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on State Road, by Finance Committee.
Milledgeville, June 14, 1851.
1 To His Excellency George W. Towns:
Sir: —Until very recently the undersigned,
the committee appointed by you under an act of
the Legislature, were unable to comply with the
desire expressed in February last of personally
inspecting the Western & Atlantic Rail-Road,
and reporting to you generally as to its condi
tion, &c. On the 22d ult. we assembled at At
lanta, and entered upon the discharge of the
* duty imposed. Accompanied by Mr. Mitchell,
and the late resident Civil Engineer, Mr. Wells,
who'joined us above Atlanta, we proceeded slow
ly, with a view to make a careful survey and
examination of the entire Road to the Tunnel, a
distance of 106 miles from Atlanta. With a
view to perspicuity we place under appropriate
heads the results of this service.
OF THE RAIL.
The entire length of the State Road to Chat
tanooga on the Tennessee river, is 138 miles.
Four kinds of Iron rail are used on the Road;
thus:
Atlanta to Casy’s water station, a plate
miles.
■Bi Casy's to a short distance beyond the
river, a bridge or U rail, 5 miles.
V From that point to Ackworth, a plate or flat
■ bar, 24 miLes.
B From Ackworth to Kingston, the bridge or U
■ rail, 25 miles,
P From Kingston to Calhoun, a plate rail, 21
r miles.
From Calhoun to Dalton, a flange rail of 40
tons per mile, 20 miles,
■I From Dalton to Chattanooga, a flange rail of
j Z 50 tons per mile, 38 miles.
Ttys statement exhibits the fact, that fifty
the State Road is laid with a plated or
flafe bar rail. It should be boine in mind that
this rail has been in use since the commence
ment of business on the Road, say 1845. It is
much w’orn —broken in many places, and would
be very dangerous, but for the numerous repair
r ing parties, distributed along this distance en
gaged actively in patching where needed. It
appears to us that every particle of the flat bar
should be removed at the earliest practicable
moment. It has become exceedingly expensive
to keep in a condition so as to answer the neces
sities of the hour, as will be evinced by reference
to the books of the Superintendent of Transpor
tation. It is evident that it cannot be made to
answer the anticipated freights of the next fall
and winter.
We were gratified to learn from Mr. Mitchell,
that under an Executive order, he had purchased
ot Messrs. Padelford & Fay, of Savannah, 1,005
tons of a good T rail, and which was daily ex
pected, sufficient to displace at once tw r elve miles
of the flat bar. With a view to provide for the
remaining thirty-eight miles of flat bar, Mr.
Mitchell had been in correspondence with
Messrs. Padelford & Fay, as agents of a London
house, which correspondence was submitted for
our consideration and counsel. Whilst we dis
claim the possession of any authority or power
over the subject, and are entirely sensible that
we have not been clothed with any advisory au
thority upon which the Chief Engineer might
safely proceed to contract for Iron, we did not
hesitate to say to that functionary, that it was a
responsibility which he should promptly assume,
and that we did not doubt that the people and
their representatives would commend the course
which would so materially contribute to placing
their Road in a condition to do the business
pressing on it. We cannot permit ourselves to
question the readiness of the Legislature in
hastening to make ample provision for the faith
ful fulfilment of contracts made by public agents
when those contracts are manifestly largely con
ducive to the public security and benefit. Nor
are we disposed to think, from any considera
tions, will the Legislature attempt to find in the
fc exhibition of zeal, energy and intelligence in
ground for censure, but on the con-
HBh all liberal minded men, we should
distinct and unqualified commenda-
I
■PtIIES SUPERSTRUCTURE AND BRIDGES.
The superstructure of the Road to the Tunnel,
is in process\pf an early and thorough renewal.
The were most carefully examined,
and itglves us pleasure to say, that they have been
> maditmguger and more secure than when first erect
fidsupervision of Col. Long. In this re
niarit we do not include the old bridge over the
Chafi^hpovfi 6 ®} as that is so shortly to be super
seded byUbe very superior bridge nearly com
pleted by thereon tractor, Mr. Denmead.
The apprehensions which we knew were en
tertainea and freely expressed during the last
year as to the Bridges and superstructure, have
f been discovered by us, on examination, now to be
unfounded.
OF THE CARS EQUIPMENT, &C.
