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WEDNESDAY Feb. 7. ^
"" The JB to trait Wreck.
We took, a day tfi lw<> since, p hasty trip
to the scene of this great disaster. „ It is
indeed a stupendous ruin, mid it will de
mand - , on the part of those who have charge
of the Stale Rond. an energy and talent at
no ordinary character to ropair the heavy
j An important decision* onthe right of
eoujfties to subscribe to rail road stock, was.
delivered in thesSuprame Oonrt- of Tenner-
see on i he-25 th ult. The opinion was, tho
eases of the Louievilld and Nashville Rail
Hoad Companies *vs. the County of Summer,
and
ainst the county
[For. tlie Atlanta Daily Intelligencer.}
Atlanta Medical College.
Without being in anyway connected with
the institution which it is proposed to estab
lish under the above title, but feeling the
deepest interest in the prosperity of our city
the same and other Rail Road Oompn- and a professional interest in the success of
of Davidson. It legitimate medicine at this point, I have
damage. The bridge cost originally about j affil-med tUe judgments below, decided in bought proper to address a few words to the
$75,000, and the timbers were about 16 vears j fav< ‘ r nf tho r ‘ ,ad 3 upon all the points raised medical men wlio are assembled here,
old. A contract tor the'entire rebuilding of i ih t]lC pleading*- Tlic decision gives to It is a humiliating and discouraging fact
tho structure was in process of completion j * ar Road Companies, one million dol-, ,n “ U enl «^tened country there should
V «... , L :_ i lars in the bonds of Davidson county, and t found a point where no discrimination is
settles the question of the validity anil eon-' made in favor of the regularly educated
stitutionality of County subscriptions iu ; physician, where the success of the patent
Tennessee to Rail Roads pill compounder arid nostrum inakeris ful
ly equal to that of the most enlightened and
and already 5 piers of an altitude of near
70 feet were fwisned. Wc ure pleased to
hear, from reliable quarters, that our first
intelligence of the neglect of duty upon the
part of the bridge keeper was incorrect, and
that lie was promptly upon the spot and
went through his usual tour of inspection.
It appears that part of the bridge was
so rotten, and from the long dry spell that
has for months visited all parts of the coun
try, so linblc to ignite that alarms of fire
were of constant occurance. In this in
stance the fire broke out among the lower
portious of tile bridge, and after it ascended
to the covering of shingles one might just
as well have attempted to suppress a fire in
loose gun powder. We may form some
idea of the terrible fury of the flame from
this fact: that the bridge caught fire about
3 o’clock, and by sundown not a stick of
timber as large as one’s wrisr was left
throughout the whole span of near 1,900
feei.
The present inconvenience to passengers
is not as great as we supposed it would have
been before we visited the spot. We saw
the up train with the passengers and bag
gage carried round by way of the ferry in
about one hour. The freight trains have
not ceased running, as usual, from this point
to the present terminus at the bridge, and
from thence the entire distance up they will
run from to-day.
Freights will be passed over the river
from this date by way of the ferry and the
ford, and it is thought highly probable by
some that the wagon bridge may be used for
tliis purpose during the week, but this to us
seems altogether impossible. We have un
derstood that contracts have been closed for
the transportation of freights across the
river, including the unloading and replac ing
the freight, for 5 cents per 100 lbs, and for
the conveyance of passengers, 50 cents each,
including ferriage.
The Superintendent has already had fin
ished turn tables on both sides of the river,
with the needful sidings, and a large amount
of the timber necessary for a wagon bridge
for the transportation of freights. This
bridge will be finished by the first of nest
week, it is thoughi. but we did not sec how
hands enough could be put to work on such
a structure to finish it with such dispatch.
If the bridge should be erected by that time
it will be highly creditable to the manage
ment of the Road, and passengers will then
experience a delay of only about 20 minutes
and freights will be kept back not more than
24 hours. Of course the facilities that the
old bridge would have supplied to the con
tractor in the erection of the new
somewhat modify the contract and, we sup
pose, increase the expense, yet the entire
cost of the new work, and a far better one
than the one it replaces, uill not, we arc in
formed, cost more than §70,000 The point
that will excite most remark, and probably
the most opposition, will be th
The Fi rst Locomotive.--It is stated that
the
conscientious physician, who lias spent years
first locomotive ever seen in the United : under ^ most f avora ble circumstances for
States, was purchased in Liverpool, Eng- j the acquisition of knowledge, in the honest
land, by Rogers, Kctchum & Grosvenor, of; and laborious investigation of disease and
Paterson, in New Jersey, for six thousand its remedies, but who finds himself con-
dollars, and used by them as a pattern. ‘ stantly outstripped in the road to fortune
She had ten wheels on engine and tender by the man, as unscrupulous, as ignorant,
drivers ineludid, which bear but little re- ; who professes to cure all diseases with a
semblance to the present locomotive wheels.
She was regarded as the ne plus ultra of
tiie present age, both in style and strength,
and iu 1828 was used on the Paterson and
Jersey City Railroad. Recently she was
sold to the Carrollton Branch Railroad of
Ohio.
single remedy, or to determine the character
and proper treatment of all the ailments to
which the human body is subject, by ana
lysing one of the fluids of the system, the
component parts of which, in health or dis.
ease, or their bearing for good or evil, he
knows as little about as of what is going on
A resolution has been passed by the U. * n t ^ ie moou -
S. House of Representatives calling for all! ^' ve would ever hope for a proper appre-
our diplomatic correspondence with Spain, ' cintion of honorable and intelligent devotion
England and France, upon the Cuba ques-1 10 ^ ie prevention and treatment of disease,
tion, not heretofore made public. The Pres- 1 we must be united in the support of all the
ident is said to be ready and anxious to sub- i means by which the science can be advanc-
mit the correspondence. ed. And in this particular, there is no
— — j point where a more entire sacrifice of every
is stated in the New "iork Post thing personal for the general welfare is
that Ex-Gov. Seymour, of that State, Mr.
Mason, the Commissioner of Patents, and
others, are interested in a ease now before
the United States Supreme Court, invol
ving the title to a tract of land containing
120.000 acres in Iowa. Their ownership
has been upheld in all the courts of that
State, and it is expected for twenty years,
will be settled in thei favor in a lew days.
Carroll Copper.
We understand that II. T. Read, of Car-
roll county, shipped yesterday five and a
half tons of copper from this city, for New
York. The copper was taken from the Car-
roll Copper Mines, and is said to be the first
shipment of auy amount thus far from Geor-
gia.
Theatrical Statistics In California.
Theatricals have flourished the last year
in El Dorado, we conclude, from a statement
we find in a San Francisco paper. Wc take
the single example afforded by tho Metrop
olitan theatre in that city.
Under the management of Mrs. Catherine
A. Sinclair, who has made a financial state
ment of its history in 1854, we find that the
gross receipts of the year were §390,499 ;
averaging §32,542 per month—or SI,035
day. On the occasion of the benefit for
more imperatively demanded than in Atlan
ta.
As one of the most important means for
diffusing correct medical knowledge, istitu-
tions for teaching the science stand promi
nent. And while the Medical College
which it is proposed to establish here, may
not be all that we would desire, I would
simply say, that for myself, I am content
“ Not to despise the day of small things;”
and in this remark, while I would not be
understood as reflecting upon the present
organization, I do mean tc admit, that there
may be an improvement upon the present
faculty, and that there will be I earnestly
desire and believe.
