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JAMES M. SMYTHE, )
Report of the Chief Engineer.
Chief Engineer’s Office, W. 8c A. R R.)
Atlanta, September 30th, 1851. )
7b Hit Eicdltncy , George W. Towns—
Sir: The new Bridge over the Chattahoochee
has been in daily use since the 12th of July last,
and is giving entire satisfaction, and reflecting
much credit upon the builder Mr. Edward Den
mead.
The sum of $3,315 00, the balance against me
as shewn in F.xhibitJß. of my last annual Re
l>ort was paid out on the 3rd day of February
IXSI, and dully accounted for in my final- quar
terly rejiort for the quarter ending March 31,
1851. Under the new system of disbursements
ujion the warrant of the Chief Engineer, no
moneys pass through my hands, and hence my
money exhibits therefore attached to my annual
Reports do not accompany this Report. All mo
neys received and paid out appear in the quar
terly Reports of the Railroad Treasurer, a con
densed statement of which will be found in
Table 2.
Table 1, attached so the Report of the super
intendent of Transportation exhibits the income
of the Road for the last year and shews the
quantity ofcotton, corn, wheat, ]xjtatoes, lime,
baron, lard, butter, tallow, feathers, marble, iron,
flour,|cattle,and hogs, transported over the Road
during the same period.
The number of Passengers amouuts to 55,2 IS
Which is an increase over the preced
ing year of 11,106
It will be preeeived that the number
of bales cotton has increased from 23,880
To 38,826
Which is an increase of 1-1,966
The amount of cotton trans|>orted, may lie
reasonably expected to increase annually lor
years to come.
The Coal is being gradually developed and is
already shipped to Macon and Augusta, and it
will at no distant day become an important
item of transportation.
The income from travel has increas
ed from $69,495,68
To $89,570,30
Which is an increase of $20,074,62
But 1 need not particularize these items, as a
comparison of the Income 'Fables for the years
IXSO and 1851 will exhibit the subject fully as to
the items therein contained. It will be perceiv
ed also from a careful comparison of these In
come Tables, that there is a decrease in some of
the articles, as potatoes, lard, butter, marble, bar
iron, castings, and cattle, owing partly to the
short crop ol last year, and probably, as far as
marble is concerned,to a rate of freight too high.
Table 3. exhibits the names of our 13 Loco
motives, the nature of their employment, their
present ronditon, the expense of repairs for the
year and the date of their purchase. The Flori
da, the oldest Engine on the ltoad, has lieen re
built lor us by machine shop of the Georgia
Railroad at a cost of SSOOO.
Fora very important part of the year l have
been without a Resident Engineer, Mr. B. E.
Wells having resigned in order to aceept a situa
tion on the Muscogee Railroad, llis place was
supplied for a short period by Mr. Holcomb from
the Railroad oeing built across the Isthmus of
Fanama, but his health failing from exposure in
that sickly clime, I was again,by his resignation,
left without that important office being filled till
some time in the month of August last, when
Mr, George G. Hull was appointed Resident
Engineer and Road Master. He entered at once
upon the discharge of his duties, and is giving
great satisfaction by his energy, industry, eco
nomical administration of the Road Department,
ms well as by the admirable crosstie Road he is
building betweeu.the Chattahoochee .ml AJariet
ta with the Iron purchased of Messrs. I’adel
fonl, Fay At Co., of Savannah. His Re|>ort is
hereto attached, and special attention is invited
to tiis estimates for construction tor the ensuing
year. Mr. Hull has prepared a map under my
direction by suggestion ot the Finance Commit
tee, lor the purjKrse of demonstrating at a single
glance the important position of the Western &
Atlantic Railroad as it stands related to all the
other Railroads now completed, in progress of
construction, or which aie reasonably exacted
to be hereafter built, situated between Washing
ton City and New Orleans, as extreme points
F.ast and West, and covering the country boun
ded north by the Ohio, east by the Atlantic
South by the Gulf of Mexico and west by the
Mississippi. The full value of our Road can
only be faintly apprehended by an examination
of such a map. 1 had hoped to have the map
reaily to accompany this Report, but in this hope
1 have been disappointed; the map is in the
hands of the engraver, and will be ready some
time in November, when it will be distributed ]
separately, and may be as valuable in that shai>e
jis if attached to this Report.
Col. Win. Hardin, of the county of Cass, by
virtue of a joint Resolution of the last General
Assembly, assented to the 19th day ol December,
1849, commenced legal proceedings to recover
damages for right of way through such lands as
lie had given the right of way to by deed. The
arbitrators awarded him S9OO on two lots, and
upon the appeal trial it was discovered that one
ol the tracts of land was situated in the new
county of Gordon, and so the matter was tried,
one ease in Cass and the other in Gordon. He
failed to recover anything in the case tried in
Cass county, but recovered SIOO in the case tried
in Gordon county, which sum has been paid
him. He claims the cost in this last ease, which
fi.as been refused him oil the ground that he fail
ed to sustain the amount of the award, the point
iu litigation, and ought therefore to pay the cost
Jiimself. This matter is however reported for
legislative appropriation if it should be determin
ed to allow nun Iris cost.
