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COLUMBUS:
So.mlny Morning, Hcpt. 80, 185®.
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
Rev. Mr. O’Neil, of Savannah, being un
avoidably detained in Ibis city since last Sun
day, will preach in the Catholic Church on
to-morrow at 11 a. m. and at 4 p. m.
Fever in Charleston.
The Hoard of Health report four deaths
from yellow fever, for the 24 hours ending
Wednesday night 111 o’clock.
Our Merchants.
Most of our Dry Goods Merchants have been
busily engaged for several days past in re
ceiving and unpacking their fall stocks. In
a few days—as soon as they have a little time
to breathe—our lady readers may expect to see
their whereabouts pointed out in the adver
tising columns of the Situ.
Crawford Court.
The attention of Members of the liar, and
others having business at Crawford Court,
which commences its fall term next Monday,
is directed to the advertisement of Messrs.
Walton & Tharp in another column.
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Boef.
Mr. L. 1,. Johnson is now selling Beef in
this market at 5 and 6 cents by the mess.—
LnOrnnge (On.) Reporter.
The same article retails in the Columbus
market at 8 and 10 cents.
if Mr. Johnson is making a profit, what
must our Hoteliers lie doing? Come gentle
men, tote fair—live and let live.
Our Old Friend Ned.
Our old friend, Neil Horse Shoe, says tlie
Montgomery Mail, arrived in town several days
ago, and, and, wonderful to relate, is here
still. We never knew him to stay at home so
long, at one time, before. The fact is attri
butable, we think, to the fact that he hus
grown rapidly fat. We are afraid that he is
going to be lost to us — lost, as it were, in fat.
lie is otherwise in fine condition. The other
Chiefs of the Creek Nation, lie informs us,
have returned home from Washington, well
pleased with their trip to the Federal city.
A Squabble over Expenses.
The reception of ex-President Fillmore at
New York, has occasioned a considerable
rumpus between members of the joint com
mittee, and the Council and Aldermanie mem
bers continue to disagree. The largest of the
bills for the reception have not yet been audi
ted, and Alderman Hriggs, the chairman,
thinks that the parties will be obliged to sue
me city. Some of the bills are undoubtedly
rather high, as, for instance, the sum of $125
for one man, and $l5O for another, must he
indeed pretty good pay for one night’s work
and the few materials required. Then the ho
tel bill is thought to be larger than it ought
to have been.
Contemplated Insurrection.
From the Galveston News.
Colorado County, t
September 9, 1866. j
Messrs. Editors: The object of this commu
nication is to state to you all the facts of any
importance connected with a recent intended
insurrection.
Our suspicions were aroused about two
weeks ago, when a meeting of the citizens of
the county w as called, and a committee of in
vestigation appointed to ferret out the whole
matter and lay the facts before the people of
the county for their consideration. The com
mittee entered upon their duties and in a
short time they were in full possession of the
tacts of a well organized and systematized
plan for (lie murder of our entire white popu
lation, with the exception of the young ladies,
who were to be taken captives and made the
wives of the diabolical murderers of their pa
rent' 1 and friends. The committee found in
their possession a number of pistols, bowie
knives, guns and ammunition. Their pass
words of organization were adopted, and tlicir
motto, “leave not a shadow behind.”
Last Saturday, the tith inst., was the time
agreed upon for the execution of their damn
ing designs. At a late hour at night all were
to make one simultaneous, desperate effort,
with from two to ten apportioned to nearly
every house in the county, kill all the whites,
save ike above exception, plunder their homes,
take their horses and arms, and tight their
way to a “free state” (Mexico.)
Notwithstanding the intense excitement
which moved every member of our communi
ty, and the desperate measures to which men
are liable to be led on by such impending dan
ger. to which we had been exposed hy our in
dulgence and leniency to our slaves, we must
say the people acted with more caution and
deliberation than ever before characterized
the action of any people under similar circum
stances.
More than two hundred negroes had viola
ted the law, the penalty of which is death.—
lint by unanimous consent the law was with
held and their lives spared with the exception
of three of the ring leaders who were, 011 last
Friday, the sth inst., at 2 o’clock r. m. hung
in compliance with the unanimous voice of the
citizens of the county.
