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CODUMTBTTS:
Saturday Morning, Augunt 30, 1556.
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
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We call attention to the advertisement of
Mr. Wassemer, Teacher of Music, to be found
in to day’s paper.
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The attention of planters is directed to the
large and line selection of Virginia Negroes,
to be seen at Harrison & McGehee’s Negro i
Depot in this city.
Speaking in Girard.
Col. John W. A. Hanford, the Buchanan j
Elector for the 3d Congressional District of
Alabama, will address the people of Girard to
day.
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We give place with pleasure, to the commu
nication of Darby, to be found in this morn
ing’s issue. We are not so green however,
nor so badly posted, as the writer would have
the public believe. To-day’s diclosures will
prove who is right.
New Cotton in Montgomery.
The Journal of yesterday morning, says:
About eighty bales of the new cotton crop
have been received in this city, during the
last two weeks, and sold readily at prices
ranging from 10i to 10£c., some extra lots
reaching 11c. The quality of the staple this
season, so far as observed, is excellent.
The receipts of the season which will close
on the Ist September, is not wholly estimated,
but will rench between 72,000 and 70,000
bales.
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Clayton's Kansas Emigrants.
The Times learns from Mr. L. F. Johnson,
of Eufnula, who has just returned from Nash
ville, Tenn., that Col. Henry D. Clayton, und
his company of Kansas emigrants, numbering
one hundred in all, left Nashville, Tenn., on
Monday, 2Hth inst., for Kansas, by way of the
Cumberland river. The company were all well
and happy, and extorted universal praise by
their orderly conduct on the route.
Crops in Georgia.
The Times learns from an intelligent gen
tleman who has recontly passed through Har
ris, Troup, Coweta, Campbell, Fulton, Gwin
nett, Jackson, Franklin, Clark, Walton, New
ton, Henry, Spalding, Pike and Meriwether
counties, Gn., that both the corn and cotton crops
are very sorry, and that hardly a support can
be realized. He saw hundreds of acres all
along his route, which will not make a bushel
of corn to the acre. We are pleased to learn,
from other sources, that the crops in Southern
Georgia are very good.
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Indiana.
We learn from our Western exchanges, that
the Fremont und Fillmore parties in Indiana,
have but one Electoral ticket in the field, the
same electors being appended to each Presi
dential ticket. That State will do to bet on
as certin against Buck nnk Breck.
Arrost of the Scoundrels.
The Franklin Journal, of the 21st, referring
to a party that went in pursuit of the wretches
who robbed the bodies of the dead at Last Is
land, says :
IVo learn that they have succeeded in arrest
ing six of these inhuman creatures, and have
them secured on board the Texas ; and at
the last accounts were in hot pursuit of nnoth
er gang. Those already secured had a large
amount of jewelry and money.
A Merchunt's View of the Effects of a Dis
solution of the Union.
Mr. William A. Crocker, a friend of Daniel
Webster, an active Whig, and one of the most
intelligent merchants of Massachusetts,-in a
recent letter, presents au admirable protest
against sectionalism. The following is a preg
nant passage:
“I invoke the manufacturer, the merchant,
the ship owner, the menclianic—every man
who has the smallest stako in the prosperity,
the wealth, the happiness of the country—to
consider how his interest and the welfare of
those with whom his interests are bound up,
would be effected by a violent disruption, or
even a peaceable dissolution of the Union of
these States. It is common to hear the re
mark that the North can take care of itself.
Doubtless sho cau. The enterprise of her
people is boundless, and their energy iudoinit
nble. But it must bo remembered that a dis
solution of the Union with the formation ot a
Northern Republic would enuse new combina
tions. Commerce is essential to national
wealth, no less than national greatness. The
North is uot an exporting region, and from its
climate, soil and productions, cannot bo so to
any uniformly general extent. It is mainly
from tho South and the Southwest that we arc
indebted for the immense carrying trade which
employs our navigation. It is iu tho same
States that our manufacturers find a large mar
ket for their goods, and our importers no in
considerable proportion of their orders. Now,
suppose the Uniou dissolved, and the North
ern States forming ono Republic, and the
Southern and the Southwestern States forming
another.
