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COLTTMBTTS:
Monday Morning, Sept. 15, 1556-
LAKGKBT CITY CIKCCI.ATIOS.
Fever in Charleston.
The Hoard of Health report three deaths
from yellow fever, for the 48 hours ending 10
o’clock Thursday night.
Captured Bunaway.
A negro man, calling his name John, has
been captured in Taylor county, in this State,
and committed to the jail of Talbot county. —
He has an impediment in his speech, and says
he belongs to Dr. Tully, of Clayton, Harbour
county, Ala. When cAptured be had in bis
possession a pistol and double barrelled gun.
The boy says he has been absent from home
about four weeks.
Alabama Cotton Crop.
The editor of the Montgomery Mail’ writing
to bis paper under date Tutu w, Sept. 4, says:
In the seven counties in which we have been
—Autauga, Lowndes, llutler, Wilcox, Perry,
Marengo aud Green—the cotton crop is esti
mated by tbo planters at half a crop. In most
cases the plant bus ceased to grow, and in very
many the rust is destroying it. It rained quite
hard hero ‘his evening uud the night previous
a great deal more.
The Governor of Wisconsin, in bis lato mes
sage to the Legislature, alluding to nffairs in
the Territory of Kansas, says “the only way
to maintain a friendly feeling nmong the sev
eral States of the Union, is to dedicate the
Territories to Freedom.”
The Mariana (Fla.) Patriot, of the 9th inst.,
Bays the effects of the late storm will be felt
very severely by the farmers of Jackson coun
ty. A great many have lost, nearly their en-
Ire crop, and some who expected to tr ike 200
bales of cotton this year, will realise not more
than half that amount.
The Mariana Patriot understands that a
great number of the Telegraph posts, outlie
line being erected from this pluceto Apalachi
cola, were blown down between Mariana and
Gnfaula, by the late gale.
Charleston and Memphis Railroad.
Wo learn from the Huntsville Independent
that the cars on the Charleston and Memphis
road aro now running nine miles beyond Tus
cumbiu in the direction of Memphis. The en
tire connection is expected to he made by the
Ist of February.
We find going the rounds, tho following
toast, said to have been sent by Mr. Buchanan
to the Democratic celebration of the N. Y'ork
White Eagle Club, on the Bth of January
1844: J
By the Hon. James Buchanan :
The Annexation of Texas— l'o the South it
will afford security ; to the North wealth ; and
to tbo Union safety from invasion on its weak
est frontier. Shall we reject the boon of the
conquerors of San Jacinto until tbo tyrant of
Mexico shall be graciously pleased to grant
the permission to go a head.
Death of Rev. J. A. Shanklin.
This gentleman, lato Pastor of St. Peter’s
< hureh, Charleston, and Senior of the editori
al committee in chargo of the Southern Epis
copalian, died in that city, of yellow fever, on
Thursday tho 11th inst. The Courier says
Mr. Shanklin was a native of Pendleton dis
trict, .south Carolina, but began his pastoral
labors, we believe, at Macon, Georgia. In
obedience to a very urgent call, and in a simi
lar spirit of obedience to the openings of duty
and the expectation of enlarged usefulness, lie
accepted, in the full of 1854, tl.o rectorate of
Bt. Peter’s Church, in this city.
Insurrection Foiled in Embrio.
The Houston (Texas) Telegraph, of tlio 3d
instant, learns from Mr. llewes. of that nlaee,
just returned from Columbus, Colorado coun
ty, that a plot had been discovered to be on
loot at that amongst some 400 negroes, to rise
against tbo white population am! murder and
rob them. The negroes intended to commence
their operations on the 4th instant, aud would
probably have completed their design.', had
not a slave belonging to a Mr. Toake inform
ed his master of the fact. When Mr. llewes
left Columbus, a number of the negroes were
in custody, aud some two or three wore to be
lmng on tho 4th One was whipped so severe
ly that he afterwards died. Two or three
Mexicans were arrested, who were supposed
to be the instigators of the insurrection. The
negroes had a large quantity of arms and am
nuition secreted, and every thing necessary to
rendor themselves formidable.
Return of Dr. Wm. J. Holt, .
Wo are pleased to state that our fellow
townsman, Dr. Wm. J. Holt, has returned to
Augusta, after nn absence of upwards of four
years.