Without exception, every Mexican in (he
county was implicated. They were arrested
and ordered to leave the country withiu five
days, and never again to return under the pen
alty of death. There is one, however, by the
name of Frank, who is proven to be one of the
prime movers of the affair, that was not ar
rested, but we hope that he may yet be, and
have meted out to hint such a reward as his
black deed demands.
He are satisfied that the lower class of the
Mexican population are incendiaries, in any
country where slaves are held, and should be
dealt with accordingly. And, for the benefit
“f the Mexican population, we would here state
that a resolution was passed by the unanimous
voice of the county, forever forbidding any
Mexican from coming within the limits of the
county,
Fence, quiet, and good order are again re
stored. and, by the watchful care of our Vigi
lance Committee, a well organized patrol and
good discipline among our planters, we arc
persuaded that there will never ugain occur
the necessity of a communication of the char
acter of this.
Yours, respectfully,
JOHN H. ROBSON,
11. A. TATUM,
J. H. HICKS,
Corresponding Committee.
1 The onion, it is said, destroys the attractive
jp>.>dy of the magnet. It has the same effect
r with young ladies.
Letter from Senator Clayton-
To the Editor of the Nat. Intelligencer—
Gentlemen : 1 have felt much reluctance in
addressing the public by a letter in regard to
the party politics of the day. 1 desire not to
be suspected of parading my own opinions
with the expectation of influencing those of
others. Hut these opinions have been made
the subject of conjecture and doubt iu a por
tion of the public press, and simple justice to
myself requires that the course 1 have deter
mined to pursue in regard to Presidential can
didates should be plainly understood. Hy
publishing these few lines you will not only
do me this justice, but relieve me from a bur
densome correspondence with personal friends
who have inquired, and who have a right to
know, my determination.
I urn too much out, of health to become the
active partisan of any candidate l'or the Presi
dency, even were I anxious to bo such. Hut
the truth is I have long since resolved to be
the partisan of no man, to follow the consci
entious convictions of iny own judgment alone,
and, no matter which of the candidates may
be successful, to support him in the Senate in
all that I think right, and to oppose liirn there
in all that I think wrong, untrammelled by
party ties. My object will be true to the
country and its interests, knowing no other
polar star as > lie guide of my conduct.
While the Whig party was in existence as a
national organization, after the straiglitest
sect of that party 1 lived a Whig. Hut parties
have now taken such a direction, and the di
visions and distinctions in our country have
become so alarming, that I no longer feel my
self at liberty to follow the dictates of sects or
factions. 1 will, at a moment’s notice help
any set of men that stand by the country, and
oppose any that refuse to do so. During the
small remainder of the days which I have to
devote to the public service, 1 will live, hop
ing nothing personally from the smiles, and
fearing nothing from the frowns of parties or
party men, because I believe 1 can thus best
serve the interests of the country, I forbear
to comment now upon the causes which led
to the destruction of the great national party
to v'hich I adhered with unfaltering fidelity
while it existed, 1 watched over its ciadle,
and 1 have followed its hearse. It did not Call
by my hand, and l have deeply mourned at
its funeral. Let me add that I have been so
long in the public councils that i see no ne
cessity of pinning my faith and pledging my
future course upon I lie policy to be adopted
by any of the distinguished gentlemen w-bo
are Presidential candidates, for each of whom
1 trust I feel and desire to express all proper
respect. 1 shall be a candidate for no public
honors or favors that any of them can be
stow.
If the position I have thus assumed be deem
ed by any one liable to objection as novel or
unprecedented, 1 have now only to add in the
defence of it that the condition of the country
is at this time of the same character, and, as I
humbly think, requires it at my hands. To
the kind friends whose partiality has upheld
me through a long course of service in the
councils of the nation it will hardly be neces
sary tor me to say that I can never prove an
apostate to our ancient principles and profes
sions, and that 1 shall still entertain for them
the same sentiments of personal regard and
gratitude which have never failed to actuate
me, and which I trust I have always manifes
ted towards them when 1 had an opportunity
of doing so. There is a great difference in
our relative positions at this period. While
t hey are at perfect liberty to take such course
in the Presidential struggle as to their better
judgment may seem proper, they will, with all
their ancient clinrity for me, readily appre
ciate the reluctance, nay the loathing, with
which, at my time of life and in the present
aspect of our national affairs, I should rc-ap
pear in the Senate next winter, reek’ng from
a political struggle violent as that by which
our country is now convulsed. No one of tho
candidates who may be selected by my coun
trymen for the Presidency has a right to ask
of me more than an honest support of his ad
ministration in all that is right in my judg
ment, and no one of them shall receive less.
