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COLTTMBTJS: TLurdiy Morning, S*pt- 11* 1858. LaKOEST citv circulation. We direct the attention of Ladies and Misses, to the advertisement of Mrs, Rutherford, in another column. The Rev. l)r. Lipscomb, President of the Methodist Female College of Tuskegee, will preach in the Methodist Church in this city, Sabbath next at 11 o’clock. The editor of the Times acknowledges the receipt of $65 in aid of Kansas sufferers—ss from Mrs. DeGraffenried and S6O from Col. John A. Strother. Keep the bail in motion, friends. A dispatch dated York, Pa., Sept. 8, says one half of tho town of Columvid is in flames, and they have sent here for assistance. ♦-- The Kansas Emigration company in charge ofCapt. Henry 1). Clayton, embarked at St. Louis for Kansas on tho 60th ult. Before this they have landed on the soil of Kansas. South Carolina Dtate Bank. The Charleston Courier states that between 600 and 400 shares of the stock of the State Bunk of South Carolina, were sold on Monday the Bth inst., at $24 60 per share. We learn from the Charleston Courier, that the steamship Janies Adger, having completed repairs, resumes her plaee in the line between that city and Now York on Saturday next, 18th instant. Fever in Charleston. The Board of Health report five deaths from yellow fever, for the 48 hours ending Monday evening 10 o’clock. ♦ Mr. Henry Fulkertb, postmaster at Has kinsvil’c, Ohio, was recently arrested by T. P. Shallcross, post office agent, on the charge of abstracting the contents of cash letters. Land Warrants The Land Warrant market, says tho Wash ington Organ, lias undergone no change since our last quotations: Dealers are buying cau tiously to day, at tho following rates : For 160’s and 80’s 04 cent per acre. For 120’s 00 “ For 40’s 108 “ Fire at Cape Island, N. Y. The immense Mount Vernon Hotel, at Cape Island, New Jersey, was consumed by fire on the night of the 6th Inst. Mr. Cain, the occu pant, and entire family except one sou, per ished in the tiames, as also Mrs. Albertson, a lady living in the family. The total pecuniary loss by the fire, it is said, will not fall short of $160,000. Wo find the following suggestion in the Times of yesterday morning. We think well of it and hope to see the plan carried out.— What say tho friends of the Kansas cause in oilier parts of Georgia ? A iitate Society in aid of Georgians In Kansas. Messrs. Editors—The appeal of Georgians in Kansas to Georgians at home for succor, the contest there haviug been changed from the Ballot box to tho Battle field, and they defeat ed and retreating, induces mo to otter a few suggestions as to the *"cans at our command, and the measures wo should take to succor our triends, and at the same time prosecute the war to a speedy peace. But just let mo call to mind, that there many efforts being made iu various parts of the State, to raise men and money, without conceit of action-or organised purposes. It should bo our first object to con centrate and organize all tucsu under one in telligent will, with one common purposo. Aud to ett'eot this, 1 would, with diffidence, suggest that we organize, Ist. A State Committee, composed of half a dozen men known to all the State for their in tegrity and ability, with an office and Secreta ry located at Macon or Atlanta. Let it be in vested with full powers to raise men aud mo ney, buy provisions, arms and munitions, to appoint and pay agents, to carry into execu tion its measures; in short, to do everything uppmauiniiig to a Committee of safety. Then, 2d. Let us organize affiliated clubs aud committees, throughout all the State, sub ordinate to, and acting in concert with, tho State Committee. By such an organization all tho isolated efforts aud means would bo con solidated and made effective. The StateCom luittce would maintain its forces iu Kansas till the war is over, and then provide each man with a home. We might hope, also, to see similar organiz ations speedily made in may other States.— How easy would it bo for each State, by cou curt of their Committees, to throw a regiment into Kansas, and maintain it there till tho war is over, and then provide each niau with a home. Ouo regiment from each State, aud a contribution of one dollar from each inhabitant would bo ample means to succor our friends, and conquer a speedy and lasting peace MUSCOGEE. ■- ♦ Tho Whig Mass Convention of Massachusetts came off on the 2d instant. It gave a unani mous expression of preference for Mr. Fillmore for tho Presidency. The following, among other resolutions, was adopted: llesolvod, That the opinions heretofore ex pressed by the Whig party of Massachusetts upou the repeal of tho Missouri compromise are still theiropinions, only confirmed by time; aud they believe that