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Tuciday 9la r i>li>gi Sept. O, 1856.
LAUGEBT Cil'V CIRCUI.ATION.
The Gale in Southern Georgia.
The Albany Patriot Bays the effects of the j
gale in our city and the country immediately
around, are serious, and to the farmers must
proTC almost ruinous. The corn which had
just about matured, has been blown down
and will rot upon the ground. And the cotton
fields have been stripped of their rich fleece.
As far as our personal observation has ex
tended, it proved more violent East and South
of us than to the North. In Dougherty, Lee
and Terrell counties, it will long be remember
ed with terror. One-third of the cotton and
corn of the country must have been totally
destroyed.
The track laying on the Alabama and Ten
nessee Rivers Rail Road, has been resumed,
with a sufficiency of iron to take it across the
Coosa River.
The editors of the National Intelligencer in
u lengthy article in last Thursday’s issue, lmvo
announced their intention of remaining neu
tral during the approaching Presidential can
vas.
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Kansas Meeting in Augusta.
Enthusiastic meetings were held iu Augusta
on Friday and Satuiday nights, presided over
by Maj. E. B. Glasscock.
Spirited addresses, on both occasions, were
delivered by Capt. E. M. McGee, of Missouri,
and Capt. B. Jones, formerly of Polk county,
in this State, but recently from Kansas.
The amount subscribed and paid over was
three hundred and three dollars. A Kansas Club
was formed on Saturday night, and resolutions
adopted to carry out the objects of the Club.
Negro Property in Cobb.
At the public sale on Tuesday, negroes sold
at the following figures :
One woman and infant child SIOSO
Boy seven years old 005
Woman and two small children 1705
Girl, sixteen years old 1001
Man, thirty years old 1150
Making an aggregate of $5(101 for the sev
en, or an average cf SBOO each, and but three
grown negroes iu the lot— Marietta Georgian.
Thd Cotton Crop of 1856.
VVe copy the following article, on the cotton
crop of 1856, from the Memphis Bulletin, of
the 26th utl. :
“ The period lias now arrived when special
interest is felt in the cotton crop, and when
people begin to make reliable estimates of the
probable produce. Even yet the plant is sub
ject to casualties, such as storms, insects, rot,
rust, early frost, etc., which may seriously re
duce the orop below what is now promised ;
but from what has already occurred, and from
what is at present positively known, we must
ooncludo that planters will not realize their ex
pectations of a mouth or six wejks ago. The
weather during that time has presented a re
markable con*rast in respect to the upper and
lower country. While the latter Ims been vis
ited by continued and excessive rains, the
former has sutlered from almost unprecedent
ed drouth.
While the rich and alluvial soils of Louisi
ana and Southern Mississippi, have been stim
ulated by an exuberance of heat and moisture,
to the production of plants of luxuriant growth,
attended by the usual evils, long joints, rot,
dropping ot torms, etc., tho extensive range
of highlands in Nortli Mississippi and Tennes
see, have been parched by long continued
drouth, with the still greater evils, diminutive
growth, small bolls, and rust. Tho large cot
ton of the South has recently suffered tho fur
ther injury of hurricanes, which have prostra
ted it more or less extensively in different lo
calities, and broken many of the plants eveu
with the ground. Tho cotton worm too, ,if wc
may rely on reports, is making depredations
in various placs, and may yet swoop over the
whole southern region as iu 1810.
Had the occurrences of tho upper and lower
country, as above detailed, been roversed—had
the rains and gales of the South been trausfer
ed to the North, and tho drouth occurred in the
South, tho results would lmvo been far differ
ent, f nd the present promise would have been
equal to that of any former yer. Dut now it
ks too lato for existing evils to bo remedied.—
The rains which are occurring on tho high
lands may stimulate the plant to a rapidsecoud
growth, which will bo unproductive of fruit
and will be likely to add the rot to the destruc
tive rust now prevailing : and if the vaius of
the lower country suddenly cease, the shed
ding of forms is certain to be greatly increas
ed. In any eveut there must be a reduction in
the estimates of one fourth and upwards, and
such we believe to be the opinion of well in
formed planters, both North and South.
