Atlanta weekly intelligencer. (Atlanta, Ga.) 185?-18??, November 04, 1858, Image 1
By a. a. gaulding & CO.
NEW SERIES, VOL. 2.
“ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS, WHEN REASON IS LEFT TO COMBAT IT.”—JEFFERSON.
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ATLANTA, GEO., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER^ 1858.
NO. 2.
Clie Jtttelligfnrer.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1858.
Colombo* Times.
This dsrilv comes to us in an entire new dress
t presents a beautiful appearance, and we con-
ratulate our cotemporary upon its late im_
rovement, in point of external appearance,
lie Tima is one of our most highly esteemed
jcchanges,|3ndlbearing a little too much of the
high strung,” which occasionally manifests
s'-If. in the editorial columns of that print, it
s among the soundest of our Democratic Jour-
irtls. Columbus is rather a bad location for
young man, who can afford to wear fine
lollies, and if our confrere can resist the temp-
ition to “put on airs,” which seems to lie a
onmion proclivity with the jieople of Colum
ns. lie will no doubt do well. Great luck to
nu, brother.Times, temporably, personally,
ecuniarlv and jiolitically.
rilledgevlllc.™The legislature.—ThcCiny
Scaton.
From Milledgeville we learn tnat extensive
lopnrations are lining made, for the approaclr
Hg session of the Legislature which c-om-
nces next Wednesday. Our esteemed friend
larwin Brown of the Mflledgevillc Hotel
uiiounees his intention of making the winter
mss off pleasantly to all his guess. He will
• able io give ample accommodation to the
■idies, and has engaged the service of a fine
kmd of Music. Messrs. Sam and Robert A.
li-Combs’, sons of the late Robert MeOomb
xtensively known as one of the liest Hote
i i-pers in the country, will also be prepared
ii receive guests, and will treat them as
1m y always do, with genuine hospitality ami
tendon.
The opening Ball of the session will come
.ffon Friday nifiht the 5th of November, at
cwell’s Hall, where our Milledgeuillefriends
vpect a laege and gay assemblage of visstors.
rein all that we can hear, we have no dotib
n-re w ill lie one of tlie liveliest winter at
ii' capital, they" have seen for several years,
Tin- Savannah l{<-)iuli!lrnn.
This Journal in one of its late issues has done
; the honor to publish somewhat of a severe
iticism upon a small article which appeared
11mr columns a few days since in reference
i Senator Douglas. We took occasion in that
tide to say in substance that if a few of our
emocratic friends in Georgia would “shake
1’’ their sympathies for Douglas, the unity
strength of the party would he preserved,
ur cotemporavy seems to think, that in thus
disking” we would get rid of “Toombs, Stc-
iriis,” and other prominent leaders of the
•mocratic Party. We are somewhat sur-
ised at the illiberality and unfairness of the
publican, in making such insinuations in ref
ine to Messrs. Toombs and Stephens. Wo
ve heretofore looked upon tlie Republican
one of our most liberal, fair and candid ex-
angi-s. belonging to the opposition press,
ii we regret very much to find that he has
li ved himself to fall into line with the un-
uptdous members of his Know Nothing co-
ujHiraries of the press, who take things for
lilted, regardless of pfbof, and who base their
irgcs against public men, not upon recorded
linn my, lmt upon the authority of private
iversations which every man should hold
red. We hope our friend of the Republican
I review the ground lie 1ms taken, and do
ssrs. Toombs and Stephens the justice to
ieli they are entitled. If our coteinporary
1 prove to us, by any testimony, which will
tiiv the action of a reasonable man, that
'iiibs and Stephens sympathize with Doug-
. in his opposition to the National Demo
tic Administration, we shall be as ready to
nike them off.” as our friend of the Repifb-
n can lie. or anybody else.
Comptroller Generals Report.
indebted to our friend Peterson
veatt, Comptroller General of the State, for
i)py of his report for the year 1858. It
tains a variety of iuterresting matter to all
who feel any concern about the fiscal of
if the State. In our early life we had
honor of an intimate acqnaintance with
L'lierable Arthur Fort, the father of Dr
uiinson Fort of Milledgcvilie. This gen.
nan had been connected with the lcgisla-
>f Georgia, from the time of her colonial
•fence to a period dating forty years after
is. He was a prominent member of the
emors Council, and also of tlie State leg.
ure for a long scries of years. He took a
ly interest in whatever related to the
vth and prosperity of our then young and
ring State. The Finances of the country,
■objects of his sjiecial care. He remin.
us very much of our friend Dr. George D.
lips, now Auditor of the State Itoad, and
for many years in the legislature of
gi:i. was placed at the head of the corn
ice i.t Finance, and who always manifes-
a most scrupalous regard for tlie
ty of the momentary affairs of the gov-
uvnt. Our lamented old friend Fort, on
accasion remarked to us, and by his rc-
t we reduced it to writing and it was pub-
<1 in the Macon Telegraph in 1829, that
■ committee of Finance in the Legislature
larged their duty faithfully, there was no
e use for tlie Comptroller Generals office,
for a fifth wheel to a wagon. By exam-
1 the files of the Telegraph for 1829, the
inuuication can l>e found, over the signa-
•f't>ld Republican,’ in which the above re.
. is contained. The opinion then entertain-
ouroIJ friend, wassubstanciaUy true but
had lived in the days of Peterson Thweatt
doubt would have very materially mo.
1 his opinions. Our friend “Pete,” de-
■ his whole time to the duties of his office
his report now lifore us, shows that tlie
ptrollers office, when projierly administer
u important branch of our State Govem-
We have only space to notice some of
mist prominent features of this report.—
balance in tlie’Treasury at the close of
1 resent fiscal yearis $455,918,05, of this
int only $130,554,65, is available, Tlie
receipts into the Treasury for the preseut
amount to 1$765,575,13, of which the
•amings of the Western & Atlantic Rail
constitute a part, amounting to $200,
'Tlie disbursements by the Treasury
ip $745,480,64. The Comptroller General
ates the receipts into the Treasury for
at $707,906,10, and the probable expen
se at $548,575. Tlie public debt is set
i at $3,530,500. This superficial glance
r Ii uncial condition shows thut Georgia
tincrl, ere long to he a rcih State, if fool
corrupt men can be kept out of the Legis-
A Northern Institution.
An event “peculiar” in this country to the
Northern States, has just come off, and with
such eclat, that a daily paper of New York j c ' nf ¥ ent that ^ connection with the pro
city devotes five columns to an account of it.
