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iiOTtflc & Sentinel.
From the Charleston Courier.
Revolutionary incident*.
Th* Bntisb garrison at Augusta, Ga., wa* located
T xr the river, atd exactly here St. Paul a Ep ,# °3*
ftl Church 3 cr ttacJfl. The Hurrouudinsr Imu.
here ard there, where a few house* or a
inail Held euc >ed. vu, at the time of the Hf™ 0 :
.„ .... •- -, r •• •of nature, and ‘ ow
• ..Ihy Jthiserr.-ooCoLLemuel *•*•
-5, b / &
■ a be ‘w too
J VV>’to do macb hitnseif, bad -d
, ‘ ...the ooaB!7 m every di
►. i™ “ fU[t in? op and destroying the
i in, j t 0t g&on killed or captured, he
*’ .',’ in’; > eon's stead. No doubt this
‘Vi- been fully carried out, had it not
m- ‘v, wealthy and influential
-co r ■ - , . v Brown dared not offend.
” *•* :. iserver ion of this man, the aged
, .itx-riiied a few <lay prior to the com- ;
\ T {lb? eifc —a fortunate circumstance. i
... i■!, il: ,jtR w-uld certainly have destroyed
,"aui. J-ir jus li .uimood, a relative of Col. 11.,
a o-ieoner at the name time and place, to- ,
, r v:'. cim.v others. Capt Hammond in j
~'d i■? vriter of this, that curing hi§ imprison
- i several weeks, Brown's usual
morning diter ion coneieted in inning extra ra
, n „,. ~; . , [j,. Indian a'iies. waodrank eagerly
aatatsof hal fatowwfiOß, and funoae
- rr, i-Veff c! - Brown would order out live or *.ii
~■, ■,, . . . Tn,.- were taken to a
* ’*. 1 rlie. rvl en adjoining the fort; and
* * p . ~, j-.:■ view of the remaioiug
e, one 5..-• , As toon aa !he drop or
1 ’ ,1, e -would be cat, and the halt
, i-i, ‘ f L ',.and over to the tender tntr
l*°*‘ . ~, inoiane. who iwiped and toina
***J *“’ ‘ UfOK .„, the while, looking on from
l :wr. j >■■ o. ‘'^.ihorrid iqiort fully ae much
‘” .* j ’ ... : . who, aftertha dispatch of each
. , i J and yehed hidiouaiy, crying out,
‘’’ ‘.• i , z-.iid the bloody wreck,’ King
■ . -iiuai! he berry good-a man 1 He
:. gee us ram I Oopee’ Burgm
’"oV-.'/hy ‘ ‘ Meaning that the State et Virginia
u ,j “ ,he given to them after a while. Thu
‘ a , hnu’j'., was held out to them m an add!
~i< io 1 / /cent, to keep firm to the King's cause.
... bu-< ;.er. i transpired daily up to tbe ti ne of
j. i,- q>e, which took place after
, ii.own a..-owed a few prisoners to be
, ; ■.. (- ru wded cells iutothe yard every
.v ‘ i .rpo es of lr-:sb air and exercise. To
je- all, iißti a i-ina'l spv/'s marked off by a line
■ hi. u the ground. Within this the prisoners
,l,j u ‘ a or jump, as suited their fancy,
ili ,• ;-i>- time, im- guard walked round outside
n,i *nn l kept them to the limits aseigned.—
. r o-i ,s i; nas anyone of them ap
is- and to-’ ■ -r th-s boundary mark, they were
. ol tii - faci, by the point of the bayo
-• ;-i ], i/ I:,|- wa'chful sentinel, who took
4jr- .n tics I. It, and therefore discharged bis
‘v ft t-'u 1/. I uus matters had gone on lor some
• v i ‘ Oi i- omrum;- Bro wn happened to pass while
[i- , in- ml was i>rnu-ing himself by leaping
tr ,->d by the great agility uis
s i-*i • -ir'ie-i t-.rid I oi:ed on for a moment, then
osve 0.-iec never to bring that man fromthe cells
J',., “... ... n double guard. Shortly alter this
y„ (japtain H. was brought ’ out, but ar
/ i,i „ I-, previous orders, with his guard doubled,
Vt li, I it’d i-tri. I -.r;eto watch him closeiy. He
. Kit ti.e.-elore, placed within the lice*, with tbaio
t-nc’ ion not to approach them too near under pen
't"” of h-.og thru-’ through with the bayonet.—
einingl) raking but. little heed of the remark, he
. . . i L. hau ls behind his back, and with bis eyes
. itel towards I lie ground, alowly walked backward
.ud iorwarJ us it in deep meditation upon some
‘ikis canned the guard to relax somewhat in vigi
wiiicli Captain H. took advantage of, and
, i lied i L y lorward, as if he intended to pass
ii -i I. nun'ary. Os course the mano-uvre was inten
,nH| and w h tne view of drawing the guard
within striking dietnase. It succeeded, for, being
observed a lurn-u- turost was made at him. It
.-.vailed nothing. Quick as thought it was parried
, l ii/ -iiroea to the ground Leaping over
• j, , -Vali: body of his loe, he sought the wall and
.-ire-i ll a’ a .- ■trid,niakingiroodliißwaytotberi
rr, followed by|shower of rifle balls. Unscathed,
*.-■ -'wa-.ii ti.es ream and ioined his friends. Col.
( .anmiinid giadly received and welcomed his re
-hi. Il- uring from him of Brown’s atrocious con
ln-1, he ip-; i rtnined, if within the scope of possibili
- to fl op it. For this purpose, he started early
i toil,vii, • murnirg, taking wiLh him a strong
o<iy vs horse.
f n mid. r -and clearly the movements of Colonel
tlmnmoii l on this occasion, it is proper to remark
, ip from Hi- fort or garrison ran two ditches paral
l wi;i! mid O'.n along the margin of the river to
phult itio-.i lorrnerly McLeans, afterwards own
-1 sod I. 1(10 dby the late Judge Course, a rela
\v-i mid - finning the city boundary in that di
, ‘ Ino .■ rt taken from these was thrown up
nVi’.i - |in--- iiiiiwoen, forming a sort of dam, at
p j me u-"j a a pathway to and from the fort
r'lo-v wi-r- perhaps, three fourths of a mile or more
i length, iii'il pa “'I directly through the swamp,
i.i >.oath iff these the ground was low and
t „ h„ im'-.i t! 1 able for horaea, except where roads
ii trueied all of which were under the
, t , dlance of large bodies of men—Brit
| , |i, ,-ui T-• is. The only hope of coming
.t or of reaehing at all, the parlies
’- i . * iu h-oig the prisoners, depended on h.e
■-i - me mode of getting immediately in their
i er without b --tig r. eu t.-y them or other parties.
, j.. ‘ Jlamincnd p.sssed down the
, n> , oi.Ho the lower teruiiuus of the
~,,,1, . , .ononed, and there swan the river.
O t i . ml. nv i i.e locality, he wee greatly diaap
-11,. -1. iat tm’ Or ;■ iirpii.-Bible to pass the marshy
I ~-d so.pi, - it- .in, only hope of bringing relief to
1-i- irieiKi-i til ■ol ie.-l in view. T’hinking itproba
!!o that - - ’in - millet- or pathway might be louud
i. , , 1.. rt. Birod direction, he followed up the
,u Indian file to within a abort dia
i ci- ! ; t-r-t no diverging path could be
’ , , ling in ilia origtpafokjMt, he now
’ uicd I attention In others, and determined to
- r e - nil tin- miormauon he could of the ground for
ii tur ?**•;t< ns: therefore, continued h'w route
i,-'-.-t!y iiivT.rd-i the h-rt, which soon opened on
-, .. ir.-iiemioui fire; Disregarding this, he was
’- 1 -i r on i.i. t-n.-se, engaged taking notes of
r ~ „ ~,i ~.,.11 .. ....ani1'lllit things around him,
-Vi / b-.U st.tick the eye-- or darn on which hid
, ir*.'. .me eraiiding. in mi obliqu. direction, but lUI
- ploiriOg Up tto efltftb, and
i f.ml. tin* into im* ditch oil one aide, und
i ‘ol. H. into that of the other.
Ati r •'otiiri* up mm extricalinu hia horße, he
, w init \ *p- ‘!• •! handkerchief and carefully
/ ■; water ffGfli fate clothes, aud
nuTi'nti’ [r , coolly remarked to hia men “It will
f ~ir >urnV< , a?id then we shall how those fel
ws h*)W to nhot ! ,# Ordering hia men to follow
!,'*(!*? and forward io the tad® of Umi fire When
, j , V .' t l d off to the right, and under
t .tv. i of *ti,e* oath, passed beyond, coming
.i iint.it ?in* filiif* jand naaiii, about mid-way be
t i rn.Vrfia —Uraierson aud Cornwallis,
i. . ;Vvu body of Tofiefl in thedistauce, passing
, rev i > Hie upper garrison, he charged
, , •ntoi ‘( < •?, under J.be very walleof the
S ;:,V ‘ I>u v. i t to fb iefr, through a small
t o tvtod, T.iailo a short circuit round, and
. ,’t , t i| veil's Gullv, near the upper end of Au
i. ja -i n a-i paused down lands,
i w owin’ ’ and o’ curded by Charles Carter, fay ,
l<> ihc * iVf •• ‘i lit tie . eiow Campbeltown, and then
v ‘.v -’ ,:hu Caroliua bank, down which he
jo If amp, ar.ivtuj; in time for dinner—a
ir •• t • norm I'Ve wotkl From the nature of
i u ..i rHi tie *1 bod'us of Indians and Tories
connie’itiy cut cm duty, and the heavy tfre k<pt up
i.v both u-an-Mons, render hi* escape miraoidoas.--
rv . s i ; a ii ]„ a- and purposes a hastardouy and
dai • v uuvi* 1 ’ - ‘d.iui:, and fairly displayed hia
■ , • -p, e (,ut is, hewaa just the u%a to dure
U,.\ ‘.i'p 1. the liberation of his comrades, o* ihe
frvedoinot 11 country. Everywhere, at all times,
i uriior every oircuiustauce, he was the same
bold, ’o •! retlect-lve. In sound, iu per
v upturn quick, and in action prompt! L.
rfho Invrniinii ol ihc Steam Kimiuc.
In eppear* that inch a tiring ana steam
ve> “! .. m knJ'vn i:i Spain. This is a tact not wid
, <,i pea At that data a Spaniard exhibited iu
,„. s iof Charles V. and all bis court, in the
i ,i ot tt.u oelon i, a vessel of IhH) tons, propelled
jn , the construction of which waa a ee
t M cii'hii’ t’S inventor. Tiie chronicles of that
. , „ that there was a great cauldron cl
i, . -e , ,t, r within, and two wheels on the outside
uu.ved the v.isel The treasurer of the
iii. e-doni oi * led to its introduction. It seems to
cae ,• 1 ~ n ouV.r perfect, since the objections urged
| it wire lust it was too complicated, very
< xiien-1 . ;uid tite tasler apt to explode. But Spain
, ; |)tl( , r it, tbe world was not ripe for it
u , gasted with lie want of apprioia
, ,'.O ,i; ph-.ved by the court, took the engine out of
the a’loweit tfce .hip to rot ill wip arsenal,
•. and! - tore! perished with him in his gray*.
“'one . ntc.iv liter ami the same problem s.
, drtd 111 Krauee. A celebrated female, equally
„vm i for her beauty, immoralities, misfortunes,
,and ‘ ■ vt v ’for she died at the age of i:<4
. famous Mor sand I'Orme, so weii known
, , j*j,. - el modem detiou—has furnished us,
, , j ( , r vi IUI sdtiurer written tu ltill, these
U,,s, m inin’ details. The celebrated Maiquis
W. i v ‘rr was then or. a visit to Madame iu
H ,,,j x, i|| her visited a mad bouse in tbe capi
tal ‘White crossing the court-yard of that dismal
dab’ 1 -tin eut the lady was almost paralysed with
.. , and while obliging to ber companion she saw
afn ‘ ‘iii *ai> look n.r through tbe bare of a win
-i bud ,c K ', and heard these strange words:
. ... . iam not mad! 1 have made a
smv't enrich the kingdom that
■. . V;, y i- q iiHUiOt. was asked by one of the
; . V ... is 11 Ilia? tki.* man has discovered !
: ct ilie venter, ritha mocking laugh
.o, v .jot much ; it's aomething about the
w ’ And mi the 1 •dy laughed that a
. ‘ ad about so fnvchiu* a thing aa that
ih.i man, it seems, came £ra ,*w#ndy c.
. - f Kn *• nis Bieoovery of the IAOI fhai
’lm - v 1 ‘ oio navgate tbe ocean, aid iu
*t* £ ,1'’ • that he did not claim couid
of swam. Caidmai Kicks (
nwss •’ 1 ‘- Mb. n, and tucugb be was m.st ?a
.SMie-i as for worijly wisdom goes,
s-’ ,x‘‘ back xm the inventor. The man
/.V jj. uiV'.® t-lace to r ace, and tbs Cardinal,
and , I u* p< rti^uy,sen? him to the <ad j
e a book OB th* snijffti ]
■ ‘’ ,i *„ h I.ni witi-qd Moving P-wer Tbs Mar
fwom ’■ ‘ was much interested in this book.
is ideas afterward m his own
mi l b ’ . lU tI. as Spain m
... ; ’ j'„ 1- iimbiicy to take up and wield this
a. r:ai r r^.irvc d 1(W the Anglo-Saxon
’ T w >. a 'id none tier, and thereafter the
■ \ KuglanJ was turned to this in
m. . .tgi - tnc-'sse, till in the middle of
ventico Cl. the had been dunting for
l ’ ‘■ , minds, the steam engine.
> ••’ “ n Tuan that living, bumiug
’ • . ... . • • ... p.-r -cticu uy Janie.
