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raaasDAY evening, auu. 12 1858
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The Supreme CO r t nd the Press.
The recent decision of the Supreme Court, pronounced
at Macon, in the case of Robinson ve. Beall, has called
forth many ilj-advised remarks and harsh reflections, from
various papers in this State, against that tribunal. We
understand that decision to have been, that at the expira
tion of the charter of a corporation, all debts and liabili
ties due to or fr<m, and all suits by or against said corpo
ral ion, eo instanti, become extinct. Now, ifthis be law }
and we shall assume that it is, we think an inviting oppor
tunity is presented for legislative action- It is wrong and
should be changed. In the natural course of things, it is
obliged to work injustice ; for under its administration, a'l
that a corporation has to do is to contract a large indebted
ness, refuse to pay, stand suit, keep the case in litigation
by fanciful quibbles and captious exceptions, till the char
ter expire j , when the law mercifully comes to its relief
and the plaintiff’ pockets his costs and waiks home. Now
it will be admitted, that this is a temptation too great foi or”
dinary human virtue ; at least, it is against public policy,
to subject it to such a trial. The matter should be reme
died, but how ? Some of our editorial brethren who have
much more resentment than modesty, have suffered them
selves to declare that the Supreme Court ought to be abol
ished. But hold! In the absence of legislative enactment
cases are generally decided upon authority—in conformity
to the decisions of other tribunals upon the same or similar
subjects. Have these gentlemen taken the trouble to ex.
mine the reasons given by the Court for its recent decis
ion, or have they compared arid weighed the authority s
upon which that decision was based ? We know some
thing of the labors of an editor, and feel authorized to
answer for them, ihat they have not. They have been
guilty ot the error, and, it maybe, injustice to the Court
of assuming that what ought to be, is, and have expended
their denunciations accordingly.
Now. we submit that the investigation to which we have
referred, should precede such severe and wholesale cen
sure. J’he m mbers of the Court are entitled to the bene
fi of their reputation for virtue, integrity and truth, which
each of them has hiilierlo blameles.-ly maintained. This
credit sh >u]d, at least, be accorded to them until a more
di igent and sear-hint inquiry is made into ihe merits of
tn-q lesuou wht-n ii is possible, our censorious friends may
find ihat the arrows of invective which they have let fly
in such hoi hasre, have been misdirected, and, finding no
‘mm- ai-road, have resumed, by a circuitous, but much
frequented route, to wound the band that discharged them-
It nas been objected to this decision, also, that it overrules
a decision of the same Court, pronounced in the case of
Sm ley vs. The Directors of the Commercial Bank of
Macon, reported in 16th Georgia Reports. Taking the
>c or ‘rant. and. we cannot admit the force or propriety o
h john. uiles< it can he demonstrated that the decis
I- nun and, is according to law. This our cotemp-ra
r ■ ‘ <>’ fs axed <> do
• he -r .1 dw rk of ihe objection is evidently an assump
non ot one or the o'her of the following propositions: that
h ‘ ‘ * r is infallible or that error should be permanent
i’ht, tore-.-i 0,1 mu abundantly contradicted by the fact
o’ the i versa I assumed ihe latter, we are sure, our intel.
I gent “aieiiip rarv of the elegraph will not accept. It
l! ha o. e f/ouri -houJd make a decision which
a i her wouid have, to reverse; but it is not unusual and
cannot be stiange so long as men aie judges. It is even
more unforiunate if the reversal be wrong; but that the
commission of an error is an apology for its continuance,
we apprehend, no one will contend. Had that doctrine
t revail.*d, our law books would now exhibit little else than
a batch of antiquated errors. Jurisprudence, like every
other sciepce which bears upon human life, should be made
to conform to the standard of truth.
First Bale iu Charleston.
The Charleston Courier of the 9th inst announces the ar
rival in that city of the bale of cotton whose receipt at this
place was noticed about a week ago. The Courier says ;
“It is the first bale ot new cotton received in Charleston this
season. It is, however, considerably in advance of the
first new bale last year, which was received on the 27th of
August.
Descent on Sonora Apprehended.
