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~ ' ' ~~ ~~ i- . ' , .. . " ?, *. , 1 ' ..' . , "vY ?'- ' : ' .' VOLUME U CAMDEN, SOUTH-CAROLINA, TUESDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 8,1853. NUMBER C. / ? PUBLISHED WEEKLY" BY" * * THOMAS J. WARREN, TER?IS. f Two Dollars if paid in advance; Two Dollars and Fifty Cents if payment be delayed three months, and Three Dollars if not paid till the expiration of the year. ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the following rates: For one Square, (fourteen lines or less.) seventy-five cents for tho first, and thirty-seven and a liilfounts for each subsequent insertion. Single in sertions. 011a dollar per square; semi-monthly, month- | ly antl quarterly advertisements charged the same as for a single insertion. ??J"The number of insertions desired must be noted on the margin of all advertisements, or they will bo published until ordered discontinued and charged accordingly. . . JHiscfllanfflus. A Visit to the Cherokee Indians. The Rev. Dr. Sehon, the corresponding Secretary of the Missionary Society of the Jd. E. Church South, has recently visited the Cherokces, and writes to.the Nashville Advocate a Inn** account*of his visit. We make the fol o lowing extract from the Dr.'s letter: Talequah, Ciiekokee Nation*, November 5th, 1852. In my last I noticed my safe arrival at this place. No one unacquainted with the country can conceive of the beautiful scene which breaks upon the eye of the traveller, as he ! ascends the mountain to the Illinois river, jThe surrounding nfountains, the clear and beau tiful river, and broad plains, are all spread out I before him. The Illinois river is a bold and rapid stream, pure and clear. I am told fish are found in it in large quantities?many resembling our mountain trout, perch and bass.- Such as are'fond of mud and live in muddy streams would not, I think, seek as a home this pure and clear water. After crossing the river we enter upon the plain on which Talequah is located. It is four miles from the river to the'town/ One of the first objects seen is the large and well finished Female Seminary, built by the nation ; two miles farther is the Male Seminary, built and finished in the same manner. . These are truly indicative of the advancement of this nation in regafd to education and religion. But of them more hereafter. We soon approach a most inviting looking mansion. From its tasteful architecture, the beautiful lawn, the large and tastefully laid out and arranged garden, you can hardly believe you are not approaching the suburbs of some one of our riche^i cities in the States. But, no, you arc in aid Indian territory, and tms is me home and residence of the principal chief, John Ross, E$q.,?who has been so long known in weal and woe in the history ofthis people. -"A short distance beyond and another and equally inviting home is before you. Here the large yard, filled with the trees and shrubbery, the large garden,' the ieautiful or.Jiard, tjic fine and ( noble mansion, all things bring to miad our homes and country Yar away. " ( This is the residence'of my friend, Geo. M. Murrcll, Esq., formerly of Lynchburg, Va. His amiable and worthy wife is the daughter of Lewis Ross, Esq., and niece of the principal chief. Here is my home, the word here re* , ceivitig the fullest meaning. It is a home indeed for the wearied preacher. And if it were not at once said I were clannish, I would 4fay and where all the hospitality of a Virginia j - ^ nobleman awaits you. Brother and sister Mur\ell are both devoted members of the church. x)n Wednesday, the 3d instant, I preached in the Court House, by special invitation. The National Council, then in session, adjourned, and with the principal chief, were nearly all present. We had a large, intelligent, and very ( attentive congregation. My sermon was in English, in which language all the business of the Council is also carried on. The services were closed by the Rev. Mr. Downing, a native Cherokee Baptist preacher, and a member of the Council. The reader will remember I , mentioned in my first letter, that I met with liiin and travelled with him on the boat from < I.nuisvilla. Never shall the services of this day be blotted from my memory. May God _^rrant that good may be the result in a long <id blessed eternity. Taleqoah is a beautiful place?about 300 | inhabitants?a beautiful square inclosed, in , which they have their council house. The court house is a good, substantial building of brick, two stories. There is a large brick hotel, several fine stores, with a well assorted and * large stock of goods. A good newspaper has been printed here, called the Cherokee