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Marrying a Fortune.
BY GEO. CANNING HILL.
Full half of mankind will never get through
searching up money-matches for themselves, until
the other half has done with holding the money.
That is a fixed fact, which no one will attempt to
call in question.
Tom Turnabout was one of the penniless ones.
Not that it was, by any means, the fault of his
own, but it merely happened to be so; it was “in
his stars ” to be poor. And what made the mat
ter worse, beside being poor, per se, he was a poor
barrister —a situation rendered by all odds ex
quisitely distressing; for a briefless barrister is al
ways short of everything, from soap to suits.
Tom was, withal, an individual of more than
ordinary personal attractions—so far as the opin
ion of the majority of the other sex went—and
upon this opinion he early determined to found
pretty much all his future.—With his affable
and excessively social manners, it would have
been no wonder at all if he did not have to under
go many a pang in the measurement of his living
by his circumstances.
At last, by one of those most fortunate of the
dice of chance of which we read or hear but rarely,
Tom Turnabout was married, and to a lady of
fortune. It seemed to him as if the fortune was
accumulated for his use and behoof alone. And
on his wedding day no man was any where to
be found, who could make show of a larger share
of enjoyment in prospect.
Matters went on well enough for a time—as
well, perhaps, as ought to have been expected; for
the ‘briefless barrister 7 was now possessed of a com
fortable home, and assured of an excellent living,
with a young and pretty wife; for Mrs. Euphrasia
Turnabout as every lady said, was a very pretty
woman. Her hair curled, her eyes were
black, her haud was delicate and lily-white,
Bui she knew how to dispense the most gracious
■EI bewitching smiles: how could she be other-
Hrtkan pretty < And if pretty, likewise amia
' ■
■cask so thought lor a time Tom Turnabout.
A BpLesteemed himself her liege lord and
Sphere was one thing that seriously troub
reslpH'' i. and that was. how to broach the subject
’ He h>- into due possession and management
HJe’-fimroperty. For this he had married;
that he was no better off now ? The
alone made him giddy.
He went«pound and round the subject in his
mind ior a long time, at each revolution becom
ing the more perplexed. At no single time dared
he to nerve his courage up to the effort necessary
to be made in order to have the matter completely
understood between them. Euphrasia had never
attended to the subject of money, simply going
ahead and managing the household as if she had
fully resolved to count at least one in its manage
ment and classification. Tom had repeatedly
hinted to her about “deposites,” “bank stocks, 7 ’
“taxes, 77 and all the other minute appurtenances
to the possession of a fortune, but hitherto to just
no purpose at all; she made neither revelation nor
explanation—least of all did she betray her na
tive acuteness by taking a hint.
Such a state of affairs was worrying Tom into
a fit of desperation, if not into his grave , he
finally made up his mind to come to an under
standing, in some way or other, just as soon as
practicable.
So long as it was necessary to keep the embers
of hope alive, he had sedulously avoided all his
former acquaintance, lest he might too suddenly
give a shock to the delicate nerves of his wife
and to lose his chances altogether. But as soon
as h A found that disguise helped him not a whit,
he screwed up his courage to venturing a bold push
t&t
vevdjjgrthe sentiment so epigramatically express
ed b®he poet:
either fears his fate too much,
■ Or his deserts are small,
H Who dares not put it to the touch,
To gain or lose it all.”
HaSydingly he laid himself out to bring matters
a head at once. .... ,
n sa m he to a companion of his, one al-
K»moon, as they sat together in a little office of
Pthe latter —“Dick, I 7 m in a quandary ! 77
I “A quandary ! 77
“Yes. 77
k “About what ?”
r “I want some money. 77
“ You want money! Why, how much did you
1 marry* pray ?"
“More than I shall ever get, I fear. 77
“Well, that 7 s a good one! But what’s the
trouble ?”
f “Do you keep a secret ?” asked Tom in a whis
per.
| “Try me, and see. 7
U “I married money you know. 77
Is “Every body says so. you know. 77
fi “And everybody thinks so but me! There’s a
Iplenty of money in the case, but unluckily there’s
none to be had! I cant lay hold of it ! 77
“Ha! ha 177I 77 laughed Dick, in his face.
“You laugh, but what would you do?”
“What would I do ?”
“Yes —what shall / do ?”
“Nothing is easier, 77 replied Dick.
“J hope not, 77 said Tom, “but how shall Igo to
work 7,7
“Have you broached the subject to your better
half 77
“Haven’t dared to; she won’t let we, in fact! 77
“Then run up a bill or two. 77
“Then what? 77 asked Tom, earnestly.
“Have it sent at such a time to the house, and
be sure not to be at home/ 7
“I never thought of that. 77
“She’ll either pay it or blow, 77 continued Dick.
