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ATLANT! WEEKLY EXAMINER.
WANTHfID, WEEK.I_,Yr CIRCUL,ATiOTV OF QO.oOG COFIEM!
JOHN H. STEELE, Editor
VOLUME 11.
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THURSDAY , MAY 22, 1856,
Cholera and Diarrhoea Preventative,
This valuable medicine, which operates as a
preventative and cure forCholera aud Diarrhtva,
•rom the house of Lyons & Co., Nashville,
Tennessee, who are its sole importers, will be
found for sale at the Trout House Bar. either
by the bottle, or dozen. Aside from its vir
tues as a medicine, it is agreeable to the taste,
and operates admirably as a tonic. Every
f amily should have a bottle of it always at hand
Atlanta Bank.
We learn that the handsome granite build
ing erected for, and known as the “ Atlanta
Bank," has recently been purchased by the
Georgia Rail Road and Banking Company, for
the sum of twelve thousand dollars. It has
been said here, for some time past, that the
<• Atlanta Bank ’’ had closed business opera
tions in this city, and in the West. Eor this
reason, we presume, the banking house has
been sold, and we are glad to learn that it has
passed into the possession of the banking com
panv referred to.
k Strange Advertisement.
I We find the following in the New Orleans
’ Evening Delta.
Who has babies to dispose of?
#IOO,OOO. —Wanted—By a person who has
one hundred thousand dollars and no heir, to
adopt from birth, a child. It must be of Amer
ican parents and from one hour to ten days old:
sex immaterial. Any person having a child to
dispose of can thus secure it a good home and
a fortune ; or any lady about to become a moth
er and willing to part with her child, can have
a respectable physician to attend her, and no
questions asked or answered. Applications
must be made within ten days. Address A,
through the Postoffice or the Delta office.
ma'.l 3t*
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ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 22. 1856.
Municipal Extravagance.
We have been much amused at the com
ments of the Press, both in and out of Georgia,
at the extravagant appropriation of One Hun.
dred D ollars per annum, by the City Council
of Columbus, as the salary of the Judge of
the City Court at that place.
; Surely this must be a mistake! I! true, a
sad change must have come over her once mag
nanimous people. In days past, we never saw
the hour when we could not proudly point to
Columbus and her citizens for every thing that
was chivalric and just. Nor do we yet give
i her up, although her City Council have made a
i /ujgarrfZi/appropriation to a high minded polit
| ical opponent, and the promising, talented son
of as true a patriot as ever stood on the banks
of the Chatahoochee, or trod upon Georgia’s
soil. Nay we will go further and say, we do
not believe that the people who were represent
ed in the last Legislature of our State, by
Wales, Jones, and Thornton, and whose
course there as —we design ere long to show—
was distinguished by a lofty patriotism, ap
prove the “ extravagance ” of their City Coun
cil. If they do, however, we have only to re
peat, times are sadly changed in Columbus!
Georgia Air Line Pail Road.
We invite the attention of our readers to the
proceedings of a Georgia Air Line Rail Road
Meeting, held in Carnesville on the 6th in
stant.
We are requested also to invite the attention
of our city papers, and those of Athens, Geor
gia ; and Anderson So. Caroline; to those pro
ceedings, and to request a republication there
of.
To Atlanta, the contemplated Georgia Air
Line Road, is of incalculable importance. All
other enterprizes are insignificant, in compar
ison to this great work. If constructed, its
advantages would far exceed those for which
our citizens have been so anxious—we mean
the rsmoval of the Seat of Government to this
place. It would add to the value of property
in Atlanta, in a ratio for greater, in our humble
judgment, than the erection of the Capitol here
and, what is more, it would add one hundred
fold to the travel through, ”and commerce of
Atlanta. We rejoice'to see that not only in
this vicinity, but throughout the whole line of
the contemplated Road, the people are waking
up to this great enterprize. The proposed con
vention will doubtless be largely attended, and
from its deliberations we trust that something
practical will be effected. Already has its
utility been satisfactorily settled in the minds
of all, those that have considered it, and if capi
talists, large and small, will only “come down
with the dust,” the “ Georgia Air Line Rail
Road ” will soon be a reality and not an idea.