The road is miserably equipped. We feel hu
miliated, as Georgians who have stood by this
enterprise in its infancy and through all the tri
als and opposition it has encountered, to he com
pelled to say, that it never lias received from the
State “a decent suit of clothing .” It has been left
to sustain itself by every shift and expedient
w which those w’ho supervised it, could devise; beg
ging, borrowing and making ruinous contracts
* with other rail road companies in consequence of
its poverty and dependence, until at length it is a
bout being refused the hire and use of the box and
other cars of the company to w hich so much has
been paid and so much is still due. Can it be
that this state of things will be permitted by the
Legislature to continue ? It never could have ex
isted for a moment, had the Legislature originally
equipped the road. We feel constrained to pre
sent the great deficiency w r hich has hitherto ex
isted and now exists, that it may receive the
consideration to w r hich such a fact is entitled.
Belonging to the road at this time are thirteen
Locomotives, of which seven have been purchas
ed since April 1848, —and w hich may be esteem
ed good:
4 Passenger Cars,
2 Baggage Cars,
4 Box Cars, and,
6 Platform Cars.
The road needs at this time additionally:
10 Passenger Cars.
200 Box Cars.
100 Platform Cars.
4 Baggage Cars, and
15 Locomotives.
In the absence of Legislative provision for a
moderate equipment, as above suggested, with a
view in some degree, to render the State Road
less dependent than it is, and has ever been, at
least, until a Legislature shall assemble, we have
advised Mr, Mitchell to negotiate at once, if prac
ticable, with the several Rail Road Companies
connected wflth the State Road, the purchase from
them of fifty box and platform cars.
To obviate the difficulty frequently arising
wflth the companies w r hose roads connect wflth
the State Road, of fixing wflth entire certainty,
w'hich should be responsible for loss of produce,
or damage to freights, we w ould recommend that
you invite the Legislature, having fully equipped
the State Road, to prohibit the running of any
cars whatever on that road except those ow ned
by the State.
A subject demanding legislation is the fact
w’hich we have learned with reference to a pro
hibition which exists on the Rome Branch R.
Road, of the Cars of the Macon & Western Rail
Road, not being permitted to go up to Rome for
freights, w hilst the cais of the Georgia Rail Road
may. As a general principle, w r e w’ould abstain
from interference w ith the conduct of a private
company, leaving it to regulate its business in its
own w T ay; but there is an obvious propriety of
interference on the part of the State here, to pre
vent the perversion of her road from the great
design of its founders. At Atlanta, it w r as ex
pected and designed that competition should be
gin; at that point, freights be distributed among
roads connecting there. Perfect equality was
intended to be dispensed, and no preference of
the one over the other, to be given, through the
instrumentality of the State Road. The pro
hibition referred to, has this effect precisely—that
to the extent of the expense of transhipment of pro
duce and freights at Kingston, from the Rome
Rail Road cars to the Macon & W. R. R. cars,
and the delay attending it—a bounty to those
forwarding over the Georgia R. Road, is given,
and small as it may be, serves to give a direction
to a very large and valuable trade, wfliich other
wise might he divided between the great mar
kets of the State. If the Legislature should equip
the State Road, and prohibit the running of other
cars on it except those of the State—no other
corrective wflll be wanting.
Depots, large, substantial and secure, are want
ed at several points; indeed, we think they should
be provided at every important point along the
road.
A machine-shop with capacity for every pur
pose of the road, should be erected at or near
Kingston or Adairsville, so as t# enable Locomo
tives requiring repair, to be put in order, without
traversing the whole length of the road.
It occurs to us, that upon the completion of the
Milledgeville & Gordon 11. Road, tne Peniten
tiary might readily, and most profitably to the
State, be converted into a shop for the manufac
ture of Cars for the use of the State Road only.—
The employment of convict labor in this form,
will prove more profitable to the State, and be less
liable to the objections w r hich are constantly and
speciously made, to bringing such labor into com
petition with other mechanic labor.
The condition of the finances of the road, up to
the first day of October, 1850, having been pre
sented to your Excellency, and published, our
examination w r as limited to the operation of the
road to the last seven months; and as the expen
ses of the maintenance of w r ay, and of transpor
tation, could not be precisely arrived at by us,
until the adjustment of some accounts, now under
examination by Mr. Mitchell, w r e refrain from
the presentation of any.statement connected wflth
this department of our service, except that ot the
gross receipts of the road during the seven months
counting from first October last.
Reviewflng the whole subject, with all the
lights w’hich have been throw'll upon it in the
full and free intercourse w r e have had wflth En
gineers of other roads, and with gentlemen of
intelligence familiar with the wants of the State
Road—w r e are persuaded that a sum less that five
hundred thousand dollars wflll he inadequate to
placing it in a condition to meet the accumulat
ed and rapidly increasing freights, W’hich aw’ait
the action of the Legislature. We doubt not that
the expenditure of a million of dollars, so as to
relay the entire road with a rail ot from 85 to 90
tons to the mile, and the substitution of a much
heavier class of Locomotives, wflll be found in the
end to be the wiser and better policy.
