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TIMES & SENTINEL
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. t/P
THURSDAY EVENING,
The Telegraph !
The great eT n. of the age, uay, of all time, is accom
plished! Time is annihilated! distance is no more ! Old
Ocean is enchained! actual space only remaios, and man,
proud man, boasts that he will yet overcome even that,
and who shall say that he will not.
By Telegraph, we learn that the Queen pf England, and
the President of the United States, two great dignitaries
of earth, to-day have 3poken to each other across the
globe! The cable that binds the world in one is finished!
We cannot trust ourselves to talk about it till a cooler
moment. God grant that its stupendous influences may
all be for good.
“The Atlantic Telegraph Successful
beyond a doubt!
GLAD TIDINGS OF GREAT JOY!
THE QUEEN’S MESSAGE TO
THE PRESIDENT.
The following received last night *.
Trinity Bay, August 16, 1858.
To the President of the United cnaies:
Her Majesty desires to congratulate the President upon
the successful completion of this great work, in which the
Queen has taken the deepest interest.
Also,
Trinity Bay, August 16th.
To the Directors Atlantic Telegraph Cos. U. S.
Europe and America are united by Telegraph! Glory
to God in the highest, on earth peace, good will towards
men.
[SignedJ Directors Atlantic Telegraph Company,
Great Britain.
[Forwarded by Pritchard, Agent Associated Press
Augusta, Georgia.]
Washington, D. C ,16th Aug., 1858.
Cable intelligence received with joyful demonstrations.
New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Nashville, Louis
ville, New Orleans, Lancaster, every point heard from—
most places general celebration to-morrow.
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE TO
THE QUEEN.
The President cordially reciprocates the congratula
tions of Her Majesty, the Queen, on tho success of the
great inter-national enterprise, accomplished by the sci
ence, skill and indoraiDtable energy ol the two countries.
It is a triumph, more glorious, because far more
useful to mankind, than was ever won by conqueror on
the field of battle. May the Atlantic Teldgraph, under
the blessing of Heaven, prove to be a bond of perpetual
peace and friendship between the kindred nations, and an
instrument, destined by Divine Providence, to diffuse re
ligion, civilization, liberty and law throughout the world.
In this view, will not all the nations, of Christendom .spon
taneously unite in the declaration, that it shall be forever
neutral, and that its communications shall be held sacred
in passing to the. places of their destination, even in the
midst of hostilities,
[Forwarded by Barnard, Agent of Associated Press,
Washington,D. G.]
From the .Boston Transcript.
A SONG OF JOY.
!.
Why are our hearts so glad to-day?
. What meanß this common joy?
The mother o’er the narrowing bay
Sends greeting to her boy.
ii.
Beneath the Atlantic main,
Despite the tempest wild,
Completed is the electric chain
From parent unto child.
hi.
Ring out ye bells a merry strain,
Ye guns your voices raise,
Till earth takes up the glad refrain
And swells the hymn of praise,
xv.
Long absent from the homestead hearth,
The son returns at last,
In all the pride of noble birth
And memories of the past
v.
“Henceforth,” he says, “as age creeps ou,
Lean thou upon my arm;
’Twill serve thee when thy strength is goue,
And shield thee from all harm.
VI.
“In infancy you nurtured me,
And I can now repay
Part of the debt I owe to thee,
And tlius begin to-day.
VII.
“The band that biuds us heart to heart
To-day is closer wove;
And forth upon their errands start,
God’s messages of love.
VIII.
•‘And as we view the triumph grand,
Bv science nobly won,
Will not the mother grasp the hand
Extended by her son ?”
IX.
Then ring ye bells a merry strain,
Ye guns your voices raise,
Till earth takes up the glad refrain,
And swells the hymn of praise,
Cambridge, Aug. 6, 1858.
Littleton Walker Tazewell, of Norfolk, is believed to
be the only surviving member of the memorable Virginia,
Legislature of 1798,-’99, and 1799 and 18CD. Major Yan
cy of Buckingham, died last year, and Major Noland, of
London, a year or two previous.