“Suppose what, under such a condition
would inevitably bo the case, this Southern
republic, with little navigation of its own to
foster, and with no manufactures to encour
age, in reciprocal commercial intercourse with
all the manufacturing countries of Europe on
the basis of absolute and uncontrolled free
trade ; suppose what, under tho sentiments of
animosity engendered by the disruption would
bo no less likely to occur, discrimination
against our ships and goods of the North, aud !
where would be that prosperity which now
gladdens our manufacturing towns and tills j
our seaports with life ami activity ? A disso- j
lut ion ot the l uiou would depreciate the value |
ot the property of New England fifty cents on
the dollar. The wheels of the manufactories
would bo stopped, the implements of the me- !
chanie would be put by, our ships decay at 1
our decaying wharves, aud the grass spring
up iu the streets of our towns and cities. j
These would be the material consequences. 1
The moral consequence may be summed up in
a single line. The destruction of tho world’s
last hope.”
Burlingame Again.
Mr. Burlingame the elegant and refined
gentleman from Massuchusetts, said, iu a late
stump speech, that Virginina have nothing to
live on but “oysters and past recollections.”
Be l good oysters make very good living, aud
it the past recollections are noble and houor
|alilc, they must have a healthful influence.—
“ At n . n .y ra *®> oysters and past recollections are
considerable better than codfish and no recol
lection at all.— Richmond Despatch,
For the Dally Sun.
Mu. Editor: —Sir: I see in your paper
of yesterday an nrticle correcting one which
made its appearance the day bt-lore, in refer
ence to certain signs which are to be seen on
cellar doors, and other places about the city,
every morning. In the correction, I find that
you are laboring in error as to the true secret
of the letters refered to. They are not the
sign of the leveling society, which has been
j started in our city, for theirs is au association
i established in such manner as leaves no trace |
: that can possibly betray them ; nor is it the
sign adopted for the assembling of the Fill- i
more Club. But, sir, there has been estab
lished in many places South, Fremont Clubs,
and the letters C. F. C. means the “Columbus 1
Fremont Club,” which hold their meetings
regularly, and adopt that mode of notifying
their members. And they who are in favor of
John Charles Fremont for the Presidency are
determined, by November next, to be strong
enough in the South to spring an Electoral
ticket, oven in Georgia and other Southern
States, that will prove to Fremont that he is ;
not a sectional, but a national candidate, and
thereby startle Southern men as to their true i
position in this confederacy. Dabby.
Discovery of more of the Supposed Dost.
Further Disasters nr the Gai.e. —We
yesterday afternoon received notes from Mes
srs. H. E. Lawrence and A. It. ltagan, by the
Opelousas Railroad, from which we are much
gratified to learn of tho safety of Mr. and Mrs.
A. M. Foley, of Lafourche, Mr. William Ro
chelle and a negro servant of Mrs. Hines, aud
one or two other servants. These persons
were found in the marsh in the vicinity of Last
Island, where they had subsisted on crabs,
crawfish and rainwater since tho storm.
Mr. Rochelle and one of the negroes came
up to Berwick’s Bay, and brought this intelli
gence. Mr. and Mrs. Foley were in the house
of Mr. Miller, on Bayou DeLarge, with the oth
ers. Mr. Foley had received a slight injury
on the shoulder ; the others were not injured,
but much exhausted by their sufferings.
A steamer left Berwick’s Bay on Saturday
evening for Mr. Miller’s, for the purpose of
bringing thepersons there up to Mr. Brasliear’s,
Berwick’s Bay, and a company was to have
started yesterday or to day witli a steamer to
search the whole coast and adjacent marshes,
it being believed that there were yet many per
sons on the islands or in the marshes, whomay
be found. We shall await further intelligence
from there with much anxiety.