What do our readers suppose was the occasion
that agitated all classes of society, and kept
them alive with anxiety until the result was
known ? A great Prize Fight between one
Morrissey, well known in connection with the
Poole and Baker quarrel wliich terminated in
the death of the former—and a man who is fa
miliarly known in “fancy” circles, as “Tlie
Benicia Boy,” otherwise John Keenan. This
grand carnival of the broken-nose gentry of
New York and Philadelphia, came off on Wed
nesday of last week, some seventy or eighty
miles from Buffalo, and was one of the most
extraordinary exhibitions of brutality ever
known. It was witnessed by about twelve
hundred jiersons, consist ing of all the shoulder-
hitters, Dead Babbits, Blood Tubs, Plug-uglies
and gamblers that usually frequent such a
scene. Such a crowd was seldom, if ever seen
before. They were all men whose countenan
ces were seethed with every degrading passion
that belongs to humanity, and it might have
been supposed that a delegation from Pande
monium had just come “up” to see the sport
in which “devils” delight. On Tuesday night
three steamers were chartered at Buffalo by
this “beautiful crowd,” to go to the ground
where this pugilistic encounter came off'. Tlie
passage took up the whole night, and on Wed
nesday morning they landed'on the solitary
beach of “Long Point” Canada.
The Ring was pitched about one o’clock,
and the “Benicia Boy” entered it in twenty
minutes throwing his cap into the middle. In
a few minutes after Morrissey followed and the
crowd received him with nine cheers. After
settling the preliminaries, the two fighters im
mediately came up to the scratch. They fought
eleven rounds in twenty-two minutes, both
“pluck” to the last. Tlie encounter is des
cribed as being unusually fierce, and both their
faces and necks were badly cut, or as the “fan
cy” say “punished”—Morrissey’s nose was
broken and both eyes closed up. On the twelfth
round Morrissey was carried up by his friends
to the ring, unable to stand, but the “Benicia
Boy” had fainted from loss of blood, and was
unable to get up, so Morrissey was proclaimed
the victor and the winner of tlie Twenty-five
Hundred Dollars stake. 'Thus ended the bloody
spectacle for the present, hut another “fight”
is expected.
The demoralizing efiects of such performan
ces, as the one referred to, cannot be too strong-
y depicted. If it were simply the mauling
and pounding of these creatures for their own
private gratification, it would be much less
deplorable. But little difference would be
made if they were all to get up a gen. nil sat
urnalia, and destoy each other. But it is the
gambling wliich is encouraged on such occa
sions, the brutality that is cheered, and all the
coarse and vicious passions of the young that
are developed, wliich forms the great public
evil. Tlie young of the country who attend
these bloody encounters, cannot fail to lie mor
ally injured by them. Hero in the South pub;
lie sentiment revolts at the spectacle of a prize
fight, to test which man can stand up longest
in giving and receiving blows and gashes. But
at the Nortli the class of society who are in
terested in pugilism is growing larger every
year. They defy the law and have become al
most strong enough to overpower the better
portion of society. The scum of the festering
cities of New York, Philadelphia, &c., arc be
coming dominant in elections, and the public
authorities crouch before them, rather than
attempting to put them down. Such a state
of society is in tlie last degree deplorable and
we congratulate our own section that no such
scenes are n< >w or can ever be tolerated amongst
us. At least we can strive to keep them
down.
Dcnmcad’s Flour.
IVc had the pleasure on yesterday, to re
ceive, as a present, from Mr. Denmcad the gen
tlemanly proprietor of the Marietta Flour
Mills, two sacks of his A. No. 1. flour, each
weighing one hundred pounds. This is the
way to do things, not make two bites of a cher
ry. The penurious may ask, how can Mr Den-
mead afford to be so generous. Why, this
question is one of the easiest solutions imag
inable. He makes so much better flour than
that, usually brought to this market, that he
can sell more, and at better prices than any
body else. Hence lie can well afford to be
generous. His Mill is one of tlie best in the
State, and if he don’t take more pains to keep
this a secret, he will be over run with custom.
It is a matter of astonishment to us, that all
our Atlanta •merchants don’t buy tlicir flour of
Mr. Denmcad. We mean what we say. and we
say it with all the responsibilities which at
tach to our words.
ash Ux—We regret to learn that the gin-
‘ of Jlt^ B. T. Chapman was undermined
nter onySaturday night last, causing the
1 build^ig to fall. The damage will be
Fine Si-gr.rs mill Tobacco.
Mr* John Ficken, Tobacconist and Segar
manufacturer, two doors above Wm. Kay’s
lrook store. Whitehall Street, has favored us
with samples of his Segars and Tobacco, which
we have tested, being great lovers of the
“noxious weed,” and which we feel no hesita
tion in pronouncing of a very superior quali
ty. Those who arc smitten with a fondness,
like ourselves of tlie “weed,” would do well
to call and examine Mr. Ficken’s stock for
theraselues and uot take our word for the su
perior quality of his articles.
Our Book Table.
rrSEY WOODS TAVERN, OR, SAM SUCK IN TEXAS.
This is ;i story of Creeks and Camp-fires, and
incidents generally connected with the rough
and tumble life of South-western people. The
style is fresh and interesting, and many a good
thing is told in a racy and rich manner.
This hook may lie found at Mr. Kay’s Book
Store.
The Mysterious Marriaof.—is one of the
numerous fictions issued from that well
known anil enterprising publishing House in
Philadelphia, T. B. Peterson & Brothers.
Webster and Haynes’Celebrated Speeches
in the Senate, in the Famous Debate, ought
to lie in tlie hands of every American freeman.
The Messrs. Peterson’s have issued a compact
and cheap edition, accessible to all.
These hooks will all lie found at Mr. Kay’s
book store.
prietorship and Editorial department of our
paper will add much to its interest, and we
have no doubt that this arrangement will lie
duly appreciated by our patrons.
Having become connected with Col. Gauld
ing as an Associate Editor of the “Atlanta
Intelligencer,” in accordance with a prevail
ing custom, I proceed to make my bow to
the readers of our paper, asking their kindest
sympathies and charitable consideration. My
connection with the ’‘Intelligencer” intro
duces me into a new field of labor. I take
my seat in the Editorial Chair with some mis
givings, as to ultimate success. I reoognize
the position, as delicate and responsible. The
Press is an engine of power. He who uses it
to ' impress his thoughts upon the reader,
should think carefully before he writes and
write only that, which after mature reflection,
seems to. he demanded by surrounding cir
cumstances and which will prove creditable to
the writer and beneficial to the reader. My
highest ambition will he attained, ifl suc
ceed, in winning the respect of the good ; in
cultivating a healthy popular sentiment; in
aiding to stay the tides of Error which in va
rious forms are threatening to deluge the
greatest people on earth, the people of the
United States,'and in'helpingto hold the free
man of this much favored land, firmly to tiie
support of the fundamental principles main
ly sustained by the Democratic ’party, which
in my humble opinion, are vital to our politi
cal and temporal prosperity . In politics, I
claim to lie a Democrat of large charity, vet
unwavering in tlie defense of right. A
union' upon principles of justice and equal
ity all should support. A union used
to oppress and degrade, all should unite
to destroy. Although not a Disunionist now
even after all our grievances and submissions,
yet Ido not want to lie called upon, many time
more, to submit and to back. Die time has
come when the South must be prayerful,
watchful and firm. Some think we have passed
the Rubicon. I do not. We are near it. We
must halt, or we may be over before we know
it. A united South, and all will be well.—
A divided South and all will be lost. In the
main, onr National and State Administration
meets my hearty support. All that in me
lies, is set for the defence of both, while faith
ful to the constitution and to their past
pledges. If wrong presents itself to me in the
political world, anywhere, audit becomes my
duty to notice it in this paper, it will lie no
ticed plainly, yet I hope in in a gentlemanly
spirit. In a word I seek the highest prosperi
ty of Atlanta, (in tlie words of another tlie
inland sea port of tlie South) of Georgia, of tlie
Union. Yet although a Southerner by choice
and not necestity, every impulse of my nature
burns with unquenchable fire, to see the
South, the whole South maintain herinteg,
rityand equality in the union or her inde
pendence out of it. To this end I shall
labor, prayerfully, faithfully, firmly.
