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About Weekly chronicle & sentinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 183?-1864 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1857)
BY W.M. S. JONES. CHKOiMUM. >IvVj'IAKL. TERMS, &Q. THE WEEK LV u P.hll-fceJ eirry Wrdnr.HriY AT TWO DOLLARS Pi: ft Al-SniJA If paid strictly In advance. IF SOT TAW W1 THIS SIX MONTHS, Two Dollar* and Fifty Corn Per Tear. TO CLUBS or UlMviDl.Ml.s~ f<li"K «“ Ton DoOai*. SIX copica ■,!)•■ i per "all ».<• -ect furcns year, thuefamiit rz t:.• ; i r & . ' *■ »XX COPIES POE TEN DOLLARS, or a free copy to ail wi, ° ,ua 7 V r ’' rOB YITB f ' :b ’ ttribera, and forward n» ihw tr, >: - the chronicle & • .- tinxi. DAILY AMO Tl.l-V* lI.KLY, Are tho pnbiialKXl at tU» »&*■<■., m: * “i-ti.til to «üb soribere at tba fallowing ratee, nan.'-iy . Daily P*i**k. if sect by mail,.. f7 per annum. Tni-Wism-i i’Ai ar. b Term* of Advertlaln*. Thi Wultr. —Beventy-five eenta pier square 10 tinea or Iee«; for tne first or each subsequent in* r; 18371 THE 1857! SOUTHERN <1 LTIVATOK, A MONTHLY JOLKNAL, UCVOTKD UCU'Slfttf TO IUK I •• I'UOVKMf JT Os ■ s ' l - lUaatrated with l! Bng.-avtoga ONE DOLLAR A VI AH IN ADVANCE. DANIEL LIE If. Di. IM'O. ItEDMOSD. EDITOR*. The ifteenth Volume will commence in January, 1857. ThkCultivator « ww .flirty tv.opagefi, form tog a volume of3el [■>/ m'■ ." r ; 11 ! • j all ll- VALUABLE ORIGIN \ l. OONI KIl-t TIOF.M from many of tbe mo»i >i * i , ' * ■* •> Fanners, and HorticiiltariAlfi m over}' a*:« t.‘»n o! me rtout.i and Houthwest. TERMSs Oki. Copt, I year tl J i-'oCOPiLB, l year v+u 811 Copies i “ o | 100 “ 1 - THE Cash firsTCM will to* rigidly acuered to, and in no Instance will the paper be ► * ’ • *H' uinney ac companies the order. The Bills oi <*ll *;• ■> :• pay-iw Banka recolved at par Ail tmr.ivy nr,, ' d by mau, wtage paid, wili be at the n- i “•* i'ah.: -her*. A«l vertto«*T»irt»fN Inserted at Ons. DolJ.a it j nr -r >•" of ' \ lino* each inaortiou ; one *<jua: -x»« * U! 1* ■ DOLLAR. Address W.H, K. AutfOHtu, **/V, Cp Persons who will a-1 a 1 :nt *° ' \ n *Sub aanbera, will be furnished with tin* , ■ ■ ftt ’ rat,,iJ^ ' 'FOil SAI-L. ~FCR SALE, THE unde. ng-.- •' 1 *fatc. i offer*at privHt' naj", ail ,r r : 1..'- i ’»'• 1. *. the town of Warren ton \« . • *' • 1 '’-“h of a Dwelling House, and h■■ * l • >o r Land. Also, hi* Carriage Mioj. and Lot. J < -.U M.i. hin/*. Lumber, and all hla stock, together wHU ail bin fixiiahcd au'l undmahed work. From tiftoen to twenty thousand vvortb .1 work can eaflUy be dl» of, at good prlcou, at tbl •stand,’in twelve mouthH Persons wishing to purchiui are rc- q octfully luvilotl call and eramine for them -\%. Poaaoeaion will be given at any time, to ft .the chaser. GLOUGE L BOW 1J Est. Warren ton, Oa. June 5, l /*'•"»' •. J«7 wtf TOR SALL. INOWofferfor ealnmycnu • Li .rU ~ ,r IV' . 28 or 30 IB I county, Ala , lying on the Chattnho »• •> i, • ontaiu lug 24UU acres . 1200 u» a ( * u:o ! n u: h good repair. A good Water Gin a ‘ Ferry . »• • Cbattahoorhee rlv**r. The alu vowl l < t<.r - /•? an. Uaie untß sold aadpo& 'fdslou uivf ii. T *tiu t, m » pur chaser*. [Jan2l ts ) MAT I*l LV- AVI.’- ■ T T TO MEN Or TASTE At: ) GAF T/ , rp ms subscriber, wishing to r< ir* vo to Southw Viu X Ooorgla, proposes to well bis jila <• u!arCa\« Spring. u Vann’s Vhi -v Floyd acres, n - moetly of soil and surface not tn v m;x , » " Jat vi - •leared and under good till? • r i-, the . <-rally well timbered. It bu-- -‘-v v.-t! 1 •• ot 1 > • L.e.«- atone water, two c . : • watc i power without dam i.iy ' •li clecte » varieties, especially ■ . and « • . .til us Brlok Dwelling, ►u.-v Iby lines* n y, m.u within a mile of the advantages All who have exannn > ii * >~< eur In the opinion that this phu sentb of boanty, fertility, convent -* mi-1 •• •* ■ v extent sebloin. tferei eqn cubs audaeeforyoitrselvc .au.lt .:. i. u . • .. t-.<-.-ulr-i< and resources of the place can hardly fail to-utlsfy you that It Is a N<*. I >o .• f the market. For terms, apply •o i . . remi W. D COWDREY. Cave Spring, July 10. IKV* ■ IT w-ts POWELTON MILLS FOR S LL. AS the undersigned Ib l- i t• • ■ • r s i?! wes tern Georgia, be now ..Ret I . MILLS ami LAND for sale. The Mills are etuat< ’ -ill o, •* h- River, one ami a half miles from Powclton, on the ronfl to Cam ■ntng aud Washington—the h: i p.e dug daily—h is four nets of runners, two wheat and two . mi. L • t lonr Mil has Just been completed anew. The com cu torn will emceed that of any two mills on the river, and tho wheat custom wdl equal any <in T *■! •i • "» situ atedas to remain In It ami see the Saw and Uret Mills in operation. The Land lies in Hancock county, along the O-ci .-hr. river and Powel’a ere. k. The Land « i. . 7. I n. r. tuore or less, and will equal any U*.ud in the county in producing corn, whoat, cotton or other grains Those wishing to buy, will call Aud sec for (■< u .dv* *. Th< place Is health v and hs an excellent Well of w.'.ter In the yard .In fact, no plantation Letter fumi* ;• d with good Springs of water COLL MI3L K L BHIVEHS. myflfi Q-ooclm Foi'WaU'ded Free of C . t «,o 1 AUGUSTA AND SAVANNAH RAILROAD. ATTENTION i» called to thin 1L ad n a 1-u aus of communication with the Seaboard and thence with Northern Porta. There arc now four FIRST CLASS STEAMSHIPS aud SULuu . >f Fa > Sj : . . VesaeU. runuiuk withrsguJarUyand dispatch, botwi ' New York and Savannah ; also a Steamship Lino IV«> a Philadel phia, an« l SailiuK Vessels from l liat port, Ualtia.ore and Boston, mak'ng tbs communication Lmw.-eu the North ern cities and Savannah an reliable for CERTAINTY AND SPEED, as that to any other Southern IVvt. This Road cau expect only the be. •'•a • of Augusta,the Towns and Counties along the line of the C . < r.;ia Rail road, and those Oountios lying to the N*n ;h of that Hoad. Other Roads have a larger field of operation;; that, cannot be neglected merely to secure ao limited r trade as that to which wo must alone g o *1! o-.:r time ; and no competitor will bo allowed, by t‘ * r attoutlou, to deprive ns of It, for it l« our full d< < nuluation c«>udt ct tt with that fidelity, dtapatoh and < > ep . v hi-b is sure ultimately to gain a*d r a it As regard* Rates, they e!».%1I be r > low h 3 by s;y other Road andlnordor to rivl .ee all cl .> t * a Minimum rate, contracts for Drayage have air.vii/ t- n entered Into at Savannah, ami no one < lug and Forwarding ha • i icr i v-rent than that ol teeing that ALL CIIARQI 1 are at t ran**. Hr By Railroad a ■»* ft u* •,uartcr < t one per cent can ho made lu the humane l ••■..ween Northern Ports and Augu da. All Good* FORWARDED FLLF ■ COMMIS SIONS They should be marked “In c«-o»u thoC.H.K Agent," Savannah. Published by order of tin Hoard FRANCIS T. WILLIS, Fu Ideut July 1,1854. jr->6 SSO REV/ABD. R ANA WAY from the sub... ibir on Sa:u;.»ay, t»>e . Y7thnlt, a Negro Man by ti.enameof TDM Said Soy calls hlinaelf Tom Join?-, C b f a w a bright mulatto, stout »nJ heavy ba " *i thing near lro pounds When spoken toroplie-quukly. baa a , .-u- ou one leg can»essrort a cut b> an ad* I oureal y works at the carpenter 1 * trade, lie is no doubt trying to : ake hie way either to Wilmington, N C.,»u )m»m ng, V. . as be has lived In each ot those plac» I o above re ward will be given t> r the appr*.cu- - nr. id-'.very «»t said Negro at Any e t the Jails ot the » 'uinry JDHN C WILLIS, Now Market, M nr. e county. Ga. January Ist, 1557. iatni w ts $26 REWARD. I WILL pay the above sir • Lr-ito- ,!.:•• . n r.. ! lodgment In Jail of my boy I! RHY <>uld bo be taken at a Nfetaac* from A :,: •'!' taking him chooae to bring him h< •• 1 v .1! pay n r.l - the SVS. all tbo nects-arv , Aye. - i i "g hl» delivery Harry (Martlu'Da r. * ib k Ayr, and plaeterer, about3oyears->f a ..bi o ! ■: i tpN * and weight probably Pv 1. -t t ' oountry worxl-g on his own a... ' without any au thority Hd doubtless has a false t t L c ins a wife at Mr. Greiners naai *' ■ s.-‘ r• a’ at Got. Schley's Fact ry. 1 h.v. ;of 1-- in Burke. Jefferson and Wash'::, , <“t over n Carolina AU persons are hi employingeaid boy, or a*iy oi nr. • . w!:h out permission from me or my A* u\ mygg-wtf JOHN H KITTEN. Angi. '. v Ga. S3O REWARD. RANAWAY, fn.tn the .•nb*or 1 r ~n I\:t nain county, near Morrill, in Am.-ust tuv Negrc Man FRANK *He Uabout v • ye.v - d. flv ft .•? ten ;n ehes high, of medium sue. hiu* a *hg . ped.r ::t in bis speech, and ha* lost the sight of on.* « y.- lit- wi ■ rais.-d In Virginia, and has been in Oe.-rg a t t‘- yes:s The above reward will be paid for l i< d » y : or to anv tail so that 1 cau gett .u bM»-wtf JOHN A HARRIS The Southern Recorder w i pahli -k . k u :.d f. r ward account to this office for p.i> .. .. t % S2O REWARD. IWILL pey and delivery to me, or the lodg. iul in auv -ato jat. In Georgia or South Carolina » . '.at 1 cau get i... .t‘ a Negro Mannaxueil WILLIAM He as* h : Maker; is crippled tn hl> r• v; ::i leg . -..hi.,. •t 4or e inches lugh . stammers in udkiug *. ofo.irk . .x. 'n; eau read and write, aul may have a ; .-•> w t writing His father lives in Orangeburg. .. : . *h.v at Shell Bluff 1 purchased him fro > »A 1! Lorn back. JOHN FM 1 i N aule wtf Rav <v Mil 4,877.000 FEET OF LUMBER. THIS le to certify that the Athens >• tupany built for nsa CIRCULAR SAW MILL, ; winch we have sawed four million eight hundred ai d seventy •evan thousand feet of Lum‘vr, ’ ar.l i la 18 months, or about ten thousand feet per day. W e rea’.'y •awed from eleven to twelve thousand fee* pt r day, t r we suppose the Mill has been standi iu the above time, two mouths, for want of h<■ and oeck nal re pairs, Ac Your improvement* work tine, an-1 we ad- J vise their use on a .your Mills Your*, respectfully, WaPX 'T A Rr akp 77 Mile Post, C. R R . Feb y : i- We think It unnecessary to s \ r-rt • We wk. build the same CIRCULAR s V\V Mil i v • tx» one piece.> with H id H»> . --.r * Far Gearing, to order . together wth st r. !AulNV..\ . BOILERS. Finished SHAFT!.'. V V and V MACHINERY. PI MPB. Ac Ir u 1 T cam INGS, ofeverv de»crip*H>n : c • l V, A, fix IBHING and REPAIRING ; y v W, warrant all our work t»ur F ;r . * a: s MILL PATTERNS, with FENCING, BALCONY FANCY RAILING, Ac., are the a *ct.v u.s ''- yea For sale low, one s;x H>r . ENGINE . .. Twelve Home second hand ENGINE Address REi BEN NICKERSON A. Athens Steam Company, Athens, Ga oet3l-w6zn GREENSBORO' HOTEL. THE INDKUSH.NED ha* ; . . . House A formerly kept as a Hotel by Mr < ..itv rd in ke cen tre of Griensboro’. direct iv op; * H and conveu.ent to the Radlrt s 1 D. jh** Usvirw fit:, dit up with new Furniture, he will spare m edor- - terlng to the eemfbvte 1 1 the patronage of his friends and t The House will be open for the rocct 1 . son the first day of January 11*® 9 * wl( B. H. wn.SON. AUGUSTA WORKS, AUGUSTA. OA f ~ ri’HE rXDEßSir.NEli.htvmj , . . , T . 1 MulT» MAUHIKE BHORS. r.jrNl.iiv ,-AR SHOP, With all the machinery attache dto 1 ~. . tere tofore belonging to the Company known a*;>ae • Aivcusta Maohine Works,'are prepared to cxe< • r -ers for CARTINGS, MILL GEARING. GIN GEARING MINING MACHINERY'. STEAM ENGINES and BOILERS. SAW MILLS, compete . SHAFTING and PULLEYS, RAILROAD CARS and IRONS STEAM BOAT MACHINERY', andevuy d r-;.r of w vrk ■anally made bt first-eias* Mac hine Shop- of I-on. Br - or Wood. Orders for work, i most be accompanied with cash o. 4 , -t of .r- per cent on the supposed value of the w.rk odßertni. r.n . ... re mainderpaid on delivery of the w r’. A Idr« - . let tors on business to L. HOPKik > a i'O PROPRIETORS: Hwir H OrMstisfl, | Geo. W. Si mmer?, w m D’AimosAC, I Rooert Y. Harris, ep3o-dAw6m Lamhrth Hopdks PRACTICE OF SURGERY DR. JUKI AH HAhdiSS is prepared to tccou modate with and Nursing, such patients a* m%y be directed to him for Surgical operations or treat mtov Masters may be assured that their Servants will five every neooewry attention my7-w ly Weekly chronicle & sentinel. |(Ckoniflf & Sentinel. I u Arrival of !h«* Americana. Tbe mail* by the A rabia are received. The China news and commercial intelligence, below, ia all that is <<f importance, in addition to the nummary by Grlat Britai.v. —Queen Victoria’s accouche ment woe expected to take place in March. Redpath, the ex-Secretary r of the Northern Eng L-, R. U Company, who swindled hi* employer* o : of nearly a million of dollar*, wae convicted bv the jury after an absence of five minutes. Hi* alleged accomplice Kent, was acquitted. Red pa? . waa immediately eentenced to transportation 7 he return* show that one hundred and fifty ve* were driven'aahore, and eighty totally wrecked with many other* damaged, during the late fright-’ fulgale on the coaet* of the United Kingdom, in volving a large loos of life. A terrific hurricane devastated the Phillipine le la:.d*, on the 27th October. All the suburb* of Ma nila and the neighboring village* were reduced to heaps of ruin*. The number of house* destroyed at ! hat. place alone was above three thousand five Lun dr< ; Official returns ehow that more than ten t iMusand houses were destroyed within a circuit of ah ut eight league* around Manilla. Six foreign vcr-seli were also driven ashore. China. —We Lave received, say* the London Tim*« of January 17, the China Mail Extra, dated Hong Kong. November 24, being nine days’ later inte- --ence than that received by the last mail. We extract the following : * The most etii ring of events have been an insane attack by the Imperialists on boat* from the United State* ship* of war, and the well merited punish ment which followed the firing on them. “ The Burier Fort*, being entirely demolished, the American* intended to retire from the quarrel.it h said, and aw ait tbe issue of Admiral Seymour’* demonstration before again operating. The French .have al o withdrawn their men-of war’s men from tii factories, and, report ha* it, have taken posses '■•Ou of the Liptat Fort* on one of the branches of the river. These they intend holding pending the argument of noine matter* which they, too, have to present to the government of China, the recent cruel toiture and murder of the missionary Chap delaine having ye: to be explained, the authority qualified to receive the explanation—M. de Mon tq uy— now on his way here from Cochin China. Disappointed in the hope of bringing the Canton Government to a proper sense of duty by the harsh measures reported in our last summary, Admiral Seymour now relies, apparently, and with reason, oii coercion by the people. With this, or some such view, his Excellency is intrenching the foreign quar ter, ha* has hud captured junks tilled with the re mains of demolished forts, and is sinking them into those part* of the river where danger from fire rafts ha* t<* be apprehended—booming olf those tracks which it may be found nucessnry to open on an early occasion. Every native boat that approaches the factories is fired on, though few, since the Niger ha* been guardship, have had the temerity to come wit Lin reach of her unsparing sharpshooters. “A covered way from the British factory to the south-west corner ot the city wail is in contempla ti n too, it i* *o reported, bo rendering the next at tu'k on the city a work of comparative ease and safety. In place of the withdrawn French and American guards, some companies of Her Majesty’s 52th Regiment have been sent hence, though but lew are required, 100 English bayonets properly dis pof ed, being sufficient to keep at bay as many Chi nese as ciu be brought against them on the land aide; aud it would be quite possible for Admiral Seymour, even with the force at present under his control, to trac possession of and to hold securely all tho quarter of the new city extending west from the Governor General’s official residence, and north Up to the wall of the old city, distant but a few yards from the extremity of the building spoken of. Details of tiik Capture of the Barrier Forts by the Americans. —“ The future plau of operatu os having been agreed upon by the three commend rs, early on Friday morning the Cum-fa towed t : c Levant into a position much nearer the f««it-3, the Barrier stakes alone preventing further pi .gre b. The boats of both ships were then man ned with a storming party, and the capture of the i ort at the entrance of Fidler’s Reach resolved on. Atß a. m., the little Cum-fa (under the able direc tion of Volunteer Capt. W. M.Robinet) with the launchers and cutters in tow, started for the fort under (over of the Levant’s guns, and in the face of a galling tire from the ttiree forts. The shot whistl' d and roared over and around her, but she escaped without injury and returned to the ships u '.scathed, after having been exposed to a sharp tire for upwards-of an hour, amid the hearty cheers and congratulations of all hands. But not so with the It sat a. A large 8 inch shot struck the San Jacinto’s !