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LAROEtiT CITY cmCULATIOJi.
Thursday Morning) October Si, 1856.
Fever in Charleston.
The Board of Health report seven deaths
from yellow fever in Charleston, for the 48 !
hours onding Monday night 10 o’clock.
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Frost Again.
After several days of cloudy weather, which
gave fair promise of rain, the clouds disap
peared, and yesterday morning we had frost.
But for the excessive dryness of the earth,
vegetation would have been well singed. We
have had no rain since the gnlo of the 31st
August.
We hear much complaint, among cotton wag
ons from below, of the unsafe condition of the
Bridges in this couuty on the Lumpkin road.
• They arc represented to be unsafe to cross on,
causing the cotton wagons to have to go con
siderably out of their way to reach this mark
et. This should be looked into. Whose du
ty 1h it? Some have suggested that it is the
business of the Justices of the Inferior Court
to look after such matters. For our part we
are not sufliciently versed in Georgia Court
vegulotions to know. This matter should re
ceive early attention.
Fire in Montgomery.
Wo learn that the residence of Mr. John W.
(Sordon, in Montgomery, Ala., was consumed
by (ire night before last. The buildings were
all new and he had just moved in. Wo did not
learn the extent of the loss.
Fire in Columbia.
A fire occurred in Columbia, S. C., on Sun
day night, in which the stores of Mr. Thomas
frenn and Col. B. Anderson, on Bridge street,
and the Depot of the Greenville and Columbia
Knil Iload, were consumed. The store* and
•ontents were insured.
Georgia and Florida Railroad.
The schr. Cordelia, arrived at Savannah on
Monday from New Port, Wales, with a cargo
*f 057 tom railroad iron, imported by Messis.
Padelford, Fay k Cos., for the Georgia and
Florida Railroad Company, Nelson Tfft Esq.,
President.
An arrangement has boen made by which
the Fare on the Georgia and Tennessee Rail
Roads, from Atlanta to Nashville, is to be re
duced to half price to persons attending the
American Convention nt Nashville, on the
10th and 11th of October; the State Fair at
the same place from the 18th to the 18th, and
the Democratic Convention to be held on the
Hist. Parties availing themselves of the priv
ilege, pay full fare to Nashville and return
freo.
Buchanan Mass Meeting at West Point.
By a bill posted at the Post Offiee in this
•ity, we sec tho Democrats are to hnvc a Mass
Meeting at West Point, Ga., on Saturday the
11th instant. The bill says a Barbecue will
be prepared for 10,000 persons. We make
Mio following extract from the bill;
“Tho Know Nothings having avowed in
print that thoy believed the Hon. W. L. Yan
•cy would not meet their champions in open
and fair discussion, anil insinuated that he
feared to meet Messrs. Ben. 11. Hill, of Geor
gia, and James E. Bolser and T. 11. Watts, of
Alabama, lion. W. L. Y'ancey has consented to
be present, and we challenge tho Hon. B. 11.
Hill, of Georgia, Hon. J. E. Belser and T.
H. Watts, Esq., of Alabama, to moet Mr.
Tanccy in discussion, on that day, on tho
t*rms usual upon such occasions.”
Death of John B. Hines, Esq.
The Montgomery Mail announces (lie death,
in that city, on Tuesday morning, of John B.
Hines, Esq. Mr. Hines was employed, as
assistant, editor, on two of the papers of Mont
gomery, during several months of last year,
lie left Montgomery last fall, says the Mail,
and has since resided in Charleston, where
about four months ago he received terrible
injuries by jumping or falling from the win
dow of his room, in esenping from a fire. He
partially recovered, however, and canto here
a few days sinco to assist in tho editorial
management of the Messenger. Since his
arrival he has been confined, suffering greatly
front his old wounds.
Mr. Hines was a man of fine talents and a
genial temper. His age, wc suppose, was
about twenty-eight. His connections in Ma
•on, Georgia, are among the most respectable
•itisens.
Fatal Duel.
An affair of honor occurred on Monday even
ing, in the vicinity of Charleston, between Wm.
E. Taber, Jr., Esq., one of tho editors of the
Mercury, and Edward Magrath, Esq., in which
she former was mortally wounded, and died
an hour after. The Staudnrd says the difficulty
originated from the publication of articles in
the Mercury, in reforcuce to the Hon. A. G.