the fierce and dangerous element of discord now let loose by that act, can never be put to rest until that healiug mea sure shall be practically re-enacted, and the territory solemnly dedicated to freedom be rc ueived into the Union ns a free State. Tho Crops in West Tennessee and North Mississippi. Tho Memphis Euglo and Enquirer, of the 29th ult., says; • Owing to the drought, the crops, on all three of the lines of railroad leading out to Mem phis, are indifferent, in some places almost a failure We have before referred to the inis ernblo short crops of both corn and cotton in Marshall county, Mississippi. Since then, wo have passed through portions of Desoto and Panola counties, in tho same State, and find the crops there uot much better, excepting a few highly favored localities. Per contra Wo understand that the cotton crop on the Miss h **ssippi river, in Tunica and Coahoma ooun f ties, was never better. A bale to the acre, it is said, will be the average down there. Kansas News. The Charleston Courier of the Bth inst. pub lishes the following letters. The first is dated AtcLison, K. TANARUS., Aug. 20, and is addressed to Hon. Jas. Simons, Chairman Executive Com mittee of Kansas Association in Charleston, and is as follows : A scouting party of four, which we sent out on Monday evening, has just returned. They penetrated to Lccompton, meeting no inter ruption on the way, and remained there until last evening. They report that the town had not been attacked up to the time of their leav ing, the abolitionists having abandoned their position and retired towards Lawrence. Titus had been exchanged. His wounds consist of the loss of one thumb, a flesh wound in the el bow, and one in the shoulder, which he receiv ed while stooping to shoot through a window. He denies that he was badly treated while a prisoner, tliznigh he admits at first there was some talk of hanging him. lie mentions that ho recognized Lane among the men at Law rence, though he has assumed the name of Cook. Secretary Woodson is acting Governor, and has sent to Fort Riley for four hundred men. He desires all our men to come on to Lccompton at once, us lie fears very much for the ferry there, the only one we have on the Kaw river. He has not declared the Territory in a state of insurrection up to this time, lest the abolitionists should seize it; but as soon as he has sufficient force to defend it, will issue a proclamation to that effect. Tho other letter is from Oapt. E. B. Bell and is dated Westport, Mo., Aug. 24. Such a sight as I witnessed when I arrived here ! It never has been my lot to see any thing like it—-armed men going and coming in every direction—horses saddled, wagons load ed, bunds of music playing, artillery moving out—nothing but excitement. Ourrendezvous is ten miles from here, and it is stated here to night that 600 men are camped there and 400 more expected to morrow. Doctors, judges, lawyers, physicians and ministers, all are neglecting their business and going. The news published is all true; the thing has come to a crisis, and the time has come for action. There is a spirit of determination in the coun tenances of the Missourians, aud this time they will not be fooled. I leave in a few minutes for the camp at New Santa Fe. They will or ganize to morrow, and 1 will send you all the news. 1 write this simply to assure you that things are as bud as they are represented. Later from New Mexico—Gold Discoveries A correspondent of ihe New Orleans Delta, writes from Santa Fe, Aug. 1 : A captive woman sometime ago, wus brought in from tho Indian country, who stated that gold in large quantities was found in the coun try in which she was a captive for many years. A small party, numbering twenty eighty per sons, started for tho laud of gold, but the In dians met them and prevented them from go ing into their country. Since then another captive (umau)has returned, who corroborates the report, and says that gold can be picked up in large quantities upon tho surface of the earth. A party lias been made up, of sixty men, who start immediately for this eldorado, and take with them the late captive, who as sures them that gold is plenty, and found as reported. This Mexican has been captive fourteen years. The gold is found in a country about lour hundred and fifty miles from Santa Fe. It is occupied by a tribe of Indians called Pino liuos, Carisalinas, a portion of the numerous tribe of Apaches. 