St. Louis, Aug. 10.—An arrival here from Albuquerque
announces that three hundred and seventy-five men were
met at the Pawnee Fork, on their way to join Walker in
Sonora. They understood that Walker would be at the
Pass wiih eight hundred mounted men, armed with Minnie
rifles, and eight cannon.
Ball at Indian Springs.
We learn from the Macon papers that a grand ball will
be given at the Indian Springs on the 25th inst. Ihe Tel
egraph says it is expected to be a grand affair the like of
which has not been seen in that region for many a day.
Appointments. —The Washington correspondent ot the
New York Times says that Mr. Yancey of Georgia, has
received his instructions, and will leave in a few days as
Minister to Venezuela. Also that a New Yorker who hails
from Indiana, a special friend of Senator Bright’s, receives
the appointment to the Argentine Republic.
in the Cotton Crop.—A correspondent of the
Eufaula Native says: “1 have been traveling through the
cotton-growing region of this county, aud from what I
could hear and see, I am satisfied the cotton crop will tall
short of last year. The r and rust, one of the most destruc
tive diseases to which the cotton plant is heir, set in early
in the season, and continued its ravages slowly up to the
first of July, at which time, it spread more rapidly. de>troy
ing as it went both leaf and form. The caterpillar is also
said to have commenced its ravages upon some of the river
plantations.”
Death and SicKNtss from Eating Diseased Beef. —A
gentleman just from the lower counties, says the Savannah
Georgian, informed us that one or two deaths had occur
red in two families in Pierce coun'y, from eating the mear
and milk of cattle afflicted with the murrain or black ton
gue—and several other members of the same families are
sick and likely to die from the same cause.
A Year of Abundance.— The Providence Journal
with which we agree, thinks there is high promise of a
year of abundant food. In the regions to which ihe civil
ized world mainly look for the supply of food, the pros
pects are of large returns to the labors of agriculture. In
England, where the supply of food is so important, that the
effects of abundance or of scarcity extend to all ihe com
m-ncial cun tries, the harvest has begun earlier than usual
aud with lavorabie weather. In France, where the peace
of Europe depends largely upon a good crop, the sam e
favorable appearances prevail; and in this country th e
yield promises to be enormous. The vine, that has suf
fered so severely all over the country, is now flourishing
to a degree that ‘eaves no doubt that the vintage of 1858
promises fo take its plane amonsr the great years ofquan ‘
ity and quality. !he disease that has so long afflicted it
has been mastered mai ly, we believe, by the application
of sulphur.”
Good News from Missouri—Defeat of F. P.
Blair, Jr.
The telegraph has proclaimed the gratifying result of the
election of Hon. J. R. Barrett, over F. P. Blair, in the St.
Louis District. The former is a good and worthy demo
crat, the latter a Black Republican of the first water —the
more loathsome and abhorrent, because he was the repre
sentative of a Souihern constituency. To the disgrace of
Missouri, he has represented her in the National Legisla
ture, and though his abilities have assigned him no higher
rank than that of an artful, intrigueing demagogue, his po.
s tion has emasculated the moral force of Southern opinion
and his revilement of the institution of slavery has been
nore hurtful than all the venom manufactured by North
•rn abolitionism. The election of such a man was a hope
ul indication to the abolitionists, that their principles were
advancing southward, and were gradually compelling the
isseutof the Southern mind. We confess that we regard
ed it as the evidence of a tendency towards the abolition o
slavery in Missouri, and nothing short of the political os
tracism of this infamous reviler of the South, could have
eured the belief. The result is a sign which gives hope ol
better things, and we honor the District for the atonement
th made for its past conduct.
Un v r yot the South-
We hav - been remiss in not before noticing an exceed
ingly neat specimen of pamphlet typography from the,
press of Barrett &, Wimbish, Montgomery, entitled “Pro
ceedings o( the Board of Trustees of the University of the
-outh, at this session, held at Beersheba, Gunby county
Term., July 4th, 1855.” We gather from the pamphlet
hat this im-titution is fully resolved upon ; that the charter,
from the State of Tennessee, which is said io be all tha*
can be desired, has been accepted; and that the various
committees necessary to carry forward the project, have
been appointed, and are about to enter upon their work.