Bounty Land Acts.
We publish to-day the bill amendatory of
the Bounty Land Acts, as passed by the two
houses of Congress now in session,’ and which
only requires the approval of the President, to
become the law of the land.
In this bill the public have a deep interest,
for directly, or indirectly, the people all arc
now affected by the Bounty Land Law. The
financial world particularly is deeply involved
iudonations made of the public lands under
the old laws, for land scrip is now money, and
is received in Wall Street as such, as well us at
all other financial points of note in the U. States.
The bill, therefore, to which we refer is impor
tant to all.
Self Destruction.
An unfortunate man whose name, we learn,
was Frederick, Lewis. Ferdinand, Wardig, a
native of Statteen, Prussia, put an end to his
life, in this city, on Wednesday evening last, by
cutting his throat, with a razor, from ear to
ear. The desperate act was committed in a
room occupied as a sleeping apartment by the
unfortunate man. A noise in the room having
attracted the attention of a gentleman who oc
cupied the adjoining one, he proceeded to it,
and finding it locked, with the assistance of oth
ers, it was burst open, when the deceased was
seen lying on the bed, upon his back, with a
razor upon his breast, and his throat cut as be
fore stated. A coroner’s inquest was held upon
the body on yesterday.
We learn that the deceased was in a depress,
ed state of mind for some days past, and spoke
of difficulties to some of his friends in an inco
herent manner. It appears that his friends, or
family, in Prussia, arc largely engaged iu the
Copper business and that there was some mis
understanding between them. From his state
of mind, however, this may have all been imag
inary- For two years he was employed in the
Georgia Rail Road shop, and was considered a
good workman ; inoffensive and industrious.
He spoke several foreign languages: was intel
ligent, aud thirty-one years old when he com
mitted the fearful act. By a friend of his, we
are requested to call the attention of the pa
pers in North Carolina, where the deceased has
some friends, to these facts : and to request the
New York papers that exchange with the Ger.
man or Prussian papers, to copy this article.
The Amende
The City Council of Columbus, we are grat
ified much to see, have made the amende hon
orable to their city Court, and its recently
elected Judge. On yesterday, we referred to
the meagre appropriation of one hundred dol
lars per annum, as the salary of that officer, and
ventured to express the opinion, that, if this
were to remain a fixed fact, a sad change had
taken place in old Columbus, a city heretofore
renowned for its magnanimity and chivalry.—
We are therefore glad to see the following item,
in the “Sun’’ of Afonday List.
“City Court.—The City Council,at its last
meeting, reconsidered their former action rela
tive to the salary of the. Judge of this Court,
aud then, by resolution, raised the salary of that
official from one to five hundred dollars.
Medical Convention.
A convention of the “Medical Reform Prac
titioners” of our State, by previous arrange
ments, assembled in this city, on Wednesday
last, for the purpose, we learn, of making by
laws and regulations, for their ’government in
the practice of their profession, and for other pur
poses connected with the advancement of their
peculiar theory of practice upon the “ills that
flesh is heir to.”
We learn that the convention is largely at-
I tended, some forty or fifty practitioners being
in attendance. Our engagements have been
such as to prevent an attendance on their daily
deliberations. On Wednesday night, however,
we had the pleasure of hearing a lecture, de
livered at the Atheneum by Prfessor Bankston,
and regretted that engagements prevented our
remaining to hear Professor Loomis, who fol
lowed Professor B.,in an animated and cheer
ing address, as we are advised, to the profess
ion in attendance. On yesterday, the conven
tion was still engaged in the transaction of
business. We presume their deliberations will
be officially made known to the public.
For the Atlanta Daily Examiner.
From Kansas.
Kansas City, Mo., April 24th, 1856.
