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The Battle o’ .^laaeaia.
Toe London T.m’ oorre-pccdent t orniefcM a long
and intensely interesting account of the Battle of Ma
gtetA, from which we extract the following narra
tire of the chief incidents
THE rIORT AT THE RRIDOE OF BUFFALORA.
“When at a tittle distance from the height, which,
by the intersection of the causeway of the railway
terms an angle here, the order was (riven to charge
with the bayonet, and the Grenadiers, throwing
down their Knapsacks, earned up the steep height,
and the next moment they were on the top and be
hind the barricade The lint Grenadier who reacn
ed the top raised up bis bearskin, and a hurrah of
•iW I'Empemir!’ was the answer from bn) com
races, bo followed close upon bis steps and had in
a moment pofsweion of the place. The enemy was
dying across the iron bridge wiiicb leads over the
canal, and the Grenadiers so close after him that
the man wbo was to have pat the match to the
mm* under the bridge was bayoneted While some
threw water on the powder tn the chamber of the
mine, the others rushed forward to secure the arch
way through which the railway comet ont on the
heights on the other eide.
a soon as this was dune two battalions were sent,
one to the right, the other to the left, to piotect the
flanks, while the third kept within the position
guinea. ThissaocerA lorceu the enemy likewise to
abandon the heights m front of the high road,
against which the 1. mavee advanced, he bad no
time to blow np the bridge, and withdrew to a clois
ter of booses beyond it, where formerly the Austrian
custom house and police office were, and uocupied
the vineyards which skirt both roads from that
point. The vines had been olevetly entwined, and
thus a spieuded she ter formed ior the riflemen,
while toe roads theinaelves were swept by hi* artil
lery, which bad token position flintier behind, to
ward Magenta. The position was highly critical;
the two regimen's bad indeed a poem in almost as
strong as toe Austrians had held before, bat they
Were wt bout any support, and tne enemy began to
show ma-ees ol troops Irom ail sides. Columns
fiom Kobeoco advance i and tried to take the po
siti ,n in lie left flack and rear, where likewise some
artillery was placed to mow down the continually
thinning ranks of the Greuadiere. In trout greater
and greater masses began to show themselve.,
while to the let, a bail of nnilets fired from the clus
ter of bouses made the position in that direction
mote and more difficult. To get rid at any ra'e of
this annoyance the £ uavea were ordered to take
tne bousee, three companies being sent to the sop
port ot the grenadiers, and to take the houses in
rear; the rest advanced at the point ot the bayonet,
drove nut ibe aeteuders. and not only established
themse.ves m the houses, but Cleared the ground in
front, and penetrated to a farm house, wntch lies a
little to the right trout of the position.
“it was i o'clock almost, and yet tbe gallant
little band was witnou’ support from anywhere.
The enemy had euffic ont lotoe to oppose Gen. Mr
Mahon V. corps beside- which the biokeu bridges re
tarded him too much to enable his diversion to have
the desired effiot. Tbs columns sgaiust Buffalora
found the bridge over tne canal broken up, and the
troops ordered as euppoiltrom tbs rear had not
yet had lime to arrive. In tbe meantime the ene
my preparso to tabs the cfleusive on bis side, and
to regain the lost position. New and new batta
lions Drought up by tbe railway, tbe whistle ol
which was heard, began to advance to tbe attack of
the position To abaudou the position so dearly
boogut would not only to have beeu acknowledged a
delea’, but Ilk wise u make the regaining ol it in
tront almost impossible. The -nemy would have
ban tune to b, .w up the bridge, and thus make tbe
pceitioo aimoet impregnable, and tbe time thus al
lowed woulo nave enabled nun to bring up a large
part of bis urmy to defend this pueilion.
“ Ev ry thing tben bade the two regiments, which
at tne beginning had numbeted not mote perhaps
than I,6ut) to 1 ,MHj defenders each, to bold out os
long as a man remained. And tbey did it, too like
men, against ail tbe a-acree tbe enemy could bring
against them. On they came, but uselessly, for
their re.nke being thinned by the site from tbe riti-s
ot the Z oaves and Grei aiieio, ihty were attacked
at the point if tbe bayonet and driven back, leav
tug bundieds ou the field. Tbe vineyards in tront
of me houses, ai. 1 the two roads, tbs farmyard to
the rignl of tuern, were even to day, after masses
have been buried, full ot their Corpses. In vain
were all tbeir attempts . ant only did tbe two regi
ments succeed in keeping tbeu position, but tbey
even auvanoed several times to pursuit, and in or
<t>r, to sDCouuier the uew masjes. On rmeot these
pecasu us, the Ziuaves to the lett and Grenadiers
to the right, advanced towards tbe village; the
ektruiisbera in from wbo were to have been 100
yards nr so apart from each other. Tbe ground
covered witu liees made it difficult to keep the die
tr uce exactly, and wbeu two guns were advanced
to keep bank a uew Austrian column, this latter
baa time to carry off tbise two guns. Oue ol them
was re-takeu afterwards iu tbe village of Magenta,
but tbe other rainaius a loss, lu return the Grena
diers, la spile of their small numbers, succeeded in
taking one gun auo oue nowitxer from tbe enemy
before any succor arrived.
“Tbie state ol thiugs lasted until 2 p. tn., but tbe
time was drawing near when, in spite of Ineir
heroic efforts, tbe little baud would scarcely have
Wu able to goou much longer, it bad bad terri
fic losses, tbeir ammunition as beginning to fail, and
tbeli'strength too alter two hours of g gautiefiginng
against ever Increasing odds. At this moment a
cloud of dust behind on tbe road showed the ad
vance of tbe lung looked for help, and tbe brigade
Picard of tbe division linuaull was seen advancing.
As soon as ‘bey bad arrived the 8;b Chasseurs were
rent toward tbe village ot Kobecco, to tbe right,
the 2Bd of tbe line to the centre ol the position,
while the Gut it was kept in haLd to be used accord
ing to circumstances. About tbe same liin ■ tbe
corps ot Geu. McMahon had overcome the difficul
ties of the ground and was attach lug Magenta,
while from behind baltaliou arrived after battalion,
and several divisions were sent to tbe right to sur
yjund and crush tbe enemy. These forces carried
everything beiore them, and forced tbe Austrians
to so precipitate a repeat that übuve s,out) priso
ners, nrnoi.g them 7’J officers, remaiued iu tbe bands
ot tbe Ajlito-
Beside tbe two guus taken by the Grenadiers,
aud which 1 bave seeu, a good many others are
said to have been taken, edn.e say as many as 3G
] have nut seen mum, aud so cannot say, but eveu
it not, tbe day was a glorious day lor ibe Allies. Os
tbe pilsuneis 1 bave seen a hatch ol at least fifty
officers inyeell, and one mass of 321)0 other prisoners,
besides several smaller batches.
“Tbe losses on either side are supposed to be
about 7000 hors dr combat, without the prisoneis
of war From tbe number of dead and wounded I
saw, 1 don’t think there is much exaggeration iu
this Ot course, tbe two regiments to whom belong
iu the first instance the houor of tbe day, suffered
most severely. Tbe G reuadiers aloue bad 0 officers
killed aud it wounded ; I don’t know about the
Zouaves; Alter them the regiments which came
first up to the rescue, and the corps ot Gen. Mcflla
bon eugaged on th* other side, l’wo Generals aro
among the deatic-Geii. Claire and Gen Espinosas.
Tbe former met his late m front of the position,
while the latter, when bringing np bis division,
advanced to reconnoitre a combed from which
shots were hied, and was kited by a tills bullet at
the eaiuo moment as his aid de-camp, who was
rldlsg uear him. These are tbe cotails of tbe
brilliant battle or engagement at Ponte di Magenta.
You may rely upou litem as true un all essential
points
ADVANCE OX THE ALLIES AT TUKBIGO.
The details widen 1 sent you in my last letter
abou t tbe combat at Ponte dl Magenta touched on
ly tb,' part of tbe battle field, and would bo in
rumples, 1 were I not to I ell yon wbat happened on
tbe other s at tbe village of Magenta itself. As
I explained v’ofore, whi'o the division of tbe Grena
diers of the tin, r d aud Z mavee attaoked the front
of the position at .P ‘Ote di Msgcnla and Buffalora,
General McMahon, now Duo ite Magenta and
Marecbalde Prauce, received the order toadvanoe,
with the divisions KeptoaKeP, La Motferouge and
ibe division ot the Cbaeseuis b Pied and fusiliers
de la Garde from Tuitffgu, and take the Austrians
posted at Magenta iD tbeir sight florid tied rear. In
support of this force was tne Sard tula* army, of
wi ich several Divisions bad already paeseu tfce
Ticino at Turbigo From this latter piece to Ma
genta there are on tbe shortest road mote than
twelve miles. It is only aby road branching off
fiumtbe main road leading fr, m Tutb;go towards
tbe lor er, ou most places not more than sufficient
to allow two carriages to pass each . tber.
The country on both sides ot it is much more
thickly wcooed than tbe other side of the Ticino,
am; extensively planted with vineyards. I was
ob.iged to dr ,w your attention to ibis in order to
ehow tbe < ifli ulty which existed for a b;>dy of men
like tbe Otvis on of the Guatds, from *27 OtW to 311,-
000 stroi g, to march twelve mile to tbe battle field.
You will now be.ter understand this difficulty if I
tail you that tbe division i.f the Fusiliers aud Chas
seurs of tbe Guard, which formed tbe reserve,
started at 7 A M. from Turhigo, and could not take
part lit tbe batt.e before i P M. while tbe avunt
garde of the Sardinian army,formed ot tbe Division
Fsnti. dta not reach the bailie field till 7 P. M , too
late to tak< any part in the action. It was noou
before asuffioieu. number of troops had dome up te
engage the enemy. As you know, the attack on
ILe outer tide ogat..et Ponte di Macenta and Bi.fla
lora was ordered for 10 A M., but could not take
place till noon, when the guns were heaid towards
the left trout, iu the direction of Marcello.
THE AUSTRIANS IGNORANT OF THE MeVAHENTS OF
THE ALLIES.
I spoke with *n Austrian held officer who took a
ppunintut part iu the action, was wounded, aud
taueu prisoner. He says tbe Austrians bad no idea
of an at'aok on tbeir right flank from Turbigo. lu
general, during tbe whole campaign, the great
difficulty V ey bed to contend with was the want of
imeUigeuce of the movements of tbe Allies.—
neither money nor threats conld induce tbe oouu
iry peopl* to oivulge anything, wniie, on the other
tOde, such was tbe vigilance ot the Altiee that spies
were almost of no use. Thus it came that tbey
i,ever could make out where the obiaf force of the
Ai.ies was, and bow far tbey bad advanced with
tbeir preparations. This explains likewise the
vague incertitude which puzzled all Europe so |
mueb. They bad uothiug to go upou. and were
obliged t<f .feel their way about like blind mau—
first towards v'uiin. aud tben towards the Po and
beyoud it. ThW T*ult was, that while they com
plained of the riaion.’ou* inactivity of the Allies,
these latter oouoentraK'd their toroee on the left of
their line, and the Austrian knew only where the
du ger threatened when the A lies enter
Novara and appear on tbe TictnP. Then it was
too late. They left, indeed, tbeir position as fast
o* tbey could, evacuated Mortara, and abandoned
the Po line . but they oould no longer concentrate
their army in time to defend tbe tine of the Tioifie
and keep'the Allies out of Lombardy.
Tbey brought up in all haste wb tever ‘hey could
collect, and posted it at Magenta and tbe canal,
wh ch feims a second aud almost utoie formidable
Tine of defence than the Ticino iteelf Bat, although
they exerted themselves to their utmost, and al
though they aimoet killed tbeir soldiers with march
mg, they could only bring up a portion ot the Ist,
(CtauJ,) 3d, (Sctiwarxeuburg.) 2d, tLtctheusteiu.l
and the 7tb. (Zobel t carpi d’armec. How great
this portion was it is impossible to say with certain
ty ; it is estimated here at 100,000 men. and certain
ly, irom the number of regiments which are repre
sented among tbe prieonere, one would be inclined
to *biik that irom <O,OOO to 80,000 men must have
been lu the neighborhood ot Magenta. They were
cwusanded bv General Clam, whose corps bad
lately oome from Bohemia, but had not entirely ar
rived 1 for instance, of the eeveuty two gnus which
it oogbt to have, not more than eighteeo were
there. But this was not of much importance be
cause Ute ground admits only a very limited nee ot
artillery. There was likewise a division ot cavairy
Present, but it never appeared on tbe for< ground.
Both Gyula* and Bern were present, but had noth
ing to <*° with the command. The precipitation
with wbieh toe troops were brought up did not ad
mit of tbeir being properly taken care of, so that,
besides tbe rangue, they had to eudnre hunger,
wt ch was au adai.ioael source of weakness to
them. Aud it was this last cddnoistance which
must bave toid rnoet, ior as regard, laardtuig the
froboh (vn<2 Ssrdioioud have doc® surety more id
the last ten oays, and the very corps ot the Due
de tuul to ui&k* & ieng march io tut*
ftcoio&ißg >ao beturQ arriving on ibe beid ot bat-
TBS rtHT OK TBE RAILROAD UKF.