1 have no doubt of this ru mor, as it comes direct to me. ♦ Conquering the South. The New York News, on the subject of the Black Republicans forcing Fremont’s Admin istration on tho South, says ; For this purpose a military force must be raised at the North: aud how, pray is this to be done ? The North itself is divided on this very question, while tho South is a unit. One half of tho Northern people, the great Demo cratic party, while they are in no respect in favor of the slavery system, are in favor of upholding aud maintaining all and every right of the South which law, justice, and the Consti tution entitle them to. And is it to be suppos ed that they will join a Black “Republican” army to onforoe the Abolition vagaries upon our Southern brethren ? No, no. Instead of this army of fanatics marching South to force their principles upon the Southern States, it would have a great deal more than it could at tend to at home, for the lovers of the Union and the Constitution would never allow any such movement to be made, and those who would force the South would find an army of patriots at the North who would of themselves hurl these “shriekers” into the sea before they reached the confines of a single Southern State. But internal war is not necessary to effect a dissolution of the Union. Let this purely Northern sectional faction succeed as above stated, the dissolution of the States is as vir tually effected as they would be if the two sections of the country met in hostile array against each other. It would be a separation of necessity, by common consent, for the South has not the same interest in supporting the Union that tho North has. The South is an exporting country, an exporter of a class of agricultural products which all the world must have. Her cotton, and sugar, aud tobac co, and rice, are the actuul necessaries of life. No people or nation can exist without them. The South then have the market of the world before them for their products, and uot being a manufacturing country, her ports would bo opened free for the manufacturing products of the world. And for all manufactured articles or luxuries necessary for the wants of the peo ple of the South, Europe would supply her. Where, then is the market for the millions of Northern manufactured good* which now are consumed at the South ? What becomes of the immense commercial interest, of trade generally, which we now have with tho South ern States, and out ot’ which so many are growing prosperous and wealthy ? It is need less to answer the question. These subjects, then, which our intelligent correspondent and mechanical friends hints at should cause deep reflection. Our mercantile and commercial interests, our manufacturers and all engaged in any kind of business, as well as the true 1 patriot, should pause and study well these j matters. It is a grave subject, and requires ! deep and sober thought. Tho great heart of the people is tight; but they may, through the acts of scheming and cunning politicaus, bo led astray for a moment, but “the sober se cond thought of tho people” will at last sure ly bring them to right conclusions. Let them ask themselves, then, in all soberness and sin cerity, to what do these acts of sectional poli ticians lead ? where is the end and what aro tho oonsequencos ? The Sublime of Impudence. The New York Herald, in a late issue, rebuke David Paul Brown for having alluded i to Fremont’s ancestry in a speech, and for per I sonalities ! ! The New York Tribune cautions our friends “in ihe Rural Districts” against impositions and fabricated stories ! ! The. Slave Trade of Cuba. A correspondent of the New \ ork Times, writing from Havana under date of August 25th, says: “Since my last advice we have had one car go of negroes from the coast of Africa landed at Bahia Honda ; tile number safely delivered to our Christian bonds was two hundred and fifty. Two cargoes have been landed in the ’ past six weeks to the eastward on the north | i coast of Cuba, covering eight hundred and , thirty-five victims to our Humanity. These : landings are said to be effected by vessels built 1 in the United States and commanded by per- ! sons claiming to be citizens of your Republic. On the south side of Cuba there have been several landings made in the past three months, which have introduced to our philanthophy not less than two thousand subjects. It is al most impossible to obtain correct data of tho infamous traffic on either side of Cuba, offi cials of the Government near the various lo calities seem to be interested in the conceal ment.” The writer states that within the last four months, no less than fourteen thousand slaves have been landed iu Cuba. The amount of : guilt involved in this black business is indeed j fearful. It is almost impossible to conceive the extent of misery that has been suffered by the wretched beings alluded to. Another letter says : “It is currently reported here that Senor Argudin’s project for the introduction of 40,- 000 African apprentices, has been approved. 