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LOVE AJCD PHILOSOPHY bt Alfred etrlysc
You see that lady sitting there ?
Ten years ago I thought her fair,
And raved and rhymed about her;
I carved her name ou every tree,
And such was my absurdity—
Thought I should die without her.
I thought no eyes could be so bright,
I thought no teeth could be 30 white—
No angel could surpass her—
Jfcj So sweet was each melodious tone,
Her face so perfect, and so shone
■k Her ringlets, with Macassar.
f: My heart and soul were in a blaze,
> I taxed my brains to sing her praise,
scores of plaintive couplets;
pocket scarce of cash,
:: V^B>ire~h er door to cut a da»n,
MBK milled shirts and doublets.
■|jFß?%S■withered flowers she cast aside,
Hf with which her shoes she tied,
i It Wfth tender care I hoarded ;
!■■ Ana thought that I was well repaid
For. many a cold night's serenade,
P If she a smile accorded.
How wretched did I feel at last,
When, like a worn out glove, she cast,
Me and mv hopes aside ;
Three weeks from that she changed her name.
—oh! the misery—became
Old Brown,the Grocer's bride.
A man of twice her age and mine,
At whose expense our wit would shine,
For oft we quizzed the spooney;
• I had my labor tor my pains,
WKfr Wealth was an o vermatch for brains,
Old Brown had land and money.
at 1 my madness now !
has been busy with his plough
Behold that cheek —how wrinkled !
Her eyes are stony as a flint—
■PS vfi- Her Step has little'music ia't.
f Her hair with grey is sprinkled.
I I think she must weigh twenty stone,
[ Her sylph like airiness is gone,
And like a duck she waddles ;
I laugh to think upon the past,
Yet Love such spell has ever cast,
On human hearts and noddles.
A word to those who lose a prise
And mourn tne loss—just turn your eyes
I Upon the lady's mother;
The object of your hopes and fears,
Will be in less than twenty years,
Exactly such another.
PhJosophy has no such cure,
i The sight will teach you to endure—
I And like a pail of water,
[ 'Twill cool your fiery passion down j
Discarded, you will smile, not frown,
I Ntr die to lose the daughter.
-(From the Charleston Mercury.')
JENNY LIND.
EXTRACT FROM A NARRATIVE IN VERSE.
While the tempest was raging, and the sea run
k nin f high,
'**'*~ - SChe voice of fair Jenny, was heard in a sigh,
As she thought to herself (though calm and re
k sign'd)
“ My voice is potential in raising th* wind,
oh ! that it now, with the power was blest,
gtilfiJpTo stay its wild fury, and sing it to rest.” M.
(From the Philadelphia City Item )
Blit? in an Omnibus.— A night or two
jß&m since, Blitz, the renowned magiciin and ven
a'll triloquist, took a seat in an omnibus contam
|||lS ing seven or eight passenegrs. The coach
had only proceeded a couple of squares, when
leg! the driver heard some one exclaim —
'• “Hold up—hold up, I say !”
P ' The horses were stopped and John looked
‘t, ■ around for his passenger, but none
■appeared. With an immodest exclamation,
up his reins and said “get up.”
? * Pretty soon some one cried out —
“Stop, driver, stop?”
The driver again stopped, and looked down
into the coach, and inquired what was want
ing. The passengers eyed each other, as
much as to say, “I didn’t speak.”
Again the coach rolled on, only to be stop
ped at the next corner by the heart-rending
sqeaking of a poor, run over pig. Instantly
each head was thrust out of the windows to
behold the death struggles of the grunter, but
no grunter was to be seen. In another min
ute some one exclaimed in a gruff voice—
“ Keep off my' toes!”
g| / Every one looked around, but in vain, for
* / tV>Q man with the damaged toes. The pas
sengers were completely bewildered. At the
next crossing the coach stopped to take in a
lady. Hardly had she taken her seat, before
she exclaimed —
“Let me be—keep your hands off me!”
The gentleman seated next to her.said very
innocently,
“I didn’t touch you, madam.”
And the driver looking down, shouted—
“ Look-a-here, in there; if you’re gentle
_— , men, I’d thank you not to take improper li
berties with the lady passengers—it won't
do!
The lady made an observation, as the coach
rolled on, but she was not understood. They
had scarcely gone a square further, when the
passengers were startled by the cries of an in
fant. Instantly all eyes were fixed upon a
middle aged gentleman, who had a carpet bag
on his lap. The man blushed, and stammer
ed out a barely intelligible—
“ What the duce is ail this about?”
“Let me out!” screamed a lady.
