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COLTJMBXJS:
Tuesday Morning, August 19, 1856.
JLAKUEST CITY CIRCULATION.
City Court.
The City Court met yesterday ac
cording to previous adjournment, Judge Col
quitt presiding, and J. Hamilton, Esq., Solici
tor pro tem, in the place of J. A. Fox, Esq.,
■who is absent for benefit of his health.
Prof. Darby’s Lecture.
It will be remembered that Prof. Darby, of
Auburn, Ala., was announced for a Lecture at
Temperance Hall on Thursday evening last, by
invitation of the Mechanics’ Union. Prof. D.,
came to the city, but the night being very in
clement, the lecture was postponed indefinite
ly. On account of other engagements he was
compelled to return home, which he did the
same night. This statement to our readers,
would have been made before had we been put
in possession of the factß. No time for the
lecture has yet been set, but due notice will
be given of it to our readers.
The Alabama Journal of Menday, “regrets
to hear of extensive fatal sickness in Columbus,
Ua.” and says that the “rumor that the disease
is yellow fever, is stated to be incorrect.” Cou
pled with these remarks, it publishes a brief
account of the formation of the Relief Associa
tion of this city, which may load some to infer
that the Associatiou has for its object the relief
of the “ extensive fatal sickness,” of which the
Journal has heard.
Now wo have to state there is no extensive
fatal sickness hero : there is no foundation for
such a charge. The Relief Association was
gotten up moreover to relieve the indigent and
poor, (large numbers of whom have been
thrown upon the charity of the city) and not
for tho relief of persons laboring under the
“fatal sickness” whose existence here is news
to our citizens.
Errors Corrected.
We published yesterday, a dispatch to the
Augusta Chronicle, to the effect that tho
“Americans” in Washington, Northern nnd
Southern, were about withdrawing Mr. Fill
more. Finding it, as we did, in a stanch Fill
more paper without a word of comment or a
doubt of its authenticity, we of course pub
lished it. But the Chronicle publishes a dis
patch next day from Hon. N. G. Foster of
Georgia, saying that tlio whole statement is a
fabrication of “whole cloth”—not true; and
tho Chronicle accounts for its silence by saying
that the dispatch was received at two o’clock
in the morning, after the editors had gone to
bed, and was inserted without their knowledge.
The editors were caught “napping.” But there
is a great deal of fun growing out of this false
dispatch which we cannot withhold from our
readers. ’Several democratic editors swal
lowed the thing whole (as we did) and ac
companied it with long winded editorials, say
iug that “ was just what they expected,” “they
knew it would be so,” aud could “have pre
dicted it a month ago ! ” Isn’t that rich ?
The other false rumor which wo have to
correct (brought by telegraph also) is in rela
tion to the Kansas prosecutions. The report,
says a late dispatch, that President Pierce re
quested Judges Lecompto aud Cato to resign,
and that they have been removed, is unfound
ed. Noither is there any ground for the state
ment that the prosecutions in Kansas for trea
son and other crimes are to be quashed. Mr.
Ucary accepted the Governorship on no such
conditions as alleged.
Our exchanges are very discordant in tlieir
telegraphic accounts of the bill recently passed
in Congress regulating the pay of members of
Congress. The amount to be paid them for
each entire session is put down by oue paper at
S3OOO, by another $5,000, and by another $6,-
000. We presume the first named sum is cor
rect.
Jonce Hooper Backed Out.
The editor of the Columbus Daily Sun chal
lenged Hooper publicly through his paper some
week or teu days ago and as we have seen no
acceptance in the Mail, we infer thnt Jonce
will not faco the music. We thought Hooper
had more spuuk than to be backed out in that
style.
It is proper to statu that the challenge was
to write a long, prosy, dull editorial aud not to
sniff burnt gunpowder.
