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Thin in • day, my brethren, oon**crated to
“general thanksgiving and praiae." Aoiordlng to
what has grown to be a usage, we propoee to re
cognise tnia appointment ol the Governor of our
Commonweaiin—first, by the** religious services
in ’.be aanotnary of God, and afterward, amid tbe
sweet charities and amenities of home. W hatever
therefore, vitally and potentially affects borne, will
so far, be an appropriate theme for pnlpit discus
sion at this time.
Let ub take for our subject a visitor that enters
the domestic circle of each of you, »» often as once
every wee*, and that of must of you each day ex
cepting tbe Sabbath, and that some of you every
morning and evening—a visitor wearing always
much the same garb, but ladsn eaoh time with a
different message—a visitor whose arrival is look
ed for with interest by tbe old, the middle-aged,
and the young—you anticipate the name give it—
the Family Newepaptr. Maintaining such a pro
minent and constant place among the moral forces
which cintre at the fireside, so conspicuous is it
in the discipline of human life, at home and
abroad, that wa do well to give it, as a silent but
mighty power in tbe world, our moet serious
thought.
A word about its history, lb* Newspaper preu,
you are aware. Is a comparatively mordsrn insti
tution. Through the long and weary four thou
sand years that our burdened world wss welling
for tbe Advent of its Redeemer, kings, as wall as
subject*, communicated with each °“* , t® D j7
word of mouth, or as stated in our text, did Gyrus
the Great (that monarch of admirable fame,) by
messages in writing. And more than fourteen
hundred years did the new leaven lay in the mind
of the raci ere the quickened intellect of man dis
could properly be called such, wss entitled the
PMif Intd&gencer, established by Sir Roger
I ’Entrance, and wauod in the year 1658, only om
hundrol arul ninety years ago. The first newspa
per published in America, wss the Morton Mews
Utter, issued in 1704—one hundred and forty
nine years ago. Tbe second was the Morton Ga
utU issued in 171#—fifteen years later. The very
next day appeared the third—tbe Philadelphia
American Weekly Mercury—out hundred and
thirty lour years ago. The first number of that
paper is now in tbe Philadelphia Library, for the
amusement of the curions. It oonlrssU strangely
with the newspaper of to-day—ooiwisting, as it
does, ot but one leaf, and that of the precise size
of a half foolscap shoot. Its whole ooutanU are a
tew scraps of European intelligence, t len a month
old a pnoe current, including about twelve articles
for' domestic consumption, a shipping list, and
one advertisement —all of which was famished for
ton English shillings a year, by Andrew Bradford,
printer and publisher. Whether there were any
crave questions of national or muniolpal interest
agitating the public mind at that period—whether
(here was anything of ludicrous incident or dis
tressing casuality—whether the good people of
Philadelphia married or died in those days, the
IVuldy Mercury does not inform us. We areonly
left to infer, that, as constitution ol s man and
society was then essentially the same that it is
now, human life was a similar varied experience
of struggles, successes, disappointments, hopes,
fours, sorrows and joys. , _ ,
In December, of the year of 1728, Samuel Kei
mer commenced the publication of a rival news
paper, called the Pennsylvania Gazette. Nine
months afterward, the Gazette passed into the
hsnds of Benjamin Franklin and H. Meredith.—
On taking tbe editorial chair, Franklin addressed
his subscribers in ssomewhst quaint, bat modest,
and of course, sensible manner. The following
oxtraot will serve as a specimen. “There aro many
who have long deaired to seo a good newspaper in
Pennsylvania; and we hope those gentlemen wbo
.are able will contribute lowarda tbe making this
such. We ask assistance, because we are folly sen
sible that to publish a good Newspaper is not so easy
an undertaking as many people imagine it to be.—
The author of a Gazette (in the opinion of the
learned) ought to bo qualified with an extensive
acquaintance with languages, s great easiness and
command of writing and relating things clearly
and intelligibly, and in few words; he should be
ablo to speak of wur both by lend and by sea; be
well acquainted with geography, with the history
ofthe time, with tho several Interests of prinoe#
and states, the secrets of oourta, snd the manners
and onstoms of ell nations. Men thns accomplish
ed are very rare in this remote part ofthe world ;
and It would be well if the writer of these papers
could make up among bis friends what ia wanting
Franklin continued to bo the editor and pub
lisher of tbe Gazette for thirty six years—that is,
till tho year 1795, when, in consequence of the
passa oof tho Stamp Act, the Gazette waa sus
pended for a month, and was afterward! resenaoi
tatod by other men.
Tho progress whioh the Newspaper Press has
made, in Philadelphia, is known to you. There
are now published ton daily papers snd twenty
eight weeklies, with a proportionate increase In
size, and variety of intelligence communicated—
Teu of tlioio ore religious newspapers and one of
them is dovoied especially to the iutereeto of our
own branoli ofthe oliuren of Christ.
In tho Btato of Pennsylvania there era published
(as will appear from tbe census of 1850, soon to
bo issued,) 291 weekly papers (of which 28 are
strictly religious) atid 54 dailies. In the whole of
the United States snd Territories, there aro 1,902
weekly newspapers lof whioh 181 ore religious)
and 284 dallies—making a total of 2.168 in the ou
tlie country. Tho aggregate circulation of these
2,168 newspapers would present a total of many
millions. ...
Uero, we see at a glance, is uu institution of
vast efficiency in our midst—a prodigious enorgy
lor good or for ill. Making, ever, a new impres
sion ot some kind upon almost the entire popular
mind, is it not of solemn importance to enquire
w hat that moral iniproßSion may be ? It cannot be
iloniod that tbe daily and weakly press baa its
groat- deficiencies and faults. None would be
more ready to allow this than the better portion
of its oonclnetors. Tbe editorial pan is too ottea
wielded by imbeoility, and its spirit and diotion
too frequently partake of the coarseness of igno
ranee and brutality. Indeed, there are thoso wbo,
looking ul the reckloseness and immorality ot some
Newspapers to be found here and there in our
land, and Hllod with foreboding, and are wont to
prod et for it, as an Institution, a oareer of hurtftil
license. But for tho moet part, suoli perilous aro
of that olass who bob everywhere omens of evil,
and proof* thut our world is going baokward ratbor
than forward—is hasting to destruotion rather
than to a bright—yea, a glorious renewal. For
iiivsell, 1 look upon the Newspaper Prue as one of
tho most wonderful and invuluablo products ofthe
olvilizulion of our time—as a great blessing to our
land—and as furnishing an occasion for hearty and
devout thanksgiving to day.
1. Remember in the first plaoe, how much the
Newspaper has to do with the intellectual culture
of tlto musses—yes, of oach of us. That damp
shoot, whioh oomos as regularly as your morning
or evening meal, is In one sense, but a compounc
of pupornndiok ; but in reality, it ia tbe world’s
dinrt —a record of tbe latest and more important
publlo doings of the race whioh we belong. Not
only dooa it keep you informed of what is transpi
ring in your own city, but of anything of gene
ral interest, that ooourred yesterday iu the most
remote cities ofthe land. And not this only, but
it given you tbo last tidings from every quarter of
the globo. As its very name indicates, (N-K-W-S)
it has intelligence not only from the four points of
tho oompasa, but from almost every point between.
Tbo latest turn of tbo political wheel in Mexico—
tho fortunes of our kindred countrymen in Oregon
and California —tho moat recout struggle in South
America—the soaroh for tho Arotio Pa-aage—the
rise or fall of prices in London—the gathering of
tho hosts of war upon the Danube or the Black
Sea—the wondorous growth of Australia—new dis
coveries at Niuovoli—the opening of the porta of
Japan—the advance ot the Chinese insurgents up
on Pekin—in short, the whole world’s present atti
tude, as respects polities, war, mechantcai inven
tion, scienoo, tino arts, literature and religion, ie
exact duguorreotypod upon the paper which you
hold in your hand. Reporters, postriders, steam
ers, sailing vessels, locomotives, telegraphs, edi
tors, oomposltora, printing-presses, and carriers,
have all boon using the utmost despatch to make
that sbeol ready for your perusal.
And this Newspaper Prsss, obviously does not
anstuin to society merely the relation of a publio
informer; it is, preeminently, a great vitalises,
in onr midst. It not only communicates intelli
gence of passing events, many of whioh are des
fined to be full of historical ana permanentinterast,
and' incidentally, conveys much useful knowledge
—it is, also, a oonstaht stimulus to the popular
mind. It givos fresh food for thought, and a fresh
impulse ovory day, to the intellect of society at
largo. It presents for cur consideration topics re
quiring often llio most profound study, ana nearly
always, somo of interest, thus counteracting the
natural tendencies to mental sluggishness, indif
torenco snd waste of undeveloped intellectual
slrcugth. It gives by the comprehensiveness of
its tango of themes, a corresponding breadth to
popular thinking; and thus overcomes the univer
sal disposition to br come localized in our views,
and to occupy the mind solely upon present, tri
vial concerns. By indicating the latest discoveries
in all arts and sciences, it excites the votaries of
oaoh to make new explorations, or at least, engen
ders thst enthusiasm which is easeutial to advance
ment. It refines the publio taste, by calling atten
tion to works of genius, whether they be wrought
in harmonious verso, upon the glowing canvas, or
in almost breathing stone. Indeed, we can but 1
hint at a few of tho methods by whieh the News- 1
paper Press, vitalizes the public mind. It is so '
palpable, that wo nood not dwell upon the details
ofthe fact. In this respeot it does a good of im- 1
ntoasurablo extant. Wooannot be toograteftil, my 1
brethren, tor this, its steady, quiokening power 1
2. Notioo, too, the influence of the Newspaper I
Press, in making sooiety, snd the individual man ’
everywhere, iu the bast senes cosmopolite. That I
fresh sheet which comes reeking to your door at '
tho same time that it makes you acquainted with 1
what your follow mou around you are doing—in- 1
creases your personal interest in them as men —1
For, that is a universal and essential principle of «
our uaturo by tbo operation of which we come to «
sympathise, a once, with the known endeavors— 1
the prosperity or adversity of mortals likeour-
s. W lieu it is announced, through the Press
that some honest, hard working mechanic in our
midst, has unexpectedly come into possession of a
large estate, we all share in his satisfaction ; and
when, by robbery or conflagration, the righteous
ptu« of an industrious citixou, sro swept awav. all
hearw are pained at the misfortune. 80, on a
broader scale, when either great success or dire oa
lainity is experienced by our countrymen, far off as
well as near, the intelligence flashed at once to our
firesides, makes us brethren with them, iu joy or
in distress. We hare, but just now hidaatrik
ing illustration, m the affliction and neoS«?U» of
our wholo southern ooaat, and the li»«lVT7~Vr.i. 01
and geuerous aid that responded tottreiaSanf
harrowing talk. It cannot ba disputed Uiatthe“-
pidity of communication, through the taW'L.Th
and the proas, had much to
contributions that were so prdHtly n»de « »
were r jading, day hv day, of the ravaged 0 » Zl
destroyer, down to the very pro rious night »,
seemed, though more than a thousand miles’ re
moved, to be actually pacing those deserted streets
and looking in upon those dosolate homes, and that
groat tribulation and anguish made them all to be
car neighbors and friends.
And the same principle ii operative as respect,
the entire race to which we belong. The more wr
know of the conditions snd fortunes of remote
nations and tribes, the more constantly we ere in
formed of the good or ill that befalls them, the
nearer are we drawn to them in sympathy and love.
Wc come to feel, more and more, that whatever
outward differences between ns there may be, we
are yet all descended from the same parentage,
have a common hrwrt and eont, are living in the
main, a similar earthly life, and are alike immortal.
And, my brethren, he whose mind, whose nature,
has thus been brought into a lively unison with
the varied experiences of all his kind, is in the best
and truest sense a citiaeu of the world. He is the
genuine cosmopolite. He may never have gone
personally, beyond the precincts of the city in
which be dwells, bot his heart is at home in every
land and every .'lime from which tidings can come.
His sensibilities answer back to the voice of bn"
inanity, in whatever language it may speak—hh
affections, like the invisible oirolea of magnetism
girdle the globe.
If, then, this is true, as respecta the uatnral effect
of frequeut intelligence upon the individual man,
of oonr-e it is true as respects that aggregate o)
indiv duals—society as a whole. And therefore it
is,'that w ■ n ioioe at the existence and wide circa
lation of the Aetctpapar Prat. Let it enter every
fiunily-groop with its tale of happineea or of grief;
let it make its daily draught upon our time, our
feelings of beuevolenoe, our love of man—as a
paople we shall rise above every feeling es exsln
—. —7-
slvsnsss and national aalf-astoem, aad throw the
arms of our charity around all communities,
though they be lass highly favored than ws. The 1
glorious day shall be hastened when government* -
shall ne mors think of warring with each other,
than do the peaoefhl villages that lie side by aid*
along the banka of oor streams—when shall be re
cognised, with universal thanksgiving, the com
mon brotherhood of man.
8. The Newspaper Prut is for the moet part, a
healthy conservative power in our midst It is to
be lamented that the statement must needs be
made in this somewhat qualified form. It is a
melancholy reflection that, in some instances, the
Newspaper Press la a fountain of dangerous and
destructive energy—is exerting its great power
upon the side of error, of lawlessness and wrong.
