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COLUMBUS:
Tuesday Morning, October ‘41,15.0.
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(iAKUKHT CITY CIHCULATIOK,
We have nothing further from i’ennsylva
nia, Ohio, or Indiana.
Florida Flection.
All the State, but two counties, heard from.
The vote stands for Governor—Perry 4,063,
Walker 3,073. For Congress—Hawkins 4337,
linker 3,000. Majority for Perry, Democrat,
288. Majority for iluwkins, Democrat, 737.
OoorKia Btnto Fair.
The Annual Fair of the Southern Central
Agricultural Society will be held in Atlanta
from the 20th to the 26th of this month, both
days inclusive.
The various rail roads to Atlanta will issue
tickets, and transport all articles
strictly for exhibition free.
We congratulate our citizens on the decided
improvement, so very apparent in front of the
post office. We would further suggest to the
I rupriotor of the building, repairs to the floor,
in the front portico, out of which night-walk
ers are kept only by the covering of a couple
of window shutters. “A stitch in time” is very
applicable to the ease in point. How easy it
would be for some mischievous fellow to let
night-walkers through.
youth Carolina Flection.
•St. Jambs’ boost: Cheek. —Col. Win. Mel
laud, Democrat, elected Senator without,oppo
sition, and Dr. Joseph Murray, Buchanan
Democrat, beat Dr. .1. <\ Mclveown, Buchanan
Know Nothing, 5 votes. The election is pro
tested.
Barnwell. —B. 11. Evans, •). K. Tobin, I).
11. Ilice, and J. J. Ryan, elected Itcprescnta
t ives.
i'AiuiiM.n.—,N. A. Peay, Senator, without
opposition; R. 11. Boylston, W. M. Bratton,
If. 11. Clark and J. IV. Cook, Representatives.
Si'autamu ini.—J. \\. Miller, J. Wiusmith,
l. E. Edwards, .lames Farrow and O. P. Earle,
Representatives.
Arukville. —J. F. Marshall, Senator; A.
M. Smith, S. McGowan, T. Thomson, J, K.
Vance and It. A. Griffin, Representatives.
Sumter.— ,l. T. Green, J. D. Blending and
A. Spain, Represent a lives.
Greenville. —J. L. Westmoreland, Senator;
J. W. Stokes, 11. F, Perry, W. A. Mooney and
Nathaniel Morgan, Representatives.
Undersoil — G. Seaborn, B. Hardy, A.
Broyles and S. (I. Earle, Representatives.
Union.— J. F. Gist, Senator; J. M. Gadber
ry, Robert Beatty and Thos. 11. Jeter, Repre
sentatives.
Chester.— (’. D. Melton, W. P. Gill and J.
H. Willson, Representatives.
Laurens. —A. Fuller, 11. Carter and C. I*.
Sullivan, Representatives.
St. James Santee.— A. Mazyck, Senator ;
\. J. McClellan, Representative.
Sr. Pace’s Parish — Colleton. —B. Perry,
Senator ; .1. C. Whaley, Representative.
Oranck Parish.— Donald It. Barton, Sena
ior; Dr. J. 11. O’Oain and John If. Felder,
Representatives.
Wire.—lt. (}. McCaw, Senator.
Bikieeikei). —'/. W. Carwile, James Black
well, M. ('. M. Hammond, W. Gregg, Robert
Meriwether and Abram Jones, Representa
tives.
M e learn from the Reporter that in the 10th
District oi Randolph county, on the nigh’ of
the nth inst., William F. Kupp shot Stephen
Pitman with a gun, the distance being so
short, the shot entered the (high making one
large wound. Pitman fell at the crack of the
gun, and it was thought for some time he
would die. Surgeons were immediately call
ed in, and we now understand that he will
doubtless recover. Sapp was the father-in
law of Pitman, and from all we can gather,
the cause of the difficulty grew out of a pri
vate matter. There was a warrant taken out
for Sapp, ns yet lie has not been arrested.
The Baptist Church at Cutlihort, says the
Reporter, closed its service on the Oth inst.,
after a protracted meeting of several days,
during which time IS members were added to
i lie elm ’ch.
