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-- -. ■' .,”.• ■' . *.’-ivV‘ * V.;^yr =K. TUESDAY, MAY 22. v =~= A» Edltoj.lrf1.Mli. Our friend, F. ^Hooper. Esq.,-author of “ Simon. --Sugge,” and other humorous sketches, and editor of the Montgomery, (Ala.) Mail, invested a V in. Swan’s Ala bama Lottery, which was drawn last week. The following is his own account of the re sult: In Funds.—As some of our eoternporaries have mentioned the fact, that the editor of the Mail had been favored by Fortune, in Swan’s Lottery, Glass O, we see no reason why we should fail to make our acknowl edgements publicly to Mr. Swan for convert ing the quarter ticket 9970 into something available. This pleasant operation was per formed to-day, the editor acting by proxy— lest so unusual an amount, without an in termediate handling, should shock his ner vous system. It is our first luck in life, and our brethren, who have curiosity in the premises, are assured the sensation is plea sant. Apropos.—The ticket was one of a parcel bought with some contributions of ours to [Kromyhe Philadelphia American, AlnytT.l : same ponsivenesa in the midst of animation, . Napoleon hi. and kagente | perhaps arising from the same cause, the Dublin, April 27.1856. j childishness of an otherwise envia|ji}e union. , The gues&; and-.their welcome will' form ‘ ; -- “ 1 " * ~ JT ^|| WEDNESDAY MAY 23. a' chapter in the romance of history, which the men and women of the future will read with amazement. Let ns look at their an tecedents. Louis-Napoleon was an exile from infan cy. He had not the advantage of a - father’s care, and was the spoiled boy of an unhay- pv mother, who, in her compelled obscurity sighed after court-life. He was the second son of Louis Bonaparte—the younger bro ther of Napoleon the Great—and Hortense, daughter of the divorced Empress Jose phine. The father, the least ambitious and most honest of his race, the mother, as fascina ting in manner and loftier in intellect than Josephine. The marriage was concocted by Josephine, in hope that the offspring might satisfy.her husband’s longing for a successor, and avert the dismissal she after wards sustained. It was as ill-starred in all else, as it fa'led in effecting her desires. Swan’s Gazette; and we rate ourself high i On the steps of the alter, husband and wife in the literary market,' having received j loudly proclaimed their mutual aversion, $1,875 for two or three columns, [For the Atlanta Daily Intelligencer.] Swut’i Lottery and Exchange Office. How they take Mr. Stephene’ Letter... This probably is but a passing sorrow s . The first morning that, this letter made its with Hie Empress; for the report wins that i appearance in Atlanta in o«r columns it the stag huntatSlough, ^Tuesday, was > wa9 a rich stud for t h ccmld keep not joined by the Imperial indy, lest eaues- . _ . , ■. trianism, for reasons known in all well reg- ! a ° d watch how it operated.— plated families, should be detrimental to the | Like the “-laughing gas,’’ this ugly bolus probable, prolongation of the line of “the produced very diverse and contradictory new Sesostris, who born no king, made i effects upon the Know-Nothing patients that Certainl^hedcoks everything that 1 wer ? ^.,* u |p h ifc ’ & P? n th « inktant his impassioned assailant in 4i Napoleon 1c ! 80016 admitted its fine purgative effect and Petit” describes; and not all the 'circum. ! declared they felt much better, and spoke stances of splendor surrounding him, not j so hopefully that their anxious friends arc all the romance of his life, and not all the j greatly relieved and we now expect that effect which such considerations produce 1 •« .. , upon the most phlegmatic and philosophic S! f th£ * wlU / be so as to be about.” of minds, could deprive his countenance of a on other hand have proved its indefinable but unmistakable repulsive- hard to move, and such is their constipation ness, in it is disclosed no one trait of at- ■ that, until the pleasant season in October, tractiveness, indeed, the absence of trait we do not look verv confidently for their is the only decided trait about it. It is e , . , , perfectly expressionless, whether in anima- ***** rcstorat *on. A good many wo re gret to say, are “ goners.” A Dr. Dawson ■ml A. H. Crifiltt. The Columbus Times & Sentinel of the 19th informs us that Mr. Colquitt foels'him- r»elf obliged to decline are-nominatio»hyhis party. We have for some regard ed this point as settled, ana being well ftd- •viaed of the ob***®!* 8 in 4,16 way of hie occu pying the post the party so much desired him to accept, we have concurred with our friend in the propriety of the course he has determined upon. Maj. Colquitt retires from active political service, after having necured as large a share of the public confi dence and respect as any man of hie age who ever served hh State. In the first rilace, he evinced a tact, an industry and Ability, in his first canvass, that took the country by surprise, and we believe we only irepeat the universal opinion of lower OeqsgjAgWhcn we say that the happy results •if our Smte election ft 1853, were, in a very eminent degree, attributable to the efforts of Maj. Colquitt in the 2nd Congressional Dis trict. His party, and his friends of all par ties, are abundantly satisfied with his j utewardsbip while npon duty as a represen- j rative of the State, and while we offer him our most cordial under his oppressive 22? ! »■>> «*> “ «• «•**. tasty and pre , ; HeS„a» JESS I »" d * f «“ *» his right to the sacred retirement of his home i tiest esta Wishmenr in Upper or Middle utterly incredible. tiun of the immortal deeds of his uncle, by pat top first.’ They talk so incoherently under present circumstances induces them i Oeor g* a: y° u Yrill And, also, all the latest | Louis was about seveu years old when j virtue of whose name the nephew is what j that we fear their reason is clean gone— torelinnuish their elaim nnon him esneciallv i and most popular newspapers—from every j the first allies visited Parris. Ilortense j he is. that they really know nothing. These un- atThTm* ^ especially Qf ^ Vniria _^J m file had delighted in the education of him and I Be^eenthetwmen there is not the ; fortunate cases, now in a “galloping” de- at this time. .. : his brothers: she wished to remain. But • smallest facial or physical semblance, and 0 , ,, ** . Letter from the Hon. A. H. Colquitt, j which, if leisure permits, yon are invited to ; g j ie compelled to depar\ and settled, ] certainly as fair as externals are concerned, ‘ c * mo > sa J t “ a * Stephens letter will inevita- Messrs. Editors:—From the action of : peruse ad libitum, “without money and 1 w jth her children, at Constance. While : there is much coloring afforded by Louis tably lead thousands of Democrats into the county meetings and from other sources, I i without price.” The Office is open daily there, an incident occurred which is worth i Napoleon to the popular scandal which j Know-Nothing ranks, because that letter (Sunday except) from 7 o’clock, A. M„ rill ; being recorded. ; assigns has paternity, not to the King of j con t ra dicts the long standing opprobrium --- -- ! He was about twenty, when one day Holland, but to a Dutch skipper, with an : , , , walking in mid-winter on the banks of the unpronour.cable name, and of whom Hor- ! (I ^ Rhine with his cousins, the Princesses Jo- i tense was said to have become enamored. mat u was a ‘ « nig concern, sepliine and Mario of Baden, the con versa- In the configuration of the head, there is But this manner of dealing with the case, tion turned on French galantary in the some sinii'arity between Napoleon the First j will not answer, for Democrats reply that so middle ages. The Princess Marie pro- and Uiird, and the sparseness and quality j p ar f rom this letter disproving one of their nounced au extravagant eulogium on the ' of the hair favors tho likeness. But in the ■ - ... - - - tion or repose. His face is a blank or rather a blight. It i had been around here treating some of these may have been capable of conveying some ! very malignant cases, and he has so botched i and invoked memories of other lover etern- j expression some time, but that time has ma tters that we are left without hope—their 1 to separate them. They soon realized ' gone by, and now it really expresses noth- i tl ^ sof „ We knew th were t re . S their wishes; they separated. ! in K- The eyes are dead: the complexion ; • . , ; . , b ' Hideous slanders assailed Hortense in i livid : the mouth, even when smiling, inan- j cover ?