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Corrttpondenet of th* O/mmerdal Adt**ti*tr.
By Ike Rt*»r»ee Korop*. J
}/>ndon, JnUy g 1858.
j ßt , ar tnrc of the 'a* l P*®)ret thefunds
Krr,£vi2.“ss^“^”-
y* * , h . increasing interruylLon lo the healthy
tarns sasttsr sss»*£s
i* felt the indignation become* more vivid *8
J r‘l,r *bfc after having suppressed every throb
r niilar life *ll over the continent, seem* now
I' « evety pretence of legality. and
£ bihi Z w»r from one end of Europe to the
1 there is no qneetion th»t forbearance with
refect to"i* conduct will be carried to the last
foXfof endurance. He will be *llowedev e ry
Km/vlr that can be dovj.xed, no
fh C Mf hi in deurminwi to piovoke hoatilitU* the
struggle sr'd Mjs'ooneaquenore will beentirely of hi.
owrffeeking and will be correspondingly severe.
With thi* conviction of the patience that will be
exercised, both by England and Franca, the opin
i ftrp ..otwithatanding the abeeuce of the
Xhtent intelligence favorable to the P r f"e rv **‘°“
f r f dr! v u Btroncr an it han boon from
th/flrst that thewbole affair will vet be ended by
tEta So on, can bring fiirn.elt to .up
-OC?e that the Emperor of Bosnia can intend to
Ewv ott to he last the mad venture he haaenter
f', y fln At the *ome time the concloaions of
ed upon. At 1 what lb woalrl do under
r X.n circumstances, must be held very
certain g the course ot a despot, aur
unriifc M gmd* w >[id hll(Jiieal( .,i by the servile
rounded by c ia»*e» who are now threatened
applause wh^ h , ” conaeq uerice* of hie arrogance
p °,Vmi!Stt‘Si’b-i»«r of Ewtiuid .»;i
in nni ».t» u-.t'iiv «nv act an an irrevocable
F h*nen« ITh-iready trlnspi red that the inva-
which ha* now taken
"ul will not he dealt with a* an immediate came
’ The combined tteeta are, therefore
lor reprisal . th# Dardanelles and proceed
not expected td 1 HOm e furtlier uet of ag
io on t(ed , n the ttn<t stag,, 0 f
grestuon shah he come w i|,, it ia presum
the movement the plan• P require the lin
ed, be to proteat again , ,j troop*, upon
median; trUMnd Sfrtain modified
an understanding that in tnateuMJ w j||
negotiations lor the satisfaction of
be entertained. Meantime, w orl)
these arrangement* aud disc about by she diaaf
*ome untoward event. h t „f 0 ooutend
-2 WhUlty of a compro
“‘“■ppoaiH* the absence of all
kind, there is scarcefy room to
solution. If there had been the Vjjgj
tom of want of concert between Eng.a.«
France it is probable that nothing would ha
lire vented Russia from pursuing her high-handed
course up to it* extreme consequences; but al
though she is understood to l ave made every effort
that intrigue end laviwh expenditure could con
trive, to accomplish a disruption of the alliance,
she is now aware that she hua signally failed.
But although the united action of the two pow
ers seem thus far to have been perfect, the public,
both in Paris and London, are wholly in the dark
as to the conditions of the mutual policy to be pur
sued from this moment. A discussion on the
snldect which lias already been more than once
postponed, was to take place lust night both in the
House of Lords and the House of Commons, but
bocauso Lord John Kussell is indisposed, it was
again put off till the 11th inat.
In the perplexities thus occasioned the specula
tors are busy with the circulation, from time to
time, ol the most alarming rumors. It has bcon
f',r a long while inferred that the viewßOl the vari
ous members of the English Cabinet sru Dot al
together harmonious on the question, and tin: op
position journals have repoatedly asserted a break
Ul) to be inevitable. Lord Aberdeen, the I renuer,
is supposed to entertain a much less decided feel
ing in opposition to the enerouohments ot Russia
thftu in avowed by Lord John Buhbmll Lord
Palmerston, the latter of whom maintains hw usual
policy ol i dvo siting a teady ulliauce with France.
The knowledge of the existence of this stato of
affairs is thus adroitly made use ot so excite oc
casional panics. Last evening, for instance, utter
the termination of regular business on the Stock
Kxc'iuogu, a report was c reuluted uad received
with the groutost confidence, that Lord Aberdeen
hud ac tually resigned. Olhortales were also made
up lo increase theexeitemoiu, to the effect thai the
authorities ol the admiralty courts were busily on
gaged in preparing letters ot marque, &0., and the
desired effect wss produced. Consols were oager
lv Ottered at a heuvy reduction, and the transuc
tioiiH took place at 97*, oeiug u fall ol one per
cent, from the quotation of the previous day. this
, n „ r iiiig the lalsehood of the alarm has boon useor
and prices in ooiisequonces have shown a
favorable .reaction, the market closing to-day at
9f< %' cSfkmerolal affairs generally, the
. T lmu-vcontinuestoniunifesttliemos l
' rU ; ! „/l urv vicor be effect of the Tuiknl, dis
mnoTelng merefy w losse 1 ' prosperous force
?f the tidf, and not to turn it
,i on The returns of the Board v n « traue tor me
month ending the sth of June wero .•“sued yestor
d.,v and again show a striking increase '« the de
elur’d value of our exportations, as com pared W.th
the corresponding month of last year, the total
being £7,148,191, againet£s,9Bs,Bßß. Fortho first
five months of 1858, the aggregate increase Os our
exportal ions over last year has bcon equal to more
than 4it percent. The ahipments to Australia heve
been amongst the most important causes of this
improvement; and as the aeoonnta reeontly receiv
ed state that all the supplies which thus tarurriv
od had boon disposed ot at high profits, and that
there was no immediate expectation ot a glut, it
becomes the more satisfactory from that cireum
* "Although the excitemeut in the grain market
l lim wholly subsided, thcro has thus tar been no
re .uuui from the rise of last week. The accounts
of the weutlior in France are rather more tavorable,
but lours ere now expressed ot a deficiency in
Austria Spectator.
Kussia ano TniEKT.-Letters from Constantino
ple, dated June 48, t.ad been received m l arm.
Tht* Turkish admiral, Muntapha I leA ( on*
Rtantlnople tor Bcakion the 42-1, to nay his respects
to the French ami English admirals. It was said
that lie was also to come to an understanding with
them us to the mean* to be cinployo-t to tow the
Ships in case war broke out. The rediffs, or m.l
it u of Smyrna arrived at Constantinople on the
,3 1 and were to leave the same night tor Varna.
•I'he Seraskier Muehiri, Minister of W ar, and the
-al-in chief ot the imperia guard, were tnuk
f"' spa rations for tiieir departure. Several
V, », .Sccrh had arrived, un i were about to
The preparations for war at U-. ttnnatanti.
ed. Thointerpreterofthe legaMon
nople is at the head quarters ot the arm'*
service to the troope. Biots have takon P'- 00
Smyrna in ot tbe forciblo arrest x
an aide-de-camp of Kossuth. By w*y of retalia
tion, a marine otfleer, the son of a field matshal,
had been assassinated. The hotel of the Austrian
oonsul was guarded by Austrian soldiers.
It is reported in Paris that ordors Imd been sent
to the Kngll li and French Ambassadors at Con
stantinople, desiring them not to exceed to the re
quest oftho Porto that tho combined flouts should
enter tho Dardanelles ao long as tho movements of
Kussia are confined to tho occupation of the Prin-
clpslilies.
These reports originate probably with the Em
peror of Kussis. Ou tho other hand, it is con fl
uently aliirmoil that both France mid Eugland re
gard the iuvasion of the Prt cipelltice as a viola
tion o! tho integrity and independence of the Ot
toman Empire, and as an act of War, and that the
instruotioV which have boon forwarded to Lord
Stratford do UcdolitVe and M. de la Four aro to
place tho combined tlcota entirely at tho disposal
of the Sultan, in the event of Ilia considering and
proclaiming tho present lawless invasion of his
territory on not of war. Tito ambassadors are di
,-ecU'd to summon tho naval forces of England and
Fn'tice tho instant tho l’orte requests it, uut only
to m 'ter tho Dardanelles, but to proceed, in the
Black 1 '*o«, to whatover operations our ally nmy
doom rou uisile ,or hl * W«ty lUU ' advantage.
No il iv without tho Grand Vizier and
tho Minister Foreign Atfaira having un inter
view with the fii-Uish and French Ambassadors,
la'r t Kodcliffe had a' PtWate uiubenoe oj tho Em
ccror a few days prev.ou-ly. Although tho letters
received at Constantinople from various parts ol
Europe, are filled with reports of a mcdmiion no
boliol is attached to them among tne Turks. It is
believed that Knseia had advanced too to re
code without disgrace; and, on tlic other hand he
exasperation of tho Turks has risen toencli it pitch
that it would be dangerous for the Porte to apeak
of a compromise. Even the proposal oontan.ed In
Bodachid Pasha's uote to Count Nesselrode, to
send ail Ambassador to St. Fetemburgh, has pro
duced a very bad effect.
The following is tbo substance of M. Drouin de
Lhuys’s reply to the note of Count Nesselrode:—
m' Drouin do Lhuys eommonccs by noticing
that, even according to tbo Ku-eian statement ot
the case, tho mission of Prii ce MenschikoU had
but one object, the settlement of the ditferenecsre
lativo to the rights of ditferont communions tn tho
Holy Places, and that the diatribuuou ot these
rights has been offectcd in a satisfactory man
nor Hence, ho couoludea, the question which
is now in debate is quite a new one, tor it baa
not hing to do with right* claimed at Jerusalem or
Bethlehem, while it has everything to do with tho
independence and the sovereignty of the Sultau.
How nan it be protended that in order to guaran
tee possession ot two or three sanctuaries to Chris
tians of the Crock church it is necessary to extend
over the whole empire an official protection, whieh
substitutes the moral authority of the Emperor of
Knssia for tln.t which belongs legitimately to the
Sultan; M. Drouiu de Lhuys then aualyse* the
Nesselrode uote, and tiuds three orders ot agree
ments, namely, treaties invoked, historical analo
gies established, and grievances alleged.
Os the last tie says, Knssia reproaches the Porte
with having failed in respect. The l rench Cabinet
readily admits that it is lor every government to
lodge'tor itself what its dignity requires. But still
the reparation ought always to bear some propor
tion to the offence: Ordinarily, excuses or regrets
constitute tho reparation of an offence o! merely for
mal character. Never until now have we seen one
sovereign require another in such a case to aban
don his moral influence over tho most considera
ble portion of his subjects.
If Knssia makes a grievance of the tergiversa
tion of the Porte in the matter of tho Holy Places,
Franco might with equal justice prefer the like
complaints. It, however, ha* not done so, because
it made * considerate allowance for the embarrass
ment of a power which, impelled by two contrary
current* of equal force, thought to preserve
equilibrium by contracting contradictory obliga
tions. M. Dr' uin de Lhuys then enumerates th»
various conventions upon which France might
have founded demand* as imperious as those now
pre'erred by Russia, and concludes—ls, then, the
i mentions of France ha.l been lesa conciliatory—
if B hc had not been penetrated by the idea that
none o's the parties who signed the convention of
July IS IS4I, could employ its anterior rights at
the rsk o' compromising the repose which Ihe
collective guarantee of the lowers was to assure
to the Ottoman empire, she would have had the
right not only to oppose to the demands of Prince
Menschikoff those which are constantly j
employed in diplomacy, hut a.so to employ
menaces in her turn.
Bill France has done nothing *>• 'his kind, and
lier moderation, beside removing; from her ah
responsibility for the present crisis, g.' v e* her the
right of hoping that the sacrifice* which »be has
made to maintain tranquility in the East will Brit be
lost, and tlie Cabinet of St. I'ctcrsburgb, moved
by analogous considerations, will also find means
of conciliating its preleusions with the sovereign
prerogative > ot the Sultan, and to determine other
wise than by force a difference in which *o many
parlies are interested.
The Porte hue declined the offer of the formation
of' the foreign legion.
The Circassians assembled near Trebizond are
to bo commanded bv Sehamyl.
The English and French fleets were at Tenedoa.
The garrison at Battouu was to be reinforced.
The Turkisi posts had been advanced as tar as
Tachehiu.
France. — Several af.-ests took place at the door
of the Opera Comique, in P«r», ou <>' e uight otthe
sth, of person* who were foot'd to have weapons
accreted upon them. The offleial police records
merely suv that ten or twelve.member* of old
aecre’ aocictio* who were disturbing order m the
crowd, weio arrested. The arres.s were magni
fied by the stockbroker* into an attempt onthe
Emperor’s life, and affected the Bourne. Some
maintained that the Emperor was really menaced.
