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W Fifteen Days Later from California—Arrival of the
Steamship Alabama.
Conflagration at San Fnnais'O —
Loss Estimated at $15,000,000 /— Awful Fire at
Stockton! ! —51,200,000 worth of Property Des
troyed.^!
The steamship Alabuma, Capt. Foster, arrived
here this morning from Vera Cruz, which port
she left on the 9th inst.
By this arrival we have received files of pa
pers from Vera Cruz to the Bth instant, and from
the city of Mexico to the sth. We regret to
learn from the Trait d’Union of the 4th instant,
that California has again been visited by two
destructive conflagrations, surpassing even those
which have already made San Francisco famous.
The news reached the city of Mexico byway of
Acapulco, at which place the steamers stop on
their way down to Panama. To come directly
to this important intelligence, we give below' a
translation of everything that we find in the
Trait d’Union on the subject.
The editor of that print commences by saying
that California is decidedly the country of fires.
We have often had occasion to recount the fre
quent conflagrations of which San Francisco has
theater. It is not long since we chron
—lclOT the<almost entire destruction of Nevada
City, and now we have to speak of two frightful
catastrophes, by which the richest portion of
San Francisco and Stockton have been reduced
to ashes.
Our readers remember, beyond doubt, that on
the 4th of May, of last year, San Francisco was
visited with a fire which destroyed the commer
cial portion oithat growing city. This year, on
the if to celebrate the terrible anni
versary',tot the fifth time in two years, three
fourth c| the business part of the city have been
agaiflVeduced to ashes.
Never, says the Alta California, has so horrible
a eonljagratioh been witnessed since the burning
of Mjawfiow’. The fire broke out about 11 o’clock
on thfe night of the 3d of May, in the second story
of a painters shot in Clay street, on the south side
of Portsmouth Square, and in the neighborhood of
the Grand Plaza. At the moment when the fire
made its appearance,it had very little strength,but
all of a sudden the house in which it originated the
American House and a furniture store became
enveloped in flames. The wind, which at first
blew moderately, soon increased to the force of a
hurricane. The fire engines were quickly on the
ground, but unfortunately the chief engineer and
his assistant were absent from the city, which
prevented operations being carried on with cele
rity and vigor.
As soon as the three houses above mentioned
became ignited.it was seen that it would be impos
sible to master the fire. The devouring element
then followed this course: towards the west it
ascended Clay street nearly to Dupont street; to
the southward it traversed Sacramento as far as
California street, crossed Kearny, and extending
toward the south, along California street, as far
as Pine street.^.To'( the westward it ascended
Pine until Tt reached San some street; then north
ward it took the direction of'California street,
and then turning eastward it consumed Battery
street, which forms the southern limit of the fire,
with the exception of a point at the northeastern
extremity, where it crossed Battery street, and
destroyed a few houses on the very edge of the
bay.
In another direction the fire descended Clay
street to Harney street, following Harney street
towards the north as far as Jackson street; thence
along Jackson to Montgomery; then to the north
ward as far as Pacific street; then eastward to
Broadway, whence at last, crossing Battery street
towards the east, it stopped at the shores of the
bay.
In this circuit of a mile in length and a half a
mile in width, scarcely 15 houses escaped. There
were many houses of which the walls were left
standing, but of which all the contents were des
troyed. Some cellars and safes retained their
contents in a state of perfect preservation. Nine-
squares of houses were destroyed. It is not
HRsy to estimate the number of houses consum
■L but it amounts to at least fifteen hundred. —
Be total loss is supposed to be between twelve
millions: fifteen milltan,'- would !>»• about
/- The its work of
B 1 son last building being
on the morning m t
the lire was frigmiu'!.—
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f ' rush from the midst of the
BBSB, and precipitating themselves into the
were, at least,"Natter vain efforts to es
rfo B crushed by the falling buildings. in full
B>f hundreds of spectators, unable to render
Two persons were in this manner
BPax alive in the streets, and six others perish-
Wfa in the iron stores of Messrs. Taaffe & McCa
~ hill. The number of persons known to have
been killed is eight; twenty others were more
or less severely wounded. After the fire, two
men were killed by the falling ruins. All the
newspaper offices in San Francisco, with the ex
ception of that of the Alta California, were con
sumed. Two, the Herald and Pacific News, had
recommenced publication, and the others were
to appear soon.
Ten days after the fire, from two hundred and
fifty to three hundred houses were rebuilt. The
energy of the people of San Francisco did not ap
pear to be at all repressed by this cruel blow.—
The Alta California calls on the people to take
courage and never despair. In truth, business
seemed to be scarcely suspended in consequence
of the calamity. The merchants while awaiting
the rebuilding of their stores, attended the sale of
their goods in other parts of the city.
j||Prices of merchandise, which were very low
before the fire, suddenly were quintupled, and
rents rose in the same proportion.