In thus recomending the thorough renewal and
equipment of her great road, we cannot for a
moment indulge the idea that Georgia will be
insane enough to disappoint her own high destiny
by allowflng this w’ork from any of the consider
ations which w r e have seen stated, to pass into
other hands. Now, when nearly all our troubles
and difficulties arising from this source, have end
ed; w r hen the State debt springing from it has
ceased to press heavily and to give annoyance;
when the friends of the road who did battle ori
ginally, and those who continued to battle since
in its behalf, are reposing in their tents, thinking
that no further exertion w r as necessary on their
part to sustain a policy w’hich they had labored
so long, so zealously, and as w r e think, so wflsely,
to establish, w T e are pained to find that the ques
tion of the sale of the road, at the moment of the
full fruition of the rich, varied, and illimitable re
turns wfliich the State is on the eve of receiving,
has been agitated, and enforced wflth every ar
gument, w’hich the experience and mental re
sources! could supply, of gentlemen distinguished
for reputation and unquestionable patriotism.
We beg leave to differ wflth them entirely as to
what is the true policy of the State of Georgia.
In this connexion w e lament, as the sincere
friends of Education, to find some more distin
guished by zeal in its cause, than we claim to
possess, are desirous of the sale of the State road
with a view to found with its proceeds a scheme of
general education. A noble purpose indeed, and
w r orthy of the attention of the Philanthropist
and Statesman! But w’hat prospect can there be
of the application of the proceeds of such sale to
this beneficent purpose?
A brief reflection must dissipate such hopes.
It should be remembered that upon the road are
existing liens to a very considerable amount
W’hich must be first paid, for the public faith is
pledged to such payment. A debt of near tw r o
millions in bonds, growing out of the building of
the road, exists in addition to these liens. Can
any one, after the statement of these facts, seri
ously believe that the people wflll tolerate the ap
propriation of the proceeds of the sale of the road,
or any part thereof, to an Education scheme, un
til that debt and liens are paid, say $2,500,000?
Will the road sell for more? We question it.
We may safely predict that no Legislature wflll
venture to found with the proceeds of the sale of
the State Road, an Education scheme, which
leaves the State debt to be paid through all time
to come, by an annual, never-ending, never-di
minishing taxation. Why then, should the
friends of education favor a sale of the road—since
it must be evident to every man who wflll allow r
himself to be directed by his common sense—
that not a dollar of the proceeds w ill, in any rea
sonable probability, be applied as they would de
sire? The true policy of every friend of Educa
tion, is to stimulate the Representatives of the
I people, to the wise expenditure of the amount
indicated by us, on the road, that its capacity for
profit, its ability to maintain itself thereafter, and
ability to repay all the money which has been
expended on it, may be, as it w ill be, fully dem
onstrated. Let the future nett proceeds of the
road, after the payment of the entire State debt,
be set apart as sacred to the cause of general edu
cation; and wejdoubt not that the time is rapidly
approaching, when they wflll be found to be am
ple. A sale of the road is not only desired—but
by some, it is insisted that the sale should be
made to the tw o great companies—the Georgia
R. R. Company, and the Central R. R. Com
pany, or rather to a new Company, to be com
posed of Stockholders of both.
Whilst we have never belonged ;to that class
of politicians, wfliose apprehensions of monopoly
are alike excited, and equally, by the incorpora*
tion of a burying ground —or a bank—we must
be permitted to say, that w r e view wflth serious
alarm the project of a sale to these Companies, of
the State Road. From the instant of the con
summation of such an idea, wflll the star of Geor
gia pale in the constellation of the States. Her
legislation wflll be no longer free ; it can be, and
w r ho doubts,if it can, that it wflll not be dictated, by
two overpowering and w T eaithy monopolies, act
ing in unision, as their interests will then have
become identical. Separately, the influence off
each of these Companies is now felt in the halls
of legislation. United , their power, for any pur~
pose , will be irresistible. It is the dictate of pru
dence to preserve the relations of honorable ri
valry now existing—certainly not to invite, to
bring about, such a union between them, as that
proposed —a union which tvould place the interests
of Georgia at their mercy. It will be no answer
to this view of the question, to reply, that in the
contract of sale, restrictions can, and will be, im
posed by the Legislature, for the protection of the
people. So they can —and a subsequent Legisla
ture nominated and elected by the power and
influence of these companies, can annul or release
those restrictions, and where then will be the
boasted protection of the three great classes of
the people, the agricultural, commercial, and
manufacturing? In ; making these remarks we
would, by no means, be understood as imputing a
design on the part of these Companies, to possess
themselves of the State Road, at the supposed
sum of $2,500,000—a large sacrifice upon its cost
—or any wish or purpose to control the legisla
tion of the State. We simply state with free
dom, our views, and run out the consequences
which appear to us, will necessarily flow from
the act deprecated, no matter by whom the com
panies may be managed. Under the control of
their present very distinguished heads, we should
feel less apprehension| than under the manage
ment of any two other eminent citizens of Geor
gia ; but what assurance have the people, that
gentlemen of their probity and high character,
will always be at the head of these Companies ?
