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Correspondence oj the. Memphis Bulletin.
Tke McM In Vai r) —lla Foenluti -a, Its.onrces.
dse. —Jiu lnitroiNiK rsk*.ch,
A tketcbof tbe Mestfia Voi.ey wiU probably give
pome of our rentiers an intiiar of a section'tote
try which may be set down as the Inter-Oceamo
Pass. X believe there can be no doubt on the
turn of the practicability and applicability ot .hit
route. Its capacity for supplying t. e meant o. eu*
tenance to any poesitiy to be needed amoum, is -
a problem, but a certainty !
The first point of view hoe wticb tfce
be seen is from the Mesa, a tob.e uve |
diately beyond the Pictchq err • _: ea
miles wee. ot the town A” 4 l<A * u “- ’ w ,. a
we entered it from the * of natural lute I
jdmost any scene we saw toe “blue
tineas, harolf to the norm w ,„. b P kirt the
distance at the “*“ *{ ‘ co.J.j , c an. t;.e !
horizon before os. At rescues of
fine of traceable by to.low ing toe ,
the KioHrande, 1 l( * VBr( jiit lo..age of t,e cot ]
deeper and >[■ ‘ ’ ‘ ~,, ct pnsdL, end ritiug up I
tonwjod", ****•“ • , ar re the “pear.v :
in sombre and sier g - ‘ ; , n, e “Oryau |
grPesoi tri o r ] j,
jlOtUtVOilr L,UJ rr .. f : .< . r , j
like •* refl ui tbe r very forma* • ;
Stic reiwe, feezed so keep an awfal ward over
je.uc F* wh'cb lay in Urn dreamy aoci ,
tbe peecetol '. * llvU J “ .. • . J
be*” *1 of early bu.nicer at meir oa*-
1 idinjc irom t .ia w<*o |
widife, teeming WA i ceteal trop we r<u ■ ;
aud bounty uu gal wc-h giaiioei. “ ! 1
forth thankfulness iroiu ad iie ‘ j - IJI - • r^“ . “J£j
came furtn the gtataoua °" v * oi ” ‘ ( .. , % rll |. l . j
earth standeth, n.ed tin. .* a.. • i-a- j
Rimer (halloo lal- lueyoou ‘uiwered •
fuUy in tbs balmy a r ; 7"’
treluoiiligo tie ■ f • “ and . ,
tbe beautiioi and u.i • “ • •,"• J- Let am
and ve-ta awn ! “fu j toosati te hr V wer IV wh ‘
trios,’ wealth amiboaat of the urn- .
band man, nr well la tnufat so. ni c-itue as in toe
o'ieut.iu Uto-se ancient days,
.. übcohtrdi watched their flocks by night.”
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A Doticeafo© and le u .iiir© .1 m*. c e.x , ye
, , r irri•/<• ii’ c.Jh’jalH wliich uiefiijcler
tfa* a/rf.o'M. or |#J th ,. es
and
oertainty of the ciops a e * * •• • umu V ese
canals fir water lor m. !” ‘ J I I
Households also hui in toe . j . -- , i
Which. OI aea evening . , t no una.o.
,0 see e sod eosoruueut ot Mez Irurn the i e |
to the lisping babe, disporting ,h. •• • ■ . -
to stumhlo upon some over i... . po. ■ ’_h. .
neath tbe ?Jl>* bu finely devWoped
tb© laugbicK > aad ‘ ; u P*- t t > p bl ,
forms ot hal a u >aeti - • ‘ / ‘
seen an 1 1.-.atd Hal valuable c lae -juuu a
for no many purpose j, lam me-is . o miu* iu*iu
the fact that ws'.rr purposes s w be
procured solely trout lueiu, may ‘-i attiuuedUe
■ ■ ttmM fit IpVB, Vv’lll'jb 1)0 IQUCU UUjUQU IQ
luaUrioad t>p 01 th
the sum iter month and base my theory upon the
SSESZ&r w ‘ th
.. - lir-ftiwin*’ © ttna tuiuiai matter,
iolbawmo luiiy i!upr©xat<i nierewitn, and lu
proof, ssaU) aldi'i, pamni- to t<i o ' J ’ r ** l
in the valley, tow 1’ : a ruin
over nivat, and 1 i:l uu'it tl.© o‘
th* following day, become- oflmaively pulrescent.
To rem<iy Ibia condition of Dome
will doubtless be made ut Home tune, ibe pro
pounder of the sue as- tul t.ieot y of remedy w ill ue
eerve the thauh ■ of ell the ireside at! o! it m valley.
T.ie population of the Meitlla V alley propet, 1 am
informed oy a prominent c.tixuu occupying a pub.i;
position winch affords him a hue opportuu.iy for
acquiring reliable information, may be set down at
about six theu-arjd s.iuis, ex -.ueive ot toe Amori
cans, the uumbe ot wf.icu is #jr.ipaiativo,y email.
The aucnalpioiiuct'.iii* may be ‘ minted ui aoout
ouci hundred ilioiwuiici batktli ul corn ; twency-tiv©
thousand bushels of wbeai i ten thousand bushe h
of fryokt, or li .t.s; five thou-and butkeisol
onions, (troll, three to • uchea in dta.ni-ter,, ■
thousands ol carl l >adß ot caiabashe-, or pumpkins,
peas in abuudati. <•, fruit.-, petiohoa, aptiaots, ep
pies, (small,) pears, (due,) watermelons, musk
melons, all m abuudanco. Several har.dm me vine
yards urc es, begititimg to add their lusctou turns
to the wealth ol tuu valley, and, a! above intimated,
fl.Ktks and herds oi sheep, goats mid ctv tie do much
abound. This valley hai been iu the actual process
of developmen’ not more than seven yeai at the
most, and yet the above result has been accom
plishe'd 111 spile us tho s attendant upon
ihe unthrifty system ot cultivation lo which
these people adhere. A point'd slink, fatten
ed to the nethn end of a heavy pole, dragged
across th • field by a pah of oxen, is tho only plow
which they use to tutn over a : oil which, if proper
ly worked, would yit Id crops which could oe sur
passed no where. Seven or c: ;i.t k ■ ivrt:
standing in a hill—some of which s- ..n neve: get
above the dignity of the things ‘.lnch wo cad-ltd:,
era, and which, m the Static are ass cars limy ex
cluded from all oar leipa!ton in the benefits ol the
soil, as the tares ought to bu excluded from among
the wheat—crowd und olake each otuer, until the
strongest, lowers above tbe rest, and leaves its
weaki r brethren to the production oi “nubbins , ‘
while {he mere sigh’ ot an ear ol corn that comes to
its lull growth her -.nnol tat to m .he on . curious
U, know what a field of one buudred acres would
produce, it properly planted tinned oat in due
time and worked hit ahnud bo. Jhe wheat holds
here are reaped with the old-luehioncd sickle. They
are s i level that a mowing machine would go
through litem in a full run. • .
A Circular ennlos irs of cottonwood poles :s made,
the grata cut t.ff clean, the ground w p’ smooth ae
K tl r>r the bandit s-f wheal thrown into the center
of the “ring ’’ and fifteen or twenty horses turned m
and a ••etrturioH mi tion kept up among them by
means of punch eg them wed. “earns, pen” ,” ..ini
the course of a few days tne wheat w • tramped,
U,,t • thredinl.” out, and what can bo gathcied up
Is etoWd away on the 11 or of one corner of some
adobe bonce until tra.cierred to the noroba.it s
hands ; and ifin aw.ekor two a person pas ■ by
the Biiint or circle above refer, cd to, he will find
the entire su-face of the cir< lo cover. ,1 w ith a deli
. . ..... n i.>t v>uiii£ v. heat anroutea up out ol
C eHS'm—the't'd dies, fruit ol bur bed alter bindiel of
tbe nr.cious grain w.vc .1 by igno.anoea.id unthi ilt
w. (Hinging s blindly <> ‘heir loi” ndn-r a cus
toms ‘in this ■ gat'd” as they do to the pncstcralt
and ~ii,,..rtitioii wliieli lieiouocoratesahke tlia Inmjo
of Jew! belaud the tjiople reared to tlie.Vc.d High
with the des orated emblems ot whatever is pure
and holy either m this world, or the wond to come
this generation, “wire in their own ey es, will in
all probability, leave to their children the same in
heritance of which they became poes s o.t onthe
death of their “immediate progenitors; ‘ unlcs. by
little less than a miracle, they lire aroused Iren
their apathy by the ope.rati >n ot tliat mighty spirit
whi -h bus made th- Unil.d States Ute home ot that
imX liberty which their pi wi|
Bedew the M.-nilla Vu ley about tour miles on j
the sai-Utside t ,l >e ues'. rn) of the Km Gian .e, i.- he j
little towtt of Santa 1.-mru., with a popu atmn o
abont fnut hundred or live hundred wuls engaged
in ngr culture, producing.it to supposed iu about
an equal ratio with the people ot the nlcsnla valley.
Aud tielow Santa Tomes, about seven in es, is
the new uitl flourishi- g town ot La Mesa, w.tb a
population of about fifteen hundred souls and con
tributing about forty t bonsc and bushels of W heat to
the agricultural wealth of this c .untry, possesticg
and producing also a full share of the other usual
elements of Mexican prosperity.
Below the town of La Afesa, about thirty miles,
ia the dividing line between Chihuahua and the
Gadsden Pntcha-e. with the country beyond which
we have, (nor do 1 think wo need wish to have)
anything to and, unns than to hold su-h friendly m
tereourse as the nature of the case may cad t-r.
JxKiking at the conflict of race* which would inevit
ably follow the annexation of any or all the Amen
can S'ai -e, at the present ti n-, I ti ck the wises!
why to dicinnisa tho thought. ot suo.h a thing ’sh.-uta bf
to send it- intoth© limbo of idle fancies, tho
words “L-> jeu i>e vent pas La Chandelle.” When
.they have learned a little for themselves, and know
e ongh to ask for and be able lo maatam aniq-i-d
----ilv with “L-w Gringos,'’ the laws of common p-lite
ness would doubtl -ss insure any preposition e.ivina
ting from them, a respectful reception at the h ums
of thettnited Slates. But for tbe bgter country
to set up charity school for the tortner 9 benefit,
just now, would, I feel well assured, be almost it
not quite, as unprofitable as it would have been tor
Mm. ,) sltyby to “go m _ on the ’ Hooiibr-ol.'gs .
question to the -ut'er exclusion of the maulfsstauon
of any in’ crest iu her family aflatrs.
It will be sewn from the facts above slated, that
there is within a few miles of this point, on the
western bark of the B> Grande, a population
which may in the aggregate be estima-ed at seven
thousand five hundred souls, (including the Amen
nans ) On the ea tern bsr.k, within aliou’ the same
distauen, which includes the boundaries of .he Me
silla and Mesa Valh ys are the settii “.lent” of Bra
iitos andTo tugas. t"th etna!) places; the former
the scene of'Gen. Dor.tphan s triumpn over the
“bract’ El Passu-.*—the I nit-d States Poor, Fort
Fillmore and the towns of lew Cruces aud Donana,
embracing a population of several hundred, ami
pr -daeing very eonsiderabte quantities -*t the s a
plesof the country. Under t’ e ausp v sos the peo
ple herein above referred to. Major MvCartywas
•eat to Washington, IV C . Imt w.-t r. tor-prev,,,,
their views and intern's in the organ.art on ot the j
Territory of Arizona, of which, OB account of the ir j
peculiar geographical poeiti m, it to h tl> i
become an integral cart l will pro bah'., be re
membered that Lieutenant Mowrv occupied at one j
time the position of delegate to Congress trom Ari i
junta and rumors of contest between thst gentle
man and Maj >r McCarty, as to the right to the I
seat have trom time ‘o time reached th-a point in
s, ch protean shapes that the real question of coco- I
pat.cy is yet a subje-tof debate among the ~;ii ;
wnacc of the valley. Nor h us the “latest intelli.-et.ee'’ -
receive and, that of the appointment of L ent Mowry
to the p'st of Acting Superintendent ct Indian j
Affairs, au-J the fixing o! an ea; v cay -n. r” see
•ion f>r the OD-vl aetion on the qu Tien of orpa-u- |
zation, made the matter very plain as yet. Cena-n j
it is that no mac stt go back lo V .ad.irgton as the j
representative of the m parity of the actual rest■ |
dents of the territory, gs ;• should be organised, j
should he be oppoced to tile ’.’ ist.ee, wants and needs j
of (Sts section It w.'l be w It for t'-e applicant for
the post to find out this fact, and “when found ’ do
as Capt. Cuttle, “mats* a . .te of .:.
From Trxas#
Tho steamship Mexico tr•■* Galveston, Trisp. on
the 14 f b irat ..arrived at New O.ieare on Sunday,
\7th met. Too Pitafunt give il>e following
nummary of new?*:
The Galveston Civiliftr.. of t ue 14 h say?:
The present Awon has bet n tavorabl;* for
tGCXL?\nz the cotton crop. It >sstinih T t i i : . thd
planters of Texas have a’ready t vjc*yrd the
number of good picking: days toi a season, while me
weather •till continue fine.
The Civilian reports seven interments in G.-
vestcn on the I3:h a 1 ? of yellow ;e\>r oa*e:*
live Tehfrtapb, of the ! hh. says the be*!:u ot
Hrn-ton is improving, a.*J th-t durinr t -
vrek thore were Im* t-v -u dea :■= V yellow wvt r
The Lavaca Hf?. and. >* the reper's t::ar
bnriuess has been unusuaMy bosk during ti-e past
two weeks. Lavaca rill eon turned tree item yel
low fever
The Austin State Ga**tte, c - ( { - p ‘ li *Mt., hss the
tottomn* ann;nci moot of a:..tie r expedojou I
tlfaine? rhe Indian? t
HeliabW and authentic i formation tr m Cork
eiKi tbe acjoltsiu# counties, >t 1 .diau depr-da: - . •*
already ooiDmfcud, and of tbe hostile altitude of j
the Camanobes, reuCfjade KkAapooa acd Kveriiis,
has induced the Governor to forward & c inm ssion
of captain to Col Jim Hour’and, with authority to ;
raiee one hundred men and to Irak a a campaign
against the enemy. The forays recently made leave
to doubt of the complicity of the K ; k%p<H s in the :
war. and author 2? the bidet U:at Wichita liid.ALs |
are not altogether right.
