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The Cause of Periodical Fevers.
The rubjoct of periodical fever*,.such as inter-
miUeuts.uud remittents, is always an interesting
oae to the inhabitants of tho United States. As
elucidating some of the absurdities connected
with the origiu of these diseases, ami also as fur
nishing some useful precautionary hiuts, the fol
lowing opinions of a learned Roman physician,
will, wo aro sure, bo well received by our read
ers. They are extracted from a paper which we
translated from tho original letter, sent over for
publication iu tho Sorth American Medical and
Surgical Journal, Vol. VII.
Soma years, says Folchi, the author of tho es
say, have now clap-cd since, while advocating
With Hrcchi the utility of woollen garments iu the
country around Rome, iu which periodical fevers
prevail to such an extent, I adduced some facts
tending to exclude the supposed agency of marsh
miasma, and to exhibit as remote causes of those
fevers tho moisture and diminished temperature
which occur iu the sickly regions above mention
ed during the night. (Giornale Arcadico, Cental-
jo. 1823, p. 1.) It will not lie foreign from our
present purpose to recapitulate these facts. 1.
A hot und constantly dry summer is the most ex
empt from fevers; wheroas the most sickly one
is thpt iu which falls of rain alternate with atmos
pherical vicissitudes of temperature. This fact
has no need of confirmation, since it is one of fa
miliar experience with Roman practitioners. It
may, howover, be well to mention, that in 1826,
when we had so groat an increase of fever pa-
tieuts as to require the opening of an additional
hall iu Sun Spirito, there had not been that dry
summer which had been met with during the five
years preceding. 2. Tho inhabitants of Koine
who had not goun into the country, contracted,
nevertheless, periodical fevers by remaining du
ring tho night iu tltoso parts of the city in which,
assuredly, the air was coal and moist, but iu which
there could not be.suspected any marsh miasm;
so also were they seized With fever, who dwelt
on rivulets remote from the centre of the city,
wear gardens, reservoirs of water, uud in tho cen
tre itself, on tho banks of the Tiber. 3. The fre
quent relapses in those who had suffered from pe
riodical fevers in the city, proceeded uot from the
convalescent going into a suspected miasmatic
spot, but from his leaving the liouso early in the
morning, and returning late iu tho evening, which
is equivalent to saying, that he was exposed to a
cool am) moist air. 4. In the dangerous months,
a fevor has often attacked a person who had not
beet* out of .the city, but who, from some pressing
cause, had been overheated, and who, uftor being
bathed iu sweat and exposed to a curreut of cool
air, had his body strongly chilled; so, likewise,
he who slept during the night with tho. window
of his room open, became readily subject to dis
mast). 5. In these dangerous months, if there
happened a change in the atmosphere from dry to
moist, and from hot to cold, and a loss of cquili-
brium.iu tlio.electricity of tile air, very suscepti
ble persons, such as those troubled with hysteria
aucf hypochondriasis, felt sUch disturbance thro’
their whole frames and so manifest a coldness,
that they imagined themselves to bo seized with
lever; and at times there ensued in thorn a degree
ufheat and alteration of the pulse, having all the
appearance of u fever of ponodicity. <J. I have
-myself kuown an individual to be attacked with
this kind of fever from having, during the sus
pected season, fallen asleep near a rivulet: the
ground adjoining it was, however, perfectly dry;
nor'was thero any stagnant water in the neighbor
hood. ,7. Many persons, likewise, are known to
sue, who have during many years preserved them
selves from fever in tho worst parts of the coun
try around Rome, by adopting the most rigid
caution in retiring within tueir houses before o-
vening, closing the windows, and warming the
rooms; and taking care not to go out iu the rnoru-
iug until the sun had keen some time above the
horizon. 8. During my stay iu Tcrrucina, of
more than forty days, and at a time when perio
dical fevers were extremely prevulcat, I constant
ly observed that tho atmosphere of tho Pontine
marshes was filled with a denso vesicular vapor
shortly aftor tho setting of tho suu, and before
day-break. 9. Our country people arc little or
uot at all protected agaiust humidity and noctur
nal cold, are badly fed, often Sleeping exposed to
tho heavens, with their bodies half covered by
tattered garments; vory different from the weal
thy and noble, who arc accustomed to wear wool
len clothes, eat flesh meat, take particular enro of
thoir skin by the frequent uso of baths, and who
always‘rctiro to thoir houses towards eveuing, to
wait lpr supper. 10. Finally, I adduced a nega
tive argument, but yot one which merits to be
taken-into tho account, viz. that neither Carru-
dori nor Brochi, nor any other chomist or natural
philosopher! has been able to discover ouo atom of
the supposed miasm, though they concentrated
and examined with tho groatest care the vanor in
which it is supposed to oxist. The series or facts,
sustained by numerous observations, is now ad
duced with tho double viiSPof excluding a belief
iu mnrsh miasm, us a material cause of intermit
tent fevers in the campagna around Rome, and
of explaining the remoto causes of those maladies.