We have been much amused at the serious
manner in which some of the papers speak of
it. The Mobile Advertiser seems to regard it
us a very serious affair, and takes occasion to
read editors generally a lesson on tho impor
tance of “keeping cool” when the thermome
ter stands at 96 in the shade. There is no use
in being alarmed, for if the duel is fought the
only sufferers will be tho readers of tho Sun
und Mail—two of the most valuable papers on
our exchange list. —Eutaw (Ala.) Whig.
Wish to gracious there was some way of
putting a laugh on paper. We had a real hear
ty oue on reading the above. We don't ex
chnuge with the Mobile Advertiser and had
uot seen tlieir serious construction of our chal
lenge. But let that paper be easy. We are
a</in duelling, where we are to be the target;
and as to fighting Jonce Hooper with anything
else than a good steel peu, we wouldu’t think
of it. Jouoe Ims a spare spot iu our bosom,
aud we wouldn’t hurt a hair of his head. But,
like the Whig, we did think lie had some spunk.
Hie fact is Jonce eun’t write a dull article.
Nothing conies easier to us: and there we have
him. We give him however two weeks more
to take us up.
Sfallow Fever in Charleston.
Offjob of Board or Health, l
Friday Night, 10 o’clock.
The Board of Health report that there have i
been two deaths from yellow fever, in the Ma
rine Hospital, (among the cases previously re
ported,) and that there has been no new cases
for the past twenty-four hours.
J. L. Dawson, M. D.,
_ City Register.
The Tornado.
The storm of wind aud rain which visited
our city and its neighborhood on Wednesday
night, was a veritable tornado, leaviug very
visible traces of its passage, by the destruction
it occasioned, which would not be less proba
bly than SIOO,OOO, in addition to the items of
damages we have mentioned.— Baltimore Clip. |
per 16(A. r
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TELEGRA.PHIC
FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OP THE BALTIC.
COTTON ADVANCING.
Telegraphed for the Daily Bun.
Colombia, Aug. 17, j
Tho American steamship Baltic, arrived at [
New York to-day with advices from Liverpool jj
to the 6th iust., being four days later than the i
Canada.
Cotton is reported firm with a good demand
and tendency upwards.
Consols 655.
The news from Spain is, that Saragossa had
surrendered.
The Storm at New Orleans.
New Orleans, Aug. 14.—A tremendous
storm of wind and rain commenced here on
Sunday, which has hardly yet abated. Im
mense damage has been done, all the streets of
the city having been flooded. The waters of
Lake l’onchartrain were blown back, submerg
ing the plantations along tho Jackson Railroad
for many miles, and causing enormous loss.
Aug. 15—Accounts from Lake Ponchartrain
confirm what Las been already reported, and
the storm extended up the river so far as any
news has boon received. The survivors of Last
Island, in’the Lake, have arrived in the city.
Many of those who escaped witii tlieir lives are
seriously bruised and wounded, and it is said
that the bodies of the dead were robbed by a
band of pirates who infest the Island. It is
supposed SIO,OOO were lost in this way, be
sides $5,000 worth of baggage on the river.—
The estimated loss of property on the Island
by the storm is SIOO,OOO. The crops of corn,
cotton, and sugar are injured to nn extent that
cannot be estimated.
The Texas steamer Nautilus is not heard
from, and the Texas has been sent in search of
her. The Perseverance and Galveston, other
steamers running between this port and Gal
veston, have arrived in safety.
The banks at Bayou Sara caved in, carrying
away several dwellings, but no lives were lost.
At the Government Hospital, atihiton Rouge
14 inches of water fell on Sunday morning.
The telegraph lines Lave received much
damage from the storm.
Several vessels have been blown ashore at
the mouth of the river. The British schooner
Manchester, from Belize (Honduras) went
ashore on South Point. She reports a large
fire, by which half a million of property was
destroyed at Belize, a few days before she left
that port.
It is reported that thirty dead bodies have
been found in one end of Paillou Island, but
no definite particulars have been received.—
Many lives have doubtless been lost, however.
The latest accounts received from Last Is
land, report the number of lives lost on that
Island by this storm, as one hundred and nine
ty.
