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IMP MM A SENTINEL
Detail* t| the Africa.
The English piper* copy from the American
ioori.al* and publish, with every aopearaoceof ta
t.r. • lvard John Bussell and Mr. Crsmpton’s oor
" ..oodenee respecting the tripartite guaranty of
C *u Aithoogn it we* known each a pro|>o#al
I*l been made, the document* are quit* new Jo
tbe l',nu*h p«W«i, and indeed aeem to excite oon
rablc aiiooiabment.
, *
,U <l*. About lb* l«th Instant wa* the time when
. rti y from St. Pttaraburg midht be looked t° T -
however, a rumor that the Caar refu
“Vh.' telegraphicdespatch
reced ed in London on the 7th inat., via Berlin,
st.-ed i* *t the Basaian jmvernmeut had come to
„o ■ • ,M'in ou the Turkish modi6oalionh, the de-
L, • having reached St. Petersburg, to that it
wa- probable ronie saw day* more muatclapaebe
f.ret ..- de era iuation of the Cxaroould be deft-
the New* aaya, ‘'a certain
/'e of excitement’' prevail*, owing to the mo
a , na introduced into the Vienne note. A
el Council wae held, August 25th, to discuss
f.r .er meagre* for defenoe. Belying; on the a»-
„ „ ce of Prance end r.ngtend, and with tbe ar
my in the elective condition it now is, w«'would
be far from unpopular with the bulk of the peo
-1 The following are the lateat deepatehee publish
ed bv Ibe London pre«*:
“ Br ii arrest, Aug. 23—Tbe Kusalan troops
are practising and mucceovering every dey. no
fre-n troop* have marched in for »ome time pact,
for tbe Principalities are already overrun witn
>o i or- Fleiuwork* and fortification* are thrown
up and constructed with the greatest activity, M
pec -aiiv on the banka of the Da»nbe. I* ie be
lieved that the redoubt* are being constructed
after* plan which ha* long »in«i been
»n l hit they will remain even after the departure
of toe ltua'ien army.”— Timet.
• ‘Got-**, Aug. 26.—The M)ttl « me . n * ? f
dr . , *i ii neatiou i« not so near at hand** i» gen
•rally beiirved. The armament* have never at
”, on* time been suspended. Our commerce
„ not si.tf.-r from tbe state of affairs. We arc,
I , in great want of shipping for the trans
. r > , r i ar o« quintile* of corn which are to be
1.. forego countries, and especially to France.
CL stated that fever had broke out in some
of the B'ltish ships at Besiks Hay, aod small pox
, ,rd the French fleet. The aowinnta were
tabu exaggerated, only a few invalids
h*v : .? b**n sent to Malta. . ,
•i... *roihe ooododinf pwiffipnß of
the lx anvorj note »"nt by the Porte, along with
,Twlittcd uiti mat am, to tbe Conference at
' ‘“Vi’t’ie I- • draft of the note compo-ed by the
rtu olni. Porte is accented, or if that of Vienna re
o*:,!., tbe d‘-aired modifications, the Ottomaneabi
i,f t a .11 b • ready to sign either of those two drafts,
~,,J to send immediately an ambassador extraordi
nary H, , n condition of the evacuation of tbe Prin
. .... .ties. The Government of the Sublime Porte
oi,.i . moreover a substantial guarantee on tbe
j *n of tue /rcM powers any future mUr
r« ut», sou any occupation from time to time of
the iv.ncipaUlie* of Wallachla and Moldavia j and
the object of the Ottoman Government in arming
itself beforehand with auch exteneive precaution*
i» to prevent any occurrence that might bring
» \ miaunderstanding between the two empire#
after the Sublime Porte has renewed it* relatione
with the Court of Huwia.
“The point* of the draft of Vienna relative to
the affairs ol the holy place*, and the construction
of a church and hoapital at Jerusalem, have met
wiih tue c jmp l etc t»Hnotion of the Sublime Porte.
“A copy of the Vienna note, containing also
util. modifications which the Imperial govern
has thought fit to make, ban been transmitted
to four excellency.
‘•XL* Sublime Porte, wishing to give another
proui of iu particular regard lor the power* whose
signature* were uffixed to the treaty of 1841, ie
t.-ndy—el though the draft It ootnposad lately would
naiuradv be prelerred—to aocept the draft of Vien
ik, with the modiflontioua it hue made, and hope*
lua' the power* which bavealwsy* recognised from
llio very commencement ot the question the right*
«f tho imperial government, and made manifesta
tion* their good ladling, will, appreciating theae
inodifl jalion*, act accordingly.
“Hi. Majesty the Sultan, having ordered me to
communicate the above to your excellency, as well
a* t« the other representative*, your oolleague*, 1
a.., 11l in) self of thin duty, and beg your exoel
lani v to receive on tbia occasion, Ac.
(Signed) Bxubid.”
Em.lano—The Board of Trade return* for the
raunih, ending August 6th, bed Just been publish
ed end exhibited a oontlnsance of the national
prosperilv. A. compared with the corresponding
.„riol of 1861, they ahowed an inoreaseot £’.,-
4o;,,giH, in the declared value of exports, the m
creu e being largely in the article* of Australian
oonsunipt iou. Cotton manufactures showed an in
• tu* e over -nine month of l«*tye*r off 828,467;
millinery increase, £266,188; linens, £9n,Pßu;
liar- 1 ware and cutlery, £*',454; woolleu manufac
tures, £141,042; Uiotal*, £269,414. The only arti
cles "U which any deiloieucy ia noted are cordage,
cuitou jarn, linen yam, thrown and twist *ilk,
Kin- |.s’ wool and woollen jam, tbo decrease on
caeii bin. g of trifling amount. In breadstuff*,
wheal shewed 416,U0U are. increase, the importa
tions f»r the seven months of the present year hav
ing re sell rd 2,757,104 quarters, against 1,881.651
qturnr* durmg the same period last year. Hour
ou me month showed a decrease, but a largo aug
mentation ou the year, the import* for the first
seven month* this ycur being 2,955,597 owt.against
2 417 t.-,s owt. in 1852. In the seven mouths of
IMI •he importation of breadstuff's wae about
•q nd to the present. Balteil provisions also show
ed an increase. , , , . .
Ue.i. ciir Cliarle* A. Napior had been burled at
Pori .mouth with all the honors due his rank and
aervioe. Nearly B,uoo private soldiers sought und
ol.taiued lea veto attend his fuuoral. Standing by
tin- plain brick gravo in which the remains of his
rola' ivo were deposited, Bir W. Napier pronounced
a funeral oration which was almost Oriental in its
slylesnd terseness. Soldiers! there lies one of
the best men—the best soldiers—the best Chris
tian* that ever lived. He aorved you faithfully,
and vou served him faithfully. God is just I”
A trial of reaping machines tied been made at
Stirling. The first priae was awardod to Boll's,
and th* second to MuCormiok’s, against twenty
a>ue competitors.
The British sbipKcbocca, from London, Dec. 2d,
i s,' ; Juey, had boon wrecked on the wont coast of
A.l-1 r„ ia The survivors of the orow were picked
up I, V »„ „,doriug party, alter twenty-three days
amr.Ting on an .’'ohubited ooa»t.
The clipper ship 6''v«reigu o' the Seas was da
tained . Jay "id did not Mil from Liverpool until
afternoon of Wednreday, 7ifi. A new Uvde iron
clipper, the Gauntlet, 698 tons, saile.' l from London
M-mdav, sth Inst., and intends to rao* ‘JB Bover
ei -n. The clipper Guiding Star had been dhkf<
ter .-.I tor Australia, for 12,0007, one of the highest
freights over given from the port of Liverpool.
Kitvsc*.—The peculiar position of the grain
trad* vet occupied the chief share of the public
attention. On the one hand, it was asserted that
th - interference of government had caused nume
rous importers to resell their purchases, and to
countermand theirordcr* in America; on tho oth
er hand, till. Moniteitr contradicts that the go
vernment is disposed to make purohaaes ot ooru.
Far fn in opposing the regular course of commerce
(m<- that ionrmil) the government interferes only
to awiat It by g.mend and equitable measures
win -h secure it* liberty, and tho security of it*
operatic *. and which promote tho importation ot
gram und its distribution throughout tho country.
A .Ison « bn* host! puhliahod, ordering that all
French or tiireigli ves-els loaded wholly withgraiu,
breadstuff*, rice potatoes, or dried vegetables,
shall pa** on *H the rivers and canals free from all
navigation dun* from this date to the 81st Decem
ber next. Another decree is published, granting
to the Ka Iway Companies that shall lower their
tariff', for the transport of grain, breadstuff* and
potatoes from this date to the 81st Deoomher, pow
er to raise them after that dale, within the limits
oftha maximum authorised by their books of
charge*, without waiting for the delays stipulated
therein.
A rumor had been gaining ground that the Gov
ernment was shunt to negotiate a loan of 600,000,-
000 francs. This minor was industrionsly used on
the Block Exchange, hut the better informed de
clare that there is no truth iu it at present.
The Maine ol latmaus, learns that Ledrtt Kollin
i* dying of nostalgia.
A Paris lottcr mentions a rumor of a new Trans
atlantic Steamship Company, to have its headqoar
tors at Dieppe, but, aa the harbor of Dieppe ia lit
tle a lap'i’' for tin purpose, probably nothing
more will be heard of t he project.
The tVuatitutionel contains au article ou the
Knot*affair, from which we gather that Fiance is
not disposed to permit the Frenoh Conael at
Smyrna to play the part of jailor much longer, but
will certainly not e nntemmoe the claim ofAna
triato obtain pos- esaion of Kosta. Neither does
Captain Ingraham’* condnct meet with the Constl
tutionel'* approval. The artiole goes on to state
that Austria certainly possesses no right to soixo
he* subject* within the Ottoman territory, else
why di i she not seite Kossuth! Having, then, no
such right, it ia much to be regretted that the
Austrian government should sanotion the illegal
attempt to carry off Ko*ta, by promoting to the
rank of Captain the chief actor iu that attempt,
Lieut. Belt wart z, ot tho brig Hussar.
Captain Ingraham's conduct (the writer says)
was as difficult to justify as Schwartz’s, although
the false position lu which the Austrians had
placed themselves, favored the "raahnoes” of the
Americau Commander. It was not a* an Ameri
ceil cittxen, but a* a revolutionist that Kosta was
defended against Austria oy the agents of the
Coiled States. The Constitutionnel thinks this
verv dangerous indeed, and say* that “none of the
Euroi-ean governments will ever edinitaa a princi
ple of public law, that the Government of tho Uni
ted Stat-'* has a right to protect revolution iu Eu
rope by force of arms.” Public feeling sided with
the American Captain, and took the part of a man
wrongfully arrested on ueutrai ground. But in or
der o repre-s an abuse offeree, Captain Ingra
ham e -'omitted another, and the less noise the
Government at Washington makes about the affair
the more prudence it will display. An impartial
arbitral mu would send both parties out of Court.
A* to M- K >*'», what Austria had better do, will
be to g.,e lim every ta ility to go to Amerioa,
there to reside a* long a* possible. Theee are the
Con.ti'.utioiiel’s sentiment*.
SraiN L.-lters from Madrid state that M. Cal
deron de la Bars* was shortly ex [looted there from
l'ari.. The business of his department demanded
hi- immediate presence.
Tue Madrid correspondent of th* London Morn
ing Chrome's writing, of date Ist instant, says
C at the question a* to the reception or non recep
tion of Mr. Soule, as Minister of the Uuited
Blates, ha-1 been much agitated at the Spanish
Court, and the recent accounts of his proceedings
Bad been much euumeuled on. It was believed
that thcßpauish Government would oppose no ob
jection to his reception as American Envoy, bnt if
any passage in his address on presenting his cre
dentials can be found fault with, it will be seized
• m opponuuH* to dismiss him. Mr. Soule—
tbe writer adds—will, at best, find his poeitian a
difficult one.
Km as States.—At Kaveuns an attempt had
Vwer made to assassinate the legate, but, fortu
nately, without success. At Forii the Gonfaliere
had been threatened by the p opie. and was so
much alarmed that he bad fled into Tuscany. In
Other pirts of the Homan territory excitement
prevailed. The ostensible cause of the now was
the high price of loci. Part of Ihc Austrian gar
ris'.’i of Fi >rence hat been sent into the Romagna.
By a s inew at siugular coincidence Commodore
Vanderb lt arrived in his yacht, the North Star, at
Civita Ve.chia, just when the discovery of a aup
pn>e<l Uan ui conspiracy had thr wn the Papal
ti n ornment irto fit* of terror. The polioe of Ci
•vita Vecvhia, staggered by the imposmir siae of the
«tearner, and the number ot persous on board, irn
mwlist. ty concluded that it was an American sym-
Cithii ng expedition, and refused pertuiaaion to
nd. Alter two or three day* of useless negotia
tion. the North Star proceeded to Naples, where, at
leas!, so the newspapers say, she wae also an ob
ject "f suspicion, and had eventually to seek refuge
a' Mal'a. On the 23d alt. the yacht arrived at the
Bosphorus.