“But what if the latter? 77
“Then you’ve got at the core of your subject,
and you can go ahead after that as k circumitances
will best allow.” .
“T’ll try it—l’ll act on your happy suggestion? 77
“Tra'“; what will you have? Shall we go into
Carter’s an«i g e t one of his nicest teams and take
a drive out to SpikeviUe? 77
“You couldn’t have hit the nail more exactly
on the heed; let’s go at once! 77 said Dick.
That was a “fast 77 afternoon —the remainder
of it—and it began a new era. To be sure it
was a step taken in the dark, but Tom hoped
that it would lead to happy results and plenty of
In (hie time the bills began to come in.
One morning the door-bell rang, it chanced to
be about nine o’clock. The servant answered
the summons, and carried a bill up stairs to her
Jnistress. The bell rang again, and there came a
S bill. A third time, and another bill.
Euphrasia Turnabout began to grow alarm-
I presently came along the dinner hour. It
duly found Tom Turnabout, Esq., at home and
at the table.
All during the meal he anxiously scanned the
features of his wife, trying his very best to im
agine her as feeling extremely happy in enjoy
ing the privilege of paying her dear husband’s
bills; but he succeeded in reading no such ex
pression on her face; he looked for the slightest
trace of it in vain.
It was too perplexing. There sat Euphrasia,
worth her fortune, over against him at table—a
mountain of gold, as it were, within his reach,
but he not able to pick off even a shiny scale from
its surface. She was as calm as a delicious cool,
summer’s morning; he, on the other hand, was
burning up with disappointment and chagrin.
He declared within himself that he could stand
it no longer. It was a few steps beyond human
endurance. Better die at once than live long in
this suspense,
So at last he meekly remarked to his wife—
“Euphrasia, was there anything brought here
this morning for me? 77
“Yes, dear, 77 she replied, “there were three
bills for horse-hire, and cofectionery, refresh
ments, and one thing and another; but 1 did not
read them particularly—you know that’s not a
lady’s business. 77
“Was there a bill for furniture, too? 77 inquired
the agitated Tom.
“Yes, dear; I paid that and took a receipt; but
the others, cour personal matters, you know,
those I carefully plaeed in your escritorie , where
you could readily find them when you wished to.
I hope you do not consider me too inquisitive in
just looking at them to see what they were! 77
Tom was not possessed of any too much phil
osophy, and this last serious sally of his wife
quite upset what little he had. Swallowing his
dinner as fast as he could with safety do it, he
pushed as fast as he ceuld for his office. Ere
long his old friend, Dick, made his appearance.
“ We11! 77 said Dick, how goes it, Tom? 77
“It 7 s no go, 77 surlily answered Tom.
“How now? Were the bills paid? 77
Tom explained the whole.
His friend admitted that it would be exceeding
ly hard to get round a womSti who understood
herself so well as did his wife, more particularly
when she held the purse strings.
Tom gave it up altogether. That afternoon
was spent in reflecting upon the extreme worth
lessness of his dependence for an independent
living upen another, and in forming a strong re
solution to go ahead and do something for him
self.
The lesson he learned chanced to be a most
valuable one, which many a married wife may
at her leisure give her husband, to his decided
advantage.
Tom Turnabout, Esq. afterwards turned out
a very respectable member of his profession;
enough so, at any rate, to be able to earn suffi
cient to pay his carriage and oyster-house scores.
At home he hever knew what trouble meant.
Deplorable Condition of Federalism in Alabama.
We stated a few days since that Mr. Shields,
formerly member of Congress and a professed
Union Democrat, had loaned the use of himself to
the Federalists of Alabama as their candidate
against Gov. Collier, the choice of the Demo
cratic party. We compared his position with
that of Mr. Cobb, in this State, —Shields running
against Collier in Alabama, as is Cobb against
McDonald in Georgia. For though Cobb may
still claim to be a Democrat, we presume that
he w r ould not deny that in becoming the candi
date of Federalism he is opposing himself to one
whom four-fifths of the Democrats of Georgia
prefer to himself. But alas for Federalism in
Alabama! and its candidate Mr. Shields! Says
the Montgomery Advertiser: “his doctrines were
sq infamous and odious that the people have ac
tually driven him from the field by their indig
nation and refusal to support him, and although
he has shown every disposition to run, yet the
want of a response from the people has caused
him to find an excuse in bad health, to decline the
canvass. 77
What are these doctrines which are found to
be so detestable in Alabama, that no candidate
dare encounter the indignation of the people by
professing them ? First. Shields like Cobb, was
in favor of the Compromise. He actually furnish
ed Foote with one of his numerous certificates in
favor of that quack remedy for the “bleeding
wounds of the country. 77 In it occurred the fol
lowing sentence:
“I have no hesitation in saying that, were I a
member of either branch of Congress at the pre
sent juncture, I should vote for and zealously sup
port the plan of compromise reported by Mr.
