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COLTTMUTJS:
LARUKtT I’ITY CIRCULATION.
Friday Horning) October 11, 1850.
Mr. Addison B. Brown lias presented the
editor of the Lumpkin l'laindealer with seven
Kweet Potatoes, weighing, ia the aggregate,
forty-three pounds.
Accounts received at New York to the 30th
nit., state that there has bcon an election riot
at Panama, in whioh thirteen person* wore
hilled.
The Rome (Oa.) Courier, of the 30th ult„
says Corn finds a ready sale in that market at
•0 eent.s and Wheat at a dollar.
Dr. Stewart, one of the American Electors,
in Lauderdale eounty, Alabama, in a letter,
states that if he did not believe Fillmore would
be for restoring the Missouri Compromise he
Wouid not support him. The Doctor differs
from the Americans iu Georgia, who are try
ing to prove that Fillmore ie opposed to its
restoration.
Mr. Hilliard, one of the American Electors
tor the State at large in Alabama, is reported
by the Florence Gazette, to have stated in a
speech in Lauderdale eounty, that “if Kre
umut is elected, he will not submit to if, and
as mnch as lie lores this Union, he would be
for splitting it into fragments.’’
The Kroit at Montgomery.
The Advertiser of Thursday morning, says:
“We were visited by a heavy frost yesterday
morning. Absentees are pouring in from eve
ry direction, our street* are thronged with
cotton wagons, business of every kind is brisk,
and there is a smile upon every countenance.
The eity is perfectly free from aiekness of ev
ery kind—the physicians have aofhing to do,
but whittlo Sticks and review their musty
hooks. A Railroad to Pensacola, and wouldn’t
wo be aome f
fn answer to a letter of inquiry, Millard
Fillmore has written to the Macon Journal
and Messenger, declaring himself opposed to
the restoration of the Missouri Compromise.—
Lumpkin Plaindtaler.
Will the editor of the l'laindealer please en
close us a copy of that letter. W are desi
rous for the reader* of the Sun to *oo all Mr.
Fillmore has to say against the restoration of
the Missouri Compromise.
Th Two Collect* at Tuakf(r.
The South Western Baptist. of yesterday,
•peaking of the opening of the two Female
•alleges in Tuskegee, saya:
East Alabama Fetnalo College (Baptist,)
I't'of. 11. H. Bacon, President, commences with
CIO or 140, and students are constantly arri
ving.
Tuskegee Female College (Methodist) Dr.
lupsoomb, President, Ims about IHO, ami a
good prospect for a largo school.
‘l'iio Negro Phenomena Investigated.
The paragraph published in our paper some
time ago that a negro woman of Mr. Hundley,
in Limestone county, Alabama, hail giren birth
t three children, two blnek and ono white—
at the same time, coming to the notice of Pe
ter A. Browne, Es<]., of Philadelphia, a seien
tifio gentlenmn, who has been making many
researches and investigations into the different
•haracteristics of hair and wool, he addrossed
a noto to the owner of tho slarea with a Tiew
•f obtaining a specimen of the pilous eovering
•f the heads of tho children. Mr. If. politely
••implied with his wish, and sent him speci
eienß of the father’s and mother’s hair, of the
two black children, and also a specimen
• f that of tho white child. Tho result of
Mr. Browne’s investigation established the cu
rious fact that the white ohild is a black Albi
nos, its pile being just as much wool—the
•haracteristio of the negro—ns that of the
two black children, who ore pure negroes from
a pure father and mother. We hare here (lie
•elution of a phenomenon which has some
times confounded the physician, and which he
has been disposed to explain by the presump
tion of intercourse with both whitonnd black
mi.tkopnrtof the mother. In some instances,
this presumption may be correct, but the prac
tical utility of Mr. Browne's investigations is,
that doubt in such cases may bo settled deter
minedly by an examination of tho pile. Wool
and hair are certainly distiuct characteristics
of different species of tho human race, and
interchange between such species goneratively
is as permanently and distinctly marked in
the pile as any other characteristic feature in
the crossing of breeds.
The woman who is the mother of the chil
dren has given birth to fourteen ohildron, five
•f which are white, all we supposo Albinos,
and nine blacks. She had twins onco beforo,
both of wlionx wero black. Tho woman and
Lcr husband are bot h the same color, which is
dark. They tiro both pure Africans.—
Son,. ,if the children are blacker than the pa
rents, but the W’hito ones are as perfectly white
as uny of tho Caucasian race. The phenoino
*on of an Albinos, wo believe, is referred by
physiologists to a diseased condition of the in
dividual, by which the person is deprived of
the coloring matter of the skin and hair.
