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C From the Savannah Republican 1 5th inst.')
Georgia Conference
The Conference of the Methodist Episcopal
Church, South, for this State, adjourned on
Monday night, after an interesting session of
one week. The stations of the preachers for
the present year, as announced by the Bishop,
will be found below.
At the Missionary meeting on Saturday
3-night, a collection was taken up of $1,170.
f s#This is a large collection for one night, and it
well for the liberality of our citizens.
Bishop Paine preached an able and interesting
P sermon on the occasion, end much interest
_was manifested in the cause of Missions.
having been extended to them
to hold their next session at Griffin, Athens,
r- and Macon, the town of Griffin was selected,
i-Vjtffthe Conference adjourned to meet at that
«ce, at the usual time next year,
p p-* The following resolutions were passed du
ring the session:
* Resolved , That the Members of the Georgia
Annual Conference highly appreciate the kind
and cordial reception given them by the citi
zens of Savannah, and will cherish in memory
their courtesy and hospitality.
Resolved , That we reciprocate the Christian
feelings of those Pastors, and congregations
k who have opened their churches and invited
us to minister in their pulpits.
Resolved, That these resolutions be read from
the Methodist pulpits in this city, and that
, they be published in the city papers.
The following are the stations of the Preach
ers of the Georgia Conference for the present
year:
Augusta\District— J Lewis, P. E. Savannah-
Trinity, VV R Branham; Andrew Chappel, O
If A Conner; Chatham Circuit, to be suppied.—
Springfield Circuit—W D Russy. Scriven
p Circuit, JM Marshall. Scriven Mission—A J
Reynolds. Fair Haven Mission —Alexander
Gordon. Richmond Circuit—J S Dunn.
Burke Circuit—Thos. F Pierce. Louisville
Circuit —AB Smith. Jefferson Mission—J.
H. Clarke. Augusta—W G Conner. Augus
ta Colored Charge—L J Davis. Columbia
Circuit—F F Reynolds. Lincolnton Circuit—
W P Arnod. Washington Circuit— W H
Evans, W M Potter. Warrenton Circuit—D
Blalock. Sparta Circuit—D Kelsey. Han
cock Misssion— R F Jones.
Athens District— W J Parks. P.E. Athens
—E W Speer. Lexington Circuit—H H Parks.
Watkinsville Circuit —Geo. Bright, J H Har
ris. Factory Mission—A J Deavera. Elberton
Circuit—W A Florence. Carnesville Circuit
—W H C Cone, Thos. R. Stewart. Greens
borough Circuit —R Lane. Madison Station
—J B Payne. Madison Circuit—E L Ste
phens. Kingston Mission—H Crawford. Cov
ington and Oxford Circuits—C W Key, J R
Littlejohn. Monroe —A Neese.
Emory College—G F Pierce, President; A
Means, J M Bonnell, W J Easnett, Prolessors.
Madison Female College—J H Echols, Pro
fessor.
Gainesville District —J P Turner, P. E.—
Gainesville Circuit —J W Cotter. Lawrence
ville Circuit—A Gray, R Owen. Clarkesville
Circuit—J H Marsleton. Dahlonega Circuit
—H P Pitchford, R F Harwell. Clayton Mis
sion—T A Bell. Canton Mission—A Wright.
Murphy Mission —W H Thomas. State Line
Mission —To be supplied. Blaresville Mission
—U A Clontz. Etlejay Mission—J Strick
land.
Marietta District.— A T Mann, P. E. Mariet
ta Station—J W Hinton. Mariette Circuit—
J M Dicky. Cassville Circuit—C A Cro
well. Rome Station —J L Pierce. Rome
Circuit —J H Ewing. Oothcaloga Circuit—
W Graham. Spring Place Station —S C Quil
lian, L B Payne. Dade Mission—To be sup
plied. Lafayette Circuit—J D Adams. Sum
merville Circuit—J L Gibson. Van Wert Mis
sion— C Trussell.
LaGrange District. G J Pearce, P. E. La-
Grange Station —J P Duncan. Greenville
Circuit—J W Yarbrough. Troup Circuit—J
B Wardlaw, John Simmons. Zebulon Cir
cuit—Morgan Bellah. Griffin Station —W D
Mathews. McDonough Circuit —N Smith.
Jackson Circuit —M Purifoy. Atlanta Sta
tion—C W Thomas. Decatur Circuit—J T
Smith, J E Seatell. Newnan Circuit —J W
Talley, F L Brantley. Carrolton Mission—
Thomas Twitty, W D Mahan. Fayette Cir
cuit —A Dorman.