* The house of Burgoyne & Co., after the fire,
found $1,500,000 safe in their iron chest.
The employees in the customhouse saved all
the funds that it contained, amounting to a mil
lion of dollars, by throwing them into a well.
Among the buildings destroyed were the Cus
tomhouse, Union Hotel, Parker House, Adelphi
Theatre, the Dramatic Museum, National Hotel,
New World Hotel, City Hotel, Delmonico Ho
tel, Merchants’ Exchange, the Ross building,
American Hotel, Revere House, the House of the
Steamship Company, &c., &c.
The fire at Stockton, taking the relative size
pf the place into consideration, was quite as dis
'fisfrous asThat at San Francisco. It took place
on the mos May, and commenced in a large
and magnificent new building known as the Mer
chants’ Hotel.
It is supposed that it was the work of some
malefactor, who wished to aid the escape of the
criminals in the prison which adjoins tne Mer
chants’ Hotel. The wind, however, carried the
flames in a contrary direction, so that the object
of the incendiaries wasjnot achieved. All the
business houses on the Levee except six, all Main
street, all Center street, all the houses in El Do
rado street except two, and all the buildings in
Hunter street except three, fell a prey to the de
vouring element.
The list of sufferers by the dreadful fire in San
Francisco fills six columns of the Alta California,
even this is not complete. Very few business,
houses, either in San Francisco or Stockton, escap
ed destruction.
It had been said that the fire in San Francisco
was caused by the negligence of the people in
the paint shop; but the owners, Messrs. Baker &
Messerve, have published a card in which they
declare that there was no light in their house
which could have originated the fire. It was
therefore generally believed that this fire also
was caused by design.
At the time when the people were about to
lynch Stuart and Wildred, two months ago, the
Austrian convicts who infest the city had formed
a plan to take revenge by burning San Francisco
They had a ship ready in port to transport them
and their plunder from the place, after putting
their plan in operation. Fortunately, this diaboli
cal project came to the knowledge of the police
in time to frustrate it.
It is also stated that, a few days before the fire,
a person went to a merchant of San Francisco,and
told him that if he had any goods he wanted to pre
serve he had better send them out of the city, as.
on the night of the 3d of May, there would be a
great fire, to celebrate the anniversary of the con
flagration of last year.
Further Particulars. —The great fire in San
Francisco on the 3d and 4th of May was a most
calamitous event, destroying fifteen hundred
houses in the finest portion of the city. In lieu
of any reflections of our own we give the follow
ing article from the Alta California of the 6th
ult. It is a graphic description of the awful
scene:
To one capable for a little while of divesting
himself of his sympathies, the tornado of fire
which has traveled its devouring path over our
city furnishes a scene of more beauty, grandeur,
terror and sublimity, probably, than any other
event which has transpired in our nation during
the present century. And yet all one’s sensibili
ties were inevitably interested, and were neces
sary in order that this awful exhibition of nature,
in her wildest and most pitiless mood, should duly
and perhaps profitably affect man through his
more kindly qualities.
The commencement of the fire was like the
flash of gunpowder, so almost instantaneous was
its spread.—For a few moments hope, fear and
dread balanced upon the breakes of the engines,
and if earnest wishes and well placed confidence
in the exertions of our gallant philanthropists,
the firemen, could have saved the city, she would
now be standing like a bride in her loveliness,
instead of the blackened martyr at the stake, as
she now appears. Many persons inhabiting or
owning buildings which appeared to be entirely
out of the possible range of the destruction, look
ed upon its commencement without a thought of
themseves, only actuated by their sympathies
lor others for some time. How suddenly were
their dreams of security ended. In a few hours,
perhaps in a few minutes, they too were wan
derers in the streets, houseless, homeless, hope
less, stripped of everyting. in hundreds of cases
not saving a suit of clothes.
As the first faint hope of stopping the flames
at the place of origin died out, the city’s terrible
impending fate became more and more manifest.
Yet no man’s mind could anticipate in its full
extent the scope and completeness of the ruin.
The wind, which was blowing fresh from the
northwest when the fire commenced, soon in
creased whirlwinds around the flaming piles, the
heated air, loaded with smoke, cinders ard flames,
rushing up towards heaven, crackling and roaring
like a tornado, while fresh gusts and gales came
whirling in from every side to fill the melting va
cuum with new ministers of destruction.—The
view' was sad, afflictive, awful. Great masses of
smoke ascended and rolled away loaded with the
wealth of men, the rewards of toil and danger,
bearing far above the city great flocks and sheets
of burning cinders, and forming liugh clouds
touched w'ith every tint from clear w'hite light
to the darkness of night. Frame houses faded
aw r ay like frost w*ork.—The beautiful Parker
House was made a heap of coals and ashes in a
few moments. Brick houses became batteries of
flames and poured forth immense jets from their
window's and doors.