OoL BourUud has received orders ard k ->rur- i
tions which allow him much discretion :n his opera
tions, and will ensure . is eventual srxvhe :s
empowered to reelfitm stolen property ereve
found—by fbrce. il neeessaiv. (| e is also directed
to pursue and chastise unfriendly Indians without
regard to nationality or but*.
The Indians depredating iu Cci.k and acjicent
counties penetrate our territory below Mej Van
Dom s line of march, ooneequenily Ida expedition
will not affect them materially. It was iudifper**
b!v necessary to raise men to drive u**e marauders
off
■hie San Antonio Lelct r cf the ■ ?y. ;
We understand that a young rr.au by the name
of Scrmidt, a resident or this o;ty. was anes-eu
late on Thursday evening, chargee with complicity
iu the recent maii depredations in our poet office
It seems that young Dammart, wifi) was previously
aneeted, has made statements implicating S. .'.midi
as being concerned with fcim in this transaction.
The Crockett Argue, of the 9th, reports the wesih
er still favorable for the maturing and saving the
oottoo crop, and that lh l health of the country is
good.
The Dallas Herald, of the bth, saye:
The notorious Jo. Ducegan, the cause of all the
disturbances in E’lis county. WB# caught in the act
of horse stealing in Uvalde county, and,bung sum
marily in accordant e with L/nah s code. He doubt
less merited his fate.
EI'BOfCAN INTELLIGENCE.
*T THE EPROPA
II.LIE'X Oct f't -Tne s.-amrhip Ecr-pa, from .
Liverpool oo it- l’ •’> arrived at Uus port at
U* o'clock i*it n** , . T a ,
TLe i/xip Daniel Webster arrived at London from
I Htw y.n*. ti*at on tne 20tb of September.
! i ( . la’.. 4.3 So, iou. 42 07, pass.-ed a number of dead
bodie*. t?uppo-ed to be from ihe burnt eteamer
j Austria.
! A deputati on from tbe Atlantic Packet
! Company bad bad an interview with Mr. Hamilton,
j secretary ot tie Treasury, on the Bubjectof postal
; !abf:diei* between Galway, Newfuundland and
America He etated that the Government viewed
with considerable interest tte new line ot etearners
j between Gaway and tbe Britiah North American
| Colonies by Mr. Lever, and tbe importance they
; at’ached to be able to communicate between Lon
| don and \\ aahington in eix daya.
| Tke Dai y News baa a bopetol editorial article on
j the Atlantic <•'able, andthinka it may yet be ren
dered available. Il pays that Profeaor Toorxiaon
i;aa neariy tucceedea iu neutralizing tbe efiecta of
I earth current, which become perplexing when the
i currents through the Cable aie bo weak. Profes
i ear Hughe* kaa eo modined his printing aparatue,
■ that a current of voltaic electricity generated by a
j small iron wire being held in on© hand moistened
jw t. water, while a copper wire-of equal Hz© is
: ,;d in the other, the two w.res being united to
a circuit, ineufn ien in intensity to make hie
, machine pr.nl an iuleliigibl* message. S-> eeneitive
. hi? new n?Jrument, Lo&t it will t-riil print correct
! !/• ttougii h x urrentaa we<ik a ; we Lave described is
j dim in jibed still more in intensity by paasung through
! .it • luxlin <tf four individual-. V ith the combined
i aiprtiveuit ‘i’.-i and ibrentiona of Profs. Tbomfeon
! and llughe-t, and 3li. llc-uiey, we are not without
! hope that, aa sooo a* their instruments can be con
| veyerl -croej the Atlantic, eirsctric coinmunica f ion
t will be ooncc more res’orad.
A’ t n weekly meeting of the Directors of the
; Bii*a ot Moglacd an acijouri.fnenttook plar;ewi.h
----i ou: the anticipated reduction in the rale of diecoULt.
I Altai by Telegraph.
Lon dos, Oct,9.—A. M.
j Friday Erening, Ta-ty Newt’ CUy Article,—
! Busiiie-'i’ throughout the Stock iixchange remain s
auli. a:.d there ia no general movement in price*.
| S eadmeez generally prevails but the late active de
mand for securities has subaided. The lands closed
Forty tiousaud
poiio’ wAi'Msut into the Hank. At Hamburgh
, the rate ol di-< ount has riser, to five per cent, owing
[to tb* demand lor .Suvo. lor Austria. As the Aus
trian Bmk h preparing for a resumption of specie
payment, silver must, be attracted trom ail quar
ters, hence the pressure on ’Change this afternoon.
Hills on the Continent were ia demand and rates
slightly les* lavorable*for England w<re established
ui ref'nrd? liollan-i, B;lgiuin, Austria, and Madrid,
i * “ -x-rtt) *f the Atlant o ‘lolegraph Company re
m&rie J rather flat, and dosed a’ £394 to £4lO.
|l . ,t f oy J. > ruing Timts’ City Artie! .—The
IL . rh ru us) throng bout tho clay have b ;en fi;m
iil t o improved quotation of last evening. Pay
! meiits iu tbe Turkish scrip, amounting ia the ag
gregr.lw to £iJO ( I;U0 9 caused a slight demand !or
money, ba t xo‘ lo an extent to produce any mate
rial change m th© current. The dividends will be
pay ’j.c lo th© public on Wtdne. j p ;y next, and the
opxisioii eeenix* io be that on the iollowiiig day the
Bank w i 1 imioy to 2j per cent., instead of adopt
ing the mere desirable course of allowing their
terras to be contingent from day to day on the state
ol the market
F&Aftcic.—'The chess match between Morphy sni
Harwi z was suddenly closed, the latter being un
•tbte lo proevod, owing to illnt es. The fetal© of
1 1© gam© al th© close was Morphy •), Harwitz 2.
i)rawn 1.
Tu t Prelate, who i9 placed at the head of tho
French Mission ia China, is to be raised to the rauk
of Cardinal.
Mr. Mouligny, French Consul at Shanghae, has
been promoted to Consul General of Chiua, at tho
new port of Tien JSien.
Th© Independent, ot Turin, has declared the visit
of Prince Napoleon to Warsaw, au event of great
political importance, being, as it thinks, the prelude
of an altiaucj between France, Kussia, and Pied
mout, hos'ile to Austria.
Paris, Friday.—The Three per Cents closed at
73f. Biio. Th© Bourse had been aflecteu by the
P.irtuguese difficulty, but rallied.
Tim French Admiral, commanding in the Gulf of
Mexico, had quitted Paris for i:ia pest, with energe
tic orders U protect French citizens.
Spain.—A semi official journal says the Govern*
■ merit is about to have bui t tour large and eight
small steamers, and twenty-two screw’ gun-boas,
tor tlx© suppression ol piracy in the Phi lipine Is
lam’s.
Hanover. —The English Government has des
patched a note to the Hanover Government, urging
that immediate proposals may b© made for the total
abolition < f the S ? ate Dues.
Prussia. —Advices from Berlin states that the
health of the King, which for some time has been
getting worse, now gives cause for serious alarm.
Berlin. Friday.—A decree has been issued by the
King of Prussia appointing the Prince of Prussia
Uegent. Toe Prince is to carry ou the government,
until tlie restoration ot the King’s health, upon his
own responsibility. A proclamation to this effect,
and for the further organisation of affairs, will ap
pear iminediat ‘,!y. Tae Diet Will probably be open
ed about th© 20: h inat.
Austria. — Tne Vienna Gazette publishes anew
law concerning miitary conscriptions, limiting the
term ot service to seven years instead of eight, and
idcludmg the nobility.
The reduction of the Austrian army had com
menced. Four section.? of the superior command
of the army had been dissolved.
Turkey. —-The Montenegrins had hoisted their
flag in Satoriua, a territory on the coast of th© Adri
atic.
A Trieste telegram seya that Lord Stratford de
Hcdcl iT© had • been instructed to express tho regret
of the English Government for the bombardment of
Jeddah, ax.d that Eugland intends to indemnify the
Buffet erg.
It wax! further reported that England will ask to
rent the Island of Perirn for 100 years.
By th© I'nrific.
Sr Johns, N. F., Oct. 21.—The Pacific, from
Galway ou the 12th inst., ha? arrived here with
Liverpool telegraphic dates to that day and the
mails to the 11th.
The Paris Fregee publishes the full correspond
ence between the United S ates Miuisterto Nicara
gua and tho foroign Minister of Nicaragua, touch
ing .Mr. Belly's connect on with thet Republic. The
former (U. S M.) says no arrangement with Belly
shall be recognized or assented to in anything con
trary to th© just rights acquired by American ciU
z m \ and that the liberal policy resulting train the
i'muri treaty of November last, shall be constantly
maintained.
Tii© Nicaraguan Minister replies that hio govern
i mt-Zit withe* only justice aud is rights, and desires
trieudly relation w it.h tho United States ; but de
ciarea he Transit treaty of no value, because
the routwas not open at lue stipulated period. M.
Belly appealed to th© Bulwer Clayton treaty for
prob chon, and Malmesbury’s let ter to him tells him
that the stipulations thereof will, iu his own opin
ion, apply to Lid (M. I>. s) scheme if carried out.
Several wrecks are reported in the German ocean
-ii > American ve sels.
Anew company for the completion of the Great
Eastern ab .oorhip had been formed. The late or
; ii ii i*ion had been dissolved by the non-clternl
| unco of the directors.
France has exempted from navigation, dues for
another year on cargoes of corn, flour, rice and
vegetables.
From the New Orleans Picayune , 18th imt.
I.liter from Mexico —Vidnurri , i# Detent*
Tne IT. S mail steamship Gen. Rusk, arrived
h* re this morning from Brazos S&u'iago, via Ju
1 mots, with dates from the former place to the
Ihhinet. •
‘The Brownsville Flag of the 13ih inst. ixas dates
from Victoria to th© 30th ult., from Tampico to the
2d inst., and from Monterey to the 10th hist.
The news confirms the accounts of a battle bo
tween the Conservatives, under Miramon, aud the
Libera •, under Vidaurri, in which the latter were
par*i.viy defeated. Vidaurri himself was noton
ihefild whtu the engagement commenced, and
his ar iiy appears to have been attacked when least
apprehensive of and least prepared for an attack.
The rumors at Browusvile were that the defeated
army lost 590 men kilted, 2,000 prisoners, and their
artillery and provisions taken.
Vidaurri himself, in a despatch of the 29th ult.,
dated Hacienda des Espiritu Santo, and addressed
to the Governor of Nuevo Leon and Coahuila, ac
knowledges his defeat. The corfiiet took place in
the vicii ity of the town Ahualusco, and lasted from
the 25th to the 29th ult.
Vi.laurri’s despatch was written under the im
pr<iou that the defeat was a total one ; but an e.\-
prrss from Monterey, with dates of the 10th inst,
arrived at Mat amor os on the 13ih, and r*p *rted that
Vidaurri an ived at. Monterey on the Br!i iuat., and
that tin* Iqga sustained by his troops was not so great
as wh < reported at first. only a portion of the artil
lery aid munitions had been captured by Mira
mon’s forces, and the Liberal anny had made their
retreat from the field ot battle in good order.
fi.e official paper of Monterey states that Gen.
Viduurri has already sent orders to the commander
n* Tampico for another park of artillery, where
them h h plent/ to he had. which will soon be on the
together with many forces that nr • concentra
ting about Vidaurri, to renew the attack.
El Prisma, published in Tampico, with date of
the *2i, instant, says that Col. Guad&loupe Garcia,
who had entirely recovered his health, whould leave
u that day lor the interior with 300 men of infan
cy and three pieces of artillery.
‘Thu B*ownsni!!e Flag, of the 6th instant, girea
some details ot tho preliminary movemouts by the
I two i armies, previous to the battle which was above
Ulu'ied to. They are interesting :
i Geu Miratnon had entered the city of San Luis,
| seeing that it had been left entirely unprotected by
i Vidaurri, and fortified himself within. Gen. Vidaur
| ri was still at La Pnrada—eight leagues from Sun
j Luis—awaiting the arrival of Go is, Blanco acd Cos
i roiM’io, who were soon to join him with a well
equipped force of about 3 000 strong,
i A letter, written from Vidaurri’s camp with date
; of the 26 h ultimo, states that an express bad
just been received there from Gen. Degoll&do,
wi:h th neuß that this cfcirf had defeated Caasan
| ova completely, who was guarding Guadalajara,
and possession of that place.
Miramou l.ad sent out two columns of hi? troops
t-i force if possible two of the positions of Vldaur
ri, but these were twice defeated iu their attempt
at doing so. losing thereby all the artillery and am
munitions that they hiu tak“U out for the attack.
Cols Sayas anil Aregullin, who, a short time
since, hud left the neighboring State of Tamaulin&e
with reinforcements for Vidaurri, had arrived with
in 16 leagues of San Luis, with a force of 1000
Tamau'.inecos. wtll armed and full of enthusiasm.
lie**. Vidaurri will an attack upon his ene
my w tr.io San Luis as s<k>u as ho shall receive all
•he re;:tf wtemtiita that he expects and are now
reaching him fast.
1* will thu? be seen that Miramou anticipated Vi
canrri’s attack and lurneu the tables ou him.