- . in cldhge of First Lieutenant Lewis of that sh'*p, on the starboard bow, killing one man instant ly, mortally wounding two others, who died shortly iit-rwards, and wounding two or three Slightly.— The shot was a hollow one, and after striking the bread bag in the stem of the boat, quietly reposed there and remains a captive to the boat’s company. Toe landing was effected without further trouble, and, although the men hud to cross a deep ditch to tin r knees, and some to their wostebands, the stars and stripes were upon the fort iu ten minutes.— l’lie landing party reached the fort with but one man injuied by a rocket from the retreating Chinese. “The party entered the fort at about-9 o’clock, and the work of destruction commenced. The buildings were all set lire and to destroyed, powder and shot thrown into the river, and everything that could be burnt was desroyed. ssu< h guns as could be burst were sent Into fragments; those that could not were spiked, trunnions blown off, and so defaced as to bn made useless. This fort mounted lliguns, none as high as 10 catties.— Two of them were beautiful brass guns, which the lauding party turned upon the opposite forts with much effect, to which ti e Chinese replied with vigor, but wit'u ut loss to the American side. The work of demolition occupied till past noon, when it be came necessary to take measures for further pro ceedings, aud the capture of the Inland, or Round Port, was then determined upon. Through the sole udv ice of a gentleman volunteer present, well skill ed in Chinese warfare and local information, a plan was decided upon, and at about 3 P. M. the troop* sailed out of the western gate, aud 2 under cover of the raised bund or road along the river’s side maroh t il up to a point opposite to the southern door of the Roiiud Fort and in the line of the Square Fort, while tin- boats were being tracked up along the shore. While here, waiting for the boats to come up, some Chinese soldiers made a sally from behind the bill at the I.*ob Creek Pagoda, and discharged volleys of arrows and rockets, but with no effect.— They were speedily driven back by the marines and the Portsmouth’s how itzer, and made good their retreat to Honam island. By this time the bouts had arrived at the embarcation, seeing which the Chinese troops in the Round Fort, knowing that it was all up with them, speedily took to their heels, and the forces landed w ithout opposition at 4 P. M. “ Thus three of the four forts were captured with the Ups of five killed and five wounded, on boat and ashore duty, and two wounded on board the ships. The Levant suffered but little, two shots in her hull, one through into her berth deck, main stay shot away, and one 3*J pouuder materially injured by a round shot striking the muzzle of the gun and split ting it to the muzzle ring. One man lost the calf of his leg by a cannon ball. This hist fort contained .18 guns, some of which were of enormous calibre, and the approach from Whampoa was defended by n veritable leviathan gun, made of brass or copper, j 8 iuelu sin the bore and ‘J4 feet in length, its con struction showing marks of being of recent casting (within a few years,) and upon an improved model. It would well repay one to visit it, and it is to be hoped th -.t the victors will use every effort to bear away such a magnificent pr ze. Every thing ap perl Mining to this fort was destroyed as far as prac ticable but the work was not accomplished; there tvinaintd one mote tortiticationto be captured and the Chinese c ould be *een rein orciug it with pow der aud shot during the day. and showing every de termination to maintain a vigorous resistance. “T lie command era immediately determined upon their plau of operations, and by 12 o'clock at night the Fuller's Reai h Fort was vacated, the total force quietly bivouacking iu the Island Fort. About mid night the moon arose, and although Chinese soldiers might be seen hurrying to aud from the Square Fort, not six hundred yards opposite, at four A. M. cm Sat urday morning all hands were called, after a few hours* repose on the cold granite floors of the fort and the separate divisions were ordered quietly into th - r respective boats. All preparations were made for the attack by the dawn of day ; three howitzers, with theii crews and ammunition, were stationed in t’ e pc»rts on tho northern side commanding the Square Fort, an at 5h 45m. the boats pushed ofl. As they opened out from the fort the order was given t«* tire, and, under cover the three howitzers, which kept up a withering fire of sharpnel upon the opposite fort into its centre, through the port holes, aud upon the retreating troops, the boats touched t;.c shore after having beeu exposed to the raking fire of ehdit guns, loaded with round shot and grape, and 15 minutes from the embarcation, the flowery ting was upon the ramparts of their last stronghold. Although ft was a perfect shower of grape, over, about aud around them, the boats escaped without injury or a man wounded. The Bland Fort kept up a fire upon the retreating Cek inis until they were out of reach; and, al th *uc \\ they rallied once or twice, and honored the v'u b . w ith a shower of rockets, the advance how l'.zei's drove them back several miles undercover of the villages iu the eastern suburbs of Canton. The r« ft of the day was occupied iu the destruc tion of the two last captur d forts, audit is to be hoped that ere the ships withdrew they will raze •lu mto the ground. They were defended by guns •>t enormous calibre—say fromß to 11 iuch. and the labor of destroying them iu earnest cannot be well conceived. They were— Guns. Barrier Fort 38 Fuller's Reach Fort 48 Island Fort 38 Square Fort 41 Grand total 165 which are either totally destroyed, or rendered un fit for service. The fortifications were injured by the ship's fire, and the loss of 165 guns and the de ?truction of his most important defences, mud teach His Majesty’s Hon. Member of the Privy Council, Mr. Ycli Ming Chin, a lesson in foreign di plomacy he will not soon forget. “ Ail the officers as well as men vied with each other in acts of daring, and too much praise cannot be b >lowed upon the gallant Commauders Foote, Hi 1! mid Smith, for thuir courageous determinated!. ou Lieuts Lewis, Watmaugn, Gurthrop, Daven port. English, Carter and Simpson tor the gallant manner in which they led their separate divisions into action-, on Masters Adams, Shepard, and Lt. Belknap, for tueir very able performances on that Tiv..-M*>al instrument called a howitzer, which sound - i the death knell to many a foe ; on Capt. Simms audios gallant corps of Marines who. were ever ready t o mete out to the foe his deserts, aud to pre serve the Lou : ot that flag untarnished ; and lastly, • n ihe remaining defenders of the ships, who did their part and were eager for the fray. Correspondence of the S. Y. Daily Times. The Bombardinsst of Canion-Th* American Operations. Canton. Ort.3rt. 1856.—The United States sloop oi war Portsmouth, Commander Andrew U. Foote, had been ordered to Whampoa a few days previous to the commencement of these difficulties, in con sequeuce of a rumor that the rebels were descend irg upon Canto. . and in order to protect American interests during their expected invasion, at 3 o'- clock on the morning of Weonesday the 22d, Cap ?am Foote received a note from our Consul. Mr. Perry, stating that the English were preparing to attack the city. Accordingly, he fitted out an ex pedltion immediately, and proceeded in command of the force, some seventy-five strong, including seamen and marines, to Carton, in order that Americans might be protected in their person and propeity. The American Forces under Captain Foote, were stationed with their boat howitzer, a twelve-poun der, ai the head of the New China street, aud a file of marines at the American Consulate. The French ( onsulato being in the immediate neighborhood of New China street, as is also the American seat of .egaiion. receives an incidental protection from our forces, which is acknowledged in a very grateful and polite note from the French Charge d' Ajatres T ° Uommander Foote. The United States sloop-of war Levant having come quite unexpectedly from . BTigbai iev« the Portsmouth. Capt." Smith immediately acceded to Capt. Foete'e request to reinforce him here, an j arrived on Tuesday mor t- luS i ' a of ulw'd seventy men The accordingly abandoned the defence of New China street ace it. vicinity entirely to our for, ea On Tueauey, Out, «feh. Mr P.rry, the United States Consul, received from Governor Yek a po lite notification that up to this time he had refrained from making any systematic resistance to the Eng h>h, on account of his long friendship with them, but that matter* had now come to such a pass that he must measure strength with them, and he should ac cordingly begin. Fl« r feared, however, that be should be no longer able to protect tbe property of the American*, and hoped tnatif any damage should accidentally be done to it, he wonia hold the Eng lish, who by their obstinacy, had occasioned these troubles, responsible. I regret to add that one or two American officials were very unduly conspicuous in accompanying the English attacking party into Canton, and I must make special mention of our Consul from Hong Kong, General Keenan, who was not only present himself, but took with him one of the seamen from the Levant, and bore with him also an American flag, displaying it publicly within the walls, and with the personal courage and bravery for which he is di*tingui4hed, advancing further toward the heart of the city than any other foreigner, narrowiy esca ping with his life from a murderous fire which the Chinese opened upon him. Several other Ameri can citizens also accompanied the expedition and joined, very improperly in the pillage of the Gover nor’s palace. The display of our flag was so pub lic, apparently committed us so fully against the Chinese, that Captain Foote, very promptly and judiciously issued the following paper, copies of which were sent to the British and American Con suls, and to Admiral Seymour, tu> well as to General Keenan himself: “The undeisigned ha* been informed that the American flag was this day borne upon the walls of Canton, through the breach effect u by the Brit ish naval force*. Thi* unauthorized act is wholly disavowed by the undersigned, in order that it may not be .regarded as compromising in the least degree the neutrality of the LYiited States. The United State* naval forces are here for the special protection of American interests; and the display of the American flag in any other connec tion is hereby forbidden. Andrlvv H. Footjs, Commander United States Navy, senior officer pre sent, commanding United States Naval Forces, Canton. Cantos, (China) Oct. 29, 1856. The American residents here very generally re gret the compromise which our neutrality has suf fered by this very injudicious act on the part o c Gen. Keenan, and wholly approve of Capt. Foote’s disa vowal. Their feelings for the most part are those of sympathy with the English, and satisfaction at their success; but they feel that it is for us to act entirely on the defensive. The house of Russell Sc Co., are *aid, however, to have entered a formal protest against all the proceedings of the Admiral and declare that they snail hold the British Govern ment responsible for any damage they may sustain in consequence of the attack upon the city. I regret to learn that during the fire of yesterday afternoon, the house of the Rev. J. B. French, one of our American missionaries wa* totally destroyed with its contents, Mr. French had removed almost nothing, liaviug been assured that his house was out of danger. His books, manuscript* and much property belonging to the mission were, therefore, al 1 lost, as well a* bis hospital stores, which have been the means of relief to many thousands of patients. A movement is to be set on foot for hi* relief. Canto#., Thursday, November 13.