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Saturday Morning, Ortobri’ 11, 1856.
IiAROKIT CITY CIRCULATION.
Pevr In Charleston.
The Board of Health report five dentils
ill Charleston, from yellow lever, for the 21
hours ending Wednesday night ft o’clock.
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Mrs. Gadsden, wife of Gen. .lames Gadsden,
late United States Minister to Mexico, died in
Charleston on the Bth instant.
The lion. ,lohn Jacob Seibels, of Alabama,
United States Minister at Brussels, was among
the passengers who arrived at New York on
the. Arago on the Bth itist.
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The Kinina Watts l^ost.
The Mobile Register of Sunday says “the
Emma Watts, on her downward trip, sunk,
mid has become a total loss. Vassengors ami
crew all safe.” Where the boat was from is
not stated by the Register, and from all ac
counts she could not have sunk in very deep
water in the Alabama river just now.
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Florida Elections.
We have hut few returns from this State.
A dispatch from Mobile gives the Democra
tic majority in Escambia county, at 25. A
letter to the Savannah Republican from Jack
sonvillo, gives the American majority in four
precincts in that county, at 200, and says it is
now thought the American majority in the
county will exceed ‘2OO. The Republican also
learns from a passenger by the steamer, that
the town of Fernandinu, (Nassau county) gave
;’,5 votes to the Democraticuud 8 to the Ameri
can ticket.
A letter to the Republican from Middlehurg,
Kin., says—“ As the steamer is about to leave
I will send you the result of the election at
this place, up to It e. m. About 100 votes
polled, and about tliveo Americans to one
Democrat. The county will be largely Amer
ican—perhaps half dozen mure votes to poll.
We find the following in the Times of yes
terday morning—‘‘.lacksou county beard
from. The usual majority against the Domoc
tnoy is about 250. The majority this election
is only 75 to 80 votes. Clear gain for the De
mocracy of 170 votes.”
October Elections
On Tuosday, the 14th inst., elections will be
held In the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio ami
■ ludiauu.
In each of these States members of Congress
are to be elected; in Pennsylvania twenty-five,
uv Ohio twenty-one and in Indiana eleven —
making fifty-seven in all.
In Pennsylvania a Canal Commissioner, Au
ditor and Surveyor tire to be chosen by gen
eral vote. Two tickets are in the field, the
Democratic and the Union opposition. A State
Legislature will also be chosen, which will
have to select a United States Senator in the
place of the lion. Richard Brodhead, whoso
term expires in March, 1857.
lu Ohio, Judges of the Supreme Court, an
Attorney General, School Commissioner, and
Commissioner of Public Works have to he
chosen. There are three State tickets nomi
nated —American, Democratic, and Republi
can.
In Indiana, a Governor and a full corps of
State officers are to be chosen. In this Stale
the American party have made no nominations
for Congressmen or State officers. — Ant. Intel -
In/nicer.
Fusion in Pennsylvania.
The Savannah Republican closes a discus
sion with tho Georgian, about the Fusion in
Pennsylvania, in this wise :
“ Wo shall not continue the discussion of the
political compaction of the men who compose
the Union ticket for State offices in Pennsyl
vania first, because wo have matters of more
immediate importance to occupy our columns :
and secondly, for the reason that our profit’s
are contradictory, and wo are not likely to ar
rive at the same conclusion. Os course wo
havo uo personal knowledge of the candidates
or their opinions.
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Assassinated.
TheOrangeburge Southron, of the Bth inst.,
says thul on Friday night last, a. brutal mur
der was committed in St. Matthew’s Parish.
Until! 12 o’clock Mr. James McGrew was call
ed out of his bed by the assassin, under pre
tence of inquiring the direction to the Provi
dence camp-ground, al which place a camp
meeting was then in progress. When within
tour or five steps of the gale, a gun was dis
charged, the contents entering his left side
sud producing almost instant death. The
murderer then made his escape, leaving, so
far as now known, no clue for his detection.
