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Iluir t, **•(,! * r,. eb i-*..K.ip A-u. arrive j
f>i K] ‘| >D yt five o'clock looming. She left [
f.rvwrpoo! t 11.50 AM ■> tl# oil.
, *hf.at Britaih —Tbe prospectus of the Indian i
m J* A > raiiau Company, with a capita! |
♦ , * jT.VXi 000, i.n* bee ioed. 1* proposal Uto
i t;u*je th* Red bea line from Ceylon to ,
• , .'i eventually to carry further sections to Hong ;
K g and Australia. Application Uto be made to I
... (jovf-rnmt'nt for a yuaranjee.
T;* British Board of Trade returns for July *how !
a •>‘ , rease mine export! of over £1,300,000, a- i
< r.pared with July la*l year In the imports an |
ii. r :aj e had taken place, particularly in Breadstuff?
t! ♦- hitival/ of which w?re \ ery large.
‘l'uo entire stud of Lord Derby"! racero is to b**
Mild and he retires from the turf.
important law case had been at Liver
j. . ! An action was brought against the Directors
o* the suspended Borough Bank to recover dama
ges for the loot sustained in purchasing shares up
er. ii(f.b oft:. falli> ou# report i*otd bv
llJiitisk A verdir-t vra# given fur lie pla ntra,
I n* a clay of execution *u granted.
Tub J) a '.|y Newt cal i* on Hie European power# to
v o'oeo'v American dee igrt upon Nicaraxon.
>.;i.er the * raTKtxin lha* the policy ol tbe Arne
* ran Government it to acquire |ioa#ee#:<iu of the
|. j jgviKft it officially recogniied at L”. S. Coneul
B of an Kngiieli hip hud been tried
end mgicled in heavy damages for piaenj: a paeeen
’ j n j rona under tbe plea that mutiny was immi-
Thirteen live# had been lost by the upsetting of
a , : r :a:i pleasure b ; at at Worthing. eu tre Sussex
(tIUfK, —It was again reported that Marshal
p e sier had asked to be removed from tbe English
Km’ -wy, and that hi# request would abortiy be
i jn.’ lied with. Itwaaalso said that hi# marriage
was ‘lo take place on the Bth of September, the an
i.iv. rtary of the tak rig of the Malakofl. and that
the Emperor would give the brine one million franc#
a# a marriage portion.
Lord Palmentor. waa received by the Emperor at
St. Cloud, on tbe 25th.
Count Peieigny made a (speech at the opening of
tbe Council General of the Loire, illustrative and
defensive of the alliance with Eagtand. The speech
had attracted conniderable attention.
A Telegraph Congre.-;# in which France, Belgium
Holland. Sardinia, Portugal, Baden Wurtemburg
and Switzerland are represented, ha# been opened
i: Berne. Anew French naval station for the
Kaoern Comtof Africa, into be created at Isle
Reunion. Tui# new# i# big with important const
•jve.nee* for the intlaence of the French Hag and
prosperity ol the French Colonies
Tub French Government anticipating the pos
sibility of in ire outrage# on Christians in cone
licence of the bombardment of Jeddah, was about
.o increase it# naval forces in the Mediterranean.
|- was rumored at Pari# on Friday that the Impe
rial Government bad demanded from England ex
planation# relative to ibe bombardment ot Jeddah.
The Emperor ia about to send V ictoria a cannon
constructed upon hi# own principle, and named
Alliance,” in return tor that presented to him by
her Majesty.
Pakis, Friday.—The Three per Cent# slightly re
ceded to-day, cio-iug at 701
A transport wa- under order# at Brest to convey
44Ml convict* to Cayenne.
gPAitf.—A Madrid te-egrnui of tbe 25th says, a
military expedition is being prepared for Havana
AI'STKIS —The report that a reconciliation had
taken place between Austria and Russia ia formal
iy detied.
Xaii.ks —It VA-* reported ia Paris that Na
pled had Accepted the conditions of England and
Eraore. . .
Kt ;.iA —A small Russian squadron, consisting
of; v. fourteen gun screw corvettes and a screw
ue >atcn gun vftfcuei, had arrived at Spit-head, eri
route to the Pacific. They were not allowed to
enter the harbor of Portsmouth, but their coalman
i\+r* met a very courteous reception.
The Emperor and Empress ot Russia bad gone on
a journey tbrougn the empire.
I'l/kkkt. — 6oine Diini-iterial changes Lad taken
pL and the retirement ol the Grand Vizier was
Tuo Paris cyrrcppoudent of the Tlmea understands
that the Tarkish government Inia complained to tbo
Eugli U Aoibaswador at Constantinople of the bom
fniroußM'ot Jeddah, at the moment when it wa*
huowd that Ismael Pasha wa* <n the way thither
7A it lull pow er to parish the guilty.
j . littd issued ft circu ftr cr.ntlftdictiug
„i Pis up prune, lung dcatiudiun of uecca
tiy the Western rk.vrers, which waa occasioning
g:c# i-xcitemout
I was reported that further riot# had occurred in
Cft’ -na, ftnd Ihttt t-:ii 111 istinii# hud been killed.
ecunii’y to he paid by China to England and France,
ils i-t p Jiid and iulliet. lily M ‘lien sin, i# 110,0111), OHIl
“i! ill us Gnoii Horn.—Capa of Good Hapedetea
a . i , ini g|—. Ur. l.'vu ftlonehd ftinved safely
iu Buul.t:<i Kiver, and was ascending itiulii# Mleam
launch.
Tin- /. ! >ft by /Wi-gropk from London to Liver
* pool.
LnNhON, Baturday —.in indian telegram was ra*
ci-ivedat the l- ietgu Office August'hdtli, at 12.10,
A AH SAhiinu, August 2-lth —i he u’earner Hindoe
ta„ arrived at Buez on the 22d inet. She left Cal
a i!,.. 19tb July, end the delay ill her ptweage
Wa# caused by an accident to her inr.cliin-ry while
tn tfc Kd Sea.
The steamer Cade/, strived at Suez yesterday
irom Bombay with date# to the -lib instant. Noth
~ v „t unportanci ha# occurred since tbe last mail,
j lie British troop# are cliutly engaged in hhrraesiug
,j,,. )-ft|)o[# iii Glide wherever lliey can Lind them,
mid in reducing their mud lortitications. Many ol
i lie chiefs who have not irredeemably compromised
themselves 111 the revolt, nre surrendeiing to the au
thotll■->-■ Olliers, who have been faithful In Itie
British Hag,are being honored and rewarded. The
rebels proved to have been deeply implicated are
1-eiug exeoul-d The Bunjaub is ironquil.
Sir ilugii K ‘# lias resigned tile eommand of the
I’oonaii divitioii.
The China dales fromTien-eiug, arc lotho 18th
of J cue. Great progress had been made in the no*
gui'iatiu.'is, audit, was considered that the allies
were mi li.'eeveof treaty which would ensure
everytniug they could claim, and open China to llie
cnierprize of our ;nerchants. This news, it will be
/ bservtd, is not so lute a# that leueived via lius-
Bl *i he Daily News’ City Article of lust evening
~ftys : “Tlie Funds to day are Halter, owing to
/ide sales, some of which are said to be cou
rted with the paymentof the half yearly dividend
.oe isdav on stock and other seournu-aot the
iftjudoti aud North Western Railway Company.
The decline iu Consuls, however, did -ot exceed
oue-eightli per eent. In other departments of the
. ocU Exchange bttstoess rpmaiud stagnant. The
■ gli range of cuiitinontal exchange ha# amostim-
I. rtunt, t). aring on the money market. The de
xuund for money was rather more active to-day.—
General sati#laotiou is expressed at tlio verdict
p* ven yesterday at Liverpool in the Borough Bank
affair. ‘ .. , . ,
lue Times City Article ssys : The English F unde
one.'icd steadily this iiiovuing at the iirin prices ot
yeste- ! iv, but owing to Beverol leaiizatiocs aud the
receipt o’ Jess favorable accounts irom the Paris
Jluuisc the maiket ultimately became dull. Money
has been in rather more demand today. The liual
ipnitat ousof the Frenoh tluree per cents, on the
Bars Butirve show a reduction of a quarter par
cent About C-'H.hWI iu gold of various desertp
nous was lent into the Bank today, it :o e-id that
the anmigements the contemplated Turkish
loan are nkely to be cofnideted almost mmnediateiy.
The Times publishes ttie following despatch :
India on Chin*.—Wc hav.e received the fol
lowing from our correspondent at Corfu :
Am v*,miuiA, Ang 2-I—The second OudePra
oiamal ion published in Bombay, had been declared
by tbe Government a forgery.
’China.—lntelligence Horn Tient-siog was to the
18 hot June. Lord Elgin had received from the
imperial Commissioner a written promise of a coil
cetsion of Ins demands American and Russian
tr, iii.-es had been concluded, aud the Americans
•A ,-re indieved to liave stipulated fur an annual visit
t„ p, 0,1-1 The Column - oner at Canton was urg
11, ft ,1.,. people t - war. nod ignoied the negotiations
in tile North. Cell Mruubenzie was establishing a
part ml bi ehav'e Trade was at a stand still
A? Uuii); KOD4 Kxobußge was 4s od la *>*a for
Bank Hiiis.
Thk Crystal Pa.acf. app ihe Atlantic
lELKiKATH —lt the li.tejjtion ot ?he Director! to
Mt (u.ai't an erly day ft r a kir*t public demonsfra
[n cvuumt moral ion of the euco-eodfal
Mjh? ol the Atlantic Cable Upon the oooipletion of
iuo ivquiaite prclijunarie*, ciue notice will be giv
en of the dale and geneial ftr ran gem e ot?.
lh United Service Gazette qives a rumor amt
thi Duke of Cambridge, Gen. Sir H. H. Douglas,
ftiid Iw iii Clyde will eoon ot* made Field Martha's.
TelrgrAiue were received by the cable tine mom
inff irom the New \\ ?k
the irai .Atlantic steamer movement! io America
down to la*! evening
C ommercia) Intellinroce.
Lkt'YßfooL Cottcn Makkkt. —The Brokers Cir
on nr • the wee of tne week in the Liverpool
<*. t*o *Maikot hi ‘ bales, of whic h 6,€00 were
o i-• v ju'.Mti: nna 11,000 for export. All qualities
0{ A ',i>rt! uen \yo:e ’ l higher ou the week, but nt
th. \ . ♦* there oa> Joe* buojanoy. The sales of
Uudn T Odd bale*, inciudiug ldtKl on pt*cu
|:l.u,u’ ,c 1 !. . exswi**. tbe market closing quiet at
?s. lohn.iw. authorised Quotations ; Fair Orleans,
’ \ t ,. . 7 i d V .ir Mobile!, 7*U* ;, Mid
ue; . ■ *:*. “h er Upland*. 7ji Miidli.g no and
l ‘lf' J T. UKk'i: pon wae ceainated at 648,-
loi b o. 11 wltieb sfi7.UW> were An#eriCau.
S r ATK f Ta iPt IN M ANCMSTFK.; —At MoilchcS-
Ut;‘ . • wa> \u i t-ivorabL, cuudiuon and pr.cee
wecetdightiy better
I.tv; .I. lißkdDsrif.r Market —Mesers.
Bih n. .V cot? & Cxi., quote Fuar firm, with
a *.i ru. i . and ‘rod hit* been experienced for
ai.'c tin: • Pvt , .ad ,, iphi.'i and Bast smoke Jl a
‘J* Oh >■ Ci Wheat quiet but firm for
.{> and: t ; K Wrtgera - r >* 6d't3d; ditto
v_ • . t i c <>- and V, hi'<j 4Veter V a f>B 4d ,
■ * \ u;t.<*ru 7■ dd. Coin duii aud firmer
,vc; qdo’v* . h -ut Ad. vis : Vrllow ‘XhMaSi*.
’’ UvPßp , ”!'il'u n Mah*.t.— Messrs. Big
A , livn A i . Richards u. ffprnc C
l, -.yt H-v soft AilUvis quctc lt--ftf heavy / a
” ... .n ,f.- .. Turk quiet, tiaenu stsauy.
.’ ~ , t , n.,u at iIH/„ P2s. Tailotr firuici
ilAVtir Makkmy -—For tbs week eiuting tbe
• t iV - ni.n* —Cotton li-m : sales of the week
-., \ , s , s , ..a bale* New Orleans
tree ordinaire IHn ira’iu - Toe ujanufactu. ing ad
viot-s are lavorable. Bteadstuhfe as slightly de
~y „! rtirouglioot France. Asli -s firm ('.offee
firm. K.sii (> # #..:rii!'v lower. Ruw steady. Sngar
lirm iaird q-.uet. V\ fa lioue null but prices un-
Vii'to, .ft I. would eeeiu 10 tie fifteen of Hearts as
ac':! sV Q leru v t Eugiaud,—for, at about th*
funstka*. we Vankoe-*, ia our “Cable excitement.' '*
* i-f 14: Uor uome iu positively affectionate
r ra . -a. liitnv—with tboec of eminent American?.
-:Lr# pt - r ) t if Prussia, whither H. 15. M. hti gone
ua a motherly visit to ber daughter, the Pniwcss,
m-ttfi! to be bl. .'•*'■ ready to worship her. A Cur
.. -pcnder.t oi the L>noiu Tixes, dating from Her
•• Wbt Qaa- :i Victoria arrived at the WJd-park
Htai-on *-! Pot warn, htr daughter, had gone
fbe fir*: moetirg in private, found her sitticg
a prodigious quantity of nosegays, for
%rbn j the Haciou-’ state comuga hardly bad room,
Aud which tue people all ai-ug the roaie had ban
FottSam lueit was tu* less ethnsia tic than that a* |
Dasft-idor!. ar c this troxaing Her M j s y Las had
to a -ovuice hersett ;r< r. tL* üßaJikbiguoo* I
i-M.a . ’oar oi tle crowd in t ©;rjets 01 Berlin, I
t: a. uLatever party ttrif**may be insure for Pros
- t uor cougifter nothing but friends here.
