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ATLANTA, DECEMBER 13, 1855.
We would call the attention of the trav
elling public to the Card of Dr. Scott proprie
tor of the St. Cloud Hotel at Nashville, Tenn.
This capacious establishment has recently un
dergone a thorough repair, and is now second
to no Hotel in the South or West. We do not
because of a too common custom of newspaper
puffing, make reference to this House but be
cause of its actual merits as a Hotel. We
make the above statement upon the authority
of one of our household who recently sojourned
• there for a “few days” who would recommend
all who wish to spend their time pleasantly in
Nashville to give the Doctor a call.
ojp~'‘Onp of our city cotemporaries,” in
speaking of “our Book Advertisements,” says:
“If anybody sees the paper at all, and don’t
see “our book advertisements,” it would be in
some corner our optics have not been able to
discover.”
Per contra. —This is, perhaps, the reason we
have not seen similar advertisements in the pa
per published by “our (assailant) cotemporary.’’
The editor of the Discipline further says:
’ “If the Proprietor thinks his readers would
blunder over eight columns and not see them,
we should like to know what chance a small no
tice has of being seen in that paper.”
We answer, that our “ readers ” have the
same chance of seeing “ a small notice ” in the
Examiner that they have of seeing an editorial
in the Discipline—our book notices, and
the Discipline’s editorials being synonymous.—
If there be any difference, it results from tho
two-fold fact that wo have “eight columns,’-
while the Discipline has not so much—and that
we have a large run of advertisements which
the Discipline, under a better behavior, might
become partially recipient of. Since the edito
rials of that paper, are us they are, we hope
that the editor, for his own good name, will say
no more against the production of “a small no
tice.”
See Our Book Advertisements.
“The Blackwater Chronicle.” —By “The
Clerk of Oxinford.” J. S. Redfield, publish
ers, 110 and 112 Nassau street, N. T.
'Phis work is a lively narrative of an expedi
tion to a modern Canaan located not westward
of Mount Hebron, but in one of the wild ani
mal districts of Virginia. Illustrated with
numerous embellishments from life—duodecimo
volume, bound in cloth, at 81-00 per copy.
See advertisements, and call at Kay’s Book
Stores.
“Minesota and its Resources." —Publish-
ed by the same firm as mentioned above.
The new work, in a neatly bound cloth cover,
duodecimo form, presents such truthful geo
graphical and geological statistics of Minesota
in particular, and other neighboring territories,
in general, as make it essentially necessary to
every person who is tinctured with a predispo
sition to emigrate to the “far west.” We have
read the book carefully, and feel assured that it
doos not make tho wild, western world a whit
less than our “fancy painted it." This is the
book of books, for which apply at Kay’s cheap
Bok Stores. Price 81.00.
“White, Red and Black.”—By Francis
Theresa Pulszky. In two cloth bound vol
umes, duodecimo. Price 82.00. Published by
J. S. Redfield. Tins book gives truthful sketch
es of American society, and furnishes a com
plete birds eye view of Hungary and her popu
lation. Os all the books written by foreigners
upon the subject of America and her institu
tions.’ lliis is the most life-like, and serves to
get this side ol the Atlantic in a tolerably good
humor, considering the many hard rules given
us by Charles Dickens.
For sale at Kay’s Cheap Book Stores.
A Remarkable Man.-A Universal Reme
dy for Disease.
This city is now the home of one of the
most remarkable men of the age—a man who
has traversed the civilized globe, and establish
ed in almost every country which he has visit
ed, the sale of his medicines for the relief of
human suffering, and which are a certain cure
for disease in all its forms. We allude to Prof.
Thomas Holloway, of London. It is now
several years since this benefactor of the hu
man race first proclaimed to the world, through
the British press, that be had, after deep re
search, prepared a remedy that was sure to
eradicate disease. Years of patient investiga
tion into the laws of human physiology which
control our bodies in health and when diseased,
led to the invention and preparation of the
world-renowned Holloways Pills and Oint_
Kent. Nearly, if not quite one half of the
human race have taken his medicines 1 His
name is as universally known over the globe as
that of Alexander, Napoleon or Washington,
when in the height of their ambitious career.—
If they conquered nations in the field of bat
tle, Professor Holloway has, with no weapon
but that of science, conquered disease in all its
forms.
His meritorious career is bounded by no im
aginary lines oflatitute and longitude short of
those marking the confines of civilization itself.
No isolated country or nation was sufficiently
extensive for the operation of his enterprising
and gigantic intellect. Wherever disease has a
residence, there he penetrated with his medicines,
and left an enviable and enduring reputation.—
After enlightening Europe, his fame spread over
Asia aud the civilized portions of Africa, and
finally appeared in America. He has transla
ted the cures be has performed and the virtues
of his med'eines into as many languages as the
miwionaries have the Bible. Govcrments, oth.
erwise the most despotic, have been forced ' K by
the great value of bis medicines, and their pop
ularity with the people, to remove antiquated
and time-honored restrictions upon the intro
duction of foreign medicines, and open their
custom houses to a/rse introduction to the pill,
and ointment of this distinguished man. Em
pires ami kingdoms removed the barriers of ages
against the introduction and sale of proprietary
or patent medicines, and freely permitted Hol
loway’s medicines to become the phvsician of
the masses—A’. Y. Dispatch.
Land Sale.—A tract of laud of 327 acres
near Big Lick, Roanoke, belonging to the estate
.of Mrs. Lucy A. Graham, deceased, was sold I
Some of their Principles.
In order to a perfect concert of action in the
approaching Presidential contest, the Northl
ern Know-Nothings, lately in Grand Counci
in Cincinnati, have given an exposure of some
of their principles, which are hostile to any
thing calculated to build up enterprise and civ
ilization in our valuable Western Territory.—
Among their articles of faith we will briefly
notice three features.
1. They argue that the Mi.-souri Compromise
should he restored—because that the repeal of
said Compromise is held by them as “an infrac
tion of the plighted faith of the nation.”
2. So long as.the Missouri Compromise re
mains unrestored, Congress shall admit into the
Union no State as a Slave State, which may
be “formed out of territory from which the in
stitution was excluded” by said Compro
mise.
3. In the fullness of their zeal, they have de
termined to “go it alone” rather than co-ope
rate with any party that opposes them in their
free soil policy.