> even ln the mosI 8al *“ u l hands, but Reader! have you visited Swan’s Lottery ) the first months cf her marriage, and ascri- | imate ; the muscles of the whole face at j we did hope that they would die as poor 9 or 10, P. M., and offers to the “ weary traveler,” who may chance to “ lie over ” for a day or night, and to the perplexed and care-worn merchant and mechanic, the best opportunity for intellectual recreation im aginable. In short, the >• ending Room lhave reason to conclude that the members »nd friends of the Democratic party desire xny rc-nomiDation as a candidate for Con gress in this District. I take this method of communicating to them that I cannot be a candidate. This announcement I have with held for some time with the hope that I xnight, in the end, bo able to comply with rheir wishes. Recent domestic afflictions have imposed upon me other duties, and to tally disqualify me for an active, political contest. To my friends who have supported me with so much cordiality, and who desire to give me a new proof of their confidence, I return my thanks. I shall never forget my obligation to them for their partiality and JcindncsH. With respect, Your obedient servant, Alfred II. Colquitt. Something for Farmers. We called a few days ago to inspect a machine for crushing corn in the cob, now offering in this city by Mr. Isaac Me. Cooke. After a careful survey of the construction nnd capabilities of this machine, we feel that we are doiug a service to our friends in the country in calling their attention to it. The advertiser warrants this mill to crush 10 bushels of corn on the cob in one hour, i The citizens generally are invited to be and we think, from what we saw, it would present and witness the operation. do so easily with one good mule. This is } 0 u • tho work for the smallest size, which costs j Arrest of Lewi* Baker. !$55. The advantages of the “Little Giant” i . . . Tuesday, April 17, 1855 - e -- - r — e i ■ ,. , , . c .i i j 'charges, it really proves another, that is, connected with the establishment is a desid- of chivalry she praised the devotion . aces themselves, and even m he foreheads | ° Whigs hereabout really have , , , , , , , ; of the kniahts whose rnuito was“Dieu. mon '■ the most acute physiognomist could detect uu - ua»uuu», eratum long needed here, and we hope our ro - ^ ( j anH an -j whose allegiance no j no trace of identity of blood between the heretofore regarded Mr. S. as the IVhi citizens, of all classes, will show their ap- danger and no sacrifice could shake. Louis \ relatives. I parly. This is worthy of note only so far as preciatiou of the liberal and tasteful pro- Napoleon asserted that the French bad not ' _ The Italian element is altogether wanting j it records a confession that in theestimation prietor’s wish to provide for their happiness. ! degenerated either courage or gallantry, :n the present Emperor, who is much mor? | 0 f the old partv friends of Mr Stephens the by a frequent rceort thereto. | '™"™ - hi 6 hl J j i oburge was uol a .lander, ai hue be« so ax c* i .1 , i as their fathers. taiercalled between the tiger and the monkey, < Mr. Swan has recently accepted he man- j .2 Devoti „ n ,., he exclaime d, “at no period i than was the great Corsican, whose antique agement ot the tort Gaines Academy j 0 f t j ie world has failed a woman capable of j beauty, scarcely less than his deathless ex- Lottery,” the drawing of the first scheme of | inspiring ft.” As he spoke, they arrived at ploits, universali-ed his portraits and busts, which—with a capital ot sixty thousand dot- j a spot where the Necker fallsinto the Rhine, i by rendering their production a labor of barsl—will take place at Crisp’s Athenaeum on Thursday next, (the day on which the great battle between the Wise-men and Know-Nothings of Virginia is to be fought,) under the superintendence of Messrs. AY. M. Butt and A. B. Forsyth, who have been chosen commissioners, and sworn that it shall be fairly and honorably done. The drawing will commence at 9 o’clock, A. M. The sea at the confluence of these waters is i professional love to the artist as the finest always rough, and in winter, especially, dan- | subject they could be employed upon, gerous. A violent gust of wind at the mo- i There were, however, placards circulated, ment detached a flower from the bouquet of j and proposals made, by the “red refuges” the princess. “AVliat an excellent opportu- j for “treating the usurper, oath-braker, truant which this once idolized, diminutive “Little nity for an ancient chevalier,” said the young ; massacreer, and trampler on the liberties of j Aleck” now excites. But for all this, as we girl saucily pointing to the poor flower France, as he deserves”—that gave some ^ A K N , ^ nol>1 Before the which, carried off by a rapid current, had uneasiness, and made the services of both i J ,u already almost disapeared in the whirlpool, London and Parisian police pecossanly on | | et ' er ’ tlie P art y boasted that their B tren e th often retorted, but. that it was really well- founded. The Atlanta K. N.’s we are con strained to say, bear up manfully against this heavy blow, inflicted by the little arm of “little Aleck.” Little Aleck it is, now, indeed, with many of them, and the less the better. How bitter is the association of ideas already almost disapeared in the whirlpool caused by the meeting of the two rivers. “Ah ! my cousin,” cried Napoleon, “this | is a challenge—well, I accept it,” and in a j moment, he leaped into the river, and was diving manfully after the truant blossom. ! The princess, her mother and the attendants were petrified with horror at the danger he i the alert. And Lord Palmerston caused a communication to be made to the chief re fugees, that if any disturbance were created a short bill would pass through parliament, removing the whole of that class from Eng land. The impression, however, is, that Napol- ! ran; but Lmis in a few minutes regained i eon owes liis escape from any attempt upon the bank with his treasure, and presenting j his life, more to Eugenie than to Palmer- it he said: “Here is your flower, my charm- j ston. It was impossible, they say, to exe- ing cousin. But for God’s sake,” he added, | cute the threat contained in the following Y circulated, while he sat . , • «, , . . Last night at 12 o’clock, the wind being crusher consist in its being easily removed | fresh and % low ; Dg from the North for these- lrom place to place ana set