Bank of Fulton, at Atlanta.
The following communication appears in the
last Atlanta Republican:
Messrs. Editors : 1 do not say that this Bank
is “ Wild Cat,” but some things have come to
light whioh look very suspicious. That some
thing is wrong, and that tho Devil has been
“ whipped around tho stump,” there is no I
doubt. It is known to be a fact, that most of
the stock belongs to parties iu New York, and |
to make the thing easy, these parties made ar
rangements with certain individuals in this
city, to take stock in their own name aud pay
in the money, which was furnished them, and
after the Bank went into operation, the stock
was transferred to tho parties who really own
ed it. From indications now apparent to me,
l should not be surprised if the concern was
rotten to the core ; and if it is, the sooner the
people know it tho better. 1 have not got all
tho points yet, but 1 assure you that as fust as
the cloveu foot reveals itself, I will post you
up with the particulars.
A CROAKER.
An Arrest.
John Copeluud, one of that iufamous gang
that has for a number of years past infested
the Sonth-east corner of Mobile county, was
committed to jail yesterday evening by C. B.
King, Esq., as a fugitive from justice from the
State of Mississippi. The alledged crime is j
the murder of a man by the name of Hardy, in ]
that State, two or three years ago. A large
reward was offered for Copeland's arrest, and
he will.be held subject to a requisition from
Gov. Mcßae. —Mobile Xeies.
A company of northern capitalists, it is
stated. Lave purchased two thousand acres of
: land in Henrico county, Virginia, including
’ lb® 0,1 l Springfield aud Deep Run pits, a few
miles west of Richmond, and are about to
commence coal-mining operations in that re
gion on an extensive scale.
Prom Kansas.
We-find the following letter, written by one
of Major Buford’s Kansas Emigrant’s to a rel
ative in Montgomery, in the Journal of that
city:
14 Milks N. W. of Lexington, i
Missouri, August 18, 1856. /
Once more I am on the retreat from the Ter- ,
; ritory. Jim Lane has arrived in full force, and
before this reaches you the pro-slavery cause
will have fallen or gained a victory that will be j
of some importance to the South. All of Bn
-1 ford’s men who have been taken prisoners, have
been murdered. Tiie brave and true who were j
: with tho unfortunate Treadwell at the time of
flight, have paid their last tribute to the glorv
! of the South—they are gone. Clowes, the gaf
i lant little editor of the Southern Advocate,
i fell, nobly fighting the Northern robbers, at Le
| compton; and now sleeps his last sleep in the
; bosom of Kansas! Alabamians, will you lon-
I gcr close yonr purse strings, and house your
I chivalry, when your bleeding eons are overrun
j and crushed by your worst enemy? Can you
longer behold these things and remain inactive ? ]
Here are your boys, without money, without j
clothes, and nothing but the broad prairie for j
their beds, nod the canopy of lleaven their on
ly covering; disputing with the foe every inch j
of ground in behlf of the South; beat back, 1
driven iu, where no succor awaits them, even
to their leaders having deserted them and fled ;
the crisis. Ido think that Alabamians should
no longer dole out by mites the “one thing
needful” in supporting them! Wc want hors
es—we want to mount every man that remains
of Buford's once proud and strong expedition.
Fellow-citizens, give us your aid ; we are here
to meet, the foe, and are resolved to remain
here as long as there is a plank to stand upon.
Give not your aid to stump speakers and hifa
lutin orators; send it at once to the men who
are here—men who will fight for you. Place
us on an equallity with your enemies, aud out
lives for it, you wiii never have cause to regret
the issue.
The Borders are now arousing for the battle,
2,000 “Ruffians” will be on the plaius in se
ven days, well mounted and equipped. Where
as, the Alabamians are but poorly armed and
afoot. For God’s sake give us a fair show. —
Send us money and iighiting men—no more
demagogues—we want none such. Send us
leaders wlio are capable of sustaining their po
sition and the cause of the South.