Apart from their avowals of their party pre
dilections, they attempted in their proceedings
of Council to introduce a new plank in their
platform, upon which Northern Know Noth
ings and Bouthern_Know Nothings could stand
with like convenience. This new plank, de
claring slavery to be sectional, and not national,
was intended to supplant the place of the 12th
article in the Philadelphia platform, which as
serts that Congress has power to Legislate upon
the question of slavery.
But the late action of the Grand Council, de
claring slavery to be only sectional, and denying
that Congress has power to make it a subject
of legislation, was only a ruse by the Northern
Know Nothings to introduce the co-operation
of their pro-slavery brethren of the South.—
This cobweb trick, however, will receive no sym
pathy nor coalescence from the Southern branch
of the American party. The Southern Know
Nothings may not act with the Democracy.—
We do not expect it—but of this one thing
we are certain, they will never aid in elevating
the candidate of a free soil faction to the Pres
idency of the UnitedlStates.
Democratic Meeting.
The Democratic, Anti-Know Nothing mem
bers of the Georgia Legislature, at a large
meeting held by them in Milledgeville, on the
6th inst., adopted the following resolution, with
a request that all papers in the State friendly to
the move, be solicited to publish the. same.—
For one, we will help to keep that ball in mo
tion :
Resolved, That the Democratic and Anti-
Know Nothing party of the several counties of
the State of Georgia, are requested to send as
many delegates to Milledgeville, as they are
entitled to members of the Legislature, to a
Convention of the party to be held on the 15th
of January next, for the purpose of appointing
delegates to the National Democratic convention
of Cincinnati, and take such other steps as may
be necessary to prepare for the Presidential
contest of 1856.
The Committee to whom the Report was re
committed on Saturday night, the Bth instant,
for condensation of the report of the resolutions
to a previous meeting of a portion of the citi
zens of Atlanta, and publication to the citizens
of Atlanta report thus:
That there will be presented for the careful
consideration of the citizens of the same, the
following propositions on Friday night, at the
City Hall, on the 14th of this instant.
Ist. The adoption of a Registry law requir
ing all persons to register their names at a cer
tain specified time before they shall be entitled
to vote in the eity elections.
2nd. The alteration of the City Charter so
as to compel persons voting for City Officers to
be residents for six months of the city of At
lanta.
3rd. The alteration of the Charter of the
City of Atlanta so as to allow the Mayor and
Council of the City of Atlanta and their suc
cessors in office to change the Wards now exist*
ing' and establish new ones.
4th. That the incorporation of the City of
Atlanta be extended one quarter of a mile in
every direction from the old State Depot.
sth. That the Mayor be made responsible for
the faithful performance of the city contracts and
disbursement of the City Funds, and shall be
required to make and publish a quarterly re
port under his official signature.
6th. One or more commissioners shall be ap
pointed by the Mayor and Council of Atlanta,
to attend to all the streets, lanes and alleys, of
said City, to be paid by the Mayor and Coun
cil, such sum as they may deem proper.
"th. That the election of Mayor and Coun
cil shall beheld in each Ward, for the election
of members in each Ward, who shall be resi
dents of such Ward, by the appointment of
time and places, and persons to conduct the
same, by the Mayor and Council at least two
days before the elections shall take place, and
to be elected by the resident voters of each
Ward. And, also, previding for the contest
ing of illegal elections and the declaration of,
and the notifications of new elections by the
Managers in the different Wards who have as
sembled with the capacity of a Court, with
power to compel the’attendance’of witnesses and
the production of papers, and the final deter
mination of the whole contest, in fourteen days
at most from the election contested, and that
the persons committed for contempt or other
cause by the said Court, shall be received and
Veld in confinement until discharged by law
and also, the manner of determining on illegal
votes.
Bth. That wherever any matter, or word,
shall refer to the Court or County of Dekalb,
that the same be so far changed as to refer to
he County of Fulton, after the reception of
’the Jail.
9th. The Mayor and Council shall have full
control of the Retail License in the City of
Atlanta. All of which is respectfully submit
ted.
JETHRO W. MANNING.
Chairman.
A Strange Occurence in Venice.—Mr.
Locke, formerly editor of the Savannah Re
publican, in a letter to that paper from Europe
giving an account of a recent visit to Venice,
says:
A strange occurrence took place while I was
in Veniee. On the same evening, in different
ports of the town, two young girls 'nine or ten
years old. were enticed away to a solitary
abode, where they were blind-folded and con-.
ducted to another retired house. Here they |
were well treatedAuring twenty-four hours, with.
enough to eat and drink, but they were bled ,
several times almost to the point of fainting,;
and when they had no more blood to spare,
without endangering their life, they were re
stored to their homes by night, in tire same |
mysterious way. Everybody in town was ’
startled by these singular incidents. The most.
common explanation was. that an old sorceress I
had recommended to some deluded being bath
ing in. the bjood of young and healthy persons..
Milledgeville Correspondence.
Friday, December 7,1855.
* Circumstances prevented my giving a de
tailed account of the proceedings of the
Senate on yesterday. The readers of our
patter however, did not lose much by this
omission. Most of the day was spent in
considering the Bill for the incorporation
of the Florida & Brunswick Rail Rood,
and to grant State Aid to that enterprise.—
There was one Bill introduced, or rather re
ported back to the Senate, with some amend
ments, which, being*!’ public interest, we must
not omit to notice. This was the Bill to sell
the Western & Atlantic Rail Road, and to de
vote the proceeds of said sale to Internal Im
provements in the State.
To-day after reading the Journal, the Secre
tary proceeded to “call” upon Senators for new
business. But few, comparatively speaking,
responded to the call. There were, however, a
few Bills and Resolutions reported to the Sen
ate.
Mr. Beasley : A Bill to incorporate a Bank
in LaGrange, to be called the Farmers Bank of
that place,
Mr. Gibson : A Bill to change the oath of
witnesses before Grand Juries.
Mr. Murray : A Bill to incorporate a Bank
in the town of Ringgold, to be known as the
North Western Bank of Georgia.
The Bill to grant State Aid to the North E.
Rail Road Company was made the special or
der of the day for Wednesday next.
The remainder of the day was spent in the
consideration of the Bill to incorporate the
Brunswick & Florida Rail Road, and to grant
State Aid to the same. This was the unfinish
ed business of yesterday, to which we refereed
at the outset of this communication.
This measure creates intense interest here.—
The Road has many advocates, and deservedly
so. The Senate, we believe, will pass the Bill,
and we doubt not that the same success will
attend it in the House. This morning Mr.
