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(From the A 7 . O. Delta , 19 th inst .)
A GREAT CALAMITY!
The St. Charles in Ruins-
No one who has not visited New Orleans
can estimate the extent of the calamity which
has fallen on our city by the great fire yester
day. The St. Charles Hotel was the pride,
the boast, the ornament of our city. As a
model of architectural beauty, it was not sur
passed, if equaled, by any edifice in the U.
States. The grace, beauty, and perfection of
its plan, the combination of solidity with ele
gance, of convenience with beauty, of gran
deur with classic proportions, rendered the
St. Chailes a source of inexhaustible pleasure
and interest to all beholders. As a hotel, it
was the largest and most complete, and un
der its present managers, the best conducted,
perhaps, in the world. The day before it
burnt, we dined at the hotel, and were told by
the proprietor that six hundred persons would
dine there that day. Everything essential to
the comfort and entertainment of guests, was
embraced in the building. There was a splen
did bar-room, spacious billiard-rooms, elegant
bath establishment, and in the basement sto
ries were several variety stores. Not less than
eight hundred persons slept nightly under its
roof. The building was in the finest Grecian
style, the most splendid and classical
portico in the United States, supported by
Corinthian pillars of great beauty and ele
gance. The, cupaio, which ascended from the
centre of the building, was also a very beau
tilul and prominent feature in the edifice, the
most conspicuous object discernible at a dis
tance in approaching our city. The cupola
was a dear object to all of our citiz ns. l’he
heart of ever true Orleanian clung to it as the
beacon and landmark of the Crescent city
The St. Charies was so identified with our
city in all its aspects and associations, that we
regard its loss in the light of the depriva
tion of r limb of our body. The countenance
of every citizen yesterday was clouded with
sorrow and gloom during the progress of the
destructive element, and universal sadness
prevailed when the once beautiful edifice had
sunk into a mass of smoking ruins. “ Alas !”
exclaimed our oldest citizens, “ what a loss ;
how shall we rebuild it; when will we be a
ble, in 4 our day, to look upon its like in beauty
and magnificence!”
The St. Cnarles was burnt in 1834; it was
the pioneer of the old Faubourg St. Mary,
now the Second Municipality. Around it
clustered all those fine buildings which con
tribute so powerfully to start the Second Mu
nicipality in its wonderful progress in prospe
rity and greatness. It was the sun which dif
fused fructifying rays far and near around it.
The cost ot the building was six hundred
thousand dollars. Its architect, Mr. Gailier,
acquired by its design, a reputation co-exten
sive with our whole country. It was burnt
by the old Exchange Bank, a corporation
which bt came established, bat whose privi
leges so far as the possession of the Hotel
was concerned, descended to the present com
pany. at the head of which is Mr. Jacob Bar •
ker, who has had for years the management of
the building.
Various accounts are given of the origin of
the fire. Some represent that it caught trom
some one of the various chimneys or flues ,
others state some plumbers were engaged in
soldering the zinc on the roof, and the fire
was communicated from their stoves. What
ever may have been the cause, it is pretty cer
tain that the fire originated within the build
ing, somewhere under the roof, and had dif
fused itself pretty extensively before the alarm
was given. It was long before any adequate
means could be brought to arrest the flames.
The whole roof was smoking,—sending forth
a thick volume of dun vapor, and yet the fire
could not be reached. It was sometime before
the engines came to the spot. The bells, by
some most culpable carelessness, were not
rung, and those engines which arrived early
were not fully manned. Then, too, how could
they bring their machines to operate at so great
a height ? There was scarcely an engine in
the city that could throw water to the roof of
the hotel. Within the building the most en
ergetic steps were taken to meet the danger.
The proprietors and their various employees
formed themselves into an efficient fire com
pany, and by the aid of their forcing pipes and
engines kept a constant current of water on
the flames wherever they could be reached.—
But the insidious element had evaded its foe
and penetrated into every part of the roof
where it could find food.
The hose pipes from the engines were then
drawn by ropes to the roof, and soon a consid
erable body of water was brought to bear up
on it. But alas ! it was too late. The vast
crowd assembled in the neighbo: hood, with
one voice cried out, “ it is gone !” and though
there was no relaxation of effort, it soon be
came painfully manifest that the building was
of a very combustible character. Presently,
the flames broke forth from the roof, and pas
sing with the rapidity of lightning around the
cupola, suddenly embraced that graceful and
elegant structure,and then to vered to the heav
ens, one bright, glowing pyramid of fire. At
the same time, the plaster began to tail from
the roof of the portico, admonishing those be
low of the danger of that position, the only one
from which the engines could operate with es
feet. Rapidly the flames involved the whole
building, and. nourished by a brisk east wind,
proceeded on their devastating course with
inconceivable velocity. The splendid cornice
of the portico was soon one bright sheet of
fire, —presently it fell with a great crash,
crushing in its ruins the noble marble statute
of Washington which stood at the main en
trance, the present of our respected fellow
citizen, John Hogan, Esq., who had it execu
ted by the best artist in Italy. On went the
flames in their mad career, while the willing
as their vassal and guide; and
tower and column fell down, one after another,
till nothing but an unsightly ruin remained
of what, in the morning, towered so palace
like in its “pride of piace!”