—Another cor respondence lias been carried on between our con sul, Mr. Perry, aud the Governor. It seems that a week or ten days ago, the steamer Cum Fa, an American steamer, and under the American flag at the time, was fired into, in the most unprovoked and outrageous manner, by a Chinese fort, while going through the Macao passage, on ore of her regular trips to Canton. Three shots were fired by the fort, compelling the steamer to return down the river and approach the city through another chan nel. It was in reference to this insult that Mr. Per ry addressed the Governor. He replied very politely that he would certainly investigate the matter, but added that it was not a government fortj but one built by the city for pro tection against pirates. He took occasion also to request that the Americans would not aid the Eng lish in the present hostilities—and* promised in reply to Mr. Perry’s positive demand that he would ex tend his protection to American property. He was assured by Mr. Perry, in reply, that the Americans would remain neutral in the contest so long a* Ame ricans and their rights aud property were unmo lested. On the 11th instant, forty or fifty men from the French .frigate Yirginie, arrived and relieved the American guard, which had previously been sta tioned at the American vice consulate. The Governor General, in repeated letters to the United States consul, lias expressed his earnest wish that the American residents should send their property away from the city and then leave them selves ; and he also particularly desires that our naval forces should be withdrawn. The people, ho says, are wrought up to a high de gree of indignation by the outrages of the English, and will not be able to discriminate between them and the Americans, between friends and foes, both alike, therefore, may suffer from their fury. Similar letters have, I understand, been sent to the other foreign consuls. This certainly looks ns if the Governor expeoted a lo*gsiege and some hot work. Whether it is mere taTß'wi not, time will show. It is not impossible that our merchants, seeing all chance for the prosecution of their business, at Can ton, at an end, may decide to withdraw ; but until they do so, of course our forces will remain for their protection. In regard to the firing upon the steamer Cum Fa, however, a much less satisfactory letter was re ceived from the Governor, on the 10th iuat. He says, very cooly, that the people in the Ileang- Shang fort, which fired upon the steamer, are very ignorant, and don’t understand the difference be tween the American and English fhigs ; that Ame rican vessels have rarely passed by the fort; aud that altogether, the best way to avoid difficulties will be for our merchant ships and men-of-war to keep away from there in future. This very un called-for piece of advice, on the part of the Gov ernor, unaccompanied as it is by the expression of any regret or apology foe the outrage,can hardly be regarded as else than an aggravation of the first in sult. The United States steamer San Jacinto, Commo dore Armstrong’s flag ship, has arrived at Wham poa. A detachment of her seamen and marines are expected to-morrow. She brought Dr. Parker, our Commissioner, aud his suite, from Sbaughae.— The whole American naval force in the East Indies and China are now concentrated at Canton. If the state es affairs will permit, however, the Portsmouth is expected to leave before a great while for Shan ghai*, touching at Amoy, Fuh-Chow and Niugpo. The exciting events now in progress at Canton, of course occupy public attention almost to the ex clusion of all other news. It may be well, how ever, to mention that the Authorities at Fuh-Chow have satisfactorily brought to justice the murderer of Mr. Cunningham, at that place, and that he will shortly be executed. The Times adds: Private advices received in this city yesterday from China add little to the details given by our cor respondent. We, however, learn that an Ameri can steamer, with a pleasure party on board, had been fired upon by the forts of Canton. Illinois —What Railroads will do. —TL«» message of the Governor of Illinois represents the State a« in a most prosperous condition, all brought about by her extensive net of railroads. The State debt in the last four years has been reduced from $17,398,985t0 $12,834,141, besides paying $0,514,358 interest. The Governor is of opinion that, if the present revenue law is continued, the entire debt of the State is being rapidly extinguished, the rev enue is increasing: There cannot be a doubt now entertained that this unusual prosperity is the result, in a very great measure, of that liberal spirit exhibited by the State towards the internal improvement *o necessary to her full development. Actuated by wise and pru dent economy, the State promptly transferred to the Central Railroad Company a grant of land of over two millions and a half of acres, contracting for pay ment into the State treasury of seven per cent, of the gross proceeds of the road for all time to come. The wisdom of the act is seen in her already popu lated prairies and flourishing cities where, four years ago, there was little but a wilderness. The State treasury is already beginning to feel its benefits by the increase of taxable property, and by the payment into the treasury by the Company. In addition to its value as a local improvement, itsievenue is a subject of such magnitude as to command the constant supervision of the people s representatives aud ageuts. They have paid to the company a large consideration. The road is yet in its infancy, anti no ouenow living can approach any correct estimate business. It affords a steady, saf»*, and which must an nually increase number of years. The lines of the compKynearly traverse the length and breadth of the StSte. Through the agency of the contract she has the right of access to its books and information generally respecting its manage ment and control. By being interested in its pro ceeds, she has the continued right to require the company to pursue the legitimate business for which it was created, aud the means of detecting its devi ations. I hazard nothing in saying that by the time the whole lines are completed the seven per cent, will pay the entire expense of|4*e State government. It is among the brightest r trophiee remaining from her struggles with adversity, that as she is about to emerge from debt, she can relieve her people from the last dollar of taxation, (with a revnue troni this source sufficient to pay her annual expenses, and have the revenues of her canal for appropriation to such benevolent purposes as she may deem most beneficial t»her people. Under date of Dec. 25,1856, I am furnished by Mr. Calhoun, assistant Treasurer of the company, with a communication, from which w# take the fol lowing statements: Grant of land to the Company 2,595,000 acres. Amount now sold 843,184 “ Unsold 1,751,816 14 Number of miles completed 704 Receipts for the Road for 1856 $*J,403,950 25 Estimated for 1857 3,200,000 00 Rolling stock of the Company—9llst class passenger and freight engines, 1620 freight cars, and 62 passenger cars—Coast of Road estimated at.. .25,500,000 (XI When the whole lines shall have been completed, and by the terms of the charter the State is enti tied to 7 per cent, we may safely expect it to pay into the State Treasury at least $200,000 the first year, the second year $250,000, and in five years af ter its completion it may be confidently relied on for $150,000 annually. The amount received so far from the Central Railroad is only 5 per cent, upon the gross proceeds of the earnings of the main trunk for eignteen months. The limits of this communication will not permit me to refer to the other important railroads of the State, even by name. Four years ago there were less than 400 miles constructed. The amount now in operation will van' little from 3,000 miles, pene trating and filling the country with activfKflßf business. Most of the contem plated rtwjmßbjL rapid progress of construction. SoMETHisOroR thi Ladiks.—The ladies e#m read this paragraph from the N. O. Picayune if they like. If they do not, they can pass on to soms thing else : A medical journal of anthority remarks that were the kind of gloves and shoes worn by those who would not think themselves fashionably dressed, if either was as easy as the natural covering of their skin, imposed by the sentence of a judge, for infring ing a statute law, how awfully cruel it would be considered. Yet those who thus confine the blood vessels, and embarrass the circulation, cannot ac count for their headaches, paralytic shocks, palpita tions. and other disturbances of the vital apparatus, as have unirormly avoided all excess Were each finger bandaged tightly down to the bone two hours a day. what would be the probable effect up on the general health. A Punctliions Englishman, riding on a stage box, in M&ine. was surprised to hear the driver familiarly address him thus:—‘‘Captain, I guess we’ll have rain fore long. Our EugUsh friend pulled up his shut collar, and looked away. Shortly after the driver made another observation, whereupon the fentleman said. “My man, I'll thank you not to ad reas yourself to me, and uncoD**cioußlY pulled at his dickey again ; but the good-natured loquacity of the dnv r was not to be so easily repressed, for when again it had been rebuked with another pull at the dickey, it broke out in this overwhelming manner: “Look here, captain, if you pull your col lar much more you'll jirk up your* shirt tail.'’ The Englishman confesses that it was impossible for him to maintain his habitual reserve from the instant, so passing from one extreme to the other, he indulged m repeated outbursts of merriment, in which the driver heartily joined, and they parted at the jour ney • end upon the be*t of terms AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MOJNING, FEBRUARY 11. 1857 From the X. Y. Herald. Incidents of the Siege of(<ranada. Prom a conversation with Col. Alexander Jones we Lave gathered the following particulars and in cidents of the fighting at Granada. The narrative is not given in the exact words of the Gol., but it contains the material facts. Col. Jones holds the office of Pavmaster General in Walker * army. He was with rfenningsen during the whole struggle and fighting at Granada, and while reconnoitering the position of the enemy, on the first day of the attack oy the Costa Ricans, he received a ball in his thigh from a minie rifle which broke his thigh bone, and consequently incapacitated him from taking any active part in the defence of the various positions occupied by Gen. Henningsen’s commund. The incidents connected with the fighting in Cen tral America have a peculiar interest, showing as they do the individual characterises of men, and their idiosyncracies while suffering from wounds and the various stages of disease. During the fighting in the trenches and field there were men on our side who frequently displayed the most dare devil and reckless eourage. While the minie balls we*e fly ing around us like hail they would stand out in an exposed position and coolly pop off an enemy, being at the same time a target for the shot of hundreds of Central Americans In the place where the sick and wounded, the dead and dying were gathered together there were scenes very oomico tragical—incidents most diverse and opposed. A great many men went also mad from the effects of opium—they lost the entire use of their legs below the knees. They would sit there among the corpses of the dead, and amid the moans of the dying, acting so fantistically and droll, that it was impossible sometimes to keep from laughing. They were tormented by a burning, parching quenchless thirst, like that of the Sahara under the meridian sun. Sometimes in crawling about to get water they would meet or obstruct one another ; then they would attack each other and fight furi ously, tight like madmen, which they were. At the same time near them, or perhaps almost under them, would lay a poor wounded man, howling from the intensity of his pain, or prayiDg for death, while big agony with torturing hand grappled his quivering form. The maddened men would thus fight till sep arated, exhausted, or one overcome the other.— Sometimes they would chant the fragment of a rab ble song as a funeral dirge for the dying. There was one poor fellow beside me who had his leg terribly shattered by a ball. I forget his name, but we call him Anderson. A delirious man near him kept crawling about for water, and in do ing so, came in contact with the wounded man's mangled limb, which of course made the latter suf fer the most intense pain. Anderson bore it pa tiently as long as he could, and then swore that the next one who got on his leg should suffer for it. Again the delirious opium eater, parched with thrist, crawling along seeking for water, got upon the wounded leg. Anderson raised himself up and pitched into his tormenter, who, with the instinct of madness, defended himself and returned the as sault. The tight grew furious; they pelted each other right heartily; the one assailed as fiercely as the bloodhound does the stag when held at bay, the other defended as savagely as the tiger when blind with rage and mad with wounds, he rushes wild at everything in his course. At length sense or weak ness overcame strength and madness-, Anderson triumphed, though, like many who battle for the right, more injured from its defence than he would have been by its loss; but he obtained peace at least from one madman for the rest of that night. I slept on a lounge or raised bed which was scarce ly a foot above the floor, yet one night two crazy fel ows got in contact with each other under it, when a fight ensued there in that confined position ; they battled it out. I had the legs of my bed cut ofT so they could not get under any more. A burning thirst and an instinct of self-defence seemed to be the great characteristics of the men when madden ed from the effects of opium. They take the opium wheu they are attacked by cholera, to save them from the pain and effects of that disease ; but the drug generates a burning thirst, and if they drink water they are sure to die. If they do not drink water opium is a very good medicine for cholera. There was a native Nicaraguau with us who, hav ing been attacked with the cholera, took opium for its cure. As usual, a consuming thirst followed; they would not let him have any water. There was a well near, and every day he would go out there sit dowu and look languidly at the water. The well was about 14 feet deep, with four feet of water in it. The top of the well was surrounded by a wall two feet high. Every day he would go and sit for hours looking down into the water, until the w T ater be came so enticing and his thirst so overpowering, that he plunged in head first to get a drink. Help was immediately called, and they barely succeed id in saving him from drowning. Ilis fall did not hurt hint inucn. He got one good drink and died. The death of Owen Duffy, editor of the Nicara guense, took place under very peculiar circum stances. lie was left with Gen. Henningsen’s com mand at Granada, and did good service in the field as well as iu the chair. During the siege he was seized with cholera—there was no medicine to be found in the place, till at length they obtained some opium. Six pills were made of opium, containing a grain each ; and given him, with the direction that he should take one pill every hour, to destroy the effects of the cholera. Fearful of the disease from which he was suffering, he took the six pills at one dose. The immediate effects of it were to put him into a deep narcotic sleep. He lay there as if iu a trance all night and nearly all the next day, the poisonous weed having benumbed every faculty of his mind and body. In the latter part of the next day they attempted to wake him up ; they took him out to the well, and poured cold water over his head and all over his body; they rubbed him, shook him, and hallooed at him, till they succeeded in waking him up sufficiently for him to understand what they were doing and what was going on im mediately around him. We kept him in this state a short time. 1 talked to him and tried to interest him. He was sleepy all the time, would fall into a half doze and nod his head, then rouse him self. Thus he continued his efforts for a little while to keep awake and then fell into a deep benumbing sleep. During the succeeding night Le lay partly asleep and partly awake. He had set down against the wall and had fallen into a very uncomfortable position, the opium had so exhausted his physical powers that he had not sufficient strength to raise himself. All uigLt long he sat there in that position, slowly, slowly, sorrowfully, patiently breathing out “Won’t some gentleman put me in a more com fortable position ?”