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Th«t*l«r»P l » C 8U n ' n “ r - wc fiud but little
ever, »o fad »od coroO o1 * 1181 wt “
to extract cow.
o* tub ti J Si>n*»- **■•>* VAB> f ..
baujbb U ,) (iariiii? tne omourkation
TSo bcu. ti j t * Jor t j ie t’rim«a, uhd oa tbc
of ibo e>f arL c J ;.&i weighed anchor,
the supposed to be the den-
Sf »tuak. The whole army wan in
the*biifhe*i Bpirirn. The 6th or Bth if Raid to be
thcd«v on which the operations are actually to
commence.
A letter from Constantinople of the 81ht A a gnat
aaja: “Ail inrther conjectures as to the course
of' ©vents at bcvastopol mu»t be idle and useless.
Wo know too little about the enemy to be able to
Bay whether the landing will be opposed—whether
the troopH stationed about the country will be lelt
where they were or concentrated behind the in
trenchtnout* which have been the work of ibeiaat
two yew*. The positive statement brought by the
Retribution that a laige army w tr on tne ntarcb to
the Crimea, seem* to denote that operations on a
large scale are intended by the Rosaiaca, and that
they will endeavor to raise the siege. If tnia be
the case, and the place can hold out for any length
of time, it is probable that aome reinforcements
may be required, and that more cava.ry wnl be
waited than it ha* been thought necessary iO
transport tor the parpom» of the siege. However,
it wiil of c > me be easy for targe bodies of Freocu
cavalry to be brought in a socood voyage ; and
even though the Ru **ian forces on the l arch be
not exaggerated, the difficult!©* of the country and
the define c<; of the Russian soldier will delay
its arris a; until several week* have passed away.
The want of water may perhaps bo felt by the
allied tr./opa, as no doubt the enemy will use eve
ry endeavor to col cfl ail supplies. Tin Tchum-
Cha a river of aome f-ize, north of Sevastopol, may
afford what is wanted, not it ia said that it may he
dammed m tr the source, and the bed turned into
a marsh. Toe digging of weJU will probably torm
one of the first labors of the attacking army. At
the beginning of the Bummer, when this expedi
tion was first advised, 100 little attention wa* paid
to this subject, but lately it has occasioned no lit
tie anxiety, and measures Lave no doubt been ta
ken for precluding the danger of a short supply.
The naval people expect to have little to do ex
copt to blocked i the port. They complain of un
fair treatment in being charged with remiss ness
in the blockade of the last two months. The pre
paration for the* expedition, it is urged, kept the
vessels most nee fa) lor the purpose engaged else
where, and the Admirals were forced to remain at
JSalt&chik for euaier communication with the Com
manders of the land forces.
ASIA.
?h * tobow.ag »ctn;*r«fc
my . i<4 <» grout oalUc iii/Ui i»
wore utterly defeated, by their old implicable foe.
They lost, we are informed, 1 many men, seven
gium, 8,000 tcnls, and nil their b-iggago,” aud, in
addition, “ull the provisions end ammunition oi
the lluHHiann fell info the bands of the victors.”
it in by exploits Much as these—by hard and fro
qnent blows on well fought fields, and riot by dip
lomatic nog' tatious or by naval demonstrations,
v/ineh load to nothing—that the Emperor Nicholas
will be brought to it* -l tho hopeless nature of too
jrtrDggie into which ho baa rushed, and that peace
will be restored to the world. No wonder, ibeD,
tiio» after such a signal overthrow, the Russian
power in Georgia should totter to its fall, aud that
prince Bebnioil should bo sammoud from
Ar.i'cnia »o restore, if possible, the falleu fortunes
of hislmperial muster.
Thl IJal'iic.— We read in tho Moniteur de la
Flotte:
“The M v-Ragor de la Mauche announces as pos
itive the arrival next month, at Cherbourg, of the
entire of our Jl dtic squadron. The report if not
entirely groundless, is at least premature, as there
i H nothing offi *ial known a < vet on the subject.
England herself is undecided what she will do
with her ship:-. The Bailing vessels are recalled,
but the steamers have received no such orders.
Probably the latter will only retire by degrees,
according ua they shall bo driven out by the ice,
and this happens sanies- asons earlier than others.
Besides, we may be certain that, an long as an
English ve.'t-oi remains in the Baltic, we shall see
a French vo sei sharing tho same futigues and
dangers.
The Retribution at Odessa —A correspondent
write-'- from Ode *su to the Cologne Garotte of the
B\st ull:—Lust Friday the English war nteumer
Retribution run in right under the guns of the
battery , - frying nfl>g of truce. Word wus im
modinttly sent to General Anmekoif. Meanwhile,
the attitude takon up by the audacious Kotribuiion
excited much uneasiness. Tbo adjutant of the
commandant, went out in a host and received a
letter cent by Admirul Dun-'an to tho Governor,
requiring the remaining officers of the Tiger.
Tbo officers, nineteen jn number, were pom day
forthcoming, aud the Retribution having received
them put to sea, grcutly to tho satisfaction of tho
peoplo hero.
K&pobted Ahtilrt of M. Mazzini.—Tho Journal
de Geneve, of tho 9th, contains the following:—
*‘A letter from Boruo, of tho 7th, informs us that
Mazz ui hud been arrested at Basle. Ho was com
ing from B rno, where ho had spent somo days in
the houso of a pul ri ian to whom he described him
self as an linliuii Count, greatly attached to Aus
triu, and driven into Switzerland by fear of tho
cholera. According to our correspondent, tho
police had discovered his residence, aud were
propari* g to apprehend him, when he absconded,
aud left lor Basle, under a false name. Tho Go
vernment gave notice to tho authorities of his ar
rival, end ho was u> rusted on uliglittng from the
diliffimoo.”
Hpain.—The Kspano calls upon tho government
to make known the motives in at induced Mr.
Bmile, the American Minister, to dosert his post at
this moment.
The Madrid correspondent of the London News,
writing on Bepl.ml>or Oth rays:—Tho excitement
rospecling Mr. Houle and his doings hero is por
haps somewhat diminishing. Os his participation
in u connivance at the late disturbance at Madrid,
tho slightest evidence is not conclusive. A strong
foi ling appears to exist in tho public that the sale
of Cuba at the present time would bo incompatible
with national honor and offensive to Spanish
pride, and tho United States, it is to bo presumed,
would be now unwilliug to pay tho price (£85,-
000,000,) which formed tho basis of tho negotia
tions that woro carried on some two years ago bo
tween the 'wo countries. Tho estate which Mr.
Boole is gone to visit in the l’yronoos was purchased
by him previous to his arrival in Madrid. It is
generally believed that lie will not return to his
post, and 1 am told part of the lurnituro of the
note! of tho embassy has already been sold.
According to ill for miitinn derived from tho host I
source, the K publican army in Madrid is availing
iteoit of tho inaotlou of tho government to organ
izo an extensive conspiracy, and there is evory
reason to believe that Spain is on the evo of a new
outbreak. This »im§ tho movement will bo direct
ed against the Throne ami monarchical institu
tion-*. Thu Marquis of Albania, one of tho most
active loaders / that party, hus ab--oouded. lie is
said to bo the author <>f the programme w -ioh elr
cuiatcs clandestinely throughout Spain. The Mar
quia proposes ihat each province form ft separate
Bute, with a distinct administration, electing de
puties to a General Congress, culled upon to decide
«■ ■ f}| tifth Coufi lection.
The activity d sp'ayod by thu persons known to
prof « Republics i doctrines evidently shows that
they do not consider themselves beaten.
from TrMi-More «*f lU* Moral.
By lh6 arrival oi thetHoamship Charles Morgan,
at Now Orleans, wo huvo lator datoa from (^alvet
ten and portion* of tho interior. From our ex
change* wo extract tho following item*:
V us ab >i i in.: storm -—The <torm, which cans
e l .uxicn duniogo among tho town© immediately
t':cre.
■ • ' l i l >»i
Tt* !>• :no r:i<, aft or speaking of tho effects of the
ev.’~. mlt ;* r * ’Wu, says: “Tho damage in the
'• *
\r%. N r -t->*•* \ ;ive yet come in, hot it will ha
•caroe } JT* *"*• : '**- that fny of tho erci* should he
mrt4. Tr*»*e lw<- days will ho remembered a*
»♦»;* o: c* ' :t .tv by the peopled*
At Bt imago wm
f
cither o’.awii down, Os considerably damaged.
la the effect* of the into g***,
Ttu* Piet ‘«* says:
•*Tbee'fr?n planters hate been v«ry HPf t
nxi* tfca* •*** oo acecant of the wot wistl.i.r, iw.l
It* *p:.**.r*Ec» of the worm among their
bit w * the w ; od a: d the rain for the l«»f
two f ?>.rm •*■?* a- hi >« ndown the atalkn u> the
g-r .** . ‘ * •- > from .U >i.o;k*, and
xi f*u-x .-.ij |re : ; • entire crop. The sugar
OM c-w* «.”i. *• ; < fi-.* *. tbo ground,
ecd »« we?' ' xr *.a! i* * • U e in ire season,
teas d vvJI be ocabie to right itwlf. n
The 1 v« rg we lake from the Galveston
Jeerr*: cf aY.fc :
Ts* if ti * s«wnoca. —Wearepain-
ed t. tarn Inm ' . ery , f «rter from which any
ia*4 fen at yet naded a**, that the <ff *eta of
ia»t #*-*> r' r & were more disastrous than oar
g
tfc*t (fa»e*v-: . igt. uppar- *i-> more exposed
tfcao ant ouaor point, be** aifred comparatively
liuU. The Uat* i». Houston, v . a e informed, wifi
reach the *c.ra **i » wenty or thirty thouaand dollar*.
Ljaebbarg and Sen Jacinto have suffered most
Not (*nly were house* blown down,
a*warr.h'-At.* turned adrift end valuable property
roirwd, but the vee of a whole family have been
aacr * » I*4l-' it* Mr. Doppermaii’a house, that
of J. WT. lira- «ar Vown d wn, and Mr. and
lira. O-lemaa mt :. u.vired. The warehouse ot
Hirwm Brcwn.aud Mr.Bn»wn*a bouse on Brown’s
iMa&d, w**re ai-- r- wit down. Hand dr Mil It. r’a
afc»f yard i* very much injured, one aide of the
ways carrie 1 away. TLe poop Jo of Sau Ja
cinto ware driven to the second s orie* for . afety.
The Mea'ners s tar S;ate, BcM, Neptune, Swan
and Magnolia, were driven several hundred ysrds
from the be »of the t ayoa. Tho Neptune find got
up rea rv., h \ after relieving The Bel!, both boats
aaccoeded in ha mug t»aclt the others ami securing
them. Tt e c.\- ?n- ..r < r Cap!. Wood, of the Nep
toß*, ar* »pukeu of in the highest terms, and to
“i®jjf* nct i*s ! y auriboted the sncce-s of the
V ‘V 10 "!" reperu. that there is
»'l. The »t*r a»v*
Ju Uoostoo
which were relieved otl j y w V n P*\ T ®5 l °P*
Ga»s.»loupe. * lh « of the
The names of the persons tnuj
them from the Civilian Lxtr» o* Ud’s m7° * rattor
as follows : ' * Ulls ®ornmg, are
I*xt on tn* KaU Ward.—C*x>\ \x- .
brothers and nine of the c r ew. ' wo
WW «•. J/oA vVrJu.—Mrs. Duffy, Mr. Mcrri
man, and a negro woman and child.
The Centra! Tes an of the ‘/SI ult. >ay*; ««,* n
Sunday night we nada regular hvnlt,oid-jas:.':, t,^d
*iiv - irecootpiaiaing in oouse
’ * .4 f to gather their cotton,
v f being blown out and
ig from the Aus in State
a. some of our pest paper*
w -a asiaoce of an attempt a!
b‘g r - San Feiip#, where two
\ n h* . id Bcitu!. attacked a Mr.
t him. Since then their
c-r t short. Passing through
i a c jupb of corses and
' The two thieves were re
c f b> * lci the Plsxa House, and
* 110 a hands of the authorities
O e
, that summary punish
n inflicted upon a party
o t in the act ot runnhg
* h ® was composed
of other man,
' r. Mose’y observev t In hie
• *Tr*“a •«' \tl.e gr«at v.s-e of ihear
ci lo t huvo abated the pro
wlai - ttt tLe xi each colonies,
h i than in the Engiish, ae
is the principal beverage
,o » the gout, are warceij
- l( • - as an extraordinary in
‘ * I in gout, the cbe of
*-«» aekod with the gout at
j,e .. - od bed it severely till he was
• oi aik stones in the joints
L .f y fs for four years preceding
s tu g given to Du For to lay
•, by advice, used coffee,
Jff( * i. gout slWrffwd#,
From the Philadelphia Inquirer,
The Physician—His Dalles and Responsibilities—
Tbe Hour of Pestilence.