We are informed by a correspondent at Iber
ville, Parish of Vermillion, that the storm rag
ed there on the 10th and 11th with terrific
violence. Every house in the village was lev
eled to the ground ; trees were torn up by the
roots and blown to great distances ; even the
tomb stones in the graveyard were thrown
down and broken up. Several persons were
injured in the village, but none killed. In the
vicinity sugar houses and dwellings, negro
houses aud barns, were all blown down aiul
strewed about the fields, and we were pained
to learn that five persons were killed by the
falling of houses upon them. The crops, as
might be expected, have suffered terribly, and
it was thought that they were irretrievably
ruined. Immense numbers of stock have been
scattered aud killed. It will take the planters
a long time to recover from the effects of this
gale, though they are said to bear up like true
men under this severe visitation of Providence.
We learn by the arrival of the steamer Tex
as, from Last Island, that fifty six bodies have
been recovered and buried ; also, jewelry has
been found to the amount or some $5,000 or
SO,OOO. Among the bodies which were found,
were recognized those af Captain Gasper Ba
tier and Madame Rantlirop, from Attakapas.
The rest were unknown by the persons on the
steamer.— N. 0. Crescent.
.Romantic Story.
Considerable excitement was created at llock
tish village, North Carolina, about eighteen
mouths ago, by the mysterious disappearance
of a young lady, who it was afterwards con
cluded was dead. She has since turned up in
a very unexpected manner, as the following
letter in the Fayetteville North Carolinan will
show. The writer says :
A year and a half passed by. The occur
rence of Marinda’s fate began to be obliterated
from the mind; those friends who mourned
for her laid aside their weeds and had resign
ed her ns lost forever.
Let us now go back to the eventful night of
her disappearance, and learn the true fate of
our romantic heroine.
It appears she became dissatisfied with her
condition, lor some cause unnecessary to de
tail, aud left her boarding house while all be
neath its roof were buried in profound slum
ber ; and tor fear of being seen by someone
iu the village, she took the path leading up
the margin of the pond, passing by the beach
near its head, and thence through the woods
to tho main road. Sho found herself at day
light some distance off, and determined, in or
der to conceal her identity, to doff tho title of
a woman, and assume that of tho sterner sex.
Au opportunity soon offered, for seeing at a
farm house near by a pair of pautalooos and
some shirts hanging on the fence, she managed
to secure them, and at ouce appropriated them
to her own use. In this disguise she traveled
on to Benuetsville, S. C., where she procured
work ns a boy, nnd diligently applied lierself
tor several months without exciting the least
suspicion as to her sex. Her associates were
with the males of the village, and though she
trequently went with the boys to tho river to
wash, she never could bo induced to go in her
self, always volunteering to watch the clothes
while they were bathing.
Work becoming a little scarce, Jehu (forthat
was her assumed name) left Benuetsville and
went to ( heraw, where she labored for two or
three months, until she procured funds enough
to take her to Charleston. In that city sho
was taken sick with tho fever, aud though un
dei skillul medical attendance, she managed
to preserve her incognito.
John fiually, like the moth to the candle,
ventured too near her old range, and was dis
covered, first, as one of the operatives of a fac
tory in Fayetteville, by some of those who had
knowu Miranda at Rocktisli. Finding herself
suspected, she left, aud hired herself to an old
bachelor some miles from town, doing faithful
mau service on the farm and about the house, j
sleeping with the crusty old fellow at night !
without his suspecting whnt kind of a bed fel- !
low he had, until curiosity brought her to I
town to hear the discussion between Bragg and
Gilmer, when she was agniu met by some of
her old acquaintances, and fully recuguized as j
Marindo, the lost maiden of Kockfish village. !
Marinda has promised to assume tho appro
priate costume of her sex, though she says
that the meu have much more fun than the
women ; that it will he hard for her hereafter
to sit and listen to the everlasting gossip of the \
girls, siuce she has mingled with the men, at
tended the elections and tax gatherings—be
come interested in politics—heard the candi- I
dates, and been hugged and treated so well by
them.
