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(Cjjnmicle tic Sentinel.
Tli® Diflirulo in Parutuny Thi- War Expetfi
fino.
The preparations for the expedition of war To
Paraguay are being rap.dly ooiupleted. In order*o
paw* up the Parana river the vessels are necessarily
of litfbt draft, and include the revenue cutter Her
net Lain, brig* Dolphin, Perry. Bainbndge and
steam frigate Pulton, all heavily armed. Com
mander Page will control the movements of the
squadron and a ,4 c whe’her “peace
commissioner ‘ or not, is not staged, will go with the
•xpedHon. A letter in a New Turk paper, relative
to the occurrences on land, wnich have brought
about this event, is inter* *tingjnet now. It is in
reply to another communica f oo in The earn* paper
After noticing the desire of Preaideo? Lopez to get
U S Consul Hopkins out of the country, and thus
break up the rapidly growing enterprises be bad
inaugurated and hui J>(nnln>tuwf to create souse
difficulty which would be authority for ordering
him ou , the letter says :
An attack was made one night by a Paraguayan,
who, with a paving stone, knocked down Mr. John
Xunity as he left the general agency of the company
Mr. NauJty was at the time walking with Lieut
James H Moore, U S X., of the Water Witch, who
-aught the Paraguayan, and gave him a sound
thrashing wilb a horsewhip on the spot These gen
tlemen did not complain to the Consul, who there
lore took no official notice of the outrage. The
seootid attempt ruree ded better. A soldier of the
Paraguayan army attar ked a brother of Mr. H p*
kins i'D the high road, and, without any esose what
ever, gave him a severe blow with the fiat of hi?
sabre Mr. Hopkins demanded the punir-bmeut of
the soldier, which was granted, and the cuJpnt re
ceived three hundred palm en carrera (ran the
gauntlet of three hundred sti;ke.) In
f mg to the Consul the fact of the punishment of the
soldier, Lopez, through hw Secretary of state, took
the occasion to abuse Mr Hopkins personally in an
official note, which was publi*bed in the S-inana
no This led to a long oorreapondenee. ia which
Mr. Hopkins stood entirely on the defensive Lopez
brought up charge afrer charge ag inat Mr Hop
kins, which the larer quietly disproved. Lopez Oe
came exasperated at Mr. Hopkins coolness, and
pretended robe greatly outraged because a person
who Lad received so many favors from him should
dare to defend himself. As he could not find fault
with Mr. Hopkins for a breach of any existing laws,
be proaeeded to make lawj* es post facto , and issue
enter# which be knew Mr. Ilopkins as aa honorable
man could not comply
He first decreed that no foreign commercial title
could be used in the republic, without the forma!
knowledge of the government. Mr Hopkins, as
Consul, then informed the Secratary of State that
he had been appointed general agent M the United
States and Paraguay Navigation Company A tew
Cays afterwards another decree was issued, deelar
iug that all manutacturng establishments in the
country not licensed acc.-rding to law within three
days, should be clo-ed. Whuj Mr Hopkins arriv
ed in October, 1853. Lvpex had specially excused
him from taking out the customary licenses, iu- a
personal lavor. Nevertheless, alter this decree,
Mr Hopkins purchased damped paper to the
amount of two doubloon?, and made his application
as general agent lor licences to rttry on *be eegar
factory and steam saw mill The pe i ions were re
turned with the endorsement that the government
did not recognise Mr Hopkins as general agent of
the company At this very time Lopez rode almost
daily in a handsome carriage, on which was a silver
plate nearing an inscription in Bp&niih, of which
the following is a translation :
“ Presented to His Excellency, the President of
the Republic by the United h'ares and Paraguay
Navigation Company.
“ Edward A. Hopkins, General Agent.
He had months previously acknowledged the re
oeipts of this carriage and other piesenls, made to
him by the company through Mr Hopkins as their
general agent It was intimated to Mr. Hopkins
that if be would apply for licences in his own name
they would be granted. The reply was that he
Could not do so, as the establishments were not his,
but belonged to a corporate company ot whom he
was only he agent At the expiration of the three
days an order come to close the segar factory. Mr.
Mr Hopkii s refused o obey, saying tuat he Lad
complied With the law, ior he had given formal
knowledge to the government of hi -* commercial
title, and had made appl • ttion for a license. Alter
three days more cousiueraMon Judge Vasvnez, n*w
Paraguayan Secre'ay ol State, went into the segar
factory, tmried out about a hnndred emplo} ers, and
dosed the doors. An order was al .o sent to the
mi 1-wrigdt to stop the sawmill. Compliance was
declined, and a file ol soldiers were sem. down toexe
cute the order.
Lopez then ordered Mr. llopkibH to sell the land
ou which the saw mi:! stood forth* same price he
had given lor it, pretending, as “R M.’ says, that
tl e purchase had been illegally made, and the docu
meets obtained in a clandestine maimer from the
civil notary. The pries paid for the laud was a
mere tnfie, but thousands of dollars have been
spent improving it and as Mr Hopkins did not
wish to sell it, he positively refused to obey the
peremptory decree Ihe purchase had been made
id good faith, and the Government were fully nd
vised of every step taken iu it. Asa proof of this,
I wouid mention that there was a large military post
ou the land, and by express ciders of the President
the barracks were evacuated, and the buildings
placed at Mr. Hopkins disposal The President
took forcible possession and turned the employees
of the company off the premies, which were then
sold for such prices as Lp z chose to fix—not, J
behave, over two huudred dollars. Mr Hopk iis
protested against these arbitrary proceedings, and
warned President Lopez that, the United States
Government wou and hold him strictly responsible for
all losses to the ‘>'** ooiy reply of Lopez
w Tdur 1 ‘t* ,ur ** Uoiisul.
llotikin.llO.lKHl, “wiuiuut Io *“ e ** Mr.
except a general mortgage *.u ib. H
tels of a company.” Iu civilized countries a “first
mortgage ’ is generally considered the bent kind of
security The loan was contracted with the govern
ment simply because no other capitalist iu Para
guay was able to lend so large an amount. With
out ever arking for the payment of the loau, L >pez
two years af erwards foreclosed the moitgage,
which was upon machinery worth five 01 six times
the amount of the debt, an sold the maciiiuery at
aucticu for much less than cost.
During all these difficulties Capt. Page was ab
sent with the Water Witch. He returned to Aeun
cion shortly after the seizure ot the saw mill pro
nc.ty ; and at he is iu the United States, and able
to viudiuate his own conduct, i shall Dot undertake
his defence That Mr. Hopkins should refuse to
give up the title deeds of the company’s property
is not surprising, considering that they conotitu
ted his best proof in support of a reclamation be
fore our government It was preposterous to sup
pose that he would surrender them at the order of
Lop—
This ii a plain statement of tacts, and is true. 1
have no space to particularize all the outrageous
personal insults by which Lopez's acts were aocoin
panted. Mr. Hopkins’ conduct from the first trou
ble was marked by firmness ; but it was entirely
defeneive and perfectly respectful towards the Pa
raguan government When Lopez had shut up ail
bis establishments,d smissed all his nativeemplyees
and seized upon all the property of the company,
there was nothing left for Mr. Hopkins to do but to
protest and leave the country. The government
have minutely examined every side of this question.
All the statements put forwaid by the complaints
have been substaniiated by oath. Lopt z rests on
his word alone, which is worth nothing.
The public is familiar with the fads relative to a
Parayguan fort of 100 guns firing into the U. S sur
veying steamer Arctic, and killing one man on
board, while the vessel was engaged iu surveying
file Parana river. The Washington Star speaking
of the Paragtian government, says :
President Lopez rules Paraguay as despotically
as the autocrat of the Kussias, and ;s one ot the most
astute and educated ot the men who have risen to
power in Spanish America He is an admirable
linguist—is well read—and familiar with history and
policy of other countries, but, acting upon the ex
ample of his predecessor, Francia, lie has, until very
recently, jealousy guarded Paraguay from all con
tact with other people, and if, himself chief mer
chant as well as chief ruler, lie is skilled in all the
arts of dipionmey, and seeks to badle by prolonged
negotiation rather than by open opposition.
By the Pauama and Paraguay Brazil can alone
obtam an easy access to some ot the finest provin
ces of the Empre. From this highway she was ex
oiuded by K tens, and after his downfall, and the
opouing of the “busers” to the ot all nations
by the Argentine Republic, she again fouud the up
per waters closed against her by the decrees of Lo
pez. She sent to Assuncion, and Lo
pez, to av< id a threatened invasion, sent repreeen
t stives to Rio Jaueiro; and so a gams qf diploma
cy, running through five years—from 1852 to 185?
was carried tin. At last the patience of Brazil was
exhausted, nfld she sent so foi min ah e a fleet to La
P ata. and made such cam* at demonstrations of
war that Paraguay was t reed to treat.
From the London Frets, July 7.
Morphy, ihe A met leu u Cheae-Player.
We woulu say that Mr. Morphy’s invention seems
marvelous. He is eminently an attacking player,
and hie schemes tor harrasstug his adversary are as
various as they are brilliant- You might play with
him for a year without being able tontfirm, as Cice
ro did of llortensius, “Novi oinuee hominiz petition
ee.” Chessplayers will understand us when we
say that his assaults remind us of the fiery onslaught
of Mr. Coohrauc, but will boar scrutiny better.—
And here we may remark (though conscious that
we are tresspassing on other divisions of our sub
jeotl that Mr Morphy s style of play is singula!ly
fearless—more no, we must confess, tuan any which
we have yet seeu oppoeed to it He is ready, for
iostauce. to give or accept any of th- most critical
“gambits,” instead ot confining himself to thesatVr
openings at present in fashion. This adds greatly
to the spectator's pleasure We remember bow
much disappointment was caused a: the time of
Mr Staunton's conflict witn M. St. Ament by the
pertinacious refusal ot the latter to answer * K P.
*s*’ with “K P ii ” The American oh mpion dis
like# the anomaly of a “oloee opening.'* And well
be may, tor, seooudly, his great power of analysis
tells most iu involved and complicated poeiiions
Aided by a wonderful knowledge of chess books |
and of the recorded games of the best p ayers, he
aims (and generally with sucoeee) at o k ng further
forward t bau his antagori t s conp d\rtl can reach,
confident that none of the thousand intermediate
vana.ioue has beeu overlcn Ked. Piay a dozen back
games with him, and you will tail to show him a
vuUugeucy which he uad not coutemplated. Mr
Morphy's temperament, thirdly, is much in his favor.
Look at him ns he plays
You are at first struck principally by the loomy
forehead, clear eye, and tine, sell placed ear, but
when you have observed him loug or frequently, you
discover that he is uever Hurried, never nervous—
that a defeat done not discourage nor a victory elate
lam. Young as lie is, he is always calm and self
possessed, whether in the quiet circle, of the Sr
Geo ge’s Club or iu the no.s.er gallery of the Chee<
I>,vau, and is, oonerqueutly, as sure as any p ayt r
see evaf saw to do his own powers justice under
the mental tension of a lon# match and the trials of
temper which frequently ailei.d it. We must here
record the pleasure with whi h we have witnessed
both tha kmd, Irisudly reception given by the Eng
lish players to their turunda bis competitor, and also
the una*ummg courtesy which invariably mark?
Mr. Morpby's uemeanor Fourthly. A tew words;
uuder the head ct memory, and we have done Mr
Morphy seems to lorget nothin?, from the game
Which he himself played yesterday to that which he
read in The Cues* Chronicle a year ago. He has
more tbau once puisled English players with
“dodges’ of their own invention which they bad ac
toady forgotten
But perhaps his most wondertu! performances
have been those in which memory auu imagination ;
seem to work together—we mean (tames played
blindfold, or without sghl of a board. Pnilidov
played three such games at once successfully
against skillful antagonists. Horrwitt has more re ;
ceutly dors the same Mr. Morphy has p.ayec
ssveu simultaneously, losing only one and winning
the other six! This is mdeed astonishing but we
trust that oar iugeuious visiter wib be content with
having once done the teat. As I>r. Johnson said of j
a young lady's masterpiece of fingering on the j
piano-torte. “It is very d.ttirult. we with it weir
impossible. ‘ burs we are .hat not even Mr. Mor
phy's brains cau repeatediy endure such a strain
without injury. A .ees degree of the same eff r:
kiUsd Labourdonuais, at and bad nearly destroyed
Hoitwiu. And even oouid it be cade with impu
nl*y. the spectacle is rather curious tr.an pleasing.
We feel sure thet we shaft be pardoned for these re
marks ,t hey arise from a sincere wi h that Mr. Mor
phy may lung live to practice freely, and wi hout
arbitrary fetter', the art of which he is so distin
guished a professor
Ktoshii Cot los a mend wire has recently
been visiting the pUntation of 8 L nan, her.-, Ecq’,
on Tuscan ilia Hammock, near Oratge Late, in
forms us that he never saw a rnoie promising crop
On one hundred and forty acres of hammock laud
the ootton averages eight feet in height, and is so
covered with frud thst our iuformam was led to
count the number of bolls and forms on severa a :
ferent staJts. The bigi est number or, ooeetak
was nine hundred and thirty —over half the bolls
oeuriy halt matured The lowest number was e.x
bund/ ed and forty-seven
Knew the above was written we have seen a
e an of a'tton, brought from CoJ Huger s p am*
t. ear Ocala, measar ng e gCt feet in beght
Wud * X inebra m circumleren.e It was fa riy cov
•red with forma, and some ot , or cunous fr.eodj,
unocrtakuig to find out the numbsr ot thcoi count
ed over ail I undred ana twenty, and quit. This
■talk, which itaaidfn be a fair simple ot Us drop
was raised on new ground, planted about the last
of March. — Florida {Ocala, Companion, id.
