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iiy WILLIAM S. JONES.
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CHRONICLE
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fur a !»*(>«r < ' • C i. r:V • to *cn«l tl to la*; in eurte ,
way. Yoa wit a ••* m.* i > *■ >J that you ought to lane ,
aVa rVuwl'liiio* •ogJ- t *rt! ‘yuufThat smaller
do **B a !<1 l 4 *r-. j i *itiy r puH, r-ouwl answer a better
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reifuUtm .» m. : . i,y1,1;.. vn.:i;.ftn«nco.
V-/. ;. , ■!!>, ><>urs, Cilia. J. MaDOKALD.
PArA' .» u H-'.’l.i** 00. A.ij'n*'»,Oa.; IUVILAND,
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SI,OOO 3KV7ARD.
I-tH-H 1 v > ::i-h. -.lebi-ai. i .A-KOiflC.lor thecnr. !
|7 of i, .v.-j in.:a f Strirtare«, Gleet and AnalagoasOom- ;
Os ai.rc .. yet Lscoveredfor theabovecoin- j
plaint,th.t jj -.he mostcorlalii. ... j
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It fiction to !iet,: ,<*,< :/• ue,or* :. :-.nffe of application I
of.t might be |
■ otllea, with full directions accom*
any ing It, :><> ti h r~ iascan *:ur«i htinselvesvUboutre-
T; ;
r*T *t ii approved arid reoommended t*/the Royal
off£l! 1 hyalclarit. u" of Mndon and ha.
glr o- rtlßca r.rlo.H. Q
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Ordarafgaoth • r,v.rlr*piw>i;>tl!r»i*in.'-!•«.. Je»
FTJj’.K JETUHO COTTON FEUD
AFKIV H(«h ®f r*!»:.-i J. ti.ro Coit.,n HK D for
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■ack • K i.-rtht-C 'x an b<* kk'.-nai •ur ■ .i ce.
JanV n-. -r ~ a, IK.SAO, at A> *U».
IMP3ET4N!’ TO PIANTEES.
rr.|||.; , , i r ..-y (lil-hiunml •»"*>?, 0».) coo-
L linn .. 11... .nf.-t n WOOI.KN ObOTU, Far Negro
Clothing,,' IJ:, t„ |„ rynrJ-U..e, .g every mate, ill
o..e*. •'• ' 1 | »*Y r.
HKvmo' ii/.■.■*>, In A.i nowith fintroctiomaa to tho
amo'int •■* I■n ti 1 whether heavy or light.
irthev ,-,1 lio Il;r .. i.-nt a OkUl |«-r yatd will In.
charge 1 r a: •• r. It-x • .ie r„t cf.j-tlonablo, ns a
Negr°o,or-. -r .. • n• A* home. >
by'th lin i-ine. *
yeniei. . -.:u the n-«n- of t ‘»e owner distinctly tnnrked i.n
tho b «;• or Itufj, ttiut . . ' •• i»a*roaa of tM i triuJianment
Wool »* i I-; h’iv .: t I’ ie3 of U ilron 1, In Georgia,or
Pouth o. :oa, or »>y .-it cam boat on the tliver, directed to
RichmoMl Vi ■ , * no. fr* «*an:os, M;/ *.i'h t Co., will
m **t * • .« , . dfh. I', .'it will alivayn have hla
own m tii if i ro I info Cloth and returned to hi.n.
TiJK LJLU-;' r OA-'ii : will be \> ml f >r WOOL.
V. ILL! AM - CIU : V, President It. Factory.
A l>ril ‘ apßd«w4m
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A >' W Yr ;k, Wl.i 'li
»rt* wan ir.*c! u. ••. • to be i;t least folly equal to
my.IV. ..* i u this country or Lurope.
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Ihe a-.nu a.ti.rers ioruile et very low prices for cash or
iftty aceci ;.uises, *.t 61 •). A. O/'iliS A 00.*3
my 18 i t:>o, Rook si. «-aunie Depot,Broad-st
IH WOW la' VlMtv u..v .• y and romi»l*.tc
•took. * t‘d,OIL9,GI«AJ < 3,
PFKKUV R/, I ■l’ .1* • vr lF*iL and FANCY
ASTICLI • ! if *!eot«fi u : enon with tho
freat•«’ * . .( *<• f ■ :«r.i anJ 'lanttfr.cto
rl.sl ltMa.-uui i.-.a . h. t.j- oM.a»itv and cheapness
taunot .e oxo d d. *1 tri» ! ’yluTde the at
tention of ’ ; :i, ?■-.tutors aid ?hy«lei/u!s U Us
StlH-k.
Allortfen will he e JaJ-*d v.feli tee utnu m ncvtoces
.
osa: ? or.' 'j r -s.-n ren hedgutg.
TIIW ■ *•; iv. t \vl*i . i* f r sals, dnrlug tho
K.vr , he’ c Agricultural 8oclely”
twi.n r\ i ■ c \ <oy/ki! »b oHanoiplanw,
of from o*u»' -m* trorrth, rultf V’e for setting out
th 'eomU.? Vail. •». v• ■, *-;5 one loot apart In the |
hedge-row, a.*** • tu *•••• *»n 1 . **. and permanent
hr i ;-*, tr' . • • •■•-ro, *" ? •* i J 1 ;r«. /-’.iMpiiietS, tie
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• apply i:> • • " . . U. UEi>MONI),
THE Oli'CA:' • • ; V IM GFORGIA.
rpfii* .• •, mliiv '.A r.tlyon hand a
1m r.mv.'.l * ! * u .mef' t UODUC.;
of a*l su-.h .. ' COHN, FLOUR,
O Vl'A, * . U‘, '/.I 1 : :i C > 3 ‘ ‘-Li) OAI9,
nowin ««<*re *n U v '•r ! " ■ . juY.i. . sackolncluded.
AUordavd, aO3-,* .-d m' .-.jh or r.-.fsfaclcry ref--
MttiM.w bepro to, ABBOTT *OO.
AUbal t,b.h. ' -wly
Tl K .Vv': '’ j. s \v—K*l.A\» «i!nok ASa
80S, • ■ ■ r- i i.r ', g-U..1 Citing li U|> with in- j
«r»w.UViiitt--«. i •,• miiii iiii; 'n, so Mt.aObrd .-very
oomfoitto ■ i ivr ’• i »<1 Citiaens. I’he very strijt
e#Pa»< u: O X hi’i tVA'.jiaea in th - 'neighbor
hoad.w.h b- : l : .-ecurng ronvevanew. The
Vill ig ' i '• u •’*. -v.-Ary >* tvr-.m Ua!-*y healthy ,
an 1 affo * ,• i . • i > y f g-. atica rnitloence..
In ill lii -»th ieiiultt er ate, the U. S. Hracoh Mint
will give p c . u ml lat oa i * such as never had tho
°* No lib or :> ii is will be |*<rod to »<ve aaUsfaction to
reylo .„,
WANTED.
\T «h- A!• "1 "'ll. Mill.,liltv r 'wer Loom WKAV
. BRA.A-.-U. . ."•» orn-ur or awe OP*-
tVTIVIg. .1-h. I 111 "Hil. Ki -:ory, of th.- Mi|>erin-
»t tl.--"i.. . , Broiwl-strcct. j\lb w:f
1,000. KKABICATO3. 1,000.
flAllls .-tu pr. ..• i;-..ii for tlu- care of Rheum.
1 i. • ' I itier I*. .. .. , I', -..ri1l 'yJ. K.
MARkllAl.:, ■ for s iU- . Ua\il.il-.ti, Kisiey A Io , M.
01.r'.,- ; W. H. A J. Turpin, I>. B. riamb A C».
N. U <>ne h 0,;.... - . ,-iu e, .--mhe giv.n m this eity
apr ~r ->t i:. ..ty overiu;; other remedy now in
t,e. V* -ti"l l-c without it.
tl.rsi... !'s Ring. 0 1,1 .nU Totter WASH, nl.e fl>r rule
by W. I t J it i.IMN, lI.wn.AND, R.ISLFY A CO.,
M. OLA IKK A CO., ».... -."..CMBdCO. nlh wly
VBENCH BORE MILS. STONE MVNOFACTOR'S,
OOUNt'R BROAD AN:', CUMSAI MVSTRkbTA,
Atlit .Ti, M*.
lAIIH -i. tl-ipnill it : .A. »tfu« oecArwn to inform
. h»s nit pee-.tt. frietiUs the n-übitu generally, that
ke has
per.enc *t h. ;ulv «|i; ii*d a worm;an.and P.attersbtm
tnrerin tbvi n : u*d s *t s. IU- h.. 0 -.'-.t-s to apprise the
iiterim : pu»’Mht t aii orders w * which he may
hefavk-i ," - -v i*. .•- •',■•• • . pr.** lutcxa- |
tatlo'i V i u*-pi ch. A*- .r wftm-a 1-iiH -.n ee is re- ]
l|>e *Ve V?U** lA I ' RIOK ’ • iCC£ * j
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th%t l a . ira. ‘.r.y 1 ~-r.r. »Uca con. creinc him w.U
bo unyrcv .VA Ad ireas W. F. 01:N Y,
iy*o if ls'uLvdh , Ga.__
SIOO EWAED
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r ; > t «.1 . ,r:i Win be pild for
MACHINE WOMB
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of ti ii »v* • V -n ? • *•• Fr. ,:i C \iis<-‘or the con-
Strn. 'i of • ' ' pass* '?» \•. —s‘*r aiv?.atnpos. All
orddr* fjr nc v, or the of e- ■ work, promptly at
tended »• li. t. iMirb,Rapvr;nieuient.
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DLRS.p, MtL'u- ft- \f - bOILUtS.auU aHbrUcin
In the.r i„ ,1 it, the -talc
They .re i-r. - te*t ttotiee tb« her
kltUs ,j I. ~ f . ,g. .- nut MA
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new onna^dindiawßttbbeTSteam packing HOBV. end Me
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Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel.
FOR SALE.
ALAEAKA LAMM FOB £AIE
iUi>: Asell co., A a., June 80,1954.
DKA.II hIII: Weß.ie at tU» time* the prospect of
crop* in N*-« AldDtna, an i a yrowl g and
ttWi jo iat n *t.h a rut cf about
I out! to the lui port *f Fr -.e .hoois—two or more in
I vr Mpt T ughoutth* U r The ofon
can’t fell to
’' r i t ’ r. u ~,. -’ - rtev*. We hare r» 1-
i '“ g (? . vn j p-ji.
’ , . uj i « ;o;:*.*g: o cha aci r and no people on
j . fc -,-. * tL'-r-: ■ rovemeotc unt-y in ahi ithy cli
j ‘‘ i- , r,- n< a-C iiginr ca. Get , ;tnda few of the
t a V • j* tes :n Alabama, 1c- nai.ertr.c garden sp t
, ‘‘‘ .| j je- Jto * epic .«ed i.) ite you toceted here,
• a'act r Mr. Knight give*
! " ‘ * V i-on ha -d t .ree eeuiementsof Lane, now In
r . * | c uef • They aie my own properly,
re, andean teadd ’o c.rn of that
. r in money, ilieangettbo mo ey annually.
.a" i. -• on worth of prop rt> to tell to Utat way, and
. .*3 • a I-an -an-., ran be h«d from n.e. We bare
| .np hruken red .ami, Wei improved, worth frcis4to|lU
I -ere; we haTe »'• ft grey land, lies well, free of rock,
i '■( m « n from ti to6bop’*u'.d» ofcotton and 15 bashtlj
. vrn per a re, wellixprw.ed—sorUifccm 6to *l2 p r
J, r• 'V <i laud, of ijocrd quality, can be Lad at from 3
! ra .e. i have a quantity of 3d qiality land,
j . V imp.o.etl a:.c uuiinr r've'! bi a>*!i, at from 3to sl.v&
1 . ,cr-. ۥ r i or., j d ai: who w.*h to by. Tel: your
•,< r at J ..i.» i u »e».irig iand la vearn «t the
:p; ; < e where i nswi ve, and ha *<c »old land to the value
| fb ,*-,« *id, .«n*i have ac»: tu . able quantity >-t cnaoid,
j •./, . .r.d iviinoa'. icaprovemente; and I wiah to close
. . .t ; > - twII ix cto hear from jou soon, and
*.*. jou when you come Bomb, as expressed in jour laot.
I u , wttr.respect your obedient servant,
WILLIAM H.MATNOR.
T .-hurley It V.hnUey.
A Vi LliAEli FARM To B : EOLD AT ADjliN
-1 lg.tfl.lX* balk.
1 ' KOltliiA. ( IHTTOOIi t t OIM V.—Ry virtue
\ I t { a;, or . r - f t'; j Lo.uora le Court cf Ordinary of s .id
, rj’ . - v; ibe ; IJ, .e'ore t' e CfgUrt-hou.>e door at r-usa
lier v on tLt Ii ti Tu*j.-lay in OulcidKlt uext, the lauds
• * n/;n'g to the eltatjo/ Joiin K. Mocre, rieceased. Haid
j >nownas Oak by, situated eight miles idowiuji
! : ; v ii »•, oa the AU.-.u* consisting c-f a^out two
! .uinireu or twohuadre l and fifty acres of ilivcr Land, and
i between three or four hundred rweres of firstquality of
I. , lan \ all well f^tr*** 1 to farming pnipows.
I boutoae buodre acres open, fresh and well enclosed,
I oui.d.ugs ail good, dwelling house Urge and well construct
har.ng ten rouros, wel lioisbed, improvementa all new,
good water au J healthy location, and in as line a nelgh-
I b rhoed as there t» m tpp r Ueurgia.
Orfkiry is sFnared Immed-ate y on the line cf Railroad
! £■- uAt veyed from Ringgold to U id&uen, Ala., and within
| two m'les of the contemplated lialtOD and Gadsden Rail
roatkand is ftoout, twenty miles fioin Some Ga, In t .«
eadilful vailey of Chattooga, 4n 1 on the river of the same
name. The utti*! is we 1 adapted to the growth of Cotton,
j Corn and Graces Persona (iesiring funner information,
:-n a *ply to W. K. Moore, at Dal on, personally or by let
| r, or to John Jl. Moore, outlie premses. Terms, cne
; j.', ■..*. (isb, the balance in teasonable instalments.