Dear Examiner : Our company arrived at
this place on the 1 6th inst., a portion of them,
comprising those who intend to go out upon
the survey, stopped here to await orders from
the Surveyor General, whose office is located
just across the Kansas river from this, in the
Wyandott reserve. The balance of the com
pany, numbering about 22, among whom is a
family of five or six that joined us after we
left Atlanta, went up the river higher, some of
them to Leavenworth City, others to Atchison.
I have heard from them since they stopped,
most of them have engaged iu business of some
kind, others were holding off with the intention
of going into the interior. I cannot give you
anything reliable as to the quality of the soil
at any distance in the Territory, so I will .only
speak of that which I have seen, and reserve
what I shall have to say es the interior, of
course, until I see it. As yet I have made on
ly two or three small circuits around in the
Territory, and find the land all that it has been
represented to be to the Georgians. The only
barrier, which is a considerable one, is
these Indian reservations, which will retard, for
a considerable time, settlements of the whites
upon them. The soil as far as 1 have seen is
A. No. 1. I do not wish to come to that
which is better. It is well adapted to farming
and raising stock. It washes very little, the
rain that falls upon it soon sinks into the soil
and it is almost instantaneously dry enough for
the plow after the heaviest rains. The pas
tures, prairies and woods are now almost per
fectly green with grass and other vegetation.—
It is the same soil as that of Western Missouri,
in which are some of the most beautiful farms
I have ever seen. But more of the lands at
some future time.
It seems that the abolitionists, who have es
tablished a town of their own, at Lawrence, are
bidding defiance to all law, whether Territori
al or Congressional. Sheriff Jones of Douglas
county and also Marshal for the Territory, a
sound pro slavery man, was assassinated by
these vile fanatics, last night about 9 o’clock.
As near as I can learn the circumstances are
these:
S. N. Wood, a notorious abolitionist that
lives in Lawrence, had embezzled and kept
back some important papers, that were nec
essary for the Committee of Investigation in
the contested election, sent out by Congress, to
have. Orders were issued for his arrest, which
Jones immediately did. but through the aid of
some men of like stripe with Wood, he made
his escape. Orders were then issued for the
arrest of those who aided in his escape. Some
four or five of them were arrested by Jones,
through the aid of the U. S. Dragoons who
were ordered out to assist him. About 9
o’clock while guarding the prisoners within one
of the Dragoon tents, he was fired upon twice
from the outside, the balls Jgoing through the
tent cloth. One of them took effect just be
tween the shoulders, injuring the spine. At
last accounts he was not dead, but no hopes
were entertained of his recovery. The impres
sion here, is that every man in Lawrence, a cit
izen of the place, knew that it was to be done.
and aided in the escape of the assassin. th,.ugh
the citizens passed resolutions, pledging them
selves to do all in their power to bring the
murderer to justice. This is believed to be a
sham to keep down Southern feeling. The
Missourians are perfectly hot, and are anxious
to avenge the death of Jones, as he is well
known to them and much respected. You
may lie assured if they go over again they will
not listen to compromises as they did in the
“Waukarusa campaign.''
The Committee of nvestigation, their aids,
clerks, &c., with Gen. Whitfield. Reeder and
Lane, are now at Lawrence.
Send out Southerners, men of the right stamp,
to aid in the election. Kansas justly belongs
to us, as is witnessed and sealed by the blood
of the gallant Southerners who were slain upon
the fields of Mexico. Shall Southerners then
stand by aud see it wrenched from us by
Nortbern fanatics, and foreign emigrants of
the North, who are immediately sent out by
the “ Beecher Aid Societies." God forbid,
Southerners forbid, and come out with your
families and negroes, and rest assured you will
never rue the bargain. Missouri testifies to
this by her beautiful farms and residences, for
Missouri and Kansas are in the same latitude,
have the same soil, and, with the slight differ- !
ence caused by the prairies of Kansas, thesame |
climate.
Yours truly,
DANIEL PITTMAN
Gor. of the Sav. Gear. 4 Jour.
Examination of Herbert—Little
doing in CoNgress—Deficiency
Bill.
VV ashington, May 9.