Messrs. CaidweJ) Ac Dickson of the county of
Walker, by virtue of a joint resolution of the last
General Assembly,approved February 23rd,1850,
also commenced legal proceeding in the county of
Walker against the Chief Engineer of the State
of Georgia, to try the question of damages sus
tained by them in consequence of the default of
the State in making payments according to con
tract bearing date. March 11th, 1539. Having my
residence in a different county it was my consti
tutional privilege to be sued there, and 1 was sa
tisfied that an arbitration would more likely do
justice to them and the State than a jury trial,
and under your advice, the matter was taken
out ol Court by them, the agreeing to dismiss,
aud submitted to the arbitrament of S. Marsh,
Thos. R. R. Cobb, and William Ezzard, who al
lowed Messrs. Caldwell & Dickson as damages
the amount of $2,055 71
for amount reserved in estimates
for work 1,447 95
A."il interest on 51,447 95 for 10 years
at 8 per cent 1,15 S 36
The reserved estimates of $1,447 95 and the
interest for 10 years at 8 per cent, viz : $1,158,-
36 together with the accruing interest up to the
settlement of the same, have been paid them.—
The damages of $2,055 71 have not been paid
them, but await Legislative appropriation. A
copy of the award and of the accompanying ex
positionjof the evidence, has been heretofore fur
nished, and is of file in the Executive Depart
ment, to which I beg leave to refer for more de
tailed information respecting this case.
The following statement exhibits the amount
nf capital invested in the Road and in equipment,
wider the head of Construction, viz:
Amount expended to Sept. 30,1847.53,305,165 S 8
Amount expended for the year end
ing Sept. 30, 1848 61,258 14
Amount expended for the year end
ing Sept. 30, 1849..... 371,434 78
Amount expended for the year end
ing Sept. 30 1851) . 94,074 OS
Amount expended for the year end
ing Sept. 30,1851 81.929 40
Total cap’], invested to Sept. 30, '51T3,913,862 2S
The following statement shows the income of !
the Road for the last four years, viz:
Income for the year enifinv Sept. 30, 1848.. ..{115,585 30
1* <1 « “ 1849. .. 132.105 70
u u u “ 1850.... 198.564 34
u u >< “ 1851.... 285,028 44
*731,283 78
The following statement shows the expendi
tures of the Road derived from Income for the
last four years, under the heads of Construction
and Expenses, viz:
Expenditures Construction. Expenses.
For year endgSept. 30. ‘IS... {29.188 14 {68.850 84
“ “ “ ’49... 49.774 7 8 87,385 75
“ " ’50... 64,284 50 155,813 09
“ “ ’51... 78,584 40 205,947 82
*221,831 82 *517,998 10
From which it appears that we have made
and invested in four years the sum of $221,831 82.
We own to the Georgia Railroad and Banking
Company the sum of $79,285 72
which has lieen liquidated and bears 6 per cent,
interest, and they have other unadjusted accounts
against us to a considerable amount.
At the commencement of your administration
the Road had an equipment consisting of 5 Lo
comotives worth $30,000
2 old Passenger and two old Baggage
cars, 4,000
Total of equipment Sept. 30,1847, $34,000
Our present equipment consists of 13 Lo
comotives, worth, $80,500
3 New Passenger cars worth 6,000
2 Passengers cars built in 1848, worth 3,500
2 old Passenger cars built in the Peniten
tiary anil partly rebuilt by us, 1,500
2 Baggage cars, worth 1,000
4 Box cars built in 1849 in good order,
worth 2,400
6 platform cars, 2,700
4 new platform cars, 1,800
3 new Box cars, 1,800
Total of present equipment $100,290
From which deduct equipment in, 1847, 34,000
And it leaves the amount invested du-
i, ring the last four years, $66,290
Though these figures may seem large to per
sons not familiar with Railroad affairs, yet in
point of fact, our present equipment is as inade
quate to our present business, as was the equip
ment of 1847 to the business then, yea more so,
for our present business is more than three times
as large as it was then. Railroad men will
smile to see me call our little stock of cars aud
locomotives an equipment for a Road 138 miles
long and doing a business already verging uprff
an income of $300,000, with prosjiects beyond
what prudence would justify me in depicting.
We must have an inde)>endciit equipment of
engines and cars, an equipment adequate to the
maximum pressure of our business. This is due
alike to the principles of economy and the char
acter of the great enterprise, which our noble
State has finally accomplished, after years of toil
and amid fearful opposition, during your pros
perous administration.
The East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad is
nearly completed to Athens Tenn., and will
reach the Tennessee river by the ensuing Spring,
a distance of 80 milesjl'rom Dalton, where it con
nects with us; aud the Nashville & Chattanooga
Railroad is completed ior fifty miles next to
Nashville, and the whole line is progressing
rapidly to completion, being 150 miles iu length.
