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COLUMBUS:
Friday Morning, August 15, 1850.
I.AKUEST CITV CIKCUJL.ATION.
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Disastrous Fire.
A frieud sends us the following slip :
The good people of the town of Goldsville,
Tallapoosa county, Alabama, were suddenly
startled about 2 o’clock, a. h. on the 4th iust.,
by the alarming cry of fire, and although eve
ry exertion was made by citizens and tire com
panies, the devouring element could not be
stayed until one entire block was reduced to
ashes. Loss heavy, and no insurance. 11.
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The Charleston Hoard of Health report no
doath from yellow fever for the last forty-eight
hours ending Tuesday evening 10 o’clock.
They report two admissions into the Marine
Hospital, from the shipping, but no now cases
in the city.
About Kansas.
The Griffin (Ga.) Union says Mr. John H.
Mangham, of that place has just returned from
Kansas, where he went to examine the lands
and judge for himself the advantages which
Territory offers to Southern emigrants. lie
represents the lands as very fine, and the coun
try generally well adapted to farming pur
poses. Some of the land is well timbered, es
pecially the Indian reserve, and supplied with
abundant water. Mr. Mangham says the corn
and wheat crops are splendid, and that the
country, should law and order be restored,
promises to furnish every facility for success
in ariicultural, mechanical, and industrial
pursuits generally. He expresses great satis
faction with tho climate, fertility of soil, wa
ter, &c., and thinks the favorable one
for Southern enterprise. He says that the
proslavery men are in the ascendant, and
thinks the vote upon the constitution will be in
favor of slavery. Mr. Mangham can have no
interest in misrepresenting, and we therefore
place implicit reliance in his opiuions of Kan
sas. There are doubtloss many who have
gone there, not much inclined to labor, under
the best circumstances, and as they cannot
live there without labor, they are dissatisfied
—as they would be any where.
Lager Beer and Yellow Fever.
The Havana de la Marina, of the 23d ult.,
records the following extraordinary cure of a
case of yellow fever. A young German, at
tacked with alarming symptoms of yellow fe
ver, was sent to tho Maison de Saludof Doctor
Gans ; he refused to take the medicine pre
scribed for him, but ran away, went back to
the beer shop whore he had been previously
employed, drank large quantities of beer,
washed his person with some of the same li
quid, and arose next morning in good health.
.
Neuman’s Statue of Washington.
This famous statue of hammered sheet cop
per is on exhibition at tho Church of tho Di
vino Unity, No. 648 Broadway. The Express
says:
The statue is really a fine work of art, and
hammered as it is out of sheet copper, by a
simple coppersmith who has never had any in
struction or modeling, it is a monument of pa
tience, perseverance and skill that challenges
our warmest admiration. The statue displays
genius of a high order in the artist—genius
that should be cultivated, and deserves to be
appreciated. Wo recommend people of all
parties to go and look at the beautiful effigy
of the father of his country. *
Gerrit Smith, a man sufficiently known for
his hatred of everything connected with the
institution of slavery, is reported by the Syra
cuse Journal to have said:—“lt is a shrewd
choice, tho selection of Fremont. It is of
groat importance that ho be elected. The
question is not now a constitutional question,
but a question of blows, a war question; and
if the first battle is to be in Kansas, we should
cast aside party, and fight the battle.”
Anew Cent is to be coined containing 88
parts of copper and 12 parts of nickel, making
a coin of a darkish red color. It is to weigh
72 grains—less than half the present cent,
which is lf>B grains. This will reduco the
coin to a size more nearly corresponding with
its small value, and be a great relief to those
who uso them.
Mr. Fillmore’s Letter of Acceptance.
The Rome (Ga.) Courier of Tuesday, con
tains Mr. Fillmore’s Letter of Acceptance in re
sponse to the nomination tendered him by the
American Party of Georgia.
Buffalo, N. Y., July 31, 1860.
