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COLUMBUS:
Satnrday morning, October 18, 1850.
LARGEST CITV UKCUIiATION.
W. l\ Mills has been elected to Congress
over Gen. Gadsden, in the Charleston District,
by a majority of G4l votes.
Messrs. Keitt and Boyce, have also been
elected to Congress in their respective Dis
tricts, without opposition.
The proprietors of the City of Brunswick
give uotice that a peremptory salo of 300 eligi
ble building lots, will tako place, by public auc
tion, at tlio Oglethorpe Hotel, in said city, on
Thursday, November 27. Sale positive to the
highest bidder. Terms, ten per cent, cash,
on day of sale ; balance in annual payments
of ten per cent, secured, with interest, on the
property. Warrantee deeds given; title per
fect.
South Carolina Elections.
The election for Congress and the Logisla
•turo took place in this (State on Monday last.
We give below the result as far as have reach
ed us:
Ouanoemuuo.—- Dr. J. H. O’Cain and John
11. Felder, Esq., were elected Representatives.
The vote stood Felder 050, O’Cain 025,
Humph 382.
Lexington. —John Fox, Esq., is elected
(Senator by 31 votes over J. C Hope, Esq.,
and Dr. 0. 11. Muller and J. Swygert wero
elected Representatives.
Newberry. —Gen. A. C. Garlington is elec
ted Senator by a majority of between 00 and
70 over J. I’. Kiunrd, Esq. L. J. Jones, T. 13.
Rutherford and John Hair, Representatives.
St. Mathews.—O. M. Dantzler (no opposi
tion, ) Representative.
St. Andrews’ Goose Creek. —W. l/.ard
Bull, (uo opposition) Senator. VV. W. Mc-
Leod, Representative.
Christ Church.— Thomas M. Wagner, (no
opposition,) Senator. D. Bailey, Representa
tive.
Highland. —Col. Wade Hampton, Col. Win.
Wullaco, Col. W. S. Goodwyu, and Dr. A. J.
Greene have been elected Representatives.
Kershaw. —James Chesnut, Jr., Senator,
and W. M. Shaimonwid A. H. Boykin, Repre
sentatives.
St. Stephen’s Parish.— Dr. l’eter P. Bou
nuau, Sonntor, and I*. E. Voucher, Representa
tive.
Charleston. —W. D. Portor, Senator, and
Richard Yeaden, James Simons, Capt. Joseph
Johnson, Jr., Wilmot G. DeSaussure, Nelson
Mitchell, Edward McCrtuly, Thomas Y. Sira
uus, Jr., C. G. Memminger, J. Charles Bluui,
J. Jonathan Lucas, 11. C. King, F. D. Richard
son, J. J. Pope, Jr., J. Johnson Pettigrew,
and J. J. McCarter, Representatives.
Florida Elcdlon.
Monroe County. —The Key West Corres
pondent of the Charleston Courier gives the
following summary for that precinct:
For Governor.
M. 8. l’erry, Democrat 212
D. 8. Walker, American 01
For Congress.
G. 8. Hawkins, Democrat..,, 214
•1. XI. Faker, American 59
For Assembly.
F. .1. Fontcne, Democrat 511
0. 15. Unit, American 50
W find the following additional returns in
the Savannah News:
Ouanue—The following is reported as the
vote of Orange county : Forty, 54, Walker, 45,
Hawkins, 50,.Baker 43. Stato Senator, Stew
art, Am., 47 ; Mel!. Faker, Dem., 115. For
Assemblymen, Delk, Am., 37, Stark, Dem. 30.
linker for State Senate, in this District, com
posed of Sumpter, Volusia, Orange, and Brc
vard,will probably be elected.