After the St. Charles had been nearly con
sumed, the fire was communicated by sparks
to the Rev. Theodore Clapp's church, corner
of St. Charles and Gravier streets, which was
soon destroyed. At the same time, the Metho
dist Episcopal church, on Poydras street, was
in flames, and in twenty minutes, nothing
but a mass of crumbling walls remained. This
x-hurch, we are ha jpy to learn, was insured
«or $30,000- Two adjoining buildings, oe
copied as boarding-houses, No. 13 1 and 139
the former owned by Mr, Maunsel White, and
occupied by Mrs. Souterj sod the latter oc-
cupied by Mis. Purcell. Both were me
chanics’ boarding houses, and partially insur
ed. Two houses of ill-fame, near these, were
also burned.
In the rear of Dr. Clapp’s church, the Peli
can House stretching from Union to Grayier
street, was entirely destroyed. It was owned
by Jacob Barker, and occupied by Messrs.
Moore & . The “Pelican” was insured,
The large commission-house, occupied by
Henderson, Peale, and others, fronting on
Common street, and adjoining the St. Charles
Hotel, was burned. The buildings between
that and Carondelet street were saved with
difficulty. The dwelling house owned by Mr.
Lyal, and occupied by Mr. Mensing, dentist,
situated at No. 136 Carondelet street, was con
sumed, as was also a paint-shop adjoining.
Among the buildings destroyed, we have
also to mention three houses on Carondelet
street, represented by Nos. 171, 173 and 175,
owned by Mr. B. F. French. These houses
were insured. One of them was occupied by
Drury & Philips, painters;the others by fam
ilies.
The residence of William Barry, who keeps
the Crescent Restaurant, on St. Charles street,
adds another to the list of the destroy ed build
ings. It was situated at No. 37 Hevia street.
No. 35 Hevia street was also greatly injured.
The splendid private residences gos Mr.
Samuel J. Peters and Mr. Savillebouvre, on
Carondelet street, caught several times, and
were in great danger, so also w’as the fine row,
known as the Carondelet Row; but at this
point in the progress ot the conflagration, the
force of the fire department had been judi
ciously distributed, so as very effectually to
arrest the extension of the flames, in spite of
high wind.
Great numbers of thieves were busy at the
fire. The arrest of them numbered thirty
six at dark, last evening. We notice no less
than a dozen, in our line of march, on their
way to prison.
The loss by this fire will amount to more
than half a million, of which about one-half
was insured. The insurance on the St. Charles
was only $105,000, of which $20,000 were
j taken in the Sun Mutual. Messrs. Mudge &
! Wilson had a policy of 50,000 on wines and
j furniture, tt great deal of both of which has
been saved;their loss, however, is very heavy.
The whole community sympathise with
these enterprising gentlemen in their great
calamity, and will lend a willing hand to re
suscitate them.
The St. Charles must be rebuilt, and that
speedilly, and on a scale fully equal to its
former magnificence. This is the voice of the
whole people. Every citizen will come for
ward to lend a help ng hand to raise it, Phoe
nix-like, from its ashes. We trust the good
work will be entered upon immediately. If the
i present Company is unable to rebuild it, we
hope that a corporation will be immediately
organized for that purpose. The cost of re
building it is variously estimated at from
! $300,000 to $500,000.
The loss oi the Congregationalist church
i will fall heavily upon our able and eloquent
i divine, Dr. Clapp. It was the propertv ol
our venerable and benevolent fellow-citizen,
1 Judah Turo, who, though a member of the
! Hebrew faith,has for years permitted the con
gregation ot Mr. Clapp to occupy this church
free ot rent, and allowed the Reverend gentle
| man to enjoy the rents of the pews.
Last night we visited the scene of the con
flagration. It was a melancholy change from
: the magnificence we were wont to contem
plate with so much pride and admiration.