11. V. M. Miller, Esq.
Sir: —l have tho honor to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of tho 12th iustaut, in
forming me that, at a Convention of the Amer
ican party of the State of Georgia, held in the
city of Macon on tho Bth and 9th instant, I
was unanimously nominated as their candidate
for tho Presidency of the United States at the
ensuing electiou.
Being already in the field as the candidate
of the American party of tho Union, 1 cannot
feel otherwise than Battered and honored by
the accession of Georgia to her sister States in
the support of my nomination. My political
sentiments arc’too well known to need any re
capitulation here, aud my character and form
er services are the only pledges which I can
offer, ,thftt 1 will if elected, use my best endeav
ors so to administer the government as to re
store harmony to the conflicting sections, aud
maintain a cordial union between the States,
by giving to each and all that protection which
the Constitution has guaranteed. If my
friends believe that 1 have sufficient intelli
gence to know their Constitutional rights, and
sufficient honesty and moral courage to main
tain them, they will be satisfied with this, but
if 1 lack either, no pledge could supply the
deficiency or justify them in giving me their
support.
I accept the nomination so generously ten
dered with a grateful appreciation of the
honor done me by tho Convention, and beg
leave to express to you my thanks for the kind
manner in which you have been pleased to
communicate the result of their deliberations.
I remain your friend and fellow citizen,
Millaro Fillmork.
lion. Pierre Soulo left New Orleans last
Thursday morning by the steamer Granada, en
route for California. Capt. Mancosas and a
party of recruits for Gen. Walker’s army, were
also on board.
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
Further by the Canada.
Commercial Intelligence.
Thu Litkrdool Cotton Market has ad
vanced 1-ltid. The lower grades, however,
have improved most, the other qualities having
experienced no change. The sales during the
week had comprised 69,000 bales, including
10,000 to speculators and 9,600 to exporters,
leaving 49,000 bales of all descriptions to the
trade. Fair Orleuns was quoted at 7d., Mid
dling Orleans at 6 5-16d., Fair Uplands at 6*d.,
and Middling Uplands at 6 3-16d. Tho esti
mated sales on Saturday, the 2d inst., were
12,-000 bales, and the market was firm. The
whole stock of Cotton in port comprised 778,-
000 bales, including 644,000 American.
The Livkhrool Breadstuff's Market. —
The Broker’s Circular quotes Inferior Flour as
having declined 35., and the better qualities
from Is. a 2s. per bbl. of 196 lbs. IV heat at
4d. per 70 lbs. lower, and Corn as being steady
at a decline of 6d. per 480 lbs. Other Circu
lars report that Wheat had declined from Od. a
9d., Flour from 3s. a 65., and that prices were
irregular.
Consols closed at 95£.
General Intelligence.
We hva little novel or interesting from Eu
rope by this arrival. The accounts from Spain
are conflicting, but judging from appearances,
the Royalists have triumphed. Senor Aloseja,
the Spanish Ambassador at Paris, resigned im
mediately an hearing of the coup d’etat, but
the Queen refused to accept his resignation.—
Advices from Madrid, dated the 26th ult.. state
that all was tranquil except Sarragossa, which
was closely invested and must submit.
The King of the Belgians contradicts the re
port of his contemplated abdication.
Advices from Stockholm mention that great
excitement existed among the diplomatists in
consequence of the reclamation by Norway for
Russian encroachments on Norwegian territo
ry.
Advices from Italy state that the Austrians
were making preparations to cross the Po at
four points.
An earthquake had occcurred at the Moluc
ca or Spice Islands, in the Asiatic Archipelago,
and destroyed 2,000 persons.
Russia refuses to surrender Kars until the
last of the allied soldiers have quitted Turkey.
Congressional.
Washington, August 11.—The Senate laid on
the table the House bill to re-organize Kansas,
by a vote of 35 to 13. The Kansas Proviso to
the Executive, Judicial aud Legislative bill was
stricken out. Mr. Douglas presented an elabo
rate report from the Territorial committee
against the House bill re-organizing Kansas
and to restore the Missouri Compromise.