From Washington.
Aug. 15.—The House has passed Penning
ton’s diplomatic aud consular bill, but it is not
likely the Senate will this session. The ocean
mail appropriations were considered, and an
amendment adopted giving the Collins line no
tice of discontinuance of extra compensation.
This bill will certainly be lost, if tho amend
ment is persisted in.
The bill fixing the compensation of members
of Congress at three thousand dollars per an
num, has been passed.
The bill establishing a Naval station at
Brunswick, Ga., has also beeu passed. [Pass
ed which House ?]
Gen. Joseph Lane has been offered, but de
clined, the Governorship of Oregon.
The Cabinet have not ordered the suspension
of the Kansas prosecutions, as was reported.
Aug. 16.—The Senate has passed the bill,
as amended by the House, making the pay of
members of Congress five thousand dollars for
the session.
The Civil Appropriation bill passed the Sen
ate last night, with another amendment, ap
propriating 3:750,000, ror the capitol exten
sion.
Revolution in St. Domingo.
Advices from Sau Domingo state that a rev
olution was in progress, growing out of the
terms of the Spanish Treaty, which favors the
descendants of Spaniards, who, being most nn
merous, desire to hold the Spanish flag again.
The citizens and soldiers wore hastening the
Spanish Consul to get registered as Spanish
Citizens. Great excitement exis is, and the
tribunals and public buildings were closed and
suspended. The President and Cabinet were
threatened to resign. The Foreigners and Lib
erals were looking anxiously for a Govern
ment vessel to protect them. The Liberals
say that the Spanish flag shull never again be
hoisted where the Spanish Consul is opposing
the ratification of an American treaty, and
thwarting the American Consul in all his mea
sures.
Straight Whig Convention.
Albany, Aug. 14—The Old Line State Whig
Convention met here to-day, being largely at
tended. The convention was organized by
calling Franois Granger to the chair. Very
large delegations from New York and Brook
lyn are present.
The convention, this afternoon, adopted an
address and a series of resolutions addressed
to the \\ bigs ot New Y’ork. They are strongly
antagonistic to Buchanan and the platform of
the Cincinnati convention ; and Col. Fremont
and the platform of the Republican party on
account ol the sectional character of the par
ty-
I lie nomination of Millard Fillmore is warm
ly endorsed, the belief being expressed that
his election will scoure domestic tranquility
and national prosperity. The American plat
term is not endorsed, but the \\ hig organiza
tion and the principles of the party are main
tained.
1 lie resolutions were adopted unanimously
and with great enthusiasm.
A full delegation was chosen to represent
the State in the National Whig Convention to
assemble in Baltimore in September.
Mr. Granger spoke warmly iu favor of Mr.
I illmore, atter which the convention adjourn
ed with much enthusiasm.
Missouri Election.
Bt. Louis, Aug. 12—Sufficient returns have
now been received to warrant the announce
ment of the election of the following State tick
et :
Governor, Trusten Polk ; Lieut. Governor,
Hancock Jackson; Attorney General, lienj.
P. Massey; Auditor. F. B. Ewing; Treasurer.
W. 11. Buffiugtou.
The above are all Democrats, aud it is con
ceded that their majority will average seven
thousand.
The Congressional Districts have all been
heard from, and the n w delegation, it is be
lieved, will stand 5 Democrats and 2 Ameri
cans, not counting Akens, who is elected sim
ply to fill n vacaucy.
The regular newly elected delegation is as
Follows: Ist Dist. Blair, Republican; 2d do.
Anderson, American ; 3d do. Greene, Demo-
crat ; 4th do. Craig, Democrat; sth do. Wood
son, American ; Oth do. Phelps, Democrat,
(re elected ; 7th do. Cnruthers, Democrat, (re
elected).
The Legislature will be Democratic, but not
largely so.
Texas Election.
New Orleans, Aug. 15.—Partial returns
from Texas have been received in this city.— j
They indicate an increased Democratic rnajor-
TERRIBLE CALAMITY!