The deceased was universally respected, ami
his loss to the community is irreparable, lie
has left a widow and family.
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Fire at Hodges* Depot.
The t'arolina Times learns that a fire occur
red at Hodges’ Depot, on the line of the
Greenville Railroad, on Monday night last,
which destroyed a storehouse in which was
deposited groceries and liquors; loss $2,000.
The properly was owned by Messrs. Roberts
& Adams, and was not insured. The tire is
supposed to be the work of an incendiary.
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We gather the following items from the news
by the Arago:
Late mail advices from the Eastern Medi
terranean report a serious collision at Trebi
zond, between Russian and Turkish sailors.—
The Russian flag was torn down an 1 ihc sail
ors tossed into the sea.
A serious and sanguinary tight has occurred
between some Spaniards and Aloais, oil the 1
cuast of Morocco. The Spaniards lost 90 kill- 1
ed and 70 wounded ; the Moors still j
more severely.
New Metals.
in a paper communicated to the British
Association of Science by Dr. Roscoe, of Hei
delberg, an account is given of the formation
of the new metals, strontium, calcium, lith
ium. alumnium, &e., from the chlorides of
those substances. The metal lithium is de
scribed as possessing peculiar interest from
the fact of its being lighter than water or
rock oil, in which it is preserved. One great
quality of aluminum is its sonorousness, ex
ceeding in sharpness of sound when struck I
a metal instrument, the finest bell metal.
Railroad Connection of Charleston with
Macon.
From llio ( hnrleston iiurtury.
To those who are familiar with the subject,
it is a matter of surprise, while Charleston is
extending her arms in every direction, to bring
to her doors the products of the surrounding
country, and expending her millions to furn
ish the necessary facilities, that :-lie has made
no systematic etfort to open a direct commu
nication with Macon, the Central Cotton Em
porium of Georgia. Tho following statement,
made from official returns, .showing the amount
of Cotton, of the crop of 1855, which was re
ceived at and passed through Macon, will give
sumo idea of tho importance of a direct com
munication with that city to Charleston:
Received from wagons 54,068 hales
Received from Macon and Wes
tern Railroad C,-77'd “
Received from Southwestern Rail
road 12,909 “
Passed through Macon to .Savan
nah by M. At W. R. R ..45,472 “
Passed through Macon to Savan
nah by S. W. K. R 145,514
Making uii aggregate of 205,842 “
Which, if the facilities of transportation ex
isted, might as readily have found its way to
Charleston as to Savannah. But, this is not
all. The Southwestern Road in now being ex
tended from Amevieus to Albany, the heart of
the best cotton region in Georgia; which, by the
facilities to a market it will offer, will largely'in
crease the production ; and is also extending
its line to Futhula, on thcGhattahoocliee river,
and will thus intercept and bring, by the way
of Macon, the 1 10,000 hales of cotton ibatuow
go down the river and find a market at Apa
lachicola. Those two lines will he completed,
at the furthest, ill two years. When complet
ed, it is no exaggeration to say, they will add
200,000 hales to tho above figures, making an
aggregate of 465,000 bales of cotton that will
annually reach Macon, to be forwarded to such
point on the seaboard as will successfully com
pete for them. At present, they find hut one
avenue to the seaboard—the Central Rail Road
•—•lOl miles to Savannah.
Can Charleston become a competitor for this
immense amount of produce? She can, and at
a, very moderate cost. By aiding in the con
struction yi a Road of forty miles in length,
she can upon a direct communication by rail
with Macon, and bring that city within about
OH miles, as near to her as it is to Savannah ;
and, by doing this, bring over the Hamburg
and Charleston Road all that she takes from
Macon. The Central Railroad, and Millcdge
ville and Gordon Road, are already in opera
tion. What is wanted to complete the line, is
a Road Iroiu Milledgeville to Warrentou, about
40 miles, where, connecting with the Georgia
Rail road, the way is open to Augusta, and
thence to Charleston by the Hamburg Road,
l'or this Road the charter is already secured,
and a Board of Directors appointed under it,
who only wait the means, a subscription of
the stock, to commence operations. But it
may be objected, that there should be no en
tangling alliances with the Central Rail Road.