Iron and zinc curled up like scorched leaves
and sent forth their brillint flames of green, blue
and yellow* tints, mingling with and modifying
the great red tongues of fire w'hich flashed up
wards from a thousand burning houses. The
hillsides w*ere lighted as if the sun w*ere above
the eastern mountains, and their trees, shrubs,
and houses w f ere as distinguished in the bright
light as if it were noon.—Darkness hung over a
large portion of the shipping, w T here the broad
and heavy ocean of smoke lay dow'n in impene
trable gloom over the bay. People became para
lyzed. Many removed their stocks of goods, or
portions of them, four or five times, and had them
overtaken and destroyed by the flames at last.
The streets w T ere crammed with masses of human
beings and rushing teams, only giving way be
fore the advance of the elements, as the smoke
and heat and crashing walls pushed back. Men
become mad; some rushed headlong into the
flames. Weeping women and prattling infancy
were w r andering amid ashes and destruction.
Every few* moments the earth and air trembled
as great buildings were torn into fragments by
explosions of gunpow'der, and the atmosphere was
filled with shattered timbers, brick and mortar.
The multitude hung upon the borders of this “vast
sea. of flame;” few comparatively knew, or could
know*, what w*ere the dangers and exertions of
those who were within the range of the stifli :g
smoke and scorching flame. In less than nine
hours from the beginning more than twenty
squares existed only in memory and in the as
sending columns of smoke and flame w'hich cov
ered the city’s site.
The Union Hotel burned like a furnace until
the woodwork w*as nearly destroyed, w'hen the
huge walls, five stories high, pitched headlong into
the street and over the w r recks of neighboring
dwellings, long before they reached the earth
completely lost in the flames and smoke w'hich
ascended from below*. So intense was the heat,
that jets of water poured from the hose became
instantly converted into scorching streams or
w*ere licked up by the thirsty flames. Nothing
less than a river of w T ater seemed sufficient to
quench them.
But the saddest sight of all w r as the destruction
of brave, but bewildered men, W'ho, finding them
selves suddenly surrounded with fire, rushed,
staggered and uncertain, from flame to flame, in
hopeless efforts to escape, until strangled and
scorched they writhed and fell in full view* of !
hundreds who w r ere completely powerless to save I
them. Others after battling inside of what they I
nad considered fire-poofs, finding their efforts to
save the buildings vain, endeavored to escape,
but too late. The doors and window blinds w r ere
red hot and could not be opened in some instan
ces, and their last chance of safety failed them.
We cannot express our sensations of yesterday,
while looking upon the blackened remains of
poor humanity, as they still lay burned to coals
amid tie fire w r hich filled the cellar of a build
ing on Montgomery street, still beyond the reach
of all w*ho gazed upon them. May we never
again see so horrible a spectacle.
North Carolina Harvest. —The Elizabeth
City "North State” of 14th instant says—
Our farmers have been busily engaged for the
past ten days in harvesting. We learn that the
crop of Wheat is much better than it has been for
many years. There is no rust, and very little smut
in any crop of w'hich we have heard,
Later from Texas. —By the arrival last even
ing of the steamship Maria Butt, says the N. O'
Picayune of Sunday, we have received Galveston
papers to the 10th inst.
Quite a storm took place at Galveston on the
9th inst., but fortunately no serious injury re
sulted.
The election campaign is becoming very ex
citing. A private letter from Dallas county,
dated the 19th ult., in reference to the approach
ing election, says:
"Col. Johnson (for Governor) will carry the
frontier en masse from the Colorado to Red Riv
er, and will beat Greer in the East. Gov. Bell
will receive little or no support on the frontier or
in the East. lam convinced that w r e have no
chance to heat Greer but to unite on Johnson.
[This, says the Galveston Journal, was written
before the announcement of Mr. Epperson.]
Crosby will beat Ward badly in this section,
where the latter thought his main strength lay.
Howard will get no votes in the north part of
his district. Potter is much the strongest. Gil
lett will get the best vote for Lieutenant-Gover
nor.”
R. M. Williamson has withdrawn his name as
a candidate for Lieutenant-Governor.
Capt. G. K. Lewis, candidate for Congress,
addressed the citizens of San Antonio on the 21st
ult—He announces himself a Democrat of the
old school.
The Journal says that in Eastern Texas the
preparations for the convention at Henderson,
with a view' to nominate a candidate to heat
Judge Ochiltree, are going on.