The Loss of a Wife.
In comparison with the loss of a wife all
other bereavements sro trifling. The wife!
she who fills so large a space in the domestic
heaven; she who busied herself so uuwcarily
tor the precious ones around her ; bitter, bit
ter is the tear that falls upon her cold clay !
l-u stand beside her coffin and think of the
pa. It seems an amber colored pathway,
where the sun shone ou beautiful Hewers, and
the stars bung glittering overhead. Fain
would the soul linger there —no thorns are re
membered save those your baud* may unwil
lingly have planted. Her noble, tender heart
lies open to your inmost sight. You think of
Lor now ae all gentleness, all beauty, all pu
rity. But she is doad. Tho dear head that
has lain upon your bosom rests in the still
rfarknws upon a pillow of clay. The hands
that have ministered so untiringly are folded,
white and cold, beneath the gloomy portals.
The heart whose every boat measured an eter
nity of love, lies under vour feet. The flow
ers she bent over in swues. bsnd now above
her in tears, shaking the dew from their petals,
♦hat the verdure around her may be kept green
and boautifnl.
Heal til of M ontffomery.
The Advertiser of Thursday, says Mont
gomery continues exceedingly healthy. If.
says if the Sexton’s report be the criterion,
we can safely claim the healthiest city in the
Union, lfy reference to it, we find that there
wero only nine interments for September,—of i
these three died elsewhere—one (Mr. IMhoh)
came to the city a few days ago in a dying con
dition from shattered log*—two were still-born
negro children—two died in the suburbs—
leaving only one for the city proper, Mr. Lope.
Just think of it, only one death iu a month
among a population of eight thousand. We
have compiled the following interesting facts:
There were fewer iuterments during the
month of September, 1866, than for the same 1
month for ten years past:
September, 1847 10
“ 1848 18
“ 184!) 16
“ 1850 21
• 1851 22
•• 1852 25
1853 : 36
“ 1854 22
“ 1855 20
“ 1856 0
There were fewer in September, 1856, than
in any month sinco March, 1352, and with
that exception since January, 1850, when only
8 were intorred. j
There were fewer iu September, 1856, than
during any other month of this year:
January, 1856 18
February, “ 14
March, “ 10
April, “ 17
May, “ 22
June, “ 24
July, “ 18
August, “ 1!)
September, “ 0
ANNUM. INTHKMBNTS.
Whites. Colored.
In 1847 86 68
In 1818 86 78
Iu 184!) 67 84
In 1850 87 101
In 1851 120 114
In 1852 136 109
In 1853 156 99
In 1854 182 139
In 1855 141 90
To date in 1850 79 72
Mr. Ephraim Marsh, of New Jersey, the
President of tho Philadelphia Convention,
which nominated Fillmore and Donelson, has
published a letter in which he says:
“ In a contest which is to determine whether
slavery or freedom is to he the governing prin
ciple of this Republic, l choose to cast my
vote where it will tell for freedom. These
considerations lead me to the support of the
Republican nominees for President and Vice
President, not because I am less an American
than when our National Convention assembled,
but because those by whom Mr. Fillmore was
nominated, from Southern States, have aban
doned him for a candidate openly and avowed
ly arrayed against tho American party, thus
sacrificing for slavery both their candidate
and their Americanism; and because, fur
thermore, by voting for Mr. Fillmore, while
the contest is between Buchanan and Fremont,
1 should indirectly aid tho former, w’hose
principles, as an anti-American and slavery
extensionist, are obnoxious to all uiy convic
tions of duty.”
♦
How Fremont is to be Beaten.