In order to have a ciear idea of tne new disposi
tion. yon must keep in mind the three roads— that
from Bafiliora to Magenta running nearly cue east,
the main road to Muon, coating irom Ponte Novo
di Magenta to Magenta, ana the railway line, which
after having passed tne canal, lead.- to the lett. and
intersecting the two roads, paM> to the western
nme oi the village es Magenta Tbs railway line
plays even a greater part in tuts part of the natt.e
{nan on the other; it was the line on which the
Austrians received Marsha! McMahon s attack.—
Tbe station boose, a cunsiderab.e bunding, anti the
village i’selt formed the petal d’appui f, r the Aus
trian oentre. which extended a.- og the railway as
fa’ as the point of intersection o. this latter with
Jhe high road. Tbe right wtng was based on the
advanced post at the farmhouse, to the right of the
rami from Turbigo, which I menuoned before. As
Log as the Due de Magemo’s oorpe ban come up
r~ f ~Dd it in line of battle, as tar as the ground
rL ‘ud; V:ng the first divWlon to u<e lett aud
if —oong tothe right, some artillery on tne narrow
“ad ana th* fwsiteen ana chasseurs d# la garde as
ros rves, be advanced boldly against Ike enemy*
• a tmn The infantry, a* soon as it cams within
&tt of the enemy, bad to extend itxU through
ground Ureee lttr sad trees that
ibe line onnki not advance In compart order, but
jl w take g mere iouee ionnhttou between the
I rk.rmisi.ing line and tbe regular order of battle
Ine farm house in advanoe became the object of a
morderous fight. The enemy bad concentrated a
cets dtrtble mass of troepi around and in it, and
against this the {second regiment of the Foreign
Legion was sent, wbo attacked it with great dan.
Tbe enemy, who saw himself in danger of losing
this point d'appxn tor Lis right wing, eent a column
to the right to outflank this body, and, if possible,
to cut it off. The Sardinians were to have been to
the left as reserve, at well as to guard against any
sm b movement, and then likewise to try and en
velope the Austrian right wing andjrear. and tkui
to cut it off from its line of retreat. Owing, as I
said before, to the difficnltiee of tbe narrow road,
they had Dot been able to come up iu time, and the
reeult was that the Second regiment of the Foreign
Legion .offered a good deal. It was, however, ex
tricated froth this position by a timely advance of
reserve.
As soon a.i this was done the whole line advanced,
pressing cack the enemy e troops step by atep. It
was ail allong a hand to hand tight with riffs and
bayonet. Except on tbe road there was no oppor
tunity lor the use of artillery. Tbe French had
some rocket batteries, however, with which they
played sncceesfnily on the enemy It was in such
a fight that the superiority ol the rifle showed it
self over the utuai musket, with whioh the Aus
triane were armed. Besides Uiis, the defenders of
the position kept as much as possible in close
line, so that every shot of tbeir adversaries told
upon them, lou never saw each a scene of car
nage as on all this ground, which the Austrians
defended inch by inch, but bad to leave at last.
It is like the remains of a great rag fair , eba
koee, knapsacks, muskets, shoes, cloaks, tunica,
linen all stained with blood, and speaking of the
obstinate resistance even now, when the greater
part of the wounded have been removed and the
dead mostly buried. Os bow many dramas ol he
roism and feroc.ty, and of how many tragedies of
woes aud misery most this have been tbe scene 1
But the fiercest fight was further behind on the
railway line, and the station house behind it, and
the village close by.
Pressed back all along tbe line the Austrians
concentrated here ail tbeir efforts of resistance. In
front of the station beyond theiiueof rails is a large
long pit, extending for some distance to the right
and left, and formed by the excavations necessary
for the construction of the fine. Where tbe pit
ceases a line of strong wood railings, painted yellow,
is put up tor some distance on both sides to prevent
par-ung acroee the line. Besides this, the railway
bank, which is somewhat raised, forms a kind of
ready parapet, behind which the defenders enjoy
ed some protection. The station, as well a.- tbe
neighboring buildings and a square, solid campa
nile, were filled with riflemen, while the troops of
tbe fine massed themselves in front of them. As the
troops came np tbey were brought out here, and
took tr.e place of their exhausted comrades. To
carry this strong position, the fusileera and chas
seurs of tbe guard were ordered forward. They
broke through, driving tho enemy before them,
until their course was arrested by tbe line of strong
wooden ratlings A lew cannon Bhot would have
easily brought them cows, but there was no place
whence to bring them to bear, so nothing remainea
but to tear it down by main force and the axes of
the sappers.
ATTACK ON TBE VILLAGE.
It was done, and tbe column entered the village.
Here every bouse bad become a castle, held by a
desperate garrison . it required a regular combat
to take it, and letter alter letter could be written on
the lnctden s in which these isolated combats
aboDnUed. There is no doubt the Austrians fought
Ue - ernlely, even when everyruing seemed lost, an
mere. number of their officers being killed,
the soldiers w— ill entirely to themselves in those
isolated positions, non which there was no retreat,
they bad been told before that they bad to expect
no mercy, as it was the habit oi the Allies to kill
ail prisoners aud wounded so they fought with this
imaginary baiter aronnd their necks. The wounded
crept into the oeltars, aud hid themselves where
they could, iu order not to fail into the bands of the
cruel enemy, there to starve and to die. Numbers
bave been found thus concealed, and either dead or
so exhau3'ed that they are scarcely expected to re
cover Eveu now, three days after the battle,
numb- rs are found and brough* into the hospital,
or to be buried. I saw, myself, this morning, taken
outotibe cellars of the laiiway station, two poor
a retches—a Tyrolese jsger and a soldier of the
line—tbe r-rst slightly wounded, and the - --coud al
most dying wito tear and eXaustion. They heard
oelow the Giscbarge of tbe muskets found loaded
on the field ol battle, and thought it probably a
series of wholesale executions Aud yet how dif
ferent was the case. Not even towards their own
s ddiers are tne French more humane than towards
those who fell into their hi nds by the chances ot
war. They nurse them like children, handle them
gently, like mothers, ana doeve.ytbing in tbeir
power to relieve their sufferings.
- THE VICTORY.
Well, by 8 o’clock the mission of the Due de
Mag. Mila was fulfilled and Magenta taken. As tbe
alack of the latter had saved the couple of regi
rneuts which attacked at the Ponte Nuovo di
Magenta, so the advauce of this column, with the
powertui reserves which had come up by this time,
contributed to make the victory complete and swell
me number ot prisoners. It ii well nigh impossible
to name the number of these latter, every moment
others arc being brought in, but they must be at
lea t B,OMJ. The number of dead and wounded in
the whole affair most bequite 10,000, for the French
acknowledge themselves to have lost -1,000.
That it was a splendid and decisive victory there
oart not be the slightest doubt. The colors of two
Austrian regiments were taken, and three guus on
this side. This small number of guns is explained
by the circumstance that ,be Austrians could bring
them little more than their adversaries into play,
and when they did, it was done very cautiously, as
if they had forseen acci ‘ent.
Correspondence of the Times.
From Vlenn—fclterl of “MuHenin” Tliorr.
Vienna, June 10 —The city is fall of vague and
exceedingly contradictory reports, but tbe iollowing
intelligence is correctA few days ago—probably
on the sth instant —a council of war was held at
Verona, and almost all its members expressed their
disapproval of the dispositioue made by Count
Gyulai on the Ith and sth inst. The sitting is eaid
to have t een a stormy one ; and it probably was
so, as it is now the question of the immediate re
moval of the commander of the 2d army. The
Austrian Generals are disconsolate, as they one aud
all firmly believe that the allies would bave been
deteated ou the sth had an attaok been made on
them by the ten tiesh brigades (two complete corps
d'armce aud oue division) which Count Gyulai, on
his own coufeseiou, had at his disposal. Thereport
addressed to the Emperor by the commander of the
2d army was given to the public as it was received
by his Majesty, with the sole exception of the to!
lowing remarkable passage :
“The enemy was so terribly shaken that it was
evident he would be incapable of action for tbe
next twenty four hours.” The opinion expressed
by the Austrian commander was confirmed bv the
first French bulletin, in which it was said that the
allied army “was to rest on the sth instant, In order
that its reorganization might be completed.” It is
rumored that liavon Hess is to be Commander-in-
Cbief, General Hinedek his Adiatus, and General
Ramming his Quartermaster General, but the only
reliable news received from Verona is that Hess, as
Commander-in Chiel. is now reorganizing that part
of the 2d army which was opposed to the a,lies on
the-Ith and sth. It appears that Gyntai’a disposi
tions was so eieorably bud that the Satdo French
army woul, have been able to inarch to Milan with
little molestation, had not the vanguard of Clum's
corps chanosd to arrive at the Lombard < apital on
the 2d inat As only 7,000 men of Clam s corps
took part in the action, not more than 80,000 Aus
trians could have been engaged on the 4th inet.
As Cnunt Gyulai, in bis report of the ti;h instant,
made no mention of the 7th cops, (Zobel's,) which
was engaged on the 90tb and 81st of May, at Pales
tro, it must be concluded that it was on the right
back of the Ticino when the battle o? Magenta was
fought. Iu his report Gyulai says, “1 rode to Ro
becco, to show the 3d corpe the direction it had to
take to get to the enemy’s right llank.” “At cer
tain momente,” say the Au-train General's, “it iB
absolutely necessary that a commander should be
seeu at the head of his troops, end it was at such a
critical moment that Count Gyulai rode to Robecoo
to periorm a duty which might very well have been
discharged by an aidee de camp. The feeling
against the blundering commander is eo strong, and
f.oopLi so loudly assert that his conduot ought to be
uquired into, that the police have considered it
advisable to arrest some of the coffee-nouse de
o'aimers.
This etep, however, is a very imprudent one, as
it only Serves to increase the exasperation of the
public, wLicb plainly sees that a favorable oppor
tunity for dealing the Sardo French army a severe
blow, hue been lost. The Eldest railers against
General Gy ulai are military men, ana tho fact is so
potent that no cue cau vemure to gainsay it. As
Geueral Coronini arrived here yesterday, It is
gem-rally believed that be lias been summoned to
Verona, bat he has only oome here to inspect the
regime lit bearing his name, whioh is about to
leave for Italy. Although the Austrians were so
completely deteated on the 4th inst., that the allies
were able to march to Milan, you must not believe
that tho campaign is rapidly drawing to a close.
Before the world is ten days older another great
ba tie will be fought, and it is not unlikely that the
fortune of war may tarn in favor ot tbe Austrian
army, which is still extremely powerful. J, The ap
poluttnent of II -se to be our o tnmander,’’ writes an
olScer to Lis wtte, “would be as good as a victory
gamed, for all of us are well aware that he knows
bow to handle a great army.”
Terbific Tornado in Gloucester County,
Va —Norfolk, June 21.—A teirible tornado passed
over Giouce ter Ooumy on Friday lsßt. Its track
whs from east to weet, it war tunnel shaped, and is
represented as having been about oue hundred feet
wide Wbeu first seen it was coming from the di
rection of the Bay ; it then entered the mouth ol
Yoik river end passed over Glonoester Point, which
is immediately opposite the famous little town of
York. As it whirled past the Point it upset tbe
leiry boat, tutd au oIU negro man, who for thirty
years had managed the ferry, was drowned ; hie
assistant ts aped by clmgiugto the beat.
I tteu took its course t -rough the county, meet
in s first the residence of Capt Win Hobday,Sear’s
Creek, it speedily demolished the chimneys and all
prominent projections, blew bis large barn from its
foundation a smaller barn was blown over all the
other out houses, and even the fruit trees were up
set aud destroyed, while a very large tree near the
baru was torn up by the roots.
A large baru and shed on the farm of Mr. Beni
Rowe, were torn literally to pieces; a corn shelter
which woe in this house, was afterwards found half
a mile off, whore it had been carried by the “storm
king.”
A gentleman named Diggs saw it coming, aud
had presence of mtnd to take his wife aud litt.e
ones out of the house, whioh in a few moments
afteCwards was swept entirely away. Mr. Diggs
suhstqaecfly found a trunk, belonging to him, nve
miles from wus*f tbe house had stood. This trunk
among other things coc aiued (130.
A oobel house was blowucver. and the teacher
iMtst Glass) and fourteen childreu tamed over
with i: Miss G.ass received some injuries about
the bead, while one o the children had its ooliar
bone broken. .... ..
In addttioa to the above, we leant that nine other
buildings—mostly dwellings -were destroyed, blown
aaay o; materially damaged, among which was the
dwelhug of Mr Robbins, which has sustained con
sider able damage The tornado, which is repre
sented as having been frightfully destructive, cut a
perfect rs ad through the woods, about thirty or
tony yards wide, and iu its coarse wrung trees from
their stumps which will measure from two to three
feet in diameter, aud which were swept before it
tike chaff b foie tbe wind
It is reported that at one time a human torm was
seen in ute midst of this terrible whirlwind, wbo,
without power to help bimselt eras borne upon r be
wings of the wind, from tbe river side, far into the
interior—while ad around him wero trees, limbs of
trees, loose plank, poets, carte, barn doors and
portions of teuces.
There is no doubt but the destruction of u-e has
been considerable, but the g. m.einan who brings
this information was ou the river, and knows not
what occurred in the inter or.— Cor. Rich. Pisp.
An Unequal Contest.—An amusing incident
ccctUTod wniie Van Amburgh’s menagerie was
crossing the Appumatox. a short distance above
the Pocahontas onuge, strikingly iUoetrative.of the
tact that ‘he bull dog i* the most conrageons of all
animals, aud will attack any creature, regardless
of sue. As th* elephant entered the water with
bis usual s ow and cautious step, some individual in
tee crowd, prompted by a spint of mischief, hied
cn a iszge bull dog to attack the huge animal. Tne
dog instantly obeyed, aud plunging into the water
seized hold ot oue of the hind legs of the elephant,
ou which the latter only switched him with his tail,
as b* would brush iff a ay, but not nddtng him
seif of hie assailant by such gectie means, and fee -
! mg sharp teeth at work upon fits -eg. h* ediddeoly
threw his snout around, Rttd, seizing the dog, beid
him under the water until ha eras nearly drowned ;
then, ratring him high in the air, threw him at least
e hundred feet oat into the stream. Fully satisfied
with the put ishment ae bad received, the dog made
j hit way to the shore, and beet a hasty retreat-
A Me; ancbolv Affair. — Tuesday afternoon it
j was tt. intention oi capt. Prince, Chief of Police
in Toronto, C W , to have left for Quebec lor the
I purpose of being married (Thursday.) to Miss
I riS-nroee, daughter of the late Hon. Mr. Primrose,
i On thS afternoon oi Monday Captain Prince re
i c rived a telegram informing him that his betrothed
had been taker, saddeciy il, aud wee not expected
!to recover Yesterday he received another met
sage, staling that she had breathed her last on the
previous evening. She will be intetred on tbe flay
which bad been fixed tot bet btioai.
