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The Copper and Iron Mines and Fisher
ies op Lake Superior. —We learn from a
statement in the Detroit Free Press, that the
amount of copper brought from the mines of
Lake Superior in 1849, was eleven hundred
and fourteen tons. The amount shipped in
1850 exceeded four thousand tons, and that to
be shipped during the present year will be
sufficient to supply the whole consumption of
copper in the United States, which is a little
over six thousand tons.
The amount of ore which had been raised
on the shores of Lake Superior up to Decem
ber, 1849, exceeded thirty-seven thousand
tons. This ore will, in the opinion of compe
tent judges, average twenty per cent, of pure
metal, so that even this amount, yearly, will
supply the United States. The copper ore
from the mines in Cornwall, in England, for
thirty years past, has yielded but about eight
per cent of pure metal.
There are now, including the two iron com
panies on Carp river, in the vicinity of the
celebrated iron mountain, twenty-lour organ
ized companies in active operation. Their
mines have been purchased of the Govern
ment, and they employ at this time, eight
hundred and thirty men. The iron compa
nies referred to are prep? red to melt and ship
the coming season twenty-seven tons of pig
iron. Much is said of the superior qualities
of this new product of Michigan, its remark
able malleability, peculiarly adapting it for
boiler iron, wire, and machinery, and even in
its crude stste, owing to this fact, it readily
commands the highest market price in Pitts
burg.
The fisheries of Lake Superior were estab
lished as long ago year 1830, by a com
pany of enterprising adventurers, and the
business was vigorously prosecuted up to and
during the year 1840, when, owing to the
enormous expense of transportation and re
shipment at the Falls of Sault Ste Marie, the
enterprize, so far as fishing above the falls was
concerned, was reluctantly abandoned. The
product of the fisheries in 1840, the year they
were abandoned, was ten thousand barrels.
Complete the canal around the falls, and it
is intimated that from fifty thousand to seven
ty-five thousand barrels will be annually sent
to market, and all the supplies, both for the
subsistence of men employed and for picking
and preparing the fish, will be drawn from
the overflowing granaries and well stocked
warehouses of the lower peninsula, where
every article required in exchange for the
produese of Lake Superior can be found in
the most luxuriant abundance.
Daring and Silly Feat of Horsemanship.
—At the steward’s ordinary, at the White
Hart Hotel, Aylesbury, alter the aristocratic
steeple-chase yesterday week, the conversa
tion turning on the feat of bringing a horse
into the dining-room in which the company
were then assembled, which was once done by
Lord Jocelyn and Mr. Ricardo, during the
meeting of the Royal Hunt some few years
ago, Mr. Charles Symonds, of sporting noto
riety at Oxford, offered to bring a grey horse
of his up stairs and lead him round the table.
No sooner was this said than done, for off he
started, fetched the animal from the stable,
and very shortly announced his progress by
a loud clattering on the old oak staircase. In
a few minutes the horse was gazing on the
assembled company. His owner then led
him over a flight of chairs, which he jumped
beautifully. Nothing then would satisfy the
company but that he must jump the dining
tables. Mr. Fowler, proprietor of the hotel,
fearing lest some serious accident might occur,
as the room is of great antiquity, having been
built by the Earl of Rochester in the time of
Charles 11, made strong objections; but he
was overruled, and the horse was lead over
the tables, every thing standing. The cham
pagne glasses rattled, the plates quivered, the
candlesticks shook, but nothing was displaced:
back again he went, clearing every thing at
a bound; whereupon a most ardent sports
man, Mr. Manning, of Wendover, volunteer
ed to ride him bare backed over, and to the
astonishment of all present he accomplished
it without bridle or saddle. Ihe celebrated
gentleman jock, Captain Batlowe, next essay
ed, and managed to make a smash of one ta
ble with its contents. This was only a tempo
rary check, for in the face of a tremendous
fire and the cheering of all present, he achiev
ed the feat gallantly. It was now time to
desist and get the horse down stairs; this was
sooner said than done, for the stairs and pas
sages being kept polished, the gallant grey
slipped about dreadfully, and was evidently
afraid of the descent. At length, at the sug
gestion of a worthy baronet, he was blindfold
ed, and thus descended into the entrance hall,
but managed to break about a dozen of the
carved oak bannisters in his progress. —Bucks
{Eng.) Chronicle .
Jenny Lind —All hail! the Queen of Song,
haste, happy day, along! When, on our long
ing sight, shall burst “that angel” bright!
And, rapturous delight, all bosoms fill! Q Jen
ny! jim along, O do, O do! And, Barnum, too!