Venice.—' The Venice official Guette contradicts
the run; rs of scarcity, and says that so large a
an-n'i'v of corn has arrived at Venice that the
wstboriiies are at a loss where to stow it.
Vapi-is. Twentv two absent persons had bfcen
Mtniletntiisi Is death i» amfsimwiom, fv r the part
they perk h i l '* revolution ot 16tn May, 1848.
The A «tri*n tiovernment had just puhiiahedan
_ae • j feport on (he result of the harvest. The
sniisraetory in the Tyrol and Dpoer
,«,d long in Cannula and Austrian Sile
-t. aood in Moiavia and Buckoviua, and very liur
? th* I'mliy of Cracow. The reporw from Hun-
Oahcia. Transylvania, Lombardy and other
£2.’ ,if the Umpire bad not been received, but
was reason to believe that, without being
Tll « Prussian Board of Agriculture
circular, wherein it ia stated that
i, £ ftUuoo whatever lot apprehenelOM
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of a dearth of corn. Tbe official reports state that
the rye harvest in the provinces or Prussia, witb
the exception of Use Lithuanian district, in Po
een, Braden burg, and the Shine, i* good, and in
acme diatricta abundant; that in Baxony, Silesia,
and Nattier Pomerania, it i* middling ; and that
it fa only in Weatphalia, Upper Pomerania and
Lithuania, where abort quautuies are apprehend
cd. Tbe reports of tbe wbeit harvest are nearly
similar—bnt with thia diiference, that in West
phalia it i* more, and in the Bhine provinces lees
abundant than rye.
Birseu-—Vienna letters state that cholera was
making great inroada in Bussia, especially in tbe
Southern province*, where large bodies of troops
were stationed. It lied also made ita appearance
at various points of the frontier of Eastern
Gallscla.
A letter from Irkutsk, July 1, published at the
Journal debt. Petersburg, meniions the discovery
of several rich gold placers on the right bank o;
the river Lena, between the localities where its
confluents, the Vitime end Oltkraa fell into it
Tbousande of diggers are there at present, pro
vision* for their use being brought, at high prices
from Irkutsk. In 1651, some rich diggings were
found near the mouth of the river Olekma.
The frigate Diana and the brig Pollux, had sailed
from Cronstadt to reinforce the Hessian squadron
in the Japan seas. The squadron now numbers
five vessels. An army of 6,000 men was this
snmmer collected at Irkutsk, the entrepot of Bus
sign commerce with China via Kiakhia. It was
asserted that these troops were destined to keep
wntc on the undefended frontiers of the Chinese
dominions.
Greece. —We have further details of the recent
earthquake at Thebes. The town, or rather vil
lage, was built partly of stones, which were ai!
new, and partly of old houses of wood and bricks.
All were more or less injured, the former having
been completely shaken to pieces, and the latter
having been rendered uninhabitable. E even per
sons were killed, and eighteen were rescued from
the fallen ruins. The survivors were encamped in
the open air, and were suffering from want of wa
ter, the earthquake having dried up the wells
Seventeen villages in the vicinity of Thebes, as far
a* Plates, had partially suffered, and one or two
houses fell at Chulkis. The shocks continued for
some days, one to three shocks within the twenty -
fonr hours.
Latest Intxluoence. —We give the following
important despatches from a second edition of the
London Times, with a recommendation to receive
with caution what ia published exclusively in that
paper, and Immediately preceding the sailing of a
mitil steamer for America:
“ Paris.— It was positively stated to-day (Thurs
day, Bth,) at the Russian Emhas-y at Paris, that
the Emperor of Russia had refuser) to accept the
modifications. It was added that when the Empe
ror was informed that the Porte had modified the
note of the Vienna conference before accepting it,
he observed in a tone of much moderation, that
he would willingly make concessions for the ex
press purpose of meeting the wishes of the Euro
pean Powers; bat he would not humiliate himself
!n tho eyes ot the world, by submitting to propo
sitions direct from the Sultan.”
It was al»o asserted that Napoleon had stated
that be would not go to war at present iu the pre
sent scarcity of food among his people.
From the N. O, J'icayunt, 21 el inet.
latter from Texas.
The steamship Perseverance, Capt. Lawless, ar
rived here from Galveston yesterday, hanging
Ga.veston dates to the 16lh inst., and India,.ola
papers to the 18 h. She brought the amount of
$18,196 in specie on freight.
We see it stated in the Galveston Journal, of
the 15tb, that the steamship Louisiana, which
was to have sailed ou the previous Sunday eve
ning for this port, was’detained until tbe follow
ing evening from sickness among tho passengers
and crew, resulting in the death of ono before
Bhe left. Several others were expected not to sur
vive.
The disease, we regret to perceive, was prevail
ing extensively and severely, not only in Galves
ton, but also in other pa Us of the State. The Gal
veston Journal ol the 18th, says :
It la scarcely two weeks since the first case of
yellow fever appeared among our citizens. For
several days there were doubt* expressed by some
of our physiolaim a- to tho nature of the disca-e
which was oonflnod to a few strangers, mostly
boatmen, and those having no residence here.
But it soon extended generally to the unacclimu
ted porlionof our population, and the yellow fever
characteristics became apparent iu a majority ot
the eases. During tho past ten days our city has
been Heavily affliotod. We cannot hazard oven a
conjecture aa to the number who have been taken
sick during this brief period, but certuiuly we
have not had bo groat an amount of sickness sinoe
1847 And yet the deaths aud sickness are thus
tar almost entirely oonflnod to the uuaecUmoted.
But unfortunately our city probably never before
contained so many of thia class.
The News of the same date says :
Yesterday the interments exceeded those of any
day aince the commencement of tho epidemic.—
The much lamented Dr. Bryan continued nis un
remitting and (us we loam) remarkably successful
labors in saving others neurly to the hour of his
own death. He was compelled reluctantly to
absndou his patiouta at 4 P. M. ou Sunday morn
ing lust, and wus a oorpse before morning ! Two
other physioans, also unaccliinutod, died in tho
commencement of this total epidemic, liumoly, Dr.
Ridley and Dr. Baum, who had more recently
come to our city. But we need not attempt to
enumerate, aa it is not now in our power to com
plete the molanch' ly catalogue ot victims. All wo
can now say is, that in the past few days more than
a hundred ofour inhabitants, many ol them well
known citizens, have beeu suddenly cut off, aud
generady those in tho prime ol life. Home fami
lies have boon entirely swept away. Wo have just
heard that tho last member of Mr. W . T. Mitonell s
family died last night. Mr. Mitchell citmo here
about six months siucewithhis wiloand two sous,
who were all held iu high estimation by all who
knew them. Four or fivo days ago they wore ull
well; now ail are gone.
The Civilian of the sama date apologizes for the
unsatisfactory editorial uppvurauce ot tho paper
by stating that those oonneeted with it are either
slightly indisposed or fatigued by attendauoo on
the sick. A bookbinder attached to the establish
ment hud died from yellow fovor, uud another
had been attnoHed by tho sumo di louse. It pub
lishes tho subjoined notice of the progress of tho
disease:
Tho number of intorments for tho week ending
September, 12, as furnished by tbe city sexton,
Mr. Drew, is as follows :
Tuesday, September 6 9
ivedneadiy, M 7...* ■*
Thuraagy, “ 8 »
Fral.y, ‘ # ‘
Satuidxy, *0 »
Buud»y, “ 1*
Monday, “ 1* “
This embrace* all, whether in tho city, hospital,
or among the shipping; and a sad record it is.—
About ten of the number are from di-eases other
than yellow fover. When it is considered that
Ifce deaths are exclusively among persona unaocli-
Irtstwi, yho do not oonßtitute ovor half our popu
j7 tW n It wiii i>® perceived that tho epidemic is
trnlv rioieOt aibonfc mis class of peoplo. A num
ber of the death* yestwJi-y, wore among persons
lately from the North, '
The Galveston Journal ot N l ® has the fol
lowing notice of the progress 01 fhp during
the two subsequent duya :
Tuesday, September 18
Wednesday, “ **
The moat ot these cases wore tuken previous to
the present clear and ploassnt weather. Tho line
„oti'n oroezo which h«B prevailed for the last two
or tlireo days ia considered qsite favorable to the
health of woll persona. Wo have hoard of no new
cuses since lust evening.
An eminent physician, writing from Houston
to the Galveston News, ou the loth inst., states
that sovoral eases of yellow lever hud occurred
there, but that the epidemic had so far been of a
very mild form. The Galveston News ot the 18th,
however hus the following paragraph:
Passengers from Houston inform us that tho
yellow fever is now prevailing there as an epide
mie, and that the mortality is quite iia groat as in
this oltv. Tho papers there do not, however, con
firm this statement.
The Houston Wesleyan Bannor, of the 17th,
eaya:
Although this disease is beyond all doubt in our
midst, we are rojoicod to say tiiat it has not yet as
sumed that fearful type which has tendered it so
alarming clsewhoro. But sow of our citizens have
fallen victims to the destroyer, as previously re
ported, and It will be seen, by reference to the re
port otthe oity sexton, that ofthe nineteen deuths
which oocurred from the Bth to tho 14tli instant,
fourteen were Germans. It is a well known luct
that almost every German who is taken with this
or any other epidemic, uieots a certain death ; the
reason we are unable to assign, unless it may he
attributed to their manner of life. Since last week
thure has been a marked inereaso in the number
ol oases, nor has the disease been confined to any
particular location, yet tho list ot interments will
show that there lias been but an i/lereaso of one in
tile number of deaths. This we regard as a favors
ble indication, though by no means us any evidence
that the diseaso will subside before the weather
becomes cold.
’1 ho Galveston News of tho lt6h says :
There has been a report here to the effect that
Col. Wm. T. Außtin was dangerously sick at
Richmond about a week sgo, with tho yellow
fever. His death has since been reported, but as
there has been no confirmation, we trust it may
not be true.
The Tndianola Bulletin, of tho 18th, publishes
the woekly return ot the mortality in tiiat city to
date. It shows that there had been 11 deaths, 10
of which wore caused by yellow fever. All the
viotims were Germans, only one ot whom, a lady,
was acclimated.
In olher parta of the State healtli appoars to be
generally enjoyed.
The warlike preparations beingmadc by oar Go
vernment are exciting the liveliest speculations.
There seems to be no anticipation ot an attack
from the Mexicans.
Yellow Fever Abroad.— We learn from the N.
0. Truo Delta of Tuesday, that the fever bus beeti
raging with terrible severity at Lake I’rovidettoc,
La. Th. first case occurred on the 2d instant. On
the Bth there were three doaths. at wh : ch time a
general panic ensued, and on the following day
there were not a hundred people remaining in the
town. On the 12th there were forty c ises out ol
the few persons left. Up to the 15’h there had
been fifteen deaths. Ou the 17th, six deaths were
reported within twemv-four hoars.
There wa< much sickness and di-tress at Bayou
Sara on the 15th. The disease was nuusually ma
lignant.
At Baton Konge it seems to have been less fatal.
At Vicksburg, by the last accounts, it was raging,
with unabated severity. Kev. Stephen Paterson,
Rector of Christ Church, and one of the editors of
the Church Herald, died in that city on the 14th.
He was a man of high standing and much talent.
Kev. H. M. Painter, of the Presbyterian Church,
had been seriously ill, but was slowly convah scing.
In Natehex there had been fifty four deaths (all
except two of yellow fever) dttring the six days
ending on the 18th. The Courier is the only pa
per published, and that is reduced from a daily to
a weekly issue. The editor says, “it is deemed
necessary to continue it at least onoe a week, that
the town may not lose its identity.
YaxooCity, Port Gibson and Grand Gnlt' were
still suffering much, at the latest dates.
At the little town of Trenton, on the Onachita
river it is said there were twenty deaths out o: a
population of onlv 180.
In Galveston, Texus, the same malignity has
been evinced, which has marked the disease else
where. The number of interments for the week
ending on tbe 12th inst. was 84.
lu Houston daring the week ending on the 14th,
there were seventeen deaths of yellow fever.^
There was much alarm at Indianolo and Victo
ria, but ouly one or two cases of yellow fever had
occurred at either place.
VsraoNT — Proposed Coalition.— ln consequence
of the introduction of the prohibitory liquor law
dicussion into the politics of Vermont, an election
of Govenor by the people of that State has been
prevented, the late contest having resulted in
giving the Whigs a plurality, but not an ahsolute
majority. In this juncture, according to tbe ab
surd laws of the New England Bute's, the elec
tion for State officers devolves open the Legislature.
But the new Legislature shows in its component
parts a reanlt similar to that of the vote for Gov
ernor, there being a plurality of Whig members
bnt not an absolute majority. Should the Locofo
oo and Free soil members of the House form a
coalition, they will be the majority of that body.
