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COLUMBUS:
Thursday tllornißKi Sept* li 1850.
LAKUKNT CITV CIRCULATION.
Crops and the Weather.
The Times is informed that for sixty miles
around Columbus, both cotton and corn have
been seriously injured by the gale —the former
being blown out, uud the latter blown down.
The weather since the storm has been quite
cool, even uncomfortably so iu the morning.
We anticipate however a few more hot days
before the first frost.
c. r. a.
What has become of the Columbus Relief
Association ? We have not heard of it since
our report of the speeches made by Dr. Flew
ellen and Col. Ilogan ; and are a little afraid
that the latter gentleman, who said he “didn’t
want to belong to a temporary concern,” but
afterwards joined the “Relief,” has done what
he didn’t want to do.
If the quiescence of the Society is owing to
lack of subjects needing relief, we congratu
late the town; but if suffering still exists
among us, wo exhort the Society in the name
of Charity and Mercy, to stir its stumps and
immediately get up steam.
The Mobile & Girard Rood.
This valuable contributor to the growing
prosperity of our city, whose benefits seem to
increase iu geometrical progression ns it ap
proaches completion, has made an excellent
start this season, having brought in, prior to
the firHt inst., one hundred and forty-eight
bales, principally of the new crop. In the
way of trade it also promises well. Its deliv
ery of passengers is also very large, most of
whom do not pass through, hut come to trade
with our merchants, and have orders billed at
our various places of home industry, livery
day demonstrates the wisdom of those who
projected it and we shall in a day or two, make
its success, a precedent from which to argue
in favor of anew road, as yet unsurveyed ;
but which when built, will pour into the lap of
Columbus untold quantities of the mineral
and agricultural wealth of our sister state,
Alabama.
Yellow Fever in Charleston.
The Hoard of Health report one death from
Yellow Fever for the two days ending Sunday
uiglit 10 o’clock, aud two deaths omitted in
Saturday’s bulletin through neglect of Sexton
to report; for the twenty four hours ending
Monday night 10 o’clock, three deaths are re
ported.
From Waoo, Texas.
Some weeks since, we published a rumor
from the Shreveport Gazette, to the effect that
tho inhabitants of the above place had been
all murdered by Indians. Some of our read
ers who had friends still farther west, were
made very uneasy. We are pleased to learn
that the report was unfounded. So at least
we presume, as we find a long letter from
Waco the 12th ult., in the Houston Tele*
graph, giving local news of the place, account
of a railroad meeting, &c., and nothing about
the massacre.
The Scientific Convention.
This body, in session nt Albany, New York,
adjourned on the 28tli, to meet at Montreal,
August 12th, 1857.
Since our last report, Prof. Pearce of Cam
bridge read a condensation of a very abstruse
and curious paper, entitled “Tho Elements of
Potential Arithmetic.” The drift of the paper
was to show that inasmuch as, if we had tLe
power to make a world, we should be under
the necessity of making very much such a world
as this is, it is evident that the world was cre
ated by an intellect similar to ours.
Prof. Hare, the celebrated chemist, who has
become a convert to Spiritualism, atul written
a book on it, attended tho Convention, and
made several attempts to speak for tho edifi
cation of non-believers in the new ism. Rut
he was not allowed to do so, and Prof. Agassis
told him on his last trial to obtain a hearing,
to wait till the Convention adjourned, and he
could then have u showing. Tho Savans pre-
Ront. seemed to think that Science and Spirit
ualism are very different things. The Profes
sor yielded, aud after tho adjournment ad
dressed a very large audience. We have no
report of his remarks.
On Thursday, the Dudley Astronomical Ob
servatory at Albany was inaugurated. A bril
liant audience of four to five thousand per
sons, including the members of the Scientific
ability, and official position, and a largo mini-
Congress,and others distinguished for learning,
her of ladies, were in attendance. A letter
was read from Mrs. Dudley, donating fifty
thousand dollars for the furtherance of the
objects for which the Observatory was found
ed. Tho announcement of her liberality was
received with acclamation and a general up
rising of the audience. The Hon. Edward
Everett delivered the inaugurntory address,
taking for his subject “The Uses of Astrono
my.” Gov. Hunt, Professors llucho, Gould,
aud others, made brief addresses, and the af
fair passed off in the happiest maimer.