The Norfolk Herald announces that only two miles of
track laying remaios to be done on the Norfolk and Pe
tersburg railroad. The lapse of a few more days will
bring the spiking of “the last rail” in the great iron chain
from the Chesapeake to the Mississippi.
Switzerland.—M. Frei-Herose was, on the 24ih ult.,
elected by the federal council, President of the Swiss
Confederation. He received seventy votes against sixty
three for St®mfli,the present Vice-President. M. Knusel,
of Lucertte, was elected Vice-President on the third bal
lot by sixty-six votes, agaiDst fifty-four for Fornerod-
This result is a triumph of the railroad interest.
ellowJFever m Charleston.
A dispatch from Charleston, under our telegraphic
head, announces that there had been several deaths of i
yellow fever in that city. The Physicians say it does not
exist in an epidemic form. If it does not now, it soon
may, should this warm weather last.
Ia New Orleans the fever is rapidly ou the incaease.
The Chronicle of this morning, says:—"We learn from a
reliable source, that the report of interments, made to the
Board of Health of New Orleans, on Monday morning,
for the week proceeding, shows a mortality of 306—includ
ing 140 deaths by yellow fever. Tho increase of yellow
fever cases, over the proceeding about one
hundr- h per cent.”
Foreign Agencies.
It has been our intention for some time to direct the
minds of our readers to this subject. It is oue in which
a large majority of them have a depp interest, and as some
action will, doubtless, be to as was to
the last Legislature, bearing upon iH a little timely reflec
tion may not be unwise.
We have noticed several articles in our Savannah ex
changes, of not very recent date, in relation to the For
eign Bank Currency, seeking to impmssthe policy of ex
clusion upon the public mind, and demanding the aid of
legislation to this end. As this is a question appertaining
more particularly to the interests of Western Georgia, and
with which the people of the Eastern part have little to do,
we think this section should have a hearing aud a control
ling voice on the subject. To appreciate our position and
understand the whole matter more fully, it is necessary to
understand the geographical relations of the banking or
ganizations in this State. It will be seen that the organ
ized money power of the State rests mainly in the Banks
of Savannah and Agusta—all the Banks, with the excep
tion of a few respectable institutions in the interior, being
loccted at those points. The business of Western Geor
gia is carried on by means of the few interior banks, by
Agencies of tho eastern Banks and by certain Agencies
from South Carohua.
These are the financial forcos of the State, and the
question arises are even they .'sufficient? We cannot an
nwpr for thorumnlpi rtf Snvannnh; hut rur.nnr rtjun guotirui
we can say that they are not. Our merchants, frequently,
in a time ofurgent need, find great difficulty in obtaining
money for the legitimate wants of trade. The sale of cot
ton is often impeded. Bills of the first class cannot, at
times, be discounted,and the operations of trade generally
are cramped and contracted. These are facts which can
not be gainsaid. Their frequent occurrence leaves us no
room to conjecture any other cause therefor than the one
assigned. Jf.with our present facilities, wo experience
these difficulties, it follows, of course, that our condition
would be much more unfortunate with diminished means.