Advov cate. On my way to the town we called at the Male Seminary, and were delighted to find in the superintendent, Rev. Mr. Vanhom, and his good wife, friends from our old home in Ohio. Truly this was to us a most happy U meeting. Mr. Vanhom is a Baptist minister, and is assisted by my young friend, Mr. Lyons, with whom I had the pleasure to form an acquaintance on my way to this country. . fn this school they have about forty native MSfcCl^rokce young men receiving instruction. Greek and Latin languages, and all the graRHranches of mathematics and a good Eulish HBSBBwJfction are taught in the institution. H and the femalo school are national inH^^^W^fons. The tuition and boarding is free of charge to the pupils, and the students all board in the several buildings, having a good steward for each. This is truly a feature in the history of this people, worthy of imitation by the States around them, who have for so long a time been in possession of all the ad- , vantages of the gospel of Christ. , These academies depend for their supply for students upon the neighboring schools, which, like the common schools with us, are spread throughout their whole country. The principal chief, John Koss, Esq., has given his most devoted attention to the subject of education in tho nation. To his zeal and perseverance 1 are they plainly indebted for the origin, growth, and present prosperity of their schools. He is extremely anxious that the blessings of education shall be widely diffused and fully secured to his people. God grant success, full and 1 complete, to his efforts. What patriotic christian and philanthropic heart, will not join in the prayer ? For this purpose he is anxious to effect an X _ arrangement with the Government of the Uni- j ted States in which they shall take back a large body of land heretofore granted the nation, and with which they were charged ?500,000. He,asks, and the nation through him, that it be taken back at the price the Government themselves fixed upon it at the time, and the interest which would naturally have accrued on that sum since. This money would be funded for the support of education forever in the nation. I think the demand a perfectly reasonable and fair one, and one to which our Government ought to accede. I most sincerely hope and believe they will do so. Before I came on here,.not then knowing I should do so, I procured a copy of the annual message of the chief, which I intended then to take home for publication. 1 now send it to you, and hope, in the same paper you publish this letter, you may find it convenient to publish the message, to show our people what is dm nor and nnssinir here in these far ends of the "" O 1 O t earth, and the bold stand taken in favor of morals and religion by their principal men and the nation. 1 The National Council yesterday confirmed the nomination of the annual deputation to Washington, consisting of Dr. Ross, (son of Lewis Ross, Esq.,) Judge Adair, and Judge Pegg. Dr. Ross is finely educated, a graduate of Princeton, and also of the Medical College in Philadelphia. I have had the pleasure of forming his acquaintance and that of his interesting wife. I spent, in company with the kind family where I staj7, a most delightful evening with John Ross and family. His wife is a worthy member of our church ; her sister, also, who resides with her. Then my friend Murrell, and the* different members of Mr. Ross' family, tho hours passed very pleasantly and hastily. Near Talequah is also the mission of Dr. Worcester, of the Presbyterian Church. He has long been identified with the mission. Thov have at the establishment a press ai.d a flourishing school. 1 regret that I did not feel able to comply with his kind invitation to preach for them, as also that of my friend, Rev. Mr. Vanhom. Indeed I wish my circumstances would permitme to remain much longer among and with this people, but ? cannot. The Falling Leaf.?It has been a fancy, born of our chiy-dreams, that for every leaf that fails, a human soul ascends; for every leaf that unfolds, a spirit glides from the dim past into the active present?and thickly as fall the decaying leaves, do forms of human mould drop into the soil.. We watch the yellow leaf, as it struggles with its downward tendency, essayingin vain to hang in mid air, shrinking from the cold resting place, and buoyed up with a momentary hopc-as a stray -breeze wafts it up again, only to.. dwTccnd more rapidly. I:'seems to wail, to shriek, as it settles nearer and nearer to the (lefested soil.? As it lies worn out and dead'upon the chill ?arth, the spirit whispers: Another has gone to the tomb J Mature drops a leaf for everv one who falls