Macon District.— J W Glenn, f. E. Macon
—J E Evans. Macon Colored Charge —W A
Simmons. Yineville Station —W R Foote.—
Milledgeville Station—J Bradford Smith.—
Eatonton Circuit—M H Hebbard. Putnam
Mission —J T Flanders. Clinton Circuit—C
R Jewett. Monticello Circuit—S M Smith.
Forsyth Circuit—J C Simmons. Culloden
Circuit —C A Fulwood. Fort Valley Circuit
J Blakely Smith. Fort Valley Mission—
T C Coleman. Perry Circuit —J H Caldwell.
Ocmulgee Mission- -W 1' Norman.
Wesleyan Female College—W H Ellison,
President, E H Myers and O L Smith, Pro
fessors.
Columbus District.— S Anthony, PE. Co
lumbus — W M Crumley. Columbus Colored
Charge—To be supplied. Factory Mission—
MH White. Talbotton Station —R W Bigham.
Talbot Circuit —J P Dickinson. Talbot Mis
sion—To be supplied. Thomaston Circuit—J
W Knight. Hamilton Circuit—D William
son, J W Perry. Muscogee Circuit—J T Tur
ner. Lumpkin Station—J S Key. Steward
Circuit —Y F Tignor. Cuthbert and Fort
Gaines Circuit—E T Birch, J H Jordan.—
Randolph Mission —To be supplied. Starkes
viile Circuit—J C Simmons, jr. Buenavista
Circuit —E W Reynolds. Lanier Circuit—C
L Hays. Americus Circuit—J W Twitty.—
Chattahoochee Mission W Brooks. Collens
worth Institute —J B Jackson.
Jeffersonville District.— W G Parks, P. E. —
Jeffersonville Circuit—F D Lowne, J W Tra
wick. Irwir „on Circuit—J M Bright. San
dersville Circuit —J Jones. Teitair Circuit —
J M Austin. Vienna Circuit—M L Smith.
Reedsville Circuit —T L Harwell. Hinesvilie
Circuit —D J Myrick. Dublin Mission—To
be supplied- Emanuel Mission—W C Mc-
Gutty. Mclntosh and Darien Mission—J W
Farmer.
Jesse Boring, Superintendent of the Mis
sion in California. A M Winn, Missionary
in California. T C Stanley, Chaplain in the
United States Navy. J T Talley, transferred
to Alabama Conference.
L Pierce, Agent for the American Bible So
ciety for this State.
The Arkwrights, cotton mill owners, are
.aid to be the wealthier family in England.
Xhe bead of the houae died a little time ago,
and the personal property he exchanged for
the narrow accommodations of the coffin, was
sworn to be over five millions sterling—say
$25,000,000.
(From the N. O. Picayune , 10 th inst.)
Arrival of the Steamer Pacific—Late from
California •
The steamship Pacific, Capt. Jarvis, arrived
at her wharf, foot of St. Mary's street, La
fayette, yesterday, at 5 P. M. ’
The Pacific returns to New Orleans in place
of the Ohio, detained by accident. She |left
Havana on the sth, and would have reached
here one day earlier, had it not been for get
ting aground in crossing the bar.
She brings 410 passengers from California,
taken from the Georgia, six from Havana, the
mails,{and a large amount of gold dust in the
hands of passengers.
The Georgia, four days from Chagres with
921 passengers, arrived at Havana on the 30 th
and left for New York on the evening of the
2d.
The steam propeller Ontario, bound for
New Orleans, left Chagres on the24th, the day
before the Georgia.
The Falcon, Capt. Hartstene, arrived at
Havana on the 4th, and left next day for Cha
gres.
The Pacific was chartered at Havana to
bring the Georgia’s passengers to New Or
leans.
The Falcon experienced violent gales the
whole of the way from Sandy Hook to Havana
which, with the time lost in waiting for the
mails off Charleston and Savannah, made the
voyage unusually long.
As no arrangement could be made for tak
ing the Georgia’s passengers to New Orleans
until the Falcon arrived, much dissatisfaction
existed amongst the passengers on account ot
the delay.
There is nothing of special interest or im
portance from California.
The rainy season had already commenced,
and all mining operations were suspended.
The cholera had nearly or quite disappear
ed at Sacramento, and only a few cases in San
Francisco.
San Francisco and all the towns on the
Sacramento were rapidly filling up, and 'bus
iness of every description active.
The steamship Republic, of Law’s line of
Pacific steamers, arrived at Panama on the
20th ul\, with 400 passengers and $187,000
of gold dust.
The Oregon, mail line, with 320 passengers
and $2,000,000 of gold dust, arrived on ihe
21st, the day after the Republic.
There was not a single case of cholera on
board either of the ships during the passage.
Chagres. and other places on the Isthmus,
are reported entirely free of cholera.
Tne amount of gold dust in the hands of
passengers by these two steamers is stated to
have been Irom $500,000 to SI,OOO 000.