A reason assigned for the sale of the road is,
that it has been, and ever will be, used as a party
engine in our State elections. This perhaps is
the strongest reason which has been, or can be,
presented in support of such policy. We think
that it requires no very great skill to devise a
system of control, by which this great enterprise
can be withdrawn almost entirely from the vor
tex ol party. Why may not its agents and
employees be placed in an independent position
in reference to the Executive Department, and
to ensure capacity and probity, why may not
such a term be given to their offices, as to allay
the fever for place—often created by the fre
quency of change ? If this may be done, and
we do not doubt it, much, if not the whole
strength of the argument, will be thereby des
troyed. The magnitude of the interests of Geor
gia—present and prospective—would seem to
require that a hearty effort should be made by
our public men to the system—and
in all its details to demand of, and fix responsi
bility upon its agents; and until this shall have
been attempted, and failure has been the result,
we cannot think the idea that a State cannot
manage as well as a private corporation, her in
terests, should receive an assent from any intel
ligent man.
Herewith, we present a tabular statement of
the receipts of the road. The increase annually,
and as the road was extended, demonstrates the
truth of the proposition, that if Georgia will do
her full duty, and that without a blind parsimo
ny, she will receive in a few years, a large re
venue with which she can easily provide for the
payment, at an early period, of her public debt,
| and for other important purposes. Under a libe
■ ral and proper policy , we venture to assert, that
j she will, in five years, be in the receipt of a net;
income from the road—of not less than half a mil
lion of dollars annually. That such an anticipa
tion is not extravagant, let us refer to the sources
of supply, all of which are connected intimately
with the business of the State Road :
Railroads. Miles.
i Georgia R. Road to Atlanta, 171
Athens Branch, 39
Warrenton, 4
Washington Branch, (in progress,) 18
232
Central R. Road—Savannah to Macon,.... 191
Milledgeville & Gordon, (in progress,) ..... 17
Eaton ton to Milledgeville, “ 22
Macon & Western to Atlanta, 101
South Western to Oglethorpe, 51
Columbus R. Road, (in progress,) 73
455
Waynesboro’ R. Road, (in progress.) 52
Atlanta & LaGrange R. Road, 85
Rome Branch R. Road, . 18
Nashville & Chattanooga, (in progress.) ... .151
Hiwassee R. Road, “ “... 110
Memphis & Charleston R. Road, projected,..29o
654
In addition to the roads enumerated, built and
in progress, may be added the roads in Alabama
and South Carolina, as also the extension of the
Hiwassee Road, from Knoxville, East Tennessee,
into Virginia, to Lynchburg, a point east of the
Alleghany mountains —this latter extension, ren
dering the States of Kentucky and Virginia, and
a portion of North Carolina, tributary to our
road. In fact, through the instrumentality of
some of the roads in progress beyond our limits,
the Cumberland, Tennessee, Ohio, and Mississip
pi rivers ?nust necessarily furnish passengers and
freights. Nor should we omit the important fact,
that throughout the greater part of the entire
length of the road (138 miles,) we have a dense,
active, industrious and thriving population, the
products of whose labor are to be borne to mar
ket over this road, and its return freights.
Already new subjects of labor are springing up
by its wayside, and furnishing large and profita
ble employment to the road. Articles of trans
portation, not contemplated when the State road
was projected, now demand from their quantity
and value, our attention; as for example, tan
bark, large quantities of which are being pre
pared for shipment to France; feathers from East
Tennessee, by the hundreds of thousand pounds;
coal, sandstone, cedar, and other woods used in
various manufactures; and last, though not least,
cotton. Yes, the valleys of Cherokee are now
competing in the production of the great staple,
with South-western Georgia.