To my mind, the watory vapor which is con
stantly given out from a moist soil during the
heat of tho day, and which, becoming denser at
nighfe descends towards the lower strata of the
atmosphere, accompanied with a notable diminu
tion of temperature, is :ho agent which, in a bo
dy predisposed to it, occasions tho fever in ques
tion;-in using tho languugo of pathologists, it
ought to ho called tho occasional cause.—Journal
of Health.
Hessians.—1766 tho British government
paid tho elector of Hossee Cosset nearly two mil
lions of dollars for Hessians, hired to fight against
•this country, during tho revolutionary war. They
lost \5;700 qicn, in all tho campaigns, and somo
of the general officers are now lying “quietly in-
urned" iutho little church at the comer of Wil
liam «ud Frankfort streets in their long queus,
cocked hat, muustachios and Hessian boots.—.V.
Y.pa.
Thi Colonies. From the vory voluminous and
voluablo papers prepared byllumefor his motion to
give representatives to the colonies, we havo tho
following information : Tho British colonics a-
mouut' in number to 37, exclusive of the British
possessions in India. Of theso there have been
captured 11, ceded 4, obtained by settlement 19.
•The population of these colonies is, in North A-
merica, 911,223 l British Guiana and the West
Indies,'Whites 40,485, free colored people 60,803,
slaves. 694,530—total 836,527 ; Crown colonies,
whites 238,388, free colored 077,407, slaves in-
cludingof course convicts 146,899—total 1,332-
409. Tho imports from tho whole in 1829 wero
in official value £11,508,943 ; official valuo of
exports £10,777,244. Ships inwards 2,793, ton
nage 755,-. 375 ; ships outwards 2,977, tonnage
1,067,213. - Theso aro important data whereby
to estimate thu value of our colonies. Land, pa.
From the Boston Transcript of Saturday.
Turkish Mission to America.—We aro. inform-
cd by’Capt. Phelps, of the brig Mermaid, which
arrived here on Tuesday last, from Smyrna, that
i short time previous to his sailing, he shipped
Seignor,'for tho purpose of acquiring general in
formation in tho various branches of science and
mechanics, ns practised in America. Ho is re
presented to us by Capt. Phelps, ns being a vene
rable looking personage, with a full, long, white
benn), flowing down to Us ginllc. -He was ac-
cvmp uil -d by a'«'ttu'i/uH»oy, of she-1 n'£? years
of age, in lull Turkish costume, iu the capacity
of a ■‘pipe bearer."
The Preceptor was furnished with mi ample
outfit by tho (>rmid Seignor. It was his inten
tion to Invo speut some years in this country,
aud to have visited all tile principal cities, dock
yards, aud manufactories of tlte United States,
lie had embarked on board the Mermaid, and a
short tiiho after the vessel was got under weigh,
was taken suddenly ill, when Capt. l’liclps, with
much regret was obliged to land him, with his
retinue aud baggage, again in .Smyrna, llisconi-
pluint was not considered alarming, and on 4is
recovery, he will'again embark for America; he
may be expected by the next arrival.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
. New Yuan, October 18.
By tho packet ship Birmingham, captain Har
ris, the editors of the Journal of Coianieifln have
received Loudua papers to the Rth September,
aud Liverpool to Ihoshh inclusive.
The Markets.—A fair business continued to
be done iu CottuH, without change iu prices.—
Coffee was firm. There was no important change
iu bread stuffs or any other atlicles.