The number ot passengers brought by the
Georgia from Chagres is definitely stated by
some to have been 1,000, by others 1,200, and
so up to 1,500.
Jenny Lind, Belletti, Benedict, Barnum,
and about 100 passengers, arrived at Havana
on the 4th m the steamer Isabel from Charles
ton.
The first grand concert takes jplace at the
Tacon theatre on the 10th.
The new steamship Prometheus, intended
for the Nicaragua route, arrived at Havana on
the morning of the 3d. She left next day for
San Juan, and thence proceeds to Chagres.
She had on board Com. Vanderbilt, who has
gone out on business connected with the Ni
caragua route.
The Yankee Deficiency. —A very good
writer in a letter to the Transcript, thus
touches a matter upon which ought to be:
preached sermons:
“ We have got a great deal yet to learn in
respect to hospitality and good breeding. An
unhospitable, unsociable people will naturally
be an ill-bred people. It is only in society
that you can learn the art ol pleasing. Books
do not teach it. Learning does not give it.
Practice alone can command it. We have a
striking illustration of it in our own history.
At the North we have our justly celebrated
common-school system, and our colleges, and
with them a vast amount of intelligence and
learning, but we have never known but little,
technically speaking, of the drawing-room
and the dinner table. Most of our men pass
their whole lives without ever having attend
ed a dinner party. At the South, the case is
different. They have not our schools, but
they have always maintained a most generous
hospitality. Their houses are always open to
the stranger. They are seldom without guests,
and their dinner table is a social reunion.
What has been the result? Go into a draw
ing room, —say at Cambridge,—where you
will find young men from all parts of our
country, and in one hour’s time, any man,
with a practised eye, shall be able to determ
ine who of them are from the South without
any fear of mistake, judging from their man
ner alone.
“ Their social constitution does for their
sons what all our literary institutions cannot
do for ours. It makes them genteel, courte
ous and well-bred. It gives them an ease and
grace in society that you seldom find a Yankee
youth possessing. I will find you a score of
men among us who shall perpetrate a noration,
or even a poem, to order, and do it well too,
to each one that you shall find me, that can
entertain at his own table, even passably well.
Almost every man among us feels it. That
very thing enhances the evil. We have as
much real generosity as any people. There
are no people who give more liberally. There
are no people who would be more hospitable
than we, if it had been taught us as a duty,
and we had been bred to it. But the difficul
ty has been that the very religious principles
of our ancestors has tended right the other
way. It has tended to discourage every
thing that brought people together for social
enjoyment, whether in the drawing-room or
at the dinner table.
“ The effect of these things we have been
feeling in our social institutions, and now are
feeling them in our political. Notwithstand
ing our success in acquiring property, —not-
withstanding all our comforts, —we have ne
ver been a happy people. We have never
enjoyed our homes as we ought; tlse, why
should every Yankee boy be so ready to stray
away?”
We understand, says the Knoxville Regis
ter, that the Etowah Iron Works of Georgia,
are being supplied with East Tennessee coal.
We are pleased to hear this, as it affords a
hope that this vast source of wealth to this
division of the State will not forever lie buried
in our mountains. We think we may safely
say that there is within the limits ot Erst
Tennessee bituminous coal enough to supply
a thousand large manufactories a thousand
years.
Share Shooting. —Col. Peebles, says the
Bangor Mercury, tells us of an instance of
sharp shooting. H« states that one of the
“ rank and file” under his command, once
discharged six shots of a barrel rolling down a
long hill. Upon the barrel reaching the bot
tom of the hill it was examined, and no mark
of a bullet was discovered upon it, whereupon
his comrades began to ridicule him. fie,
however, very coolly desired them to shake
the barrel, by doing which, they found that
the bullets were inside —the whole having
entered the bung-hole, at which point he had
aimed. This is the toughest shooting story
we have seen.
Arrival of the Alabama. —The new and
splendid {steamship Alabama* made her first
appearance in our waters yesterday afternoon.
She made her trip out in 72 hours from wharf
to wharf—bringing 50 cabin and 10 steerage
passengers. She encountered strong head
winds nearly all the way.
The Alabama is a beautiful model of naval
architecture, and her appearance justifies all
the encomiums that have been passed upon
her. She behaved remarkably well during the
voyage* and elicits, like her sister the Florida,
the highest encomiums from the passengers.
Her through passengers went up the road last
evening. —Savannah Republican, 1 5th inst.
We learn that the Governor of Georgia has
taken action on the matter of the protest
against the late election for Receiver of Tax
Returns and Tax Collector in this county, and
has ordered depositions to be taken, which
will be done next Saturday.— lb.
