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The Webb and Willis Controversy in a new Phase.
It was shown by our New York letter yester
day, (says the Baltimore Sun) that the Webb and
Willis controversy, which we hoped was silenced,
has broken out in a new shape, w r hich will afford
vast food for the gossipping appetite. The New
York Post gives the following fuller report of the
case in the Superior Court of that city:
Smith Coddington, and Mary his wife, a
gainst James Watson Webb. —The plaintiffs in
this case are Mary Inman, a daughter of the late
Henry Inman, and her husband. Mr. Coddington,
of Rahway, New Jersey, who prosecute Webb
for the recovery of certain letters w hich he
■wrongfully detains. The •omplaint sets forth
that Mary Inman had a correspondence with N.
P. Willis, in the year 1844, she then being about
sixteen years of age, just from boarding school,
which was simply sentimental literary, and not
at all criminal in any respect, but which took
place w ithout the consent of her parents, and
was therefore ill-advised and improper. Her fa
ther coming to the knowledge of the fact, desired
to- procure the letters and authorised his two
friends. Mr. George Buckham and Janies Wat
son Webb, to request Willis to deliver them up,
which Mr. Willis did; but Webb, though required
and promising to do so, never gave them over to
to Mr. Inman nor any of his family. These
letters are still in Webb’s possession, and in a
late controvery with Mr. Wills, he used them to
make a false, malicious and most damning charge
against Miss charge which has not one
word of truth in it from first to last.
The complaint then asseverates that the cor
respondence with Mr. Willis grew out of a dis
cussion of literary topics; that Mr. Willi’s wife,
a friend of the plaintiff, was cognizant of it
__ -daiDUghout; that it is absolutely and unquallified
ly untrue that the plaintiff, Mary 1., was ever
seduced by said Nathaniel P. Willis, or that she
ever had any improper association or connection
whatever with the said Willis; that there is no
foundation in truth for any charge of want of
virture and chastity, made against the plaintiff,
Mary Inman ; that is absolutely and unqualified
ly untrue that the father of the plaintiff became
heart-broken, or that his death was in any man
ner caused or expedited by reaaon of any corres
pondence or association which had taken place
between the said Nathaniel P. Willis and the
plaintiff. On the contrary, that to the latest hour
of his life, her father justly entertained the most
undoubted confidence in her integrity and virtue.
These statements are sworn to by Mary In-?
man aitd her husband, and they ask an order
from the court to restrain Webb from exhibiting
the letters to any one. and to compel him to res
tore them to tini rightful owners. Annexed is
an affidavit of George Buckham, who says that
he was one of the two persons appointed by
Henry Inman to ask Mr. Willis for ifie letters;
that he and Webb asked Willis to meet them at
Buckham's office, which he did, but did not know
the purpose of the meeting; that when he was
requested 1 to deliver the letters, he said he be
lieved he had some notes in his possession -which
he would willingly relinquish the next day, which
he did, first -wrapping them in a paper, sealing
them, and then handing them to Mr. Webb, to
be given to Mr. Inman, These two interviews
between the two parties were throughout of a
courteous nature—nothing like a threat or me
nance was held out to said Willis, nor -was any
charge or statement made that any improper in
tercourse had taken place between Willis and
the plaintiff.
j}Jr. Buckham further testifies that for several
years o.efore the death of Mr. Henry Inman, he
was the most intimate and confidential friend of
Inman; that he was always consulted by Inman,
not only on his business affairs, but on the most
private*family concerns; that they were in the
habit of having a conversation upon
this and upon other subjects, but that Inman never
upon any occasion, either directly or indirectly,
stated, or gave him cause even to imagine, that
he had any knowledge, or thought, or suspicion
that the daughter w r as otherwise than purer and
virtuous. On the contrary, he believes that up
to the hour of Inman’s death, he had the most
perfect confidence in the chastity and virtue of
his daughter. Hwnever expressed or intimated
the least suspicion that the correspondence with
Willis was criminal, or else k than simply indis
creet. The first knowledge that Mr/ Buckham
had that anybody supposed that the correspon
dence contained any admission, or evidence of
the seduction of Mary Inman, was through the
article in the Courier & Enquirer, attacking Mr.
Willis.
He testifies also, that he demanded the letters
of Webb for Inman, and that Webb promised to
give them up, but has never done so to this day.
Webb was never authorized to open the package,
or to make himself acquaintedjwith the contents*
Mm. Henry Inman, widow of Henry, next
testified that neither she nor her husband ever
entertained a suspicion that Mary had been se
duced by W illis, or that the correspondence re
lated to any improper intimacy. The .corres
pondence was simply an indiscretion which,
though censurable, was to be ascribed to extreme
youth and thoughtlessness on the pert of Mary.—
Mrs. Inman asserts that she had frequent, full
and unreserved conversations with Mr. Inman
on ih e whole subject of the correspondence and
its ehatu 0^1- ; an d s^e knows that he never hod a
doubt or suspicion °f the purity of the daughter.—
She says further* that she has requested the let
ters referred to from Webb, but that, though he
promised to surrender them, he has never done
so. Mr. Holbert Smales swears to having made
such demand, in the name of the plaintiffs, and
that Webb promised to deliver them to the plain
tiff at the proper time.