The spacious and noble edifice had disappear
ed, and a mass of dark ruins, and a few pillars
j still standing, marked the place were the pride
; of New Orleans once shone in ail the splen
! dor of architectural grace, beauty and sym
metry. The scene drew deep sighs from the
heart of every old Orlenois, and silent gloom
! and sorrow seemed to enwrap the vast crowd
i that hovered around the sene ot desolation.
(From the Savannah Georgian.')
HXinutes of Points
Decided by the Supreme Court , at Savannah,
January Term , 1851.
Elizabeth Nail, Plaintiff in Error, vs. Jes
se Mobley, Adm’r, &c. And Morris Nale, De
fendants in Error. In Equity—From Appling.
This was a bill for discovery, relief and spe
cific delivery of slaves, by a person claiming
under deed, and as heir at law. To this bill
there was a general demurrer, and for multi
tariousness.
1 Held, that where there are distinct rights
and distinct interests involved in a suit, the
bill is not multifarious.
2. It seems to be doubtful whether the com
plainant had any adequate common iavv reme
dy: Ist, Because a specific delivery is wanted;
and 2d, Because fraud and collusion are charg
ed.
W. B. Gaulden, and Charlton & Ward, for
Plaintiff in Error.
C. B. Cole, for Defendants in Error.
The Mayor and Aldermen of Savannah, Plain
tiffsin Error, vs. The Savannah Ogechee and Ala
tamaha Canal Company, Defend'ta in Error.
Certiorari. From Chatham.—
In this case the Canal Company appeared
before the City Council, on notice, upon which,
after hearing, the Council ordered that culverts
under the caual should be made for draining
the low lands of the Springfield plantation, at
the expense of the Company. From this decision
the Canai Company carried the case, by cer
tiorari, to the Judge of the Superior Court,
who adjudged the right of the City Council to
abate the nuisance created by deficient drain
age of the lands, but decided that the City
Council couid not, by their order, adjudge and
collect the expense of abating the nuisance,
out of the Canal Company. Upon this de
cision the Canal Company caused to be issued
the writ of certiorari, absolute both as to the
nuisance and the collection of costs,
On error to the Supreme Court, it was held.
1. That the only question before the Court
below, as presented by the record and bill of
exceptions, was the collection, by the Corpora
tion, of the costs of abating the nuisance:
2. That the supersedeas to the abatement of
the nuisance was improperly issued, inasmuch
as the order of Council adjudging the abate
ment, at the expense of the (Janal Company ,
could injure no one, and therefore the Canal
Company was not concluded by it, and on
that ground reversed the judgment below.
Law & Bartow, for Plaintiffs in Error.
M Marsh, for Defendants in Error.
Robert A. Allen Ss Co. Plaintiffs in Error, vs.
The Mayor and Aldermen of Sav’h Defend’ts in
Error. Ceitiorari. From Chatham.—
In September, 1843, the Judge of the Supe
rior Court decided, in the case of Charles Har
tridge vs. the Mayor and Aldermen, that the
ordinance of 11th of November, 1842, laying
an income tax was invalid, and tioai that de
cision a writ of error was taken to the Supreme
Court. On the Bth of December, 1849, the
Legislature passed an act amendatory of and
additional to the various acts in reference to
the city of Savannah, by the 4th section of
which It was enacted that “all and singular
the ordinances of said Corporation heretofore
passed and note in operation for the laying and
collecting of any tax or assessment, be, and
they are hereby adopted and confirmee, and
declared .of full force ” At January term,
1850, the Supreme Court affirmed the decision
of tne Superior Court in the case ot tiarlridge.
Ja May, 1850, the Mayor and Aldermen pass
ed an ordnance directing the returns of income
to be made, under previous ordinances, from
Bch of December, 1849, to Ist of May, 1850.
It was held :
1. That the operation of the ordinance of
1842 was suspended by the decision of the
Superior Court, and that the judgment of af
firmance in the Supreme Court, related back
to the time when the decision of the Superior
court was pronounced. Consequently, that the
ordinance of 1842 was not in operation on the
Bth of December, 1849:
2. That the act of 1849 does authorize the
assessment and levy of a tax upon income:
3. That the ordinance of May, 1850, does
not profess to assess a tax, and that no tax
was assessed by it.
Judgment of the Court below reversed.
Law & Bartow, Charlton and Ward, for
Plaintiffs in Error.
Loyd & Owens and R. H. Griffin, for De
fendants in Error.
Another i ' Sound and Reliable Democrat.”
The editor of the Union is in ecstacies at the
election of Mr. Brodhead as Senator from
Pennsylvania, Hear him:
“We hail the election of Mr. Broadhead with
great pleasure. He has served with considera
ble credit in the House of Representatives,
where he distinguished himself by an early, able ,
and decided spee'ch against the Wilmot Proviso.