—“Won’t some gentleman put me in a more comfortable position?’’ It was thrill ing to hear him as he lay there all night long pite ously repeating these words, and not be able to help him, anil know that no one there could. Mr. Duffy must, have had come opium about him, for next day he was up and appeared cuite smart. The vis medicatrix natxra alone could not have wrought such a change. That day he entered the trenches, and fought furiously. He was captain of the volun teer forces. He died standing iu the trenches, his rifle in his hand. But few good men are attacked by the cholera The most ot the men who have suffered and died in Nicaragua were the scum of low groggeiies—men who were used up and broken down before they went there. If healthy young men, of good nabits, go there and live correctly, there is no danger of their dying. But no man can eat fruit, ripe _or green, and then drink liquor on it, without killing himself immediately. If you put a pine-apple into a vessel of brandy, the apple will swell up to four times its size, and turn black as a coal, for fermen tation instantly takes place when the liquor and ap pi® come in contact. It is just so when the pine apple and brandy are put into the stomach. I knew a young man who came from California —stout, healthy and hardy, he lived there without the least symptoms of disease, the climate agreed with him; but one day he said to me— “l guess I will eat a pine apple, I see they have fine ones here.” He went out and bought a fine large one, pealed and eat it, feeling thirsty he went out and drank some brandy; six hours after he was dead. lie was attacked with the cholera, when that disease was not about at all. It was not the Asiatic chol era, it was more like a terrible and severe diarhtea. There is so much acid in the fruit there, where it grows rank beneath a tropical sun, that it is dan gerous to eat a large quantity of it, but jt is mag nificent fruit when fully ripe. The natives never begin to eat it till this month, they say it is not healthy before. There is no place in the world healthier, or that has a finer climate than parte of Nicaragua, but of course where vegetation grows so rank, and the wa ter overflows the land there is constant decomposi tion fatal alike to man and beast. The swamps, low lands and river banks, are generally visited at the peril of one’s life. Col. Jones brought us half a bushel of lemons as a specimen of the fruit of Nicaragua. They were certainly the most beautiful and largest samples of that fruit that we have seen in New York for many a year. Outrageous Conduct of Brazilian Officials Toward an American Whaler. —We are indeb ted to Captain Samuel S. Sparrow, of the bark Cambridge, now below this port from Pernambuco, for the following account of the treatment of a New Bedford whale ship. The captain reports that on the 18th of Decemoer, Capt. Barton Kicketson ar rived at Pernambuco in a Brazilian vessel with the officers and crew of ship Canada, whaler, of New Bed ford, and reported thaton the27th November, in the evening, his ship struck on a reef nine miles from shore and about forty or sixty miles north of Cape St. Roque. Immediately got out kedges and pro ceeded to haul the vessel out through the channel by which she came in; got her afloat, having start ed the water and lightened her somewhat, and lost only the false keel. No one from the vessel was al lowed by the captain to go ashore, nor were any signals made for assistance, none being required. On the fourth day a Brazilian officer with soldiers, came on board, and ordered the captain to stop heaving on the windlass, (tie crew were still en gaged kedging the vessel out.) On his refusing to do so, they fixed bayonets and drove the men from the windlass. The Captain then told the officer he should abandon the vessel to him, unless he was al lowed to proceed in his duty, and essayed once more to man the windlass, but was again prevented by the soldiers. He then called all hands aft, and in their presence abandoned the vessel to the officer, and told him he should hold his government responsible. The Brazilians having got possession, slacked away the hawser and let the ship run again on to the rocks, (up to this time the ship had made no water to speak of,) where she pounded all night, ana in the morning had five feet of water in her hold. Captain Kicketson thinking i hat the officer having had an opportunity to sleep on the matter. D fight repent of his rashness of the day before, again called all hands, and in their presence offered to take the vessel again, (although much damaged, with five feet of water in her hold,) provided the soldiers would leave; but the officer peremptorily refused, ana Captain R., then made his final aban donment, reserving the private property of himself and crew. He went on shore, and thence to Per nambuco, laid his case before the United States Consul there, protesting, &c. The Canada had on board, besines her outfit. 75 barrels sperm oil. taken on the line.— Botton Journal, Jan. 29. . Awful Thoughts. —“ This had from the very be ginning of their acquaintance induced in her that awe which is the most delicious feeling a wife can have towards her husband.** “Awe!" said I, on hearing the above remark—“awe of a man whose whiskers you have trimmed, whose hair you have cut, whose cravats you have ‘put into tue wash whose boots and shoes you have kicked into the cioeet, whose dressing gown you have worn while combing your hair ; who has been down into the kitchen with you at eleven o’clock at night to hunt for a chicken bone ; who has hooked your dresses, unlaced your boots, fastened your "bracelets and tied on you bonnet; who has stood before your looking glass, with thumb and finger on his probos cis. scraping his chin; whom you have buttered, and sugared, and toasted, and tea-ed ; whom you have asleep with his mouth wide open! Ridi culous! ’ — Fanny Fern. The Mcrderof Dr. Burdill.— The investiga tion into the late shocking and mysterious muraer of Dr. Harvey Burdeil, at his own room, No. 31 Bond street, was resumed yesterday by Coroner Connery, assisted by District Attorney Hall.— Tcere was a large attendance of the friends of the deceased, and the inquest was conducted at the bouse. There was no testimony elicited that would tend to show positively who committed the murder The suspicions against Mrs. Burdeil and Exckel, were strengthened by the discovery of certain sto len papers belonging to Dr. Burdeil. being found in the secretary of the latter, in his bedroom, on the premises. The papers consisted of a lease of the house, an agreement between the Doctor and Mrs. Cunningham that she should witharaw two suite which she had against him, on some other matter of less importance. Evidence in regard to them will be five® to day .—AT. T . Cow. £ Enq. Feb I. Simonfon’s Explanation To the Editors of the American : Washington, Jan. 24,1857.— Am0ng . penal ties which every man must brave who seel: ‘rom motives ever so pure, to contribute somethin . to wards the reform of a public abuse—is that oi ing understood and consequently misrepresente . not only bv the designing enemies thus aroused in to activity, but by those who honestly fall into error in consequence of the inccinpletenesd of the facts before them. I did not hope to escape this danger when I struck a blow, somewhat afifrandom, and in the dark.it may be—at the corrupting influences which I believed in common with yourselves and every other well posted citizen, were poisoning the fountains of National legislation. Nor can I expect to follow up, meet and rectify'--much of the error of this character by which I know I must suffer. I have just read, however, yourably drawn article on my ease, published in the American of yesterday; and I feel that I may confidently appeal to you not only as friends, but as men, to allow me to correct some misapprehensions of fact, resuiting from the limited information now before the public, upon which you have based some reflective suggestions which 1 would have had no occasion to controvert were you possessed of the exact slate of the case. Admitting for argument sake, that your article is entirely just provided I am “keeping confidence with a criminal’’ ora felon,l think I can ehow that 1 am obnoxious’to no such charge. I suffer serious injustice from the partial aud incomplete statement ot the Committee of Investigation with respect to my testimony. I declared to them Unequivocally and without hesitation, that I had no personal knowledge of corruption , and that I bad never pro fessed to have any. To place myself beyond suspi cion, I invited the Committed to question rue, in ev ery variety of form, toasdertain whether 1 had any improper connection with any measure pending be lorc Congress. I leave that testimony to speak my vindication when it shall suit the Inquisition to make it public. I was also most positive in my statement under oath that I had never attempted to procure any member of Congress any interest in any pending measure. True, I admit under the se cret inquisitorial rack of five lawyers, that members of Congress had approached me * with the desire to know whether they could not, through me, obtaiu pecuniary interests in such measures. But it must be remembered that this admission was made, not for the public eye. At that hour I was responding under a full knowledge of my legal rights as they then existed: and I knew' that the Commiitee-room statements of circumstances which had excited my own suspicions in'part, aud w'hich had quickened my individual opinion that many other trivial cir cumstances afforded evidence of the existence and influence of corruption—not being legal testimony, could never properly be given to the public. My right to thus suppose was amply vindicated in the course of the investigation by the committee it self; and thus, I protested against being called up on to give my opinions in testimony. I urged its injustice—the danger that it might cast suspicion upon individuals without sufficient cause, and the impropriety of forcing me to disclose the convic tions of my own judgment when I had not, and could not have, the means of planting the same convictions in the breasts of others. In answer to all this, the committee assured me that what was not legal testimony refecting upon others , would not be made public , but be stricken out. Now I ask any clear-headed man if this state of facts does not re lieve me of the charge of having published a state ment making it necessary that I should go further, and violate a confidence not criminal in itself. It is the committee who’made the publication, and, as I maintain, under circumstances which, when the hour of passion is past, will not bo reviewed by themselves with honorable satisfaction. I declined to publish the fact that certain members had atone time been tempted by their own wants to obtain money as a result of legislation which they might favor; but the committee, disregarding all their existing rules of evidence, blazoned it to the world. Let the public judgment decide whether their acts differ in degree ot infamy from that of the legal counsellor, who abuses the confidential communica tions of his client, to denounce him to the world. I rfepeat it—it is the com mittee who have violated their promise to conceal something which they admitted to be their duty to conceal, and have thu3 brought discredit upon the House, if any there be in the statement they obtained from me. Again : had I not been answering under the rules of evidence at that time universally recognized by the Judiciary of every constitutional government, I should have been far more careful in my statements with regard to the 'propositions referred to. But, looking upon those articles as of no earthly value except to aid the Committee in framing new ques tions for my consideration , I may not have been as precise in the phraseology of my answers as I should have been had the act then stood upon the statute book, which was passed by the Senate yesterday— an act striking down my common law rights and immunities as a witness, if not my constitutional guarantees as a citizen. Hut there ia another error to be noted just here, which is radical. Remember iny distinct disavowal of all knowledge of corruption, or of eveu having professed to have other basis for my strictures than moral conviction, which, no man has a right to ques tion. And even admitting that I could nnswer, and give the names, and corroborate the statement, it would afford no proof of guilt. An “ attempt at bribery” is tangible; but an “ attempt at corrup tion” is an absurdity; Jt is an impossibility. If I could testify an attempt to bribe a member of Con gress, that would be worth something; but the idea of convicting a member of corruption by showing that at soma time or other he was ready to be cor rupted, is preposterous. It is an immutable princi ple of law that a man must be held guiltless of a crime until it is consummated. The law presumes even in the case of the incendiary who is discovered approaching a pile of combustibles which he has placed in contact with a domicile, that ere he has lit the conflagration the blazing torcli will fall from his repentant hand ; and unless he actually applies the flame he cannot be held to answer for the arson. An intent to commit an act cannot, by itself, be made a crime; the positive act and the intent must go together, to constitute a crime. So, the man who was tempted to open himself to bribery a year ago, must to-day be held innocent unless it can be shown that he took the bribe; —and of that I have no knowledge, direct, indirect, or to be inferred.