Clay.”
Again—Shields is quite as much a Union man
as Mr. Cobb—altogether too much so for the peo
ple of Alabama, as we may infer from the follow
ing sentiment:
“/ am for this Federal Union of ours, under all
circumstances and at all hazards. Rights or wrong,
1 am for the Union.”
Can Mr. Cobb beat that ?
Add to all this, that Shields denies the right of
secession, and what Southern patriot is there who
does not rejoice that in the Sonthern State of
Alabama such a man shrinks back -with dread,
from advocating before the people his princi
ples?
What say the people of Georgia to the same
doctrines? Will they give encouragement to
them by endorsing the course and sentiments of
Mr. Cobb ? Or will they not repudiate them by
sustaining. Governor McDonald ? We hope that
Democrats at least—they who have ever com
mended themselves to the Southern people by
professions of Southern principles, will show that
they feel what they have taught, by sustaining
an unflinching Democrat and truehearted South
erner, in the person of Charles J. McDonald.—
Savannah Georgian.
The Growing Crops.—lt affords us pleasure
to be enabled to speak favorably of the agricul
tural prospects in this county, thus early in the
season, as upon that species of prosperity depends
the success and advancement, in a great measure,
of every other industrial pursuit. We have been
informed, within the last day or two, by several
intelligent planters, that the appearance of the
cotton plant is of the most promising character—
the “stand” being better than they had ever seen.
The corn is said to present a healthy, vigorous ap
pearance. Since the Ist instant, the weather has
been most favorable for both corn and cotton.
The frost of that day did no damage in this re
gion.—Helenah {Ark.) Shield.
Cotton on the Rio Grande.—The first boll
of the season was presented us by our enterpris
ing fellow-citizen, Edward Dougherty, Esq., on
Monday last, and was really as fine a specimen
of the article as we ever saw, both in size and
quality. It was produced on his valuable plan
tation near Rudyville, on the river about forty
miles above this city. Why should we not an
nually furnish the market in New-Orleans with
the earliest productions of this great Southern
staple. We have the soil and the climate, let us
add the industry, and nothing can hinder us from
carrying off the palm. The history of the past
admonishes us of the probable future. In former
days, under the Mexican Government, this val
ley produced its cotton fields and sugar planta
tions, as well as numerous flocks and herds • and
w r e most confidently predict, that the day is not
distant, when the industry and enterprise of
American citizens will cause it to rival and out
strip all its former glories and prove to the world
that this noble valley has become one of the
richest and most productive regions of the great
Southern States.— Brownsville {Texas) Sentinel,
28th ult.
Great Family Meeting.—Ezekiel DeCamp,
of Butler county, who has resided on the same
farm for 38 years, invited his descendants to dine
with him on Wednesday last. The larger part
of them were present and partook of a sumptu
ous farmer’s dinner. For want of house room
an arbor was erected in the yard adjacent to the
house, andtabies prepared for the occasion.—
The old gentleman, 72 years of age, and his com
panion for more than 50 years, sat at the head of
the table. Then were arranged in order 14 chil
dren, 88 grand children, 28 great grand child
ren, and 30 who had intermarried with the fam
ily—making 160—39 were dead or absent.
The children of the Patriarch were 17 in num
ber, viz: 12 sons and 5 daughrers. One died at
10 years old; the other 16 lived to be heads of
famrlies, two of whom have since died.— Cin.
Gazette.
{Telegraphed for the Jour, of Commerce , June 11.)
Further by the America.
Halifax, June 10, P. M.
The Royal Mail Steamship America arrived
last evening. She has 61 passengers. She sail
ed from Liverpool at 11.30, A. M., on the3lstul
timo, and lias experienced heavy weather.
The Niagara arrived home on the morning of
the 25th. Neither the Lafayette nor the City
Glasgow had arrived when the America sailed.
England. —The debate on Mr. Baily’s motion
relative to the Governor of Ceylon, terminated
in a majority of 80 for Ministers, and that being
the last motion of importance on the books, the
Russell ministry is therefore safe for the remain
der of the session.
The debate on the Roman Catholic Titles Bill
is itill going on, but no advance has been made
with the measure.
On the evening of the 27th, the Protectionists
held a banquet at Tam worth, the residence of the
late Sir Robert Peel, when the people of the
town rose up en masse and dispersed the gather
ing. Windows were broken, several persons in
jured, and at length the military had to be called
out to quell the riot.
The crops present a promising appearance.
Emigration continues as brisk as in spring.
The English files received are of interest. The
first clause of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill pass
ed on the 30th, by a majority of 244 against 62.
The Glass Palace continues to attract its
thousands. Upwards of 50,000 persons passed
through it in one day.