up by the aim- > several days, it wa9 proposed that the bark plcst and Cheapest arrangement of three flat j get under way and stand off and on to be ' ^gldTg! and^ I handbYlT, widely 'cTrcul logs or pieces of scantling, and also in its j ready to intercept the Jewett in case >he mt ” ts » letus hear no more of your knights 1 beside so lovely a being, durability. Duplicate piece# of the mill ' wiould make the land b> daylight. *' e iofold” " S “England’s Disgraci i i in - ii,-v weighed anchor and stood for the Island of can always be had to replace those parts of j TeJ f eriffe . Sunrise , tacked ship and stood t that may be broken. We have now in j f or harbor we had left. Discovered a brig under the land, standing for the town. Soon made her out to be an American brig: j conf , pired with the republicans. * I ma e a l sail an soon pronounced her to be j> 0 p e was too powerful, supported bv Austria, j men of France, and paved his way to pow- had a narrow escape from assassination in tho Tonhniin .invcnfi. At ^ ii e was banished—fled to Bologna. His I er with the oorposes of unoffendjng men, | t he evening of the 28th ult., while on his our office specimens of the corn and cob meal, and also samples of grits made by this mill, which our friends may see by calling. At any time or with corn at any of old.’ Louis Napoleon was in Rome when the revolution occurred, which made the “Citi zen King” ruler of France. The shock of that revolution was felt in Italy. Louis But the IIumiliation.- sace— The Real Day -Louis Napoleon—the in Georgia was prodigious enough to carry tho State heels over head and over every thing else—that it was 17,450 at least. In a few days, only a few, we learned the inte resting fact that this host had gathered like the “Locus,” and that they were 42,000 strong in the State. But since the letter of Stephens we hear to our dismay that these children of the underground regions, ac tually number 72,000. AVell our notion is, that it may be so, but when the true count comes to be taken we shall find that like potatoes, the best of this army will in more shall not have fulfilled my mission, I run no [ times, it has been less vigorous, it Was, danger;” - ; doubtless, for other reasons than want of powder and shot. A French correspondent writes of it, “The fortress has hours of vivacity perfectly indescribable, and mo ment of repose that are difficult to explain.” Sebastopolmust, of course, be taken, though it cost a million lives and rivers of gold, and murderer, the oath-breaker, the destroyer of | senses than one be fouud to be underground. the French and Italian republics, who brib- j : : ed the soldiers to massacre the peaceful cit-1 Farther Details by the Baltic, izens upon the Boulevards, exiled the best j France.—The Emperor of the French the Isabella Jewett. At 8A o’clock we over hauled her, about 81 miles from and directly price, our experience has been that a boiler j opposite the city. AVe hailed her, fired two lor cooking ground corn and a mill easily ] guns, lowered our boat and boarded her, handled, cheap and on the spot, are among j and arrested Lewis Baker. the most valuable economisers ou a farm.— j, I^ e was seen . at *- 5e wheel from our ship T h<we who hive never tried a<> we nrofess ' before we S 0t ,nto our boilt " Aud beforc Uioao who have never tried a. we profess , we boardcd the bri be left the wheel and to have done, and thorough^ the saving wetd ; nto the oabin> not having the leasfc that is secured by grinding and cooking j suspicion who we were aud intending to brother, Napoleon, defeated there, died sud- i denly. The news of the death of the one, j and the critical position of the other, reach- j ed Hortense—she hastened to Ancona, and i | succeeded in rescuing Louis from the Papal and Austrian authorities.. They escaped to France in disguise, and so secretly that Hortense was the first to tell food for stock, especially for hogs, can form but a faint idea of what is thrown away by the old practice. During the present scar city of grain we learn that close experiment s have been instituted for aacertaing the per centage of saving in feeding corn to horses ground npon this mill with the cob. saving is said to be fully one-third, were not prepared to hear that it amounted to so large a proportion, yet wc felt sure, from the first, that any farmer who worked five ploughs could give the price of the small sized mill and find a decided saving in so doing.. AYe intend to prove our faith by our work.-, and shall, at the earliest op portunity, start one of the “ Little Giants ” to work for us. leave by the first opportunity that offered itself. He took all the money he possessed, being $100 in gold, and put it in the fob- pocket of his pantaloons. lie came on deck again and went forward to look at us. AYe boarded the Jewett about midships; jumped on deck, (the Captain standing in the waist.) T be i One of our number, being selected by us as ! spokesman, asked: e ■ “Are you the Captain ?" lie replied, “ Yes.” AYe said, “ Lewis Baker is on board of your vessel and we want him.” “ Lewis Baker ?” replied the Captain : “ there is no such a man.” women and children—is coming to England, j way to join the Empress in her usual ride Englishmen, do your duty.” j on the Champs Elysees. The Emperor was Wsacim-ett* Tre« S o»7 i accompanied by two officers of his house- •m. . r> j ~ ,, . , . i hold and when near Barrione de rEtoile tie The Boston Post says of the new tack of ; was approached bv a well dre3sed man vith the K. G. parry to defeat the Fugitive Slave j the action intimating a desire to present a Law in Massachusetts: \ petition. lie advanced within live or six , The details of the bills show alike the j paces of the Emperor, who did not observe Louis Phillippe of their arrival. She wrote j enormity of the hypocrisy and the extent ! him, when he was discovered by a police- to him : “I am a mother. There was but i of the treason. Its twenty-three sections • man. As the policeman was proceeding to- one way I could save my son—come to i go minutely into the preventive process.— j wards the man a cab was driven rapidly France—and I have come. I know the dan- j Attorneys who serve as counsel for claim- ! !>etween them, and, in the interval, the in- gers we run ; my life and my son’s life are ! ants of fugitives “from service or labor ”— j dividual drew a double barrelled pistol, and in your hands. Take them if you will.” I the words of the constitution—are prohibit- ! aiming it point LlankattheEmperordis- Louishad fallen sick. The mother begged j ed from serving in the State courts: any j charged both barrels without eftect. Im- a few days’ rest. A week was granted on ' police officer, State or municipal, or mem- condition of keeping the strictest seclusion ; j bers of the volunteer militia, who shall aid then they were to return to their old Swiss I in returning “ any person, for the reason asylum. { that he is claimed or adjudged ” “ a fugi- Louis had never seen Paris, for, when an j tive from service or labor,” is to be punished infant lie had been borne away from Alysee, j by one year’s imprisonment in the State anniversary of j prison, and not less than one thousand dol- ! Garibaldi’s army; and he was in London From the window of his Mars fii.e ; the volunteer militia shall net ! while the Emperor was making his visit.