Hkiinanih)—The majority for the Democrats,
ns near as can bo ascertained is 33.
lItr.LSBOROUUii—A lettorl'rom Tampa, dated
Bth, gives the following information of this
and adjoining counties:
The Democratic ticket—Ferry for Governor,
Hawkins for Congressman, Eubanks for Sena
tor of 20th Senatorial District, and Uettis for
As-cmblynnui, received a majority in Hillsbo
rough cu. ot 183. This statement may vary
a tow votes from the official returns, as thoy
are not canvassed.
Manatee co. elected Snelly, Dem., Assem
blyman, by a small majority, but gives a major
ity of 12 to the American candidates for Gov
ernor, Congressman and Senator.
SuwTK.it.—VV e learn that tho American can
didate is elected to the Assembly, but the Dem
ocrats havo carried tho day for’ Governor and
member of Congress by a majority 8 or 9.
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Trouble among lire Marine Imuranoe
Companies,
It was announced by telegraph, on Satur
day, that several ot the Murine Insurance
Companies of New York had suspended. The
Fost, of Friday evening, thus refers to the
matter:
We are sorry to find that there is some
trouble among tho Marine Insurance compa
nies. The Astor, the Globe and the Interna
tional have all asked for time to pay their
losses, and have meanwhile suspended taking
risks. Thoy are seeking subscriptions—the
Uvo first named—of $300,000 each, and tho
latter of $150,000, to enable them to re sumo
active business, and they feel confident they
will bo able to do so in a few days. The As
tor and Ulobe are both mutual companies.
1 lie International is a stock company.
The marine losses have been very great this
year, and there is difficulty experienced in ob
taining paymeut of notes duo tbe companies.
Another utnritimc mutual company has also
asked for time to pay its losses, but'lms made
a satisfactory arrangement with the parties
claiming tho sums assured by them.
A New Pistol.
The Albany Times states that a pistol has
been invented in that city which will fire nine
ty times per minute, carry a hall forty yards
further than any pistol now iu use, and that It
is s’-o much lighter and in every respect supe
l'uir to Lolt s celebrated pistol.
Alcohol in Wines.
Ilio following is a statement of the quanti
ty of alcohol contained in some of the most
noted o’ European wines, as given bv the
Journal do Berry:
Bordeaux 18 per cent.; Bourgoyne, 14;
Champagne, 11; Constance, 19; Frontignac
Luuel, 11; Cote-Kotie. 12; Hermitage white,
; Hermitage red, 12; Madeira, 20; Mala
gft, 17; Port, 34; Tokay, 10 per cent.
Fuller Accounts l>y the Persia.
Liverpool Cotton Market, Oct. 4.—The
cotton market, at the opening of the present
week, was active witli some excitement, but
was checked by the advance in the Bank rates
of discount, which liavo been placed at 5 per
cent. The closing rates are quietly support
ed, the sales of the week being 61,500 bales,
of which 12,000wereon speculation, and 1400
for export. The sales on Friday, 3d, were
7000 bales. The following quotations are
given: Orleans—Middling bl, Fair 7}. Mo
bile—Middling 6s, Fair o}. Uplands—Mid
dling Os, Fair Os. The stock at Liverpool is
000,000 bales, of which 429,000 are American
—or, according to Richardson, (Spence & Cos.,
499,000.
Liverpool Breadstuff.s —The market is
generally quiet and shows no change. In
Wheat, however, a decline of G a 8d is report
cd on inferior brands, and the quotations given
are Red 9s. a 9s. 3d.; White 10s. a 10s. sd.
Flour has stiffened to some extent, but has
not made a quotable advance ; Western Canal
25 a 81; Baltimore undPhiladelphia 81 u 835.;
Ohio 355. (id. a 3Gs.
Corn is quiet and steady ; Mixed 82£; Yel
low 83 ; White 38f.
Provisions —The market hero is also closed
quietly without special change. Carolina
Rice is quiet at 29}. Baring Bros, quote
Breadstuff's and Provisions generally steady ;
Sugar, coffee, &c., firm.
Naval Stores—Rosin is firm at 4s. 4d. ads.