Fearfhl, indeed, will be the account to be render
ed in the day of judgment, by him who has used
this mighty agency for tbe dissemination of moral
poison far ana wide through society—for tbe delu
sion and corruption of the popular mind. Less
guilty would he be wbo should secretly casts vast
mess of deadly drug* into the reservoir from which
a city is supplied. The one would be hurtful only
to tbe phyeical constitution of men, the other infu
ses the element of death into their souls. But,
we reioioe that recklessness and dissoluteness are
only here and there manifested among tbe news
papers of our land. This Press, ss a whole, »p*»k*
the moral sentiment of the best pert of the Amer
can mind, and that mind ia oonservati vs. There
is an abundance of radicalism, of all kinds, in this
country, but beneath this excitability and these
occusional tumults— underlaying all this conflict
of opinion, there is good foundation of practical
wisdom, of oommon sense, which alwsy* makes
itself felt and heard in exigencies ; which is now,
and we have reason to hope always will be, con
trol ing • and ibis sonnd judgment, this discretion,
is we believe, reflected in the greater part of onr
Newspaper Prut. In the discussion of questions
involving the peace and welfare of society, this
agency is eventually found ranging itself upon the
right si ie— throwing the immense weight of its
influence into the scale of good order, merality
and religion, and thus conserving the best interests
of this -ur highly favored estate. In this reepect,
we beli ve there had been s gradual bat certain
advance Some of this audience can refer to *
period, within their recollection, when thus much
could not, with tratbftalness have been said —when
the preponderating influence of the Press was
less manifestly upon the side of the Christian
Faith, rhia progress in the right direction has
doubtless been owing, nnder God, to the increas
ing poser of Religion in our land, speaking
through the religious journals of the time. The
mutual effect ot these distinct departments of the
Newspaper Prut, has been salutary. While the
secular has been s check upon the tendency to ex
clusiveness and bigotry in tbt religious, tbe relig
iont has been s restraint upon the tecular ; snd
the whole has been moving forward in the wsy of
enlightened and christianised conservatism.
Nor should we overlook the protective power of
the Newspaper in the capacity (I use the word in
noopprobioua sense)—in the capacity of an In
former. We all understand that the best way to
defeat an evil design, Is to publish it. Whether
it be a murderous intent of an individual enemy,
or a traitorous plot, or a buccaneering expedition,
or a visionary disorganizing scheme lor social im
provement, the wise method, above all others, is
to expose it—to bring it ont where the common
reason and oontcience of society can work upon it
and pronounce it* verdict of condemnation and
destruction. In myriads of instances, almost, in
the history of onr nation, has this been tbe useful
office of the Newspaper Prut. The well laid plan
for wrong doing upon a gigantic scale, after being
brooght nigh to a subterranean completeness, baa
suddenly been dragged forth, in tbe public prints,
for an open-air and harmless explosion. And
even good schemes—wise moasnres of reform, we
know, lose nothing but rather gain, by being first
submitted, through tho Press, to the popular
judgment and will. It is well understood that the
chief Executive of the country—the present or
any other Administration—would not toko a now
stop, or venture to change its policy, without first
(annoyrnoosly perhaps) foreshadowing the meas
ure through tbe Press, for the decision thereupon,
of the public mind. Indeed, this topic only needs
an allusion. Your own thought will trace the in
fluence of this institution as a regulating and con
nerving power in the world.
4. Olios mors, and finally, let me oall your at
-1 tontlon to the part whioh the Newspaper Prese iB
destined to sustain in bringing about tbe ultimate,
entire triumph of tho religion of JesA Christ.
1 Believing, as we do, my brethren, that ibisrelig
-1 ion U from God—that it is exactly adapted to tho
. wants of all men—that his own mighty power is
r pledged to its support snd its univeisal spread—
■ thst all the changes thst ooeur are conspiring to
s bring in the glad time of the Saviour’s undisputed
1 reign upon oarth—wo know that the Press, and
[ too tho secular Newspaper Prese , must be, next to
r the Pulpit, a most prominent Instrumentality in
i this work. It cannot be otherwise than that
I Providence designs to employ this agency in
1 bringing about the glorious result. Marvellous,
1 indeed, would it be if God suffered it to remain an
1 opposing power, or even to be neutral. And if
■ you will ODservo narrowly the signs of the times in
; this regard, you will see multiplied indications, wo
1 think, of what is Jehovah’s wiso and benefleient
[ plan. Within live years there has been a most
manifest change ana progress in respect to the
. communication of religious intelligence by the
, secular proas. Formerly it was entirely excluded,
t and lofi for tho journals that were strictly religions.
- Indeed, take tho whole range of periodical litera
- tare, the change is astonishing. A short timo
sltioe, no one would have thought of looking in an
a English Quarterly for any thing besido political
e and bedes-lettres discußtion; while now, every
- important religious biography, and almost every
1 important theological treatise, receives careful no
- tlce. We do not say that Christianity has, yet,
f actual I j gained the control of the periodical press,
r but we do say that its influence is every day,
tberoin, becoming more conspicuous. Our own
1 secular journals are fast getting to bo vohiolcs of
0 informal ion as regards even the details of the
e triumphs of the Gospel in our own and othor
if lands. Reviews of religions books, reports of re
-2 iigious innivorsarios, the building of churohes,
) the statistics of missions, revivals of religion—all,
- are to be found in the oolumns of the daily press,
s We rejoice that it is bo. The tact is most anspic
f ious and hopeful. It encourages ub to anticipate
the time when tho distinction between secular aud
f religious newspapers shall cease—all having bc
y oome truly and positively religious. And, when
- wo think of a consummation —whou wo begin to
r calculate what tho effect of it would be, in the
e matter <.f the world’s evangelization andsubjec
e tion to t briat, we aro animated and stirred up to
s pray for its hastening. Let the whole press of our
e oountry bo sanclifled, the Millennial day would
3 aoon be usliorod in. Let this mighty agency bo
j oome, ui it were, but tbe manifold voioc of tbe
1 Church—tho mouth of tlie Lord to the people—
Satan’s kingdom would speedily bo destroyed.
, As we have hinted before, wo believe the por
-1 tents of that glorious ora in the history of this
r institution are numerous and ever increasing. Ma
> ny now little expeot it—but tho time is at hand.
1 when on opening a new sheet, the first inquiry and
i the most prominent intelligence, will not be as to
, what is happening in tho political or commercial
r world, as Booh, but what new tidings are there of
r our Bhssod Redeemer’s advancing Kingdom—
r when our steamers, locomotives and telegraphs
f shall be swift to toll of tbe fresh conquests of the
> Lord, in every quarter of the earth. For that timo,
r lot us It ok and wait iu the attitude of ooufldent an
l ticipatiou. Lot us bo earnest iu supplioation at the
throno . t Grace for its npproaoh. Let us do what
, we may to uphold the hands of those who aro
, striving to elevate tho tone, and make thoroughly
Christian tho influence ol the whole press of our
land. At the same time we do well to bear in mind,
thatit ia inuoheosierto make demaudsandcritioise,
and propose improvementa iu this matter, than it
• is, or would be, to accomplish them oursolvos. Wo
may sometimes think there ought to be more ta
lont brought to bear upon the I’reßs, in all its de
partments ; but probably none havo a doopor feel
ing of this kind than those who have it in charge,
and who would rejoice to increase its intellectual
f ability, were there a corresponding increase of ma
| torial support. It is easy to imagine greater accu
p racy of information, more learning, more enter
prise, mure varioty ; and probably tho conductors
: of tho Press dosire those things as much as wo can
! desire them. You will understand tho feelingthat
prompt.* this word of caution. We, who must
stand up before yon ovory Sabbath, with a message
■ of truth, arc perhaps in Borne rospoots qualified to
appreciate the labors of tho editor. There can be
no doubt, that, as a class, tlie demand made upon
■ their exertions is vory great.—They are hard-work
ing men. Lot us accord them our respect for their
industry, and our gratitude for their endeavors in
our behalf. Above all, let us implore for their
guidance, the illuminating influences of the Holy
pirit of God.
Pompeii.
In digging out the ruins of Pompeii, evCry turn
of tho spade brings up some relic oftlho ancient
life, some witness of imperial luxury. For far the
greater part, these relics have a merely curious
interest; they belong to archeology, and fluo
appropriate restiug places in historical museums.
But there are aome exceptions. Here, for i nstance,
the excavator drops, an uninvited guest, upon the
banquet—there, he unexpectedly obtrudes himself
into a tomb. In ono place, he finds a miser cow
ering on liis heaps—another shows him bones of
dancing girls and broken instruments of musio
lying 011 tbe marble floor. In the midst of painted
chamber-, k baths, halls, columns, fountains—
among the splendid evidences of material wealth—
he oouioli.nos stumbles upon a simple iucident,
a touching human story, such as strikes tbe imag
ination and suggests the mournful interest of the
great di- inter —*s the sudden sight of a wounded
soldier conjures up tbe horrors of a field of battle.
Suoh, to our mind, is the latost discovery of the
excavators in this melancholy field. It is a group
of skeletons in the act of flight, accompanied by a
dog. There aro three human beings, ono of them
a young girl—with gold rings and jewels still on
her tlngei s. Tho fugitives bad bags of gold and
silver with them, snatched up, no doubt, iu haste
aud darkness. But the fiery flood was on their
track—and vain their wealth, their flight, the ago
of one, tho youth ol the other. The burning lava
rolled above them snd txyoud: -ud the faithful
dog turned back to share the fortunes of it*
mistress—dtying at her aide.
Saaa by the light of such an incident,how vividly
that night of horrors looms upon the sense! Doo*
not imagination picture that littlo group, in their
own house, by tlie side of their evoning fountains
languidly chatting over the day’s oventa aud of the
unusual heat ? Does it not hear, with them, the
troubled swell ofthe waters in the bay—see, ns
they do, how the night comes down in Budden
at range no.-*, how tbe aky opens over head and
flames breax ont. while scoria;, sand and molta .
rocks oome pouring down? What movement, what
emotion, what surprise ! The scene grows darker
every instaut—-the hollow monotony of the bay is
lifted into yells and ehrieks—tho air grows thick
with dust and hot with flames—and at the moan-
tain’a foot i» board the doadly roll of the liquid
lava. Jewels, household gods, gold and silver
coins, are snatched upon the instant. No time to
say farewell; darkness in front, and fire behind,
they rush into the streets—streets choked with
lUliug houses and flying citizens. How find the
way through passages which have no longer out
lets f confusion, danger, darkness, uproar every
where ; the shouts of parted friends, the agony of
men struck down by tailing oolutnns; fear, msd
ness, and despair unchained; here, Pennry clutch,
ing gold it cannot keep—there, Gluttony feeding
on its final meal, and Frenzy etrking in the dark
to forestall death. Through all, fancy hears the
young girl’s acreams—the fire is on her jewelled
band. No time for thought—no panse; the floods
roll on—and wisdom, beauty, age and youth, with
the stories of their love, their hopes, their ranks,
wealth, groatnsss—all the once affluent life—are
gone for ever. When unearthed after many ages,
the nameless group has no other importance to
mankind than as it may serve "to point s moral or
adorn a tale.” —London Atkenocum.
JAxooiriNe with Oil. —Professor Simpson, of
Edinburg, has been the means of bringing to light
* curio,;B corroboration of the sanitary value of
P'acfce* of annointing with oil. It
vi.lunf* *** learned professor, when recently
manufacturing town of Galashiels,
Iml rin“ y ,k nfor f ned thw the w »rkers in the
P’** » ere e^“ P t from the at
taefe) of co, sumption and scrofula. On inquiring
of the medical men in the vicinity the truth of the
statement was conhrmad, and it wsb then deemed
expedient to pursue investigations on a broader
scale. Communications were accordingly sentto
physicians residing in Dunfermline, Alloa, Tilli
oonltry. Inverness, and other districts where the
wool-mill are in operation; and in the case of til it
wss ascertained that similar immunity was enjoy
ed from the fatal diseases mentioned. It father
appears that In some localities scarlatina had been
added to the list; and also that employment in
the mills not only preserved health, but children
of delioate constitutions were sent to be wocl
workers for the express purpose of acquiring
-freugth—a result in almost every instance attain
ed.
Mou Gold Dieeises.—We saw, a sow days ago,
onrfriend, J. Augustus Black, who with hiabrother
J. B. Black, of oar District, has leased some gold
land from J. L. McCelvy, Esq., below Calhoon’s
Hills. He showed us some fine specimens of gold
ora, and also some of the dirt, which is very soft,
snd rioh with gold. He thinks that the dirt will
yield *l6O per bubal. In a few days ha will go to
work a turmU-MtttilU Prut.
From ike Flu* by the Cha*4a. r ~
Scut* axd Tcxxrr.—The following very dear I
•tatoment of the operations of the Turkish army
we copy from the LondonNew* of the 10th:
The more reoeut despatches from the Danube, t
though atill sufficiently laconic, when combined 1
with thoae which preceded them, enable ns now to f
infer, with tolerable precision, the great outline of <
the plan upon which the Turkish generalissimo is
bringing his army into action. Unlees appearances
are verv deoeitfui indeed, he ia handling tbe forces .
at his disposal with consummate skill . showing that (
to hie energy and promptitude he adds a rare gift (
of skilful and comprehensive combination. Let os ,
glance over the field where the battle forces are (
now arrayed. The province Wallachia approaches ,
in it* superficial configuration s paralellogrsm of ,
nearly 800 miles in length by about 150 in breadth. ,
On the southwest, south, northeest, it is bounded ,
by the Danube. From the neighborhood of Oreo
wa to a little beyond Widdin, the course of that ,
river ia nearly from north to south | and from the
tatter point to the vicinity of Silhsthi* it* general
course is from west to east; and thence to Galatz '
it flows from south to north. The northern bound
ary of the province, for a distance of some 200
miles from its western extremity, is a mountain
range ; thence to its eastern extremity an affluent
of the Sereth, which flows eastward from where
the mountains terminate, snd the Sereth itself to
it* embouchure In the Danube. The portion of
the province which is enclosed on three sides by
the Danube, ia generally low and flat; to the north,
it gradually rises to the base of the mountains.