JANE M'JURL, Adm'x.
aui-wtui
FOrt SAXE.
rpHK ; riher offers fir sale the tract of LAND
Jl on whi ;h - se hundred Ti~
i acres, more or lc?», lying two miles east of Warrenton, ou
..ng from Warrencon to Augusta.—
1 There are upon the tract about six hundred acre* of heavfly
tiuiheied pne Land,one hundred and fifty or two hundred
I acres of valuable swamp Lana, the Urgeit portion of which
i t, s been cleared and drained, and in now in cultivation.
: Near the centre of the tract, as well as the |»lani ation. is
i the Dwelling, wh ch is very large and commodious, situa
j ted Immediately upon the public road. Attached to the
, j*i-. rr.i nan excellent Kitchen and Smoke-house, new
stable and Corn efib, both framed, and all other buildings
j n»- ,-., ft aiy for a farm In tho yard, between the kitchen
j and dwcl ing, and convenient to both, is a well of good,
! put••.■wat< r. Ihe place has the character of being exceed
i p.gly healthy. Any person desirous of purchasing, wLI
always find the subscriber or his overseer upon the prem
! wh i will show the land. MADISON D. CODY.
• 1- M. ap!9 w6m
FOK SALE.
I jy LA HGF and convenient BIUCK STORE, situated
lin the centre of business,in the city of Rome, now
; occupied by Robt Batty, Druggist. This store war fitted
j up its a Drug Store, withoutregard to any reasonable ex
pense,and with a little alteration could be convertedinto
an elegantly arranged Dry GoodaStore. Thesituatlon for
thesale of Drugs, Dry Goods,or Groceries can hardly be
equalled in thecity. fermseauy. Apply to
GEORGE BATTY,M.D.
Rome, April 4th, 1858. apr6-tf
FOK SALE*
i!WOW OKFKIt for sale my entire River PLANTA
TION, 28 or 8<» miles south of Columbus, Ua ,in Bar
bour»ountjy, Ala flying on the Chattahoochee river, con
taining 2400 Acres ; some 1200 acres in a fine state ofcul
tiv.it ion and cood repair. A good water Gin and Ferry
Heron;, the Chattuhi ocliee river. The above will Le for
H'd •• at any time until old and possession riven. Termsto
suit purchasers. Ja2l ts MATHEW AVIRETTE.
LAND FOB SALS.
• IMiL subscriber < T.ra for bale the tract of LAND
A whereon he resides, contaiuing 1018 acres, more or
1* bh, »yiu£7 miles west of War ronton, on the road to Pow
elt iri. L ug creek runs through it and makes about 10U
acres of Swamp Land, a part of which has been r rained
and in cu ti vat ion. There is a good Mill site on the creek,
and stone nough near at hand to make the d;m. The
Lands on Lon* creek are thought to be hb good for the
pr* daction of cot'on as any in Middle Georgia. I can be
found « n the premises at any time. My p’ace is as healthy
;.n any in the country, and the best plantation I
n* .. of My reason for wishing to sell, is on account of
bail h-a th, and I wish to change climate, Ac.
je2d JOHN M. HALL.
LINCOLN COUNTY LAND FOB SALE.
DKHfllOL’feofc metntratin my farming interest,rtfih
I r f»r sals all my LAND* in Linco<n
con r i tm ; ; f three tracis. One tract lies on the Washington
road, tin . e miles above Uaysvilie, and contains COO acres,
more r less, a considerable porMon of the cleared laud is
fresh, aid in a fine state of cultivation; there ii a large
proportion of good wood land, the buildings a* e g*.»od, two
sto.y dwell ng, framed negro houses, barn, gin house and
screw, good orchard, and awelltf the best water. This
pi ice would be very desirable lor a good Physician, who
wou d like to do a snug business farming and practising
medicine, as there Is now an opening for a Physician in
this neighborhood. Another tract on Lloyd’s Creek, two
miles fr.*m the Walker Mills, on the Lineolnton road, con
t lining 630 acres. This land is very productive, fair im
prove!!) nts, plantation in good repair, good orchard, and
an excellent wi 1 of water,and consider,.bleb: ttojn laud on
th* Creek. These places .ire both healthy, and very con
veniently situated. Also, one other tract cf Pine Land,
well timbered, <onlaining 153 acri .lying near Wheat’s
C.in.p Ground.
PiTMins wish’ng to purchase Land in this section, would
■ o wtll to call .»u tie e übteriber before buying elsewhere,
i s «l ar iin may be lift*l by applying early. A further
di senpti n la deemed unnec* ssary. Please call and ox
amine lor yourselves. Terms « asy.
Th« subscriber may bo addressed a! Raysville, G«t.
JOHN L. PAfti.UAL.
GJRDON COUNTY LAND FOB SALK.
npMK suii Tiber • (fers BJd acres of l and for s»le, Nos.
JL 10 and 27, i » I . and Btl 8«0 ~ situated oue
mile from IL mc v KaUrrad Depot,and six miles from CaJ-
I, un.wi'l.au excellent roa>i to both places. This lu as
valmoe lind as there is in Gordon county. Thrlocality
healthy- Purchasers will ex mine the premises before
Old .v private aaie» will be sold by the
Sheriff on the first Tuesday in November, at Oalhcun. A
bargain can now be had. Terms—cash sufficient to pay
oil suits now maturing to judgment; time will be given on
the balance For D formation respecting the premises,
address my father, M *j. LewisZachery,Covington, Ga., as
1 have come to Calif rnip, to try to m ike gold to pay off
my debts ; but find t s at I have a better gold mine at
home than I shall find in California. Come ye who want
( to live in the garden spot of Go rgia—come examine the
| premise', and give me, r. poor devil, a liberal bid for my
i Laud, for sell it I must, and cannot help it.
BERTRAND ZACHERY.
I Columbia, Cal., March «T my2»'.amtd
GOLD IN HOUSTON.
'I NIK subscriber oilers for sale Fourteen Hundred
/*. \< rhos th * best Farming Pine LANDS now of- zJd
fi r. d in H uston or the adjoining e* uutb s, in which is u
Steam SAW MILL and GRI3T MILL, running two Saws
an » two run of tßoucs, all in good order. The above
I,and liut 16 miles southeast of Perry and nine milss west
of H iwkinsville, ad oinlng lands of Iluuh Lawson and
Bteplu n Browu, and is so situated as to be divided Into
three scttleme *ts if desired, with running water through
i i. h settlement. For furib r part culars address the sub
scribcr at Hayu vill**, Houston e unty. Georgia, or apply
OURTIB LEAKY.
FLAN!ATION FOB SALK
npjjK subscriber offers frr sale valuable TLANTA
t TION, lying on the Chattahoochee river, IS miles be
low Fort Gaiui s, oontaiulng 2175 acres. About 560 acres
are first rate river bottom, 1,000 are good oak and hick ry,
and the rest ate mixed and Pine Land*, borne 61*0 acres
ire already cleared; the Dwelling is a two-story framed
building. The location of the settlement is a high, healthy
and abundantly watered oak and pine ridge. Apply to
ANDERSON F. CRAWFORD.
: Blakely, Ga., June 8,1864. wStn
DENTAL SUBGEBY.
DU. KRI.LY respectfully informs the cit’aena cf Au
cu-ta and vi:inity, that he can be consulted at bis
private rcsid u e on Tt fair street, first house above
C impb P,-street. Having, with unremitted diligence,
made the s ierce of artiUoal tee’h his peculiar study, (hav
ir*g studied and practiced in New-Yora, an in London
uneei Mr Cartwright;) he has also been assistant to the
oe e* ratx'u Americau Dentists, Brewster and Evan*, of
Paris. Deutists in ordinary to the kmpt rors of Russia and
France ; and being thorough mas er of the modes by
which the^ee.r.u.ent uu*n insert te th, he is enabled at
on. e to meet the r< quirenunts of the case, without put
ting the patient to the annoyance ofendlesa choking and
remaking process which generally end in a total failure.
1) . K. being a manufjetu cr of Block and all other known
Miccral Teeth, havieg received an Honor for the fame
at the late State Fair, is enable i to make them in every
variety cf siz ■ and shade, so as to admit of their being in
termixed with remaining natural tetth, to which they as
vm 1 >tc so cl'selv as to leave no chance of discovery.
FILLING, EXTRACTING, and every other operation per
form d pertai irg to Dental Surgery, at fees Eameas
charged in New-York.
N. d. Lauies attended at their own resideccea without
e*t-ach»rgc jylS-wCm
TO MUSIC TEACHERS.
4 \UIdXU LADY well qualified to teach the Piano
and Vocal Music, can ofcta n a desirable situation at
Co’lo;e Temple, Newuan, Ga. Apfl.ca ion stould be
made so a, as t e C »Uege exe clses will be resumed early
in September. For particulars address
4uis wSt R. H. GDYN, Newnan, Ga. _
LOST MONEY.
j pHB right hand halve* of the following described bills
| I w«. i mHiled ia ;» U tter at Rirg*cli, fla., in the Utter
! part of May l*>t by William L. Whitman, addressed to
1 8. L» Linton ACo , Au Ga , and have never come to
! hand. T? e left band halves are now in our possession. on
vrhi.'h payment wilt bo demanded of the respscure Banks.
f 0.11 “Bank of the State of Georgia,’* letter A, No.
CJv, payable in Savannah, s cued I. K Test, Cashier.
$. i .11, •* Bank of the State * f Georgia, payable at
Br nob,k::er A.(N'o. cut off) dated 31st Nov., tje&r cut
| off) s'gn-.d A. IVTier, Cashier.
$ . ’ ~ “ Marine and Fire Inturaoee Bank,*'Savannah,
; letter A. No. ?6. signed J Ole: toad. Cashier.
fit». sl,»* Bank of Au ustt,’'p yab'e to Z. McCord, no
* dab' or nambe-, signed J. W. Davies, Cashier.
i . • bid, *• Aucusta In uran. e an : Bankiug Company,”
pavat - F. A. Morgan, no date or nataher, signed B jbt.
1 Wa*t »n, Carhier.
f. oil, "The Exchange Back.*’ Columbia, 8. C. no
j d .tv or naxabe>, signed Jh*. L. Scott, Cash er.
, ' biU, ** Bank of Charles on, S. 0., letter E, No. T 9,
: no date, s g-ed R. L. Stewart. C-tsh er.
I glObii ,** P asters Bank of oe-rgia,” B\va'n\h, Na.
111, no date, signed li. W. Merctr, cashier.
S. D. LINTON k CO.
Augusta, July 26. *SM. wSm
PAGE'S IMPROVED PATENT CIRCULAR
eaw-mills.
. , f-OIUiK PAGK A CO.. Xorth &Aro«/«r, aamr
VI H . < e~*iroe , &ui*t/u>rc, Md. t respeotfuhy
, Dm |ub io, that oe. have frailly j-creased their
ni.. afacUMug establishment, and are now prepared to
: ~ t .»• o-ders wuii promptness for their celebrated
j’VrLsT fortaßi.i Circular saw-mills, which
have c’v : -r. *o t -< U satbfarUOE ihrooglont the Onion, as
o >TtvM i* WERS, of a.l and kinds, HO&-E
1* WES'. GRIST MILLS, .*ni vtrious other Machines
' and lin . wef, for e.w m si u- labor
e r .MRTABLE CIRCULARBA • ->.ILL* were
inv,led by, U- i paten e l to, their senior partner, they
i ! ive made r. a.y improveir* :ts, which uuer them p:f
‘.ck i -n all th ir retails, an 1 justly entitle them to be con
-1 sidered an :.r -he rtst labor-saving machines of the age.
A v«.\crp‘ *c? .'o* tamir-fr fut : scripLons c f tticir several
■vN e* yif u.a,prices, tsrwu, Micinff,
w.l. n H-. i.c-inu by ictter, be icrw*raed to neatie*
I man wanting one.
tU\ mg re ently obtained d-jtr.c je* in an action brought
in he I'. >. Circuit Court for the i» strict of Maryland, for
an inf ringemo : of their Patent Rights, they be»eby tcorn
tie; tViV ;or chafing from wumihori aa* build
’ er* ■ ■ tUir AjeTit*. Address
GEORGE PAGK k C 0„
N. Schroeder, u-ar Baltimcre*st., Bali:more, Md., or
tCRANTON, SEYM OCR k CO ,
je.C-wGn Augusta, Geo.
FOB SALK.
Tyovril s -.OBd-hmd FOST COACHES, y -■ . .
1 but w v rn, and u. first-rate orde »"v
H wiihßamess. Apply at -
; »yM * m J. P. PL “MING’S Stable.
HLEBEED'B HOTEL.—EAINBRUGE, GA.
r r’Hß siihsrri. er h»vi:.g purchased the e-tablithmen
1 known aanoO&’S HOTEL AND LITKRY STABLE,
‘ • begs leave, m. .*•. reapectiUlly to inform hiafr.endsand th<
travel. : g public, that l.t- prrj.mred r pt-rcr
nent aa-i trans:-.- i*. 80-Men. instable will be supplied
w»tn the b-s: he ccmi try 5■ r ie.and every attention ml
* f be given to render them comfortab «.
Hi? S’arl s will »t all t>n,e» be well supplied with Pro
vender and attentive Ostlers.
Dorse Lot* for «he acecumir.odation of Drovers.
! , iiorses taken in to Ba:t aLd stand at Livery.
* Hursei-and Baggiect*'hiie by the day, week or month
i 11*-Rs lor the conveyai ce of Passet ger* to any par
they utay desire. JOHN LLBBERD, Proprietor.
Bamtridgc, Gt.,M&y 6,15 U. DyU-tf
WEEKLY
CHRONICLE & SENTINEL
From thi Syracuse Chronic'*, August 28.
PRAYER FOR RAIN.
Try, dry, dry,
From earth and br zen sky!
Dewle-s Leavens and witr out rain ;
Hot blasts sweep ng o’er the p ain ;
Vii,-et*t on wi<holing, dyirg;
Min aid beast fur wa.er sighing;
Dry, d*-y, dry,
Is tie uni venal cry!
Drouth, drouth, drea h,
kaat and we.t, north and scoth !
From a!i quar'.ers come tl e wailing
Os the kOid-.n har e-t lai iag—
Cr v« beyond re uscitatior—
Flt.us in utter desolation '
Drouth, drouth, drouth,
Is the pUmtof every mouth!
