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A CHRISTMAS HYMN.
M By Prof. Longfellow.
It was the calm and silent night!
Seven hundred years and fifty-three
Had Rome been growing up to might
And now was queen of land and sea!
Jh No sound was heard of clashing wars —
V „ Peace brooded o ; er the hushed domain;
B. Apollo, Pallas, Jove and Mars,
S* * field undisturbed their ancient reign,
MBk. io the solemn midnight,
fflr . ago!
W'jM and silent night
' flßfr&kgugiuv Koine
'/ {Hrhariot's flight,
Htoihuu home ’
BKmioL’. -vr- li
fSTn ■ on ii< S- Si'. ... .
* BKmaii wnat beiei
jHr far away,
|Hfn midnight,
§■£§.-’ * Eu2SEnP3*'r^-‘ | ago ?
Bfthm that province far away,
IllV'.vMP I Went plodding home a weary boorj
streak ot light before him lay,
m a haU shut stable door
MHBr fcaMtpath. He paused, for nought
on within;
iflPKm only thought;
OTfand coid, and thin.
the'sSllmn midnight,
- Centuries ago !
' Oh, strange indifference !—low and high
Drowsed over common joys and cares;
~J® The earth was still, but kne .v not why;
|jj| The world was listening—unawares!
How calm a moment may precede
! ■ One that shall thrill that world forever;
To that still moment none would heed
‘ f Man’s doom was linked, no more to sever,
In the solemn midnight,
Centuries ago!
ft It is the calm audsiientnight!
\ thousand bells ring out, and throw
Ik 'i'?wir joyous peals abroad, and smite
Vhe darkness— jharmed and holy now !
that erst no shame had woru,
bapp ie r name is given;
stable lay, new born,
KBp, I'he peaceful Priuce ot earth and heaven,
In the solemn midnight,
J Centuries ago!
{From the Baltimore Clipper , 29 th ult. )
ARRIVAL of the OHIO AT NORFOLK.
Fearful and Perilous Voyage—Damage to the
ssengers three days at the Pumps.
ed briefly, yesterday, that the
amship Ohio, bound to New
w Orleans and Havana, with
Baltimoreans and others on
into Norfolk, on Thursday in
most perilous voyage.
Lavana la-t Wednesday week,
pened to|her machinery, which
day in the harbor, whence she
ursday, with the perfect use
her engines.
tlavana it was noticed by those
ne life, that the Ohio was bat
ter the risks of a
rthern shores. Her
, in all likelihood,
matering the vio
.asts, and her frail
afford but slender
i to “ lay to,” or
on a ice-snore or
and prosperously
when the breeze,
shening, rose to a
which the engine
the ship broached
mendous sea that
the violent wind,
iiately rescued her
lat hour until the
eeember, the Ohio
nder the scantiest
>f the hurricane,
her unmanageable
log in, the trough
the wailiß of waves
of her, and threa
iction.
of the gallant ship
is destined to en-
BfJcounter another danger. On Tuesday morn-
Hing it was announced that she had si rung a
Id that the rising water had extin
the fires beneath the boilers. This
announcement at once aroused the
of the passengers, who manfully or
n bands under the charge of General
Howard, of Baltimore, and from that
jjjuntil she passed Cape Henry, she
er Providence, freed by their inces
, patient labors, together with those
icers and crew, and enabled to re-
the use es her engines on the morning
W of the 25th.
A. This is but a brief and hasty summary of
W the dangers encounrered by the nobie ship,and
If is intended only as introductory to the fol
lowing correspondence between the passen
gers and Capt. J. F. Schenek, of the United
States Navy, who cammands her.
There were several la ly passengers on board
* fche throughout the perils, their
noble fortitude encouraged and nerved all who
were in a condition to labor for the vessel’s
•afety.
ffoDieut. Schenek, S. U. Navy , commanding the
jf U. S. Mail Steamship Ohio.
Wednesday, Dec. 25th, 1850, >
At sea, 12 o'clock, M. y
Sir —The undersigned, passengers on board
m your ship, have labored hard for the last two
[ days and more, and have contributed their
best exertions both by night and by day, to
~> nid you in saving the ship under circumstan
ces of extreme peril. They conceive that this
give them soma claim upon you to be heard
now when the vessel is once more upon her
jMuy ber engine at work, and the prospect of
njtae safety more favorable.