— mediately he was seized by the police but not until he had drawn another pistol and made a second attempt to shoot. It is said that one of the balls grazed the Emperor's hat. The would be assassin is an Italian named Pianozi. lie was a volunteer in his uncle’s death, hotel, in the Place A'endome, the column ; act any manner the rendition He w-ould have made the attempt on the life of the Emperor there if he had not been prevented by the concourse of people. The Emperor proceeded with his ride and visited the opera in the evening, where he was greeted with immense outbursts of loy alty and enthusiasm. The Emperor decided to receive the for mal addresses of congratulation on his es cape, though an exception was made in re gard to the British residents in Paris. The Corporation of London had also prepared i . • j wuuis Phillippe ofi’ering to live in France as j solemn oaths they took at the commence- an address of congratulation. i a “ cltizeDsub J ect -” He received no reply— j ment of their legislative duties to support Pianozi was in close confinement, and The greater number of the leading news- j i( . tbis S for? ' What do vou want of me?”— 1 t( f k ? tud ^ tdl lhe abortive attempt that , the constitution of tho United States: would be tried about the middle of May. paper editors North whenever they discuss j AYe told him that he must go with us. He ! f^OrlelTs dynas“ hid imt 1 lKle S atestotnes7atr Democratic Cou- questions by which the popular mind is , said he would not, and we could not take , Bntthe hour came-the flight of the King, j . „ ven.loii. greatly excited, seem to labor under such : b,m aallooing out, Captain, Captain, i nTP f n j ,i,„ Baldwin—A\ m. McKinley, M. D. McComo. D P A Fair Proposition. The New York Commercial says of the i rounded him Baker case: •‘The affair was most ruffianly, brutal At this moment Baker, who was watching i tbal commemorates him was seen, wreathed : „f fugitives' “from service or labor,” no ^ ! ' vith ;lnd surri| undcd by multitudes : .State jaiis can be used to secure per- forward and started for the cabin ; we hav- whos0 80rrowflll cries alarmed * the g()Vern . B0IIS c t a]med for - servire or h(bor; S o it hif rnfrfnf tC ^j nieut - T be mother and her son were order- j goes on through the act. It is not enough 8 , - a * , ' t ' ? U ’i ’i ; ed to depart; and carried u> the vehicle that | to say that it is levelled at the law of 1850. Z 1 was to remove them, amid cries of Vive Na- ! It ^ levelled at the constitution. It is with him : at thejame.moment we all sr- j polenn , they left for England. j substantially a denial of an obligation of -i . . onetakinghimbyAhearm[,an- } Xhe subsequent events are known. He the constitution! i “ tberb a wiy him ' was ufferefl i>o!n,i(1 b J the insurgents there; ! It is rank treason to the supreme law of • ! l V i b “t he said,“I belong to France/’ But he i the land'. Those who have vJted for such iilc aUitir >Aan UIUdi ruiUalHN, U» Ulltl, J ..f . i n i ci a . - j j ; A cruel and disgraceful, and all who took part j ® , .. • , • . C ’,• j 1 \ offered to fight as a volunteer, lie wrote to an infamous bill as this have violated the in it merit the severest punishment, but let ! H i Louis Phillippe punishment, he accused be judged dispassionately.” j the aotes of eight millions. : Now for Eugenie. Sh< mon ot miml. The importance thatthe New ' me ?” Two men belong to the bri,. Y’ork press and that community have at- : that we should not take him. t ached to the beastly onslaught of two street i ( The Captain interfered, and said to us, rowdies upon each other, amounts to a con-; H ere > y? u ar ® t0 ° .% s *.L,^ bat ’ s »| of Malago, who married the daughter of 1 -KS-l, Lo. “ 1 aboUt \ . Baker sa,<1 - f he Y ar ° a - Set °? Baron Grivem.ee. of that «itr. Hewns the Lamar, E. L. Strohecker, . IleGraffenrieO. Lyons, R. G. Byars. Campbell—L. B. Watts, T. A. Latham, W. Camp. She is the grand- i Gass—C. A. Hamilton, R. A. Milner, J. A. Craw- daughter of thelate AVilliam Kirkpatrick, | cobb-w^w^nci.T.’^'lkem.mWm. Phillip-. ford. temptible exaggeration which has donevery i nir.'Tte-o'nd taVTL*” “n°n» of Baro “ of that city. He was the ! Cherokee—I. R. -nuoh in belittbmr the eonsnnnenee of the i M a ,?i al° ^ ak f n,e ‘ , , °‘ son of AVilliam Kirkpatrick," of Cowheath, j Cam !en. much in belittling the consequence ot the ! U s said, “1 will blow the first man s brains Dumfrieshire, a scion of the Kirkpatricks j Clarke—AV. L. Mitchell, H. Cobb, B. sheet?, The Funionist and Orleanist papers pub lish the official accounts from the Moniteur without a word of comment. The cause of the attempt is understood to be personal revenge aud nothing of a political nature. | Despatches per telegraph from the Crimea | report a sharp engagement on the night of i the 1st of May, in a front and left attack i which ended in the whole of the Russian j rifle pits being taken, together with eight Foster, Lawson Field, ill. J. i light mortars and two hundred prisoners.— The whole affair was a brilliant one of the A. ancestor i A - F ’ Hill ‘ ancestor | Chatham—Jno. E. Ward, W H. Stiles. Tho:-; utterly r.his, which we extract from the Commercial, possessions were ; A. Gordon. P. .1 Punch. lllOSt of the I Chattahoochee—W. S. Johnson, H. G. WlUiamfi. „ , , great Scottish iamilies. But property de- ! Decatnr— F. G. Arnett, A. A. Allen, J. R. Butler, Baker was struggling and , ^ arte d. and the owners were expatriated. AV. F. Easterling. J, nerlyn. W. Evans, C. J. Mun- papers. AVe lately gave some precious bits from the N. Y. Tribune and the Post, illus- rrating this peculiar feature in these papers. Considering that the Baker case involves r.he life or death of a man, nnd that to take that life a body of men are banded to gether, calling themselves the “Poole Asso ciation,” and an influential paper bespeaks for the poor wretch such dispassionate judg ment as it here gives an example of, we may fairly infer that criminal justice is a very ♦ven-handed thing about New York city. ••Render Unto” Ac. Ac. AVe say it, “though we say it who ought not to say it,” that we area modest set, who get out the Intelligencer. But this quality, though according to Lindley Murray, it highly adorns a woman, is not always best for a man—at least, when it “crops out” too bare. For fear then, that our efforts to please our dear public may be overlooked, please take notice that our latest new^ per Steamer Baltic, furnished by our yestei.iay’s daily, did not appear in any one of the •exchanges received at this office, and has not 3’ct come to hand through the Augusta, and Charleston or Savannah papers. It is true, the Baltic’s news was no great things after ctll, but then we hope we will not be held ac countable for this, and that the small amount involved will allow all our eoternporaries to accord what is due to our enterprise. Boston, May 10.—Gov. Gardner to day voted the bill granting fifteen hundred thousand dollars to the AVestern Railroad, The loan proposed was to build a second Crock from Springfield to Albany. The Senate defeated the bill abolishing capital punishment. The weather to day is the warmest we have had this season the thermometer stan- 4 Lug at 80 deg. in the shade. | M and .a,tod „ * ? ving. ‘‘Doyou j 1 iX^&SSi « l£* A o. Tint flii ns get paid for taking me?” and begged of us to let him go into the cabin and go with us. During this time we inquired xor ms j nes ' and no mea n judge. S l ,T° ° U o '-aV T »r. Portraits-^.