Governed by- the same principle, I will op
pose any of them in every act of his that I
think wrong, and he ought to expect no other
course at. my hauds.
1 am, gentlemen, with sentiments of great
respect and regard, your obedient servant,
JOHN M. CLAYTON.
Delaware, Sept. 10, 1850.
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Negro Troubles in the Chei’okee Nation.
Late advices from ,hc Cherokee Nation de
tail serious and bloody proceedings as oecur
ing between the Indians and their slaves. A
letter from Tahlequah, dated August 30, says:
Wo had quite a fracas on Verdigris river a
short time since. Four negroes ran away.
They were all well armed and mounted, had
two horses, flour, meat, coffee, and all neces
saries for a camp life. Seven CJierokoes fol
lowed and overtook them, one hundred and
fifty miles from where they started. The
Cherokecs got near them before they were
discovered ; the negroes were dismounted and
at a spring drinking water. The Cherokees
ordered them to lay down their arms. The
negroes replied they would not; and at the
same time one negro fired both barrels of his
gun. Another negro tired and shot Pina Eng
land in the thigh; at that the Cherokees fired
and killed two of the negroes dead, and
wounded the other two; one of the wounded
negroes died the uext morning, and it is sup
posed the other is mortally wounded. The
country is represented as full of runaway ne
groes, who in several instances have resisted
with arms, when an arrest was attempted. A
letter from the Osage Nation charges the out
rages upon the preaching of Abolition mis
sionaries.
Giravd and Mobile Kail Road.
We are Informed by Mr. It. A. Hardaway,
Superlndent, and Mr. It. L. Coleman, Con
ductor of this Road, that the cars will be run
ning out to tl.e twenty-uino mile station in a
few days. The President and Directors of
that Road deserve a great deal of credit for
their indefatigable perseverance. The Road
will be complete to the Ridge by this, win ter no
doubt. It is now nllready far enough advanced
to make the planters through this section think
of turning all their cottou to the Road, and
wo are satisfied that a majority of tho mer
chants will have tlicir goods brought through
to tho terminus by way of the Road ; it would
be a saving of time and money to do so. It
takes nearly as long to wagon goods from Co
lumbus after arrival there, ns it does to get
them from New York to Columbus by the Rail
Road. Hurrah for the progress of the Mobile
and Girard Rail Road, and long live the noble
President, Superintendent and Conductor.—
These gentlemen merit the confidence of the
traveling public." —Clayton Runner.
The exports of domestic butter and cheese
from the United States, are on a much larger
scale than many, perhaps, are aware of. Du
ring the fiscal year of 1855, tho shipments of
butter amounted to 2,315,249 lbs., valued at
$418,723; and of cheese, 4,847,588 lbs valued
at $514,034. Os the butter, the largest pro
portion, 461,010 lbs., was Mtit to the British
West Indies. , . ,
FROM CALIFORNIA.
From thf California Chronicle, August 20.
Releaso of Judge Terry.
David S. Terry was liberated this morning
at three o’clock by the Commit tee of Vigilance.
He was escorted from the Committee rooms to
Perley’s Hotel by several members of the Ex
ecutive Committee. He remained at the Ho
tel with Mrs. Terry until daylight this morn
ing, when, yielding to the urgent entreaties
of his friends, he went on board the U. S.
slooi>-of-war John Adams, now lying in this
harbor. He was 5 not accompanied on board
by .Mrs. Terry.
Tliero are reports that the decision of the
Committee iu Judge Terry's ease was received
with dissatisfaction bv many of the members.
It is stated that his removal from the rooms
was effected without the knowledge of a ma
jority of the members of the Committee, and
when it became generally known, it excited
intense indignation. We are told that a rush
was made to re-arrest Terry by a port ion of
tlie members, and tl.at another portion made
an attempt to ring the alarm bell, which is
suspended upon the roof of the Committee
Buildings, but the Executive Committee had
taken the precaution to have the the bell muz
zled, so that it could not be rung.
The action of Judge Terry’s friends seems
to show that these reports were not without
foundation. The removal of Judge Terry
from the hotel to the sloop-of-war was effected
dlcntly but speedily. During this morning
he had been visited on board by many of his
friends, and the wharves in the vicinity of
the sloop-of-war have been thronged with
people. Os course any attempt to take Terry
forcibly from the would be resisted by
her officers and crew.
