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The Affair at Niagara Falls.
Quite an excitement prevailed at Niagara Falls
yesterday, in consequence of the arrest of a
person employed as a waiter at the Cataract
House, on a charge of murder, by Deputy Mar
shal J. K. Tyler and officer Boyington, of
this city.
We give the facts of the case as vve received
them fiom the officers who made the capture
of the supposed criminal. A few days
since Mr. Tyler received a newspaper and a
letter through the post office from Saratoga, the
paper being the Savannah Courier, and contain
ing notices of various rewards offered for the j
apprehension of the murderer of Mr. James M.
Jones, on the (*>th of July, 1849 ; and the letter
being addressed by the brother ol the murdered l
man to the deputy marshal of thedistrict,and con- i
veving information that the offender was suppo
sed to be acting in tbe capacity of a waiter at
the Cataract House at the Fails.
The first notice of reward is dated July 6,
1849, and is offered by tbe Mayor of Savannah,
the sum being S2OO, and tbe murderers at that
time being unknown. The next is $12,000, of
fered by Malcolm D. Jones, a relative of the
deceased, fur the apprehension and conviction of
the offenders ; anti the thiid of S3OO, offered by
Alfred E. Jones, for tbe arrest of Patrick Sneed,
he being then discovered to have been the
murderer.
Some weeks since, a citizen of Savannah,
being at the Falls, discoveied in the person of
one of the waiters the man Patrick Sneed, and
communicated the fact to Mr. A. E. Jones,
whom he subsequently met at Saratoga,—
Hence Mr. Jones’ information to the deputy
marshal.
Upon enquiry at tlie Falls, Messrs. Tyler and
Boyington discoveied that the man Sneed
was passing at the Cataract House by the
name of Jos. Watson, and had been employed
there about two years. His appearance left no
doubt in the minds of the officers as to identity
with Patrick Sneed, the murderer of Mr. Jones,
and they therefore proceeded on Sunday to
make the arrest.
Having applied to the proprietors of the
house for their assistance, which however they
declined to give, although desirous of offering
no obstruction to tbe law, the officers alter
dinner instructed a boy to call their man from
the room, on pretence of being desirous of re
numerating him for his attendance upon them
while at dinner.
The ruse succeeded, and Sneed or Watson
came into the hall. He was immediately ad
dressed by tbe name of “Patiick” by Officer
Tyler, and told that be w as arrested on a charge
of murder. Mr. Boyington then clapped a
handcuff upon one of bis wrists, but before be
could fasten it on the other the fellow shouted
lustily for assistance, and some seventy to a hun
dred negroes came pouting out of the door of
the dining room into tbe ball.
By this time the officers had got their prison
er to the front piazza, hut he was speedily
clutched by the waiters and dragged back into
the dining hall, the officers following, without
lelinquishiug their grasp. In the hall he was
tom from their hands, nearly every vestige of
clothing being stripped from bis person. The
doors at the end of the hall were then shut
and barred, a number of the waiters remaining
outside and obstructing the passage of tbe two
officers who endeavored to fight their way
through the crowd.
At this time, a gentleman in the hotel called
upon the guests to assist the officers, but all was
confusion and uproar, and none appeared anx
ious to interfere; the gentleman himself was
struck at by a negro, who was armed with a
hatchet, but he warded off the blow’ and knock
ed bis assailant down with a chair. He then
shouted for his pistols, and his wife, who was
am'-ng the outside crowd, quickly brought them
down. They were not, however, used.
Finding their efforts to reach the door fruit
less, Boyington drew a revolver, and placing it
to one man's head pulled the trigger. The cap
nibsed tire, thus saving ihe man’s life, but tbe
act occasioned a stampede, and tbe officers for
ced in tbe door. By this time the man had been
got out at the back of tbe premises and was
bun ied down the steps to the ferry and placed
in a boat.
The ferryman, however, after getting into
the middle of the stream, returned to shore in
the other boat, leaving his cargo in charge of
some of his companions, in order to ascertain
with what offence the man was charged. Upon
learning the truth he signified to the officers
that he would drop down the river and land
their n an at the steamboat landing above the
suspension bridge. Tyler and Boyington quick
ly started for tins point, but they were prece
ded and followed by troops of negroes, some
two hundred and fifty of whom arrived at the
landing before them.