To obviate this, the same Company have a
charter and an organization under it, of a Road
direct from Milledgeville to Macon. If the
stock for the entire route from Warrentou to
Macou can be secured, well; if not, let the
Road troui Warrentou to Mdledgeville be
built: and it the Central Road do not make it
their interest, then let the Road he continued
to Macou.
A survey of the entire route, from Warren-’
ton to Macon, has been made by Cos!. Bonner.
The distance is 71 miles, and his estimate of
the cost is $1,500,000. According to his cal
culation, it but 50,000 bales of “through cot
ton” go over it, at 60 cents per bale, it will
pay on the investment over 10 per cent.
By an examination of the map of Georgia,
it will be seen that this Road supplies a link
in tho lino of communication between the far
South and the North, When the traveler from
New Orleans, Mobile, Ac., reaches Macon, on
his way to Charleston, he must go, either by
the way of Savannah, or by Atlanta, or by
W aynesboro and Augusta. The latter is the
nearest; but the proposed Road shortens that
distance 44 miles. To fill up this link, this
Road ought tube built.
Shall the road he built V Macou, and evory
planter in Southwestern Georgia and along its
line, are eager l'or it. That city, in her corpo
rate, capacity, has already agreed to take
$150,000 in stock, and her citizens will add to
it, it they find Charleston courting the con
nection. The Board of Directors of the Geor
gia Railroad, several years ago, recommended
to their company to take $400,000 in its stock.
The Board arc still anxious for its construc
tion. Augusta stands ready to lend her aid ;
and stock, to a considerable amount, will be
taken on tho line, especially by the people of
Hancock county. But Charleston aud the
Hamburg Road are the great beneficiaries of
the enterprise. Besides the “through cotton”
they will receive from Macon, nearly all the
cotton on tho lino of the Road, estimated at
.50,000 hales—most, if not all, of which now
goes to Savannah liy the Central Road—will
find its market either in Augusta or Charles
ton. What theu, will the Charleston and the
Hamburg Road do ? The enterprise waits the
action ot Charleston. If she will lead off in a
liberal subscription, the Road will be built.
Georgians, to the injury of their own seaport,
much as they want a choice of markets, will
not throw their produce into tho lap of Charles
ton, till her people give some tangible evi
dence that their favors will be appreciated.—
What, theu, will Charleston do?
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Tho French* Fugitives to be Returned.
Tho PresHieut lias transmitted from Con
cord a warrant of extradition in the French
fugitive, ease. It authorizes the arrest ofhetli
the Grellots, Fa rot aud Carpeutier. All of
these parties but the latter are now in the El
dridge street jail, in default of the requisite
bail, in the civil suit brought by tho Northern
Railway of France against them. They will
ho delivered up to the United States marshal
uuder the criminal warrant, and will probably
be examined before one of the commissioners
to-day.
Before issuing the warrant in question, the
President consulted Attorney General Cushing
ami Secretary Money, we undestand, who both
gave opinions in favor of the legality of tho
proceeding under our treaty with France.
M. Townsend took uu order on Saturday in
the civil cause to show enuse why the name
of I’eliclte Debut, impleaded as a defendant,
should not bo struck out of the record.
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Manufacture of Files.
For the last t wenty years skilled mechanics
have exercised all their ingenuity in trying to
discover a process of manufacturing files at a
cheaper cost. A machine, which has proved
successful, has now boeu invented by a Glas
gow mrehunie. It is stated that, by its agen
cy, files can be struck in a very superior man
ner, with an advantage in labor alone of at
least two hundred per cent. A skilful file
cutter will strike by the hand somewhere
about twenty common forty inch Hal-bastard
files in a day, while, with one of these me
chincs, sixty files may be struck in the same
time.