1 have been informed that the English Consul has authorized a Mr. Englehardt to go cut as surgeon to the first expedition. “The English Government has consented to the introduction of the apprentices under the following condition : First, that slavery shall be totally abolished throughout the island in tho 3’ear 1000; second, that all vessels employed in the traffic shall be registered in the nngiisli Consulate at the Havi .a; and last, that said vessels shall only be allowed to procure the ap prentices in ports hereafter to be designated by her Britanic Majesty’s Government. Tho English Consul, however, has denied the truth of this report; but one of the getters up of the plan informed me that it is true. I send it as I have heard it. If true, the apprentice ship system will operate a great change in this island and may eventually affect the interests of the Southern part of our Union. It may be safely said that tho great body of slave holders are opposed to the scheme, and I doubt much whether any Ministry in Spain will dare to give it their sanction.” Chinese Sugar Cane Corn, or Sugar Milet. Prom the report of an experiment in making syrup from the Chinese Sugar Cane, made to the Beach Island Farmer’s Club, August 2d, 1860, by ex-Governor Hammond of South Carolina, we collect the following interesting facts. On the 22d of March, about a pint of the seed was sowed on half an acre of ground, in three feet drills, “dropping every eighteen or twenty inches some six or eight seed.”— The ground was such as would produce in av erage seasons about twenty bushels of corn to the acre, but owing to the heat and drought, the experimenter supposed the half acre in question would not have produced five bush els. The millet (as it is culled) “was plough ed and hoed often enough to keep the grass down, and about the first of July it began to head.” For the purpose of making syrup, a rude mill put up, with two beech-wood rollers, to crush the caue. By the 22d July, most of the advanced heads having passed the milk, 1760 canes—supposed to be a fair sample of the patch—were cut, and having been rather im perfectly crushed, yielding 174 quarts of juice. This, after six to seven hours boiling in a deep, old fashioned cow pot, produced thirty two quarters of tolerable syrup. Several parcels of selected canes, from the best spots of the patch, and in different stages of matu rity, yielded each about three quarts of juice for every ten canes. “ The juice, tested by the sacchroineter showed that the youngest cane hud the most aud the oldest the least sac chorine matter.” In the youngest employed in this experiment, “the heads were just fully developed in the top seed b.giuing to turn black.” Subsequent experiments showed the samo results—three quarts of juice from ten selected canes—but even after the pressure, juice could be wrung from the canes by the hand, and it was agreed that “at least one fourth, and that the best, remained in the cane,” so inefficient was the mill. Four hun dred canes, not neglected, yielded thirty-seven and a half quarts of juice, which produced, after boiling two and a half hours, six quarts of choice syrup. All who tasted it agreed that it was equal to the best New Orleans syrup. Governor Hammond says; “I measured the grain from a number of heads, and the result was an average o f a gill from each. I weighed a half peek of matur ed grain, after several days exposure to the sun. It weighed 43 lbs., equal to 38 lbs. per bushel. I weighed 20 of the best cane cut for forage, after it was cured sufficiently to house. They weighed 24 lbs., equal to 80,- 000 lbs. for 25,000 canes, which I think might be grown on land that would make 25 bushels of corn with average seasons. I have tried horses, cattle and bogs, and lind they eat the cane, its leaves and seeds, greedily, and fowls and pigeons the last. 1 think, however, that when allowed to mature, the enne should be cut up flue for animals, us the outer coat is hard.” * * *- * * “A good Sugar Mill, with throe wooden rollers, may be erected for less than $25, and a Sugar Boiler that will make 80 gallons of syrup per day, may be purchased in Augusta for less than <j>6o. This Millet will, of course, mix with any | other variety of the Millet family planted near it. Unfortunately 1 planted Broom Corn about a hundred yards from mine, aud shall therefore have to procure seed elsewhere for the ten arcres l intend to plant the next year. ! I have now stated the chief particulars of my experiment. Every member of the Club ; is competent to draw his own conclusions. A j single experiment—especially one in agricul- I ture—is rarely conclusive. 