At the battle of Franklin, there were only
14 of our boys, Georgians and Alabamians. —
They fought four hours against 365 of Lane’s
heroes; and finally escaped with but a few
slight wounds, leaving eight Abolitionists dead
on the field, and about 23 wounded. At Le
compton, the fight has been bloody on both
sides—l 2 Pro-slavery men were killed and 32
Abolitionists. At Treadwell’s camp, there were
about 20 of our men taken prisoners and all
murdered. The day of reconing is close at
hand. “Blood, Blood!” is the Abolitionist’s
watchword, and “Blood for Blood!” is the
Southerner’s war cry. Where it will end, God
above knows. The North is daily sending aid
to their hirelings in Kansas, and 1 can see no
thing ahead but civil War—bloody War! Ido
hope this feeble letter may cause men to feel
for their own interest, anti awake the South to
a just sense of her danger.
The men of Buford’s expedition who are
now with me, are Messrs. Charles Daniel, of
Savannah, Ua., Ben. Lawrence, of Va., John
Lawman, Malone, M. B. Hurst, M. Brown, N.
B. Burton, ltobt. J. Taliaferro and R. Jennings,
of Ala., and Tucker, of Ga.
Limit. Cosgrove has just got in from Tread
well’s camp, with Chas. llrabieska and three
or four others. Yours truly, J. F. S.
♦
Peach and Honey, a Gentleman’s Drink.
Old Judge Cole of Texas, was characterized
by his attachment to that seductive beverage
called peach and honey, and by his hatred of
whiskey and whiskey drinkers. While lidding
a court at. Austin, two men were brought up
on a charge of a drunken affray. It was a
plain one ; the row had occurred in the pub
lic street, in open day, and there were fifty
witnesses to the whole transaction. So the
two delinquets pleaded guilty, by the advice
of their counsel, and threw themselves on the
mercy of the court. They were then brought
up for sentences separately.
“ You aro guilty of an affray,” growled the
Judge.
“Yes, your Honor,” whined the offender,
thoroughly frightened.
“Drunk, 1 suppose,” granted the Judge.
“Yes, your Houor,” murmured the prisoner,
with some faint hope that having been drunk
would mitigate the punishment.
“Drunk on rye whiskey, too, I’ll warrant,”
roared the Judge in a voice of thunder.
“Yes, your Honor, drunk on rye whiskey,”
“Mr. Clerk, record a tine of fifty dollars
against this man,” cried the Judge, “send
him to jail for sixty days. I shall fine the
next one who is guilty uuder such aggravat
ing circumstances a hundred dollars, and-send
him to jail for six months.”
This was poor comfort for the unforteuate j
fellow who was waiting his turn, and now
came forward with fear aud trembling. As he
passed along by his lawyer, that thoughtful j
gentleman whispered iu his oar t “When the
Judge asks you what yon got drunk on, tell |
him on poach and honny.” lie took his stami.
“You, too, are up here for an affray,”
growled tho old Judge, gnashing his teeth, ns
if he would like to bite the culprit at the bar.
“Yos, your Honor.”
“Drunk, too, I suppose.”
“Yes, your Honor; sorry to say it—drunk
—very drunk.”
“Drunk on rye whiskey, too, 1 suppose? ” i
“Oh, no, your Honor; 1 never drink whis- J
key. 1 got drunk on peach and honey.”
The Judge's features relaxed iu an instant. !
Leaning forward and raising his spectacles, ?
ho contemplated the offender with interest, 1
and then with something like tenderness.
“Ah! sir,” said tho Judgo, blandly ; “poach
and honey, eh! that’s a gentlemanly drink,
sir. The court sympathises with you, sir, aud
does not regard your offence as very serious.