(id. Spirits steady at 355.
London Money Market—Thu market is
decidedly more stringent and the Bank rates
of discount have been raised to 5 per cent.—
The specie drain towards the East iscontinued,
and the Bullion in the Bank of England shows
a further decrease of £20,000.
Consols are unsettled, hut are quoted for
money 92} ; on account 92J.
Havre Markets, Sept. 30.—The week’s
business shows an active market, with sales of
11,000 bale3; Ties Ordinaire lOlfr.
General Intelligence.
The three leading subjects of interest in late
reports are still unchanged, viz : the relations
cf tho Western Allies to Naples, the Belgrade
Boundary, and the Isle of Serpents. It is ru
mored that Austaia requests a suspension of
interference against Naples, and the Allies have
assented.
It is alse reported that England has ad
dressed a peremptory note to Russia, in re
lation to the occupation of the Isle of (Ser
pents.
The Austrianforces in Italy are to be strength
ened.
The Montenegrin difficulty is still open.
The Ministerial crisis is yet pending in rela
tion to Denmark.
There is nothing later from the Belgrade
Boundary Commission.
Thieving Abolitionist.
A Mobile correspondent of the Charleston
Courier, in a letter of the Bth iust., says:
Wc have discovered among us another Ab
olitionist and, strange to say, he is among the
booksellers, being employed by Messrs, Randall
& Wiliams as a salesman. A few days since a
gentleman come in to buy a gold pen ; the pro
prietor being busy at the time, this gentleman,
Mr. Mayo, was sent to wait on him ; after a
while he sold,him a pen for $1.75, and the
money accidentally found its way into Mayo’s
pocket, and strange to say, he forget to make
any entry ot it. After a while the gentleman
brought back the pen to exchange it for one
that would suit him better. Mr. Williams
waited on him and gave him another pen, with
50 cents change. On referring to the cash
sales book, Mr. W. could find no entry. He
then called in Mayo, who was out, and asked
him what was the reason he could not sell him
a pen. Mayo said the gentleman did not have
time to try them. Mr. W. then told him that
someone had sold him a pen, and as nono of
tlie other clerks could tell anything about it,
he must hunt up tho man and ask him who
he bought the pen of. Mayo went, but could
not find him, and was sent out a second time
to find out whoro he stopped. Mayo soon re
turned and said ho had met the gentleman on
the street, but he would give him no satisfac
tion, but gave him $3.25. The man who
bought the pen, soon came along and denied
having seen Mayo on the street, but said he
was tho man that sold him the pen. Things
went ou very well for a few days, when a case
of pens valued at SSO was missing ; suspicion
rested on Mayo, and a search warrant was is
sued ; the pens could not be found, but a lot
of stationery and a fine library that a student
might envy was found, with many other things
which had never been charged; they were
taken in possession by the officers, and he nr
rosted. lie gave a bond of SI,OOO for his ap
pearance before the Mayor next morning.—
Morning came, but Mayo had gone, and his
bond was declared forfeited. On a further ex
amination of his effects, a journal of his life
was found which showod him to be a rank abo
litionist—at onetime an honored inmate of the
New York State Prison and the House of Re
fuge. From his receipt book they found that
during eight months he had sent to his wife
$938. His salary was only S4O per month,
and S3O of that had to go for his board and
washing, &c.; so you see he was quite a finan
cier in his way. Ho musthave dreamed dreams
of tlielucky numbers in our Alabama Lottery.
Officers went in pursuit and caught him ntPasc
agoula. Xlany horses were worn out iu the
chase, but after all lie was caught and brought
to town, when he had to go to jail in default
of a bond for SIOOO.
Anecdote of the Date King; of Bavai-ia.