1 may err myself ; and might cause others to ror were I to ex- j press, with any emphasis, the opinion I at j prosent entertain of the value of this recently i introduced plant. J. H. HAMMOND ” A Manufacture! Created a Peer. By late files of Euglish paper, we see that Mr. Edward Strutt, a noted manufacture’-, has been raised to the peerage. This unusual pro ceeding shows the interest which the Queen takes in the manufacturing pursuits of her do minions, and also iho inroads which time is making upou me aucient customs and preju dice*. It is tfie surrender of feudalism to in dustry. The Manchester Examiner says, iu ! remarking ou the case, that it is something for those who claim to be regarded as the descen- | datits of the mailed barons of England, to ad mit into their order a man who nut only lias made, but is making his fortune by spindles and looms; and if they would have felt some reluct *r.ce to take such a step themselves, it is j well lot them that their mistress knows better. Production of Cotton. At a recent meeting of the British Associa tion for the advancement of science, Mr. Daw son read an interesting paper on cotton. It consisted of a series of propositions, of which 1 the following is a short resume : 1. That cotton, from the conditions of dim ate necessary to its culture, cannot be grown in Europe, but that with the single and not | important exception of the factories in the New England states of America, it is and must j long continue to be manufactured almost ex- j clusively in Europe. 2. That the present supply is chiefly raised, and for the present must continue to be raised, by slave labor—seeing that while for fifty years wo have sought over the whole earth for cot | tou, we have during that time continued to ob tain from the slave states of the American Un ion a continually increasing proportion of our entire supply. 3. That two thirds in number at least of the slave population of the United States have been called into existence, and are now direct ly or indirectly maintained for the supply of cotton for exportation. 4. That of the cotton thus exported, three fourths at least in value are raised for and sent to this country alone. And, 5. That of the entire quantity we import, four fifths at least in value are thus derived from the United States. Each proposition was supported by tabular accounts extracted from the public records of this country and the United States, and the conclusion was express ed thus: “That hence in the present state of the commercial relations of the two countries, the cotton planters of the United States are in terested to the extent- of two thirds at least of tlieir entire exportable produce in the main tenance of the cotton manufacture of the Uni ted Kingdom, and that rec : procally the cotton manufacturers of the United Kingdom, and through them the entire population of the Kingdom, are interested, the extent of more thati four fifths of the raw material of that manufacture, in the exiodng arrangements for maintaining the cotton culture of the United States.” Compliment to “Jour Printers.” John C. llives, in a recently published let ter, on the subject of public printing, has a word of suggestion to writers for the press and of compliment to the “Jour,” whose duty it not unfrequently is to make sense out of very senseless chirography. None but a writer for the daily press can comprehend how much truth there is in the veteran printer’s remarks. Many members of Congress, and ere not a few great men, have been surprised at the respec table figure they cut in print, without’ think ing of the toilsome labor and the exercise of better talent than their own, which had been expended by the “Jour” printer in licking into shape the message, report or speech fur nished by them. Mr. Rives says: “I have seen the manuscript wrUingof most great men of the country during the past 20 years, and I think I may say that no twenty of them could stand the test of the scrutiny of one half of the journeymen printers employed iu my office. “ This fact will be vouched by every editor in the Union. To the poor “jour” many a “ great man” owes his reputation for scholar ship, and were the humble type stickers to re solve, by consent, to set up manuscript in their hand, for even one little week, precisely as it is written by the authors, there would be more reputations slaughtered than their devils could shake a stick at in twenty four hours. States men would become “small by degrees and beautifully less.” Many an ass would have the lion’s hide torn from his limbs. Men, whom the world called writers would wake up of a morning aud find themselves—famous as mere pretenders—humbugs —cheats. + I Never Gossip. Oil no, I never gossip ! I have enough to do to take care of my business without talk ing about the affairs of others, Mrs. Smith. Why there’s Mrs. Crocker,* she deals in scan dal by the wholesale; it does seem tome as though that woman’s tongue must be almost worn out; but no, there’s no danger