From the Athens Banner.
Franklin College (’•mmfnpemeDi.
‘Die exercises ot this occasion, were inaugurated
on Bar day, the let inet., by a sermon from the Rev.
P. H Meil. It was. as he announced it would be,
a plain, practical discourse, but was marked by a
depth of reasoning, and an earnest, Christian co
i gooey of argument, that went straight to the hearts
! of his listeners.
Monday afternoon, the Sophomore Prize Decla
mation took place, and animated and inspired by
the presence of a numerous and brill ant auditory,
;be youthful orators stepped mamully forth in gen
erous emulation for the golden prizes. We were
; rruoh pleased with the effort of most of them
1 bey showed the effects of accurate and thorough
training, and a just conception of the spirit and
meaning of their pieces. Bome of the more difficult
pieces were ep< ken in a manner reflecting the
highest credit upon those selecting them.
The following was the programme for Monday :
Wm. A TenoiHe, Fort Gaines, Gi; Spartacua to
the Giad atom— Kellogg.
J Huguenin Ttomafc, Waitbourville, Ga , Mira
beau.—Anon
Thomas A. Murray, Watkiasviile, Ga ; Adams
and Jefferson — Everett.
Wm. D Mitchell, Thomas co, Ga, Natiopa!
Monument to Washington,— Wxnthrop.
J. S Fleming, Wailhourvilie, Ga i The History
of the World.— Anon.
Frank Lumpkin. Athena Ga , The Ruins of Time.
Mi } ford Bard
j W. P.t s, Columbus, Ga ; Defalcation and Re
trenchment — Prentiss.
Robert 8 Thomas, Athens, Ga , Addre*** in be
bal of the Greeks— Isirey
J. C. Rutherford, Athena, G% , Criminality of Du
elling.— Sott.
R A Denni*, Eatonton, Ga The Exile of the in
dian —Milford Bard
.) F Hurbert, Warren co, Ga The Bible
Mdes.
Wn. H Lee, Edisto, So. C&; Iriah Aliena and
English Victors. —Skirl
Edw. J. Tliomae, Walthourville, Ga ; The Bible.
Bishop Fierce
J. H. L Gerdine, Athens, Ga; The Babe of the
A lam a.— Bryan.
K. B Baxter, Athena, Ga , Liberty and Revolu
tions —Mi ford Bard.
hersjeant 8. Tannin, Cass co., Ga, Mississippi
Contested Election.— Prentiss.
Tnomas Wray, Jr., Athens, Ga, Rienzi to the
Romans — Milford.
A. G Wuitehead, Jr , Burke co., Ga ; Cardinal
WooL-ey a Address to Cromwell.—S hakspeare.
Tuesday morning was devoted to the declamation
of the first division of the Junior orators. There
were seventeen iu all, selected, and it was deemed
beet to divide them. Accordingly, eleven spoki in
the forenoon, and nix in the & ternoon. Trie speech
es of all were carefully prepared, and evidenced a
vigor and maturity of thought, and an elegance,
and polish of language, that would have done cre
dit to those much older and more experienced. At
the conclusion of the speeches iu the afternoon, the
prize medals to the two successful contestants
among the Sophomore speakers, were delivered by
the Hon. James Jackson. Mr. Wm A. Tennille,
of Fort Gaines, Ga , was the happy recipient of the
first medal, and Mr Beargeant 8. Turnliu, of Caes
co ,of the second. Ol Judge Jackson's address,
we cannot speak tori highly. We have beard more
universal and intelligent commendation of it than
any similar effort for years. It was practical and
to rhe point, but. at the same time, there wim a wealth
of beauty in ih* polished diction, its apt. and original
ifiustra’toQs, and the fresh and sparkling imagery
with which it. glowed throughout.
M. P Barrow, DB, Lexington, (ia; Tell and
Switzerland.
John Gerdine, P K 8, Athens, Ga \ Party Spirit.
Wm. G. Hill, 1* KS, Greene Cos., Ala Jupiter
and Franklin.
E. C. Kinnobrew, D S, Bairdstown, Ga; Confes
sion of Ignorance.
Ivy F. Thompson, D S, Van Wert,Ga; The In
dependence o! Texas
•1 Y. Wood, I> S, Walker Cos., Ga , Mirabeau.
W. Leonidas Williams, D 8, Bairdstown Ga;
The Fate of the Gif ed
S. 1) Mitchell, P K S, Athens, Ga ; “Our virtues’
are lost iu interest aa rivers are in tue Oc san.”
Thomas Moseley, DB, Lowndes Cos , Ga;Our
Literature.
Lamar Cobb, P K S, Athena, Ga; Our Country.
O A Nunnaily, P Kb, Monroe, Ga, Passage of
the R'd Sea.
J. I). Pope, DB, Villanow, Ga ; Milton’s Blind
ness
J M. Roberts, P KM, Warren ton Ga; Mathe
matics .
L. A L me, 1> S, Monticollo, Ga , Uncultivated
Genius in America
I). C. Hodo, P K 8, Pickens Cos., Ala:
“When Begpa s die no coin met.s are seen. |ces
The H‘&ven.i theuibelvea blaze forth the death of Prin
A. (* Bacon. PK S, LaGrange, Ga ; Is the Mili
taiy Chief!ain ti: for Civil Office in a Reoublican
Government ?
l. if Adams, D 8, Waabington (ia , God iu His
tory.
Wednesday was commencement, day, and the
town wan literally jammed with all aorta, sizes and
descriptions of men, women, children and negroes.
The heat and dust were almost intolerable, and we
kept rather “shady” in consequence. We paid a
visit lo the Chapel, but the ‘flesh” couldn’t stand
it very long, and wo were compelled to retreat. W
hear that the apeechea of the giaduates very
creditable indeed, and the exercises, in point of
interest, fully up to the mark of any for many years
The number of graduates was twelve. The degree
ot A. M was also Conferred upon a number of
former graduates.
Such is an imperfect account of our commence
ment. We might have made it more interesting,
but the weather was too warm, and the .fey ~ or
charming, for an write, without
thereabouts, w hirl at. thoughts of the “girls
behind him.” “Commencement” is, or
sfaonld be a sufficient excuse for all pins of omission
in the line ot duly ot an—alas! too susceptible—
editor like ourself.
Tbe following w'as the order of exercises on
Wednesday :
W H. Pritchett, (Ist Hon.) D. S., C'heorkee Cos.,
Ga ; Latin Salutatory. Character.
G. R Banks, D. 8., (excused) Columbus , The
Modesty of Merit.
J. R North, D. S , Newnan ; Music.
S.T Beaaeley, D. 8., Troup Cos., “The Stars
above and the Girls around us.
G G Ragland, D. 8. (excused) Columbus, “The
Dying Words of Men.”
W. R. Roberts, I>. 8., Waynesboro; Benedict
Arnold.
A. P llodo, P K 8, (dd Hon ) Pickens Cos., Ala ;
Sir Isaac Newton
Joseph Taylor, P. K. S , (excused,) Cuthbert; Lu
ther and Vols air e.
W. T. Mitchell, D. S., Columbus ; The Spirit of
Persecution.
J. M. Oliver, 1> S , (dd Hon.) Jefferson Cos.; Ala.-,
i he Dying Philosopher.
R. C. lltimber, D. 8.. (Ist Hon.) Stewart county ;
“ S ates are not formed, but grow.’’
K. W. Adame, D. S., (2d Bon.) Athena; Vale
dietary.
The exercises of the week will conclude today,
With an addieas before the two Societies of the Col
lege, by George A. Gordon, Edq. } of Savannah.
Vv o shall speak of if next week
From Ike Southern ( Athens) Banner.
Fruit tv*hibiiin.
The Homological Society ot Georgia held their
annual meeting on Tuesday. The exhibition of
fruit was very tine. We have only space to give
the named of the contributors, with the number of
varieties of fruits:
Mitv Camak, of Athens, exhibited seventeen
varieties Peaches ; four of Apples ; twenty six of
Pears; twelve of Plums.
Mrs. Camak’s plums, peArsand peaches deserve
special mention.
Mra. L. Franklin, of Athens, exhibited a beauti
ful little Apple, called the Siberian Crab, and
enother variety of the Crab without a name. Al
so, thirty seven varieties of Pears and ti of Apples,
The pears and apples attracted much attention.
Downing- liill Nursery, of Atlanta, contributed a
splendid collection, contesting of thirty-four varie
ties Pears; fourteen of Peaches ; one of Nectarines ;
ten of Apples; six of Plums; six of Grapes , and
soft and hard-she II almond-.
Mi Axt, of Crawfordville, some delicious Cataw
ba grapes.
Dr. Paster, of Athens, a choice colection of
peaches, pears and apples.
Dr Smy the, of Athens, a fine collection, consist
ing ot three varieties of Grapes ; three of Pears
four ol Plums ; tour of Peaches.
Mrs. Dr Hull, of Athens, a beautifully arranged
waiter of grapes, peaches, apples and plums.
Dr. W are, of Athens, one variety pears.
Mr. J L Harris, five varieties pears
Mr. Branch, of Clark, one variety grapes, aud
five of peaches.
Mrs Speed, ot Madiaon, one variety grapes ; one
ot plums three of peaches , two of pears.
Mr !•’. Bancroft, of Charleston, S. C., thirty-three
varieties of peaches , a superb collection.
Mr. tlosiah Daniel, one seedling apple
Mi P A. Suramey, Athena, two varieties pears
aud one of nectarim s.
Mr Thomas N. Epps, of Clark, one variety of
peaches.
Mr J. \ an Buren, of Gloaming Nursery, ClarKs
vilie, Ga., eight varieties pears aud two of apples.
The fruit in Habersham was cut off by frost this
Spring
Mr. Wm N. White, Athens, exhibited a splendid
collection, consisting of eighty-six varieties pears;
thirty six ot peaches , one of nectarines ; twelve of
apples ; fourteen of plums.
L)r M. A. Ward, Athene, also had a fiue collec
tion ; trere were—thirty eight of App es , thirty
one of Pears , twelve of Plums , two of Quinces.
Mr. Jeremiah Gray, of Clark, exhibited five va
rieties apples, some of them extra, two of peaches
and one of pears.
We understand some fruit was entered after
we had taken our report, but could not get tbe
names.
The following are the officers of the Society:
L E. Berokaians, President.
K. Peters, P/ce President.
Wm. N White, Secretary,
James Camak. Treasurer. *
Ad interim Comminer —Wm N. White, chair
man; M A. Ward, James Camak, E. Bancroft, J.
Van Buren.
Corresponding Committee— Thos. Camak. Co
lumbus; K. Peters, Atlanta ; D Redmond, Augus
ta ; Rev. S. D. Elliott, Savannah ; Charles Collins,
Maeon.
\\ e should like to say something upon the impor
tance of sustaining, and great beuefi arising from*
this Society; but time wid not permit.
A “Confirmed ‘ Jokkk.—lu a western city that
we wot of, whose pia:se, religions wise, is not “in
all the churches,” there dwell three sharp, shewd,
last, unfortunate parties, of whom two are bank
ers, and the third i he richest man of the place) a
land trader and speculator. Each of them take
t ood ca e never to be seen inside a church on the j
Sabbath, aud neither is suspected of possessing j
grace sudi lent to prevent his driving a bargain as
shrewdly on Sundty as on any other day. They j
all love a g.H'd joke, aud are capable of perpetra
ting that same “at sight'’ “on time.’’ A few
years ago tbe rich speculator aforesaid, who is popu 1
iarly known as “Charley B ” ar xious to know how
the bankers C aud D. would look at church, went ;
quietly and whispered in the ear of each that the I
ether was to be “confirmed’ - at the P E. church on
the following Sunday, and urged them to assist,
as tke French say, by ti.eir a tendance upon the
solemn, and interesting occasion. A few other
choice spirits were let into the secret, aud on the i
Sanday des gnated, “at the same time aud place,”
a goodly number were gathered to witness the sue- ’
cess of the As one after the other I
tiied into varic us pews, pastor aud people alike j
woudered to reooguize many !a*e*. which, though !
well known, baa seldcin or never before been seen
iu the sacrea p’ace.
Tbe natal service was proceeded with, Prayers,
response, chants, ups and downs religious ee-avs,
and all Were (tone through with, j u order, greatly to
the fkal* i of the unaccustomed afeudants upon
such services Our two friends, the bankers, haa
all along been eyeing each o bor askance, each, of
oourse, thinking of the oo: firuiarion about to be
administered to the other. But when the service es
ue hour were completed, and no confirmation ap
peared to be upon the programs, the bankers both
began to look to: Charlev B. A single glance at
his tace revealed the “sell,'’ and it is believed that
tbe thoughts uppeiinoet in the minds of our money
ed friends did not tavo. relgioc much, or have
much practical connection with the sermon to which
:ae> had been so patiently listening. But as it was
a case where tbe sell was a double one. and had no
very senous consequences, all parties decided to
consider Charley B the continued person, vix: a
“confirmed” joker. Norwester.