Haze, base, haz?,
Only meets r«r anxicus gazs!
As we scan with prayerful eye
The long, unpr-.pitiou& s.y;
Now the hot sun orevkiug through,
Burning up the tmoky tw,
With his reddened, fiery rays,
Dissipates this eastern has;.
Rain., rain, rain l
Will it ever come again f
Watering the thirsty earth—
G.vifjg v* getatlon birth—
Cooling down the fevertd air—
Life d.ffusiag eve jwhere!
Katn, rai*<, rain,
Will it ever come again?
Etia, rain, rain,
5 Give, O Lord, the latter rain!
1 Let some little c.oud arising,
Fill the heavens al! around,
1 Once again the earth baptising
i From he upper depths profound—-
In its seas t—aye, before it,
From the e*st cr from the west,
North or south, graat our r» quest!
Rain, rain, rain,
bur.d, O Lord, the latter rain !
Niagara Fall*—By Doesticks.
The foil-vr,Log, which we copy from the Evening
Post, of Now York, has been thought so good n
sketch, that tho publishers have boon obliged to
have it re-published “to meet the de nand.” It
is, iudecd, very saggeative:
Dear Editor—l hove been to Niagara, you
| know—Niagara Falls—big rocks, water, foam, Ta
! ble Lock, Indian cariosities, tquaws, moccasins,
stuffed snakes, rapids, wolves, (Jiifton House, bus
pension bridge, place where the water runs swift,
the ladies faint, scream and get the p*im washed
oil iheir faces ; where tho aristocratic Indian ladies
sit on the dirt and make little bags ; where all the
. inhabitants Mwindle strangers; whore the cars go
’ in a hurry, the waiters are impudent and all the
I small boys swear.
When I came in sight of the suspension bridge,
r I was vividly impressed with the idea that it was
j “some” bridge, in fact, a considerable curiosity,
and a “considerable” bridge; took a glass of
l beer and walked up to the Fulls; another glass of
- beer and walked under the Falls ; wanted another
j glass of beer, but couldn’t get it; walkoJ away
r from the Falls, wet through, mad ; triumphant,
J victorious, humbug!—humbug ! sir, all humbug!
except tho dabbliness ol everything, which is a
! most certainty, and the cupidity of everybody,
I which is a diabolical fact, and the Indians and
■ niggers everywhere, which is a Satanic truth.
Another glass of beer—’twas forthcoming—im
mediately—also another, al! of which I drank. 1
thon proceeded to drink a glass of beer, went over
1 to tho States, where 1 procured a glass of beer—
r wont up stairs, for which 1 paid a sixpence, over
1 to Gout island, lor which 1 disbursed 25 cents,
' hired a guide to whom I paid half a dollar—sneezed
J four times at nine cents u sneeze—went up on the
, tower for a quarter of a dollar, and looked at the
falls—didn’t feel sublime any, tried to, but couldn’t,
took some beer, and tried again, but failed—drunk
a glass of beer and began to fool better—thought
the waters wero sent lor ami were on a journey to
tho—; thought tho place below wus one sea ol
beer—wls going to jump down and got some,
guide held mo; sent him over to tho hotel to get
a glass of beer, while I liied to writ© somo poetry
* —result as follows:
O thou (spray in ono eyo) awful (small lobster
1 in ono shoe,) sublimo (both feet wot) master piece
of(jimmeuy, wliat a lie,) tho Almighty! Terri
ble and majestic art thou in thy tremendous might
—awful (orful) to behold, (cramp in my right
shoulder,) gigantic, huge and nice ! Oh, thou that
tumblcet down and riseth up again in miMy mu
jo-ty to Haavcn—thou g.orious parent of a thou
sand raiubowß—what a huge, grand, awful, terri
ble, tremendous, influ.te old swindling humbug
youaro; what are you doing there, you rapids
you—you know you’ve tumbled over them and
can’t got up again tosavo your puny existence;
you make a great fu*s, don’t you ?
Man came back with tho beer, drank it to tho
last drop, and wished thoro hud been u gallon
more—walked out on a rock to tho edge of tho full,
woman onshore very much frightened—l told her
not to get excited if I fell ovor, as 1 weald step
light up agian—it would not bo much of a fall
anyhow—got a glass ol beer of a man, another of
a woman, and another ot two small noya with a
pail—fllteon minutes «lapa;d, when 1 purchased
somo more of nn ludian woman and imbibed it
through a straw; it wa»u’t good—had to got a
f'lass of beer to take tho tasto ont of my mouth :
egs boßan to tangle up, effect cf tho spray in my
eyes, got hungry and wuntod something to eat—
went into an oating-houso, called for a plate of
beans, when the plalo brought ths waiter in his
hand I took it, hungup my beef end beans on a
nail, eat my hat, paid dollar to n nigger, and sided
out on tho’step-walk, bought a boy cf a glass of
dog with a small beer and a neck on his tail, with
a collar with a spot oil the end—felt funny, sick—
got some Boda-watcr in a tin cup, drank tho cup
1 and placed tho soda on tho counter, and paid lor
tho money full of pocket—very i ad headache;
rubbed it against the lamp post and then stumped
along; station houso came along and eai .i it I
didn’t go he’d take mo to the watchman
—tried to oblige tho station houso—very civil
station houso, vory—mot a baby with an Irish
woman and a wheelbarro v in it, couid’nt get out
ot tho way, sho wouldn’t walk on tho sidewalk,
but insisted on going on both sides ot' the street
tried to walk botwoeu her; consequence
collision, awful, knocked out tho whedbarrow’s
nose, broke tho Irish woman all to pieces, baby
loose, eourl-honses handy, look me to tho consta
ble, jury sot on mo, and tho jail said tho magistrate
must tako mo to tho constable; objected; the
dungeon put mo into the darkest constable in tho
city; got out, and hero I am, prepared to stick to
my origir al opinion— Niagara , units humbug \ non
AcaelsuSf non tr.dignus admiralooni.
<d,. li. Till LANDER DcEBTICKB, I*. B.
From ths Boston Courier .
An Adventure xvllii Ilanlfßnakcr*.
I noticed a “sketch” in tho “Courier” a few
days since, entitlod “Taugkannuc Mountains,”
that recal'od to my mind on incident that occurred
to mo on those mountains, some 25 or 80 years
ago. 1 was at that time a resident of Sheffield.
At tho tiino to which I refer, I formed ono ot a
party of yonng men who made an excursion to the
summit ot those mountains, to hunt partridges,
*fcc. There are, or were at that timo, places there
so iniosted with rattlesnakes that it was dangerous
to approach them. To avoid these abodes, wo
rallied on the acquaintance of one ot our party with
their looality. After chasing over the hills s*x or
oight hours, wo wore tired enough to think of re
turning to our homes. We were proceeding along
in an “Indian file,” through a defile somo four
rods witjo, one side of which was a mountain ; tho
other some 40 feet high, composod of loose ledges
that wero overgrown with ivies, when a sharp
rattle was hoard that sent a chill to our hearts.
Tho foremost of our lino saw tho reptile just ahead
of him, and without thought ruised his gun and
fired I As tho report of the gun echoed along tho
crags a most hideous rattling and hissing arose on
all sides.
We wero in the midst of tho “don.” Each rock
and bush seemed populous with rattlesnakos, and
wo could 800 »hem descending from tho higher
crags. Wo stood still, not knowing what to do.
To go back would be as dangerous as to advance ;
and to remain where wo wero, as perilous as
either, for several ware moving in the bushes near
us. The slightest touch of a fang was o rtaiu
death, as wo wore too far from any habitation to
enable us to reach it be<ore the deadly virus would
have taken effect. Wo feared to stir, lest w’e
should attract their attention sooner than if wo
remained quiet. What passed in the minds of my
companions I know not, but 1 remember that my
own thoughts wero of no very agreeable nature.
At this juncture, one of us perceived a large flat
rock, some three rods from us, and proposed in a
whisper that wo should make for it. Having as
certained that none of our assailants were bet ween
us and it, wo madoa rush for it, and gained it un
scratched. Our last movements notified our creep
ing foes of our whereabouts, as well as to irritate
them more, and they made for our position.
Our weapons of defence wore four guns, two
pistols and an are. Wo were then so situated as
to be able to doteud ourselves, in some measure.—
We cut a couple of very slender sprouts that grew
close by tho rock, stationed ourselves in tho cen
tre, and as the snakes came on the edge of our
citadel we killed them. Only five or six made tho
at erapt, and we pitched their mangled carcasses
back to their comrades. It was evident that eo
loutr as we reraainoi ou the rock we were sale;
but how to escape was more than wo could predict.
If we could have ki.led all of the reptiles on one
side, with cur guns end cudgels, we should have
encountered mure in scaling the ledge.
We remained quietly on the rock, and, in a
short time, the rattlesnakes ceased their attacks,
but on our making any movement, they commen
ced their hissing These snakes emit a dis
agreeable odor when disturbed, and tho air was
tilled with it. We had noticed a tall tree growing
close by us, and one of our party proposed to cut j
it, so as t' cause it to fall against tho top of the
ledge, and thereby form, if it did not break, away j
by which we might extricate ourselves. We iu* I
stantly commenced cutting it, keeping a sharp I
lookout for the spotted rascals, who were now j
doubly enraged by the resounding blows.
The’tree te.l with its top pgainst the summit ot
the ledge, and we ascended its trunk and escaped.
Before we left, we just tev.-k a farewell glance at
our baffled belligerents, who had then taken pos
session of our lock, and were engaged in snapping
a handkerchief dropped by one oi us. We formed
a line, and shot at them, and then left.
Fatal as ie the bite of a rattlesnake, yet there
is a weed growing in our meadows, which being
properly app ied, renders it harmless. Many ,
persons are not acquainted with it, indeed very i
few are. I have known persons who, knowing ,
antidotes for this poison, retuso to disclose them. ~ j
The weed to which I refer grows from 12 to IS I
i inches high, one stalk, leaves narrow, and grow
| singly from the stem from one to two inches 1
apart. This weed is aurrounded wib small bluish
blossoms that have five leaves; three on the !owe»
portion and two above. I see one grew r s a
short distance from me, which I enclose. If this
weed be bruiaed in cold water an applied, the
bite is harm! s».
Were la botanist I might give a better descrip
tion of it.
Pboobrs cr Gunnxby.—For the last two or three
years there has been great practice in gun
nery in England; and so great is the accurnoy ar
rived at that it is alleged a ball can always be
thrown withiu a apace of fifteen feet diamvier at a
dißUncs PI 8* miles. Tbere »re gnD.th.tw,:
do ex.cation »t » d:?;»rce of four ui ;es. Shel.s
are now generally used instead or shot, and their
time of flight can be so accurately c&lcaia’ed that
they shall explode at the moment of their arrive
at anv object. , , „ . .
I According to “Herapatk s Journal, shot only
was used formally, and a 2 pounder Cist ft boui.
se. It is now found that shells are incomparably
; more efficient; and what is called a B 2 b. shell,
j fitted with all complete, Os a'A ala., and
, | the charge of powder with wads, 12s. m- re, or
? 82*. for -very E21 1 -. shell fired. For an S inch or
* 6$ b. shell tLe coat is 245., and with powder and
\ wads 335.
1 The guns for the 821 b. shell weigh about two
. tons, cost about £4O each. The guns for the 881 b.
I shed* w**igh from 8,-* to tons, and cost from
£65 to £95 each.
These facts will show that the present war is
u more costly than any hitherto undertaken, as re
; gards a few items of the expense. Other expenses
axe in proportion.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6,1851.
From the Tribune.
X Negro’* Account.
1 We publish tb:s a long and interesting
letter from one of cur Molvle slr.va-, wo is now
staying w.th his mast r. H:ii-ry F **ter, E-q., at a
! fashionable water;ng in New Y>rk. We arc
j t»S'Ur d that it embodies eubs'anti&n; tho inflec
| tions and opinions of the servant although the ;
I iar ?3age. cf coar-e, is not« x*c. y hia.
Ine picture it draws wsT be recognised by meet j
sou the rn persons who Lave liv. d in the northern
•owns ana citiec. Nominally free, the condition |
ri tncscj northern servants is mostabjec;. They j
have neither the .onifort nor the rreodoin of I
action of our southern servants, while their lives
are overshadowed with responsibilities and buS
< ! :** from which r-ifief can only be found
iartho sen-r ' ir ; .-. Living like slaves, they eu
<*lll3 all the evils f a nominal freedom. They are
at lit eny o go where tl ©y please, bat liberty
is restrained by an ut.yielding necessity. They
cr.’i s*so do us ibey piea-.s, bu* they can only do at
the hazard of starvation, which is harder than the
bar lest of toil ti;> t any bla.o uudergoe*. Their
liberty is merely an abstraction. It is the libeffy I
ot ?hc most hopeless ala very—the right to choose
between tho meuncst servitude and hunger and
misery leading to death.
Mo<*t of us have a pretty hard timo of it in this
world. It is work, without much play; and tne
work is not tho wor.*>t of it. for wo imagine even
here m Mobile, tho toil would not be intolerable
if one coaid get rid of the anxieties which accom
pany the condition ot the freeman. We have a
light ‘.o vote, and a right to be President, end a
right to go where we pi ; but will the right to
vote pay the baker; or will the right to bo Presi
dent get tho salary of the President; or will tho
liberty of g ing to Europe or to watering places
famish the funds to enjoy those luxuries.
The ritrht is merely an abstraction; and the
pa-session of it only tempts most of us to look to
tho future lor case and promotion, while tho
chances are that not one in a thousand of us will
over r ach what we are aim ip g t*\. It is nothing
b it torment and discontent, ending at last in dis
appointed hopes.
The negro has none cf theso cares. Ho is born
an independent inau. He has a master bound for
bi 3 food, and raiment, and e
he is si* k. His work is £oub when the sun goes
down, and the rest of the time is sleep, or a dunce,
or anything which he can manage to extract from
tho hours and the watchfulness of his master,
whose object is chiefly to restrain him within
those rules which add to his good digestion and
tho other conditions of his happiness.
Tho .**l wo has j*o carp, and this is better than
freedom ur.d the liberty to starve.
How many persons, even in “good circumstan
ces,” hava gone through oar streets and envied
the slaves that he has mot. There goes Sambo,
extracting e> j »y merit from everything around him.