A paper of this description will not admit of a
full survey of the illimitable fields , in which a
great internal commerce is struggling to find an
out-let; that outlet is through our mountain gates.
The subject admits only of a faint illustration by
maps delineating the streams of trade and inter
course which have gushed forth as almost under
providential bidding, to renovate a land before
decaying under various causes and deserted by
our children. The subject is so vast that it can
be measured with any tolerable certainty, only
by an arithmetical mind, and by entering into a
computation of the various articles of a nation's
wealth and produce along the whole stem and
branches of the Western & Atlantic Rail Road.
The name is strikingly indicative of this gigantic
State work.
Georgia has been lauded as the Empire State of
the South. To what other cause has she been
indebted for this distinction,so much as this work,
which, breaking through the mountain barriers
which seemed to defy her labor and perseverance,
has made smooth her way to the valley of the Mis
sissippi lying beyond them.
Let the fruits of this labor and] perseverance,
of her revenue expended and of the power she
now possesses, be parceled out, or sold wider con
ditions if it please the Legislature; and the moral
of the Drama of him who parted his kingdom
among his two daughters, will find a quick reali
zation in the insignificance to which the State
will be reduced.
GEO. D. PHILLIPS, )
WM. W. CLAYTON, > Finance Com.
°IVERSON L. HARRIS, )
J Business of the Western A Atlantic Rail Road
from the 15 th Sept. 1845, to 30 th April, 1851, in
clusive.
From 15th Sept. 1845, to 30th Sept. 1846, $ 38.127 32
“ Ist Oct. 1846, to 30th “ 1847, 89,483 86
“ Ist Oct. 1847. to 30th “ 1848, 115,585 30
“ Ist Oct. 1848, to 30th “ 1549, 132,105 70
“ Ist Oct. 1849, to 30th “ ISSO' ‘198,564 34
Ist Oct. 1850, to Ist May, J sl, is 7 mos. 170,713 45
$744,579 97
James A. Nisbett, Esq. has been appointed
Postmaster at Macon.
ARTICLES.
BAGGING —Gunny ..... .'
Kentucky...
BALE ROPE—Jute
Kentucky...
BACON —Hams
Sides
Shoulders
BUTTER —Goshen, prime
BEESWAX
CANDLES —Spermacetti..
Georgian made
Northern
CHEESE—Northern
COFFEE—Cuba
Rio
J ava ..........
Laguayra
. SHIRTINGS, bro., 3-4
* “ 7-8 j
© brown, yd. wide!
® SHEETINGS, bro., 5-4|
.2 bleached, 5-4 \
* CHECKS !
| BED TICK
® OSNABURGS, 8 0z...
Q (.YARN, (assorted) ....
FISH —Mackerel, No. 1...
Do. No. 2...
Do. No. 3...
FLOUR—Canal
Augusta Canal..
Georgia, g00d...
FEATHERS —Live Geese.
GRAIN —Corn, loose
Do. sack
Wheat —Good White.
Do. * Red.
GUNPOWDER
HIDES—Dry
Drv, salted
IRON—Pig
Swedes, assorted..
Hoop
Sheet
Nail Rods
LEAD—Bar
White Lead
LARD
MOLASSES— Cuba
New-Orleans
NAILS—Cut, 4d. to 20d.
AUGUSTA, GA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 25.
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.
to Advertisers.— Our advertistng
friends will please hand in thir favors'by 5 o’clock,
P. M. hereafter—the recent change in tho timo of
arrival of tho mail, inducing us to close our adver
tising colums earlier than heretofore.
Western & Atlantic Rail-Road.
We publish, to-day, a very interesting Report
of the Commissioners, appointed to investigate
the subject, upon the condition and prospects of
the State Road. It must gratify the pride of
every Georgian to contempiate the great results
which that noble enterprize is likely to achieve
for the people of Georgia, and for the finances of
the State. It is, at the same time, mortifying to
learn in what a very shabby condition the Road
and its equipment are, growing out of an un
wise reluctance on the part of the State to appro
priate the proper amount to place the work in
efficient order. This Report furnishes the facts
to account for the many causes of complaint
against the Road by those having produce and
merchandize to forward upon it, and for which
the Chief Engineer and other officers have been
so unjustly denounced. The fault has been with
the wholly inadequate and “ shabby ” equipment
of the Road.
If the State keeps the Road, an appropriation
of one million of dollars should, doubtless, be made
to render it adequate to the public exigencies,
and a source of revenue to the State treasury.
The impolicy of selling the Road is placed by
the Report, in a forcible point of view, and will
make a profound impression on the public mind.
A Palpable Hit.