From the Charleston Courier.
A Northern Witness.
The following letter is from a citizen und
resident of Queeu’s county, New \ ork, to a
gentleman of thi3 city. The writer is not per
sonally acquainted with his Charleston corres
pondent, and the communication between the
parties originated incidentally from inquiries
of a business nature. It was in reply to a let- i
ter from Charleston, giving answers aud infer- ,
mation on some points of private business,
that this letter we now append, was written : •
Queen’s County, L. 1., \
August 0, 1856. /
If I ever leave this place where I now have
lived thirty-one years, I shall certainly go as j
far South us Virginia, if not to South Caro
lina.
In political sentiments, I am clearly with the
South, and lam not alone. Many, very many
; of our best men here at the North, are clearly
with me, and that, too, without a single reser
vation. No longer ago than yesterday a ster
ling old man, more than seventy years of age,
asserted in a store full of men, that the South
had been abused, shamefully abused, and that
for once, he would (if necessary) shoulder liis
j musket and march in defence of the South.
In regard to politics, 1 have never witness
ed so much folly and obstinacy as at the pres
ent time, and 1 am nearly sixty-two years of
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You already know, as well as I, that there
are three candidates in the field for the Pres
identship. I and my political friends are for
Buchanan. The party which we most fear
and dread, call themselves republicans. They
are composed of various odds aud ends, as fol
lows, to wit:
First. Woolly heads or Seward wliigs. 2.
Abolitionists. 3. Free-soil democrats or soft
shells. All combined, they make a formida
ble party for Fremont for President.
I should like to know which is the stronger
man of the two in the South—Buchanan or
Fillmore.
Too much pains cannot be taken South of
Mason and Dixon’s line to prevail upon the
South to fix upon one of those last mention
ed two, lest by a division of our strength
both North and South, Fremont and his Ne
gro worshippers should ultimately succeed.
1 write from a central position, only twelve
miles from the centre of the city of New York,
nnd the information which 1 waut, is of very
great importance to the prosperous continua
tion of our general government, and the sup
port of our Constitution.
lam not a candidate for any office—l love
my country, for which iny father fought and
bled.
My father served in the campaign of 1780,
saw Andre the day before his execution, and
was discharged on account of sickness in De
cember of that year. My uncle, older than
my father, served throughout the Revolution
ary War, and he was in every one of the most
important battles, too numerous to mention
here. I know no North, no South, no East,
no West—but I am for the Union, as transmit
ted to us by our fathers, and for the Constitu
tion as it is—no alteration. As to slavery, I
say, let it alone—let it take its course—l know
it to be the better state for the colored race—
-1 know that they have only greatly degenera
ted since their emancipation in the State of
New York, and from all information whicli I
can obtain, they are in a better condition gen
erally in the Southern States than the peasan
try of either England, Ireland, or Scotland.
All our political difficulties arise from the
great number of men seeking office— many of
whom are totally unfit—and many, too, will
advocate any doctrine without regard to truth,
if by that course they can only gain votes.
By this course, tho Constitution of the United
States is trampled to the dust—the glorious
Union is iu danger. Should it ever be severed
in my day, I will he on the South side of the
line.
You are at liberty to use my letter as you
please. 1 have asserted nothing but what I
know to be true.
In political affairs at the North, we have
an abundance of ignorant interference, and
from the fact that every unde twenty-one years
of age, and every negro worth $250, has a
vote—consequently, something to say and to
do. Tlie result is ns might be expected—
many worthless, ignorant and unprincipled
men are elected to office, and many talented,
well educated and well qualified men are de
feated. Indeed, many seem to take a fiendish
delight at the elevation of an ignoramus and
the downfall of a meritorious man.
From tlio Charleston Courier.