In the House, Mr. Campbell, from the com
mittee on Ways and Means, reported a tariff
bill, adding to the free list, Salt, raw wool be
low the value of 15 cents, and above 50 cents
per pound; all classes of drugs and dry stuffs
used in manufactures, and all raw materials
entering into our manufactures. Nothing has
been done with sugar. Its consideration has
been postponed until the third Monday in De
cember. The Hresident having vetoed the bill
for the improvement of the Des Moines Rapids,
the House passed it over the veto by a vote of
130 to 54. The Post Office and Light House
Appropriation Bills were passed. The Army
Appropriation Bill having been reported from
the Senate, with Mr. Sherman’s proviso strick
en out, it was amended by another proviso
against the employment of the military in en
forcing the acts of the Kansas Legislature, and
returned to the Senate.
Arkansas.
New York, Aug. 11. — Returns from Arkan
sas give Conway a majority for Governor of 5,-
000 votes,
Missouri
St. Louis, Aug. 9.—lt is quite certain here
that Polk and the entire Democratic State tick
et is elected. Benton did not receive 25,000
votes. Caruthers, Anderson, Woodson, Craig,
Blair, Green and Phelps are elected to Con
gress. [Anderson, Woodson, Craig, Blair and
Green are new members. Woodson and Ander
son are Know Nothings,—Blair, a mongrel—
Phelps, Green and Caruthers are Democrats. —
Craig, wo do not Know now to classify.]
Grain Speculators in France.
A correspondent of the Boston Atlas, in a
letter from Paris, speaking of tho disasters to
speculators in American grain, says :
“ It is believed that tho liabilities of M.
Place will prove even greater than was antici
pated, and that so far from being inferior to
$3,000,000, they will exceed this sum. The
Duke of Galleria positively loses a million of
dollars; M. M Ernest, Andre & Cos., Count
de Morny, the Pereires, lose about $300,000
apiece. M. Place was a marine painter before
the golden fever attacked Paris, and began his
adventurous career with nothing but wind.—
lie is said to have been the owner of those
immense quantities of grain at Chicago which
have attracted so much attention.
Homicide at Gadsden. Alabama.
Wc are permitted to make the following ex
tract from a private letter dated Gadsden, Ala.,
Aug. 6.
Day before yesterday young Whorton re
ceived a wound in the lower part of the abdo
men, from a pistol shot, in the hands of a boy
—pei-lmp fifteen years of age. This morning
1\ horton died ! The difficulty grew out of a
bet made on the Ten pin alley ! The amount
involved was Five cents ! Whorton was a wild
—dissipated, quarrelsome young man.— Rome
Courier.
Sad Accident.
Young Mr. George Cox. son of Mr. Lewis
Cox, of this county, happened to a very seri
ous accident on Wednesday, 6th inst., while
out hunting. It seems that he was looking up
into a tree for a squirrel, and in stepping
around the tree his gun, by the trigger coming
in contact with a bush, as is supposed, fired
tskiug effect in his neck, passing through his
wind pipe aud throat, and breaking his jaw
bone.
We are glad, however, to learn that there
are hopes entertained by his medical attendant
that the wound will not prove fatal.— La Grange
Reporter.
Fatal Affray.
It will be remembered that a few days since
we published a letter from Washington
County giving an account of the meeting of a
hostile nature between Dr. Williams and Mr.
Huggins which resulted in the latter’s death.—
We have before us a letter which gives a differ
ent version of the affair from the letter above
spoken of. It states that Dr. Williams called
at the residence of Mr. Huggins aud that he
came to take satisfaction on Huggins for kill
ing a cow of his. A short time after they met
in the woods accidentally or intentionally, (as
the letter on William’s part states,) when Wil
liams fired at Huggins both barrels of his gun
one of which took effect and killed tho latter
instantly—one of the barrels of Huggins’s gun
had been previously discharged at a deer.