During a conversation this morning, Judge
Terry stated that lie left tlie rooms of tlie Com
mittee as he entered them, without conceding
a point or entering into any agreement which
would compromise him in any way. He in
tended to go to Sacramento with the intention,
it is presumed, of resuming his seat on the
Supreme Bench.
From fie San Francisco Herald.
No well-deserving citizen of old Homo was
ever greeted with more enthusiastic ova
tion on his reti-.u from perilous battle
ground, than was Judge Terry yesterday by
the people of San Francisco. The cabin of
the John Adams was crowded all day with a
throng of ladies and gentlemen, who visited
the Judge for the purpose of congratulating
him on his escape from the den on Sacramen
to street. At four o’clock lie went off on the
ship’s cutter and boarded the Helen Hensley,
which was absolutely thronged, fore and aft,
by a deputation of liis friends. The deafen
ing clioers which went up from the steamer on
his approach, were caught up by those who
crowded the wharves and vociferously echoed.
When the boat came alongside the John Ad
ams, a salute was fired by Captain Bout well,
and the rigging was manned to give the Judge
three cheers. These were given with a will,
and were heartily responded to on board the
Helen Hensley, the ladies waving their hand
kerchiefs the while, in compliment to the gal
lant commander of the John Adams. Anoth
er salute was fired by the Revenue Cutter,
Win. L. Marcy, as the Helen Hensley passed
and the steamer with its immense number of
enthusiastic passengers went on its way re
joieing.
The Sacramento State Journal says that
Judge Terry was received with the greatest
enthusiasm by the people of Sacramento, and
escorted in procession with music and banners
from the wharf to the Orleans Hotel, where
apartments were prepared for him. On his ar
rival at the hotel he was eloquently addressed
by Hon. Tod Robinson, from a stand overhung
with wreaths. The remarks of Mr. Robinson
being most eloquently and feelingly replied to
by Judge Terry, the immense crowd gave
three cheers for their recovered friend, and
dispersed.
Bouquets were showered upon Judge Terry
by the ladies on the balcony during the re
marks of Mr. R. and himself.
From the Alla Californian.
The Vigilance Com.hi mm.—Much has been
said of late about the adjournment and dis
bandment of the Vigilance Committee on and
alter Monday next, As there seems to have
been some misapprehension about the real de
sign of that body, we have taken some little
pains to ascertain their real objects. We are
assured that their intention is not to adjourn
or disband at present at all events, but on
Monday next to give up a large portion of the
space of rooms they have been occupying,
aud go into their orginal quarters in one
building, which they at first occupied, and
where their arms are located. Much of the
time since the organization they have been
compelled to occupy two or three adjoining
buildings, on account of the large number of
prisoners on hand, and the necessarily large
guard continually at the rooms. A small
guard will now be engaged for the protection
of the Committee’s Headquarters, and tho Ex
ecutive will hold its regular meeting, and as
often as emergencies require it, but not so
continuously as formerly.
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Wild Man of Africa.
There is another inhabitant of the woods bv
the Gaboon river, move to be feared than the
African boa. It is the wild man of the woods
—not the ourang outang, though an lnmense
ape—always acting on the offensive arid ready
to attack man. The bones of his extremities
are longer than those of an ordinary sized
mnn. 1 have examined them here, and while
contemplating the skull, the jaws. and tlicir
terrible apparatus, really experienced a sort of
shuddering. The canine tooth are upwards
of two inches long and of proportionable
bulk. There is a ridge running from the top
of the nose backward on tlie crown of the
head; to this is affixed a muscle by which the
Hving animal draws backward and forward a
“lost frightful crest of stiff’ hairs; when en
raged or proposing to inflict injury, lie erects
them and draws tho crest forward over his
large eyes, uttering most hideous yells at the
same time. Nothing teems to intimidate him.
Sometimes he advances with boughs of
trees broken off for the purpose of concealing
his approach aud attack, and suddenly grasps
the leg of a human being, brings him sudden
ly to the ground, breaks hi; bones by blows
of his mighty arms and hands, and tears the
flesh by his monstrous teeth. The native
huntsman who goes in search or meets with
him while pursuing less formidable animals,
lias learned that the safest way to engage is
to act quite on the defensive: to let the mon
ster draw near, when he will immediately
seize the end of the muzzle of the g,. u be
tween his teeth, instantly it must bo dis
charged ; if the man either delays till the ape
has compressed the barrel so as to close it, or
fails to give a mortal wound, his doom is
sealed,— Travels in Africa.