Tho Texas Legislature has passed a law pro
hibiting the introduction of free negroes into
that State, under a penalty of not less than
#2OO. Masters of vessels may bring them as
cooks, but in no other capacity. Act to take
effect on the Ist of December next.
——
We have te report a marriage iu high life.
The King of the Sandwich Islands has been
married to Miss Emma ltooke, daughter of Dr.
11. B. llooke. The King is 22 years old—the
bride 20. The marriage was iu accordance
with the rites of the Church of Knglnud.
The administration, it is stated, will make a
formal demand for reparation for damages
sustained by our citxens in the riot at Panama,
and will enforce the claim, if necessary. It is
supposed that the estimate of the loss made
by Consul Corwine exeeeds reality. Some
testimony Las been taken at Washington, un
der affidavit, and other steps have been author-
ised to assure correctness.
■ Amos A. Lawrence declines the nomination
for tho Governorship of Mass.,-tendered by the
Mate Convention of the Fillmore Americans.
The Gale—The Weather—The Crops
Savannah papers of Tuesday have nothing
to say about the galo, of much import. The
Republican estimates the damage to the Rice 1
crops in that vicinity at five per cent of the
whole yield.
At Charleston it commenced raiuingon'i'hurs
day, and continued up to some time Sunday ,
night. The fall of water was immense. The j
gale sprang up about sunset, Sunday, continu- j
ing all night. Trees uprooted, some roofs
blown oft', but no great harm done. Shipping !
suffered little if any. Nothing said about j
crops.
At Columbia, S. C., gale heavy, no great
damage done. Nothing said about crops.—
Rains general and heavy iu South Carolina.
At Augusta rain very heavy, beginning
Thursday, ending Monday morning. Wind
tremendous; no damages to crops or property
mentioned. All the railroad trains behind
time, and it is feared roads much damaged.—
We hear that the South Carolina road has suf
fered considerably.
At Alilledgeville wind and rain very severe ;
many fences and trees blown down. The Fed
eral Union reports the fall of three immense
trees near one residence, greatly endangering
the lives of the inmates; nothing said about
crops.
The Selma (Ala.) Reporter of Monday eve
ning says nothing of a stortn in that section.
The above is all the news received in regard
to the Storm. We give some crop items below:
The Thomasviße (Ga.) Enterprise, 2Gth ult.
is informed by a friend that lie and others
counted on a stalk of S. I. cotton, on the farm
of Henry Allen, in Thomas county,B2ssquares,
and that many other stalks, in different parts
of the field numbered from six to seven hun
dred.
The Greensboro (Ala.) Beacon of late date
says: The general opinion is that the cotton
crop will bo cut very short in this section of
the State by the boll worm. Many of our plan
ters assure us that they will not make half the
crops they made last year, even with the most
favorable seasons from this time till frost.—
And this complaint of the worm is notconfined
to the cancbrake lands, but to every quality of
soil—and to every part of the county from
which we have heard.
The Savannah Republican 3rd, says : From
all the information we can collect from plan
ters and factors, we apprehend the Sea Island
Cotton crop of the year, will be materially short
of that of the year 1855. The whole season,
thus far, has been an unfavorable one—the
lateness of the spring—the drought of the
summer—and the present rainy and stormy
weather, all tend to counteract tho successful
labor of the planter. The stalk of the weed is
diminutive, the opening bolls are small, and
the seed poorly coated with lint.
In South Carolina the crop has seldom been
more unpromising than it is tho present sea
son. In this State, although the prospects are
rather better than in the Palmetto State, still,
the crop is very inferior to that of the preced
ing year ; on the islands they have suffered
less than on the main. The crops of Florida,
according to accounts are more promising, on
the whole, than those of the two old States.—
There some are very good, while others are al
most a total failure. A long continuance of
the present wet weather, must add still more
to the disappointment of the planters, while a
must favorable fall cannot repair tho damage
already done.
Texas dates to the 20th ult., received yester
day, represent the crops in Western Texas as
having suffered severely for want of rain. A
gentleman who has just returned from Austin,
informs the Goliad Express that the corn crop,
through the country lie traveled over, is al
most entirely destroyed, and that large planta
tions of fine land will not average two bushels
to the acre.
Bible Revision.