We copy the following from the last Savannah
Georgian. That ably conducted paper is always
to the point, both in its pithy paragraphs and its
leading editorials, and it seems never weary of
the amusement of showing up the inconsisten
cies of its neighbor of the Republican.
“We prefer an open Abolitionist to a trim
ming, half Southern, half Northern Free-Soil
er.”—Republican.
That surprises us. We did not know that
you had any choice between the two classes;
from your ardent devotion to Webster and Fill
more, however, and an occasional fling at Gid
dings and Garrison, we were inclined to think
you preferred “ a half Southern, half Northern
Free-Soiler,” to “ an open Abolitionist. ;;
We are glad to find that for once we are
agreed: our decided opinion is, that Webster
and Fillmore are far more dangerous to the South
than the noisy fanatics.— Georgian.
Crops in Southwestern Georgia. —A letter
from Albany, in this State, dated June 18th,
states that Southwestern Georgia has been visit
ed with copious and refreshing showers. Late
conr crops have heen very much revived and
benefitted, and cotton crops are represented as
promising, bearing and blooming well.
Philadelphia and Savannah Steamers.—
Messrs. Vaughn & Lynn, of Kensingston, Phila
delphia, have contracted to build the first vessel
for the Savannah steamship line. She is to be
200 feet long, 32 feet beam and 20 feet hold. She
is so be side-wheel with a powerful engine, 70
inches diameter of cylinder and 12 feet stroke.
The Prospect in South-western Georgia.
—The Albany (Ga.) Patriot, says : “ Within the
last two months, we have been in many of the
counties in South-western Georgia, and conver
sed with many men from various parts of this
section of the State and we believe that the pros
pects of Mr. Cobb in South-western Georgia are
decidedly bad. The coalition between Cobb,
Stephens and Toombs is looked upon with great
suspicion by honest men of both parties. Many
of the Whigs appear to regard the nomination of
Mr. Cobb with disgust, and the Democrats gene
rally look upon him as a man who has barted his
principles for office. If the prospects of the coa
lition are no better in other parts of the State, a
Waterloo defeat awaits them. Let the friends
of the South everywhere, rally and organize for
the contest, and Georgia redeemed from
the disgrace of being sold, to gratify the ambition
of three men.”
The Crops. —We learn through a friend, (says
the Columbia State Rights Republican of the 21st
mst.,) just returned from the back country, that
cotton is in many parts, in a flourishing condition.
The wheat crop has also been highly prolific.
Com and oats, however, are in a deplorable state,
and planters have been compelled to substitute
wheat for corn and oats, in feeding their horses
and cattle.
We were visited, (says the Abbeville Banner,
of June 2lit,) with a fine rain on last Tuesday
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morning, which has had a most revivifying in
fluence upon all sorts of vegetation. The rain
was; accompanied with a sudden change in the
atmosphere, the thermometer falling from 90 to
65 in a few hours. The weather has become
plesisant again.
Jackson, July 17.—The Southern Rights Con
vention met this morning, and nominated Gen.
Quitman for Governor by acclamation; Joseph
Bell for Secretary of State, Richard Griffith for
Treasurer, and George T. Swan for Auditor.
The Hon. Charles Murphy, of DeKalb, has
been nominated for Congress by the Constitu
tional Union party of the fourth district.
North British Review.— The May number
has been received by Mr. Thomas Courtney,
Agent for this city, to whom we are indebted for
a copy.
The Washington papers of the 21st inst., state
that the corner stone of the addition to the Capi
tol, authorised by the late act of Congress, will be
laid by the President of the United States, on the
4th of July next, in the presence of such offi
cers of the government as may then be in the
city, and of all citizens who may see fit to assem
ble to witness the ceremony, and that an address
on that occasion will be delivered by the Secre
tary of State.
Crots in Alabama. —The Wetumpka State
Guard of June 16th, says :
A friend writing to us from Talladega, under
date of the Bth instant, says the crops are suf
fering considerably from the exceeding dry
weather. There has been no rain in some parts
of Talladega county for nearly seven weeks.—
The corn crop has already been injured greatly—
cotton,however,is doing very well,though, would
be better of a good season.
Crops in Mississippi. —The Brandon Repub
lican of the 11th instant, says:
We understand that a violent hail storm oc
curred about ten miles south-wast of this place
on Saturday last, which did serious damage to
corn and cotton. This was also accompanied by
torrents of rain. The extent of the hail we have
not be able to learn. We had a slight rain at this
place on the same evening.
Arrival of the Cherokee.