“We” long to greet eye, here; to see, as well
as hear! The fact ia the excitement among us
of the diddletanti is excessive. “We” havn't
had a “lion’ for so long a time, that our ap
petite for some object to gaze at and admire,
is getting uncontrollable.—Yea, the agony of
suspense is most intense, and, pon honor, but
for the advent of Jenny, “we” should have
proposed to take the glory of the morning pen,
that terrible beast that roars at every thing,
and wont be satisfied of making a meal of
somebody or something every morning for
breakfast, for a lion , ha! ha! ha! ha! rather
than not have a conspicuous something of
some kind, for an object of special wonder and
delight.
But Jenny is here, to-day; and the world
and all its relations, will be here, by to-mor
row, or next day at farthest; and hence all
places on Front Levee from whence “the ob
served of all observers” can be observed, are
in brisk demand; and the genius who should
construct a Remington bridge, from the Old
Cathedral, across the Place d'Armes to the
LeTee, would make a fortune by letting it out
to the thousands anxious to get a peep at “the
Nightingale.” Already enormous sums have
been offered for windows, balconies, chimney
tops, and any place where a foot hold can be
got, to get a glimpse at the greatest idol of
either ancient or modern times; and the de
mand is bound to increase. The spinning
Jenny was a great thing when it first came
About: but nothing to the singing Jenny, who
is now going about. “ Wt" long to see and
hearjand criticise her; u we” do! What Will she
say, when she hears what “tee” say! She is
“some” but “toe” are somer! “tee” are! as the
Crescent would say.— N. O. Courier , Bth imt.
(From the Edgefield Advertiser.')
Well done, Greenville. —An enormous
wagon-load of Brooms passed through our
village, the first of this week, from a manufac
tory near Greenville C. H. Upon seeing this
broom-omnibus drawn up in our plaza, we were
off to our office to offer an offhand congratula
tion to our house-keepers upon the present
prospect of a “clean sweep;” but happening to
look back, we perceived that the wagon wis
off also.—Upon inquiry, we discovered that
the entire load, SSOO worth) was engaged to
some dealer in the city of Augusta. Hearing
this state of the case, one of our waggish vil
lagios perpetrated the following:
Sister Georgia, Carolina
Sends you greeting—and some brooms,
And she hopes that you will find a
Full supply for all your rooms.
Sweep your chambers morns and evens —
Sweep with Carolina brooms-
And from your councils sweep out Stevens
Howell Cobb and Bobby Toombs.
New York Opera Project. —The details of
a plan for erecting a grand opera house on the
Stuyvesant lot, corner of Eighth street and
Fourth avenue, New York, are published in
the Tribune. The lot has been secured by
Mr. Edward P. Fry. The proposed building
will be 179 by 217 feet, and will seat 4000
persons. It is to have ample lobbies and re
tiring rooms. Besides the parquet and first
tier, there will be four other tiers of boxes.
The estimated cost of lot and building is from
$250,000 to $300,000. The projector is to put
in the lot, subject to mortgage, and such a
sum as will be required to leave a balance of
$125,000 to be contributed by others. This
sum, it is proposed to raise by disposing of
250 seats at SSOO each, on a lease of 99 years.
This is a magnificent plan, but we doubt
whether it can be carried out.
Powerful Reasoning. —At a young men’s
debating society somewhere down in Indiana,
the question for discussion was—“ Which is
the greatest evil, a scolding wife or smoky
chimney?" After the appointed disputants
had concluded the debate, a spectator rose,
and begged the privilege of “making a few
remarks on the occasion.’’ Permission being
grauted, he delivered himself in this w’ay: —
“Mr. President, Iv’e been almost mad a listen
ing to the debate of these 'ere youngsters.
They don’t know nothing at all about the
subject. What do they know about the evils
of a scolding wife? Wait till they have had
one for twenty years, and been hammered,
and jammed and slammed all the while—and
wait till they’ve been scolded because the baby
cried, because the fire w-ould’t burn, because
the oven was too hot, because the cow kicked
over the milk, because it rained, because the
sun shined, because the hens didn’t lay, be
cause the butter, wouldn’t come, because the
old cat had kittens, because they came too
soon for dinner, because they were one minute
too late, because they sung, because they tore
their trowsers, because they invited a neigh
bor woman to call again, because they got
sick, or because they did anything else no
matter whether they sould’t help it or not,
before they talk about the evils of a scolding
wife: why Mr. President, I’d rather hear the
clatter of hammers and stones, and twenty tin
pans and nine brass kettles, than the din, din,
din, of the tongue of a scolding wife. Yes.sir
e-e, I would. To my mind, Mr. President, a
smoky chimney is no more to be compared to
a scolding wife, than a little negro is to a
dark night.”
Earnings of the Central Rail Road for Jan
uary, 1851, compared with January, 1850 :
1851. 1850.