—As for Eugenie, ! b ™^ th ? m °" dG « k midships; I she hfts beeR the theme of all tongueefeaeh ! LlTT“SLa a e, i g t . as ; i out-clamoring the other in her praise. Such j Ilpbersbam—6. D. PhTllipsT R- 3 JSiS! & d ?, n j , or ahve ’ , aml tbat ! beauty, to begin with, has never been seen; | Patton, Y. Davis, j. Sb’ Whi fnr f T’ 1>6 5*^ ' at least 80 h is said > and the saying doesn’t Houston—E. J. McGehec, J. AY. Hardison, M. tz! is h,7riKTo7f,d^d’’ e ‘“ h i c.l» in each. It Snilefthei M “K£r? barrel heavily loaded and capped, with the itv of tbe Moresoue Snania-d with the airv 1 h -' vi '—->• «• stalling, s. Turner, g. Wilcox, key in the box, and the box unlocked ; with j n ; n „„ nov nf th P ‘ p nr f c ; nn ,i, 0 > ! Jasper—J. vY. Burney, Flemming Jordan, \Y. C. flask of powder, caps and ball. AVe took I f ^ ‘ 16 f ^ * Lovcjoy ’ J ‘ L ' Standifer - charge oFall put them into tlie boat with j ? 0D tinS southern ! W ' ^ ^ R ° bert Br0Wn ’ W * 8hS; made ail «S, SdSSrf tor hLe.'* 1 *' I „ u “ e ' 7he“ch 1 “• ”• P ' *"• J R The time did not occupy over 10 or 15 I tk “ C0 ? , I >ris ’^ the ahar ? 1 ' s of both— kee-Dr. itercor.i.p.Cobk. b. g. Smith, minutes from the time we left the bark un- : n °r! Z/ZJ* at 0n ^. W1, ?‘ I Munrae-R. Rudand. N. Phillips. Z. E. Harman, til w. rammed with him . Baker had j fZSjSSS “Jn IK ! JrA'iSY- do... idea that we were sent after him, and thought j „ nn JA I— • L J • f j . , . : MemVetlior—J. a. Gaston. J. Knipht, M. Reeves, that thev were wrone- or that we wanted to ° UW . wlR hed in a woman or desired m a Murray—>J. Edmondson, .lames Morris, S. L. Ptorte. that they were wrong, or that we wanted to monarch . and each dresa she has appearcd . Mott. s. H*u, f. t. Snead. put a pilot on board. lie had on a hicxory ; n pubbc j n 8eems exuc ti v the one of all ‘ T1 ’ os - F - Jooes ’ Jeffers Ssnrose. r. j. Hen. wore also a cap. we stooa no wattn uuring ; lf tbe 8 peciator at the moment had his Paulding—An gu » Jo ..-on, J. H. Beilcnger. the passage, but was on tlie brig 8 papers i way I Putnam—n. Hade, J. Denham, J. 3. Pounds, J. A. by the name of AVm. A. Browne. Before I - »*" . . . , , . i Turner, j. p. Dinmiiari. the boat left tbe side of the brig it was ex- Moreover she is just at the precise age j twwj-lo.pieman .UBakcom. j. f. shine. plained to the Cant, of the Jewett what the " he " * h f 8 everal graces of the sex seem to ! fj?. arrest was for. He appeared to be thunder I ” , nd into periection, and when the dimtn- j xnlbit—L B Smith, Jesso Carter, >Y A Daniel, stricken, and much frightened • said he knew “ tl0 , n or ad “ , . uon ’ a, “ l08t of an hou . r * would ! Han’t Blathers, nothing about it; “Will thev do nnvthino- I im PG a forfeiture of some one attribute es- i Union—Andrew Young, J P AYelborn. with me?” ^ ^ ^ | sentinl to the completion of the real and j AA’alton—AY Kilgore, S G Locklin, Geo. Hurst, the ideal, the poetical and the practical be-! m Junius Hillyer. * m. r * j .'it Wayne—SamuelO. Bryan, R. B. Picbards. fore you. lhe lady amongst US who bears Wlutfield—O. K. Kenan. Wm. Gordon. H. Rogers, tbe nearest resemblance to her Is the Duchess ! TYilkinfon—Dr. B W Finuey, E Camming. RF of AVellington, or rather such was the case J - r - u B'ooten. Or. j. w. Heard, R. w. Wooten, wheu the latter was a little tmunger, atid 1 u , “Oi:>r, .Inme? Pittman. Landseer's likeness, in the “Visit to Water- j ^ orth ~ W A ^ A J Shine, Samuel Jones, loo,” was a faithful portrait of the then ; Marchioness of Douro. Fain. Gwinnett— H. P. Thomas, J. C. Whitworth, T. Terrell, I. \J. Younj_ McMillan, A. K, Whitehead. J. Marshall, J. B. Campbell. Hancock—Dr. Brown. Jot u Konner, F. Sanford. Stell. H. Tomlinson, J. M. Hambrick, C- Attempts at boswood paper are still con tinued in Troy, N. x. The results to be specified in due time. The New York Liquor Law has been pro nounced unconstitutional by nine of the most eminent lawyers of that city, Gov. Reeder has left AVashington, it is i— Thorn to *1,0 -1 „ : said, on his return to Kansas, but without Rapid Riding. inere is the same comminglemcnt of the . , * c ^ „ The train which conveyed the Emperor half Oriental, half Scandinavian aapect . any special support from the Federal Go- Napoleon to Windsor on their recent visit to th® large open antelope eye, with the full ! vernment, or any promise ot tho solicited aiu England, ran at the rate of72 milesan hour, drooping fringe, at once heightening and to subject the Missourians to law and order. The distance was 28 miles. Brunnell, the mitigating its lustre, the same small round- It is supposed that he intends to face all great engineer, managed the locomotive, ed limbs and majestic presence; and the j hazards in the discharge of his duties. allies. Constantinople, May 2.—Lord Strat ford De Redcliffe has returned to this city. Mehemet Ali has been recalled from exile. Sevastopol, May 4.—On AVednesday night, (2nd inst.,) the French troops under Gen. Pelissier attacked the advanced works of the quarantine bastion, carried them at the point of the bayonet, taking twelve mor tars and establishing themselves in the po sitions. On the following night the Rus- sions made a sortie to the regain their posi tions, but after a sanguinary encounter were driven hack. The British Baltic fleet had left Kiel, and the French fleet was about to sail from Cher bourg. An insurrection in Ukraine, Russia Po land, had broken out and extended to three ot»ier governments. Twenty landed pro prietors with their wives and families had been destroyed. At St. Petersburg every article of con sumption was at famine prices. New York. May 18, 9 P. M.—The fol lowing is gathered from the latest papers, in additiou to that above sent: The Crimea.—The condition of the allies is decidedly more critical than that of the enemy. Fifty thousand Russian reinforcements j had arrived at Sevastopol. The allies thus far have not destroyed a single Russian j battery. j Six »houaar ’ Tn-k« had been sent to join ! Omar Pac 1 a ■ • ‘avo. Russia:—v . - St, Petersbugh denoted groat r '.\i j, and an energetic continuance of the war. The Czar devotes his whole time to military preparations. The peasantry of the Russian province of Ukraine had risen in insurrection. Turkev and Russia.—It was rumored that a separate treaty would be signed be tween Turkey and Russia, forming part of a European treaty of peace. The first divi sion of the Austrian army had received marching orders. France.—France has ordered another levy of 20,000 troops for the Crimea. The Emperor Napoleon made the follow ing speech in the Senate, in reply to its congratulations for his escape from assassi nation : “I thank the Senate for the sentiments ex pressed. 1 fear nothing from attempts at assassination. There are existences which are decrees of Providence. As long as I Austria.—A Vienna dispatch saya that an imperial decree is shortly to be issued, calling out 80,000 troops. Special Dispatch for the Baltimore American. Philadelphia, May 18, 11 P. M.—The package of English papers by the Baltic for the Baltimore Amertcan having arrived here by special messenger, I have culled from them the following important and interest ing details of foreign intelligence, which I forward by telegraph: Progress of the Siege. The English pa pers have butlittle detailed news in relation to the bombardment. The non-official advi ces from Sebastopol report that the bom bardment was drawing to a close from the exhaustion of men and material; that it had not attained its object, and that the as sault could not be attempted. On the 25th, a Russian despatch was posted at Odessa, stating that the French and English guns were silent; that not a single Russian battery was demolished, and that 50,000 Russians had arrived in the neighborhood of Sebastopol. Balaklaya, April 20.