The Doctor lias had the good fortune to servo
as Surgeon in tho Russian Army, during the
late war, and was stationed in the vicinity of
Sebastopol during the seigo of that strong
hold.
We are also gratified to learn that Dr. Holt
was very favorably esteemed by the army, and
that the Emperor of Russia has conferred upon
him the insignia of his approbation and re
gard.—Constitutionalist.
The Crop Statement.
In reviewing, critically and carefully, our
annual statement and report of tho Cotton
crop, as it appeared in yesterday’s Daily Cou
rier, wo find one of those errors which, in
such a mass of figures, often escape repeated
examination. We inadvertently omitted to de
duct from the summation, the stock at Savan
nah, ou the Ist Sept., 1865, anu wc conse
quently reported the total crop too large bv
that amount—2,l2o hales. Deducting this
f"om the total reported yesterday, w” obtain
the sum of 8,524,242 bales, as the amount of
the Cotton Crop of the United States .or the
year 1855-G. Tbo correction was made in
time for onr oouutry edition of this date, aud
will of course nppcaHu our Letter Shoot Prices
Current to-morrow.— Charleston Courier.
Child Born without Eyes.
The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
chronicles a case in Shrewsbury, Mass., where
a child was born without eyes. It was a healthy
boy, well developed in every other respect.
There were eyelids but no eyeballs.
From the St. Louis Republican, Sept. 2.
An Appeal fro m the People of Kansas Ter
ritory to the People of the Union.
[Wc have received from Kansas City a
printed paper, intended as an appeal to tha
people of the United States in relation to Kan
sas affairs, it is quite long, and takes n gen
eral view of events as they have transpired in
relation to tho Territory since the passage of
the bill for its organization. It is not necos
sary for us to transfer this portion of the ap
peal to our columns, and content ourselves
with giving the half of iti]
To all this we submitted, under a promise
that the laws should be enforced, our lives and
property protected.
What has been the result ? The House of
Representatives proceeds with its efforts to
disorganize our government—to set aside all
our laws—to bring anarchy upon us.
The army, falsely represented ns our pro
tection, is required to be disbanded, unless we
are deprived of the protoction of tho law !
Mass meetings are held in every non-sin Ve
holdiug State, to contribute aid to the rebels
and assassins iu our midst—national conven
tions assembled to devise means for raising an
army to destroy us. Lane, a traitor, a fugi
tive from justice, is permitted openly tij trav
erse one half of our States, enlisting an army
to exterminate us. Not nn effort is made to
arrest him.
While the enlistment of a handful of aliens
to fight against :l foreign power calls forth
all the energy of our Government—the zeal
and activity of every officer from the Presi
dent to the City Marshal, to chock it—is deem
ed unutoued for, fit cause to hazard a war with
the mightiest power on earth; an army is
raised openly and boldly—is marched thous
ands of miles through States and Territories,
under the command of a fugitive traitor, to
invade our soil, subvert our government, ex
terminate our oitizens, without an effort to
stay its progress—without a word of disap
proval.
Troops are enlisted from Boston to Cairo—
the array is organized and equipped at Chica
go—is marched through Illinois, lowa and
Nebraska, into Kansas, and through theheartof
our Territory—its progress is noted and herald
ed—its leader stops by the way to proclaim
the war of extermination he intends to wage
against us to gather, with the promise of spoils,
recruits to his forces. The whole government is
paralyzed. The Federal, the Stafe, the Terri
torial governments, all alike, dare not meet
the invader. One branch of the government
alone is awake—the House of Representa
tives is active in removing obstacles from its
path.
Lane with his army enters our territory.
His confederates in our midst, heretofore con
fining themselves to tho assassination of indi
viduals, the pillage, the burning of isolated
dwellings, emboldened by his approach, be
gin to embody; they strip the country of
horses to mount the invading army, and chron
icle its arrival by sweeping from before them
every law-abiding citizen in tho counties of
Lykins, Franklin and Douglas. They drive a
whole settlement of unarmed citizens from tho
comity of Lykins, burning their houses and
destroying their property—they march thence
to the town of Franklin, and attaok tho house
of the Postmaster with whom a party of
Southern men were boarding—set fire to the
house, drive out tho inmates, abusing helpless
women who could not escape, rob the post of
fice and taking a cannon which had been left
there by the sheriff. With this, and their oth
er arms they march to the attack of another
colony of Southern settlers in Douglas county,
compel them totly and abandon their dwellings
and property —thence they go to attack the
dwelling of Col. Titus, batter it with cannon
until he nnd those who had gone to liis defence,
are forced to surrender, when they aro taken
prisoners, his dwelling plundered and burned.