Magrath. Satisfaction was demanded by the
brother 1 , and a meeting took place as wo have
mentioned. Difficulties continued in tho way
•f an adjustment, and Mr. Taber fell at tho
third fire, the ball taking effeot in his head.
The weapons were pistols, and the distance ten
paces.
The Oener&l Election in Knnsas for the Leg
ttfwture and Delegate to Congress, was to have
taken place yesterday, (October Ist). The In
dependence (Mo.) Messenger says that this
•loction will not be decided by the bona fide
•itisem of the Territory, but by the “dollar
voters,” a* by the laws of tho last Legislature
any person ean vote who is in the Territory at
the time of the election and has paid a poll i
tax.
Stock at Liverpool.
The New Orleans Crescent says, from all the
information before us we gather thattlie stock of
•otton ia Liverpool ie not so large by 100,000
te 1t6,000 bales, as the circulars make it ap
pear. This discrepancy arises from cotton
Thick >9 purchased on this side for spinner’s
aecouat being taken from the ship’s side
by earners direct to the factories, and being re
ported oa arrival and added te the stock oa
%feid, but not deducted from the stock on go
ing into consumption, spinners forbidding their
narriera from reporting ootton so taken.
Norfolk anil Petersburg Railroad.
W’e are gratified to learn, says the Norfolk
Herald, of the 25th inst., tlint the Company
have masle a contract with a London house,
through its agent in Petersburg, Mr. John
Dunlap, for 8,500 tons of iron for the road, the
first cargo of which is to be delivered in Feb
ruary next. The road being all graded and
ready for the rails, the work will then be ener
getically and rapidly prosecuted to its comple
tion, which it is confidently believed, will be
accomplished in October, 1857. The interest
of the road has suffered nothing by delaying
to contract for the iron rails till the grading
was all done, as the Company have saved fifty
thousand dollars by it in the reduction o? the
price.
Learned Fleas.
The Albany Journal says there is an exhi
bition in the new Bank Building, Broadway,
in that city, well worth seeing. Signor Ber
tolotte has about 100 Italian fleas which dance
the Polka, play on musical instruments, draw
carriages, work at California diggings, fight
a duel sword in hand, draw water from a well,
tell fortunes, and do a variety of feats too nu
merous to be described ; all dressed, harness
ed and instructed according to their tasks.
The fleas are all secured to their respective po
sitions, and perform at the bidding of the
Signor. At night they are released; they
are fed from the Signor’s blood, by allowing
them to “porch” upon his hand and suck
their fill. They are then placed in their dif
ferent apartments, all numbered like n well
regulated hotel.
The Scientific American says to the sporting
men—“ wash your gun barrels in spirits of
turpentine, by dipping a rag or sponge fasten
ed on your gun rod into the liquid and swabbing
them out two or three times, when they will be
cleansed from all impurities and can be used
almost instantly, as the turpentine will evapo
rate and leave the barrels dry; even if they
are a little moist, it will not prevent their go
ing off, like water. After being washed thus,
there is no danger of rust, as when water is
used. [am an old and experienced gunner,
and have practiced this for years.”
Further by the Baltic.
From tin* Charleston Courier.
A brief abstract of these advices is sub
joined.
Tint Liverpool Cotton Market, Sept. 17.
—The Cotton market shows no change in
prices or movement for the last three days for
which period the transactions reported reach
17,000 bales of which 5,500 are set down to
export and speculation. The official quota
tions are Middling Uplands GJd; Middling
Orleans Ofd.
Liverpool Breadstuffs. —An advance is
reported on leading articles. In wheat the
advance is 3d. on the better grades. The quo
tations given are Red (new) 9s. a 9s. (id.
White 10s. a 10s. till. Flour is steady at the
quotations, Canal 295. a 315.; Ohio 335. Corn
buyers are urging a reduction, and the rates
given are Yellow 31s. (id. a 325,; W hite 335.
London Money Market. —-A feeling of
tightness still prevails in the money market,
and consols close nt 93J a 93J. An advance
off is reported since the close of official
hours on the 16tli.
The weather continued favorable and the
prospects of the crops good.
Naval Stores. —An advance of 2d. a 4d.,
according to qualities, has been realized in
Rosin. In Spirits sales aro reported at 335.
and no special change.
An active demaud is reported for Sugar.
Mixed Cotton.
W’e find the following allusion to the false
packing of cotton, in the Memphis (Tcnn )
Price Current, Oth of Sept.