Judge Sanford, of course, with such a state of
facts, granted the orders prayed for, and ordered
that Webb do absolutely desist and retrain from
maktoS- or permitting to be made, any copy or
extract of, or from, the notes, letters, correspon
dence. ana any other papers mentioned in the
complaint in this action. He was to show cause
yesterday why fee efepuld not deliver up the letters'
Mrs SwissHELM on Marriage,— Mrs. Swiss
helm has, in the wunetfhw editorial career,
Mid many wise and pithy things; but there are
Tmne, perhaps, in which the whole community
«ri!l more heartily concur than in tha extract be
which we copy from her paper. Mrs. S. j.s
«fine writer, and has a happy way of saying
Y? ne * h : J. everV one does not
hi£sS%H confess that she has told
1 dear ffeourselves however, we ‘'blush and
own the soft impe 'f opinion that if it were not
4 “Many are of he opimon _ all fa .
j OT the stringency of the ci
milies would be broken up, and society go into
chaos. We have no such notion. If a procla
mation were made to day declaring eveiy mar
riage in the Union null and void and leaving it
once more to the choice of the parties w hether
the relation be renewed, business would be sus
pended, newspapers would stop, stores, factories
and workshops would close. The editors would
be all at home getting married, merchants, opera
tives and mechanics w ould each be waiting their
turn to have the nuptial knot re-tied. Cross, fret
ful, sickly wives, that had been almost felt a bur
den before, w ould grow very dear at the thought
of separation. Domineering, harsh husbands
would be forgiven; and in all places where a
spark of conjugal love remained, it would be
blown to a flame; where nothing but dead em
bers and the ashes remained they could be taken
up, made into soap, and society elcansed thereby.
{From the Savannah Georgian.)
The Convention and its Resolutions.
A portion of the Federal Whig and Constitu
tional Union press, can see nothing but disunion
and secession in the action of the late Democratic
and Southern Rights Convention. The impres
sion made upon members of the Convention and
others present, w T as somewhat different from that
received by our opponents of the press. The ac
tion of the Convention, its nomination, and its
resolutions, looked so little like disunion that a
very respectable gentleman, a Southern Rights
Whig from the County of Burke, withdrew from
the body, on the adoption of the report of the Com
mittee. He stated that he was a disunionist and
desired to see some action in favor of disunion,
but seeing none, he felt constrained to withdraw
from the body. This he did, and his, we believe,
was the only vote geven against the resolutions
and the nominee of the Convention. Had he re
garded it as a “secession” assembly and its nomi
nee as a secessionist. w r ould he have withdrawn
from it?
But says the Republican “those of the party
w r ho sighed to get back upon the old democratic
platform had to succumb.” Ah indeed ? What
said the Convention ?
Resolved , That the harmony and safety of this
Union depend upon a strict construction of the
Constitution, and the salvation of the South now
hangs upon it. And because w T e are for the Con
stitution as it is , we oppose a United States Bank—
all protective tariffs for pamper mg one section at the
expense of another , all internal improvements by the
General Government , and all legislation by Congress
not strictly and clearly allowed by the Constitution of
the Union.
Does not that look like the Democratic plat
form ? If not, what does it look like ? Is there
any Federal Whiggery in it?—The Federal por
tion of the Whig party, we suppose to be in favor
of a modification of the veto pow’er. The Con
vention said “we are for the Contitution” as it is.
Is not that one plank of the platform upon which
the Democratic party stood at the last Presiden
tal election ? Again: “We oppose aU. States
Bank.” Is not that Democratic ?—“All protec
tive Tariffs.” Democracy again, is it not ? In
ternal improvements by the general Govern
ment.” What is that but the faith of Jackson
and Polk ? Are we not then Democrats still—still
on the Democratic platform ? We say yes. And
we appeal to all good Democrats to rally upon
that platform.
But even other resolutions were strictly ac
cordant w r ith the previous action of the Georgia
Democracy. One of them denounces the aboli
tion of the slave trade in the District of Columbia.
Well, did not the Convention w r hich nominated
Gov. Towns in 1849 do the same ? Listen to the
Resolution then adopted.
'“Resolved , That we regard the passage of a law
by the Congress of the U. States abolishing the
slave trade in the District of Columbia as a direct
attack upon the institutions of the Southern
States to be resisted at every hazard.”