We notice in the Newuan Blade, a card from
the Rev. Jas. Davis, of Louisville, Ky., agent
for a paper devoted to the cause of Bible revi
sion. Appended thereto is an article on the
subject, and the following:
N. B.—Should you publish, will you request
tho Macon aud Columbus papers of all sides,
to do an old Georgian and an old Minister,
who has a catholic heart, the favor to repub
lish ; also, nil papers in Georgia and tho South
will perhaps do justice to a much misunder
stood and misrepresented cause—the Revision
of tlie Holy Bible.
We should like to oblige the “old Georgia
Minister with a catholic heart,” but we aro
opposed to the whole thing, from top to bot
tom. The old original King James Bible is
good enough for anybody. Thousands and
millions have found their way to Heaven by it,
and it still points in that direction to all who
are sincerely anxious to get there. Once be
gin the work of improvement, ns it is called,
and there will be no end to it. Every body
will have a Bible to suit their peculiar views.
The “narrow way” will be broadened, macada
mized, made easy—and God alone knows but
the “ improvers” will put steam upon it;
whereas it is a thorny road and a hard one,
and never will bo easy except through Bible
revisions, the result of which will be that the
world will learn to do without any Bible at all.
M e hope the “old Georgia minister” will take
no offence at our plainness. We had much
rather see tho revisers urging the world to
read tho Old Bible and try to come up to it,
than to see them making anew oue.
■-
Amusing Quarrel.
The young folks of Ashland, 0., aro “ war
ring with their wishes” in a rather humorous
way. The Times says:
“ A society has been formed among tho
young ladies of Ashland, having thccommenda
blc object in view of inducing the young men
to abstain from all intoxicating drinks—even
ale, beer, wine or cider. A provision of tho
society debarring young ladies from associat
ing with those who refuse to sign the pledge,
having become public, some of the young gents
refused to sign, protesting against such action,
and formed another society, which requires of
the young Indies, to make them eligible to
‘good society,’ to abandon hoops, paint and
Alabama silk. We havo not heard whether the
two part es design nominating candidates for
! the Presidency.”
Tlie girls are right—stick to the pledge.—
I The young men are very unreasonable. What
would some of the ladies he without hoops nnd
paint ? There would not he euough of them
j for the “fellers” to court. By the way, what
is “Alabama silk 7” —Sandusky Reyister.
“1 oung ’un,” don’t you know 7 “ Alabama
silk” grows on a cotton plant; it was used at
New Orleans by Geu. Jackson for breastworks.
— CUvelander.
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
Outrages iu Kansas.
Chicago, Aug. 28. —Dr. Suter, formerly of
New Y'ork city, passed through, here to-duy, on
his way from Lawrence. He reports that he wus
j publicly robbed of #2,500 at Westport, and it (
was proposed to drown him in the river at that
place, but through the interposition of a per
! son whose life Suter formerly saved, tlie threat
was not executed.
The Quaker Mission has been entirely bro
, ken up, and all the inmates have left.
Gov. Johnston and tlie Vice Presidency.
New Yotk, Aug. 29.—1 tis rumored that ef
forts are making to induce Gov. Johnston, of
Pennsylvania, to decline the nomination for the
Vice Presidency in favor of Mr. Dayton.—
There is considerable excitement among tho
i North Americans, who in that event will turn
their whole strength over to Fillmore. Some
deny the rumor and declare that Johnston will i
not forsake the North American cause.
Members Returned.
Washington, Aug. 29.—Messrs, of Hall, lo
wa, Purycar and Watson, members of the House
have returned to the Capitol. The last named
paired off. Bayard Clark, of New York, is
paired off with Mr. Valk.
A Senatorial caucus was held this morning,
when it was again resolved to remain in session
in hope of passing the Army bill.
Nicaragua News.
New Orleans, Aug. 27.—A private letter
from Granada, of the 15th, states that Mr.
Livingston, U. S. Consul at Leon, had been
shot, in retaliation for the shooting of Col. Sa
lizar, by Gen. Walker. Appleton Oaksmitli
has been appointed Nicaraguan Minister to
Washington. The Government of Nicaragua
Imd issued a decree authorizing a loan of two
millions of dollars. Terms liberal.
Fremont Mass Meeting.
