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(l|rontclt tic jsentinei.
From the A'rtr Orleans Delta.
An lnrict. nl in .Hbexmlppi JuH.pmHl-nre.
Tke importance of heat tug theaccsued before mak
ing judgment final.
The ctrcums'ances which I am about to re .ate
occurred a fewyearj ago. atid are riven to the press
at the suggestion of a gentle moo of New Orleans,
vh- e friendship I highly valoe, and to whom I
n/ratefl the feme in casual ooovereation on the
J.skeatew day*ago ,
f v, at attending the Circuit Court o! the Mate ot
csUsippi. held in and for the county o. , in
the autumn of 1852, when, amour other pleas for
~ a, t ~~ e WI)W , bill of indictment for arson
Edinborough. a nave. The Judge wbopre
, ‘led was a gentleman ot large teaming and enter
<ied legal experience, and he sti'i livea to enjoy the
rewards of h : i*jfc repu** at the capital
lyo! *ppi The abused was a native ol
Aiif and w . the properly of a gentleman of the
, un’v it, which tbo bill vug found The ar*on wa.<
l .11 in f : i and r'ruction of tbe gin house his mas-
I, r, the o.ea **&.-< not guilty, wr*en a jury was em
panuffed and ?b*- cau?*e proceeded to trial. Tne
proiracution wa^otidufled 6y the District Attorney,
while ti.a delence was under the management of
one of the mout th ‘roughly read lawyer- of our
Hra*e, MfcWted by mu roo, a young lawyer then lr.
the opening promise of a briLiact future.
The evidence on the part of the Brate disclosed
fbe folio win;; facts: That a few days previous to
the burning the defendant had rue away upon tom ?
insufficient cauae , that the day before the tire,
which occurred between midnight and daylight, the
defendant find been seen lurking about in the vi
< inity of tne gin , that an ineli*- ;’ual attempt w-h
then made to capture bun , that the oven-w&Dd a
the hac*;- hao been engaged a* th*- gin
f ill a late hour ?L*; night of the fire, packing cotton
and loading wagons for Grand Gulf; that when
they left for the ‘ quarter” they left every cii g, as
they f*upposi;<i, c*?e at. the gin; that when tbe
aia/ in of m re was made the force was carried to the
gin, and an attempt made to subdue the Harney
which proved abortive. that suspicion irnmediat- iy
jell upon the defendant, from ih- fact of hie being a
;ugiti vs, and that be had been seen in tbe vicinity
ike day p-evious and that, upon that supposition,
n more vigorous search was and altera
diligent pur x . f about an hour and a half the de
fendant *ad discovered in a cotton house, in an ad
)*eent field, aoout a mile from the gin , that he was
‘then whipped but no for the purpose of inducing
confession, hut as a punishment for running away ;
that alter that, and wLi e on tne way to the quarter,
the defendant bad voluntarily confessed that be
burned tbe gin , that he set it on lire with a view
of implicating a negro on the plantation who had
incurred bis animoei y.
Tae evidence for the State closed after introduc
ing the negro to prove that the defendant did owe
.nin a giudge for seme cau*”- not necessary here to
he detailed. Tlc defence <fi red no evidence, and
the argument proceeded. Tbe District Attorney
t pened the prosecution by a brief reference to the
facts awl tbe law applicable to the same. The coun
sel lor the defendant, eminent for high legal attain
ment, presented a powerlul series of arguments and
hypotheses moons a ten l with the coociusion of guilt.
The law was given in charge by the Court, and
the jury rendered a verdict of guilty. A motion
was mu-lb to set aside tbe verdict and grant anew
trial, for a variety of causes, and, after a labored
argument, was overruled
i'henext day the prisoner and another, who was
convicted of murder were placed at the bar to re
reive the sentence of death
The Court having regularly pronounced judge
meat upon tbe murderer, then to Edinborough:
‘K Jin borough, laud up! You have been regu
larlv indicted, tried by a jury of your own selection
and by them found guilty ot the crime of arson.—
Tne punishment for tuat crime is death. You have
had aOie counsel, who have conducted your cause
wtifa unmistakable a* ill and ability ; but if you have
tiny thing to say why the judgement of this court
ehottld not be pronounced, the law gives you the
iberty to ipoak for yourself. Whit have you to
nay ?”
The negro advanced a step or two, so as to face
Ihe stand, and expressed his thanks to “Massa
Wiley/’ for it appears he had often seen and heard
of the Judge, ana it was quite natural that he should
a idresri him. Said be :
‘Maf-.-a Wiley, Edinborough glad he got a chance
to epsnk for heseif, case, Massa Wiley, Edmbo
rough hit buniee de gin. Dat nigger tell you lie
when b< say Edinborough burnee de gin, he git he
hack**-! whipped. Edinborough! old nigger, he
gi drunk, everceer whip him, ileu Edinborough co
bad ting, he run away. Berry bad ! but Edinbo
rough no burnee de gin—he see de gin dat day.
y uUtJ g inasea and overseer tell truf, dey did *ee me
ifat dey, but I hide in de swamp tiil night, and en
K> to the cotton house and git under ue cotton to
vaun. Edinborough wanted to go back to he
kuassa house but he feaied—ao he stay in de cotton
house. Byizjeby, uight came on, Edinborough see
i, <>■ ors go login, and want to go dar, but he ’fear
dt overseer whip him. Negur pack cotton,
t.egur load wagon, negur smoke pipe and hab leetle
fire to warm jje fingeis when h get cold. Negur
**tay long time, Jen when seven blaia right cber he
!,ead he go quarter. All ois time Edinborough lay
in de cotton ho e, and presently when ebety ting
jiili, Edinborough In* k towards de gin and see big
hgbi. Eight git bigger. Den Edinborough nay to
hmeiV \ou go put bre out—no den dey say Edin
borough burnee d* gin. 8o I ufay in cotton house,
.and atter w r hile Edinborough hear oberseer and
Henry comm Day say, “he here/’ one tuy
uo du day ay. lot’a look in de cotton house; and
♦o dey find Edinborough in de cotton house. Ober-
M*er whip me for run myny dat night. Den when
w<> going t<> do quarter, Edinborough tink with he
iselt dat it he say *K Imhorough huruee de gin/ den
V>oberseei m> whip—<MW den he lutd good excuse
t ttfarsa. K*> f say,‘Edinborough bamee de gin/
„ l& .1..;, dey bring m away And lock up in big
j Mi v But Mh-sh Wiley, edioborough Ull Ue
when h Edinborough burnee de gin, case ;
’ diiJ>r<>utf> ,'> burnee d.i in. iMt k' k-tab lir
‘roi i Jem iit'(Cfc.“ pipe* Hud Ual l-tle Urn uev
leave a.ire But, Wiley. Edinborough old
ill irur let um die ,<> . ‘tut. But he no burnee
Je Kin. ICdinbinoUßli been,;.-! tho Bayou Pierre
|„„K time, bill no now loi ..j.eke cotton; let
um die ; but he i:<> burn.“e de Kin,” e.
-pi. .... i ntier i.iat mfiuuer t.f tun
mn file ; uui n- --
Ttie deteudard e.iuiinuen ulier t.iat inauuur i.i ni
broken imeo for an hour and a half, and seemed j
iiattuM larly u unvu- to i;i>uvitice tlie court of the I
mini ot V, liai iie said. Ho did net. seem to hope for 1
•auytliitiK. and seemed perfectly .lncoiwtriied us to I
the event llms-y e#e uuoouth.hw Kdtioulaiiou j
impasfii'iied wid wild, and bis whole appearance )
intbWdmi'. He <‘ v h his seat without seeming eon
rnioue of tin’ fact ihe? > fio numerous auditory tiad
, .mu inter noted, and fho. a tsroat majority of them
#e ,-e cnnviiit’ and, i’- c * ‘- i. iorioenco,at least, that
there .-vas rtaeo--.i a- of In* Ha,it The tour;
seemed t, ‘ten ad-cted, mho asked ihe iiisi.iet At
Hirney if hb bad any thlcr o> ey in repiy. The
A'ter- ey w’ h much surprise, said “no, that he ’
. t.ii-d it. untiev-ws’-y. that it wa., i.j suppi ted,
\rmu!w to gi\* w the defendant oppofiunjty to
** > i,,.-ii aid the Court, fid baa improved that op
portutiiiv After a tiatiba v> said to the prisoner,
Edmbi.i.niKli, you have .’Uei. n k’reatly my con
, -1-tioti id your t.ul.t. and not for ,t;iy tlnuK laid in
the motion for n. w trial, hut frd® yo,ur own au
. ..r at this bar to day, 1 will chanye ny ,'MiinK
upon the motion; I will K’rant you anew trial.”
The Urge crowd breathed freer, anti many ft heart
went forth in it* kindliest sympathy to meet sind
commune with the charity which dictated mia'.*jj nigh
toned clemency on the part of Wiley P. 11am*-
llpon a second trial the negro was* acquitted, thus
vindicating tu* wisdom of the Judge.
I have read the philippics Dcmoethenes she
Motions of Cicero, the etforte of Burke; wlik
yo ;.U)tul enlhasia-m 1 have lingered upqn the mas
terly u<sfnco of King Charles before the IlighCom
mission vave boon touched with tbe pathos of the
• b ind prem'h** l in the British Spy ; have leit all
**l a boy’s patxiV'tisni bum within me while reading
after our own He 4 y|'t , Cou udests, ( ays.
VVebdtt rs, m;d Calbou*. *Vd have alternately wept
and about'd beneath tlu’ cW t and silvery eloquence
, . IVentiss, but I must saj’ that, Wilder all the c r
4austanoes, this rude, unletrbeWric and natu
ral pathos of tho African slave .‘ascinatw me be
yond u What a tribute, to”; *-0 tn*. ; n
inanity and chnty of Wiley I*. Harris, who, unoe* <
the mag Val u.tiaence of tue truth, took tiie resnOii
uibility to auswer the dictates of mercy in this case,
when the baie record was conclusive of guilt!
Such is the narration as far as 1 can remember ;
its trut h is indubitable, as all the actors in tbe scene
me now living with the exception of the principal.
A Member of the Mississippi Bar.
New Orleans, D-o* bor J. lu\ f r.
A Bit inthk eaks —a t'm Woman in Trott
t,U —A day or two since, just after tho express train
left Stamford, wh re it had been delayed a lew min
utes, to wood and water, a rat ran from one corner
of the oar nimdst the feet of the passengers. As
HOO U ft* it was known that there was a rat on the
door of the car, considerable excitement took place
Miuong the ladies, and crinoline took a sudden rise.
The passengers struck a! the rat, as he dodged from
~u* i ulo of tne car to tho other, with their umbrel
las and oanes, but w ithout any efiect— tbe old rat
••uccesstuliy avoided a l the kicks ard thrusts, and
disappeared under the seat of a fat woman, who
?<at at one end of the car. half asleep. A “commit
lee of one,” self appointed, backed up by belt adoz
on “lull grown boys/* tuggested to the tat lacy the
propriety ot rising to euablo them to fiod the rat.
Now, it is no easy mavU-r fora two hundred and
fifty pounder, encumbered by a huge mass of crino
hue, to rise at a uiomeut's notice, therefore, she de
clined. frhe was duly informed of the state of at
lairs and of the critical position which she occupied
iff the eyes of tbe public a: that moment. Again
K*lse was reques vd to but she positively lefused
.. certaiu distinguished politicians, sue seemed
determined to man.tain her position, till a broader
,tni mvn.e comprehensive pi a* form was available.
Varivm as to the ia:’s whereabouts
v • **v“t he boys’* inaudible whispers which
made tat woman
“Biush like a full blown ro>e.’
aul to get K* r y** J 1 ? cf tke P®sengere
~maoro have <•’> *”
ainm-ng—lip’ s* cl V **•
Sanded-teeth. worn, from t * doUara to
uutold fortubn. vun eiu ll '■ t 'd
“T, ere was leiue rie* deA
Am the boldest held bis bi\ **■
For a time.”
But that time was decidedly short, K\ r at this
point, the lady in question gate a roll which idode
the oar fairly groau. one or two spasmodic ho sc.
and the two iiunurea and fitly pounder shot ut ot .
her seal iikeaskj eckirt, upon tine babies and b sand
box crushing c rinoliue ana beavere. landing about
aix leei from her tea noon a little old trill, wit
she nearly smothered, besides knocking . h k:e wig
and otherwise disarm giug his toilet-upon winch
he rents’ bed to hiniselt. ...at had better;’.
down end join the circus Alter vigorous.y shah
mg her dress, amidst the laughter ot the passen
gers. she regained her sea:, and the huge mass of
crinoline commenced to settle to its proper ptare
aud quiet once score restored, when one . the
boys, whose tnirthfaluees must be somewhat_ large-
V- deceit pod. burst out into a “hcree oiugh. lue
V-W like a spark in a magaiine, the whole
cw- ‘et -'. -1 and tile fat woman joined in ana
UugUa ns hearty as the merrieet list iohy old
*- -e? up and down and tie cat spring viora
tLiuepti* rx-,et ti.u.e. But what become ot the
rat is r question. —Hartford Timet*
r—Shvrtiv aftsr Uj* explosion on b*v\rd
vi* Virginia, an accomplished yoiiitg ady (twenty
a r*ar~ ot Hgc or ;herebou:.a*) wa? oouiing acrottf tbe
Late on *•-0 :’ the ir-I bo* T *. and was very ap
prehensive lha? a like cisester might befall the
earner to u ::u ; i wan committed ihe traoepxtation
other lair—-very fair person. C&liii £an intelli
gent Kv-kiCh; niter to ber, she him, oonfi
lnaneLy ~"1>* it •. < t . tor the ms:, boat* to tx*
plodt, waiter?’
No. mu:, , these boats rover exp!<K!-*.
“Well, but i. n -ht exp kid* l , m chta’t it ? You
knew the Yiry... a new -v exploded be tore she d:d
the c4her da. . ued iu, *®dy.