~1-s of labor, manthal
,l “, ‘,'r'w icb Watt bmught forward,
o ‘ ‘tx'r timhJlcss triumph, net tor the
• . the of meckinu. All
. ‘ {add x-iganta agent of strength,
. , inevuig !ij the pathways
■ rt; <■ of mao! fatigue
;.m' P ai- ■iv.. •‘ ‘ at. ma. 1 So trampbal hosts
. ; • t ,. v . , S o widowed hearts t>.red
at thy beoefkvn’ victori ‘-’ . •
i. ’ i,m t ., v ..i thep:. blea, bat it segmsao if it
•rereV e'wiM c: frev.-.t. nee that istic sbeuta not go
a far ms pi v sasm to tie navigation of the
if an a':;'.? p.-jt of lie problem ressumed for the
-. ~r ~.xii.-'.■ Ssxou iac.—the branch
W .T'i-m 11 . pbere whose expanded terri
x'.tsi.re .mxsrs.dbyscme of the noblest rivers.
V- (t . eparated rr. m England by an almcst world
#ide vac. The’. noughts of the men of the last
nrystott ... Bev..!. aton were twnad to the de
’ ixiiimsr.t of ste&m. One of Uxee men attracted
, - ‘ Vusu ionof Li:nwho=n nothing escaped that
’ .. to the wr.itreof this oonnOy—of Wash
. ..oi—a dhe expressed his satisfscrion of the ex
erimeno of Bumsrv. It seem* ahnoet prevtden
xlihwtf e&m was uot invented m m-eaii naviga
on a , t # tm-eof the Revolution, for it would
cave given ter ve- resource* and powers to bear
mile if 1 v sad directly on tbe stragglingook>-
w effect no one can tet.
“ r.-v. . .. nary perfod was passed, and
i-lfDcnc i e established, tbe hour had come, and
a , 18£ .hers in the year K 9 the thought
tui , ... P’ui.cn’s mind, and Chauoehcr
x"._ ‘ ....Vs deep interest in tbe scheme of
•’ -I i! steam They epplied to the
* & er , kl f S *re for an act of incorporation,
.xew 1 (•. * .... America at that time did not
i a.n * - ‘ .’ t! an fc'ranee and Spain had been
.cem u ecu w. ‘ ‘ .ly n * that the young men
oefore her. , > 0 f the graver mat
k! tbe
r-re of the law, wou’d t- up me Aoiertf*
. ailed it. and have a littlx. un . -Si wisar
A not on that occasion show himself mm - , tuo
7x“ MU io, i But, nothing fliscouraged, hu.
,Vnd sos e .i utor* persevered, aad twenty year.
JJ . M v i-efore steam was tound on
w rivers, and list at a
“tr was known only by hearsay m En-
T. L; was ad that was needed then Twen
more elapsed before English capital was
fiJapplfod to the navigation of the ocean itsell by
firs, appjeo . ric g® i, t th) needed, but which
xSSwddesradw giving to her access to the West
!att iptcck at Pander,.
From the S. 7. Herald , 5tA inst.
The Expfliili-^oill |, l es the Heel
Ac.) Ac.
The eniliDK of the ve**e;a compofcinjr the
trnmy eXDodition, increase* the interests m this war
oke > movement. The Fuiton and Water Witch
were to sail yesterday. The description of the ves
sels and their armaments which fodows will be
found interesting: _ . . .
The Bainbridge was built in Boston m 1842,
carrying six guns. She is now in commiwicc on
the coast of Africa , bet despatches have gone out
for ter to proceed to the coast of Brazil and await
the arrival of the Her officers are
Lieut. Commanding, F. B. Benshaw, Lta. G. A.
Stephens, S. S. Bassett, aud W m. P B. CampbeL.
Brig Perry, built at Norfolk in IB4d. carrying etx
£Utyi. She is now in waittn* on the cowt of Bra
xii with the toilowin? officer*: Lieut. Commanding
K. L. Turkman, aud Lients. Wm. T. Truaton, C. C.
Grafton, and J. J. Cornwell.
Bri* Dolphin, built in New \ ork In 18%, and
cow in commiijeion (having lately cap’ured the
slaver Echo. , carries five guns, with heavy metal.
Her captain e Commander Studman.
Stesmer Foiron (eide wheel, third c’.asa.) built in
New York in 1837, and repaired at Waehingtm in
1857. Sae c&rrita but four euns, of large calibre,
i though registered for five, and i3 commanded by the
j following officers: Lieutenant Commanding J. J.
j Almy Lieutenants, M. K. Warriagton, Robert B.
.Stewart, Robert Selden, Marshall C. Campbell;
j Robert H. Clark Surgeon, Mayo ; Chief
Engineer, Newell: Second Assistant, John A. Grier
[ Third do. W. P. Barrow, *J B. Houston and Lie*
Craft Purser John Po wer*. The marines are in
charge of Sergeant Thomas Bowe.
Steamer Water Witch,(side wheel, third class )
built at W acbingtou in 1845, came? but one gUD,
through regieted for two, and will be oorumanded
as follow?: Lieutenant Commanding R B. Pe
gram Lieutenants A. Bar bo tt, E, T. Spedden, and
one vacancy.
United States revenue cutter Harriet Lane, late
ly completed at Brooklyn, will carry one large ehell
gun, and be officered from the revenue corps. The
marine guard of the Harriet Lane w’ere marched
on board on the 30ih ult.,from the Brooklyn Ma
rne barrack. She takes one sergeant, two corpor
als, and ten privates, under the command of Orderly
Sergeant George W\ Robbins. The Harriet Lane
hauled down to the Battery the i ame day, and will
wait the orders of Commodore Shubrick, onboard
the Sabme. The following is a correct list of the
Harriet Lane's officer?: Captain Commanding,
John haunce; First Lieutenant, Arthur M. Stain
ford, Lieutenants, D. C. Constable, J. W r . W r ail
Wilson; First Aeeidtant Engineers, Walter Scott,
and W\ Meeker; Second Assistant Engineers, Chas.
G. Dale and John F Webster , Captain u Clerk,
Vrincent IM’ravere ; Boatswain, James Lockman
Gunner, Thomas Cole.
The Sabine only recently gone into commis
sion, and wa-j built at the Brooklyn Nav/ YaH
in 18.55, carrying fifty guns. She will probably i ail
this week, with the Hon. Mi Bowlin, the spe< lal
Commiseioner appointed to take charge of the di
plomatic part of the expedition.
The St. Liwrence was built in Norfolk in 1847,
and carries fifty guns.
The Falmouth, at Beaton, in 1827, with twenty
guns.
The Preble, built at Portsmouth in 1839, six
teen gun? (in ordinary ;j and five otlie*’ small steam
ers, above named, each carrying an effective gun.
The small steamer Arctic, purchased in 1355 as a
steam tender, is to be one of the expedition. As
alterations are being daily made in the equipment
of these vessels, as circumstanced require, it is im
possible at th e moment properly to rate their ar
mament. Thus, guns of very heavy calibre have
been selected for the Fulton aud Water W'itch ; the
armament of the Fulton consisting of one eleven
inch shell gun on a pivot, aud lour of nine inch in
broadside ; and that of the W'ater W'itch of one
nine inch shell gun on a pivot. In addition, the
Fulton will carry two boat howitzers and the W'a
ter Witch three, one of which is a heavy twenty
four pounder, mounted on a pivot on tha forcastle.
Both vessels are supplied with small arms and am
munition of the most approved kind ; and the Ord
nance Bureau, under the charge of Capt. Ingraham,
is devoting itself to this particular branch of equip
ment.
Tne steam propeller Atlanta was built in Phila
delphia in 1853, is four hundred and ninety five tons
burthen, has a direct acting engine of two hundred
and fifty horse power, with a forty inch cylinder and
forty two i ch stroke. She had anew engine and boil
er put in last year, and was re caulked and re-fasten
ed throughout. She draws eleveu feet of water.
The steam propeller Caledonia is four hundred
and thirty five tons burthen, draws eleven feet, has
a vertical engine, with a cylinder thirty inches iu
diameter, was built in Philadelphia in 1853, of oak
and hemlock; is schooner rigged, and received
thorough repairs iu 1857.
The steam propeller Memphis has a direct acting
engine of twohuudred aud fifty horse power, with
one cylinder of forty inches, and fortv-two inch
stroke, was built iu Pniladelpbia iu 1853, of calc,
draws eleven feet of water, and was thoroughly
overhauled in 1857.
The steam prope'ler W'esternport was built in
Philadelphia in 1853, of oak and hemlock, is four
hundred and thirty five tons burthen, draws eleven
teet, has a vertical engine, wilh au eighteen inch
cylinder, and is schooner rigged.
All of the above propellers belong to Cromwell’s
line of steamerp, and have proved themaelve3 good
aud staunch sea going vessels.
The Southern Star is a steam propeller of five
hundred and forty-four tons burthen, has a draft of
ten feet, with two decks, a direct acting engine,
with two cylinders of twenty-three inches, ami
twenty-six inch stroke. She was built this year in
Murfreesboro, of oak.
There inay be also three or four additional steam
ers sent out. Several towing vessels may be em
ployed also to te.ke the vessels up the river. A part
of tho squadron has made Norfolk their rendezvous,
and a part will sail directly from this ptrt.
The Marine guard of the frigate cabine hap been
increased by three BMgeante, four corporals and fif
ty privates. First Lieutenant Cbailes a Hender
son has been ordered as additional marine officer of
the Sabine
The commanding officer of the squadron is Wm.
Biadford Shubrick one of the four gallant sous of
Colonel Thornes Shubrick, of Ssutb Carolina, a revo
lutionary officer of distinction, and|he aid of Gen.
Green, at tho battle es Eutaw Springs. O: these
brothers, all naval officers of reputation, John was
particularly distinguished by his being present in
tix naval engagements, among which were ihe fight
of the Uuerrier and the Lava. He was unhappily
lost iu the Epervier, in 1815, in the morning of his
tame. The present Commodore has been at the
head of the Lighthouse Bureau, but with the cour
age and capacity of his family, desires more active
and daring service.
Captain Page, who ot copies the respouribla and
promtnent position of Captain of the Fleet, and
who is the executive of the Commodore and hi? right
hand iu the expedition, is al?o of southern birth, a
descendant of Governor Page on one side, and
Gov. Nelson on the other, both patriots and distin
guised revolutionary characters. His services
have—with thejeiceptiou of some hard duty in ihe
West ludie* among the pirates, aud in the cutting
out of the Buenos Ayres and privateer Federal, in
the harbor of St. Bartholomew—been of a scientific
character, and ho now returns to the recent scenes
of bis labors to guide the squadron up the Paraguay
and direct its fire, if necemary, at the vulnerable
points. The other officers of the expedition are all
tried uaeu, aud though geusrally too young to have
paitioipated in tho last war, have bean active and
/.ealous iu their various positions. Comma’ der
Pen nock, if we mistake not., has been under fire in
China and distinguished himself in the first cable
exped tion under Capt Hudson.
Ihe plan of the government is, after the fleet has
made its rendezvous at Buenos Ayres to send up
Commissioner Bowlin to Asucion in one of the
eiuall steamers, with demands ou the government
of ijopiz for lull and immediate eatistaction , the
remainder cf the squadron ascending the river as
far as circumstance? will permit, aud at a euppoi t
iug distance. Should ho tail, the squadron will be
put in motion, and all the vessels drawing from
tiine to twelve feet will push on to their work, and
the remainder will be at the bar at the mouth of
Parana, and maintain a vigorous blockade of the
Paraguay This itself will be a serious blow to
Lopez, as it appears by tbe reports made to the Se
cretary ot State by the late Consul, that since the
attempt of the American company, steamers and
trading vessels, doing a veryconsiderable business,
most of them the property of Lopez, are now mul
tiplying ou the river.
Most, em Disturbances in Syria. —We have late
private adv ices from Syria, from which it appears
that tbe troubles there are by no means at and end.
It is now certain that the Mussulmans are doing all
m their power, by every means, to resist the reforms
initiated by tbe Sultan, and more especially those
which tend to the prejudice of their faith. Euro
peans are objects of their peculiar hatrod. lusur
rections are feared in every city where tbs Franks
have auy foothold. At Alexandria the residents
live in constant fear of a rising of the Arabs and the
burning of the city. News oi murders iu all parts
of the country is coDstcn'ly being received. The
cruelties practised at Jiddah and Jaffa are beiug
repeated iu many smaller places. Routes that weie
formerly safe are now considered Impassable and
the whole country is now an unsafe residence for
Europeans.
The whole power of the Sultan and of the Pashas
is exerted to its fullest extent to produce quiet, but
only has thus tar resulted in turning the rage of the
fanatics syajusi the existing Government, and iu
giving rise to a plot for dethoutng tbp Saltan, aud
giving the sceptre to bis brother So well known is
this plot that a number of the Ambarsadrcs to Con
stantinople have given out that Europe will not re
cognize the title of the Sultan's brother in the event
of a successful nomination of the rebellion.
Our last advices from Alexandria ehow a horrible
state of things. Our correspondent says : “There
we heard of the murder of many Franks by the
fanatical Mussulmans , and the report reached us
that the Turks had secreted 5000 muskets at one
time, sod 20,000 at auother, in tteir mosques, to be
used in a general rising for the destruction of the
Franks aud Christian residents of the city.”
We have seen a letter Irom Beyroat of iate date,
in which it is stated that the American Consul for
that place arrived here about the middle of July
with his family, and that the raising of the flag
of the Cause late, for the first time in sixteen
months, was a pleasant sight for tbe American
residents. Tbetrialof ihe Jaffa criminals was then
in progress ; aud it was regretted that the Dixon
family, whose number were thinned by the Arabs
there, had returned to America, as it was fear
ed that some of the miscreants might escape
punishir.fln! by lack of means for their identifies
! tiou. It will be recollected that the remainder of
- this family, who belong in Massachusetts, rtached
, Boston but a few days since.
, A rumor of disturbances at Mount Lebanon had
! reached B->rout, and the Pasha there, who is only
) second iu dignity to the Utand Yisier, had, upon
the rp mentations of the Consuls at that place,
| dispatched a troop of soldiers to qaell the rebe hon,
”s well as to protect ihg foreigners A number of
m‘,*?h>csries oc their way to different parts of Pa
lestme were at Bejrout awaiting the execution ct
the Jaffa criminal/, fearing that it might cause a
general insurrection thro .ghoul the country, and
preferring to leinaiq under the pi election of the
guns ot the men of-w&r collected in the harbor.
