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, , i r « n >of Mr. R If. UOODLOK, will
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ir-i.j.tnU xh' • , tho vW umt LAw-dP** •; tho Modern
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i , - : !)■ D >in 1(4 Angh* Saxon form . and tho pure
cn l Oii** 1 i including Civl! Engineering.
L •< n.ii'A win u-d iivoinu on .übj< u of (Jbcialfl
try, Natural Philosophy mu Agronomy.
1 no. mu»«• will be m-m« (l 11 fa i» ib u thorough pre
paration for the University of Vitglnia.
r»io to- .Mull will couUUd two terms of five months
each.
Erf !>«.'!, rs f i '■{ »! term, tor hoard «nd tuition In all the
ilejotiin.ou* im : ulsi.g everything except lights, $125,
payable mi the ttr t day of the term.
I m , ,1, iilum contain-.u; more. pr.iticuiar Informa? on
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REFER*, WCF.S.
Tho Faculty of the Univ orsity of Virginia.
I*i f Mi " ’ j. . ia!« il<h nl l i'iU'ii .‘itatci Coast
Survey, Wa-dn rton
1. . t *• i M; ui , Mnp *ilnU ndcnt National Obser
vatory, Washington!
Hi- lxc Mimay Hi. y A Who, Richmond, Va
*)• l J- Hi i .:i K:. idoipli, Charlottesville, \'a
Frau iiu Minor. do
J1 H . • ! • Im ur, E q , Rail ..onvide, Va.
J l{.>i|di Ttn*k«-r, E <|, \V im hosier, Va
il ti J. M. Masou, Undi d Mate:* .Senate
J llai ilton(h.npi i E q , Darien, (in
Him O R <titmer, Lexington, Ga.
Ili-ary Hull, Ivmj., Athc- (la.
I*»- i Ii r * die,. itulniidiia. jc.2Hv.lin
DhOP-T/ CUIt ED.
riMf t ! • -H i I.r. i. ito cure Dor-y of every
I i i i-l>:i. It on Hueci-..dnl in the treat
li. ut <,f Hi -P-. 1. 11 1 i. it yen* . 11« eau 4,.* seen
i - Ini n iV' .t m- aidres od
l»v < :* r t>. t a- fill o I liembdielne canoe sent any
w • i.y n . ad, widi <1 m-t >n i tor lak.ug ll • os 1
i ..-tr-.-Md ~ei • ully, it u* if)e<Ue«l. ami pa d <or my
tr ■ I dl buy . cgion* u 'ln i-d tv till i>i or
• . -j. tut t»n <... r nny ».m" -r i have never
1 '.in ic er*rtl"i.. v. m i-r.ml by my remedy.
f.. u lad iO Ii fm. un-s given, If desiied
Vl' .KNG 11 ROMM IS
i ■■ m t*. t <’n .In!* fi 18 >7 jv I wtjal
kI.A NT A ill N F Otl SALE,
fl' Hi: n! id.- n if'Audorson lin tam, in Wt'kin-
I n , ~ con* tiumg rhi-ee Th usami Aeivs, the
at r ; ! iV.i • . • . .i" til one half cleared
th • -i ( b-iit :n mil-, fr. in M icon. 17 from
lr-% mt.m. mid .Jfoi m Central Kadroad. It ia wed
iv ,i led and i !■; ie l 1. i a go.>d Dwelling, NOgro I
) luu •*- . tirl . Mid, Ciu Horn -. and a'l necessary out ;
to id'n ■! 1 r fin pn: li tile-s, address or call on the !
Riio? liner i Onthhert, IvantUiiph countv, Oa.
II i lAM INGHAM. |
NOTICE THIS.
'l'lfct riber, hiivi: g d'-torii.iiied to move Went.
I . r •. out of the nio-t disirablo FARM’S in
.*>iitli\\ t - .e v-ia. c**utuminu thn e lota or squares,
mtnnied • rth •> O detliorpe, lu MaconCTiunty, '
:\ i In- ;> a ' juty 1 •e.ihon ite•• g a there at#
t*»n r Innidi. I Ithmy ,u i ■ of cleared Land—3lo acres
elent-i it wittdn the U:*Mour y .nr— all of a ligtit gray
col m , \«..-It .idui’ti.d in the production of cotton. All of
ttfd i. •; rd. ''»-w >\atered,
n d , . d » .del with at improvement* necessary ter a
tii : »it • ...nu—U i. tlo<i»e # (i’ll. Gear ftlld Sciww, all of
til.* l*e t uieti-rmL. t ud an well mndo and arrauged as
■au t>e.
.Mo. U Farm! , rtnitiih. 4tnd provlsloua
tho place, wilt 1.,- itiridohed t«* tin* purchaser, if desired,
at ii r pn.-i-M A cash purufMaer can get a great bargain.
All > f tin* ;i!' "‘- imiucdarti U‘* and place ttill bo offered
on lilt is- iei . audit unt sold before tlio flr«t Tuesday
*, N.»vi it. i. rn* * w 1 1i 3cu»ta? public sate In tho
low .i of * *it * i In ope
* si o ni! i my HOUSE and LOT in said town for sale,
null tb.uli it olio oi the mo- 1 pi • situated for a
». lien e li tin* town, Chill ftl.'d tilH*.
J' w UiI.LTAH EUTS. j
uNtv£Rsirv or Nashville. ,
riMIE.M DM'-VL I>H»A ! : MEN t opens NOVUM
J. .i. • the rr o piviim y l oliiau OCTOBEH
6,1-.. \ ( p \ ... ‘\ll F. EVE Dean.
Ili > t .1 El i.lv i ;l IME T, •V.’estem
• **:. ’t ,!i citute, coinnu . > e*s ouf SEPTEM
in ~ ; .tonipi. *.ll v. tee la.'!*! al Course, an
Ell U . F..U -.1. Kng-uee'-i V u .''i i-utiflc and Agrl
ti'liuial b: ai.ein :, HU » ' p Mloiy 6choi»l Tui'ton,
lid.n.i :i*;. Wasting. Fin" : i>p* r term, of 20 week)
Modern l4DmU:>gt--«, etc . u . Ml! per term
I»m ; car ih» ve w ere 3b mJcutajp tb«# two Peptut
/> ppl v t * IE K .T- Sup» riot ndeut.
N . ... I . IVim 11, i : ■...4 'V.U* 1
WOODL AW W FOli ALE
f I'll I--;‘u'.>cr,lu>i. ,1.-Irou. of«w>v:rff 'VV.*,., ,‘ffe >, for
I , , \N *.. f i...-.. ■ !-m ocf the Hen
Win it *ia tv ford, d • e-.-.l lying ui the A«1 tnslji acch
oltbeLe. : -nviwi.f the Lex ugton Do
y <\— a*, pisce c<‘ i an.ing - Out ueies of L-.ud, with a
i u.d onu« Ut imlencK a d ill io< «m v out bmlolnK ~
ad in good repair. Al e, a very t talection of
EiuPsoi alt ci i t.er» eu loir proportion of
t uni en .i -il hot ton-. 1: don tno plsee. Tcim.-c-a v
t *1 1 MON <>l IVER
si ab.-iMA Plantation t< u sale.
'Pill. undo, .iaiih! i’ • to. ito his v alnaolo PL A N-‘
L l v i ION Biiu.iu . :;t the county of Macon, H
imies from Montgomery ami \Ve*t Point Kailrosd 7
miles of 1 uskeegeo on Fhoapco cieok, contanuug 1600
acre et L..u<i -70 i» *»t w* cb in a tine »t»-t. of cuUiva*
tlen Tm v ■ lauds s ow- li »vat**r»fd. *» d llu©ly timbered;
bra , Old eicdacos FiMten.ami Cm u (qual to auy
UuUoiiliu'i :;um Ou t!n* jm-muos bes it a imga
, well ikHo '■ , with go .1 •Jiuand Screw andattne
ee*-:\ry butidirgt. For tunher particulars, inquire of
11 11 AKMS TwiN i, No.asu.pih a or the under*
» . ih«* pi.mu I*E IF. t DKI-SKIILv
iv I. .1
FOR SALE,
| Mil. umi . t, oeuig uosuousot tea vine the State,
oil* isal pnvaie sale, all hi. RE\L .Kt>T<tTK m
iin im uoi VVacre-non. Wnrreu county, Gx. consisting
. <* D« r,ing House, and Lot of about live acres of
\vu . A . h.s Carriage Shop anu .« 't. Tools, Machine,
4U , , .irtil his stock, togetligr with all his fiulahod
and uudub hed work.
#r uk can * ivsily he disposed off at good prices, at*-this
kt imt. utw elve mouths.
Person- wishing to purchase, are nwpectftiUy iuvite*i
cali & -g lAAuiinf for them-elves
possession w : iii be given at any ti*n<*. to tttlit the pm
0k isc! tiE*»RGE L tiO*SUiHSL
Wh ■ . ... u l!s Af.lt- A I Sen. je7 wrf
FOR SALE.
| VOWeUui. < .m- iHjiUii! iviver FL AN lAT ION,
1„> .«r >» ! mae« ;b et Columbus, Gx. in Barbour
ui? . \ .i !> iug on the Chattahoochee river, contain
ag 2l‘«v» «Vrr■*! IthHi in a due state of cultivation and
go .<1 it ya. • A go<»d Wat ei Gin and Ferry across the
OhaitaluHichee : i\«-r Thv :tlH*ve will be for sale .at any
until sold and pot.-v -u u Kiveu Terms to suit pur
cha>« ; . ;au2l tt j m!\'l I HEW AVERETT.
FOR SALE;
t PI ANTAPION v ui taming 1500 acres Land, well
j\ ' t. y -. >vk‘ aeres*-ieared. aud produces the best
.• i - !.*t * :*i M PloV .* of ali kinds. A good
two »tory l>wt . v. ; mning seven rooms, w ith tour
fire p ac. amt U> icet Piszta . Smoke House.,
|w »->K«iy Cotton li -■ . ic,a Uoiue and other butidings,
arc on th** preniiM-t-, w ?h a Welt of ;»ood water ; a fine
range tor H«>k * auu Oat no . Fi l- and Oysters oonveu-ent
lu -*“*re abundance V more l.vtvTby, plea»tnt 'oration
U i.o' f-' i»«-found in I'. u-l-c (i. rgia. Further par
ticular-* van be otitainew by . ..caUim t > the subset bex
at Savanußb V. VjjOOLLRY.
o<*vJs wtf
COLEMAN HOUSE
BY LANIER 4t EADY,
XXO.W ILLI. TENS.
>|t||R Ft- . ’•■ogneu having taken charge of this Urge
I and nuuaiKiioui. House, iwspectfully solicit anjJ
hope to merit a iiberai share of patrouge The bouse is
funv.sr.ed in tin* most th.samgh and uu dern style, with a
v»ow to c«nven>enreand comfort It is situated in the
heart ofthe city, convenient to all the business, and ou
the principal street An omnibus i? roadmess
. )«pQKB on tho arri
r%\ and departure of the cars The Stage fur Mont vale
Springs arrives and depart-* daily.
1 be ta< ! e w ■ •be sappiied with the best the market
atfo -'i - o pain* will ix* > pared lo render guests
, , al ?„ SAMPSON LANIER,
j.,i v :'-f fOWV P*|»V
, tc BtlKl! vvx. B. r RAN CISCO.
BEARDEN & FRANCISCO,
| >Ri >1 (1. \M)I « Ml MISHIN MERCHANTS,
I M* «uG» . w '*.■•! ou Cominit.'-mn Bacon, Lard,
Flour, Com. Oatv. rVathens, and Teucoesoe Produce
general y.
p«no'» '* pp » to** an reiy upon prompt ratorna
# BCFEK ro
Mt*r httn Iv\ Irens of Knoxville Morgans. Co-
Jo J...UC Lm.il.l-.unvtn-.il r, N^hrilW';
K.rhmrd I* *'* B Ch*o I, ‘ r * A “ 1 ' J 4
Krvu.t: 1' J o*n.pi*ll.O»«*etaß«!; K „C
Ja« k»>u the-us Mwchkntsof Ea*tTeuneai*Oj{feoorady.
ORNAMENTAL ISON WOBS.
\JLTO on *JL PEHIM , PMiadelptna. P*-, are pre
V> ajv<i t ftin i-h IRON HAIIANOS, for Lf-mett
t -, Pul» c s.,u j ' and Bin d !i|f - IRON TER AX
DAIIs FOUNT AIN > STAIRS, Garden "ASES,
LIONS SETTEES, STATUARY,
rAHI,FS,a. (ior. am«v Ir. Work generally.
the >ld«*M and largest moan -ry in the United State*
f.r «h s pa>t.* niar hmnc <; . and having every
facdi yoi cn-uduenngU.* . - ae-a economically, *eei
coi-tfd ut «bat tney cau furn . work, at tile* shortest
nonce. an iai the mo* ai« price*
We have app -'nte-i j. nr a >le Agent? at Augu-ta,
Mes «,B w.ll GO« »URITH av,d W H SALISBURY,
to wbotn we refer *ll w»h r 4.r.ytsin»f in ottr loe. They
can show <>ur design *. ■/>'••• ad nereMnry informal .on,
and '»■ e orders. | tcy2u asm j Win DA- PEROT
BK’E.- 5 tierce# prim® R*iE,ju#t received and ft>r
Mleby WM H HOWARD,
jy&l OomniMk»n Merchant.
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| anferjoitick it- Sentinel.
Death in *»*** Palnee.*
i The Italian correspondent of the Newark Daily
Advertl-er thus writes from Florence, qnder date
1 J - ne a « h:
j Ttiere»is nothing more ghastly than the face of
••a’h griiixii ug at the vam show qj pomp >ua buna!.
-j A royal funeral in this country fS bideouly
I G< ote-£Ucb a-spectacle as one never wishes lo see
j ■•• •«. The c orpse oftx priuoe or princees
I of n.e bh.*od in eifdavernus visage
• laikiojr tne pplepdor of appjjrel. and all the
jjomp and cifcumataoce of courtly <»brfcfiuiee. is
e .* tt> rnake one ble««> that humbler rank which
| i-riAim the decent pal! to bide from sijrht the hu
•I'M face when all thaFinade it divine i-s This
not the privilege of princes. While Death—who
no respe. ter ot peraojis—deals with them as with
the meanest of tbeir eubjeets, they r-annot have
wpml to the pQvacy of coffin and totnb. 7'heir
i must be paraded to. vulgar and
humilbiUon made more bumiiieting through contrast
with m« rk statehina-H.