The noble conduct of our sister State of Alabama, in these
preliminary proceedings, is what we always expect frem
her.
Our fellow citizens, the Rev. Mr. Hawks and Daniel
Griffin, Esq., are among the Trustees.
The large-heartedness of this whole scheme; the char
acters of the men engaged in it ; and the object to be at
tained, cannot but commend it to the warmest sympa
thies of every well-wisher of our common country, Wo
bid the project a cheerful God speed-
Government Loan. —Washington, July 9.—The ap
plications lor ten millions loan were opened to day, and
awarded at an average premium of five per cent.
Yellow Fever — Within five days says the N O.
Crescent ot the 6th, there have peen 52 deaths by yellow
fever at the Charity Hospital. How the disease progres
ses in private practice we have no means of ascertaining
definitely ; but from what we hear, the next weekly returns
will show a considerable increase in the mortality from
this source With a few exceptions the disease is con
fined io the poor, unacclimated population, particularly in
the Third District.
[communicated.]
Rust in Cotton.
Messrs. Editors : The rust in the Cotton crop is threat
ening in this (Stewart) county. On my farm of 225 acres
in cot ton, some 10 or 15 acres have been pretty well de
stroyed- I hear it is making its appearance in small patch
es, all over the crop. If it should stop with its present rav
ages, tho damage would not be so serious, but the proba
bilities are egianst its stopping. It made its appearance
about a month ago, during wet weather, a short dry spell
followed without checking it. Amidst all kinds of sea
sons it has steadily advanced in its work of destruction.
My present belief, after close watching and a recent inspec
tion is, that it will continue to spread until it will pretty
well sweep over my crop. If it does, my crop will not be
more than half of an average one.
The condition of my crop is but a fair representation Of
multitudes of others in this county—others again, up to this
time, have escaped almost entirely. From other counties,
intelligence reaches me. In less than 30 days
you will hear but few brags about a heavy crop.
Yours.
THE OCEAN TELEGRAPH.
Trinity Bay, Aug. 10. — Everything iu connection with
the Atlantic cable is progressing satisfactorily.
The Queen and President’s Messages.
Trinity Bay, Aug. 11. — -the electricians of the
cable report that it is probable they will transmh
the Queen and President’s messages early to-day.
Telegraph Cable,
Speaking of the successful laying down of the Atlantic
Telegraph, the New York Herald of the 6th instant,says:
“The grand event of the age is consummated. The great
problem of the present generation is solved. ThesavaDts
ofto-day may now exclaim, with greater reason than the
philosopher of old, “Eureka!” The Old and the New
Worlds are connected by that most mysterious and won
derful of all agencies—electricity. Past failures have on**
ly intensified the public joy at the present success. The
ships of the third expedition, which left Queenstown on
the 17th of July, and which started from mid-ocean on
the 29th tom ke the fourth attempt to lay the cable, ar
rived at their respective destinations, Trinity Bay, New
Foundland, and Valentia Bay. Ireland, on Wednesday
evening, and yesterday the two continents were in connec
tion with each other. No verbal communications, we be
lieve, have yet passed, the rule being that the electricians
should only test the continuity until all the arrangements
for the transmission of messages are made. Those will
be completed to day, we presume, and the European news
of to-day will probably be published in the Herald of to
morrow. The first message that is to be conveyed through
these mysterious wires, now coiled in the ocean’s depths,
is to be a greeting from Queen Victoria to President
Buchanan ”
- Trinity Bay, Aug. 7 —The following are ex
tracts from the journal of Mr Field in relation to
the Atlantic telegraph expedition:
Saturday, July 17.—this morning the telegraph
fleet sailed from Queenstown, Ireland, as follows:
The Valorous and Gordon at 12 A. M., the Ni
agara at 7:30 P. M., and the Agamemnon a few
hours later. All the steamers to use as little coal
as possiole in getting to the rendezvous.
The Niagara arrived at the rendezvous, latitude
52 5, longitude 33 40, at 8.30 P. M., on Friday,
July 23d.