Central Rail-Road. —At the meeting of
Stockholders on the 6th inst. 12,932 shares
were represented. The President of the Com
pany, the Mayor, Messrs. Porter, Fay, Ander
son, Screven, Wadly, and Reynolds, were ap
pointed a Committee to consider the condition
of the Muscogee Company—the cost and time
of construction of 21 miles of the Muscogee
road from Fort Valley to a point 50 miles
East of Columbus, and the best plan of rais
ing the funds necessary for constructing said
21 miles. It was also resolved to consider the
question of adding $1,000,000 to the Capital
Stock of the Company, to meet the outlay re
quired for enlargement of Depots, the cross
ing of the Ocmulgee river, re-laying the upper
part of the Road, &c. And it was finally re
solved, that these matters be referred to a
special meeting of the Stockholders, which is
called for the first Wednesday in March
next.— lb.
Ladies take Notice. —fn-doot exercise is
very different from out-door exercise. The
air of a house has always less oxygen in it
than the air without. It is more relaxing.
Besides, mere walking up and down a room is
dull employment: and exercise, to be useful,
ought to be cheerful and amusing. To walk
merely for exercise is, therefore, seldom use
ful. We should always endeavor to walk for
entertainment. It is the entertainment that
refreshes and invigorates."
A Strange Steed. —When Professor Owen
was summoned to Buckingham Palace, to see
the great tortoise (testude elephantopus,') pre
sented by the Queen to the Zoological Socie
ty of London, before its removal to the gar
den in the Regent’s park, he, by the gracious
direction of her Majesty, and in the presence
of Prince Albert, proceeded to take the di
mensions of the girth of the animal. To do this
more effectually he bestrode the reposing mass.
While thus employed, the tortoise walked off
with the Professor, to the great amusement of
the Prince, while the philosopher, as he rode
along, caunly continued his measurement,
which gave twelve feet as the circumference
of this fine old Galapagosian.— Frazer s Mag
azine.
Melons in January. —On. New York’s day
the editor of the Alabama State Guard was
presented with a large and excellently flav >red
water melon, weighing twenty-four pounds,
raised by Mr. Spigner, twelve miles north -east
of Wetumpka. The seed were planted in July;
the melons matured by the first frost, and
were pulled and placed, like potatoes in a dry
house, where, it is said they will keep all
winter. Mr. Spigner carried a number to We
tumpka, on Christmas, and sold them for fair
prices.
(From the Charleston Mercury .)
Cotton and Flax.
Among the many brilliant discoveries by
which Europe was to be delivered from her
thraldom to the Southern States, the latest
was that flax could be worked up by cotton
mills and so be made a substitute for our staple.
We took the suggeston for a joke at first, but
it appears that the English manufacturers have
actually experimenting. The result is
doleful enough, as may be gathered from the
following extract of the London correspon -
dence of the National Intelligencer. By the
way, it may be consoling to those in the North
who have been gloating over the ruin that
would en*ue to the South on the success of
the supposed discovery, to know that the bark
of cotton staik makes the finest and strongest
flax, and that if the wool of the plant should
ever be dispensed with, we could clothe all
the world with its bark. But here is the
extract:
“We stated a fortnight back, upon the au
thority of the Morning Chronide, that very
successful experiments had been made in the
application of cotton machinery to the spin
ning of yarn from flax prepared by M, Clussen’s
process, either in Manchester or the neigh
borhood. The Manchester Gaurdian—un
doubtedly authority in this case—now tells us
it “cannot learn that a single ounce of yarn
has been spun; all that we can ascertain is,
that one attempt has been made near Ashton
under-Lyne, which failed entirely - that a firm
of fine spinners near Bolton, who had been
requested to make another experiment, were
satisfied when they saw the material, that it
was altogether unsuited for their machinery;
and that it has since been sent to a firm of
spinners and manufacturers at Rochdale, who
have not, we believe, yet made any report
upon it.” The opinion of our Manchester
contemporary founded upon the opinions of
parties who have seen the material, is, that as
a substitute for cotton it is likely to prove an
entire failure. For all finer purposes it is de
clared to be unfitted; but it may possibly prove
to be to some extent applicable in the pro
duction of very low and coarse yarn. Such is
the newspaper testimony upon, not a matter
of opinion, but a matter of fact. We have
quoted the opposing authorities in justice to
ourselves*”
Melancholy Death. —A case of remorse of
conscience has been related to us. The wife
of Mr. ,of Woodward township, in this
county had been lingering in an illness for
several months previous to her death, which
occurred about three weeksago. She was often
dependant on her neighbors for what atten
tions she received. Her husband often left her
alone for days at a time, and when he would
return it was not to make her sick bed cheer
ful by those attentions which a kind heart
would render and a confiding companion
would expect. Whilst away, his wife died.