If, like half of tho white men, he Is not bent on
somo nefarious errand—robbing the henroost
nearest his master’s pronn -q or some such heroic
achievement, mostly from wickodnoi-s growing out
of leisure, or from an ambition similar to that
which prompts some men to bo president—if not
after such ends, no living being is so full ot the
. be.-t sort of happiness as he. He whistles, or sings,
or fondles his master’s children, or dances, or
. courts his counterpart Dinah—full all the time ol
contentment, which, the philosophers tell us, is
the only source of happiness for white or black.
There is a vast deal of folly in this world about
liberty and tho “eternal laws ot justice.” A Yan
kee—whom wo admit to be a pretty considerable
atom in tho human race—propagates and builds
railroads and erocts houses, and leaves fortunes to
his children—but the question is not this but tho
other ;is he content ? Would ho tako a now lease
of life, and g-j over the same little round of cares ?
If he thought that the ro was a tolerably decent
place for him on “tho other sido of Jordan,” we
know what his answer would bo ; and so of mort
of us, except Sambo, who, generally, would rather
live near the crib of his master than make any
journey towards Jor .an.
The chief test of the most favorable condition in
life, the political philosophers toll us, is not in tho
wealth which allows a man to come hither or go
thither—to give largo parties—to wear silks—to
ride in a carriage—to be a constable, or i gover
nor, or a president, or even a king, but it is that
condition which is productive. This is removed
from luxury on the one side and wanton the other,
and is in accordance with a universally rocognised
law of nature. Bam bo stands precisely in this
condition, as tho census tables will prove; and
hero alone, in these Southern States, can his race
be found so situated. Africa, his birth place, for
thousand years has been free from foreign wars.—
There the negro has lived as Le was born, and his
race lias neither increased nor become civilized.—
ID has attempted freedom in our free States and
other countries, and in all cf them his increase has
bcon less than that of the whites. Ho has sunk
far, far below ths lovcl of the society around him
every where m those free States—has been uncut
cast —a I’uriah— scorned by the highest and lowest
of the other races. Here alone, in the Southern
sluve States, lias hr ri*an b yon i his original con
dition. Hero alone, is lie respected— for there slono
is his station in harm Day v7 th his nature; and he
ia respected horo because tho laws make him al
ways useful, and keep him so distinct that no envy
or jealousy, or competition comes between him
and tho races around him. Os no other era or
place in this history can tho same bo said. In the
free Slates he ia worse than a serf, for while ho
cannot amalgamate with tho superior races there,
the laws make h’m nominally the equal of those
races, and :io they revolt against the light, ho ia a
subject of competition and j julousy, and being pow
erless, is plunged by those evil passions into a
degree of degradation from which thoro is no hope
of escape.
But we refer tho reader to tho letter and leave
the rest of tho reflection * to his judgement.
Loiter from a S-latc.
Eldbidge House, Sharon Springs, N. Y., Aug.
fi.— t/ear Milky. —l write to inform you that lam
on the point ot starting homo, and expect to sail
per Biack Warrior from New York city tor Mobile,
on the 9 k inst. •
Master’s health hue so fur improved as to enable
him to get along without me, and although ho ro
grets to give mo up, things it best forme to return
and attend to matters in Mobile. The furniture,
tho house and lot, and tho other servants, all, in
muster’s and mistress’s judgment, need my atten
tion. lam glad that lam no soon to see you and
tho family, and to got back once more to Mobilo.
1 havo seen c groat deal since I loft homo, and will
have much of interest to toll you. I am sick of
this country and want to got homo; lot that J
have boon miscreated, but because of tbosickening
scenes of poverty I so cken meet with ia this
boasted land of “Freedom and Plenty.”
Wo spent a few days in tho city of New York
before wo came to SLaio . In my strolls of three
days through that city, I saw moro evidences of
destitution —more ragged, half clad, miserable,
beggared looking people than I oversaw' in Vir
ginia and Alabama. I met beggars and loafers at
every corner, and, strange as jou may regard it, it
is a fact, that a cent is as gladly received by these
poor creatures as a dollar would be by any servant
in tho city of Mobile. 1 often ask these poor
creatures “why they don’t go to work f” Their
answer invariably is, that “they can get nothing
to do, and have no friouds to help them get into
business.” Those who aro moro fortunate, and
succeed in procuring employment, aro paid from
nothing up to eight dollars per mouth—tho fortnor
re yii g upon Hie liberality of guests for tho means
of support. The chambermaids in tho hotel at
which wo aro now lodged get $4 per month, and
regrot that the shortness ot tho season (which is
about three months) will soon again throw them
upon the world without a hop© of again being so
pleasantly and ao profitably employed until the
return of another summer. God only knows how
they work through the winters, which I am in
formed aro five times as cold as ours.
The porter al this hotel (a white maa'with a
wife and two children) aud myself have become
quite intimate, ilo is a incst i‘Xlraordinary man
of his ciasa—is certainly tne best porter I over
saw. It would astonish you tt) see the amount of
labor ho periorms every day and night. I reckon
there are an average of two hundred guests at the
hotel. They aro coming and going almost hourly,
aud each guest has one or more trunks, weighing
I suppose from flfty to two hundred and fifty
pounds. Thia man receives and disburses it all,
often climbing story after story, under these heavy
burthens. When not otherwise employed during
the day he trims lamps—ii3©lf no trifle in ail or
dinary establishment iiko this. But this is not all.
At tho approach of rest’s appropriate hour, when
you and 1 and all Southern servants aro slumber
ing at our ease, this poor man’s lonely and most
tedious task commences. It ia 11 o’clock, all have
retired—doors have to bo eloiod—lights extin
guished—and worse than all, a cart load of boots
are to be gathered, numbered and blacked. Thus
this fortunate Northern freeman (Isay fortunate ,
for the reason I see thousands worse fated) works
and worries from “early dawn” to the “small
hours” of the night.
I remarked to master and mistress this morning
that “if Jordan had to black such a pile of boots
as I saw this porter ‘ brush to gloss’ last night, he
would run away or bo sick before day.” And
what do you suppose is tho poor fellow’s compen
sation ? A sum absolutely so small that he blushed
to own it, but, with the proudest air imaginable,
announced to me tho gratifying fact that he was
“ allowed all that tho gentlemens pleasod to give
i.im”—to which, however, he added that “they
commonly forget it, but by ttnrinding them of it,
1 generally get something.” L inferred that
the reward of his hard labor was the poor privi
lege of being permitted to beg for a support for
himself and family. Soon, however, Othello like,
his occupation wiii be gone. The harvest season
is running to a close and the frosts and snows of *
Mt. Marcy, Catskill and Adarondock will impose |
upon him the harder task of sheltering and pro- j
vidinsr for hi 3 wife and children during winter !
with the hard earnings of his summers labor.
1 have told him and others the simple story cf I
r.y life, and have reported to them the duties' re- l
quiredofme, aud the privileges 1 enjoy. They |
i look astonished when 1 announced to them the j
fact that in my long service of fifty years no white I
F orson had ever chided tne either by word or deed. I
n Philadelphia, at the Girard House, I was called j
“ Uncle Torn,’* first by Master A. M. Stoddard, of j
that house, and subsequently by many others. 1 |
did not understand it until master explained it to
mo. I have sines enjoyed it very much, for the
j name has followed me, and cn my relarn 1 will
tel: you a rich story of affairs that occur!ed at
Ste wart's fine store in New-York—the piace at
which I purchased your tiik dress and passed as
“Uucle Tom,” ana my little misses was “ Eva,”
and it 1 bed been a domesticated Arab from the
desert ot Sahara, and she the daughter of the im
mortal Nicholas, wo conld not have been more
I guzad at. or (as we buttered ourseives) more ad
mired. How this ruse occurred, lest master might
not approve it, I cannot venture, et present, to
inform you. But to return to Northern domes
tics, their condition, &c.
In the porter’s room this morning I met with ODe
of the hru>n and errand waivers, a boy of about 15
years. ELe Lad just emptied his savings box aud
was counting his money—the earr lugs of I know
not how many days. lie bad (75) seventy five
cents, which seamed to be ouue an object. I
asked him what he did with his money, to which
he replied that he gave it to his aged and destitute
parents, who were mainly dependent on his ex
ertions tor a support. At these hotels ere others
employed to perlorm the mere menial cflicea of the
establishment, whose faces are never seen by the
guests of the heme. They are the filthiest, mean
»st, most woe begot e bipeds I ever beheld, and
work absolutely for less than Mr. S gives me
per month for sweeping his room, whicn you
know does not take 15 minutes a dsy. Talk about
Southern slavery and Southern poverty—l declare
that 1 have- »en more of them since i came North
than ever before in ail my life. Some people won
der that I sbouiigo back to Alabama, and deem
it very strange that I do not avail myself of the
offer of what they cell freedom. On the other hand
| I have y osts oiacquaintances who envy me my
, fortune in life, and at this hotel alone are over a
dozen who ore anxious to go with me to Mobile.
| I would not exchange conditions with them for
, i all the bribe.-' and charms abolitionism coaia offer
me. What has ever been denied you or mo that
|we wanted! Nothing, absolutely nothing, and
l 1 knows my masters have ever been my best
j friends.
This is a t*eautiful healthy piece, and a favorite
. resort tor Mobiiia.es. Twenty-taro were seated at
[ master’s tab e yesterday, and a dozen cr more are
at the other fc.tels. •
; Besides roaster and family, are, at this house,
Masters Pratt, Schroeder, Cluta, Dade, Levy and
i families. At tie other are Masters Haliett, Eia.
D.ckey, Auzs and others. It would do yon good
I to ?eo how well and hearty ail these folks are, and
hear much they or joy themselves. On my return
I will tell you the "hul story ” as I heard a Y’an
keo say the other day—meantime I wish von and
. the children, mother and all, health, and happinesa
until we meet. Your devoted husband,
Allen Foster.
P. S.— Sine© wntmg the above we have ascor
toired that tbo Warrior is not to return to Mobile
| at present. I will therefore wait for the Cahawbn,
j and sail on the 48th instant, meantime may write
!to von again from Saratoga Sprit gs. Allen.
N. B.— I This ariaiweoßis has confined himself in
| the foregoing letter, strictly to Allen’s observations
arid sentimeats— *c’o hiflg them generady, as may
ba observed, in bis own language
The Whiter.
the morning voyagers.
Tell us not that morning hu»s are fleeting
Tell u< not it* j 7' pass away !
A\ b-f ter dii pul.es swifuy b -ating,
Witn an! pieiaare love and gladness meeting
Than wait “ieir slow deasy;
Ah, t-tter sea ry with ihe morninz pleasure,
Th»n hoard ur-treng'h t> toil lor earthly treasure.
Fetwe- n the sopatide ray;
We care not for tb<? autumn’s harvest hours,
go sweet the mermug’a breath, the April flowers,
We grasp them Jfbils we may.
Onr souh are cashing with their depth cf gladness
Oar hearts are 1 with ter weight of love**
Why seek to clcuq our morning hears with eaJaess, *
Why tell us of t e melancholy madness,
The evening fcohr» may prove?
Say, doth theeawh withhold the bursting blcssom
Tne fl jwer nit ifjfts fragrant breath restrain ? *
Doth uJt the suuil**r cloud unf id its bo om.
And pour its
Doth not ihe broollflow onward tj the river,
The river to the i^a?
Do earth or sky nfihold their riches ever ?
And why shcu}£xr-. ?
We gra.«p what joy the present hour may offer,
Nor heed the future s iab~r aud turmoil;
Give a little joy tte'ore we suffer,
Give us a Rule r« *t before we toil!
Ab, sweet to us the L ining s dewy hours,
All, not t; m its rosy hues are vain;
We better lore to * ’lnc fcfie April flowers
Thau bind ihe Auturn grain.
ThentrouH . not our j v,., yraqgfQf vn’re*,
. 9 we glide into the r<»i1«8 sea,
The eea itielf ia morning mirth rejoiois,
Tne Grain Crop of 1854.
There r s an idea abroad that the small grain of
tbi:i Jo3r has been abundant, aud that in that may
be found pome substitute for tho evident deficiency
ot corn. If this wero true, it would not answer
tho purpose, fir Indian corn has no substitute in
its gr-.at use of fattening animals, and distillation.
But, wc apprehend, there is some mistake in re
gard to the supply of wheat. In the United States,
the crop of 1854 is not an abundant ono. But a
still greater mistake consists in supposing that
this country over raises enough to export largely
without crumping tho domestic markets. In the
year 1853 wo Lad an average crop of wheat. In
consequence of the scarcity iu Europe, wo exported
in flour and wheat aPout 25,000,000 barrels. Tho
remit is, all our markets are bare, and tho prices
high. Flour is $7 per barrel in Cincinnati, and $3.50
in New Y’ork, at a time when the now wheat and
tresh ground flour havo been nearly a m nth in
tho market. This is not owing to a foreign de
mand, lor flour has fallen in Liverpool from forty
to thirty-one shillings per bairel. Asimpleglance
at these facts, shows at once that tho price of
wheat is kept up because tho demand is greater
than tho supply. Great reliance is placed on the
fact that more breadth of land ia sown. But is
that equal to tho increased demand ? Lot us ox
amine this. The increase of inhabitants is 600,000
per annum; this gives an increased consumption
of 3,500.000 bushels of wheat. At tho ordinary
Average, this requires 200,000 acres of laud to
produce. Again, the harvest of 1154 has found
the country bare of stock wheat, and forsoedthero
are required ten millions of bushels. Ilow then
stands the account ? After making full allowance
for the consumption of ludian corn, as broad—wo
must allow five bushels, at least, for each indi
vidual—wo havo then this result:
Doraesti * consumption, (whites) 105,000,000
Consumption cf increased inhatiiants cf 1854. 8.600,000
Seed 10,000,000
Aggregate demand, (at hem*) 118,500,000
Crop by census of 1850 100.508,699
Deficiency 18,007,101
Export of 1858-’4 25,' 00,000
Shcrt 43,007,101
The census crop was that of 1349, in which Ohio
had not much over half a cron, and there was some
deficiency in other States; but after allowing for
that, and supposing also a much increased broadth
ot land sown, it is most ovident that wo cannot
have in 1854-5, a larger proportion of whoat than
in 1858-4. In all probability, we shall have less.