as the nun drops a bead for every sin die thinks. As we stand beside the spent leaf, so stands iiAif,morlA lfl?nvn All * weeping OHCS HIUUI1U tliv: ncn-mnu^giH'v. ?... . ns tlicy embalm their dead in team and undying memories, so will we embalm thee, thou Lvpifyer of human frailty. Thus between the leaves of the boqk of books the sickly leaf is laid as a memento mori. As I gaze on the skeleton form, I follow the decay of the one for whom it fell, and turn thoughtfully away, gaze up to the myriad of leaves, and ask, "which one shall fall for me ?" Power of a Mother's Name.?A correspondent thus describes a visit to the penitentiary at Philadelphia, and gives the following particulars of an interview between Mr. Scatterwood, the humane warden of the prisoiij and a young man who was about to enter "on bis imprisonment. Few will read it without deep emotion. "NVe passed the ante-room again, where we encountered a new comer, who had just reached the prison as we entered. He had been sent'up for five years on a charge of embezzlement He was attired in the latest style of fashion, and possessed of all the nonclialencc and careI? .. 4* /%???/!ir TTn tu'ir1n/-l ttjJJJUillttiiCC ui a tcci iv" v jlav t.....vvi his watch chain, looked particularly knowing at a couplo of young ladies who chanced to be present, ami seemed utterly indifferent about himself or the predicament ho was placed in. The warden read his commitment and addressed him with? - . 4 Charles, I am sorry to sec thee here.' 4 It can't be helped, old fellow.1 4 What is thy age, Charles ?' 4 Twenty-three.1 4 A Philadelphia!) V. 4 Well, kinder, and kinder not' 4 Thee has disgraced,thyself sadly.1 Well, I ain't troubled, old stick.1 4 Thee looks not like a rogue.1 4 Matter of opinion.1 4 Thee was well situated V 4 Yes, well enough.1 4 In good emplov V 4 Well, so so.' 4 And thee lias parents V 4 Yes.1 4 Perhaps thee lias a mother, Charles V The couvict had been standing during this brief dialogue perfectly unconcerned and reckless, until the last interrogatory was put by the warden. Had a thunderbolt struck him ho could not have fallen more suddenly than he did when the name of 4* mother" fell on his oars! He sank into a chair?a torrent of tears gushed from his eyes?the very fountains of his heart seemed to have burst o^<the instant! lie recovered partially, aniMid imploringly to the warden? 1 Don't you, sir, for God's sake, don't call her name in this dreadful place! 1 )o what you may with uiCjirtit don't mention that name to me ?' Thenrwero tears in other eyes beside the pri soner'flf and an aching silence pervaded the group which surrounded the convict. A man should never put a fence of words afound his ideas, because many who would otherwise give him a fair hearing lack resolution to climb ewer such a rugged enclosure. Why is the letter D. like a squalling brat ?? Because it makes Ma nud. " Sowing Wild Oats." We often hear the excesses of young mei excused on the plea that they are " only sow ing their wild oats j" as if a life cf virtue mus necessarily be preceded by a wild and viciou.1 career. A good writer-well remarks, that then is many a young man just entering the world who would avoid those actions which give ris< to the saying, if it were not for the veil whicl this very saying throws over their hideousness But as he hears the lips of beauty apologeti cally muttering, " he is only sowing his wil< oats," when some instance of vile profligacy i; told, or some tale of innocence undermined related, he begins to look upon such actions ai the natural and excusable effects of arden youth; he thinks that he, too, maybe pardonec for scattering similar seeds on the highway oi ' * * *1? xl. ~ ~ * life; and is, perhaps, unconscious mat me sui in which they will take the firmest and deepes root is his own mind. " Nemo repcnte fui turpissimvs"?no man becomes vicious on i sudden. The appetite for vice increases witl what it feeds on ; like the taste for olives, ii may be nauseous at first, but by repetition w< come to like it, and at length it becomes s fixed desire of the mind; we have sown th( seeds, and, unfortunately, we must reap the fruits. We need not sow these wild oats, bul once having so done, we must take t|ie conse quences. An old French writer has said, that "dis gust stands at the door of all bad places." 