JHBiis claim upon you, by our partnership
danger, and in the name of
inhumanity, we respectfully but most
to land us at Norfolk, the
nea^stp®^^j ; 1 distant scarce one hundred
miles, insteawm prosecuting the voyage to
New York, a port distant between three and
four hundred. You have now the use of but
one engine, and even that has for the last
three days, viz: since Sunday night, been to
■ within the last hour, and
d torn partially from the
,t}d great exertions of the
g you, your officers and
> from water, is continued
penning this address; it
d their strength, and can-
mot be expected to continue much longer.—
Cuch of us as are members of the bar, and
Vnown by you to be so,(would also suggest, as a
consideration which for the interests ot your
owners you should by no means lose sight of
Ineir distinct and unanimous opinion, that
■•ur making for any other than the nearest
jjprt, under the present circumstances, will
any insurance on the vessel in the
case of loss.
We do - not however, make the suggestion
from any apprehension that you may not con
sider the reasons already presented as suffi
cient, jbut from a belief that it is our duty to
mention it in view of the relations in which
we now stand .toward you. We have wit
nessed with pleasure and admiration the skill
and firmness which yourself, your officers
and men, have displayed in exerting your
selves in the hour of peril to save a the ship and
pasengers; and for this, we return to you and
those under your command our warmest
thanks. (Signed) by
Reverdy Johnson, Baltimore; Benj. C. How
ard, Baltimore; and others.
U. S. Mail SteamsJSip Ohio. >
At Sea, Dec. 25th, 1850. >
Gentlemen I have the honor to acknowl
edge the receipt of your letter of this date,
and have determined to comply with your
request to “land you at Norfolk." In pur
suing this course I feel that I am not only
performing an act of justice to you, but at the
same time consulting the best interests of the
owners of the ship, and all others in any way
concerned in her safety; a reason in addition
to (those already stated in your letter,
which induced me to take this step, is one
which I have just ascertained, that in the
storm which we have come out of, a large
proportion of my provisions were destroyed
by water getting into the store rooms, so that
I am left with but two days’ provisions.
I beg leave, gentlemen, ti return to you my
sincere thanks for the cheerful and efficient
service you rendered me during the gale, and
afterwards in freeing the ship from water. —
lam well aware that to your extraordinary
exertions I am mainly indebted for the pre
servation of the ship and the lives of all on
board. I also thank you for the eompli
mentory manner in which you have been
pleased to notice the services of myself and
the officers and crew of my ship. It may be
proper also to state that my officers, without
an exception, agree with me as to the pro
priety of my going into Norfolk.
I am, very respectfully, you ob’tserv’t.
Jas, Findlay Schenck.
The damage to the vessel will amount to
$30,000, and will require her to be taken in
to the Dry Dock at Norfolk. It appears she
sprung aleak at 2 o’clock on Tuesday morn
ing, and leaked so fast the passengers had to
be called on to assist at the pumps, there be
ing ten feet of water in the hold. Bailing
was also res .ored to, so that by these contri
vances the water was sufficiently lowered by
noon on Wednesday, to enable theciewto
rekindle the fires in the engine room, which
had been extinguished by the rapidity of the
leak on the first day. Steam was thus got
up again, but until reaching Norfolk on
Thursday afternoon, the ‘pumps had to be
kept going to prevent the fires from being
again extinguished. Her hull is greatly dam
aged, and her furniture nearly boken to
pieces.
The Ohio has on board about 450 passen
gers, 250 of whom were from California. The
Norfolk boat brought up to this dity, yester
day, 150 of her passengers, and the California
maisl.
( Correspondence of the Journal of Commerce.')
Benicia, Cal., Oct. 26, 1850.
Mb. Editor find that most of the pa
pers of our Eastern cities are filled with news
from California, and that news consists mainly
in intelligence from the gold diggings.
The gold is now sufficiently settled, and
understood; and I think it high time that the
more important interests of commerce and
agriculture should be attended to.