Awful Tragedy in Pontotoc CoruTY, Ak
ks n • as.—Wc it*r.ru from Mr. J D. Harris, of Pon
totoc county, that an awful tragedy wenacted in
that c*ninty a few days since, in which three tnen
w-r -kd ed. There was a free negr * living in that
coui y, who lime since ki.ied r. white mao
nenr r- rt Smith, and Governor Harris issued orders
t -M* : Young Brown, sberiff of that county, to ar
rt ?: bn “e accordingly, with two other men,
w u: to arre-t him. When they got near the bouse
ihe iicgrv* r:. : i t<> the crib where he had fire-arms.—
One ot the sheriff s party ran to the d,>orortho
cr.b. and seeing the negro with a pistol presented,
ite ran away, and the other man that was with ihe
j >hei iff then rao oo ti the door, when the negro shot
I him dtn Tfcf .'her il tiicn shot ;he negro, wouud
i:.g tiim; at the same time the ei.er ff received a shot
;r. the head, ball entering the upper part of the skulL
The sheriff, th ug!i badly wounded, then ciicch
! ed the negTO, but Laving no knife the negro cat mm
I ail to pieces, and tbu 3 ended tiis troubles The ne
gro being wounded, found be oouid pot get away,
| and shot'himself. His mother and shtere laid him
out, thinking they would give him a decent burial,
j bus Mr Brown’s “father-in-law took the body, threw
I it on a log-heac, and burnt it up. — Okie, and Chic.
i
I Toe Fort Smith Times says:—The negro above
| referred to is undoubtedly the one who, in cold
bix and. “.i.d without cause, murdered Mr. S B Ste
pheus, in this county, two or three ago. He
was a desperate negro, and has met his inst reward,
though at the sacrifice of the Lves of three men.
lle u.th or Vicksburg—We place before our
readtis this morning the v fiicial report of the City
Sexton, tor the vretk euding yesterday, at I*2 M.
I; will be seen that the mortality for the pA*t
w.-rk is unusually large, equalling, we believe, the
deaths of any previon-: month, since the yellow fever
set in.
T.e report shows IS deaths in the city, Hos
which wne from yellow fever—two in the county
! of other Gisev-ee, I*2 at the City Hospital, and bat
the Marine Hospital.
Since the report was closed, another death, (a
clerk of Messrs. Riley At Baiey.) died of the pre
vailing epidemic, making with the one announced
in the Sextan's list, ttco deaths yesterday , a failing
off as compared with the average of the week, just
enued aad reported. V\ e attribute the large in
crease in the mortality to the “rush” to the city of
raw and unacclimated foreigners, ten of whom we
learned carried to the Hospital yesterday.
The weather is again waim and dry, and favor
able to the development of the disease, and as we
have before stated, no abatement of the scourge
can be reasonabh looked for until the advent of a
“killing frost’ ricwurg yv%c Ssmtkro *,l*4
tnst.
From tke Savannah Republican.
The Constitutional nt on Slavery in the Ter
ritories*
In our issue of Wednesday, with the fulieet as
surance, as we thought, that we were misrepre
senting no one, we penned tae following para
graph :
‘ We do not intend to enter into a contrcveriy ou
Mr doer's opinions as regards slavery in tbe
Territories, for sundry reasons which it is unneces- i
earv for us to specify. We are perfectly willing to j
yield that point, and to concede that Mr. G. did ur t j
mean what be said at Boston, but entertains just
each views as he is represented to entertain by our 1
©otemporary. viz • That a Territorial legislature l<a \
no power, directly bj legislation, or indirectly by a i
refusal to legislate, to ezc'.ude the institution •-:
slavery. Such. tbeD, we are to consider his vie - ’ ■
on this important question, and we presume tha: ]
he holds them in common wu'ri the editor of tb* :
CnnftiiuUoualift Are we right in our statement t
and pretfalnp^ion? , ’
The second proposition contained in the above, |
we thought, necessarily followed the first, and cir
cumstances fully confirmed us ia the belief; but it j
seems we are mistaken. The Comtftuuonahst thus I
repudiate* it, eo far as the editor of that paoer is j
concerned :
“la reply to this question, we have to say tba-.onr
corezztporary is wrong in # it statement, as i: ueuar.y
is when it att-xapts to give our opinions or our p -
fcition on any subject We have repudiated t; e
squatter sovereignty construction which the R -
pub.u&a hne sr to a passage in M l *.
(juraoer a Boeton speech, and have taua represente 1
teat gentleman as entertaining the opinion that a!
Terr.rorial legislature has no power to exciuu© J
Slavery, directly, by afiira.ative prohibitory legis
lation. But, (and here i>* the error in th© statemeu!
oi our eolemperary,) we have not represented hi:n
ati eater;airing th© opiui jn that a Territorial leg* -
latere has no power to exclude slavery indirectly
by failing or refusing to legislate to protect it. Ii
i* a fact, admitted on aJI xt-let, that Territorial
legislature* hare, and that tk*y hereafter will , if
theie ts no farther legislation by Congress upon the
subject, ric ude tke institution of si awry, by failing
to make lhr enac me/its essential to its existence —
tae-r right, thus to refuse protec:ion to sxave proper
ty and eo exclude it, is probably tbe Lest great
question, in our territorial po icy, which will be
agiteted ia (Jongrees and in the country.’
W'c snail not discuss ibis eabject now, cur object
being simply to renew tue record of the opinion
above set forth. “A fact admitted oi all sides,'*
most be a fact admitted and maintained by the
editor of tee Constitutionalist—a proposition which
we think sufficiently clear.
We would make but two additional remarks :
The first is, that in volunteering an opinion for the
Constitutionalist, that the constitution protected
slavery in ail territory where it was not actually
prohibited by law, wa thought we were but reitera
ting a doctrine universally recognised, and never
questioned at the South—especially by the Demo
cratic party, it 3©eins we were “ reckoning with
out our host.'’
The second remark is—and we desire to call spe
cial attention to the fact—that we have in the itali
cised language of tho extract, a frank confesaior,
by trie editor of ilia hading Democratic journal in
Georgia, that alter all the pledges of the Democratic
party on the great questions of Southern rights and
:actuation* —alter u;l their Congressional tinkering
w tt Nebraska and English bills—and alter all the.r
assurances to the people that the great question of
slavery in the Territories had been settled constitu
tionally, definitely and forever —we say, that we
have now the confusion that the who!© question is
left jjist where it was when the agitation began—t nt
nothing boa been settled, and that the rights of the
Mouth in the common territory of the Union is to be
” the next great question that v.ili be agitated iu
Congress and m the country.’’
\\ e submit the case lo the pahple of the South,
who have been liras hoodwinked, deceived and be
trayed. It is worthy of their reflection.
Thf. Old Whig Party—The Truth of Histo
ry.—ln order to explain satisfactorily to its readers
the northern proclivities and disorganising move
ments of certain old line Whig leaders of the pres
ent democratic party, the Federal Union steps
out ol its way lo give the old W higs a side thrn-t,
that ia unjust and without a particle of history to
sustain it. It notes, aa a remarkable fact—audit
is at least worthy of note—that the Douglas men of
tho Democratic parly arc the Whig recruits that
were beat up and enlisted in the Anti Know Noth
ing war, ard it accounts for the delinquency upon
the hypothesis that they have not yot divested
t bemeelves of their old Whig habit of disregarding
the principles of their parly. It places both tho
Whig and American parlies in this category, “both
of winch,” it deliberately as3ertß, ‘‘had crumbled to
pieces by not holding their northern members to a
strict adherence to their national platforms on the
slavery question.”
Now we have not the slightest objection to any
eort of argument, or any degree of condemnation,
the democratic press may fulminate against these
disorganize—they merit ail that may be said
against them ; bat we protest against any explana
tion of their defection that inculpates the nobl t
party to which those gentlemen formerly belonged.
There is not an act in the entire annals of the
Whig party that can be adduced to sustain tho
charge thai they ever deserted a principle, or tole
rated such desertion in any member of their party.
So f*r from crumbling to pieces from ‘iiot holding
their northern members to n strict adherence U
their national platforms on the slavery question/’
it. is a notorious and undeniable fact that botli the
Whig and American party became dissolved from
no other cause on earth, than because we did hold
them to ouch adherence. The Whigs lived and
died by their principled. They abandoned their
own President and turned him and all the powers
and emoluments of the government ov.;r to tl.**
Democratic parly, for no other reason than because
that President refused to carry out their princi
ples, thereby exhibiting a sublime and disintere*'-
ed devotion to principle to which their opponents
can never hop© (o aspire. Had the Whigs felt no
more at tachment to principled, than the Democrats
have throughout their history, they would have
been to day,a living, and powerful organization
capable ol striking terror into the hearts of their
opponents.
When the Northern wing of the Whig party be
came fai* bless to the Sout b and abandoned the conser
vative platform upon which the organization had pre
viously acted, the southern wing did not hesitate to
acorn the alliance and even break up the time hon
ored fraternity—a fraternity that had been made
illustrious and immortal by its identification wirii
such names as Clmy and Webster, Crittenden and
Preston. A similar crisis has arisen in the Demo
cratic party, and what do we find? We search in
vain tor that self-sacrificing devotion to truth aud
principle illnetrated in the old Whig party. Instead
of asserting their rights and independence, aud
81. riding by their principles, we, to day, find the
great leaders of the party in the South ready to
abandon their ground, and to strike hands with the
traitors.
Who will say that this is not a true history of the
past, and a faithful portraiture of the present ?
Sav Rep.
If i3 slated, in the news items of the Pres* that
the lion. Thos. Corwin, of Ohio, will soon t ake the
stump in Illinois against Judge Douglas. The anti-
Douglas papers of the South will “please make a
note of this.”— Augusta Constitutionalist.
Well, we have made “a note - ’ of it; but where’s
the point ? Tom Corwin ia as sound on the slavery i
quea.ion as Douglas, or any ©ther northern Dem-/- I
uat; l:e accepted the Republican nomina’ioo with j
the distinct understanding that he opposed many of j
their political senriments; and now, a Whig, he ]
goes to Illinois to help defeat a Democrat and the I
prince of demagogues. Is there any thing remark- I
able in this ? Show us wherein Toni Corwin is mu', e
obnoxious to the South than Stephen A. Douglas,
and then wc may see the point of the reference
Savh. Rep.
A Hard Shake.— The Atlanta Inteliigenoer, in !
commenting on tii© late demolition (not “revereep,”
as i* terms tho result,) of its party at the north,
says:
“Tho Georgia Democracy are really as strong ac
ever, ami if wo can snake off that sympathy whiik
some of our friends have manifested for Douglas,
we have nothing to fear in the future.”
Yes, if you can “shake off” Toombs. Stephens, (
Wright, Seward, your own Vice President, Breck
enridge. ct id omne genus, no doubt you will be in
a condition where you will “have nothing to fear in
the future!” It will be like tho strongman who. by
a desperate effort, succeeded in shaking all the flesu
oft’ his bones, and dead men's bouea “have nothing
to fear.” Instead of shaking off other people's
“sympathies,” tbe Intelligencer aud its friends aro
more likely t o shake themselves info thejn. Howev
er this may be, w© are fully agreed with our cotem
porary that the time hue coin j for t. e Democracy
to “shake.”— Savh. Rep.
A Forly-Fiv© Tii American Hitter* Crossing
ihe Atlantic.
Southampton, Oct. 4 —A small cutter arrived at
Liverpool iu July, 1857, named the Charter Oak,
only twenty-three touy burden, from New York, her
owner and builder having performed the perilous
passage across the Atlantic in th'.s frail bark with a
single companion. The advonturou* navigator,
whose name is Charles R Webb, has cow accom
plished a eecond enterprise of the kind, having ar
rived at this port oa Sunday evening iu a small cut
ter named the Christopher Co’umbus, this time ac
companied by two boyß, both 18 years of ag-.-,
neither of them previously acquainted with nautical
pursuits.
The cutter bad Bailed from New York onthe 19 h
of August, and has occupied 45 days in tho voyage.
She is only 45 tons burden, 53 feet in length over all,
45 feet keel, 16 feet in width, and the mast is 50 feet
n inches long. She has no raised bulwarks, the
deck being merely protected by a etout rope, sus
tained by iron stanchions. Her greatest draught of
water is ♦! feet. A more frail looking bark in which
to cross the stormy Atlantic it is scarcely possible
to conceive, as she lies off the town quay, surround
ed by tbe larger craft built for the pnrpos -s of our
river aud coast. The Christopher Columbus was
built at Stamford, Conn., iu seven months, every
piirt of the work being executed by Webb himself,
except the stepping ot tee n its: and the rigging,
even to the cutting down and shaping of the timber \
with which she is constructed.
Webb is a native of Stamford, 29 years of age, and I
a shipwright by trade, bis nautical knowledge, ae |
ho tells ua. having been gained while working as a j
carpenter on boaid a Liverpool packet-ship. Tnis I
is the 17 th voyage he has made across the Atlantic ;
—nine oat and eight home. The two boys b> i
whom he was accompanied in his daring adventure j
are named George Cullers and Samuel Scofield.
The voyage has been conducted throughout on |
strict temperance principles, and the stores of pro
\ isions were of a very modest and nnt-picuresn
character, comprising only biscuit, inackaiel, and
tarns, with a little salt beef. Tne vessel built
of oak and sloop riggeu. A plain cabin, with sleep
*ng recesses on eilLer side, in the centre the stores,
occupying either end, constitutes the whole inteiiinl
economy of this remarkable craft. She arrived off
Cv wrs on Saturday at 2 o’clock, and came on here
in the evening. Not the least curious part of the
whole affair is the log, kept in a very rough manner
< u a tew tbeets of fooiseap paper tiitibeil together,
the entries ail made in pencil, ink being evidently
an unknown commodity on board.— London Times.
First Trhuantxpxc steamer
Suohil arrived at our port the day before yesterday,
ou h**r way to take her place upon the route across
the Hthtnus of Tehuantepec, ihe most n rtbera,
tbe shortest, by far, passage to our pos-ivaious upon
the Pacific Ocean, may now bv regarded a- open
el; sad the fact that Ft ruandica is soon to become
the Atlantic gale of the vas: trade of the Pacific,
placed beyoud doubt cr question.
F.'oridc, it true to herstif, must scon !ovy a tri
bute upon the trade of the world.