Up through Freight, 2o,24o 64 15,647 92 1ncr’e,4,592 72
“ way “ 7,431 76 4,374 40 “ 3,057 36
Down thro’ “ 37,603 82 44,747 87 Deer. 7,144 05
“ way “ 13,909 37 12,211 97 Increase 697 40
Up thro’ Passage, 3,696 75 2,782 84 “ 913 91
Down “ “ 2,360 36 1,906 75 “ 453 61
Up way « 2,823 91 1,918 22 “ 905 69
Down wav “ 2,321 00 1,648 78 “ 672 22
Mail, 1,600 00 1,600 00
91,987 61 86,838 75 5,148 86
No. of passengers up thro’, 975 584 Increase 391
“ « down “ 478 348 “ 130
“ “ up way, 1,578 1,002 “ 576
“ “ down “ 1,395 1,020 “ 375
Bales Cotton thro’ 21,259 23,526 Decrease, 2,267
“ “ way, 8,277 7,630 Increase, 647
Total, 29,536 31,156 Decrease, 1,620
[Savannah Republican, 13 tli inst .
Girlhood. —A clever girl, whose willing
ness to study equals the utmost wish of her
instructors, is encouraged and urged to grati
fythe ambition of her parents. Her brain does
all that is required of it,and a good deal more,
for it w’ill not go properly to sleep at night.
She lie 3 awake, or has painful dreams, or
frightens her friends by walking about in the
partial sleep of sommambulisin, and is fre
quently obliged to leave her books for her
bed by headache. It is almost certain that
the general health has been sacrificed, or is
about to be so, though it may require a medi
cal eye to discern the proofs. The functions
of nutrition have been weakened, and perhaps
vitiated; and if so, her habitually quickened
pulse is only carrying the accelerated blood to
her organa to afford materials for spoiling their
structure. Sudden and frequent fits of com
plete fainting many indicate that the brain is
already the seat of morbid deposit; or, after a
few years, during which none of her bodily
functions go on as they ought, the fatal
comes on, which shows that the lungs have
principally suffered. Even if no such catas
trophe is to happen, all the signs of vivacity
of mind gradually disappear, and the precoci
ous girl is hardly to be recognized in the dull
and languid young woman.
Boyhood. —Ail other beings alike, the boy
who excels in games and feats of strength end
skill, is most jlikely to excel in more impor
tant ways in manhood. To develope the
mind, and let the bodily health shift for itself
is the way to get a plentiful blossom, but
very little fruit. A late maturity is worthy
waiting for. If the child be really extraordi
nary, it ought to make it the more easy to
wait with confidence for what time only can
produce in perfection. The experiment of
foreing cannot safely be followed in education
as in horticulture. If bodily health is not en
joyed by the grown man, his acquirements
will be exercised at a disadvantage,if they are
not rendered positively usele u s.
An Old Horse. —George Young, of Grand
Rapids, states in the “Michigan Farmer” that
he owns a horse which is forty-five years old.
He says he bought the animal in 1825, and
that his age was then stated to be fifteen years;
that he drove him in a buggy and rode him in
Albany for six years, and that for the last
nineteen years he has been one of a farm team
that he has still the appearance of a colt, that
in 1848 he dorve him 249 miles in four days.
About nineteen years ago his teeth became so
uneven that he could not grind hay well,and
his owner had them filed down, since which
“he has been able to feed with the youngest
horses.”
“Bevareof the Yidders.” —lt is said that
a dashing widow recently entangled with her
bewitching ringlets a rich old gentleman of
New York city, whom she induced to part
with real-estate to the amount of SBO,OOO,
which she converted into bills of credit and
dashed off to Europe on a little holiday ex
cursion. “O, these inweigling vidders!”
( From the Savannah Georgian , 13 th inst.)
Meeting' of Stockholders of the Augusta &
Waynesboro’ Railroad
At a meeting of Stockholders of the Augusta
& Waynesboro’ Railroad, called under the pro
visions of the charter, His Honor the Mayor
was called to the Chair, and Joseph Brancroft
appointed Secretary of the meeting.
On motion of Major A. Porter, it was
Resolved , That the plan of allowing interest
on subscriptions to capital stock paid in, so
as to ascertain the proper cost t)f the work
when completed, and place all stockholders
on all equal footing, be carried out by the
Board of Directors.
Resolved , That the interest account with
each subscriber be made up to che Ist of
April, 1851, and on the Ist of April of each
year thereafter; and if the amount of interest
due any stockholder be equal to, or more than,
one hundred dollars, a certificate for one or
more shares of stock shall be given such
stockholder for the amount of interest due;
for all sums less than one hundred dollars, an
acknowledgement of the amount so due for
interest, payable out of the first nett earnings
of the road, with the privilege to the holders
of converting them into stock, whenever the
amount shall reach one hundred dollars.