of that. If everybody was like me there wouldn’nt be much trouble in the world. Oh, no, I never gossip. But, did you know that Miss Elliot had got anew silk dress, Mrs. Smith ? You didn’t! well She has; its a real brocade; I say it myself. Ido say it’s shameful for her to be so extravagant; I mean to give her a piece of my mind, Mrs. Smith. You believe her uncle gave it to her ? Well, I don’t care if he did ; why, its only two months since her father failed, and now, to see her dash out in this style, its a burning shame. I suppose she thinks she’s going to catch young lawyer Stan hope, but I guess she’ll find herself mistaken; lie’s got more sense than to be caught by her, if she has a brocade silk dress. And there’s the upstart dress maker, Kate Manly, setting her cap for the doctor’s son; the impertinence of some people is perfectly astonishing. I don’t think she’s any better than she ought to be, for my own part; I nev er did like her, with her smile, soft look, when any one’s around; my word for it, she can look cross enough when there ain’t; then she says she’s only seventeen ! Goodness knows she’s as old as my Arabella Lacretia, and she’s —well, 1 won’t say how old, but she’s more’n seventeen, and 1 ain’t a shame to say so, either; but I guess Dr. May’s son will have more discretion than to think of marrying her. Some folks call her handsome? Well, l don’t. She ain’t half as good looking as my daughter Jane. Thou the way she docs up her hair iu such fly-away curls; and, if you believe it, Mrs. Smith, she actually had ‘the impudence to tell me that she couldn’t mako her hair straight ns my Maria Jane’s, lmper j tineuce! if she’d let curling papers and curl- I ing; irons alone, I’d risk but what her hair j would be as straight as anybody’s. But what do you think of the minister’s wife, Mrs. Smith? You like her! Well, all I ; cau say is, you’ve got a very peculiar taste. : Wby she’s proud us Lucifer; been married it i whole week; and hasn’t been to see me yet. i ! Yon presume she hasn’t had time? I don’t | I seo what the minister wanted to go out of | town to get a wife for, any way; and then, ! above all things, to get that little girlish look ing thing. Why didn’t he take one of his par ishioners? There’s my Arabella Lucretia : would have made him a better wife than lie’s ! got now. Then she’s just ..bout the right age i f l-’m. File’s tr :> years older than the min- : ister! 1 should think it was a pity if I didn’t ! know my own daughter’s age, Mrs. Smith! ! It some folks would mind their own businoss as I do, I’d thank eia!— Wavcrly Magazine. The Clean Sweep. A mass meeting of Black Republicans was held at ManfielJ, Ohio, on the 21st ult. One feature in the procession, which the editor of the Man field Telegraph says was an hour and three quarters iu passing him, by his watch, consisted of a troop of 550 young men horseback, who are to cast their first I’residn- j tial vote this fall. But the most unque thing in the affair was the “Clean Sweep.” A mam- ! moth hickory broom was suspended like a bell from a rigging in the wagon, and was worked with lever and cord in the same way. It was received with shouts along the line. TELEGRAPH Ic FOUR DAY3 LATER FROM EUROF? Arrival of the Canadian. New York, Sept. 10, 18,j ( ; The British Steamship Canadian has arriu at Quebec, with advices from Liverpool to ti 27th ult., four days Inter than the Persia. The Arabia had arrived out. The Cotton market had undergone no chut, _ since the sailing of the Persia on the 23,1 The sales of the three business days wen -000. Breadstuff's had slightly improved. Consols 95J- to 95J. From New Orleans. New Ormans, Sept. Id The demand is fair, with sales of 1200 buff, Middling 11J to l</)c. Elections in Maine. Portland, Sept. B.— The elections so far heard from, have gone in favor of the Free mouters, by largely increased majorities. Tiff is the case in all the towns from which return have been received, and it is supposed that the majority will be 12,000. New York Market. New York, Sept. 8.-— We have to report sales of 1000 bales at well supported rates.- Holders indeed claiming an advance, and leav ing the quotations—Upland, Middling llff. Orleans life. New Orleans Markets. New Orleans, Sept. s.—The sales of tiff day reach 1,000 bales, at llall ) for Middlin'- Fair, and 12£a13 for Fair. Sales of the week closing are 3,000 bales. Our receipts are 5,85, against 12, 964 of last year at same date, and our stock 12,340 against 49,300 last year. Health of Montgomery. The Montgomery Mail of Tuesday says, We h ave learned with surprise that- in some of the adjoining counties a report has been cii culated that yellow fever prevails in Mont gomery. Nothiug can be farther from the truth. The report is a fiction without the shadow of foundation. Within the last nine years we have never known the city so healthy as at present. The Sexton’s report, now be fore us, for the present month, shows but one death up to this time. It is strange how . malicious a report could have gained cunenr in the country, and it is to be hoped that it was not sot on foot from interested motives.