When Her Mab sty, who sat by the side of the
Piinco o4Pnw**o, whi.e Prince Albert aith the
Pricooes of Prussia and tbe young couple followed
m a ftfcond open carriage, had reached the Unter
<ien Licdeii avenue, at Berlin, the poople, in im
mense ua rubers, though takt-u quite by surprise,
brc'tttt to hue the road of her progresa Tne i*ry
raised here and th*re by a g'4fie individual, “Dio
Kiv-n giu von Koglaud lebe hoch!“ the rnoasee
uvh. u -with tbtxr-hurrah, and waving of hate
ad handkerchiefs grated Her Msjesty along until
tu* parly reached tbe pa&ce of the Prince of Pros
wfca u stai d* v ’• re ihe Uuttr den Linden
nvrius.'vo* ■ • - 1 u-terefbeautiful square.-
;hat occupy C uti ai part U tbe city. Tnis wa*
H . ‘irvtrc u ckck, and troin this mouieut tbe crowd
wi;uY S had a-ss&b:ed be sere the palace began
Tepidly until it most have appeared from
the* wirw^'* rß lt> e palace Hire a tea of heads.
It wh 1 soon <-' v ideT t that there was no escape from
tfe , c*huiarm <T* public, and §o the large glass
dow ?* b*ki. v was thrown open, and Her
y appear*-d’c® the ba'cocy. conducted by
?n 1* :. o| a, and lefcoowiilyl with a
fe * m kioa"> “ Pi- *1 •uintei.anee the thunder-
J ” • h w ■■'* inn..’ V<-’ v broke oat.
s, n,e writer
ty-V-v L.md wmii*. rvrfinblrt & ">• gridiron
eiruok lij{liiaing.
C hma—The Voyage up the PeLho, Ac.
The following extract! from the letter of the New
York ‘fimes China correspondent, though not so
late as the welcome news of tbe treaty of peace
and commerce, brought by the Fulton, will be found
intereefing :
. 0 Tier-siko, Saturday, May.il —Six Ecgiieb, three
1 French, and one Rusetan Bt**ani*rr are now lying be
fore the walls of Tien sing. The feasibility of
! reaching this place with vessels of considerable
j Hze, F,rne of them drawing eleven or twelve feet
| water, is a discovery equally important whether
j we consider it in a political or commercial aspect,
j It will enable Western Powers berealter, in ah
! cases of dispute with the Chinese Government, to
i apply the ultima ratio with the greatest poesibie es
* feet They have but to send & ‘.te&mer or wo to
the head ot tbe Grand Canal, and cut off the tup
-1 piiesof gram from the capital, both by canal and
river, and they will be more certain of bringing the
} Emperor to terms than if they should blockade his
nea ports and bombard his maratime cities.
It op ens a highway for western trade to his in
land emporium whence our manufactures can be
oh T ribu T ed through a thousand channels to the cities
of tbe North, and especially to Pekin, which, with
its population of mandarins, barbers, and xnercjaofe,
ie not uniikeiy to become one of our beet markets.
The ucceftfol entrance of the Pei-bo. unexpected
to ua, is astounding to the Chinese. Countless mul
tiud*H line the shores and gaze in mule astonish
nuent from dawn till dark They appear, too, to en
ter tain a wholesome dread ot barbarian power . as
the people (not the Mandarin(•) have already sent
propitiatory offerings; and commissioned their de
putise to inquire wceiher the Allies have come for
trade or war. It tbe former, they desire to know
wnat goods they have on board. If the latter, they
beg a previous notice of five days, that they may
evacuate the cVy. They have even proposed to
levy a contribution to induce them 10 retire from
the rver. This is the common resource of Chinese
cities when blockaded, as they often are, by the
piratical squadrons w .he’- infest the coast. Such a
policy encourage 4 piracy and destroys maritime
commerce. Itu d.e tL** Dyne geld of the Saxon
kings, only a bait lo invasion. That such
has been its effect in Ci.ina is obvious, from the
f&c gbat the chief sea‘- of maritime trade, such
Canton, Fochou, Ningpo Sbaughae, and Sucfaou
are not siituared as they otherwise would be, close
to the eea, but on rivers at a distance of from tec to
a hundred miles from the coast. Ea-h of these haa
a small port at the outer autnorage, near the rivers
mouth, where the principal city would naturally be,
but for the wretched policy which has forced them
to retire inland for the want of protection. Tieat
rfiug is no exception to this rule ; for it was the city
which fixed the terminus of the canal, and not the
canal which created the city. It contains a popula
tion of six cr seven hundred thousand, and stands
at tbe distance of seventy miles trom tbe coast, i?
we follow the sinuosities of the river, though it ia
not more than thirty in a direct course.
Ta koo, near the mouth of the Pei ho, is the small
port corresponding to Woo-sang aud Chinb&i. It ia
said that in the reign of Yaoukwang, just before the
tirmt war with England, some officer proposed the
erection cf additional fortifications at the entrance
of the Pei-bo. The Emperor rejected it as a mere
stratagem for embezzling money, or at be.-t a au
peiliaous waste, witnthe remara that the old fort
already there was impregnable, but if it were not,
the bar of sand stretching across the channe’ was
alone a sufficient defence against the barbarian
ships, flienfung appears to have awakened to the
importance of adding to the strength of that military
p'-st; but while he caused all the best cannon from
Tient-sing to be removed thither, he neglected to
have them placed on wheels , and what was a great
er oversight, neglected to obstruct the narrow chan
nel of the river Exclusiveism exhausted itself in
this last futile effort ; and it may confidently be pre
dicted that this commercial metropolis of the North
will never be permitted to retire into its former se
clusion ; and may even hope that the smoke of a
sleamer may nev.-r cease to betoken the presence
and energy of a higher civilization 011 the banks of
the Pei ho.
Alter the bombardment of Ttykoo, the English
and French Admirals lost no time in advancing
upon Tient-sing with all their available forces. It
was supposed they would be annoyed at every step
by fire-rufte, sunken junks, or batteries, and that,
at ail events, they would not be allowed to approach
tue wails ot Tient-sing without an engagement. A
paper picked up at Ta koo, represented the ordina
ry defences of Tient-sing as consisting of more than
sixteen hundred troops and eighty guns. But nru
aior reached us that the Emperor had committed
its defence to Sangkihlinaui, a Mongol Prince, and
the First General iu tbe Empire, with ordere to
draw together a force of thirty thousand for that,
purpose. We were, aocuidingly, on the qmvive
lor ‘ news from the river, ’ n the daily expectaii ii
ol some stirring event. But the battle ol Tient sing
was lought as Ta-koo. The Hying troops spread
everywhere the terror of Western* arms; and the
gun-boat squadron moved ri ?ht up to the ot
this, the kry of Pekin, without any delay other than
that occasioned by the untried navigation of a tor
tuous and narrow river. lodcted, bo far from mak
ing any attempt to expel these invaders, !he High
Commi-’ loner again had recourse to that contemp
tible trickery which the Chinese cull statesmanship
He had the meanness to senu an apology for firing
oq -he allied squadron on the morning ol the -Olh
iiift., and as he had formerly blamed the insult ot
tered us by the siyle of address made uhp of in his
tiled communication on tbe ignorance of his scribes,
wo in this he also laid the blame upon hi,* subordi
nates, who, he alleged, acted without orders ; add
ing, “it. never my intention to make war upon
your honorable nations ”
Bt.youd this deprecatory explanation, he even
proceeded to invite the, Ministers of the neutral
Powers to come up to Tient sing and use their good
offices with the Allies. Non committal and cau
tious, however, he merely dispatched a deputy with
a verbal message, desiring them to come by land.
To such au invitation they of course gave no heed ;
and another was soon forthcoming, requesting, iu
writing and in plain terms, that those Minsters
should repair to some place intermediate, between
the coast and the capital, and exert their influence
for the restoration of peace. You see, therefore,
that we are here, not as intruders, but. by express
invitation. It is but fair to say, however, that the
four plenipotentiaries had already agreed, previous
to the receipt of this paper, to proceed together to
Tient-sing.
It wa# on llie 2!*;h int. that this resolution waa
ramie known to us ; and hastily packing up eu< h
dollies and book# a# we might need during a trip to
Pekin, we crossed the liar tor the interior, .just one
mouth alter we had iirat, crossed it for the mouth of
the river.
Lord Elgin in the Blooey, and Baron Gros in Ihe
Dragonne, proceeded a few’ hoars iu advance ; the
other ministers botli coming in the America. Mr.
lined having accepted an invitation to t#ke passage
With Count Poutiatine, expecting that u steamer
and a guard of marine# will be dispatched to wait
on him as sooff as Commodore Tatnall shall arrive.
Wo followed in a chartered lorcha, and were kindly
taken in tow by the America.
A# we passed Ta-koo ; the gray pal! of evening
waa hung over its ruined batteries. Not one of
those banners which a low day# before had flaunted
so proudly on its walls, or one. of those guns which
had looked deliacca from its embrasures, was to be
oisooversd. A maos of ruins waa all that, met the
several miles am ve point, the villages,
without so much as a glimmering taper to indicate
the presence of a humau being, appeared to be de
serted: aud the shore#, without a tree, were in keep
ing with the prevailing air ot desolation. Further
on, however, the eye waa relieved by occasional
dumps of trees j and the. moon ri-ing. (only two
days aftor the full,) brought a cheerful change over
the face of the landscape. Her beams danced play
fully on the rippled water, and showed us the banks
clothed with groves of the graceful widows, orchards
of fruit trees, aud iields ot wheat and barley; while
a kind of Philomel, all night long, blended her notes
with the soft beauty of the scene.
The next day was Sabbath : aud as we glided
quietly with the tide, (having parted company with
me steamer during tbe night.) no sound was heard
to di; 1 urb ils stillness. The villagers who, except a
iew engaged in irrigating their flelds, appeared to
have nothing to do, assembled iu crowd# aud gazed
with silent wonder as we patsed. They were not
iu Sunday attire, aud many of the children and boys
were iu a complete state of nudity. Their villages,
built of sun-dried brick, and plastered over with a
mixture of mud and straw, sufficiently marked the
low grade of civilization attained by their inhabi
tants. .
luouiriiig the d’stance lo Tient Bing, we were
told that we hai “ five bends to pass,” a inode of
mensuration adapted lo the meandering course of
the stream. , ....
When we came to the last bend we found the
wiud dead ahead, and the current bo strong that it
was impossible to proceed. It was suggested that
some of the sturdy fellows who stood on the bank
idly ge zing at u# might be bribed to help us out of
ogr dilemma. Trackers were called for to draw ua
around the next Doint. with the promise of half a
dune per u.. )\t opee a hundred voices respond
ed. aid ah. dred hands were extended to grasp
ihe rope i ey appeared disappointed when we
limited the number to ten. We were their friends,
i; is true, but to them even our flag was not suffi
cient to distinguish ns from the beliigetents; and in
their eyes to lend ns a helping hand was no less
treason I ban to aid and abet the hostile operations
of the Allies. .
The ueit morning alter reaching tient ring, 1
met a subalter who 1 had seen at Ta-koo just be
fore the bombatdment. lie was bareheaded, hav
ing been deprived of the button ot rank, and chocs
ing rather to wear no cap than to wear one which,
without its butt, n, wott'd only proclaim his di#-
grace. Higher heads than his have suffered pun
ishment for their share of responsibility iu that un
fortunate engagement. Tile lieueral who a'lempt
cd to drown himself, hut was prevented by In# ol
lowers. will most likely suffer decollation Tae
high 0 unmis-inu-r immediately after that event,
informed the Emperor ot hi dsfeat, and bagged tor
nuuishimut. . . .
lie took ca#e, however* to concoct a ucuttonsac
count of that occurrence, in hopes ut inducing lit#
Muirs'v to refuse (ns pef.ti- n. The fight, he eani,
lasud ‘.'.t o d,t\s. On the first bo gamed some ad
vantage-. but on the next an extraordinary rise of
t e tide tick place. The barbaria s seised tbs up
portnuity to renew theira taok, and II ii#.-sly #
faithful servants were compelled to abandon tt -r
batteri'-e. rather overwhelmed by the res:t..-ss
wer-h: of the ocean, than yielding to tbe guns ot
the enemy This facile statement no doubt abated,
though it did not altogether avert the ire of iieu
fuug Commissioner Van was deprived of the m
signig of (dice, though temporarily retamed n
Charge . and what is lucky for him, he is superseded
hj* Commissioner by two jy.sD.cbus ot high rack, woo
are dni y expected to arrive .and to attempt the so
lution ot the Gordian knot winch complicates the
relations of the five thief nations of th- globe
That ifleir efforts will bt futile, or at least unsatis
factory to their master, auii that they wilt ontatn for
thflr pains bauishiueut, coniieeaUou or death, it
need* not the gift t f second sight to foretell
In view of the contingency of a somewhat pro
loogc-’ detention of this post, the Plenipotentiaries
are pteptuitg to make themselves comfortable, by
securing residence* oc share. The two belligerents
are domiciled in & commodious, and not inelegant,
structure just at ihv terminus of the Grand Canal,
and the two neutral?, whose flags now float together
at the mainmast of the America—a beatiful emblem
of international comity—have just engaged the
mansion ci a rich merchant. There are few good
buildings tq be Dad ‘La style ot an iiitectuie being
of the u*eaut-st description. Indeed, the Jew mud
plastered houses suggest anything but an idea of
oriental magnillcence ; and the saiix mloti* rabble,
who throng *he streets, iudi ate tha’ the masses oi
the people are suck in the m< at squalid poverty.