The writer of the above mentioned letter, which
is dated Aug. 11, says:
“ Ac English man-of-war arrived here yesteiday.
i and a French man-of-war came last wetk. A
Turkish frigate stationed here sailed for Tripoli a
tew days since, where an outbreak was rumcied to
have commenced Next week it is expected that
there will be six steamers in the harbor, eo if a gen
eral rising shouhi take place, we . an escape. There
are also about 40 sail of merchant vessels in the
harbor, of all nations except our own We need au
American man of war teie, and expect cce as soon
! ie the exittecei“s of the publ'c service will permit.—
lie etc u Trcrtlier. __
Hopieo A_ ainst Hope —The Philadelphia Press
save :—A curious circumstance connected with the
uiittappy losses which ail so greatly feel ad Jepiote
is the “hoping against hope” which some o: the
snrviviop relatives entertain. The
Theodore Gkok, ot Baltimore, is now visiting her
relative* in Philadelphia, and while they tave no
doubt of his loee, she aioce has & deep convicLon
tha? he ie cot dead either, he was not on board tbe
Austria, (though he wrote to her that he bad ac
tually paid for hie passage) or, it’ he was, that he
have been ainou* the few who were rescued.
It ma) be within the knowledge of many of our
readers that a cierifymau of this city was &iaon£
tboee who left for Europe on the ill feted President,
aud was never heard of. iliswife, who re
mained in Philadelphia, and was deeply attached
to him. never did, because she never would, be
lieve that he was iot 10 her. Eighteen years have
passed away, and yet, that trusting lady—wa can
not speak of her as i/V. and she repudiates the
name ot riistr—continues to expect his return,
every day a cover is placed for him at the table
where stiff stands his accustomed chair. Every
rime at the bell, we are in firmed, awakens the
cherished conviction of her heart that the loved one
wiU return.
The Editor— The Riocmona Mail throws off the
following illustrations: “They have a steamboat
on the Western waters named The Editor.’ This
is the very beet name ever given to a steamboat
We are surprised that it has never been thought of
before. The editor is a working engine wh ae fires
ar* going &y acd night. Now he sails against the
rid*. Bi>* visfc *?atil suddenly he comes up against
’ hiddee Whhm -ntirely shiver his timbers
some Wbeoeve; is h.’ outs the water
to pieces. -a wyke ;tere be
magitatiOD lea. poe bof'hiMsa! J, cg--
hmd him. Be serves 1 gues off pntills
riee passengers In any quauuij. * rJr s
down the stream of life. , •
Often his powers are cveraks”- ““
bunts, but kills tw one hat jm*e.,.r“ id who e * r *
fcr au editor f” ‘
From the Xcw York Jourtud of Commerce.
An Extraordinary Government ;
>off—’ Counterfeited to the Extent of
Work Done in
New York.
Among the recent newt from Constantinople was
an item to the effect that a woman had been arrest
ed there, on suspicion of being engaged in the
maculae: are auo ctterence of counterfeit notes in
imitation of the -Caimee” (worth about $3 each,)
an official paper currency of the Ottoman Govern
ment. Ooe or more trunks, with false bottoms, *in
which the paper was secreted, were found in her
po=2e£iion, and the dres which she had on was
quilted with the same article. She had put quite a
number of the in circulation —the exact
amount not known—and had probably begun to
make a good thing of her scheme. This woman,
who gave her name as Mrs. Sevasti, had confessed
her gdilt, and stated, among other things, that the
notes were printed by Mr. Harrison, o: 82 Duane
street, in this city. Intelligence of the facts was at
‘ j nce conveyed ’ through the Turkish Minister at
London, to the Ottoman CoD6ul at this port, Mr. J.
Harford Smith, who was dTected to have the case
investigated, and the alleged guilty party arrested.
The Mayor entrusted the case to the manage
ment of .Sergeant birney.s who visited Mr. Harri
son s printing office, and told him of the nature of
his business. Mr. H. expressed himself greatly; sur
prised. and protested hu* perfect innocence of any
collusion wnh the Turkish fraud. Le frankly ac
knowledged that he had printed the “Cairn e,” but
?aid he had no knowledge of their real nature—
which is pat at ail strange, as they look very much
like the labels on fire crackers or Turkish tobacco,
and, being destitute of signatures, or the usual bank
note devices, would cjnvey to no uninformed mind
the idea of a paper currency. Tue nteisabuUt
five inches long by four wide; priuted on common
looking paper, and the engraving of the face pre
sents a mere jumble of Turkish characters and em
blems. The oack deal's a small round impression,
which proves to be the seal of the Sultan, but which
looks like a meaningless anagram to one not ac
quainted with the fact. Mr. H. was anxious to have
tne mystery thoroughly sifts ft, and freely told Ser-
geant Bircey all the lactu in hia possession.
He says that about the Ist of July last he was
called upon by a lady of ?mart, respectable appea
rance, aoout forty years of age, epeakiug broken
English, who Bhowcd him one of the “Camies” and
informed him that it. was a label of which she de
sired to have (Uil),000 copies made. She wished
him to have an exact engraving taken from it, ana
t he quality of paper to be imitated as closely as possi
ble, and asked him hi? price for managing the
whole bufeinees. Mr. Harrison tola her that he
would do the printing for $1 a thousand, with an
extra charge for the actual cost of engraving, the
paper and other incidental work. To this she
fcgreed. The womau’s manner was plausible, and
Mr. Harrison naturally supposed tuat the queer
looking picture was a label for Bom£ patent medi
cine, oriental nalm, fig paste, or other preparation
wherewith to tickle the public. He therefore closed
the bargain without hesitation or suspicion, and
immeaiately gave the engraving job to Mr. Orr,
who soon made a perfect dupi cate of the original.
The woman, who gave her name as Madame Zrff
inea, called from time to time to see proofs of the
work, aud expretaeci a particular anxiety that the
imitation should be faultlessly exact. She w T as es
pecially solicitous about the =>mail circular figure
(the Sultan's name) to be printed on the back. Mr.
Harruson visited paper dealers iu the city to obtain
material similar to that of the labels, but without
success, and at last ne was obliged to resort to the
paper manufacturers at Kingriaud Mill, Belleville,
N. J., who of course readily undertook the task and
turned out au article so near like the imperial fa
bric that it would puzzle a good judge to tell them
apart. Mr. 11. then had stereotype plates made of
the engraving and printed the ‘labels * in sheet# of
twenty each. Everybody a'oucd his office wao la
miliar with the work, people going iu aud out ex
amined it, aud though its strange ugpearance gave
rße to some guessing, nobody for a moment suspec
ted its real character.
Tue job was speedily finished, and about the 2*2d
of Juiy Mr. 11. delivered the 1300,030 “labels/ 1 to
Madame Zaiimeu, who was then stopping at the
Aetor House. The documents made about six
reams ot paper, and filled three large trunks. She
paid him ail of his bill excepting S3OO, for which he
took her note, as she said she was out of money,
and he could do no better under the circumstances.
This was tho lost that he had heard of her or her
“ labels,” until Sergeant Birney made hia Visit.
Mr. Harrison showed the Sergeant a large bundle
of the “ (Jaimes” ! several thousand of them—which
were laid aside by ihe printers, as not qaite uu to
the standard of perfection insisted on by Mrs. Zaif
men, who was evidently a good judge of the fine
arts. Tue precious bundle was lying around loose
with other parcels in the office. It w'as delivered
into the fcjergeanL’s possession with all the plates
u.ied in the printing. The latter were piled away
with Mr. Harrison a other stock, and it was plain
that there was no intention whatever of concealing
any of the property.
The Sergeant took Mr. Harrison before the May
or, where he gave bail to answer in the sum of
$4,000. Messrs. M. B. JSpalding and John 11. Moore
gave the weeurity. The employees about Mr. Har
rison’s c ftice were subpoenaed as witnesses, and all
allowed to go on parole. The case will come be
fore the Mayor to day. The defendant wa< arrested
under a law of the Btate, which makes it criminal to
manufacture or circulate counterfeit bills purport
ing to be issued iu other States or countries.
The paper note which is the subject of this
“strange eventful history” represents a value of 20
piastres (10 cents each) or $8 U. S. currency. Tho
t itai amount of the counterfeits was therefore $4,-
800,000, upon which figure the enterprieing female
might have retired very agreeably had she got rid
of her bogus “Caunep.” The genuine bill is about
the shabbiest affair conceivable, in derigu aud en
graving—the meanest counterfeits iji this country
beiug exalted of art iu comparison with it.
I lie mysterious female, eo far as kni;wn, managed
the whole business independently. Sho made all
Ihe bargtins, gave ali.the directions, and paid tho
money, and on ail occasions was unaccompanied by
any peaisou. It is probable, however, that she
had accomplices in Europe, if not in this country.
TiieCryainl Palace Dcutroyed.
The Crystal Palace situated on Reservoir Square,
6th Avenue and 42d etreet, in which tho Fair of the
American Institute was being held, was destroyed
by fire shortly after five o’clock last evening. The
fire originated in a room iu the north nave used for
the storage ot some articlt3 left iu the Palace since
the Industrial Exhibition of 1851, and the alarm was
scarcely sounded throughout the building before the
Ha nos began to spie&d in ail directions. The galle
ries being hung with goods, the tiro was almo-t in
stantaneously communicated to tin different sec
tions of the Pain e, and tue spectators and exhibi
tors, about 2000 iu uuinber, bad scarcely time to
save theiDHclves. Tho eceue which followed was
most fearful ;.the greatest consternation prevailed,
all rushing for the doors, except some of the exhibi
tors, who made an effort to save their goods. The
rush and press at the doors was for a time quite
suffocating but fortunately the Palace wa3 well
planned for means of egress, and. the- people eoon
lound themselves outside.’
The floors of the building being of Georgia pine,
burned like so much linder, and soon deprived the
grand structure of much of its support. Many of
the exhibitors clung to their valuable goods to the
last mumeiiv possible, but very few managed to
save anything, rjome came out with their clothes
on fire, and *owly escaped suffocation. It was
the general imprest ion for sometime that a large
number of persons had been shut off by the ffsmea,
those coming tut last reporting several behind. —
The most painful apprehensions were entertained,
and at feast thirty persons were thought to be lost
in the flames, but fortunately such was not the case.
Those eupposed to be in tho building at the time,
had escaped out of opposite doors to those who had
reported them lost.
In 15 minutes alter ttis diicovery of the fir;, the
dome fell in, and in five or ten mmutes more, the
magnificent structure, for seven years one ot the
principal omnments of the city, was in a heap of
ruins Fragments of the walls and portions of the
iron frame remained. The contents continued to
burn and smoulder up to a late hour.
The firemen were early at the pren.ises, but could
do nothing to stop the progress of the tiamea. The
dome was ready to fall in when they got to work,
aud then efforts were found necessary to prevent
the tire from communicating to buildings on the
streets adjoining.
At a lale hour the painful impression of persons
having teen lost by the catastrophe was chiefiy re
moved No one was known to be missing, and it
was believed that no lives were lost.
The fire supposed to have been the work of
an incendiary—some thought tor the purpose of
plunder. The entire loss m thought to be upwards
of a million dollars. Tbe Palace lately became the
property of the city under the chart er given the
original owners, and was not know n to be insured.
The corporation does not insure its buildings. Tho
Palace had beeu insured by its previous owners for
$50,000. It originally cosi $700,000 to sßoo,oho.
Some of the individual losses were large. Robert
Rait, jeweller in Broadway, lust a case of diamonds
valued al SOO,OOO. Tne Cast I t or. Slate Company
lest $5,000 worth of property ; the New York Sf rum
Heating Company $0 800; Mr. Ct inhering, Piano
Manufacturer SIO,OOO. Tbe Washington statue was
worth $15,000 The Amazon SIO,OOO. —.Y. Y. Cour.
Jj* Tii'/r , of IVednesdiy.
The Bag ce Gold which was Turned into
Copper.— In the Supreme Court yesterday the case
of the Market vs. the Granite Bank (alluded to ou
the first page.) was commenced belore Judge Bige
low with the evidence cf Mr. F. Evans, the messen
ger, und Mr. Johu W. Cushing, the teller of the
Market Bank. The former detailed the circum
stances f his receiving, on the h’Bth of February,
18.')ii, at about half past one o'clock, P. M , a check
upen the Grauite Bank, for which he received from
the latter a bag supposed to contain SSOOO in gold,
which he took to the Market Bank, and gave iu
charge to Mr. Cushing; when the discovery wa
afterwards made of the real contents of the bag, it
was denominated by someone iu the hearing of
Mr. Evans a “horrible joke.” This witness was
cross-examined as to whither a person in the habit
of carrying gold in this way w-ouid not nolice the
difference between one of gold and one containing
cents only. Mr. Evans thought that iu the hurry of
bueinees it might not be observed.