Bangor, Me., Aug. 28.—The Fremont and
Dayton mass meeting at this place to-day was
attended by over ten thousand people. There
was a procession over two miles long, with mu
sic, banners, &c. Speeches were made by
Gen. Nye of New \ T ork, Messrs. Elliott and
Goodrich of Massachusetts, and Lott M. .Mor
rill. In the evening there was a large meet
in Norumbega Hall. The whole constituted
one of the most successful political demonstra
tions ever held in the State.
The Fever at Quarantine.
New Y'okk, Aug. 30.—There have been
three new cases of the yellow fever at Clifton,
on Staten Island, and eight deaths among the
U. S. Troops at Governor’s Island.
Markets.
New Orleans, Aug. 29—The Sales of the
day have only reached 400 bales, and quota
tions are nominal. She sales of the week are
3,450; increase of receipts at this port, as
compared with previous year 455,000, aud our
stock on hand now, 7,550.
The Fracas at Catoosa.
We find the following letter in the Atlanta
Examiner. Not exchanging with the Peufield
Crusader, of which Mr. Seals is editor, We
have not seen his statement, alluded to be
low:
Catoosa Springs, Ga., I
August 80, 185 G. j
Dear Sir: We have noticed with astonish
ment, the publication of a “statement” by Mr.
Seals of the recent difficult} 1 between you and
himself at Catoosa Springs, inasmuch as that
difficulty had been amicably and satisfactorily
adjusted by friends from each of you and any
disturbance of this adjustment must be held
as a gross breach of honor.
The terms of the adjustment wore these—
Dr. Paul F. Eve and Col. Crosby Connell, in
behalf and by consent of Mr. Seals, proffered
an unconditional apology, for the offense given,
in the first place, and we in your behalf and by
your consent, in view of the facts, tendered an
unconditional apology for the castigation in
flicted.
When those terms were repeated to Mr.
Seals he did not “protest” as he asserts in his
published “statement.”
The position of Mr. Seals under this publi
cation is beyond the consideration of men who
regard honor, and we as your friends unhesi
tatingly advise you to take no further notice of
his claims to meet you as a gentleman.
The above statement and recommendation
we consider due to you in this form, and as
soon as the other gentlemen connected with
the conference can be heard from, a card will
be issued to the public stating the terms of
adjustment.
Yours respectfully, &c.,
ALFRED I’AULLAIN,
R. C. NELSON.
To Gen. J. G. Bynum.
Increase of ‘‘Vigilance.”
The increasing number of Vigilance Com
mittees at the North, are very good evidence
of what free society is coming to. We notice
as the most recent developcment, that outrages
nt Rochester, N. York, have induced the citzeus
of that place to appoint a Vigilance Committee,
who however, very modestly, do not propose to
assume any other power than that of a detec
tive police, handing over to the legal author
ities any of the rascals which may fall into
their hands. Each night a strong force will be
detailed for duty, and it is expected that they
will patrol the district set apart for them from
the usual hour of closing dwellings snd stores
until the next morning.
A Gleam of Hope.
It is said that the Army Appropriation,
i without the proviso, would have passed on
S Thursday by a vote of one hundred and six to
| one hundred nnd two, had the Democratic
l absentees been present, showing a clear ma
jority of four in favor of tho bill without the
proviso—five, if the Speaker be not counted.
Os the nine democratic absentees, all can be
gotten back, except Messrs. Herbert and
| Paine, the latter being confined at home by
i sickness. This will give the friends of the
appropriation a majority of three, as the
Speaker can only vote iu ease of a tie.
The Herbert Case.
The Washington Star states that a warrant
has been issued iu that city against Messrs.
Buell & Blanchard, charging them with libeling
Marshal J. D. Hoover in a pamphlet published
by them headed “Tho Killing of Thomas Keat
ing—an address from the Irishmen of Wash
ington city to the Citizens of the United
States.” The pamphlet is issued as an elec
tioneering document, and charges Marshal
, Hoover with having packed a jury in the Her
bert case favorable to tlie prisoner. Mr. Bu-
I ell appeared before Justice Goddard aud gave
security for his appearance at a further hear
-1 ing.
Gold Thimble for Jessie.
A gold thimble has been manufactured by
Messrs. Kitchunt & Brothers, of Liberty
place, as a present to “Jessie.” It is com
posed entirely of pure California metal, and
cost about fifty dollars. On the sides are
sculptured designs of an appropriate emblem
atic character, among which is a view of tho
White House. Ou a shield is inscribed Jessie
and a: <>nud the rim are the words, “Freedom,
I Free speech and Fre-Mont.”