The Dutchess of Kent has refused to attend
the coronation of King William. That event was
to havo taken place on the 8th of September, the
date of our latest paper. The London Herald
says: “Today a monarch strong in the auctions
of his people goes forth to receive with the solem
nities of religiou, and amid the honest acclama
tions of his subjects, a crown which is consecrated
by that highest and purest historical glory .which
is associated with the consolidation of a nation’s
liberty.’’
The French troops aroagetiring from Belgium.
London, Sept. 8.—At length the Reform Hill
has passed the Committee. The report is to la-
brought up on Tuesday next, wheu the debate
upon the general measure will be renewed.
The Paris Temps of August 4 says, "a terrible
revolt has broken out in the Russian military colo
urs. They speak of frightful massacres of gen
erals and officers. This event, intelligence of
which reached the Government last cveuiug by a
courier of the Duke of Mortemart, may have a
great influence upon tho fate of Poland.
London, Sept. 7.—German, Dutch and Brus
sels papers to the date of yesterday were last
night received. Their contents generally possess
but little interest; aud as regards Poland in par
ticular—for which it is impossible not to feel at
this moment a painful anxiety—their barrenness
is absolutely disappointing.. Of Rudiger, anil the
victory which was claimed over him, we find not.
a word, and wo have reason to believe that no
thing more is known than has been already pub
lished. H’e find it stated, under the head of Ber
lin, the 1st of September, according-to the latest
accounts from the head quarters of the Russian
imperial army, they were still at Nndarzvu; ou
the 23d; and the outposts were about four wersts
(two English miles and a half) from Warsaw.—
Since the late events nothing farther has taken
place. The first division of the troops which
General Krutz is bringing to join tho Field Mar
shal, had already passed the Vistula.
From Vienna, of the 25th of August, there is
a vague and improbable report, that Prince Rad-
ziwill has been sent as plenipotentiary from the
Polish 'National Government to tho Russian head
quarters, to negotiate a peace.
London, Sept. 6.—The accounts from War
saw, by yesterday’s Hamburg mail, are full of
deep and melancholy interest. Two orders of
the day were brought to us by the above con
veyance, signed respectively by Generals Skrzy-
necki and Dcmbinski, the former on resigning,
the latter on assuming, the command of the pa
triotic army of Poland. Skrzynccki’s address to
the troops is imbued in every lino of it with a
selves sufficiently strong, or that matters were
not well concerted, refused to accompauy their
comrades, and only 400, about one half them,
undertook the task of overturning Don Miguel
and his tyrannical Government. They proceed
ed through tho different streets, with their colors
flying, and baud playing tho constitutional hymn;
and as they passed through, tho people ill gener-
al, from tno windows, cheered them with Viva
Donna Maria, Don Pedro, Villa Flour, t,‘c. They
sont dotnehments to several of the barracks, part
of whom only turned out. They marched to the
Rosia square, where they were soon surrounded
with the different regiments of infantry and caval
ry. The 7th cavalry charged them, hut was re
pulsed, aud gave way to the 4th regiment, who
maintained their ground to the last, not having n
single ball cartridge. Don Miguel, on hearing of
the risingof tho troops, shut himself up in Belem
Castle, his staff went to reconnoitre, and soino
spirit of generous and self-forgetting devotion to
his country’s service, at the same tiino that it re
quires from tho soldiers, in terms of affectionate
solicitude, tbnt they will follow the example he
himself proposes, while fighting in the ranks, to
set them of implicit obedience to die authority of
their new commander, and of unconquerable zeal
and courage in tho cause of liberty. There is
on apparent calmness as well'as moderation in
all the public documents that havo been publish
ed with Skrxynecki’s name, which possesses an
indeseribla charm.
Insurrection at Lisbon.—On Saturday evening
the 21st Aug. at 10 o'clock, the 4th regiment of
infantry, at Campodo Rio barracks, turned out
and declared for Donna Marin II. A cadet of
the regiment went to the commanding officer and
demanded of him the regiment colors, which were
refused, and, in the act of drawing his sword, tho
cadet run him through the body, and took the co
lor*. Part of this regiment uot thinking thcra-
shots wero fired at them, and the Coude de St.
llartine, and the Baron de Bcsura, wore shot, as
it was supposed, taken for Don Miguel, being liko
him iu stature. After all was over, Don Miguel,
about 3 o’clock, came from the Castle and rodo
to the city nttho head of his staff.