Finding a band of Irish laborers, some three
hundred in number, near the spot, the officers
requested their assistance, which was willingly
given, and the newly found allies set to work in
earnest, strewing the ground with negroes,
knocking down all who opposed them, and
pursuing the refugees with stones and yells.
Ihe blackguards showed fight for a few min- j
utes, but soot, they left the field in possession i
ot the assailants, who seemed to enjoy the sport !
and to live Donnybrooke fairly over again. The
officers having now a clear field, landed their
prisoner, placed him in a carriage, drove some
distance until they reached the Lock port rail
road, when they took the cars for Buffalo. The
accused was safely lodged in jail, and will be
conveyed to Savannah as soon as the necessary
papers can be obtained.
We learn that the man arrested has no negro
blood in his veins. He is by trade a eoopei\ is
about 5 teet 7 inches high, has red hair and is
sl'ghtly freckled. The description in the Sa
vannah papers fr.s him exactly. Our officers
displayed much promptness and courage, and
deserve the highest praise for their conduct du
ring the exciting scene.
The hearts ot two such men would not quail
before a whole army of lawless desperadoes
nor would any consideration of personal safety
deter them from doing their whole duty in car
the i*"—Buffalo Commercial, of
Monday Evening. J
Simes nni) Sottimi.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
FRIDAY HORNING, SEPT 9, 1853.
FOR GOVERNOR:
11ERSC11EL V. JOHNSON,
OF BALDWIN.
FOR CONGRESS:
Ist. DISTRICT JAMES L. SEWARD.
lid. DISTRICT A. H. COLQUITT.
Illd. DISTRICT DAVID J. HAILEY.
IVth. DISTRICT W. B. W. DENT.
Vth. DISTRICT E. W. CHASTAIN.
Vlith DISTRICT THUS. P. SAI FOLD.
Vllith DISTRICT J. J. JONES.
MUSCOGEE COUNTY NOMINATIONS.
FOR SENATE,
JOSEPH STURGIS.
FOR REPRESENTATIVES,
ALEXANDER MoDOUGALD,
MARTIN J. CRAWFORD.
Hon. James Johnson’s Congressional Career.
FIRST SESSION THIRiT SECOND CONGRESS.
On page 7, vol. 24, his name is recorded as a Rep
resentative of the State of Georgia.
He presented, page 120, the petitions of James M.
Smith and A. FI. Shepherd, for indemnification for loss
es by Cre> k Indians in 183(1, and submitted a motion
i to refer the petition of Moses Matthews for iridemnifica
: tion for losses in the Revolutionary War, to the commit
j tee on Revolutionary Claims.
j He moved, page 354, to reconsider a vote of the
! House, calling for information in reterence to our re
: lations with Mexico.
He moved, page 404, to withdraw the memorial of
James Pitman from the files of the House.
He moved, page 685, that the House adjourn from
Friday to Monday, and withdrew his own motion when
the yeas and nays were called.
He asked, page 753, a question of Mr. Phillips.
He answered, page 800, to his name on the call of
the House, moved to excuse Mr, Bailey for absence,
and moved to lay on the table a motion to recommit the
Deficiency Bil to the committee of Ways and Means,
i lie called for a separate vote, page 900, on an
amendment to the Deficiency Bill, and voted twice
against amendments of the same bill.
lie objected to any special order, page 1015, and
called for the regular order of business.
He called for the yeas and nays, page 1049, which
i were not ordered, and voted against an amendment of
t the Senate to the Capitol Extension Bill, allowing the
architect to examine the claims of the workmen engag
ed on the Capitol to indemnity for loss of time during
the suspension of the work for want of an appropria
tion by Congress to carry it on.
He presented, paste 1054, the memorial and petition
of the Georgia Legislature for a depot at the Sand Hills.
He called for the yeas and nays, page 1535, on a
hill making appropriations for the construction of certain
Ro; ds in Minnesota.
lie moved, page 1536, to lay an appeal from the de
cision of the Speaker upon the table.
He demanded the yeas and nays, page 159’ , on a mo
tion to reconsider the vote of the House on the Penn
sylvania Contested Elect'on.
Mr. Davis moved, page 1 654, to postpone for two
! weeks, a Bill appropriating certain lands, and giving
j the right of way to a Ra'lroad in Indiana and Illinois,
I when Mr. Johnson objected, called for the yeas and
t nays, on a motion to lay said Bill on the table, and voted
to lay it on the table.