— Our readers may rest assured that, should the fever prevail here they will be informed of the fact promptly through the columns of the Mail. Disregard of Death. It is carious to watch, as 1 have done, the contempt of death with which the Turkish sold ier marches to meet the foe ; he knows that his destiny has been fixed since the day of Iff birth ; lie knows that he must die whenever his time comes, and that a whole park of ar tillery would miss him if his destiny so decree* it; finally, he knows that if he fall in battle, he will go straitway to Paradise—and won’t lie be better off there than in this world of eajtV The same feeling, indeed predominates with the Turks whenever the approach of death i felt. I have seen them dying here in the hos pitals, and the calmness of their demeanor would shame many a Christian ; let them once be persuaded that they are booked for another world, and the surgeon may lock his medica meats again—no persuasion will induce tin- Turk to attempt to frustrate the designs of Providence. -—— Advance in Freights. The New York correspondent of the I'hil adelphia Inquirer, writing on Monday, says “Available tonnage has become still more scarce, and shippers of bread stuff's to Gres; Britain aud the Continent have been placed hors du combat, as it were. Peremptory orders are in market for grain, and as a dernier resort, exporters have to accede to the de mands of ship owners. Last week the rates were very uniform throughout, but to-day an advance of fully a penny sterling was obtained on grain to Liverpool, with large engagement at the improvement. The rates are now 7Jd in bulk, and Bd. in ship’s bags. There is a flour going forward, but an equivalent rate would be 2s. 3d. Last engagements were a: Is. 6d., and that rate is still current. “ Medium and small vessels are much want ed to load grain for the continent, but they are not to be had, owing to the restriction imposed by the sanitary regulations of Ihe city upon craft arriving from ports declared sickly There is now a fleet of some hundred and fifty vessels moored off Stapleton, Staten Island undergoing quarantine, and the major portion of these are alleged by tlieir owners to be per fectly free from all contagion.” The Sound. Dues. The question of the Sound Dues is reported in the foreign journals to be in a fair train of settlement. Great Britain and Prussia having consented to the capitalization of the toil The only obstacle that now remains to the fins settlement of the dispute is the stand taken ly our government against the principle of tlii comproniise, it being held that if we become p* l ties to it, wo shall he abandoning what we have always contended for—the entire freedom at the seas. Parodi and Btrakosch Concerts. Anew series of Concerts by these emineai artists commence in Philadelphia this ww Paul Julien, the youthful violinist, Signor Ti berini, the fine tenor, and Bernard!, the bari tone are members of the troupe. The Northern snobbish papers—and then’ name is legion—tells us that Tiberini is a very noble aud ancient family—doubtless some distant connection of tho river Tiber. • ■■■— ♦ - - - - Northwestern Virginia Railroad- This road bus been completed to Clark burg, a distance of twenty-two miles Imm Grafton, the Eastern terminus. The occusioo of the arrival of the first locomotive at Clark burg was celebrated with much spirit. U* track laying is going vigorously on the Far kersbnrg cud of the road, and there is du* every prospect of the entire work being com pleted by the first of November. “Jim Watson’s Note Book.” On the plantation of James Watson, near Port Gibson, Mississppi, may he witness?” an exhibition of memory that is truly remark able. Aa African girl about fourteen years > ■ age, answers to the name which heads this ar ticle. It is the custom of Watson to give lo wards for over-work, and during the catty picking season the amount each hand picks .- weighed twice per day—noon and uigh , -" _ This girl stands by the over seer and listens t the number of pounds announced to each inl and at night the result is reported with tln ’ utmost accuracy. Her correctness is ref*-’- 1 edly put to the test by Watson and other who keep memorandums during the weigH 1 - and a day or two afterwards she is fatci'l l1 '* and her memory found perfect. Mr works from sixty to seventy hands. system of association this girl has to rem? 11 ’' ’ abstract numbers she is unable to tell.