[Teronio Gifts,
Items from Japan.
From the Japanese correspondence of the New
York Herald we clip tbs following items of into’
gene: :
C. 6. Stiam Frigate Mississuei, t
Simoda, Japan. April 4,1803. f
On the 2d of March we took Mr Harris and his
interpreter on board, and proceeded up the Bayol
Jeddo as tar as tbe town of Kauapawn. which is to
be opened to us after tbe ith of July next.
If was a clear day, and we had a beautiful view
of all the sight* in the bay. The wonderful volcano,
Fooges Yarna was distinctly seen from the s-ip,
and the surrounding mountains, covered over with
stow, added much to the beauty ot the scene.
The ship chaunei we found had beeu properly
buoved out by the Japanese In the nay we found
hundreds of fishing junks, the crews of which rose
and poli'ely bowed as w- passed them.
Tbe building near Cray a where Commodore
Perry delivered President Fillmore's letter to tbe
Japanese, stiff stands Bj a monument of that event
ful day.
Shortly after we anchored an officer was Bent on
shore at Kanag&wa to Inform the Governor of our
arrival, with Mr Harris on board, and requesting
him to pay tts a visit at an eariy day.
At 10 A. M. next day a barge, elegantly, draped
Id gay trimmings of flags, streamers, and everything
fanciful, came off tothe ship, having on board the
Governor and hie suite, with several servants, ail
of whom were riobly attired in satins, sffks, A- 3 ,
with rich trimmings of gold and silver, each wearing
two swords The party waj met at the gangway
by Capt. Nicholson, Consul Hams, the officers of
the ship ail in tuff uniform, and the marines, under
Lieut. Reed, drawn np in a line presenting arms,
while the band played “Hail Columbia,” and tbe
Japanese imperial flag flying at our lore-top, which
was honored with a salute of seventeen guns They
were Bhown all over the ship, and they examined
every part of her very closely. Our battery and
engines, as neat as gold and silver, attracted their
attention very much; in fact, nothing was left
unnoticed by them. Tney appeared to enjoy their
visit very much. After inspecting the ship they
were entertained with a collation by tbe captain
and officers, and the way the Governor and his
suite emptied glass after glass of old Madeira aud
Uncle Sam’s whiskey was pretty good evidence
they did not often enjoy such luxuries.
The next day Mr. Harris, accompanied by a mid
shipman as aide, and an orderly sergeant as order
ly, proceeded on shore to commence bis business
with the Japanese officials, which was followed up
daily for eighteen days. During this interim, from
day to day, Mr. Harris succeeded in arrang ng all
his business to his satistaction. He has obtainea a
grant of land, ou which he intends to erect a dwell
ing in a pretty location in that town. The Japan
ese also bave agreed to ereot a commodious and
suitable wharf near to the same, with proper ac
commodations tor landing, Ac., and we learn that
he has succeeded in obtaining a positive promise
from tbe Emperor and court to send an ambassador
to the United States this fall, or early in the next
spring, on condition that our government will con
vey him uud his suite to Panama. The reason as
signed for Dot sending one at this time is that there
is a part of the nobility in favor and a part against
sncli proceedings, and for that reason they require
more time to talk the subject over, and, if neces
sary, leave it to the people to vote upon. Now,
our jaunt, at an expense of ten or fifteen thousand
dollars, amounts to jast n—although the town is not
opened to us until J uly next.
The freedom of the place was extended to Capt.
Nioholson and all under his charge—a favor which
all of us who were permitted so to do availed our
selves of, and some of ua ventured six aud seven
m-les into the interior.
Samples of oar shell and shot were, at the request
of the Governor, sent on shore to him, which, he
stated, would he sent to Jeddo, for the inspection of
the Emperor. Whenever any of our boats ap-
S reached the beach or landing, thousands of tne
apanese collected near the same, eager to catch a
look at any ot us when we landed; at limes the
orowd would be eo numerous that it was quite diffi
cult for us to make much ttauway. However, all
their movement- . .. .s us were polite and civil,
and when we sioppffl tor a moment to gaze on any
objeot, we were at onoe surrounded by crowds of
these people, who very closely examined all our
clothing, iu;. home of them would go so far as ta
take hold of our whiskers aud smooth them down,
(whiskers are articles that-the Japanese never wear)
and ms ne sigus to eaoh other respecting them.
Temples are very numerous in the place, and of
pretty good size, and they are all well supplied with
wooden gods, idols, &0., all of which are richly la
den with ornaments. The largest temple in the
oountry is tbe one called Diasu, a few miles outside
of Kanagawa, on the road to the great city of Jed
do. It covers over an area of four acres of ground,
aud contains over twelve hundred images, idols,
wooden gods, dec., which, with tbeir rich and cost
ly ornaments, painting and rich carvings, present
a moat beantitul sight to look at. It is a Buddhist
temple. Attached to this vast building, there are
over two hundred priests, who are all supported
cut of tbe enurmouu amount of cash that is daily
dropped into the cash boxes (attached to the tern
pie) fiy| the thousands of worshipers who daily
congregate there to pay their devotions to their
wouden gods and superstition.
The penal coloDy of tbe empire is the island of
Fatisisso, near the outer part of the bay ; to this
place all criminals not puuiehed with death, are
seDt.
On the opposite side of tbe bay is the town of
Yokohama, near by which stands the building in
which our first treaty with Japan was made.
During our stay of three weeks iu the bay, the
Japanese officials and others paid us every atten
tion we could wish for. A bumboac was sent to
tho ship daily with fowls, eggs, Ac., which they
sole at very reasonable prices.
The town of Kanagawa is a fair looking place;
the streets are wide and clean, the bazaars are well
filled with the proiuctions of the country ; the
shops are the same as in the other ports. I have no
doubt that alter the place is opened to us free to
trade, considerable business can be carried en with
the people. The town and surrounding country is
fu 11 of the richest satins, Bilks and crapes to be
found iu the world. Copper is very plenty at only
three cents per pound, brass ditto. It will be a
better place for trade than Uukodadi or Naga
saki.
On the 21st of March, Consul Harris having
finished his business, we left the bay at three
o'clock in the morning on the passage down to Si
muda, where we anchored the same day.
Wepassed within ten miles of the burning volcao
Oho Sana, whioh was in full blast; the morning was
clear, and we had a tplendid view of the burning
monster, which was blazing up at a fearful height,
sendtHg up volumes of black and white smoke.—
This volcano is on an uninhabited island, about
forty-five miles from Kanagawa, and is held sacred
by the Japanese, aud by them worshiped. The
light of the volcano was distinctly seeu from the
ship while at anchor in ffimeda.
At Hong Kong we took in about ono hundred
tons ot Sitnoda coal, which cost only six dollars per
ton, delivered in our coal bunkers by the Japanese.
This ship has visited more ports in Japan, and
our ctlicers and men have had more intercourse
with the Japanese people than any other ship of our
own or any other nation. The name of Mississippi
is familiar to all the Japanese. The good old ship
and the lamented Perry will long be remembered in
Japau. And our excellent Consul general, Town
eend Harris, has made such a favorable impression
on these people that time alone will erase hia name
from their memory. His society is daily courted
by many of the first men in Simoda, and it would
do you good to Bee in what a friendly manner he
receives all ol them that oall on him. It is admit
ted by every officer iu the squadron that a better
man conld not have been selected to fill this impor
tant situation amongst these wonderful people.
Wednesday the 23dor March, at noon, was ap
pointed by tho Governor of Bimoda to receive the
offeers ot this ship at his beautiful palace, just out
side of the town. Nearly every offioer in the ship,
including Consul Harris, was present. Tables, filled
with tbe good thiugs of the country, including sweet
and sour saki, were spread. There were, besides
the Governor and his suite, about thirty Japanese
of high rank in attendance. The meeting lasted
about two hours, and all present felt pleased at be
ing one of this interested party, which is only the
commencement of better days in this land of heath
enism and idolatry. Our President and country
was toasted by tbe Governor, and in return the Em
peror of Japan and his empire was remembered by
Captain Nicholson abd officers.
On tin day following, his Excellenoy, accompa
nied by his suite, visited the ship, and was received
with all the honors which we had shown to the Gov
ernor of Kanagawa.
Several of the party oouid talk some English, and
this assisted the Governor and the party to make a
very pleasant visit. Asa matter of necessity they
were put through a course of sprouts in the shape
of the good things contained in the private store
rooms of Capt. Nicholson and offioers. They are,
from their actions, as anxious as we are to cultivate
good leelings between the two nations.
A Japanese informed me that within tbe last
twelve months there had been twenty-four shocks
of eartfcquakes in the vicinity ot Simoda; that they
all were very Blight shocks, doing very little if any
damage.
I must mention one excellent law with the Japa
nese. It is that which provides for the poor. By
an imperial order, no subject ot the empire need
ever warn for the means to support himself and
family If they become des’itute they are not ex
pected to beg, but make known their cases of
want to the proper offioer, and their wants are sup
plied from the funds of government. SboaUl and
individual be detected asking alms alter he or she
had bjen assisted by the government, their
allowance from the same is at onoe stopped forever.
This law, however, does not include the church or
temple beggars, who can aimost be counted by
hundreds in the streets of all the porta we have
visited. The sound of their belle as tbey tap them
greet your eaie every few steps in your walks.
The sloop Germantown, Capt. Page, arrived here
four days ago from Hong Kong. She got on to 8
coral reef near the Loo Choo Islands, and laid
there three hours, had to throw overboard shot,
shell, Ac., to get her afloat. She will proceed to
Sh&nghae or Hong Kong to go into the dock to re
pair. We will remain here until the arrival of the
Commodore, and will not leave for home now in
less than five months. Great excitement on board
on account of this turn in our movements, all be
lieving Mr. Toucey's two years’ out to be all a
humbug. AU well on board.
It is expected that after the arrival of the Com
modore we shall proceed with him to Shaughae.
and both ships will then proceed up the Gull ot
Peeohelee to the mouth of the Pei-ho river, with
the honorable Minister to China, (Mr. Ward, I be
lieve.) who is to succeed Mr. Reed. Arriving there,
the Minister will embark ou board of the (charter
ed) eteamei Yang-tee. aud, with a suitable escort
of officers, proceed up the river to Tien tsin, which
is tbe place. I believe, appointed as the residence
of the foreign minister. This will take place about
the last of May or let of June.
From He Springfield [Hass.) Republican.
The Swing us a Cure of Consumption.
I wish to say a few wtrde to “wbem it may con
cern ‘ on the nsa of tbe swing—one of the,gymnaslie
exercises—as a preventive aud cure of pulmonary
disease. I mean the suspending of the body by the
bands by means of a strong rope or chain fastened
to a beam at one end and at tbe other a stick three
feet long, convenient to grasp with tbe hands. Tbe
rope shoula be fastened to the centre of the stick,
which should bang six or eight inches above the
bead. Let a person grasp this stick, with the hands
two or three feet apart, aud swing very moderate
ly at first—perhaps only bear the weight, if very
weak—aud gradually increase, as the muscles gam
strength from the exercise, until it may be freely
used from three to five times daily. Tbe connec
tion of the arms with the body (with the exception
of the oiavicJe, with the sternum or breast bone)
being a muscular attachment to the ribs, the effect
of this exercise is to elevate the ribs and enlarge
the chest, and, as nature allows no vacuum, the
lungs expand to fill tbe cavity, increasing the
volume of air—the natural purifier of the blood—
and preventing oongtstioc or the deposit of tuber
culous matter. 1 have prescribed the aDove for all
caeea of hemorrhage of the longs and threatened
consumption tor thirty-five years, and have been
able to increase the measure o. the chest from two to
four inches within a tew months, and always with
good results. But especially as a preventive I
would recommend this exercise. Let those who
love life cultivate a web-formed, capacious chest.
The student, the merchant, the sedentary, the
young of boih sexes—aye all should have a swing
upon which to stretch themselves daily . and I am
morally certain that it this were to be practiced by
the rising generation, in a dress allowing a free and
toll development of tbe body, thousands, yes tens of
thousands, would be saved irom the ravages of that
opproOrram mcdicoruv. . consumption.
Holyoke. June 8,185 b. Law son Long, M. D.
How you may Know Good Fathers.—lt is a
good sign and true when you see amid a little group
of boys, one dart from the re*t. and, tossing hi*
arms above his head, shout “ There's my Father /”
as be runs to meet him You may be sure, no mat
ter what business trouble* soever that man may
have, that there is a spot in his heart still fresh and
green, which the cares of tbe world bave had no
power to blight. “ There's my father” With what
a pretty pride th* litli* fellow"shouts this! He most
be. indeed a brute, whose fatherly heart does not
swell with love, whose eyes do not glisten, who
does not. at such a moment, fee! amply repaid for
that day's toil, no matter bow wearisome Alter
all, Love is the only thing worth having In this world.
They woo stand over sew made graves tell ns so.
Fame, and money, and ambition, dwindle to noth
ing beside tit* white, calm brow of death, though
God knows it may b* to* youngling of toe flock,
whose lip* bave mt even isarned to syllabi* oar
Mae*
From the A". O Picayune, June 28.
Impart!.m from Mexico.
The U- S. mail steamship Tennessee, Captain
Forbes, arrived St Quarantine at an early hoar
ssterday morning, and sent her mails up by the
wboa* Anglo-American.
Tbe Tenne6see left Vera Uru* the morning of
the 22d instant, up to which date she brings a full
mail
Ou account of the seizure of the eonducta by
R jblee. the Tenneeste brings but $3700 in specie,
.osigned as follows, viz : J. W. Zacharie Sc Cos ,
JO'JOO: J y de Egana, $3000; James Peas, S7OO
Total, SO7OO.
The health of Vera Cruz continued excellent.
Nor was there the siigheßt sign of tbe appearance
of the vomito either in the city or harbor. Tbe
< rewa of the ebipe o: war at sacrificios also were
in excellent health.