The Lumpkin Plaindealer of the 14th inst.
says “Col. James M. Clark, an old line whig,
addressed a small crowd at the Court House
lnt Tuesday. We didn't hear all of his
speech, but understand lie intends to support
Mr. Piuchauan because ho is tlio only man
i hut can beat Fremont. Said it was consoling
lo know that if he had changed, be changed
in illustrious company, and named several of
ihe distinguished men of the State and coun
try who had declared for liuchuuan. Gave
the Plaindealer liberty to pitch into him if
it deemed proper, and, —that’s all !*’
Pitch into him, Mr. Plaindealer,
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Death of Wm. Tumlin, Son.
William Tumlin, Sen., father of Col. Lewis
Tomlin, departed this life at his residence,
near Cartorsville, in this county, at 2.1 o'clock,
t*. m., on the Bth inst.. at the advanced age of
S7 years and *3 months.
The deceased was born in Laurens District,
S. C„ and moved to Georgia near forty years
ago. He was a consistent member of the Bap
tist Church for more than thirty years; and
It whig died as ho lived, has gone to realize,
in a brighter world, the promises made to the
faithful.— Cam-ille Standard.
The tobacco cultivators of the Connecticut
\alley arc to hold a Convention ut Hartford,
on the 20th inst., to perfect measures in con
nection with the warehouse system under Mr.
i>. M. Seymour’s management, for their mu
tual benefit. The old crop of tobacco lias
|ui.-.scd out of first hands, the last sales being
at 12 to 26 cents, or an average of about 18
cents.
The Potato Crop.
The Talais Advertiser gives the following sad
account of the potnto crop in Eastern Maine :
From all accounts the potato crop has been
dumaged more by the rot this yenr than ever
before since it first made its appearance, and
the crop will be shorter. We near of whole
fields of four or five acres not yielding a
single bushel. This is more especially the
case on low, wet lands. Many farmers say
they will not got as many ns they planted.
Water Works in Columbus.
Columbus, Oct. 20, 1860.
Editor Daily Sun —
Dear Bir : Unclosed I send you an original
letter from W. F. Sorrell, ■ Civil Engineer, of
the city of New York. As 1 have no pecuni
ary interest in the matter, I propose to give
you the letter for publication, as it may be of
interest, to your readers and more readily
taken into notice by the proper Junciionaries
and the citizens at large.
As we are much in need of water in plcntc
oueness and purity, it can be of no harm to
publish offers to diminish our needs and ex
penses.
Knowing your entire affinities to chime with
our city’s, allow mo to thank you if you will
endeavor farther to push this matter to a con
summation.
Your obedient serv’t,
JOEL T. SCOTT.
New York, Oct, 13, 1860.
Joel T. Scott, Ear/.,
My Dear Sir: My object iu addressing you
is, to ask some favors, anil having the vanity
to suppose thai you will, upon due investiga
tion, grant them, shall proceed to business.
1 want to know if a supply of water Inis
been brought, into the city of Columbus, and
if so, give me wluit information you can—
then I have not another word to say on the
subject; but if not, and the Council will give
nie and ray friends the proper authority to
build such works as I proposed to the Coun
cil about three years since, (and you are will
ing to take the business in hand for me) you
are at liberty to say that I will build all the
reservoirs, lay all the pipe necessary on the
premises, and have a head of water on Ogle
thorpe street of from 26 to 30 feet, and give
bond and security for performance of same
complete to deliver to Council of City of Co
lumbus within two years from date of such
arrangements; and upon completion or before
as the arrangements may be made, to take
tiie bonds of corporation of City of Columbus
for Hie sum of say seventy-five thousand dol
lare with interest payable every three months
of 7 per cent per annum, and bonds payable
as follows, viz. :
The sum of $18,750, payable in three years.
“ “ $18,750, “ four “
“ “ “ $87,600, “ six
The supply of water to be say five hundred
and twenty thousand gallonsfor every twenty
four hours.
Now in consideration of the foregoing the
City Council are to give to me and my asso
ciates the exclusive right to lay on or convey
water (from the mains) into all houses, fac
tories, &c., &c., requiring a supply, at a regu
lar tariff of prices for so doing, to be made by
us, and of course they (the corporation) mak
ing their own tariff of water rates for supply
of water.
Should nty offer find favor please write me
as soon as possible, with particulars.
Yours truly,
WM. F. SERRELL,
Civil Engineer.
Falss Packing of Cotton.