Sight Bills and Time Checks
One of the mooted points of commercial law
is, whether bank checks drawn payable at a
future day, or commercial bills at sight are en
titled to grace. The decisions of the Courts
have been variant, and the practice of bankers
is not uniform, though the denial of grace days
is becoming more general. A recent case in
Ohio, of Martin vs. Baily, brought tho follow
ing rule on the subject from Judge Burtly, of
the District Court:
I. That a draft for money payable at a dav
subsequent to its date, although otherwise in
the ordinary form of a check, is a bill of ex
change, and subject to the usages and rules
that govern hills of exchange, aud as such, is
entitled to days of grace.
11. The distinction between a bill and check
does not depend upon whether drawn payable
to order or bearer, or whether drawn upon a
bank or a banker or not; but it is founded in
the difference in nature or character of these
two classes of commercial paper.
111. A check and a bill of exchange, though
in many respects similar, are to be distinguish
ed in the following particulars, to wit:
Ist. A check is drawn upon an existing
fund, and is an absolute transfer or appropria
tion to the holder of so much money, in the
hands of the drawes, but very frequently drawn
in anticipation of funds, upon a previously ar
ranged credit.
2d. The drawer of a check is always the prin
cipal, whereas the drawer of a bill frequently
stands in the position of a mere surety.
3d. Although demand of payment and no
tice of non-payment in due time, may be es- J
sentail to hold the endorser of a cheek, yet a
failure in this respect does not discharge the
drawer, unless au actual loss to him can be
shown to have arisen from such delinquency
on the part of the holder.
sth. A check requires no Acceptance, and
when presented, is presented for payment.
sth, It is not protcstable, or in other words |
protest is not requisite to hold the maker or an j
endorser.
IV. From these distinguishing characteris
tics, arising out of tho nature of the two clus- j
ses of instruments, it follows, that a check is
payable on presentation aud demand, and can- j
not be made payable on a specified day in fu- ‘■
ture, nnd consequently not entitled to days of !
grace.
V. Any supposed usage of hauks in any
particular placo to regard drafts upon them
payable at a day certain, ns checks, nnd not en- ;
titled to days of grace, is inadmissible, as evi- j
dence to control the rules of law in relation to J
such papers.
Letter from Mr. Fillmore.
The following is Mr. Fillmore’s letter ac
cepting the nomination of the Virginia Whig
State Convention.
Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 6, 1856.
Wyndhcrm Robertson, Esq.
Sir: 1 have the honor to acknowledge the i
receipt of your letter of the 23d ult., transmit- .
ting a copy of the preamble and resolutions
adopted by the Whig Convention of Virginia,
lately assembled at Richmond, by which that
’ intelligent and patriotic body recommend to
l their Whig brethren throughout the Statoto
I yield tomyuom nation for the Presidency their
| active aud zealous support.
Standing, as I do, as the known candidate |
! of another party, I yet receive this recommeu- j
i dation with gratitude and pride. I feel that
it is made, uot because the two parties are i
1 identical, nor with a view of merging them in ;
each other—for such un object is expressly
| disclaimed by theConvention —but because the
principles which my nomination represents,
approach more nearly to those maintained by
the Whigs of Virginia, than those of any other
candidate; and because, as the Convention
was pleased to say, of their confidence in my
late administration of the government.
Whatever may be our differences on minor
subjects, I am sure there is one on which we
agree—and that one at this moment is para
mount to all others. I allude to the preserva
tion of the Union of these States, and the res
cuing the country from sectional strife. The
question is not so much, liow shall the govern
ment be administered? as how shall it be pre
served ? and on this great vital question, na
tional Whigs, national Democrats, aud Union
loving Americans may well act in concert. On
this basis I shall, with great pleasure, receive
the votes of all who have confidence in my in
tegrity and ability, and who ask no further
pledge than my past service for my future
conduct. This position seems tome alike hon
orable to all. No principle is sacrificed. No
deception is practiced; and I trust that no one,
casting his vote for me on this ground, will
ever have cause to regret it.