And this it is already proposed to do, the basis
being agreement to elect a Locofcoo Governor and
Free soil Senator. The Washington Union, the
national and official organ of Generl Pierce’s ad
ministration, re; ices over this abolition victory,
which is to throw another abolition member into
the United States Senate, and copies from the
Free-soil Alhany Allat a paraganh jeering tbe
Whig* for the reverse they suffered. Perhaps
uothiog better oould be expected of the Union,
respecting, aa it does, an adoiiniatration which
fosters ana cherishes ths abolition and secession
portions of its friends as being the ruling majority.
-FML V. a. few*.
From the Snt Or tenet Picayune, Sepi. 18ti.
Yell*«* Paver la Sew Orleans.
The interment. ' iho cemeteries of the city
forth* week end! ! o'clock yesterday morn
ing, Saturday, the •<. * insl., are in detail aa fol
lows, tbe deaths by yellow fever being those certi
fied to by the physicians:
Intermen's for the twenty-four hoars ending at
6 A. M. on—
TotaL Yellow fever.
Sunday, gept’r. 11 66 48
Monday, « 12 55 88
Tuesday, “ 18 47 26
Wedsrsday, “ 14 45 *2
Thursday, “ 15 62 82
Friday, “ 16 51 81
baturilay, “ 17 47 *4
Total 866 *2l
0*«e» in which cause of death not stated... 18
Os these, s x-sevenibefor yellow fever 15
Total of death* by fever, for the week 286
‘"otal interment* orevlou* week 676
Total by yellow fever previous week 445
Decrease Oiie weec over previous, iu tots' interments, 211
Decrease (At, week over previous, in deaths by the
lever 119
Deere vse of leut week over iU previous week in total
interments 879
Decrease ot laet week o'er its previous wr ek in yellow
fever deaths 868
To contrast this week’s report with that of the
five weeks previous, we give the following table,
including for yellow fever six-eevenths of the
casa* in which the cause of dealb was not given.
\V cek ending at 6 A. M. on—
Total. Yellow Fever.
Saturday. August 6 1184 996
Saturday,Augur 18 1a94 1808
Saturday, August 20 1584 1865
•Saturday, August i7 J 628 1442
Baturday, sept. 8. 955 804
Saturday, Sent. Ift 576 445
Saturday, Sept. 17 865 286
The following is a tab e of the total interments
and of those only by yellow fever which were cer
tified to by the physicians, from the week the first
yellow fever rase was reported as terminating fa
tallv, up to 6 A. M. yesterday morning:
Week ending on Saturday—
TotaL Yellow Fever.
M y 28 140 1
June 4 142 1
June 11 I'4 4
Juie 18 147 7
June 25 167 9
July 2 177 25
July 9 188 69
July lfi 814 214
July 28 617 429
July 80 723 665
Aug. 6 1184 947
Aug. 18 1494 1262
Aug. 2 i 15 4 1802
Aug. 27 1r.28 1865
Sept. 8 955 749
.“opt. 10 576 421
Sept. 17 365 221
Total 1f,485 7561
Ca'u’s in which cause of death not stated in the last
eight week* of the table 890
Os thes-, ex seventh* yellow fever cases BS4
Total of deaths by the fever since May 28 7895
0 ir weekly report of the Charity Hospital is as
follows:
Report for the twenty-four hours ending at midnight on—
Admissions. Deaths. YeL Fever.
Saturday, 23 9 7
Sunday, 17 9 7
M .nduy 28 9 8
Pne day 85 6 4
Wednesday 84 12
Thursday ..44 5 5
Friday 86 10 8
Total 217 60 46
The week before the admissions wore 217, the
total deaths 78, the deaths by yellow fever 57.
The totals of the hospital reports for the eight
weeks ending at midnight ou Friday, the 16tb
inst., are as follows;
Admissions. Deaths. Yel. Fever.
Friday, July, 29 6:0 218 207
Friday, Aug. 5 547 818 8"7
Frid .y, Aug. 12 f 94 282 266
Frdav, Aug. 19 498 272 244
Friday, Aug. 26 271 168 157
Friday, Sept. 2 2 7 107 90
Friday, Beyl. 9 217 78 57
Friday,Eept. 16 217 60 46
Total 8151 149 S 1874
The infirmaries established by the Board of
Health have all been closed, exoept one, as the
Charity Hospital is amply able to accommodate pa
tients. Hence the increase in the number of pa
tients at that hospital. The Howard Association
have still an infirmary open for convalescents.—
Since its opening, the admissions into it have been
111, of which six were natives of the United
Slates; 67 were discharged, and ii remained in
the institution day before yesterday.
The infirmary in tho Fourth District closes, we
ore informed, to day. That, we believo, will close
all the infirmaries except that for convalescents.
We uguin ropeat our earnest caution to unaceli
inated persons not to venture near this city until
the first frost. Even those who ure acclimated and
who have been absent for two or three months had
better stay away.
United Slain Finances.
The Now York Courier publishes a statement
furnished by the Assistant Secretary of the Trea
sury, of the Revenue and Expenditure oftho Uni
ted States for the financial yoar ending on the 80th
of June last, specifying the qnarterly receipts of
each brunch of revenue and the quarterly payments
in each branch of expenditure.
The aggregate of receipts, exclusive of trust
funds, is 161,853,924.
With the additiou of certain trusts funds of the
Smithsonian Institution, the Peruvian aud Brazil
ian indemnity, and the Chickasaw and Navy Pen
sion fund*, tiie aggregate is 1)61,803,404.
The ordinary revenue exceeds tho revenue of
any proceeding year by mire than 19,000,000,
anil wilh the exception of the two preceding years
by 113,000,000.
The items of revonuo are, from customs duties
)58,931,865, from sales of public lands (1,667,085,
incidental receipts $738,623, and under loan act of
1847, $16,350.
The receipts from publio lands, notwithstanding
the extent of emigration, have fallen off to a very
small amount, being a diminution of $876,154 com
pared wilh those of the proceeding year.
The balance in tho Treasury at the beginning of
tbe year was $7,810,756 making the total availa
ble means for the year $75,986,061, and affording
a surplus over tho expenditures of tho year ot
$21,942,892.
The total of expenditures of tho year, exclusive
of payments on account of the trust funds, amount
ed to $54,048,168, viz:
Civil expenaea and foreign intercourse $17,174,955
Department of the Interior, (pensions and In
dian-) 5*29,585
War Department 9,947,290
Navy 10,891,539
Interest ou pabl o debt since 1541 8,666,0x5
Interest on old debt nod Treasury notes I,’1 ,’ 72
Reimbursement ot okldebt and Treasury notes. 17,107
Reimbursement 3 percint. stock 1,240
Rei.'emption of loans ot 1-42 to 184 S 6,394,503
Premium on do do 889,087
Interest on do do 28,421
Commission on do do 2,340
Total .54,'48,168
laclud'ng trust funds 64,5.-6,696
As connected with tho above financial particu
lars, end pertinent to the snb(ect, we add the tact
that the Bllb-Trea-ury at N, York contains within
its vaults ten million* of deoil specie, of no more
use than if it were at tbe bottom ot the sea. The
price of our flour and corn will make our surplus
still more enormous, and, unless wo prepare for it,
it will sweep away every vestige of Protection. It
behooves all tho fricr.dßof domestic industry, both
in sod out of Congress, to look to this matter ear
nestly ami prepare lor tho struggle. —Rational In
telligencer,
ImpobtantTriascpt CmcuM-it - MoDfnoATioß ow
THK Tariff.- Tho following circular bfts beep ad
dressed by the Secretary ofthe Treasury, to a esm
lior of prominent Ncw'York merchants, which in
dioates that lie intends to recommend to Congress
some alteration of tho present Tariff: —
Trkabitrv Department, Sept. 20, 1853.
gm: The imreaaing revenue and accumulating
amount of money in the Treasury, render it most
probable that the' tarilT will bo made a prominent
subject of discussion and examination, with a
view to rodaotion, during the approaching session
of Congret ’. 11l tha meantime, and at es oarly a
duv as may bo, I am desirous to obtain from the
ii osi reliable sources, the best information of the
working of the prosent rates of duty upon the
leading branoiios of industry of the country, and
ofthe effect to be expected from tho proposed mod
ifications. .....
Understanding that yon take an interest in this
subject, and have given some attcpllon to it, and
perhaps have been in situations to place within
vour reach very valuable information, you will
much oblige me by oommuni- ating to this depart
meut your views thereon, aud by furnishing lists
of articles now subject to duty, which, according
to such views, should be duty free, and of such
other articles on which the present duty should be
reduced. .
Tnc existing tariff having beep designed gener
ally and substantially for revenue and for a fair
and equal operation both between the various
sections of tho country and the various branches
of industry, the same objects should undoubtedly
he kept in view; and the reductions, it any shall
be made, should bo so arranged as to afford an
equal participation ill the benefit to every interest
and to every section. Articles which enter Into
our manufactures and those which do not come into
competition with American proaucts arc those
about which there will doubtless bo the least ques
tion.
Besides these objects in the proposed reduction
ot tiie tariff of such an arrangement as will afford
proportional benefit and relief to eyeyy portion
and interest ofthe country, there is another which
ought by no means to bo disregarded—l mean, to
abridge the labors of the custom houses. This ob
ject will be consulted by adding to the free list ar
ticles of general consumption, and articles paying
little duty, which but for this consideration might
properly be made subjects of revenue. lam very
respeoueUy, Jauf.- Gcthrix,
Secretary of the Treasury.
Tax Missrssirrr Bonds.— Proposed Mod* or Snr-
TUtHENT. —Mr. H. A. Johnson, ot the firm of Gil
bert, Coo fit Johnson, of New York, who obtained
the verdict and affirmation of the Qigh .Court of
Appeals of the dtate (if Mississippi intteO case of
the Union Bank bends, it is said, has offered, on
behalf of the bondholders, a liberal settlement.
Hd proposes that tho bonds, with the mtCfeil ac
crued t nor eon, shall be taken up, and new bonds
issued, pay a Ini ! n fifteen, thirty, forty-five and
sixty years; that the «»ew bonds issued for the in
terjsl'i.ow due bear no intense; for three years, af
ter which the interest to be charged on them as on
the principal. He is also willing to take a tut ot
one lourtb of one per cent, on the assessed ad lal
aifth value of such rea' and personal property of
the State as is nav subject to taxation, believing
it will liquidate the eotira debt in sixty years; if
cot, he will grant a further extension,
Pile Mississippiian, the Democratic organ at
Jackson, is inflexible in opposing the payments,or
even providing for the interest of the State bonds.
It institutes a comparison between that State and
the debt ridden Gover* menta of Europe, and
reaches a conclusion by figures that the people of
Holland and Great Britain, of ad on the other side
of the Atlantic, are not more onerously oppressed
now by debt than the I'eople of Mis.-ise'ippi wiii be
it they decide to pay those bonds. It says that
each citizen ot Holland, to pay off the debt’of that
country, wocld have to pay $266, England $222,
Mississippi $216 for each voter in the State.
Hon. A. M. D King <ited at Americas, Gs., on
the loth inst. Judge King had been long and suc
cessfully engaged iu the practice of law in Geor
gia ; and had attained no inconsiderable eminence
in his prof ession. During a series of years he pre
s ded over the Flint Circuit with much acceptance:
and by the amiableness of his deportment and the
kindness «f his heart, be won golden opinions.—
The members of the bar, through tbr wide sphere
of his acquaintance, almost universally revere his
name. As a lawyer, as a gentleman, and as a c ti
xeu. he shared largely in the public estimation and
confidence.
Sea Island Crops.— We had entertained some
fears that tbe late stormy weather would prove
highly injurious to the crops on the sea coast- of
Georgia. The following extract from a letter
written by an intell.geut planter residing in Glynn
conuty, under date of tbe 15th, gives some acoount
ot the effects of the storm in that county. The
writer says:— Savannah Htpublican.
“ We have bad dreadful stormy and deluging
rains, which have done incalculable injury to the
Cotton crop. Some thiukthey have lost eight to
ten bates opened in their field on the main. We
have not suffered so much ou St. Simon’s Island.’
Aitemited Scicide. —A gentleman, registered as
Jeremiah King, Charleston, S. C., to
k.ll himself ou Saturday night. After attempting
ie cut his throat in the rear of the Waverly House,
ho went to the river and slang himself in, but was
saved by tbe bunds of one ot the steamboats. He
lias money with him, and is thought to be derang
ed. He says be is a blacksmith, but is not dispos
ed to commnn.oate. lie had checks to John King.
Should this paragraph meet the eye of any who
know him. it will be a f-vor to inform his friends,
as liars are entertained that he will make another
trial of sell murder.— Ckn'tanoofa Adartuer.
The New Yoik and £’ie Railroad have declared
a dividend of percent., payable at the transfer
office, No. 45 Wail street, New York, on the Ist of
Octobsr. I
From the Sacanuah Itewmblican.
The Silver Spring.
The following is an extract oi a private letter,
dated— Oca'-a, < Fla ) Sept, 1853.