Sunday, July 25.—The Valorous arrived at the
rendtzvous at 4 o’clock A. M., weather calm •
hazy and cloudy atmosphere. Capt. Oldham, of
the Valorous, came on board of the Niagara.
Tuesday, July 27.—Calm weather; hazy atmos
phere. The Gordon arrived at the rendezvous
at 5 P. M.
Wednesday, July 28—Light north north-west
wind ; blue sky and hazy atmosphere. The Aga
memnon arrived at the reaezvous at 5 P. M.
Thursday, July 29.—Latitude 52 59 north, longi
tude 32 27 west. Telegraph fleet al ! in sight;
-ea smooth ; light wind from south-coast to south
‘"tt'h-east; cloudy.
Splice made itt the cable at one, P. M., signals
through the whole leng to of the cable on boad both
-hips perfect. Depth of water fifteen hundred and
fifty fathoms.
Distance to the entrance of Valentia harbor
ight hundred and thirteen nautical miles, and
from there to the telegraph house the shore end of
>f the cable is laid.
Distance to the entrance of Trinity 1 Bay. N. F.
eight hundred and twenty-two nautica miles, and, I
from there to the telegraph house, at head of Bay
of Bull’s Arm, sixty miles —making in all eight
hundred and eighty-two nautical miles.
The Niagara has sixty-nine miles farther to run
than the Agamemnon.
The Niagara and Agamemnon have each eleven
hundred nautical miles of cable on board, about
the same quantity as last year. ‘
Thursday, Aug. s.—At 1.45 A. M., the Niagara
anchored. Total amount of cable paid out since
the splice was made, one thousand and sixteen
miles six hundred fathoms. Total distance run
882 miles. Amount of cable paid out over dis
tanerun. 134 miles and 600 fathoms, being a sur
plus of about 15 per cent. At 2 A. M.. went
ashore in a small boat, and informed the persons
in charge of the telegraph house —half a mile from
the landing—that the telegraph Fleet had arrived,
and were ready to land the end of the cable. At
2:45 A. M., received a signal from the Agamem
non that she had paid out 1010 miles of the cable.
At 5:15 A. M. the cable was landed. At 6A. M.
the shore end of the cable was carried into the
Telegraph House, and a strong current of electrici
ty received through the whole cable from the oth
er side of the Atlantic. Capt. Hudson then read
prayers, and made some remarks. At 1 P. M.,
H. M. steamer Gorgon fired a Royal salute of
twenty-one guns, and all the day was discharging
the cargo belonging to the Telegraph company.
Friday, Aug. 6th, 1858. —Have been receiving
all day strong electric signals from the Telegraph
House in Yalentia.
Note.—We landed here in the woods. Until
the telegraph instruments are already and per
fectly adjusted, communications cannot pass be
tween the two Continents, but the electric cur
rents are received freely. You shall have the
earliest intimation when all is ready, but it may
be some days before everything is perfected. The
first telegraph message between Europe and Ameri
ca, will be from the Queen of England to the
President of the United Slates, and the second, his
reply. Cyrus W. Field.
The wags must have their fun on all oc
casions, whether at a jolly gathering, or in the
mournful train of a funeral. The suspense caused
in perfecting the arrangements necessary for
telegraphing by the cable, and the delay in receiv
ing and transmiting messages from the Queen of
England and President of the United States,
have induced the wags to con out some fun for
the public entertainment—hence the following:
“Windsor Casxee, August 6,1858.
“President Buchanan— Dear ISir : As you will
not permit me to “visit” you, will you allow me to
drop you a line ? Faithfully yours,
‘‘Victoria Regina.”
REPLY OF PRESIDENT BUCHANAN TO THE QUEEN.
“Washington August 6, 1858.
“ My Dear Madam: It is my impression that you
have dropped enough of your line already, and that
you are running the thing into the ground.
Yours, faithfully,
“James Buchanan.”
The Army and Navy.