A general impression has gone abroad, that
from the fact that there is no rain for 6 to 8
months, nothing could be raised here without
irrigation; but the few experiments which
have been made, have abundantly proven
that, not only the finest vegetables in the
world, but rye, oats, barley and wheat, can be
raised here, to greater perfection, and in larger
quantities to the same amount of labor, than
in any other part of'he world; and that, too,
from the fact that there is no rain in summer,
either to hurry the farmer or spoil his crops
when made. We sow small grain from the
commencement of the rainy season, say No
vember, until the first of March, and gather
it from July till October. The grain will not
fall out or spoil in the field, for two months
after it is ripe, whi ;h enables the farmer to
gather more than five times as much as he
could in the Eastern States, where the harvest
time is so short, and the necessity exists for
saving his crop the very day it is ripe.
It has also been said that a very small pro
portion of the State is susceptible of any kind
of cultivation. This, tob, is equally a mis
take. I have been nearly six years in Cali
fornia, have been engaged in cultivation, and
have traveled over much of the country. I
have no hesitation in saying that, from the
foot of the Sierra Nevada to the sea shore, the
proportion of valuable lands is greater than
that of Ohio, and will yield a better average,
in quantity and quality, to say nothing of the
greatly superior market, and the facilities for
reaching the market, there being always 1
home market, from the inexhaustible miner
als. Much of the best land is covered by old
Mexican claims, which are now in market,
and as we are at last admitted, it is to be
hoped that Congress will soon provide for the
survey and sale of the public lands. When
this is done, the next great interest is that of
commerce.
The commercial men of the eastern cities
have looked upon California as a temporary
place for the wildest speculations, to last for a
short time; and when the gold gives out—
which they think in a year or two —to be
abandoned.
These notions are as unfounded as those
which I have already explained.
What are the elements of commerce ? They
are, first, the productions of the earth; and
second, the manufacture of those productions.
California possesses inexhaustible mines of
gold, silver, quicksilver, iron, copper, lead and
and coal, and agricultural lands superior in
quality and amount to any other State of the
Union and is supplied with a greater amount
of water-power, better distributed through the
State, and more easily applied to machinery,
and more convenient to navigable waters than
any other State, with a great variety and a su
perabundance of timber and stone. Thus much
for the elements of commerce; and we have as
great a superiority in the FACILITIES.
The Bay of San Diego is safe and sufficient
ly large. San Padro is a good landing place.
Santa Barbara has been used for many years,
as a landing place. San Louis is also a gcod
bay. The Bay of Monterey has, under the
Mexican Government, been the Port of Entry;
and the Bay of San Francisco is one of the
most commodious and safe bays in the world.
The Sacramento, San Joaquin, Feather River,
Yuba, Stanislaus, Mercedes. Tualumne, Sali
nus, Suisun.Napa, Sonoma, Petaluma, Guada
loupe, Russian and Trinidad Rivers, furnish
navigation to almost every neighborhood be
tween the foot of the Sierra Nevada and the
sea-board.
So far from California being a place to come I
to for a hand-full of gold, to be spent in the
snowy regions of New England, or the relax
ing suns of the South, her superior climate,
and the facts above stated, will justify the
steady farmers to bring their wives and daugh
ters, and the merchants to make permanent
arrangements, to live in California.
I will allude to one other fact. Most of your
ships bound to China go out in ballast. Sup
pose they bring a cargo to Benicia, and from
here to China, both ways instead of one.—
Yours truly, CALIFORNIA.
THE CONSTITUTIONALIST,
Augusta, Georgia.
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The New Year.
We cordially greet our readers and friends
with the compliments of the season, and wish
them, on this the first day of a new year,
health, prosperity and happiness. May they
realize and enjoy, and rightly appreciate, all
these blessings, not only during the year just
commenced, but during the remainder of the
nineteenth century, and longer still if they
wish it.
It would be 4 pieasing to see this day honored
amongst us as in larger communities, and
made the occasion of social visiting. In New
York and in other larger cities, every body in
pantaloons is expected to be out visiting, and
the whole society of petticoat-dom is at home
to receive visits. It is found by experience to
be a pleasant and desirable feature in social
life. It serves many good purposes, and be
sides renders New Year’s day, in truth and
in practice, a social, happy, merry holiday.
Jenny Lind in Charleston.