Tho ex-l\iug Louis, of Bavaria, who recent
ly attained his seventieth year, was a few days
ago waited on at his chateau at Ludwigshaffio,
in the Palitinnte, by a deputation from Strus
bottrg, iu which lie was born, who paid their
respects to him ou this occusiou. The King
received them most kindly, promised to visit
their city, and related to thorn a curious cir
cumstance: At tbe time of his birth, in Au
gust, 1784, his father who was then only Prince
des Deux Fonts, commanded the Aleaue regi
ment in the service of France, which was in
tho garrison at Strasbourg. A few days after
the birth of his child, he was astonished to see
that all his grenadiers bail cut oil’ their boards
aud moustaches. On enquiring why they had
done so, ouo of Hie men stepped forward and
said that they had determined to beg his ac
ceptance of a velvet matrass for tlie newly
born prince, ami that they laid stuffed it with
their beards and moustaches. “ I have the
matrass still,” said the king, “ and I will
show it to you!” Tho matrass was produced
aud the king added: “ 1 do not think that
there is in the world a bed that can be called
more strictly military than that!”
To Make pure Paale.
Rub a a quarter of a pouud of butter into
half a quart of Hour very fine : make it up
into a light paste, using us little cool Water as
you can work up with ; then roll it out
about a quarter of an inch thick, put a luyer
of butter all over, sprinkle on a little flour,
double it up and roil it out again ; double and
roll it out thus four or tivo times, using anoth
er half pound of butter; then it will be fit for
auy pies or tarts that require puff paste.
Texas Items.
The late rains seem to have been general in
ah parts of the State, and to have been very
beneticial to the grazing lauds and garden
crops. They have made the roads bad, but
the prospeot for whiter runge for stock is
good.
Much complaint is made of the short corn
crop, particularly in Western Texas, from
whence, it is said, there is a disposition to mi
grate to the eastern part of the State.
The cotton picking is said to have advanced
favorably, but the recent rain storms had pre
judiced that which yet remained in the field.
The Sea Island cotton had also suffered. The
papers every where state that the yield will be
light.
(Sugar promises better. The Columbia De
mocrat says that notwithstanding the drought
that tho sugar crop of that county, this year,
will reach fully 1,090 hogsheads.
The San Antonio Ledger promises tho com
pletion of the grading from Lavaca to Victoria
by November. Forty miles of iron is already
purchased, cross-ties cut, and eighteen miles
graded.
A gentleman direct from tho terminus of tho
Houston railrond, at Cypress Creek, informs
the Galveston News that there are now about
one hundred hands employed, and that the
first section of twenty-five miles is nearly com
pleted.
The cars for the Harrisburg road had ar
rived at Galveston, in the ship San Jacinto,
from Boston.
Mr. N. G. Sprague, an old and esteemed
citizen of Galveston, was drowned ou the 6th,
from a boat which upset with him in the bay.
A Mr. Davis, who was with him, was taken off
nearly dead, after twenty-four hours exposure.
Tho Dallas Herald states that tho command
ing officer at Camp Cooper, while bathing in
tho Clear Fork at Brazos, some three weeks
ago, was shot by four Indians belonging to
the Camanchos. Fouror five soldiers who wero
at a short distance, immediately came to his
relief, killed two of the Indians, and captured
the other two. The Herald learns these facts
from a gentleman recently from Fort Belknap.
A letter to the Nueces Valley, from Laredo,
dated the 18th ult., says that the big Indian
tight on the Pecos is just reported. The U.
8. troops, under Col. Coring, with lloque for
guide, are said to have killed eight Indians,
and retaken a large number of stolen cattle.
On the 20th ult., Capt. Pope with many of
the men under his command, arrived in San
Antonio, on his way, wo presume, to Washing
ton, to give an account of his expedition. He
has been very successful in its object, which
was the boring of the artesian wells in the
Lano Estacado.
Tons of Bread.