“Y*. ma’am ••- 1 ir g exp’ rie—though
the uiiul boats hi r ei, 1 v?. ? asseverated the
waiter.sad eii .. to assertion. though
yielding a possibility conception to the fair quee
tioi *-r e logic.
el, waiter, could you tell if the boat was go
xti>r u> explode
Ttir enakterconsidered a moment, and would have
ween Do-'eamboat waiter, if, in that brief moment,
villainy had m • got tne upper band in him
“Oh Jkßf uia aut l ‘<* t>e-u on the Hudson riv
er boats, 1 have. I can toil when a boat’s ag nag to
explode—can tel. a hail an hour betor* blows
op. but 1 has to i*b mighty doee to find out.”
The apprvhetivv lady was delighted, and
at once secured tbe valuable a ; iiau e ot‘ the far-see
-.Dg aud sea fating wallet by ti e donation of bait a
dollar, accoit patiyiug it with strict iujiinctiona ttn*
abe should beca ladnt ! ’ alt au hour before an
explosion ,s urred. tua’ *-e trv l l tase ak-aesretto
get out of dm ■ r • V'> True IMta.
Wa\ P..i>. • ’ .specially, per
bhM.oftte vt> mat y > u g !ad:rs who ptac’iee
tbe v ry plcaatut art of m<ceding fi-it. r. w.rs.
itc , in wax, at tui suspect tue danger in wh eh tiey
WTO placed tiom the poison.u.tureof the coot ng
matter of the wax which they h mile so uususpee!
inglv The white wax, foriußtauea, ooctains white
lead tii* green, copper , tbe >ellow, chrome yel
iow th*? r.*ige, * I n.tne yellow and vcrctuliion—
Strong po- s ‘ all—whiie many other kinds of wax
are eouai v pohoi. us. and tberejure, uangerous.-
Several - >-- * are known in wu.ch yonog ladies
have teen atta. ked with partial paralysis of the
hands end arms, after having devoted seme time
to the practice of modeling
El KOPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
BT THE AFRICA.
The steamship Africa, with Liverpool dates to
the 21st August, arrived at New York on Thursday
We extract the of new* :
Fi om the London Ttmes, An? 20.
Bombardment of Jeddah — The following tele
gram ba been received at the Foreign Office from
Consul General Green :
Amiandria, Aug. 13.
1 Her Majesty’s ship Cyclops arrived at Suez
from Jeddah last night. I have received the follow
ing telegraph from Captain Pollen : ‘Cyclops &r
rived at Jeddah 23d of July. Ham:!: Pasha at
Mecca Satisfaction demanded, and letter sent to
Kaxnaikam, ueder flying seal, saying *f bo satir.fac
tory answer received in 36 hours, shall proceed to
extremities On tbe moruieg of tbe 25tii, 20 hours
[! 40] having mtervened from time of sending des
patch, and no reply, commenced bombarding on
the town at intervals. Fourtete or fi‘teen bunga
lows burn: and destroyed. II A. M —Le:*er re
ceived from Pasha not satisfactory. Kesumed ope
t ons, and eonrinued accaeionally until evening of
the 2bfh. from boats and ehipe, with *bot, eheli
and rockets. 27th.—Troops arrived, 507 Bashi-
Baxouks; time given toland. 2^th.—Jar-** [Pasha 1 ]
arrived, comes on board next day; can come to no
arrangement; cannot execute murder
tr. om h&- them confined, afktion [stating?] that
hft* • • *oe power of life and death. Time extended
to > i w piigriow to embark. ‘soth.—Lady Canning
Laves for Yembo with Momeh princess. Depositi jne
o’ mard-rers rent oft, and proved guilty by their
own io- ai courts Their executionintiat/cd upon on
the morning of the 2d instant, aDd not compaed
with by evening of the 4th. Commenced bombard
again on the mornirg of tbe sth. Before a re
ply is received the Yabari steamer arrives with
troops, 480 Egyptain-. Email Passain [Pagha?j
commands, with power to satisfy the just demands,
of England and France. On tbe morning of the 6th,
II murderers executed [inj sight of the town and
shipping in pert and four more culprits to be eent
to Constantinople. Ihe Cyclops left Jeddah on the
morning of tbe 7tb iDst, and ha* brought up a
messenger from the Pasha, with despatches lor
Cotjsranhnople. Mr. Vice Consul Calvert has my
despatches tor the Admiralty, and leaves immedi
ately. * “Green.
‘ Malta, August 18. 6:50 A. M.
‘ Montagu Stopfohd, Vice-Admiral.”
The London Times, commenting on the above
despatch, says : “ Now, w .a* the English public
will desire to know is this—Why should the whole
tenor and object of our negotiations with Constan
tinople have been stultified by so violent a proceed
ing as this 7 Either we were to take the law’ into
our ow n haLd.-<, or not. If we were, we shou and have
done po at first; if not, we should have aw aited
the action of the Turkish Government, who were
certa;nly not hanging back in The matter. Captain
Pulen must have been acting in obedience to or
ders from home. O i what grounds were these de
tfpkftcbe* framed, and what were they ?”
Tne English press, generally, speaks in the seme
tone as the above.
Great Britain. —There is no political news of
moment.
Mr. Dallas, the American Minister, had aa inter
view with the Karl of Derby on the 19th August.
The ship Essex with 75,000 ouuces of gold had
arrived from Melbourne.
At the York races, Mr. Ten Broeck’s American
horse Babylon, won the Ches'erfield handicap
agam-f. a field of eeven competitors.
Lord Palmerston, who wa3 visiting hia estates in
Ireland, had delivered a speech at Sligo in defence
hia administration.
A great county demonstration in honor of the
successful laying of tbe Atlantic cable, in the shape
ot a banquet to the directors of the Company, was
being organized at Kiliarney. A project was on
foot lor running a ran way to Valentia Bay
The Atlantic and Great Western Railroad Com
pa y of Onio and Pennsylvania had successfully ne
gotiated in England bonds for about three millions
of dollars.
At a meeting of the Liverpool Workhouse Com
mittee, it was reported that. 35 destitute emigrants,
whose passage had been paid from the United
States, imd been brought to the Liverpool work
house. One fifth of the returned number of return
ed emigrants are lunatics.
The fact tint an enquiry could be sent from Lon
don and a reply of eorne length returned from New
Foundland in the brief space of two-and-a-half
hours, had been fully demonstrated in the matter of
the collision between the Arabia and Europa, and
the occurrence was regarded with very great satis
faction.
France. —The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Times says it was not without extreme difficul
ty that the plenipotentiaries of the Paris Confer
ence brought their labors to a conclusion. They
were more than once on ti.e point of separating,
on account of the appaient impossibility of agree
ment.
The same writer is informed that some Italians
were arrested at Cherbourg and at Paris, at the
time of the Emperor’s stay al tbe former pla*;e , and
that on the 18:h and 19th of August the local police
were exercising a marked surveillance at the Paris
station o< the Western Railway, also at the stations
between Paris and Anterville. The French Govern
ment had received positive information that Muzzi
ni had recently left London,
‘The Paris Bourse had been buoyant, aud on the
20th August the 3 per cents advanced to 69.50, at
which they closed.
M. Sabatier, Consul-General of France at Alex •
andria, has been charged by the gevernmeut to
proceed to Jeddah to make investigations respect
iug the recent outrage.
It is said that among tbe instructions sent to Ba
ron Gros, tho French Ambassador in Chins, vva: j
one directing him not to insist that France should
in luture have au Ambassador resident at Pekin it
it were louud that such insistance would entail arup
ture of the negotiations.
A Paris letter says that a project for an electric
telegraph to connect Europe with China was in
course of preparation in that city, and would be
presented to the Emperor on his return to Paris.
The Imperial Prince, who, at his birth, was en
rolled as a private in the Grenadier Guards, has
been promoted to the rank of corporal!
The Journal du Havre, in announcing the de
pai iure of Airs Harriet Beecher Stowe upm liouen
tor Paris, eays that ehe ha coieeied notes on Nor
mandy with a view of writing a work founded on a
French subject.
The Mouiteur of the *2olhsaya:—“The PienifO
tentiaries of France, Austria, Great Britain, Prus
sia, Kuuria, Mardiuiaud Turkey, met on Thursday
I at ths Ministry of Foreign Affairs to sign (lie con
vention relative to the organization of the Princi
palitiee of Moldavia and Waliachia. The exchange
’ oi ti e ratification of the said convention will take
plate at P-tris within live Weeks, or earlier if possi
ble
T ii on > after tpe accomplishment of this for
maliiy that tires teat of tku convention can be made
pu ic.
Switzerland. —Some difficulties are said to have
aribi u be; ween France and Switzerland relative to
tiio p.‘Unitary line. The French and Swiss Com
mi**ei,oi!cra cannot agree It was thought that, tbe
Federal Council would propose the appointment of
an additional Commissioner to act as an arbitrator.
Au.n-twa. — I The Austr an Government has, it is
said, resolved tp spend fifty per pent,, more on its
Navy than heretofore. The construction of four
•crew frigates was to be commenced without de
lay.
Spain. —All the Madrid journals, without excep
tion of party, treat as absurd t lie supposition, emu
jubdin;/ from the American press, that Spain can
ever Think of ceding Cuba to rhe United States.
The (Jueeh ldiiaid to have declared her intention
of fouudmg nine great Asylums for tho poor—cue
Lr each Archbishopric, as a means cf suppressing
that|/ague of the country, mendicity. Nine mil
lions of reals .are to be employed towards paying
expenses of these Asylums, which are to go info
operation on the Ist of October nexr.
.Pm *-ia —A report was current, and said to be
accredited at Beriiu, that the King ot Prussia wili
resume the reigns of Government on the first of
October, but that on the 15th o the same month he
will Nuleuody uhdicate in favor of the Prince.
A Beifin letter says .’—“The meeting between
the tauten ot England, ar.d tho Pri; cess Frederick
William, her daughter, was very affecting. The
Princess sprang into tho railway carnage to her
Royal mother, and remained clasped in each others
arms for so ne time, unable to speak.
Russia. —Accounts from Odessa state that the
ciy* r n That region presented a most unsatiefacto-,
i -t iqpcrtiiUi.vo that in some localities the yield
wou.'d not even bj? pufficieut for seed for next year.
In tho neighborhood iff Petersburg the crops
were aiao very poor, belli* eri.rched iu
COBB . quenoß ut the prevailing drought. p.. 0 xoods
and boge jvere burning furiously in ail direolii'iu.
aud some were U.reatened with deetrue
Hon From tlie < of tbe Sea of A/.oft, and irom
u-.e ilistricu supplying the crops are
well spojsen of. , , ~
Tuhkks The Turkish Ministry is saw !o have
called the Sulla..'.’ attention to his extravagant oi
penditure, aud to hav. represented that the tinau
eiai difficulties of the CGuud-y render it impossible
touontmibs the enormous outlay, ‘“be Sultan'sciv
ii list amounts tp jL I ,‘,00,000 sterling per tw-mn
Jkoia. —The tv-oibay mail ot July Jikh hag
teai bed England, bui .u details of the news add
nothing of importance to the .diagrams already re
ceived.
The oorre-piud. ‘O of the London Times eays
•‘With Sir Hope M.-agt's action at Jfawabguuge,
aud i lie recapture of (jwaiur bv Sir Hugh Kose,
active operations on any considerable sca.e seem to
have Queue to an end. whether owing l. the rainy
season, now ge,'ief!!v set in throughout luaia, T
to the exhaustion and (V-pres.-ion ot the mutineers
and rebels. Eor tiie mat time, 1 think, since the
commencement of tiie insurrection, s mail leaves
Bombay without tioiugs rt a single treat; engage
ment—if I except a little tight ot which 1 have this
moment heard as having taken place on the .9th be
tween Uaureys Sikhs and some of the Jugaeepore
rabble at a cum called Kustna, with the usual re
mit to the latter.’
An amnesty, similar v. u.sf declared in Oude,
had ben;; promulgated iu and Central
luaia.
Three t • Inter.
tu£ rxcigie,
bT. JoHNt. N. F.j ftept. C.—The new .-doaznship
Pacific, ot the Galway a,id New York Line, arrived
at this port at eight o clock morning.
The Pacific left Galway at i a. AC.. August Hoth.
sue had strong westerly gaits during the whole pas
sage, and put in here in consequence of tbe derange
ment of an .lr pump.
The news o’ not very important, though interest
ing Cottou was itghtly firmer, but not qu tably
higher, and ail other a; 1.i:,..s of merchandise were
steady.
i. ottsols were quoted on tue ShsJ at . ‘‘of for
K in tiirney and account.
A despaich from Cadix in the Loudon papers says .
the L'. s'i ervo.ic Preble, which has been cut ou a
voyage ,r instructions, left that port for home on
the sixteenth ot Augu"i
The American barn Champion, arrived at Gi
bra.tv August Pith, having on board Mrs. S'an
but k. tbe widow of the C. S. Consul o. that ta.ni
who was recently murdered by the Turks at .‘ada.
together with her family.
Tue Messages which recently passed between the
tauten erf Kcgiutd and President Pnebanan over
ae wire* of the Ocean Telegraph cable were pub
lished in the London papers of thet-M3i Art-:., r—.l
exerted some eoaunent, e!>ciajly the despatch of
Mr Buchanan
The Dathr News says there is mwsof siicple
diguity in trie c-u.-ea's Message, but great gtgsp of
thought in the President's response, with perhaps e
fissb of ambitious atter effect, i’-e Mews
says also that it would have liver, better for the
President to have omit'ed the las’ paragraph.
The Loudon Times bclieveathat tbe Ocean Tele
graph will be the guarantee of perpetual peace be
tv,sen the two countries
P'KCNk c -~TL- Emperor and Empress returned
to S:. Cloud s* the evening of tile cl eh, from thtir
tour in Britaay. ... ~
1: , jitivelv acncuureu 1-ii u ticks de .Jx
.aketi’ > i. on'marry a near relative of t-e h,m
----? T Hsl-rnbeidment of Jeddah is said to have ta
k-u 1,. k'sLch Government quite by surpnse. and
cwc’ - .-me uneasitmss in Paris. But explana
.is sr iefc f.te made to Gen. Peliss.er m Lmdon
’ . fjri ish Government were considered sat is
.act wy. sad the Boeasinees subsided.