Last week will long be memorable in
Charleston and to the Charleston visitors by
the visit to that city of the world renowned
JenNt Lind. Indeed it may, and will be re
ferred to hereafter as the Jenny Lind Christ
mas. Infected by the prevalent mania, we
were among the numerous visitors from Geor
gia, who went to Charleston solely to see and
hear the divine songstress. We not only wit
nessed, but partook largely of the enthusiasm
created by her presence and her singing. We
listened and talked, and talked and listened of
J»nny Lind. Her name and her praises were
on every tongue, and eager and credulous
curiosity was busily oatphiug, while idle gossip
and mischievous waggery were vieing with
each other in circulating anecdotes of personal
incidents, traits and habits of Jenny Lind. In
the parlors of fashionable hotels and private
houses, in the stores and in the streets, in
banks and bar-rooms, the theme was Jenny
Lind , and nothing but Jenny Lind. We doubt
if a conversation among high or low, refined or
ignorant, rich or poor, among men of luck
and leisure, or of business and bustle, was
commenced and sustained five minutes, with
out introducing the name and the fame of
Jenny Lind. Generally conversations, even
among the men, cold, cynic il unimpressible
men, began and ended with Jenny Lind. —
While the ladies, Goi bless them, who are al
ways susceptible to enthusiasm, in their ad
miration of the beautiful and good, were quite
wild with excitement. It was honorable to
them, as it was to the distinguished object of
their encomiums, that such a character as
Jenny Lind, so pure, so good, so benovelent—
such an angel of charity and kindness of heart»
should find such fervent admiration in her
own gentle sex. As a Georgian, and especially
as a citizen of Augusta, was I proud and gra
tified to see both our native State and native
City, send such fair and lovely d. legations to
worship at the shrine of Jenny Lind’s virtues,
and listen to the enrapturing melody of her
notes. It was not alone Jenny Lind the vo
calist; that drew to Charleston, so many of the
good and beautiful daughters of Georgia and
of Augusta: but it was, Jenny Lind the wo
man, Jenny Lind the pride and glory of her
sex—the pure, irreproachable and exalted
ereature who though devoted from six years
old to the tempting and too often corrupting
career of a public singer, the object of the gaze
of millions, and the flatteries of the world, has
yet not only retained the beautiful simplicity
of her character, but presents to mankind
one ol the most exalted patterns of human
excellence —a character that approaches that
ideal of human perfection which existed
hitherto only in the dream of the enthusiast.
It was to see the best woman in the world,
and not wholly to hear the greatest vocalist,
which carried us on our pilgrimage, and no
doubt did many others to Charleston. It
was the consciousness of gazing on that
best woman, and not that greatest vocalist
which was uppermost in our mind, and caused
our heart to flutter with strong emotion, on
Thursday evening last, when Miss Lind came
forward to receive the enthusiastic greetings
of a Charleston audience. It was not a cold
reception, as has been stated. It was a greet
ing approaching nearer to tumultuous
enthusiasm, than is often, if ever, wit
nessed in that theatre. There was doubtless
an effort, on the part of many, to withhold the
audible expression of their enthusiasm.—
With many, it was perhaps a reluctant but
irrepressible testimony of their homage.
This was for no want of good feeling for
Miss Lind. But it was in part from dislike to
Barnum.
§§}The Fee Jee Mermaid humbug, of which
the Charleston community was selected by
Barnum, to be the first victims, still sticks
like an irritating blister, and nothing that
Barnum had anything to do with, could have
unalloyed popularity and welcome in Charles
ton. Many of large means actually staid away
on that account. They would not pay high
prices for tickets, half of which Barnum was
to pocket.
This was rather “ a small potatoe” feel
ing, particularly when it is remembered that
Charleston came off measurably victor in that
experiment on their credulity; for Dr. Bach
man, a distinguished naturalist, resident in
Charleston, triumphantly reduced that hum
bug into its constituent elements of a Mon
key’s head and Shoulders, and a Cod Fish’s
body and tail.
But the triumph of Jenny Lind, the vocalist,
was complete almost the moment her first note
was heard, and long before her first song was
finished, she had won the unqualified admi
ration of her discriminating audience. The
first Concert was a signal triumph. It won
the applause of an audience, which was de
termined not to applaud and approve simply
because other audiences had applauded: but
which approved because it was really charmed,
delighted and wonder stricken, and applaud
ed because it could not help it.