Important to Merchants—-Interest on Par
tial Payments.—As some difference of opinion
eiiste, ajid HI teelicg has been created between
merchants in St. Louis and their customers, in re
gard to tbe proper mode of computing interest upon
notes where partial pa> ineuls have, from time to
time, been made, it may be well to s?ate tbe law as
liiiu down by ti.e Supreme Court of Miss -un. ic
Kiney x. Jliil, 14 Mo.‘ page V)0, wh ch is as fol
lows :
‘ Inters?* is first to he calculate! on a demand
I up to the first partial payment, then add the in-
to ihe principal, end deduct the payment
therefrom, then cast inheres on the remainder to
| tbe second puyium- add the interest to the re-
I mainder and dedn •* T’ t- the second pay
ment. and so on ontiLh.- i<’ partial payment—nn
lee? iu any case, the ini*.: -n up to any payment,
shall exceed the payment, in which case such pay
ment U to be deducted trom the interest, ana the
excels of the interest is to be carried forward with
out casting interest thereon, to the next payment
that wi 1 discharge the excess ‘*
It has been, and ie cow the custom of many who
are not informed of the law as settled above, to cast
interest in the following manner : To calculate the
interest upon the principal from date until maturity
aud add this interest to the principal; then, in like
manner, compute interest on the several payments
irom their respective dates down to the same pe
• art! after adding the several payments and the
interest thereon together, deduct the aggregate of
the same irom the aggregate of the onginai note
aud interest.— Louis Republican.
Sense—A rough common sense pervades the
following, in wlm'-h there is certainly more truth’
them poetry :
“Great meu never swell. It is ouly three eent
individuals who are saicried at the rate of two kun
dr*d dollars a year and din* on potatoes aud dried
herring, who put on airs and flashy waistcoats, swell,
puff, blow, aui endeavor to give themselves a
consequential appearance. No discriminating per
son can ever intake the spurious for the genuine j
article. The difference between the two is as great
hfi that between a bottle ot v illegal and a bottle of
I tho pure juice of the grape. ’
Interesting from Mexico—Tampico Taken—
Gale at Brazoit Santiago, &c.
The steamship Gen. Rusk, with Brownsville pi
pere to the Ist inst., arrived at New-Orlean* on
Sunday. The new? from Mexico is interesting and
important. It appears tnat Tampico is now in pos
:>e*tiiGn of the Liberal* 4 . We take the following
trom the Ptcayun* :
Th’ Brownsville Flag, of the 2oth ult, has the j
following intelligence from Tamaulipas :
We Le.Ve a copy of tbe Kifle, from Victoria, to ]
the 1-th ir.t. It contains nothing new. Tne head- ,
quaiten* ot Gen Carvajal atiil at Tmquesue- |
qai, with the double oiject, the paper says, of ob- \
t-erving the operations of the enemy and of imped- !
mg tae traffic of the rebel city.
A company of volunteers from Camargo bod past- I
ed through Victoria to tbs army.
Gen. Alatriste waa still at 1 ospan, organizing the (
forces of that district. It w&e expected soon that j
operation? would be so arranged that ttie combined .
forces would attack Tampico. The H.tie publishes !
a scorching letter a Sr. Jose Baz, former g<v- j
ernor of tne federal district, U* Zuioago, who La*< ’
offered a reward of sh>oo for the refractory Baz, tu
which the latter, with the meet bitter humor re vie + f
the conduct of the eeh-constituted President, and
concludes by informing Zuloaga that he will not i
connive at hi? death, because he does not merit the !
honors of martyrdom, but that he does des re him to
ciuk back to that nothingness irom which he should
never have arisen.
The b lag ot the Ist inat., says :
News hae been received in Matamoros to the ef
fe< L that tne citizens and merchants of Tampico
were growing exceeding tired of being caged up,
and were making overtures to the besiegers to de
liver to them the city. The citizens, poor souls,
have iong quietly suffered simply because they
could cot help themselves, and the opulent mc-r
----c ianta, wlo have all along controlled affairs, have
deemed it to tueir advantage to hold out. But they
nave found their profits materially curtailed when
confined to the city limits ; beside? Gov. Garza La?
managed to posse?? himself of a talisman of wou
derlu; power in conti oiing their movements. Tins
talisman consists of three hundred cargoes of rich
goods. 1 hese goods are held to be of more value
to them than ineir fidelity to Zulo&ga or to Moreno,
and hence the change in their sentiments, purely,
money is king.
A letter dated ‘ Matamoros, September let, 10
o’clock,’ with which we have been favored, com
municatee the annexed impvrtant news :
“An express has just arrived from Victoria,
bringing intelligence that Tampico was taken on
ult, by Capistrau, witii -400 frontier rifle
men, a=sicted by a revolution inside. The fight
lasted four hours. No particulars yet.”
(Japistran, it is hardly necessary to mention, be
longs to the Liberal par<y.
The Flag, of the Ist inst., publishes the annexed
interesting intelligence from ban Luis Polos*. It
looks well for tne success of the Liberals .-
The following extracts from a letter written by a
gentleman at ban Luis in the Liberal army \*i;i
show the condition of affairs between the beiiigereji
parlies in the neighboring .Republic. Vouching lor
the veracity of t e writer, we dare say the news is
correct in ail particulars :
San Luis Potosi, Aug. lfi, 18o8.—I arrived at
this place with the Liberal army on the 13th inst.,
nothing having previously taken place that is worth
mentioning. At the town of Choreas, Venado, Ile
dionda, and in this city, Gov. Yidamri has been re
ceived with triumphal arches, merry pealing ol
bells, fixing ot rockets, &c., all of which was done
to demonstrate the joy that his arrival at those
places had caused.
Miramon has concentrated his forces at the Val
ley. Guanajuato. Ciloa, Celaya andQaeretaro, are
the only places held by the Reactionist chief, who
has 3,500 men at Lid command. Coboa, Perez,
Gomez, and other chiefs, have united with Mira
uiou w ith their respective forces, and you will no
tice that notwithstanding their being assembled ail
together they do not amount to tour thousand, in
cluding the forces of Lieeaga.
Our forts having been repaired and iw a belt*
condition than belore, Miramon and his allies would
meet a thorough defence if they were reckless
enough to attempt an attack upon San Luis, whose
garrison dots actually consist of 2,400 foot, and
torly pieces of artillery with the corresponding am
munition, aud above all a confidence in tbe.r
prowess, their valor, Arc., which doubles their
strength.
br. Blauc-o is stationed at Guadalajara with 1200
riflemen. Ou their way from Monterey are 1200
men of all arms. In summing up the number of
these forces, we find them to amount to 0800, all of
which ere natives of Nuevo Leon y Co&buila, ex
celling some 800 from Zacatecas aud ban Luis,
goou people, who have ere tide lought. braveiy by
the side ol the frontiersmen, and who are now’ pos
dtu td ot the rieiioe of superiority.
Coronauo had about 1000 citizens of Coahuila,
and has received orders to umto his foxes with
those at this place. With this fc-rcd ard >tuers that
will congregate during the who 00l the p-. eeent
month in this city, Gov. Vidaurri hopes lo have at
hi.*> immediate command 10,000 men. ~:fu wnich he
will beg u operations against Guauajuato and the
city of Mexico; and it may be assured that the
capital will be #*>* easily taken as was San Luis,
ihe f uv.es which are now in this place will Bally
out Hone-! time between Ihe lc>t and sth of next
mon li, while Don Santiago, theii supervisor as
ever, has iusured with actual resources, the exis
tence and pennaucey of his army whicii now has
forty pieces o: artillery here, aud fourteen more on
their way from Monterey that are to arrive within
lour or five days.
From my position 1 can take a clear view of
thing ands l-avo a thorough confidence that the
issue will be favorable to the liberal causo.
P. S.— San Luis, Aug. 16,1858 —An express has
just arrived with the news that the forces of Aram
berri have defeated those of Mejia. That, those of
Huerta .had delealed others of Miramon that were
stationed nt Salamanca That, Miramon, was on
his way to tbe city ot Mexico. That the forces of
Aramberri had goto in pursuit of the disbanded
ones off Mejia until the latter had entered Quereta
ro. The troops of Nuevo Leon had received orders
to concentrate in thus city and prepare the plan of
campaign and inarch upon Mexico. This move
ment w ill have taken place during the first part of
next month.
A financial transaction was about to take place
between Gov. Vidaurri and the Governor of Zaca
tecas, by which it waa thought the former would be
placed in possession of ample means to insure suc
cess.
The news from the American side of the Rio
Grande is interesting.
The Flag says that notwithstanding the apparent
dullness of the times, Brownsville is steadily im
proving. •
We were struck forcibly with this fact from the
expression of surprise which the other day escaped
from a gentleman who had been absent from tlie
place since 1850. Then, though mechanics’ imple
ments were heard from every quarter, and mer
chants’ wares were to be encountered in every di
rection, the buildings were of a temporary nature,
and confined to only a few squares of our embryo
city. Now those temporary woodeu and canvass
structures have given place to more substantial ones
of brick aud mortar. Where then was but thick
matted chaparral now are neat and picturesque
family residences. Where the houses w r ere then
smah aud far between they are now fast becoming
closely compact and rising above their pi imitive
one story neighbors, upon which they look down
with the seeming ostentation of wealth on poverty.
The Flag, of the Ist, has the follow ing account cf
an Indian outrage :
A friend at Roma informs us that a party of In
dians, supposed to be Camanchee, attacked a com
pany of nine persons, going from the town of Pue
blo to Lampaaoe, in Mexico. Four men werejiiil
ed, an 1 the five remaining, including a Dr. Thom
son, an American, severely wounded. A iew days
previous to this attack, says our informant, a train
of carts leaded witii fruit for Mier, was attacked by
the same tribe of Indians. One of the cartmon was
killed and several wounded.
The tlag is earnestly urging on the citizens of
Brownsville the importance of an energetic move
ment with a view’ to the construction or a railroad
from that city to the Gulf.
Ihe flag has the following extracts from a letter
from Brazos Santiago, giving au account of a fear
ful gaie at that place ou the night of the x’fitli ult. :
The wind had been varying in its course from
south Lo east ever since last June, and before ;
changed ou the 26th of August, and set in strongly
from east to northeast, raising considerable sea on
the bar. The schooner Bernard having that morn
ing made her appearance off’ Brazos bar, the pilot
and two experienced seamen w’ent outside, in order
to pilot her into port; but in this the active pilot
Idled, and perceiving the violence with which the
wind w as increasing and the immense breakers on
the bar, lie returned, leaving the shooner out?ide,
Towards evening the tide, which was rising at a
terribiqrate, washed partly over 1 lie shore, creating
smell bays, inlets. Ate. Os the inhabitants of this
place, those who had witnessed similar storms
argued no good from appearances, and busied
themselves securing their water craft, and then peek
ing the security ol their badly constructed houses
But who can describe the fury and violence of
the storm which commenced raging so soon ns
night set in! 11 if the elements, conep>rirg
warred upon humanity. The loud crash of thuu
der and the lurid flashes of lightning vied with the
fearful noise caused by the surge of the water and
the raiu. Soon the island waa covered, extending,
as it were, the bay to as far hs the eye could reach
towards the mouth of the Rio Grande, sweeping
everything in its eanul course; setting loose
planks, boards and logs, beats and skiffs adrift.
These in turn coming with force against the build
ings, battered everything before them. At last,
day light appeared in the east, and soon the wel -
come da-a n followed, aud many a prayer woe sent
up tr* Heaven for this blearing.
“I could not but deeply sympathize with tho;e ‘
who Laa the safety of their fam lies depending on 1
.them. T* ..rs fi'ltl the eyes of min! faces at the
utter helplessness or their loved ones, the fate of |
Last Island staring them iu t! “ face.
“Tow ards evening of the *7aj, the w-ad slightly j
abated, ai.d as night set in the tsue c ana r: !
lievcd us ficui ihe danger wi r h which > v were sur- j
roup.ded for the past t wenty-four born ■ H*vi toe J
water risen one foot higher our condition would j
have been almost hopeless. Even a* i write, the
watei? having nearly all eubsidei. T look with pity
on the destruction around me 1 sincerely truet
see may nut again be viciied with a aimihtr
scene. L C.
Liability of Kailkuad Companies.—A case ;
ha:’ rec-rr y been dedided, in which the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company was defendant, and a
certain John Conroy plaintiff, m which damages
were claimed fir tata! ir juries inflicted upon a wo
manat Afi-yona. The circumstances were some
what peculiar, and the verdict of the jury deve
lops anew f- ature in regard to the liability of rail -
r>iul companies. The plaintiff, with his wife and
two children, took passage on the emigrant tiain
from Philadelphia to Pittsburg. They arrived at
Altoona, when the train waa placed on tae sidetrack,
where it remained until about noon tbe next day.
when it was dropped down to its place for Etarting
west. The Holiidaysburg train came up on the
branch road from that piree, on time, as it is alleg
ed, and fter entering upon the main track, backed
up the same past the emigrant train, at some dis
tance from it. and at the moment the plaintiffs
wife, who had left the ‘after train but a few min
utes before, was crowing or walking along the
main track, she was knocked down by the backing
train and instanriy killed. John Conroy, her ad
minisfrator, brought this action to recover dam
ages for the alleged negligence of the defendants,
contending that they, by their officers, were guilty
of such negligence in the management of the back
ing train, as rendt red them liable in this action.
The jury rendered a verdict for the defendants.
Harris: hrg l*ntrjoi c y (jnen.
A Free Colored Man Rescued from Slav ery. j
—Ou Monday evening last Frank Jackson, & free i
colored man’ formerly of Lawrence county, but
who had been & Ssave in the south tor the last eight I
years, arrived in New* Castle, having been liberated I
by the High Court of Moore county. North Caro
lina. He was decoyed away from West Greenville,
Mercer county, by a Inrse drover, named Charles
May, who sold h:m in Lynchburg. A a , about 1850,
s.uoe which time he has passed trom hand to hand
about twelve times. &l prices var> leg trom five hun
dred to one housand aoiiars. At length, through
the aid of G. (_ Mendenhall, Esq., of Jamestown.
N. C , his case tame to trial m Moore county. G. C.
Morgan. Esq., of New Castle, having been sect on
through the lnetrumentality of Passmore William
son and others, of Philadelphia, identified Fr&Lk in
court, and he waa liberated aud returned with his
liberators, as stated.— Putsf> irg Vo*t.