1 ce’ reported aaiaigsm&tion ol the Lredtt llobi
“er W ith the Back of M de St. Paul ie tally contra
dieted. . , ,
Austria. — The ot Aa*r,a was safely de
livered *fa Prince ou the —lst of Ayirasi
pßt ssi a. —The rumor is gainiu* *nm r * d ttat the
definitive abdeoation of the King of Prussia had
become absolutely necessary. Ilia disease is £et
ling worse. Ttere are some fears that the event
will brieg oa a itieai crisia
Spain —The Spanish Government has announced
a decree that ail Merchant vessels. wn*Kher native
or foreign, shall pay Light house duties only once.
Government has also resolved to ctlengthen con
siderably tue for? fieatione at Ma. m the Belea
Lies, and likewise to increase tie Gsrrbon there.
China.—The China despatch, announcing the
trt&iy of peace, as sent out to this country by the
t’ce&a Gable and also by the steamer Africa, etil!
cot tirinatiou. but wag generally cred
111 Europe. It reached the French government
through ns ambaasy at St. Petersburg, where it ar
r “and, bviigdatrc TivcSien, June J7th
in England Wtt ks later than the dates received
The Crockt Frintw the hot weuther u im
pr .vic - tne movement* us laxy negroe* iaTexa*.-
On cf the luzieC croeeed the iarniv .tree: the other
dey on s run. exclaiming. “Fore de Lor, de groun
K> warm he bite die Digger** foot clean through.*’
Oestrurtlon •! th- tfußi-nntine Hirildiog- nt
New Vorh—Kweilin* Scenes.
New York papers of Thursday and Friday, con
tain ieng hy reports of tbe burning of the Quaran
tine buildings on Staten Island, on Wednesday aud
Thursday nights last, by an excited mob. For a
long time the citizens of the Island (which has been
rapidly increasing in population during the last few
years) have been violently oppoeed to having the
old quarantine establishment in their immediate
vicinity, and numerous threats have from time to
time been made to bum it down. The recent spread
of yellow fever outside of the quarantine walls, has
it appears, at last induced them to carry oat their
threats. The Courier 4- En/jvirerof Friday morn
ing says:
The destruction of the Quarantine building? on
W*ednes .ay night, caused the most intense excite
ment in the city during yesterday, and notwith
standing the auauy ot Yellow I* ever at the
Quarantine, a gieat number congregated around
tt:e landing through the day. talking over the fire
and the ULfortun&te f ok who were huddled togeth
er in the eld stone builcing. (the St Nicholas. . From
what facts our reporter was enabled to learn, it ap
pears that about half past nine o'clock tbe inmate,
of the Quarantine grounds were aroused by the
cries of ere, and it was soon found that the old
emai'-pox hospital, at the northern end of the ground,
was on fire. One of tbe night watch, on repairing
to the place, discovered about two hundred person?
knocking sway the western wall and trying to get
iu. At this time he aiso discovered that several
straw beds had been gathered together and placed
under the r tazza and set on fire. lfr. Thomson, tbe
Health Officer, was soon made aware of the tacts,
and he instantly had ail tne stevedores arouaed,
about fifty in number, but they did not dare to
make any resistance with the crowd . as they Boon
numbered over one thousand. Hr. Miiier repaired,
with bis gun. o where the mob were, and remon
strated with them, but ali to no no purpose; they
knocked him down and drove him away.
Soon after the Small pox Hospital was in tiames,
which by the way was unoccupied, the sick having
bfeen removed to the small shanties, below so that
the building could be re-fitted and repaired. The
mob next turned their attention to the shanties ex
tending along tbe western line, about ten in .num
ber. Iu these buildings were about sixty sick iu
all, among them tbe yellow fever aud small pox pa
tients The mob however carried them all out; a
distance of about two hundred feet from the build
ings, aud then procuring a number of straw beds,
set fire to them and threw them into the shanties
These bt-ildtugß were very shortly burned to Ihe
ground, together with their contents.
The mob next visited Hr. Thompson's residence.
The family were ordered to leave the house; and
Mrs. Thompson, who was sick at the time, had to
be removed in a chair to the residence of Mr. Foun
tains, a neighbor outside tbe wails. Dr. Thompson
was enabled to save some of his books and furni
ture, but was finally driven from the building by the
flames AU the other houses were destroyed, tho
stable, the dead house, the carriage house, the of
fice. and the coal yard, containing tiOO tons of coal,
all received the same fate at the hands ot the riot
ers The baggage house, containing a large amount
cf unclaimed baggage, with its contents, was de
stroyed.
The only building saved was tiie iarge stone hos
pital. used for tue female portion of the inmates,
called the St. Nicholas. This building was used for
fever cases, and it is here all the patients are now
huddled together.
During the excitement, a mau named Frank Ma
thews was accidentally shot iu the back with buck
shot. He was brought to the city in the morning,
but his recovery isciusidered doubtful.
Many of the sick who were carried out by the
mob were exposed to the night air, and broiling sun
until nearly noon on Thursday, there being no place
to put them, it is said that a woman, sick with
the small pox, was seen lying near the stone wall
suffering under the hot rays o£j.he sun, with nothing
but a small piece of canvas over her. Two men
sick with th ; yellow fever, one dying, were allowed
to lay in a helpless state on the grass for a long’ time
durii g'he day. Dr. Thompson, Dr. Walser, and
Dr. B.ssell, however, done everything in their pow
er to make the sick as comfortable as they possibly
could uuder the circumstances.
During the burning of the etablee, tbe mob found
tbe dead cart and a wagon standing in the enclo
sure ; they took them and ran them into tbe burn
ing tiames, both of them beiDg destroyed. It is re
ported that a meeting was held on Wednesday
noon, by a number of the resident? of Staten Island,
when it was decided to tire build-
ings.
Kay Tompkins, Chief of the Fire Police, Btates
that the buildings were set ott fire purposely, iu
the afternoon, it is said, the following advertisement
was circulated by the Castletou Board of Health,
and posted up, and no doubt roused the people to
action ;
Extract from the Minutes of the Board of Health of
the Town of Caslieton , Richmond County :
Resolved , That tl.e whole Quarautine establish
ment, located as it is in the midst of a dense popu
lation, has become a pest and a nuisance of the most
odious character, bringing death an desolation to the
very doors of the people of Castleton and South
firfd.
Resolved , That it is a nuisance too intolerable to
be borne by the eitizeus of these towns any longer.
Resolved, That this Board recommends the citi
zens of this county to protect themselveß by abating
this abominable nuisance without delay.
(S gned) K. Christopher, Chairman.
A. W. Boyce, Secretary.
September Ist, IBnB.
We subjoin the following statements as throwing
some light upon the nature of the whole proceed
ings
Statement of Mu. Kat Tompkins, Captain of
the Fire Police.— l reside on the hill. When i
went down to the gate I had ray tire cap on, and
they would not let us in. The church bell at this
time was ringing. They looked the gate and re
fused admission. I was then toid that there was a
hole made in the wail near the n< rth side, and I be
lieve in t lie course cf half an hour three other holes
were made by Ihe engine companies to gain admit
tance. One of the engine companies went in with
their machine, when their hose was ail cut, and
‘therefore could not play on tbe building. The first
build! g set ou tire was a shanty, where there were
no sick ; the next was what i believed to be the
smallpox hospital; the next another shanty ; then
the barns belonging to the Quarautine, then the
carpontei s shop and wash-house, down iu the hol
low. Then the big building known as the St. Nicho
las, which used to be the yellow fever hospital
when 1 was a boy. Alter that Dr. Thompson's
dwelling. Then there was a rush to burn down the
big building (the only one remaining.)
Dr. Wr.lsar came t> me aud said, “they want to
burn'his down.” I replied. “ 1 will protect it with
my life.” I told both Drs. Bissel and Walsar that l
would not put water upon any building here, but
would protect that one with my life, as there were
sick in it. I wa? theu informed that there were
some sick in one of the shanties that were burning,
and I supposed that all the sick had been removed.
I went into one and found a sick man iu bed. It
‘.adjust commenced to ignite. I called to the men,
“ Here’s a sick man ; won’t you take hint out?”
Their cry was “ yellow fever,” I said, “can’t you
find one tnar. that will come with me and assist me
to remove him A mau from New Brighton,
whose name 1 do not know, ran with me into the
shanty. Locking our hands under him, we brought
him safely out. That shanty was afterwards burn?
ed down. No life was lost that 1 know of, except a
stevedore, a Swede, who was shot by one of the
Quarantine employees. Ido no! know whether be
is yet dead or nut. Dr. Walsar performed his duty
fearfuhy andfaitsiftrly. He was there with a mus
ket and a bayonet upon it.
Tiie crowd of people gathered round him and one
mgn dared him, and ivnilst the Doctor presented a
bayonet to los breast, saying, “If you shoot I will
shoot.” 1 tapped the Doctor ou the shoulder and
said, “Judgment. ’ lie vast excited, of course, aud
was fearless. He turned to me and showed me the
musket. It was not loaded, capped, ror locked,
but there was a bayonet upon it. Shortly alter
ward there was a cry that Pat O'Hara was arrested.
I told Dr. Walsar—“For Clod's sake, to let him
out”—at this time there were a hundred men press
ing upon him. “Di. Walsar, you see how it is ; for
peace uike, let O Hara our.” We then went to the
fail and he permitted O'Hara to leave. 1 brought
O'Hara with ms aud showed hitfl to the mass of
‘ people, who took him on their shoulders and were
satisfied. 1 then heard that Dr. Bissell was being
murdered. I rushed to the crowd aud forced my
way in, when one of them shewed mo the barrel of
a gun without any stock on it, crying, “D—a the
b—h, he pointed that at me.” I thought he was
do. it „n ‘he ground, and having lotced my way iu
found lie was go’ there.
I asked two or three oi the men where Dr. Bis
sel was and they replied that he wup. gone in safety.
Tbere were then cries ot “save the buildings,”
(meaning the only one standing.) which l knew
on art to destroy it. I told them “For (I,id's sake
boys, the sick are there—don’t touch it.” When I
heard the cries to save Dr. Thompson’s house,
which I knew only meant to destroy it, I said, “Will
you let me go there first 7” and 1 went there aud
u>“! the Doctor's coachman, as 1 believed. I asked
for Dr. Thotnuson. saying, “1 have come here to
save him, tell me, iu he here 7 they are going to
burn this building down and nothing will prevent
them.” He (the coachman) replied, “Mr. Thomp
son pud his family were here, but they went out at
the back gate when t e fire broke ou'. and are gone
to Port K chmond. ilts carriages are gone and his
horses are gone, and if you don't believe me come
to the stables.” I went to the stables and there
were tig horses tbere, and that satisfied me that the
Dr. was eate. i found several papers of Dr. Thomp
son's in bundles, which I gave iu care'of parties,
and have given orders for their safe return to the
Doctor.
The Commercial Advertiser of Friday says :
The bui'.a.ug; “Lji! remaining yesterday morning
were the females’ no?pi>al, which is the structure
nearest the landing place occupying about 4i|o feet
frontage, the houses inhabited by Doctors Bissell
and Walser. six boatmen’s houses, the barge office
i dock, the revenue department office, the gov-
I erntnen; pgb.'ic store, and suudry smaller otf-build-
during yesterday the inceuniar.cs publicly pro
claimed their purpose of destroying these efeitions
ah:. To save the sick and helpless inmates of the
remaining tiosp:tal a ship wes moored otf the pub. c
store dock tor their leeurgion. Tue immense body
of coal which the mob had iguitvd vave out such
hea* yesterday that the neighborhood wui almost
unapia-oacjiable. A universal excitement and geu
eral'cesss.tior. from business prevailed, and last
evening at about liaif-psst S a meeting was held at
Nautilus Hall in pursuance ot r’s following notice
issued without signature
“A meeting of the citizens of Richmond county
wl'd be held at Nautilus Hall. Tompkmsville, this
eveuu* September 2. at TJ o'clock, for the purpose
of making getnents to celebrate the burning
of the scxnties x_J .hospitals at the quarantine
ground art evening, anu to tr.V-Siot such other bu
siness as may cotne before the meetutg.
The meeting was attended by about two hundred
persons, and the following resolutions were read
ana a.opted by acclamation.
HVoro*. srii governments are founded on the
wants, and created ii ,he protection of the lives
and property ot the citizens of sain governments,
and whereas it is the duty of all good government, i
toproviciu for the equal taxation of its citizens—
that each and every man, and all cotnmnnities
.bor’d share alike the toils and ourdens as well as
the advantages of a good govercmeGt, and whereas,
tb people of this county have long and patiently
ai/TUtr i-'.l* hardens not only of their own community
but cave aiso ewi U> bear the burdens of harboring
all the pLi thentiai diseases of the worid which have
toncent■. xkled at the port cf *>ew xori*. for o\er bait
a century -nd wlk-h Las been sr.nuauy .spread
broadcast at or.a’s very do aiid therefore
iog death and de sjlation aaumg uj; auc*.
HTttvray, We have repeatedly importuned ana
beseechingly prayed for legislative aid without get
ting any relief, even tbejSbadow of a hope from that
uarter; therefore,
Beso.'-id, That this meeting tenders their sincere
thanks to C&;'tietc*n Board of Health for author
iz’ng the citizens of ihii county to abate the nai
riauce without delay.
Rewired* That we fully believe that they inai will
nor help then selves shall have help from nobody.
£t> r and, That we all determine to protect our
live* a! all hazards.
ReiJ'ired, That this meeting unacimcuily tenter
their sincere thanks n, Mr. C>tus W. Fiid forcom
pletfiag an Atlantic telegraph <:-ahle of such im
mcEse powers tEa:. in c<vey:ug the .otrks of
eWtrictty with such force, the superabundance
lheroi.il ihould exptede in the right time, anti in the
right p'acw, agtopg the quarantine bui.a.ugs.