The Muscogee Railroad.
We publish iu another column the official
proceedings of the late annual meeting of the
Directors and Stockholders of the Muscogee
Railroad company.
Tho uew President of tho company, Mr.
John L. Mustain, is a man of large business
capacity and experience, and a man of indom
\ itable energy.
We are pleased to learn that the dentention j
j ou the Road caused by the falling of a bridge !
| on Upatoie Creek, during the late storm, has
j been partially remedied by the construction of
j a temporary foot bridge, aud that the cars |
: will cross the creek by the close of the week.
While wo arc upon this subject wo will ex
plain more fully a remark of ours in a late
! editorial. We remarked, upon the authority
of the Treasurer, that the general stock account
had been increased §(<4,000 during the last
year, and referred to the annual report for
j particulars. We ought to have added that
! this increase of general stock account was
: made by merging §O,BOO of 7 per cent,, pre*
I ferred stock, into general stock; also by the
return of $18,624:13 of old scrip for which
| general stock has been issued ; aud by the is
suance of stock to the amount of $44,100 to
John D. Gray for work on his contract, and of
§2,975:84 to John 11. Howard for work nnd
interest payable in stock to other stockhold
ers.— Columbus Times, yesterday.
Look Out for the Rascal.
Louis A. Godey, of Philadelphia, requests
us to warn the public against the swindling
devices of a person calling lrmself E. Morgan,
who professes to be a traveling agent for (he
Ladies’ Book. Mr. E. E. Brown, of this city,
forwarded to Mr. G. a certificate of agency
held by this E. Morgan, as coming from Mr.
Godey, which the latter declares to boa for
gery. Mr. Godey further says that he lias no
traveling agent in the South or elsewhere, and
the public of Georgia, Alabama and Florida
had better look out for this E. Morgan, who, it
seems, left Brown’s Hotel without paying his
bill. Pass him round.— Georyia Citizen.
Well Done.
A letter to the Baltimore Clipper says: The
President yesterday signed a bill appropriat
ing forty thousand dollars for the purchase,
from the Salvors, of the ship abandoned iu the
seas by the British crew in search of Sir John
Franklin; the vessel to be presented by the
United States to England, as a testimonial or
approval of the business in which the vessel
was engaged at the time of the abandonment.
Such international courtesies should warm the
heart of every lover of his country; they
serve to strengthen human ties and to bind in
friendship, nations speaking the same lan
guage, and whose true policy is commerce and
peace.
Imported Cattle.
The clipper ship Simoda arrived at Boston,
Monda}% from Havre, with three specimens of
cattle selected at the recent Paris agricultural
exhibition, by Paran Stevens. They comprise
one Alderney and two Guernsey cows, each of
which took premiums at the fair, and they
were selected from hundreds for competition
at the greatest cattle show ever held in Eu
rope.
Negro Stealing.
The Winnsboi'o (S. C.,) Register states:
Some few days ago a young man by the name
of Buford, who was acting as clerk for Mr.
Gamble, of the Winnsboro Hotel, disappeared,
and at the same time also a negro boy. Sus
picions w’ere aroused that there was some con
cert of action between them. Mr. Gamble
wrote immediately to some of his friends in
Greensboro, N. C., requesting them to be on
the look out. A day or two ago he received
a letter informing him of the apprehension of
both Buford and the negro at Greensboro. They
have both been brought back and lodged in tlie
jail, where Buford will await his trial for life.
Death of Benj. Y. Beene, Esq.
It is with melancholy regret, that w r e an
nounce the death of this young gentleman,
which event occurred at Shelby Springs, on
last Friday evening about 7 o’clock. Mr.
Beene, was a young man of fine talents, and at
tlie time of his death, occupied the portion of
Alternate Elector on the Democratic ticket for
this District. Ilis remains were brought to
this city on Saturday evening, aud interred
on yesterday with Masonic honors.
Serious Affray.
We learn, says the Memphis Eagle, from a
gentleman direct from Linden, Arkansas, on
the St. Francis river, that a difficulty occur
red between a number of gentlemen, residents
of that place, which resulted in the death of
six of the party. The disturbance grew out
of a political dispute.