There will be found the same harmony through
out between the resolutions of’49 and 51, as that
existing between these two on the subject of the
slave trade in the District. The principal difer
ence is that the first denounced evils which were
then threatened, while the second condemns the
same evils now consummated. Another point of
difference is in relation to the doctrine of seces
sion. No party in Georgia having denied that
doctrine, prior to the meeting of the Convention
of’49, that body, of course, said nothing upon the
subject. This right however having been called
in question since that time, the Convention of
’sl boldly asserted it.
Furthermore, is not Gov. McDonald just as
good a Democrat as Gov. Towns ? Are not their
sentiments precisely identical? What reason
then has any' democrat who voted for Towns in
1849, for withholding his vote for McDonald in
1851? _
But it may be replied that such a platform,
with such a nominee, will exclude Southern
Rights Whigs from our ranks. We say this is
not the fact. Our Southern Rights Whig friends,
while both in the Convention and out of the Con
vention they disclaim for themselves the name
of Democrat, make no objections to others taking
it: and mindful of their oft repeated pledge to
hold the rights of the South paramount to -all par
ty considerations, with a patriotism signally horn
orable, have determined to act with the Demo
cracy for the sake of the South. Indeed with whom
else could they with any consistency unite ? Op
posed as they were to the “surrender” scheme,
can they vote for Cobb, who still claims to be a
pemocrat, and who was one of the supporters of
that hill .of abominations ? We answer no. Con
sistency and patriotism alike require, that they
sustain him whom the Democratic party and
Southern Rights Whigs, in Convention assem
bled have put in nomination. And this they
wi!J do, cheerfully, heartily, and enthusiastically.
Encourage Mechanics.
We have frequently thought that the practice
of purchasing at a great distauce fixup home, in
the Northern States, such articles as could easily
be manufactured and furnished at our own doors,
exhibits consumate folly on the part of the South,
Such a course of trade is not only calculated (but
certainly has the effect) to dram the Southern
States of a large proportion of their cash re
sources —to dishearten mechanics and artists, and
expel them from among us. Only a few weeks
ago on pur return from a trip up the Ohio river
curiosity induced us to notice the marks on some
of the freight and w r e saw more than a hupdred
old fashioned, stained bedsteads made of poplar
and other common wood, shipped at Cincinnati
and directed to Mobile, Ala. On the same boat
were six waggons taken to pieces and laid up on
the hurricane deck. The woodwork was rough
and smeared with red paint, and the iron work i
Was not better than can be made in any town in
the South, These exquisite speimens of North
ern skill in the mechanic arts, were directed to
Montgomery, Ala. a large beautiful, prosperous
commercial city—the capital of the State. The
presumption is, there were wood, iron, red paint
an |j mechanics, in both of those Alabama cities:
and there was no necessity for purchasing such
wagons and furniture in a distant State. There
is an unaccountable, and we think, censurable
to purchase articles made in our own
towns. We think it highly probable that if a
hatter, shoemaker, tailor, saddler, or other trades
man. who is amongst us, and not liberally sup
ported, were to leave his residence and locate in
New York, Philadelphia, or some other Northern
city, his Southern acquaintance who might meet
him there, would patronize him more than they
did when he lived amongst them. Such is the
passion for far fetched commodities. But we
think the unkindnness, (to say nothing of the
usurpations and arrogance) of our Northern
hretheren is bringing us to effect and arousing us
to a gep§e of our interest, on this subject; and un
less they greatly rqva if* their department,
they may hereafter expect to receive touch less
of Southern cash than they have been auccstom
ed to enjoy,:— Holly Springs Palladium.
The great French Tunnel, three miles in
length, is on the railroad between Marseilles an 4 j
Avignon. Its height is thirty feet, and width !
24 feet, and its depth below? the surface of the |
ground 600 feet. The cost of tunnelling was j
$2,050,000 I
[ The Drunkard.—Poverty, in itself, is not a
crime. No disgrace belongs to the man who, by
reverses in business, is led down from affluence
to destitution: The poorest man who walks this
earth of sorrow, or who toils in vain to clothe
and feed his children, can stand in the pres
ence of the man of millions, with no conscious
ness of inferiority. But when poverty is the re
sult of crime, it becomes at once sinful and dis
graceful: wfflen it is the result of gambling, or
drinking, or lying, it covers its victims with a
robe of shame.—Under any circumstances it is
exceedingly unpleasant and inconvenient to the
very poor, and by most men, poverty is dreaded
as one of the worst of evils.—Now poverty is as
sure to follow a course of intemperance, as light
and heat to follow the rising of the sun. God
has so ordained. In his word he has declared
that the drunkard shall come to poverty, and
whenever w r e behold drunkenness, we also gaze
upon squalid misery. Go into any community
and you will find affluence to be the result of
sobriety, and destitution the sure attendant of
dissipation. You will expect to find in the neat,
vine-covered cottage, a frugal, temperate man;
and in the hovel unpainted and desolate, the
windows shattered, the doors unhinged, an in
temperate man.