— And yet I am called upon to convict a man of the perpetration of crime, because some time ago he was tempted to think of that which might give the impression that he intended its perpetration. God have mercy on us all, if the temptation to sin con victs us of guilt! I have no felon in my confldence! I have only the confidence of a fellow mortal who once seemed to be a subject of temptation,—but who never fell, so far as 1 am aware. I am but human, and possibly I err in these con clusions. If so, I orr honestly, and perhaps with eccentricity. lam open to reason and to conviction. If upon maturer deliberation I come to the- conclu sion that I can answer the questions of f he Commit tee under the solemnity of an oath—and now that the answer may be a legal one under the extraordinary aetjuat passed—l will do so cheerfully. But unless it accords with convictions which conserve my self respect, much as I esteem the Press, appreciate its power, and regard its denunciations, I must brave them all. I have no martyr's ambition, yet I prefer any fate to self-conviction of dishonor. Respectfully, James W. Simonton. House blows up by Gas. —Great excitement was occasioned yesterday morning, in the vicinity of the Grand Tunc Works, by a loud explosion. The ut most anxiety for some time prevailed, as to the ex tent and nature of the catastrophe, which every one in that neighborhood felt assured had taken place. It appears that Mr. David Gorman, a garde ner, occupied a house oh Front street, immediate ly opposite the works. Owing to the severity of the weather, the gas pipe, which was laid immediately under the dram leading from the house, had burst, and the escape gas filled his cellar, which had been made air tight for the purpose of securing vegeta bles and other provisions. At 8 o’clock in the morn ing, Mr. Gorman, with a light in his hand, opened the trap-door into the cellar. Immediately the es caped gas ignited, and a fearful explosion took place. Mr. Gorman was violently thrown back and his face burned very severely. The house was blown to atoms, and the terrible effects of the ex plosion may be judged of from the fact, that Mr. Gorman’s daughter, a girl of some 18 years, who was sitting in an upper room, was thrown to a con siderable height, and then falling into the cellar, sustained severe injury. The family, consisting of ten persons, have all suffered more or less severely. Mr. Gorman’s mother, a lady of some seventy winters, received a very severe cut on the head, and all the other mem bers of the family have been seriously burned. Their escape from instant death is quite miraculous. The very bed posts, the chairs, in fact all the furni ture in the house, was split asunder. Dr. Cotter was at once sent for, and paid unremitting atten tion to the sufferers. Messrs. Goodeiham &. Worta whose establishment is near the scene of the catas trophe, exerted themselves on behalf of the unfor tunate family; and the directors of the gas compa ny humanely contributed to their relief. Every re quisite comfort that the doctor suggested was at once procured. The injuries sustained by Gorman were so serious, that his immediate removal to the hospital was deemed advisable. The other mem bers of the family have escaped with comparatively slight wounds, and it is hoped, will soon be in a fan way of recovery.— Toronto Globe of the 20 th ult. Fatal Shooting Affair at Philadelphia.— We take from the Petersburg (Va.) Express , the following account of a most unfortunate affair that recently took place in Philadelphia, between two medical students from this State. It appears to have been copied from a Philadelphia paper: Fatal and Singular Shooting Affair at Phila delpkia— On Saturday evening the Coroner held an inquest on the body of a young man, a medical stu dent, named William B" Simmons, who died on Thursday last from the effects of a pistol shot in the arm, inflicted by a fellow student, named T. B. Bryan. It seems the deceased*and the person who inflicted the wound, were personal friends. Both resided in Monroe county, near Macon, Georgia, and were students in the Jefferson Medical College. It seems that on Saturday, the 3rd inst., Bryan, who had been indulging to excess in liquor, shot Sim mons in the arm with a small pistol while in their room at their boarding house. The shooting took place at three o’clock in the afternoon, and the same night Bryan took the train for the South, on his re turn home. The wound, though only a flesh wound, brought about erysipelas ; which resul.ed in death on Thursday. Yet the waiter was not allowed to transpire until Friday last. The circumstances were ihua detailed by a witness: While the deceased was sittng in our room with mvself, Mr. T. B. Biyan came in and went to his trunk and got out his pistols. Bryan then took his seat in front of both of us, with the pistols in his hand. We asked him to put up his pistols. He said he would not—be would do as he pleased with them. He was knocking one pistol against the other, and this burst the cap, and the pistol went off, lodging <i ball in the leflarm of the deceased. Mr! Simmons exclaimed he Was shot. Mr. Bryan went up to him and said he was sorry for it—he did it ac cidentally. Mr. Simmons said he knew that—but he ought to have put his pistols up when asked. I took Mr. Simmons to bed and sent for a doctor. Singular Case of Marriage. —A correspondent of the Abingdon Virginian, writing from Marion, Smythe. county, Va., relates a singular case of mar riage. He says: “We Lave within half a mile of this place, an individual who has remained in one position (flat of his back) for It* years, or more. His joints are as stiff as though be had never had any; he can move his head slightly, can move his hands a little, is unable to eat a single mouthful, unless put into his mouth by another person; Is fat, very hearty and cheerful; and within the last two years had married a good looking and h arty girl, and is raising a family of children. The clergyman who married this man, said he had some scruples about it until he had a long conversation with both the parties. He saw they were bent on being married. The young lady stood by the bed of the groom (she could no t ake his hand for he could not reach it out) and they were made one A Mr sterious Affair. —On Thursday evening a member of the Legislature representing the city of New York invited a couple of female friends to take a sleigh ride. They accordingly accepted the invitation, and he accordingly called for them at their residence. bat betore starting up the Troy road he stopped at his hotel for an overcoat. While up stairs, a man jumped into the sleigh with the ladies ana said that Mr. R. was detained for a short time, and desired him to drive the horses round the block. The unsophisticated iadies did not realize that any thing was wrong until they found the driver Lead ing up Broadway, when one of them jumped out.— The other, however, remained, and nothing had been heard of the sleigh, driver, or lady last even ing. The member of Assembly is in a state of great tribulation, and the affair has created much excite ment. — Albany Knickerbocker, Jan. 34. Later from Nonth Florida. The U. S. transport steamship Sawanee, from Tampa via Pensacola, arrived at New Orleans on the 27th Jan., bringing dates from the South of Flor ida to the 17th ult. The following of news are trom the lampa Peninsular: Capt. E. T, Kendrick’s company of mounted voi der* trae mustered into the United States eetvice b/ Major x. Page, on Wednesday, tbe 14th inst. Com ny 1, 4th Artillery, aie to be removed from h o Brooke to Alafia. Several npanies ure on scouting duty in the Big Cypress Ihe voluute t ompanies are all under orders to commence scorn duty immediately. Harney l» this place yesterday morning, with Capt. Sparkma company as an escort, to visit the Istapogooouu Ue is sanguine that In dians are in that section. tn. H. goes out for the threefold purpose of end- ug to catch ‘ Billy ” of inspecting the troops at th erent stations, and of stationing others at points he may deem ad vantageous. lie will probably r Fort Capron aud Fort Dallas before he returns. Indian signs were discovered in , . dance, on Horse Creek, last week. The N. O. Picayune has also the followia letter trom a correspondent at Tampa : Tampa, Fa., Jan. 23, 1857.—Tampa is a city ho is ting fifteen hundred inhabitants, aud is situated up on the left bank of the Hillsborough river, near its junction with Tampa Bay. We have one church, a courthou'e, (the only respactabie looking building in the town ;) two saw mills, ten retail stores, two oyster saloons, two billiard saloons, one licensed grocery, and a large gang offioafers who between drinks discuss Walker aud Ind.an war progress in this State. When old “bald face’’ is scarce or high, they take to the lee-side of a piie of lumber and smoke nigger- head and wonder how much Congress will give them for their war. They esti mate Billy Bowlegs at a higher rate than Jeemea Buchanan, and of more importance to Florida than either Mallory or Yulee. Oub pair of moccasius constitute their entire stock in trade (with a fall back upon the position of Government teamster.) For a reasonable compensation they will contract to manufacture Indian signs in any locality, and force the United States to muster into service any given number of volunteers and aid the circulation of Samuel’s eagles. They regulate the currency and the balance of trade. A smart gentlemanly little fellow (who hails from the Hooeier Stale) edits and publishes the only newspaper in the place, and lealiy contrives on Hayti potatoes ana garden truck to issue a very creditaole and reap ctabie paper. The crackers say he is some in a bar fight, or a break down, and comes to time at every call. The war is progressing, aud has been, as you are aware, since 1835, Gen. Harney in command. He has established a line of posts lrom this place to Ju piter, on the Atlantio—called into service ten com panies of mounted volunteers—hoisted the white n-ig to negotiate—Billy respectfully declines—white flag down and the troops in. It’s nip and tuck.— Jest now Billy is on top, and last cackled some w here near Smyrna, on his old stamping ground. Doubled on the first quarter—good tactics, that! Do you believe the war will end this w inter 7 Two or three millions of pap per annum is all that sus tains East Florida ; take it away and the country would be in undisturbed possession of the alliga tors in less than six months. Invalid. Late and Important from Tampico. The New Orleans Picayune, of January 30th, contains the following interesting intelligence, copied from a letter of a merchant of Tampico, dated 16th January : The state of affairs in this district is daily becom ing more alarming, as to the security of life and property. Under date of the sth inst., our Cousul, Franklin Chase, Esq., received a letter from Eulo gio Gautico Valdomar, the present Governor, in which that functionary alluded to the acts of the former Governor, whom he stated to be on the road trom the city of Vittoi ia, with an armed force, for the occupation of this garrison, and that he had offered the deluded troops who followed him six hour’s pillage if they achieve a triumph over Tam pico. A portion of Garza’s troops are now within seven or eight miles from this garrison, and we are with out the protection of a vessel of war. I understand that the revenue cutter of your port has been asked for by our Consul, and I trust that your worthy Collector will have it in his power to furnish us with that aid. On the 6th inst., a battle was fought by the troops of this garrison against an armed force encamped in the Pueblo Viego (old town.) which continued about seventeen hours, in which many lives were lost, and almost every house pillaged! The war now waged between the revolutionary parties seems to be a war of dissolution, and the property of foreigners appears to be the first object to stimulate them to action. On the Ist inst., Col. Hen an, acting under orders of the revolutionary chiefs of San Louis Potosi, en tered the house of Geo. P. Chabot, Esq., 11. B. M. Consular, Agent, and by force of arms, he seized and carried away two hundred and forty thousand dollars, belonging to the merchants of this city, which had been deposited there for safe keeping. Such are our present prospects, and if we are not speedily aided with the protect ion of an armed torce from the United States, we may look forward to a still more gloomy one. The Tampico Boletin, of the 14th, gives the loss of the Government troops in the engagement ot the 9th, already alluded to above, as eight killed and thirty-one wounded. Col. Pedro Uirojosa comman ded the Government forces. The insurgents, which were commanded by Capt. Morena, lisa to abandon the field, leaving, besides their killed and wounded sixty prisoners, two small field pieces, two hundred muskets and other property in the hands of the Go vernment troops. This is the Government account of the action, and seems to be a little exaggerated. Startling Fraud and Disclosure. The Evansville Journal publishes the following startling intelligence: We learn with regret that a moat embarrassing disclosure was made at the meeting of the Hender son and Nashville Railroad Company on the 15th inst., that threatens to embarrass and interrupt the progress of the road. At a meeting it was divulg ed, for the first time, that nearly $600,000 of the bonds of the company had been misapplied by the company’s agent in London. The bonds were is sued three years ago, and carried by the then Presi dent of the company to London for negotiation.— Not succeeding to his wishes at that time, they were left in the hands of an agent, the brother of the Chief Engineer of the road, to be negotiated, under the direction, and on such terms as should first be ap proved by the company, for iron of the road. It ap pears this agent, in gross violation of his trust, used a part of the bonds in the purchase of a steamship, or some other vessel, for the avowed purpose of freighting the iron that should be bought for the company. This vessel he chartered to go to the Cri mea, and she was lostou the voyage, and as it would appear, without insurance. YVhen called to an ac count, healledged the vessel was the company's, and the loss theirs. What amount of the bonds were used in this transaction is not. known; or what has become of the balance of them, has not been discovered, as no satisfactory accouut can be ob tained from him of their disposition. The corres pondence with him has been very unsatisfactory. Theste facts had not been made public before, from a hope that by negotiations the bonds might be recovered ; and from a conviction that a disclosure would rather defeat than aid in their recovery. The Directors have, too, been beguiled by repeated pledges and promises of a satisfactory adjustment, both from the agent through his brother, the chief engineer of the road. These promises so often vio lated, it is now believed, have been made to de lude the company, and to procrastinate settlement. A committee of Stockholders have been appointed to visit Lot don, and to take proper measures to re cover the bonds and prosecute the agent. The work on the road will be suspended until the return of the committee and a full knowledge of the situation of the bonds is obtained. Many of the leading stock holders counselled an entire repudiation of the bonds—others deemed it advisable to wait and learn their present condition before taking any defi nite steps. From the N. Y. Evening Post of Thursday. The Filibuster Movements. The wharf at the Morgan Iron Works, foot of Ninth street, was crowded this morning with about five hundred spectators, standing out in the snow storm to see ofi'the steamer Tennessee, with all the “emigrants” for Walker's army in Nicaragua, whose sailing was postponed yesterday on account of the interference ot goveflfrnent, officers. The warlike munitions placed on board yesterday were undis turbed, ana the presence of no United States officer graced the scene. At 11 o'clock, the hour appointed forsailing, steam was up, and soon after the wheels were in motion, but the steamer had not left her wars at half-past twelve o'clock, being delayed to wait for letters.