Shocking Death of a Young Lady.— A dis
patch. dated Holiidaysburg. Pa.. Sept. 2d, says
Miss Matilda Caldwell, daughter of JudgaCald
well, met with a shocking death last night. She had
been at a wedding at the huuse of Rev. L oyd
Knight, and was returnirur home about 11 o'clock
in a vehicle driven by a youug man named Wertz.
The horse took fright at a light in front of Confer s
tavern, in this place, and ran off. Tbe rein broke
iu the effort to stop him, ana Mr. Wertz then jump
ed out to try and arrest his progress. The horse
wheeled suddenly aud ran down the street about a
hundred yards. Miss Caldwell leaped out, and fell
with violence upon her head. She was taKen up
insensible and earned to her home, where she ex-
pired at 2 o'clock this morning, having never epo
ken a word from the time the accident occurred.—
She a beautiful and amiable girl of about twen
ty years of age.
A Capital KetußT. — I knew Mr. Linoeln in
eariy life. He commenced his life as a grocer.’
Douglas.
‘ The only difference between Judge Douglas and
myself on the grocery question is, that while I have
stood on one side of the counter, he has been equal
ly attentive on the other.- Lincoln.
Koisisncc of Keal Life—The Slave of the
Bourne.
Ii men would to profit by others’ experi
ence, and reap wisdom without exposure to exnaus
: ting fatigue, and the dangire of sun-strokes, the ne
o.ro;os.rieal chronicle of the week wou and assure the
; happiness of many a man. But such is not human
| nature. No one heeds the warnings of his prede
! ceseore; the heat of the day must be borne, the fati
| gues met, the sun encountered, let come what may
i —even death itself!
A few days ago au humble hearse, unattended by
rabbi or other officer o f the synagogue, and follow
i and by only three gentlemen, bore to the Hebrew
! Cemetery, which forms a part of Pere la Chaise,
j tbe boay of a suicide. Violence alone could have
i broken go early as forty that robust constitution
; which fiad been carefaliy strengthened by manly
j exercises. HH lamily were independent if fortune,
• aud the earlier years of hie life had passed away iu
j lhat freed m from care—the first bkssing of the
| children of provident men. Being a Jew*, he, I had
j almost said 4 uaruraliy, entered business and made the
: possession of wealth the object of his ambition.
; The Exchange appeared to him the best theatre
for the exercise of his energies, and he became one
ofitsdaiiy frequenters. He had his tribe’s talents
i for making money, and or a good many years he
made ten. cr fiftecu or twenty thousand dollars, as
| the year happened to be fair, good, or excellent.
The possession of a hundred thousand dollars made
him bold, and raised his ambition. Then he began
to lead tbe life of the true children of the Bourse—
itiat life of killing anxiety, of corroding
the life of the men rich to day, and Witii dishonor,
bankruptcy, staring them iu the lace to mo r row.
All gambling tables are alike in showering nothing
bu favors ou beginners, who resort to their green
baize for pastime, and m-t from necessity ; and
when once the inetamorphosid is complete, and the
beginner becomes the votary and the pastime be
comes the labor of life, then comes a strange vicissi
tude of frowns and smiles wearing away the springs
of fife.
Twelve or fifteen years this gentleman lore these
cruel oscillations of fortune. He waa pleased with
them at first—what anxiety does not give pleasure
to the storm sheltered heart aud head over which
the spring of life had not yet passed away forever!
But when life advanced, and he found this dizzy
see-saw continue, nay, increase, and that there was
no rest to be Attained ou Change ; when he saw
that iurtune favors with most alacrity young men
aud rich purses; when he eaw calculation after cal
culation defeated, project after project thwarted,
he gave up the uneven game. In vain his parents
(who saw him become haggard and morose,) en
gaged him to quit the Bourse, to enter some new
branch of trade, to marry and have a home, a quiet
hearht, where by the side of an amiable, sensible
wife, he ..ould know peace once mord 1 .
He would accept their views and attempt to car
ry them into execution; but when the moment
came, and the locus peaitenliir was reached, he re
fused to move another step, and exclaimed : “No,
no, no, I cannot lead that life now: I must liave
this fever of Change ; I must have these sleepless
nights, these Lairassed days, this burning brain,
this throbbing heartand back to the Bourse he
went to lose again until all the fortune he had * mass
ed went franc by franc info that bottomless abyss.
What a lesson aoea this read to those whose years
are still so tender as to bend to any habits one may
choose to give them; telling them that good habits
once formed and clung to, involuntarily grow to be
part and parcel of a man's very nature, (which “is
but a bundle ol habits.’’)
Pereuade the boy who has tramped the streets with
a heavy organ on his bark and a monkey in his
breast, iiving on crusts of bread aud kitchen offal,
crouching in garrets, aud beaten if the cents have
not fallen last enough into his tin plate—persuade
this boy to leave this squalid life for the comfortable
home and regular life of the artisan; if lie has
tramped ihe streets for three years, he will quit your
comforts tor his misery, which habit has flavored
with so sweet a savor ! So the unhappy slave of
tbe Bourse returned to his misery. At last, alter
many a struggle, he grew tired to death of the mon
otony of the agitation. Sunday morning he cleaned
and loaded his pistol. He wrote a long letter in his
usual band, expressing his last wishes. He stated
where his money would be found—how his iron safe
was to be opened.
He gave directions that his furniture should be
Bold to pay the £BOO lie owed; aud he said that he
did not kill himself for this miserable sum of money,
but because he was tired of life, fatigued by the
number of emotions he had experienced, and the
knowlege lie had obtained by his various fortunes
that there was no such thing as happiness in the
world. He locked this letter iu hia secretary, and
made morning calls on his friends, and on the gay
actresses wi'li whom he had shared so many jovial
.-uppers. Towards the close of the day he took the
railway and went to the village, a few miles from
Paris, where his pareuts reside. He dined with
them, as it was the village fde ) he danced on the
village green with Home neighbors. The last (10
o’clock) train brought him back to Paris. He call
ed on a frieud, and then he played picquet with the
tainily until eleven o’clock, winning frequently.—
He w’-c* congratulated on his success. **Yes,”he
replied, “this h my lucky day.” He went home
when tho company separated. The next morning
li*s Wits found in his parlor dead. He had shot him
self in the left temple. A-i he expressly ordaiued tha:
h’fl funeral should be strictly private and unattend
•d by the rabbi, lie wan carried to hia grave only
by three intimate friends.
From ti,£. Detroit Free Press. Sept. 5.
4 L.nntf Concealed Murder Brought so Eight*
We gave an account, some months since of the
discovery of the remains of a human being iu the
woods some fifteen miles from this city, in the‘own
ship of Taylor. The remains consisted of bones
which had been exposed to the weather for such a
length oi time,that they were entirely devoid of
flesh. These, with fragments of clothing, were col
lected and preserved. The search being continued
a vaiisi was also found, which, upon investigation,
revealed a number of articles, among others quite
a stock of letters, which were published iu the Free
Press with a view to ascertaining, if possible, the
identity of thecad. So far from supposing that
the case involved any mystery, it was merely thought,
that the person, whoever he was, had wandered off
in a lit ol insanity and died in the woods. Facta de
veloped themselves different y, however.
But a ehort time elapsed before we received let
ters from friends and relatives of the unfortunate
man, giving a statement which set the matter in a
new light, and demanded attention at once. By
these accounts it was ascertained that the remains
were, beyond a doubt, those of a Mr. John Hickey,
a railroad freight conductor, recently, at the time
of his death, trom Union Point, Georgia. The cir
cumstances, as given us by his relatives, residing at
Milford, Connecticut, wore as follows:—Hickey left
Connecticut in July, 1858, in company with an
Irishman named John Kennedy, intending to go to
Chicago. He took with him about $1,500 in gold,
the result of his savings at the South. Kennedy
had no money, and Hickey paid hia fare (or him
Nothing more waa heard from them until the fol
lowing October, when Hickey’s relatives received
a letter from Kennedy stating that he had returned
to New York, and that Hickey had gone to Ireland
He enclosed the key to Hickey’s trunk, and stated
that when they got to Detroit, Hickey changed his
mind and concluded logo to Ireland, leaving his
trunk aud other personal property in his hands, to
be returned to his relatives.
The absurdity of tbe*e statements at once arous
ed suspicion, but, as Hickey’s friends were of the
poorer class of people, no steps were taken to ar
rest Kennedy. The discovery of the remains and
publication of the letters in The Free Press, which
were signed by the persons from whom we receiv
ed communications, disclosed the facts, revealing
to us the existence ot an enormous crime, and to the
friends of the murdered man the locality and the
perpetrator of the murder. The latter was known l
to be in Charleston, S C., at. the time of these de
velopments. doing n ithing, and sporting plenty of
raoijey. He had wriiteu from that place a second
letter, reiterating his former statements, and ren
dering suspicion stronger by tho anxiety he mani
fested to cover up crime. As the matter was one
of the greatest importance, the ie ters were at once
placed in .he hands of Messrs. Tuttle and Champ,
private detectives of this oity, and it was left for
them to prosecute. Communication was establish
ed with the police of Charleston, 8. C. with direc
tions to arrest Kennedy.
Several weeks had elapsed, however, and in the
meantime the Free Press had found its way there,
and Kennedy had become informed of the discove
ry of his crime The mayor of Charleston wrote to
this city that Kennedy had decamped a few days
previous to the receipt by him of directions for his
arrest. He was lost sight of here. A few days af
terward word came from Milford that Kennedy had
arrived in New York city, and was staying “there
with relatives. Officer Champ at once started lor
New York, aud with the aid of ex-Chief Mataell's
independent police agency, after several days’
search, found that the murderer was again out of
reach, having gune West after a slay of a day or
two iu New York. Mr. Mataell a* once established
system espoiuage which was calculated to entrap
him if he ventured to return or communicate with
his friends in that city, and officer Champ returned.
The private police agencies in all the principal
cities in the Union, from Boston to New Orleans,
were notified of the case, and placed on their guard.
These extended efforts soon produced a further de
velopment. through the agency of Messrs. C. P.
Bradley Y Co.’s detective police agency in Chica
go. These energetic detectives succeeded iu i rac
ing the murderer to Joliet 111, and sent an officer
down to apprehend him. Again the agent of jus
tice was too Utc, aud the mortifying intelligence
was returned that Kennedy had received a letter
three days before Irom triends at Charleston, S C.,
warning him of his danger. He a!, once t ok to
flight, and l.a? not since been heard from. This oc
curred in June last.
We have here a case whi ;h does not often occur.
A man is murdered, robbed and left in the wood?,
in the midst of a swamp. The murder remains a
secrer. tor nearly a year, and is finally revealed by a
dog which brings the skull or the murdered naan to
his master, having kuaw&d it for his supper. The
letters found reveM tho name of the murdered man
I nnri the murdeie*, after the piieoce of months had
r >i-ri upon the terrible deed. The murderer 13
; tia; k'*d from one extremity of tbe Union to the
; •-li.c-r, three times rcapes as if by the interposition
j <•[ a supernatural aid, and ptii! remains at liberty.
The proofs that can be brought, against him are
• verwhelmiug, a-.id would result in his conviction if
in- 1 ul*i be found. The facts until now haw, been
4-oufiuei to those firet cogn.r-aut of them, but, bo
long a time having elapsed, the propriety of making
them public is do longer doubtful. The murderer
is thought to be somewhere in the North, probably
iu lihuo.s or some other Western state. Publicity
through the medium of the press may revetfl hia
whereabout, which e-em 9 unlikely to be found in
any other manner. Tnoee of our brethren in the
profession who will inquire for tbe whereabout of
John Kennedy, murderer will serve the cause of
justice, and aid in bringing a viil&iu to punishment.
The following is a description of him Twenty
five years old, stout built, rather now-logged, about
five feet eight inches in Liight, dark ha>r and light
beard. Two very large upper teeth in the front
row will mark him conspicuously.
A Murderer Respited on the Eve of Execu
T ios.—The Columbus (Ohio) Statesman says : The
crowd assembled about the jail at Coluinbu*, on
Friday, lo be near the banging of Myers, was largo,
and men, women and children stood around tor
three hours in a drizzling ran, waiting ior the exe
cution come off. The prisoner was to have been
brought from his cell at I‘2| o’clock : the rope was
adjusted upon the scaffold, aud the arrangements
were complete. Ihe sheriff was in the act of bring
ing the prisoner out to prepare him ior the drop,
when the respite was received. The announce
meet to outsiders was greeted by no cheer* ond no
murmurs. At * o’clock the Secretary ot the Gov
ernor read tfie respite to the prisoner, and asked if
he accepted cr rejected it. M era could not at once
answer such an important question, but finally con
cluded tha: he would reject the respite, saying that
he bad received hi sentence and was ready to be
hung. lie evinced no enioton whatever, and ap
peared o regard the rer.pite granted him with the
same icdiffeience &s he did tbe sentence of the
! court. The questiou as to whether it was lawful
and proper to reprieve a condemned man against
his will urderwent considerable discussion on the
; street yesterday. Tne chaplain of the penitentiary
visited My ere cell several times, but he maintained
his stoical indifference throughout.
The Free Negro Nuisance.— We see it stated
that there are two agents or commissioners of the
Emperor of Hyti now travelling in this country in or
der to induce the free negro dopnlation of our country
to emigrate to tha: i-land, ar.d also to urge upon the
merchants of New Y'ork and Boston the advwitages
which American commerce would ‘derive from a
tine of packets between Port au Prince and those
cities. With the first named object we sympathise
most heartily. We hope, most earnestly, that they
will be eminently successful in relieving this coun
try of that degraded portion of our population.—
Tee free negro? are an insufferable and an abomi
nable nuisance wherever they are allowed to exi3t.
Several States have abated the whole Kangaroo
tribe, and we hope others will follow their example,
Pennsylvania, among the reef more especially. W e
hope to see the time when there will be no negroe
in this country but such as have legal and constitu
tional guardians to restrain their insufferable arro
gance and unblushing impudence. We go for the
emigration system, and we are ready to contribute
our mite to the furtherance of the deaired object.—
Phtia. Pennsylvanian.