A’’.v rfg.Tnat with a view to the accommodation
ol the skipping .nterest of the p,trr of New kork.
who oeeire that their ships shall be under them eyes
anti cur noses, provision be made Tr to ir accom
modation a-d especially Sli. Chanes 11. MarehsU.
V.. W Tnat weckeenu.lv recommena to toe
CommisSionete of Health and Emigiation to secure
the Battery for ‘he purpose of locating a quaranane
eetabiishment there, that it may be under their im
mediate supervision. ...
Rtsolved, i .at each and every one of as wd con
tribute liberally towards the expense of erecung
suitable baud ngs there, that New \ork city may
store her pestilential importations on her own pre-
Thcse resolutions were introduced by Mr. John
C. Thompson, of the Staten island Ferry Company,
and he and four others we appointed a committee
to devise & suitable ct-iebration of the lacenfl’tfisfl.
At about 9 o'clock there was again an alarm of
fire, but it died away. Bu: soon after 10 o clock,
parties with torches and bundles of hay moved up
the street, followed by an immense crowd. They
entered in succession the block of cottages oecu ‘• t
pied by the health officer's boatmen, at the West ■
end of tbe quarantine enclosure, and pulling down
banisters, raffs, shutters. &c.. piled them on the 1
floor, combining hay with the mass, and burned
them all to the ground amid shouts of approval and
laughter. Next tbe reckless and maddened mob at
tacked the house of the assi-tant health officer. Dr.
Waller, who had moved his furnirure out during
the afternoon. The same proceedings, with the
same result, were enacted there, as also at the resi
dence of Dr. Bissell, the resident physician. At 12
o'clock, the remaining hospi’al. before alluded to as
near the entrance gate, in which were a large num
ber of helpless sick, some of them dying, was deli
berately set on fire, the rick having been taken out
and deposited in the open air upon the ground be
tween two fires—those of tbe hospital aud Dr. Bis
sels’ residence. The custom bouse, on the wharf,
was the only property belonging to the United
States that was burned. The iktat house and the
wash house were the last fired. These were totally
destroyed.
We visited the scene of this unpara ieled outrage
and inhumanity this mominr. The sight was truly
painful. The poor sufferers were lying on the
grass to the number of thirty or forty, and others
were bare y able to walk about. Those who were
taken out in their beds, were still without any shel
ter and some appeared to be in a dying condition.
I: was impossible not to shudder ar such evidences
of the cruelty of a ‘lawless, excited mob.
We were informed by several persons that Dr. i
Walrer brought out some of the sick on his back,
and placed them in as comfortable condition as the
means at his disposal admitted.
The latest intelligence we have is a dispatch,
dated
Quarantine, Staten Island. Sept. 3.—A steam
boat has arrived from New York with lUO police
men and a six pounder, aud tents for tbe eick,s’xty
in number, who are now in the open air exposed to
a drenching rain ! The Second Assistant Engineer
of the steamer Philadelphia Jays dead of yellow
fever, and three sick men from the ship Liberty
from New Orleans, are now laying on the pier, there
being no sheler for them. The Harbor Police force
came down to the Island this evening to protect the
shipping, as it was rumored that incendiaries in
tended to destroy them. The inhabitants of the
infected district have been notified to remove their
effects, as their dwellings would be tired to-night.
The present high wind the safety of the village will
be endangered, if the threat is carried out. Dr.
Thompson is here, and with Drs. Walser, Bissell,
and other assistants, are doing ali in their power to
provide for the sick aud re organize the establish
ment. The rain is now pouring dowD, and there is
no shelter for the sick.
The Blood.
Blackwood’s Magazine for June contains a paper
upon the life current of the human system, embo
dying many facts, which, however familiar to an
thropologists, may be instructive to the common
mind. We quote some of the most interesting state
ments made by the author of the contribution in ques
tion;
“The blood is described as a torreut impetuously
rushing through every part of the body, catried by
an elaborate network of vessels, which, in tbe course
of twelve months, convey in the various tissues
not less thau three thuueand pouuds weight of nu
tritive material, and convey from the various tis
sues not less than three thousand pounds of waste.
At every moment of our lives there are nearly- ten
pound of this fluid rushing in one continuous throb
bing stream, from the heart througu the great, arte
ries, which branch and oranch, like a tree, the ves
sels becoming smaller, as they are subdivided, tilt
they are invisible to the Eaked eye, and then they
are called capilaries, (hair-like veasels,) although
they are no more to be compared iu calibre wi;h
hairs than hairs are with cables. These vessels
foim a network finer than the finest face—so line,
indeed, that if tve pierce the surface at almost any
part with the point of a needle, we open one of them
and let out its blood. In these vessels the blood
y ields some of its nutrient materia 1 , and receives in
exchange some of the wasted products of tissues.—
Thus modified, the stream continues irs rapid course
backward to the heart through a system of veins
which commence iu myriad capilaries. that form the
termination of the arteries. The veins, instead of
subsiding like the arteries, become gradually less
and less numerous, their twigs entering branches,
and the branches trunks, till they reach the heart!
No sooner has the blood poured into the heart troni
the veins, than it rushes through the lungs, and
from them back again to the heart and arteries, and
thus completing the circle and circulation.
This wonderous stream, ceaselessly circulating,
occupies the very centre of the vital organism, mid
way between the functions of nutrition aud the
functions of exertion, feeding and stimulating the
organs into activity, and removing from them all
their useless material. In its torrent upward of
forty different substances are carried along ; it car
ries gasses, it carries salts—it even carries metals
and suapß. Milhous of organized cells float in its
liquid; aud cf the cells, which by some are consid
ered to he organic entities, twenty millions are said
to die at every pulse of the heart, to be replaced
by other millions. The iron which it washes on
ward can be separated. Prolessor Berrard used to
exhibit a lump of it in his lecture room, nay, one
ingenious F'renchmau has suggested that veins
should be struck from the metal extracted from the
blood of great men. Let no one suggest that we
should wash our hands with thesoap extracted from
a similar source.
The blood, instead of being red, is of a yellowish
red color, and has, in solution, many “floating
soids,” known as blood discs and corpuscles.—
These were first discovered in lfisß, but the first
accurate knowledge of them dates from 1C73, aud
is due to Leweuburg. The corpuscles are not
numerous iu healthy human blood, and play but a
secondary part, unless they are the stage of the red
disca.
The constituents of the blood are stated to be
water, 764 parts out of a thousand; albumen 70, and
fibrine 2 20. The remaining elements are chiefly
fat, containing phosphorous, iron, with various
other substances. The blood of no two men is pre
cisely similar iu disease to what it is in health, or
at different epochs of life. The iron which circu
lates iu tiie veins of the embryo is more abundant
1 han the iron in the veins of the mother; and tins
quantity declines after birth, to augment again at
puberty. The fats vary iu different individuals
from 14 to 33 in 1000. The cells vary with the
varyiDg health. Tue albumen fluctuates from 60
to 70, parts ill 1,000, the proportion being greater
during digestion. Tbe fibrine, usually amount
ing to about 3 iu 1,000 may arise to 7J, or fall as
low as 1.
There are two descriptions of l-lood in circulation
in every human being—venous aud arterial blood,
the former being dark purple, the lat'er bright scar
let. H'venomous blood be injected into the arte
ries going to the brain, it produced syncope aud
dea’h. Yet arterial bleed thus injected will revive
an animal suffering from loss of blood. Between
the two fluids, therefore a profound and fferenee ex
ists, and yet the venous blood has only to pass
through the ungs in an almospheie not overcharged
with carbonic acid, and at once it becomes trans
formed into a nutrieut, sustaining fluid.
Arterial blood is everywhere the same; it is one
stream a perpetually flowing offi-ito smaller streams,
but always the same fluid m lls minuest rill as in its
largest currents. Not so venous blood. That is a
coutlueuce of many currents, each oue bringing with
it something fr om the eoil in which it arises, the
streams issuing out of the nervous centres, the
blood which hurry out of the liver. The wuste of
the organs has to be carried away by the vessel? of
the organ?. Wonderously does the complex ma
chine work its many purposes; the roariug loom of
life is for a moment still.
The arnouut of blood in the human frame is vari
ously stated. If we say teu pouuds for an adult
healthy man, we shall probably be aa near the mark
as possible The quantity however, necessari y
varies iu different persons, and seems, from seme
calculations to be greater tlim in men. In the seal
iis quauth yis enormous, surpassing that of all oth
er animals, man included.’
Death of George. Combe, the PHREsonooisT.
—George Combe, the great champinu of Philos,pptfl
cal phrenology, and author of “ The Constitution
of Man,” a work exceeded in cirtulaiioD, it is said,
by only three others iu tbe language—the Bible,
Bunyan’s Pilgrim's Progress and liobinson Crusoe
—died at the hydropathio institution at Moor Park,
Surrey, Knglaud, on the lfrh of August. The de
ceased was born iu Eainbuigh in 1788, where he
has always resided, lie was educated for the lasv,
became a writer to the signet, as the Scotch attor
neys are called, and practiced for twenty years.—
The opinions of Gal! and Spurzheim attracted his
notice: he studied teem, and being convinced
that they had a basis iu nature, he puretted the sub
ject, and in 181!) published his observatious in “ Es
says on Phrenology,” uuder ihe title of “ A System
of Phrenology,” in two volumes. He aud others
founded the Phreuologieal Journal, which was af
terwards conducted by his relative, Mr. Cox. In
IBUB he published “The Constituliou of Man, Con
sidered m Relation to External Objects.” ‘ihis at
tracted great attention, aud a Mr. Henderson
thought so highly of it that he subsequently be
queathed a sum of money to be expended in the
production of a very cheap edition of the book.—
The novelty of the circumstance drew to tbe sub
ject an additional amount of attention; the cheap
edition sold almost without precedent, fi11,5611 co
pies of it having been printed in Great Britain, be
sides large sales in the United States. Translations
have also been made into German, French and Swe
dish.
In 1833 George Combe married Miss Cecelia Sid
dous. Four or five years after he quitted the prac
tice of his profession, and in 1838 went, accompa
nied by Mrs. Combe, to the United States, where
he remained, lecturing and preparing his journal,
till IS4D. Dr. Spurzheim had visited the United
States in 1832, and died there in a few months; and
the disciples he had obtained, wishing for another
master, invited George Combe to visit and lecture
to them. The years after his return were varied by
couticential journeys, too often rendered necessary
fry tailing Li rith. i’be latter period of hi? life was
that of very infirm health—the result, as he believ
ed, of the early adverse influence which turned his
own and his brother’s attention so strongly to sani
tary subjects.
Journalism.—The press of New Ycrk is one of
it; institutions. It is recognized as an element of
great power in the social economy of that metro
pto’.iri. It has done as much, if not more, than any
other means to build that city up, and make it the
central seat of commercial and financial influence
on this continent. Tbe New Yorkers understand
very w e 'A why their journalism is so potential.
They know that a newspaper press can no more be
come eminent iu general excellence and efficiency
wi hout the pecuniary income required to meet its
enormous expenses, than a huge machine can be
operated without adequate motive power. They
have, therefore, done a!; that was necessary to be
done for their ten or more leading daily journals, by
giving Jhern a liberal and steady support —a
munificent and unfailing revenue from advertising.
The press, in its turn, has been at once enabled and
encouraged to do the city of New York with all its
LUwitipi’ed and varied interests, a kind and amount
ot service whloh has repaid, a million times over,
the iee&i patronage it Lad received. When will
the people of other cities—and merchants and
manufacturers especially—learn that it is tbe busi
ness of a community that sustains its journalism,
and that, just in the proportion as it is so upheld
mi fostered, ;e a daily press useful and in
fluential, at horn© am abroad .* The superiority of
hat of London and New York lies in ihe greater
money power at command, and that greater money
power is derived from advertisers exclusively
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
A Graceful Souvenir —When Queen Victoria
was at Gravesend. England, on her way to Bexlin
to visit her daughter, on board the royal yacht, a
graoefnl and affectionate souvenir was banded
to her Me-seVy— ** offering to the princess Frede
rick William from firry-eight young ladies who
strewed flowers under the young bride’s feet on the
occasion ot her departure from Gravesend. This
consisted of a shee: of vellum, on which was ex
quisitely painted a large true-lover’e knot, with the
mottoes “Eugland’s fairest rose, may every happi
ness attend thee,” and in German, “We trust cur
treasure to thee with the 1 greatest confidence.”—
This was enclosed in a beautiful wreath of roses,
entwiiiou ice Prussian corn-flower, the fillets
which bound them together being un-cribed with
the names of the young ladies who presented it.—
Tue whole was richly framed, aua enclosed in a
very large morocco case, mounted and enriched
witn chased silver. On the w ■’-. it was certainly
one of the most graceful and executed souve
nir* wa have yet seen. There was some doubt as
to whether her Majesty conld be asked to take
charge of this to her daughter, but whatever
doubt* existed were set at rest the instant the case
came ou board. Her Majesty examined it with evi
dent gratification, showed it to the Prince consort,
and then took charge of it herself, by locking the
■ a--e ana patting tue key in her pocket.
A Wotosktcl Insect. —Professor Adams, of
Amsterdam College, was a great entomologist.—
gome wicked students thought to quiz the old gen
tleman. and, after much care aud labor, succeeded
in mauafsc uriug a nondescript insect, by takirig
the body of a beetle and glueing it to t£e leg? of a
grasshopper, the wings of a butteitiy, and the horns
of a dragon fly. With this new style of a bug, they
proceeded to the study of the Professor, and told
him that one ot their Lumber had found a strange
animal, which they were unable to classify, and re
quested him to aid them in denning its position.—
The Professor put on bis spectacles, and after ex
amining tbe insect carefully, said, “Well young
gentlemen, thi- is a curious bag ; I am inclined to
think it is what naturalists call a humbug. ’
WEEKLY
C|nmkJc tic
AUGUSTA. GA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT. S, Is5S.