— Meanwhile the passengers on board, and their friends on the wharf, amused themselves as best they could. Facetious announcements were now and then made, to the effect that “Forty tons of gunpowder have just arrived on a wheelbarrow,” “Eight hundred and fifty more recruits are marching down Ninth street,” &o. One or two drunken fights were improvised on the wharf, occasioning unusual alertness on the part of two policemen on the lookout for pickpockets, and cheers were volunteered occasionally when an “emigrant” walking up the gang-plank, would suf fer a bit of the yellow facing of his uniform to peep from uuder his shawl: God humor prevailed all around, and as our reporter met a man with a bun dle of letters as he was leaving the wharf, it is to be presumed that by this time (two o’clock P. M.) the Tennessee is plowing her way in the direction of the Narrows. The number of actual recruits is said to be aCout 200, well armed and equipped. It was expected that an examination of some of tbe parties arrested yesterday, for violation ofthe neutrality laws, would take place to day, but the District Attorney, McKeon,was not ready to go on his witnesses not being onband. Mr. McKeon takes the ground that Mr. Lawrence, of the St. Charles Hotel, is not entitled to an examination, inasmuch as he has given bail to appear before the District Court, and thereby waived such right. Mr. Thom as Francis Meagher and Mr. Campbell appear as their counsel. Col. Faben knd Henry Bolton are to be brought before Commissioner Morton on Saturday, at twelve o’clock. They are defended by Mr. Blakeman. No day has yet been fixed for the examination of the other parties. * The witnesses in these cases who were required to give SSOO bail, procured satisfactory securities late yesterday afternoon, and were accordingly dis charged by Commissioner Stillwell, on condition of appearingon Tuesday, the 2d of February. Ct'BAft Affairs.—An American sailor, named Cbauncey, having been convicted, with an asso ciate, of participation in the slave trade, and sent to the Isle of Pines, conspired there with his fel ow prisoners, and the soldiers 0 f to kill the officers and authorities, sei s e the steamer Cuba, and with bar flee to the United St ates. The time fixed tor the execution of the plot was the moment when the steamer Cuba should arrive at her wharf. It was just upon the brink of achievement, when a sergeant of the guard, who was concerned in the conspiracy, informed the co mmandante of the im pending danger, whereupon measures were taken which frusirated it, nd fed to the arrest of the prin cipal plotters, who, to the number of sixteen, had, at last dates, arrived at Havana, on board the Spanish war steamer, El Congreso. The scene of this conspiracy was Gerona, a small town in the Isle of Pines. Important Decision in Relation to Usury.— An important principle has been decided by Judge Roosevelt, in the Supreme Court of New York. A draft drawn at Chicago on New York, was dis counted at Chicago at 10 per cent, interest, that be ing tbe legal rate in Illinois. The acceptor con tended that, as his contract was made in New Y'ork, the iaw of that State restricting the rate of interest to 7 per cent,governed, and rendered the acceptance void, for usury. The court held otherwl-.e, and that the law of New York only applied to the rate of interest, which the acceptor should pay by way of damages, after default. Two of the associ ate judges of the district concurred in the decision. Heap in a Bag. —About nine o’clock, on Thurs day night, Thomas Hana, a young man about 17 years ot age, residing at No. 50 Downing street, New York, was passing the corner of Eighteenth street and Irving Place, when two men, who were concealed in the cellar of a new building, rushed upon him, drew a bag over his head, and hauled him into the cellar. In an instant his pockets were torn out and rifled of their contents, and he was left stonnsd, lying upon his back The rassats led. CHINESE .SUGAR CANE. Report of Dr. Robert Batten , Practical Chemist , and Graduate of the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. D. Redmond, Esq., Editor of the Southern Cul ttyator, Augusta, Gel— Dear Sir: 1 cheerfully com ply with your request for information on the subject ot my observations and experiments upon tbe Chi nese Sugar Cane as a syrup-producing plant. My attention was first called to the subject by the seed which you were kind enough to send me in the Spring ot 1855. I planted them aud raised—say 15 to 20 canes that year—from which I extracted a small quantity ofjuice for aualysis. This juice, as you are already aware, yielded, dining the winter, sugar and syrup, samples of which I sent to you for inspection. Impressed as I was with the probable importance of this plant to the agriculturists of the South. I did not deem it prudent to speak hastily of its merits—waiting, rather, until a repetition of these experiments upon a larger scale should fully establish the opinions I had entertained of it. The present year, I have cultivated a few more canes for my experiments, and upon the farm of Richard Peters, Esq., Gordon couutv, Ga., I have witnessed the growth of the cane by the acre, and the production of the syrup by barrels. I have in the meantime, read attentively the opinions of Gov. Hammond, of South Carolina, and others in differ ent sections of the Union, who have grown the plant and experimented with it, as also the valuable paper of M. Vilmorin, of France, who has given the sub ject much study and investigation. So that calmly viewing all the facts which I have been able to col lect, I no longer enterta u a doubt that this plaut is worthy of the attention and study of the far mers and planters of the South. It the opinions 1 shall express, should seem to some too w’ild and extravagant, I trust they will re ceive them as the honest aud candid sentimen’s of one who has carefully examined the subject, aud be led to investigate and experiment for themselves.— Should I thus be enabled to arouse the attention of Southern farmers to tho importance of tins plant, my object will have been accomplished, and my labor well exp ?uded. The Chinese Sugar Cane seems to adapt itself to all the vicissitudes of our varied climate and soil, with a facility unsurpassed by corn or wheat. In Cherokee Georgia, it flourishes in a high degree of perfection upon soils high and low, rich aud com laratively poor, producing heavy crops of stalk, leaf and seed. The *• experiments of Mr. Peters (which are already published iu many of our agricul tural papers) present an example ot most successful culture. I have found it to grow with me, in all re spects, as vigorously as corn, with precisely similar treatment. In Alleghany county, Maryland, a cor respondent writes for tho May number of the ‘American Fanner” : —“I think it well adapted even to our mountainous country, and promises to be more valuable than any other article we can grow for proveuder. I believe it will produce six or eight tons of dried provender to the acre.” The present writer has met many intelligent and enter prising fanners of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Vir ginia, New Jersey aud New York, in attendance at the late National Fair at Philadelphia. Many of them had witnessed its growth in their respective States with entire success. One gentleman of New Jersey had grown a half acre of the cane this sea eon. It has been successfully grown in Illinois also, and one gallon of the juice is said to have yielded, by boiliug, a quart of syrup of good quali ty. There is every reason to conclude that the cane may be successfully grown in all part* of our oouutry. Culture. —While the seed remains in the hands of the few, and commands a price too high to per mit a waste, it should be planted for one season with good distance, that the seed crop as well as the cane may attain their highest state of development. I would recommend that the rows should be three or even four feet apart, aud a distance of, say two feet, given in the row, dropping one or two seed in a place. Let the ground be well cultivated, as for corn, and the shoots or suckers which spring up from the root, be all permitted to grow. A small portion of the crop should be reserved for seed, and permit ted to stand untill fully matured aud dry. It would be well to limit the canes in the seed patch to one. By all means permit no Broom-corn , Dourah-corn , or other plants of the same family, to grow near your Cane. It readily intermixes with these varie ties, and effectually rums your seed for the produc tion of syrup. For the same reason, great care should be observed in procuring reliable seed, as well as in keeping them so. After the first season, when a lull supply of seed shall have been secured, a better-paying syrup-crop may be grown, by closer planting. The space be tween the rows may well be narrowed down to three feet, and the seed put in, say two or three every six inches. When well up, the stoutest and heal thiest plants should alone he allowed to stand. The cane, when very young, presents so much the ap learance of grass, that an advantage may perhaps )e gained,-by dropping some other seed with the cane that the latter may be more readily distin guished. This, of course, should bo drawn out with the superfluent cane plants. When of sufficient size, the plants should be suckered down to one cane lor each root. In other respects, the success ful grower of corn will not be at a loss iu the culti vation of this plant. I have found a suitable time for planting to be immediately after the corn crop, although excellent results have been obtained by planting as late as the 15th of May, in Cherokee Georgia. It will doubtless be desirable to make several successive plantings that they may mature gradually, and so give more time for harvesting the crop. The laud, in my opinion, should be prepared iu all respects as for corn. Harvesting. —When the stalk shall have attain ed its full size, and the seed have passed from the dough stage to a harder texture, the cane may be considered sufficiently mature. Or if the crop be large, and a deficiency of hands be apprehended, the cone may be cut earlier, and the cuttings con tinued from time to time as needed for the press. The fodder should bo pulled as for corn ; another set of hands cutting off £ to 2 feet of the top with the seed, while others cut the cane at the ground aud throw it into piles, from whence it is hauled to the press. Prior to the harvesting, a set of proper rollers and kettles should be provided and well set up, ready for service. The mill made use of by Mr. P*ters, and which was gotten up under his direc tion for the purpose, is, in my opinion, of very un exceptionable quality for a small apparatus, and works admirably. It is of a suitable size for a small crop, and no farmer Rhould undertake to supply its place by wooden rollers for a crop of even two acres. The loss of juice will more than counterbal ance the difference in expense. It is worked by two mules. Three kettles of from 60 to 100 gallons capacity, will be required to keep pace fully with the mill. It is desirable that these should be broad aud shallow, that they may present a large evapo rating surface, and substantially set in brick for se curity and convenience. They should not be dis tant from the press, aud if upon ground lower than the latter, an advantage is gained in naming the expressed juice directly into them, and thus saving the labor of transfer. Pressing. —The canes, located conveniently at hand, are one by one doubled in the middle and foiced between the rollers, which are kept in as close proximity as the sfrength of the mill and the power of the mules will warrant. An active hand will feed the mill easily, if the canes be placed with in hie reach. A boy is required to drive, and if the mill be well constructed to throw off the bagass from behind, nothing more is required except uu occa sional removal of the latter by a pitchfork to keep it out of the w ay of the mules. Bjiling Down.— One of the first things done in commencing operations should be to start the fire uuder tbe kettles, that they may be well warmed by the time the juice is ready for them. The fires should be so arranged that they may be under good control, to be forced or withdrawn as occasion may require. When the juice is placed in the boiler, the fire should be gradually increased to a simmering heat, (not to active boiling) and maintained at this temperature until a thick green scum rises to the surface and forms into puffs, seeming ready to crack. This scum when fully formed should be re moved clean from the surface. The heat may now be raised to boiling and kept in an active state of ebulition until the bulk is reduced one-half. The fire may now be removed from one kettle and Its contents be transferred to the other, when the heat must be gradually moderated as the syrup becomes more concentrated, to avoid the danger of scorch ing, which injures the color and flavor. Should more dirty green scum rise to the surface after the first skimmiifg, it should be likewise removed. In regard to the precise degree of concentration to which the syrup should be brought, it is exceed ingly difficult to lay down any precise and simple rule which shall meet every case. The plan for de termining it, in use on the sugar plantations, and which was adopted by Gov. Hammond and Mr. Peters, is based upon the judgment of the eye in re spect to the consistence of the syrup when poured from the ladle and cooled as it drops from its edge. This test is evidently very defective, since the tem perature of the atmosphere regulates the consist ence which the syrup must assume on cooling down —so that a syrup boiled on a cold day will necessa rily be thin and watery as the weather moderates, and a syrup finished at night will differ materially from that of the noon day. Although a good ap proximation it is not exact enough for the tyro—to secure a desirable uniformity in tbe consistence and value ofthe product, or to obviate the danger of fermentation and los3. To remedy this uncertainty and secure a uniform result at all times, I have con structed a simple iustrument which determines rea dily and with certainty the precise moment when the syrup should be removed from the fire and transferred to the barrels. For the convenience of those who may desire this aid, I shall prepare a num ber of them during the season, which may be fur nished by mail. With such a guide to the unititia