—The Turkish corps made their first reccnnoissance on the 19th towards tbe valley of Tchernaya. The London Times of the 5th is not received.— There is no comments on the bombardment in the issue of tne 4th. The latest from the Times’ correspondent at Balaklava is to the 21st, It says, that on the previous night, the Russian watchfires shown brighter than for some time previous, and that apprehen sions were entertained of an attack on the English lines. The Turkish cavalry had exchanged shots with the Cossacks, but en countered no army. The firing was dimin ishing at night. The musketry, however, became more brisk after night set in. AVilmer & Smith’s European Times of the 5th, says that enough has transpired to prove that Sebastopol cannot be taken by the means adopted, and tiiat nothing but a battle in the open field, and a thorough in vestment of the fortress on all sides, will ef fect the desired consummation. The ad vantage of taking the field would be to pre vent supplies, and the reinforements advan cing from reaching Sebastopol, by intercept ing them at Perekop. All the women and children have been removed from Sevastopol in anticipation of an assault. Every door and window bristles with cannon and musketry. The British government communicates despatches tardily ; and the belief is that they are suppressed. On the 15th of April the French exploded the mines under the batteries of the Flagstaff Bastion, blowing up the parapets and platforms of the outer works, and laying it in ruins. The fourth and principal mine was not exploded, as it vras found to be close to the gallery of the Russian mine. The French were unable to make their anticipated lodgment, but they rushed in and established themselves in the course of the night, in the outer work.— The Russians believing that the explosion was the signal for a general assault, ran to iheir guns, and for an hour poured a fire from the whole extent of their lines. The force and fury of their fire was astounding, but it caused but little damage to the allies. Germany.—The movements of Prince Pc- ! ter of Oldenberg, in German}', arc exciting much attention. lie is making the tour of Germany with the proposed object of con solidating their opposition to any anti-Rus sian proposition which Austria may make in the Diet. Disturbances had occurred in tho Ukraine, caused by the complete exhaus tion of the means of the peasantry by the immense supplies for the army taken with out remuneration. The insurrection had extended throughout the estates of Count Brairietzka, a relative of the imperial fami- ily- Austria.—lhe departure of Gen. Hess was deferred to the Oth. Prussia.—The session of the Chambers closed on the 3d. The ministerial speech promised that the greatest economy will he used that, is consistent with duty in the presence of army prepared for war, so as to vindicate the independence of Prussia as a great power. Sardinia.—The former ministry resumes office, no agreement with bishops having been come to. Poland.—Letters from Warsaw depict in mnurntul colors the situation of all classes in Poland. Commercial credit wa9 destroy ed and the mercantile houses had suspend ed. Great masses of people, in terror of conscription, were flying from their homes. Great Britain.—The ship yard of John S. Russell «fc Co., at Millwail, was destroyed by tire on the 3d inst., together with the new floating battery. The loss is stated to be one hundred and twenty thousand pounds. [Correspondence of the N. Y. Daily'Times.] Paris, May 3, 1855. i The Allies are out of auimuuition, : out of men, out of luck, out of spirits, j and out of sorts. Their terrible bom bardment, which was to be followed by the assault in five days, was prolonged to eleven, and then “provisionally suspended.” They are now waiting for reinforcements.— They are waiting for more powder, and for more food for powder. They want both sulphur and men. Lord Raglan is clamor ous for the Sardinian convoy. The Allies are disappearing fast, w hile the Russians are forever gathering, faster and faster, into and around the beieagured city. The in vaders guns are sprung, aud could not be safely fired, even if there was ball to load them. These guns must have repose. The Russians merely replace theirs by new ones drawn from those marvellous arsenals, which form one of the revelations of this war. The Allies have completed their telo- rgaph from London and Paris to Balaklava, and have used it to forward complaints and ill-tidings over, ever since it was opened.— Gortsehakoff, a successful continuer of the Menschikotfian traditions, dispatches daily bulletins to his master, conceived in the same curt, precise, imperturable vein, as those of his predecessor. He is preparing a terrible and combined attack on the en feebled enemy. The Allies, lately decimat ed by snow and frost, are now in dread of the heat of returning Summer. They are wondering whether they cannot get rid of their corpses by some more speedy and ef fectual means than burial. They are talk ing of the employment of chemical substan ces; of the reduction and consumption of the dead by the agency of acids. They live in fear of putrifaotion, decomposition, miasma, pestilence, and death by a worse scourge than war. In the meantime, they have made no breach of sufficient impor tance to admit of an assault, and have not the men to try it or the pluck to risk it.— More men and more powder are called for there; more money and more heart-breaking is called for here. Fathers and cartridges, sons and congrevc rockets, husbands, hearts, gunpowder, human life, sulphuric acid, blood, love, bombs, limbs, industry, peace, commerce, hope, prosperity, home", happi ness, fireside, country—France must furnish all this, and sacrifice all this, to satisfy the ambition of one man. Louis Napoleon has risked his throne upon Sebastopol. So, on the one hand, Sebastopol must be taken, and on the other hand, it cannot be taken, at least, by the progressing measures aud upon the existing scale of operations. AVe are likely to have, therefore, an aban donment of the siege for a field campaign in the interior of the Crimea. It is probable that this has been decided upon by the two Governments, and that we shall see the re- rults ere long. That “eter open gate of Perekop” must be shut, and latched, and bolted, if possible. Fresh Russians must be kept out, and the used up Russians must be kept in. Gortsehakoff must be met in the open field, and his army scattered, nnd then the fortress may be entered from behind, or completely invested, at pleasure. It is true that this rather extensive plan would require 260,000 men, at least. But then the Morn- iny Post asserts that these are forthcoming, if they are not forthcome, aud that the path is perfectly clear, and the prospect very flat tering. But then on the contrary, the Morning Post either willfully misrepresents, or is hopelessly blind. At this moment tlie Allies, mclunmg the Turks that are landed and even the Piedmontese that are under way, do not number 80,000 men. They have suffered seriously in the operations of the last fortnight. The Russian fire has been quit® equal to their own; and, % at though it is palpably certain that on.the morrow of its. capture, every Frenchman will ask his neighbor, “Well, now we’ve got it, what is it good for ? And was it worth the price?” So the Empire of Peace is going to ex hibit the acts thereto appertaining, at home, and prosecute murder and rapine abroad.