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the 11!’ .and arrived a'. Haite co the men. in* cf I
Wedr* dpv * r . e rfOri > bsviox bad j
’ Sept, lltb * JSO P. M- . passed lie [
Arab'..‘">m Ji'-w Y'.rk. bound In
rJ c v of W&ubDgton ana >ova ]
qoj vr . ‘ . - ao the evening of the [
Op‘ -.t Britain Tie firat unUiineji! ot fifteen
, Tcrkieh lof.o was met with remark
* P*; 1 ’ *i! -..mas? 4t Cos., carpet raeuufeotorers,
at Kui “ had •arpeMed ; liabilities £BO,-
TL. 7sr it Heard of Trade had directed an ec
unirv i .. oametatjcee attending tbe wrack
ot ti .u ship Abby Lsngdon off tbe isle of
MV
-11: had been dirtinetly vieible to the ca
ked Kj “ :: vsr ous parte of England.
J* (. ■ ■ * i.-for *Le eatatoirhinaat of mail service*
to Au; st . ia arid Brti-sb Cidembia by tbe Panama
route, v, re tU! under tbe ccins.deration of the gov •
erntn
T , -i live tbonsaod rr.nloroemente of
cavt. y ..ml mtantry recently ordered to India oad
been o - atct.ed
Tt -L . C..n (lazette rocta nan /tfication that
ac ii, ~i r mJed between Great Britain
and Is :.n*. lit “! Julie ia'. fir the fsettie
,n i ‘ i -,.e outetandiug ( atm of tbe (abject* oltbe
two jt.riei.upou t!.e opposite governments by
ui . sn! att'ired comm i-i.h).
Eight ten Eug K** *y Ci mpames represent
ing , p.tal ot one l.undred anu btty miiiione ter-
Itng I 1. 1 be.d a meeting m liondon lor tbe purpose
of afr. rtiii4 upon a course ot prx* ;dure to avoid
fort i r jh -under-* anting. Among other reeoiu
eta,,- i , a *‘<i w s one ** roogly r*teniraeDding the
ti’ ■ tn * ail difficulties by arbitration instead of
/dit ruibotw coo petition and asking
that uo. • -be from Parliament to euable
tbe < >ii mutes to setto* all diepui*-tby abitration.
TANARUS, Daily N as wndeni!/iijde that the European
ano Ao ■ m htr.aui (Jo, have effected a reconcil
.* in AL —B. Crotkey At. (10., on e&tutae.ory
A • < *pr ndent of ti e Time?, who hae a good
ofliria! etperience of the feelings of tbe China***,
has *i i g appre eneion* that if lhe payment of the
war iiidem i’ y winch t* rumored to have been
the.! a* thre* mill >ia two hui idred thousand pounds
lor E ■ -(id. and one minion two hundred tLou.Knd
poo.ii i frW e.w allowed to be left depend,
ent <x 1.• c nn of *.h• uttoma at Canton, aot
only will v * receipts be **problematical,” bat there
will 1> ■ H 1 Blit recuiierce of r. sput-s
T • ibie abduction by the U >man Inquisition
of aJ* *’ : i • i.iid at ii und* r the presence of
j.jg jj. i eec )y paptized by its Catholic
nlir . , .t> dx moils j.aiufniHeiiiH'ion through
out the Jzv/iih workt
j i . ‘ fi Lxmdon had take'i the matter up,
.nd . ’ ’l*“ sympathy of the English Govern*
niex. ! -I It •*•< b f •■i and a deputation to.the Popa
v, A :, CK —ii .* monihiv hai.k n tuniH show an m
eren <* “ rtsh in hari'i in P&ria of ‘22 S'H),<K!O francs,
Rr, . i to . brunch hank* of (K)0 franca.
TI - t n- ‘ t. .e-pondem is i-,ur-d Ibkt the
Freiif .. rouie lit hove decided lo appiy free
•so • A ‘ri, and that ai ! t.xie jMot? on that coast
are to b - <•*■ J-k. t-4 tree.
Mi rp’ v,the Au.ef iiv.q o:ww player, was beaten
by ilnr/w/z -a ti air firm tnal, after three hour*’
l . ,re-has bce.n inteniicted from pub-
Jinhi-V,’ rii- ■ . - 1m of .*.* will of tee DucheM of Or*
l® arjo .
i t 1’ ’ * Pr'RH had pun!i“hcd it, minus its politi
cal pas ’•
q, ! , tor an (Jour rontinueat It : arriiz.
u
ifltH .oi Hr <■■■> ‘lay down a telegraph to the United
v j - h**i to maintain ndiminirhed, her
> ~ , relations with the American
roi ; -i.t jd*c!arf.i Prance is now too depen
de;;! * ;v zl-id tor hfr coimaumcatioiiH with
bV-Tlic Three Per Cents dosed at
__ f, . / i K ,jrid Journals say that the decree
... been recently
Signed.
aui RiA —At Vienna, Austris, p>p*r currency
bad •• ov r.-d to its p rvalue
TANARUS.,. j- tt**r n!dr< - o n try the E np'-ror of Austria
V , •( upon h*.r virit to Get many, i said to
haVM y ngrceablv imprem-iM. rad
tl) j , v . y j... -he Kiiytti Family of Prus
Bl *Ai H rii., •> letter :•1, “ :gbt likely to It-ad to a
her. i not,-r.it.>,miing beiH—u tli* Prustiao and
A y| ( '’ . v„ .j ay Hi.-.* ti.f Emperor lots ratified
~) B , ■ :■ I !•.•by I Ilf Pari'* CJonfe
_ B |,, ~ LoW ition of tli— Gatmbian
Principe* l l
|. ~, ...-I i , Ii- .lefinit'i fly sol lied that snlima
rit- t*• 1 ■ ti should be conrlrncted from liagues
*°|"t'van mu: lid the’ the Pope intended to visit
th- llo.'* Land
f;. --in 1..-* Worn gmtig on between Home nu
li.ii'.t'i i,,i !!,ih> the teligioUH eituatiouof the
Ki i-iio'o t Poland.
It A bt Pi tuetiurg telegram of August
-n, .| IH u grea nsph'.eiou took plane on the
,• ; | ~t riy ai Home powd-r milln In the vi
~|; y. |,y wliitdi it ' feared that aeve
■ aid l.vtir,’would bolost. A aulwequenl dea
waa al Okhta, and n ■
*
i. Ir, r lui ordered lhe foundation of a
new no. 11 ,'uiijo oonflueuou of the N-e and Amoor
riv-v.
\ THlii fnm V Petersburg reports a moo
ti Ml , I ir mark’ !, after the speculative rise
w, •: U ‘i.ioly j.i • v„..-d, the tendency of pricea
I'r i du ol liou*i- bid been burned nl. Moscow
be tdaii ~n in-’ makers of Inciter inatchek.
‘l i e for, ■ e w-ve iti I io flonce on the lei of Sep
teoilid , in. ihe smoke was mloti iable in St. Peters
at bots wttJ pi, ure by the unueuai heat of
“ti r ; t *'r r r r-ia! tt.n port of Villa l-'rnuca is n-ded
to!’ i hr a t *.not year* is confirmed. Kneeia
, i-l .and her object of having a naval
slaii, „in th- Meiliicrm:.: n. I wifi conrist of one
ship oftoo Hr,,- end-i'lee fitiatea.
wf, S-> r.uno.—Tt-O AWlrMte f*h eldest eon ol
Mitli‘l P-r:n vioh, Prmee Danil’s brother, is to
take the i.ot t overnment, to acknowledge lhe
au , ljt ,. ,„.v . f the P and to have a seaport. An
ar'i :., cniu’ udtd until the blrt JJeceinber next
between 111. Poitee.ud Montenegro.
i v Ijittut 6$ Trlfgrapk to l.ivi rpooi.
j , . jj.i.'Midav, (kpt ll.—The following trio
,,r, V, >- ivcl acth i Foreign Office September
U ! l ', ~ v vndria. Kept —Tbe steamer Ottawa ar
■iv. uex from Bombay on the Stt, with dates
|At U ii.bay to ttielWi nit,
‘L steamer Memo, • has at-> art wen al Suez
f r . , • ‘.w'.eutla on the bill.
’ti ’in gh, who w’ hppipgcd in (I c iortrcaa o/
Blmi v’ bb’* * Inige body of rjbelfl, has been T£-
f| ~M >;-,i Ginn’-, wlioso rolumo ia now nr
hV’ i’fi ’ •t ‘ *;■* a t<*eujoined by ManniDgand
hie troopa. 4l ..
( ~ : ] v * i, ( .v! „ j , o.oRaO up with the re
bell'll,'ar h'u < “ t-’ aiiy >•*•'*' -and them, capturing
ter , ihelei-H ,and theeu/y *‘ ,led
very severe.
H r* :>rure uiv •1 hy the Nemeeis, K o ',
oee< • 1 ; ‘ : i. M hb* rer ot the treaty With
the ( P i i|, I t I.;n* w hirl; \Wconclui.W
ou tb 26 : i-i Jut.e It was subsequently forward
ed u * • Fnq t-ior ami received liie approval. The
foWow.!i r .*>., some of its htipolations :
r .■. l imy, uh-rated throughout the Empire,
ami p > ■ taring that religion,
wbe'.htr t‘. dretant or lv uian Catholic*, to be enti
tled ro the protrvtum of *he Chiueae authorities —
Diploma . .-g‘ imtyr- side permanently at Pe
kin Btitwh ..g r.teai protected against esceeeive
transit duties. The tariff* to be revised. Several
Daw ports ...e opened to trade, and the free navi
gation >* *l.o Yang Tackling is declared. British
subject a u .iv travel tor pleasure or trade to all
parts .*f the E npire, wheu provided with passports
tfotu the Bti .sii author'd in s. Tae governments to
act in concert lor the suppresswu of piracy, lu
deniUi v tor o- - su- by British subjects
at Canton to he paid.
T L- v i'a, ; i. ; ..\ -J at Suez yesterday from
T u'.h, , u ’ hi . .i Pi in e-. who were pillag
ed on l . w.- liruk • m .\iuua,,having to pay
a heavy ra >ai fi r ihe r release.
Tin io- is reieivtd the following telegraph
from .’ t x -. fi, dated the 7th iuat: —The Pera
sa'd t . -.Vi’.a rie B wnbay ®ud Calcutta mail.—
T • da* .. Bombay, August 19th. Calcutta,
’ ..y s : Cvylon lOi.u; aud llong Kong, duly
*Ad
( .ii: - t. is urban ,>• aud bloodshed continued.
]- v. . inrM J. Hong h mg was 4> sd.
‘I m are t<> July 14th. Tea
v . -lid.
The Ct • . 1 oport market wad inactive. Money
eas?- E' iu.- M **• . . . .
£ .j,* in * Ci n-pony paper was rising last at
800 nx 1 li!!p"t lUMket wa- very active at
north, [in’ ■ = I'.w-aßot -V l|d. for credits.
‘li t O i .’ *;d .;is rou.or.oiw m E*ypt have been
Tneli-h l{. g*in u* uveutly raised in Canada,
is t xp< > dU iu -vdi e t i.xia soon.
•j i N Ci-v Article says at the r and*
on r *.i‘.. * - u iy experienced an unfavor
able r „ , i o rth h ptr t en; , but that in the
afterm a . ■ • o it slum o 1 whS*iu;wn, the vlosing ,
quof iti v c i ;u*—u* as those of Tuesday'.
T i-ion . t piecicus metals in the Bank
o* K i.• • r-ver kuowu, ui and upwards of
o- “ g.cd is now id that coast,
ana will n- . mio the bank.
Ti .* A. a r \ .i otf Falmou h trom Mel
bourne v i ue tui .red and seven thousand
ounetso. . ,vtirtii tour bundred and eighty
eight ’ . u-Hui p uuwis. Ti.is supply will be seut
ime* the Bun. i ’ .t* one ‘.umired aud eighty five
thousand u : r hundred in Austrian gold by
the Ho igomi n- a Teviio will be delivered Satur
da>, and wni auo be sent.into the Punk. The re
ot-ui r.'v in b unds iv.r.iuue* to be well maiutaiued.
Infer Exv.io. _ v t .• Friday) a* ernoon, rates
tor A xv - etuam and Hamburg were slightly higher.
j'. ; WM M last }' >’.
Kic&t q ‘ i ; , t i o kreach Three per Cent^
show a
cen’ Lu ‘ M uut ti g ‘ ! ‘i taken to the Bank was
forty four HioLr-and dolWr>.
-V! ks Kit • ‘.M3 Oi r > b ‘ H\ —, tiep
rl4 —Th- s, w sh 5* ave Company* was* form*
ed htie ii • i -rr i! . a w inter, the originators
and pi > .'f ** iiioh Were Zulueia and Portilla,
our heai • 5.. in human tiesti. Vmas, the
owner t t :p lorna Mid a brig, the name y>r
v .
na& cieaitu .u: z. where heivrrvved. discharged
his iv t ..!.• • j .vnaib y lor Ham
burg, but pr vow a ;ottie E.vi Cs'aet of Africa,
where *..*v to . c i.ua.bfr ct two t;ie*usanu were
fcuuu . :oi e two Vt. -els. acanti.y pn>
vir; in . w.. .;. A nw days atter
dx>up*iLg ; p :h< water begau to give
out, *t and t; were forced to d:iuk sal*,
water! Ou; of n 000 that lett the coast eight
hundi-1 were oune i a xes.ai'dthe reel reached
hrtc ..fix w with tu! wor.-t kind of sourvy. The
bn/ Ui;d ** 4. • t a g,* n Bahia Hv-. da, and was
abanden . t. <.* >-:qucuiiy touud by a Spanish
cru- rs. . I'M. u.v to:* per:, where she now
lie? Tae ship .v. a her part on the south side of
the isla: a, wueiiCe ice negroes were transferred to
Za u .a- •'* i. s ’i. •a* ;heu saned for Bahia
llocdd. w- ■ ~;.e rtdU 4 icr a stv. nl voyage, and
pul to ae.-. b • • * p o*. ran her aground on theCt>-
wrador*r-.i . *;.* j s;.-ewas capturr.i.