ted, there are certainly few more simple operations upon the farm than the manufacture of syrup from this cane. It is a prevalent opinion that lime should always be added to thejuice as soon as it is pressed out, and the idea has been advanced that it could not be clarified without lime. This is undoubtedly a mis take ; the juice alone, under my hands, clarifies it self more readily without lime than with it. The latter answers no useful purpose,so far as the syrup is concerned, save to neutralize the free acid (phos phoric) which exists naturally in the cane. Lime darkens the color, and, to my taste, detracts from the peculiar grateful flavor of the syrup. Many would, perhaps, object to the slight'acidity. To such 1 would say, use the lime, but use it sparingly. To prepare it for use, take a half-peck of lime, slake it in a bucket of water, gradually added, stir up well and strain the milk through a cloth ; let it settle for half a day, pour off the water and dry the pow der. Ofthe latter you may use from a half tea spoonful to two teaspoonsful for every five gallons juice after the scum has been removed. The Bcum is used in tbe West Indies for the manufacture of Rum, the details of which are en tirely too elaborate to be introduced here. It may be also advantageously disposed of as food lor hogs. The quantity of saccharine mattei left in the bagass. renders it a nutritious food for stock. This refuse, by leaching water through it, yields a sac charine solution which may be fermented into beer or v.uegar, and may be distilled into whiskey or al cohol- It may be also advantageously used to cover tbe cut canes in hot weather, when it may be desired to have a large quantity kept at the mill for days and weeks before being all used. The con stant evaporation of the juice in the bagass keeps the cane beneath at a tern perature so low as to pre vent fermentation, as well a t thedrying ofthe cane. It will also serve to shield it from tbe frost. A sug gestion has been made to convert the ligneous fibre into paper. It certainly is a better material for this purpose than much that is now employed. It is, however, an object of minor importance with the ■Southern planter as_yet. As a manure, the bagass is evidently a most valu able article, for its large amount of phosphoric acid, added to tbe decomposing vegetable and the other mineral matters which it contains, while the remain ing portions of saccharine juice readily induce a f> r mentation which ends in putrifaetion, and leaves the mass in a fit state for tbe nourishment of plaßts. The large quantities of mineral mattei, and partieu larly the phosphoric acid, which the cane in its growth must remove from the soil, necessarily im ply that it will be an exhausting crop, since these materials certainly cannot be furnished by the at mosphere. This evil may in greatpart be removed by carefully returning to the soil again the refuse in the form of manure. If other fertilizers be need ed to repair the waste, Mexican phospbatic guanos, which are now offered at low prices, would doubt less be advantageous. ! In the experiments made by me during tbe win -1 ter of 1855, aud also at the farm of Mr Peters, in Gordon county, in September last, I was forcibly struck with the better quality of thejuice grown in our section of country, as compared with that ex perimented up: n by Mons. Viimorin, whose paper will be found translated in the back numbers for the present year of the “Working Fanner.” He gives the density of his “sap” at 1,050 to 1,075, while that examined by myself was uniformly VOL. LXX.—NEW SERIES VOL. XXL NO. 6. found to be 1,085 with but little variation, amt in every case some small corrections for temperature which would increase the specific gravity slightly! The average density given by various observers in the \\ est Indies ofjuice from the several varieties of Sugar Cane grown in these colonics, is about 9° Beautne, corresponding to a specific gravity of 1,004 —less considerably than mine. From this fact, however, it is not to be inferred that the juice of our cane abounds more largely in saccharine matter than that of the West Indies, for such is probably not the faot—for the former is kuowu to contain a larger proportion of salts and vegetable matters than the latter. It argues only the remarkable adaptation of the Chinese Cane to our climate and soil. M. V ilmorin obtained from this ‘’sap” of the den sities named, from 1,050 to 1,075 on the Uth Oct. 1851 10:04 per cent, saccharine matter. 28th Nov. “ 13:08 “ “ “ “ “ (2dtrial).. 14:06 “ « 14th “ 1854 16:00 “ “ “ Os the latter 11:75 were uncrystalizable, and but 4:25 ot the eryatalizable variety. M. Avequin obtained from the juice of this caue, grown I presume in Louisiana. Saccharine matter 153 Salts and organic matter 10 W atei 83s Cane juice employed 1000 I have not been able to comparfe these experi ment* with similar results obtained here. I pro- P°\f R .° during the coming season. M. \ ilmorin estimates the per oentage by weight ofjuice obtained by him at 50 to 60 parts iu the 100 oi caue employed, and remarks that even 7(‘ per cent, can be easily obtained by proper machinery. Mr. 1 eters obtained from his mill an average of 50 per cent, aud juice could be readily wrung from the bagass by hand. Thirty canes were sorted out and weighed by myself, aud after grinding gave the fol lowing results: Thirty canes weighed 52 pounds, 14 ounce? Juice collected “ 26 “ 1 “ Bagass “ 26 “ 7 “ Juice lost iu mill, say 6 “ Ihe juice actually extracted weighed precisely one-half that of the caue used. Two pounds of the bag ass was weighed and carefully dried, aud gave 12 ounces, showing a loss of one pound and four ounces of water, which represents 21 7-10 mees of juice—s » that tho quantity of juice ien ing be hind in the bagaes may be put down at II pounds, 15 ounces. The result now stands— Juice collected 26 pounds, 1 ounce, or 49:30 per cent. “ lost in mill 6 “ ?() “ “ “ bagass 17 pounds 15 “ 34:05 “ Woody fibre.. 8 “ 8 “ 15:05 “ Cane used... .52 pounds, 1 bounces, 100 percent. In other words we have 84| per cent, of juice and 15£ per cent of woody fibre. From t hese figures it would seem that 70 per cent, of juice ought to bo easily obtainable by proper machinery, and it be comes more apparent when we take into considera tion the soft compressible texture of this cane, as compared to that ot the West Indies. Mr. Peters states the yield of his best $ acre in syrup at 58$ gallons—that of the poorest |at 431 gallons. Taking the average, we have as the yield of the entire acre, 407 gallons, assuming the yield ot juice to correspond with the average results obtain ed by experiment, say 50 per cent, of the entire weight, with proper machinery, expressing 70 per cent., we have a yield of 570 gallons per acre. I examined carefully the specimens of syrup boiled under the eye of Mr. Peters, and aiso by my self. Several of these specimens were of a superior quality, all of them surpassing my expectations in view of the crude manner in which they were made. There is present in all of them, to a greater or less degree,(owing to differences in manipulation) a peculiar tiavor, reminding one of the maple sugar, which is very grateful to the palate, and gives it a decided preference oyer the article which we get under the name of New Orleans Syrup. This, so far as I kuow, has been the uniform judgment of all who have tasted it. These syrups give a precipi tate of foreign matters, with the basic acetate of lead (a delicate test) little, if at all, greater in amount than the New Orleans syrup. The precise nature of these precipitates remains to be ascer tained and compared. The syrups vary considera bly in density—those from the Chinese Cane rang ing from 1:298 to 1:335, while that of the New Or leaus sample was 1:321. This variation in the deu sity is an evil which should be corrected, to produce a good marketable syrup which shall keepwell.— Samples of the Chinese Cane syrup have been val ued by the intelligent dealers in the article, iu our section, at from t»5 to 75 cts the gallon by the barrel. Iu calculating the yield of this crop, wo must take into consideration 1200 pounds of excellent fodder and 25 bushels of a corn, worth as food for stock, say two-thirds the Value of ordinary corn ; and, also, we must estimate the very valuable crop of rat toons, (shoots) which grow out immediately after the cutting from the old roots, and mature with us a very heavy crop of most valuable stock food and seed; so that we can fairly offset against the syrup crop in the way of expen ses, nothing more than the labor of its manufacture, for the forage and corn will well repay the expenses of the culture A full consideration of the facts which have been passed over somewhat in detail, must make it ev ident to the mind of every intelligent fanner, that this plant presents at the present time a promise of reward for its culture, unequalled by any which has been introduced upou our soil since the introduc tion of the cotton plant. If it shall but place the means in the hands of every farmer and planter to make upon his own premises, at a nominal price, all the syrup which his family and negroes can profit ably consume, it will have done much, yes, very much, for the South. And yet with the large de mand for this article for foreign account, which the destruction of the grape vines of Europe has occa sioned, together with the facility with which it may profitably be converted into rum and alcohol, at prices which must defy competition with whisky irom corn or rye, may we not anticipate much lar ger results? The reduction in price consequent up ou the general cultivation of the cane throughout the South, must materially,increase the consumption in substituting it in great part for the expensive ba con, for which we are now dependent upon the- North west. While its greater cheapness will doubt less commend it to the lower classes of Europe, as a partial substitute at least for sugar. With this aug mented consumption of the syrup and the immense outlet for it iu the form of ruin and alcohol, we have nothing to fear from overproduction for years to come. The enlightened and enterprising portion of Southern agriculturists who read the Cultivator, will, I trust, reap a rich harvest, ere the market shall have become glutted. We have here, too, a remedy for the difficulties long felt and acknowledged at the South, growing out of the culture of Cotton as our sole greut staph-. The general introduction of the Cane must, for years to come, limit the production of cotton and greatly enhance its price, adding a considerable increase to the value of our exports, and counterbal ance, in a measure at least, the shipment of bullion from our shores, to restore the bal ance ot trade. This change in our productions, and the increased remuneration for labor conse queut upon it, pre EUpposes also an enhanced value of tbe soil which grows it, and increased price f r negroes, the laborers who produce it, and an uu mentation of our population. It is to do hoped moreover that the practical working out ol this problem may eo engage the attention of our peopi. as to withdraw them for a time from the arena us angry strife ami contentious disputation,and tend to cement more closely the ties which binds us to tu is our proseprous and "happy Union. Robert Battet. Rome, Georgia, October, 1856. The Blowing up ol it rxcupoliten Wor Vessel* An English paper, received by tbe 1n ' • con tains the following additional and into ng par ticulars of the blowing up of a steam war frigate in the harbor of Naples : “The universal panic produced by the awful oc currence was almost incredible; consternation reign ed everywhere, and in no places more than in the Theatre of San Carlo and the Royal Palace. Iu the former the confusion was indescribable, and was vainly attempted to be quelled by his Majesty’s brother, Prince Luigi. With the exception of the King and Queen, most of the members of the Royal family were present. Doors slammed, the curtains were violently agitated, aud the lights were extin guished by the shock. The guards on duty wished to prohibit ail egress, but the rush from the corri dors to the portals of exit was overpowering. “ Arrived in the open air, a scene in many re spects similar presented itself, as the lights in a large portion of the city were put out, and the confusion was heighted by horses naving in some in lances run away withjhe carriages, and in others having been driven off from their masters by the panic stricken coachmen, whilst in some directions the cry of * Fly, fly,’ was raised, and on this many of the alarmed inhabitants rushed into the streets in their night dresses. Within the palace such was the force of the shock that no fewer than 3,678 panes of glass were destroyed. The Queen, whose accouche ment is shortly looked for, fainted. At the moment of the explosion, the King exclaimed to an officer who was in the act of approaching him, ‘ This is the second draft of exenange ’e vuest un seeondo di comhio .’ “To return more immediately to the ill-fated ship, its victims and survivors, aud the noble and effectu al assistance rendered by tbe (British corvette Ma lacca. The vessel wen: down almost immediately, and property to the amount of about a quarter of a million of ducats has been sacrificed by her destruc tion. Her machinery was of great value—her four boilers, each of fifteen tons, being of copper, which had been fitted by an English engineer. She had also on board 1000 new Minie rifles. It is not at present easy to ascertain wilh precisioa the actual loss of life, as only two of the sufferers have been found, one of whom was Capt. Masseo, who was dreadiullymutidated, having lost his head from the jaw upwards, and both his arms ; his remains were interred on Monday last. He leaves a wife and two children. Her commander, Lieut. Col. Faussce, who had been at the theatre, fed down in something very much resembling an apoplectic fit. The sur vivors of ail ranks are under arrest, including the chief engineer, an Englishman of the name of Back. Great as has been the sacrifice of human life, it would have been much larger but for the prompt assistance rendered by Capt. Farquhar, the officers and crew of the Malacca, who picked up twenty five of «>e survivors.” Judge J.mesß Doolittle, the republican, who was elected io the United States Senate from Wis consin on Friday last, is a native of New York, where he was at olc time a zealous democratic poli tician. In 1848, however, he supported Van Biiren for the Presidency, and in 1850 emigrated to Wis consin, and was soon after called to the Bench of that State. He is a large man, of powerful voice and an orator of much popularity. Health in Macon. —We learn that exaggerated reports have gone abroad in regard to the preva lence of scarlet fever in this City. A few cases of this dreaded disease have occurred, but we know of no death from it, and there are, we learn, no new cases. There was one mild case of scarlet fever at the College, but the patient has now been up some ten days, and there are no new cases. We make this statement to quiet the apprehensions of parents and guardians. Our city is remarkably healthy. —Journal 4* Alctsenf'er. Death of a Veteran.