1 foR interesting Commercial and othi ; r ItUlii
gen ce, see Third and Fourth pages.
Catawba Grapes.
M R. Alfred Baker sent us. yesterday, a basket
of the fiae3t Catawba Grape3 we have seen this
seat! in, grown upon hi? place on the Sand Hills.
T his delicious variety of the Grape is, in our opinion,
superior to all others in richness and delicacy of
flavor, and we are pleased to learn that it is becom
ing extensively cultivated. Every oue who has a
home in town or country, with a nod of ground to
spare, should plant a grape vine. We learn that
Mr. B. intends devoting the bountiful produce of his
vines to the manufacture of Catawba wine, fir his
j own use. We tender our thanks for the acceptable
I favor sent us.
Wholesale Dry Goods House.
The attention of merchants in the interior, ir
particularly invited to the advertisement of Messrs
Jackson, Miller k Yerdery, in another column.
The firm is one of long BtandiDg and popularity,
and we are assured that they are prepared to offer
every inducement to buyers to make their purcha
ses without going farther than Augusta. Within
the last few days they have been receiving and
opening an unusually large supply of Dry Good? of
various descriptions, indicating, what we believe is
the opinion of our merchants generally, that an ae j
tive business season is in prospect. Their stock o f
goods for men s wear embraces everything from
tiie commonest Kerseys to Ihe finest Cloths, while
their assortment of prints and the staple articles of
Fancy Goods are unsurpassed. It would certainly
be to the interest of our friends iu the interior to
give ti e house a call before going farth r.
Italy.
Mr. Gumming, Agent ot the well known pub.
lishing house ot Blackie & Son, handed us, some
days ago, parts eleven and twelve of this splendidly
illustrated work, to which he ha? obtained a num
ber ot subscribers in this city. We have previously
called attention to the beauty aud superior style of
this work, and it is useless for us to do so again.—
We are pleased to learu that Mr. C. meets with
encouraging success in his efforts to obtain sub
scribers to tbe various works he has offered to the
public, aa it evinces a refined and cultivated taste
on the part of our cit izens.
Pears and Pear Culture.
We are indebted to Andrew M. McDade, for ft
very large Pear, of a variety unknown to ua. Our
people are beginning to know that Pears will “grow
in the South;” and we are glad to perceive that
the culture of the finer kinds is uaily receiving more
a'tention. One amateur iu this neighborhood (Br.
Berckmans,) has over len thousand trees growing,
and considers that number as only the beginning of
his orchard. We have not the slightest doubt that
all who plaut aud properly cultivate tie Pear, will
be amply rewarded, as this fruit bears transporta
tion bettor thau almost any other, and always com
mands a very high price in the large cities of the
North. We notice a late sale of a lot from the or
chard of our friend R. Peters, Esq., of Atlanta, at
the handsome price of $1.50 per dozen, or 12£ cents
each, in the New York market; and we have seen
the very finest specimens sold in Boston at over
twice this rate. So we advise all who have a taste
for pomology, not to neglect the Pear any longer
from the belief that it will not succeed. The most
experienced judges are of the opinion that the cli
mate of the South is more favorable thau any other;
and from all that we have seen, wo incline to the
same opinion.
A late work on “Pear Culture/’ by Thomas W.
Field, Esq., of New York, contains much valua
ble information, ana may, we believe, be obtained
from Geo. A. Oates & Bro.
Acquitted.
Eugene O’Conner, charged with the murder of
his wife by poison some time in July last, and who
has been Jor some days past undergoing an exami
nation before the Magnate's Court, was on the
30th ult. acquitted.
Fire Alarm. —The chimney of the ki;e’ < •I
tached to the residence of Wm. H. Crane, oj K v I
uolds street, took fire last evening, causing a v*.-r> !
general alarm, though the bells were not rung. Jt'h*
wind was very high at the time, but. fortunately,
the fiames were not communicated to any of the
surrounding buildings.
Fine Peaches.
Mr. LaTaste sent us yesterday a sample of very
fine peaches, from the orchard of Mr. Harry
Camp, Covington Ga., called “Nix’s Early Peach.”
They are of large size and excellent flavor
and are put up in a novel manner to secure them
against bruising by transportation, and to prevent
their rotting, though how long they will keep we
are not informed. They are for sale at Mr. La-
Taste’s Drug Store.
Russells Magazine. —We are indebted to the
publishers for a copy of the September number of
this welcome visitor—the closing number of the
third semi-annual volume. “Kussell” looks as though
it was flourishing. We sincerely hope it is, and
that it may now be considered one of the “institu
tions” of the South. Its merits certainly deserve it.
The present number embraces articles of history,
biography, fiction, poetry, reviews, &c., which can
not fail to prove interesting.
Freight from Charleston to New-Yokk. —ln
consequence of the rigid quarantine at New-York
the Charleston aud New-York steamships have been
compelled to raise the price for the carriage Os
freight. The advanced rates are to commence with
the Nashville on Saturday next, aud will be twelve
cents per foot for dry goods, ten cents for hats and
shoes, and other goods in proportion.
Health of Charleston.
The official report of the number of deaths in
Charleston for the week ending Saturday last, shows
102—73 of which were from yellow fever, showing
an increase of 31 over the previous week. Os the
deaths from yellow fever, 01 were white adults, 11
white children, and one colored child.
Yellow Fever at New Orleans.—The Board
of Health report eighty-five deaths from yellow
fever for the twenty-four hours ending at noon on
Thursday.
Yellow Fever Reports. —The Savannah Re
publican o! Friday says : We were shown, by a
factor, yesterday, a letter from a planter at Law
tonville,S. C., stating that he had intended sending
some cotton to Savannah but had heard that the
yellow lever was raging here to such as extent that
no one could be got to attend to it. We have re
peatedly denied the existence of the fever here
and do so now most positively and emphatically.—
The report of interments, in the Republican yester
day morning, ought to satisfy any reasonable man
of the health of our city, out of twenty deaths ten
are of children. The corresponding week last year
there were twenty-one deaths, and yet no one called
the city unhealthy. Persons who will circulate such
unmitigated lies, deserve to he held up to the scorn
of the community. We hope that every one of our
citizens writing from the city, will take the trouble
to deny this repot t.
New Cotton. —The following are the receipts of
new cotton at various points up to the latest dates
received; Mobile DIO bales; Montgomery -V>7 ; Sa
vannah 533; Augusta 31)0; Albany 235; Charleston
62 bales.
New Cotton. —The total receipts of new cotton
at New Orleans to Ist September was 5,235 bales.
Mt. Vernon in the F’orests. — A letter from
David V. Whiting, Esq , poetmaster at Santa Fe,
New Mexico, states that he has collected—in that
far eff town—the sum of SSO, for the Mount Vernon
cause. The Association seems to have its “knights”
everywhere, and very energetic ones, too, if we
take Mr. Whiting as a sample.
Grain Movements.—Over 15,000 bushels wheat
were shipped from Bristol, Tenn., to eastern mar’
kets, over the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad last
week, of which 3,000 bushels arrived in Bristol m
Wagons. About 1,000 bushels of com were receiv
ed in Norfolk, Va , Friday, over the Norfolk and
Petersburg Railroad.
Vocalist Dead.—Miss Anna Vail, the young
American vocalist, died at Memphis. Tenn., ~ f v
days since of yellow fever.— Rich. Dispatch.
We have seen no announcement of the dta b o:
Miss Vail in the Memphis papers.
The New York Heraldot Thursday morning h ,
contains nearly five entire pages —twenty-eight and
a half columns— of the Atiant ic Telegraph ceietra
tion on Wednesday.
Great Morta: itt or Board a Coolie Ship.—
The brig Lady Chapman arrived at Philadelphia
on Wednesday, with Bermuda dates to the 17th
The ship Saisette had arrived at Trinidad from
China with a cargo of Coolie emigrants, of whom
120 died on the passage. A smart shock of earth
quake was feit at St. Kitts on the 18th of July.
The Printing Press.—The London Herald, in
an article oa the Atlantic Telegraph, pronounces it
‘•the second greatest sea, in ihe history of mechani
cal progress connected with the furtherance of
civilization.” Tne first place it gives to “the in
vention of printing, and sympathising as much as
possible with the tendency of every generation to
exaggerate the events of its own time, it yet seems
difficult to deny the superior claims of the printing
praesJ’
Nzna SiEia —This arch Send of the India re
bellion ic said to be so effectually concealed that
nobody can guess where he is to be found. The re
beiiion is now believed to be at an end, few of tbe
popular chiefs art larg-.. and none in command of
any military post or city, but the cruel and crafty
miscreant who was the instigator of the worst
scenes of the rebellion, has escaped that justice
which has overtaken others less criminal than him
self.
Usiqi'E Musical Entep.tainment.-Tbe London
papers report teat Giulia Grisi is advertised to sing
at N'euilly, France, on the river Seine. Two hun
dred wherries are to float around her, and the sum
mer eveni g is to close on a musical festival unique
in its arrangements; the instrumental orchestra Is
to glide along the stream, the oars are to keep
time.
Child Poisoned.—A child was poisoned a few
days ago, iniChampion, Ohio, from eating a small
piece of cobalt or fly stone, which hatkbeen placed
on a table for the purpose of destroying flies. Great
caution should be observed in tbe use of such poi
sonous drugs.
Suspension of the Soul hern Hunk of'Ten
nessee.
I Memphis papers of Thursday last contain the
j au nouncement of the suspension of the Southern
i Hick of Tennessee, at Memphis. It is one of the
i fi _-e Banks, and has a circulation of SIO,OOO, most
./ in Northern Tennessee and Kentucky. It has
I bonds to the amount of $50,000 and upwards on de
: posii with the Comptroller, and the note-holders are
thus secured against loss. The suspension was
caused by the refusal on Monday last of the Union
and the Planters’ Banks of Memphis to receive the
notes of the Bank of America, at Clarksville, with
which the Southern Bank was in some manner inti
mately connected Tqß affairs ot the concern will
be wound up as speedily as possible.
As regares the Bank of America, the Nashville
Union cf Wednescay says :
We understand a dispatch was received yester
day from Mr. M. D. Davie, President of the Bank
of America, bating that the Bank had not suspend
ed. and that it would not suspend. The note* of
the Bank of America are received at par by
Messrs. A. Wheel ess Cos., brokers, the Merchants
Bank, and we believe the Traders’ Bank. The
Uni.mi Bank, which was the agent of the Bank of
America here, does not take its notes now, nor did
any other bank in the city yesterday, except those
mentioned.
A gentleman whose position enables him to speak
ndvi edly, assures us that the Messrs. Davie have
not disposed of their interest iu the Bank of Ameri
ca. They own the larger portion of the stock [of
the bank’and are men of great wealth, and they
can make its issues good, as we have assurance
they will, in tne despatch to the President,
i The Southern Bank is “ flat. ” Nobody will take
it at any price.
New Work.
; Man Upon the Sea : Or, A History of Maritime
Adventure. Exploration and Discovery. By
! Frank B. Goodrich, author of “The Letters of
! Dick Tinto,” ‘ The Court oi Napoleon,” &c.
] Phiiade’phia : Lippincott &. Cos.
f.:is is a large . i i very handsomely illustrated
work, comprise g as its title designates, a history
of maritime adventurd, exploration and discovery
from the earliest ages of thojworld to the unsuccess
ful Atlantic Telegraph expedition of 1857. The
subject is highly interesting, commencing with the
I origin of navigation, touching with some minuteness
up >u the principal points of improvement and in
| vention, such as the first sail boat, the building of
the ark, the application of the magnetic needle, the
discovery of America, the first voyage round the
world, the application of steam to navigation, and
the many improvements which have since taken
place. The details of the work embrace many
anecdotal facts of history, which lend to it almost
the interest c: a romance.
For sale by Thcs Richards it Son.
A Georgian Drugged — Robbery Prevented.
Tha New Yolk correspondent of the Baltimore
American, under date of September fid, says : —At
a late hour last evening, Officer Watson, of the
Second Precinct, discovered some suspicious look
ing fellows huddled rather closely together, near the
Fulton Ferry landing. Quickly rattling his club,
he started for the group, when in a twinkling they
shot in divers directions and were seen no more. —
A man was found lying on the pavement in a per
fectly stupid state, from the Effects, as it was after
wards discovered, of drugged liquor. He was ta
ken to the station-house, and sl.<>oo in cash and
drafts and a valuable gold watch found on his per
son. On recovering his consciousness, the stranger
said that, he was a merchant living in Georgia, and
was on a visit to New York to purchase goods and
attend the Cable Celebration. He fell in with some
jovial good fellows at his hotel, and had been drink
ing with them and looking at the eights in Water
street. lie was greatly surprised to learn that the
jovial, gentlemanly characters who had been his
temporary comrades, were thieves and cut throats.
A natural diffidence prevented bis giving his name,
as he was quite anxious not to get into the papers.
He was grateful rt his rescue, particularly so at
finding hi3 money safe.
The Administration and the Postmasters.—
The Bainbridge Georgian says : —We have been
informed by one of Uncle Sam’s oliicials, that he
received a long letter from bis superiors at Wash
ington, begging him most earnestly, to sustain the
administration, and to exert all of his influence to
get others to follow his example. Our information
is true beyond a doubt, and wo arc ready to vouch
for its correctness. We shall endeavor to get hold
of one of the sustain-mes, and publish it, to show
how unwilling the administration is to let the Demo*
cratic party pass into a non-vital State.
j We learn from Tampa, says the Wakulla Times,
* rhat considerable excitement exists there, on ac
j . u".t of suspicions being entertained that the death
. Dr. Branch had been caused by poison, adminie*
tered by some person who had been under the band
of the Vigilance Committee. The committee had
urrested two, after considerable resistance, (during
which one was shot in the arm,) and handed them
over to tho civil authorities.