Po«,r Koyality' it ba^little quiet in life ; nor does
Dead-at once bring Quietness , the enbalmer fol
at hi* heels, laying cqjen the very heart pierced
oy hi%Miatt. And then comes the master or mis
n -YU of the robes to adorn a powerless lump of c.ny
with all ihe insignia of power; whtle artifice com
pie'* fi Death’s royal toilette by inserting glas.« eyes \
oi the hollow itocketapf quenched orby, and tinting
pallid cheeks and lips w ith the semblance of bloom
rtiwis frightful ; yet a eight that has just shocked
r *i r.f and tascinated many here. Verdy Dealt) has
h 1 c all season* lor his own, and seenis often*
moHt to clnaise Ihe most inopportune moment to
ahoot his arrow/ among Crowned heads.
[the K ng and of Saxouy, with the royal*
princes** s—inducing toe Dmchess of (ienoa—h id
b‘ en guests bu? a day or two at the Pitti pa'ar-e on
u visit to their daugiiter and sister, the An hducheefi
Anna, and to pa; «at this court—t4*getlier wi h the
Duehc de lierrl and other royal visiters—the fete
‘d the Corpus Domini, when “the monster’ in?ru
ded uddeniy on their joy and turned mirth into
wailing. 1 .*• maiden sister of the Grand Duke—
coqqu nly called La Gobbina, (the liuwiiba< k ) be
mg deh>imed —joined the royal cortege ou the day
otihe eelebwitu n, iii usual health, passed a feaUl
j vening with the illustrious guests, and trasu corjjse
a', bollock the following morning. The ducul
band hail been playing ail the evening in the court
of ti»«- palace, lighted up brilliantly for the occasion.
‘ There was a sound of revelry by night’*— of terror
and weeping st daybreak. If was sad for the prince
I' . *il. r~ —sadder yet for the poor of Florence,who
iherrafid there lost a royal friend.
The Oobbioa, a truly devout Catholic, being un
married. cared “lor the things of the Lord;” her in
| < omo had foi many years been mostly spent in
chanties. JShe a very Dorcas of a princess;
her** wi*q ont “ pure and undefyfed religion which
visits the fatherless and the widows iiv-tlc-ir efflic
•loll, and kt.ii<S itself uuspottt-d from the world.”—
Many another princess observes the firs! part ol this
Sc*iptuie, while regardless of the latter. She ob
served both*, and was more beloved by her brotb
t’ri subjects than himself or any other member of
tip■/o>nl liouaehoid. Unostentatious in life, she
lad rs quested that l»ci death and t.u ial might be
without parade ; but, thougli si,o was a princess,
hho could not be obe / ed, unless her will accorded
with p>irately rules.
Humble little hunch back ! even she was not sul
fered to go uumolested to her resting place in the
gorgeous chapel of the Medici. Duly embalmed,
painted and decked in royal robes, she lay in state
i'»r u week, while thous nds pi tossed ilai.y to pay
tlieir respects to faerremaius; nor were they mostly
drawn—an is usual in such case.* —by the fascination
of ghastliness, or by vain curiosity to see the pa
geant Sincere mourners this time came to the roy
al ohamnerof Death—genuine tears dropped on itH
marble pavement.
Then eamu the burial; nil Florence was at the
w indows, or lining the streets, which were hung in
black At the solemn twilight hour the long procee
.-uni began to move slowly from the palace to the
funeral march of the bands. First came the mili
tary lim*. with reversed bayonets and mufti d
drums. Then the Mtsericorde , or Druthers of Mercy,
in white masks and domino (in place of their wont
ed black) —a spectral company ! These woe fol
low ed by priestly ranks, crape hanging from their
ecclesiastical robes, each one carrying an immense
lighted candle, andjjijfeininting in concord a requiem
for the illustrious ifcan. Cluau-behind them moved
with awful stateliness the ftip.tj.tl car, an open
chariot lined with black velvet, und having a large
r anopy overhead, oil which a forest of bluek plumes
nooded solemnly to the measured rfcp of six black
horses, decorated also with niel&ucftpy plumes. In
this imposing vehicle lay, with elevated head, or on
cushions formed an inclined plane, She lifeless vic
tim, crowned with white flowers, and arrayed in
white si.k with tuile overdress, her little waxen fin
gers cla:ij»iug n boquet of pale roses, and her tiny
feet in silk stockings and while satin slippers, dis
posed for singular effect. As the regal hearse
moved in time with that funeral chafint, the glass
eyes of the empse, rolled upward, seemed to t wnnkle
in the torchlight,startling many a gazer whose own
ey*s closed instinctively to shut appalling
vision, and turning tlm solemnity info horror
Dehind the biuck chariot, followed tlm iwnpty car
riages of tlie princess, her footmen walking beside
t hem os mourners, with uncovered heads. This was
touching 1 Then followed, in long cavalcade, the
<fuurdte 9 y At/c, bringing up the rear of the pro
cession, and the crowd pressed on their horses heels,
ns if all claimed to be mourners, but none of the
ducal family followed their dead to her palace
tomb. Order and death-like stillness pervaded the
multitude, and though the scene was in some sense
revolting, in another it was Impressive, and truly
suggestive of public loss and general mourning.
Os conrse tbwtUilooked for blow sent consterna
tion anu ng the guests at the place, and the king
and queen of Saxony, with their suito, took leave
before the funeral c< remonies. Ou the day but one
after the burial the masses for the d ad commenced
in the church ot Sum HYli i, which was hung in black
and decorated with white flowers ior the august oc
casion. The roy*l family attended in solemn state,
and the nmsio whs um arthly sweet, like the far off
chauiit of a spirit choir.
of an Arctic Night.— The fol
lowing eloquent description of the silence ol an arc
tic night occurs in Dr. Hays’ lecture on the Arctic
Regions:
“ The m* oulights of this period (winter) are the
most grand and impressive of anything I have ever
witnessed. The clearness of the air, the white sur
face of the snow and ice give an effect monotonous
and cheerless, but truly grand. But there is a new t
element which makes this paid winter moonlight
seem almost terrible in its impressiveness;—it is it.
“ l have often, to escape from the trying monoto
ny ot ship board life, gone off six or eight miles in
to the interior in seatch of novelty and iu order
that I might be alone. There, seated upou a rock
or snow bank, iloek around me, and see a great
uneven country r rocky hills aud glaciers covered
with snow ; myriads of crystal gems sparkling in
the llgh^of the pale moon, which shoots its rays
down through the crisp air, making it almost as light
fts day l look seaward, and see n long plain of ice
melting into the horizon, dotted all over with huge,
towering bergs.—nothi 'g more. *
44 All nature is in the repose of death. lam too
tar from shore to hear the crunching of the tables as
they rise and fall lazily with the tide, or the roar
•ike distant thunder, as some huge crack opens
through the heavy floes. There is no auimal to
cross my path, no tree among whose stiff branches
the wind can sigh and moan. There is no song of
bird to enliven the scene,—no wild beast to howl.—
I stand here alone, the only rspresc illative of God’s
living world—the nly being that has life or can
move. Every sound that I near, every motion that
I see, is made by myself; I hear nothing but the
pulsations of my own heart, ipy own footsteps, or
now and then, possibly, in the distance, the deep
rumbllog of a tailing snow-bank.
“'Aie scusaVlon of utter loneliness and isolat ion
creeps ov« rme My heart beats, as it rashes the
Wood through the sensitive organization of the ear.
Imu oppressed as with discordant sounds. Siienee
has ceased to be negative—it has become Sternly
p.y- : ftve. I hear, see and feel it Its presence D
qpenduruble. I spring to my feet—l plant them
heavily in tha snow, to drown its presence, and I
rush back to the vessel, and glad even to find re
fuge in its dull, dull life ot horrid inactivity.’’
Orkilu: —A Svmitute for Gold.—This is the
nainaota ne w met a* which has recently made its
■feppeavinccpnder a French patent, granted in this
o>iuritry in March last It resembles gold in many
respects, and may I»>* used in a pure condition, or
as a base for gold-plating. I*B cost is about eighty
cents per pound, pud yet itsappearance is such that
it would readily be taken for gold by the most casual
tl s* ;vt r’. Ii is ml a pure metal, but a ooinp uud
! of several mfetala, rcflqed to suoh a degree that it
t does no. easily oxydize or tarnish. These qualities
• make it a valuable acquisition to the met&lic aits
When tested with nitric acid,ebullition take- place,
j but ixippnt remains*. This quality* though valuable
j 'or utensils, m&kt s if a dangerous metal for dishon*
I est men It can be used in counterfeiting gold so
| lVkdily that it will befexoeedingly difficult to detect
! the true coin When placed side by side with.gold
I it requiries close semtinv to decide which is gold
and w Ircli orcide. In Fianfce a law has already
been passed to prevent frauds, by compelling, uu
dei st-vt re penalties for neglect, all manufacturers
| of creido to stamp the word upon the articles pro
: duued. •
A manufactory has recently been started iu \Ya
, terbury, Ct . capsblecf turning out auy quautity of
1 the n w metal It is said that a great deal of the
; late imp* rled gold-chased wrne is nothing but
! oreide! It has already made its appearance in
oounteifeit coin out West.
! ’ A metal having w many of the characteristics of
gold will soon tied ifa way to the hands of d’shonest
men. The public need to be ou their guard iu the
purchase of gold chased ware aud gold dust. It js
an e-sy matter to transport a metal to California
which costs but eighty cents per pound; and it
would be quite as easy for a dishonest man to mix
| the cft>ap material with the costly.
It is likely.however, that science, while furnish
ing a combination of metalsso useful, will also fur
nish a dttector against its use as a counterfeit—
Nature is always true to itself, aud-the ability to
t create so valuable and yet (when used dishonestly
so dawger'us an article, argues the ability to pro
duce that which shail be a safeguard to the public
st* *he dishonest purpot-e. Meanwhile, it is
quite likely that tili the qualities of the metal are
better ku« wn, the public, will be most wo fully
cheat ed.— Bo*to n Tra rel/er.
Oriotn of rm French Tricolor.—At theoom
menoement*of ttie eighteenth century, nearly one
huu red vears* be fore the Revolutio i, the Freiuk
sidmern nore top a time the three colors; this was
att 1 epe rod , f the triple alliance between .be
Kings < f 1 sauce and Spain and the Elector of Bava
rm >v hen the three were being combined,
ii ey agret--d to give the soldiers a cockade,iu which,
a-* rm emblem ofihe rimon of the three people, they
Tcproduoed the color of each. Thus the white of
r Y ] a ' i r the redot Spain,foimditselffetally blend
ed wH-h the blue, the national color of Bavaria. We
would n -t. however, wish to attribute to th&e facts*
more casual than premeditated, the origin of the
•andard and tricolor cockade adopted during the
Revolution. Iu ITBB, green papulaiized Ca
mille Desmoulins at the Palais Royal, was about to
become the national emblem: bdt, on recollecting
that it was the color of the lively of the Count D -
Artois.the unpopular of princes, thyy sought
another cockhde It was then that they eudeavored
to appreciate the colors of tlm city of Paris the red
and blue, already' celebrated in more than one
popular rmntte y ’though both were borrowed from
, tl.e heraldry of the ancient kings, aud were tbe
■“une t‘ at Etienne Marcel had hoisted in 1848.
Irith Quarterly Reru~rr.
Salt asd hs PsoFCßf^Et. —The August number
of Deßow ji Review contains an able and very
interesting article on the subject of salt, it# manufac
ture properties, use* and varieties, from the pen of
William C. Dennis. E-q.. of Florida The principal
object proposed by Mr. Dennis is to show the cause
of the failure of the salt generally used in preserv
ing meat to perform that office,' and to point out
the method of remedying the evil. one who has
the slightest acquaintance with the immense loss
occasioned every year in this country by the spoil
ing of butter, fish and cured meat, particular! ba
eon, will be disposed to uodevaftte any effort] to
analyze the reason of the fact and designate the
method of prevention. The cause of the evil Mr.
Denuts finds in jbe imperfect crystal* zation of all
salt made by boilings in which is included the Liver
pool «at, t e variety most used in this country The
sui ftuuUoo of sa t produced by evaporation, a pro
cess, the slow nets of which injures the perfection of
that cbem»cai process final result is somp ate
aryttaiiaaiion, is th* pcopoaad ramad/.
Frencsil, The Historian.
j Tbe July number of the Massachusetts Teacher
e < rntains a very interesting article from the pen ot
j Rev. Geo. E Ellis upon Mr. Prescott and his histo
ries. In this article Mr Ellis introduces a friendly
I and communicative letter from Mr Prescott, ex
y plaining the origin and extent of the difficulties un
b j xkr which it is well known he has labored, in the
composition of his histories. It is, says the Boston
,J nrnal. a pleasantly related tale of faithful pursuit
f of knowledge under difficulties.
‘ I suppose you are aware that, when in college,
J received an injuTy in one eye which deprived me
• <>f tbe use of it tor reading and writing. Ati injc
1 dteistas u«e of the other eye, on which the burden of
; my studies was now wholiv thrown, biougnt on a
; rheumatic inflammation which deprived me entirely
ot the use of my sight for some weeks. When thi*-
i was restored the eye remained in too irritable a state
to be employed iu reading for several years. I
i consequently abandoned the study of the law upon
i which I bad entered ; and, as a man must tind some
i thing to do. I determined to devote myself to let
Lers, in which independent career I could regulate
tny own hours with reference to what my sight might
! enable me to accomplish.
"I bad early conceived a strong passion for his
torical writing, to which, perhaps, tbe reading ol
Gibbon’s autobiography contributed not a little. ]
proposed to make myself a historian in the best
E-eu.-e of the term, and hoped to produce something
w hich posterity would not willingly let die. In a
memoranda"* book, as far back as the year 1819,1
and the desire intimated ; aud I proposed to devote
ton years of my life to the study of ancient and
modern literatures —chiefly the latter—and to give
ten inure to some historical work. I have had the
good fortune to accomplish this design pretty nearly
w i*hin the limits assigned. In the Christmas ot
1*37 my first work, the History of Ferdinand and
Isabella, was given to the public.