It is expected that itjwill be opened by the end of
the year 1802, or very soon thereafter. These
Railroads and the navigable streams which they
tap, not to speak of the Charleston 8 ( Memphis
Kailroed, the building of which is 110 longer a
problem, and may others, will greatly increase
our business. It was early foreseen that some
efficient steps must be taken for the purpose of
putting our Road iu condition to support this an
ticipated accumulation of business by displacing
the llat bar and substituting a heavy T Rail. To
wait for the meeting of the next Legislature, and
the passage of an act authorizing the issue and
sale of Stale Bonds to raise funds to buy the iron
rails necessary for the fifty miles would postpone
the matter to the latter part of 1852 and, render
it impracticable to got the fiat-bar track renewed
be lure tliovc Roads would open upon us. We
must be ready for them, else they will Find us in
a condition so crippled with an old broken llat
har Road for titty miles, as to be utterly unable
to do the business which they will bring. In
order to obviate, if possible, this great difficulty,
I opened a correspondence, by your direction,
with a number of the first iron mongers, agents,
and merchants, with a view to purchase a sup
ply of rails for the fifty miles of Hat bar track, in
anticipation of the meeting of the Legislature,
and 1 was peculiarly fortunate in finding Messrs.
Padelford, Fay St Co. merchants of high standing
iu our own sea-porl. with JOUS tons of heavy T
Kails on hand, which they offered us at $13,50
per ton, and I was equally as fortunate in finding
them willing to await an appropriation by the
Legislature, thus manifesting a confidence in the
State, which, 1 feel and every good citizen must
feel, is not mis placed. Their oiler was accep
ted, aud the rails were shipped to us without de
lay and most of them are now put down, and the
butance will be put down in a few weeks more.
Flits new piece ol cross-tie Road lies principally
between the Chattahooehe and Marietta, and is
already telling upon the comfort and economy
ofonr business.
In addition to the foregoing valuable service,
Messrs, i’adelford, Fay, 8c Co. also proposed to
act as the agents of the State to buy, through
Messrs. Baring, Brothers, & Co. of London, as
much more Iron as would be necessary to dis
place the balance of the llat-bar track, and they
were authorized to buy for us 3.200 tons more,
which they have been able to do at £4-15s. per
ton, which will make it cost us in Savannah not
exceeding S3B or 39 per ton including insu
rance, commissions, freights, customs, and all
other charges a figure unprecedentedly low. These
3200 tons are to be delivered in the months of
October and November, and may be looked for at
Savannah in the months of November and Decem
ber, so that all or nearly all of the fiat-bar can be
displaced during the year 1552, or by the time
the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad will be
completed, an achievement not to be overlooked
for a moment, and thus we shall be in a condition
to meet all the demands, which this new’ state of
things will bring upon us, so far at least as the
track is conerned. It will be seen by reference
to the report of the Resident Engineeer, that
the cost of materials, and laying the 50 miles
of fiat-bar track with heavy rails w’ill be $254,-
650.
This estimate is based in its principal items
upon actual contracts and established prices, and
is perfectly reliable, embracing the cost of the
iron in Savannah, the Weight on it to our Road,
the cross ties, spikes, chairs, aud expense of lay
ing down. This amount must be provided by
the Legislature, in order that the track may be
put in good order as above stated and the appro
priation should be madejjat an early day in the
Session, so as to be ready when the Iron arrives
in Savannah.
The following correspondence and Executive
orders furnish as much information in relation to
the purchase of the 2005 tons of Rails, and also
iu relation to the purchase of the 3200 tons of
Rails as is deemed necessary to communicate for
prudent legislation. That our noble State can
hesitate in meeting, by prompt appropriation,
either ol cash or Bonds these necessary liabilities.
I have not suffeied myself to doubt for a moment
as it is alike due to her high character and to the
Rail Road improvements being constructed in
continuation of ours in the States of Tennessee,
Alabama, Kentucky, and Virginia.
[to BE CONCLUDED.]
Personal Appearance of Kossuth. — A late
letter lrom Marseilles describes the personal ap
pearance of the Hungarian chief, as follows:
He is about five feet ten inches, a middle sized
mail, forty-eight years of age. The most promi
nent features ot his head are a long beard, simi
lar to that ol a Capuchin, and a prominent lore
head. His hair is cut half short, and he wears a
black Hungarian hat, adorned with ostrich feath
ers of same color. His ordinary costume is gen
erally a black frock coat, cut in the same fashion
as that of a Canadian Catholic priest—without
collar.—Such is the exact portrait of the politi
cian for whom the United States have taken so
much trouble—the ‘‘bosom friend 1 of Mazzini,
and Ledru Rolin.
The Cure of Blindness and Deafness.
Dr. Turnbull, a physician of London, who has
recently arrived in this city, announces a discov
ery in medicine, which, if the stories that are
told of it in the most credible English papers be
true, is one of the most important and benign
that marks this age of wonder and progress. He
announces no less than this: a radical and per
fect cure of nearly all cases of blindness and deaf
ness. We confess that the mere announcement
has something so extraordinary in it, that we
immediately recall the hosts of quacks who, from
time to time, have put forth pretensions to a
knowledge and cure of all diseases. But the
claims of Dr. Turnbull are asserted with so much
modesty, in a pamphlet which a friend of his has
put into our hands, and are sustained by such
ample and respectable testimonies, that we have
no objection in laying them before the public,
particularly as the Doctor makes no secret of
what his remedy is.