I an; ia‘ * o ’• ‘*i ot ie s.x hundred negroes
lauded frott’ - ‘e> \ ■ . and and v-ouveyeu to Zalueta's
eeCiie -ft Atava upwards oi tour hundred have
died, and t- v•tv . i.ue to drop off one by one.
netwiu-e *- *' l th” ‘‘ e ' ! nedicat skiil sen: from
Havana * i iimou- Mimee. Here,iudeed,is a
ewe lUtt ...a.,:- U.e W < .ie. ~t Use Krs ! .uC* i
Ye!, I i< rs •>:! 1,1 ,i,fc ' e ride
o ‘• ■ • • • ‘ ‘ ‘ i:
they mieu'l ‘ue tt:i- a*iu. dtettuciioc to
buaitu : . Vi. .1- ts * ! uU vee!,
bv w. ot lu: S . ><. ; -cS s • win Spin
It i*fcii'lst iv* iu.<i 1 . -“vi. ue'y cade
by ijue an u.ij ;• A •* “/di
, u ~ eff. cu3 oecQ i -iiwnceJ, bn- u
Lb,.t;.. 1, it w.i. Tie
y t . , u a.- ~ : r-grass Spanish tssLu-n,
sc v **u u'i ? i*i o eiapso bcwie a conclusion
u emv* ; M. th c-gn Hi g neral impreesijn here is
T | | _. . f .te c tidmaced. I uuderstainl
tbe o. . . •’ . v ii.rents Ameri
ca . .- : i dsn.-.***, wh'.cb wt.l
tin..-.” , . , 1:... t..’. .Jii..ti> <1 Ml ordUMU}
ao.e ; • >U: jue K .moreny# two
oil, A.;.. • . ’ >.tie C’.tcd t.ut here.
_ . . . Con
eui (iea. i-... . i oi a. aiy to diejilay Uia jadg
ninii UJ adiaitii-r t.- ~ lie will fiud tlt
tbt u.va •> i- <• 0 per 40tum. it
e,’ a “f. . e be held at 8..
Toocio l
noßsiMrii . letletfce world
tb,: UC - ‘ jate 4..a bore* ti-el, hw
nHoitit’ r - • .-k ud Normeni
Ce-nsacy. ‘ ; }!tl '.,ver aione,
intbetEL r . Wrt- k twoLOowand
sounds ot hoi fie flesh >•■-* c -i-nmed. The r.um
C r otnoisen augou . iva eating in that city is
two aud three hundred a year
The HonlGh Treaty with C hina.
W have already received and published the text
; ti the treaty made with China by the American
Mio -rter, and have had intimations of the nature of
! i tiK < reaty mice between China and European pow
! At>out the exact terms of these i&tter, howev
er, t here hae been and etLl coctinuee to be pome
k of About the treaty with Eog- ■
!a: and we have had only indefinite and even contra- 1
and; r ry etatementa. It its not aileged that that trea
ty if* longer than any of the others, and that tnis !
w. i .vcount for the delay in it>* official transmission
®*id authentic publication The London Time
bo AMver, cq th® strength of private letters, in the
wi it'iiirof which it s tbe fuileflt oonfiaeace. i—
n fact, we suspect it kr.cws the writers of them
to b * in the of Lord E : -gm and hie a*eo
elutes,-“gives the following as points undoubtedly
embraced in the treaty
First —The residence of a BntieL Minister at
Ti5L sin. with acceee to CAurt. and direct commuci
ctrion wita the Ministers. An official y&mun for i
him durirg tte visits to lAekin. All official docu- ;
m-r -ito be written bv him in the English language j
tc* i hccomo&uied oy Chinese translations until
tL’ (Jourt of Pekin has procured interpreters ) An
Eng i*b college bimilar to that kept up by Russia to
be a lowedat Pekin.
Second. —China to be opened to ail the world
persons to go whither they please and do what they
p!**n -* under a passport system.
T ;ird —Tne Yang tze to be opened to commerce
from i!e mouth to its source.
Fourth —Christianity to be tolerated.
Fifth.—lndemnity for the war and losae* at Can
ton io be paid for by the two Quangs, the amojmtto
b? agreed on by special Commissioners at Canton,
ft e tariff to be corrected, the custom house system
rev:,.ed, and the Engli-a to aid the Chinese m the
ecpj reseion of piracy.
Sixth. —In proof of the friendship good will
of the Emperor ot China towards the of Eng
land a special embassy shall be cent to England
so thw*ih.
T.;*-cie are substantially the provision® previously
reputed by way of St. Petersburg. Our London
correspondent mentions the latest report in respect
to lhe indemnity to be paid by China. The Lou
den Times justly remarks that if these concesoona
have been secured in the treaty of Tien-sin, (which
wf> signed on the 28th of June.) Lord Elgin has
fulfilled ail the reasonable desires of hie govern
and surpassed all expectations , adding that
probably ail these ennditions, though signed and
sealed and ratified withal! solemnity, will prove
points ot departure whence the Court of Pekin will
shuttle, but “that is another matter, and for other
men man diplomatists to d*-al with. Tbe game has
be -u brought down ; it is for the cooks to prepare
it lor the table a remark not without its signifi
cance.
There can be no doubt, however, that the Chi
neee negotiators, from the Emperor downward.
Lave proved themselves v*-ry unworthy of conti
d-i <e or reliance. Lord E gin and Admiral Sey
mour have been met from first with the most adroit
hypocrisy and with a duplicity unparalleled in the
hi-ory ot negotiation? and diplomacy. It will be
remembered that on the Nth of June two Chinese
M ulsters of high rank —one a Cniuaman, the other
a Tartar—arrived at J ion-sin, declaring themselves
lo be plenipotentiaries, with full powers to negoeiate
a final settlem-mt of all difficulties. Toe exposure
of this false pretence, by which Lord Elgin wan in
duced formally to meet them, has already beer; re
corded, but the following description of the inter
view i too graphic to be passed by
An isolated j >s-house on the steppe South of
Tien-oin was the appointed redezvoua. It was ar
ranged that I jord Eigm sheuld have his interview
find . and then Baron Groa ; the Russian was to come
third, and th -j American last. All this took place
according to the programme. On the sth of June,
while the thermometer in the sun stood at 137,
Lord Elgin and his entire suite, with not afewnavni
officers as specfators, and with a guard of 150
marines, proceeded in long procession ot palanquins
to the hall of conference. The Chinese were civil
ar.d ceiemonioiis, and after tea and compliments
K vei-iiang opened the conference by saying that
his imperial master had received Lord E gin’s let
ter, and had instead of answering it, deputed his
servant to arrange mat era speedily. Lord Elgin
replied that he w r ” j glad to see the imperial minis
ters, and that his Queen bad granted him certain
powers to arrange all matters on a safe and proper
tooting. He aeded that he was prepared to show
his credentials if the imperial commissioners would
do likewise.
The Mandarins absenting, Lord E gin a powers
were produced, and a Chinese translation was read
aloud by Mr. Wade. The scene is described to us
to have been at this moment very interesting. The
Ministers w*ere eager in their attention, and a
troop of secretaries end clerks who had been taking
note® in the background pressed forward to the ta
ble. There was evidently more su prise than plea
sure iu the effect produced by the ample terms of
the document. It was now Kwei bang's turn to
show the commission under which he and his broth
er Commissioner were to act. A piec e of yellow
waxed cloth was find produced by a very intelli
gent looking young Mandarin called “Pien,” sub
prefect of some district in Chi-li. Kwei bang re
ceived it most rever r.tially, hold it above his head
for a moment, then opened it, and took from it a
very scrubby bit ol paper, which he handed to Mr.
Wade.
While Mr. Wade read off in English the contents
of tins paper we are told the scene was as dramatic
as a Chinese sing song. Every Mandarin's eye
wfit< slily watching the expression of Lord Elgin *
face and os that expression grew more and more
severe as the reading progressed, exclamations
wtre interjected by Kwei hang, “Such poweis as
Lord Elgin possessed are unknown in China,”
‘‘Seals are never attached to commissions in China,”
and so on. There was good reason for Lord Elgin’s
grave dit-pleasure, for the edict ran somewhat as
tollowH —Kwei liang and Ifwa shana, Ate., were
directed to proceed to meet the strangers of Eng
land and France, and to inquire into their purpose
in ascending the Peiho.
It they found them sincerely desirous of putting
an end to the w r, the Commissioners were to grant
them their emaeds, provided such demands did
n;t infringe the customs of the L’ebntial Empire,
the dignity of the Emperor, or the will of the peo
ple : and in th* event of the demands being of such
character they were to refer them to the Emperor
tor his pleasure to be made known. When this
document had been read to an end Lord Elgin rose,
and olderhis chair to be brought, eaying to
Kwei-liang, in a curt, manner, that the powers of
the Imperial Commisrione: s were unsatisfactory.—
The Earl s chair was hurried up, the guard prosen
ted arms, the band played ‘God save the Queen,”
the staff entered their chairs, and the Mandarins
were left making speeches to demonstrate that it
wa quite impossible that they could ever receive
larger powers than *ho*e they had just opened.
‘l‘liiH klud ol deoephou v% .ui oxaililulU ui’
Chinese commissioners thi mseives were eonatrawiocl
to report to the Emperor that some other policy
muwl be adopted, the outbdo barbarians “confi
dence iu commissioners being ao much pliaken that
there was danger they would soon believe in nothing
but the sign manual of !£ien-fung himself, affixed iu
their presence ” Whentiie Emperor found that eva
sion would not answer, that this duplicity weR re
coiling in punishment upon himself, he appears to
have bowed to t lie necessities of the case, and set
tled the difiicnity. Os course, any one familiar with
the history ot the negotiation must have misgivings
about the good faith of the Celestials Our own jin
preseiun is that the Chinese will finlfiil their part of
the treaty, for the present at least, from fear or pru
dence , aud that that treaty, once fairly in operation
iho difficulties that have hitherto stood in the way
oi inurc-v.rse with other nations must gradually
disappear, t*c ;a*v? increasing with every year of
the treaty o contuiuaox.e. — N. Y.Com. Advertiser.
Death of James At>ge:k,Es<) —A daapatph from
Neiv York informed us that James Adger, iila
died atari early hour yesterday (Friday) morning
i*i New York, from an attack of pneumonia.
Mi . Adger had been, for many’ years, an elder
Among oiiV wor.'hants and active citizens, and was
iu his eighty-seoond y/*ar. Ot this long aud active
life, eixty-t ve years were spent in thi? city, to which
he came in bin minority, spending a very short time
IU New Y’or on hie arrival trom his native Irtiand.
bt-ftiprio# UQerc&ntile life in the dawn of
mmc4*u which opened in Charleston, af
ter ot lhw P ac . and the lull frui
tion of const itutiW-i f and privileges, Mr. Ad
ger, by industry aw'd srt;'zity, was favored by sue
cajm, which be unproved aim uployed with una
bated diligence.
Activity atm integrity-—the two etjseuua. factors j
of the mercantile mind iu ite highest jJ*T* 4 lopixnm. i
—were fully illustrated in his life ami career, a. M d i
in the ample rewards which crowned his exertions. ?
iu Ltis investments for busmen? or for charity, and j
for public improvements, he was guided by the •
same rules of prudence which marked the mean., j
between capricious profuseuess and ill considered I
economy.
The City of Charleston haH felt the effects and im
puleevOf hts well earned and Well applied resources
iu many interests and departments—iu us charities
and in its local improvements, as well as in its lines
ot steam ships.
Mr. Adger was connected with many of our ac
tive a.-sxdttfions, and maintained his interest in
them beyond the age to which expectation would
have limited its demands. It will be seen by our
advertising cuhimus that a special meeting of the
Chamber ot Commerce is called for Monday, the
call as we lea:n, bti.ig induced by the melancholy
aunouncemeu* we publish. X similar call i* also
issued for the|lliberniau Society, of which Mr. Adger
for many years, wn;* aud at the time of
bis dee ease was a Vice-Pres dent.
The shipping in port offered the respectful tribute
of the ueual signals to the memory of Mr. Adger.
as a merchant end shipowner.
We await advices of the disposition to be made
for the obsequies aud interment or one wild will bp
more sensibly and directly imaged from the active
walks and resorts of our city life, than is the case
generally with the few who attain to fourscore
years — CAas. Cour. Friday.
Shipwrecked Seamen Rescued by thy Pilot
boat Kclifsk. Taepiu t boai£clip*e,Capt Rodgers
or New Lond.>u, arrived in from a cruise on Sunday
last On Saturday oiornorg, about 4 o clock,when off
Montauk Point, L 1 , the iu apse picked up a boat
ooutaiuing the captain and crew (eight men) of the
barque E.iaabeth, from Eastporr, Me , bound to
New York ia ballast. We learn from the New ix*ni
don Chronicle, that during the gale of Thursday?
wiucb wad so severe in this region, the barque com
mtuced leaking, and on the folio wing evening,
at about 8 o clivk, the captain aud vj[*w finding ii
unsafe to temaiu longer onboard abandoned her,
and took to the boat.
The barque was then fifteen or twenty miles to
the Westward of Montauk Point. The men pulled
all eight in the boat, until at four o'clock in the
morning, having reached Moutauk, they were fall
en in with by the pilot boa r and taken on board.
They wore well taken care of by Capi Rogers, and
brought across the Sound to Watch Hill, where
they w-re landed during Saturday forenoon. Some
of the crew proceeded to New Rendon, by tne
Stoning ton boat . and being on their way to New
Turk, they were taken over the Ner London road
to this city, free o! charge.—AVr Horen Journal
of this morning.
Although there is some discrepancy in the dates
we suspei i that these * shipwrecked seamen” are
the same tight men mentioned in the letter of our
Sag Harbor oorreependeu: yesterday. The under
writers here have heard nothing about the loss of
the bark Euzabeth. It is probabie that these eigh
teen are part of the crew of the Spanish Slaver
wh.hc was recently abandoned and found off the
coast of Cuba —A*. l r . Com. Sept. i2.
Shipwreck a>d Loss of Life Capt.
of the steamship Alabama, which arrived yesterday
from Savannah, makes the following report relative
to the loss of the schooner J. W Hale and the wife
of the master: —Sept. 19. at 11 A M , in lat :*5, lon
75 10, saw a wreck, with signals of distress dying
Ran down to her. She proved to be the schooner
J W. Hale, of Brookline, Maine. A heavy sea run
niug a: the time, aud nothing but the top of her
house above water. We lowered a boat and took
iff the captain, Elisha C. Friend, of Sedgwick.
Maine ; John C. Carter, mate, of Brookline, Maine
Frank Siotho, steward, ot Boston James Lime
burner, of Brooksviile, and Frank Fruilere, of Bos
ton, eeamac. and Waiter S Lee, of Seogwick, boy.
The schooner J. \\ Hale was bound trom Jack
sonvilie to New York, with a cargo of lumber, and
wa** capeixedin the night of the 15th instant, in a
heavy gale, when she ios; both masts and the boat,
aud the vessel filled with water.
The captain and crew had been on tb® top of the
house four and a bah dsvs.