He objected, page 1743, to taking up a Bill for
j detpening the Mississippi river.
i An amendment was before the House, page 1754,
providing ti at no extra pay should be given to Officers
of the Government unless the amount to be paid and
the Officer to whom it was to be paid were specifically
i mentioned, when Mr. Johnson moved to strike out the
; amendment on the ground that this was already law.
His motion was lost.
He insisted, p.ige 1764, on taking up the regular or
der of business.
He asked, page 1830, a question of Mr. Johnson of
Arkansas, about some money due the Chickasaw In
dians.
lie moved, page 1850, for a call of the House.
He asked the Speaker, page 18S4, if an amendment
was in order, and was told it was not.
lie again rose, page 1901, to a question of order
and was set right by the Speaker.
He moved, page 2051, to lay on the table a resolu
tion to engrave certain maps, which was carried, lie
also objected to closing the debate on the Civil and Di
plomatic Bill, as he wished to make an exposition of his
views on the Presidential election, whereupon Mr.
Stevens, of Pa., moved to lay Mr. Johnson’s motion on
the table, and Mr. Orr, ofS. C., called for the yeas and
nays, that “'.he country rnig.it see who it was, who
wished to waste time and delay public business,” and
Mr. Johnson, we are sorry to say, voted to “waste I
time.”
lie objected, page 2240, to the previous question on
the Bill declaring the Wheeling bridge a lawful struc
ture, as he desired to speak on it; but he objected to
healing two other gentlemen on the same subject.
On page 869, vol. 25, we again find the name of Mr.
Johnson. Tie asked Mr. Stuart a question about Mr.
Polk’s veto of the River and Harbor Bill.
This is his first and only appearance in vol. 25,
though it contains 112 pages.
He made, page 1679, a few remarks upon the Boun
dary between the United States and Mexico, and moved
unsuccessfully, to amend an amendment in relation
thereto.
lie moved, page 1 730, to substitute Trieste for Liv
erpool, as the Eastern terminus of the Collins Line of
Steamships, made a very short speech in favor of his
motion, and sat down amid the laughter of the House.
The speaker could not see the pertinency of his remarks,
and a member called him to order.
He moved to strike out the clause in the River and
Harbor Bill, page 1904, appropriating money out of the
Treasury to pay for the improvements, and moved to
insert a clause to allow the States to impose tonnage du
ti s to pay for the same, and supported his motion in
a sound Sensible speech of five minutes, which did him
credit. Unfortunately his motion was iost.
In this connection, he delivered that famous speech
heretofore commended in our columns. The following
are the circumstances which gave r se to it:
Mr. Johnson. In party to which I recently be
longed (the Democratic) there is as much latitudinous
construction as in any other.
Mr. Stanley. The party to which you recently be
longed ! what party does the gentleman belong to now ?
Mr. Johnson. I now belong to the independent or
der of outsiders. (Laughter.)
We understand Mr. Johnson has professed to be a
Democrat since the opening of the canvass. We would
like to know specifically, whether he has quit the “out-
Mde!■s, ,, ; si for whateause.
Mr Johnson, page 1930, moved to amend an Inter
nal Improvement Bill, by inserting an appropriation ol
$25,000 for a survey of the Flint and Chattahoochee
Rivers, and supported it in a speech of a few minutes,
in which he very candidly told the House that if his
amendment was adopted, he would still vote against the
Bill. It is hardly necessary to add that his amend
ment was lost.
lie moved to strike out an appropriation of $50,000
to improve the navigation of the Hudson river, and sup
ported fiis motion in a five minute speech against In
ternal Improvements. He called for tellers on his mo
tion, which was nevertheless lost.
He made another five minute speech against an ap
propriation, page 1971, to repair a dam on the Ohio river,
and offered a motion to spend the amount appropriated
in removing the darn, and contended that the removal
of the cam would more surely facilitate navigation than
its repair—a position which Mr. Gray clearly showed
was wrong. His met on was not adopted.
lie made a short speech, page 2U50, against en
gravmg some maps.
He opposed, in a few remarks, a motion to appro
priate $50,000 dollars to the relief of some Indians who
were said to be in a starving condition. The appro
priation was not made.