We learn from the letter, that Dr. Williams
has given security iu the sum of SIO,OOO for
his appearance at the next term of court.—Mo
bile Tribune.
From Washington.
Correppoiuience ofthd Charleston Standard.
Washington, Aug. 11. —The proceedings of
Congress are becoming deeply interesting as
the session draws to a close. The signs of the
times are indeed painful to contemplate; and
to the reflecting mind; the perpetuity of our
political anion becomes exceedingly problemat
ical. 1 doubt not myreaders have noticed the
extraordinary debate in the Senate on Thurs
day last, nud tho solemn manner in which that
body presented to the other House the issne—
to recede from all their Kansas provisos, or
defeat all appropriations for the support and
maintenance of the army. The issue is not
presented on the merits of these provisos, but
upon the fact whether one House of Congress
has any right to force their particular views
upon the members of the other, on subjects
foreign to the bill undeT consideration—iu
other words, whether the House of Represen
tatives, ditfering with tU Senate, honestly it
maybe, on the Kausus difficulties, lias any
constitutional right to say to the Senate, “un
less you agree with us on these disputed points,
we will defeat the supplies for the public ser
vice, and arrest the progress of the Govern
ment.” Sachffasbeen the action of the Black
Republicanf&aiqnty-,in the House, and such
has been the the Senate and the is
sue presented by that body. The country will
sustain the Senate, and if the result be the
defeat of the appropriations for tho public ser
vice, one voice, loud and universal will gonp
in condemnation of the wretched revolutiona
ry action of the negro worshipping traitors’
who could thus trifle with the institutions of
freedom. The defeat of these bills may well
embarrass the government —but not Franklin
Pierce—but the government of the American
people. It will do more, however. It will
embarrass the great commercial interests of
the North, and produce a financialcrisis which
will crush out every thing like Black Republi
canism, even iu the free States. The “shrieks
for freedom’ 1 sound well in the ears of our
Northern friends until they begin to shake the
prosperity of private fortunes—until they
reach private purses—until trade and com
merce. ships and factories feel and suffer the
blighting effects—then, indeed, will there be
an “about face”—and not until then. As
Senator Butler justly and eloquently said—
“arrest the movements of the federal govern
ment—stop all its wheels and machinery--and
the country would scarcely perceive the check
—as the strength of the Union rests not upon
tho actionof federal powers but upon the might
and stability of Stat .: sovereignities.”
Some of the Black Republicans now urge
that they recede from their Kansas provisos
as they acknowledge their unconstitutionality
—others, however, declare their readiness to
run the ship of State upon the breakers. A
few days more will exhibit the facts pregnant
with the highest interests of freedom and civ
ilization. Look to the revelations.
The House of Representatives passed tho
supplemental bill yesterday, for certain civil
expenses of the Government, including among
other things an appropriation of $300,000 for
continuation of the Custom House at Charles
ton.
The sessions of the two Houses are now
from 11 o’clock iu the morning; and evening
sessions are held regularly. An immense
amount of business will be pressed through in
the next week, it being the last week of tho
session. Ivaniiok.
Important Rumors.
The generally well informed Washington cor
respondent “Ion” states:
Movements of the highest importance to the
interests of tho United States are now on foot
iu Europe, growing, in part, out of the assum
ed designs of Napoleon 111 upon Spain.
I may state, upon information not question
able, that the British government have again
urged upon Spain the expediency of the sale
and cession of Cuba to the United States. I
say again, too, pending the Ostend conference
ihe British Government favored this measure.
But now, in view of the ambitious project of
Napoleon HI. for the assertion of pretensions
to the crown of Spain, that government has
become exceedingly anxious to strengthen
Spain, by cutting off hov expensive and useless
appendage of Cuba, and by the same means to
enable Spain to improve her provinces, and be
the better enabled to s cure her independence
against domestic insurrection and foreign in
vasion.