Some years ago, according to his own account,
having observed that the eyes of persons who
had died of hydrocyanic or prussic acid, became
dilated and unusually clear just after death, it
occurred to him that the acid must exert some
specific action upon the eyes. He consequent
ly made a number of experiments, and was
delighted to find that his conjectures were not
without truth. The sight of those who were
near-sighted was immediately improved by it,
while the eyes of jiersons totally blind were
gradually opened. The vapor of the acid—for it
was the vapor alone that was used—seemed to
act both as a stimulus and a sedative. By ex
citing the small blood-vessels, the circulation
was quickened, and the eye soon relieved itself
of all morbid affections. Subsequent experi
ments showed that the practice might he varied
to suit different maladies, by employing other
but kindred agents, such as cloraeyanic acid, sul
phuretted chya/.ic acid, and chlozaret of iodine.
They are simply put into a glass vial and the
vajior applied to the eye, but as these are very
destructive agents, the utmost care must be
taken in the application.
William Chambers, the editor of Chambers's
Journal, testifies to having examined many cases
in which the acid had been used, in opacity of
the cornea, rheumatic opthalmia, amaurosis, cat
aract, ice., with the mo t perfect restoration of
the patients to health. In many of these cases
the operation appears to have been slow, but cer
tain. The editor of the Literary Gazette gives
similar evidence. But it would seem, from the
following notice in the London Times, that the
remedy is equally efficacious in diseases of the
ear producing deafness. That paper says:
“ A number of scientific gentlemen assembled
yesterday at the house of Dr. Turnbull, in Rus
sell square, to witness the results produced by a
process recently discovered by the Doctor, ap
plied for the cure of deafness and blindness.
“ Between twenty and thirty patients attend
ed, many of whom, it was stated by their pa
rents, had been born deaf and dumb. They were
submitted to various tests, by which it was
proved that their deafness had been cured by the
application of Dr. Turnbull's remedies; and
what appears most singular is, that whether the
disease depended on paralysis of the auditory
nerve, rupture of the tympanum, or obstruction
ol the internal passages, relief had been imme
diately obtained, or complete cure effected with
out delay, pain, or inconvenience. Several pa
tients, who represented that they had been com
pletely blind, said that (hey could now see per
fectly well.”
This is certainly extraordinary, and to show
that there is no mistake about it, Dr. Turnbull
intends, in a few days, to make some experiments
at our public institutions, in the presence of pro
fessional gentlemen, which will settle the matter
for this country.— New York paper.
[Correspondence of the Savannah Republican ]
Mh.li'.ikikvii.i.e, Nov. 0, JB5l.
The House met this morning at ID o’clock;
and after the reading of the Journal, and the
qualification of a member, Willis Reed, it pro
ceeded to business. The evidence in the case of
the contested Scriven election, was, on motion
of Mr. Bartow, ordered to be laid on the table
Mr. Stephens, of Taliaferro, having offered
a resolution to bring on the election of United
States Senator on Friday, the 7th inst.. the yeas
and nays were called for on a motion to take it
up, and resulted in yeas 53 and nays 70. The
bill introduced on Tuesday by Mr. McDougald,
of Muscogee, to prohibit the introduction of
slaves into this State for purposes of sale, was
read the second time, and referred to tiie Judi
ciary Committee. A bill was offered by Mr.
Thurmond lo give a Senator to each county, and
also a bill to make some important alterations in
the Attachment Laws of Georgia in relation to
the liability of copartners and co-obligors.
Alter the reading of these bills, the House sent
a message to the Senate, announcing their readi
ness to enter upon the election of a Judge of the
Supreme Court, and the Solicitors General of the
various circuits where the terms of office had ex
pired. Judge Lumpkin was re-elected Judge
of the Supreme Court for six years, having re
ceived 143 votes. Mr. Shewmake, of Burke, was
elected Attorney General of the Middle District
of the State. Mr. Thomas Telfair Long was
elected Solicitor General of the Eastern Circuit,
having received 98 votes, and Mr. Lovell 72.
Mr. John Lyon was elected in the Southern
Ciscuit.ilnd Mr. Jack Brown ofthe Chattahoochee
District. After these elections the General As
sembly took a recess till three o’clock. W.
The English journals are comforting them
selves with the theory that the Anglo Saxon race
degenerates in America; that our temporary su
periority in some things is the result of a diseased
activity of the nervous system, which makes us
bright, but short-lived; and that we ewe the
stamena, as well as the rapid population of our
country, to the healthy immigration from Eu
rope!
Java Coffee Raised in North Carolina.—
The editor of the Milton (X. C.) Chronicle was
recently shown a parcel of Java Coffee, fully
matured, that grew in Dr. John T. Garland's
yard, about a mile from that town. It looked as
natural as the imported article. The shrub that
produced this coffee is but two years old, and
beais prolifically. The tree sprouted from a grain
of coffee which was planted on the north side of
the house.
The East Tennessee and Georgia Rail
road. —We understand that this road is now
completed to Athens. The enterprising con
tractor on the road, we are told, would have
finished it to that point several days since, but
has been delayed on account of a failure in the
Company to supply him spikes with which the
iron rails are fastened. Il delay from similar
cause do not occur, we are informed that Messrs.
Dent & Co. will be able to complete the road to
Loudon (Blair's Ferry) according to their con
tract, against the middle of March next. We
hope the contrators will not be retarded hereaf
ter by a want of promptitude and energy on the
part of the Company.— Knoxville Register, 6th
inst.