Mr. Clerk,” he continued, iu a softening tone, *
“enter a tine of one dollar against this gentle- i
men, and discharge him on payment of cost.” J
Now Hampshire Democratic State Conven
tion. j
Concord, Sept. 4— One of the largest dele- ’j
gate Conventions ever assembled in N. Ilanip- |
shire, convened in this city to day, for the pur- 1
pose of making nominations for the Preaiden- :
tial and State elections. Daniel Marcy, tC ,
Portsmouth, Jonathan T. Chnse, of Carmodjv 1
Horace Chase, of Hopkiuton, David Buffunx.
of Walpole, and Elenzer Martin, of Walpole
wore nominated Presidential Electors. The- 1
Hon. Jno. S. Wells was renominated by acela- j
mation, candidate for Governor, ami Mark
Noble for Railroad Commissioner. Tomorrow
a mass meeting will be held here, to ratify the -
nominations.
A Washington despatch says: “I venture
the prediction, that the first important infor- -i
mation received from Kansas officially, will be- :
that Geu. Lane is in irons. Mark this.”
Rev. A. Holliday has been chosen Professor
of Hampden Sydney College, Va.
A Brother to a Baron a Man Before the
Mast ou the Lakes.
The Chicago Democrat of a recent date gives
the following remarkable history of two broth
ers, one an Italian Baron and the other a sail
or before the mast on our Western Lakes:
A short time since a man named Thomas
Ward was admitted to the United States Ma
rine Hospital in this city. He had accidental
ly broken his leg on bonrd the vessel in which
he filled the humble post of sailor—a simple
man before the mast. lie is an honest, indus
trious, hardworking poor fellow, with a wife
aud two or three children depending on uini
for support. He is well known to several of
our old citizens, among others, Dr. Duck and
S. J. Sherwood, Esq., who has corresponded
for him with his brother. The stranger part
of poor Ward’s history, however, is that his
brother is an Italian Baron, and lias been
Prime Mimister to the Duke of Lucca, and fi
nally, on his death, Regent of Parma. We
have now before us a flue daguerreotype of the
Baron in his court costume, with his stars and
orders glittering on his breast, ami we must,
say that a nobler looking man caunotbe found
—notwithstanding his poor brother Tom is a
man before the mast on board a lake schooner,
and cannot so much as read or write.
The history of tho Baron, John Ward—bro
ther of poor Thomas, the simple mariner, is
certainly a romantic one. He is an English
man by birth, and his elevation to the regency
of Parma, is not only a singular instance of
the mutability of human affairs, but of the
tendency of the Anglo Saxon race, when trans
planted to foreign countries, to emerge to emi
nence, and surpass others by the homely but
rare qualities of common sense and unfaltering
energy. Ward was a Yorkshire groom. The
Duke of Lucca, who obtained by his fall from
horseback in Rotton Row, London, the famil
iar soubriquet of “filthy lucre,” spying the
lad’s merit, took him into his service, and pro
moted him through the several degrees of com
maud iu his stables, to be head groom in the
Ducal stud. Upon Ward’s arrival in Italy
with his master, it was soon found that the
intelligence he displayed in the management
of stables, was applicable to a variety of other
departments. In iact the Duke had such a
high opinion of Ward’s wisdom, that he very
rarely omitted to consult him upon any ques
tion that he was perplexed to decide ; and the
success which ever crowned Ward’s advice,
gave him in the eyes of the feeble descevdant
of the Spanish Bourbons, the prestige of infal
libility.
As Louis XII used to answer those who ap
plied to him on any business by referring
them to the Cardinal d’Amboise, with the
words “ask George,” so Charles of Lucca cut
short all application with “go to Ward.” The
expenses ot the stable having been reduced to
less than one-half under the administration,
while the Duke’s horses were the envy of all
Italy, it struck tho Prince naturally enough
that it would be a good tiling if the same econ
omy could bo introduced into other depart
ments. So Ward tried his hand on one thing
aud the other, continually enlarginghis sphere
ot influence until from horsehold matters lie
passed to those connected with tho State,
which, indeed, is such a miniature affair that
it does not greatly pass the limits of some pri
vate domestic establishments. Ward r.ow be
came the factotum of the Prince, won in the
disturbances which preceded the revolutionary
year ot 1848, a diplomatic dignity, and was
despatched to Florence upon a confidential mis
sion ol the highest importance. Ilewas depu
ted to deliver to the Grand Duke the act of
abdication of the Duke of Lucca.