Tie captain's wife, Mrs. Anna Friend, was wash
ed out ot the c+bic and lost.
iKANSr EHESCE OF \ ITALITT.—The t r ADßfer®QCe j
v * 1 * i*y which seems to occur when young per- !
f °°* e habitually placed ia contact with the aged I
Web attested by very competent authorities A
dieting ; :iehed author. Dr. Copeland, gajg :
tK V U ' l UuCx ' Uimoa cause of depreee*-d vita! power i
LV-5r y 'Ty the tgwd Tais, however I
„ bcn long remarked. I have occasion
aJy mrt wuh tb* counterpart ot the following case
I wacafew > eat, ago consulted about a pale sickly
at>d ttua boy ot about four or fire >-eU of age
He appeared to have no ailment, but there
was a Ma ted rema, table decline of flesh and
streng'b, and ol the energy of tLe inactions. After
ttqattiLg latothe history u s the case, it came out
‘ sat be was very robasr-and piethorfc up to his
third year, when his grand mother, a vary old per
son, toek him to eleep with her ; that he soon after
word hi* go >d look? ; and that he continued to
decline progressively, dancing the medical
tieatmeut to h h fe* subjected.”
To a friend who hod marred a lady who was on
the point of taking the veil, Jerroid said, “Ah she
evidently thought you better than nun f”
Lannrh of ehc Leneral
Admiral.
This roorciner at twenty three minutes pad’ eight j
o’clock, the Russian rU&m frigate General Admiral j
was saccedsfuity launched from the ship yard of J
William fl. Webb, at the foot of Sixth street, East ;
river. L<cg before the hour fixed for the launch, j
(eight o’clock.) the yard began to fiil with people
coming from all cirectiong ; ferry j
boats and other conveyances, were put in requiei- j
tion, and thronged with persona wending iheir i
way to witness the launch of a ehip which ii \
said to be the largest wooden yessei ever con- ;
etructed. The Wiiiiamsburgh shore was lined with ]
spectators, as were also the wharves in the vicinity ,
of the yard. The house tops in the neighborhood |
were crowded, and every available space was oc
cupied by people anxiously awaiting tbe great even*
of tbe day.
Mr. Webb, for the accommodation of the multi
i .ude who desired to see the launch, rendered every
i facility that couid be afforded. The yard waa
‘ thrown open to the public, and for the gratification
• of those who wished to be on board the ship when
1 launched, be issued 35W? tickets of admission, and
erected a staging by which the throng could easily
gfcin actee to her. ’The decks were -ton thronged
with ladies and gentlemen, who occupied the time
before the launch in inspecting the beautiful propor
tions of the ship, and listening to the music from
Dodworth'd band stationed on board.
About eight o'clock the workmen commenced i
driving the wedges ; the anchors were fixed, and
heavy drags were hung from tbe bows in order to
impede her progress in the water. Everybody was
watching for the moment when the immense vessel
should give sigh? ol moving into the water. Final
ly, at twenty-three minute? past eight o’clock, the
throng were relieved of their suspense; “she
moves,’ “she moves.’ was shouted on all sides •.
ana amid cheers from the crowd aud ibe booming
of cannon from the yard, the shipa aud the steamer
Baint Louis at the next dock, the Russian steam
frigate General Admiral glided in*o the river &a
gracefully aa a 3wan, and without the slightest ac
cident. Her progre?- was speedily but gradually
checked by the anchors and dr/q;8 that were cut
iooae the moment she left tbe ways, and on reach
ing the middle of tbe river she stopped.
The ctecuner Win. H. Webb and steaming Achil
les theu streamed alongside and making fast, took
berm tow to the Novelty Works dock where she
will receive her engines The moment she moved
from Lhe stock®, Madame ISheritakoff performed the
ceremony of christening her by breaking a bottle of
wine over her bows. The lrigate was decorated
with tne Russian jack at the fore, next the Ameri
can ensign, amid.-nips the Russian national tiag, and
at the st.-rn the Russian naval flag. While she re
mained stationary iu the river, the steamboats and
ferry boats as they passed her sounded their whistles
in greeting, and all manifested gratification at the
successful launch.
On the 21st of September, 1857, the ceremony of
raising the stern-post of this frigate was performed.
Sue is expected to be ready for sea on or about the
Ist of May ne t. Her pivot guns will be of the
Dahlgreen pattern, aud will be furnished in this
country. Her side guns will be obtained in Rus
sia. Her gun carriages are of mahogany, and evc*ry
part ot the vessel will be fitted up in a nupei b man
ner. She is expected to cost about one million and
a quarter dollars ($1,250,000.) —iV. Y Corn. Adver
lunr,*2i*£ in*/.
From lti£ Philadelphia Evening Journal.
The Hny and Cotton Crops.
We are often told that the hay crop of the United
States is more valuable than the cotton crop. It 13
a common remaik with those who wish to depre
ciate tbe importance ol the latter product of our soil
a id industry, and to complain that it exerts an un
due influence in our politics. The statement i® one
of those which are fitted, whenever enunciated in
the presence of a promiscuous audience, to startle
and astound the ignorant and unreflecting, and
hence ii is used to impose on the understanding of
ti e multitude, by those who cannot convince it by
hone t and rational argument.
By tbe census of 1850, which we take for con
venience, and which answers well enough the pur
pose of an estimate respecting matters which fluc
tuate continually in point of relative amount or
value, we find that lhe hay crop was not equal iu
declared value to the cotton crop. The former is
pu r . down at $96,870,494, and the latter at S9B 603,-
<2O But suppose tnat the hay had actually sold for
more than the cotton crop, would that prove the one
to be so much mtore valuable* than the other? It
would, of course, if we should regard the price le
alized on the two crops in the first instance, and it
13 :n t hus erroneously viewing the matter that the
sophistry of that comparison lies which would un
duly magnify one interest to disparage another.—
In order to refute it, we u ed only remind our read
ers that the hay, when sold, has reached its ultimate
or highest commercial value. It is only fit to be
eaten up by caltte in that shape, and cannot be
turned into any costlier form. But the cotton crop
of the couiitry, when transferred from the planters
in its raw state, though then yielding in the aggre
gate as much, or more, than the whole hay crop,
has only attained ite first and lowest value, as a
marketable commodity. It is convertible by me
chanical skill and labor into many various forms,
in which its utiliiy and price are greatly enhanced.
It does not at all effect the force of our argument
to say that tbe United States do not reap the bene
fit of thin augmentation in the value of our chief
staple, because that is a loss not chargeable upon
the cotton, blit upon our abominable folly. We
have een what the hay crop was estimated to be
worth in 1850. Whether it vary mote or less from
one year to another, its first valuation is its last;
it cannot bo further advanced by labor invest
ed in converting the dry grass into any more useful
form.
But how is it with cotton ? The average value
of the cotton crop ot the United States during the
last Six years may be stated at S9B 000,000. This
id what it brings as raw material. Now, it will as
tonish those political economists who have so ex
alted an opinion of hay as a product of the States,
to be told that while we consume but a very insig
nificant fraction of onr entire cotton crop, in any
one year, the declared value of American cotton
goous manufactured therefrom in 1854-5 was $64,-
606,080, which is more than was paid by England
for the six hundred and odd millions pounds of cot
ton we supplied her in 1855, and nearly equivalent
to the sum paid originally for the total raw product.
But what becomes of the vast residue which we ex
port ? To what figure is that advanced by foreign
factory hands and spinning jennies ? Let us take
Great Britain alone for tbe purpose of illustrating
this point. “The value of the present annual pro
duction of the cotton manufacture of Great Britain,”
says the Merchants’ aud Bankers’ Register for J 857,
“is estimated at $270,000,000, of which nearly
$165,000,000 is the value of goods and yarns made
for exportation. To ascertain what England adds
by btn mb*. * *<tw let us compare
**••'• *y s I**‘ If *-**> wh*t * Ik, roiM.ivt-H lir
exported Gotten fabrics. Tic* came Iw>ok nS“
which we have quoted above, says that tho “annual
average importation of cotton from all countries
into England the last five years, (1357,; has been
888.335,984 pounds, of which quantities, according
to the British authorities, 661,529,220 pounds, or
more than three fourths, were lor the United
States.”
jCIABLioHT on Cars ard Boatb. —We are inform
ed that the New York Cur and Steamboat Gas
Company have applied their gas lighting fixtures to
the trains of the New Jeniey Railroad with much
euccees, and a*-e now engged in putting them into
the cars of other roads We have seen a certificate
from the Vice President of the New Jersey Railroad,
iu which lie apetiks in the highest terms of the sue
cess of the apparatus. He cays : “The light L
cheerful, bright and uniform, rendering all parte of
the car distinctly visible, and much superior to the
gloomy light furnished by candles ahd lamps. Ita
management is simple and easy, and free from tbo
objections of other modes of lighting carsand in
point of economy, there is a saving of more than
two thirds the usual expense.”
The Jocomotive head lights are also of gas.
The method of applying and carrying the gas in
us lollows : “Each car is provided with a wrought
iron cylinder, of a capacity of four and a half cubic
feet. The cylinder is of a strength capable of sus
taining 50.0 pounds pressure. The heads, for great
er security, are made concave. Tne gas is com
pressed under a pressure of twenty atmospheres,
(309 pounds to the square in.cli,) 90 cubic leet of gas
being forced into each cylinder. Each par is pro
vided with a cylinder, which is placed upon a shelf
under the car door, and coupled in the usual man
1 ner, with a pipe leading to the burners within. An
improved regulating contrivance controls the de
)m**y of the gas to the burner under all pressures,
iu ??*** ween the cylinder and burners
eo that thalight is always steady. The pressure of
the < ij.-ur< a the continuity >f light, no matter
what the concussions or roughness of the road.
The methpd ot charging the cylinders with gas.
adopted on the New Jersey road, is simple and ex
pedilious. Near the Company’s nmcnme shop at
.Jersey City, a stack of the cylinders are arranged,
into which gas is forced by ih.‘* rapid movements
of steam pumps, to a pressure of about 450 pounds.
TLe cylinders are connected together by small
pipes and thus form a strong and capa ions reser
voir. A conducting pipe loads from the stack to
the large depot on the Hudson river, where all the
passenger cars arrive and tmpar* a distance of a quar
ter of a mile. Tire conductor terminates ;n jj. horizontal
pipe running beneath the depot platforms, with atpp
cock openings at suitable intervals. When the ear
cylinders a* to be charged, an attendant simply
couples them to iLc conducting pipe and opens a
stopcock. The gas the;: .'iistamly ru bes into the
cylinders and fills them, under the p r essure of the
reservoir, and they are ready for use. Tne filling of
the cylinder for the whole tiain occupies only k
few minutes, and the work of supplying all the
trains with gas is, w? are told, easily performed,
tVC23 beginning to end by c££ man.
a.> ccve‘op?d on the New Jersey Railroad, the
lighting of cars by gad ?“ ei " Bpractical 8 practical
and economical catprprl:'; j We
.compaides will i r be backward in Its adoption. J;
would also seem that gas companies, by providing
proper pumps for filling the cylinders, might find &u
extensive nee for gas iu country churches and
dwellings, lr is said that the gas may remain con
fined within the cylinders lor a. y leogta of lime un
impaired. A single cylinder, of thedimeLsione be
fore named, would supply a country family with gas
light fora week.— S wit'fie Amertcan.
CoNKLAttRATI tN AND EIFLOSION AT AsTRACHAN.
—Concerning the great caiami y which has be
fallen the flourishing commercial city of Aatrachan,
of which the English papers by the last arrival
furnish so meaner an account, we find lull deiati s
in our German files. According to the Cologne
Gazette, the fire first broke out about 10o'clock on
the evening of the Ithh of Au :uat, in a warehouse
of coopers’ hoops, on the lelt bank of the Volga. Jn
less than fifteen minutes the flamed extended to a
neighboring lumber dock, which was tola ly de
stroyed. Meanwhile, a high wi. and having arisen,
by half-past ten another dock aud several dwelling
houses were in flames, aed the fire apidiy spread
ing, it was found necessary, in order to arrest its
progress, to tear down the buildings in its course.
‘This apparently checked the col flag ration in the
direction of the wind but about three o'clock some
burning brands were blown upon a lumber loaded
barque bying in the narbo;, and in a few minutes
the flames shot up mae:-t*igh, .communicating to
other vessel lying near, and soon av. hole fleet ot
burning vessels ported ;heir anchors and floated
down the Volga, in tr>eir course setting fire to
others. After floating some five versts the burning
brought up at an uniubaff ted island, where
some of tne vessels sunk, others burned to the wa
ter’s edge. Near th is island, however, two of the
vessels cant in contact with a barque loaded with
powcer, which had arrived the previous evening,
and a tremendous explosion ensued, setting on fire
a large Government provision warehouse aua &
private lumber depot, which were eutirely destroy
ed.
At 10 A. M. on the 13th several of the burning
vessels lett their aucuorage and floated towards the
so-called Czar’s Roadstead, where the flames com
municated to seventeen Government vessels. K*ad
ed with provisions. A barque, with a cargo of
ammunition, and three ships freighted with cloth,
all belonging to the Government, were likewise
consumed. The property destroyed in tue city
comprised die hunared and twenty-<mfe dwellings,
eleven docks, many o: them lull of and a
stone church dedicated to the Virgin Mary. The
cumber of vessels kot andtho *iue of the proper
ty destroyed have not yet been ascertained.
AstracLan is the taplted,of a province of like
ustie, aua is situated on au is.and in the \ oiga
river, forty miles above its mea-h. I has & ,
popmauoL of aLvat 75.009, embracing Russians,
Armemau;, Tartars. Peic:aiia, Hindoos. lit
surrounding cuontry is very fruitful, and abounds
Ri gardens ana vineyards, while the liver is wdi
supplied \utfi fish, a .-tapic articieo! inland trade
Asii&chan h. s been tor many years the seat oi a
tioutishiiig, if not an extended commerce. Its ex
po**te comprise leather, linen, woollens, and other
European manuiactures while its imp rr*. mainly
trom Persia, consist of raw silks, mauutaerarea
siiks, scarfs, gciids of cotton and 2i.k, cotton, tics,
rhubarb, ana other drugs.
Partridges.—The severe winters of ‘sb oca c7 t
together with the abominable practice of shooting
tc*o early in the sensor, almost, destroyed the Par
tridge* in this district This is generally indulged
in by would-be-fiportsm?u, who c unot do much
damage among full grown birds, but ore death on
little teflows. Now we call every generous hearted j
man, who mokes the slightest pretention* to being
a sportsman, to do all he con to protect the birds
this Beacon, and devote time to the destruction of
hawks and trope. It will be for the Interest of all
in the long rcu. ana i the birds could be spared
this season, they would afford fine sport next fall.— •
. s pare the birds, gentlemen. What say you T— !
Grange ( Va.) Chronicle.
\ New Difficulty for Paraguay—Vene with
President Lopez,
It appearu that if tbe American expedition is not j
hurried up it will find English war vessels in Para- ;
guayan waters before it. A correspondent of the J
New York Express writes that on the 24th ult, Mr.