Let it be remembered, moreover, that these movements do
not proceed from Western Georgia, for this section of
country has frequently protested and petitioned against
any limitation of thoir liberty in this respect. An eflor 1
was made, during the last session fof the Legislature, to
drive foreign currency ..from our circulation, aud it was
met by the people of this city with a prompt and effective
resistance. The truth is, ito use a very colloquial phrase,)
we want as many “strings to our bow” as we can get.—
The supply of this want, in some measure, is a pre-requi
site and surety of our independence. As long as we have
several bidders for our trade wo are sale. But suppose we
were dependent on Savannah and Savannah alone for our
currency; would wo not be obliged to take it with what
ever conditions the Banks of that city might see proper to
annex to to it? Aud would they not be likely to annex to
to it conditions most favorable to themselves and to the
trade of Savannah without any very especial regard to
the interests of the interior towns? It might be demand
ed that all cotton on which the Banks advanced money
should be shipped to Savannah and sold there—that bills
should be drawn on Savannah, aud other regulations. As
a consequence from this, parties having orders for cotton
with authority to draw on other places, (and of these there
are many) would be forced to go where a different and
more liberal system prevailed, and thus oar market would
be crippled and our trade reduced. We should be merely
tributary to Savannah. Our commerce would have but
one arm, and that could only work mechanically aud in
one direction, We have to .compete with the towns o *
Alabama on the one side, aud ou the other to see that we
get our full share of trade as it passes to the eastward, In
this position, our interests are no more identical with the
State, than with the foreign Agencies. The latter are an
element in our independence aud prosperity, and we should
not suffer ourselves to be deprived of it. If it is small, it
is unworthy the extensive consideration it has received
from the press. If it is important, we should cling to it
with a'proportionate tenacity. It is not our policy to drive
capital from this portion of the Stato. On the contrary,we
should invite it from all quartors—from Savannah as well
as from South Carolina. We should proclaim free trade
to all, and let the result of our conduct jjwith respect to
this, as to every thing else, illustrate the maxim that “com
petition is the life of trade.”
Alabama Railroad Grants.
A despatch dated the 12th inst., at Washington,
says that the Commissioner of the General Land
Office has replied to an inquiry respecting the right
and extent of the indemnity selections allowed to
Alabama, by tho Railroad grant to that State, by
the act of June 3, 1856, to aid in the construction
of the Girard and Mobile Railroad, etc,, where the
sections within the six miles limits had previously
been disposed of by the United States. The prin
ciple hereinafter declared is of general application :
the Commissioner states that the indemnity sec
tions must be taken between the six and fifteen
mile limits, in alternate sections, “nearest to the
tiers of sections” grant ed “in place.” No selection”
granted “in place.” No selection can be made by
skipping any vacant tract, if nearest the section in
place ; but if it should so happen that there are no
vacant lands for the indemnity, near at hand, the
selection may advance on until it reaches the ter
minus, and from the portion nearest; and it should
be necessary to take the whole of the alternates
between the six and fifteen mile limits, to satisfy
the deficiency on account of the sale of the sec
tions in place, it may be done on the terms herein
before indicated. Referring to the fourth section of
the said act of June 3, 1856, making the Railroad
grant, which prescribes the terms upon which the
State may sell one hundred and twenty sections
from time to time, the Commissioner states that
Land Office takes no heed of what the State may
do in that respect, so far as the action of the office
is concerned in making out lists of selections and
certifying the same ; that being a condition ol which
the State must take cognizance itself, so as to avoid
making sales not warranted by law. All that the
Land Office has to do is to certify the selections
lawfully made, leaving the State itself to fulfil all
conditions the grant has imposed upon it, saving
the vendees from being recipients of invalid titles.
Charleston Courier.
The Blount-Deßivieke Affair. — A Slight
Mistake. —Some of our cotemporaries, in writing
of this curious romance, seemed to think the
object of the Zouave is to 7tiarry the subject of
hs adoration, Miss Blount. This is a mis-
I take. The young lady asserts unqualifiedly that
tlrov were lawfully married before they made the
tour to New York,* and had lived as man and wife
fo • weeks before the separation. The secret of his
pertinacity, then, is simply to hold on to the prize
already won. The tact of his having another wife
now living in the State of Pennsylvania, seems to
be, in the present status of the case, the only fami
ly obstacle to his success.
By the way, we learn that the romantic Captain
grew quite chivalrous on the eve of his departure
from Savannah. He remarked ou board the steam
er that fighting was simply a pastime with him,
and it any gentleman desired to be amused in that
way, he was always ready to accommodate him
after breakfast hours, as he w'as generally at leisure
the remainder of the day. He would lie over till
the next steamer to oblige a belligerent—meet him
half way, or, rather than be nice about it, go the
whole distance himself? Verily, the Zouave is a
trump.— Savannah Republican.