The western part of the province, between the
western frontier snd the river Argish—comprising
fully two thirds of the whole—ia divided into three
pretty equal parts by the valleys of the Schyl and
Alula, flowing from the northern mountains at
right angles to the Dannbe. The Schyl and the
Argish rise on the south am declivity of the
mountains; the Aluta rises to the north of the
chain, and breaks through it. The part of Walla
chia whiefi lies to the east of tbe Argish is bisected
by the Jalomeritxa which flows from west to east.
The Turkish or southern bank of the Danube,
from Orsowa to where it again tarns northward,
after flowing nearly 800 miles from west to east, is
high snd abrupt; the Wallachian low and apt to
be overflowed. A little to tbe north of the point
at which the course of the river turns from South
to east is Widdin. on the Turkish, and opposite
to it Kalafat, on the Wallachian bank; command
ing tbe mouth of tbe Schyl is Rahowa, on the
Turkish bank; commanding the mouth of tbe Aluta
is Nikopolia, on the Turkish bank ; midway be
tween the mouths of Aluta and Argish is Rustchuk,
on the Turkish, and opposite Giurgevo on the
Wallachian bank. Bucharest is situatad nearly
north of these places, at a distance of some sixty
miles, on an affluent of the Argish, which inter
venes between it and them. Turtukal is situated
on the Turkish bank, opposite the mouth of the
angle formed by that river and tbe Danube at the
Argish; Oltenitza on the east of the Argish, is the
junction. Silistria standa on the Turkish bank of
the Dannbe, near the point where the river turns
to the north, and Schnmla tafsome eighty miles to
the south of it.
The principal Russian force ie concentrated be
tween Bucharest and the Dannbe, but parties bud
been thrown out in advance as far as Kalafat.
Some of these parties were pretty strong, but still
this was dispersing the army over a longer line
than its numerical amount warranted. We observe
attempts are being made to palliate this mistake of
tbe Russian commander, by alleging that ho had
been led to expect support from Austria, which is
now withheld. When the faithless, Jesnistical
character of the Austrian government is taken into
account, this story looks plausible ; it may, how
ever, be a mere invention and afterthought, to
screen the stratogetical blunder of the Russian ge
neral. The main body of the Turkish army was
concentrated in the region between Silistria and
Schumla ; a strong body of troops was posted a*
Sophia in tho roar of Widdin; and thecommunica
tion was kept up by a chain of posts. The Turk
ish troops have nitherto been healthy ; according
to tho latest accounts from Bucharest, there aro at
present 12,000 Russian soldiers in hospital there.
The advanced period of tho season, and the want
of roads, render it difficult, if not impossible, for
the Russians to receive epeepy reinforcements; tbe
communication of the Turks from Silistria with
Varna, either direct or by Schumla,is open and easy.
Keeping in view the outline sketch we have
given of tho country and its principal positions,
1 and tbe account of tho relative position and condi
-1 tion of the two armies, we are in a condition to ap
- predate the movements that have been made by
■ Omar Pacha.—From Widden a corps d'annee has
1 been thrown into Western or Lesßer Wallaclna,
1 amounting, according to tbe most recent accounts,
to 12,000 men: and the force stationed round 80-
> phia is stated to be advancing to support them.
I The Kuabian troops in that part of Wallachia have
l fallen back without offering any serious resistance.
> There ia a talk of their inakiug a stand behind the
1 Schyl, but at present they appear to be in full re
t treat towards Bucharest. On the Eastern or Lower
t Danube a strong body of Turkish forces had been
, thrown across near the mouth of tho Argish. No
1 less than 13,000 men crossed from Turtukai to 01-
f tenitza ; they were attacked by the Russians, but
t made good their footing. After a combat of three
3 hours the Muscovites retreated with a loss of sev
t eral officers, and 200 privates killed, of six Buporior
t and eighteen subaltern officers, and 47# privates
3 wounded, leaving the Turks (whose amount ol loss
3 is unknown,) to i ntrench themselves on tho north
, bank of the Danube. In addition to this 2000
• Turks aro said to have occupied Kalarache, a small
- town or village in Wallachia, opposite to Silistria,
b and 2000 from Rusischuk have takon possession of
3 an island in the Danube, between that fortress and
1 Giurgevo.
f It appears, then, that in every affair between the
1 Turks and the Russians in Wallachia, tho latter
- have been worsted. Tho Turkish lorce advancing
’, from Widdin is forciug tbe Russian detachments
1 in the western part of tho province back upon
1 Bucharest, with a fair prospect of boating if it can
0 catch them, or, at all events, of cutting them off
f from the main body in front of that city. Again
e tbe advance of the main Turkish army has made
r good its footing on tho Wallachian side of the
i- Danube, and holds both banks of the Argish,
>i which lays the approach to Bucharest open to it.
, To all humau appearance, therefore, it will be com
1. paratively easy tor Omar Pasha, by pushing on his
1- main force towards Bucharest, to form a junction
a with tho Turkish troops advancing from Kalatat;
J to break tho lino (as they do in naval warfare) of
1- tho enemy ; isolate tho body of Russians in front
u of Bucharest from that which is retreating upon
0 it from the west, and bout both in detail, if that
6 have not been already done to his hand in the case
of tho latter corps.
0 This view of uffairs can ouljr be presented with
1 tho hesitation which the brief and fragmentary
1 character of the reports from tho seat of war, and
- the yot imperfect development of tho strategy of
0 the generals on both sides, render necessary ; but
- on a deliberate view of what has been written, it
does not appear that any unwarranted or partial
■ iuforronce, or oolored fact, has been stated. It
8 deserves to be kopt in mind that the commuuica
- tions of the Turkish army, with the sources whence
• they aro to derive reinforcements and supplies in
I their rear, aro much more open and easy than those
0 of tho Russians; and that the Turkish troops are
1 in bettor health than the Russians; and that the
f success which has as yet attended tho Turkish
- arms will inspire the Ottoman soldiory with more
8 confidence in thomselvos than the Muscovites, all
s things considered, can be expected to foel.
, A knowledge of the real weukness of Rassia, and
-of tho traditionary tactics of that Empire, when it
b discovers a task it has undertaken to bo boyond its
t power, would warrant our inferring from these
3 facts that peace is likely soon to be resorted to;
f but, on the other hand, thoro must bo taken into
r view, as an obstacle to this desirabio consumnin
1 tion, the obstinate ambition and vanity of the Em
-1 peror Nicholas, which appoar to have stimulated
t him to a Btate of frenzy. Ho breathes war, and if
3 he can make wur successfully, he will be ready
■ enough to wage it.
The London Timeß comment* as follows on the
- military operations:
| “We observed yestorday, that no accounts wore
furnished ot tho strength or the operations of the
Russian main body, which at the first passage of
the Danube by the Turks, had marched to encoun
ter them at Kalafat. It iB now assorted that this
1 force, which was under the command of Goucral
1 Dannenborg, numbered botweou 30,000 and 40,000
men, and that it was in position between Krojova
and Sulatina, so as to intoicept tho route from
Kalafat to Bucharest. Tho Turks, we were also
1 told by tho latost despatches, wore occupying
Loißer Wallachia—that is to say the country
about Kalafat—with 12,000 nton; but as this was
evidently the chief point at which the Danube was
to bo crossed, it is probable that the force referred
to had recoivod constant augmentations from the
other bank of the stream. Indeed, it was ex
pressly mentioned, that largo bodies of Turkish
troops were concentrated round Widdin—the fort
opposite to Kalafat, and all these could of conrse
be brought over without much difficulty, when
th* passage of the river had been once secured.
Now, whether tbe Russians advanced to attack
the Turks, or the Turks in marching up to tho
oountry encountered the Russians, we are not fully
informed; but it is between these two armies that
‘ the battle’ reported must apparently kavo been
fought. Nor can wo have any doubt that it
proved disastrous to the Russian troops. We ore,
it is true, merely told that 1 14 superior Russian
officers were killed,’ and that 1 tlio Russians were
retreating upon Bucharest;’ butthoso intimations,
if correct, oonvey volumes of intelligence. II
fourteen superior officers were killed, how many
inferior officers and how many men must have
shared, in all probability, tho same fate? And
how many of all the rank must have been wound
ed? Thoso acquainted with ihe rules of military
calculations would construct s fearful list of casu
alities from tiro unit given in the despatch. In
the affair at Oltenitza, for instance though no
‘ superior officer’ was reported killed and only six
wounded, the total numoor of thoso placed hors da
combat seem to have exceeded 700. Nevertheless,
this battle must havo beou fought and won, if we
aro to accopt the proseut accounts strictly, by some
12,000 Turks against 80,000 or 40,000 Russians.
That it wax won, we cannot doubt, for tho Turks
are described as remaining “ masters of tho field,
and the Russians retiring by what under such cir
cumatauccs would be their natural line of retreut,
“ upon Bucharest.” Rumor*, moreover, had been
in circulation for the last day or two to tho effect
that “the right wing of the Russian army, under
General Danueuberg,”—which was no other than
this very force—had experienced a check, and, as .
we yesterday remarked, the inaccuracy ot our in
formation from Bucharest and Vienna aro not likely
to tell oftou in favor of the Turks. W 0 must need
inter, therefore, that any exaggeration of numbers
applies rather to the Ottoman forces than tho Ras
Stan losses, and iheinevitable conclusion arises that
tbs maiu Russian army has boon defeated by the .
Turkish srui) with Bevcro losses, and on a field ,
favorable to the form r. No doubt the 12,000 :
Turks at Kalafat had been reinforced, and perhaps ,
largely, from the troops concentrated at Widden; ,
but it seems hardly probable on any supposition,
that they could have been raised to a strength
I equalling that of the Russians.
Omst Pacha had some 65 01 70,000 men in Bnl
“ garia Os these he had already carried, according
i to reports, 24,000 across the river, viz: 18,000 at
1 Oltenitza, 4,00t‘ at Kalurache, and 2,000 at Giur
s gevo. He was also menacing other points of the
' stream, and 12,000 of his best troops had been es
tablished at Kalafat. This accounts for some 40,-
* 000 of his army; so that not more than 25,000 or
■ thereabouts would remain to be brought over.—
- But even supposing that as many as 20,000 of these
f were taken to reinforce tho 12,000 at Ralatat, still
; the whole Turkish force thus concentrated in Lee
* ser Wailscbia would amount only to 52,0u0 men:
1 indeed, no accounts yet received rate it at so high
' a strength; whereas the Russians are plainly Bet
1 at between 80,000 and 40,000, with strong cavalry
, and artillery. W e wait with some cariosity for the
1 details of so remarkable a battle.
From first to last, the movements of the Rus
sians in these transactions, appear unaccountable.
Assuming even that the Kalafat Turks were ulti
mately raised to a large force by succors from the
opposite bank, some days must still haye elapsed
during whioh they were but 12,000 strong, and
wbat were the 30,000 Russians doing then i He
might imagine, perhaps, thut Prince Gortschakoli,
having been strictly forbidden to become the actual
assailant, was compelled to wait for the attack of
the Ottomans; but this hypothesis is at once nega
tived by the circumstances of the affair at Oltenitza,
where General Pericff fell upon the new comers
without hesitation or scruple. Yet, if General
Perloff could do this at one point, why could not
General Dannenberg do the same at another f If
the former commander could lead his 9000 troops
againstthe 18,000 Ottomans at Oltenitza, why oould
not the latter employ his 80,000 or 40,000 troops
sgaiust the 12,000 Ottomans at Widdin. 11 alithe
incidents thus reported are correctly given, the
sum of the result amount* to this: That the light
wing of the Russians, comprising their principal
force, has been defeated by the left wing of the
Turks, while the Turkish centre has also been
victorious at Turtukai, and is on the immediate
route to the Russian headquarters, in numbers su
perior to the enemy.
It would appear from the plan of operations de
veloped in the movements of Omer Pacha, that he
te moving the three wings of his army simultane
ously upon Bucharest, and we may shortly expect
to hear that by this date some decisive action has
been fought. Perhaps that Bucharest has been
bombarded and stormed, or that the Turkish army
has been defeated before its walls. Letters are
said to have been received from the Turkish gene
ral himself, which announced that the onward
march to the capital of W allachia waa the main ob
jeot of hi* operation*.
From tie Sew York Commercial.
Important from China—Account of the Capture
•r Bhanghw.
The following interesting narrative of the Cap
ture of the city of Bhanghae was written by an in
telligent American, long resident there, to his
friend in this city, who has kindly placed it at onr
disposal. It will be read with no common interest.
Shjln&hax, Sept. 15, 1853.