Although the examination of Mr. Herbert, of
California, is not yet completed before the mag
istrate, I rejoice in the well grounded convic
tion, not that he will be acquitted, but that he
is guiltless of killing except in self defence.—
1 hat he was culpable in carrying a deadly weap
on, and getting into a melee with the servants
instead of referring the matter to their employ
ee, will not be contended ; and to the extent to
which he has offended, I trust he may be sub- j
jected to appropriate penalties, and to the pre- I
scribed penalties whatever they aw*.
Congress has to-day, (Friday) ended its
week's work, with little to show’ as to the pro
duct. As the session wears away the nomina
tions for the Presidency approach, and business
becomes a bore, speeches with party bearings
are alone thought of. The Deficiency bill is
still a football between the two houses, and they
who kick it do so solely with reference to the
party effect. Some will not vote for it because
it proposes to make up a deficiency caused by
the removal of troops to Oregon and Washing
ton, others because it proposes to bring water
into this city, and Mr. Giddings because it pro
poses to pay for arresting some runaway Ken
tucky slaves, who were caught in < >hio.
A great objection has arisen from a palpable
misunderstanding. It is alleged that adeficien
cy bill is a new thing,—so it is : but it has I
been introduced because of a new state of
affairs.
fiscal year used to end with the year.—
Now it ends in the middle of the year. Then
it was easy to embrace deficiencies in the new
regular bill. Now we would have to wait six
or nine months for that. Estimates are. there
fore, only good guesses, and theirerrors must be
corrected. Ido not see anything unreasonable
in a deficiency bill. If anything is unreasona
ble, it is the arrangement which has made it
necessary.
The debate upon concurring with the Sen
ate in this bill took a wide latitude to dav, and
gave 11. Winter Davis, of Baltimore, an op
portunity to illustrate his powers as a debater,
which he did nobly, and to the delight and ad
miration of the House, although he cut right
and left with great effect. In denouncing the
, ‘higher law men” cf the present day, he ad
mitted that they had Jefferson as a precedent,
and he declared that the extremes of Secession
and Abolition had both met an extra constitu
tional ground in this respect, though claiming
to be strict constructionists. He was met bv
Mr. Giddings for the North, and Mr. Bocock
for the South, but they failed to drive him from 1
bis position.
The advent of Mr. Buchanan will,doubtless, i
interfere with the work of legislation for a few
days, and then the disposition to labor will lie
still less than ever. Impartial.
Hoopinc. Cotton.—We noticed editorially
several days ago, a new invention of Mr. D.
M. Combs, of Memphis, Tenn., for hooping cot
ton bales with hoops and clasps made of hoop
iron. Our Mr. Blue has received full informa
tion and a model from the inventor, which he
will take pleasure in exhibiting to all who may
feel any interest in it. A slight examination
only will we think, satisfy any one of the value
of the invention. With the other great advan
tages, Mr. McCombs offers the hoops and clasps
at eight cents per pound, and assures us that
the same weight only of the iron hoops will be
required as has heretofore been used of rope.—
Tue invention is certainly worthy of special
notice from the cotton growers, and we hope
they will bejquick to discover their interest in the
matter. Call on Mr. Blue at the Post Office,
if you wish to see the model.— Montgomery
Gazette.
The oldest paintings in the world are the
seven frescoes that were recently discovered in
the Via Graicoza in Rome. They were imme
diately transported to the Vatican, where they
were visited during holy week by large num
bers of persons. It is supposed that theee
paintings are due to a Greek pencil, for each of
the persons represented has his name written
beside him in the characters of that language.
, I For the Examiner.
Rail Road Meeting at Carnesville.
, Ata meeting of a portion of the citizens of
Franklin county, held in the Court-house in
1 Carnesville, on the 6th J/ay, inst. Nathan
‘ Gunnels, Esq., was called to the chair.and Jos.
; N. Chandler appointed Secretary.
i The object of the meeting having been ex
plained, on motion of Thomas Morris, Esq.,’a
I Committee of ten was appointed to prepare
business for the aetionof the meeting, consist-
> ing of Col. Thos. Morris, Gen’l. W. T. Milli
; can, James W. Payne, John G. York. C. 11.