Jhe French Government has drawn up a novo in
replvto Nesselrode’s Riiseian note. It bears the |
signature Drouyn del Usya-m firm and temper
ate It saeerts that Franoa ha* equal claims to **- I
«ert the Protectorate over the I aim Church in the
Kast es Russia ha* over the Greek Church, and
hones that Kusat* will admit its claim without
trespassing on the Eights of Turkey. The note
is ably drawn up.
The duty of two francs per ton on French ves
eells leaving French porta, is abolished.
The lenezaelian Minister, Mondoxa, has pre
sented his credential*. . , ,
Italt.—The sentence against Gnermxi had
been recorded at Florence, namely, 16 year* hard
labor. Montsgia Joumale9o month*. Montenlini,
Maxonne, Marochini, Franchini and Mordini, Ex-
Ministers of Tuscany, bard labor tor life. Qoma
rellai, Ex-Minister of Justioe, was acquituxl.-
Tlkwo aevere sentenoea have caused a painful aen
sation. , ,
Cardinal Brighmole died suddenly, and waa anc
oeeded by Signor Medici*.
The Archbishops of Bodeaux and Tour* had re
reived their Cardinal’* hata.
The Neapolitan* are much afraid that war in the
Ea-t will awaken a new revolution In Italy.
Gebwant.—The Zolverein Conference had not
opened, the Delegatee not having all arrived at
Berlin.
Ktaeveh. * *
Every thing connected with the discoveries
made, and still in progress, on the sit* of the an
cient Nineveh, and its neighberhood, is of the
profoondeat interest in a religions, and even in a
mere'y historical point of view. The Engli-h and
French explorers are still at work, contending
with friendly rivalry which shall exhume the
greatest and most valuable prixes. We find a no
tice of their proceedings, durirg the past year
in the Beport of tbe Council, read at the late
anniversary meeting of the Aaiatic Society of
London:
The French excavations have revealed many
new vuulted passages, colonades, and chambers
toll of relies of various kinds, which have been
sent to Pari*, and conati ute the nucleus of an
Assyrian museum now forming in that city. Tbe
collection embraces cylinders, tiles, ornaments,
and vessels of beautiful workmanship, in marble,
agate, and uarneiian. The museum is to be adorn
ed, also, with photographic views of the di*eo
veries. taken upon the spot—-‘in many oases,”
says tne Athamtum, “colored with the aotoal pig
ments found at the same time, among which a
splendid cake of ultra-marine is recorded, as big
as a pigeon’s egg." This is acurious circumstance,
reminding us of the drawings made by Chantrey,
tho sculptor, with sepia from the fo-sil ink-bag of
an antediluvian cuttle flsb furnished him by Dr.
Buekland, the, geologist.
The Athen* m gives the following acoount of
the English explorations, which is chiefly inter
esting from the full notice presented of the re
searches of Col. Kawlinson, the most learned and
aide of living archa ilogists, who has devoted him
self with so much aruor to the elucidation of bibli
cal tiistory.
“The labors of ouroountrymen, have also been
attended with great success ; beautiful gold orna
nients, cylinders, vases of sculptured bus-alt, Ac.,
huye been dug up at Silent Khan. The letters of
Col. Kawijnson from time to time have kept the
(Joeioty informed of hi? discoveries. In one letter
' * vivee an account of a bronze lion, discovered at
v U U "-on", hearing the inscription “E-arhad
, bbt .. - qgnqueror of Miser end Cush,"
don, klugot kin* . Xu another, he inclosed a
(Egypt and Ethiopia.; "’’•mtig being
cop? Jf an inscription in a Be ppo n
one of a numerous collection of insci., _ ' d
sheet lead, packed in sepulchral jars,
at a place culled Abushndhr. With athird ho com
municated a list ot thu Babylonian months, foand
on a slab, by thu aid of which the sueoession of
events recorded in the inscription of Bisltun may
bo upproximutely determined. In the last letter
received, he states that he had pre|a-ed, with
greut pains, a full account of his recent labors and
diseovorie , fir the purpose of being read ut this
meeting; hut the mail by which it Led been do
spatched had been plundered by the Auezeb
Arabs, and it was suia that they were wearing the
unknown cuneiform characters as amulets. Col.
Kawliuson had ut lengih received the long ex
pected cylinders from Kilah Sbergat, a splendid
document conaistii g of 800 lines of writing, which
contains the bulletins of Tiglath Pileser 1, and is
at least 100 yours older than any other doemnent
yet discovered. Hesayslhat he cannot attempt to
give even u return* of the inscription; but it shows
that tho king warred principally in Armenia, Cap
padocia, t’ontus, and the shores of the Euxine—and
that lie crossed tho Kurdish mountains to tho
Eist and the Euphrates to tho West. He overran
Northern Syriu and Cilicia, but did not attompt to
penetrate towards Palestine. Having fairly en
tered upon a period anterior to tho glories of
Nittcvehand Calalt, Col. Kawlinson says he does
not despair ol ascending up to tho institution of
the monarchy. The writing of this inscription of
T’iglath Pi esser is better, the language more
polished, and the grammatical distinctions more
nicely murkod than in later legends. Thiscapita)
city Asur is, of course, the Allusar, of Gen sis, of
which Artiuch waskitig, and tho Tel-Assar of the
Targums, which is used for the Mosuio Kesen.—
lie considers the site of Nineveh to be determi
nutelj fixed at Nebbi Yunus, Ca'ah at Nimrud,
and Kcacti ut Kilah bln rgat. Asiab of fletmache
rip’s reeontly found at Nebbi Yunus ia if much
interest. It contains an account of two campaigns
later apparently than those chronicled in tne an
tials—one against Merodach Baladan, - nd the other
against the confederated kings ot the East, among
whom is a king of the Persians, whose name is
unfortunately lost.
“The now, broken obelish, from Nimrud, has
not vet reached Col. Kawlinson, but he expects
much from it, os judging from the description, it
is not a dnplicato of the old one. The writer
turned, lastly, to his real treasure house of disco
very, the d'fbrit, in fact, of the Royal libra
ry, of which Layard's collection formed the upper
and bettor preserved part. Hete he has fonnd
fragments of alphabets, svllabria, and explanations
of ideographic signs; also, a table or notation,
with tl.e phonetic readings of tho signs, showing
that the Assyrians counted by sixties, in exact
agreement with thesowos *utot and n*ro», of Be
rosstui. The numbers are completely Semitic.—
There uro also elaborate dissections of tho Pan
tiieon, geographical dissertations explaining the
ide-'graptiß for oonntries und cities, designating
their products, aud describing their positions;
the principal Asiatio rivers and mountains are also
given. There are treatises on weights and
measures, divisions of time, poin's of the
compass, &c., &c. There is au almanac for
twelve years, apparently forming a like that
of the Mongols. Each year bears a name general
ly that of a god, and all the old annals are num
bered alter this cycle. Again, there are list* of
stones, uietals and trees, or elementary tracts on
geology, metallurgy, and botany, and astrot omi
e»l and a-trolog cal formulie without end. There
are also wtiat appear to be veritable grammars and
dictionaries ; and much guess-work will be spared
by a sure guide which he has found to the deter
mination of idcograpbio signs, and their distinc
lion from phonetia characters. The whole ol
leetiou is in Iragments; but it jivesamost curious
insight into the state of Assyrian science whilst
Greece wm» still sunk ill barbarism. Col. B*wlin
son Ims found the ideographs tor Warkaor Ereeh,
Act ed or Kaskur, Calueh or Niff. r, Ac., and has
thua got a sure footing on the slippery ground ot
Babylonian geography. Altogether, he expresses
himself ‘delighted at the splendid field now open
ing out. Ti c labor of carrying through a oom
plete of analysis will bo immense ; but the results
must bo brilliant.’ He ooncludea with statingthat
a splendid ruin, full ot marbles and sculpture, has
been recently discovered in Southern Chaldea, at
a place called Abu-Shahreip.”
The Steam Eire ExoisK.—A communication
from the builder of the Cincinnati steam fire en
gine, appears in the Journal of the Franklin Insti
ti-te for this month. From thi* acoount, we legrn
that the boiler ot tbe engine is a contn noua coil of
iron pipe, which ia surrounded by the fire. The
water injected into this receiver is almost lrnmedi
Stely converted into steam, and five minutes only
is required to put ttic machine in opperation Four
men and four horses is all the force required.
As regards the pumping power of tho engine,
it is said It oan throw eithcroneor six atrei.n»s,
and will discharge about two thousand barrels of
water per hour. It has two saotione, six and a
half inches in diameter, and 44 feet long, each con
sisting ol one pieoo. They are always attached to
the engine, oros* each other in front, aud lay book
on either side. The greatest throw ot water yet
made is 240 feet from' the end of the iiozxcl, mea
suring one inch and three quarters, to where the
solid body ol tho stream fell, and B*l teat to the
poiut reaohed by the spray.
Byway ot illustration, wo may notice its perform
anoe at otto fire, to show the effect produced by
this tnaohute, compared with that by the hand ap
paretus. A fire occurred on the 80th of May, 1858,
on Twelfh and Main streets, at 8 o’oloek p. m.;
tbe alarm was givcu, the steam engine ran eight
squares, laid her hose, which was one square from
the fire and pntthcflr-t water rn the fire, which was
all done in a out five minntes; tilt hand appa
ratus, not withstanding there were some of then sta
tioned only two squares from the fire, were not at
work until, the steam engine was under way. 11l
eight and a half hour*’ work (making due allow
ance for loss of water,) ahe poured into the fire
about 15,000 barrels of water; jt was a large
brewery, with ole cellar • tho wind waa high, and
nothing hnta cataract of water oould have aavui the
entire square from destruction. This will show
wlnit can bo done with steam in putting out Area.
Arrangements are now making for four more of
these machines by the Chief Engineer of the fire
department. This wi 1 givo the fire department
ofCinuiuuati the greatest strength of any in the
Union.
Or it IsnsurKtisK** Abroad. —There has been no
time in many year* when our indebtedness abroad
was piling up so fast a» now. It is in tho shape of
bonds, chiefly for railroad purposes, and issued by
States and cities and eouuties and towns. Tlie
materials for which these bonds were issued, could
have been a- well suppliod at home, under a dif
ferent revenue system, a*d would have enormous
ly developed our own resource* ; would have built
up hundred* of towns and village*, and raised the
value of agricultural property. At present every
thing looks smooth and pleasant; labor is high,
trade is active, and the country is prosperous; but
pay day will come, and if there should ever be any
special reasons to make it inconvenient for u» to
pay, tl:esc very reasons will make our creditor*
more auxious for their money; the bonds will
come back upon us to he exchanged for specie, the
basis of our circulation, and will cramp tog money
market and bring disaster and distress upon »<;ci
mercc. It is with nations as with individual*. It
they run in debt beyond tbeir means of payment;
if they mortgage their property and pledge their
future earning*; if they strain their credit to buy
that which they can as well make at home or do
without, iheconseqnenue* ore plain; and, rlthough
tliev may be postponed tor tlie phile, they must
be finally met.— ProrUence Jour.
ARRssTorCorvTEKMiTaa*.—The police of Bos
ton have arrested five men, named Ohas. Fomroy,
Lorenzo Moulton, Charles Burbank, Leland A.
Wilkiusou aud Edward Hartwell, charged with
passing counterfeit bills on the Casco Bank, Port
land, Mo. This counterfeit is just issued, and is
so well executed that it is readily taken, and has
been extcnsivelycireulated. In a barn near where
they were arrested, fourteen hundred dollars ot
thecounterfeit bills were found. They were all
committed to jail. Another of the gang of coun
terfeiters, named Sherman Nicholas, was arrested
at Lowell tor passing counterfeit Casco Bank bills;
two hundred and ten dollars of that money was
found on him.
The Cross, Ac., in Alabama.— The Greensboro’
Beacon of the 15th itet. say* :
Within the last two week* this section has been
favored with several refreshing rains, though gen
: orally they have been light and of short duration.
In some neighborhoods they have had, we under
stand, us Time! i as was needed : but here the irronnd
has no: yet been wet to a depth of probably more
thuu one or two inches. The effect ofthe rains has
been to somewhat cowl the atmosphere and to re
vive vegetation. Cotton and late planted corn have
already considerably improved.
In regard to the cotton crop, though the appear
ance of the weed at thisseasou affords by no means
u reliable test us to what the yield will be, as the
most disastronscasualiiiesto whieh ootton is liable,
occur in August and September, yet, we find the
opinion quite general among the planter* that the
crop cannot be a good ono. The weed is general
ly remarkably small, aud before the rains set in
was blooming to tlie top, which is an unfavorable
indication.—We were shown a few days ago part
of a cotton stalk grown on postoak laud, which had
a tap root about lialf an iuch long, and in circum
ference about equal to a medium sized darning
needle. Nor had it any lateral roots at all. Colton
in that condition caD hardly do much.