— It will embroil Austria, if it can, or is pre- E ared to do without her, if necessary. It as abandoned all ideas of a campaign on the Rhine, or the deliverance of Poland, for the present. Sebastopol has been tried in front, and now it must be tried behind, and then all round. Nothing will do but Sebas topol. Louis Napoleon will engulf the treasury and consume the army, but he will take Sebastopol. England has lost her credit and wants to redeem it. She is a defeated prize fighter, and wants her re venge. She is a worsted gambler, and must run after her money. She may run till doomsday, but she will never catch up with it. Tlie day of Triumph. In this the last issue of the Enquirer that can reach the more distant portions of the State before the day of election, we propose to submit a word of encouragement to the Democracy. This canvass has been the most extraor dinary in the history of the State, whether we regard the manner of its conduct or the issues dependent on its result. Never before did a secret party aspire to political power in Virginia. For the first time since the organization of the government an open and violent assault is directed against the safeguards of civil and religious liberty.— For the first time the politicians of the North dare to invade the State and to inflet indignity and outrage on its sovereignty and independence. For the first time an attempt is made to degrade popular opinion from its legitimate ascendency, and to con trol the government by the secret machine ry of an irresponsible oligarchy. All this shame and all this peril have been brought upon the State by a party which had its birth in the hot-bed of Northern fanaticism, whose prejudices are the relics of barbarous times, and whose principles are an impor tation offoreign despotism. In antagonism to this party, its principles and its purposes, the Democracy stand, as they have ever stood, in defence of the Con stitution and the liberties of the people— in defence of the sovereignty and the un tarnished honor of Virginia. Nor do they stand alone. In presence of the com mon peril, many of the bravest, and best, and brightest spirits of the old AVhig party have discarded the recollection of past strug gles and resentments, and stand, shoulder to shoulder, with the Democracy in this great contest. The Democracy have fought tbe good fight, and have fought it well. Not for one moment did they linger in a cowardly com promise between a sense of danger and n sense of duty. At no period of the contest have they betrayed a want of spirit or of energy. From the day thatthey flung their banner to the breeze, to the present hour, they have pursued the flying foe with un flagging zeal and unfaltering purpose. It is in no spirit of idle vaunt or of reck less despair that wc affirm an undoubting confidence in the triumph of the Democracy. AVe feel the impulse of the popular heart; we have estimated the strength of the Dem ocracy: and it is on the basis of the fullest and most accurate information from er ery quarter of the State, that we assure the Country of the election of Ileury A. AVisc. THURSDAY, MAY 24. The Great Content la Vlm^ j 211 While our readers will be glancing this article, the people of Virginia agitated by the hazards of a Dolitimi gle that has not been equalled in that St. 2 in interest since the day that the dp . old Lion, Patrick Henry, was draw^' 1 for the last time upon the hustings to ° Qt war against old friends and his old pies. In many respects the contests Railroad Amalgamation.—A meeting of committees appointed in behalf of the South AVestern and the Muscogee Rail Roads, to consider the project of a consolidation of the stock and the management of those com panies, was held at Macon a few days since. AVe understood, says the Savannah Journal, that the committees agreed quite unani mously upon a basis of union, which will be reported to a meeting of the stockholders of the two companies to be convened in Oc tober or November. Should the proposed change receive tha approval of the stock holders an application will be made to the next Legislature for authority to bring about the desired consolidation. JoY 1 ' The Arctic Expedition ordered out by the Government to the relief of Dr. Kane, will sail on the 1st day of June.— The sledge boats have been delivered by the inventor, Capt. J. AV. Bennett, at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn. The bark belong ing to this expedition has been christened the “ Release,” and the propeller ship the 1 * Arctic.” Tbe Heat. Last Tuesday night till 12 o’clock, and Monday all day will be notched down in our memory as torrid to that point at which for bearance ceases to be a virtue. AVe learn that yesterday about 2 o’clock a case of genuine “ sun stroke ” occurred in oui streets—but the wonder is, that there was only one, for the thermometer in the shade wns 98° very nearly. The Cost of Government. The National Intelligencer of Saturday says; AVe issue to-day. in a supplemental sheet accompanying this paper, and filling some twenty-four of our large columns, a List of Appropriations made at the la te Session of Congress, and prepared and pub lished agreeably to law. This document ought to possess interest for every one, as exhibiting in the main the objects on which the public revenue is expended. The ag gregates of the classified heads of expendi tures are as follows: Civil, diplomatic and miscellaneous, $17,205,979 Army, fortifications, Military Academy, &c., 12,571,-19(5 Indian department, naval, revolutionary, and other pensions, 4,453,536 Naval service, 15,012,091 Post Office Depariment, 10.946,344 Ocean steam mail service, 3,574,45S Texas debt, 7,750.000 $71,574,d57 Great Fire—$40,000 of Property De stroyed. On AVednesday night near 10 o’clock, a fire was discovered in the extreme end of a lumber kiln attached to the main building of Smith & McCallie’s extensive Steam Lum ber Establishment in this city, when the alarm was given, and the citizens gathered to battle with the flames. Had a weil di rected effort then been made, it is supposed that the.fire could have been extinguished. Steam was forced from the boilers into the kiln, but air began to fan the flame, and as there were no engines, no hose, no buckets, no hooks, or anything to fight down the fire, it spread, caught the main buildings, which, in a few moments, were one vast sheet of flames; thence to the shed and buildings connected, the blacksmith shop and store-room, thence to the endless piles of lumber and timber in the rough, and by 12 o’clock, all tbat remained of this large establishment, was smoking in ruins. The loss of the building proper and ma chinery, is estimated at 827.000, on which there was no insurance. In addition to this, there was 450,000 feet of lumber in the rough, which, when dressed for market, would have realized $20,000, making the entire loss at least $40,000. This will fall heavily upon Smith &, McCallie, and we are not informed whether they will build again. The community will suffer greatly, in procuring building material for the sum mer’s demand.— Chattanooga Advertiser. (iaT'Mrs. Patterson of Boston, (says an ex change) is boarding at a Syracuse (N. Y.) hotel as a delegate in attendance at the Know Nothing Convention nowin session at Syracuse. A Flat Contradiction.