As Organic Difficl i ir.—A parish in the west
of England, after much effort, lately purchased a
seif acting organ, warranted to play twenty tunes,
and a larger congregation than usual met to limugu
rate it. The first psa.m had been successfully
brought to an end. when, alter a she'll pause, the
organ choose to commence psairn tune number two.
la vaiu the officiating person endeavored to stop it;
in vain the church wardens left their own pews to
stitie tbe noise . still the organ as though uncon
‘.reliably pleased with its own execution, kept on
with the new air. Whiff was to be done ? The
service was suspended, in the hope that the musical
strainer might be content when the second tune
was played out. Vain expectation 1 It commenced
urn her three! and nothing remained but to carry
the instrument into the church-yard, and there to
cover it wi h the veetry carpet to choke its voice,
tor o® and on it went, till the number of twenty
had been played out, much to the edification of the
t-vis attentive part of the congregation, who oouid
hear only had-smothered melodies London Time..
Correj/Mndciue of the Clncinnnaii Commercial.
An Affecting Railway Incident.
An incident perhaps common in such places, but
very uncommon in our section of country, occurred
ou board the train of cars. I noticed, when the car
set out from the station at Martineborg, where we
stopped for sapper, two little boys sea'ed on a car
seat two removes from the r ne I occupied, ho
wore a very forlorn appearance. Tbe younger, a
li;tie lad of six years, seemed trying to cry, while
the elder, evidently his brother, a bright lad of ten
j ears, was giving him encouragement in a low voice,
and glancing apprehensively at the front car door,
tbroogb which the conducted was presently to make
Lis entrance In time he came, and after the usual
question and suds mumbled response by the elder
boy. addressed him in rather a rnugh voice, “Ah, so
you're on board again, are you ? Weil, you most
get off at the next stopping place “. The next stop
ping place came, but the little boys never stirred
Irom their seat. Presently tbe condubtor came
around again, “ho you’re on board yet, are yon T
Well, we will have you put off the next time the
cars stop.” At this tbe little boy began to cry au
dibly, and one of my Kentucky acquaintances, who
sat just in front of them, questioned the elder as to
wnat ailed them. From his repltes we gleaned the
following account:
Tuey were two brothers, and had left Baltimore,
where they had previously resided, about a week
before Their mother bad been dead some time,
and theii father lost his life by an accident, while
engaged at work on a building, just two days before
they set out on their trip. They had been left desti
tute, and, finding no resource tut the usual place of
refuge, had resolved to go West, where their big
brother L.uca>, who was married, and their big sis
ter Martha, whoexpe. ted to be were living. They
refu-ed to wait nmil, in answer to a letter their
brother coaid come or send for them ; bat without
money,they had seated themselves in the cars, and
been put off regularly and successfully from each
train at the eta ion, usually making one, and rarely
the distance between two stations. They bad ex
perienced little difficulty in Becnrit g something to
eat and a place to sleep, from the charity of the vil
lages'along tbe way. In this manner they had con
quered over a quarter of the length of the Ba'.ti
u-O-e and Ohio load, and with equal success could
hope to attain Chicago, the gaoi of their journey,
late in tbe fall Upon becoming satisfied that their
story was really one of truth, my iriend, the Ken
tuckian, proposed and took up a collection among
the passengers for their benefit, which resulted in
the handsome sum of between thirty and forty dol
lars. The conductor, to whom they had simply eta
ted that they bad neither money nor ticket, w hen
told tbe circumstances, refused to take any fare
troiu them. And as our little friends came a.l way
to Wheeling at one ride.
Toe following day, after dinner, as the Kentucki
an and myself were sitting in tront of the Sprigg
Bouse, smoking cigars, the little hero came tugging
before us a stalwart, well dressed young man,
whom he vociferously announced as his big brother,
who had s t out from Chic go to bring them to his
home, and had there, by the lm kiest chance, met
t:iem in the hotel. The big brother made an earnest
offer to return the money contributed to our keep
ing, saying that the hoys had no need of it; that he
was well to do, and had often vainly endeavored to
get his father to come to his home , but he refused
to accept it, and bade him use it for the boys. That
evening they bet out for Chicago, and long ere this
I presume, the lit le heroes have been clasped in
the arms of their big sister.
Religious.
Kemoious Revival.—While the outpourings of
God's Boly Spirit have for mouths past, been mani
fested in an extraordinary manner, in various parts
of the country, a gracious revival has commenced
in tbiß place For several days past, a series of
hiuhly interesting meetings have been going on in
the Methodist Church, in which the members of
other religious denominations ot the place have free
ly and ze tlously participated. A feeling of deep
interest seems to pervade the masees of our com
munity. A number of our most prominent and
substantial citizens, are anxiously inquiring, “what
shall I do to be saved,” and some have professed to
have found the “pearl of great price.” Morning,
evening and night, crowds may be seen wending
their way to the house of God, with seriousness and
solemnity depicted upon I heir countenances The
stalely steppings of the “Great Spirit’’ is distinctly
visible in our midst. Sinners have been convieled,
inturners converted, backoliders reclaimed, and be
lievers strengthened, and built up anew. We have
for a long time lived in the midst of a great
spiritual dearth ; but may we not hope that the day
elar of a brighter morn has arisen above our moral
hurizon, and we venture to anticipate brighter and
better days. God forbid we should be disappoint
ed.—Urijfin Empire State.
The Revival here is sfill going on with increasing
interest, right persons united with the Baptist
Church during the past week and were immeised
on last Sunday. There is a lively interest in both
the Presbyterian and Methodist churches with many
seekers and conversions. —Rome Courier.
The daily religious meetings commenced some 10
or 12 days ago in tbe Presbyterian church io this
place, in which all denominations unite, are still
continued. Quite a number indulge the hope of
having passed from deatii unto life, and a still lurger
number throng the anxious seats. The meetings
have increased in intereel trom the commencement
until Iho present time.— Union Springs, (Aia)
Gazette.
Where Mussititoes Come From—These pests
of summer proceed frojn the ummalculea oomuionly
called “wiggle tails ” It a bowl of water is placed
in the summer's sun for a few days, a nutplo;> a3e ‘
“wiggle tails” will be of’ an inch
in tiizn until at the surface ae they
maturity, aaif seeming to live on intluen
ces derived from the two elements of air and wa
ter : fiua'ly they will assume a chrysalis form and
by an increased specific gravity sink to the bottom
of the bowl. A lew hours only will elapse, when a
short black furze or hair will grow out on every side
ot each till it assumes the ferin af a minute cater
pillar. Its specific gravity being thus concentra
ted, it will readily ti >at to the surface and be waft
ed to the eide of the bowl by the slightest breath of
of air. Iu a short time a fly will be hatched and
escape, leaving ile tiny house upon the surface of
the water.
Any one who has had a cistern in the yard has
doubtedless observed the same effect every sum
mer although he may be ignorant of the beautiful
and simple process of development. If a pitcher
of cistern or other water is placed in a close room
over night, from which all musquitoes have previ
ously been excluded, enough mutquitoes will breed
from it during the night to give any satisfactory
amount of trouble. In fact, standing by a shallow
half stagnant pool on a midsummer’s day, the full
development of any number of “wiggle taiie’’ to
tbe mosquito state can be witnessed, and the origin
of these disturbers of night’s slumbers thus fully as
certained.—Scientific American.
Another Religious Impjstor.—A Manchester
(England) journal gives a curious account of one
J. Taylor, a wool-comber, who professed to have
been clotned with the gift of prophecy, and to have
had a special revelation from G and. The credulous
tendency of the human family has been so often ex
emplified, that it will not create any surprise when
we state that this English wool comber produced a
sensation among his ignorant neighbors by his
prophecies, lie predicted that on Sunday after
noon, July 18th, God would appear in visible form
on iSkircoat Moor. There was, according to prophet
Taylor, to be neither thunder nor lightning, aa at
Sinai, but a clear and distinct view of the Deity.
At the time named by the “prophet” some three
or four thousand people were congregated on the
moor to witness the mlfilment ot the prediction, but
contrary to the outgivings of the wool-comber and
the expectations of the multitude, a fearful thunder
storm broke over ihe neighborhood, and his dupes
were thoroughly drenched with rain. Notwith
standing this falsification of his prophecy, the peo
ple kept the ground and the “prophet” appeared
and addressed them. After speaking some time,
lie requested his hearers to look towards the East,
stating that God would appear to them in the form
of the father of a young man who stood near him
All eyes were turned in the direction indicated hut,
there was no “manifestation.” The crowd then
commenced hissing, scolding and swearing, and
wool-comber would have been rudely treated, had
not his friends hurried him from the moor in a cart.,
which had been provided as a platform It is stated
that the man was formerly a preacher among the
Weßleyans, but it is believed that he is now insane.
The affair has created great excitement among the
people ot the neighborhood.
Art and Artht Abroad.—From the unusually
full correspondence of the Crayon for August, we
are enabled to extract some items of interest re
garding the movement of art and artiste abroad.
Al Rome, Chapman and his two eons, who promise
well as painters, are pursuing their art with indust
ry. Tbe father is engaged upon two aeries of pic
tures, “ Fhe Seaton,'’ and “The Months.’’ Rogers
has uearly completed in marble the statue of Nydia
the Blind Girl. He has also a smaller statue of a
boy skating, which is a pleasant, simple s ory,
-ruthfully told. Crawford’s studio is open and pi e
sents a melancholy spectacle with its half finished
works lying around in every direction. The large
s atue of James Otis, for the State of Virginia, is a
noble and commanding figure, and the block of
marble from which it is cut is without mark or
slain. Here are also the Peii, tbe Tambourine
Player, the Flora, a Pastoral, and the Boy playing
at Marbles, the last a charming litt.e statue, lu
Mozier's studio are—a small figure of‘ Silence,’’
tbe Prodigal and tLe Indian Girl, the latter said to
bo very characteristic as a portral of the race.
A Pigeon Shooting T ornament.—There is to
be Pigeon-shooting t ournament at Lafavette, In
diana, on the 22d, 23d, 24th aud 25th days of Sep
tember. As it is anticipated that sportsmen and the
crack shots of the United States and Canada will at
tend, several thousands of wild pigeons have
been provided for the occasion. The Sporting
Club ot Lafayette have extended an invita
tion to their “brother sportsmen of the trigger ’ to
come aud enjoy their hospitalities.
Beside a match of S6OO aside between Mr. W.
Kiug and a gentleman from St. Louis, the follow
ing are the various sweepstakes to be shot for ou
the occasion :
First grand sweepstake of S2OO each—member to
shoot at 10 double birds each, 13 yards Hue, 100
yards bouudary.
Second grand sweepstake of SIOO each, at sin
gle and double birds, 18 yards rise for double aud
‘2l yards single—the winner of the first prize to
be baudicapped three yards (standing 21 yards and
24 do.)
Third sweepstake of S6O each, to be shot at tin
gle birds, 21 yards rise, 100 fall. Winner of either
first or see >ud handicap three yards.
Fourth sweepstakes of s'26 each, at double birds,
‘26 yards rise, 100 fall—l be handicap for winner.
Other sweepstakes follow.
The Southern Cutivator.—The August nuin
ber of this excellent Agricultural jourt ai is before
us, containing a vast amount of useful aud in
teresting information to the farmer and hortieuitu
rist. I'ue pages f this valuable southern monthly
are always tiled wi h choice matter, and one num
ber is frequently worth the price of a whole year’s
subscription. It is a work that no farmer sbiutld be
without, and the very m ‘derate price of subscrip
tion should place it within the reach of nearly every
one interested in agriculture. Subscriptions $1
per annum. Add-es W. Stones, Augusta, Ga.—
R-llefontr (Ala ) Era.
Shooting Affray—A Man Shot at Florence.
—We are pained to chronicle the mslacoboly intel
ligence of a sad affray whiohtook place at Florence
ou the 29th ult. We have no particulars as to the
cause which led to this serious and painful occur
rence, but learn that Mr. Ei. L Lester, a clever
and worthy young man of that town was shot dead
iu his tracks, with a double barrelled shot gun in
the banas of Y. A Gray, of that place. A jury of
inquest was held over the body of the deceased
which elicited the foregoing facts, and the matter
will undergo a judicial investigation. —BelUfonU
{Ala) Era.
Savings Bank in Europe.—The number of sav
ings banks in France is 373, having 939.000 deposi
tors and 275,u00,0b0 fraucs deposues Tne number
of depositors iu France compared with the popula
tion is as one to thirty-eight: iu the city of Paris
one to seven. In Prussia she proportion is one to
thirty six i in Great Britain, one to fifteen; in Bel
gium one to eight, in Saxony one to four; in the
principal towns ot Sw itzeriand, one to three.
Going and Gone.—Coh F. S. Blount and wife
left on the nocn train, yesterday, for Mobile Capt.
Henri Amour ae Reviere is still at the Pulaski
House, but will leave to-day, we learn, on the steam
er for New York. We have good reaeon to believe
that the terms if the setieiment were substantially
as reported in tbe Georgian of yesterday: Miss
Blount to remain with her parents until tbe Count
succeeds in remo\ ing certain disabilities under
which he now labors . after which he is to become
the lawful partner of herjoys andsorrows Savan
na* Afire of Saturday.