Ttie .race ot South America, poured into the Gulf
stream by the Amazon, the Oronco, their cou
tluems is borne by that great A intti oceanic rivu”
the nmi re coast o: our State; auu, if we af
iuq the lat iiiies c-f transit, must pass through our
midst, and leave, in that passage, a portion of its
wealth, fairly and legitimately earned am eg ns.
Nature has made this State the half-way house of
me world. She Las given to us advantages which
we have but to reacii ferth cur hand to grasp, and
which do’.hirg can deprive us cf, if we do not sa
crifice them to the schemes of those who prefer their
own advancement to that of the State. Sectional
jea.ous\ .iie reck upon ‘vhioh eo many great iu
ttrest* nave been wrecked—i tbe greater ertl to
be dreaded. That eonteaptibk- gnirit which, in
eers.bie to every patriotism, and blind to
tbe light of that wisdom which teaches tb there
can be no true prespe-.ty to any portion of a Sta-e
which doe* not sot uenrtic.aiiy ufK-n sU. must not
be permitted to iodneoce the pubUe mind, cr guide
oar pnbee ccusctis, it wedeetre topc?ees. tde in
fluence to which we are entitled, or even to save
ouraeive* from the contempt of which mast attach
to those who have betrayed their own interests.
The first duty widen one owes to his own family,
then to the i-nmediate e.mmunity in which be
owehs. then to the State, a<ain to hie nation, and
beyoi and, to the world, circle aiontd circle, ever
widening, bat never cutting eaih other, defines
the duty of the true patriot and the true man; and
he who” neglects any of these obligations has no
claim to either title —F-n.audinr <Fla.) Xetrt.
Novel Case of Breach of Promise.—A re
markable case has jnst been dec late in tne Brook
lyn Citv Court, to the effect that a single woman
can recover damages from a married man for breach
of marriage proj ise. In the case alluded to, the
defendant had deserted his wi:e and played bache
lor over to a German girl Failing to marry, ac
cording to promise, she sned him, acd he had the
oowaroiy meanness to crawl off by saying that as
he Bad a wife already his promise was an empty
lie. The jury thought otherwise, and gave >e,UW)
damage.—A'. Y- Tribune.
From ike Charleston Courier.
Revolutionary Incidents.
The watchfulness and activity of Col Hammond,
|-i breaking up foraging and scouring parties du
r ng the erige of Aaeudta, was a constant source of !
mortifies - on and di.qri-st to Brown, the British !
Commandant, who, checked and whipped at every j
•u*T;, now roared with impoteut and baffled rage. I
He swore he would use ail the means at his dispo- j
sal. or wuhin his reach, to compass Col. Hammond s ,
destruction. That he actually off-red a premium
to the party who should either kill or capture him,
i* a fact well authenticated—declaring that the au
dacity of the d—d roving rebel, (as be styled Col.
H ) ha i no parallel, and was into.erable to himself
and ruinous to the King’s cause. Thst he was here,
t:ere, and every where: p-nd when sought tor and
; expected in one quarter, was catting up the lories
j in another. Knowing tec celerity of Col. Ham
: mend’s movements would enable him to visit every
i section of the surrounding country, and that no
I portion of it would escape his closest observation,
! Brown made extra exertions for his destruction,
i determined at al! hazards to kill or capture him. and
i thus obtain comparative ease and quiet for bimselt
I and security to tb*’ loyalist. To tuis end most of
the roads were watched and guarded both day and
J night, by strong parries ot British aud tories. Eve
rything that could be was now done, and no iu?e
ielt aur© a ortfcd to, to acquire reliable information as
to Col Hammond’s plans and movements.
Eica day brought forward a different series of
and counter-moves cy the players in this
game of strife, bo far Col. 11. had checked his op
ponent at every move. As the contest approached
i ia ctoee, the gar;:e became more and more exciting,
undo: miena© interest to both parties. Each put
torch renewed ex *rtkm and increased vigilance ;
aud so, on went the play. With what success re
main* to be seen. C'o : . Hammond, wishing to lock
at tbe state of things in the vicinage of Fort Gai
phia particularly, and the country to ihe left of that
Utfance gtner.iiiv, let: camp oa this peri.cus tour
: with only one man, (Mathew Dalton.) &•* a guard,
j lit-had proceeded cn bis way some ten or twelve
! mii-s withoutai y thing occurring to disturb the quiet
; sthine-s of the road, or break ihe monotonous jog
of the horse, and had just reached that point where
tue road forked—one prong leading down the Sa
vannah River, known as “Cracker-Neck” road, the
other nr, Hollow Creek or Minor’s Bridge road ;
both penetrating tbe district ot Barnwell in dfferent
direc ins. Here C'oi. Hammond perceived a boy
riding up towards hiui on the River or Neck road,
and halted until he should come tip. Ou his ap
proaca C’oi. H asked if he had seen or met any sol
do-rs on me ru.ad as ho came along / Tne lad re
plied he had not. Col. H. then asked how far he had
traveled that road ? The boy replied about titteen
miles. No farther questioning was made, and the
boy allowed to pursue his journey. Col. Hammond,
however, knowing Brown’s desire to capture him,
thought it not improbable the boy might have been
-lent out as a decoy, therefore took the opposite
prog of the road, or that, leaning to Minor’s Bridge,
it waß uetleas precaution.
Both roads were closely watched and guarded by
son’ll .everity or eighty n:(-n$ Each party lay con
cealed in the buahed, impatiently waiting, like vul
tures. for their prey, who was now hastening to
w&rda the snare laid’ior him. He had traveled but
a few miles, after passing the boy, when he came
io a small branch or streamlet crossing the road—
the ground on either side of which falling abrubtly,
towards i’. Into this he rode, turning his horse's
head up the stream and near the bushes lor deeper
water, then leaning forward aud throwing the reins
loose upon the horse’s neck, to allo w him to. drink
more at ease. Ilia thoughts, the while busy with
the object of his journey, tor the moment ceased to
,ake cognizance of out ward things. This revery,
uowever, was but momentary. Hearing a Blight
poise, he looked up, and perceived the road, both
;n front aud rear, fi.led with armed men, ready for
h ; s doslrnctioD ! Certain now of succeed and an end
j‘ their toi’a, they had stepped into the read, com
pletely hemming in the ol ject of their constant
pursuit, sure at lari of winning the iong-s >ught for
and coveted prize. They had “rockoaed without
teeir host.” The man they had to deal with wa3
both Ccol and calm in the midst of ©very peril, and
always equal to the emergency of the cade. Fai u. e
and loj; was their only reward! Quick as the
mind’s action, Col. fl’e. course was shaped, and as
quickly acted upon.
,Seumg Mb bridle with one hand, and with the
other draw-ng a pistol, he flashed up the hill at those
iu front, who, taken by surprise and tha rapidity of
of tho moment, hsslily fired all at once, and being
on more eieva td ground than Col. 11. over-shot
Lim; while those iu {he rear, governed by the same
surprise, shot too low, and likewise missed the
mark. Not so with Col. Ii ammond! At the crack
of Lis pistol down went one of his Majesty’s sub
jects. Restoring the empty weapon to its holster, its
fellow was quickly drawn and tired, aud another of
the red coats bit the dust. Returning this to its
resting place, his saber flashed in the air, aud sent
two others to seek their comrades who had gone be
fore. At this moment, a gigantic fellow, with more
courage than any of hie companions, seized Col
11.’s horse by the reins to intercept his passage.
Vain attempt! Ilia temerity cost his life. Col.
Hammond, raising himself in his strirrups for greater
rfcopo, und waving his trusty blade aloft, dealt him
a mighty blow ! The glittering steel went crashing
through the bones of hia skull, cleaving him to the
spine. Then spurring forward his horse, pasted
through them unharmed,; h had Dabon those iu the
rear, but not with like success. When fairly be
yond tho rang© of iheii guns, Col. H. turned lo look
after hia man, but Dalton was no where to bo seen.
Altering hia course now, he turned off to the left,
and passed through that section of country kuowu
as “The Levels,” now Aiken—thence along by
where GraniteviUe andVaucluse Factories now
siund, to the load leading from the up-country down
through Edgefield by the Cherokee Fonda, to Au
gusta Upon this Col. H. passed to camp; ou reach
ing which, tho first to meet him was Dalton, who
declared that, ho was bo frightened when he saw the
men iu the road, lie uid not know what he was do
ing, or case whither he fled so he but escaped ; that
lie actually did not stop hia horse or think to draw
liis a.vord, uutd some miles away from the scene of
his fright. Tuis affair left but one more move to
finish th* game, aud Fickens aud Lee having join
ed, it was quicky made. The oj uttered parties
und outposts oi Brown were rapidly driven in aud
the Ml stormed. Tie assaulting party, under the
conduct of Col. Hammond iu person, quickly cut
away ihe gateh aud entered,but the bird had flown .
Brown passed out at the postern as Col. Hammond
entered the front. This, his last move, like the
others, was a failure—lie was pursued and captured
by Col. Hammond, and remained a prisoner at
Lee's quarters until sent to Savannah. Thus did
Cos!. Eammo.id truly make “th© British Lion
whine.” Both forts strut k, and tho Beige was over !
History, i t an imperfect and partial manner, tells
the balance. L.
The Late Solar Eclipse*
We I avo Lt- n favored with the following letter
from L ent. Gillls to Professor Henry, of the Smith
fiunim Institution, in which the former briefly ro
te* os the success of his visit to South America to
t k • observations of tho late solar eclipse:— Nat.
Intel.
Payta, Sept. 15,1858.
My Dear Sir : When the steamer left this place
on th3 3fth u!t, I seriously apprehended that the
journey to IVi .i would prove fruitless, because of
clouds ai every me ruing until near nine o’clock.
| Niue oays’ expel Hues in this city, satiriiod me that
; t must leave the coast , aud therefore, after furnish
{ mg tho commander of the French war steamer
! Urt-jer with instruments sufficient for him to make
! the observations satisfactorily, and leaving him to
1 proceed in the thip to a point on tho coast (Puuta
de la Aguja) where the central line of the shadow
woul i first touch the continent, I set out for Piura,
■ intending i< proceed from thence to a station near
Olmos, a towm sixty leagues distant from Payta, by
Ihe road selected. The journey thither was made
in five days, across a sand desert and under a near
ly vertical sun.
At this time I will only say tho journey proved
successful. The morning was quite favorable,
though at the iastant of total obscuration there was
an exceedingly ueiicate and gauze like vapor be
tween me and the sun. To it I attribute the fact
that the four prominent protuberances which ap
peared at the commencement of tho toted eclipye
were nut rose colored, but bright illuminated clouds.
They were plainly diciiingiiished by the naked eye,
and continued visible for n second or two after the
I western limb ot the sun had emerged. The form
and gradation of brilliancy in thecorona light, which
appeared simultaneously and was obliterated at the
same time as tho apparent solar clouds, are proba
bly ariributable to the same cause.
My report hereafter will be iu deteib I write to
day greatly fatigued from the exhausting journey,
aud only because I know you will be desirous to
learn ti e result at the earliest date. When I tell
you that during the throe days proceeding the
eclipse I was prostrated by agues and coustaut in
tense levers, you may judge of the effects of travel
across a Peruvian desert. My v ung companion,
Mr. C. H. Raymond, bore too journey better, and
wa? of greatest distance. Indeed, ou the day pre
ceciing the ellipse I was wholly unable to sit up, and
he mounted the telesoope and meteorological instru
j incuts. At night I was strong enough to adjust tbe
former, see that everything was ready lor use ou
the following morning, and make übserva!ions for
latitude.
D.\ Moeste, the Director of tie Nation and Obaer
vatory at Santiago de Chile, landed at Lambye
que, (twenty-two leagues south of Olmos,) but was
so delayed that he reached within five leagues of
the la’.t-er town only ou the evening of the eclipse.
He made a state >n there, but the rrorning was
e: uiy until after th? lose of the phenomenon. Ou
the Bth he came to Dimes to see me.
The officers ot the French steamer were more
fortunate. At .heir station (aa at mine) tho eclipse
began before the early morning clouds had passed
away; but at tii; in-riant of totality there was a
perfect’}’ clear sky. They saw three principal protu
berances of a rose color, two of them in tbe* posi
tioua seen by lm*, but the extended chain constitu
ting tbe third was aunasc diametrically opposite to
where it was visible from Dimes. The duration of
fotedify obterved by them was 59j. 0 ; mine CDs. 5.
Tbe observer with the telescope lent by me was
unable to perceive the corona light (he Bays) be
etiue of the moon occupying nearly the whole field
of- iew. Tne Comraxudaut of the Urejer left a copy
of all their observations forme, {he sailed from here
l(kh.) aud Inis will form part of my report to you
hereafter.
Wrib great regard, believe me always yours, very
truly, J. M. Gilliss.
Iteff. Jo-eph Heniy,
S • eiury Smithsonian Institution, Washington.
I Ss :.v of riiAKLEsTON in Ekolasd.—We are in
ji t ii-d by Mr. Thos. Pciye.tr, whoso return from
i >• - led we -ire ;;!:rd to announce to the Turlmeu
i ‘ th ■ rouutry, that he made a sale of his horse
Charleston, before leaving London, for the sum of
Liu - d.cu - ,rd dollars. The purchaser was Sir Jo
seph Hawley, the owner of Fitz Itoianu and Beads
man, the witm- rof the late Derby, nnd it is the in
tent!, nos tbe experienced sporting l’-irouet to use
him ft r stud purposes. This purchase and this price
tor a !i ree coniessediy broke down, so far as opera
tions ou the !urf are concerned, rather disagrees
with the sneering opinions given of him and his
qualities by some of the inexperienced reporters of
tne London journals on the occasion of his late ap
pears-) e for the Goodwood liace. We presume it
is the intention of Sir .Joseph to try and raise, by
tbe American four-Oiiier, Itorses which can stay in
heats, at long stretches, in the style of the enduring
American Iticer— Porter's Spirit.
Influx of Specie—There have been large im
port of specie from Ne w York for this city through
tbs past v- k, as Will b seen in the following sum
mary from -he specie lists of C. S. M. steam ehis
Nashville auu Marion, of the New Yolk ar.d Charles
ton steam ship line.