We awoke on the morning of the 7th, and heard
that there had been a grand disturbance in the
city. I started with a companion at abont 7
o'clock, A. M., to satisfy myself as to what had
taken plaoe, ana found that a revolution had very
quietly been effected daring the night. The Tsoa
tai was a prisoner, and the place is in the undispu
ted possession of a band who are only distinguish
able from Coolies, and such people, by their crim
son badges. The district magistrate, who was
personally unpopular, was the only man killed, so
far as I can learn, by the insurgents. The guard at
the gate and some of the Taoutai’s men received a
few scratches: but otherwise, strange as it may
appear, a city having 300,000 inhabitants, was
“imperial” at night,and “rebel” on the follow
ing morning, no one anticipating the coup (Fetal,
and only one or two men hurt in its execution.
Truly, the Chinese are a wonderful people.
1 walked through the place within a few hours
of the overthrow of its authorities. Armed men
were parading and keeping guard, common look
ing rascals enough, if nft dangerous; but the
people looked on as calmly and as unconcerned as
though the change interested them only by its no
velty. The revolution was complete, rapidly, but
effectually wrought.
A week has elapsed since the affair. The insur
gents are still in possession of the city. A greet
many Coolies and the lower ranks of the people
are constantly joing them, and there appears to be
no chance ot the Imperialists regaining the place.
The Taoutai (Sumqna, that was) is now under the
wing of the American consul, living in the house
of an American merchant, shorn of all his author
ity, of course; and it ia said that he is on his pa
role to have nothing more to do with the Emperor’s
cause. The whole affair seems to have arisen in
the Triad Society, and to have been brought about
by Canton, Chinchoo and Fekien men. It is al
most impossible, I believe, for anything to leak
out from such an association, and nothing could
have been done so quietly and so much by sur
prise, except by the members of the Triad and
similar societies. There are various opinions
about the connection or understanding between
these Sbanghae insurrectionists and the actual re
bel force at Nanking.
The Shangbue men declare that their object is
to assist in establishing a new dynasty, and they
gay they are in correspondence with Tae Ping-
Wang, and inteud to put themselves under his
direction. Two days alter the overturn 1 went into
the city and had an interview with the leader of
the Canton men, the most influential chief of the
parly at present. He told me poeitively that he
had twice written to Nanking and was hourly ex
pecting a messenger back. He professed to be anx
ious to reoeive the command of Tae Ping-Wang,
and said that he had no intention of doing busi
ness on a large scale himself. His army ere a
bird set. The Chinchoo men have also a chief,
and the Fokicn men; and the Northern men one
or All these are within the city and appear
to have about equal authority. Tho noble leader
whom I had the honor of meeting has been a
broker for foreigners and a thrr/f, and is almost
used up witn opium smoking. Another in author
ity was horse-boy to a triend otmine very recently.
Nearly every influential man amongst them speaks
English, and some Singapore Chinamen speak it as
fluently as we do. No Chinaman of any respecta
bility yet admits having any connection with these
rebels, and as fai as foreigners) have been able to
learn, the chiefs and authorities amgsnst them are
men of no character and of very mean abilities.
The missionaries particularly speak of them with
unqualified severity. They deny that they have
auyconnectlon with the Hanking men, and say that
they are a mere rabble of the lowest sort, and that
any hour may see the city given up to riot and
plunder. We shall see. Meanwhile many foreign
ers are i n considerable afright; guards of sailors
and marines have been landed, and all the neces
sary arrangements made to repel any attack upon
the foreign houses. Half a dozen towns in the
neighborhood have broken into revolt; others give
symptoms of similar purpose, aud therois nothing
to hinder them if they choose to do so.
It soems pretty clear to me that his Imperial Ma
te ty will not speedily or easily retake Shanghae.
Beyond this, I really find it difficult to form a de
cided opinion npou the nature and result of the
movement. We cannot say what tnay happen the
next hour when Chinamen are fighting. Scarcely a
broker has been seer, hero since the disturbance
until yesterday, and the Northern men particular
ly are not to be found. Every Chinaman who has
a foreign acquaintance comes and begs lodging for
himself and family in our “go-downs.” They are
all alarmed about remaining in the city, and the
soldiers at the gutes will not allow them to take any
es their goods ontside. We have a large pack
house full of womon and children, chirruping like
birds, all delighted to get outside tho walls.
There is no business doing within the city, and
scarcely any without. Tho silk men inside were in
a great fright, until the foreigners went in and
bought out their Btocks, and themselves marched
at the head of tho Coolies who transported tho
bales to the foreign settlement.
The Peace of Europe. —The question now is,
can the tlmne of war which has been lighted in
tho Principalities of Moldavia and Wallachia bo
confided to those Principalities, or even to Russia
and Turkey ? Is there any prospect of its speedy
termination i The Journal of Commerce, which
propounds these questions, instead of attempting
to answer them itself, gives the views of its Paris
correspondent, Robert Walsh, Esq., on this point.
Mr. Walsh being an intelligent and unbiased ob
server, his views are entitled to much more weight
than those who feel as partisans in the contest,
and we, therefore, mako tho following extract from
his last letter, dated at Paris on the 14th of No
vember.—Nat. Intel.
“ On Friday and Saturday two Senators—obser
vers who have access to tho best sources of know
ledge—conversed with me freely in my study on
the aspect of foreign utt'airs. They interpreted the
mission of General Baraguay to Constantinople as
follows : A diplomatist was no longer wanted at
Constantinople; the combined fleets were in the
Bosphorus. If tho Turks were beaten in the
Principalities, and the Czar then invaded Turkish
territory further, or would not evacuate the Prin
cipalities on terms suited to tkepolioy of the allies,
thirty or more thousand of French troops would
be sent to operate against him, and placed under
tho command of the General. Ilis previous so
journ in the Turkish capital must enable him and
the many experienced officers in his suite to pro
pare in all respects for the execution of their roal
errand. Other French veteran statesmen deem
Groat Britain and Franco to be already at war with
Russia. They lend the Turks not merely moral,
but military support; probably they replenish the
war chests of the Porte.
“ The new circular of Nesselrode, dated the 81st
of October, is a more pregnant, significative docu
moot than even the manifesto. Tho views and
resolves of Russia arc distinctly exhibited. No
concessions are implied or shadowed forth. The
two impending Powers are apprised that it will
depend altogether on them whether the war shall
be limitod or shall involve the rest of Europe. In
short, circumstancies generally are more inauspi
cious than heretofore; but the steamer of the 16th
may curry you authentic accounts of events of
good promise.”
Cheap Postage.
The Postmaster General is very anxious about
One of two things—either to cause the rates of
postage to be increased, or to secure an appropria
tion front Congress to make up the deficiency in
the expenses of the Department. The Washington
correspondent “Obsorver,” of the Philadelphia
Ledger, who, it is said, has recently been in pri
vate confabulation with Mr. Campbell, after argu
ing at length to prove that cheap postage, though
applicable to England, is not so to this country, at
length says: —South Carolinian.
“In spite of these inconveniences, howevqy, it
is easy to foresee that few members of either House
will venture to vote for an increase of postage on
letters or intelligence; and the Post Office De
partment will probably remain, for some years,
dependant on the Treasury. I doubt much whether
a return to the five cent postage will bo recom
mended by tho Postmaster General.”
The correspondent “Inspector,” of the Now
York Courier and Enquirer, whose opportunities
are no less favorable than those of the former wri
ter, tells us what tho report of the Postmaster
Gonorai will develop, and after reviewing tho sub
ject, comes to tho following conclusion:
“But it does not follow that the rates of postago
will be, or ought to be, increased. Congress must
make the requisite appropriations for giving the
system a fair trial. The letter postago undoubt
edly is high onough to sustain tho service, and it
is perfectly in accordance with our policy, that the
almost freo circulation of newspapers should bo
provided for by grants out of the Treasury. The
deficiency of revenue this year is said to be over
three quarters of a million of dollars. The Trea
sury is abundantly able to sustain that charge.”
Settlement of the Methodilt Chnrcli Property
Unertlon at New York.
The undersigned, a committee appointed tor the
purpose of propari ug a statement for publication
of the action of the Commissioners upon the ques
tion in litigation between the M. E. Church and
the M. E. Church, South, in relation to the pro
perty ofthe Book Concern in New Yerk. report
the following,
The Hon. John McLean, having voluntarily un
dertaken a correspondence with the Commission
ers ofthe M. E. Church and those of the M. E.
Church, South, and having received assurances
from both parties of a disposition to come to an
amicable settlement of the matter in litigation, and
and having been invited to be present at a meet
ing of the aforesaid Commissioners and to aid them
with his counsels, met with them at the mission
rooms 199 Mulberry street, New York, on the 26th
ultimo, und, by the unanimous request of the
Commissioners, acted as chairman.
After a careful and most friendly examination
ofthe whole question, the Southern Commission
ers made a proposition for a settlement of their
claim, which the Commissioners for tho New York
concern accepted. Nothing now remains to be
done to consummate this desirablo adjustment of
' a most troublesome litigation bnt the execution of
the necessary papers, and the arrangements for a
final decree ofthe United States Court for the
Southern district of New York, now in session in
this city.
The settlement has been agreed upon by the
parties without tho arbitrament of a third party,
and is to each entirely satisfactory. The conclu
sion of this settlement was followed by thanksgiv
ing to God, and most hearty expressions of Chris
tian love and mutnal confidence. The feelings
which prevail among the Commissioners of the
two churches, we may hope, is a true type of that
which will prevail hereafter throughout the bonds
of our common Methodism, North and South.
Mnch credit is to be awarded to his honor, Jndge
McLean, for his agency in the completion of this
important and desirable arrangement, end we
doubt not but this act will stand prominently
among those of his long and brilliant career, which
have given him so enviable a position before the
Christian public.
The details of the settlement will he made
known to the public when the final decree of the
Court shall transpire. George Peck,
William A. Smith.
The above report was unanimously adopted.
Z. Phillips, Secretary.
A Cow roB Three Thousand Dollars —Colonel
Thorne, of Washington Hollow, Duchess county,
’ New York, lately imported a valuable bull, and
other stock, by the steamer Hermann, whichjwere
selected, without regard to cost, of the best to be
found in England. The ball is stated to havo cost
five thousand dollars. By the Washington, on
her last trip, he received scow of the same breed
the ball, for which wo are told he paid three
thousand dollars, besides expense of her passage.
This is probably the highest price cow ever im
ported. She wa's accompanied by a two months
. old calf, which cost seven hnrdred and fifty dol
lars. Also a lot of South Down sheep, of superior
quality.— fi. Y. Jfi rror.
Steam Communication to Savanah.
A preliminary meeting of several of the mer
chants of this city was held last night at the South
ern and Western Reading Room, and the necessa
ry steps taken to canvass the city thoroughly dur
ing the coming week, with regard to steam com
munication with Savanah. It is intended to have
a fnll meeting on Friday evening next, at the same
place, to receive report of the canvassers and take
some definite action on the subject. Considerable
interest seemed to be manifested by those present,
and a determination was expressed to pash the
matter to an issue. It is expected a large number
of the merchants of the city will be present at the
adjourned meeting on Friday.— Bait. American.
Saxony Sheep.—Among other valuable matters
received by the barque Copernicus, we notice
eight Saxony sheep—six rams and two ewes—of
the Electoral flocks—an improvement on the
Spanish Merino. They were imported by Capt.
John A. Wagoner, of this city, and are destined
for Walabalia,the German settlement in Pickins
District, and will prove a moat valuable acquisition
to the gentlemen engaged in sheep rearing in that
vicinity. Capt. Wagoner has also imported two
Shepherd’* Dog* with the sheep.— Okariuton Mem
<*n-
ChrreeponAence of tit Baltimore American.
Philadelphia, Nov. 30.—The war betweem the
“Hards” aud “Softs" of the Democracy of
Pennsylvania, is coming t* a heed. Laat night e
meeting of the National Democracy, opposed to
the Bigler dynasty, end friendly to the nomination
of the Hon. Wm. H. Witte for Governor, was
held. Col. Wm. F. Small, who called the meeting
to order, said that bad man had obtained the go
vernment. of the party and they must be turned
out. Mr. Corrigan, who was one of the speakers
at the New York “ Hard ” meeting, said that the
present governor of the State was no Democrat.
Resolutions wete adopted providing fore cell of e
general meeting, aud for other measures to pro
mote the nomination of Witte. This movement
will throw the State into the hands of the Whin
if Bigler succeeds in getting the nomination for
governor.
On Sunday evening, Lieut. Blackburn and Offi
cer Neff, of the Marshal’s Police, arrested Charles
Clarke, on the charge of making and passing
counterfeiting bank notes. The officers subse
quently discovered at the residence of the prison
er, in the cellar, parts of a press, and in different
parts of the house other portions of the machine
ry. Under a bed, iu the second story, the floor
ticarde were found to be loose, and upon examina
tion, the cavity under the floor proved to contain
a large quantity of counterfeit notes. There were
ones, twos, threes, fives and one hundred dollar
bills, purporting to be of the following named
banks : Bank of Gallipolis; Farmers’ and Mer
chants’ Bank, of Frederick, Md.; Merchants’
Bank, of Granville, Washington oounty, N. Y.;
Merchants’ Bank, of Bridgton, N. J.j and Fann
ers and Mechanics’ Bank, of Frederick, Md. The
aggregate amount of spurious money thus found
secreted is (10,685. There were also nine plates
for altering the notes of various t anks in different
States; chemicals for preparing notes; bank note
paper, printing ink; pens, in infllnite variety, and
in short, all the materials for carrying on this ne
farious trade.