We attended each of the three Concerts,
and noticed with what marked and increased
enthusiasm song after song, and Concert after
Concert, were greeted. At the closing Con
cert, on Saturday evening, which, notwith
standing the inclemency of the weather, was
to a brilliant and full house, the enthusiasm
was remarkable. It rose to the point of furore,
and was yet decorous in expression, in the
midst of the tumult of plaudits and loud re
sounding cheers. It was hearty and joyous,
without being riotous and vulgar.
Great praise is due the Charlestonians—per
haps we should say Carolinians and Geor
gians —for there was a very pleritiful sprink
ling of the latter at each Concert, for their very
respectful and decorous deportment through
out. Whenever admiration for a specially beau
tiful part broke forth in spontaneous plaudits
at a point which would disturb the comple
tion of the passage, a slight hush from a few
lips would still the audience into a silence
profound enough almost to make the beatings
of one’s own heart audible.
We have now to express our opinion as
to Jenny Lind, the Yocalist. We think her
by far the greatest and most wonderful vocal
ist we have yet heard. We cannot doubt
that she is unsurpassed and peerless in the
world of music—the unquestioned Queen of
Song—the very incarnation of the divine soul
of melody.
To say that she sings like an angel is to use
a trite and figurative expression: yet our ima
gination has not yet compassed a conception
of melody, save such as may be struck from
golden harps in Paradise, or warbled from
seraphic lips, which could surpass the ineffa
bly touching and sublime tones of Jenny
Lind. It is not her artistic skill, her nice
taste, the flexibility of her voice, her full and
perfect notes, and the lofty and daring flights
on which she ventures in her operatic pieces,
or even the wonders of the Echo Song and the
Mountaineer’s Song, which charmed us only
or charmed us most. It was the soul of
music breathing through her voice and thril
ling the heart and drawing tears to the
eyes in her sacred pieces and simple bal
lads. She felt what she sung, and made
her auditors feel it with her. She was
blithe and joyous as a bird, in the Bird Song.
She was sad and poetically tender in “The
last rose of summer.” She thought of her
native land, and fondly sighed for “ home,
sweet home,” in the exquisitely pathetic and
true song of that name. What “ exile from
home” did not sympathize with her as she
sang, and feel a responsive chord in his heart
vibrating to her plaintive tones ? In the
glorious anthems, “ 1 know that my Redeemer
liveth,” and “ On mighty pens," she was a
caristian. No one who listeneo could doubt
it, and it must have inspired, even in the
Theatre, the most thoughtless with reveren
tial feelings.
j He who doubts that Jenny Lind is a musi
cian in every fibre of her heart and body, and
that the very genius of music dwells in her
inmost soul, is himself an outside barbarian—
he has never felt the first thrill of the di
vine afflatus, and is only “ fit for treason,
stratagems and spoils.”
There are voices possessing qualities differ
ent from that of Jenny Lind. There are
some sopranos that pour forth a full clarion
like and golden flood of melody which, in
some passages, cause every drop of blood in
the veins to tingle and the hair to stand on
end. Jenny Lind’s is not one of these. It is
clear, soft, flute-like, musical, and there is a
silvery ring in it which makes it all pervading
in its penetrating power. At times it seems
not of earth, earthly, but capable of speeding
on and up to realms beyond the sky, and in
its flight to carry the imagination captive into
the spirit land.
In short, we are a Jenny Lind man, out and
out. We believe that nature has yet to pro
duce a voice that can compare with it in glo
rious power, brilliancy and beauty.
We might write still more rhapsodically of
Jenny Lind the woman, but our space will
not permit. We will not forbear to say, how
ever, that in the ordinary sense, she is any
thing but beautiful, or even pretty. But there
is a beauty of expression—a charm about the
benevolent brow, and clear mild eye—and a
witchery of refinement, innocence and purity
of thought and feeling, that play over her
features and nestle in her dimples, as she ap
pears on the stage, and under the animating
influence of the melody she is pouring forth
from her lips, that invest her with a spir
itual loveliness which purifies while it wins.