We publish below, from the Commercial ar
ticle of Wilmer & Smith’s Liverpool Commer
cial Times, a notice of the fraudulent packing
of Cotton by planters. This should not be
so. The writer says:
Our attention has been drawn to the grow
ing practice of mixing cottons, in packing the
bales before shipment from the United States.
The magnitude of the evil is beginning to ex
cite great apprehension. Our correspondent,
who brings the mat ter under our consideration,
states the firm to which he belongs lias had to
make 135 separate claims for American Cot
ton returned from the manufacturing districts,
as falsely packed, the bales of coorse fail to
equal sample. The Mobile merchants and
planter's Prices Current, of September Ist,
referring to the practice alluded to, remarks
that a planter mixes 259 pounds of Cotton,
worth 13 cents per pound, with Cotton worth
only 9 cents per pound, and it, is discovered
here, the whole 599 pounds would not, in that
case, bring over 9 cents per pound around;
and should a purchaser find half a dozen bales
mixed in a crop, lie would likely, and justifia
bly, throw the whole purchase back upon the
hands of t lie seller; audit not uufrequently
happens, that an entire crop has been sold as
mixed Cotton, when, actually, ouly the larger
portion of it has been depreciated in this
manner. When discovered, after shipment to
Europe or elsewhere, the result is reclama
tion, trouble and loss, allround, aud creates
distrust between buyer and seller, and the ne
cessity’ for rigid and scrutenising caution 011
the part of all concerned; which is greatly
to bo regretted, not to mention the injury in
flicted by this practice upon tlie reputation of
Mobile Cotton iu foreign markets, and by
which the owner of faithfully packed Cotton
is the principal and undeserved sufferer.
Equally pungent are the remarks of the New
Orleans Merchants Transcript of the same
dates “ This negligence often leads to vexa
tious reclamations, and sometimes to expen
sive lawsuits, as it frequently happens that
the discovery is not made until the cotton
reaches the hands of the manufacturer, at a
distant market. But it also frequently hap
pens that the discovery is made here, by draw
ing samples from different parts of a bale. In
such cases the cotton is thrown back on the
factor’s hands as unmerchantable, and when
resold ns mixed cotton, the factor can seldom
obtain more than the market value of the
lowest quality found in the bale. Besides all
this, when the irregular packing is once dis
covered. as it necessarily must be somewhere
and sometime, it throws discredit upon the
planter’s crop generally, aud thus operates to
liis disadvantage. It also introduces confu
sion into a most important, branch of trade,
and one that call only be conducted with facil
ity and economy upon the basis of good faith
in the honesty and integrity of the planter.
These virtues being accorded to him lie owes
it to himself, lo his factor nml to his purchas
er to exercise more care and vigilance over
those who have his interests in charge.”
The Washington Union publishes a letter
—since the Haltimoe election—signed by one
hundred and seven Old Line Whigs of Mary
land, who say, “ being cognizant that a crisis
has arisen iu the affairs of the country de
manding of every good citizen to rise above
party feeling, we have resolved for the first
time in our lives to vote with (lie Democratic
party, and to all that in our power lies lo se
cure the election of the ouly National and
Constitutional candidates, James Buchanan
and John C, Breckinridge.”
Fillmore’s Acceptance.
The following letter from Mr. Fillmore, is
in response to one from the President of the
late Whig Convention at Baltimore, informing
him of his nomination by that body:
Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 1, 1850.
lion. Edward Hates —
Sir ; Your letter of tlie 19th ultimo, come
to hand day before yesterday, informing me
that at a Convention of tlic Whigs of the Uni
ted States, held at Baltimore on the 17th and
18tli of the past month, I was honored by that
convention by being chosen with one voice as
their candidate for the Presidency.
Whilst some of my old Whig friends, whom
i have always highly respected, and whose
patriotism 1 am unwilling to doubt, are op
posed to my election, aud are engaged, some
on tlie one side and some on the other, of po
litical parties which are sowing the seeds of
alieuation and distrust between different sec
tions of our commou country, and waging a
sectional warfare tending to weaken, if not
destroy the Union of these States, itisa source
of inexpressible gratification to me to receive
the unanimous nomination of the great rep
resentative body of the national Whigs of the
United States—no less distinguished lor their
intelligence than for their patriotism—and I
cheerfully accept it with the profoundest emo
tions of gratitude and pride.