Minister from Washington.
A Washington correspondent of the N. York
Herald says :
“1 learn this morning, from no official source,
however, but yet from a reliable and generally
well informed quarter, that Lord Ilowden has
received the appointment of Minister to tho
United States, in place of Mr. Crampton, dis
missed. His Lordship, rumor asserts, is a
tried and fast friend to this country, as well
as being an able and experienced diplomat.”
—♦
The cotton manufacturing interest of New
England is stated by recent business circulars,
still to be laboring under serious embarruss
j meat, and notwithstanding the very sat isfacto -
j ry dividends made for two years past by a large
| proportion of tho cotton mills, there is a mark
: ed want of confidence in these investments.—
j There will, however, it is believed, be a reac
! tion.
Rev. Mr. Schaffieiter, a Roman Catholic
Driest, of the lledemptionist order, fell down
within the rails of tho altar while singing the
“ Magnificat ” in St. Mary’s church, Buffalo,
during Vespers, on Sunday evening. He lived
only about half an hour. The cause of his
death was disease of the heart.
Tho Saratoga season being about over, the
Daily Saratogian has been discontinued. Tlie
arrivals at the principal hotels during the sea
son have been: Congress Hall 3,814 ; United
States 3,008: Union Hall 8,735; Marvin
House 1,505. Tho total number is set down
at 25,1KK),
Tiie ranks of the “ old guard” are rapidly
being thinned, and another of those relics of
i the past has answered tho call of the muster
roll in Heaven. Nicholas Williamson, a pat*
i riot of tho revolution, aged 94, died on the 18th
inst., at Flagg Town, Somerset county, New
Jersey.
Tho Wilmington Herald understands that
| the rice crops are quite flourishing, the indica
tion being that full an average yield will be
obtained this season. The work of harvesting
has, in part, already commenced.
! , .
The Wheeling (Va.) Argus says no attempt
was made on Thursday week for the organiza
tion ot a Black Republican meeting at the Me
lodeon. Those whose inclination would make
them traitors to Virginia, have doubtless con
cluded ere this that “ discretion is the better
i part cf valor.”
GENERAL ITEMS.
The joint library committee of Coi:g,
have ordered from Dr. Stone a full sized stu j
of Hancock to embelish the Capitol.
The receipts of grain at Chicago f (JI . ~
month of August wfll amount, it m said t'”- i
or 5,000,000 bushels.
The report that the yellow fever had - I
peared at Canton, Miss., is declared to be t i
tally without foundation.
Col. Michael Y'oung, an old, active r
| leading citizen of Thomasville, Ga., died .
the 24th instant of congestive fever.
Tho city authorities of Richmond have
sessed seven thousand dogs. It is estiiav'-i I
that there are 12,000 in that city.
! Last Friday “Jessie Fremont” true. 1
against “James Buchanan ” over tlie (fj
Courso Rochester for §IOO five miles in I
ess. It seems the race resulted iu favor of tj, I
| horse.
There is a lady residing in St. Louis w|> ‘■
has presented her husband annually for 6evw 1
al years past, with three young sprigs of b u . j
inanity at a birth. Strange to say, the li ~ j
band still survives.
An attempt was made on Sunday hist, sav
the Cincinnati Enquirer, to fire the office't I
that paper; but the flames were extinguish t
before great damags was done. The editorial I
room was fired iu four places.
The Albany Argus states that from Album I
west to Buffalo, in almost every village an’, |
city, burglaries are being committed in a ion I
of wholesale way. In many instances, chlor ’ I
form is used by the operators.
A letter from Bangor, Maine, under date. I
the 20th ultimo, informs us that in the sbii I
yards of Bangor, and immediately adjacent I
there were sixty vessels of all sizes on the I
stocks and ready for purchasers.
Mrs. Jane G. Swisshelm has lately paid mi
it to Charles Sumner, and met there Mr. An
son Burlingame. The interview between these
three strong-minded women in pantaloons i>
described as extremely interesting.
It is stated that iron ore, very rare and of |
immense value, has been discovered on Detj< (
River, Chatham county, N. C., and that ; !
large amount of foreign capital is about to I,J
invdsted iu its development.
Capital punishment, which was abolished in I
Prussia in 1848, has been recently re-estab-1
Hslied. The mode of execution is to be the I
axe, within prison walls, and in presence of a!
certain number of magistrates and officials ex
pressly appointed for the purpose.