Tbe Nashville, on Taos Jay morning brought for
the Southwestern Kail Head Bank. SdO,UOO; Bank
of the State of South Carolina, sßl,Uthl; State Bank
£H!.' ; dO, and Batk of Cnarite'on. SIO,OOO. The
Marion arrived on S , artsy, and brought in specie,
tor Southwest rn Red Rosa Bank. |ih,t)ftO; Bank
of the State of So Uh Carolina, $ 10.11-KJ: State Bank
fdO.OCl'. and Bank of Charleston, $ lO IJ.JO.
The amonn's are:
By the Nashville fJO.OdO
By the Marion ---- 55,0d0
Tota 1 SI3i,OOU
The distribution is as roilowe;
Southwestern Rail Koad Bank ♦*•5,000
Bank of the State of S -uth Carolina 20,000
State Bank 30,000
1 tank es Charleston 20,000
[Charleston Courier.
A Kabo Head and Somethin* Hard to
■■IU tD.‘—We are ertdibiy intermed, that a week
or two ago, on- Mr. Jackson, a contractor on the
Charleston and Savannah Ba iroad, while in at
tendance on the bridge now being bnilt over the
Sallketcber Elver, had an accident to happen to
nimthatis almost beyond belief. It seems that tbe
hammer of tue pile driver, weighing 1750 pounds,
br,. k ; h.-p being raised, and after failing
s'me eleven feet, struck the above named gentle
man cu the back of the head, and without injuring
him bur slightly. He was leaning under the ham
mer whi e it was being elevated, with a crow-bar in
hrs haLd, marking the spot where the pile was to
be placed, when the accident happened.— Waiter
boro’ Sun.
The Emperor of Knssia has j us’ granted permis
sion to the srudents of the University of Moscow to
publish a collection of tfccslaiions of the best Ger
man, French and other Foreign works, to be print
ed at the coat of the University.
Home Man (fact r red Bails—#bven turiMed
tons of rails are io be manufactured at Padneah,
Ky., for the Mississippi. OoachjtS and Bed River
Railroad Company, ot Arkansas
WEEKLY
<%miicle fc Sentinel
AUaTVSTA. <?A.
WEDNESDAY MC rmnG, OCT. 27, 185S.
The Southern Cultivator.
Wi have before us the November number of tills
excellent AgriorJturel monthly, presenting the
usual vatied and valuable table ofcontents The
nsx t number closes ti sixteenth volume, and as all
subscriptions commence tcult the January number
those of our readers who design commencing with
tbe volume, will do well to send on their name* in
time. With the commencement of the seventeenth
volume, the proprietor proposes the enlargement of
the journal by attaching an ornamental cover, con
sisting of two or four leaves, for the purpose of con
taining the advertisements, which at present occupy
from seven to eight pages—tins adding from four
t> eight pages of reading tnatfar to each number.
This change, while it increases the interest and
value of the Cultivator, will, f course, increase
the expenses of publication, and it is to be hoped
the old friends sad subscribers of the papar wili do
all in their power to increase its circulation.
We sutj rin the contents of the November num
ber:
Plant at ion Ecohomt and Miscella.nt— Win
ter Grasses tor ihe South; A Steam Plow; Cum
p.Ara:iv(- value of different Peitiiisers; Country
Girls—Errors in Dress. Chinese Sugar (J&ne'as
nv-od for stock of all kinds i Prediction of Cotton •
S jundness in a Horse; The Fain vs. the City-
Ashes aud Aikal-.es as Fertileasro; Bones ; Pianteie’
Imorove your Cotton; The Crops Stc., Olapodrida
—Gin Gearing, Sea. -, Dough Raise! by Spontaneous
Fermentationi Portable Sieam Engine for farm pur
poses, (Illustrated); Technical Wads. &c. ; Cotton
Crop of the United States; The imfortauce of Scien
tific Principles; Grasses lor the South; Salt as a
Manure ; Bots in Horses, &c.; Deep Plowing ;
Agricultural; Li ve-tor Souiethins (poetry); More
about the Crops; Peach Leaf Yeast; Stimulating
Properties of Guano; The Milk Business; Impure
Water—Leok to the Water Troughs; Consumption
—Dr. Churcbilt’s Discoveries; Answers to the In
quiry on Limestones aud Shells—The Why aud
Wherefore; Silt aud Ashes for Stock, &s.; ‘Deep
Plowing. v
Editorial —Atlanta Fairnf 1f55 ; Enlargement
of the Southern Cultivator; Kanew Your Subscrip
tions, &e , &.u. ; Our Book Table; Correction, &c.
Horticultural Defartsient.— Hints for ihe
Mouth; Tree Planting—Holes, kc.; Poinological
Resources of the South; The Wine of California;
Aikeu Viue Growing Association.
Illustration.— Portable Steam Engine, tor Ag
ricultural Purposes.
Terms $1 a year in advance. Address,
V. m S. Jones, Augusta, Ga.
More Y'ellow Fever Subjects.
The Savaunah Republican, in noticing the arri
val at that port of the steamer Augusta, from New
York, and the Stale of (leorgia, fiorn Philadelphia,
adds;
“We regret to notice the large number of steer
age passengers that came out by these two vessels,
aud we have little hope of the abatement of the
iever so long as these itraugers continue to pour
into the city.”
We think it the dutyjf the Mayor of a city, un
der such circumstances to take a file of militia
down to the steamers, and march all such passen
gers out to tlieriii'roai depot and dispatch them
into the country. Thej are certainly nuisances, in
any city where the yeibw fever is prevailing as an
epidemic; and as a matter of practical economy, if
for no other reason, tbe city authorities should thus
dispose of them ; as it voukl cost much less to send
them into the interior, than to support them in
hospitals and bury them. We should be pleased to
seethe authorities of lomeof thealHicted citicsi
take such a responsibility.
ltEspONaißii.iTT of Masters. —A sentence was
pronounced at Piko Sujerio: Court, last week, by
His Honor, Judge Cabitess, which will not, only be
sustained by publio seutknent in this State, but may
be taken as a text by thtee Northern fanatics who
are ever shedding crocoiiile tears over the oppreer
ed sons of Africa, and larranguing their neighbors
upon the cruelties of Srutheru masters. We find
the whole matter thu3 Iriefiy recorded in the Ma
con Telegraph:
“ A master was coivicted last work at Pike
Court, of cruelty to aslave, aud Judge Cabmess
fined him four hundred dollars .”
Wkclip the above :rom the Savannah Republ -
can, for the purpose o: expressing our gratification
at the result, and to express also our regret that
such fines are not mtre frequently imposed. The
fact 13 notorious, in tloir respeclivo neighborhoods,
that there are many tlavei-.olders in the South who
treat their negroes eiueily, and yet go unwhipt of
justice, because no one will appear to prosecute
them. “ What is eviry body’s business, is nobody's
business,” and thus Ley escape justice. Thiashould
not be, and it is a rejroach to the communities in
which cruelties are perpetrated, that they are al
lowed. Every manehould feel it a duty to protect
the negro, whether his own or hia neighbors, against
cruelty—no matter ii what that cruelty consists,
whether in personal chastisement, hard driving, or
improper and iusufli ieut food or clothing. A man
should be made an example of, who cither punishes
hia negroes too oevetely, drives them too hard, or_at
unseasonable hours, or fails to provide tor them
good and sullicient (lotting, or an abundant supply
of good nutritions food. All of these aro oflences
for the punishment of which tte laws abundantly
provide, and tbecitiieus of every community should
seo that the laws aie enforced whenever infringed.
That man is no leas au unfeeling brute, who cru
elly punishes or drives his negroes nt unseasonable
hours, than he who gives them insufficient clothing
or supplies them with tainted or impure meat or
other food. We have heard of men, who occupy to
some extent a respectable position in society, some
of them members of churches, and who profess to
be Christians, (miserable, canting hypocrites, we
suppose they think they can or hope to cheat their
Maker.) who come to market to buy negro
clothing and provisions, and select the poorest and
cheapest articles of shoes and clothing, and actually
perambulate the city to find tainted meat, and find
ing, purchase it at a low price, saying, “It is good
enough for negroes ’’ These are truths susceptible
of proof, unwelcome as the expose of them may bo
to seme men-, but it is due to the great mass of
slaveholders that they be proclaimed, that those
who feed and clofhe their slaves well, and treat
them kindly, may look around them aud bring to
justice the few unfeeling wretches whose conduct
renders them unlit members of Christian communi
ties.
We rejoice to know and believe, that the great
mass of slaveholders are very kind masters, and feed
aud clothe their slaves well, and have them tenderly
cared for in every respect; but there are a few vile
creatures, they do not deserve the name of men, iu
almost every community, who richly deserve the
punishment and treatment they indict on their
Blaves; and we sincerely trust, for the sake of the
institution itself, if from no considerations of hu
manity, they be hunted down aud made examples of
wherever they exist.
Yellow Fever in Charleston.
The official report of interments in Charleston for
the week ending Saturday, October gild, shows a
total of 50—22 of which were from yellow fever,
being a decrease of 18 in comparison with the pre
vious week. The Mercury says :
The bill of mortality for tho last week attributes
to the yellow fever only twenty-two deaths. This
is a thankful de.create of eighteen, almost fifty per
cent, iu a single weak. The lateness of the season,
the wise foresight of abssnteas in not returning,
and the probable continuance of prudence on the
pert of those stilt among us aud subjects, warrants
the confidence of an equal reduction in the next re
port.
Mail Robber Arrested.—W. Simfson, the
mail rider, was arrested iu Charlestion on Friday
last, for robbing the mail on the route from Charles
ton to Grahamville, So. Ca. Iu the bag delivered
by him some eight or ten letters were found opened,
and on searching his person four other letters were
found, and opened. The case io to undergo judi
cial investigation, and will probably be tried at
Columbia in December.
We are indebted to the acc-ommodaling officers
of tbe Georgia Railroad Company for the following
statement of the amount of produce brought to this
city over the Road, from the Ist to the 15th Goto
ber:
Cotton 25,000 bales.
Crain 63,886 bushel*-
Flour 9,054 barrels.
Tri Weekly Recorder.—The Killcdgcville Re
carder says:—“We have made all necessary ar
rangements and have concluded to publish our Tri-
Weekly Recorder upon the opening ot the Legisla
ture. We have secured the services, as Reporters
of two gentleman, our first choice iu the State—
Rev. A. E. Marshall, as Phonographic Reporter to
the Senate, and -Maj. Stephen F. Miller, tor the
House. Both these gentlemen Lave expereince and
ability, and are too well known to need any praise
from us. All that ia now wanted is paying sub
scribers.
‘•We hazard the enterprise for the approaching
Session with the prospect before us that it will be a
heavy drain upon our pockets, but we do it regard
less of expense, to meet the demands of tbe public,
and it will rest with them whether the experiment
will prove a failure and cne cot to be again repea
ted by us.
“Post-Masters and others who have kindly acted
as our agents will please to increase and forward
their lists before the meeting of the Legislature, as
a standard by which to regulate our first issue.”
Amount of Produce brought to tfci3 city over the
Georgia Railroad from the 16th to the 23d inet,
inclusive .
Cotton 13.795 bales.
Grain 31.312 bushels.
Flour 5,596 bbls.
Ohio Congressional Election —The Congess
iona! Election in Ohio has resulted in the return of
16 Republicans and 5 Democrats. The present
delegation is composed of 12 Republicans and 9 De
mocrats.
The Washington Union announces that J. Glanc-y
Jones has accepted the appointment of Minister to
Austria.
Histort of Alabama —The Marion (Ala.) Com
monteeaUh is informed that the forthcoming History
of Alabama, by the Hon. A. B. Meeh, is nearly
ready for the press, and that it will be published
during the ensuing winter. We shall look with
anxiety for the book, saye the CommontrealtJi, for
we know that it will be a fine production, and will
be read with interest by every citizen of Alabama.
The MAtts to California.— ln view of the
opening of the overland mail to Califormfh, it ft de
sirable that writers ot letters fbr the Pacifie coast
should designate on each the route by whi* they
wish them sent—that is “ overland,” ” via Tehuan
tepec,” or “ via Parumna.” When not designated
they will be sent by tbe last named route.
Com. *o. D. Ashmore has been etafted % Con
gress from Col. Orr's district in South Carolina.
His majority over Yvrkof, his opponent, t,SW.
A Quid for §OBihora Dou*Ulte,
The Jeffenon (Mo.) Examiner b.&t pubiUfced the
following charges against Judge Douglas, and gives
the name of Hon. Isaac H. Stcrgio-v, a leading
Democrat of St. Louis, as the person from whom
the information is obtained. They are certainly
grave chargee, and will be particularly (inter
esting just now, to the Douglasites of the South,
and we commend them to their consideration, as dis
closing the real and true object of the Kansas bill.
It may be, that a few more such disclosures will
open the eyes ot Southern men, to the fraud that has
been practised upon them, with the knowledge, pri
vity and approbation of Southern demagogues and
political tricksters, in the passage ol the Kansas
bill. Brad the charges :
Ist. That Judge Douglas declared to prominent
B'ack R-" Publicans in Washington City las! winter,
that hie Kansas Nebraska policy was designed by
him, and would have theeffeet to surround the slave
States Kith free States, and thus crush out stover#.
2J. Taat Douglas declared that Senator Bell, of
Teen., was the only Southern member of CoDgress
who understood him. He had a conversation with
Senator Bel!, in which the latter said to Douglas,
•■The h and Southern fools don't understand you ;
I do.”
3d. That Senator Douglas avowed himself in fa
vor of emancipation in Mi court. and said he hoped
the movement in favor of emancipation would suc
ceed.
4th. That Senator Douguis expressed the hope iO
these same Black Republicans that S’. P. Blair, Jr.,
would succeed Senator Green in the United States
Senate and voluntarily promised to use his efforts,
when the proper time came, to secure the election
of Blair in place of Green.
sth. That he held meetings in his own house, in
Washington City, under lock and key, with promi
nent B ack Republicans, last winter, who came at
his own invitation, and o whom he made, in sub-
Btance, these declarations.