With many thanks for the flattering manner
with which you have been pleased to commu
nicate the result of the Convention, I have the
honor to be,
Your friend and fellow citizen,
MILLARD FILLMORE,
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Grains Measures.
The following interesting statement, expla
natory of foreign grain measures, was commu
nicated to the Richmond Whig by a merchant
of that city who has been engaged for a long
series of years in commercial intercourse with
trans-atlantic countries :
There is no uniform measure by which grain
is sold in Great Britain. In London, wheat
and corn are sold by the quarter of 480 Ihs.—
8 bushels of 60 lbs. In Liverpool, wheat is
sold by the bushel of 70 lbs, and corn by the
quarter of 480 lbs. English flour is sold by
the sack of 289 lbs.; American by the hbl. of
196 lbs.—every hbl. weighed, and 20 lbs. de
ducted for fare. Gloucester, Glasgow, Cork
and other markets, each has its own peculiar
measure—bushels of 02 or 64 lbs., bolls of
240 lbs.; barrels, sacks, stones—a perfect con
fusion of weights and measures. The duty on
wheat and other grain in Great Britain is one
shilling—24 cents; on flour 4) pence per 112
lbs.
In France the “hectolitre” of wheat is (deci
mally) 2.85 bushels. In Amsterdam tlie “last”
is 83.37 bus.; iu Dantzic 87.15 bus.; in Ros
tock 105.71 bushels.
In Odessa the “ehetwort” is 6.00 bus.; in
Petersburg 5.49 bus. The Swedish “tonne”
is 3.97 bus.; the Danish, 4.74 bus. The Span
ish “fanega” is 1.62 bus.; the Lisbon “alquire”
41 bushels. The “tomalo” of Naples is 1.57
bushels; the “eminc” of Genoa, 3.34 bushels;
the Leghorn sack 2 bushels.
What a blessing it would be to have a uni
versal standard of weights, measures and coins,
or money of account; but the English bankers
are opposed to making even decimal divisions
of the pound sterling.
In connection with the above we publish the
annexed elucidation of the method of transla
ting or reducing the English quotations of
wheat into Federal money. If inaccurate iu
aiiy particular, we ask that it may be correct
ed:
“A quarter ot wheat is an English measure
of 8 standard bushels, so if yon see that quo
ted at 565, it is ,s. a bushel. A shilling is 24
cents; muliply by 7 and you have $1 68.”
The above old rule for ascertaining tlie value
of a bushel of wheat conformably to English
quotations, is tolerably correct, so far as re
gards the quotations which are confined to the
English standard or rather Imperial bushel,
but is incorrect if applied to Liverpool quota
tions. It often occurs that when wheat is quo
ted at London at 4(Js. per quarter of eight Im
perial busels, it will rate at 6 shillings per
bushel of 70 lbs in Liverpool. The London
price current usually quotes wheat at so much
per quarter (eight Imperial bushels of 60 lbs.
each,) and the Liverpool price current (per
Brown, Shiply & Cos. 1 almost invariably at so
much per bushel of 80 lbs. The Liverpool
local bushels being one sixth larger than the
American or Imperial bushel, it follows that
wheu a bushel of wheat is quoted at 6s per
bushel of 70 lbs. it is equal only to 5s 2d per
American or Imperial bushel of 60 lbs.
Therefore if you see wheat quoted at Cs a
bushel in Liverpool, it will not do to multiply
by 24 in order to ascertain the difference be
tween the American and English prices. As
applicable to Liverpool quotations, the rule
should be thus :—deduct one-seventh from the
Liverpool price, per bushel, reduce the remain
der to pence, and double the product for cents.
Example—A circular by the Gambia, in Au
gust. quotes wheat at 6s per bushel of 70 lbs.
6—l-7—ss. 2d, or 62d.—double for cents—sl
24 per bushel.
A Remarkable River.
In the province of Andalusia, in Spain, there
is a river called the Tinto, from the hues of
its water, which are us yellow as topaz. It
possesses tlie most extraordinary nnd singular
qualities. If a stone happens to fall in and
rest upon another, they both become, iu one
year's time, perfectly united and conglutinated.