••Murder!” shouted a boy ou the steps,
while three or four tugged lustily on the
strap.
“What is the matter in there?” inquired the
driver.
“Matter enough,” replied the gentleman,
“take my fare out of this quarter,”
“Keep ycur hand out my pocket,” pro
ceeded from some one.
“Did you address me, sir?” asked anoth
er.
“I didn’t speak at all,” gravely replied the
man wi.h the quarter.
. “Because, sir, no one shall, with impunity,
ft accuse
% Again the baby was heard to cry.
\ “Shame!” said some one.
“Who would have believed it?” remarked
another, while a third (Blitz of course) shook
the omnibus with a horse laugh. Thinking
he had fun enough, the ventrHoquist paid his
fare and jumped out of the omnibus. Scarce
ly had he reached the side-walk, however,
before the driver heard the word “hold up!”
from four quarters in as many seconds, but
not a passenger could he discern. Filled
with wonder, he hurried on his way. Blitz
in * great fellow.
Muscular Strength. —The muscular pow
er of the human body is indeed wonderful. —
A Turkish porter will trot at a rapid pace, and
carry a weight of six hundred pounds. Milo,
a celebrated athletic Crotona, in Italy, accus
tomed himself to carry the greater bur
thens, and by degrees became a monster in
strength. It is said he carried on his should
ers an ox, 4 years old, weighing upwards of
one thousand pounds, for about 40 yards, and
afterwards killed it with one blow of his
fist, He was seven times crowned at the Py
thean games, and six at the Olympian.
He presented himself the seventh time, but
not one had the courage to enter the list a
gainst him. He was one of the deciples of
Pythagoras, and to his uncommon strength,
the learned preceptor and his pupils owed
their lives. The pillar which supported the
roof of the school suddenly gave way, but
Milo supported the whole weight of the buil
ding, and gave the philosopher time to es
cape. In his old age, Milo attempted to pull
up a tree by its roots and break it. He part
ly effected it; but his strength being gradual
ly exhausted, the tree when cleft reunited,
and left his hand pinched in the body of it.—
He was alone, and being unabled to disen
gage himself, died in that position.
Haller mentioned that he saw a man whose
finger was caught in a chain at the bottom of
a mine, by keeping it forcibly bent, supported
by that means the weight of his whole body,
one hundred and fifty pounds, until he was
drawn up to the surface, a distance of six hun
dred feet.
Augustus XI, King of Poland, could roll up
a silver plate like a sneet of paper, and twist
the strongest horse shoe assunder.
A Frenchman attached to Rockwell &
Stone’s Circus last spring, was able to resist
the united efforts of four horses, as was wit
nessed by hundreds in New York and other
places.
A lion is 6aid to have left the impression of
his teeth upon a piece of solid iron.
The most prodigious power of muscle is
exhibited by fish. The whale moves with a
volocity through the dense medium of water
that would carry him, if continued at the
same rate, round the world in little less than
a fortnight; and a sword fish has been known
to strike his weapon quite through the oak
plank of a ship.— Western Literary Messenger.
The Late Wondereul Surgical Opera
tion. —On the 16th of November last, the
Washington Republic described an important
surgical operation, performed in that city, on
the 14th of that months, by Dr. J. F. May, as
sisted by Doctors Miller, Johnston, Stone,
Garnett, of Washington, and Drs. Weather
spoon and Cooiidge, of the U. S. Army.—
The Republic, of yesterday, says i—
“The patient, Richard Eaton, 37 years old,
had suffered for three years with a ‘ scroful
ous degeneration of the knee joint.’ He had
been for seven month bedridden; his knee
had become as large as his head, and but little
hope was entertained of prolonging his life.
We described the critical operation that was
performed, of disarticulating the hip joint, and
promised to announce any decisive change
that might occur in the condition of the pa
tient. We have now to redeem that promise
by stating that the result is entirely satisfac
tory, and that he will soon be at liberty to re
turn to his usual pursuits. One week after
the operation, secondary hemorrhage occur
red, and the wound was fe opened, and a flow
of blood experienced. At two subsequent pe
riods, pains occurred in the lower region of
the abdomen, from which adverse termination
was apprehended. Yet the care of the sur
geons, and the constant and indefatigable
attention of Dr. Force, the resident physician,
have triumphed, and the result i* before us.
We believe that in somewhat less than one
fourth of the instances on record, in which
this operation has been attempted, has a suc
cessful issue been realized.”