If Napoleon succeed in his intrigues, lie will
extend his empire over both Spain an 1 Cuba,
and this attempt is necessarily to bo resisted
by England at the hazard of a war with France
—a war in which she will gladly have the Uni
ted States as an ally. The transfer of Cuba to
any foreign power the United States have been
pledged to resist ever since the administration
of Mr. Monroe.
The British government have represented to
the late government of Espartero, and the pre
sent administration of O’Donnell, that Spain
cannot long retain possession of Cuba against
the United States, and that she had better
code the island at once to the United State-!
for a proper consideration—a hundred or a
hundred and fifty millions of dollars—and thus
improve her physical and political condition.
Napoleon 111. lias, on the other hand, con
centrated a large force on the Spanish fron
tier, and is actively engaged in intrigues with
the Queen mother, Christina, whose malign
influence is felt deeply in the affairs of Spain.
A rupture between England and France is to
be apprehended on this subject at an early
day ; meanwhile England seeks to conciliate
the United States by removing every possible
cause of disagreement, and the two countries
may be soon compelled to make common cause
against the designs of France in regard to
Spain and Cuba.
A Savannah man traveling in upper Georgia
and Teuuessee, writing to the Savannah Re
publican from Chattanooga, says:
The weather is very hot and dry iu all this
country. We had a light shower of rain Sun
day, which revived the growing crops, but it
soon disappeared. There will uotbemore than
half crops made, but plenty of old corn re
mains over to do the country.
Acknowledging the Corn.
The following letter was received by a gen
tleman in this city last year, post marked Al
miranth, Fla., and liauded us for publication.
We misplaced it at the time. Having turned
up again, we give it to tho public ns a speci
men of orthography! The hand writing is
equal to the spelling :
july tho 7 1855
dar sCer ire sCved yor not long sCnse wos
vary rof but after re tleCting i mite linf ex
spcCt it sCames as es tho that es its no yose
for me to sCay enny thing at tall i not got the
mony an no ChanCe to rase it know es i hnv
don rong i am sCory i sCarv twist in the
mexing war and got too disChardis an tha
Cold for land as i tout in jni inlisting i wos
promes land bouth times an tha disChardes
wos the Clames of land i am Willing to dou
What is rite With yo but yo baut that ChanC
au tha sCay that thay doot giv but won bount
tv i did not knoW it tel her latly for i thot
that i was in title to too nothen inour at this
time an&C. t. G. B.
Disasters of a Diffident Man.
It was at a dinner in Paris. The ordinary
routine of a French table had commenced. A
regular series of servants appeared each instant
at our elbows, inviting us to partake of a thou
sand different, kinds off wine. Resolute to
avoid all further opportunities for displaying
my predominant trait of bashfulness, I sat in
the most obstinate silence, saying oui to every
thing that was offered to me, and, eating with
the most devoted application, till my fair neigh
bor, tired with my taciturnity and her own, at
length herself.beguu conversation by inquiring
liow I was pleased with the opera. I was just
raising a large morsel of potatoe to my mouth,
and in order to reply as Quickly as possibly, I
hastily thrust it in, intending to swallow it as
hastily. Heaven! It waff as hot as burning
lava. What could Ido! The ladyli eyes
were fixed upon Me, waiting a reply to her
question. But my mouth Was in a flame.
I rolled the burning mosel hither aud thith
er, rocked my head from side to side, while
my eyes, which involuntarily I had placed on
her, were strained from -their sockets. She
regarded my grimaces, of the cause of which
she was ignorant, with an expression of amaze
ment and surprize, at which I can laugh now
when I think of it.