The Texas Monument learns from a Mr. Lance
that a serious difficulty occurred at Huntsville,
Walker county, on the 31st ult., between a Mr!
Hay and another printer in the Presbyterian of
fice. Hay stabbed his adversary w'ith a bowie
knife in several places, which w'ounds, it is
thought, would prove fatal.
Several fatal cases of cholera had occurred at
Houston.
The Galveston papers say that the tow'n of
Indianola is rapidly improving. Four new stores
w r eie built there last month.
The Brassos river is in good navigable order.
The crops in Texas are beginning to suffer for
want of rain. Near Lagrange no rain had fal
len for more than a month.
The Bonham Advertiser, of the 13th ult.,
learns that the birds have commenced their rava
ges on the wheat cop of that and Red River
county. It will be recollected that the birds de
stroyed the entire crop last year.
A letter from Liberty co., dated the 2d inst.,
says:
“The crops are suffering greatly for rain.
Without it, in a few days, there will be a failure,
notwithstanding the tair prospects up to the
present time.”
A planter of Old Caney thus writes to the
State Gazette:
Since the Ist of Janunry last I have visited all
the sugar plantations in the lower country, and
you will be surprised to learn that planters with
300 acres in cane, in many instances, will not
make seed for another crop.
Wot Satisfied with Howell.
So far as we have been able to learn, the nomi
nation of Howell Cobb has not given that satis
faction to the old Whig Consolidationists in this
section of the country, and in fact, judging from
the tone of the Consolidation papers, in other sec
tions of the State, it has not given the satisfac
tion anywhere that it was hoped by the wire
workers it would. The Convention missed the
figure badly when they nominated him in the
vain hope of decoying off from Gov. McDonald,
men who had stood by him through thick and
thin, and who have triumphed with him on
manyj a sanguinary political battle-field. What
Democrat will hesitate in his choice between
Charles J. McDonald, a man who has always
been a Democrat and has never for a moment
been doubted, and Howell Cobb, who has for the
last three years been “between hawk and buz
zard,” a sort of political nondescript, neither Whig
nor Democrat—neither an anti-slavery nor
slavery man—a Janus faced politician, looking
both North and South for popularity—disowned
by the Democrats—repudiated by the Whigs
donounced by the friends of Southern Rights, he
went wandering about like a stall-fed ox at a
cattle-show, bearing a flag on which was painted
in conspicuous letters, “1 am for sale—who will
buy?—will sell dog cheap.” Aud who was the
purchaser, and what was the price paid for him!
Giddings & Co., were the purchasers, and a
Speakership the price? And this is the man that
is presented to the people of Georgia by this
Union Consolidation Convention, as a candidate
for Governor. No wonder that the people are
not satisfied with him. The greater wonder is
that indignation meetings are not held through
out the State, and the Convention that nominat
ed him denounced in the most unmeasured terms
for attempting to cram down their throats a man
who has sold himself to ,the Freesoilers of the
North—and a man who is capable of such cor
ruption once will be guilty of a second offence
should the inducement be offered.— Ogletkrope
Democrat , 14 tli inst.
The Great Flood on the Mississippi.
The St. Louis papers come to us with extended
details of ravages of the great Hood on the Mis
sissippi, some accounts of which we have already
had by telegraph.
The St. Louis Times of Monday, the 9th,
states that the water was then 33 feet 4 inches
above low Water mark, and still rising, being
within 5 feet 3 inches of the mark of the great
flood of 1844. The bottom opposite North St.
Louis was also flooded, and nearly all the fami
lies have taken refuge in the 6th ward. It was
estimated, that from one thousand to twelve hun
dred persons—men, women and children have
been landed from the opposite shore, destitute of
everything needful for the preservation of health,
and were in the occupatien of the Sturgeon mar
ket. The depth of -water on the Levee store
floors at St. Louis was from 24 to 28 inches. In
all the cross streets running to the levee, the wra
ter has passed from ten to thirty feet beyond the
levee, front of buildings. In the lower part of
the town, the water had backed up for several
squares, rendering some of the streets impassable.
Arsenal Island and Duncan’s Island were entire
ly inundated, as was also Bloody Island, except
the extreme northern and soutSern points.
In Illinoistown, the destruction was immense.
Many of the buildings had been undermined and
swept away. The current had washed a chan
nel around the eastern end of the Bloody Island
dyke, and a heav) r body of w r ater was passino
through the town into Cahokia creek.
At the American Bottom, a few high points
were left between the main river and the blufls.
At Papp’s town there was a little ground left
uncovered by water, but for miles around the
country presents the appearance of a great lake.
Thousands of farms bordering on the upper
streams were reported by steamboat captains as
entirely under water, and their improvements
and stock swept away—an amount of loss to
repair which will require the labor of years.