Dabney, of Gordon, pending the consideration
of an amendment to a section of the Bill, mov
ed to postpone it indefinitely. The yeas and
nays were taken on this motion—yeas 37—nays
57. So the motion was lost, The whole af
ternoon was consumed in perfecting the bill by
the Senate.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Friday, December 7.
Mr. Hudson, of Harris; moved the reconsid
eration of the Military Institute bill, passed
yesterday, and supported his motion by an ap
peal to Representatives to “economize and
equalize" their appropriations. Dr. Phillips
responded in favor of the bill. Mr. Terhune
followed in favor of reconsideration. Call was
here made for the queston which resulted, upon
division, in 58 for reconsideration 57 against.
Upon call of the yeas and nays Mr. Lewis, of
Hancock, addressed the House against the
proposition to reconsider, in a convincing argu
ment. Mr. Crook spoke against reconsidera
tion. Mr. Jones also favored the bill and hoped
it would not be reconsidered. Mr. Wood, of
Fannin, had no particular objection to the re
consideration of the Bill, since he had so far
heard no argument, to change the direction of
his mind, which was yesterday, and is still, in
favor of the Bill. Mr. Smith,, of Union, spoke
against reconsideration. Mr. Milledge followed
against reconsideration.
Mr. Phillips moved the previous question and
upon call for ayes and nays, the vote stood, for
reconsideration 88 against 62.
The Senate then came in and proceeded to
the election of a State Printer. Upon the first
ballot the vote stood as follows:
3omax 143
rme 77
Nesbit 2
Federal Union 1
Boughton 1
Blank 4
The Senate then retired to their chamber,
and the House took up the unfinished business
of yesterday, which was the Bill defining the
liability of hirers of slaves in certain cases.—
Several gentlemen participated in the discus
lion of its provisions. On motion of Mr. Lewis,
of Hancock, the Bill was postponed indefinite
ly-
The majority and minority reports of the
Committee on the Penitentiary were taken up
aud read, and the former agreed to.
The hour of half past one having arrived,
the House then adjourned.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Saturday, Dec. 8:h.
Dr. Phillips offered a resolution for the ap
pointment of a joint committee of three from
each branch of the General Assembly to select
a site for a State Prison, upon the line of one
of the Rail Roads in this State. Messrs. Smith
of Union, Phillips and Johnson of Cass, were
appointed from the House.
The rules were suspended for half an hour,
to allow gentlemen to introduce new matter.
A message was received from the Governor
in relation to the proposed extension of the
Capitol, and the appropriation of $90,000 there
for. The drawings accompanying the mes
sage, by Messrs. Sholl & Fay," are certainly
beautiful, and highly creditable to their skill as
Architects.
The reconsidered Bill, creating a new county
from Carroll and Polk, upon which a debate
sprang up, which, though developing interest
ing, local facts, would not repay in interest to
our readers the space required for its report.—
Upon call for the ayes aud nays the vote stood
68 for the Bill, 50 against it.
A Bill to extend the jurisdiction of the Jus
tices Court of the city of Augusta was discuss
ed. pro and con, with considerable interest, by
gentlemen favoring a general extension of such
jurisdiction, and by those opposed to the propo
sition. whether local or general, and by still
others, who opposed’the Court altogether." The
bill finally passed.
A like Bill, in favor of LaGrange, was read
the third time. This bill, and the proceeding
one, was reported against by the committee.—
The House refused to agree to the report, and
the bill was amended to extend to the county of
Troup, and passed.
After the consideration of a few local aud
personal bills, the House adjourned, under the
rule.
Report of
The Committee to whom was referred the Re
port of the Principal Keeper of the Peniten
tiary, and all other matters pertaining to the
condition and interest of that Institution, have
had the same under consideration, and after
careful examination of its operations, during
the thirty-nine years, since its establishment,
respectfully submit the followiug :
We find’ the statements and exhibits of the
Principal Keeper in his printed report substan
tially correct, and feel fully authorized to en
dorse without incorporating the same statements
in this report.
We are pleased to say that the various offi
cers, have discharged their duty in a manner
highly creditable, giving indubitable proof that
they are altogether worthy the important trust
confided to them.
We find the outer walls, and all the build
ings, with the exception of cells and car-shop
in a wretched condition from decay and dilapi
dation.
The Convicts, (for the nuiNber, one hundred
and eighty) at present within limits too narrow
and contracted.
Thus, your committee regret that they can
report favorable upon no single feature of the
Institution, and can alone commend the present
able management of our miserably devised and
ill constructed State Prison.
In some form, though with different colorings,
we but concur in the reports which have been i
made by committees of the General Assembly, <
since its establishment, most of which have been
condemnatory in effect, if not in word.
We might follow the precedent and conclude
this report by asking an appropriation for re
pairs. as has been done again and again at eve
ry session of the General Assembly until\
upwards of Four hundred thousand "dollars
have been expended by the State, and the pres-;
ent condition is worse than the first. The tact
is demonstrable that it would have been a sa- i
ployed at hard labor in pounding gtoue with
stone without outlay or income.
We do not oppose the principle, or dissent
from the policy, and did necessity require the
annual expenditure of upwards of ten thousand
dollars without the possibility of making the
Institution self sustaining we should have but
reiterated •the same beggarly complaint yearly
made, and ask for still more.
We believe, however, that the system can
be perfected and made self-sustaining, but that
this can only be affected by removal to a differ
ent locality, where labor will be more remuner
ative, materials cheaper, and buildings of every
description erected at less cost, yet more dura
ble and convenient.
We, therefore, recommend the purchase of
Stone Mountain in DeKalb county, which
your committee understand can be purchased
at a reasonable fair price, with seventeen acres
of well timbered land attached.
The advantages to be derived by removal to
Stone Mountain are obvious, though other lo
calities offering very nearly the same induce
ments may be found in the same section.
Therefore, your committee recommend the
appointment of a committee of five, three from
the Senate, who shall examine the different
points suitable for a location, and report, as
soon as convenient, the probable cost of remov
al.
It would be folly to discuss the question as
to where labor is remunerative in Georgia, but
as a first question, whether the labor of Con
victs employed under the disadvantages inci
dent, can be made profitable, they differing from
mechanics in our work-shops in many particu
lars. But to say the least, the convicts are up
on a footing equal to our best negroes, being
naturally so, for their superiors.