A gallant veteran. Col. Frederick Hrowu.
of his Majesty’s twenty-eighth regiment, being
at the Governor’s table at Corin, was asked
by Lady Ruthven, (a blue) if he had read Sir
Walter Scott's last work? “Give you my
honor. r_ lady, 1 never read but two books in
my tile -the Bible and the Articles of War,”
The Observations of Mace Sloper, Esq.
FAMILIARLY NARRATED, BV HIMSELF.
SLOPER’S SUMMER EXPERIENCES.
“And so,” observed beautiful Widow Twig
itle*. “you have followed me all the way to
Cape May?”.
“Yes,” answered I, “I came a-Maying af
ter the sweetest flower that ever grew—and I
have found it.”
“In an arbor!’’
“Well, said I, looking around, “if we come
to that, 1 reckon I’d better call you a lady ap
ple : for that’s the only real pretty, rosy,
sweet, firstr.ite, tart little beautiful thing that
I ever saw kept under dead leaves. Country
folks say it makes the color come. I b’lieve
that’s so.”
And 1 believe it was, for by the time I had
got out that last speech there was a color on
Amelia’s cheeks which would have torn down
a peck of madder. Perhaps it was the evening
clouds which shone that sun-set with an extra
ferocious crimson, like as if the fire of the
day had burned down some, and the last and
hottest coals were being raked out just before
the black ashes of night should be piled over
them. There we sat in the arbor composed of
pine boards, arid covered with dry oak boughs,
and the evening winds kept a twisting and
rustling the leaves, and we looked down at the
roaring great waves running up like cream
soda on the beach, and two little boys who
kept chasing of them and prodding them with
sticks, as if they expected to pin them down,
and at the rest of the children, who were dig
ging for dear life in the sand, without regard
to dress or rank, and one solitary old fogy in
a yellow flannel bathing dress, who was out
bobbing around in the surf on his own hook,
and at three niggers who were bathing furth
er off’, apparently in an advanced stage of de
lirium tremendous, to judge from the high
pressure yells and extra-super-dreadful grins
in which they were breaking loose. Way off
there was a pilot-boat with a great 11. on its
sail, and fur; her still, lots of craft, looking like
Millerites in ascension robes on top of the
blue shy—half way up to glory.
“ Mr. Sloper,” remarked Amelia, “ ever
since 1 have been down here, I’ve been trying
to think what those waves resemble, or whsut
that sea is most like. I sit and watch, and
think and think, till all I know is that they
ebb and flow, and make wild music ; and that
is as far as I ever get. But oh! it is so deli
cious to bewilder one’s self in such feeling!”
“I rather guess,” said I, “though I can’t
pretend to be one of your cute sort, that
you’re a good deal nearer to the true nature
of the big drink than many folks who come
down to recite poetry to it. When I hear
folks do that, 1 always think of the days at
school, when we used to declaim verses the
last thing on Saturday forenoon, just before
the holiday of the week began. So these
good people seem to think that before their
watering-place holiday can regularly begin,
they must rush down to the old ocenn, like as
they used to go before the old schoolmaster,
arid say the scraps they’ve got by heart. Af
ter they’ve done that once or twice, they rush
off home, and act about as poetical asnewsboys
at a steamboat landing. “But as for the.
sea ”
“Yes, Mr. Sloper: Avhat are your opinions
of the sea?”
It is a queer point in the widow, —but a
first chop one—that she takes an interest in
what m.rst folks say, and particularly in what
I say. Many and many a time, when I’m
breaking loose and trotting along in my talk,
dealing out mere loose nonsense, and such
small chaff as men generally bestow’ on ladies,
Amelia makes me “hold my horses, will you?”
by nothing more nor less than that simple ex
pression of interested attention which is so
uncommonly becoming to her. I have seen
other women—not many—who used to put on
that same look, and none but a mighty supe
rior woman can ever do it. That look—well,
it wilts down and dries up small talk to just
what it’s worth; and the man would be a
Shanghai stuck up with a vengeance who
could answer such a glance with some fol-de
riddle-jig-my-diddle stuff. Sometimes that
look scares me a little, t hough—it’s so like or
ders to fire, and the gun not loaded.
