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„ , oaai > c i,«*ed wpw«y «»• i
! . * .'I • » > u, Get. Bur or caia
*. n WUI, *l*U o
r \ v- a - he country eto.c .1 the cross ■ j
i ' ,* , u ,whch b 1 who have
ro .1 ,i! * • • '• , mJCtt j a Herkimer county will
” ' i’iii i I’orrog&tor waft a large,
f . ‘ red 1.«r.l faced man, in a red fiaiiuei
’ ~ t ckraijoe, no Ichfe than d'uuec*, pro
1‘ ’ . be jr uin the tar West. li waa
7 .• i grt up ol loungers wore sm< k.ng
~ , by iopen lire, wboi-e warmih,
t , . u mid-cummer night, wu» far from
fmplea&ant.
i > whom the question was address
c | .i.*> me i f.i» head toward the speaker, but
. .. l ately reply : and 1 ook the oppor
1 • n«».»:.g him more cioaeiy than I had
< »j’- u- !. -entrance. lie *u.i, without excep- ;
t-o. , t:.c ugliest, most pitiable specimen ot nu j
l have ever teen. One of his legs had been
am . u‘ed above the knee; hiw right haud wa- !
wr.’uered and contracted, as if i-y a severe burn;
h'»* tin ld*;r bad a curious hump; and the cords
of tun neck w r* so drawn and shortened that the
chock hei mod to rest upon it, a-, on a pillow. Him
eye la', e- were gone, and nib blood-shot e en
wrure coi.ti'iQAlly ttioviug uneanly with their raw
an iin flame l : . but more painful to the be
ho.d.r tnun ail this, waa a strange, undefined ex
pruth-.ott ol leur or horror, wlii;h waft never absent
iro i the hiC r, and which told, more s’riking.y
than i. a , if.--is, the ”tory of some awful Inal to
Which h«,j h;td been subjected.
W . j u . however, there waa something **o
m Jd an i manly in hie manner that he seem
o l at r, , eh-iJoi / • and obtain the pity and
sym » » ! every one. Jlis entrance into the
„ n i.. a- btrmrgor, fc»l checked
ti„. . . .. -i tteord.nery h«r room convorea
t,, , r . ;,a,i oi.ccbuir h) the Are was etler
c'l i' ;:j «ii 1 .glance o' ciminmeration ex
' oLaiVv-'l > idweeu tire toogh laborers.
• ; esiaio . int?" repeated the Qoower.
4-1 i ; sui t the ktraijg.r, in the hollow
voice ... act..-tinptive, “that 1 rhottld find some
0.,e n h ie to mphl who would rcc’liect me. I
.i.y cl jonr sac t- And yet,” hondd
cd, e-j/iij, ”mi> o*ll mother did not know me."
V:. i Wi. a , .ick movement in the (?rotip about
hit:; words, and every eje was bent once
more upon him. ljm no one spoke.
“l/ auiU I'cl od," resumed the ugly man, “your
non IV.H an t 1 need t. go to school together down
si t lie cfMfc.”
• I, >rd hep us," said the good old deacon, "to
think ol the change- ! Well," he widen, resign
edly, “in- ansi we must all come to.” It was plain
that the elder was fairly pearled.
“1 never thought till lately," pursued the crip
, “ihut 1 hliomd be obliged to toll my name to
inv’ r.i-1 corupeniouH aril lricnda. Look ut me
sgain.”
no,” mattered the man Ir. the rod übirt
ftwd.b-y, "one hg>k a day at that fellow is as much
ar. I can comfortably stagy r nuacr."
lint tini r'."re-kenpur, taking a step or two for
ward, g / 1 into the ugly man'a lace lor a moment
with an eager air, and said :
oights'ie, it'" lion Larkina 1"
“lien Larkins!" suid the deacon, “why, wo
bra. I you were dead.”
• ‘Vou will bear it.at agin aoofi,” said the new
com “and it will ho a true etory then.”
There was an awkward pause; for the old friends
of ti.e poor ...,o , with ail their curiosity, had a
,• Joli<a *y which lentrained thou qucution. —
;s• <. v» . ■ Lerninilu, who uow »«w him for the
flr'.- «.• . t • wholly free from any eueh ornbar
TAAuh.ent. ,dl C, “1 ain’t much given to
V , man a-'.i'mrt his will, but I should like
l‘ n )*',</ y.u ro-1 e HO, JuH 10 koop OUI Ol »UCh
u < j t '/u lien tliim oveoing,” aaid the ugly man,
~ ' ~, it, rjiu» many of my old ae
°j ~’n J oald, and tell lay story. I know
i I. .. \’> toll i» f*omo time or other, and 1
(v i-.t i > l.nvr. it over, to feel that my miaforlunoa
■ jj'>. nd that I am I'rne from qttOHliOOfl.
r j - I*l i‘i j i ; h a*, aa if to obtain an po-
T .c f> >m who tuwmo a couple of years sinco
—III'*,, „:ii, , tbai I wii- tl.en, us I ha i boon lor
, , . .. „,r ■ pmvionaly, a warm and active polltl
t itiat 1 nave come homo to die among
‘W ol little rnomoid who cornea out the
whott. li cse doobttnl rent; bnt then it was a
am rent tl" >it ’o mo, and I bolievo I was never
sortie.! which my party asked of
n ii„! tuno ol iho olootiou of the good old
UtiiuMi.i Uarri on whole, 1 trnti, in a bolter placo
thun ttio ‘Whi-.o Ilouau' uow."
“Amonl" said tt><> red shitted man, solemnly.
«■ vv non 1 otiiigraiod to Ohio, two ycare since,”
coriii. ■ ! Jii'km-, “1 carried my eutbusmsru with
u ,„ Ul ,,i b ctht. | rutty well known in tbo sec'ion
(it 'c 11 • rv about tiio village of W , whoro 1
M-Uiisl. Von must remember, at loust all of you
who ro.ol tl o newspapers, that our last guborna
torm! elention wi- an unusually entiling oue. I
boionyod to one ol tbo state gonorul comtnittoos,
an I, u’ tbo returns on election day came in by
expn ,v . gun to grow (airly wild. Wo hud
hotbrain’nd made all the necessary arrangements
to ha a itio cnrlttai aullieulio news of the result
i oil to tho Now Vor k papers, and 1 bud
SgruM I to .010 r liar a certain budget. I returns
tjh.i . ..... jn dto reeuivo during tho evening
sh .ni l ■uniin’o the town of 1$ , mum thirty
~,il .. i ml, by the rail way, as soon as it arrived,
mi l li d ( haitorid an engine, which was to be in
re ..... at eleven o’clock that night.
Well, the b'. Ignl c.imo promptly at the lime,
ami tl u rws n ... vpiUeas favorable us we desired,
sud no. more so than we expected. I suppose
It .v.i ' .e ' thut so suddenly determined me to
as, , ... intailigonce on myself. At any rate, 1
hastily ru.-01.-cd to go on tbo locomotive, anil,
Hindi g t'‘ u returns, I ran down to thedepot, where
lb i ■ -no was tired up and whistling its readi
imsi I . u mutt. It wits but tho work of a moment
l, , to iho ungin tor to take mo with him,
for i l .clio oauv. il was to accompany him was
nowhere to bo P.und, and ilia engineer hud re
solve .to run i.vi r iho track alone. 1 volunteered
a' 01. >lO n-.iat him as well as 1 could, aud im
mediately mounted the ougino.
“ i; was n dark and wild, though a warm n’gl.t,
and evervih.i'g gave indication of an approaching
storm. I'l-irbi y black clouds wero rolling up in
U,„ i'liy, ••..!, w ilt was rather a singular pho
nmn.-iii i. d H al season of the year, tho lightning
was tl.isi -ng vividly, and the thunder was inulter
ing a-gi. "Ity as rii a sunmior shower. But the
CXCiini.i. ui of Mii'cess banished every sensation ol
fear from rny tuiiM ; wo troth know thut wo had
tho right ' f wry. and, so tar re human ingenuity
and lor ■ lit could protect ns,there was no danger
of r.imiit g»t miv rate nt speed ut which steum
ooiilil diiv.'till. I'arcl'nl ineri hud during Iho day
boon se.ii forward to sen that each switch was in
Us place , the night tram trom 1! was to wait
for our arrival; tho road was reasonably straight;
Slid, except lb" ordinary dangers from defectivo
rail or nxV troi s, wo l ad n Hiring to apprehend.
“ ft'wu■ tl.irly mi es, rs I aui,l, toll . 4 What
time can yin make ii ini’ hohl 1 lo lliu engineer as
I got i pon tbo platform with him. ‘I once run
over the roa t in ttiree-ijuartora of an hour with
an engine,’ replied he. • Make it a hall hour this
time,’ erlt d I, ‘ and I w.ll glvo you twenty dollars, j
jjvtry minute is wortb a IV.rl une.’ I must t.uve
beau insane. The flash of victory, after .o many
weeks id Mithusiastio struggle, had almost, if not
quits, turned in drain, dust i.i this moment the
engineer du-i .ven d that the ightin trout of tho
engine IV is I..lining dimly, and threatening t > ex
pire. With an anathema upon tho negligent flre
man, he 1....pi'tl down to examine it. Tho lamp
llkd not lien Hill’d. ‘For God’a sake,’ ahriekod
I, win n 1 learned lie tact, don’t slop for that
trifle: | , c.i Ira el in the mirk if you can. You
rre not no ill’ 1 continued, tauuiii.gly, aa the
OnguuT'i ill I.os'.luled. ‘ 1 oat. ride to th« dovil
»• coolly von . .in,’ ho r. j .inod cheerily, ami ro
vuming l.is p i,.-:nrts 1 me machine.
4 *.\s wo emerged from the station-house, I ro
motnher itm . ing 1 had never seen a blacker night.
The first moti n of tho ong no had extinguished
out ligiit; hoi n slur was to bo seen in the heavens,
and tho low light ,1 windows which dotted tho
landscape here and there . lily added to tho gener
al gloom ol the scene. Flushed and wild as I was,
1 expenetu .1 a t..rillof horror ns tho engine mad
ly dashed into the darkness. 1 enabled my eyes I
until they ached; i held my breath und contracted
iny muscle*, a. i ia*li g,• o fearfully rapid seemed
the ta'.o at which wo wo;o flying.
“Kut a tic? m l pleasanter sensation soon took
the picro ct if -t rror. Nono but those who have
actually expet kneed i can imagine the nradening
delight xvlnch exo . VivcU rapid motion produces.
We went ui: lor in i hoa«w‘\y, und with no loud to j
retard c ur spe Now aud then alighted window
by the am i ft* c tr;m\ flow pus usliko a meteor;
w1..1*» tart 1 t r off in the gloom, a solitary taper
w-'.iltl -"■•l'OMnt'b poem madly -irtving to emulato
our p-ic i p distanced, however, and soon lost,
in i»*s.f than 1 huvo tvnm talking, wc had *»r
yhoh t.t a little village, where the street-lamp*
w * ro iviniimr, and which l know waajuftt 'on miles
t’r > n , \v I *.t 'oped down and examined my
wuiclild I'ui hicht ot tho ei'i ,; .no lire. We had
travelled the fl'*t u n miles in Iws than ten min
nto.*. h-. ;or!’ I shouted madly t.> tho engineer,
ns 1 eminmcd another pino st'ck under the boiler.
It it it was hardly possible to accelerate our apeud.
Tho win ■ actually leaped along the rails. The
lew dn'j>-t'» ram which oocosioual y fell, struck
az»in- t »i.y f v like line shot. The steam whistle
kopt up all c'\ Ui shriek, n» if the ougiue were
•omt* ino’ih n:F goblin, tortured beyond eudur
nuoe In an Inhuman fiend, while tho deep base of
the- biciwd-ig thunder mingled with tho wild rat
tie of v wheels, and formed a chorus which tho
Juries nvgl.l have envied. As tny ears wore grad
ually Muuned by theae complicated noises, aud
inv e't*s wearied by tboir unnatural exertions, 1
ftneic i that ! heard other noises aui saw other
nights which could have boon only the product ot
n bewildered brain. As we dashed in*o some
frloomy g ‘rge, 1 secuiod to hear angry voices warn
ng and uj brad t g mo ; as we flow over some lofty |
tin bank moot, l saw dark spirits in tho air, who
graved n\c ot\ with wiKt . eat area, or struck at me
with airy l’.ados. The lightnings became more
vivid and frequent. Now they showed us the
tbraatenii eis*tfs that over-lmug our path, aud
now t« y I’fkhHd up a raging torrent far beneath
us. My companion, however, was os calm und
oouipn- r d ris his cradle had been rocked by
to* sts. The flashes by which 1 iiccasion -hy
nought agi mss ot him gave, it i* tine, an unna
t.xrvi »• -* •• ee to his Ti.ov, bnt his manner was
as c. 1 • tod as 1 had s «uvs ku wn it. I ]
could fee: aim managing the engine as quietly and
e.. v it i ; w.s a enmrnor's day, aud he had j
the iivti of a hundred passengers to answer tor, !
boaidis is own.
* A i w irinntee —ten or twelve perhaps—had I
elapim ‘ o? I looked at ray watch, and 1 had be- j
gun to think that nr j >nrn. v V end was near. We j
wi re passing, bear s' 1 conk! judge by the sound
0 f the w ’ii’’. over a level, open tract of country, i
when 1 fancied l hit a momentary jar ; s« light, i
however, and unimportant, that it would have |
passed from my mv>; ccimn ut once, had it not
been for wb»t f.*ffo\v«d. Just st that moment, a j
Jooper and b'ightcr flash ot I ghtniug than I had j
before sc* n, attended, not followed, by an awful
crash of tminder, lit up again the surrounding
scenery. h‘gh aN>v * tkcdeafeningpaal,above
thele'«»r t-ho» dvr of the wheels, above the raving !