11. Berdan, already distinguished as an iu
ventor, and who made quite a stir in the last
legislature with his “goose neck” railroad for
Broadway, has just completed au enormous
oven in Brooklyn, corner of Elm Place and
Fulton avenue, of a capacity almost sufficient
for the supply of the whole city. Five hun
dred and forty barrels of flour can be baked
every day, if the powers of the oven are put
to their full test. The apparatus is purely
scientific in its construction, with special ref
erence to the preservation of the alcoholic
gasses and other valuable properties which are
wholly lost, during fermentation, in the ordin
ary process of baking—none of these being al
lowed to escape. While exposed to the heat,
tho bread is constantly in motion, on a series
of revolving platforms, and finally emerges on
miniature rail cars, ready for delivery.
Os course a uniform and perfectly reliable
temperature is indispensable. This is secured
by a very ingenious contrivance, consisting of
a strip of brass something like thirty feet in
length, within the oven, so as to be very sen
sitive to thermometrical changes; and the
least shrinkage or contraction is made to act
directly upon the furnace fires, by its connec
tions with the dampers, effected by a lever.—
The cost of this machinery', with boilers, wells
for pure water, &c., is said to have been in the
neighborhood of $40,000. The plan is to fur
nish bakers with their daily supplies at whole
sale prices ; and it is contended that this can
be done at much lower rates than they can
supply themselves. So it is quite possible
that a reduction in the price of bread may en
sue throughout the city. The wholesale price
for the very best quality is fixed at 11 cents
per loaf of 3J pounds, and 5J cents for Im
pound loaves—to bo retailed at Gj to ] 2Act
This, it is claimed, givus the public about 40
per cent, more bread, and of a better qualify
than they have heretofore received. The
economy of labor effected by Mr. Berdau’s in
vention is surprising, when the number of
hands employed is contrasted with the ressult
accomplished. —New York Journal of Com
merce.
The Llthatype Process.
It was a great advance iu printing when a
page of type was laid on soft plaster forming a
mould, into which melted type metal was
poured, reproducing, in solid, the original
page ou a plate of moderate thickness. The
American Stereotype Company, Boston, have
introduced successfully an improvement ou
this, which they Call the lithotype process. In
stead of type metal for the plate, plastic at
first, but beooming harder than type metal.—
This material serves both for mould aud the
plate iu relief. The surface of the letter und
the edge have an extraordinary perfection.—
The plates are much more durable than those
of type metal, and much lighter and cheaper,
and require but half the quantity of ink com
monly used. The plates can easily be bent to
conform to cylinder presses, and tho process is
equally applicable to plans, maps, and outline
cuts. But its greatest claims are accuracy of
line and durability. Half a million of impres
sions, says Mr. Rives—who uses the plates for
tho Congressional Globe—may be made by
one of these presses without wearing out the
plates.
Price of Hogs.
Tlio Cincinnati Price Current of Wednesday
says : During the last month there has been
much done in the way of contracting for hogs;
and especially has this been the case during
tlio last two or three weeks. The highest
price we heard of being paid was gt>.!2 per
cwt. net. for November delivery. Holders
now, and for some time past, have .been ask
ing $0.26 a .Sto.M) for early delivery; but
there is now less disposition manifested to
make contracts; even at $0 a $6.12, than
there was in August. The supply of Lard
and of Darrel Dork is light, in the various
markets, beyond a doubt, and cither of those
article* brought to market early will command
high prices; but cut meats are abundant,
dull and low. which acts as a counterpoise to
any disposition which might be manifested to
speculate, with reference to the high prices
and scarcity of Mess Dork and Lard.
Virginia Penitentiary.
On the Ist the directors of this institution
took the annual inventory of the tools, fix
ture* and articles ou hand. It appears that
the manufactures lor the liscul year ending
the 80th ult. amounted to 07, being
more than was ever before manufactured in a
year, except in 1854 immediately before the
burning of the shops.
T' ; T I* Y 'R > ! * H !< 1
‘i'oDijcraphvd to tho Daily huu
From Charleston.
Charleston, Oct. 10.