V. A. G ASK ILL.
P. S. The articles of the Junior Editor will
lie accompanied with the letter. V.
Transportation of Cotton from tlie South-
West to tlie North-East.
We have before us an article from the Mem
phis Bulletin giving the cost of transportation
of Cotton from Memphis to New York by way
of St. Louis, Naples. Toledo and Buffalo, on
the one hand, and by way of New Orleans and
Ocean navigation on the other. The Bulletin
supposes a bale of Cotton to weigh 475 lbs.,
and to be worth $60. By the inland route by
wliich about 500 miles of is Railroad convey
ance, and some three or four reshipments, the
cost is $4,87 1-2. By New Orleans and tlie
Ocean, $5,82 1-2; Difference in favor of the
inland route, 75 cents. For the inland route
lie gives 20 days time, and interest and insu
rance 80 cents ; for the N. 0. and Ocean route
he gives 45 days time, and interest and insu
rance, SI,65.
These facts and figures are another demon
stration of the tendency as well as the economy
of transportation of almost all articles of Mer
chandize and produce liy inland. Tlie saving of
time and insurance are important items in the
mount, and when we add to these the actual
r isk (which is implied by the price of insurance
which in case of loss, although insurance may
be recovered, is often ruinous to business men.
We see still an additional inducement and ar
gument in favor of entire Railroad transpor
tation. With the vast commerce between tlie
North-East and South-West wc can see noth
ing hut brilliant prospects and certain rewards
for those lines of Railroad in that direction,
when such lines shall he fully opened. One
fact is clear, all parties engaged in this im
mense traffic will travel by the direct inland
route, and all merchandise worth 20 cents per
11>., will as a general rule take the same route.
If Cotton can now he shipped from Memphis
to New York and Boston by inland route some
15 or 1700 miles while from 5 to 600 miles of
which is by Railroad, we may count with safe
ty that the main transportation within the
distance of 1000 miles, which is about the dis
tance from New York to Montgomery, wilj
eventually be done by Railroad, and that the
transportation between, say Baltimore and At
lanta, about COO miles impatiently waits for
Railroad conveyance. As some further tangi
ble proof of the pressing necessity for this
North-Eastern and South-Western inland
transportation, we see that the business of the
newly opened and hut half equipped Virginia
and Tennessee Railroad for the month of Sep
tember last, was $82,129,00.
Oar AuocUte. The Guilty Trembling.
We invite attention to the salutatory of our ; We fin d the following extract in the Rich-
new associate, V. A. Gaskill, Esq. We feel j mond Whig copied into the Savannah Republi
can in such a shape as to lead us to understand
that the Editor asks the questions, as if they
were originated by himself.
Southern Rejoicing over tub late Elections.
—The Richmond IPH^asks the following ques
tions, to which we would be glad to see an an-
j swer from some southern Democrat.
The Democratic papers, complain against the
Southern Oppsition on account of tlie latter’s
rejoicing over tlie defeat of the Democracy in
the late elections at the North. Why may
not Southern men exult as earnestly over the
triumph of the Opposition at the North as over
the triumph of the Democracy there ? So far
as the question of slavery' and Southern rights
was involved in tlie recent Northern elections,
were the Democratic candidates for Congress
any more favorable to the South than the op
position candidates ? If so, in what respect ?
What was the difference between the two par
ties there on the “finality” of the English Bill
—the only .matter of practical consequence to
the people of the South at the present time ?
Look at the position of the respective candi
dates on this question in each State where elec
tions were held last week, and where elections
will be held in tiie course of tiie next month.
Is it not a fact—a proved, fixed fact—that ev
en- Democratic candidate for Congress in Penn
sylvania, in Ohio, in Indiana, in Iowa, and in
Maine, with a very few exceptions, was pledg
ed to vote for the repeal of the population re
striction clause of the English Bill and for the
admission of Kansas into the Union with her
present population of forty or fifty thousand
souls ? Will any Democratic editor in the
South pretend to deny the fact here alleged '.
There is in these questions an implied fell
ing on the part oi those who ask them, of se
rious misgiving as to the course pursued by
them in exulting over the Black Republican
triumphs in the Northern States, and well
there may lie. They are not satisfied with
what they have done. They feel that they
are under suspicion of infidelity to their own
homes and their own interests, and that the
South regard them as preparing to unite and
coalesce with our Northern enemies by u gra
dual process of assimilation.
Like the royal murderer Macbeth, they are
“afraid to think what they have done.”—
“Look on’t again they dare not.”
These questions suggested by their guilt, are
put to Southern Democrats to see if they can
not strengthen their own “infnni purposes,”
by tlie weak replies which may he elicited.-—
They would fain justify their own treachery
by referring to some unworthy jtrefinded Demo
crat, wlio may have been defeated in the late
Northern elections. But wc shall leave them
no such grounds to stand upon. In 1 earnestly
exulting over the triumph of the opposition to the Dc
nwcracy at the A'urth, we propose to show that
they can and ought to lie convicted of “giving
aid and comfort” to a party who only “bide
theirjjtime” to overthrow the institutions that
belong to our homes and firesides throughout
the South.
Suppose we concede to the Editor of the Sa
vannah Republican the grounds upon which ho
exults over the Black Republican triumphs,
viz : that tiie candidates of tlie Democratic
party at the Nortli were pledged to admit
Kansas as soon as slic applies, whether she
have sufficient population or not. does that
convict them of being as dangerous to the
South as the men who are allied with Greeley,
Seward and Smnner ! We say without fear
of contradiction that every man defeated as a
Democrat at the Xorth would have scorned to
accept the principles of the Black Republican
paity as his own ! Is not this true of Glancy
Jones of Pennsylvania, of Hughes and Nib-
lack of Indiana, and men of their stamp ?
Vi ill the Editor of the Republican answer
that? Will he say that he prefers to see Black
Republicans elected to Congress in the place
of such men?
But the ground assumed by the Republican
are not tenable. Thomas B. Florence of
Philadelphia has never pledged himself so far
as we have seen to repeal the. English Bill.--
He is one of those elected, over whom the Ed
itor of that paper makes no sound of exulta
tion, as we presume he would have done if
Ryan, his antagonist hail been successful.—
There, too, is Yallandigh-im of Ohio, one of
the most gallant and most reliable National
Democrats in the Union. Ho cannot rejoice
over his return to his seat in Congress, hut
doubtless mourns over Lewis Campbell's de
feat ! Does he not ?