Burning op Quarantine.— The New York
Herald cf Thursday morning says :—At ten o’clock
last night a band of one thousand men broke into
the Quarantine grounds and set the hospital and
shanties therein on fire, and threatened to set fire
also t o the residence of Dr. Thompson, the Health
Officer, who called the stevedores employed in un
loading vessels together, arming them with muskets
and commanding them at all hazards to protect the
building. The hospital is a mass of ruins, and
many of the shanties also. Capt. Belton, of the
Harbor Police, came up to th~ city at a late hoar
for an additional police forco, as the mob were in a
furious state, and it was not known bow the affair
would end.
The Drolleries of History.— The Salem
(Mar-s.) Register has a neat obituary notice of Na
thaniel L. Rogers, an accomplished merchant of
Salem, lately deceased. It appears that Mr. Ro
gers was a lineal descendant from John Rogers, pre
bend of St. Paul’s and first martyr of Queen Mary’s
reign. Mr. N. L. Rogers was a brother of John W.
Rogers, whose daughter danced with the Prince de
Joinville, in Faneuil Hall. Thus a descendant of
the Catholic king, who sanctioned the massacre of
the Protestants on St. Bartholomew’s day, led down
the mazy dance a lair daughter of the line of John
liogeis, the first English martyr to Romish intole
rance.
Lively Actress. —The acquittal of Easton, the
actor, and his female companion, who were charged
with firing Thorne’s Theatre, by which half ot Lea
veil worth, Kansas, was burned, has been noticed.
The female is decidedly “fast,” if we may credit
the Ledger, of that city:
On their way up the river, the lady, who some
times piays boys part • in dramas, somewhat aston
ished the plain people who were her fellow paeseu
geis ou board the Tatum, by making her appear
ance in a full suit ot male attire, and acting out the
character of a ‘‘last,” young man with all the gusto
of a “regular brick.” With her feet on the guards,
and a cigar in her mouth, she puffed away with a
vigor that was only excelled by the smoke stacks
of the boat, and dashed off her cocktails in such ra
pid succession as put the bar keeper io the best ot
humor with everybody on board.
“Keep your Powder Dry.” —The Newbury
port (Maes.) Herald says : —lt is rather a remarka
ble circumstance that the powder which was used
in Sandwich in firing off the cannon to celebrate the
connection by a cable of England to the United
Statep, is the same which was purchased in the war
of 1812 to fight our then English enemy. It has
been kept iu a tight cask in the old magazine, situ
ated in the old cemetery since that time.
Miss Avonia Jones. —This talented young trage
dienne has just complied a successful engagement
at the “ Theatre Royal, ” Montreal. Ou the osca -
sion of her benefit, which was under the patronage
of the officers of the 7th Regiment, they paid her
a most flattering compliment, the more so because
it was by the English to an American. Being call
ed before the curtain, they crowned her with a coro
net composed of thirteen stars, and dropped from
one of the private boxes a pair of pure white doves
tied with American colors. Miss Jones is now
playing in Toronto.
A Lucky Fellow. —A young man, in the vicin
ity of Boston, Mass., has just received notification
that by i.lie death of a cousin whom he had never
seen, he has become heir at law to property valued
at between sixty and seventy thousand dollars.—
The fortunate party in question is 27 years of age,
a native of Scotland, and a slater by trade, lie
married a smart Yankee girl, some six weeks ago,
who will be the participant of his altogether unex
pected good luck.
The Great Chess Contest in England.—The
chess contest between Paul Morphy and Herr
Lowenthal, which is now progressing in London, is
exciting considerable interest on both eides of the
Atlantic. Up to the last accounts the score stood .
; -Morphy, 7 : Lowentba’,2; Drawn, 1.
purse is for SI,OOO, which the winner of the
j il • ti ne games will receive. The American has,
| . rrtfjre but two games to win. The ninth game was
me ot the most exciting chess contests on record.—
It continued over three sittings, and lasted, in ail,
nineteen hours and a-half.
Telegraphic Time. —The difference in time be
tween Trinity Hay and Vaientia Bay is about three
hours and forty-eight minutes. A dispatch was
sent from Dublin to Newfoundland, simply saying :
“It is twelve o'clock noon in Dublin ; what hour in
Newfoundland ?” Answer—“ Eight o'clock in the
morning.” The answer was received within an
hour and a half. Between the extreme eastern and
western points of the United States, there is a dif
ference of time of three hours and ti:ty minutes.
Death of a Noted Preacher.— The Lexing
ton (Miss.) Advertiser announces the death, in
Holmes county, of the Rev. Mr. Cooper, the origi
nal dreamer of Cooper’s Well. He was an eccentric,
but eioquen': and good man—perhaps, at his death
a superannuated member of the Mississippi confe
rence. These celebrated waters, known as Cooper s
Wells, were his discovery, and once his property
It is said, and credited, that he was ied to dig for
them by a dream, tnree times repeated, by which a
certain spot was designated—healing waters welling
up, and hosts of sick aEd impotent folks flocking
around and getting cured.
“Just as a Curiosity.”— The New York News
(Democrat:!) urges the Tammany Hail politicians
to be bontrt for once, “just as a curiosity.' 1 We
quote;
“Why cannot ail factions agree to unite, with
one set of lair and honorable inspectors, with clean
and urts'ufFed bailot-boxes, and with peaceable
pole, held open for oue entire day and evening,
vrith every voter's name and residence registered.
and with the returns made and published under the
oaths of the inspectors, so that for once an honestly
-iected set of delegates may be presented at the
state Convention, just as a cariosity ? Gentlemen,
meide and outside of Tammany, if you are ail as
strong with the masses as you pretend to be, why
not try this tor onefc ?”
New Canadian Wheat. —The schr. Watchful,
from Toronto, C. W with 3,000 bushels ot new
wheat, discharged her cargo at Charlotte, N. Y.,
last Monday The wheat cost in Toronto one dol
lar and twenty cents per bushel, and is the fire,
cargo received this season.
The African Negroes at i'hnrlcNton—A Ques
tion of JuriNdictioa.
The Charleston Mercury oi the Ist Inst contains an
Interesting correspondence between Col. Carew,
Sheriff of Charleston District, and his legal advisers,
Hon. I. W. Hayne, Attorney General, “and Messrs-
Whaley & Lord, Solicitors of Sheriff, on the one
part, aud D. H. Hamilton, U. S. Marshal for the
District of South Carolina, and his legal adviser,
Mr. Conner, U. S. Attorney for South Carolina, on
the other part, concerning the custody and disposi
tion of the cargo of Africans recently brought into
the port of Charleston. The jurisdiction of the case
was brought into question by the provisions of au
act of the Legislature of South Carolina, passed in
18115, the first section of which eays, “That it shall
not be lawful for any free negro or person of color
to migrate into this Stale, or be brought or intro
duced into itd limits, under any pretext whatever,
by land or by water,” and goes ou to declare what
shaii be done in case of any such migration or intro
duction contrary to this Act.
In accordance with the provisions of this act, Mr.
Carew demanded that the negroes should be de
ivered into his custody, to be disposed of accord
ing to the laws of South Carolina. The United
States Marshal denies the right of the State to tbe
custody of the negroes, maintaining that they are
subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
The opinions of the legal advisers of Mr. Carew
are conflicting—Mr. llayne, the Attorney General,
deciding that the Sheriff’ was not required to take
the negroes into his custody, and Messrs. Whaley
& Lord maintaining a contrary opinion. Mr. Con
ner, on behalf of the U. S. Marshal, coincided in
opinion with the Attorney General.
The negroes are still in possession of the U. S.
Marshall, and have been removed to Fort Sumter,
a few miles farther from the city. The Sheriff has
concluded to forapo further measures to carry the
law of the State effect iu this case.
The AIYU-rm* at Charleston.
The Charles-on Mercury of Wednesday last
contains an account of a visit of a number of pro
minent citizens to Fort Sumter, the present location
of the captured Africans. Tne Mercury says :
These gentlemen availed themselves of the kind
ness of Dr. Hamilton, who had chartered the steam
er for the purpose of ccnveyirg stores to the fort.
These stores consisted ot a bale of blankets, 360 iu
number, a bale of cotton cloth, a hogshead of baon,
aud four casks of rice. This cay the Marshal has
promised the poor creatures some pipes and tobac
co.
The gentlemen, representing a great variety ot
interests, were much gra itied at the spectacle pre
sented by these savages, who appeared in tine
spirits, and entertained their visitors with a display
of their abilities iu dancing and singing. Their
dance, resembled in great degree the popular bur
lesque of the Shaking Quakers. In their singing
they preserve good time, but their voices are rather
sharp and shrill. Toeir leader in these accomplish
ments displayed the genius ot a Mu ard or a Jul
lien. One of their refrains reminded their auditors
of a chorus in Ernani. The whole exhibition was
exceedingly interesting and novel, in which tiie
negroes seemed to take great delight.
Very iew are left in the Hospital, and those mani
fest- anxiety to get out. The ailments with which
they are afflicted are readily yielding to medical
treatment, and the general health of :he ga g has
much improved since they have been under the care
of Drs. S. L. Lockwood and Ogier.
Among these negros are three who were original
ly employed on shore, befoie the cargo were em
barked, in cocking provisions for the negros, ae
they were gathered at the barracoons. They Can
talk in Portuguese aud Spanish. They c-ay that
they were not purchased, but that the white :nen
br- light them away without their consent. They
express themselves as happy now, and would pre
fer to stay here rather than to return. The wants
of the entire gang are very simple and few ; mainly
consisting in the gratification of hunger, thirst, and
some trifling vices. Dr. Hamilton exerts himself
to render them comfortable, and their contented
and satisfied faces attest the success of his endea
vors.
Lieut. Bradford yesterday received a telegraphic
dispatch from Hon’ Isaac Toucey, Secretary of he
Navy, ordering him to deliver everything into the
Lands of the United States Marshal, and to re port
himself with his command at Boston forth wit a. —
Lieut. Bradford took immediate steps to obey the
order, and, unless detained by subpatna to appear
before the United States Commit sioner’s Court, of
which we are not advised, it was his intent! to
leave the city last night by the Northeastern Rail
road.
An American Desert —Terrible Suffering
from Thirst- —A long letter appears in the Dallas
(Texas) Herald, concerning the passage of McCul
lough’s emigrant train across the staked plain to
California from which wo take the following ex
tracts:
From Fort Chadbourne we travelled South to the
Choncho river, (old Camp Johnson, then followed
up the Choncho to the edge of the great American
Desert. The great American Desert is a barren
waste. Soil, light color and alkaline nature, pro
ducing mostly salt grass and a few mezquite hush
es and cactus. This kind of country extends from
the Colorado to the Rio Grande, is 250 miles in
width and extends through our continent, being
narrower in some points. There are but few wa
tering places cn tho route trom the Pecoe to the Rio
Grande. The herd had no water for seventy ix
hours, and travelled one hundred and thirty miles.
The herdsmen were without water or nourishment
thirty hours.
Their exercise was very hard, riding aud hollow
ing at the cuttle, and was calculated to bring on
thirst soon. The men suffered extremely lor want
of water and sleep ; many shot down tho famishing
bullocks ou the road, stuck them, pulled ofl’ their
boots or shoes, caught the thick, hot blood and
drank it freely, and by so doing saved their lives.
The cattle were all very much excited, and any of
them would fight, and the men were compelled to
shoot many.
We went into the Sand Ililis with 1600 head of
cattle, or struck the sand with that number, aud left
with about 1050, many of the missing having died
lor the want of water. On arriving, the men were
all excited aud hardly knew the; comrades. Dan
Murray, Wheally, Celtou aud Collier would never
Lave got to water had not some of the herdsmen
been sent on a fie; water and returned to them.
They had stopped by the side of the road.
Domestic Difficulties in High Life.—lt
would appear by the following extract from a Paris
letter to the Philadelphia Bulletin, that Smith and
Jones and Tuompsou, are not the only persons who
“ can’t get along” with their wives. The writer
says Queen Victoria’s visit to Potsdam was to
smooth the course of true love between her daugh
ter and her new husband, and adds:
Nor, says rumor, are these conjugal tiffs merely
lig.it breezes that create a momentary ripple on the
face of the waters, but perfect hurricanes, scatter
ing destruction and ruin. The young Prince who
had, as it was formerly reported, been as really and
bourgeoisement in love with the English Princess
for two years before he married, as though he had
a right to make a love match, uow carries his an
tipathy to as great an extreme—the quarrel they
have t ogether are so fierce, that tho Princess is said
to have complained to her mother of personal ill
treatment . This rumor is treated with aerision by
those who judge from the behavior of the Prince
and Princess in public, and her smiling looks. Jt is
difficult to tell what there is below the surface, or
what the interior of the young menage iB. As for
the* Prussian Prince who is accused by the gossip
ping Berliners of pushing his wife down, ana other
similar feats, if he has inherited some portion of the
temper of his master, Frederick William, of kick -
ing and caning memory, his style of enforcing his
arguments is readily accounted for. William I was
exceedingly wealthy and very demonstrative when
wrathy. lie carne near taking his son’s life, us ad
his wife like a foot ball, and held his daughter by
the hair on the slightest provocation.
The St. Joseph Gazette learns from S. Tennent,
Esq., that gold has been found in large quantities
about seventy-five miles from Fort Laramie, in the
direction of Laramie’s Peak. A young gentleman,
Wm. Bryan, formerly of St. .Joseph, has written a
letter to his fatLer, living in Kansas, urging him to
leave every king there and go to these mines. lie
writes that he was shown one lump that weighed
four pounds, and w-as as. ured by those who made
the discover y that these mines equal the richest of
California placers.
A Slave Stamcede.— Tho Aanarolis (Maryland)
Republican says : Ten valuable elaves belonging
to Col. G. VV. Hughes, of West River, in this eoun
t,y, left his farm in a body on Tuesday morning last.