Fanny Kemrle and the Pore. —An inci
dent which recently happened at Cheltenham
is thus recorded:
We join in the hope, and look forward to
the issue of the struggle with confidence, be
cause we know that the vast majority of the peo
ple_of England are as firmly opposed to the in
cursions of Rome, as were their martyred
forefathers. The Protestant feeling of the
country will soon be roused, and we had a
striking proof in our town on Tuesday night,
that it is by no means dormant at present. —
Mrs. Fanny Kemble was reading the flne his
torical play of King John, and when she came
to this reply of the Monarch to the Romish
Cardinal—
Thou can’st not, Cardinal, devise a name
So slight, unworthy, and ridiculous.
To charge me to answer, as the Pope,
Tell him this tale, and from the mouth of England
Add this much more : that no Italian P/iest
Shall tythe or toll in my dominions.
The effect was instantaneous.
This last sentiment was received with un
bounded applause.
Arrival of the U- S> Ship Preble,
The U. S. ship Preble, Com. Glynn, arriv
ed at New York on Tuesday, from San Fran
cisco, via Valparaiso, after a remarkable cruise.
She sailed from New York in 1846, as a con
voy to Stevenson's regiment. After the Mexi
can war, she went to China, stopping at several
ports of the Sandwich Islands. Subsequently
she sailed for Japan, where 16 American ship
wrecked seamen were imprisoned. Os this
visit the New York Herald says;
On her way to Japan, the Preble touched at
the Loo Choo islands—a kingdom in them
selves, yet dependencies of Japan. For gen
tle dignity of manners, superior advancement
in the arts, and general intelligence, the in
habitants of this group are by far the most
interesting unenlightened nation in the Pacific
ocean. The Preble is the first American man
of war that has ever visited them. As the
Preble neared the coast of Japan, signal guns
were fired from the prominent headlands to
give warning to the surrounding country (as
it was afterwards a certained,) of the appear
ance of a strange ship. As she entered the
harbor of Nagasaki the Preble was met by a
number of large boats, which ordered her off,
and attempted to oppose her further ingress.
But by standing steadily in, with a fine breeze,
their ranks were soon broken, and a desirable
position secured for anchoring.
Fleets of boats, crowded with soldiers, short
ly afterwards began to arrive, and from that
time until the Preble left they poured in one
incessant stream, day and night. Each squad
ron of boats had banners, or ornamented with
distinctive symbols and devices, which were
transferred with the troops to their encamp
ments on the elevated shores surrounding the
anchorage of the Preble.—From these heights
were, at intervals unmasked batteries, heavy
artillery, numbering in all upwards of 60 guns,
which were trained upon the Preble’s decks.
It was in the face of this array, and with a
cordon of boats drawn around the ship, that
negotiations were carried on for the release of
American citizens, from an ignominious and
cruel imprisonment of nearly seventeen months.
Against these men, the Japane e urged not the
slightest charge, except the difficulty they had
in building prisons and cages strong enough
to hold them. Yet they were treated with in
human barbarity, and when first confined,
were made to trample on the crucifix, being
told that it wai. “the Devil of Japan,” and,
that if they refused to comply, their lives
would pay the forfeit. The demand for their
release was at first treated with a well affected
haughty indifference by the Japanese authori
ties. This subsequently gave place to an sva
sive diplomacy; but upon being peremptorily
told by Capt. Glynn—in language that could
not be misunderstood—that they must imme
diately deliver up the men, or means would
be found to compel them; and that the Ameri
can government always know how to recover
and protect its citizens, when improperly de
tained or abused by any nation whatever, they
quiokly changed their tone, and deprecating
any anger or excitement on the subject, the
Lieut. Governor (who had conducted the in
terview in behalf of the Japanese,) promised
that they should be sent off to the ship in two
days from that time. This was strictly fulfil
led.
Conundrum. —Why is an umbrella like a
Scotch shower? Because the moment it rains
it's missed.
Why is an anatomist overhauling skeletons
like a gardener who grows his own cabbages?
—Because he raises them.
Why is sympathy like the game of blind
man’s buff? Because it is a fellow feeling for
a fellow creature.
And now for the softer sex; Why does a wo
man look at the moon? Because there is a man
in it.
Sad AFPUCTioN.f-The N. Y. correspondent
of the Philadelphia Inquirer, says ;
The funeral of M’lle Adelaide Lehman took
place this morning, and was attended by a
large concourse of persons. Her sister, Ma
dame Margaretti, is now lying dangerously ill
of smali pox, and very little hope is entertain
ed of her recovery. She is another of the far
famed Ravel troupe, and her loss in conjunc
tion with her sister, would prove irreparable.
Paine’s Light Genuine. —This affair is no
humbug after all, perhaps. At least, Mr.