Tho reports of the killed and wounded, aro va
rious. It is stated to bo 150 to 200. By day
light or a little aftor, 374 of the 4th regiment
were seat as prisoners onboard of the St. Sebas
tian hulk. A major of the police was mortally
wounded in tho affray. The Major who ill-trea
ted Dr. West is among tho killed. There is no
doubt that had Count Villa Flor been present
with tho 1400 tnen he tpok St. Michael’s with,
iu less than 12 hours ho would have had posses
sion of Lisbon, as well as tho major part of the
troops.
Great Fire at Constantinople.—A Vienna date
of August 23d says, “letters from Bucharest of
tho 12th of August givo accounts from Constanti-
ople of tho 2d, stating that eighteen hundred
houses, almost tho whole of Pcra, had been de
stroyed bv fire; that sixty thousand persons were
without shelter, and had lost most of their pro
perty."
Latest from Bahia.—Wo learn from a gentle
man who came passenger in tho brig Pegasus,
from Bahia, which place the brig left on tho first
of September, that tho night previous to her sail
ing a revolution broke out which caused great a-
larm among the inhabitants. Nothing serious
however occurred, and the day they sailed all was
apparently quiot again, but apprehensions wero
afloat that preparations were making among a
party of the troops opposed to tho present go
vernment for declaring a republic, in which ovent
much confusion and bloodshed would likely bo
the consequence. Owing to die disturbed stato
of things, business of all kinds was extremely
dull. Au abundance of American produce in tho
iu::LvV butuo sa!-.’< only retail, Moiey very
scarce and confidence entirely destroyed. The
United States ship Lexington, Captain Duncan,
had been spoken (by au arrival «t Baliia a few
days previous to the I*, sailing.) in long. 21 W.
(no latitude mention.) out 36 days from Norfolk
bouud to Pcmaiubuca and Baliia. Her arrival
was anxiously looked for by the American resi
dents at Baliin.—Phil. Gazette.
The New Orleans Mercantile Advertiser of the
8th inst. says—"Our eity continues very healthy.
During tho last week a great number of the
patients at tba hospital were discharged; but at
the same time the iuflux or others was uo less
extraordinary, being greater tliuu at any former
period, aud making the whole number of inmates
uj> to yesterday morning at IU o’clock 264, out
of which number only 29 are females.”
Letters received at Charleston by the Samuel
Wnght, state that the British Aft, imposing the
5-6d. duty on Cottoii, had received the Royal
assent on the 25d Aug. but it had not gone into
operation as late «* the 2d of Sept, at Liverpool.
Military—We are informed that the Head
Quarters of the 2d U. S. Artillery, will be re
moved from Augusta to Caulonmeut Oglethorpe
on tile 1st of next mouth.
We hope that hereafter the annual removal of
She troops to Augusta will be dispensed with. If
Oglethorpe Harraeks should prove as unhealthy
as during the first season after their erection, quar
ters can doubtless be found within the city both
convenient aud healthy.
The Collector at New Orleans has recently
seized a quantity of what was imported as SvRue
but which, on being aualized, proves to bo Sugar
dissolved in water, aud yielded more than eight
poutuls of sugar to the gallon, or eight hundred
ponpds. to tho hogshead, of a quality superior to
'auy^ttjade in Louisiana. Syrup pays a duty ol
fifteen per cent ou its value where shipped, and
Sugar'three cents per lb. The 800 pounds iu the
West Indies at three cents per pound would cost
twenty four dollars; these twenty four dollars, with
tile addition, of per cent, would pay a duty at the
Custom Douse, of fifteen percent, amounting to'
three dollars and iiintey cents. Ou the other
hand the eight hundred pounds of real browu Su
gar, imported witli 110 view to evade the Revenue
Laws, would at three cents per pound, pay nearly
seven times as much, or exactly twenty four dol
lars. The Louisiana Advertiser states that great
excitement prevails among the planters, in conse
quence of the introduction of this new article.—
Tile matter is to come before a judicial tribuuul.
—Savannah Georgian.
Govemd'r Branch lias published iu tho Raleigh
Star, one or two letters that passed between him
and Major Eaton in January, 1830, which estab
lished a charge that Major Eaton, in his lute
appeal, altered the date of one of Governor B’:
letters, and suppressed another entirely.