The notes discovered in Clark’s house are all
admirably executed, and are calculated to deceive
even good judges. The bills were found in diffe
rent stage of their manufacture, aud some of them
being submitted to the action of acids, probably
for the purpose of having the oolors fixed.
Letters, memoranda, <sc., found in the house,
disclosed the tact that the establishment thus fer
retted out has extensive ramifications throughout
this State and the State of New York. Quantities
of the notes were placed in packages, and prepared
for delivery. A number of spurious bills were pre
pared so as to give to them and old and worn ap
pearance.
Clark, though a young man, has been in this ne
farious business for a considerable length of time.
He is to have a hearing before the Mayor on Friday
morning.
New Yobk, Dec. I.—The steamer Leviathan,
Capt. Hazzard, in going out the Hook yesterday,
discovered a ship ashore about 5 miles east of
Kockawsy, which proved to be the ship Vicksburg,
outward bound for New Orleans. The ship was
drawing 14 feet of water when she went on shore,
but had driven up on the bar so that there were
only two feet around her at ow water. Capt.
Hazzard, seeing a signal of distress flying, went to
her assistance, but finding the ship nearly high
and dry, aud there being a tremendous sea run
ning, he could render none, and came to the city
after lighters.
The characters of the new appointees in the
Custom House who take the places of decapitated
Hards, is creating great surprise in the city. The
Express sajs ol them The city will uplift its
bands ir astonishment, as it reads these appoint
ments 1 Never before, by no Collector, wore such
men (with some honorable exceptions) thus put
into responsible places! Several of them are well
known shoulder-hitters, aud fighters, aud others
are keepers of the very lowest rum shops and
groggeries in the city. Some of them wore up to
the Syracuse Convention. Os the 90 appointments,
88 are Freesoilers or Softs ; only two being Hunk
ers, and one of them, E. A. Kimball, an employee
in the Herald office, which office, it seems, not
having a mission, is to be consoled with a Weigh
ership !
The distributors of these spoils are said to be
John Van Buren, John Cochrane, Mr. Fowler,
Postmaster, Mr. Purser and J. A. Kennedy, sth
Ward. Wm. Murray is made a’Niglit Watchman,
tho very man, who, in the 20th Ward, is under
the grave charge of changing the votes of Cum
mings H. Tucker, iu order to elect McConkey,
Alderman. Some of the appointees are “ Sach
ems,,’ who turned the National Democrats out of
Tammany Hall.
Philadelphia, Dec. 2.— The Express Mail Train
from New York, due at this city last evening at
10 o’clock, did not roach here until 2 o’clock this
morning, in consequence of an accident which
occurred a sow miles from Jersey City. Tho Phil
adelphia Truin was detained at a point a lew miles
from Jersey City, on account of the cars for Erie
being off the track, when the Way Line far New
Brunswick, which left Jersey City a short time af
ter the Philadelphia Express Train, ran into the
rear of the latter, causing considerable damage to
the hindmost ear. Fortunately, no passengers
were iniured.
On ednesday afternoon, a hearing was had be
fore Commissioner Hoazlitt, in the case of Captain
Joseph Hill, charged with forging an application
for a land warrant. It appears that within a few
months past, tho officers of the government at
Washington have discovered that extensive frauds
have been perpetrated by means of forged applica
tions for laud warrants, the parties committing
the forgeries residing in this city. The principal
in these tVauds is known to have been a Captain
Hoozier, now deceased. Capt. Hill, though not
charged with acting in concert with Capt. Hoozier,is
accused of forging an application for a warrant
which had boon partly filled np by Hoozior. Hill
was required to give bail for his appearanoe.
The Committee appointed at tho last meeting of
the National Democrats, better known as the
"Hards," met last evening at the County Court
House, for the purpose of making arrangements
for town meetings, and to prepare an address to
their Hard brothers throughout tho city and coun
ty. One of the resolutions adopted declares that
they “ have faith in the rectitude of the intentions
of the President of the United States, while we
believe that the Cabinet has erred in appointing
Free Boilers to office.”
The fight between Dominick Bradley, of Moya
mensing, and James Sloan, of Baltimore, took
filace yesterday afternoon, at Pennypackei’s Hol
ow, on Stony Creek, about two miles from Ph«-
nixville. A number of the Marshal’s police were
detailed to arrest the parties, but most of them
were decoyed to Paulding’s Bridge, in an oppo
site direction from the spot selected for tho fight.
At ten minutos past two o’clock the pugilists
eutcred the ring. Bradley was dressed in rod,
white, blue and green, and Sloan’s dress was
striped with black.
After tho first round, several officers who were
present attempted to interfere, but wero driven off
by the crowd. On<he third round, Bradley drew
the first blood. The fight continued until the
eleventh round. The twelfth round “time” was
called, and Sloan not coming up to the
scratch, his competitor was declared the vic
tor. He was able to walk from the ground. Not
so with Sloan. He was carried, mangled and
bleeding from the eyes, mouth, nose and ears, by
lour men, placed in a vehicle und driven to town.
The tight lasted twenty one minutes, two seconds.
Among the spectators present wero quite a num
ber of females resident in the vioinity, who seem
ed to enjoy the brutal scene. There was but little
exhibition of science on either side, and the fancy
generally consider the affair a “ hog fight.”
New York, Doc. 2. —Four immigrant ships ar
rived yesterday with an aggregate of 1,624 pas
sengers. Throe of them report all well, but on
the Victoria, from London, which broughtßßß pas
sengers, there had been 60 deaths from cholera.
The immense clipper ship Great Republic is vi
sited daily by thousands. She is a huge craft, but
so well proportioned that she does not look so
large os sno really is. She has four masts, and in
every respect she is a beauty.
It is asserted hero that the notorious Gapt. Ryn
dors, the leader of tho Syracuse “slung shot” gang,
has been appointed asecret Mail Agent, with a sal
ary of fifteen hundred dollars, and travelling ex
penses.
The Effect In London of the Turkish War.
London, N0v.15,1858.— 70 the Editor of the Hew
York Herald The money market here is com
paratively easy, establishing the fact that tho fear
of war causes a more stringent money market than
actual war. True, none of the great Western Pow
ers are ns yet involved, nor is it likely thoy will
before Spring. You will see by Nesselrode’s late
despatch, that Russia will do everything in her
power to confine the war to the narrow limits of
tho provinces. Yet you must not come to the con
clusion that Knssia can entirely control the action
of Europe. For I know that the Porte has asked
Franco and England to guarantee the neutrality of
Austria, alleging that it takes a larger force to
guard the rear of Omar Pacha’s army from a sud
den attack of the Austrian army of observation,
than it would require to march to the heart of
Hungary. 1 also know that unless Austria with
draws her forces, or that England and France shall
guarantee her neutrality, that tho Porte had ad
vised her that he will declare war against her, and
that she cannot he regarded as neutral while she
has a large army on his frontier, which require an
equally strong force to watch.
We have advices that Kossuth’s agent was open
ly received at Constantinople, and that the Porte
made no secret of tho fact, that unless Austria
withdrew her armies from his frontier, or that En
gland and France shull accede to hia demand for a
guarantee of the neutrality of Austria, that Kos
autli will bo invited to Constantinople and placad
at the head of a strong division to march on Hun
gary.
Captain Porter, of the Golden Age, and Mr.
Howard, the agent and owner, are now in London,
and I understand that they have offers which will
probably result in their going to Constantinople.
Very respectfully,
Geo. N. Sanders.
Agricultural Convention.
In accordaueo with previous arrangement, the
annual meeting of the Agricultural Association of
the Planting or Slaveholding States assembled
yesterday', tu the Town Hall, at 10 o’clock:. m.
In the absence ofthe President, Col. A. G. Sum
mer wu> temporal ily called to the chair.
The Association proceeded to elect a vice-presi
dent, when the Hon. B. F. W. Allston was chosen,
and took the Chair as president pro tern.
Ur. N. B. Cloud, Secretary of the Association,
read the proceedings of tho last meeting held in
the State of Alabama, which were approved. The
Constitution was read.
In obedience to an invitation, seconded by some
spirited remarks from Col. Summer, a number of
gentlemen came forward and signed the Constitu
tion.
i A letter was read from John H, Newton, Esq.,
i Chairman of a Committee appointed at the last
assembly to take into consideration the propriety
of establishing means for Agricultural education,
regretting bis inability to be present, and express
ing earnest wishes lor the prosecution of the sug
gestion. On motion the subject was temporarily
laid aside.
A number of essays were announced as receiv
ed from several members, on various subjects of
moment to the planting and other interests, and
measures taken to secure addresses, <fce., during
the present session.
A number of specimens of cotton seeds, Ac.,
were distributed among the members.
The Association adjourned to half past 6 o’clock.
[Columbia Carolinian.
Natuhal Bridges.— We noticed recently in a
Northern exchange, an account of a Natural Bridge
in Kassachsetts, formed by the current of a stream;
we had previously thought the Natnral Bridge in
Virginia, the only one in the world of any magni
tude. It seems, however, that besides the Massa
chusetts Bridge, i: has a rival also in Marion
county, Alabama, which is thus described by the
Carrollton Republican:
“It is $0 feet long, 60 high, from $ to 12 wide,
and from to 4 feet thick—having an arch at
each end that cannot be surpassed by art. This
bridge is thrown across a deep chasm, both sides
of which are perpendicular rocks, extending np 60
feet from a dry bottom—no water below the
bridge. Tall trees grow under it, amid whoee
branches the adventurer will find himself in pass
ing over the bridge, and it may be crossed with
perfect safety.”
The Virginia bridge spanning Cedar Creek, is a
stupendous arch of limestone, over a chasm 515
feet deep, 50 feet wide at the base, and 90 at the
top. The bridge averages SO feet in width, and 55
in thickness.— <at. Rep.
Pbofertt is Atlanta.— We are indebted to the
courtesy of the City Tax Collector for the following '
exhibit of the Tax returns for 1658:
Beal Property, $1,062,642
Merchandise, 281,752
Slave Property, 849,910
Money and Solvent Notes, 284,554 ]
Other Taxable Property 46,797 ,
Total $2,025,455 1
InltUifmetr. 1
Bowen & McNamee, the silk merchants, have
actually bought the Broadway Theatre for S2BB, i
000, and having thus secured the front of the whole ,
block, from Anthony to Pearl streets, will build a t
superb palatial store that will throw Stewart’s la 1
the shade” C
WEEKLY
Cjjrmticlt & J&ntmei.
AUGUSTA. GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY HOMING, DEC’S 7,1853.
MONEY! MONEY!!
Our wants impose upon us the necessity of
soliciting all those indebted to us to remit the
amount promptly by mail. We are now making
out, and will send to each man his bill, as rap
idly as possible, and we trust that no one will
foil to send us the money by the first of January,
during which month we have heavy engagements
to meet, and our reliance is upon those indebted
to us. The price at which our paper is pub
lished is so low, that we cannot afford to give
long credits. We hope, therefore, that those in
debted will not only pay what they owe, but do
the handsome thing, by forwarding a years Sub
scription IN ADVANCE. Be CERTAIN, HOWEVER,
TO PAT ALL TOU OWE, AND PAY IT PROMPTLY.
Aa Augusta Make Engine.
It afforded us sincere pleasure yesterday to see
at the “ Acousta Machine Works,” a very hand
tome new Engine, of forty-five horse power,
which has just been completed for a gentleman ot
this oity, designed to propel a Saw Mill. In point
of finish, apparent strength, and, indeed, every
thing necesaary to render it durable : nd valuable,
it seems to us to equal any Engrae we havo ever
seen turned out from the Machine Shops of the
North. We note this success in Engine building
at theae works, with the more pleasure, from the
fact that we learn the Company are enabled to
turn them out here at prices decidedly lower than
are now paid for similar Engines at the shops of
the North. Thus saving the expense of transpor
tation, besides affording those who desire such
propelling agents, the opportunity of giving their
funds to our own Workshops and Mechanics.
This Engine, the “ Exceleior," may be seen at the
Company’s Shop for a few days.
MtUeJgevllle or Metropolitan Railroad.
Wi invite the attention of the public to the
advertisement in this day’s paper, announcing
that Books for subscription to the Stock of this
Koad, will be opened in this oity, Charleston, Ma
oon and Milledgeville, on the 12th of this month.
We iearn from the Southern Recorder that “the
survey ol this Koad has been completed. Mr-
Bonner, the Engineer, estimates the total cost ot
the Koad, from Warrenton to Macon, 71 miles, at
(1,500,000, and tho total cost, when properly
equipped, about (1,750,000. According to this
estimate, it will cost abont (20,000 per mile. It
should be borne in mind, however, that thil esti
mate is based on the present high rate of labor, os
well as the present high price of iron.”
“The Engineers report of the cost and probable
revenue of the Koad, is now in press, and will be
forwarded in a few days to the commissioners nam
ed in the advertisement above referred to.”
Tho necessity and importance of building this
Koad, or one connecting Angosta and Macon, has
been so thoroughly discussed and universally ac
knowledged by our citizens, that we deem any ar
gument in its favor now unneocesary.
The Beat of Government.
From a private letter, from a member of the
Legislature, dated Milledgoville, December Ist, we
make the following extract, in reference to the
Bill to remove the Seat of Government:
“ The Bill which was the special order for this
day iu the House of Representatives, was the re
moval of the Seat of Government; after consid
erable debate, the Bill was referred to the Finanoe
Committee, which Committee, I think, will report
unfavorable.”