France. —There is nothing of moment from
the French capital, beyond the fact that the Le
gitimists are making every effort to attain their
desired revision of the Constitution. The party
of order remained firmly attached to the Presi
dent.
Commercial affairs continue brisk. The Bourse
closed dull.
M. Paschal DupralPs amendment to the Na
tional Guards Bill has been rejected by the As
sembly.
Portugal. —The Duke of Saldanha has not
yet promulgated any of his new measures since
his arrival at Lisbon.
Spain. —Large bodies of the reformers were
calling upon the Queen to abdicate the throne of
Spain. A telegraphic dispatch from Madrid of
the 24th ult. announces that Marquis Miraflores
has been named Minister of Foreign Affairs.
An appropriation had been named for the
manufacture of 30,000 percussion muskets.
Austria. —The Emperor still remains at War
saw, in company with the Emperor of Russia
and the King of Prussia. The result of their con
ference has not transpired. The Breslau Gazette
of 25th ult. has the following:—“A great sensa
tion has been created in Hungary by the arrest
of the Countess Teleky and her companion Ma
dame Erdley, at Del Talgo. They have been or
dered for trial by court martial at Peterwardin.
It is said that the Countess has been the medium
of a correspondence between the refugees in Lon
don and Asia Minor, and their partisans in Hun
gary. Some of this correspondence has been seiz
ed.” _ '
It is stated that Prince Christian of Blucks
burg is to succeed to the throne of Denmark.
Italy. —The disturbances between the Roman
and French soldiers still continue. The French
authorities in Rome have caused 10,000 rations
and a large supply of ammunition to be taken
into the Castle of St. Angelo.
Alfgria. —Accounts from Algeria state that a
conflict had taken place between the Kabyles
and the French forces, in which the former were
defeated, several hundreds having been killed
i and wounded.
1 Accounts from Lower Falylih are not so satis
factory. The French had entered the country
on the 14th, and were desperately opposed by
the inhabitants. They, however, were driven
from all their positions, and the blockade of Gaj
illa raised. The loss of the French was estima
ted at 100, and 300 wounded, and that of the
Kabyles at 437 killed, and 1.200 wounded.
Forty-two villages were burnt on the 15th and
17th. Several tribes have made their submis
sion.
Latest intelligence by Electric Telegraph , May 31s£.
France.— Paris , Friday. — The National as
serts that the loss of the expeditionary corps in
Africa, under General St. Arnlcdis, is much un
derstated. The number killed was 306 ; wound
ed, 1,333. The National affirms that this infor
mation is derived from the best source.
Paris. —Bourse, Fives, 91 f; Threes, 56,45.
London. —Stock Exchange.—Three failures
I were announced yesterday morning in connec
tion with the shares settlement, the parties being
Mr. Le Grands, Mr. Stephenson and Mr. K. Mor
timer. The latter was compelled to suspend
! through the default of a principal at Nottingham.
I The Great Exhibition. —The receipts at the
door yesterday (Friday) amounted to £2,839 Bs.,
and the sale of season tickets to £6l 19s.
Markets.
Cotton closed with considerable firmness at the
rates current the Friday previous, for all descrip
tions. The committee place fair Uplands at
Mobile 6d; and New Orleans 6 Jd. Sales of the week
51,080 bales, of which 5,040 were taken for specu
lation, and 9,000 for export.
Breadstuffs. —Tho market is firmer. Wheat in
more request at late rates. Flour not so free of
sale; rates unchanged. Indian Corn, a slight de
cline, but in demand.
Provisions. —Beef—Demand light. Pork—Spa
ringly dealt in, owing to tho high rates demanded.
More doing in Bacon. Hams dull. Shoulders not
sought for. Sales large, at full rates. Tho market
is well cleared of cheese.
Havre , May 28.—Prices of cotton declined at
sale the day previously to ff. under previous
quotations. Sales of the week, 3,000 bales. Stock
on hand 116,000 bales: and ten ships expected, in
cluding the New York packets.
Anecdote of General Jackson.— ln 1811
General Jackson visited Natchez, in the territo
ry of Mississippi, for the purpose of bringing up
a number of blacks, a part of whom had become
his property in consequence of having been se
curity for a friend, and the remainder were hands
which had heen employed by his nephew in the
neighborhood of that place. The road led through
the country inhabited by the Chickasaw and
Choctaw Indians, and the station of the agent for
the Choctaws was upon it. On reaching the
agency he found seven or eight families of emi
grants and two members of the Mississippi le
gislative council, detained there, under the pre
tence that it was necessary for them to have
passports from the Governor of Mississippi. One
of them had been sent forward to procure them.
In the meantime the emigrants were buying corn
from the agent at an extravagant price, and split
ting rails for him at a very moderate one.