The Washington correspondent of tho New
Y'ork Tribune, in a letter dated September 14,
says :
Thers Is a magnificent scheme of pipelaying
or log-rolling going on in Pennsylvania and
New Y’ork. The plan is this: if the Pennsyl
vania Stato election goes unfavorably for the
Buchaneers, then the State of New York is to
be made the battle-ground, and a capture is
to be attempted by a grand coup de. main. All
the fragments of the disorganized Know Noth
ing party are to bo bought up—that is, the
leaders—aud thus throw the Fillmore strength
into the Uuchnnan camp. 1 have this from an
undoubted Bource. You seo, here at Wash
ington among the officeholders, they know not
who to trust, and their secrets leak out. Y’es
terday, a “Democratic” office-holder ottered
to bet a friend of mine a large sum that pro
vided the Pennsylvania State election went against
the Democrat*, the Stato of New Y’ork would go
for Buchauan by a largo majority. Other beta
of tho same nature have been offered, and on
the same (the Pennsylvania) contingency.
YVhethor Hast. Brooks is to be made Secretary
of State, or Fillmore sent Minister Plenipo
tentiary to the Cannibal Islands by this ma
noeuvre, has not yet transpired.
New York City.
The New Y'ork Journal of Commerce of
Sept. 27th says:
At the election last November, tho two
branches of the Democratic party in this city
polled twenty-nine thousand and twelve votes
for Stato officers, which was ouo thousand nino
hundred and seventy-seven moro than were
given for all othor candidates. They then la
bored under disadvantage—each branch know
ing that it had no rcasonablo prospect of car
rying tho State. Now they are united and
confident, and will have tho support of a great
number of citizens not calling themselves De
mocrats, but who will cheerfully, gladly, nay,
enthusiastically, rally to the support of the
only man who has any chance of beating the
Black Republican, sectional candidate for tho
Presidency. Having no candidate of their
own. they will now. without reference to par
ty, bestow their suffrages where they think
they will do most good for tho country. We
are surprised at the number of such men
We meet with thorn continually —new hands
at tho bellows, but decided, resolute, and
ready to show their hands to friend or foe.
With the help of these men, wo here record
our opinion that the Buchanan ticket will re
ceive in this city thirty-five thousand votes;
and if it should be forty thousand we shall
not ho much surprised.
Hovr a Huron Thief got Clear.
A man somewhere out West, being indicted
for stealing bacon, went to a lawyer, and told
him hi.s case. The lawyer, strange to say, ad
vised him to settle; but the man said no, ho
had a right to be tried by a jury and a lawyer
to defend him. The case came up, and the
witness swore up to the hub against the man.
It was a clear case to all; even to tho attor
ney who argued for the bacon stealer. The
jury weut “out,” and soon returned with a
verdiel “not guilty.” The man thrust his
thumbs in his vest pockets, and weut out of
tho Court House whistling Y'nnkee Doodle.—
The next day his lawyer met him, and asked
him how under heavens he got that ease.
“Now. squire,” said the client, “I'll tell you
how the thiug was done, but yon needn't gay
anything about it—eleven of Hie jury had
some of the bacon
Vkunon County, Mo., Sept. 11, 1856, I
Twelve miles from Fort Scott, K. T. t
Ma. Editor: i addressyou from this point,
having, in common with nearly all the settlors
in the territory, fled with most of my family,
to escape the dutches of a ruthless enemy.
From my arrival in the territory last April, to
within a few weeks past, we have sat “under
our own vine ami tig tree,” and there wove
“none to make us afraid.” It is true, how
ever, that ever since the arrival of the cele
brated “Investigating Committee,” sent here
by Congress, and the unprecedented and ex
traordinary course pursued by a majority of
that Committee, we have hail apprehensions
and misgivings. But we hoped for the best,
and our people were pursuing their laudable
occupations, with the prospect, from the lat
ter rains, that the earth would yield a fair in
crease, and that we all, through a kind IV ri
detice, would be provided for another year.
But a gloom has come over us, and our “mois
ture has been turned to the drouth of sum
mer.” Our fair territory has been invaded by
an armed and worse than savage foe; our
friends murdered; our properry stolen and
plundered; our dwellings burned, and our fields
laid waste.
I bear witness, Mr. Editor, that since my ar
rival in the territory the pro-slavery party,
almost without an exception, have conducted
themselves peaceably ; and. with two excep
tions only, have 1 heard of any sets of insub
ordination to law and good order by persons
professing to bo pro-slavery men. It was the
universal feeling among us to rely on the bal
lot box to decide the complexion of the terri
tory—all agreeing to remain, or remove from
the territory according to the result. We
were anxious that the bill, introduced and
passed by the Senate, should find favor in the
House, preferring, with all the chances against
us by the provisions of that bill, to meet and
decide the question at once, rather than to
have delay and suspense.