The Hannibal (Mo.) Union says: Considera
ble damage will be done in this city though noth
ing to compare with less elevated places above
and below us. From many quarters we hear of
the most distressing scenes, accompanied by great
loss of property. In one house atTully, it is re
ported that there are seven families huddled to
gether into the upper stories. The rest are all
driven from their homes. At Alexandria the
water is said to be up to the second stories. Ma
rion city, of course, is completely submerged, not
a foot of dry land being anywhere visible.
An Abolition Meeting, held in Philadelphia on
Sunday, at Franklin Hall, vras broken up by a
mob. Mrs. Grew' and Lucretia Mott had address
ed the audience, w r hen a colored man attempted
to speak, but was prevented and driven from the
Hall. There was great excitement.
Ice Produced by Steam, and steam converted ,
into snow, is part of the scientific entertainment
provided for the visitors of the London exhibition;
and surely the capabilities of the apparatus are
among its wonders.
AUGUSTA, GA.
SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 22.
For Governor.
Charles j. McDonald.
CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION.
The Convention to nominate a Southern
Rights Candidate for the Eighth Congres
sional District, will be held in this City
on SATURDAY, the 12th day of JULY.
Disagreements among the Oonsolidationists.
The organs of the Toombs and Cobb party are
not yet attuned to each other. They are giving
out rather discordant notes. Some of them have
not yet got exactly the hang of the consolidation.
State coercing, doctrines they are called on to
advocate, and are putting forth constructions of
the platform which they occupy, which others,
who speak ex cathedra , wholly repudiate.
The Chronicle <§- Sentinel , borrowing the idea
from the Journal and Messenger , insists that
the Toombs and Cobb party advocate the right
of secession as unequivocally as the Southern
Rights party.
To prove this it quotes the fourth resolution of
the Georgia Convention, which is a part of the
platform of the Consolidationists, and thus com
ments on it as conclusive on this point:
“ The resolution embraces the corner stone
upon which Southern Rights are based, and by
which Southern institutions may be secured. In
it are openly and broadly declared and enforced,
the great principle of the right to dissolve the
government, and the duty of the patriot to do it,
whenever that government shall attempt to do
certain things, which the people of Georgia re
gard as too great an outrage upon their rights
and property to be borne. What more can the
disunionists ask, if they are sincere in their de
sire to have the abstract right of secession ac
knowledged by the people ? Here it is proclaim
ed in its broadest, fullest and most comprehensive
sense, and has been so endorsed by them in their
approval of the action of the Convention which
adopted the resolution.”
Gov. McDonald puts the same construction on
the resolution. But the Athens Banner , Mr.
Cobb’s special organ, scouts the idea. It is down
upon the ex-Governor for supposing the Georgia
Convention claimed for the State any such right.
It insists that all it claimed was that, in case of
intolerable oppression , the people of Georgia could
take their choice ol loyal submission, or of being
bayoneted by federal troops, and hanged, drawn
and quartered as traitors, if their Yankee Abo
lition Unionists should prove strong enough to
conquer them.
On this point, the Banner thus discourseth:
“False Construction.— Gov. McDonald, in
his letter of acceptance, has artfully endeavored
to impress upon the public mind the idea that the
doctrine of secession, as claimed by his party, is
recognized in the resolutions of the Georgia Con
vention. We deny it. The doctrine of the dis
unionists is the right of a State to secede from
the Union at discretion and without restraint. The
position of the Georgia Convention is resistance
to unconstitutional or grossly unjust legislation
—in other words the right of revolution for in
tolerable oppression. The fire-eating doctrine
takes a State out of the Union without just cause
places her right upon her uncontrollable sovereign
will and pleasure .”
As the Editor of the Banner is, by his position,
leading organist, the others will have to chime
in. How else can they support their standard
bearer who denies also this right of secession ?
This article of the Banner contains some cu
rious doctrines, which it may not be amiss to
dwell a moment upon. It supposes the case, that
if South Carolina conclude to resist the compro
mise measures, or in other words secede, while
Georgia has concluded to submit and remain in
the Union, then it is the duty of Georgia to help
coerce her back.
The Banner thus puts the case:
“ Does it follow that because one State as
sumes, in advance, an attitude of resistance or
revolution upon the happening of certain con
tingencies, which may or not happen, that she is
bound to allow another to anticipate her and re
sist the government, with impunity, for any cause
short of those contingencies ? Does the asser
tion by you of a righfcto resist your government
in certain specified cases of oppression, bind you
to acknowledge the right of your neighbor to
destroy it, whilst you think it is a good govern
ment and worth preserving? Does every man
who aids his government to quell insurrection, or
attempts at revolution, bind himself to non-re
sistance in all cases whatsoever? Does every
man who says he will resist certain aggressions
of the government, become bound to fold his
hands and acknowledge the right of his neighbor
to defy its authority for a less aggravated cause,
or at discretion ? No. It is this very difference
among men as to just causes of resistance, which
has always arrayed and ever will array them in
opposition, whenever the standard of defiance is
unfurled against government.”