The frequent complaints which wc hear in
duce us to call the attention of planters to the
existence of an evil which we have often be
fore adverted to, aiul which loudly calls for a
remedy. Wc allude to tho culpable negli
gence of many whose duty it is to attend to
the packing of cotton, as shown by the fre
quent discovery of mixed bales—viz: bales
found to contain two, three or more qualities
and colors. This negligence often leads to
vexatious reclamations, and sometimes to ex
pensive law suits, as it frequently happens
that the discovery is not made until the cot
ton reaches the hands of the manufacturer,
at a distant market. But it also frequently
happens that the discovery is made here, by
drawing samples from different parts of a bale.
In such cases the cotton is thrown back upon
the factor’s hands as unmerchantable, and
when resold as mixed cotton, the factor can
seldom obtain more tlinn the market value of
the lowest quality found in the bale. Besides
all this, when the irregular packing is once
discovered, as it necessarily must be some
where and at some time, it throws discredit
upon the planter's crop generally, and thus
operates to his disadvantage. It also intro
duces confusion into a most important branch
of trade, ami one that can only bo conducted
with facility and economy upon the basis of
good faith in the honesty and integrity of the
planter. These virtues being accorded to
him, he owes it to himself, to his factor and to
his purchaser to exercise more care and vigi
lance over those who have his interests in
charge. Wc have adverted to this matter, on
frequent occasions, for years past, hut thus
far, it would scorn without effect ; for the evil
has increased instead of diminishing, and
probably in no former year has so large a
proportion of the crop been liable to the objec
i tion referred to. At the special request of
j both factors and purchasers we earnestly call
attention to the matter again, and trust that
this appeal will awaken some attention, for
in reality and truth the evil is a serious one.
Is it So.
It is a popular belief that the age of trees
can be determined by the “rings” or grains
that overlie each other in their trunks. Mr.
J. Howard, of Maryland, disputes the fact.
He says that these rings counted on the sec
tion of the tree nre not of anuual growth,
hut are formed one at every full moon in the
growing season, and in the latitude of Mary
land five in a year. This he lias frequently prov
ed by felling trees, the age of w hich he knew.
The extraordinary ago given to trees by tho
popular rule has made many persons doubt
whether it is true.
Found Guilty of Murder.
We learn that MHthew Copeland, accused of
the murder of Capt. FI. P. Howell, at Resaea,
Gordon county, sometime last year, or the first
of this, was put on trial at Calhoun, on
Wednesday 24th inst.—Judge Brown on the
Bench. The investigation continued till the
afternoon of Saturday last, when it was termi
nated by a verdict of “Guilty,” by the jury
The Court had not pronounced its seutence j
wheu our informant left— Atlanta Intelligencer. |
TKLEGBAPH LC.
Expressly for the Daily Bun.
Montgomery, Get. 1.
Good Middling cotton is selling to-day at
eleven and a half cents.
New York, Get. 1.
Cotton advanced to-day front i to jc,
Sales 2000 bales. Mtddiing Uplands 12jc.
An Item or two about Macon.
We believe that Macon is now in as flourish
ing a condition as it has ever experienced in
its palmiest days. The trade which it now has,
is firmly settled, and our merchants feel secure
in basing their operations upon it. Every
thing that could have been done to the detri
ment of the place, has been accomplished, and
nothing has been left undone except what
will redound to her interest. The spirit of
progvess and improvement seems to actuate
our citizens more now than at any previous
time. The trowel and hammer ring louder
and rap faster than the “ oldest inhabitant”
#ver had any idea of. But there Is need of
Mechanics to wield them, and still greater
need of material to employ them. Buildings
in contemplation—both public and private—
are delayed merely for the want ol’ brick and
other material, and also from a scarcity of
workmen, as for instance the City Hall, the
Asylum for the Blind, tlie Presbyterian
Church, &c., kc. And we would suggest that
if any enterprising nten would establish an
extensive brick yard here, they might easily
| convert their bricks into a “ pocket full of
I rocks.” We repeat, that wc Relieve additional
i carpenters, brick-masons, contractors, &c.,
| could find plenty of employment here at first
| rate wages. About twenty stores in the cen
; ter of town have been recently burnt, and
I the owners of lots want only material and
i builders to re-build at once. Besides, many
i private buildings arc merely biding their time
j for the same reasons. Macon now presents a
i fine opening to the laboring man, and we hope
lie will “fall in” and close it. As we have
before said, there are not now enough work
men and sufficient building material to sup
ply the demand.— Macon Telegraph.