It is not in the wheat crop, therefore, that any ro
be 1 can bo found for tho deficiency in corn. A very
large part of tho potato crop fails also. On tho
other sido of the account, however, wo havo a
largo crop of oats, and a largo crop of hay. In
these only can any substitute bo found for Indian
corn. Hut, when wo consider that oats and hay
aro usua ly all consumed by domestic animals, as
v/ell s the corn crop also, it is very evident that
tho surplus of theso articles will uot go a great way
to supply deficiencies in others.
We by no means wish to excite specu’ation by
depreciating the amount of pram iu tho country,
bat it certainly cun boos no benefit, especially io
farmers to leave erroneous statements of fill crops
to go uncontradicted. The truth, if we can arrive
st it, should always bo known. Wo observe state
inonts in the New York papers to this effect: That
the wheat crop of the West is only deficient in
some parts of Ohio, but Illinois and Missouri will
produce immense amounts; that the English crop
will bo good, and the Russian crop will be export
ed through the Danube, <fcc.
They who make these statements forget that
Ohio produces more surplus wheat than all the
other Western States; that the supply of Russian
wheat cannot be great in u state of war, especially
when that war is about to bo carried on in the
wheat country; end that finally, wheat at Liver
fiool, after fulling heavily, is now 50 per cent,
lighor than it was 18 mouths ago. These facts are
anything but favorable to the idea that gram is to
bo abundant in the carront year.
In this view wo aim only to*ivo tho simple, nn
exaggerated statement of "the case as it is. Intel
ligent merchants, wo trust, examine for them
selves, and cannot be misled, (if wo were willing
to deceive them,) by one sided statements. They
know, a» wo do, ihat without a special act of
Providence th re cannot, in this day of civilization,
boa famine, from a deficiency in any one country.
Steam has made the world almost one great coun
try. in which wo hear at once fro n every part, aDd
can immediately supply tho deficiency of ono by
the surplus of another. In 1864, this country has,
we trust, grain enough to live upon ; but certainly
has not one of those large crops, with whose ex
cess wc have been wont to supply many part* of
tho world.— Cincinnati Columbian , inst.
Health ot New Orleans. —The following is tho
report of the Charity Hospital for the week ending
on Saturday, the 26th inst.,at 5 P. M.:
Admissions 426 I Deaths 143
Discharges 274 | Number remain’g.. .713
Os the deaths ICB were from yellow fever, being
an increase of 45 over tho previous week. Hut wo
learn that tho large majority of tho cases of fover
brought to the Hospital are either seamen or per
sons connected with the shipping, such as love
laborers, longshoremen, and others equally expos
ed. Wo hear of very few cases in private prac
tice, and they yield readily when taken in time.—
Tho increase of deaths in tho Hospital last week,
wc think may be readily.accounted for by tho sud
den change of weather in tho middle of‘tho week,
and it should bo remembered that most of the pa
tient are in tho last stages of the disease when ta
ken to that institution. So far we see no occasion
whatever for alarm.— Picayune , Tlth inst .
Fire !—A firo'broko out Wednesday night about
11^o’clock in a grocery and provision store kept
by Mr. Patrick Dovanny, on tho corn r of Bay and
Montgomery sts. Tho huilding is owned, we be
lieve, by Isaac Minis, E«q. Mr. Devanny’s loss is
about $1,500; insured for SSOO by A. Wilbur,
Agent.
Too much credit cannot be given to our well-es
tablished Firo Companies for their prompt appear
ance on the ground last night, and by whoso ex
traordinary exertions the fie was soon extinguish
ed. The water works also come in for a share of
the praise, in enabling tho firemen to obtain water
sooner than they otherwise could.— /Savannah,
Georgia, <f Aug. 80.
Religious Revival. —A very interesting and
profitable series of religious services have been in
progress during tho past throo weeks, in the Fao
lory Methodist Church of our city. An unusual
degree of interest in the subject of religion hsa
been for some time past manifested by that class
of our population who ordinarily attend worship
at this church. Fifty-three members had been
added to tho Church on Saturday last, and a con
siderable number of persons have professed con
version who have not as yet enrolled their names
as members.
There seems to be no abatement of tho rebgioue
interest awakened, and, from present appearances,
the meetings will be indefinitely protracted.— Col.
Enq., 29 th inst.
Catskill Mountain House Burned.— We stated
the other day that the woods on Catskill Moun
tains were on fire, and that fears were entertained
that tho Mountain House would be destroyed. So
imminent was the danger that the guests
packed up theirlugvage and for home or other
watering places. On Wednesday it became almost
certain that the house wouid go, and the proprio
tor, who had already sent his family away, began
to take out the furniture, all of which, we under
l *tand, was removed to places of safety. The fire
st’ll continued to approach, varying in speed with
: the variations of the wind, and sometime on Satnr
i day afternoon, as we are informed, rcacred the
; house, which was in a very short time reduced to
asLes. It was a very largo edifice, bui t of
wood, and conld not have boon of very great value.
We have no particulars in regard to insurances.
; Some persons who were there as late as batu-day
morning doubt whether it was the Mountain House
| which was burned, and think it must have been
j some other edifice, but opr information is direct,
| and we think correct. — A. Y. Tr&unt, Aug. 23.
! Skids roa the Nation'. -Congress appropriated
at its late sees.on ten thousand dollars lor the col
lection of agricultural statistics and tho procure-
I nent and distribution of seeds and cuttings, to be
expended under tee direction of the Commissioner
*M- 1 Binwn thehead ofthe Argricultural Bureau
of the Patent V dice ha* sailed mr Europe tomake
selections ot se- Js, in s^ oll tor distribution
through the n. nbeis olCongreos when again as
sembled. —.V.: i 1 .it.
In connextion with bus statement we copy the
foliowing lrom the Winchester Republican :
.. Mr. Geo. B. Graves,our postmaster, Las been
quitesnecessfu. in some experiments witn the new
varieties of pu.se distributed over the country
through the agency ofthe Patent Office. A .Japan
pea in his garden tt grown into a bush five teet
high, audit cannot he d less than two hundred
pod. prettv Well developed. Mr. Graves also has
: tome O-egu'n peas growing finely, rhe leases of
• both are annual in t 0 I" 060 of erape, al
though large and heavier, ite omy objection to
these peas "is that they come .ate.
Novel £cisn.—The ex pc. .master of Boston is
in Germany. He seeds homean . eoonnt of a din
ner to a ra’.way congress, at which a locomotive
■ appea-ed upon the'able, to which was attached a
1 tram loaded witU dW.es of choicest and most solid
! food. The succulent tram aa van ted siowiy, in
! ■ imitation of the passenger trains npen all German
roads. After having taade the tour of tho table
without stopping, id order to gr;e a ymwofthe
good things with which it was fretguted, the train
r t again started making a station in front of each
r guest, and permuting him to nil his plate accord
ing to his appetite and tancy. The trains followed
: each other in constant succession lor two or three
t hours, departing sack time well loaded with
I comestible*, and always returning empty io the
e depot. This is just the thirg lor aa American
t eating table, wHe re the fashion is, according io
e , English authority, to gulp everything with nil*
* I road speed.
i Fall Kivxx, Ang. 29.—There has been eight
i. I deaths from cholera aifcee noon yesterday, and
i eight ns*
From the N. O. Ptcayw.e, 26th inst.
Later from Mexico.
Tho Ur-itod Sintf. Muii .ti-noi.hipOr ziba, C«t,t.
Krbes, which ieitYar. Crtsz er, the 22 \ aud »r
--t"rl„ r ru yu'fday, brings liitecc days ,a;sr td
?ices from Mexico.
The Or.zabn !e(t discharging at Vera Crnz the
Amoncau br g Vary Spring.
\ *V' av « la >l Os onr Mcx-can
and fc «"f«? t 0 th.- 1, th inst. from tho city ot Move-.
Crc2 Wc trmWth. several
a* Gn*vm I «!*- Ca * ara a^r °f Count R^onsaet
Dares" ‘ ,rj extensn-cly given in the Mex'ean
Lltei’i th„?.?- SeVCr!, ‘ accon o ,R , til ol which
j D „. ‘ 0 oum points, wo compile the follow
ing0..000"' i an '- 011 011 '-he night of the Ist of
, •-,’ p-io- ea-te i Los Aigodonales, and on
tcred G- aymas in diegnise. He then wrote a note
r,,or - Gen. Varna, ashing f. r an inter
v.Oft m,;i him, which was varied, und it took
place on the same nicht. The Ccnnt declared to
lio„ 0 to f i rnor th f ,le h'nl come wi*h hosiito intcu-
Vr,^° rS, , b " tth!,t that
uiq French volunteers who had preceded Lim
wero well treated, and that tho Government l a j
confidence iu them, he bad aba doned his form* r
projects and desired to pluco himself atthodmpo
sal ot tbo Government.
The Governor had no conliJence in his profes
sions and advised him to leave tho State. The
Count, instead of following this advice, immediate
ly p.oeeeded to seduco tho French volunteers, tho
kfreaier part of whom we e personal known to
him. The events that occurred from tho Ist of
July to the 14. h aro not Btated. On tho 14th ihe !
French volunteers soDt a note to tho Governor, |
signed by five of tho oliicers, stating that iu view
of the hostile measures that wero being taken {
against thorn they asked for guarantees tor their j
safety, as they feared they might be attacked, j
which guarantees they expected to receive in the j
•shape of hostages, munitions aud artillery, other I
wise tney be obliged to guarantee their own
safety by taking Tho Governor replied
at once to their latter, staling that they wore nn [
der the influence of false stories, and that ho had }
no intention ot attacking them, and gave them his
word of honor that he would not tnkoasingla hos
tile s e;> if the French battalion did not first act, on
the offensive, but ibat the conditions they domain
ded compromised his honor, and ho could not
comply with them without first calling a council of
war.
Gon. i auez went on making hia preparations to
attack them, and learning that the Count intended
to attack him, ho placed himself at the head of
three hundred met* and awaited the coming of the
French battalion. Tho combat lasted or three
horns, the French numbering four hundred men,
and ended in their coraplote route, lea' ing forty
six dead, many wounded, and two hundred pris
oners, among whom was R:\oussot. Tho Mexican
loss is reported at ono officer and ton men killed
and several wounded. A court marlial was im
mediately firmed, and letters from Guaymas, of
the 17th of July, states that the sentence was that
the Count and tho officers be shot, and the men
sent to Sun Francisco in three Mexican vessels. It
was stated that the execution would take placo on
tho 19tn.
Tho advices from tho South aro very meagre.
We ace the death of Villareal, one of Alvarez’s
chiefs, announced as having occurred at Acapulco,
from wounds received in action. [This is the
third tune wo have had to announce tho death of
Villareal.— Eds. Pici]
Col. Moreno reports having dispersed a band
of insurgents, ono thousand strong, after a \igor
ous resistance. Tho enemy lost thirty-seven
killed, forty oight wounded, and forty two prison
ers. The officers who wero taken, among whom
were tho commandsnto and two alcaldes of
Tlapehuala, were shot at once. Instead ot follow
ing the enemy, Sonor Moreno reports that he ro
crossed the river Tangnoguato aud returned to
Tlapehuala, in order to protect attain which the
Supremo Government was sending him, with
$10,009 in specie, ho understood another band
of insurgents wero going to attack it. On hia
marcl, ho says, ho burned all the houses on both
sides of the river and brought away all the in
habitants.
On tho 11th, tho commandant.o writes from
Chilpanzingo that ho had sent out a division to
reconnoitre, the commander of which reports hav
ing taken three prisoners. The comm ndante
says ho shall decapitate them as soon as brought
iu. important correspondence is a’sj reported
as taken.
There is uo mention made of tho position or
designs of Alvarez, nor any advices from Acapulco.
The revolution at Michoacan seems to proceed
very slowly, and without active movements of
moment on either sido. Tho insurgents had
taken possession of tho town of Aguililla, and
were insight of Los lieycs on tho 31st of July.
Aw official report of their operations from the 16th
to tho 28*;h of Ju y is published, from which it
appears that they had marched into several towns
aud had taken all tho public moneys they found,
as also the public supplies of coin. Privote pro
perty had been spared, except several requisitions
lor horses, saddles and arms, and iu ono instance,
inmiey.
Tho insurgents aro commanded by I>iaz and
Huarta. They had visited the towns of Puereporo,
Penjumillo, Z naparo, Piodad, (whore their colors
were blessed by the eurito,) Ponjarno, Tluzazalca,
Cfiurincio,and Tangaucicuuro, aud aro represented
as composed of threo companies of cavalry and two
ot Infantry. Tho town of Huotamo is reported as
having accepted tho pardon of tho Supremo Gov
ernment, and tho authorities of Michoacan excuse
their want of activity rgainst tho insurg ita, sta
ting that they had not been able to rai o an i equip
the' four squadrons ordered by tho Gov- rument.
From Tamauiipas the nows is very banen. The
town* of J-inmavo and ‘Jasas, that had loi'owed
Garzu’s pronunciarnieuto, hnd repented and sent
in their adhesion to tho Government. Five hun
dred men with two piece* of artillery had left
Tampico to attack Garza at Ciudad Victoria, and
two hundred men had been or«lerod f rom Monterey
for the same purpose. The Governor of Nueva
Loon was putting his forces iu condition to operate
against the insurgent* of Tamauiipas if necessary.
Letters from Gurza to parlies in Nueva Loon,
urging them to riso, and offering artillery if they
needed it, have boen takou and published by tho
Government.
Santa Anna has issued a decree enabling the
religious order* to avail them elves ot tho civil
tribunals to enforce upon tho monks and tho clergy
the adherence to their vows.
By tho last English packet, a dividend was re
mitted to the English holders of Mexican bonds,
which the official Diario says will provo that there
is a disposition, if not ability, on tho port of
Mexico t:> pay her creditors; that the present
Government cannot do more, because of tho im
poverished state of the country, particularly sinco
tho American invasion.
An order for tho confiscation of the property of
tho insurgents has been issued.
Don Emilio Ray has been charged by Santa Anna
to wrlto tho history of his last campaign in tho
South*
The Supremo Government has declared tho
affair against the French volunteers at Guy mas to
bo an action against n foreign enemy, end a cross
in honor of It has been ordered for tec troops, and
promotions :or tho officerare announced.