“In Marion county, Lust Florida, there i» a very
extraordinary spring, caliei! by the people, and
not inappropriately, “the (Silver Spring.” It is
not only one of the greatest curiosities in nature,
bat as a source of profound sublime and pleasing
impressions, has probably no eqaal. It is ap
proached, through what is called “a hammock,”
which I may here hastily describe. The hammock,
so termed in Florida, is a thick, dense forest in
which the branches and vines arc so matted and
interwoven, that yon are able to see only a lew
paces in any direction. The trees nasally found
a them, are the Ash, Bay, Gum, Wahoo, Palmet
to, Magnolia, Live and'White Oaks. Over the
trunks and limbs of these trees creep and twine
thousands o( vines, among which 1 may ennu
merate the Sarsaparilla, the Grape ~nd Jessamine,
weavinga kind of sylvan and floral fabric, throngh
which a passage Is almost impracticable.—
Through such a wood a road has been opened,
about half a mile in length, by which and without
any persceptible descent you reach the spring.—
At flrst appearance it seems almost a circle, ami is
about seventy yards in diameter. When first I
stood upon its banks, and took the flrst glance into
the deep, bln?, calm, gem like tiling Before me,
I felt as though I were looking into the bright eye
rs some great angel, and in'truth, it is not un
like the noble, feariui eye, widen imagination
might give to a powerful benevolent Divinity. I
found a small boat, embarking in which I paddled
to the centre. I do not exaggerate the transpa
rency of the water, when I call it as dear as the
snnny air.
Tne depth of the spring is variously estimated,
from one to two hundred feet at one place. Ido
not fear to hazard the statement, that the depth
cannot be less than one hundred, yet such is the
transparency of the water, that yon might discern
a pin upon the bottom. 1 endeavored to ascert uin
accurately ita depth, and threw an ounce ball into
the water for that purpose, but a large fish swal
lowed it before it reached the bottom, which
thwarted my purpose ; he did not gain pleasure
for himself, as he seemed not to enjoy his leaden
breakfast. On the bottom is a micarious deposit,
which has a considerable reflectivo power. When
the sun shines, the spring is filled with rainbow
colors and makes one of the most bowitching and
fairy like scenes which natural combinations can
firoduce or create. I observed thj mouth of a
arge fissure or cave in the rocks below. From
this chasm this limpid river seems vomited forth.
This fissure or cave is between two layers of rocks
that run from the north in horizontal lines; the
strata seems abruptly to have terminated at the
point where this river’btirsts forth : or if they origi
nally extended beyond this point, in some convul
sion, the portion lying South must have broken
down. Ido not attempt accurately t o give the di
mensions of this sub aqueous cave, but these are
my estimates: The vertical distance is 25 feet; its
width is 8 feet; from this cave the water rushes
up with great rapidity. \ observed several large
fish attempt to enter it, and they succeeded only
after vigorous exertions; small pebbles too, were
thrown up some distance, yet such is the depth of
the water above the cave, that the surface has
scarcely a perceptible motion.
Nearly a week has elapsed since my excursion
to this curiosity, yet the mpressivo Panorama is
frequently before my mind—and in my dreams 1
again grow giddy as my frail bark seems to hang
over a deep chasm, where rainbows intertwine,
writhe, and break into thousands of pieces.”
In its “Talk on ’Change,” the New York Uer
ald of Wednesday nays:
A gentleman acquainted with tho public feeling
in Mississippi, stated as his belief that the Legis
lature of that State, at its ensuing session, would
be disposed to make an arrangement with the
holders of its disputed bonds, which would secure
their redemption on a plan matuully satisfactory,
and thus remove the last ground of accusntiou
ugainst the State on tho score of repudiation. In
the two new States of the Wost, and in Pennsyl
vania, from unfotseen difficulties, .interest was
suspended for a time, but neither principal nor in
terest was suspended. The former paid what they
could, and this their creditors finally accepted.
With tho settlement of the Mississippi bonds, it
was hoped the last cry of repudiation against this
country would be heard, as regarded the past, and
that the peoplo ot the Slates should look to it that
no cause should be given for similar accusations in
the future.
An experienced ship builder stated that the ad
vance in labor and materials had been so great that
it now cost twenty-five per cent., or more, to
build and equip a ship, than it did a few years
back; hence, to bo remunerative, freights should,
on the average, rule higher than they did formerly;
otherwise tho capital invested in ships would prove
less profitable than in former years. This advance
in ship building materials applies to nearly all
articles omployed, whether metals, wood, naval
stores, cordage, canvass, paints, &c., many ol
which hud advanced from fifty a seventy-five to
one hundred per ceut.
To make vessels pay under such charges, to say'
nothing of tho advance of labor, would require
steady work, at a higher range of freights than
those obtained in the past year, with the excep
tion ot the clippers that made round voyages via
California, China, and buck. The same enhanced
cost of construction is also applied to steamers,
and indeed to all other water crafts.
New Yoke City Finances. —Comptroller Flagg,
of Ne York city, has made his annual statement
of the finances of this city. The Comptroller states
that, notwithstanding the real and personal estate
of the city has increased $61,926,187 over the val
uation of 1852, the rate of taxation has also in
creased from 96 cents to $1.28 on tho SIOO of valu
ation I The total Bum levied by the Supervisors
in tho city and county of New York tins year is
ss,o69,oso—which is 1,688,539 more than that of
last year. Here is an increase of more than a
milhonand a half of dollars in the expensosof the
city in a single ycur. Tho total amount of the
city debt, over and above tho sums in the Sink
ing Fund for its redemption, is $9,825,841. A
debt of 955,000 has been created to erect build
ings, and construct docks and slips, which is re
deemable by annual taxation. The sum ol $332,571
has been expended for cleaning the streets du
ring tho year; and the other street expenses
amount to $194,153. Os tho amount paid for
cleaning the streets, $208,000 has been paid du
ring the seven months of 1858. It seems miruo
ulous that so much money should be spent with
out producing any visible results.
New York Money Market, Sept. 21.—The of
ferings at the Bunks arc la:go, and just about
dounle tho receipts, so that tho directors have to
apportion their discounts according to tho cluims
and necessities of their customers. In the street
business paper is plenty at full rates. A few capi
talists only receive legal interest and of coarse
havo their election of pupe- at tho noto brokers ;
übovo this a t'ow bunkers’bills, on very choico un
doubted signatures are occasionally placed at 9 per
cent., but most of tho business in prime endorsed
arid single names, is done at 10al2 percent. On
call there is a much supply of capital, all of tho
large hanks turning part of their dully receipts into
this channel. Wo regret to see this, as it is pro
viding the means of future stringency in case of a
temporary panic. The banks excuso it, under the
plea ol boiug liable to sudden calls for capital, as
if the only alternative was to put out all their as
sets, down to the last dollar of their deposits, in
Bills Receivable.
Wo think that tho resorve-fnnd of a bank should
not be loaned any way; if loaned subject to call,
the bank inay, it is true, obtain the money at any
moment, but this can only be done by disturbing
the whole community, sufficient means for such
sudden emergencies should be kept in tho vaults,
and tbon a temporary demand could be answered
without exciting the whole community. This
might rpdnee the dividends to 7aß per cent, por
annum, (an increase far below tho views of most
ol theso institutions} but this might, in timo. be
considered a reasonable usanoe for the capital in
vested.
Foreign Exchange closod firmly at the improved
rates noticed yostereday; Loudon 109J{al09}f for
signatures of leading bunkers; Paris 5 a 5.13%.
Tho Stock Market is buoyant and active.
At tho First Board, U. S. 6’s of 18SS brought
109%; U.S. ?’s of ’67, 122%.
We find the subjoined paragraph in the New
Y'ork Dorald of Tuesday i
On Thursday m xt, at half-past 8 o’clock, A. 11.
Mr. William Collier will launch from his yard, at
tho loot of Nineteenth street, East River, the beau
tiful s’eam-hip Nashville, for Messrs. Spolford &
Tilcstoirs lino of New York and Charleston
steamers. The Nashville is a very sharp and
hundaomo vessel, of about 1,500 tons burthen,and
lias been built ill the very best style, under the
immediate superintendence of Capt. M. Berrv, late
of the Southerner and Marion, who will command
her. She i» 210 fiet long, 84 wide, and 22 deep,
and will be fitted with a single side lever engine,
from the Allaire Works, of 85 inches diameter,
and eight feet stroko. This will increase the num
ber of steamers in this company to five, via : the
the tiuipn, Southerner, Marion James Adgcr, and
Nashville—a steamer for nearly each day in tho
week—a good sign of the increasing importance of
the trade between New York and Charleston.
\ British Parliamentary documont rooently is
sued contains some very interesting statistics with
respect to the issue of coina o from the Mint dur
ing the quarter ending the 80th June laßt. It ap
pears that the value of the sold coined during that
period in money is £4,763,828 Bs. #d. Ot this
amount, 95,692 lbs. weight was coined into 4,471,-
242 sovereigns, of the stondard value ot £4.4i1,-
242 12s. 6d. 5,261 lbs. weight was also corned into
SSo IS7 half-sovereigns. 1,141,563 florins. 717,768
shillings, 104,304 sixpenny pieces and 15,840
threepenny pieces were struck off. lne total value
of |h<s above silver is #155,J00 Is. 3d. It
appears that no crowns, half crowns, or foqrpenuy
. pieces were coined, and that no copper coinage of
auy description was executed during that period.
Southern Rajlkg ap •The Commissioner of the
General Lund <_nti.» at Washington city, says the
Vick-burg Whig, has issued an oruer, date*! U'th
August, withdrawing from sale or entry, uli the
public lands within 15 miles, on either side, cf an
air line between Brandon and Montgomery—com
prising a portion of the lauds subject to entry at
Jackson and Augusta, Miss., and Detnopolis and
Cahawba, Ala.,—*ntil the pleasure of Congress can
v, A -«ctrt*ined in regard tc a grant of land to the
gjlrpad. The bill granting public land
b». tw> pM«d the U. S.Senate, but
10 this row, b» -. ■ has neyer passed
for some nnaeeoi.." u,DI ® trust that our
the lower House cf Con^.. - auiesssful, ll3 a
next Representative may be more - *«aiple
grant of land will iusure and hasten tbe .
tion of this great State and National road.
Mr. Marshal, the President, is now out upon the
line to increase the subscriptions to the stock, and
we 'rust the citizens of East Mississippi—who are
so deeply interested in this great wotk—will nobly
reeponu to the action of our city in its behalf.
Later From Havana and Ket West.—By the
U. S. Mail tichr. E A. Henning, Capt. J. M. Tay
lor, arrived yesterday from Havana and Key We.-t,
wehave received the subjoined favor from onrat
tentive Havana correspondent. — Char. Cturier.
Havana, Sept. 18.—Since our last of the 27th
alt., the more favorable accounts from abroad
have produced rather more inquiry for Sugar, but
the great scarcity of vessels, and still ‘ higher
freights, prevent operations to any extent. The
quotations may be pteced as follows: Whites or
dinary to middling ri».: good 7%a8 rls.:
choice floretes 9a?34 rls.: Yell w« 6.634 rls.: fine
Yellows -nd superior floretes rls.: Browns
534»534 rls.: Cuvurnchos 434*4% rls.
Molasses is at 234 rls-
The business in Coffee is very trifling at 834
»*?*•
An Important Decision.— The Secretary of the
Interior has approved a very recent decision of
the Commissioner of the General Land Office, nn
der wh'ch the latter refused to sanction an admin
istrator’s sale of a military land warrant. The
Commissioner rules that the 4th section of the act
of 2Slh September, 1850, (under which the said
land warrant was issued) exempted it from the
debts of the person to whom it was issued, and
made it, until the patent shall have issued, the
property of the heirs of the deceased soldier, not
to be aliened by any act of the administrator.
Chinese Corn. —Wrn.D. Phillips, Esq., has sent
the Nashvide American a specimen of Chinese
corn, of which be has abont an acre growing. It
is s curiosity, differing, as it does, in various re
spects, from the Indian corn. It is said that it
will produoe 100 bushels to the acre.
Man Shot et a Yocns Woman.— One day last
week, in South Carrolton, Mublenburgh county,
Ky., a young lady of good character, daughter of
CoL Wilson, having been calumniated by a young
man, called npon him armed with a revolver, ac
companied by her father. The slanderer could
not or did not deny bisallgitions, whereupon she
fired, inflicting a dangerous, if not a fatal wound
in hia throat Cin. Cam.
The Philadelphia Book Trade Sale, as recently
concluded by M. Thomas & Sous, was eminently
auooaasful. Book and Stationery were disposed of
to the amount of nearly SIIOO,OOO. The price* ob
tained were unusually high. Every leading house
in the country wee represented.
WEEKLY
(%fmiclf k Sentinel.
AVGUSTA. GEORGUI
WEDNESDAY SXPTB 28, 1853.
FOR GOVERNOR,
CHARLES J. JENKINS
OF RICHMOND.
For Congreao Highlit District,
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS,
OF TALIAFXJUtO.
Fop Senator,
ANDREW J. MILLER.
For ReprrveßUtiTpi,
ALEXANDER C WALKER,
WILLIAM A. WALTOV
••Free Soli, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free
Men.”