The Florida Indians.
We are indebted to the Ocala Argus, for the
following extra:
Tampa, May 25,1851:
An inquisition was held yesterday morning
on the bodies of three Indians found hanging
dead in our jail on the 23d ult. Verdict, volun
tary suicide by hanging. These Indians were
delivered to Capt. J. C. Casey, Indian Agent, (on
his requisition) at Fort Myers, some time last
week, as the murderers of Daniel Hubbard, of
Marion county, on the 6th day of August last,
and by Capt. Casey delivered to the civil authori
ty of this county, on the 20th ult„ by order of
the Secretary of War.
They were detected in trying to break jail by
means of fire on the 23d ult., at which time their
means of making fire were taken away from
them and they given to understand that they
would be fastened to the centre of the Jail to
prevent further attempts, and while our Sheriff
went to a blacksmith’s shop for additional fasten
ings, it seems they hung their bodies by the neck
by means of small cords taken from their eloth
ing. to the iron grates in one of the windows and
escaped by flight in air, thus cheating Marion
county out of three Indians.
SIMON TURMAN.
The jug is the most singular utensil. A pail,
tumbler, or decanter may he raised, and you may
satisfy yourself by optical proof that it is clean;
but the jug has a little hole in the top, and the
interior is all darkness. No eye penetrates it
no hand moves over the surface. You can clean
it only by putting in water, shaking it up and
pouring it out. It the water comes out clean, you
judge you have succeeded in cleaning the jug,
and vice versa.—Hence the jug is like the human
heart. No mortal eye can look into its recesses,
and you can only judge of its purity by what
comes out of it.
Ladies’ Costume at Panama.— The Panama
Herald says it has seen a native girl wearing
twenty-one American double eagles ($420) linked
together so as to form a chain. On the persons
of two others we have seen from $3,000 to $5 -
i 000 worth of pearls and diamonds, with hundreds
| of dollars’ worth of rich lace; and yet all were
bare-footed, deeming shoes and stockings un
necessary to complete their costume.
Land Reform Meeting. —A Land Reform
meeting was held last evening at Tammany Hall,
in which resolutions were passed recommending
the Democratic party throughout the U. States
to make the question of free homes for all one of
the cardinal issues of the party in the next Presi
dential canvass, and pledging the friends of land
| reform to oppose every candidate not endorsing
j their views. Letters of approval were read from
j Senator Walker of Wisconsin, ex-Senator Nich-
I olson of Tennessee, Andrew Johnson, member of
Congress for Tennessee, and others.— Neeo York
Courier.
Railroad Accident— The Express train in
coming down from Hamburg, yesterday, and im
mediately on crossing the Bridge over Edisto
River, above Branchville, came in contact with
what is termed a snake head. The engine pass
ed over it safely, but slowly—the passenger car
was smashed all to pieces—injuring slightly one
of the passengers, Mr, R. Douglass, of Georgia.
Fortunately no lives were lost. The Engineer
deserves much praise for the cool and intrepid
manner in which he acted—never for a moment
forsaking his post, and making good his time into
the city with a baggage car of live lumber.—
Charleston Sun, 10 th inst.
The Whigs of the city of Norfolk, in general
meeting a few days since, among others unani
mously passed the following resolution :
Resolved , That we have the most unlimited con
fidence in Mr. Fillmore, and cordially approve of
his administration, which has been conducted
with that prudence and wisdom so well calculat
ed to promote the gteat interests of the country
and harmonize the threatening elements of its
different sections.
Cool.— The following orders were given by
the captain of a Western steamboat, when she
was about to engage in a race with another boat:
Rosin up, thar, and tell the engineer to shut
down the safety valves. Give her goss. Gen
tlemen who haven’t stepped up the captain’s of*
fice and settled, will please retire to the ladies’
cabin till we pass that boat or bust. Fire up !”
Prince Albert.— His own anxiety and that
of the Queen, about the success of the London
Exhibition.may be accounted for from the fact that
he advanced $500,000 for the preparations for the
show. His public spirit does him honor, and is
not likely to be costly to him after all, as the re
ceipts from which he was to look for his .indem
nity already exceed that sum.
. Battle of New-Orleans. —A correspondent
informs us that the late Major Davezac, when a
passenger some years ago, on board the packet
ship Cambridge, from Liverpool to New-York,
related the following incident illustrative of the
sharp shooting at the battle of New-Orleans.
He stated that, on the morning after the battle,
twelve broiled robbins were placed on the break
fast table, prepared for General Jackson, and his
suite, which had been shot with a rifle, through
the head, by one of the Kentucky Riflemen who
had been in the conflict; he hail fired thirteen
times and missed hitting his bird, 'in the head,
only once! This circumstance being soon known
in the neighborhood, a certificate of the fact was
requested of and obtained from Gen. Jackson
and his aids, by the British officers, that, by such
evidence, on ther return to England, they might
exhibit to their Government the character of the
enemy at New-Orleans.— N. Y. Courier.