The United States mail steamship Cherokee,
Henry Windle, Commander, from New-Orleans
the 13th, and Havana the 16th inst., arrived this
morning. The steamer Falcon arrived at Ha
vana from Chagres, on the 15th, with 500 pas
sengers.
There were no American vessels of war at
Havana when the Cherokee sailed. The town
is perfectly quiet. The sudden departure of the
Intendente to the States caused a little excite
ment and much regret.
The Cherokee brings the California mails.
She has also 300 passengers.
Died at sea, on board the steamship Cherokee,
June 20th, Augustus Thomas, of Westerly, Va.,
aged about 40.— N. Y. Journal of Commerce , 21 st
inst.
The U. S. mail steamship Pacific sailed for
Liverpool at noon, with upwards of 180 passen
gers, $928,000 in American gold, and $3,000 in
English silver.— lb.
Money Market, Saturday, June 21st.—There
is a better feeling in the money market to-day,
but no decline in rates. Those who were sud
denly called on for the return of short loans hav
ing straitened their accounts, the demand for loans
and discounts is less active. The general feeling
is favorable to a return to the easy market notic- {
ed two weeks since. This is a season when the !
regular payments of business paper are far from I
heavy, and the disbursements for dividends, &c.
unusually large. A considerable amount of money, j
probably not less than four millions, most of I
which is now locked up, will be put in circula
tion on or about the Ist proximo.
The Pacific to-day took out $928,000 in Am
erican gold, and $3,000 in English silver, making
a total of $931,000 for this steamer, and including
the Asia’s shipments on Wednesday, $2,047,000.
Thus our first estimate, published ten days ago.
of two millions for both steamers has been realiz
ed. This will make the total shipments from
this port since Jan. Ist. about $18,000,000.
The stock market was still further depressed •
although there was a better feeling towards the
close. We notice sales of United States 6’s of
’6B, Coupons at 121 a 121 1-4; do. s’s of 53
101 1-8; Erie 7’s of 59,103 1-4; do. of’7l, 95 1-2
a 96 1-4; Hudson, 2nd mortgage. 97 1-4; Reading
mort. bds. S 3; Erie Railroad 81 3-4 aBl 7-8-
Harlem 73 5-8 a 73 3-4; Reading 55 1-2 a 56 1-4-
Long Island 20 1-4 a 19 7-8; Utic and Sch, 128-
Portsmouth 6 5-8; Edgeworth 9; Canton 72 a
73 1-4; Farmers’ Trust 67 3-4; Nor. and Wor. 63
a 63 1-4.
Fojfcign Exchange closed a little flat at 110 1-2
a 110W-4for bills on London; Paris 508 3-4 a
507 1-2.— N. Y. Jem. Com., 1 9th inst.
Monsters of the Deep.— A Shark,of the Tiger
sptecies, measuring eleven feet nine inches in
length, and six feet two inches in circumference,
was taken in our harbor yesterday morning; and
shortly afterwards, another was caught, measur
ing nine feet four inches in length. We under
stand that the harbor is full of these “monsters of
the deep.”— Charleston Courier , 2Ath inst.
The Forgery Case. —The lamentable dere
liction of Mr. Stoddard, mentioned by us yester
day, is more disastrous in its consequences to
others than we had supposed. His forgeries ap
proach in amount, if they do not reach, SIOO,OOO.
He had always maintained a good reputation, and
in common with the whole community we re
gc;rd[his fall with the deepest sorrow.— Roch . Adv.
Thursday.
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Augusta Insurance & Banking Company par
Bank of Augusta «
Branch State of Georgia, Augusta “
Bank of Brunswick “
Georgia Rail-Road “
Mechanics’ Bank <•
Bank of St. Marys » “
Bank of Milledgeville “
Bank of the State of Georgia, at Savannah .. “
Branches of ditto
Marine & Fire Insurance Bank, Savannah “
Branch of ditto, at Macon “
Planters' Bank, Savannah “
Central Bank of Georgia “
Central R. R. & Banking Company, Savannah “•
Charleston Banks “
Bank of Camden u
Bank of Georgetown
Commercial, at Columbia “
Merchants’, at Cheraw “
Bank of Hamburg u
Alabama Notes 2 @ 3 dis.
Tennessee 2 @ 5 dis.
NOT BANKABLE.
Merchants’ Bank, at Macon.*
EXCHANGE.
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Philadelphia ’ “
Boston u
Charleston and Savannah par.
Lexington, Kentucky
Nashville, Tennessee «
STOCKS.
Georgia, 6 per cents. par.
*Not taken by our Banks, but redeemable at the Plant
ers’ Bank, Savannah, at par.