Let us, however, give a fair trial to those
who have been appointed, if found to be in
competent, they will either retire or be laid
aside. That there are some who will sus
tain themselves in a highly creditable man
ner, all will admit, it may be the case with
others who have not yet made for themselves
a reputation.
Let us discard all envy and jealousy, and
show to the world that wc are, as we ought
to be, competitors only in the energy which
per clay. Un the occasion of the benefit for j ™bring to the advancement of our noble
rhe Firemen's Charitable Fund, the receipts ca *ling, as a means for elevating the profe-
were $5,000. Upwards of fifty stars have ! sion of medicine in this whole region o
played engagements, including Anna Bish- j country and for placing it in a pr jper posi-
op, Barney Williams and wife. Murdoch, i t; on before the public, and as giving anoth-
Auna I billon, the Bateman Children, Cath-! • . , , T »
>ne wU ] j erinc Hayes, and others. Barney Williams ; er in H ietU8 !° d ‘ e Wnty of our city. Let
| took most mouey, after him come the Bate- us a *‘ sustain the Medical College,
man Children, and third ranks Madame A Physician*.
i Thillon. By the season Mrs. Sinclair has I
■ netted from ten to twenty thousand dollars. |
She continues in her managerial capacity
I another vear.
the tariff of freights
on passage money,
should he is tho ques
be some additional el
and the extra charge
What this increase
i -a : that there should
urge iu both rates, we
General report gives out that on the 22d
barge in j of December not far from Odessa, more than
300 foot soldiers and several Jewish carters
Counterfeit §50 Bile.—We were yes
terday shown a counterfeit §50 bill on the
branch at Augusta of the Bank of the State
of Georgia, which was stopped at the branch
Bank here, where it was offered for pay
ment.
It was passed upon a citizen of Sumter
think, admits of no question whatever.
Stale Agricultural Fair.
We have taken occasion recently tu call
the attention of the citizens of Atlanta to j
the importance of an early and vigorous, •
effort to secure the holding of (he next fair j
at this point. In a pecuniary point ol‘ view |
this thing must be a matter of groat conse- !
quonce, as the competition is always very i
active among our
ing of the 8
some estimates of the amount of money
that is brought to each State Fair by
visitors from a distance and it is highly
perished in a snow storm. The causes of ] county, in this State, as he states, by a Ken-
death were the want of adequate warm ! tucky horse drover.
clothing, and the sudden set in of a frost, j The bill is defective in many particulars,
and it is also said that tlie wagons and teams ! but a neat enough imitation to deceive a
bad gone on before the men. who were thus i careless person. It bears date Oct. 19,1859,
left behind, and as the soldiers had on wet | and payable to bearer, and is signed by A.
clothes from the previous rain, they froze | Porter, Cashier, R. B. Cumming, President,
into a crust of ice when the frost began.— The vignette is a female holding a cleaver
They looked about for a bridge but could ( in her right hand, her left resting in her
not find an}*. The day after, groups of fro-j lap—at her feet a sheaf of wheat and a
zen dead bodies were found, and between j scythe. In the distance a locomotive cross-
29 and 30 men lay in each heap. { ing a stone bridge over a stream. The plate
J is not artistically executed.
The Use of Coal in England in the thir- We arc requested to state that there are
teentli century met with great opposition. | no bills issued by the State Bank with such
The slaveholder has been so constantly i
misrepresented and so grossly abusetLiimt!
it is believed it may be useful to give a
minute statement of the ge ieral condition
of slaves, that ignorance may no'longer be
an excuse for misrepresen ailon. It is often
asked, by way of reptoach, do yota mean to
perpetuate slavery in the United States?—
THURSDAY, FEB*’8.
1 ’'- ■ ' lr *'
MaMaelMuett* Senator.
[For the Atlanta Daily Intelligencer.]
Jfr. Editor: We want room in your paper
to express ourself—we want to demur^-to
cCorrs-spondenceof tho AtteariLtfeily Jntrlligeoaer. L
' Sew York AAtin.
- New York, Feb. 2, 1855.
"The Bay State Legislature has, tq a moat - —~ ------ - Winter has been running through all his | jngJo
. . . J ™ . - . , .complain—in fact to disapprove. We are > . ■ . - • v n ,v Cw tho nnat wb*v ! Springfield early last week, on
signal manner, expressed its sense• of the , ^Lj-ornnhaticaRv "ZLd.” We are variations in New York for the past week.
It has snowed and snowed, rained and rain- members
ed, blowed and blowed, and froze and froze, ! ty,‘ and almost a quorum of other
.. . _ _ t towards the South, evinced the most virulent
IliU is a question upon which we can make j state of feeling in regard to Slavery, by the
aa8wer » ai »d have nothing to say., election of Gen. Wilson to a seat in the U.
, - , _ . , , i grieved—emphatically “ vexed.” We are
duty it owes to the Union, and as far as the j a edj bored) impo8ed on _ vet , we must
h#can ttagwhght yt,jwr.ft^e^pcdiqr | tread liglltly and ^ k e the impeachment
softly. What we want to write is this—we
THe Train Wmked nthvPmN
3SO Passengers in Pern. ***n
Advices were received late Saturday
ing to the effect that the train which j f* 4 '
Springfield'early last week, on
which were the Speaker of the Hou *
»rs of the Legislature from thi ^
ur cities to secure the meet- 1 A lecturer upon the subject, in Boston, says j a vignette. We believe there is such a one
Society. We have seen ! its use was prohibited by parliamentary on §200 bills of the Bank of Augusta. All
| law, tinder the impression that it produced the bills of tbe denomination of §50, payable
j disease. All milder punishments failing at the branch here, are payable to G. M.
| to stop its use, a law was passed making it
j a capital offence to burn coal. In the reign
probable that it is not an extravagant allow- | of Edward the First, a man was actually
ancc, to say that ten dollars for every visi- ! put to death for using it.
tor changes hands at any one meeting of The Washington correspondent of the
the society. Lei ihi.i bead it may, the in- Xcw York Times states it as a remarkable
fad that Lieut, Hunter lias previouslev
been twice dismissed the service, once dis- j
tlux of those once blessed messengers of
plenty and big feelings, that dim tradition
now and then speaks of to aching pockets j a . 1 *?. Kod ^ iC s q ua< h’°n, six times court mar- ;
, , -, , , , * . . , tuilled, and once before a Court of Incrairv. :
nerves, must be considerable and we tlunk t T „ «. , • ,, , ^ , , ‘r '
.... , , j He was first dismissed by General Jackson
»o considerable as to he worth} ot our high- j j u [S30. for fighting a duel with one Mil-
cst ambition. M lien wc secure the holding j lor of Philadelphia. Subsequently he was
of the next meeting here, then we go for ; restorid. During the Mexican war, it will
the permanent location of the State Fair at i 1,0 remembered, he was tried by Court Mar-
this place. But one at a time. * ! tial and dismissed from Perry’s squadron
1 lor disopedmnce of orders. Soon afterwards
The “Diamond Light” is the name of ;l | Jud ge Mason, then Secretary of the Navy,
new article just patented in Now York. It I S v ®. 1,m tho comm , and f. tha ^ey ™ the
. , 1 „ . . , „ Mediterranean, and on his returnc lie was
is the manuiactui'c tn a kind of oil, to be j dismissed for some alleged offence. Sub-
burnt in a lamp made especially for the | sequently, Mr. Fillmore was induced to
purpose. ’Tho Journal of Commerce says: reinstate him, and he was put in command
“We have tried the lamp and oil, and of tlic Bainbridge, with which vessel he
have found them to be all that is promised. ' returned from the Brazil station, because
The light is equal to that of the lies! sperm ' Commodore Salter did not see fit to send
oil; and being so much cheaper, wc see no
reason why it should not have a great run.