There’s many a man who goes 011 spinning
the meanest sort of small yarn all his life
long, about town, wlio might be regenerated
into the very apostlcsliip of common sense—
or something more—if he only knew a woman
smart enough for him to respect, who would
occasionally look him in the face as if she ex
pected that there was senneting a-coming
worth listening to. That’s all.
It made me feel considerably stove in to see
Amelia Twiggies suddenly arouse and go forth
at me with an air of interest, not having at
tho instant any intellectual dimes wherewith
to answer the check. Wherefore and there
fore I put on a regular top-not-come-down as
pect to take-your-time-a-tive-ness and slowly
devolved with:
“The sea—that is to say, the waves or wa
ters of the ocean, or as folks call them, the
billows, or as Hiram says, the splurging heavy
swells—taken altogether always flash upon my
mind like—a woman.”
“Really.”
“5 os,, and actually.” (Here I began to feel
my self in funds.) “Like a woman, and con
siderably like love, for the two go together
like pudding and sauce, (Ahem!) Well, in
love you are always chasing or getting chased.
Run away and you’re followed, follow and
you get run away from.”
“ What a horrible idea !”
“1 111 talking ol most cases, as they run,
ami not of the prime samples. Well, suppose
that Beauty flirts with you. Even if she re
treats, like those waves in an ebb-tide, she
don t make n clear cut and run for dear life.
Not a fraction of it! First she washes Way
up to your feet; then runs back ; then sends
a cloud of miscellaneous, shining, wordy no
things after you like a lot of spray; then
sweeps up and around with a scarf of soft
foam, just as the dancing girls at Niblo’s pre
tend to try to catch the young fellows; and
then la la she sinks, sweeps, rolls way back
again, giving you the dodge, yet looking at
you all tho while with half-shut, die-away
eyes and head thrown back, aud 3-011 hear no
thing but whishing whispers, and then the
first thing 3-011 know the tide’s out and the
game s up, aud you are left high and dry with
the clams!”
“Mournful indeed!” replied Amelia; “and of
cour; when the affeotion is the other way Beau
ty. even while advancing, keeps falling hack
continually, and composes her progress out of
numberless little retreats. Well, Mr. Sloper, ;
111 not deny that you’re right. I once saw a
pocket-haukerchief, which, now that I think I
of it, puts me in mind of 3’our idea of the sea I
and of love. In its centre there was a great
YES, each letter of which was made up of
even so many little noes. It was sent by a lady
In Cincinnati to a gentleman who believed that
she didn t lavor his suit, when, gooduess
knows, tlm poor tiling was d3*ing fur him.—
I hey were married., — Knickerbocker Magazine.
St. Paul, Minnesota, is now said to have a
population of ten thousand souls. In the i
year 1849 it did not contain live hundred.
TELEGRAPHIC
Expressly for the Daiy Sun.
From New Orleans.
New Orleans, Sept, r,
The demand continues fair without
change in prices, say 11 J to Ilk-. f or y
dling Sales of the day 2300 bales— and t
the week 15,500 bales. Receipts of the iv
17,000. Stock on hand 30,000 against bl
to same time last year. Receipts since l
September 35,000 bales against 80,000 to Sailt
time last year.
There are no changes to note in the Grot
ry market, or in Freights.
From Charleston.
Charleston, Sept. ](i
Not much doing in cotton yet, owing to tp
prevalence of fever. Sales of the week tv,, ,
up 1200 bales. The market advanced an
yesterday on the Asia’s news. Good Middlin',
11 1- to 12c. ?
National Whig Convention.
Baltimore, Sept. 17.—The opening of tfo
Convention of the old Line Whigs, as call
for this day in this city, was attended by l w ?
delegations from twenty-six of the States, ail
an anxious concourse of spectators.
Ex-Gov. Washington Hunt, of New York
was called to the chair temporarily, and made
a most eloquent address. Washington’s Fur,
well Address was then read, aud the Convul
tion elected lion. Edward Bates, of Mo. ly
sident, and took a recess until 5 r. m., tocom
plete organization and allow time for prepars
tion of business.
SECOND DrSPATCH.
The Convention met atsr. m., before a large
and attentively interested audience. A cob.
mut.ee was appointed to prepare an address to
the people of the Union, and will report to
morrow.