Resolved, That whenever the Road shall be
in operation as far ?.s Mcßean Creek, the in
terest account shall cease, and the road be
worked for the benefit of the Stockholders
who have then paid up.
On motion of Mr. Wm. B. Hodgson, it was,
Resolved , That when, in addition to the sub
scriptions already obtained, a further bona
fide subscription of not lets than one hundred
thousand dollars is secured, the Board of Di
rectors are authorized to let the remainder of
the road, to Augusta; if, in their opinion, a
favorable offer me made for the work. And
should a contract be made, the Directors are
further authorized to issue and diposed of, at
no less than par , the bonds of the Company,
bearing 7 per cent, interest, ?s an amount suf
ficent for that purpose.
R. WAYNE, Chairman.
Joseph Bancroft, Secretary.
Selma. and Tennessee Railroad. —Mr. L*
Troost, engineer of the Alabama and Tennes
see River Railroad, who is now at the North
arranging for iron for fifty-six miles of the i oad,
has advised the President by telegraph that
James Dunlap will furnish rails, delivered in
Mobile bay, two-thirds at S4O 60 and the re
mainder at S4O per ton —sixty dollars to be
paid on delivery and the balance in six, twelve
and 18 months. The directory it urging the
work forward with all possible speed, with a
view of completing a portion of the road at as
early a period next summer a3 practicable.—
If the iron is obtained as early as expected, a
car will be running by the 4th of July. Some
thing over 250 hands are now at work, and
within thirty-days the number will probably
be increased to four or five hundred. So soon
as details can be arranged, work will be vigor
ously commenced on the east of the Coosa. —
The Jacksonville Republican, referring to the
affairs of the company, says : “We think we
have reason to congratulate the stockholders
upon the wisdom of the choice in selecting
Lapsly as their President, and Conly, Golds
by, Reynolds, Curry, Allen and their worthy
associates as directors. Such zeal, industry
and perseverance as they display, added to the
indefatigable efforts of the engineer corps,
buoy us with the hope that the work will
move bravel yon.”— Mobile Tribune , 9th inst.
What a miserable cynic of an old bachelor it
must have been who wrote the ensuing des
cription of marriage! He “ ought to be a
shamed of himself Look at the great mass
of marriages that take place over the whole
world ; what poor, contemptible affairs they
are ! A few soft looks, a walk, a dance, a
squeeze of the hand, a popping of the ques
tion, a purchasing of a certain number of
yards of white satin, a ring, a minister, a
stage or two in a hired carriage, a night in a
country inn, and the whole matter is over.—
Por five or t lx week two sheepish-looking per
sons are seen dangling on each other’s arms,
looking at waterfalls, or making morning calls,
and guzzling wine and cakes ; then everything
falls into the most monotonous routine; the
wife sits on one side of the hearth, the hus
band on the other, and little quarrels, little
pleasures, little cares, and little children gra
dually gather round them. This is what ninety
nine out of one hundred find to be the de
lights of matrimony.”
We read this,a moment ago, in the sanctum,
to a young lady of eighteen, with large, bright
eyes, red and dewy lips, a matchless figure—
&s Geoffrey Crayon writes, just “ bursting
from her boddice”—and she says she thinks it
“atrocious,” and the man w’ho wrote it a
“very great fool!” If the writer could have
seen our fair friend when she said this, we be
lieve that that would have been his opinion
also.
A Rleic oe Antiquity . —We were shown
the other day an arquebus or ancient match
lock, with remains of its simple machinery,
by which the lighted match was rolled into
the pan. It was found among the ruins of
the old Fort St. Louis, near Tallahassee. On
the mound, are growing live oaks four feet in
diameter. They certainly indicate a remote
antiquity for this gun. It weighs thirteen
pounds and must have been used with a rest,
as no ordinary man could have levelled it.
We understand the gentleman in possession
of this old arquebus intends to exhibit it.
[iV. O. Crescent , Jan. 30 th.
The Cotton Experiment in Jamaica. —“ The
first Report on the Progress of Cultivation,
from 21st Oiit. to 31st Deo. 1850," has been
presented by the manager. Mr. Williams
states that he has hardly had time to carry
out his arrangements: but he feels as confi
dent as he ever did, that cotton can be grown
in Jamaica to compete, in every respect, with
that of America, provided that sufficient and
continuous labor can be obtained when re
quired. On his taking possession of Green
wall, there were already planted seveenteen
acres m cotton, from which he anticipates ob
taining three or more bales of white, and
nearly one of yellow wool, by the Ist March.