From the New M Herald.
How the Oceanic Tele*di Originated.
While the public are rejoijg at the consumma
tion of laying the telegraph cable, it is a source
of justifiable pride and exution that this great
work is purely of American igin. The Atlantic
telegraph enterprise was bo jin the dining room
of Cyrus W. Field, 74 Graicy park, in the city
of New York, one quiet eving in the early part
of March, 1854. There ve present Cyrus W.
Field, his brother David Diiey Field, Samuel F.
B. Moore, Peter Cooper, Moss Taylor, Marshall O.
Roberts and Chandler Wlc. Maps were laid
upon the table, and a geneijconversation ensued
upou the practicability oft: enterprise and the
best route. They then andhere formed an asso
ciation for the purpose of aablishitig telegraphic
communication between iuerica and Europe.
The most feasible mode olaccomplishing it was
thought to be by way oftewfoundland, and it
was determined to apply tothe legislature of that
island for an act of incorpoition.
The two Fields and Mr. Vhite immediately pro
ceeded to Newfoundland tc lay the matter before
the legislature of that Islam, and to ask for a char
ter and other assistance. These three gentlemen
arrived at St. Johns about jhe 20th day of March,
1854, and at once called uon the Governor, who
convoked the Executive Council the same day.
These gentlemen appearec before them, and Da
vid Dudley Field made an elaborate and powerful
address. The Governor primised them an answer
in the course of that day. In an hour or two the
answer was given to them in writing, that he would
immediately send a special message to the legisla
tive assembly, then in session, recommending them
the interest on the company s
of fifty thousand pounds sterling, and a grant of
fifty square miles of land on the island of New
foundland, to be selected by the company.
These terms being agreed upon, Mr. Cyrus VV.
Field returned two days after to New York, to fit
out the steamer Victoria for the use of the Com
pany, and David Dudley Field and Chandler White
remained in Newfoundland six weeks, to urge up
on the Legislature the passage of the charter and
grants. Mr. Field’s cogent reasoning and convin
cing arguments on the floor of tho Assembly, final
ly accomplished the desired result. During their
sojourn upon the island hospitalities and attentions
were showered upon Mr. Field and Mr. White in
the most lavish manner, by the officials and citi
zens of the place, who looked upon them as public
benefactors. The charter was drawn by David
Dudley Field, and it was really owing to his great
legal ability and far reaching sagacity that such ad
vantages were therein secured as alterwards ena
bled bis brother, Cyrus W. Field, to enlist the con
fidence and support of English capitalists. Thus
the happy conjunction in these two brothers—the
comprehensive grasp of mind of the one, and un
tiring energy and perseverauce of the other—have
at last brought about “the consummation so devout-
ly to be wished.”
The preamble of the charter recites, that “where
as it is deemed advisable to established a line of
telegraph communication between America and
Europe, by way of Newfoundland,” &c., therefore
“ be it enacted,” &c.
E. M. Archibald, at present British Consul in
New York, was then Attorney General of New
foundland, and took a warm interest in the subject.
Wo have before us a copy of a Newfoundland
newspaper, published in Aprd, 1854, giving an ac
count of a banquet held in St. Johns on the occa
sion of the passage of the above act. David Dud
ley Field presided, and Chandler White acted as
Vice-President. A great number of speeches
were made; and to show that the anticipations of
that day have been r ealized, we give an extract from
the speech of the President.
David Dudley Field said : “The time will come,
gentlemen, when tho first question throughout
x\merica will be, “What is the news this morning
irorn Newfoundland?”
On the return of Messrs. Field and White to New
York, the 6th day of May, 1854, the company was
organized under the name of “The New York,
Newfoundland and London Telegraph Company.”