I Little, Pleasant Holbrook, Levi Sewell, W. T.
■ Crow. James M. Edwards and John H. Ader-
II hold, Esqrs.
After an absence of a few minutes, the Com-
■ mittee submitted the following report.
Whereas we have seen with lively interest [a
meeting of the citizens of Atlanta, held on the
I 16th ultimo, friendly to the building of the
i “ Air Line Rail Road ’’ from Atlanta to An
, derson C. H., S. C., asking the counties inter
ested in said enterprise to meet them in con
vention, to be held at Carnesville on the sec
ond Tuesday in July next, to consult upon the
ways and means necessary to the carrying out
the building of said Road.
Be it therefore Resolved, That wc cordially
respond to the recommendation of the meeting
at Atlanta, and that this county appoint thirty
delegates to attend said Convention, being two
rom each Militia District.
i Resolved, That the following persons be and |
: they are hereby appointed delegates (with pow-!
i cr to fill their own vacancy) to said Convention
j to wit:
From Carnesville District, Col. Thomas
i -Morris, and Gen’l. W. T. Millican.
Manly’s District, W. F. Bowers, ond Oba
diah Dean.
Byans District, Samuel Knox, and
Swell.
Gumlog District, (Yliver Harrison and Rob’t
Stribling,
Big Smith’s District, Daniel Camp'and Hugh
Crawford.
Wolf-pit District, Daniel Mosa nd Mandat
thias Crawford.
Byram’s District,Thos. K. Sparks,and Silas
W. Kay.
Flintsville District, Christopher Adison, and
Stephen Crawford.
Candletown District, Eli 'l'. Willmot, and
Allen T. Garrison.
Anderson District, Enoch Anderson,
Win. M. Ashe.
Bushville District, John W. Pruitt and Dan'l
<4. Chandler.
Davids District, John P. Jolly, and Bailey
Smith.
Gunnel's District, Nathan Gunnels, and Ed
ward W. Mayfield.
Dooly’s District, Wm. 11. Wellborn, and W.
T. Crow,
Stranges District, Julien R. Earle, and Wm
J. ’Wiley.
Resolved. That Henry Freeman,!'. F. Coop
er and C. S. Wild, Esqrs.. be and they are
hereby appointed u Committee of correspon
dence, to correspond with persons along the line
of the proposed road, with regard to the hold
ing of said convention ; and to give general
publicity to the same.
On motion, the report of the Committee was i
taken up, and unanimously adopted.
On motion of Geu. Millican, Resolved, That
the proceedings of this meeting be signed by ,
the Chairman and Secretary, and forwarded to ,
the Atlanta. Athens, and Anderson papers for
publication
On motion of John G. York, the meeting i
then adjourned. _ t
Nathan Gunnels, Chairm’n. ]
J. N. Chandler, Sec’y.
An Ordinance.
The following Ordinance was passed by the
Mayor and Council on the 9th of May, 1856’
and ordered to be published in the city papers,
to-wit:
An Ordinance in addition to those for pre
serving the peace and good order of the City
of Atlanta.
Sec. Ist. Be it ordained by the Mayor and
Council of the City of Atlanta, and it is here
by ordained by authority of the same that the
keeping of a lewd house within said City shall
be adjudged to be a public Nuisance.
Sec. 2d. It shall not be lawful for the owner
or occupant of any house within the City of
Atlanta, to permit such house to be used or
occupied as a house of ill-fame, and any own
er. lessee or occupant of any house within said
City, who shall permit any woman of ill-fame
to occupy such house for the purposes of forni
cation or adultery for the space of two days
after having been notified thereof, by the Mar
shal or other officer of sc id City, shall be liable
to be tried for said offence and upon conviction
thereof before the Mayor or three members of
Council shall be fined in a sum not exceeding
fifty dollars; and if said nuisance shall be con
tinued after said conviction it shall be lawful
to abate the same by demolishing said house,
which shall be doue'by order of the Mayor or
three members of Council, by the Marshal or
his deputy.