He is true on this great question of the day."
The Union has been at fault so often, in con
gratulating the country from time to time on
the elevation of “national men,” that no one
attaches the smallest credit to its commenda
tions. That “able and decided speech against
the Wilmot Proviso,” proves two things—lst
That Mr. Broadhead is a high tariff man, hav
ing lectured his colleague (Mr. Wilmot) for
being the only Pennsylvanian that voted for
the act of 184 S, reducing the duties imposed
by the act of 1842—and, 2d. That he (Mr.
Broadhead) was actually in favor of the Wil
mot Proviso, and so announced himself in that
“able and decided speech against the Wilmot
Proviso.” We quote the following paragraph,
as written out by Mr. B. and published in the
Congressional Globe, 2d session, 29th Congress,
page 331 :
“I have thus, Mr. Chairman, briefly stated
my objections to my friend and colleague’s
(Mr. Wilmot’s) celebrated amendment. I will
now make some observations of a general char
acter upon the subject of slavery, in relation
to which so much has been said m this de
bate, in order that my position and views may
not be misunderstood. First, however, permit
me to premise, that if we had acquired either
New Mexico or California, and a bill was be
fore the House providing territorial govern
ments therein, or a bill was before the House
providing for the admission of either of these
provinces as States, (the territory being first
acquired by treaty,) I would vote for a prc
vision excluding slavery. I favor th e principle
contained in the amendment of my colleague,
and will go for engrafting it upon the legisla
tion of the country; but in the proper form
and at the proper time and place, and when
the power to do so can be rightfully exercis
ed.”
By a reference to the speech, it will be per
ceived that Mr. B.’s objection to the proviso
then, consisted in the tact, that the territory
had not yet been acquired. So soon, however,
as it was obtained, he pledged himself to favor
the proviso, and would engraft it on bills or
ganizing governments.
But the Union thinks ail this merely neces
sary to give to its favorites an odor oi “na
tionality.” The record is a serious drawback
to the compromisers as well as to their ob
sequious toadies of the press, blessed with
convenient memories.— Southern Press.
Brevity in Woman.— We find in a Cali
fornia diary, the following glorification of a
quality we should like. “A. man of few words”
is very well, but “a woman of few words” is a
matter open to argument:
I encountered, to-diy, in a ravine, some
three miles distant, among the gold washers,
a woman from San Jose. She was at work
with a large wooden bowl, by the side of the
stream. I asked her how long she had been
there, and how much gold she av raged a day.
She replied. “Three weeks and an ounce.”
Her reply reminded me of an anecdote of the
late Judge , who met a girl returning
from market, and asked her, ‘how deep did
you find the stream? what did you get for \ our
butter?’ ‘Up to knee and ninepenc ',' was
the reply. ‘Ah!’ said the judge to himself: —
‘sne is the girl for me. no lost there:’
turned back, proposed, was accepted, and mar
ried the next week; and a more happy couple
the conjugal bonds never united; the nuptial
lamp never waned; its ray was steady and
clear to the la»t. Ye who paddle off and on
for seven years, and are at last, perhaps, cap
sized, take a lesson of the judge. That ‘up to
the knee and ninepence’ i* worth all the rose
letters and melancholy rhymes ever penned.
Fugitive Slaves. —Some five or six years
ago, Mr. John Zimmerman of Boone county,
Kentucky, brought his favorite servant, a boy
named Billy, with his family, seven or eight
in number, to Ohio, where he settled them on
a farm which he purchased expressly for their
benefit. A few days ago, during the holidays,
several of his servants, (nine in number) and
among them some of the remainder of Billy’s
family, petitioned for leave to make a visit to
the Ohio branch of the family, which was
granted, the master furnishing them with a
pass to cross the river, and the farm horses and
wagon. When they arrived at the end of
their journey, they wrote their master that
the atmosphere of Ohio was more congenial
to gtheir tastes than the corn fields of Ken
tucky, and that if he would send for his team
it would be forthcoming; but they respectful
ly declined returning to his service.— Cin.
Gaz.
The kindness of one Kentucky slaveholder
hag lost more slaves in one day, than the Fu
give law, the power of the Government, and
of Union parties a.id Uuion committees have
restored in a year.— Southern Press,
Even with him. —One of the conductors on
the New Haven Railroad, whose speech,
smacking of the French or German accent,
subjects him to an occasional quiz from the
passengers, was wished “ A happy New Year”
by one of them, during the trip on New
Year’s Day. “Oh 3 tank you ear, meray
Christmas, April fool, Fours July, and all ze
rest,” was his reply.