Frightful Situation—Stoppage of a Train in
a Dark Tunnel.
On Wednesday last, the train which ordin
arily leaves Morrisiania for New York al
1:22 p. rn., left that place fully half an hour
after its time. It was not anu nusually large
passenger train. On reaching the tunnel,
which commences at Twenty-seventh street,
and which is about half a, mile in length, the
engine was detached and the train was suffer
ed as usual to pass down it along its inclined
plane. The train stopped, from some un
known cause, in this dark, unsighted tunnel,
at about the centre. The first outcry was
from the conductors for lights; the agitation
of the passengers was extreme. No lights
were to be had, and the confusion became vio
lent.. To add to the horror of the situation,
a train passed rapidly in an opposite direction
on the oilier rail. No sooner had it, passed,
than the passengers descried through the
point of light, at the extremity of the tunnel,
another train coming down upon them. It
approached closely, but fortunately the con
ductors of the detained train had time allow
ed to reach the end of the tunnel just so as to
prevent o crash in tlie darkness.
Tt was well that, uone of the passenger* of
the train alighted, as it was their first im
pression to do, but through the earnest recom
mendation of our informant they were induc
ed to sit still. After remaining a, quarter of
an hour in this dilemma, the engine was
brought back and being hooked on, rescued
the passengers from their perilous position.
No explanation lias been given of the cause
of all this. The obvious necessity of the tun
nel being - well lighted day and night needs no
enforcement. The providential circumstance
of their being just and barely time to allow
of the conductors running to the mouth of
the tunnel and back again, rescues this affair
from being a tale of the most horrible calami
ty within possible imagination. Some expla
nation is due to the public as to how this oc
curred, and also what step will be taken to
prevent its repetition. —.N. 1. Times. Sept. 22.
The last, number of Harpers’ Magazine
gives an elaborate notice of the life and ad
ventures of James Beekwourth, where he is re
presented as a descendant of one of the first
families of Virginia, as having risen to ilio
rank of Head Chief with lke£(ToW Indians,
as being now the elegant lord of a broad ma
nor in one of the beautiful valleys of Califor
nia: and for these manifest reasons, the biog
raphy is commended as varitable, and au
thentic and reliable. The St. Louis Democrat
says upon the authority of those who have
known Jim Beekwourth,’’ as lie was called
in the mountains, that he is a mulatto whoso
claims upon Africa are perhaps fully equal to
his claims upon Virginia—that he was noted
for being a harmless but most inveterate sto
ry-teller amongst the I capers, and that he was
for some time employed as an interpreter at
one of Ihe posts upon the upper Missouri;
and that he never was known to kill an Indian
in tiie course of liis life.
James Buchanan Followed by Seven Hun
dred Fillmore Men.
We omitted to mention in bur “Incidents,
Ate.,” of Thursday last, that the extra train
which left here in the afternoon on the Geor
gia Road was drawn by a magnificent new
engine named “James Buchanan.” The co
incidence gave rise to many good jokes, most
ly, however, at the expense of our opponents,
who had to submit, on this occasion, to being
pulled, hauled, aud jerked about by “James
Buchanan.”
Another. A venerable friend of ours, and
a “wool-dyed” Democrat, happened to be
seated among the ladies in front of the speak
er’s stand. A rather officious Fillmore man
happening to pass, remarked, “ Why, Doctor,
you’re iu had company to-day. Don’t you
feel bad ? ”
“Not at all,” replied the Doctor, “I have
just taken refuge among the ladies to avoid
tlm evil that might ensue from associating with
this multitude of Know Nothings.”
If ‘.lie Fillmore man said any more, nobody
heard him. —Atlanta InleUiyiheer.
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Census of JNebraska.