These are some of the charges we are enabled to
make against Senator Dougins. The information
upon which we make them is, we reiterate, entirely
reliable, and we eauuot, therefore, doubt their
truth.
The Sanctity on the Bench—Words that
should be Engraved in Gold.— Judge Porter, of
Pennsylvania, resigned his seat on the Bench eoino
days ago, and in his letter takes occasion to utter
the following eentimsnt, which should be pasted
over the door and inscribed iu the heart of evtry
patriot in the land. He says :
“I was and am thoroughly convinced, by reading
and reflection, that whenever a Judge can be elected
by reason of his sentiments on any question of
politics, that moment the le it power of the judicial
office will disappear. Possibly this may be very
erroneous doctrine, very inopportunely expressed,
but I shall maintain it, while 1 possess a moral sense
or retain a rational faculty.’’— Savh. Republican.
We concur with the Republican, that the senti
ments of Judge Porter are very sound, but the
Judge has proclaimed them rather late in the day,
for his own reputation for sincerily. Believing
that he could be easily elected, be did not hesitate
to accept a party nomination from the democratic
party, assembled in convention ; bat no sooner is
he defeated, than he suddenly affects a holy horror of
political nominations for Judges. The grapes are
evidently sour, in the Judge’s estimation. The
opinion is certainly “ very inopportunely expressed.”
If Judge3 could be appointed, as an honest and
sincere patriot would do, for their legal attainments,
their integrity and high moral character, we should
be pleased to Eee the mode of Ihtir appointment
oliauged, and their tenure of office greatly increased;
but it is quite impossible, in these days of pclitica l
knavtry, to have appointments made upon any
such basis ; and as the people thus far, harm shown
as much or more capacity for the discharge of tho
duty, than our legislators generally, we are willing
that they Bhould continue to exercise the power.—
True, it is very badly exercised by them in many
instances, but the masses are not so corrupt, or so
easily corrupted as Legislatures, and we regard
them in the present state of the country tire safest
depository of the power.
Another Good Example —The Americans and
Democrats of the S ml hern Judicial Circuit of Mis
sissippi, Eays the “Columbus Enquirer,” each uorni
ted a party candidate for Judge. Judge Hancock
ran against them as an independent candidate, and
the returns received indicate the election of Judge
H. by about one thousand majority. This is another
fitting and well-timed rebuke of the pernicious and
disgraceful policy—now happily in its infancy—of
making party nominations for judicial stations. In
dependent freomen of Georgia ! your homo and
private interests demand that you should promptly
rebuke this dangerous innovation, before it be
comes a rooted system under our State policy, aud
acquires the strength of all political corruptions that
maintain a baneful existence by the popular excite
ments whioh nourish them. Now is the time to kill
off tho insidious interloper, aud we trust that it will
be done so effectually that “the hand of resurrec
tion will never reach it.”
The State Fair.
The Atlanta Intelligencer of Friday says;—“The
crowd in attendance upon tho Agricultural Fair on
yesterday was larger than on any previous day. The
orator selected to deliver the annua! address, having
failed to at tend, Mr. Chas. Wallace 1 [oward, of Cass,
consented to make a few remarks. He offered a re
solution to the effect, “that a Committee be appoin
ted to memorialise the Legislature, to establish an
Agricultural College with an experimental Farm at
tached.” The speaker presented, in a very forcible
light, the defects in our system of education, as re
gards that sort of instruction which qualifies ayoung
man for the practical duties of the agricultural pro
fession. Gen. Harrison, of Chatham, remarked that
tliij was a subject in which evr;ry man, woman and
child, in tho State, lmd an interest, aud propounded
that the whole audience should vote on the ques
tion. The vote was taken, and the resolution waß
unanimously adopted. We omitted to notice that
at the organization of the Society, preparatory to
the transaction of business, on motion of Col. Wm.
T. Wilson, of Atlauta, Hon. D. w. T.awis, of H m
oock, was chosen President of the Society; Genera 1
Harrison, of Chatham, Ist Vice-President, and Gov
Joseph E. Brown, 2d Vice-President.
Arkansas Jails. —The Powhatan (Ark.) Adver
tiser, noticing the escape of a prisoner from the
Green county jail, says that that building has an
inner and outer door; the inner was very indiffer
ently secured, and tho outer a'as kept firmly fasten
ed by means of a fence rail propped against it with
a board driven in the ground at the foot. The
prisoner fer Beveral days had offered a reward of
five dollars to any person who would shell an ear of
coni at the foot of the rail and leave the rest to the
liogo, declaring at the same time that he could man
age the iuncr door.
Completion of the Grading of the Florida
Railroad. —The Florida News of the 21st instant,
says :—The grading of the road was finished on
yesterday, the 20th inst., and the whole route is in
readiness for the rails, except the tressle work at
Cedar Keys, which is rapidly progressing to com
pletion. The track laying will be resumed at Cedar
Keys and the point which the iron has already been
laid; aud the epeedy completion of the road may be
confidently nticipated.
Artesian Well —The Louisville Journal says
the stream o ‘water now thrown out in a jet is a
most beautiful feature of this well, and is worth go
ing a long distance to aeo. It was bored through
solid limestone, alternating at various depths wit h
seams of sandy and argilaceous limestones. The
well is now 2,086 feet deep, and throws 225 gallons
of water per minute, or 324,000 gallons in twenty
four hours. The force with which the water passes
through an inch nozzle throws it 06 feet above the
surface of the ground.
The Washington correspondent of the Associated
P; ess reiterates his assertion that two of the So
ciety Islands have made an application for annexa
tion to the United States, on additional, and what
he conceives to be reliable authority. The action
of Count Sartiges in tho matter was not in his offi
cial capacity.
Judge Douglas.— The St. Louis Republican con
tains a letter from the Hon. James B. Clay, of
Kentucky, in favor of the success of Judge Doug
las, in Illinois ; and it promises a similar letter from
the Hon. John J. Crittenden in a few days. Gov.
Chase, of Ohio, is about to take the stump in Illinois
in opposition to Douglas.
Indiana—The Republican State ticket is elected
in Indiana by 2,500 majority, and that party also
has a majority in both branches of the Legislature-
Madame Colson.—The New York papers are
loud in their commendations of Madame Colson, a
new prime donna, who3o performances are said to
be of the highest order. Her voice is beautiful
and highly cultivated, and her operatic performance
in the moat difficult characters, whether in rendering
truly the music of the great master, or in the por
trayinge ffeetively the part assigned to her, is said
to be equal if not superior to any of her predecessors
She is at present engaged with Mr. Strakceh, and
will probably visit Baltimore before long, and ap
pear in one or more concerts.
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN
Slatert. —The New York Express seems to be of
opinion, that the only difference between slavery in
the two sections is, that in the South the masters
own the bodies of the negroes, aud in the North,
politicians own the voters, body and soul both.
Heatt Bill to Foot.—At l’oughkeepsie, New
York, a young lady named Catharine Pitcher has
recovered $5,500 damages from the Hudson River
Railroad Company, for personal injuries, consiatir g
of a crushed foot. She attempted to get out of the
car when it started, threw her down and crushed her
foot. Her father had previously recovered $750 for
the loss of her services and for medical attendance-
Postage Stamps.—Tee Stamp Bureau of the
Pc-st Office Department, which is under direction of
the Third Assistant Postmaster General, John Mar
ron, Esq., has made the following returns :
For the quarter ended the 30ta of September
last, there were issued from this bureau the follow
ing:—
One cent stamps... 9,490,600
Three cent stamps 30,445,600
Five cent stamps “. 127,680
Ten cent stamps 737,8110
Twelve cent stamps 331,350
41,133,060
Stamps returned 62,900
Total stamps 41,070,160
Os stamped envelopes there were issued 241,150
note size, three cents; 6,454,350 letter size, three
cents i 42,850 ten cent envelopes; 100 official stamps.
The nett revenue accruing from this source
amounts to an aggregate of about $1,334,900.
Two pairs of shoes were lately made by a shoe
manufacturer in Lynn, to fill an order for a South
ern plantation. They are intended for a slave, who
is also a negro driver or overseer, and measure nine
teen and a half inches in length, with a correspond
ing width.
Mr. Hume in Russla.—Late European journals
represent that Mr. Hume, the American medium,
reoently gave an shibition of the spirit phenomena
that occurred in his presence before the Czar at
Peterebupf, and tint the Cearina was so delighted
that she gave him a diamond ring worth six hundred
dollars.
ttri'dloal Publication.
The Nashville Monthly Record of Medical j
and Physical Science, is the title ofa new medi
cal journal irst issued in Nashville, Tenu. It is the
organ of the Shelby Medical College.
The two first volumes (for September and Octo
ber,) are before us. The September number con
tains three original communications, viz :
Ist Educational Reform—Our New Position,
By Daniel F. Wright, Professor of Physiology and
Pathology in Shelby Medical College.
2d. Case of Spontaneous Mortification. ByThos.
L. Madden, Professor of Anatomy in Shelby Medi
cal College.
3d. Case of Placenta Previa;. By Richard O.
Curry, Professor of Medical Chemistry aud Medical
Jurisprudence
Besides Medical Intelligence and Reports, Select’
ed Papers, Bibliographical Notices, 14;views and
Editorial matter.
Tne October* number contains seven original
communications :
Ist. Air in the Veins Durieg Operations. By
John Frederick May, Professor ot Principles and
Operative Suigeiy in Shelby Medical College.
2d. Dropsy with Pregnancy. By John H, Cal.
lender, Professor of Ma'tria Medica and Therapeu
tics iu Shelby Medical College.
3d. Immediate Principles. By Prof. Currey.
4 th. Chronic Abscess. By Cliffe &R jbards, M D.
sth. O varian Cysts. By J. C. Newnnu, M. D.
6th. Foreign Bodies in the Glottis—Trachea, tomy.
By H. Cavow, M. D.
7th. Inflamed Nippies during Lactation. By a
Lady.
Also. Msdica! Intelligence and Reports, Biblio
graphical Notice, Reviews and Editorial matter-
Each nuu.ber contains sixty four printed pages, the
typographical execution of which is flue, and print
ed on excellent paper. The work is issued monthly,
and edited by Professors Daniel F. Wright and
Richard O. Curry, both of whom, as writers, are
distinguished in the medica! literature of the day.-
With Professor Curry's writings we are familiar,
and know him to bean able and scientific writer
The pages of the S sutheru Journal of the Medieai
and Physical Sciences, o! which he was the Editor,
abundantly attest the truth of cur remark. We,
therefore, take great pleasure iu recommending this
new candidate for public patronage to the favorable
consideration of the Profession. If the numbers
before us are to be taken as speci mens of those
that are to follow, we have no hesitation in saying
that it will take rank among the first journals in the
ennutrv. both iu i*- —uanui*iniuationa (which
are n arked for their ability,) and its editorials and
reviews. It is published in Nashvi le, Tenn., by
A. A. Stitt, at $2 per annum, in advance.
An Interesting Slave Casein Lowell, Mass.
—We learn by the Lowell Vox Populi that a3lave
csss of much interest has been ponding in that city
for several days, the particulars of which are thu3
given:
Jesse Cornwell, a rich planter in Mississippi, had
a smart, favorite slave named Betsey, who was em
ployed in the confidential relation of housekeeper,
by whom he had a daughter, who is now twenty
four years old, smart, capable, intelligent and good
looking, iler name is Caroliue. Cornwell, on his
death-bad, six years since, requested tea friend, Dr.
Lewis Keyes, to take oharge if his effects, includ
ing a considerable sum of money; and especially
charged him, as soon as he could aivengoeo to do,
to take tho woman Betsy and his and her child Caro
line to a free State, and there see them comfortably
located. For this special service Keyes was direct
ed to take $5,0110 cash, $4,000 of which was to be
equally divided between mother and daughter, and
SI,OOO to be retained for bis own services
Instead of performing faithfully this last dying
request, it is alleged, Keyes, immediately on the
death of Cornwell, took tiie mother and daughter
and hired them out at SIOO a year each for a period
of six years, when he fiually brought them with him
north, “arriving in Lowell m the latter part of May
last. They have been here with Keyes's family, un
der strict surveilance, since that time
On Saturday last, the mother aud daughter appear
ed before Isaac S. Morse, Etq , to whom they"made
complaint arid told their story. Mr. Morse, m their
behalf, instituted a suit against Keyes for the re
covery of the money given by Cornwell, and also
for their six years’ labor. Keyes was arrested by
deputy sheriff E. L IShed, and held to bail in the
sum of $6,000. lie claims that these women were
given to him by Cos uwell, tint this is questioned.—
The ease will be tried iu December.
New Remedy for Rheumatism.—A gentleman
of Cincinnati ha3 been “dying by inches,” of rheu
matism, and after traveling for somo time he came
home almost dead, lie had been eegagedtobs
married, and says the Cincinnati Enquirer:
“Weary of physicians, attempted eureß and life it
self, he came home to die, and again went, to the
Spencer House, thinking he would there receive
from the kindly proprietress all the attendance he
could at any piece not in every souse a home. lie
was carried from the boat lo the hotel, aud more
dead than alive, placed in the comfortable apart
ment l;e had before occupied. On the sixth day
after his return, lie learned that his betrothed—
thinking her iover could not survive, and wishing
probably to lose no time in her connubial relations
—had been married the day previous to another
person, more wealthy, if less meritorious than tie.—
All the friends of tne deceased lover thought that
this would prove fatal at once, in his then state of
health, but instead of their anticipations being rea
lized, in a week from the day of tue reception ot the
unsuspected news, he arose from his bad aud rapid
ly recovered, and in less than a month was ao well
as ever.”