LAST ISLAND SUBMERGED.
137 PERSONS SUPPOSED TO BE HOST.
WRECK OF THE STEAMER STAR.
The Survivors Clinging to the Wreck.
From the N. 0. True Delta.
In our evening edition, yesterday, we notic
ed a floating rumor of the partial inundation
of the favorite Louisiana watering place on the
Gulf coast, in the Parish of Terrebonne, known
as “ Last Island.” Little did we imagine that
the sad reality would turn out to be a thousand
times worse than what only seemed to be an
idle rumor. The arrival of the Opelousas train,
yesterday evening, from Bayou Boeuf crossing,
enables us to lay before our readers the fol
lowing sad particulars.
Last Island, as many of our readers are
aware, is a small island on the Gulf coast, in
the Parish of Terrebonne, between twenty and
thirty miles in length, scarcely a mile wide in
any part, and but slightly elevated from the
sea. It is of a horse shoe form the, convex
side facing the Gulf. The concave, or what
is called the rear or back portion of the Island,
is cut up into numerous bayous or back bays,
all connecting with a shallow lake in the rear,
which, in turn, connects with the Gulf at each
end of the Island. Where the principal hotel
stood, and the numerous cottages erected in its
vicinity lor the convenience of the summer vis
itors, the Island, from the Gulf side to the
back bay, is but a few hundred yards wide.
The wind being from the southward and east
ward, suddenly swept the waters of the Gulf
around the east end of the island, rapidly fill
ing up the back bays and lakes in the rear.
So sudden was the rise, that for some time it
is said the waters from the rear rose at the
rate of a footaminute! While the waters in the
rear were rising with such fearful rapidity the
waves from the Gulf side of the narrow strip
of land were making fearful breaches over the
ridge, and thus, before the unfortunate resi
dents bud time to prepare for escape, if even
that were possible, or to contemplate their
perilous position, they were hemmed in between
the rush of waters in front and rear. Many,
it is said, sought safety in the hotel and other
buildings adjacent, those buildings being con
siderably elevated. This, however, furnished
them with but a temporary asylum, as the
houses were soon washed away, buryluw all
those who sought shelter in them in one com
mon ruin.
The steamboat Star, that has been running
during the summer as a semi weekly packet
from the terminus of the Opelousas Railroad,
at Bayou Boeuf, to Last Island, and which was
at anchor in the bay, was blown ashore a few
hundred yards from the hotel, and soon became
a total wreck. Some of the survivors on the
island succeeded in reaching the wreck, many
of them in a disabled state, and were clinging
to it at last accounts, as the forlorn hojTe of
existence. A few, it is said, escaped in small
boats that came from the back bay and lake
to their assistance. A number of small boats
in attempting to reach the sufferers on the
island, were swamped, all hands perishing.
As soon as the melancholy news reached Ber
wicks Bay, the steamer Major Aubery was got
ready, and hastily provided with every thing
requisite, and senttotbe relief of the sufferers.
Tho officers of the Opelousas Railroad have
been instructed by the President of the road to
furnish every facility and aid within their
power, regardless of the expense or trouble,
to the returning survivors.
We have been furnished with a list of names
of those who are to a certainty said to be lost,
but we forbear announcing them this morning
with the faint hope that the information ob
tained may, in some instances, prove incorrect.
The return of the Opelousas train this evening
will enable us to give fuller and more correct
details.
What changes—frequently sad and melan
choly—a few weeks often bring about. But a
few short weeks ago, we formed a portion of
the visitors to Last Island. The beauty, wealth
and chivalry of our State were there congre
gated, all seeming happy and joyful, and now
—but wc must draw a veil over the sad and
sickening contrast.
Since the above was put iu type, wc have
received the True Delta of a day later, but it
contains nothing additional of essential iterest,
except the names of the lost, which wc give
below. The list, it must be borne in mind,
gives the names only of those lost at Last Is
land. Nows had not been received from Grand
Caillou, another popular island resort, which
has shared a similar fate with Last Island.—
Our telegraphic column contains some details
not included in the True Delta’s report.