The following figures, says the Dubuque
Ileraid, show the ceusus returns of Nebraska
Territory for the present year. The whole
number of votes in the Territory for the year
1855, was one thousand four hundred and sev
enty-five, and the whole population for the
year 1855, was four thousand four hundred
and eight:
Comities. Voters. Copulation.
Dukotah 80;) 640
Burt St 146
Washington 811 780
Douglas 1.8G4 3,661
Oass Ssfi 1,251
Otoe 658 1,865
Nemaha. 887 1,277
Richardson l'.’O 520
Fawneo 07 801
Lancaster & Clay. 41 120
Dodge 102 818
Flat I e 21 ; 86
('inning 8 8
Total 4,006 10,716
It will be seen that the population has in
creased over two and one-fourth fold iu a sin
gle year, and tint the number ol’ voters is
nearly three times greater than in 1865.
Privateering.
The Fit glial) and French papers are quite
dissatisfied with the American position in re
gard to privatoeViug. It is natural that such
should be the case. If, however, Europe will
not consent to exempt private property on the
high seas from molestation during war,” it must
expect every nation to defend, by all honora
ble and honest means, its own commerce.-
Privateers are our sea volunteers, and Europe
might'as well expect the Unite.l States to give
up it* militia oil laud as on the deep. During
the late war with England, our privateers were
a powerful arm of defence au t annoyance, nu 1
they will be resorted to again, with like effect,
iu the event of another European war. The
powers of Europe may di--< nt, if it pleases
them, front the Anierionii doctrine, and so
long as the question remains an abstraction,
no harm will be done, if tin y attempt, how
ever, to put down privateering by an unusual
retaliation, the sunn: Weapon will lie employed
against their own regular arrangements.—
The assurance of this fact will prohaWv pre
vent them from ever indulging iu any thing
hut empty Culminations upon the subject.-”
Rich Despatch.
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Beauuiul Extract.
The velvet moss grows on sterile rocks ; the
mistletoe flourishes on the naked branches ;
the ivy clings to tho mouldering ruins; the
pine and cedar remain fresh and fadeless timid
the mediation of the receding ; ear—and. Hea
ven he praised, something green and beautiful
to see, an 1 grateful to the soul, will, in the
darkest horn of fat®, still twine its temlrils
around the crumbling altniw and broken arches
of the desolate temple of the hum in heart.
The Louisville Journal announces that John
G. Brcckc* l ridge, the Democratic candidate for
the 1i • ■ Presidency, has retired truui the
stump in account of bis health
TibiaEGIUPHIO.
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From Charleston-
Chaim, ston, Oct. Id.
Two hundred aud fifty bales of cotton were
sold io-dny. Market firm, without any
chnnnge in prices.
From New Orleans,
Nkw Orleans, Oct. 0.
Owing to the stormy weather very little was
done iu cotton to-day, and sales only reached
: 1500 bales. Prices unchanged. Whiskey
32c.; other articles of groceries unchanged.
Fuller Accounts by the Niagara.
‘telegraphed to the Charleston Courier.
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Liv unroot., Cotton A'akket. —The sales of
the week are 78,000, including 20,000 on
i speculation and 5000 export. Some accounts
give an advance of Jc. on fair qualities.
There is a general stiffening of prices, but. ac
cording to others no quotable change had been
established.
The Board of Broker’s Circular reports the
sales of Friday, 26th, al 12,060, (including
41100 speculation and export) and gives the
following quotations as firmly maintained al
closing; Orleans Middling, 0 7-16; Mobile
Middling, Ojj-; Uplands, Ojj,
State ok Trade. — Affairs at. Manchester
continued as before.
Jjlvbiu'ooi. Bbkadstuffs. —The market gen
erally shows noimportant changes. An aver
age business had been done in Flour, without
change. The quotations are: Philadelphia
and Baltimore, 29 a 81s. Od.; Ohio, 31 a fills.