Mr. Johu W. Cushing, the teller of the Market
Bauk, testified that he had been in the bank abou f
four years; on the 28;h of February, 1856, at half
part one, P. M , found on his desk a specie cht-.k
tor SSOOO upon the Granite Bank, and also one for
S3OOO upon the National; he gave the check upon
the Granite Bank to Mr. Evans, the messenger, to
be erswit; he was gone two minutes p.nd returued
with a bag, saying “ Mr. Cushing, S : .OUO from the
Granite Bank, ’ turned and saw the bag which he
had placed in a chair behind the witness; then gave
him for collection the i fflck upon the National
Bank; almost immediately the messenger of the
Exchange Bank, Mr. Roc-kwood, made a demand
upon the Market Bank for SIOOO in specie; asked
Mr kockwood, tli- messenger, to fcliowhim to tbe
vault, where no $ 1000 bag could be found; he then
told Mr, R okwu-id they world either give him a
SIOOO bag and a SIOOO bill, or he might take a
la 0 bag aud return SIOOO, lie took the $5lBlO tag
from the chaii wnere i’ was laid by Mr. Evans ;
after the bag had been brought in-by Mr. Evnns,
no strangers had been inside of the’ bank counter,
and the witness explained the means by which the j
doors giving admission inside < f the counter were
opened, tbe manner being known only to efiicers ot
the bank icon after, word came back from the |
Exchauge Bank, that the bag contain'd copper and
not go and. when the witness turned to Mr. Evans,
saying, that the bag came from the Granite, did it I
net Mr. Evans said that it did tbe witness then !
tela him to take it back to U.e Granite aud get j
gold the tUrners of ti e Granite at first made some |
reference to getting it in tbs Merchant's, but finally j
refused to take it back.
i bis witness was questioned as to tbe weight oi
a bag of gc ii and one of copper. A bag of $5,000
in gold weights 22 pounds aud 95 penny weights j
Troy, or 18 pounds 8 ounces common measure. A
-o! coppe-s of tbe sizsofthe $5,000 bagel gold, j
weighs the same as a sd,ooo bag of gold, II pounds, j
■J ounces Troy, or 7 pounds 6 ounces less than a
$ u.-ig o’ gold. At tLe ai arnment last even- :
lug only two witnesses had Lcen examined— Hes
ton Trove or, Mth,
Heat in/, by Gas—Nanjing the Air— One of the
new building® in Hawk street, says the Atba-.iv ]
Knickerbocker, is not oniy to be lighted but heated j
with gas Tne plan adopted is the one got out by i
Caivtn Pepper, Esq ,ot this c.ty. Tbe iron wotk !
wili be done up a! the Eagle Furnace. Mr Pepper j
gets up Lie heat by passing gas through sand. If
the ‘as be directed into the body of tbe srrnd it will j
instantly diduse i'te.f through the entire mass. *ud.
raising to the surface, may, with perfect sa : ety, be
instantly set ou fire with a match, the name Cover
ing the whole surface cf the sand with a pure flame
without smoke, no matter how large the extent ct
the iiame, and with perfect and comp.ete combas
t;. n . Tile beet is almort instantan. onsiy dtflused
through the entire mass of sand, vetting it equally
throughout, and requiring but one minute of tune
to iieat L; sand to such intense temperature that it
will rtt&in its heat for hours after the gas is shut tn
and the light extinguished. There can be uo doubt
that tlie gas required to light a room will also be
sutHc'ient to heat it. Mr. Pepper chiutt that two
cents’ worth of gas will make a quantity
of sand red-hot to keep a room warm iu winter
eight hours. If this be so, it will be seen that our
tael expenses can be rednc-td to about fifty cents a
week.
Thx Ruling Passion. —As an instance of “the
ruling passion strong in death,“ it is deserving of re-
that the last words uttered by Mr. Harley, the
actor, who died recently m London were a
quotation iji.Q In the language of
bottom, the dying vocunediau murmured, *1 have
an exposition of sleep coming on me ”
m
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE.
BIT THE CASADA.
The steamship CaLaJa. which left Liverpool on
the 25th ult., arrived at Halifax on Thursday, 7th
inst.
Among her passengers is C. W. Bradley, bearer
of despatches from China to the Government at
Washington.
The crew of the ship Golden State mutinied at
Penang on July 19th. They would not work un
der pretence tbs* they had not enough food, and
beat the o fficers and boatswain fearfully with hand
spikes. They then took a boat and went ashore,
where they were captured and taken into custody.
The first officer died the same evening.
Great Britain —The conflio: between the offi
cials of the Atlantic Telegraph Company still con
tinues. Mr. Brett Lad fesued a second pamph’et,
in an?wer to Mr. Whitehonse’d statement. He
charges the latfer gentleman with ignorance of the
facts f the case, aud disputes the correctneM of his
deductions.
Mr. Brett says that simple repe, or gutta percha
covered cables, fcave been proved to be useless,
and hopes that the company will lay a cable of three
electrical conductors'next year.
Atlantic Telegraph shares were quoted at £3OO
to £330.
The British Board of Trade returns for August
ehow a decrease in the exports for August of over
half a million sterling a= compared with the eame
month last jear. Tb s exhibits an mprovement on
the second return. The imports continue to show a
large increase in wheat and flour.
The new telegraph cable between England and
Holland has beer, successfully laid down. It is die
heaviest yet submerged weighing 1260 tons, al
though the distance is only 140 mile).
Detailed aedounts of the second uprising of con
victs at Portland, show that the intention of the fif
teen hundred engaged in the plot was to fall upon
the guards in their combined etrength aud murdrr
them, to burn the prison, plunder the buildings, and
tkeu to make their way to the main land. A hand
ful of soldiers thwarted their desperate design.
Toe (Jity Article of the London Times seizes up
on a remark in a New York leading paper, that tho
European creditors of Mexico may be treated as
usurers, to read a lecture upon repudiation in gene
ral. It regards the hint as important, and suggests
during the coming abundance of money, to Tempt
ing invitations Irom the other side of the Atlantic,
had better take warning from it.
Orders have been issued for the sending of 2000
troops as reinforcements to India during the mouth
of October.
Latest by Telegraph.
London, Saturday.—The Times’ City Article
says that the failure has been announced of M. For
lie of Milan, in the produce trade, with liabilities
estimated at £50,000. M. Forlie is stated to have
disappeared.
The steamsh'p North Star arrived this morning
from New York.
Trieste, Sept. 24.—News from Constantinople
down to the 15th says that the allowance and sala
ries of the employees of the government have been
again reduced.
To-day will take place, et Black wall, the launch
of a laige vessel us a peculiar construction, design
ed to raise sunken ships.
Yesterday the dividend ou the stock of the Great
Western Railway Cornpa yof Canada was officially
announced at the rate of tour por cent, per annum,
against six per cent, last year.
The Thmes denounces the Stadt duties, aud shows
that the government will incur a heavy responsibili
ty if they delay, for a single mouth, to gi ve Hanover
notice that she will be required to terminate the ill
advised Treaty of 1811.
The Times does not think tbe line of steamers es
tablished by the Odessa Cos., for tne Mediterranean
traffic at all likely to ruin its established competi
tors ; that neither politically or rommero'aUy need
the Mediterranean powers fear the temporary case
of Villa Franca, though Sardinia and Russia may
have been both a little pleaaea to a arm aud irritate
in the matter.
From'the Daily News’ City Article : Extreme in
activity prevailed on Friday throughout tliH Stock
Exchange, but late in the afternoon the funds were
stimulated by two considerable purchases for ac
count, and Conso sclosedone-e'ghth percent higher
than yesterday. Taere were no bu.lion operations
at the Bank.
At Paris to day the Three Per Cent Rentes im
proved 1-1(3 to \<s.
The Bank returns show that the increase in bul
lion agrees almost exactly with the amount of gold
known to have been sent into the Bank during the
week referred to. The iuference is that the recen
withdrawals of coin on provincial account have ab
solutely ceased, and that the surplus at present held
in the country will eoon oegiu to flow back to the
Bank.
From the Times’ City Article.—The English
funds continue perfectly inactive. After the termi
nation of regular business the sole transactions were
effected at au improvement of The bullion in
the Bank is now within £3,fi98,u73 of the highest
amount ever reached, which wna on the 10th July,
1852, when it stood £22,232,138.
France. —The Bank of France, on the 23d, re
duced its rate of discount to three per cent. Ttie
Minister of Finance also reduced the interest 011
treasury bonds to the extent of a half per cent.,
making the rate two and a half for under six
months, and three per cent, for bonds above.
An imperial decree nominates Baron Gros,
French Plenipotentiary in China, to the dignity of
Senator.
The French Government has appointed a Vice-
Consul at Mariposa, California.
Paris letters eay that the French difficulty with
Venezuela is arranged or iu a fair way of being so.
Fleets arc being constructed for the troops and
sailors who are to form an establishment on the
Bay of Tourane, Cochin, China.
Prince Ghika was killed in Pari3 by throwing
himself from his carriage, his hones having taken
fli^.
The merchants at Marseilles are availing them
selves of the advantages opened with China by the
Treaty.
The Three Per Cents closed at Paris on Fri
day at 72c£75, having slightly advanced during the
day.
The Paris correspondent of the Independence
Beige, eaye the French forces at Rome are to be
augmented.
A solemn mass of thankpgiving was performed
at Paris in the Church of Foreign Mission iu cele
bration of the Chi 1 cue Treaty.
It is said that the French nhip-of-war iu the Adri
atic are to be withdrawn, tho affairs of Montene
gro no longer requiring their presence there.
Spain. —According to the official despatches
from Madrid, the government will augment the ar
my so as to be prepared to put dowu political agi
tation, come from any quarter it may.
It ij said that the expedition against the Riff
pirpteM will bo postponed until spring, but the
government intends to act energetically against
Mexico.
The Correspondeneia Aulografa declares there is
no truth in the statement tint an Anglo-Spauish
Company Lae obtained the concession of a subma
rine telegraph from Cuba to America.
A telegraph states that the otate Beige wfeeli has
ceaaed for Catalonia and Malaga, is still main
tained for the itigfc and low Pyrrenees, Aragon, and
Jana.
Portugal. —The tariff commission at Lisbouwas
reported to have decided iu favor of a general re
duction in tho important duties on manufactured
goods, but its suggestions were expected to be on
a limited scale, and if adopted by government, cau
not bo put in force until next year, ns they must
pat:3 the Cortes which meets i;i November.
RuasiA.—General Mountveff, Count Amourski
will, it is said, be Russian Minister to Pekin.
It was reported iu Paris that tho Bnti)h govern
meat also proposes sending a military man as its
representative there.
The Russians are reported to have gained anoth
er great victory over the Circassians.
At Moscow the metropolitan Archbishop addressed
a solemn allocution to the Emperor, chargiug him
to carry the orthodox Christiau lailh, by ail means
and appliancea, into the heart ot China.
China. —The Auglo-Chinese Treaty had not
been published, and tho press w'as murmuring at
the delay.
Tne Mouituer gives the details of the French
Chinese Treaty, which were already generally
known. It says the chastisement of tbe mandarin
by whose orders Father Chapde'aiue was beheaded
will be made public. The indemity to Fiance is
15,000,000 francs.
It was repc rted in Paris that tbe Emperor of
China is to have the Grand Cordon of Vladimer
from Russia, and that of the Legion of Honor from
France.
Africa^ — Cape of Good Hope dates are to Aug.
12th. Difficulties have occurred between tha
British and Portuguese authorities in Mozambique
channel. A small cutter from Natal trading on the
east coast wa? seized by the Portuguese for not
paying duty at Beianou Bay. The crew were seDt
to Mozambique and placed iu chaige of the British
Consul, who demanded the boat aud cargo without
sue ess. He Las in consequence left for England
to represent the csss to the Foreign Office.
Sir George Grey was meeting enthusiastic recep
tions duriDg his Frer* State mission. It wai hoptd
that his meditation with the powerful chief Mosheeh
would produce peaceful results.
The Pioneers of ihe Pnrufenuy Fleet Umles
Weigh.
On Board the Fulton, off Grcspcrt Navy
Yard —Wednesday dth Oct, 1858, 9 A. M —We
are on ihe point of starting. Tbs Water Witch has
steamed up, and the greatest oxcitemout prevails
iu the vicinity of the Navy Yard. Commodore
Dornin, Capt. Ruddand, and Constructor Hart
vfeited our ship yesterday, inopected her, pronounc
ed her iu first rate trim, aud left, wishing us a
speeoy and sue cessful termination to the important
mieeion on which we are bound. Wo have been in
the stiearn eiuce Saturday,. but procrastination is
common in naval matters generally, and amongst
naval people. We ere provisioned tor four months;
have ou board two hundred and e ; ghty tons of coal,
of which we will consume about twelve tons a day
at an average. Our eleven and two inch guns go
out iu the etoresiiip ; the whole of our forecastle is
tuEen up with another gun, the carriage ot which
also goes out in the Suppiy. The most novel affair
we have on board is a uew kind of anchor, which
arrived bore on Saturday. It is about fifteen feet
long, aud is constructed something like the leaf of
an umbrella, braced wdlii wood, ana made ol thick
v .avu&a. Th-. centre is iron, and by throwing this
machinery overboard iu a heavy sea, the ship would
be instantly hove to aud auchored were the sea ever
l’j aeep. Wo have lour tents on board, twelve
thousand shells, three thousand Minnie R fle balis,
three thousand carbine balls, fifteen thousand per
cussion caps, sixty-four mu.-kets (of which fourteen
belong to the guard) one hundred pistole, fifty
sharp’s carbines. We measure six hundred and
ninety tons; the Water Witch three hundred and
sixty. We will go from liarbadoes direct to Rio,
as we will be able :o take in enough of coal at the
former place should no unforeseen accident occur.
Our companion, the Watbr Witch, can only carry
eight day s coal, and should ?he meet with contrary
wind) nuißt appeal to the generosity of Ventosus.—
You may rely implicitly oa my promise to write to
jou rtgu ariy, and as cur ship will go all the way
up the river, some newaof interest must necessarily
transpire. The steamer Southern Star is nearly
j ready rfe brings a mail bag, and 1 hope oil cur
I trifcirfa will send os letters ana newspapers. The
brig cf war Dolphin is expected every minute, aud
I I have no doubt that a‘i the vessels of the Para
| guay Expedition now at Norfolk will Lave tailed
! by Monday.— Cor. .V V. Cour. 4- Enq.
Douglas as Strong Ami-Slavery a* Lincoln—
Important to ihe South.
j The St. Louie Republican gives an Illinois Dou
! glad Democrat tLe opportunity to define the reia
’ tive posi ions of Douglas and Lincoln in relation to
I Slavery, before the Illinois people. The aiticie oc
! cupies a leading eaitonal coium in the Republican,
i which is the etrongest endorsement that paper conic
giv if. We invito the atten'ion of Missourians,
* we invite the attention of the South, to the toiiow
j icg trank, statement of this Llinois Douglas Demo
j cr at. AlluCirg to tbe Administration tßucbanaD)
| men. he say*:
“ she Republicans, who, as a party, Lave befoul
ed their own nest with these ‘ filthy birds,’ are now
mightily chop-fallen It is plain the mat
ho/:* st of them, that Lincoln* position is no more
| A nii-SUire*y thnn Douglas\ and that Douglas has
j the advantage of being honest and out-spoken.”