The above is a full and faithful record of Mr. John
son’s Congressional career in the First Session of the
Thirty-second Congress, which lasted 274 days, and for
which he received the handsome sum of about $2,192,
besides mile ageand other perquisites. Pretty high
pay for the work done ! If his name occurs another
time on the record, we have not been aide to find it
with the aid of an all embracing Index. And what
now is the summing up ? lie presented a few petitions,
he had the roil called a few times, a motion was laid on
the table at his instance; he offered a few amendments
to bills pending, all of which, of any worth, were lost ;
he made a few five minute speeches in favor of motions
and amendments of his own, which couldn’t secure the
passage of any one es them except to defeat the ap
propriation of a small sum to relieve starving Indians,
he pocketed his pay, came home, and is now held
up as the great statesman of South-Western Georgia,
before whose transcendent genius the brightest lights
of the Democracy pale their ineffectual fires. There
is an old adage about glass houses, which we commend
to t!ie Conservative party. Upon such a record crow
ing is simply ridiculous.
Now we give Mr. Johnson all proper praise for his
undeviating opposition to Internal Improvements by the
Federal Government. Ilis intentions in this respect
were no doubt good. Our only objection is that his merit
consists only in intentions. In his own emphatic
language, he did “nothing;” he tried, it is true, but
invariably failed to do any good.
There is, however, one serious omission in his en
deavors, which we cannot pass unnoticed. It i3 well
known that many of the highest offices in the gift of
Mr. Fillmore were in the hands of Ereesoilers. Yet
our Representative never so much as alluded to this
fact duiing this whole Session. The rights of the South
were certainly in “eminent peril” on account of such
Freesoil appointments, yet the watchman whom we
placed on the wall kept silent. Indeed he never so
much as alluded to the subject in a five minutes speech !
Isn’t this too bad ?
We have not yet had the pleasure of seeing a copy
of the Congressional Globe for the Second Session of
the Thirty-second Congress. If we get one before the
election, we will take great pleasure in laying before
our readers the balance of Mr. James Johnson's Con
gressional record, and have no doubt it will prove quite
as interesting as the portion we have gone over. We
now only remember that he made a speech in favor of
the claims of Watson’s heirs, and voted for Ben net’s
Land Destribution Bill. This last measure shall cer
tainly claim our attention before the canvass is ended.
The Muscogee Railroad.
By reference to our advertising columns it will be
seen that freight on cotton to Savannah has been redu
ced to fifty cents a hundred pounds. This will secure
a very large freight business this winter to the Road.—
w e are pleased to learn that the business of the Road
is now very heavy, and that the stream of travel which
flows over it is constantly inor< asing.
It may be of interest to travellers to know that an
express train leaves Savannah every week on the arri
val of the steamer Asia, and that the. connection is con
tinuous to Montgomery, Ala. This is therefore the
quickest and cheapest route of travel from New York
to New Orleans.
The Railroad to Eufauia.
At a meeting of the Town Council of the city of
Columbus held in the Council Chamb.r Sept. 7th inst.,
the following resolution was offered by Alderman Robi
son and unanimous'y adopted :
Resolved , That the Mayor be instructed to call a meet
ing of the citiz ns of Columbus, for the purpose of con
sidering the propriety of making a subscription to the
Eufauia Railroad, at such time in the month of October as
he may deem suitable ; and that he take such steps as are
necessary to secure a full meeting.
It is proper to state, for the information of the citizens
of Eufauia, that a large number of our business men are
now absent from the city and will not probably return j
until October ; on that account the meeting is called in i
October. There is a very general feeling in this city, ;
in favor of a railroad connection with Eufauia, and we
have not a shadow of a doubt but that the Council will
subscribe fifty thousand dollars i! there is a reasonable !
probability that that amount will guarantee the Road |
We will give notice of the time agreed on for the meet- j
ing and we shall be pleased to see the triends oi the
Road at Eufauia and elsewhere at the meeting. Come |
up, gentlemen, and let us hear from you.
(gjT A Great Pacific Railroad Company, at the i
head of which, it is said, are Eiastus Corning, Simeon j
Draper and other capitalists, is organizing m New iurk.
The object .s to provide a substantial six tee. gauge >
ro ad from New York to the Pacific Ocean, running
through St. Louis, Missouri, Arkansas, Texas, Nortliein
Mex : co and California. The estimated cost is SIOO,-
000,000, which is to be the capital of the Company.—
It is said that thirteen of the most responsible contractors
of the United States have offered to build one hundred
miles each on the route above described, and to take in
payment fifty per cent, cash, twenty-five percent, in the
bonds of the Company, and twenty-five per cent, in its
stock.