Os the w«nc*, i hrarxl a shriek, a shout ot h 'rror, so J
w:M, so a>v:«', so like the utterance of a leal soul,
tha r t v*S”S i:«.v dream* to this h>ur. It was *■.
round w 1 »’h no physical pain could have elicited
from a human be i*V, which nothing but mpor
natur- 1 could have produced, and which no
one vr k ••• ot«ec heard it could ever banish from his
leodkcuon.
**l»w ui.lati’v l fv*i for niy companion. lit u\u
poo*.' 1 griped hastily about ti e confined space
jii w» rh « had \ ot*n standing, and at ouw ro
*';£>d i:-.e fvv’.i nature of my position. 1 whs
Bl<*nc. Us • un engine which Wua tearing msdly
forward, at Hr. rate i sixty or seventy mile* an
hour, ray ? v approach!! g my deniination, about
to dash headV: g o! |u! speed, iuto the midst of
au ct-gsr and excited crowd. and with no more 1
the management or government of
tee crsxy t King than an infant. Koran instant 1
wms ihc » ghiv para yxed by lear. Cold drop? cf
perspiration Mood upon my brow, and I fairly
•creamed :p inject*nt agony. Batin a moment
morel to.-, v.'t-. 1 . mjsclf. I had borne indissinet
EO.I -D u V rpre . o.< «n engine w ; .s MCeUrwed or
cte.E- a b> . f tntwg !M Itvtr* which Blood bv
® J «d*. asd forthwith c mir.enced a aeries of
experiment w\th them. Bui my ui.akiifulues* or ]
agitat.OQ prevented my employing the proper!
mt*»*i*, ai. j j fancied I lut only increased the !
•per a. A.jvther resource flashed upon toe. 1 j
imaht pull oot the btaziog wood aDd coale, and I
tedaoc vne- fire 1* wr' a n.ud idea, for my an- j
gloved hand* were my only toots foi the enterprise ; 1
bat l enuclUed a ‘ \ to in\soi! hs 1 thought how
feasible *1 w** f «a»d bOW sure of success. Eegerlv
1 Stooped down r.ud polled a flaming stick from
bsoea h the holler. The seething pitch semdod
m> btetid#, »»d the live yu.bers burned thsm era
eliy i but i hardly f»U iho pain, as i hurled it
Jrautioalv ti.io lh. d»rkuc*>.
“ Bat f did Dot fctoOP again. For, as I turned
to continue my vain labors, another flash, ore of
those lingerie*, wavy, dauciog flashes, Winch
•♦ernto tarry m if delighting to gaae upon ute
Uitvi they oflv* fouic itt Pj? UW ♦
that death will efface ita horror from my ]
mind. 1 know that I can never forget it on tliia i
side of the grave. Tl e shriek of my companion, ,
wh-ch atill ringiLg in my no longer .“ur- j
pii*»d me. 1 no longer wondered at hi* mad \
leap from the engine. It wa* the exceaa of my j
terror aione which prevented my following hi* \
cxurnfrc. Ino longer C'-red ter ’..e murderouM \
a peed of the locomotive: I no longer thought of j
my own danger. All tnmgivingfc, all fears for my- :
self, were bwallowed up ar d merged in one vaat,
bhuddering, indescribable horror. For there, ju-t
before me upon the boiler, with ita lips parted into j
a Ceridwh grin, with ita eyes wide open, md
staring upon me, ar.d the glare imparting a l;te
.ike glow to its stony leaturea; there, withre reach
of my palled hand, even 1 shrank back in ;
craven fear to the farthest lirnitA of my moving ;
prison, sat a paie, gory, hideous, and mangled Hu- j
man Head!
“You nmile, gentlemen,” continued the ngly
man, with a melancholy air, “and it beemn to me
that if 1 should bear the Btory told by another, a
you are now doing, in a quiet room, with a firm
tloor beneath my leet, a cheerful lire before me,
and friend.-* around, I should do the same thing:
bur, believe me,” dropping his voice t»o low thn 1
could hardly hear him, “ it is a d.ff -reni. thing in a
wild night, alone, and with a aaddan and awful
| death impending over you.”
j “ Keep moving, stranger,” said the man in the
| red shirt, cracking a hickory-nut, “it's good as
a sermon. i*as*» on to the second head.”
“It could, of conrfte,” pursued the ugly man,
without heeding the untimely jest, “ be but a few
minutes, or perhaps second-, before this terrible
drama must conclude ; but no prisoner ever longed
for freedom as i did for the linal crash, which 1
knew would end my i.fe and torment together. I
made no farther efforts to stop the locomotive. I
was hardly aware that it was rtill tearing madly
on, a-* though frightened like myse f, at its ghastly
burden. The lightning stiJl flashed at intervals,
and illuminated the clayey face; but I d:d not
need its gloarnn to see l* e horrid thing. For
through tto pitchy darkness and the blinding rain
it glared upon me as 1 had beheld it at first. Nor
do l consider tliia imagination. 1 think that ter
ror had t-o sharpened my vision that, though all
else was wrapped in impenetrable gloom, I could
heu its g'a-sy eye-balls, ita pallid cheeks, and its
bloody, grinning mouth.
“I have since learned—l do not think that I
knew at the time—that all this while, the firewood
in the tender behind me was blazing furiously. It
had caught either b> a spark from ti.e engine, or
which is more probable, lrom toe burning stick
which L hud hastily tossed away. But, as I
said, Ido not know tViat I was aware ot it; if 1
•uid been, i. could not have added another pang
of terror to my heart; and I only mention it now
as an incidental element in the horror ol my situa
tion, and also from the fact that the unusual light
alarmed the watchers at the nation, and, putting
them on their guard, prevented any destruction of
life on my arrival.
“I can never bring myself to believe that so
short a time elapsed, as I know niu»t have passed,
before this wild awful vision ceased. It seems to
rno now, and always when I recall that dreadful
night, as t hough I must have spent hours brace a
back against The tender, not daring to take my
eyes from the spectral lhce, paralyze I and crazy
with fright, my hair like reeds, and the cold fl we at
bursting from every pore. During all this time, l
know that I never regarded the incident as any
other than supernatural. If it had occurred to me
that it was nothing but what it seemed, a dead
head, perhaps, possibly, I might have rallied. But
there was njmcthing so hellish in that stony gaze,
alone visible through the murky night, the eurih
and curth'y incidents were alike forgotten by me.
Heavens ! thought is this to lust forever ( Am I
d'-«d nr d are these the torments or the damned ;
Will this torture never Jm-e an end i
“The end wys even then at bund, I shot past
briUiantly-iis'liWd »treet», wuohu brigl.liioi-P nuiiie
tt , o corirte Are mill more bideouf-ij upon me. J
hMrd X.u* 01 tear awl wurnwg, hut 'bey couni
not di-truel my aUenl.on. I c mi/lu (flmip.es at
the station of Iho fc-roap*. of ajoniaad and horror
strickeu faces: what wero they to the distorted
features ol the Head before me » A crash, aleeling
of death like sickness, and when 1 awoke, my
mid-night ride had been the rounds of ail the
newspapers, and boon forgotten.”
The ugly man arose ana adjusted his emtoh, as
if tc leave.
“Bray, Sir,” said a little, silent man from the
corner, in an excited manner, and speaking lor the
first time, “was that the engineer’s head?”
“Oh no,” uufiwerod the narrator, v/iih an air of
relief, as though be was glad his talc was ended;
“ 1 learned, when I got well enough to talk and
ask quostio- s, that the engineer crawled into the
town about dawn of the following day, weary, torn,
and bleeding, but without any permanent injuries.
The head belonged to u poor maniac, who had
often iTteipptcd strongest forma of suicide,
and that evening, escaping from his confinement,
had lowered himself down into u cattle ditch,
keeping his head some six inches above the sur
face o' the road. Tbo cow-catcher, au he probably
intended it should do, had cut his bead cloariy
and smoothly off, and had thrown it so high that
it lodged und struck where I tirst saw it. His
body was afterward found unmai gl -.d in tho ditch
b.nciith. And that, neighbors, a, the way I cumo
to bo the wreck you see mo.”
L.ATKII FUOM KLIIOBK.
ARRIVAL OF THE Ah RICA.
Tho Cunurd mail steamer Africa, C ipt. Harrison,
arrived at 7 o’clock Friday morning. Capt. Harrison
lofi Liverpool, at noon, on Saturday the 26th of
August.
Tno General ScrowStoam Navigation Company’s
steamer Indiana, Capt. Lambert, lrom New York,
arrived at Southampton, at noon on Wednesday,
tho 28d of August. Sho 101 l New Y'ork on the
10th.
September 31, off Capo Race, passed tho Cunard
steamer America lor Liverpool.
Correspondence ff th« iV. ! • Commercial Advertiser.
London, August 25.
At tho departure of tho last post tho nows ot the
fall of Bomarsund Mid boon received only by te!o
gruph, but tho despatches of Admiral Napier sub
sequently arrive *, and will have reached you by
express. Tho chief satisfacrion derived from the
affrir has boon from the illustration it has given
of tho irr sistiblo power of sciontiiio attacks oven
on tho case mated batteries which hu</o latterly
boon so much talked of in connexion with Russian
fortifications, ami tho expectation which is thus
encouraged that the allegad impregnability of other
points will henceforth bo disregarded.
On the natural strength of Iheplaeoand its free
dom front those defects which were always con
sidered to render Eilistria untenable there seems to
i»e no question, and although it was relatively small,
tho comparative difference between the attacking
lorces wus more than a compensation tor the dis
parity iu that respect. It is true that tho troops
lauded amounted to 11,000 instead of 3,000 as at
first supposed, but only a small portion of them
were ei g !god, and, al thought ho t • ; wero ena
bled to threaten the plueo more cffecually than
hud been considered thoir liro merely
operated as a partial diversion, and tho fall ot each
fort would obviously have been ac tomphsbeJ, al
though rather less speedily, even if they ban re
mained inactive.
All the preliminaries for tho Austrian occupation
of tho Briucipahtie* having ut length been com
plated, alter a consultation with Omar Pasha, two
divisions of tho army, one undor Archduke Al
bert und the other undor General Coronini, have
advaucod across tbo frontier at separate points,
which will give them tho command both of Walla
cilia an*l Moldavia, ihe treops under General
Coronini have entered from that part of the Aus
trian territory North of Trausytvania and Mol
davia, known as tho Bukovina, and they are
thereioro likely to find themselves almost immo
diutelv within a short distance of the outposts of
llio Russians.
No collision is, however, anticipated, bine©
although the Czar has lately shown a ronowod dis
position to retain it' possible some grasp on his
“ matorinl guarantee” and especially to concen
trate forces at Ibruil and Galatz, so us not to bo
swept entirely from tho Danube, the general iui
pressiou is that the moment ho finds Austria has
lakeu her decisive step ho will finish his as rap
idly as possible.
i’hu idea of any good news from tho army in
Asia seems hopeless, and there aro accounts now
current which, although from Russian sources and
palpably exaggerated, in tho usual manner, are
nevertheless believed to have foundation, ot tho
Turks having sustained a deteat ot almost their
entire army near Kars. There had previously
bcou -Russian rumors ot vic:ories, but these, if
gained, were probably small and well disputed,
and it was known at the last dates that the two
annie* wore lying in sight of each other, and that
a great battle was considered imminent.
From Vienna accounts received yesterday, there
is now little reason to doubt that the conflict has
taken placo, and has ended most disastrously.
The Russians were commanded by Prince Bebutoff,
and they claim to have killed 8,000 ot ibeir op
ponents, and to have taken *23,000 prisoners, in
cluding 84 stuff and other officers, with 15 guns.
TT»o public both 5 n England and France wore tally
probated tor intelligence of this kind, but its a
vont is greatly beyond their worst fears.
ii is, however, only a repetition ot what has al
ways been experienced whenever tho Rassiuns had
only to deal with Turkish commanders. In the pre
sent instance it was known that the Mushir was
one ot the most corrupt, imbecile, aud selfish o«
his eia*a, and there had also been strong rumors
of treachery and dissension on the part of many of
the Poles to whom commissions had beeu given,
and whose jealousy of the superior military ta
lents of the Hungarians, and especially of Gener
al Guyon, was dscribod to be such that they bad
assisted in thwarting every proposition that prom
ised to lead to groat and safe results.
Politically, however, the matter is of course no}
ofpronnucut imptxui ee, and there are indeed
niauy advantages to which it will iuevitably load.
Nothing but some calamity of tho sort would have
convinced the Turkish people of their absolute
dependence upon the aid of foreigners for direct
ing their natural courage.
On tho Danube and Mlislria, the same things
might have beeu regarded as certain ii ihe troops
had not been commanded »n the one case by Omar
I Pasha, aa Austrian, and directed iu the other
S bv Lieutenants Burke aud Nasmyth, us well an by
aJPrussiau engineer. They would nevertheless
have overlooked these facts, it their army uuder a
j nntivo leader had triumphed in Asia, and some-
I thing like .ho old military fanaticism of the nation
mitrht have rapidly grown up.
j Tn<' cmu'lovmoui ot foreigners would have been
i gradually abandoned and tue country would soon
I* again have fallen under the influence ot" Russian
bribes. There can now bo little doubt that a vig
orous reconstruction oiTLo aruiy iu A?in will tak«
place, and there seems good reason to hope that
! ii may be headed by Omar Pasha, or, at all events,
| by General Guyou. Another result of the rumor
o i defeat is likewise ookebjupou by many persons
! with considerable satistVc'.iou. These individuals
j have feared all aloug that the Czir would succumb
j too aeon and be lelcff with easy terms, and they
! now seeu that he may 1 e induced by the stimulus
I of a victory to commit himself deeper arid deeper,
,soas to render his final disciplineut the hands ct
! cvnibin d Europe apparently - ecu re.
f Tie junction of Austria with the Western pow
j ers seems to have inspired confidence throughout
j the country and the Vienna money market during
the past two or three weeks Las experienced a re
1 markable improvement. It appears, moreover,
i that the new loan has been successfully raised—an
j amount equal to the enormous total of $ 17o,000,« <k> !