! So, then, the St. L-*uia Republican, which has per
| aistently denounced Lincoln as a B ack Republican
; and as an Abolitionist, which has appealed to Mis
souri and the South to support Douglas, by their
I sympathy, “ in bis present ccntest u llh Black Re
publicanism,” now bears ready and ample testi
j inony that “ Lincoln i± iu> more An: 1- Slavery than
j Douglas /” •
j Tina is an extraordinary admission. It is of vi
j lal moment at the present time, in the present strug
j gie. i’ rends the veil of bypocricy behind which
j Missouri and the South were to be wceedled into
1 the support of a man intensely “ anti-Slavery”—as
; much so as Lincoln himself. We match the bum
ing record cl shame from ife place in the leading
columns of the Missouri Republican , and we hold it
high for the people of the North and South, the East
aud the West to read.—N7. Louis Xeics.
Left a Fortune to his Betrothed —On Tuea
day night last, Junius W. Craig, of Helena, Ar
kansas, died at Louisville. He left a will bequeath
ing to Miss Wright, of Louisville, daughter of Capt.
j j p Wright, to whom he was betrothed, half of the
j annual income of his estate—making an annuity of
s•■># 000 He desires in his will that the remaining
half of hi3 income shall be devoted to the improve
ment of hia estate, and after her death the whole
property is to go to the endowment of a coliege at
Helena. Tbe will ii contested by hia relative.
WE^kLY
C|tomtk £ ihtittfl.
AUGUSTA, GA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCT. 7, IS3S.
Kor interesting Commercial ani other Intelli
gence. see Thirl and Fourth pages.
Health of the City.
We publish this morning tha official report of
the Sexton of interments in thi3 City, for the week
ending Thursday last, showing only ttco deaths in
the city, during serin days ! This shows a degree
of heailh, almost or quite unparalleled in any South
ern city of equal population. It is a very unfortu
nate report for those news mongers, a ougthe iine
of railroads, who have had their sympathies bo
much aroused for the heailh of Augusta, and their
crocodile tears will be at a sad discount.
Foi'ne>’„ Photograph*.
Under tins head, we publish some extracts this
morning, from Forney’s late address, which will
prove interesting to the .eader, particularly so to
Democratic readers, and we therefore commend
them to their attention. Mr. Buchanan and Mr.
Forney have been long and intimate friends, each
are famiimr with the habits and teelitgs of the
other, and wo doubt not Forney s Photographs are
graphic delineations. How the Buchanan Demo
cracy will ward oil tha elf acts of Forney's sketches
we know not, but tho “spoils” make amends lor all
soits of defects with Democracy. The “spoils” are
a wonderful invention—and under Democratic rule
quite au ‘'institution.”
Physical Training of Children.
This mcruiug, we publish the first of a seres
o: articles, on this vitally interesting subject,
to which we invite the careful consideration of
every parent, particularly Mothers, upon whom de
volves so much in the training aud development of
children. Our correspondent has the ability to do
the subject full justice, and we trust be will address
himself to tho task with a zeal and energy becoming
the importance of the subject.
Payment of Coupons cn Slate Bonds.
It will be seen by reference to the advertisement
of the State Treasurer, J. B. TRIPPE.Jthat tbe inter
est cn the Slate Bonds due in this city, will hereaf
ter be paid at the Georgia Railroad Bank, aud that
due iu Savannah, at the Bank of Savannah.
New Cotton Screw.
We have recently examined the model of anew
Cotton Screw, the invention of G. B. Hack, of this
oounty, which we think is superior in its construc
tion to any other Screw we have seen. It com
bines simplicity of construction and cheapness, with
strength and speed, aud occupies a very small
space, uot exceeding six by ten feet square. It
may be put up iu the gin-house, having the top ex
tending into the cotton room, and mr.y be driven
by a belt connecting with the gin gearing. A horse
at ordinary work speed will pack a bale of cotton
in three or four minutes, weighing six hundred
pounds.
Mr. Hack will exhibit his model at the State Fair
at A t lanta during (he present month, whon planters
will do well to examine it for themselves.
Fine Tobacco.
We are under obligations to Mr. G. VouoEßjfir
several samples oi excellent chewing tobacoo, of the
weil known und favorite “Shultz” brand—put up
in plug, twist, and pan cake. Mr. V. has recently
enlarged nis store, and his stock of tobacoo, segars
&c., will always be found complete.
Aid for tbe Sulferiug Poor of Clml-lertoil.
The Charleston Courier acknowledges the receipt
of $1,032.58, contributed by the citizens of Augusta
for the relief of the sufferers in that city by the pre
vailing epidemio. The Courier adds: “Such a
substantial and speaking manifestation of sympa
thy with our affliction, on the part of our sister city,
is refreshing to the heart, and challenge the warmest
expression of grateful feeling.
“This donation would have baeu acknowledged
earlier hut lor the absence of one cf the editors to
whom it was addressed individually
Augusta, Oct. 5, 1858.
Richard Yeadon, Esy , Charleston :
Dear Sir:—Euclot.ed please fiud a check on the
Bank of Charleston for one thousand and thirty-two
58-100 dollars, in behalf of the citizens of Augusto,
collected through a joint committee of the Young
Men's Christian Aesociation and the City Council,
for the benefit of the Buffering poor of your city.
Do me the kindness to hand it to tbe President
of the Howard Aesociation, and aek him to accept
it, aud with it our earnest wish that the scourge
that now afflicts your devoted city may be very
speedily removed.
1 am, dear sir, your obedient servant,
Wm. 11. Tutt.
Veliow Fever in Llutrleslon.
The official report of the number of interments iu
Charleston for tho week ending Saturday last, 9th
inst., shows a total of 66—45 of which were from
yellow fever, being a decrease of 19 in comparison
with the previous week.
The Epidemic in Charleston.—The Charleston
Courier of yesterday says The following table
will bo convenient for comparison and reference, as
showing the relative mortality in 1854 and 1858, in
this city, and also as showing the utter falsity of tho
very exaggerated reports of the “private letter
writers”—wheae epistles we believe are not written
at all from this city :
1854. 1 1858.
Ist week Aug. 19... 4 J Ist week, Aug. 7 -.1
2d week, Aug. 20 21) j 2d week, Au,?. 14 0
3d week, JSept. 2 ...20 I 3d week, Aug. 21 28
4th weeSc, Sept. 9 ,70 | 4th week, Aug 28 .59
sth week, Sept, lfi 127 j sth week, Bept 4. ..73
Ota week, Sept 23.. 118 | oth. week, Sept. 11 103
7th week, Sept. 31) 72 I 7th w'ec;k, Sept. 18 Ixß
Bth week, Oct. 7 53 | Bth week, Sept 25 80
‘.'tli week, Oct. 14 4g 9th week, Oct. 2 04
10th week, Oct. 21 3i | 10th week, Oct. 9 45
5,5 | 573
Tiis “utter falsity of the very exaggerated reports
of the private fetter writers,” cf which the press of
Char.eaton eomuoh complains, would be best shown
up by publishing daily reports of the progress of tha
epidemic.
The Southern Citizen, edited by John
Mitchell,, and published at Knoxville, Tenu., iu
to be moved to Washington City. The removal is
to take place about the middle of November. The
last Citizen contains the following notice:
“We shall esteem it a favor if our exchanges in
notioing our intention to remove the Southern Citi
zen to Washington, will eay to their readers, that
our subscribers will be supplied without the inter
mission of a single week, and at the same terms
upon which the paper lias hitherto been published ;
and farther, that the office of publication will be in
Knoxville until some time between the 15th of No
vember and the Ist of December.”
.Sporting Intelligence.— lt is said that the fa
vorite racing mare Lizzie McDonald, formerly Sue
Washington, is rapidly growing blind. It is feared
that she will never tie iu a condition to run another
race. ,
There is some talk of a match being made be
tween Nicholas 1. and Slasher fcr $10,01)0. four
mile3 to be run. Since Slasher beat Don Juan he
seems to be rising iu the public estimation.
Professor J-. s. Jones. —The Athens Banner
says :—The departure, on Saturday last, of this
gentleman who has, since January, filled so ably
and satisfactorily the chair of Natural Science in
Franklin College, for his future home, Augusta, is
heartily regretted, not only by those to whom he
was at once the courteous and patient instructor and
sincere friend, but by all in our community who
had the pleasure of knowing and appreciating him
as a scholar, a high-toned geutiemau, aud an hum
ble, consistent Christian.
A large number of the studeuts of the Cos iege
waited upon him at the Lanier House just before he
left, to bid him farewell, and express their regret at
his departure, aud if the good-wishes of these be
leaves behind, caa avail aught in influencing the
future, we are confident that he will enjoy as much
happiness hereafter, as generally falls to the lot of
mortals. We wish and predict for him a moat sue
ceasful career in his new sphere. Having been
elected Professor of Chemistry in the Medical Col
lege, in Augusta, be wili deliver the introductory
lecture iu that institution at the ceminenceoient of
the session in November next.
\\ e congratulate the citizens of Augusta, aud the
College and its numerous friends throughout the
State and elsewhere, upon so valuable an acquisi
tion as Prof. Jones will prove himself to be.
Southern Medical and Surgical Journal. —
The October number of this truly valuable journal,
is promptly on our table, and from an examination
of the contents, we find it freighted with its usual
variety of original and Miscellaneous matter.
M e commend it to the favourable consideration
of the Profession. It is edited by Professor H. F.
and Robert Campp.eli. m. D., and published in
this city, by J. Morris, at $3 per annum, in ad
vance.
Deßow's Review for October has been receiv
er. We notice, in the table of Contents, many arti
cles worthy of perusal, especially those classed un
dvr the agricultural and commercial heads. J. M-
Smythe and J. R. Simpsjn, of this city, are autho
rized to receive subscriptions for this magazine.
Oil Factory Burnt.—The principal part of the
buildings forthe manuuctu.e of coal oil in Clev e
port, Ky., were destroyed by fire on the 25th nit.—
Loss SBO,OOO. The establishment had jo3t resumed
operations, after a suspension of eight months.
The Interior department has approved to Florida,
under the congressional grant of May, 1856, over
183,0011 acres of land in aid of the eon.-.ruction of
the Florida, Atlantic, and Gulf Central Railroad,
connecting Jacksonville and Alligator sixty miles
in length.
Trouble with the Indians Apprehended
A dispatch dated at St. Louis, Oct. 7, states that se
rious trouble was apprehended with the Indians 80
miles below Fort Randall.
Preparing for Elections. One hundred and
twenty seven cases of naturalization were acted
on in different Conrts in Cincinnati, on Monday,
4th inst.
Centennial Festival is Honor of Robert,
Burns.— On the 25th of January next one hundred
years will have elapsed since the birth of tbe nation
al poet of Scotland, and it is likely that the day
will be celebrated with more thin tha usual enthusi
asm.
AQcarrelsome Diplomatist.— The Paris cor
respondent of the New Orleans Picayune, tells that
p&rper that Marquis de Turgot is transferred from
Spain to Berne, because he was constantly quarrel
ing with the Duke d’Alba, the Emperor s brother
in-law. M. de Turgot was, as yon may remember,
Mr. Pien-e Soule's adversary in the well known
duel. The salary at Madrid is 140,000f., ($28,000,)
while at Berne is only 60,000 t, ($12,00%)
Treachery to the Democracy is not severely pun
ished, for the prominent New York Van Bnrenites
Os 1848 are now the chief maguatee of the party.
Forney and Mr . Snrbanan. .
The Philadelphia'/’/eJs, Forney's paper, con
tains the promised addressol’ Jnc. W. Forney, in
reply to the assaults of the Bu chanan organa. The
address, which occupies some eight columns, opens
with a vindication of the principles of popular eov
i ereignty, and in reply to the assaults of tho Leeomp-
I ton organa. He commences by reviewing the part
| he took at Tarrytown, and the causes which in
j daced him to make the speech he did there. He
then alludes to th-: statement of the Union, denying
I the conversation he is represented to have had with
! the Presided. He says, “ not only aid the conver
sation take place, hut many things that were said
were omitted in the Tarrytown speech. Among
other things, the President aaid:
*• If yon, ‘Valter and Douglas, will unite in sup
port of my Kansas policy, the people of Kansas
w*U vote tor it at the tleetion of the 21st of Dscam
her. I know that you have the strong tide of this
question, and that you can carry off the people,
but I appeal to yon to stand with mo, because, if
1 don't adhere to my policy, Alabama, Georgia,
and Mississippi, iJ probably secede from the
Union.”
A lew days after this interview, a friend from
Southern NVw-York, visited me (Forney) at Phila
delphia, saying that the President had de3ired him
to a.-eare me that the President intended to make
his Kansas policy a test upon tLe party, and that no
man would be tolerated by the administration who
ma Dot approve and support it.
Kegauhng the Union's assertions that his (For
ney’s? statement of the Cabinet meeting is lulse,
Jir. Forney says that the report of the conversation
between “ a!her and tho Cabinet was coininuaiea
tsd and described by Col. Simeon SI. Johnsou, oue
ot the Editors of the Union. Mr. Forney then al
ludesto the attacks of the New York Herald upon
him, applying terms to the Editor of that paper not
at all complimentary to him. He next quotes from
several articles that had appeared in! he Herald dur
ing the Presidential campaign, saying that Mr. Bu
chanan once said to him with much excitement,
••W by am 1 so traduced and pursued by this infa
mous knave? Havel no friends who will visit
New York and punish him as he deserves ? H is
ears should be taken og in the public streets.” Mr.
Forney then rev ews the polit cal condition of the
Union, claiming that all the Democratic victories
at the North have Deeu Anti-Lecoinplon, and con
cludes by predicting the complete overthrow of
the President's rule in the coming election of this
State.
The Buchanan organs are very much exercised
just now by these disclosures, and are seeking to
destroy the force of Forney s statements, by charg
ing him with being a knave for his participation in
the matter of the Forest divorce case. Such a plea
comes with very bad gracs from the Democratic
organs at this late cay; for it was long after that
celebrated Forney letter was published to the
world, that the Democracy in Congress, elected
Forney Clerk of ths House cf Representatives,
and Southern Democratic journals endorsed him as
a high-minded honorable man 1 And it was long af
ter that, Mr. Buchanan bagged him to his bosom
as one of his most intimate and confidential friouds,
and urged his election to the United States Senate.