A Strange Scene in Court. —Tho widow of
V/oodlcrd Taylor, of Orange county, Ve., was
tried last week, for the murder of tier former hus
band, and acquitted. Subsequently, a negro man
was put on trial for being implicated in the crimei
and the widow was put on the stand as a witness.—
The Orange Chronicle relates the following strange
Boene in the court room :
All present were forced to laugh at her wit, and
we presume from her actions towards unw qt the
counsel who cross-examined her, that she could not
fancy an ugly mac. Indeed, when he would ques
tion her she would turn her buck upon him and re
fuse to answer his interrogatories, because, ns she
said, “he was old aud ugly.” She would then turn
to the Commonwealth's Attorney, place her .rm
around his neck, and asked his protection. We have
never before witnessed such an amusing scene
in a Court room. Mr. Leake’s better half is the
only one who can reinstate his vanity, after having
been told to bis face that ho was “ old and ugly.”
Mr. Gordon, the Commonweal!h’s Attorney, must
feel highly flattered after receiving such affection
ate embraces from such a lovely female.
Valuable Land. —The Richmond Enquirer says
there is one eqiare mils of land between Smyth and
Washinglon counties, Virginia, on the north fork
of the Holstou liver, which is worth more than the
whole valuation of the city ot New Yorfr. The ealt
rock, within this mile, ranges from seventy to one
bundled feet in thickness, which would yield a nett
ton or forly bushels of ealtlo every yard it contains
or over three thousand millions o! bushels, which,
when manufactured, is worth from forty to fifty cents
per bushel. Bat, presuming it to be worth 20 cents
per bushel ill the ground, and we have six hundred
millions of dollars! to which we must add two bun*
dred and fifty millions of tons of plaster within the
same space, worth in tho ground about one dollar
per ton, making a total of eight hundred and fifty
millions of dollars !
An Unexpected Jj’ortune.— lt is stated that a
surviving daughter of Aaron Burr comes ouriously
into possession of quite a fortune in this way : Burr
held a lease from Trinity Church, New-York, of the
Richmond Hill property, three or four hundred lots
in the centre of New-York, for CG years. He re
leased the land for 63 years to Astor and others,
aud their lease expires in 1860. The lease for three
years then belongs to Burr’s daughter, ambthe claim
iB indisputable ar.d the value of the lease very
great. Already several of the leasees have compi o
mined the claim for from $1,500 to $2,000 per lot.
Whigs of Massachusetts.—The Boston Courier
of Saturday says: “A meeting of National Whigs
was held last evening in Ibis city. It was well at
tended, arid an excellent spirit was manifested.—
We learn that an address to the Whig voters of
Massachusetts was adopted, which is to be signed
by the Whigs generally, as far as their names can
be procured within a reasonable time. Wo shall
60on have the pleasure of laying this address before
our readers, with a goodly list of names appended
to it.”
The Et.F.cTroNS.—A telegraphic dispatch to tbo
Washington Union, of Monday, slates that the In
diana Democratic State ticket has been elected in
that State by over 15011 mrjority.’ Judge Niblack,
Dam., is elected to Congress by 1000 majority. In
Pennsylvania, the 21th di-rlrict is etill in doubt.—
Gillis, the Democratic candidate, has 1000 majority
as far as heard from, but the counties net yet in
gave lOG'J opposition majority last year.
Senator FtTCH Maltreated bt Indians.— Tho
Si. Paul Pioneer and Democrat of the Bth instant,
says :
Senator Fitch, of Indiana, accompanied by two or
three friends and guides, left this city a few weeks
since to enjoy a buffalo hunt, on the Sheyenne
River, where buffalo arc reported very pieDty.
The Senatorand his friends were well provided wi'h
animals, provisions, guns and ammunition. It ie
now reponed in this city, on good authority, that
the hunting party had been set upon by a baud of
Yankton Indians, who, topuni -h them for trespass
ing upon their lands, took forcible possession of the
guns belonging to the hunters, maltreated aud mu
tilated their horses, and cautioned the Senator to
eeaen his elaughter of buffalo and leave the country.
Dr. Fitch and his friends left immediately tor Fort
Abercrombie.
Thought a Beautifier.—A writer in the Home
Journal thinks that mental activity tends to keep
the body young :
We were epeaking of haudsome men the other
evening, and I was wondering why K. had lost, the
beuety, for which five years ago he was famous.—
“ O, ita because he never did anything,” said B ;
“he never worked, thought, suffered. You must
have the mind chiseling away at the fea'ures, if you
want handsome middle aged men.’ Since hearing
that remark, 1 have been on the watch at the thea
tre, opera and other places, to see whether it is
generally true, and it is. A handsome man who
dors nothing bu'. eat and drink, grows flabby, and
the fine line3 of his features are lost; tint the hard
thinker has an admirable sculptor at work, keeping
his lines in repair, and constantly going over his face
to improve the original design.
Corn is lowa.—A letter dated Farmington,
lowa, Oct. 11, says :
“Corn turns out much more promising than was
expected. Over in Missouri the other day, an ex
tensive fanner informed me that he hae not for many
years had as large a turn out in corn. There is a
great many hogs fattening, mostly of common
breeds, such as the agriculturalists terms, “land
sharks,’ or “potato exterminators.,’ Buckwheat
promises well. Corn is worth 50c. ; wheat 80c* a
bushel.”
Mrs. Fillmore.—A letter from New York saysi
Ex-President Fillmore and wife are among the
guests at the Bt. Nicholas. His ruddy-cheeked,
buxom lady is not averse to the courtesies which so
many are always ready to extend to the wife of
an ex-President. She ia a very lively, agreeable
person, and contributes not a little to sustain the
personal popularity of Mr. F.
Disasters on the Western Rivir3.—The
steamboat inspectors of St Louis have just made
their annn&l report of the steamboat disasters of
that district from which we learn that the value of
the boats destroyed In the year which closed in
September last was $411,600, and the valne of the
several cargoes destroyed and lost, was $635,300.
J. H. Headley, author of “Sacred Plains” and
other interesting works, died at Buffalo last Tuee- I
day.
ITEMS.
Statistics of Frost.—The Mobile PEcglater
gives the following as the dates of the first killing
frost in Mobde fbr nine years past. The average
date istl(e Bth November.
In 1849 it was on the 26th November.
Iu 1850 “ 17th November.
In 1851 •• 6th November.
t Joe? “ 27th November.
t ioV. “ 25th October.
t Jba? “ nth November.
In 1855 24th october .
in rw “ B‘h 8 ‘ h October.
in 18th November.
Horsf. Race at Boston. —The races finished
Saturday afternoon with a trot, best throe in five,
to harness for a purse of S3OO. The horses entered
were Tom Carpenter, ridden by A. Carpenter;
Trotting Childers, ridden by D. Mace; Ajax ridden
by its owner, H. H. Smith, and Romeo, ridden by
D. Pfifer in the firet heat and by B. Thurston for
the remainder. The race was won by Tom Carpen
ter in five beats, two of which were dead heats with
Trotting Childers. The time made by Tom was
2:40|, 2:391, 2:39, 211 ant! 2:39. It was a most ex
citing race.
Decease ok a Distinguished Clergyman
Judge Wm. Jay died in Westchester county, N. Y
on the 14th inst. lie wee one of the founders of the
American Bible Society, and for many yearn, one of
the Vice-Presidents. He was ms-> President cf tho
American Peace Society. In 1826 he received a
priz e far an essay on the Sabbath as a Civil Institu
tion, and in 18-7 another for an essay on tie Sab
bath as a Divine Institution. In 1830 be was hon
ored with a medal from ths Savannah Anti-Dueling
Society of Georgia far the best essay on Dueling.
Chratihg the Gallows.—Bo : h (M.vc.) pa
pers state that Jones, who was sentenced to death
for the muidi-r of a Jew pedler, in the western part
of the State has Bank into an idiotic condition, and
the probability now is that the extreme penalty o.
the law will u"t be carried cut.
A telegraphic despatch from Washington says
that Mr. Secretary Cass lias addressed a communi
cation to General Jerez, declaring h r special mis
sion ciossd, and that the government will hence
forth officially communicate with Mr Yrissarri, 11 e
regular Nicaraguan Minister.
Salt Works Rented.— Col. Thos. L. P.estou
has rented the Saliw. iks and his property adjacent
iu Washington county, V., to a New h oik com
pany, for a term of 10 years, at $50,0:1(1 per year.
High Pkics for Tob.v. co— Mr. John W. Lewis,
of Halifax, Va , sold iu Milo i. North Carolina, on
mo inn uiui . ~v, ci n>i of yellow leaf T ibiicco, (ilia
year's crop,) for $l5O p r hundred v, i .-id.
The Naval Retiring Board— lt is runicred
that the United States Attorney Gereral Km pre
pared an-opiniou on the action of the Naval R tir
ing Board, in which l;o declares their entire pro
ceedings illegal, and ccns-.qusntly, void. On tho
strength of this opinion, the President will probably
restore tho vviioio list of retired and dropped of
liners, though soveial of them will be brought be
fore courts-martial to answer charges to be ['over
red.
Our Affairs with Central America.—Ao: r.
respondent of the New York Timu at Ban Juan
writes that General Lamar has been cerrteous'y
received at San Jose. The rumor that he had de.
manded ind-mity from tho t’- sta Bicim govern
ment for injuries inflicted upon American citizens
in the late Nicaraguan war, to tho extent of two
millions of dollars deserves no credit.
Denial. —Kr -President Rival, o Nicaragua,has
written a letter, staring that he and and not sign the cel
ebiated manifesto of Martinez and Mora, asking
France, England and Sardinia to establish a pro
tectorate over the Central American State.-:.
Another Atlantic Cable to us Laid—lt is
eaid to be the intention of tho British government
to lay another cable between Ireland and New
foundland no-.t year, in the event of their being un
able to woik through the present line.
The New York Times’ special Washington cor
respondent denies tho repoi t sent out by the coin b”
pendent of the Associated Pros;, a few days time,
relative to an alleged application of two of the So
ciety Islands for annexa ion to the United States.—
The paper presented by Count Sartiges, inst md of
being of tho nature represented, nr! and the with
drawal from the Islands of tiro Annrloans who
were intermeddling in their political affairs.
A private letter from Little Rock, Arkansas,
states that Frank Hill, who was recently arrested
for robbing the post-office at that place, ha been
tried and sentenced to the penitentiary for tax
years.
The Cork Trek —The cork free is being exten
sively cultivated in the neighborhood of Cincinnati.
Ten thousand cans of the acorns have been ordered
for planting.
Firm in Philadelphia.— ln Philtdnlphiathere
have been 96 fires during the past year, which des
troyed $101,615 worth of property, $33,555 of which
was icfiired.
Death of Oi.d Men.— Father Sawyer, a veteran
minister of the Gospel, aged 103 years, died at
Bangor, Me., on the 14ib inst. He was in the Ame
rican army at the esptitre of Bnrgoyne. Captain
James Goodrich, one of the pioneers in American
whaling enterprise, died at New Haven, Ct., on
the 15th inst, aged 89. lie was an extensive ship
owner.
A piece of petrified wood, with a screw perfectly
formed in it, was recently found one hundred and
fifty feet beneath the surface of the earth, near
Panola, Mississippi. It was embedded in what ap
peareu u.i—„ bsena block of hickory wood twelve
or fifteen inches square.
Mails for Europe. —The stcamsh'p City of
Baltimore has been engaged by the Pnstoffica Do
partment to take the mails from New-York to Liv
erpool on Saturday, the 23d inst., and from Liver
pool on her return, 10th November next.
Terrible Mortality.— Tho deaths in New Or
leans, from yellow fever, from Jane 271 h to October
10th, inclusive, were three thousand eight hundred
and eighty-nine. The total of deaths for that pe
riod is six thousand three hundred aud eighty-sir.
Delaware Gambling.—' The Peninsular (Del)
News says “six .hundred thousand dollars will be
the lowest sum offered tho Stale qf Delaware, at
the approaching session of the Legislature, for an
exclusive lottery grant for twenty years, and a mil
lion can be obtained for it just ns easily.
According, to a recent account, the Legion of
Honor now consists of 55,285 members, viz : 70
grand crosses, 231) grand officers, 1,102 commanders,
4,827 officers, and 49,056 knights. The above num
bers are exclusive oFforeignera havieg the decora
tion. The oldest dignitaries of the order at the
present moment are Marshal Count Keillo and
Duke Pasquier, grand crosses of 1815 ; Lieutenant
General Duke de Talleyrand Perigord, grand clii
cer of 1821,
“Mart.” —This name, by a decree of Pio Nino,
can no longer be given to children, on pain of ex
communication. He reserves it hereafter exclu
sively for the Virgin of immaculate conception.
Lord Napier and lady have returned to Wash
ington from Niagara Falls. Her ladyship intends,
it is said, to vitit Richmond on the occasion of the
fair.
Bismuth and Arsenis.—Prof, nil!, of Brown
University, has fouud in six scruples of the subni
trate of bismuth, arsenio enough to destroy life.—
The former 1h taken as a medicine, and this should
be a caution to druggists.
Ohio Election.—The Cincinnati Gazette con
tains returns from seventy-one counties in that
State, which show a Republican majority of nearly
nineteen thousaud ; and from these returns the Ga
zette infers that the m-ij irity in the whole Stale
will not fall far short of twenty-two thousand, being
a Republican gain of over twenty thousand on the
vote for Governor last year.
Forgery of Turkish Money.—Close upon the
discovery of (he immense forgery of Turkish paper
money in New-York, come revelations of attempted
forgeries of Turkish coin in England. Two arrests
have been made in London and one in Manchester.
Movements or Santa Anna.—The Now Orleans
Bulletin learns from Capt. McLel'an, of the ship
Wu.-temberg, from St. Thomas, that Santa Anna
purchased *n estate for $40,000, and lef ti n island
on the 24th uit, for Porto Rico, from which place it
was expected he would eail .or Mexico.
Vermont Finances.—The Governo-’.i message
puts the Slate's resources down at $90,891, and its
indebtedness at $143,904. During the year anew
State House Jias been erected at a cost of $61,127,
but for which there would have been a surplus in Ihe
Treasury.