In conclusion we reply to tiro interrogatory,
put to southern Democrats,that southern men
ought neither to exult over the triumph of
Black Republicans nor unsound North- m
Democrats we certainly do not rejoice over
the election of the pretended Democrat John
Hickman, whilst our brother of the Repub
lican is in high glee at Thaddcus |Stevins’ suc
cess ! We feel no pleasure when any unsound
man is placed in office, and our Savannah friend
may well feel uneasy when lie reviews his po
sition. lie asks questions -in a restless frame
of thought, to persuade himself that “the
wrong is the better reason.” We commiser
ate the “torture of his mind”—the “air
drawn daggers” which float before him, and
would fain “medicine him to a sweet sleep”
but thatalone comes hom an “easy con
science.” He had better tlieiefore take warn
ing and make haste to aplpy the remedy.
Thf. First Woman ox Pike’s Peak.—Mrs.
Holmes, formerly ot Lawrence, w rites to her
mother. Mrs. Archibald, at that place as fol
lows :
Harper for November.
The close of the 7th volume of Harpers’
Magazine,, is equal to any of the former num
bers. The illustrations of “Ethan Allen,”
the voyage of “Paul anilStranis Gallop across
the Pampos,” are superior to anything yet
published. Tlie reading matter of november
is highly interesting and entertaining, and
maintains the character of Harper fully for
variety and novelty of light literature.
Mr. Wm. Kay lias received his usual early
supply for the month.
{If Francis J. Cobia, who has been in the
hands of the law for near 14 years, on the
charge of killing, by whipping to death, a
slave of Dr. Crawford, of Barbour county, a
few miles from Eufaula, had his trial at the
recent term of the Circuit Court of Henry coun
ty, Ala., and was convicted of manslaughter
in the first degree, and sentenced to one year’s
imprisonment in the Penitentiary. He had
his first trial in 1849, and was convicted of
murder in the second degree, and sentenced to
ten years in the Penitentiary. His case was
taken to the Supreme Court, and he to the
Penitentiary, where he remained until the
meeting of the Supreme Court, when, his case
being reversed, he was remanded back for trial
again, and has since that time been under
bonds.—The jury trying the case have recom
mended him to the mercy of the Court, aud
also signed, unanimously, a petition to the
Governor for Ids pardon.
At the time of the commission of the crime
of which Cobia, has been convicted, he was in
Ids minority, and was overseeing for Dr. Craw
ford. He has since been married, and has two
children.—Col. Sun.
m „ - --. „JT An incorrigible old bachelor says that
one thousand dollars. No one being maids want nothing but husbands ; but ac-
nouse it the time, there was no loss of' commodate them in that particular and they
want everything.
-. Sun.
A Good Day’s Work.—The Central Railroad
delivered at its depot in this city, by its regu
lar trains, Monday last, four thousand me hun
dred and twenty-nine bales of cotton, besides a
large amount of other freight. This is said to
be the largest amount of cotton ever brought
to the city in-one day.—Sav. Republican.
We remember to have found a very pretty
young lady at work in the kitchen, w ho didn’t
apologize, but we had to.—Prentice.
“In all probability, I am theijrst woman
who lias ever stood oil the summit of this
mountain, and gazed upon this wondrous
scene which my eyes now behold. How 1
sigh fora poet’s power of description, so that
I might give jam a faint idea of the grandeur
and beauty ol this scene. Extending as far as
the eye can roach, lie great level plains, stretch
ed out in all their verdure and beauty, while
the winding of the grand Arkansas, is visible
for many miles. We also can see distinctly
where many of tiie small tributaries unite
it. The rugged rocks all around, and tlie
almost endless succession of mountains and
rocks below, the broad blue sky over our
heads, and seemingly so very near ; all and
everything on which the evo can rest, fills the
mind with infinitude and sends the soul to
God.”
Advertising.—1 have always considered ad
vertising, liberally and long, to be the great
medium of success in business, and prelude to
wealth. And I have made it an invariable
rule, too, to advertise, in the dullest times
long experiens having taught me that money
thus spent is well laid out; ashy keeping my
business continually before tlie public, it has
secured me many sales that I would other
wise have lost.—Stephen Girard.
g?_T A private soldier, in one of the Irish
regiments, engaged in the dreadful battle of
.Salmanea, cried out during the hottest part of
the action:
“Och, murder, I’m kilt entirely!”.
“Are you wounded ?” inquired an officer
near him.
“Wounded, is it, yer honor?” replied the
gallant EmeraJder ; “be jabef’s I’m worse
than killed, out and out ; wasn’t I waiting,
for the last quarter of an hour for . a pull at
Jim Murphy’s pipe ? and there now, it’s shot
out of his mouth ?”
|W° ‘The young lady who does not apologize
when you find her at work in the kitchen, will
not fail' to make a good wife.—Exchange.
fjPT ‘A queer chicken,’ as the hen ssid when
she -hatched out a duck.
Noble An liver.
Tue Unity of the Party.—-A New York
paper states-that a delegation of New. York
Democrats recently called upon Mr. Buchan
an and requested him to induce his Danite
official to desist from warring upon Judge
Douglas in Illinois, aud especially urged him
to do this, in view of the beneficial effects it
would have upon the prospects of the democ
racy of the Empire State at the coming elec
tion, and that the Presideut replied by saying
that “the unity of the Democratic party must
be preserved, though every candidate for Con-
gresc in New York were defeated.”
We have no doubt of the truth of the above
statement, because it is in conformity with the
views and positions taken by the Washington
Union, which we published a few days ago.—
To those who rallied against the President for
“making (as they call it) war upon Douglas”
—to those who denounced his refusal to bow
down to the treason, and dictation of this arch
demagogue, as “wickedness” and “folly.” the
President's answer, we suppose will be consid
ered as nothing short of downright outrage.
But to men who value principle, above expe
diency—who belong to the Democratic party,
1 iecause it is a thing of principles—who des
pise the miserable sophistry and treachery by
Which the Democratic party was rent in
twain, and the South defeated, on the appli
cation of Kansas, last winter, to be admitted
into the Union—who have seen, in the late
elections, how entirely these base seceders
from the Democratic party, although upheld
by Southern sympathizers, have gone over to
tlie Black Republican party—the answer of the
President will lie received with the sincerest
approbation and joy. It is worthy of the
great head of the Democratic party. It is as
brave and just as it is dignified. To support
men as members of the Democratic party who
with tlie Black Republicans, repudiate the de
cision of the Supreme Court of the United
States in the Dred Scott case, and deny the
rights of the South this case hasaffirmed-who,
last winter in conjunction with the Black Re
publics i party; defeated the Democratic party
in Congress, and now act with its enemies—
would bo an abandonment of all principle,
and a base betrayal of tlie South. It would
not keep together the Democratic party. It
would speedily destroy it. and give it over to
Northern factionists, stripped of all consisten
cy and all support from ^lie South.