The oil is made from rosin, and cannot
explode. It is a real oil. and not water I fi*g“Thc Shipping Interest exhibits great
looking like caniphene and burning fluid. | depression in every port of the States.—
Newton, John Phinizy, Samuel Hale, or
bearer. Mr. A. Porter was not Cashier of
the State Bank in 1849, nor is there such a
person as R. B. Camming. Mr. Geo. A.
Cumming was some years ago President of
the Bank, but Mr. A. Porter is now Presi
dent, and Mr. I. K. Tefft, Cashier. They
have held their offices respectively for about
six years.—Comtilidionalist.
him up the Paraguay to interfere in Consul
Hopkin’s quarrle, and now he is dismissed
again.
We shall sojourn there for a time, and then
_ _ r embark for Stockholm, to visit darling Miss
The cost at wholesale is only 50 cts. a gallon. I The supply of ships is greatly beyond the i Bremer. By way of Denmark and Holland
need. The New York/Vice Current states j we go to Paris to be present at the fetes of
that a large number of new vessels in the thc Exposition. In the autumn we visit
ship building districts of the Eastern States I England, Scotland and Ireland, and return
are laid up for lack of employment. The 1 t0 America, via New York, after an absence
builders cannot sell them. Current rates j nearly one year,
of freight arc not remunerative. Greate
Britain seems to he in the same condition
as respects the mercantile marine. It is
only steamers that are in demand. The
California trade with New York and thc
Tour of an* American Lady in Europe.
—Mrs. Le Vert, of Mobile, accompanied
by her husband, has just started on a sec
ond European tour. The folllowing is her
programme:
“ After leaving Mobile for Havana, we
tarry until 12th of February; then embark
in a Spanish steamer for Cadiz, then to
Madrid and Granada to behold the pictures
que ruins of the Alhambra. At Malaga we
again take the steamer and coast along the ' ventilated hospitals, infection is _
shores of Spain to Marseilles, whence we I more fearful work than the enemy’s incur-
hasten to Rome, the ‘Eternal City,’ to assist sions, or the cold and exposure of a bivouac
in all the ceremonies of the Holy week.— I on the battle field. The great accumulation,
After visiting all the large cities of Italy, j says the Times' correspondent, of dysenter-
we sail for Sicily, pay our homage to Mount ic and diarrhoea cases, seems, notwithstand-
yEtna, and then proceed to Greece, to Smyr- I ing every effort at ventilation, to have thor-
na, and Constantinople. From thence we • oughly impregnated the entire atmosphere
go to Vienna, through Germany, Prussia j of the hospital; wounds almost refuse to
and Poland to St. Petersburg and Moscow. I heal in it. The healthy become affected
We meant at present to keep them in a
state-of servitude, and, to provide for their
wants. Whenever, the time comes that their
labor is net needed, or may be superseded
by any other labor, He who permitted their
introduction among us will provide for their
removal, and use the ways and means best
suited to His great purpose. The popula
tions in all Europe are disposed to neap
abuse on American slavery, and to boast
that they have no such thing as slave
ry. Let us enquire, for a moment, if this is
true. In passing through the towns in
England you will, in different streets or
stations, observe a soldier with musket or
bayonet, standing or walking a few steps to
and fro, day and night; now this is only
one of fifty thousand, whose duty it is to
obey orders as a slave obeys them, without
being allowed tbe least discretion or liberty.
He cannot leave his post or barrack, or
be absent on tbe most urgent occasion, with
out permission. There are many laborers,
mechanics, and manufacturers, who think
they do not receive a just compensation for
their labor. This man of the bayonet in
forms them by his presence that they had
better be quiet and earn their wages;
this man is not only a slave himself all his
life, to a despotic law administered by a
despot of almost unlimited power, but is
willingly employed to suppress every act of
the people that indicates liberty and free
dom of opinion. Let it be rememembered
here that the labor of every man and wo
man who earns bread is required to furnish
the means of his subsistence and clothing.
Now, whatever is true in England of the
military surveillance of the people, is espec
ially true in France, Austria, Prussia and
Russia; we will, therefore, inquire how
many of these defenders of liberty and the
people’s rights each of the Five Powers own.
We will set down England at 50,000 for the
island; 500,000 India and the colonies;
France, 500,000; Austria, 500,000; Prus
sia, 121,000, and Russia 700,000. Added
together you thus have a standing army of
2,370,000 slaves, who are not only absolute
slaves themselves, but willing to keep others
in the same condition.
But if the Southern States require any
thing to stimulate them in their great enter
prise, let them look at Spain. Two or three
centuries ago, the most wealthy and power
ful nation in Europe; her agriculture neg
lected, she has now no surplus to send
abroad, save a little wine and fruit. Let
them look at Turkey. At one time so pow
erful as to threaten the overthrow of west
ern Europe; now so poor as to have no re
sources for the defence of her national ex
istence. Her fields are exhausted and worn
out by neglect and bad tillage; she has
nothing to export but figs, some fruits and
oil, and some of the light wines of the
Grecian archipelago. To conclude this
most unsatisfactory address, let the South
ern people keep before their eyes the fact
that there are no worn out lands in Eng
land, France, Prussia, Belgium, Hollander
Switzerland, and that these are the strong
and staple nations of Europe.
I am, gentlemen, most respectfully your
friend and servant, WM. TERRELL.
Sparta Ga., Dee., 1854.
Condition of thc Allied Army.
T'ie facts which we publish to day, con
cerning affairs in the East, are calculated to
startle those who have hitheroto believed
the great Allied Army of invasion was yet
to return under the banners of victory,
moro horrible condition of things could hard
ly be conceived. The army is not only
without plans and without discipline, it is
absolutely on tbe verge of despair. Every
thing seems conspired to insure its speedy
destruction. Officers have lost their spirit,
provisions and clothing fail, the foul at
mosphere of Crimean bogs and infected hos
pitals are finishing the work.
This is no fancy picture. It is drawn
from, innumerabl and welle authenticated
facts before us. “The army and its mana
gers at home and abroad,” says one, dream
rather than live, in any waking or active
sense of the word. They feel, and see, and
hear;—they even speak and intend, but do
nothing. It is so from the lowest to the
highest.” Another, writing under a tent,
says even of the fresh troops that they ab
solutely despair, become reckless, cease to
prepare their food, go into hospital and die.
It is, indeed, a state of things, unhappy and
humilitating as it may be, now confessed
by all. Paris, London and provincial jour
nals alike are tilled with the afflicting de
tails. Various are the causes assigned.—
Some ascribe it to mismanagement, some to
chance, others make severe reflections upon
the military capacity of people, the fame of
whose arms once filled thc world. All,
however, agree in tliis: not half the brave
men sent to thc Crimea will ever see their
homes again. The chances are now that
the army will be entirely destroyed.