The following is a copy of the first card they issu
ed:
NEW-YORK, NEWFOUNDLAND AND LONDON TELE
GRAPH COMPANY.
Dsrectors in New York. —Peter Cooper, Cyrus
W. Field, Moses Taylor, Marshall O. Roberts,
Chandler White.
Peter Cooper, President; S. F. B. Moore, Vice-
President; Moses Taylor, Treasurer: Chandler
White, Secretary ; David Dudley Field, Esq., Coun
sel ; E. N. Gisborne, Engineer.
It was under this act of incoporation that the
line has been established from the eastern coast of
Newfoundland to the United States, at the sole ex
pense of the gentlemen above named.
In order to induce English capitalists to contri
bute to the undertaking, it was thought expedient
to incorporate a uew company in England for the
purpose of establishing the submarine line between
Newfoundland and Ireland; and Mr. C. W. Field
went to England and succeeded in organising that
company under the name of “The Atlantic Tele
graph Company,” the two companies binding them
selves together by articles of agreement to operate
in connection.
The public are familiar with the discouragements
and difficulties that met Mr. Field at every step,
but none can fully know the sore trials he experi
enced and the incredible efforts he made. Possess
ed of an iron will and the most indomitable ener
gy, he hat triumphed at last; and when our whole
people li3d desponded, and the universal press had
sent forth a lamentation that the great enterprise of
the nineteenth century had failed, a telegraphic
despatch thrilled through the heart of the coun
try—
“ The cable is successfully laid. Cyrus W. Field.”
The Atlantic Telegraph— Curious Coinci
dences.—Mr Field’s latter to the Associated Press
shows some curious coincidences in the matters of
laying the cable. The 29th of the month seems to
play quite an important part, both for good and for
evil in his history. Thus, for instance, the tele
graph fleet sailed from Plymouth on the experi
mental trip on the 29th of May. The cable was
broken at the stern of the Agamemnon, on the
first attempt to lay it, on the 29th of June; and the
splice in mid-ocean on the last and successfnl at
tempt was affected on the 29th of July.
The sth of August, too, seems to be, par excel
lence, the red letter day in the company’s calender.
On that day in 1857, the Niagara landed the end of
the cable on the Irish shore ; and on that same
identical day in 1858, the same vessel landed the
other end of the cable on the shore of Newfound
land—both end 6 of the cable being thus laid by
the Niagara.
On the third of August, 1857, the telegraph
squadron left the Cove of Cork for ValeDtia Bay,
and on that ve y same day—36s years before—th®
little squadron which carried Columbus on his first
voyage of discovery to these shores, weighed an
chor from the port of Palos in Andalusia.
These are curious and most note-worthy coinci
dences in connectionjwitn jtbe ‘great event of the
age.— N. Y. Herald.
Mrs. Catharine A. McWillie, Regent for Mississippi ot
the Mount Vernon Fund, acknowledges in the Jackson
papers receipts from eighteen counties, of about two thou
sand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
Health of Hew Orleans.
The following from Orleans Delia of
Thursday will serve to put to rest many unfounae
and exaggerated*reports in regard to the yellow
fever inthe Crescent City : .
Exaggerated reports of the mortality in our
midst from yellow fever will soon reach, if they have
not already reached, every part ofgthe country.—
This is to be expected. Rumors gather strength
and importance as they fly, until what is looked
upon as moonshine to-day will be regarded, by
thousands of credulous people, as tangible facts
to-morrow. For example : A gentleman from Pass
Christian yesterday informed us, that ail sorts of
frightful statements were made by passengers,
fresh from the city, of the onward march of epi
demical yellow fever. To the question, ‘llowis
the fever in New Orleans ?” it was answered, In
creasing, fearfully increasing !” If such reports
are carried to places almost within hail otus, how
is it to beexpected that people more remote can
think otherwise than that we are scourged by a
D6stilenc6 ?