The girls think of hymen, and can’t help sigh
ing. When their lovers forsake them, they can’t
help crying; they sit at the window and can’t
help s r ying : they screw up their corsets, bring
on consumption, and can’t help dying.
Lfor the times and sentinel.]
Letter from Jlr. Ellis, of Stewart County.
Messrs. Editors: Having been requested by many of my
fellow citizens of Stewart county, to set forth the reasons
tor my political po-ition, and request their publication in
your paper, yet it has been with reluctance, and not until
I have been charged with political inconsia •. .cy as a Union
Democrat for taking my place in the ranks of the great
National Democratic Party of the United States, that I
have been able to obtain my consent to comply. When
\he late Whig administration of the general government
was drawing to a close the two contending national parties
(Whig and Democratic) owing to the several questions aris
ing out ol the slavery agitation at the North and the newly
acquired territories were found temporarily divided into
several distinct parties. The necessity of national organiza
tions arose out of the fact that anew President was to be
elected. Accordingly a call was made upon all the wings
of the Democratic party to assemble at Baltimore in June,
1852, to agree upon a common platform and re-unite the
party. The convention met, the Democratic party was
re-united by re-affirming the time-houored resolutions of
the party as had been repeatedly published before, with the
single addition of acquiescence in the compromise measures
of 1850, and a pledge to carry them out in all their bear
ings. Franklin Pierce was nominated and placed upon it
as the democratic candidate for the Presidency, who in his
ietter of acceptance asserted that they met the approbation
of his judgment. It seemed to me that there was now no
longer any cause for local divisions in the party. Accord
ingly I voted for the regular Pierce and King ticket, and
thereby brought myself under obligation to support the ad
ministration so long as it carried out the principles upon
which it was brougiit into existence, and to regard all as
democrats who did the same, no matter from what party
they came, North or South, so long as they continued to
support the same principles.
Here I might, as a Union democrat, close this letter, but
for the fact, that anew organization has arisen in Georgia,
claiming my support as a union man. I therefore beg your
indulgence while I ’examine some of its component ele
ments. Ist. It is not the union party of 1850, because that
party was virtually dissolved in 1852. For authority, I re
fer to a letter written by Air. Jenkins, the present candidate
for Governor and published, about June 1852, in which he
stated that the Union party had accomplished all the ob
jects of its creation, and that the members might then con
sistently fall back into the whig and democratic parties.
2d. Because the recently organized party repudiated the
name of Constitutional Union party, and substituted some
thing or nothing else in its stead. 3d. Because they have
adopted resolutions in relation to the administrative policy
of the General Government, which was unknown to the
Union party and which every individual has the right to
approve or disapprove. 4th. Because the leaders of that
party array themselves against the present administration
and its head, who is pledged to carry out all the provisions
I of the compromise of 1850, and which challenges any
i proof of having in one instance departed from or failed to
•arry out the said pledge ; and it is well known that acqui
| escenee in the compromise was the sole issue made by the
! Union party against any other party whatever. From these
and other reasons, I cannot see how any man who is a
democrat in principle and in fact, can give his support to a
j party organized in opposition to his principles. But still
| they claim the support of the Union democrats, because
; they say that the former Southern Rights wing of the par
| ty being in the ascendency in Georgia, have not given them
|an equal share oi offices and nominations. This, if true,
i (which I do not admit,) is an ap P%l to our passions rather
| than our principles, ami whenever a man falls out with a party
j and gives his support to its enemies, merely because some
j one else has been preferred before him, for some office to
which he may have aspired, is a demagogue and unfit
|to trust any where. But they further assert that “the rights
: of the Southern S tales are in great and imminent danger,
! and the principles of the Georgia Conv. ,tion are greatly
jeoparded by any political party which recognises the ap*
! pointinent of free soilers as worthy of public honors and
| emoluments.”