That negroes of every description, with eveu
common sense, for negroes are employed profit
ably, in several of the so termed lower grade of
the mechanic arts, is verified by the fact that
so many are employed in this way, each must
have an overseer and head workman, and the
only difference is the guard, and the cost of ma
king them secure from escape. The expense of
the cell aud outer wall is once told if properly
constructed. Then ought not the profit of Con
vict labor, eveu including the number, say one’
sixth or seventh unable to work, be equal to i
the profit of the negro mechanic, and would not
this, under proper management, defray the ex
pense of guard and overseer, and head workman,
and be at least self-sustaining, in the opinion of
this committee, more, even profitable.
The average period of confinement is about
three and a half years. Nearly all of our best
mechanics, at the South, take apprentices at
from two to four years, and we know of no in
stance within our’knowledge of one who has
failed to make money, and in most instances to
become rich, who was anything of a manager,
by the labor of apprentices.
The apprentice is worth his board and cloth-,
ing the first year, and after that time, becomes
profitable, under the supervision and direction
of the head workman.
May not this kind of apprentice labor be at
least self-sustaining ? Then it is asked, why has
it not already been ? the statement of a few
facts will go far to show the reason. Until of 1
late they have had no facilities of transporta
tion, they have been of necessity compelled to
adopt the trade, or mechanical art, suitable to
the capacity of the Convict, without reference
to cost of materials, or demand for the articles
manufactured. .
Tanning, which has been, and is as profitable'
as any business in the State, has been a constant
source of loss, and when convicts inexperienced
though they may be at first, as well as negroes,
might be made to do the whole labor. The
reason is the heavy expense of tan bark, worth
here six dollars per cord, on the West. A- At.
Railroad, from two to three dollars per cord.—
Also want of room, in the present constructed
limits, to carry on the business on a more exten
sive scale and justify the institution in filling up
and accommodating the yard to all the im
provements of the age, placing it upon an equal
footing with the Tanners with which they have
to compete, and it is so in many other particu
lars. In all work required, oak here is given
twenty-five dollars per thousand feet, fifteen for
pine, ash, poplar; gum and maple thirty, ail of
which average from ten to twelve on the W. &
A. Railroad, yet the article manufactured must
meet in market the same article, the Peniten
tiary having paid double for the materials.—
This difficulty would not exist in the higher
grades of the mechanic arts where the profits is
in the finish, which require great experinnee and
skill, and three aud a half years being, as stated
before, about the average period of confine
ment, insufficient to give this experience and
skill.
Therefore, if the system is to be continued,
let it be removed to where the material can be
procured at fair prices, and the articles manu
factured find more ready and remunerative mar
kets. Independent of the ordinary mechanic
arts, a large number of the Convicts might be
employed profitably’ in quarrying and dressing
stone for an indefinite time, at the Stone Moun
tain ; but we dissent from the opinion of the
Governor in his Message, that no class of the
Convicts should be employed at other than
lowest menial service, and the Message concedes
the distinction in the moral terpitude, urges
the necessity of classification and that they
should be employed at different labor, follows
as a consequence.
High-toned and honorable youths and men,
may in an unguarded hour attempt to commit
murder, and that they are to be placed even in
labor, upon a footing with the most depraved,
will have a tendency to prevent Juries from en
forcing the stern mandate of the law, and when
enforced would make miserable wretches of those
who might be restored to the community better
men, and having learned something of a trade,
be useful members of society. Many reasons
suggest Stone Mountain as the best locality for
removal.
In remodeling the Penitentiary, with the
material afforded, the outer walls could be built
so as to lessen by half the expense of the guard
and which of itself, has been, and must continue
a very considerable item of expense, unless the
arrangement is altered. Much of the labor in
preparing stone or brick, and erecting walls,
and buildings, may be advantageously perform
ed by the Convicts.
That much of the work for the State Road,
repairing Cars, building Box Cars, and a large
proportion of iron work, could bo done by the
Convicts, is already conceded.
We do most fully concur with his Excellency
the Governor in the recommendation, that a
classification be made, according to the moral
terpitude of the crime.
There is certainly a vast difference, and the
distinction ought to be made between the thief,
the degraded ami abandoned wretch, who preys
upon society, and gluts in the life of his fellow
man, and the unfortunate person who in an evi
hour, from heated blood and excited passion,
does or attempts to do that which subjects him
to confinement in the Penitentiary at hard la
bor for a term of years, or for life. The young
who have committed a first offence should lie
kept separate from the accomplished villian.
Every dictate of humanity demands this of
| the State.
‘ Your committee are forced to the conclusion
j 1 that the present system should be abolished, or
I removed, and reconstructed on a different
| plan.
J Alli of which is respectfully submitted,
J. J. SMITH. Chairman.
B. L. BOYKIN.
DAVID AVERY.
B. M. STEPHENS,
WM. S. MONTGOMERY.
A. PHARR.
ROZIER.
W. F. JOHNSON.
M. SIMMONS.
J. H. KILGORE.
A Rich Acquisition.—A letter in the New
York Sun, from Washington, says :
-The reports from the Mesilla Valley are
exceedingly interesting, and the private "notes
of the U. S. officials are worth their public re
ports. twice over. The whole country is a vast |
ore field; silver, copper, iron, platina, gypsum,
and coal, in vast beds, abound in every direction,
and are in the richest quantities in the region
a'ong the Pecos, and up to the 33d perched j
which had been thought the poorest section of I
COMMUNICATED.
Educational Appropriations.
Messrs. Steele & Barbour :
Amongst the many aporopriations asked of
the Legislature, the present session, we were
happy to observe that so many of them are in
behalf of the educational institutions of the
State. There is no earthly reason why the
“Empire State of the South” may not assume
as high a position, in this respect, as any other
of our Union. In all the elements of greatness,
in all the iuternal conditions of independent ex
istence, and of self development, Georgia is se
cond to no,'equal portion of territory on the
globe. Why then should we still be dependent
upon other sections of our country for the high
er education of our sons and daughters, espe
cially the former, for it is evident that, for" the
last "ten or fifteen years, the advancement of our
female institutions has far. outstripped that of
our male institutions. Make our literary, sci
entific and medical schools superior to those of
other States, and we will save to our State,and
bring into it, from other States, an amount far
exceeding that necessary to render them so.