Sales to day thirty-three hundred bales.—
Decliue highest point £ to }c. for week, and
the market closes at 11} to 11 |c. for Good Mid
dling.
From New Orleans.
New Orleans, Oct 17.
Sales to-day five thousand bales at yester
day’s decline. Middling 11} to 12c. Sales cf
the week 20,000 bales. Stock on hand 145,-
000 bales. Decrease of receipts as compared
with lust year 20,000 bales.
Coffee 11.jc.—Sales ol’ the week 2500 sacks,
imports 0400, stock ou hand 31,000 sacks.
Sugar 9Jc. Flour $0.85; Corn, Pork and
Lard dull and without change. Freights un
changed.
Elections.
Columbia, Oct. 17.
Both parties now claim Pennsylvania and
Indiana.
Ohio has gone for the Black Republicans,
but the Democrats have gained three members
of Congress.
What tlie Election of Freiuot will bring
About.
Tho Seneca (Ohio) Advertiser speaking of a
recent Black Republican gathering at that
place, says :
“At the Fremont mass meeting the Republi
cans from Oberlin inarched arm in arm with
the negroes, and nearly all the ‘kullered pus
sons’ ou the ground wore silk badges with ‘Fre
mont and Dayton’ printed thereon.”
This is but one of many incidents (says the
Detroit Free Press) of a similar character which
have occurred during the present campaign.—
And not only have negroes walked in Fremont
processions, but negroes have addressed Fre
mont meetings. What do white men think of
this ? Do they w r ish negroes to be placed upon
an equality—politically and socially—with
themselves? If they do not, they will most as
suredly act against the black republican party,
the whole teachings and tendencies of that or
ganization being towards amalgamation. The
Free Press further remarks :
“At a recent fusion in Bucyrus, Ohio, Gov.
Chase addressed a portion of his remarks to a
large number of negroes who were present, as
suring them that the time was not far distant
when they could not only march in procession,
but vote also ! All over the North prominent
‘republicans’ are advocating negro suffrage;
and the right of negroes to send their children
to the public schools with the whites ; and the
most prominent journal of “republicanism”—
the New York Tribune—advocates the election
of a negro, Fred Douglas, to Congress !
“There are in this country some millions of
the African race. They should be treated
with kindness by our people, and endeavors
made to elevate their condition, mental and
physical. But au amalgamation between them
and the white is abhorrent to nature, and must
be looked upon with loathing by every citizen
in whose breast natural instincts are not super
seded by the most revolting fanaticism.”
TallaUassce Railroad.
It gives us pleasure to announce that our
railroad connection with St. Marks by steam
power is now in full operation.
On Saturday, the 4th instant, a trial trip
was made by the new locomotive, “11. L. Rut
gers,” and ten or twelve gentlemen went down
to witness its performance. They speak of it
iu the highest terms in every particular. The
engine (of sixteen tons, from the manufactory
of M. W. Baldwin & Cos., Phil.,) performed as
smoothly and was managed as readily by the
engineer, Mr. Williams, as if it had been in op
eration for months. The solid, even structure
of the road, and tlio regularity and ease of the
grades and curves show that the engineer and
track-layer well understood and faithfully per
formed their respective duties, aud make ours
compare favorably with any other railroad.—
There was no effort to attain great speed, but
it was apparent to the party that the distance
•—twenty-one miles—could easily have been
accomplished in less than an hour.
The locomotive is regularly performing the
business of the road, making its trips daily,
with eight or ten and one for pas
sengers, appropriating one and three-quarters
or two hours to the trip each way, including
stoppages for wood, water, &c.
Goods are now transferred from the hold of
the velsel at once into freight cars aud deliver
ed iu Tallahassee mostly day they are
landed at St. Marks. These facilities apply
also to the shipment down of cotton, tobacco,
&c,, and, taken in conjunction with reduced
rates of freight and light port charges, certain
ly entitles the Tallahassee Railroad Company
to be remunerated by a liberal patronage for
the heavyjontlay (not short of $250,000) re
quired to accomplish these improvements.