The breaking out of the cholera, and the in
tervention of the holidays, tended, in a great
measure, to retard his operations ; but the
people have commenced to work, and he hopes
that the cultivation will now go on without
further interruption. The expenses ot the
undertaking, to the 21st December amounted
to £172 19s. 2d.— Cordova s Advertising Sheet,
Jan. 23.
“Hans, where is the horse?"
“He proke der stable in two—kicked the
traces open, and run around de lamp post mit
der corner grocery —like de devils."
(Correspondence of the N. Y. Jour, of Commerce.')
Washington, Feb. 9, 1851.
The friends of a Branch Mint in California,
are about to make an effort for a clean bill es
tablishing a mint at San Francisco, without
incumbrance of other provisions. I should
not be surprised if they carry it. There are
some strong arguments in favor of a mint in
California. There are, in the world, one hun
dred mints, and the annual product of the
precious metals is about 160 millions.
The United States has but four mints,though
we furnish a very large portion of the whole
amount of bullion for coinage. It ie also be
lieved to be important to the commerce of
the country to coin the California gold on the
pot. It will boos considerable benefit to the
gold diggers and miners, and will encourage
the efforts about to be made in the quartz
mining. I learn that the clean bill will pass
the Senate, where it will originate.
In the House, it is said that the Pennsyl
vanians will support the project, though they
voted against the New York Bill. They think
that this measure will necessarily settle the
mint question; but that is a mistake. It will
expedite the removal of the U. S. mint from
Philadelphia to New York.
The Board of Accounts is now before the
House. It is the Senate bill. It provides for
the appointment of three Commissioners, at a
salary of four thousand dollars each, to hold
their offices for six years. Their decisions are
to be final, in cages where they agree unani
mously. An Attorney is to represent the in
terest of the U. S. and his salary is to be three
thousand dollars, and he is to be appointed by
the President, with the consent of the Senate.
The bill is a good one, but I will not vouch for
its passage.
It is stated erroneously in a New York pa
per, that the French Spoliation Bill is before
the Committee of Foreign Relations in the
House. The bill is on the Speaker’s table;
and can be passed, at any time, when it can get
votes enough.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST,
©eonjta.
SATURDAY MORNING, FEB. 15.
Decision in regard to Land Warrants
for Substitutes. —We understand, says the
Washington Republic, it has been decided by
the Pension Office, that where a soldier en
gaged to serve six months, and actually served
four months, and then hired a substitute who
served the residue of the term, both are en
titled to bounty land under the provisions of
the act of September 28, 1850, according to
ths actual amount of services rendered.
Gen- Tom Thumb,
This distinguished little man holds his last
levies at Masonic Hall this afternoon, at half
past 3, and this evening at 7 o’clock. Those
who have not yet paid the General a visit,
should avail themselves of this opportunity.
At a special meeting of the Board of Direc
tors of the South Carolina Railroad Company ,
held on Thursday, the 13th inst., Henry W*
Conner, Esq., was unanimously re-elected
President for the ensuing year.
A gentleman informs the editors of the Phil
adelphia Enquirer, that a few days since he
crossed Lake Champlain in a rail road car,
over a temporary rail road laid upon the ice.
The jail of Chesterfield District, (S. €.) was
on the 10th inst. without a tenant, and has
been so for several weeks, which has not been
the case for four or five years. The popula
tion of Chesterfield is stated to be about 10,-
000.
The value of the dry goods imported into
New-York, during the month of January, was
$17,359,108, being more by two millions of
dollars than the corresponding months last
year.
New-York and Bremen Line. —The
Washington and Herman, will resume their
trips between New-York, Southampton and
Bremen, on the 22d inst., on which day the
former vessel will leave.
Cheap Postage—Coming to the Point. —
The Baltimore Clapper learns from Washing
ton, that Barnabus Bates, the original advo
cate of cheap postage in the U. S. has made
proposals to Congress, in consequence of their
hesitation to pass the cheap postage bill, to
transport the mails onfall the existing routes
in the U. States, and give for the privilege for
ten years one million of dollars. He proposes
to charge on letters only two cents for each
half ounce and fraction of an ounce prepaid,
and deliver them to their address free of any
additional charge, in all the towns and cities
containing ten thousand or more inhabitants.
Newspapers, periodicals, hand-bills, and any
printed matter, at half the present rates. To
each member of Congress, for their franking
privilege, he will furnish twenty-five hundred
stamps per annum.
Mr. Bates, in behalf of himself and associa
tes, offers to give satisfactory security for the
fulfillment of the conditions of this contract,
which shall go into operation on the Ist of
January, 1852. If this offer be refused, we
cannot see how Congress can any longer hesi
tate to give the people the cheap postage they
have petitioned for. We understand that
several enterprising capitalists of New York
and New Jersey have united with Mr. Bates
in this offer, and are willing and anxious to
obtain the contract.