Bale or New Cotton atColtmbcs.—A private
despatch informs us that a bale of new cotton was
received at Co.umbns, yesterday. It classed good
middling and was sold tor 14j cents. It was to be
shipped immediately to Caarleston.— Savannah
Republican.
Division of Lowndes.Cocntt —A public meet
ing of the citixens ot Lowndes county took place at
Troupvfile. Monday last which passed a r-solution,
unanimously, to divide the oourty by a fine pass
ing irom tbe Fiord* hue along the Withiaooochee
to its ioDCtiou with Little River, thenoe through the
principal street to the upper line of Tronpville, and
thence due North to the line of Bemen county.
Bidgular Freak* of blecirriry—Wonderful Ka
enpe of a Family.
A. H. Cole, of Newport, Ky , furnishes the Cin
cmnati Commercial with an interesting ocoount of
the freaks of a streak of lightning ii his house,
during a violent thunder storm, a few nights ago-
We quote
He eays that during the thunder storm a bail
electric fluid struck the chimney of his residence,
and shattered it Irom cap to base, and likewise split
completely the cop ng of the building. The fluid
t hen dodged down one of the flues, and entered the
tront bed chamber in tbe second story, where a
servant sat nnreiDg Mr. Cole’s two children. It
carried with it a cioud of duet and soot from the
fire-piace, flashed across the room, filling it with
a dazzling fight, perforated the plaster and lathing
opposite the fire-place, and made a hole in the wall
more than a toot in diametei, but did not go througu
the bricks. Then it played about the apartment
an instant, like a luminous hand-writing all over
the wails ; split the casings, sills and frames of the
windows; paralyzed the nurse and the children, who
were almost buried in dust and soot ; streaked it
back to the fir*-place through which it had intrud
ed , darted down the chimney, and very uncere
moniously introduced itself into the parlor, and
played some of the most extravagant capers ever
entered against the credit of electricity It first
struck the fender before tbe fire-place, and irradia
ted tbe apartment with fiery and blinding brilliance;
glanced to the centre of the parlor, where Mrs
Cole sat entertaining the lady of Col. Hdllam, and
struck an iron spittoon between them ; left a blue
streak on the top of it; scorched Mrs. H e garments
and chocked both ladies But here the ball of fluio
separated, one current flashing to the right and the
otter to the left; the first enjoying itself by kuock
ing the plastering from the wall, splitting the cas
ings and frames of the windows, through which it
cisappeared; the other striking tbe open doors be
tween the parlor and tbe dining-room, which it
completely shattered; then dashed through the
closed blinds of the dining-room which it also splin
tered. Thence it glanced to the pavement which
surrouuded tbe cistern in the vard, and after tearing
up tour or five bricks and scattering the *ana
about miraculously, it disappeared through the
pipe whLh leads into tbe cistern, perforating the
pipe comp etely, leaving a hole about the diameter
of ihe la gest sized buck shot.
It is supeifiuous to say that the ladies as well a?
the nurse ana children—who were the only inmates
of the tenement —were more alarmed than ele tri
tied. They were blinded by the start iug brilliauce
of the fluid, and the nurse and children wtre htavily
charged with electricity, besides beiug almost bu
ried in soot, ashes and dust. The phenomenon was
scarce more than visible and sensible before it was
gone. It was literally quick as a “flash.” The
fluid sped down the chimney and through each
apartment, like a cannon ball, glowing with white
heat. The children—both under two years of age
seemed “charged” fully fifteen minutes, being com
pletely stupefied. Tne ladies were aflVc ed but
momentarily, and tbe nurse became conscious of
something astonishing which had taken place with
in five minutes from the visitation cf the intruder
The bed chamber, parlor and dining-room—Mr.
Cole says, and we con well imagine it—present a
very shattered aspect. The wails iu the two form
er rooms seem to have been subjected to & pulveri
zing bombardment, the artillery of heaven having
left the big imprint of its charge w r berever it struck
Correspondence of the Nashville Union.
Crops in TenneNee.
Pleasant View, Aug. 1,1858.
As one of the subscribers and readers of your ex
cellent paper I was highly pleased at J;he request you
made not long since, in one of your issues, for the
farmers to give through your columns such infor
mation as they might deem useful to their plant
ing co-laborers. For one, I assure you that there
is no department in your paper that is read more
eagerly and with more satisfaction and pleasure than
that which pertains to the agricultural intereet cf
our country.
The wheat has turned out something like one
half of a good crop, say from six to fifteen bushels
The quality ia interior, the berry light and poorly
matured. We have several varieties of wheat
amongst us. The best this year are the early va
rieties. What is called here the Red Wheat, or
Orlean, is generally the beet this year, the berry
being full and plump, and weighing from sixty to
sixty five pounds to the bushel, while mo6tof the
other kinds fall far short of sixty to the bushel.—
The White Wheat has sustained a greater injury
from the rust than any other variety. I consider
the White Wheat a very uncertain crop iu this lo
cality.
The Oat Crop may be said to be nearly a total
failure. There has been but few crops harvested
at all, and those that have been saved are of a very
inferior quality. Most of the farmers here have
not saved any. The rust in the Oat crop is unpre
cedeuted within the recollection of the oldest far
iners with whom 1 have conversed ou the subject.—
Tnio malady seems to have been very prevalent
and fatal this n ason. It has injured the Corn in
eome fields. The Corn crop, however, for the most
part, looks promising and we are in expectancy oi
very renumerating fields this fall, of this essential
grain, at least to a Tennessee raised fanner. Sould
the pleasant showers continue as they have beeu
for the last two months, the crop will certainly be
very good. Ju-*t now we are beginning to need
rain, and should it continue dry through August,
Corn will be very materally damaged.
is now selling from $1 25 to $1 50 n**’ v
tolerably plenty in thfh'EP’are generally good and
. average supply of lruit.
The health of the oountry is not good. There is
more sickness in this neighborhood than I have
known B’nce my sojourn here, which has been near
nine years. W. 8. Massie.
t erkyville, Decatur co.,Tenn , July 30,1858.
—The Wheat crop of this county is now generally
threshed out, and will fall short of an average crop
more than one third. Oats is an entire failure. The
Corn crop is pretty good, though not so good as
last year, Colton and Tobacco look very well.—
The season has been rather wet during the summer
for the easy cultivation of our crops. They would
have been better with much less rain.
D. E A. McEbrath.
Gainsboro*, Jackson co., Aug. 2 —The Wheat
crop ot this county was seriously injured by rust,
smut, &.C., and will not yield near hah a crop. Oats
was entirely ruined by rust, ana the seed that was
sown was n*-t made iu this county. Corn, if still
seasonable, will be about an average crop, though
nothii g like last year. Tobacco is fine and flatter
iug. The Hog Cholera (so called) is killing the bogs
iu all this hilll country by hundreds, yea by thou
sands. From present appearances there will not
be hogs enough left for home consumption.
B. F. C.
('rope dkc.y in Alnbiimii.
Weather and Crops.— I The weather has been
mure oppressively hot for the last few days, than
at auy period of the season. The corn crop is now
pretty well matured. The yield will be abundant.
Cotton is rapidly advancing to maturity. None of
the disasters by way of rust, or bol. worm, &c.,
have as yet made their appearance to such extent
as to effect, the crops. Bome of our farmers say
half the crop is ulready made. To the enquiry of
the planters, “How is your crop?” The laconic re
ply often is made “jest good enough.- Union Spring
[A/a ) Gazette.
The Crops. — of our planters speak favora
ble of their crops of cotton, but we have heard some
of late, who (vmpl&in of rust, and a lew of droughts
which cause the lruit to fall off. The corn crops in
this section are made, and were never better.—
Clayton (Ala.,) Banner.
A Duel. —A hostile meeting took place about
half past six o’clock last evening, at the “Oaks,”
between Captain Joe Howell and Major Henry,
the latter of the Nicaraguan Army The quarrel
occurred, we understand, during the social inter
course of the parties late at night, but the motives
of it we cannot speak of, unless from mere report,
and therefore do not. The distance wa* ten paces ;
weapons, navy pistols ; and both parlies to tire, at,
and after the word—and both to cease firing when
! either ot the seconds called “ stop.” At the word,
Mr Howell fir* and, aod instantly after Major Henry.
Mr. Howell agaiu fired and almost simultaneously,
Major Henry returned ihe fire. Mqjor Henry's se
cond then cried “ stop,” but his principal fired, (his
pistol was dibchaaged) and the fire was returned by
Mr. Howell. Mr. Howell's second then cried “stop,”
but Mr. Howell fired again at his antagonist, but it
was not returned. M jor Henry fired three shots
and Msjor Howell four. Mr. Howell’s first ball
struck Major Henry in tbe left arm. Major Henry’s
first ba’l, we are informed, passed through the right
skirt of Mr. Howell’s coat. The secoua shot ‘red
by both gentlemen had no tffect. Mr. Howell's
third ball struck Major Henry iu the right side of
the abdomen and passed through tbe left side, in
fl cting a severe, but we are glad to understand, pro
bably not a dangerous, and almost certainly not a
fatal wound. Major Henry ’s third fire was (several
on the ground considered) spent, as the pistol was
discharged in such & position as to seud the ball in
to the ground. Mr. Howell’s fourth fire did not
harm his adversary.
This statement, one of our reporters, who was
present, believes to be correct. The effect of Mr.
Howell’s shots on his opponent, we give, according
to what w were informed was Major Henry’s own
communication to his friends. There was consider
able feel ng manifested on the ground at Mr. How
ell’s fourth fire, but Major Henry, himself, a brave
and generous soldier, aitei he was wounded, posi
tively acquitted Mr. Howell of an intention 10 take
an undue advantage. Mr. Howell diet nctly assert
ed on the ground, that he did not hear the order to
cea6e firing.— N. O True Delia , Wednesday.
A Romance.—A paragraph is going the round
of the papers relating bow a man. named Fiezer
was recently arrested near Baltimore, and com
mitted toihejail near Moorestown, N. J., from
whence he had escaped when uuder confinment lor
counterfeiting. The story is touched up with a
little romance concerning a “ister of his, w ho is said
to have struggled lard for a livelihood iu her youn
ger days, hut who is now a great lady at the Court
of France—all of which is true
This Frazer was once a resident of our county.—
He came here with Lucien Murat—eon of tbe ii us
trious Murat and the beautiful Pauline Bonaparte
—uephtw of tbe old and cousin ot the present Em
peror. Lucien, assisted by this Frazer and a French
chap, whose oame we cannot recall, undertook to
build a “city” on Indian river, between Evans’
Mills and Theresa. This was some twenty -three
yeays ago. This trio was a precious set. Horse
racing aud cock fighting were m ire iudustriously
attended to than legitimate business; still a grist
mill, a few shops and a store were put up, but in
the end went down under the sheriff's hammer.—
Thus began and ended tbe great cith of “Joachim.'’
Tbe old mill is still standing as a monument of
Lucien Murat’s failures in this county. Tbe wright
who built tbe mill still holds an expressive me
mento of Lucien in the form of a “promise to pay, ’
given for eighteen hundred dollars’ worth of labor
performed.
After our adventurers left the county, Frazer
went to New York and got sick—Murat went to
Bordenton, N. J , married Frazer's sister, and re
maned poor. His wife actually supported him by
teaching school. Meantime her brotuer continued
to wax fat and fast. He became noted as a gentle
man of wealth, leisure and pleasure, without giving
a thought, it is said, to his relatives, who were then
under the frowns of fortune. The throw of the dice
box of des’iniee which gave France into the hands
of L mis Napoleon, also gave peace aud glory to
Lucien Murat and hie very worthy and hard work
ing wife. He is now one of the high dignitaries of
the Empire, and she is one of the first ladies of the
court. Thus, while the sister occupier the Elysee
Bourbon at Paris, the brother is awaiting his sen
tence to serve in a New Jersey State Prison. So
the “play” goes on.— Watertown {X. J .) Journal.
Travelling on Sunday.—An action was tried in
the Circuit Court, somr time since, in which John
S. Stuart was plaintiff and the Cypress Halls Plank
Road Cos., defendants. The plaintiff was driving
over defendant’s road ou Sunday, and met with an
accident, in consequence of its imperfect condition.
His vehicle was broken, and his horse was injured.
A verdict in favor of plaintiff was rendered. An
appeal was taken by neiendant, and on Saturday
Judge Lott granted the motion to set aside the ver
dict and have anew trial, on tbe ground that the
plaintiff was unlawfully travelling on the road of
defendants at the time of the rnjury complained of,
it haviDg been shown that be was not travelling for
purposes of charity or necessity. The defendants,
it was decided, was thereloie not in fault, or charge
eb.e with a want of due care and diligence, so lar
as he was concerned, in leaving the road in the
condition it was—New York Tribune.