For Scolding Wives.—a carpenter hod been
for some time repairing a dwelling whose mistress
is a reputed termagant. Listening to her as she
vented her wrath on her good natured “old man,’
the other day, Shavings tamed to us and seriously
said . “ If I hod such a wile as that, I’d ‘point her
son ral to-morrow t two o ciook, and, by J-o-o-k-s,
the corpse would be ready!”
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WEEKLY
QLjjtomck it* Jkttttncl
AUGUSTA. GA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 15, fs5S.
froß interesting Commercial and other Intelli
gence, see Third and Fourth pages.
Health of Augusta.
NV e need ouiy refer our friends to the following
report of the Board of Health for the week euding
Thursday last:
Mayor’s Office, City Hall. I
September 9th, 1858. S
The Sexton reports five deaths for the last week
end ng on tbe 9?h day of September. Whitest?,
blacks 3, adults 2, children 3.
Diseases of which they died —Cholera Infantum,
2 ; Inflammation of the Bonfela, 2; Paralysis. 1
Total 5.
Published by order of the Board of Health.
Same. H. Crump,
Secretary Board Health.
\ ellow Fever in Savannah.
On Monday morning last in consequence of the
prevalence of a report in this city that Mr. John B.
Ci bbedge had died in Savannah by yellow fever,
the Ageut of the Associated Pres3 promptly tele
graphed to Mr. \\ . T. Thompson, the Chairman cf
the Board of Health in that city, informing him of tin*
existence of the report, and at the same time ask
ing him if the report was true. To this disjfktch
the following reply was received :
Savannah, Sept. 13, IS s.
To Mr. Wm. H. Pritch \rd :
The attendant physician, Dr. Charters, reports
that Mr. John B. Cubbege’s was a case of yellow
fever. Since Wednesday four or five sporadic cases
of yellow fever have been reported.
The physicians here pronounced the fever of a
mild type, and not existing as an epidemic.
All cases will be officially reported by the Board
of Health on Wednesday.
W. T. THOMPSON,
Chairman Board Health.
Health of Chnrleiitoii.
The official report of the number of deaths in
Charleston for tbe week ending Saturday lest, shows
a total of 128—103 of which were from yellow fe
ver, showing au increase of 30 over the previous
week. Os tho deaths by yellow fever, 78 were
white adults, 22 white children, 1 colored adult, and
and 2 colored children.
Yellow Fever in New Orleans.— The number
of deaths by yellow fever in New Orleans for the
thirty hours ending Monday noon, filh inst., were
100; for tho twenty-fours ending Tuesday noon,
76; Wednesday, 49 ; Thursday, G 4.
The Atlantic Telegraph Cable.
We are under obligations to Mr. Albert Hatch,
of this city, lately returned from New York, for a
section of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable, procured
from Messrs. Tiff ary & Go., Jewelers, of New
York, who purchased the remainder c f tho cable
from the Directors. Those of olir readers who have
p.ot yet seen it, can have an opportunity of doing so
by calling at our office.
Yellow Fever in Charleston.— The Charles
ton Courier gives the following comparative slab -
ment of the weekly reports of mortality from yellow
fever, in that city, for the seasons of 1851, 185 C,
and the expired portion of tuo present acasou :
1851. 1 1856. 1858,
August 19 4 I August 9 1 August 7
August 26—.20 J August 1G 5 August 14 G
September 2.26 August 23 3 August 21.-.28
September 9.70 August 30 7 August2B...39
Sept. 16 127 September 6.16 Sept. 4 73
Sept. 23....118 Sept. 13 16
Sept. 30 72 Sept. 20 24
October 7 53 Sept. 27 24
October 15...48 October 4...32
October 21... 31 October 11.. 23
October 28... 23 October 18.. 24
November 4.. .8 October 25.. 16
November 11. 6 November 1.5
November 1i.,3 November 8.4
Novembei 25..5 November *5 5
November 22.1
‘T0ta1....614
206
Yellow Fever in Vicksburg.— Extract from a
letter from Vicksburg, Miss., dated August 27th,
1858 :
“ Our citizens are scattering in every direction
to-day, in consequence of yellow fever among us.
I 8 form is very malignant.”
Thomas Singletary.— The Dispatch of Thurs
day afternoon says : —We were agreeably surprised
this morning by a visit from this old veteran Prin
ter and Traveller. Ilis hair is of a lightet color than
formerly, and hia sight has in a measure failed him.
He is quite spruce in his dress, and informs us he is
on his Southern and Western tour —hia last place
of stoppage being Coulumbia, having passed
through Baltimore, Washington City, Raleigh and
Camden. We believe lie Brill rides Shank’s Mare
on Li? perambulations, aud we bespeak for him a
warm reception from the craft, in the different ci
t ies through which he may paos. He is a veteraD,
and we expect he has out-travelled any man in the
United States, who has not resorted to stage coach
es, railroads, or any other conveyance.
Despatches from Washington state that Sir Wm.
Gore Ouseley has been ordered to Central America
by the British Government. He has already left
Washington, and will proceed to Central America
.as soon as the season is sufficiently advanced to
permit of his so doing with safety.
Death from Fright. —A young lady of nine
teen, daughter of Mr. llaywood, of Esopus, N. Y\,
died on the 3d inst., from lright, caused by being
in a wagon while the horses were running away.—
When the vehicle was stopped she was taken out
insensible, and expired in a few moments.
The Two Telegraph Messages. —The Queen’s
and the President’s telegraphic measages are tra
veling in French and German over tho North of
! Europe. The London Daily News has no idea
that England will respond to Mr. Buehauan’s re
quest for the neutrality of the telegraph.
The Atlantic Telegraph —ltia stated, as the
reason why the Atlantic telegrlph is not yet in
operation, that the Whitebouse telegraph machine
has been given up as iiiHuffioieut, and that Prof-
Thompson, of Edinburg, is so try his system. If
he should fail, th j Hughes instrument is then to be
tried.
A Case of Hardship.— Justice moves very
slowly in Guilford, Conn. Some sir weeks ago, a
girl was charged with stealing a diamond pin worth
SIOO, and was committed to await her trial for the
theft. The pin, which had not been stolen, but on
ly lost, waa found within ten days after the charge
was made, and yet, it is staled, tbe girl still remains
in jail.
Appetites at Watering Places.— The Sarato
ga News informs its readers that, their three hotels
have paid, during the season (about ten weeks.) for
butchers’ meats, beef, mutton and veal, $16,000.
They have paid for poultry, $3,200. Os butter they
have used 60,000 pounds ; and of eggs over 30,000
dozen. At one house 12 000 chickens were swal
lowed, besides about 400 turkeys and 825 grown
fowlH.
Firing into a Regiment.— The Cologne Gazette
says, that during ths late military mjuiovrvres at j
tbe camp of Neuukirchen, near Vienna, an incident j
took place, the motives of which have not yet, beeii <
cleared up. The Hungarian regiment, Don Miguel, ;
tired ball cartridge on a German regiment drawn s
up in front of it, killing three men aud seriously
wounding others.
The First Message in London. —The London
Times publishes the first news message received in
that cily by thf* cable, as follows :
“Newfoundland, Aug. 25,12:53 A. M., /
Greenwich Time. >
“Persia takes Suropa'a passeugera and mails.—
Great rejoicings everywhere wore solemnized 111 the
Cuffed .Spates ou the success of the cable Bonfires,
fireworks, fuex de jou\ speeches, bails, &c. Mr.
Eddy, tho that and oest, telegraph-:? in tae States,
• lied iiO-day. p tav #ive ns (some cev/s ior New
fouudlatui; ttstjy are mad for news ’
George Jewbold Esq , Pre-id rids tbe Bauk
of America, New York dud iu Philadelphia on
Wednesday last. Mr. N ..ii a long period been
considered as the leading man in the financial circles
of New York. lie entered the Bank of America as
one of tkediree-ors in tha year 1812 was elected
Cashier in the year 1815, at the time Mr. William
Bayard wa3 President, and in 1832 was elected to
the latter office, a position which he held until hie j
death.
LrBERly OF THE PRESS IN MEXICO.—Toe gOV
eminent of Mexico does not have any very exalted
opinion <ri the freedom of the pi ess. I f . has just
Heed tht editor of the Mexican Extraordinaiy'one
thousand dollars, and ordered him not to publish
any political new of the country on pain of more
severe penalties, banishment, imprisonment or
something of that kind. Ail of the other indtpen
dent journals have been eilenced, but none fined.
Heavt Damages. —A suit is pending in Bristol,
Eng., in which Wm. H. Magac. a member of Par
liament, froia Ireland, is sued by Miss Miles for 1
$50,006 damages for breach of promise. The let
ters wh'.-h passed between the parties were so nu
merous that the plaintiff had them printed and
bound in a book.
Perry’B Flag Ship —The remains of the Flag
Ship Lawrence, of Perry’s Fleet, are being raised
b> Captain Van Norman with hia wrecking ma
chinery. a large portion of the hull has heen taken
RP- The timber is in good condition, notwithstand
ing the fact that it has laid in the water for a long
series of years. Some of the planks and heavy
timbers bear the marks of cannon balls and art
considerably shattered. *
Death of Ex-President Monagas.— A letter
from Maracaibo, received in Boston, says:—“Ex
President Monagas, after he was given up by the
British Minister, with whom be Lad taken re!uge
was sent as prisoner to the Castle of San Carlos
near Maracaibo. While a prisoner in the fort or
castle, bad food, bad air, and exceseive heat, brought
on an attack of dysentery.
A Comet.—The Savannah Repulican says that
the Captain and Purser of the steamer Wm. Sea
brook report, that on Saturday morning about four
o’clock, eaw a very bright comet, situated due east
about one and a half degrees above the horizon.
Hon. Gaiusha A. Grow has been nominated
unanimously, in the Fourteenth Congressional Dis
trict, Pennsylvania, for a fi th term in Congress.
Turkish Justice.—The Turkish colonel who re
fused to interfere ia behalf of French and English
oongila at the late massacre in Jeddah, has been
degraded to the ranks, and sent to a distant pro
vince.
New Hook*
Arts of Beauty ; or, Secrets of a Lady's Toilet.—
With Hints to Gentlemen on the Art of Fascina
ting. By Madame Lola Montez, Countess of
JLandsfeldt. Dick Fitzgerald, New York.
This bock contains an account, in detail, of all the
arts employed by fashionable ladies for the purpose
lof developing and preserving their charms. Inde
pendent of its rare and really useful matter, the
book is a curiosity as a piece of art, itself, for the
most delicate subjects are handled with a skill and
an unexceptionable propriety of language, which
are really surprising. Toe hints to gentlemen on
ftie art of fascinating form one of the most amusing
and biting pieces of irony and sarcasm that was
ever written.
Medical Work*.
North American Medico Chirurgical Re
view.—The September number of this valuable
Bi-Monthly is promptly on our table, and we take
great pleasure in commending it to the profession
(i3 all invaluable work, and the only one of the kind
in this country, and ought to be sustained liberally
in fact, it is a work of merit. It is conducted
with great ability, and has a list ot co-laborers un
equaled in point of ability by any work in this coun
try. We therefore commend it to the profession —
particularly these who desire to keep pace with the
science.
It is edi‘ -by Professors Gross & Richardson,
and published in Philadalphia by J. B. Lippincott
& Cos., at per annum, in advaueo.
Southern Medical and Surgical Journal.—
The September number of this work has been on
our table some days We have so repeatedly ex
pressed our opinion of the ability with which this
work is conducted, that we only deem it necessary
to say, that it con ur to sustaiu its high charac
ter as a journal, r. - a should be on the shelf ot every
physician.
It is edited by Professor 11. V. and Robert
Campbell, M. D, and published by Jeremiah
Morris, in this city, &l si per annum, iu advance.
New Orleans Medical News and Hospital
Gazette. —The September number of this truly
valuable Medical journal i?. promptly on our table,
freighted with its usual variety of original and
miscellaneous matt*, r. We find among the original
communications one from Professor Austin Flint,
of the New Oilcans School of Medicine, on the
Clinical study of the sounds of the Heart, which is
truly admirable. VV. commend it and the journal
to the profusion a< one among the best in the
Southern country. The selections for this journal
are well made, at,u all the communications arc con
densed, and energetically written.
3i is ii< dby Professors I>. Warren Brickki.l
and K. D. Fenner, both of the New Orleans School
of Medicine. Subscription price s•> per annum, in
advance. Address I). Warren Brickki.l, 105
Caiviidelel; street, New Orleans, La.
Slavery Discussion. —A dispatch dated Phila
delphia, Sept. sth, says : —The great slavery tourna
ment between Parson Brownlow, of Tennessee,
and Rev. Abram Pryne, of New England, will
commence on Tue&ay evening next, and continue
live successive evenings. Both gentlemen are in
the city. Mr. Browillow is unfortunately afflicted
with the bronchitis, but will not withdraw. His
arguments will bo read by some competent man.
The Slavery Debate in Philadelphia.—The
Slavery debate between Parson Browulow and
Rev. Mr. Pryne was continued Wednesday eve
ning A number of Southern students were pre
sent.
Parson Brownlow said he wished to be understood
! as i >t demolished by Mr. Pryne’s rejoinder. He
| would soon crack his armor by holding up the Scrip
tures. It was not to be expected that he (Brown
low) iu opening the debate should treat upon the
whole subject, but he (Pryne) would hear enough
before the debate was closed. Parson B. then
made copious extracts from the Bible, recognizing
the relations of master and slave. He was in favor
of treating, working and whipping slaves well. Ilia
quotations from Revelations, recognizing the ap
pearance of a freeman and a bondman at the last
day, created a great sensation and applause lie
contended and endeavored to prove that slavery
had brought more negroes into the church than all
the missionary projects combined ; that the institu
tion ot slavery was a divine manifestation for
christianizing the negiorace; that slavery could
only work this improvement, and therefore its per
perratiou was, in accordance with the Divine will,
necessary to humanity.
Alluding to Mr. i'rynes remark that until slavery
was abolished the Union would rock, and Souhern
ers be obliged to sleep with pistols under their pil
lows, he replied that. Southerners only need tear
their negroes who possessed, by education, some o!
their own spirit. If the Southerners only had Yan
kees to fear they never need sleep wito anything
worse under their pillows than “spiked ‘gimDiets.”