At an election held on Monday last, for an
Intendant and six Wardens, lor the Town of
Hamburg, the following gentlemen were elect
ed for the ensuing year.
Intendant —M. Gray, Esq.
Wardens— Wm. Spires, George Robinson, J.
J. Kennedy, M. O’Keeffe, 0. M’Donald and
S. E. Bowers.
Election.—- The following gentlemen have
been elected delegates to the State Conven
tion for Edgefield district. Their names stand
in the order in which they were elected ;
James Bones, F. H. Wardlaw, John Lake,
M, L. Bonham, F. W. Pickens, R. B. Bouk
night, Wiley Harrison.
Printing Press Driven by Water.-— The
proprietors of the Boston Traveller drive their
printing press by water power. This is a new
thing under the sun. Through a two inch
lead pipe, a stream of Cochituate is introduced
into a meter, which only occupies twenty
four square inches. The fall of water between
the Boston reservoir and this meter is about a
hundred feet. This two inch stream will dis
charge eighty gallons of water each minute,
and in passing through the meter will give a
motive power equal to what is cahed three
horse power. This is more than sufficient for
the use of the press.
The above facts are stated by a correspon
dent of the Newburyport Herald. The “me
ter" is a new invention of Mr. Samuel Huse,
an instrument for the exact measurement of
the amount of water passing through a water
pipe.
Arrival or the Alabama.— The steamship
Alabama, Capt. Ludlow, arrived at her wharf
yesterday from New York, bringing fifty-three
cabin and eight steerage passengers, With a
heavy freight. She experienced very severe
weather all the passage, with strong head
winds, which will account for her non-arrival
at the usual hour.
At a quarter past nine on the evening of
the 9th inst., thirty miles west of Hatteras,
the Alabama passed the Florida, Capt. Lyon,
hence for New York. —Savannah Republican ,
13 th inst.
We notice'the death, in New York, on the
6th inst., of Curtis Bolton, in the 70th year
of his age. The deceased was a merchant of
distinction and eminence, and was formerly
engaged in business in this city.— lb.
Dry Dock. —There are now two herma
phrodite brigs in the Dry Dock of 160 and
180 tons each. They are placed with the
sterns near each other—the bows projecting
slightly beyond either end of the dock. This
arrangement exhibits sufficiently the advan
tage of size. The whole time occupied in let
ting out a schooner, and docking the two
brigs was only two hours and a quarter. The
history of this dock thus far, has been from
its very inception, one of great success. — lb.
Mulford Marsh, Esq., has shown us a speci
men of what we presume to be marl, mixed
with fragments of sea shells, which forms a
considerable hill on his plantation, in Burke
county. T.iis plantation is eqidistant from
Waynesboro’and the Savannah river. The
sub tance rubbed between the fingers, has
an unctuous, soapy feeling, evidently making
it an excellent manure. It doubtless belongs
to those calcareous depositos so extensive in
Burks county — lb.
(From the Charleston Mercury .)
Election Returns-
Barnwell District. —l'he lollowing gen
tlemen have been elected Delegates to the
State Convention, from Barnwell District, viz:
E. Bellinger,jr. Esq* Col. S. W. Trott. J. Y.
Martin, Esq. A. P. Aldrich. Esq. W. Graham,
Esq.
Richland District. —The following are
the Delegates elect|from Richland District,viz:
James N. Adams, Maxcy Gregg W., F. De-
Sausaure, A. H* Gladden, and C. Bookter,,
St. Bartholomew’s Parish. —The follow
ing gentlemen have been elected to represent
St. Bartholomew’s Parish, in the State Con
vention, viz. E. St; P. Bellinger, Lewis O'
Bryan, David Walker, and Dan’l. S. Hen
derson.
St. Helena Parish.— John Fripp and El-
Rhett, Fsqs. have been elected to represent
St. Helena in the State Convention,
(Reported for the Baltimore Clipper .)
Thirty-First Congress—2d Session-
Washington, Feb. 11, 1851.
SENATE.
After the presentation of numerous petitions
and memorials, Mr. Soule moved that 2,500
additional copies of the report recently com
municated by the War Department upon deep
ening the mouth of the Mississippi river, be
printed, and the motion was agreed to.
Mur. Douglas presented the memorial of the
Mayor and corporate authorities of Washing
ton, in favor of a line of steamers to Africa.
A resolution offered by Mr. Seward, direct
ing an enquiry into the propriety of reducing
the standard of small silver coin, was agreed
to.
The bill from the House, making appropria
tions to supply deficiencies in the appropria
tions for the year 1851, was taken up and
passed.
