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The Crop*.
A correspondent writing from Lin wood, Ran
dolph county, G& . says:
“In some portions of southwestern Georgia the
wheat crops have been very good, but in this com
munity they have been very sonv; not more
than half crops made, owing solely to rust
Oat crops are very sotry. For the first tune in my
life I have seen the rust in oats, which have done
more damage in the latter (oat*) than in the former
(wheat) crop?. It ha*gone like a wave of rum over
this section of oountry, consequently the farmers will
not be able to save seed for another y*?ar. The
cotton crops looks well, and promises an abundant
> isld, if no mishap * befalls us. Bl oom* can be seen
shining forth in all their beauty. Corn cr-pe can’t
l*e beat I Lave been living in southw’ ltem Georgia
some six yean* and have never seen such favorable
prospect* as we have at present. Corn everywhere
look* exceedingly well, and if the season* bold out
and no disaster occurs, there will be a larger corn
crop made in this section of opuntry, than ever was
made before. The farmers will pull down their o and
bar.*, and build new ones; for as it is reaped : t
must be garuared It is reported that the rust is
taking the corn. Not seeing any, lam unable to
nay whether it i* sour not. If this should be so. ard
it* damages should be as great as it h&* been in the
wheat and oat crops, fanners will undoubted y be
sadly disappointed, and made to weep over their
calamities.
A letter dated Port Gibson. Miss-.saye ‘‘Crops
in this section of the country are fine Coni is in
full roasting ears, an I looks well We have h
fine seasons on it, and will need no more rain ti
make a bountiful crop. Cotton is doing well, and
n* generally waiet high, and bioems and foraw art
plenity.’
Kki>uctio9 or Far* to New York.—We see by
the Charleston paper* that the New York Steam
Packet line from that city have reduced the fare to
S2O in the cabin and $0 steerage. The Key Stone
State has reduced the price of pvaaga to Phiiad’ 1
phi* to sls. The Savannah steamer* charge sls
for cabin parage to New York.
The Savannah Rtpnbltran of Monday says:—
4,810 watermelon* were exported to New York by
the steamers which left here Saturday. Jtaudra
these there was a large quantity of other fruits
vegetable*.
Thi Reported Deceit op Con. Steptoe —I be
reported defeat of Col. Hteptoe in Oregon, and the
lose of a number of officers and men, is doubted at
Washington. The Oregon steamer, which arrived
at Sao Francisco before the sailing of the Panama
steamer, brought nothing from Geo. Clarke to ti e
War Department, but Capt MoC , his adjutant
writes that the rumors of disaster are unfounded.
Si< Kress on a U. S. Vessel.—lt it stated that
di*patcbefl from the United States squadron on the
coast of Africa have been received at Washington,
ann .cueing that the African fever i* raging on the
Dale. One officer and several men hat! died.—
This vessel will probably be ordered home at an
t-arly day, iu consequence of the sickness on board
At one time the officer* and crew were nearly in &
starving condition. There wefe no provision* to be
Lad hut a little rice, and the ship was compelled to
keep out at sea on account of the fever aboard.
Mound City.—The editor of the Mound City
emporium denies the report that the water was
three to ten feet deep iu that place during the late
flood. lie nays he is willing to average it at two
feet, but not another inch will he yield. The editor
further claim* that Mound City Btock ha* apprecia
ted $1 (Ml per share since the flood The Emporium
of the 24th *ays
The damage sustained by the Illinois Central
Railroad, between Cairo arid the junction of the
Mound City road with the Illinois Central, are re
ported as immense -ho extensive, indeed, that
.months must elapse before they are fully repaired.
The great depth of the water ovei alqiost the eu
tire length of the track from she fund* ion to Cairo,
and the swiftness of the current, render it impossi
ble to determine the actual injuries. It is known,
however, that nearly a mile of the most expensive
embankment, with the entire superstructure, is wash
ed * .tirely away, and (hat the filling beneath the tres
tle work, the result of a year's labor, is also gone.—
It was reported here yesterday that the treatle work
had floated off, but this ha* not been ascertained to
be an absolute tact. We are still inclined to doubt
t
Hai.k or the Collins Steamers to France.—
A Washington correspondent of the New York Poet
learns that. Mi Comstock, agent for Collins A. Cos.,
has returned from Europe, and ha* contracted with
the French Government, or with parties in France,
for the sale of the three Coffins steamers, for the
•aui of $1 ,600,000 This will, of course, enlarge the
Post master-General’s discretion in contracting for
rtceaii mail service.
Not •> Easy.—An officer on the U. 8. steamer
Arctic saw the notorious steamer Styx in t*he Gulf,
and says :
8I appeared to be a very fine vessel, but little
sma.Mer than the Saranac, and, U we had engaged
could have made short work of us. Indeed, if it is
true that some of our Senators wish the Styx to be
captured and brought into one our ports, it may be
lor their edification to be iuiormed that the Wabash
is the only veeeel in these watcrH Which could do it,
aud that even the little gnn boat Jasper could cap
ture throe vesstdH like the Afctio with the greatest
rase It is said, in fact, that the English are very
much disgusted to think that vessels of this class
should be sent by our government to teach them
better manners.
California State Prison. —The California
State prisou, at St. contains f>oo prisoners.
Tlie average number received for the last two years
(pas been twenty a month, and the average number
discharged twelve, so that the number is increasing
about |(Hi h year, which is a greater ratio of in
crease than that of the population of the State.
Nentknck Apc rove and President has ap
proved the findings of the courts martial recently
H*dd av Panama by order of the flag office* of the
Pacific squadron upon Second Lieutenant R. A
Whittier, 11. S. M. C., and Lieut. E. C. Stockton,
U S N The former was sentenced to be disintas-
Hd, and the latter to be cashiered.
Remarkable Cow.—The Messrs. Hamilton, of
Sweet Air, Baltimore county, have a cow of
Devon aud Durham stock, which gave in one week
(June 17th to 24th) 363 pounds of milk, and under
a very disadvantage, as regards butter making,
made 13} pounds of butter.
The Upper Route North.—The Chareeton
Courier says : A recent virit and sojourn on the
flue of the Charlotte and South Carolina Railroad—
rounerting Cos umbin, 8. C., with Charlotte, N. C.,
aud connected with the Railroad system at either
terminus —enabled tie to observe that the ad van
tages and reecutcee of Ibis line as a through route
ai* daily receiving more attention and favor from
travelers. The route is over an inland and healthy
ridge. •
Conservative Counsels.—The Philadelphia
North American thinks that experience has proved
the impolicy of electing Judges of Courts, District
Attoruiee, Clerks and Magistrate*, yet these are all
thrown into the vortex £>f politics, it expresses an
opinion from which few will dissent, when it says
that one hall the radicalism which has crept into our
institutions would never have found a place there
but- for the demogoguiem of party politicians. The
people themselves are conservative. They have
an instinctive knowledge that their interests must
suffer from the triumph of radicalism . but, unhap.
pily, they have allowed themselves to be bood
wiuked by office hunters, whose intereste are not In
unison with the common good.
Marine Losses for Junk.- The New York Cou
rier publishes a table of Marine losses tor the past
month, showing an aggregate of twenty two ves
sels, of which live were .hips, one n bark. live were j
brigs, ten were schooners, aud one a steamship. The
total value of property lost was eight hundred and
fourteeu th.fusami tour hundred aud one dollars As
compared with the month of June. 1867, the above
shows a decrease in the value of property lost of
five thousand and uinety-uine dollars t
Vessels. Value.
Total losses for Jauuary 15 $ 143.500
“ tor February 33 1,182.300
for March 33 813.500
** tor April (corrected)..33 051,040
*• for May 33 714,000
*• for June 23 814,401
Total tor six mouth* 100 $4,018,741
Haute period in 185...... .308 $10,222,0011
The proawaotnt has been issued in London, ot
tbs Great India Submarine Telegraph Company,
with a capital of JC. 1,000 000 sterling of Jtl 20 shares
The proposal Uto construct a line ou Mr. Allan's
patent from Falmouth to Bombay, via Gibraltar.
Malta and Alexandria, and tbcnce by the lied Sea
to Aden and Bombay Mr. Allan contends that his
system confers the advantage of an economy of 40
j>er coot in first cost of construction, and of more
than 50 per cent, in the working.
The National Intelligencer learns that the I’resi
dent has designated Mr Jo*. C. G. Kennedy, the
able Superintendent of the Seventh (.’ensue, to su
perintend the digest of the returns of manufactures
of that census tor which digest provision was made
by act of the iate session of Congress.
-Will you please to permit a lady to occupy this
seat 1 said a gentleman to another, the other day,
m a railroad car. “Is she an advocate of woman s
rights I asked the geutleuiau who was invited to
-vacate “ “She is,replied he who was standing
“Well, then, let her take the benefit of her doctrine,
and stand up.”
A chap sought shelter of a ltoetou officer : “ See.
Cap u, first my father die J and my mother married
agin. and then my mother died and toy lather mar
ried agm. an somehow or other I don’t seem to
have no parents at all, nor no home nor nothing ”
From a friend recently returned from the coun
try, we regret to learn of the prevalence of the hog
cholera in this county. Many, farmers have lost
numbers of their hogs by this disease, and the mor
tality was thought to be on the increase. —Memphis
isMsch
T"e soar Da ad. — Two more of the victims of
the explosion of the Pennsylvania died on Sunday.
m]J B Them peon, of Georgetown. Pa., died at 6.
o dock, A. M. and Jno Lodge, of Huntingdonshire.
England. died at half past six in the evening. The
reel are all doingfinely, and two more were dis
charged yesterday afternoon and means furnished
them to return home Memphis Eagle
The funeral of Jas Powers, who was hung iff
Washington Saturday, was attended by about 2000
people in Baltimore, where his body was interred
Sunday
Newspaper Paxes Peso—A new association
has lust been inaugurated iu London, for the pur- j
pose of establishing “ Newspaper Press Fund, j
with the \ lew of securing to persons connected with
tba literary department of newspapers a provision
for ege, infirmity ami mental or physical incapacity, I
and ale., for making some provision in case of need
for the widows and orphans of tire members ot that
profession.
Moax Victims.—The Memphis papers announce
the death of three more pf the wounded of the Penn
sylvanta This make* the number that have died
In Memphis seventeen One of them was Frank
B Jones, a banker of Mobile.
Shipment o* Wkali Oil to Europi— The
bark Amaranth ie loading whale oil at‘New Bed
ford for Europe She wilt take 5,000 barrets
Another veaeel is about to load 3,000 barren for the
inne destination
a?xath FROM A Smase-sitk.—A little eon of
Martih Morgan, aged three yeans, wne bitten in the
teg by b copperhead last Friday, in the Brush i
Mountain. Dear Hollidays bur,;. Pa , from the effects
of which the child died within 24 hours
The British Embassy J seid to be between J udge
IPooeevelt and Prestcn. id Ky , with chances in la
vor ot the latter
From ( aliforntn, Central Amer■ ■a, 4 *
The steamer Moses Taylor, with California news
to the oib nit., and iate and interesting news from
Central America, arrived York on S inday . j
From the. Han Francisco California Bulletin, stk. j
The great topic of inlereet in this State continue*
t> be the Fraser river gold mine*. Letter* have
been received. mm-be lower diggings on Fraaer
river u late as the 15tn of May rue news ts-rflH
favorable to tbe belief t..at there are .urge deposits
of the precious mr:al not oc.y on b razer nvc-r, hut
on ail its no • erou*tributaries extending th ough
cm a vast extent of the country. The utm< ft ex
citement Las been produced here by these dircov*- I
ries Already npwaid of three thoa&and persons j
l ave embarked at thin port, 1 r the new i
ar.d some few other parties cave left, it is said, to |
reach them over iand.
A destructive fire took place at Nevada, on the j
23d of May. Nearly all the business part of the
city wap destroyed, and the lo*w—which was con 1
over estimated at first—ig cow supposed j
t * have amounted to about $125000. The fi-e eri- J
einated in the house of & Chinese prostitute—and ;!
the people of the town have, in consequence, pass
ed a law forbidding the Chinese from living within j
the limits ts the place
O.i the 12th of May, a band of seven Mexican
banditti, r paired to the rancho! Messrs. Byatier
6l Borel, situated in the Tulare valley, and mas
sacreing both the partners and two Californian
hired men, robbed the premise* of some $ -*,700 in I
cold, and a tot of jeweiiy, and carried off Mrs.
Baratier to the mountains, where they detained her j
several days , after which they permitted her to es* j
cape and find her way into Oakland. One ot these |
bandits hud the temerity afterwards to venture to j
visit San Luis, whore be vra* recognized and handed \
by the populace. J osttee has not yet overtaken tbe j
other villians.
Tbe town of San Andreas, in Calaveras county, j
wa*s almost entirely deetryed by tire on the night of j
tee 2d June. Tin* was & very thriving miniD*
town. , _
News ha* come to Carson Valley, through the In
dians, that 1,500 Mormons are cow on their way
thither, end that Brigham Young bad fled par’d
unknown. This newslij scarcely credited.
Two steamer* ago we gave the news of the at- j
tack upon tbe Nevada ar.d Sacramento atage by |
I and the robbery of $21,900 from 1
Wells, Farce A Ce.V Express They now state !
ihh t the robber* have detected and the money l
recovered. _ j
An extensive conflagration occurred in this city i
on tfie 3Dt of May, by whicJh borne ten buildings i
and & oon&iderabte amount of property w.-re de
stroyed. TLe fire was on Jackson street, near the j
corner of Drumm.
The Sunday Law, passed by the last Legi lature,
to close places of theatrea, bar rooms, etc.,
on the first day of the week, went into effect, on the
Is*, of June A strong effort, will be made to enforce
it. rigid y, but it will be stoutly opposed by those
wh*M*e iutere* * are affected.
The fall amount ($10,900) required by the tew,
from private citizens, for the establishment of a
House of Refuge and Reform School in this city,
has been subscribed. Considerable interest i* mani
fested in the enterprise, and it will quickly be put
in operation. The city adds $20,000.
Central America— The question of a grand al
fiance of the five Central American States, under
one head, ia still being agitated.
From New Granada we learn that the Senate
has postponed the consideration of the Cass-Herran
treaty, and thi* i* looked upon as an evidence of
their determined opposition to it.
The Nicaragua transit grant was signed on the
Ste of May last in favor of Commodore Vanderbilt
and hi* associates, and an “ act of incorporation’’
pteces them on the footii: of a corporate body.