Unfortunate Coincidence. —Two negroes,
whilst engaged in placing rafters on two build
ings, one of which was in Queen, and the other
in Beaufain-street, were precipitated to the
ground on Saturday, and injured so severely, that
they are not expected to recover. The accident,
in the instance of one, was occasioned by his
stepping op the brick-work before the mortar
had sufficiently dried to support him. It is a
singular coincidence that they both should have .
been engaged in the same business at the time
of the accident.— Charleston Sun.
In. the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, re
cently, Chief Justice Gibson decided an auction
case as follows, • ,
The employment of a puffer at a public auc- i
ion, vitiates a sale, and the buyer is defrauded, 1
even t tough he did not pay more than the article was i
wo/th in the opinion of witnesses. A man is de- 1
fiauded whenever he is incited by artful means 1
to bid niore than he otherwise would; and when- 1
ever th*pnce is even so little enhanced by a se- l
cret contrivance, he is cheated! Judgment* re- i
versed” j
AUGUSTA, GA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 11.
For Governor.
CHARLES J. MCDONALD.
Our Weekly.
We issue our Weekly to-day in an entire new
dress. It is a large and handsome sheet. Its ap
pearance will vie, in beauty of typography and
general neatness, with that of any paper pub
lished in the Union. The size of the sheet does
not vary from that hitherto issued weekly from
this office, but, owing to a change in the type,
the amount of matter it contains is much greater.
If our friends like its appearance and its con
tents, we hope they will use some exertions to
extend its circulation.
Northern Conservatism.
The Constitutional Unionists in Georgia talk
much of Northern conservatism and unionism,
and no words are too honied in which to praise
the sublime patriotism of their model Unionists.
Mr. Webster is confessedly their leader—the
very incarnation of patriotism—and his advocacy
of the Compromise is considered, in itself, evi
dence that it is, as Mr. Cobb declares it, “ wise,
LIBERAL AND JUST.”
It would abate somewhat of the pretensions of
Mr. Webster to be a counsellor and guide to
Southern men, if the Compromise presses in
Georgia would publish his speeches in which his
real views on slavery, and his views of confin
ing and cramping the slave power, are freely
given. They will be found in his Buffalo
speech. But we have seen no where in the
compromise press of Georgia a word of denun
ciation or of dissent to the abolition sentiments
oi that speech—nor do we remember even to
have seen those portions of that most obnoxious
speech in their columns.
The Anti-Slavery Standard , however, the or
gan of the abolitionists, publishes the speech in
full. The abolitionists evidently find comfort in
that speech, especially in that sentence which
says—
“ Gentlemen, I regret extremely that slavery
exists in the Southern States, and that Congress
has not the power to act upon it. But it may
be, in the dispensation of Providence, that some
remedy may be found for it.”
Who knows how soon the Abolitionists and
such model Union compromise men as Mr.
Webster—yea, the great Daniel himself—may
be lovingly concocting some plan by which
Congress may be enabled to act upon it?—
Where there is a will , there is a way' ) At least,
anti-slavery ingenuity and latitudinarian feder
alism, are not often at a loss for modes of giving
powers to Congress not dreamed of in the school
of strict construction.
The declaration put forth by Mr. Webster, on
the part of the North, that no new slave States
shall ever be admitted into the Union, is another
significant sign. It is another one of the fruits of
Southern submissionism to the Compromise.
Mr. Webster has seen the South robbed of all
the territory, and that she has submitted to it
and sees a party among us, denouncing as traitors,
all in the South who raise a voice of remon
strance to it. Well may he feel emboldened,
now, to speak of the future, as well as of the
past, and declare that never, hereafter, are the
Southern people to have a share in any territory
beyond that they now hold.
Yet, as Mr. Webster, too, like Mr. Howell
Cobb, is a compromise man, and a Union man,
it is, we presume, considered by the Georgia
compromisers, impolitic to object to his opinions.
So far from it, those who would warn the people
of the tendency of this sort of Constitutional
Unionism, are to be overwhelmed with abuse,
and Daniel—the God-like—commended to their
admiration. He has been even talked of as their
next candidate for the Presidency.
Globe Hotel.
We had an acceptable specimen of the cuisine
of this excellent house, in the shape of a bowl of
Turtle Soup, sent us yesterday, by Mr. L. S.
Morris, the enterprising proprietor. If he serves
up such dishes often, he bids fair to retain the
many friends he has won for his house, and to
increase the number.
Richmond Superior Court—Carelessness in the
Telegraph Office.
Judge Starnes was at his post yesterday morn
ing, and opened Court at the hour ’to which it
stood adjourned.