“When pain and anguish wring the brow
A rnmatertagangel thou!”
The do tie* of a physician are always arduous and
responsible, but they are especially *o In Mason*
of pestilence. A young man who, in tbe com
mencement of life, and after doe deter
mines to devote himself tc the Medical Proteieiob,
muFt be imbued in seme degree with the genuin;
spirit of humanity. The caning is a lofty one in
an intellectual point of view, and.it is sfeo a be
nevolent. It look** to the mitigation of human
suffering, to tbe relief of bodily anguish, to the
restoration of physical health, and to Uie many
happy association* connected therewith. There
are some, it is to be apprehended, who venture in
to this high profession without due reflection, and
indeed without possessing the necessary qualifica
tions. bach persons do not consider that they
will be called upon to deal in some sense with the
live* of human beings, to wrestle with disease in
many forme; and to contend against the approach
es of even death itself. But a physician who
thoroughly understands his art, and who devotes
hi meed to it, not only in a spirit of enlightened
science, but ol generous and sympathetic human
ity, is not only one of the most useful mcmbeis
of society, but he often becomes a ministering
angel. Nay, he frequently is afforded an oppor
tunny of aooth ug and healing the wounds of tne
mind, as well as those of the body, and of thus
cheering and reviving the mental and moral as
well as the physical nature.
The profeskion is, in many respect-, one of the
most exhausting of all the occupations of man. He
who devotes himself to it, is expected t ■> be ready
at all hours and all seasons, amid Bun-biue and
storm, at midday and at midnight, as well in the
aultry heals of summer as in the piercing blasts of
winter. At times, too, be he however skillful,
however experienced, however clear of head and
nrmof hand, the anxieties and responsibilities of
the post niu-t weigh fearfully, and he mast hesi
tate lent there should be any error in his judge
rneut t au error that might prove fatal to his pa
tient. The regularly educated medical man, one
who feels that he is a thorough master of the
science; one who unde re lands the anatomy of the
human frame, and has devoted himself lor year
and to the acquisition of a thorough knowledge
of his bn-iueth, is, of course, rarely troubled with
tbe hesitation and apprehension to which wo nave
referred. But in thin country, and in almost very
other, there are many who undertake to discharge
tbe duties of a physician, who are not duly quali
fied—who, in fact, and for the most part, are mere
empirics and pretenders, and hence they fre
quently prescribe rashly, injudiciously, nay, some
times fatally. Tbia is, indeed, a fe-rful piece 01*
presumption, and may bo said to involve indirect
murder. The responsibility of the medical office
may, therefore, be duiy inferred. We cun con
ceive of nothing more solemn. The true physi
clan, when aomewbat perplexed in relation to the
condition of his patient, will seek through every
prove one of premature death.
It in, however, in tbe hour of pestilence, ard
when the members of a whole community are
panic stricken, that tho faculties of luo medical
roan uro taxed to tho utmost, that his moral cour
age is tested, and his capacity for the profession
is fully pul io the trial. It is every way honorable
to tbe profession, that at such times, it rureiy oc
curs that a regularly educated physician fails or
/alters in his duty. Within a lew weeks we have
been called upon to record many laudable instances
of fidelity—fidelity which closed in martyrdom
and in death. In the city of Savannah, some of
the noblest spirits of the profession nave been
swept away. So also at New-Orleana at Charleston
and ut fui*burg. Nay, wo havo not heard of a
single instances of dereliction iroin the path of
duty, of moral cowardice, of disgraceful flight. A
profession, therefore, whose members, one and
all. remain firm and iruo under such circumstances
who take their lives in their hands, and bravo
death, in its moat appalling form is indeed an
honor to humanity. All pecuniary reward is as
nothing al such a critical moment. The sense of
duty is the impelling aud controlling motive, a
souse that is identified with tho profession, and a
departure from which would be regarded, not
only with censure, but witu surprise and indigna
tion. It is stated that one of tho physicians of
l'ittbburg made no than ninety visits during
twenty-four hours of lant week, while several
otheie wero so exhausted by their labors, as to
render ii necessary to adopt soiuo artificial means
to enable them to remain at their posts.
And such, indeed, is the history of the medical
profession throughout tho country. Ail honor,
therefore, to an avocation that is distinguished by
si eh true humanity. It is, indeed, an ea«y thing
to rejoice with tho prosperous to syuipalh ; za with
the afthumt, ana to asHocfato with the robust. But
when sickness and death arc abroad, when pesti
lence and epidemic are striking down victim after
victim, when the hearse passes from door to door,
and the emblems of mourning uro to be scon in
every street, it requires more than an ordinary
effort of courage and resolution to contend against
the feebieuessand the feats of poor human nature,
and hence the conduct of the physicians of the
land, such as we huve describee! it, is entitled to
appreciation, to remark, and to eulogy. Let us at
least show thti noble profession that wo hold it at
its truo value, that we understand all its responsi
bllities, and that wc cuu admire us well tho moral
heroism that is displayed in tho city of pestileuce,
as in the chi valric exploits of the buttle field. Nay,
measured in the scale of humanity, und tho for
met rises immeasurably beyond the most brilliant
exploits of even military genius. Olio seeks to
restore —the other to destroy—one to sustain aud
protactlUe—the other to trample out that which
no human being can bring back. One is god like
and truly benevolent—tho other, alas ! is often
disfigured by passion, excitement, violeuoe and
blood l
Extraordinary Experiment with the Electric
Telegraph. —S -me experiments have, within the
past fortnight, boeu made at Portsmouth with re
gard to this scienoo, of a most important aud re
markable character, and which would appear to
open up and promise to load to further triumphs
ill electricity, equal in ioiliOTlHlloo tvm.v t.hnthnvo
ulready been achieved. The experiments in ques
tion woro for tho purposo of ascertaining the pos
sibility of sending oloctric telegraph communica
tions aorosft a body of water without the aid of
electric wires. Tho space eeloctod for tho experi
ment was Mill dam (a piece of wulor forming a
portion of the fortifications) at its widest part,
whore it b. nomothing near 600 feet across. Tho
operating battery was placed on one side of tbo
dam, and the corresponding dial on the oilier side.
An elect*ic wire from each was submerged on
t .eir respective bides of tho water, and tormina
ting in a pluto constructed for tho purpose, and
several messages woro accurately conveyed across
tho entire width of the mill dum, with acouruey
and instantaneous rapidity.
The apparatus employ ed iu the experiments is
not pretended to bo here explained in even a cur
sory manner; this is, of oourse, tho exclusive se
cret of t.iC inventor, But there is no doubt of the
fuel that communications wero actually scut a dis
tance of nearly 600 feet through the water without
the aid of wiros, or other conductors, und that
thoro appeared every possibility that this oould bo
done ns easily with regard to the British Channel
as with the mill-dam. The inventor is a gentle
man of great scientific attainments residing in
Ediugburgh, und lays claim—und wo believe with
somo justice—to being tho original inventor of tho
electric telegraph • but, from otioumstances, ho was
unable to curiy out tho invention of his own ad
vantage. The experiments at tho mill dam woro
of a strictly private character, although they »ere
carried out by Gapt. Beatty, and other engineering
officers belonging to the garrison.— Eny. Paper, I
The Empress of Ai stiua.— Mr. Brooks, of the
N. V. Express, in his ugrooablo “Thoughts Alou 3,”
from Europe, thus describes a meeting which lie
had with tho youthfnl E-upriss of Austria:
“1 had a full good lo)k at this little Kaisserinn
ot all tho Austrians. She will pass for pretty, if
for uo other reason than that she is an empress.
Her fgure is jjitite, and she has uli the look of a
school girl, in the beginning of hor teens, and not
yet free from the age of “breed and butter.’*
Just a year ag*-, the emperor met with her at a
little watering in Upper A iVria, called h
rh!J, wh«r*' h*r tcMfcer, t Bavarian Duchcre. and
tvn* r \1 .* v) %‘>t. «: in try the tattia.
.
*.*■ yn . W '-U4. V* r s .> v 4 * u-v . / IHk
, /-> I ißvyJ, •»V V,. v•: The- um
w*, Wv UiY,,. a a-no
i*a . vs tba
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..
»*> 1 ‘ .
oaih d a ' »* »-U »,.-*• vt. *. ot l.xtf cgucina
youth, hho w*>a Hit tuutt «G<l till * fbW liitjl lit lift
since.
Llea Til of Momo Maui. -Am will be a<u üby
the rep'rta of the B. aid of Ho.slth, in to day V pa
per, there has Ivcu uo new case of fevor m our
city since Sunday, and no death since Saturday
morning, making three deaths only from tho yel
low lever originating iu tho p.ace. The lew coach
now on hand are reported a* very mdd, aud yield
ing readily to treatment. The weather at t his tnuo
is considered very tavorabie, and should it con
tinue, our physicians «re of opinion that there
will l-e but slight, if any further pr gn .- s in the
disease.
Board of Health, 5 o’clock o m. >p ? . 2.-».
No new ea**Hofyel ow fever, and on di n h since
last report. W. P. Vardervetr, dac’y.
Board of Hxalth, 5 o’clock, p. m. Sept 80.
Three oases of yellow fever—two oi which oc
curred on the 21*! and 221 in.-t. nnd were not re
ported at the time; hot h convalescent. One death
from yellow fever. \V. P. Yandi uvi ui, S. e'y.
Board of Health, 3 o’ci »ck p m. Oct. 8.
Two cases of yellow lever smoo the report on
8
8 % th nit. sad one o:i the let i;tel. A II : * .
meat and do ; ng wel ! . No deaths from yellow
fever sicce last report, throe days since.
P. S. A case occurred o» the B9tb, not reported
at that date—now doing well.
A. A. Wilson, Pres't B. 11.
Board of Health. 5 o'clock p. m. Oct. 4.
The Board of Health report no new case.-, of .fol
low fever as having occurred sine© la.-t report on
the Si iust. A!! under treatment doing well. No
deaths. A. A. Wilson, Pree’t B. H.
Moui<}ornery Mail, bth inst .
Coinage for Sei*tember.—Statement of coinage
at tli3 Mint ot L‘hi»delph : a, during the month of
September, 1S51:
SOLD.
Dmarxifuititjji . M.cfPiects. Valut.
BoubS, eagles 5,4?4 $168,6»0 00
> 10-Z -4 520 00
nan eagUs 2S 858. 141 .TOO 00
p laner 10 , 50,878 2iai.9So 00
iOJk 207,610 2,654,7v*7 9;
H.!t dollars Ba^ nn
TOUU ‘-“w 800,0*5) ca)
COPPtn.
Ccnt£ -• CTB 52
Total 1, 601 • 6*2 I >,9-f SCO
Rain, rain rain.—-The flood galea of heave i
were opened la.-i night and the rain deseeded in
a perfect deluge, ac*xmpanied by vivid of
lightning and ter rifle peels ol thunder. Though
rather behind its time, we presume this has b ea
the equinoctial storm, and that we may now look
for cold wsather in earnest: verity Jack Frost will
be a mot welcome visitor to cur whole country
this season, and especially to our plague visited
cities of the South.
Wears rejoiced to be permitted to announce
that the health of our tewn is, to all appliance,
entirely restored. The medical faculty, so far as
we are acquainted with their views, are uaan 1 uic us
in the opinion that the disease has left ua, and
that if common prudence and care continue t*j be
useii by our citizens, that no at prehension of its
return need be entertained— Knaxiiti* lUoUUr.
s tut.
Western and Atlantic Railroad.— Twentv five
thouaaim doliara, being tfae nett receipts of the
above Road for the month of August, have been
paid into the State Treasurer. —Federal Union.
fcv*. w J.