They march thence to the very limits of our
capital, and this, as they avow, was only saved
by the storm of rain that rendered their fire
arms useless.
All this is done very eyes of tho
troops of the United States. And no attempt
is made to arrest them.
When Governor Shannon, hoping that they
would not harm him, who had twice saved
them from merited punishment; who had,
however, unwittingly, so effectually protected
them, ventures to Lawrence, which he had
saved for them, and calls on them to release
the prisioners they had taken, his life is
threatened—he is told that they do not recog
nize him as Governor—that they are a portion
of the “ Army of tho North ” —are at war
with the government, and hold their prisoners
as prisoners of war. They demand and com
pel him to exchange the gallant Titus i.nd his
fellow prisoners for felons in custody, under
arrest for arson and robbery. They have now
become so bold that they make no secret of
their intentions. They claim to be a portion
of nn army called by them “the army of the
North,” and waging a war of extermination
against every man who is notan abolitionist.
Governor Shannon dared not await the arri
of liis successor, but abandoned his post and
leaves us without a Governor.
We havo asked the appointment of a suc
cessor who was acquainted with our condition ;
who, a citizen of the Territory, identified with
its interests, familiar with its history, would
not be prejudiced or misled by the falsehoods
which have been so systematically fabricated
against us—one who, heretofore a resident as
lie is a native of a non-slaveholding State, is
yet not a slaveholder, but lias the capacity to
appreciate, and the boldness and integrity re
quisite to faithfully discharge his duty regard
less of the possible effect it might have upon
the election of some petty politician iu a dis
tant State.
In his stead we have one appointed who is
ignorant of our condition, a stranger to our
people ; who, wo have too much enuse to fear,
will, it no worse, provo no more efficient to
protect us than his predecessors.
With, then, a government which lias proved
imbecile—has failed to enforce the laws for
our protection—with an army of lawless ban
ditti overrunning our country—what shall we
do ?
Though wo have full confidence in the in
tegrity and fidelity of Mr. Woodson, now act
ing as Governor, we know not at what moment
his authority may be superseded. We cannot
await the convenience in coming of our newly
appointed Governor—we cannot hazard a sec
ond ediiion of imbecility or corruption.
We must act at once and effectually. These
traitors, assassins and robbers must be pun
ished ; must now be taught a lesson they will
remember.
We wage no war upon men lor their opin
ions—have never attempted to exclude any
from settling among us; we have demanded
only that all should alike submit to the law.
To all such we will alford protectiou, whatever
be their political opinions. But Lane’s army
nnd its allies must bo expelled from the Terri
tory. Thus alone can we make safe our per
sons and property—thus alone can we bring
pence to our Territory.
To do this we will need assistance. Our cit
izens unorganized, and many of them unarm
ed, for they came not as soldiers—though able
heretofore to assemble a force sufficient to
compel the obedience of the rebels, now that
they have been strengthened by this invading
army, thoroughly drilled, perfectly equipped
mounted, and ready to march at a moment’s
notice to the attack our defenceless settle
ments—may be overpowered. Should we be
able even to vanquish this ■ additional force,
we are threatened with a further invasion of
like character through lowa and Nebraska.
This is no mere local quarrel, no mere riot;
but it is war 1 a war waged by an army, 1 a
war professedly for our extermination. It is
no mere resistance to our laws ; no simple re
bellion of our citizens, but a war of invasion
—the army a foreign army—properly named
the “Army of the North.”
It is, then, not only the right but the duty
of all good citizens of Missouri and every
other State, to come to our assistance, and en
able us to expel these invaders.
Mr. Woodson, since the resignation of Go
vernor Shannon, in the absence of Governor
Geary, fearlessly met the responsibilities of
thy trust forced upon him, has proclaimed the
existence of the rebellion, nnd culled on the
militia of the Territory to assemble for its
suppression.
We call on you to come; to furnish us as
sistance in men, provisions mid ammunitions,
that wo may drh e out U>is ‘army of the North,’
who would subvert our government and expel
us from oar homos. Our people, though poor,
many of them stripped of their all, others
harrassed by these fiends so that they have
been unable to provide for their families, are
yet true men ; will stand with yon shoulder
to shoulder in defence of rights, of principles
in which you have a common, if not a deeper
interest than they.