“ Daring my preliminary studies in the field of
general literature* my eyes gradually acquired so
much strength that 1 was enabled to use them
many hours of the day. The result of my studu*
hi this lime I was iu the habit of giving in the form
of essays in publio journals, chiefly in the North
American, from which a number quite large enough
have be u tranetarred to a separate volume of mis
'cellaniert. I laving settled on a subject for a partic
ular history, i lost no time in collecting tbe materi
als, for which I had peculiar advantages. Dut,ju.A
before these materials arrived, inv eye had expe
rienced so severe a rtraiu that I enjoyed no use of
it again for reading for several years. It has in
deed never wince fully recovered its strength, nor
have I ever ventured to use it again by candlelight.
I well remember t e blank despair which 1 felt
when my lilerary treasurer arrived from Spain, and
I saw the mine of wealth lying around me which I
was forbidden to explore. 1 determined to see
what could be done with the eyes of another. I re
meinbered that Johnson had said in reference to
Milton, that the great poet had abandoned his pro
jected history of England, finding it scarcely possi
ble for a mao without eyes to pursue a historical
v.crk requiring reference to various authorities.
Tue remark piqued me to iflake an attempt.
“ I obtained tne services of a reader who knew
no language but his own. 1 taught him to pro
nounce the Castilian i a manner suited, I suspect,
much more to my ear than that of a Spaniard ; and
we began our wearisome journey through Marian
na’s noble history. I cannot, even now, call to
mind without h smile, the tedious hours iu which
seated under some old trees in my country residence,
we pursued our slow aud melancholy w*ay, over
pages which afforded no glimmering of light to him,
and from which the light came dimly struggling to
me through a half intelligible vocabulary. But, in
a few weeks ihe light became stronger, and I was
cheered by the consciousness of my ow.i improve
ment; and when W'e had toiled our way through
ssven quartos, I found I**-»uld understand the book
when read about two-thirds as fast as ordinary
English. My reader’s office required the more
patience ; he had not even this result to cheer him
iu his labor.
*‘l now felt that the great difficulty could be over
come ; aud I obtained the services of a reader whose
acquaintance with the modern and ancient tongues
supplied, as far as it could be supplied, the deficien
cy of eyesight on my part. Bat though iu this way
I could examine various authorities, it was not easy
to arrange in my mind the result ol ray reading,
drawn from different and often contradictory ac
counts. To do this 1 dictated copious notes as I
went uloug. and when 1 had read enough for a
chapter—from thirty to forty and sometimes fifty
pages in lenght—l had a mass of memoranda iu my
own language, which would easily bring before me
at one view the IruitH of my researches. These notes
were carefully read to me; and while my recent
studies were fresh in my recollection I ran over the
whole of iny intended chapter in my mind. This
process I repeated at least half a dozeu times, ro
that when I finally put my pen to paper it ran off’
pretty glibly, for it was an effort of memory rather
than creation. This method had the advantage of
saving me from the perplexity of frequently referr
ing to the scattered passages in the originals, and
it enabled me to make the corrections in my own
mind which are usually made iu the manuscript, and
which, with my mode of writing—as I shall explain
—would have much embarrassed me. Yet I must
adini that this method of composition, when the
chapter was very long, was somewhat too heavy a
strain on the memory to be altogether recommend
ed.
“Writing presented me a difficulty even greater
than reading. Thierry, the famous blind historian
of the Norman Conquest, advised me to cultivate
dictation ; but I have usually preferred a substitute
that I lound iu a writing-case made for the blind,
which I procured in London forty years since. It
is a simple apparatus, often described by me for the
benefit of persons whose vision is imperfect. It
consists of a frame of the size of a sheet of paper,
t raversed by brassed wires, as many as lines .are
wanted on the paL f e, and with a sheet of carbona
ted paper, such as is used for getting duplicates,
pasted on the reverse side. With an ivory or agate
stylus the writer traces his characters between the
wires on the carbonated sheet, making indelible
marks, which he cannot see, on the white page be
low. This t readmill operation has its defects, and I
ha\ • repeatedly supposed I had accomplished a good
page, and was proceeding in all the glow of compo
sition to go ahead, when 1 found 1 had forgotten to
insert a sheet of my writing paper below, that my
labor had all been thrown away, and that the leaf
looked as blank as myself Notwithstanding these
and other whimsical distresses of the kind, I have
found my writieg-case my bes friend iu my lonely
hours, and with it have written nearly all that I
have sent into the world the last forty years.
“ The manuscript thus written and deciphered—
for it was in the nature of hieroglyphics—by my
secretary was then read to me for correction, and
copied off in a fair hand for the printer. All this, it
may be thought, was rather a slow process, requir
ing the virtue of patience in all the parties con
cerned. But in time my eyes improved again.—
Before I had finished 4 Ferdinand and Isabella’ I
could use them some hours every day. And thus
they have continued till within a few years,
though subject to occasional iu corruptions, some
times of months, when I could not look at a book. —
And this circumstance, as well as habit—second na
ture—has led me to adhere still to my earlv method
of composition. Os late years I have suffered not
so much from inability of the eye as dimness of the
vision, and the warning comes that the time is not
far distant when 1 must rely exclusively on the
eyes of another for the prosecution of my studies.
Perhaps it should bo received ns a warmng that it
is time to close them a’togethcr.”
Chinese Mode of Fishing. —On our way down
the river at night, we came upou some people
fishing in a manner so curions that I must endeavor
to describe it. The boats used tor this purpose were
long and narrow. Each had a broad strip of white
canvass stretched .along the right sid *, and dippiug
towards the water at an angle of from thirty to
forty degrees. Ou the other side of the boat a net,
corresponding in size with the white cloth, w’as
stretched along above the bulwarks. A man sat in
the Stern of each boat, and brought bis weight to
bear ou the starboard side, which had the effect of
pressing the white canvass into the water, and
raising the net on’ the opposite side. A small pad
dle-wih used for propelling the boat through the wa
ter. As we approached these strange fishermen I
desirca my boatmen to take in our sail, ami, as my
boat lay s’ill on the smooth surface of the water, I
watched their proceedings with much iuterest. It
was a fine clear night, and I could see distinctly the
white canvass shining through the water, although
several inches below its surface.
The fishermen sat motionless and silent, and
scarcely noticed us when we joined them, so intent
ly were they upon their work. We had not re
mained above a minute in the position we had ta
ken up. when I heard a splash in the water, and dis
tinctly saw a fish jump over the bout,and getcaught
by the net on its opposite side, llie object in con
structing the boats hi the manner I have described,
whs now apparent. It seemed that the white can
vas. which aipped like a painted board in the water,
had the effect of attracting and decoying the fish in
some peculiar manner,"and caused them to lvap over
it. But, as the boats were low and narrow', it was
necessary tq ’iave a net stretched on the opposite
side to prevent the fish from leaping over them al
together, and escaping again in the stream. Each
fish, as it took the ratal leap , generally struck against
the net and fell backward into the boat. —A Jiesi
dence among the Vh.in.esc.
Benedict Arnold’s Silver Watch —Bene
dict Arnold’s name will go down to posterity con
pled with curses, but for all that, he was as brave
a soldier as ever wore a sword. He had as much
military genius ns any officer in our Revolution
He letfthe “d company of Governor's Foot Guards
to Banker Hill; he leu the expedition up the Ken
nebec. through the trackless wilderness, co operating
with Montgomery in his attack on
fought like a madman, but an inspired madman,
with method in his madness, at the battle of Sarato
ga. lie was the idol of the army, till he fell, like
Lucifer, the son of the morning, with something of
the ruiued archangel still in his demeanor, and with
something of Milton's Satan still to be traced in his
career. The fate of A mold has been brought to
mind by a silvei watch, a regular old-fashioned
• bulls eye, ? which now lies upon our table, and
was the companion of Arnold in his military career.
It is presented to the Connecticut Historical Socie
ty by the Rev. L Smith Hobart, of Hudson. Michi
gan .’and from the manner in which it came into
Mr. Hobart's bands, we have no doubt of the accu
racy of the accompanying statement. He says:
“This watch was the property of Benedict Ar
nold. It was presented by him to Jeremiah At wa
ter. who in the Revolutionary war. was killed at
Danbury, Connecticut. Tbe* watch then became
tbe property of his wife, Eunice. She afterwards
married John Goodrich, of Hew Haven, and was
thp mother of Andrew T. Goodrich, who was a
bookseller and publisher in New York city. This
watch came into the possession of A. T. Goodrich
from his parents, and was left by him at Ids death,
with his son in-law, the Rev. L. Smith Hebarb ot
Michigan, by whom it is presented to the Con
uecticut Historical Society ."—Hartford Courant .
Aug. 1.
Remarkable Result of a Remarkable Leap.
—A passenger by the Michigan Central Railroad,
finding that the train did not stop at a particular
station, rushed foe the rear car. carpet bag in hand
and jumped, off. The train was passing at a speed
of forty miles an hour, and of course be struck the
ground at some little distance from the starting
,*omt. Oue foot struck the ground first, and so
neavily did be come down that the heel of his boot
was torn off. His second foot struck twelve feet
distant frt>in his first track, and the boot heel was
also ripped from his other boot The man continued
Tis rapid movements—being thrown jnto all sorts
oppositions—for some distance beyond. He finally
up" no less than sevenly-foar fert from
the spot where he left the ru-hing train. On pick
ing himself up. he was asked if he was much hurt,
when he answered that he did not know, and imme
diately picking up h*s watch and a number of his
buttons which had been scattered by the shock, and
sepiDg bus carpet bag, be started off. with his dinner
tolerably well settled.
Whipped Is.—There is oue fact Connected with
the “backing down" of the Georgia Democratic
presg from the Convention stand-point on the Walk
er Buchanan issue, that ought to make every high
minded Southern man s cheek blush with shame No
sooner had the first indignation of the party found
vent in the third r-sointion, than the Washington
Union (the Presidents Organ) assailed it. This
matter whipper-in of refractory pariiaans, immedi
ately piled the lash to Georgia'Democracy, and k>!
they crouch and grovel in the uuet of abject submit
■eiou, like epauit* s under the whip of the trainer' —
Not until tne Washington Union reproved aid the
leaders of Democracy in Georgia manifest a dispo
sition to justify either Walker or the administration
T he first angry note of tbeOrgao, however, has ad
monished them of the dangeroi “hazarding the exis
tence of the National Democratic party/’ They
have been whipped in by a hireling sheet of party.
What a pleasant reflection for independent |bouth
srnsrs l—< Urn**, •
AUGUSTA, GA.. WEDNESDAY MOHNING, AUGUST 19, 1857.
Wro\v«i i
Ine Mrpu4/(ican y • Tuesday contains the follow
i -g notice vs Judge Brown’s speech in Sav i
If the Democracy are satisfied with the perfonn
’ "ce of their gubernatorial candidate la -t ’bight we
are. Tbe circumstance* aie in every wav' favorable
f>r the appearance ofJudge Brown *to tbq verv b<->t
advantage. The evening was, for a wot der of ia 4 e
clear and pleasant; the Louse wa- crowded to over
tl 'Wing with an audience unusually inteh^ent; and
ihe sympathies ot his Democratic friends were ai
together in his favor. Expectation we c-oafes*
was somewhat raised by the accounts of his encoun
ters with Hill published in the Democratic paper
ofthe interior, a % fact. which, perhaps, mace his au
dience more critical than they would heve been had
he come amougrt us unheralded.
Solomon Cohn, E-q., pressed at themeet’ng
and announced its obj-cts in a abort address. It
wa«, be said, to honor the gentleman who was des
'ined'-tobe the next Governor of Georgia who
‘ Through your agency,’ he remarked, addressing
himself to his audience, “has been called from the
elusion of his mountain home to bear aloft the
standard of the Democracy in the coming contest. ’
This was doubtless news to the Democracy tffiChat
ham, for it is very cer’am no one individual amouget
r hem ever dreamed of Judge BroWn for Governor
Their agency in the matter of his nomination was
doubtless a puzzle. He also spoke of the “suicidal
course of the Know Nothings, in opoos ng tfie elec
tion of such a man—a man in whom was blended
everything that patriotism could isk, or a citizen
of Georgia demand.
Mr. Cohen was followed by Julian Hartridge,
Esq., who, in a set speech of some fifteen minutes,
introduced the gubernatorial candidate to the meet
ing.
Judge Brown spoke for an hour and twenty min
utes, aud confined his remarks exclusively to fede
ral affairs. He is a plain common sensed man, ot
ordinary ab.lit.es, wholly without pretension to ora
t'*ry, ard with but timited information on the p»-
itical affairs of the country. We may say general
ly of his speech last night that if its man er and mat
ter afford a specimen of Lis barrangues before the
people, the idea of his achieving a triumph over
iliir, in any contest, is f imply ridiculous. \Ve doubt
if there was a Democrat in the house last night, who'
came away with the honest belief that he is, in any
respect, a match tor his gallant competitor. »
We took full notes of the speech, but on rcyi w
•ng them we can see’nothing that is important i»
be commented on or answered. It was, iu great
measure, a mere reproduction of arguments aud po
sitions that have been successfully overt hro wn and
demolished by the American press for mouths past
The whole speech would be mere chaff, in the hands
of hi•< competitor, to be scattered to the winds
His party, he maintained despised a name, when
principles were to be sacrificed to maintain tha
name—they despised ah atiunce with the North,
when it must be upheld by a sacrifice of the South,
and tins iu the face of the sac that the Democratic
oarty is now maintainiug a mere name at the sacri
fice of principles, and are keeping up an alliance
wirh the northern Demacrocy every one of whom
is in favor of free Kansas and is now supporting
he President aud Walker in their efforts to make it
free.
He maintained that no man from the north voted
for the Kansas bill exc pt Democrats, and claimed
much credit for the latter, even at this Jay when it
has been made manifest that they sustained it be
cause it was regarded by them no a good frees oil
measure. Many of those same northern Nebraska
numbers are now the most active leaders iu the
frees- il camp. Gen. Houston and Senator Bell, vo
ted against the Kansas bill, and the Judge informed
us that they never would have dole so if th**y had
not been into a Know Nothing Lodge, whereas the
Kansas bill was passed long befor*- the Know Noth
ing order came into existence, or at least was known
as a political organization. The Judge should be
a little more careful abou' his small r facts, os people
may come to distrust him on greater ones
He said the alien pi ause in the Kansas bill had
been stricken out and repealed by the Territorial
Legislature. This is news to us, aud as ho will pro
bably not speak again in Savannah, we would be
pleased to have him publish the proofs of his allega
tion in the papers. Our own is open to him whenever
it may be desired for that purpose.
lit* made, wh t he considered, a strong point on
h ; s American friends, by alleging that Mr. Fillmore
signed tbe Washington Territorial bill containing
the alien clause, which they so strenuously codeine
lie did not tell them that Washington was formed
out of a partof Oregon, which territory was organiz
ed under a Southern Democratic President, Mr.