The miserable condition of the poor
wretches in the hospitals af Scutari is best
calculated to arouse our pity. The records
of history do not, we venture to assert, fur
nish a solitary example, that can be com
pared with this. Never before was so great
an expedition undertaken with so little
thought and provision for the sick and
wounded.
Crowded together in ill prepared and ill
doing
S. Senate. If we had not long ago lost all
our respect for the authorities of that State
and been forced to regard her people as
among the most unscrupulous, lawless and
selfish on the earth, we would say that it is
matter for serious regret that a common
wealth so honored by its antecedents should
have fallen so low in the scale of social as
well as political repute as to fill Edward
Everett’s place with such a venal Swiss as
this man Wilson. No seat has been too
high for his presumptuous ambition nor
any place too dirty for him to pass through
in reaching the goal of his desires. Let no
man or people after this boast from present
advantage or position. From Webster, Da
vis and Everett to Wilson implies a transi
tion so extreme and violent as to outstrip all
will “ state the case:”
and melted, and muddled,- and puddled, and j the clerks of the two Houses, & e ., w J
spattered, and soaked, and, in abort, played imminent peril. Crp n
“.“T 1 w the disagreeable to alL but boys who have a About forty miles from \Viln,i ngt
It is the fashion for a number of wealthy i . ° J , ., appears the train came to a snow j’-”
1 passion for snowballing, and boys and girls, a {£ nt fifteen feet deep . Xhe i oco n ^ r H
younger or older, smaller or larger, who i n g nearly out of water, the ent>in„‘ Ve ^
2 w 'rr , T i run mad for a sleigh ride over pavements a ~i
the city and smilingly and patromsmgly ; ^ and
enter every store, and then, and there un-
t-he latter.
conductor proceeded to. the next
get a supply, when, on arriving, tu? 11 ’
was found to be frozen, so that the err 1 *
could, not return, and the passenger^-'
— in number—were left to pass the ni»ht
mu ms I Inexpressible is the contempt with which ; n g out of fuel, tho first onslaugh w as •
. . i a real country-bred individual, with bis upon the emigrant cars, the seats of whit
mammw nil fitni-Ml- wl+t tha mow-r ftlH t.imps soon fell into the hands of the victors, viel]^-
answered the purpose. Next the’ want ^
the inner man claimed attention, and
tack was made upon thc express car j 1 ;'
a substantial share of spoils in the s’h a ?":
oysters, cn route for the crusine of hi, p
cellency Governor Matteson.
When morning broke, the party f 0
themselves alone upon the deep, but
a house some four miles distant, aa
True the ladies who thus beg for the parson’s
iueas of change or decay. We are free, per c hj] dl . eil generally have 'Zone of their~0MJ/i ! S reat scra P ers tiirou S h d,ese streets of Goth -
fectly so, to say that we do not, in the least, ! am.
Son, or the South.—This valuable con
tributor to thc agricultural press, for this
month is upon our table, and presents, as
usual, a series of excellent articles. We
commend to the attention of all our farming
friends who arc disbelievers in “Book Farm
ing’’ to read thc chapter on “Corn Cobs.”
It would be worth in fun more than a years
subscription to the “Soil” to hear some of
the doubters that wc know, comment on this
same article. W e notice that some of the
Doctors arc out on our Mr. Peabodv for iiis < 11 .
, . , ■> ! A man cutting down an old tree near
heterodox notions about tlic value of Guano. : the Cape May Court hous, discovered tbe
W e tiro on Peabody’s side in thc argument, j remains of o nmu that are supposed to be
We arc exceedingly curious, however, to ! those of a Mr. Smith, who disappeared here
hear Mr. R. Peters, of our c-itv, on this sub- i I® r - V strangely some sixteen years ago.—
The. Philadelphi North Americh says:
From facts which have come to light, we
arc inclined to think the number of desti-
i „ Ilvl tute persons in the city to be over 25,000,
Australia trad*" with" England no " ioneer i as a11 the society organizations have many
employ a large amount of tonnage: the sur- j mo ^ e applicants for relief than we _ previ-
plus tonnage is so large as to depress freights.
ject, for in our opinion, the experience and
judgment of no man in our State would go
farther to settle lliis point than that of Air.
Peters.
Thc New York Post announces upon |
“pretty high authority” that the Kinney
Tho over coat and boots still remoisaround
the skeleton.
like the sick, and the heavy smell of pesti
lence can be perceived outside the very
walls.
It has been suggested that a portion of
those poor wretches be removed to better
quarters at Malta and Gibralter. Tnc prop
osition is received with favor, but no ener
getic movement is made to carry it into exe
cution. The disasters that have already
befallen, and the final catastrophe that
threatens to befall the entire army, once be
lieved to be invincible, seem to have paralyz
ed the minds and energies of all. Not only
the living in the tents before Sebastopol, but
the wounded in the infected atmosphere of
Scutari, are left to die and to rot in their
ously calculated. The greater portion of Hi I
this poverty is of foregin origin, a fact j gory beds, without hope and without pity.—
shown beyond denial, by all the statistics j Savannah Georgian
which have been gathered. j —
[From thc Augusta Constitutionalist, 6th inst.]
Fire.
On Sunday evening about half past elev
en o’clock, a fire broke out in a small wood
en tenement in an Alley just below Centre
Boston*. Feb. 3,- J’he furniture factory of | street, leading from the lower end of the
Joseph L. Ross was damaged by fire this 1 P^^et to Reynold street. The surronnd-
morning to the extent of §12,000. Insured ! buildings being of wood, at one time
for §4,000.
New York, Feb. 2.—Tbe Paris corrcs
fears wore entertained of a serious confla
gration. Fortunately, there was but little
wind at the time, and supplies of water be-
Expedition lms been projected for the r.ur- ! P ondent *bc Commercial Advertiser says ing convenient, and our firemen promptly
1 1 J I tliof T<mnri Rnilorl irnni Huvrfl with I al. a \ i
pose of establishing a convenient basis for
future operations against Cuba. The new
territory, it is thought, may form u - nvc-
uient rendezvous for vessels to be lit; out
and equipped for the invasion of any neigh
boring territory, without fear of violating
any treaty stipulations or encountering any
of the embarrassments which have spoiled
so many fillibustering expeditions from the
United States within the last five vears.
lion. W T. Colquitt.
It is with unspeakable regret ilia
through a friend, of the low state of health
of this noble, gallant man. Sueli spirits
only visit this earth at long intervals, and
their departure leaves forever a void in thc
hearts of those who know and love them.
If prayers, earnest and f rom the heart, can
avail anything in lengthening his lien of
life, as many will be uttered for Walter T.