People of Georgia, the above is the motto in
scribed upon the banner which John A. Dix un
furled to the breeze in the Presidential election,
in 1848. It embodied the principles which he do
fended in the United States Senate in 1847-48 and
’49, the period at which he left that body. It is
the same banner which Giddisgs, Hale, Chase,
the Van Bceens, Preston King, Veoom, Campbell,
and Maloney, and all the Free soil faction, now
spread to the winds. What think yon, people of
Georgia, of the new coalition formed by the Se
cessionists with these men? What think yon of
marshalling yourselves under snch a banner, with
Fred. Dob glass as your standard bearer? For
Feed, end Jens A. Die stood shoulder to shoulder
on the Euffalo Platform—they were party associ
ates —political friends. Are the people of Geor
gia prepared for such a contract, ready lor such a
coalition ? If so, let them vote for the Secession
candidate, Uerschel V. Johnson, who recommends
it when he approves of the Free-soil appointments,
and advises a union of the Southern Secessionists
with the Free soil Democracy of the North. John
A. Dix and Feed. Douglass were both on the Buf
falo Platform, and may yi_t be allied to each other
by the closest political affinities. At a recent Con
vention of the Free Democracy of New York,
of which Feed. Douglass was a conspicuous mem
ber, the following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, That the platform of principles adopt
ed at the National Convention of the Independent
Democracy, assembled at Buffalo in 1848, and
again at Pittsburgh in 1852, continues to receive
our unqualified approbation and support.
This defines Feed’s position very clearly. Let
us now see what the Buffalo platform is—as it was
upon this platform that Mr. Dix run for Governor,
and declared that he was upon it“ under all circum
stance/, and for all time.” Here it is, people of
Georgia read it, as set forth and acted upon in a
Convention of Mr. Dix’s friends in Albany, New
Y’ork, in 1848:
‘ Ultsnlctd , That we accept the platform and
principles laid down at Bull'ulo by the Convention
of Freemen there assembled, and we reiterate the
principles set forth by them, viz;
“That the Freesoil Democracy is a Union of
Freemen, who, forgetting all past political differ
ences, combine against the aggressions ts the Slave
J'uuer, and to secure Freesoil for Free Mm.
“ The two political parties are disbanded by the
late National Conventions, by the sacrifioe of thoir
principles, aud their subserviency to slaveholding
dictation; aud neither of their candidates can lie
supported without a sacrifce of consistency, duty,
and eels respect.
“ Resolved, That we accept also the candidates
£ resented to tho Free Democracy in the persons of
lartin Van Buren the pupil ot the illustrious Jof
ferson, nnd Charles Francis Adams, tho sou of
“ the old man eloquent” of Massachusetts. That
in the first wo recogDizo a great champion of Free
dom, who in the Convention of 1821 stood by the
rights of man, and by his efforts abrogated from
tho Constitution the property qualification of the
suffrage, who with the Republican Tompkins ad
vocated the abolil ion of slavery within this State,
and who in the State Senato reoorded by his vote
his hostility to the Mil souri Compromise, and who
was sacrificed by the Slavery propagandists of the
South in 1844 because he stood an ob.taclo in the
way of thoir designs of aggression. That in his
colleague Charles Francis Adams, we rocognize
one who has chosen the side of the people against
that ot the monopolists, the side of conscience
against that of cotton, the side of freedom against
that of slavery, and who has manifested tho abili
ty to maintain that position unflinchingly to tho
end.
“ Resolved, That John A. Dix, our able and only
Representative in the United States Senato is com
mended to the suffrages of the electors of this
State, by the purity of his personal character, his
servico and gallantry in tho field, his truth and fi
delity in tho Cabinet, his wisdom and eloquence
in the Seuate, and the patriotism and consistency
of his whole life. That as ho has been true to Now
York, through good report and had report, so will
New York bo true to him, on tho 7th day of No
vember next. And that we pledgo the snmo hearty
concurrence and approval to the nomination ot
Seth M. Gates for Lieut. Governor, ns we do to
Mb illustrious colleague.
“ Resolved, That wo go into this contest with
our banner inscribed ‘ Free Soil, Free Speech,
Free Labor and Free Men' and that we shall exert
all our energies to bear that standard through the
approaching contest and plant it on the citadel of
the Empire State, tho triumphant banuer of tho
victorions masses, a challenge and defiance to the
aggressive power of the South and a signal of hope
and redemption to man.”
The Buffalo platform contained also the follow-
ing resolution;
7th. Resolved, That the truo, and in tho judg
ment of this Convention, the only safe means of
preventing tho extension of slavery into territory
now freo; is to prohibit its existence in all such
territory, by an act of Congress. (Tho Wilmot
Proviso.)
Freemen of Georgia, in the above you havo the
opinions and principles of John A. Dix in refer
ence to slavery. lie has no where and on no occa
sion retracted a singlo one, and he is to-day as de
cided an advocate of the principles of tho Wilmot
Proviso, as ho was in 1849 and ’49. No man living
has ever heard him utter a single word recanting
those opinions. And these are tbo men, and such
as these, with whom Hebschel V. Johnson asks
yon to fraternize. And for what is this ooalition
to be formed? First, to elect him Governor, and
secondly to sustain an administration who lias
confered nine-tenths of its appointments upon
Freesoilers nnd Secessionists. People of Georgia,
arc you ready to make tho sacrifice ! Are you wil
ling to abandon your long cherished principles,
prove traitors to the South and her institutions for
snch n consideration ? Three years ago, Hirsciiell
V. Johnson, denounced the connection of any par
ty at tho South, with tho most conservative north
ern men,as “accursedalliances." Now,heinvitos
you to clasp In fraternal embrace, Dix and Vboom,
tho Van Be hens, and tho whole Freesoil faction !
That faction, on whose banuer was inscribed
“ Free Soil, Free Speech, Free Labor, and Free
Men!”
Mr. Chappell In Cherokee.
We observe that the Hon. A. 11. Chappell,
of Macon, is stumping it in Cherokee* making
speeches to induce the peoplo of that country to
approvo the Freosoil and Abolition appoiutmonts
of Gen. Pifrce, by voting for the Secession candi
date (Johnson) lor Governor. The effect of his
speeches in this behalf, may be infered (rom tho
following extract from a letter, written by a highly
respectable and intelligent gentleman, who was
in Cassvilie, on the day Mr. Chappell delivered
himself to the people of Cass.
The writer says: “Chappell made a speech here
on Wednesday last, (14th inst.) Ho spake one
hoar and a Half, and did not mention Johnson’s
name 1 Thero were at least 600 persons in tho
vil age, most of them in fifty yards of the Court
House while he was speaking, and not more than
150 went to hear him. After having made his
speech, he said to Major W ,an influential
citizen of the county, that ‘the people of Cass
cared less about hearing speeches than any he had
ever seen.' ”
V T erily the Colonel must have felt exceedingly
mortified —perhaps a little indignant, that the peo
ple of Cass, would not be enlightened by him, and
had the independence to think for thomselves.
Such thiDgs are as unmistakable signs of the
current of popular feeling as straws are of the
winds!
Freeaoil Appointments—Chappell's Apology.
Wilts the President commenced his career of
appointing Freesoilers and Abolitionists to office,
the Secessionists and Renegade Union Democrats,
who support the Administration at the South,
were silent. They could not even apologise.
Now, however, finding their hope of the spoils de
pehds on it, they openly vindicate and approve
those appointments. All their presses and their
candidate forGovernor approve them—indeed they
proclaim to the people that the approval of the acts
of the Administration, the Fresoil appointments
included, is the issue in the present election. Are
tbs people of Georgia ready to endorse these ap
-*«ts by voting for the Secession candidate,
pointm..
H. V. Johnson? -«.nm our purpose,
But we are being drawn ott •- —oology
which was to introduce Mr. Chappell’s a,,
for the Administration. A gentleman of unim
peachable veracity, in a letter to the Editor, from
Cassville, says:
“Chappell, in his speech, admitted that some of
Pierce’s appointees had bun Freesoilers, but they
were not so now . That Pierce was trying to get
them to abandon their Freesoil notions by giving
them office, and it he succeded, tbe country would
be under great obligations to h.m. This was his
defence of the Freesoil appointments. That the
offices of the Government had been used as bribes
to the Freesoilers! Who has made a charge
against President Pierce of such a base act as this
since he was inaugurated f”
Voters ot Georgia, are yon ready to approve this
new process of converting Freesoilers; are yon
willing to coaleae with Dix, booh, Erown and
the whole Freesoil faction! If so, vote for U. V.
Johnson, lor he spproves the policy of the Ad
ministration and is willing, nay, anxious to be
elevated to a position alongside of Dix, and to em
brace Brown, Grey, of the Ohio Plaindealer, the
Van Bceena, or any othe« Freosoiler, as brethren;
nay, to fbrtn any sort of coalition for the spoils.
Mr. Jenkins' Speech.
Mr. Jenkins was greeted by a large audience of
his fellow-citizens on Friday night, whom he en
tertained with one of his most powerful, lucid and
convincing speeches. For two hours the mass sat
patiently end listened to him as he discussed, in
the language and bearing of a statesman and sin
cere devoted patriot, the various questi uns that
now agitate the public mind. His review of the
policy of the Administration in the appointment
of prominent Freesoilere to offije, was at once just
and severe; while it carried conviction to the
mind of every unprejudiced man of the terpitude
of such a po:icy. The speech seemed to give great
satisfa-tion and was freq.ently interrupted by
bursts of applause.
According to.the English census returns, thsre
are nearly 80,000 persons practising ons or more
departments of medicine End surgery without
qualifications. *
Mr. Jenkins—Property tlualifivation.
Wirui.v the last ten days the Secessionists and
their organs, seeing that their cause was despe
rate, trumped up e new falsehood, in which they
charge Mr. Jenkins with opposing the amend
ment to the Constitution proposing to abolish the
property qualification tor tho otfi :e of Govornor.
In other words, that ho was in favor of retaining
in the Constitution that clanso which required the
Governor of the State to be worth #5,000.
All amendments to the Constitution, made by
the Legi-.iatnre, require to pass two consecativo
sessious of that body by the requisite majority.
This amendment passed during the sessions oi tho
years 1845 and 1847, of both of which Mr. Jen
eins was Speaker. Knowing that the name of the
presiding officer did not appear among tho yeas
and nays, and that their charge could not be dis
proved by the journals of that body, they asserted
that he left the Chair and rnado a speech against
the bill, which proposed to abolish tho property
qualification.
In his speech on Friday night, Mr. Jeneins nail
ed the falsehood to the counter as baso coin, thus
leaving the federal Union and its associates to ex
cuse themselves os best they may. He said he did
not recollect having ever entertained tho slightest
feeling of opposition to the bill, and that he could
never have made a speech against it without re
collecting it. Besides, he had searched the files
of the Chronicle and Sentinel, and ascertained from
the lotters ofits correspondent that the bill passed
both years without debate 1!
What will the federal Union say to this ?
The Adnunlairallua’a Freewill Organa.
We copy the following article from the “Ra
tional Democrat ,” a paper published in tho City of
New Y'ork, wliieh zealously supported the election
of Gen. Fierce. The evidence it affords of the
purpose.- of the Administration at Washington, to
establish and permanently cement a coalition with
the Freesoilers, should not pass unheeded by
Southern men, who are watchful of Southern
rights and interest-. It is tho testimony of a Con
servative Democratic organ, whose only and high
est motive is tho preservation of the constitution,
and the rights which it guarantees to every sec
tion of tho Republic. Feoplo ot Georgia, read it—
study it carefully, and recollect, that while the
Conservative men and presses of the North, are
standing up fearlessly in tho defence cf your
rights, in opposition to the policy and practices of
Gen. Fierce’s administration, you have, in your
midst, men, H. V. Johnson at tho head, who coun
sel a Liuion, an intiinato party organization, with
tho Freesoil faction of the North. If you aro pro
pared to form such a coalition, if you are willing
to harmonize and fraternize with the Van Bubens,
Dix, Vroom, and the whole froesoil faction, mere
ly to buildup a party at the sacrifice of your
dearest rights, you cannot bettor signify your in
tention und purpose than by voting for Herschel
V. Johnson, for Govornor of Georgia. He ap
proves and counsels this “accursed alliance ,” and
if you support him, you too must approvo and
sanction tho association with Freosoilism.
From the Rational Democrat.
The Democratic Press and the Administration.
—“The following paragraph, wiiich, by an unac
countable oversight, crept into our nows column
yesterday morning, has been going the rounds of
the Democratic press of tho neighboring States
for the last week
“There are seventy-six Democratic papers in
New. York supporting President Pierce’s adminis
tration on the Baltimore platform, thirty-six of
whom supported Gon. Cass in 1848. Thero are
nine others—of the stamp of Edmund Burke’s
“Old Guard" —iu New Hampshire.”