Now if it be true, that “a man is known by his
companions,” and we think no one doubts its truth,
we submit to the Democratic organs, Whether they
reflect much honor upon Mr. Buchanan in thus
denouncing his and their old, high minded, and
honorable friend, John W. Forney-.
Charles Francis Adams has been nominated for
Congress by the Freesoil Convention of the Third
District of Massachusetts, and Benj. F. Butler by
the Democrats in the Eighth District.
This announcement of candidates, Adams and
Butler, on opposing tickets, affords an apt illus
tration of the game playing by the Northern De
mocracy. Every intelligent man is familiar with
the course of Charles F. Adams, and although
Benj. F. Butler entertains the same opinions on
the slavery issues, he is the candidate of the De
mocracy—the spoilsman— Butler was one of the
principal workman in constructing the Buffalo plat
form, which was as strong Anti-Slavery and Anti-
Southern, as any document ever issued by the Free,
soilers or Black Republicans, and yet he is one of
the standard-bearers of the National Democracy 1
the only party, we are told, to which the South can
look, for aid or support. Well may the South ex
claim “ Save us from such friends 1”
Douglas states that he lias, an hundred times, on
ev.-ry mump in Illinois, declared that the people of
a Territory have (lie legal right, prior to the forma
tion of their Slate Constitution , to exclude slavery
from their limits. This is another pill to be swal
lowed by Douglnsitea, which we respectfully de
cline.—Bainbridgc Argus.
The Democracy of the South all swallowed the
pill without a grimace, in the Kansas bill, and
Cincinnati platform, both of which wore concocted
to betray the South, and it won’t do for Democrat
ic organa to be making wry faces at Squatter Sove
reignty at this late day. When the question has
bsen settled, and the principle fixed upon the
country by the aid and votes of the Southern De
mocracy, they tell us witfi great apparent gravity
that they decline to take the pill. This is certainly
refreshing. Mr. Douglas, the father of the bill, told
the country, in his report, that the principle of
Squatter Sovereignty was contained iuthe bill, and
Gen. Cass congratulated the Senate upon its tri
umph, on the passage of the bill; and yet Southern
Democrats affect just now to have discovered its
existence in the bill.
A Consistent Deduction.— Col. Forney, of the
Philadelphia Press, undeterred by denunciation,
keeps up the war against the Bucks with unflinch
ing zeal. Hear him on the Washington Un.on:
It io u consistent deduction from the abandon
ment of the acoepted doctrine (f Democracy, and
the wanton breaking of as solemn a covenant ns
ever was entered into between the people and their
servant**, that the Administration ot the Federal
Government should be henceforth regarded as the
Democratic party. This is the new ritual, as ex
plained and insisted upon by the W ashington Union
anil the slaves that walk in its shadow. The Presi
dent and his Cabinet, the Administration and its
policy-—these are our new infallibilities. To obey
and worship these is to live; to disobey them is to
die. A comfortable faith and and an easy one, this.
Now, we do not intend to insinuate that the Admin
istration can make any mistakes. Heaven forfend!
We are here to accept its utterances as inspired
wisdom—“ as apples of gold set iu pictures of sil
ver.” We arc ready to belisve that all the eight
people in Washington, President and Cabinet, are
immaculate god**; that they are better than creeds,
higher than conventions, aud more potent than
pledges. But our difficulty is here : How is the
Democratic party to get on in the event of there
being no Democratic administration cf the Federal
Government! Platform gone, pledges broken,
paaty beaten. President and Cabinet replaced, who
then shall lead and think for the party ?
Repumating their own Offspring.— When
the English Kansas bill pasted Congress, there WB3
great glorification by the Democracy over the re
sult, and it was pronounced a finality to the slavery
agitation. The same party are now repudiating
their own measure and pledging themselves to re
peal it at the very next section, should Kansas ap
ply for admission. The father of the measure, Mr.
English, Bet the example, and we have the following
from the Ilera'd, a strong Administration paper, as
regards Democratic sentiment generally at the
North .-
“We believe that, thus far every Democratic can
didate for Congress icgards the English restriction
as only so much leather and prunella , and advocates
the earliest regular admission of Kansas, regardless
of the question of population.”
New Whaling Enterprise.— Several merchants
have formed a company in Boston for the purpose
of engaging in the whale fishery in the North Pa
cific, by means of small vessels of from one to two
hundred tons burthen. They will be provided, in
addition to the ordinary outfit, with the new bomb-
Isnce of C. C. Brand, of Norwhioh, Connecticut,
which has become so important an article in carry
ing on the whaling business on the Northwest
Coast A depot and agency will be established at
Port Townsend, in Washington Territory, where the
vessels can land their oil and obtain supplies, without
being absent so long from the whaling-ground as it
now takes to run down to the Sandwich Islands to
recruit. Whalemen on the Northwest coast have
long considered it of great importance to obtain
their supplies near the field of their operations. Mr.
James G. Swan, of New Bedford, under whose
auspices this enterprise has been started, will leave
in the steamer of the 2Uth inst., to carry out the de
tails of the plan. He has long resided in Washing
ton Territory, and will take out supplies for the pro
posed whaling fleet.
A Mexican General at a Yankee Training.—
Gen. Comonfort, ex President of Mexico, was
present at the encampment of the first division of
the Massachusetts militia last week. lie came on
the ground in a barouche drawn by four grays.—
He was received with much honor, and was pre
sented to the Governor and other dignitaries pre
sent.
Row at the North Carolina University. —A
correspondent of the Greenboro, N. C.. Times,
writing from Chape! Hill, says : —We have intelli
gence of a terrible outbreak at our University, in
which the principal features are, the burning of one
of the teachers in effigy, assaulting the Faculty
buming the beaches and attacking a private resi>
dence.
The Cost of War.—The eost of a thirteenth
inch shell, as it flies through the air, is from $lO to
sl2. The estimate cost of firing a thirty six in h
bomb is nearly $l5O. These figures alfird some
idea of the “shelling oat” to which warring govern
ments must submit.
Aid for the Sick. —The Mayor cf Portsmouth,
Ya., ha3 for * arded to the Mayor of Charleston $335
for the relief of the sick. Os this sum $350 were
contributed by the officers and employees of Gos
port Navy Yard, and the remainder from Trinity
(Episcopal) Church.
Mr. Buchanan and his Irish Friends. —lt is
difficult to say who will be willing, a month to come,
to do the Administration reverence. Ira strongest
supporters, north and south, have abandoned it and
the worst of ail, its Irish friends are now turning
their back upon it. The N. Y. Daily News thus
sets forth the position of the Freeman's Journal, the
acknowledged foreign and Catholic organ in that
city.
The New York Freeman’s Journal, we regret to
say, la a very decided end extreme Anti Adminis
tration sheet. It trains in the Douglas, Walker and
Forney school, and it labors ably and boldly m its
course of hostility to the President and the adminis
tration party.
ShefP Killed by Lightning.— Daring a thun
der storm near Charlotte, N. C., on Saturday, the
25th uit, the lit Lining strnck a tree on the premises
of James Query, killing about fifteen sheep that
were huddled together underneath. The bones of
many of them were smashed to pieces.
Taxation in different States.— According to
an official table comprising eighteen of the States,
it appears that North Carolina pays lees tax, per
capita, than either of her sister States, it be
ing only fifty-two cents for each individual annual
ly—^while the tax of the State of Maine, the highest
in the list, amounts to $3 per head. The whole
eighteen States, with a population of 14,569,722,
pay annually $23,055,129 —being an average of sl,-
72}, each.
From a reliable source we have information that
the Hon. William Preston, of Kentucky, has re
ceived and accepted the appointment of Minister to
Spain.
More limiting of llie Knees,
Our neighbor, the Daily Times , evidently sees
the ‘ hand-writing on the wall,” and gets more and
more emphatic in its protestations that it has no
thing further to do with the warfare against Doug
las. It deprecates “the fata! policy of the Demo
cratic party making an issue as to the political or
thodoxy of Hon. S. A. Douglas,” and, Buccumbing
to the necessity which it perceives to be inevitable,
declares that “if Mr. Douglas stands upon the plat
form of the Democracy laid down at Charleston, it
is then we should settle the question as to his past
fidelity to the party and the extent to which wc will
trust him in the future.”
Mr. Douglas, we apprehend, says the Columbus
Enquirer, will care very little about the “platform”
ot the party, so that he gets its nomination, which
is the thing he is after, and which, in our judgment*
he has made pretty secure already, “Piatform” in
deed! Why, doesn't the Times know that the
“policy” of the Democratic party is to concede the
candidate to one section and the platform to the
other; ana that as soon as the election is over, the
platform is to bs kicked away into some unfrequent
ed obscuiity—some unexplored receptacle of cast
oft rubbish—where it will be as far out of sight or
danger ot exhumation as is the Cincinnati platform
during the Administration of James Buchanan ?
When has Douglas ever cared for platforms or
pledges? Is he not even now warring with tho
Southern wing of his party, in opposition to the
principle of the platform which he himself construct’
ed—the platform of the Kansaif-Nebraska bill ?
And yet our neighbor is willing to rally under the
lead of Douglas, if he will only subscribe to the
platform to be constructed at Charleston, aud pro
poses then to determine the extent to which the par
ty will trust him! We presume that the same in
fluence which Douglas carries with him to procure
his nomination at Charleston will also be sufficient
at least to prevent any very explicit or intelligible
condemnation of the means by which he won over
the party!
Now that the Southern Democracy are beginning
to appreciate the power of Douglas with their par
ty, and are preparing to submit with grace to what
they cannot avert, an aitide from the Washington
Union comes to us very opportunely. It shows
that Douglas always was but very little better than
a Frcesoiler; that in ISSO he voted, in company
with Chase, Seward and other Freesoilers, against
restraining the Territorial Legislatures of Utah and
New Mexioo from driving slavery from tlitir bor
ders; that he voted against Mr. Berrien's amend
ment to prevent the people, while under the territo
rial government, from passing any laws to exclude
the property of Southern citizens from those Terri
tories—on whiolr occasion Benton, Chase, Hamlin,
Davis, of Moss , Seward and every other Freesoiler
voted with him, while Clay, Webster, Davis, of
Miss., end other constitutional men voted with Ber
rien ; that at the same session he voted with Chase,
Hale Sc Cos. for Mr. Walker’s amendment to abolish
pent slavery in the territory acquired from Mexico
At the same session he maintained that Congress
could exclude slavery from a territory, but he held
that Moxic an laws had already forbidden it in the
Territories for whose organization Congress w**s
then legislating—therefore he would not prohibit it
by act of Congress, but would allow the settlers, in
their territorial oondition, to legislate aa they chose
on the subject. He aaid, iu reply to Mr. Davie, of
Miss, i
“But, sir, I do not hold the doctrine that to ox
elude any species of property by law from auy Ter
ritory is a violation ot any right of property. Do
you not exclude banks from most of the Territories ?
Do you not exclude whiskey from being introduced
into a large poition of the Territories of the United
States? Do yon not exclude gambling tables,
which are property reoognized aa such iu the States
in which they are tolerated ? * * * * lam
not, therefore, prepared to say that under tho Con
stitution wo have not the power to pass laws ex
cluding negro slaves from the Territories. It in
volves the same principle.”
He has since, after fabricating and procuring the
passage of the Kansas Nebraska Bill—which he
says was worded and understood to sanction squat
ter sovereignty, but which the Southern Democracy
deny—repudiated his own bnntliDg when it was
found likely to enure to the benefit of the South,
aud refused to vote tor the admission of Kansas
with a pro-slavery constitution. During the whole
of the contest on this question, last winter and
spring, he was concerting measures with the Abo
litionists not only for the defeat of the biilsforthe
admission of Kansas, but also for a permanent
coalition with that sectional faction! For this as
sertion wo have the positive statement of Isaac U.
Sturgeon, United States Sub-Treasurer at St.
Louis, who learnt the facts during the late session
of Congress from F. P. Blair, Black Republican
Representative from Missouri; and our latest ac
counts from St. Louis say that Blair (who is a friend
of Lincoln) stands ready to prove them at any mo
ment when Judge Douglas’ denial permits him to
do bo. Here are the charges which Blair and Stur
geon (a Black Republican and an Administration
Democrat) make against Douglaß :
let. That Judge Douglas declared to prominent
Black Republicans in Washington City last winter,
that his Kansas Nebraska policy was designed by
him, and would, have theejfect to surround- the slave.
States with free States , and thus crush jnit slavery
2d. That Douglas declared that Senator Bell, of
Tennessee, was the only Southern member of Con
gress wtio understood him. lie had a conversation
with Senator Bell, in which the latter said to Doug
las: “The d—d Southern fnold don’t understand
you; I do.”
“Id That Senator Douglas avowed himself in fa
vor of emancipation in Missouri, and said he hoped
the movement in favor of emancipation would suc
ceed.
4th. That Senator Douglas expressed the hope to
these same Black Republicans//ml /-’. P. Blair , />.,
would succeed Senator Ureen in the l/micd t.stu/m
Senate and voluntarily promised to use his efforts,
when the proper time came, to secure the election
of Blair in the place of Green.
sth. That he held meetings in his own house, in
Washington City, under lock and key, with promi
nent Black Republicans, last winter, who came at
his own invitation, aud to whom he made in sub
stance these declarations.
Yet we are told that a man with such a record—
holding such political heresies—is to be trusted to an
extent then to bo determined, if he will only mount
a party “ platform to be constructed at Charles
ton ! And that, too, when he is now, every day,
re-affirming the odious principles above proclaimed
by voice and vote, and is making war upon the
Supreme Court of the United States for “ its dic
tum” against such doctriues as the Died Scott de
cision !
Information has been received at the Indian bu
reau confirmatory of.the report of the Indians hav
ing robbed the mail three hundred and filly miles
from Salt Lake city. He says that no attempt was
made to kill the conductor, drivers or guards ; that
the Indiaus on the Humboldt have been committing
depredations for ten years past; and that this was
the first outbreak of the present season. General
Johnston at the request of Gov. Cumming, had sent
a military force of one huudred and fifty men for
the protection of the mails and travellers.