Wild Fowl. —We learn from the Snow
Hill Shield, that wild fowl, such as geese,
brant, canvassback and other wild ducks, are
now abounding in the Synepuxent Bay and
tributary waters, and are taken in large unm
bers. The market at Snow Hill was over
stocked with them during the past week.—
Terrapins too, and oysters, were never finer or
more plantiful.
United States Statistics. —Value of wool
ens, cottons, hemp, and hempen goods, iron
and iron manufactures, sugar, salt, and coal,
imported during 1850, $61,835,321; duties,
$16,980,698. In 1849 the va.ue of such im
ports was $48,204,750; duties $13,162,751.
Value of the imports for 1850, $178,136,318;
exports $151,898,720. Domestic produce, ex
clusive of specie, $134,900,233. Foreign
merchandise exported, exclusive of specie,
$9,475,493.
Madeira wine imported in 1840, 303,125
gallons; in 1849, 193,791 gallons. In no pre
vious year since did the quantity exceed 117,-
000 gallons; in 1843 and in 1844 it was only
16,000 gallons. In 1843 the average cost was
$2,29 per gallon; in 1850 it was less than fif
ty cents. Sherry wine imported in 1850,
212,092 gallons; in 1848, 215,935; and in no
previous years since 1843 did it exceed 77,-
000 gallons. The cost in 1843 was $1,38 per
gallon; in 1850 it was 56 cents.
For the World's Fair in London. —Ar-
ticle No. 2, sent to the New York Navy Yard
to be forwarded to the World’s Fair, is a lot
of American Champagne. The Richmond
Enquirer also says:—On Saturday we saw,
in the store of B. M. Burton on Main street,
two handsome boxes of Virginia Oak, elegant
ly varnished and decorated,They had just come
out of the factory of Poitaux Robinson, Esq.,
and were filled with the finest Chewing To
bacco, marked “For the World’s Convention*
London.” The tobacco is of very superior
character, and was purchased at S3O in the
hogshead, from Tucker Carrington, Esq., the
excellent Senator from Mecklenburg, by
whom it was grown. The whole affair will
do credit to the planter,the manufacturer and
the State.
A Revolutionary Soldier. —Mr. Ephraim
Gandy,a resident of Darlington District, says
the Camden (S. C.) u Journal, arrived at the
age of one hundred and eight years on the
Hth of September last. He served through
the revolutionary war, and is yet living as a
monument of the past. He visited
our town a few days ago, and was then in
the enjoyment of good health. It is now
quite unusual to man, as there are
but few who lived and acted in the days that
tried men’s souls.
Jenny Lind and the Swedish Schools. —
The Lorgnette, a recent number, in alluding
to the generosity of the Nightingale, says:
“Think of it for a moment, Fritz, that your
ticket,and your seat is to give a desk to some
poor Swedish scholar, and that the echoes of
the Nightingale are to re-echo through theii
whole life time in the hearts and voices of ten
thousand blue-eyed Scandinavian children.”
New Methodist College.— From a corres
pondent’s letter in the Pickens Courier, we
learn that the late Mr. Wofford, of Spartan
burg, who had long been a minister of the
denomination, has devised the sum of $50,000,
to be held by thirteen gentlemen, mostly
ministers, in trust for the South Carolina
Conference, to found a College in Spartan
burg District:
“ The College, when completed, is to be
transferred by these Trustees to the same
number of Trustees, who shall be appointed
by the South Carolina Conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church, under whose charge
and supervision it was designed by the testa
tor the Institution should be placed, and the
appointment of these Trustees by that body
to be made biennially. The further sum of
fifty thousand dollars (SSO,O(Jb) is also given
by the Testator, to the same gentlemen, (or
perhaps to the Trustees to be appointed by the
Conference) in trust, to be by them invested
in such stocks or in such manner as shall be
deemed most advantageous, the interest and
profit of which is to be appropriated annually
to the payment of the expenses of professor
ship,” See.