Although 1 am the known candidate of an
other party, yet, 1 can see nothing dishonora
ble in receiving die support of all Union-lov
ing men, by wliapevor political denunciation
they may be known: but, I confess that, i re
ceived this flattering testimonial -of the con
tinued confidence in my personal integrity
and patriotism of my old Whig friends, with
much more than ordinary satisfaction; and
1 trust, that, if elected, 1 shall do nothing to
disappoint the hopes or dishonor the prefer
ence of those who have so generously bestow
ed their confidence.
With renewed expressions of my high res
pect. lor yourself, personally, and my venera
tion for the intelligent and patriotic body over
which you preside,
I am, sir, your friend and fellow citizen,
Millard fillmore.
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Triumph ol’ Fremonters in Ohio an Penn
sylvania.
When it was telegraphed to New Y'ork that
the Democrats were defeated in Ohio and
Pennsylvania, the New York Herald, a Fre
mont paper, in publishing the rasult, headed
it, in large letters, “Triumph of the Fremont
ers in Ohio and Pennsylvania.”
The editor, on Thursday morning last, said:
Pennsylvania lias gone for the Republicans
by from live to ten thousand majority. Cap
tain Rynders’ six-pounder, in the Park last
evening, very appropriately celebrated this
triumph of Col. Fremont. The gallant Cap
tain’s magnificent display oi’ fireworks in Ca
nal street, although intended for a different
purpose, was a well-timed illumination of the
success of the Pathfinder. As the returns
from the back counties come in, they show
that the general result is better for the anti-
Buclianan coalition than could have been ex
pected from the first reports.
This result of a Republican triumph in
Pennsylvania, whether of ten thousand, five
thousand, one thousand, or one hundred, is
glory enough for one day. It secures, by
good management, the reserved vote and the
floating vote for Fremont in November, not
only in Pennsylvania, but in every other State
of hitherto doubtful tendencies, and virtually
settles the Presidential election.
But the great cause of the small Republican
majority in Pennsylvania, is in the fact that
they fought the battle upon false party organ
ization and upon false issues. Nnow Noth
iugism was the dead weight which nearly
broke the camel’s back in Pennsylvania. On
the countrary, in lowa, Vermont, Maine, Con
necticut, Ohio, Indiana, where the Fremont
party kicked this mischief-making monstrosi
ty of Know Notliingism out of doors, and
fought the fight upon t lie simple issues of hos
tility to this Pierce administration, and this
rotten nullification Democracy, and of hostil
ity to the Bemocratic policy of making Kan
sas a slave State by tire and sword, they have
carried everything before them.
This was the course, and is now the only
course for the opposition party to pursue in
Pennsylvania. Let them rid Fremont of this
dead carcass of Know Notliingism—let them
put up a clean Fremont electoral State ticket,
and fight the battle upon the living issues of
the day, between the constitutional policy of
Fremont, and the nullification, fillibustering
and border ruffian pro slavery policy of the
debauched Democracy. Next, having done
tins, let the Fremont party, thus purified and
liberated from the dead weight of a dead bodv,
proceed to organize, circulate documents, and
papers, and speakers, and judicious agents in
behalf of floating voters, in every hole and
corner of the State, and then, on election day,
three weeks hence, with the reserved vote of
ten thousand men of the quiet, and religions
old settlers, the victory in Pennsylvania in
November, Distend of Jbcing fivo or ten tliuo
sand majority, as shown by the ret urns of this
morning, will be made a glorious victory for
Fremont of twenty or thirty thousand.
In a word. Mr. Fillmore in the northern
States, is “a dead cock in the pit.” These
late elections prove that his opposition is a
benefit and his assistance an injury to t li e
Fremont movement. The mixing of Know
Nothingism with the Fremont cause in Penn
sylvania probably lost the opposition thou
sands of honest voters who can be reclaimed.
Pennsylvania, upon a clear party platform of
uniitixed Fremont principles, and a pure Fre
mont electoral ticket, will give an overwhelm
ing and triumphant vote in November. With
a popular majority just obtained in the State
contest, if it be but a majority of a hundred
votes or less, the victory in the national battle
is sure. No time is to be lost. En arant.
Wonderful TTansportation.