Ex-Gov. W. A. Graham, of North Carolina,
in a speech of thrilling eloquence and power
declared his reasons for supporting and iw.
proving Mr. Fillmore, at which the Convel
tion and auditory rose and greeted him with
vociferous cheers.
The Convention then adjourned to meet to.
morrow morning.
Kansas News.
Chicago, Sept. 15. —Robinson (bogus GOl.
ernor) has arrived here, having been admitted
to bail for $5,500. The other officers were
admitted to bail in $5,600 each.
Gov. Geary has released the prisoners held
at Leavenworth.
Conventions.
Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 16.—The American
and Republican Conventions met this day, ami
were both largely attended.
The radical Abolitionists also held a Con
vention, at which seven delegates were pres
ent..
Anniversary of the Constitution.
Philadelphia, Sept. 17.—The celebration
of the Democratic Convention assembled in
commemorat ion of the adoption of the Constim
tion, was an occasion of unparalleled enthusi
asm, and was participated in by large delega
tions—many from a great distance.
Gov. H. V. Johnson, of Georgia, was Ike
orator, and made an address of two hours in
length, reviewing the history of the constitu
tion and the constitutional rights and guaran
tees of the South.
The procession moved at 8 r. m. to Inde
pendence Square, which was brilliantly illu
minated.
The Crops in Decatur.
The account wo gave of the crops in this
county', in our last issue, was from exaggera
ted reports, and tv as not entirely correct. We
have been since informed that, notwithstand
ing the immense damages done to them by the
late gale, they will average about one-third
their usual yield.— Bainbridye Argus.
Shooting in Pensacola.
From a private letter received in Mobile on
Monday, dated Pensacola, September 14th,
we learn that a young man by the name of
James Noxwell Perigo, of Oswego county.
New York, was shot the day before by a Mr.
Hancock. We learn that Mr. Perigo was a
nephew of Mr. A. W. Van Epps, of this city
No particulars were given.— Mobile Tribune.
GENERAL ITEMS.
The St. Louis Democrat says it is estimated
that the wheat crop of Wisconsin, the present
year, will not fall short of fourteen mill
ions of bushels.
The Journal of Commerce says that the
Democrats in Maine were defeated by a com
bination between the Know Nothings and
Black Republicans.
The Charleston Gas Light Company have
resolved that “a discount of 50 per cent, he
made to all private consumers of gas through
out the city from the Ist instant.”
The coast of Nicaragua put under block
ade by Walker is said to be from one thousand
to twelve hundred miles in extent, part on
the Atlantic and part on the Pacific, anil to
enforce it he has one schooner in the Pacific.
There are German Buchanan clubs in neat
ly every ward in Philadelphia. Stephen M.
Remark, Esq., has spoken in that city every
night, except Sunday, for the last month
making addresses both in English and Ger
man.
The Fremont papers have been declaring
far and near, that ex-Governor Baker, of
New Hampshire, had gone over to “the path
finder.” Mr. Baker authorities the Concord
Patriot to say that it is a silly lie.
The London pickpockets have hit upon a
new dodge. One gang goes about with a live
turtle, which he places on the foot walk and
begins to talk about it to any one passing
a crowd gathers, and a row succeeds, and
then watches, purses, handkerchiefs and nm
ney disappear.
The Charleston Evening News learns that
an affray occurred at Aiken on Thursday, be
tween two men named Purdue nnd Morris, m
which tlie former was so badly cut with 1
knife that it is thought he cannot recover.
Pardue is a fireman on the South Cardin*
Railroad, and Morris is n citizen of Aiken.
The rate of taxation in Boston, for the P r<
sent year, has botjn fixed at $8 on theSU*
The real estate in the city is valued at 81L*
574,300, and tho personal estate at $lO5, l-*’ 1 -
800. Since last year, the former lias incrca’
ed $7,223,000 nnd the latter decreased H’ 1 -
100.
The New York Commercial of Saturday c'rt
ing says, the excitement in the Wheat m’
yesterday was very great aud prices advam
ed I‘ullv five cent per liushel. Due he't
alone, Messrs. N. 11. Wolfe & Cos., sold 1-’ •’
000 bushels red and white Western to art•
being tlie largest, single transaction ever
iu one day by one firm. The sale amount 5
nearly $250,000.