There is one bill before the House which
especially recommends itself to consideration,
aud that is the one asking an appropriation of
SIO,OOO for the Southern Botanic Medical Col
lege, at Macon. This Medical School is the
only one in the South of any distinction, in
which are taught the . peculiar Medical views
they inculcate. Struggling for many years
against almost insuperable difficulties, this in
stitution by its own inherent power, the power
of truthfulness and correct philosophy, has
gained a high position amongst the institutions
of our State. It is now identified with the in
terests and welfare of the State. A large, and
respectable minority of our citizens now pat
ronize and encourage the medical doctrines
taught in this institution. Success in the
treatment of the most malignant aud fatal dis
eases known to our climate, has crowned, in an
eminent degree, the professional labors of its grad
uates . They now own a splendid and spaciou
building, but they are in great need of addis
tional apparatus, preparations and other facili
ties for teaching, in the most efficient manner,
the science of medicine, in its coquate and col
lateral branches.
Whilst our Legislature is disposed to be lib
eral in its endowments of other institutions, is
not the one under consideration deserving a fair
proportion of pecuniary aid from the State ?
Life and health are the conditions involved. A
few thousand dollars thus appropriated may
confer untold benefits upon the citizens of our
State. CHEROKEE.
Milledgeville, Ga., Dec. 8,1855.
Town Meeting.
Atlanta, Dec. 8,1855.
Aceordiug to adjournment of Thursdayeven
iug lust, a portion of the citizens of the city of
Atlanta, met this evening at the City Hall, for
the purpose of bearing the report of the Commit
tee appointed at a previous meeting, in relation
to the proposed amendments to the City Chart
er. and take some further action upon the pro
posed Air Line Rail Road.
On motion of B. F. Bomar, Hon. John Glen
was called to the Chair, and A. M. Eddieman,
requested to act as Secretary.
Col. J. W. Manning, chairman of the com
,mittee, being called upon, read the Report,
which, after some discussion, was referred back
. to the committee to be condensed and modified
I as they might see fit and proper, and published
in the city papers.
Mr. Norcross offered the following resolutions
in relation to the Air Line Rail Road project,
and after some eloquent and interesting remarks
from Messrs. Gartrell, Bleckly, and Norcross,
they were unanimously adopted.
Resolved, Toat the contemplated Rail Road
from Atlanta to Anderson, and thence to inter
sect the Columbia & Cnarlotte Rail Road, in
South Carolina, is well calculated to confer
greater benefits on Upper Georgia than any
measure that can possibly be devised or has
been devised, and that it deserves the earnest
attention of our citizens.
Kesolved, That we earnestly urge the people
in the Counties of Gwinnett, Jackson, Hall,
Hart, Elbert, Franklin, and adjoining counties,
to bold public meetings and take such steps as
shall aid in procuring the means for the con
struction of this Road, and its speedy commence
ment.
Resolved, That this meeting deems it expe
dient for the Mayor and Council of Atlanta to
appoint an Agent, to proceed to Columbia,
South Carolina, and urge the Legislature of
that State, the granting of a Charter for the
portion of the Road lying in that State,
j On motion, the meeting then adjourned to
Friday evening, the 14th iust.
JOHN GLEN, Ch’mn
A. M. Eddleman, Sec’ry.
New York Correspondence of the Examiner.
ThanksnivinC—Civilization--Citv Officials
-Gossip on Newspapers--George Law’s
Organs--ffew Pictoral--New York Dia
ly Times -Crystal Palace.
Nrw York, Dec. 1.
Thanksgiving passed off in a most pleasant
manner. It is pleasing to know that, there are
times in which people think
“Man to man the world o’er
Shall brothers !>e for a’that.”
Thanksgiving brings with it a oneness of sen
timent in this respect. All men feel on such
an occasion as brothers; and the desire for
general enjoyment opens the purse strings of
the rich to make the poor glad. The institu
tions lor the poor were bountifully supplied
with the good things of the season. The in
habitants in the vicinity of the Five Points
Home Mission were visited by ladies the day
previous, and furnished with sufficient food to
make them joyful a whole week. Many accept
ed the gifts and applied them as was intended
by the donors; but sad to say, some exchanged
their gifts for rum almost as soon as the ladies
left their doors. When we hear of “the poor
Indian’’ exchanging his blanket for “fire-wa
ter’’ we raise up our hands in horror and shud
der at the depravity of man beyond the circle
of civilization; here in our midst, the provis
ions necessary for life are bartered for “red-eye"
at the risk of starvation, and it scarcely excites
surprise. In all the churches eloquent sermons
were preached, which if taken as an index of
the times, would certainly lead to the supposi
tion that, the millenium had come: and for this
thanks were gratefully offered.
Since the extraordinary developments in the
corruption of our city officials a few efforts are
' being made to ensure more honesty. The dis
trict Attorney suggests a frequent change of
police from one court to another. He suppo
ses that when policemen are stationed in the
same place for a long time they connive with
1 the superior officers of the law, and defeat the
end of justice by receiving bribes from prisoners.
The facts disclosed at the trial of Judge Stuart
gives weight to this opinion. Mayor Wood has
proclaimed that, hence, each policeman shall
be changed from one court to another every six
months. This move is intended only to” throw
dust in the eyes of the people ; for with all the
dishonesty of our city officials our magistrates
have not yet descended so low in the cess-pool
of corruption as to be ruled by the miserable
set of policemen at present employed in our I
city.