Importation of I oreign Cont cts—A commu
nication iu the K<w kuru Journal of Commerce
asserts tha’ the writer, wl en in Europe, saw oon
victs en route to the seaports, to he sent to the
Un ted States, from the small principalities of
Germany, which are too poor to pay the expense
of prisons. There is no doubt tkst this system is
pmoused to a considerable extant in various parts
of Europe.
AwMrteaa Trade ««* CMae.
The insurrection in China has lately drawn pub
lic attention to that country. Its probable suc
cess has raised tbe most sanguine expectations
respecting tbe future trade between the two na
tions. Under these circumstances our readers
will thank ua, we know, tor a statement of the
condition of that trade during the last twenty
years. A series of tables, in Hunt’s Merchant's
Magazine, places us in possession of the required
information.
In 1881, the total export* of domestic products
from the United States to China, amounted to but
$444,790, orlese than half the value of wheat an
nually seDt to market from any fertile county in
Pennsylvania. These exports consisted princi
pally of spermaceti-candles, ginseng, fur*, tobac
co, provisions, and domestic cottons, the value of
tbe last being a boat one-filth of tbe whole export.
! ■ the same year the imports from China into the
United States, reached (3,088,206, or more than
eleven times as much as the exports sent in re
turn. Tne principal articles sent were silks,
teas and cottons. The value of the former
was $1,806,822, of the teas, $1,418,045, and ofthe
cottons, $87,214. Thus, as late as 1831, oar im
ports of cotton goods from China were nearly
double our exports to that country of the same
article.
Twenty years, however, have worked a great
change. The exports to China, in 1861, were
$2,155,945, or nine time* what they were in 1881.
The principal item in these exports were domes
tic cottons, of which $1,894,418, were exported,
or nearly forty times as much as in 1831. Indeed,
these fabrics form now the chief article of ex
change between the United btates and ChiDa, the
Celestials little of nny other
product from this nation. The imports from Chi
na, in 1851, were $7,065,144 or a little more than
doable what they were twenty years ago. Since
1842, no cottons whatever, have been introduced
into this country from China. The principal
items of import stiil continue to be tea and silks.
But while the consumption of tea has more than
trebled, the import for 1351 being $4,688,629, that
of silk remains nearly stationary, the import for
1851, being only $1,546,049 or less than ten per
cent, over what it was in 1831. In fact, for a long
series of years, the import of silk declined, falling
as low a* $79,079 in 1843. But since that year it
has rallied, and continues slowly increasing,
though it uever rose again to the old amount of
1831, until 1851. There has been, however, a
large and generally steady increase in the impor
tation of raw silk, in 1831, the amount was
$76,144, while in 1861 it was $813,104. About
twenty thoasand dollars worth is the annual ave
rage of Chinaware imported.
It thus appears that while China buys goods,
every year to the value of two millions, of the
; United States, the United State* in return pur
chases goods of China to the value of seven mil
lions annually. A portion of this difference ot five
millions is paid in foreign goods, exported to Cbi
-1 na from American porta. But the great hulk re
mains to be paid for in specie, and is so paid for,
' not indeed by shipping coin, but by the pur
chase of bills. Owing to the opium trade, China
is generally in debt to British India, and Atneri
can merchants buy the bills drawn against this
debt. But, though this circuitous plan of liqui
i dating the ba aaoe of trude against us is adopted
for motives of commercial convenience, the fact
i remains that every year it requires nearly five
r millions of dollars to make up the deficiency in
i the China trade.
As it is not probable that the Chinese will, even
in case of a change of dynasty, want things that
they do not require now, there is littlo prospect
of increasing, t' uuy very great degree, our ex
l>orts to that country. Manufactured cottons are
almost the only tbiug the Celestials want from u».
Thedreants of a ,v6i,t accession to our trade with
China, which many persons entertain, appear to
••a. therefore, to be quite visionary.— Philadelphia
Interesting MtsottLsttr.—lNiT ,lBW M ( ®_B* AT j®‘
Tick A gentleman who keeps the run o, .* c ”*
figures aud babies, has just laid before “ an inquir
ing world the following statistics:
The whole number of languages spoken in the
world amount to 8084, viz: *B7 in Europe, 887 in
As''a, 278 in Africa,and 1864 in America, 'fhe in
habitants of our globe profess more than 1,000
different religion*. The number of the men is a
bout equal t< the number of women. The aver
age of human life is aboat 83 years Ono-fourth
die previous to the ago of seven tears, one-ualt
before reaching 17 years of age, and those who pass
that age enjoy the felicity (?) refused to one halt
the human species. To every one thousand per
sons, only one rcacheß one hundred years of age;
to every one hundred only six reach the age of 66,
and not more than one in 500 live to 80 years of
age.
There are on the earth 1,000,000,000 inhabitants
and ot these 388,383,338 die every year, 91,824
every day, 8780 every hour, 60 every minute, or 1
every second. These losses are about balanced
by an equul number of births. The married arb
longer lived than tho single, and abovo all, those
who observe sober and industrious condnot. Tall
men live longer than short ones! Women have
more ehanccß of life in their favor previous to be
ing 60 years of age, than men, but fewer after
wards.
The number of marriages is in proportion of 175
to every 1000. Marriage* are more frequent after
the equinnoxos—that is, during tho months of
Juneuud December.
Those born in the Spring are generally moro ro
bust than others. Births and deaths are more fre
quent by night than by day. Tho number of men
capable of working or nearing arms is calculated
at ono fourth of tho population.
Somo of theso statements are rather singular, and
yet many of thorn aro snsoeptible of an easy solu
tion. The marriages take place more frequently
in Juno and December, than other months of the
yoar. was just what we have always suspooted was
the case. Those who matry in June, do so be
causo they can’t help it; while those who connn
bialize in December do so, doubtless, to guard
against the chilly pillows which distinguish the
frost-bitten months of winter. The raatohes which
come off in June aro commonly love-matches, and
are brought about by green fields and the conta
gious influence of boblinks and yellow birds;
wliilst those which happen in tfecember are
brought about, in a degree, by mixing plain math
ematics with the market value of flannel under
garments. — N. V. Dutchman.
An Iron Village. —lronton, on the Ohio Hivcr,
the capital of Lawrence county, Ohio, was begun
fonr years ago next month, by a company of as
sociated capitalists, who bsught SSO acres of river
bottom anil 4,500 acres of hill land for tho site, in
serting in all their cottveyaDces or leases an ex
press condition that no intoxicating liqmrsshould
ever be sold on the land so conveyed. This con
dition has been enforced and respected, so that
tnere is not a nun-hole for a loafer to lean against
in the place, though it ha* now 2,500 inhabitants,
with four churches built or boiug built, a railroad
extending fifteen miles into tho iron region, and
soon to be pushed through to tho H llsborough
and Parkersburg road, 44 miles, bringing it into
connection with Philadelphia and Baltimore. Un
finished ns it is, and with little business beside the
freighting of coal and iron ore, this road is now
paying eighteen pev cent, on its cost; its Juno re
ceipts naving been $2,800; running expenses
$1,000; net earnings SI,BOO. It is now bringing
into Ironton the product often blast furnaces, es
timated at 20,000 tons per annum, and will soon
reach live more such. Ironton has a manufactory
of railrond iron, with two more in progress—one
of them capable of turning ont fifty tons per day,
beside two large tounderie», a machino shop, Ac.,
Ac. Coal is delivered at those works for $1 per
ton. A Court-house, Jail and Union SohoolHouse;
tho latter, beside a public grove of twenty acres of
original forest, are among the p iblie edifices.
Ironton Im- hud and is having the most rapid
growth of any town in the U. States, except Law
rence, Mass., and its population can hardly bo
exceeded in general morality and intelligence.—
Jf. T. Tribun*.
The People’s Palaor —What tho World’s Ex
hibition is to be, has only yet begun to be visible.
The boxes, bales, crates and paokages often con
taining tho eoptliest and most beautiful wares for
display here, which remain nnopetied in the Palace
aud the Custom-House, would suffice to mako a
very creditable Exhibition of themeeives. We
should say that fully one-fourth of the goods are
still undisplayed, thongh an army of workmen
are constantly and actively employed in opening
und arratigingthom. Weregret to learn that con
siderable »o?s by breakage—the result of slip
shod packing and of reckless handling— : s reveal
ed by tho opening of packages, especially among
the mirrors and other fragile wares from Eng
land.
Although a view of tho lutorior of the naked
building is of itstlf worth the price of admission,
and although thereare more goods already dis
played than any one oould even cursorily examine
in a week, we reiterate our advice that those at a
distance, who can choose their own tin,* for visit
ing the Exhibition, do not come tor weeks yet.—
Those who have leisure end means may as well
see the Palace as it is and mark its growth at in
tervals ot not more than a week to perfootiou ; but
for the million who can mako but one journey to
the city during the Exhibition, wo would name
the lat'ot September us early enough to commence
their visits ; thence throngh that month and Oc
tober tho Fair will be at the height of its glory.—
It i*a pleasant placoto while away a leisure sum
mer day —000 l airy and shielded from tho sun’s
rays, tnongh so abundantly lighted—but from
those who can sec it but once, we bespeak a visit
when noempty niche, no iuch of vacant space, no
ttnapeued package shall remain to mar its expres
ajon. New York may never have another such
Exhibition—let this bo enjoyed to the utmost.—
Jf. T. jf ribun*.
The DanT»la“ Pbhucisautjjb.—To the eastward
of Huuirary, intervening betweeu tile |»nd of Kos
suth and tne laud of the Czar, lios Moldavia. Jt
constitutes, on tho map, n sort of promontory or
arm reselling up into ttie dangerous neighborhood
of Russia, along the banks of the I’ruih, irotn the
Soint where that estuary discharges into greater
ood of the Danube. Many years ago, before the
Russian* bad discovered the superior value of
diplomacy as a means of aggrandize merit, over the
old fashioned way of big armies and positive bard
knocks, Bessarabia formed a most flourishing port
of Moldavia, affording it a sea-coast on the Euxine
and a river line on the Danube.
In the year ISI2, it wasannoxod, forcibly, to tho
dominions ot the Emperor Alexander. So the
Moldavia of to day is entirely inland; touching
Poland upon the north, Knssia upon the east,
Transylvania at the west, Wallachia at the south;
and covering a surface of about 17,000 square
miles—an area about equal to that of Massachu
setts and Vermont put cogattier. Crowded togeth
er closely on this soil, live considerably more than
1,419,105 people of Sciatic origin; the census of
l«£s, which affords us these figures, being the latest
ot w tit si. we have information. Jassy is the capi
tal city.
WaJlaohia hes a* thp south of Moldavia and
Transylvania, reachiug from Servia at the West,
to Bulgaria upon the south ami aarl. Its area is
pretty nearly 25. 'OO square miles—not yarying
materially from that of South Carolina. Its inha
‘ bltauts, timbering more than two millions and a
hai/ofoOuls—ore an extremely composite body;—
a large part v tracing .‘heir origin distinctly to the
Roman Kil tsfr Coiouasi established along the
Danube by Trsjsn arid his successors; others, re
mounting to the early Greek?; a *ssi fcpdy owing
Slavic affinities; and the rest man* »p of UirSnj
ing, busy Turks, Jews, aud Gipsies. Bucharest
is the capital.
Servia, the third of the Principalities, is about
equal in superficial extent to Moldavia, and con
tains a million of Inhabitants. The principal town
is Belgrade.
The religion of these three provinces is the
same as that of Russia; and so are their ethnologi
cal affinities. Polit oai events have, however, serv
ed to weaken the tie.—A'. Timet.
Fatal Mistaeb — Retribution.—A few days since,
sever*) of the crew on the steamer Franklin Pierce
tapped a cask of whiskey, as they supposed, and
drank pretty freely of its contents. The liquor
made them dreadfully sick, and two of the party
died in convulsions. One ofthe others was not ti
peeled to live at the last accounts, aud a fourth,
who fortunately drank but asmali portion ofthe li
quor, recovered. These tnen were stealing the li
quor from the hold to driuk, and instead of whis
ker imuibed some poisonous drug, which brought
a speedy retribution upon their heads.— LouieviUe
Courier.
New Motive I'owfr. —M.dnTrembay, a French
gentleman, has built asteamer which is worked by
the vapor of ether; and it appears that the same
force and the same speed are obtained at one-hall
the expenditure of era), and with engines which
occupy less room. The ether presents ai-o some
other minor advintages, amongst which the in
ciustation of t 0 boilers is not the least. The
ether propelled >e*sel has been tried with success
in the sea off Marseilles, aud has been sent on a
voyage to Algiers.
Goldsmith knew a thing or two. He always
considered the person whose clothes were ex
tremely flue as not being possess I'd of any suberior
ityof fortune, but re-einoling those Indian* who
are found to wear all the gold they have in the
world in a bob at the nose.
The population of the Austrian Colonise is esti
mated at seres hundred thousand.