Another Veteran Gone.—We have to record,
this week, tbe death of one of the last of our Revo
lutionary veterans. Thomas Bartley, Sr., died at
tbe residence of his son, in this District, on the
16th ultimo. He had lived, according to the best
rook filing he was able to make, something more
than a honored year-. Born ; u London, he was
araoDg the thousands who flocked, during the
eighteenth century, to the prosperous Amencan
coionies. He enlisted, during the war of the Rev
olution, in tue fetate of Marjiand, and served a
term of five }ears, preserving throughout that
time the reputation of a valiant soldier. At the
ci -e of tbe Revolutionary war he removed to
So th Carolina, a d has been a respected citizen
be r e ever since. He had been tor near seventy
ye art previous to his death a most consistent and
exemplary oiember of the Baptist Church, a
veteran in religion as well as in war. We have
often heard that his knowledge of the Scriptures
was truly astonishing. Many ministers of the
cross Lave hearkened to his expositions in silent
admiration, and hundreds have been again and
again impressed with tbe conviction that he was
indeed a man taught- of God. He died b€ had
lived, firm in the faith which bad so long been his
r-ck of defence. Although deaf and otherwise
much afflicted in body during the last f w years
of his ii.e, hi bore his sufferings with the fortitude
which had ever characterized him, until at length
exhausted nature sunk into the tomb. His patriot
and Christian spirit has gone to answer to the call
of the last great ma.-ler-roll on high. Thus are
breaking around us the few remaining links that
connect ns with other and perfcap* better day s.
blyepeid Advertiser.
The Yellow Fever in Charleston. —Oar cor
respondents ia Charleston all »peak of the \ellow
Fever this season, as much more severe than da
ring any former period of its history, from the
number of deaths already reported it must be of a
much more malignant type than ever before
known in that city. From Mill* 7 statistics of South
Carolina which were published in 1826, we find
that iLe first appearance of the disease was in 1728,
ihe second in 1782, then again in 1739, 1745 and
1748. There was also a few cases in 1758 and
1755. ‘ For forty four years after 1748,'* says
Mills “there was no epidemic attack of this dis
eu-e, though there were occasionally in different
summers, a few sporadic cases of it. In the year
1792, a new Fra of the yellow fever commenced.—
It raged in Charleston that year and 1794, *95, ’96,
97, 98,1890,1, 2,4 and7.” Butin live of the
worst years, the number deaths ranged from 96
to 289. “It appears slightly in the years 1808 and
1 Bl»5. In boil: years its victims did not exceed 59.
From 1808 little of this disease occurred until
1817, when there were 270 deaths in 1819,176;
and in 1824, though man strangers were present,
the deaths did uot exceed 286; in the three
months it continued, the population being near
40,000.
During our residence in Charleston from 1826 to
1846 we recollect but four yedow fever season,
16-7, 1828, 1830 and IbBB. That of ’BB was the
, Un» ??c«i tmvliioti exp- V Urn 0;nw»
; . N f th*, city. Toe whole number of deaths rej
f hat. season w:.* 85! 'i he whole number of canes
-.p* t'ol uly trot” * tv .000—the deaths av?r
•gfr'* . • c of six of those who had the
, - f*- . c -»> ' * Jily beiug of that
i Car* - woo wer* ’'itcmperai ; theiv habits. Du
iijgft* ore ?•»’ • tne largest «a in nor of deaths
epori.it. • 8 v *--uty eight and the next
iug able to -late, upon the host authority, that this
keautilu! manufucturiug Village is in a most flour-
Khiug and happy condition. The Company has
reached u higu point of prosperity, and their af
imrs are a.l in ahmirabie trim. Under tbe super
intendence of that skilful financier, Mr. Wm.
Gregg, theC raniteviile slock has become truly
valuable. The ; opulation of the village is a thri
ving and couteutod one in the main, aud the tone
of their society is constantly becoming mere ele
vated. What a contrast to the condition of that
section of our District twelve years ago 1 Then all
was us wild and desolate as the barronest heath.
Ignorance and crime held undisputed sway. Now
tno wilderness has literally been made to blossom
is the rose. Churches and School-houses have
been roared. Industry a:id skill have beou foster
ed. The poor have been called in from all the sur
rounding country, and the means of honest liveli
hood have boon placed bolero them. And they
have grasped those means, in many instances, with
an energy that reflects upon thorn great credit,
ror Inc good that has been done already by moans
of u,i: s largo manufacturing establishment, the
District, ujo the b:ate, owe a debt of thai thanks
to it- enterprising founders. Wo rejoice with
them upon their present flow of prosperity. May
it continue until their coffers arc all tillod to over
flowing.—E'lgejieid Advertiser.
Tanning Cotton and Linen. —English find
l’rci.cii hshormen have been long in the habit of
tunning their sails, etc., ia bark liquors in ordor to
render ihem more durable. Milliet states that
pieces of linen, treated lor 72 hours with an oak
burk liquor, at 150 dogrees, and stretched on
trainee, remained unaltered in a damp collar lor
ten years; while uutauned linen iu the same place
and for the same time, had entirely rotted. It was
lurlher shown that linen, which had begun to
moulder, might bo preserved from further change
by being tunned, li seems to bo only necessary
that the articles should bo kept two or throe days
in a warm solution of taunin. Awnings mqy bo
treated in this manner with either oak bark or
sumac—both will; answer. This will afford a use
ful hint to our sail cloth manufacturers.
Steamboat Accident —A gentleman from Lou
don inioiina ue that tho steamer Hiwassee, upward
bound, struck a rock a few days einco aud knock
ed a hole in her bottom. Tho accidoLt occurred
after night, aud we regret to loam that a portion
of the cargo was damaged. We are happy to add
that no lives were lost, as the captain and crew on
discovering tho siukiug condition of the vessel,
pulled iff their boots and waded to shore. Steam
boa s should not attempt to navigate the Tennes
see when thoro is not . .ore than throe inches wa
ter iu tho channel.— Athens Post, 6 tfi inst.
Brunswick Railroad.—Judge Uansell returned,
on Sunday, from New York, where he had been
to obtain the control of the Brunswick aud Flori
da Railroad Company, for tho southern stock
holders. Ho informs us that the Now York par
ties decline turning over the direction at present,
stating that they wore negotiating with parlies to
resume tho work on the road al an early day. It
was ngrcod that the direction and stock should bo
transferred to tho Georgia parties, unless the
northern Btocitnoiaors succeeded iu making their
arrangements by tho first day of Novembor. If
this should not bo done our Georgia stockholders
must tttke stops to compel the return of their notes,
and make such urraugorneuts us they can to obtain
a road, und in tho meantime, wo must exercise a
ittle more p dioncc. Colonel Collier accompanied
Judge lianseil, und wo understand they will, at a
proper time, make u full report iu reference to the
conduct, and position of tho Company.— Thomas
mile Watchman.
LlTfcllATlTßi: AND MILITARY SCIENCE IN EUBSIA.—
We gather the from October number of Putnam’s
Magazine, some interesting facts in reference to
military aeieuce:
It seoms that tho Russians are not behind the
other nations in military science. The tweuty
seven military schools, embracing 9200 young m* u,
and from which 1100 annually go forth into the
army are admirably conducted. There are milita
ry schools in St. Potorsburgh. The lirst one has
100 cadets, all young nobles, the second has t-50
and tho third 162. The instruction is almost iden
tical with that of tho Academy at West Point.
Tho documont which contains the last report of
th Minister ot War contains 110 manuscript pages.
There is also an admirable naval school at Isarkoe
selo, some twenty-four miles from St. Petorsburgh.
Tiio literature of Russia is far more extensive
thuu most Americans suppose. The universities
uro seven in number, and are at St. Petersburg!!,
Moscow, Ka.-an Chari.off, Kior, Dorpat, aud Hel
singfors. The last named is lor Finland, and is
established at the capital of that country, and no
longer at Abo (Obo, us they pronounce it,) where
it lon£ was. The instruction is given iu tho
Swedish language in this university. Tho univer
sity oi Dorpat is at I> vonir., one of the Bultio pro
v.ne:s, and is probably tho best of the whole. The
instruction is given in German. Tho other live
universities are lor tho instruction cf the Russian
youth. Tho institution at Wiina is not, we believe,
a university, though it is often called such. There
is no university at Warsaw, nor has thero been
since 1881. Tho young men of Poland aro re
quired to go to Dorpat for their university educa
tion.
CosiiNii Rioht.—Greene C. Bronson, tho nomi
!* . < he N•• w York il rd .'shell Democracy for
<fo-. :i. rot New York, has 'when the true posi
ti , > . * ‘ n< t j‘j-1 i' n, (tho j.egro question) and,
' i «: wi.'i •; Northern Democracy will take
•; lot grojnd, they need not bo surpriaed that
th -. a) u pa*.ides of the wholo ttouth will be givon
fry U>*.t / aijch cl the Democracy which he leads,—
'Atfu* & .StnUrul.
h v* if '.no limit, iir Stntlntl, and other Demo
• print.' it: (*-:orgiu had all talked tiiis way
f< J«; «|/i* k, instead ofapproving the poll
<.y >/; Pic, *«. a: *:u be yet Uiat hog drover Guthrie
l*. . . i'lfci Blonsoii simply because he was
‘ Aii li'ji.csi man, the nc blest work of God,”
u.« Uioi.pi.-.1 crowd of tusioniets would not now
lav* it in their power to so worry the national
democracy as they uro doing. It is a poor wuj to
help rubber* try to kill u («ood man, and then turn
found end tell them ifthoy don’t do a* well os tho
man whom they are murdering, their sympathies
will be with the blending man. finds! how in
dignstlon should swell the hearth oflha Hotithorn
people when they ae« their polltlonl leaders hoert
and i ni l wi ll nbolitiotiie'M for the sake of party J
— Kiilvnt&i l‘r*ce.
KofcnoN Dht Gnnos Im Ft. irt - The New York
Courier eiye:
We find lor the T est four a mateiial re
do lion lo the value entered at thie port when
. ;i -.r 5 -.v‘.b ?r *.. period of last year. There
is *. nuderlet redootioti In the quantities
for the ja * m i mo»»M»a when eompared with
P 3, nd , the eWKMint thrown upon the mer
!; i‘s forty pn nt beyond that of 1862, and near
ly hi i p*r beyond that of 1861. Onr dry
K'« d* irrif orMra bavo found, much to ‘heir cost,
- | v* • ‘ • I ! i
r ;/ t. «» i■ ■ x Months, and that prices have been
inv. i • • in *. niise.pience of the protracted
diflicullk of the money market.
The to-, nut td dry goods entered f->r oonaump
t uid N ’i rk lu>«t week was 81,117,G08 agniust
$1,893,8f>6 for the * dim week of JM6B. The amount
withdrawn from warehouse end thrown into the
mnrkct during tho nme period was #1,481,690
ag t#l '•! 8,8 I r I'toiii week of 1853. Tho
amount tbr ah on U o market lest wook is fully
equal to that 1 tho corrot*ponding week of last
year. Tho Imports are a little lo;-a.
hfringe of nih Salt Laek ValulV. There in
probably no part o! tho earth whore so rich a Hold
is presented tor tho resuftrche* of tl»o usUirsl.nl.
Tho valley of tho Grout Suit U paH4oulnr|y
prolific in natural curi*wUtos. Mpfingo, from the
one hot enough to boil an egg *»i n low minu’en,
to tho one of a teaipcrut .ro f<«t a warm l.ath, .»©
cur overy tow mil« h, and thewe **« geueraily i...
piegnaicJ with sulphur in ot»mbinatioi» with elks
line salts. Some Os these springs, throwing ■ut
geueroue volotne© of water, form ponds from «i.e
to three mdosiu circuit, in which may be found,
aitr&c ed by the genial lompcratnre, t-na of thou
sands of water fowl. Somo cf them are ch«ly
Oeate, and coat the rocks and earth over which
they fiow w;.h oxide of iron.— Ftrrts't Utah and
tin. Mormons.
; MiMsTration is making a strong effort
to Let! the division among the Democracy iu New
York. The Fost says—
The iigents of the administration arc at this mo
rn, nt very active in negotiating to bring about the
la>i., n f tho Hards and Softs into a compound,
neivher very hard nor very soft, like the amalgam
°f h : > LsiiCer and antimony. The scheme, how
ov-i, i- ot to take up Judge Bronson a- tho ean-
V °\ e Soils, but to make Governor Seymour
candidats c-f the Hard.^—a subetitute which
j C:u .- *- { i - -■ Hard* aro disposed to accept, means
1*1! ' tXs ® u -oui.d to remove their scruples of con
' - bTlt which others among them require
coL ider.