Brstish Neootiations with Nicaragua. —The
New York Courier learns that there have been no
negotiations* between Sir Win. Gore Ousley and
any authorized representatives of Nicaragua rela
tive to the transit route. The draft of a treaty, said
to have been agreed upon between the British spe
cial envoy and Mr. Molina and Gen. Jeroz, is sim
ply the C'assYrissarri treaty altered in its phrseolo
gy so as to conform to the change of parties. Our
information leads ns to believe that the British min
ister lias forwarded this treaty to his own govern
ment as one which it would be desirable for Great
Britain to conclude, and that it has been returned
to him approved, with directions to proceed to Ni
caragua and negotiate directly with tha: govern
ment upon the basis of the provisions of the treaty
referred to.
Trip to Ireland. —The proposed trip of the filth
New York (Irish) Regiment to Galway is considera
bly chatted about in military circles. The Regi
ment wilt Jake 400 men, 40 officers, 20 band, 16
drum corps, and 10 warrant, making a total of 480
They will be drilled thrice per week for two months
previous to leaving, and encamp three days pryor
to sailing. Thirty five days are to bo passed in Ire
land. What a frolic to be sure ! aud how they will
be feted.
The Introduction of Cotton into the Missis
sippi Valley. —The Baton Rouge Advocate has a
letter dated Chapel Hill, Tennessee, August 10th,
written, as wo learn from the Advocate, by a gen
tleman who was formerly a citizen cf Louisiana,
and at one time filled ahigh office in her government,
from which we extract the annexed interesting
passages :
“The person is yet living who saw the find sack
of cotton seed brought into the Mississippi Valley.
It was introduced by Daniel Clark, father of Mrs.
Gen. Gaines, who wae a native of Ireland, a Span
ish subject, and acting as Consul for the United
States for the port of New Orleans, ltwae import
ed expressly for Mr. Bringier, a wealthy planter, on
the right bank of the river, a few miles below Don
aldgonville. Mr. Bringier has also the first cotton
gin imported. The cotton seed was distributed to
such planters, np and dow-n the coast, as desired to
try the experiment, and in the fail of the year when
picked, Mr. 15. Bent his son, Louis Bringier, the pre
sent veuerabie Surveyor General of Louisians,
with a barge and a gang of negroes to collect it for
the purpose oflieii g ginned. The cotton was rais
ed and ginned upon shares, and when bagged waa
sent to Daniel Clara for exportation. A. r Brin
gier told me he had gone tip as far as Biton Rouge
and Point Coupee, gathering cotton tj be ginned at
liis father's place below Donaldsonville. This was
in the latter part of the last aDd at the beginning of
the present century.’’ ,
No Admirals —The recent statement (hat com
manders of duch expeditions as that to Paraguay
would hereafter have the title of Admiral in the U.
S. naval service, is thus corrected by the Washing
ton Star :
A flag officer of the Navy, who has held his com
mission for twenty years or more, is, by a recent
regulation qf the Navy, allowed to wear his flag at
the fore instead of the mizzen mast, while those
whose commiesions are of more recent date, w ill
carry their flags at the mizzen. No title of Admi
ral nor any other of higher grade than flag officer
wifi be recognized by the Navy Department.
The people of Tennessee have refused to alter
their Constitution. The official returns of the iate
election indicate, notwithstanding the einailnese of
the vote, a decided opposition to any change. Out
of 24,856 votes cast, 2),291 were against, and only
3,937 in favor of it.
Hogs—About 2,OfH) bead of bogs were sold at
Cincinnati week before last, at $5 50 net, to be
delivered the first tw o weeks es November and the
first two of December. There is some demand at
this rate. This does not augur well for cheap pork
at the south during the coming winter.
The Cranberry Crop. —Lovers of cranberries
will be sad to read the following from the Nan
tucket Inquirer of the 28fii September :
Heavy Frost. —Avery heavy and unseasonable
frost occurred here on Saturday night, and which
we are afraid has been disastrous to the cranberry
crop.
Terrible Ravages of Fever at Sea.— Captain
Webb, of the schr. T. E. French, which arrived at
New York Friday from Saffolk, Va., via Hog Is
land, reports that it was stated at Hog Island on the
29th uit., that a schooner from the West Indies had
put in there and run ashore in Rip Shore Inlet, and
that all hands, except the captain and cook, bad
died of fever. Assistance had been sent to her.
A Steam Plow.
At the late State Fair in Illinois, a lileem Plow,
the invention of Mr. FawkEs, of Lancaster, Pa.,
was on exhibition, the sacct- jof which EeamffHo
have astonished the btboldsrs.
This plow is described as a cross between a loco
motice and a tender. It io mounted on two guiding
wheels and a huge propelling wheel in the shape of
a drum, which overcomes the difficulties of miring
on soft soil and slipping on hard smooth ground. It
is said to be easily managed, and to require ’out a
moderate amount of fuel. It draws six plows, so
regulated by spiral springs as to yield to any extra
ordinary obstruction. The machine was tried on
the most difficult the unbroken prairie; and its
performance is thus described in the Chicago Tri
bune :
“The prairie was baked so hard by drouth that
the prairie breaking ploughs; would not run in ft,
and Uie trial of sod ploughs was abandoned in con
sequence. Notwithstanding this fact, the inventor
was so confident of success that be gave the order
co put the plough): to work in this almost unpervio s
soil. After a little delay in regulating to tin* brick
‘ike surface, the engine moved forward, when six
,arrows wero turned iuc by side iuthe most work
manlike manner. The excitement etthe crowd
was beyond control, and ib*riv .-uoucj r.nd wild
huzzas echoed far over the prairie, as there, b. I
Death the smiling autumn sun, lav t!: first inrrow I
turned by steam on the broad praiii-s of the mighty
West. The goat war wen. Steam Imd eenqr.V. t-ul
the taee of Nature, aud the Bluim plough hao. bo- |
come'a fact; it was working over the rich i,*l!u -
praries of'Eygpt,’ and turning up its weahh of
nutritious eletn. nts for the growth of the t-.-v, :\! mei
pomoiial products—self.moving, and com tor:’- a
power unequalled to turn up the lower s’rat-i ?t’
soil,bo rich tn potash, in phosphates in silicia, end
other essential elements of vegetable growth.’ The
long line cf matchless furrows parted the crowd,
aud lay between the moving musses like a line of
silver wove in the gray setting t f the prairie. A . aid
the excitement the inventor remained culm; i; v/ss
enough for him to hear the glad shouts of y i. :orv
which rent the air. For this he had toiled; for ti ls
his hands had become hardened and his face made
ewarihly over the glowing iron out ot which he I
forged the muscles of ths icon steed of the prairies, j
“Mr. Fawkes and others were called out by the
crowd, aud auA* brie.’ speech nan, a
member of the Board, spoke of the success of the |
steam plough now witnessed as marking a now era
in the world's progress, and declared that the give
enterprise of Fawkes may be placed tide by side
with tho steam engine, the steamboat, the loo,.mo
tive, the cotton gin, aud the telegraph. A ter the |
speaking the engine again moved forward, w!-*. ■ ]
tiie ploughs turned up the loose mud drift of i1 o ‘ j
lasingeix furrows srri by side wnh the mo-, ;
feet ease and in the most workmanlike manner.—
The consumption of fuel and water was very mode
rate. Chat the engine is a complete ere? res there
can be no doubt, and ~11 that i * * ow w-.iitiug :s to
demonstrate that, taking the whole t>xi*eu.<o in*,
consideration, it is cheaper than horse power. If
this is auswercJ ill the atli illative, it will produce
the greatest revolution in sgricuitmal progress that
wc have yet seen ; it wilt tuka euolhof wrinkle
ti om the brow ot labor, and give to 1 ha U iliug mil
lions lighter lasks to perform.”
Ths London Times, in an able article on the pow
er of the l’ress, says that tho potency of a newspa
per lies in the fact that it in a n ./-.'paper, and no, a
sheet of tales and essays like the French journals
“The pubic Bi-ess,” says the Time *, ‘‘has pnrehsi and
the light to express its opinions by the facilities
which it has given every noun for forming his own.”
As to the favors which Ihe Press cau oonfer, tho
Times says i “What is ths Red Eagle or tha Legion
of Honor to a paragraph of prais, v hich ij repeated
in hundreds of daily, weekly and inoathly sheets,
aud makes some humble tamo a household word
from Cornwall to Shetland, in Toronto aud Mel
bourne, in Calcutta and Hong Kong. - ’
M. Von Humboldt has celebrated his ninetieth
birthday. An English correspondent, writing from
Berlin, says that “never <i(4 a conqueror receive
congratulations front so many p rsons and such
great distances, as the post-boy had to carry on
Tuesday morning to the well hnotvn 1. use in the
Oransienburger-fltraaje. Those v.io have been
fortunate enough to enjoy a peep at the fifth
volume of Ka mos, which is still under Lis hands,
assert that neither in stylo nor contents does it, in
the least, yield to the four volumes which preceded
it. Humboldt himself, is said to be. .n” opinion that
he will die next spring, just alter !:. ing completed
the last of the ta b he has undertaken. But his
friends who observed him, spank differently, and
aro bold enough !o predict that this tior.o he will
prove to be altogether ia error, and that a very dif
ferent celebration from that which lie anticipates
will next year take place is h'.a house.”
Navai. Intelligence.—The vessels d'’ lined to
bring Lopez to his ssiists aro nearly rca ly for ;
Since the departure of Commodore Perry for
Japan, so many armed ships have not left our shores
together. Wo give a list of the number of officers
and men on board eaoh snip, and the amount of
guns they carry:
Officers, V. m Gann.
Frigate St. Lawrence. ID .00 so
Sloop of War Falmouth ii(J 200 20
Jjrig of- War Perry 10 80 0
Do. Built bridge...... JO IliO Jo
Do. Dolfihm JO eO ti
Frigate Sabine.. TO 6UO TO
Sloop-of War Preble 20 .100 J 8
War steamer Fulton \J, 180 o
Do. Water Witch Id 140 4
Revenue cutter Harriet Lane'...,.. 10 80 4
Chartered steamer Memphis JO 00 3
Do. Caledonia..., >0 00 4
Do. We tern port.. 10 00 4
Do. Southern Star JO 00 4
Do. Atlanta:.... . JO 00 4
Storeship Supply 1G 00 l
Tin chartered steamers may each carry ona gun
lean than put down.
Tho first three vessels on the above, li- t are the
present Brazil Squadron, commanded by Com
modore French I* -met; all other's are preps ring to
leave atth? different Navy Yards in tin United
Sfato3, except the brig vvhY i ve. ‘o! is
now attached to the African ■* quadron, but uuder
orders to proceed ro Du nos Ayro
A detachment of fiie United w-rin<w m-
riv-u at Now York on Gi*mrdtty from Boston, in
ooinmar.d of Sergeant Tancrcrl, for the Jfrir:p:my
Expedition. They were sent on board the North
Carolina.
The Navy Department Ims now decided that Na
va! officers in charge 0! expeditions shall be ranked
as Admirals. Accordingly, Admiral Shubrick now
flios his wide flag at the fore cf the frigate Sabine,
instead of the main, from which all American
pennants have hitherto-‘fluttered in the breeze.”
St. Louis and Iron.— The St. Louis Republican
says that now the manufacturing interests there are
assuming their Irue importance, and that, city is
talcing her position as the great iron marl of this
continent. The expression of this lielidi is canned
by the joy arising from the discovery of x'ju.five
coal beds in the fields oi lit, Shawueetoun Compa
ny, in Gallatin county, Illinois. The ci al carried
from that depository hrs been tested, end prononne .
ed quite equal, after coking, to ilie Pittsburg coal. !
The te.ting was co.-idu- ed underts ayes ot a large
committee. lL is estimated that Iho mines can
furnish sixteen millions of tons. There are three
thousand feet of entries, sufficient for one hundred
rooms aud two hundred miners, A railroad lias
been built from the mines to I lie Ohio river, and is
all ready for transportation. The St. Lou ; . journa
ists are quite delighted r.t the prospect.
A City of Gardens. —The Columbia Guardian
says :—We think we are wilhiu bounds when we
say that Columbia can boast of more beautiful pri
vate gardens and ornamented yards than any city
in the South. The one belonging to Mr. Sondley is
certainly lar ahead of any we have seen. To thick j
of arches, corridors, pillars, columns, and even a \
summer house, all made from evergreens. The ■
pillars aud columns are from fifteen to eighteen 1
feet high, and near livo fuel in diameter, kc-pt ’.
trimmed in perfect order. Tii ’re aie many others
which wo will notice in dim time.
Queer Taste —A sou of Hon. A. G. Talbott, M.
C., of Kentucky, has ma le his debut in the riog ue
clown. The family is one of the proudest and
wealthiest in Kentucky.
Earthquake.— A severe shock es an earthquake
was felt at Line Shore, below Hickman, Ky., on
Tuesday, Sept. 2ht. It was so severe that a lacy
who was about forty rods from her house when it
commenced, fell down four times beforo she got to
her door. It seemed as though thu bouse would
tumbledown. In 181), the ground sank near the
same place, making a lake twelve mil* long and
seven wide.
Legal Prostitution.— ln specking of marriages
for money, Mies Muiock, the eminent writer, ob
serves, wethink very justly : “ Marriages ought
always to be a question not of necessity, bin choice.
Every girl ought to be taught that a hasty, loveless
union stamps upon her as foul dishonor as one of
those connections which omit tho legal ceremony al
together, and that, however, pale, dreary and toil
some a single ike may be, unhappy married life
must be ten times worse, an ever haunting tempta
tion, an incurable regret—r to; ment from which
there is no escape but death.’
Alexander Buchanan, died lately in Smyth
county, Va ,at the advanced age of 98 years. He
had voted for every President cf the Eeppubhc
sinoo its foundation. Uapt. Brown, of Rueasel, the
the adjoining county, is 101 years old, and still in
health.
Frauds in Michigan, —Some startling discove
ries have lately been made in Michigan. The De
troit Advertiser elates that it tarns out that, while
tbs Democrats had control of the ‘Kate Govern
ment, they defrauded the University Fund out of
$25,590, and the Common School Fund out of sl7 -
703. Besides pocketing this $37,000 of public mo
ney, they cheat ed the School Fund out of §250,000
in the fraudulent sale of a seotion of School Land,
containing valuable copper mines.