We have alreudy shown that a largo number of
this list, which was originally published by the A1
bany Atlas as the number of papers supporting
tho Administration in this Slate, are out spoken
abolition organs. Tho Evening Post stood at tho
head of the llstof “seventy-six,” and tho Buffalo
Republic was vary high up on it. If ourdemocra
tie ooteinporaries do not wish to recognize the
Evening Post, the Buffalo Republic and tho whole
brood of sue!’ abolition papers, as “reliable Demo
cratic organs,” it is about lime that they hud their
eyes open to the tricks and falsehoods of tho Alba
ny Atlas. The recognition of sneli papers by tho
national party is doing a fearful business in Abo
litionizing the masses of this State. These papers
and thoir patrons, arc, iu prinoiple, ot precisely
the same political stripe of what calls itself tho
“Ireo democracy,’” which has just held its State
Convention at 8> recuse, and nominated “un inde
pendent” State ticket. The Albany Atlas spoke iu
the following terms of this Convention a few days
be f ore it assembled:
“We feel quite confident that tho Convention to
bo held at Syracuse next week, will be all that the
Democracy desire ; and that standing on the plat
form of tho party, it will present a ticket that will
command its approval, and recoive the votes of a
majority of the electors."
“A few days after it published, as tho orgau of
this stripo of “Democracy,” the following call
“Tho Free Democracy will meet this evening at
the City Hall to choose delegates to tho State Con
vention to bo hold at Syracuse, on the 81st instant.
Those arc invited to attend who detest tho fugi
tive slave law, and demand its repeal—who would
abolish shivery in tho District and prohibit it in
the territories—who demand tho use of the Na
tional Constitution for liberty in place of its abuse
for slavery—and who accept the principles ot the
Pittsburgh Platform as just, humane and free.”
Mr. Toombs at LaFayette,
A highly intelligent gentleman, now in the up
country, who heard Mr. Toombs’ speech ut La-
Fayettc, Walker County, on Tuesday last, thus
spooks of it iu a letter to his friend :
“Yesterday, at LaFayette, Toombs utterly pros
trated and made ridiculous John W. H. Under
wood. It was a great speech— a groat crowd, and
‘Toombs is a great man,’ says everybody. He is in
Spring l’laeo to-day, Wednesday.”
Knowing as wo do the two speakers, and their
capacities, we can imagine how perfectly John
W. 11. Underwood waa victimized, and how well
he merited the commiseration of Jii- rew friends
after such a conflict. Ilcwasaliue
Toombs, and wo can but sympathise with the now
pledged Democrat, that ho (oil so early iu his ca
reer, into tho hands of the Senator, a .is share of
the “spoils," for which he exhibits such an over
wenning anxiety, will scarcely compensate him for
this castigation, unless, perchance, ho may bo
contont with having his namo spolen of in con
nection with some office.
Mr. Stephens as Raytown.
The Hon. A. 11. Stephens will address his fel
low-citizens at Raytown, on Saturday noxt, tho
Ist day of October. Tho public without distinc
tion of parties, aro invited to attend.
Tee Administration —Mr. Dickinson. —Wo sin
eeroly hopo every reader of this journal will givo
tho letter of onr Washington Correspondent a
careful perusal. The offimec of Mr. Dickinson is,
that he has, in tho hour of peril nnd severe trial,
stood by the constitution in maintaining tho rights
of the South; and that lie will not now coalesce
with the Van Bubens, Dix’s and Vbooms of tho
North. Will tho South Biistain an administration
which thns stabs it in tho person of its friends ?
In tho language of “ Oglethorpe," “ Will the order
for his destruction be obeyed by tho South ?” Let
Georgians answer at tho polls.
Tire Charleston Medical Journal and Review.
—The SeptcmberNo. of this well established peri
odical is ou our table, containing its usual qnantity
of original and miscellaneous matter. We cordi
ally recommend it to the attention of the Profes
sion. It is edited and published by D. J. Cain,
M. D., and F. P. Pobcher, M. D., monthly, at $4
per annum, in advance.
The Medical Examiner and Record of Medi
cal Sciences—Tho September No. of this well
conducted work is promptly on our table. We are
pleased to see, after scanning its table of contents,
that it bos not deteriorated in the leust, but pre
sents its usual variety of interesting matter. It is
edited by F. G. Smith, M. D., and J. B. Biddle,
M. D., and published monthly in Philadelphia, by
Lindsat & Blaiiston, at $3 per annum, in ad
vance.
Mr. Hardeman's Card.
We invite the attention of the voters in the
Northern Judicial Circuit, to tho Card of B. F.
Hardeman, Esq., announcing his withdrawal from
tho canvass for the Judgeship of that District.
There are now but two candidates before the peo
ple of that Circuit, Judge G. Andrews and Col.
Johnson.
Fugitive Slaves in Canada. —The editor of tho
Dundee (N, Y.) Record has lately been making a
tour through Canada, in the course of which he
visited a large number of fugitive slaves, at their
residences, and conversed freely with them on
their position and prospects. Tbe tone of their
remarks generally was that of disappointment at
the reception which they had met, and the estima
tion in which they were held in the country where
they were sojourning. The inhabitants, they
alledge, neglect no opportunity to defraud them,
and rendertheir situations uncomfortable. Three
declared that were it not for fear of punishment,
by being sold to Texas and Mississippi slave
dealers, they would gladly return to their “ old
plantations,” and spend the remainder of their
days with their old masters, where they were more
*>oy and lived easier than they do now. One
• ' *“* determination to return to his mis
expresseu a- soon as he could get
tress, in North Carolina o ,
money to do so, and run the risk 0..
but as he had got a friend to write to bis mistress,
asking pardon, begging for a passage ticket home
ho felt in hope* he should get back to Uk* Old
North State” before oold weather set in.
Elk nr Carolina. —The Charlestou Mercury, of
the 19th inst., says:—“We notice the arrival by
the Southerner, office Elks, a rare animal in this
section of country. They were purchased at the
New York Fair, by Col. Wade Hampton, and des
tined to add to the attractionsof his beautiful place
near Columbia. They era at present at Green’s
Stables, in Chalmers street."
It is stated that Mr. Stiles, of Springflald, New
Jersey, a paper manufacturer, recently received
from New Orleans a quantity of rags, from which
he caught a fever supposed to be the yellow fever,
and died in two days.
The Postoffice known by the name of llug HaU,
Macon Co , Ala., has been changed to that of Mag
nolia and Col. Wm. K. EeioE3 appointed Post
master vice E. W. ToNEy, resigned.
Barnabas Botes, the champion of free postage,
is dangerously ill at his son-in-law’s residence, in
Boston. His friends despair of hia recovery.
Bhubarb is not only good to make pies, but it ap
pears it is now employed and preferred to grapes
to make vine in Paris. A new brand is shortly to
be introduced into this country.
The SUte of Maine newspaper says a granite
boulder from the summit of Mt. Washington— ev
idently deposited there during “ the draft epoch,
while the mountain was submerged ” —has been
selected and eet aside for the apex or crowuiDg
stone of the Washington monument.
A Deauillnl Contrail.
To those of our readers who have watched the
course of the Secession organs and leaders, for the
last few weeks, and observe how cordially they
embraoatho Freesoilers, it may be interesting to con
trast their conduct with that of the truly Nation
al Democrats ot Massachusetts and New Y’ork. In
both those States the National Conservative Demo
crats repudiate all alliance with Frooeoilera, while
attheSouth,we have a party openly coalescing with
them and approving their appointment to office !
The ovidence of the truth of these declarations is
afforded in the action of the National Democratic
Slate Convention of Massachusetts, recently as
sembled in Boston. That report is in those words:
Boston, Sept. 82d.—The State Convention of
National Democrats, who repudiate all coalition
with the Freesoilers, mot here to day. The stron
gest feeling was manifested against the ooalition.
Brad lord L. Wales was nominated for Governor,
and George Osborne for Lieutenant Governor.
Hon. Caleb Cushing was denounced as a Freesoil
renegade Whig, and after three cheers for the Now
Y'ork Hunkers, and three more for the Stale ticket,
the Convention adjourned.
This is very conclusive, so fur as Massachusetts
is concerned. Let us now turn to New Y’ork.
The Now York Rational Democrat, the leading
Hunker organ, discourses as follows on the con
duct of the Barnburners in tho Syracuse Convou
tiou:
“This last act is a worthy finale of tho ovente of
1843. It is no more than the culmination of prin
ciples then established, and cherished in tho se
cret heart of faction ever since. And as they have
in this lastaet shown themselves, wo can only con
gratulate ourselves, in tho midst of oar sorrow,
that we have obtained so complete and so honora
ble an emancipation from the degrading associa
tions of such a conglomeration of political hucks
ters, traitors, shoulder hitters, thimble riggers,
thieves, rowdies and assassins. This language is
strong, which we know , but the facts are strong
which liavo converted tho Democratic State Con
vention into Tammany Hall riot, and whioh havo
left the brand of eternal infamy upon those who
are responsible tor the breaking up of the Conven
tion.”
This is pretty strong language. The Albany
Argus, the leading and central organ of the Demo
cratic party of that State, speaking of the Syracuse
Standard, a Dix organ says:
The Syracuse Standard, a shoot of tho Albany
Atlas stripe, thus discoursed on the 16th Inst., on
the subject of slavery:
“No man has any right to hold his fellow man
in slavery; consequently, the slaveholders are mo
rally bound to free their slaves without asking any
compensation for them. If thoroexists any where
a claim for damages, it is on the part of the slaves
themselves, and not their masters, who havo ap
propriated their surplus ea. uings. Buying men
out of bondugo never should bo countenanced, but
it is an aokuowlodgmont of the justice ot slavery,
and has no other tendency than to perpetuuto the
system.”
Tho Standard claims to be Deinooratie—nay,
more than that. It is a “united and harmonious”
Democratic shoot— in full communion as matters
now stand, with “the unitod Democracy ot New
York.”
How long is the Democracy of this State to suf
fer in diameter by an association with bucli out
and out Abolitionists as the partisans for whom
the Standard speaks ?
Aid to Mobile.
The Montgomery papors contain tho following
communication from Gov. Collier:
Executive Chamber, )
Montgomery, Sept. 12, 1853. j
The prevalence of Yellow Fever in Mobile to an
extent hitherto unequalled, has occasioned sorrow
and grief in every circle. Many are often found
in tho same house, and several in the same i oom,
without the means of obtaining tho neceessarios of
life, to say nothing of the comforts so essential to
tho sick.
This state of things should not be permitted to
continue. We have ample means at command to
supply tho destitution and want. Ido therefore
most rospeotfully suggost that contributions be
made by tho benevolent throughout the country,
and that tho Clorgy and Ministers of every religi
ous denomination in tho Stale, having the charge
of Churches, take up collections in their several
congregations, without delay, for the relief of the
suffering poor of Mobile.
All the cootributions and collections may bo
transmitted to the Benevolent associations of the
city, to Gen. T. L. Toulmm, or to Col. T. Sanford
of the Custom-house, with ihe confidence that the
monies will bo judiciously and faithfully applied.
Whatever is done should be done quickly.
H. W. Collier.
Wo publish tho above for the purpose of calling
the attention of the philanthropic of this city and
Slate to the subjeot, and inviting them to unite in
contributing to the aid of the distrossod and des
titute ill Mobile. Will notsomoof ourbenevoleut
citizens move in the matter? The occasion is one
which should excite (hem to an effort.
Health of Mobile.— The number of deaths in
Mobile, on tho 16th inst., was 26, of whom 22
wer victims of Yellow Fever.
Yellow Fever in tbeSouth West.—The Vicks
burg Whig of tho 17th, remarks that the returns
show a slight inorease in the number of victims.
It adds:
For tho last two days we have had delightful
weather, aud tho number of new cases is not so
great, so far as we can learn, as formerly. Wo
sincerely trust that by our next we may have the
pleasure of chronicling an abatement of tho most
fearful pestilence by which any country was over
scouraged. We understand that it is prevailing in
Warrenton, in the lower end of the county, in a
very malignant form.
The Natches Courier, of the 14th, comes to
hand a melancholy messenger of tho sad state of
afi'airs in that city. The Courier is the only paper
published in Natohez at present, and, says the edi
tor, “it is deomed necessary to continue it at least
once a week, that the town may not loose its iden
tity.” A friend suggests that the office ahould be
removed to Washington, but as all those connected
with the office could not be induced to do thiß, the
editor decliuos tho proposition as impracticable.
From the sexton’s returns wo find that from
noon on the 7th to 9 A. M. on the 18th, there were
filly-two deaths by yellow fever, one in whioh the
caaso was not stated, and one in which the cause
is said to have been unknown. Os tho yellow fe
ver cases, sixteen occurred on the 7th, eleven on
the Bth, eight on the 9th, two on the 10th, six on
the 11th, eix on the 19th, and three on the morning
of tho 18tb. The Courier says the fever was thought
to be decreasing, new cases being less frequent,
probably owing to tho scarcity of material to prey
upon. Spouking of the Natchez Charitable Asso
uiation, our contemporary says:
The members of this association have been in
defatigable in their exertions among the sick dur
ing the past month. They are devoting their
whole time, and in many instances their private
purses havo been opened to the needy. Almost
worn out by fatigue, they have continued thoir ex
ertions, hoping for a brighter day. That day we
trust may soon arrive. Some few are now suffering
in their persons or in their families; God grunt a
speedy recovery 1 The members ot this association
are acting nobly, and thuir soothing influence has
been felt in every section of onr fever-stricken
city.