Bui if there over was an invasion of theSoulh, and
his opponent was one of the invaders, he (Brown
low) would be pleased lo know bis regiment that
“Greek may meet Greek,” and have “a tug oi
war.”
Mr. Pryne followed with a great number of Scrip
tural rejoinders.
Parsun Brownlow hopes to be able to speak him
self to marrow evening.
The debate is creating considerable excitement..
The Slavery Debate Between Parson
Brownlow and Rev. Mr. Pryne.— A dispatch
dated Philadelphia, Sept. 7, says -The debate on
the question, “Should American Slavery be perpe
tuated ! was opened this evening at the National
Guards Hall. The attendance was not very large,
but included a lew negroes. The debate was com
menced by Parson Brownlow, iu a speech read by
Gen. Small, of this city. The argument contained
the strong sarcastic and humorous language for
which Brownlow is remarkable, ami was written in
his usual loose and careless style, but unfortunately
was not given with that peculiar emphasis for
which he is noted, lie argued that the perpetuation
of slave?y is necessary to humanity and sanctioned
by God, and will exi3t to the end of time. The
biblical extracts for proof of the argument were
numerous. lie would make no defence of “that
vile traffic, the slave trade,’’ although he believed
its evils were exaggerated. The latter part of the
speech handled that unmitigated generation of
human beings, the abolitionists, without gloves,
creating applause and hisses. In fact the desire to
ridicule its opponents, weakened the argument.
Rev. Mr. Pryne followed in an argument of some
forcffHßgainst slavery. Both speakers are evidently
reserving their strength for the cldse.
The Honey Crop in Illinois. —The Peoria, 111.,
Transcript remarks that, among the peculiar iuci.
dents connected with the present season is the fact
that the bees have not increased. No hive in that
section has swarmed. This is attributed to the wet
weather, which has deprived them of their usual
pasturage, and in many places they merely sustain
ed life by having access to cultivated flowers.—
Large numbers are supposed to have died through
actual starvation. Blossoms on the bottoms end
low grounds l ave been almost entirely destroyed ;
those on the trees were washed off by the rains < r
blasted, while in only a very few instances lms the
wild or cultivated rose come to perfection. Under
these circumstances the yield of honey is likely to
be very small.
The New York correspondent of the Charleston
Cow rier says .—During the late commercial crisis,
Messrs. West, Caldwell &. Cos., of 1 iis city, yielded
to the pres-ure, and, in compromising with their
creditors, paid tifty cenls on the dollar. Soon af
terwards they found t heir business so improved that
they were enabled to pay the full amount of their
indebtedness, whioh they did with interest. In ac
knowledgment of this -are and praiseworthy con
duct, the creditors, on Tuesday evening last, pre
sented tho wives of tits above named gentlemen
several handsome pieces of plate, valued in ail at
■ over two thousand dollars. The presentation was
| n ode the occasion of a pleasant reunion and inter
j change of friendiy and honorable sentiment, and
j passed oft’ with trial.
I “CiPTiNo” K,vi irk in Trouble Alain. —The
; g&iiant Zouave i,< likely to get into fresii trouble uu
! less lie desists writing phillippies to the city jour
nals, tailing lie people of Mobile cowards, &c. A
Mr. Louis E Grant, writes to the Express from the
Metrop llitan Hotel, that being the friend ol Capt
H. Maur, ,of Mobile, if Capt. Riviere isanxiouH for
satisfaction, he can be accommodated at the ear
lie.-1 convenience, provided the gallant Zouave
selects a gth/ltHian to do whatever lighting may l.e
necessary.
Mr. Morphy.— The London Critic says that
when Mr. (Staunton was first challenged to play Mr
Morphy, the youcg player, the sum
named was £10(10, because it. was expected that
Mr. Staunton would meet his antagonist in America,
and it was thought a smaller sum ought not to be
ottered to a veteran chess,player. When, however,
Mr. Morphy came to England, the sum was re
duced to £SOO, by mutual consent. We are given
to understand that Mr. Morphy’s money is posted,
bnt. that Mr. Staunton’s is not ■, and there is a very
confident feeling among chees players that, since
Mr. Morphy s success in opposition to Herr Lowen
tbal, Mr. Staunton’s anxiety for the match will not
be augmented.
A Home Thrust.—The Washington eorrespon
dent of tho Baltimore Sun makes the following per
tinent inquiry:
The heavy expenditure which must arise before
the final disposal of the African negroes rescued
from the slaver Echo will doubles torn the minaa
of our srulesinen to the whole subject ot interler
ence with the slave trade. Why should we keep
up a sqadron on the coast of Africa, a’ a yeaily ex
pense ot at lea3t ball a million of dollars, when so
great powers as France and England are carrying
on the slave trade under the name of apprentice-
I ship!
The Philadelphia Ledger remarks that the Cable
demonstration, or National Jubliee, on Wednesday
did not extend furtner South than Philadelphia.—
Notwithstanding that the cable is to “benefit cot
ton ’’ the Southern mind seems to have a strong im I
preision that it may be used for purposes of private
speculation. Hence there was no public demon- |
stratien in that qurter, and the Southern press say
the Northern cities are a little demented to be mak
ing each a fuss over a work which is so liable to
abuse, and the temptations to mismanage which
are eo very strong.
The “Little Corporal ’’—The Imperial infant
of France has been named corporal in the regiment
of the Guards, to which he belongs, and in which
he was la-eiy fusileer. The promotion was made
by the colonel, and took place on the day he was
two years and a half old. The “little corporal’’
marched around the palace of St. Cloud, on that
day in hia uniform.
Imports of Dry Goons at New Yoßg.-The im
ports of foreign dry goods at New York for the live
weeks ending September 2-3 qre $ 11,574,510 .—The
total imports of dry goods since the beginning of
the year are *04,438,120 less than the same period
of 1850, but only 1,282,743 less than for the same
period of 1855. The Journal of commerce says:
If the imports continue at this rate throughout
the season the government will not need another
loan. Most of our importers have been looking for
a sudden cessation in receipts, but as yet there are
no indication* of each a change. Our market, how
ever, will not bear as great weight* ad formerly,
and the accumulated snrplus abroad is not as large
as in days past, so that some decline in the imports
may reasonably be expected.
The Staten Island Quarantine Mob— Latest
viccOMW/s.—All was quiet on Staten Island up to
Sunday night, though it was feared the buildings on
the outside of the walls of the quarantine hospital
would be fired, as a large and threatening crowd
had assembled in the vicinity. The police were still
on guard. No new cases of yellow fever had oc
curred within the enclo?ure, but there were two
deaths on Saturday night J. Vanderbilt, a brother
of Com. Vanderbilt, is among the prisoners arrested
for alleged complicity in the riot. Ray Tomkins
whose arrest was mentioned, is a son of the late
Hoi D. C. Tomkins, formerly Vice-President of
the United States, and a Urge o wner of property on
Staten Island A correspondent of the Tribune,
writing from the Island. Monday afternoon, says :
The only result that has beeu effected by the in
cendiaries has been the deprivation of the sick of
good accommodations; to leave them unsheltered
for a time until the new buildings are compi led
within the same limits—the mur ;er of Matthews,
and probably causing the deaths of some oi the
sick by the exposure to which they have been sub
jected. No deaths occurred yesterday, but Dr.
Walser informs me that one of the yellow lever pa
tieirs must die to day. Perhaps I ought to say t hat
another result has been propitiated by the conduct
ot the rioteis which is inentible an increased taxa
tion upon Richmond County for the damage done
the Q uarantine by the burning of the buildings.
Two alarms were occasioned last night The
police stationed at the west well of the Quarantine
grounds disliked being in itninediat proximity to a
quantity ot bedding piled near them, lest it contain
ed the infection. The sergeant in command of the
company gave orders to burn the bedding and it
was set on firh at once. The Haines were observ
ed at the U S. government storehouse, and two
revenue officers ran down and gave the alarm to
the police. The whole force was at once called.
They tell into line, and literally “marched up the
hill, and then—marched down again” Again, at
12 o’clock, a few of the men who had not retired to
rest iu their tents, to vary the monotony of then
life, took a stanchion and pushed over the north
wall of the gate keeper’s lodge. It tell with a
tremendous crash, and the sound, to the sleeping
policemen, was iko a fire of musketry*. In an in
at .ut the whole '-vr* p was aroused and in arms,
but the cause of th alarm being explained, the men
retired to rest.
The rumor of an alternp to fire Kramer’s shau
ties, • n Saturday night, Ims no foundation iu tact,
and since the advent ot the police 1 have heard of
no further intended demonstration against property.
There is no assurauce, however, based upou the
present quiet that on the completion of the present
temporary accommodations, they will not be de
stroyed in their turn, unless a foce is kept on the
grounds to defend them against the invasion of the
incendiaries.
Last night the surgeon of the Sabine came ashore
to visit the marines quartered in the Government
Storehouse, some of whom had been complaining
Some fears were expressed that the yellow fever
had broken out among them. An examination
proved that the fears were groundies9. Only one
man was sick and he with an ordinary fever. 11,-
will be conveyed to-day on board the Sabine. The
O.stletou Board of Health are now iu secret ses
sion at Burns’s Hotel. They met at 8 o’clock this
morning.
Quarantine Affairs.— The New York Time
of Monday says:—“Quarantine affairs continued
yesterday to engross much of public attention, and
to form the chief staple of discussion and remark.
Arrangements are made to erect a large building
immediately for the temporary accommodation of
the sick. Iron houses will be erected in place of
ihose destroyed. The sick have been placed, sumo
in tents, others in a barn, and a large number cut
to Ward’s Island. They suffered very much during
the heavy rains which prevailed on Saturday eve
ning. Ray Tompkins, Justice Ulme. De Form t,
Mathew Carroll, Wui. Muller, Jacob Vanderbilt,
Thomas Gairett and John C. Thompson were ar
rested and taken before Justice Welsh, up i a
warrant charging the n with aiding iu the rt< lit
burning of the Quarantine buildings. Warrants
were issued for about 150 more, but the above arc
ail that, have been arrested. Th , were bailed by
Commodore Vanderbilt. The frigate Sabine has
been anchored near the shipping at Qnarautiu , by
order of the Commodore at the Navy Yard, to afford
any’ protection which may bo required. At last
accounts yesterday mat ( era remained quiet, but
there were some threats made to burn the infntiri
district in Tompkinsville.”
The Utah Legislature and Polygamy.—Vv m-
J. Osborn, a “ Gentile,” has been elected to the
Legislature of Utah Territory, from Green River
county, by one hundred ami thirty-five majority
over his Mormon opponent. It is thought ho will
be the only gentile elected to the Legislature He
was the Democratic candidate, and the meeting
which nominated him unanimously passed the fol.
lowing resolutions :
Resolved, That a union between church and stat e,
for pol tical or any other purposes, is dangerous
and .subversive Os republican institutions.
Resolved, That, we view the President’s pro
clamation, pardoning the Mormons tor sedition
and treason, as a magnanimous measure, and cal
culated to effect*a most salutary object, the re
turn to their homes, as loyal citizens, of this deluded
p • Tie.
R'sotoed. Tnatfre look upon polygamy, an prac
tit id i: this Te:iirory, as a moral, social and politi
cal bvi 1 , anti entirely in opposition to civil liberty
and the institutions and principles of this govern
ment.
Resolved, That we pledge our candidate fi> re
presentative, Wm. J Osborn, Esq., if elected, to
use all his efforts to have all laws on the stalute
book at. variance with the principles herein declar
ed repealed.
Green River county is the only one in the Terri
tory where the gentiles are believed to be in the
majority, and Mr. Osborn is the first gentile elected
to the Legislature since the organization ot the Ter
ritory.
llow Reports of the Yellow Fever Origi
nate.—The Savannah Republican, of Moi day,
says :—A gentleman from one of the adjoining
counties visited this city on Saturday last, and while
here, asked a friend, with whom he was transacting
some business, if the yellow fever was nut very
prevalent here. His friend replied in the negative,
and asked where he heard suck a report, when he
replied that a few miles from town he lmd been ap
proached by a man to purchase the articles he was
bringing to market to sell, the latter assuring him
that it would be a fatal act. for him to visit the city.
The gentleman farther stated that he knew of num
bers of persons who hud been served the same way,
and who had their feara so worked on that they
would ae!l their provisions and go borne without ever
coming in sight of the town.
The Fever at New Orleans. —The New Or
leans Bulletin of Saturday last says:—The latest re
port, it will be seen, exhibits, as we were apprehen
sive it would, an increased mortality from the yel
low fever. The whole number who Jiad died of
this disease up to noon on Thursday of last week,
amounted to 1,012 ; since that up to Thursday last
same hour, 384 ; tctal from the commencement of
the epidemic lo the hour mined, 1,396. Yesterday
was a very hot da}', one of the liotest of the season,
and v/c fear the beginning of the fever decline is
not yet. One thing is worthy of note. It is a gene
ral reinaik among citizens, that they see less of the
fever this year than in any former epidemic of equal
severity. To many it is a mystery where the victims
all come from. In some neighborhoods, especially
in the Fourth District, and iu portions of First and
Second, it scarcely prevails at all.
The “Telegraph Plateau.” —W. P. Trow
bridge, assistant engineer in the coast survey, ar
gues in his report to Prof. Bache, that the existence
of such a plateau is not proved by any soundings
yet made. The conclusion of Mr. Trowbridge are
sustained by the experience of poisons in charge of
laying the cable. The quantity of cable paid out
for different distances varied in a manner to be ac
counted for only by the great, inequalities of the
bottom of the ocean, and quite irrecoociliable with
the idea of a grand level plain at the bottom of the
ocean.