Two fair ladies were reading the other day
Byron’s “Prisoner of <’billon.” That is,
one lady was pretending to read it aloud to
the other lady. No woman has ever been,
now is, or ever will be capable of listening
without interrupting. So, that at tlio very
commencement, when the reader read the
passage—
'• Nor grow it white
In a Tingle night,
A men’s have grown from smitten fears"—
the listener interposed ns follows :
White! How odd, to be sure! Well, 1 know
nothing about men’s hair: but there is our
friend. Mrs. G ,of Twelfth street, the lady
who has just been twenty-nine years old for
the lust, fifteen years—her liushand died vou
linow. last winter, at which misfortune her
grief was so intense that her Imir turned com
pletely blnek vitliin tweniy-fmr hoars after
the occurrence of that sad event.
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Small Pot.
This loathsome disease, wo learn from the
I.durational Journal, is provailing in Perry
and Fort \ alloy. Hoaston county, and that
several deaths had occurred in that vicinity
from it: but active measures had been taken
! to pr v it its spending.
The Flection in Kansas.
The Washington Union learns from a gen
tleman who was in Kansas at the election,
and who reached Washington on Mondaj’, that
Ihe elections went off quietly, and that Gov.
Geary had made every necessary arrangement
to secure to every voter the unmolested exer
cise of his privilege. The anti-slavery voters,
however, declined to avail themselves of their
rights, and allowed their opponents to carry
the election without a contest. Gen. Whit
field was voted for by the pro-slavery party,
and is elected, it turn-: out, as has been gen
erally predicted, that the black republicans
in Kansas have listened to the counsels of
their leaders in the eastern states, and have
permitted elections to go by default, when
their strength was claimed to be as six to one
over their opponents. This show s that they
value fanatical agitation more than the elec
tive franchise.
A Georgia Story.
Twenty years ago it was the custom in
northwestern Georgia, as indeed it was
throughout the southwest, for dry goods
dealers to keep a barrel of ‘spirits’ in the
back room, aud to treat liberal customers
to a glass whenever desired.
Fillous & Dewberry were such dealers
iu one of the small towns indicated, and
they had for a customer a clever, frolick
ing old fellow, who drank whiskey in pre
ference to water always, and whose wife
was ‘flesh of his flesh’ in that particular.
The old couple would come in town, trade
quite freely, and freely imbibe the spirits
in the back room of the dealers we have
named.
On one occasion both the old man and
old woman continued their potations inor
dinately ; and as Fillens observed that his
goods went better the drunker to old wo
man became, he pressed her to drink.
At last she refused unless he ‘would
sweeten it with a little store sugar.’ Fil
lens indulged her, and when the old peo
ple started for home late in the evening,
the old man could scarcely mount his
horse, and the good wife had actually to
be lifted and placed on the pillion behind
him. Happily she leaned one way and
her husband the other, so that the gravi
tating- point was between; and as she
clung to himself Distinctly, they passed
out of the village safely.
Before reaching their homes, however,
they had to cross a small creek, and when
the horse stepped in to drink, the old lady,
having reached unconsciousness, released
her hold and slid quietly into the stream
below. Arriving home the children in
quired for ‘mammy,’ but the old man
could only say that she had been on the
critter, and the critter hadn’t kicked nar
ry time, so he could’t say where she must
be, and threw himself stupid on the bed.
The girls and boys flew along the road
the old man had come, yelling ‘mammy!’
‘mammy !’ but of course, no mammy re
sponded.
When they arrived at the creek, the
oldest girl yelled, ‘there she is sitting
down in the creek !’
And there she was seated comfortably
in the water, which came nearly up to her
mouth. As she swayed back and forth,
now yielding to the impetuosity of the
stream, and now resisting it with some
success, the muddy fluid would occasion
ally wet her lips, and each time it did so
she would exclaim, with a grim effort to
smile :
‘Not a drap more, Mr. Fillens, ’thout
it’s sweetened.’
Liberalty Well Bestowed.
We understand that, our respected fellow
citizen, William Jones, Jr., Esq., has ordered
a first class Locomotive, to be built for the
Mobile and Ohio Railroad, which he will pre
sent to the Company. It will be a most, ac
ceptable gift, and will be appreciated, not on
ly by the Company, but by the great public,
who are interested in the success of this great
work. We take peculiar pleasure in record
ing this act of generosity on the part of one
of our oldest, most wealthy and respected of
our fellow-citizens.