From the London Spectator.
BrUiita Huibcmm.
A Yorkshiie paper contains a timely wartime to
the cloth manufacturer:, of England. The moet
important of our markets nnqcestionably is that
of the United S ate*; one of the most important of
our exports U that of woolen cloth: and in this
trade some of oar Continental rivals are gaining
upon ns rather aerioosly. The American import
tables show an increase of Belgian cloth from
93,196 dollars in 18*910 475,582 in 1951; while the
increase of German cloth is still more remarkable;
it was, from 16,818 dollars in 1840 to 1,411,288 dol
lars in 1851. In the same period English cloth
actually sank from 4,490,880 dollara to, 8,785,070
dollars. It wonld be a very ungenerous commer
cial bigotry which ehonld regard with dislike the
advances even of a rival; and oar trade has been
upon the whole so good, that we might view these
successes of onr Belgian and German neighbors
without diapleaaure if it were pimply the advance
of their commerce. A decline of English com
merce is s more unpleasant matter, but still worse
when we have ground to suppose that there is a
reason for it of a very ugly kind. When Mr. Bnse
feilJ Ferrand made hia great denunciation of
“devil’s dust,” and “shoddy cloth,” he was met
by a shout ol derision and denial. It was quite
natural that even a truth stated by a man so vehe
neutin hi» partisanships, and so wanting in self
command, should be easily discredited: neverthe
less, in spite of the indifferent credit due to the
channel by whioh the fact reached ns, it was to a
great extent true ; and the words of Bnsefeild Fer
rand have since been remembered by many an
angry customer, who has fonnd his cloths giving
way while they were yet new. Indeed, it has been
known that cloth has been tom in the simple act
of trying on, withont an undne violence. The
reason has been, the very general adulteration of
the tissue with precisely the materials denounced
by Mr. Ferrand—shoddy cloth; old materials made
up again, or other expedients to pass off rubbish
nnder the appearance of well made cloth.
There used to be a time when to say of any manu
factured commodity that it was “English” implied
ipso facto that it waa sterling—sauna to the heart
made to stand wear and tear, and defyingserntiny
to prove any falsity in its pedigree. That time
has passed; and we may well say that the decline
of English repute in that respect has reached an
alarming point, when even the manufacture of
woolen cloth, ao long identified with our national
name, has ceased to be sterling. The adulteration,
which endeavors to steal an additional profit for
the vendor by a deception upon the purchaser,
may filch a dishonest gain for the vendor in the
first instance; but after a time the purchaser learns
the trick, and then the vendor has to pay for his
dishonest lucre by seeing his trade abandon him.
Such things have happened as the loss of trade,
not only to individuals but even to communities
and to nations.
Some years ago there was a stuff well known in
this country as Nankin cloth, colloquially “nan
keen,” which had the recommendation of being a
wholesome summer wear, and of being excessively
durable. It was much used,in various cases for
jackets, trousers, and children’s clothing, as com
bining lightness and durability ; und those quali
ties extended a übc which could not have been ac
corded to any beauty that it possessed. The con
sumption was great, aud at a certain period it ex
panded considerably. The merchant and the manu
facturer probably thought that their profits should
be iaereased by diminishing tbo original cost and
substituting an inferior article; at all events it was
found in practice that nankeen did not possess the
quality of durability which was originally thought
to be implied in the very name; the article fell into
discredit, into disuse; and thetradedeclined. At
tempts were made to recover it, by the only legiti
mate means—by restoring the sterliug quality of
the stuff; and that was done, but the lost traffic
was not regained; and the trade, which was once
sterling as the cloth itself is extinct.
There is no in;perishabio immunity for English
trade; its tenure can only be fairly earned by do
ing suitand service in'he way of sterling work;
and it English commodities follow tho example of
nan'nee!! 10 foreign markets, the trade will under
go a like fate. We could parrallel the story of nan
keen cloth in anecdotes of needles without eyes, or
of watches warranted to go tor twenty four hours,
with othor examples of sharp practice; aud indeed
these tricks, although not hazarded to the same de
gree, are to a certain extent copied through the
deterioration of Englisti w*iss in other things
than woollen clothß. Much o'' the ir n manufac
ture has been observed of late years to show tra
ces of flaws in the manufacture, in which veu .
der must have winked. The frauds in the build
ing trade are notorious; but as wo do not export
housos, tho discredit and the discomfort are luck
ily kept at home. It is in the export con modifies
that the deterioration is most mischievous; and
while we look with pride to the enormous ex
expanßion of our exports during the present year,
we may well ask ourselves whether it is safe to
send abroad so many samples, as there most be in
these exports, of fraudulent cheapness l
Wo are the moro induced to call attention to
those oiroumstanecs since there are evident signs
of a better spirit in the staple trade which gave its
name to the English weapon of old. Tho Germans
we are told by the Halifax Guardian, which im
ports this “hint from Berlin,” attributes their
success “ to the superior excellence of their blue
black dye, to their production of a firm, close-wo
ven body of cloth, mellow, and a short knap,
boaring a natural gloss, not due to too much dress
ing and deviling, and affirm that the American
prefer light clothe*, possessing the above desider
ata to thick heavy goods.” Now, ingenuity cer
tainly is no want in the English manufacturer; we
can make up an article, if it is to be a question of
manufacturing skill, to suit tho fancy of any peo
ple; and wo could of course hit the notion of the
Yankee “to a t.” The only doubtful point is,
whether we can convince him that the article is
what it looks like; aud with a comparatively little
time that also can bo done. There has been reac
tion oven at home against the fraudulent cheap
ness ; and a demand for better kinds of cloth has
been noticed in Yorkshire, as a characteristic of
the trade of this year. It is a wholesome charac
teristic, and it is one that the manufacturers can
not do too tnuoh to encourage; for although a fic
titious cheapness may give a sudden expansion to
a trade, it carries with it the seeda of destruction;
and we are convinced that a few years more of
“ flash” exports would tend to bring one of those
crashes from which we might find moro difficulty
in recovering than we did from tho railway crash
of 1347, or the glut in foreign markets of 1842
aa insuperable a difficulty, perhaps, lor somo im
portaut branches of our trade, as was experienc
ed in the manufacture of naukeen cloth.
From the New Orleans Picayune.
Arista's Letter to Santa Anna.
Geu. Arista, ox-President of Mexico, publishes
in the form of an advertisement, in the London
Times, an official denial of the letter published in
the Diario de la Marina of Havana, as having been
addressed by him to Santa Anna’s Minister of
War, Tornel. Gen. Arista gives a true oopy of
the letter he wrote to Gen. Tornel, and ho wishes
the public to mark that it contuins nothing about
annexation. He gives no exposition of l.is views,
and as his letter to the Mexican Minister of War
differs somewhat from the one published by that
gentleman in the city of Mexico, wo copy it:
“Ercelentitimo Senur —Col. Andrade delivered
to me, at 0 A. M. of the Bbth ult., at my estato of
Nanae-Amilpa, your Excelleucy’s note of the 87th,
and at 1 o’clock,!’. M. of yesterday I wus en route
tor this port, as had been exacted of me. I have
just arrived, and to-day 1 leave the Republic. I
cannot conceive wherein or why my residence in
the country can be an obstacle towards maintain
ing tranquility and public order, when I of my
own free will havo descended from the highest
magistracy, resigning it into the hands of the au
gust Chamoers in order not to be considered as
wanting of the constitution. An arbitrary act is
carried out against mo. Without any crime, a
oruel punishment, unknown to cur laws, is impos
ed upon me for the sole purpose of tranquillizing
those who at present govern by means of a revo
lution which can scarcely bo understood by its
strange results. I do, however, solemnly protest
against suoh an act of tyranny, and I shall demand,
as a Mexican citizen, the reparation due to me for
the detriment and damage to which theaot sub
jects me. Dios y Libertad.
Vern Cruz, May 5,1558. Mariano Arista.
To the Minister of War and Marine.”
The history of this correspondence is as follows:
The first or annexation letter wus furnished to the
Diario de la hlanr.u by its Vera Cruz correspon
dent, with the distinctassertion that it was handed
to him by the secretary of Gen. Arista for publi
cation. As soon as i reached Mexico it made a
great noise, and the Minister of War denied its
truth and published his version of Arista’s letter,
and now this gentleman publishes a different one.
From our knowledge of the Spanish character, we
incline to the belief that the whole matter has been
a little political pulse feeling by the ex-President,
which not turning out a* be anticipated he now
denies.
Why Mr. Jenkins ought to be Electee.
Keasons for this are aa “plentiful as blackberries
jn June,” so tlmt wo must mention only a few as a
sample of the whole.
In the first placed Mr. Jenkins is an honttl poli
tioian. We challenge his opponents to point to u
single fact in his long and brilliant career which
oasts the shadow of a suspicion on his political in
tegrity. No party ties have ever influenced him to
depart a hair’s breadth from the path of rectitude
and honor. When his political associates have
done wrong, he has manfully refused to partici
pate ip th* wrong, and tor a season has fallen into
untyeritpd ditsfevqr. A politician of such Spartan
virtno is a world’s wonder in these days of oring
ing parasites and brawling demagogues.
Secondly* Mr. Jenkins is a moat profound states
man and Jurist. Ho has not exhausted thestrength
of his manhood in the pursuit of office, nor has be
blunted his moral sensibilities or warped hia judg
ment by paltry political intrigues. He has through
life been a patient and laborious student of his
profession, but has not unfrequently wandered in
to this dop,tin of polite literature. No man in
Georgia excels liju, in various atm elegant learning,
and as a forcible, yet plegsapt, speaker, he has
long been without a rival, excepting J ttdgo Serpen.
Thirdly, Mr. Jenkins is thoroughly conversant
with the condition and wants of the State, and has
ever been in an especial degree devoted to the ad
vancement of Georgia’s prosperity. He has beeu
the piaadtast friend of every measure that pro
mised to be beneficial to the State, and while others
have become enthusiast# on National questions, he
lias bestowed tha greatest attention on the diversi
fied interests of Georgia.
Fourthly, Mr. Jenkins has always manifested a
proper jtgard for the rights of the States and a
zealous attachment to the Union. When Johnsou
and his confederates were hatching treasonable
plots, and preparing to subvert the best Govern
uient the world ever saw, Jenkins was endeavor
ing to concoct a scheme to reseno the States from
the all-devouring Maelstrom of Consolidation, and
at ti|« same time preserve the people from the
horrors of Anarchy and Civil War. The Georgia
Platform was the product of these labors. Our
.-outhern Rights opponents labored with the en
ergy of desperation to destroy that Platform and
to degrade Georgia from the patriotic and elevated
position she had a-aumed, to that of a satellite of
SQUtJi Carolina. Jenkins was again in the fore
front of the battle, bravely upholding the meteor
flag of our country, as it now rose and fell amidst
the changing fortunes b/ contest. At last we
prevailed—and McDonald and hia' chief captains,
and mighty men, were dr’ven away, pursued by
the hisses and execrations of the Oaten-loving
peOpi?-
One oft chief-captains of McDonald is now
before the people 3?r the office of Governor, and
Mr. Jenkins is Lie opponent. Can the honest
Union men ot it* State bepuuie solitary moment
in reference to their duty in tins .emergency I last
them come up like patriot*, P n( l gl v 'fl 106 enemies
of the V nion another signal rebuke bj triumphant
ly suadiiping the Father of the Georgia ri»ttorm.
—Rome Courier.
Something tor Farmers*. — W* saw, yesterday,
the model of a machine for cutting cora in the
stalk. It is partially upon the plan of Mr. McCor
mick's reaping machine, and is designed to cnt
two rows of corn at a time. Between two wheels
there is an axle, to each end of which is attached a
knife for cutting each row of corn. To the axle is
also attached shafts for the horse which polls the
machine. The horse wanes between the rows of
corn, and the knife just on the inside of each
wheel cats the corn, which falls on a bed or place
to catch it, in a manner resembling the operations
of a wheat reaper. The bed which catches the
corn opens in the centre, at the pleasure of the
opera"'', to discharge the coruin bundles. We
are imormed that with one man and a horse, the
machine will cnt 80 acres of corn per day. It is
an invention of a citizen of Illinois.— Eickmon,i
Enquirer.
A London paper announces, “bv submarine
telegraph,” the important and startling intelli
gence that a new ukase has been published in the
kingdom of Portland prohibiting the wearing of
false hair by the women of the Jewish nation.
Soveral infringements of this new law have al
ready been punished.
In New York there is a gTeat deal of inquiry
making for new metallic mines out of which to
form new companies. Parties are not only out
in the southern and western States, as well as in
the interior of the State of New-York, but we
learn that two diat net seta of capitalists have dis
patched geologists to New Grenada, to make ex
plorations for the purpose of mining.
WEEKLY
Cjjnmidc & Sktitiurl.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY MOUSING, .-. JULY 87, 1853.