■i. * o also sav?;
to fro.i. a quarter entitled
withdraw' had determined to
*• d that a ,V-WAh-' *2* licket ’
ride and esc'-t.h the Jia =ls! “H 0 v * r
tfoaocial and vipjrc r. a td o**he . wrth l til ®
ILC SUl# °“ tU i*
Baltim ore Expobis.—The total value of the for
eign exports : r :k.> week ending on Thursday
amounted to #848,492. The export of breadsteff*
so tho wee a compri-es B.«>6S barreia oi fionr, 405
barreia of corn meal, t.nd 10,041 bushels. Os to
bacco the large ..mount of 5,681 hogshead* were
exported daring the week.
WEEKLY
<£|nrairlf & Sentinel.
AUGUSTA. Georgia!
WEDNESDAY JtOKNIHO,
A G RICI LTURAL FAIR!!!
POBTPOS XMKN T.
Owin" to the prevalence of Yellow Fever in
Augusta, the Fair of the Southern Central Agri
cultural Society heretofore advertised for October
d3d, will not take place until
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1834.
It will be continued during the entire week, ac
cording to die Rules and Regulations heretofore
published ; and as all danger of contagion will
Uien be over, it is hoped that the Agricultural and
Manufacturing interests of Georgia and her sister
States will be favorably represented. Copies of
the Premium List may be obtained by addressing
“ Editors of Southern Cultivator, Augusta, Ga,”
and all other information will be furnished by the
undersigned.
D. W. LEWIS, Secretary, Sparta, Ga.
Our exchanges, and all papers friendly to
the cause, are earnestly requested to give the
above an immediate insertion in their columns, or
an editorial notice.
Health of the City.
It is a source of sincere gratification to us to
announce, that the prospect continues to brighten,
and wo indulge the fond hope that, in a few days,
with favorable weather, the pestilence will disap
pear. The bills of mortality show a marked di
minution, and the number of new cases is also
daily less, and generally of a very mild form.
The \\ etk’i Mortality.
We present, this morning, our rognlar weekly
report of the mortality from Yellow Fever, for the
week ending yesterday afternoon. It will be seen
that there is a veiy great dacrease in the number
of deaths as compared with the previous weeks.
This is a gratifying evidence of the abatement of
Ma • Jane Oliver, 84 ' ranee.
Thomas Ksfcuu, si ’year- > or, Carolina.
Lewis Levy, c 1 ' years. Oeniutny.
Charity, 80 years, property ot J. H. Man.
Lewis, 80 ytnrs, property of Mrs. Howard, Sand
Hills.
Martain, aged 85years, property Jas. Gardner, jr.
Uea'hi in September.
exton's Report of Interment* in the City Cemetery^
for the month of September, 1854.
11 Whites Flicks
\\~> c, r>, o
I j S [ S
Abortion 11
Accident i
Apoplexy 1 2
B ain, ir fl immation of , 1
Brain, congestion of 2 1
Bowels, inflammation of 1
Consumption 8
Convulsions 1 1
Dysentery 1
Fever, yellow 41 4 4
Fever, bil ous 2
Fever, typhoid j 1
Fever, intermittent j 11
Gastritis j 1
Jaundice | 1
Neuralgia ! 1
Old Age. i 1
Paral sis j 1
Unknown j 11
Total 77 56 G 12 8
Brought from the country j 4 1
Total interments for the month 82.
Under two years of age, 2; from two to seven
years, 4; from seven to fourteen years, 5; from
fourteen to twonty years, 10; from twenty to thir
ty years, 21; from thirty to forty years, 15; from
forty to fifty years, 9; from fifty to sixty years, 7;
from sixty to sevouty years, 1 ; from seventy to
eighty years, 2; over one hundred years, 1.
Os the yellow fever subjects, there were from
Ireland, 17; Germany, 9 ; Scotland, 8 ; France, 2;
England, 2; Polaud, 1. Total foreigners, 84.
Georgia, 4; New Jersey, 2; Massachusetts, 1;
Virginia, 1; North Carolina. 1; South Carolina, 1;
Connecticut, 1 ; and Negroes, 4.
The discrepancy between the return of the Sex
ton and the roports of the Board of Health, is ex
plained by the fact that the Board reported several
deaths from yellow fever among our citizens, who
died in the neighborhood, and were not interred
in the City Cemetery. On the othor hand, it
should be montioned that several of the interments
reported above, wore of subjects who contracted
the disease in Savannah aud Charleston.
Meeting of the Board of Health.
Council Chamber, )
Oct. 9, 3 o’clock, T. M. )
The Board of Health roports 2 death from Yel
low Fever within the last 48 hours, i.viz :
Lewis Levy, aged 50 years, Germany.
Martniu, aged 85 years, property Jas. Gardner, jr.
E. WILLIS, Secreta* y Board Health.
Health of the Mayor.
Among the now cases in the last twenty four
hou s, wo regret to announce that our worthy
Mayor, A. I*. Korertaon, is numbered. We are,
however, gratified to learn that the attack is »
mild one, and we hope soon to hear of bis restora
tion. It is indeed remarkable that he has kept up
so long, tor hi has at no time shrunk from the
discharge of his responsible duties, end has there
fore been exposed day and r ight, during the preva
lence of the discaao. Iu short, whenever and
wherever duty called, thero he was to be found.
No higher praise can bo bestowed.
Fatal Accident.
Wk are pained to announce the sudden death of
Mr. John Felix MoKinne, Discount Clerk in the
Bunk of Augusta, by one of those casualties which
no foresight on his part could avoid. He was
Coming in from the Sand Hills, in a buggy, be
tween 9 and lo o’clock yesterday morning, and
just as ho neared Simpson’s Stable, in Ellis street,
a h >rse, which was running away with a portion of
a vehicle, turned from Mclntosh into Ellis street,
passing by ana near Mr. McK, His horse took
fright and becoming unmanageable dashed off uta
furious rate, rangin'? »he Buggy against a tree just
opposite the Eilis-strcet Ico House, against which
Mr. M«K. was thrown with such violence that he
expired in a few minutes.
It is only a few days since that wo announced
the death of his half brother, James G. Gould,
Esq., ot tho prevailing epidemic, and now the
doep’y strickon Mother, rolati> os end friends are
s■> soon again summoned to the tomb to perform
tho last sad offices to one so dear to thorn. Truly,
11 iu the midst of li/e we are ia death.”
Health of t'liarlestou.
Tho City Register reports 108 deaths for tho wook
ending tho 80th September—B4 whites anu 24
blucks and coin rod. Os these 72 died of Yellow
Fever—7o whites and 2 blacks. Os tho 72 who
died from Yellow Fever, there wore foreigners 51;
natives of the United States 14; nutivos of Charles
ton 7; of the latter all were children but one.
Health or Savannah.
Tuesday, Oct. 8, 9 P. M.—The Board of Health
report 9 interments for the past 24 hours, of which
6 died of Yellow Fever.
Tho Republican of the sth inst. says:
We again reiterate our advice to our absentees,
and cannot too frequently do so for their own se
curity, to koop uway until a heavy frost has eet in.
It is true our bill of mortality show a diminution
in the number of deaths from what they were a
few days ngo, bnt a too early retur i of our people
may furnish victims to the epidemic, and thus pre
sent a continued calamitous tale which their ab
sence can prevent.
Tut imday, Oct. 5, 9 P. I.—The Board of
Health report 8 deaths for the past 24 hours—B
from yellow fever.
(iiarlrttou Board or Health.
Office of City Register, 1
Sunday, Oct. 8. 10 P. M. J
Thero have boon 15 deaths from Yellow Fever
for tho post 48 hours.
JOHN L. DAWSON, M. D., C. R.
Contributions.
Tux following contributions have been received
by the Mayor of this city independent of the con
tributioos received by the good Samaritan So
ciety: W. E. Deabikg, $10; From New Orleans,
through the Mayor of Savaunah, 1558.25; Idaao
8. Tuttle, SIOO ; Anonymous loiter, $lO.
Choice Hams, Better, &e.—Tho attention of
thono In want, is invited to the advertisement of
<*. T. , who has just received a lot of choice
Family Groceries, adapted to the wants of every
family, llw *u>ro haa, and wiil bo kept open dur
ing tho ju iitllonoo, and persons encounter no diffi
culty in | locuru g nupplica.
Kkv Mu. iiiNN*,) acknowledges, with many
that ka, tho rocoipt, in an anonymous letter. Os
twenty dollar*, for the distressed poor.
8. W. Railroad Extension. —The Eufaela, Ala.,
people have appointed delegates to the Railroad,
meeting at Americas on tho 12th, who 9re empow
ered to pledge a subscription of SBOO,OOO towards
the extension of iheS. W. Road from Americus to
that place, by the citizens of Alabama and Ran
dolph Co., Ga.
Retrugadz Movement.—The steamship CPy of
Manchester, sailed from Philadelphia for Liver
pool on Saturday last with 80 Cabin and 150 steer
age passengers. The ship Tonowand sailed for
Liverpool the same day, with 204 steerage passen
gers. The packet ship Manhattan sailed from
New York on Monday for Liverpool, with 800
steerage passengers.
Small Note Law.—The small note law, recently j
enacted in Ohio, went into operation on Monday |
last. A despatch from Cincinnati says, but iittle
attention was paid to it outside the banks.
The Protestant Episcopal Convention of the
Dioce&se of Rhode Island on Wednesday elected
the Rev. Thomas M. Clarke, of Hartford, Connec
ticut, to fill the post of Bishop of Rhode Island,
vacated by the death of Bishop Henshaw. He
was formerly Rector ot Bt. Andrew's Church,
Philadelphia.
Frosts on the mountains west of Cumberland,
Maryland, have, it is said, destroyed vegetation.
The Now Orleans See, attar denouncing the
Whis-9 of New York and the Northern Whigs gen
erally, on account of their nominations and reso
lutions, says: "It gives ua no pleasure to con
demn those with whom ere while we acted and co
operated, bnt policy Should be subservient to
truth. Wo cau not unwhig ourselves, because the
fundamental tenets of Wtiggery aro the result of
convictions which wo cannot discard; but wo o
not recognize in the miserable sectional spiut
which now animates the Whigs of the North, a
single trace of the principles advocated by Henry
Clay and defended by D niel Webster. ’
ThesscfW
and as developed by th e resolutions
passed at the recent Convention* m those state.,
U relieved the of ?heUn?onfrom
ny «vm- affy with'tSeCro or the candidates of
manifestly make their Anti-
Slaverv d£trinos the main, if ootthe °n^mo_
forth* the
not to the party or faction which may place i hem
belore people. These Northern pohlicians
must hereafter fight on their own hook. They
cannot expect assistance from those to whose in
terests they are hostile, and whose rights they
would invade. —Alexandria ixazette.
“Sot-THEBK WUIGS AND THEIB EItCTHTtEN CF
New Yoke ’’—Under the above caption our neigh
bor of the Argue, in his issue ot yesterday, has a
labored article to prove the antagonism ot North
ern to Southern Whig sentiment on the slavery
question, and seems to imagine, in the exuberance
of bis patriotism, that he sees the bouthern \\ higs
marching in a solid phalanx into the open arms of
Loeofocoism—stepping from the frying pan into
thefire. We wo. id, however, remiud our neigh
bor that the Whig party, no matter how much
they may have fallen out with their Northern
brethren, are none the less opposed to Locofoco
iam Democracy, so called—particularly that species
now known as Picrceism. — Xcnfolk Beacon .
Events transpiring at the North aud East, al
most daily, conspire to convince the Whigs of the
South that they can no longer, either with i onor
to themselves or a due regard to Southern inter
ests, associate or affiliate with the Northern Whig
party, or indeed with any other organized party at
the North; and we rejoice to see that leading
Whig journals at the South, such as those from
which we have quoted, have become satisfied on
the subject. This is the position we long since
assumed, and we have urged the formation of a
truly National, Republican party ; a party whose
tborough J tb* /wv "
! et the North aud and indeed
hronghv»i % f..e free Mates, thousands of sound
National n.a* , who are ready to unite in the fcr
of poc'- - party—whose patriotism, while
■ id:ate* fb . ia, sectionalism aud fanaticism.
■it Draco- h’l the ’oat interests of ibe republic
;i :• Ui duos all t*oaL.«rn Whi*© -ad
country ns paramount to party, to unite with those
men in u great, concerted effort to reclaim the
government from the hands of tf'e spoilsmen, and
establish a thorough aud complete system of re
form and economy in all its departments. These
are considerations worthy to engage the earnest
consideration and realous co-operation of every
patriot in the land, »ud we can but hope that they
will not pass unheeded.