The principal doeume ‘ is tbe deed of concession
itself— dated the Bth of M .y last—which grants to
Cornelius Varxler hi 1t,,11 *rsice F. Clarke, and” their
associates, the exolu*ive right of conveying passen
gers across the Isthmus of Nicaragua by the Lake
Nicaragua and the River San Ju&n. It ia very
similar in form to tbooe transit grauti made on pre
viou**occaiona by the various OovernmeLts of the
Republic
A eupplhmentary document to this concession,
called‘The Act of Incorporation,” is of great im
portance. It incorporates the grantees in a perpet
ual company, with power to create and ieatxe stock,
and transfer or sell the same, it exempts them and
their property from all taxation and Government
due*, and places them on the footing of citizenship,
with the right to Hue and defend in all the CVurts of
the Republic. It further give* them the right to
elect a President and Directors, aqd to make each
by-laws rules arid regulations as may be necessary
for the internal management of the Company’s af
fairs.
has steamers in readiness
on both the Atlantic and Pacific sides, and it is con
fidently stated that the Nicaragua transit will be
“reopened in the course of a couple of months.
The Yric:4si treaty has been pocketed by Presi
dent Martinez, and there does not seem to be the
slightest chance that he will ratify it fn its original
form.
The Panama correspondent of the New York
Timet y says : „ ”
Gen. Lamar, despairing of ending home the
Cass Yrit-sari treaty in anything like its original
shape, or of doing anything else here, either for the
interest of his own count y, or of Nicaragua, thinks
of returning to t’ e United States as soon as the
present assembly shall rise ; no you may expect to
rneqt him in Panama in tbe first part of July.—
When the General first came here, he contemplated
settling in the country, and for that purpose peti
tioned the Government to sell him a lirge and
valuable tract of land on the lske, ihe site of Hen
ningaen’s defence in Granada. But he was refused,
and by thi* time, I reckon, he is heartily glad of it.
if any man was ever disgusted with Nicaragua,
and with its rascally rulers, that man is General
Mirabeau B. Lamar The G neral has been suffer
ing from sickness, incidental to the climate, but his
health is somewhat improved
M. Felix Belly lias left the scene of his late ope
rations. He arrived iuNewYmk by the Empire
City from Havana. It ie said he comes to New
York with tbe intention of making a fearful expose
of the doings of North A men cans in Certral Ame
rica for the last twenty five or thirty years, pouring
>ul hie documentary wrath (he ha* the documents)
to the U}Bt vial.
He intends wiping out Uuited Slates Minister*,
Consul*, commercial agents and roving commis
sioners of every sort, in line, the entire chapter of
political plague* that has overrun that country since
the throwing off of the Spanish yoke.
Agricultural Societies in France— The Su
oak Cane. —The Pari* correspondent of the New
York Journal of Commerce says that large divisions
of France are marked out for annual agricultural
exhibition*. He describe* a remarkable display at
Avignon, and which was crowded with tlB rural
gentry and the peasantry of the w’hole province. The
sorgho, or Chinese sugar cane, which ha3 attracted
so much attention in this country, formed a promi
nent feature of the exhibition. Tiiis plant is culti
vated with success in the south of France and
Algeria.
“ Mr. Pi leur, of Avigilon, ha* grouped under a
large glass frame the metamorphoses to which he
ha- subjected it. Nothing is more curious than the
succession of transformations; id one corner you
see the eoigho in stalk, a* it i* when cut; a
little further ar** its fibres converted into thread in
ekoin ; then a piece of linen woven with the thread;
then a handsome cloak bordered with furs, which
M.Prieur designs tor the Prince Imperial. The
most curious and complete array of the products of
the sorgho is that of Dr. Sicard, of Marseilles. With
(he pith he has manufactured excellent sugar, to be
compared with any other whatever. By grinding
the seed he nos obtained flour and fecuia, of w r hl h
lie has made oread and obooolate, which the many
tasters find very palatable. He extracts, more
over, from the plaut, an abundance of hlcohol of
superior quality, and beridts a most agreeable
wiue, containing in large quantity all the tonic and
other alutary elements ot the juice of tbe grape.
Iu addition, lie make* p per out of it, of which he
i tic ws samples ; by chemical agents, he get* from it
gamboge. Chinese’ ink, carmine, golden yellow end
green You eo silk ribbons, skeins of cotton, wool
and thread dyed with sorgho in those delicate and
varying shade* which, hitherto, have been found
only iu the stuffs and erttclt* coming directly from
Coma. Wo should add that all the new denvaties
a* we may * yla them, froa tbe cane, are complete,
aud can be delivered to trad 3 and industry at deter
iniuate prices.’’
Important prises were awarded at the Avignon
exhibition. Amoug other*. * silver cup, elegantly
wrought, and a sum of five thousand franca fell to
the owner of the best cultivated arid managed do
main in the neighborhtx'd. luthe evening of the
last day, there was a grand ball, with fireworks. /
The correspondent suggests that our principal
Agricultural Societies sin uld hold regular and ample
communication* with those of Europe ; that we
have a great deal to teach, and not a little to learn.
He mentions a long fist of receut French publica
tions appertaining to Agriculture.
The Indian Troubles in Oregon Confirmed
—A despatch dated Washington, June 28, say*
The disastrous news from the Pacific is confirmed
by despatches received here. Gov. McMullen says:
“An express ha* arrived from the headquarter*
of Col Steptoe, in the Fimeoe Valley, with des
patches from Lieut. Col. Casey, and letters to lite,
informing u* of the deieat on the I6tJi inst., at the
First Crossing of Snake River, about thirty miles
above its junction with the Columbia, of the com
maud cf Col. Steptoe. The command consisted of
five companies, or four hundred men. The Indians
are reported a* having been fifteen hundred strong,
and composed of the Suake, Palouse, and other
tribes.
The action resulted in ttiree officer* and fifty men
“beifiit killed. Two of the officers killed are Capt
\Vy.ider* and Lieut. Garden The Indians took
howitier? which belonged to tbe command, and all
l>u’ sixty pack animals. Iu fact, so complete is eaid
to havdTieen the route, that the officer in command
was compelled to fall back w ith the utmost precipi
tation. The battle took place while the regulars
were in the act of crossing tbe river.”
Letters io Gov . Stevens, also, say that Col. Step
toe lost every tiling bai siity mules.
Treaties with these ludians have been pending
for a lon* time iu the Uuited S'ates Senate. The
Indians have concluded that their lands are to be
taken from tL*ni without compensation, and hence
their hostilities Their success, it is apprehended i
by the War Department, and ill embolden them to ‘
attack the settlements and the most energetic steps !
ill be taken to prot i’ the inhabitants It was
determined, to day, t. dispatch ail iffieerbythe j
next steamer, with power to csii out volunteers, !
while a portion of the Utah Army will proceed along I
the Emigrant trail to Snake River Val!e£, and down !
to Fort Walla Walia.
A StiTxsa Gi'n Corvette Raised at Sebasto- j
POL. —From a Setter dited Sebastopol, May -16th. j
in the Boston Courier, w e make the following ex [
tract
“During the last week, the American Company. ]
which is at work in the harbor if this place, under
Col. Gowen, of Boston, have succeeded in ra sing :
60m her former submerged position, a corvette of I
sixteen guns, in an entire condition, std m a good J
state of preservation. The vts el was raised by
means of the caissons of the company, which, until j
within a few days, nave not all been ready for the
work required of them. The corvette is the first
vessel that has been raised whole, aad now that the
machinery for rating tbe vtsseis is iu order, it is con
fidentiy expected that ‘.lie remainder of the work will
be’prosecuted without deiav During the past ten
months tbe company have beer engaged in destroy
ing Certain of tbe vessels under water, ana in rais
ing the pieces About fifteen ships-of-war have
been broken into fragments by bla.oing. and the
greater portion of the material of which they were
complied has been raised.”
’ Scgak. —The Sew York Herald gives the follow
ing interesting particulars concerning this impor
, taut article o£ commerce, which may be new to
many of our reader-: •
in relation to sugar, trom the evidence before us.
it would seem that the palm tor the production of 1
tnis staple is to paee from America to Ada. The
multitudinous labor of the Eust, a-sisted by a little
guano from Peru, has prod coed astonishing results
in Mauritius and the Isle of Bourbon or Reunion.—
The former of three, with only 1,000 square miles
of superficial extent, and a population a few years
since of oaly 100,000 people, exports to day one
third as much sugar as Cuba with her 30,000 square
miiee and a million sod a bait of inhabitants. A
lie ru:t has attended the sugar culture in Re
union And it ie not alone in quantity that great
advance has been attained; tbe quality of the gag&r
has also been vastly improved, and Australia is al
ready drawing ter supplies of refined and washed
j grade* from the plantations of .Mauritius. The cry
of the pian ers of Mauritius is still for more labor
and more guano ; but the true fruits of the newly 1
created skill ana sugar manufacturing science of
Mauritius will be seen when they shall go from there i
to the neighboring o&itineut of fndia and orgamxe
the unemployed m.ihene there for the purpree of !
turning the iuuge into cane fields The selfish
policy of the East India Company has hitherto pre
vented tl is. but it witl prevent ii no more ; and the
day is not far distant wrten tiie world eij be sup
plied with r< fined sugar at three cents a pound.
The number of emigtaute who airived at New
I York during the week ending June 16, was 1,630
1 making a total of tat. B33 since January Ist, against
1 75.431 for the oourespondmg period last yeat
The Perils ct Railroad Travel.— We moet
J aincc-rely l ps that L.erai.road between Lewietown
j and .Suapen-ion Bridge L? an exception to American
J rai roads io general in the matter of carelessness, j
i if the following, from the New York Times, i* any
where near true :
[ “Thu roat, for most of the distance, is on th |
I very brink.-; the gorge in some placet?, hundred* ■
of tee: ah ive ti.e n vtr; sometime* inserted into the 5
perp&naicuiar with large masses of rocks -as- !
pended fearfuhy over the track. At a point about.
; midway between the Fail* and LeWigtown, where j
the track lie?* about two hundred feet above the i
river, and a; re J3 descent is perpendicu- j
! i *r, nea i/ - aty f-et of the road be slid off j
! perpendicular wall, no broader a”
I the base than at tue top, which wa-> relied oa to ;
make things safe, b-gan to give way, (*e the track I
assured me,) • early or quite a week before, j
Ihe giving out of tbe whole structure had been i
looked up< uas certain for some time, and yet cars j
j filled with passengers continued to be drawn a: j
! t wice a day. Such reckieeeae** is without a |
parai’el i ? ail way management. A gentleman. !
who was too late lor tbe train, started to walk that j
| evening over the track from Lewiston to Busp*?n- !
Sion Bridge. It was be who hr*t discovered the {
slide, bur he came within a breadth of going !
! down the chtexn himself. Not dreaming of anything i
of the sort he walked to the very brink before be l
j ‘hoovered, by the aim light of the moon, the fear- j
t iu. btate of tbe case. Another step audit would be ’
the iaslof him.
i Fortunately he caught & glimpse of tbe yawning j
| gush Hi* retrograd rnoveme&t was both tiine'y j
j au d rapid, the sade had probably taken plac<? ircme- ‘
diately on the pae.-ingo’vti of the train a ehert time j
| before, for the rock* were then tumbiingaud lose- !
j !n K the abyss, ana t e gentleman felt sensibly
j the eartu give way under his feet as he sprang back. 1
j No mortal can tell how near cestruction anti total j
auninilaiion that train of car* came. lie own weight !
and*motion doubtiet* started the avalanche. It* ;
I speed—an icetuct of time, a finger's weight—may !
j have bfcoii all that stood between eternity add eve- |
j ry soul on board. But the train dtd pass, the plea j
i ure-seek : >ng pa tengers ail unconscious of the dan- !
j they had escaped And yet for Gays previous I
t;.:? trains Lad been exposed to this danger, and aa (
’ officer in charge of the road assured me that he j
1 knew it. When informed at tbe office a*. Suapen- |
j *ion Bridge that a elide had occurred, they knew j
precisely where to locate it, and said they had been 1
I expecting it lor a wc k ; and still had l eeu sending ;
out train* each way twice a day ad the w'hile. ;
j Words cannot express the culpability of those in j
j i m mediate authority. A present aflon by the grand ;
j jury of Niagara county will probably attempt it.
Thi State Road —The Savannah Republican -
makes the following extract from a letter from j
Marietta, tteinment ie unnecee-ary :
‘‘Our Stete Road is nicely mau&ged now by
Doctors Brown and Lewie. We get our mail de
livered at 2f. M. instead o:—a.- : we could easily
k r. t it—at. GA. M., were it net for the economical
Doctor. Asa sample cf the beauty of this arrange
ment, Iwi l state a fact: Tt e hacks for Cumming
and Dahlonega, anefthe Canton route, leave here
n the morning, say about 9 A. M.—and run tri
weekly. The Monday hack carries the mail that
they should have had on Friday morning, and
misses the Monday mail, which ot course includes
tbe Sunday nail, which we do not receive hereon
that day.”
The “Styx*’ in Florida. —The Tampa Penin
sular of the 26th met. sajs :
‘ U. S. steamer Ranger, Shaw, arrived at this port
from Fort Myeraon Wednesday the 23d inst, with
Military store*. She reports a large three-iraated
steamer at anchor in the mouth of the Bay. aud htr
small boat on the bar, evidently surveying the
channal.
‘ ( -apt. Prusua, a paseeDgeron the Ranger, states
that the steamship is an English model, and does
i ot doubt but that it is the S ; yx. It ia in contem
plation, by quite a number of our >oung blood®, io
visit Egmont and ascertain the fact*. It i* advisa
ble to carry along your revolvers.
“We would not, regret to hear that this saucy
c raft had been visited by some of the Florida boys,
and some searching enquiries made as to her busi
ness in that locality.”
An Ocean Thu* in a Balloon —J Steiner, of
Ifarricburg, Pa., propose* to croß3 the Atlantic in a
balloon, 100 feet in diameter. He say* in a letter
to the Telegraph :
I am satifffied in my own mind that with such an
apparatus 1 could cross the Atlantic in 75 hour*,
r.nd the whole cost would not be more than $20,000.
The ‘ ailoon, net work aud valve, would weigh
about 2,000 pounds, and the boat and rigging 3 ton
end a half-—this will Icav* about 8 tons ascending
power, for provision*, passenger* and ballast. It
would require three good ocean navigators, and one
astronomer, besides myself. 1 would eiigg*-.bt New
York as a starting point, and dm certain I would
s'rike within 200 miles of any given distance in
Europe. I would suggest May aa the time for
making th** experiment, ana would make the at
tempt in 1859 if I could get the government or oth
oi h to assist me.