Rightly and wisely, therefore, has tho Pre
sident determined that the unity of the Dem
ocratic party shall be maintained on the great
principles and policy it lias asserted ; and if
tiro seceders and traitors from it choose to go
over to the enemies of the Democratic party
and defeat it, be it so. A victory by a party
against its principles, must be its most deadly
defeat. Let us join the President in his noble
declarotion—“The unity of tlie Democratic
party must be preserved, though every Demo
cratic candidate for Congress in New York
were defeated. ’ ’
nveiglemciit of a Young Lull >>into a house
of Ill-Fame.
The New York correspondent- of the Bos
ton Atlas and Bee narrates the following sin
gular case of the inveiglement of a young
lady into a house of ill-fame, tiro particulars
of which have not before appeal'd in print.
Tho young lady, most respectable connect
ed, was on tlie street a pleasant afternoon,
unattended, upon a hopping expedition, when
she was accosted by a well-dressed lady, who
stated she had been seized by sudden illness
and begged to be assisted to her home, wliich
was but a short distance. Her air and manner
were apparently so sincere, that, not doubt
ing but she rendering the woman a kindness,
the young lady at once acceded to her request
and accompanied her to a house in the vicin
ity of Mercer street. No sooner, however,
had she entered the door, than she was seized
by two men, gagged her wrist bound, and ta
ken up three flights of stairs into a room ap
parently well furnished. Here she was kept
a close prisoner until about four o’clock in
the afternoon of the next day, or a little more
than twenty-four hours. Without going into
the details of this emprisonment, suffice to
say that every device of force and persuasion
was put in requisition to induce her to accede
to the wishes of the villains who made her
prisoner, but without success. Force was
made* use of to make her drink, but she stout
ly resisted, inflicting some severe wounds
witli her teeth upon her inhuman adversa
ries. Offers of money were at various times
made, which she indignantly spurned.
During all this time she watched for an op
portunity to escape. None however, presen
ted ifselt until late in the afternoon of tlie
next day, when she was for a few moments
left alone, M though, as was supposed by her
keepers, securely fastened. Reduced to des
peration, she actually gnawed in two tiro
cord which bound her wrists, seized her bon
net, and finding the door of the room unfast
ened, rushed out of the house and made the
host of her way, more dead than alive; to her
own home. On her way she- met one of tiro
villains by whom she had imprisoned, but in
the open street he dare not molest lror- Her
friends, alarmed at her absence, received her
joyfully, and to them she related her thrill
ing adventure, at tiro same time stating she
had tasted no food during the past twenty,
four hours. On administering some nourish
ment to her she in a short time became deli
rious, and in that condition re-enacted her
own part in tiro drama in which she had so
recently been an actor; and out of which her
virtue had come scatheless.
Tin- Ij.it.- SSli-cliaii.- Democracy.
It is a matter of congratulation with every
patriot of the country that the Democracy at
the North have fallen in a struggle for princi
ple. Rising above the horizon of present pas
sion and local prejudice, they planted them
selves upon those immutable truths-which
have heretofore guided as a beacon light the
Democratic party and preferred a temporary
defeat to a sacrifice of principle and an ill-
gotten victory. Tiro Republican party stoop
ed to every subtifuge for success and had no
1 lend of union except the cohesive power of
spoils. They gathered to our embrace protec
tive tariff and disaffected Douglas Democrats
and free labor Americans and fought with a
desperation worthy abetter cause. The rene
gade Forney—whose vaulting ambition hail
overleaped itself, whose disappointment and
chagrin at not receiving a high office from
the President burned as a brand in the quiv
ering flesh-used all his great powers to defeat
his old friends and accomplish a victor}' for his
former enemies. Notwithstanding this un
holy alliance against the Democracy, wc find
men, like Hon. J. Glancey Jones of Pennsyl
vania, rejecting the olive branch tendered
them of a high impost on iron and clinging to
the old time-honored democratic principles
with all the zeal and honest, enthusiasm, that
the Christians of the middle age hugged to
their bosoms the Holy Cross. Is not the pres
tige of such a defeat worth a thousand victo-
“Love at First Sight.”—A case of “love
at first sight” is recorded by the London Court
Circular in a story of a man “who is now in
St. Luke's mad-house, and has been detained
there since the occurrence took place, which
consigned him to its walls. Lady was so
exquisitely fair, so singularly graceful, that it
was difficult for the eye of man to behold her
without preferring her to any of her sex. A
porter was sent from a railway terminus to
this lady by her brother; this man, the present
occupant of St. Luke’s, got to the door in Par
is Lime just as the beauty'alighted out of her
carriage from an airing in Hyde park. The
man, who had never seen Lady , as she
was then, tripping up stairs, 'asked a servant
for the lady to whom the letter was directed,
and was answered, he might give the letter to
him for his lady. On the poor feUow’s refu
sal, as he was ordered to deliver it into her
own hands, he was shown into her room. The
man, being with the’lady alone whilstodie wa>
employed in reading the letter, fixed his eyes
on her instantly, as if lost in thought; hut be
fore she had done reading it, he violently, and
with transport, flew into her arms and gave
her numberless devouring kisses. Lady
was so surprised that she lost the power of
crying out; but in the struggle with such a
suddsn and strange lover, she caught hold of
tiro string of the bell, rang it violently, and a
servant appeared. From that moment the un
happy man lost his reason, and was committed
to the mail-house. It is due to Lady to
state tlie fact, that the maniac lover is frequent
ly visited, and wholly supported by her.”
Woodcock s. —A correspondent of the Knick
erbocker perpetrates the following:
I was recovering from sickness lately and
needed something to tempt my appetite. I
thought woodcock, well cocked and served,
would move my dormant palate. My Irish
servant was told to go down and purchase a
Mrs. B——— said to him :
“I suppose you know what they are ?—those
birds with very long bills.”
“Yes, mem I do.”
Then, turning to the cook she gave direc
tions for their preparation for the table. Af
ter tho lapse of an hour, the man rerurned
with the change.
-‘Well, Jim, did you get the woodcocks ?”
“Idid, mem.”
“But how is this? how much change have
you brought ?—what did they cost ?”
“Sixteen cents, mem.”
“What!—16 cents for the pair ?”
“Yes, mem.”
“Why, that is extremely cheap !’’
Ho stood in a hesitating way for a moment,
and then asked Mrs. R- — if she would not
step down and see them. She walked down
tot-lie kitchen and Jimstepcd up to fin- table
and took a small package, which he unfolded,
and handed out a couple of the longest kind of
wooden faucetr !
“Why, bless you, man, these arc not wood
cocks ! Did’ntyou hear me give directions
about cooking them ?”
“I did, mem.”
“But do n’t you see t-liat I could not cook
one of these ? i might keep them in the pot a
whole hour, and they would not he cook
ed.’.’
“I,see, mem : I made a mistake. Shall I
take ’em back, mem ?”