But our opponents in Congress and out,
chose another course, and about tho period of
rejecting the biil by the House, our territory
is invaded by an armed force, provided with
all the necessaries for an aggressive campaign,
and without any declaration or manifesto of
grievances, any statement of injuries to be re
paired, or any great principle in government
to bo established—the work of murder and
plunder is commenced—“we are the advance
of the northern army,” and “ a pro-slavery
man shall not remain in the territory,” were
all that our citizens could learn in regard to
objects or aims.
And, Mr. Editor, this army, too, from per
fectly reliable sources, I am justified in say
ing, is composed, about one half, of the refuse
of foreign countries, picked up in the purlieus
of Chicago and other non hern cities, and the
other half of men of the “baser sort,” from
the work-house and penitentiaries of the north
ern States—all hirelings, to do tho dirty work
of fanatics and fools.
i beg you, Mr. Editor, and also all the other
Editors, not only in the .South but in all parts
of our injured country, to re-publish the ad
dress signed by Atchison, Doniphan, String
fellow, and others, ns containing a true histo
ry of the events that have occurred in our un
fortunate territory. A ystem of lying has
been gotten up by Abolitionists, lying is relied
upon to keep up the excitement and sustain
the lawless acts of our enemies. But I want
the truth published from one end of our land
to the other, and the document referred to
above should find a place in every honest pa
per.
But, sir, the work oi’ retribution has been
commenced. Ossnwattamie, one of the strong
holds of the enemy, has boon laid waste; and
unless I am totally at fault, Lawrence, (the
stronghold), in less than a week from this
date, will be among tiie tilings that were. A
spirit is aroused among our people, that the
enemy will rue. Freesoilers, or Abolitionists
and pro-slavery men, cannot both occupy this
territory in future.
The events, of this territory have pained me
to the heart. Y r ou, Mr. Editor, have some
knowledge of my love to my country—for the
whole United (States and territories. There is
one consoling thought concerning the depreda
tor* upon our pence and homes—l do not
acknowledge our present invaders, as my coun
trymen—they are refuse of society from other
lands as well as our own. I cannot believe
that the people of the North w ill countenance,
aid or abet the movement.
But I have not time to write moro. One of
my sons is now in the tented field—two have
been, and made a narrow escape. You will
hear of important events by or before the re
ception of this hasty article.
BKNJ. BKANTLY.
The Cotton Crop in Mississippi, Tennessee
and Alabama.
Correspondence of the Daily Delta.
Palestine. Adams County, Sept. 20.
Ed*. Delta: I have just returned from a Hy
ing trip to Nashville, Tennessee. 1 went by
way of Memphis, and through West- and Mid
dle Tennessee, aud returned to Memphis b.v
way of Florence,*Ala. I made especial inqui
ries about the cotton crop nmy whole route.
From my own observations and what others
told me, there will be a half crop made
through the sections I passed. In West Ten
nessee and North Alabama, I saw hundreds of
acres that will not make two hundred pounds
seed-cotton to the acre, and very often not a
boll on an acre, and cotton not three incites
high. Tliis is me effect of the. drought, whit.lt,
from particular inquiries, I learn, has had
the same effect on the cotton throughout Ten
nessee, North Mississippi, North Alabama,
and North Georgia.
I examined the fields of cotton as l came
down the river—they certainly will be very
short. One planter said he would not make
over one third of a crop: others, not over a
half. Tho great storm in August completely
checked tho growth of cotton iu the country
around Natchez, and seem* to have hail tho
RRine effect wherever it reached. No one can
deny what is stated above, and they are facts
that every planter ought to look to in deciding
to sell his crop in the early market. There is
no doubt but that the crop will be short, and
that the prico of cotton will range much high
er before the middle of next February. Wlnit
crop is made is being rapidly picked out nml
pushed into market, but the great portion of
it will be picked out before the middle of Oc
tober.
If the market kept firm with the large crop
of last year, there is but little tlouW it will go
up to 15 cents with the shortness of the pres
ent crop. Respectfully yours, X.
A Witty Retort.