The Democracy ahd the Know Nothings. —The
Louisville Journal very pertinently remarks, in
relation to the onslaught made by some of the
Democratic organs on tho Know-Nothings, that
“few things afford us so much amusement at the
presont time as the attacks of tho Democratic
organs upon tho Know-Nothings. Not less than
thirty or forty of those organs, scattered all over
the country, have pretendoa to publish the verita
ble constitution and laws of tho organization.
But the funny part of the thing is that no two of
the organs agree in their publications. The thir
ty or forty organs give thirty or forty different
Know Nothing platforms, each swearing that its
own is unquestionably tho true one. The truth
is, tho Know-Nothings have evidently been guilty
of tho sin of hoaxing their enemies. They make
it a part of their regular plan of operation.
Wherever they find an editor particularly bitter
against them, they got up a pretended copy of
their platform for his benefit and cause it to fall
into his possession through some soeming mis
chance or employ one of their fellows to affect to
turn traiter and place it in his hands, and straight
way the thing is given to tho world as a true aud
startling exposition of the socrots of the terrible
order.
“ We see that the Washington Sentinel, which
is particularly distinguished by its ferocity against
the Know-Nothings, is warning its friends ot the
press not to permit themselves to bo hoaxed into
the publishing of any more of the Know Nothing
platforms. Tho editor says tis very plain that
some of his contemporaries “ have been hoaxed
by practical jokes,” and that, “as sovcral of these
exposures have proved to be hoaxes, the presump
tion is rather against all now publications of tho
same character.” Thus far, the Nothings have
certainly the best of it in their fights with their
enemies. They seem to have not only Jack the
Giant Killor’s “ coat of air,” but his “ shoes of
swiftness” and his ‘ sword of sharpness.’ ”
The Young Men’s Benevolent Association of
Savannah intend applying at the next Legislature
for iho passage* of an act of incorporation, by
which to establish among us an Association simi
lar to the Howards »f New Orleans.
A Healthy City. —Portland has been called
“the most healthy city of tin continent,” and a
paper published there, says that the records of
mortality for tho last thirty yoars would justify the
assertion. At any rate, it has never been visited
by the cholera, or suffered from any alarming
epidemic or contagious disease ; and it is cluimcd
that it has the finest summer climate of any city on
the coutinont.
A Mayor Indicted. —Tho Mayor of Now York
and two Councilinen, have been indicted by tho
Grand Jury for granting a liquor licence to a fe
male, she not being a citizen of the United States,
and othorwise an improper person to have a license.
The same jury have indicted 1118 persons for scll
iug liquor without license.
The elections of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indi
ana, takes place on the 10th. Fifty-seven repre
sentatives to tho next Congress are to bo chosen in
these three States, and tho Legislatures of Penn
sylvania and Indiana, whoso character is then to
be determined, will choose United Statc3 Senators
in place of James Cooper and John Pettit.
The newspapers at St. Louis arc nearly out of
paper and the city is said to bo full of country ed
itors, vainly endeavoring to secure a supply. Tho
St. Louis Intelligencer has already appeared in
“borrowed ciothos.” The low stage of water in
tho Upper Ohio, from whoncotho supply is usually
obtained, accounts for tho scarcity of the article in
St* Louis.
It is stated that tho Philadelphia, \Y oington
and Balt.more Railroad Company, which runs
along their road from Chester to Baltimore. Every
conductor on the road, it is said, will have to learn
tho art of telegraphing, and will be furnished with
instruments on the train, so that if any accident
occurs along tho line, or a train is delayed, notice
of it can at once ba convoyed to the different
stations.
Incurable Insanity.—A iurge accumulation of
incurable cases of insanity is taking place in hos
pitals for the insane, except in thoso where the in
curable are systematically discharged alter a year
or more, to make vacancies for new casos. A late
report to the Senate of Massachusetts, Buys that
there are now in tho cugtody of institutions of that
State, 1,163 insane persons, of whom 561 arc in
one hospital.
Snagged. —The St. Louis Republican of Monday
says almost every boat up from New Orleans, late
ly, has been unfortunate enough to encounter one
or more snags on tho way.
A letter in the Charlestown Free Pres >, from
Martinsburg, Virginia, says that since tho cholera
made its appearance in Marti nsburg, from the Bth
to tho 27t1« alt., inclusive, a period of nineteen
days, there were seventy-four deaths, and that
seven died in other places, but whose deaths are
chargeable to cholera contracted in Martinsburg.
We find tho subjoined paragraph in tho Boston
Evening Traveller of Wednesday: “ Capt. David
P. Flood, of the bark Octavio, of Portland, having
been accused of not relie n iug the crow of the brig
Orion, of Charleston, after the gale of the 7th, Bth
and 9th instant, (it still blowing hard with a very
heavy sea running,) begs leave to say, that his
sails were nearly all blown away, vessel leaking
badly, both boats badly stove on deck, and his
own all washed overboard, fe found it impossible
to render that assistance, which duty as well as
inclination would prompt him to do.”
[The Orion, when seen, was in a disabled con
dition with four or five persons on board, who, it
is feared, perished.]
Advices to the 22i August from Venezuela,
has beeu received. It would seem that the revo
lution there has becnsnppr. ssed. The New-York
Herald’s Laguayra correspondent writes that the
last Congress voted upwards of $30,000 to the heii*s
of Capt. John Clark, of Baltimore. He advises the
heirs to send out some person to watch over their
interests. _
Railroads vs. Can au-— The Baltimore Sun says:
It is supposed the receipts cf the New York Can
als this year w;ll show a falling off ot over SBOO,OOO.
This it is said is owing to the increased business
of tho competing lines of railroads. Up to the
first of Sept, the canals lose $202,006, or 11 per
cent., and the Central Road (which runs directly
along the Erie Cana! and which is the only one of
three roads, connecting the Jakes with the Hud
son, wLieh compete with the Erie Canal,) gains
$2*0,544, or 22 per cent. This is on the freight
receipts alone, and does not include the passenger
receipts. If the freight receipts of the Erie and
the Ogdensburg roads to the first Sept, were ad
ded, they would probably swell the increase of the
roads which compete with the canals to more than
sooo,ooo.
Population or Texas .—The present population
of Texas ia estimated at five hundred thousand,
and the annual increase at one hundred and fifty
thousand. There are fifty-four newspapers pub
lished in the State.
Karris, daughter of Gov. Troupe, of Geor
gia, and wife cf Lieut. Harris, U. S. Navy, was |
dreadfully burned, at the Sweet Springs, Va., a
short time since, in endeavoring to extinguish the
domes which had caught the curtain of her cham
vor from a can die. <
A Democratic War of some interest, says the
Baltimore American, has just sprung up. General
Cass, in a reeeDt speech at a political meeting in
Michigan, took occasion to repeat sentiments simi
lar to those long ago made by him, disclaiming all
sympathy with slavery, and hoping for its extirpa
tion. This excited the ire of the Richmond En
quirer, which, in a leading article of considerable
length and bitterness, denounced the old Demo
cratic chieftain, and in good set terms proceeded
to read him out ot the affections of tho South, and
class him with Martin Van Buren. To this the
Detroit Free Press, which is understood to be the
organ of Cass, replies with far worse bitterness,
saying that the Enquirer requires at the hands of
statesmen, divines and the press, an endorsement
of the righteousness and usefulness of slavery, on
pain of its vehement wrath, that it has sunk to the
lowest estate of journalism; and is the mouthpiece
of monomaniacs on the subject of slavery. The
following extract is explicit:
“We doubt not that General Cass desires that
the last cord may be severed that bound him to
such fanatic fools—such unmitigated asses—as the
Enquirer represents. Indeed, if he ever has been
bound by any cord to them, he must have suppos
ed it long ago severed, for he holds no sentiment
in common with them, any more than ho holds
sentiments in common with the abolitionists of the
Nor’h—the Garrisons, and the Phillipses, and the
Abbey Kelleys. He looks upon the whole batch
of southern and northern cracked heads as bet er
fitted for lunatic asylums than for any other thea
tre in life.”
Advices from Bolivia state that two British mer
chants, namod Stevenson and Wilson, who had
been imprisoned in Taeua for complicity in de
spatching communications to Elias, tho Peruvian
General, have been set at liberty. A treaty, open
ing to American commerce tho navigation of the
rivers flowing into the Amazon, has been negotia
ted by the Amoricau Minister, and will soon be
presented to the Bolivian Congress for ratification.
The President, Belzu, some time since issued a
decree of amuesty to ull political offenders, but he
has Bince violated it several times. The latest in
stance is the execution of Colonel Guarana, who
was shot in the barracks at Oruro. The Bolivian
Congress was to bo opened on the 6th of Septem
ber, aud tho presidential election was also close at
hand.
Tho Mail Steamship Hermann, about whose safe
ty there were some slight apprehensions, arrived
at New York on Friday morning from Bremen and
-America:': in-. V.u hr;..go*. * lOp.emeot }
, - pit mongers and a . Suable cargo** g<*‘ ‘»«4 ’
• The officers ot lb* Laud Office 1 ;tns place, says i
I the Observer, hav r just received in- j
j struotiour from the .General Laud Office to soil 1
> laud sr. tho gfidaatio.i prmea. The act applies to 1
.'i :auJr. in the District, except those!
• eserved by crdor of the President for Kailroaa
Tho wreck ot tho steamer Franklin, at Moriches,
L. 1., will bo eold in about two weeks, on account
of the underwriters All idea of getting her off
was abandoned sometimes since; but there is a
great deal of heavy machinery in her, and other
valuable materials that can bo profitably removed.
The dwelling of the late Henry Clay, at Ash
land, has beon torn down by his son to make
room, it is said, for a now edifice of its exact form
and character. His grave ia marked by no Btono
or monument as yet, being merely heaped up in
tho usual form and covered with the green sword.
It is contemplated, however, to build a monument
on the spot whore ho now quietly rests.
A despatch from Boston dated the 29th ult.,
says: Thomas Casey waß executed at Cambridge
to-day, for the murder of his wife. He was swung
off at the appointed time, and after hanging some
twenty minutes, it was discovered that his heart
still throbbed aud his neck was unbroken. Ho
finally strangled after painful struggling. He
seomed to die penitent. Only a few spectators to
the scene.
Tho Now York Express says : —“lt having boon
asserted in some of the Southern and Western pa
pers that our Government had beon negotiating
with Mr. Cneto, the Spanish Minister, at Wash
ington, for tho sale of Cuba to the United States,
we know that the said gentleman in hiß conversa
tions implicitly deni s it, on the gound that no
such sale could ever take place, nor would it for a
moment bo ontertained by Spain.”
Wm.S. Messeroy, Esq., Ex-Secrotary of tho
Territory of Now Mexico, Judge Davenport, of
that Territory, and Mr. J. B. Merriwother, havo
arrived at St. Louis, and report that Lieut. Col.
Chandler, with a small body of troops, surprised
a camp of Mescalero Apaches recoutly. Ho fired
upon the camp, killing one and wounding two
others.
Telegraphic Experiments wore recontly made
at Portsmouth, England, with perfect success, at a
mill-dam 500 feet across, by which, with an ope
rating battery on one side, aud the corresponding
dial on the other side, a telegraphic message was
conveyed through tho water without the aid of
connecting wires. An electric wire from each side
was submerged, terminating in a plate constructed
for the purpose. It is contended that in tho same
manner a telegraphic message may be conveyed
across the British channel, without continuous
cables of wire.
The Annual Report of tho Trustees of the Pub
lic Schools of the city of Washington exhibits re
sults which aro highly gratifying. The total ex
penditures lor tho year ending June 80th, 1854,
was $17,683, tho total receipts $18,067 ; tho num
ber of scholars on the roll 2066.
Among the deaths at New Orleans on tho 20th
inst., of tho yellow fevor, was Valentino Mott, Jr.,
M. D., son of Professor Mott, of New York, in the
88d year of his age.
An American in the Turkish Army. —Mr. Burr
Porter, a young man of high respectability, of
Newark, New Jersey, of a romantic mind, con
ceived a fancy of joining tho Turkish service at
tr.e opening cf tho present war. Ho succeeded in
being made a captain of artillery, and recently, in
preventing a town from being sacked, was promo
ted to a colonel.