But the great importance of this enterprise
is most apparent when we consider that it is
iu fact but a branch of our great railroad from
East to West; and the sagacity and persever
ance that secured this connection and have
pushed the enterprise to its completion, in a
style of workmanship that will serve as a pat
tern worthy of future emulation, certainly
deserves our lasting respect and gratitude.—
Floridian $ Journal.
Stick a Pin There.
Gen. W. T. Haskell, says the Huntsville
Advocate, who has been hired by the Know
Nothings to canvas Tennessee for them, in a
recent speech at Sparta, “ho boldly declared
that if he had been a member of Congvcss in
IS6O he would have voted against the Fugi
tive Slave L‘iw.” Col. Savage, in reply, told
Haskell that liis speech “was an apology for
Fremont and his Abolition Cohorts.”—Chatta
nooga Advertiser.
A Man Killed.
Wo regret very much to learn that on Mon
day last, ut the Troy Precinct, in this county,
a man by the name ol’ liczekiah Britt was
killed by John ltaybon.
Mr. liaybou is now in our Jail, to await an
examination into the facts in the case.—Mad
ison (Fla.) Messenger.
A youthful Frenchman received from his
love the following letter: “Isadore, you have
abandoned me; that is the recompense for
my virtue. My landlord will wait no longer;
come to-night, or I shall sleep in the room
with a charcoal furnace. Naniche.” Isadore
was in no hurry. He went the next day to
see her corpse! Tlio furnace was burning,
and liis own Naniche was—frying sausages !
So great is the sympathy between the nerves
of the teeth and of the ear, that remedies ap
plied to tlie latter, will relieve the pain in the
former. Laudanum, dropped upon a Dock of
cotton, and introduced into the ear, will ofteu
relieve the toothache. This is quite a popular
remedy and it is upon the same principle that
the actual cautery has been applied to the an
tilielix of the car to relieve painful teeth.
GENERAL ITEMS.
Jones’ Springs, N. 0., have been sold
Messrs. Boyd & Jones, for $30,000.
A censorship of the press is about h e i n , r ev
tablisbed in Spain. Indeed, in u 0 Euro* ‘’
country, except England, is the press unshod
led. ‘ K ”
A proposal was made a day or two siuce
tho New York Board of Aldermen, in favor of
taking measures to divide the city into two s
parate municipal governments.
At Cincinnati, 0., and vicinity, contracts f O .
pork were quite limited up to the Ist inst r
Holders are asking $0.25 to $6.50 for curb
delivery, but offers are scarce at $6 to $0 p>
J. H. Anderson, called the “Wizard of tl ,
North,” has taken a grand farewell of th*
British public, at Surrey. He played Rr.ti*
and William, in “Black Eyed Susan”
was presented with a silver baton. He ’is'!!’
iug to the United States.
Mr. Adams, of the Plum Island Hotel ;
forms the Newburyport Herald that a liv
shark, weighing some 800 pounds, was thrown
upon tho beach near the hotel, on Monday
whore it remains to this time. Quite a nuu ’
her of persons were on the island ou Tuesday
to sec the monster.
Extravagance in Dress—Driving o ffthe
Beaux—Mothers coining to their Rescue
A council of bishops Have just assent-’
bled at Peringueux,in the soutli of France
and it appears that the venerable prelates
have fulminated a decree against expen
sive habits in dress, which, according to
the Echo, has created quite an excitement
among the belles of the place, who are
anxiously inquiring whether they are to he
condemned to renounce their “mantillas”
and all the rotundity which the present
fashion demands.
“We can comfort them” adds this jour
nal, “with the assurance that, as the de
crees of the council cannot go into opera
tion until they have received the sanction
of Rome, at least eighteen months must
elapse before they will be obliged to make
so painful a sacrifice.” In this connec
tion it may bo useful to recall what has
been passing in u city of Belgium, where
extravagance has assumed such alarmino
proportions that the ladies themselves
were obliged to combine for the purpose
of arresting its disastrous progress.