Don Sebastian liollingzor, who has been lately
liberated by Alvarez, has been appointed to the
command of cdo of tho hew steamers expected to
arrive shortly from New York.
A commi.teo has been formed to construct a
lino of electric telegraph from Guadalajara to San
Bias. [The line from Vera Cruz to Mexico is built,
and the contract tor a lino lrom tho latto’ city to
Guudalajara was mode last year. If this ne« line
is built, it will make a tolegrapni. communication
from San Bias to Vera tru* — Eds. Plc.]
A weekly English paper is to be oetabliskod at
tho city of Mexico, by Mr. Rickards, tho agent for
tho English holders of Mexican bond * under the
editorial direction ol Mr. Gaatavus Sohadtler.—
The first number will appear on tho 2d of S ;ptom
ber.
Gen. Minon &n J Senor Suarez, late exiles, have
boen restored to thei.’* title* end honors, they hav
ing given to the Government sufficient proof that
they did not participate in tho movements of Co
ballos, Ocampo and others, who arc seeking to
overturn it.
Tho official paper of Monterey announces the
execution ot Agapito Travino, a celebrated high
wayman, bettor known as tho oxballo bianco—
white horse. Tho journal gives a romantic ao
count of his great talents and kind muuners of
doing his business, stating that ho was never
known to give a wound except in self-defence.
The Universal is out again strongly in favor of a
greul Spanish American alliance, which, it says,
is rendered necessary by the late occurrence at
Greytown. It says this affair will not bo tho last
of its kind, and that only an alliance can save all
•South America from the greed of tho Amo ican
Union.
The Crops.— lt is the universal opinion that the
cotton crop will be cut off fully one fourth in Geor
gia and Alabama. The recent drought, succeeded
as it was by heavy rains, caused the forms to shed
astonishingly, and was followed by rust ia many
places. In Barbour county, Ala., the average yield
upon the best lands is set down at 500 w< ight per
acre. This is a falling off of ona-liulf
There will bo barely corn enough male to meet
pressing wants. There will .scarcely ho a bushel
surplus. The late corn was entirely ruined by tho
drought. It struck it in the tassel and made a
clear sweep. —Columbus Times , Aug. 80.
Solution or the Problem.— Tho editor of the
Louiavile Presbyterian Herald, in an elaborate
article ot a column and a half, settles, both to tho
satisfaction of himself and also of any ono who
will read it, that the present severe drought is the
work of God. We had som9 idea before that this
was a fact, but it did not occur to us that it re
quired so much printing to prove it. —Louisville
Journal.
What Constitutes a Gentleman. —A waiter was
examined the other day betore ono of our Courts.
We annex his testimony:
“Your name is Flunkey, I believe.”
“Yes sir, Robert Flunkey.”
“Well, Mr. Flunkey, you say the defendant is
no gentleman. Why do you think so ?”
“’Cause, sir, fco always says, Thank you when
I hand him a mu-ton cuop, or a piece of bread.
Now, a real gentl :man never aoes this, but hol
lers out, Here, Bill, get me a mutton chop, or I
will throw this pepper box at your head. You
can’t deceive me with a gentleman, your worship.
’Cause why ? 1 have associated' with too many ol
them at tho race course.”
Novel Tests cf Respectability.— Upon a recent
occasion, a person who was making inquiries re
specting one of our merchants was told iu reply to
the query whether he was a respectable man ?
that he was probably ho, for “he hud never been p.
railrcad director /” Tnis is almost equal to the
testimony produced at a late trial for murder in
England. A witness for the prisoner testified that
he wut a very respectable man, an “he had kept
gig for several years !”— Boston I'rara.
Becky Jail. —The two light-fingered gentry,
who v.ere confined in the new Jail ot this District,
on the charge of stealing money a few weeks ago,
from our fellow citizen, Mr. Jacob Lyons, '-ffeciod
their eecopo night before iast by meuns of a com
mon tail: Snife, which they left behind them for
the inspection cf the curious in such matters. It
seems mat, with this instrument notched I ke a
saw, they cut through a partition wall of plank
two inches thick, and thus obtained an entrance
into an adjoining cell, the door cf which was not
fastened. With the same instrument they cut
through an iron grating which close* up at one
end the passage through the Jail. Thi*done they
eaiiJv made their wny to the first story and thence
into the street. —Columbia (S. C’■) Times, Aug. B vth.
Assist of a Murbxekr.—’ The negro stove F rank,
who last October so cruelly murdered Lis master,
the late Wm. K. Henry, was arreeled yesterday
morning in tide cty and safely lodged in jm. He
has doubtless been about town during the whole
period since the commission of the murder, but
until the present time has evaded apprehension.
, jj e was found secreted in a hole dug iu the ground,
. immediately under the floor of a room occupied by
hia family. H.a occasional. visits there had been
long suspected by those in- search ot him, but up
t to yesterday his lurking place was unknown. He
i will now reap the fuli penalty of his horrid crime.
r-jfatcA* Gautier, Utk imt.
O? HOME.—it auci cxaiT.
JJy heart nude pics res all to-day
Os the old h imeftead far away.
It Is the ttiddfi cf the M y,
And the mom is s.-'nirg full and bright—
Tiie tnidj e of May aud tne middle of night.
Darkly sgvns: the south rs wall,
Three che*r; y tiees so smooth aid tall,
Their »do«rs cast—»e planted all,
One morning in March, that is long gone by,
&L brother Maran and I.
I tear the old clock tick tnd tick
In the sin ill | ar.or —see the thick
U ife ither» d wing- of that *tkk
To the moon- it « Lulows and see the mouse,
Noiseless, peering ub jut the house.
I’m ioing up the windirg sta'rs,
I’m count nga‘l the vtca t chairs,
Aud sad y sajiag, **Tfie.v were theirs,
The brott-ers and sisters, wh », no more
Go in and out the home.-tea J door.”
I hear my sweet-voiced mother say,
“ Leave children, * 1 the wtrk to day,
And go into the field:.- and play.”
And thebiidi are .-lowing where'er we go—
How beaudful to be . reaming so.
And yet, wt il-3 I am dreaming on,
I snow my p*ayma »a all are gone;
Tb it Lone the Lope of cur childti od keep
Th t some are w vary and .-cme asleep.
And that l from the fcorr.esiead *ru far away
This midd e of night una the middle of May.
Itema-
Tbe following is a good phraso, descriptive of
an energetic character: “Cromwell did not wait
to strike until tho iron was hot, but made it hot
by striking.”
Steam Newspapers. —Of steam newspapers the
New York Times says: “Think of tho sioam-mon,
j the steam-reporters, tho steam-roviowers, tho
! steam editors. Fingers, muscles, brains—all must
Igo by steam. How can an editor or any other
[ newspaper gentlomon help blowing up somebody
; or something ? Steam in the office, steam ia the
i sanctum, st?am in the basement and attic—thoro
; must ho accidents—thero must be explosions.”
A spirited tournament was got up at Jordan’s
Springs, Virginia, on Friday wcok. Nino Knights
entered the lists. Miss Montague, of Baltimore
was crowned as Queen of Love and Beauty.
A gentleman was promonadiug a fashionable
street with a bright little boy at his side, when tho
littlefeilow called out:
“ O Pa ! there goes an editor!”
“ Hush, son !” said the father, “ don’t make
sport of tho poor man—God only knows what you
may come to yet.”
Ford, of the Texas Times says : There is a deep
colored femalo living in these parts, who is afraid
to walk tho streets, because, she says, “Th th the
y y-young men w-w will k k-kiss mo b-b-before I
can s s-say d d-dont.” Sho is the only specimen
cf a stuttering femalo known to bo extant.
The Butterfly Plant. —Tho National Intelli
gencer says that a specimen of tho singular and
beautiful “butterfly plant” is now in bloom at
the National green-house in Washington. The
blossoms are vory large and yellow, with reddish
brown spots, and aro moved to and fro with every
breath of air, so as to resemble very much tho
gaudy insect from which it derives its namo. Tho
plant was brought from the Island of St. i.homes
in the U. S. frigate Karitan.
‘My son,’ said tho older Spigglcs to Spiggles,
junior, thinking to enlighten the boy on the pro
pagation of the hen species, 4 my son, do you know
that chickens comes out of eggs V
‘Du they ?’ replied Spiggles, junior, as he licked
his plate. ‘ I thought eggs came out of chickens.’
Thus ended the first lesson.
Patent Cow’s Tail Holder. —John M. Wearo,
of Seabrook, N. H., has roceutly obtained a patent
lor holding cows’ tails still during tho operation of
milking. The machine is fastened to ono of tho
animal’s ham strings, and tho tail is compressed.
Mr. Wearo politely stylos his disco vory tho “milk
er’s protector.”
Horaco Greeloy has recently had a dozen snap
ping turtles hatched from the same number of
“genuine Shanghai eggs,” which cost him six
dollars.
The Salem (N. J.) Standard says that Mrs. Sarah
Eliot, of that town, hesgatherod, daring tho pre
sent season, ono hundred good ripe lemons from
a singlo tree, and from another sho took one
meaßaringl3incl.es and a half in circumforcnoe,
and weighing a pound.
Tho Boston Chroniclo can take tho broom on
weather paragraphs. Hear him rave: “ Tho
weather for the last few duys haa beon positively
hot, comparatively hot, superlatively hot—day and
night. Hot, hotter, hotlost, most hottost. Hot
tentot, Ilottontottsr, Hottentottest, Ilottentottisi
mus, Hottentoitisimus, plus ono, Hottontottisimus,
plus one hundrcd-liot os an oven—hot as two
ovens—hot as , wo givo it up.
If any young man wants to roach the ‘high top
gallant-mast of focility,’ let him make a journey
through Maine, seated on the back scat of a stage
coach between two down east girls with only ono
pioco of apruco gum for three to chow. The editor
of the Boston Herald has triod it.
Now York is still rather dull, altfcfougli the daily
arrivals at tho hotels considerably inoreasod within
tho last week. But there is room for a greater in
crease. The number of strangers there now is lees
than half this time twelve months, and there are
more than twice as many of the citizens abscLt
than there wore at any time last year. There ia
very little of tho epidemic loft now.
Despite tho reported ravages of tho yollow fever
in Now Orloans, some of tho pooplo there seem
disinclined to givo up their usual routine rfamuse
ments. A grand mask and fancy dress ball was
advertised to take place at Montgomery’s Pass
Ckristiuu, which it was expected would bo attend
ed by a largo delegation from tho city.
Last week as the driver of a six horse wagon,
laden with granite, was crossing the iron bridge
over the Tiber, on H street, Washington, ho heard
the strucluro commence cracking. With great
prosence of mind ho plied the whip to tho horses
and had just cleared tho bridge when it gave way
aud fell a mass of ruins.
During last woek an average of four thousand
baskets of peaches per day wore sent from Cumdcn
N. J., to tho New York market. Notwithstand
ing this apparently immense) amount, thoro is said
to have boen a wonncrful falling off iu tho quanti
ty of this fruit, and prices are about double what
they wore last year at this lime.
Fatal Accident.— On Sunday morning last, a
German, whose name we have boen unable to as
certain, while in tho act of coupling two of tho
cars on the South Carolina Railroad, near Granite
villo, was crushed in such a shocking manner as
to causa his death the sumo evening.
A report thatN. P. Willis, tho poet, was
sinking uudor consumption, having boen pretty
freely circulated by tho press, that unfortunate
individual upon whom so muoh sympathy has
been expended, says in last Saturday’s edition of
tho Home Journal, “I am in some danger of re
covery, I believe, (hero and thero a doctor think
ing it not impossible).”
GOOD I9HT.—bt miss land jir.
Good Night!—what a sudden shadow
H is fallen u,*on the air,
I look not around the chamber,
I know he is not there.
SwoLtness has left t ie mutic,
And gladness le 4 t the light,
My cheek h*s lost its coir;
H w cou'd he say Good Night!
And why should he take with him
The happiness he br< ught?
Alas! such fleeting pleasure
Is all too dearly bought,
If thus iry ht-*rt stop beating,
My fp ri .B lose their tone,
And a glo:>in, !ise night, surround m«
The moment he is gone,
Like the fame fruit of the lotus,
Love alters ev< ry taste ;
We loathe the life we are lecd’ng,
The spot where we are placed ;
We live upon to-mu row.
Or we dream the past aga ! n ;
But what avails that knowledge?—
It ever comes in vain.
“You possess much virtu , mem,” said the doc
tor, as he ushered Mrs. Partington in among his
curiosities—the mumcries from Pei a, and the
cracked jugs from Pompeii, and tho skeleton of
the turt e, and the many beautiful things sent to
him by the Society of Paris. “I suppose,” said
she, slightly erecting her form, and looking down
upon a bole worn in the carpet abou. the size of a
three cent piece, “I suppose 1 may say that I do
possess some, but sell-praise doesn’t go a great
ways.” Tne doctor blandly nodded and smiled.—
He appreciated the modesty of the remark, while
she thought he was complimenting her life, the
virtue of which sixty-fivo years had sacrificed. “Do
you observe,” continued the doctor, “the air ot
antiquity ab jut this roem f” “Yes,” said she, “I
noticed it when I came in, and I sheuid think you
would improve it by opening the windows.” The
doctor was slizhily con lowed, us he assured her he
meant the general aspect es the room, with its an
tique c:»airr* aud the parchment rolls upon the
shelve-, and went on to exhibit and explain the
various curions objects of hi« collection. “Here,
madam,” said he, “is rny castle: I shut myself in
here, the world forgetting, by the world forgot,
and revel in the curios’ties of the past that fori one
has favored me with.” “Enjoying, I suppose,” in
terrupted she. affecting the classical, tl )oar opium
cum digitalis.” There was a pause alter this.—
The doctor held his breach. Jhe classical remark
was a stunner, and Mrs. P. went oat hood
afterwards like an exhausted skyrocket.—Boston
Post.
PEiBEW jßTur —-A l-Jy pt Jefferson c°antj,
Indiana, nan tnado teiae 1 a baudsomo * ...
from cocoons oi her own raiaing- 'i -•
be exhibited at the Ind.asa btate ia.r Ibis fall,
which i» to be hold Madison. ,
Pnhaw ’ The lady oI Jefferson is behind the
times haeely. In oar days of boyhood-it wasn’t
vp«tardav—a lady of our acqmutance now living
Abbeville District, planted the
tree- that lid the worms, that made the silk, that
formed tho dress which she wore ofttimes to
church, and elsewhere. Bhe made her “better
halt” a’ full suit, too; hat, coat, pants and hose.