We notice the following going the rounde
of the papers:
Hon. Truman Smith has perpetrated the
following bon mot. Some one, byway of
quizzing him, asked him how many slaves
were owned by his wife, (a Southern lady.)
‘•She has but one slave,” was the gallant reply
of the Senator.
This is a mistake about Truman Smith mar
rying a Southern lady. He was married in the
South, it is true, but his wfe was born and
raised at the North. —Montgomery Advertiser .
Delegates to the World's Fair from
New York.— At a meeting of the Executive
Committee of the New York State Agricultu
ral Society, held yesterday, the 14th inst.,
the following delegates were appointed to the
World’s Fair, for 1851;
Martin Van Buren, of Columbia county.
Harvey Baldwin, of Onondaga eounty.
Jo n A King, o. Queens county.
Ezra P. Prentice, of Albany county.
B P. Johnson, of Albany county.
The appointment is merely honorary, the
delegates bearing their own expenses, We
understand there were nearly a hundred ap
plicants.— Albany State Register , Jan. 16.
“ Here’s till 'ye Jemmy.” —An Irishman
had been sick for a long time, and while in
this state would occasionally cease breathing,
and life be apparently extinct for sometime,
when he would again come to. On one of
these occasions, when he had just awakened
from his sleep, Patrick asked him:
“ An' how’ll we know, Jemmy, when you
are dead—you’re after wakin’ up ivery time ?”
“ Bring me a glass o’ grog, and say to me,
here’s till'ye Jemmy, an’ if I don’t raise up
an’ dhrink, then bury me.”
Cure for Lisping. —A British provincial
paper says that a rapid and emphatic recital
of the following pathetic narrative is an in
fallible cure for lisping : “He bbs meets Snobs
and Nodds; Hobbs bobs to Snobs and robs
Nobb's fobs. This, says Nobbs, is the worse
for Hobbs’s jobs, and Srohbs’s sobs.”
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST;
2tn§uota, Georgia.
SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 25-
Curious Physiological Discussion-
The following paragraph will excite a new
and startling interest in the minds of those
familiar with the bloody romances of history.
Ihe theory is not a new one, but the discus
sion has recently been revived, and is now
exciting renewed interest in the medical pro
fession.
The dreadful orgies of the French Revolu
tion must have furnished cases enough to have
attested, beyond cavil, the truth or falsity of
the theory, for it is stated that one hun
dred and fifty decapitations a day w as consid
ered, at one time, during the sway of Robes
piere, the least number of victims that State
necessity and public order required. Among
the names of the investigators of the theory
that consciousness exists after decapitation,
occurs thnt of the inventor of the Guillotine,
and who gives name to it. If the fact be true,
that tne head feels after it is cut off, his in
vention, whicn was a substitute for the bar
barous hacking of the headsman's axe, and
prompted by a humane desire to prevent pain,
measurably failed in its benevolent purpose :
How a Man peels with his Head Off.—
Some of the most eminent physiologists ot the
present day have lately been argumenting the
very curious question as to whether a m n
feels after his head is off. And this inquiry
is considered by its conductors to be of more
than physiological interest, because it involves
a refined principle of humanity with regard
to the punishment of death by the guillotine.
It is considered on all sides toat the body
does not ’.eel one instant alter decapitation;
for the bram being the seat of sensation to
the whole frame, througn the medium of
the spinal marrow, every part of the body
beneath the joint at which the latter may be
divided, must be deprived of feeling. But it
by no means follows that t .e head is deprived
of sensation immediately after decapitation,
nor that it may not retain its consciousness,
and like the head ol the Irish Knight who
was killed by Saladin in the holy war, get up
and declare that it never was cut off by so
sweet a scimetar befort —nor like that of the
assassin Legare, swear roundly at the exe
cutioner for not keeping a keener axe; but it
is quite possible that it may be troubled with
very serious reflections upon the irrevocabili
ty of its fate, and the awfulness of its depri
vation.
In support of this unpleasant theory, many
facts are adduced with grave vouchers tor
their authenticity. Among others, is the un
fortunate Queen of Scotts, whose lips contin
ued to move in prayer tor at least a quarter of
an hour after the executioner had performed
his duties. Windt states that having put his
mouth to the ear of a decapitated criminal’s
head, and called him by name, the eyes turn
ed to the side from whence the voice came ;
and this fact is attested by Fontenello, Mo
gore, Guillotine, Nauche, and Aldini. On
the word murder being called, in the case of a
criminal executed for that crime at Coblentz,
the half-closed eyes opened wide with an ex
pression of reproach on those who stood
around.