Polk, who signed the bi 1 embodying both the alien
clause and the Wilmot Proviso. Had Mr. Fillmore
vetoed and defeated the bill, lie could have accom
plished nothing thereby, for the territory would
have fallen back into Oregon, and been under the
alien law r still.
J udge Brown asked what .Mr. Fillmore meant by
deploring the repeal of the Missouri Compromise l
We answer: lie meant that it would re-open the
slavery agitation, which, as a patriot, lie desired to
see hushed forever—be nieun* the same thing that
•Mr. Buchanan did when he declared 4, 1 cling to the
Mi ssouri Compromise stronger than ever.”
On the subject of recent affairs in Kansas, the
speaker was with the Georgia Democratic Conven
tion and Walker both, and under ail circumstances,
with the President. We have not time lo allude to
iiis remarks on this point, and shall reserve them
for another day.
M u Seward. —When Judge Brown took- Lis seat,
the Hon. James L. Seward, who was present and on
the stand, came forward in response to loud and
frequent calls from the audience. We heard but a
portion of his remarks, which seemed to keep the
house in a roar. He congratulated the Democracy
upon their harmony on the subject of a Governor,
and regretted exceedingly that he could not say the
same of them in regard to the member to Congress
from the First District.
This excited considerable merriment. He had ta
ken his staud as an independent Democratic*, can
didate, and intended to maintain it to the close of
the race. Some men about Savannah were very
modest oil the subject of office, but he was not
troubled with that species of failing—he wanted the
office, and was not ashamed to own it, and would
take all the votes he could get. He “pitched into’’
the Hoimesville Convention and the “Lion of Lib
erty,” without stint or mercy. Said he drew the
resolutions complimentary to Gaulden in 1853, but
did not offer them, not being a member of the Con
vention-acknowledged that he ‘ had spread the
butter pretty thick on the bread,” but, denied that
he “had offered it to Col. Gaulden to eat.’’ As to
ihe contract to decline iu favor of Col. G., in the
next race, he said be only promised Col. G., to vote
for him or any other Democrat the next Convention
nrght nominate, but never dreamed that the Dem
ocrats would befools enough to nominate him (Col.
G.) He said the time never had been and never
would be when the people of the Firot District would
endorse Col. Gaulden at the ballot box. Col. Sew
ard entered upon federal politics, and at this stage
of his discourse ; we left the hall.
Privateering. —The New York Journal of Com
merce, alluding to the question of the abolition of
privateering, says :
“The hesitation of Great Britain to accept Mr.
Marcy’a proposition, affording, as it did, an op
portuoity to Mr. Buchanan’s administration to dis
continue the negotiation, is much rather matter for
congratulation than regret, so far as this country is
concerned. The abolition of privateering aud the
exemption of private property on the sea from at,
tack and capture by enemies’ vessels, leaving com
mercial enterprise only exposed to Ihe interruption
of effective blockades, seems a very iinporiant and
desirable modification of the old laws of maritime
warfare ; but until the next step is taken, and com
mercial blockades are abolished, leaving free in
gress and egress to veesels containing private pro
perty not contraband of war, it will be inexpedient,
in our.op ; n»* u, for the United States to consent to
renounce the right, in case of war, to use our pri
vate armed ships, as an auxiliary to our navy, in
defence ‘of our shores and commerce against the
powerful navies of Ecrope.’ ”
If privateering is only legalized plunder, block
ading is just as mischievous, for it puts a stop to
trade, by cutting off the intercourse between na
tions and ruins hundreds. The United States should
never give up the right of privateering—unless go
vernments with larger naval forces than ours should
give up blockading. Without privateering, we
sh uld be entirely al tbe mercy ot the latter. For,
relieved of the necessity of protecting its commerce
against privateeis, it could employ its superior na
val three in completely destroying our commerce by
blockading all our commercial porta. —Baltimore
Sun.
Singular Accident. —Surgical Operation. — *
The Harrisburg Telegraph says that on Wednesday
night last, a eaual boatman named Tomaeh, a resi
dent of Loyalsock, Fa., while lying asleep on the
deck of his boat, came into collision with a bridge
near Higbspire, which struck him ou the b« ck part
of the head knocking there r*<in the perietal bone,
which w f as found shortly afier as free from extrane
ous Fubstance as if it had been extracted by the
lmuds of a demonstrator of Anatomy. The wound
ed man was of course instantly aroused con
cussion. and what is most remarkable, rose to his
feet, perfectly unconscious of the extent of the inju
ries he had received by the collision.
The slight pain in the back of his head gave hiffi
no trouble whatever; it was only after he had
dressed himself, and one of his comrades had found
the bone on deck, that be was made aware of the
imfortUDate mutilation of his effput. After this dis
covery the unfortunate man was taken to High
spire, where Dr. Rutherford was summoned, who,
after washing the man’s braiu. and replacing it,
aud arranging the splinters of the adjacent parts of
the skull in a proper manner,informed him that was
all he could do tor him. With this the wounded
mau departed, iu a perfectly rational state, to his
heme at Loyalsotk.
Bank Swindle in France.—A startling case of
RedpatJhism has been discovered at Besanc n One
of the principal clerks of the branch Bank of France
iu that town, named Monnot, who enjoyed an ex
cellent reputation for integrity, was found to have
a deficit in his account of 16,000 f. On examination
of the books no clue of the deficit could be found;
so a severe scrutiny was at once made into the ac
counts of the bauk. It was then discovered that
by means of false entries, false books and other for
geries, Monnot had contrived to commit other de
ficiU-amopnting to a total of Jg 16.640 sterling. He
had carried on this systematic robbery for lb years
Monnot confessed his guilt, and was sent before the
jury for trial. He has now beeu condemned to eight
years' imprisonment and a fine of lOOf. The thief
squandered the money of the bank by entering with
it into sundry unsound speculation s , which absorbed
nearly the whole amount stolen. He Lid establish
ed a hotel, also a grocery establishment, but the
greater part of his ill-gotten funds was dissipated in
discounting rotten bills of exchange.
Old.—The oldest living graduate of Dartmouth
•college, is Rev. Lubin Ainsworth, of the class of
1778, which is the ninth in the history of the college.
He hits been seventy-five years pastor of tbe church
in Jaffrey. and completed his Century of years. July
27, 1857. On that day, winch was Sunday, be walk
ed from his dwelling to the church ai d listened to a
discourse from his colleague. Rev. James Hobart,
of Berlin, Vt., is one of the class of 1894. aud will
be ninety-four years old in a week or two. He is
still active, preaches every Babbath, and gives pro
mise of passing his hundredth year in this mortal
life. At the dose of tbe commencement exercises
he took up his carpet bag and walked half a mile to
the depot as. smart as any other, old or young.—
Setcburyport Herald.
The Lofty Structures or the World.—
The following are ‘iie heights of some of the princi- ■
pal monument?, denies, etc., in the world : St. An
toine column at Rome, 135 feet; principal lower of
the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, 145 : Tra
iau's column at Rome, 145 ; Napoleon's column.. at
Paris. 150 ; Washingtoncolumn at Baltimore,
ISO; the great obelisk at Thebes, *2OO Bunker Hiil
Monument at Boston, 220 column of Delhi, ~62 ;
Trinity Church steeple at New York. 264; the con
templated new dome of the Capitol, 300 ; dome of
St. Paul's Cathedral, London. 320 ; tower of Man-,
lius. 350 ; tower of the Cathedral of Strasbourg,
460; dome of St. Peter's Cathedral, Home, 465,
great pyramid of Egypt, 480; National Washing
ton Monument, 5175.
Wealth of Organ-Grinders —The tribe of
street musicians who daily grind “that endless bar- i
earole of ‘Poor Dug Tray .’ ” although often receiv
ing more maledictions than pennies, nevertnelese I
contrive to make a very respectable saving from
their earning* Many of them manifest a coalmen
cable frugality, and put their money out at inte.cst.
Tne Sicilian consul at this port, Mr. Reggio, ha* now
upwards of $15,000 entrusted to him by that por
tion of his countrymen resident m Boston who gain
their livelihood by street musitf—ana for which he
• allows them interest at the legal rate Boston Ad
certMer.
From the Montgomery lil.ul "
lion. Bcnj. H. Ilill. of fla,, at Auburn.
M Editors : SVnrday. the-firi day of An
gust, is long to be remembered by all those who en
. Kiye-t the privilege of hearing one of old Georgia’s
l noblest sons, the lion Benjamin U Hill.
f According to previous notice, and ju-: at the b*>ui
•f eleven, he entered the spack t a chat el of the Au
oam Masonic Female College, a V:d the deafening
j -Louts of such an audience as never Was before as
sembled in Auburn. He was greeted with a show
cs«oM>dtisi£fis fiom numbers oftovHy you g wo
«fn*n, jvtiV> "partly composed the multitude present
aud hardly bud he taken his seat upon the platform
when theAvMkm was made to ring with three- cheei>
[ for the distinguished visitor. At .half past eleven
be aCd for two and a quarter hours'htrtield the
attention Iffahe vast audience to one of ths calmest
aud most dispassionate expositions of rational poli
tics to whioij we have ever IL-Uned. We wish we
nad tbe tibiljy adequately to. convey to your lead
era a syropsra of the ad .tcss. The uxjo&ientatiout
•sppeaKUH’e of the speaker, dressed in plain black
with 4 ? iugle goid chain across his breast, tbe young
ish look—being only about thirjy-ffve year* old—
eelknoisession, the earnest intonations o'
fhis manly vojpe, and the deep blue of his trutbfu
eye, added tx>tlie gentle and perfect bearing which
marked his every motion, all impressed upon tto
audience the conviction that he wa-—as Fj« proved
himself to be—every inch a man. With a touching
introduction of himself before aCh audience iu aooth
er State—bus not of another people—he dtsclaiinec
all intention to abuse or insult any one disagreeing
wjth him in his opinions, and .-aid that he Would noi
insult them by saying that bewou d prefer be : ng
with llie Black Republicans of the North than with
them, a;< was said not long previously by Mtyie one
m The same plact^
He them prtk*eeded to discuss the main question
which’ was ngitatiang -the country, aud which ban
brought Us together, Slavery ; and heiiivittfflla calm
bearing of facts which were matter r of lustory—
w Inch every man ought to and might know j'*«r him
self. "Slavery could never be abolished KuglamJ.
having control ot the spindles and needing life co*-
fon* never would let it be, ho \ever, much fit was
talked of; and the controversy wa k« pt up fpr par
ly purposes, and to keep party powet. <
There are tWo methods by which Ab< l • mists
have sought to restrict slavery. Erst, that
uas power to du it, which is the doctrine of the Wil
m t Pfovjso. The firtt legislation by which we qit
affected in that way was in 1820, by the passage ot
ihe Missouri Compromise, which was the same doc,
trine as the Wilmot Proviso. The Southern d« c v
triue was that Congress had no power over the sub
ject—tind that all territory accruing to the Govern,
uaent'wa equally the property of the States.
was always opposed to the Wilmot Proviso anu
Missouri Compromise. He considered them as ab- t
solutcly and unconditionally unconstitutional. Now.
however, the Wiluiot Proviso is dead—not by ihe,
repeal ot the Missouri Compromise, but by the de
cis on of th- Supreme Court. Now we have the
strong, the constitutional, the moral power of
law on our part.
The second method by which they sought to res
trict slavery was, that If Congress had no power io
do it, the people of the Territories had. This ci«i**-
triue was first proposed by James Buchanan ,iu
August, 1817, and that Robert J. Walker at |lmt
tune agreed to it There were two ways by which
tbe people of the Territory could do this. Fitst, by
act. of Territorial Legislature, and this was tbe/firs!
phase of Squatter Sovereignty The American
party believed this Squatter Sovereignty Wrong
because they believed the Legislatme ot a Tsrrito
ry had no power to legislate upon a subject' over
which Congress itself bad no power. But thiaques
lion is aso set led by the late decision of the Su
preme Court in the Died Scott case. Now, then,
the second way in which the people of the Territo
ry are to have this power is, lhat they, the people
of the Territories, shall have power, in their pri
mary capacity, to exclude slavery. Th--le is a
dangerous heresy in this doctrine. Not that he whs
opposed to letting the people do it, but the danger
is in the way the doctrine is u ged. It may he
asked, have not the people the right to do as they
please? Have you any more right to Interfere
than one man has to interfere with another's farm ?
The fallacy of the comparison is in this;
the farm belongs exclusively to the man who owns
it, The Territories belong not only to those in them but
to a’i the States as common property, and not unti'
the Territory comes in as a State does she assume
a State’s sovereignty ; and hence the people of t.Le
States do have a right to say something about mat
ters while they are Territories. Then the question
is, what people have the right? —who are///Jr -people 1
He and the American party means that the peofle
are the citizens—native and naturalized—perma
nently residing in the Territories, while the opposite
party means all people— all actual residents—all
resident inhabitants—all bona tine actual' settlers,
from every nation, clime and country.