Centennial Anniyersart.—Tbo citizens of
Pittsburg have held a public meeting for the pur
pose of taking measures for the celebration of the
OD6 hundredth anniversary of the expulsion of the
French from Fort Duquesne.
Our Minister to Naples.—Hon. J. It. Chand
ler had an audience of the King of Naples on the
29th ult, to prccent his credentials as U. S. Minister
to the Coni t of the Two Sicilies.
New York State Fair Receipts—The total
receipts of the Fair at Syracuse were $19,815 81-
Last year at Buffalo $13,078 82. This falling off
was all owing to the rain on the third day.
More Camels.—We learn, says the New Or
leans Picayune of Saturday, that the ship Thomas
Watson and the bark Lucerne, the former having
eighty camels on board, a: A the latter forty, have
arrived off the Southwest Pass, end havo been or
dered to Galveston. The camels, we are informed
are imported by the Federal Government, aud are
no doubt intended to join those already doing so
well at Camp Verde, above San Antonio, Texas.
A party of engineers have been making experi
ments for the last sis months with the Mississippi
water, at a point opposite Columbus (Ky.) in order
to ascertain the amount of sediment carried down
by the river daring any given period. One result
of the calculations was that the sediment which
passes Columbus iu one day would, if she waters
could be held entirely immovable, be sufficient to
form quite a respectable dam across the river at
that place.
Building in Portsmouth—lt is stated that
there has been, up to the present time, dnring this
year eighty buildings erectad in Portsmouth, Va. —
The number will reach one hundred by the first of
January, 1859.
Mutint.—The sailors on board the bark Rein
deer, bound from Richmond to South America, with
flour, mutinied on Thursday while the ship was be
low Norfolk. The U. S. deputy marshal, with a
guard, went down from that city in a steamer and
arrested them.
A Heroine—The Danville Republican tells of a
lady named Butler, in Caswell Cos., N. C., wuose
child recently fell into a well sixty feet deep. She
seized hold of the rope attached to the water buck
et went to the bottom of the well, took the child in
her turns and then ascended the rope, bringing the
obiid along with hw—an J unparalleled feat.
Four huadred. and sixty-eight thousand of tLe
slaves at foe So* are cbtftfc aembees.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
Gin Eotsf. Burned —The Gin House of Col. B,
M. Johnson, in Hancock county, together with ten
bales of cotton, was destroyed by fire a day or two
ago.
John Cobb, Jr., convicted of participation in the
murder of Samuel Landrum, near Atlanta, in April
last, was on Tuesday, sentenced by Judge Bull
to be hung on Friday, December 10th.
Sudden Death.—We are deeply pained to learn
eays the Columbus Enquirer of Monday evening
that Mr. Samuel if. Clarke, of the firm of Clarke be
Iverson of this city, was found dead this morning,
at 7 o’clock, in his room, over 93 Broad street. It
is reported that he was subject to fits of despon
dency. Tne deceased was a native of Augusta,
Ga., and about 35 years of age. The Coroner held
an inquest over the deceased, and the verdiotofthe
Jury was, that “he came to his death from some
unknown cause.”
By tis many virtues, and the manly kindness of
bis heart, he endeared himself to all who gained his
acquaintance.
An >ther Augusta Contribution.—Tne Savan
nah It publican says : —Mr. R. G. Latting, Chair
man of the New Orleans Relief Committee acknow
ledges the receipt of seven hundred and ten dollars,
ns a contribution from Augusta to the sick and
needy of the former city. It was but a few days
ago that we noticed a contribution of nearly double
the above amount from the same source for the re
lic tof the sufferers at Charleston. Such noble nets
of benevolence are worthy of all praise and an honor
to the kp.u tof our sister city. Would that Savan-
Inah could follow her liberal example; we have all
the will, but, unfortunately, “the Greeks are at onr
own doors.”
j llenolcgy. —A correspondent of the Milledgevilie
Recorder, writing from Jasper county, Ga., gives
the following:—We live in a progressive age ;
chaugo is stamped upon every thing ; ar.d strange
to tail a Hen has changed by nature to a Rooster,
in our county, (following iu the wako of modern
politicians.) Mr. Joel C. McDowell has a hen that
ho kai owned leu years. She has laid, batched aDd
raised many chickens, and for the last two or throe
years has been gradually changing in appearance
to a rooster. 11 r plumage has changed tram a yel
low to a i.isteu.Dg red; her tail is that of a genuine
rooster, beautifully black, long and flowing; her
spurs are short b it growing ; very little comb.
Will some of tho wiseacres of Georgia, cr eke.
where, explain upon the pi inciples of ornithology or
Eeuoliigy, and cbllg. a sfibsctihef to your very val
uable weekly.
Smri’iKG in Savannah.—The Savannah Repub
lican ot iour-uay says : —We have a large amount
of shipping in our port at this thus —sufficient, we
w. aid suppose, to meet all demands of tho trade.
Our \\ Imrves were becoming quite baro, and com
plaints wire quite common among tho shipping
merchants on tho Bay, of a iaok of tonnage by
which to fotward the mighty mass of products that
have been flowing into onr city for some weeks;
•the steady northeaster, however, of some days’ du
ration, has silenced al! murmuring on this point.—
B;e ine.-.i matters,of all kinds, look decidedly bright
er than they did a week ago, and we have every
prospect of a stirring ar.d profitable season. Two
weeks to come, we feel sure the town will be
a \v with activity, without the slightest visible el.
fact of the epidemic that has temporarily retarded
its progress.
Judge H ardi mam.—The Macon Telegraph of
Tuesday says: “We were pleased to hear on Sat
urday that Judge Hardeman was convalescent.—
Wo hope ho will ‘continue to mend, and soon he
able to resume a position on the bench which he has
&:!•;! nod by iuihw t ving integrity, ability, impar
t aiity, end uniform courtesy in the discharge of
his important official functions.”
Death of Patrick H. McConn, Esq.—Patrick
if. M o,Uonn, Esq., lllerk of the Superior Court of
Glviiu o uinty, and a member of the City Counoi!
of Brunswick, tied at tho latter place on the 13th
ot tliid month, after a lingering illness. Mr. Mo-
Coon was formerly a resident of Dryton, Dooly
countv, and was well and favorably known to many
of our readers. —Macon Telegraph.
A Good Day's Work.—The Central Railroad
delivered at its depot in this city, by its regular
trains, Monday last, four thousand one hundred and
twenty-nine bale ! of cotton, besides a largo amount
or other freight.*. This is said to bo the largest
amount of cotton ever brought to the city in one
day.— Sav. il"p., tldlii inst.
A Caution to Ladies.—A letter received by a
gentleman in this city reports that on Thursday last,
in Covington, Ga., Mrs. Carr was in the act of sit
ting down before the tiro, when her hooped skirt ex
tent.’ ■! ;n .11,e flames, lu-r clothes lock tire, and she
was hiniibly burned, so as to render her a cripple
for life.— Col. Euq.
Discharged.—After an investigation of tho
facts co’ i.eeted with the shooting of J. L. Alexan
der by Wm. M. Cline, at Griffin, Tuesday last, the
magistrates have discharged the latter, on the ground
that the act was committed in self defence. Alex
andevs’s condition is reported to bo critical, the ball
having entered his body near the lower extremity
of the sternum. —Savannah Republican.
A letter from Harris county, informs us that Bur
ton A. Brook:--was found guilty of murder at the
lata term of the Superior Court ol that county, and
centoi-ned to be hung on Friday, the 3d of Decem
ber. Onr correspondent bud lieard, however, that
tho case ’.•••••rid bn ,'utried up to tho Supremo Court
on appeal— Col. Enq.
Unfortunate Affair—On Tuesday morning
las!, an unfortunate affair occurred at ihe depot, of
the Macon and Western Railroad of this city, iu
which Mr. James L. Alexander, who made an as
sault upon Mr. W. ill. Cline, was severely wounded
with a pistol shot. Both parties fired upon each
ether; hut not until, as we are informed, Mr. Alex
ander La struck Mr, Cline several blows with an
w.,0 Instrument, or * eery,- the keen M-
Alexander’s oase is somewhat oritical. —Oriffin Em
pire Stale.
Grand Lodge of Georgia.—“We learn from an
aclvertisi-nn niu the Augusta Chronicle &. Sentinel,
Savannah Republican and Atlanta American, that
t his body will convene in Macon on Tuesday the
261 h October.
This is the first intimation we have had that Ma
son? in Georgia are biased bv party foeliug. Why
should American cr Whig Journals be picked out
to
To this the Macon Telegraph, a Democratic or
gan. makes the following conclusive reply:
The foregoing, from tho Marietta Patriot of the
14th, is altogether unjuet to the worthy Grand Sec
retary, S Rose, II q , who caused the first notice to
be published iu tho Georgia Telegraph, aud pro
cured its publication directly thereafter in two pa
per) of differing polities iu Augusta, Columbus,
i'Jilledgeville and Atlanta, and in one in the city of
Savannah—a course certainly as different from the
one imputed by the Patriot, as could poseibly bo
conceived. —Macon Telegraph (Ucm )
Daily Pai-eks —The merchants and cotton fac
tors o'. ; m'.:y ol Augusta are more liberal adver
tisers than the merchants and business men of any
other cuy or town in Georgia. Those of Macon
come next, while those of tiio cities cf Savannah
and Columbus come in last. There iB no city in the
Union, we believe, with the populatlm of Savan
nah, that advertines so little. With a population of
t wenty or mure thousand, she can sustain but two
daily papers, and from the columns of these two
wo should not conclude that they were making a
I fortune out of the local advertising. Thf business
men of Augusta afford a worthy example to those
in sister cities of this State. They Imve found
printer’s ink a good investment, and they use it
freely and continuously. The inerckauta of Macon
shGutd have a daily paper. Those men who send
their cotton to that place, are anxious to know,
evo; y day, the elate of the umrkct. In this connec
tion, we publish below an extract from a letter of
an intelligent planter in Butts county :
“ It. is greatly to the interest of the planters, when
they have cotton stored with their factors, to have
information every day of the price of cotton. I
have had cotton stored in Macon waiting for the
price to advance, aud sometimes it has gone up and
fallen again, before I could reach there, or write to
my factors to soil it. With daily maili and daily
papers, I could save enough to pay for a paper a
life time, on a single crop of cotton, every lew
years.” —Milledgevilie Union.
Another Canal—Within a few days past a com
pany has been organized under the superinten
d; nee of Meeers. Van Dyke & Hamilton, for the
purpose of bringing the waters of Yahoola creek to
bear uperttbe gold placers between said creek and
Gain creek, by the hydraulic system of operation.—
This is no utopian project; the company are now
making every preparation necessary to the carry
ing on of the work. The cnnal will he about 10 to
12 antes in length, and will oust about $40,000. Dr.
Van Dyke informs us that the first ground will be
broken in the vicinity of this place about the ltlth
of November, and the whole line completed by the
first ot May next. Onr citizens feeling an abiding
confidence in tbn work, have nabscribed liberally in
taking stock. We are pleased to see this spirit
maii iesied among thorn. That the stockholders
will reap a golden harvest from this enterprise we
have not the slightest doubt, as the placers which
this canal will supply with water are the richest in
the whole country—California not excepted. It
will also prove. great impetus to all branches of
business; already we nee a difference in the busi
ness of our town, produced, no doubt, from the dis
bursements of the Clk s’atee Hydraulic Company.
Ext rpriees of this character necessarily call for a
large amount of labor, whioh disseminates money
throughout the country. We hope no impediment
will ho thrown in the way of this company, but
every body lend them a helping hand, that the gold
in the hills may be changed to the pockets of the
people.— Dahtonega Signal.
Further Election Return*.
Dawson Countt.
For Senator—John B. Green 415—elected.
James Cantrell 68
For ll.of U.—James L. Heard 212—elected.
Jt. B. McClean 166
Adam Thompson 106
Isaac J. Elliott 39
Glascock Countt.
For Senator—Jeremiah Wilcher 182—elected.
For ll.ofK.—James Logue 132—elected.
Larkin Wilcher „ 52
Rabun County.
For Senator—John Q. Adams 49 majority.
White Countt.
For Senator—E. P. Williams 226—elected.
W. B. Shelton ~.225
F ,rH. cf R,—James West, Jr 201—elected.
John M. Odell 179
Andrew Dorsey 70
Mitchell Countt.
For Senator—Anxrew Cumbie 248—elected.
John W. Pearce 118
For H. of R.—Augustus H. Jones.---279 —elected.
E jah Pickern 77
[ Sou'hern Recorder.
Health of Vicksbuk*. —The Vicksburg South
ron of Thursday, 22d inst., says:—We regret to Bay
that we can report no abatement in the yellow fever
iu onr midst. Ife progress is as vigorous and steady
as at any period since it became epidemic. The
number of new cases were quite numerous yester
day, though we were unable to learn the precise
cumber. There were seven deaths yesterday
three from the city, one from the Marine, and three
from the City Hospital. The weather continues to
be cool and biting, but without frost.
Among the recent arrivals at New York from Eu
rope was a man who has played a somewhat conspi
cuous port in the Hungarian revolution—George
d’Arnsberg, Adjutant of Gen. Dembmski. Con
demned, at first, by an Audrain Court Martial, to
be hanged, his penalty was afterwards commuted
to sixteen years imprisonment in irons in the lor
tress of Kuistein. On the first of August last, the
Emperor having remitted the balance of his sen
tence, George d’Arneberg went to Hanover, whence
he sailed for this country to join the other Hunga
rian emigrants who have settled in America.
The Price of a Flogging— lt will be remem
bered that, some time ago, Captain 8. M. Barton.
U. 8. A., was tried before a criminal court in Texas,
for causing Mr. Joseph Head, a citizen of that state,
to be tied to a free, stripped and and was
subjected to a fine of sooo, which Erie Governor
Runnel immediately remitted. Mr. Head subse
quently commenced an action against Capt Bar
ton ter damages in a vil cooff at San Antonio.
obta “* d a vt * diot affamßt the oaptain for