! having been already subscribed. This was the j
minimum figure originally slated as requisite, and ;
! the Government intimated that although it would !
j sufiL*e they would be glad if the suoi were carried j
as high as s*2so, .00,000.
Whether tai- f Ii amount will be obtained is !
doubtful, but there appears to be an impression !
that the minimum lota! will at all events be exceed- j
t*d and that the final aggregate may be $800,000,-
00*. >. ith this the financial prospects of the j
count tv might under good tnanateuieut be put in •
i “ ve O fair position. Os course, although the loan j
; is called a voluntary cue, it has beeu in a great ;
| measure as tar as the pressure of influence oh the
part of a despotic government could go, been a :
i forced one, since none who wished to avoid being
marked tor future suspicion and hostility could
hold back, and in instances where individuals or 1
corporations were not considered to have-u'oserib- i
ed enough,they received iniimatious, which it \»a< !
impossible to xni>coustrue, that they had bettor ■
increase their application.
\V:th regard to domestic affair.' in Ergland tfc?
harvest continues the grand subject of attention. ;
The weather, on the whole, is still ail that could i
be desired, and from the South to the North the !
crops are low generally under the sickle, with the
almost universal prospect of an unusually excel
lent yield, both in h uaptity and quality. The lrisn '
l^o pie after their first burst ot exaggeration, !
ye discovered, us usual, that the potatoes have
not been destroyed to anything like the extent
r.onSV e d: an , d ,h * l \ btre is - certainty ol
uEdif. the averse.
not«r r-juu,', 0 , the grain market,
•te.rr.or, eontuid to “k f repo, ! cd >- v (L » l«t
* further fall i* lot & reMt heaviness, and
I occurred ihe oena * D - a small
Coro ExoLaneo the hou*. . 6 cre 3>«»Usrdfty iu ibe
‘ Se-oombe * ' 9 being that of Mr. R.C.
! «'•« ..todinto.-
j fM«etuoetouched fit, P' ej
tblaaft.rnoou .gam dStoidLlS".* c °*? d
) taction ba. kurec coated oy tbe r, bl oarinrl** 1 '?
1 aUtfiisnt isl Uw Tune. avowing in
| qoonce of various annuities which will expire 1 t
I within the next 18 years (chiefly within the next I t
o ye-ifft,) Gres; Britain could raise, it she were to j 1
t fiud it necessary during that period, fresh loans I t
to the amount of one hundred and thirty millions j 1
i sterlir g, or at the ra*e of £10,000,000 sterling per j 1
annum without increasing, in the slightest degree, i
her pres* ;t amount of taxation. \
j 'i he Turkish loan continues popular, although ’
it has received a slight check from the bad news i
from Asia. At the last date the quotation was 7 J
prex-um. It has since touched \)>£ and 6, and
; the present price is
There has been no rre°h news of importance
; from bptie, but the difficulties which l>*partero 1
will experience, in controding the tendency to
anareny fomented by the reactionary party, as 1
w li as by the jealousies among the so-called lib- |
j ala. are watched with much anxi ty.
I According to the accounts to-day from \ arna, ,
the aiiiei troops have already sailed for Sebststo j
pol. Speciatoe. i
The Wae in the Ea«t.—The Baltic Sea.— !
There.is no further news of much imporuuce from i
the aliied filets in the Baltic, except the detail* of
the euccessJui of B>riiaraund. The official i
di'patches of Bir Charles Napier with numerous
reports from his subordinate tffb rs, arc pub
ashed in tiMnao in the Fuglisn papers, but are j
too volummous to be re prodaced here, j
thertfure give the following synopsis lrom the :
Hon don Times of the 24. h uit:
The despatches which have now been receive i
from b.i Charles Napier, and the more ample
details turn is hod by our own correspondents with
relerence to the capture ot the forts at Bernards urn
have doubtless been read with the liveliest in
terest by ad classes or the public. A mere gal
lant and brilliant operation hai seldom occurred.
Xne destruction ox one of the strong hoi is by which
Kh'Sia hoped to secuie her dominion over the
Baltic ana her ascendency over Sweden has been
j affected with a comparatively small loss of life,
! and in theshoit space of three dajs from the open
ing of the lire.
Btxgliah and French, soldiers and seamen, engi
nee*rs aud marines of both nations, have joined
heart and hand in this enterprise, and we have
no doubt that the vigor f their attack and the
rapidity of their triumph are an earnest of what
the allied armies a» d fleets will effjet under cir
cm instances of greater difficulty, and against a more
determined leoistanc . In a military point ot view
many of the details of this operation de
serve notice, because they are the first pratical
experiments we have had of the effect of our guns
and small arms in the attack of places fortified on
the sj stem of the Russian capeuiated batteries in
the North of Europe.
The first point was the disembarctaion of the
troops, wbicu took place on the morning of the
bth. The landing place chosen by the General and
the Admiral waa a Day of about three miles in
breadth, situated to the Bonth-weat of the forts,
auda diatanco ol 2,5 )0 yards from the Western
tort which is that called fort Tzee. A Russian
earthwork carrying 6 guns had been placed on the
the Eastern promontory »f this bay, facing the sou
bat this battery waa taken in flank und dismoun
ted by tno fire of the Amphion and Bhlegethon.
In the meuulime the discmoarcation was going
on, and ll,ouo men were lauded in the » oats ol
the fleet in the space of throe hours and a half.
The Russian troop** appear to have made no at
tempt to oppose the landing, though they might
have occasioned considerable annoyance to our
men by posting their K 11 a in the woods near the
shore. The British and Freuch marinas, 600 of
each flag, were conveyed by the Driver to the
North of the f orts, and janded behind them. The
.ext lour days were employed by the army in
preparing for the attack.
i The position ol the batteries was selected, sand-
I bags a-id g-bions wore prepared, and the bailors
I brought up with great Door some long C 2
} pounder ship gum*, which were placed iu a po*i
j ti on bOO yards from the round fort. On the 18th
the tiro of the French battery opened f-om the
bouthwest cn Tzee, uud the bombardment
j was sustained in the most brilliant manner lor 2G
hours, with one very short interval. We are not
informed ut what range this lire waa opened, au.i
trie distance was probably greuter tbau it would
ha' ; e neon if the place hud been upproachod by
regular aiego operations.
Tno moat remurkttble fact is, howover, that this
French battery eonaiatod of only ft ur 16 pounders
and four mortal*, or, as our owr correspondent
states, of three mortars and three brass held
pieces—a force quite inadequate to breach u
granite lower. Three of the eremyD guns wore
dismounted through the embrasures, and tho fire
ol the French rifles on these appertures was so
severe thut tho liussiuiiP had difficulty in loading
their guns, und s lfc.ed most severely in oonse
queues. This Ireumstar.ee is ol great impor
tance, and accounts lor the largo proportion of tho
enemy killed and wounded iu Fort Tzee, Evout
ualiy this part of the work was taken by the
French chasseurs on tho morning of the 14 h by
a coup de maiu % the details of which will doubtless
appear ii tho French despatches.
Meanwhile the British battery under tho orders
of Uenerul Jones was in process of construction—
a work of greater lime aud difficulty, because it
consisted ol 82 pounder guns dragged up from the
ships. Wo are not told by the admiral of how
many guns this battery consmtod, nor is its posi
tion accurately described; it must, however, have
been on the Northwest front of the place, und
within ruugo of both the round forts, tor, tho
Western fort had been taken before General Jones
opened his fire, lie turxed his guns against the
Eastern fort with equal effect. This battery was
managed by marine artillerymen lrom the four
blockships ;* their practice was excellent, and in
eight hour* and a naif one side of the lower was
knocked in.
It is not clearly stated, howovor, by the Ad
miral (whose despatch is not remarkaole for mi’i
tury precision) wnotner this result was oause<l by
tho fire of the 82 pounders or by the explosion
mentioned by our correspondent, but it appears
from u subsequent passage iu our letter that a
practical breach was made by the guns, aud that
they wore three in number. The effect of the
breaching batteries erected by General Baragnay
D’Hillicrs, against the principal fort whs not tried,
bocuuse tho place caph ulatou before tho attack had
been carried to the last extremities. In fact, it
was wholly untenable from the moment that the
round torts commanding the rear of the position
wero in tho hands of the allied armies.
Tho most obvious inference to bo drawn from
the success of this attack is, that the Russian forts,
if they are generally constructed on tho same
principle and of tho same materials as those of
Bomarsund, cannot withstand, for any lengthened
time, a close liro of heavy guns, even when thorn
i guns are voiy low in nuiunor, and that the diffi
culty of fighting i& casomated batteries is grout y
increased by the lire of Miuie rifles, which can
now be directed with great precision into the
i ' embrasures.
1 The tire of the ships at tho long range at which
they wero compelled to lie acted chiefly as a di
version in favor of tho troops, and produced no
decisive effect on the fort-; but it still remains to
ho ascertained wliut would bo the < of tho
broad.-ido of a throe decker on a fort of this de
scription, and whether the results produced in
eight hours and a half by three 32 pounder gnus
could not bepioduced iu half an hour by a fire of
greater rapidity aud of twenty times that weight
of metal.
No broaching battery that ever was constructed
is at all equal to the tire ot a line of buttle ship,
but, on the other hand, a land battery is far more
protected from the tire ot an enemy; and tho
question is, whether a ship could float long enough
under a severe tiro from land batteries to silence
and destroy them. In the lute operations, al
though tho ships wore aeveral times in very criti
cal positions, from running on tho ground w thin
range of tho enemy’s red hot halls, none of them
appear to have suffered materially ; and, though
the Admiral was compelled to order the Bee elope
to throw hor guns overbourd, which was done
with groat presence of mind, ho probably relied
on the probability of recovering them when tho
Aland Islc» wero in o .r own possession.
Upon the whole, tiffs experiment is not highly
setißtiictory and honorable to all those who Were
engaged in it, but it leads us i o anticipate m*re
important achievements. Too season is still long
enough to admit of farther enterprises upon the
Russian coast; the allied forces are now on the
spot, and within a low hours’ sail ot any point in
the Baltic; and wo hope to learn that the allied
commanders nro taking stops to pursue thut career
of success which has been opened by the fall of
Bomarsund.
The cholera is said to be prevalent at Aland.
It is related among tho incidents of the tall of
Bomarsund, that a Russian colonel, who was tn
ken prisoner on tho second day of the bombard
ment, as ho passed the debris of tho first round
tower, looked up and exclaimed to an cilicer, “O
England, England, we did not expect this from
>ou.” Tho alliance between the English and
French bus astonished the Russians beyond mea
sure. They thought it impossible.
The WnmcSKA. —The telegraphic report of the
blockade of Archangel is confirmed. The Moni
teur says:—
“It has always been tho benevolent intention of
the Allied Powers, that tho blockade of the ports,
in the White Sea should offer no impediment to
tho commercial relations existing bo’ ween the in
habitants of Norwgian Fintnarck and those of the
coast of the Whito Boa, a people in either case so
little favored by nature. The Minister of the Ma
rine and Colonie-. ha-* just confirmed to our crui
sers in those latitudes tho instructions given to
them for this purpose in the month of May, pre
vious to the declaration of the blockade.”
The Puincipalities and the Danube.— Tho most
important news from this quarter isThat tho Aus
trians have at length crossed the frontier. They
entered Wallachiu ou the‘2oth of August, and it
was exp cted that the whole corps ot occupation
w-iuld pass the frontier by the *23d. Bucharest ,
Ivreiovia and Lessor Wsllachia were to bo occu
pied, and the advanced guard was to reach Bu
ebarot on the sth of September. Three brigades
ot the army of Count Coronini wero preparing for
a similar movement into Moldavia. This intelli
gene.' was c mimunicated to the British and French
Governments by their Ministers at Vienna, and
was < ffiaially announced in the Baris MoniUur of
the 23d mst. at Rustchuk.
The Black Sea —The latest and most important
intelligence from tho Black Sea is, as stated by our
London correspondent, that the Anglo-French for
ces have boguti to embark lor the Crimea. Ac
cording to ou-trian Advices, 45,000 men had been
embarked at Varna, up to the 13th of August, and
ihe Bresso has a telegraphic announcement lrom
Constantinople under data ol the 14th, that “60,-
000 men have embarked tor Sebastopol.” These
statements, however, need confirmation. There
can be uo doubt that the invasion ot the Crimea is
intended, but the previous advices gave reason to
suppose that the main body of the expedition could
not sail from Varna before the 2oth.
Asia. —There seems to be no doubt that the
, Russians have gained another victory over the
| Turks in Asia, although, it is certain, ihe Russian
j reports are exaggerate. They say that tho Turk
ish army has been ccmplete'y beaten and diapers- j
ed by Gen. Bebutofl, near*Kars. The Russians
took 15 guns, a great quantity r f munitions of war, ,
34 stuff au- other officers, and £3,»-Off, of the Turr- j
»sh troops. Three thousand Turk* were kfc dead I
on the field ol battle ; the remainder fled to Kars. !
As the Turkish army consisted of 4>,000 men, it j
j is incmhb’e thut 28,000 Turks can have been ta
! ken prisoners. The Turk* were greatly deficient j
iu cavalry, but slightly superior in artillery. The*
| battie mu&t have iakeu place about the Ist of Au- i
gus:.
A French Lieutenant Colonel, charged by the !
Emperor Napoleon with a private mission to the j
Ottoman army of Anatolia landed at Trebizoud on !
the lS.h of July.
Great Britain and France.— The news from j
the United Kingdom preset; s no items oi re- |
markublt- imporiaDco. The oheicra is still preva- j
lent, and is believed to re increasing in many
part>. The register-generals return ter the week
ending the 21st ot August supplied the following
star 1 sties in regard to the health ot L ndou:
The mini be* ot deaths ftoin all causes was 1 533,
nearly tbo same as that of the previous week,
which was 1,532. In the 1" weeks corresponding
to last week of the years 1514 f S the average num
ber was 1,1 IS, which, if raised in jr roporlion to
increase of population, becomes 1,224. The pres
ent return exhibits tn excess of 602 above the es
t.mated amount.