At first the Grand Duke was doubtful wheth
er he could receive, in a diplomatic capacity,
a messenger of whom he had only heard in
relation to the races of the Cascine, where
Ward had been in the habit of riding as a jock
ey. But it soon appeared that the Lucchese
envoy had in his pocket a commission making
him the viceroy of the Duke’s States, which
was to be acted on in case the Grand Duke
made any difficulty, or even if he refused to
receive Ward as the Ambassador of the States
of Parma at the capital of the Medicis. Soon
after, in 1849, when the Duke of Lucca re
signed his other States to his son, Ward be
came the head counsellor to this hopeful
prince, who has thus been able to follow out a
sporting bent under the best auspices, while
he had a minister whose shrewd sense was more
than a match for the first diplomatists iu Italy.
Ward was, on one occasion, despatched to Vi
enna in a diplomatic capacity. Scharzenberg
was astonished at his capacity ; in fact, the
cidevant Yorkshire stable boy was the only
one ot the diplomatic body that could make
head against the imperious counsels, or rather
dictates, of Se’iwarzenhorg; and this was
louud highly useful by other members of the
diplomatic body. Among others, Mcyendorf,
the Russian Ambassador, cultivated him great
ty-
An English gentleman, supping one night
at the Russian Ambassador’s, complimented
him upon his excellent ham. “There is a mem
ber of our diplomatic corps here,” replied
Meyendorff, “ who supplies us all with hams
from Yorkshire, of which county lie is a na
tive.” Ward visited England. The broad
dialect and homely phrase betraying his origin
through the profusion of orders of all coun
tries sparkling on his breast, lie rarely ven
tured to appear at eveningsoirees. Lord Pal
merston declared that he was one of the most
remarkable men lie liad ever met with. Ward,
through all liis vicissitudes, lias preserved an
honest pride iu his native country. He does
not conceal his humble origin. The portraits
of his parents in their homespun clothes, ap
pear in the splendid saloon of the Prime Minis
ter of Parma.
Short Route between Europe and America.
Messrs. Allen X Cos., of Montreal, propose
to run a line of first class steamers during the
summer months between Liverpool and Que
bec, provided that the Government es Canada
will supply a bonus of &24.000 a year. The
Montreal Board of Trade recommend that ad
vantage be taken of this route to secure the
speedy transmission of news between the two
continents, by establishing a line of tele fc rr nh
ic communication between Quebec and Fortcau
Bay, a point on the shore of tho Straits of
Relisle, some seven hundred miles of Quebec.
Tho Toronto Ledger says :
It is distant from Liverpool only 1,877 miles,
while from Liverpool to Halifax the distance
is 2,466 miles; so that by the Canadian route
there would be effected a saving of 600 miles
to the point where the news from England
could be telegraphed over flic continent It
is manifest, therefore, that no other point
presents tho same advantages for tho enrlv i
transmission of news ns that which Mr. Young
wishes to connect with Quebec by telegraph?
Forteau Bay is 122 miles nearer Liverpool than
Cape Race in Netherland, and compared with
New York—which is reached by the best Col- j
Bus’ boat iu ten days—it shortens the distance
between tho two continents no less than 1,132
miles, or about four days’ sailing ; so that a
first class boat can with ease make the voyage
from Liverpool to the Canadian Land’s End— 1
the telegraph terminus proposed by Mr. Youne
—in six days.
< Tli<* <'hattahoochee has fallen, and naviga
tion to tills point suspended in consequence. i
NEW RAIL.
Improved Continuous Rail for Railroads—ln
vented by Charles T. liernur, Civil Engineer.