- wing to her detention, waiting the specie con
ducts from Mexico, the Tennessee brings a double
mail and four weeks later intelligence than we had
direct.
Movehents of War Steamers.— The British
men-of-war Valorous and Aracbue; the French
frigate Mercure; and the Spanish war steamer
Dabei la Catolica, were still in Vera Cruz waters.
The Aracune was to leave on the 22d, for Jamaica.
Just before the Tennessee sailed, the English
fleet moved up from Sacriiicios, where it has always
been moored, in front of the city of Vera Cruz.
The U. 8. steam sloop of war Brooklyn. Capt.
Farragut, and the U. S- sloop of-war Saratoga,
Capt. Turner, were also off the Ca9lls of San Juau
de Uioa, by permission of the authorities.
Seizure of the Specie Conducts. — A con
ducta of $5,000,000 of specie left the city of Mexi
co on the 28lIi of May for Vera Cruz. About one
third of the money belonged to AmericaD, the rest
to French, English and German merchants.
The couducta was detained at the city of Pue
bla two days, for what reson is not stated, but ar
rived at Jalapa on the 10th of June. There it as
detained he space of seven days by Gen. Robles,
‘•for examination,” as be asserted.
On the ltith the conducts again got started, with
a permit from Robles to proceed without further
detention to Vera Cruz. It was attended by an
armed escort, and proceeded the first day as far as
Corral Falso.
On the 17th, the conducts left Corral False for
the Puente Nacional, (National Bridge,) where it
bad been arranged to ms<-t the escort sent to re
ceive it by the Juarez Government, the money
having thU3 far been under the escort of the op
posite, or Chuich party.
The conducts, however, was still several leagues
distant from the National Bridge, when it was over
taken by Robles, at the head rs an armed force,
and ordered to return to Jalapa. This order was
given, as asserted, in pursuance of fresh instructions
that morning received from the Miramon Govern
ment at the capital.
The conducts, however, refused to turn back.
Robles then ordered it to proceed to the Mocambo
Beach, outside the walls of Vera Cruz, opposite
the I-land of Sacrificios, but by no means to enter
the city or receive an escort from the Liberal
Government. At Sacrificios it was to be shipped
on board the English men of-war, there anchored.
These were the orders from Mexico.
When this became known there was great excite
ment at Vera Cruz. A meeting of tbe merchants
was al once called, and held on the 20th. It was
there resolved to send a deputation to Robles to
treat witb him to permit the conduota to pass.
In the meantime, the French and English com
manders at Vera Cruz had been consulted on the
matter and refused permission to have the specie
taken cn board their ships.
This being known, the French and English con
suls joined tbe deputation of merchants, and pro
ceeded direct to Robie’s camp.
On tbe 21st, also, the U. 8. Minister, Mr. McLaDe,
ordered Capt. Farragut, of the steam sloop-01-war
Brooklyn, accompanied by his Lieutenant, to pro
ceed at onoe to Ruble's camp to demand the re
lease of Hie money belonging to the American and
Hanseatic merchants, amounting to one-third of
the whole, nr upwards of $1,500,000
tin the 22d an express arrived at Vera Crnz with
official dispatches from Robles to the English and
Frenoh commanders, with the special orders of the
English and French Ministers to the coinman ers to
receive the epecie of the eonducta on board their
ships, at Sacrificios.
The commanders, however, still persisted in
their refusal to have anything to do with the money,
and the English fleet subsequently moved up to
the city.
At last accounts, the eonducta was still at the
postal village of Riconada, under the orders of Ro
bles.
Capt. Farragut was expected back to Vera
Cruz on the 23d or 24th. Nothing was known of
Robles's final determination in the matter up to
the hour oi the departure of the Tennessee.
Gen. Paz has been stationed at tbe National
Bridge, at the head of a large force, with orders
from the Juarez government not to allow Robles to
pass that point.
Correspondence of the N. O. Picayune.
Latest from Vera Crnz.
Vera Cruz, June 22,1859.— My last of the 18th
inst., per steamship indianola via Minititlan, in
formed yon of the seizure of live millions of dollars
by Robles Pezuela.
bince then we have received no farther particu
lars, as all communications have been cm off by
Cobon, who ib hovering about on the high roads to
prevent our troops, the Liberals, from marching to
the rescue of the conduota.
A ccmmiesion of English and Frenoh merchants,
accompanied by their respective Consuls, left here
un Sunday, witn instructions to treat or negotiate
with, or bribe Robles to deliver up the money un
lawfully detained.
In this commission the Americans were denied to
participate, on the grounds that the United States
did not recognize Miramon sGovernment, and con
sequently could not troat with Robles, a subordinate
of Miramon. Fortunately, Mr. McLane thought
differently, and concluded to commission Capt.
iarragut of the U. S. sloop of war Brooklyn, to go
up to Robles’ camp and demand from him that part
of tbe money in the eonducta, belonging to Ameri
can citizens —which is represented to be one third
of the whole amount, or upwards of a million and a
half. Capt. Farragut left yesterday morniug, ac
companied by his First Lieutenant.
The frivolous pretextof Robles to take the money
to the Mocambo beach, off’ Sacrificios, and there to
effect shipment on board the English men of war,
has been trustrated by the declaratione of the com
manders that on no condition would they aid or re
eeive the money, although they were instructed by
Mr. Otway, the British Minister, to act in concert
with Robies.
Mr. Otway shouldered, by these instructions, the
greatest responsibility.
The good sense and judgment of the comman
ders, although in opposition to Mr. Otway, their
Minister, cannot be too highly praised. They
certainly avoid the total loss of the money, which
the instructions of Mr. Otway exposed tosuch im
minent danger.
There is nothing new from the interior, with
the exception ol’ some trifling skirmishes among
the belligerent partiee, whioh amounted to nothing.
Gov. Artega, under orders of Gen. Zuazua, has
seized $100,0(10, on deposit at the mint at Guana
)uato, which amount the Juarez Government agreed
to repay to the parties.
Geu. Degollaao is now in this city for the purpose
of consulting with the supreme government about
the farther prosecution of the campaign against the
church party.
The duties collected in Mexioo on the five millions
of epecie by the eonducta now detained by Robles,
amounting to about half a million of dollars, have
been divided as follows :
$75,000 to Miramon ; $40,000 to Bonilla, the Sec
retary of Foreign affairs, lor salaries due from the
time of Santa Anna ; $35,000 to Governor Corona,
likewise for payment of salaries; $50,000 to others
m authority, and the rest went to fill the pockets of
those who uphold the Government. Corona. Mira
mon, Marquez, and all the Nena Sahibs ot Mexico
are living in splendid style, and in order to show
their authority, have issued a decree banishing
from the city of Mexico all English Bubjeotß resident
there.
Mr. Otway, so far, has not inteferred in behalf
of the banished subjects, but approves of the meas
ures taken, boasting that they deserve their fate.
Milan.
The importance of the capture of Milan is not to
be estimated merely by its numbers, but by its his
torical associations. First captured by the Romans
191 B. C , it. gradually grew into importance np to
the lime of Diooletiau, A. I). 303, when Maximian,
bis partner in the government, made it his capital
and transferred to it os much of the splendor and
dignity of Rome as he was able. In fact, the
Emperors of those days eo much dreaded the
assumed equality and political interference of the
inhabitants of the old capita', steeped as it was in
corruption and venality. Beautiful by natural
situation, it was selected as more convenient than
Rome, for the purpose of watehiDg the motions of
the barbarous German nations.
From that time it has been a place of importance
and mageifioenoe. It rapidly became worthy the
name and station of an imperial city, oelebrated
alike for the magnificence of its buildings, public
and private, for the refinement and taste of its in
habitants It was, in all respects the Court city of the
Emperorof the West. Here, too, it was that towards
the close of the fourth century, Ambros became
at once the Bishop of the city and the real governor
of kings and queens. Highly educated and living
in the Imperial residence as governor of the city,
he made a speech to the members of the Christian
Church, assembled in what is now the Cathedral, to
eleot a Bishop. The members were intensely divi
ded, and disputations Arian and Athana
sian, candidates, when he stepped in to urge them
to peace, not be.ng himself a member of the
Church, bnt only a Catechuman. A lad suggested
that be would make a good bishop, the multitude
caught the idea, elected him, and be was baptised
and installed forthwith, becoming one of the mast
powerful and perhaps useful of bishops, more popu
lar and more influential loan the Empress Jns'.ina,
or the Empreror Theodosius, both of whom he fair
ly mastered, chiefly through hie hold upou the citi
zens of Milan, as their bishop.
fijFrom this city he set ont ae the agent or ambas
sador of the Empress, and most dutifully and ably
Berved her interests; but when she commanded
and humbly begged for but one of his churofces for
the Arians, to whom she belonged, he scorned her
threats and entreaties, aid it soon became apparent
that a tumult or revolution would be the result of
the slightest interference with his wishes. When
Theodosius, having been guilty of a cruel attack
upon Tnessalonica, would have returned to Milan,
he excommunicated him for cruelty, aud for eight
months would not let him enter the great church of
that city, nor tben, until be had done proper pe
nance.
Sncb was Milan, an imperial city, rnliDg, in its
magnificence, even the Emperors that resorted
there. It has never decayed, as ail the other Ita
lian cities, and now it is about the only fresh, green
city of antiquity in all Italy. Its strength has
been, in part, in its weakness. Its walls and ram
parts are not such as to tempt the inhabitants to
resist large forcee, whiie ite situation, as the eenfre
of a rich country, intersected by rivers and canals,
and receiving the produce of the beautiful lakes
above, give it a wealth and peaceml greatness that
none of the other cities of Italy can claim. This,
with near 200.000 inhabitants now coming forward
and declaring, at the right moment, in favor of
Piedmont, has not only saved it from being sacked,
bat rendered it the most influential in producing a
new state of things for Northern Italy.
All ite prestige under the old Roman Emperors,
all its greatness as a city in the time of Ambrose,
all the effects of the modern policy of Napoleon 1.,
who adorned and beautified it as the great city of
the kingdom of Italy, all the struggles of 1848, and
the efforts of that day to drive back the Austrians,
now revived and their influence concentrated in
the adhesion so immediately and nniverealy given
to Victor Emanuel. One would think it impossible,
henceforth, that an Austrian prince should rule in
Italy. If nav, Napoleon will be content with the
capture of Milan and Venice, and the provinces
connected with them, there will and can be no se
rious impediment to the annexation of them to
Piedmont, and thus in prospect, to the Napoleon
Prince who has married the King of Piedmont e
daughter. We doubt, however, if matters can stop
there. Napoleon s motives, in his share efit, are
too cbvioueiy selfish for things to end in so pleasant
a manner.
A Hesvt “Run” at Billiards.— The Janes
ville Times says that Frank Parker, formerly of
Miiwankie, whose friends lately pnblished a chal
lenge to BDy person in the State, made a ‘‘run” of
5,170 points on Saturday, June 4th, on the Hyatt
House tables. It was made while playing an ordi
nary toil game, and the first twenty one points were
made “round the table;” after which, the two red
bails and the cue bail being about 18 inches from
the cashiOD. he played them eo skilfully and care
fully, as to make one thousand seven hundred and
sixteen consecutive caroms, making in ail 5,170
points. Tbe billiards were fairly made, and the
time occupied was about two hours, when Frank
being fatigued, and doubtless somewhat nervous
and excited, accidentally “froze 1 ’ them, and thus
woa compelled to “dry.up.” This is eaid to be tbe
largest run which has ever been accomplished by
any player. A gentleman in New Orleans once
made 4,144, and another in some portion of !■ lino is,
we think Galena, made very near 3,000.
F.ffict of a Dare Prison. —When the work
men suspended work on the Minot's Ledge Light
house, last fall, they put a fish, C inches :ong, into
the well room, leaving it in cloee confinement with
nothing to eat. When work was re-commenced
this spring, the fish was found as live y as ever,
having grown 6 inches during the time, but from
this long oonfiuwwt in • dark place, tt bad became
totally blind.
WEEKLY
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AUGUSTA, GA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 6, 1830.
BOOK BINDING.
Persons who wish Periodicals, Books or Music
bound, or Blank Books made, at SHORT NO
TICE, can be accommodated by app lying at the
Office of tbe Chronicle Sc Sentinel.
Meesn. Crittenden and Bell.
We cannot permit tbe report of tbe action of the
Convention in tbe 4tb district to pass without ex
pressing our surprise at, and disapprobation cf the
resolution reflecting upon Messrs. Bell and
Crittenden; statesmen,in the broadest accepta
tion of the word, of enlarged and liberal views,
tried and acknowledged patriotism, wbo bave had
few equals and no superiore in the councils of the
country for years. Such a fling at such men, men
battling in the same cause, is not only unwise and
unjust, but most ungracious and uncalled for. The
country boasts no purer patriots than John J.
Crittenden, of Kentucky, and John Bell, of
Tennessee, both men who have the honesty and
independence to maintain and advocate what they
believe to be right, aud their duty as patriots and
Southern men.
Tbe StephenH Dinner.
Saturday last the dinner to the Hon. A. H. Ste.
phens, which had been in progress some weeks,
came off, on which occasion he delivered a speech.
There were but few persons present, except from
this vicinage, and the entire number, including
ladies, from what we learn, was probably fifteen
hundred to two thousand—perhaps not exceeding
the smaller number. In the course of the speech,
Mr. S., we learn, announced himself in favor of
the repeal of the laws against the slave trade, and
the revival of that trade ; and also in favor of the
repeal of the neutrality taws, so far as relates to
our Cuban oousius, which being simplified, means
that he is in favor cf seeing the fillibusters rob
Spain of her territory. These, we understand, were
the only political questions touched by the speak
er—the remainder of the speech being devoted to
self-laudation, and a modest appreciation (?) of his
services to the country, in which he was eo profuse
that some fears are probably entertained whether
the government can possibly make any progress
without the aid and counsel of this new-fledged
Demccra!.