It is stated by persons from California, wl>,.
have returned to Mississippi since the inau
guration of the reign of tlie Vigilance Com
mittee in San Francisco, that ex-Governor
Foote, formerly of that State, is the chief di
rector aud instigator of their movements.
The three hundred laborers discharged ai
the Harpers’ Ferry Armory are forming a com
pany for Kansas, as we learn from the tele
graphic correspondence of the New York He
rald. Rough customers these will be for the
Free State party.
Before the time of Pope Innocent 111.,
(1118) there was no solemnization of marriage
in the church, but the bridegroom came to
the bride’s house, and led her home to bis
own, which was all the ceremony then used.
It is said there is not an ounce of that fa
mous perfume, Otto of Roses, sold in our
country. It is adulterated before it is sent
from Egypt—the country which furnishes the
almost entire supply.
A man named John C. Treadwell, in Lowell,
had his scull fractured a few days since by a
blow from the fist of his son William. llarJ
words and angry feelings were the cause of the
rencontre. Young Treadwell has been arrest
ed and held to bail in §5,000.
The fire at Messrs. Broadwood’s piano forte
factory iu tho Horseferry Road, London, on
the evening of the 12th ult., destroyed proper
ty to the amount of nearly §700,000. About
a thousand piano fortes were destroyed. The!
origin of the fire is unknown.
The Houma Ceres says that since the recent
storm, near New Orleans, a fatal malady La.-
attacked the fish in Bayou Terebome. Thom
ands upon thousands have been killed by it,
and are now floating about or decomposing on
the banks of the stream.
The Boston Courier contains a card signed
by the Hon. Edward Everett, Hon. Win. Ap
pleton, Hon. R. C. Winthrop, and a large
number of other Whigs of that city, expres
ing themselves in favor of the election of Mr
Fillmore to the Presidency.
Mr. Leonard Neilson, of Maryland, who was
on the Japan expedition, returned home re
cently in the U. S. frigate Macedonia, bring
ing with him two beautiful mouse deer, from
the Island of Java. They are curiosities, as
but few of them havo ever been imported into
the United States.
It is fortunate that the gentleman’s fash
ions (io not keep pace with the ladies’. Or
else, by this time, their hats would have dwin
dled down to the size of a charity boy’s muf
iincup, and their trowsers would have swollen
out to about doublo Abe sizo of those of n
Turk’s and Dutchman’s stitched together.
‘l’he Augusta Chronicle has been favored by
a young lady with a dwarft peach, perfectly
ripe, which is not huger than a moderate sized
cherry. It grew we understand on the plant
ation of Judge Robertson, iu Columbia county,
where there are many peaches of the same
| lillipntiaix proportions.
The dry good jobbing nnd importing trade ,
of New York, which should by this time have I
been fully under weigh, is said to be extremely I
flat and dull. The jobbers who deni in the
West complain of this dullness more than those
who chiefly depend on the Southern trade-
The jobbers are waiting for bargains nt the
: auction sales which have not yet commenced
It is thought that the attempt of Mr?
Bloomer to fasten the paternity of the Bloom
er costume upon Mrs. Miller, daughter of (fir
rit Smith, will prove unsuccessful. Even if sl’.c
succeed iu proving her assertion that Mr-
Miller had been wearing tho breeches three
j months before herself, the incredible position
; remains to be established, that Mrs. Miller is
! the first woman who ever wore the breeches-
The negro nnd white wings of the “republi- |
- can” army have at length united their force
’ Tlie notorious block Ficd, Douglas has taken j
down the Gen -it Smith flag from the beadot
his pnper, and run up that of Fremont so l
. Dayton. It is reported that among the condj’
I tions of this white and negro fusion, Fred-
Douglas is to be the Black Republican candi
date for Congress in the Monroe district!
A man named William Gibbous died of hr |
drophobia in Philadelphia on Saturday.
had been bitten nine weeks ago by a dog. a ,:
the wound, which was on the thumb, lin'i' 1 - i
healed up and to all appenrnnees well, wher
on the morning of the 18th instant, the 1‘
was renewed iu the lacerated part. Up to - 1
2Utb the deceased entertained no thought
the dreadful deutli so near at baud.