We understand, from him, that being disap
pointed in reaching Charleston, from Sullivan’s
Island, in time for the train on the morning of
the Bth, he called, on Monday morning early, at
the Telegraph office in Charleston, and handed
to one of the operators there, a despatch for the
Clerk ot the Court, directing an adjournment for
one day, with a request that it be forwarded im
mediately. The importance of promptness was
specially urged. He was assured that it would be
forwarded without delay. The despatch did not
reach Augusta until about six o’clock, P. M.—a
half hour after Judge Starnes himself arrived.
Such carelessness should not be allowed to pass
unnoticed.
We leayn from the Georgia Citizen that on
Wednesday last, a young man named J. M. Clif
ford, was arrested in Macon, charged with the
offence of attempting to abduct negroes from their
owners. Information had been forwarded from
Virginia to Macon that a man of the name of
Crawford had there been arrested on a charge of
theft, in whose possession a letter was found post
marked Macon, and signed by J. W. Clifford,
which was a detail of some plans meditated to
"raise the wind,” by running off negroes. A
copy of this letter was sent out; and we under
stand that, taken literally, there is sufficient evi
dence in it to show a felonious purpose. After
examination before a board of Magistrates, Clif
ford was sent to jail, to await the receipt of the
original letter, which has been written for.
The Battery of the city of New York is to be
enlarged by adding 11 acres, 3 rods and 32 poles
to its present extension line, at a cost of $27,152.
The present size of the Battery is 10 acres, 3
rods and 32 poles, and the extension will make
24 acres. <
A letter from London says the most stupend
ous failure of modern days is the Thames Tun- 1
nel. Built at enormous cost, it was intended
that it should become a great avenue of commu- <
nication between the two sides of the Thames, c
Unforseen difficulties in the way of getting heavy 1
teams up gnd down at the entrances prevented £
this, and now the wonderful Tunnel is become a r
paltry penny exhibition, with toy stores, gftind- 1
ing organs, and Punch Judy shows scattered i
through it, i
[communicated.]
Chattanooga, June 4, 1851.
Mr. Editor: —Appreciating the deep interest
which your journal ever manifests in regard to
Georgia, I take the liberty of forwarding you
- some statistics, which the late census has, in part,
developed, and which may be as new and inter
' esting to yourself and readers as it has been to
Your friend, G.
1—
Os the thirteen original States, Georgia and
s New York alone have regularly progressed in
1 rank from the taking of the first census, in 1790,
to the completion of the census in 1850. Their
relative ranks have been as follows: •
1790. 1800. 1810. 1820. 1830. 1840. 18,'SO.
■ N. Hampshire.. 10 10 11 11 H H n
3 Massachusetts.. 4 5 5 5 5 5 4
Rhode Island... 12 12 12 12 12 12 12
Connecticut.... 8 8 8 10 10 10 10
New York 5 3 2 11 1 l
New Jersey.... 9 9 10 9 9 9 9
Pennsylvania... 2 2 3 3 2 2 2
c Delaware 13 13 13 13 13 13 13
Maryland 6 77 7 8 8 8
Virginia 11 1 2 3 3 3
i N. Carolina 3 4 4 4 4 4 6
S. Carolina 7 6 0 6 6 77
‘ Georgia 11 11 9 8 7 6 5
By this table it will be perceived that New
T York, from being the fifth, in 1790, has been, for
a term of decades, the first; while Georgia has
’ advanced from the eleventh, in 1790, to the fifth
in 1850. None other of the States have advanc
-1 ed and maintained their rank.
3 But the most remarkable point for observation
1 and comment consists in its prodigious relative
s progress in comparison with the other States.
New York—again in this instance—alone proves
' worthy of comparison, and even she lags be
-3 hind.
3 The ratio of increase of these two States, ac
cording to the different census, gives—
s 1790 to 1800, Georgia 96 per ct.—New York 72.
> 1800 to 1810, “ 55 “ “ 63.
s 1810 to 1820, “ 35 “ 11 43.
1820 to 1830, “ 51 " « 39.
1830 to 1840, “ 34 ;i 26.
* 1840 to 1850, “ 33 “ 27.
l
i Av. for each 10 years, 50 u t: 45.
i The proportionate advance of all the States
has been, from the census of 1790 to that of
r 1850, as follows :
3 New Hampshire, 124 Pennsylvania, 432
’ Massachusetts, 162 Delaware, 53
J Rhode Island, 113 Maryland, 82
Connecticut, 56 Virginia, 87
1 New York , 811 North Carolina, 93
New Jersey, 166 South Carolina,' 153
Georgia, 1,014.
J
If extent of territory, or more rapid advance
of population, entitles a State to the name of
Empire , certainly Georgia deserves it over that
’ of New York.
r Further per Steamer Pacific.
>
[ New York, June 7.
The U. S. mail steamship Pacific, Capt. Nye,
from Liverpool May 28th, arrived this noon,
1 having made the voyage in ten days and two
s hours, not allowing for difference of longitude.
f She brought 60 passengers, Liverpool papers
of the 28th, and London of the evening of the
f 27th.