Death of a Vetcran MtsstoNAßY.-jßev. Sam
uel A. Worcester, for a third of a oentury a mission
ary of the American Board, died at “Park Hill,
Cherokee Nation, on the 20th of April. He com
menced his labors in that pait of the old Cherokee
country which is now ein rao:-d within the limits
of Georgia, but when the Indians removed to their
present home he went with them.
f St. Louis Christian Advocate.
Many Georgians will recollect Mr. Worcester,
Missionary, who aspired lo martyrdom, in his op
position to the enforcement of the laws of Georgia
over the Cherekee Nation of Indians, then witnin
the limits ot the State, for whioh he was sentenced
and sent to the Penitentiary for a term of years.—
On his arrival with others who were eonvioted and
sentenced for tbe earns offence, Governor (Gilmer)
offered all a pardon, on condition that they would
leave the State and cease their opposition to the
entoicement of her laws. AU accepted the pardon
and were released, except Worcester, who seemed
to desire to be made a martyr of, in which the Stats
gratified him to his heart’s content, and after re
maining in tbe Penitentiary near two years, a
change came over the spirit of his dream, the glory
of martyrdom ceased to fascinate him, heacoepted
the pardon, was released, and departed hence,
doubtless “a wiser and better man.”
Gi’sceriCM nt Cost.
Those who desire to purchase cheap Groceries,
are refered to the advertisement of J. C. Dawson,
who announces his purpose to sell out his extensive
stock at oost. Such an opportuniry to obtain
bargains rarely occurs.
linywoodtH Bnlui of Snvnnnali.
What a beautilul name! We should think, with
such an euphonious name, it would only be neces
sary for a gentleman who has a dilapidated head of
hair—the Ladies nevor have occasion to use any
Buoh thing—to keep a bottle in his apartment, to
have bis head cleansed and the hair rejuvenated
ami invigorated. At any rate, such is our own con
fidence we may (ry the experiment, and if there are
any who may be skeptical, we refer them to tbe
advertisement.
A. C. Walker Declines. —The Hon. Alexan
der C. Walker, who was nominated by a Con.
vention, as the Democratic candidate for the
Eighth Congressional District, hss declined the
nomination.
Knickerbocker Mngiizine.
The July number of this favorite monthly is at
hand. A periodical of such long standing as “ Old
Kniek,” and so popular with all who love a pure,
healthy literature, needs no commendation from us.
Its own merits will oontinue to insure it a hearty
welcome, as they have done for many years. The
present number has several very interesting arti
cles—among them, “New York Illustrated,” “Ro
mantic Aspects of California and India,” “ The
Seat of War,” tbe continuation of the pleasing
Btory entitled “Tbe Romance of a Poor Young
Man,” with ether articles in prose aud poetry; Lit
erary Notices; and last, though not leas’, a well
filled Editor’s Table.
Terms : Three dollars a year, in advance; two
copies for $5 00 ; three copies for SO.OO. John A.
Gray, Publisher, New York.
Macon. —Mr. Barnett infoims tbe Telegraph
that tbe censue now taking will show a population
of over eleven thousand in the city of Macon
proper. This is au increaie of about thies thou
saud in the last five years.
More Gold Discoveries.— Late accounts from
Britieh Columbia state that geld bad been dioover
ed iu Vancouver Island, and miners were making
$4 and $5 a day. Tbe gold is said to be coarser
than tbe Fraser River deposits. A rush may be
expected to that region, as soon as speculators ran
get up an excitement
Cotton Bolls— Mr. John Hillman, of Quit
man county, bos shown us a number of cotton
bolls, fully grown, which were taken, on the 2<ith
inst., from a sprout from a root of last year’s
growth—in sugar plantation parlance, a “ratoon”
stalk.
The Democratic Party in Texas and Vir.
oiNiA.—The Austin (Texas) State Gazette says that
“if the democratic party cannot sustain (he rights
of the South against the attacks of republicanism,
the barrier to a universal disseveration is at once
broken down.” The Richmond Whig admits that
the republicans in Virginia hold the balance of
power, and that the democratic party, to secure
the loaves and fishes, “gravitates” to black repub
licanism. The last mentioned journal states that
Mr. Letcher s nomination wasmude fur the purpose
of winning the support of this balance rs power,
and by its aid was he elected. Put that and that
together.
Major Ben McCulloch, late United States
Marshal of Texas, is a prodigy. He not only re
signed bis ofiioe, but upon settling bis accounts,
the government found due him $lB (16 more than
be claimed. During the Beven years he was in
iffice, he disbursed SIOO,OOO for the government!
and collected under executions and judgments
about half a million more, aud yet he did not steal
a dollar nor hold on to a large sum under the pie
text that he had off sets against tbe government.
Another Victim. —Hon. D. F. Robinson, ex
member of CoDgress, from Chanibersbnrg, Pa.,
district, died Friday from a disease contracted at
the National Hotel in Washington in the spring of
1857.
Sailed for Europe.— The Bteamsbip Fulton
sailed from New York, Saturday, for Havre, with
$1,002,719 in specie, and 189 passengers. The City
of Manchester, for Cork, took 100 passengers aud
$75,000 in epecie. The North Britton, from Quebec,
Saturday, for Liverpool, took 50 cabin and 25 steer’
ege passengers.
Insect Ravaoes.—A gentleman who recently
travelled from Lexington, Va., to Lynchburg, eays
that toe (oreßts on the road, particularly in tbe
vicinity of the former place, are literally swarmed
with locusts. He received several large branches
of trees completely riddled by these insects in ma
king deposits of their eggs. The grasshoppers in
the neighborhood, as stated by the Telegraph, “are
chawing every thing up.” Stalks of wheat are
stripped cf every blade, and green corn, potatoes,
and even tobacco, are devoured with astonishing
rapidity.
A Peep at the Men in the Moon.— An Italian
savanafter six years’ trial, is said to have a sur
face for photographic pictures, perfectly free from
irregularities, capable of distorting the most imper
ceptible lines of a photograph, and to have taken
on this surface a photograph of the moon, on which
figures of naked animals are depicted, one species
of which bore a great resemblance to human nature-
Postal Regulation.— lt is stated that in oonae
quence of the irregularity of the Southern mail, the
contractors have beeD privately notified that here
after, bids for service must contain the provision
that finee for cases of delay will not be remitted
under any circumstances.
Boston Southern Steamships. —The Bostonians
are raising money for steamships to Southern ports.
They have obtained subscriptions amounting to
$175,000. Tbe shoe and leather trade subscribed
$30,000. In Savannah $25,000 have been pledged,
if that is made the terminus. Charleston is, how
ever, the favorite port; $200,000 is the amount
needed, and if Charleston raises it toe steamships
will run to that port
Hon. John M. Botts.— Thiii gentleman has de
clined a public dinner tendered him in New York
by a committee, wbo did so in view of his recent
letter on the rights of naturalized citizens to be
protected by our Government from all claims their
native land might bave on them, should they return
to it He reiterates his opinions eipreaaed in hia
first letter. r
Boiler Explosion.— Tbe steam boiler of Cbaa.
Sower’s saw mill, in C'arke county, Va., exploded
last week. The Clark* Journal say* it made a ter
rific noise, whioh might have been heard’ two or
three mile*. The boiler was thrown a hundred
yards from the mill, ploughing up the earth, and
carrying the fenoee and whatever lay in its way,
with it.
A cat belonging to Mrs. Broedhead, of Kitten
nlng, Pa., died a few days since, after having at
tained lb* advanced age of seventeen years.
senator Dougin* * Letter.
This letter ia attracting, a? it should, t-be atten
tion of the Southern press, and eliciting the com
ments of tie “Opposition” journals. Tiie Demo
cratic organa generally we presume will play mum.
As these impressions of Southern journals may
interest our readers we subjoin those of the Savan
nah Republican and Columbus Enquirer:
Judge Douglas and thi Charleston Conven
tion.—The wily politician of Illinois—or, as be is
termed by his aanerents, “The Little Giant of the
West"—has been keeping quietly within his shell
for some months past, contemplating, no doubt
with composure, the raging politics! elements
without. The wvrld was beginning to ioee sight of
him as a prospective actor on the Presidential
stage. He never Lad strength at the north, owing
to bis apparent southern proclivities ; while at the
south he had been repudiated, almost unanimously
by his own party friends for his combination with
the h reesoiiers to deteat the adminiptratiou and
the South on the Kaueas admission question.—
Within the last week, though, a wonderful change
has come over the spirit of his dream. Whether
induced by his newiy acquired strength among the
anti slavery men of the north, or by intimations
vouchsafed him in his recent journey through the
south, ostensibly in search of “a plantation under
wator,’’ or perhaps, as suggested by a contempora
ry “to have his picture taken,” does not appeal';
but certain it is that he has suddenly emerged from
his seclusion, and not content with the speed of
steam, has availed himself of the lightning, to
promulgate his ambitious aspirations. He is bold
ly in for the Charleston nomination, and is arro
gant enough to tell the Convention what he con
siders as true democracy, and to dictate a platform
as the only one upon which they will be able to
avail themselves of bis illustrious services as a can
didate. Wonderful modesty, indeed! The whole
tenor of his lightning letter shows that he is distrust
ful of the pre ent democracy—that he fears they
will fly off at some new tangent and uudemocratise
the party in order to accommodate it to the end
less variety of political sentiments that now enter
into ils composition. The stave traders—the advo
cates of a congressional slave code for the territo
ries—those who maintain that the Constitution
either establishes or prohibits slavery in the terri
tories—who question the supreme power of the
territorial squatters to settle the rights of the South
in the public dominion—all such heretics he utter
ly repudiates, and will have no fellowship with
them.
On the other had, he graciously says, that if the
democratic party shall determine in the Presiden
tial election of 1801) to Bdhere to the principles em
bodied in the compromise measures of 1850, and
ratified by the people in the Presidential election of
1752, and reaffirmed in the Kansas-Nebraska act
of 1754, and incorporated into the Cincinnati plat
form in 1850, as expounded by Mr. Buchanan in
his letter accepting the nomination, and approved
by the people—in that event he will condescend to
accept the nomination of the party and be their
President, if the people should elect him.
Now, all ibis we take to be nothing more nor
less than a fling at Mr. Buchanan—an intimation
that the administration wing of the Democracy,
against which he has been warring for months past,
has departed from the true faith, and abandoned
the time-honored principles and measures of the
party. And, furthermore, we are bound to infer,
that in the tace of tbisehametul dereliction, be and
his Anti Lecomptcn Pressed followers of the north,
have, alone, presented a noble contrast of devotion
and fidelity to the principles of the party. This is,
again, exceedingly modest!
But suppose tue Charleston Convention should
follow Senator Dongles’ advice—should adhere to
the Compromise of 1850, the Kansas-Nebraska act
of 1854, and the Cincinnati Platform of 1850, and
nominate him for the Presidency, pray what will
have been gained by the South ? What boots it to
her to obtain the shadow and give the substance to
her enemies—to get a name and sacrifice a thing 1
So long as these measures mean one thing in the
mind of Mr. Douglas aud the opposite in the honest
interpretation of the South, how can she benefit by
making him President to carry out his interpreta
tion aud oppose her own? Has the South not
already had enough of this infamous Kansas swin
dle ? Did not Douglas’ view of it array him against
her in the last Congress, aud throw him, absolutely
and in fact, into the arms of the Black Republicans,
who shouted bis praiseß trom the Mississippi to the
St. Lawrence, anil who, by his co operation, de
feated the administration and the South in their
efforts to bring Kansas into the UniOE witii a slave
ry conetitution ?
We think the Sou’h has been duped long enough
on the slavery question, by the Democratic party.
They have raised issues aud pasaed measures under
the pretext of protecting her rights for the last ten
yeais, and the sequel has proved that it ail was but
a cunningly devised scheme to keep themselves in
power, and to expose her to the tender mercies of
tier enemies, and to make her the laughing slock of
the world. We ere greatly mistaken if the last card
in this game of deception is not pretty well played
out. The people see the fraud, and since all has
been lost, they begin to fed it in their own inequali
ty aud degradation. The cry of, “Elect me and
save Kansas,” we hope has had its day.— Savh.
Republican.
A Very Important Declaration.— The letter
of Judge Douglas, which wc copy to-day, has great
significance in it. It is u distinct aud emphatic
announcement that he and his friends will not go
into the Charleston Convention, or be bound by its
action, unless it adopts the platform of Squatter
Sovereignty ! He elates the case very ingeniously
and shows conclusively that the whole paity is
committed to this doctrine. In his allusion to Mr.
Buchanan’s letter of acceptauce and his interpreta
tion of the meaning of the Cincinnati platform and
Kansas Nebraska bill, Mr. Douglas is siily sarcastic
upon those Southern Democrats who are now re
pudiating Squatter Sovereignty and contending for
protection to slavery in the Territorieß. He pretty
well establishes tiie fact that he elands by the posi
tion of 1854 and 18513, while they have deserted and
denied it. Upon this issue, there is no doubt that
be will be sustained by a majority of the Northern
Democracy i and there is no more doubt of still
another fact—without the co-operation of Douglas,
the Democracy stand no chance to secure a single
Northern State in the Presidential contest of 1860,
it indeed they can obtain a majority in a single
Congressional District.
In view of this decided stand by Douglas, and
of its inevitable consequence if the Southern De
mocracy take ißsue with him, it becomes a very
important aud urgent query: What will the De
mocracy of the South do about it? We believe
that they will substantially yield, next year , to the
requirements of the Little Giaut. But we are glad
that Dosglas has announced this Btand now , bs
cauee it makes the issue which he presents a very
important if not a paramount one. Politicians can
no longer dodge it, because Douglas is a formida
ble aspirant for the honors of the next Presidential
term —the only delegates yet selected to the
Charleston Convention are open friends of his, and
the indications are that he will secure the votes of
two-thirds of the Northern deleg”tioDß—this very
letter will greatly help him to do it. Let every can
didate for office, then, be made to commit himself
distinctly upon the question of Squatter Sovereign
ty aid supporting Douglas. The people may rest
tssured that those who refuse to show their hands,
contemplate a concession to Douglas and bis doc
trine. Lot none Buch obtain office, for the “princi
ple” advanced is, in effect, nothing but highway
robbery upon the South, in comparison with which
the Wilmot Proviso was mere genteel swindling.—
Columbus E nquirer.