Who, in a!! Indiana can excel her? Talk of the
“praiseworthy” industry ot your Indiana women
folk!-:; it isn’t a circumstance to what the ladies
away down South have done.— Carolina Times.
A Contract for Farmers.— Last year the crops
on ice CuLtioerit of Europe failed on every side.
Famine btared France, Germany, and Paly in the
faco. were growing unheard of quantities of
wheat and grain, and between the farmers and
the merchants we must have made on the ycarV
crops ioli two hundred per cent, profit. Now the
ca*-e '.m reversed. The bhow of fail wheat on ihe
Continent is good, though the constant rrias Lave
injured romeofthe finer qualities, end the price of
bread tolls is falling rapidly at Paris. Here, on
the contrary, the continued drougl t is destroying
the harvest. Unless we have heavy falls of rain
■ within a short time millions ot aciet of corn will I
be dried up. It would be singular if wo should J
have no surplus, and France should again export j
Urge quantities oi grain.— Cincinnati Tmts.
yOL. LX VIII.—NEW SERIES VOL. XVIII.—NO. 36.
From th* Savannah Journal <0 Courier.
Growth of the Luton.
Tlio.Consus ol 1650, os compiled by Mr. He Bow
develops some wonderful aud interesting in
regard to tne rap.d growth and extent ot the
United States. In I7ul the colonies contained a
population ot only 262 UGO souls. In 1741) ancthor
csumaio wp.h made, ai d the result was a popula
tion ot 1,048,000. In 1775 the report was 2,608,000
—-being nearly 300,000 lc*s than tho present popu
lation ofNew Yorxl In 1790, under the first cen
sus, the population wuj 8,929,827. Tlioro were
then seventeen States and Territorial Govern
meats; in 1800, twenty-one States and Territories;
1810, twenty live; in 1920, twtnty-seven; in 1880,
twenty oighi; in 1940, thirty; and in 1860, thiity
six. We have now thirty nine, having added to
tho list Nebraska, Kansas, and Washington.
Our territorial ixtont, says Mr. l)o Bow, is
nearly ten times as largo as that ol Great Britain
aud Franco combined; three limes as large as tho
wholeol France, Britain, Austria, Prussia, Spain,
Portugal, Belgium, Holland and Denmark toge
ther; ou ami u halftimes a-* large as tho Russian
E npiro in Europe; one sixth only than the
area covered by the Jifty-nine or sixty Empires,
States aud Rspubics in Europe; of equal extant
with the Roman Empire, or that of Alexander,
i.uithor ol wuich exceeded throo millions of square
mile:. \V e have an ocean aud gulf shore line of
12,6c9 mhos, an island shore line of 9,247 miles, u
tidul ti >w of 11.218, and an inland rivor steamboat
navigation ol 47,855 miles !
f The following statistics of the States aud Torri
tOTies, condensed from tho valuable tablos furnish
ed by Mr. Do Bow, will bo found doeply iuter
' e-tuig und instructive to uiauy ot our readers:
SiAvna of tub Union.—Alabama.—Formed out
ol territory ceded to tho United states by South
3 Carolina and Georgia; admitted into tho Uuiou
, December 14tn, 1819. W hit© population 426,514;
a free colored 2,265; slaves 842,814; trial 771,623;
.number ot square miles 59,722; inhabitants to
1 squuro mile 15 21.
r Arkansas.—Formed from territory ceded by
Y France; admitted June 15, 1886. Whites 162,-
189; free colored 6o8; pJavos 47,100; total 209,
9 897. Sqnnro miles 52,193; inhabitants to square
3 mile 4.02.
California.—Formed from territory ceded by
Mexico; admitted September 8, 1850. Whites
4 if 1,605; free colored 962; total 91,597; square
i miles 188,982; to square miles 0.49.
j Carolina, North.—Ono of tho original Sta’es.
Ranked tne Constitution of tho United Statos No
vember 21,1789. Whites 653,028 ; free colored
i 27,463; slaves 288,648; total 869,089; square miles
45,5U0; to square mile 19.1.
Carolina, doom.—One of tho old thirteen.—
Riitilied the Constitution May 23, 1788. Whites
274.563; free colored 8,960; Biases 834,984; total
663 507; square miles 23,000; to squuro mile
28.87.
Columbia, District of.—Formed from territory
coded by Virginia and Maryland. Mudo Scat of
Government J u y 16, 1790. Alexandria retrocodod
July, 1846. Whites 87.94'); lreo colored 10,069;
slaves 8,687; total 5i,637; square miles 60; to
square mile 1038.74.
Connecticut—One of the Old Tbirtoen. Rati
fied the Constitution January 9, 1788. Whites
868,099; tree colored 7,693; total 370,792; squuro
miles 4,T50 ; to square mile 78.06.
Delaware.—One of the Old Thirteen. Ratified
tho Constitution December 7, 1787. Whitoa7l,-
069; tree colored 18,093; blavos 2,290; total
91,582 ; square miles 2,120; to square mile 43.17.
Georgia —One ol Urn Cl<t Thiiteeu Ratified the
Constitution, Ju».2, 1788. Whitess2l,s93, free col
ored 2,981; siaves 881,682; total 9U6,185; square
miles 58,000; to square mile 15.62.
Florida—Formed Irom territory c. ded by Spain.
Admitted March 3, 1845. Whites 47,208 ; free
, colored 932; slaves 89,810, total 87,445; square
miles 59,268; to square mile 1.43.
Illinois.—Formed from territory coded by Vir
giniu. Admitted December 3, 1818. Whiles 846,-
034; tree colored 57,436; total 831,470; square miles
55,4' 9; to square mile 15.37.
Indiana.—Formed from territory c ded by Vir
ginia. Admitted December 11, 1816. Whites 977,-
054; free efiorod 11,262; totul 988,416; tquro mile
! 83,8c*9; to square mile 29.24.
lowa.—hurraed from part of tho territory of
Wisconsin. Admitted December 28, 1846. Whites
191 88’; free colored 333; totul 192,214; square miles
50,914; to square mile 3.77.
Kentucky.—Formed from Virginia. Admitted
Juno 1, 1792. Whites 761418; fee colored 10,-
011; slaves 210,981; total 982,405; squaro miles 87,-
68»*; to square mile 26.07.
Louisiana.—Formed Irom territory coded by
France. Admitted April 8, 1812. Whites 245,-
491; free colorod 17 ; 462; slaves £41.809; total 51,7-
652; square milts 4i,146; to squuro mile 12.52.
Maine—Formed from tornfory of Massachu
setts. Admitted March 15, 1820. Whites 581,-
818; free colorod 1,356; total 58 3,169; equuio miles
35,00 c; to square mile 16.66.
Maryland.—Onoof the thirteen Original States.
Ratified tho Constitution April 28, 1788. Whites
417,918; free colored 74,723 ; slaves . 90,363 ; total
508,034 ; squaro milo > 11,000; to square mi1e53.00.
Massachusetts —Onoof the Old Thirteen. Rati
fied the Constitution February 6, 1788. Whites
985,45a : l'reo colored 9,064 ; total 594,514:} square
miles 7,250 ; to square milo 137.17.
Michigan.—Formed from territory coded by
Virginia. Admitted January 26, 1887. Whites
L 95,071 ; free colored 2,588 ; iota* 897,654 ; squaro
miles 66,243 ; to square mile 7.07.
Mississippi —Formed from territory coded to
the United Statos by South Carolina. Admitted
January 16, 1887. Whites 295,718 ; froo colorod
98u ; slaves 3J9,878 ; total 606,526 ; square miles
47,151 ; to equuro mile 12.86.
Missouri. —Formed irom territory ceded by
France. Admitted August 10, 1821. Whites
592,004; free colored 2678; slaves 87,422 ; total
682,044; squaro miles 65,087; to squuro milo
10.49.
New Hampshire.—One of tho Old Thirteen.
Ratified the Constitution Juno 21, 1788. Whites
317,456; free colored 520 ; total 817,976 ; squuro
miles 8080 ; to squaro mile £9 6.
New York.—One of the O.d Thirteen. Ratified
tho Constitution J uly 26, 1783. Whites 8,048,826 ;
tree colored 49,069 ; totul 8,098,394 ; square miles
46,000 to square mile 67-88.
New Jersey.—One ot the Old Thirteen. Rati
fied t’lo Constitution December 18, I7fc7. Whites
465,509; l'rce colorod 28,810; slaves 230; total
439,565; square miles 6851 ; to square nolo 7146.
Ohio.—Formed of territory cooed by Virginia.
Admitted November 29, 1802. Whites 1,966,060;
tree colored 25,279; total 1,93.',329; squaro miles
89,964; to square milo 49.55.
Pennsylvania.— Ouo of the Old Thirteen. Rat
ified the Constitution Decombor 12, 1787. Whiles
2,258,160; froo colored 68,G26; total 2,811,786 ;
square nnlos 47,000; to square mile 49.19.
Rhode Island.—Oco ot the Old Thirteen. Rati
fied the Constitulion May 29, 1790. Whites 148,-
376; free colored 8670; total 147,545; squaro miles
1,200 ; to square mile 122 95.
Tennessee. —Formed Irom territory coded by
North Carolina. Admitted Juno 1, 1796. Whites
756,836; free colored 6,422; slaves 289,459; total
1,012.717 ; equaro rnilos 44,000; to square mile
22 79.
Texas.—lndependent Republic. Admitted Do
comber 29, 1845. Whites 154,034; Iree colored
397; slaves 58,161; total 212,592; squaro miles
325.520; to square mile 0 65.
Virginia.—Oueot the Original Thirteen. Rati
fied too Constitution Juno 26, 1788. Whites
894,80 o; free colorod 64,888 ; slaves 472,528; total
1,421,661; square miles G 1,852; to square milo
28.17.
Vermont.—Formed from Now York. Admitted
March 4, 1791. Whites 313,402 ; free colored 718 ;
total 314,020; squarj miles 89,0o0; to squaro mile
39.26.
Wisconsin.—Formed from Michigan. Admitted
May 29,1848. Whites 804,756 ; free colored 685;
total 305,891; squaro miles 63,924; to squaro mile
6.06.
Territories.
Oregon.—Territorial Government established
August 14, 1848. Whiles 13,087; freo colorod
807; total 13,291; square miles 841,468 ; tosquare
mile 0 04.
Utah.—Territorial Government established
September 9,1850. Whites 11,850; free colored
14; slaves 26; total 11,830; square miles 137,
928 ; to square mile 0.06.
New Mexico—Territorial Government formed
September 9, 1850. Whites 61,526 ; freo colored
22; total 61,547; squaro miles 210,774; to square
mile 0.29.
From these data tho aggregates are as follows,
viz: Whites 19,558,068; freo colorod 484,496;
slaves 3,204,818 ; otal population 23,191,876; to
tal square mile* 8,305,865 ; number of inhabitants
to squaro mile 7.01.
If tho country continues to progress in tho same
ratio, it will by the yeur 1980 contain a population
of 200,000,000.
Substitution of Wine for Alcohol.—'Tho New
York (Quarterly, a journal which we arc informed
is edited mostly by clergymen, says:
“The moderate use ol wine would appear hap
pily aduptod, indeed, to the American character.
It would appear eminently suited alike to relresh
it in its energies, and to support it under its cares.
An excited us well as an exhausted mind may be
benefitted by its balms. Aalago says—and better
and more worthy authorities have confirmed it—
“ Wine is a good, familiar creature, it be well
u*ed.” Everything, of course, depends upon that.
But wo cannot for the life ol us see why it should
not be as well used in America as it is in Eu-ope.
vV o need its comforts here as well as they do there;
and wo may erjoy its conviviality with as high a
zest, and as much within tho bonds of modera
tion, too. “The first glass for myself,” as Sir
William Temple says, “the second for my friends”
—we can indulge not only with impunity, but with
advantage, in all that sort of thing; and, having
got through it, know where to stop as well as they.
There arc winea, too, of which it may be said, in
tho inviting words of tho sober and immortal John
Milton—
One sip of this
Will bathe the dreopirg spirit n de'Ght
Beyond the bliss ol dreams. Be wise and taste !
And surely, we may “be wise and taste,’' —surely,
we may have oar drooping spirits bathed in no
ught, as well as they,—a delight t .at i» all the
more delightful because it is innocuous, springing,
as it does, irom that which Heaven pave to man,
to make him a cheerful countenance, and to glad
den bis heart. .
“Yet, is it, after all, upon more utilitarian
grounds, that tho subject, in connection With the
circumstances we have before alluded to, chicliy
commends it.-olf to the attention of our public men
and our men of business. It is pre eminently a
practical question; and it is one that belongs, irn*
mediately and emphatically, to our age, as an age
ol progress. Whatever we may have said of it
sentimentally, we have said by the way. It is a
question of health, or morals, commerce; and it is
so at once practically, f b?y amDmportantly.”
Profusioncf Life in tub Ocean.—Not a shell
or a stone is brought up, but in thronged with liv
ing beings. Every branch of weeds gives shelter
to multitudes of creatures —some temporary ledg
ors, some permanent residents. Liio is a parasitic
upon life. The surpula builds its stony case on
the abode of the shell-fish, and the delicate lace
work ot the moss coral overspreads tho surpula.
Over tho stem of tho sea-weed creeps the graceful
plumes of the zoophyte spring. Thi se, again, are
thickly invested by the pretty cells of many small
er species; and they, in turn, minute as they are,
often bear in profusion the curioas forms oi mi
croscopic animalcules. Let uk take a stone from
the heap that is lyir gin our boat. It is a perfect
mu eurn in itself. It is richly colored in parts by
tha nuliivore —one of the lowest forms of vegetable
life, which does for ihesceucry of the ocean what
the mo?B and lichen do for the scenery ot the up
per world. Here is a circular cluster of cells,
“looking like beautiful lice work carved in ivor>;”
here a little saucer of tho purest whiteness, con
taining within it a number ot stony tubes, the
habitation of a whole company of liny polyplee.