By the issue of this struggle is to be decid
ed whether law or lawlessness shall reign in
our country. If we are vanquished you too
will be victims.
Let not our appeal bo in vain.
D. It. Atchison, B. F. Treadwell.
Joseph (J. Anderson, -It. G. Cook,
T. H, Rosser, Wm. 11. Tebbs,
Win. J. l’reston, S. J. Jones,
A. A. Preston, J. H. Stringfellow,
P. T. Abell.
August 2lith, 1850.
We, citizens of Missouri, urge our fellow
citizens and the citizens of other States, to re
spond to tlie above call of the citizens of Kan
sas.
A. W. Doniphan, Oliver Anderson,
B. J. Brown, Henry L. Iloutt,
A. G. Boone, Jesse Morin,
John W. Reed, li. F. Stringfellow.
Tho Spirit Rappers.
The Editor of the Philadelphia Mercury re
cently attended a Spirit (not liquid, but ethere
al) Circle. lie thus described the closing
scene:
Alter a recess of ten or fifteen minutes, the
medium again went into the “state,” and
wrote out —
“The First man is present. lie addresses
you from the Celestial Sphere.”
“Is that you, Adam ?”
“Adam was my name in flesh.”
“Will you please to favor me with correct
answers to a few simple questions ?”
“Propound them.”
“ Where was the Garden of Eden located ?”
“In Kansas.”
“Was Eve an obedient ‘helpmeet?’”
“She was beguiled by the serpent—after
noon a perfect devil in petti—l mean fig
leaves.”
“In what part of the world was the tower
of Babel erected?”
‘ln white county, Indiana, near Wolf Mound.’
“Who were the parents of Cain’s wife?”
This question capped the climax. The ta
ble at which we were seafbd suddenly turned a
summersett —capsized and extinguished the
lamp—upset the medium and the maiden lady,
and amid the wreck of furniture and the crash
of glass, I made my exit through the back
door aud rushing down a dark alley, gained
the street minus my right coat-tail, which 1 left
in the mouth of the bull dog in the yard.
The Gale in the Gulf.
By an extra from the office of the Apalachi
cola Advertiser, dated 3d instant, we have fur
ther details of the storm on the Gulf of Mexico.
We annex the most important items:
Cape St. Bias Light House was entirely de
stroyed.
The wharves of the Apaplachicola Gulf Tur
pentine Company were stripped and two of
ther ware-houses blown down.
The mail steamer Florida, from New Orleans
for Apalachicola, was driven ashore in St.
Joseph,s Bay, and is a total wreck, nnd her
cargo lost.
Besides those mentioned, a number of small
er vessels were stranded, and much damage
done, generally, on tho coast, to crops, houses,
fencing, &o.
Car Factory Destroyed.
Wc regret to announce the destruction, by fire,
of the main workshop (wood) included in the
establishment of Messrs. D. A it 11. 11. Rikcr,
known as Rikersviile, and situated just beyond
our city limits, near the “Forks of the Road,”
and the lines of the S. C. and N. F). Rail Roads.
7’hc alarm was heard about 7 l’. M. yesterday,
and from the distance of the building from any
of our engine houses and the nature of its con
tents, it was impossible to save any portion of
this building.
We are not advised as to the exact loss or
the nature and details of the contents actually
in the building at the time. We learn, howev
er, that the Messrs. Rikcr were insured in the
Firemens’ Insurance Company, to r.n amount
sufficient to cover their stock and finished work
on hand.
From the known energy and enterprise of
these gentlemen, we feel assured that their
customers and friends who have orders pend
ing, will not be delayed, and we hope to v nu
toorized immediately to announce a renewal of
their establishment iu ait its facilities.
Charleston Courier.
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Ascent of M ount Ararat.
An interesting account appears in the Lon
don Times of an ascent of Mount Ararat by
five Englishmen. The natives believed the
feat to be impossible, and that the summit was
guarded by Divine prohibition. It is 17,323
feet above the sea level, nnd terminates iu a
precipitous snow-capped cone, which lias hith
erto foiled all the attempts of explorers. Ma
jor Robert Stewart, who was one of the partv,
and who writes the account of it from Erz'e
rourn, states that on reaching the top they
stuck to the hilt in the snow a short double
edged sword. They also drank the health of the
Queen. On this he observes “ Her Majesty’s
mime is probably the first that lias been pro
nounced on that solemn height since it was
quitted by the great patriarch of the human
race, as no record or tradition exists of the
ascent having over been made before.”