Cholera was fata! last week to 720 persons, of
whom 214 were children under 15 years of age,
426 were 15 years and under 60, aud 55 were 6o
years cl i ai d upward. During the cholera epi
demic of 1549 the total deaths registered in the
week that ended August IS were 2.230, and those
from cholera were 1,230. In the six week* of its
present appearance the deaths from cholera l ave
been successively 5, £6, 138, 829, 644, and 729.
Tbo deaths from diarrfcce last week were 122.
The destruction of Greytown is made the theme
of an otter leading article in the London Times
of the 25ib, from which we extract as follows :
The peculiarity of the case is, that it is not easy
to determine to wl.at state in the catalogue of !
civilized governments the city of Grey town now
belongs. 1 12-t", Lord Palmerston la'.d it down
in imperative language that “the right oi the
Kmg of Mosquito should be maintained as ex
tending from Cane Honduras down to the mouth
of the liiver San Juan, and that her Msjeaty’e Go
vernment would not view with indirierence any
attempt to encroach upon the rights or territory
of the King of Mosquito, who is under the pro
tection oi ihe British Crown. 1,
On these grounds, Captain Inch’s successful
expedition to Nicaragua was under taken, by whica
the claims advanced by that state to the mouth of
the river were extinguished. In point of fact,
however, it could not be denied that this govern
ment of the King of Mosquito w; a a mjtb, and
the . r tectoratc, which had to a certain extent
bten exercised for 200 years under this title, was
an onerous obligation on oarseive-o The port of
San Joan or Greytown, though soclcded under
the protectorate, hud long in reality been governed
in the name of the titular King ot Mosquito by a
committee of Americans or Englishmen elected by
the people.
Portugal. —Advices from L shoe are to the 15th
of August. The Lisbon beard of health has de
clared New York an infected port, and New Y'ork
are consequently subjected to a vexatious
I guarantiee.
Uussia. —The Presse has letters ot the 13th from
War-»w, and of the 10th trom St. Petersburg.
1 The Lmperur Nicholas is much better in health,
an j conferred nearly half of the night of the 9th
with Count Nesselrode, who had received most
imp-riant despalcnos. General Adlerberg’s un
favorable report of the state of the Danabian army
I led to the order for the evacuation of the Princi
-1 parities. As soon as it was knDwn that troops
‘ ntd been sent to the Baltic, the guard which was
] marching to the South r. ceived orders to return to
| St. Petersburg. It was thought that Russia was
j on the eve of a rupture with Sweden.
i France —The Emperor was expected in Paris
• on the 2Sth of August, and wou d proceed to the
j Camp or Boulogne on the Ist ot September.
A l the troops destined for the camp of the
North are either already arrive dor on their march
' to their cantonments. They form three divisions,
the beadquar era ot which are to be established at
Boulogne, Wimereux, and St. Oiner. Every
branch of the service is organized, and staff offi
cers are making of the most eligible spots between
St. Omer and Bolcgne where the army may
mar-cevre without causing too much damage to the
cropr. Tho grand mat oevree are not to take place
until the last two weeks of September.
A communication by telegra- h is established
throughout ’.he camp, and alto with Paris. Orders
despatched lrom Biurrtiz, arrive in five and
twenty minutes.
GeueTfal de We del, governor of the fortress of
Luxemburg, has been rent by the King of Prussia
to congratulate the Emperor Napolean on his re
turn from Biarritz, and accompany him to the
camp of Boulogne.
Spain. —Letters from Madrid of the 20th state
that the city was tranquil. The Union Club, pre
sided over by the republican Marquis D’Albaida,
continued day after day to addre-s memorials to
the Government, [demanding individuals liberty,
liberty of conscience, liberty of the press, freedom
of labor, and other democratic objects. The emi
gration to foreign countries still continued. Queen
Christina is still ret aired in the palace with the
Duke de Kiahzaree. lior children have quitted
Madrid. A modification of the Cabinet was ex
pected.
WEEKLY '
<%mudc £ Sentinel.
AUGUSTA. “GEORGIA. ~
WEDNESDAY MORNING SEP’X. 13, 18S4-
Relief f. >r fesat&nuali.
The Committee appointed to solicit contributions
for the Buffering poor of Savannah, were assidu
ously engaged during tho whole of yesterday, and
we are happy to state that their success was very
gra’ifyirg. We are confident, however, that many
of tho citizotis whom they were unable to see yes
terday, will be desirous of contributing to swejl
tho fund for the relief of our suffering neighbors ;
aud to afford all an opportunity to do so, the Com
mittee will receive donations until 2 o’clock to-day.
These donations may be mado to any of the gen
tlemen whoso names wo give below, and we do
not deem it necessary further to urge tho sacred
claims of tho occasion upon our readers. Let all
contribute liberally, according to their means.
Fatal and Murderous Affray. —Wo regret to
iuform our readers that the quiet of ou r city was
disturbed on Sabbath evening by an affray re
sulting in tho death of Mr. James Reese, a well
known Conductor on the Georgia Railroad. From
the many contradictory statements in circulation,
wo can only gather the following account of this
doplorablo affair: It appears that an altercation
took piaco between Henry Keener of this city,
and Mr. ICeese at a disreputable house kept by a
woman named Jane Yariiorccgii, and after some
words had passed between the parties, Keener
drew his revolver und shot Keese in the breast
and abdomen three times—two of tho balls taking
fatal effect, and tho other shattering tho watch o
lvKEse into fragments.
Mr. Keese was a mild, amiable and inoffensive
| man in his general deportment, and has left many
, friends. He died in a few moments after boing
shot. Keener has not yet been arrested, but the
officers arc in vigilent search for him.
Gale on the Iseaboard—“The Latter Rain.”
Ocu Telegraphic Despatches from Charleston
and Suvannuh inform us that a high Northeast
gale was raging along tho coast on Thursday
morning This gale reached us about 3 or 4
o’clock yesterday (Friday) morning, bringnig
gusty showers with it. 1: fitful and fickle ehauge
ableness, yesterday presented all the “ uncertain
glories of an April day,” though tho cool breath
of autumn a 1 monished us that thy “ melancholy
days” of withered leaves aud blighted flowers are
rapidly drawing nigh. Well—lot them come! to
i tho lover of uaturo, each season has its own
' peculiar charm; and after tho long and debili
j taring heat of summer, tho roaring of tho antum
l nal gale—the tossing of tempest-scourged branches
> —the darkly trooping clouds and the sweet, mu
sical plashing of the rain are all joyous sights and
( sou nds.
s Tho long-continued petition f a rain is answered.
Early yesterday morning, the “ sailor’s warning”
—a rainbow spanning tho western sky—gave
> token of “ falling weather,” and as the North
> east galo came surging and eddying along
5 from tho storm vexed Atlantic, it brought with
i it cool ai d refreshing, though light showers.—
i Towards evening, however, the rain came down
f steadily, pcrsevoringly and iu right good earnest;
and, as darkness set in, tho still sombre and heavy
clouds gave promise of a night of storm and tem
pest. All liuil Ito tho “latter rain.”
Thunder fetorm.
ThE great Northeastern gale subsided here on Sat
urday night, and after two days (Sunday and Mon
day) of iutenaoly hot weather, we were visited laßt
night by heavy showers of rain, with frequont
electrical discharges. As we go to press, the rain
is potiring down incessantly, and the “Jemontal
strife” continues—mud has usurped the place of
dust, find otir street gutters are rivulets in minia
ture.
Our agricultural friends wih now have a “good
time” lor Bowing lato Turnips, to eke out the
short corn crop. Let the seed be pot in as soon ns
the ground is dry enough to work freely, without
packing or baking,
Augusta and Cliarlfstoa.
The Augusta papers arc-somewhat surprised, af
ter boasting of the remarkable health of their city,
t fco informed thn‘ tho ratio of mortality to its
population is ns great as that of Charleston during
tho past five weeks, a p;rt of which time wo have
been the subjects of an epidemic, with which somo
of otir neighbors would “fright tho isle from its
propriety/* But il is true, notwithstanding their
surprise. To the inquiry of tho Sent no!, as to the
sourco whence we ascertained tho number of its
population, we would reply that it was from a cen
sus taken by the authorities of Augusta, in 1852,
and which gave the result of the enumeration aa
11,758 Charleston Mercury .
We havo no disposition to “ boast ” of the health
of our city, and only mentioned it as a matter of
thankfulness and gratnlation. The Mercury's as
sumption that oar population is now no greater
than it was in 1852, is obviously incorrect, and ex
plains clearly the error into which it has fallen.
We-should be greatly rejoiced if both Charleston
and Savannah were blessed with the same ex
emption fr*..m diteise which wo now enjoy, and
hope soon to have tho satisfaction of announcing
the entire abatement of the terrible rcourge which
is cflLcting them.
Health of Augusta.
We have as yet had not one sirgle case of Yel
low Fever in this city, except such as have been
brought hero from Charleston and Savannah. Our
City never wan more healthy than at present, as a
proof of which we may state, that during the first
10 day of this month there have boon but Jive
burials in our city Cemetery.
The Mobile Register of the 2d iDst contains the
valedictories of its late editors, Messrs. T. Sanford
and A. B. Meek, who will be succeeded by John
Forsyth, Esq., who i« well known as one of the
ablost political writers in the Union. Differing, as
we do, very widely with the Register on n.atters
■ of national policy, wo heartily wish it and its new
editor all possible success, and business prosperity.
Preventive to Yellow Fever. —A correspon
dent of the Charleston Courier , who signs himself
'‘Wanderer,” gives as the following :
! One quarter ounce of copperas, powdered ; one
| quarter ounce of sulphur, powdered ; one quarter
j ounce of charcoal, powdered— to be mixed togeth
er and carried abcut your person.
Tho above is a simple, but certain antidote to
yellow fi-ver, and, if adhered to from this <ate by
a majority of the citizens, yellow fever will have
disappeared from Charlestcn, or any other city
| that is sfllicted by it in 20 days. Try it, and thou
| sands are saved.
Atlanta Tei Weekly Examiner. —"We have
I inadvertently omitted a notice of this new journal,
which has been some days on our table. The
; Examiner is published by William Kay, and
edited by Dr. 11. A. Kamsat and B. B. Daniel,
| Esq.
Tho politics of the Examiner are State R:ghts
i Democratic, and it will sustain the present Admin
i istration. It is a neat paper, and edited with
! ?pirit and ability.
| Savannah.—Total deaths from Yellow Fever
for tie week ending at 9 o’clock, last Tuesday
! night, 74—from other diseases 49—total, 128.
A Trip into Nebraska.—The editor of theCoun
; eii Bluffs, lowa Bug e, has recently made a three
I days’ trip into Nebraska. He says he saw one elk,
I thirty seven turkeys, thirteen deer, three wolves,
and wild ducks a plenty, the finest raspberries and
strawberries he has ever seen, and caught some
fish. He speaks of a new town called Omaha, at
which a weekly democratic paper is soon to be
issued. The streets arc laid out one hundred feet
wide, and alleys through each block twenty feet
wile ; a large square of nearly ten acres, upon a
central and commanding eminence, is laid out for
capitol square. The lota contain about a fourth of
an acre each, and further cut they are five and ten
acres. There are five or six houses, mostly frame,
already erected, aid many more in progress.
There is to be a commodious brick house erected
immediately for the convenience of the Territorial
Legislature.
Death of a Senator. — We regret to learn that >
tbeHon. Wm. Connell, the worthy Senator from 1
Chattooga county, Ga., died at his residence in
that county, aged 55. I
We \ . ./ .National lniel-
Ugnc t ‘. reunion ex
press, . v , ;fco g r r. crops of the
seaeoi ■ .' T "• . - issbeen more
than, arer.se, oats through
out U i.i average crop
of In in oo a alithUvr.il
amon ,i tr.; „ , ,
Bushels. t
.... ~ . .120,1)00,000 (
A 1... ] crop y : _ 15.000,000 ]
bye, . .I50,o00,0"0
_ •" 65,000,000 :
,BoO|ooo,olo i
Toe! ■ . < •-••
a ..40,000,000
?* ■ " .10,000,000
5 s •• " 5,000,000
5" 5,000,000
Pe.. - ;:..10,000,000
Be bay.
. , ~ C1 ons of bushels
of what' to t r ! -etty good pro
vim* , -six mi.lionßof
peop
Tk \ c- ~, Iso inclined to
thinl that ;hnoV aVw i-'• o greatly exag
grrg crops, and to
pron « ol alarm. The
dam; *. d .. n - B y o diminution of
the r nd may sustain
prfei . . 3l they usually
rang. . .... r . -re the last, but
that c expected. It
ia re' '••den jr the r ral interest ex
cite. n. iich depend in
a eoi 0 view upon the
actn he most impor
tant conld d 0 * U
brar Ass cf ind *r* s won to institute an
inde . ir ./by whit.: irate aud relia
ble i qx :e i le nuaily, of tho
brea d of all cro P s *
All U • the ntry—railroad,
ship- , r>i L.u:uf.t g, aud ell small
trad rincipally upon
the i f it is to the last
deg! 'a jmo. ti dion u P on lhat
sub* t I population of
tho* o tr-* Is cor *ing, and with
that icr a> • the pr ' 0 1 bu y ers -° tho
w jj C lsequence, with
shot • sos their earn
inge c, U . food, increases,
inv( fall other com
fort .•..s".r v,:! ..«♦■ > lat there is less
den f th< re ’ * ?vs i-i inished profits
toti i-o ? -~L- u *• * the . Every possible
the food ques
tion Ki '• • aro •b: - r >lication of Go
von t ia v v such universal
b3D subject of such
vita •' to *‘‘*
g >,,» the Savannah
Geo U ■' .he lowing reply to
the ' n' , “H.”; at the
SBm g t forg i. hat ita imputa
tion it v.i ontirely unde
seM -nt W' :ro we at liberty to
mat v real feelings of
U H.” towards Savannah, and the active and prac
tical tendency of his sympathy uni philanthopy,
the editors of the Georgian would speedily and
regretfully withdraw their charge of heartlessness
and want of feeling on aia part. But we forbear,
and give oar readers th® rejoinder of the Georgian
entire:
“ Deaths from Diseases other than Yellow
Fever.”— A correspondent of the Chronicle &
Sentinel having criticised much to his own satis
faction, Dr. Wildman’s treatment of yellow fever,
in the conclusion of his communication, turns
upon tho health reports daily published in this
city, as follows:
“ W hilo upon this subject, may we bo permitted
to ask some of our medical friends, or Editors of
Savannah, to explain the fact, that in ibeir roducod
population the deaths from diseases other than
Yellow Fever, are to frightfully numerous —four,
live, six and sometimes nine per day are thus re
ported, besides Yellow Fever cases ? VV e presume
that the average of deatas from other diseases, re
ported duriDg the last tea days, will not tall short
of six per day. If there was no Yellow Fever,
and the entire population was at home, this mor
tality would bo alarming. Wo assure our Sa
vannah friends that thiß remarkable featuro in
their reports excites many comments, and the
faithfulness of the reports of their Board of
Ileal'h, can only be admitted upon the sup
position that their city is ono of tho most un
healthy in the Union. If there is any other ex
planation the public would be pleased to have it.