A Mr. D. Vanderslico has written a letter to
the New York Ceiitinel, stating, that the story of
Colonel IC. M. Johnson's having introduced his
mulatto daughters to a public assembly of ladies
and gcntlcnicu on the Fourth of July last is cn
tirely without foundation. Mr Vanderslico is in
error-—perhaps unintentionally. The story in
question is true, every word of it. We have seen
several gentlemen, who were present, and who
have vouched for its correctness in every parti
cular.—Louisville (Kentucky) Journal.
lappy to hear that Judge Marshall
1 the ope
We are hai ..
Went through the operation of lithotomy at Phi
ladelpliia on Thursday last well and was “more
comfortable [says the United States’ Gazette]
than could have been expected.” A letter re
ceived iu this city yesterday evening states that
his symptoms were decidedly favorable, his skiu
soft, und very little fever about him.
The last Baltimore l'atriot states, that the cel
ebrated Dr. Philip Sing Physic has resigned the
professorship of Anatomy in the Uuiversity of
Pennsylvania—Richmond Compiler, 17th inst.
Waters Smith,• Esq. Marshal of the U. S. for
the District of East Florida, died at St Augustine
on the 19th inst. iu the 52d year of his age.
Florida.—Wclcam from the Tallahassee Flori
dian, that the people of Florida have nullified
Govomor Duval's proclamation, ordering a new
election for Delegate to Congress, and that they
havo refused to vote in every district vet heard
from. It may be recollected that Mr. White was
clcctfcd in May last, over Mrw Gadsden by about
sixty, votes. The Governor however declared
one of the county returns informal, which pro
duced a tie and a new election was ordered.
The editor of tho Ncwbern Spectator, in his
paper of tho 14th inst. says—"We believe that
the Cotton crop in North Carolina this year will
not exebed (if it equal) the half of last year’s crop.”
Philadelphia, it appears by tho accounts just
made up, remitted SI 1,952 to the
sufferers.
tri=> We have received tho new miMieation
paper from Charleston, called the Eveimig 1 ost.
It goes the “entire swine.” The people o! Char-
lestou, friendly to the unioA.of the States, will
soon feel the necessity of supporting those papers
which are friendly to such union. Nullification
may be agreeable docriiie to day-tomorrow w ill
make its aiders and abettors hide their dimmish,
cd heads.—ih.
Communicated fur the Louisiana Advertiser.
THE COTTON CItOPN- .
The following aro extracts recently Received 111
this eity from different sections of Lotti‘-' aua a,u *
Mississippi.
Adams County Miss.—“The hopes we enter
tained two or three weeks ago, of au averaji?®
crop being realized, are, from the unprecedeniei,
rains at tills season of the year, entirely prostra ted,
According to the accounts received from various
sections of this State, we cannot calculate upon
more than two thirds of an average crop."
Jefferson County Miss.-—“In our letter to you
of the 19th ultimo, wo gave it as our opinion that
an average crop would he mnde, and that from
information received, the staple would be gener
ally, fine and good, but we regret to statu, that 1
the raius and dump weather we have since ex
perienced, have materially changed the prospect.
We uow question whether at the extent, more
than three fourths of an average crop can he
made.”
Claiborne County Miss. ‘I think from the
very bad appearance here and elsewhere, in the
cotton counties, that the present crop will be fear
fully short. Three weeks ago the planters here
would have told you they were making average
crops now all agree that there will not he in this
State more than a half to two thirds of au aver
age crop. The deficiency has been caused by
continued heavy rains, high winds and rut to au
alarming degree in some cases. Many indeed
will not gather more than a fourth of an ordinary
crop iu this county, aud that too on our best soil.”
Warren County Miss.—“You must be fully
convinced by this time, that the cotton crops will
he very short. At this season last year most
planters had gathered otic third of tiicir crops,
while at present hut few have fairly commenced
picking. Cotton is grassy, luxuriant iu its growth,
with hut few bolls. The season indicates an ear
ly frost, which will destroy all the young bolls that
h.iveuewly matured, stain and otherwise injure
the cotton. .The crop will be short, li the crop
was aslarge'as lust season, it is uow so late that
it could not be picked out, and but very little has
been picked out yet iu anvof the counties. The
short crops ought to influence thu prices, uud
should he generally known.”