This is the doctrine of James Buchan&n, in his
Berks County Letter; that all, black or white, are
the people, lie will not say that Buchanan is in
favor of blacks voting in Kansas now. He would
not do him injustice. Buchanan may or may not
be in favor of it—he don’t know. This was the doc
trine urged during the excitement pending the ad
mission of California, in 1850 - tbe doctrine of refer
ring back the constitution to all actual residents,
having foreigners of every nation votingxm it. And
although lie did not think it was unconstitutional
thus to refer it back, he did believe that, it was in
expedient and ought not to have been done. It was
then said that such a thing never should be don*
again, and the Utah and New Mexico terii orial bill
granted that the citizens alopeshould deter nine Ihe
matter, and not the actual residents This gave
quiet. We all, in the doctrine of tne Georgia Plat
form, abided by it. Abolitionists were whipped.—
From a convention of 1 300 in JBSO, they fell off to
to one of 101) in 1852. This one triumph was gain
ed under Fillmore’s administration. Why the dis
turbance. again ? In 1853, the bill to organize the
Territories of Kansas and Nebraska, and to repeal
the Missouri Compromise, was up,all men agreeing
to it. Tbe Georgia Legislature unanimously was in
favor of it. But mark ; they expressed this opiniofi,
just. bill had passed the Senate, or while
pending §p the Senate, and betore ii. Jiad reached
the House. When It came into that body, Richard
son, of Illinois, attached an amenditwit, to the ef
fect, that all actual residents, all people, could vote
—even foreigners, not knowing our language—
while the old man who went there with his negroes,
taking his son, aged 20 years and six months, to
support his old age, would have the mortification ol
seeiDg anw fore gner vote and his sou unable to do
so. The American party said that a term of resi
dence ought to be required ; and the Americans of
1855 repudiated that clause of the Kansas aud Ne
braska Act. The first Legislature of Kansas was
lor slavery, only because the Black Republicans
would not vote, not because ti e foreigners there
were in favor of slavery; and that Le; i&lature pass
ed a law that citizens only should vole, ♦bus altering
the Kansas and Nebraska bill. Why did they alter
it ? Because they knew it was unfavorable to the
Smith. What did the Cincinnati Convention say ?
That all actual residents should vote. Buchanan’s
Letter of Acceptance said : “the people <»f the Ter
ritories, like those of the Statee,” cYc. His Inaugu
reiterated the same, although the Kansas Legisla
ture had said only citizens should vote opposed to
the Legislature. He regarded the deception prac
ticed in this business as the moot disgraceful in the
annals of American History. And when the Ameri
can party told them of it, they all cried out Dark
Lanterns! What did they say in 1856? Vote for
Buchanan and save the South and get Kansas. In
passing through some of the upper counties of Geor
gia, the speaker had found a precious old Democrat
ic document—un old motto —which he would show.
Here it is:
BUCK, BREGK
AND
KANSAS! -
Oh ! what a sight and what a scene ! And as
with thunder tones the orator shouted : “You've got
your Buck, you’ve got your Bret k, bfit w h c r-c ’-s
your Kansas ?" Such a shout rent the mid air as
our ears may never hear again. It was enough
Puck had been elected, the South was saved, K u
sas was got—and only four months hud elapsed,
when lo! Georgia Democracy denouncing Walker
and clamoring for his recall, and Alabama Democra
cy laying Buchanan confi fence on the table. But
thej' eay, wait a while, it won’t ri* foi the Democra
cy to split—let the country split, if you please, but
never let the Demor lacy split. Put now they eay ;
wall, if Fillmore had b°en elected, he would have
done so, too! Poor fellows! What an excuse! -
Because Buchanan had deceived them, may be Fill
more would have done so, too! Then, again, they
blame Walker end hold up Buchanan—as the editor
ot the Newfian Blade says, they blame the dog that
bit them, while they praise the man that eet him on.
No, don't split the Democracy. But, if Fillmore
had been elected, and this had been d° l,e > *l ie cr y
would have come up ell over I ho South to dissolve
th*? Union. Don’t split the Democracy ! If rhis
little notion —this Kansas question—has deceived
them, hold on to Democracy fords other great doc
trines. Remember, this Kansas question was the
only one in 1856. The other grea f doctrines! They
have violated every doctrine they ever had, and
he stood ready to prove it.
We wish we had time and youh <1 space to fol
low the speaker through iiisexpi ~-lions of the Demo
cratic internal improvement I ; tory—the giving
away of 104 millions of acres of land to rlalroad
companies and members ot Congress, by a Demo
cratic Congress. See. With a power of language, a
quickness aud keenness of sarcasm, he flayed them
—smiting them hip and thigh, and routing them
horse and dragoon-. Oh, it was e. glorious time—a
convincing time—a time to mak • men proud of
being American citizens, and to feel that it is aD
honor to the human raoe to claim such a man as
Ben. H. Hill.
Three cheers for Georgia’s American candidate
for Governor! * Auburn.
“There never was a political party which promi
ses such protection to the South and security to the t
Union and whose actions are characterized by such
exalted love of country and puri«y of m tive as the.
Democratic party.” —Times 4’ Sen.. Avgustbth.
Yes. the “ promises' ’ of the “Democratic party”
are excellent, bet its performances are abominable.
AsCfiockett said to Jackson **we like jour cider,
hut d—n your pickles!” You promised the people
if Buchana was elected, Kansas would tolerate
s!a\ cry-- Buchanan was elected auu notwithstand
ing he has done all he-couldagainst your ' promises,”
still iu youi opinion, it is **oblbquv to associate h i
name with his own appointed Governor, and you
refuse against proof “strong as Holy Writ’ to be
lieve “that Mr. Buchanan approves of the course of
Walker." Do you approve of such conduct as
“protection to the South” and as characterized by
“exalted love of country and purity of motive V'
Would you under the circumstances apply
such language to Fremont or Seward ? You *ouid
not and th ; s is the reason why, you say as you -are
taunted by Kn >w Nothing Journals and Know
Nothing orators for a wat t of fidelity to principle, a
blind arihericta to party and a devotion to the South,
subordinate to that ot love of spoils. —Cohtmbus
En</virgr. r
The City of Keokuk. —Basin ss in Ke< kuk,,
lowa is bri*k and do iris ing. To -how what a
hurry, go-ahead it is, and bow enterprising
are the citizens, we will mention a lit*le lumber
item Which we find in one ,of the l«*cnl journals.—
There are in all about twelve ou thirteen lumber
vards containing about lo.hOtJ.cib feet of lumber,
12 O<KJ 000 sbingjesf “and l“,bod 0(K) laths, and the
Rtiv bis beiD2 rafftdly me- ease .. Since the opening
of the se«n*8,000,000 feet of lumber, 2,000.000
shingle* and 4,OOO < ooO4atbs have been used. The
calculations are that the eo D eairpUon w,ll reach 25 -
000 000 feet of lumber, 20,000,000 of shingies and
i>o (100,000 of lath?. The hoaiuees.so tar th : s se„.
non has doub’ed that« t the last. Tnirteen bundled
carpenters find constant employment in the carpen
ters’ eh»»p« of the city , brick kilns keep a hive of
nine hundred men as busy as bees, and there are
thirty brief kiln*, which have already manuf. etured
ardsold 6.000.0tt0 bricksr The* amour t will reach
€0 000.000 tor the season, all of whicn will be a-ed.
Th< number of stone masons. Gone callers; quar
rynien. those engaged in macad * izing. aDd the
laborers, will reach 1500 : add o that 700p’a-terer?.
painters, flee., undone max fomsot e idea of the
quan ity ot building width must be going on to gi e
constant occupation to so many men. Up to the
nieiith of July past, there had been *250 fc >uses a'-
r*-ady complete d. abobt 380 under wav, and the cal
cu ation is that there will be from l *,06 to 1500 fin
ished before winter s»ts in; ab ut twen»y-five of
these already c«nt’acted for or finished wil average
I SIO,OOO, and the average of the rest is put down at
$l2lOO. Th** population of Keokuk is upwards of
20,000 of this number some 1500 or 2<HMI are en
gaged in commeiciai and profesa.onal pursuits. We
wil! mention last, though net least, the manufacturing
"Interests. There are, at least, 50 estabhahment*.
including foundries, machine shops, 4tc., which
altogether employ about I6ou men A right smart
burry-up active place Keokuk is, and no mistake,
and a splendid plaee for capitalists.— Bouton Post.
Arrest of n (’ouutcrfetter.
The stavetnent we gavein our paper of Saturday.
':ikea from tbe Lafayette Courier and Cincinnati
oomuit reial. hi reference to the draooa’ery and ar
rest ot a men in tiie above named coun
ties of fUie State, who have bitherto occupied re*
apeetable positions in society, for tbe crime of deal
ng m and passing counterfeit bank notes and bo
tusi u.u are, in the maiij, true. Some of the citi
1 - ls! "'t Henry and Kush counties, who had Occa
,*,r !,. bu , eet that t ose operations were goiug on
: nett . secured the services of Mr. VVm. Rea
ay. * t Ciacimiati, un a< c tmpiished detective police
timer, to hx tbe criur • aim arrest the guilty parties
in these nefarious transactions.
Ki.ough information lias been developed to make
certain Hint there is an esteisive aud well orgau
ztyl association, throughout this State, Ohio aud
Kentucky, composed of men who stand fair, who
u engaged in the eei.ing and passing of counter
etc H'-d bogus currency. When it was known that
>e a re-ts were made, several citizens of Rush auo
Henry counties suddruly found business in Morgan
• unty, and left, and one phvsieian informed his
'ite that he was compelled to go to "mill,'’ but has
jot beeu heard from since his departure The offi
•era are continuing their search for guilty parties,
with te.tr prospect of making other a- rests.
The first individual arrested was Dr. Patterson,
•f Carthage, Rush county, who has had an extern
■uve practice in that section of the country. He
idmitted. after his arrest, that he had been engaged
: the bhsiuess for two years, but it is supposed
.hat it tins extended back tive or six. He engaged
n the business first, he says, for the purpose of de
leeting soind-men whom he sppposed were engaged
iu ir, hut find ug it profitable he continued it. He
v.-s decoyed to sell some counterfeit $lO bills oil the
Northwestern bank of Virginia, a dangerous coun
erteir, anil afier llie saleot foil to two men was ar
rested, taken to a private room iu a hotel and iron
ed. Mr. Ri-any asked the Doctor where the bal
idceof the SIOO was he had agreed to Sell, and he
informed him it was under the cover of a stand in
ais < fiiee. It was found flier -, with other packages
concealed, amounting tos.’bU.
A trap door intw au attic s cry was opened, the
officer reached up, found three bottles marked qui
nine, in which were fouud rol's of counterfeit bauk
"fßi> Is of old neuspapois wore also found there
-untuipUig 1~0 bogus ha'.! d, liais. A c.elter was dis
oyered tiudei Ins b-d room, the only access to
bum was a small trap d, or in the flow at the side
Dt the bed, oovered by a carpet. It was a complete
dungeon, Without ligut, but fitted up with table
ban s, Ct 0., lor business. The officers found secret
' m various parts ol his cflice packages of counter
led tdl s and bogus cuin. I.eiteri were f mud in
ms possession born different members of the gang
•outninißg mformat! m,in which the real meaning
■ns concealed lu ulaßg phrases well known to the
tjyrotessicn.
i he Doctor was examined before a Justice of the
Peace iu Rushville, recognized in the sum of lllllj
ind committed in default of bail.
Thp next person arrested was Dr. Rogers, of
Kmghtstowe, a mail with a large lamily and respeo
ably connected. He has no business, but renre
- elite himeelt as a sporting gentleman. He had also
been engaged i.i selling Northwestern Hank ot Vir
ginia batik noles. In searching him they found a
slocounterfeit bill on the Hatter's Bank ut Connec
ticut. lie wes secured by the officers.
The next one arrested wa- Perry Bennett, of St.
Omar, who has been a terror ot tiie country. He
eras arrested by Mr. Kuany aud his posse, and sOll
111 new counterfeit hills on the Reading Bank,
Pennsylvania, was lound upon him. Ho was com
u: it ted for having counterfeit money in his posses
sion.
Dr. Lewis Frazee was arrested in Jonesville,
Baribolomew county. When the doctor was arres
ted, he al tempted to conceal a quantity of bogus halt
dollars behind a log. He acknowledged ids con
nection with the gai g, but said that he had beeu
drawn into it by Patterson. He was Lauded over to
United States Commistioner Orr, ot this city, who
committed him in default of s'>,ooo bail
Dr. Allen Robinson was next arrested at Mancie
town, a mau near sixty years of age. lie has be
hue been arrested for dealing iu counterfeit bank
notes, but turning State's evidence was discharged
Ou his person and in a bureau drawer in his house
were found counterfeit coin and bunk noles from
ten cents up lo SSO. Ihe following is a description
'! the bank notes : North Western Bank, Virginia,
denomination slo—some new and others soiled for
o. oca on; Sloe Bank of Indiana slo's- Northern
I'a ik, Kentucky, Ill’s; Bank ot Corning, New York
* Ckio Stock Back $.Vs: Mercantile Bank,
i lie 1 lord, Connecticut, ss’s ; Exchange Bank, Hart
ford, sl's; Farmers’ Bank, Indiana, slo’s; North
Caiolma Bank, $ >l)’s. Three bogus half dollars
we>e found ill his office, beside a galvanio battery,
j ist prepared for circulation. Counteifeit dimes ana
also spurious gold dollars were discovered about his
premises. The whole amount found was $743.70.
This man was taken before the United States Com
missioner at Rushville, and committed in default of
$2,000 bail.
Crucibles for melting were found at Dr. Robin
s oil's, but no dies A lot of new cents, of the late
Dsups, were fouud in his possession, which were un
doubtedly intended to be used for making the com
position for countegfeit coin. Mr. Beany says that
new counterfeit bihs were put in circu'ation the
*ume day in Rush. Henry, Decatur and Bartholo
mew counties that they were in Kentucky and In
diuna, thus proving the extent of the organization,
and tiie perfect understanding the members of the
i<ang had wuh each other.— lndianapolis Sentinel,
of August 3d.
Pigeon Shooting Ex rßiiouDiNary.—The match
Hi pigeon shoo thing tor which has been no
ticed iu tiie c duim sot the *- Spirit,’' came off on
Tuesday. July 28, at the Woodiawn Hotel, Bloom
iiiudale Road, un 1 attracted a large concourse of
spectators, amouget which were several of the fair
s-x. The shorniug w'as adm i ably executed, and
the pleaaureable laces around betokened much en
joyment by those witnessing the feat.
It will be l’eiueinoered thut in the notifying of
our readers on the 11th ult , the particulars of the
match was $2,000 against SI,OOO that Mr. King did
not kill 75 pige ms out ol 75 siDg’e shots, as follow's ;
oD to be trapped singly, 10 yards rise, the
shoote™ pull t.is own t#p, unci 50 birdß trapped
in pairs, 2t yards lias, making 25 pairs, at which 25
single fchuts were tired, thus making 75 shots at 100
birds, aud to win, 75 birds must be gathered within
100 yards of the traps. The excitement was con
siderable, and much interest occasioned on the nov
eliy of such an undertaking, public opinion being
that it, could n« t be done, but Mr. K.’s friends were
sanguine enough on the result and offered 3to 1 on
its being done, which proved to be the case, having
four birds to spare. ’Below we give the summary
of the shots as they occurred :
SINGLE SHOTS.