Wo could suggest one ourselves, founded upon our
own observation in 1889, but tho subject would
be a delicate one, and wo forbear.” H.
W T e say nothing of the heart of him who at a time
when this city is over.vholmed with calamity, can
revel in insinuations calculated to cut her off from
tho sympaties to which her Bufferings would seem
to give her so just a claim ; sympathies which she
never withhold from others in like tffliotion. We
only atk, what conceivable motive could prompt
our physicians and authorities, now when it is
notorious that yellow fever is prevailing among ns
with fearful mortality, to attribute toother dis
eases deaths caused by this epidemic? As regards
tho pnysicians, there is certainly no malady by
which a patient could die that would bring lera
discredit upon the practitioner than this. Is there
not then, a strong temptation to him, if unprinci
pled, to report his cases as having died of yellow
lever, rather than a rm,re curable affliction ? As to
the authorities, their temptation, if disposed to
consult policy rather than truth, is assuredly in
tho same direction. No body denies that yellow
fever is here, and here as an epidemic. Whatever
character tho city could lose by its presence, is lost
already—gone for years. If then we would pre
serve her reputation for general health (so invalua
ble to every place of business,) the effort of the
authorities, manilestly should be, to report every
death which happens as caused by the epidemic.
We venture to say t hat there is not a business man
in Savannah who would not wish that each of the
one huudrod and twonty three persons intered
during the week just ended, could bo reported as
having died of this disease. But such a report
would be in the face of truth. Hence we are com
pelled to state 51 of the 123 died of “other dis
eases;” even though the statement should bring
upon our oity the discredit of being “one of the
mod unhealthy places in the Union.”
If this reply, which is intended more for tho
public than for “H.” be not satisfactory to that
gentleman, wo beg leave to address him directly us
follows:
You are a physician. Augusta is now remarka
bly healthy. The faculty of Savannah, worn out
by incessant labors, are unable to give that atten
tion to the sick, which their numbers require.
You have a more efficacious remedy for our epidemic
thau tho best which has been employed here. You
wish to ascertain why “ deaths from diseases other
than yellow fever, are so frightfully numerous.”
Will you not then come down, bring with you your
remedies and obtain tho knowledge which you eo
anxiously seek, aDd which neither your “medical
friends nor the editors of Savannah,” can give.
Our word for it, you will be received with open
arms. You will neither want patients upon whom
to try your remedies, nor any means of obtaining
information possessed by the city, or its authori
ties. Will you accept this invitation so cordially
given ?
New Publications.
Cummings Minor Works. First rories, contain
ing “The Finger of God;” “Christ our Passover,”
and “ The Comforter,” has just been issued in
their usual neat Btyle, by Lindsay & Blakiston, of
Philadelphia.
For sale by McKinne & Hall and Geo. A. Oates
<fe Brothers.
The Negro Letter Writer —Allen Foster, the
negro whose letter to his wife, written at Sharon
Springs, New York, we published a few days
sinco, spent two days in Montgomery, Alabama,
on his way to Mobile last week. The Montgomery
Advertiser says Allen rogretted vory much that
Fred. Douglass did not attend the recent Saratoga
Convention, as it had been arranged that Allen
should reply to the speech of that pet of the Abo
lition fanatics. Ho rather intimated that Fred, got
wind of his intention, and hence did not attend.
Health or Columbus. —The following aro the
nnrnber of interments for the city of Columbus
for the month of August 7 Whites, 23; Blacks, 6.
Total, 29. This is at the rate of four per cent, per
annum.
A steam excavator is in use on the line of tho
Cincinnati and Marietta railroad by the means cf
which with one locomotive to haul the train of
dirt cars, an average of more than 1,200 yards of
earth is shoveled up, carried more than a mile, and
placed into an embankment, oach day.
The New-York Freeman’s Journal affirms that
the number of Catholics by birth or baptism in
New-York is nearly if not quite one-half the pop
ulation of the city. The Tribune estimates the
number at one-fourth the population.
Irish Unitarians.—There are said to be, in Ire
land, three ecclesiastical bodies, offshoots of the
Irish Presbyterian Church, still retaining the forms
of that denomination, which profess Unitarianism.
They have some fifty ministers.
Merchant’s Bank of Maoon. —Isaac Scott, Esq ,
President, writes to tho Republican that the rumors
published in New York, concerning the doubtful
condition of this Bank are without foundation.
The notes of this Bank are, and have been since
its late reorganisation, promptly redeemed at the
Bank of the Republic, and at the office of Wads
worth & Sheldon, 29 Wall street, New York, at 1
per cent, discount; at the Bank’s counter in Ma
con, in gold, or sight exchange on New York at
current rates.
A dispatch, dated Lebanon, N. H., on the 4th
inst., says:—“ A riot occurred here yesterday and
last night, in Sea-Btreet, between the Native Ame
ricans and the Irish—which raged quite fiercely
for some time. The police were assaulted whilst
attempting to discharge their duty and quell the
mob. Some fifty persons were arrested, and the
rioters dispersed. Several persons were more or
| less injured, but none killed.
“ A riot, chiefly against the Irish, also occurred
yesterday at Somerville. About 250 persons in a 1
were engaged in it. A number of the beligerents
were wounded, and many of the participants finally
arrested.”
The auction sale of tickets for the flrstappear
ance of Griei and Mario, at Castle Garden on Mon
day evening, took place at Castle Garden Friday
afternoon, and is estimated to have realised the
manager |25,C00. About two-thirds of the seats
were sold. The first choice, being a seat on the
ground floor in front of the stage, but by no means
the best in the house, went off for $250 premium,
above the minimum price of $5, to the name of
“Coutts.” No one knew who this could be, but
it is supposed to be a Mrs. Harris, who is said to be
a wealthy English lady who has formed a strange
attachment to Mario and followed him everywhere,
but never met him. Two scats adjoining went to
Wild the confectioner for S2O each, and the re.
mainder brought premiums varying from to
25 cents, most of them being purchased by specn
ators.
A good man’s h-*v* a* ** era * The
same may be said c atar.V hell. To
uu>te of Paradise, »! ‘" • r ' 40 t “ t «
virtu*. There i* tt '* 5 ’*' „ 15°°^
then is »11 the »ol*t -?> > v “ ’
The feiorni —lu EUecU ai 1 aarlr*»lon.
Di-rino the whole of Friday night and yester
day, the Moral continued with little intermission.
Yesterday morning our city was full of painful ru
mors of the disastrous efl’iiCts of the galo at Cbarl s
ton, ainonsr which tho total dastructiou of the
Moultrie Hoase—the submersion of Sullivan’s Is
land and other similar calamities wore confidently
asserted. The telegraphic wires being unable to
transmit intelligence, on account ot the violence
of tho storm, it wus impossible to obtain any au
tkeutic information until tho arrival of the tiain
yesterday afternoon, when we received a partial
confirmation of the current rumors of the morn
ing, iu the detailed accounts which we subjoin
from the Courier ani Mercury of yesterday. Tho
Courier states that at four o’clock yestetday morn
tt’Sh tho galo bad “ somowhat subsided,’ - and we
therefore trust that its worst effects are already
known:
A Violent Storm. —Wo are called upon to re
cord one of the severest and most destructive
storms that has been felt at our p»ort tor many
yeurs. In duration, violence, and amount of dam
age, wo can, indeed, compare the visitation which
has just passed over with nothing that has occur
red since the memorable gale of 18u4 —of whiph,
by a strange coincidence, tho present was the
semi centennial anniversary.
The first indication and warning appeared at a
very ear y hour of Thursday morning, or soon
alter the midnight of Wednesday. The breeze
was from the Northeast aud gradually increasing
amounted to a gale about midnight on Thursday.
FiOin this period it continued, with occasional in
termissions-and with violent accessions, through
out the whole of y sterday. The direction was
changed frequently, and there wore brief intervals
of comparative quiet, and as has been usuul in all
our sovere gales, tho wind, for tho greater portion
of its violei.t duration, settled down at, or nearly,
in the Southeast.
The violence of the storm, which was accompa
nied mostly by heavy drifts and lulls of rain, to
gother with tho excitement and confusion neces
sarily attending such au occasion, prevented us
from obtaining such a statement or particulars as
would justify even an approximative estimate of
damages. Wo have seen and learned enough,
however, to force the couviction that tho aggregate
of loss in and near tho city itself, will be heavy,
and it will be swelled learluily, we apprehend, by
the reports wo shall in due time receive, of the
damuges at a distance, and along our coast and
rivers. We can but now, such items of the
damages, as wo have to ascertain.
All tho wharves along on East-Bay have suffered
more or less. Some have been severely damaged,
the planking and posts beiug carried away, while
a number have also been injured in their head
walls. The water overflowed them completely and
flooded the warerooms, store houses aud counting
offices.
In addition to tho wharf property injured, there
has been in this way a serious loss sustained in
the total or purtial destruction of merchandize iu
store. On Brown’s wharf alono tho destruction of
two thousand sacks of salt is reported, with serious
damage done in sugar, of which there was also a
considerable stock, which has been affected in the
lower tier. Tho loss on the wharves generally, is
roughly o-tiuiated now at $250,000 to $300,000.
Tho* anxiety to hear from Sullivan’s Island
during the greatest violence of the storm was
uaintully distressing. Thrv ugbout the day com
munication was totally interrupted, as no vessel
could have effected a landing at the time. The
wharf and house of the Mt. Pleasant Ferry Com
pany at tho toot of Market street have beeu swept
away ; and tlioro is no doubt that tho destruction
of property at tho Island itself has beeu considera
ble. In tho at.eruoon the steamer Aid, Uapt.
Payne, left the city ♦or tho purpose ot comiuunica
tion withtlio Island, but found it impossible, and
was forced to seek safj moorings in Ashley Kiver.
Tho AiJ, however, approached near enough to
ail on board a distinct view ot the general
condition of the Island. It was seen that no promi
nent or well known house wus swept away except
the Old Point House. It is simple justice to state,
that Mr. Taylor, engineer ot tho steam ship Nash
ville, Capt M. Berry, promptly volunteered his
efficient services to Capt. Payne, on koaring that
the Aid, for tho time being, had no engineer.
At about ten o’clock last night a party of seven,
at the risk ol'their lives, reached the city lrom tho
Island, wkich they had loft in a good boat at
about four in t. o ‘afternoon, but wo could glean
but little information lrom tho member of it whom
we saw—in fact, as ho slated all wei' soabsorbed
in saving their effects that little attention was paid
to what was transpiring elsewhere. McNulty’s
house was swept away at an early period of the
storm, but whether life was lost thereby our in
formant could not sny.
At the Moultrie House, the sea on both sidos.
yesterday alto'noon, was making a clear broach
through tho ground floor, and thoso in it had ta
ken refuge in the cupola. Tho majority, however,
ot the inmates were safely lodged in Fort Moul
tn*\ where, wo presumo,ali who considered them
selves in danger had also gono. Tho Dredge Boat,
at four o’clock, is said to have been perfectly safe.
Tho Island was perfectly deluged, but, as tar as
ws could learn, no reports were current of any loss
of ife.
The instances of damage by tho gale are numer
ous, but, wo trust, will not bo found to reach a
very large amount. Tho tilings and slatings of
many houso3 have been injured, and tiD roofings
have been blown oifontiroly in some cases. This
was done, with tue large block store on Meet ng
street, from Hayne to Market, occupied on the
first floor by Townsend, Crane & Co. The injuries
threatened, iu consequence by loakage, were such
that a considerable portion of the stock bad to be
removed into neighboring stores, and some dam
age has been sustained. A large portion of tin
roofing on the Charleston Hold was also borne
off, and much damage was done to tho new dome
iu the area of that establishment. A two story
vs ooden building, with brick foundation, in King,
near Johnstroet, and belonging, we believe, to
Mr. C. Dunn, was blown down.
The storm, if prevailing over any oxtent to the
degree which marked it here, will involve an im
-1 mouse loss, and even in tho immediate vicinity,
the damages sustained by planters must bo most
serious. The staple crops, whoso promising as
pect and encouraging auguries wo noticed but a
week since, were in a stage that rondrod them pe
culiarly liable, and we have reason to apprehend
the hopes previously indulged, ou good grounds
by very many of our planters, have been almost
utterly blasted. On this point, of courso, we must
however await returns.
A lew particulars concerning the gale of 50 yoars
ago may be properly appendod.