Frofeesor Morse, who arrived in Paris from the
United States the same day the news was received
of the successful landing ot the At lantic Cable at
Valentia and at Newfoundland, received from his
fellow-citizens at Paris an ovation in honor of that
event. A considerable number of men of distinc
tion from the United States happened to be in Paris
at the moment, and a meeting was hastily organ
ized at the banking house of John Munroe &t: Cos.,
at which it was determined to invite Professor
Morse to a dinner at the Trout Freres Provencaux ,
on Tuesday evening, August 17. The dinner took
place accordingly, and was n brilliant affair.—
Speeches were made by Prof. Morse, Hon. Hamil
ton Fish, lion. Joseph R. Chandler, and others.
From Salt Lake. —The Salt Lake mail lias ar
rived at Leaven w< . !!t in twenty-one days *-u route
The Mormons were orderly. The trials for treason
would commence on the arrival of the associate
Judges. The Indians were troublesome, and a
Mormon family had been massacred whilst travel
ing southward. i>r. Forney, the Indian agent, had
been very successful in making treaties.
The Paraguay Expedition.—With a view to
render the Paraguay expedition equal to any emer
gene?, * propositi*. l •• to send out. a strong force from
iho a m i’ under advisement. Every possible pre
caution will be taken to guard against, a failure of
the objects sought lobe accomplished.
It. appears that Lieut. Matlit’s intention to Irans
f*r the Captain of the slaver Echo to Charleston,
for which purpose he was at the trouble of patting
into New York, has been defeated, by the refuel
of the Commander of the Sabine to receive the
prisoner, on the ground that he had no warrant for
hi3 detention, and that Lieutenant Maffit has thus
been obliged to take the slaver Captain on to Bos.
ton. j
Col. Suomer’s command, according to advices
received at Washington, was on the 14th of August
encamped on the Arkansas river, near Fort Atkin
son. He had, in accordance with the directions of
the War Department, visited three tribes of Indians
between the Platte and Arkan as rivers. The
I liuonees, Cheyennaa, and Kiowa® were severally
I visited, and prom Led good conduct in future toward
i the white settlers. The regiment expected to reach
Fort Leavenworth on the first of this month.
Individual Lia bilily. —The Cincinnati (Ohio;
Price Current says : ‘‘The agent of Bell, Grant &
Cos., of London, England, has been here for the
past month, we understand with the intention of
entering suit against the directors of the Ohio Lif e
and Trust Company with the view of making them
individually liable for the debts of the institution,
and it is thought he will succeed.”
Peaches at the North. —The New York Jour
nal of Commerce says that the crop of peaches in
New Jersey and Delaware seems to be failing every
year, and that the fruit in that city this season, has
been very scarce. It adds :
It is a singular fact that at no time has the mar
ket been better supplied this year than while the
shipments from the South continued, nor have pri
ces been lower. Not less remarkable is the fact
that Southern peaches continued in a sound condi
tion long after other varieties, gi own nearer home
and plucked much more recently, became worthless
from age. The experience of the past summer will
be likely to greatly stimulate shipments from the
South, in future years. The wholesale price of ordi
nary peaches is now about $2 50 to £5 per (small)
basket. At retail, the same fruit is sold at gay twen
ty cents per quart, or about $0 per bushel which
„nly pays a reasonable profit, risks and trouble con
sidered. Moms Whites, for preserving, which al
ways bring high prices, are worth about four dollars
a basket.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
Supreme Court.— During the sitting ofil? Su
perior Court at JefferaoD, a portion of the citizens
of Jackson county held a meeting and passed re
solutions in favor of abolishing the Supreme Court*
Anew Poetoffice has been established in Hart
county, Georgia, called Kio, and John G. McCurry
appointed Postmaster. All packages intended for
that office should have the name of the county on
them, aa there is another Postoffioe called Rio in
Coweta county, Ga.
Sale of Negroes.— On Tuesday last twelve i:u
gr°es, belonging t 0 the estate of George Crawford,
deceased, were sold iu Griffin for the aggregate
sum of $8,97 <. making an average price for each o f
IS. I heir ages ranges from 2 years up to SC.
They were sold on a credit till Christmas, which
was nearly equivalent to a cash sale.
Gin House Burnt.—Last Tuesday, says Urn
Georgia Telegraph, the gin house of CoL Demp
sey Brown, near Hayneville, Houston county, was
destroyed by fire, and with it about thirty bales of
cotton. Col. I>. had just returned from Montvaieto
see so large a portion of his crop lost. Planters
should not allow their packed cotton to accumulate
around the gin house. Send it to market, or at least
store it iu our warehouses under insurance.
Remarkable. —The Savannah Republican pays
that Thomas Hennelly, who was shota few days
since, lived four days and nineteen hours with a
pistol ball lodged iu the left ventricle of h ; s heart.
Jewish New Y ear—At sundown last evening,
says the Savannah Republican of Thursday, the
Jewish congregation of this city commenced their
annual festival of Rosh-annnh, or the beginning of
the year five tuousaud six hundred aud nineteen
The services connected with the festival will con’
tiuue for two day?.
Mr. Jonas King nn * ‘ ’ and respected citizen of
Floyd county, died on tue 4tb iiwt, ii!3 residence,
near Rome.
Fire in Coli mb a Couxty —We learn from the
Dispatch otye te iHy that ike (lotSfee of Mr. Wil
liam Walton, m C lu.ufaa, county, was destroyed
by fire on Monday night last. The fire we learn
oocUir and ac; i lent a.ly, aud but a lew bales of Cotton
wero desired.
Dunns: an r.ffmy - ti.ee ru rof Bryan and East
Broad strv, u *bay, about one o’clock, several
persons were fas* iqjured by r cks and
brickbats l:ur) *d b> Ihe infuriates. We regret to
htate th ;t M. J hn H. Williiik, (who at the time
iiapp-.-hf and o iu: paediug,) while using every effort to
uuek the u>-jturbanco, was struck with a missile
over the it h leiooie, faact.uring bis okull and render
ing hi;-, •itunl s.m xtiemelyciitic.il. The origin of
the difficultly wo have been unable to ascertain.
The matter, however, will undergo a proper inves
tigation, when the facte in the eussc will be made
known.— Sav. Rep., Monday.
The Forsyth County Murder,— We learn that
all ihe parties supposed to have b pen implicated in
the murder of Claiboru Vaughn, < if Forsyth conn
ty, have been an>* tod and con mitted to jail.—
Jacob Pettyjohn, for whose arrest the Governor
offered a reward of |IOO, was apprehended near
Clayton, Rabun county, about ten and ays since, nnd
confined ia the jail of Rabun until tho authorities
of Forsyth were notified, when he was transferred
to their custody.
This whole affair is a horrible on i as far as we
have been able to hear. An udoff’s tiding citizen
uas suddeul v attacked by five men, and cut up in
a ou t fearful manner, v. uhout, so tar as is known,
having given the slighu -: provocation . Several of
tbe-particM now iu jail aud charged w i Ii the com
mission < tithe crime, were found covered with the
blood of their victim. Wo hope the la w will apply
a speeuy punishment to ail engaged v\ this brutal
aud diabolical homicide —Atlanta Intelligencer.
The “Martin Will Case,” which has been in
Jackson Superior Couri for several years past, was
decidedllas.s f . week iu favor of the propuunders of
the will. The property involved an umnted to soma
sixty or eighty thousand dollar.:.
\\ ben we t ay that, it was, from b eg'mning to end,
the most ably conducted case we 1 lave ever iiear*i
tried before our Superior Coon.?, w c do not intend
ii as an empty compliment. T. R. R. Cobb
iuci C. Paeple* appealed for th* pr.)pouudera and
1i0n.,). Hi Iyer and B. It. Overby, 11-qj., ‘or the cti
vea’ors. Other counsel were employed on both
sides, but the argnrmut of the o ni- ? was commu
ted to these gentlemen, and nobly did they all ac
quit themselves. It was really an nteUectuai treat
to witness the encounter of mind and the amount
of legal learning brought to beat upon this case.—
S he speeches were all excellent, but inof e especial
ly that of T R. R. Cobb, E-'q., who, the ugh Buffer
ing from physical prostration, made The'.greatestda
teline,tun! effort ol his lilo, in which be occupied
four hours and three qua* tern. Thu case was < died
on Monday morning, and the jury return ed a ver
dict, at X! o’clock on Thursday aftcif oou.
Another will case—that of Mr. Hunter—. was, wo
understand, up for trial, but was comp'rotnised
without beiug brought before a jury.-- Athens
\v atchman.
Found Drowned.— Yertf rday morning, between
ilie hours of iff and 11 o’clock, a young man was
lound floating in the Savannah river, and was
brought to fidi re and made fast bv some men work
ing about, the Upper rice mil!. Coroner Eden was
sout f.ir, and at, 3 o’clock an inquest was neld over
the body of the deceased, but no satisfactory evi
dence could be obtained as to who lie was, oi how
he caiue to be drowned. The Maid mania ot a dark
complexion, black hair, aud wa > dressed in a pair
of corded caasimer pan is, o.hr. k shirt, but without
shoes. He appears to bo about 18 or 19
age. —Savannah Republican of Saturday.
We obtain the following items of nows from the
firat number of tJio Pulaski Times, (published ai.
Hawkinsville, Pulaski county, by Messrs. Horne
•Si. Scarborough,) a sprightly sheet, well filled with
interc? ting matter:
Judge Lynch.— We learn that, this distinguished
judicial functionary arrived in • u** vicinity a lev/
days since, aud held a special sousion of his court
in the ancinrst. town of Hartford. There seems to
have been but one cas ; far trial on the Judge's
docket,. The delendaut was charged with toe of
fence of Are ?.u!t turd Battery upon the person of his
“better halt.” We are informed that the evidence
made out, a most clur case, ot cruel and inhuman
beating by del l.dent of bis wife —the Judge him
self witnessing the act.
There was of course n conviction, r.nd the judg
ment of the court was, that the defendant should
have an application to his bare back, oi twisted,
ULttanuedcow hide, in such quantity and force a?
would prove efficacious in preventing a recurrence
or the offense. The judgment was executed in a
very (to defendant.) feeling manner by the Judge ;
himself. Iu this respect his Honor differs from ail
other courts—he al •;- ** preferring to execute his
own judgment, buiievirsr it to bo unsafe lo trust
i ■ , unreliable ad
ministrative officers.
We by no moans approve of ti U summary me
thod of vindicat ug tue laws of tot bind, and regard
such proceedings iu the mam, as tending to the
subversion oiiav/and < rder—yet we brieve that
there are CAne.t, h;; * f wl.ich would war
rant a prudent exercise o isdiotion by the gentle
man ?u q os'i. i —<iL:HOI-. W. tit <• e ca-i learn of
this cas , we ca .not -:<iy t: u b. is not one of them.
Humicid >llihn S li**!:*, aid old man, who
forme* y re i led m ibis pUieo, vv j.: to the Carriage
fcjhcp o’ Mr. B. F Bror/ii, m: la*. Friday evening,
and a cLilieu . ; -.ic and luw.: m him and Mr. Brown
(he pr- i•. I ; . chived *i blow on the
head, will *h ri.sukeii iu his death on Monday morn
ing. Vt e ioi hear any Comments on this Hid affair,
which hes distress to the friends of both the
dead auuliving.
Man Killed by a Rattle Snake—We learn,
from a red dle source, that-a man by (he name oi
Stout, who resided >n the neighborhood of
“Wynn’s Store,” in this county, was bitten by a
rattle snake tome two weeks ago, and died several
days thereafter from the effects of the poison.
Progress of Affairs in Utah.—A writer in
Salt Lake City, under date of 6th of August, gives
the following account of affairs:
Everything is ngoa."! in tin* city except the
Mores of the Genti'o merchants, which ate thronged
Ir-.m rtuurb until dork, with crowds of people uox
ious to supply flieiij.idvta with the necessaries of
life, of which they have been deprived fur more
than a year. The prices demandrd and paid for
poods, nre just about, as extravagant &y those which
too Aicrm iiß eet up n their home produce, aud,
indeed, the coat of living here i nearly equal to
what io wm in California at the height of the gold
lever. A great pars of the profits accrue to the
church, which owns all the stores but one that the
Gentiles occupy. It has affixed monstrous rente
to them, which, of course, tlie merchants pay , but
they place a prcportionably higher price on a.ltheir
goods, and aa they have ihe monopoly ol the mar
ket, the charge fails iu Ihe end upon thoss who can
least afford to bear it—the woiking people of the
Territory. A store c.!o?e iu my neighborhood which
flic church bought three years ago lor only is j
rented by Brigham Young to Messrs. Radford &. j
Cabot far sdO()d per annum.
Charcoal as a Preservative.— A Connecticut j
lady ;ayf>:—“Bonce chickens during the recent]
warm wether had become slightly tainted. These i
were stuffed with freshly healed charcoal, audio 12 !
hours were a t wee’ and fresh as could be d©tired, ]
not leaving the least disagreeable odor or flavor.” J
Shortly aber, on examining Bi*mo fresh pieces of j
pork, and tearing that they cou > not be preserved j
until it war, convenient to cook them, she packed j
them in n pan of powder*-charcoal, and tbiv; kept j
thea v-. itli complete suco-:Ha.
Threatened Appeal of the Venezuelans to
ruE United Stated. — The. blocndn Raised.—A
let or dated P- erfco Cabelio, Aug. lb, buyt
**The blockade of thin port, with that of Laguayra
by the combined naval force* of Franco and J£ug
land, hod to be raised alter one day’s embargo. The
authorities were not bullied by the menaces ot
France and England, and demanded their non in
terference in.: lari ter, or an appeal to the ('oiled
States would be made immediately to check tuch
impertinence. General Sereuo remarked that if ;
China an Ju i a succumbed to sued intrusions that j
ie co r ason why Vemzulacs should follow on their j
track. Chiu address to the E nglish and French ad- I
rnifais had an astounding effect, and the cense- |
quence wai the ccilo. wa* raised at once. The
coup try. under the provisional government, i* going ;
on well.”