Indignant at the wrong inflicted on the emi
grants, he reproached the members of the coun
cil for submitting to the detention, and asked the
agent how he dared to demand a pass from a free
American, travelling on a public road. The agent
replied by asking, with much temper, whether he
had a pass. “Yes, sir,” replied the General: “ I
always carry mine with me: I am a free born
American citizen, and that is a passport all over
the world.” He then directed the emigrants to
gear up their wagons, and if any one attempted
to obstruct them, to shoot them down as a high
way robber. Setting them the example, he con
tinued his journey, regardless of the threats of the
agent.
Alter concluding his business, he was inform
ed that the agent had collected about fifty white
men and one hundred Indians to stop him on his
return, unless he produced a passport. Though :
advised by his friends to procure one, he refused
to do so, stating that no American citizen sh ould
ever be subject to the insult and indignity of pro- |
curing a j>ass to enable him therewith to travel !
a public highway in his own country. Like all I
travellers among the Indians, at that time, he
was, armed with a brace of pistols; and having
added a rifled another pistol, he commenced his
return journey. When within a few miles of
of the agency, he was informed by a friend
who had gone forward to reconnoitre, that the
agent had his force in rediness to stop him.
He directed his friend to advance again, and
tell the agent that if he attempted to stop him it
would be at the peril of his life. He then put his
blacks in order, and armed them with axes and
clubs, at the same time telling them not to stop
unless directed by him, and if any one offered to
oppose them to cut him dow r n.
Riding by their side, he approached the sta
tion, when the agent appeared and asked wheth
er he meant to stop and show' his passport.—
J ackson replied, “ That depends upon circum
stances. lam told that you meant to stop me
by force; whoever attempts such a thing will
not have long to liveand with a look that w r as
not to mistaken, he grasped his bridle with a
firmer grip. His determined manner had such
an effect, that the agent declared he had no inten
tion of stopping him, and he and his party were
suffered to pass on without further molestation
or interruption. He afterwards reported the con
duct of the agent to the government, and he W'as
dismissed from his agency.
AUGUSTA, GA.
SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 15.
For Governor.
CHARLES J. MCDONALD.
Mr. Cobb’s Acceptance.
As ample time has elapsed for the acceptance
by the Hon. Howell Cobb of the nomination
made, or rather ratified by the Toombs Conven
tion, and no publication is yet made of that ac
ceptance, the consolidation Unionists not behind
the scenes, may possibly feel some uneasiness on
the subject. To relieve their anxiety, we pub
lish a statement from headquarters, Washington
City, where the nomination of Mr. Cobb was
originally made.
“ Mr. Cobb of Georgia. —We place in our
columns to-day the report of the speech deliver
ed by this distinguished gentleman at the Athe
naeum of Savannah, as contained in the Savan
nah Republican of the 10th instant. Every thing
now said by the gentleman assumes great impor
tance on account of the nomination he has accepted
as the Candidate of the UNION party of Geor
gia.”— Washington Union , May 31st.
It will here be perceived that Mr- Cobb has
not only been nominated, but had actually ac
cepted the nomination some time before the
ratifying Convention assembled at Milledgeville.
If President Fillmore had issued his proclama
tion, countersigned by Messrs. Webster, Toombs,
Stephens and Daw r son, to the faithful in Georgia
that Mr. Cobb had already been selected as their
candidate, and had duly accepted, it might have
saved many of the Union delegates a hot and
dusty ride to Milledgeville. v
Hon. A. H. Stephens. —The latest intelligence
from this gentleman is that he is decidedly better,
and is considered out of danger.
Charleston & Memphis Rail-Road.
At the public meeting in Charleston, on the
13th inst., a resolution was passed almost unani
mously requesting the City Council to subscribe
$250,000, unconditionally , to the above Road.
A letter, received by a gentleman in this place,
from a distinguished Georgian, a few weeks since,
stated that the people of Augusta were hastening
the completion of their railroad connection w T ith
Savannah, in order to be prepared for our seces
sion, and have no interruption to their commerce.
—Southern Patriot.
The “ distinguished Georgian I'’ 1 '’ above referred
to has misinformed the editors of the Patriot. —
He has indulged in a mere random assertion of
a fact which does not exist. Those editors too,
are entirely too ready to catch at such statements,
however improbable. The question of se
cession has not been discussed, or been in any
w'ay influential upon the people of Augusta, in
connection with this rail-way enterprize, nor has
it added a single dollar to the subscription list of
the Waynesboro Railroad, or hastened its opera
tion in any w r ay.
The w T ork had been determined upon long
since and is now progressing without any re
ference whatever to South Carolina politics.
The Soil of the South.