The writer should have added a daily paper.
The Irish Linen Trade.
The early part of August did not do much
| for the department of State. Bleached lin
j ens accumulated considerably; the turn out
• from the several finishing establishments have
! been very large. Orders to a very handsome
amount have come to hand within the last few
days, and the total quantity of clearances ef
fected will move off all extra stocks. From
the chief markets of the United States the
reports are very satisfactory. As we stated
some time ago, the peopling of the West, if it
carried off a great array of our Irish popula
tion, lias been the means of raising new mar
kets for our textiles in several parts of the
world: the taste for wearing linen clothing
in these countries will therefore be cultivated
to ft greater extent, and every family that
takes up its abode in distant lands becomes a
larger consumer of our staple products. The
amount of business transacted with the re
cently raised cities and towns in the United
States, where some years ago, there was
scarcely the evidence of civilization, lias this
year shown a large increase. Austria has not
yet conic up to the expectation as to demand
for linen goods; this year, however, there is
a great improvement in these markets. Brown
webs were a good sale at the several towns in
this and tho neighboring counties during the
last eight days. Damasks are moved in larg
er lots, and diapers sell at full rates. The-o
has been more inquiry for printed lawns, and
the handkerchief trade, though quiet, is stea
dy. Coarse linens, whether for the brown or
white finish, are worked off in ample quan
tities; stocks of such goods range at a low
estimate. Yarns are not changed in value.
The demand for warp yarns continues good,
and wefts of the higher numbers sell readily
at the top figures of last month. Flax has
held its position even in the face of all the
increased importations from the Baltic. Sam
ples of fine Russian continues to be moved at
rates which would average os. Od. per stone.
Home-growing flax sells at lis. 3d. to os. 9d.
for hand scutched; a few lots were sold this
week at Bs. Milled goes off at 7s. to 11s.,
with 11s. Od. for very fine lots. Our reports
relative to the present season's flax arc so
very contradictory, that as yet we Cannot form
any definite opinion on the subject. The
more scientific growers, however, seem pretty
well satisfied as to the prospects both of yield
and quality.— Banner of I'hter.
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Gunpowder in Pickens.
We have received, says the Charleston Mer
cury, from Captain J. A. Wagner, a sample of
Blasting Powder, manufactured at Wagner’s
Mills, at Issaquena Falls, near Walhalla, in
this State, and about three hundred yards below
the Stump House Tunnel on the Blue Ridge
railroad. The mill is constructed afttff- the
German fashion, not so productive or econ
omical as the American, but much more safe,
and cost, complete, about $12,000. It has
graining and polishing machinery attached,
and can turn out about seven hundred and
fifty pounds of the various kinds of gunpowder
per day. The sulphur and saltpetre are im
ported, but the charcoal is manufactured on
the spot, from the willow, which is abundant
in the neighborhood. The sample in our pos
session, though the very first produce of the
mill, is handsome in appearance and of great
strength. We regard Capt. Wagner’s enter
prise as of much importance to the upper sec
tion of the State, and trust that it will l>e em
inently successful.
—
Crittenden on the Stump.
Tho Lexington (Ky.) Observer states that
the Hon. John J. Crittenden has determined
to throw the weight of his great talents into
the Presidential contest in Kentucky, so soon
ns his strength is somewhat recuperated from
the arduous duties of the late session of Con
gress. He will visit the Green River country
early in next month, and from that time un
til the election, will devote himself to the
success of the cause of Millard Fillmore.
The Frankfort Commonwealth publishes a list
of places at which Mr. C. is to speak during
the month of October.
Large Load.
The two trains which arrived here on Friday
night from Macon, Mississippi, brought in 1472
bales cotton. Tho special train had on 1100
bales and the regular train brought the balance.
Last night's train is supposed to have about
850 bales more. These receipts will indicate
what the prospects will be in the future of the
business on the Mobile and Ohio Railroad.
Mobile. Tribune.
Cotton Going North.
Messrs. Fall* & Cash shipped two hundred
bales of cotton per National yesterday for Cai
ro, which goes thence by railroad to New York
and Fall River, Mass., one half for each place,
This will soou becomo an important route for
shipping cotton to the Eastern cities, provided
the railfi ad companies establish a tariff to
oompi te with other routes. —Memphis Bulletin.
Spring, Autumn and Eternity.