Even in the city queer reports prevail. People,
frightened out of their boots, shrug their shoulders
and look as serious as men doomed to the guilo
tine, while speakiug of the disease. But ask mos
of them it they know of any cases ot yellow le
ver in their neighborhood, and the reply general
ly is that they do not, but hear of many m other
localities. . , . . .. c
The best way to get at the truth is to wait for
and examine the reportorial columns of our daily
journals. In order that all may examine them un
derstandingly, we place the key of that which
seems to numbers as a mystery,inthe hands oi our
That report had reference only to the (teams m mo
Charity Hospital for the week, running from Fri
day r morning to Friday morning. On our first
page there are reported three hundied and six
deaths, one hundred and forty of which arc from
yellow fever. This report is for the week running
Sunday morning to Sunday morniDg last, and
comprises the mortality in the whole city for that
time, and includes of course the deaths in the
Charity Hospital for that week. This is the re
port made to the Board of Health from all the
cemeteries.
It will be seen that the deaths from yellow fe
ver for the week ending Sunday morniDg last, is
just double that of the previous week. But then,
it must bo remembered that out of the one hun
dred and forty, only ten Americans died ; and it is
fair to infer that most of the one hundred and
thirty persons of foreign birth, who were victims
to the disease, were unacclimated. We are, there
fore, safe in saying that the fever is confined chief
ly to persons who arej not accostoraed to our cli
mate, or if accustomod to it, not only imprudently
expose themselves to the hot sun, but live in such
an unfortunate style, and in such unhealthy spots,
as make them peculiarly liable to summer diseases.
It is rare to hoar of persons living in well “ventila
ted houses, and blessed with the comforts of life,
being attacked.
According to the standard of many physicians, a
disease can not be considered epidemic unless the
deaths from it exceed those of all other diseases
combined. If this be so, the yellow fever can by
no means yet be considered an epidemic; nor can
it be considered, by another criterion we know ot,
as epidemical.
Some of our coternporaries in the interior charge
that the newspaper press of this city is not to be
relied upon when speaking of the public health.
As for ourselves, we have no desire to smother the
truth; and when the yellow fever really becomes
epidemical, our friends may rely upon it that
they will be apprised of the fact. We hope,
however, that we shall not be called upon to do
so.
The New Orleans papers of Tuesday states that
the whole number of deaths for the week ending
Sunday last were 306, of which 140 were from yel
low fever; about 60 being from the Charity Hospi.
tal, and 40 from the Third District ; leaving 40
death* by yellow fever in all the city outside the
hospital end the district named. And of the 140,
only 8 were natives of the United Stales.
Cotton Prospects Changed.— For some time
past we had indulged the belief that the cotton
crop of this year wolild be large. The prospects
as generally reported in the cotton region, justified
the belief, notwithstanding the damage caused by
the overflow ot Mississippi. But within the last
week, we hear of a most unfavorable change in the
prospect for a cotton crop. For example, one of
our best planters some ten miles west ol the city
puts the damage to his crop within the last week,
at twenty-five per cent. Another, in a different
direction, some six miles south-east of the city,
makes a similar estimate of damage to his crop.
Rust and worms are doing the greatest part of the
mischief. From Lowndes, Barbour, and other
counties, we hear of like injury to the crop. As
August and September are regarded as the most
critical period of the cotton season, and as the dam
age has begun so early in August, and as the dis
asters to cotton seem to increase as the country
grows older, we fear that all our calculations of a
good crop will be disappointed. Some few will
doubtless make good crops—for that is always
the case—but speaking generally, things begin to
look badly for a good crop. And the planters may
ae well begin to make their calculations to make
up in price, what they lack in quantity.—Montgo
mery Mail.
How to tell a Lawyek.— A lew years since, a
beyond the limits of his neigh
borhood, inquired of a pert tnegro if the road he
was traveling led to a certain place. Cuffee gave
the required information, but seemed curious to
know who the strangerjwas, as well as his occu
pation. For the fun of the thing the traveler con
cluded to humor Ebony a little, and the following
dialogue ensued :
“My name is , and as to the business I
follow, if you are at all smart, you can gues that
from my appearance—can’t you see that I am a
timber cutter ?”