Christie, \Le Briribh Minister, near the Argentine |
confederation, visited President Lopez of Para- J
g'-cy, to make a treaty, a l .’ the follow;; rceneen- j
Soon after Lis ai rival he opened negotiations, and j
hi a preiiiiiinary step waited upon Hie
the President, to present his credentials. At his first
v';.Lt he found Lopez dressed in a preposterous co3
tame, half military, half diplomatic, and some parts
r * ’ it so groeriv exaggerated as to make it extreme
ly ridiculous. Asa part of his uniform, Lopez wore
an immense cocked hat all fringed with swan and :
clown, and bedizened with gold lace ; and this *rna
ment he persisted in keeping upon his head during
‘he whole interview, at which discourtesy Mr. Chris
serious umbrage, a? he is most unyielding
r • • J ot etiquette. He retired from the inter
’ . er abrubtiy ana made official complaint
:..e affront the President bad put upon Her Ma
. ry b Minister by wearing his hat at ac ctiicial in
view, whereupon the sapient Paraguayan Sec
retary replied to the indignant plenipo that Her Ma
jesty the Queen alwaye wore her crown and robes
of state wuen she received loreign ministers, aod
tea* the President o; Paraguay saw no impropriety
iu wearing a hat which with him took the place of
the peculiar ensign of royally displayed by the
Q ueen.
i*ri . Christie did not wait to hold any more cor
rc-pondence with so illustrated a government. He
a.-ked for his passports, and witbout delay took
passage on a small English merchant steamer call
ed the Lit Lie Polly, owned and loaded by the Eng
lish house of Gettings, of this city. When some
thirty or forty leagues below Asuncion the Little
Polly met the Paraguayan war steamer Tacuari,
the same vessel that “happened” to come up just
a.!er the fort of Itapiru had given the Waterwich a
.-ound drubbing in 1851. The river here was wide
enough, with a first rate channel, and there was no
necessity tor the two steamers to come within a
quarter of h mile ot each other.
It was night lime when they sighted each other,
and both vessels had lights up. Tae Tacuari, with
out making a signal of any kind, deliberately alte
rs -i her course, and ran plump into the Little Polly,
cutting her down to the water’s edge. The passen
"ers and crew all jumped on board the Tacuari,
without saving a paper. Some of them had no
rime to tak;? their hate, and the watch below, were
glad to be saved in their night clothes. They do
ray that Mr. Christie did not make a very dignified
appearance tumbling ovei the rail of the Tacuari in
his shirt and drawei 8, but all hands w’ere thankful
that they escaped with their lives. The Little Pol
ly sank instantly, and in the morning nothing could
be reeo ot her. Some days afterward*?, however,
a portion ot the wreck was found six leagues forth
down the river, everything being a total 1038.
: is intimated here ttiat the Tacuari people had
no idea that so distinguished a dignitary as Mr.
Christie whs on board of tlie Little Polly. Her
oa’y intention was to cripple the Little Polly, be
cause that vessel interfered with the traffic of the
Salto de Guayra Ypora, and other steamers owned
by Lopez, which virtually monopolize the steam
trade ot the river. However, this time the Para
guayans have caught a Tartar. Last year tbe Tac
uari ran deliberately into the French war steamer
Bisson, while that vessel was at anchor, for which
outrage Lop*z had to make an humble apology, and
disburse SIO,OOO.
Tnis case id much more serious, as the steamer
and lhe whole of her valuable cargo are totally lost,
-iid arc n>i insured. Nobody Mupposes that Mr.
Christie, who has returned to Panama will rest satis
fied wii.h so inglorious a termination of hie mission
t o Paraguay. For making the first bad treaty in 1853
Sir Charles Holtham wa* rewarded with the Gov
ernor-Generalship of Australia, and Mr. Christie
imfurully expected some high reward for making a
o “er Convention with Lopez in 1858. llis re
••’* iiga wi 1 be proprotio* ate to his disappointment.
Is it Gen (jink ?— When it wan announced some
weeks ago by the Government journal in this city
that if any person in the public service did not vol
untarily contribute a certain per-centage of his sala
ry to support the Democratic cause he should be
dismissed at once, in order that hie place might be
6 Led by one “liberal and patriotic enough to dou
ble the contribution/’ the pr. position was deemed
so extraordinary in its terms as to elicit general re
monstrance and dissent, not only from the “oppo
sition” prehH but from the better class of Democrat
ic journals throughout the land. The theory of
official tenure which such a doctrine propounded
was justly regarded as the offspring of that perver
ted sentiment which sees in the patronage of the
Government nothing higertban a system of rewards
tor party fidelity and of punishments for personal
independence, as exercised by those who, capable
audeftk ien as they aio in {discharge of their pub
lic duties, may not deem it the highest obligation
oftheir position to aid ia eleemosynary contribu
tions to the support of a particular party.
However much we may have regretted at the
time the announcement of such a doctrine in the
official paper, we were nevertheless glad to believe
it the indiscreet utterance of the moment, and, in
1 lie face of the vehement disclaimers it provoked
from the Democracy throughout the country, we
were willing to believe that tho avowed patrons of
the theory were as few iu number os they were un
happy in their apparent appreciation of the qualifi
cations which most adorn the incumbents of official
place. It. i j therefore with surprise that we have
observed in the New York journals a recent mani
festation of the same apparent oblivion in which
the interests of the people are held by those who
consider it their first aud highest duty to provide
for the interests ot “the party.” We allude to the
subjoined circular letter, which purports to have
been addressed by the Collector of Customs at the
port of New York to a leading Democratic member
of Congress from that city, and which wo find
quoted in the Commercial Advertiser:
Custom House, New York, Sept. 17.
Sir ; —Being about to nominate to the Secretary
of the Treasury f>r confirmation a list of appoint
ments for this office, J would bo gratified to receive
from each Administration member of Congress from
this city a list of the names of the persons in his
district he desires appointed, with the offices at
tached.
As-the number must necessarily be limited ,you
will please place tho names in the order in which
you are most desirous for speedy action, and l will
do the best I can.
As you must be aware i cannot make appoint
nr;-ntrt svi houtmaking vacancies by removals, you
will please furnish the name ot such persons holding
office under a.c in you district whom you are de
f iiuus .-hall not be removed.
Yours very respectfully,
Augustus Schell.
The Hon. Dsn tel E. Sickles.
Had we found this letter (oopies of which it ia
Mated have been addressed to “each AdraiutsLra
® em b®r of Congress’ from the city of New
N ork) in any paper known to be leas reliable and
respectable than the Commercial Advertiser, we
should have been tempted to doubt its genuineness,
and to dismiss it without hesitation as one of “those
weak inventions of the enemy” which we have
to he some! linen contrived for the purpose
°* temporary opprobrium and reproach
upon those who are placed in nigh official position,
and of whom, as wo ure unwilling to spent in terms
oi undeserved censure, eo we are equally loth, on
•‘■light grounds, ? o believe them capable of conduct
calling for condemnation. Before, therefore, wo
yiejd our r-ntr credence to such an organized sys
tem of mingled nepotist# and pipiopago as ia un
folded in this letter, we ebal! prefer to await the rc
<• ption of additional intelligence, by way of con
firmation oi denial of its truth, especially as we do
n f understand the Advertiser iteclt to avouch the
genuineness ot the alleged circular, which it copies
from another journal in the city of New York.—
Nnt. Intel.
Commerce of Nf vv Orleans —The annual com
mercial etatement of the New Orleans papers,
brought up to the Ist of iieptember, shows the busi
ness of that city is in a very favorable light. Al
though the panic produced its inevitable result on
prices and iu monetary circles, the amount of com
modities forwarded and received appears to have
been but little affected. New t)i leans receives
more than half the entire cotton crop of the coun
try , and in the past year It look 1,682,775 bales out
of a total of 3.i 00,000, baing about, the samo pro
portion as in the preceding year. It exported 22,-
359 bales less than receipts. The sugar crop of tbo
l i ‘■ year was 279,697 hogsheads, against •only 74,-
060 for the previous year; the receipts of Louisiana
being 202.968. Os molasses the receipts from Lou
• Jana have been 337,106 barrels, against a very
small amount last year. Os tobacco 86,784 hogs
heads were received at New Orleans from the inte
rior in the oast year, and 72,387 hogsheads were ex
ported. This was 30,000 hogsheads more than the
previous ‘year, md nearly 20,000 more than the
average for ten years. The quantity of re
ceived was greater than for the previous year by
250,000 barrels. The total exports of domestic pro
cure from the city during the past year amounted
to SBB 382,433, being a falling off from the previous
year ot about $3,00.t,000 The imports were ljitlo
over $19,000,0110. Notwithstanding this favorable
balance, the great depreciation of all natural com
modities shows how New Orleans and the produ
cing section with which it deals are buund up with
the welfare of the manufacturing and consuming in
terests.
Efffci ci Lightning at Bea. —The sch idler
Sarah Barton, (oi Plymouth,) II; skins, which ai
rived at Salem on Tuesday from Para, reports aoma
very rerr.aik *Lle occurrences. On the Bih of Sep
tember, at 4A. M., las 26 degrees 49 minutes, long.
60 degrees, experienced a severe tempest, and wa3
struck by lightning four times—taiee on the fore
mast, once on the mainmast, and once on the jib
oc im—all iuthe opace of half an hour. The first
* ung Uat ffifid i nck (fore topmast, burning and
-hiveringlt, >ndaLo bproing the rigging badly,
~ .
tbresifiJ:. i'cad, and, splitting the same, tore 6IIS Os
t!. large oak.; i tresrte trees from pnder the eyes of
rite rigging—also cutting off the spring stay. The
h rcmast is badly marred the whole length of it
The next bolt struck around the f. reman head, split -
ting and reuding blocks and rigging; then pacing
d.-wn the main jib-9tay, burning the serv.ee and
covering, cutting every bank from the jib, and tear
ing \h-~ rail in many places, it burned the luff rope
. . (li * ; e sail, then struck U^dtr
sprit, &Ld burning rigging and covering, passed
down the bobstay, and entered the stem.
The last time it struck the mainmast below the
cross-trees, cut Uie mast two-thirds off and -piit it
through the centre, threw pieces of the mast on
deck seven feetia length, and literally covered tne
deck with charred pieces of wood and chips. It
then passed down the mast, marring it, and went
through the main boom, cutting the hoops trom the
mainsail, and splitting the blocks on the end of the
boom. The last shock was the heaviest—the vessel
apprared to be wrapped in iUme&, and she re
hounded and shook as though she had struck a rock.
Immediately tried the pumps and found she made
no water. All hands were more or lees affected,
but no one aeiiou3ly hurt. Ou examining the main
topmast found it broken off in the cap The mam
ma.-! was broken ao near the crose-tree? that it waa
impossible to fish it. The flying jib boom was struck
and split, aud tee outer end shivered in pieces
Ma ry of the block? are split in pieces. The star
board pump waa struck and the upper block split so
that the pump would not work. The lightning turn
ed between the boxes aud went through the pump
iLtothe cargo Both pumps were plugged. The
vessel had no lightning rod. —Salem Register.
Peculiaritiesof Color and Temperature of
the Ocean —lt is a commonly observed fact that
the usual color of the ocean is a biuish green, of a
darker tint at a dis:ance from land, and clearer to
wards the shores. According to Dr. Scoreeby the
hue of the Greenland sea varies from ultramarine
blue to olive green, and from the purest transpa
rent yto great opacity. Toe surface of the Medi
terranean, in i; a upper part is said to have, at times,
a purple tint. In The Gall of Guinea the sea some
tioi s appears while ■ about the Maidive islauds
black and near California it has a reddish appear
ance. Varu us cause* must ot course co operate to
produce this diversity of tint. The prevailing blue
color is generally ascribed to the greater retrangi
bility of the blue rays of light which, by reason of
that property. pass in greatest abundance through
the water. The other eolon? rre ascribed to the ex-
Lienee of vast numbers of minute anim&lcul*—to
marine vegetables at or near the surface—to the
tailor of the soil, the infusion of earthy substances —
and very frequently the tint is modified by the ae
pect of the sky. Tne phosphorescent, or slimy ap
pcaranoe of the ocean, which is a common phenom
ecfn, is also ascribed to airimaloulae and to semi
putrescent matter diff used through the water.
Tue temperature of the ocean also exhibits some
peculiar and interesting phenomena. Within the
tropics the me*.n teraneTamre at the surface ia
about eighty degrees of Fahrenheit, and generally
ranges between seventy-seven and eighty-four de
grees. At great depths the temperature is proba
bly nearly the n, me under every latitude. In the
tor id zone it is found to diminish with the depth,
iUid about the latitude of seventy degrees it is near
ly constant at ail depths. But the small number of
observations which have yet been made on thi* sub*
j -ct do not indicate any uniform law, according to
which the variations of temperature at different
depths is regulated.
! Spanish Desecration.— A singular proof of
Spanish indifference to the monument of ancient art
has been recently given. The tamou* t ridge of A1
cactara, which spanded the Tagus, with the trium
pnal arch of Teagcn, has been demolished for the
*~ake of the stones ot which they were composed
The bridge was 770 feet long and 28feet wide The
arch upon the bridge was 40 feet in height. It was
one of the noblest of Roman relics in Europe.
WEEKLV
(fljnmic If & Centum.
AUG USTA, SA.
WEDNESDAY MO. IXING, SEPT. *29, ISSS.
For interesting Cot- imercial and other Intelli
gence, 3ee Third andF lurthpfcge*.
The South* rii Cultivator.
The October number t .f this excellent Agricultu
ral journal is b- tore us, teontftinlng a large amount
of useful and interesting Imforniatien to the farmer,
gardener, and borticulm net. “The pages of this
| valuable Southern, says an exchange, “are always
I filled wiih choice matter., and one number ia ffe
| quentiy worth the pric ? of a whole year’s subscrip
tion. It i a work th t: no farmer should be with
out, and the very mcdtraie price of subscription
should place it within the renrh of nearly every one
interested iu agriculture
We subjoin the contents of tbe present nuaiber :
Plantation Economy ,m> Miscellany.—Wa
ter as a Source of Fertilit y Horae
rey's Method, (Illustrated p j-outiiern Georgia; A
Song for the Season. (Poet —y): Old Seed vs. Blue
etoue —Moles, ko . John .Joluison’s Wheat Crop—
Salt as a Manure: Hintsju Wheat Culture; Lice
on Hogs—Specific; Lice :n Hog*; L’c.eon Hogs—
to Destroy , Lice on Hog®—Again Stanford’s
Wild Oat Grass The Cr ops. Ac • Lice on Hogs;
White Clover and Cattle . Fish Ponds. White Clo
ver. A c.; Horses and >1 a'.es. Cows—a Strange Dis
ease : The Agricultural Report of the Patent Office;
Grasses for the South ; To Ki 1 Moles , “Still Harp
mg on my Daughter /* Profits of Farming ; Will
Red Clover Grow Profitably iu Texas? Tide of
Southern Travel Turned . Grade and Horizontal
Level: Destroying Molee- Deep Plowing—Seed
Corn, Ac . Clover—How and When to Sow ; Blind
Staggers in Horses; Debt; A ue w *ud Valuable In
vention—Thomas Oliver's Ootton Fan; Cheap Paint
for a Barn, &o.