Wilkinson County Miss.-—“Our crops in this
eounty are full one half short, compared with the
crop of last year.”
Lawrence County Miss..—“I think our grow
ing crop will he only half of what it was last year.”
Amite county Miss.-—“I can say as my opin
ion, that the crops in this quarter are damaged
from one fourtli to one half."
I 3 arisli St. Landry 1m.-—“Since our last we
find that the cotton crops will fully sustain a loss
of one half."
West Feliciana, La.-—“It is supposed that the
late rains have injured our cotton crops fully one
Owing to the rainy weather some weeks since
which occasioned the rot in Cotton, crops ill ma
ny parts of the surrounding country will he extre
mely indifferent-—iu some places, however es
pecially where it was planted late, there is a pros
pect of more than ordinary product Sel. t'our.
Faycttevillo
Our Townsman, Dr. Antiiont, is to deliver
the address before tho Georgia Temperance Soci
ety in Milledgoville on tho 7th December next.—
Georgia Courier. —
The boy Jim, who has acquired so much noto
riety as tho innocent cause of tho celebrated
Philpot Case, has returned, and it is with much
pleasure we announce the fact of his arrival in die
city.—ib. ——
Our Banks have today refused to receive the
Bills of tho Darien Bank.—ib.
The Bank of the State of Georgia yesterday
declared its usual half yearly dividend of three
and a half percent, being at tno rate of seven per
cent per anuum.—Savannah Georgian, 22<f inst.
Some time since, a man by the name of Duke
committed a murder in Tuscaloosa county, at
tended with much aggravation, and mado his es
cape. A reward of $300 was offered hy tho
Governor, and $150 by private individuals for his
apprehension-—On the 10th instant, in Dale
county, Judge Collier, and Wm. D. Pickett, So
licitor of this Curcuit, having stopped at a house
to get Dinner, had the honor of having their
horse taken by friend Dnke, After a lapse of
some little time, tho Judge recognized Duke, and
very unceremoniously seized him hy tho collar.
The Solicitor at tho same took hold, and secured
him. They carried him 10 miles, and delivered
him into custody of a couple of inon, relinquish
ing to them the Reward; by whom he has been
conveyed to Tuscaloosa Jail. He could have ea
sily escaped, being nstout man, and the Judge
and Solicitor small, but Guilt had so overpower
ed him that ho made no resistance.—Ala. Jour.
Tariff Convention.—Mr. John Gibson of Con
cord N, U. delegate to tho Tariff Convention
atautto be held in this city on the 27th instant.
He says, “ it is a political movement got up by
the opposition party." Wo shall look sharp at
this Tariff Convention. What is it to do?—N.
York Courier,
05 s * Tho editor of the Telegraph says, that if
the next Congress will devclope the malpractices
of Jackson, he will exhibit facts that will drive
him to Tennessee.—Duff wishes Congress to talk
on any other subject but his priming—he has
some «liiverinss on 'hat bead.—ih.
Kissing with an Appetite.—A. religious sect
has recently sprung up in tile county of Surry,
(Eng.) one of whose tenets is to salute each o-
tlier at a meeting witli a holy kiss. One of the
female devotees, a young lady of a thousand
charms, happening to encounter a young gentle
man, of whom she was enamored, gave him
a more eordial mid loving salute than was quite
becoming. Tho next day she received a mes
sage from tho High Priest of tile sect, saying she
had been excommunicated for “kissing w illi an
appetite.”
Jonathan’s description of a Steam Boat.—It’s
not a sawmill on one side, and a gristmill on t'o
ther, aud a blacksmith's shop ill the middle, ami
down cellar thurc's a tarnation pot boiling all
the time.
The Superior Court of Canada, has decided,
“that a husband is not bound to pay for articles of
luxury and extravagance, furnished liis wife
without his knowledge mid consent!”
We arc told, in a Boston paper, that au indivi
dual some time since, purchased at Fanuuil Hall
market, a fine lot of putridges and on dressing
them for the spit, a striped snake, 15 inches in
length, was taken from the crop of one of them.
At a recent Tariff meeting in New Hampshire
it was resolved that the duties ought to be re
moved from all imported articles, of descriptions
not produced or manufactured in tiiis country.