U. S. Senator Among Indians.—Tlie Louis
ville Joumel, of the 15th, says :
Senator Fitch, of Indisna, together with two
attendants, left not long since for Red River,
on a buffalo hunt. It seems from information
obtained from a party of friendly Indians, that
the hunters were met aud surrounded by a
band of about 50 Yankton Indians, and order
ed to leave the buffalo region. Fitch and his
friends refused to comply with this hostile
command, and the Indians prowled around
their camp and hamstrung most of their hor
ses. The next day the baud grew more pos
itive in their demonstrations, and cromble,
where Fitch will probably obtain sufficient
force to enable him to continue his hunt un
molested.
Webster Matched by a Woman.—In the
somewhat famous case of Mrs. Boflgen’s will,
which was tried in the Supreme Court some
years ago, Mr. Webster appeared at counsel,
for the appellant. Mrs. G reenough, wife of
Rev. Wm Greenough, late of West Newton,
a tall, straight queenly-looking woman, with
a keen black eye—a w^ man, of great se.’f-pos-
session and decision of character, was called
to (lie stand as a witness, on the opposite side
of Mr. Webster. Webster, at a glance, had
the sagacity to foresee that her testimony, if
it contained anything of importance, would
have great weight with tlie . Court and Jury.
He, therefore, resolved, if possible, to break
her up. And when she answered to the first
question put toher; “Ibelieve,” Webster roar
edout, “We don’t want to hear what you
believe ; we want to hear what fou know 1”
Mrs. Greenough replied, “That is just what
I was about to say sir,” and went on with
her testimony. And notwithstanding his re
peated efforts to disconcert her, she pursued
the even tenor of her way, until Webster be
coming quite fearful of the result, arose appa
rently in great agitation and drawing out liis
large snuff box, thrust his thumb and finger
to the very bottom, and carrying the deep
pinch to both nostrils, drew it up with a gus
to; and then extracting from his pocket a very
large handkerchief, which flowed to his feet
as lie brought R to the front, he blew his
nose with a report that sang distant and loud
through the crowded hall. Webster—“Mrs.
Greenough, was Mrs. Bodgen, a neat woman?
Mrs. Greenongh.—“j cannot give you full in
formation as to that, sir; she had one very
dirty trick.” Webster—“What’s that, mad
am?” Mrs. Greenough. “She took snuff!”
The roar of tlie Court House was such that
the future defender of the constitution subsi
ded. and neither rose nor spoke again until
after Mrs. Greenough had vacated her chair
for another witness; having ample time to re
flect upon the inglorious history of the man
who had a stone thrown on his head by a wom
an.—Boston Ledger.
In Iowa and Indiana, however,- the Democ
racy have^triumphed: and the true men of the
party are encouraged to believe that in those
places where it has met with defeat, it has
been accomplished by an opposition whose
elements are incongruous and whose union
will prove to be a “rope of sand”—Then the
Democracy should not be liisheartened. The
voice of the South will soon speak in tones of
approbation to those true men at the North
who recently fell in the hard-fought Lecomp-
ton struggle—
—*-paying n tribute of just applause
To those who die*l in such a cause.”
The Admininistration, too, lias gallantly
stood by the South. The tone of the Washing
ton Union towards those democrats who hank
ered after the ileshpots of Federalism—who
advocated an unjust discriminination against
the agriculturists of the country in favor of a
few manufacturers of iron—is indeed signif
icant. It proves conclusively that the Ad-
mistration with principle for its guide wiil op
pose all false doctrines with the same purity
of purpose and patriotic motive, which actua
ted iron-nerved Jackson to demolish a United
States bank or veto iniquitious internal im
provement bills passed by Congress—All hon
or to the Administration and its faithful fol
lowers !—Daily Col Times.
Election.
John B. Willcoxon, Esq., was elected on
Monday last, without opposition, Senator of
Coweta county to till the vacancy occasion*
el by tlie resignment of Hugh Buchanan, Esq.
BIT A phy sician once advised Sydney Smith
to take a walk upon an empty stomach.
“Whose stomach ?” asked, the wit;
Cotton Cultivation in Turkey.—A parcel
of American seed, forwarded by tiro Manches
ter Cotton Supply Association to 'Turkey, has
been turned to good account. The scc-d was
sown- and the product looks very far superior
to any cotton previously grown in the Levant.
It is estimated that 50’000 bales of the supe
rior article will be exported during the present
year, and will he extensively planted next
year. The area of cotton soil is very exten
sive. The writer says the districts of the
Dardanelles, Salouica, Yolo, Cavalho, the
Isles of the Archipelago, the coasts of Asia
Minor, and especially along the Syrian coast
will yield large and excelent supplies of cot
ton for the future, if proper means are taken
to promote its culture. Some of the best dis
tricts for cotton are also very favorably situa
ted, of comparatively easy access, and well
supplied with labor. Even in the vicinity
of Constantinople there is abundance of land.
The writer who supplies the information
adds that, from personal observation anil tiro
information re has received, he is confident
that we may lock forward to having, at no
distant day a supply of cotton from tiro Otto
man empire second only to that the United
States.
Woman and Christianity.—By Christianity
woman was raised from an abject state ; she
became admitted to all civil liberties; her in
fluence was exercised over general manners;
she took her share in the education ofthe
family, and became the earthly providence of
the home. Holy magistracies of charity wore
entrusted to her she was invested with a per
sonal dignity and a social rank unknown be
fore. Since the Christian era women have
had their share in all social movements; many
have suffered martyrdom for their religion;
the mother of Constantine (Helen) raised the
cross over the ruins of Jerusalem. Clovis at
the battle of Tolhac, invoked the God of Clo
thilda. Woman took part in many of the
ecclesiastical organizations. Saint Louis was
trained and ruled by the wisdom of his moth
er, Blanch. The greatest of minnesingers,
Yogelweide, became in Germany the echo and
the expression of the initiating and puryfying
influence of woman. Joan of Are saved France;
and Petrarch was to appear on the horizon
soon after Dante and continue the hallowed
ideal with his beloved and respected Laura.
Life of Dauie.
A Noble Wjef.—Mr Walsh, in his Paris
letter to the New York Journal of Commerce,
writes as follows:
In 1810a benevolent gentleman, M. de Mon-
tyor.. bequeathed an annual sum of ten thous
and fames, as a premium at the disposal of the
academy, for the poor French individual who
had in the year performed the act most virtu
ous or morally creditable. It was adjudged
bust week to a peasant M’me Durand of the
department of Vandalise, for this exemplary
conduct. Her husband was accused of a cap
ital crime and arraigned at Assizes; he was
acquited with difficulty, and by a small ma
jority of the jury. ’Tlie wife sustained him de
votedly throughout the trial and insisted on
his innocence: she resolved to find the real
culprit or culprits; she persevered in the
search for seven years; she discovered them
and hatl them, brought to justice. Their con
viction fulfilled her purpose, which was to re
establish the character of her husband—the
true amends for an honest man. The good
woman will be passing rich with ton thousand
francs.
Shreveport
Ax Outlaw Arrested.—The
Gazette, ofthe 16 inst. says:
The notorious desperado, Tom Middleton
so well known in Western Texas, was arrested
in this place on Tuesday evening, by Mr.