The following report was aliso rieceived and
adopted, to wit. Atlanta. .Way 9th 1856.
The B»ard of Health met, the president Dr.
E. N. Calhonn in the chair Present. Drs.
Westmorland and Roach.
Gn motion the secretary was requested to
inform the Mayor and Council, that we have
no epidemic prevailing whatever, aud the city
is in an unusual healthy condition.
Resolved. That the Mayor and Council be
requested to publish the proceedings of this
Board, at least once in all the city papers.
On motion the Board adjourned to meet
Friday 16th instant at 2 o’clock i>. m.
Dr. E. N. CALHOUN, chairm’n.
Dr. E. J. Roach, Sec’y.
The Atlanta Daily Intelligencer, and Ex
aminer, will please give the above one insertion.
Atlanta Ga., May I3th 1856.
11. C. HOLCOMBE, Clerk Council.
Ssa»“The waters of the Danube have not been
so low for the last twenty years as they are at
present, and all the commerce of Upper Aus
tria that looks to this river as a medium of
transportation is completely suspended.
Gov. Jolvuson—-liis visit to iVa'is
iugton.
: The Know Nothing papers in Georgia are
I greatly exercised just now on the subject of
' Gov. Johnson’s visit to Washington City.—
j The following from the Journal A Messenger,,
! (we almost said Southern Recorder, it sounds
) so much like the productions of that sheet eight
months ago) is sharp, very sharp :
Gov. Johnson of this State, was in Wash
ington city last week. By the way. we have
heard jt shrewdly hinted that his Excellency
has serious aspirations to the nomination of
his party for the Vice Presidency ! — Savannah
Republican.
We heard it intimated some weeks ago, that
I one of the Georgia delegates to the Cincinnati
Convention was at Washington attending to
his Excellency’s political interests in that di
rection, but had not supposed that the “ wild
hunt” had again vacated the Executive Chair
of our State. Whilst we cannot sanction
this course of conduct upon the part of our
Chief Magistrate, candor compels us to admit
that his claims to the second office in the Gov
ernment, according to modern democratic tests
are of a superior character. Wc allude to his
bitter hatred and proscription of Ameri
cans, and intense love and devotion to foreign
ers.
We suppose his neighbor are about as well
posted in reference to the object of the Gover
nor’s visit to Washington, as anybody : and it
is’shrewdly suspected by them that his absence
attributable to the fact of his having accompa
nied his eldest daughter, and the daughter of a
fellow-townsman, to the Institute at Georgetown
D. C. That he should visit Washington city
is natural enough. If it should be the pleasure
of the National Democratic Convention at
Cincinnati to nominate a Southern man for the
Vice Presidency, there is no man in this sec
tion of the Union whose nomination would be
hailed with greater joy by the South, or who
would give to the strength. Weli
may our Know Nothing contemporary endorse
the claims of the Governor, if they are to be
predicated on his past castigation of the dark
lantern crowd—excuse us, /— Fed.
Union.
. . °BK, May 10—There was a cowhid
ing affair m this city the other day. Alfred
Carson, Chief Engineer of the Fire Department
received a severe drubbing at the hands of a
Mr. whose sister Carson married.--
Ihe alleged reason was an Insult offered to Le
verich’s wife by Carson. The friends of Car
son explain it in another wav They do not
deny the cowhiding, but attribute it to another
cause. There are two cliques in the Fire De
partment, between whom exists a bitter enmity
Canson heads one and Harry Howard the oth
er Lcvench is of the Howard clique, and for
some unpardonable affront on Carison’s side
Lcvench undertook to chastise him, and for
the purpose of obtaining public sympathy, made
his -casus belli an indignity offered to his wife
these are the rumors floating around, and as
such 1 give them.
i o P era reason is fast coming to a
close. Ihe I resident of the Board of Direc
tors, Mr. Phalen, offers it to let front the Ist
October, tor one year.