Madame Ida Pfoiffer, the distinguished traveller,
arrivod in New York on tho 25th. This is her
first visit to New York, though she is now on her
second voyage around the world.
Rumored Dismissal of Senator SotTus.—“ In
spector,” the reliable Washington correspondent
of the New York Courier, says that “ it is stated
upon the authority of a foreign legation, that our
Minister, Soule, has been dismissed by tho
Spanish Government, for fomenting insurrections
and intriguing for a Republic.”
A man, belonging to Salem, Maas., joined the
army forty-two years as o, and was not heard from
again uutil he returned to that city one day last
week. He left a wifo, and daughtor one year old, and
when ho returned he found his daughter tho
mother of twolve children, some ot whom aro mar
ried. His wife lived a widow, as* she supposed,
over 20 years, and then married, and is now living
with her husband in Salem.
A dispatch from Philadelphia, dated 80th nit.,
•ays: “The schooner Lillie Saunders, at this port,
from Charleston, took from the brig Royal South
wick, of Now Bedford, bound from Charleston for
New York, Capt. Heron and crow, seven in num
ber—the vessel being in a sinking condition. Tho
mate, George Owens, was sevorely injured whilo
on tho wreck, and was loft at the quarantine hos
pital.”
The Two Telegraphs. —The New York Journal
of Commerce says: “Wo understand that a Com
mittee, appointed in Philadelphia to examine the
fire telegragh apparatus in use in this city and
in Boston, have decided to adopt the latter,
although it will cost SIOO,OOO, while ours would
coßtnot more than $30,000. Tho cheaper descrip
tion is here, at least, regarded as the roost ser
viceable.”
Counterfeit Coin. —The New York Journal of
Commerce culls the attention of the public to a
counterfeit quarter of a dollar, which is tho closest
imitation in appearance of the genuine coin, which
over fell under notice. It was taken at the Post
Office, and paid into the Sub-Treasury, where it
was detected by Mr. Edward H. Birdsail, the
weigher and tester of coin. This counterfeit ap
pears to be made of zinc, or other bright metal, is
cast to resemble exactly the genuine coin, and is
afterwards “galvanized” with pure silver It is da
ted “1358,” is about 10 grains lighter than the
genuine, and is very brittle. By the latter char
acteristic, it maybe easily detected, as it will read
ily break by a blow from a hammer; the speci
men referred to was broke by Mr Birdsail between
his thumb and fingers. There are probably but
few now in circulation, and receivers of money
will do well to be on their guard against them.
Children in Factories.— Some of the Factory
Corporations in New Hampshire have recently
been prosecuted for employing children in mills,
without allowing them due opportunities for at
tending school, as requested by law. The penalties
in that State are heavy, and ensure to the benefit
of the informer. The Massachusetts laws provide
that no child nnder the age of fifteen years shall
be employed in a mannfacluring establishment,
unless such child shall have attended school at
least eleven weeks within tho twelve months pro
ceeding the time of employment, and eleven
weeks within every twelve months that the em
ployment continues. Any owner, agent or 6uper
endent who employ a child e nuary to tnese
provisions is liable to a penalty of SSO for each
offence, for tho use of the common schools of the
town.
Counterfeit Eills. —Chemical processes are
now uasd by adroit rogues in changing small bank
bills to those of a larger denomination. These
frauds are increasing alarmingly, and show that
the perpetrators are persons well skilled in chemi
cal science. So thoroughly is the work of altera
tion done in these instances, that those who make
“money” their business, and devote years to the
critical examination of bank notes, are deceived.
Os course the people at large cannot detect such
frauds, and the community is thus subject to in
namerable impositions of the kind. The North
ern papers mention several instance* of re ceat
occurrence, in which $1 bills have been altered to
$5 and SIOO notes, in a manner so ingenious as
almost to defy detection.
The N. O. Picayune, of the 23th alt., says: “The
receipts of Cotton at the Levee yesterday, amount
ed to 4452 bale*.
Samaritan Alteration.
An Association , nnder the a nova name, has
been formed and organized in onr city. Subscrip
tions to carry out tbeir benevolent intentions may
be left with the President, the Treasurer, either of
the Ward Committees, or at this office, and will
be faithfully appropriated.
Wo appeal to tho sympathies of all good citizens
and Philanthropists, to come forward and help
them in alleviating the distress which prevails in
onr city, in consequence of the scarcity of Nurses,
Money, Provisions, and all comforts which are
needed among our panic stricken people. Physi
cians wiil please notice the names of tho Ward
Committees, to whom they are requested to report.
The following sro the Offiocrs and W ard Com
mittees of the Association.
OFFIOSBS.
Rev. J. E. EVANS. President.
Kev. CHARLES KING, Vioe President.
J. D. MACKIE, Secretary.
N. J. FOGAK i'V, Trea- orer.
WARD COMMITTEES.
Ist Ward —JOS. A. BEaLS
EDWARD WILLIS,
S. M. THOMPSON.
P. L WELTCH.
2d Ward— JOHN W. SPEAR,
J. A. GRAY,
F. H. COOK,
P. GALLAGHER.
J. R. SCHNEIDER,
W.D. DAVIDSON,
8d Ward— W. D. DAVIDSON,
JOHN W. SPEAR,
J.C. SMITH,
4th Ward— W. H. D’W READ,
JAS. HARPER,
J. J. BYRD,
W.H. HOWARD.
COMMITTEE ON NURSES.
Ward No. I.—S. M. THOMPSON.
■* « 2.— J W. SPEAR.
.. <> g,—J. W. SPEAR.
« .< 4 J.J.BYRD.
Provisions.
Depots for Bacon, Meal, Sugar, Rico, and
Candles, have been established at tho United States
Hotel in the third vrard, aud at Mr. Tinsley’s store
in the fourth ward. Those who stand in need of
assistance, have only to make their wants known
to either of tlia officers of tho Society or tho ward
Committees, and they will bo supplied promptly.
Our citiz3ns have contributed liberally, and it is
the intention of tho Society to dispense their gifts
frugally, but wherovor it is needed. Let no falao
delicacy keep away any who aro in need, for thoro
are many now in tho city who, at another time,
wonld not know want, but under present affliction,
eomramd.
1 Henry
; B.'c. Dinner. 5
A.O. B.ai
| John C Carmichael 10 !
11. Aden. . 1 j
..I'.Hollii.gswori
IW.ri. Stark „o f
ndam Johnson.
Jno. A. Mot re 25 i
J. L. Knight 2 ]
Edward Green 8
Fleming A Millor.. 5
Jno. Craig 5
I!. B. Rnssell 5
W.J. Ansley 5
Wm. M.Dow 5
John Nelson 10
W. H. Nelson 10
M. AB. Wilkinson. 20
Baker, Wilcox &Co 25
Whit. Milling 20
W. H. &J. Turpin. 5
T. D. Casswell 5
O. E. Casbin 5
J. Phillips 5
Thayer & Butts .... 20
McCord, Hart ACo 45
N. Daly 5
Lambaek A Cooper. 10
W. D. Davidson... 5
F. Midlam 5
W. 11. futt 5
H. F. Russel! 6
W. A. Walton 10
C. B. Martin 2
George A. Oates &
Bro 5
Clark & Co 15
J.M. Dye 20
R. Y. Harris 10
C. A.WiUigms.... 3
W. H. Hight 10
O. H. Loe 5
Barrett A Curler... 10
Bones A 8r0wn.... 25
Combs A Co 5
M. M. Campbell... 5
A. W. Walton 5
Dunham, Bleakly A
Company 10
Gray Brothers 10
C. H. Skinner 50
W. N. Nichols 10
Louis DoLaiglo.... 5
8. i >. Hoard 5
C. P. McCalla 10
G. W. Ferry 25
S. T. Rogers 10
Master B. W.B. El
liott 2
Miller A Warron... 60
Vigilant Fire Com
pany, No. 8 10
M. A. Ransom, Ham
burg 5
T. W. Coskery.... 5
J. McKinno, Sen... 50
F. Holman A C 0... 10
E. S. Cummings... 5
Beall A Stovall 25
J. D.Mathews 5
J.Danforth 5
John Hill 5
Dan’l H. Wilcox... 100
Lambeth Hopkins.. 20
Robert May 10
Dr. I. P. Garvin... 20
J. J. Blaokwood,
Humburg 10
K. Douglass 5
J.K. Jaokson 20
Rev. W. J. Hard... 5
R. S. Pass 6
A Ci'izon of Rich
mond county.... 100
Aldrich A Royal... 10
Berry A Battey.... 20
T. W. Flemming... 5
J.Tilkey 5
J. Barnes 5
I’. F. Bondon 5
Mrs. Thos. Gardner. 5
John Davison 20
N. B. Moore 5
Davis, Kolb A Fan
ning 20
Belcher A Hollings
worth 20
A. Philip 5
J. W. Pomeroy.... 1
E. P. Clayton 25
Pleasant Stovall... 25
T. 6. STM'-Si, #-'W '
Coi. ... i omni- .p,
Arlemuf t.ouid U" :
JohnP. l ’ir;g 100'
A. J. Miller . *OO ,
Ghas. J. Jenkins. 50 j
J. 0. Fargo 'l6
'. H. Mam *
. H. And- r- :-•> '
W. J. Owens,.. 20
George Wyman.... 10
M. Hatch 10
J. A. North 10
W. F. Pemberton.. 10
Luther Koll 10
Hatch & Bigboo... 10
J as. P. Fleming.... 5
John Welsh 5
W. Houscly 1
T. Sweeney 5
A. P. Bignon 5
William Ilaiue.... 5
G. Volger 5
Golothan Walkor.. 5
James W. Davies.. 20
Goo. M. Thew 5
Geo. W. Morgan... 2
Geo. Schley 20
Parr & Smith 8
Geo. H. Crump.... 5
John Finn 5
Brown & Norrel... 2
H. Daly 5
C. A. Platt & G 0... 10
Wm.T.lngraham.. 8
J. M. Newby A Co.. 10
Jackson, Miller and
Verdery 10
L. D. LsllereteJt.. 5
W. H. Harrison.... 25
Dr. J. Milligan.... 10
P. A M. Gailabor.. 5
Dr. Kossignol 5
A. Gardelle 5
Wm. Craig 10
J. Morris 5
M. F. Boicdair 6
S. H. Oliver 5
Bustin, Walker A
-Company 50
Col. H. H. camming 50
James Hopo 10
Hickman, Westcott
& Co 10
Chas. DoLiigle.... 10
Kobort Walton.... 10
W. Maekie 6
Unknown 10
Jaa. L. Coleman... 50
I. T. Heard 5
D. L. Adams 10
J. Tucker 5
A. Stephens 5
Haviland, Kisley &
Company 100
B. H. Warren 100
Carmichael A Bean. 50
John E Marley 20
P. K. Thompson..
Madison 5
J. F. Brenan 5
Baker A Caswell... 25
John Wellauer 10
8. Sautor 5
T. M. Simmons.... 1
E. P. Srmmonet... 1
G. M. Newton 100
Jameß Gardner.... 25
G. T. Dortic 20
M. C. M. Hammond
(So. Ca) 25
Dr. J. Dennis 5
J. B. Caivin 5
J.C. Snead 10
Paul Kossignol.... 5
Wm. Brown 5
H. E. Clark 5
Col. T. Clanton.... 100
W. H. Maharrey A
Company 10
D’Antignac, Evans
ACo 50
Dr. L. A.Dugas... 100
John Bones 100
A. G. Nagle, Ham
burg 10
F. A.Tupper, Sav.. 10
L.Dush 2
Phillip McCann.... 5
Charles D. Davis,
Monroe.,. 5
T. Richards, A Son,
Hays Bowdre 100
Judgo E. Starnes... 50
Donations.
A Georgian in Tcnn 50
R. Carroll 5
Col. Doyle 5
J. N. R-.evos 5
Israelites at Atlanta 60
W.S. Skinner, fivo
bushels meal
Jno. Skinner 5d0.. ..
The Samaritan Society request us to notice tho
following contributions from Cartersville and to
return their thanks for the same.
From Cartersville.