Savannah Chamber of Commerce.
ROBERT HABERSHAM, President
C. GREEN, Ist Vice-President.
EDW'D. PADELFORD, 2d Vice-President.
OCTAVUS COHEN, Secretary and Treasurer.
|ij Jltagtrrtic Crlrgniplj-
Reported for the Constitutionalist.
New York, June 23, p. m.
Cotton.—The sales to-day reach 1,500 bales.,
n some instances an 1-8 cent advance.
Rice is dull at 3 1-4 a 3 1-2 cents.
Charleston, June 24, p. m.
Cotton.—The market is depressed. Sales to
day 642 bales at 6 to 9 3-4 cents.
Telegraphed for the Charleston Courier.
New Orleans, June 21.
Cotton was steady in this market to-day, Sa
turday, and fifteen hundred bales were sold. Low
to Strict Middling commands 8 to 8 1-2 cents.
The receipts are one hundred and fifty-six thous
and hales ahead of last year. The stock to-night
amounts to ninety thousand bales.
The steam ship Georgia has arrived with the
California mails, as also the schooner T. P. Al
ston, Adams, from Charleston.
Columbia, June 23, 9.10 P. M.
No effect has as yet been experienced from the
Arctic's advices in our Cotton market, in conse
quence of the short supply on hand. The sales
to-day amounted only to some twenty bales, at
prices ranging/rom 7 to 8 1-2 cents.
We learn from a private dispatch received in
this city that the steam ship Osprey from this
port, arrived at Philadelphia Sunday last.
[Correspondence of the Phil. Ledger A
Williamsport, Pa., Junejl7,lßsl.
The Fugitive Slave Case at Williamsport. —The
fugitive slave case has ended in smoke. It was
understood that Jameson Harvey was to be tried
for assisting in the escape of a fugitive slave, and
the bill had been presented to the Grand Jury.
This morning, however, the Court ordered a nole
prosequi to be entered in the case, and the
bill was withdrawn. It is currently reported here
that this proceeding is the result of a compro
mise, by the terms of which Harvey pays S9OO
to the claimants of the negro. The Court ad
journed this afternoon. The United States Cir
cuit Court will meet here on Monday next.
Judge Grier will preside.
The Memphis Enquirer has the following al
lusion to the Cotton crop:
The Prospects of the Cotton Crop. —We are daily
receiving from all sections of the cotton grow
ing States the most flattering accounts of the
growing crops. Some of the cotton growers in
this section will make double the quantity they
did last year; they have been making a profita
ble business for some time in growing cotton,
which have enabled them to increase their forces
very considerably. With a continuation of sea
sonable weather for a few weeks longer, it will
be impossible to estimate what number of bales
the crop of the United States will yield—it will
not, however, be less than three millions of bales.
We say to our cotton growers, sell immediately
what they have been holding on so contrary to
our advice. It is to be regretted that the present
stock now in warehouses had not long since been
disposed of.
We hope to see new cotton pouring in our
market in less than sixty days.
Weather—Crops—Health.—The weather
during the week has been cool and cloudy with
some rain. Crops look well considering the un
favorable circumstances which attended the
spring season. The county is very healthy.—
We believe that for the past two or three years
this has been the healthiest part of the Btate.
Albany (Ga.,) Patriot , 20 th inst.
Superior Court.—The case of Hiram Wood
all, charged with the murder of John Smallen,
after occupying the Court during eight days, was
submitted to the jury on Thursday evening, and
at three o'clock the following morning, they re
turned a verdict of acquittal. For the State,
Messrs. Lyon & Clark, Strozier and Solicitor Per
kins. |For the defendant, Messrs. Morgan, Dunn,
A. Colquitt and Walter T. Colquitt.
The case of the State vs. |[James Addison was
taken for trial on Thursday morning, and will
probably occupy the week.— lb.
Special llotirw.
Periodicals.—Mrs. Whittelscy’s Magazine;
Robert Mory’s Museum, and the Dollar Magazine
for May and June have been received by
june 25 1 THOS. COURTNEY, Agent.
03*” We are authorize to announce the name
of Brigadier General STEPHEN DRANE, as a can
didate for Major General to cemmand the Second
Division of Georgia Militia. june 11
□^“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 J P. M., after which
the office will continue open nntil 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. IIALL. P. M.
03?“ Soda Water.—Cold SODA WATER, with a
variety of Syrups, at the Drug Store of
PHILIP A. MOISE, Metcalf’s Range.
N. B.—Congress Water always in lee,
may 24 5m