The political and general intelligence is not of
l striking interest. Commercially the news is
. more favorable. The monetary crisis was be
lieved to have past.
Emigration.—During the past week no few
er than 366 emigrants have left the port of Gal
> way for America, and the tide from that quarter
; li is flowing with undiminished vigor.”
Sailing of the Prince Albert.—Aberdeen, !
May 24th.—Ihe Prince Albert, Kennedy, sailed
on Thursday afternoon, for the relief of Sir John
Franklin.
The boat’s crew of the French corvette Ale- !
mene were sent, on the 29th Nov. last, to find a
! passage for her on the Western side of New Cal
-1 edonia in the Pacific. As they did not return,
the barge was despatched, and found that they
had been killed and eaten by the Menema and
Bellep tribes, except three, who were made pri
soners, and forced to witness the feast. These
men were given up when the barge arrived. 1
The huts, plantations, and canoes of the canni
, bals were destroyed; some persons taken, and
twenty others shot.
The failure of the firm of W. and D. Oldenburg,
a German house at Leeds, has been announced.
The total liabilities are stated at between .£50.-
. 000 and £60,000. London and Manchester
firms are losers.
The accounts of the state of trade in the pro- ,
vinces during the past week give satisfactory in
dications that the resumption of a steady busi- :
ness will take place at Manchester so soon as the
the cotton crisis shall have been entirely ad
justed. From Nottingham a very favorable
change is reported in the lace trade, while in the !
woolen districts the markets remain without any I
material alteration.
Extension of Steam Navigation.—The
British and North American Royal Mail Steam- |
ship Company have decided upon a weekly com- j
munication between this port and America all !
the year round, calling, as at present, at Halifax
on the alternative voyage. Heretofore weekly
departures were confined to the summer months.
It is expected that in January, 1852, Holyhead
will be made the mail station.
(Correspondence of the Courier.)
Washington, June 7.
The Democratic State Convention held a few
days ago in Reading, Pennsylvania, is to have an
influence on the future political course of that
State, and it may have a decided influence upon
the next Presidential election. A large majority
of the Convention were undoubtedly in favor
Mr. Buchanan, as the nominee of the democracy
of the key-stone State for the Presidency. Mr.
Buchanan, during the agitations of 1850, was in
favor of the Missouri Compromise line, and pre
pared an argument in support of that measure, but
did not publish it, inasmuch as he feared that the
measure would not succeed. Among •ther de
mocratic candidates whose names have been
mentioned in the review are Gen. Cass, General
Houston, Judge Woodburry, Senator Douglas,
and General Wool.
The American Colonization Society whose seat
of operations is in this City, have appealed to the
public for collections in aid of the object, during
the months of June and July.
On Saturday last, the President held a consul
tation with all his Cabinet, and others, whose
presence he invited, on the subject of the various
plans for the enlargement of the Capitol. Five
or six distinguished architects who had offered
plans, were present; but no conclusion was arriv
ed at. The President found probably as many
opinions as there w'ere men. He says he will
hold no more meetings, and conferences on the
subject, but will proceed to act.
The great object in view, is, or ought to be, to
obtain new, suitable and commodious halls for
the Senate and House of Representatives. This
can and ought to be done without destroying the
symmetry of the Capitol. It is now suggested
that the President will hasten the decision and
the commencement of the work, so as to be pre
pared to lay the corner-stone of the new edifice
on the fourth of July.
The Factory girls, at Lovrell, are going in for
the new costume. A letter to the Tribune says:
Four young ladies have been perambulating
our streets all the morning, dressed in light blue
de laine skirts, long enough to reach below the
knee, with full Turkish trousers of the same,
and neat blue gaiters to match. They certainly
made a very neat and pretty appearance, and be
haved themselves in a very modest and becom
ing manner. This change in the ladies’ costume
is much approved of by every body here, and
bids fair to become the rage, particularly among
the factory girls, of whom we have some t welve
or fifteen thousand.
A Terrible Explosion. —The Madrid Opopa
of the 15th ult., quotes a letter from Seville, an
nouncing that a frightful catastrophe had occur
red in the garden of the Duke de Montpensier, at
Alcala del Rio. The Prince had caused a steam
engine to be placed in it for its irrigation, and
the 10th ult. was fixed for its trial. His royal
highness could not assist at the operation as he
intended, having been obliged to repair on that
day to Villamaurique. As the boiler to be used
for the experiment was not new, it was agreed
that it should be slowly heated, but, either from
neglect or imprudence on the part of the engi
neer, the boiler exploded, and overthrew the
building, burying under its ruins 60 or 70 specta
tors. M. Latour, Secretary of the commands of
the Duke, on hearing of the accident, immediate
ly repaired to the spot, accompanied by the
physician in attendance at the palace. On their
arrival, eighri dead bodies and sixteen wounded
had been removed from under the rubbish.