Colquitt as ever ascended for the behoof of
one born upon thc soil of this common
wealth.
that the Union sailed froin Havre with her j a t their posts, the flames were soon *arrested
| hold and cabins full of freight, and only a : a n d the damage done was hut trifling. From
I small number of second class passengers.— i what we can learn we believe this to have
; During her stay at Havre efforts were made ' been an incendiary attempt,
tu sell her to the French Government or to ! Anotfcer Fire,
tiio new 1 ranco Spanish Trans-Atlantic , Between two and three o’clock, yesterday,
j Coinpauy, but site was too small for either. | we had another alarm of fire, which prowl
j Washington, Feb. 2.—The Anti-Nebras- j to be in the Engine House of the Georgia
j ka members of Congress contributed liber- j Railroad Company. It was soon put out,
; ally towards the payment of tbe fine of | and but little or no damage was done to the
; §1,000 imposed on S. M. Booth in the U. S. I building,
j Circuit Court at Milwaukie, for aiding in j Still Anotber.
thc rescue of a fugitive slave from thc effi- j Last evening about half-past eight o’clock
j cers. a firo was discovered in the Cooper shop of
■ arn ! The Zanesville, Ohio, Courier states that j Duff ey on the corner of Campbell and
on Sunday last, as the Eastern train of cars ! E1,ls 8te * ^ discovery was made in time
was passing through tlie tunnel at Cam- to save any dtunage, but it was evidently the
bridge one of the forward wheels caught' work ? f an incendiary, as some Cotton sat-
against a post that supported the roof of the 1 Camphene or Turpentine was
tunnel, tearing it away, and causing a large I ^ und t “? own . amon K s ?“ e shavings m the
quantity of rock to frill upon the baggage j ^ur city authorities should be on the
car and one of the passenger cars, crushing | alert ’, and 8hould closely scrutinize every
them to pieces,
injured.
Fortunately, no one was
A proposition is -about to be intro
duced into the New York legislature to close
all barber shops on Sunday.
New York, Feb. 3.—The U. S. Mail
Steamship Marion, Capt. W. J. Foster, ar
rived at her wharf in this city at half-past
9 o’clock this morning.
Congressional Wit.
The late Pacific Telegraph Bill seems to
have called forth all the humorous talent of
Congress. On Wednesday, Mr. Richard
son, who had been a strenuous advocate of
a grant of two millions acres of land, see
ing that this rode the bill too heavily, him
self moved to strike out the donation, reserv
ing only the right of way. Mr. Benton
said:
The striking out of the land beats the
snake story all hollow. The man said he
had seen five hundred snakes. When this
was doubted, he came down to one hundred;
then to fifty-six; and, finally, to twenty-five,
when he would not fall another snake.—
[Laughter.] Is not this making sport of
Congress, sir—are we to allow ourselves to
be treated in this manner ? This is sport
ing with legislation, sir. If a man attack
these schemes, they fall in their demands as
tbe man did in the number of his snakes,
until they get down to nothing, sir. “Brag
ging” I have seen before—but I never play
ed the game. It is an outrage, sir; and I
denounce it as such. [Mr. Benton spoke
with great earnestness.]
Mr. Richardson. 1 alluded this morning
to a conference with the gentleman from
Maine and myself. On this statement the
gentleman from Missouri gets himself in the
position of the boy who said to his father:
“Hold me or I’ll do something terrible.”—
“What will you do my son ?? “I'll rush out
and pull a board off the pig pen.” [Laugh-
ter.]
sympathise with those of the Southern press
who bemoan this last conduct of the State of
Massachusetts, nor do we in the least share
the dread of those who regard this event as
ominous of ensuing and increasing difficulty.
We. shall feel no patriotic pangs either
when Seward is returned to the same “ au
gust body,” and still less when that prince
of charlatans and political rogues, Sam
Houston, allies himself with the incendiary
squad. For all this must either kill or cure,
and then we will be taken out of the cate
gory of lingering deaths that has distin
guished every phase of our abolition ex
perience. We of the South have never
been exactly anything at all, in all we have
said or done by way of defending ourselves
against the most daring, unprovoked and
degrading oppression that was ever heaped
upon a people. And if our artful foe will
only continue to “ make haste slowly,” and
do one thing at a time, they may yet live to
see the day—and that day may not keep
them waiting long either—when Seward will
have more than his friend Harry Bald
win to back him up in his fight for “ aboli
tion everywhere.” We say this thing of
war on the South must cure itself, one way
or the other, either by wearing itself out or
wearing us out. And, as all the Southern
schemes we have yet had for organizing
countervailing measures in our behalf have
rather helped than crippled the enemy, sup
pose we leave the whole matter to them, and
it is not impossible that out of the love of
change that characterises New England pol
iticians—male and female, we may have a
party organized after a ich ile y upon a pure !
pro-slavery basis. This is about as likely, j
we think, as that any effective policy wi !
command the hearts and arms of all our 1
own people in defence of our dearest rights, j
Every thing is now so dull that we look ;
forward to the prospect of the exhilarating j
storm that Wilson & Company will raise |
next session with the joy of a “ Mother |
Carey’s chicken.’’
and influential ladies, members of some one
of our churches, once in a quarter to canvass
covered with a composition of mud and
plore,Tolicit>~urge,*beg,"pout, TmileTflatTe'r j “°^ an ? P ftrt8 of the former * 0ne ° f
and unmercifully annoy every dealer in
rags to give something to the parson and his
family: and with a woman’s energy persist ,, , ... , .. .
... V . , . , ? o j memory all stored with the merry old times
till tlie poor brow-beaten, dumb-toundod . t . A , J ,
, , 1 . , , . „ , musical with the ringing of merry bells and
clerk, smarting under the conscience ol low . , ° , , „ .
, . , . . merry voices, and the merry laugh ot the
wages, reluctantly gives something nice, . , . , ’ „ . , ,
, , . • , girls and boys of yore, all radiant with the
when perhaps his own mother and sisters j ° . . „ , J ’ , , . . „ .
have to remain from church, (or- hear only ! sh,mn S °f thc ™ ou ’ and J th ® Bhming of the
homespun preachers,) for the want of dress- t stars ’ and the shm ' a S of the frofd \ a th . e
ing sufficiently stylish to sit in a “ pew” au > aud the snow ’ dee P’ wmte and ubK l ul '
with the parsons family and his elegantly t0U9 snow-inexpressible is the contempt
and fashionably dressed congregation— °, f these old sleighriders of thc past for aU b ? died corps of sappers and min*,
these simple and multitudinous riders on j dispatched lor a little aid and comfort.
The house proved to be the residence of
. worthy farmer, who forthwith loaded l:
to engage their affections. Their course re- j . ....... . i teams with fuel and provender, and took')
the women and children. A couple (l f
tlemen took a conveyance across to ifoS’’
twenty miles distant, where they struct >}
Rock Island train—some few others start'
on foot for Pontiac, ten miles distant^
a greater share remained at the scene of |
aster.
When last heard from, the Speaker of
House, axe in hand, was presiding over
wood-pile—the Chairman of Banks and ;,
corporations had under consideration aaa .
bank 15 feet deep and 20 miles in extent!
clearly a bank of “ deposit.” The (C
mittee on Internal Improvement wered.
patched after minee-pies and sandwich*
while the lobby, “my Lord Coke” fo:
Chair, had resolved itself into a Commit ■
of the Whole on the State of the Countrv
Air. Farnham, on learning of the circus
stance, dispatched a locomotive from Jolj,
with provisions, to the train, but we do;
learn whether it reached them or not.—(;
cago Journal, Jan. 29,
minds us of an old saying, “ robbing Paul i To the rehef of a11 ™ tl0nal en '
to pay Peter.” We doubtvery much if one 1and the poor jaded horses, this
of these Christian ladies would move the ! cha P ter of snow y w,uter was shftrt aa a11
ample folds of their rich brocades to make
room for one of these same clerks to sit in
her own soft and comfortable “ rented
pews” to hear the word of life.