A mere glance at railroad trucks, as niailo
at present, will show at once that their con
struction is far from being perfect. There is
no doubt that the rapid wear and tear of the
cars and machinery, and the repeated acci
dents, entailing often such fearful loss of life
and property, are mainly due to the great un- !
evenness of the surface of the iron rails. A
railroad track, to be perfectly safe, must be
smooth, uniform, and, at the same time, so
arranged that it preserves its level under the
heavy loads that pass continually over it.—
The old mode of construction has proved it
self, in this respect, very insufficient. The
track has generally been composed of bars of
18 to 21 feet long, with their ends supported 1
by small cast irou chairs, or short coupling
bars. Experience has shown, however, that i
joints so made are by no means capable of j
sustaining as heavy loads as the bar itself; j
that they continually sink down, causing the
track to form a succession of 3hort waves, in- j
stead of presenting the smooth uniformity of I
surface so neeessary for the swift passage of
trains; and that the only way to make this
evil at all bearable is by constantly “tapping
up” such low joints with the earth of the em
bankments. The maintenance of the large
force of laborers required for this purpose
impose an immense cost on railway companies.
Many ingenious contrivances have been tried
to lessen it. The so-called compound rails
have herein been the most successful; for, ac
cording to the testimony of superintendents of
railroads where the same are in use, their
adoption has lessened this expense 50 per cent.
The number of accidents from running off the
track has also greatly diminished.
But while improving these matters, the rail
itself has been sacrificed. By endeavoring to
construct a bar of equal strength at the joints,
either the iron has been split and cut so as to
wear out very rapidly; or the joint has been
so complicatedpis to make the rail difficult and
expensive in its manufacture, and that this is
an item of great importance will be evident
when it is considered that the pui-ebaso of the
rails constitutes from one-half to one-third of
the whole railroad.
The rail invented by Mr. Lienur is certain
ly calculated to obviate all these evils. It is
composed of two parts—a top rail and a bot
tom rail—which are laid “breaking joints”
with each other—that is to say, the ends of
the top rail are brought together on the mid
dle of the bottom rail, and in the same man
ner the joint of the bottom rail comes always
at the middle of the top rail. The two are
bolted together in a strong and simple manner.
When laid, it forms one uniform, continuous
rail, every where equally strong. It is so ar
ranged that the top rail, which is the only
part that is exposed to deterioration, can be
removed and renewed, when worn out, with
out disturbing the bottom rail; and thereby
alone is a great saving effected.
It has also been constructed with the view
to facilitate tracklaying and to lessen the wear
and tear of carwheels. It offers no difficulty
in its manufacture and, what makes it more
valuable is, that, compared with the old sys
tem, its first increased cost is little or none,
which is principally because no chairs or coup
ling bars are required.
Besides, the saving effected by one year’s
use, both as regards the rail itself and the
trains moving over it, will make it cheaper
than any other.
There s little doubt that it will supersede
all other patterns now in use. We have seen
the testimonials of some of the first and most
eminent engineers of the country, to whose
judgment it has been submitted, and all testi
fy to its great superiority in every respect.
We have also heard that its immediate adop
tion on some of the leading railroads in the
south is already spoken of.
The inventor is one of our resident engin
eers ; and has given a great deal of attention
to the defects which, it seems to us, he has
completely removed by this simple and philo
sophic invention— Mobile Tribune.
One of the Polk Men.
Among the many anecdotes of the late Gub
ernatorial canvass, we heard onethc other day,
says the St. Louis Herald of a late date, which
illustrates the progress of intelligence in cer
tain portions ot tho State where a newspaper
is as great a curiosity as a roll of Egyptian
papyrus. A settler down in the swamp coun
try, having heard that Mr. Polk would pass
alo: g tlie road near his house ou a certain day,
and that he wonld be known by the two famous
white mules, determined to get a look at the
great man of whom he had heard so much.—
Seating himself on a log, he waited patiently
for several hours, whittling a piece of red ce
dar, and whistling the “ Arkansaw Traveler,”
At length tho two white mules came trotting
down the road, and the swampite arose, and
dotting his coon skin, cried out:
‘ I say, stranger! your name is Polk, ain’t
it ?”
Being answered iu the affirmative, he jump
ed off the log, threw down his whittling stick,
and striding up to the buggy, grasped Mr. Polk
by the hand.
“ Well, darn your picture,” said he, “if 1
ain’t awful glad to see you. I’m going to vote
foryou—you can bet your bottam dollar on that!
You made a first rate President, and I kuow
you’ll do for Governor !”