Hackett, deputy sheriff. A letter written by
Middleton to Ids wife in Texas, had lieen in
cepted and sent-to the Shreveport post office.
An a curate description of the man, with
the offer of one thousand dollars reward, was
also forwarded to the sheriff. In the letter
alluded to above lie had instructed his wife to
meet him in Shreveport, and also to direct her
letters to Alfred Wright, his assumed name.
He was known here as Dr. Rice, but inquired
at the post office for letters for Alfred Wright.
He had been recognized by two or two or
three jiersons, yet the desperate character of
the man restrained them from acting as in
formants. A misplaced sympathy, or a want
of nerve, oveccame the temptation of the
thousand dollars reward. Report says that he
has killed several men; indeed, his reputation
as an accomplished murderer, had preceded
him.
Wo have lie; r l that an attempt will lie made
by tiro counsel for the prisoner to obtain his
release under a writofhabcan corpus.
B??” A Yankee met a Celestial in the streets
of San Francisco, and with a cliaracte ristic
i f the race, accosted lum as follows:
“Where are you from ?”
“Hong Kong.”
“Where are you bound ?”
“Geelong.,’
“What tea are you most fond of ?”
“Sucliong.”
“What kind of fowls do von consider the
best?”
“Chittagong.”
“What kind ofgrapesdo you prefer ?” -
“Scuppemoug.”
“What’s your name ?”
“Oh, go long.”
Corn in Iowa.—A letter dated Farmington,
Iowa, Oct. 11, says :
“Corn turns out much more promising
than was expected. Over m Missouri tiro
other day, an extensive fanner informed me
that he has not for many years had as large a
turn out of corn. There isa great many hogs
fattening mostly of common breeds, such
oas the agriculturist terms “land sharks,”
or “potato exterminators.” Buckwheat
promises well. Com is worth 50c.; wheat 80c.
a bushel.
A Tall Mule.—The same letter as above
“Mr. Lapsley of Chirk County, Mo., had a
mule said to lie the largest in the United
States, it is five years old, and is 1 Si hands
high; six leet, two inches as measured byacar-
penter at our fair.
Some people, however, by tlroir conduct, ap.
pear to think that Stephen Girard didn't know
how to make a fortune, and think, “there’s
no use putting everything into the papers ;”
that their stores are enough known already ;
and these people will continue to jog along at-
a snail’s pace, and are soon distanced by their
competitors. There is skill in advertiseing ns
in everything else. Advertisements should
be changed often, and tlroir phraseology alter
ed, or they will be considered as out of date.—
This is the age ot lightning and steam press
es. Sleepers must wake up or-they will be left
behind.—-N. O. Bulletin.
Off for Nicaragua.—Col. Rudleronc of tlie
staff of Gen. Walker in liis first expedition in
(Central America, left our city on yesterday,
to join an emigrating party, which is to sail
from Mobile in a few days, for Nicaragua.—
We learn that the company will go out with
all facilities necessary for the peaceful coloni
zation of that country. We trust that no in
termeddling commodores will intercept their
progress, and that they will succeed in setting
up the standard of civilization and good Gov
ernment in that rude and misruled country.—
Col. Rndler has promised to keep us posted
regularly with the progress of tlie expedition,
and .os he is a good writer we expect some in
teresting narratives from liis pen.
Aug. Dispatch.
Death of Mr. Wm. H. Maliai rey.
We learn that a teUegrapliic. despatch has
been received in thisYity, by the family ofthe
deceased, announcing the death of Mr Wm .11.
Maharrey. It took place on Friday last, in
Philadelphia, at the Asylum. Mr. Maharrey
was anative of this city, highly esteemed for
his manly character, his business capacity, liis
devoted frienship, and his generous and "char-,
i table deeds. He was for many years a worthy
aud efficient member of the City Council : at
one time sheriff of the county ; and in all his
public and private relations, a worth and a true
man.
We understand that his body will be brought
on to this city for interment.—Avg. Constitut
ionalist.
A Candidate.—Baffin, a candidate for the
office of Register of Wills, in Pliiladclpliia,
/commenced a speech with the following un
ique exordium :
“This,” said Mr. 8., “is the first time I ev
er conspired for tlie sufferings of my constitu
ents, and I hope you will give me your sup
port. With the consistence of my friends and
the confluence of the Democracy, inav he elect
ed.”
Baffin, with “the consistence of his friends
and the confluence of the Democracy,” was
exceeded 5,776 “sufferings” l>y the People’s
candidate, McMahan, and has quit polities.
Col. Enquirer.
Deep Snow.—on Thursday night Lust there
was a heavy fall of snow in Richland and ad
joining towns in Ashtabula county, Ohio. A
gentleman who resides in Richland informs us
that the snow was nine inches in. depth early
on Friday morning. He says that the storm
on the night previous was very severe, and
snow seemed to fall in “chunks. ’ ’—Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Alabama Fair.—The Fourth Annual Fair
of tlie Alabama Btate Agricultural Society, will
lie held at Montgomery, commencing on Mon
day next, 1st November, and will continue
open five days, closing Friday evening Novem
ber 5th.
ftT“W
bat are you going to give me for a
Christmas present?” asked a gay damsel of
her lover.
“I Rave nothing to give but my humble
sell,” was the reply.
“Tlie smallest favors gratefully received,”
was the merry t response ofthe lady.
Mr. George W. .Glams.
Wc understand that this gentleman now the
Snperintendant of the Southwestern Railroad,
has been offered the position of Superintendant
of the Central Railroad, made vacant by the
death of Emerson Foote Esq. A better selec
tion could not have been made. Mr. Adams
unites all the qnallities of a fine officer with
the social traits of a gentleman. It is proba-
alile that he will eaccept the appointment.—
Col. Times.
|*r If you want to sec a black squall, just
look at a negroo baby attached with the col-
“How late is it ?”
“Look at the boss and sec if he is drunk yet;
if he is not it can’t lie very much after clov
en.”
“Does he keep goo tidme ?”
“Splendid ! they regulate the town clock
by his nose.
HT 1 Tlie times arc said to lie so hard in Hal
ifax that the two editors of the newspaper
there smoke the same cigar, taking it by
turns.
Meeting In Gwinnett.
Below will be found a notice for a Meeting
atLawrenceville, Gwinnett county, in refer
ence to the Air-Line Railroad. We find the
notice in the Lniereneeeille Xews, and arc grati
fied to see that our friends in the county of
Gwinnett are about to take this matter in hand.
All they have to do is to face the music, in the
way of a liberal subsciption for Stock, and the
Road will no doubt be carried by Lawrence-
ville.—Atlanta Intelligencer, Oct. tilth.