The gale of 1804, as we learn from our file, be
gan about 11 o’clock at night, on Friday Sept. 7th
—tho wind begining from the Northeast, then
changing to tho Eiston Saturday morning, and on
that afternoon to the Southeast. The destruction
caused by it along the Ba>, was beyond »Dy former
precedent—every whurf, from Gudsden’s down to
South Bay having been soriously injured. At 7
o’clock on the morning of Saturday the Bth, which
was the regular period of low water, tho tide, by
the force of the gale, was as high as had been
usually observed previously at Spring tides; at 12
o’clock it had reached nearly three feet beyond for
mer marks of the highest tides, and rnauy vcbsols
wore driven some distance on the wharves.
The bulwark or water wall then newly erected
on South Bay, was totally destroyed, os was also
the new part of East Bay, then but finished in
contiuuut on of the old street from W uter street,
South. Several largo stores and dwelling houses
wore washed away, and of the shipping in the
harbor not more than four vessels ot any kind,
escaped altogether uninjured. A brick building
on Blake’s wharf—now Magwood’s—used as a scale
houso and counting cfllo3, was beat down by the
bowsprit of the ship Lydia, Capt. Heyward, which
wn** dashed against it.
From fifteen to twonty houses on Sullivan’s Is
land were washed away, and considerable damage
was sustained by the loss of other properly. A
small black boy was drowned there, and several
lives were lost in tho city by the falling of bouses.
Tho ebb of the tide on this occusion was marked
by a phenomenon which is noted as something ro
markable.
At 12 M. on Saturday, the Bth Sept., tho fall of
that tide was only to tho extent of two feet. It was
naturally apprehended under those circumstances,
that the next tide would be beyond the point pre
viously reached; on the contrary, however, through
tho influence of tho wind, the fall continued
throughout the regular period of tho Jloo , and at
high tide on Sunday, the water was not as high as
it had been at the lowest stage on Saturday.
The p reviouc galos recorded as the most violent
and destructive, occurred in 1752 and 1788. The
subsequent gales thut were specially memorable,
were in 1811 and 1822.— Cnas. Courier, of Saturday.
From the Charleston Mercury , 9'h inst.
# Heavy Gale.
The Gale, to which we alluded in our last as
having commenced about 7 o’clock on Thursday
evening, continued to fresen during the night, and
about lour o’clock yesterday morning, the wind
blow almost a hurricane. It continued with groat
violence, accompanied by hoavy showers, through
out the day, until about 4 o’clock, when, after a
comp&rrte lull, it hauled to tho Southeast, and blew
for three hours with much fierceness, when it
again lulled, and as we go to prows at midnight it
has the appearance of moderating.
This is ouo of the heaviest ana most protracted
gales that ban been experienced boro lor many
years, and it is somewhat singular that it occurred
on tho semi centennial anniversary of the gteat
gale of 1604, so memoiable in tho minds of our
ancient cit z-jns, which took place on Friday, the
Bth of September of that year.
Much injury has been done tc the wharves and
improvements, both on Cooperand Ashley Rivera.
For a considerable portion of the time, the sea
made a complete breach over tho Battery, the spray
being sometimes blown clear over the roofs of the
adjacent btiil lings. The water on East Bay s reet
wus in many placos four feet deep, ana backed up
through Atlantic and Water stroets into Meeting
street, a largo portion of which \ as covered to the
depth of two or three feet. All the cellars and
yards contiguous are of course submerged, and
many beautiful gardens are completely destroyed
for the present season.
The Battery itself has been greatly damaged,
the woodwork being washed away, and the figging
undermined on the eastern front, while a conside
rable portion of the concrete aDd stone facing on
th<- Southern front has been destroyed. All the
wharves, on both rivers, have been more or less
injured, their bulkheads being damaged, and
planking ripped up by tho violence of the waves;
while baits of cotton, firewood, lumber, and sedge
from the marshes, were carried upon the flood, in
many cases, nearly to East B*y street. The Mount
Pleasant Ferry House was nearly destroyed, and
the boat building shop of Mr. Burk removed from
its foundations. In many cases the w*ater flowed
into the cellars and basement of stores, damaging
goods and fixtures to a considerable extent. In
this way upwards of 1400 sacks of sail were de
stroyed in a store on Brown’s Wharl.
Considerable injury has also re ulted to many
buildings in the city, by stripping them of their
roofs, and in some places the thoroughfares were
dangerous from the continual fall ng of slates and
tiles. A large portion of the tin roof of the
Charleston Hotel was ripped otf, and considerable
damage done to the beautiful Crystal Palace in the
centre of the establishment. A similar mishap
befel the tin roof of the large store of Messrs.
Townsend, Crane <fc Co., which was rolled up and
blown into Meeting street. The heavy rains must
necessarily occasion considerable damage to these
establishments in their exposed condition. A
frame building in King street above JohD, be
longing to t-e es ate of C. Dunn, was blown
down.
The damage to the shipping has been considera
ble, though not so great as was for a time antici
pated. At Union wnarf the bark St. Lawrence
and Aquatic tore up the wharf posts to wnich
their lines were attached. The former was
promptly secured without irjury, but the latter
was very much chafed against the wharf. Both
the floating docks escaped without injury. At
Central wharf the schr. Lucy Whethaui, of Wil
miDgtoD, parted her bow fasts, and fell over on
the schr. J. N. Nuir, both vessels receiving some
injury. At Atlantic wharfes, Mr. James Chap
man’s schr. Isabella, Captain Gage, capsized sunk
about ten o’olock la*t evening. She was last from
Havana, and had fifteen or twenty thousand Segars
on board.
The steamer DeK&ib had the roof of her cabin
blown off and other slight injuries. The Dredge
boat belonging to the wharves was sunk. At
Vanderhorst’s Wharf, the ship Lydia parted her
lasts, and drifted against Adgera South Wharf,
but was aga n secured without material damage.
The schooners Barker and Charleston, both from
Georgetown, with shingles, were sunk, the former
at Comiß6rc.nl Wharves, and the latter at the loot
of Market Street. The brig Eureka, which was
lying at Southern Wharf, parted her lasts, and
drifted against the stonework of East Bay Battery,
at whicn point the crew left her, she being in a
dangerous position, and m. manageable.
Alter striking heavily aiODg the entire east front
of the Battery, she parsed into Ashley River, and
having considerably damaged the Bathing House,
she fell over on her side, and drifted across the
river, and sank. Several ousting schooners and
small vessois, we r e driven ashore on tne Laurens
Street Fiats, but received no serious iDjrny. The
Spanish bark Tacio, bark Tonqnin, brig George L.
Abbott, and ateamer Carolina, rode oot the storm
at anchor off the Battery in safety*
At Castle Finckney the sonvinel’s bouse, aud ibe 1
bridge attached to it. were carried away, and drit- 1
ted up the deck at the foot of Queen street. 1
Much anixiety has been, and coctinn-’s to be, 1
felt, as to tho condition of things on Sullivans. |
Island. The violence of the storm precluded <
anp communication by tho ferry beats, and the
thickness of the atmosphere obstructed the view
by teloscope fiom the Exchange.
About two o’clock yesterday afternoon, Captain
Paine, of the steam tug Aid, in view of tho solici
tude of many who had friends on the Island, got
up steam, and with a picked crow and a num
ber of pas engers, gallantly breasted the tumul
tuous waves. Upon nearing tho Islaud, how
ever, the gale was so violont aud the sea so heavy,
that it was found impossible to communicate witn
it. The Aid, therefore, put about, and made a
comfortable harbor in Ashley river. Several
others of our city steamers made a safe anchorage
in the Ashiey.
That portion of the Northeastern Kailroad in
process of construction in the marsh, in the neigh
borhoodof Pavue’s Farm, suffered consideifab’o
damage. The loss will fall on the contractor. Mr.
Hunter.
From the violence and long continuance of tho
storm, immense damage must necessarily have
beeu inflicted on the K:ce and Cotton crops, both
in this aud the adjacent States, it being the season
when ot all others they were most susceptible to
injury from such a cause.
The Late title.
We copy the following additional particulars of
the ravages of the recent storm from our Charles
ton andSavauDah exchanges:
Further Disasters from the Gale.— ln addition
to the intelligence contained in our Saturday’s is
sue, we have collected tho following further parti
culars concerning the damage done to the shipping
and wharves:
At Potter’s wharf (late Smith’s) the brig Benicia
stove bulwarks, damaged rigging, and is badly
chafed. The schr. Lillie banders, at the samo
wharf, has beeu chafed. The wharves also receiv
ed some iDjury. Patten’s, Bennett’s and Marsh’s
wharves escaped without serious injury.
Union Wharves, which were undergoing repairs
had a considerable portion of the pier taken away
down to low water mark. The bark Speedwell,
at Union Wharves, was somewhat chafed in tho
larbcard qu rter by the Aquatic.
The North Dry Dock Wharf has received but
plight injury, but the South Wharf, belonging to
the samo company, has been much injured, aud
will require considerable repairs.
The two wharves of the New Custom House,
(late Fitzsimous’s) whuh have beeu lately very
thorough.y repaired, stood the storm nobly, t*B did
tho two Ceutrul and Accommodation Wharves,
the latter only receiving some slight injuries.
Brown’s North wfiarl has been much damaged,
but the South wharf stood well, aud has received
but little injury.
Some ofthe Atlantic Wharves were much injur
ed, but their enterprising proprietor will soon have
them jin a condition to do business. Boyace &
Co’s wharves have been but slightly damaged, and
Adger’s wharves were equally iortunate.
Vanderhorst’s wharves have several considera
ble breaks, but can soon be put in good condition.
North Commercial wharf had part of the Pier
head taken off, and both wharves havo received
additional damage.
Southern Wharves are in a very bad condition,
and will require a largo sum to put them iu order.
Tho brig Coral, lying at Wappoo Mills, had her
bulwarks stove, is chafed badly, and lost jibboom.
Tho brig Ziuobia, of the same place, loaded with
lumber, ami ready for sea, has been driven ashore
near tho Mills, and will probably have to discharge
part of her cargo to get off.
The senr Rob Roy lies sunk at Qie head of East
Point Mill W harf.
The steamers Mapsasoit and G. W. Coffee are
ashore on tho Western side of Ashley river, oppo
site tho Race Courso, and will not be got off with-
out considerable difficulty.
Tho new Light boat for Rattlesnake shoal, that
anchored in the roads on Thursday last, rode out
the gale in safety, w.tli a B,ooolb. anchor down, in
ono of the most exposed jositions in the haroor,
fully testing her capacity to hold on.
Sullivan’s Island. —The Island presents a very
dismal appearance ; treos, fences, and the smaller
buildings, lay prostate in all directions. Near the
Cove the storm did much damage. The Point
House is gone, and all of the adjacent buildings
are more or loss injured. On the Back Beach the
damage is universal, all of tho houses having suf
fered moro or less. On the Front Beach, thoso
four neat cottages, oast ot the Moultrie House,
known as tho Tennessee Row, are all swopt away.
The Moultrie House is sound and secure, having
lost only the steps around the piazzas, and a low
of the brick pillars supporting the front piazza.
Tho Southwest end of the piazza has fallen in a
little. As will bo seen, these injuries are very
slight, aud in a few days will bo put all right again.
This terrible gale has lully test id the safety ot tho
Monltrio House, and demonstrated its strength and
security against tho most violent ttorms. Just
west of tho Moultrie House is the houso occupied
by Mr. Banks, which has been destroyed, having
fallen down and been swept through by tho waves.
Mr. Hull’s house is entirely gone, not a vestigo
left.
Gen. Martin’s house has suffered greatly; tho
bulwarks is gone, aud the flooring ot the piazza;
otherwise severely injurod.
Tho whole Island, west of and including the
Tonuossee Row, was covered with water on Fri
day morning, at which time the Btorm attained its
1 greatost height. The Ferry W harf is gone. Tho
i wharf at Mount Pleasant is standing, while the
long bridge connecting it with the land .s swept
1 off. The officers at the Fort offered overy accom
-1 to the people who took she.ter there.—
Cha* Uston Mtrcury of Monday , 1 \th inst.
From the Savannah Republican of Saturday Even'g*
Ihe Gale in Savannah—Destruction of Properly
In the CUy.
The gale continued to abate from 11 o’olock Fri
day night, and by Saturday morning at 4 o’clock,
it had subsided into a rather gentle wind from the
South-west. It set in from the North-east Thurs
day forenoon, and continued to blow from that
quarter until half past 8 P. M. Friday when it
slowly shifted to tho East. At 10 o’clock at night,
it had changed to tho South-east, and from that
point it gradually woro aroand to tho South-east,
tho opposite point of the compass from whence it
started. It iB still blowing as wo write (Saturday
afternoon) from the South-west, though not vio
lently. _ ,
We learn that the gale did not extend more than
sixty or seventy miles into tho interior.
The damage to property has been incalculable,
but we are glad to hoar of no lives being lost,
though up to the time of writing nothing bus boon
hoar.t from the plantations on the opposite side of
tho river, and above sod and below the city. Wo
give below such details as have reached us to the
time of putting our country edition to press.
DAMAGE IN THE CITY.
I’, is impossible lo convey to tho distant reader
au idea oi tho present aspect of the city. Os the
hundreds of beautiful trees that ornamented tho
squares.and streets, at least over halt ot them have
boon blown down, and thoso standing have been
stripped of their branches and leaves. It was al
mo-t impossible to get through the town Saturday
morning, so completely were tho streets blockadod
up. Monumont square is a wreck; so is Orleans
square, opposite Mr. Robert Habersham’s resi
dence. Indeed, the trees in every square and
street in the city have been groatly injured. It
makes one sad to look upon Bouth Broad-street,
for nearly all of tho four rows ot the trees in it are
either prostrated or stripped of their foliage. The
enclosures around tho squares have also suffered
by the falling trees and nranches. Forsyth Place
we understand, ((or we have not seen it,) has suf
fered greatly. Indeed, there is not a tree, nor
plant, nor growing thing in the city, that has not
been injured.