Paine has succeeded in convincing the editorial
fraternity of Worcester, Mass-, of the reality of
his invention as a method of making gas from
water. The editors of the Tribune, Spy and
Palladium , have each and all been induced
into the secrets of the process, and come out
firm believers in the magnitude and genu
ineness of the invention. The Spy says:
♦‘When the parts of the machine in which
the invention is contained, the helices and
electoodes were examined, a sufficient cause was
found to account for the effect produced.
“Tne construction of these is different from
anything of the kind before known, yet found
ed on well established principles.”
The editor of the Boston Chromotype also
went to Worcester to see and judge for him
self, and is now rejoicing in the faith that
Paine is really the modern Promethous who
“has extorted from nature the secret of the
artificial production of light at a nominal
cost.”
Other journals state that both the editors
of the Worcester Spy and of the Chronotype
are competent to speak on this subject.
Mr. George Wombwell, so celebrated as a
proprietor of travelling menageries, died on
the 16ih November ot bronchitis, at Northal
lerton, Yorkshire, after a lingering illness, in
his 73d year. It was an often expressed wish
of the deceased, that as he had lived so long
witn his 2ollection he should be permitted to
die with it, and with this view he had caused
to be fitted up some short time since, a new
travelling bed carriage, in which he expired.
His menagerie was being exhibited at the time
in the market place in Norhallerton, aqd an
announcement of his death was made by his
own request to the spectators; after which the
band played the Dead March in Saul, the
animals were fed, and the exhibition closed for
the evening.
The Richmond Republican states(and vouch
es for the truth of the story) that a week ago
an Italian, named Wm. Curium, concluded to
have a day’s sport, and provided himself with
a large pistol and a half a pound of powder.
The pistol he loaded and placed in his trow
sers’ pocket with the powder. Thus armed,
he started for the river; just as he reached
which the pistol was accidentally discharged,
setting fire to his clothing, and wounding his
left hand. His hair and neck were also much
burned, The weapon rebounded with great
force, and in “flying up” knocked off his hat!
In reply to an inquiry from a bystander, he
exclaimed that he had “very much powder in
his pocket," whereupon a boy present cried to
him to jump into the dock. Without the least
thought or hesitation the unfortunate man did
as he was bid, and, while floundering about in
thg water f the powder—which had beep closely
packed in paper—exploded with a loud report,
j ust as the poor fellow submerged himself
beneath the turbid water! He was net in
jured by the explosion, but his pants were
nearly blown off, and his pocket book, con
taining $3 in money, blown to the bottom of
the dock. He abandoned his project of an ex
cursion, and went home.
Better than hearing Jenny Lind.—A
correspondent of the Richmond Whig relates
the following incident:
“ A gentleman well known in Richmond,
left home on Friday evening, on hia way to
the concert, with ten dollars in his pocket;
before reaching the theatre he met a poor fel
low from the country, in great distress. It
seems the poor fellow’s cart had been broken
down ; it was getting late, he was many miles
from home, and had no means of paying for
the repairs. The gentleman, seeing the man’s
distress, asked what the repairs would cost —
he was told about ten dollars. The ten dol
lars intended for the concert were immediate
ly given for this purpose, and he returned
home without hearing the far famed Miss Jen
ny. Here, true sympathy and benevo ence
gained the victory over self-indulgence. And
who doubts that this gentleman felt a calmer
and purer joy than any of the hundreds who
th onged the theatre on Friday night.”
A Curiosity. —Mr. Robinson, a bookseller
of Edinburg, has a portion of the trunk of a
beach tree sent from Victoria, in Canada
West, in which the horn of a re|i deer, with
its antlers complete, is seen entirely imbed
ded in the hard and solid wood, which it had
evidently transfixed when the tree was young
in a comparatively soft condition. The ant
lers,which are palmated,have been driven into
the wood horizontally, and protude from the
one side while the root of the born is visible
on the other. — Scientific American.
The amount of oil taken by the whaling
fleet in the Arctic seas, most of which have
arrived at the Sandwich Islands on their way
home, is immense, those reported at Lahaina
having 111,000 barrels of whale and 11,000
barrels sperm oil. The quantity of whale
bone is in prpor'ion to the catch of whale oil.
The New London News in announcing it,
says. “It is richer intelligence for New Lon
don than she ever received from the Dig
gings.”