The Senate took up the kill granting ten
millions of acres of public lands to the several
States of the Union, for the benefit of the in
digent insane, and after debate, the bill was
ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
Adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Mr. Evans, of Maryland, asked but did not
obtain leave to introduce a bill, to repeal so
much of the act of last session as provides for
an extention of the Capitol, and makes an ap
propriation, in part, for that purpose.
The bill to establish a Board of Accounts
was taken up, the question being on agreeing
to the substitute reported from the committee
of the Whole on the State of the Union—per
mitting persons aggrieved with the decisions
of the Executive Department to sue the U.
States in tha. Courts by bill in equity —and the
question was decided in the negative—yeas 85,
nays 106.
The question was now stated on ordering to
a third reading, the bill exactly as it came
from the Senate—providing for a Board of
three Commissioners to adjudicate claims re
ferred to them, appointing an Attorney for
the TJ. States, Clerks, Messenger, &c.
The bill was then rejected by yeas 99, nays
107.
A motion was made to reconsider the vote
just taken, and to lay that motion on the ta
ble. It was disagreed to—yeas 94, nays 95.
Tne question was stated on the motion to
reconsider.
Mr. Inge moved to postpone the further
consideration of the subject until to-morrow,
but the motion did not prevail —ayes 69, noes
92.
The vote by which the bill was rejected
wa3 reconsidered—yeas 102, nays 94.
Mr. Duer moved to reconsider the vote by
which the bill was ordered to be engrossed for
a third reading, and on motion of Mr. Inge
this motion was laid on the table —yeas 92,
nays 91.
The question recurred on the passage of
the bill, when, on motion of Mr. Inge it was
laid on the table —yeas 100, nays 96. Ad
journed.
(Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier.)
Baltimore, Feb. 13.
New York Market Feb. 11.—Cotton has de
clined a quarter of a cent —2,500 bales sold,
Middling Uplands 12|;Orleans 13$. Other ar
ticles unchanged.
New-Ouleans, Feb. 12, 2.05 P. M.
The Market. —Cotton is dull and easier pri
ces have been submitted to —3000 bales sold
to-day. Molasses has advanced; prime brings
25£ to 26c. A cargo of Carolina Bice brought
3|.
The brig \andalia, Pendleton, from your
port, has arrived.
New-Obleans, Feb. 12, 9.25 P. M.
The Market. — Cotton is heavy and declining
—3OOO bales sold, Middling ll£. Prime Mo
lasses has advanced; sales at 26 a 27£c.
Whisky has declined.
The brig Almira, Brown, from your port
arrived to-day. ’
“The Soil op the South.”— The publica
tion of this work has been delayed solely on
account of the unexpected delay in receiving
the type. They were ordered in time to ena
ble the publishers to issue the first number
by the 15th of January, but from the careless
ness of agents to whom they were sent at Sa
vannah, they have not been received. The
publishers are expecting all the necessary ma
terial daily, and as soon as they are received
they will proceed with the publication, com
mencing with the January number. This will
be done in order to make the volume com
plete. The friends of the work need have no
apprehensions as to its success; that is al
leady ensured by the response which has been
made by the public. The patrons of the pa
per will no doubt exouse the delay in view of
the circumstances. The publishers will be
obliged to the press for a notice of this expla
ation.—Columbus Sentinel,
33g Jlagnetit Cckgrapt).
Reported for the Constitutionalist.
Charleston, Feb. 14, p. m.
TIDINGS FROM THE ATLANTIC.
Capt. Williams, of the ship Seine, from
Havre, arrived at New York, reports seeing
the steamship Atlantic, four days out ftom
Liverpool, in longitude 21, under full steam.
The Seine had encounted heavy gale 3 of wind.
Capt. W. thinks the Atlantic has been dis
abled, and could not reach the Western Is
lands.
Charleston, Feb. 14, p. m.
Cotton.— Sales 2000 bales at 10i to 12 11-16.
The market is depressed, and prices show a
downward tendency. Fair quoted, nominal
ly 124 to 12f cents.
The Alta Californian records the following
singular case of kidnapping :
“ Some time in the month of July or Au
gust last, the American schoonor Jupiter, Cap
tain Snow, arrived at the Island of Dominique,
(one of the group of the Marquesas Islands,)
and remained there for several weeks. While
at the Island of Dominique, the captain and
mate induced five females, one of whom was
the Queen of the bay, and only fourteen years
of age, and the others the daughters of chiefs,
to go on board tbe schooner, by some false
pretence, and, soon after they were on board,
got under way, and forcibly, against the will
of the females, brought them to this port. —
During the voyage the females were treated
with great cruelty, and after their arrival here
they were treated still worse, so much so that
all of them jumped overboard, and endeavor
ed to escape to the shore. Having been saved
from drowning, they were again taken on
board, and soon after the schooner sailed for
Stockholm, still retaining thafemalea on board.