He was sent for immediately; but, being slow
to come, he found her butied, when he ar
rived. He had the body dug up from the
grave. He gazed upon the features of the
dead a moment and then ordered the remains
to be restored to the earth. He returned to
his labor, but the memory of his ill treatment
to her haunted him in his moments of labor
and rest. His mind became a wreck. He
grew crazy and gnawed the very flesh from
his body. Even in his insanity,he was a prey
to remorse. His system soon yielded to the
influence of sympathy, and in two weeks from
the time when he last looked upon the coffin
of his wife, he had taken his place by her side
in the grave. Mr. was a man of some
property, was industrious, saving, honest, and
altogether a better citizen than a husband.
He has never, perhaps, learned to “bear and
forbear,” and had tailed to train his heart to
endure the domestic trials which distinguish
the life of the mere citizen from that of the
head of a family.— Clinton,'{Pa.) Democrat,
The Cloud. —Had there never been a cloud,
there had neter been a rainbow. In Paradise
there was none, in man’s innocence there was
no heed of any. Had there been no sin, there
would never have been any sorrow, any gloom;
but one clear, bright day of unbroken sun
shine. But then we never could have seen
the Father—had beheld him in all his wisdom,
power and love, exhibited to us now in the
face of Jesus Chri#t nor ever have, attained
that eternal height of glory prepared for us >y
union with the son of God. vYithout the tre
mendous darkness of the fall, the rainbow
crown had never circled the Redeemer’s head;
so now, without clouds, we cannot behold
the rainbow, and the darker they are, the
brighter it appears. “Through much tribu
lation ye must enter the kingdom of heaven.”
Where could we h:ve seen, what could we
have known of our Father’s mercy and
our Saviour’s love, the comforts of his spirit,
and the power of his grace, without those
intervals of gloom and sadness, that put
them to the proof, and bring forth their
strongest coloring? Can we find it in our
hearts to wish our clouds away ? If ever,
at the approach of sunset, we have seen the
pure, bright disk without a vapor near it,
while above it and around it, tipped with
burnished gold, rolled the broken masses of a
dispersing thunder-storm, and, in the oppo
site heavens, the rainbow arch drawn on the
dark bosom of the receding shower; just so
will be the aspect of our griefs and cares,
when the ransomed soul is taking its depar
ture to another world. An awful glory will
light up the past; in deepened shadow, and
in stronger light, each little circumstance of
our past lives will be exhibited ; things that
went lightly over at the time, will gather
substance and importance at the last; our
escaped perils will be seen more fearful, our
vanquished foes more terrible, our sins a
thousand thousand times more black :—but
it is not then that we shall wish our day of
time had been lit up with Italian sunshine.
There is a society at Cahaba, called the “G.
G. H.,” similar in its character, and purposes
to the “Cowbellions,” and “Strikers" of this
city. It celebrated the advents of the New
Year, on the evening of the Ist., in magnifi
cent style. Tne official report says “there
were representatives from nearly all the na
tions df the earth—all would have been lepre
sented but for the bad weather. The dele
gation from the Esquamnux, the Flat Head
Indians of the Oregos, from Siam, from Hin
dostan, from Abysinia, from Patagonia, and
from Juan Fernandez,did not arrive until after
the close of the ceremonies.” A procession
and an oration were among the performances
of the evening; and the crowd dispersed
“without a single fight occurring.”— Mobile
Register .
As showing the effects of Railroads upon
the value of lands, the Winchester, Tennessee,
Independent states, that, before the location
of the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad
through Franklin county, the best lands there
were worth only from eight to ten dollars per
acre. Now that the road has been located and
is in process of construction, the same lands
are worth from fifteen to twenty-five dollars
per acre! —a rise of fully one hundred per cent
before the road is in operation! while in the
barren lands in that country the advance had
been about four hundred per cent!
The Rise op Men of Eminence. —Mr. Dis
ney, member of Congress from Onio, was for
merly a house-painter; Senator Dickinson
worked at a mechanical trade until after he
attained his majority; H. L. Turney, U. S.
Senator from Tennessee, and Andrew Johnson,
Representative from the same S»ate, were and
are tailors, and there are in Congress many
others who are mechanics. Gen. Houston
worked at his trade as hatter until after he
was twenty-one. Justice McKinley, of the U.
S. Supreme Court, was a carpenter and joiner.
The history of Benj imm Franklin, Roger
Sherman, Gen. Greene, Gen. Putnam, and
hundreds of others who have been elevated to
stations of honor, are full of instruction, and
worthy of emulation by the youth of the pre
sent generation.
New York Society. —Jewelry is a growing
rage, among the lad;e3, that will soon need to
be preached at from the pulpit. The French
jewellers who have established themselves
here within the last year—(and who have
lately moved into magnificent new stores in
Broadway)—have quite dazzled the town.—
Art and machanism seem exhausting their ut
most ingenuity in new contrivances for the
setting of jewels and embellishing of beauty.