“No, boss, you no timber cutter.”
“An overseer then ?”
“No, sir, you no look like one.”
“What say you to my being a doctor?”
“Don’t think ’so, boss, dey don’t ride in sul
key.”
“Well, how do you think I will do for a preach
er ?”
“I sorter spec’s you is dat, sir.”
“Pshaw, Cuffee, you are a greater fool than I
took you for—don t [ look more like a lawyer than
anything else V *
“No sirree , Bob, you don’t dat.”
“Why Cuffee?”
4 Why, now you see, boss, ise bin ridin’ wid
you for more na mile and you haint cussed any,
and a lawyer always cusses.”—[Cor’ Charleston
Courier.
An Irishman was about to marry a Southern girl
for her property.
“Will you take this woman to be your wedded
wife ?” said the minister.
“Yes, yur riverence. and the nagers to,” said
Pat.
The month of August in 1857 was a very wet
month.
Journal of a Defeated Candidate.
The following is timely. It may suit the case of
hundreds of individuals:
Thursday —Received the nomination of an ot
ficer in the City Council. Surprised and indig
nant. Remonstrated with committees. Was told
1 must place myself in the hands of my friends.
Eventually did so.
Friday —lmmense poster on a brick pile oppo
site my house; my name in two fotf letters.—
Great anguish on the part of my wife and family,
who believe that every officer of the city govern
ment must, according to Jaw, be indicted and tned
at the end of his term. Friends meet me in tne
street, say that there is a rumor about town that
l am ip lor office, which rumor ought to be pub
tidy contradicted. Other friend, offer ironical
congratulations, and leave me in doubt whether
the office is unfit for me, or I for the office. Old
gentleman says that he won t beneve it; for he
knew my father, and he was a very respectable
Saturday —Man on stoop of my house, with a
big stick and terrier. Broad-shouldered, slovenly
person, with a sangunary eye. Came to advise
me to be-ware of a class of ruffians that go round
election times extorting money from candidates.
Offers his services to tend the polls. Customary,
ibe says, to pay >in advance. 1 refer him to my
committee, lie whistles for his dog. Engage him
at five dollars, cash down. We part with expres
sions of mutual esteem. Going in, find six men
smoking in my parlor, Delegates from a target ex
cursion. Customary, they say, for candidates to
give-prizes on these occasions. Refer them to my
committee. Captain very polite ; tells me he will
give me time to think about it, and will come on
Sunday with the whole guard, to see what a fine
<--ot of men they are. Rcoult, t*n dollars
for a prize. Evening —Excited person calls for a
subscription for a banner. Refer him to my com
mmittee. Threatens personal violence and swears
awfully. Subscribe for a banner. Man comes
with a wooden leg; want’s anew one. Three
more banner men. Clergymen for subscription to
a deserving charity. Seventeen men to attend
polls- More cripples. Delegation want their en
gine painted. Man without arms to post bills.—
Woman for subscription for coffin. Children all
crying up stairs. My wife in hysterics. General
terror and confusion. Midnight Torchlight pro
cession ; kettle drums ; serenade ; make a speech ;
rotten egg hits me in the eye; general fight;
spanners, brickbats, clubs, banners, torches and
fists.
Wednesday —Wake up defeated. Tell all my
friends that I don’t care for myself, but feel sorry
for the city. My wife goes home to her mother;
the children are sent where jthey cannot be under
my influence. No home, no friends, no wife, and
no money.— N. Y. Times.
Indignation Railroad Meeting tn Berrien.