A correspondent calls our attention to an appa”
rent misapprehension liable to be drawn from the
letter descriptive of the delivery of a letter to the
Chinese officials on the Pei-ho river, by certain na
val officers, as published in the Union of the sth
instant. The party was under the command of the
master of the Mississippi, Geo. Bacon, and consist
ed of Midshipmen Kelly, Mills, and Pritcheft, and
Engineers Freeman, Bartleman, and Williams,
with three petty officers and one apprentice boy.—
Passed Assistant Surgeon D. B. Phillips, and As
sistant Surgeon P. S. Wales and First Lieut, Jacob
Reed, of the marines, accompanied Mr. Bacon by
invitation. A perusal ot the letter will explain
fully the part taken by Hr. Phillips, in offering sug
gestions to Mr. Bacon in accomplishing his pur
pose to deliver the letter. Dr. P. is a son of Col.
Win. F. Phillips, late Sixth Auditor of the Treas
sury, and is spoken of by our correspondent as “a
gallant officer—an ornament alike to the navy and
to the medical profession.”
Commodore Stewart, of the navy, completed his
80th year of age on the 28th ult., and, we are hap.
py to add, is still in the enjoyment of good health
vigor, and activity. He entered the navy a Lieut’
60 years ago last March.
Gen. Harney reached Fort Leavenworth on the
2d instant.
The following is an extract of a letter from an
officer on board the U. S. steamer Germantown,
dated Whampoa, China, May 17:
“We are now anchored in Whampoa harbor,
twelve miles from Canton, having arrived here
from Hong-Kong. Our boats are all out, armed,
provisioned, and otherwise prepared for an out
break, which is momerntarily expected in the last
named city. The English are momentarily expec
ting an attack; and, in that event, the German
town and her officers are all ready to protect the
lives and property of American citizens doing busi
ness there.
“The Powhatan will relieve the steam-frigate
San Jacinto, which sailed for New York, via. Ba
tavia and the Cape of Good Hope on the 14th.
“The flag of Commodore Tatnall was transfer*
red to to the Powhatan on the 13th, when the
usual salutes were fired. This fine ship, which
has been constantly on the move for the past five
months, will leave as soon as she completes load
ing. Her destination is supposed to be the northern
coast of China.”
Hon. Jefferson Davis made a Doctor.
We see it stated that, at the recent commence
ment of Bowdoin College, Maine, the degree of L.
L. D. was conferred on the Hon. Wm. Pitt Fessen
den, Senator from Maine, and on the Hon. Jeffer
son Davis, senator from Mississippi in the Congress
of the United States. Mr. Fessenden has been for
many years one of the leading Abolitionists of
Maine. That Mr. Davis should be honored by this
association of his name with Mr. Fessenden’s, in
the honor conferred by a college crammed full with
Abolitionists, is undoubtedly attributable to his late
Union speech at sea. An inveterate Union man in
the South may be a far more useful ally of North
ern Abolitionism than Abolitionists themselves.—
“You hold, and I skin.” —Charleston Mer
cury.
Murder by Slaves— The Trinity Independent
says that George W. Hackler, employed by H. D.
( Mandeville, as overseer on his plantation, near that
f place, was found dead on the morning of the Ist
ult., under circumstances which rendered it highly
probable that he had been murdered. A post
mortem examination of his body was made by a
physician of the neighborhood, but no traces of
poison were detected nor auything noticed that had
been used. After waiting the developments of
time, suspicion became strong that Hackler had
been murdered by a combination of a number ot
slaves on the plantation.
The suspected parties were arrested and ques
tioned separately and apart from each other. Two
negro men made a full confession of their guilt,
and without the possibility of concert, gave the
same statement of*facts in relation to the murder.
Death was produced by suffocation. A snffi
cient number of the conspirators entered the house
ot the deceased in the night and perpetrated the
horrid act. The two slaves who confessed their
participation in the murder were to be tried on the
28th ult.—[iV; O. Delta.
From the Mobile Register.
Giddlngs View of tine Crittenden Amend
ment.
The following is an extract from an address is
sued to his constituents on his return from Wash
ington by the noted abolition congressman, Gid
dings, of Ohio.