The machine will be as fine as can be made,
and will, doubtless, be superior to auy run
upon Southern roads. —Mobile Advertiser.
South Carolina Gold Mines.
The Gold Mines near this city, in South
Carolina, arc becoming, we are pleased to
learn, a most important interest, and some of
them are being worked with much more ener
gy and capital than in former years. The
mines in the lower part of Abbeville District,
South Carolina, worked by a New York com
pany, known as the ‘ Dorn Mining Company,’
are said to be now yielding very rich ore,
from veins worked at a greater depth than
formerly attained iu that region. They are
drained by a powerful pumping apparatus,
worked by steam. The appearance of the
mine is now reported as very flattering—Au
ffusta Chronicle.
Mr. Coi'win on the Stump for Fillmore.
Cincinnati, Oct. 13.—Hon. Thomas Cowin
spoke at Carthage, Kentucky, on Saturday,
lie defended Mr. Fillmore’s administration,
aud denounced the abolitionists, who refused
to support Mr. Clay against Mr. Polk in 1814.
He maintained the right of Congress to legis
late on slavery in the territories; disclaimed
the purpose of electioneering for any man.
lie belonging to an old party, now extinct,
lie was an orphan, and spoke simply as a
citizen who desired to confer with his fellow
citizens as to their duty in this emergency.
He had no political aspiration, lie had had
enough of involuntary servitude and claimed
the benefit of the ordinance of 1787. The
people themselves were to blame for much of
the trouble the country had been brought,
into. He believed that Mr. Fillmore's views
were the same as his own concerning the pow
er of Congress to legislate on slavery in the
territories.
Some Northern man calls the Black Repub
lican ticket “the Kangaroo ticket.” Dayton
is so far superior to Fremont, that the very
beggars in the streets of Washington echoes
it. on the ground that all the strength is in
the hind legs. Hit him again.
The National Intelligencer, in noticing the
recent decease of Col. Andrew Joyner, of
Halifax. N. C., says; “A\e may be permitted
lo mention, in attestation to his excellence of
character, that, at the time of his death, he
had been a continuous and punctually paying
subscriber to the National Intelligencer for
fifty-one years.
TELEQRAPHIC,
TjbvgT.iphod to tbo IY.ily
From New Orleans.
New Orleans, Oct. 10.
Tbo sales of cotton to-day amounted to for
ty-five hundred bales at feeble prices, yy’
dliDg 1H to life. Flour has advanced to $7
in consequence of diminished supply p c^ .
drooping. Freights depressed.
From Charleston.
Charleston, Oct. 2G
The sales of cotton to-day amounted u ,
nineteen hundred bales at full prices.
Sentiment in ftontli Carolina
Hon. W. W. Boyce, of S. C., addressed his
constituents of the Richland District last week
The following passage occurred in his speech
which was loudly cheered :
“But suppose the N. rth should not prorm
a compromise ? Have we not the brightV
above our heads, and the firm earth beneatl,
our feet ? Can we not work out our own jJ
tiny, upon our own soil, in view of the gran
of our fathers, defend our rights, and maintain
our independence ? The election of Frem,",
must not be submitted to. The South may tin
go with me, but! must say for myself” th !
rather than submit my neck to the yoke which
Sumner, Burlingame, Wilson, Seward, and oth
ers of that stamp would impose, I am in f, JVor
of secession, resistance, death, anything “’1
[Loud and long continued cheers.
Statue of Franklin in Boston.
The citizens of Boston have lately inaugu
rated a splendid statue of Franklin. We hone
the sight of it will lead them to emulate tin
sound common sense, the moderation, justice
and love of country, so characteristic of the
great philosopher. We have in our posse
sion a number of the Pennsylvania Gazette
published by Franklin in 17 82, which the Bus
tonians ought to have had to deposite amoin.
his memorials. It is a seven by nine sheet
mostly filled with advertisements, many or
which are of runaway negroes, worded in
much the same style as those in Southern p ;l .
pers, which now give so much offence to the
Beechers, Stowes, eke. Tlie Bostonians are
welcome to it if it will suit their modern style
of thought.— Auyusta Sentinel.
Unfortunate.
