New York.—
It appears that Falconet, who resides in Mexico, at !
the instance of the agent of the defendant, paid that
government $300,0 0 for Mr. Sloo, on account of
the Tehuantepec grant, aud bound himself to pay
$300,000 more, in two drafts, during July and Au- ;
gust. Since then, it is alleged, Mr. Sloo has refu
sed to honor the drafts of the plaintiff, upon him,
for the money advanced, and hence ihe attachment.
J. R. Miller is going to tunnel the Chica
go river at Chicago for $126,000.
Later from Texas.
By the arrival of the steamship Mexico, Cant
Lawless, at New Orleans on the 7th, from Indian,,| a
via Galveston, we have papers from the fom ~r
place to the 28th ult., and from the latter to the Lt
iust.
The Galveston Civilian of ihe Ist inst. says
The expedition gotten up by Gen. Rusk, of Ei.
Paso, had not left Fort Graham at the last accounts
Mr; Greeley of Boston has reiurred. The South,
western American says Gov. Payne is sick at Wa
co ; his recovery doubtful. Gen. Rusk was ex
pected at Fort Graham in a day or two. Gen.
Clarke will go through to El Paso. Maj. Ncioh*
burs employed Jem Shaw as a guide for the exp,
dition. Should an escort be needed, it will be furn
ished free of expense by tlie Texas citizens, and
placed under the control cf competent men.
Neighbors will qualify as Indian Superintendent,
and proceed at once to the discharge of the duties.
The News of the 28th ult. says, in relation to
the expedition:
Mr. Greeley, who, with other gentlemen, passed
through our city on their way to El Paso, some
! time since, has now returned. We understand
j from him that the company proceeded only to Wa
j co, having found that it was impossible for them to
I get back in the time prescribed, if they proceeded
| the whole way. They, however, fortunately ob
| tained all the information they wanted relative to the
route, from various and perfectly reliable sources,
arid a r e satbfied that the El Paso loute has over
whelming advantages over every other, for the Pa
| cifie railroad, and will report accordingly. The
maiu trunk of the road they will propose will pro
ceed from the Mississippi in nearly a due west di
; reetion to El Paso, in about the latitude of thirty
: tw'o degrees, crossing Red River near Shreveport,
j with two branches from nearly the same point in
; the interior of our State, the one to Fulton and the
j other to some point on our coast.
Col. C. May, U. S. Dragoons, had arrived in Gal
veston from New Orleans, on his way to San An
; tonio, where he is stationed,
i On the subject of crops we find the following :
During the past w'eek, we have had numerous
refreshing showers, replenishing the cisterns and
| reviving vegetation. Crops are said to promise well
;in the interior. An abundant y ield of corn, sugar
; cane and cotton, is expected.— lndianola Bulletin
28th ult.
The Lavaca Commercial says there have recen
tly been fine showers in the valleys of the Guada
lupe and San Antonio rivers, and the prospect is
I good for excellent corn crops. Cotton does not
| look so well in the West, but there is time enough
j yet for that crop to make a good one. In the in
j terior counties the wheat crop promises an abun
j dant yield. Some newly broken prairie, it is said,
I will produce twenty-five bushels of wheat lo the
i acre. Wheat offers tojbe the chief crop in William*
son, Tarrant and many neighboring counties.
Another Fatal Draw-Bridge Accident.
On Friday morning at two o’clock, the freight
| train which left Wilmington for Philadelphia, ran
| into Brandywine creek, at the draw of the bridge
;on the outskirts of the town. The bridge tender
i says he gave the proper signals but no attention
| was paid to them.
The locomotive, tender, and two large platform
! burthen cars were precipitated into the creek, pre
! senting a mass of ruins. The engineer, named
; Garvin, and the fireman were drowned. The con
ductor, and other persons on the train fortunately
escaped. If it had been a passenger train, the ac
cident would have been equal to the Norwalk ca
tastrophe.
The accident was caused by the bridge tender
going to sleep. He heard the whistle of the train
coming out of Wilmington, and in bis fright does
I not know what he did. He thinks, however, that
he raised his lantern, W’hich was the proper signal
that all was right. Thus the officers of the iram
were deceived, and thought all was right, and went
ahead.
Charles Garvin, the engineer, belongs to Elkton,
and is unmarried. Reuben Titus, the fireman,
was crushed beneath the engine, tender and three
platform cars loaded with cross ties.
The bridge tender is a very worthy and sober man,
and has been keeper of the bridge for six years.—
He was only on duty every other night. After let
ting the train from Philadelphia acrossatlJ o’clock,
feeling tired, he thought he W’ould lie down, lie
fell asleep, and was so alarmed that lie did not know
what he did. This is his own statement. He was
so overcome by his feelings that he atteppied sui
cide. He has been arrested on the charge of mur
der, and held to bail before the New Castle County
Court.
The verdict of the jury exonerates the company
entirely from all blame, as the instructions of the
bridge tender were of the most explicit character.
Pardoned. —The somewhat celebrated Dr. Hines,
it will be rememtered, was convicted some eight
months since in the U. S. District Court, and sen
tenced to six months’ imp isonment in the county
jail, to hard labor, and at the expiration of that time
to pay a fine, and remain in jail until the fine was
paid. His term of imprisonment expired some
months ago, but being unable to pay the fine, he
was detained in prison. We are informed that sev
eral citizens who knew that Hines was unable to pay
the fine, petitioned the President to have him par
doned, which request was complied with, and on
Monday last the captive bird w r as once more upon
the wing. Whether the Doctor has acquired any
lessons in morality, during his sojourn on the South
Common, hi* future career will disclose. It is
enough for the public to know that the notorious
Dr. Hines is once more at large.
Elections in August. —Elections will take place
j next month in the States of Kentucky, Missouri,
j Arkansas, Alabama, Texas, Tennessee and North
Carolina. In the two latter States the election will
be held on Thursday, the 4ih of August, and the
others on Monday, the Ist of August. Jn Ken
, tucky and Arkansas members of Congress and of
i the State Legislature are to be chosen : in Misseu
| ri and North Carolina members of Congress ; and
| in each of the Stales of Alabama, Texas, and Ten-
I nessee, a Governor, Legislature and members cf
Congress are to be chosen. We notice that the
Board of Managers for the Washington National
Monument have issued a notice requesting that
boxes, to receive contributions of the monument,
may be put up at the different polls throughout the
several S ates, and at all elections hereafter to be
■ held. _
; his wife, in Albany, has been sentenced to be hung
j on the the 26th of August.
j Neuralgia. —This formidable disease, which seems to
baffle the skill of physicians, yields like magic to Carter s
Spanish Mixture.
Mr. F. Boyden, formerly of the Astor House, New
, York, and late proprietor of the Exchange Hotel, Rich”
mond, Va., is one of the hundreds who have been curtu
of severe Neuralgia by Carter’s Spanish Mixture.
Since liis cure, he lias recommended it to numbei
others who were suffering with nearly every loim ot
i ease,w th the most wonderlul success.
lie says it is the most extraordinary medicine he has
ever seen used, and the best blood purifici known.
See advertisement in another column.
July B—lni8 —Ini