This is recorded in the Medical Gazette for
April last; but whether it be believed or not,
we see nothing either in theory or recorded
tact to lessen the physiological possibility of
consciousness after decapitation. In diseases
and dislocations of the spinal marrow, the
mind remains in full possess on of its facul
ties, although the lower limbs are utterly de
void of feeling : and at what point of separa
tion are we justified in saying that the mind
must lose its rational powers ? If the brain
retain the images of vision and the forms of
touch, long after the objects which created
them are withdrawn, why may we not sup
pose that it retains them after a sudden opera
tion of the axe or guillotine ! Like the thigh
of an amputated leg, which feels its toes for
days, and even weeks after the operation, it
may remain in imaginary possession of all its
corporeal members, until the curtains of ob
livion are gathered around its fading vision
and sinks to repose in the chamber of death.
A Most Desirable Map-
The great extension of our boundaries re
sulting from the war with Mexico, has, in a
measure, rendered old Maps of the United
States valueless, and every intelligent citizen
should possess a Map showing what his coun
try is, and what she has, territorially. Such a
Map would be instructive to himself, and an
valuable auxiliary in the education of his
children. As they gaze with a just pride on
the vast imperial expanse, it will inspire
grand and patriotic ideas of the magnificence
and power and resources of our great country.
Such a Map is now offered to the inspection
of the citizens of Augusta, and will, in due
time, be brought to the view of the citizens of
Georgia, generally, by Mr. Mahew, the trav
elling agent.
It is a beautiful and comprehensive Map of
North America, embracing the whole coun
try from the Atlantic to the Pacific, be
tween the 7th and the 50th degree of North
latitude, including, of course, Central Amer
ica and the West India Islands. It is pub
lished by Jacob Monk, Baltimore. As Balti
more is South of Mason & Dixon’s line, that
fact will not disparage it among us. We are
pleased to see so superior a specimen of South
ern enterprise, skill and labor.
this Map is traced all the leading thor
oughfares, the various routes by land and
water to our Pacific possessions, and of the
great Rail Roads and Canals projected and in
contemplation across the continent.
We like the specimen number of this Map
so well that we have subscribed for one, and
recommend all our readers who can afford it,
and which of them cannot ? co do the same.
When they talk hereafter of our territorial
acquisitions, they ean look on this Map, and
have a clear idea of what those acquisitions are.
Those who are pleased with the Compromise,
and think the South has had a fair showing,
may look to them and see what they have gain
ed.. Those who consider the South has been
choused out of all share in those magnificent
domains, can see what they have lost. But
all, Unionists and Southern Rights men, Com
promisers and Fire-eaters, even if they get
none of the land, can have a first rate Map of
it at the reasonable price of seven dollars.
This may be some consolation to the latter
class of our readers.
The Campbell Minstrels
Give to-night, their farewell Concert. This
announcement should secure the attendance
of all the Concert going and fun loving
inhabitants of Augusta, particularly of those
who have so far resisted the attraction.—
These entertainments are musical, rich, vari
ed, grotesque, and comical. They charm
away melancholy, dispel vapors, and exhil
erate the spirits, while they please the ear.
These Concerts, while they suit the taste of
the young and gay, are the best sort of medi
cine for dyspepsia and blue devils, and withal,
not bad to take.
Missouri Senatorial Election-
Under our telegraph head will be found re
corded the defeat of Col. Benton in Missouri.
Few tears will be wept in this part of the
world over the result. We know nothing of
his successful competitor, Mr. Grier, but that
he is a Whig. Yet we feel satisfied that he
can hold no opinions more obnoxious to the
Southern Rights Pariy than those avowed by
Benton. Sic transit gloria Bentoni.
The D- L Adams-
Some enquiry was made yesterday concern
ing this boat, and a report was in circulation
that she had burst her boiler. In the Savan
nah Republican of the 23d we saw a notice of
her return to that city in consequence of some
derangement in her machinery.
S3P* We received by yesterday’s mail a let
ter from Warren county, containing a mar
riage notice, unaccompanied by a responsible
name, which is the reason for its non-appear
ance.
New Publications
The Island Would of the Pacific— By Hen
ry T. c/heerer, author of -‘ The Whale and Hi«
Captors.” Harper 6z Brothers : New-York.
We have received from the Publishers, a
copy of this interesting work. It is “ the
personal narrative and results of travel of the
author through the Sandwich Islands, and
other parts of Polynesia.”
Such a work cannot fail to be interesting,
as it lelates to a region, and to races of people
that have, of late years, attracted much of the
attention of the commercial, literary and phi
lanthropic world.