01 111 11110101111111111001 Jill 101111010111 mil 1
111—42
DOUBLE shots.
11 10 00 11 10 11 11 10 11 11 10 II 10 11 10 10
10 1J 10 11 JO 11 11 10 11.
In 50 single shots Mr. K killed 42 out of 50 birds;
25 double shots killed 37 out of 50 birds ; seventy
five shot- 1 killed 79 out of the 100 birds. —Spirit of
the Times.
Further of Judge Lynch at
Leayen worth —The steamer Hesperian, which
arrived ut St Louis from the Missouri river ou
Wednesday last, reports having been at Leaven
worth City on the Suuduy night preceding. When
our informant went up into the town, says the Si.
Louis Republican, a Vigilance Committee were try
ing Wood amt Knighton for being connected with
the late murder, and a very large crowd were
awaiting their decision. The supposition was that
Wood would bn hung that night; and the greater
part ot the people were anxious for his execution.
At about 10! o’clock, P. M., the Mayor appeared
before the crowd, aud advised th un to disperse, with
the promise ot giving t.Le prisoner a fair trial on the
succeeding day.
After bis speech a small portion of the crowd left
—ihe greater part remaining to hear the decision '*f
the Committee. In a few minutes after the Com
mittee appeared and stated their unwillingness to
hang the men before giving them a fair and impar
tial trial. After this the crowd dispersed, and a
guard was placed prisoners.
Arrest ok Counterfeiters at Lolisyille.—
The Louisville Courier notices the arrest m that city
on Thursday of three counterfeiters, who had been
operating in Indiana, and who had just, arrived
t here from Indiana. They registered t :eir names
ne T. J. Arbttchle, Wai. Hughes and J. A. Dearth.
The following is a descriptiiou of the money found
iu their possession :
The counterfeit paper njoney consisted of fifties
on the Union B nk of Louisiana, t wenties on the
State Bank of Louisiana, twenties on the State
Bunk ot Indiana, twenties on the Farmers’ and
Drovers’ Bauk of Waynesburg, Pa., tens on the
Hatters’Bank; of Connecticut, tens ontheNorih
western Bank of Virginia, fives on tbe Mercantile
Bii.k of Hartford, and various raised notes on Ten
nessee banks. The bogus Mexican and American
silver coin wa? well executed, but could readily be
detected by ifs light weight. The one dollar pieces
were unfinishe L
Missouri Elections. —ihe telegraph announces
the qleetion of Rollins, the Anti-Democratic candi-.
date tor Governor. The St Louis Intelligencer, in
speaking of Rollins’ probable election, says :
* But before we begin to rejoice, let us see who are
to join in the joy. And fi 4 st, we slate emphatically
this is no American victory. Rollins is an Ameri
can, but he distinctly disavowed running on the
American platform. He ran as an Independent to
reoreseut tiie entire classes and interests of this
great State, and he called on Benton men, foreign
ers, Woigs, Americans, Emancipationists, aud, in
fact, all parties, to vote for him. And they did.
Them- are the parties then that are to rejoice to
gether if Rollins fe elected—Whigs, Benton Demo
crats, naturalized citizens, ai.d Americans. It is a
victory of the “ best men of nil parties.”
Wine Trade.— A cenespendent, writing from
Oporto, under date of Jflne 6th, informs u? that
there are no kinds of Pmt wine which can be pur
* shased for le-*s than $l6O per pipe, even this of mis
err-ble quality. Ordinary wines are selling for SIBO
' to $250 per pipe. Old tawney wines are very scarce
and woith from $350 to SSOO per pipe. Battled
wines are sold at prices varying from $3.50 to $lO
per d' zen. There are no wines in the kingdom of
env description 4hrt can be bought for less than
sl6oper pipe that w ill admit of the loDg voyage to
America, and anything under S2OO per pipe is of
poor quality Toe disease of the vine is stiH pro
gress! i g, and I tear that tifere will be very little
wine made this year. Thousands of v nes have
died, and have been rooted up Merchants and far
mere in this quarter have, tos' all hopes of the pres
ent yintage. In consequence of this state of things
many of the. leading houses state Hi their circulars
that they have been obliged to advance the prices
of their shipping wines from £SO to £7O per gipe,
'nd are nor wiling to ship at a lower price
Washington Union
Ravages of Yellow r ever on* Board West
India Steamer*.—The jeilow fever, we see by
oar Eogiit-h idle* by th*- Persia, is making dreadfui
ravagt-a on board the West India ano Southampton
mail sieameis. For example, thaClvde, which not
long since left K ugs on, Ja , for St. Thomas, to con
nect tbera with the Orinoco, had eight deaths on
the vo age, (of four ays only,) with a great many
dangerously eick The ship is apokenot as a model
of cleanliness, and her commander and officers un
wearying in theq care for those who were ill—so
that the pestilence i* not to be attributed either to
tne dirt or neglect, which but two often causes
mortality at sea. Wbei. the passengers were tran
.-hipped into the Orinoco, at St. Thomas it was hop
ed that the pestilence was left behind, tyuite the
c«*n‘rary; for, without going Tnto the distressing
details of each day’s mortality, it may be stated
that cut of .seventy-five cases a*tracked hcenty—
eight died of t/eJtoicft ter. The Dee, another vessel
• n ibe same hoe, Lad lost ten passengers by* the
fever. _
The Defalcation Yn Ohio.—«ln regard to thd
O' io defalcation, a Columbus letter to the Cincin
nati Gazett- mtl. r d-ite of August Ist, that a
tliorougY overhnu ,ug of the auditor's and treasur
ers books has been made, and a statement of the
account of the treasury from January 12th, 1852, to
•June 13 q, 1857, has Oeen prepared, showing that
the dedication at the latter date amounted to
$728,691 Ul. A number of parties have been ques
tioned as to the bu*ims< relations of both the treaa
mvrs implicated. and after a close examination of
Mr Gibbon, who*:* lesri r ony is comprised.iu forty
MSS. p gee, with all papers and accounts in
in their reach, Mr. Gibson’s former statements te
the con-rary. only $353,000 have been returned of
a sum of more than oue million of dollara taken
from the treasury 6/ Mi Bresiin, of which he alone
w** in default, making J. G. Breslin a defaulter for
$"28,681 01. Os this sum lie furni-hed depreciated
paper arooimting to $154,636 36, making the State
a los r outright and unacoounted for of $574,854 65!
Mr. Gibson claims not one dollar of the pablie
money has stuck to his hands or beeii lost by him,
and presents an account ot a balance due to him by
the Stale of $16,000.
The Leavenworth Tragedy.
e in the Kansas correspondent of the Bos
on Journal a very long and interesting account ot
He ljnchmg at Leavenworth, contain ng meny new
acts, and much elaboration of detail. The follow
ng account of the speech of Judge Lecompte, be
ore the first execution, is graphic :
Aft-r dinner the inflammatory feefingstill prevail
•d, and the crowds increased in size Judge I
■ornpte finally appeared npou the balcony of one o
he hotels, and addressed the people endea.orini
to dissuade them from violence. Several hunared
sersons were assembled in a few minutes, and
os presence and remarks but added fuel to the
flame.
tie implored the citizens in God’s name to reflect
npon what they proposed to do, and leave the priso
ler to be punished in the regular way—through the
tourts of justice.
A dozen voices responded that there was no le-al
l astic-e in Kansas—that the courts were a farce—
ind ’hat no mau had ever beeu punished here for
murder.
Judge Lecompte admitted that no murderer had
eeu convicted, but it was not his fault. There
vas no man who loved justice aud hated crime
uore than he—no one who was more anxious to see
he guilty punished. (This remark brought ou’
note and sneers from every portion of the crowd.)
the trials for capital offences iu Kansas iiadhitherie
leen in connection with political affair*, in whie! I
■arty feeling was involved. But this wa's not sud t
i case. The prisoners could be put into the hands ot
the United States Marshal and safely kept If the\
were guilty they were the proper parties to be
cade au example of, and would be punished. 1
they were not guilty they ought not to suffer. This
was the course provided for by the Constitution ano
Laws of our country, and he trusted that every gouu
citizen would use his influence to let the law tak
its course. ’
A Voice—We don't wau l any mole Fugit trials j>
Another \ nice—A prisoner got clear here the cv«p
er day by paying $3.
Judge Leeompte—Every man of you who aja&iii"
the commission of violence, breaks the laws of the
and. lou will be liabel, under the laws of the
United States, to indictment for murder.
A Voice—lndict a-d be d d then 1
the excitement became uncontrola
ble. Witlcn ten minutes two thousand men and
boys had gathered around the jail, which is* small
stone building, with very strong doiys of wood and
iron. At. a short distance from the crowd many wo
men also were lookers on.
Judge Leeompte again attempted to speal: but a
perfect tumult of shouts prevented hint. S .me dc
dated that he had ruled and wronged peaceable
citizens too loug already. Others said that unless
he refrained from speaking an example would be
made ot him. The Judge very wisely withdrew.
Another speaker sprang upou some elevated ob
ject, and urged that no violence should be used. IP
commanded the peace. He announced that he wu
the L ited States Marshal, when km voice was in
stantly drowned by such cries as “down with him, ’
"let 8 hang him, he deserves it," etc. The Marshal
rreatly frightened, and with good reason. He tut ti
ed pale; his voice grew husky, and he also disap
peared m thecrowd.
“*Ron, the post master here and a certain Judge
Wood ot Lecompten, both attempted to speak, but
were dissuaded by their friends. The crowd was in
such an exasperated condition that a few words from
any energetic person would have caused their
lives to pay the forfeit, had they persisted in snehk
mg. r
Mayor Adams was absent from the city on a
business trip to Atchinson. Judge S N. Latin, who
was officiating in his place, did bis best to restrain
the people, bet his influence was like a whisper iu
a tempest. Mr. Cowell, the City Marshal, stood bts
ground bravely; but he was picked up like a play
thing by a dozeu meu, carried away a few rods
and held in full view of the scene. Another officer
was knocked down, and others were removed.
A crowbar was soon brought, and an attempt
made to pry the doors open. That not proviso
successful, a stick of timber, eight or feu inches
square and thirty feel long, was procured. The
people used it as a battering ram, and the bolts of
the door were iustantly broken.
It appears that Quarles is a native of South Caro
lina, Piekens’ district, and Bay of Points ville, John
ston county, Kentucky. The latter kept a dtinking
shop ill Leavenworth. Both were hardened wretch
es. Knighten, who was first arrested, and con
fessed the whole conspiracy, is a native of Clay
county, Indiana, and only 21 years old.
while the crowd were abseut at the gallows the
first time, the officers took Knighten and Woods
from the jail and carried them up to the F.n l, for
safe keeping. Gen. Harney, however, refused to
receive them, on the ground that there were but
lew troops there to guard them, and that the guard
room vas full.
Woods, who appears fohave been the chief of
the gang, was a native of Tennessee. The oouute.
t'eit money was all obtained from hi n. and he seems
to have grown quite rich by robbery and other
crimes. On the "second day of the mob Major
Adams returned, and by It's popularity managed to
disperse the multitude. Knighten made a detailed
confession. The following is the substance of it:
My name is Ammon Knighten ; am twenty-one
years old; was born in Clay couu'y, Indiana, but
principally raised in Hendricks county, iu the same
State, where my parents now reside; was brought
up and have always lived until this summer on a
farm; arrived in Kansas on the first of July ; drove
a government team on the prarte until the 19th,
when I was taken sick and came back to Leaven
worth ; stayed about town working in a brick-yard
until a week ago to day, when I went over to the
island and engaged to chop wood for Powers &
Losie; on Monday commenced chopping with
Quarleß, whom I had never seen before ; in a few
days showed me some counterfeit mouey ; wanted
me to take some and pass it, offering to divide the
profits; said be knew where he could get five thous
and dollars of it.
One day he got me pretty drunk, (I am not in the
habit of drinking much,) and gave me a slonote
on a South Carolina Bank; I offered it at the city
bakery in Leavenworth, but it was refused, and I
became frightened, and threw it away; never told
Quarles what I did with it; iaat Friday night 1
came over here with him at his request; he did not
tell me for what purpose he wished me to come ; lie
bad a knife and revolver in his belt when we start
ed ; Woods met us at the skiff and come over with
us ; he and Quarles had a good deal of private con
versatien together; Quarles treated me until I was
pretty drunk ; then told me there was a mau here
who had SIOO, whom Woods had told him about,
and that Bays proposed we should all get him out
of town, and take the money from him ; l sa d I
had never been in any scrapes of that kind, and
would not go; he told me there was no danger, ami '
made me drink more ; I had never seen Woods or
Bays beiore , Quarles intimated to me that ho could
get counterfeit money of them; said Woods was
their bauket, and they all deposited with him.
I gathered from what he told me, and from por
tions which I heard of their private conversation to
gether, that there was a large gang of them; that
some of the company were in Osawkee, Lecornpton,
Lawrence and other p'aces through the territory ;
he wished me to go til with them to rob this man ;
it was Uefore supper when we came over the river ;
during the evening Quarles and Wuoaa were to
gether a good deal; Quarles left me several times,
and we met afterwards ; at last, before nine o’clock
when we met in a saloon, he told me Bays had gone
after the man, and we drank once more aud went
up the levee together; some distauce below the
spring we met two men, who were strangers to me;
before we met, Quarles told me there had been a
murder committed lately up here, aud said, " Don’t
you see the man with the Btraw hat on
We understood him to menu that one of the men
whom we met had been concerned in the murder he
spoke of; he bade them good evening when we met
them; when we got to the spring, Bays and the de
ceased weresittingjust below it, talking; Quarles ;
said, before we got there, “ that is our man with the :
black coat on,” (Stevens;) he also said Bays had j
arranged it so that Stevens would have no arms 1
about him; we walkt d to the spring, drank, aud j
passed up a little, Bays and Steveia then came t
down to the spring ; Bays drank, stepped back and !
invited Stevens to drink ; he did so, aud wjteu he j
commenced rising. Bays caught him by the collar j
and told him to dtliver up Ins mouey ; he struck Sto
vens at the same moment; Stivenß screamed,strug
fled, and got off a little way, and there was a sufflu;
threw a stone at him which I picked up on the
way, at the requtst of Quarles ; 1 was but foul' or
five feet away from the struggle, and I sprang over
and caught Stevens by the arm ; Bays still had hold
of him, and he was down; Quarles struck him with
his knife ; Bays said, “ kill aim and throw him in
the river."