The Virtues of Borax.—The washermomen
of Holland and Belgium, so p roverbially clean, and
who get up their linsc so beautifully white, use re
fined borax as wasuing powder, instead of sou a, in
the proportion of a large handful of borax powder
to about ten gahons of boiling water; they save in
soap nearly half. AU the large washing establish
ments adopt the same mode. For laces, cambrics,
ftc , an extra quantity of the powder is used, and
for crinolines (required to be made stiff) a strong
solution is necessary Borax being & neutral salt
does not in the slightest degree injure the texture
of the linen ; its effect is to soften the ha. deet water,
and th- ref: re it should be kept on every toilette
table. To the taste it is rather sweet, is used for
cleaning the hair, is an excellent dentifrice, and in
hot countries is used in combination with tartaric
acid and bi-carbonate of soda, as a ooolirg beve
rage. Good tea cannot be made with hard water,
all water may be made soft by adding a teaepoonful
of borax p. wder to an ordinary sized kettle of wa
ter, in wnich it ehonld boik The saving in the
quantity of tea used will be at least one-firth.
WEEKLY
Cjpnidt tic Sbtottl.
AUGUSTA, GA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, AEG. 11, lS3h.
Yellow Fe.er.
A letter from a correspondent at Chattanooga.
Tenn , says, “I am sorry to hear that Yellow Fevtr
is near Augusta.’’
We can assure our friends in the ermntry
ly, that there has been no sach thing as a case of
Yellow Fever, in or near Augusta this summer.—
The city waa never known to be so free from sick
ness at this season of the year as it is at present
and, in proportion to its population, is at this time
considered the healthiest city in the Southern St ates
Francis Tonies & Sons.
It affords us great pleasure to invite the atten
tion of merchants and dealers, to the advertisement
of the long established New York Bouse of Fran
cis Tomes 6l Soss, ana to commend them to the
merchants of the South, a3 men of high integrity,
and entirely worthy of their confidence. There are
perhaps, very few houses in the city of New Yoik,
of longer standing, and through ail the vicissitudes
of mercantile fortune, tbev have maintained the
first rank among commercial men, and have estab
lished a reputation for integrUy und high commer
cial honor unsurpassed. We nave long known the
senior partners of the House, and therefore knoic
what we say; and we feel that we aro but rendering
Souther, merchants a most imp -r'sot service in in
troducing such a Houßs to their attention, and in
viting them to call and examine their stock, and
make the acquaintance of the men; and our word
for it, they will be found not wanting in any of the
elements which constitute high-toned honorable
merchants and gentlemen.
Suicide—A Sad Occurrence.
Henry D. Newkirk, a native of Newburgh, or
its vicinity, N. Y., committed suicide on Wednesday
night, at his room in the U. States Hotel, by cutting
his throat with a razor. He had taken the pillows
trom the bed, laid them upon the floor, and placing
a small tub so aa to catch tbe blood, laid down, and
le&niog over the tub, severed the jugular vein and
the windpipe at a single stroke, causing a speedy
death. Scarcely a drop of blood fell on the tl our
and when found yesterday morning, lie was lying with
the pillows under his head, and the razor still in his
hand. The only cause we hear aseigued for the
commission of the fatal act, was a general depies
sion of spirits, principally caused by ill health.
Mr. Newkirk was about thirty-eight years of
age, and was generally esteemed as a quiet, orderiy
citizen. He was engaged in the clothing trade iu
this city about the years 1849 or ’SO, since which
time he has been at his home in New York, until
1857, when he returned to this city. We believe lie
has been engaged in no particular business for tbe
past year.
Fire.
A lire broke out in the second story of the kitchen
attached to the residence of Ti omas Miller, on
Greene stre t, between twelve and one o’clock on
Monday night last. The alarm was not general,
aud hut Iwo engines, the Mechanic and Washington,
together with the Hook and Ladder Company, were
on the ground, and the fire was speedily extineuish
ed without bringing the engines into use. The dam
age was slight. The fire is supposed to have caught
from a pair of heated wafer-irons which had been
used in cooking and thrown carelessly intothe wood
box, perhaps with a live coal attached to them.
Runaway—Narrow Encnpe.
About six o’clock yesterday at ternoon, a pair of
horses attaohed to the carriage of Mr. John Bones,
in which were seated Mrs. Bones, a little son of Mr
Wm. Brown, and a nurse, took fright, and alter
running furiously for some distance through the
streets, overturned the carriage, injuring the driver
somewhit, and damaging the vehicle. The inmates
of the carriage, fortunately, and we may say almost
miracukusiy, escaped without injury.
Sun - trout'.
A German laborer, working ou an excavation for
a caller. u Campbell street, opposite Warren Block
was prostrated ye 5...... the intenfln hest
He was carried in an insensible state mu, afore
of Mr. John Cash in, on Warren Blwck, where cold
water was freely applied to his head aod stimulants
administered. He soon recovered sufficiently to ride
home. The heat was so intense in the excavation
that all the laborers were compelled to discontinue
work.
The Thermometer in our office at 2 q’clock, P. M.,
indicated 90 degrees.
Rain*
We were visited in this section, yesterday after
noon, with a refreshing shower, which has sensibly
cooled the heated atmosphere, and proved a timely
benefit to the suffering crops. The cloud, which
oame from the North and North w eat, portended a
heavy storm, and for a time the wind Llew furious
ly, doubtless prostrating the corn iusome localities.
The thunder and lightning was not severe, however,
the main body of the storm passing to the East of
the city. _
Freights to Savannah and Charleston.—
The comparative schedule of freights on produce
from Atlanta to Savannah and Charleston, given by
a correspondent of the Charleston Cowries and copi
ed into the Chronicle 4* Sentinel yesterday, was
probably written previous to the first of August,
and is incorrect. The rates to both cities since the
Ist inst. have been uniform :
Flour from Atlanta to Sav. and Clias 60c. per bbl.
Wheat from Atlanta to Sav. and CUaa. ..16c. per bush.
Com from Atlanta to Sav. and Cha* 14c. per bush.
Citizens Bank of Memphis, Tenn.— Messrs. S.
P. Walker and D. B. Turner, late Presidents of
tbe Citizens’Bank of Memphis, publi-ha card in
the Memphis papers, stating that they will under
take to apply their individual means and property
to make good auy deficiency to note holders or
creditors of the Bank. The Memphis Bulletin says
that Mr. Walker’s means, together with the as
sets, are ample to perform what he promises.
Planters’ Association.— An Association of
Planters has been formed in Sumter county, and a
Constitution and Bye Laws adopted.
The Tennessee Banks. —The Nashville Union
sa>s :—We are gratified to learn from a friend at
Athens, that the Branch of the Bank of Tennessee
at that place, has been for some days paying specie
for all demands against it. The Branches at Clarks
ville and Shelbyville have been doing the same
thing for the last eight or ten days, and we learn
that the other Branches will probably soon follow
suit. The principal Bank, though in a state of
suspension, has, we understand, uever refused to
redeem any of the notes payable at Nashville, though
we believe a very inconsiderable portion of its
currency has been made payable heie.
The Knoxville Citizen learns that the Dandridge
Bank is retiring much of its circulation, intending
to reduce it to $50,000.
New Cotton.—A correspondent of the Charles
ton Mercury , writing from this city, says : “In Au
gusta, I saw a stalk of cotton, from a plantation
fifteen miles distant, iu which several of the bolls
had opened beautifully.”
The Purchase of Mount Vernon. —The Phila
delphia Journal denies the correctness of the report
that Mr. John A. Washington intends to remove the
remains of George* Washington from the tomb at
Mount Vernon before transferring it to the Ladies’
Association. The contract, also, includes the re
mains. We aie glad to publish this correction.
“The McGregor.”—A military writer in the
July number of Blackwood, describing “the Ist
Bengal European Fusiliers at Lucknow,” mentions
a Lieut. McGregor, of whom he says : “tynever
met w ith any officer who had so great a love for the
fighting part of his profession. Generally reserved,
and by no means talkative, no sooner wa9 there a
prospect of a scrimmage than be came out of his
box, looking absolutely amiable.”
Hon Thomas Corwin has consented to run for
Congress in his old District in Ohio. The Conven
tion will be held at Morrow, Warren county, Au
gust 15th. He will also etump the State in favor of
the Republican State ticket.
Dead.—A letter from Montevideo, announces the
death of M. Aime Boupland, the famous French na
turalist and traveller; the compauion and tutor of
Humboldt; the friend and protege of Josephine. It
is stated in this letter that Boupland died at his resi
dence in San Borja, a small Brazilian town, former
ly a Jesuit mission, about three miles from the banks
of the Uruguay river.
Fugitives from Cuba —Two lads from Havana,
had who robbed their parents of about three thous
and dollars,have been arrested in Philadelphia. The
money was recovered by the officer, and the fugi
tives given into custody of the Spanish Consul.
Abolition of Privateering.—The following
countries have signified their adhesion to tbe aboli.
tion of privateering, &,c , resolved upon at the Paris
conference of April 16 1866, composed of the pleni
potentiaries of Austria, Fiance, Great Britain, Rus
sia, Sardinia and Turkey:
Baden, Bavaria, Belgium, Bremen, Brazil, the
Duchy ot Brunswick, Chile, the Argentine Confede
ration. the Germanic Confederation, Denmark, the
Two Sicilies, Ecuador, the Roman States. Greece,
Guatemala, Hayti, Hamburg, Hanover, the Two
Hesses, Lnbee, Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Mecklen
biirg-Schwerin, Nassau. Oldenburg, Parma, the
Netherlands, Peru, Portugal, Saxony, Saxe-Alteo
burg, Saxe-Coburg Gotha, Sax Meiningen, Saxe-
Weimar, Sweden, Switzerland, Tuscany, Wurtem
burg.
It appears from this list that thirty-seven sove
reign States have joined in the agreement. The
dissentient powers are Spain, Mexico and the TTni
red States. We can never safely give np the sys
tem except by an increase of our national marine at
an immense expense.
Education is Richmond, Virginia.—There are
fifty-seven schools and colleges in the city of Rich
mond—forty-eight of them private schools, and nine
free schools. In the private schools there are twen
ty-three hundred pupils, and in t-he free schools
seven hundred. So that there are three thousand
children under instruction. In one of the female
schools there are two hundred and sixteen pupils
taught by sixteen competent instructors; and in
several others the number ranges from one to two
hnndxed. Besides the schools enumerated, there
are three others, numbering between one hundred
and fi ty and two hundred scholars, where the va
rious branches of English education, as well as ar
chitectural drawing, are taught daring the fall aod
winter months, lhese are the night schools of the
Virginia Mechanics’ Institute, open to all its mem
bers.and they have already effected more towards
educating the young mechanics of the city, tnan all
the free day schools in the State can do in a century
to come
The Crops. &c.
A corrospoudent, who has just passed over the
line of If ailroads from Augusta to Chattanooga,
thence through North Alabama, writes us that the
“ooru and cotton crops in North Alabama, are un
usually flue—much better than any between Atlan
ta and Chattanooga. Between the two latter points
the crop* are generally poor, and below Atlanta
very manv will not compensate for the labor of
cultivation.”
From various sources of direot information, we
learn that the crops in North Alabama are unpre
cedentedly flourishing.
A correspondent, writing from Greenwood, Fla.,
says: “Crops of both cotton and corn were never,
since my recollection, better in this county (Jack
son.) than at present. It seems that. Farmery will
have to be fuily alive to their work to get them har
vested in the present year. We have no disasters
as yet with cotton, with the exception of Blight shed
ding of forms, caused by heavy rains. The weath
er seems to have moderated into sun shiny days,
which is causing cotton to open very fast. A few
Fat mers are beginning to pick it as fast as it opens.
The Cattle disease is quite extensive with us,
but not so much seas was expected, there beiDg
but few deaths, owing to the application of preven
tstives as soon as taken.
Wxathkr— Crops —The weather has been dry
the past week—a tine time for gathering fodder.—
The cotton is shedding its fruit to some extent—
rain would benefit it.— Albany Patriot.
The Weather.— We have had exceedingly
warm weather for tne past week. Rainvtry much
needed in this locality. Health of the town and
county good. Crops fine.— Americus Pep.
Kain. —Our'sec’ion wa3 visited on Tuesday eve
ning last with a delightful rain, which puts a good
corn crop beyond doubt, and keeps up the good
prospect for cotton —Griffin Union.
Crops in Cherokee.— Extract of a letter to the
Milledgeville Recorder, dated Walker County, July
24:
Health generally good. The oat crop almost an
entile failure. Wheat crop very light, and quality
inferior, injured more no doubt, from joint worm,
than from rust. The corn crop, with favorable sea
sons, may reach an average, but. cannot make such
crops as tuose of ’55 and ’57. Hogs are dying con
siderably in smile neighborhoods from some kind of
an epidemic. Money is unusually scarce and bu
siness very dull generally.
The Drouth —Already is the drouth of the dog
days lelt, au i that seriously, by the iu-coming crops.
Corn has been injured within a few days, beyond
a hat could have been supposed from its flourishing
Condition two weeks since. In some localities the
appearances are indeed becoming desperate. The
general remark is, that the fields were scarcely ever
seen to blight more suddenly. Yet it is also true,
that much of the old corn is pretty well made ; while
a good lain might yet save tile later fields The
crisis, nowever, is a doubtful on e.—Edgegeld Ad
vertiser.
The Jackson (fenu.) Wkig oi the 130th ult.,says :
“The crops of corn and cotton throughout the ooun
try aro locking remarkably well, though in some
portions rain would be beneficial to corn crop. The
prospect for potatoes, those delicious esculents, was
never better, and with a large yield, of course, there
will be corresponding low prices.”