The best thing about a girl is cheerfulness.
how ruddy her cheeks may be. or
lips if she wears a scowl, even
her consider her ill-looking, while
the young lady who illuminates her counte
nance with smiles, will be considered coarse j
enough to grate nutmegs on. As perfume is to the *
rose, so is good nature to the lovely. Girls, think
of this.
[Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier. 1
New Orleans, June 6.
Cotton has been dull to-day, and barely a thou
sand bales have been sold. Prices remain un
changed. The sales for the week amount to
thirteen thousand bales.
The brig Carribee. Crabtree, has cleared for
Charleston.
We learn from a despatch, received by the
agents in this city, that the steamer Osprey, from
this port, arrived at her wharf in Philadelphia, at
5 o’clock on the morning of Saturday last.
The Steamship Union.— -We learn from .a
private telegraphic despatch received in this city,
that this fast steamer arrived at New York on
Sunday evening last, after a quick passage from
New Orleans of six days and nine hours.
New York Money Market.
The Journal of Commerce of Friday evening
says:
The offerings at the Banks are less than their
income, and some of these institutions are taking
advantage of the amount to reduce their discount
lilies. All sound business paper is freely taken,
with no advance in rates, and the market con
tinues in favor of the borrower. The tendency
to unlimited expansion in speculative movements
has been checked and some who had their mouths
! at the bubble have been a little straightened, but
| in general confidence is fully maintained.
| _ Foreign Exchange is firm at the quotations
' given this morning. We learn of engagements
; of nearly $700,000 in specie for the Baltic and
i she may take more.
| Crops.— The Memphis (Tenn) Enquirer, of
| May 29th says:
“We are informed by intelligent gentlemen
I from the county, that the crops of all descriptions,
wheat cotton and corn, present the most promis
: ing appearance. The ill effect of the early bad
I weather has been entirely surmounted, and the
j planters are confidant of a plentiful reward of
| their labors.”
Robbery. —The book Store of Messrs. Paine
i & Lucus, at the corner of East Bay and North
Atlantic Wharf was entered on Saturday or Sun
-1 day night last by some miscreants who forced
1 open a substantial lock, that fastened the door
| which faced the wharf.' Fortunately they were
j unable to effect an entrance into the main store,
and ali the booty they obtained was about four or
five huudred pounds of sugar. They attempted,
likewise, to force the shutter of the next store
occupied by Messrs. G. B. Lucke & Son, but
were unsuccessful in this instance. We under
stand, however, that they cut the hinges of the
door of Mr. J. Chapman’s Store, in Exchange
street, although we believe, they failed in their
attempt at plunder.— Ch. Courier , 10th inst.
Aberville, June
I he Weather—Crops.— After seven or %ight
weeks of parching, hot, dry weather, we were
visited on Wednesday evening last with quite a
refreshing shower. Considerable damage has
been done to the crops by the long drought, and
especially the oats, which is looked upon L an
entire failure. From all that we can learn and
we nave been somewhat diligent in making en
quiries—the wheat crop is a large one, and will
even exceed the expectations of planter —Ban
ner.
We are happy to learn that Mr. R. C. Gordon,
whose house was robbed some time ago, has been
ab eto recover the notes; they were found in an
old held, some eighteen miles from Mr. Gordon’s
belonging to Maj. Larkin Reynolds, by one of
his negroes. Ihe money has not been recovered
nor as yet has any cine been given to the villains
who perpetrated the robbery.— lb.
OBITUARY. ~
Mrs. Elizabeth G. Thew, wife of George M.
Thcw of this city, departed this life on Saturday
May .41st, m the 43d year of her age. !
In the decease of this estimable and lamented in
dividual, the iarnily circle of which she was an af
fectionate judicious and faithful head, and the
Church of Christ, of which for twenty-seven year,
she was a zealous and consistent member, have suf
fered no ordinary loss. Around her own fireside'
m the social circle, or in the religious meeting she
over displayed those frank and engaging manners
and that sincre and cheerful! piety whfch so endear
ed her to her friends and fellow-christians Ad.
voted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church'
her heart was always open to Christians of every
name and the hospitalities of her house were a?
ways freely and cordially extended to them. Many
in all the churches will mourn her loss nnrl £
with the members of her beloved Zion,'in the sor
rowful exclamation, alas! my sister With twL
•ft T* »“»»<’«*'•«. fclibrThoy I S
that though her sun has gone down at noon, it has
only ‘-melted away into the light of Heaven.”
In Sparta, (Ga.) on the 23d day of May, R IC ha ED
P. Sasnett, Esq., in the 39th year of hia
a protracted iHness of several months, whieffhe bore
with Christian fortitude. He left a
children to mourn their irrepairaßfc loj.* an^ fivo
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