If a preacher with a guaranteed salary,
double the amount of any clerk in this city,
cannot live in comfort, we would suggest to
levy a tax of ten per cent on the extrava
gant dress of the members of his own
church, if that fails to meet his wants he
would be prudent to “ go West.” At any
rate it is bad taste to" importune out aiders
in the way complained of by
A Clerk on Small Wages.
From Washington.
Col. Kinney’s expedition, so far, has called
for no interference, and the President has
not issued a proclamation.
Tlie Nebraska Legislture was organized
on the 15th, and officers chosen favorable
to the Administration.
The Senate passed the Bounty Land Bill,
and then took up the French Spoliation
Bill.
The House passed a bill for the relief of
the Georgia Railroad & Banking Company.
The consideration of the Tariff Bill has
been postponed until the 13th inst.
From Havana.
The steamer Cahawba arrived at N. Or
leans on the 3d, with dates from Havana to
the 1st inst. The news is unimportant.
Hon. Junius HUlyer.
The friends of Mr. Hillyer, says the
Washington Union of the 1st inst., will read
the letter below with regret. He has prov
en himself a faithful and efficient represen
tative of the interests and sentiments of his
constituents. His resolution to decline a
re-election will, therefore, be received by
them, as well as by sound national men eve
rywhere, with regret. His letter is as fol
lows *.
Washington, Jan. 26, 1855.
To the people of the 6th Congressional Dis
trict of Georgia:
It is proper that I should make known to
you at this early day, that
I decline a re
election to the next Congress.
x . ,, , .. . . , . , , I desire to retire from congressional life,
Now all the agitators have their muzzles | and to resume the practice of my profession,
dipped to the eyes in federal pap and are as With the consciousness of having dis
quiet and gloating as sows over their swill, j charged my duty to the best of my ability,
When the process of digestion makes way j both to you as my immediate constituents
with “ French Spoliation ” stealings and ! and to tbe country generally I shall retire
i ^ , An . .j i r i.u 1 m Y pleasant home not only without one
eaves the aching void ready for more, then ! regr ^ but with unraixtd sat f sfac tipn ; and
look out for the slicings that may come if I should live a thousand years, the grate-
for our share. We are watching and 1 ful recollection of kindness and confidence
waiting, as if we were .only passengers in i uniformly extended to me in relation to my
the leaky old ship.
Be Always Polite.
The value of this maxim is about receiv
ing a very forcible illustration in the person
of the new King of the Sandwich Islands.
His drunken Father it was said favored the
scheme of annexation of the Islands provid-
politieal aspirations, as well as my profes
sional and social position, will be the last
emotion that will pass from my mind.
Junius Hillyer.
New Abolition Scheme.—In Senate,
Thursday, Air. Seward presented the peti
tion of one Harvey Baldwin, asking for thc
final abolition of slavery, provided it be done
ed his annuity was made large enough to ? on sistently with the rights of slavery, and
, ,, ic- ° in duty to the slave, lie proposes that a
8a b p Y 8 ro £ and fixings. But it seems p 0rt j on 0 f the territory lately acquired from
that the young King, Kamehamcah III is ; Mexico be set apart for colonizing the Afri-
inexorable in his hostility to the States, be-' can race in this country and that the pro
cause he was insulted on a sound boat in j ceeds of the public domain, including the
going from New York to Boston, by a refus- 1 m ’ neia l ureal th of California, and other ter-
a| .f .he company .hat we a. *. .o allow ! ^ °°’
his embryo majesty to sit with them at i
table. : Health of Mr. AIason*.—A letter from
Tbe Atlanta Bank Geo. Smith. : Mr. Walsh, in the Journal of Commerce,
In conversation yesterday withh an intel-! Paris, Jan. 18th, says:
i- ., e T „. . . . . | Our worthy Almister, Air. AIason, is con-
ligent gentleman from Illinois, we inquired : Talesce „t. Iiis mind has not been affected
ot him as to the standing of the Atlanta ] } y the paralytic stroke experienced in his
Bank in the West. He replied that the | left arm. A member of my family con vers-
bills of the Atlanta Bank were readily taken j ed ’with him yesterday in his chamber. He
and considered the best paper money in cir- I cheorfulf ^ 1U '
culation in that State and many portions of j J
the adjoining States. “ Geo. Smith,” said j Washington, Feb. 4.—John B. Aliller, of
he, “ has been know so long and so favorab- j New York, has been nominated to the Sen-
lv in the West, and his credit is so high j a te as Secretary of Legation at Peru, vice
among the people that his money goes read- Marriott resigned.
- t> ' Collector Redfield, of New York, has not
ily anywhere. Besides, the people know intimated his desire to be re i ie ved from the
that he can make more money by doing a I duties of b [ s 0 ffi ce . Such rumors are false,
legitimate business and preserving his cred-1 all reports to the contrary notwithstanding,
it, than he could by breaking, even if | Air. Pleasanton’s successor, as Fifth Au-
he were disposed to do so.” “ The show of j ditor > has been . nominated, though tlie name
opposition sometimes attempted to be made : bas not been d ^' u ^S ed -
against him,” said he, “ is gotten up by ri- Washington, Feb. 4. Lieut. Robert E.
such periods usually are here in this lati
tude, and under the breathing of the sea.—
As one of the more serious consequences of
the snow storm, a large number of boys who
amused themselves by throwing snow balls
at the heads, hats and bonnets of sleigh-
ridors, found their sports broken off and
themselves in tho hands of the police “ be
fore they knew it.” Thc rumbling of wheels
has once more returned and dry pavements
are becoming quite abundandant. Evident
ly New York is not a good field for snowy
operations.
Going down Duane st., yesterday, I found
tlie street was blockaded with women trying
to gain entrance to a building. It seemed
to be full and about 300 were crowding and
jamming each other to get in. Each wo
man had a basket and many had babies al
so. Thc place was the office of 6th Ward
Relief Association. Many seemed to be
complaining that they did uot receive what
they ought to, and were treated unfairly.—
I looked in vain for the face of an American
woman ; all were Irish and German, look
ing hearty and healthy. It is to be feared
that soup houses and relief associations are
inducements to the lazy and thriftless to ex
pect relief and depend upon them for sup
port.
Hard times—no work—what shall we do?
—is still the cry. Notwithstanding gift
balls, and gift concerts, and soup kitchens,
and aid associations, and individual chari
ties of all kinds, in all the ten thousand,
ways of being benevolent*from those dona
tions, when the left hand knows* not what
tho right hand doeth to those when the
trumpet is sounded loud and long before—
notwithstanding all that is now done for the
poor, in this fashionable time of giving,
still the cry comes up on every side for
more—more. Many, not only those of the
poorest sort, but many a family which has
“ seen better days.” Wives and children of
professional men, of respectable and educat
ed men, have been brought to the very doors
of starvation, not knowing how the next
morsel of food would be obtained. Yet,
flooded as we are with the offscouring of
European beggardom, burdened as we are
by so many who will not work if they can,
even miserably live without labor—there is
danger that charities so called for and given
with the best motives, may be turned from
their proper channels so as to minister to an
evil they are designed to remedy. There
fore benevolent people in the country, to
whom such suffering as is observable to such
a pitiable extent around us in all beyond
what they know of the pressure of poverty,
should be charged, if they are moved to
give of what the Lord hath bountifully giv
en them to relieve the poor and unfortunate
of our city, to give wisely, and give your
funds or provisions to those who will see
that they accomplish the object designed.—
The Society for the Relief of American
Widows is one that discriminates carefully,
and that finds many of the starving who
are too proud to beg. The Children’s Aid
Society is another agency by which the de
serving poor can be reached. If you know j
any individual in the city who lias a good j
name for works among the poor you can j
make him your almoner.