“ Monsieur is ill! ”at length she gently and
in an anxious tone inquired. I could hear no
more. My mouth was flaying with intolerable
pain.; so, quietly abandoning the point, I open
ed it to the utmost and out dropped the infer
nal brand upon my plate. Not the slightest
tendency to risibility ruffled the imperturbable
politeness of the lady. She soothingly con
doled with me in my misfortune, then grad
ually led the conversation to a variety of top
ics, till exerting the magic influence that truq
politeness always exercises, I began to forget
even my own blunders. Gradually my cheeks
burned less painfully, and I could join in the
conversation without the fear that every word
I uttered shared the fate of the actibn I at
tempted. I even ventured to hope, nay, to
congratulate myself, that the catalogue of ca
lamities was completed for the day.
“ Let no man call himself, happy before
death,” said Solomon, and he said wisely.
The Ides of March arc not yet over. Before
us stood a dish of cauliflower, nicely done in
butter. This 1 naturally enough took for a
custard pudding, which it very much Tesem
bled. Unfortunately my vocabulary was not
extensive enough to embrace all the technical
ities of the table, and when my fair neighbor
inquired if 1 was fond of corfleur, I verily took
it to be the French for custard pudding, and*
so high was my panegyric of it that my plate
was bountifully laden with it. Alas, one sin-!
gle mouthful of it was enough to dispel my il
lusion. Would to heaven that the corfleur had
vanished with it. But that remained bodily,
and as I gaze despondently on the huge mass
that loomed almost as large and burning as’
Vesuvius, my heart died within me. Ashamed
to confess my mistake, though I could as read
ily have swallowed an equal quantity of soft
soap, I struggled manfully on against the
mountainous heap at its base—shuting my
and opening my mouth, to inhale as large
masses as I could without stopping to taste it.-
But my stomach soon began intelligibly enough,
to intimate its intention to admit no more of
this nauseous stranger beneath its roof, if not
even expelling that which had already gained
admission.
The seriousness of the task I had under
taken, and the resolution necessary to execute
it, had given an earnestess and rapidity to my
exertions which appetite could not have inspir
ed, when my plate having got somewhat over
the edge of the table, upon my leaning for
ward tilted up, and down slid the disgusting
mass into my lap. My handkerchief, unable
to beav so weighty load, bent under in its turn,
and a great portion of it lauded safely in my
hat. The plate instantly righted itself, as I
raised my person and saw as I glanced my eye
round the table, that no one had noticed my
disaster. I inwardly congratulated myself that
the nauseous deception was so happily dispos-l
ed of. Resolved not to be detected, I instantly
rolled my handkerchief together, with its re-,
maining contents, arul whipped it into my
pocket.
The dinner-table was at length deserted for
the drawing-room, where coffee and liquors
were served. Meanwhile I had sought out
what I considered a safe hiding-place for my
hat, beneath a chair in the dining-room, for (
dare not carry it any longer in my hand, hav-j
ing first thrown a morsel of paper, to hide the
cauliflower, should any one chance, in seeking
for his own hat, to look into mine.
On my return to the drawing-room, I chanc
ed to be again seated by the lady by whom I
had sat at the table. Our conversation was
resumed, and we were in the midst of an anß
mated discussion when a huge spider was seen
running up her arm.
“ Take it off!—take it off! ” she ejaculated
in a terrified voice.
I was always afraid of spiders; so, to avoid
touching him with my hand, I caught my pock
et-handkerchief from my pocket, and clapped
it at once upon the miscreant, who was already
mounting over her temple with rapid strides.
Gracious heavens! I had forgotten the caulU
flower, which was now plastered over her facd
like an emollient poultice, fairly killing the spi-i
der, and blinding an eye of the lady—while
little streamlets of soft butter glided slowly
down her neck and bosom.
“ Mon dim ! Mon dieu ! ” exclaimed the as
tonished fair one.
“ Mon dieu!” was re-echoed from every
person’s mouth. .
“ Have you cut your hand ! ” inquired one<
“No! no!—tho spider—monsieur is killing
the spider.”
Well might the company be astonished : the
spray of the execrable vegetable had spattered
her dress from head to foot. For myself, the
moment the accident occurred, I had inechani
ically returnod my handkerchief to my pocket,
but its contents remained.