Under the impression that everybody reads ;
everything in Winter, literature is showering
down upon us. Fanny Fem gives the world a
volume this week under the title of Rose Clark, i
It belongs to the excruciatingly higfalutin class,
and is not in the opinion of critics, calculated i
to increase the lady’s reputation. George Law, ’
who seems determined to squeeze himself into i
tion of a very stupid paper, purporting to be
very funny. A paper called the ad
vocated his claims during the summer, but its
editor, having been found in violation of the
Maine Law, endeavoring to prop up a lamp
post, he was confined in the Tombs for ten days
and the Shanghai was consigned to the Tombs
of the Capulets. Whether the last literary ef
fort injavor of Law, will or will not, be equally
unsuccessful,'remains to be seen. A very su
perior Hluestrated Newspaper has just made its
appearance—in its shape and general style it re*
sembles the Illustrated London News, but in
spirit and matter is purely American. It opens
with lively and accurate likenesses of the Kane
party as dressed in their Arctic explorations-
The fate of former illustrated publications, in
New York led to the belief, that, a paper of
such a class could not flourish in our soil.—
Barnum lost forty thousand dollars in his pic
toral, which was finally mergt-d into a Boston
paper. Frank Leslie the successful publisher
of a magazine of fashion is the proprietor of
the new aspirant to public favor. If the suc
ceeding numbers are equal to the first it must
eventually find its wayjnto the hands of people
of taste throughout the country. The Free
Love Association is making preparations to
publish a paper by which a social revolution
will be effected. Our marriage laws are to be
annulled, and “passional attraction” set up as
the guide to happiness. This paper is to make
its entre with the coming year. Appropos of
Newspapers—a little tempest has been raging
in the interior of the Daily Times. This paper
was started on a capital of one hundred thou
sand dollars but when that amount was expend
ed the concern did not pay. One of the Har
per’s came forth, and contributed fifty thousand
and one of his sons to the establishment. Be
fore this sum was expended the concern began
to pay, and dividends were declared. A few
days ago the partners had a misunderstanding
and Harper offered to sell out for about what
he put in, securing in hand ten thousand dollars,
and securities for the remainder. This offer
was immediately accepted, and the money paid
over, but in ratifying the bargain the young
man said it would be necessary to consult his
Papa. When the affair came to the ears of
the old man, he became wrathy, upbraided the
parties in’the transaction for trying to take ad
vantage of his son, and pronounced the bargain
null. In the mean time the Harpers are for
bidden the Times Office, and there is a strong
probability, that, the whole thing will have to
be adjusted in a court of law. Henceforth we
may expect to see impartial criticisms of Har
pers publications in the New York Times.
The long agitated question—what shall we
do with the Crystal Palace ? has been at length
decided. It has been purchased by the Amer
ican Institute for one hundred aud twenty-five
thousand dollars on the condition that a lease
of twenty-five years can be obtained from the
legislature this Winter. The institute now holds
it in possession. GEORGIA.
New York Correspondence of the Examiner.
The Irish Confederation-London Times-
Secretj Spies--Navigation--Shipments of
Grain-Presidential-Mysterious-Stocks
-Money &c.
New York, Dec. 8,1855.
It is somewhat singular that, the late opin
ion of the London Times, relative to an Irish
filibustering expedition from the country, should
have been so soon confirmed. It is evident that,
either the British Government, or the aforesaid
Journal, has spies in this country who mix
themselves up, most intimately, in passing Oc.
currences. The London Timesappears tohavj
a better knowledge of what is going on hei e
than many of our native papers. Scarcely had
our city journals done protesting against the
unwarrantable assumption of the “haughty
thunderer” of “Prinytiny Ilouse Square” when
lo.' a body of Irishmen—delegates from secret
associations, from twenty-four States of our
Union met at the Astor House in this city, and
proclaimed to the world their intention to wrest
Ireland from the English grasp, and set her in
business for herself, on Republican principles,
*n opposition to Great Britain. The assembly
appointed five directors, published an address
to the Irish in Ireland, America, British Colo
nies, and elsewhere, in which they are urged
to come forward and assist their poor down
trodden country. The assemblage was presided
over by Robert Tyler, Esq., son of the Ex-
President ; his name also appears attached to
the address. During the sojourn their Irish got
the better of their decorum and a “ free fight ”
was more than once threatened. The proceed
ings were kept a secret until the close. Like
Micowbee, we are awaiting anxiously for what
may “turn up from this fusee volante,"
The weather continues delightful, navigaiton
is yet open, the amount of grain which contin*
ues to be received is immense. The frost o'
[ast week would, it was feared, close the Erie
Canal, causing great inconvenience to our mer
chants and in some instances entailing consid
erable losses. It is said that one firm in New
York had one and a half millions of dollars
worth of grain upon which they had received
advances distributed among the various ports
of the lower lakes, and along the canal. If
navigation closed before it had reached this
port, the effects would have been very distressing
The fine weather affords an ample opportunity,
for closing the trades of the year in the most
satisfactory manner.
The political parties are on the rpii vive.—
The Kansas aud Nebraska question is the top
ic of conversation. It is discussed in the streets
and at social gatherings. This question is so
mixed up with the coming President that, a
citizen of New Jersey, who arrived lately in
the United States, wanted to know what sort
of looking person this Kansas Nebraska is,
and know whether he is as good looking as
George Law ; as from what he heard of him,
he thought it likely that he might vote for him
at the next election. A supper was given last
night by a prominent officer in the Custom
House department, at the Smithsonian House,
Broadway, to a select number of democrats.—
The entertainment was sumptuous; with every
bottle of Champagne the head of some Presi
dential aspirant was knocked off- until Daniel
S. Dickerson only remained. He was of course
duly elected, and inaugurated. It was amusing
to see the blankness of the faces of those, who
the evening previous, disposed of statesmen as if
they were but the “tutelar dignitaries” of a
chess-board, as they came forth from spacious
rooms of this splendid establishment to which
the host felt it his duty to conduct them.
About the latter part of last month a schoon
er—the Eudora—moored in our Bay, was sunk.
It was supposed at the time that the deed was
perpetrated by a negro, as he was seen to leave
the vessel just before she went down. He was
ar rested, and is now, in the Tombs. Since then
some things have transpired which tend to fix
upon him a crime of a deeper die. It is now
thought that he murdered one or more of the
crew, secured all the valuables on board, and
then scuttled the ship in order to prevent a
discovery, of the outrage. Hitherto no bodies
have been discovered, but the authorities are
now engaged in endeavor ing to haul her ashore;
until this is accomplished the mystery will re
main unrevealed.
The market for Stocks was stronger to-day
than for a week past. The orders in the Board
appeared to be better distributed, particularly
on one or two of the active Road Stocks. The
shore transactions were large while very little
was done on the best of State and Railway
Bonds. The improvement which took place
yesterday on the announcement of Foreign
News was fully sustained and on a good por
tion of the sales a further advance of 14 to 1-2
per cent was realized. Erie opened at 47 cash,
sold up to 47 1-2, and closed 4914 to 48,
against 47 1-2 to 47 5-8 at Wednesday’s se
cond Board. The latest registered cash sale
was at 48, though some figure was subsequently
accepted, buyer 60 days. Reading closed 87
3-4; Illinois Bonds 77; Galena 119 34 ; Tol
do 70 3-8; Southern Michigan 92 3-4, after
selling up to 94. The supply of money is not
very free, except on mercantile paper at the
going high rates, 9to 12 per cent. The mon
ey Brokers who are supplied at 7 per cent, get
good differences for carrying Stocks. There
is continued activity, with the free employ
ment for money in the movement of pro
duce from the interior to the seaboard. The
amount of bills remitted' from the West drawn
against these shipments is larger than bn»’Deen
known in December, since 1846.