[From the Knickerbocker.]
“He luith made everything beautiful in hie time.”’ —
t'eelesiasticuM 3: 11.
There are two tilings X dearly love,
In nature's circling year,
Which lift my spirit far above
Tlie weijrht of earthly c:ue :
They bring before my eager view
The brightness of a home.
Where all their loveliness is true,
N'or change can ever come.
The early times of Spring’s first hours,
Brings freshness to the heart;
They rouse the wearied spirit’s powers,
And sweeter life impart:
Her dancing breezes gently woo
The blossoms of the rose.
All wet with sparkling morning dew,
Their petals to inclose.
The weary sufferer of pain,
The bowed with care and grief,
Hail her returning once again,
With hopes of sweet relief:
Spring hours cannot fail to bring
Calm and consoling thought.
Her many voices ever sing
Os joy to mortals brought.
But how, O Autumn ! shall L dare
To paint thy gorgeous hues;
The softness of ihy morning air,
’ Thine evening's early dews: -
I'he solemn grandeur of thy night.
. Whose starry crown is set
Witli gems more radiantly bright,
Tli m earthly coronet ‘
The glory of thy sunset hour,
When all is calm and still,
Brings full conviction of tbo Power
That heaven and earth doth fill:
Oil! who can gaze upon thy skies,
As twilight shades them o’er,
And not from earthly dreamiugs rise,
Their Maker to adore f
The wreath of fading Summer flowers
Is yet upon thy brow,
lint all the mirth of Summer hours
Is changed to sadness now,
j And yet, upon thy dying head,
! A solemn beauty lies,
More glorious than tho riches spread
’Neath Summer’s glowing skies.
liver, O Autumn ! siiait thou tie
To us, an emblem meet
(If spirits sinking peacefully
To slumber calm and sweet;
Though thy delights not long may last.
Yet ours shall still increase:
Thy reign be soon forever post.
But ours shall never cease.
All! not like thee shall pass away.
The Christian's hope and joy :
We look for an eternal day.
And bliss without alloy—
Fov glories hid from mortal sight,
itevealed in realms above—
For fadeless crowns of heavenly light,
And perfectness of love.
i
The Expected British Minister.
The Liverpool Journal thus flatteringly por
trays tlie supposed new British Minister to
Washington:
[ “No one cares who goes to Washington;
and it is of that apathy my Lord Clarendon
takes advantage in pitching upon his used-up
brother, C. Pelham Villiers, for the important
post (assuming that the statement that C. P.
V. is the man is well founded.) Mr. Villiers
lias scarcely energy enough to put on his
clothes, apparently not to taiie them off again;
and it is marvelous how even a family gov
ernment can trust this younger brother in the
complication of l r ankee politics, which any
day may produce anew difficulty. He is a
very clever man, and singularly free from the
airs and cants of bis class; and that he de
serves well of his country no one who remem
bers his free-trade career will dispute. Why
ho has clioseu, so long, to be content with the
Judge Advocateship, it is impossible to tell,
except by reference to his known indolence,
Wc should all lie glad io see him in high and
| eminent place, his ambition and his pat riotism
! amply gratified. But Washington is scarcely
the place for a statesman who began as a
i man about town, took the ‘usual intermediate
| course of philosophy, and has some time set
j tied down as a cynic, careless as to cravats and
j brushes, and appearances of all sorts —public
appearances inclusive.
“He’d drive the earnest Yankees frantic
with his indifferentism. If they showed him
Bunker’s Hill, lie would put up his glass and
ask who was Bunker, and what was done on the
Hill. lie would be profoundly amazed at the
phrenzv of their passionate politics, and they
would stare at his dandy dilletantiism. He
would call slaves slaves, and ask if the institu
tion had not an unpleasant odor about it. He
would say on (be Central American question
—“But, my dear Mr. Marcy, what tlie deuce
does Ruatan matter to anybody ?” Poor Mr.
Cratnpton got into a scrape by reading a de
spatch six weeks after he had received it.
Villiers would escape that mischief by never
| reading any despatch at all. He would say
jto his secretary, “Good gracious! 1, who
j know Clarendon, to read anything he writes?”