Off-shot of the World’s Fair in the
United States. —A proposal is made in the
London papers, over the signature of Edward
Riddle, United States commissioner, and the Aus
trian commissioner, to transfer to New-Yo:kthe
most attractive and valuable portion of the arti
cles which have been exhibited in the Crystal
Palace, and it is stated that a company has been
formed, represented in Europe by these two men,
‘‘to whom the entire management has been en
trusted.” It is also stated that a large build
ing will be erected in New-York, which will be
made a bonded warehouse for the reception of
goods from all countries, and that the proposed
exhibition will be open on the 15th of April
next, about six months from this date, and con
tinue open for a period of four months.
AUGUSTA, GA.
SUNDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 9.
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE STATE.
Qy Our carrier for the lower route is sick.—
Such of our subscribers as do not get their paper
this morning, will please send to the office for
a copy.
I Report of the Chief Engineer of the Western and
Atlantic Railroad.
We regret that we can publish only portions
of this able and valuable Report.
The parts left out are the lengthy correspon
dence between Gov. Towns and Col. Mitchell,
and Messrs. Padelford & Fay, in reference to the
purchase of some new heavy Railroad iron for
the State Road—a part of the report of the Fi
nance Committee, in reference to some difficulty
between the Macon & Western Railroad and
the Rome Road—some correspondence in refer
ence to damaged cotton left upon the Bank of
the Tennessee river at Chattanooga and some
tabular statements accompanying the Report.
I hese are not essential to a clear comprehension
of the management, condition and prospects of
the Road. They are all fully set forth in the
portions of the Report which we commence
publishing to-day and will conclude in our next,
It is gratifying to see the increase in the num
ber of passengers, the bales of cotton, and the
income from travel, in 1851, over that of the
preceding year. The total income for 1851 over
1850, is over eighty-six thousand dollars. The
Road has made and invested in four years,
522R8.31 82. The reasons given by the Chief
Engineer for the complete and early equipment
of the Road, must be convincing to every mind,
and the necessity for the purchase of new Rail
road iron, upon the assumed authority of Gov.
Towns and CoL Mitchell, is a full and ample
justification of their conduct in that matter. We
doubt not that the Legislature and every reflect
ing man, in the State, will applaud their de
termination as consistent with a just and proper
sense of responsibility, and the best interests of
the State.
Read, attentively, that portion of the Report
in reference to the sale of the State Road. It is
a convincing argument against the policy of its
sale. We have never, for a moment, doubted
that the State Road will be profitable beyond the
most sanguine expectations of its original friends.
Wc see from its income already, in its unfur
nished state, what it will do, in the course of
time, especially when the Nashville and Mem
phis and East Tennessee and other Roads are
completed—all of which will be great tributaries
to it. Let the necessary appropriations be made
to make it independent of the lavors and work
of other Roads, for cars and engines: in other
words, give it an independent and ample equip
ment, and it will rise higher and higher, year
alter year, a proud column, to deck and ornament
our State, and pour its rich treasures into her
coffers.
From a table of freights, prepared by W. D.
Fulton, Esq., and apjiended to the Rejiort, we
find that 38,820 bales of cotton were transported
over the Road the past year, 130,679 bushels of
corn, 63,312 bushels of wheat, 52,777 bushels of
lime, 3,765,910 pounds of bacon, 236,414 pounds
of lard, 30,679 pounds of butter, 10,541 pounds of
ta110w,141,574 pounds of feathers, 239,836 pounds
ol marble, 185.175 pounds of bar iron, 1,429.112
pounds of pig iron, 572,164 pounds of castings,
2,880 bids, of flour, ike.
This is but a beginning. Every one knows
the difficulties under which the Road labored the
past year. They were unavoidable, and, no
doubt, diminished the income of the Road at
least one-third. True economy requires that
the Road should be placed in a condition to trans
port every thing, with ease and dispatch, which
may be brought to it. The only argument, of
any weight, we ever heard, or saw advanced in
favor of selling the Road is, that under the man
agement of a private company, it would prosper
and make more money, than it will under the
management of the State. Suppose that might
be true, is it a good reason why the State should
sell it, when, under her management, it will, no
doubt, yield a better income than any Road in
the State, perhaps, in the Union. A private in
dividual or company might make a more judicious
and saving appropriation of the public funds
than the Legislature; is that any reason why we
should take away the power of appropriating
the public monies from that body? To sell the
State Road now, would be to give it up, at great
loss, just at the time when its capacity to repay
the State for her expenditures, and to enrich her
with its profits, had been developed. The State
has carved out this great work of art at an ex
pense of between three and four millions of dol
lars. Hills have been levelled, mountains pene
trated, and many of nature's stern obstacles over
come, and lor what ? To add to the grandeur
and wealth ot the State, and not to throw away
the richest pearl in its possession. We believe
the Legislature, in its wisdom, will turn a deaf
ear to any proposition to sell the Road, and, in
sustaining and amply equipping it, it will only
conform to the wishes of a large majority of the
people of Georgia.
Read the advertisement of Messrs. Lam
bert & Brother, Charleston.
Augusta Guards.
This new and beautiful corps made their first
appearance in uniform yesterday afternoon, un
der the command of Captain William E. Dearing.