Lewie Tumlin 5
G. W. Garmany 20
Col. Harris... 5
W.B. Bishop 1
Co!. Edwards,
100 lbs. Flour,
W. Bonham,
99 do
W. J. Bonham,
G. J. Howard,
5 Bu Meal,
I T. Goldsmith 5 do
D. B. Conyoara 1
Dr. K. M. Young 5
R. H. Conner. 1
W. H. Pueket 1
Wm. Anderson 8
W. T. Goldsmith.... 1
B. B. Conyers 5
R. Milner 1
J. J. Howard 20
Dr. Williams 1
C. T. Shiliman 2 |
Mrs. L. H. Howard.. 1 I
S. Erwin. 2 |
Donors from Marieita.
| R. Walton.. 5
| Mrs. Glascock, 5
| £. R. Webster 5
I J. N. lieovos 5
Thomas Barrett.... 100 I
J. K. Jaokson 10 |
C. B. Hitt 10 I
D. W. Marks 10 l
In addition to tho above contributions, tho
Samaritan Society requosts us to acknowledge a
coop of chickens from Mrs. Mary J. Waterman,
80 chickens from Wm. M. Morton, Athens, and
another coop of chickens from Kamsay and Nel
son. These two latter gentlemen, in previous
acknowledgements, we mentioned as citizens of
Columbia county. They are koth residents of
this city, and we can assure I horn that their do
nations were thankfully received by the Society,
and have contribnted materially in alleviating the
present distress in our city.
Should there be any others, who have not been
called on, who wish to contribute to the means
of this charitable association, they will please
leave their subscriptions at this office. Our citi
zens, who are away, can also forward any sums
they may be pleased to give, to the address of this
office or the Treasurer of the Society, and it will
be acknowledged.
A bill has been presented in the Chilian Senate
to re-establish the Jesuits in that Republic, and it
was sustained by fourteen members. Much public
interest seems to have been manifested in the
movement. The Chamber of Deputies has passed
a bill to reduce the duties on silk goods, ready
made clothing and shoes to 15 per cent, and the
duties on carriages and furniture to 25 per cent.
This is in eonseqnonce of the high duties having
diminished the revenue, and eausod an extraordi
nary increase of smuggling.
The Washington Union Bayß that the purchase
by the United States of the property and improve
ments, in Washington, known as tho Winder
Building, was on Thursday consummated by the
Secretary of War, as authorized by an act of the
last Congress. Tho amount paid for the building
was $200,900. The business of the Pension, Se
cond Auditor, and other offices, hss been transact
ed in this building for several years, and the
Government has been paying an annual rent of
$21,000.
Cholebain London.—The London correspon
dent of tho National Intelligencer gives ttefollow
ing account of tbe ravages of the cholera in that
city. In France, we notice that the deaths from
the same disease have already reached 40,000 this
season.
"We are very sorry to have to report a terrible
increase of cholera in London, daring the last
week. The deaths durirg that week wore 1,207
above the average, or r. ther more than double i
the average, which would be 1.243. The whole i
number of death- was 2,515. The deaths from
cholera during the last nine weeks have been—l,
5,26,133,899,644,729 847, and 1,287. The cholera
has broken out a l . Leeds, and iB very bad at Wis
beach, in the Isle of Ely.
A riot happened ai Cincinnati on Monday night
between a party of Protesiantsand German Catho
lics, originating in an effort to establish a Protec
tant Sabbath school in a Catholic neighborhood.
Two or three persons were wounded by pistol
shots, and tne leaders of the riot were arrested.
Mr. Douglas made a long speech at Geneva,
Illinois, a day or two ago. He was heard through
out, respectfully, but the meeting subsequently
passed a series of strong Anti Nebraska resolu
tions, much to the ora.or’s surprise and disap
pointment.
Senator Clayton published a letter in the Phila
delphia Inquirer, of Tuesday morning, in favor of
the Know Nothing principles.
Five emigrants from Missouri were recently mas
sacred in the interior of Kansas by tho Pawnee
Indians.
The Eighth Avenue Bank, of New York, failed
on Monday.
The Old Elm Thee in Boston Common. —Bosto-
nians are proud of this venerable relio of tho past
and have taken measures to protect it as much os
possible from unnecessary exposure, and accident.
They are disposed to cherish it in its old ago, and
prolong its existence that generations yet unborn
may gather benoath its wido spreading branches.
o take the -following description of it from a
Beaton paper:
Ou iho gat© of tho iron enclosure, which is a
hundred and twenty foot in circumleroncc, is the
loiiowiug inscription:
Ihl Old Elm.— “ This t-ee has been standing lure
tar an unknown period. It is believed to have existed
before the settlement of Hoßton y being fully grown n -
1522, exhibited marks qf old age in 1792, and was
neaaly destroyed by a storm in ISB2. Protected by
an iron enclosure in 1854.”
This tree is nearly So feet in circumferouco at
the base, and its trunk is eveu now capablo of
holding threo full grown persons. The apertures
to tho interior, causod by decay, aro neatly covor
ed at the present time with prepared canvas.—
Though this evidence of its old ugo exists, yet
carelul attention to the tree since the storm ol
1882, tho lopping oIT of some of its branches, Ac.,
has rejuvenated the trunk to such a degree as
seemingly to dety the blasts of scores ol yours. As
tho tree now stands, with its wido-spreading
branches, symbolical of parental kiudness, aud it*
leaves va o.ated by tiio touches of autumnal frost,
no liner sight of the kind can be witnessed.
Wo may mention, in tbit connection, ihut Dr.
Warren is preparing a narrative of this vonorable
elm, with numerous corelative associations which
doubtless will prove most interesting to every Bos
tonian. Seventy-one years ago, this venerablo ei
tizeu stood within tho trunk ot that tree; sixty
years ago, our worthy friend, L. M. Sargent, E-q.,
with his early companions, played hide and-seek
in its capacious cavity; other elderly residents
have like reminiscences of the tree. Its history
will bo no mean addition to tho history of its na
tive city.
Health of Montgomery. —During tho last two
weeks, says tho Montgomery Journal of tho 2d
inst. ending on Friday tho 29th ult., thoro havo
boon seven cases of yellow fever roported by tho
Board of Health, two of which havo terminated
fatally —some of tho others aro convalescing.
There are strong hopes that the progross of the
disease may be stayed, though wo know not what
the presout month may bring forth. Notwith
standing this disease, our city has been remarka
bly healthy during the past month. Tho mortali
ty has beou much loss than any previous Soptom
bor for several years.
Tjie Russian Loan and tiie American Minister
**»nv tTaohr.—The Paris correspondent of the
. ..,.o a .sorts that Mr.
jiutov at t* *iiiguo, bas taken the , ~-
. ha* boon e. voringfr* -
Ate. for Ur fat-or an' 5
therolor.* f <
comprca . U o.
strait U At ;-refit o*
>• m.ig Mum, .I*. iolmont, it .
beer i ivi© a< ‘ Tho same coir©..*
status that Mcf-srs. Dudley Mann, tho Assistant
Secretary of State, and Mason, Piatt, Belmont,
Cass, Jr., ami Bicklos, wore all recently present at
a Council in Paris. Mr. Sickles subsequently left
Paris for Spain.
The McDonough Legacy. —Tho Mayor of Balti
more has nominated two citizens of Now Orleans, \
to represent, in conjunction with a citiz3n of Bal
timore, tho interest of that city in the administra
tion of the property bequeathed by tho late/John
McDonough to tho citizens of Now Orleans and
Baltimore. The Crescent thinks that all this trou
ble and expenso will go for nothing, as tho oxceu
tors still hold on—their lawyers still rccoive thoir
handsome salaries, and tho pr sporty remains in tho
same hands that havo managed it for tho lust thr«.o
years. New Orleans has given its bonds
OOu) to tho lawyers whoso successfully argued tho
caso before tho Supremo Court; it has appointed
commissioners who have mude repeated inquiries
for “tho legacy”—“tho estate.” Butth«re is some
thing moro to be done before the> can got the pro
perty—tho cities of Baltimore and New Orleans
must organize their alms-house, their school larin
and other institutions contemplated ty Mr. Mc-
Donough, before they can enjoy the legacies be
queathed by him. Thoy must comply with va
rious other conditions, procodent, fully declared
in his vory complex will, boforo they can enter
upon these legacies. Tho executors have replied
in a card stating their willingness to surrender tho
property.
The Affbican Slave Tbade at New York.—
The Now York Herald says: it-'a are informed
that, acting upon certain discoveries recently
made, onrvigilant District Attorney,Mr. MclCcon,
is prosecuting an investigation boforo tho Grand
Jury, the result of which will astonish tho uneus
pocting Quakers living in this community. Only
think of a slave ship, with all the necessary fix
tures, materials, supplies, provisions, papers in
several languages, Ac,, Ac., being fitted up aud
despatched from this port, as if tho trnllic were a
logitioiato business. Tho law declares it piracy
a capital crime—and wo should not wondoriftho
rosults of tho presout examination wore to involve
tho personal eafoty of various eutorprisiug in
dividuals.
Tho people ofSaudorsvillo are making efforts to
abolish tho rotail trade in Bpirituous liquors In
that placo. It is also stated that tho peoplo of
Sparta, Ga., have out the roluil dealers.
MoBTALiTr in Galveston. —The deaths from yel
low fever, to the latest date, in Galveston, had
reached four hundred.
The Rev. Dr. Horatio Potter, the newly oloeted
Provisional Bishop of tho l’rotostant Episcopal
Dioc3so of New York, lias been for many years
settled in tho Rectorship of St. Poter’s Church, at
Albany. Ho iB said to bo about fifty years of age,
and of pleasing manners, fino culture and much
ability. His eloction appears to be very satisfacto
ry to all parties, though ho is supposed to repre
sent the Low Churchmen, as his opponent, Rev.
Dr. Vinton, represented the High Churohmon.
Tho Right liov. Alonzo Potter, Bishop of Pennsyl
vania, is, wo beliovo, a brother of tho newly chosen
Bishop of New York.
Tho citizens of Romo, (Ga.) with a few individ
ual exceptions, have signed a petition praying the
council to tax city property sufficient to raise tho
amount of ,000 for tho construction of a Rail
road to tho Alabama line in tho direction of Jack
sonville. Tho prospectof carrying into execution
the design of building the road, at thii liin-,
is very Haltering indeed.
Bulwor, tho novelist, iu a letter to a gentleman
in Boston, raid: “Ihavo closed my career as a
writer of fiction. lam gloomy and unhappy. I
huve oxbaustod the powers of life, chasing pleas
ure where it is not to bo found.”
Mrs. Elizaboth Smith died in Washington coun
ty, Md., on tho 23d ult., aged 106 years, 11 months
and 18 days.
Tho Reading (Pa.) Gazette states that further
dieoevaries of gold have ;boon made iu that vicin
ity by Mr. G. J. Philips, and tho English geologist
who is now on a tour of miucralogicul re - arch in
Berks county. Tho Gazjlto has boon shown sev
eral specimens of tbo procious metal, which wero
found iu a body of quartz rock on the farm of Mr.
E. Jonathan Deiningor, u mile or two north-ca t of
of tbo city. Tho gold, it says, appears to be ro
murkub'y pure, aud upon on assay would doubt
less yield a iargor per centum.
Tho Loudon Times says that a letter has been
rooeivol at Uio admiralty from Commander lie
Horsey, other Britannic Majesty’s ship Devastation
dated August Ist, 1854, reporting that ho fjundod
throe vossols under American colors at tho uninhab
ited island of Aves, in lattitndo 15 deg. 40 min. 40.
sec. north, and longitude 68 deg. 36 min. wo-ti
and on j day’s sail from St. Croix, shipping guano
of which ho reports tboro is about 200,000 tons on
tho island, and but slighty inferior to tho Peruvian
Wm. Kissano of Martha Washington notoriety,
who was arrested in Cincinnati for complicity in
tho late forgery on tho Chemical Bank, of Now
York city, was delivered over to tho New-York
officers on Friday, and loft on the 'afternoon train
of oara for that city.
A paragraph in a reeont Bt. Louis paper informs
us that Union Firo Company, No. 2, of that city,
having sent a Committee to Cincinnati to examine
and report on tho merits of tho stoam firo engine,
and received a favorable report therefrom, has re
solved to disband its own organization, sell out its
engines, other apparatus and real estate, and give
the proeeods to tho city government, to bo expend
ed in the purchase of a steam fire engine.
This is the Eba or Conventions, and New York
is at present their great field. Nino political Con
ventions have mot in that State since July 12, and
four more are yet to bo held. Those that fiavo ta
ken placo embrace Hard and Soft Democrats,
Whigs, Fasionists, Free Democrats, Anti-Nebras
kaites, Independent Seceders from everybody else,
and Temperance men. Those yet to come will in
clude Liberty men, Anti-Slavery men, Fugitive
Slave Kescaers, and Know-Nothings. As each of
these Conventions will set forth a dilier nt plat
form every shade of opinion will bo accommo
dated .