“ \\ hat a monster must if Lave been,” ob
served a young lady, as she helped to relieve
my victim from her cruel situation, “I declare
1 should think he had been living on cauli
flower.” ,
At that moment I felt someone touch me,
and turning, I saw my companion, who come
with me.
, “Look at your pautaloons,” ho whispered.
Already half dead with the confusion and
disaster I had caused, I cast iny eyes upon my
own white dress, aud saw, at a glance, the
horrible extent of my dilemma. I had been sit
ting on the fated pocket, and had crashed out
the liquid butter, and the soft, paste-like veg
etable, which had bedaubed and dripped down
them, till it seemed as if it were actually dis
solving my pantaloons.
Darting from the spot, I sprang to the place
where l had left my hat; but, before-1 could
reach it, a sudden storm of wrath was heard
at the door.
“ Sucre ! bete ! sac-r-e ! ” the r in the first
syllable being made to roll like a watchman’s
rattle, mingled with nnotliei; epithet and name
that an angry Frenchman never spares, was
heard rising like a fierce tempest without the
doors. Suddenly there was a pause, a gurg
ling sound, as of one shallowing involuntari
ly—ilnd the storm of wrath again broke out
with redoubled fury. I seized my bat and
opened the door, and the whole matter was at
once explained ; we hail exchanged hats— and
there’’ he stood, the soft canlitlower gushing
down his cheeks, blinding his eyes, filling hi,
mouth, hair, mustochios, ears, and whiskers
Never shall I forget that spectacle. There he
stood astride, like the Colossus, aud steeping
gently forward, his eye forcibly closed, hi,
arms drooping out from his body, ana drippn,,,
cauliflower and butter from every pore. c
1 staid no longer; but, retaining his hat, \
rushed from the house, jumped into a ‘fiacre
and arrived safely home, heartily resolvin'-
that I would never again deliver a letter of i a .
troduction.
Kill or Cure.
At the Marquesas Islands, when one of their
number is sick the medicine they give is a cos
tin ! They lay it alongside of a sick person
and if he is really going to die, it helps him
off. If not, it starts lum up !
A missionary who was lately on one of th te
islands, states that the people are now increas
ing iu number, which he attributes to the intro
duction of firm-arms. Formerly when tho,
fought with clubs, their warfare was very do
structive; but tho muskets were so sure t
kill that they fought two miles otf, and wlei
they had discharged their muskets both par tie
ran ! When he discovered this, lie encourage]
them to buy guns, and he supposed there w a
one to every man on the island.
Open the Way.
Some years ago, wlion the narrow skirl
were in fashion, says the New York Times
certain good people built a church up town -
In order to get as many seats as possible, the
slips were made pretty narrow. This Ims’ oc
casioned great inconvenience of late ; but wa
got along with as well as possible, until a fat
weeks since, when four ladies, wearing those
huge whalebone skirts, became wedged iu oia
of the slips, and were drawn out with great
difficulty. The trustees had a meeting” an]
at once resolved to come up to the age, at]
workmen are now busily engaged in remodel
ing the building—so that a similar accident
will not be likely again to occur.
The Foreign Trade of Turkey.
The effect of the despotism of the Turkish
Government is nowhere more apparent than in
the limits which it indirectly imposes upon
production. Agriculture in Turkey is just f
about in the same state as in the time of Abra
ham, Isaac and Jacob, carried on without in
telligence, and a mere matter of routine.
According to Ana Bone, the Bulgarians tab
best care of their land, aud the rich harvest:
of Servia show to what.they might attain wen
it not for the crushing despotism of the Cot g
erument. Few farmers in Turkey have tin
capital; necessary for successful cultivation,
and those few are compelled to hide their rich
es or to take them out of the country. The
Turkish Government has, besides, done noth
ing like what is necessary for country roads
it is almost impossible, when crops are raised,
to get them to market, and the tribute levied
on them is not left out of account. The trad:
of Turkey is, therefore, exceedingly limited.