—The Richmond Dispatch states that the story about Miss Beecher, the sister of Mrs, Stowe, being in sulted by the students of the University of i Virginia, at Charlottsville, is entirely un- i tarn day and the present furnish a remark J parallel. Then, as now, the war was proscription and persecution, and it as ' Jt ted a proud and arrogant self loy e f called Americanism, to enter largely ± tbe elements of strife between tho parties. * e We only meant in this short article t 0 - that although we have the fullest assura^ that Mr. Wise will be borne triumph"!* 1 through this hard-fought battle, vet we l not be at all discouraged if the result Tii disappoint us. We admit, our regrets •« be poignant enough, should such a g^ 1 fellow as Wise be overthrown, and in 3 „ c j^ cause. 8 Yet, we have the best of reasons to '• Uc - that even in Virginia such an issue will h no means be regarded by those best inform ed of the facts, as conclusive of K.-Jv premacy. Unfortunately for the crisis, M r Wise has from the very peculiarities of h!c sanguine and decided temper, made Dlanv bitter personal enemies in his State. 4 nv thorough-going, uncompromising disposi- tion, will have to meet these things, | 10w ever pure the man may be. The Democratic candidate in Virginia, has a most relentless foe in his own kinsman, Mr. Bayley, t a J p Representative from Mr. AYise’s District - Then Ex Governor Smith has, from motives of personal hostility, deserted his old party friends in their support of Mr. AVise We cannot, all things consideied, but re- gard the conduct of these gentlemen who owe so much to their party, as reprehend, ble in tho extreme. Besides these draw, backs from Mr. Wise’s strength, his 0 y time opposition to Gen. Jackson has left stings in the hearts of many of the old he ro's devoted Virginia friends that yet ran- 1 kle. All these considerations should be taken into any fair account that will record the disastrous news that Henry A. AVise i-. beaten. But we do not suffer any thought of defeat to find a lodgment in our breast: [From the Empire Stale.] Western and Atlantic Ilailroait, Atlanta, Ga., May 12, 1855. Sir:—It will be gratifying to the people of Georgia to learn that the connection of our Track at Etowah is re-established, and that a Train of Cars passed over on yester day. This terminates the necessity fur draym* Freight and staging Passengers at that point, and I beg leave to avail myself of the an nouncement of their discontinuance, to ac quaint you with the measures taken for the prosecution of business, pending the rc-con- struction of the Bridge. At the time of the tire, the ltoad was in a prosperous condition: the Track was in fine order—Engines and Cars were abun dant and in good repair—accidents were rare—the Spring season was opienlng aus piciously, and everything conspired to en courage the hopes of those who approve the policy of making the Roid pay; when it was suddenly overtaken by a calamity which severed it at a point than which there was none more diflieult and expensive tore- unite. AVith a just appreciation of our misfortune, the intelligence spread in every direction, and was heralded as a general calamity, Inquiries came pouring in by every mail from Shippers and Consignee:, Freights were accumulating above aud be low in our own Ware-Houses and those of connecting lines, and the amount of trade, lately so flush and regular, became at once stagnant and still. We were involved in a serious emergency, and it became neces sary to meet it effectively and promptly.— Counsel, though much desired, could not be obtained without a delay which would have aggravated the difficulty’, and I wiis com pelled to undertake immediate measures of relief, without conference with those whose good judgment was so much needed. Two leading objects demanded attention. First. The reconstruction of the destroy ed section of the Road at the earliest dav compatible with economy ; and Second. To provide immediate means for transferring Freight and Passengers acres; L’towah River and A’alley. As I informed you in my communication of Feb. 20th, much progress had beeumade by the contractor for Etowah Bridge, before the tire. Ilis contract provided for a struc ture 600 feet in length, ' only, to he finished July 1, 1855 ; the gap made by the tire er- lended 1200 feet further, eastwardly, to the abutment of tbe Old Bridge. An addition al contract was concluded for a trestle work, partial embankment, and wall, to fill this gap ; and as an inducement to expedite the work, a premium of Fifty Dollars per day was proposed for every day gained on the origiua contract time, to be reckoned from the first day of July back to the day upon which a train should first pass over. The advanced condition of the work, un der the first contract, promised so early a day for the completion of the Bridge, in a permanent manner, that it was considered false economy to resort to the costly expe dient of a temporary track and bridge, aside from the main line ; forming no part of the Road, when finished ; to Le of no service in its reconstruction, and to be abandoned up 1 ® tlie re-union of the Track. It was evident ly the true policy to press the construction of the Bridge in a durable manner, com bined with a trestle work, which would pass our regular trains, as well as the gravel trains, required for raising the heavy em bankment already in course of construction at that point. No time was lost in perfecting arrange ments for the transfer of freight and pas sengers over the burnt section. A Depo: was established on the eastern side uf the river, and warehouse was erected: plat forms, side tracks, and turning tables, were manned with a full force of agents, clerks and working hands. A wagon bridge was thrown across the River, a double-track [ dank road was laid through the bottom and, and good roads were opened on both sides. To provide against loss by high wa ters, timbers were procured for a second bridge, the River banks were cut down, and two flat boats were purchased and moored in readiness for ferrying, if necessary, determined also to make a contract for the transportation of freight and passengers over the breach, per hundred and per head, having no desire further to complicate our affairs with the additional embarrassment of managing teams and teamsters. I need not inform you that these contract; and the extra assessment for their payment, have been made the subject of very tret comment and much unscrupulous criticism- AVith perfect confidence, that a success) 11 issue would best demonstrate the absurdity and refute the calumnies of our censors, have forborne all recrimination, and W justification, relied solely upon the resu > now partially realized, as our most concl sive argument. ,. There was no advertisements for proposa - to undertake these services, they ware let® private contract. Several applications we made, to which it was replied, that they would be placed under contract on a certs* early day then named, at which time P® ties applying, were invited to meet the nerintendant at the Bridtre. and make to proposition. A few only appeared; verbal and written proposals were receiv and weighing the advantages of each. contractVor Drayage was awarded to I**®* lin, Iloff & Co., at five cents per lOOpoumW and the contract for carrying Passeng' was given to “the Omnibus Company, c “. posed of Messrs, Mason & Dibble, of con, and Messrs. Powell & Peacock, of tersville, at fifty cents per head. , , It has been alleged, and very truly 1 proposals were offered lower than th** 3 cepted. The prices were fixed rather y undersigned than by tho bidders* w •