In a subsequent resolution they declare that “both tho
old paitie3 (meaning the whig and democratic have been
faithless to their oft repeated pledges,) &c.” Thus to all
intents and purp ses, they are a sectional and Southern
Rights party, not known out ot the Stated Georgia, subject
to all the objections ; yea, more, that they themselves urg
ed against the Southern Rights party of 1850, because there
were then issues before the country upon which such a par
ty could exist; but now there is none. But it is argued that
President Pierce has appointed some men who had been
free soilers to office, and this charge is made with as much
emphasis as if these men were not pledged to the demo
cratic platform of 1852 I confess that this charge would
have come with much better grace from some other quarter
than the Fillmore and Webster vvhigs of Georgia, for it
will not be seriously denied any where, that these men
were free soilers of the deepest dye ; for Webster declared
and never recalled i., “that he never would give his sane
tion to the extension of slavery one inch beyond the limits
of the old thirteen States.” And Fillmore retained in his
cabinet to the la-t, the notorious Torn Corwin, an aboli
tionist of the deepest dye, yet these men were sate to trust
as President’s, and the rights of the South would have been
safe in the opinion of these politicians in their hands, while
it is in great and imminent danger in the hands oi the pre
sent Executive, because he has appointed a few men who !
once belonged to the free soil wing of the democratic party j
to office. O consistency, where art thou l But our pas- j
sions are further appealed to, because a Union democrat
was not nominated upon the present democratic ticket for
this county. I therefore feel it my duty to state, that this
was not the fault of Southern Rights men, for I know it j
was the desire of all that I conversed with, both before and j
on the day of nomination, that a Union democrat be placed
on the ticket. The nomination was tendered to me, but it
was impossible for rne to accept; others were named with ;
similar success,until at last, Col. Lowe was placed on the j
ticket at my suggestion, as the man most acceptable to the
Union democrats, that I knew of.
Thus I have briefly noticed some of the most prominent
positions taken by the opponents of General Pierce’s ad
ministration, from all of which I cannot see how any man
who is a democrat in principle and in fact, can give, to the
present Conservativepartv of Georgia his support; for sure
ly any man would subject himself to the charge of the
most flagrant inconsistency, to vote to bang an adminis
tration into existence and then affiliate himself with its ene
mies, in an effort to break it down.
Respectfully, JAMES P. ELLIS.
CO- The New Orleans Picayune says
*‘We don’t think our Savannah exchanges are
completely valueless. They sometimes bring
us the Savannah News.” Yes, hut it is a picay
une business not to give proper credit for Sav
annah News when you receive it.
[We always do, and are glad to say that the
bove transcendent specimen of wit is from the
Savannah Republican.— Eds. Pic. J
Democratic Nominations.
A meeting of delegates of tho Democratic party from the
several districts of Muscogee county convened this day in
the Court House in Columbus.
The convention organized by calling Tilman D. West,
Esq., to the Chair and appointing A. B. Ragan, Secret;.ty!
A letter from General Charles J. Williams was read tic
dining a nomination, as circumstances entirely beyond his
control rendered ihisstep now necessary ; and expressing
his best wishes for the success of the nominees whoever
they might be.
Col. Ragan offered the/ollowing resolutions, which were
unanimously afopted :
Resolvt-d Ist. That this convention ought to nominate a
ticke; for the Legislature for this county upon the basis of
the of the Baltimore Convention which nomi
nated Pierce and King, and of the Inaugural Addiess of
P.esident Pierce.
Resolved 2d. That all who stand upon that ba-is, wheth
er they be Union Democrats, Whigs or oth> rs, should
have a voice in forming that ticket, and if possible a repre
sentative of their own free choice upon it.
Resolved 3rd. That this conventicn now proceed to
nominate a candidate for Senator and two candidates for
Representatives for this county in the next Legislature of
Georgia, in accordance with these principles.
4he convention then proceeded to nominate, and tho *
name of the Hon JOSEPH STURGIS being proposed, he
was by acclamation nominated as the candidate lor Sen
ator.
The convention then balloted for candidates for Repre
sentatives, and on the first ballot Major MARTIN J.
CRAWFORD and Col. ALEXANDER McDOUGALD
having received two-thirds of the votes, were, on motion,
declared unanimousfy nominated.
On motion of B. V. Iverson, Esq., a committee of five
consisting of B V. Iverson, CoJ. John Quin, James A.
Redding, Robert C. Patterson and Ezekiel Waters were
appointed,to which Tiiman D. West, Esq. wa- added ,to
notify Messrs. Sturgis,Crawford at.d McDougald,severally,
of their nominations, and request their acceptance.
On motion of B. V. Iverson, Esq., it was
Resolved, That said committee have tower to fill any
vacancy which may occur in the ticket by reason of non
acceptance, or otherw i-e
On motion the convention then adjourned.