We are pleased to see that this excellent
monthly, published at Columbus, Geo., at $1 pe
annum, and edited by Messrs. Peabody and
Chambers, both fine waiters and practical agri
culturists, is growing in public favor. Its pros
pects are thus spoken of in the last number:
Not more for our gratification than that which
we feel the announcement will afford to our
friends, we again allude to the cheering prospects
of our enterprize. The circulation of the June
number amounts to about seventeen hundred and
fifty copies , which, considering that we issued our
first number only three manths ago, we regard
as doing very well, indeed. We receive some
new names every day, and occasionally w T e get as
many as fifty names at one time. We attribute
our success to two causes: First, we think The
Soil has really deserved it; and second, the
planters, gardeners and housekeepers of the South,
are alive to the importance of sustaining such a
w'ork. We shall endeavor to increase the merits
of the work, and we hope the public will not
grow weary in a good cause. To the numerous
friends who have voluntarily stepped foiward in
our behalf, we return our sincere thanks, and
hope that they may live to see the fruits of their
labors in the substantial improvement of our
common country.
Fold your Letters Carefully.
We received on Friday a letter from Winns
boro 7 , S. C., in W'hich had been inclosed to us six
dollars, a five, an d a one dollar bill. It came to
us rifled of the $5 bill. The $1 w'as in it, some
what mutilated by the instrument w hich had ex
tracted the other. The inside of the letter bore
marks of a sharp instrument—a cork-screw per
haps—which had been inserted, and which had
fished out one of the bills. The other being old
and easily torn, the instrument could not hold it.
We mention this mode of fishing money out of
letters as a caution to persons remittiug, that they
should fold their letters more carefully. As all
remittances are at the risk of the publisher, w'e
have put dowrn this to profit and loss, and have
turned the letter over to the proper authorities
in the hope they wrill fish out the thief and put
him in a dry place.
The Mempqis Enquirer of the 4th inst., says:
“His excellency Gov. Jones received a present
yesterday morning going to show the [donor was
a believer in the Patriarchal system. A plump
female child, evidently of but a very youthful
age, was left at the door of the Governor, snugly
ensconced in a basket and wrapped up in a blan
ket. The Governor being absent the little stran
ger was sent to the Mayor’s office, by whom it
W'as placed in the ha nds of one of our most re
spectable citicens. We presume that the par
ents considered that the Governor ought to be
the father of his people.”
[communicated.]
“Connexion of Charleston and Augusta by
Rail-Road.”
nder the above topic, a communication has
appeared in the Constitutionalist of the 10th inst., !
over t e signature of “ Augusta.” The subject
brought to the consideration of the public, by
the author of the communication referred to, is
of deep interest to our citizens generally—and
particularly to such persons, whose capital is
vested principally in real estate within our city.
It must be admitted, that the value of real estate
in all cities, is mainly dependent on commercial
enterprise and as there is therefore a recipro
city of interest between the landholder and the
merchant—legislation lor the advancement of
the one must necessarily affect the prosperity of
the other. If it be conceded, as a self-evident j
proposition, then, that the value of real Estate in
our cities, is mainly dependent upon the commer
cial interest, it is vitally important to the former,
that in legislating for the enhancement of its
value, the prosperity of the latter is not put in
jeopardy. Real estate is permanent and station
ary in its character—w'hile the capital vested in
commercial enterprise may be considered ever
on the wing. Consult the mercantile interest of
Augusta, as to the expediency of allowing the
Hamburg and Charleston Rail-Road to cross the
river, and it will be found, there is considerable
contrariety of opinion, as to the effc o upon our
city in a commercial point of view. Some indi
viduals w r ho were irreconcilably opposed to the
project, as fatal to the true interests of Augusta,
now consider the future prosperity of our city, as
inseparably connected with the consummation
of this projected scheme. If asked, what has
produced this change of view's, in the policy of
a measure only a short time since condemned,
and now as strongly advocated, the reply is at
hand—“ Tempora mutantur et nos mutamur cum
illis.” When opposed to the crossing the river
by the Charleston Road, the commercial interests
of such individuals may have centred in Au
gusta—perchance those interests may now', in
part, be transferred to Charleston—or possibly
identified with the future prosperity of the Geor
gia Rail-Road. In eithe ■ case it is very natural
that the project of crossing the river by the
Charleston Road, should commend itself to the
favorable consideration of individuals at one
time, when under a different state of things, an
opposite opinion, as to the policy of the measure,
may have been entertained. SuclAs the uncon
scious effect of the operation of self-interest upon
the minds of all men—and without, in the
■ slightest degree, intending to impugn the moral
integrity of individuals thus changing their
opinions—they must, on the other hand, have no
right to complain, that their opinions, under the
circumstances, should be received “cum grano
sal is.”