If tlicre were an Oregon territory row, he
| would say, “Gentlemen, Oregon is a bore:
: take it all. He would not object to anexpc
dition to Cuba. He would merely observe,
“Only take care that you don’t spoil the to
bacco in marching, for Clarendon does like
a good cigar: and tlie only clear instruction
1 have got is on that point.” Perhaps the
let-alone policy might do very well in diplo
j tiracy. There was a Villiers who won tliir
| teen pitched battles, and himself never drew
a sword or fired a musket in any one of them.
In the same way Lord Derby, when
would have ruined the country, only for his
J affecting indolence. Next to the advantage
! of having no Minister at Washington, might
it, on that principle, be desirable to have Vil-
I tiers, who, though there, will do nothing.”
John Bull Frog.
Governor John Bull was so great a favorite
in South Carolina, that parents frequently
named their children after him. There was
then in Charleston a tailor, named Frog, who
influenced by some favor or patronage receiv
ed from John Walters Gibbs, asked him to be
the god-father of his son, to be named John,
after his proposed god-father. Air. Gibbs
promptly assented, and tlie day was appoint
ed lor the ceremony. When the parties met,
1 nnd were going together up to the font, Mr.
Gibbs asked permission to give the child an
intermediate name after their worthy govern
or, Bull. Permission was of course granted,
and the child was baptised John Bull; the
ceremony was oyer, and the parties separa
ted, in great good humor. But when the
whole named was pronounced, and the child
called John Bull Frog, the parents were dis
mayed; the citizens joined in tlie laugh, and
the Frog family left in a hurry to escape the
continued jests.
Coolne3a in a Moment of Trial.
The Rochester American tells a story of a
lady in that city, whose dress was stepped
upon by a partner in a dance. The skirl was
torn, and a whalebone thrust out into the
circle in a very unseemly manner. The lady
coolly took hold of the article, drew it from
her, walked to the door and threw it out, and
took her place in tlie cotillion just in time to
“forward and back.” Although her dress
“collapsed,” she did not. That lady would
walk it]) to the cannon's mouth or the altar,
without fear or trembling.
The Courier Price Current, published at
Charleston, makes the crop of Upland cotton
3,489,000 and long cotton 44,500 bales. The
rice crop of the l nitetj (hates is estimated at
171,00(1 tierces.
GENERAL ITEMS. I
There arc three thousand and eiMu I
rolled firemen in New York. 1
An exchange says that one of the E I
cotton mills is manufacturing “ Fron,.* sl ‘ r I
Dayton calicoes.”
The Danville (Va.) papers, announce ,i I
death ot Capt. James Canier, for se . 1
years a representative from I
the Legislature. I
De Concha ltcis, on trial for fitting 0 „, I
slave ship Altiva, xvas last week acqifittci I
the jury in the United States District C ,’ I
at New York City. I
The water debt of Boston is $5,280 v-1
1 Income from the water works during th ( . I
ending Ist of May last, 284,129.50. I
exceeds the interest by $26,465. 1
, The Evening Mercury, the first dnily v 1
j issued in the Territory of Kansas, is pubii l f
ed at Leavenworth city, by an association I
$5 per annum. I
.Mr. Samuel P. Armstrong, the newly I
pointed United States Consul for Matauim I
was in New Grleans on the 18th inst. to
! on that day for his post.
Advices received at Louisville, Ky., f roni ,
far South as Clarkesvillc, Tennessee, , t v I
that the Tobacco crop in Tennessee ami Kh
tucky has been seriously injured by recw
frosts.
John V. L. McMahan, one of Maryland',
most gifted and eloquent sons, lias enrol I ',
ed himself under the Democratic stand'.",]
Mr. McMahan has heretofore acted with t’
Whigs, but now is for Buchanan.
Letters front Cincinnati advise of sales
city cut bulk shoulders at (j\ cents packer
and that bulk sides are offered at 7,7ut0 ‘
cents packed. Sixty days since bulk should.
I ers were held there at 9 cents, and sides !U
11} cents, packed. Great are the fluctuation*
in the provision trade.
An English cockney at the Falls of Niagara. I
when asked how lie liked the Falls, he re-1
plied: “They’re ‘and some—quite so; hr.: I
they don't quite hanswer my hexpeetation-1
j besides, I got thoroughly vetted, and lost me I
| ’at. 1 prefer to look at’em in an hingravinl
in ‘ot wheatlier and in the ’ouse.
An Alabama subscriber to the New York I
Mirror, which during tlie present eanvar-1
gives its support to Fremont writes to stop hi-1
paper, and says if anything is due him, the I
Mirror can invest the amount in Sharpe’s ri- I
lies for the benefit of “shriekers for freedom I
in Kansas.”