FOR GOVERNOR,
CHARLES J. JENKINS,
OF RICHMOND.
For Congress—Eighth District,
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS,
or TALIAFERRO.
To Correspoogents.
“ Constitution” is informed, that we have twice
published the speech of Mr. IVxbstzb on the com
promise, made on the 7th of March 1850, andas our
readers are presumed to be familiar with it, we
cannot consent to occupy our columns with iso
lated extracts, cut hero and there from it, to endea
vor to prove him a "Freesoiler.'’ It is somewhat
remarkable, after making that speech, he should
have been so vehemently denounced by the Free
soilers, if be had been one.
Burke, is altogethertoo prolix. Correspondents
must condense, otherwise we are compelled to
exclude their favors.
“It is unqualifiedly false that ‘General Pieroe
appoints men to office because they are known to
be freesoiiers.’ W 6 repeat what we have said be
fore—that Gen. Pierce has appointed no man to
office knowing or believing him to be a freesoiler;
and he stands pledged to correct any such appoint
ment into which he may have inadvertently fall
en, when the fact of present freesoilism ia fixed on
any of the appointees.”— Washington Union.
The above is the reply of the IVashington Union
to the charge of the Boston Atlas, that men were
appointed to impcrtant offices by Gen. Pierce,
“ because they were known to be Freesoiiers.” If
that is not tho reason for the appointment of Dix,
of New-York, aa Sub-Treasurer; of Campbell, of
Illinois, as Commissioner to settle Land titles in
California; of Maloney, as Register of tho Land
Office at Chicago; of Gray, the editoro* the Plain
dealer, as Postmaster at Cleveland, Ohio; of Vroom,
as Charge to Eeiiin, and the notorious and infa
mous If. J. Brown, as Special Agent of the Post
Office Department, we should like to know what
was the reason that secured the appointment
for them. Every man knows, that there are
thousands of conservative Democrats, men who
stood by the Compromise in the hour of peril,
who are equally capable for the discharge of the
respective duties, as these men—that there are
thousands of men of as much capacity, equal inte
grity, aud much more sound in politics, on this
great question, than either of the appointees.
' Then, why wore they not appointed, if it was not
because they were not Freesojlers? And why
were the others appointed, if it was not because
they are, and have been for years, open and avowed
Freesoiiers. What other reason can be assigned
for such uppoiutments, but their Freesoil princi
ples. There were numerous applicants for these
offices, the equuls of the appointees in every re
quisite lor'ho office, but they wore not Freesoiiers
—tho appointees are.
Tho Union stultifies itself and the Administra
tration by the declaraltion, that Gen. Pierce ap
points no man to office “ knowing or believing him
to be a Freesoiler." Wc doubt, seriously doubt, if
the annals of American journalism can furnish
such another bald, unscrupulous assertion as the
above. The President’s cheeks must have been
suffused with blushes, when he read that sentence.
For it presupposes a degree of ignorance on his
part, which does not attach to any intelligent fif
teen year old boy in the Union, whose father takes
a newspaper. What! the President not know
that John A. Dix, Peter D. Vroom, W. J. Brown,
Gray, of the Plaindealer, and Maloney and Camp
bell were notorious Freesoiiers! The thing is
preposterous, absurd in the extreme.
And the President will removo them if “ present
freesoilism" is attached to them. Indeed! Well
where is the recantation of any one of these?
Where uttered, and on what occasion? If they
have made aDy, let it be proclaimed to the world.
And until such recantation is proclaimed, the
American people will hold tho Administration re
sponsible for appointing them “ because they are
Freesoiiers."
TheCassville Standard, a supporter of the Ad
ministration, cannot summon the hardihood to
approve of these appointments, but seeks to palliate
tho offence of the Prcsidoutinthefollowingarticle.
Where lurks the patriotism of a public journalist
or a citizen, who in the face of such facts, thus
seeks to palliute such an offence against cood go
vernment and sound conservatism ? But to the
Standard's effort to excuse the President, here it is,
lame and impotent as it is possible to conceive.
Gen. Pierce and Freesoilism. —Much dissatis
faction has been created by Gen. Pierce in his ap
pointments, because some of said appointments
were from free soil ranks ; and the question is re
peatedly asked—docs ho sympathize with that class
—is it beca use they are free-soilors, that ho thus ap
points them? Wo do not, nor ever can believe,
that our present Chief Magistrate is so recreant to
his oft-repeated hatred of them, his known opinion
in regard to them, appoint officers from ranks
known to bo at enmity with their country—dovoid
of all love for that Union which ho has so long
and repeatedly lauded and fought in defence of.
No, never!
Wo do not defend Mr. Pierce in his appoint
ments, nor do we express the least friendship for
those appointed. On the contrary, we believe that
sympathy for them would >0 kindness bestowed
on those we now hold as our enemies, and tho
enemies of our common country, provided they
are now free-soil in sentiment. But wc repeat
Mr. Pierce did not appoint such because of their
freo-soilism; we have no question but that they
were exalted becauso lie thought them capable,
and sound upou Democratic doctrine: and if ho
had been aware, or rather had reflected upon the
antipathy that existed towards such, amongst con
servative men, generally, they could not have oc
cupied present positions. Not simply that he
would strengthen himself—add to his own poDU
larity—but because of his respect for the South—
his innate sense of justice.
“ mowing for (lie the Boys.”
The Federal Union says it has “ received a let
ter from a friend in Habersham,” upon which it
bases the following blast for the boys:
“ We aro rejoiced to hear that our prospects are
highly encouraging; the nomination of Judge
Johnson, says tho writer, is well received here,
and our friends are in high spiriU."
Wo are truly glad to learn that they have “en
couraging prospects” in one county of the State,
and wo should bo pleased if the Union could in
fuse a little of the “ high spirits" of its Habor
sliatn friends to the supporters of the Secession
ists in this section of Georgia, for we do not re
collect ever to havo seen a more dispirited and de
sponding f et. Immediately after the nominations,
they wero noisy and threatened to carry tho State
by 25,000 majority; but a few weeks have so ef
fectually taken the wind out of thoir sails, that
those of them aooustomed to bet on elections can
not he induced to bet even—some asking as much
as 5,000 to 10,000 odds to induce them to lay a wager
on the Secession candidate. ludcod, we have
never seen a candidate and his backers let down
so suddenly in our whole experience. Those of
them who are among the most sagacious, and who
are always as eager to seize upon what they regard
a good bet as a hnugry trout i? to devour a min
now, treat a proposition for an even bet with that
sort of significant look and sardonic smile, wbioh
plainly enquires, “ Do yon see anything green in
my eye f ” Indeed, it requires but a slight effort of
tho imagination to fancy you see tho thumb of his
right hand in contact with the point of his nose,
and by the peculiar gyrations of his fingers say
ing, “ No, you don't."
Col. Murphy Decline!.
We learn from the Atlanta Republican that the
Hou. Charles Muhpht, in consequence of ill
health, declines the canvass for Congress in the
Fourth Congressional District.
Th# Republican thereupon suggests “ that the
Conservatives of the Distriot, in each county, hold
a meeting on tho first Tuesday of next month, to
appoint delegates to a convention to bo held at
Newuan on Thursday thereafter, being the 4th
day of August. The times call for action.”
The Republican is entirely correct in saying, the
times call tor prompt action, net the Conserva
tive men, therefore, be on the alert, let their con
vention be full and harmonious in its action, and
all will be well. With a discreet nomination, they
can carry the District easily. They have in their
raukß men of worth, excellence and ability, alto
gether superior, intellectually, to the Secession can
didate, Mr Dent, and they should he careful to se
lect such a standard bearer as will rally their en
tire strength.
As wc feel a deep solicitude in this matter, with
out a desire to interfere, or disposition to dictate,
we take the liberty of suggesting the name of a
gentleman who, in our opinion, unites all the ele
ments of success in an eminent degree, and who
will reflect credit upon the District and honor up
on himself. W e allude to Dr. Slaughter, of Cobb
county. He is a man of fine capacities, thorough
ly Conservative in his feelings and principles, and
fully and cordially identified with the Conservative
party of the State. Apart from these, there
are, we think, many other considerations which
will natnra’ly suggest themselves to the minds of
the sagacious and discreet men of the district, in
fhvor of his nomination, provided he will consent
to accept.
Wc make the suggestion without any consulta
tion with Dr. S., (who is personally unknown to
us,) or his friends, and do not know that he can
be induced to accept a nomination, though we
nbpi i? will, and that he may be selected as the
standard beiref.-
The Secession Press-Tbe Atlanta Bank.
It is s fact, worthy to be noted, that the only
presses in Georgia that are trying to give the At
lanta Bank a circulation and credit, a sing e
exception, we believe,) are the organs of the Se
cessionists. This is the same party that, in the
days of Jacksoaism, advocated and vindicated the
44 Pet Bank iytUm ” of the Old Hero, which flood
ed the country with such a mass of irredeemable
“ rag money." They are the same party that, at
a later period, under the administration of that
prince of financiers, (?) Charles J. McDonald,
made such havoc with the currency and credit of
Georgia. It is rather a significant fact, which the
people should note and remember, that they are
now seeking to give credit end circulation to the
bills of the Bank of Atlanta.
Francis s. Bartow Esq., of Savannah, has been
nominated, by a Convention of the Ist Congres
sional District, as the Candidate of the Conserva
tive Party for Congress. The Nomination is a
good one, and if the party use due diligence in the
canvass Mr. B. will be triumphantly elected. Let
every Conservative man in the District see to it
that a proper effort be made to secure Mr. B’»
election.
“ Beware of Ihe Swindler " Atlanta Bank.
The Atlanta Republican contains an advertise
ment of tbe Bank of Atlanta, notifying the public
that its bills will be redeemed in New York. The
Editor calls attention to this advertisement, in an
editorial paragraph, with the very significant head
ing, “ Beware oj the Swindler."
We think the suggestion of the Republican alto
gether appropriate and well timed, and we are
glad to see such a warning to the people come
from that quarter. It augurs well to see the press
of Atlanta, the place in which the Bank is located,
proclaiming trumpet-tongued, to the people,
“ Beware cf the Swindler." We, too, have attempt
ed to warn the people against countenancing this
institutionorgivingcirculation toils bills, and we
are pleased to find that the Republican has the in
dependence to caution the people, in advance, to
“ Beware of the Swindler .” Sack a warning voice,
from such a quarter, cannot fail to exeroise an im
portant influence upon the public mind.
Byway of impressing upon the mind of the
reader, how just and appropriate this warning of
the Republican, to “ Beware of the Swindler," is,
we propose to submit a few facts for the consider
ation of the public
Geo. Smith & Co., who reside in Chicago, Illi
nois, own this Bank, except ten shares, which cost
11,000,which are said to be owned in Atlanta, bnt by
whom we do not know. Mr. Higginson, the Pre
sident, owns one share ! The only Director of
the Bank residing in the State is Mr. Higoixson,
the President! so Mr. Higginson informed us.
The Bank is, therefore, owned and controlled
(because they control the officers) by George
Smith & Co. Who Georoe Smith & Co. are, the
public do not know—they have been informed by
letter writers that Georse Smith & Co. are Bank
ers in Chicago, and are said to be wealthy; bnt
these letter writers have not stated in what that
wealth consists; whether in Western prairie lauds
or the stack and bills of Wild Cat Banks, with
which Smith & Co. are said to have been exten
sively connected. These are the Stockholders of
the Bank of Atlauta. What think tho people of
the solidity of such an institution, especially when
the owneis, George Smith & Co., declare theiriu
tention to use the Bank for purposes never con
templated by the Legislature, (purposes whioh, if
made known in advance, the charter nover could
have been obtained,) therefore virtually practis
ing a fraud upon that body, by an improper use of
the Bauk charter. Suppose this Bank to get a
large circulation, and George Smith & Co. take it
into their heads to let tho Bank fail, to whom and
where will tho bill holders go for tho redemption
of their bills ? George Smith & Co. live ia Chi
cago, Illinois, over one thousand miles off, aud
may or may not be worth a dollar in such an emer
gency. Mr. Higginson, tho President, owns one
share 1 Has lie any property in Georgia ? If so,
where and what is it ? Who owns the ten shares,
said to be owned in Atlanta, and what property
they own wc know not. Where, then, we repeat,
are the bill holders to go for the redemption of
Smith & Co., and pursue them through the courts,
because that would be attended with too much ex
pense. Mr. H igginson and tho Cashier may, any
afternoon, take the curs after Banking hours, and
before banking hours the next day, bo without the
limits of Georgia, with nil the funds of tho Bauk
in their breoches pockets. To whom then will
the people look for tho redemption of the Bills*
These are questions which every prudent man
should weigh well before he receives a bill of the
Bank of Atlauta, or attompts to pass it again.