On the day of the baptism of the imperial in
fant in Paris, a number of Indies wero stand
ing behind tho rnnks of tlu 1 National Guard,
near the railing of the park of the Caronssel,
on the line of tho procession to the church of
Notre Dame, when the Guards, getting tired
of the long delay, lit their cigars, and soon the
whole lint* was iu a smoke. Some of the ladies
began to complain of the smoke. An oi l sol
dier, turning around, said with a smile:
“Then they don’t smoke iu your regiment ?” A
charming little Parisiesne wittily replied: “In
our regiment I —Sometimes: but never iu
my co-op to if!”
r VK LEGK A.Pi-110.
■
From New Orleans.
New Orlkanh, Oct. 1.
A brisk demand prevailed to-day at stiff
prices, and six thousand bales of Cotton
changed hands, without any quotablo change in
rates.
Groceries —Mess Pork §2l 50 per barrel.
Frost at Vicksburg and in this city last
night.
New Orleans, Oct 2.
There was a good demand for cotton to-day,
and five thousand bales changed hands at a
further advance of }c. Middling 11J to 12c.
Tobacco has advanced. Other articles un
changed.
Alabama Pledged to Fillmore.
At the American Convention assembled at
Rochester, New r York, on the 23d of Septem
ber, Mr. W. G. Clark, the editor of the Mobile
Advertiser, was present and made a speech,
lie is reported to have pledged the electoral
vote of Alabama for Mr. Fillmore.
The Whiskey Trade.
In the Cincinnati Prices-Ourrent review, for
the last year, the following particulars are giv
en in relation to the whiskey trade:
“ The increase in the manufacture, or dis
tillation of this article, in this city and vicin
ity, has increased during the past year beyond
all previous precedent; and notwithstanding
this enormous increase, the demand has been
fully equal to the supply, and prices have
ruled higher during the year than was antici
pated. _ The scarcity of foreign liquors conse
quent upon the failure of the vintage in South
ern Europe the last three years, the high price
of sugar the last two years, greatly increasing
the cost of rum, and the large foreign demand
which has existed tho last two years for Amer
ican spirits, chiefly from France, owing to the
decree issued by that government last year
prohibiting the distillation of grain, have all
contributed to this great increased demand for
whiskey. This is by far the most extensive
market for this article on the American conti
nent, and the quantity of Indian corn consum
ed iii manufacturing it this year, without no
ticing the rye and ship-stuff's also used, ex
ceeds the annual exportations of this article
from the United States to Europe, which is
about all that is exported to foreign countries
during the last nine years. The total expor
tations of corn from the United States to Great
Britain aud Ireland during that time, and
which constitutes nearly all the exports to for
eign countries, was 57,471,270 bushels, and
by dividing this by the number of years (nine)
we find the annual average exportation to be
5,274,585 bushels. Nineteen million two hun
dred and sixty thousand and forty-five gallons,
proof whiskey, were distilled in’this city and
vicinity during the year ending August 31,
1856, consuming six millions four hundred and
twenty thousand bushels of Indian corn, al
lowing one bushel corn to three gallons proof
whiskey.
“The comparison stands as follows :
Consumed in the distillation of whiskey in this
city and vicinity last year 6,420,015
Average annual shipments from the
United States to foreign countries 5,274,585
1,145,430
“ Thus it will be seen wo consumed more
corn here, ior the purpose under considera
tion, last year, by 1,145,430 bushels, than the
annual average shipments of Hie article to for
eign countries, from the United States, during
the last nine years. Immediataly growing
out of this business, and intimately connected
witli it, is the manufacture of alcohol and of
neutralized spirits, and what is called domes
tic liquors, made to imitate French brandies
and Holland gin. Both these departments of
trade have swelled to an enormous magnitude
during the last two or three years, and consti
tute some of the most profitable departments
of our trade.
For the year ending August 31, 1853, the
total exports of alcohol were 9769 barrels,
whilst during the last year they have swelled
to 31,679 barrels, being an increase of 225 per
cent, during the three years.”
Alississippi Southern Railroad.
The Jackson Mississippi.™ has the following
notice of this great enterprise :
There is no public work of the present day
more interesting to our citizens, whether we
regard it in a commercial, social or political
point of view. By a reference to our adver
tising columns it will be seen that bids for
grading and superstructure are invited, either
for the whole or a part of the road. Such
bids as may be made will bo opened ou the Ist
day of November next. The recent grant of
land by Congress to Mississippi will give the
(Southern Railroad nearly two hundred thou
sand acres of land, of which sixty or seventy
thousand will be within six mile's of the road.