At Queen Ann’s, about ten miles from Colonel
Hughes’, two of them who went there to get some
thing to eat, were captured by Mr. Thomas E. A1
vey and Mr. Richard H. Harwood. The rest of the
negroes who were a short distance off, waiting their
return, suspecting from their long absence that
they had been arrested, started iu pursuit and com
ing upon them, at once with a bold rush released
their two comrades. A desperate fight occurred
and two of the negro men were, we learn, danger
ously wounded, and left upon the field of battle.—
This seemed to frighten and deter the negroes, be
cause they as speedily as possible returned home
to their master. The two wounded were sent for
and properly cared for.
Honors to Ex-President Pierce.— The Press,
speaking of ex-President Pierce’s tour in Europe,
says:
All along the >oute, from Lisbon to Marseilles, he
has been the recipient of distil guished consideration
from public cflicera and private citizens. At Gib
raltar, the senior officer in command of the British
naval forces at that point extended marked courte
sies, and urged the ex-president and Mrs. Pierce to
take passage for Tangiers in oue of her Majesty ‘s
public armed vessels. At Marseilles the French
authorities, headed by the prefect arid the military
commander, were especially attentive and zealous
in acts ofhospilality.
Effects of Lightning. —The houee of James
Burress, in new Hanover county, N. C., was struck
by lightning on Friday last. The Wilmington Jour
nal says :
The lightning struck on an end of the upper sto
ry, splitting the mantle piece and some other wood
work, and injnrirg a little daughter of Mr. Burress,
aged about eight years. The child’s hair is singed
or bourned on one side of the head, her clothes torn
into snreds, and a long livid mark down one side of
her chest and abdomen, partaking, as we are inform
ed, of the appearance of a burn and a blow. The
little gill is now quite sensible and likely to recover.
A bed in the upper story was completely thrown
out of the bed.'tead. Down stairs the mantis-pieces
were shattered, the glass in a book-ease ad smash
ed, and the small particles driven into the wall oo
posite like Bhot. A looking glass opposite was also
broken, and some injury done to a shutter.
From Key West. —The Charleston Courier pub
lishes from a private letter, dated the 24th inst. at
Key West, and received in this city :
By the arrival of our mail boat from the Miami I
was informed that a party of five Indiana and one
negro, iu command of their chief Tiger Tail vi.-l ed
our old townsman, Robert E. Fletcher, who receiv
ed them kindly, and treated them with all the cour
tesy due A alive Americans. They were very grate
ful, until they found out that there was whiskey on
the premises. As soon a3 that was known, they I
kept Mr. Fletcher in hot water all the time, but stilt
dona no damage. The negro, who is their interpre
ter, says that there are mere indians in Florida than
we are aware of. So that the expenses which Gov
ernment has been to, in getting Bowlegs out, has
done but very little good. They appear ;o know
nothing of Bowlegs’departure. The ytliow lave,
is in our city, or ralher at the hospital; it has not
yet made its appearance in town. About ten per
sons have died from it; every arrival now is quar
antined, even the California steamers.
Heavy Taxation. —ln the city of Milwaukie,
Wisconsin, the people are taxed at the rate of $2 37
for every man, woman and child, for city purposes
alone. The debt of the city is $3.370,850.
Spoiling the Romance —A correspondent of
the New York Evening Post says that Mbs Casa
who, with M. Van Limburg, the Netherlands Minis
ter, were the parties to the recent “marriage in high
life at Stonington, Connecticut, appeared to be
“about forty years of age.”
For the week ending August 26th, 730 cases of
boots and shoes were cleared at Boston for Charles
ton, S. C-, and 175 cases for Savannah, Ga.
The Allies In Chinn—The Menu* of liriiiu
, • about ilit* Peace.
The Atlantic Telegraph has already announced I
the treaty of peace with China. Though the mails
have not brought tho gnewa as late as that yet, the j
China correspondent of the Loudon Times, furnishes j
that paper with an account of the passages of the
allied Admiral up the river, a feat which frightened j
the Emperor iuto a treaty. He says :
As soon as the ambassadors were made aware of
the complete success of the admirals they deter
mined to follow them to Tiensin, in pursuance of
their origiual intention, aud reached that city on
the morning of the 30th of May. A spacious tem
ple, occasionally used as a residence by a former
Emperor, commanding a view of the liver at it:
junction with the Grand canal, arid opposite the
city, was appropriated for the accommodation of j
the French aud English Ambaseabors. Numbers I
of Chinese servants were in attendance. Many ot !
the rooir.B had been newly papered, and the work
of .furnishing up was going on briskly. Baron O c;
and Lord Elgin occupy two light and airy pavilion:-
cn the summit of a mound, ascended by a pathway
of ornamental rockwork.
Their respective staffs are scattered in sundry :
fragile buildings of quaint construction, with pJ. ;
per walls, or have mi.de their bed rooms in a joss- j
house, in which god-- and goddesses are tbe pr.nci- ‘
pie articles of furniture. A spacious garden, .• - j
closed by a wall, sunounds the whole. English
and French guards occupy tbe out bouses au i stand
sentry at the principle entrances. The national j
flags float proudly over all, and a line of gun boat* |
are moored within twenty yards of the windows.
These consist at present of the Caro-mandel, Coro- j
mant, Slauey and Opossum (English) the Ava)anch< !
Fusee, and Dragunne, (French) The Staunon,
Bustard, and Kestrel arc anchored a mile above !
the town, and the L ven, Woodcock, ami Firm are
somewhere between this and the fleet. The Wood
cock and Kestrel, both forty horse power, arrived
a few- days after the capture ofTuogkoo. A party
o: engineers have a! . arrived from Hong Kong in
the Sampson, and are engaged in blowing up the j
forts; alter which it is expected they will come !
here. Numerous vaunt ms afford abundant barrack 1
accommodation.
Notwithstanding the great variation in tho tem
perature, (the thermom .ter ranges from 66 deg. to
86 deg in the twenty-four hours,) the health of the
m n continues excellent. Supplies are abundant,
although some little reluctance has been apparent
on the part of the country people lately in bringing
them in, through fear of incurring the displeasure
of the authorities. Ice is a luxury in which the
Chinese upper classes freely indulge during the sum- |
mer months; boats and coolies carrying large blocks j
of it, are constantly seen passing to and fro, ana the
barbarians have not been slow to avail themselves |
of so re.resiling an article of c msump'.ion.
The interior e tlu city has been explored, bu* of
fers few attractions to the stranger. The streets
are broader than those in southern cities, the houses
poorer, and the curiosity shops not to be discover
ed at all.
The wboleoine effect which this movement on Ti
enein has produced upon the Chinese Jovernmeut
is already apparent, ami has proved moat satisfac
torily the wisdom of .he policy pursued by the rep
resentatives of the f. nr Powers, which has been to
conduct negotiations at a point as near the capital
as possible, so as to bring that pressure to bear upon
the Imperial Government without which it is hope
less to expect its compliance with the demands of
the outer barbarians, however reasonable aud mod
crate those may be.
The i ay before yesterday two new Imperial Com
missioners arrived with great ceremony trom Pekm.
They were accompanied by a large mounted reti
nue. and followed by a train of mule carts carrying
their bay gage. These functionaries, by name
Kweillang and Hwnshama, are mandarins of the
highest rank in the Empire. They have announced
themselves as specially empc wared to treat upon ail
the points specified by us as subjects or negotiation,
by vir ue cf an Imperial decree, similar to that
which was conferred upon Keying on the occasion
of the last treaty; as a further proof of which they
style themselves by our manufactured word “pleni
potentiary,*’ a term unknown in then own official
vocabulary.
A pr. liminary interview has been arranged with
the British Ambassador fur to-day in a building set
apart for the purpose. Lord Elgin will be accorn
panied by a guaid of one hundred and fifty marines
and the band of the Calcutta. Meantime, it. has
been arranged that the Fury shall proceed to-mor
row to Hong Kong for the purpose of sending up
by the troop ships Adventure and Assistance the
s‘ith regiment, a battalion of marines, and acme ar
tillery, which the arrival of the native regiments
from India aud tic* expected advent of the 77th
trom Australia enable Gen Strailbenzee to spare
from the g. rrison of Canton. The French Admiral
•b daily expecting a f nee of 600 marlin s who have
just come out f.om Fiance, so that within six weeks
we may calculate upo i having c fleeted here a
military force of 3000 men besides a very strong
naval brigade. In the event of the negotiations
now about to be commenced terminating unsatis
acfcorily, there will be no difficulty whatever with
this strung body of marching to Pekin along
the excellent road which leads lo that city, and
however obstinate and impracticable our previous
experience my lead us to belive the Chiese Gov
ernment, we can hardly suppose it to be so infatua
ted as to brave tho serious consequences which
must accrue if it continue to retist our demands,
with an army encamped beneath the walls of their
capital prepared to enforce them.
Spirits of Rye vs. Spiritualism.— Some wag
of our city sent through the mail (a newly discov
ered “spiritual medium”) a small “parcel” of w his
key to Dr. L. F. VV. Andrews, of the Macon Citi
zen, which the Dr. thus acknowledges:
We acknowledge the receipt, by mail, postage
paid, of a small square package, addressed to us,
and marked “cake,” with the Post-mark of Augus
ta, Georgia, stamped thereon. Ou opening tho
mysterious and suspicious looking “Document,” we
found the following note, accompanying a bottle ot
what has the flavor of genuine whiskey :
“From the Spirit ual Circle of Augusta, with
ihe'r compliments to Dr. L F. W. Andrews, Grand
medium, Macon Circle. This io good whiskey, Dr.
Take a cine;!.'’
Well, we did take a email, un i ii.*was pleasant to
‘o the olfactories—but we have not fell, authorised
otot&fte, thinking that the simple must have been
yent to us by mistake. Were it •■•ot so small, v/o
shou’d be sure that it was for another establishment
that is better posted as to the rye market than we
are! j
Imports ok Railroad Ikon.— The total imports ;
of railroad iron from Great Britain to the United j
{States for the seven months of this year, compared j
with those during a like space in 1856 and 1857 are
as follows: •
1856. 1857. 1858
81,005 tons. 105,613 ton?. 5,536 tons.
Nothing could more strikingly illustrate the “dead
lock” which ba3 lately taken piece in the building
of railroads in tho United Stales than the above
brief exhibit. In seven months of tbe present year
it is shown that we have imported less railroad iron
by 100,000 tons than in the corresponding period of
last year. The meagre sum, 5.536 tons, to which
the import this year, so far, is reduced, indicates,
too, how excessive and over rapid must have been
our railroad construction for some time previously.
With a continuance of the present suspension cf
new works, it raav be found iu duo time that the
country has developed fully up t. their capacity, s >
as to prove their utility and profitableness, when,
and not. before, we may again go about building
others.
Naval Intelligence. —Tho Court of Enquiry
which lately sat at Norfolk, V/t., to investigate cir
cumatancea connected with Lieut. Payne’s attempt
to commit suicide, lias resulted in an order from the
Navy Department for the convention of a General
Court Martial on the 4th of September. Captain
Simms, late of San Jacinto, and Lieut. VV'. Stokes
Boyd, of the Niagara, have been ordered to repair
to Norfolk on the J ■’ to act as members of
the Court. Lieut. John O. Payne is a native of
Tennessee, aDd entered the service in the year
1853. He has only done nineteen months sea ser
vice.
A Paris View of Electric Telegraphs.—-The
Paris P&trie, in reflecting on the part which tlie
electric telegraph might p’ay Jin the event of Some
future war, inquires:
“Would an English squadron respect the com
munications between France and Algeria, or a
French squadron those between England and Cana
da? Ought the c mmerce of other countries* to
suffer by the quarrels of two rival nations? Would
not anew conquest be achieved by the cause of
peace were the neutrality of telegraphic commu
nications to be proclaimed ? Another bond v uid
then unite mankind, and a fresh step would be
made towards the fraternal union of all Christian
nations.”
International Literary Copyright. —A Con
gress of authors end publisher w il convene at
Brussels during the coming aulumn to take into
consideration the subject of international copy
right, or of eome adequate protection to authors iu
their literary property in foreign countries. Mr
Frederic 8. Cozzins, the author of the “Sparrow
grass'’ papers, will probably represent the interests
of American authors at the Congress.
Eli Thayer’s Virginia Town.— A letter from
Ceredo, Va , to the Worcester Transcript dated
August 1-1, gives a very encouraging account o
the progress of affairs in that new settlement. Im
provements are steadily going forward, new set
tlers are arriving, the crops generally promise as
wed as they do iu ether parts of the country, and
the Virginians begin to have faith in the entire suc
cess of this new enterprise. A carriage shop and
boot and shoe manufactory are soon to he added to
the present undertaking of the tow.:.
A Movement in Arkansas to Remove Free
Neoroes. —The Arkansas papers contain an ad
dress from a committee appointed by the citizens of
Little Bock, to the people of that State, upon the
subject of the removal of free negroes from its limits
The address sets forth the uudesirableness of that
Ciass of population in a siavehoiding community,
suggests that the necessary laws be passed by the
Legi-la!ur-r to remove them from Arkansas, and to
forbid their re urn forever afterwards. The ques
tion was mooted two years ago, but failed.
Business Depression in Manchester, New
Hampshire.— The Manchester Union thus uptake
despondingiy of business matters in that city :
The present is the dullest zeason, in a business
sh *t Manchester has ever experienc
ed. Ihe old os, lanabitarit’ oan recollect nothing
- • Laboring men stand in the street with
folded arms and downcast looks : while men unfor
-.uc uely m -justness wait tor hours to see a custom
er wio has a dollar of money which he desires to
exchange for goons. As for collecting an old bill
ae thing is utterly impossible. Failure and starva
• ton stare many in the face, and unless there is soon
mtrt w Uvily th ? reulr 1 nanneia of bade, we
rnurt became a bankrupt city.
A Mass Meeting of the slaveholders of Worcester
county, Maryland, is to be he’d on the Mtb Sep
tember. The call for the meeting says :
‘ she continued encroachments of abolition emis
sar.es upon our slave property demands stern ac
lion at our hands. Year afitr year, and every
year to a more alarming extent, have these aboif
tionists been preying upon our rights and property
Worneßter county loses not hea Lhnn an avr-tage o!