Wheat is quoted, Old Red, Os. a Bs. Od.: New,
9s. a 9s. fid. Old White, Bs. 9d. a 9s. ‘.ld.;
New, 10s, a 10s. 4d. The transactions in
Corn have been unimportant, and barely sup
port prices. Mixed, 312 a 32: White, 33.
Provisions generally are unchanged. Rice
was quiet, and dull at 80s. a 30s. fid.
The weather had been too wet for favorable
harvests.
The Erricson arrived out on the 24th.
New York Markets.
New York, Oct. B. Cotton. —Uuder the
late advices aud continuing accounts from the
Sout h and South West, in relation to the prob
abilities and prospects of the supply, prices
have stiffened and holders are insisting on
terms which buyers as yet are reluctant to
yield.
Wheat—A decline has changed our quota
tions for White to $1.55 a $1.58. No change
iu lied.
Corn.—We add one cent to our last report
for Mixed.
Naval Stores. —Rosin has declined and
sales of 2,500 bids, are reported at $1.60 a
$1.65.
Rice.— We have no change to note in Rice
or in other articles usually embraced iu our
daily reports, which arc not mentioned here.
Frjotuhts.— ln Freights the rates previously
asked have been confirmed.
Connecticut Elections.
New York, Oct. B.—The municipal eleotions
in Connecticut have been held, and returns
havo coine in from 126 towns. Os these, ac
cording to the Hartford Courant, 73 are for
Fremont, 48 for Buchanan, and 5 closely con
tested.
Baltimore Elections.
Baltimore. Oct. B. —Much fighting, riot and
disorder have prevailed during the charter
election in this city. In Lexington market a
collision occurred which produced a light,
lasting half an hour, dmiug which guns, pis
tols, knives, &e., were freely used on both
sides. Four persons have been killed and
twenty wounded, some of them mortally.
The Eighteenth Word, it is reported, gives
Swann (American) a majority of 1100. In all
the other wards together the votes show for
Swan 12,020; for Wright (Democrat) 11,600.
Later.
Swann’s majority is now stated at 1594.
The Americans have on joint ballot of the
Councils a majority of 6.
Delaware Election.
New York, Oct. B. —At the election held in
Delaware yesterday for Inspectors, Assessors
and Road Commissioners in tiie several Dis
tricts throughout tlie State, tiie Democrats car
ried every district. Majority iu the State
1,800 votes.
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The Steamer St. Johrm.
We paid a visit yesterday afternoon to the
ship-yard of Mr. H. it. Willink, at the lower
end ot the city, where we were surprised to
observe the progress which has “been made in
tho re-building of the steamer St. Johns,
which, it will be remembered, was burnt at
Jacksonville on the 21st of July last. The
steamer, which was burnt down to the water’s
edge, leaving nothing but the hull and a por
tion of her machinery, has, Phoenix-like/risen
from the ashes, and now sits upon Mr. Wiliink’s
Marine Railway, tiie same beautiful model as
ever, and almost ready to return to Let- appro
priate element.- Her decks and sides were
covered yesterday with busy workmen, who,
w were told, will have her ready for launch
ing by the latter part of next week. Her
boiler has been renewed at the foundry of Mr.
A. N. Miller, and is ready to go aboard, while
her cabins aud upper works are being rapidly
completed by Messrs. Perry & Hoffman, of
Now 1 ork. By the latter part of next month
j it is expected that the Bt. John's will again
take her place in tiie Florida bine, where she
was so valuable an auxiliary in tho accommo
dation of the increasing trade and travel be
tween ihoeities of East Florida aud Savannah.
The work of her re-building has been perfum
ed by Mr. Willink, under the personal direct-
I ion of Cupi. N. King, formerly of the Welaka,
i and Messrs. Ulaghorn & Cunningham, the en
! terprishig and public spirited agents of the
j Company.— Savannah Newt.