A medical writer as-erte that the introduct.oa of
the tomato upon the table has reduced the severity
of certain types of samraer diseases to r. noticeable
extent. Thero is no doubt of their healtbfulness as
food, nor of their excellence as a luxury.
Rev. T. J. Bowen, in compliance with an invita- !
bon, is to deliver a course of three lectures, in Ne*v
Tork, under the auspices of the Mercantile Library !
Association of that city-—tho subject to be Central
Africa, her people, products, climate, history, See.
Mrs. Partington says, and Mrs. Partington is
a very sensible woman, “when a woman has once
married with a congealing heart, and one that beats
responsible to her own, she will never want to come
into the maritime state again.'’
If Mrs. P. is correct, it is a self-evident fart, that
very few of the eex marry “ congeal1 ng hearts.”
Committal of Capt. Townsend.—Capt.Town
send, of the siaver Echo, who has been undergoing
examination at Boston for some time, has been ful
ly committed for piracy. His trial will take placo
before the Circuit Court, on the 15th of October. —
Anew complaint has been entered against him, for
misdemeanor, which subjects him to a fins of from
SI,OOO to $5,000, and imprisonment for from three to
seven years.
Travel to Europe.— The steamship Vanderbik
Captain P. E. Lefevre, sailed from New York on
Saturday, for Southampton, Havre and Bremen,
carrying an unusualiy large mail, $147,467.70 in
specie, 201 first cabin and 228 second cabin passen
gers—together, 429 passengers—the most numerous
shipload with which any vessel has ever sailed hence
for Europe.
C.M. Bosseman, E iq., has been elected Senator
from Pulaski county—vice N. McDuffie, whose
residence was cut off into the new county of Wilcox.
GBORGIA ITEMS.
| oew Post cilice hse been eetabliahad in Wilkea
, county, called Deibi, end Jethro Quinn appointed
! One Vurjs too Mary. —William Davis was con
j video, of tho crime of bigamy by the Superior Court
j ot Fulton county, Tuesday last, aud sent to the
I Penitentiary.
; Francis D. Bailey, of the couiTy of Terrell,
i he. been appointed by the Governor, Solicitor
Genera* and for the Par-aula Circuit, vice D. B.
Harrell, resigned.
The Newnaa ‘‘Banner” learns that Hon. Hugh
Buchanan has resigned bis eeat es Senator from
Coweta county, and that his friends intend to run
him for Judge of tha Tallapoosa Circuit,
Monument to a Soldier.-H j 9 skid that Ex-
G ‘v. C. J. McDonald and ether Georgians propose
to erect a monument t > the memory of Gen. Charles
H. Nelson, at the town of Calhoun, on 2d of No
vember.
Georgians in the Navt.— Among those admit
ted upon examination as acting mids ipinen of tha
naval aesdemy at Annapolis, Maryland, we ob*
nerve the name3 ol James A. Bferriwether and Wil •
j !iem Henry Haniecn, of this S'ate.
i Fatal Affray.- —The Cassville Standard of the
- h iaet., eaya : 4 Mr. Mat. Ponder wae hilled near
Ci.r : ”Vil!e on Saturday loot. Messrs. Alfred Thom
Thoma* Condry, and Rouce, have been
ei marked ro i. c harged with the offence.”
Anotk -'u U.ulroad to Thomasvhl*.—A. meet
ot too oitiaeim of Thomas county was held at
Tkomgai die, on Tuesday, October f>th, to provide
t or a survey ot a line ot railroad from Albany to
‘] homaaville, form a company, and subscribe for
The Georgia Platform aaye that Col. L. J. Gar
j tied wilt deliver tho eulogy of Geu. Nelson, in Cal
houn, on the 2d of November next, at the laying of
| the corner stone of the monument to be erected to
I hh* memory iu the Court House square.
Elec t ion in Schley County.-— Au electiou for
numbers oi tl o L ‘gislature for this county (created
by the hst3>gVa ure from the counties ofSnm
j ter and Marion) took place ou Monday, 4lh iutt.,
i resulting iu the eao.o j cx JJj.yun, American Senator,
; aud Edwards, Democratic Iteprosentive.
Donation toOolethorpe.— A gentleman died
m ., ‘ understand, who letr by
v> i.i iituvr:i>:And dollars to Oglethorpe Uuiver
The/;i niml F. irof theP.'antere’Club.ofllan*
cos K Pouii..', ill belli lit Sparta, on the twenty
ei; i fv, ?v. • • ‘y-nuith aud thirtieth of thio mouth. A
tvmprt h nn ive hit t*t premiums has been publish
Irun'-’- X! ( flloerß 1,1 tfae A'tZHStu ConstUu
t ten days past, says the Araefi
cus i\c;/•.<, a j.os* interesting meeting has beeu iu
progress n our city. Considerable accessions have
o< ru mu:e to tut- uimroh, and a deep concern upon
ty SU le lou Pervades L e outiro communi-
A Bki.:i Business.— -We stated, some week or
in>.-iv rgo, tv at tbo receipts of the Central Railroad
V l: ’ v , J ' i n ' k oi b.’ptembtr (ho present year would
exveo* i iv.t oi the nave month last year by be-
U'< eon jjido.iTO and $10,01:0. Tlie estimates were
-h’n mol* luh.y nanrio up, and wo learn cur informant
VJ ‘ ll The exoees should be
jijiy-utvc.iL /Jiovsau ly which the books of the Com
pany will show. — Snvh. Hep .
Revival in Amekicus.—Tue revival mentioned!
in our lasi, is still going on with ooneiderable iu- •
iciest. About 35 persons have connected them
eelvi*•; V*ilh tbo Methodist Church, and others are*
expected to join other denominations. Beside the
meetings th i. in v held daily at the Methodist Church,
rur B apt is aro bolding service every eve
th-i:’ meeting house, which we learn will
continue during tho week.— Sumter Rep.
Business, in Griffin. —Tho streets of cur city
for tho last lew days have presented an animated
and prosperous eppearauce. Cotton has been com
ing id i.t. tho average rale of 300 bales per day, and
cur h!ores hp.ve been crowded with custnjuent.—
Gt’din certainly looks, just.now, like anythiug else
t;mn ti “one horse town.” The cotton brought to
market thus tvv, is paid to be of a better grade*
purer co\.r, aud freer of trash thau usual.—lnde
pendent SoutL
Railroad Meeting in Picksns County.— -There
v/a.i u. large and enthusiastic? Railroad meeting iu
Je per, T okens county, ou the L4:h of September.
The following count I*o were represented uy dele
gates : Cobb, Fouylh, Lumpkin, Pickens and Gil
mer. ii wae the et of tho meeting that a Rail
'dv.riettii, C.bb county, through Cherokee
U> Duck Town, would be. of “general interest to the
.Stab: in developing the resources of Northwest
Georgia. ’ tilatc aid icas asked.—Columbus Times.
CroiiGiA Ant Line.— -Col, Benj. C. Morse, Chief
Lugiin trol the Georgia Air Lino Railroad, came
down this morning, khe survey and location have
been completed twenty miles beyond Gainesville t
and tbe topography of the country has been found
unexpectedly favorable; serious difficulties having
been apprehended.’ From tho point low reached,
to tho Savannah River, they do not tear encounter
ing any difficulties. I lull county ij responding
promptly to ihe call for the installment, and the
poop! ail through that region are working with u
l ight good will.-*— Atlanta American.
Railroad Melting.—A Railroad meeting was
held m Thomasville, Tuesday last, in pursuance
of previous notice, and the sum of twenty odd thou
sand dollars subscribed io tho Southern Georgia
er.d FI >rid i It -.iiroud, for the purpo&a.ot organizing
the Company, surveying and putting under cou
irsct th •ti a section cl ten miles. Twenty severs
ihuu and dollar* imd been previously subscribed,
and whole amounting to between forty and fil'-
• y iL UF.au 1 fV.lurs, or nearly the amount required
by th- charier for organ,/, og the Company.
A committee was appointed to solioit subwrip
fioiiri, aud wo understand thoir efforts in s- veral iu
stanc3 were very successful.— ThomtuviUe Enter
prise.
The Main Trunk Survey.—For some weeks
pesl; a corps of surveyors have been busily engaged
in ,i.„ jii, *‘< Sw iWr*ili TlUnk ll'orti th©
Witiihmooehee to Thomasville. They arrived
here the i :< ginning of this week, aud we presume
vnil proceed at once to lay out the line from this
place th Bainbridge and thence to the western ter-
minus on I lie Chattahoochee. We understand Dr.
Screven, tho President of the road, will bo litre”
shortly, ad that it u contemplated inlet out tho
contracts upon the whole liue at once, that the work
may go on simultaneously, and bo finished as near
as may bo ebou! the same time.
“With tho lights before us,” we look confidently
to the completion of the Main Trunk South in time
to carry to market the crop ot 18611, and hope to
celebrate this momentous event to the Southern
citizens of Georgia and tho election of another
Democratic President of the United States about
the same time. — Thomasmlle Reporter.
The Dempsey Estate —We copied from the
Griffin U Mori, some days ago, a statement to the el
fect that the large property of Mr. Dempsey, who
teoently died in Maoan, was bequeathed to the
j Catholic Church, except $5,0(10, which he willed to
j bo divided equally between histwo children. Ti.ia
is an error. We Icßrn, from good authority, that
r iu-li was the purport af a will executed some time
since, but the testator, just previous to his death,
made another, bequeathing all his property to his
wife and two children, etch to receive a third.—
Savannah Republican.
Macon and Havana Telegraph Line. We
learn tuat. Mr. Samuel A. Kennedy, agent for the
above line, passed through this city few days since
from Florida, where he has been making arrange
ironta lor tho right of way aud construction of the
Macon and Havana Telegraph line. Thin far h
has met wi'li success, and oar citizens wifi be
pleated to learn that tho work will be commenced
by the first of November, and an office established
in this oily by the first cf December next. This
line extends from Macon to Albany, and from Al
j hany to Havana via Tliomaßville, Tallahassee, 81.
! Marks and Key West. That portion extending
j from St. Marks to Havana will trace the Florida
| coa t m the form of a marine cable. The last Le
■ gi.future of Georgia gave a charter for tho Cotn
i pany, and it is now receiving every encouragement,
j from the civil authorities of this State and Florida
us well as the Island of Cuba. By this lino we will
lie placed in communication with Havana and all
tho important Atlantic and Western cities.— Albany
Patriot.
Correspondence of the Savannah Republican.
Ikwjnton, Ga., Oct. 6.1858
Mr. Editor .- I regret to have to inform you that
the Superior Court sitting at this place was brought
toaenddi-n adjournment to day, by tho illness of
Hon. Robert V. Hardeman, the presiding Judge,
who, while on the bench and in the progress ot a
trial, was attacked with something like an apo
plectic stroke, though not pronounced apoplexy by
tho attending physicians. For a few moments he
v.- s almost 01 quite speechless and motionless, but
soon began to revive, and I am glad to be able to
state, is to-night much imoroved, and says that he
teels as welt as he usually does, except a little gid
diness cr swimming of the head. lie expects to bo
able to go home to morrow, and from present ap
pear -ncss thero seems to be nothing likely to pre
vent. it. Tho Court stands adjourned to the third
Monday in November.
1 have also to communicate the painful intelli
gence of a hom’cide which was committed here this
evening about 8 o’clock. The parties (both rc.-i
----denta cf th<i village.) were Dr. J.eeph Golden and
Mr. John E Wiggins The former received three
stabs from a finite in the leg andtbigh,tke last sever
ing tho temoral artery and producing death in a
few minute*. T here ims been no arrest of Wiggins
up to this lime, though he is being pursued, and is
expected to be soon overtaken. A.
Fcxton’s Report.
Mayor’s Office, City Hall, >
Augusta, Ga., Oct. 7,1858. )
The Board of Health reports three interments for
the past week, ending to day; one of whom died
out of the city.
Diseases of which they died.— Billions Fever 1 ;
Child Bed 1; Old Age I.—Total 3.
8. H. Crump, Sec. B. Health.
Railroad Iron—The total imports of railroad
iron from Great Britain to the United States for the
first seven months of 1858, compared with those du
ring a tke space in 1856 and 1857, are as follows ■
1850 81,1)65 tons.
1*57 105,613 “
1358
The above table shows that in seven months of
the present year we have imported less railroad iron
by 1911,111)0 tons than in the corresponding period of
last year. Since August Ist, however, there has
beeu more activity in this department, and consid
erable quantities have been imported by the Mo-
I bile aud Ohio and other roads, and several compa
nies have contended for supplies to be delivered
before the end of the year, so that the total impor
tstiona for 1858 wifi not fall far short of last year, as
the above figures would indicate.
A Letter from Lady Havelock.— The Albion
publishes, by permission of the St. George’s Society,
the following letter addressed by Lady Havelock
to Mr. Archibald, the British Consul, of New York.
The occasion was the presentation of a bound copy
of Dr. Morgan's eloquent sermon preached on St.
George's Day, to the widow of the good soldier:
LADY HAVELOCK TO E. M. ARCHIBALD, ESQ.
“SiH: I have lately beeen favored with your tot
ter aocoropauied by a sermon preached to the St.
George’s Society, on the anniversary of its estab-
lishment. . ... .
“The sentiments therein expressed with regard
to my beloved and honored husband have made a
deep impression on my wounded spirit; and the
great maik of attention which was paid to his dear
memory by your (toe American Ed. Alb.) Dation,
will never be forgotten by me or bis children. In
the ceptli of my sorrow I snail always revert with
pride to that token of admiration, because it was
called forth Dot only by the greatness of hie deeds,
but the beauty and holiness of his character. 1
thank God that I am not left desolate, but that my
sons are walking in their father’s steps, as far as ft
bo possible to approach anything almost so perfect
as he was. .
“Permit me to offer you my poor expression of
gratitude for the honor and kindness you nave
shown me; and may I beg you to convey my thanks
to the Society, which remembered me at eo great a
distance.
“I bag to remain, eir, very obediently,
“Hannah Shepherd Havelock
“32 Cambridge st., Hyde Park, London, Sept. 7,
1858.”