The Baptists. —The Baptist Almanac for 1859
has just been i.-.-med by the American Baptist Pub
lic;:! ion Society. We gather from if the following
summary oi the Bap in the United Statu® :
Associations 505; churches 11,000; ordained min
isters 7,144; licentiate* I, 1 025; baptised in 1857, fi3,-
50b ; total members 623,11*3. iW des these there
ar the Anti-M’ssion Baptists 58.000; and theFree
wi I Baptists 50 310 ; ar. ; of D; ciplee and other be
nomination* that practice immersion, about 400,-
000. The increase in the last ten year* has betn I
141 associates, 3,31/5 churches, 2,191 ordained mini*- i
ter.', h and 225,4 18 members.
Extraordinary Growth of Grapes. -. Amongst
the remarkable vegetable productions on exhibition
at Philadelphia, the Ledger mentions an extraordi
nary yield ot grapes, cmisibring of a tingle bunch,
or rather a eerie* of bunches or sub divisions on the
same Btern, weighing < 4 pounds, and measuring two
feet aeroas in each diameter, and two feet deep, and
occupying a box of eight cubic feet. It was raised
near Bordeniown, New Jersey, at the country resi
dence of Geo. W. Chi Ms. E-q The growth was of
the variety known as tV 3 Pvt. tiu* grape, and this
was the first bern.
thi.- is worth the f.uliv i o
C otton. —We < lip ihc lowing xlracfc from the
Courier & Enqu rer, a paper m well ported in sta
tist cs as any in country:
b tl Oae f f tli. g'urif) iug ■ lures of the Commer
cial world a- iic r * cwrd m and fci.eady demand for
co f ‘on—a demand tbit i urea,*** io a much greater
ra*i-> |* a 1 -be i><-r£Be ot p pu.atum. The Euro
pe*, u iLmuia -mu p uet a e uuen as to furnish an
ample guarantee oi renouuexatijn to our Southern
plai £ '* • for t w ; eans to come. With ail the avail
able vi rappf Lo.xi Asia, Australia,
and South America, tho cot on of the United States
is not enoJi.li t J uttec the growing demand in Eu
rope.
Col. Fi z? .‘-rick, of South Carolina, it i* said, wi’l
be tendered the mission to Paraguay, if k health
be such as to justify .1 acceptance.
If you eee a wifa eerefully footing her husband’s
stockings, you may con bade thAt he will not find it
difficult to foot her bibs.
The reported death of Miss Anna Vail, the vocal
ist, at Memphis, Tenn , U contradicted.
CROPS*, &c.
Extract of a letter dated :
Cuthbert, Sept. 6th, 1858.
Ed. Chron. 4r Senl. —The Cotton crop in tbs
and adjacent counties, so far as my obs3rvation
and inquiry has extended, ia about equal to two
thirda of a full crop. Some plantera estimate the
decrease in their crop* at one half, others a fourth,
but generally at a third. Four weeks ago the pros
pect for a large crop wa. as good as could have
been wished. The abundant rains had produced a
fine, large, and apparently healthy weed, full of
bolls, squares and blooms. About that time the
rust began to make its appearauce, a companied
with other disasters, and now the lovers of thrift
and plenty wiil have to wait until another season,
more abundant than this, before they can feast their
eyes on that most gratifying sight, asuow-white
c otton field. The Corn crop is an abundant one
Peas f nd potatoes are very promising.
Respectfully your;, R. j. 8.
A correspondent ot the Montgomery Mail, wri
ting from Perry county, Ala., says:
There seems to be a difference of opinion in re
gard to the crop iu this immediate vicinity. Some
of our planters complain, while others seem very
well satisfied with the result of their crop. I heard
a planter say, yesterday (Saturday) that he would
average twelve hundred pounds to the acre.
Weather—Health— Crops —During the past
week we have enjoyed pleseant weather, with oc
casional showers and n c* nstant breeze. Ther
mometer ranging from 8 i to 86 degrees, extremes.
The corn, cain, and potato© crops were nevermore
abundant. The cotton crop will fall short about
one third of former anticipations. The health of
this county continues good, and from enquiries
made, we can hear of no sickness, although there
may be some slight cases not worth reporting.—
Albany Patriot.
Rain! Rain!! Rain!!! —We have had rain
every day tor a week, some of the showers being re
markably heavy. We hear that it is extensive,
and has already produced great injury to long sta
ple cotton.— Savannah, Republican.
Crops, Health, Weather.— We hear most of
the planters in this county complaining of their
cotton crops They stale that the plant has entirely
withered trom tbe effects of the rust, &.C., and that
all the cotton the plant is likely to produce is now
ready to bo picked. The tobacco crop, we think,
will not be so large nor so remunerative as that of
the past year. The corn crop is an excellent one,
perhaps the largest ever made. The health in town
and country we believe is good. The weather is
not very propitious for cotton picking, there being
showers almost daily. —Bainbrldgc Georgian.
The Cotton (’hop.— We oonv eraed with a gen
tleman wl o had been on a visit clown in Marion
county, Georgia, and he informs us that the cotton
crop iu that county is better than it has been for
years, and that most of it is entirely free Ironi any
of the disasters complained of iu other sections. He
says there is scarcely a man in Mariou county who
will not make more cotton than he did last year. In
other sections he has been in, he says there is con
siderable grouuds of complaint, but not to that ex
tent indulged in by many. From what he has seen,
he believes there will be considerably more cotton
made iu the sections in which he has traveled, than
there was las. yenr.—Coiambus Sun, 10/4 mst.
The Cotton Crop, we regret to state, was never
so unpromising iu this section aa now. From
personal observation and information from the plan-
ters themselves, we think we can safely say that
not more than half a crop will be realized in the
lower portion ot this county and the northern part
of Noxubee. One gentleman in the latter county
informed us that he planted for sixty bales but now
di l not expect to make more than twenty. The
boll worm is making dreadful ravages, particularly
iu the prairies, and we believe t o section is free
from them.— Columbus (Aliss.) ZA mocrat.
The Cotton Crop.—Last week we referred to
the injurious effect of the rust, in cotton, aud stated
that there would bo a considerable falling off from
what was at one time expected. We have since
followed up our investigation into the matter, and
have come to the conclusion ihat. the prospect is for
the crop to be cut off —from a full one, expected a
month ago— at least one-fourth or more. Sandy
aud gray lauds Buffer the most—whole fields being
more cr loss injured. Red and stiff lauds have not
been so affected. The plant has generally stopped
bearing, but from its having been forced by the
min?, ir more forward than usual and full of bolis.
They are now opening rapidly, and the crop will be
gathered in much earlier t han usual.— Md/tdeeviUc
Recorder.
Correspondemre of the. Savannah Republican.
Wacahootbe, East Fla., Sept. 6.— Mr. Editor:
That blighting rust, mentioned iu a previous com
munication, is spreading fearfully over our cotton
fields. Should it continue at ihe same ratio for the
next two weeks, that it has in the last three, the eon
sequeuccfl will be very serious, and an average crop
cannot, be gathered. There are but few bags as yet
picked by any planter, owing to the heavy rains
riial have fallen for many days past. Itneeds no ad
dition of caterpillar to make the crop a light one
in this section Farmers begin to look blue ; net
more than half the bagging ordered will be needed
for wrapping up the present crop.
Blight wilts tne boils el eady matured in a few
hours, and so we go, (on our cotton fields,) from
good, bad, to wore©. J. C. T.
Upatoik, Ga., Sept., 6.— Dear Republican: The
month of August having L ikon all the crinoline out
of my cottou, I concluded to go around among my
neighbor’s crops and bee if tueir crops were treated
in like manner. If mud reveral orops a great deal
worse treated than my own, and was assured by
the owners that they would not make exceeding
two hundred pounds of seed cotton to the acre. I
lound no cotton belter than my own, and returned
home satisfied.
We can now calculate, with some certainty, as to
the result of the present, crop. The month of Au
gust has been a disastrous month to the cotton crop
of this neighborhood. Some planters will make
more cotton than they did last year, others will
make a great deal less—hence the crop of this neigh
borhood will he about the same as tbe crop of last
year, which was but very little over a half of an
average crop.
There is considerable bilious fever in this neigh
borhood, which has proved fatal iu several instances.
Yours truly, L.
Glynn, Cos., Sept. 7th.—“ Deluging raitis, corn
crop, paacrop andfpotatooa looking tine ; but alas
the poor cotton is all going back again, shedding
and rusting, notwithstanding all the rush and marsh
manure applied to it from our well trod cow, ox,
and hog pens and well littered stables.”
Decatur, Sept. 6th.—“Tnij section of country
continues remarkably healthy—nights and morn
ings quite cool, but delighllul through the dcy. The
crops of corn and cotton look well, although many
planters complain of worms ad rust in the latter
“But two bales of new cotton have as yet been
received at this point, which were sold at 11c.
Wheat is selling tor 6Ue. to 75c. per bushel. E.’
The Atlantic Telegraph.— lt is stated that
Mr. Whitekouse, tho English electrician, who has
heretofore had that department of the Ocean Tele
graph in charge, has given place to Professor
Thompson, of Edinburg, as his successor, and that,
if the latter gentleman should fail to secure the ob~
jijefa desired, ho will give place to Mr. Hughes, of
the United States, the inventor of an instrument
from which important results to ocean telegraphing
may yet be realized. The New York Herald thinks
that the opening of the liue will not be delnyed be
yond the Jst of October. At the last accounts Pro
fecsor Hughes, who has two instruments with him
iu London, was preparing to leave with one of
tuein for Trinity Bay. It was arranged thajc tbe
cable company should send a special steamer from
Liverpool to Trinity Bay on or about the 10th of
this mouth, to convey the Professor or his assistant,
with all necessary instruments and other fixtures
fur working the cable. He will arrive there about
tbe 20th or 25th of tbe month, rind will of course
require a few days for preparation and the adjust
ment of the machinery. This will occupy him until
the 28rii of September, or perhaps to the Ist of Oc
tuber, but certainly not longer. If therefore he
succeeds in his calculations, we may count upon
being placed in the full enjoyment of tbe fruits of hie.
1 *U<?ro by the latter date.
Falling off in J£m;u ration .-For tbe firat time iu
tie history of emigration to tbe United States from
the British Island* there is now a prepomJer&noe in
tbe movement towards Australis, and Canada o ver
that towards these shore*. The official retarne
made up in England, show that for the first three
months of 1858 the aggregate number ot emigrants
from Great Britain was 19,000, of wuoiu 8,200 were
bound for tha United States, against 16,726 for the
corresponding period of 1857. Os the rest 9 867
were for the Australian colonies. Emigration for
ail parts of the world has nut baen at so low a
figure for fifteen years as it no w is. It attained
it* maximum figure iu 1853, when it reached
372,725. This was reduced to less than one-half i*
1857, when tbe emigration only reached some 180 *
000. _
Furnaces Out of Blast.— All the. iron Furnace*
in the neighborhood of Marietta, Pa., with three ex
ceptions, have been blown out ‘ x n the course of the
last two weeks! The Harrisburg Telegraph of
Tuesday, referring to this misfortune—for such it
j really i J —comments^ tbua: Seven furnaces, within
I tbe space of three miles, out of blast! Thus it ia
I each day becoming more obvious that the present
Free Trade system is bringing our country to bank
ruptcy and ruin—our manufacturers and their ope
ratsves to w r ant—yea, to almost actual beggary.—
S-'iVen furnaces stopped, and upwards of two hun
and r,d and fifty men thrown out of employment!—
Met of these men have fain lies, who are depen
dent upon them for tbe bread they eat, and wb*o
wilisoon, unless there ia a ch .nge in tbe polioy of
o r countiy. be starving for the necessaries of life.
j The Mexican Baillo.d. —The fol’owUjg ac
count of the Mtx-ca 1 Kat road appears ia the cor
respondence of the Picayune :
‘‘ln Mexico 1 met with Col. Tolcottt, engineer in
! chii-t <4 tho survey being effected between this
the capital, for the purpose of locating a line ol
rui road tor account of Manuel Escaiidon. I learn
from his son that the line had been located as
far as Orizaba, and that they found that they could
ascend the Cumbus between that city and Puebla,
with not more than 20 miles of heavy grading, and
with no grades over 200 feet to the mite. The big
barranco between Cardova and the Orizaba will
rtquire a bridge of 1080 feet in length, and it will
be absut 350 teet above the running water beneath.
This r.ad is a work of great magnitude, but it is
the only thing that can save the nation. Manuel
! Escandon Las undertaken it, and he has the energy
10 carry it through, provided his countrymen will
only give him a chance. 1 was told in Mexico that
Col. Tolcott’a report would be made in September,
ALd iliac then Escandon would proceed to Europe
via the United States in order to lay bis plan be
fore-the capitalists of the woild. If succeeS attend
aim, I hope to eee the work under way within the
coming year. In eighteen ninths it could be tin
1 Led as far as Orizaba, aui ia four years it rould
be carried to Mexico.”
To clear ?. room of mosquitoes, an exchange give*
the following recipe:
Virtues of Saltpetre.— One way to run mos
quitos off the premises ia to set fire to a ball of
damp powder in the chambers of the house, hud
ciohe up every place of exit tight. The vexatious
iusecte will soon get sick of it an attempt to slope.
In half an hour turn them out, air the room well,
find then close the blinds and doors. When retir
ing, the door should be kept closed a* long as the
fight is burning, alter which it may be opened, and*
you may sleep coolly and undisturbed till morning
Core for Erysipelas.— A oorreepondent of tb-e
Prov.deuce Journal says that in ninety-nine ca aeß
on. of every hundred, cramberriea applied a
poultice will effectually cure the eirsipelas. Thero
ii not an instance known where it has failed e j_
feet a cure when aithmUy applied before the suf
ferer w*a in a dying state Two or thr qq applica
tion! generally do rhe work.
How Towns Grow in the VVt? yT Bedmg
the very far out west there wa* a tribe of Indians
WM Jved m a very secluded wilderness, where
IH-y tad owned for their a j nu „ , tliie oue
tine morning they all start ed ofl’ on Lome stealing
excursion, and did not return tor many oaya Vhen
hey did, they found a fitst olaas hotel, with *gei
waiters and gongs, wine cards and Joham iirg
on the spot where their council lodge had b t , and
a town scattered U around it, with lota at two
hundred dollars a foot! .Enterprising peop e this l