A large majority of the merchants of Augusta,
it is believed, are decidedly opposed to ihe cross
ing the river by the Charleston Road—believing
the junction of that Road with the Georgia Road,
( the necessary consequence in a very few years.
In that event, it is contended, the products from
the interior will seek to reach Charleston as
speedily^as possible—escaping the present detec
tion at Augusta, and to that extent inflicting an
injury on the commercial prosperity of our city;
while goods for the supply of the wants of the
interior, wall be purchased on the seaboard, to
the prejudice of the mercantile interests of Au
gusta. To obviate this difficulty, the author of
• “ Augusta ” contends, that the holders of real
estate would demand conditions precedent to the
privilege of crossing the river by the Charleston
Road, w'hich w'ould prevent a junction betw'een
the Charleston and the Georgia Roads. These
conditions w'ould, no doubt, operate as a preven
tive to the junction of the two Roads, until the
. force of public opinion sets those conditions aside;
and the arrival of the period for the operation of
that moral pow'er, may be conjectured, in view
of “ the progressive spirit of the age,” to which it
is urged by the author of “ Augusta” “it is not
unreasonable, that w r e should be willing to
make some sacrifice.” Such is the deference ac
knowledged to the force of public opinion, that
the undersigned believes with “ Augusta” that
“we have now' the power of making the sacri
fice gracefully, which hereafter may have to be
made without grace.”
It is not reasonable, however, to suppose that
the moral pow'er referred to, can bring about a
junction of the tw'o Roads, in less than five or
six years, and in the interval, w'e shall be enabled
to judge of the probable effect upon the commer
cial prosperity of our city, as may be inferred
from the operation to be produced upon Macon
by the junction of the Western w'ith the Central
Road. This interval of time will secure to our
city for that period, the same revenue from toll
as heretofore—together with all the commercial
advantages, either real or imaginary, that those
of our merchants, who are opposed to the cross
ing the river by the Charleston Road, conceive
they are now enjoying.
At the termination of five or six years, the
citj r of Augusta w T ill be in a more advanced con
dition as respects her manufacturing enterprise,
as well as in the probable establishment of more
numerous and extensive wholesale stores, and
will be so much the better prepared to contend
with our seaport towns, in the laudable competi
tion, as purchasers and venders, for the exigen
cies of the insatiable cravings of the great West.
While, then, it is probable, that the prosperity
of our city would not suffer by the delay of a
few' years, in maturing an opinion, as to the ex
pediency of yielding to the overtures of South-
Carolina, let us look to the probable effect of
such delay on the interests of the Charleston
Road. The junction of the Western with the
Central Road at Macon, will shortly be con
summated—and probably in less than two years,
the connexion of Savannah with Augusta by
Rail-Road will also be effected. When these
projects are completed, what is to be the effect
upon the Charleston Road, and upon the city of
Charleston ? Can Charleston expect to com
pete successfully with Savannah, in securing to
her port the trade W'ith the great Valley of the
Mississippi, and so onw’ard to the Lakes—to
gether W'ith the trade and travel destined to pass
over the Georgia Road from other points? Let
Savannah monopolize the advantages to be de
rived from an intercourse by Rail-Road with
Augusta, together w'ith the trade and travel pass
ing over the Georgia Road, through Augusta,
and by the w r ay of the Western and Central
Roads, through Macon for a few years, and it
will be difficult to divert it in favor of Charles
ton, when she may have effected a crossing of
the liver, some five or six years hence. In the
interval, will not the Charleston Road and the
city of Charleston herself have sustained an an
nual loss, from the diversion of the trade and
travel in favor of Savannah, to an amount in
comparably greater annually, than is required to
be paid at this time, to effect a junction by Rail-
Road, of the metropolis of Carolina with the
city of Augusta?
The very hesitancy evinced, in postponing a
compliance with the terms on which the crossing
the river by the Charleston Road can now be ef
fected, seems suicidal to the interests of the
Charleston Road, as well as casting a shade over
the commercial prosperity of Charleston herself.
It is believed that the privilege sought for, might
at this time be obtained, by paying the sum of
$300,000 to the City of Augusta, ora perpetual
annuity of S2O or $25,000. It is the opinion of
the undersigned, to be the true policy of Augusta,
to require the annuity stated, in preference to re
ceiving the sum of $300,000 —for the simple rea
son, that a receipt of the latter sum might, in a
very short time, be prodigally expended, in some
magnificent but no less visionary project. Where
as the annuity would, from year to year, be in
vested in some judicious manner, for the benefit
of posterity, which time and experience would
point out and direct.