As additional evidcnco that tho caution of the
Republican, to “ Beicare of the Swindler," is not
without force, wo may mention the additional
fact, that tbe Statutes of Illinois authorise Bank
ing, aud any man who has the capital to invest, can
become a Banker by depositing the reqnisite se
curity with the Treasurer or Comptroller of the
State. Now, if Geo. Smith & Co. aro as wealthy
as they wonld have tho people believe, and de
signed to practice no fraud upon tho public, why
do they not deposite their surplus capital with the
proper officers of Illinois, and obtain a charter to
do a legitimate Banking business in that State?
Why come to Georgia and purchaso a Bank Char
ter, and seek to use it for purposes never dreamed
of or contemplated by tho Legislature that granted
tho charter ? Do not all these things prove, most
conclusively, that there “ is something ratten in
Denmark !" And do they not admonish the people
how grateful they should feel to tho Atlanta Re
publican for its timely warning to “Beware of the
Swindler?"
Judge Johnson's Address.
One of the Editors of the Southern Recorder who
was present aud heard the Address delivered by
the Hon. H. V. Johnson, at the Commence went of
the Fewalo College,Macon, comments on it thus:
One word more about the Commencement Ad
dress. I believe I expressed regret in my last, that
the learned und worthy speaker should have so
liberally diffused through his oration, tho lacina
ting, but as I believe, fatal dogmas of Sweden
bourg. Judge Johnson has a right to eutoitain
whatever opinions to him, may seem most correct
and proper, upon questions of this, os well as poli
tics; bull must doubt, very capitally, whether
the occasion referred to was altogether appropria
ted to the propagation of views among the young,
which are held to be anti-scriptural by a majority
of those who aro believers in tbo truths of reveal
ed religion, and who have investigated the doc
trines of Swedcnbourg. I trust these obnoxious
portions of the address will bo expunged before it
reaeheatbe public cj;e. lam joined in this desire
by many of his political and personal frionds, who,
like myself, admired and approved the main body
of the speech.
New Books.—Geo. A. Oates & Bros, havo laid
on our table “ Father Gavazzi's Life and Lectures,"
and “ Mark Hurdlestone , or Tho Two Brothers,”
by Mrs. Moodie, author of “Roughing it in the
Bush,” Ac. Tho first work will bo interesting to
controversial tlieologiste, and tho latter will doubt
less be read with pleasure by all the admirers of
Mrs. Moodik’s former productions. Both are from
the press of Dewitt A Davenport, New York, and
are very neatly and tastefully, printed and bound.
For salo by Messrs. Geo. A. Oates A Bros.
Nashville Journal of Medicine and Suroerv.—
The July No. of this valuable Medioal Periodical is
on our table freighted with its usual variety of me
dical and miscellaneous matter. Thoworkisodited
by Professors W. K. Bowling and P. F. Eve, and
published in Nashville Tennessee, by J. T. S. Fall
at (3 per annum in advance.
The Medical Examiner and Record of Medical
Science.— The July No. of this old and valuable
Monthly is promptly on our table, containing its
usual variety. It is edited by F. G. Smith, M. D»
and J. B. Biddle, M. D. and published in Philadel
phia by Lindhat A Blakinston at (3 per annum
in advance.
The Crystal Palace.— Tho New York Herald
of Frid’y, says that 4c crowd of visitors to the
exhibition has experienced no dimunition since
their last visit, and the display becomes more at
attractive every day. There were yesterday 2,810
admissions on single tickets. About 1,000 on
season tickets ; (1,889.50 was taken at the doors.
Amount of contributions for the Washington
Monument, (52.01; total (883.91.
The recent decision of Attorney General Cushing,
relative to the construction of the law granting ex
tra pay to those engaged in tho naval service on the
Pacific, coast of California, and Mexico during tho
Mexican War, it is said, givos the extra compensa
tion to all officers and sailors, also, on the Pacific
Station during that period. The Pacific Station
extends from Cape Horn up. Upwards of two mil
lions of dollars will probably be disbursed under
this construction. This action is similar to that
adopted by the late Administration.
China Mission. —The home correspondent of
the Republic mentions the existence of a vague
and doubtful rumor to the effect that the Hon. R.
J. Walker will delay his departure for China until
winter, and that possibly he may not go at all.
The New York Legislature adjourned on Thurs
day, after an eight months’ session. The act for
the prevention of railroad accidents and the pro
hibitory liquor law were both rejected. New York
received the necessary authority for the establish
ment of two parks, the Central and Jones’ Woods.
These two tracts of ground comprise some fifteen
hundred acres.
Theomnibußes of Paris aro superior to all others.
Each passenger has a cushioned seat, with arms
to himself, which, of course, prevents crowding.
As soon as the seats are filled, a sort of weather
cock-Bign, on the top of the omnibnß, with the
word “complete,” is elevated, which can be seen
a long distance, and announces that no more can
be received. Their omnibuses arc wider than the
American: the central part of the roof elevated, so
that a passenger can pass to his seat without smash
ing his hat; and he has also an iron rod to steady
himself, and keep him from disarranging his fel
low passengers’ knees and toes.
American Indebtedness Abroad. —The Secreta
ry of the Treasury, under authority of a resolution
passed at the last session of Congress, has prepar
ed a circular making enquiries for the purpose of
ascertaining the aggregate amount of State, city,
county, railroad, canal and other corporation
bonds, stock, or other evidence of debt, held in
Europe and other foreign countries, on the 30th of
June, 1853—specifying, so far as the same can be
ascertained, the amount of each of the above des
cription of bonds and stocks. The circular will
be addressed to agents of companies, &c., from
whom replies to the queries propounded are likely
to be obtained, and will no doubt prove servicea
ble in gathering a large amount of accurate and in
teresting information as to the amount of Ameri
can indebtedness abroad.
Kiot at Milwavkie.—A serious riot occurred at
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on the 12th, the rioters
being a large party of German laborers on the rail
road, who had been disappointed in receiving
their pay from the contractors. The citizens, aid
ed by the military and firpmeu, had succeeded in
subduing the rioters, though farther difficulty was
expected.
Elections occur in Kentucky, Missouri, Arkan
sas, Alabama and Texas on the first of August,
aDd in Tennesaee and North Carolina on the 4th
of the same month, members of Congress and
State legislators to be chosen in all; and in Ten
nessee, Alabama and Texas, Governors are to be
elected. In Missouri but two members of Con
gress will be chosen, these being the supplemen
tal ones allowed under the new census, and the
other having been previously chosen. One of the
new districts is said to be a whig.
Efforts are being made in New York, to intro
duce foreign and rare birds into Greenwood Ceme
tery Cages of some of the finest songsters, and
birds of the richeet plumage, have already been
taken then, in the hop* that thay will pair and
domeatisate themaelvea.
“The Southern Eclectic.
We are gratified to be able to annonnoe tbe
union of those two valuable monthlies, which has
been for some time past a matter of negotiation.
The work will hereafter be oonducted under the
joint editorial direction of D. K. Whitaker, Esq.,
and Professor J. H. Fittkn. Both these gentle
men aro eminently qualified by their talents, edu
cation and experience to condnet such a work with
success and reputation. Mr. W hitaker has long
been connected with the periodical Literature of
the South. He is a ripe scholar aud a fine writer.
HU able management of the “Southern Quarterly
Review,” a work which he projected and con
ducted witn signal ability for some years—has set
tled the question of his entire fitness for snob an
enterprise.
To those who are acquainted with Professor
Fitten —his oonneotion with the Oglethorpe Uni
versity—the laurels he won there, and tho fine
taste he has invariably exhibited in the oonduot
of the “Southern Ecleotio,” it is unnecessary to
say a word byway of recommending him to popu
lar favor.
The united work will commeuoe its career on
the Ist of next September, with a large subscrip
tion list, and with every prospect of a wide spread
and permanent popularity. It will retain the
name of the “Southern Eclectic,” embracing
selections from the best journals of Great Britain,
aud the Continent of Europe, and original contri
butions from the pens of gifted Southern writers.
Those who may have received three uumbers of
Mr. Whitaker “Southern Magazine,” published by
Messrs. Johnson A Cavis of Columbia S. C., will,
we are informed, be supplied with the entire uum
bers of “the Southern Electric” for one year, in
consideration of the interruption that occurred in
the progress of the former work, so that those sub
scribers will receive twelve numbers, for their
year’s subscription, in addition to the three pub
lished at Columbia.
Tho editors would respectfully request newspa
pers throughout Georgia and South Carolina, in
Charlott N.C., Columbia and Nashville Tennes
see and Montgomery and Huntsville (Ala ) to pnb •
lish this announcement byway of information.
*
Politics Hi Crops In Cherokee.
One of the editors of the Southern Recorder,
writing from Kingston, Cass county, nnder date of
July 15th, says:
“ Ere this, you will probably have seen tbe up
eountry papers, whioh present a most interesting
exhibit of Democratic harmony, about which wo
hear so much. 1 have jnst learned from reliable
sou’ces, that Tatum, MeCaige, and indeed, noarly
overy Union Pierce man will go in cordially for
Jenkins. Tho friends of Tumlin are out for the
Union candidate in fail blast. You willl also ob
serve that Gen. Patton, of Rome, an influential
Southern Rights man, has come out and declarod
for Jenkins and Trippe. I was informed by a re
spectable gentleman, that DeKalb will probably
give Jenkins a majority of 700 votes. On every
hand I hear of accessions to our ranks. An aged
and influential preachor told me he had not voted
for Govornor for many years, but would vote for
Jenkins.
“A leading Democrat informed me last night,
that he believed there was but little chance for
Johnson’s election. These are facts and indica
tions, which aro highly encouraging to the friends
of our cause. Still we should be active and dili
gent.
“ I am happy to state that orops np in this
region, though backward, look very green and
promising. I trust the good people of Cherokee,
Georgia, w'll make enough for themselves and
something to spare to us who are less favored be
low.”
The Buffalo Republic and Washington Union.
The Buffalo Republic notices the artiele of the
Washington Union, (published by us yesterday,)
reading that journal and the New York Evening
Post out of the Democratic party, for their Free
soil and Abolition tendencies, and retorts as fol
lows :
“We authorize him (i.e.the editor of tbe Union)
to tell the President of tbe United States that we
considor it neither our business nor his nor any
body’s else in this country, how Boon Spain abol
ishes slavery in Cuba, nor how long she keeps it
there unabolished. Tell him that we do not con
sider that the Monroe doctrine had any reference
to the internal affairs of neighboring nations; that
by it we did not assume the right to peep into our
neighbors’ potß to see what they have provided for
dinner, or into their cabinets to aao how they pro
pose to manage their internal affairs.”
And again, in tho coarse of a long artiole on
Jefferson, Democraoy and Freesoil, we find the
following bitter and fearlesß objurgation:
“As to tho Washington Union, we have no
right nor disposition to complain of itß ardent de
sire to rekindle the strife which gave it existence.
We only marvel at its audacity in presuming to
discuss tho principles of tho Democratic party.
What docs it know about the Democratic party ?
Nothing whatever. It waa tbe bastard child of a
faction ; it was swaddled cradled, suokled, netted
and pampered by a faction; its flesh and blood,
ooneß and muscles are all made of the milk of a
faction; and unless it can have the teat of a faction
from which to draw its active aliment, it must soon
go to the worms.”
Tho Nutchoz Free Trader of tho 14th says:—
Owing to the dearth of political topics we have
concluded to “doflno our position” in regard to
the weather. The weather has been various and
promiscuous, particularly on yesterday. For two
weeks it has been diurnally and nocturnady rain
ing, considerably mere than the crops are in any
need of, though not to their injury. The ootton
is fine—so is the grass. The corn is greatly bene
fited, except such as was too far gone for any such
assistance to be of any use.
Mortality in New York.— The Herald of Sun
day the 17th inßt. says:—Tho mortality, during
the past week, was greater than we have known it
before this summer. The number of deaths as
stated in the City Inspector’s report, was 664,
whioh Is an inorease of 26 on the previous week.
Os these, forty-five were caused by consumption;
84 by oholera infantum; 68 by convulsions; 41
by diarrhoea; 86 by dysentery; 14 by debility; S 8
by marasmus; and 16 by inflammation of the bow
els. There were also 26 cases of stillborn.
One of the Hens. —The Woonsocket Patriot edi
itor makes merry over the mistake of an old Shang
hai hen of his that had been setting for five weeks
upon two round btones and a piece of brick 1 “Her
anxioty,” quoth he, “Is no greater tnan ours to
know what she will hatoh. If it proves a briok
yard—that hen is not for sale.”