Widows.
They are tho very mischief. There’s noth
inglike them. If they makeup their minds to
marry, it’s done. 1 knew one that was terri
bly afraid of thunder and lightning, and every
time a storm came on she would run into Mr.
Smith's house, (he was a widower) and clasp
her little hands, and fly around, till the man
was half distracted for fear she would be kill
ed ; and the consequence was, she was Mrs.
John Smi'h before three thunder storms rat
tled ov vi’ hot’ head.
From Wisconsin.
The ennexed extract from the Governor’s
Message, says the Carolina Times, as delivered
before the Wisconsin Legislature, touching
Kansas affairs, is worthy of notice. We give
the laiiguoge of Gov. liashford, simply that
our readers may learn the opinion of the Exe
cutive of Wisconsin on a subject of great im
portance to the South.
If such recommendations as are presented
in tho extract are endorsed by the people of
Wisconsin, the people of the South ought to
move promptly, and energetically to counter
act the movements of those from Abolitiouised
Wisconsin.
Extra Be3s:oaof the Legiclaturo—Governor
Bashford on Kansaz Affairs.
“Kansas is now in a state of civil war, grow
ing out of the mal-administration of the Gov
ernment of that Territory, and the determina
te force Slavery upon it —nut by the people of
the Territory, but by the people of Missouri
and other slavcholding States. For that pur
pose they have controlled the elections in that
Territory, by inobo and at the point of the
bayonet; its Legislature has been elected by
the people of Missouri; laws havo been enact
ed that are disgraceful to the American char
acter ; the property of the actual settlers has
been destroyed without authority or law, and
the people themselves in many eases brutally
murdered. At this very time the free settlers
of the Territory are being driven from it, by
the people of Missouri and other slaveholding
States; while the National Administration is
apparently accessory to this subversion of their
rights, or uuwilling to protect the people of
that Territory from these outrages. The
course to be pursued by the State of Wiscon
sin, in this emergency, I leave to your judg
ment to determine. lam well satisfied that
the only way to maintain harmony iunong the
Slates, both North and South, is to restrict
Slavery to its present limits. This was evi
dently foreseen by the founders of this Repub
lic, who by the Ordinance of 1787, dedicated to
Freedom all of the territory then belonging to
tho United States and prohibited Slavery or in
voluntary servitude therein ; inteiffling thereby
to place it beyond the power of Congress to
extend the bounds of Slavery and forever to
stop its agitation. Since your adjournment, it
has comet o my knowledge, from reliable sources
that many of our citizens of this State, who
have not expatriated themselves, and who con
sequently still remain citizens of this State,
while going to Kansas Territory, for lawful
purposes, and while upon tho livers of the
United States, made public highways by the
law’s of the United States, have been seized,
their property taken from them, and they im
prisoned and their lives put iu jeopardy, by
the people of Missouri and other slaveholding
States. These outrages have become so fre
quent that I have felt it to be my duty to call
your attention to them, that you may devise
some legal-and constitutional way, if within
your power, to protect our citizens and to re
dress their grievances; the General Govern
ment being impotent for that purpose, or will
fully neglecting to do it. As lovers of free
dom, and the union of these States, it is our
duty to oppose the further increase of Slave
Territory, preventing Slavery thereby from
cursing new territory ; from making dishonor
able free labor, as it inevitably must where it
comes iu competition with it; from strength
ening a system which threatens to destroy the
fraternal feeling among the States, and the Un
ion itself; which disgraces us among the na
tions of the earth ; and which begets an evil
and domineering spirit among those connected
with it, inconsistent with a republican form of
government. It is absurd to suppose that
Slaveiy and Freedom can exist together har
moniously, while the Congress of the United
States is continually enlarging the rights of
Slavery, and repealing sacred compromises for
the purpose of forcing it into Free Territory.
The only way to maintain a friendly I'eeliDg
among the several States of the Union is to
dedicate Territories to Freedom, and when that
becomes the settled policy of the Government,
the agitation of the question of Slavery will
cease. Slavery is the direct cause of the pres
ent exasperated state of feeling between the
different portions of the Union ; it is tho only
brand of dissension which threatens perma
nently the peace of the country, andjendangers
the perpetuity of our republican institutions.