B*. John’s Episcopal Church has received great
injury. Two ot tho piuac'es of the steeple were
carried away, one of which broke throuzh the
roof at the ridge. All the beautiful windows of
stained in front, and oue or two at the sides,
as well as those in the steeple, were driven in aud
completely demolished. The entire tin covering
of the roof was stripped off’ and it is feared that
the organ and the interior ot the Church will be
much damaged.
Tho roof of Trinity (Methodist) Church was
torn away, and the buildiug otherwise injured.
A small portion of the slate on the Independent
Prosbyteiian Church was carried off. Tho injury
is slignt however.
The other Churches, as far as wo could loaru,
have eseapod with, porhaps, the loss of a shuttor
or a few panes of gluss.
The western half of the roof of tho Exchange
was ripped off, and the hands of tho clock are
pointing, as wo write, to every imaginable iiour.
The tin covering of thoModioal College was u^o
carried away.
Tho crowning part of the roof on the Theatre
was ripped up, and through the opening thus mado,
tho rain poured down, doing great damage to the
scenery and paintings of the artist now engnged
upon the interior of the building. The injuiy wo
understand is groat.
The roof of the State Bank was also considera
bly damaged, as well as the railing inclosing the
building.
Tho damage to the Gas Works i-* considerable.
One of the guides loading to the gas holder was
broken off and forced into the latter, badly ii jur
ing it and lotting out about 40,009 teetof gaa. It
will require some days to get the other gasometer
in place and furnish the city with gas, on account
of the brackisbness of the water in the river and
the consequent inability of the Water Works to
furnish the requistekind und supply of water. Tho
roof of retort and other houses was much injared.
The extent of the lo.**s is not known.
The gas posts in evory part of the city have suf
fered much injury, many of them being broken off
by falling trees and blown down.
The splendid private residence of Edward Pa
delford, and Andrew Low did not escape. The
tront projection on the North-eastern side of the
lormer was carried away, while the entire tin cov
erißg of tho latter was torn to shreds and blown
through the air as if it had been parchment. —
Scudder’s block, near the Park, was completely
stripped, and Gordon block, near by,though more
fortunate, did not escape without considerable in
jury.
The brick wall around Chatham Accademy, op
posite the Theatre, was blown to pieces, and sev
eral of the trees within were prostrated.
The root the Rev. Mr. Rodgers’ house, and that
of Mr. Abram Minis and Dr. Martin, were strip
ped of their frail tin covering.
But we forbear It woula require the whole of
one of our pages to give the particulars of the in
jury to the roofs, chimneys, and enclosures of pri
vate houses. Walls and fences have been blown
down : windows and doors have been forced in ;
shatters have been wrenched off, and other dam
age done, which it is impossible to describe.—
With the exception of Mr. Jacob Waldburg’a
house, and a lew others, there is scarcely a pri
vate residence or store in town Laving a tin or
copper covering, which has not been injured except
in cases where some protection was afforded by
parapet walls; and even here, these walls have
not always been a sure protection. The roof of
Scadders’s building on the Buy, occupied by
Washburn, Wilder, 6c Co., which was undergoing
some repairs, was lilted up and turned completely
over. The western wall of the building which
Wm. B. Hodgson is erecting at the corner of Bull
and Broughton-streets, was blown down upon the
wooden tenement next to it, crushing in the roof
and badly damaging it.
Turn where wo will, the streets and lanes and
squares are Ailed with pieces of slate, tin and
boards. It will require months, with the present
mechanical force iu tow/, simply to repair the
roofs of houses. In the meantime, should it con
tinue to rain, great injury must be done to the
interior decorations of buildings and to furniture.
injury to the wharves, cotton presses and build
ings ALONG THE BAY.
All the Eastern wharves wereto r n up and flood
ed with 4 feet of water, as well as that part of Bay
street East of the Gas Workp.
Miller’s Foundry was unroofed; so were the
Hydraulic, Lamar’* and Baldwin’s Cotton Press
establishments, and Willink s Ship Yard. Mr.
Miller bad to wade through the water up to his
neck, to his stables, where he had several horses,
which he swam out. The following is supposed
to be the losses in that part of the ciiy ;
Miller’s Foundry $2500
Hydraulic Pres*
Lamar’s Press
Baldwin’s Press ‘OOO
Wiilink’s Ship Yard • • • * 5000 ,
A large quantity of goods, stored at Lamar s
press and imported for Augusta, together with 800
sacks of salt, was lost or badly damaged. Mr.
Willink lost *ISOO worth of skip 8 knees, besides
01 J 9r KobSr£ y & Co’s, mill was considerably dam
ped, and a quantity of the lumber, &0., lout. We
einno , however, (five the »mount of their lou.
A portion of the root of M*j. Starke s null, on
Fig Dland, was carried away, and the chimney
broken off even with the roof. _ .....
The Oglethorpe mill has sustained bat little
damage. & Co.’n Mill has escaped all injury ;
only a little lumber and timber lost.
'/he Upper Bice Mill sustained nodam.^e.
The tin roof ofthe Water Works buildimrs was
partially carried away. The salt water having i
been forced up the river above the city, the Wat or i
Works cannot furnish the oaual supply.
Lachlison’a Foundry waa entire.y .tripped of 1
its tin coveting;.
The wharves io the We>lcrn part of the city
wore badly washed in some places.
The tin roof ou the Georgia Steam Boat Com
pany’s buildiugs is entirely gore.
Every shed and building ulong tho Bluff, from
Wiilink’a Ship Yard to tho Canal, having a tin
root, wua wholly or partially stripped.
With the exception of a few wooden shanties,
no buildings were blow down in the western part
of tho city though there was great destruction of ;
fences, &c.
iho sight from the Bay, looking up East Br a l- i
street, is truly sad. A majority of the mr.gir.fi- I
cont trees in that street, and many wooden bouser 1
were prostrated.
Wm. 13. Hodgson’s building at tho head of Bay- I
stroot, is considerably damaged, the southern 1
parapet wall having been carried awav.
The tin covering of A. A. Smote’ Warehouse '
is entirely gone; so is the northern part of tlu
roof of theOouuting house occupied by K. Hutch
inson.
The tin roof of tho warehouse at the corner of
Bay and Price-treet*, occupied by F. H. Weln.
is also gone. The roofs of W. Lynn’s and C. i
Hamilton’s counting houses received some dam
age. Williamson’s buildings loss their tin roof
aud gutters.
SHIPPING IN PORT.
The steamer Jenny Lind is lying on tho oppos
site side of the river, a perfect wreck.
The steamer Saui Jones is broken to pieces at
Wiilink’s wharf.
The stamer Oregon is a total loss.
Tho steamer St. John’s is hut slightly injured ;
tho Wm. Gaston not at all. Tho Welaka aivo es
caped injury, as did tho New York and Savannah
steamship Florida.
Tho brig Matauzis was driven ashore from
Oglethorpe Mill, and is now almost high and dry
just above tho Mill.
The brig Joseph Albion broke looso from tho
same Mill, and lias lost her loretopinast and at
tained considerable damage in her rigging.
No other vessels wore injured that .se could
hear cf.
The dry dock, having been drivon across the
rive.*, is now jammed in against the barque Flight
at Telfair’s wharf. The barque has lost her miz
zentepmast and sustained oilier injury.
Injury to tiie Kick and Sea Island Cotton .
CRors.—Later accounts induced us to believe that
a very small portion of tho rice crops may be saved
in a damaged condition. All tho rice that was
cut and stackod on the field has been lost, aud this
was by far tho greatest part of the crop in this
State and a portion of South Carolina. The little
that had not been cut, above the point to which
the galo forced up tho salt water, may posJbl.
yield something, though it will bo little, ana that
in a damaged condition. The destruction in tho
vicinity ol Mr. James Potter’s plantation, some ten
miles above the city, it is hoped is not so great,
though it caunot but bo sorious. Nothing, how
ever, bus been hoarl from that quarter. The
harvesting does not begin so soon north of this,
on the Carolina coast, and possibly the loss has
not been so groat in that State as in Georgia. Tho
crop in the two States is roughly estimated at four
to live millions, two thirds, and probably threc
fourths of which has been destroyed. D T . Screv u
a single planter, pots down his loss at $50,000.
Nothing has boon hoard from the Sea Island
Cotton plantations on tho coast below, but judging
from the violence of the gale and tho usual luxu
riance of the weed, it is beliovod that tho Cotton
has been torn and 41 whipped” out to a deplorable l
extent. Tho loss from this sourco will also *;o |
very hoavy. i
HUTOniNSCN’a ISLAND.
The whole of this island, opposite tho city, ex
cept a sow high places, was submerged. Tho wa
ter was five or six feet deep upon it in many |
places. Thoio was groat destructiou of cattle on
tho island, though several horses and cows es
caped by fleeing to such elevated points us they
could reacli.
A great deal of lumber and ship timbor wore
washed from the Island and lost.
Four negroes belonging to Judge Huger, ot‘
South Carolina, were overtaken on the northern
side of tho Island; three of them nsceuded a tre-o,
and have not since been heard from—tho other
one got upon a plunk, aud succeeded in gaining
Cel. Gre in’s steam mills, from whence ho reach;'i
the city iu safety.
LIGHT HOUSE GONE—SHIPPING AT TYREE.
Only the root of the light house on Fig Island,
near the city, was carried away.
A pilot who came up the river Saturday morn
ing, says, the outer L ght House on Tybee laituv
ttlie mouth of tho river, was blown down, - .-o
hat tho barque Douglass, lor Valparaiso, and the
barque Ernesto Pietro, for Plymouth (Eng.) both
bound out with lumber, went ashore ou Tybee
beach with all their spars gone.
Tho British essel Ellon and Lady Westmoro
land, lying at Tybee, with cargoes of iron for the
Opelika Koad, rode out the storm in sa'oty.
Nothing has been heaid from the shipping out
side.
TELEORAI’n LISE.
Wo learn from the operator here, that eomo fifty
or sixty miles of the wire leading from this city,
along the Contra! Road, uro down. In mmy place*
tho wiro was blown on to tho track, and out to
pieces by the car wheels. It will require so too ten
days or two weeks to obtain a supply of wiro an d
to replace the posts.
The Great fetorm.
The hurricane has ceased its ravages and tho
wators have subsided. In tho multiplicity of du
ties devolving upon us, we find it impractical to
make up a detailed statement of tho destruction
that meets the eye on overy hand, in pasting
through our city. So far as wo are able to loar
no l.ves have been lost, though many persons we o
brought into imminent peril. Our tears tor the
shipping and for tho safety of human life along t he
coast, are increased rather than uilnyod. Hutcbin
bod’b I-land is again above wator, and to our sur
prise wo bee cattle gruzing there os usual. How
they could have escape drowning is aimost a mir
aolo,
Tho damage unstained through the city seomsto
bo geuoral and wile spread. Tin roofs have boon
striped from almost every building, public and
private, in exposed situation. Among tho most
prominent ot which we have noticed is that of tho
Exchange, Bt. Johns church, Catholic and Metho
dist churches, and a partial injury to tho hlu o too
of the Independent Presbyterian church.
Tho loss to privato dwellings in damugo to roofs,
windows, trees, fences, tfcc., cannot bo detailed.—
Many of our steets are impassable from the fhlk-n
trees. So much injury has been sustained at tho
Uas Works as to deprive the city of gas. The sev
eral boat yards are heavy loosers ot timber and
other buildiDg material. Fig Island light honso
stands. Stark’s Fig Island mill is unroofed. Tho
wharves of the How York and Savannah Stoum
ship Company and the Iron Steamboat Compau;
have been inundated to tho great dumago of goods
in tho warehouses thereon, awaiting trams ship
ment.
W'e learn of some slight disaster to tho shipping
in the lower haibor, butaß yot are without tidings
from outside.
When time and opportunity afford, wo may giv
the names of tho BufferorH, but it is useless to at
tempt it now, or to speculate upon tho probable
damages sustained. While we would heartily
sympathize with all who may have suffered, in a
morul point of view there is groat reason for thank
fulness to tho Ruler of the storm that, so fur as \\ 3
know, human life has been spared, and the loss
and damage to property is no greater. — Savh . Qeor
gian, of Sunday Morning .
Col. Fremont on a New Expedition.—Wo learn
from the National Intelligencer that this indefati
gable and intelligent explorer was soon to embark
from New York in tho San Franoisao steamer,
with a view of proceeding from thit city to tho
Sierra Nevada to fix astronomically the Pas' which
ho discovered in that mountain during his exp',
dition last winter. Tho results of that exjrtk.i'ion
wore published by tho Intelligencer, as drawn up
by the explorer himself, and groat stress wa- laid
upon the discovery of this Pass, as being excellent
in itself, and north of t' 0 Walker and Tejon Pass
es, and therefore more in tho straight lino fro
St. Louis to San Fraucisco, and opening directly
into tho rich San Joaquin valley near the Southern
gold mines. Col. Fremont judged that Pass to bo
about latitude 37$ but tho importance which ho
attaches to it as a point in the Central route to tho
Pacific Ocean, induces him to go to it again to fix
its position with a precision which tho exhausted
condition of bis party and resources did not admit
of when he went through it. The Intelligencer
also loans that this expedition, liko his two Inst
ones, has no connection with tho Government
surveys, and receives no aid from the survey ap
propriations.
The Boston Fire Department. — It is stated that
“during tne past mouth the Boston Firo Depart
ment has boon called oar eighteen times, two of
which were to fires out of town. Five of the flrcß
are ascribed to incendiary, and one to carelessness
cf boys in lighting cigars. Excluding the fire in
Broad street, wnere it is now difficult to estimate
how much of the loss was from fire and how much
by the fall, and the total loss of the month is not
over one thousand dollars. The Engineers’ date
their yearly report from September. For they© :r
the losses are net yet fully mad 3 up, but will not
probably much exceed a quarter of a million of
dollars. This is a great decrease on the year en
ding Sept. 1, 1353, when the loss was $515,167,
with $295,000 insurance.”