We hope the Committeo will report unfavorably
to the removal, that the question may be permitted
to rest, and the Legislators devote their attention
to matters of more importance and in which the
people feel more interest.
Two yean ago we took decided ground against
the removal, and we havo heard no reason which
will now induce us to change that opinion. It is,
in our opinion, positive injustice to the people of
Milledgeville, and prejudicial to the value of their
property, that the question should continue to be
agitated by the Legislature.
F. C. Abus, we learn, has aocepted the appoint
ment of Chief-Engineer of the Savannah Rivor
Valley Railroad, and will commouce the experi
mental surveys early in January.
W e congratulate the Company on their success,
in procuring the services of an Engineer, bo effi
cient and accomplished as Mr. Abus. Give him
the means, and he has the energy and ability to
build a first class Road, with as great despatch as
any other. He has long been conspicuous for his
skill and efficiency on the Georgia Railroad, and
we regret the loss of his services to that Company.
Georgia Legislature. —The correspondent of the
Savannah Republican, under date Milledgeville,
Nov. 29, writes thus:
“ I have not troubled you with the thousand and
one local and private bills with which the desks of
the two Houses are literally loaded. I depart from
this rule to-day, however, for the purpose of giving
you aspeoimen of them. Yoßterduy, a Senator
introduced a bill, the caption of which runs thus :
1 A bill to be entitled an act to change the name
of Mary Dolly Doxy Ann Lewis to that of Mary
Dolly Doxy Ann Sapp.’ Scores of just such bills,
all except the name, are introduced almost every
day. Indeed, it is not going beyond tho mark to
say, that one-half, if not two thirds of the matter
brought before the Legislature thus far, is of this
character. What a saving of time and money there
would be, if a law were passed cutting off such
bills. Muoh of thiß local matter the county courts
are competent to attend to, yet members will per
sist in forcing it upon the Legislature, for the rca -
son perhaps that they must do something to dis
tinguish themselves, and can do nothing else.”
It is by such matter as thiß that the business of
general interest and grave importance is staved off,
until the last hours of the session, and then lost or
hurried through in a very imperfect and ill-diges
ted manner. It is by this means too, that the ses
sions are prolonged, and the hungry patriots are
enabled to pocket more of the public money. It
is a source of sincere regret, that there is not suffi
cient honesty or patriotism in the Legislature, to
Incorporate into the constitution a provision pro
hibiting any pay to members after the expiration
of forty or fifty days. Such a clause would relievo
the Legislature of all such trash, and secure to more
important measures a muoh more oareful conside
ration.
The Teaniaotions or the Medical Society of
the State or Georgia.— The Fourth Annual lie
port of the Transactions of the above society has
been on onr table for eome days, and it is a source
of great eatiefaction to ne to see the progress and
improvement made in its reports. Tho present re
port oontains 98 pages, 10 of which are taken np
by the proceedings of the society, and the remain
der (88 pagea) with reports from different gentle
men, on the various subjects assigned them, which
reflect great credit on them. It contains, also,
biographical sketches of the late Wm. B. Waring,
M.D., of Savannah, and the late Ambrose Baber,
M.U., of Macon, Ga.; together with the chaste and
scientific annual discourses on the subject of Medi
cine of the 18th and 19th Centuries, by Ur. J-
Harbib, M.U., of Augusta, Ga.
Southern Medical and Subsioal J ouhnal.— The
Ueeember number of this valuable Medical peri
odical ia promptly on onr table with its usual va
riety. This nnmbor closes the ninth volnme of the
new series of this work, and it affords ns no small
degree of plereare to learn from the Editor, that
it ia in a very flourishing condition. This is as it
should be; it is ably conducted and shonld be
liberally patronized—and we shonld be very muoh
pleased to see its a ready large list of subscribers
doubled during the next volume. It is edited by
Professor L. A. Bugas, and published by James
MoCaitxrtt, at $t per annum, in advance.
Romantic Incidents in the lives or the Queens
or Enoland, by J. P. Smith, Esq., author of
Stanfield Hall Ac. Garrett A Co., New York,
pp. 848.
Impressed with the idea, that the sketches of the
lives of the Queen’s of England, is more interest
ing than romance, the accomplished author has
entered upon the labor, and the volnme before us
is the first fruit, which contains the lives of
Elizabeth Woodville, wife of Edward the 4th; Elea
nora rtf Aquitaine, wife of Henry 2nd; Matilda of
Elandare, wife of William the Conqueror; and
Matilda AtheUnq, wife of Henry the Ist.
For sale by McKinne A Hall.
Tax Indians axe uroN ns I— Our quiet town was
almost startled out of ita propriety yesterday, by
the sadden and abrupt appearance of a small body
of “live Injuns,” who came dashing through the
streets on horseback, in all the ‘‘pomp and circum
stance" of paint, feathers, tomahawks, and other
barbarous appendages. They created great excite
ment for a little while, but retired without doing
any aerioue damage; and by reference to oar ad
vertising columns, it will be seen that they intend
giving a few of their strange and novel exhibitions
for a day or two. For particulars, see small bills
Extract of a letter dated Stewart county, Ga.
“At a place remarkable for rowdyism, called
Bombleton, in Stewart county, on the 12th No
vember, J. Mercer stabbed to death G. Lee, bis
brother-in-law. The parties were all drank.
Postal Arrangement in Connection with thx
Bremen Treaty. —We learn from the Washington
Star that the Postmaster General has received in
formation that Austria, with her dependancies has
consented to the poatal arrangement with Bremen,
and hereafter the whole of the Austrian empire is
to be included in the European continental ar
rangement to which the treaty applies.
A severe calx was prevailing on Lake Erie on
Wednesday. Serious consequences were feared.
A Treaty.— lt is said that Secretary Map-cy and
Mr. Crampton, British Minister, have formed a
new Treaty, allowing the general interchange of
products into British Provinces, and free nse of
fishing grounds.
The steamer Harry W. Hill, brought down to
New Orleane from Memphis on Thursday last,
4845 bales cotton. The Bulletin says thie is the
largest cargo ever received at that port, by one
boat, with one exception—the Autocrat in 1849.
General W. M. Blacmbobk, a prominent citizen
near Gallatin, Tenn., was thrown from bis horse
on tha 34th uIU, of which he died the next dsy.
Ha served with distinction in the Mexican war in
GAMMA'* regiment,
Important Treaty »Uh England.
lon, the usually well informed Washington
correspondent of the Baltimore Nun, says that a
treaty has been negotiated between England and
the United States, settling the Fishery and other
questions. He says:
The Treaty with England, in respect to the
Fisheries and Reciprocity, has been agreed npon
by Mr. Marcy and Mr. Crompton. The projeet was
sent to England in October last, and the approval
of the British Government is expected.
The treaty is of the most liberal and satisfacto
ry character. It concedes to the British ooloniea
all that they desire in return for the absolute free
dom of the Fisheries to the United States. It
gives a registry to oolonial vessels, and admits
them fully to oar coasting trade. It provides also
for the free interchange of ail agricultural pro
ducts, aud the free admission of our agricultural
implements into the colonies.
It is believed that All difficulties are overcome.
The prejudice of our protective* against the registry,
and the grant of the ooaatingtrade to oolonial ves
sels, was the chief obstacles. But the time has
come for the enlargement of onr commercial system.
There is no reason why navigation and commerce
should not be as free between the United States
anil the British Colonies aa between New York and
Pennsylvania. Give us tree trade, although this
commercial connection may bring about a political
connection.
Fink Poultry.— Our attention was called to a
very large and fine collection of Fanoy Poultry,
which passed through town on Wednesday morn
ing in charge of Combs & Co’s Express. The lot
embracod the following varieties: Cochin Chinas;
White Shanghais, Gray ditto, or Brahma Pootna,
Black Spanish Fowls, Gold and Silver Spangled
Ilamburgs, Sumatra aud other Game fowls, Hong
Kong, Chinese and Bremen Geese, Summer Duoke,
White Pintado or Guinea Fowls, die. Theae were
all neatly put up in separate coops, end attracted
much attention i'rom amateurs, some of whom,
however are of tho opinion, sinoethe Fair was held
here, that it is no longer necessary to send North
for the Quest specimens of domeatlo fowls, as this
olimate seems more favorable to their growth and
development. Tho present lot wan consigned to
B. S. W smut, Nashville, Tenn.
A Nkobo Tkhninb White. —A correspondent of
the Columbus Enquirer, writing from Walker
county, gives the following statement, peculiarly
interesting to physiologists:
“1 havo just seen, on the plantation where! am
at present stopping, a neqro woman who ia turning
white! 1 had heard of such persons before, but
they never were located in one place long at a time,
or if so, wore generally attached to some museum,
but had never, till now, suon one. This negro,
now and thon, turns as white as uny “pale faced’’
lady you ever saw, and that) she gradually turns
dart again, until she is as black as auy sable mu
latto beraboute or elsowhere.”
Remember this, Gentlemen !—Miss Leslie, who
has lately published a “Behavior Book,” gives this
delicate hint to her lady-readers. It may not be
entirely thrown away upon tho other sex. “If,”
says our Chesterfield in petticoats, “when about to
ascend the staifs, you find that a gentleman is go
ing up at the same time, draw baek and make a
sign for him to you. He will bow, and
pass on before you. Wbon coming down, do the
same, that the gentleman may descend in advance
of you. Avery polished man will not wait for a
signal from the lady, but wilt bow and run up
stairs, passing her as a thing of course.”
North Carolina Coal Gas. —Tho experiment
mado on Tuosday evening last, of lighting the vil
lage of Greenport, uear Williamsburg, N. Y., with
gas made solely from North Carolina coal, proved
highly successful. The retorts were charged eight
times iu twonty-four hours, while the best New
castle (England) coal will only poimit of six, giv
ing to the North Carolina coal the advantage of
two charges per day to one retort. A number of
gentlemen prosont, whose practical knowledge of
the subject gives some weight to their opinion,
pronounced it the best gas they had ever seen, to
which Mr. Baxter, the superintendent of the
works, adds that the North Carolina coal is the
best in the world for gas.
Roman Catholic Matters. —lt is stated that
there ore twenty-lour Catholic Churches iu New
York and its vicinity, and nine convents. At
eighteen of these churches the Euglisb language is
preached, flv< tho Gorman, and one the Frenoh.
Punishment of Pirates. —The New Bedford
Mercury publishes an extraotof a letter from the
commander of the United States ship Powhatan,
at Port Louis, Mauritius, in which it is stated that
the piratos who murdered tho officers and crew of
the american schooner Queen of the West, of
Dartmouth, Mass., wero confined at the Island of
Bourbon, having been taken from a Nos-Boli in a
French vessel of war, tried, and condemned to
hard labor for life, in chains.
A New Planet.— Mr. Hind, tho English astro
nomer, announces the discovery of a new planet in
tho constellation Taurus, about two degrees south
of tho Ecliptic. The discovery was made on Tues
day, November 8, at 7 h. 50 m. It is rather brighter
than the stars of the ninth magnitude. “This pla
met,” says Mr. Hind, “is tho ninth that I have dis
covered since the commencement of a syslomatio
search in 1846, and raises the number of that ex
traordinary group of worlds between Mars and Ju
piter to twenty-seven.”
Balances Du* to Government.— ln his forth
coming annual report of the Treasury Deparment,
Mr. Guthrie, it is said, will show that the uncol
lected balances due to Government on the Treasu
ry books on the 4th of March last exceeded one
hundred millions of dollars; of which amount over
tweuty millions have boen sinco secured, while
about eighty millions still remain unsettled. Or
ders have been issued to the accounting officers,
directing them to use strenuous measures to en
force settlement.
Steamships to the Sandwich Islands. —A com
pany has been organised at Sun Fraucisoo, with a
capital of ten millions of dollars, for the purpose
of establishing a line of Steamships thoncc to
China, via the Sandwich Islands. The Pacific
ocean bids fair to become a great field for enter
prise, in promoting communication by steam be
tween the Pacific ports, Australis and Asia.
Groat Britain will, in a few months, have a line of
steamers to run between Panama, Australia and
China.
The British Navy. —The present naval foroe of
Great Britain consists of 545 ships of war, (either
bnilding, inordinary, or in commission,) carrying
from 10 to 180 guns each. Also, 118 ships, do
ing harbor duty, and 50 revonue vessels for the
coast guard service. Os this number 180 are arm
ed steamers, from 200 to 800 horse power, (many
of them propelled by tho screw,) constructed on
tho most approved principles for active eervlce.
Clemens, Cobb and Foote.— The Charleston
Mercury concludes a notice of the election of U. 8.
Senators in Alabama, with the following thrust at
these three politicians:
“Poor Jerry Clemons! Poor Cobb! Poor Foote!
The three great Union savers of the South, all sent
to the dogs in a single year I It will be a theme of
mournfully indignant comment on the part of the
Castle Garden Committee and their organs, but we
have faith to believe that they have simply gone to
their own plaoe. If they saved the Union, let the
Union feed and clothe them. But for the Sonth,
stripped of her rights, dishonored and betrayed by
them and their like, it is not for her to be grateful
for such services. Let the section which took the
booty, pay the cost of the adventure.”