There was much cuiiosity apparently evinced to
see them go through their marching and manceu
vring, and they acquitted themselves in both in a
manner highly creditable to themselves and their
officers. Their uniform makes a handsome dis
play in full company. The coat is of blue cloth
with red facings—cap of blue cloth with white
trimmings—plume white, tipped with red.
"1 his is the third volunteer company we now j
have in our city—we have the material for a
number more sufficient to form a regiment. Vol
unteer corps should be encouraged in our state, i
and we hope the present legislature will abolish !
the existing militia system and extend a fostering ’
care over this important branch of our main
military dependence.
Ky To-morrow evening will be the last
performance of the New Oleans Bollet and Ope
ratic 1 loupe in our city. They make their ap
pearance with white faces, and have selected
several of their favorite and most popular pieces, j
Beware of Counterfeits.
We were shown, yesterday, a counterfeit ten
dollar bill on the Bank of Augusta, which was
received by the Cashier from Trenton, Dade
county, where two men, implicated in negro
and horse stealing, were arrested, and on their
persons were found about 1150 dollars of these
spurious bills. The counterfeiters, however,
made a mistake, not only in the plate, but the
date of their bills. The counterfeit is dated in
1847, in which year the Bank issued no bills of
the denomination of ten dollars, from the plate
of which this is a counterfeit, with the signa
tures of J. W. Davies, Cashier—Robt. F. Poe,
President. On the counterfeit bills, the signa
tures of these gentlemen are so perfect, that if
made to the original plate, they would find diffi
culty in denying them: but still there is such a
difference in the bills, that any one can readily
detect the counterfeit. In the first place, the
counterfeit is wider and longer than the original.
The left haud side of the counterfeit has on it
$10 —portrait of Washington—slo. The genu
ine bill has Slo—The President, Directors He
Co.—portrait of Franklin. The vignette of the
counterfeit is a female in a reclining position,
with a male figure, standing upright—sleeves
rolled up, and left hand pointing to letter B. on
the right hand side of the bill. The genuine has.
in the centre of the bill, a vignette representing
Agriculture and Commerce. The words u Bank
of Augusta,-’ in the counterfeit, will be found in
Roman shaded capitals—in the genuine, the
same words are in shaded German text, small
letters. “Ten Dollars," in the counterfeit, is in
capitals—in the original, with a capital T and D,
the remainder in small letteis. On the right
haud portion of the counterfeit, is slo—a sup
posed portrait of Lafayette, and underneath
$lO. The genuine bill has slo—State of Geor
gia—likeness of Oglethorpe. These counterfeit
bills will pass readily with those unacquainted
with the original bills of the Bank; but, from
the above description, should deceive no one into
whose hands this paper may fall. The counter
feit is numbered very badly on the left, and the
genuine on the right hand side of the bill.
Steamship ron Ireland. —lt is said that the
steamship Bienville, recently built for Messrs.
Jones & Johnson, of New York, has been char
tered to run upon the line between that city and
Galway. She is to be continued upon the route
lor one year, at least.
Thanksgiving.
Thursday, the 27th inst. has been set apait by
the Mayor and Alderman of Savannah, to be
observed as a day of Thanksgiving and Prayer.
Fire !
The alarm of fire yesterday afternoon, was
causeil by the roof of the dwelling of Mrs.
Holliday, corner of Washington and Ellis street,
taking fire from a spark from the chimney. It
was soon put out without doing much damage.
[Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier.]
Baltimore, Nov. C, 10 P. M.
Farwell (Whig) has been elected Governor of
Wisconsin.
Baltimore, Nov. 7, 2.20 P. M.
It is said that a dispatch has been received at
the Spanish Consulate in Washington, to the ef
fect that the American prisoners in Havana will
be liberated, and the injury and insult offered to
the Spanish Consul at New Orleans forgotten,
provided the Spanish Flag be saluted in that
city.
A letter has, also, been received in Washing
ton, accusing Consul Owen of making charges
to the Captain General against Mr. Thrasher, and
causing that gentleman to be arrested.
The writer says that Mr. Owen had stated
that Mr. Thrasher, being an applicant for the
Consulship at the time, had propagated reports
which had caused his (Mr. Owen's) recall. Mr.
Thrasher is represented as being confined in a
dungeon, in which no man can live a month.
Judge Sharkey has officially signified his ac
ceptance of the Consulship at Havana.
Columbia, Nov. 7, 9.25 P. M.
A brisk and animated demand prevailed again
to-day in our Cotton market, at full prices, and
in some instances an advance of one sixteenth
was obtained. Two hundred and forty-eight
bales were sold at from 5] to 7 9-16 cents.
Mobile, Nov. 7, 5.50 P. M.
The sales ot Cotton for the week amount to
two thousand seven hundred bales. The market
is firm, and the stock on hand comprises two
thousand seven hundred and eighty-six bales.—
The receipts continue light.
New-Orleans, Nov. 6, 9.35 P. M.
Four thousand bales of button were sold to
day. The outside prices for clean Cotton, which
is scarce this season, is 7J for strict middling.—
Rice is dull, and the stock is increasing.
The ship Chaos has arrived from Savannah.
New Orleans, Nov. 7.10,48 A. M.
Cotton has been firm this morning, and three
thousand bales have been sold. The sales for the
week comprise thirty-two thousand bales. The
receipts sum up two’ hundred and forty-seven
thousand bales against one hundred and fifty
eight thousand at the same period last year.