LIST OF THE LOST. *
Thus. Miller, wife and two children 4
('apt. Ocliiltro, wife ami seven chi1dren........7.0
Mrs. S. Landry, two children and four svts.... 7
Mrs. Antonio Como, llvo children and three
servants n
Mrs. Pruett, two children and two servaut.*.7 5
Mrs. Dnrsiue Renstrop and daughter o
.Mr. Turner aud wife .j
Mr. aud Mrs. Read and child 7.77777777.’ 3
Mrs. Flash and sister .......7. -
Mrs. Tlios Maskill three children nnd servant.,')
Servant of T. Ellis 4
John Muggah, wife and two childroii"7777 4
James Muggah umksou
A. M. Foley and wife o
Mrs. Crozier and three servants 4
S. C. Bcutty, wife aud two children 777. 4
Mrs. Bardcs and servants o
Henry Landry and three 5ervuiit5.77777777..7'. 4
Mir lieu I laindry 1
Joseph Dugas .7.7.7
Ulysses Simonien..„ 7.7.77”'.’ 1
Captain lhuuchtt 77'.7.777 1
lnlant child of W. N. Pugh .7.777777 1
A. Feihl, wife, child ami servant 4
0. liranenhurg
wm. ltoeheii 77717777777 i
Captain Itatier 7.'...'..'.'.’.'.'.'.'.7'.'.'. 1
A. Unman Jun 7.7
Mr. and Mrs. Royster 77.7.7 •>
A child of Mr. Ette ‘777777.777 1
A child of Mr. lSernnrd “ j
A servant of Mr. Marsh 77.7777.77.'.'.'.’ 1
Mrs. Gerard and child 7. •> i
Servant of Dr. Hawkins ..77777777777 t
O. Miller, wife und child ’7777 7 3
Mrs. Koumage.., .....'..'.’.'...7.7 1
Mr. Voison and daughter •>
M. Babin .7.7.'."77 7
Mrs. E. Babin
Mrs. Bell 77” I
J. Snyder
J. Fitzpatrick 1
Servant of U. A. Bryant 7777777777 1
Two children of Mr.” Bouliton 7777.77.7 •’
P. Robenett 7.77 1
Total
* All those who were on the Isiaiid'nt the “time of the
storm, whose names are not in this list, were clinging to !
the wreck of the steamer Star, when the pilot of the
Star left the wreck.
The Hon. Rufus Choate of Massachusetts,
has published a long letter favorable to Mr! j
Buchanan.
From California.
We glean the followingintellige g 0 from San
Francisco papers received yesterday.
The Alta California, in its summary ot the
news of the fortnight ending on the 21st ult.,
has the following notice of recent conflagra
tions in Califori ia : .
Ou the sth of July, a most lamentable mis
fortune befel the town of l’lueerville. A lire
broke aud destroyed one hundred and eighty
six buildings, which, together with other pro
perty, were valued at about $600,000. The
town was nearly all burned, and Mr. Benhnm
perished in the flames, while several others
were injured. Collections tor the sufferers are
being taken in various places.
On the Bth, the village of Georgetown, l’la
cer county, was consumed by fire, and the loss
is estimated at SIOO,OOO. Seventy building
were destroyed.
I On the 12th, the town of Fair Play, El Do
rado county, was burned, involving a loss of
$70,000.
On the 16th, a disastrous fire took place at
Marysville, aud consumed a large number of
buildings, valued at $160,000.
A despatch from Nevada, giving an account
of the destructive conflagration at that place on
the l'Jth of July, says :
Every hotel, church, livery stable, printing
office, and every business house, with few ex
ceptions, were swept away. Out of twenty
six lire proof brick buildings, but six escaped.