Thero were 20 intortermonts in Mobile on the
22d inst., of whom 14 died of yellow fever. The
Advertiser warns the citizens against returning to
the city, in an earnest article. Dr. Randolph
among tho most assiduous of the physicians, in
his attentions to the sick, has fallen a victim to the
disease.
Yellow Fever in Flobida.— The Thomasviile
Watchman of tho 21st inst., Bays: The yellow
fever is reported to be at New Port, Fla., and three
deaths have occurred there. The authorities of
Tallahassee, we notice by yesterdays Sentinel, are
adopting precautionary measures to prevent its
introduction into that city. Tho Stage driver who
left Tallahasse on Monday evening, and who
passed through this place yosterday morning, ro
ported that one case of Yellow Fever had occurred
at Tallahasßce. No moutiou of it is made how
ever by tho papers.
Health of Mobile.— Tho following is the report
of the Board of Health for the 18th and I9th inst.,
the latesyintelligonce we have.
On tho 18th of Yellow Fever (## jg
“ “ “ Other Diseases 2
On the 19th of Yellow Fever is
“ “ “ Other Diseases 2
Tho Advertiser of Toosday, says: “We noticed
yesterday that many of the stores which, for weeks
past, have been closed, were once more open; in
some cases tho proprietors or clerks have pas
sed through the ordeal of the cpidemio, and in
others have returned from the North or elsewhere.
Our wharves exhibit considerable cotton, and
much activity is displayed in shipping up river
lrcight. Commerco st. once moro shows signs of
animation, and generally a more cheerful state of
things prevails, as though mon assumed they had
seen the worst. We are glad to note the feeling,
and trust ere long to be able to give still more
gratifying accounts.”
Yellow Fever in Vicksburg.— The Vicksburg
Sentinel of tbe 18th inst., has the following para
graph :
Last Sunday was a sad, sad day for Vicksburg.
Two hearses were running all day, from earliest
dawn until 8 or 9 o’clock at night, with the dead,
followed by weeping friends. We watohed by the
sick bed of a friend on Saturday night, and ever
and anon the wailings of some widowed heart
would break upon the stillness of tbe dull atmos
phere, which hung like lead over the city ; and
again the hurrying step-vof the messenger for medi
cal aid, and tho hurried gallop of the physician’s
horse were heard, and all was still and silent again.
Death seemed to throw all his weight upon this
city, crushing its very life out.
The physicians, we understand, attribute tho ex
tromo mortality of the twenty-four hours ending
at 12 o clock on Sunday night to the heavy, damp
atmosphere which prevailed for two or throe days
previous. Be tbe cause what it may, it was a dav
not soon to be forgotten-a day when death made
prints upon the hearts of some of our people that
time cannot wear out. v *
i rom the sexton’s report io the same paper, we
pereeive that the deaths from 12 o’clock on the 9tb
to the same hour on the 12th instant were twenty
three.
When we take into consideration the population
of Vicksburg, which probably at no time exceeds
Sve thousand, this report shows a greater mortali
ty then that of New Orleans, any day during the
past season.
Mammoth Coen. —We have been shown an ear of
this corn, grows in Greene County, by Lemuel
Greene, Esq., who speaks (n very favorable terms
of it. It may be seen »t the counting room of
Messrs. Bimeson & Gardiner.
Sjwem Children at One Birth !—Mimisbiepi
Aoainutme World.— The most astonirhing par
turition recorded in the annals of the human race,
we are informed, occurred last week in the vicini
ty of Salem, Tippah county, in this State. Our
information is from a gentleman of veracity, who
states that a lady of that neighborhood has just
become the mother of risen children atone forth.
The Holly Springs, Miss., Times is responsible
for the above tough story. Jf the Bute would now
relieve herself from the disgrace of repudiation,
she would indeed have much to boast of.
Death of Caet. Wilteeroer.— The Savannah
papers announce the death of Capt. Peter Wilt
beroer, long and favorably known to the public,
as the proprietor of tho Pulaski House, In that
city. He died at 4 o’clock on Thursday afternoon
last, at Brooklyn, New York.
Fine Coen 1-Ben/. Hall, Esq., laid on our table
yesterday, two sample ears of White Corn of very
superior size and quality. They were from if
garden on Greene Street; and •* this variety if
superior for “roasting ears” it should be eitannive
ly propagated. __________
Gen. Jefferson Davis has
lv announced pa a candidate lor United State
Senator,
The Nmyrnit Affair.
Tho National Intelligencer, of Wednesday, eays ;
Wo find in the Washington letter of the Phila
delphia American of yesterday morning the sub
joined paragraph. We know not on wbut author
ity the statement rosts but an important part of it
—that which relate* to the “protest" of certaiu
European Governments against the conduct of our
naval oommunder at Smyrna—is corroborated by
what has bceu in oircnlation in Washington for a
day or two pant, except that the letter falls short
of what the city rumor alloges to be the fact. Tho
story here is that the Ministers of England and
France have also expressed to onr Government,
concui rently with those of the three other Powers,
the dissent, protest, or whatever it was, of their
respective Governments relative to the Kosta al
tar.
What the writer says of Secretary Maroy’s ex
position was intimated by the Union some days
ago, and may be regard d as substantially oorrect.
The following is the letter:
“Thoßussian, Prussian and Austrian Ministers
have Iliad in the State Department a protest against
the conduct of Oapt. Ingraham. Russia and Prus
sia side with Austria against the United States.
Mr. Marcy t s views on this momentous matter are
matured, and will probably be submitted at the
Cabinet meeting to-morrow. These views occupy
upwards of oighty manuscript pages. It will be
tho grand document of tho Administration, and
will ne spread before the public in a few days.”
W hat the views of the Secretary of State are on
this grave question wo do not know; but we can
not doubt that they are suoh as will bo sustained
by the rules of publio law and a just interpretation
of our own demestio law. Whilo ho occupies this
ground he will bo supported by publio opinion at
home, and will be fully fortified against any un
reasonable misconstruction abroad.
Just as we Expected.
The Columbus Times & Seutinel, of tho 17th
inst., has the following remarks on the Georgia
Platform:
“ There is in our eyes, no particular merits in
stauding on tho Georgia Platform. Wo havo al
ways b jlioved that it was a riokety concern, and
would break down whouovor it becomes necessary
to rally the South upon it. W’o ocoupy highor
ground as do tho grout body of the Southern De
mocracy.”
Upon this the Enquirer comments thus:—Woll,
neighbors, this is just as every body expect
ed. Every sensible man knew that the posi
tion which tho South took, in 1850, had no merit
in your eyes, and that you regarded the Platform
of your own State as a vory rickety concern. Why
did you then case yourself down upon it? Why
did your come down from your “highor ground"
and make a pretence of acquiescing in tho opinion
of the majority ? Why do you not now stand on
your “higher ground”and preach to thopeoplo the
beauties of Disunion and Secession ? But this, we
suppose, you will do when Judge Johnson is snug
ly seated in tho Executive Chair, if he ever is. It
may not bo prudent, however, to show the oloveu
foot too soon. You hud best probably stand on
the rickety concern until after the elections. The
Disunion platform is a very unsafe rolianco at tho
present time. Do you intend, when the elections
are over, it your friondß are successful, to mount
your Disunion platform, and stand on your higher
ground again 1 Tho people have some interest in
your answer.
It is it ourioua fact, thut a Scotsman bus never
yet led tho British House of Commons. Only Iwo
Scotsman—tho Earls of Bute and Aberdeon—have
been prime ministers of England. Two Irishmen
—Castloreagh and Cunning—have led tho Com
mons; and amongst prime ministers, Ireland
counts three—the iirst Marquis of Landsdowne,
the Duke of Wellington, and Mr. Canning. As
successful “ leaders,” Sir Uobert Walpole and the
younger Pitt are unrivalled in the duration ofthoir
power.
A Boconnoisance is now being made by a com
petent party of Engineers omployed by tho Louis
ville and Nashville Railroad Company, of a route
to oonneot Memphis with that road at Bowling-
Green. This route passes through or near Dover,
Tenn.; Lafayette, Elkton and Russellville, Ky.—
A large and enthusiastic meeting was held at La
fayetto, Christian oounty, on Saturday, and stepH
taken to soauro, if possible, the route through that
town.
The Bank of Nashville has been established at
the capital of Tonnossoo, under the general bunk
ii g law of that State, with a nominal capital of
$500,000, of which about SIOO,OOO has been paid
in. Business was commenced by the new institu
tion on tho Ist day of August. The l'residont is
Nicholas Hobson, Esq., for some years Cashier of
the Planters’ Bank of Teunessoe. Cashier, Wes
ley Wheeloss, Esq., Banker, of Nushvillo.
Tho Corriore Mercantile of Genoa quotes a let
ter of the 15tb, mentioning the discovery at Pom
peii, of three human skeletons, evidently belong
ing to one family, together with that of a dog.
The posture in which they were found lead to the
presumption that they were engaged in flight at
tho time of the eruption, but wore overtaken by
the lava, the dog refusing to leavo his master. Thoy
had bags of gold and silver coin with them; one
of the skeletons still displaying rings and orna
ments, was that of a yonng girl, probably tho
daughter of one of the fugitives.
Tho North Carolina papers are discussing menns
to draw foreign emigration to that State. It seems
that of the twenty-one millions of acreß of land in
that State, loss than six millions are Improved;
and for these six millions there is not one laborer
for every twenty-five acres, whereas a high state
of cultivation would require five times as many.
Thoro is also a great demand for common laborers,
for public works, railways, plank roads, Ac.
Tho Postmaßter General has placed upon the
Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad a daily
mail from Selma to Moutovallo, and thence to Tal
ladega by stages. Tho department has also made
another alteration in the mail arrangements, and
that is the establishing a tri-weekly mail to be
cairicd by Btageß betwoen Randolph and the Rail
Itoad and Tuscaloosa and Greensboro’ from a daily
to a tri-weekly.
The Syracuse Standard says, “it is'rumored
about tho city that Arnold Woodward, Son, &Co.,
one of our largest dry goods flrmß, have suspend
ed payment. The amount of their failure is said
to bo betwoen $600,000 ar.d $700,000. They
had several large stores in various parts of the
State, and a very extensive Jobbing establishment
in Now York, whero the failure was first made
public.”
The 11. S. Mail steamship Atlantia, Captain
West, sailed from New York, on Saturday, for
Liverpool, with one hundred paaaongers. Bho
took out no specie.
Dr. Cullon, the projector of the Darien ship ca
nal, has written to parties in Panama that a survey
ing expedition would start from England in No
vember next, after arrangements have been made
with the British Admiralty and the United States
Government for thoir co operation. Dr. Cullen is
to accompany the expedition.
Office os Board of Health, I
Mobile, Sept. 17, 1858. )
Beports of interments in the city of Mobile, for
the twenty-fonr hours ending 6 o’clock F. M. this
day:
Os Yellow Fover 26
Os other diseases 4
Total 80
Geo. A. Ketchum, Set.
Tho Duke of Bordeaux and Mr. Hanson’s Dau
phin have just had their chances forathrono in
creased by tho death of onoof their rival pretend
ers. Tho Baron De Richemont, who asserted him
self to be the veritable son of the unfortunate
Louis XVI., died lately at Villefranohe, Kingdom
of Sardinia.
The London Gazette contains a proclamation by
which it is ordered that the gold coins of the Unit
ed States shall be legal tender in the British Wost
India colonies, at the following rates, viz: the ea
gle at tho rate of forty-one shillings sterling; the
half-eagle at twenty shillings and sixpence sterl
ing; the quarter-eagle at ten shillings and throe
pence sterling; and tho gold dollar at four shillings
and one pence sterling.
Elizabeth Amelia Eugenia, Duchess of Bavaria,
who has been affianced to the Emperor of Austria,
was born on the 24th September, 1887. Her royal
highness is the second daughter of Maximilian
Joseph, Duke of Bavaria, and of Ludovica Wil
hemina, Princess of Bavaria; she has three bro
there and four sisters. She is grand-daughter of
the late King Maximilian Joseph of Bavaria, cou
sin of the Emperor of Austria, and nearly related
to the King of Prussia.
The experiments which were announced aa about
to be made at Havre, by commmissonere of the
Institute of tbe Minister of Marine, on the hot
air machine of Mr. Ericsson, have taken place, but
the report of the commissions is for the present
kept seoret. A Havre journal states that the ex
periments were not so conclusive as had been ex
pected, in consequence of the imperfections of
the machine, from its having been got up hastily.
The experiment of lighting London by electric
gat obtained by tbe decomposition of water, and
applicable also to heating and as a motive power,
at half the expense of ordinary gas, with equal it •
laminating power, not explosive, inodorus, and
free from smoke, is about to bo tried on an exten
sive scale i and in the event of success,it is said
bat all the pipe* end lamps in London may be
sad for It. f „
A letter from China states that the rebels ob
serve Saturday for the Sabbath day, and that the
(mnerial Governmental Pekin bad expended 90,-
100 000 of taels of silver in its fruitless efforts to
-t»v their tri»njpl>* Dt progress. No lessthan one
hundred private baking establishment* in Pekin,
whose notes form the circulating piedinm, were
compelled to suspend, all in a single day, in con
sequence of tbe Government having to issue pa
per money to supply iU»exhausted treasury.