The Moth sir’s Recompense : A Sequelto Home
Influence — By Grace Aguillar. Harper &,
Brothers.
This Novel need but to be named to attract
readers.
The above works are for salß by J. A. Car
rie & Co.
Provisions. —The Marietta Advocate, says :
“ Provisions of every kind are at a price, in
this market, almost unprecedantedly high.—
Corn and Meal, $1 00 a bushel; Flour, $8 a
barrel; Pork, $6 per 100 lbs.; Sweet Pota
toes, 40cts.; Butter, 15 cts. per lb.; Chickens
10 to 12 cents each.
Population of New England, —The cen
sus ot New England is now complete, with
the exception of Massachusetts. We give
below the official returns of the population ot
all the other States, and the U. S. Marshal’s
estimate of the Old Bay State :
1850 1840.
Maine 583 026 501,636
New Hampshire. ..317,997 284.574
Vermont 314,322 291.498
Massachusetts. ..1,000,000 779 828
Rhode Island 147,543 108,830
Connecticut 371,982.... ..310,015
Aggregate 2,734.870 2,276,381
New England has in the present Congress
31 members of the House of Representatives.
In the new apportionment she will have but
27, losing three members. Maine will have
6, New Hampshire 3, Vermont 3, Massachu
setts 10, Rhode Island 1, Connecticut 4.
Fire. —The Gin-house of Mr. Benjamin
Bettis, of this district, was destroyed by fire
on Tuesday morning last, just before day. Six
or eight bags of cotton were lost with it. The
incendiary i 3 lodged safely in jail.— Edgefield
Advertiser , 23 d hist.
Census of Edgefield District. —We pub
lish below the following, with which we have
been politely furnished by John C. Allen,
Esq., XL S. Deputy Marshal:
Free Inhabitants 16,568
Slave do 22,732
Total 39,300
Whole number of persons who died
during year ending June 1, 1850...661
Whole No, establishments of industry 198
Real Eata'e $5,977,450
Personal Estate 10 507,629
Total amount $16,485,079
Free Inhab’ts in town of Hamburg, 646
Slave do do do 423
Total 1,069
[lbid.
Outrageous. —On yesterday morning the
passenger trainjfrom Chattanooga was delay
ed near an hour at the Tunnel, in removing
some timber and rocks which had been laid
across the track by some base hearted villain,
for the purpose of throwing the car off the
track. The perpetrators of this diabolical act,
it is hoped will not escape the punishment
which they deserve, for thus endangering the
lives of so many innocent individuals. If
the plan of these God lorsaken scoundrels had
succeeded, there is no dobut but that con
siderable loss of life would have been the re
sult. Ihe perpetrators of this deed are known,
and the officers are already on the track of
them.— Dalton Tim s, 23d inst
The Election. —The election for Mayor and
Aldermen, which came off in this city, on
Monday last, was attended with more inter
est, probably, than any previous election for
city officers. The friends of the opposing i
candidates labored zealously, though, as we
were glad to notice, with entire good feeling,
in can visaing for votes. The result of the
contest was the election of the following offi.
cers :
Mayor—Jonathan Norcross.
Aldermen —J. A. Hayden, J. T. Humphries.
Paschal House, D. MeSheffery, W. W, Roark*
J«hn Jones.— Atlanta Intelligencer, 23 d inst. ’
{Reported for the Baltimore Clipper, )
Thirty-First Congress—2d Session
Washington, Jan. 21, 1851.
SENATE.
Mr. Mangum presented the memorial of the
employees in the Baltimore Post Office, asking
an increase in their compensation.
Mr. Pearce presented the memorial of the
regents of the Smithsonian Institute, praying
that $150,000 now in their hands, after pray
ing for the erection of the building, be placed
in the treasury, and be added to the perma
nent fund.
Mr. Davis, of Miss., moved, and an enquiry,
by the Committee on Military Affairs was or
dered, 23 to the proprie y of introducing the
Camel into the U. States for purposes of army
transportation.
A resolution directing an enquiry into the
expediency of a reorganization of the State
Department, was offered and adopted.
The Senate took up the resolutions to amend
the rules, and the first, allowing a motion to
be withdrawn at any time btfore action, was
adopted; the second prohibiting debate on all
questions of priority of business, was rejected.
The Senate then took up the bill relating to
French spoliations.
Mr. Seward addressed the Senate in favor
of the bill.
After which, Mr. Gwin gave notice that, on
to-morrow, he would, at an early hour, move
the Senate go into Executive session.
HOUSE OF REPRESEN fA IT YES.