The court house, recently completed at an ex
pense of over fifty thousand dollars, was de
stroyed, with all the county records. It is es
timated that over eight liundredbuildings have
been consumed. At lcastten persons are known
to have perished in the flames, besides those
unknown and unheard from.
The following are some of the names known
up to the present time have been burned to
death : F. Hendrickson, from Albany, N. Y.;
A. J. Hagan, Louisville. Ky.: Jay Jobuson,
Buffalo, N. Y. ; S. VV. Fletcher, Massachusetts;
W. I’ierson, of Democrat office, Boston ; 11.
Yates, Wisconsin; Wm. Wilson and J. 0.
Thomas, Rochester, New Y’ork ; burned, since
dead. The bones of others have been discov
ered.
Wm. F. Anderson, editor of tlie Democrat,
and his brother in law, G. A. Y’oung, are bad
ly burned. It is impossible to give a correct
estimate of the entire loss at present, but it
cannot fall much, if any less than two millions
of dollars. A list of individual losses exhibits
the destruction of $750,000 worth of property,
not to mention four churches, courthouse, &e.
Such an unparalleled scene of destruction has
never before been witnessed in the State. The
few dwellings left on the bills round about are
full of families, many of them having escaped
with nothing front the flames.
Rough and Ready, San Juan and Cherokee,
have very liberally subscribed and made pro
positions for the relief of the sufferers.—
Though Die once proud city of Nevada has been
wiped out, her citizens are not of a kind to
despair. The axe and the hammer are break
ing the stillness of the Sabbath in various parts
of the ruins. New buildings are going up
among the cinders, and more are contracted
for, and tlie lumber is arriving on the ground
already.
Franklin College.
The Trustees have determined to sell the
Botanical Garden.
To enclose the Collego grounds with an iron
railing, to lay them off into walks and adorn
with trees.
Also to educate young men for the Ministry,
by giving them their tuition free. To give the
tuition free to ten young men from the State,
one from each congressional District and two
from the State at large ; from the applicants’
the Facuity are to select.
The Valedictory is to be given to the best
speaker among those wlio take any of the hon
ors.
To allow those young men to rise with their
class who may fall below the average standard,
if they have been punctual, studious and of
good deportment.
To enforce rigidly discipline among the stu
dents in the Chapel grounds, and while in
our town.
All officers of the College are strictly enjoin
ed to carry out this last, and any neglect to do
so, the Prudential Committee or Resident
Trustees are authorized to convene the Board
of Trustees that they may dismiss the delin
quent officer.
The Trustees filled the vacancies in their
Board by electing P. M. Nightengale, Esq., D.
W. Lewis, Esq., B. 11. Hill, Esq., and Judge 11.
Benning.
The degree of D. D. was conferred by them
on the Rev. S. K. Higgins, of Columbus, the
Rev. J. R. Thomas, of Oxford, and the Rev. J.
K. 8. Axson, of Greensboro.— Banner.
Resignation of Dr. Church.
We learn from tho Athens Banner, that
Dr. Church, President of Franklin College,
handed in his resignation at the late meeting
of tho Board of Trustees cf the Institution,
to take effect tho first of January next. We
learn that a Committee was appointed by the
Board to wait upon the President, and urge
him to continue his connection with the Col
lege.
Much as we respect Dr. Church, wo hope he
will not he persuaded to remain. After all
the wrangling of the last few years, we think
lie but consults his own quiet and the interest
of the College by retiring— Augusta Chroni
cle.
Cullum’s Spring.
Our interior watering places have been un
fortunate this season in having robberies com
mitted upon tlieir place of deposites. At
. “Lauderdale” a very large amount was lately
j abstracted but most fortunately recovered:
and now wc have tidings of a very heavy ab
-1 str action of funds from the iron safe of Mr.