The essence of this reasoning is, Georgia has
no right to secede, or assume an attitude of resis
tance in any contingency. But if she choses to
attempt it, she does it at the peril of being con
quered and coerced back ; and that it is the duty
of the other States, both North and South, that
prefer remaining in the Union, to help the Fede
ral Government to coerce her back, and to help
punish her citizens by hanging them, and confis
cating their property, and by all other modes the
government may see proper to adopt to humble
them and break down their free spirit.
What a beautiful system of government we
would live under when these doctrines, already
predominant in the anti-slavery States, should
receive the sanction of the Southern people!
And how charmingly would it work in the day,
not improbable, or very distant, when the Fede
ral arm shall be wielded by a John Van Buren. a
Seward, a Sumner, or a Giddings !! If these are
the doctrines for Southern men to sanction, what
a monstrous absurdity—what a farce a bur
lesque—to talk of State sovereignty—or State
Rights—or of a State having any rights !!! Re
served rights are nothing ; Constitutions are no
thing; justice nothing. The sole arbiter is the
sword, and the law of brute force prevails.
“The good old rule, tho simple plan
For thoso to keep who have the power,
And those to get who can
We learn from the National Intelligencer that
the Secretary of the Treasury, left Washington,
on Tuesday for Ohio, and will probably be absent
four or five weeks. Mr. Corwin has been con
stantly at Washington for nearly two years, and
his close application to his arduous official duties,
as well as his recent illness, has rendered some
relaxation necessary to his health. Wm. L.
Hodge, Esq., the AssistantJSecretary, has been
appointed by the President, Secretary of the
Treasury, ad interim, during the absence of Mr.
Corwin.
At a late horse race in England 33 horses were
entered. One man lost four hundred thousand
dollars on a single bet,
New Books.
We have received from Messrs. T. Richards
& Son, who have them for sale, the following
new’ Works:
The History of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, by
Jacob Abbott, with engravings.
Caleb Field, a tale of the Puritans, by the au
thor of “ Passages in the life of Mrs. Margaret
Martland.”
Eastbury, a tale by Anna Harriet Drury, au
thoress of “ Friends and Fortune.”
Part I—London Labor and the London Poor,
by Henry Mayhew, w r ith Daguerreotype Engra
vings.,
No. 14, Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution.
The above works are from the press of Messrs.
Harper & Brothers.
The Legislature of the State of
at their recent session, passed a law to give better
remedies to persons injured by railroad accidents.
Heretofore all actions brought for injuries to the
person, abated by the death of the party injured
and in case of death either before or after suit,
no right of action survived to the representatives
of the party injured. By the new r law, in case of
the death of the plantiff in any such suit his per
sonal representatives may be substituted to pro
secute the action and when death has been caus
ed by unlawful violence or negligence, and non
suit has been brought by the party suffering the
injuries w r hich causes death, the w’idow', or other
personal representative, is authorized to maintain
an action and recover damages.
Immigrants. —Nearly four thousand immi
gants arrived at New York on Monday afternoon
and Tuesday forenoon. They were brought in
ships from London, Liverpool, Dublin, Rotter
dam and Bremen. The Guy Mannering had 814,
and the Meridian 685—both from Liverpool.
The emigrants now are generally in good health.
Forgery at Philadelphia. —A forgery to the
amount of $1,600, or more, has been success
fully perpetrated upon the Philadelphia Bank.
The criminal who committed the fraud is know r n,
and the police are on his track. The Sun says
that his name is John Carrol, a young Irishman.
The name forged was E. W. Coxe, No. 233 Ches
nut street.
Frost in June. —A gentleman from Troy, N.
Y., states that there w r as frost on the hills to the
eastward of that place.on Monday morning, 16th
instant.
Colonel Garnett, Chief Engineer of the Vir
ginia and Tennessee Railroad, on the 14th in
stant, received a severe blow r on the head from a
fragment of rock thrown out by a powder blast.
The Lynchburg Virginian, in announcing this
casualty, states that Colonel Garnett’s injury
will probably confine him for several days, but
it is not such as to awaken serious apprehension.
Egyptian Antiquities for America.—Ab
has Pasha has granted to Dr. Abbott permission
to remove from Cairo his noble museum, and u
nique collection for some twenty years; and a por
tion is on its way to England. The whole will
fill above a hundred enormouns cases. It would
seem to be destined to the United States.