11 may be so ; but it is to be feared that we toe often put her behind the door as we enter; and it is only when we come out that we meet hei face to face. We cover up her form with all kinds of disguises; we endeavor to cheat ourselves into the belief that disgust is not hei real name, and that it is not the door of vice at which she stands sentinel; and as we pass her by, and enter, we console ourselves with the thought that we.are only having a bit of a spree! ihat we are in for a lark! or at an31 rate, that wo "must sow some of our'wild oats." We are confident in ourselves, have great reliance on our own correct principles and right intentions, and delude ourselves in.c the belief that we are only gaining a little knowledge of the world, and showing ourselves to be youths ol spirit. And a most miserable delusion this is?fostered and encouraged by the wretched fallacy we are illustrating; and by the pernicious habit of glossing over vile things with eulogistic names. We begin, perhaps, by sowing our seeds with a careful hand, scattering a few here, and a few there, with long intervals between them; we are nol alarmed by any very great expenditure of seed: we hardly fancy that the correct principles on which we rely, are disturbed or shocked by their slight deviations, from the strict rule ol right; we still keep in the common routine ol our duties, while we are imperceptibly being led into temptations that, by degrees, cause in to scatter the seeds more thickly, and with fewer intervals between them. And we go 011 <1 ?.X.Mr. ?v'* IinTtl I \n> itlrx r*C SVM - .... ... youth are past, and when a miserable and premature old age draws on, we find that the till age is not yet complete; it is only when in firmities have rendered it impossible to pursue our former course, that the seed time is over; and the harvest comes upon us at once in the shape of pains and penalties grievous to bear We forsake nowjthe sdwing until the power to sow is departed?we forsake not the sin until the sin forsakes us. How often do we hear it said, both by parents and friends, that it is right for a young man to know the world, and that he will avoid jfice all the more for having tasted it, and found what it is like. Bad judges of human nature and of human appetites, are these! And lei such parents beware lest the future growth from their maxim come home to them to torment them.?A7". Y. Organ. Sabbath Keeping. Hugh Wilier, in his First Impressions of Eng land, makes the following just and importanl remarks on the mode of Sabbath keeping recommended by our modern refiner}': "Among the exciting varieties of the genus philanthropist?benevolent men bent on bettering the condition of the masses?there is a varie ty who would faiu send out our working people tn flip r.oiintrv nil tbft Sabbath, to become hanOV and innocent in smelling primroses, and stringing daisies on grass stalks. An excellent scheme theirs, if they but knew it, for sinking a people into ignorance and brutality, for filling a country with gloomy work-houses, and the work house? with unhappy paupers. 'Tis pity rather that the institution of the Sabbath in its economic bearings should not be better understood by the unitarian. The problem which it furnishes is nol particularly difficult, if one could be made to un derstaud, as a first step in the process, that it is really worth solving. The mere animal, thai has to pass six days of the week in hard labor benefits greatly by a seventh day of mere nnima cost and enjoyment. The repose, according U its nature, proves of signal use to it, just becaus< it is repose according to its nature. Hufiman i? not a mere animal; what is best lbr therox anc the as, is not best for him; and in order to de grade him into a poor unintclleofcual slave, ovei whom tyranny in its caprice may gamplc rougl shod, it is but necessary to tic hiqj down ; animal like, during his six working days, to hard engrossing labor, and to couvert the seventh intt .a day of frivolous, unthinking relaxation. His tory sneaks with much emphasis on the point The old despotic Stuarts were tolerable, adept? in the art of kingcraft, and knew well what thc\ were doing, when they backed with their authority the Hook of Spotls. The many unthink p ?i - t-- j /n i r lug sens, wno cany 111 uiu reign 01 v/iiane? i. danced on Sabbath round the Maypole, wen afterwards the ready tools of despotism, am fought that England might he enslaved. The Ironsides, who in the cause of civil and religious freedom, love their crown, were staunch Sabba tarians. " In no history, however, is the value of the Sabbath more strikingly illustrated, than in thai of the Scotch people, during the seventeenth, and the larger portion of the eighteenth centuries Religious and the Sabbath were their sole instructors and this in times so little favorable tc the cultivation of mind, so darkened by the persecution and stained with blood, that, in at least the earlier of these centuries, we derive our knowledge of the character and amount of pop ular