Quarles fired a pistol shot, during the scuffi -,
Bays and Quarles were fumbling about Stevens,
but I didn't see them get any money ; I had no idea
they intended to hurt him until Quarles stabbed
him ;he got away from us, ran own the ba k
into the river, making a moaning noise ; X ran away
with Quarles, as fast as I could; Bays disappeared
in the other directiou; Quarles threw his knife
uway, aud we came around to town aud went into
Bays’ grocery, where several men were playing
cards; Quarles began talking with them snout or
dinary matters ; very soon Bays came to the door,
and called out an Irishman: in a few minutes the
Irishman returned, and eaid Bays had been lobbed.
Bays locked pale, and said he and Stevens had gone
to the spring to drink, when they were attacked,
he was robbed, aud he thought Stevens was mur
dered.
The Irishman said, “let us go down and see about
it;" so two Irishmen, Quarleß, Bays sand myself
went down to the spring ; found Steveriß lying on a
rock, on the water’s edge, groaning faintly; Quarles
and Bays sent the Irishman for a doctor, ana while
they were gone, searched Stevens ; he only liven a
minute or two ; I saw no money, but I saw Quarles
throw something into the water, which he took from
his (Stevens) pocket; the doctor soon came and pro
nounced Stevens dead; Quarles and I staid till the
coroner came ; we then went down town; he t ink
his revolver and some counterfeit money he had and
said he gave them to Wood ; I left him.in a saloon ;
went down the river some distunce and siepr under
a tree; in the morning was going across the river
to the island, when I was arrested, I felt bad and
recklees, andoidn’t care whether they arrested me j
or not, when I took Stevens by the arm to hold him,
it was at Quarles’ orders ; I have always been an
honest boy before.’’
Indian Fighticg in Texas.—We are indebted
to Lieut. Wood, U. S. A., who arrived here last
evening, from Texas, eu route sos Washington, for
the following facts, which were received by him
from Lieut Hood, of the 2d Artillery, just as he wus
leaving Texas :
Lieut. Hood, Company G, 2d Cavalry, reports an
engagement, on the 20 th J uly, at th j head of Devil
River, with 45 Indians.
He had tweDty-four men on a scouting party;
was informed at Fort Mason, from which he was de
tached, that a band of Lipans had obtained permis
sion to bring in tbeirfamihes, and if they encountered
any of the scouting parties, they were to hoist u
white flag On the 20lh, he discovered ten Indians
who raised a white flag. He kept seven men with
i biH pack mules and started towards them, andfwhen
he approached within abo lit thirty yards, they ttn
| mediately lowered their flag, and twite thirty In
dians sprang up aud commenced firing rifles and
, These shots were forthwith returned, and a close
, combat ensued. Lieut. Hood’s meu were armed
with yagers and one revolver each. The melee be
came so dose that one of tne*men, alter tiring his
fun, hung it over the pommel of his saddle, and an
odian took it off!
He killed nine Indians and wounded jten or twelve.
Lost two men, one killed and ouexnissiug; one
I dangerously wounded ; himself and three men
were wounded; and one horse was killed and three
wounded.
Lieut. Hood had seventeen fighting men in the
engagement. HisJ guides counted forty-five In
dians, and stated them to bo Lipans and Carnau
• ches.
If Lient. Hood’s men had been armed with two
’ revolvers each.it is thought lie would have dcs
’ t rayed the whole party.— N. O. Picayune , Avgutl
The Sugar Trade.—A cargo of Manilla eug» r >
of 25,000 bags, sold in New York, on Wednesday,
at cents, six months credit, to be divided among
five refiners, each taking 5,000 bags. T “®
says this cargo was owned in Boston, and p
to its arrival 10J cent* per pound WM
refused. The difference between •hisoflW *° d the
price now sold at nuK.net. .to more then
exclusive of the difference m du y.
Villow Fet*r at St. Mart » A report wa*
rife m tide city yesterday, that a case of ‘ e *
"« £d occurred at Bt. Mary’. and proved fatal.
•‘The man who died wa. a Salor boarding house keep
er and ooatractedithe diaeaee from the crew ot a
Spaniah eh ip, wb.Oh had been duebaiging at that
port. Mstm. dwrpoii Jdendo|r>
VOL. LXX.—NEW SERIES VOL. XXL NO. 33
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Unter from Mu rope— By the Fulton.
The steamer Fulton has arrived at New York,
with European dates corresponding with thoße
brought by the Indian at Quebec. The details con
tain lit tie of interest which has not already been
publish d in our telegraphic summary. We sub
join a few items :
The marriage of Ihe Princess Charlotte, of Bel
gium. wiili ihe Archduke Maximillian, of Austria
was celebrated with great pomp at Brussels, on the
'Jith. Prince Albert represented the English Court
on theoccasiou.
The King of Belgium had granted an amnesty to
numerous prisoners.
Letters to the London Times state that the En
ghsh and French Ambassadors at Madrid had noti
that she could not rely on assistance from
their Governments, ln the event of a war with Mexi
co, consequently Spain had acceded to the offers of
mediation.
A represeotative of Santa Ann* had arrived at
Madrid.
The trials of the Italiau insurgents were progress
ing at Naples on the 23d July, but up to that date
none of the prisoners had been shot. A prisoner
named Nicotera had revealed the whole plan.
A despatch from Berlin says that the Government
who are-parties to the Zullverein, collectively claim
froux.Eoglaiid indemnity tor the losses sustained by
tltMf subjects at Canton, the bou brrdmont having
place without previous intimation to their
rtv> us consternation prevailed along the Mozelle
on ai\ount.ot serious conflagrations which had de
aln-yed wmtll towns villages and forests. It was
believed to be the work of incendiaries.
li was slated that negotiations were in progress
for a conciliation between the Sardinian and Aus
than governments, and the consequent renewal of
diplomatic relations.
The Russian government had reduced the rate of
4 1 interest paid by (he Imperial Banks from four to
| ftlir *e per cent., from the 15th of August next.
* } Odessa is no louger to be a free port, but is to be
subjected to the general tariff.
The Austrian government was said to have sign
<*d a Convention with various Itailian States, the
wluoh is to resist in future any revolut on
nr vr; tacks.
The utmost dispatch was being used in the ship
nfent of tro »ps to ludia
The mutiny had continued to spread among the
troops of the Bengal army.
The Ex King of Oude has beeu arrested, and,
with Ins Minister, has been imprisoned in Fort Wil
liam. The government has obtained proof of his
complicity in the conspiracy.
U > to the J7th o r June General Barnard had re
pulsed several sorties iioui Delhi wilh heavy loss to
the insurgents. Ho was waiting <*or reinforcements.
From Madras it is positively seated that Delhi
has been captured, hu! the iut« L gerc- is not con
firmed from Bombay, ami seems i*r**mature.
An act Ims been passed by the L gisla’ure placing
the Indian pvees u der altCeimesys.Hm.
Tie- native troops at Calcutta, and the brigade at
liarrackpore, have been qui tly disarmed.
An uneasy feeling prevailed at Madras, but the
army of that Presidency, and of Bombay, are both
without the rtl'ghtest sign of disaffection.
c take tne following telegraphic dispatches,
from Tri ste, from the London Times :
Tho Chinese tleet has been dectroyed in two se
vere engagements.
The Cnmese fought their guns with unexampled
const aiicy.
We have 83 men killed and wounded.
Major Kearney was killed in the last engage
ment.
Commodore Keppel and the Master of the Ra
leigh have been tried for the loss of that vessel and
acquitted.
A3 is quiet in the North.
As the Agamemnon was weighing anchor, in the
Thames, a serious accident occurred, by the cap
stern i uuniug away with the men at the bars. Fii
teen men were more or less injured—some of them
badly. The Agamemnon left Siieerness for Cork,
on the 27th, and it was supposed that all the v«-s
sels wou'd be at the rendezvous by the time the lu
dian left Lverpool. The ereateet confidence was
manifested in the successful accomplishment of the
enterprise.
Later from Texas.
The steamship Opelousas has arrived at New
Orleans, bringing later news from Texas. The
Picayune has the following summary of intelli
gence :
The news of the death of Gen. Rusk had reached
Galveston, Houston and Indiauola, and created a
profound seuaution. The papers of those cities are
m mourning for the sad event. The Galveston Civ
iln.n, of the 4th, remarks:
"The news fell upon our city this morning
as a funeral knell, creating the most profound
sensations of sorrow among all classes. We have
neither the time or inclination to-day to dwell upon
the public loss or the virtues of the illustrious dead
—lie who is acknowledged to have been the most
popular m n in the Uuited States Senate, and in
his own State—tne idol of his neighbors, and a hero
ot our own revolution. Others will doubtless pre
pare a memoir of his life and public services, and
all Texas, indeed, all national men, will mourn his
dcuth in the meridian of life and fame as a nation’s
loss.” •
The Civilian Extra, of the 6th inst., gives returns
of the State election, held on tho 3d, from eighteen
counties, and parts of counties, by which it appears
that the vote for Governor, as far as heard from,
was as follows : Runnels 4.151, Houston 2,455 —
majority for Runnels 1,696. Galveston, Harris,
Calhoun and Washington counties had elected the
Democratic candidates for the State Seuate, and
accounts of the return of fourteen Representatives
—all Democrats—had been received.
The Galveston News, of the 4th, says :
The election in this city yesterday was the occa
sion of considerable excitement and some noise
among the friends of the various candidates, but no
serious disturbances occurred. A pretty large vote
was given, and the result is a complete triumph for
the candidates of the Democratic party, without
exception. Runnels leads Houston for Governor
by 2»1 votes, which is more than twice as large a
majority as the city gave Buchanan over Fillmore
last November.
Such a drought as we have now in this city was
never be'ore known. Nearly all our cisterns are
empty, and probably three-fourths of our popula
tion are using well water for all the purposes for
which it can be used.
From all accounts the health of the towns on Ma
tagorda Bay and our coast generally, continues
more than usually good. Iu fact, we hear no ao
counts of sickness whatever, and it is to be hoped
th* season may pass without any of the sad scourges
which have visited some of our sea ports in former
years.
The Victoria Advocate, of the Ist inst, says s
The planters on the river below town are exult
ing in the prospect of large cotton crops. The stands
are excell nt, ami the plant is thrifty and loaded
with bolls and blossoms.
The Austin State Gazette, of the Ist instant says:
Capt. Giles has shown us some bolls of cotton
which opened upon his plantation about the 23d of
July. It looks very well to be raised with so muoli
drought as we have experienced. Ills plantation is
situated near Austin.
The Fairfield Pioneer, of the 25th nit., reports a
heavy ram m that county, continuing for two or
three days. Some now think that at least a half
crop of corn will be made while others say three
fourths of a crop. Cotton is doing tolerably well.
The Quitman Herald uotioee aohaly beate spring
in the northeastern corner of Wood county, whioli
bids fair to become a famous watering place.—
About 100 persons ale stoppi- g there this season.
I f is about seventeen mdes from Quitman, uud is
said to pjssess fare medicinal properties.
The Bascrop Advertiser says that Col Allen, of
Kontui.ky, has been iutown with the vievol esp.b
fishing there a military edcaticnai ii et tutu n ot a
high "ider. Col. Allen is widely known throughout,
the Union as a highly successful tea- he v . The cor
poration of Bastrop have appropriated $2,000 to aid
the enterprise, and private citizens have coutribu
i ted liberally to the same object. Its suoce3B is con
sidered certain.
The cultivation of the Chinese sugar cane has
Dein thoroughly tested in Bastrop county, and
has withstood the drought aaUnisLingly. While
corn has failed to grow in tho same field, the plant
has grown to the height of six and eight feet.
The Dallas Herald reports that on the 23d ult.
the long hoped for and much needed rain fell in
qopious quantities, thoroughly saturating the earth,
and giving vegetation a new start.
The same paper says :
Large droves of buffalo have recently comedown
on the west folk of Trinity, some forty or fifty miles
above Fort Worth They are supposed to
been driven into that region for water. It is the
Ifrpt time for several years that buffalo have been
seen so near us in large numbers.
The Belton Independent is credibly informed that
late rams in that section of the State will increase
the corn crop about fifty per cent.
The Goliad Express says the surprising success of
the wheat crop this year has set every one in the
notion ot sowing at least a trial patch for the next
season. It is reduced to a demonstration (the Ex
press adds) that all parts of Texas are among the
finest wheat regions iu the world.
A Terrible Waterspout in Lower Canada.
—Mr. Prouix,of St.Elizear, in the county of ooauee,
writes to the Journal de Quebec a very lively des
cription of a waterspout which burst near the vil
lage church. It made its anpearauce at first in the
form of a cloud of the blackest kind, about an acre
and a half in extent, pressed against by other mas
ses of greyish cloud.
Shortly the cloud seemed to be torn in two, and
a large column was s en to descend fiom the open
ing to the earth like an avalanche. Distended above
undsucki g the cloud, this column, like an immense
serpent, twisted itself about with frightful rapi ity,
and balancing itself in the water like the tail of a
paper Kite, rushed to the earth with a hissing noise
resembling tho escape of steam. It plowed up the
ground, s-vept away everything within reach, and
planks, pules, and ruins of buildings mounted into
the air like the rubbish out of a volcano.
The house of William Grenier was twisted, bro
ken, the chimney beaten down, and the roof car
ried (ff into the air. A barn was beaten dowD, and
the fragments scattered. The roof was torn off the
house of Joseph Boulanger and dashed to atoms.—
The bam and stable of Elizear B-ulanger were de
stroyed, and one of the timbers, thirty feet in length,
carried across a ten acre field.
A horse belonging to Thomas Oullet was raised
to he height ot thirty feet from the ground, and
the n fell, covered with mud and leaving a deep im
prersion on the spot where he struck. Three cows
were similarly raised, and covered with mud when
they fell. Two carts were lifted from in front of
the demolished bouse of Wm. Grenier, and carried
furiously over the neighboring fields into the woods,
where they were smashed to atoms. More than oue
hundred acres of lencing was torn up,.together with
the pickets, raised to the clouds, and after some
time, scattered over the neighboring fields and
woodsy a good number falling straight, were buried
so deep in the ground that they could not be pulled
out by one man. Fields of grain were destroyed
as if a heavy harrow had passed and repassed seve
ral Three sugar tushes were beaten dowu,
and the trees were broken and interlaced like a field
of grain which has been beaten down by hail. A
maple tree of considerable diameter was plucked
up and carried a distance of five acres. Aa euor
. mous cherry tree was carried through the air in tne
same manner.