SIS,MUO annually by runaway slaves.—causeci by
loose mercenary wretches esni amongst us under
every guise.”
t •■salt. The Syracuse Courier says that tae pro
duct of the Onondaga Salt Springs wiil this year
amount to at lea3t seven milUejoa of bushels, being
an excess of nearly a million over any previous
year. The highest product heretofore was in
whoa there was manufactured 6,082,885 bushels.—
she product this year will fill 1,400 ,000 barrels,
which at $1.25 will foot up to $1,750,000.
Gold Diggi ngs Discovered. — t'he St. Louis Re
publican publishes a letter giving an account of
newly discovered gold regions on the South Platte
river. The writer examined the country for seve
ral miles around, and expresses opinion, tha’
from $5 to $6 per day may be obtained by several
hundred men without urtber discoverie.
Contested Electjo* —Hon. Francis P. Blair
Jr has given notice that he wiii contest the right
of Mr. J. Richard Barrett to a seat in the .‘JOth Con
gress.
Grand Reception.— Cyrus W. Field, Esq., had
a grand reception at Great Barring on, Ma-*s., his
cative town, on Thursday, deputations be ng p e
t ent from all the towns n the neighborhood , in the
evening the wiiote town w&i iJuunnated.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
The annual State Fair of Georgia will be held in
Atlanta from the 19th to the 23d of October next.—
The lutelligencer says it bids fair to be not only
largely attended, but to have a tiue display of the
productions of nature, science and art.
A Snake Story. —A writer in the Troupville
Watchman says that he saw a fight between a king
snake and a rattle-snake, the latter being the larg
est, but tho former coming off victorious. After
killing Lia antagonist, he swallowed him and crawl
ed off, apparently no larger than at first.
Gas Works for Rome.— The Rome Courier
! says:—We have just seen a petition from James
j Gardner, Jr., cf Augusta, and others, to our City
I Council, asking certain rights and privileges for the
; purpose of establishing Gas Works in our city.—
iT‘C frl boa-ois are not unreasonable in their require -
j mem s, and u is probable their petition -will be
j granted. If the enterprise is engaged in, the city
| and u-: can take v< kin the Company, if they
j cuocwh. G -,s Works w\ aid greatly enhance the in
J tertsl of Rome, and we have no doubt but that all
j ui uU¥ citizens will manifest a lively iulereet in the
i enterprise.
ihe Main Trunk. We make the following ex
‘ trac from the Bainbridge Argus:—“We areau_
. thonged to say tp our readers that the Main Trunk
i Rni road will be placed under contract at Baiubridge
within two months from this date, if contractors
! can be obtained. If the subscription of the county
, authorises it, thirty miles of the road running east
will then be let out, and all doubt as to the certainty
j of the load coming to this place effectually dissipa
j ted.
“We base the assertion that the contractsTwiil be
let cut two months from this date on the statement
of the Chief Engineer, that ‘the line of the road
would be located to Bainbridge by the middle of
October,’ as they are to be let out immediately
thereafter.”
The Thomasville Southern Enterprise says : On
Tuesday last, while the City Ccunci! was in session,
j Dr. Screven, President of the Atlantic & Gulf Rail
i road, was introduced and asked for a gratuitous
j right of way for the Road through tiie corporation
| of Thomasville, and also for a subscription from the
same of $25,000. Both requests were •favorably
considered, we believe, by Council and people.--
The right of way through seems to
have been almost unanimously conceded.
Fatal Acci dints.—We learn from the Forsyth
Educational Journal that Mrs. Barns, on returning
from the funeral of Rev. Jam s Carter, near the
India* Springs, on the 25th ult., was thrown from
Iter buggy, and killed instantly. She had a small
child in her lap at the rime, that escaped unhurt.
We learn from the same paper that Mr. William
Bostick, while riding a race on Saturday week
last, was thrown from his horse and instantly killed
Sad Casualty —We regret to learn that Mrs
Burford, ot Butts county, while passing through the
streets of Jackson, on Thursday last, was thrown
from a buggy, ar.d her skull so severely fractured
that she survived but a short time. She wai but
recently married. —Macon Journal 4* Messenger.
Mi . Croomß, the man who killed Mr. Goorge
Tucker in this county (Washingti n) a few weeks
ago and made his escape. has been arrested, we un
derstand and lodged in Milledgevillo Jail.—San
dersville Georgian.
Escaped Jail.—Revel, who was convicted ot
murder at the last term ot Crawford Superior
Court, and transferred to Clinton jail for safe con
finement, contrived on Sunday nioruing last to open
the inride door of his cell, where he stationed him
self until the jailor opened the front door to present,
him his break last, at which moment prisoner pre
sented a bowie knife and revolver, and tumbing
the jailor overboard, made for the swamp, where
friends with horses were waiting his arrival, ami
have since escorted him to parts unknown.’ The
jailor received no material damage from the uugal
lant salute.
Clinton jail is one of the strongest in the State,
tho wall- 1 , floor and heavy ceiling having been erec
ted out of heavy, solid, smooth granite ashlers, at a
cost of near ten thousand dollars. —Albany Patriot.
2 and.
Syrup from the Sugar Cane— There are now
two Sugar Mills in full blast in Cassville-put up
by Mr. Youmans and Maj. Cliunn, and the quality
of Syrup manufactured is equal to the best New
Orleans Sugar House Syrup. These gentlemen
tried to send us a sample in bottles, but the Syrup
was so thick it would nt pour, and it had to be sent
in baskets.
P. S.—Since tbe above was in type, Mr. You
dim ns has sent us afresh supply, iu bottles.—Cass
ville Standard. 2 d.
The Hog Market.— Wemetadayor two -ince
in this city, an intelligent gentleman from Thomas
county, Ga., on his return from a visit to East Ten
nessee. He informed us that the prospect ot tiie
hog market is highly favorable. The cholera had
not readied that section of the country, and the
stock is in fine order and condition. Especially in
Ne\v Market Valley, the hogs are abundant, and
looking exceedingly well. Speculators are paying
sc. lb. gross for a first class article. In Ken
tucky and Indiana, perk is quoted from 1 to 4Jo
gross, which is equal to 5jJ to 60. net, delivered
t here. —Atlanta Intel.
Mount Vernon Association.— Mrs. C. W.How
ard has been appointed by the Vice Regent of the
Ladies’ Mount Vernon Association for Georgia, to
act as aid in perfecting the organization in thifl
county. Mrs. Howard has nailed a preliminary
r eeting of a few ladies from each of the district**
ot the county, to mei*t in Cassville on the first.
Tuesday in September, at which time a county so
< iety will bo organized.— Cas&vdle Standard , 2 d
msl. ’
: i!> La dies must have a Hearing.— The Ex
r Lu.f.miUecui the Agricultural Society have
, uc'.n lequeeted to allow a general meeting of the
J D| dies o: Urn. uimty on one of the days of the next
: t i and the Hon. VV. H . Stiles has been solicited
o’ 1 ’- nti address before the Society. —Cassville
j standout t Sept. 2.
, A< c.D-M— Narrow Escape. —As the trai non
i •e fr. .nali, Albany & Gulf Railroad was an
p. an!_i! s the Depot yesterday afternoon just a
ew ’u es beiorestopping, Dr. Mooney, of Bryan
i mnly, a passenger, who y, ari on tlu , platform ot the
-aggage car, accidently foil, either by slipping
cr while in the uct, of stepping on the platform of the
j.asaeLgtT car. fortunately be fell between the
i ;tib two cars pausing over and scarcely touching
mm. W e are glad to learn that tiie only injury he
received was the ae\ere mashing of his right hand,
lust above the wrist, rendering amputation ntces-
Kar y. The operation was performed shortly a Iter
-it *ho Marshall Mouse, by Doctors Sullivan, Byrd
uui Bulloch.— Savannah Republican of Tuesday.
Kelißisua,
Revival in Griffin.— During theprogressof the
revival which has prevailed in this city tor many
.ve< k,< past, large additions l ave been made to two
ot our chuiciies, the Baptist and Methodist. To the
latter, we are advised that from one hundred and
fifteen, to one undred and twenty membeis have
been added—ninety five ot which arc whites, and
ihe remainder colored ; while the former has re
ceived some forty members whites and colored, of
which number Fume few ar “restored” members.
In the churches here religious exercises are dsi'e
kept up, crowds of “anxious enquirers” being
Htantly iu attendance. It speaks well for
that we can write of tier population, that it j H era
ih. Jidally a church going one—the old, that re
epect, setting a good example to the Vvwng who
we are happy U e.aie, appear to profit ar.d improve
therefrom. May thie iong be wri'.wi’ of our city
fueneed an it. m not only in Pea',tin, but in the imel’
lectufl character, perseverfc. ee, nd enthusiasm
w .ieh aHiKj'Uißh those who mmister to its popula
tion in sacreu thing*.— Empire Elate. r
ItEViVAi ‘..v Komis.—For the past few weeks
there has been a series of meetings in our town ol
unusual and peculiar inteiest. There haß been
rothinK boisterous and unpleasant to the most sen
sitive, but a cuim but a deep oarnest.nesH of teelinv
upon tho all important subject of religion The
proportion ot younj[ men who have taken interest
to these meeting., is unusually large. Many luke
warm professors have been revived, and forty lour
new members have joined the Afferent churches
as follows: Presbyterian, dl; Meiiiodißf. 12 , KD d
liaptifct 11. A short lime before the Union Meet
ingr commenced there had been a revival in the
Methodist church, and 31 joined ths church.—Coe
rier.
Protracted Meeting —A protracted marine
has Coen progressing Hf the -Methodist Gh- . r ~i iji
U.is place lor several days, ihe meetings are
ly attended.and much interest is main ,w 0.,,
vil/e Standard id.
At the Camp meeting just ck.sbd at Bethel c
ground in tills county, we ’Jaierstand that fitty
sev, n attached th, mselve* to t be Methodist Church,
am -ng Whom are so mu ~-j r moßt w(vtby and Bub !
si an ,al citizens th good work still go on and
prosper,— <dumpier co.) Republican.
Catholicism Oeeoelu to the DredScott De
cision.—The following is the language of Prof. O.
A. Bronson, one of the, ablest expounders of Catbo
licisUi o the United States. It is taken from an ar
tide in Bronson’s Review condemning the Dred
Scott decisioo:
“We regret, tha: in giving the op.uion of the
C urt, the learned Judge Taney did nut recollect
will.: he is taught by his religion, namely, the unity
oi the race, that all men by tiie natural law are
equal, tha! negroes are men ; and therefore as to
their rights must be regarded as standing on the
same tooting with white men, where there is no
positive or municipal law that, degrades them.” In
V iaat (J“1,,) number, it is also said “The re
viewer did not complain of the Chief Justice t.baf
he did not follow the Council of Trent against the
Constitution, but that he did not remember in in
terpreting the language, or more properly ‘the si
ii nee ot the Constitution touching negro citizen
ship what his religion teaches him, and what as a
.lithoiic he holds, and must hold, namely, that ne
l lues are men, and that all men are equal before,
the laws of nature; and therefore as men,negroes,
and whites stand on the same footing of equality.
1 he legal presumption, then, must be in favor of ne
gro citizenship. If negroes are men, and all men are,
equal as men, then free negroes and whites are equal
as citizen*, unless the contrary is expressly ordain
ed by the Constitution.”
Mr. Roeuugk on the Atlantic Telegraph.—
Mr. Roebuck and Mr. Lindsay, M. P.’s, had been
to Cherbourg, and upon their return, were invited
to address the Mechanic’s Institute at Tynemouth,
when Mr. E. said:—
My honorable friend and royeelf went to Cher
bourg We went there to Bee a sight, and a sight
we did see, (great laughter,; and while we were
there we heard of a greater feat than any t’nat we
.-aw. We teamed that the electrio telegraph had
been laid in ! he depil-s of the sea New
foundland and Belaud, (applause.) At (bat, the ve
ry Brin t were ifto the thunder of artille
ry, v.-e caw twe ;.- car potentates- we raw their kiss
- erf A caw! hat —iow much there was
n ; I c happiness of luaiihmd—but that was
a negative ,’inpi mess. It was because they did not
-,:.v .rhtci..-.-i daughter.) The electric telegraph
is ; i-i,.;ii'. y good. It binds us to America; it.
1 j .n nr. r to our great offspring there, and it
m-il.es m. a- it were, one people (loud applause.)—
a no- • by human intelligence. You may en
joy [ oil ai powei. you may enjoy intellectual ex
.1 - ; too may he what you were intended to be—
the uobltsi work of God (loud applause ) But
uiiin vou are biest with knowledge, you are not a
noble creature (applause.)
Local Disinfectants.— From “Outlines of Lee
turps ou Yellow Fever,” by Professor Jas. Jones,
in the September number of the New Orleans Me
dies; Journal, we extract the following as of epecial
general interest:
“ii has been well established that the negleot of
local hygienic measures is an important accessory
lo the development of this disease. During the
warm months, at least, every species of otfai and
putrescent re:use shou.'d be removed to a distance
from localities exposed to visitations of yellow fe
ver, not only in the inorniDg but iu the evening.
Thu putrefaction of the night is, probably, worse
than that of the day, particularly fiom tue absence
of upper currents and constant precipitation.
Eviiy foul place sheuld be purified and fumigated
every close one ventilated anu insulated. All pri*
vie- should be thorough y emptied on the approach
of tus epidemic months, aud ueodor.zed weekly bv
the chlorides of lime ir ot zinc, or by the sulphate
of iron, during the whole period, in addition to
chlorine and ordinary tumigation used in ships and
interned districts, in t: e belief that there is vitality
in this miasm, I would use sulphurous acid, easiiy
generated by burning sulphur, one of the olde
antiseptics, highly praised by Boerahave and Van
hwieten, and known both in scienoe and in the arte
‘• 1 the most eflioient extinguisher of organie life
. id ot every speoiea of fermentation.”