Editorial Personalities. —The New York Times
thus winds up in an article upon the dignity of
journalism:—“Whenever Editors raise the stand
ard of mutual respect; whenever they become
in fact what they are in theory—a Profession j
whenever they have a common and current creed !
of gentlemany behavior as editors, no less than as
men —then will the evils complained of bo cured,
and society spared the merciless infliction of pri
vate wrongs upon its notice. Editors ought to
know, that the bare fac‘ of their commanding the
use of the pen doily, does not entitle them to per
secute the public with eaitoriil quarrels. These
are iLcidents of their private business, and ought
to bo so treated.”
Racing Challenge!— Mr. Thos. J. Wells,
owner of the noted racer, “ Lecomte" throws out
the following challenge in the N. O. Picayune , of
the 21 inst.: “ I will say now and forever: Ltcomte j
will meet any horse that can be produce '—Lex
ington particularly,— over the Metairie, Mobile c r
Natchez Course, at any distance , at any time , and
for any amount .”
The Knickerbocker and The Illustrated Maga
zine op Art.— Both of these excellent periodicals
fer September are on oui table. W e have s* often
dwelt upon their peculiar merits, that we need
now only say that the numbers before us are fully
equal to any of their predecessors in literary and
artistic value and interest.
For sale by Geo. A. Oates & Bros.
Steamboats in the St. Louis and New Orleans
Trade. —Never before since the first commence- j
ment of steamboating in the west, says the St.
Louis Republican, have we had, in the St. Louis
and New Orleans trade, such a number of fine and
fast boat# as will be out for this fall’s business.
The owners of steamboats in the trade seem to
have awakened to their own interests, and instead
of having none but freight and slow boats, we
shall have almost a boat for each day, of the finest
and fastest kind. There will be in the course of
two or three weeks a dozen to fifteen steamers
plying regularly botween this city and New Or
leans, wnich c innot be excelled in point of speed
and passenger accommodation by the finest ;ats
afloat, not one of which but wjll be ablo to n ike
the time up in five to five and a half days.
Mm-ancholt Event —The Washington Star of
Saturday announces the death of Charles Prenss,
surveyor and companion of Col. Fremont in the
discovery of the best route to California. It sayß •
Some four years ago he was sun-struck in Cali
fornia, whioh more or less efli oted his mind ever
since. About a week ago the malady became wo i so,
manner "w ban beulTthS Kuilding, and no trace
be foqod until J*st evening, when hie
dead body back of the farm of Clark
Mills £iq., near Bladensi urg. In h.a insanity he
wandered away from home and penshed there.
4.'holer* In Knuioitt*.
Uiik Knoxville, (Toon.) nv< «/, juit received,
contain* the following sad in’Diligence:
44 The picture hero is olio of trU>)in—thegreatest
equate:* ation prevails. Tho'-.ly i* d ie<t •
rr, ght v !Ul I <l *y they are fl ,mg in c . rv d r clicn!
I » Kotek, are closed, *ihu s'nge ccn.es in with
tb mails, and returns to tho count -v m.in bint. Iv.
. . have scarcely help etiougl) to lay < u<
! aud bury them. All busing-. y a * iV«rlv censed,
i Our publishers have lett town, und n-»oth«r < an*r
can bo got out. If we are able, or hand**, v.u will
hereafter issue an extra. Should wo full’ wo ; n .
trt*id to full at our post. C. M. Mother, Col.
b.’.*Lry, Judge Alexander, authorized us to supply
tho poor and destitute with what they were need
big, and seed ti e bills into them l**r nnvmc.nt
! Aided by Mr. 11 mcr. w<* were i. -aged in eacuiug
j Okl to them, such as candle?, bus n ei .kt rs
! and olh r necessaries. Buain- of n!l. ; ..
I now suspended.” \V. G. Brown low
Ptyaljvy of Cities—Tlio twn great cities cf New
York and Philadelphia ought to seta better ex
ample to tho small fry than their giganticqnuircls.
As tho Wheeling Inie’ligencer justly remarks,
“tho more they grow iu wealth, trade and popula
tion, tho more embittered tin fend becomes.” Tho
Providence Journal thus speaks of it: “The annual
dispute botwoen tho New Yorkers and Philadel
phians did not eomuunco this year as early as
usual ; indeed, the piq era did not get to calling
each infamous till well into August. Bat as tho
fall trade comes on, tho Philadelphia editors,
* :kcut any wish to disparage New York,but< nly
from the kindest motives, mention, tor tho booefit
of their Western friends, that the cholera is raging
fearfully in tho latter city ; while their New York
brethren, from tho same eucvolent impulse, pub
lish statistics to show that tho average mortality of
Philadelphia is twice as great its that cf tho other
great city—iu fact that pretty niudi ail tho stran
gers die there. As soon as this diapule gets pret
ty well under way, wo shall have a renewal of the
di cussion as to tho relativo population of tho two
c:ties.” “Look,” say the Philadelphians, “at the
superior comfort, the substantial prosperity of
Philadelphia, pcc how much greater the number
of houses in proportion to tho population. A
moderate house, which shelters five or six of cur
people, would overrun with as many families in
Now Y'ork : see, too, our gardens and an pie space
for light and air.” “Yes,” reply t! o Now York
ers, “land is cheap in Philadelphia.” And so tho
wordy con tost rages, till tho fall elections ortho
returning tide of business and population affords
other occupation for the columns of the newspa
pers.”
Tho groat metropolitan papers could bo better
occupied. Nothing is gained by newspaper war
o. city upon city. It is a Kilkenny cat light, in
which each swallows the other.
Brother Simvkins, of the Edgefield Advertiser,
■nua humorously remonstrates with some biped,
1 who iu hunting “varmints” around the editors
dwelling, “makes night hideous” and causes
Dan Morpheus to “ vamose tho ranch
Possum Hunter.—Wo know not who tho
! .«>w is, hut some one has taken a ..olion to poh
rtiur. hunt it all around us lor tho lust live or s'x
nights. “Toot, toot, tool,” goes ids i tilo water
faced bull’s horn—“ Bow-wow, wow,” barks his
dog, an \ 44 Whoop ee,” shouts he every <.veiling
ifcor. t> o’c’ook. Then all or.r own do«s get into
t ii uproar, charge about aud become fTrims, • nd
na generally midnight before ovory thing is Bottled
down so that wo can enjoy sleep.
Now wt like possum hunting in its proper place
and time well enough. The tact is th.ro is somo
little animating and enlivening about the
in tho cool, frosty nights ol the later Full,
when '‘cimmons” aro’sugury and “ rou; t inters”
aro plenty; because then wo havo arsneinted with
it an idea ol u good, fat supper lor tho ensuing
evening.
*' t bo vexing tho drowsy ear of a real mm
! mcr night with your possum-hunting Its h-abom
inable—as tho Frenchman remarked ‘ if is ridi
cule.” Hold on, umil tho sea; on is ripe for
tho fun and then (instead of grmnoki.g at) we’ll
join you.
Tho “Tumvcroin” is the nemo ot a Society in
Albany, New York, competed of Germans, hav
ing for its object tho development of the muscles
and proficiency in gymnastic oxer . 1 •>, by methods
si-. : .lar to that taught by O ingnon and others. Tho
editor of the Albany Ex pres* was present, at a
mCv . ' u few ov. ning- since, and was tnoi t pro
foundly struck at tho cs’ling ol* the 1 oil with tho
tun ucr of 4< Smiths” belonging to tho institution.
We annex what his memory served us with :
Smit mit dr brickyard
Sm tmitde jankshop,
Sin t, mit do bolognas,
Smit mil ono «yo,
Smit m.t two ejes,
Smit do bone pick or,
Smit mil two vrows,
Smit rr.itdo swill curt,
S l it mit segur stumps
Smit mit peach pits,
Smit unit do whi kors,
Smit mit rod hair,
Smit mil no hair,
SMIT!
Big Smit,
Little Smit,
Smit. from do hill,
Smii from do holler,
, Pi fi.. mit do stole,
Slm;. mil do blacks’t shop,
Smit mit d’ lag’r beer shop
Smit mitout any vrow,
Smit wot wants a vrow,
Smit mit one leg,
Smit nut two legs,
Smit mit do p’gs,
Smit mi' do pig head,
Smit mit do pig feet,
It is said that in tho vicinity ot tho burning for
ests in Maiuo, quite a number of persons, chiefly
females, have become insane, in consequence of
tho excitement, tho result ot a belief that the gen
era! conflagration in the woods there is a sign of
the speedy ending of tho world, in accordance with
i ti-ie prediction of tho Mitleritcs. Some of them
have boon taken to the State asylum.
Mobile Register—Health of tiik Editors
Owing to the fact that Messrs. Forsyth and Harris
jvo both ill with fover, tho Register will not, for
the present, don its new dross. As booh ns they
I*ooo vor the now era will bo innguratod.
Th* National Intelligoncor deplores tho recent
] ,»wa and Georgia State 0. urts’ decisions wherein
the supremacy of tho rulings of the Federal
prerne Court had been den’od. The editor char
acter zjs the Judgos of ti e Supremo Court ot tho
IT idled States as having always been men, who
o il iido of tho respect due to their official position,
wore entitled to the profoundeat respect of their
lollow citizens.
Information has reached Washington, says tho
?tar, of the recent death of Brevet Lieutenant Col.
Joan McClelland, of tho Corps of Topographical
Engineers, at Knoxville, Tenn., of Cholera. Col.
McC. was tho brother of Secretary McClelland, of
the interior Department. He leaves a widow, for
merly Miss Walker, of Washington, and a family
i children, all of whom uro now » t Pinoy Point.
■ ■ '*»
Deepest Well in tub World—For sixyoary
past, Messrs. Bolcher <fe Brother, < f St. Louis, have
boon torirgan artesian well on their premises. It
18 n« w twenty-two hundred feet in depth, bung
deeper by one hundred feet than tho one in Frut-co.
The work is still being prosecuted b) means of a
tt aui eng?no, water of s ti-factory so nts rot
, c mg yet been reached. At tho distance of seven
hundred feet, a vein of salt wator was struck, and
at 1,600 feet an immense vein of sulphur water, in
all reopcots liko that of tho Blue Lie* Springs, burst
Fm.l Elections —The following is a list of tho
States yet to vote this fall, and tho time of holding
the elections!
Ma:js September 11
Foniryi vania Octrbor 10
Ohio Gate her 19
Indiana October 10
Massachusetts November 13
N.'W York November 7
• Ac'" Jersey November 7
P inois November 7
M chigan November 7
Wisconsin November 7
Tim Now York Herald estimates that tho capital
i In, .->t„u ir the theatres in that ci’y, including the
•aluo of tho ground on which they stand, amounts
to |1,f50,000, as follow.-■■■:—Broadway Theatre,
$400,000; Opera House, (14th st.) $300,000; New
York Theatre, $250,000; Barton’s Theatre, $200,-
000; Bowery Theatre, $200,000, Nibio’s Garden,
j fcfiOO,iV>iy Wallack’s Thoatro, $100,000; National
Theatre, SICO,COu.
Death cf Dr. Sciiley. —Wo regret to learn that
a despat'h was received hero yesterday m omin
iron; ‘ gnsta, announcing the death at Richmond
Hill ucar Hint placo, of Dr. Freeman Schley of
Bnvai uah. This is a most sad event. The de
oetrv. J was seized by the prevailing epidemic sc mo
days ago, and just after his eider brother, Dr. J.
M. Schley, was attacked, and both of them were
taken o Richmond Hill, t l c family scat, tor bet
‘'jj• T-r! r.,lng and purer air. The change, it seems,
brought no relief to Ibo subject of this notice,
though, wo arc glad to state, his elder brother
was doing well at the last accounts.
The deceased was quite a ycung men, having
returned to this country a few mouths ago from
Peris, whither he hod been to enjoy the advanta
ges o f t’ j medical echools of that city. He was a
disciple of Hornccpathy, and had commenced the
practice cf his profession hero with every prospect
of success and credit to himself.
His death will carry grief to the hearts of a largo
circ’.o of friends and relations among the moat re
| Epectable people in Georgia.— Savannah Reyub
3 lh inst .
Disinfectants. —The papers are everywhere urg
ing the free use of copperas as a disinfectant agent.
It is a cheap article, costing only a few cents per
j ’M, andean be found at the druggists and many
of'.lie largo frrocery stores. A couple of pounds
m?.y bo d'.Holvod in ten quarts of hot water, and
thoßolutio • poured into sinks, gutters cesspools,
.nd ail otho-filthy places with good cifest.
Lic’.aieur Greeley, of the Now York Tribute,
’preaches as fo’iows. How far he practices, let his
>aper prove: “If journalism is ever to attaiu a
I otter dignity than it now possesses in this ccun
i try, it must be by laying aside the load of mere
l r to&lities with which it has been the custom
to clog and often to degrade it. Let ns, il‘possible,
ha7© the uttorances of ideas and the conflicts of
opinion, of which the daily and weekly press arc
so largely and beneficially the medium, disem
hostjlo, concerning individuals. Those who be
lieve that one proposition is false or another true
simply beoause they attribute it to this or that
writer, m y find some inconvenience in lod*fg *>
ghort away of determining as to truth am »
hoed, b it the public at large will be a gamer, and
ti.e ptess still more so,"
, ~ Uri smith has company
—&
she .. . as at Mr. S. with a sweet am.le, and Hers
to help h'm, at the game time touchmg h.m gen-ly
lith her alipper under the table. lie always
rt ‘,lie- “No, X thank you, dear, they don't agree
with Lie.”
PcAtrajN Suoab and Beet Boot Pkanct —A
patent 'as been granted by the French Govern
ment r making sugar from pumpkins; it is sa d
lh.fc the quantity produced will bo at least as great
as c ,uid be obtained from an equal weight of beet
root, This invention oomes in good time, when
it has been found that beet root can bo more
pre -.cabV employed in making brandy than aggar