„ White some of the papers are pitching into
Mr. Burton for the low and vulgar character
of the pieces produced at his theatre, he is pre
paring a volume entitled, “A Cyclopedia of
W it and Humor.”
The societies have nearly all had their ani
tersary meetings this week, and rendered up
their accounts. The receipts for this year com
pared with those of 1855, are as follows For
IB.ij, $1.641,826.61; and for 1856, $1,849-
823 40.
Fo » r steamers sailed from this port to day.
Ihe .Ericsson, for Liverpool, ’having 78 pass
engers, the North Star, for Southampton and
Bremen, having 154 passengers, the Tennessee,
for St .Diomas, and the Orizaba, for San Juan.
In addition to these there are the Southern stea
mers, and the Ocean Bird, which is supposed
to be ready to go ; anywhere.
A Miss Witty, ofyour city, is playing a thea
trical engagement at the theatre in Providence.
She is characterized by the papers there as
“personally very attractive ; possessing a fine
face and figure, aud excellent voice." She
is said to play Juliana in the -‘Honey Moon"
xceedingly well.
It is stated that the Steamer Ericsson to-day
carries out to England one of Hoe's six cylinder
presses lor the Loudon Tinies. Six Americans
were also sent out as “feeders” of the press, ac
companied by u foreman, thinking that the
Britishers would require a little instruction be
fore they .could work it to advantage.
Ihe rainy “spell” still continues. We arc
almost in despair of ever seeing the sun again.
he Anniversaries are some of them suspen
ded in consequence.— Char. Con.
PINK.
Mrs. Rusk, wife of Gen. Thos. Rusk,
U. S. Senator from Texas, died at Nacogdoches
on the 25th of April.
Mrs. Gen. Rusk was the daughter of Gen.
Cleveland of Habersham county, Ga., which he
represented in our Legislature of 1853 and '54
The sympathies of the country are with the
distinguished Senator from Texas, in his melan
choly bereavement.— Fed. Union.
The Kendal Case in New Orleans.
New Orleans, May 12.
In the case of the United States t-«. Ex-
Postmaster Kendall, the Texas case was con
tinued at the instance of the U. S. District At
torney, although the defence pressed the trial
and offered to admit in evidence the testimony
of the absent witnesses heretofore introduced.
fieri" Henry Gilman was shot in Nashville
on Friday night last, by Charles Wright, his
brother-in-law. Wright surrendered himself to
the authorities.
Gov. H. V. Johnson and Hon. J. L.
Reward were in Savannah on Monday.
T. BLRKE, PROPRIETOR
NUMBER 41.
From the Charleston Courier.
Sew York Correspondence.
New York, Maj’ 8. —The anniversary fever
may be sa’d to have reached a crisis yesterday.
There was warm work in the proceedings of
several of the societies. The American Tract
Society, where the great struggle was to have
bean decided between conservatism and aboli
tionism. had a stormj’ time. Tt was given out
that the old executive board would be ousted
in consequence of their suppliancy to the slave
power. The Independent and the Tribune
newspapers have been blowing the flame of
fanaticism for weeks, and laboring hard to
stiffen the backbones of the timid. But the
whole scheme fell through. The old directors
were re-elected, including the Rev. Nehemiah
Adams, of Boston, author of the South Side
View of Slavery.
The threatened appointment of a Committee
to investigate 4he affairs of the society was
about abandoned until demanded by those who
conducted the business of the institution during
the past year. It is a pity that the performan
ances of the clique who had secretly avowed to
Africanize the Tract Society should have come
so far short of their promises. Had the scheme
had any chances whatever of success, the strong
and united conservative sentiment of the meet
ing would have been displayed with such unex
pected power and influence that future attempts
of the kind would be confined to diseased im
aginations and fanatical wishes.