intelligence, mainly from the death testii monies of our humble martyrs, here and there - corroborated by the incidental evidence, of writ ters, such as Burnet. s " In these addresses from prison and scaffold-^i the composition of men drafted by opposition' , almost at random from the general mass?we 3 see how vigorously our Presbyterian people had 1 i learned to think, and how well to give their '< . thinking expression. In the quieter times which i - followed the Revolution, the Scottish peasantry f 1 existed as at once the most provident and'intel-; J s lcctnal iu Europe; and as a moral and instructed ; , people, pressed outward beyond the narrow 3 bou .ids of their.'country and rose into offices of t trust and importance, in all the nations of the , 1 world. There were no societies "for the diffusion ; f of useful knowledge in those days. But the Sab1 1-ath was kept holy; it was a day ot which every t dissipating frivolity was excluded by a stern t sense of dutv. The popular mind, with weight i imparted to it by tlie pulpit addresses of the day, < i expatiated on matters of,grave import, of which t -Uic tendency was to concentrate and strengthen, . j not scatter and weaken the faculties ; and cogi- ; t taiotis of the week came to bear in consequence ; > a Sabbath-day stamp of depth and solidity. The 1 ? one in the seven struck ttie tone for the other >' t six. Our modern apostles of popular instruction . rear up no such men among the masses as were ] developed under the Sabbatarian systenrin Scotland. Their aptest pupils prove but the loquaL ciotts gabblers of the respective worships?shali low superticialists, that bear on the surface of I their minds a thin diffusion of ill-remembered facts and crude theories, and scarcely, indeed, do. ( I we see them rising in the scale of society; they } become Socialists by hundreds, and Chartists by j thousands, and get no higher. The dissemina- j i tor of more useful knowledge takes aim at the ] i popular ignorance; but his inapt and scientific, i j gunnery docs not include in its calculations the ] l I parabolic course of man's spiritual-nature; and--; - so, aiming cfirect at the mark, he aims too-low, "j I and the charge falls short." ' " I i ^ i Ruth and Naomi. * " . j * 1 In consequence of a /amine which happened s in Canaan, Naomi and her husband, Elimelech, j > retired to the country of Moab. They took with , them their two sons, Malhon and Chilion, whMj married in that land two Moabitish young^jP ] 1 men, namely, Orpah and Ruth. They jgfSed about ten years in the country of Mordjffaring ^ which time Elimelech and his sons dieywithout . leaving any children behind them.?Bus Naomi | i was left an aged and desolate widoaap But not , i desolate in the spiritual sense of t^eword. Her ; Maker was her husband?the L<ffi of Hosts is i his name. Blessed are those jJpcws to whom ' God saith, " I have betrothedunto me in f righteousness. u I have bet^^d thee unto me ( f forever." MJr ; Since her husband andJr beloved sons were i dead, Naomi felt a stroiMHesire to return to Ca- j i naan, her native landprHer daughters-in-law i expressed an earnest .'Inclination to accompany ' her. This proves the- jwrrovful a(ft'T.tion which reigned among them, and speaks loudly iu favor ' both of Naomi and the surviving widows of her ! departed sons. Atjir they had accompanied , i their mothcr-in-lawraprt of the way, she en1 treated them to ret^ftj each of them to their ' ! mother's house. iv1 s^? blessed them, and . kissed thorn ; and tJjry lifted up their voice and ' > wept ? They arc s^Cdeterniined to accompany ' 1 her. She continulKeasoning with them, in ' strains of simple huJBnelting eloquence. Again 1 they lifted up tlwF voice and wept. Orpah ! ; kissed her mother-law, but Ruth clave unto * I her. Mark thedjBrence betwixt the two: Or- 1 I pah kissed her m^fcr-in-law, that is, took leave 1 i of her, left her, ^H^eturnod to her own home. t Ruth clave to hSRnth such affection, that uoth ' i ing but death com separate her from the dear ! object of her rcg?. Orpah resembles the outward professor, whowas a little love and respect for Christ's cause aaa kingdom and ordinances, 1 but not a sufficient: Jbf love to prevent hint from ' . leaving Christ in tlmday of difficulty and of ' ; trial. When OrpalKent back, Naomi tries to j . persuade Ruth to reSp. Nothing can persuade her. Oh, no! her ?ve was too strong to listen I s for a moment to suc^persuasions. She puts an ' . end to the debate, by giving utterance to the j : following rcmarkabl&exgrassion: " And Ruth ' , said, Entreat me nlTreo Have thee, or return j r from following after thee: for whither thou goest, . I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge; . thy