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Will Mr. Buchanan Withdraw?
f fora satisfactory reply to this olt-reiterated
| interrogatory, the pious editor of the Evening
Bulletin, tor some days past has evidently been
lon the ‘anxious bench. Again and again is
j the question asked, and answer demanded.
If it he any relief to the editor of that journal,
; we will state that We are .authorized to reply
jto hiv question in tiie affirmative. Mr. Bu
chanan does intend to “withdraw.” In obe
dienes to the call of the American people, on the
4th day of March, in the year of our Lord 1867,
it is his purpose to “withdraw” from his calm
and peaceful retreat an Wheatland, to take
possession of the White House, at Washing
ton, in the capacity of Presijeut of the United
States. This is the only withdrawal, however,
that Mr Buchanan has in contemplation. Is
the editor of the Bulletin satisfied, or does he
repeat the silly question in his prayer?—l‘enn
svlnamnn.
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Slnle Minesiu Shelby.
This county is certainly compelled to be
one of the richest iu the State. Goal, li on. Cop
per, Silver, and Slate, are now being worked at.
1 hese Sate mines have recently been open
ed, and from what we learn, they are produc
ing a first rate quality, and being accessible
t? toe Railroad, will make it profitable—— Sel
ma [Ala.) Ser.tinel,
GENERAL ITEMS.
N. P. Willis has written a letter iu f„„
Mr. Fremont.
The cotton crops of Arkansas, saystli,.
den Herald, are bad. They will ),'e slu!
nearly one half.
The Mobile Tribune says the Steamer s
Prentiss was raised on Saturday l as (
now undergoing repairs to fit her for
during the ensuing season.
A friend from Liberty county iufoi Ul , .
Savannah News that the yield of tha-a
cotton, in that county, this year, [ ’
amount to more than half a crop.
A gentleman lately heard a laborer m-.
inform two comrades that a “74 pouimj'''’
cannon that sends a pound ball exactk- „
~ 1 u v scteii.
ty-tuur utiles.
We have heard of an economical man
always takes his meals in front of a lu ;,,
he does th is to double the dishes. If that
philosophy, we would like to know whitin' 1 ”
A man named William B. Smith, in p
county, Mississippi, over 70 years’of fl J‘!
recently been sentenced to a term of ,]n
in the State prison for killing his own s„l" J ’
The title of D. D. was conferred on tke!■•
J. B. Taylor, of Richmond, Va., at them":
commencement of Columbia College : i til
| Religious Herald states that he decline- ‘
I oeptiug it.
The Republican and American Convent
of Rhode Island have nominated the folW .’
Electoral ticket: Edwin W. Lawton, of N
port; Isaac Saunders, of SeituatC; \y„, j
Bullock, of Providence; Wm. D. Bravt
Warwick. 3 ’
Jeremiah Baldwin, who was arrested bv f
Planter’s Bank at Memphis, Tenn., forobtaC
ing goods under false pretences has beet, ac
quitted of the charge. He has sued the B:I
and others for false imprisonment, lavine V
damages at $50,000. 6
It is stated that Mrs. Rives, wife of the ll ( ,n
W. C. Rives, of Virginia, formerly Minister to
France, a lady who is already known in letters
by a volume descriptive of an earlier residence
in Europe, tias.in press, “Home, and the \Viv
of the World.”
The Newark (N. J.) Eagle of the 27th oi
September, says: “Mr. Frelinghuysen ha,
within a few days past, unequivocally declared
his intention to vote fur Millard Fillmore to
tho Presidency.”
A hog exhibited at the Cliilieothe (Ohio!
Fair, last week, weighed 1,135 pounds, ami
measured nine feet in length and about the
same about the girth. He was two years and
three months old.
The Bible Times, a religious publication is
sued in Baltimore, by the Rev. Thomas il.
Stockton, nominates, upon its own responsi
bility, Judge M’Lane for the Presidency, an!
Theodore Frelinghuysen for tho Vice Vie;
deucy.