—William Buttrill, a na tive of Brunswick county, Virginia, died in Butts county, Georgia, a few days since, at the advanced age of 94 years. He.was a soldier of the revolution, and fought as a volunteer at the battle at Guilford C. H., North Carolina. A|Wandering Jew in New York.—A sensation was created in William street, New York, on Tues day morning, by the appearance of a man on tue pave with a long floating beard, and dressed in Icnne pantaloons, with a turban on his head, lie carried m his hand a little manuscript Hebrew book, out of which he read to the crowd that gathered around him He represented himself as the veritable Wan dering Jew: Nobody knows who he is or where lie came from. A learned Jewish Rabbi was sent for to converse with him, which they did in the Hebrew language; and the stranger was found to be perfect in his knowledge of that most difficult tongue. The Ilabbi tested him in Arabic, in Phenician aud in the Sanscrit, but soon found that the aged stranger tar surpassed h in in intimacy with them all. The Rabbi invited him to his house; but, said the strung* r, “ nay, I cannot stop. The Crucified one of Cavalry has pronounced the edic', aud I may not rest, I must move on.” He woe last seen on Thursday, but to where he Lae departed no one can tell. Bia Lum? or Lake Superior Silver.— Air. Whiting, clerk of the propeller Gen. Taylor, who left Onronagon on the sth lost., says that a mass of pure solid silver, weighing sixty-five pounds, had just been taken from the Minnesota mine. At its ourrent market value, $7 per ounce, the mass would be worth sl,o4o.— Chicago Prett. Another Account of tuf Americans at Can ton.—A letter from Canton, China, to the London Times, dated November 16, speaking of the sluiflp taken by the Americans in the tight, gives a more particular acoount than that heretofore pub bailed : P ll Saturday, the Loth inst., the first cutter of the Luited States slop Portsmouth, containing Captain p oote and others, tvaa proo reding from Whampoa to C autwn, when she was fired upon by the Barrier Forts. It was halt past 4in the afternoon when this occurred. 1 lie American flag was in a position that does away with ail chance of a plea of mistaking it, while no less than two round shot were fired into the boat by the Chinese “braves. ’ At the first discharge of grape, the boa! was turn od for the ships, where she arrived at 6 o’clock, and after an hour. Commodore Armstrong decided upon taking possession of the two forts, and then advis ing the Governor of Canton what had occurred. The insult having been avenged, the property might have been returned to its rightful owner, or retain ed, according as the reply from Governor Yah might indicate a wish for war or peace with the Americans. At daylight on Sunday the San Jacinto’s cutter commenced sounding tin' river from Whampoa to the Barrier which was accomplished after the toss of a man from a shot while throwing the lead. At 4 P. >l., “4 hours after the P* usmouth’s boat had been tired into, that chip un-1 the L* vant were nearly in posi*icii to open fire. With only water enough to float the Pm smoii! h, she was tewed up to her berth by the Willi musette, in llie most gallant style on Capt. Curry’s part, who was for many minutes in the midst of a hot fin from the forts, which had opened long before the abip was near enough tOßuit l'apt. Foote. Alter the steamer had beou ordered to ‘cast oft' and take euro of herself,’ Captain Foote dropped with the flood for five minutes till within 41° yards’ distance of the nearest, fort (the large one at the right end of the barrier,) haviug then been under heavy fire for sometime, -.starboard’—‘Let go anchor’—‘Ha ul in spring’—* Fire !’ came in quick succession, and to cut my story short the ship fired 8 ijich shells in tlio following two hours and fif teen minutes. All were w 11 phased at thc-r nearest neighboraud at tee Round Fort on lie left Bmnc 1.400 yards dis tant. At dark liri g ceased, the forts keeping it up till fifteen minutes before the ship stopped, and giv ing a samp!, of what is m store at the French Folly at this time. The two forts aio said to be filled with English gur.s and fuukmen crews, and certain ly we have never seen anything m the way of Chi nese gunnery before equal to them. During tins time the Levant was aground, out of fire and could not take pari in the action. The Portsmouth was hulled three times, one marine mor tally wounded, and her rigging badly cut. After tlio tiro it was not deemed prudent to send away boats from the ship, as the latter required their whole crews to take care ul them iu the posi tion they held, and having uo steam to move down with. Oil Monday morning the Cum-fa embarked the balance of then from Canton, for tUo purpose of manning boats and taking possession. Wreck of the Northern Belle.— We have already published the full particulars of the wreck of ttie American ship Northern Belle on the ooaat of England, near Broadstairs, mid of the manner in which the whole crew of the ship was rescued by a life-boat belonging to Kiugsgale. Although ship wrecks are common enough on that, coast, aud the hardy boatmen have often rescued the crews of stranded ships, yet there were iu this case circum stances of peculiar intercut, which appear to have awakened an unusual degree of sympathy among the people of England Au entire boat’s crew had been drowned in an attempt to render assistance to the wrecked ship, when another boat put off from shore, and, in the teeth of the howling tempest, suc ceeded in rescuing the mariners who were clinging to the rigging of the only mast that was left stand iug. Contributions bail been taken up iu different parts of the Kingdom to reward thegallaut boatmen and our own countrymen in England had, with characteristic sympathy, contributed handsomly on the occasion. But something should bo done towards rewarding the brave men who incurred such risks to suve the lives of our countrymen, on this side of the Atlantic. The British Government hus al ways been prompt to recognize in a substantial manner any service rendered to an English ship at r>ea by one of our own vessels, and if this is not one of the cases that calls for reciprocal notice from our Government, it is surely one that our commercial community may, with great propriety, reward by a voluntary contrib ution. If some of our shipping merchants were to open a subscription in the Exchange, for the pur pose of sending over a testimonial to the brave boatmen of Broadstairs, there can be no doubt that a sufficiently large sum might be immediately col lected for the purpose. At this particular time, when so much generous feelings has been exhibited in the affair of the Resolute, such a movement be particular appropriate. If only one-half the sum were sent which would have been expended in the reception of the officers of the Retribution —the ship which was to bring buck Captain UartHteiu and his crew—it would be abundantly 1 uge, aud be quite as profitably appropriated as for t he purpose for which it was originaily intended. The Chamber of Com merce acted very promptly and appropriately in tho case of the anticipated arrival of the Retribution ; why can it not take the necessary steps in tho pres ent case 7 —New York Times. Casualty. —Private Langley of Company A., 4th Artillery, was accidentally shot at Camp Sinead, Manatee, Florida, on tho evening of the Bih instant, under the following circumstances. He was par taking of his camp fare about dusk. A loaded gun was in the adjoining tent ; by Horne means it fell, and in so doing, weut off; tho ball passed through the sides of the two tents, penetrated Lungiey uu der the right aim pit, passed out of the chest near the breast bone, grazing his chin. Ho fell back wards, exclaiming, “My God, I’m shot.” He was conveyed to the Hospital tent and only said “I’m dying,” and in half an hour was a corpse.— Tampa Peninsula. Seizure or Diamonds.—On Tuesday a seizure of diamonds was made at the New York Custom House, amounting to SIO,OOO. The discovery was made tat the Public Stores, No. 12 Broad street, by opening the package containing the gems at a different end from that usually opened. The dia monds belonged to the fir n of Keule & Brothers, No. 26 Maiden Lane. It is supposed that this pack age contained only a portion of the smuggled dia monds, and an eg -i.t of the Government has been dispatched to Philadelphia for the purpose of seeing the balance. South-Western Railroad Extension.— At a public Railroad meeting 3n(Ju bbert, on th« 20th ult., the requisite amount of Stock was taken to secure tho extension of the Southwestern Railroad from Sumter City via Dawson in Terrell, and Cuthbert in Randolph, to Eufaula, Alabama. A committee was at the same t ime appointe dto collect aud pay over an instalment of 33 per cento tho amount of subscriptions to the President, ami Directors at Ma con, by the 23th ult.— Southern Recorder. • Self Destruction'.-- Mr. David, wife of Rev. Jacob David, residing about fifteen miles from this place, in Harris county, Ga , committed suicide by throwing herself into a well nil:* ty feet deep, on Sa: urday night. She hud been 1 'boring under occa sional spells of mental derangement for several years, and had often been heard to express a deter mination to kill herself. Uu Sutuiday night she is said to have went to bed with her husband as usual, apparently all right. About two o’clock, Mr. David awoke, missed her, i -ul i rwaiiing a«efficient time for her return, he got up, oused the family, aud in stituted search. H r cape was found by the well, and mud on tho plank o vei t.lie Wfll, and on exami nation her tody found at the bottom.— Columbus Sun. Distressing Suicide. —A letter from Jefferson, N. o.,dated the llth ultimo, states that Miss Selina Howell, aged thirteen, daughter of Amos Howell, of that place, committed suicide by hanging herself in a barn. She went cut in he usual good humor, and being asked where she was going, said, “you will find out some time.” Sometime elapsing be fore her return, herparent* went out to hunt lor her, aud found Miss 11. hung by iho neck t** a beam in the barn, quite dead. No cause is given for this fa tal act, committed by one so young. Vessel in Distress — : lnt.ellige. ce w/is brought to the c ty yesterday afternoon, that a large ship was lying off Lynn haven, union down, and giving every indication of being in distress. Guns were fired on board during the day, and it is feared those on board are in a suffering condition, or that the ship rnav be in a sinking state. She is painted black and appeared to be deeply loaded. It was deemed al most impossible to get out. to her on account of the ice.— Norfolk Argus >jf Saturday. Vessel Ashore. —Tho ship John Miller, from Dublin, in ballust and consigned to Messrs. Soullard & Crowder, of this city, is ashore and a total wreck, near Ossabaw. The Captain reports that be was standing off the coast for several days, being pre vented from crossing the bar by tbe thick fogs, un til Friday night last, when his vessel went ashore.— Sav. Republican. Rain Storm in New York.— One of the most vi olent rain storms that has occurred this winter, vis ted New York early Saturday morning, and con tinued pouring down in a perfect deluge most of the day, flooding cellars in the lower part of the city, and rendering the crossings almost impassible to pedes trians from the accumulation of slush and water. A Rat Story. —Uev. Walton Colton, in his diary of a voyage to California in a mnn-of war, entitled “ Deck and Port’’ relates the following ratetory: “ I have always felt some regard for a rat since my cruise in the Constellation. We were fitting for sea at Norfolk, and taking in water and provisions. A plank was resting on a sill of one of the ports, which communicated will) the wharf. On a bright moonlight evening, we ditoovered two rats on the plank coming into the ship. The loremost was leading the other by a straw, one end of which each held in his mouth. We managed to cap! ure them both, and found to our surprise, the one led by the other was blind. His faithful friend was trying to get him on board, where he would have comforta ble quarters during the three years’ cruise. We felt no disposi'ion to kill either, und landed them both on the wharf. How many there are in the world, to whom the fidelity of that rat readeth a lesson'” Imports or Dry Goods. —The imports of dry goods at New York since January Ist, show a de crease of 295 as contoured with the correspon ding period of 1856, but an iusrease of $4,746,033 compared with the same period of 1835, and of $154,006 compared with the same period of 1854. The total thrown upon the market during the mouth shows an increase eveu upon the total for the same period of last year, the withdrawals from ware houses for consumption have exceeded the entries for warehousing.— Jour, of Com. Preters Slavery.— Some years since a gentle man of Washington county, Va., Mr. James Reed, died, leaving a provision in his will for the manu mission and removal of his slaves at the death of bis sister. His sister dying some three or four years since, the slaves wore set free and removed to Penn sylvania. A few monthsngo a gentleman received a letter trom one of these servants, requesting per mission fr> return to that county and become his slave. lie prefers slavery in Virginia to freedom i i Pennsylvania, and has had a fair experience in both. — Richmond Dispatch. Loss or a Savannah Vessel.—The Rover's Bride, from Savannah to Liverpool, was abandoned at sea on_24tb December, ifr latitude in 37 N. longi tude 46 30 W., in asinking state; crew taken off by she Shakepea-'e, arrived at Liverpool, from New Orleans. The Rover’s Bride was cleared at this port tharlst December, by j Soullard and Crowder, and had for cargo 333,000 feet of lumber.—Savan nah, Republican. CousTEßrr.iT Money. —Two men by the name ofMurtin, from Chattanooga, Tennessee, were arres ted in this town on Sunday, the Ist instant, for pas sing counterfeit money. Tnere was found in their possession a counterfr it Fifty Dollar BiU on the Bank of Ihe Slate of Georgia, and one Ten oil the Bank of Georgetown, S. C. They were lodged iu jail to await their trial which will probably take place during the present session of the Court. They are both young men and ussertthat they can neith er read nor write, aud that th-y did not know tho money was counterfeit — Rome Courier. Congress.— The following gentlemen have been nominated for Congress, in place o P. S. Brooks, deceased: Gen. Jus. H. Hammond, H >n. j. P. Kin nard, Cob A. O. Summer, Gen. Samuel McGowan. — South. Carolinian. Heavy Failure. —The Raleigh, N. C., Standard learns that Messrs. Rankin & McLean, of Greens boro', iu that State, have failed for about $125,000.