New York Business Matters. —Tho Journal of
Commerce says that those merchants who have
been following their legitimate business are very
easy in their finances, tho difficulty being almost
wholly with those who have been engaged in out
side speculations. The dry goods jobbers of New
York have been very fortunate in their collections,
and where one of them visits a commission bonze
or importer to borrow, a dozen go to anticipate the
maturity of thoir obligations.
What does Miss Leslie Tune I —We shonld
like to have the oandid and deliberate opinion
of the fair authoress of “The Behavior Book,”
on the point thus characteristically touehed npon
by the cver-suggeative editor of the New York
Sunday Mercury:
As to what shonld be the oonduct of Lentleinen
when a lady enters a crowded car, it must depend
upon circumstances (in a moasure) and our own
breeding. We shonld say that no elderly lady, or
a lady with a child in her arms, or one in that
condition which reminds you of Campbell, the
poet’s line about “coming events casting their sha
dows before,” shonld ever be suffered to stand np
one moment whilo yon arc seated. Perhaps vory
pretty girls ought to be content with sitting on
your knees, or one another’s, and then again, per
haps they ought not. For onr parts, no matter
whether woman be old or ugly, we cannot feel at
ease in suffering her to stand up in a railroad car
while we arc seated. Still, we are never in a hurry
in giving up our seat—we willingly wait to see
others evince their courtesy to and respect for the
gentler sex.
Progressing. —The large iron steamer, intended
for the Havre-de-Grace ferry, is now receiving her
powerful engines. The boilers are already in. The
upper deck is nearly laid. It is supported by rows
of pillars, from one end of the boat to tha other,
placed about 8 and 10 feet apart. This deck will
receive, we learn, three distinct rail tracks, upon
which the freight and baggage cars will be run,
thus saving the labor and time of transhipment
by piece-meal.
Popular Education.— The Washington corres
pondent of the New York Times, in giving the
statistics of ignorance in the United States, re
marks :
“ The most casual reader will not fail to observe
the striking disparity between the numbers of per
sons who neither read nor write in thoee States
respectively, where the Common School system
prevails and thoee which provide no such univer
sal privileges for their youth.
“ Massachusetts, for instance, with a population
of 994,504, has but 1861 native-born adulta who
are thus illiterate ; while Virginia, with a popula
tion less than one-half greater, shows 77,005 whites
in the same ignorant condition. Louisiana, with a
population of 255,491 whites, shows 21,221 natives
who do not read nor write, against only 80.670 in
New York, which has a white population of 8,048,-
325, nearly twelve times as great as that of Louisi
ana. Comparisons of this sort—however disagree
able to the States where education is limited in its
sphere—cannot iail to induce profitable reflection,
and stimulate to effort* for improvement.”
Council Blufts in Amies.— From a slip from the
office of the Bugle, published at Council Bluffs
Missiouri, we gather the particulars of the late
destructive fire Dy which so much of that young
city was laid in ashes:
The post office was saved almost entire. The
Bogle press, and job type of both Bugle and Guar
dian offices, the paper and cards and printer’s
stock generally, together with over half tne type,
were totally loet. The principal lovers by the fire
are Messrs. Stutsman <x McDonald SIO,OOO, Ms
son <fc Co. $5,000, Tootle & Jackson $16,000 B. B.
Fegram & Co. SIO,OOO, J. C. Mitchel $3,000 J. £.
Johnson, $20,000, McLaughlin & Co. $2,000, Bobt.
Hawk SB,OOO, J. K. Cook, Bluff House, SB,OOO, P.
Murphy ss,otjd.. .Not half the amount of goods and '
merchandise fn the burnt district was saved. The
buildings were aft of wood, and they burnt witn
great rapidity. This is a sad and severs lo» w
ourvoung city and fast-settling country. Many or
the buildings will be replaoed Immediately. •
■—■■in ■■■■■— ——
•oath Carolina—Governor’* Mr Mage.
T»a Legislature of thin Slate araembled In Co
lombia, on Monday, and on Tuesday Governor
Murana, delivered hie annual Message, which we
And in the Charleston papers of yesterday. It is a
plain, practical, well-written document, and pre
aenta a very favorable view of the affairs of the
State. We oopy flrom the Charleston Govntr the
following brief synopiais of the moat important
topics embraced in it:
We have perused, with much gratification, this
able State paper. It is well written and replete
with judioious recommendations and practical good
sense. It opeuß with an ingenions modesty,
graceful and becoming in a youthful Governor,
counselling the legislative wisdom of the State;
and we doubt not that the legislative body will im
press, on the statute book, or interweave, in the
policy of the State, many of the suggestions of their
constitutional adviser. The picture, given of our
agricultural suocess, progress and prospects, is
highly encouraging and yet wears the Bober liverv
of truth. Equally so ia that of our commerce, do
mesticand foreign, having our great and enriching
staples, cotton and rioe, for its basis, with railroad
connexions to bring to our wharves the treasures
ofthe West, and argosies to waft them across the
ocean, and make them and their returns the
elements of a prosperous foreign trade.
Our financial oonditiou ia shown to be in keep
ing and harmony with the general prosperity. The
Bank of the Btate, our well managed fiscal agont,
has earned 1880,000 the past year, exceeding, by
$81,594.98, the profits ofthe previous fiscal year';
ennabling our state to prosocute her varionsplans
of improvement, without a resort to oppressive or
even onerous taxation. Our funded debt is
$1,870,988.78 ; and the assets of the State, con
sisting as the assets of the Bank, over its liabilities,
$8,888,848.27, and of $842,200, in various Railroad
Stocks, amount to an aggregate of $6,175,542.27;
showing a urplus ot assets, over debts, in the large
figure of $8,804,856.11.
1 On the subject of the Blue Ridge Rail Road, his
Kxoellency displays a liberality, called for by tho
spirit of the times, and yet quite oonsißtent with a
wise economy. He warmly embraces the enter
prise aa the moat important, in view of its far
reaching and enriching western counexions, that
i aver demanded the aid of our State Treasury and
resources, and boldly r commends that our State
should nut it beyond the reach of contingency, by
’ subscribing for stock in it to tho amount of $750,-
ono. We trust that a like spirit will influence our
Legislators, and that the State will not hesitate to
1 emulate the example of her chief City, Charleston,
, which has already subscribed $1,049,000 to tho
enterprise. Now Is the time, nay the very hour, to
’ put forth all our energies and lavish our treasure,
in securing the western trade, or we shall bo dis
, tanoed in the race of competition by our sister
States, and sse tbs golden prize borne off, by other
and mere daring hands.
The great subject of education, the highest oai«
’ of an enlightened Stale, is treated with charaoter
[ istie liberality. Let ourStato College, our Military
1 Academies, our Medioal College, and our City 001,
, leys, all partake largely of the parent bounty of the
State. Our Free School system requires improvo
ment, and demands exactly those measures and
roforms, which his Exoellenoy so ahlv advocates
and urges. A Board of Education and a Commis
sioner of Public Instruction, or Superintendent of
1 Free or other public schools and colleges, are the
i very agency we need to place ub on an educational
> parallel with the most enlightened States of our
Union, and of tho world.
1 The recommendations, as to the change of loca
tion and the enlargement of our Lunatic Asylum,
, so as to give its unfortunate tenants the quiet, the
, scenery and tin range of the country, in lieu of the
noise, monotony and confinemeut of tho town, is
> the emanation at once of a benevolent hoart and an
i enlightened humanity.
Every one must acquiesce in the proposed sub
mission of our boundary controversy, with our
’ sister State, Georgia, to tho peaceful and constitu
tional arbitremont of tho Supreme Court of the
United Slates. The able argumeut of our Attorney
t General, I. W. Hayne, Esq., on the question, in
spires us with a perfect confidence in a favorable
decision, from that august tribunal.
1 So, too, a graceful concession, to the friendly od
l vances of Great Britain, on the subject of our lo
> gialation, in regard to oofored seamen, must com
mand the assent of all, who value either an unre
’ stricted commerce, or tho good will of foreign na
tions.
f *
f Yellow Fever,
f Wx regret tqperoeive that this soourgo still lin
gers in the otties and villages of the Southwest.
’ The Mobile Advertiser of Sunday the 27th No-
B vember, says: “The fever baa been gradually dy
-9 iDg out, and th* oity is now freer lrom it with ite
full population, than it has been at any time since
the commencement of the pestilence. To show
t that we speak advisedly upon this subject, we sub
r join the following data, taken from the offioial list
t of interments:
l Intsrmeuts far week ending Oct. 80, (lit week of frost)
yellow fever 9 Whole No. 29
Week ending Nov. 12, yellow fever 8 “ “ 20
“ “ “ 19, “ «• ....6 “ “ 17
1 « “ •• 27, “ “ ....4 •* “ 20
Showing * gradual decrease in fover since frost,
and a total mortality of 25 therefrom for the month
When it it considered that within that period
the population of the city has increased at leust
one-third, and that nearly all the absentees have
returned, these figures, ineluding those of lust
week, show a very moderate ratio of mortality.
Os the deaths in the last report, no loss than seven
are of children mostly under twelve yearß of age.
Take this number from the aggregate and wo have
but thirteen adults. We are informed by compe
tent authority that the deaths reported by yellow
fever occurred mostly without the city, and thut
there are now no caso under treatment within the
city limits. It has further been observed, that
among our citizens returned since frost, the fever
has not made any inroads. Under these circum
stances, we feel justified in saying to strangers and
our country frieuds, that they will now incur no
hazard from that source in visiting the oity.”
Y*u.ow Fever at Woouville, Miss. —The Wil
kinson Whig, of Saturday, Nov. 19th, says:
"Since our last publication, six new cases of
yellow fever have occurred in our town." The
Whig hopes that it may soon be enabled to re
cord the entire disappearance of the pestilence.
The same paper says that Wilkinson county has
been “ bereft of three physicians since the com
mencement of the yellow fever—Dr. Davis, who
died several weeks sinoe—Dr. Baldwin, last wock,
and Dr. Taylor, this week. All of them died with
the blaok vomit. In endeavoring to save the livoa
of othe'rs, they lost their own.”
Ths “ Moonshine ” I'aoivio Kailkoad. —The
American Kaiiroad Journal publishes a list of Di
rectors of the Paoifie Kaiiroad Company, chartered
by the State of Mow York, and says:
It will require very different timber from this to
build the Paoiflo road. There is not what may be
termed a first class name, in the wholo list, nor a
person calculated to command the confidence of
that olass of men who are to build the road. There
are on the other hand suoh asparkling of politi
oans and apeoulators as throw doubt over the real
intensions of the parties, and lead to the belief,
that they have a very different object than the one
set forth. At least one half of the directors must
step aside, before they can seoure the confidence of
the public, or the co-operation of capitalists. Suoh
being the fact, it mav be well to say so at once.
Under ths presont lead, the company will simply
mako themselves ridiculous, and be equally power
less before the country and Congress. No com
pany oan sucoecd in this work without the efficient
aid and support of both. The more this oompany
parade (themselves before the public, the sooner
will they be laid on the shelf. They do not even
constitute arespectablo vanguard of the army that
is to follow to fight the battle, will not follow their
lead, and will be indiffereut even, whether they
are found in the ranks; so that the Pacific Company
may make themselves as happy as possible over
the subject of a railroad to their road, for they will
have precious little work to do.
Alexander Dumas has written a letter to a Mend
in Mew York in whloh he says:
“ Find for me on the borders of the St. Law
rence, the Hudson, tho Delaware, or tho Ohio, a
corner where, surrounded by my chosen Mends, I
may spend my last days, and die in tranquility un
der the sun of liberty."
It is stated that M!. Dumas has already confided
several manuscript works to the bands of his
agent* who have established a publishing house
in Mew York, for the purpose of bringing them
out originally, and exclusively in Mow York. The
manuscript of his comedy, the “ Youth of Lonis
XIV.,” which was prohibited at the Theatre
Franoais, is in the hands of his agents.
The Koman Catholic Bishop of Buffalo has ad
dressed a letter to the trustoes of St. Louis Church,
Buffalo, threatening them with excommunication
if they persist in their refusal to put the church
property under his control. The Bishop says:
For, dearly beloved, though it will deeply grieve
us, yet our duty force ua to pronounce lenience of
mommunieation upon thou who retilt. With an
guish of heart we now warn you I Oh ! may
God grant to our tears and fervent prayers, your
return to theobedienoe of the children of God! to
the arms of your Bishop and Father in Christ, who
would cheerfully give his life for your salvation !
Beloved iu Christ, make onegenerous effort,and
your troubles will be over, and you will onsure a
lasting peace for yourselves, for your ohildren.
and for your children’s children. Your Bishop will
then appoint seven upright men of your congre
gation, who will administer for God’s worship the
offering which you freely give to God. Once or
twice a year they will give you an exact account
of the receipts and expenditures.
j Tu Bnuus Abasia left Mew York on Wednes
-1 dej, carrying (700,000 in specie.
t John Mitchsl. —ln speaking of Mitchel, the
r Baltimore American gives vent to expression which
r will find an answering echo in every heart that
\ has sympathised with Old Ireland under the gall*
ing yoke of Britain: “We have read with emo
tion the address of this man, exiled and imprison
-1 ed for the felony of opinion. We remember no
r scene, in ancient or modern story more striking
1 than when landing on American soil, he returns
1 bis thanks to God with as muoh fervency for bav
’ >ng granted him the sanctuary of Bepublican
1 freedom as if he had just escaped from the perils
1 of shipwreck. We see the arrival of the same man
■ in Mew York celebrated with acclamations, and
k hear with delight of his re-joining again the wife
and children of his affections, and of the fervent
blessings of an aged mother, upon a son whose
persecntion and sufferings belong rather to an age
of intolerance, than to one of enlightened free-
dom.