In this connection, it may be proper to introduce
the impression of the New York Herald, the oigan
of the Buchanan wing of the Democracy in that
city:
The Charleston Convention—The Douglas
Manifesto. —The frank, bold snd unmiatakeable
position of Mr. Douglas, as declared in his Wash
ington manifesto of Wednesday last, in reference
to the Charleston Convention, relieves us of every
doubt so far as he is involved as a Presidential can
didate. He will accept the Charleston nomination
with his platform of local popular sovereignty over
the Bubject of slavery in the Territories; but if the
Convention shall interpolate into the party creed
“ such new issues as the revival of the African slave
trade, or a Congressional slave code for the Terri
tories, or the doctrine that the Constitution of the
United Staten either establishes or prohibits slavery
in the Territories, beyond the power of the people
(Territorial) to control it as other property,” tli6n
he “will not accept the nomination if tendered”
to him.
Th’s is the ultimatum of Mr. Douglas. He has
seen enough of the slippery tricks of these party
conventions, aud will no longer trust them. These,
ho says, are my principles. Adopt them and lam
with yon—r- ject them, and lam against you. This
is fair, aud we rather like the movement, because
it cuts down the trading and juggling of the con
vention tricksters to a very narrow margin. Mr.
Douglas does not intend again to risk the chance'/of
being sold out for a mees of pottage. Anew tea
ture is thus int oduetd into the arbitrary and dicta
torial conventions, which reads tons likeaueciee
setting them aside and superseding them through
the independent movements of the various candi
dates. — N. Y. Herald.
English Crickexers— Eleven Englishoricket
players sre coming to this country, in September
next, to play against cricketers, of America and
Canada. They will play two matches in Montreal,
one in New York, and one in Philadelphia. Par.
ticulars of the matches are not yet arranged, but
the whole affair is under the supervision of the St
George Club, who are to pay all the expenses of
the English players. The first match will come off
in September, on the St. George Cricket Ground,
which is now being constructed for them in Hobo
ken, at the expense of about $2,000. The eleven
English players, we learn, are to play against twen’
ty-two American cricketers in their matches here
and in Philadelphia, and the same number of Cana
da men at Montreal.
Douglas in Maine. —The Bangor Times says
that more than four hundred delegates to the Maine
Democratic State Convention, which assembles at
Bangor on the 30th of June, have now been chosen,
and in the proportion of at least two to one they
are in favor of electing delegates to the Charleston
Convention who will vote for Stephen A. Douglas
as the Democratic candidate tor the Presidency in
1660, and of a platform which clearly defines and
endorses popular sovereignty. _
Macon 4l Bbunswick Railroad.— The Pulaiki
Timet of June 30th says:—“On Friday last, some
thirty or forty hands belonging to Dr. Collins, from
the Savannah & Gnlf Road, passed through town on
their way to the Macon &. Brunswick Railroad, to
commence operations on a contract that Dr. Cellins
has upon this Road. We learn that the most of the
located line of the Macon & Brunswick Road is
now under contract, and that operations will soon
commence on it.”
The Horticulturist says that “the difference be
tween the knowledge and consequently the enjoy
ment of a true admirer of flowere, and the senseless
being whose only pleasure consists in dusting a
prime donna with them on the stage, is so great as
to be almost unfathomab e.”
Congressional Nomination. —Toe Opposition
Convention in the 4th district nominated Col. W
F. Weight of Newnan, as their candidate for
Congress. Col. W. accepted the nomination in a
brief and pertinent speech to the Convention. The
nomination is said, by the Atlanta press, to be a
good one.
Laying thf. Corner Stone. —The corner stone
of the new German Lutheran Church, on Walker
street, was laid yesterday by the Masonic Fraterni
ty, with appropriate ceremonies. There was quite
a large concourse present to witness the proceed
ings, bnt as we conld not be present we cannot
make a mors extended report
What is a Lesal Tender? —The following
are the provisions of the United States law pres-
legal tender:’’ Gold coins and silver
dollars for all sums; half dollars and smaller silver
coins, for eums not over $5. and three cent pieces
for sums not over 30 cents. No provision is made
for cents, which may, therefore, be refused.
Annual Convention or the Young Men's
Christian Association. —The Charleston Courier
of the 29th inst., has the following :
Theßixth Annual Convention of the Young Men s
Christian Association will meet in T r ov N Y on
the 13th of July. ’
R. C. Gilchrist, Esq., of this city has been chosen
the Orator. The Charleston Association wiil be
represented by eight delegates, who will leave on
the 6th inet. The delegatee from Augusta and the
West will meet them in Columbia that afterucon,
so as to take the Charlotte train at C o’clock.
All will then travel on in company, picking up
recruits along the road, and visiting in turn the dif
ferent Associations of note.
It is expected that this will be the largest Conven
tion yet held, as the railroad Imee along the whole
route have, with becoming liberality, made such
arrangements as will permit the delegatee to go and
return for one fare.
Fourth District Convention.
The delegates to the Opposition Convention of
the 4tb district met in Newuan on the 29th ult.—
The Convention was organized by appointing S’ T.
Johnson, of Troup, President, and C. H. C. Willing
ham and A. Black Secretaries.
The Chair apppointed the following gentlemen, a
committee of one frem each county to prepare mat
ter lor the consideration of the Convention:
From Fulton—J. P. Hambieton.
From Carroll—B. M. Long.
From Heard—B. D. Johnson.
trom Meriwether—E. C. Mobley.
From Troup—H. G Tate.
From Clayton—J. V. Woodson.
From Henry—Judsou Johneon.
From Coweta—T.D. Goodw n.
H G. Tate moved that Mr. Preston of Fulton be
added to the above Committee. Carried.
The Committee retired, and after consultation
retured aud made the following report, which was
adopted:
The Committee appointed to prepare business
for the consideration and action of this Convention
beg leave to submit the following :
l Vhereas, The American party of Georgia has
been formally disbanded, and the principles of the
party condemned in the main by the Southern States
of this Union : snd whereas, a large majority of the
Northern wing of the Democratic and American
parties have become absorbed in the Black Re
publican party; it behoves us, as Southern Ameri
cans, as Democrats and Whigs, in Convention as
sembled, to ignore in toto any party organization
or set of political principles obnoxious to Southern
progress and Southern interest : Therefore, this
Convention, seeing the injurious effects, influences
and tendencies resulting trom the Administration of
the government by the present domiuant, or Na
tional Democratic party, do resolve—
-Ist. That we consider the Kansas Central Ameri
can, the Pacific Railroad, the African Education
and Tanfl policy of James Buchanan, as adeparture
from recognised principle, his constitutional obliga
tions, and. as seriously detrimental to the interests
of the section that was maiuly instrumental in ele
vatiug him to the Presidency.
2- That we are opposed to the Democratic party
as represented by Mr. Buchanan, for the duplicity
by which he was elected i fer the imbecility, the
dishonesty, the oi ormoua prodigality and corruption
which have marked his administration ; for the
inefficiency in asserting our just claims against
foreign powers ; for his successful attempts to sub
sidize a venal press with public money ; for his
toleration it the outrages ot the Moimoiie; for his
notorious sacrifice of ihe interests of the South, in
order to strengthen his party at the North contrary
to the professions contained in his Inaugural Ad
dress and Auuuai Messages i and lor his manifest
efforts to concentrate all the powers of the govern
rnent in the hands of the Executive.
3. That we condemn and repudiate the enormous
aud extravagant expenditures of the present Fede
ral Administration, especially in the Post Office
Department
4. That the South has nothing to hope for from
the Republican and Democratic parties, and a true
devotion to the welfare of our own ecction requires
us to oppose both; and that this Convention will
neither endorse, sympathise or affiliate with the
Squatter Sovereignty policy of Stephen A. Douglas,
or the Free Soil affinities of Bell, Crittenden and
Houston, and all others who opposed tiie admission
of Kansas under the Lecompton Constitution.
5. That we consider the institution of slavery as
having been earned by the Common Law into all
the Territories of this Union, and, as such, constitu
tional, and should be protected by Congress against
all usurpations or infractions, until the Territory or
Territories are fully admitted as a State oi States
into the Unioa.
fith. That, in the opinion of this Convention, the
passage oftlie Compromise, known as the Euglish
bill, was a cheat, a fraud and a swindle, perpetra
ted by aspiring aud disloyal demagogues upon iha
institution of slavery, and the rights of the South
7th. That in voting for tue English bill, which
prevented the admitßion of Kansas into the Union
with a pro-slavery constitution, and making an uu
important land clause a pretext for the aot—and
in failing to denounce President Buchanan as lie
pledged himself to do in every speeeli he made
during his late cauvass. if Robert J. Waiker was
not removed—Hon. LUCIUS J. GARTRELL has
falsified all the pledges so sacredly made, aud there
by forfeited all claim to the continued confidence
and support of the people of this District.
Bth. That we demand Equality in the Union, or
we will seek Independence out ot it.
On motion of F. S. Fitch, of Fulton, the report
was rece ved and adopted.
Mr F. S. Fitch then moved that B. 11. Hill be
nominated by acclamation ; which being seoonded
led to a somewhat animated discussion, in whioh
Meesrs. Fiteb, Peteisou and Tate participated. The
delegation from Troup liavmg announced that Mr.
Hill would not accept the nomination, his name
was withdrawn.
A letter was read from Mr, J S Slaughter, with
drawing his name ant pledging himself to support
the nominee cordially, when
H. G. Tate moved that Col. W. F. Wright be
nominated by acclamation, which was enthusiasti
cally carried.
On motion of the same, a Committee of three,
consisting of Messrs. Tate, Johnson of Hoard, and
B. T. Simms, ot Coweta, were appointed to notify
Mr. Wright of his nomination, and request his ac
ceptance in per. on. After a tew moments’ absence
the Committee returned, accompanied by Col.
Wright, who accepted the nomination in a brief
but spirited speech.
Alter the usual courtesy resolutions, tho Conven
tion adjourned.
A Slave Trade Argument. —ln the course of
an argument on “labor,” the N. O. Picayune
shows up the sincerity of those who would palm off
upon people who know no better, the fallacy that
an increase of slave labor is essential to the con
tinued existence of the institution. But a few
years ago these same agitators were for acquiring
more territory, lest the institution, from its rapid
incressß, would become valueless and crowd itself
to death. But to the Picayune's remarks :
“It is instructive, in this connection, to recall the
argument in favor of the admission ot Texas, used
by those who now pretend it is a duty to urge mea
sures to prevent the conversion ot Virginia, Ken
tucky aud Missouri into free Slates They demand
ed an increase of territory as a safeguard against
the destruction of the institution of slavery, from
its confinement to the region which it was then
limited. The natural increase of the bondmen of
the South was a cause of alarm. It would render
the slave valueless, aud prompt measures to get rid
of the burden of tire support of the institutioa.
“Now, we are in danger from the want of slave
labor. The demand of tire cotton States to ■ slaves
is about to convert slave States into free coinmuui
ties.
“Fortunately this subject of supply and demand
will regulate itself. The present eager struggle at
every sacrifice to increase the production of cotton
must ere loDg reduce the price by over production,
and the profits of this species of agriculture being
diminished, the demand for labor, at least at present
prices, must decline. India at peace will inorease
its production ot this staple. She is only required
to export to Great Britain one-fifth more than she
now raises to supply the manufactories of ti at
country with all their stocks. Egypt aud the Bar
bary Slates begin to extend their production. In
other regions of the temperate zone cotton is al
ready favorably introduced. Our safety is in not
speedily putting the whole cotton belt of the Union
into cultivation with that staple. We may be
thanklul that a (heck exists upon the ultimate sup
ply at mere nominal prices of blacks, to people the
wilds of the cotton growing States.”
Danger of Lucifer Matches. —The Now York
Sun says that the operatives employed in factories
where Lucifer matches are made, are subject to
a malignant, and often fatal complaint, which is
known as tiie “match disease.” It is produced by
inhalation of the phosphoric acid used in the factory
seriously affecting the jaw and teeth. The Sun
eays:
We learned from the physicians that tho disease
is quite common among these who work iu match
factories, aud that it is dangerous for any one who
has diseased teeth to be employed in the manufac
ture of lucifer matches They also state that the
disease may be contracted by those who have
diseased teeth by lighting cigars or a pipe with
luoifers, and inhaling the phosphoric acid which is
liberated by their iguitioD. It is well for people to
understand this fact, and, as the doctors say, if a
person has a diseased tooth, he or she should have
it removed at once, and thus esoape ail danger of
the “match disease.”
Land Sales in lowa.— The quantity of land em
braced in the President's proclamation, No. MO,
amounts to 1,669,501 acres, to be offered as iollows
Acres.
At Port Dodge, cn the t’oth September next ....550,2:13
At Poit Dodge, on the lUth October next.. 5t4,c02
At Sioux City, on the 3d October .584.4C0
These sales embrace-valuable agricultural lauds !
and inasmuch ns the public lends in that State are
being rapidly taken up, it is anticipated that nearly
if not quite all offered will bo disposed of at those
sales. _
Gone Over to the Mexicans.— The Buffalo
Express says that Gen. J. Hobart Ward, late com
missary general of that Mate, has received a colo
nel’s commission in the “Mexican Aitny,’ and will
soon leave this country for that service. It adds
that Gen. Ward married a Mexican lady at the
close of the Mexican war, and has strong affinities
for that country.
Texas Wool. —A traveller from Texas publishes
a letter in the Mobile (Ala.) Mercury, in which he
says that the steamer in which he took passage
down Red river had 94 bales of wool, weighing 800
pounds each, and that the wool from the clip of one
Bheep farmer for the past year sold for $16,009. He
says that the town of Jefferson, on Caddo Lake,
sold, last year, between 4,000 and 5,000 bales of
wool, and expects, this year, to sell more.