W. C. Swedes, Esq., the newly elected Presi
dent, is a gentleman of large means, good judg
ment aud great energy—and will leave no ef
fort untried to accomplish the great work lie
has undertaken.
——— A
-of Texas Cotton.
The Galveston News, of the 20th, says :
We v the other day shown into the cot
ton sample rooms of Me-rs. It. St D. G. Mills
wnere wo were shown tho samples of several
hundred idles of new cotton, and on one table
some samples of last year's crop. The great
contrast iu quality struck us with some sur
prise. Nearly every sample of this year’s
cotton wouid rank as Middling Fair, while all
the s<imp!< sos last year's crop were of the
lewest quality. There never has been a season
when tho Texas cotton has been as good as it
is this year. Messrs. Mills have made sales
at ir on 11J to 12A cents per pound, equal to
the highest New Orleans quotations.
Should too crop prove as m. jri iu the other
.States as it certainly will be in this, the price
must still advance much higher, before the
season closes; and as our latest accounts in
dicate a short crop generally, we think the
prospect is that our planters tuny yet make up
in price what they have lost in the deficiency of
the crop.
A bqually Concert.
A director ol one ot the Garden Concerts in
Berlin was so disgusted with the long continu
ance of the rainy weather, that he at length
got up the following programme: Grand Fete
of It ai n : Programme of the Concert; Over
ture, The Tempest; Cavatina, The Snow : Fi
nale from tho Lightning; Coutrudunso, Thun
der: Gulope. an Avalanche, Mazurka, The
flail, etc., etc. At the bottom of the poster
might be road in large capitals: “ The honor
able public are requested to provide them
selves with umbrellas, overshoes, great coats
and mufllers.” *■
A statement was made in ilu, Cincinnati
Chamber of Commerce, recently, that within
a circuit of some sixty or .-evl nty miles in
Ohio, I.oUO.IHM) pounds of leaf -tobacco was
raise 1 annually, and of this 2,300 tons were
sent to Louisville last year, while about 1,200
tons eame to Cincinnati.
geineral itemsT^^H
The London Morning Post, ; , u ,.. B
have the confidence of Lord Ildi * V
speaks confidently of the ‘• mutual 1 , ‘? 1 B
cial continuance of the happy alliance:
France and England.” ■
A charter election was held in Wnsha,,. K
Davies county, Indiana, lately, which’ I
in the success of the entire Democrat’ I
In 1854 it gave the Black Republ'ica u ? :i 'l
two hundred majority. B
A gentleman having been asked, oil I
turn from a party the other evening, i ■
er lie had seen Miss A—a young l a q v
for her decollate style of dress—replii?;'?!? 1
had seen a good deal of her. B
“Good morning!” said a gentleman I
round twinkling-eyed son of Erin w i, B
met riding on the road ; “ your nag isi','!'"®
order.” “ indade ye may say that, and
| ’tis makes he so, ’tis ineself doesn't i tn , m ,1
she has nothing in this blissed world t’ B
but wheat straw, and that nj voi- „ 7®
thrashed !” a * I|, |
The Mobile Register recommends that i r • I
event of Fremont’s election, the 8out!! I
| members of Congress, instead of H
Washington, should repair to their rw!
State Capitols, and take counsel with the ? I
Executives and Legislatures us to whath I
to be done. B
A young Miss accepted the offer of a ~M I
man to gallant her home, and afterwards
ing that jokes might be cracked at hVj'l
pense, should the fact become known, di MI ,7 I
ed him about half way home, enjoinin’- I
sy. “ Don’t be afraid,” said he,’ “„l n u . I
ing anything about it, for 1 fed as in’ I
ashamed of it as you do.”
Small boy, eye bunged up, hand handset- I
sitting on a door step, interrogated hv aclluhl
“Say, Jce, d'y’av a good time fourth of. h ; I
ly ?” “Didn’t I! You’d better believe it! J
had a pound of powder and six Roman . I
dies, and I blowed off two of my finger?
I burnt one o’in’eyes, so the doctor ?cs i .
never will recover the use of it. You'll Wt
ter believe I had a good time! 1 wish u?
had bee#there!”
Vesico-Taginal Fistula—With an occowi>
of a New Mode of Suture;
Jit/ A’. Bozeman. M. J)., Mon/.gomen/, Ah
The Journal de. Medicine de Bordeax, forJti!-
1856, in a commendatory Review of this j
per, justly congratulates The. Louimlleh
view of Practical Medicine and Si; -yen/, up*
its inauguration by a memoir of so much worth
in practical surgery.