[Frow the Atlanta Medical and Surgical Jourl\
Atlanta Medical College-
We see from the papers that a bill making
an appropriation for the benefit of the Atlanta
Medical College has been introduced into the
Legislature. To take a liberal and proper
view of this subject, it cannot certainly be look
ed upon in the light of a gratuity, for what
ever ideas may be entertained by some, as to
the unnecessary multiplication'of medical col
leges, the demand of young men for medical
education must be met, and if they do not find
the facilities within the borders of their own
State, they will go elsewhere: and to take no
other than a pecuniary view of the subject,
what a vast amount of money that is now ex
pended by the young men of Georgia in medi
cal education might be saved to the State? and
as worthy of the most attentive consideration,
we have a vast territory to the south and west
of us, embracing the States of Florida, Ala
bama, Mississippi. Louisiana, Arkansas, and
Texas, with, we believe, but one single Medical
College out of Georgia, south of a line running
with our nothern border. And there is no
doubt that we have it in our power, by a judi
cious course to keep the larger part of our own
young men, during their term of study, and at
the same tune to arrest, to a large extent, that
tide of wealth which is annually flowing into
our Northern Colleges.
We do not hesitate to assert that there is no
reason, but a want of appreciation -of the im
portance of the subject to the true interests of
the State, that will keep Georgia from educa
ting, for many years, a large proportion of
Southern young men who enter the medical
profession.
While we do not believe that the road from
everywhere to every point upon the face of the
earth lies through Atlanta, it is yet, beyond
question, that its accessibility from all quarters
of the Southern country, at least, is unsurpassed,
and while we are not disposed to underrate the
advantages of other institutions within the
State, we consider ourselves fully justified in
saying, that no one of them posseses so favora
ble a locality for a Medical College. More
over, it is not now a question as to the estab
lishment or existence of the Atlanta Medical
College, but as to the rapidity with which we
can furnish the faclities for medical education,
so as to be able to present equal advantages
with other institutions, and to accommodate
fully the large number who are looking to this
point. That there is no probability of a lack
of students, has been already fully demonstra
ted by the result of the first session. Indeed,
the most serious question now is, as to our abil
ity to be fully prepared for the class, which we
are confidently anticipating, during the next
course of lectures. This must be done, even
though at still grater sacrifice upon the part of
the Faculty ; but the question is, should this be
required at their hands, in view of the large
expenditure .of money and labor which ’ they
have already incurred, and with no prospect of
any immediate return ? Requiring, as it will,
under the most liberal policy, which we can ex
pect, either from the State or the City, still
further heavy contributions on their part to
meet the demand and expectations, which have
been naturally excited, by the almost unprece
dented number, who were in attendance during
the first term-
It must be apparent that whatever self-sac
rifice and energy the faculty of the institution
may bring to the accomplishment of the objects
in view, it will require years before they can
complete the buildings and furnish the different
chairs with all the necessary apparatus, if left
to their own resources.
While it is true that, as an element in the
future prosperity of Atlanta, the importance of
pris enterprise cannot well be overestimated,
exd therefore, deep interest and a liberal appro
thiation upon the part of the city ought to lie
aupected, and is strongly demanded by self
interest ; still, whatever concerns the good of
one of the most prominent and promising cities
in the State, belongs essentially to the general
welfare.
It is well known that the great obstacle in
the way of the rapid advance of this place, is
the want of capital. Our citizens have the en
ergy to accomplish any thing within the lim
its of human power to perform, but are sadly
deficient in pecuniary resources, and having
fully demonstrated their willingness to help
themselves, should be entitled to the fostering
care and aid of the government, laboring as
they are, to build up a city that will do credit
in every particular, to the “empire State of the
South.”
And we, as a part of those who are deter
mined to use every energy for its advancement,
not only call out for aid at home, but also
strongly urge a claim upon the assistance of
the legislature; being satisfied that in any
event, more than an equivalent will be returned
to the city and the State; and public good
much more largely prompted than private in
terest.
Though we have had the most conclusive
evidence of a deep interest in the establishment
of this institution upon the part of our people,
as well as from the profession and others, from
almost every quarter of the State, it is still true
that there is to some extent, envy and jealousy
in our midst, as at other points, both of a pri
vate and professional character, directed against
individuals and the institution with which we
are connected, and also upon the part of other
towns, within and without the State, who sup
pose their interests to conflict with ours, and
that every effort will be made to prevent the
exercise of a liberal policy towards us, we are
well aware, but cannot believe that our legis
lature or city authorities will fail to recognize
the motives which prompt opposition from these
quarters. That there are individuals who
would sink the Medical College and tho City,
if supposed to be subservient to their selfish
purposes, we have abundant reasons to know,
but from the previous failure of the combined
influence from home and abroad to crush the
effort to establish an institution of learning in
the City of Atlanta, it is not unreasonable to
conclude, that our final and triumpliant success
is beyond contingency.
Turkies.—The New York Herald estimates
that 70,000 turkies were consumed in that city
on Tbaaksgiymg day, at a coat of
From the Rome Southerner.
Ho! for Kan»m!-A Proposition
To the Editor of the Rome Southerner.
I have watched, with much interest, the ef
forts making by many gentlemen, in various
sections of Georgia, to raise means to send
Emigrants to Kansas: and I have observed
with deeper solicitude the progress of events
in that Territory. The fact cannot be disguis
ed that it is essential to the paramount inter
ests of the South to preserve and perpetuate
African slavery in Kansas. The Free States,
impelled by the reckless spirit of fanaticism,
have organized societies which furnish money
and men to those nefarious co-laborers of theirs
already in that Territory, engaged in attempts
to expell slave-owners from it.