We have among us a gentleman lately ar- j
rived from England, whose fame is known |
in every part of the world. Our readers ;
PROCEEDINGS OF COUNC L. '
Council Chamber, Atlanta i
February 2d, 185o! I
Council met—Present Hon. A. kelson Ji a -.
Aldermen Kile. Glen, Farrar, Strong, Thomp’.-
Barnes, Baldwin, Powell, Wright, Darnall; pi
minutes of last meeting were read and confine
A communication was received, fiorn I.
Thomas and S. B. Hoyt, Esq., asking Council'
make provisions for a room in which to hold J-
tice3 Courts .J| and the same was referred tu -
committee on Public Works.
His Honor the .Mayor read a letter nddre-o
officially, to himself, from the secretary of t h,V
eeutive, committee of the Southern Central A~
cultural Association, making enquiry conee:n_.
the holding of the same in Atlanta &e.
It was then moved, and carried, that the ilav.
appoint a committee of mine for the purpose
receiving subscriptions from citizens and Frieri
for the purpose of securing, the said fair attL
place.
His Hon. appointed J. Glen, I. 0. licit
iel. A. Gage, J. A. Hayden, H. Aluhlinbrink,'
B. Daniel. Wm. Markham and .1. Korcross, E,v
that committee.
On motion a committee was appointed, cons,
ing of Aid. Barnes Darnall, and Glen, to corse-
with the executive commmittee of the Atlantak-
ou the subject of securing the S. C. A. fair.
The Commit tee on Finance, reported bills tor
amount of 8100,73 cents, which wore ordered
be paid.
The Committee on wells, pumps &c., rep.-r,
that they had made a contract with \ir. R. Lv.
to keep the wells and pumps in order for ;
month.
His Honor, the Mnyor announced thc foliuuL.
Gentlemen, members of the Bonrd of Health:
tho present year.
Dr. T. M. Darnall, Dr. Joshua Gilbert,
Dr. C. Powell, G. B. Haygood, Esq.
Dr. W. F. Westmoreland,
Tho petition of S. T. Downs, for a retail lice,
on Whitehall street was laid on the table, then--
ing a counter petition, also, presented by either
that section of tlie city.
O.i motion, the attention of the street, coima:-
was called to the condition of the extend-:
McDonough street.
Council then took up the business of ductingtl
additional Deputy Marshal as provided for a
meeting of Council, and after casting the first-s
lot the Mayor declared E. T. Hunnicutt, elected.
Council was then adjourned.
H. C. HOLCOMBE, Clerk.
MARRIED.
In Macon, Ga., on the 30th of January
Judge C. Cook, Mr. I. B. Pilgrim, to MissM.
Cash, all of Atlanta.
COMMERCIAL.
Atlanta, February'
Cotton.—5i@7L extremes.
Exchange, on New York is selling at per!: -
premium. On Charleston and Savannah ;
cent.
Bacon.—We quote hog round It) to 101. Bji
12to 12A cents. Sides Ribs 9* 10 cts. Sides cA
10 to 11. Shoulders 10 a "01 ce nts.
Lard by the bbl. 10@101 cts. leaf.
Iron, Swedes 5i to Oie; English 5 to 5] cer
Nails have advanced to 6 a OJ cts.
Corn is selling at 90 to §100.
Corn Meal, 90 to SI,10 ceuts.
Pork, Hog round, 61@7 ceuts.
Beef, By the quarter, 6 5i cents.
Sweet Potatoes, 60 to 75 per bushel.
Irish Potatoes, 2 to 2} per bushel.
Salt, Liverpool sacks plenty, §2,(5j$2..
. _ _ ( Liquors.—French Brandy, $2,50 to SS.ik;-
will not bo taken by surprise when they! gallon: Domestic 50 to 75c. Peach do. 6Ci’
learn that we allude to Prefessor Hollway, cents. Whiskey 45 a 50 cents. Gin 50 t„
val banks and their paid newspaper organs,
because the immense capital Smith is able
to bring into his business overshadows them
Johnston, of the Navy, died suddenly at
Wilmington, Del., to-day. He was a nephew
of Mr. Joseph Gales, of tlie Intelligencer;
also of Mrs. Seaton. He was distinguished
completely and they would gladly get him j for his energy and activity in Wilke’s Ex-
out of the way if they could.” i ploring Expedition.
We learn that Mr. John Lomas, of Brook-!
lyn, N. Y., is preparing for publication a | Evening^says:
memoir of Louis Napoleon’s residence in Tho lnarkel
New York. A curious article on this sub
ject was published by Mr. Lomas, while ed
itor of the Brooklyn Advertiser, two or three
years ago; and judging from that specimen
of his personal recollections of Louis Na
poleon’s adventures in this country, some
curious revelations may be expected.
The Next
New York Money Market.
The Journal of Commerce of Thursday
Fair.—Thc last Columbus
Times and Sentinel says :
We regret to state that owing to the
financial wants of tlie city, the Council have
determined not to bid for the next State
Fair. Twenty fiive hundred dollars were
The market is still well supplied with
capital, and rates of interest are in favor
of tlic borrower. Thc banks however, have
paused in their expansion, in view of tho
prospective shipments of specie. We do
not see how our financiers can expect to re
tain here all the receipts from California,
which are coming forward at tlie rate of
over §50,000,000 per annum. Tlie banks
have all they can profitably use, and there
are large sums in circulation. The exports
of specie from this port since Dec. 1 are on
ly §200,000 against §4,977,533 for the same
time last year, $1,927,984 for the two mouths
ending Feb. 1st 1853, §8,537,193 for two
months ending Feb. 1st, 1852, and $2,475,-
041 for the two months ending Fob. 1st,
1851; so that it will be seen that there has
raised by private subscriptions and it only
required a donation of §1,500 by Council to been a check to the specie exports such as
secure the Fair. It may he proper to add : J ias not witnessed since tlie close of
, . f .. . I the year 1849, a period of hve years. The
m explanation that, by the charter, a limit recen t arrival of gold has nearly all been
is fixed to the taxing power of Council, and
that all the money that can he raised will
be required to meet the current expenses of
the year.
Og densBOltG, Feb. 2.—Teams are crossing
the St. Lawrence river on the ice, for the
first time this winter.
deposited for bars, and can all be shipped,
with twice as much more, without drawing
too closely upon the banks.
The §1,000,000 received at our Sub-Treas
ury from Boston in the last few days, but
Drug Ftorf.—The attention of readers n °t heretofore included in the balance, is
n.w advertisements of J. !