The large amount of money lately found in Co
hockeink creek, near Philadelphia, is believed to
have been stolen from the Union Bank, at Jackson,
Tenn., when the clerk, George Miller, was murder
ed. on the night of the 2d of February last. Os the
money taken, $20,000 was in noteß of the Bank,
Baid to be of the character and denomination of
those found.
Vermont, Douglas’ native Btate, has been the
first to appoint delegatee to the Charleston Conven
tion. The delegates from the State at large, were
chosen on the 16th instant—all Douglas men.
The New Hampshire Houee of Representatives
have passed a bill by a vote of 184 against 101,
punishing any body aiding in the rendition of per
sons claimed as slaves with imprisonment for five
years for the first offence aud for life for the second
offence.
The Nord, of Brussels, affirms that the Empress
Eugenie baa received an autograph letter from
Queen Victoria, in which the Sovereign of Great
Britain gives expression to the sympathetic feelings
she entertains towards her Mejeety as a regent
charged by the Emperor with high and responsible
functions, and as a wife whose husband is running
the risks of battle.
Liberal Bequests. —The late Elijah Corey, of
Brooklyn, Mass., bequeathed, in addition to former
liberal gifts, the eum of $5,000 to Newton Theolog
ical Institution; also $2,000 to the Baptist Mission
ary Union, $2,000 to the American Tract Society,
and SI,OOO to indigent Baptist ministers.
A Bad Showing for the Slave Trade.— The
Oxford (Miss.) Mercury Bays that three out of four>
or seventy-five per cent, of the imported Africans
purchased by planters in that vicinity, have* died
Reported Death of M. Belly.— lt is stated
that a private letter received with the Calfomia
mails announces the death of M. Belly, the great
French contractor in Nicaragua. Such an event,
however, could ecaroely have taken place without
iis being publicly knowo.
The Late Railroad Disaster.— A dispatch
from Chicago, giving an account of the late acci
dent on the Michigan Southern Road, Bays ;
There were about 150 persons on the train. The
stream where the accident occurred, whiob ie natur
ally but a rivulet, was swallen by the extraordin
ary rains of the previous afternoon and evening,
and the drift wood brought down by the flood
choked the culvert, and converted the embankment
into a dam. The great weight of the water,
the concussion caused by the crossing of the train,
was the occasion of the sad calamity. The train
was running at the time at the rate of ten to twenty
miles an hoar. The train coining West bad passed
over the embankment safely only three hows before
the accident.
GSURGI4 ITEMS.
The State Road. —The Atlanta Intelligencer,
of Thursday, says : “The eum of $36,000 was re
mitted, yesterday, by Col. May, State Road Treasu
rer, to the State Treasury.”
Killed by a Mule.— Mrs. May. wife of War
ren May, Eeqr., of Lumpkin co. Ga., was thrown
Irom a mule, on tbs 15th met., of which she did in
a few hours. She was a worthy lady and leaves a
arge family to deplore her sad fate.
Georgia Military Institute. —We under
stand, rays the Marietta Patriot, that the Com
mercement exercises of this institution will come
off on the 13th of July—and that the Board of
\ Liters, of whom the Governor is “ex-officio”
I resident, will meet in this city on Thursday, the
7 th of July, at 10 o’clock, A. M.
We also learn that Capt. McConnell has resigned
his post as Commandant of Cadets, to take effect
at the expiration of this term.
Fire.—We are paiued to learn that Mr. Jaoob
Lewis, of this county bad hia dwelling house aud
kitchen, with all their contents, consumed by fire
on the 28th irs'aut. Cause of the fire unknown.
—Calhoun (Gordon county ) Platform.
Florida Mails —W e are requested to state that
tue Monday's mail to Florida, by steamer, has been
discontinued. Ihere will be, hereafter, but two
mai s to and from Florida, leaving Savannah every
W edneaday and Friday, and arriving every Satur
day and Tuesday.
Tue e earners St. Maiys aud St. John*, eo long
en K a B e d on this route, will continue the mail service
aliuded to above.— iSavh Rep.
Supreme Court. — body will convene in
this city to day. Judge Lumpkin, Banning and
Stephens are all in attendance, as are the Messrs.
Marlin, Reporter and Clerk. Among the legal
fentlemen from a distance we notice Hon. J. L.
‘ettigru, ot Charleston, Hon. E. Starnes, Hon. W.
T. Gould, and Messrs. John K. Jackson, T VV
Millei, Geo. T* Barnes, and John P. C. Whitehead
ot Augusta.— tiavk. News of Monday.
An Office Abolished.— We are informed that
Gov. Brown has abolished the oflice of Attorney
lor the Western & Atlantic Railroad. As most of
the litigation for the Road, has been conducted by
local couusel. the Governor is of opinion that there
is no longer a sufficient reason why the Road should
pay a salary of S2,UU() per annum, to au Attorney,
la future, the Auditor of the Road will be rtquired
to employ local counsel to attend to the litigation
of the Road, making iu each ease a specific con
tract as to the amount of compensation which
oouneel are to receive, which is in no case to ex
ceed a reasonable lee, in case of a similar litigation
between individuals.
(Atlanta Intelligencer.
State Road Depot —We were showo by Dr.
Lewis, Superintendent of the State Road, a few
evenings since, the modus operandi of working the
machinery for extinguishing tire at the State Road
Depot. It consists of a small stationary Engine, so
situated that steam can be let into it at any time
frem the large engine whioh drives the machinery
of the Shops. Pi.-es and hose are connected with
this small engine in stioh a manner that water cau
be thrown to the top of any of the buildings, in
eluding the depot. This is a good arrangement, and
renders the danger ot fire to the State Road pro
perty, a matter of small consequence.— Atlanta
Inlet.
Georgia Made Engine.— On Thursday last, the
uew engine recently manufactured at the shops of
the Macon &. Western Railroad in Macon, made its
first trip ta Atlantu. It is a beautiful piece of ina
obiuery, and, so far as we are capable of judging,
iB equal to any of those brought out from Northern
shops. The engine was put up under the direction
of Mr. Dougherty, Master Machinist of the Macon
& Western Railroad. It is called the “Emerson
Foote,” in honor of the former Superintendent of
the road, now deceased. We should be gratified to
see the example of the M. .V W Road followed by
all others in our State, so that we may soon become
independent ot the North, so far as regards engines
and cars. —Atlanta Intelligencer.
Mr. Edward Belknap —We learn from our
New York exchange- that this gentleman—former
ly the principal stockholder in the Bank of Fulton,
aud, if we mistake not, at present a large debtor to
that institutioa—lias been arrested, on complaint
of the Union Bank of New York, “for fraudulently
certified checks of the Bank to the Teller,” and
held to bail in the sum of $225,000. Mr. Belknap
has executed to the Uniou Bank au assignment of
valuable property, a copy of whioh is published in
the “Herald” of the 22d instaut, together with a
statement of his transactions with the Bank, in which
he denies the charge of fraud alleged against him.
—Atlanta Amer.
Shooting Affair in Barnf.sville. —A ooires
pendent, ol the Griffin South, iu a letter dated
Baruesville, Pike county 29,h, says—Our usually
quiet village was disturbed aud our citizens shock
ed almost beyond belief last night about nine
o'clock, by the Bhooting of one Mr. Jas. W. Ryan,
of Columbus, Ga., by V. M. Fambro.of this place.
From what we can learn of the difficulty, it was
unsought on the part of Ryan—the whole affair was
comtnenoed and carried on to a shooting point by
Fambro. Mr. Ryan is a leader of the Brass-band
of Columbus, aud was in this place teaching a
band. He seems to bo doing very well this morn
ing, and is thought not to be in much danger, un
less inflammation should take place. The bail en
tered his lett breast just below bis collar bone, and
is thought to be lodged in the ribs or shoulder
blade ; the physician probed it about three inches,
but could not extract the bail. Fambro has fled.
A Long Leap and Wonderful Escape.—A
remarkable occurrence took place at the Pulaski
House, in this city, on Tuesday last. A Bmall col
ored girl, about three or four years of age, wan
dered up into the third etory and entered a room,
the door of which was open. Immediately aftei
wards, the door wae violently closed by the current
of air, aud the child, frightened at the idea of being
locked in, made for the window by whioh a chair
was sitting, and made the fearful leap, olearing the
iron railing which surrounds the building, and
falling upon the stone pavement. The moat re
markable part of the affair is, that the child was
taken up perfectly sensible, and, without any
personal injury, with the exception of a flesh cut
over tho left eye, aud a slight contusion of one hip !
We saw it yesterday, in company with the attend
ing physican, Dr. Fiah ; it was quite comfortable,
talked freely of the occurrence, and will doubtless
be running about again in a day or two. Such an
escape is truly miraoulous. As its head struok
first, being a darky, perhaps it is indebted to that
fact for its life! — Savli. Rep.
Shooting Affair in Dawson,
A friend in Dawson, Terrell count!, tends us the
following account of a shooting affair at that place,
on the 20th ult. His letter is dated June 24th :
Ou last Monday evening, a Mr. JobuT. How
ard, residing near the village of Chick&oawhatchee,
iu this county, shot a Mr. McCaskill, a carriage
maker, residing in Morgan, Calhoun county, under
the following circumstances :
McCaskiil had been to Sumter county on a visit
to bis wife’s father, and was on his return to Mor
gan last Monday. On arriving at Dawson, he
stopped at a grocery and got diuuk. Howard was
also in Dawsoti, and was probably under the influ
ence of liquor McCaskill was induced to bet the
borao and buggy that he wub driving against twenty
dollars, that Lis horse could out trot Howard’s from
this place (Dawson) to Dover, (another village iu
this county.) a distance of seven or eight miles
The money being staked, tho parties started on the
race—Howard taking a friend with him in ihe bug
gy in which be was riding. Howard and his friend
arrived at Dover in advance of McC’arkill. Howard
alighted from h:s buggy, and when McCaskill drove
up to where lie wae,demanded tbe horse and buggy,
stating that ho had won them. McCaskill refused
to give them up, stating that they were borrowed.
Howard then drew lus knife and cut the reins
between MoCaskili’s hand and the horse, then
commenced to cut the traces. McCaskill asked
him not to cut the harness, but that if he was de
termined to loose the horse, to unhitch the traces
Howard told him that it was his horse and buggy,
and that if he denied it that be would shoot nim.
McCaskill made some reply, probably denying that
it was Howard’s horse and buggy. Howard told
him if he repeated it, that he would shoot him.—
McCaskill did repeat it, and Howard shot him witii
a pistol, the bail entering the left shoulder, just
above and wounding the sternal end of tiie clavicle,
or collar bone, ranging downwards and lodging in
the back of the shoulder. McCaskill had aiighted
from the buggy, while Howard was cutting the
traoea , eome ut the spectators Ray tied drawn hia
krife. He lingered about twenty-eight hours after
being shot.
Howard has since given himself up to a Magis
trate, and entered into a bond of two tbouesnd
dollars for his appearance at. the next term of the
Superior Court.
The Coroner's jury rendered the following ver
dict : “That the deceased came to his death from a
wound by a p’stol inthe hands of Jno. T. Howakdi
and that Howard it guilty of manslaughter.”
Itemed Mintes Mail Service in Georgia,
The contracts f'-r mail service expired yesterday.
Upon enquiry, we learn that the Postmaster Gen
eral had not yet given an answer to any of the
railroad companies of this State, upon their offers
to carry the mails for five yearn from this day.
There are, then, no oontraoia at tbiß moment tor
mail service. We are glad to learn that the several
companies, unwilling to put the departments or t,.s
publio to inconvenience, will continue to carry ihe
mails as heretofore, and wait a reasonable time for
anew era.
It ie said that anew line for carrying the m&ilB
between the commercial cities of the North and
New Orleans has been established—namely, from
Charleston to Fernaudina by steamer—across tbe
PonlnßUia ot Floridu, by the Florida railroad, snd
from Cedar Keys to New Orleans by steamer We
cannot credit the statement, because the Florida
railroad is not yet finished. Only one hundred
miles have been opened, leaving a gap of forty odd
miles yet to complete the road to Cedar Keyß. We
do not know bow long it will take tbe company (of
which the Hon. D. L. Yulee is President), to finish
the road, but we suppose the work is not going on
smoothly, in consequenoe of the failure of the com
pany to pay tbe Interest, due March last, ou its
Freeland Bonds. Such interest remains due and
unpaid up to this time, and we learn that tbe com
pany seems quite indifferent on the subject.
But with the line of road finished all the way to
Cedar Keys, it appears to us quite certain that the
route, so far as mail service is concerned, will
prove an utter failure. The mail going south can
be carried as heretofore, through Augusta to Mont
gomery by rail—from Montgomery to Mobile partly
by rail, but for tbe greater part by stage ; and from
Mobile to New Orleanß by steamer, in less time,
and with greater certainty than it cun be carried
over tbe new Charleston, Fernandina &. Cedar
Keys route. And, beyond all question, the service
between New Orleans and New York, can lie more
speedily performed by the great Western Route—
via Jai keen, Grand Junction, Chattanooga, Knox
ville, &c., than by tbe Fernandina route. It this
new route has indeed been istabliehed, it cannot
last over a year; for, in a year from this time the
Charleston be Savannah Road will be opened.
Then, to keep up the line with any, the remotest
idea of success, the steamers must start from Sa
vannah instead of Charleston. We prophesy that
the failure of the new route will be s', signal as to
call for rebuke to the Post Office Department and
all concerned in leading the Government into it.—
Savh. Rep.
The Turf. —Another Match Race. —Another
match race, for $2,000, was run between Bil)
Cheatham and Tar River, over the Fashion Course
L. 1., on Monday la3t. The Virginia horse waa
beaten. The Herald gives the following descrip
tion of the race:
First Heat. —Tar River had the inside and took
the lead, but soon relinquished it to Cheatham, who
retained it throughout tbe remainder of the heart
by a leugth, winning by about that distance. They
ran tbe first mile in 1:56, the second 1:55, aud the
third l:63t—making the entire heat 5:42.