It is the duty of every Southern man to look
at the ultimate designs of the Freesoilcrs and
Abolitionists upon the equality and power of
the South in the Union. Now our representa
tion in Congress is alarmingly weaker than
that from the Free States. As one after anoth
er Free State shall be admitted into the Con
federacy, each will put it further Ixyond the
probability of our ever securing the admission
of another Slave State. The admission of
Kansas into the Union as an anti-slavery State
will seal the South forever to humiliating vas
salage to the North. It will be the first of a
cordon of Free States stretching between our
Western borders to the Pacific ocean. Our
peculiar institution will then Ire fenced in, and
there will be no escape for us but in a disolution
of the Union.
Prevent the prostitution of the virgin soil of
Kansas to the unholy rites of fanatical Free
soilers and Abolitionists, and the permanent in
terests of the South will lie preserved indefi
nitely. Make Kansas a pro-slavery State, by
countermining the schemes of the Freesoil and
Abolition Aid Societies, through similar but
more efficient efforts on the port of the South
ern States—rescue that fair and fertile Terri
tory. lying North of a vast section outof which
many States will be carved, from the grasp of
our enemies—let this be dose, and the South
will-i egain her equality in the Senate of the
United States, and he enabled forever after to
hold an even hand with the North in contests
on the subject of slavery. But what is far
more important, having made Kansas a pro
slavery State, we shall have projected our pe
culiar institution Westward with such force
that it will soou find its way to the water of the
Pacific.
The opinion is held by some that “the God
of nature has not adapted Kansas to slave la
bor.” With due deference to those who enter
tain, I must deny the force of the opinion in
toto. The non-existence of slave-labor in any
State of this Union is determined, not by its cli
mate, nor the character of its productions, nor
any special law of “the God of nature,” but
by the increase of u white laboring population
equal to the tillage of its open lands. Where
the white laboring population becomes dense,
slave labor is gradually forced out 'of the field
of competition with white labor. So far as
adaptation to the work is concerned, the negro
could plough and mow in Maine, just as well
as he can pick cotton and cut rice in Georgia.
So of Kansas. The negro there can fence, and
plant, and gather the oereals, just as well as he
can in Missouri. It is from the excess of white
laboring population we are to apprehend danger
to our peculiar institution in some of the South
ern States, and not from some imaginary law
of “the God of nature.” Hence, the necessity
for giving our slave population and slave own
ers a broad and unobstructed outlet towards
the West and Southwest. African slavery, too,
as every one has observed, has kept tho South
free from those pestiferous propagandists of
Abolition seutimenw who are continually keep
ing the minds of the Northern people in a fer
ment on the subject of slavery. Such will be
the effect of making Kansas a Slave State.—
The Abolition and Freesoil hordes now in that
Territory will flee from it with as much haste
as rats leave a sinking ship, and leave the soil
to slave labor.
If African slavery shall be permanently es
tablished in Kansas, it will matter little with
the South whether she is or not admitted into
the Union for years to come. Still, we will
have the assurance that when admitted, it will
be as a slave State. During her Territorial
condition, slave ownerswill feel secure in set
tling in Territories West and South of Kansas.
No effort should be spared—no encourage
ment should be withheld—no inducement should
be left unresorted to—by the people of the
South, to devote the whole domain, from the
boundaries of the institution of African slavery.
The only way to prevent its abolition, if the
South remain in tne Union, is first to prevent
the admission of more Free than Slave States
into the Confederacy. Therefore, it is the high
est duty of our section to widen the area of our
peculiar institution towards the West and
Southwest—to force it into those directions,
and by that means keep out the Abolitionists
and Freesoifers. And if a dissolution of the
Union is forced upon us, we shall then have
“ample verge” for a mighty confederation, and
no enemies to dispute our claims to an outlet on
the pacific shore. ,
All Georgians devoted to the paramount in
terests of the South, ought to be stirring in the
cause of Kansas. A large fund should oe rais
ed without delay to equip and start emigrants
to that Territory. lluudreds of ‘goodand true’
Georgians are willing to go there and fight the
great battle for the South at the ballot box. I
will moke the following proposition—and I am
encouraged to do so by the promised liberality
of friends, some of whom have proffered dona
tions of SSOO to the object:
g 1 will pledgd myself to take my family and
some negroes to Kansas, by the first of March
or April next, with a Physician and medicine
for the company, and 100 Southern Emigrants
Sa portion of them with families) in whom con
idence can be exposed, equip them for the jour
ney, bear their expenses to the Territory, and
keep them there prepared for any emergency,
until the question of slavery is settled by the
people of Kansas for or against the South :
Provided, a fund of 825,000 shall be placed at
my command by the people of Georgia, through
voluntary contributions of citizens, for the pur
pose..
As in many counties no public meetings
will be held to consider and help make un the
necesary fund for the object contemplated
individuals wishing to contribute “materia,
aid” to it, can address me at Adairsville, Gal
It is preferable, however, to have a regular or.
ganized meeting of the citizens of every county
and let the amount of money raised in each be
put into the hands of the Treasurer subject to
ray order, if the proposition I have made meets
the approbation of meeting.
The newspapers of Georgia favorable to the
colonization of Kansas with pro-slavery voters,
will do me a favor by publishing this commu
nication, Yours respectfully,
CHAS. A. HAMELTON,
Adairsville, Ga.,Dec. 1, 1855.
References: —Gov. Charles J. McDonald,
Marietta, Hon. M. A. Cooper, Etowah, Hon. J
11. Lumpkin, Rome, Dr. Sami. Billing, Colum
bus, Hon. Washington Poe, Macon, Col. R. R.
Cuyler, Savannah. llon.W. O. Dawson, Greens
boro, and-Judge W. T. Gould Augusta.
Important Discovery.—Jean Blase, of
New Orleans, represented to be an agriculturist
of considerable scientific attainments, has se
cured letters patent from the United States for
the discovery of a process of converting thirty
different varieties of plants, which grow wild
in enormous quantities in various sections of
the .Union, into flax of great strength and
beautiful texture. Specimens of the flax and
of the plants from which it is made are on ex/
hibition at the office of Walter E. Hurdimg,
New York. Among the most of
the specimens are the flax made from Xbe stalks
of the cotton plant, large quantitfea ’ o f wliieh
are burnt on the Southern planUttions to get
them out of the way; the century tree, or wild
manilla, which grows in abundance in Florida;
the wild hollyhock, with Mibre ten or fifteen
feet long; the gold nankeen, of a natural nan
keen color; the vegetable silk, and the vegetable
wool. The preparation, we under
stand, is simple atM effectual, preserving all the
strength of the staple, and so economical that
the flax can be sold at prices far below those
at which the article is now sold.