Disordered State of Affairs in Kansas.—A
Lawrence correspondent of the New York Post
draws the following disagreeable picture of the pre
sent condition of Kansas :
It would seem as if the very fiends had been let
loose iu Kansas recently with a view to disgust us
with cur territorial condition and induce u* to ac
cept tbe English proposition j arid come into tbe
Union a* a State. Horse thieving and highway
robbery are rife throughout the territory. Hardly
. day passes but the news of a dozen robberies and
outrage* reaches up. In most cases the robberies
are confined to horses, but occasionally we hear of
a ravtiler waylaitf,or a store visited and plundered.
Armed bands of scoundrel* traverse the territory
wi hout molestation or hindrance, robbing the pro
slavery men in the name of the free State cause,
and professing to be Missourians whenever a free
►State man is victimiz and. By confining their o* e
ra'iona mostly to nigh*, they manage to put leagues
between themselves and the eufferers before their
depredations are generally known, and owing to
f lie ;-parseuesa of the population they usually escape
detection and arrest. Occasionally one i* hunted
down, captured and hung, as in the recent caee at
Leroy, aud more recently on the Little Osage ; but
ihe great mas* of offenders go utterly unwhipt of
justice.
Tbre is no penitentiary in the territory, and no ,
jail-adequate 1o the proper e; ntinement of crimin
h'h That of Lawrence i* a fair specimen of the
jails iu Kansas. The jailor accepts of a bribe of
live dollar* to liberate a horse thief, but the latter,
it chances, is retaken and re-consigned to jail, with
his former custodian aa his oompauion. I’he next
night, outride sympathizer* , break open the jail and
iibf.-rate them both. One thief, however, refugee to
leave on account of the extreme muddy condition
of the road, knowing that when -he desires to es
cape the chances will be equally favorable. Anoth
er prisoner, sentenced to thirty days’ confinement
the afternoon previous for an aggravated aceault,
i* discovered the next morning in an adj&oenb bar
room, inhaling the fragrance of a choice Havana,
and cosily reading the papers, pausing in ihe pe
rusal betimes to taste the spice of a mint julep be
side him. •
A Faria paper enumerates the following as part
of the duties of the prefect of Police in that city, be
sides attending to thieves and criminals :
“The prefect of Police ho* daily to provide for the
paving, Macadamizing, sweeping, watering, and
lighting of 1,474 street avenues, quays, and boule
vards, forming a total length of 384,665 metres, and
presenting a surface of 5.500,000 sauare metres. —
There are iu the etreets 13,000 gas-burners, which
arc lighted in the course of about 20 minutes. The
length of the gas pipes ia 485,000 me*res ; that of
the w ater conduits 330,000 metres ; aud that of the
sewer* 163,000. The city contains between 32,000
and 33,000 houses, of which 6,836 are lodging
houses—that is, inhabited by a population requiring
a special eurvei 1 lance. About 127,000 perse a* cir
culate daily in carriages; the omnibuesee alone
transport 25,000,000 person* per annum ; and yet
there only occurred last year 380 accidents, of
which only *24 proved fatal Every year the popu
lation of Pa is consumes 80,000,000 kilogrammes of
meat, 970,000 heckfcolitres of wine, 240,000 heckto
litresof beer, and 78,000 hectolitres of branuyand
liquors. The police ha* to vary the good quality
of all t hese provisions, and therefore keeps its eye
upon 10,000 dealers in those articles.”
Daring Robbery in Mobile. —The Mobile Re.
gr-ter, of the 2f4th ult, gives the following account
of a daring robbery in that city :
On Tuesday night, about 14 o’clock, the residence
of Capt Win Buckley, on the corner of Broad and
Church streets, was entered by the window of a
room in wh ch two young ladies—a daughter aud a
niece of Capt. Buckley—were sleepiug. The man,
who is unknown, went to the wardrobe and took
therefrom a box containing jewelry. He thou went
to the bed where the iadies were Bleeping, and put-
ting his hand on the throat of one of them took from
her fingers the rings she was weariug, telling her
that if she made any noise he w mid choke her to
death. While tbe thief was at hia work the other
young lady awokeandscreamed,whenCapt. Buck
ley, hearing the noise, eulered the room, but too
late to catch the thief, who made good his escape by
he wiudow through which he entered In his hur
ry to get away he left in the yard the hex, all the
ring*, with tbe exception of a diamond one valued
at $i ‘-l, and the bonnets of the ladies, which be also
took. .
Couldn’t Subscribe —A pair of those intere.t
ing. enterlaimng ladies, who of late seem to carry
on so large a business in cur down town offices and
stores in the way of procuring subscriptions for new
works, selling eugravings of the ‘ Father of his
Country,’ and other notabilities, and who (the ia
dies) are so tascirating iu manner, so delightfully
importunate, so sweetly nn-get-iid of able, called a
morning or two since at the office of a young law
yer, to induce him, at. ihe younger of the two ex
pressed it, with a fbarmirg smile, ‘‘to subscribe to
a most elegant woik iust published, to be got up in
elegant style, with illustrations, One.”
“Indeed, ladies,” said our triend, “i cannot: I
have no doubt of the excellence of your work, but
lam cot in want ot anyi 1g ot the kind. In fact.
Ido not feel able at press.: to subscribe for any
new works ot any description. The partnership o:
i which lam a member fas la.ely been so impru
! dent as to iseus anew w k ct t ejr own, and the
1 enormous expense aftenui.i its issue, not to speak
{ of the illustration?, emhohisbin.-nts, aud oroatnen'al
! dderujegs with which the? have seen fit to clothe
I the produ tion—such unwonted outlay has really,
i for the present—in fact crippled me—sorry—but a
] tact —every word es it. ’
i “But —ah,” interposed our enterprising sgentees,
i -perhaps we oouia prepare ou some subscribers
I for your work ; our terms are qu te reasonable. —
| What do you cU your work, sir V
j “Well, we have no? fully determined as yet, but
i I guess 1 shall iet Mrs. 8- have her own way,
I and call it alter mysaif—Charles Henry “
The ladies concluded that they had an engage
| men: in the next block.
Crops. —We take the following extract from a
! priv ate letter of a friend ia Pulask county :
! ‘The prospect efthe crops in this county has j
never been.in ail my knowledge, more battering
than the present. I have heard from all parts of
! the county, and aii is encouraging. 1 was in com ■
pany with a gentiema-j yesterday, (that is an old j
| citizen,j aua he says he has never seen a brighter i
j prospect. Even on the poor pine lands the crops
seem to be astonish'ngly good. The same report
wi , embrace Houston, Dooly, Laurens, Wilkinson
sud Twiggs, and, as tar as my knowledge extends,
j the rains, seems to hold out good with them ail
j The herith of tne above named counties is good
i with but few exceptions.' —Thomasville Reverter
Crops . —-Now that the wheat is mostly harvested
we are glad to learn that the injury from rust is not
so great as was feared. The crops was too forwxrd
I it was stricken by rust and It s thought two-thirds
[ of a crop will be see tired, ihe oa? crop wc are eor
! ry to say is regarded as atotai failure. We hear
that several horses have been lost by feeding on-the
1 rnsted oats. Tne corn ok? well aad promising as
i need be —Marietta Advocate.
RrssiA. — A report recently presented to the Ear
| per. r A -xauder, contains tne following statistical
returns relative to landed property and serfs in Bus
! sia. The number of families whanre land owners
’ amount to 127.0 O. O.t of these 2.000 ptssras
i f rom 1000 to 10,000 serfs; 2000 from .Viiito lOoy,
I 18 000 from 100 to uOO : 30,000 from 21 to 100, and
75 000 have less iban 21. The total number of pea-
I sant serfs of the wobiHty amount to 11,700,000, and
i those of tbs crown to 9,000,000.
Penalty or Violating Game Laws in Mil
ton. Mass., on Tuesday, two young men were ar
| rested under the game laws, for having in their pos
i session sixteen birds, called woodc veks. and fined
1 e gfety dollars and costs, heisgfive dollars tor each
bird.
Worth Iky i —The French Gazette Medical !
j states that charcoal has been accidentai y discover- j
| ed to be a cure tor burns. By laying a piece j
j ot charcoal on the burn the pain snbfridee at once. |
| Bv ieaving it on for an hoar if... wound will be beat
ied It is certainly worth a trial.
Griat Accumulation or Capital. —The great j
; accumulation of capital in the natneo> oi.e t-:-—. n, 1
j onUepoett hanks of the city, n>w amount?
1 to upward? of two millkm dollars Taia is the man
who refused to give $5 for a charitable purpose,
1 declaring that he was not able, because so much of
his money was lying idle in the banks —Boston
Ledger
Foreign lleir*.
SirE. Bulwer Lttton and Lady— Bui-
on the Slump. T eL- ndon Star, received by
j (be last steamer, describes tbe f llowing extraerdi*
j nary scene, which took place at the Hertfordshire
i Election:
A mo t painful scene occurred at Hertford on
1 Tuesday, the 18th. Towards tic* does of the pro-
I ceeding* of the Hertfoutefcire election, iast after
! S r EcwarJ Bulwer Lyiti n had concluded his ad
| dn.it with a fervent tribute, of admiration to the
j w rmatily beauty exhibited in tee long line of
open csjriege*, cnaiaes and vans drawn up in front
i of thw hustings, there was an unwonted stir in the
| crowd, which parted to admit of the passage of a
j h?red v Drougbam from one of the town ims. The
j carnage having stopped, two lidioo alighted, one of
te: man extreme!}* hanJeome woman or about for
! t five yeare of age, with fresh complexi. n, and
| with eyes of dazzling beauty,
j The lady, who was evidently laboring under excite
! Meet which exercised ah her power* to control, ad
vanced a* nearly as she could through the crowd
| toward tbe hustings, and announced herself as the
j wife of the Right Hon. Sir E. B. Lytton, stating
I that she bad come according to a pr.-mise made by
her to confront her husband, and to expose the
wrong* wuich she said he Lad inflicted upon her,
and which she had described in her works and-in a
j pamphlet published by her.
! The appearance of the lady wae not unexpected,
. Oflfliag nad been announced in bili* ami pia
j card ß ; but, owirg to a deception which bad been
i practised upon ner by some persons in the town
i wr.-o had introduced themselves to bfer, she was
j detained in the town while t e election was pro
! ceeding in the vicinity. Those in the secret antiei
j paled tiiat the would not di cover the mistake until
j toe proceeding* were over, and that her derign
j would be thus frustrated. It was nearly so. Re
i cognized a* soon as observed, her voice was nearly
I drowned by the shouts of Sir El ward’s supporters,
i but Sir Edward * eye caught here, and hi* face
j paled.
Ue looked like a man suddenly attacked bypa
f- raiyeis. Those near him say he trembled exceed-
I ingly. For a few moments he retained hi* position
i : n fro it of the huciing*, but turned his back on the
j unwelcome visitor. Then he suddenly -isappeared
| below the hasting platform, while his wife cried
! “Coward;” and ha having hastily signed the ucual
I declaration, escaped into the residence of the gen
tleman on whose grounds the election took place.—
Lady Lytton continued to address the audience
j a-eembled for more than a quarter of an hour, re
j pealing her statement* in her p mphlet, andas*ert
: ing her intention to confront her husband on every
| possible occasion until she compelled him to redree*
j tier wrongs. Her ladyship subsequently made tin
! applied'i uto the mayor tor the use of the town
; hail, for the purpose of making a public statement;
| but thi* bring refused her. she left; the town early
| in the afiemoon. Lady Lytton arrived in Hert
*or< at 3 o'clock on the morning of the election,
having posted from Taunton, wucre she resides. It
is needless to say that the event described has
caused the greatest possible exoitement iu Hert
fordshire.
Mr. Russell.—Much suffering has already been
entailed on our men in the field from the great pew
erofthe sun. We see with regret that Mr. Wra.
Russell, the Times’ correspondent, wa* struck in
this way at the attack of the Bareilly cantonment*,
aud requires much care and attention before he
can recover. — Bombay Gazette , May 19 Hi* first
accident waa a kick from a horse, which compelled
him to resort ‘oa dhooly. Wfien tbe baggage was
in danger at Bareilly his bearers put him down on
the road and bolted Weak and very ill, he never
theless managed to mount ahorse, when a enn
stroke knocked him down and very near proved
fatal.
Interesting Letter from China.—The follow
ing ie an extract from a letter of an American gen
tleman, resident at Shanghai, written in April:
On Sunday, February 24th, Mr. Oiiphaut and
Visconte G. de Ccntades, attaches of he joint em
bassy of th • two belligerent Powers—England and
France—arrived at Shanghai, being the bearer cf
a letter for transmission to the Empfcror of China.
Phis important dispatch is said to be from the En
glish and French Plenipotentiaries, and to be ac
companied by letters from the plenipos of
Mud the United States of America. It seem* that
the channel through which thi* important missive
is to be sent., i* th eGovernor of thi* province, Ky.
ang-Su. After haviug given a preliminary intima
tion to the auteoiiiieeat SiuuUbu of their intention
to proceed to the provincial capital Suchau, the
( wo attaches of the respective embassies, accom
panied by the Consul* of England, France and the
United State* of America—and the three consulate
interpreters, left Shanghai cn Wednesday’ after
r oon, Feb. 24th, an 1 proceeded on their vw.y up
the river toward the great city of .Suchau, the seat
of the Lieut. Governor, lli* Excellency, Gov.
Chau, having heard that the barbarian Consuls were
really coming on to the great city, immediately
(bought out a plan for their defeat. He at.onee
posted down the river by boafa to the interior town
of Kwung-sbau, and sent a mandarin boat to meet
and arrest the expedition—requesting tbe Consuls
to la 2d a 1 Kwung-shau, a* he was waiting there to
receive them. But the barbarian Consuls would
not be defeated. The interpreters told the m&uda
rin in command of the boat, that id* Excellency
Chau must at once hasten on to the Provincial city
of Suchau, *l* they would see k m there and no
where else; and that it he weie not very quick
they would be there before him. In a few hour*
they acturily entered the city of Suchau by the
water gates—some dozen bo ts in nil, flying the
English and French flag* and tbe star-spangled ban
ner of America. His Excel ency then sent them a
letter requesting them to me .t him outside the city.
But they replied, inride th , city at the Government
house, and r-.o where else. Finding that the stiff
necked barbarian* w ul . .lot be moved from their
purpose, he sent dofrn to 1 1 e boat* forty chair bear
ers, and ten sedan dm i , to convey them to the
Government house.