The Trenton (Tenn) Journal, oi the 31st ult,
says : “The recent rains in this county have had a
wonderful effect upon the growing crop. Corn, cot
ton, and tobacco, all look very promising, and un
less some accident should happen to them, will yield
abundant crops.”
Yellow Fever in Philadelphia— The Phila
delphia correspondent of the Baltimore Amerioan
says : —Some alarm exists here about the yellow
fever. Several vessels, owing to the Health offi
cers’ negligence or incapacity, known to have had
the yellow fever on board, have been permitted to
come up to the wharves, thus jeopardising the lives
of thousands. Several valuable lives have already
fallen a prey to the malignant fever and others are
now down with it. On Monday night, Mi. George
Shetzline, an inspector in the Custom House, died
at his residence in Roxborough, of this dire disease,
contracted on board the bark “Elisabeth J.”
Elections in Missouri. —We have received in
complete returns from three Congressional districts
in Missouri. In the First district of that State J. It.
Barrett, national democrat, has been chosen to
Congress, in place of Francis P. Blair, Jr., repub
lican. In the Second district Thomas S. Anderson,
national democrat is re-elected.
The returns from the Fifth district indicate the
re-election ot James A. Woodson, national demo
crat. The news of the defeat of Mr. Blair created an
--‘anoe sensation in Washington, and indeed in po
litical circles wherevei u.. :„i u ]ii s , enoe i mß reß( .ked.
Prevalence of Heathenism. —At a recent
union meeting of the Presbyterian churches of
Elizabeth, N. J., Rev. Dr. Riggs, who is about de
parting as a missionary to forein lands, presented this
melancholy report of the progress of the work of
evangelizing the world
He said ‘that Christ ascended eighteen hudred
years ago, and since tha time men have been stri
ving to spread the gospel: but up to this period
three fourths of the inhabitants of the globe are
in heathen darkness, only one fourth having em
braced Christianity, and fifteen sixteen’ hs of the
world Btand where they did when Christ was on
the earth The harvest, therefore, is great, and
the time to gather in this harvest is short ; for in
thirty years the whole race will be swept away.
Only one missionary exists in the heathen wmld
to 530,0011 inhabitants. Fancy the state of New
Jersey with only one preacher, and thirty yeais pass
ing before that becomes two!’’
Galignani, notici g the fact that Mr. Barnum
had passed through Paris, on his way to Baden,
where he proposed to exhibit Gen. Tom Thumb,
tells thie story ot the little “General The Generel
has now attained his 21st year, and though “in mind
a man,” is “in bulk less than a baby still.” It is
told of him that in a reoent angry discussion with
his mother, in whose favor he had previously made
his will, the dame menaced his little person with a
flogging unless he complied with her wishes. But
Tom, notwithstanding, continued to hold out, until
finding himself suspended in mid air in one hand,
and the birch ready to be applied in the other he
roared out at the top ot his infantine voice, “Mind
what you are about, mother; if you hit me I’ll
change my will, you may depend on it,” and the
birch, as by enchantment, fell harmless from the
uplifted hand.
Reform of the Banking System of Tennes
see—A large number of the leading merchants of
Memphis held a meeting on Wednesday night last,
to confer upon the best means of remedying the
evils resulting from the bad repute into which the
currency of the State has grown. A committee,
which had been appointed at a previous meeting,
reported the following resolutions, which were read
and adopted:
1 . Resolved, That the uliaraoter of, end demand
for the produce brought to this market, renders it
imperative and just that the ourrency for which it
ia sold should conform to a specie basis.
2. Resolved, That for the attainment of this ob
ject, we übo all the means in our power to drive
from circulation the bills of all banks not converti
ble into specie at par in this city.
3. Resolved, That the practice of issuing notes
here, payable at some aiHtant points, is a policy as
unwise as it is prejudicial to the real interest of
the people of this city and country, as well as the
Banks themselves, and should not longer be en
dured.
4. Resolved , That the course of the Branches of
the Planters’ and Union Banks of this city, Bince
their resumption of specie payments, in their liberal
disbursements and payments of specie and low
rates of Exchange has been very satisfactory to the
community, but that while we commend the course
of these institutions, yet we believe that nothing
short of an issue, redeemable at the counters at
which paid out, will secure a complete restoration
of confidence throughout the country.
5 Resoived, That the planters throughout the
country be, and are hereby earnestly requested to
aid us ail they can in bringing about the desired re
formation, by demanding for their products such
money as is equivalent, to specie.
The Attala County (Miss.) Court House
Burnt.— Lose Estimated at One Hundred Thou
sand Dollars .—The Kosciusko Chronicle of the 30th
ult., says:
On Thursday morning, about a quarter to three
o'clock, our citizens were aroused from their slum
bers by the cry of lire, and the ringing of the beds,
and to their utter dismay found the roof of the
Court House in a blaze. It was some time before
many had reached the scene o destruction, and by
‘hat time the devouring element had so progressed
that none would venture in the second story to en
deavor to rescue the county records, valuable pa
pers, &c., and then, too, there were no ladders or
water at hand; in one hour the entire fabric and
contents were a mass of ruins. The loss i- difficult
to estimate at this writing, (we write on Thursday
noon.) but nothing short of SIOO,OOO will approxi
mate to the amount.
The Building was of brick, some thirty five feet
square, and two stories high ; in the second story all
the offices were kept, the lower story being used
for the court room. It had cost from first to last,
including repairs, not less than $2.1,000. The coun
ty is a very heavy sufferer ; so is the Sheriff, who
lost some SI,OOO in cash, besides his papers ; Messrs.
Jackson and Scarborough, circuit and probate
clerka, lost immensely, particularly Mr. Scar
borough, who had not lees than SIO,OOO worth of
promiesory notes, besides other valuable papers in
his desk ; Capt. Saudeis lost a large amount of val
uable papeis; Mr. Miles a valuable law library,
&o , &c. This calamity will be felt for years and
years to come, as it has destroyed every proof of
title to thousands of dollars worth of property, all
the records of the probate cunrt, wills, &c., all the
papers appertaining to suits in the circuit and chan
cery courts. The work was undoubtedly that of
an incendiary.
We learn frttm the Chattanooga Gazette that
James Luchroy was killed by lightning, near that
place, on the 29th ultimo. He was going to town
with a load of wood, when a heavy rain commenc
ed failing, accompanied with much lightning. A
little boy was with him, who took shelter under the
wagon when it stopped. The stroke that killed the
old man, seriously effected the boy, killed one horse,
and injured the wagon.
Trial of a Dahloreen Gun.-A Dablgreen
gun, which Las been on trial at Castle Island, Bos
ton harbor, burst on the 1132d fire. There had
been consumed in the proof of this gun about 11,400
pounds of powder, and the aggregate weight of shot
and shells fired amonnts to 111,000 pounds. When
the piece burst, a large fragment, weighing near
800 pounds, was thrown to a great height in the
air, and fell about 300 feet to the rear.
A Chequered Position.—The appointment of
filet physician to the Saab of Persia, recently con
ferred upon M. Tbolozah, an able Paris practitioner
and medical writer, is, it seems, not without its
dangers, if it be true, as as-erted, that his five pre
decessors and the last of whom was M. Ernest
Cloquet, have all perished by poison administered
through the agency of the native doctors, jealous of
the talent and position of the French archlaters
On the other hand the emoluments are not trifling
the pay being 60,0001, besides residence, horses and
oarriages, and a harem of twelve females, six black
and six white.
Wheat Growing in Water.—The Mew Har
mony llndiana) Advocate states that Mr. John Wil
sey, of that place, has twenty acres of bottom land
in wheat, which was beginning to flower when the
river commenced covering the land upon whioh it
was growing. For five weeks the water has remain
ed upon it to the depth of from six to twelve inches,
during which time the wheat has matured, and, in
the opinion of good farmers, who have examined it, ;
tbe grain is equal to any raised on the hills, but ow- ;
ing to the recent rise in the nver it will be impoesi i
ble to harvest in tbe bottoms this summer.
Trouble Between American Mackerel
Schooners and Canadian Fishermen —A letter
to the Courier du Canada, written from Percy, on
the 11th inst., employed in mackerel fishing, had
anchored on the 9th inst,, in Percy Bay, within two
cable lengths ot the shore, among the nets of the
Canadian fishermen, causing them infinite damage-
Not content with this their orews paraded the
streets of the village in a drunken and disorderly
condition, attacking and beating in a most cruel
manner the inoffensive fishermen. The Courier is
of opinion that an official statement of these facts
should at once be laid before his Excellency, and that
the imperial executive should immediately apply to
the American government for redress.
Rights or Witnesses.—Tae English Lords of
the Bench decided at Weatminst3r. about a month
ago, that it was a principle of common law, that a
counsellor, in questioning a witness, should ad
dress him in ordinary touts, and in language of re
spect, such as is employed by one gentleman in
conversation with another; that sue . lawyer has no
right to question the private business or moral char
acter of a witness, auy further than it is apparent
they absolutely affect bis reliability, or touch the
case in his hand; and that a witness is not bound
to answer questions put to him in an insulting or
annoying manner. If iorced to answer by the
court he will have his remedy in an action for dam
ages.
An Interview with Brigham Young. —The
correspondent of the New York Times in Utah,
gives an interesting account of an interview with
Brigham Young. In the course of conversation the
Prophet gave a full exposition of his views. While
professing extreme reverence for law, love for ttie
constitution, and a desire to obey the laws of the
country, Brigham yet indulged in comments upon
the relations of the Mormons to the general govern
ment which do not savor of submission. He ex
plieilly declared that if the President failed to re
dress Mormon grievances, “the Mormons would re
dress them tor themselves. ’ Other language, of
similar tenor, wai employed, evincing a settled pur
pose of hostility to the government.
Mount Vernon. —We are gratified to be enabled
to announce that Mrs. C. W. Howard will assist in
the noble labor of the Mount Vernon cause in Hass
county, and Mrs. Henry LEiTNKRat Berzelia and
its surrounding country. We would be glad to hear
from all who have received commissions to act as
aids.
“ Laurenceville News. “ —We have received
a prospectus of a weekly newspaper, bearing the
above title, to be published in Laurenceville, Gwin
nett county, by Isaac B. Pilgrim, provided suffi
cient inducement shall be offered to justify the en
terprise. It is to be devoted principally to litera
ture, agriculture, aud the general and local nows of
the day. It is to be independent in politics and re
ligion, ami strictly neutral as to both. The size of
the papsr will be 22 by 34 inches —about the name
as the Tri-Weekly Chronicle .y Sentinel The
press and type will be entirely new. Terms $2 per
annum, in advance. Success to Mr. Pilgrim in
his enterprise.
Southern Medical and Surgical Journal.—
The August number of tuis invaluable medical peri
odical is promptly on our table, containing its usual
variety of original and miscellaneous matter. Wo
have so repeatedly spoken of this journal and the
high stand it occupies with the profession, that we
only deem it neoessary to say that, through the in
dustry and indefatigable zeal and talents of its dis
tinguished editors, it has lost nothing in interest and
usefulness to the profession, but ou the contrary, it
is increasing in utility and usefulness daily. It is
edited by Prof. H. F. and R Campbell, M. D , aud
published by J. Morris, in this city, at $3 por an
num, in advance.
Meteorological —The following meteorological
report for the mouth of July is seut us by a friend
residing at Powellon, Ga:
Abstract from Meteorological Register kept at
Powellon, Ga., for the month of July 1858.
Times of observation, 7 A M , 2 P M., 9 P. M
Monthly mean of Thermometer 79 27
Maximum “ “ July 22d, 90J°
Minimum “ “ July 9th, 68 °
Rain in inches for whole month 8 09
Yours, &c., H. D. S.
The Potato Disease. —The Baltimore American
of Monday last contains a communication from
Lyman Reed, Esq ,in relation to the cause of the
potato rot, which he alleges to be an insect invisible
to the naked eye, the eggs of which are secreted in
anu nr o us the eye of the seed potatoe, £iid a
means which lie has discovt-ieu ami patented lor its
prevention. His statements are strongly suppor
ted by testimonials, aud, in view of the importance
of the subject must attract general at tention from
agriculturalist. The editor of the American Far
mer, to whom Mr. Reed has explained his system’
says “from microscopic examinations we have
made with him, (Mr. R ,) we think there is no doubt
that the cause of the disease is an insect, and hs to
the remedy we have reason to believe it to be effec ‘
tual; beyond this we know nothing except on Mr
Reed’s statement who assures us, it is practical, not
oostly, aud easily applied.”
Homicide. —We understand, says the Kenton
(Ala ) Hera/d of the 31st ult., that M. B. Oaks,
overseer of L. B. Wasser, was shot at the plantation
of the latter, near Pleasant Hill, on Sunday night
last. The act is Buppoeed to have been committed
by a negro. Mr. Oaks lingered until Monday after,
noon, when be died.
Doing away with Lawyers. —The Young Men’s
Christian Association of Pittsburg have adopted a
policy which must be very alarming to the lawyers
of that city. At a recent meeting resolutions were
adopted for the appointment of a committee ol ar
bitration, before whom the members of the associa
tion, and all others who may wish to have their per
sonal differences settled in obedience to Christian
rules, may bring their matters of controversy.
G. P. R. James, Esq., lias been tendered the ap.
poiutiDent of Consul General at Venice, which, it is
probable, he will accept. The previous offer to him
of the Consulship at Odessa, he had not accepted,
on account of the insalubrity of the place.