Editorial Auswers to Correspondents; Pomo
logical Society of Georgia; Vine Grower’s Asso
ciation ; A Card—To Vine Growers ; Long worth s
Wine vs. the Missouri Wine Vineyard at Holly
Springe, &cc.
Horticultural Depaktmemt. —Hints for the
Month; Duchesse De Angouleme (Poetry); Tne
Viueyard* of Messrs. Caradeuc, McDonald &c;
Fruit Tree Taffies, or Labels ; Sowing Garden
Seeds-
Illusttatiohs.—Horse rauiiug-l!lu?trated with
four Engravingd.
Terms of subscription $1 Ifi a year in advance.
Address W. S. Jones, Augusta Ga.
Yellow Fever in Ai | GmJ. — We learn Irom
private sources that there have been a lew cases of
this fearful disease in Aitfnsla Whether they ori
ginated there or were mported we are unable to
state, but our informaUlstates tfcat there is a great
panic iu Augusta on ac#)uut of it and that the c it i
-- ns are fleeing as for tleir lives. —Rome Courier.
Will our ootemporarydo us the justice to give his
authority for the above statement 7 Such a para
graph should never havt been inserted in a public
print without abundanfeproof of its correctness. It
is only necessary for ufio say that it is false from
beginning toend,andvas doubtless given to the
Covrier by interested varties. There ia not now
nor baa there been this reason, a single case of yel
low fever in Augusta ether imported or originating
here, nor are there mu h apprehension among the
most fearful of our citkons that we shall be visited
with the disease this season. Should it, however,
contrary to expectation make its appearance iu cur
midst, the Chronicle wil not fail to give its readers
speedy and reliable iiformation of the fact—aye
daily reports. So far flora our citizens “fleeing as
for their lives,” they ire daily returning to their
homes and business.
The weekly report of k 9 Board of Health, to be
found iu another column, nesds no comment.
Yellow Ferer—Correction.
In our article yesteiday, correcting the state
ment of the Rome Courier , we said : “There is not
now, nor has there been the season, a single case
of yellow fever iu Angola, either imported or
originating here.”
Since this statement appli ed, we are informed
that, some time since, a gtfitleman arrived in the
city from Charleston, v\t) immediately called a
physician to attend him, in a case which proved to
be a very mild attack of ydlow fever—from which
he soon recovered, aud is niwperfectly well. This
is the only case that we hate heard of, and this ex
cites no alarm among our population, because the
patient was surrounded b>| his friends during his
entire indisposition, none ol whom have been iu
the slightest degree affected! Showing very conclu
sively that our atmospherelwas too pure to nurture
the disease.
Indeed, it has often happened, during our resi
dence, of near t wenty years, in Augusta, that per
sons came here from Charleston with yellow lever,
some of whom died, aud tho disease was not com
municated to a soul.
in conclusion, wo re-asskre ou readers and the
public that they may rely upon our giving them
the facts . whatever they may he. And when we tell
then it is perfectly safe to visit the city, os we
nor do , they may come without fear.
Kina's Nliinule lilac blue*
This very superior machine, which makes a
handsomer shingle tkan can be shaved by hand,
continues in operatio* at tho Workshop of W. H.
Goodrich, in this city. It is in our opinion, the
periection of a Shingle Machine, or as near it, as can
be approached, and to cheerfully invite, all those
who fell any interest in tho matter, to call and ex
amine it whan thay vtalt the City.
The “Mount Vernon iteeoi’d,”
We have received from (he publishers the Sep
umber number of this handsome little quarto, which
is published monthly, in Philadelphia, and the ob
ect of which is tho advocacy of the noble cause of
he purchase of Mount Verncn by the “Ladies’ As
sociation of tho Union.” The “Record” gives,
each month, such detail-? iu regard to the operations
of the “Association,” as will be likely to inteiest
the people, and direct their minds to a more earnest
participation in the great and commendable work.
Those who feel an interest in the object and its suc
cess, will find in the Cl &e<fird” all the details of the
history and progress of tin cause, with appropriate
essays, poetic and miscollmeous mat ter, lists of con
tributors, k r e. The primis only one dollar a year.
All tho proceeds, ever aukabove the cost of publi
cation, will go to the aid of the Mount Vernon
Fund.
Deßow’M IpviHv.
Yesterday, we had the pleasure of a call from
Prof. G. H. STUEt KRATHjio-editor of Deßow's Re
view, who has been spenfng some time in intro
ducing the work to the |n,d people of Burke.—
From lhenc9, he will iu Row dayd, transfer his la
bors to this city, and ere long pass into Central
Georgia, and pay his resects to the citizens of
Green, Morgan, Putnam, Slew ton, Jasper, Clark,
drc., tee.
Yellow Fever I Charleston.
The official report of tk number of deaths in
Charleston for the week -nding Saturday last,
shows a total of 101—81 of hieh were from yellow
fever —a decrease of 52 in Onparison with the pre
vious week.
Thf. Daily Columbusßnquirer.— We wel
come, with pleasure, the firstum oer of the Colum
bus Daily Enquirer , a ve* handsome and welj
filled sheet. We are gratiflecto witness such evi
dences of progress. Columbi now boasts of three
Daily papers.
Down on Texas Cattle - -be citizen? of \ r er
non county, Missouri, have isclved in a public
meeting, that they will not pent cattle from Tex
as to be driven through their ounty. They de
clare in their resolutions that eckhern cattle com
muuicate to those of Missouri Rdiseaee known as
Spanish or fever, which it very malignant
and has caused the death oi grei numbers of na
tive cattle in Vernon county.
A Large Tax Payer.—The NtW York tribune
says Wm.B. Aster paid his tax bilfo the recorder
on Tuesday last, the amount beingW(K|o on per
sonal property end $60,000 on realsUb-. Total,
$85,000.
A Large Increase. —The reeeija cotton at
Galveston, Texas, iqr the year jnafcloeet exhibit
an incre.se of 48,428 bales; theenouut for 1857
having been only 71,399 b:lee ; v*iie for the year
just dosed it has been 119,820.
The National Horsf. Snyw at Springfield,
Ufaaa dosed on the 18tb iiyL'wifh & grand ban
quet, at which the Hon.?JvarJftverelt delivered
an admirable address. Col. Valter Harrison, of
Va., Richard Yeadon, ofc>. C and Gov. Banks, es
Maes., also made speech*.
Quarantine at Nei York. —The New York
Health Commissioners, atheir meeting on .Monday
last, adopted a motion tit all vessels from New
Orleans and Cherleaton,rriving with sickness, be
detained eight days for inflation and observation ;
those without sickness, ,ur days. This leesens the
time of quarantine morjhan one-half.
Counterfeit Notes. —The Norfolk
papers mention that sevralol the counterfeit notes*
purporting to have beeassued hy the Northwes
tern Bank of Virginia, alWheeiing, have been with
in a few days passed in mt city. They are of the
denomination of five dokr.s and are made payable
at Jeffersonville. Seveal counterfeit notes of the
Merchant*’ Bank of Lnciburg have also been de
tected by the brokers a’Ntfrfolk.
Death of a Ci|i|arun. —Mrs. Ludwick
Snyder, of Burnside tweekip, Clearfield county,
Pa., died at the advnc*d age of 108 years, laot
week. Her husband,."h* survives faer, has reach
ed the ripe age of 112 ears.
We see it stated in at London Atheoa*um that
the Haytian student*. the Paris Colleges have this
year carried off their ill sha.*e of honors, and the
occasion has been cebmted by the men of color
by a banquet •
Another CaeljLaid —The New Bedford
Mercury says the cble between Nantucket and
Cape Poge has beetnocessfuliy relaid by Captain
Bishop, with the yadt steamer G. W. Lyon. The
work waa eomtnenoi on Thursday and completed
the next day, aad uioubtedly will result in suc
cess, message havig already been received at
Nantucket from E^rrown.
Liberal Exempts Law —The Legislature of
Minnesota has p sad a law exempting a homestead
of eighty acres frodlety from debt* incurred ; also
SSOO worth of housed furniture, S3OO worth stock
and utensils. S4OO ’orth of tools, the library of a
professional man, all frovUiona enough to support
the family one year
The recent 8t- was a decided eucceee.
The total receipts mounted to $39,000, and the
profits to $16,000.
A Powerful a|tbiaii Will.— ln boring an
Artesian well at Btirt Lincolnshire, England, re
eently, a spring wafstjnek which threw the water
twenty Jive feet ab\e the earth a surface, at the
rate of 365 gallousbe? minute, or 191,844.000 gal
lons in twelve monfts. only one equal, and
that is in Paris.
F>ong!a* aud Squatrer Sovereignty*
The readers of this journal need not be remind
ed, that we have always maintained, that Senator
Doooljls was an advocate of the doctrine of Squat
ter Sovereignty, (the right of Freeeoil legislatures
to exclude slavery from the territories of the United
States,) and that he and the entire Northern Demo
cracy supported the Kansas bill because it recog
nized this odious principle, while the Sjuthern De
mocracy contended that it contained no sur*h prin
ciple or feature. New, that there is no longer any
ncotrve for conceal men!, the fraud upon the South
having been fully accomplished, Mr. Douglas does
no* hesitate openly to avow himself an edvoo£*e of
Squatter Sovereignty, and to declare that the Kan
eas bill recognizes it in all its hideous proportions.
In a recent discussion at Freeport, Illinois. Mr-
Lincoln (Black Republican) propounded the follow
ing question to Mr. Douglas
“Can the people os a United States Territory, in
any lawful way. against the wish of any citizen of
the United States, exclude slavery from its limits
prior to the formation of a State Constitution?”
The following ia the prompt and explicit reply of
Mr. Douglas, to which we invite the attention of
Southern men of all parties ;
“I answer emphatically , as Mr. Lincoln has
heard me ansvei a hundred times from every
stump in Illinois . that in my opinion the people of
a territory can , by laicful means , exclude slavery
from their limits prior to the formation of a State
Constitution. Mr. Lincoln knew that I had answer
ed tha* question over and over again. He heard
me argue the Nebraska bill on that principle all
over the State in 1851, in 1855 and in 1856, and be
has no excuse for pretending to be in doubt a? to
my position on that question. It matters not what
the Supreme Court may hereafter decide as to ab
stract question whether slavery may or may nut go
into a territory under the constitution, the people
have the lawful means to introduce it or exclude it
as they please, for the reason lhat slavery cannot
exist a day or an how anywhere, unless it is sup
ported by local police regulation*. (Right right )
Those police regulations con only be established by
the local legislature, and if the people are opposed
to slavery they will elert representatives to that,
body who will by unfriendly legislation effectually
prevent the introduction of it into their midst. If,
on the contrary, they are for it, their legislation will
favor its extension. Hence, no matter what the
decision of the Supreme Court may be on that ab
stract questi n, siil the right of the people to make
a slave territory of a free territory is perfect and
complete under the Nebraska bill.
And this, reader, is the man, Stephen A. Doug
las, with whom Mr. Stephens asks Southern men
to affiliate ! Verily, verily we say unto you, South
ern men, “great is the power of the spoils /”
Hon. A. (<. lii*o\vn —The President.
Tue Hon. A. G Brown, United States Senator
from Mississippi, ir. thus reported by the Vicksburg
Whig :
Mr. B. .<a'd : “ l’hat ho called <)u the President be
fore he left VV aching ton, and that Mr. Buchanan as
sured him in the most positive and unequivocal
termt that he would appoint no man to office who
held the opinion that Kansas ought to be admitted
before she has a population which would entitle her
to a Representative in Congress, (according to the
terms of the conference bill) and that he would de
capitate every officeholder who expressed such a be
lief.”
We confess to feeling some curiosity, (> know
how long the intelligent people of the South, wilj
permit themselves to be gulled by such stuff as this
detailed by Senator Brown. Every intelligent man
who is at all observant of the progress of events, must
know that it is mole than Mr. Buchanan dare do.
He has not thornoral courage to attempt any such
thing, much less carry it out. Besides, his energies
will all be directed to healing the breeches among the
contending factions of spoilsmen, all of whom he will
most cordially embrace, whatever inay be their opin
ions on the Kansas question. Mr. Buchanan is far
from being an exception to the rule, among Demo
crats, of welcoming any body into their ranks, who
has a vote, whatever be the shade of their political
opinions on Kansas or any other question.
Democract—The Spoils.—lt will be recollec
ted that the Union some wet ks ago characterized a
large proportion of the government clerks in the
city, as “miserable scavengers who devote four or
five hours of indolence at their desks s and declared
that “if. is a notorious fact, that more than half of
the patronage of this government is best meed upon
such unworthy and untrustworthy men.”
As an instance of an abuse of this kind, we state
the following facto, which have been communica
ted to us, from such afource as to leave no doubt
of their coirectneas in all material points.
We are informed that a near relative of a distin
guished Southern polii cian has held a twelve bun •
dred dollar clerkship in one of the Government Bu
reaus for nearly tin ee years. during which time he
lias never done a single day’s work in his office, al
though he has regularly drawn his one hundred
doilara at the end of every month. For about three
months last past, he has hired a substitute at sixty
doilara per mouth; but during all the residue of
the time, he has received his salary regularly with
out in any way rendering the slightest equivalent
therefor.— Wash. Rep.
The Republican should not only have given the
name of the distinguished Southern politician, but
that, of hia fortunate protege.
The Boston Traveller say? that it Ims thus far
been found impracticable to lay a submarine ca
ble, that will remain for any length of time, be
tween the main land and Martha’s Vineyard. A
line has been twice laid from Kalmouth across the
Sound, to the Vineyard, a distance of about four
miles ; but it has soon been broken by the winding
of the seaweed around it, and the force of the cur
rent. Bunches of the seaweed accumulating, in a
short time to the size of a hayoock, would get tan
gled around it, till tbo force of the stream or tide, in
the Sound, would break the cable. The line used
is similar to the Atlantic cable.
f*T ‘'“o*l St. Domingo.—Capt. Park of the
British brig John M„tw, arrlvad at New York from
Part ftu Platt, sth inst., states that Santa Anna
marched into Santiago on the Ist day] of September,
with 2,000 men and 7,000 horeea, and took posses
sion of the Fort. Santiago had previously capitu
lated, the President, Valverde, lied to Monto
Christo, there to embark for Turk’s Island. The
Collector of Customs at Port au Plat!, and three
men from Santiago also left for Turk’s Island on the
sth of September. When Capt. Park left there was
no government, the principal merchants had closed*
their stores, the paper money was of no value, and no
person knew how to sell our buy or what the next
change was to be.