Forty thousand peo, le lurned out to look at the
barbarian procession nut knowing, but that they
had come to take pi < ion of the city. With
“pen mouths they j. -z- i in mute astonishment,
whileprbfoui;d siki.ee waa oba.-rved. Arrived at
tb .-Eeato government,they were received with a
filteen gunsalute, and soon Lada Chinese feast
Ilia Excellency then pretended to b3 happy t >
meet them at Suchau. He was in termed that thi*
was but a visit preliminary to more intimate in
tercourse in these quarters—which waa not so well
relished as if he had been toM foreigner* will come
this way m> more. Business was dispatched, and
Envoy* and attache* took leave—hoping to get a
reply from Pekin in lea* than a month. On the
next day, Saturday, Feb. 27, the Envoys and Con
sul* rec ivfcd hi* Excellency outside the city where
they took leave, aud declined a proffered military
t?BCi rt to Shanghai, stating that they had come un
attended by military di-j, lay, and would prefer to
( fay in Suchau if he persisted in sending any escort.
Hl* Excellency was i gain defeated here, for he
wished to produce the impression ou his own peo
ple that be tent them back to Shanghai aspriEoneie,
under the military escort. That terminated the
first interview between barbarian officers and the
Governor of Suchau that ha* ever been held in
that city.
Outrage* Upon Seamen —The lamentable state
of thing* prevailing in the American merchant ma
rine has received anew illustration in the brutali
ties of the r Hirers of the American ship Gleaner,
who have been brought before the police court of
Cardiff, and committed for trial at the next Assizr*,
on a charge of wounding with intent to commit
grievouß bodily harm. Tbe outrages took place on
a Suuday afternoon, a* the vessel waa getting ready
for sea. One man was beaten over the head with
iron belaying pius ; another had his arm broken by
a rimiiar'instrument; a third waa knocked from the
top ail yard to the deck, and while lying there was
kicked and stamped upon; other* were attacked
and beaten with handspikes. When the pilot who
was to take the vessel to sea remonstrated, the
mates threatened to throw him over board. It was
upon his representation that a steamer was dis
patched to overhaul the vessel, then lying in the
outer road (f Penarth. The defence set up waa
insubordination cf the men, but thi* was cjutra
dicted byfhe evidence of those on board a pilot
boat which lay near by, who Paid ihe men worked
and behaved well, though while employed in bend
ing the sail* the mate* followed them and beat
them with handspikes.
Such ocout fences ns these are common, aud will
continue to be eo till the court* of our boasted Re
pub ic dispense as equal justice as the tribunals of
aristocratic England— Rick. Dap.
Intolerance in Switzerland Against Ame
rican Jews.—The Swiss Government still persists
in iia bigoted and intolerant policy towards the
Jews. A correspondence from Basle, Switzerland,
has been lately published in the New York Slants
Zeitung, on the subject of the intolerant clause in
Hie commercial treaty, concluded by the United
Slates with Switzerland, in which the writer states
that he has been refused ar. eidence there, on ac
couutof his beingan “Israelite.” This is also said
to be the fact with a wealthy Israelite in Berne,
lfhose application for adomicil was refused on ac
count of the alleged increase of the Jewish popuia
tion.
By certain provisions iu the treaty referred to,
the writer saya there ia now no remedy for the
Jews, and whether American citizens or otherwise,,
they are excluded from all commercial intercourse.
The whole treaty should be dropped if this clause
is retained. It is a scauda to Switzerland and a
blot upon the liberal and tolerant spirit of the age
Intent ok the French Preparations.—The
New Yoik Herald thinks that the French prepara
tions for war have no inuurdiate reference to Eng
land, bnt that Louis Napoieon is determined to
carry out the gieat policy of his uncle, sever Italy
from Austria, drive out the Austrians and King
Bomba together, and reconstruct the Italian penin
sula on the old Napoleonic plan. England, the
Herald thinßs, has consented to this on condition
that Belgium shall be respected, and that the condi
tion of things in the Iberian peninsula shall not be
interfered with. Russia, it is thought, would not
object to the humiliation, or even to the p;.iti;iop of
Austria, her double dealing neighbor in the Eastern
war, whilst Prussia would have no objection to be
c w ing the first Power in Germany. But as each of
these great Government sees the possible need of
keeping the other in check, they all cultiva’e ami
cable relations with the Uuited States. This is a
plausible theory at any raie. Iu such a contest the
Uuited States would lo k on with the most placid
and philosophic composure— Rich.. Disp.
Indian Difficulties in Dakotah—A Town
Destroyed by the Sioux— We leam irom St.
Paul that the Indian troubles apprehended by the
W r Department in Dakotah Territory have com
monci and. The Yankton Sioux, jealous of the en
croachment of white stitiements in Dakotah, and
dissatisfied at receiving no pay for the road con
structed by Col. Nobles through their lands, have
undertaken to redress their grievances. A large
body of them consisting ofllO edges, lately entered
the se'tiement of Medary, burning all the houses
there and ail the cabins in the neighborhood, and
ca: ried off all the plunder they could get. The in
habitants of be set: foment tad tied to Cottonwood
river where they had determined to make a stand,
The Sioux are emtioide: ed tocommit these outrages I
by the removal of the U. S. troops from fort Ran
daii. We shall probably hear others in the same
quarter.— tit. Louis Xetrs.
More Gold!—We lan says the Dahkmega
i Mountain Signal es Naiurday last, that another val
-1 nab e vein has been disc vered by Mr. Priest on the
property Mr Hendrix near the Station in the neigh
1 berbood of Auraria. This vein we underet md is of
i regular formation emd bids fair for durability couse- !
j quentiy of much vatue. From the fine specimens
being exhibited this week we ghai! daily lock for
auotatr extraoidinary discovery. Our citizens
seem determined to bring the shining metal torth
from our hills and mountains with which they so
abundantly abound In this connection we would
remark that among tbe most serious obstacles to
the developeinent of our c.unty is the short leases
given and high rests exacted by persons holding
property in this county, aad who live at a distance.
They seem to know but little of tne difficulties and
outlay consequent upon vein mining, hence require
ot the operators the old rates of rent which w?re
exacted when the mines were fresh and scarcely
disturbed. We fee! satisfied that if more libera!
terms were extended to our enterprising miners that
it would iu the end prove more lucrative to owners
and of great benefit to the country.
A Humane Driver —The New Orleans, La.
Picayune recently saw a negro cartmar. procure an
old hat. which he filed writh raw cotton saturated
with water, and tied fi miy over his mules’ head
and ears, taking care to keep the eott on constantly
wetted. A contrivance of this kind. with a yard of
common mu- 111 rpread on a o up e of hoops to
I cover the back and loins, would g.ve comfort and
i protection to many a poo- ter g animal daring
j this sultry weather, a* r ri:.. expense.
Death From Sun ‘ ti.oke—Ann Kavanaugh, a
young white woman in tbe employment of Mr. J.
M. Kinctley, of this city, fell suddenly, from sun
stroke. St crcay isat. She was taken to the Hospi
tal, but ext red i, the entry, before she could be
conveyed to a room, Coroner Eden held an inquest
1 over : -r body yesterday.
’ A nother. —A colored man employed on the :
; steamer Gordon, was sun-struck on Saturday last
at e wharf of tbe Charleston Steam Packet Co.— !
j We learn he is fast recovering.— Sach. Rep.
] A Terrible Death— James M. Paimer, an
I Englishman, 30 years ot age, while gather.ng wiki
fowl’s eggs recently tn the Faraileones, (rocky in i
lets oa the coast of Ce—omisJ fell from a precipice I
4IX> feet Ligh. striking anti bounding from cliff to
efiff in his tearful descent, leaving portions of his 1
clothing and quivering beet on their lagged points <
His body was never seen afterwards
The rnpt.in who WontJ’t Hire.
• by the Young t un.
Early in the eprin tbe last year, a magnificent
new atea Tier was laujjch'-d upon the Ohio river, and
shortly after war C a >x ude her appearance at the le
vee opposite the fhmuahieg c ty of Cincinnati.—
Gilt eeged covers enveloped the captain’s “re
spects, ’ accompanied with invitations to “see her
through'’ upon her fi rat trip being forwarded to the
eti iron a! corps in tint vicinity, the chalked bat*
were “numerous” ousthojoccasion. It waa a grand
affair, this debut of a floating palace, which ha*
• lace murrain and bar ruput-.- untarnished as the
“crack Joat” par cxcejjßpcc upoa the Western wa
ters rour hlimbi* servant waa among the invited
guoets-J-a* and a rice time he had of it!
I found myself onboard of this beautifa! craft, iu
close com union with a score .of mnquesti liable
beauties. The company proved to be a heteroge
nous conglomeration of character —made up of edi
'•l6, lawyers, and auctioneers, indescribabi sand
“sane e* ‘ —with a sprinkling es “nonsuches. There
wa* a s ray person, too in the crowd, but as his lei
sure t rue “between meetings” was spent in trading
horses, we dispensed with hi* “grace before meali.
We left our mooriDg* an hour before sunset, up
on a clear coid afternoon, and passed rapidly down
stream for a considerable distance, without any
strange occurrence. The “son ot temperance” and
the parson aforesaid amused themselves over a
smoking whit-key toddy—the “boys” were relieving
each other of their superfluous dimes and quarter*
at euchre, when a tali who was some
v. • - -VH- rober, into the cal*
i‘. wit a the information well known “fast
boat” had just hove in .siJßWit the mouth of the
Kentucky river. The cards were dropped iustan
ter, ihe punches disappeared, and the “mourners’’
were soon distributed in knots upon the promenade
deck to note the progress of events.
Our “bully b at” sped away like a bird, however
and the craft behind gave ua parly evidence that
*be should offer no child’s play. Tne “fat was m
the fire at once —a large column of black smoke
curled up in the clear atmosphere—an extra turn
or two was visible upon cur own boat, and away
we went ! A good deal of excitement existed
among the party, as the rival steamer was dearly
gaining on us. A craft like ours, with 3uch a com
pany and such a captain, mustn’t be beaten.
A* the Boat-beiiind us fell in under our stern, aud
we could count'her passengers, a sort of impression
came over us-that by some mistake, we had get
upon thewTon 'boat ! At least that was the ex
greased opinion 6f!the parson, as he threatened to
go down down Flairs and take another drink.
Our captain was a noble fellow—h.* paced the
deck quietly, with’ a constant eye to the win ward
but he 3aid uothiqg. A bevy of the mournere
. topped up to him with—
“what speedcap’n ?”
“Fail, gentlemen : I think it is very fair,” res
poned the captain, aa he placed hi* hand upon a
email brass knob at the beck of the pilot house.—
This movement was reeponed to by the faint jing
ling of a bell below, followed immediately by a rush
of cinders from the smoke pipe*, aud an improved
action of the padles.
“Now w e move again.”
“Some,” was the response and a momentary trem
er pervaded the boat as h* slidaion’ right smart
ly.
But the craft iu our rear moved like our shadow
on the calm water*, and aa we shot down
the river, ri i-eemeq as if we had her in tow, so
calmly and uniformly did she follow in our wake.
The excitement of the congregation upon deck
had by this time become intense and it was pretty
plain that tbe boats must shortly part company or
split something ? The rascal behind us took advan
tage oka turn in the channel and “helm a starboard!”
was clearly heard from the look out of our rival, as
she hove off and suddenly fell alongside of us!—
The parson went below at once to put his threat in
to execution, an we came up the current again,
“iictek and neck,” and when he returned were run
ning a twenty five knot lick, the steam smack on to
46 degrees.
“She’s going—going, go ” muttered an
auctioneer to himself.
“A perlect nousuit,” remarked a lawyer to his
friend.
“Beaten, but not vanquished,” added a politician ;
and away we scudded id by side for a half a mile.
“Wouldn’t she bear a ieetle more,” meekly
asked the parson.
She’s doing very well,” replied the captain.—
Don’t get excited, gentleman ; my boat i* anew
one—her reputation and mine is at stake. We
mustn’t rush her—raciug always injures a boat,
and lam averse to it; saying which he applied his
thumb and finger to tne bra** kn b again—the beil
tingled in the distance—and our rival pilot shortly
had an opportunity to examine the architecture of
our rudder post!
I wan acquainted with the engineer. I stepped
below (believing we should be beaten at our pres
ent speed,) and entering the engine room—
Tim,” we’ll be licked—give her another turn,
eh ?”
“I rather think she moves some aa it is,” eaid
Tim.
Yes, but the C is hard on us—give her a lit
tle, my boy—just for—
“ Stay in here a moment,” remarked Tim, its all
“mum” you know—nothing to be *uid, eh ? Quiet
—there !—don’t she trdfiible some 7”
I noticed, for the first time, that our boat did la
bor prodigiously!
“But come round here,” continued Tim “look
there! mum’s the word, you kuow.’’
1 stepped out of that engine-room eaid af
terward*, that I sprang out at one bound;’ but he
lied!) in a hurry. Tlie solder upon the connection
pipe had melted and run down over the eeams in a
dozen place*, fiom the excessive heat—a crow-bar
was braced athwart the safety valve, with
upon the end—and we were shooting down the
Ohio, under a head of steam chock up to 54:40!
My sleeping apartment wasj well aft. 1 entered
the state room—got over upon the back side of my
berth—and stuffing the corners of the pillow into my
ear*, and endeavored to compress myself iu sleep.
It was out of the question. In attempting to light
myed I discovered that my hair stuck out so
straight that it was irflpo. sible for me to get my
bead within six inches of the pillow.
I toaaed'about till daylight, in momentary expec
ta ion of being landed in Kentucky (or somewhere
else!) but we got on finely. We led our rival half
an hour in Louisville, and I immediately swore up’
on my night-cap, that I never would accept an invi
tation for a pleasure trip from a stearnb at captain
wno was averse to racing.
Execution of Thompson. —James Thompson,
the youth convicted last winter of the murder of
John J. Calhoun, and after taking his ca?e to the
Supreme Court and being refused anew trial, was
re-sentenoed to be executed on the 2d instant, ex
piated hi crime on the gallows near the jail of thi*
county on yesterday, in the presence of a large con
course of people, many of whom, we blush for the
modesty ad gentleness of the sex to say, were wo
men He was escorted to the gallows by the Uni
te.! Rifles, Capt. Wilkins, aud the Georgia Greys,
Capt. Andrew*, aud was attended by his spiritual
adv iser, Rev. M. Cullman, tbe Catholic Priest of
this city. A* we do not think auy good can come
of giving detailed account* of executions, aud being
unwilling to patider to the depraved taste which de
lights in reading the particulars of such horrifying
spectacles, we only record the fact that he was exe
cuted, aud the majesty of ihe law has been vindica
ted.