James and Cooper. —A London paper says,
facetiously, that Mr. G. P. R. James, on his
arrival in America, backed himself, for a large
sum, to write ten novels in less time than
Mr. Fennimore Cooper would take to write
five. At the end of the first week, Mr. James
had completed four, and had got as far as the
two travellers on the fine summer’s evening,
in the fifth, and was still, when the accounts
left, in wind. At the same period Mr. Cooper
had finished one only and but just arrived at
the discovery of the hero’s lost grandmother,
in the tribe of Esquimaux, towards the mid
dle of a second ; the severe weight of the ma
terial besides, was beginning to tell, and he
showed visible signs of punishment.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
Augusta, ©£or§ia.
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The Springfield Fugitive Slave Case-
An amusing hoax has been pla}ed upon the
public by the Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
The paragraph which we published a few days
ago from it, giving an account of a fugitive
slave having been recovered there by her
owner, and afterwards bought from him for
one hundreu dollars by subscription of Mr.
Daniel Lombard, and others, citizens of
Springfield, has gone the entire rounds of the
press. We, among the rest, thought it a re
cent case.
Ihe following from the Southern Press, will
supply an important omission :
“ High and exulting will be the clamorous
rejoicings of the Northern compromisers, and
the bouthern ‘ bluster-and back-outs,” over
this remarkable example of the efficacy of the
law. But alas ! through inadvertency! or
some other cause, the important fact was
omitted that the incident happened forty years
ago. And in referring to it, the Albany Even
ing Journal makes the following comment:
“ ‘ i’he N. Y. Commercial Advertiser, in
copying this paragraph, omits to say that the
case occurred forty years ago.
“ ‘ The price ot lugitives ‘ is riz,’ since Mr.
Peter Y. Geyseling, of Schenectady, went to
Springfield to reclaim his slave Jenny.’
“ We put this fact on record, because in
their anxiety to clutch at every crumb of
comfort, some of the Southern Submissionists
will douotless reproduce this satisfactory case,
in which the master received the prodigious
bonus of SIOO, tor relinquishing his claim to
his slave.
“They pay in a very different coin now, as
Messrs. Hughes and Knight can testify from
their experience in Boston—the claimants
being the ‘hunted fugitives.”
The prediction of the Southern Press was
promptly realized, in proof of which we fur
nish paragraphs from two Submission presses
in Georgia:
{From the Savannah Republican .)
Fugitive Recovered.— The Disunionists,
fugitive organs, etid omne genus, will be griev
ed to learn that a fugitive slave was recovered
in Massachusetts some days ago—aye, in
Springfield, a very hot bed of Abolitionism.
Tney will regret to see Massachusetts coming
to her senses, and all tke golden visions of
disunion flitting into airy nothings, possessing
only a sufficient vitality to expose them to the
indignant scorn of a patiiotic people. The
fugitive recovered was a woman who had es
caped to Springfield and married. She was
taken before Geo. Bliss, Esq., where the
claim wa3 established according to law, and
she delivered up to the claimant.”
{From the Augusta Chronicle.')
Another Fugitive Recovered. — What a
terrible blow to the fond hopes of Southern
Disunionists and Secessionists, will be given
| by the following account of the recovery of a
fugitive siave in Massachusetts aye, in
Springfield, a very hot bed of Abolitionists.
How deeply the “ fire-eaters” will regret to
see Massachusetts coming to her senses, and
all their golden visions of disunion flitting
into airy nothings, preserving only a sufficient
| vitality to expose them to the indignant scorn
of a patriotic people.
Alas, for Submissionism, this crumb of
i comfort which was thus eagerly clutched at*
| proves an empty shadow. This one case must
be deducted from the sum total of recoveries
of runaway negroes, some five or six, achieved
under this new law, which the South got in
exchange for her share of California, Utah
and New Mexico.
A Disappointment, and an Apology. —Mr.
H. A. Demerest requests us to express his re
gret that he was the means of disappointing
many of his friends and patrons in not being
able to give his Soiree at the Masonic Hall
on Tuesday evening last, as advertised. He
I had, as he supposed, engaged the Hall for
that evening, and accordingly left an adver
tisement at this office to that effect. Subse
quently learning that he could not procure the
Hall for that evening, he countermanded the
order for the announcement. By some inad
vertence the announcement appeared in Tues
day morning’s paper, and induced many la
dies and gentlemen to go to the Hall in ex
pectation of a dance.
We regret in common with Mr. D., the dis
appoint to the vo:aries of Terpsichore, and
cordially wish them a double share of enjoy
ment at his next public evening.
Choice Groceries . —Our friend Col. Byrd,
of the 10th, has shown himself in his new
vocation, a man of taste, tact and judgment.