“ Thank you, ’ said thecandidatc, “but you
arc laboring under a misapprehension—l am
Truateu—”
“ Yes, I know, you are trustin’ to the Dimi
crats to put you through ; and they’ll do it as
easy ns rolling off a log. I gin you my vote
when you was running for President, and lam
just agoing to plump down for you again.”
After several ineffectual attempts to explain
to the swamp man that he was not James K.
Polk, the canvasser whipped off his mules,
leaving his enthusiastic supporter wippiughis
| coouskin and shouting—“Hurra for Polk, the
best President that ever wore liar.”
Y\ ho will say, after this, that there is noth
ing iu a mime ?
Turning into a Platform.
Ethan Spike, the humorous correspondent
of the Portland (Me.) Transcript, in the fol
lowing citation from his last letter, shows how
a fellow feels while he is becoming a plat
form:
Feller Citizens—l not only innount tho plat
form but I’d ride it to Joppa es the safety of
the Constitootion an tho Union shall seem to
ax 1 shall so kinder mix myself with this
platform, that ’twill be hard to tell totherf.om
which. Yes—feller citizens, yer looin yer
last on the late Unspeakable Libby. I feel
the planks going into my ribs, my inerds are
hardenin, my legs are feelin awfully timbeiish,
an niv tose is turning into twenty penny’s
an spikes I shall soon be a platform an my
wife will be a widder—onless it are constitoo
tional for such kind of furnituro ns I’m becom
in to keep wives.
Hobbs, the locksmith, Ims picked one of Ban
quo’s gory locks : lie did it with a pick axe.—
He is now at work on a wedlock.
T. I>. Robertson, of Alexandria, Virginia, a
few days ago, recovered two fugitive slaves at
Chambers!)urg, Pa.
GENEEAL ITEMS.’
The Savannah papers state that Haii C .
sham’s rice mills were destroyed by five
on Saturday morning. Over twenty thou?. ‘
bushels of rice were either burnt up or injun?
Commander Henry R. Hoff, of the Unit-
States Navy, has received orders from Wa-) J
ington to proceed immediately to take i ;
command of the United States frigate l Dl -’
pendence, now in the Pacific.
lloff will, consequently, leave on the sth h H ’
in the Illinois, for Aspinwall, on his wav
Panama.
The Detroit Free Press contains an addre--,
signed by sixty-nine wliigs of that city , U! .
nonneing their intention to support Buchani,,.
and Breckenridge, and calling upon the whi?
of Michigan to do the same.
We learn that the Italians who were exile’
to this country for their political faith, ...
progressing famously at the mines of Sc;;,!,,
ton, Penn. They get one dollar per clay,
healthy, and will soon have their wages uj.
vjtnced. They seem to like the country,
are anxious to have their relations in lt ; ,] (
come out ami settle with them.
The cotton manufacturing interest of ft,.,
England is stated by recent business circular*
still to bo laboring under serious embank
ment, and notwithstanding the very satisfy,
tory dividends made for two years past h v
large proportion of the cotton mills, there is s
marked want of confidence in these invest’
ments. There will, however, it is believed, 1,,
a reaction.
A letter from a bank, containing a genuis.
bill for one thousand dollars, was a few (W
since returned to the dead-letter office
Washington, the pre-payment of the lettei
having been omitted
Among the banished Mexicans opposed ti
the present government in Mexico, who have
arrived in New Orleans, are Gen. La Vega
well known in this conntry in connection with
the late Mexican war, and Col. May, General
Blanco, Gen. Suarez, and two other gentle
men, together with about twenty other exile
military, lay and clerical. They will nntk,
tlie United States their future home.
There is a county in this part of Georgia,
says the Sandersville Georgian, having about
six hundred and fifty votes. We have it from
a well informed gentleman of that county that
Fillmore will get, at least, six’ hundred j
them. Yet Fillmore has no strength, sat
those who fear he will defeat Buchanan in,
Georgia.
Ex Gov. Hubbard, of New Hampshire, the
last surviving member of the famous old Fel
eral Hartford Convention, is stumping Nett
Hampshire.