It is not necessary, nor is it intended to v?
view Dr. Bozeman’s paper on this occasion,
although copious extracts will be given ilhm
trative of its general import, omitting, how
ever, the description of the Button Sithm.
with its applications, which is, indeed, ft?
fundamental peculiarity of It!-. Bozeman’sp.
cedi ire. The description without the illustn
tive cuts (which are not obtainable) would not
convey information sufficiently precise and
clear to be useful to the operator.
Drs. Sims and Bozeman, both citizens of the
town of Montgomery, Ala., (the former bt-in
now resident in New York,) stand, with D?
Mattaucr of Virginia, at the head of their
profession in so far as the surgery of Vesico
Vaginal-Fistula is concerned, a difficult bra:
of surgery, which, until recently, was viewed
with dismay and despair by the most eminent
operators. Within a few months past, ill
probable that these gentlemen have performed,
if net a greater number, yet more successful
operations for this deplorable malady, thanaii
the other surgeons iu the great capitals of Eu
rope and America. Henceforth, Montgomery
Alabama, will be known as a bright spot on
the surgical map.— M. O. Med. and Sur. Jour.
A New Routs to California.
The great scheme of the Honduras Rail
road Company, with a capital of $10,000,000,
under a British charter, is about to be brought
out under the most favorable auspices. The
Directors are divided between England an.
the United States, and some of the most influ
ential firms giS-e countenance to the project,
and appear in the directory as agents to pni
cure subscriptions. The difference of dis
tance between New York and San Franeise.
as compared with the Panama route, is 1,10-".
miles, and the difference from Liverpool t
San Francisco, touching at Kingston, Jamai
ca, is 831 miles. It is estimated that, at the
present rates of speed by steam aud rail, the
time between New York and San Franclcr
can be accomplished in thirteen days and four
hours, and that steamers can be built, and
with increased railway speed, the time can be
reduced to eight days and sixteen hours. The
accomplishment of this work will bring Sim
Francisco within speaking distance of New
York.
Use of Cypress Bark.
Wo have received from C. K. Marshall, Es.;
of Vicksburg, Miss., a small package of lie
inner bark of the cypress tree, with a descrip
tion of its uses, and he directs our attention t
other purposes to which it may be applied.
The bark is very fibrous, of a dark tan col
or, anil thousands of tons of it can be l'mnisl -
cd at the southern saw mills every year. He
believes, and, we think, justly, that it would
make excellent wrapping paper, it is era
ployed in small quantities by some boatmen
for caulking boats, and it possesses the qiifth
ty oi’ repelling the attacks of all water worm?
It makes very good rope, aud some of the
rnltsmen twist its fibres, and use it fur tiff*
purpose. If any paper manufacturer desire*
toumkesomo experiments witli it, or any of om
ship caulkers for caulking tho scams of ves
sels, he will w illingly furnish them with -pec
mens.
We are convinced that the inner bark of tho
cypress tree—which is tho common growth “1
the low lands in the South—might be used o
a cheap material for making mats, course
ropes, and a hundred other things. The natui
al resources of our country are not hall de
velopwl. We send abroad for cocoa fibre I" 1
making coarse mats and rugs, while we hav<
a superior article, thousands of tons of wiiiGi
is annually thrown away at p.ll our soufhein
saw mills — Scientific American.
The Iron Discovery.
The New York Register, alluding to *l ,f
wonderful discovery of Mr. Bessemer, <l'’
The Magnetic Iron Company, Molt Haven,
are manufacturing from the ore with the-it" 1 ’
facility that the English arc working from tie’
pig, thus virtually beginning where the odier
leave off. We learn that their discovery j' ;i ‘
been made with , it any idea of others beDV
in existence, and that they have been
ing upon the system for three years. <>r
bei'ore the others began. Specimens of ‘
and fine iron are on exhibition at the V”
1 oik depot of tho company. 38 Broadwm
which scientific men say cannot he elscv.’l 1 ’ ■
equalled in any good quality. It is a uro”
of some national pride and interest n> -
invention over which the English ran 1:111
thus quietly anticipated and beaten by -
American company. We shall recur to tH ‘
subject again.