TILMAN D. WEST, Chairman.
A. B. Ragan, Secretary.
Columbus, Sept. 6, 1853.
GalvMion and Red River Railroad. —We are
authorized to announce that the President and
Directors of the Galveston and Red River Rail
road Company perfected a contract with Gen.
Orville Clarke, on Saturday, the 29th inst., to
construct the first section of tho railroad extend
ing from Houston, sixty-seven miles, to a poij|
east of the Brazos, to he hwtafter designated
by the Company. The General has contracted
to complete the road, furnishing all the materi
als, cars, engines, &c., for nineteen thousand
dollars a mile. The read is to be similar to the
first class railroads in New York, and the rails
are not to weigh less than sixty pounds to the
yard. The whole extent of sixty .-seven miles is
to he completed within one year, and a section
of forty miles, in the direction of Warren, will,
it is expected, be completed by the first of May
next. We understand that the company intend
to extend the main trunk of the road, agreeably
to the provisions of the charter, about one hun
dred or one hundred and twenty miles, in a
northerly direction, w ith the view of ultimately
connecting it with the great Pacific road, which
will in all probability extend through ‘1 exas on
or near the parallel of 32 degrees.
[Houston (Texas) Telegraph
1 O* An old toper being questioned as to a cM
-1 ton gin, replied that it “was very good, but not
1 equal, in bis estimation, to pure Holland gin.”
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■ ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC.
1 : Baltimore, Sept. 3.
’ J Tho U. S. mail steamship Atlantic, Capt. West, ar
: rived at New Yolk on Saturday, from Liverpool, which
port she left on Wednesday, the 24th ult.
The Liverpool Markets -—-The dtrnand for cotton
* since the departue of the Europa on the SOth ult., Lad
been moderate and prices in favor of buyers. The
* sales during the three days had comprised only 15.( 00
’ bales, of which speculators took 1000, and exporters
! 3000 bales.
j Rice was in active demand at previous rates.—
| Breadstufls had largely advanced,
j The London Money Market was tighter. The Bank
j of England, hovvtver, had made no change in the rale
;of interest. Consols were quoted at from 98 1-4 a
| 98 3 8.
I The Havre Cotton Market had declined.
|
Affi ay in (inciniati.
j Baltimore, Sept. 2—A dispatch from Cincinnati
states that James Hall, Esq., the President of tho Ohio
and Mississippi Railroad, was last night attacked in the
street by Dr. Ames, a returned Californian, who shot
Mr. Hall in the abdomen. It isfeaied that the wound
* is fatal.
Large Bobbery.
New York , Sept. 2.—The messenger of the Bank
! of Newport, Rhode Island, was robbed on board ihe
j steamboat Perry, last evening, of a package containing
forty thousand dollars in bank notes.
New York Market.
New York , Sept. 2.—-Flour is in fair request here,
with sales of State brands at $5 62 1-2 a $5 75, and of
Southern at $5 87 1-2 per bbl.
Impeachment of Judge Flina.
Cincinnati, Sept. 2.—A meeting of the citizens of
this place was held last night, to take measures for the
| impeachment of Judge Flinn. Resolutions were intro
duced and unanimously passed, declaring it to be the
opinion of the meeting that Flirn should be impeached,
and a committee of citizens were appointed to bring the
subject before the next Legislature.
Yellow Fever in Mobile.
Mobile , Sept. 3.—The interments here
last 24 hours, have been 27, including yellow fever 22. ,
Closing of the Battle House.
Mobile, Sept . 3.—The Battle House in this city is to j
be closed after to-morrow.
Augusta, September 7.
Cotton. —There is little or nothing doing in old Cot
ton. Ot the new crop about 120 bales have come to
hand, the bulk of which has been disposed of at prices
ranging from 9 1 2 to 11 cents —principally at 10 1-4
for Middling Fair.
Progress of the Epidemic in New Orleans and Kobile.
New Orl*anß, S pt 4.
110 interments of persons who had died ot yellow fe
ver took place on Friday at New Orleans. The inter
ments during the week comprised 955, including S* 4
from yellow fever. The decrease is over 600 as compa
red with the previous week. In Mobile the yellow ye*
ver is on the increase and 37 deaths occurred
Friday.
Columbus, Sept, 6.
Cotton. —The new crop comes in slowly. Price?
range from 9 1-2 a 9 3-4. Principal sales 9 5-8.