Suspected Slaver. —A Confession. —On Satur
day last eight Portuguese sailors landed at Mon tank
Point, L 1., of whom theNew York Journal of Com
merce says :
They had a large amount of money, all of which
was iri doubloons and half doubloons. They at first
refused to answer any questions, and between Sat
urday nrght and Sunday morning seven of them left
Sag Harbor. One, being sick, was left behind. —
lie died on Monday morning. A short time before
his death he confessed to have belonged to a slaver
brig, which had just landed a cargo of elavos in Cu
ba. A brig was seen from I-iong Island, early on
Saturday lnomipg, so close in snore that it was
supposed she was inside the bur. The boat in which
they came ashore was identified as having been
built at Stoningtou, and she had the builder’s name
on her.
Oysters.— Our at huowledgments are uue to our
friend Schneider, for a waiter of Oysters, (the
first of the season,) with the necessary condiments,
yesterday. We are pleased to see that he is thus
early making hia arrangements for the approaching
season.
Yellow Fever at Kichmond.— The Richmond
South says there arc now at the Small Pox Hospital
at that place three seamen, named Matthew Sylva,
Peter Polvment and Wm. Pengelly, lying sick of
decided yellow fever, one of them so ill that his re
covery is very doubtful. These men were brought
up to the hospital from a lumber laden brig from
Savannah, lying below the bar at Rocketts.
New Orleans — Cotton. —The receipts of Cot
ton in New Orleans on Monday last summed up
11,026 bales, as follows .
By steamboat. Magnolia bales. 3,9516
“ Sallie Robinson. 857
C. D. Jr 597
Republic. 50
Princess 3,719
Ingomar 1,877
Total 11,026
Ohio Democracy—Mr. Buchanan.— A des
patch in the Cleveland Plaindealer announces that
Mr. J. W. Gray, the editor of that paper has been
unanimously nominated to Congress by the Demo
crats of the Nineteenth District. It will be remem
bered that this gentleman was some time since
dismissed from the office of Postmaaler because he
would uot endorse Lecomptou.
No Use fora Constable.— A military encamp
mnt is now being held near Pittsburg consisting of
fourteen or fifteen companies and numbering some
three hundred men. On Tuesday several rows
took place in the neighborhood of the cam p ground.
A constable who interfered was knocked down,
kicked and beaten and compelled to fly for his life.
Gold in Kansas.— The Wyandotte, Kansas
Gazette of the ißth met., says that 1 yesterday ten
thousand dollars in gold dust arrived here from
Pike s Peek. One man brought six thousand, the
result of a few weeks’ work ”
The New York Tribune has a despatch from
Washington, averring “that the yacht Wanderer,
which was temporarily detained by the United
States Marshal, at New York, a few months ago
under suspicious circumstances, went to the coast
of Africa, and is soon expected in Cuba with a
cargo of slaves.” j
Ratified. —Tbe Kentucky Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church at their recent session,
ratified by a vote of 36 against 24, the action of the
General Conference in Nashville, in expunging the
rule against the “buying and selling of men, wo
men and children.’’
Fire is New York. —There was a destructive
fire in New York on Saturday evening in the
Eighth Ward. Three six story buildings in Ren
wick-atreet, used by Mr. Benjamin Kewhouse as a
cabinet manufactory, were entirely consumed, to
gether with their contents. Over a hundred work
men loqt their tools, and are thrown out of work in
consequence of the fire. Nearly a dozen dwellings
in the vicinity were more or less injured. The to
tal lose is estimated at SIOO,OOO, a large portion of
which is covered by insurance.
G P. R James -eq , the novelist, lately H. B.
M’s. consul at Richmond, Ya., will finally leave
Richmond on Tuesday next for New York, and wii 1
probably take the steamer Persia of the 29th inst.,
for Europe, to assume his new duties as British Con
sul-General at Venice. Mr. James is much esteem
ed -n Virginia, and the Richmond papers express
regret in announcing his departurte.
Execution —Preston S. Turley, formerly a min
ister of the Gospel, was executed at Charleston,
Kanawha county, Va., on Friday last, tor the mur
der of his wife. The Sunday before his execution
prayers were offered in the village churoh in his be
half.
A Rapid Flight.—A German paper eaye the
quickest rate of looomotion, after- tbe electric
■park, light, Bound and cannon balls, is ascertained
to be the flight of the swallow. One of these birds
liberated at Ghent, made its way to its neat at
Antwerp in 12} minutes, going at the rate of 4j
miles per minute.
Health of Savannah.
The Republican of Wednesday morning, contain
the following gratifying intelligence of the health of
Savannah:
The City. —The condition of our beloved city,
which excites every leeling in the hearts of the resi
dents ot some of our up country towus except sym
pathy, is not so deplorable as they want to believe
it. We have a good many citizens left yet, and ail
kinds of business proceeds just as if we were in
the dead of winter. When we look into the streets
we see drays passing, and men moving actively
about, and the busy hum of commerce goes on ae
steadily and with as little interruption as it did a
month ago In fact, those who are remaining here
do not dread an epidemic, far less a few cases of fe
ver : and if it should increase, there are brave and
kind hearts here that will allow none to suffer We
have been to see such of the sick as we could hear
of, and find them suffering from too much attention
rather than too little. We say such as we have
heard of, because we have heard of very little, and
those we have seen were very slight attacks. Fear
has undoubtedly caused more sickness aud more
deaths, than any thing else: and aa those who lived
in dread have gone away, we hear of but few new
cases, and fewer still that are fatal. We hope tha:
the suggestion we made yesterday to the Board of
Health will not be disregarded—it ia of vital impor
tance to our reputation abroad, ami if it is not done
that Board must take upon themselves ihe blame of !
having the reputation of the city for health blasted, !
without their making the proper efforts to arrest
these injurious rumors.
We have obtained the following report of inter
meats, not from an official source, but which, never
theless, may be relied on as worthy ot entire coiiti
dence:
Laurel Grove. Catholic Cemetery
September 15 3 1
“ 16 4 2
“ 17 3 I
“ 18 1 2
“ Iff 6 I
“ 20 3 1
20 8
Makiugiu six days 28 interments, of which 11 are
reported of yellow fever. The seven days preced
ing the present six, tlwre were 33 interments. We
are sure that the effi-i:d report of the Board of
Health tor this week, w .1 not exceed that of last.
This is indeed most gratifying intelligence, and
we sincerely hope the brightest anticipations of our
friends may be more than realized.
Two days since, we ventured to suggest to the
authorities of Savannah and Charleston, the pro
priety of making daily reports of the deaths, as the
only means of correcting the exaggerated reports
which are daily and hourly circulated throughout
the country. As an illustration of the character of
these reports, as coining from their own citizens, in
the most modified form, we submit the following
paragraphs, which we clip from the Edgefield (S. C.)
Advertiser of the 22d inst.:
Yellow Fever. —We have just read a letter
dated Charleston 18th inst., which says lhat the
fever is very severe in tlnti city, and that from
twenty five to thirty die daily.
A gentleman of Savannah informs a lady ot this
village that there were thirty deaths in that city
from yellow fever, for the week ending on Friday
last.
Health of Savannah.
The Republican ot Monday morning eayH:—“We
propose to. say but little in regard to the
health of our city, preferring to leave it to the con
stituted and professional authorities to state facta,
and to the public to form their opinion thereon.
They arc the only correct basis of opinion.
“In publishing the report of the Board of Health
for the last two days, we may observe, that it af
fords anything but ground for tho minors of the
idle, and the apprehension of our friends abroad-
Taken in connection with ! lie reports of the three
days immediate ly preceding we have a yellow fever
mortality of five, or but one to day. This can hard
ly be. called an epidemic , and, indeed, the cheerful
faces of our citizens and the entire absence ot all
excitement iudioate that there is but little, if any
apprehension, that the diseaso will partake of that
character. The weather at present is cool and
highly favorable. We had a tine rain Sunday
morning, and the atmosphere seems pure and is
certainly pleasant. We heard of no new cases
yesterday, and the general testimony of our physi
cians was in favor of a manifest improvement in
the condition of cases on hand.’’
Rates of Freight.—The Savannah Republican
says —We frequently heat complaints about the
high rates of freight between Tennessee and Saven
nali. We know that they are as low as they can be.
and remunerate the companies employed in trans
porting, and the Southern (Knoxville, Tcnn.) Citi
zen, in an article upon the rates between that place
and Richmond, Bays “that merchants in East Ten
nessee, doing business upon the line of tho East Ten
nessee and Virginia Railroad, sixty miles East of
Knoxville , aud within three hundred and ninety
miles of Richmond, now find t hat, it, is their interest
to have goods, purchased by them in New York,
shipped to Savannah, and thence delivered to them
over five hundred and eighty miles of railroad,
rather than have the same goods shipped to Rich
mond and thence transported to Lynchburg, by Ca
nal, and from thence to East Tennessee, two
hundred and seventy-fire miles of railroad ‘ A
dealer in wheat or flour in Knoxville may purchase !
hero, transport it five hundred miles of railway to
Savannah, and thence by shipping to Richmond for
leas than l\e can have it transported direct over four
hundred and fifty miles of railroad, and that tho
same dealer may load the vessel with coffee import
ed into Richmond, bring it to Savannah and th< nee
by the five hundred miles of railroad, deliver it in
Knoxville for £ cent per pound less than he can have
it conveyed to Lynchburg by canal and thence to
Knoxville over thrye. bundled aud thirty-four miles
of railroad
Democratic t)i*v<'-<” < >•"vmuinn.- -It up
pears that the Central Committee ot the Democrat
ic parly in Virginia have not been able to agree
npou the time and place of holding their Guberim
torial Convention, and uot likely to. In this di
lemma, I lie South, a somewhst douDtfui organ of the
party, undertakes to settle the matter by suggest
ing Staunton as the place and December Ist as t lie
time.
The Bible. —lt is said that the late revival of
Religion has caused an unprecedented cull for the
Bible. The Wilmington “Herald” learns that, the
demand ; s such thqt manufacturers aye extending
their facilities in order to aupply tbe demand. One
maker consumes annually in this department alone
over five hundred tons of white paper, worth from
two to three hundred dollars per ton ; forty tous of
tar paper for back covers; twenty thousand sheep
and goat skins ; over half a million leaves of gold,
and glue und paste without limit. This establish
ment employs over two hundred persons in ils va
rious departments, ail engaged it} tbe manufacture
of Bibles.
Important to Newspaper Publishers. —The
Postmaster General has ordered that all “supple
ments” or “extrae,” folded within regular issues of
daily or weekly journals—not actual and bon i fide
editions of such publication l !, con,.eying intelligence
of passing events and general intelligence—subjects
the whole package to letter postage.
Fish Without Eves.— The Gallatin (Tenn.) Ex
auiiner acknowledges tbe receipt of an cye'ess cat
tish which was taken trom the well of Col. eorge
Elliott, of Surnner county. The Examiner says :
“It is similar in every respeot to those which have
been found in the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky.—
The well was sunk about four years ago, and a
great many of these fish have been drawn from it.
It is not more than twelve feet in depth. We have
heretofore been under an impression (a ,ys the
Nashville Dnion) that these fish were not found id
any other place except the Kentucky Cave. The 1
well of Col. Elliott contains a fine running stream,
and it may be that it Iras a subterranean connection
with those waters which breed these singular speci
mens of the provide: ce of nature.”
Mourning in New York. —Tbe Newark Mer
cury is responsible for the following illustration of
the manner in which the dignitaries of Gotham pay
tbe last tribute of respect to a worthy associate:
“The city's bill for the funeral expense: ol Aider
man Murray, in Ntiy York, amounted to $672
Os this $139 was for drink, &.i\, on the road to the
cemetery.’
The Baptist', —The Baptist Almanac, for 1859,
ha3 just been issued by liie American Baptist Pub
lication Society We gather from it the following
summary of the Baptists in the United States :
Associations 505; churches 11,000; ordained min
isters 7,144 : licentiates 1,025; baptised n 1857, 63,-
506; tolafm-mbers 623,193. Besides l.h<
are the anti Mission Baptists, 58,000 ; and th- t see
Will Baptists, 50 310 ; and of Disciples and other
denominations that practice the immersion, about
400,000. The increase in the last ten years has
been 144 associations, 3 395 churches, 2,19) ordian
ed ministers, and 225,448 members.
The Chess Contest in Enoland.—thorn infor
mation received by the Venderoilt at New York,
it it ascertained that Paul Morphy, tbe young
American chess player, won the match lm was
playing with Herr Lowenthall, the score me
close standing thus; Morphy 9, Lowe mb all 3, rawr,
2. The match was for SSOO. It is also stated that
Mr Morphy has engaged to play a match of 21
games with Prof. Aderson, of P.e.,law—supposed
to bn the beat player in tne world.
A . English “Breach of Promise” Cask.—
In England, lately, a suit for breach of promise of
mar, .age was brought by a fisherman s beautil,.
daughter against a captain in the English army, fix.
ing damages at $50,000. The love letters of the
galii.ui captain were bo numerous that they were
printed for tbe accommodation of counsel, making
in ai! a volume of 198 pages. The matter was r.nal |
ly compromised by the payment to the injured lady j
of the sum of $lO, Oi'U, wilh the promise that the vol- !
ume of totters should be burnt.
Drowned by a Jug.—At Ly sander, Onondaga
county, N. Y., on Sunday, John G. Forbes tied a
jug of whiskey about his neck and attempted to
Bwii i the river. T,e jug proved too heavy for him
and re was found at tbe bottom next morning—
having mixed altogether too much water with his
liqu >r,
L ing Train.—A train of ninety-seven cars, reach
ed Cumberland, on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail
roao, in the early part of last week. The train was
com nosed mainly of coal hoppers. It is said to be
the ! ingest train tha’ ever passed oyer the road.
B ink Robbery —sß,ooo Stolen. —The Union
Bail of Kinderhook, N. Y., was robbed on Wed
nee, ay night, the safe being blown open by gun
pow ier. Some six or eight thoushud dollars of the
nob i of the Bank were taken; and as other papers
jest indisturbed in the safe are scorched by the ex
plot on, on tbe ends, it is presumed that tbe bills ta
ker are likewise in tbe same condition, which may
belj in the detection of the robbers.
1 .e bank building is situated in the heart of the
villi <e of Kinderhook, but no one was disturbed, j
thov there was concussion enough produced in ;
blo 1 . ing open the safe to stop tbe bank clock, at
abo t one, which was probably the time of the rob
ber . _
A poor actor, with a book under his arm, was
entering a pawnbroker’s office, when be encoun
tere 1 a friend, who enquired what he was going to
do. “Only going to spout Sbakspeare,” was the re
ply
Tic man who plants a birch tree, little knows
wkat he is conferring on posterity.