The speaker called the attention of the
House to the faat that there were many bills
on his table from the Senate, some of them
lying over from the last session. If it was the
intention of the House to consider them, they
should be referred to the appropriate com
mittees. It would be in order to reier them
after the committees shall have been called
for reports. —He conceived it to be his duty to
make this statement.
Mr. Bayly begged that the House would in
dulge him in connection of the remarks of the
Speaker, to bring their attention to tne condi
tion of the public business. We have, he
said, already made the Deficiency bill the spe
cial order for the 7th of February, and from
day to day until disposed of. It i« not likely
that the bill can be disposed of in three days,
but he had taken th <t as the probable time.—
Tne New York Mint bill has been made the
special order for the 13th, and from day to
day until disposed of; and this will take two
days. The bill establishing a Board of Ac
counts has been made the special order tor the
23d January, and ought to occupy two days.
Then four days have oeen set apart for terri
torial business, and one for that relating to the
District of Columbia. There remains but five
Mondays of the session, which all know are
dies non, so far as business is concerned. Se
venteen of the thirty-five days are set apart,
which leave but e.ghteen days in which to
dispose of the appropriation bills. He would
say to the House, tnat if they do not discon
tinuemaking other subj els the special orders,
and unless he could oe sustained in making the
appropriation bills special orders, the chances
are that they will be lost. He felt it to be hia
duty to make the statement.
Reports were then called f om committees.
One was made by Mr. Meade relative to the
U. States Court in Florida, with the conside
ration of which, the entire morning hour was
consumed.
Various Executive communications and Se
nate bills were referred.
The House concurred in an amendment of
the Senate to the bill extending the charter of
the Potomac Insurance Company of George
town—making the stockholders liable for the
debts of the concern to a Tmited extent.
The bill authorizing the selection of school
lands for those found to be worthless, was de
bated by Mr. Meade. No action was taken.
And the House adjourned.
The Steamer Atlantic.—A New York
letter, speaking of the non-arrival of the At
lantic says:
All sorts of surmises are indulged in as to
the cause of herjdetention, which it is need
less to repeat. In all probability, the Arctic,
which is looked for on Thursday or Friday
next, will bring us some intellignee as to her
fate —whatever it is. An insurance was ef
fected on Saturday, for 25 per cent, against
total loss, by a firm having a quantity
goods on board.
The New York Courier also says:
Th?. Atlantic was not a vessel likely to foun
der at sea, although we by no undet ’
estimate the power of that u>; lghty element,
and had she met with any d; l9aßter on the coaßt
of England or I reland,.;, mil! ,r t 0 that which
beM the steamship Oreat Britain, sufficient
time had before the Asia sailed, for
that vessel to bare brought the intelligence.
Ur, it she b ee n ag un f or unate as t h e ,q 0 .
lumbia, and gone ashore on the American
coa» C| we must, ere this, have received the ti
lings. But if, a3 we deem it likely to be the
case, her supply of fuel failed when within
one or two day’s sail of this coast, it is not at
all singular that she has not been heard irom.
At this season of the year, when first class
packets occupy from fifty to sixty-five days in
! a passage to the Westward, it would be a work
of days for a vessel of the Atlantic’s size and
rig to accomplish even four or five hundred
miles, indeed her commander would under
take such a task. Some years sinee, while the
steamship Liverpool was on a similar voyage,
it was found, when nearly half the passage
was accomplished, that her coal would not
hold out, and her commander at once aban
doned the hope of getting his snip to the
Westward, and turned her prow to the East.
These considerations induce us to believe
that the Atlantic is safe j possibly her ma
chinery may have failed, but still such is
our confidence in the ship, in Capt. West, and
in Mr. Shuleiu, her first officer, that while we
participate in the general anxiety, we do not
leel serious apprehension.
The census of Pennsylvania, will, it is
stated, show a population of 2,325,000, being
an increase of about 600,000 over the last
census.
Sinquiar Punishment. —A Mr. Lynton has
lately made a communication to the Asiatic
Society of London, descriptive of a mode of
punishment peculiar to the criminal code of
China :
A Chinese merchant, named Hiam-ly, ac
cused and convicted of having kill d his wife
was sentenced to die by the total deprivation
of sleep. The execution took place at Amoy
in the month of June last. The condemned
was placed in prison under the surveillance of
three guardians who relieved each other every
alternate hour, and who prevented him from
taking any sleep, night or day. He thus
for nineteen days, without having slent for a
sing e minute. At the commencement' of the
eighth day, his sufferings were so cruel that
hebeaged, as a great favor, ttlat woultl
kill him by strangulation,
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