A sponge overgrows one portion of tho btone,
itself the home of many a living thing; a sea
anemone has possession of another. The little
encrimite is present, and near it a small alar fish.
There a.e worm?, too, in plenty, and more of life
and beauty beside* than wo havespsce to describe.
I; is pleasant to think of the happy existence which
a single stone tn xj support. The forms to which
we have chiefly re f err*;d aro visible to tho unas
sited eye; but, as Humboldt remarks, “tho ap
plication of tic microecopo increases in tbo most
etriking manner oyr impression ol tho rich luxu
riance of animal life on the ocean, and reveals o
the astonished senses the consciousness of tho
universality of being.”
1 Pangob, (Me.,, Aug. 29.—The tire ii tho woods
in •hi v cinity have partially abated, and in aomo
IcctU iej aro being tubduod.
fehorm In Louiaville.
Aug. 23.—We ie.trn by * boat just
* *'louiaville that a destructive tornado
e n«un^ 0 K- r lli "' °’ ty yc3terdtiy atiernccu, nocom
• of ,ifa - *■“ im '
i- Church°.r U ? re ' <l i' io ? ot tho fourth Frcibytorien
0 service. "iTo 4V* «•<?"> ! ' ndlD f
.- the walls to t t W |e, d .nd «!•J n ' ot 7, use §
- confusion 1:11 down iutS tii ; ‘ l a 'n d
o oaroingwiu.ua
ports received hero state that 5.3 of Hie Vnurcira
'i *°S'- “"y tided and a |„ r ge number so
'» rionaly wounded, many ot them fatally.
The Third Presbyterian Church, on the cor-or
> of Eleventh and Walnut strict-, was ccin-.ioto.y
wrecked, and tho entire building fell in, crushing
* 20 of tho congregation to infant couth, aud
i wounding severely lu or 20 others. Ti o s< ho
j was truly heart-rending. Boon a largo crowd us*
, scmbled, aud begun their sohtcli for tie victims.
A mother and iicr throe chi.'dreu were groupe l in
i death. Another scene presented a f..:.'ier, mother
! aud babe—tho lather dead und !':o tuoll.or u r
, tally wounded, while the little child placefi be
neath them remained unhurt, being pro voted by
tho forms of its parents. In oilier met .uocs, seme
of the victims were found terribly wounded and
maimed.
Tho eatastropho has strickon consternation into
the very heart of tho city, audits people uro ap
palled beyond belief.
The ntorm passed over that part of tho city
lying betweon Fifth aud Twouty-first streets. A
splendid block of lour story houses recently
©reeled on tho North side oi Mum beiwoen Eighth
* and Ninth streets was completely destroyed, aud
i two or throe mou it is supposed aro iu the ruins,
i lhoso buildings cost $13,000.
’» ”PPer story oi Luo rope aud bagg'.ng factory
; of VV. A. Uionardfeou Co., on Magl2.no street
> was blown down, aud tho now city school on
the corner of Ninth and Magazine streeis Wtta Uli ;
V rooted. Ihe total loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO
The storm was also very sevoro in Jefferson,
ville, where four bouses wore blown down,
J Funeral of the Vlclima es the Tornado.
, Louisville, Aug. 29.—Agrooable to the procla
matiou of Major Speed, nil business was suspend
ed throughout the city uud tho bells told, the ray
being observed as a day of mourning for the
victims ol the uwiul Tornado of Sunday.
Inc bolls were tolled and the funeral eorvicoof
tho uuioitunae victims was preached at Dr.
Bjckcnridgu’s church, where an immeure con-*
course wore gathered to hear J>r. Moirisontho
pa.-tor ol tho demolished church. Llo said tho
door was blown open und t.:e house filled with
dust. In an instant tho destruction w..s complete.
The Doctor was in tho pulpit ut tho time of tho
caiustropho and escaped uninjured. The sceno
was or.o of melancholy interest.
The papers of this morning contain full details
of tho lornado on Sunday, und of tho funeral
oeremonies yosterduy.
I he oiiyyestorduy presen tod a solemn spectacle,
was in 1 grout degree suspended, and the
bells weie all toiled lor several iiouis in Ine middlo
of tho duv. At an early hour in tho afternoon
tho first Presbyterian chinch, where tic lLi'.o:al
services of most of tho deceased were held, was
densely ciowdo . Tho bodies of the dead were
placed upon a platform in tho tower, and tho
exorcises wore eondiyftod by several dergjmen.
Tho spacious yurd wus also crowriod with specta
tors, who wore unable to obtain ui enirunco.
At tho opening oi the services tho Rev. Mr.
Morrison who cflioiated at the iU-fmed church at
tho limo of the eulustrophe, made u low rcmarLs.
lie stated that on tho b .bbath am moon so disas
trous to life ho hud boon requested to preach, but
it, was not generally known among the congrega
tion that there would be divine servic**, —lunce
tho small number tha wore iu-cunbled. Upon the
next Sunday it was expected that tho pa or re
cently invited would bo installed. Th re were
not mote than t 5 persons present in the house at
any time on Sumluy during the sermon which hud
been commenced at u lifier period thuu usual, and
tho services wero being held in tho basement
room, aud not in tho body oi the church.
When the storm camo up tho main door of tho
basement room was blown o; on, aud au cider rose
and closed it. Again tho deer was forced open,
and again closed; u third time tho violence 01 tho
wind blew the door open, notwithstanding the
eider was proasiug against it at the time. Instant
ly tho house was tilled witli particles ol
speaker hud his eyes filled with the fine dust.
This caused some stir in tho assembly, and most
of tho porsons roso to their f. ot, some jumj-iug
out of the windowo near wboro they wore h du g.
Mr. Morrison said ho had not time to recover
from tho effects oft ho gusto! wind that stiuck him
with particular fury, before a cracking sound re
vorbciuted ovor heud, and in a moment ot time
nlior tho tompest blew opeu the door with such
violence, filling tho room v.ith sand, the whole
walls had fallen in. Immediately about the pulpit
whore ho was standing the plastering was not
broken, and to his rigut several old ladies osoaped
unhurt.
Mr. Morrison oxpressod himself as having been
groatly shocked by the suddenness of tho calamity,
und when he finally roeovoro l from the blindness
caused by the ascending dust, &c , u most terrible
sight presented itself botoro hiui. Ho saw two
men already dead, tho bead of another gr* utly
mangled, just appearing among tho rubbish, a
lady grasping her child in the agony ot dcuiu, and
a young lady with her body bent across ouo ot the
seats and her lace most horribly disloited. From
different parts ol the building lie could hear tho
groans of tho dying, and tho stittud screatLs of the
crushed.
Os those injured only ono, Mrs. Marshall, has
yet expired. Miss Duff is in a very prcciriTOT*^* -
condition. Mrs. Marshall, wife ol V*illiam Mar
shall, is not expected to re ,*ovcr.
Captain Giesnlow, of tho utoami r Mou,phis,
which bout wus badly damaged, thus describe; tho
tornado. 110 was 0.1 his boat, 011 the forecastle,
when tho first blastof tho hurricane struck l or.
Uo saw the block of houses of Mr. Beatty oru: b.o
to tho ground, and beforo he coaid utter a .. inmg
cry to lhoso around, tho storm waaupon h ui. iio
clasped his arms around u staunofieon t*j hold
himself, and in au instant be heard a rushingsound
over his bond, and a noise like the cracks of an
immense wagon whip, and saw the greater p rtioa
of his cabin roof and the entire Texas railing fiy
overhio bead and alight in tho river, tii y or seventy
yards atu ad of him. A moment ai«. r the ponde
rous hull of tho bout received a tremendous blow
us it were, and wns whisked from its moorings
over to a reef of rocks in übout tho space ot lime it
requires to draw- a breath.
Improved Felt Cloth —Wo have examined with
much interest spocimeuh es Felt Cloth manufac
tured by the Union Manufacturing Company, of
Norwullr, < ,'ooooo iout, under a prooce-*, tbo patent
for which has lately boon extended tor fourtioa
yoara. Theso apecimeos exhibit tho various m u ?os
through w“ich the v/o* 1 pusses until it ro i.lts in a
texture so finely finished, and se well a i* pied to
its purpose, us to equal iu appearance itio most
highly finished productions of the 100 n. The pro
cess of the manufacture is minutely described in
tbe following article which wo find in the New
York Journal of Oommoroo. In tho m*unti no
those who wish to examine this new and cheap
production can do ho at the ntoro of Messrs. Mur
doch <& Dull, Boutli Clmrlen street, who aro the
agents of tho manufacturers in this city, und
whose extensive Bales show tho appreciation in
which it U held.— Halt. American.
Felt, Cloth. — Wo noticed a few dayapince, a pub
lic sale of lcll cloths, a portion o! which were made
in t o old stylo, with tho wool laid but one way
and w"re of course 1 able to bo torn lengthwise,
besides being loss serviceable in other respects,
than those undo under tho recent patents, lu
connection with this explanation, u few words in
rogurd to the motbod of manufacturing these goods
may not be void of interest. {Suppose a wool card
er nine feet wide, delivering a thiu layer of curd
ed wool upon an endless sheet of cotton of tho
samo width, it is made nine feet wide, that when
tolled up it may still measure a yard and u half, or
the ramo as common broadcloth. As often as this
cotton sheet, which runs upon a drum like an end
less belt, returns its burden to tho cardor, it re
ceives m additional layer ol wool, until tho proper
thickness is reached, when tbo wl,<'o is malted
together into cloth. This was tbo t.’i process,—
but it was soon found that the wool being laid on
only lengthwise,there wi n nothing to bind it like
thQjll.ingin wovenlahr.es, and ulsot.i t when
made into garments, whenever it was stretched,
as at the elbow of a coat, it left the mark or the
indentation; thoro bcin ▼ no mecLanicul coh l ion
in its parts answering to tho threads in ordinary
f* brie?, by which its original . f.apo night bo re
covered. This was remedied by a now invention.
While the carder is delivering the layer of wool
upon the cotton sheet as above dcßouhcd, two
small carders, four fo<.*t wide, placed at right angles
with tho one fir>;t mentioned, spread a thin layer
of wool across the sheet as it pa?."©* in i:n revolu
tion, no that, for every layer lengthwise, answering
to tho warp, there is u 1-tyer crosswise, answering
to tho filling of woven fabrics. This pr. cess is
repeated 11 util a number, my, 14, of ihoco thin
layers of wool have been spread upon one sheet.
Tho whelo is then t kcu off, and drawn over a
table, part of which is covered with u perforated
plate, lying upon u stenm hex, through which, as
it is two minutes in passing, the wool becomes
thoroughly enlivened by the hot vapor. It then
pass s under an enormous weight, which by a
peculiar motion, as well as by its pressure, hardens
or felts it into a fabric resembling a coarse flannel,
only that no threads are visible. This is then
thrown into a fulling mill, where, life any other
fiance!, it is greatly shrunk in length and breadth,
tho gain being in thickne 8. It is now passed
over the gig, whore cylinders covered with tc:zlo,
create u long nap on one surlacc. Jti* tin n color
ed, und finish d like an erninury doth. Our
readers will remember the Petcrsbarn beavers,
which, instead ot a smooth surlacc wit?, the nap
shearer! oloio like a broadcloth, were covered witn
little knots, as it the sur faro had be* n pa tided.
Many of tbe fell * are finished in this wa , and the
comparison wchave given explains the i.iothod cf
operation.
Tne cloth is passed order a prcs u , the upper
surface of which is covered with sai.d, .v: 'cued to
tho iron p'ate with glue. When the pr hich
is heavily weighted, is b t down upon tho cloth, it
has aro ary motion given toil, which by means of
its sanded surf we, tw;:*s the nap into the little
knots which make the peculiarity of tho rubric.
Tho now wave like siirlaco, recently exhibited,
ceded wo believe tho triat , is produced y the
same process, except that the modon of tie press
is from bide to side, instead of tw »i ". Those
improvements, with some others low l.©i> g pat
ented, are in operation at the Uni*.,, Co-/ p iny's
factory at Norwalk, Conn., where they ' r ci- at-d.
Most of the patents now be.’or 0, to 1 *,s Oouqanv*
arid they obtained a f u teen \ cans’ extension of
tlreir privileges at the l*»st session ox Lonrre?s.
The mills working in tho o d way have mostly
gone down ; but by the improved method, a
handsome, durable fabr.c f«»r overcoats is made,
at a moderato expense, und too product rnunt b©
increasingly popular. The good- «re product din
n ffreat variety of colors, at Irr m fl. 0" to $2 50 n«r
yanl. Tne bulk of the product ions are sold below
(1.50. The )>uhincs of the Union Com pat y new
amouL’s to abou* $600,000 per annum ; tboir profi ja
have been diminir l by occasion 1 cjrnpeution
with inferior or worthless ooda, nut the enter
prise La? still bceu successful.
Col. Benton Babec-oot —John Wentworth
writes home from Wuahingu uto Li, paper, the
Chicago Democrat, a long gossipping letter in
reference to a variety of measures * f general in
torest to the people of the West, and several of
very special intero?-t to Ins immediate ccnsiitueutß.
The letter commences with the fullowiug charac
teristic anecdote ot Col. Benton
\V ben the House adjourned on Monday, sine die,
thero wero about a dozen present. C . B. and
myself were the only oucs irom the West The
Colonel hud prepared himself foi uhotmornirg by
leaving vest, cravat and stockngs at hf»m<‘. He
wore light and low: dippers, which showed nature’s
fitockitg to great advantage. When u< ktd wa ro
he pu-chased his atockmgs he *a:d h« had goi
them of his mother soventy odd ycur-* ago, uud
hud r.ever yet wore a hole a> them.
Arrest of Humphries.— ll Bumphnea
who was indued ut. the V
Kulb Court, 1858, so tho murder of LhshM lhler,
wh<, was u.lmitted to t'-aif, * t:d who snbse-
Hl . h.\ninff ~n i raged in tho killing of Kent,
min” 1 his e-c?pe ha? been arrested at Wadeaooro,
Kentncby ifform.uon h»vl»* r«o. c.U is i'laoe
from thQ postmaster at Wadesboro, that llumo.ir.ea
around tha: place, marshall VV.lliford
was dospatebed to tecoro him, wluch he succeed
ad with tho kindly assis ance of the ciiiMne, ia
doing.— J*M*r**r 81« t ult,