A Railroad Convention is to be held at Decatur,
Alabama, on the 18th of August inst., to lake into
consideration the subject of extending the Tennes
see and Alabama Central Railroad to South Ala
bama.
Another Arruwbmith.—The Condon Weekly
Times is publishing exlracts from a book on Ameri
ca, written by one Domenech. The following story
about steamboat travelling on the Hudson will do
as a companion to the famous duel >u the Georgia
Railroad :
During a voyage on the Hudson, in one of the
monster steamboats that ply as far as Albany, ma
king tne distance—one hundred and filty-eix miles
—,n a few hours, for the trifling charge of one pias
tre. Two contending boats weigh anchor at. the
same moment, and set out in a spirit of proud rival
ry. His captain, not satisfied with a speed of twen
ty live—at times twenty-seven—miles an hour, had
oil and grease thrown into the furnace. The boats
gut entangled, and there are from seven to eight
hundred passengers on board. At this alarming
crisis, a deputation accosts the captain, entreating
him to discontinue the dargerous contest. His an
swer has the true rmack ot Anglo American Jack-
Tar courtesy : “ You be d—d; for what you pay
(onepiastre) you mey as well go to h—ll fire; fire
men, you there I more lard in the furnace I’’ Their
[ositionnow became fearful, when one of the pas
sengers put an end to it by levelling a musket at
the rival helmsman. The poor fellow dropped the
wheel, and fell frightfully wounded.
The Hoosac Tunnel Enterprise.—The lloo
sac Tunnel project is progressing—not fast but sure.
A corps of engineers have been surveying the eas.
tern end of the Tunnei Railroad with a view ofeon
necting with tbe V’ermont and Massachusetts Rail
road, if they connect with it at all, south of Deer
field river. The Greenfield Gazette has the fol”
lowing:
■‘We are informed upon good authority, that the
work upon the tunnel and the road west of the
- mountain has so far progressed, that the contrao
tors will be enabled to apply for the first install
ment of the State loan in about six weeks. They
will also locate and grade three miles of the road at
this end of the line, this fall, so as to apply for and
obtain the second installment of the loan the foie
part of the witer. The road is now certain to be
built. Men are hold of it who will push it through
as fast as possible.
Reduction of Taxes.—'lhe Milledgeville Re
corder says :—"The Tax Acts of 1812 and 18.14, how
in force, authorized and reqired the Governor and
Comptroller General to raise $371,0011 and not more
than $400,000 net money for the Treasury, on the
Tax Books returned to the Comptroller General s
Office. As the State needed the money, previous
administrat’ons in laying the per cent, upon proper
ty have tried to come as near the SIOO,OOO as pos
sible, without making the fractions too small to an
noy Collectors and Tax payers, in collecting the
Tax. This year, however, in consequence of the
increased payments of the State Railroad into the
Treasury, the Governor and Comptroller General
have determined, we understand, to levy the per
cent, in reference to the smaller sum—and have
consequently reduced tbe tax to seven and a half
cents on the SIOO, or to jth of a mill on a dollar. It
is supposed this will net to the State Treasury about
$380,000.”
The Great Fish Caught at Last.—A corres
pondent of the Milledgeville Recorder, writing from
Middleton s Store, Appling county. Bays : “There
was caught out of tbe Okeefenoke Swamp, about
three miles from the Rose Ponds, on tbe north-east
side, by James T. Eason and Kinsey Mattox, a
Black Fish that weighed about one hundred pounds.
It took both tbe above named gentlemen to pull it
out on shore. It was between six and seven feet
in length and nine inches between the eyes. There
was six quarts of pure oil taken from it. It is ac
knowledged to be the largest fish that has ever been
taken out of tbe run in this swamp.”
The First Bale of New Ueland Cotton.
The Savannah Republican o £ Wednesday says
•This distinguished visitor strived in our city yes
terday, by the Florida boat. It was raised on the
plantation of Mr. Allen Gibson, of Wacahootee,
Marion county, Fla., and was consigned to Messrs.
Ervin So Hardee—who sold it to Messrs. Weber
Bros, at 14 cents per pound. It classes barely mid
dling, and is somewhat trashy, and the color not
good, being injured, as Mr. Gibson writes, by tbe
excessive rains. Mr. G. also states that if the wet
weather continues he fears the injury in this way
will be both general and serious.’’
Minister to Spain.—The appointment of minis
ter to Spain has been tendered to Mr. Mallcry, Sen
ator from Florida, and has been declined by him
from deference to the material interests of his State
which are just now in need of influential and expe
rienced support in CoDgrese. This proffer by the
President establishes the gratifying fact that he ia
looking for persons to represent us at tbe leading
courts of Europe who are fit for those eminent
positions.
Senator Douglas announces in the Chicago JUn"H
fourteen speeches in different parts of the State for
the residue of July and the month of August.
The Nf.w York Quarantine.— Wholesale Ex
tortion.—The captains of twenty-two vessels have
united in signing a paper exposing the exactions
practised at tho New York quarantine etalion.—
The captains state their cases as follows:
••We will state a few only of the exactions impos
ed on vessels, and will commence with the health
officer, who boards the vessel upon her arrival. His
fee is $6.50. He is followed by the port-warden,
whose fee is $5 for looking at the hatches. This
must be done before the ‘iumigator’ can be suppos
ed to expose a handful of chloride of lime in the ca
bin and forecastle, for which his fee is After !
which the stevedore (nee of whom monopolizes this ,
business) presents bis bill for discharging cargo (for ■
signature) before he commences this work and he
will not commence until his bill is signed as correct.
He charges 44 cent 9 per hhd. for discharging sugar,
and for other articles’ iu proportion ; the charge for
this work iu New York is but twelve cents per hhc.
It we ret use this stevedore's services, and prefer
discharging with our crews, we can wait for lighters
until the [ arties iu power think proper to seDd tliem
tbe detention probably aniou-itlng to more than the
exaction of the stevedore. We are charged eighi
cents per hogshead cooperage for each hogshead
on board, even if not a hogshead should require
cooperage.
“After our cargo is discharged ire are again ebarg
ed ?o tor the tains of exposiug a handful of chloride
ot lime in the hold. Atier which, wheiher we have
auy duunnge on board or not, it is supposed to be
burned, to winch we are charged $6 Many ves
sel, alter having obtained permits lrom the health
officer to discharge, have been detained from one
to two weeks waiting ior the stevedores (who mono
polizo this business) to discharge them ”
The signers also say that these exactions absorb
all the vessel's earnings, and, if persisted in, ought
to be sufficient cause to prevent sending vessels in
this port daring the summer months.
Miss Emily J BIuUNT, the heroine of the recent
Deßevierk “ sensation, v wo learn from the Sun ,
arrived in Columbus on Thursday, en route for Mo
bile, under the care of Mr. Levy, one of her fa
there aitornies.
Wheat and Corn—Tug Calhoun (Gordonco.)
Platform says :—There ia quite an active bqsineas
doing m the grain trade at. this place. Our streets
are thronged daily with wagons lorded with grain*
From live to seven oars loaded with either wheat
or corn are shipped daily. The quantity would be
much greater if the prices offered were higher. We
aro glad to see,however, that oui farmers are eel'ing
at present prices, as there is but little probability
that it. will get better booh. If all the surplus com
and wheat at present prices it would prodave quite
a change lor the better in tinancial matters.
Minister Forsyth.— A Washington correspon*
dent of the Philadelphia Press, aayo that this gen
tleman ‘9 not rec tiled from his mission at Mexico
and he thus gives his authority for the statement :
Washington, July 28,1858.
Notwithstanding the asa.-rtionof the various daily
papers to the contrary, I tan assure you that Mr.
Forsyth, our minister in Mexico, is not recalled.
A few days ego I heard from the Presidents own
lips, asserting that the tenor of the late despatches
sent by Captain Henry to Mr. Forsyth is to the es
feet that the latter discontinue to have any official
intercourse with that Government, at the same time
to remain at his post and passively watch the course
of events there. His late acts in Mexico are neither
approved nor censured by our Administration—in
other words, we are non committal.
No Envelopes for Letters.—The P
M. at Charleston publishes the following uote :
Postofficf. Charleston, J
July 30, 1858. \
The undersigned would reaped fuily ash for pub
lic attention to the following tacts :
Business letters are almost invariably sent in en
velopes, and in tracing out losses or miscarriages it
is always important to ascertain tho precise day ot
mailing at the point where the teller teas written. In
many cast s he has lound the letter itself to have
been carefully preserved, while envelopes lias
been lost, and t hus very essential information is
forever destroyed.
The undersigned would therefore suggest that
whenever letters are ot such nature as o be mat
ters of “ reference” after their reception , they had
better ba lolded, sealed and forwarded as formerly,
without envelopes, 1 lie original sheet bearing the
date within and the post mark or stamp without.
Alfred Hugf.k.
Postmaster, Charleston, 8. C.
Statistics of Leavenworth.— Not four years
since, according to the Leavenworth (Kansas)
Times, the tirst house was built, in that plac*c Yet
at this time they have nearly 1,500 houses within
their bounds, and a large numoer iu progress of
building or yet to be erected ere the season closes.
It is a iutlo over three years since the population
was estimated at one huudred. Now it ia at least
eight thousand. It lias nine hoteL, thirty-two gro
cery sli res, eleven banking houses, twenty-two dry
goods do., twenty-three clothing and thirteen tailor
ing establishments, beside* other stores for every
variety of goods, to the number of about one hun
dred and twenty live; four daily and four weekly
papers, twenty-two real estate offices, seventy nine
lawyers, thirty-eight doctors, &r.c.
Failures in Paris —The official returns of the
Paris Court of Bankrupcy, during the crisis, state
that the number of failures from the Ist July, 1857,
to the 30th June, 1858, was 1016; there were but
760 during the same period, 1856-57. The total
amount divided among the creditors in 1856-57 was
4,083,803 francs, and 5,657,442 francs are in hand
undivided ; whereas only 2,725,704 was divided iu
1856- The dividends, however, are larger ior
1857- than fertile preceeding year, since a great
deal of the debts was commercial paper, then value
jess, which been paid, whereas the debts of
1856-57 arose from losses ou grain, and were irre
vocable. It, is said tho French loss by returned
bills does not exceed 7,000,000 franca during tin; last
crisis.
A whole family, brought t. destruction in Lug
hud, has had all its misfortunes clearly traced by .
the authorities to an ungovernable passion for novel I
reading entertained by the wife and mother. The !
husband wan sober aud industrious, but his wife I
was indolent and addicted to reading everything <
procurable in the shapa of a romance. Thii led her j
to utterly neglect her husbaud, her?elf aud her eight
children. One daugh er, in despair, tied the paren- j
tal home, and threw herself into the haunts of vice* 1
Another was found by the police chained by the I
legs to prevent, her from following her sister's ex- j
ample. The house exhibited the most offensive ap- I
pearauco of tilth and indigence. In the midnt of
this pollution, privation and poverty, the cause oj
it sat. reading the last “sensation work” of the sea
son, and refused to allow herself to be disturbed in
ter entertainment.
Scarcity of Southerners an Northern Wa
tering Places.—A correspondent of the Charles
ton Mercury, writing from .Salisbury, N. C., says :
As an item of news, 1 wri e to mention t hat a North
eru gentleman engaged in huainesa in this place, has
just returned from Saratoga, N. Y.,and reports but
a single Southerner at that place. He further re
ports our Northern friends as rather disturbed at
this absence of many of their best customers.
As I came over the Railroad an immense tlood of
travellers were cn their way to the Virginia Springs
J hope this straw tliows that the wind is setting for
a steady blow in the right direction.
The .Spanish Navy—The navy of Spain con
sists at present of 119 vessels, including four screw
frigates, combining 115 guns and 1,080 horse power
nine screw boats, combining eighteeu guns and 770
horse-power; three side win-el frigates, combining
forty-twc guns and 1,500 horse-power; seven side
wheel corvette, combining forty-two gUEe and 2,4.10
horse-power , eighteen side wheel advice boats,
combining forty-eight guns aid 2.680 horse-power
in all forty-one steamers, with 3(11 guns and 8,180
horse-power. The tabling vessels comprises two
ships of-the-lirie, of eighty-four guns each , tour frig
ates of th.rty-nine gunß each ; four corvettes of
twenty five guns each ; nine brigs, seven schooners
and teu transport vessels—together, thirty-six ves
sels, with a total of 607 guns and|l,77o tons register
Besides these, thsre are sixty-nine vessels of one
gun each.
Death of an Army Officer.—Maj. John San
ders, United States Engineer, died at Fort Dela
ware on the 29th of Juiy. Mejor .Sanders was a
native of Kentucky, a grandson of the celebrated
George Nicholas of that. State, son-in-law of Judge I
Wilkins, of Pennsylvania, who was Secretary of j
War under Mr. Tyler, and a brother of George N. J
Sanders,of New York. He graduated with honor !
at West Point and was Chief Engineer under Gen.
Worth, planned the attack of the Texas Rangers
upon the Bishop's Palace at Monterey; he also dis
tinguished himself aL tbe seige o‘s Vera Cruz. He
was engaged at the time of his death in construct
ing Fort Delaware, which is intended to command
the entrance tj the Delaware.