A liliaceous plant, the fHtillaris, known com
monlyby the name of crown imperial, is said to
contain in its bnlbs at least aa mock nourishment
as the potato. The fecula of tbe fritillaria is white,
and serves perfectly well for nourishment, wheth
er for man or cattle. The plant is of easy oulture,
md its fecula can be obtained at a less cost than
that of potato*. It has been tried in France for
cakes and other porppsee, and found *9 b P eloel ‘
ent.
Tbe grape »t Malaga, <kc., is again suffering from
the “ Vinediacan.” It ia said those vines which
,>rod noe tbe largest grapes in most liable to
attack.
Th.- A'ew Yori* FreeeoWcra.
The New York Evenin /W, the Irtiiling organ
of the Dix and Freesoil pnrly, in that St-ito, for
mally spits “upon" “and kicks over tho phit
form"put up by tho Bolts (fiois d c-) at Syra
cuse, although applauding the men wiiu me sto d
upon it. Relative to the Fugitive SI \ I. • :ho
Editor says tho Convention had pro. übly nulling
to do. That particular part, of th • r s tilth n- the
Post puts down “ns mere non n-c.” Rut the ar
ticle is altogether too significant no to bn . .-a
entire :
"What was said on that question (the fu • ~o
slave law) was no doubt said will .pi ,<y
by tho hards and suf.s, by Urn tori :io I.r . - <.
Hod. Both of them adoolcd - 'no ype -t ~f
phrases, which no mote expu * tin
their constituents than if f.'„y inr - mc •
ol the Onek mythology as the religi n ot the i
try.)'Both, tor example, spu.lt of the f .
slave law as an ordinance which 'hey ,n.
obey and execute with chia-if..!' -
They, perhaps, are not awnti . ,
is in tick declarations. Therein l ot nm , ■ •„
among the delegates of that division 1 I.
cratic party lute y denoniin . d tin 11.0
now dignified with the appoint an; nf lit ...r. i,
who, upon command of the . filers in [ui- ,u f „
sluve who had left his master, v udn ■ ; a to
join in tho chase. Y'cl tho pr.vi mr. ..t t: ,„*•
require them to do this. wedoub: winil.ci «
in ten of them would inform hi i nr- .•>, ..f I s
place of concealment, or rid use him in r and
food if ho wore to call hungry and we irs at .
doors und saying that lie shite \ . king ...
obtain his liberty by flight. Thru n r,■ ...
our opinion, a firm of word* nit. /rde rr „■ r
shp with more utter htirlh la. a /
sincerity than these pheubs of the two OS i • ,
the delegates at Syracuse. Thu tine public up .
and feeling of their constituents i : 1 j s,. . ~
expressed every night at the So' o„al T/„ ■ . in
city, where the fufitii ■ t «
dues the condemnation of a free ■ our' ly
packed.
“ But, laying nsido that part of tl e ...
mere nonsense, we mustuilmit that inu . .... ....
tial part of their proeoedin s tho Convuniiuu has
dcsorvod woll of tho Btuto.”
Tho Diplumnirc Movement.
Tho National Intelligencer s : 'li. d.. m
mors transmitted from this city by in. I or t, u
graph to tho Nortliorn press we old on c u •
to notice, us, oven when they relate t..m i•; f
interest, they arc too often niagniti.-!, “ g., .
as thoy roll," or arc givon on insulin,
ty. Having reason, however, to believe, t hi,. .
was somo foundation for the report.: i “p. 1
of the Russlsn, Prussian, and Austrian Min ,
in regard to tho conduct of Oapt. Ingraham m the
Kosta afl'uir, wo repealed it to our re:, .r, v 'h
the addition that tho Ministers ot J.t;.l , i and
France wore reported to havo united in th ■ „v .n,
“ whatover it was,” which tho others had ~no> .1
in tho mattar. Wo recur to tho suhj. ot > , y
merely to say that, notwithstanding tin* d . d. s
whioh have boon thrown on tho story, so f.r n»
regards France and England, wo Udine to tin.
belief that the proceeding oomprehonde. I the Mb
isters of all tho Five Powers. Wo qne-tion, n. vor
tholess, whother there was any tiling in the diplo
matic movement beyond a inert uxpru in. nf
tiro opinion, on the part of tho respective (i .vein
monts, thut tho conduct of Capt. lug.a am
Smyrna was a violation of the law of nations.
Some of the New York papers reprosuni.lt ass
“remonstrance,” an “intervontin,” Ac., b.u. wo
apprehend this to bo on exaggeration. Wo do
notrotutn to tho afl'air to swell its importance,
still less to offer any opinion in regard t>. the mer
its of a diplomatic proceeding so iniperl.. tly un
dorstood, but simply to assure our readers that
the version whioh wo gave of tho matter was not
given at random.
A vory rospoctablo Now York j uirntil of
Wednesday has tho following on tho same r- nl.j ot:
“ Wo havo had somo conversation with n aery
inte'ligont gantloman, well versed in Eur..p,„u
diplomacy oolh in Ettropo and in Washington,
from which wo learn that, not only have Anstna,
Russia, and Prussia remvustrat d tp-.ins lbs
oourso of Oapt. lugrahum ou the Kosta . I)Vr, mid
tho alleged American principles inn! • . m
but that Great Britain uiiil Franco have joined l.e
remonstratioo, anil that all lliese Powers 1 . very
clearly and emphatically said, though k.o.iii. n et
such proceedings shall not helolcrulcd in Km q tun
waters.”
This, as we havo said above, is un exaggeration
of the transaction.
The Weather ami tho Crops.
The Nashville Banntr ot tho Both iust. say-
A short time ago there was ugood prospect < f the
largest Cotton Crop that has ever been raised in
tho United States. The “stand’’ wasevery win re
good, and though tho dryness of the early par: or
theseaHOU prevented a very rapid dev,d..pinout
and growth of tho plant, it would have been all ho
better for that, Imd tho residue ol tho sum at In on
propitious. Tho wet weather, h. never,... r in,d
has continued so loug and so steadily, that tin r«
can bo no manner of doubt now, that the crop is
in imminent danger. A week or ten days aim, wo
were of opinion thut, notwithstanding the 1.. . v
aud continued rains for some time previous, a
change of weathor then, followed by a lute, dry
fall, wonld ensure the most abundant Cotton Ciop
the country has ovor produced. But instead ol lho
hopod for change, tho rains hivvo continued tr, •
quentand sometimes heavy, down to this protein
writing, and wo aro compelled to entertain th*
most serious apprehensious of great and wide
spread damage in consequence.
With regard to tho other oreps in this section of
country, we may romark that tho corn crop v. ill ho
an unprecedoutodly heavy one. Os ft d lor, scarce
ly any has boon saved—owing to the rains. The
late hoy crops, as well as tho sweet potaloc rr,.p,
has suffered considerably from tho -sum . . n
The oat crop was very light, in consequent- ...
dry weather in tho fore part of the season. In id!
tho tobacco country round about, it in conceded,
we believe, that the crop will fall very short.
Tho following is from the hauderdaio (Mi s. >
Republican, of the 6lh iust.:
In this county, so fur ns wo h ive been a,, , i .
ascertain, there will not bo ludf u cum of , si ~
made. Almost overy fluid has been v'.-Ui d -
boll-worm,and in muny instances, even win t,
weed is large and apparently very thru . not n, -re
than two or three hundred pounds to tl’m an >, ll
be gathered.
There are complaints in other diroot inns. Inn ,t
is doubtful whether any other section la ulerel
equal to this.
The Jackson Mississlppian, of tin Sth, says.
From all parts cf thisStu'o and Alabama, there
iaageneral ooncurronee of accounts of tin vu,
calamity to tho cotton crop, a few works s<- -
rromisfng, (rom boll woims and the unpropilp , »
ly rainy season. A lottor shown ns from ; 'i. ;
man who has just travelled over a huge >
Mississippi and Alabama, expresses tl„, .ni ti i, „■
opinion tliattheeropcannot exceed 2,fe », 1 - •
Tho Claiborne (Alu.)Southerner ol tlm lod. n»t
says:
Wo have had much rain In this section of conn
try for some time past, which i» ruiiinu-, to i-h*
open cotton and second growth, it <I, ,It toe
progress of picking very materially. Should th*
present wet woathor continue a few d" s r,
an incalculable atnoun, of mischief wili lie dons
to tbe crops.
A steady rain has been falling sinco night be
fore lost, vnth evory appearance of n continuation.
The Camden (Ala.) Republic, of the Btl inst-,
says:
Wo are informed that as a general tiling mir
S lantern will make morooorn than was nuppo., d
uring the drought. Thoir cotton lire grown too
much to a weed and tho boll worm hue done con
slderablo damage.
The same paper, of the 10th, sav-. the rains - till
continued, and adds that the woat cr wa j . i
such as at this season of the year is thought to 1..,
most injurious to the cotton orop—dump, <•: idy,
rainy.
TheColnmbns (Miss.) Argus, of the BtU instant,
says: / »
Wo have been visited with several exceedingly'
heavy rains within tho last week. Wo at n.,,i
that the injury done the cotton cro; 1, , n,.- ,
resulting from the mnny heavy rain-, w ••!. t
boon almost constantly fulling lor u Montli j.
very extensive.
Planters all ngreo that a half erop of eoiton ,
not possibly ho made in this region. Corn turn
out abundantly, but is decaying from tin . i , > .
the rainy weather.
The Mobile Tribuno publishes tho follow!, •
tract from a letter dated at Blackwater, J! i s., ~,
tbe 12th Inst.:
Corn is plenty at 40c. per bushel. Colt ~.
will turn outut least an average erop on -h, >,,
lands, but tho black lands will not turn < m : all ‘
orop.
Tho Alexandria, La., Democrat, of the Cih i, -t.
contains the following disastrous news n , w, to
the ravages of the caterpillar:
“Tho destruction is becoming get,oral, i
fair to he oompleto, in a short time. Wo , <,j
tho ravages of the worm whichever way »,
A half crop may be made in the Puri, li tin . gh
present appearances do not warrant snch a conclu
sion.”
The Natchotoches, La., Chronicle, of th • , i i„.
stant, says:
“Cotton picking has at length coinin'i o d, and
our planters arc fully under way. If the vaiarpil. 1
lar, which is now making ita upi c .r. < U
considerable numbers, docs not commit il» ire 1
ges, the ctop in this parish will I. i, .I, . r
than its unpromising condition in tt c ■ rof
tho season indicated. Should the worm, f ■ r,
. get at its destructive work within a wc-kor-vo,
the crop will not yield more than onc-halfas much '
as last year. ’’
The Cahaba, Ala., Gazette, of the 10th inst save: M
Cotton is arriving at tbe warchon is now r'TyjH
rapidly. There have been about lift) ; ales sti<- dy/J■
received, and it still continues to arrive. ;|Jj|
We regret to learn that tho crops in the •
part of the county aro generally much >tri
from tho recent heavy rains and tin, boll 5 '•'I'OISj
Tho prospect in tho canehreak region n.r , mo >. Id’ja
very good, the worm has almost • ntirely di-n ; ■
cd; it will average about two-thirds. ' *
The Tallahasaee Floridian and Journal, d the
17th inst-, says:
We learn that the caterpillar ia eoniivv • im«i
ravage* onseveral plantations in the ' • i’ d
of lallahassee. Fears are felt that the d - o tM,
will become general throughout thee >;• 'r>, t„t
us the roason is so far advanced, ai.d tl e mitm ia
is yet confined to certain local!'i<-, i! ' be
hoped that these apprehensions will pr • s r,,,,j,,|
less. A week or two, however, will determine
the matter one way or the other.
Cxors awn Wxatiiik—The Thomas ilie (Geo.)
Watchmun of the 2|st ln j t., says: Tl '
crop throngh this section will, it is bolieved, be a
short one. The oontinned and heavy reins have
tilled the weed so full of sap that a few hour* of
hot sun just after a rain, parches it up. Add to
this thAust, the bowl worm, and the citterpillar,
all of which are doing great damage, and you Uiay
judge the result.
The Cotton Manufacture of the United states
was commenced at Pawtucket, Rhode I-land
where Samuel Slater, sixty-three years ago, e»-
taolished tbe first mill, which is still in operat ed
running fifty-two looms. There are tv/q other vs
tablishments now running at that place—one built
in 1810, having fifty looms, and one of mammoth
size, employing 200 looms, 8,000 spindles and tso
hands. The different Cotton manufactures of the
plsoe afford employment to more than 500 opera
tive.
In Michigan 835 miles' of railway hay 0 bceu
completed, and, it!*said, that by March next 12V
mile* will be finished.
Some over modest young ladies that we knew of j
phau* tb *f were ever in the armp.of Mr, Mor-