We learn that everything was done decently and
in order, and fewer objectionable incidents occurred
than usual on such occasions. But notwithstanding
this, we were more than ever convinced of the pro
priety of executions being performed in private.—-
Among all the vast number w r e saw going and re
turning from the place of execution, we did not see
upon a single countenance any degree of solemni
ty whatever, but each one seemed aa if he or she
was going to an exhibition of curiosities, or to a
place of amusement. None seemed at all impress
ed with the solemnity of the occasion, aud we veri
ly believe that instead of operating a* a check up
on the vicious, the execution yesterday will be
rather an incentive to crime, especially among the
thoughtless and young. But if for no other reason,
we would fivor private executions to keep away
by compulsion tuo3e females whose native modesty
and gemleneßß of heart would not prompt them to
turn with horror away from so revolting a specta
cle from choice. We must confess that the morbid
curioeity manifested by some of the gentler sex—
*o cjlied—to witness such horrifyiug exhibitions,
has rather weakened cur faith in their right to the
appellation which ha* been accorded to them so long
of being tbe gentler and better portion of mankind,
for we cannot ee how any gentle and tender heart
ed woman could stand and look upon the sufferings
of a fellow m rtal through mere idle curiosity. But
it is an old maxim, “many men of many minds,”
and we suppose the same rule also applies to the
women. We are proud to record, however, that a
very large proportion of our city ladies had the
good taste not to attend. We therefore hope our
next Legislature will require that executious shall
be iu private. —Columbus Sun, July 3d.
A Hangman’s Bill—A Dutch journal recounts
that at the beginning of the last century the city of
Amsterdam was in the habit of employing the
Haarlem exe utioner, and that with a view to tave
travelling expenses it was usually contrived that a
good many executions should be fixed for the same
day. The following bill, showing the amount, earn
ed by this fortuate and pains taking functionary on
December 17,1712, is preservid in the archives of
Amsterdam : —“To beheading a man, 15f1.; to hang
ing another, 03.; to breaking a man on the wheel,
9 blows, at 3fl the blow,’ 27f1.; to hanging the same
individual afterwards, Off ; to hauging two others,
with swords stuck in their heads, 183.; to hanging
four more, at 63. each 213 ; to hanging a youth,
33; to hanging two men and placarding their breasts.
(N. B. The placards appear to have cost nothing,)
123 ; to Bogging 24 persons, at 38.; each, 723. 1 to
fiogging three others and fixing swords on their
heads, 9f1.; to putting a man in the pillory, 63.; to
branding in the back, 611.; sundries, 243.; for my
assistants, 123.; for ropes, iSxo., 2761 y.”
A “Turn Out.”—We don’t know when we have
seen or heard anything that carried us back so for
cibly to the days of our childhood, as a little incident
that occurred in this city a day or two since. It is
a revival of a custom that was quite common when
we were a great deal younger, and perhaps better,
than we are now. We allude to the custom of scho
lars turning out their teacher when they wished
holiday. It was a custom perhaps “more honored
in the breach loan in their performance,” but as
boys were a great deal better iu those days than
now, we shall not speak of its propriety at this time.
But to the point. The other morning, when one of
our mo.ft sorthy aud popular teachers repaired to
his school room, for the purpose of commencing the
exercises of the day, be found the doors all barrica
ded, and the boys armed with sharp sticks and en
trenched on the inside, prepareU with and
water for the protracted seige. The teacher, with
tha practical good eense which ever characterises
him, alter parleying with them for a 6bort time, un
til hes v, es the boys very emphatically expressed,
“there was no use talking,” yielded to their de
mands, and granted them the required holiday. It
is proper to stale that the boys disclaim any disre
spec* 10 their teacher, and deny any imputation of
wilful insnrbordination, bnt on the eantrary profess
the most unqualified respect and veneration for
their teacher both as a precept’ r and as a man,
and when the next term opens they will return to
their studies and be good boys again —Columbus
Sun.
Mutiny on Shipboard. —There was an outbreak
among the sailers cn board the ship Anna Sise, in
the lay, a day or two ago, caused by the refusal on
he part of one or two of the men to do duty. One
sailor, a man named Murphy, pursued the mate
’ into the cabin with a sheath-knife drawn, when the
mate, in self-defence, drew a pistol and sh#t him
t a ice. The sailors were subsequently arrested and
brought to tbe city, and the case, we understand,
w, 1 be trxamii.- i before the U. S. Commissioner, R.
B. OweD. shortly. The Anna Sise cleared for Liv
erpool with a cargo of cotton on Monday last, and
was about to c art on tbe passage. —Mobile Adv.
■ld inst. ■
Serious Affray in Mob** —Yesterday after
noon, about 3 o’c’ock, a serious renoentre occurred
ntpr the Postoffice, by which Mr. John and Mr.
David R-od. weie severely wounded by Mr. H.
Warfield. Tbe weapon used by the latter was a
eaneswird. The cause of the difficulty aud the
circumstances in relation to it, we could get no ac
curate ku wiedge of—there was so great a diversity
of statements. Mr. Warfield was arrested and was
to he held in arrest until tbe condition of the woun
ded parties eoold be definitively ascertained
j Tribune,id inst.
Ayer's Americas Alma sac is now ready for
delivery at H a vilasd. Chichester & Cos., who is
supplied web. it by the publisher for distribution
g rafts. to ail who call fur it. It contains about the
• richest collection of aneocutes we know of—a cal
endar accurately calculated for this meridean and
1 found reliable, besides an amount of valuable medi-
I ca i information which should be in the possession
lof every famiiv This little annual has become a
weic-ome visitor to the fireside- of the American
! people—and not to them atone, for its numbers are
freely circulated in almost every Civilized country
i under the sun. It : published in the English,
French, Spanish and German languages, with cal
endars adapted to every oer.deen of the Northern
: Hemisphere. Over twenty-seven hundred thou
sand copies were issued last year, which is doubt -
i lees the largest edition of any one bock in the world,
i Our readers are respectfully invited to call and get
| a copy, and when got, keep it.
A Cvriositg.— I The Bombay Geographical So
ciety announces, in tbeir pro eedings, that they
uave received a specimen of the walking leaf trom
Java with egg-ana young : and, what eeems more
i curious still, a walking flower described as a crea
ture ith a white body. pink spots and a crimson
I borde. — Ckambtrt’ Jotrrnai.
BY TELEGRAPH.
LATER PROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE STEAMER
CITY OF WASHINGTON.
St. John*, N. F., July 3.—The steamship City of
Washington, was bearded off Cape Race, on yes
terday alterooon, by the steamer Yacht belonging
•to the Associated Prase.
This steamer brings Liverpool dates to Wednes
day, June 23d.
Commercial News.
Liverpool Cotton Market.— The sales of Cot
on for three days reach 20,(500 bales, of which specu
lators and exporters tock 3000 bales. The market
closed dull, with prices rather easier, but quotations
were unchanged.
Liverpool General Market.— -Breadstnffs
were dull and quotations nominal. Provisions were
also dull.
, London Money Market.— There was no change
reported in Money. Consols were quoted at 95| 9
General News.
The news by this arrival i’ unimportant.
Additional by the City of Washington.
It was remored in London, that Mr. Dallas was
satisfied with the arrangements adopted by the En’
glish Government in relation to the questions grow
ing out of the course pursued by some of the En
glish cruisers in the Guif, and interference with
American vessels.
A destructive fire had occurred in London, by
which property to the value of several hundred
thousand pouuds sterling had been destroyed.
Commercial.
Liverpool General Market Report. —Flour
was very dull, and sales unimportant. Wheat was
steady; Corn dull; Sugar heavy; Coffee quiet, but
cteady; Spirits of Turpentine steady, at 48s. on the
spot, and 435. for arrivals. Rosin was dull, at 4s.—
Rice was dull.
Norfolk, July 4, P. M.—The remains of ex Pre
sident Monroe have reached here. The usual cere,
monies were observed on the occasion.
Crew of the Ships Bombay and Knickerbocker.
Savannah, July 3.—The British schooner Ann
Sophia, which arrived below on yesterday, had on
board & large portion of the crew of the wrecked
ship Bombay, Chase master, from the Canary Is
lands to Matanzas, and of the wrecked ship Knick
erbocker, Bostwick master, from Liverpool to New
Orleans
Remain* of exd’resideiit [tlonroe.
New York, July 3.—The remains of ex-Preai
deut Monroe were exhumed yesterday, and his
coffin was found to be in an excellent state of pre
servation. The remains will be forwarded for
Richmond to-day under the charge of the Virginia
Committee and the Seventh Regiment of this city.
New York, July 3, P. M. —The remains of ex-
President Monroe, left the city wharf this afternoon,
at three o’clock, in charge of the Virginia Commit
tee, and the Seventh Regiment, of this city. The
steamer left amid the salutes of all the forts, and
vessels in port and in the Bay.
From Havana.
New York, July 4.—The steamship Cahawba
has arrived from Havana, with dates to the 30th of
June.
The select qualities of sugar have slightly im
proved.
Yei Heard of the Telegraph Fleet.
Trinity Bay, July 6. — Nothing has yet been
heard of Telegraph fleet. The weather is very fog
gy and rainy.
Markets.
New Orleans, July s. —The Cotton market is
extremely dull to day, partly by the general
holiday. Flour, superfine sl.lO. Gunuy bags sold
at 10 cents. Kentucky Bagging 14 cents. Mess
Pork $ 16. Corn 90 cents.
New York, July 6 —Sales of cotton to-day 600
bales. The market is steady and quotations nomi
nal Flour firm, with sales of 16,000 barrels. Wheat
buoyant, with sales of 25,000 bushels, Southern
White $1.2591.29. Corn quoyant, with sales of
12,000 bushels. Spirits of Turpentine dull and un
settled, at 43 9431 cents per gallon. Rice steady at
3 93$ cents. Freights on cotton to Liverpool 5-32d.
Charleston, July 6.—Sales of cotton to -day 250
bales at unchanged prices. 4
New Orleans, June 29.—The report of the
board of health of this city announce the occur
rence of two deaths by yellow fever during the
week.
The Spanish vessel mentioned as burnt in the fire
to-day was the brig Tibiaba.
An examination of the wound received by Mr.
Gibbons in the duri with Hanlon show’s it will
prove fatal—the ball having taken effect in his
lungs.
St.‘ Louis, July I.— A Leavenworth despatch
says Gov. Denver intends resigning after the Au
gust election.
New Haven, June 30.—The shock of an earth
quake was observed in various parts of this city at
11 o’clock last night. It was a light one, yot caus
ed crockery to rattle, and was distinctly felt by
many persona who were walking out.
P. 8. The earthquake of last night was observed
in Woodbridge, seven mile3 Northwest from this
city, in Westville, two miles distant in the same di
rection, and in North Haven, seven miles nearly
Northeast from the city, where a second but slight
shock was feL. The direction of the vibration
seemed to be from South to North. The shock was
also-felt iu Waterbury. There have been but two
shocks of earthquake recorded as having occurred
within the la3t hundred years in this vicinity.
Boston, June 30.—The first section of the exten
sion of the Magnetic and Union lines of telegraph
eastward to Halifax was completed to Newbury
port this morning; and the lines are now open for
business to that point. The continuation of the line
to Halifax will be pushed forward without elay,
and upon its completion the odious monopoly hich
has so long existed between this city and the Pro
vinces will be broken up. •
St. Louis, June 29.—The Republicans of the St.
Louis Congressional district, in convention yester
day, nominated the lion. Frank P. Blair, Jr., tor
re-election to Congress by acclamation. Resolu
tions were passed re affirming the doctrines of
Thomas Jefferson, denouncing the Administration,
opposing negro equality, advocating the extinction
ot slavery in Missouri, and the removal of the ne
groes from the State. Three full tickets are now in
the field—American, Democratic, and Republican.
New Haven, Ct., June 20. — A slight shock of
an earthquake was felt here last night. It was also
observed in Woodbridge. Westville, North Haven
and Waterbury. T ere have been but two shocks
of an earthquake in this vicinity for 101) years.
New Orleans, June 30.—A fire accurred here
yesteaday, by which the ships Fanny Fosdick and
Crocker were slightly damaged. Steamer
Express, schooner Minnie Schaffer and a Spanish
brig were burnt to the water's edge.
A duel took place yesterday between Messrs.
Hanlon, of tne True Delta, and Gibson, of the Cres
cent, in which the latter was killed.
Philadelphia, June 29.—During an alarm of
fire last night after midnight alight occurred be
tween the Moyamensing and Shifßer Hose Ct m
panies, in wLich Samuel Carr, a member of the
latter, was killed by a pistol shot in his head. Two
others were wounded.
During the afternoon a fracas occurred on board
the Gloucester ferry boat, when B. Neall was stab
bed and instantly killed. His murderers escaped.
Williamsport, Pa., June 28.—-The first passen
ger train from Baltimore, over the Northern Cen
tral Railway, arrived at Suabury at 3$ o’clock,
with passengers from Baltimore and Philadelphia,
connecting with Harrisburg via Pennsylvania and
Lebanon Valley Railroads. The passengers are all
in fine spirits, and are off to Niagara Falls by this
route. Among the passengers are Z. Barnum, Eeq,
president of the Northern Central Railroad, and R.
M. Magi aw, Esq., editor, of Baltimore. This will
be the great popular route for all the northern and
Southern travel. All passengers from Washington
and the South going to Niagara Fails and the Lakes
will give this route the preference on account of
saving of time, travel and expense, as will also
those goi: gto Washington and the great South
from this and the lake regions.
St. Louis, June 29 — Leavenworth despatches of
the 27tth states that two companies of the Second
Infantry, now at Leavenworth, and two companies
at Fort Scott, have been ordered back to Fort
Rai dall. This movement is understood to have
reference to the reported hostile attitude of the In
dians of Nebraska.
Washington, June 30.—This is the hottest day
of the season. The thermometer stands at 95 and
96 in the shade.
Port Jervis, June 29.—Colonel Samuel Fow
ler’s eldest daughter Laura, while bathing in the
Nevereink river near his residence, in company with
her younger sister and a servant girl, was acciden
tally drowned on Monday evening. The bodies
were found about three hours after they went
down. The daughter of Col. Fowler was about 11
years old, and the other girl about 14.