; All the plants on its banks are withered by its
waters whenever they overflow. No kind of
verdure will come up where its waters roach,
nor can any fish live in its stream. The river
rises in the Tierra Moreua mountaus, and its
singular properties continue until other rivers
run into it ami alter its nature
New Material for Paper.
Tho people’s rags are so far from meeting
| the demand of the paper-makers uow-a-days,
i that experiments are making upon all sorts
j of material to supply the deficiency. The
I Planet brought down from Lake Supreior a
, thousand pounds of moss for Dr. Terby, of
| Detroit, who has becu making experiments
’ upon it in the manufacture of paper. The
! Doctor says that moss makes a beautiful white
I paper without any preparation of the raw ma
i terial for the common paper mills. In all re
spects it is equal to linen rags, aud can be ;
found in unlimited quantities on Isle Royal
I several other localities in the vicinity at
! a very small comparative cost. — Cleveland ‘
I Plaindealer. |
From the Savannah Republican.
Franklin College.
The name of Judge Lumpkin, of the Si
preme Court, having been mentioned in J
nection with the Presidency of our State (,
versity, in place of Dr. Church, resigned 1
givo place to the following letter receiv f
from him by yesterday’s mail. It is h a ,. a nd; I
necessary for us to say, iu anawer to the in. 1
mation contained in the concluding paragraj,
that while the people of Georgia may d es j, ■
to place our honorable friend at the head 3
her chief institution of learning, they a re( „ J
tircly satisfied with the valuable services h 1
has rendered the State in his present respj’ 3
sible position:
Athens, Aug. 23, 185 e. j
Messrs. Sneed Sims :—Gentlemen—! - 1
grateful to some partial friend for the so., 1
terms in which he has been pleased to mend ‘ ■
my name, in connection with the Presidem-U
of Franklin College.
Allow me to say, that the office 1 now h (l : I
—no sinecure 1 admit—affords ample eniplo t JJ
meat for my time and talents, such as tlii: 1
are, and satisfies the utmost measure of i I
ambition. It has been conferred on me twici I
without solicitation; and 1 prefer to hold; f
to any other under the State or National (j, 1
vernment.
It is due to myself to add, however, that; I
am ready at any time cheerfully to retire trot 1
my present position, whenever a better nut I
can be found who is willing to occupy it.
Very truly ob’t serv’t.
Jos. Henry Lumpkix. j
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“What is to Become of tho Whites?”*
Such is the question which tho Cinciniitil
Daily Enquirer urges very appropriately
the attention of the besotted and debauch fl
idolaters of the abolition dagon, who are last ■
ing themselves into fanatical convulsions.- :!
From this article we extract a passage, ofson t ß
interest and value from such a source :
” Nothing is more easily-demonstrated thu 1
that the North has a greater interest in thn
continuance of slavery in the South Ihitutii, 3
South itself. All the burden, blight and h;jl
of Slavery fall upon the South. The Nout
quietly divides the products of tlie lalt 1
washes its hands of all the sinfulness of it, ant 1
is protected from all its evils and inconveuiea- fl
ces. Every pound of cotton raised iu tll
South adds to the North. Boston makes lnorifl
out of cacli bale shipped from New Orleait
than the latter city; she makes it in the freigh;
of cotton abroad on her ships, in the suppiv 1
of raw material for her manufactories and ii.: |
the articles required to produce it, which an I
fabricated by Northern artisans.
“No wonder the North prospers so mud!
more than the South. She has all the benefit!
of slavery and none of its evils. She take!’
the South for her support and enrichnient.-
Let slavery be abolished iu the South, and re
may reverse the relations of the two section:
The North will then have to support tho?
whose consumption has so long burdened an
weakened the South. We believe that the abrt!
lition of slavery would be a great evil to tin
country, but in the division of the evil, th-
North would come in for the largest shave.’’ p
The Sugar Crop.