We arc glad to seo this sentiment, so extensively
held by Tariff men, beginning to lie embodied iu
the proceedings of their public assemblies.—.Veto
York Journal of Commerce.
_ At tho Superior Court in Hartford, two weeks
since, $500 damages were recovered from the
tojvn of East Windsor, by a stage passenger, for
injuries received when passing a defective bridge
which gave way, mid horses, stage and passengers
fell through. Tile stage proprietor also recovered
8300 in an action agaiust the same. The verdicts
alrcdy rendered against the town of East Windsor,
amount to the sum of three thousand three hun
dred dollars, to say nothing of the enormous bills
of cost which must have attended these trials, aud
of the snug little item of counsel fees.
Vermont.—Another unsuccessful attempt was
made on Monday the 3d inst. to elect a member
of Congress in the fourth district. Iu the towns
heard from, Mr. Baily, had 2896 votes, Mr.
Allen 2821, Mr. Galusha 1247, and there were
67 scattering.
Throw Him overt- An ebullition ofpartriotisin
burst forth at the Park Theatre 011 Saturday e-
veuiug, (says tho New York Journal of Com
merce of the 17th instaut) which demolished the
glass lamps in front and part of the windows. It
seems that Mr. Audcrson, a "Star” from Drury
Lane, beiug engaged to play at the Park, took Ins
passngo on board one of our fine Liverpool pack
ets bound for the commercial emporium. Every
tiling went well, until in a most uulucky moment,
Audorson pronounced the word “yankees” with
another word before it. In au iustuut every evil
fell upon him. First came the ponderous list of
the mate, which laid him sprawling on the deck.
Aud on liis “first appenraucc” here, the Patriots,
& e do not believe oue iu ten of them was born in
w England) set up a shout of “off!” “off ”
"scud him home in the next packet!" “ No not
iuapacket!” “YnukeeDoodlo forever!" “Yan
kee Doodle forever!” On the whole “ tho elever
thing” was done in good style. Hereafter fore ign
ers will respect us. All the disgrace of the Mng-
dalen report is wiped away—aud above all,
there will after this never be any “union of Church
and State."
It is reported that tho number of lives lost at the
late hurricane in Barbados, amount to nine thou
sand 1
A Rum Distillery in Newport has recently been
altered into 5 Cotton Factorv.
TKLKGKAPIJ,
1 HSACoar, GHoaexi^
SATURDAY, OCT. 29. !J
Those who object to tile size of our IkT!
must recollect, that it is only a begiimj«! U Jj
...’linings are always small, A xviiale
its growth in a day—neither can a 1,.!?
Jt re-mires tune to perfect ail things: , a|,r,
science’s; newspapers or empires. Look 1
eity : but a short time ago, a single mlT
.luck P“' ,d almu ’ distinguished the si,. ,
what iv * - r .e-t'* entries at the , Ust ' J
tell. T» ' e 0‘ ,lcst a *>d one of the most rcnJ
journals ai 'mug us (the A ugusta Chrouhlo nJ
commenced •'** ”86, was issued but one,., 1
and on a she.-* a „ out . , , s ' ze ”f a gia-w.
Now it is a gosized imperial, an'l'aj,
twice a week, h'lr** 1 " indeed! all wo fear,
our undertaking is too large.
Georgia Messenger. * his paper has |jj_
larged its form, aim improv ed its upper; raj,J
is now aiming the largest am* 4 neatest printed
pers iu the Southern States, - ai.'d, under it, J
cut editors, is a dignified aud use/tll jonnufl
advocates the measures of the ’lVoup oirnT
Savannah Ihpubliian. This paper ;<!\|
sltcil its skin, and appears iu a new and IT
lul dress. The Republican is one of the il
journals iu tho state ; and is a consistent Cj
lord and Troup paper. 11
We notice theso improvements with pit*
as being evidences of the prosperity of tV .
and of tho advance of refinement. Pni,|L
however frequently push thoir uiceqmscijJ
and make improvements uot warranted l,tl
times. When such is the case, uot only edil
but literature itself sustains a loss. *U'VtJ
that this cannot ho said of any at present ini
oration among us. — 1
At this time, 29 Newspapers are publisl
this State, viz :
ATHENS.
The Athenian, published by O. P. Shaw, wet
maiutaius tho Troup doctrines.
AUGUSTA.