A New Party, calling themselves "Practical
Democrats,'’ havo organized in New York, city,
and propose holding a Mas* meeting in the Park
on Wednesday next.
Books not weighing over four pounds may be
, sent in tho mail, prepaid, at ono cent an ounce any
1 distance ;n the United States under threo thousand
| miles, and at two eent3 an ounce over three thou
sand miles, provided tnoy are put up without a
cover or wrapper, or in a cover or wrapper open at
the ond6 or sides, so that their character may be
determined without removing the wrapper; if not
prepaid, tho postage under throe thousand miles
ie ono cent and a half, and over throe thousand
miles in tho United State s three conts an ounco.
Tho papers generally in Baltimore, Philadelphia
and New York, have announced, on the authority
of a telegraph despatch, that the Know Nothings
had recontiy elected their candidate for Mayor in
Lsuißville, Ky. It appears by tho papers of that
city that no such election has been held there.
Thero is evidently a mistake somewhere.
"’intelligence Irom Lima states that Joseph F.
Haley, of,Portland, Me., employed in tho office of
the Coramercio newspaper, had been condemned
to dea'h for counterfeiting. He bad struck off
$600,000 worth of vales dc conaoiidaciou, (govern
ment notes of duties,) but did not succeed in is
suing any of them. Ho was sentenced to be shot,
but on tbe intercession of Mr. Cl ay, tbe American
Minister, the senteuco bad been commuted to five
years’ imprisonment.
. Tbo Now York *1 'if Comtne res cal Is atten
tion to tho groun increase of fraudulent bmh bills
in circulation, u«ter©d from u teas to a greater de
nomination, und remarks.:- ■ -i "
in tho k V"7 frvn <\ V
Leather liV Bank, B, ~on “ nd
hundred d« !lir.\. Tlies e fraud s’aro
vor ■
persons well skilled in chomiou! »cir»ruc fi 0 »wA '
roughly is the work-cf ft'kralion don© i*»
stances thxi *
. uii.uu., uik ino l win muKo “ raonov ” their
bOEIIIOSS, anti dOVOO vosn t,, tun . . ■
ton of bank notes, aro deoe i- cd ()f<~ ’''"
peopleat larpo cannot d-tect so, Vfrands, „‘,.i tho
community is thus .nbieoi to innnr er„ki„
sitions of tho kind. “ ble
14 Tho last Instance of thi« aftri 0 j .
bill ofthoßunk of tho Commonv\ nltl,, in this cliy"
a torod to a live, by tho careful abstraction by
chemical process, of tho fisruros i, and thn sc f,
luti in ofthe 5, Tho largo letters on aro also taken
out ot the word ono, and live substituted, and tho
etter added to tho word dodur, thus prosontingin
Inrco letters the words Five U.liars, in a circle,
ims Lank had ado-ted the recent plan recom
mouded by Messrs. Dmiforth, Wright &( o bank
note engravers by which thoir one, two, and' threo
debar bills could bo known, to wit ; Tho one dol
ar noto lies ojio large c:roV; the two dollar noto
has two lar.o eirctos, and tho three dollar hill has
lire,, large circles on ,ts face; the live., and tons
having totally difloftmt •• ,tu r -. It is difficult,
however, for the masses to recollect theso devices
and m the present case, so c0r..,.1nt0 is the .li.rj
tiou or aho one dollar not©, that it wni readily ta
kou oil deposit yesterday by ono of the harks in
tills tnty, ana detceied at last only by the issuers.”
Ktssane the Foroer.—he Ciiieimnitti Gazette
of Wednesday, in noticing the arrest of Rissnno
in that city, says on the same day that tho $9,000
was drawn from tho N. Y. Chemical Bank, by a
similar process tho Continental Bank of Cincinnati
Wftß swindled out of (6,0.18.60 on n forged chock,
purporting to bo drawn by Berry <fc Gr. qiiono,
New York.
A description of the porson who presented this
chock was given to the New York police, and by
some means—it is rumored by a confi ssion es ouo
of tho persons engaa-od in tho forgeiy—they have
con reeled W-n Kiss mo and his old friend,
Findlay, with tho transaction. They telegraphed
the matter to Marshal Ridtln on Monday, and on
tho sarno dirpL: P. lien, Dejinty Marahul, made an
affidavit ‘hat on the S bh of August Was. Kissano
did utter, etc., the t r>/.d check cn the Continen
tal Bark; and ou this fli lavit a writ wits issued
by tho l’olico Judge, and Kb sure was decoyed to
tho Farlovr House, arrested, and confincd’iii tho
Watch House tillTocrday- mornirg. '
In order to givo all parties ti.no to prepnro for
tho examination, he P- stpcp-.d.ihr'. . .
day ntxt, and Baad-Mi ‘
VUi *4fta B|
pbyeicid protouiopdef a powerful country against
hi. superior Hetjfhbor Bculoquu. The Buy of Ba
nisiiu is situuthd on the north side of tho Island of
Iluyti, near lie-on: l dud of tho island—is s.-.id | 0
be ono o.Wlio largest and most commodious har
bors in world, and of a VpHi and easo of ou
, trance capable of accommodating the largest ships,
naval or merchant.
The growth of Comtrerco in Cincinnati exceeds
anything recorded of commercial ..prog-css. In
1826 the entire vuluo of her expoits and imports
did not exceed four mitliont. In ISWg the value
of tho loading articles of export and exceed
one hundred mid ten million*; and if \ho nnenu
mcratod arlidea could ho included, would proba
bly reach one hundred and ffljj millions.
fejjv. Seymour, the iHuutiieo ofthe New York
Softs',-aeeoptn tho nomination for ro election, aud
gives lis a Yoason therefor, his desire to test: the
public sentiment of tho Stato on tho issnomade in
his Vito Message of tho Prohibitory Liquor law.
The Rumored Fusion in New York— I Tho Al
bany Argus say 3 that tho D iuocratic Stnto Com
mittee (Hard) which mot in ihat city oil Thursday,
adjourned “after agroemg upon an Address to tho
Dotnoeraoy of tho State, gad transacting other bu
siness with a view to the thorough organization of
the Democracy.” Tho Argus notices in tho follow
ing emphttlio terms tho rumor that a union was
proposed and in contemplation between tho two
sections of the Democratic party:
“ It is perhaps scarcely necessary, but wo proser
to remark that the ahovo is a bold fabrication ‘out
of the whole cloth.’ Thoro is not n word of truth
in tho entire statomont. No such‘object’was con-
sitious mndo no such ‘fusion’ covoted—at least
as far as tho Democratic Commitloo was concerned.
What the Softs did wo do not care, beyond tbo
fact that they did not vonture to approach tho
Democratic Committco with any such ovoituros.”
Tho Arohbiahon of Baltimore has summoned
tho prelates to a provisional council, to open at th e
cathedral in that ei(y on the sth November. Tho
provinoo embraces tbo cities cf Baltimore, Phila
delphia, Riohmond, Pittsburg, Wheeling, Eriomad
Savannah.
The following extract from apfiva’o lct'or from
n gentleman in Canton, to hie friend in Now York,
bears date of J uiy 4 th:
“ Motwi’hstnndrug the pxtrnvaghnt statements
that went home by tho last uia'l, of imminent
danger of an attack on Canton, it still ntnwls, and
tho disturbances in the adyduir ; di. triots have
keen suppressed. There in r.o reasonable ground
to apprehend any outbreak in this city, until mat
ters ure pretty well settled at the North.”
The Charlotte, N. C. papers say that Dr. D. R
Dunlap, of that place, now In ids 7sth year, is
soroly aftlictod with tho whooping cough. The
Doctor enjoyed a very extensive practice for ovor
49 years, and mn-l have boon exposed to this
opidomio many thousand times, yet be never took
it until this season. Ho. retired from practice
sovorat years since, and h ■- not cotno into contact
with it iu any other way than many more of the
oitizens.
The burnt wreck seen at eoa and supp.osod to bo
tho remnant of tho City of Glasgow, is new bo
liovod to be the British ship Shannon, an iron
vessel wrecked on her pa. ir,o from Glasgow to
Quebec. Her pa3scngore wore rescued and car
ried into Quebao.
Thera is an institution in Havana callod the
Penal, a sort of hospital, whore husbands havo
the power to confine tin Ir naughty wives. This
power is frequently cxeToio.'.l, the husband during
the durance of hie wife pay it g tho iuil and sub
sistence foos.
IlAiimm Mao azine. —Tho o:renhttion of this val
uable family sorin' has reached tho t'.nprcoedoutod
amount of one hundred and thirty thousand a
month—boforo unknown in Mra to circulation;
and tbo publishers spare no expense or effort* to
mako it worthy of this great patronego.
Boston. —lt is probable that tiie annexation of
Charlestown to Boston will bo followed by that of
Cambridge, a movement towards it having already
boon made. Tho consolidation with Charlestown
swells the population of Boston some 20,000,
which, according to the met census, gives a total
of 156,000.
Anotueb Split. —Tho Democracy iu the first
Congressional district of Illinois held their Con
vention at Rockford on Wednesday, and after a
hard struggle, split in two on the Nebraska rock.
The Nebraska men nominated V . M. Jsqkson, of
McHenry county, with a phdlorm to ir.i tck. The
oik 'r sido put up E. P. Ferry, of lake, on the
a ti-Nebrrska ssue.
Removal of the Cijablestown (Mara) Navy
Yai d. —Tho Boston Atlas is informed that letters
have been qulta recently received in that city, as
suring those who favor the removal of tho Charles
town Navy Yard to Newport, that tho General
Government, including the Secretary of the Navy,
favors the measure, und that it can doubtless bs
accomplished without difficulty.
Hon. Daniels. Dickinson.—TMo gcid'ctuau re
cently delivered a speech in the interior of Now
York, defining his position in the chaotic state of
Democratic polities in New York. He strongly
e. dorsod tho nomination of Judge Bronson, and
ridiculed the resolution of tho Softs upon the Ne
braska question. He oounselled an uncompro
mising war against the Administration.
Barnum’s St. Louis Hotel. —The St. Louis Ke
publieau has an extended notice of tie hotel de
signated abovo, which has just boeu completed,
and was to be opened to tho public on tho 23th
ult. In oxtent it measures ninety-two by one
hundred and sixty feet, and rises six stories above
the pavement, a height of ninety feet six inches.
Tho number of rooms appropriated to publio use,
is one hundred and sovonty six, which, added to
those used for working rooms exclusively, make
ovortwo hundred. The building is finished in a
high style of architecture, and furnished with eia
ganco and taste. The cost is not Stated.
Dedication of the Peabody Institute at Dan
vers, Mass. —Tho Boston Transcript says the cele
bration of Ibis event at Danvers, took place on
Friday, and tbe announcement that the lion, liu
fos Choate would deliver tho oratioD, drew to
gether an immense concourse, including many
persons Boston and tho neighboring towns,
desirous of hearing this splendid ora'or in a pure
ly literary effort. Tho speech of Mr. Ghost© is re
presented as having been ouo of his gieatest ef
forts. _ _
An American Condemned to Death in Lima.—•
Intelligence from Limsstates that Joseph F. Haley,
of Portland, Me., omployed in the office of tho
Commercio newspaper, had been condemned to
death for counterfeiting. He had struck off
$300,000 worth of vales de consolidation, (govern
ment notes of d utics,) but did not succeed in issu
ing any of them. Ho was soutci.ccd to bo Bhot,
but on tbo intercession of Mr. Clay, the ■' morn-an
Minister, the sentocco had been column 0 ,
years’ imprißomnont,
ly returned from i £ * Mo<ea Mont9fforei
ihß intention o WJ n & t 0 the manner in
“Jof the testator could be carried
" t'for the improvement of the condition of his
° Zionists in the Holy Laud. The late Mr.
Touro especial!/ bequeathed a sum of $50,000 to
wards Js benevolent object. It has beendeter
mtned to build a hospital in Jerusalem large en
®‘ h l* accommodate 100 sick patients.
Alexander S. Fowler, formerly proprietor of the
Fulton House at Louisville, died wbt. Louis *
lew Days ago. , _ „
A Company of United State© Troops left Lew
York on Monday for Kansas.