Peace aud satety can never result from magni
fying and aggrandizing the source of all this
disturbance and danger; but, on the contrary,
niust be sought by restricting it and diminish
ing its power, to prevent sectional strife and
bitterness.
The extension of Slavery is not only antago
nist’.cal to the policy of the founders of the
Government, but to the very spirit of our in
stitutions ; it tends to subvert them, by putting
Slavery and Freedom on an equality, to com
pete with each other for the possession of our
territorial domain. Every dictate of patriot
ism and enlightened statesmanship bids us
coniine that baneful institution within its pres
ent limits, and preserve the Territories for the
triumphs of free labor and the beneficent agen
cies that accompany it—free schools, a free
press, and tho enterprise and greatness which
aro their infallible attendants.” If this policy
shall obtain, the day is not distant when the
broau domain lying between the Mississippi
and the l’acific Ocean will be studded with a
constellation of States, all free, crowned with
the blessings that follow in the footsteps of
freedom, and so many pledges of the perpetui
ty of tho Union and the free institutions of our
common country.”
— ♦
A Man Starving Himself to Death by the
Direction of Spirits.
Tlie Dayton (Ouio) Gazette details a very
remarkable instance of monomania, which has
just been terminated in that city, iu the case
of Rev. Joshua Upson, a Umversaliet clergy
man, who died at 12 o’clock last Sunday
night. lie has lived in an almost skeleton
condition, abstaining from nourishment for
fifteen, twenty, and even thirity days in suc
cession. lie has maintained and believed
that he did this under tlie direction of “ the
spirits,” who promised by this course of dis
cipline, to develop him into a more extraor
dinary “ medium ” than Ims hitherto been
known. He lived under tho impression that
hundreds of disembodied spirits were con
stantly talking with him, directing him, en
couraging. rebuking him. prescribing what he
should eat, nnd what he should say, foretelling
every day the least change in his physical con
dition, and punishing him severely when he
refused to act in accordance with their direc
tions.
To Account For.
The proprietors of the Bt. Charles Hotel,
who are at present busily engaged in improv
ing and clearing up for the opening season,
inform the New Orleans Picayune that on emp
tying the cisterns which they keep at the tap
of their premises to be piovided against the
occurrence of tire, in addition to the sediment
nnd refuse to be expected in them, they found
a quantity of fish of various kinds, fiom min- I
nows to gar fish ! Here is a nut for the curious I
about sulphur showers, frog pourings, and !
blood rains, to crack. How were the animals I
got up there? “We pause for a reply.” ‘
THREE DAYS LATER FROM HURoVi J
ARRIVAL OP THE ARABIA
Telegraphed for the Daily
New York, Sept. 13
The Royal British Steamship Arabia 1
arrived at Halifax, with dates from Liver ‘
to the 30th August, three days later tliar
Canadian.
The cotton market had undergone no c (, a|
since the sailing of the Canadian, except'*
Fair Orleans and Mobiles, which had adv u
ed \d. Sales of tlie week foot up 48,000 i,,
including IG,OOO taken on speculation and
export. Quotations are : for Middling
leans 0 5-10d., Fair Uplands Gj)d., Middi :
Uplands 3-10d. Stock of cotton on hand -
Liverpool 702,000, including 014,000 \ n ,
can.
Consols 05J.
Political news not worth telegraphing
From Hew Orleans.
New Orleans, Sept. R I
Sales of cotton to-day sum up 1800 ba’
without any quotable change in prices. ,5
of the week 0,200 bales. Receipts since 11.
Ist of September 18,000 bales against II t
to same time last year. Stock on hand 2o'ou,
bales.
Later from Kansas.
Columbia, Sept. 11—Dispatches of thelun
from St. Louis, state it was rumored in tha
city that Tecumseh, K. TANARUS., had been sacke-i
by Lane, without the loss of a man.
The Maine Election.
Portland, Sept. 10.—It is supposed no*
that Hamlin’s majority will be 17,000.
The California Revolution.
Washington, Sept. 10.— The instructions
lately sent out to the army and federal offices
in California, do not contemplate any inter,
ference either by active co-operation or by the
loan of United States arms to either party.-
They simply reiterate and enforce instruction,
previously given.