The author of “ Augusta ,” invites the atten
tion of the public, in contemplating the project
before us, to collateral circumstances, as 44 conse
quences, results and contingencies,” over and be
yond the mere consideration of the sum told as
expressed in dollars and cents.” Among these
consequences and results, the public mind is di
rected to the ferment that has for years past been
experienced, particularly within the month pre
vious to the election of the municipal officers, re
specting the building of a bridge in the upper
part of the city. The author of u Augusta ” may
be reminded, that there have been other “ bones
of contention” that have brought the u uptown
and the down tow'n” citizens in collision for
more than thirty years past; and at one time it
was carried so far, that the project for building
the present upper market, with the private funds
of individuals residing in the upper part of our
city, and then to be passed over gratuitously to
the City Council, for the benefit of the public at
large, could not be consummated, but under so
lemn protest, emanating from the lower wards.
These petty jealousies have happily been fast dy
-1 ing away, under more enlarged and generous
. policy between the rival sections of our town.—
It is considered exceedingly unfortunate there
tore, that while the author of - 44 Augusta ,” should
invite a more harmonious feeling between the
“up town and down town” citizens, he should
at the same time have disturbed the smouldering
embers of sectional jealousies, in attempting to
dictate as -to the location of the Depot of the
Charleston Rail Road, when a crossing of the ri
ver is effected, by limiting it to 44 Washington
street ,” as the extreme western boundary, beyond
which it shall not be allowed to extend. If this
recommendation is to be heeded, it were better
there should be no public meeting of the citizens
to discuss the expediency of allowing a crossing
The river by the Charleston Road, as every hon
est effort will be made by the citizens in the up
per wards to defeat the measure in toto , if such
! contracted policy is resorted to. The selection
of the location for the Depot should be left en
tirely to the applicants from the Charleston Road
, | and let them establish the location of their Depot,
! where their interests shall direct them—giving
! at the same time to the rival sections of our city,
| equal chances of benefit that may result from the
selection, as they are burdened equally in the as
sessment of the rate of taxes for the pnblic ben*
j efit. In this way, sectional jealousies will be
made to give place to the consciousness of the
enjoyment of EQUAL RIGHTS.
{Telegraphed for the Baltimore Sun.)
Boston, June 11.
Mr. Webster — The Slave Rescue Trial, fyc. —Hon.
Daniel Webster has been invited to visit Lowell
by a large number of citizens.
The case of Hayden, charged w r ith being en
gaged in the rescue of Shadrach, is not vet con
. : eluded.
' j The America arrived this morning, but not in
; ; time for her mails, to go south in the morning
; train.
> Concord, (N. H.) June 11.
Democratic Presidential Nomination. —The De
mocratic Convention to-day was attended by 250
; delegates. The Hon. Levi Woodbury was unan
imously put forward as their favorite candidate
for the Presidency.
Richmond. June 11.
Death of Mr. Terry. —We learn from Lynch
burg that Mr. Terry, the editor of the “Virgin
ian,” who was shot by young Saunders, died on
Sunday evening, at 7 o’clock.
Georgetown, June 11.
The Weather and Crops. —We approach weekly
this interesting theme. Since our last, we have
| had fine rains, and although we have had exces
j sively hot weather since, a change took place on
Monday evening and yesterday was clear and
delightfully pleasant.
The crops are recovering their temporary in
jury from drought, and we understand begin to
grow finely.— Republican.
Marine Disaster— The brig Amanda Parson,
Capt. Dnnkwater, was capsized in a squall on
the 3d inst., lat 33.49, 4 miles North of the Fry
ing Pan Shoals, lon. 77. The Captain, wife and
child, about 3 years old, and crew, all of which
remained on the bottom of the vessel which they
had reached with some difficulty, until the next
day, remaining in that situation 12 hours, and
then taken off by Capt. Fish of the brig William,
from Fair Haven to this place.
The Captain and all on board saved only what
they stood in—and arrived at this port on last
Monday, all well, but in rather a destitute condi
tioh. The hospitality of the citizens, soon, how
ever, supplied their wants in clothing, and the
following day (on yesterday) a subscription of
upwards of one huudred dollars was soon made
up for their relief.
Captain Drinkwater was from New York and
bound for this port.— lbid.
[Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier -1
Baltimore, June 12.
The New York Cotton market on Thursday
was steady and five hundred bales were sold.
Middling Uplands were quoted at from Sl-2 to
83-4.
On the last ballot in the Connecticurt Legisla
ture to-day, for the U. S. Senator, Mr. Baldwin
Whig Candidate only lacked three votes of being
elected.
There is nothing purer than honesty—noth
ing sweeter than charity—nothing warmer than
love—nothing richer than wisdom—nothing
brighter than virtue—and nothing more stead
fast than faith. These united in|one mind, form
the purest, the sweetest, the warmest, the rich
est, the brightest and the most steadfast happi
ness.
If girls would only spend as much time with
Encyclopedias as they do with Milliners, they
would soon find their heads as attractive as their
hats. Queer that no young lady will believe
this.