Instxavcs Fbomitnim.— Th« Athens Herald,
’ says, that at the weekly meeting of the Sonthern
Mutual Inauranoe Company, on Friday last, no
tice was received of the death of Mr. .8. G.
Guerard of Savannah, whose life was insured,
in favor of his wife, lor the sum of SSOOO. The
Treasurer was authorized to pay this loss immedi
ately, and before the Bank was closed, a check for
this amount was obtained, and the same day for
warded to Savannah to be paid to the widow of tlie
deceased.
Only three annual payments bad been made,
amounting in all to $408,45; and for this the sur
viving family reoeived SSOOO.
Pcncnas* oi U. S. Brocas.-The Washington
Union publishes the annexed official notice from
the Secretary of the Treasury, extending the time
allowed for the purobaae of V. B. Stocks:
Tauiuar Diriarsiar, Dec. 1, 1858.—*The time
limited br tbeimdMTOeationed notices of this de
of the 80th“ul7 and 82d August last, for
sh. n o reh«« of swots of the United States, is
hereijTMtanded to the Ist of January neat, but
be observed that, in addition to the canal
•ulocment. the holder must distinctly sasign the
interest on the same now made upon the treasury,
nr transmit the semi-annual coupons, as the case
be- In default of this latter aesighment or
transmission, the premium and one day’s interest,
(leas interest from time of redemption to Ist Janu
ary) only will be paid.
To afford an opportunity to distant holders to
avail of this notice, the department will oonslder
stocks mailed at any time prior to the said Ist
January as entitled to its benefits.
Presldei.l*- Message.
Th* following r-.yiiop* ■ presidents Mss-
Bags, has been telegraphs l to the Charleston
Standard:
Mofeagc it b-iefer than usual,
„ tteT; 1 • fc r " c P'« ‘-id down by Mr.
stand-by 1 them. “ ntl
uJJvL 14 ! 888 ? 0 w 1 B ‘.'° w tha ‘ °' lr relation With
Mexico are °f a j> icetul and |.p mising character.
The Guano dime Ity with tU- Chinch* Island*
has been definitely and satisfactorily adjusted by
1 ««• The lmpo auce of opoi ng tho Amazon
will be discustod i id tho admin! trution arc mak
ing Rtrenuons cllnts to a.: n oplish it. The
Fishery Question s unsettle... Negotiations are
in progress.
The attention of Cougrcss * ",1 be called to the
importance of a. More aocurn definition of the
boundary betweci the Unite' States and the
English possessior a in the Noilh-'cet.
Tno juetico of the Spanish o 'i a for indemnity
in the oaso of the p dioonor Arm .end is conceded,
but animadverts iKng.j uuu c ere.y upon the
oouduct of the Spa iißh aufhorit towards Ameri
can citizens in' Übod, und intim ites that it must
be immediately stopped.
In regard to the subject ol Slavery, tho Prcsi
dont re affirms, it tho broadest terms, the Com
promise and Unio doctrines sol forth in bio In
augural, with decked emphasis.
The rights of the Southern Slates arc as clear to
tho President as those or New Hampshire.
Tho Message will urgo upon Congress the pro
priety of reducing the duties on eortain articles,
and addition otheri. to tho froo list, in order to ro
dnoe the revenue t oabout fifteen millions les* titan
tho present amount annuully collected.
A large increase is recommended in tho Navy,
and modifications in the Army.
The extension o< the Land system is also recom
mended, with som. modifications. Over Utah and
New Mexieo, modifications also.
Our Laud system in favor of actual settlors and
ita extension, is recommended w th the pre-emp
tion principles.
Important amendments to our Patent laws;
changes in the J u iioial system: probably tho re
duction of tho Judges of tho Supremo Court, as
vacancies occur, to five tnembors only, and relieve
them entirely from Cirouit du 1 cs, aud appoint
Circuit Judges, independent if the Supreme
Court, will bo suggested.
No appropriation for Internal Improvement* ia
reoommended, md tbo reason 1 given for with
holding tho fund-, based upon tho injustice, irregu
larity and ineffic cucy ot the presi it system, which
is inadequate to toot tho demand ofeoinmeroo, or
afford necessarj protection to human life and
property. Tho question is urgod nt length, and it
is suggested that Congress empower States to levy
tonnage duties fi r the purpose o; raising funds for
works necossary o commorco.
Tbo messaged, countenances i..iy appropriation
by the Qenorul ( overnment for building tho Pa
cific Railroad; si d objects even to appropriation
of alternate socticits of land, except under circum
stances suilioicif'o induce judicious individual
proprietors to me ; similar disposition of his land.
The poworof ( grots, under certain contingen
cies, to construe' Military Roads for purposes of
common defence s admitted, but at present the
President is clou: that tho common aefouoe does
not demand such an uudoitukiug as tho construc
tion ofthe Pacific Railroad.
On our lorcigt ; icy, pertaining to tho aug
mentation of torri ory, tlio sentiments of tho Pre
sident are boldly progressive, and they sustain the
Young America Monroe Doctrine.
Madlieu Romaic College. ‘
It affords us sit. ero pleasure t invito tho atten
tion of those wl.. have duugl ors or wards to
educato to the .dvo: tisomont auupiinoing the
oponingof the 8p ug term of tb s institution.
Situated in one of tbo most delightful villages
ni tho interior, in ho midst of u community as cul
tivated as conrtooi ■ and hospitable, und boiug un
der the managemt at of a Facu tty combining mneh
experience witli g’ jat skill in heir vocation, this
College prosonts sigh claims to public patronage,
andwearomuoh grutifiod to icurn that it is in a
flourishing condition.
Bonk ol Augusta.
The following t.umod gentlemen wuro elected
Directors of tho Bank of August.t, for tliu ensuing
year, on tho part >f tho individual Stockholders,
on Monday last, v z:
R. F. Pox, John Davison,
John Bones, M. Wilkinson,
Jakes Harper, Henry Moore,
R. A. Reid, J. A. Moore,
W*. Shear, Jas. W. Davies.
State Directors:
E. Starnes, Geo. T. Jaoxson.
At a mooting rftho Board, on Tuoaday, John
Bones was unanimously dec od President of tho
aamo, vice R. F. Poe, who dec' nod a re-election.
The Board also adopted urn. imously the follow
ing Resolutions:
Resolved, That n parting with our lute Presi
dent Robt. F. Po , *o feel it o n-duty to oxpress
our approbation c: islong and i.iilhfulservices in
the discharge of tl i duties of th it office.
Resolved further, Chat wo aro plottsed still to have
his co operation and advice aa me of our Board,
and that whothor ho continue 1 - remain with ns
or retire from the Bank, ho si all have onr best
wishes for his happiuoss and nr. iperity.
Putnam’s Monthly Maoazim for Decnmbur, a
very interesting Number, ltn. eon laid on onr
table by Geo. A. Oates & Brothers.
Tho prosent Number conclude! the second Vol
ume of this vnluablo periodic.). Os tho forth
coming volume, whßh common, sin Junuary, tho
i Publisher speaks .n ‘bo followit . manner:
The literary resources of our Innthly, now so
ample, will, in the coming year, be increased and
elevated by all inducements in our power. With
all its prosont general features, it is intended that
the Mugazino Bhal! have now and > cried attractions
for all classes of our wide circlo of readers. Euoh
number will contain onoor moro entertaining and
instructive papers, illustrated fr«m original de
signs, when such illustrations cun add anything to
the value or interest of the text. I’opulsr informa
tion on matters connected with practical scionce,
and the useful arts and manufactures, will form a
Bpoeial feature.
A new and popular account ol the public and
private lifo of Washington, bj one of our best
writers, illustrated by the graphic pencil of Darley,
will bo commenced in tho January rtumbor.
It Is superfluous to repeat that "Putnam’s
Monthly” is not a partisan or sottnrian organ, and
never hus boon so. With tho particular measures
of Party, und übovonll, with the private aims and
motivos of parties, wo not ouly v if not, but cannot
have anything to do. Inclination and policy alike
forbid it. But on the other band no fenr of mis
representation or abuse will deter us from untra
melled investigation of any matter wltioh may bo
deemed worthy c: public attention. Whether this
be done in a candid, honest und impartial manner,
or the contrary, onr rontlers must judge.
Thumb.— Subscribers remitting $3 promptly in
advance, will reccivo the work for ono year,
paid, in any part of the United States, within 8000
miles.
Georgia lUilr >ad Stook.— Thirty-four shares
of this Stook wero sold at auction, yesterday, a,
$lO4 per sharo.
Fire.—A Fire occurred on f today night, be
tween 7 and 8 o’clock, in a small ouilding belong
ing to Mary Brown, at the lowor end of Greene
Streot, which v: > entlroly consumed. As the
houso was undergoing ropairsund not occupied, it
is presumed to lie i 'to work of nn iuocudiary. W»
did uot learn thut '.ere was any immranoo.
Louisiana Conpressmen. —The lute election in
Louisiana resulted in the success of tho following
gentlomon, Dunbar, Perkins and Jones, Demo
crats, and Hunt, 'V! ,g.
Navioation ov inn La I’lata.—lt appears that
the Paraguay trad ng Company Ims met with no
thing but difflcnl ! cs and dlsarmt all tho way
through. Mr. II oki.ts, tho Cc.aul at Paraguay,
after ropeated am’ almost insurr oariteble objec
tions, finally left L’ lonot. Ayros ( i the Bdof Sep
tember,for Assrnr tion. Tho Buenos Ayroun Go
vernment gave him a steamer to ascend the river,
but our merchants md authorities thore, going on
tho law of Nation!, compelled bit >to douse bis
Consular flag. N > way daunted, Mr. Hopkins
chartered another learner and proceeded ou his
way, and will bo th j pioneer of tho greatest of our
American project.!.
In reference to the above, the N, Y. Express
says:
“ We have only one question to ask,—what is
the use of treaties opening tho Plato, whon an
Amerioau Company, through the jealousy of in
terested parties at ..uonos Ayres ia absolutely pre
vented from enjoy! ig tho intended advantages of
these treaties V
Yellow Fkvek in Woodville, Miss. —The
Woodville Whig, of tho 26th ult.,says :
Since our last isruo, a greater number of cases
of yellow fover hav occurred in our town than
there has been for the past three weeks. Wo will
now say that the fee er lias become epidemic in our
midst, and, therefore, would a<’ vise llioso who are
absent from here to continue themselves where
they aro a while longer, nnt ! there is another
change in the wcrlhcr, and w - have a few more
frosts.
Three weeks since, vo said ti > health of Wood
ville was restored, dso thought everybody, as
only one case of y >w fever hud occurred that
week, and wo invit •, tho absentees to return to*
their long closed h< ues. Tho ; hysicians them
selves thought it sal , and proved it by bringing
their families into to; m. About Mlecn or twenty
families did likewise. But men c nnot peer into
the future. The week after this, It u cases amount
ed to seven, and the next wee. to six, and this
week the number is twenty.
The Secretary of the Kelief Association, in hi*
report, dated 25th nit., says :
Since my report of tne 18tb im , twenty addi
tional cases of yellow fever have occurred in
Woodville, and one neath. tVhh one exception,
all the oases now utdor treatment ire doing well,
and the disease seems quite as c isgcsble ss at
any former period oft! « epidemic
The Fevek at Pii..BVmort.-»t .he Sliroveport
Democrat, of the 24th nit., says:
The epidemic is ts l hero, but .n a mitigated
form. We heard cl throe now cases yesterday,
and unless there is a change in the weather, it is
possible that other eases may still occur. The
whole number of deaths in Shreveport from the
2d of September to date is one hundred and sixty
five.
This Whathdu—The Albany, (Goo.) Conner, of
the Brd instant, says:
We are in the wintor season, with the most
pleasant spring weather. Vegetation of all kinds
living and growing. Cotton in bloom, iomatoos
and Garden Peas maturing daily. If or two or three
days cast, clouds seemed to indicate raia; bulthgy
have disappeared, and witli a clear sky and warm
weather, onr plautcra are gathering their abundant
crops of cotton, &c.
An Ethiopian lluji* u.ka. —A uc,;ro in Peters
burg, Va., took up and “toted” on Ilia ahonWer a
hogshead of tobaoco, from the depot to (lie Centre
Warehouse. It weighed 885 pound*. Ihe South
side Democrat says this ia a fact.
So great is tho demand (or ailvcr coin in Eng
iand that the Britisu Mint boa been delivering
florins to tbo public, tl rough the Bank at tho rate
of a ton, or 73,820 pieces per day for tho Ist lliree
weeks. a
The net amount subject to tho draft of the
Treasurer of the Un ted Staten, on the 28th ult.,
was $24,481,356.65.
Taylor and Wilson, convicted of murder at
Staunton, Va., bavo >een sentenced to be hung oa
the 6th of January.
Twenty-three thorsand and seventeen persons
came passengers in t. o three hundred and tVirteen
vessels which arrive at New York, froip foreign
porta, during the n or.lli of November- In ad
dition, we learn that four thousand (bar hundred
and fifteen person am 'ed tinea tbedOth nit.