Cincinnati, June 29. — The distillery of George
Curry, with three adjoining buildings, three miles
below Covington, Ky, were entirely destroyed
last night. Loes estimated at $30,00(1 —no insur
ance.
New York, July 2.—The remains of fir. Monroe
were exhumed early this morning, in the presence
of Messrs. Wise, Lee, Blow and Bell, of Virginia,
Mr. Monroe’s nephew, and others. TLe coffin was
in an excellent state of preservation. It was re
moved to the Church of the Annunciation during the
day. Flags were at half mast, bells tolled and min
ute guns fired, as the procession moved down Broad
way, at half past 4 o’clock. The Bth Regiment of
the National Greys and a company of the lat Regi
ment, were the acting escort.
The procession was one-fourth of a mile long, and
reached the City Hall at 5$ o’clock, where the re
mains were deposited, to remain until to morrow
afternoon—when under the escort of the 7th Regi
ment, they will be taken to Richmond.
Collector Schell has tendered the steam Revenue
cutter Harriet Lane, to the Virginia committee and
their guests.
The fortifications in the harbor have been re
quested to fire minute guns from three o'clock un
til sunrise to-morrow.
During the progress of the procession to-morrow,
places of business on the route will be closed, and
dags on public buildings hung at half mast. Ail
vehicles will be excluded from the streets.
Washington, July 2.—The Government has re
vived a letter from Maj. Benj McCullough, dated
Camp Scott, in which he states his belief that one of
the reasons why the Mormons deserted their habita
tion was to guard their wives from the apprehended
excessive gallantry of our soldiers. Besides, the
leaders resorted to this exodus to keep the people
together and prevent the disaffected saints from
thi owing themselves on the army forprotection.
The Mormons do not believe that fte army has or
ders or authority to pursue the n and hence congra
tulate themselves that they are out of harm’s way
from that source. Maj. McCullodjih say3 there is a
small force of Mormons still in Sak Lake City ready
to fire it in the event of the approach of the army.
He thinks a great mistake was made in permitting
the Mormons to gather their crops, as this while it
strengthens them baa diminished relatively the pow
er of the military force.
It is still reported that the Mormons are going to
Sonora, but npon this full reliance ca- not be placed.
The belief is, that a place of refuge has long ago
been selected. Maj. McCullough and the other
Peace Commissioner. Gov. PJwell, were going at
once to Salt Lake, but not with the army. Their
powers are superior to either those of Gov. Cum
ming or Gen. Johnston.
St. Louis, July 3. —Two hundred and seventy -
ive troops of the Eeconc Infantry, under command
of Lieuts. Hendersho., Cannor and Farraud, from
Newport barracks, arrived yesterday.
They were transfered to the U. S. steamer. Minck
and immediately proceeded to Fort Randall.
MARRIED ~~
On the Ist of July, 1656, by Abraham 8 ego, Esq., Mr.
L. B. LEWIS, 9t Richmond county, and Misa JANE E.
MOORE, of Striven county
OBITUARY.
Died at her residence in Colombia county, on the 6th
ult.. in the seventy-sixth year of her age, Mrs ROWEKA
PAYNE, daughter of th jate Jno. Henning, Br, and
grand daughter of the ate Thomas Cobb, of Columbia
county. For many yearn she Lived a life of retire
ment and seclusion, bat respected and beloved by all
who knew her The pm ity of her life was exemplified
in th<- calmness of her death. Peace to her ashes.
8.
COMMERCIAL.
Beware of Wild Cate.
To enable the people to protect themselves, as
much as possible, against these institution, we
subjoin a list of them; all of which we regard
totally unworthy of confidence or credit:
Merchants’ Bank, of Macon.
Interior Bank, Griffin.
LaGrange Bank, LaGrange.
Southern Bank, Bainbridge.
Cherokee Insurance & Banking Com’t, Dalton.
Planters’ & Mechanics’ Bank, Dalton.
North-Western Bank, Ringoid, Ga.
Bank or Greensboro’, Greensboro’.
broke.
Manufacturers’ A Mechanics’Bank, Columbus.
Exchange Bank, Griffin.
AUGUSTA MARKET.
*Ttkiy Report Tuesday, July, 6 P. M.
COTTON.—The business of the week b&s beeni lim
ited, owing to the light offering stock—the demand has
been steady and prices quoted as follows :
Inferior 7*9 8*
Ordinary 9
Low to Strict Middling u ‘#ll}
Good Middling jo
Middling Fair..-. 121 d>—
Fair 121 3>—
We refer to the following table for a statement of the
Receipts, Exports and Stock on hand at latest dates,
made up from tables received at this office:
RECEIPTS TO LATEST DATES.
1858. 1867
New Orleans, June 25 1,538,244 1.437,309
Mobile, July 2 514,727 483,216
Florida, June 18 106,920 122,846
Texas, June 19 136,429 84,860
Savannah, July 1 282,984 321,346
Charleston, July 1 390,670 391,527
N. Carolina, June 23 21,240 23,651
Virginia, June l 14,842 15,161
Total Receipts 3,006,056 2,876,922
STOCKS IN SOUTHERN PORTS.
New Orleans, June 25 119,283 65,026
Mobile, July 2 29,792 21,876
Florida, June 18 2,7:15 1,868
Texas, June 19 10,544 3,980
Savannah, July 1 5,184 4,884
Charleston, June 23 21,842 23,872
N. Carolina, June 23 400 350
Virginia, June 1 1,690 362
Total Stocks 191,470 122,218
New York, June 29 76,963 45,205
EXPORTS TO FOREIGN PORTS.
To Great Britain . !7... ........1,681,877 1,357,624
“ France 371,426 382,118
4 ‘ other Foreign Ports 352,092 400,391
Total Foreign Exports 2,405,395 2,140,133
To Northern U. S. Ports 637,714 831,141
BACOX.—We have nothing new to report in this ar
tide. The demand is moderate and the transactions aro
limited to small lots. The supply for the past few weeks
has been limited, and the stock on hand is consequently
somewhat reduced. There is more firmness and regu
larity in priees, and we continue to quote Hog Round
Bi®9c.; Shoulders 797*c.; Hams B®9c. ; Sides 10* cts.
GRAlN.—There is some enquiry for new Wheat, and
the present arrivals which are light, readily bring ten to
fifteen cents per bushel more than old Wheat. The first
heavy arrivals, however, will probably depress the mar,
ket. The stock of old W T heat still in the country is large
—advices from St. Louis, Chicago, and the Northwest
report the incoming crop large and doing well—at Nash,
viile new Wheat has been selling at 60965 cents for July
delivery a-d 5 cents less for August, and the crops in
Europe are doing well. In view of these circumstances,
the probability is that Wheat will rule at low figures du
ring the entire season. We hear of but few sales during
the past week, and quote new Red 90c. to $1; new
White sl9sl.]o V bushel. Old Red 85990 cents ; old
White 90c. S’® 1. Com is scarce and in demand at 75 to
77 cents per bushel.
FLOUR.—There is a little better demand and more
firmness in this article, though prices remain as last
quoted: Tennessee Extra Family $5 00; do. Extra
$4.7595.00 ; do. Superfine $4.50. Paragon Mills Extra
Family, in bags, $6.25; in bbls. $6.75; do. Extra $5.50
a) 5 75; do. Superfine in bags $4.50; in bbls. $5.00.
Carmichael Mills Extra Family $6.00956.25; do. Extra
$5.2595.50; do. Superfine $4.50 ; Granite Mills Extra
Family $6.5097.00; do Extra $5.50 2)6.00 do. Superfine
$4.50
Some of the Mills are selling Extra Family Flour from
new Wheat at $6.50 per bbl.
LARD.—This article remains as previausly quoted,
11*912c.
GROCER IES. —We have no change to note in any de
scription of Groceries, and would refer to our “ Price
Cutrent’’ for a correct statement of prices. The trade
during the week has been moderate.
EXCHANGE.—Sight Exchange on New York is
abundant at * per cent premium.
FREIGHTS.—The River continues in good navigable
condition. Rates for Cotton to Savannah, 25 cents per
bale; Flour 15 cents per bbl.; Salt 15c. per sack. By
Railroad to Savannah 60 cents, and to Charleston 80
cents per bale for Cotton.
NBW YORK, Saturday, July 3 P. M.—Money— 'There
has been more movement in money matters this week
arising from the large disbursement for dividends, in
terest, and a portion of the capital 01 the State debt, on
the Ist inst., but this has only added to the amount seek
ing investment, the mediums for which seem to be as
scarce as ever, aud the amount which has been placed
iu the late purchases ofU. S. Treasury notes, New York
•State stocks, aud the other lesser negotiations which
have been consummated during the last week or two,
appears scarcely to be missed from the market The
regular rate for demand loans is about four per cent, on
prime securities, and five per cent for the best paper,
which continues very scarce, but there are transactions
in both at lower rates. We think there is a little less
diserimioation just at present in the selection of paper,
some names being taken now at the minimum rate
wh ch would have gone freely only at a little advance
on that a few weeks since. The Times states ;hat some
October and November bills, good Dry Goods names,
indorsed, could not be had yesterday better for the buyer
than 4 per cent per annum and that some of the Bank
Presidents are in the Street for August and September
paper at the same rate. We have heard thi-i morning of
some considerable parcels having been taken from the
street during the week, on bank account, atlonrto four
and a half per cent.
Stock*—' The stock market has been dull throughout
the week, the daily sales being vs ry small, and showing
little and sposition of parties outside the board to buy
either for speculation or investment. General business
is also very languid, and may be considered as about
closed until colder weather and the Fall trade shall set
in. The country accounts relative to the crops con
tinuing to improve, it is probable that the latter will be
better than was at one time expected.
Exchange— There has been a very light business in
foreign exchange for transmission by the steamer of to
day, but. the rates have been firmly maintained through
out, at 109*9109* for bank and bankers’ bills on London.
One drawer is asking a fraction higher, but without
efferting Bales. Commercial signatures are held at
108*9109*. Paris 5f.1595£12*; Hamburg 36*936j;
Amsterdam 41*941* ; 3remen 79979*. Dealers are
anticipating a large business for the steamer of Wednes
day next, which on account of the intervening holiday
will be mostly crowded iuto one day. The Vanderbilt
to-day takes out $264,451.26 in specie, mostly in bars.
Flour , src.—ln the Flour market the transactions were
only to a limited extent and prices were without ma
terial change. Superfine is scarcely so plenty, and is
perhaps less freely offered. There is considerable sour
Flour in market, which is being bought to a moderate
extent for export. Southern Flour rules dull but prices
have undergone no material change. Sales 1200 bbls.
at $4.4594.75 for superfine and $4.8096 for fancy and
extra
Sugar— We notice a more active business doing, and
the market for Raw rules firm ; sales since our last 1000
hhds. at 697*cfor Cuba, and 6*97* and 8c for Porto
Rico.
Coffee —Rio is in a moderate request, and is steady at
about former figures. Sales since our last 400 bags at
lo|c ; 200 mats and bags Java at 15917 c, and small sales
Maracaibo at 12c.
Or min —Theie is only a limited business doing in
wheat, and the market is without important change.—
The supply is mod rate, and consists chiefly ot common
unround parcels, ttrictly prime lots are scarce, but arc
only moderately wanted for expoit, the advance in
freights checking the demand. Southern white $1 209
1.30. The market for common and Inferior Corn is dull
and heavy, while strictly prime parcels are scarce and
command full prices. Sales 10,000 bushels at 66 976 c
for inferior to prime mixed Western, 77980 c for White,
and 82983 c for yellow Southern.
Hide 9 —The market is active, and prices are steady for
most descriptions. The sales to-day include 200 western
slaughtered at 10c cash; 500 Texas at 18c, less 3 per
cent cash, usual selection; 500 Buenos Ayres, 26 lbs.
average, at 24 jc.. less 3* per cent. cash.
The Journal of Commerce furnishes the following
table, showing the imports of dry goods for the fiscal
pear ending June 30 :
ENTERED FOR CONSUMPTION.
1856. 1857. IBst.
Manufa of Wool 22,671,010 20,261,326 17,035,032
Do. Cotton 13,225,234 15,813,299 9,012,911
Do. Shk 27,7:18,080 25,192,465 17,581,099
Do. Flax 7,760,145 6,857,433 3,701,555
Miscel’s Dry Goods... 6,575,816 6,709,004 3,761,788
Tot’l ent’d for c0n5’n.577,079,285 $74,833,527 $51,092,283
WITHDRAWN FROM WAREHOUSE.
1856 1857. 1858.
Manufs. of Wool $2,025,697 2,929,179 6,369.118
Do. Cotton 1.983,578 2,492,516 4,018,693
Do. Silk 2,241,785 2,004.190 5 394.970
Do. Flax 1,131,408 1,100,183 2,215,427
Miscellan’s Dry Goods. 507,675 601,035 1,385,173
Total withdrawals....s7,B9o,l43 $9,127,103 $19,383,381
Addentd. for conßum’n.77 970,285 74,833,527 51,092,.'185
To’l thrown on mark’tsßs 860,428 $83,960 630 $70,475,766
ENTERED FOR WAREHOUSING.
1856 1857 1858
Manufs. of Wool $2,184 627 6,081,505 5,028,533
Do. Cotton.--. 2,006,493 3,780 715 4,048,530
Do. Silk 2,225,515 4,497,447 3,667,52*.
Do. Flax 861,657 2,228,768 1,964,891
MLcel’s Dry Goods... 650,113 1,247,126 1,515,876
To’l entd. for warb’g.57,928,495 $17,e35,561 $16,225 351
Add entd. for c0n5’n..77,970,285 74,833.527 51,092,385
Tot’l en’d at the port $85,898,690 $92,665.088 $67 317,736
The following is a comparative statement of the value
of exports from the commencement of the year to July
Ist : -•
1857. 1858. Increase. Decrease
Cotton $7,172,075 $4,836,126 $2,335,949
Flour 3,849,315 3,431,114 418,201
Com Meal. 113,836 136,408 22,572
Wheat.... 1,780,820 1,835,513 54,693
Corn 1,254 957 1,044,288 210,669
Beef 449 819 819,444 369,625
Pork 629,367 676 210 46.843
$25,250,189 $12,779,103 $493,733 $2,964,819
Decrease as compared with 1857 471,086
CINCINNATI, July 2—Flour $3.90954.20. Extra
Whe-t 65®75c.; Red 80®95c. White Cora 50c. Oats
35i. Linseed Oil 66967 c. Mess Pork $14.50 —held at
$14.75. Bacon Shoulders sc. ; Sides 797*c. Lard 9s®
10c. in bbls. Whiskey 19c.