In the year 1854, France exported to Turku
only to the amount of $4,000,000, while lie:
exports to Belgium, Sardinia, Switzerland, Si
cily, Holland, Tuscany aud Lucca, although
these countries have only two-thirds the popu
lation of Turkey, amounted to $50,000,00!’
So the exports of England, in 1864, were ti
Turkey $14,000,000, to Egypt $6,270,000, ad
to Syria and Palestine $1,830,000. If we tab
into consideration that at the beginning oftfe
present century the commerce of Greece, is- j
eluding Macedonia, Epirus and Thessaly, with
1,400,000 inhabitants, amounted to only $4,-
400,000, while the present kingdom, with i
million of inhabitants, has a commerce of SB.- -
000,000, it is clear that a free government!: -
highly favorable to trade with foreign coun
tries.
Have Mercy on the Children.
The Independent, in an article on the phy- 1
ieal degeneracy of the American people, ,
speaks as follows:
“ The child’s will governs too much. If the;
do not choose to go to bed they sit up ; if tin;
choose certain articles of food they must hav \
them, parents forgetting that instinct is nos#;
guide in a child, whatever it may iu an anius
So we see them in their delicate organization
keeping late hours when they should go to be
with the birds ; sleeping often in warm at
lighted rooms, when the sleeping room shou. 1
be cool and dark; and eating hot bread, pm j
ding, and cake, and drinking tea and coffeei
the infinite detriment of nerves and stomacl
The injury done can never be repaired; a‘
machine imperfectly constructed at first, o
never be made to run faultlessly.
“ This is the secret. Parents should to’
that instinct is no safe guide to a child, par’
cularly when the child is surrounded on
sides with poisonous delicacies. To ask
child at a modern table what it will have, w
give it what it asks for, merely because it as*
for it, is a very common practice. But it
as cruel as it is common. Have mercy on fi
children.”
Horrid Murder.
On last Thursday, about ono o’clock.
young lady named Ann Melissa, daughter
Mr. Richard Taylor of Stump Sound distric and
Onslow county, was found not far from k ~
father’s residence, having evidently been mur
dered within an hour of the time when she
found. The marks on lier person indican ~
that she was choked tc death, marks of fin?
ers being upon her neck which was also ‘
swollen. The deceased was an exceeding; 11
amiable young lady, and very much respects j
The occurrence has caused a deep sensation I
the neighborhood. The excitement is ven |
great: Miss Taylor was about nineteen ye” J
of age.
Suspicion attaches to a young negro fe’
belonging to Mr. Neheminh Taylor. There j
no positive proof, but circumstances an
such a character, that he has been taken ; j
and is now in the Jail of New Hanover count, j
for safe keeping, to await his trial at the a : £
term of Onslow Superior Court.— Wilmin'<;> ,
(N. C.) Journal.
A writer in the British and Foreign Medi j
Ohirvrgical Review, who has made upward
3000 observations with reference to respin' ll !’ j
and.pulsation in consumption, draws the k S
lowing inference, among others:—That the Si
ting and standing postures in consumption 1 i
for more expenditure of power, and ten’
produce more subsequent exhaustion than
health, aud the laying posture would save ’
strength- The effect upon respiration is
less and especially iu tho stauding posture-’ 1
Hence tho latter practice tends farther to CJ J
liuust the system by increasing the blood i”
tion, aud not also the entrance of nil’ ‘ nt “ 1
system. High temperature, with the acn i1 j
paniment of dry air also tends to rapid exb) 1 - |
tion by greatly increasing the blood moR
and greatly lessening the introduction ot fli ;
and on the contrary, low temperature and D:
ture increase aerification of the blood, and •’
sen the rapidity of the blood current. U'-
in consumption, a moderately cool and m
air is the most conducive to health, and’ •
hot summer season must induce exhaustion