Indian Troubles on the Frontier.—The
Waco (l’exae) Southerner learns from Captain
Nelson, who cam down from the frontier a few
days since, that seven hands of the Camanches
iiave combined for the purpose of waging war upon
the whites. They are supposed to number between
eight hundred and one thousand braves. The fron
tiersmen are on the alert to repel them.
Kansas —Bishop Early has the Methodist Epis
copal supervision of Kansaß for the current year,
‘lhe Richmond Advocate says that he wishes a
good maDy young preachers to go out into the ter
ritory and preach the Gospel, letting freedom alone-
A Dirty Box Full of Diamonds.—ln Allen s
Indian Mail, a writer dating from Lucknow, says :
iesterday, (April 27,J in a smali corner, was dis’
covered a dirty box, after an hour’s digging, and
when opened behold a collection of rabies, dia
monds, pearls, Sec ,of the value of 1(10,00(1 rupees.
Tbe soil of Lucknow is a mint of money.
Stock of Cotton in New York.—Tbe Courier
4- Enquirer of Monday says: Upon a careful en
quiry during tbe past four days from all the Cotton
holders in this city, we find the Slock of Cotton
here this day to be 33,961 bales. The number in
dudes 1.190 hales sold but not delivered.
Payment of W. So A. Railroad for July.— j
We learn, says the Milledgeville Recorder, that on
Saturday, Ben. May, Esq., Treasurer of the Wes- j
tero A. Atlantic Railroad, paid into the Treasury i
$21,000, net earnings of the Road for July.
A Legal Move.—The lawyers of Paris, Ken
tucky, have entered into a written agreement, re- !
solving to increase their fees, and to charge uni- !
form rates. This produced intense excitement j
amongst their clients, and a genera! compromise of i
all the suits on the docket is talked of.
The Maryville East Tennesseean learns that the j
bam of Hugh Bogle, Jr., nine miles east pf that j
place, wax struck by lightning on the 22d ult., and
entire y consumed, w ith the wheat crops of 1817
and 1858.
An Appropriate Reception.—On the 3d of
July, the Republieanß of Ashtabula, Lake ‘and
Geauga counties gave a public reception U> Sena
tor Wade and Joshua R Giddings. They formed a
procession which, to use the language of the Ash
tabula Republican org an, “was Lead
ed by twelve beautiful negro girls, each bearing a
banner representing the twelve States that are
true to freedom,” who also, with their flags occu
pied the stand.
“New Georgia,” or “Worth Georgia, v hat* been
suggested in England as a name for the new gcM
Colony of the Northwest.
Life in Texas —Large Crops and Good Times
—G. W. Kendall, of the New Or eanß Pioayune, ha*
written another of his usual interesting and genial
letters from his farm in Texas. We quote a few
paragraphs. Speaking of the abundant crops, he
says :
Tho wheat crop is already of course gathered,
and the yield baa been immense. The oorn crop—
much evaii of the seoond planting, which was put
in the ground after the grasshoppers had left—is as
good as made, and again the yield will be great.—
; Cotton looks web in every quarter, and from the
sugar growing sections we have no other than the
: most flattering accounts. Os peaches and melons
we have enough for all creaftion; our stock of all
kinds—cattle, horses and sheep—is fairly rolling in
tat wild grapes, plums and cherries may be gath
ered iu a prolusion unknown in other countries; of
sweet potatoes, tomasoes, cabbages and other vege
tables we are raising all that we can eat, and our
entire population is more than hopeful—it is joyous.
Governor Runnels can afford to give us two thanks
givings this year; we can’t get through in one day.
lie states, however, that strangers oonming to
set tle in Texas, must not expeot to meet at first
with all the comforts and conveniences to be l\>imd
iu old settlements, and adds :
But if a persou wishes to eqjoy the finest climate
in the Union, to posses the best of health, to find
cheap lauds which must rapidly increase in value
to engage in a buoiness which, if properly attended
10, will briug in a yearly profit of from 40 to 70 per
cent; on an investment —I mean stock raising—and
is willing to put up with afa w of the inconveniences
ever attendant upjn life ou the frontier, let such
person come to 1 exaa. 1
We live a quiet life here in the mountains, and
have no exciting events to chronicle. Not a mur
der—not an overt act of criminal importance—has
been committed in our county for two years that I
am aware, of, aud I doubt whether our jail has a
siuglo tenant to brush away the cobwebs. Our
crops wholly or partially fa led in ’56 and ’57 , yet
1 have not seen a single soul soliciting alms, nor
witnessed a solitary case of suffering from poverty
in the neighborhood. Every owner of a farm ia the
possessor of more or less s:ock ; this stock has gone
ou increasing and multiplying ; aud upon this all
have lived, and moved, ana had a comfortable be.
iug.
Murder in Campbell County, Tennessee.—A
letter iu the Knoxville Citizen, of the sth, from
Jacksboro’, gives the following particulars of an
outrageous murder by counterfeiters in Campbell
county :
We had an awful occurrence here in the moun
tain, four miles noitli of this. A man by the name
of Turner, of Audersou county, aud another named
Lewis, staid at Laban Sharp’s last night, and offer
ed him a S2O counterfeit Hamburg bill. Sharp said
lie could not change it, but would come to town
with them. After they got into town they paid
• heir bill and left, aud Sharp got the Sheriff, 8. D.
and Travis Gibson, aud pursued them
When they got up with them put his hand
on Turner and said be arrested him. Turner pulled
out his pistol and wouuded They bjth
jumped off their horses, and Queeuer knocked him
u wri and held him until he saw Lewis stab Gib
son, causing immediate death. Qaeener ran up,
and was also stabhed iu the neck, above the collar
bone, and m the should* r, and fell. (He has since
expired ) Sharp about this time came up, and
Lewis and Turner broke aud ran.
The Postmaster nt Jacksboro’ instantly dispatch
ed intelligence f the affair, and as the assassins are
supuoaed to have made for some point on the rail
road, it nmy be hoped they will be arrested.
This occurrence gives additional assurance of the
existence of a baud of counterfeiters in that region,
and the citizens cannot be too vigilant.
Another Probable Homicide in Brunswick.
—We learn from a passenger on the Southern boat
of yesterday, says the Savannah Georgian of Sun
day, that a serious affray occurred at Brunswick
on Friday last, which will doubtless result in the
death of one of the parties. It seems that two men,
Dixon ami Magill, met and had an altercation
about a previous difficulty, in the course of which
Dixon struck Magill iu the mouth with his fist*
Magill immediately drew a pistol and fired, without
effect. Dixon turned and run, pursued by Magill,
who continued to shoot. One ball took effect upon
Dixon, striking him just below the shoulder blade
and passing through one lung. When the boat left
he was spitting blood, and but little hope was enter’
! ained of his recovery.
The court at Burksville, Kentucky, recently gave
a verdict against the owner of a distillery for the
value of a negro man, for having sold the black a
jug of whiskey, cn which the slave became intoxi
cated, and was in consequence drowned in attempt
ing to swim on horseback a swollen creek. The
accident was proven to have occurred from the
drunken folly and mismanagement of the slave.—
There iR a law of that State which makes the seller
of liquor to a slave liable for all the consequences
from the use of the liquor by the negro. The ver
dict, it is thought, will have an important influence
in arresting the halo of whiskey to slaves.
Kansas.— The Richmond Dispatch says: The
Kansas correspondent of the N. Y. Herald States
that the only business which is at all brisk in Kau
saat this time is horse stealing. It appears that
the Free State men in the neighborhood of Law
rence are becoming as much enamored of free
horses as free niggers. A reverend political per
son, a resident of Douglas oounty, who commands
a company of horse thieves, preaches on Sundays
and steals horses on week days, has been arrested
for stealing a number of horses from a pro-slavery
man. If his reverence can secure a free soil jury
lie need not concern himself about the result, for it
will be easy to show that a Southern man has no
more right of property in a horse than in a negro,
and that a fine horse is a peculiarly Southern insti
tution, and therefore entitled to the benefit of the
underground railroad.
French Opinion of Cuban Invincibility.—
The Paris Pays states that it is anxious “to oorrect
an error too generally entertained iu Europe, to the
effect that Cuba, if abandoned to her own resources
j and to those of the mother country, would infallibly
succumb to the efforts of the United States ” It
I says:
“Cuba is divided into three departments, which
are organized in a very vigorous mauner. The
garrison generally consists of 6 regiments of the line.
6of light infantry, 4 rifle companies, 2 batteries of
horse artillery, 4 batteries of foot artillery, 3 regi
ments of cavalry, and several special corps—the
force forming a total of 15,000 men. To this army
must be added 10,000 men dispatched by the moth
er country, and composed of the best regiments of
the Spanish army. Now, the standing army of the
United Slates is not more than 5,000 strong, and in
spite ol the immense activity of the nation, it would
require a very powerful effort to raibe an invading
lorce of ten lo twelve thousand men. Cuba ie
consequently, able to defend herself from an eg*.
yression. Moreover, Spam has a military organi
zation which would permit her to dispatch necessa
ry reinforcements to her colony. The Spautßh war
navy is superior to that of the United Skates. In
enumerating these facts, we have no wish to estab
lish any comparison between two nations which are
our friends and allies ; we merely desired to show
that Cuba is, in a strategical sense, capable of de
feating uny American mvaaiou, were Ihe latter to
be attempted at any time.”
India . —The news from India continues to repre
sent the British forces as Htill gaining victories over
the Sepoys whenever they meet, but the victories
are fruitless ol great results, and the contest has be
come on the part of the Indians a guerrilla warfare
a state of things which threatens to become chronic.’
The hot weather is making sad ravages among the
unacclimalod British troops. If. is difficuls to con
ceiveakind of warfare more veiatious and dis- ’
heartening to high mettled soldiers, worthy of a no
bler foe, than that which the British army is now
compelled lo endure in India.
■ i
The Erie Railroad Accident.—The American
Railroad Journal, a well informed and competent
authority, says that the real causa of the late acci
dent upon tbe Erie Railroad uMi be found in the
want of correspondence between the superstruc
ture aDd the weight of the locomotives. The engine
by which lhe accident was occasioned, haa a weight
of nearly 42,111111 pounds on the drivers, and was go
ing at least 4(1 miles an hour. As the concussion in
creases as the squares of speed, the force upon the
rail may readily be imagined. We believe there is
no road in lhe country which has so great a weight
upon lhe drivers as the Erie, and to this Is owing
the repeated breaking of rails upon It.
A Monument is to be erected to the Pilgrim Fa
there at Plymouth , cost from $300,000 to $400,000.
It will he built of granite, 153 feet high, 80 feet at
the base, with sitting figures from 38 lo 70 feet high
If is to he completed in twelve years from Angust,
181>>. ‘lhirty-six thousand dollars have been sub
scribed, principally in Massachusetts. The society
for building lhe monument have purchased all the
estates immediately around the veritable rock, and
also a site fur the monument, embracing ten acres
of land, commanding a fine view of the harbor and
the locality ol the rook.
Com. Charles Stewart.— This vetern of our
navy completed the 80th year of hie age on Wed
nesday last, and is said to he as active, blithe and
cheerful as a man of thirty five. Besides, he is just
as abie to fulfil the physical duties of his position of
captain in the navy of his country as he was tbe first
day he received a commission c\f that rank. Com
modore Stewait baa been under the fire of fifteen
eni.’ agementa with the enemies of our ti&g—
the number that of the famous bombardment of
Tripoli — apart from various skirmishes; in addition
to this, the Commodore came off victorious lo all-
He has been in the service for sixty-one years, and
is now actively discharging daily duty at the Phila
delphia navy yard.
The Mormons in New York.— On Hunday the
Mormons in New York, and the disciples fiom
neighboring Stales, met at their former public halt
I in Broome street, and bad a glorification in their
j peculiar style. The exercises consisted of singing,
j peeches, administering the sacrament, duo., and at
i 1 conclusion of the services a series of resolutions
was adopted sustaining and endorsing Brigham
Young os lhe President of, and prophet, seer and
revelator to the Latter Day Saints throughout the
world, and acknowledging Col. Gumming as tbe
Governor of Utah. The general train of remark
by the speakers was that all tbe difficulties in Utah
hail ended, and no further trouble was to be an
i icipated.
. The Treaty of Paris.— The Paris Moniteur has
just published an official report from Count Wa
j 1-wski, which shows that 36 States besides those
j Sitting in the conference, have signed the treaty of
| Paris of lhe 26th April, abolishing privateers in time
j Ilf war, called the “Maritime Treaty of Paris ”
I ‘lnly three States, of all those invited to sign it,
| viz : the United States, Spain and Mexioo, have’
j refused.
! The Tallahatchie Bottom. —The Grenada,
I Miss., Republican, of the 21th nit., says: “ Tbe wa
ters are subsiding in the Tallahatchie bottom. We
understand that the stench from decomposition of
animal as well as vegetable matter is not to be en
dured.
Tbe people ol Drummondvitle, (Canada,) on Ifta
banks of the Niagara river, below the folia, are
very much excited in relation to the encroachments
of the river upon the land. Tha banks are oonstant
ly caving in, and tbe Reporter, published at that
place, in a recent issue declares that twenty years
more—at the rate the bank is now being washed
away—and almost every homestead will be in the
Niagara river. Several have gone already. The
Board of Works are called upon to tokf soma action
in the matter whioh shall remedy to great an evil