It appears that extravagance had been
for some years a source of constraint in
families; and it was noticed no marriages
were contracted, since the youim men.
frightened at the hills that loomed up in
the distance, preferred to live in celibacy.
The mothers recognizing the inconveni
ence of a state of affairs encouraged by
themselves, have resolved to bring about
a salutary reform, and with this view they
have formed a committee which meets
once a week. They have declared open
war with extravagance and every member
announces publicly the retrenchments
made in her own household expenses.—
They say that happy results have already
been obtained, and that similar associa
tions are to be formed in the neighboring
towns. — Courrier des Etats Unis.
An Ebbing and Flowing Spriug.
It is not generally known, we presume, that
there is such a rare curiosity in Tennessee,
as an ebbing and flowing spring—such is the
fact, however. It is situated at a point known
as “Ebbing Spring,” on the East Tennessee
and Georgia Railroad, about 22 miles below
Knoxville. The Spring is subject to periodic
rises and falls, at intervals of about eigli f
minutes. The Knoxville Fresbyterian Witness
says :
“Suppose the stranger comes upon the
spring when it is at its lowest point, he will
find it discharging (without speaking with
certain knowledge, as to the exact amount)
about 20 gallons of water per minute ; if he
will observe it, for four minutes longer, he
will find it so swollen that it will yield about
GO gallons perp ermite, when it will begin to
decline, and continue to do so until it reaches
its lowest ebb, in about 4 minutes time—then
he may observe it commence its Hood again,
and go on the same round until he is tired
and puzzled to know why it is so different
from all other springs.
The water is beautifully clear, and is never
in the least muddied by its ebbing and flow
ing.
We leave it for the philosopher to explain
the cause of this singular phenomenon, and
to toll us when, if ever, it will cease thus, to
keep time with the rolling stars.
“Do you think moire antique becoming on a
widow ?” said a young widow to Mrs. Parting
ton, as she exhibited a mourning dress elabo
rately trimmed and a bonnet of the latest mode.
The old lady scanned her attentively through
her glasses before she answered. “More an
tic,” said she at length, and her finger was
raised up like a note of exclamation. “Ishould
think less antic would be more becoming in a
widow. Widows more antic must bo them
spoko of by Paul aud Timothy who waxed wan
ton and will marry. Well, well, let’em, though
whero a woman had once married with a con
gealing and warm heart—looking straight at
the rigid profile of the corporal on the wall—
and one that boats responsible to her own. the
will never want to enter the maritime state
again.” There was a tremulous tone in her
voice, there was a glistening of the eye, lihe a
dew drop on a morning glory; the finger fell
to her side, and she turned to look out ot the
window after Ike, who was sailing a shingie
boat in a rain water tub with a garden toadfor
a passenger.
Subterranean Discoveries.
A letter from Jerusalem of a recent date, to
the Augsburg Gazette, says : “In digging out
the foundation of a house which is being him 1
in this city for the Austrian Catholic clergy
the workmen discovered, at a depth of about
fifteeu feet from the surface, several subterra
nean rooms, the walls of which are hewn stone,
and tho floor of mosaic. The most important
part of tho discovery is, however, a grotto cut
out in the rock, and supported by five column-
There are certain indications which lead to
the belief that this grotto had served n - ‘
church for the early Christians ; but the gro -
to, is it supposed, was formed before theadvej 1 -
of Christianity. Several capitals of Cortot-*
ion columns and fragments of antique warlM'-
have been found. The Austrian. French an ■
Prussian consuls, nccompanicd by the urcta
tect Endlicher, who is superintending
building, have visited these subterranean g-n
leries, and have had photographic druwiu
tnadc. The Musselmau authorities thro |J
obstacles in tho way of these ftrch-ffioiog”- “
researches.