Our friend, Jasper Harris, Esq., (of this
county,) jwe regret to learn, while abstu;
from home, oil his official duties, as county Su
perintendent, had the misfortune to have hi
dwelling house, smoke house, corn-cribs, sta
ble, Ac., all consumed by fire, on Wednesday
tlie Bth instant. Nothing was saved from tlie
flames, except a bed, and a few clothes.
His extensive library, and many other valuable
articles were lost. His loss is between thir
teen and fourteen hundred dollars, the whole
of which was his own earnings—and about all
he was worth above his liabilities. We hope
his many warm friends iu the county, will
take pleasure in bearing part of his loss. He
has always been ready to contribute to the un
fortunate, when they needed aid .—Chambers
Tribune.
The Cotton Trade.
To the Editors of the Liverpool Daily Post:
Sir: The importance of the subject to which
the enclosed extracts refer induces us to be
lieve you will kindly give publicity to them,
and thus aid to suppress an evil, the magni
tude of which is beginning to excite great ap
prehension. This year, we have had to make
135 separate claims for American cotton re
turned herefrom tlie manufacturing districts,
as falsely packed. \ r ours &c.,
John Wkkilkv & Sons, Cotton Brokers.
Liverpool Sept. 25, 1860.
Largest Steamer in the World.
The following are the dimensions of some
of the largest steamers in the world. The
Great Western, 23(5 feet long, 25broad; Great
Britain, 322 feet long, 51 feet broad; Himal
aya, 350 feet long, 43 broad; the Persia, 390
feet long, 45 broad; the Adriatic, 354 feu
long, 50 feet brond ; the Vanderbilt, 335 feet
long, breadth 45 feet. The Eastern, now be
ing built under the direction of Brunei, is more
than twice the size of the largest of these,
and may well be considered the greatest me
chanical achievement of ancient or modern
times. •
Beans in Sand. —Much soil of this west
ern country is unsuited for raising beans, on
account of its great richness. The bean runs
too much to vine. Hence the best beaus are
raised on those portions which have a thin
surface soil, (as on the elevations,) as tlie
plow here turns up a portion of the subsoil, j
which generally consists of a mixture of clay. ;
sand, gravel, ike. Whenever this can be mis- *
ed with the surface soil, not only the bes: j
beans but the best corn, wheat, &c., (though i
not the largest growth,) are raised. On ac
count. of the great, depth and richness of the !
soil of this country, generally, it. can never s
become exhausted. It is only necessary occa
sionally to increase the depth of the tillage,
which may be done in different places to the
depth of two or three to twenty feet or more.
But I have strayed from my subject. La.-t
year 1 planted several hills of beans in the
edge of a pile of sand that, had been left after
building. T dug through the sand, placed the
beans on the ground beneath, and covered
them with the sand. They gvew aud produc
ed. The pods were the longest and largest of
any of the kind that I raised last year. This
year I am doing the same thing on a larger
scale, and with a lair prospect of success.
The Pilgrim Society ol - Plymouth is now
endeavoring to raise money to erect a monu
ment as an enduring testimonial to the virtue
of the first settlers of Massachusetts. Ac
cording to the programme, “the whole monu
ment is to be about 150 feet high, and 80 tec l
at the base. The statue of faith will he" 1
feet high, aud the sitting figures 38 teet hip l
—thus making it in magnitude tlie greater
work of the kind in the world, while as a j
work of art it will be a subject of pride to ,
every American citizen. A contribution q ;
25 cents each from the American people e
proposed. A neut engraving of the monu
ment will be furnished to each subscriber.
The sculptor and designer is Mr. Billing"’
the American artist
A marriage took place at the hotel of
American minister iu Paris a few weeks ng’
The parties were Mr. Joseph M. Heyward. 1
Charleston, South Carolina, and Miss M 9l ' 1
Henrietta Magrodcr, daughter of Captain 1 ‘j
A. Magruder, of tlie United States Navy.
The Rev. Dr. Hull, chaplain of the British
bassy, was the officiating clergyman.
Though but eighteen years have ela;
since the first vessel wholly propelled by ‘ iU ’ *
crossed the Atlantic, now there arc fouviei
lines of steamers, consisting 6f forty-’ -
vessels, plying between Europe and the 1
ted Sta'es. Out of these forty-eight steaua
but twelve are American construction.
foreign companies have lost four of their s- 1
ers, and we the same number.