Augusta Chronic!., by A. II. Pemberton,!
weekly, supports the Clark party.
Georgia Coulter, by J. G. McWhorter, 1
weekly, supports the Troup party, (m m
The Constitutionalist, by W111. Ifimce, seuii-irl
ly, supports the Trout) party.
BAINKUIDUE.
Georgia Reporter, weekly, by Jared Ercretcl
COM MBUS. f
Columbus Enyuirer, by Van Ness, Bethuui
Lewis, weekly, supports die Troup pany.
The Democrat, by C. E. Bartlett, wecijjiaij
cates the principles of the Clark party.
MACON.
Macon Telegraph, by M.Bartlett, daily kndi
ly, advocates die Union of the States >hti
trines of tile Jefferson school, uud the
tiou of Gen. Jackson.
Georgia Messenger, by .8. Rose & Co. w«
attached to the Troup party.
The Macon Advertiser and Agricultural atl.V
cuntiie Intelligencer, aenu-weeMy, by M.I
Blade, attached to the same pirty.
Georgia Christian lleperloiy, weekly, byG.(
pers—attached to the Methodist cause.
M ACDONOUUli.
Macdonough Jacksonian, by S. Y\. .Minor, wtd
ly—supports die Clark party.
MILLEDGEt 1LI.E.
Georgia Journal, by Caintik A: Ragland, wet
(semi-weeklv during the scssiuu el the I
ture,) advocates the Troup party.
Southern Record, r, by Grailtlaud& Oroie.ws]
ly, belongs to (be same party.
The Federal . niuii, by 1'olhili dtCuthbcrb*
ly, advocates the Clark principles.
MOUNT ZION.
Hancock Advertiser, by J. P. Nortou, weekly,j
tachcd to the Troup party.
.SAVANNAH.
Savannah Re publican, by Fell At Do LuM
daily, attached lo die same party.
Savannah Georgian, by G. At VV. Robertson,*
ly, belongs to the same p: rty.
WAR KENTON.
Rural Cabin, t, by P. Robinson, weekly, adl
to die same party. .
WASHINGTON.
Washington Sews, l>y T. A. Pasteur, weekly,!
vocatcs tlie same doctrines.
Cotton comes iu in considerable qu:
though much slower than usual at this seuojj
the year, owing to the backwardness of ice of
The line dry weather for some time p«i<!
been particularly favorable for picking out: *
we may soon expect to seo the wonted ano"
come concourse of cotton carriages in our™
Accounts from various parts of this state an
vorablc for a larger crop than thnl of I®* 5!
Letters however from Louisaua and Mb®*
mention the reverse as being the case then-
is staled that from two thirds to three founwj
au average crop only wifi bo made in
states. —.
The site of tho lown of Macon continue! wi
the most healthy m the South. Disease state]
around it, lay iug itis heavy hand upon
hamlet, upoti the mdu ellers of the costly m
us well as the humble cottage; while litre,■“j
its have been seldom ami comparatively -
True, wc havo uot been exempt from 1
nor death u.but nulhiim iiUlle shape of an 1
lias ever nssmleiT us. ATacoii, the P**J'J®Jj
cut season, lias, been far more healthy
country adjacent, uot even excepting to* 8
Piney woods, so celebrated for their saluu y-
Tho Macon Volunteers have lately ph*
from thu State’s arsenal at MilU'dgcvdle *
new stand of muskets, of die most beautu 1 J
This company now numbers about 89 «a j
the uniform is rich und chaste; aud, /j
discipline of the energetic officers lately
promises to bo 0110 of tho most imposm* 1
State. fl '
We regret to learu, that the Corps o> ,
lately orgauized iu this place have Dt
pointed in irroi uring tho necessary a™' .
application to Gov. Gilmer for than ee
lor answer, we understand, that U®#
Were at ills disposal.
Tin Macon Bridge was rented out ®* ^ j
last, by tbe town Commissioners, u .“ -jfik
January uext, lor one liuhdred and cl
per weeks payable Weekiy. A P re, D*ii«
when it is considered that cotton, c0 ,-^jptw
carts, coming ami going, well “' 1
gers, pass toil free. Mr Joseph Dem«!
present occupant.
Census of It likes County. &
5210; Free persons uf color „ 11W
total 14205. Representative in*