people shaltUe ray people, and thy God my ? God.?Where tjiou dicst will I die, and there ^ r will I bo bimedT'the Lord do so to me and j more also, if aught but death part tlice and ) me." Then Naomi submitted, and under the ( . protectirigcare of Heaven they proceeded on- ' . ward in their journey, and at last arrived safely t I in -Bethlehem.?Is not Ruth a blessed figure of < . {he genuine believer, cleaving to Jesus ? j , ? < t God intended all women to bo beautiful, 1 , just as nVhch as he did morning-glories and I roses; what he intended they should become ' ) they would, if they would only obey his laws, ! > and cut indolence and corset strings and indulge : I 5 in freedom and fresh air. For a girl to ex1 O . I pect to be handsome with the' action of her - lungs depending upon the expansive nature of ' r a cent's worth of tape, is as foolish as to look * i lor tulips in a snow bank, or a grown oak tree 1 in a flower pot. > i i } When we hear men and women speak lightly of the industrious part of the community, j we feel just like tracing back their genealogy, j ' We have done so in several instances and you would be surprised at what we have learned. The most aristocratic man of our acqnain- s tance is the grand son of a fuller; the proudest * nf n. tailor. It betrays j ' wum.lll lilt uaugiiivi ? 1 a lack of good sense to condemn or to look ' with contempt on any virtuous person, howev51 er poor lie or she may be. The wise and good ' respect and love goodness wherever it may be " found, in all its beauty and elfulgcnce. Whenever an Irish attorney loses a suit, lie considers the matter a personal insult, and challenges the whole jurv to mortal combat. In the vicinity of Cork, when a decision is appealed from, it is not from one court to another, but from the court house to the pistol gallery. ^ It is curious with what moral fortitude men ^ I can bear with tlio misfortunes of others. 1 Central Hems. From the Southern Standard. The South Carolina Railroad. vThe published report of the President arit Directors of.the South Carolina Railroad^ foi the year 1852, shows" an increase of $125,00( over the receipts of 1851,'and of $225,000 ovei those of 1850. Accompanying the report h the following statement, showing nett profi for the year 1852 /. Income from Freight, $*(80,041 82 Do. Passage, 294,787 00 Do. Mails, . '41,843 04 ^ Do. Minor sources, 8,4G2 90-1,125,198 41 Applied as follows:: [n ordinary current expen- "J ' " scs, 39 per cent., 4 439,092 47. Extraordinary current ex-V' pcuscs, 14,876 26- 453,968 71 071,229 01 Other expenses chargeable p to income previous to declaring Dividends, viz: interest on sterling bonds, 109,347 71 .... - .. Interest General, 45,878 05 ' Exchange, ' 574 30 7 Property damaged and lost, 9,118 90 Stock mutilated and killed, 1,038 92- 105,958 4! Nott Income, 505,271 2! Deduct first Dividend, 135,800 00 ; second Do. 135,800 00- 271,600 0( 6944 RT1 91 . i^iU(UltUj ' w a a. This balance has been appropriated to the property recount, consisting of the following items, to wit: ' Purchase of Negroes, $ 45,484 34 Charleston, New Work shops, 1,439 60 Building touvoid In. Plane, 31,546 79 Rebuilding Road -- 3,501 10 Charleston Depot, . 3108 Rebuilding Camden Branch, 2,152 70 Property in materials and Machinery, , 2,947 33- 4,3618 5? Property in Cars, 54,002 00 Property in Locomotives, 92,477 55 Re-rolling old Iron, Crossing Savannah River, Additional Track^^fc^jjpP?4,521 91-316,b96 74 Typlffarge investments for the last year Mjpplncreased the indebtedness of the compa by ?19-1,300 55, which increase is more than covered by the purchase of negroes ant the advantages of crossing the Savannah, ever if the additional track, new work shops, anc the work around the incline plane at Aiken it entirely left out. The following extracts froir the reports of the President and the Superin. tendents, will be found to contain a sufficient account of the condition of the road and outfit EXTRACT FROM MR. CONNER'S REPORT. In July last a satisfactory arrangement was . .? /N.. *1 ? / i A _ / _ *l_ , made witn me uity uouncu 01 Augusta, ior uu Company's throwing a Railroad Bridge acrosj the Savannah river, and locating two depoU within the city of Augusta?one to be located between Bay and Reynolds street, to be ap proached by steam, and to be used for city bu siness only. The other to be located withii anc square of lb? Georgia Railroad depot ant to be used exclusively for through business, 01 business to and from points beyond Augusta This depot to be connected with the other, i Rstance of about three quarters of a mile, will the main track across the Bridge, by a Railroad