A sugar planter of Lousisiana writers to (In
New Orleans Crescent as follows in relation |
to the sugar crop:
It is assumed that the crop of sugar inailfH
in the United States in 1856 willuot exceec
100,000,000 of pounds. Owing to the
condition of the sugar cane of Louisiana, th]
crop lias fallen from near 500,000,000, in
1853 to 250,000,000, in 1855, and no well I
informed person can think the crop of 1856 1
will go over the estimate of 100,000,000.
The diseased state cf the cane for several I
years past, and the very long, cold ami wot
winter, has eradicated the rattoon cane.-|
There was so very little rattoon cane made 1
iu 1856 in Louisiana as to make it uunecess#- •
ry to take it into consideration iu an estimate i
ot the quantity of cane necessary “to mat” for j
planting in 1857. Many will be compelled to
put iu mat all of their crops of 1856. I'e?
or none will make as much sugar as iu 1855:
and nine-tenths cannot make the one half •: fj
what they made in 1855. These are facts pat- |
ent to all who are informed upon matters rela
ting to sugar in Louisiana.
It is quite a common practice to overate tho
product of sugar in the United States. It wii
be very difficult for any one to underrated
1856. If all the cane now growing was saved
for planting in 1857, tlie crop of that yean
would not amount to the product of 1853.
High prices tend to diminish consumption |
The capacity to consume was never so great. ’
owing to the general prosperity. A rapid I
increase of population will also have a ten-;
dency to prevent much reduction in the im
portaton of sugar.
Miraculous Escape—Thrilling Scone.
On Saturday morning last, as the passengf"J
train from Wheeling was approaching Haiti-1
more, the engineer, when a short distance east I
ot Eilicotts Mills, discovered a cow upon th-1
track, but was so close upon her that it w 1
tound impossible to check the train. The con-1
sequence was that the engine, tender, buggag f I
and one passenger car passed over her without I
being thrown from the track while two passeu-1
gcr cars in the rear of the train were displaced, E
and ran some distance alougside the track, and I
immediately upon the edge of a frightful cm-1
bankment, below which ran the Patapsco Fall” [;
For a brief period the wildest excitement pre-1
vailed among the oecupants of these cars, a= |
they every instant expected to be hurled oyk 1
the precipice, and at a moment when all sccnii I
paralysed with fear, by a slight curve iu thj
road, aud tlie strength of the couplings of th j
cars, they were replaced upon the track befit'l
tho train had been stopped. This was certain- H
ly a most Providential escape from a tern 1 j
casualty, undone which must long be renieii l l
bered by those upon the train.
Strange if True.
A remarkable phenomenon, says au ex |
change, exists among the women of Chenamla-1
j ga, Nicarnugua. Almost every one you meet I
: has a large wen whicli protudes out from th-1
j forepart of the neck, directly under the chin
j The wen itself is not painful, though it pre;
j sents a most unseemly sight to tlie eye, ami
suggests a variety of reflections as to th
cause which has produced such a disfigurnti ll
ot tlie human form. The women bear it as :l
yoke, aud regard it ns an affliction of l’l'o' 1 ’ j
dence for their transgressions. Medical nic ll I
arc unable to account for this singular freak I
of nature, and assign many grave und plnn-i I
hie reasons for this peculiar gourd-like forn
tion in that locality. It is not common to
other portion of the country.
Hon. Smomon Hydenfeldt.
Thisdistiuguished citizeu of California
a few days recently in this city. He look- ‘’
young as of yore, and has lostnono of hi=fi
ly zeal for Southern Rights, lie has just u
turned from Europe, and was on his way to *''’
fioMer^Gnte^—Thnes^^^yesterda^/^^^^^
STRAY COW.
O’s RAYED from the sulweriber iu Columbia.
O aud CALF, marked with a ciop ami split >”
light ear aud u crop iu the left —color, white ami
Hpotted. Her recovery will be liberally rewarde.
August 30, 1850. REBECCA HFL* -