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CODUMTBTTS: Saturday Morning, Augunt 30, 1556. LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION. - We call attention to the advertisement of Mr. Wassemer, Teacher of Music, to be found in to day’s paper. - 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. . -♦ 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. - 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. _ . 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 ! “ge- 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, ♦ 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 - ■ —— ♦ “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* -