We saw ladies on New Year’s day, who had
the price of an independent farm on either
wrist, the price of a four-story.house in town
on the neck, and at least six-life-member
ships of the Bible Society in each ear-ring.—
New Year’s gifts are getting to be costly ob
servances ; and we think, by the way, that
those who are richer should be thoughful, at
these times of general festivity when gifts are
compared, how they eclipse and render value
less the gifts of the poorer. Holiday gifts, on
this principle, should never be too valuable.
Ladies now wear trains, at parties, which,
without pages to take care of tnem, are a se
rious inconvenience. A certificate, respectably
endorsed, that the same amount of velvet had
been bought and was in the possession of the
lady at home, might be pinned upon the skirt
and answer the same, or a better purpose, as
nobody sees the train, in the crowd, but every
body treads upon it. One likes splendour—but,
without some taste and reason, in its time,
place and accompaniments, it is absurd.— Home
Journal,
Here is Poetry as is Poetry. —Mister del
ter —as my gal seys all the boys rites poterv
fur de nuespeapers, please to put thes biro
neck in big tipes so me eongele can Spell it
wei & radelly:
a sonnette to me sweteheart’s eiebrow.
sum gal cheaks are reddish like the Rose
but 1 go In strong for wats above the nose
2 streked arch’s of the darkest hu
staid Centrey abov hur eies of blu
O ’Cud I steie 1 atura of that eiebrow Brite
Gehosifat I then is Die i shud with Delite.
( Telegraphed for the Baltimore Sun o
Confirmation of Appointments.
Washington, Jan. 13, 8 P. M.
The Washington papers of to-morrow will
contain the official announcement of the fol
lowing confirmations:
James S. Calhoun, of Georgia, as Governor
of New Mexico. Thomas Nelson, of New
Yoik, as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
of the United Stales Territory, Oregon, vice
William P. Bryant, resigned. Abram F. Frid
ley, of N. York, as Winnebago Indian Agent.
Robert R Galton, of Maryland, as Consul for
Mazatland, vice John Parrott, resigned. W il
liam H. Kelly, of Massachusetts, as Consul for
Tahiti and the Independent Society Islands.
Edward A. Saunders, of New York, Consul
for Buenos Ayres, vice Joseph Granham, re
moved. El ward M. Call, of Pennsylvania,
Consul at Lima, vice Stanhope Prevoat, resign
ed. John S. Gilmer, of Maryland, Consul at
Bahia, vice William T. Bianell, resigned. Ed
ward Ely, of Pa., Consul to Bombay.
The Secretary of the Navy officially an
nounces that the frigate St. Lawrence is or
dered to be in readiness to sail for Lon lon on
the first ot Feoruary. All the articles for the
W ,rd's Fair must be at Brooklyn by the 25 th
inst.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST.
©eorgia.
FRIDAY MORNING, JAN- 17-
Tallulah, and other Poems —By H. R. Jack
son : Savannah. (Ga.) 1 vol., duodecimo.
We have the pleasure of acknowledging
the reception of the above little volume, and
have spent some agreeable moments in look
ing over the poetical gems it contains. Some
of them had already beenfgiven to the public
through the ephemeral medium of the news
paper press, and were to us old acquaintances.
We admired them at the time, in common
with thousands of others, and wished for
them a more enduring shape. We are pleased
to see them now in book form, neatly printed
on fine paper, and constituting a most tasteful
specimen of typography. The poems are
worthy of this mode of preservation and cir
culation. We hope they will find a place in
every family in Georgia. Most of them refer
to scenes, and persons peculiar to Georgia,
and breathe a spirit of true devotion to her
soil, to her welfare, and honor. The domestic
piecss are in beautiful harmony with the
finest feelings of our nature, and will find
sympathy in every true heart.
Judge Jackson has done much already to
win for himself a high and honorable name,
and reflect credit on his native State.
The poems before us are the offspring of
moments of recreation, rather than of studied
labor. But their merit is such as to indicate
that if the author were to devote his best en
ergies to the Republic of Letters, he could
occupy in it a prominent position.
This work can be purchased at the store’of
Messrs. J. A. Carrie & Co.
Georgia and East Tennessee Railroad.
We understand this Road is now progres
sing rapidly. Several miles of rails are al
ready laid down, and the work of laying down
is proceeding at the rate of a quarter of a
mile a day. The road is in use now at the
Dalton end, for a few miles, in transporting
iron and other materials. In a few months
forty miles of the road will be open for freight
and trade. The road is built and graded in
excellent style, and the rail used is quite
heavy, about sixty pounds to the yard.
Competent judges pronounce that this road
in construction and equipment will be one of
the best in the Southern States.