The Congregational Society assembled at the
Church of the Pilgrims, in Union Square. I
am not exactly aware of the nature or the ob
jects of this institution. But there was no
misunderstanding the design of the meeting
yesterday. It seemed as if intended solely to
give Henry Ward Beecher an opportunity of
firing one of Sharpe’s rifles in the cause of Kan
sas. Mr. Beecher is a sharp shooter on all oc
casions, and yesterday was no exception to the
rule. He was eloquent, radical, full of fire and
“hopeful for freedom.” The game now being
played in the West was a sure thing in his mind.
The South stood no chance whatever. Every
body who heard him was of the same feeling,
and of course the meeting was harmonious and
enthusiastic.
But the great event of the day, as the sport
ing chroniclers have it, was the meeting of the
abolitionists. If any one is oppressed with
melancholy, there is no greater fun than to be
I present at one of their gatherings. With them
, variety is the spice (and odor) of life : so upon
the platform you usually see white men and
women, with a sprinkling of the darker shades
of humanity. Like the “first come, first serve”
rule of a country mill, the advantages of the
floor are only to be obtained by jumping up and
shouting away. But unfortunately several are
in the habit of doing this at the same time, and
no one cares to give his competitor a better
chance by waiting to hear the decision of the
chair. According to my own knowledge in
disputes, at these meetings, when a man and
woman are both trying to “ catch the chair’s
eye,” the decision has always been against the
latter. You know how difficult it is for a wo
man to “ hold her tongue.” Can there be any
surprise that these gatherings are so disorderly,
riotous and disgraceful ?
The radical abolitionists seem to have chosen
I a new line of policy this year. Their denunci
ations of the South, of Southern men, and of
slavery, are less frequent and less secret. It is
now the Black Republicans upon whom they
shower their volleys of sarcasm, spleen and
billingsgate. The women yesterday were es
pecially bitter against Seward and Hale, Sum
ner and Wilson. Though utterly opposed to
the creed of the Black Republicans, it is inti
mated that the abolitionists complain that their
thunder has been stolen. About the only dif
ference between them is that the abolitionists
would like to massacre yon all, and the Black
Republicans, who are more cautious, would
rather see you massacre yourselves.
There is a public call issued for a meeting on
Friday’ night to express sympathy for Walker
aud the Republic of Nicaragua. Among the
speakers announced are Gen. Cass, Gen. Quit
man, Senators Toombs, Benjamin, Weller,
Douglass, and several members of Congress.—
Opposition to the interference of Great Britain
in the affairs of Central America will be the
principal topic of the speakers.
Speaking of Nicaruga, the boats belonging
to Accessory Transit Company are still laying
idle at their docks. It is currently reported
that the parties principally engaged in the line
byway of Panama and Aspinwall pay the
Transit Company $40,000 per month not to re
sume their trips.
Our common Council took occasion last
night to pay Mayor Wood a high compliment
in his absence. His salary was increased from
3,000 to SO,OOO. The Comptroller, too instead
of receiving as before $3,000, is to have
$5,000, and the Street Commissioner had bis
salary raised from $2,500 to $5,000.
The owners and builders of the Adriatic arc
sparing no exertions to ensure her .rapid com
pletion. Her machinery is already nearly all
in. If no disappointment or delay occur, this
noble Collins steamer wifi sail from this city
for Liverpool on her first trip, August the 20th.
PINK.
jKjjf'We find the following in the Journal de
Constantinople:
“Our readers will recollect the beautifulscul
ptures which M. Place extracted with so much
difficulty from the ruins of Nineveh, and which
were unfortunately sunk in the Tigris by the
bursting o. the skins which upheld the rafts
that contained them. We are happy to be
able to state that most of these sculptures are
now being raised under the intelligent superin
tendence of Nassoud Bey, aid-de -camp of the
governor of Bagdad. Some of them are mon
oliths of Colossal size."
jKb 1 '- The workmen in the silk factories of
Lyons, in gratitude for what the French gov
ernment has done to develope the branch of in
dustry in which they are engaged, lately sent a
petition to the Minister of State, praying that
“the effigy of him whom wur and peace have
rendered equally illustrious, may hereafter be
crowned with laurels on the national coin of
France.” It is said the Emperor will grant
the request.