According to a calculation in the Pittsburg Post
the iron manufactures of this country have a sure
demand beforo them of nearly (8,00,000,000 for
fabrics to be turned out from their manufactories
—a demand that will require all, and more than
all their oapacity to supply fast enough. The cal
culations upon which the statements are based is
the extent of Railroad now in oourso of construc
tion. With one hundred tons per mile, single
track, it will require 1,800,000 tons of iron rail to
complete the thirteen thousand miles of Railroad
either in progress or which will be in progress ere
long, including the Paciflo Railroad. At (60 per
ton, this would require an outlay of (65,000,000
for single tracks alone. But many of these roads
will be double tracks, besides turnouts, Ac.—
Then follows a vast outlay for cars, locomotives,
and othor iron works about suoh roads, to say
nothing of ocean steam ships, iron buildings, ma
chinery, Ao.
-
Oi tho Slave Trade in Brasil, a correspondent of
the Philadelphia Ledger furnishes, from Rio, some
interesting statistics. They show that Cuba is the
only Slave market of the Atlantic!
“ The importation for the year 1842 amounted to
17,485—with the exception of a slight re-action in
1845, it continued to increaso with alarming Bpeed
until 1848, when a revulsion took place so rapid
as to reduce the whole business in 1852. to 700, a
smaller number than usually constitute a single
cargo. The annual business in Cuba reaohea some
thing more than 12,000. A week’s successful
business has been known to outsrip the wholesome
Portuguese iniquity for a year. For 1858, no doubt
tho return will amount to nothing, and the coast
guard be entirely withdrawn as useless.”
A New York house has received private advices
from their correspondent in Liverpool, Btating that
they were in possession, by telegraph of later news
from Malaga, Spain, which states that in conse
quence of a disease having attacked the vines the
crop of raisins would be greatly injurod, if not en
tirely destroyed in that vicinity.
A diabolical attempt was made last week to cause
a catastrophe on the Albany and Harlem railroad.
An individual was detected in the act of staking a
large sleeper across the track, a short time before
the express train was expected. He was arrested
and committed to prison.
The experiments with coke as a fuel for the pas
senger engines of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
continues highly successful. The Miners’ Journal
Bays that a few nights since the train for Baltimore
was mn through from Cumberland with no other
fuel, and notwithstanding detentions by burden
trains, amounting in the aggregate to nearly an
hour, yet the time required by the schedule wss
easily made. There was not only an abundance of
steam, but almost more than the engineer could
manage.
The Population ot Mexico is given, as—lndians,
4,845,886; half casters, &c., 2,165,345; negroes 6,600;
whites, 1400,000. Total, 7,626,881. The total
number who knew how to read and write when
tho census was taken was #58,069, including ß7,229
Indians.
A self-raking reaper, the invention of Mr.
Aikens, of Chicago, has been tried with great suc
cess on a farm near Pittsburgh. It will reap fifteen
acres a day, raking the grain into heaps ready for
binding.
Commerce of New York. —During the first si*
months of the present year twenty-three thou
sand vessels passed, in the day time, the light
house on Staten Island, at the entrance to the
harbor of New York. The largest nomber re
corded in one day was 284 vessels, and the smallest
in the record is 19, which was on the 17th of Jane.
This would make about fifty thousand vessela in
the year, including those passing in the night
time, of which no record is kept.
Contributions to the Washington Monument.
The operatives of the Lawrence Bay State Mills,
Mass., have transmitted through their agent a
subscription of $525.52 to the Washington Na
tional Monument Fund. The Governor and Le
gislature of Massachusetts have also unanimously
given one day’s pay, amounting to nearly SSOO, to
wards tlis completion of the Monument.
The Bridgeport, N. J., Bank has been defraud
ed out of $1,500 by a couple of sharpers who de
posited as collateral security a bogus lump of Cali
fornia gold. The exterior was very ingeniously
studded with a few dollars’ worth of gold quartz,
and the crevioes were nieely covered with gold
leaf, so as to defy detection, without breaking up
the lamp.
The Marietta Colon.
Thu Editor of the "Constitutional Union" pub-
Uabed at Marietta, (whose democracy, a sow years
ago, was regarded sufficiently orthodox to secure
for him the responsible position of assistant editor
of the OonstiUUionaliet of this oily,) has deemed it
proper to reply to the numerous assaults of the
seoession organs, and to vindicate himself against
their aspersions of his political faith. He speaks
like an independent freeman, whoso devotion
to principles is altogether paramount to his obli
gations to party:
Personal. —lt is one of the unpleasant duties
of an editor's political life, to find himself at times
compelled to notice the low and unmanly personal
assaults of au adversary. It was but recently that
the boderal Union, a puper ofdesorvedly low re
pute, after having expressed a willingness to re
cognise ours as a democratic paper, upon finding
it devoted to the principles of the Onion party,
and opposed to what the Columbus Times and the
Augusta Constitutionalist regard as “tho funda
mental doctrine of the democracy of Georgia,”
with a great deal of self-importance j roceoded at
once, not only to read ua out of the domocratio
fold—but to heap upon our paper all the odium
all the party rancour, which udherod to its pre
decessor, the “Marietta Helicon.” Wo distin
tinguished this effort of the Federal Union, with
the contempt it deserved. We have now to no
tice a similar altaak, which seems to have been
suggested by the one just referred to from the
Atlanta Intelligencer. The leading Union papers
01 Georgia, have quoted from our paper and de
signaled ourself as “a democrat of the old School,”
the Intelligencer remarks:—
The Constitutional Union was but a short time
sinoe the Marietta Helicon, a staunch whig paper
supported by IPhig patronage. During the com
promise agitation it ohanged its name, without,
as we have ever learned, materially ohanging its
principles. A tier the Atlanta Convention of the
18th September it approximated so near to Demo
cracy as to support the ticket got up in opposition
to the decision of that convention, and in ojiposi
hon to tho I’ierco and King ticket which carried
the State in the Presidential Election. It may be
answered that tho present editor has at tome time
claimed, to be a Democrat, but coir s ng as he did
into the editorial control of a thoroogh-going whig
paper, his teachings have been of a nature pecu
liarly acceptable to tVhias, so much so that it
would be exceedingly difficult to point out any
difference, whatever between the teachings and
political alliances of the paper as it was under the
namo of “Helicon” and as it is and has been undor
the name of “Constitutional Union.”
It will bo suffloienaly advertised that the “Con
stitutional Union" is the name of a paper which in
some way succeeded the “Marietta Helioon." Our
readers are all aware of the fact and the Beccssion
democrats cannot possibly gain many votes by its
repetition. But it will be difficult for our adver
saries to make it appear that the two papers are
identified in principle. Tho lutelligencorsays :
“during the compromise agitation, tho Helicon
changed its namo, without materially changCoj its
principles." The iaot is notorious that the “Con
stitutional Union” has beau devoted, from its ori
gin, exclusively, to the advocaoy of tho principles
of tho Union party of Georgia. It was down to
tho assembling of the Atlanta Convention, 18th
September last, thoroughly identified “in princi
ple and in party alliance” with Gov. Cobb, Judges
Charlton, Warner, Jackson and others. It taught
the same doctrines, and taught nothing which they
did not teach. The lutelligencer knows this, and
knowing it identifies oar paper and its teachings
with the old whig party 1 Does tho Intelligencer
mean only to say that all the Union democrats
who acted with the Union party, havo acted in
alliance with whigs and ugainst tho 8. E. Demo
cracy ! This is strictly true. But when ho at
tempts to identify us in principle with the old
whig party he places all other Union democrats
in the same category—he not only wantonly in
sults Gov. Cobb and his friends in their present
position—but he presents a talso issue inusmuch as
Union men and 8. R. men did not organize with
reference to tho old issues.
If our “teachings aro or have boen peculiarly ac
ceptable to whigs,” it is because, with Union de
mocrats all over the State we have taught conser
vative doctrines which the whigs approved, and if
they condemned the Intelligencer and its alics,
beoause of their teachings it was because they
taught “resistance” to and “seoossion” from, our
present happy government. And this has mado
us, a whig and you a democrat! I W ell air, we
despise your demooraoy. We asked it as a fuvor
after the Atlanta Convention, that no one “should
ever again set ns down as a Georgia demoorat,"
and we now to say to the Intelligenoer “plaoe ns in
any organization in the State save one controlled
as the 8. E. democracy now is."
The Editor of the Intelligencer has but a meagrs
knowledge of our polilicarhißtory, but limited as
it is he has the advantage of us. Wo only kuow
him as tbe editor of a Southern Eights press.—
How he lias boon led to believe that we over
“claimed ” to be a democrat in days past is a mys
tery to ns. We deny, flatty, that we ever made
auoh a claim and aeiy him to the proof. We
have never, to the best of our knowledge present
ed claims ot any sort for reception or reward from
political parties. Sothe Intelligenoer ia out in its
Biography ; but for its edifioatton upon a mutter
of so much consequence, wo will Bay, that prior to
1850 we a&d with what was then called the demo
cratic party—wo talked for it—we wrote for it—we
voted for it, aud may in day a gone by have done
it some service. When the S. K. men dissolved it
in 1860—weabandoned them under the eonvietion
that they were oorrupt aud “their doctrines” revo
lutionary, Sipoe that tlmo we havo talked against
them—written against them—voted against them
and will oontinue to do so until, at least, their
“whited sepulchre” is purged of its corruption.—
This makes us a whig does it? This indontifles
the “Constitutional Union” with the “Mariotta
Helicon?” Why there aro thoussnda of Union
democrats all over the State who look with as
much aversion as we do upon the organization to
which the Intelligencer helongs? Are thoy whigs!
Are all those to be carried baek to tha drys of old
parties and acoused as whigs, beoauso your oandi
didato for Governor was smart enough after the
defeat of Gov, McDonald, to steal and prostitute,
tho name of domooracy ? And accused boforo
whom? Before whom do you bring these old
Jaokson Union Democrats—those firm and galiunt
men who would at any time suffer political mar
tyrdom in defence of principle—who is to judge
and sentence them as guilty of being whigs?
Secessionists ! Ah sir, in Georgia, \ya have defied
your powei;for twenty yoara—wo have defeated
you upon a hundred battle fields—we oaro not for
your proscription or your enmity. We aro Repub
licans after tne manner of Jaokson and Madison.
We are conservatives after the model of Washing
ton. It yon think the name of “Whig”—a name,
which both in the mother country, and in our
owu during the Revolution aud since, conjures up
a thousand glorious associations is a bettor designa
tion of the principles we struggle for than any
other, then call ns Whigs—anything under
Heaven if it only draUugolshes ua t»om the “fire
eater” th? bfilnbuater” tr the “progressive” de
mocrat.
Countirfeitm.— Counterfeit three cent pieceß are
now in circulation. Every person receiving them
should be on his guard, so that the makers and
uttcrers of them may be brought to justice.
Dbath om a Captain of Artilleht.— Captain
Rowland A. Luther, of 2d Artillery, died on the
Oth inst., of wounds received at tho battle of Palo
Alto, from which he was subsequently a constant
invalid. The demise of this gallant officer took
place at the residence of his mother in New Hol
land, Lancaster county, Pa.
Steamboat Inspection at the West.—Accord
ing to a report of tho Steamboat Inspectors for the
port of Cincinnati, dated May Ist, 1858, there had
beon, up to that period, from Jan. 7th, 188 engi
neers, and 217 pilots licensed, and licenses were
refused to five engineers and seven pilots on the
ground of incompetency. There were more re
fusals than these originally, many being on the
ground of intemperance, but some of the engineers
of this class bad permits granted them on trial for
reformation, and upon their giving ample proof
of reform, have received iiuenses.
A Warsaw Journal oontains the following state
ment of the force of the Russian army;—lt con
sists of 78 regiments of infhntry, divided into 32
battalions, and 24 regiments of cavalry of 192
squadrons; the artillery consists of six oorps and
690 guns. The total number of the aetive army
is 290,000, without counting the reserve. The
reserve is composed of six divisions of infantry and
six brigades of cavalry, and forms a foroe of 80,000
men, without counting the pulks of Cossacks.
According to a return lately issued in London,
the Metropolitan Police took last year 78,257 into
custody, and the City Police the former
14,608 wore oonvicted on trial, aiufthe latter 285;
and in the last four years 22 police-officers were
«ent by the commissioners, for offences, before the
magistrates, and 812 at the instance of individuals.
The number convicted was 54 belonging to the
Metropolitan Polioe.
Frightful Catastrophe—The third man swept
over the Falls of Niagara.— The N. York papers
bring us some additional intelligence, reoeived by
telegraph of the frightful accident, of which we had
a brief telegraphio acoonnt yesterday, which oc-
OUrred on Tuesday at the Falls of Niagara.
A second despatch, dated at 12 o’clock, M. says;
The man is still in the rapids, apparently droop
ing.
The life boat was sent on from Buflulo, but. sad
to say, proved too light, swamped immediately it
was launohed, and was lost over the Rapids. Un
fortunately, but one boat was sent. The situa
tion ofthe unfortunate man grows more and more
critical, and it is questionable whether he can
sustain himself until another boat arrives.