Hungarian Musical Society
The Hungarians have arrived, and give their
first entertainment This Evening, at Concert
Hall.
The Campbell’s are Coming.
The Campbell Minstrells will be in our city
on Monday next, and in the evening will give
one of their pleasing entertainments at the
Masonic Hall. This is one of the best Ethe
opian Companies that has ever visited our
city.
Destitution in Northern Cities. —Death
from. Starvation and Cold. —Yesterday after
noon, says the Boston Times, Coroner Pratt
was informed that a circumstance, calling for
his interference, had taken place in a
room in the rear of 216 Anne street; he re
paired to the spot, and found a scene of mise
ry, destitution, suffering and death, almost
too severe for belief. Two women were lying
in a bed, with no clothing excepting the rags
on their backs, and no fire in the room. They
had nothing to eat during three days, neither
had there been any fire in the room during
that period. One of the women was quite
dead; she had perished from want of food
and fire. The other was partially restored*by
means of proper appliances, and measures
have been made to preserve her from a simi
lar strait, should she recover, which at pre
sent is doubtful.
Beats Jenny Lind.— An English paper says
of the voice of Catalini: “ Such was the tor
rent of sound she emitted at one moment,
that the glass globules, pendant from the cen
tral chandalier, were powerfully agitated and
struck against each other.”
{Reported, for the Baltimore Sun.')
Thirty-First Congress—2d Session-
Washington, Jan. 13.
SENATE.
Mr. Cooper presented three memorials from
the State of Pennsylvania, asking the repeal
of the fugitive-slave law of last session. Mr.
C. said it was a rule with him to present all
petitions sent to him, which were respectful.
But he believed the petitioners asked that
which the great body of the people of his
State desired that Congress would not do. The
people of Pennsylvania approved the settle
ment of the slavery question, made at the last
session, and desired to stand by it and to car
ry it out in good faith. They were opposed
to further agitation or disturbance of that
settlement. They wanted peace and harmo
ny. The petitions were referred to the Com
mittee on the Judiciary.
He also presented memorials against the
extension of the area of slavery, and a large
number in favor of a modification of the tariff
of 1846.
The Chair laid before the Senate the annual
report of the War Department, with a state
ment of the number of persons employed by
th it Department.
Mr. Underwood endeavored, but without
success, to get up the joint resolution from
the House authorizing the assignment of Land
Warrants under the recent act of Congress.
The Senate then took up the bill “ to cede
the public lands of the United States to the
States respectively in which they are situated,
on condition that the said States shall sever
ally grant and convey said land to actual set
tlers only in limited quantities for cost of sur
vey and transfer merely.”
Mr. Felch addressed the Senate in opposi
tion to the bill, and had not concluded when
the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
There was an error in the published report
of the proceedings of Saturday, as to the a
mount paid annually to the railroad companies
for the transmission of the mails, which should
have been $900,000, instead of $9,000.
Mr. Bayly, from Virginia, chairman of the
committee of Ways and Means, reminded the
House that there remains only forty-two
working days, and that unless certain appro
priation bills be made the special order of the
day for to-morrow, and following days until
disposed of, the appropriation bills generally
would be'crowded into the last days of the
session.
A motion to suspend the rules, for the pur
pose of introducing a bill to return the duties
on goods destroyed by fire in New York in
1845, was negatived.
Mr. Bayly then moved that the appropria
tion bills already referred to,be the special or
der ; which was negatived on a division of 89
to 88.
It was moved by Mr. Stephens of Georgia,
that the rules of the House be suspended to
enable him to introduce a resolution for al
lowing Mr. Whitney, the use of the Hall of
Representatives on Saturday evening next, to
allow him to explain his great railroad scheme.
There was evidently a large majority, but the
ayes and nays being called for there appear
ed in favor of adopting the rule 129, against it
54.
The previous question was then ordered,
and the resolution was carried, as also was a
motion to lay it on the table, to prevent future
discussion on the subject.
The resolution to request the committee of
commerce to report as to the propriety. of lo
reducing the value of the silver coiiF of the
country as to prevent its exportation, was
agreed to by a large majority.
Mr. Hammond, of Maryland, after a few
explanatory remarks, moved the suspension
of the rules,to enable him to submit the follow
ing:
Resolved , That there be paid from the con
tingent fund, to the widow of Jabez Gore,
who has lately died, while holding the office
of an Assistant Clerk of this House, his com
pensation to the end of this session; and also,
that his proper funeral expenses be paid from
the contingent fund.
The motion to suspend the rules was agr ed
to, and the resolution was carried by a large
majority.
Mr. McLanahan moved to suspend the rules
to enable him to introduce a resolution de
claring that it would be inexpedient and im
proper to repeal the act passed last session of
Congress, for the return of fugitive slaves and
others to the service of their masters.