We had a present, a day or two ago, of a bot
tle of superior Madeira, and one of rich Port,
also some excellent Philadelphia Quaker But
ter, neatly put up in shucks, from his New
Family Grocery, Harper’s Range, with an in
vitation to call and examine his stock. We
tried his butter, and pronouqce it good; we
drank to h is success in the wine, and found
both kinds excellent; and yesterday we paid
his Store a visit, and saw and tasted enough
to convince us that J. J. Byrd understands
how to cater for those who like choice things.
His stock is small, but it is well selected, of
the very best the Charleston, Philadelphia
and New York markets afford. There are
dainties from all quarters of the globe, and at
fair prices.
The Colonel is now in a business to which
he was accustomed in past days, and it evi
dently suits him much better than the sed
entary life of a Bank officer. He has gained
flesh and looks younger already in the first
few weeks of his emancipation from that oc
cupation.
May his shadow never be less.
The New-York Herald states that by the
last arrival from California, the editor of that
paper has received private despatches of a
most important character, which induces the
belief that it is, and has been meditated, for
a long time past, by some of the influential
and leading men of that new State, to organ
ize an expedition of Americans, and to pro
ceed to that portion of Mexico,known as Low I
er California, with the view of assisting the
people of that territory, in declaring their in
dependence of the central government, and
afterwards seeking incorporation with this re
public, in precisely the same manner as the
American adventurers ir Texas acted. The
Herald adds that this intelligence is derived
from such sources as place its reliance almost
beyond doubt.
Statistics of New-York City. —We learn
from the New York Herald, that during the
past year, there were 16,860 deaths in that
city, being 6,513 less than in 1849, when
5,071 died of cholera. Os the whole number,
9,129 were males, and 7,731 females ; 10,364
were natives of the United States, 3,469 of
Ireland, 815 of Germany, and the rest of va
rious countries in Europe; 1,883 died of con
sumption, 1,303 of convulsions, 556 of apo
plexy, 469 of diarrhoea, 785 of dysentery, 909
of inflammation of the lungs, 745 of maras
mus, 969 of dropsy, and 1,158 were still
born.
The number of immigrants arrived during
the past year was 212,796, being 8,567 less
than in 1849 ; no less than 116,532 were from
Ireland, and 45,402 from Germany.
The number of foreign arriva’s during the
year was 3,489, an increase of 250 over 1849.
Census returns in Florida. —The popula
tion of St. Augustine, as shown by the recent
censuses 1,935;and in the county of St. Johns,
including St. Augustine, it is 2,526. The
population of Putnam county is 687, of Or
ange county 466. and of St. Lucie county 149.
Total in four counties 3,818.
Augusta and Waynesboro’ Rail-Road. —
The following gentlemen were on the 6th inst.
elected Directors of this Road for the ensuing
year :
Alex. R. Lawton, James P. Screven, John
Stoddard, Charles F. Mills, * Robert A. Allen
Savannah. J. C. Poythress, Burke county
*John Phinizy, Augusta.
*New Directors.
Fatal Rencounter in Macon. —We learn
(says the Savannah Republican) from a pri
vate despatch, that a difficulty occurred in
Macon, Sunday evening, between Willis H.
Hughes and Thomas Knight, jr., which re
sulted in the death of the former. The des
patch says that Knight made some insinua
tions about the defeat of Hughes, who was a
candidate at the municipal election on Satur
day, which produced harsh words between
them ; and Hughes struck Knight and seized
him by the throat, when K. shot him. Hughes
died in a few minutes. Mr. Hughes is the
person who went to Boston in quest of the
fugitive, and Mr. Knight is the brother of the
one who accompanied him.
Loomis’ Panorama of Cuba —Opened last eve
ning at the Masonic Hall. The room was fil
led, and the exhibition gave general satisfac
tion. It will be exhibited every evening this
week.
{Reported for the Baltimore Sun.)
Thirty-First Congress—Second Session-
Washington, Jan. 4, 1850.
The Senate not in session to-day.
HOUSE OF REPRESENT A riVES.
Mr. Hamilton, from Maryland, presented
the memorial of Wm. Price and other citizens
of Cumberland, Md., asking for the establish
ment of a line of mail steamships, to run from
the ports of Baltimore and Norfolk, to some
port in England, in communication by rail
road with the city of London, which was re
feired to the Committee on Naval Affairs.
The House resolved itself into a Committee
of the Whole, on motion of Mr. Potter, of
Ohio, for the purpose of taking up the Cheap
Postage Bill—Mr. Burt, of South Carolina,
in the chair.