Ti e Tcmpes*.
i Tats-wonderful creation of ivo iinmor:.u Shak. ;
I spkare’s fancy, has been pr du [*d at tho Holiday i
| Street Theatre, Baltimore, at great expense in the
j preparation of entirely new t cenery, aud in most
i splendid style. The Baltimore Patriot has tho foi
i lowing no*ice of the first nigi.Us performance :
“ The Tempest was brought outlast night in a
s l yle of grandeur which must prove h great mseees.
Tue house was crowded, ana tue enthusia -m which
the audience evinced when some new Uirv set no
buret suddenly upon their view, showed a just
! predation of the skill wii h which Mr. G stz had haa
i died his pencil and brush. We have seen every
j fairy spectacle which ha* been brought out in the
I three ? argecities during the past twenty-five years,
and we are free to confess that; we never saw any
thing iu scenic effect to equal ‘ The Tempest’ at the
Holliday Street Theatre—and :h-t is saying a goon
deai wnen we remember Ru*?eil Smith, George
Hulze and a host of other scenic painters. Our
readers are too familiar with ev y thing that :he
immortal bard ever wrot-. v* us io give a plot of
the piece, but we think tha- IT n? are some few
parts of the * origin*l r \t,’ winch the manager
-shouldomit. It would he in genu ia<*r. f.-r muo to
do so. Besides the gorgeous -ecu -ry\ the piece
wa# Veil played throughout, and though sometimes
the dialogue was long and tedious, the interest of
the audience did not seem to flag fora moment.
The last tableau v.*;;s me crowning effect o all,
ana was received with i .under- : < plause—u*. r
would the people leave the house until the curtain
wan raised a r-eooad time Miranda, one of inaks
peare’s most uik-,.tel> drawn l-mn!e charade* s j
was well sustained b/ M J. Parker. A ’el in .e \
hands of the petite Miss Jeffeiseu wa> all that ♦ uui . j
have been desired. C.ciaan, th< c formed el we, !
brought • mus*-n> .* • ..mi . •or pqbli . ;
—Mr. Davidgc. He was well rn iveo, and though j
be had one ot t o mot entire ci-araoN-r* to ? ssu ~e |
iu the whole range of the drama he let the tin- 1
pression that h. was an artist ‘ more than an or- j
dinar? merit, ‘he rest ot the - wa pe o
nated. Nothing happened to mar tin ; lorinauce j
from beginning to end, winch, for tho fi;*>t represtui- (
tat ion of a ‘•Speoiaeulu piece,'* is or rug u u- I
sual The dresses and aupoinfmeuis we*e iu char- j
aeter aud keeping oi tin tune v $ . to
the “original epiniou’’ *•; the W cstarn editor, who, ■
t aster reading his woikr;, said—“ That S v p etre in j
nis cay was a t reat limn,” and would advise all i
who w ish to spend an agreeable evenuig t. vmit the j
Holliday Street and arc * ii * Tempo.-! •
VV r HiSKEY Consumption in Scotland —Beer and
Ale Substituted. —Mr. J nines Caird, M. P., in a let
ter to the London Times, domes the correctness of
the figures recently published relative to the in
creased consumption of oirituou - liquor* • S
- lie eays the fallacy seems to be this :
“Previous to 1855 osp r ite divy paid for in >
land could bylaw in England ; but i-ince I
the equalization oi the duty between the two eoun- I
tries no separate jieoou. t h*.-- been oi the j
quantity retained in Sootiaud aid that tto Em*, j
land Thus iu 1855 there were 6,452,098 gailon*
com un eu in Scotland, and 2,709 721 Uons . eni n* ;
England, making ff,lbi,Bl9gadm:* •..! ugcher ; while j
last year tho whole quant ty, 6 962 9i 1 gal on *. e:s j
tere i as duty paid in Scotland, may have included j
that which was al-. sent to If:
tinguished by the excise, as tho same duty is now i
paid in both countries Dealing wi o the figures in. I
the return, il appears that in the tbre* years previ
ous to the assimilation of the duty, the quantity of
spirits entered for consuinpt mu in Scotland amount
ed to 20,443,82? gallons, v. : during tho -mi. pe j
riod were sent to Englaud 6 (153,241 gallon*. inakiug !
altogether 27,497,068 gall’ s t. mparing this wilh
the three years since the duty v ,-r. equalized, the I
tolal quanti y entered in this return h*r bo*h Scut- i
laud and England amounts to oulv 19 916.116 gal
lons, thus showing a decrease of 7 580,959 gallons,
or more than one-third the lorrnei average oonsuirip
tiou.”
Mr. Caird proceeds to state that, instead oi an in
crease of drunkenness iu Soot'aud, these figuren
annual decreese iu the use of spirits equal
to forty per cent, of the whole previous consump
tion. He also addo •
“My information and tfb-iervai •>;: lei me to be
lieve that, a considerable ehniw-o ip taking place ir:
the habits of the peopl . Beer and bitter ale are to
a great extent being substituted for the more intoxi
oating national beverage—-whiskey The business
of the Scotch distillers h taking u n-w dirfction
The oi the spirit duty in the coun
tries has created a greatly inc. - demand for
Scotch spirit > m Engl i.- white tl } ;!<■ ■i>-o |.- v .-
helped to limit Ihe s •: in s lotbue’ ( know an
iufitnucc, which is probably no* • *• wh. i*
the business of a large So )toh dietUl ry, vhich u
to bo in tin* proportion two thirds *'< in the
Scotch market.and oue-tlmd in Engl n!, in w .
aotly reverfted.”
Death of Joseph B. lobb ; iM. ‘nw Adver
ttßer t>f ttie 23d instant, ty.-;:—ri*o umbus
(Mit.i.) Democrat of tl e 18th hri > t ad int 1
ligenc.r that'Col. Joseph B Cobb i ■ Ho
died at. the residence of Mrs. M‘>cre, of C . .mlm ,
on Wednesday of last week, est .* >. lore m.-d pain-
M illness Qe'Wos fi
talents of cnltivat and testes in brief a high toned
gentleman. We transfer from the Democrat tbo
follow!/ • ureer:
CoL O bbwas a sen of tke lal ; .i W (
was a native ot • Georgia ; h< • uni to ti j c i Bbifi>
whf.ii quite young aud pelt led iu Nixubee. A. *ew
years afterwards he removid to this couuty, which
he made the permaiu'Mt re -idence. Tin*
deceased, for some lwel\e or fifteenyoat ,oi upied
a large space iu tho public eye, u i only of this, but
of all the adjoining count cud ir.decd of M m
whole State, 110 repr. :a :/ 2 No.mil/ •• e-muty in
the lower branch of the Legh.-aturc /•. 184*2, and in
is:.:;. , . - from t
county. But Uol. Cobb t 1.. u. • • ! y lioueßt
and consistent in bis politics, •>. *5 /’iince with
the great mass of votriv: in fhcS’ate*// nn.-t
of the h ading political q ti stions tin* cay, /-nd
hence, notwithstanding his fin * lah :-ra, !,>
never very aucceiistiff in his car; or > a pubic nun.
He was a graceful, fl-iont apt* kor, and a sprightly,
vigorous writer A••
hours he devoted to writing v- i h—, k-ich*■ *, . lo
ries and critiques —for the Afagazincsand Reviews,
many of which were much read and admired
A:’a own, Uol. Cobb was uo* ‘i . leopecfed
and esteemed for the many < xoellent qualffies both
of his head and his heart, tnd hi a memory v. i I long
be cherith dby hosts of admiring friends tt wtvi
only about forty years old at ’he rime o h*a death,
Thu n ua L: :,u cut down, wi • * ‘ 1 ■> ji* . i aeh a
what may bft*-in: o *.,•• a. n . r * * win.
was formed by nati ./ h, . • o>” to b- rh<-
prid'.and nrai..ae.t. i l.h -.•ir( <. . hl.iclilisidovso
He 1.v.• <. an intcri-simi; t:,.. il, i wife n:ul
ral ciilliireji—to mimrn lus antimely ilrat.i., “Qr. eu
bs the turl’Hbove bim.”
iI K fNTRv.DUCTI.ir, . 1 1 ‘ !.iT.T.N INT” i 111. tvll!.-
Hissiesi Vai.lky.—Tbe Baton Rouge Adrocnte baa
letlor linioi! Cliapel Hill,Tv o , Ao. ust lit, written,
as wo learu from the Advoce to, by a gen. lonian who :
wan formerly a oitimui of Ltmimns, aud at one lime
filled a liigh office in It. v .'(.vernmenl, from wbioli ‘
we extract (he atno r* ■ passage:
ajThe person is y, livir, who saw the first ,-ack id
cotton need brougio ido the Mi - -isippi Valley. Il
was introduced by Daniel Clink, father of Mi Gen
Gaines, who was a native i Ireland, Spanish sab
ject, nil-■! acting as On-iil ior the United ‘ , ,-rt
the port of New-Orleani It. was imported expre
ly for Mr. BriDgier, wealthy plan er, on th< right
bank of the river, a ffw miles below Donalds,ln- .
villo. Mr. Itringior had also the first cot'on gin im
ported. The cotton seed was dlstrihu-d to such
plauter.i, up and down the cos-r as d.-.-in and j,, ; r y the
experiment., and in the tail o'thoyenr wh-u it iv>.-
pick"-! 1 B. -id bi;i no, Louis Ur, tsi-it
oenl venerabi Surveyor G--i, ml ;.f! .... mum, with
a barge aid gang of liegr.. „ to collect it. for the
purpose of being giro:: J. The cotton was raised
and ginned upo.i shuns, and whe- bagged w
Bent to Daniel Clark, -r c. port alien. Mi. liringinr
•old me lie had gone up ;• ar ;.: baton Rouge nr.j
Pointe Coupee, ga:l.ciiui c<> ton to oilmen
lii.i In'lier's plain below Donalds,,nv,li. Tills woe.
in the latter part of the Is m.d .„<, beginning of
the pres Tit century.
Red ani. White Wiifat. — ir. . . ...wi. g on, j
£.HB and interesting revelation , .alien i--,,
Charnbersburg (Penn.) Spn Ti „ quest inn i„
asked by a contemporary, out:her Virginia nod
Norib Carolina farmera imve noticed anyibiuk 0,0
sortiutfc.” 1 wheat fields , and if they hare to t ani
munioate tbo toot to toe public. ‘;V p.u ~.-t .
as follow,, .
“ From what li t near from our eoi.utry <riei
and Hoe in CUT eichango papers, il appears that lot
weevil confines his dtrstruoiive ..ptr-tin n-< e c’o
sively to Waite,wheat. In some instaorv-s wh-’~
• pari of the field was in wi.ii- wire f and’ ,'V„
lira,Oder in red, the white wwtds drov,.., *}„,,, ,
red .Detained n„ i.jdry ivhatovr- ‘to Lanoa-to
county, many of thw finn’ r Intend to ra t r-j
wheat aliogetb-r t ‘•.!•■■■ . , liiaappeqrs
nog,; b< wefi vui Franklin
(tow,too. In some part, of Ohio u-H Western
Pennsylvawatlio w10a,.,- p w .
destroyed for several year-* , u euoc. bv r !
weevil. If its ravag.., .an bo bt . by oul >
tivaling red wh. at only, urim,,, , am c.-/aii,-v i
do well to give the white wheat the good to
weevil disappears.” J
A„ Rican Cotton —The Liverpool MerVury i,-. t |
the follow, iq tiiteliigencc iu refere.iee to ir,k reosnt !
disoovery of Dr. Livingstone of some AfrLo cot •’
ton :
“Mr J, Aspinwall Tarner, M. P. for Muneiu -ter
has received a i .r.g letter fro, r> f L ,
lew extrae” from whi- h publi ; -i ‘ m’
ohee. r Guardian At. >• -at'uo ii - - ‘ L ‘
tionary party im'd bad a ~MH|mr..ua“ voy . ■ i,v-',
i.inci, they !■ It Liveipo-,1, ud iha’ ter n , : - ...;
ol exp • r'ja,,tuey ar*- now threading thei7 v o’,
i 1,,* 7, till - , Ih*- 1>„(, ■.r f-.,y, - !’•
the 1,,.,., Kongono, my i-rotln-r et.anibicd on i,t
ton, growing in a deserted native or,tn ,„i:,.k I
/ir,..j ... 4 ...|L. , . ft ~r in, i,.f h
. 8 “* 1 tv - to ho'd, r 4rt ha‘ lm* the
river ami the nils of i, „ , .. i . ,
‘a co: on I enclose aSpeci,'m/'''Mr.” Turn* La"’
ibT '?. TANARUS"”
Sen Mai.l seed tq different h!. , J
and they exj,.., : .. .'*’ ‘
toraaJe. 1 ‘‘ ‘ ° ‘ !UI1 ‘ vate u
i ®I.9fiATiNQ the Jenny Lind Furor !.H"r is
* very pretty little canfatrice called Picookrmicii
who ims been singing the “Travioia” in L tuoii,
some tune about seliing tlio Thames on tir--
receutiy made a trip to ti.o “Gen),” to give the
Irish a touch of her quaff Lucia di Lntnraer
moor was sol,g nr the Meatre Royal, Dublin, whm
the following is related by one of tbe city papers ■
On her issuing from li.e stage door „and entering’
her carrigc the cheering of tin.- a-seir,binge became
most vehement and <• .thus.-, tie The ui.r do,: -a
smilingly acknowledged tb- c mpliuient. paid h*-r.
Hutrhy v;aa hardly : ni ’ vii* • >
the I,.*** any ok* - . •• : ,01. | ri n VvinV
ling; about one hundred >■ ; ; .ret men col
lected ar.-und the oarriage, an;i drew . a* a raoid
pare lo t'.d Gre tain Hotel, loiiowedby a , tomensc
crowd, oheenr he;.rtUy all the way.
On the Cftrtiac a bt in/ drawr up to tbe hotel door
- • ut a,t uy 1 ■ •!■ uuirt. il) <r
Madcmti ,eile Piccolomini alighted, amd a dense
, throng o> enthusiastic admirers, a, H renewed her
expr, se.on of tua/ika for Ih „ manitortation of oublio
regard. She retired within the hotel, but there the
cheering recommenc. and w.- -,:.,ubied v.go, |. v
way of conveying ti.e g, neral and. .-m, mat Urn inm h
admired donna should pi‘-• iu I,eredt at the wm
dow 81m at length came fort! Bp n ihn balcony
in fro,!: of one of ibe drawing rooms ~f ji,,, bot*l
Lights had to be 1, fie cf ber u, assure
the crowd of her identity. The Luzxsing shouting,
waving of hats, be.'-.me --. Agam and
ogam thi faircauts.iicehad tog iiyl—r worship
ers by u miog forth and b ,*iug 8 e was led torrh
by Signer Giugiini, and bad to remain for several
minutes, while the vast breadth oi Backviile street
echoed with cheers and viva-.