GENERAL ITEMS.
T
It is rumored that Gen. Harney has been or.
dered to Florida, in command of the troop
operating against the Indians.
Maoalister, the Magician, died at Keoknl,
lowa, on the Ist inst., after an illness of set
end weeks, lie was a Scotchman, and liaii, it
it stated, amassed a considerable fortune.
Mrs. Partington says the only way to pre.
vent steam boat explosions is to “make tbeen
gineers bile their water on shore.” In bet
opinion all tlie bustin’ is done by cooking ih t
steam cn board.
Tlie Milledgeville (Ga.) Recorder has been
presented by Mr. George Smith, living on I;
laud Creek, witli an ear of corn raised by bin,
containing 24 rows of grain and weighing
pounds—within a fraction.
The Russian clergy recently celebrated 1
grand mass at Balaklava, at. which everyone
walked barefooted in sigu of mortification, al
ter which holy water was sprinkled in every
direction.
It is stated that the Cunard Company Law
made arrangements for the construction of an
other iron steamship, to be built on the Clyde,
and called the Scotia. It is to be larger than
the Persia, and it is thought will execed that
vessel in speed as much as that line vessel ex
ceeds ordinary ocean steamers.
At a public meeting of the inhabitants of
Livingston, Alabama, traveling passports and
“ a card of clearance,” good for any place
Northward, were made out for Samuel Sher
wood, charged and convicted for tampering
with slaves, giving orders for whiskey tu
slaves. &c.
Tlie Albany Evening Journal, a rabid Free
soil journal, exults in the large amount of
Southern travel this year to the North, and
hails it as an evidence that sectional Northern
movements, and the. success of Fremont, will
have no influence in loosening the ties of this
Union.
Josiali Cole, editor and proprietor of the
Democrat, a German paper of much influence
and character, published at Easton, Northamp
ton county, Pa., explains how “accessions” are
obtained to the causeof Fremont. lle says be
was offered SBOOO, cash down, by Mr. Lowry,
of Kansas, to come out for Fremont. This if
the way they use the “ Kansas aid,” collected
by “ General” Pomery, Captain Knight, &c.
‘J he South Carolinian has been informed that
the bridge has been completed over Rock
Creek, and that freight passes to the head of
the road without detention, andthat.in a short
time the company will be prepared to convey
passengers and freight to the West side ot
Broad River in Union District.
The Newberry (S. C.) Mirror announces that
on the Gth inst., Dr. James R. Gilder, of that
district, while out hunting in company with
Mr. Noah Martin and others, was killed by tbs
explosion of Mr. Martin’s gun. Dr. Gilder
was much esteemed as a physician.
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Capital Hit.
The best thing we have heard this year, in
a political way, occurred at MeadviUc recent
ly. One of tlie black republican editors of that
rural town, who last year was very hostile to
the Pope, and fully persuaded that “Ameri
cas ought to rule America,” met a German
acquaintance in the street, and accosted him
something in this wise :
“ Well- John, I suppose you are going t°
give Fremont a vote this year.”
John studied a moment, aud cocking one eve
as much as to say, “do you see anything green
there,’ replied that be had no vote to gi'*’
Fremout.
“ “ by, how is that?” queried our editor
friend.
“ Because,” replied John, “ I haven't been
here long enough.”
“ Not long enough ? Why how long haveymi
been here ?”
“Oh, about ten years.”
“AV ell,” persisted the Fromonter, “ tlint is
long enougli to entitle you to vote.”
“ Oh, 1 know,” said the man with the
“sweet German accent,” “that I have been
here long enougli to vote for Buchanan ; butil
requires a German to reside here twenty uue
years to make him a legal voter for Fremont
Just about that time the editor in “pursuit
of voters under oiUiculties,”had particular bu
sincss in liis office. —Erie Observer.
Grasshoppers on the Upper Mississippi-
The grnsshoppers, or a species of locusts
are said to be making fearful havoc on the bp
per Mississippi. At Little Falls, says theft
Anthony Express, they destroyed corn, oftts
wheat, and everything of the graiu kindwhu J
came in their way. At Elk River they appear
ed in a perfect cloud, and, lighting upon ft col ‘‘
field of twenty acres, dcstroyedthe whole cH
iti a short space of time. At Crow Wing, oU
the farm of Isaac Moulton, they destroy*
5,000 bushels of oats.