The stock on hand amounts to one hundred and
twenty-six thousand bales, against one hundred
and five thousand at the same time last year.
Rice is dull and two hundred tierces have been
disposed of at s3l.
A dispatch received by the papers in this city
says that general Foote's election as Governor of
Mississippi is considered certain. His majority
in twenty-one Counties is two thousand nine
hundred.
The barque Cherokee, Capt. Getty, has cleared
for Charleston.
New-Orleans, Nov. 7, 3.36 P. M.
Still later returns than those mentioned this
morning have been received from Mississippi, re
lative to the Gubernatorial election, which show
a large gain lor the Hon. Jefferson Davis, and
make Foot's success doubtful.
The barque Saranac, Captain Yates, and the
ship I saac Newton, Capt. Bush, have arrived from
Charleston.
It becomes our painful duty to chronicle the
death of our fellow-citizen Capt. John R. Ihly.
He expired about 10 o'clock on Tuesday last,
alter a severe illness of several weeks.
Our community has sustained an irreparable
loss in the death of one so strongly identified
with the prosperity of our young and growing
city. His life was characterised by energy and
perseverance, and spent in the consummation of
enterprises some ot which have contributed
greatly to the prosperity of Rome. His remains
were interred on Wednesday amid the tears of a
large concourse of friends and relatives, with the
honors of Masonry and Odd Fellowship.— Rome
Courier, Ith inst.
A Fighting Whale. — Loss of a Whale Ship.
—The whale ship Ann Alexander, Capt. John
C. Deblois, of New-Bedford, was destroyed, on
the 20th of August, in lat. 5 50 S., lon. 102 W.,
by being struck by a sperm whale, which the
crew were attempting to capture. After the
whale had destroyed two boats, the ship was put
in pursuit of the monster. On nearing him a
lance was thrown into his head, and in a few
moments after he rushed on the ship, struck her
abreast the foremast about two feet from the
kneel, knockling a large hole entirely in her bot
tom, through which the water rushed with great
rapidity, and she commenced settling down.—
The remaining boats were cleared away and
launched, and a little bread and water, all that
conld be saved, was placed in them. After some j
efforts to relieve the ship and keep her afloat
captain and crew left her in the boats
days after the occurrence, they fell i n
ship Nantucket, Capt. Gibbs, and were take
board and landed at Paita. Captain n! 1 . 01
reached New-York on Sunday, in the
Cherokee. Similar attacks upon ships haveß*'
made by sperm whales, but they are exceeding
Albany Nov
New- York\Elertions . —It is generally rorirell' •
that the democrats throughout the State are s'
cessful. The whigs have a majority in the I°°'
ate about the same as last year. The AasenOu
is doubtful, but probably democratic. The * D
jority for the democratic State ticket
this city is 900. Warren county oj ves con i‘ n
mocratic majority, and Herkimer ldoo do C
see gives 1200 and Washington 1000 wwJ!*'
jority. Oneida gives 400 whig majority ° J '
~ „ J-vgeson, Miss, Nov. 4
Mississippi Election.—The election in ti;
State continues lor three days, and is pro-ressh “
with much spirit, an immense vote bein »»■> f
—Gen. Foote, the Uqion candidate fo r ”fc
nor, is sweeping everything before him and
carry the State by twenty thousand maiori'v ‘'
In the first district, for Congress D. B' Nab •
in the second district John D. Freeman an l
the fourth A. Dawson, all Union candidates '
elected. In the third district McWfilie s
sionist. is making a pretty heavy poll.' a ,’id
be elected.
~ „ Detroit, Nov. r,
Michigan Election.—The Democrats have
elected their Governor and State ticket he n,
000 majority. -
v c Then-ton. N. J., Nov. 5.
New Sersey Election.—Camden county
elects three democrats to the Assembly and ',
democratic State Senator.
Gloucester county elects a democratic Senator
and one democratic Assemblyman. For tie
other member it is a tie vote.
In Salem county the entire democratic ticket
is elected by an average majority of 140.
In Cumberland county two democratic As<en.
blymen are elected.
In Burlington, two if not three demoevj
Assemblymen are elected.
Ihe majority in the Assembly will be lanul
democratic.
Hudson and Bergen counties have gone deim
cratic.
SECOND DISPATCH.
Trenton, N. J., Nov. sth.—ln this State tie
Senate wtil probably stand I*2 democrats to
whigs, and the House 36 democrats to 24 » i;.
Wilmington. Del, Nov 5
Delaware Election.—Every district heard
irom, gives a majority in favor of the conventioi
to lrame a new Constitution.
The Rhode Island Legislature adjourned
d,e°n Friday, having transacted the legislative
bussiness ot the State in four days. The m .. 0
important law passed was one extending th
time for paying the registry tax to the third day
preceding the election. A bill for the total ,1V
lition of imprisonment for debt was passed
animously in the Senate, but was postiwntd by
the House to the next session.
DIED,
On tin, 7th November, at the resilience iff Col 1
Hutchins, iu Lawrencerille. (ia . hi. wi|. \j, j
Hutchins, in the 42 year or her ag,.