I Charles Cullum, as will be seen by the gub
! joined extract of a letter from that gentleman:
Cuj.i.um’s Springs, Aug. 11.—Gentlemen:
Sixteen hundred and twenty-three dollars and
and ninety cents was stolen from out of the
: icon safe in my office, an entrance to which
j was effected by some person or persons, as yet
unknown, entering the window of the room of
Mr. Redwood and abstracting the key of the
safe from the pocket of his pantaloons, which
were hanging at the footing of his bed while
he was a sleep. Suspicion rests on two free
negroes whom I discharged from my hotel Inst
! Wednesday, and who were heard to saj* that
they were coming and were afterwards heard
in a room at Bladon counting money. I have
evidence, also, that they were seen to enter
the room of Mr. Redwood before he retired,
but as yet I have not been able to force the
boys to confess the deed. The money consists
of the notes of the Southern Bank of Ala
bama, Bank of Mobile, Citizens’ Bank and
Bank of Louisiana, nnd gold. The deposites
of tlie boarders, amounting to some SISOO or
2000, fortunately escaped the eyes of the vil
lains.
A friend returned front the Springs yester
day morning, confirms the fact that net ad. V
lar belonging to any of the visitors was taken.
He had a considerable deposito there himself. J
—Mobile Register.
GENERAL ITEMS.
The widow of Lord Byron is yet alive and
hearty. She has recently purchased the res
idence of the late poet Rogers, iu London.
The Rev. E. C. Bolles, of Bridgeport, Conti., )
has accepted the call of tho Unitarian Church,
in New Orleans, of which the Rev. Theodore
Clapp has for thirty years been pastor.
The report of a spiritual marriage of a youtg
lady at Bordentown, N. J., with the corpse of
a young man to whom she had been engaged,
is said to be totally without foundation.
A gentleman named King, a member of the
Newport Bar, died suddenly at the Belevue |
Hotel, Newport, last week. He had just Lcdp- J
ed a lady next to him at the dinner table, I
when he fell back dead.
Hogs are dying in large numbers through |
out Ohio and some other parts of the country
On examination, a portion of tlie intestine, 7
were found to be filled with a peculiar specie; ■;
of white worm.
Rev. J. 11. Graves, editor of tho Tennessei 1
Baptist and author of the “Great Iron Wheel,
was united in marriage to Miss LouisaJ,|i
daughter of Dr. George Snider, on the 31st oil ■
Jnly, t at Jackson, Tenn.
ltev. John Donnelly, a Catholic Priest, oil
Springport, New Y’ork, was killed at tlie dept,: J
of the Central Railroad in Rochester on tlie at- ¥ j
ternoon of the 9th inst., by being crushed in I
a freight train which came upon him unawares 1
In the Maine Supreme Court, on Tuesday
last, Michael Dunrow, convicted of placing#
obstructions on a railroad, was sentenced
thirty days’ solitary and twenty years iu the
State prison. This is a just sentence.
This, Tuesday morning there was about oik
o’clock au occultation of Jupiter with tiiefi
Moon, the star being hidden nearly au hour.
Occultations of planets are comparatively rare, 1
and looked for with no little interest by as- 9
tronomers.
A correspondent of the Boston Telegraili 1
says that a Fremont electoral ticket will soon 1
be nominated in Virginia, and that this demon- §
stration is owing very much to the expulsion J
of Mr. Underwood from the Old Dominion, for ]
participating in the Philadelphia Convention.
The Huntsville (Ala.) Democrat, of the 14th 1
inst., confirms the report of the death of Mr. J
Tuttle, the civil engineer. It appears that
Mr. Tuttle was taking an evening walk when
he was seized with a violent hemorrhage of j
the lungs and died in a few minutes.
At the laying of the corner stone of Cente
nary College, at Baton Rouge, La., last week, 1
a collection was taken up for the benefit of the I
institution, and $25,009 was obtained on the f
spot, being within S3OOO of the ensire sum 1
needed.
Ladies who wear hoops are kindly advised I
by the Bellows Falls Argus “to look to their J
rigging.” A few days ago the editor observed
a lady sweeping along with the air of a queen,
with about two feet of whalebone sticking our
from her dress.