The Shadrach Rescue Case. —The jury in
the case of Hayden, at Boston, on the charge
of assisting in the Shadrach rescue, stood nine
for conviction and three for acquittal. They
were consequently discharged, and Robert Mor
riss, a colored lawyer, was on Tuesday put on
trial, on a similar charge.
Education in Minnesota. —The Territorial
University of Minnesota has been located at St.
Anthony. The University building is to be
erected immediately. The school fund has been
so husbanded in that territory, as to secure to
every child a common school education, free of
all expense to parents.
Jenny Lind. —The New York Mirror says of
this great vocalist, that she retains her house in
Brooklyn until September, and perhaps two or
three months longer; and that after her concerts
in Boston she will visit the Falls, and make con
cert-giving a matter of pleasure more than of
labor.
Soldiers’ Wives. —A Judge of Probate in
Minnesota territory, to whom a United States
soldier at Fort Snelling recently made applica
tion for a discharge, on the ground that he could
not find suitable quarters at the Fort for his wife,
granted the discharge, and held that if the Gov
ernment enlists a husband it must provide suita
ble accommodations for the wile; also, that every
enlisted soldier may have a wife provided for.
The Yacht American, belonging to Gen.
Schuyler, which it is believed will beat anything
alloat, excepting Stevens’ Marta, sailed from N.
Y. yesterday, for London, to try the speed of the
Royal Yacht Squadron.
We learn from the Washington papers that a
Postal Arrangement has been agreed upon be
tween the Post Office Department of the United
States and the Post Office Department at New
Brunswick, by which, on and after the 6th of Jil
ly next, a regular exchange of mails will be made
between the United States and the Provinces of
New Brunswick, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and
Newfoundland, at the same rates of postage es
tablished for the United States and Canada mails,
to wit: Ten cents the single rate, where the dis
tance exceeds 3,000 miles from the line of cross
ing. Prepayment of the postage is optional in
either country.
A New Instrument of Destruction. —A
rifle capable of firing 25 balls every minute, in
cluding the time of loading, was shown to the
editor of the Newark Advertiser, a day or two
since, as an important improvement in fire arms.
Under the barrel, in the place of the ordinary
ramrod, is an iron tube containing the 25 balls,
and by cocking the gun a ball is brought up in
the barrel and the same operation also brings up
from’ the breech a “pill” of priming. The charge
of powder is contained in the ball, which is not
round, but oblong, and having an opening which
is corked shut after the power has been introduc
ed. The quantity of powder is only 28 grains,
and drives the ball with greater force than the
large charge in an ordinary gun.
A person intending to start a new cigar man
ufactory in Havana, presented the brand and ti
tle 11 La Republica” for the necessary license,
but was refused.
Extensive Fire in Trenton, N. J.—A fire
occurred on Saturday last, in the cotton manu
factory of J. P. Kennedy, on the Assampink, and
the attic and third story, with their contents,
were destroyed. The building and machinery,
owned by James Hoy, Jr., was insured for $lO,-
000; bui; the loss in stock to Mr. Kennedy was
about $2,600.
$1) JHugttftic trlffiropl).
Reported for the Constitutionalist.
(New York, June 21.
Cotton.— The market is firm. Sales 1800
bales. Middling Upland 8 3-4 to 9 cents. Sales
of the week 5,000 bales.
Rice $3,25 to $3 9-16. Sales cf the week
500 tierces.
The steamer Cherokee has arrived from Cha
gres, W'ith 300 passengers and the California
mails.
Washington, June 21.
President Fillmore went to Old Point Comfort
to-day, where he will remain a week.
Baltimore, June 21.
The market to-day has been dull. 7000 bags
Rio Coffee was sold at 8 3-4 to 9 1-2 cent 3.
Flour $4 1-16. Cotton very dull.
Charleston, June 21, P. M.
Cotton. —The market to-day is in favor of buy
ers, with sales of 500 bales, at prices ranging from
to 93 eents.
Telegro])hed for the Charleston Courier.
New Orleans, June 19.
There has been but a limited demand for Cot
ton in this market, and the sales of yesterday
and to-day comprise three thousand two hundred
bales. Middling is worth from 9to 9 1-2 cents.
Two hundred bbls. of Whisky have been sold
at 18 cents per gallon.
The barque Saranac, Yates, has arrived from
Charleston.
Columbia, June 20, 9.20 P. M.
The same feeling prevails in our market to-day,
as there did yesterday. Prices are full and the
demand is good. One hundred and thirty bales
have been sold at from 5 1-2 to 9c.
We understand from a private Dispatch re
ceived in this city, that the barque Imogene,
McMunn, arrived at New Orleans on the 19th
instant.