The celebrated pianist, Thalburg, has ar
rived at New York in the Africa, from Liver
pool. He intends giving a series of concerts
throughout the country, under the auspices of
Mr. Uimnmi, a gentleman well known in mu
sical circles.
A correspondent of the London Daily News
gets off some wonderful stories about Russia
and its celebrities. Among other loud stories
he says the Americans have made several ex
cellent speculations in Russia, and net a clear
profit of £200,000 per annum on the contract
for keeping the Moscow Railway in order.
Gen. U alter has issued a decree granting
to every free white emigrant to Nicaragua a
tract of land of 160 acres, which after a resi
dence ol six months, he shall become entitled
to. Should the emigrant have a family he
will lie entitled to 300 acres on the same terras.
The Canvass in Pennsylvania.
The following letter, said to be from ;i well
informed democrat of Pennsylvania, gives a
glowing account of the prospects of the inti
Nigger party in Pennsylvania:
Philadelphia, Oct. 8,1856.
We’ve got ’em, sure. The “colored folks”
have been playing a heavy game of brag—no
thing more. 1 have been over the whole in
fected district, and while it is true that
some of the counties in it are badly dcmotal
ized, politically, it is by no means half so bid
its you and all the rest of us were told. There
is a bold, active, and determined Democratic
party in every part of that “black district.”
Tiie Republicans will not get tho half of.wlrat
they claim in it; but we can give them the
whole of it, and still beat them. The counties
on the Delaware river, Northampton, Monroe,
l’ike, Carbon, Lehigh, Schuylkill, Burl;-
Berks, Montgomery, and Delaware, will roll
up such majorities as will swamp the North
and West, if it were twice us bad. Berks
county’ alone will overbalance Wilmot’s whole
district, while Judge Parker’s district wit
neutralize the whole of the rest of their north
ern and uorthwesteru strength. The rest ol
the State, except Alleghany county, is our.-.
The opposition lose everywhere in the South,
and the centre much more than we do iu the
North. The old Whig counties of Philadel
phia! Chester, Lancaster, Lebanon, Adams,
Franklin, Somerset, Blair, and Huntingdon,
will not give them half their old-time tnnjori
tios, while iu tho democratic counties East amt
South, our majorities will be swelled largely.
Out closest and most prudent calculator
put our majority iu Philadelphia at h' c
thousand. Our majority in the State will he
from seven thousand five hundred to ten thou
sand.
Longevity.
Mrs. Elizabeth Buzzard died recently 111
this District at the advanced age of DU year:.
■She resided about eight miles from this place,
and had never been out of the State. B'"*
bad enjoyed very good health, almost iuvuria-
Idy. and may be said to have died of old jP‘-
It is said that site was able to work until a
few days before her death. Mrs. B. left ton ll .’
descendants, consisting of children, grand
children and great-grand-children.
We are also informed that her sister, “- 1
died about two years since, reached the l '*‘
traordinary age of U)fi years. We have heard
of many other onses ot longevity in Orange;
Ling District which me might record, a’ l ”
which prove incontestably the extreme hedth
fnlness of our climate.— Orangeburg Santhro.
Death of Oaptoln James Ross.
We are called on to announce tiie death -
a veteran, long and honorably known in out
‘Marine. Captain James Ross, for many ye ll /’
a Vice President of tiie Charleston Fori S t’ l '”
ty, and Chairman of the Board of Fort Wu
dens, expired at Ift A. W., yesterday, D ul ,
residence of his old and long tried Is l1 ’'I'’ 1 '’
Charles Edmondston, Esq.
'apt. Ross was a native of Serwieh. in uUl ’
of the Shetland Isles, (North Britain. ! ent - ‘
ed sea service at an early age, and wu
nearly fifty years a Captain aud Master. “
ing from this poM, chiefly to English pm' 1 ’
lie was a genuine sterling sailor and “•
man, iri all Ids traits and qualities, and a- g
will lie remembered by his many friend
that service and interest. —Charleston Com