The Library of the Poet Percival who died
at Hazel Green, in YVisconsin, a few weeks |
since, is to be sold. The library is said to con- j
sist of six or seven thousand volumes, many 1
of them valuable and rare, and is supposed to 1
be worth $30,000.
The Puritan Recorder, one of the chief or- |
gans of the New England Congregationalists,
contains a long manifesto issued by the Mendon 1
.Association of preachers, on the serious as- I
pect of the present slavery difficulties and ar- j
guing strongly in favor of the election of Fre- ‘
mont to the Presidency.
Capt. Gen. Concha has received the title of!
Marquis of Havana and Viscount of Cuba, in j
consideration of his services as Captain Gene- (
ral during his two terms.—i. e., the handsome j
manner in which he has oppressed the Cubans |
while acting as the tool of a rotten aud corrupt j
dynasty.
In the Criminal Court at Nashville on Fri
day last, Austly M. Stevenson, late of tlie Ju- J
lien Minstrels, was put upon his trial, for aD J
assault and battery upon his infant child.— 1
1 hough defended by able counsel, the jury j
found the unnatural father guilty, aud sen
tenced him to three months confinement in the i
city jail.
Political reports from China continue unsat- I
isfactory. In Kiangsi the Imperial troops are 1
said to have been defeated by the rebels, and j
to have lost 3,000 men, among them seven
Mandarins. In the north the insurgents ap j
pear also to have met with much success, and |
the town on King-kwo-Foo has been taken by i
them.
The Hustings Court of Richmond, on Tues 1
day last, sentenced Lott Munday, a free negro, i
to the Penitentiary for ten years. Lott wa: J
from New Y’ork, and formerly a cook on the I
schooner Dauvine. He was tried for kidnap V
ping a slave, the property of of Wm 11. Mac
farland, Esq., of Richmond. Lott has a white 1
wife in New Y’ork.
The unfavorable news for the next crop) from 1
nearly all sugar growing countries, and the I
known bad prospects of the Louisiana t crope, j
have opened tlie contract fever early this year
The New York Post says that a number cm
crops have been contracted at various price- ;
which it reports at from s2l to $23 per bos ;
of 16 and 16[ arrobes, all with more or let,
heavy cash advances.
Tlie Boston Courier predicts that horse rail’ J
roads are destined to supersede the omnibii: |
system in all large cities. The editor affirms j
that the change will be brought about, not to 1
gratify tho hopes of mere speculators and cap’ 1
italists, hut by common demand of the people-J
who will have realized the superior advantage S
of the rail travel. What say Lovelace at
Vernoy to this ?
it is reported that the refusnl of the Ru;
s'ans to give up Kars is explained. The Eng
lish Commisioner whom the Russians refu.-t
to receive, had no authority to ask possessiot ]
j *tnd did not do so. lie merely requested pet 1
mission to examine the state of the fortication |
which he was not permitted to do. Respect |
ing Russian occupation of the Isle of Surpeiih I 1
Lord Stralord de Redclilfe has sent Geners f
Mansfield to inquire into it.
A communication from Stockholm speaks of J
the audiences which the French and Russian I
Ambassadors had with the King, and of a grc;it I
stir among the diplomatists consequent tnero
j on - Report says the subject of the excite
ment was a reclamation made bv Norway |
against the Russians, who, it is alleged, are I
encroaching upon the Norwegian territory, and 1
planning fortifications along the const. Tic f
Swedish papers, however, make no allusion’ |
the matter.
Tho Piano Forte, the favorite parlor instru
merit, now considered an almost indispensable J
article in every family that can purchase it- ■
was invented by J. C. Schroeder, of Dresden,
in 1717; the square piano was first made by I
Freideriea, an organ builder of Saxony, aboJ’ I
1758. Piano fortes were made in London !
M. Zumpie, a German, 1796. The man off f
ture of this instrument was commenced in tbc
country since the opening of tho present ce
-1 tury.