At the sitting of the Paris Academy of
Sciences on the 19th ult. an able committee of
four reported, in the highest terms of favor, on
M. Masson’s process for the preservation of ali
mentary vegetable substances, which I have
heretofore noticed. The process consists in the
desiccation of the vegetables, at a moderate tem
perature, in a stove, and then a powerful com
pression by the hydraulic press. When they are
to be used, they are made to imbibe the water
drawn from them ; they are then simply steeped
in warm water. Seven-eighths of their weight
are abstracted in the first operation, and the
greater part restored in the second. Vegetables
thus prepared, say the committee, will cost less
than sour krout, and may be transported at very
little expense; hence, the navy and our fortresses
and armies may be abundantly supplied, and as
the process is applicable to medicinal plants,
they will be greatly useful to the medical service
of the civil hospitals, and above all, to the ambu
lance militaires. Merchant-shipping on long voy
ages, will be alike benefitted.
The cool courage was remarkable of that chap
who, when forced into a fight, exclaimed as the
bystandersrushed in between him and his antago
nist, “ two of you must take hold of him, but one
can hold me !
One of the Saratoga hotels, to increase its sum
mer attractiveness, announces that several ladies,
who wear the new costume, have already taken
board.
The Weather.— Altera long drought, we
were on Sunday afternoon, and Monday morning
last, visited by refreshing rains, which has reviv
ed the fields of corn and cotton, as well as the
hearts of the planters and the people generally.
From what we can learn, the season has been
pretty general. It came too late, we are sorry
to say, to be of much benefit to the Oat crop,
which will generally fall far short of the expec
tations of the farmer, and in many neighbor
hoods the crop will be almost an entire failure.
On Tuesday night and Wednesday morning,
the wind blew briskly from the E. and N. E.
rendering it quite cool, so that fires, overcoats,
cloaks, and winter clothing were very comforta
ble and acceptable—all looking and feeling more
like the middle of November than the 18th of
June.— Neuman Banner , 20 th Inst.
Moths in Furniture. —Thoroughly saturate
the stuffing of solas, chairs, &c., by pouring on
and in camphene. This may be done without
any danger of injury to carpets or clothing, as
they are preserved by sprinkling with the same
article. I have tried this method of ridding a
sofa, which had been stuffed with villainous hair,
from thousands of worms and moths. They
were instantly destroyed, without in the least
affecting the hair seating or varnish of the wood.
—North American.
The largest'amount of Silver which probably
ever came from the West, reached Philadelphia
on Monday, by Adams & Co.’s Express. It was
six tons in weight, and came from the Union
Bank of Tennessee, at Nashville, to the Philadel
phia Bank. The procession which carried this
precious load to the bank was quite an imposing
one, all the force of Adams & Co. being required
to carry it.
The ship Lone Star, Capt. Boutelle, which, as
we mentioned yesterday, was reported on fire in
the offing, has arrived, and, by permission oi the
Mayor, been taken up to Smith’s wharf, where
she is being stripped of her sails, rigging, &c.,
and the Fire Companies are filling her with wa
ter. Ihe steamer Nina is moored alongside her
to tow her out in case of necessity. None of the
cargo has been removed. Mr. Nichols, of the firm
of Nichols & Gibbs, the consignees, and Mr. H.
I’. Baker, Agent ot the Philadelphia Underwri
ters, are, however, in attendance, representing
the interests of all parties concerned.—Charles
ton Courier, 21sf Inst.
MARRIED.
On the 17th inst., by the Rev. J. S. Jonos, Mr. E.
G. Bunson, and Miss E. S. A. Perryman, young
est daughter of Elisha Perryman, Jr., of Warren
county, Ga.
Serial llfltiffS.
CP"" We are authorize to announce the name
of Brigadier General STEPHEN DRANE, as a can
didate for Major General to cemmand the Soeond
Division of Georgia Militia. juno 11
HF~Notice.—Post Office, Augusta, June 2d,
1851.—0 n and after this date, the Western Mail
will close at 3 P. M.
Northern and Charleston Mails at 5 A. M.
Savannah Mail at 8 P. M.
The Office will be opened at 7A. M. and
closed on the arrival of the Northern Mail, which
will be ready for delivery by 4£ P. M., after which
the office will continue open until 8 P. M.
On Sundays, the office will be opened from 8 to
9 A. M., and from 5 to 8 P. M.
Persons having Key Boxes and wishing Letters
charged, are requested to make the following de
signation: “Charge Key Box No.—.”
june 3 BENJ. F. HALL. P. M.
Soda Water.—Cold SODA WATER, witha
variety of Syrups, at the Drug Store of
PHILIP A. MOISE, Metcalf’s Range.
N.B.— Congress Water always in lee,
may 24 5m