Mr. Feathersan, of Mississippi, called the
attention of the committee to an amendment
which he proposed, and which had reference
chiefly to periodicals and newspapers, fixing
the postage on the former at half a cent tor
•very ounce in weight, and newspapers half
a cent each when either beyond
the State in which publshed.
Mr. Perry, from Maine, was in favor of a
reduced rate of postage within a distance of
two thousand miles, and of ten cents beyond
that distance. He recapitulated the argu
ments that had been used on a former day,
drawn from a similar result in England, which
went to prove that a reduced rate of postage
would lead to an increase of the revenues of
the department.
Mr. Watkins, frooj Tennessee, was opposed
to the abolition of the franking privilege, and
also to the introduction of a reduced? rate of
postage.
Mr. Sweetzer, from Ohio, expressed himself
with his usual warmth against the bill, and
the proposed amendments. Those whom he
represented, he said, had no objection to the
present rate of postage, and he could not ac
count for the favor with which the contem
plated measure was viewed by his colleagues.
He considered the proposal as one which, if
carried into effect, would destroy the reve
nue of the Department, and the result would
be to saddle the General Government with
the expense thus incurred. The gentlemen
who were in favor of the change at present
advocated, had, he contended, an ulterior ob
ject in view-—they were the friends ot a high
tariff, and would increase the expense of con
ducting the Governmentao such an extent as
to require a corresponding tariff to defray it.
He concluded by expressing himself in favor
of a uniform rate of five cents on letters, and
the newspapers should have a free local circu
lation, and further, that the postage should
be uniform throughout the Urnon from
Maine to California and Oregon.
Mr. Root, of Ohio, was in favor of making
all mailable matter pay postage, and of abol
ishing the franking privilege, which he said
had become a great abuse, and had evidently
increased the public printing—the two acting
reciprocally upon each other. He advocated
cheap postage on letters and newspapers, and
also that it should be prepaid.
Mr. Cobb, from Alabama, gave notice that
he should on a future day, move an amend
ment applicable to that part of the Union
which he represented.
lhe committee then rose without coming lo
a decision; and the House adjourned till Mon
day next.
Ihe Weather. —At this present writing
(about 4 o’clock, P. M., Thursday, Jan. 3,)
snow is falling in real Northern style ; and
on the tops of the houses, bridges and other
places where it is not melted by the earth, it
is two or three inohes deep. At times during
the day it has been raining, hailing and snow
ing all at onee.— Montgomery Advertiser, Zd
inst.
WANTED.— A plain COOK and WASH
ER. Apply at this os«e. ts j7
Bg Magnetic
Reported forth 3 Constitutionalist.
New York, Jan. 8, P. M.
Cotton. —The market is firm, with sales of
3,000 bales at previous quotations.
Flour and Grain quiet. Provisions firm.
Sugar and Molasses steady. Coffee held
firmly. Rice quiet.
The steamer Washington, from Bremen, ar
rived to-day.
Charleston, Jan. 8, P. M.
Cotton. —Prices are at the point current
prior to the arrival of the Niagara. The sales
to-day reach 3,200 bales, at 124 to 13f. Fair
is quoted at 13f to 134 cents .
( Telegraphed for the Baltimore Sun.)
More of the Niagara’s News.
Boston, Jan. 5. —The royal mail steamer
Niagara reached her wharf here at 9 o’clock
this morning.
England.—The Papal excitement is gra
dually dying away in England, and the peo
ple are beginning to look it upon with less jeal
ousy.
Pio Nono and Dr. Wiseman were burnt in
effigy at Cragdon, and a good deal of feeling
manifested on the occasion.
The message of President Fillmore has been
extensively published and most favorably
commented upon. The general impression
throughout Europe is, that there is not the
slightest danger of a dissolution of the Union.
Germany.—Affairs on the Continent are
gradually becoming more pacific, and there
now seems no probability of war.
The States of Central Germany are disarm
ing, though jealousies still exists in Hesse
Cassel between the Prussian and Federal
troops.
Franck. —Louis Napoleon has intimated
that should disunion arise between the Gov
ernment and the Assembly, the latter will not
be responsible for the result,
China. —Accounts of rebellion in South
China ate conflicting.
A Portuguese frigate, called the Donna Ma
ria, blew up, off Macoa, and a large number of
officers and men who had assembled on board
were killed. They had assembled there to
celebrate the birth-day of the Consort Queen
of Portugal.
( Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier.)
Baltimore, Jan. 7.
New York Market , Jan. 7. —Cotton is firm at
unchanged prices—3ooo bales sold. Rice
quiet at 34. Flour is dull. Corn has advanced
one cent.