Swapping Wives. —The Den mile Transcript
says : A friend informs us that an occurrence iu
Patrick county came to hi- knowledge a few days
since, wl uh we consider decidedly rich. Two of
the citizens of that go-a-bead State, having eaoii
about a half dozen children, concluded to make a
swap of an unheard of character. One proposed to
excl.ang, wives, but the other thinking his wife the
most liktiy woman, said be must have something
| to boot. It was finally agreed that the one should
give the other two ami a half bushels of potatoes,
and the swap was made. This, we doubt not, is a
facts to liich ourfrieed can furnish vouchers.
Death of a Well known Merchant.—Samuel
Austin, Esq., a very opulent and extensive mer
chant, of Boston, died at bit residence in Beacon
street, Thursday afternoon. Tbe deceased was an
influential director of several large business corpo
ration:, and fora long p-riod has been wifely
known as a Calcutta merchant. He was high y
esteemed as a gentleman of liberal culture and fine
tones.
Corrf of tho Chronicle Sr Sentinel.
CROPS, &r.
Millsr County, GA.,Sept. 15,1858.
R. Editor:—The Corn crop is better than ev<r
b. re known. Peas, Potatoes and Sugar Cane are
£■!. promising a large yield. The Cotton crop from
! ivi June U ntji i a gt er p ar t 0 f j u ]y WE|
u .1 b.Mir; but in Ihe first days of August tbe
ru began to make ita appearance, and that, with
*’■’ v y ra^a3 . succeeded frequently by a few days of
T • not sunshine, has done much to out off the
r ’.isrd yield. For the ’ost ten days we have had
co: linnous rains, and now, at this writing, it has
mil’ r for twelve hours successively, and
on (air for twelve more. The consequence is.
th. Cotton in shedding more than at any othertime
•: 95908, and much of the open Cotton has been
ii eo. and some destroyed. The crop will proba
b ; no . three fourths of what was expected in
•In , and eiili be something better than last year
the best time ever known for emigration
! ■' ’ part *-f the State C • sold here at an Ex
■ ; or's sale, ks! week, on sixteen month s credit,
v It. 66 cente per bushel. Heretofore, one dot
!“• ~er bushel cash has been the ruling rate. Bet
uiv io Southweitern Georgia than to Eastern
■ , v : ore the “ drought has cut off much of the
fl!t Scribbler.
Phillips Cos., A;k„ Sept. 22, ISSB.
11 Editor Crops in (his section of country
rank “good, bad, and indifferent.*’ Corn was
’ ally cut short by the drought, though some
■: • made average crops; while cotton was darn
ng, lo some extent by the rust, a result, leuppoee,
o ,o dry er. I notice cue peculiarity of the
<’■’ one Sugar Cane which I have not seen uotioed
ll: - papers.” It stands too much water appa
i : -y an well as a drouth. Wei have about three
a .v. hit :■ was all oveifiowed from six inches to
:• .tin depth, yet it is as good as ever, full of
,iui< ■ &c. The weather for the last two or three
we ns has been fine for cotton picking, which is
um going on rapidly.
Tours, W B. K
hiuiv Market, Madison Cos., Ala., Sept. 24.
j Editor : —I send you a short account of
I in tlii section: Cotton, a fair average yield,
t ■ crop light; Wheat light; Oats, none; Chinese
S ,r Can . a largo crop. Sweet Potatoes fine;
In , laig; , Peas light; Fruit, greatest abundance,
exi- lit grape-, which were cut off by frost 27th last
April; Turnips, none.
Yours g. and
Putnam Counti, Ga., Sept. 24,1858
O.u* prerpeot for a cotton crop was atone time
till net summer very flattering, but alas, the rust
a w.vrn have cut us off to a great extent. We
will make more cotton here than last year, though
i wi'l uo: amount to more than an average orop. 1
sneak of Putnam and Jasper counties in particular
T , orn orop is very good. N. S. W
■ • i Island Crops in Florida and Gkoroia
oh swept over onr oity a few days wo,
cm: ‘tie “naive rains which preceded it,* have
• ri- i oyer all ot Florida, not every where with
one violence, but no part entirely esoar/mg
make the loilowingextracts from letters which
1 • bean kindly famished us hy a factor to whom
- ve been ida ed under many obligations bj
h; equen; aois of kindness : —Savh. hep.
Gainesville, Fla,,, Sept. 15th
,o wet weather still continues. It has rained
•*' l ‘'ay tins month, aud wuter to the depth of ten
in.; in ha fallen Cotton 's rolling in Ihe fields, and
lie .cell I. housed is in a very bad condition
•h"! ti.-uig no opportunity to dry it. 1 keep two
1-H-. *:i in Ihe cotton houses constantly stirring it
nn I even with these precautions it is in a bad wa'-
Out ■ unty is i.lmost impassable, and to finish
“ou'd.-.-i there i a good deal ot sicknes", thuw„|, I
Imv. suffered but, ittle as yet with the latter.’*
Wac< ahootee, Fla., 14tlv*H<iiit
• in--otlis ago the crop never lof.ked bo
pi", mig within my reeolleotiou . tinea then we
h v I ..d more rain than I ever knew lw fore ’and
” “’ nsequently nearly ruined. Hundreds
s havo spoiled m the Helds and ‘,b ß caterpillar
is doing the bal ince of the work.” F
“ St. Mary’s, I{iver Ga , i
September 15th. \
■ We have had nothing hut. va’.n, rain, rain, for a
looin!; past , and tor the lasttwo weeks nota single
cleHr.'iy. The cotton will tup ruined. 1 have not
it;--., ante to diya single sheet full since l began to
pick
“ iie cotton sprouta and rots ia the field. One
1 11 'Y ’’‘•st- b'dds. wljn-h bade fair at one time to
> SOI to l,00(1 pounds to the core, is more than
oO’ and ofl I assure you it mikes me feel sad.-
-No eiijineo for h crop “
St. AUk7':4 River, Sept. 17,
i‘ bl“w a gale, on VYdaeH(iay and iain and hoavr
y 1 have no aut;pfiou ’out tbp.t injury haa
!•-. ii. *> th * eropo. My twn has Buttered se
i •*! *, aud God knows it rpuHKirry enough before.
I rod yesterday m my haue field, until you could
oh i< t (**, under my horse . and in my corn
?i • ‘ tiiero the glouod is lower, 1 would not veil
C ‘fi respomte net of tht Karannah Republican.
Glynn Cos., 20th Sept. 1858.
Mn* Editors —I have tor Borne t ime beeyj eu
tociilleci such iniformatiou bb en
’ -denie ltKiveyoua truthful account of fcfce pro
‘ * < *tton crop on the seaboard ; but have
! “ mi tiishtni'an account of gloomy
y 1 1 ‘-Cl ~ fearing the cry of short orop may bo con
6-i t/o “commonbut as ithan become uni
\ * i t• be hoped some confidence will be
i ll ’- 1 4 i : * iiitifiliation furnished iiy those who are
i<mn lotli f/ivinj? aecounia o h their advorn/*: s than
i.*ii prosperitieM. ‘lhe beet proof v/ have yet, had
/•*: i>o *. crops this year, has been the silence of the
pi ! rs WhMi u vigorous growing crop in July
il.iii 11 1 •• • into the belief that their laboru'aie to
b” ‘ • •wneci with an fihunuaui yield, the public are
i.*. !c in hear oi it. When the oiHastrous rains of
Außt<-d. aud ruicfu- September, blight
t’ * i: ‘'right antic we occasionally hear of
1; v. n/ietortili/e. .vlieu too L*ixi to correct the erro*
1 . oi’. idea tpae aI ug c.ro|imuat be made
* • *• p, j ’ -u i< maun.
ibe c.i.il Rpiii.fr tim rtotb.u plant l:id to contend
wh niriNjjr d-4 jcmH t?hdr ban allowed no
..iu liopes. AnxijUi'ly Liave we awaited tbe try
n \% ot July and to decide tLb fate
•i an -ii iy di H.sbd plant, - f th 0.46 lnouthHhav.* past,
; .’•■“] hi ‘vnrui lei&ra have been realized. We re
i ictandy tell our minfortuneß, which, if c*Antnon, is
i■ .llieletw true. At no time this P/mbod have
’v” !l ‘ ‘ vigorous liealihy plant- there has al
• ” lien marked symptoms of the irjury sustain
could that jtjvare neaHoua be
• i , ill l emembranco by tlvj interested, they would
n-.’ tj-.w Ire eurpri ed at iae universal cry of run!,
’ ‘eh iiivuriab.y cauras short crops. Where rust
Ini:: Lot made its appearance on rioh nwamp lands,
u ‘'” kvy have caused the plant to shed its
li Hi forth a uewgrowlh, whusb, allhough more
, tut to tiw higlit than a leafiesa field, will pr, /
,no great, profit to tho planter. It is not Alone
’ ‘ -tti robiicd of our labor, for
,l: * mil pule has dne more injury than I fear is
i ..nticipated Much coittm that was open line
o, n i WI, ■. . mid hobs lliat at first had the up
c hi'.-.iim, .o oellig but slightly injured, have be
coior, s tit , ‘tiid muoti doubt is entertained as to
tai-ir opening.
A- : ‘ r.chrlai., -niiat has been the extent of the
‘‘ l do ‘hi* ips by tbe gale, it i-iuipossiiy.,,
” 1 ‘*'• .- ,11 compare wilh last year .Sr.me
:i! “ ‘ 1 ”i Mi -'—• y will be much shorter. ‘IV, re
” ■ , the many diflioultiesr.be cotton plant
. lo contend with, justifies tbe belief there
I, ■ Sea Island col ion made this season than
‘■ ‘ “ irnny years The i<iw prion of cotton
l i ■ 1 p : ‘ lew year,:, end high price of corn, bus
o. y* <u i, ,-u who thought it economy to
. P-hii • ; otton, and buy tlsßir corn, to abolish the
- *'i it quently there is less cotton planted this
.and ns tin i-vasou appears more universally
■ nnlavorh 1 le than last year, both on seaboard and
tii ilnt.rv, ,t. i, ~ nalßrsl conclusion to suppu-o
mop w-il no,-porter than last year. We
a ■ ,w duo ,-d wilt Ibe hope that good prices
, tmv briny; O', mil, and must irnnfc to our factors for
jusli,, ,tu.l good weight. Vours, respectfully,
Glynn Cos Planter
•‘t i.at uG BOARD OF lIEAI/fll.
Regular Meetino, j
Sepioraber 23d, 1858.
five o’clock, P. M )
Pi at- .lames hi Dye, Chairman.
M,-mbere—Memara. Ebeuczer W. Doughty, Bte
pinto I). Heard, George M Thew, John T. Millei,
Jarn-s Harper.
i The minutes were read and confirmed.
11 ■ Sexion reports 13 interments from Die J6th to
; the 23d September:
Whites 12; Blacks I—Total 13.
Di> I out of the city 3; Total mortality iu the
i city ill. AduPsk; Childr/n 4.
Di. eases of which stow IMril --Dropsy ol the Brain
1 Dropsy of the Huh,, Act identai 4; Unknown
I , li dura Infantum 1 , Cancer of tbo Womb 1 I
Dieet.. ■ of tin* Hear l 1 ; Rheumatism of the Heart
-Il f Stomach 1; Congestion of the Brain I—Total 13.
Those who,, deaths are marked Accidental, lost
tiu ir lives iq the accident which occurred on the
Savaouan &l Augu. t i Railroad on the 16th of the
‘gent month ; one only of whom died in toe city.
The Board Adjourned.
8 H Chump, Sec y B Health
The Mails r.,s*N Antonio, Texas.—lr
f, . , been :iec thut frequent robbing* of the
mails, b’ lwei-n the Texas ooasl and San Antonio.
i„.ve tr.f • I pier. ip Hie last six rnonthe, and have
resulted i I,envy I,.sees to Texas merchants,large
amounts (4 money haviog been abstracted. A
lady v ii’iiigto theNew Orleans Picayune, from
San Antonio, under date ofthe 12th Inal ~ says :
Can’! yon oblige us by inserting a paragraph In
tbe Pic -yui.'f !,o the • ffect that no letter, private or
official, . -.ai’ iu going iron, or coming to this pre
cious tow Th-m ands ot dollar: have been stolen
; from thomai. between here and the coast, in the
last, half year . and complaints are heard on every
“ide oi ti- litilaros in private letters. In their search
fordrr.: tus thieves op,nj inany innocent epistleu,
whose v. i.ter* are rich in nothing but affection for
’he frier'll . lelativeafo whom they T.nte ; and
ror-ber-ol the maihi lare little tor such a commo
dify, ai.c no doubt destroy many letters contain
ing it. You mention having received hut one letter
mm nn in August, and I wrote three. F , at
V’ eshing n, does not acknowledge the receipt ot
two letter I recently wrole her Our compliinta
here appear to produce no effect. Perhaps a pub
li nolle of this deplorable state of our Postoffice,
ah.dr: may reach the Po-tmaeter Genera}, and in
cite trim to speedy and unsparing investigation.
The We.tern Hog Trade.—The Louisville
Journal of Saturday says ’
We h, rof few transaetions in hogs in this State
for a ten da.y, there be ug a stand off between buy
ers and it’ Out Wear hogs are. offered freely at
.. i w tigA house iii this city was offered 2(1,-
01)0 h ge, by telegraph, on Thursday, at two eligible
packing i'omts on the Upper Mißsiseippi river, at
;,, Hod we beer ot a purchase at a desira
bie Doim, in Indiana of 3,000 head at five cents net
Wo understand that the Messrs. Quigley St Cos., ol
B wlicg Green,Ky , have contracted for some 22,-
000 hen -> be packed there this wiuter at 5 cents
uet It is esiimated that full 30,000 head will be
packed at that point tlrlssesaon.
Tt - Stale of lowa has to-day 50,000 men capable
of hi aring arms.
Vi Bt y, to ‘he amount of 7,000,000 of gallons, i*
anni .liy cansumeo in Scotland.
T ■ eei-ry of John B. Gough, of tbe English Tern
peri ice League, is SIO,OOO per annum. He is now
lent: ring uiih even greater success than ever be
fore
A iaiineville, Va., on the 22d ultimo, Rev. Alex
Can obe ; i administered the -aurament to 2,000 com
municant...
W orth a Trial. —An excha ge says Jiat ohU
dre. I d", „i; under whooping oough, obtaiu oon
side abie relief by breatb.ng the exhalations from
linn whlc hbes been used in gas works.
T ießo'li-obHC- have bought an Austrian railwav
for >0,000,000 florins. 1
T. e B -urn Atlas says that a daughter of tbe late
Pru essv Webster was married on the 20th ult to
Dr. fhonai J. Lathrop, of Taunton, Mass
i : \ ?!\ r ‘ B . di^° r apologises for tbe neglect o
ed. ~nai ‘lfity on aocount orth. advent of a net
me, lb of thg family , and claims indulgence on,
toe . ground that the thing “only happens* once L
Ship building has again taken a start in Boston,