“The proposed amendment denied in the most
unmistakeable language that Kansas was a slave
State, as the President had officially asserted; it
placed him on the records of our country a falsi
fier of truth, and constituted an unqualified repu
diation of h:s avow r ed policy. Nor could we dis
guise the conviction that the friends of the Presi
dent in the Senate would never agree to the bill
when thus amended. They could only accept it
by an abandonment of the President, and of his
long cherished policy. All were conscious that
both the Executive and Democratic party were
under the control ot the slave power; and that
power demanded the unconditional admission of
Kansas as a slave State, and that several States
and many politicians were pledged to dissolve the
Union unless Kansas was unconditionally admitted
with her Lecompton Constitution. It was there
fore morally certain that adherence to the amend
ed bill by the House would constitute a defeat ot
the Executive and his party, and would prevent
the enactment of the Lecompton Constitution into
a law.
“All clearly foresaw that every triend of the
President in the House and in Senate wouli
vote against the amended bill, and as we sup
posed, all who voted for the bill were solemn
ly pledged to adhere to it. We all saw that
to make Kansas a free State we must first defeat
the President’s efforts to make it a slave State.—
His project was before us, was forced upon us for
decision, and must be met and disposed of before
we could take the first step towards making Kan
sas free. And I speak not for myself, but I think
for nearly the entire Republican party in the House
of Representatives, when I say that our object and
design in voting for the amendment was to defeat
the Senate bill; to defeat the Executive and slave
power in their efforts to make Kansas a slave
State. To avoid the defeat, every follower of the
President, both in the House and in the Senate, vo
ted against the amendment.
Such is the testimony of the veteran and uncom
promising Abolitionist leader as to the merits and
character of the Crittenden Amendment. And
this proposition, so zealously supported by the
Black Republicans, and shown to be so entirely
acceptable to the most ultra Abolitionist, is the
theme of the most extravagant eulogy with Sena
tor Douglas in his speeches in Illinois, whilst the
Conference act is equally the subject of his un
measured denunciation.
From the Washington Evening Star.
The Duty of the Lawyer,
It is the received doctrine in this country, of late
years, we regret to have to write, that a lawyer
may honorably do and say things in defense or ad
vocacy of his client’s cause, which as a gentleman
he would scorn to do. Perhaps the pernicious sen
timents uttered by Lord Brougham on the subject
have done more than aught else to establish the as
cendancy of that reprehensible doctrint. Mr. Jus
tice-Coleridge, who lately took leave ot the Court,
(English) ot Queen’s Bench, whereof he occupied
a seat for more than forty years, in his valedictory
address held up the atrocity of the doctrine of
Brougham in this connection in so glaring a light
as to lead to the hope that his antidote may ac
complish something, at least, in the way of correc
ting the effect of the moral poison, which being
based on the unsound idea that the end justifies
the means, operates not only to make lawyers, but
all others who come under the influence of their
teachings, insincere and really untrustworthy men.
We may not be understood as thus stigmatising
them ourself, but rather as urging that if it be true
that the lawyer may with propriety seek for the
benefit of his client, to make what he knows to be
the worse, appear to be the better cause, any other
man may, with like propriety, seek to deceive and
cheat in the prosecution of his business. Said
Mr, Justice Coleridge oti the occasion referred to
above:
“These are not your severest trials,” refering to
the more familiar difficulties of the profession,
they are those which.are most insidious; which be
set injthe ordinary path of your daily duty ;
those which spring from the excitement of contest,
from the love of intellectual display, and even
from an exaggerated sense of duty t o your clients.
“Gentlemen, especially my younger friends suf
fer me, without offence, to put you on your guard
against these. We can well afford to bear tradi
tional pleasantries upon us from without, but we
cannot afford that underlying these there should
exist among thoughtful persons the feeling that
our professional standard of honor is questionable
—that we, as advocates, will say. and do in court
what we, as gentlemen, would scorn to do in the
common walks of life. Sometimes, I confess, it
seems to me that we lend support to such a feeling
by the lightness with which we impute ungener
ous conduct or practices to each other. Surely
no case is so sacred, no client so dear, that ever
an advocate should be called upon to barter his
own self-respect. If that be our duty, our great
and glorious profession is no calling for a gentle
man.
The Weather and Crops.