On a late trial, which turned on the quality
of a certain supply of milk, the following evi
dence wa3 given by a physician and chemist,
who had analyzed that which is sent out daily
in New York, from one establishment of one
thousand cows :
“Question: What are the effects of this slop
milk in the human system? Answer—My
opinion is formed from what I have heard from
other physicians; they have told me that one
drop of this milk given to a child would pro
duce sickness. I have seen cases myself where
it has produced deleterious consequences; I
have no doubt it is decidedly unhealthy, par
ticularly to children whose digestive organs
are delicate and slow. I have seen cases where
my opinion was that diseases of cholera in
fantum and marasmus have been produced by
this sort of milk. Marasmus is a general ema
ciation; I have not personally known it to pro
duce consumption, but it is so stated in me
dical books, and it is the general opinion of
physicians that it does. I have noticed that
this milk did not coagulate in the stomach as
the pure milk does; the emulative quality is
one that it must possess to be digestive in a
reasonable time. The kind of food spoken of
increases the quantity of milk, but diminishes
the nutriment; there is a reduction in the
legitimate nutritious parts of from ten to thirty
per cent.”
The Cotton Crop.— From the~Cireular of
Messrs. Taleott & Brothers, of New York,
which was transmitted by the Africa, we
quote the following paragraphs :
“A correspondent at New Orleans informs
us that ‘the Factors' tables are well supplied
with red Cottonsthis proves not only the
correctness of the frost accounts, but also that
they have reached the frost Cotton in pick
ing.
“ When we estimated the crop on the sth
ultimo at 2,075 a 2,155,000 bale*, we fully
expected to see the receipts on or before the
first of January, 50 to 75,000 bales in excess
of last season, for we knew that the compara
tively high prices ruling would induce every
planter to use his utmost exertions to market
his crop.
“ Contrary to expectation, the receipts, as
will be seen by the annexed table, are mate
rially behind those of the last season, (58,565
bales) the deficiency being now greater in the
aggregate than before the rise in the Alabama
rivers, the lowness of which had previously
delayed the receipts at Mobile; and the stocks
at the interior towns were also light. With
all the facts before us bearing upon the ques
tion, and guided only by the desire to furnish
reliable information, we reiterate our full and
unmistaken confidence in the opinion that
our estimate will prove a full one.”
Fugitive Slave Excitement. —Attempted
Murder.— At Parkersburg, Chester county,
Fa., on the night of the 14th instant, Hiram
Maginnis, a woodsawyer on the Columbia
Railroad, was shot and badly wounded by
some unknown assassin, who is supposed to
be a negro named Lewis: Maginnis, it ap
pears, had threatened to inform on Lewis as a
fugitive slave and have him sent back to sla
very* Ther® was # and still is much excite
ment in the neighborhood, on the subject.
A. correspondentjfrom Charleston, "writing to
the editor of the Richmond Whig, says: “I
have just had a conversation with Jenny Lind,
and she has determined to drop the name of
Swedish Nightingale. She says that, after
her trip from Wilmington to Charleston, she
does not desire to be a night in gale again.
Jenny Lind’s Charity Concert.-— We give
below a statement of the distribution of the
nett proceeds of the Charity Concert given by
Jenny Lind, on Saturday evening last,amoun
ting to 53,440. It gives ua great pleasure
that such a dispensation has been made, as
will, we are sure, create general satisfaction.
The donations are given to institutions that
depend alone on contributions; and will reach
and relieve those of the poverty-stricken who
are truly deserving. Had it been the case,
that this lady had drawn by her transcendant
talent, tens of thousands from the pockets of
the rich, the thousands that she has thus de
voted to the necessities of the poor, will cause
her \ isit to this city even to be remembered
with gratitude :
Firemens’ Charitable Association 500
Ladies' Benevolent Society 500
Sisters of our Lady of Mercy, with. Orphans
under their charge 500
Charleston Port Society .500
Apprentices’Lib rry 300
Ladies’ Fuel Society 200
Ladies’ Garment Society 200
Female Charitable Association, Charleston
Neck 200
Total Abstinence Soiety 200
French Benevolent Society 100
Hebrew Benevolent Society.... * 100
Mosonic Benevolent Society 100
Private Charity • • 40
... .. .
$3440
Charleston Courier , 31 si ult.
From Texas.- -By the arrival of the steam
ship Maria Burt,we have received papers from
Galveston of the 17th inst.
We learn that the health of Galveston con
tinues very good. During the week end
ing on 16th inst. there were only six inter
ments.
Sugar making on the Brakes is now nearly
over.
The official returns of the vote on the ten
million proposition show but 8,488 votes for,
and 3,167 against .the hill. Many counties
made no returns, and the vote in most was
small, owing to the fact that the acceptance of
the proposal was generally looked upon as
certain.