The ayes and nays were ordered, when there
appeared 128 for the suspension of the rules
and 84 against it. There not being two-thirds
of the House in favor of the suspension of the
rules, the motion was lost.
The House then went into committee of the
whole on the State of the Union, and took up
the cheap postage bill.
Mr. Potter, of Ohio, having the floor, was
about to close the debate, when Mr. Duer, of
New York, called his attention to the mau
n».r in which the circulation of five and ten
cent pieces is affected, owing to t leir indivisi
bility for purposes of business; the difficulty
attending which he contended would be in
creased by the proposed reduced rate of pos
tage.
Mr. Potter then addressed the House, taking
a comprehensive view of the whole question,
and congratulated members that, while the
opposition to the measure came from States
where the revenue does not meet the expense
of transptating the mails, yet the discussion
had been left, for the most part, to members,
coming from States in which there was a sur
plus.
He reviewed the effect which had resulted
from the reduction of postage; since winch
the revenue of the Post Office Department had
increased, which before wa9 diminishing. He
controverted the assertion that the transmis
sion of the mails throughout the United States
costs more than it does in Great Britain; and
showed tha: while a large amount is derived in
this country from postage on nejrspap-rs, it is
not charged in England on stamped papers.
Mr. Potter was proceeding with his remark’,
when Mr. Staunton, of Tennessee, movtd
that the committee rise; which w s carried
and the House adjourned till to-morrow.
( Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier .)
New Orleans, Jan. 14, 4,38 P. M.
The Market Jan. 14—The Cotton market is
in a quiet state, and dealers are awaiting the
advices by the steamer. There is a speculative
demand for Bagging and Rope, and large sales
have been effected. There are now three
Eastern Mails due.
The brig Francis. Capt. Sirven, has cleared
for your port.
MARRIED,
On the 29th of December, ult., by James E,
Cashin, Esqr., Mr. Elbert J. Allen, to Mias.
Barbara Ballard, daughter of Mathew W .
Ingiet, all of Richmond County.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
PUBLIC EVENING POSTPONED.
ID" I am again compelled to postponed my Pub *
Lie Evening this week until Friday Evening
week, owing to the circumstance of the rooms
having been rented out for other purposes.
The Lesson Friday afternoon will be given at
the unsualhour. A. V. ROBISON.
jan 17
DRS. J. E. & H. A. BIGNON.
Office on Broad t St. opposite Bridge Bank building .
their pro.essional services to the cit
izens of Augusta and its vicinity. jan 14
O’ DR. JAS. D. MACKIE
spectfully his Professional Services to the citizens
of Augusta.
Office on Jackson street, between Broad and
Reynold streets. 6mos jan 12
33". MR. E. C. SOFGE.—Having met with
such liberal encouragement, takes pleasure in in
forming his friends and the public that he has per
manently located himself in Augusta as Professor
ol the Piano Forte, and Organ. Communications
left at the Music & Book Store of Messrs. Geo. A.
Oates & Co. will be punctually attended to.
jan 3
(ETReynold street Classical, Mathemat
ical and Mercantile School —Mr. POPE
takes pleasure in announcing that he has entered
into arrangements with Mr. C.*L>.Oliver, a gra
dua.e of the South Carolina Military College, and
for the last two years a Tu or in that Institution,
to take charge of the department of Higher Ma
thematics and Civil Engineering , for which he is
eminently qualified. Young gentlemen desirous of
qualifying themselves in the latter important
science, have an excellent opportunity offered so
so doing.
Mr. Pope will continue to take charge of the
Classical and Mercantile Departments,and believes
that his arangements are such as to afford a« sound,,
useful and practical an education as can be ob
tained in this State. Early application is lequest
ed, iu order that the classes may be duly organiz
ed, as but a limited number of pupils will be re
ceived.
The duties of the School will be resumed on
MONDAY NEXT, the 6th inst,
'l'erms made known on t application to Mr. Pope
jan 5
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Coughs, Colds, Asthma, Influenza, &c., we have
trit-d, and found it to be all that the manufacturer
claims for it. It is a most agreeable confection, and
a most effectual remedy for the diseases that attack
the throat and chest. It combines ail the virtues
of Cod Liver Oil, but is entirely free from its re
pulsive taste. In all the cases in which we have
known the candy to be used, it has been success
ful j and we cheerfully recommend it, with a cau
tion against counterfeits. Inquire for Bliss's Can
dy, and receive no other.
Prepared only by B. K Bliss, Duggist, Sprin -
field. Mass., Inventor and Sole Proprietor, and for
sale by PHILIP A MOISE,
Deaiear in Drugs and Medicines, 195 Metcalf
Range, Augusta, Ga.
Country Merchants and Druggists supplif d on
liberal terms. de2w jan 7