The Pnwt adds that he witnessed these ravages
»ith his own eyes, and that the facts stat y
can be attested by hundreds.
Th, N«t
"Washington L , ul . <, ‘ i « uae J[ Representatives of the
f„i- Uiem-.ersof the h^d in aU the States
n t Uufon with the exception of Maryland Geor
• mLY io»i and Louisiana, with the following
f2of- Ge.nmir.ts, HO; Black Republican- 91 ;
Au ericai s * vacancies, 2. Jn the States of Tex
es, Kentucky, Tennes-ee. Nortt "'- and Ala
bum*. Congressional -lection 1 w re held last week,
and although full and compute returns ave not
beeu received,the Union thinks that ihe actual re.
buR will verify the correctness of the figures given
above. Should no changes occur in the remaining
feur .States, where elections are to be held, the next
Houbc of Kepreseu'aiwes will stand a* follows :
Democrats, 125 ; B ack Republicans, 91; Ameri
cans, 16; vacancies, 2. The Il« use of Representa
tives consists of 234 members —118 members con
firming a majority. As the case now ntaods---al
-1 ' lowing no change in the four States wt ere elections
' j are to be held—the Democrats wilt have ft majority
• j vs sixteen in the next Home. — Balt. Pat.
i ' The city of Lexington, and Fayette county, the
l , home and 1 evidence of Henry Clay, gave nearly 400
majority againat James B. Clay for Congress
Correspondence of the Cincinnati Gazette
From Knnsn*.
Lawrence, Aug. 3. —Gov. Walker having re
mained watching the people of Lawr. nee till on his
sober mornings he became heartily ashamed of hitn
ielf, has beeu for several days cast ing about him for
•mine means to get out of his miserable scrape
Four dav* ago a messenger was despatched by him
to Fort Riley—for what purpose nobody knew, but
last night a courier came from the Fort to Walker’s
camp with dcspatche- i this morning at eivht
o’clock. Walker « fame up near Lawrence was
broken up. and he and ml his .roops started up the
river, leaving'the people of Lawrence to commit
treason unpunished. It is reported that the courier
brought news that the commander of the Fort was I
afraid the Cheyenne Indians wouid attack him, and ■
•asked Walker for aid, but the messenger himself, ™
(I saw him this morning) did not think the Fort in
auy danger.
The whole thing is understood here as an inven
tion to give Walker an opportunity to withdraw
gracefully from Lawrence. Ashamed of his exploit,
he is glad to reireat back into the interior of the
Territory, away from newspaper reporters, and out
of sight • nd hearing of Lawrence.
Col Titus arrived here last night. He has gone
up the liver with the Governor.
Correspondence of the St. Louis Democrat.
Lawrence, Aug. 3. —lt is the duty of the Gov
ernor to make apportionment for the Territoral
ejection. It a fair apportiomneni was made, the
Free State men would carry the election by a ma
jority of nine teuths. This result would not suit
the purposes of the Natioua' Democracy ; a fraud,
therefore, was resolved on. Gov. Walker, in bis
speech at Topeka, used the following language :
In October next, not under the act of our Terri
torial Legislature, but under the law of Congress,
you, the whole people of Kansas, have the right, to
-led a delegate to Congress and to elect a Territo
rial Legislature.”
II • promised that this lijjht should be secured by
a “ fair and full election.”
Ah he is PreHident Buchanan's candidate tor the
next Demo« ratic nomination, it would u«.t 00, of
course, for Walker to execute the contemplated
fraud directly.
By the bogus laws the Governor is required to
make au apportionment before n given day ia
June; but it provides that if he fails to fulfil this
duty it shall f il to the ta*k of the Speak r of tho
House of Delegates and tho President of tho Terri
torial Council.
Governor Walker was familiar with t he provision
of the act, fir he ftfeJ-pd t*» it in one of ilia
speeches in Kansas. He now dodges the execution
of the fraud and permit*' the Speaker and the Presi
dent to do it. Bemembor that th** act only save that
after n named day in Juue. it may, not rhali be
Fine by these The Governor never loses
t'ie power to make this appiintineut, and should be
sternly held re-po able t r i's character.
Trie apportionment lias been made. What is its
character l
The southern p rt of Kansas-—south of the Kansas
River—is the most earnest anti Slavery portiou of
the Territory A recent census show s that a mere
fraction ot i lie people tin re are til Pro-Slave r y pro
clivities. North of the Kansas the ingro-driving
fanatics have greater strength. The southern part
ia dsnse’y settle I
Douglas county and Johnson county (on tlie Mis
souri border) form one electoral diatri t The eouu
ties of Lynn and Lykins -oi t.h ■* bur er also—cou
stitute the oth r di tri ts The oth« r counties,
south, although thickly settled, tie nearly disfran
chised.
Nineteen counties, containing within eight hun
dred ot one half of the entire populate nos Kansas,
are allowed only three representatives, while the
remaining fourteen counties, north, are allowed
thirty-six representatives!
Provision has been made, also, in case of a Free
State nugo Jy, order circumstance* ho unfavorable,
to bring io manufactured and fraudulent, returns
from the Rappahoe county which is eumrngly an
nexed Douglas e unty. Johnson is united to
Douglas, becau>e 1 a wrence is in Doughs, and
Johnson is near the Platte purchase—a fertile quar
ry of vo»e«.
The elec ion of Fe** Stat© offlc°n and for t'i©
purpose . i en lo'sing the Top k*» Consti ut : on was
held to day. Law re i ecus’ 663 votes in favor of it.
From the Weston (Mo.) Dispatch.
We are sorr* t* w eu. faint-hearted few, who, by
the way. are no' thoroughly acquaint'd with Kan
sue matter* indu'giug in wonts of despondency as
to making Kansas a slave St ite. Tin se best ac
quaintefi with theaffars •»< P.e Terri torry, and who
have labored long and faithfully for the purpose of
implanting Southern institutions there, enteitain
high hopes ot success, and look upou the signs of
the times us more cheering to their cause than at
auy former period in the history of the Territory.
The Bank Robbery in Toronto.—A most pain
ful train of circumstances has come to light in re
gard to the robbery comin'tted hist week upon the
Government agency of the B ink of Upper Cuimda.
The condition o! the cilice the morning after tlie
robbery was committed, and the absence of violence
upon the Bank Ha'e, led to suspicions that the deed
was done from within and not from without; and
these suspicions were confirmed by the discovery
that, the glass in the window, cut by the burglar* sj
*is to remove the inside fastenings and enable thorn
to pass. into the room, was cut with a diamond from
the inside and not from without The agent, Mr.
Cummings, was thereupon subjected to a (dose
examination, and all lira b •« • ' s mm 1 papeis minutely
overhauled. We regret t* v at lliis iutestiga
tion disclosed the fact thn •• i Cummings had for
some lime been secretly e* (Fn * the funds of the
Bank (entrusted to him for Government purposes)
tj various individuals—and that at the moment of
the robbery he was largely in default to the Bank.
A charge was just about being made in the mode
ofcondin t ng the Goveinmunt agency, wb oh must
have led to the detection of the whole afTair—-and
the suspicion na urally fol'owed that a mock robbe
ry was got uo 1 * avert discovery. Criminal infor
mations, on this belief. were immediately laid by
the officers of the Bank against Mr. Cummings,
and certain parties to u horn be avers he lent the
missing money. We have not ascertained names
of all the parties implicated, though rumor points
to more than one individual occupying a prominent
position. There is no doubt, however, of the mel
ancholy fact, that warrants have been issued for
the arrest o'J. J. Kerby. barrator of this city, and
Mr. McGaffoy, formerly a contractor, and now
director of the Northern Railroad. Mr McGaffey
was apprehended yesterday afternoon, but at a late
hour last night neither Mr Cum nings nor Mr. Ker
by had been arrested — Globe , Aug. 6.
The Colonis says that it is all«g'-d that McGaffey
received $7,000, and Kerby $1 000, and that they
won the money at cards from Cummings. It fa
furl her added that Cummings has confessed the
whole matter.
The Protestant World in Conference.—A
Convention, composed of representatives from all
part* of the word, embracing all denominations of
Protestant Christians, baa been called, under the
auspices of the “ Evangelical Alliance,” and, by in
vitation of the King of Prussia, will meet iu Benin,
Prussia, iu September next. Among the represen- *
tativesare Dr Dwight, Dr. King and Mr. Scimffer, '
missionaries from Constantinople. A large deiega- *
tion from the United States will be present. Arising
them the Rev Dr Alexander, from the Old School
Presbyterian Church ; Dr Forsyth, from the Asso
ciate Reformed ; Rev. Wm, Nasi, of Cincinnati,
from the Episcopal; and Dr. Black, from the Re
formed Presbyterian. The latter fw • sailed on
Thursday in the steamer Indiana. The Archbishop
of Canterbury, with various prelates and foreign
ambassadors, have interested themselves in the
matter. Dr. Meil d’Auhigne has consented to pre
pare a discourse <»u the Evangelical Alliance for the
promotion of union, as compared with assemblies in
priinitiv - times for the same purpose. Reports on
the state of Protestantism in different countries are
to be made, and a general interchange of sentiment
enjoyed. The subjeot o f rel'gious liberty will be
freely discussed, as the King has promised protec
tion in perfect freedom of speech on this as well as
all other subjects. The meeting Is looked forward
to with great interest by the Christian world.— Balt.
Amer.
T«i Greatest Natural Bridge in tbe
World.—The Abingdon Virginian « on rad.ets he
statement recently published, that “the greatest
natural bri ge in the world is that over Ced*r
creek in Virginia. It extends across a chasm 80
feet iu width, and 250 feet, deep, a' the bottom of
which a creek flows.'' The Virginian says : The
writer is mis’&ken, not as to the dimensions of the
bridge, but ns to the faot of its being the “greatest
natural bridge in the woi d.” There is a natural
bridge within 52 miles of this place, in Soott county,
Virgi ia. compared with which, the bridge over
Cedar creek is a mere circumstance. The Soott
bridge ext-nds *cro*s a chasm more than twice 80
feet in width, and is 420 feet deep, at tbe bottom of
which fl iwh h much larger and more rapid stream
than Cedar ere- k Tie «rch of the Scott bridge is
not so perfectly farmed ns that, of Cedar oreek, but
it is uni less a bridge, wi h a broad wagon road lo
cated upon it. The survey ot the Cumberland Gap
railroad passed through the arch of this bridge. It
is perhaps th- wi'dest and most stupendous natural
cariosity in the United States, and yet it is compar
atively unknown
Sudden and Singular Death.—We learn
from a private letter to a lel.a'ive in th-s city, of the
death of Mr J«<hn I. Waller, in Columbia, 8. C., un
der tbe following ciroum-tances. After braakfast,
on the morning of the 28»b ult., Mr. Walter went t'i
the < ffice of a dentist iu that city, to have one or
more teeth extracted. After the operation had
been performed, he arose from the chair to his feet,
and the operator stepped to the water bucket and
handed him a dipper of water to wash out
his mouth. When presented, Mr. Wa'ter informed
him that he was unable to raise the dipper to his
mouth. He was asked to sit down, and he renlied
that he could not. The operator then took hold of
him and assisted him to the chair, but finding he
could not sit assisted him to the floor, and found he
had become paralyzed. Medical aid was immedi
ately procured, but no relief could be given, and he
died that evening. He never spoke after being as
sisted from his standing position. Mr. W. was
about 58 or 60 years of age, and though thin
in flesh had enjoyed uniform good health for the last
twenty years.
Mr Walter was a >■' Philadelphia, but had
been a resident of Colu- ‘ »to • nar forty >ears,
where, by his upright c a deportment in bis
intercourse with his fellow citizens, he won tbe uni
versal respect, and enjoyed ih-* h'gheet esteem of
every one with whom he had business transactions.
—Columbus Sun
The Great Eastern.—Opinions still differ ex
ceedingly concerning this vessel's proving a re mu*
nerative investment. The strength of tbe consider
ations urged in favor of this result, appears to be.
that no steamship yet constructed can carry coal
enough for tbe Australian v-yage, and yet retain
any room for freight, b-ing thus compelled to go
out of their way aud lengthen their voyage, and
also to purchase coal a l, four or five timee the oust
fn Knviand It i» claimed that the O eit Eaatera
can coll m England at the pit's mouth for both the
out and return voynge, and still ca ry h.OllO tons of
fr.ivht and 4,000 passengers; end that her great
size will SCO ire for her a speed of fifteen knots with
a smaller proportional consumption of fuel than is
required by ordinary vessels to make ten knots
Should these expectations be realized, the question
must still be decided whether there is sufficient
business to employ so enormous a vessel, and also
the many smaller ones which will be made necessa
ry by the demand for more frequent communication
than one vessel, however switt, could possibly af
ford. — Balt. American.
Arrest of Three Counterfeiters.— Large
Haul of Counterfeit Money —Officers Rsgan and
Bliah, anested, yesterday, at the L u ; sville Hotel,
three counterfeiters They gave their names as
William Hughes, Andrew Durf, and Richard
Buckles. They had in their po*s-88 ; on $1,500 iu
counterfeit bank notes on the Louisiana and Penn
sylvania Bn k*; some or fcueun S2O notes on the
Farmers' and Drovers’ Bauk of Waynes burg, Pa.,
and S3OO in spurious coin We understand they
came up from Napoleon on the steamer Woodford.
Two or three, belonging doubtless to the same gang,
who had been attempting to swindle the passengers
on board, was set on shore by Captain Mather.—
Louisville Journal , 7th inst.
Crime Rampant.—The New Ycrk Tribune says
New York “has boxed the compass of shame and
of sin. There is not, we tuppose, a single law upon
the statute book whioh has not been violated with
in tbe last year. Murder, arson, rape, grand lar
ceny, laroeny, highway robbery, seduotion,
aauitery, abduct km, forgery, defalcation, obtaining
goods under false pretences —these are common
crime*” Perhaps, if the Tribune would devote it
i t# lf to domestic instead of foreign reform it might*
bring about a better state of things Kick. Dup s