Truly hath a wise man said, no one knows what
a day may bring forth. Until within a few days of
the late wheat harvest, the prospect tor an abun
dant crop in this State was unprecedentedly good.
In all parts of Virginia the greatest apprehension
of the farmer seemed to be that in consequence of
the unusual over production of the article,he would
not be able to get anything for his wheat. This
was the general apprehension till about the first of
June, when it was removed from his mind by the
simultaneons appearance of rust in almost every
field from the Atlantic to the Ohio. The disastrous
story may he told in few words: 7'he wheat crop
of Virginia this year is a failure as compared with
the expectations in which the farmers indulged
early in the season. The quantity is reduced more
than one-half, and the quality is generally infe
rior.
A similar disappointment, we greatly fear, awaits
the corn-planters of Virginia this season. Until
very recently the corn crop promised a super-abun
dant yield, but the present prospect is that it will
be cut short one half if not two-thirds. The present
drought is excessive, and its effects are already
disastrous on the corn. Without rain in a few
days, the crop must be a failure except on low
grounds. All summer vegetation is suffering great
ly from the drought.— Richmond Examiner.
North Carolina Election.
The returns, so far as received, indicate the elec
tion of John W. Ellis, as Governor, by a majority
of from fifteen to twenty thousand. The Demo
cratic majority for Governor Bragg, in 1856, was
twelve thousand five hundred and ninety-four.
The Vote in” Kansas,
St. Louis, August B. —We have returns from
Leavenworth to the 4th inst. So far as heard
from, the majority against the English bill is 4700.
It is generally believed that the majority will
reach 9000. No returns, however, have been re
ceived from the southwestern counties.
Sale of Scrap Iron on the Railroad—Loss to the State
of $25,000.
It will be remembered, that some time ago, the
present Superintendent of the State Railroad, sold
the old Iron which had been, worn, broken, or oth
erwise become unfit for use at prices varying from
$22 to S2B per ton, according to our recollection,
which makes an average of, ?ay $25 per ton. ,
Now, the fact that this Iron could have been re
rolled by the mills in Atlanta, at a cost of 15 to
S2O per ton, and that in the process of re-rolling,
the Joss in weight would not have been very great
—perhaps not more than one'tenth, if so much.—
And that when re-rolled, it would be perhaps bet
ter than it ever was, and. worth to the road at least
$75 per ton. The price which the State has been,
ipaying for Iron being made known to the people
it will be seen that this Scrap Iron, as it is called
was worth more to the State than fifty dollats per
ton; and that it has been sold for about one half
of its true value; and that the loss is as much as
the sum for which the Iron was sold.
This is a specimen of the able and faithful finan
ciering of the present Superiniendent.”
The above, which we copy from the Cartersville
Express of the 14th inst., is a fair sample of that
opposition which is now being waged by this pa
per to the administration £of Gov, Brow n and the
management of the W. & A. R. R., by Dr. Lewis.
If the calculations of the writer were supported by
facts, the people might conclude that there was
manifest weakness in the act of selling the worn
out iron of the road, and, therefore, might, with
some justice,visit upon the Governor and Super
intendent, the charge of ignorance and folly. But
since an investigation of the facts shows beyond
doubt, that it is the editor of the Express who is
ignorant, and neither the Governor nor Superin
tendent, we hope this gentleman will be sufficient
ly magnanimous to plead guilty and cease his un
just assaults. He says that the iron was sold at
an average of $25 per ton; that it could have been
re-rolled at from 15 to S2O per ton; that in the
process of re-rolling, it would not have lost more
than ten per cent, and that by the addition of
from 15 to S2O per ton, this iron might have been
rendered of the value of $75 per ton to the State.
He also states that when the price that the State
has been paying for iron is made known to the
people, this scrap iron, as it is called, will appear
to have been worth more than SSO perlon. There
fore he concludes that it was sold for one-half ils
value. -
We admit tha the average price of iron sold
was $25 per ton, of 2,000 lbs., but so far from its
costing lrom 15 to S2O to have it re-rolled in At
lanta, the average price for this is S3O per ton.—
The estimated loss or waste during the process of
re-rolling is 15 per cent. These estimates are cor
rect and will be sustained by ar,y 4 one who has the
proper knowledge of the subject. Now let us see
how the Cartersville Express and our calculations
agree.