Capt. Murray, of the schooner Hornet, died
on the 7th inst, the second day out from New
Orleans, bound to Matagorda. The mate an
chored the vessel this side of Velasco, and
went on shore for medicine for another man
on board who was supposed to be dying.
The Houston Telegraph informs us that
Judge Joseph P. Portia died suddenly at the
Old Capitol in Houston, on the 29fch ult.
He had only arrived in town two days pre
vious.
According to the report of the Comptroller
and Auditor, made to the Legislature of Tex
as at its late extra session, the total ostensi
ble debt ofTexas is $12,322,44, and the real
or par value of the same $6,812,926.
The late cold weather covered Turtle Bay,
which connects with Galveston Bay, with a
continuous sheet of ice, and destroyed lage
numbers of cattle in the vicinity of the mouths
of the Trinity.
Liken and Cotton. — Ve referred some days
ago to an invention said to have been success
fully tested in England for converting flax by
a cheap and summary process into the form of
what is styled flax cotton, which may be wo
ven by the same machinery now used in cot
ton factories. It is said that samples of this
fabric will be exhibited at the World’s Fair.
Some of the Kentucky papers are showing
an earnest desire that the account of this in
vention may be correct. The price of hemp
being some four and a half cents, while that
of raw cotton is nearly three times as much,
the successful introduction of a cheap and
expeditious mode of manufacturing the former
material would indeed form an era in the cul
ture of hemp in the U. States.—The invention
of the cotton-gin had a great deal to do with
the rapid increase of the cotton crop from
year to year in the Southern States; and a
similar result might be expected with regird
to hemp and flax, particularly the former, if
science and machinery could be made equally
available in preparing it for manufacture. The
superiority of linen over cotton fabrics—to
say nothing of the difference of price in the
raw material—would give to linen goods a su
perior demand if the expenses of manufac
turing in both cases could be equalized.—Bal
timore American.
From Yucatan. — We have before us the
Campeachy Razon of December 3d, from
which we learn that the state of affairs in
Yucatan by no means favors the cause of the
whites. The war with the Indians, which for
so long a period has distracted the country, so
far from approaching a termination, appears
to be more undecided than ever. The papers
are filled with official reports of marches and
countermarches, in ail of which manoeuvres
the whites claim the advantage, but nothing
definitive has occurred, and the general result
of recent operations seems to favor the insur
gents. With this bad prospect before them,
the Spaniards cannot preserve harmony among
themselves. They are constantly quarreling
even in the face of their savage foes. At
Valladolid great discontent was manifested
in the army, and it was supposed that a pro~
nunciamento against the Supreme Government
was in preparation. On the other hand, the
Governor of the State, the Commandant Gen
eral, the Commissary General, and Gen. Lo
pez de Llergo, had amicably arranged their
difficulties, and had announced a determina
tion to work together in future.
On the whole it appears to us that Yucatan
is in a bad way.— N. &. Fieapune, 2 6th ult.
Quaxbs’s Courtship.— “ Martha, does thee
love me?” asked a Quaker youth of one at
whose shrine his heart's fondest feelings had
been offered up. “Why, Seth,” answered
she, “we are commanded to love one another,
are we not?' 5 “Ah, Martha! but doest thou
regard me with that feeling the world calls
love?” “I hardly know what to tell thee
Seth; I have tried to bestow my love on all*
but I may have sometimes thought, perhaps*
that thee was getting more than thy share.’’
Tkial Trips.—Two steamships were tried
yesterday. The Alabama, commanded by
Capt. Ludlow, and the Independence. The
Alabama is owned by Samuel L. Mitchell,
and is intended for the Savannah line. She
was built by W. H. Brown, machine
ry by Stillman. Allen & Co. Her lenghtis 222
feet; beam, 35 feet: hold 22 feet. SLo regis
ters 1,450 tons. The cylinders have a diame
ter of 75 inches, with eight feet stroke. The
Independence is designed for the California
trade. She was launched from the yard >£
W. H. Brown with her steam on, and everj -
think prepared for the excursion, not omitting
a large party of guests. Her trip was consi
dered very successful.— N. Y. Commercial .