It was stated recently in the British Parlh.
ment that during the late war the desertion
from the English militia were 13 per eeut
from the Scotch militia, 20 per cent, and from
the Irish militia only 5 per cent. While the
English militia gave recruits to the line at the
rate of 7£ per cent; the Scotch, at the rate of
14£ per cent., the Irish gave at the rate of2l
per cent. The Irish militia was, therefore, in.
comparably the most valuable branch in the
service.
The well informed Washington correspond
ent of the Baltimore Sun says that the account
lately received and published in New York, o!
the conclusion of the treaties between tin
British government and that of Honduras, re
lative to the Central American question, is no!
credited at the State Department. It pro
ceeds, probably, from Mr. Squire, who is con
nected with the Honduras scheme for au inter
oceanic canal, and whose interests are repre
sented at London by Gen. Herron, the Hondu
ras Minister.
The Philadelphia Ledger referring to the
fact that Gen. Pomeroy, reported killed iu
Kansas in the last telegraph dispatches, ha>
“turned up” in Boston, says, this is the sec
ond time, we believe, that lie has been dis
patched by murdurous news agents for the
newspapers, but killing a man a half dozen
times in Kansas is no uncommon feat. It on
ly requires an unscrupulous correspondent io
one part of the country, and a gullible parti
san editor in another, when snap goes the elec
tric fluid through the wire, and a man is|“kili
ed iu the must savage manner possible,” on
score of men, if it better answers partisan
purposes.
New Tariff of Nicaragua.
Anew tariff’ for the Nicaraguan port was pro
mulgated ou the 31st of July. It iinpsses o:
all unenumerated foreign merchandize a duty
of twenty per cent, upon the mauufaat-urers
price, or their cost in the markets from
whence they proceed, discounting all expense’
of cooperage, packing, freights, insurance,
commission, &c. Spirituous liquors of “good
quallity” are to pay one dollar per gallon: ‘'or
dinary liquors three dollars, and alcohol four
dollars. Wines, cordials, beer, &c twentvpct
cent. Leaf tobacco seventy-five cents per
pound; chewing tobacco, fifty per cent, upon
original cost; manufactuaed tobacco, one dollar
per pound; snuff, fifty cents per pound. The
following articles are to be admitted frees!
duty:
“All flours, meats, pork, lard, crackers,
potatoes, and all kinds of agricultural hard
ware, machinery for the improvement of in
dustry in the republic, printed books, bell
and church organs, stoves, pitch ami tar im
ported by the owners of vessels for the expo-’
purpose of using them on their own ships; bag
gage and furniture, belonging to families or
emigrants established in tlie republic, pro;
vided they are destined for their own persona
use; seeds, plants, flocks, cattle, and all other
animals destined to improve the breeds ot the
republic.
I’aymcnt of duties to be in cash, where the
same does not exceed ten days, ciedit 1111
sums of.$000; thirty days ou $1,800; andfrom
thirty to sixty days ou larger sums.
St. Domingo and Spain.
Jonathan Elliott, Esq., Coumissioner to the
Dominican Republic, has returned to this coun
try for the purpose, it is said, of exposing the
intrigues of the Spanish Consul, Sel o ™’.
against of the United States and tho treat,’
commerce and friendship between the tv
powers, signed the Bth March last, and trail--
initted to Washington for the usual ratification
and received there the 2d of May last. ‘
object of alledged intrigues of senor Beg° vw |
said to be the restoration of the island of
Domingo to Spain.
A Walker.
An extraordinary pedestrian feat has 1
performed in Derbyshire, England. A :11,
named Alfred Helsoti, undertook to walk,
six successive days, the distance of <0
day. He commenced his performance on
day, July 20th, and completed it with ‘-a--
Saturday, tlie 26th of July, doing it with’ 1
specified time. The 70 miles were ti- 1 ’
walked in about 14 hours, but on one
days they were completed in 12 hours.
1 on travel lie took very little food, except - j
; tea, or a small bit of mutton, half cooke -
j a little stimulant occasionally. Hisusuwi
I was from four to six miles an hour.