“ The captives were afterwards taken to San
Francisco, by Col. Hays, and upon being taken
before the Justices of the Supreme Court, were
ordered to go free. Capt. Snow and his mate,
Coleman, were also arrested, and after an ex
amination, committed for trial, for false im
prisonment of the women, on board his ves
sel in the Bay. Bail was fixed at $8,000,”
Nashville and Chattanooga Rail-Road
—Messrs. Murdoch & Townsend, are making
fine progress with the work on their lot of
said Road. Their work for the last month,
amounted to the rise of $13,000, and they
would have made much greater progress, if
they could have procured an additional num
ber of Dirt Cars. They have contracted with
the Proprietors of the Car Factory in this
place, for the making of a number of Dirt
Cars. One of these cars will carry as much
dirt at once as eight carts, and can be drawn
by one horse. This will be the saving of a
heavy expense to the contractors; they also
wish to purchase 60 additional dirt cars.—
Chattanooga Advertiser, 12 th inst.
A New California. —We learn that a lump
of gold weighing near one quarter of a pound,
and other particles of a smaller size, were dis
covered in some of the pits sunk on the Green
ville and Columbia rail-road near the Saluda
river. These lumps were found on land be
longing to Maj. Wellborn. We hope some of
our friends in that section will inform us of
the particulars of this valuable discovery. If
it is really pure gold, we predict a perfect
stampede in that direction. Our informant is
Mr. William J. Moore, wh© resides in that
neighborhood. —Anderson {S. C.) Gazette .
MARRIED,
At Due West, on the 4th inst., by the Rev. J.
N. Young, Mr. Robert Martin, of Abbeville
District, to Miss Frances E. Greens., of Ham
burg, S.C.
special notices.
MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS.
AUGUSTA MANUFACTURING COMP’Y ?
February 14,1851.
O' A Stated Annual Meeting of Stockholders
will be at the Company 7 * office, on MONDA Y, the
17th inst., at 12 o’clock, M,
feb 15 2 JAMES HOPE, Agent.
ORDER OF CELEBRATION.
22b FEBRUARY, 1851.
At 11 o’clock, A. M., the procession will be
formed in front of the United States Hotel, and
proceed to Concert Hall, under the command of
William H. Maharrey, Esq., Marshal of the
day, when, after divine service, Washington’s
Farewell Address will be read by W. W. Mont
gomery, Esq., and an Oration will be delivered
by John K. Jackson, Esq.
Order of Procession.
1. Oglethorpe Infantry.
2. Major General and Staff.
3. Brigadier General and Staff,
4. Colonel and Officers of the Tenth Regiment
5. Officers of the Army and Navy.
6. Orator and Reader.
7. The Reverend Clergy.
8. City Authorities.
9. Magistrates of the City and Couuty.
10. Masons.
11. Odd Fellows.
12 Solis of Temperance,
13. Fire Compauies of the City.
14 Mechanics’ Society.
15. Medical Faculty and S.udents,
16. Students at Law.
17. Young Men’s Library Association.
18. Citizens generally.
At sunrise a Federal Salute will be fired and a
National Salute at 12 o’clock, m.
The Reverend Clergy, the City Authorities, the
Magistrates of the City and County, Members of
the different Societies, the Fire Companies, Medt
cal Faculty and Students, the Students at Law,
and the citizens generally are respectfully invited
to participate in the celebration of the day.
The seats on the right of the Hall will be Re
served for the Procession.
COMMITTEE OF ARRANGEMENTS.
City Council, Oglethorpe Inf
A. J. Nowland, Lt. D. Ki kkpatrick
W. E. Dearing, J. W. Spear
Robt. H. May, A. C. Force,
Albert Hatch, A, Bleakley,
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(CP Surgical Notice. —Dr. Paul F. Eve ha,
returned to his residence in Augusta, and is pre
pared to resume the practice in Surgery.
His Infirmary for Negroes is again opened for
the reception of Patients. lmo feb 8
MECHANICS’ BALL.
O 3 THIS HALL will come off' at the Ma
sonic Hall, on FRIDAY EVENING, the 21st in
stant, under the management of Mr. A. J. Deme-
Rest . Subscribers can procure Tickets at the
Book Stores of Geo. A. Oates & Co., J. A, Carrie
& Co., and of either of the Managers.
managers:
R. V. Goetchius, VV. K. Kitchen,
M. H. Williams, G. Shackelford,
J. B. Hart, G McCarty,
J. W. Walker, R. Spencer,
11, Goodrich,