A lady was asked: “When a lady and gen- I
tleman have quarrelled, and each consider. I
the other most at fault, which of them ought I
to be the - first, to advance towards a reconcilia-1
tion ? ” Her answer was: “Tlie best-hearted I
and the wisest of the two.”
The Kansas Finance Committee, of Sevan- I
nab, acknowledge the receipt of $375 from I
A. C. Scott, Esq., Chairman of a meeting re- I
cently held at Jeffersonton, Camden county.
This makes over six hundred dollars already
received from Camden in aid of the Southern
cause in Kansas.
Old bachelors have been styled unproduc
tive consumers; scissors with but one blade':
bows without fiddles; irregular substantive*,
always in singular number and objective case:
unruly scholars, who, when told to conjugate,
always decline.
I'he Utica Herald calls upon its brother
supporters of Fremont to
‘•Strike every lyre, and sound liis fame.”
The New York Day Book infers that if’ they
really intend to “strike every liar” among
them, they will have a Kilkenny Cat, fight of
it, and tells them: “Pitch into each other,
gentlemen. Strike every liar.”
Mrs. Ellen K., wife of W. E. Channing,
Esq., died in Boston on the 22d ult., at the
residence of Dr. Walter Channing, at the age
of 30 years. The deceased was a daughter
of the late Hon. Timothy Fuller, and a sister
of Margaret Fuller, the noted writer. She
was a lady of rare accomplishments, and very
highly esteemed by a wide circle of friends.
Among the premiums to be awarded by the
Maine State Agricultural Society is a number
for the best specimens of bread and the best
ten pounds of butter, to be made by girls un
der US years of age. The idea is a good one.
and the accomplishment to be rewarded one
that is in no danger of being abused in the
present age.
The official statement of the stock of beef
and pork in the packing yards at New York
and Brooklyn on tlie Ist instant, shows that
there are now on hand 3401 bbls., of old and
new pork, against 19,870 bbls., at same time
last year, (if old and new beef there are
now on hand 24,552 bbls., against 35,3425ame
time last month, and 5002 same time last year.
Electorial tickets have been formed in all
the Flutes for Mr. Buchanan; for Mr. Fill
more in all except Michigan, lowa, Wisconsin,
Maine and Now Hampshire; and Mr. Fre
mont in all the non-slaveholding States except
Pennsylvania; also in Maryland, Kentucky,
Virginia and Missouri. South Carolina ap
points electors by Legislature.
Judge Wm. C. Perkins, a prominent old
lino Whig, in South Western Georgia, lias
written a letter to S. P. Allison, and others,
in whiv.li lie pledges himself unequivocally to
tlie support of Buchanan and Breckinridge.
When the late M. M. Noah, who was a Jew.
was a candidate for the office of Sheriff ot the
city of New York, it was objected to his elec
tion that a Jew would thus come to have the
hanging of Christians. “Pretty Chrißtians.
replied Noah, --to nged hanging.”
Bape ancl Homicide at Mt. Pleasant.
On tlie 14th inst.. says the Greenville Ala
bamian, Air. Hardy Kinsey was shot by dr
llan.-dtce, at Alt. Pleasant, in JAlonvoc count,v.
About two weeks previous to this, a man en
tered Hanshec’s house and choked his wife.
On Friday, before tho murder, Mr. Kinsey
went (o Mr. Hanshce's house and made pro
posals to Mrs. Banshee of an insulting na
ture. She ordered him to leave, and he did
so. but came back after nightfall anil used
force to effect his object. She told him that
her husband would kill him, whereupon lie
left. When Haushce returned, his wite toil
him what had transpired. On the morning
of the 14th, he took his gun, went to where
Kinsey’ was at work, bid him good morning,
and told him he wished to hire a hand ler a
few days. After some conversation. Kinsey
turned to mount his horse, when llanshee
fired one barrel, the whole charge entering
his breast, lie then discharged the othei
barrel, blowing his brains out. After seeing
that Kinsey was dead, lie went to the lmun’
of Air. Gtts, who is constable. On being in
formed that Air. O. was at a neighbor's hon-.
be started there, and meeting Air. Gits on _•
road, told bint that he had come to give him
self up. Air. Gtts took him intacustody a* 1 ’
left with hint tlie same day for Monroeville-
The above we give verbatim a- furnished 9*
us.