We copy the above remark from the Intelli
gencer for the purpose of removing a very erro
neous impression prevalent in this county, to
the effect, that (he citizens of Atlanta desire the
Road to be located above Lawrence ville, no
matter bow liberally^they assist in the enter
prise. This is a great mistake, and wc are
glad that the Intelligencer which doubtless re
flects the sentiments of a vast majority of the
people of Atlanta upon this subject, remarked
that all we have to do “is to face the music,
in the way of a liberal subscription for Stock,”
in order to secure the construction ofthe Road
by their town. Even if the Company have
determined to carry the Road by Gainesville,
under any and all circumstances, yet it is un
doubtedly to their interest to make depots at
both places. The route which has been sur
veyed by Gainesville, from Atlanta, is some 56
miles in length, while this place can lie reach
ed from the “Big Bend” in the Georgia Road
in about 39 miles. This beinr true, we can
see no inducement sufficient to justify the com
pany in running 10 or 12 miles above us. Let
our people make one great effort at the ap
pointed meeting in November, aud the Road is
ours. This will be the last opportunity to se
cure such a blessing, and we cannot believe
that it will be overlooked. Tlie future pros
perity not only, of our town, but of the whole
county, depends upon the action of this meet
ing. When so much is at stake, will not onr
the people rally to rescue ? It is entirely to tin-
interest of every man in the county, that this
Road should lie constructed by their town.-
Whenevcr it is permanently located above us
—If, unfortunately, this should be done the
disastrous decline in property which will im
mediately follow, will cause us to regret, but
alas, too late, our present, and part apathy.
Lawrmccville Keics.
Atlanta.
We paid a hasty visit to the “City of Rail
lloads” during Fair week, and left it with a
much more favorable impression than we car
riod with us. Atlanta, despite the opposition
which she has to contend with from certain
quarters, is destined to become the <-it\ of Grot-
gin if not ofthe South. Intersected by railroads
from nearly every quarter of the State, and
surrounded by a fertile country, wliich is being
rapidly developed, she is possessed of superb >i
advantages. There arc several circumstances
tending to confirm us in the opinion that this
is to become a great importing city, and that
the time wilt arrive when, instead of carrying
tlicir money out of the State and building up
foreign cities, our country merchants will
make tlroir purchases in this market. Of late
years, but comparatively a small number m
our merchants have best -wed tlroir jiatronage
upon Northern cities. The crusade against
our domestic institutions having caused them
to abandon these markets, the greater portion
of this trade is now concentrated in a few
Southern cities. That fatal epidemic which
annually visits these places, about the open
ing ofthe summer trade, will certainly prove
effectual in directing the attention of mer
chants to some more salubrious point-, where
they can, with greater safety, make their pur
chases. I'o them, Atlanta offerssujicrior in
ducements. Situated in a portion of conntrv
remarkable for salubrity of climate and lYc •
from those fearful visitations to which tiro
seaboard cities are incident— having tiro ad
vantage of great transporting facilities with
a bright prospect of those being increased at
an early period, she is destined, beyond a
doubt to an eminent position among the
mercantile emporiums of tlie country. Men
of capital and energy are constantly locating
in the place, and are greatly aiding, both in
extending the circle of its business transac
tions and in improving its general appearance.
We noticed with gratirication the improve
ments being made in nearly every part of tiro,
city, and hope that these are but the foreshad-
owings of what is yet to be done. Old afTTl
uncouth concerns are being torn down, while
handsome and commodious buildings are ri
sing in their places. The mammoth and
beautiful building recently constructed bv
Messrs. Beach & Root, is an ornament to the
city, and does honor to its liberal and ener
getic owners. The public should and we trust
will show its appreciation of such useful aud
public spirited min by extm ling to them a lil>
era! patronage. But time forces us to firing
cur hasty article to a close.—iMicrcncrvilh
Xews.
From the Xew ( rl ans C.i sn nt. Oct.
Tlie Burning of t its Ben Franklin—T,os<
about $350,000.
The telegraph yesterday briefly announced
the burning ofthe New Orleans and Memphis
mail line packet Ben Franklin, above Vicks
burg.
I’apt. Clark and several other officers of the
burnt boat having got down to Vicksburg In
the steamer Arkansas, reached this city last
evening by the .Jackson railroad. To tiro
courtesy of the captain, we are indebted for
tiro following particulars of the disaster :
At three o’clock on Thursday morning when
tiro boat was approaching Ashton, about DO
miles above Vicksburg, smoko was discovered
issuing from the hold through the pump
holes, aft the boilers. The boat was at once
rounded to and landed, and every effort made,
to extinguish the fire below. Steam from tin-
boilers was turned into the hold; and the tire
pumps being manned, water was freely apjiii-
ed by hose through the forward part of tiro
boat, holes being cut in the deck lor tin: pur
pose. Atone time it was thought tiro fire
hail been got under; but this proving to be a
mistake, and the fire more unmanageable
than ever, after two or three hours’ combat,
with it, Captain Clarke determined to save as
much ofthe boat and cargo as possible, by tin-
last. resort of scuttling. ’Hie boat was seutt rod
but it failed to save her. At about seven
o’clock, the fire broke through tiro deck in
flames, and in the shortest possible sjuice of
time the boat was burned to the water's edge
with the whole of her cargo, consisting of
three thousand and thirty-eight hales of col-
ton, and twenty-live or thirty tons of bacon,
and other freight.
The boat was landed so soon after the dis
covery of the smoke from the hold, that noth
ing was lost but the boa! and cargo. ’1 lu
cre w and passengers numbered two hundred
altogether, and all got ashore with tlicir bag
gage and everything. Quite a number of la
dies were on board, and among the gentlemen
was senator Slidell. All the boat's 1 rooks and
papers were saved. Tiro manifest had not
lieen made out : but from tiro bills of lading,
etc., which (‘apt-. Clarke brought down with
him, the manifest will be made out and sub
mitted to the public to-day. The Unitul
States mails were put on board the Princess,
which boat will get down to-morrow.
The origin of the fire could not be account
ed for by any of the officers of the boat. Her
cotton was piled on the guards to tiro hurri
cane deck, stowed away abaft the boilers, and
a portion of it in the bold. It was from the
cotton in tiro hold that tiro fire started. Tlie
hatches were last open at seven o’clock tin-
previous evening; and the only lights ever
used in the hold, and used then, were glass
lanterns. No torches were used at anv land
ing during tiro night,tiro moon giving all tiro
light necessary. The origin ot the tire was,
lien-fore, and is, a perfect mystery.
The Bon Franklin was worth about seventv
thousand dollars, and her cargo worth about
one hundred and eighty thousand or one
hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Cajit.
Clarke was unable to give us any information
as to the insurance on t he boat . The Captain
and other officers signed a protest, which will
be drawn up and submitted to-day.
ftP A natural curiosity is on exhibition in
Boston, which is intended as a present to Queen
Victoria. It is a block of New Hapshire gran
ite, bearing on its surface tlie exact resem
blance of the top part of a tree or shrub, all
the lines of the foliage being clearly and per
fectly visible- It is supposed the sprig or
branch of a tree accidentally fell into a crevice
in tiro rock, which afterwards by the action of
the frost closed up’ and in course of time tiro
fresh green liough liecame petrified into solid
rock.