A third despatch, dated at P. M.,says :
The man went over the Fall at 6 o’clock. A raft
had been floated him which be was on, when they
floated another life-boat to him. and as be was get
ting ready to jump into it, the boat struok the raft
and swopt him off into the rapids. He attempted
to swim for a small island, but failed to reach it.
He raised himself up to his full height, gave a
shriek, waved his arm wildly, and disappeared.
The New York Sunday Times gives the follow
ing facts to show the impracticability of war in
Europe—a luxury that nations largely in debt can
hardly afford to indulge in:
“ War, if it take place, would probably involve
Great Britian, Russia, Austria, Turkey, and
France. In all these countries taxation has been
pressed as far as the people can bear it. Every
where the complaint of over-taxation is so loud
and general, that the sovereigns must pause ere
they feed public discontent by increasing the pub
lic debts. W 3 have Been what Great Britain owes:
the annual interest on this debt amounts to £28,-
000,000, or more than half the whole rovenue
of the realm. The other leading States are thus
indebted: Russia, £122,170,000; Austria, £IBB,-
400,000; Turkey, £6,666,700; France, £221,170,-
000. None of these States, except Great Britain,
could obtain a loan of any amount; certainly not a
war ioan-upon anything like reasonable terms.
Austria, Russia and Turkey have lately Ailed in
their respective efforts to borrow monsy. Nor
would France have better succe*. N° money, no
war. The indebtedness of the Greet European
States rend ere them practically bound over to
keep the peace.’ ”
Prices of Gas.—We find in one of our exchange
papers the following list of prioes per thousand cu
bic feet in some of the principal cities, on the first
of Jannery, 1858:
New Orleans $4.50 St. Louis $3.50
Louisville 3.00 Richmond, Va.... 8.50
New York 3.00 Charleston 400
Pittsborgh 2.10 Savannah, Ga 500
Baltimore, 25 per Washington, D..C. 4.00
cent, discount for Northern Liberties,
cash 4.00 Philadelphia, re-
Boston 3.50 cently reduoed.. 8.00
Hartford 4.00 Mobile 4.50
New Haven 4.00 Springfield, Ohio.. 6.00
Providence 4.00 Brooklyn. N. Y... 8.60
Troy 4.00 Newark, N. J 3.50
Albany 4.00 Augusta, Ga 7.00
Buffalo... 3.00 Cincinnati 8.00
Cleveland 8.00 Care Island,N. J.. 5.00
Columbus 8.00 S. Garden, Phila-
Naebville 4.00 delphia 2.80
Philadelphia, (the Camden,N,J,.... 4.00
works being own- Burlington, N. J.. 4.00
by the city,).... 2.00 Wheeling....:.... 8.00
Counterfeit $lO bills on the Cepe Fear Bank of
North Caolina, have lately been passed *t Nor
folk.
The Ihisii Exodus.—' 'tin . utilin correspondent
of tho London Times writes thus, under date of
July 4th:—
The portion of tho last Australian n.ail testined
tor Ireland, and which reached the Dublin Post
Ofltoe yesterday, was quito a “monster’’ in hulk. «
It required for sorting and distributing thirty-two
extra pair of hands, and tho carriers were not des
patched on their Boveial walks until two hours be
yond the ordidary poriod. A golden harvest j n the
shape of remittances may bo expected |,v this arri
val, aud no doubt the “ flight from Ire’lam l” will
be further aeccloruted without waiting for the com
pletion of tho coming harvest season. Touching
the decrease ot tho population Westward, the ii.il
way Packet complains that—
Tho result of tho extonsive emigration which
has so rapidly thiuned tho rural districts in this
neighborhood is now fairly visible in the deserted
state of onr streots. Scarcely half as many of the
rural population hs wero daily in town this time
last year aro to be seen at present, and thoro is
also a proportionate falling off in the attendance
upon market days. Shopkeepers are complaining
ot a sensible diminution in their business; so that
whatever change might have been wrought in the
condition of such of the rural population as have
been left behind, the prospects of tho trading and
mercantile classes, here at least, have h.y no means
improved. The average number of emigrants do
parting by our railway eacli day during the week
was about 40, thus making u total of 240 persona
from Galway alouo.
Cost of Railroad Transportation. —We gather
a number of estimates as to the cost of transporta
tion on railways, from the Amerloan Railway
Times, which will bo found interesting. The
Times says they wero proparod by one of the most
experienced and intelligent managers, and Hunt’s
Magazine adopts them on this authority :
Oast of Running a Passenger Train, with 40 Pas
sengers, 100 Miles.
Locomotivo power, ui So cents per mile,. S2O
One passenger cur, (70 seats, 1 ) at two cents per
mile x
One baggago car, at 2 cents por mile (too*high) *
One oonductor, $2 per day; ono brakeman, sl, 8
Total
Eeooipts on 40 passengers, at 2X cents per’miio 100
Net incomo
Tho cost of a train with eighty-two passengers,
at IX cents por mile, is estimated at $29, tho cost
of one additional ear at $2 being added ; tho re
ceipts at $102.50 makes tho net profit $7.9.50.
Tho cost of a train with 120 passengers is the
same, with the addition of one ear at $2, making
$81; the rccoipts at I cent per mile making tlm
net profit SB9.
Tho Times adds:
“ A large engine will draw on any road, not ex
ceeding a forty feot grade, ono hundred tons in
addition to tho cars; and as fourteen passengers
with thoir baggage are usually estimated to be a
ton, a full train of cars, with two hundred and
forty passengers, amounts to only seventeen tons.
The difference in fuel required to draw one or
three oars is so smull as not to be snseoptible of
calculation.
“That freight also can be carried cheapen groat
thoroughfares, where thoro is plenty of it, has al
ready boon demonstrated. The Reading roml car
ries coal one hundred miles for ouo dollar per ton.
although the ears go back empty. The Baltimore
and Ohio road havo a.so commoted to curry coal
two hundred miles for two dollars per ton.
We yesterday, says the N. Y. Tribune, saw the
successful result of a surgical operation of so no .
vel and ingenious a chnraoter, as to deserve tor
tion in our co'nmns. It was performed by j) r ,
Dixon, the Editor of Tho Scalpel, upon J j r . p.
Hyslop, ol this city, for a oaneor of eig’o’t years
standing, involving the whole of the l ower Up.
The membrane lining the lip beiug sound, tbe
operation oousisted in dissecting off n lO diseased
part and romoving it, leaving the, 'membrane in %
ita natural place. Then two lucisrr.m, woro made
downward from tho oornors of t' no mouth to the
chin, and tho skiu covering tho latter, being loos
enod on each sido, was crowds,,] „p n „d by a few
delicate stitches commoted with thc membrane.
When wo saw it tbe tip eras nearly well, and was
perfectly natural and syu*.metrical; and when en
tirely healed a slight. scar from tho out on eacli
Hide ol tho chin will be tho ouly trace of the dis
ease, or of tho operation for its removal. It forms
a striking illustration of tho resources of both na
ture and art.
The Charleston Courier understands that an in
dividual natnod Daniel T. Siikciirkd, voluntarily
delivered himself Thursday morning, to Sheriff
Yates, confessing that lie had kilted ono William
Houck, at St. James, Bantoo, in an affray which
ocourrod thereon the 14th imt. Ho was com
mitted by 11. W. SoiißODEit, Esq., to await his
trial at the next Ootobor Tortn of the Court of
Sessions.
The U. S. Mail steamship Marion, Capt, M„
Bekut, arrived at New York from Charleston at.
II o’clock on Monday night.
Tomb of Benjamin Franklin,— A dilapidated
dark stab of stono, at tho southwest corner of
Fifth and Arcli stroots, Philadelphia, murks
(or did a few years ago) tho spot where rest the
remains of Benjamin and Deborah Franklin ; but
you oannot see their grave nor read the inscription
without scaling a high brick wall in violation of
the law, or securing a good opportunity and the
favor of tho sexton, ouch of which is suid to ho
attended with difficulty. So well hidden is this
grave, and so little frequented, that wo have
known many native Philadelphians of men’s and
women’s estate who could not diroot ono to the
looality where it may be found.
Armed Fishkbmln.—Tho Gloucester, Mass.,
Telegraph says :—“Quito a number of our fishing
vessels have sailed this woek for the Bay of St.
Lawrenco. Altogether about forty vessels aro
there, or on their way, belonging to this port.—
Some of them aro armed. We ahull probably be
gin to have nows from tho Bay before many days
havo passed.’’
Amount reoeived at th& Crystal Palace, from
visitors up to 14th inst., in aid of the Washington
National Monument, $60.84.
Tho general court martiul whioh asscmtjod at
Fort Leavenworth on tho 4th of June last, for tho
trial of Major Howe, have fully acquitted the
Mqjor of all the charges; and this, toe, without
the court waiting for uny defence on tho part of the
Major.
The amount received for tolls on all the New
York State Canals, for tho second week of July,
was $97,988, against $88,681, in tho corresponding
month last year. Increase, $9,247. Tho total re
ceipts from opening of navigation to tho 16th of
July amount to $1,171,688, against $1,119,948 to
same period last year. Increase this year $51,040.
During the year ending July sth, tho revenues of
Great Britain havo amounted to £51,859,442 against
£49,786,488 for the previous year—an inorease of
nearly ten million of dollars. Oflho wholeumount
more than one half, £27,209,785, is applied to tho
consolidated fund for tho puymenl of interest on
the national debt.
The racing mare Flora Temple, on Tuesday,
trotted ever tho Union Course, L. 1., two miles in
4 minutes 49 seconds, said to bo tho quickest time
on record in whioh that distance has boon accom
plished by a horse in harress. Tho second heat
was accomplished in 6:01 X.
Tho State of Pennsylvania has invited proposal*''
for a loan of one million dollars, under authority. ■
of an act of last session. Tho now loan is to bear; :'
five per oent. annual intorcst, ami to be exempt
from taxation, and rclmburaabie in twenty-five
years. Proposals will bo received by the Secreta
ry of tho Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, up to •
the second Tuesday in August.
An auction sale of 6,089 bags Rio Coffee, took
place at Philadelphia a day or two ago. It realized
SBO,OOO. This is tho first auction sul os of the kind
which baa taken place in Philadelphia in aevcrul
years, and is attributed to tho great reduction of
auction duties by the last legislature.
The Saco Democrat says that the shocks of the
earthquake which were felt in Portland, were also
felt at “ Old Orchard Beach ” in that town. The
shook was also felt in towns in tho vioinity of Port
land.
The State Treasury of Wisconsin is said to be
bankrupt, there not being money enough left to
pay the members of the legislature a moiety of
their per diem.
From a giving way of a ring-bolt on board the V ,
London, belonging to the British navy, tho cable
flew round with such force as to kill Lieut Chap
man, and Big men, who were hitting down to din
ner, and wounded nine others.
The Washington Nationul Monument has at
tained a height of one hundred and tliirty-fonr
feet. Recently there wae received a block of gran
ite from Braddoek’s field, contributed by its pre- i,
sent proprietors, designed for insertion in the
oolumn.
Afowdaysago,l,7soboxesoforanges,and, 1,600 ft
boxes lemons, arrived at Boston from Messina. :>» *MpHI
Singular Railroad Accident.— The Andover |
Advertiser states that on Saturday evening last, as
the last regular train passed the station house in
Tewksbury, on the Lowell and Lawrenco railroad, i §
the switch tender got upon tho train and left the
station. An extra train came over the road about
ten o’clock ; on hearing it approach, the man who
occupied the house, knowing that tho switch was
wrong, ranged his family and sent them across the
track in double quick time, just in season to avoid
tho collision. On came tho curs, and pitched into
the station house without ceremony, knocking a
man out of bed, breaking a bedstead on which he
was lying, and every breakable articie in the house,
except two tumblers ; and removing tho building
from its foundation. No one was hurt.
Governor Djhezy and family recently pa«sed
through Brunswick, Mo., on their way to their
new home in Texas.
KESTmrriON.—The Washington County Post
saysachapin n certain village, with whom ho is
acquainted, having had sanded sugar sold to him,
inserted in the weekly paper the following:
Notice. — l purchased of a grocer in this villago
a quantity of sugar, from which 1 obtained one
pouudofsand. if the rascal who cheated mo will
send to my address seven pounds of good sugar
i scripture measure of restitution,) I will be satis
led ; if not I shall expose him.
On the following day nine seven-pound paokages
of engar were left at his residence from as many
different dealers, each supposing himßclf the per
son intended.
The Air Line Rail Road between New York and
Boston, byway of New Haven, it is said, is rapid
ly approaching its completion.
Valuable Coal Deposits have recently been dis
covered in Minneeota.
The loss by the Are at the Montour Iron Work*
does not exoeed SBOOO.
- V-
Owing to the unfavorable nows from Spain re
tarding the injury of tho grape vines, raisins are
ield at better prices, and a cargo of 7,000 10 8,000
boxes was sold oa Saturday, at New York, to ar
rive, at S9.TO.