track, to be worked by horse or mult power. The price agreed to be paid for these privileges was $ 150,000 ; of which the Gfory\n Railroad paid 530,000, and the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Company have assumed to pay ?25,000; and we have assurances that the Memphis and Charleston Railroad Company will assume a further amount. Contracts were immediately made, upon the consummation of this arrangement, for the construction of our Bridge, Depots, &c., and it was then hoped and expected that our trains would have been deliveringand receiving goods ind produce in Augusta before this time ; but :he fresht ts, which compelled us to withdraw jur piling force and apply it to the repairs ol ;he Agusta Bridge, and the high waters and Dad weather that have prevailed since, will prevent our crossing before March. The whole cost for crossing the river, and locating in Aujusta, will be about as follows : Lands purchased for two depots, 840,50G Contract for building two depots, 13,500 Fnr nlntforma. fences. &e.. sav 6.000 ' "* r > ? - " ?* $06,000 Bridges and tracks, say 25,000 $91,000 :o which may be added the Company's proper.ion of the l ight of way. With a view to carrying into effect the recommendation of the Committee at the last meeting of the Stockholders, with regard to a Jouble track to Ilranehville, fifty young negro fellows, practiced and experienced in railroad work, were purchased early in the summer, lnd a favorable contract was made about the same time with a highly respectable and responsible Iron Company, in Trenton, N.J., for re-rolling the old flange iron the Company had jn hand, supposed to amount to about four ihousaiul tons, into new rails, for this track, uid a part of it has already been returned to is in its new form. In consequence, however, of the necessary ipplicalion of this force to repairs after the reshet it is only recently that they have been ilaced on the line of road. The greater part )f litem are now at work near the Thirty-mile L'ost, grading or preparing to grade, for the lew track, but with this force alone, and the neans now at our disposal, the process of con I._ .U ,, itruction musi necessarily oe ? i.w muiv ;o, it is submitted, than is consistent with the nterest of the Company, or requirements of ,hc community, looking to the rapidly extcndng K.'iilrond connections with us in every di* eetion, and with a view to prepare in due time or the great increase of business, which it is low so apparent must follow. The Board of Directors have concurred, with great unanimty, in the propriety of the Company's proceedng to build a double track from Charleston o Branchville, with the least delay in which t can be done consistently with a due regard ,o a proper economy ; and I am directed to submit to the stockholders, at their present neeting, tho expeciency of authorising the Joard to raise the necessary funds for the pnr>os?, by the issue of bonds or new stock, as iiiiiy appear must nuTauui^f;yua? mc the work, including the iron, and graded'in U)?< } ' manner contemplated by Mr. Lythgoe, witl;be . about one million and fifty thousand dollars. " -7 V Tbe siibject is respectfullybut ^earnestly com- ,7 1 mended to the immediate consideration of the _ % stockholders. / ) ;; ***.*-*? I % Within the last six months of the year, the.. * 5 Company has, as all are a ware, sustained heavy t losses in its business, both from the prevalence /tijm of fever in Charleston, and from the^fTecfi5iw8 " the great freshets of 20th and 30th" AugtMnH?p? which swept away a'part of the Augusta hridg^^^p the whole of.tlie Congaree bridge, besides1'de? . stroying tho Wateree bridge, the effect of which " was for a'time to cut off all comynuni^ition eutircdy_ between Charleston and th'e*jyfer><?r> and to greatly .obstruct it,for some ttmejfcfefc ' the communication was partially openedBHfc^ ) 'Yet it will be seen that, .notwithstanding these 'adverse circumstances, the business'braM8| the Road shows an increase over the previ^^H" ^ year, in both freights and passage, and amount^; a . ing in the aggregate to $124,460 44. J* What the increase would have been under favorable, or even under ordinary circumstan- M. 3 ces, may be readily inferred. t * . The repairs of damages by the freshet having \ been done almost exclusively by our own ) hands, and the Rohd force, (for we could get ^ - no others that would undergo the risk and ex- * ' A 1 posure of working at tl&t season in the water anu. orrail*.]fcJ Ul? WOI III Ui"utj f'a>y vui uuc.