Second Heat.— The odds were now greatly in
creased on Cheatham, and one hundred to twenty
went beggiDg. There was in reality, however, no
reason for suuh extravagant odds. Cheatham soon
took the lead alter the start, and at the quarter
pole wae about a length in advance. Tar closed on
him on the back stretch, and lapped him at tbe half-
mite pole, where be lay around the turn and up the
home stretch until they reached tbe stand, when
they were bead and head. Going into tbe eecond
mile Tar River went in front about a length, and
retained it to the three-quarter pole, where Cheat
ham lapped on his Hank, but was unable to pass
him, and Tar came up the home stretch and passed
tbe stand one length iu advance, making the two
miles in 3:42. This advantage be retained until on
the back-stretch, when the contest become fierce,
and Cheatham lapped Tar and made an unsuccess
ful attempt to take the lead. They ran into the
borne stretch in this way, Tar still leading, - wh® n
another and more successful effort was made by
Cheatham, who went by Tar and won the heat by
a length, in 5:38. The following is a summary .
Fashion Course, Monday, June27,match $2,000,
three mile heats. . .
J. Bevin named br. h. < i 2
O. P. Hare named br. b. Tar R'vor 2 2
Time 5:42—0.0c.
The Virginia boree
weight than tb yuiolinu nag.
WEATHER, CROPS* <skc.
Crops Extract of a letter from Montgomery
county, dated Juno 27th :
in^aimreßpn 6 ! sll fkundant. Farmers are becom
in* good connTr ,hat ‘ ht, y cannot keep their crops
Cotfon has noi IOD ’ ? orn crops are flouriehiri.
be but sparse* 51 ,eV,Ved muoh ’ The
vore? e by £ om H eMt[ —W bsvc f ‘
with the annexed note whieh ? °o V T COTi
from that section. The leTtete- SXd E9W9
Concord, N C., June “7 , ■ , ,
quantities of wheat were swepUff by^erilehe
part of the county some of the farmers
their entire crops by ihe euddsn rise at th. m ° 3t
on the night of Sunday, I9th inst tSI corn SE
bottom has also been e-rioualv injured ” ‘ 1
[ Charlotte, (A. C.\ Bulletin.
Hcg Cholera — Make s strong solution of Biue
Stone soak the corn in it -say twelve hours toed
your hogs with it—snd all that will eat freelv of it
™‘" r , e ?f er fro “ tbe Cholera. So eays a Jefferson
county farmer. —Sandersville Georgian.
H? RN . —lu P aasin K a lew miles down the
Danke ot the river yesterday we were surprised at
v,.u undanea ud luxuriance ot (he corn. We
p.* uudosity to measure one stalk on Mr. (>ii
which was fourteen feet high.
Some of his and Judge Holme's fields surpassed any
„“vJ 8 MVer Baw ia wire-grass country. Wo
n-ver saw corn grow so thick and viaorou’ before
—Macon State Press, July 1. *
Ihf. Late Frost—Reliable reports from the
th . e ° enlrftl mform uMhat
?h^ y the r<wt 01 tbe sth lustant, is much
ornnofMnir,f“ a The wholewheat
f S J onroe , waa cut “bort at least one half, and
‘t “ “®" o Us | y apprehended that they
fill sufficient quantity for seed next,
fa! . The corn was cut to the ground, but has put
out again and looks as well as could he expected -
Charlottesville ( la.) Advocate. 1
Receipt for Testing Eggs -There is no did!
cully m testing eggs. they are mostly oxamineu bv
a candle. Another way to tell good eggs Is to nut
them in a pail of water, and if they are good th-v
will lie on their sides always ; if bad, they will etaud
on their small ends, the large end always upperraod
unless they have been shaken considerably, when
they will etaud either end up. Therefore n had
egg can he told by the way it rests in the water—
always eiid up, never on its side. Any egg that
lies flat is good to eat, aud osn be depended upon
The Hog Epidemic Reviving —A fatal epidein
io ie prevailing among hogs belonging to a distillery
near Auburn, in this State. Tho hogs were im
ported from ttie West about five weeks sinoe, and
were one thousand seven hundred 111 number, of
ail sizes and of different ages. Some three weeks
ago the disease made its appearance. On the ti st
day thirty hogs died, aud tiie number increased to
one hundred aud fifty- end two hundred hogs per
day. They were attached suddenly, and died with
in three minutes. A post mortem examination, we
are told, ehowe that the epidemic effects the hogs
differently, aud that etrychuine is not the cause -
All kinds of medicines have been used, but ihey
reluse to act. One thousand hogs have thus died
within the last two weeks —A’. Y. I'os:.
Singular Circumstance—A Man Arrested
for a Murder Committed Tiventy Four Years
Ago.—A striking instance of the certainty of pun
iehmeDf whioh. sooner or later, never fails to follow
upon the commiseiun of murder, came to our
knowledge yesterday. It ee mis that a little over
twenty-four years ego, a irmn namrnl C. B. Ivey,
residing in Roane county, East Tennessee, con
ceived a dislike to a sister iu-law residing in that
oounty, aud murdered her iu a deliberate and cold
blooded manner, lie waa arrested for tiie crime,
tried, convicted, but owing to eome palliating cir
cumstance connected wi-b the affair, instead of
being exeouted was sentenced to tbs penitentiary
for hie. Shortly after his incarceration in jaii,
however, he effected hia esoape aud made bis way
to Arkansas, where he settled on the Arkansas
river, and resided up to within a few weeks post.
During his residence in Arkansas—a period of dome
twenty two years—he married a highly respectable
lady of that State, bocame the father of a family,
the owner of a largo plantation, and was honored
by his fellow-citizens with the post of magi irate
for a term of some ten years, and the duties of
whioh position he di ‘charged witii fidelity aud to
the general acceptation of the oitizsus [le also
became connected with, and for years was a lead
iug member of one of the promiueut Christian de
uoiniuations of the day. Surrounded by his fami
ly, possessed of an abundance of t iis w irl is goods,
and enjoying the tsleem and confidence ot his
neighbor, aud a large circle of trieuds, ha lived in
fancied eecurity. iiaving lour since ceased to fear
that tho hand of justice would ever tra • him to
his far removed position from ths scene ot the mill
der he had committed. But tiie sppoaruuce at his
luime, about two week sines, of au offinsr, armed
with a requisition from the Governor ot th i S ato
whose iawe he had outraged, at onoe and forever
dissipated all hie assurances of eafety, aud without
resistance he yielded biinseif up to the official's
custody. Ho arrived iu this eity last eveniug, !:>
charge of the person who traced him out, and will
be conveyed at once to It iane county, taking t’
day’s train on tiie Memphis and (Jliarleetou rail
road. —Memphis Bulletin, of Tuesday.
A Plain Talk for the Renegades— A very
interesting controversy is going on just at this time
between two leading Democratic organs—the Co
lumbus Times and Miltedgeville Federal Union —a*
to the merits of those Kuow Nothings, who tqr.jj
fright and have obtained refuge in the Dcinoty atie
camp. To the renegades themselves, it iv very
oomforting aud complimentary, and we hope they
will read it for their edification. We trike a para
graph from tho Times, which gives a pretty fair
idea of the controversy. It says ;
We protest against the editorial of the Federal
Union of the 28th inst., under head oi “New Lights ”
We would ask our neighbor, would it not he better,
instead of making remarks which would condemn in
the totality of its sweep, all those who, leaving tbo
Kuow Nothing ranks, joined the Democracy— to
make invidious dietiuotiona, and call names, so that
there might be a chance for those obnoxious to tiie
oharge, io replying, to bo taunted wilh the sueer,
that a guilty conscience needs no accuser. The
Union says “it intended to speak disparagingly of
those men who hung to Sam’s skirts as long as lie
had a orumb to toss them, and who onma to Vn-i
Democracy for the purpose of getting office, ot fai!
iug in that, of rnuiiug the party.” Who are those
men ? Our c.‘temporary seems to kuow them or
else it could not not stop tossy, that they “have
given the Democracy alt the trouble they havo lied
for a year or two past, aud the only good they can
ever do the party, to repay it ill some degree, tin
the injury they have inflicted on it, is to leave it at
once and forever.” Thou who are they? Asa
sentinel on the watohtowor of lihsrtv, and holmv
iDg as the Union does, that the principles of the
Democratic parly are its only sareguerde, it onght
to call Gilt ttieae viilians, these enemies, who come
into our oainp to steal, or failing in that, are deter
mined to puli down the lemole over us.
Great Centre I Koine Nor I It.
Lewis Levy, Esq., has handed us t following
note from Rev. E. E. Ford, of this cjgy, now on a
visit North :
Morristown, bj. 3. t j UDO 27, 1859.
Lewis Levy, Esq.—Deir Sir ;—lf one feels die
poeed to “praise the bridge that carriaH him oaf©
over ”—how muoh mote that which carries him nice
ly and pleasantly over. It is upon this principle
that I teel Qoiut ained to nay a word or two to you
as Agent., tor what iB oalled “the Upper Railaoad
R.oute,” via Columbia, Charlotte and Ra eigh ; ijr
the information of any friends of mine in aud abo il
Augusta, who may U ooming Norlh. I can freely
say that I have never travelled the earns distance
by Railroad, as pleasantly as I have, within the last
few days, by the above named route. I lound the
Roads and ail tueir appointments iu the best con ■
dition. Conductors attentive and polite, ihe fare
as good as fa generally found, and ths o mnections
very easy and convenient; the traveller passing
from one train to the other in a very tew (teps. As
regards the region of country traversed, it is more
elevated, and I presume, more healthy than by the
lower route ; while some parted it are highly cul
tivated and picturesque, especially the distau-e
traversed on the second day from Augusta, from
about High Point and Greensborongh.N. C., which
are reao ed about day-dawn, to Weldon. On the
whole, I wad greatly pleased with this route. I ban
head 1 avorably ot it, but I found, upon trial, that
the half had not been told me of its attractl us. 1
can decidedly recommend it to my friends, in pre
ferencs to the other route
Very respectfully, your triend,
Fnw. E. Ford.
Pike’s Peak —Warning to Gold Seek/es.—
The Denver City coreaponlent oftb* Leavenworth
Times, under date of June 11th clossea his tetter
with ike following practical suggestions:—
Ist. What ia now known of this country w II in
duoe an immense emigration. Every emigrant
should supply himself with an outfit for six months.
2d. Those who come here must make up tbeir
minds to bard work. They should spend some
weeks in prospeotii g, till, at least, they steike a
go and lead. This cannot be done without a stock
of provisions—everything here commanding an
enormous price.
3d. No person should think of starting for the
mines afer September. The snows will probably
set in here by October, and the mining in a great
measure, must cease.
4*h. This is no oountry for drones. Mining is
hard work. And all who propose coining here
should make up their minds to suffer and endure.
sth. Those who are doing well where they are, I
should advise to remain. There are thousands
here already who have, ae yet been unable to find
paving olaims, and many thousands must fail and
suffer.
In conoiusijn, I would say that (he people need
provisions, saw mills, machinery of various kinds,
and mining tools, with most every essential to anciat
comfort.
Cure for the Neukaloia.— The Atia Califor
nian says, eome time since we published at the re
quest of a friend, a receipt to cure the neuralgia.
Half a drachm of sat ammoniac in an ounce * o f
camphor water, ho be taken, a o'. ~u
dose, and the dose repeated several times, * a t in
tervals of five minutes, if the pam be not r sieved
at once. Half a dozen different persons bar „ since
then tried the receipt, on the ncommenj ation of
the Alta, and in every case an immediate v ure was
effected. In one oase the sufferer, a lady , had been
subjected to very acute pains for more t’ jan a week,
and her pbyeioian was unable to alley rate her suf
sering, when a teaepoouful of tbe solution of ea 1
ammoniac In camphor water relieve and her within a
couple of minutes. Whether the rt ceipt will cure
all attaoke of neuralgia is a questir n which we can
not answer; that it will cure may ywe are well av
eured. [ __ _
Death from the Stino or a Bee.—< >u tbe 20th
ult., at LeClaire, New Yor'r, A . J. Jansen died from
the effects of tbe sting off a bee. Mr. Jansen, in
company with a friend k had visited the premises of
Mr. Maloy, who resides a short distance from
Princeton, to purchase a hive of bees. He was
stung by a bee on the neok, near the juggular vein.
After starting home he was taken violently ill. His
friends assisted him hack to the residence of Mr.
Maioy, where be died in spas ns in three-quarters
of au hour.
Government of Paris. —Tbe Editor of the Bal
timore American, who is traveling in Europe, in a
letter to that journal eeys :
• The government of the eity of Paris is a mo. lei
for the City Fathers all over the world, and for
general quiet and order is unapproachable. Eveiy
thing is kept clean and in good condition, aud the
officials are always at work cleaning, polishing and
brightening that which is bright and beautiml al
ready. There seems to be a regular system {of
everything, and even the necessary evils of a law,
city are so systematized and controlled as to
rendered less offensive and less dangerous iu P ioir
effects on the mass of the people.”
The Japanese Ambassador Not Coming 7/et.
The New York Herald says:—The first Amir .assador
to this country from Japan was expect'sr’i to have
arrived with hie euite at this port by eJt ner of the
leßt two California steamers, but it, appears from
our Japan correspondence, that ‘these illustrious
characters have postponed their v : un til February
next. So that the ladies of New, York, and tbe cu
rious of the other sex, must unsatisfied until
winter [their curiosity to oefcold the rich shawl
dad, and be jewelled md , v [q ua bi who will comprise
this novel embassy. r ghe frigate Mississippi will
probably remain at, Nagasiki until hie Japanese
fUoeliency is to start for New York.
An English missionary, now in Sumatra, lately
wrote home that he “had the melancholy satisfac
tion of examining the oven In which his predecessor
was cocked. ‘