SHELBYVILLE, Jaly 1. —Bacon is dull sale. We
quote clear sides at 7*98, Hams 696*, Shoulders 5,
Hog round 696*—from wagon?.
Lard —ln shipping order, 898*c.
Wheat —so® 60.
P&JL.FLEMIXG,
WAREHOUSE AMI COMMISSION MERCHANTS,
AUGUSTA,
rpiIANKFUL for the liberal support of Planters in
X this and adjoining States South Carolina and Ala
bama, would inform them and the pablic that they will
continu, the above business in ail its branches and that
they Lave taken that convenient and commodious FIRE
PROOF WAREHOUSE, occupied for several years by
Messrs. Whitlock, Coakery A Cos., on Campbell Street,
opposite that of L. Hopkins, where they hope, by strict
attention to business, they will share the confidence and
patronage of their friends as heretofore. Our charges
will be the same aa heretofore •
Commissions— 25 cents per bale.
Storage first month 25 “ “
All succeeding mouths 12* “ u
Liberal advances will be made on all Produce consign
ed to them, and orders filled at the lowest market prices
P FLEMING,
J. L. FLEMING,
Augusta, July Ist, 1858. jy3 dAw
HEEL SLIPPERS !
AT
CLARK & ROYAL’S.
Mis>es and Ladies’ Heel SLIPPERS ;
Ladie- Lasting BUSKINS, fine ;
B.k Morocco Ankle TIBS ;
Gents. Call Strap SHOES
Received thft day jy2-dAw3t
NOTICE.
I HAVE this day disposed o fmy entire ***!■£ m tbe
firm of BUTT, KNIGHT A CO., to LUCIUS 8
MOHRib. The firm of Butt, Moorria A Cos., are alone
authorized to settle the business ot the late firm and
the name in liquidation. JAMES L. KNIGHT
Augusta, July Ist, 1858.
rFHK undersigned have this day
X -)hip for the transact! mos a GENERAL
RY BUSINESS, t the old „uod of Ban *Co
under the nAme nd tyle of Bl BUTT^°
IAJ CIUS S MOKRJS,
JOSHUA W BUTT
Augusta, July Ist, 18'*- jyl-dtw&wttw
HEMBOLD S BDCHU,
R sale by
1 jy7-dAwlm WM. H. TUTT.
AUGUSTA PRICES CURRENT
WHOLESALE PRICES.
BAGGING.—Gunny......... Jp* yard 16 *© J6£
Kentucky yard no e
yard
Clear Sides, Tennessee.Rj ® HU
Hog round.... m 41 a u
BUTTER.—Goshen £ 22 I 30
BRICKS ? 1000 00 S8 50
CANDLES. —Adamantine lb 22 >9 25
Chemical Sperm fiF n> 35 -a 37
Puie do Fft 45 ® 50
CHEESE.—Northern ft none
English Dairy 4P ft 13 i
- fft 11* V ]*,
Laguira ft 134 ® 15
Java P ft 20
DOMESTIC GOODS—Yarns ® 1 00
I Shirting V yard 7 © 8
i Shirting ¥ yard 8 © 10
1 Shirting V yard 84 ® 10*
5- Shirting ? yard 12 © 14
6- Shirting ¥ yard 14 © 16
Osnabnrgs ¥ yard 10* ‘eb 114
FEATHERS ft 35 374
FlSH.—Mackerel, No. 1 f bbl 16 00 909
No. 2 > bbl 15 0 @l7 00
Large No. 1 bbl 20 00 ®22 00
“ No. 2 ? bbl 16 00 918 00
No. 3... bbl none
Herrings f box
FLOUR.—Tennessee Extra bbl 475 95 09
Extra Superfine 4* bll 425 94 50
Tennessee Superfine bbl 400 d> 425
Granite Mills, Ex. Family. V bbl 6 .50 97 00
“ “ Extra bbl 550 96 00
“ “ Superfine .. Iff bbl 450
Carmichael Mills, bbl 600 96 25
“ *’ Extra....bbl 5*5 95 50
“ “ Superfine*?’ bbl 450
Paragon Mills Extra bbl 625 96 76
“ “ Extra.. 4P bbl 550 95 75
“ “ Superfine.. bbl 450 95 00
GRAIN.—Corn, with sacks bush 70 9 75
Wheat, white, bush 95 91 00
Wheat, red, ...f’ bush 85 9 90
Oats bush 40 9 50
Rye f bush 50 9 60
Peas f bush 85 9 90
Cora Meal & bush 70 9 75
GUNPOWDER Dupont s.. f keg 650 97 00
Hazard keg 650 97 00
Blasting keg 550 96 00
IRON.—Swedes ft 5* 9 5*
English ft 3* 9 4
LARD.. 4? ft ll* 9 12*
LEAD.—Bar ft 8 9 9
LIME. —Country f box 125 91 50
Northern ? bbl 150 91 75
LUMBER ** 1000 10 00 914 00
MOLASSES.—Cuba 48’ gal 27 9 30
Golden Syrup f 1 gal 43 9 50
New Orleans Syrup gal 42 9 45
NAILS F* ft 4* 9 4*
OlLS.—Sperm, prime gal 200 92 25
Lamp 4* gal 110 9l 25
Train 48 gal 75 9 1 00
Linseed 48 gal 110 9 1 15
Castor f gal 200 92 25
RICE 48 ft 4* 9 5
ROPE.—Handspun f ft 7 9 8
Machine 48 ft 8* 9 9
RAISINS 48 box 350 94 00
SPlßlTS.—Northern Gin 48 gal 45 9 50
Rum 48 gal 45 9 50
N. O. Whiskey gal 30 9 35
Peach Brandy *8 gal 9 2 50
Pure Cider Brandy & gal 9 1 75
Holland Gin 48 g&l 1 50 © l 75
Cognac Brandy gal 300 96 00
GARS.—New 0r1ean5.....48 ft 7* 9 9
Porto Rico 48 ft none
Muscovado 4* ft 7* 9 8
Loaf 48 ft 13 9 14
Crushed 48 ft 12 9 12*
Powdered ft 12 9 12*
Refined Coffee A... 48 ft “11 9 12*
Do. do. B 48 ft 10* 9 11*
Do. do. C 48 ft 0 9 10
SALT 48 sack 95 9 1 00
SOAP—Yellow 48 ft 6 9 8*
SHOT 48 bag 200 92 25
TWINE—Hemp Bagging 48 ft 22 9 25
Cotton Wrapping 48 ft 23 9 37
BT it is proper to remark that these are the current
rates at wholesale, from store—of course, at retail, prices
are a shade higher, and from the Wharf or Depots, iu
large quantities a shade lower.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
PRESENTMENTS.
GT Georgia, Glascock County.—We, the
Grand J ury selected and sworn for the February Term
1858, of the Superior Court of said county, make tLe
following general Presentments:
In the infancy of our county, but few matters of gene
ral importance present themselves for our considera
tion ; those few, however, demand at our hands, and at
the liauda of our citizens generally, the most careful at
tention. We are now, comparatively, free, no heinous
offences having demauded action from us, and our people
are, as yet, almost free from litigation. We would urge
upon our fellow-citizens te propriety of continuing their
intercourse with each other in that benevolent and con
ciliatory spirit which has heretofore enabled them to
steer clear of the occasion, trouble, expense and uncer
tainty of lawsuits. It was doubtless the intention of
our Legislature to bring justice home to every man’s
doer, by organizing new counties in sections remote
from tbe old county sites ; but, it is to be hoped that our
people will not fall into a very common error, under
such circumstances, of regarding the accessibility of the
Court House as an invitation to engage in law. Nothing
is to be gained by litigation. The law is intended as a
remedy in case justice is denied, and if justice can he
had without the process of law, it is always cheapest and
be3t.
From the recent organization of our Courts and Ooun.
ty offices, there are no records in the hands of the officers
lor our inspect on. We would, however, earnestly call
the attention of our county officer*—Clerks of the Supe
rior and Inferior Courts, Ordinary, and the County
Treasurer—the high importance of keeping carefully
correct the books and records pertaining to their offices,
as upon them depends the most essential portion of the
business. Courts would be of little or no value without
correct and proper records.
We are glad to find the Books, so far, well kept. The
Clerk has granted license to retail to J. H. Kitchens,
James P. Moat, Wiley Love, aud Jerusha Kent.
We have, through a Committee, examined the Court
House, and we believe, from the best judgment we can
form upon the subject, that the contractor is doing his
duty in executing the undertaking in a neat, substantial,
and workmanlike mann 3r. We Lope and prediet, that
tbe Inferior Court will have no difficulty in accepting
the job.
We find the Bridges in the county, generally, in good
condition. One Bridge, across Ogeechee, known as
May’s lower Bridge, is somewhat out of repair, but we
do not deem it of sufficient utility to the citizens of Glas
cock to recoma: end &n appropriation for its repair.
We much regret to find the public Roads in the coun.
ty in exceedingly bad order in many places. We would
respectfully request Overseer aud Commissioners of
Roads and the Justices of the Inferior Court, to have
them put in order in the shortest time possible. The
Augusta and Shoals Road, from Fort’s creek to L
Kitchens’; Road from Joe’s creek to Rocky Comfort.
Road from Underwood’s to Georgetown Road, tbe Louis,
viile and Warrenton Road, and the Road leading from
Beachtree creek to Gibson’s demand special attention.
We call the particular attention of Overseers to their
duty of posting roads, and placing finger boards at all
forks; and we recommend to the Inferior Court to see
strictly to the performance of this duty.
We desire to express our approbation of the action of
the Inferior Court in the selection of site and location ts
our county town, and we tender them the thanks of our
body for the taste, prudence and discretion they have
manifested therein.
Wo recommend the Ordinary to levy a tax of ten per
cent upon the State tax for the education of the poor
children of our county.
Upon examining the finances of the county, we find
that its assetts, in all, amount to sixteen hundred and
ninety-eight dollars, and that its liabilities amount to
the sum of three thousand six hundred and forty-four
dollars. We recommend the Inferior Coart to levy a
tax upon the State tax lor county purposes sufficient to
discharge one-half of the indebtedness.
In taking leave of his Honor, Judge James Thomas,
we tender him our thanks for the impartial and dignified
manner in which he has presided during the Court, and
our best wishes for his continued health and happiness.
We also tender to Solicitor General Daniel our thanks
for his diligent attention to business and his kindness to
our body.
We recommend that these Presentments be published
once each in the Constitutionalist and Chronicle A
Sentinel
JEREMIAH WILCHER, Foreman,
Seaborn Kitchens, John J. Barfield,
Jeremiah Logue, Henry P. Harris,
Seaborn Glover, George Underwood,
Francis M. Kelly, James MoNiel,
Elcany Todd, Seaborn R. Kelly,
James W. Usry, Nathaniel E. Griffin,
Tobias Logne, William Kitchens,
Joshua F. Usry, William Davis,
Wiley T. Holmes, Bartholomew C. Kitchens,
Archibald E Todd, John W. Davis.
John Swint, Sr., John Swint, Jr.,
Upon motion of the Solicitor General, it is ordered
by tbe Court, that the General Presentments of the
Grand Jury be published, as requested by them.
jy7 RICHARD WALDEN, Clerk.
MASTIC ROOFING.
%£r~ Macon, Geo., Ma. ch 23d, 1858.—-Messrs.
Freeman A Roberts and A. P. Cherry :—Gentlemen —
In response to your request for my opinion relative to
the merits of Mastic Roofing, permit me to say that I
consider it the best in use, either for tightness, lightness,
durability, (except slate, perhaps,) or economy ; and the
ease and facility with which it can be mended may fairly
be considered an additional commendation.
Henceforth, Roofs may be made as flat as desired
without apprehension of the vexations leakings that in
variably accompany the use of tin-
The Roof on which I have tested it, rises an inch to the
foot, and continues perfectly tight, and I cannot con
ceive from the composition of it, how it could be other
wise, for it is not only water-proof bat air tight.
Respectfully, M. 8. Thompson.
A. P. CHERRY, Propiie or.
Jy7 tw3Awl Office at the Burke House.
a Cure for Bronchi tin.—There are many
well attested cases of cures of this distressing complaint
by the use of the WILD CHERRY, as combined by Dr.
Wistar in his faraons COUGH BALSAM, which medi
cine has a world wide reputation. jy7-dtwAwlt
CF Eau l.aulrale, or Hair Restorative of
JULEB HAUEL.—This article, composed of Vegetable
snbetances, has rapidly acquired a world wide celebrity,
for iu potency in beautifying and invigorating tbe hair;
rendering it soft and glossy, inclining it to carl, pre
venting dandruff and baldness. Iu use, as an indis
pensable toilet article, is now universal; and the magi
cal effecU, resulting therefrom, are speedially apparent.
Sold by all respectable DruggisU, and at tbe Laborato
ry of JULES, HAUEL & CO., Perfumers and Im
porters, No. 704 Chesnnt Street, Philadelphia.
jy4-d&wlw
DISSOLUTION.
r p HE firm of HEARD A DAVISON is this day dis-
X solved by mntual consent The ouutanding busi
ness will be settled by JOHN DAVISON, wbe is here
by author iaed to use the name of the firm in liquidation.
ISAAC T. HEARD,
JOHN DAVISON.
Augusta, July Ist, 1858. Jy7-dJttwßw
JOHX TTavlson,
(SUCCESSOR TO HEARD & DAVISON,)
WAREHOUSE AM) COMMISSION MERCHANT,
Mclntosh-st., Augusta, Ga.
HA ViN'G purchased the entire interest of IBAAC
T. HEARD, iu the l*te firm of Heard A Davison,
the undersigned intends carrying on the WAREHOUSE
AND COMMISSION BUSINESS on his own account,
at the old stand on Mclntosh str et. His strict personal
attention will be given toali business confided t-> him.
The usual liberal cash facilities will be extended, and
orders fnr supplies promptly and carefully executed.
jy7-d2w&w6m JOHN DAVISON.
OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY
COMMENCEMENT WEEK.
IJACCALAUKEATK Sermon by the President of
\j the College, Sunday A. M., July 18th. Missionary
Sermon by Rev. G. H. W. BETRIE, Sunday night
Sophcmore Prize Declamation, Monday night, July 19.
Junior Exhibition, Tuesday morning, July 20.
Annual Meeting of Board of Trustees, Tuesday, 4
o’clock, P. M.
COMMENCEMENT—DeIivery of Prizes to Sopho
mores, with an Address by tbe Hon. E. A. NISBET, of
Macon. Also, Annual Oration to Literary Societies, by
Hon. HIRAM WARNER, Wednesday, July 21.