-? ' t [ npt appear large. In fact, when all is done and j. complete, and the Road stands before the.freshet, the ME. LYTTTGOE. | from the late freshets, as oth* er parts of the Road, no damage of consequence being sustained, except in the immedil ate vicinity of Hamburg. The Colombia di vision, I regret to say, is not so good, the fresh5 et on that branch being unprecedented, as re, gards damage, in the whole history of the - Road. In the immediate vicinity of the Con- -l; s garee river, between the Trestle work and \ > Uamden Junction, nincaitterent oreacnes were ? made in the embankment from one to four hundred feet long, besides sweeping away the 1 bridges across the river. These different J, breaches have, as yet, only been partially re- V; paired, in consequence* of the unfavorable state 1 j of the weather, together with the great scarci- ^ I ty of laborers, and the enormous high price to Nj be paid for the same. VVe are progressing, \ however, with the repairs as rapidly as circum- \ stances will admit, and expect during the pre-' P sent year to put this Road in the best possible f_^ order. A temporary bridge was erected with f < the least delay possible across* the Congaree j river, until a permament bridge could be con- / structed and put up. This will be done iu the* course of three months at farthest, as the super/ structivc for the same b to a great extent com pleted, and only waiting the opportunity for driving piles and putting up the same. The Camden division of Road also had itk difficulties to contend with at the Wateree Ri>f er, from the abutment 011 the north side being undermined, and the piles driven to suppor^ s the draw washed out. This has only beeji . partially repaired, it will be necessary to build > a new bridge sooner or later across this stream . as well as to rebuild or embank the whole fopr ! miles of swamp. The Road generally on this I division, from the river to Camden requires Jk general and thorough repair. The casualties^ ! to which we have been subjected have proven- v. ted our doing anything of consequence with > ; building the double track, as recommended by i the Stockholders at their last annual meeting, i Indeed such have been our difficulties that had j i it not been we had recourse to the Company's own hands, my opinion is it would have scarcef ly been possible, for us to keep the Roads, in J I working order. ' [ The new road for avoiding the inclined plane ( at Aiken was completed, according to the origi. nal design in May last pud has been working successfully and satisfactorily since that time. I No accident or damage, or injury of any kind I has happened during all the rains and freshets : I that have occurred, except the slide or caving . in of a mass of earth at the Aiken cut, and a i force of hards is now employed widening the I cut, and filling up with the earth the plane h( i low. **' I I The new road to avoid the plane lias in all * . respects, worked up to all our expectations. We are rapidly progressing with the Railroad MrMirn nomas tho Savannah River at Ausiusta. * "~ow ; 7^? ? Four of the eight spans are now up, and the last pier of piles is now being driven and tlio , Bridge will more than probably be completed before the first day of March next. The depot's and tracks are al>o in a state of forwardness, ! and will be completed as soon as the bridge.? | The cost of the bridge and tracks will not ex. ceed ?25,000. The piling machine and forco now employed on the last pier of the Augusta, . bridge will be transferred to the Cangarce, to piling for the bridge there which will lie done, I in full time for the structure now in progress of construction at the Company's \aids in | Charleston. The survey of the line for the double track I to Branchville, with a profile and estimate of ^ ! the same, will be laid before you in time for 1 the meeting of the Stockholders. My object ! will be, if practicable, and 1 am confident it is, i to predicate the double track upon a dcccudiiig ' grade all the way from Branchville to Charles ton ; so (lint an engine may bring from Uramliville nearly if not quite, what tw o of the same power will bring to Hranchvillc. 'I lie c? st of sucli a track so graded will be, according to a rough estimate 1 have made one million and fifty thousand dollars (SI,050,000) including ' iron and all contingencies. EXTRACT FROM REPORT OF MR. l'KTSCII. Of the 38 engines contained in the Report for 31st, Dec. 1851, two second class passen1 ger and two third class freight engines have been condemned, leaving in the service on 31st Dee. 1852, only 34 of the 38 engines mentioned in the Report for 1851 as fit for service, i To which have been added during the past ; year, live passenger and seven freight engines, 1 making total number of engines in the service J of the Company on the 31st Dec. 1852. forty T J J