M. Raima, .ur. Rantin has a fine stock of e d in to-day’s receipts. Fifty thousand dol-
Drugs, Chemicals &c., sells cheap, adver- ! lars were paid in to the Treasury to-day, for
rises, and is just the man to give satisfaction a transfer draft on Mobile.
who lias, by the most undomitable perse
verance, succeeded in making his name so
widely known that there is scarcely a spot
on the globe where his medicines are not
to be found. He is a great traveler, and a
man of general information, having made
an enormous fortune, far exceeding any
thing of the kind attained, either in the old
world or new—by advertising. No man
certainly understands the use of the print
er’s ink so well as lie does. He has been
introduced at almost every court in Europe,
frequently banqueting with thc Princes.—
In England lie keeps an establishment su
perbly fitted up and equal to a nobleman’s
mansion ; although iu New York he is liv
ing in very great retirement, being constant
ly engaged in making extensive arrange
ments, with the view to the additional pub
licity of Iiis remedies in this country, altho’
we believe he now advertises in 1300 papers
in the United States.
Tho Governors of New York, Connecti
cut and New Jersey have lately made a
survey of N. Y. Harbor, in view of some
legislation which shall protect it from the
encroachments of piers or any other oh
structions.
The topmost question in New York poli
tics at the present time is whether W. II.
Seward shall he returned to thc U. S. Sen
ate. This contest has one novel feature that
is in being all about one candidate. It seems
to stand Seward against nobody. The mail
from this city to Albany, encouraging and
discouraging, intimidating, threatening, and
of all sorts and hearing, in all directions,
upon the minds of weak-minded and waver
ing representatives. The Tribune has large
hopes that Seward will be re-elected, but
this new Know-Nothing element confound:
all calculation. But we shall know the re
sult sometime ; and as the canvass is limit-
Enm 45 to 60 ceuts.
Wheat.—Good will bring to $1,60 per k,
readily.
Flour.—City Mill from $4J to 5 per bundp:
Butter, Country, 15 to 20 cts. Gosiieu. *5
per pound. Tenn. Butter, 10 a 15 by tbe He.
Fair N. 0. Sugar, by hhd. ri-
Prime « “ “ jji-
Choice “ “ “ ,
Syrup, N 0. by bbl. 30 to 33 cts. gab
Extra Whiskey “ 45 •* “
Star Candles per box 28 “ Ik
No. 1 Rio Coffee by sack ll| to 124 “
Gunny Bagging 16 to 17 cts.
Rope 12 to 13 cents.
Chickens, 15 to 20 cents.
Eggs, 10 to 12J cents.
Fodder, 75 to 100 per hundred.
Peas, $1,30 to $1.40
Feathers.—40 to 45.
Candles.—Sperm 37 o 45c. Tallow 20
AUGUSTA, Tuesday, P. Y
Cotton*.—Thc demand continues lair, and prior
firm without change.
Net.* Orleans. February,-
Cotton.—The mnrket is unchanged. Salt: •
000 bales.
New York. February2
Cotton.—Cotton is easier on the spot, but -
clined Jc. in transitu. The sales are 2.C00 bs.fi
Middling Uplands 9 cents. Breadstuff: are c.
changed.
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
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say ANNAH, Feb. 4.—Arrived, brig
Tollman, Now York.
CHARLESTON, Feb. 6.—Arr, H'br Elw-
Allen, Thomaston, Me. Cleared, Br ship
White, Findley, Liverpool.
Arrivals at the Trout House.
Eeb. 6, 1855
D II Williams la
J T Marwrove Ga
R P Lesten do
J Coulson Tenn
A Austell Ga
W .1 Russell do
D K WilliamR G R R
J McKinnon do
It D BurkcttS C
W Randolph,
J B V Sales G K R
i> ti Attaway Ads Ex
G Haydens Ga
J L t'rano. I-> . ,
Capt S McMorns. I ' J
Capt A Gibbs, do
H R Morton. Md
B B Boweu X1JV
R M Robertson. At*
H T Hitchcock. t>»
J Swann, Ala
T A Royston S MyM
H Snow S C
A J Jack-on Tenn
W Y Skinner Ga
J J Dunagan .U«
to his customers. Give him a call ?
Foreign Exchange is nominally slack, hut ? d ’ and . outs * do °f ^Y s s coach ot. a city
there is very little coming forward from the * n ma king out election returns, it might be
! South. We notice the first large clearance
Lieut. Hunter.
This amateur fighter has been dismissed | of domestic cottons for some time for East
from the navy for leaving his place in the J Indies, by the Messenger Bird for Anjier,
Brazil squadron without leave of his supe- ! yesterday, consisting of 2000 bales drills
rior. We sided with this impulsive gentle- 1 “.iK® 8 sheetings, together amounting
man in his Alvarado difficulty, but now re-
fleet that here, this young “Rough and i Louisville, Jan. 30.—There was an in-
too Ready” was in fault, and that he then ’ t ? ns „ e excitement here tojday on account of
Perpetual Honeymoon.—The Albany
New York Knickerbocker states thc follow-
ing:
The husbands in St. Louis, Mo., arc mod
els. The St. Louis papers complain that
married men sit in church with their arms
most tenderly around their wives, and sug
gest that “ it distraots the attention of the
I lookers on from the preacher.” Fare to St.
th ^’ q ?fc Gadad ? > »:/ > g|F ounded, . and A h ?, *1 g or e ed Sder. ? PutS^mbl£i2?Sri!. excellen ‘ i
needed salting down to take the fire out of L the ferry-boat, for the Jeffersonville and Cin-
him. | cinnati train, with 200 passengers, becom
ing lodged in the ice in the fells this mor-
safe to predict that we should know after
the election who is the winner.
ter to Mexico, has been negotiating for still
greater territorial acquisitions to accoramo-
aate the Southern Pacific Railroad, includ
ing the whole of Chihuahua, Sonora and
Lower California.
around her in such a manner that for some
time it was thought all on board would be | Louisville, Feb. I.—The Galt House ho-
lost. Finally, however, all were rescued j tel caught fire last night, and two rooms
e . ^ l *® boats, lhe boat, it 18 thought j were destroyed. The damage resulting
will prove a total loss. from tbe fire and water is about $6,000.
PURCHASING AND SHIPHNG
COMMISSION MKRCHAMj
MEBCH:
T HE subscriber will faithfully pureluif> ' ^ (f
transmit by Railroad, or other court 1 .'
bis patrons, Provisions, Groceries, &e.,■ a = ‘ (S j
to order. He may be addressed in AU*
found ut the store of Messrs. Whitney ■* ^
REFFERENCES.—Jos. S. Baker,
Rev. D. G. Daniel, Thomusville, Ga- ^ ^
Ruttorford, Jr.j.Araericus, Ga.: Dr. c *Atlanta
Athens, Ga, and any respoet»hleoito c “
Atlanta, Jau. 29., 1S55^ 4*^.
_ FOR RENT.
T he Store and fixtures under the Trout®]
House: suitable for a Shoe. DO jpi
Goods, Clothing, Grocery or Drug
Possession given immediately. S33- antler*
office at tho Trout House or at A. Ate , .
Drug Storo. Feb. 6, 1855.
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BOOTS! boots:! j,..
|^CApS Meu,aml boys’^Boot* now.w 8 *£j [0 aB*