C. W. LANE,
Secretary of Board of Trustees.
P. 8. An extra train of Cars will leave Miliedgeville
daily, to carry passengers to and from the public exer
cises. [jy7-d£wltj C. W. L.
DeGRATH S ELECTRIC OIL,
1H for sale by
jy7 d&wlm WM. H. TUTT. |
MADISON SPRINGS, GA
JUNE 30th, 1858.
THISGAKDEN SPOT OF GEORGIA, a, a
a PUBLIC RESORT, is, ana La* been opened
since 10th Juue. aud ready for all who may pay ns a
visit. We shall pot make further comment on the beaut 7
and benefits of a visit to this delightful clime. All wh
have ever visited the MADIBON SPRINGS, will test •
t'y to its beneficial effects, and why should auy one ww 1
to travel North, and spend their money amongst strq.i
gers, Ac., when they can find climate, society, aod eve.
ry thing else, equal, if not superior to any spot in th 1
Southern country—them we say, “Como, why
Come I” We t>ball be happy to see all, aud promLu
them they shall not go away dissatisfied.
DANIEL SCOn & TYNER.
tST* Augusta Constitutionalist., Savannah Republican,
Macon Journal &, Messenger, Su thorn Watchman ani
Banner. Athens, Ga,, will please copy.
jy2-d&wlm
SELLING OFF!
GfKEAT BARGAINS
IN
DRY GOODS
FOR ONE MONTH ONLY!
COMMENCING ON THE FIRST JULY.
WILLISI crane.
Expecting to have some improvements ma o in bn
store, on the first of August, and wishing to uisposo of
his present Stock before that time, will commence, on
the Ist of July, selling off his
LARGE STOCK OF DBY GOODS
FOR CASH,
AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES,
and would respectfully invite all who wish to purchase
to give him a call, as GREAT BARGAINS will be
given. jc3o-dlw&w2
SAMUEL M. KING’S
SHINGLE MACHINE,
NOW on exhibition at WM. H. GOODRICH’S Car
pentcr Shop, Reynolds Street, Augusta, Georgia,
where it can be seen iu operation from the hours of 8 to
l A. M., aud from 2 to 7 P. M
The principle embraced in .his machine corresponds
exactly with the old and well known process of splitting
and dressing by hand labor, working directly with the
grain in the timber. It produces an article not liable to
warp or check from exposure. This machine was pa
tented January 15th, 18•'>, aud has already obtained a
celebrity possessed by none other. The whole machine
can he built for one third the cost of any other, and will
rive and shave from the bolt fromß.ooo to 15,000 Shingles
per day. For this purpose, it only requires a Two-
Horse Powe to work it, at the same time you can make
any required length, and it is adjustible to any required
thickness or taper ; it is simple, cheap and durable ; auy
ordinary mechanic can make it, and a boy may work it
To Shingle dealers, Lumbermen, Capitalists and Spec
ulators, this Machine is a safe, sure am profitable In
vestment. We invite all to call and see it in op ration
Any further information can bo had by calling on tbe
Patentee or his Agents, one of whom will always bn
found with the machine, or at the Globe IloteL
Machines and Rights for Sale.
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COPARTNERSHIP.
rftiE UNDERSIGNED have this day formed a Cos
par nership under the name and stylo of HEARD
& DERRY, for the purpose of carrying on the WARE
HOUSE AND COMMISSION BUSINESS, in all its
brauebes. They have leased for a term of years the
commodious Fire-proof Warehouse No. 1, Metcalfs
Range, Reynolds street, just below Warre j Block,
where they will be weli prepart and to promote the inter
est of customers.
Orders for Bagging, Rope, and Family Supplies,
promptly attended to. Liberal cash advances made at
all times on Produce Instore. Their strict personal at
tention will be devoted to the business, and they respect
inlly solicit consignments from their friends and the pub
lic. I.nAAO T HEARD,
WM. C. DERRY,
Augusta, July 1, 1858. jy7 3m
A CARD.
‘ITHE firm of HEARD & DAVISON having been dis
X solv and by mutual consent, and the foregoing co
partnership having been formed, 1 would gratefully re
turn my thanks to all who have heretofore patronized
me, and earnestly solicit a tontii.uauce of their favors iu
my new business in the firm of Heard & Derry.
18 AAC T. H WARD
July 1, 1858. jy7 3 m
W. H. TUTT,
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRUGGIST.
iH daily receiving large supplies of pure DRUGS
and CHEMICALS, family and plantation MEDI
CINES, PAINTS and OILS, to which he invito j Iho
attention of his old customers and the public generally,
guaranteeing them as pure in quality and as low In
price as at any other house in the South.
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COPARTNERSHIP NOTICE.
THE UNDERSIGNED Lave this day entered into
X a cop iitnership under tbe name and t. leof HOL
LINOSWORTH &. BALDWIN for the transaction of a
general Grocery and Commission business, at the stun
formerly occupied by J. F. Clewcuce, three doors below
the Planter’s Hotel.
JOHN B. HOLLINGSWORTH,
jy7-3m WALTER A. BALDWIN.
CONCENTRATED LYE.
A SUPPLY received by
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VALUABLE LAND FOR SALE.
r |UIR undersigned now offers for sale upon accoinmo
X dating terms, bis valuable tract of land iu Tallade
ga county, containing 780 acres, ly ng on Cbockolocco
creek and on the road from Talladega to Oxford, 15
miles from the former aud 6 from the latter; it is also
immediately on the Alabama, A Teum hsee Railroad and
well situated for a Depot. About 250 acres e oared—loo
of which is creek holt iu; of the remaining portion
there arc 100 acres of bottom land, and on the whole
tract, at least 6(|) acres of good tillable laud, and all the
uncleared land well timbered. It is well provided for
stock water, and good wellF easi y obtained anywhere
on the tract. The improvements consist of a comforta
ble Dwelling House, Gin House, and all necessary out
houses. A good apple aud peach orchard, and many
other conveniences not necessary to mention.
Also, about one mile distant, a tract containing 120
acres, lying on the creek, excellent soil, and having a
first rate Mill seat.
Persons wishing to purchase would do well to call aud
examine the premises for themselves.
W. W MATT I SON
Jacksonville, Ala., July 2, 1858. jj7 w6t
PIKE COUNTY LANDS.
A VALUABLE PLANTATION f r sale, lying iu
Pike county. It joins Z-bulon on the North, 11
miles from Griffin it contains 1,200 acres, aud 200 of
that is cotton land ; 40 or 50 ol the same in cultivation,
which w.ll bnng 10 barrels of corn per acre. Thore is a
good mill seat on the place. The improvements are all
good aid new, and well watered. Convenient to mar
ket, and church, ar.d school Two Gin Houses and
Screw. I would sell the crop now growing, as I desire
moving West. Any one wishing to buy, would do well
to call and exa nine for themselves. Low for ear h.
JAMES BECKHAM.
P. S. There can be had 400 acres joining it auy person
wished more. [jy7-w3in] j. B.
GO AND SEE IT.
MY PLANTATION in Wilkinson County, Ga.,
containing 2,950 of Oak and Hickory LAND
with good improvements. The above place will show
for itself. 1 will give a bargain in it, as lam anxious to
close my business in Georgia For farther particulars
callou Mr. NIMROD J. BROWN, near Cool Hpring, or
address me at Corsicaua, Navaro County, Texas.
jy7-w3t ANDERSON INGRAM.
CIOLUMII! A HBUI PR ’rt HA LK.—W ill he sold,
/ before the Court-house door at Appling, Columbia
county, on the first Tuesday in AIJGIJBT next, w:lhiu
the usual hours of sale, the following property, to wit
Twenty acres of Land, with improvements, lying on the
waters of Green Brier, adjoinin lauds of James B. Neal.
John E. Smith, and others : Levied on as the property
of Thomas Wynne, to satisfy a ft. la. issued from the Su
perior Court, of Richmond county iu favor of Thomas 11.
White vs. Thomas Wynne, principal, aud Hezekiah
Hunt, security. Property pointed out by C. H. fehock
ley, Esq. T. HIRAM WOOD, Sheriff
June 27,185.
JEFFERSON SHERI KF’S SALE.-’Will be sold
on the first Tuesday in AUGUST next, between the
usual hours of sale, at the Market House, in the town of
Louisville, Jefferson county, the following property, viz.
Three hundred aud fifty acres of Laud, more or less, ad
joining lands of Milledge Murphy, and others: Levied
on as the property of Outhbort Torrance to satisfy six
Justice’s Court fl. fas. from tbe g3d dist. G. M ; live in
favor of R. W. Daniel aud one in favor of Allen Tarver,
va said Torrance. Property pointed out by plaintiff
Levy made and returned to me by a vonstablo.
JESSE T. MULL!Nor, D. .Sheriff
July 1, 1858.
TKFFERSON COUNTY, GA.-^WlieraasVWm.
9J H. Douglass, Administrator on the estate of Johu
M. Douglasas, applies to me for Letters of Dismission :
are therefore to cite and admonish all and sin
gular, the kindred and those interested, to be aud appear
at my office within the time prescribed by law, to show
cause, if any they have, why said Letters should not be
granted.
Given undermy hand at office in Louisville.
NICHOLAS DIEIIL, Ordinary
July 7, 1858.
STRIVEN SHERIFF’S HALK.-Will be sold be
fore the Court House door, in the village of Kylva
uia, in Scriven county, on tbe first Tuesday in AIJ
GUST next, within tbe legai hours of sale, the follow
iug property t ,-wit: Four hundred aud twenty five
acres, more or less, of Pine Land, lying and being in said
county, adjoining lands of George Moriand, Josiah Lee,
and others : Levied upon as the property -f George A
Lee to satisfy one Superior Court ti. fa. in favor of John
M Burns, vs said George A. Lee, aud General J. Leo.
security. Property pointed out by the said George A
Lee.
ALSO,
At the same time and place, four hundred and twenty
five acres of Pine Laud, more or less, adjoining lands of
George Moriand and Josiah Lee, in said county : Levied
upon as tbe property of George A. Lee, to satisfy divers
Justice’s Court ft. fas. in favor of Henry H. McGea, Wm
C. Dickson, and William Cooper, plaintiff’s, all vh
George A. Lee, and General J. Loe, security Fi. lias
issued from the Justice’s Court of the 36th Dist. O M.,
and levy made and returned to me by a constable
ALSO,
At the same time and place, one tract of Land con
t&ining three hundred and sevenly acres, more or less,
adjoining lands of Wm. Waters and defendant Bennett,
iu said county : Levied upon as the property of Joseph
A. R Bennett, to satisfy one Inferior Court li fa. iu
favor of Simeon Herrington vs. said Bennett, and Benj
P. Green, security. Property pointed out by principal
defendant.
ALSO,
At tbe same time and place, one hundred and seventy
acres of Pine Land : Levied upon as the property of
Elleanor George, to satisfy one Superior Coqjt fl. fa. in
favor of Edward H. Bunker, vs. said E leanor. Proper
ty point*d out by Wilkins H. Nunnally. Land bounded
by lands of Wm. H. Howard. Henry Best, and others.]
ALSO,
At the same time acd place, two hundred and eight
acres, more or less, of Pine Land, adjoining lands of
Thos. B. Lanier, P. Reddick, and others, in eaid county :
Levied upon as the property of the estate of Wilson J W
Connor, to satisfy sundry fi. fas. issued from tbe Justice’s
Court for said county for 30th district G.M., in favor of
William L Matthews. guwd)an of Margaret Zeigkr,
and Bern. H. McCleland. Levy made and returned to
me by a constable. BENJ. F. SCOTT, Sheriff.
July 1,1858.
OICHHOND SHERIFF’* SALE.-Will be sold
_IC *t the Lower Market House, in the city of Augusta,
on the first Tuesday in AUGUST next, within the
legal hours of sale, the following described property, to
wit: —All that lot or parcel of Land, situate, lying & and
beiog In the city of Augus:a, county of Richmond and
State of Georgia, on the corner of Twiggs aud Taylor
streets, fronting on Taylor-street 44 feet, more or less,
and running back on Twiggs-stieet 100 feet, more or
I*ss, the same being of like width as the front on said
Taylor street; bounied on the south by Taylor
street ; on the east by Twiggs street , on tbe uorth
and west by lots of Abner P Robertson, being
known as part of the “Norrell Wagon Yard:” Levied
on aa the property of John Maloney, to satisfy a fi. fa. on
foreclosure of mortgage issuing from Richmond Superior
Court, May Term, 1858, in favor of Abner P. Robertson,
va. John Maloney. Levy made the 22d day of June,
1858. ROBERT WIGGINS, Sheriff
July 1, 1858.
ICHMOND HHKKIFE’* ft A LB.—Will be aohl
at the Lower Market House in the city of Augusta,
on the first Tuesday in AUGUST next, wiihin the
legal hours of sale, the following described property,
viz : all that tract or parcel of land, with the improve
men.s theron, situated on the south side of Telfair
street, between Elbert and Lincoln street- 1 , in the city of
Augusta, county of Richmond, and State of Georgia,
known as Lots No. 13, 14, 15 and 16 of the Cantelon Gar
den Lot, having a front ot 60 feet, more os less, on Tel
fair-street and running through the same width to Walk
er-street: Levied on as the property oi Janies A. Gray,
to satisfy a fi. fa on foreclosure of mortgage, issuing
from Richmond Superior Court, May Term, 1858, in fa
vor of John Craig, Treasurer of the Oglethorpe Infantry
Loan Association, vs. James A. Gray. Property de
scribed in said mortgage, and levy made this 22d day of
Jane, 1858. G. A PARKER, D Sheriff
Jaly 1,1858.
UICH.nONI) KUKRI FV>H KALE.—WiII be sold
on the first Tuesday iu AUGUST next, at the Low
er Market House, in the city of Augusta, within the usual
hours of sale, the following property, to wit: one Negro
Woman slave, named Bella, about :10 years of age, and
he-son Jerry, about 4 years of age : Levied on aa ♦* ut l
property of Cornelius A. Red, to satisfy a fi. fa. is', U ] nir
from Richmond Superior Court, May Term, fm
vor of Frederick T. Morgan, vs. Robert Coc U ran and
Cornelius A. Red Levy made this 2d day Jmv iwk*
3,1*6. ROBEKT
IT®
leave to sell the Rml Estate belonging t) Augustus B.
P “ k "£ QaVID VAI.MER, Adm r,
| July 2, 185$,