A meeting, composed, as stated iD the official
proceedings, of “a number of |the Stockholders of
the Atlantic & Gulf Railroad Company, and a
large portion of the citizens of Berrien andLowndes
counties,” assembled at the Court House of the
latter county, on the 23d ultimo. Randal Fulsome
of Lowndes, presided, and a committee composed
of Messrs. Levi J. Knight, Woodford J. Mabry,
Owen Smith, Mitchell S. Griffin, William Lastin
ger, R. P. Hutcherson, and H. Hutcherson, and H.
T. Peeples, reported, accompanied by a long pre
amble, the following resolutions, which were unan
imously adopted:
Resolved, That we the citizens of Berrien and
Lowndes counties declare that we view the action
of the Board of Directors of the Atlantic and Gulf
Railroad company, in locating said read, skirting
the Florida line, as violating the act of incorpora
tion: Ist. Because it is so located as to develop and
benefit a large portion of Florida to the great in
justice of the citizens of Georgia. 2d Because it
‘is intended to answer the purposes of a branch
road to that section instead of a Main Trunk
through Southern Georgia. 3d. Because it is not
located with a view to a speedy connection with
Pensacola and Mobile, but with a view to a spee
dy connection with Florida.
’ Resolved, That we enter our solemn protest, and
pledge ourselves to use our best efforts to induce
the stockholders to withhold their stock until the
act authorizing the Charter is complied with. And
we also respectfully ask his excellency the Gov
ernor, to suspend the payment of the Stock sub
scribed by the State until he shall be able to ascer
tain that the act of incorporation has not been vi
olated.
Resolved , That we recommend to each county
who feel aggrieved at the act of the Directors, in
locating the road, to hold meetings at as many
public places as possible, in order to give a gene
ral expression of opinion; and should it be thought
necessary, for the counties to assemble (through
delegates) in a convention, they will find us heart
and liand engaged in the maintenance of our rights.
All of which your committee respectfully submit,
and move its adoption as the feeling of this meet
ting.
Moke akout Blount and De Riniere. —Mr.
Henry Maury, of Mobile, denies that he has ever
proposed to take up the cudgels in favor of Mrs.
Blount, or that he ever wrote the editor of the
Cleveland Herald ir reference to tho scandalous
story of that lady’s early life. It will be remem
bered that Mr. Maury is the gentleman who fought
the Zouve at Mobile. He concludes with the fol
lowing complimentary paragraph in reference to
hie courtship:
It is well known here that I have been in this
city all the summer. I never wrote a line to any
paper in Ohio in my life : and I pronounce the en
tile which my name is mentioued to be
a deliberate lie. —l may be wiling to rest quiet un
der the mortification of having met on equal terms
one, who though he imposed on me at the time as
a gentleman, has since turned out to ve a chavilier
d'industrie. I may be willing to pass over the
baseness of an adventurer who fought me in ar
mour ; but to be presented to the world in the
ridiculous attitude of the champion of the Blouut
de-Riviere family,is a little too strong, and it may
be fortunate for the author that he maintains his
incognito
Ludicrous Sensibility. —Flowers have their
spells and their perils. A young French lady en
dowed with the most delicate nerves mentioned
one evening, to a few friends assembled in her
drawing room, that she had a horrow of the rose.
“The perfume of this flowor,” said she, “gives me
the vertigo.” This conversation was interrupted
by the visit of a fair friend who was going to a
ball, and wore a rose-bud in her head-dress. Our
fair heroine turned pale directly, tossed her arms,
and fell gracefully into a syncope upon the otto
man. “What strange nervous susceptibility.—
What a delicate and impressible organization!”
cried the spectators. “For Heaven’s sake madam,
go away ! Don’t you see that you have caused this
spasm?” “I?” “Yes, of course; it is the per
fume of the lose-bud in your hair.” “Really, if it
isso, I will sacrifice the guilty flower! But judge
before you sentence.” The flower, detached from
the head-dress, was passed from hand to had among
the spectators, but their solicitude soon gave way
to a different emotion. The fatal rose-bud was an
artificial one !
Nf.w- York, Aug. 15.— -Nothing has been received here
to-day from Trinity Bay.