The steamer Crescent City, from Chagres,
arrived at New York to-day, bringing 400 pas
sengers and 2,000,000 in gold. The special
train was robbed on the Isthmus of 100,000
dollars—all but 6,000 of which was subse
quently recovered.
The general news brought by this arrival
has been anticipated by the steamer Georgia.
New Orleans, Jan. 5—4 p. in.
The Market. —The, sales of Cotton to-day
footed up 2500 bales at full prices. Middling
12| to 13c. The sales of the week amount to
32,000 bales. About 600 hhds. Sugar were
sold. Fair quality is quoted at sf. Rice is
held at 34 a s>3§.
New-Orleans, Jan. 6—4 P. M.
The Market —We have no change to notice
in the prices of Cotton since the recent of the
Baltic’s advices. The sales this morning were
2,000 bales. Good Middling is quoted at 13£
to 13f. The Sugar market is firm. Fair is
quoted at SJ. Prime Molasses 24£ a 244.
Whisky steady at 264 a 27c. Rio Coffee
10|.
The Lope* Expedition. —The trial of Gen,
Henderson, who is accused of being connect
ed with this Expedition, commenced.
The Recorder of Memphis, Tennessee, was
shot dead by negroes.
President Talmage,—This gentleman,who
upon the urgent solicitation of the people of
New Orleans, had been passing the College
vacation, in laboring among them, was attack
ed in that city by Cholara, and for some time
was on the verge of death. The tidings of
his illness, filled our community with the ut
most solicitude, which was manifested by
their anxious enquiries upon the arrival of
every mail, and by the feelings of gratitude
and joy, when those fears were relieved, by
tidings of his recovery.—We rejoice to be able
to announce the fact of the recovery of this
eminently good man. As there is no citizen
of Georgia, who is doing more for her, in her
very best and highest iaterets, the los3 cf
none would have created a wider or more
deplor '-bie breach, in the wholesome influen
ces of the State. We, with thousands of oth
ers, would tender to the generous people of
New Orleans our heartfelt gratitude for their
brotherly kindness, to our invaluable lellow
citizen, in hia hour of need, and to Provi
dence, our humble thanks, for sparing to us
and to our State, one eo justly dear to both.
Long may the worthy President of Ogle
thorpe, be spared to bring up the young men
of Georgia; graduating them by his own ex
ample,injthat highest degree of all scholarship,
that lofty and master’s degree, The Christian
Gentleman.—Milledgeville Recorder, 7th inst.
Snow.—On Tuesday night last, snow fell in
sufficient quantity to cover the earth, and to
afford our youth the fun of snow-balling.
There would, but for the wetness of the earth*
have been enough on the ground, to have af
forded pretty good sleigning.— Milledgeville,
Recorder , 7th inst.
————S
BOUNTY LAND AND PENSION
CLAIMS.
HAVING made an arrangement with Fred
r*ck E. Hossler, Esq., Attorney at Law
and (general Agent for claims against the United
btates, residing in Washington City, for the pre
sentation, argument, and carrying through the
Departments, applications for Boun.y Land War
rants, Pensions, and other claims—•! am now pre
pared to make out the proper applications in ail
cases, which will ba forwarded, and meet prompt
attention.. The recent action of the Housa of Re
presentatives on the subjeot, indicates that Con
gress will make Warrants assignable; thus per
mitting those who prefer to do so, to sell before
making a location.
Apply at the office of Jo .n C. Snead, Law
Kange, over the Post Office,
jan 7 f 6 GARLAND A. SNEAD.
SAVANNAH MUTUAL liNSTJ
RANGE COMPANY.
Agency in Augusta.
THE undersigned has been appointed Agen-
J {° r . t , he^ bov< ;, Com P and is now pre
pared to take Fire, Marine and Inland Navigation
Risks. Premiums in all cases will be reasonable.
H. L. JEFFERS, Agent.,
noy ‘ \y Office, Meintosh street.
T h ,?H s^^ nd si ON p a~i w tingT"
HE SUBSCRIBERS have entered into
Copartnership tor the transaction of the
above business m all its branches, and respectful
ly solicit a share of public patronage. r
wm. McLaughlin,
M Q . PHILIP CAVENDER.
D ;^r°“r Shop lson M'lntosh-st. opposite the
rost Office, the second Paiat Shop from Broad st.
tt
BOYD’S ~
PERMANENT INDELIBLE INK,
■ u P. to b* the very best article of
t , e now * n use > so there is no excuse now
tor a lost Handkerchief or Dicky. For sale by
, , W. H. TURPIN, Augusta,
Principal Agent,