Average rate of sale per ton of 2000 lbs $25,00
“ cost of re-*rolling, per ton, 35,00
$50,00
Average loss per ton, at 15 percent, 8,25
Total, $63,25
Instead, therefore, of its having cost but $49,50
after being re-rolled as the Express supposes, it
would have cost $63 25 as shown by our esti
mate.
Now the Express states that for 49,50 per ton,
including the price for which the old iron was
sold, it would have been increased to the value of
$75.00 to the State.
At present new, English iron can be purchased
in New York, at 42 per ton; with freight to Atlanta;
which is $9 per ton—we have the total cost—
ssl,oo. The ton purchased thus contains 2240,
making a difference of 248 lbs., between each ton
of New York, and those sold by the Superintend
ent. The difference is the result of a positive and
special contract between Dr. Lewis and Col Coop
er, the purchaser of the old Iron. If we subtract
the price of 240 pounds, from the price per ton of
2240 lbs laid down in Atlanta from New York, we
have 5,00. leaving the cost of 2000 lbs laid down
in Atlanta 46,00. Taking „the estimate of the
Express as correct it would cost the State three
dollars less to buy new iron than it would have
cost to have re-rolled the old iron, and taking ours
as correct, it gwould have cost seventeen dollars
and twenty-five cents less per ton.
We are credibly informed that at the time when
this sale of scrap iron was made, the rolling mill at
Atlanta, had suspended operations, and therefore
the process of re-rolling at that point was utterly
out of the question.
The sale was not effected until due notice had
been given; the same having not only been pub
lished at home, but in the Eastern cities, where
purchasers might most likely be found. A gen
tleman from Philadelphia was present on the day
of sale, end run the iron up to the price which it
brought. Now if it waa sold at half price it is
quite strange that this gentleman who came all the
way from Philadelphia to make the purchase, did
1 not bid more for it. Surely twelve thousand, five
hundred dollars would have been quite a hand
some profit, and this he could have realized after
purchasing at thirty-seven thousand five hundred
dollars, if the estimate of the Cartersville Express
be correct.— North Georgia Times, July 3 0th i
1858.
Then and Now.
When Gov. Walker saw fit to recommend the
submission of the Kansas Constitution to a vote
of the whole people, there was heard along the
whole column of the ‘•American” forces, one loud
long howl of agony —as if the demon ’of destruc
tion had put a knife into the very bowels of the
South—bemoaning most piteously the fate of
Southern Rights, and alternating with fierce and
fiery denunciation of the Democracy and the
President for not hurling Walker from dan
gerous position. All that happened but a year
ago.
How is it now ? Mr Douglas, a Senator from
the State of Illinois; and Mr. Crittenden, a Sena
tor from the State of Kentucky, have advo
cated a policy in reference to Kansas more objec
tionable than that of Gov. Walker; and what do
we hear from the “American” Press ? Any “howl
of agony? Any fiery denunciation of either of
these gentlemen ? No ! not a whisper. All is calm
and peaceful with [them now. Why is it thus?
Why was Walker such a villain, and why is Crit
tenden such a saint ? The answer is plain. Crit
tenden is a Know-Nothing, and Walker was a
Democrat. Know Nothings have sworn to defend
and support Know Nothings, at all times |and un
der all circumstances; and doubtless have taken
another oath to denounce Democrats at all times,
and under all circumstances. —Federal Union.
First New Cotton in Tallahassee. —Two
bales of new cotton were received in the Talla
hassee market on Thursday, from the plantation
Gen. Robert Butler, of this county. This is the
first new cotton of the present crop that has been
brought to market. The quality was middling fair.
The two bales were bought by H. L. Rutgers, Esq.,
Commission Merchant, at 11 cents, — Floridian ,
Ith ult.
That’s So. —A distinguished wag about town
says, the head covering the ladies wear nowadays,
are hare-facedfalse-hoods. The perpetrator of this
is still at large. **