To the community in which the deceased livid,
has never come more universally unwolcnme-to ha
kindred, no bereavement more feeliLglr painful - u j
hue been sent, llut among all who ar.’ affected i, f 1
untimely death, the greatest sufferers are the 1,-a-t
scious of it—her little children, w hose tender av
truant memories, will never realize th.ir irrejar* -
misfortune. May the (Soil of the motherless watch 01
them.
(Somme rein.
Augusta Market, Nov. B—P. M.
COTTON.—We have no change to notice in prices t«-
ilay. All parties are anxiously looking for the next #
steamer’s news, now due.
ROME, Nov. 7 .—Cotton. —We quote, the pre-v §
week, from 4} to tij cents.
Flour. $2.50 to $3 per hundred pounds
Corn Meal, 90 cents per bushel, retail
Corn, 75 to 80 cents per bushel
Bacon, 15 to 16 cents per pound.
Lard, 16 cents pe: pound.
Butter, 25 to 30 cents per pound.
Chickens. 15 cents a piece.
CHATTANOOGA, Nov. 7.—The river has risen one r 1
two feet. The steamer Mary McKinney came Jowl • J
Monday, and returned with freight forKnoxvilh- 1
steamer Union came up from below on \Ve-liie*h
with freight and passengers. This is the tir«t ar:
from Decatur since the river got so low*.
The Fall Market for Produce has hardly opemdy
MADISON, Nov. B.— Cotton. —The market In- ?-■
dull for several days past. We quote from oto 7 ce;:
SAVANNAH EXPORTS. NOV. 7
Per schr. Julia Eliza, for Philadelphia—3ol bale-IV
ton, 75 casks Rice, 43 bales Domestics, 8 sacks Fra.:
and 1 box Mdze.
SAVANNAH. Nov. B.— Cott on .—The mark-t h: j
yesterday. The sales were limited to 4* 0 bale- *«: t -
following particulars: 11 at 7j, 7s at 7j. 100 at 7j
7j. 2 at 7 13-16, 165 at 7£. and 37 bales at Bcent-
Shipping intelligence.
ARRIVALS FROM CHARLESTON
£liip Isaac Newton, Bush, New Orleans
Barque Saranac, Yates. New Orleans.
Brig Lucy 11. Chase, Knight, Boston.
Schr. Lucy Ann, Ogden, Georgetown, D C
UP FOR CHARLESTON.
Barque Pamphylia, Shedd, at Boston.
Barque Edisto, Kendrick, at Boston.
Barque Jasper, Hasty, at New York.
Brig Madison, Clark, at Boston.
Brig Clinton, Walker, at New York.
Schr. C. A. Greiner, Peterson,at Philadelphia
Schr. G. M. Robertson, Plummer, at Baltimore.
CLEARED FOR CHARLESTON.
Barque Petrea. Whitman, at New York
Barque Cherokee, Getty, at New* Orleans
Schr. Elouise. Robinson, at New York.
Schr. D. 11. Baldwin. Parker, at Baltimore.
SAILED FOR CHARLESTON.
Ship Ontario, Holmes, from Wiscasset.
Ship Telassar, Wood, from Wiscasset.
Nov B.—Arr. barque Globe. W.
more, New* York; brig Zoara. Handy. Boston; scurf
M. Smith. Hawkins, Baltimore: Monterey, Curtis. I
adelphia; David Smith, Smith, do.; Alcyona, «uita*
do.: Acadia, Pierce, Yarmouth. Me.
Cleared, steam ship Isabel, Rollins. Keywo
Havana; Br. ship Corea. Maguire, Liverpool: tv.*-.
Minerva. Vue, Marseilles: Mck. barque Fredeiv>
Louise. Bradherrin, Buenos Ayres; schr. Hornet, i. •
New York.
SAVANNAH. Nov. B.—Arrived, ships E. A. SooB£:
(new Br.) Vaughn. Glasgow; Silas Leonard.
Boston; Southport. McCormick. New* Vork. I *'
land, do.; Wm. Patten. Tbeobold, do.: bng awu-
Godfrey, do ; schrs. Cbas. Mills, Francis, do., -
Perkins, Bath. (Me.); John W. Anderson, (new.i
Baltimore: Dart. Somers, do.
Cleared, schr. Julia Eliza. Higbee, Ph:lad 1' ••
Departed, steamer Hancock, Murray.
WANTED, /ittaMßEK
\ FIRST RATE white or colored CUA-hd
I\ MAID. For sueh an one, good wages wn
given. Apply at the U. S. Hotel.
nov 71
BRTJSSELLS CARPET WITH BORDER A-’-
WARDROBE—AT PRIVATE SALE;.
ONE fine BRUSSELS CARPE with BOIUJ
which has been in use only one season. ...
one fine MAHOGANY WARDROBE
low by A. LAFnlh
nov. 7 3 _—-
'CHEAP IVY D’LAINES AND alpaca .
£7/ \( \i \ YDS. of those rich Figured MX
OUUU D LAINES and ALPACA, at "
centk. Just received at
_ nov 7 GRAY BROTHER^
TO FARMERS. , , t
WANTED, 200 doz. of fresh EGGS. ApW
oet 28 I. P. GIRARDEY A
CHAMPAGNE. ,
U BASKETS of superior CHAMPAG>‘-
For sale at I. P. GIRARDES ACO -
oct. 28