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Satnrilay illurulug, October 5*5, 1850.
IjAIUJKST CITY CinCUIiATION.
The communion i ion relating to the forma
tion of a “Young Mens’ Christian Associa
lion,” was received too late Tor insertion in
this morning’s issue. It will appear on Mon
day morning.
Wo call tho attention of Planters to the ad
vertisement of Mr. John C. Ruse, in to-day’s
paper, offering Chatahoochoc River land for
sale.
The lion. Solomon Foote, Black Republi
can, Ims been re-elected by the Legisliflure of
Vermont, United .St ates .Senator for four years
from t lie 4th of March nest.
We leurn from the Selma (Ala.) Reporter
that, tho Commercial Rank, located at that,
place, will go into operation oil the Ist of
November.
Serious
We leurn from the Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Ob
• erver, that the Gin House of Dr. L. M. Clem
ents, in that county, containing some 45 or 50
bales of unpacked cotton, was consumed by
tire on Friday morning last, the 17th instant.
No lives were lost.
A dispatch from Philadelphia says tho Sun
newspaper of that, pluce, which has lately
been leaning to the Fremont side in the l’res
idcutial Donlest lias come out in support of
Fillmore.
VI or bin Klee (lon Complete.
A dispatch from Mobile dated October l'.tth,
says the returns frout the Kloof ion are now
complete. Perry, Democrat, is elected Gov
ernor by 400 majority, and Hawkins, Demo
crat, to Congress by 800 majority. The Dem
ocratic loss since 1804 is 000.
The lion. Rufus Choate has declined the
nomination for his Congressional District, in
Massachusetts.
Ohio Klee (ion.
It is now reported that Judge Hall, Demo
crat, is elected to Congress from tho 9th dis
trict, over C. K. Watson, Republican. This
will .make tho delegation stand thirteen Re
publicans and eight democrats—tho latter a
clear gain. A Legislature was not voted for
til. t his election.
“ Sham Democracy.**
The Columbus Sun is exercised about our
calling the Buchanan party of Indiana, tlie
Sham Democracy It expresses its great love
Top the party-—which, by the way, was no se
cret. However, tho following from the Ala
bama Journal will show what the leader of
the Slmin Democracy of Indiana is, and the
Sun can still endorse it, if It chooses.-— Mont.
Mail.
We have no disposition to discuss politics
with tho Mail. Annexed are the resolutions,
said by tho Journal to have been introduced
into a Democratic Convention in Indiana in
IRfO :
Resolved, That the institution of slavery
ought not to be introduced into any Territory
where it does not. now exist.
Resolved, That inasmuch as New Mexico
and California, ure in fact and in law free
Territories, it is the duty of Congress to pre
vent the int roduction of slavery within their
limits.
Mr. Willard possibly nmy have introduced
lliese resolutions into a Democratic Conven
tion as stated by the Journal. Os that the
Journal has ftirnishod no evidence. But. ad
mitting such to be the fact, it only places him
at that time, where the entire American party
of the North now stand. In the late contest
lie was opposed by a Black Republican, and
was denounced by the opposition as the pro
slavery candidate of the pro-slavery demo
cratic party, and us such boat them hand
somely. In this triumph, we, in common
with the great body of both parties at. the
South, heartily rejoice. Is the Mail sorry?
While on this subject, we will state that
recently we have been numerously charged
with having doffed our neutrality. This wo
are disposed to think exists only in a preju
diced imagination, so far as the Sun is con
cerned. That its editor and proprietor is a
democrat in the broadest, sense, no one has
ever protended to deny ; and never when ask
i and for his opinions, outside of the Sun, as to
the result, of the coming or other elections,
has he failed to express them l'roely; and
when pressed, even backs his judgment, to the
extent ol'a subscription to the Sun.
We publish nothing political in t lie Sun but
thill which wefoel is due to public informa
tion. We have carefully laid before our read
ers everything calculated to throw light on
the opinions of both Fillmore and Buchanan,
effecting the institution of slavery, and have
given changes in the positions of such politi
cians in the South, as stood conspicuous be
fore the public. In doing so, we have, in eve
ry instance, lot the parties speak for them
selves. We shall continue to do so. This is
our idea of neutrality.
Lancaster, Pa.
Seeing a good deal said in ninny of our
Soul hern exchanges about tho great victory
over Buchanan in Lancaster county, the seat
of his residence, and knowing it. to have been
a strong whig county heretofore, we were a
little curious to look into tho matter.
In 1852, Scott had a majority over I’ieree,
in l.aneastor county, Pn., of 5058.
in 1851, the Know Nothing majority for
Pollock, over Bigler, Democrat, for Governor,
in li'inciister county, was six thousand two
hundred and sixty-three !
At lie recent election, the party opposed to
Buchanan and the Democracy—be it Fillmore
or Black Republican—both claim it—have a
majority of two thousand four hundred and
fortv-fouv votes, showing a clear gain for the
Democracy, of :!,819 votes. In the city of
Lancaster the Democratic majority is 565,
being a gain in the city of 447 votes since the
last election.
We have not noticed this matter with any
desire to interfere between the two political
fcpart • ■ in the South, but to prevent therend
f ers oi the Suu from being misled and risking
their money on a false state of facts.
Fatal Accident.
We learn from the Romo Advertiser that a
little daughter of Mr. Pyles, residing in the
lo*wer part of Van’s'Vulley in Floyd county,
was killed on Monday the 13th instant, Vy the
falling of a limb from a tree, which struck
her on tho back part of the head, breaking
the skull in a shocking manner, and an arm
and leg. She lingered in this condition until
Tuesday morning and expired. The accident
occurred at a school house in the neighbor
hood while the children were at play.
Tlie Main Trunk Safe.
The Commissioners of the Atlantic and Gulf
Rail lioad met at. Milledgeville last, Wednes
day, present, Hon. Charles Spalding, C. J.
Munnerlyn, F. R. Young, Wm. Ponder, Hon.
Edward C. Anderson and Dr. James P. Scre
ven.
We learn from the Savannah Republican
that the full sum necessary to secure the sub
scription of half a million from the State was
subscribed as follows: $200,1)00 by the city
of Savannah, $200,000 by the Savannah, Al
bany and Gulf Rail Road Company, and $200,-
000, in private subscriptions, chiefly from the
counties of Decatur and Thomas.
Certified lists of subscriptions were made
out and furnished to His Excellency, the Gov
ernor, in compliance with the requirements of
the Act of Incorporation.
It was provided that after not less than
thirty days’ notice, an election shall be held
in the city of Milledgeville, for nine Directors,
under the supervision of the Commissioners,
or any live or more of them. The stockhold
ers will vote in tills election either in person
or by proxy, as may be desired.
We congratulate the citizens of Savannah
and of Southern Georgia, upon this auspicious
result.
Facts Worth Noting.
From the N. 0. Medical and Surgical .louriiat.
The late Mr. Gallatin, formerly Treasurer
of the United States, reckons the entire im
portation of blacks into the territorial limits
of the Republic, at. 300,000 —now not less than
four millions! M. Humboldt, in the work
above mentioned, (Personal Narrative,) adds
up the importation of blacks, into the British
West Indies from 1080 to 1780, which reaches,
in 100 years, the enormous aggregate of 2,130,-
000. This aggregate includes neither the
slaves imported openly up to 1824, a period
of 38 years later, nor those imported at an
earlier date, reaching back for the West Indies
to 1503—a period of 177 years anterior to M.
Humboldt’s point of departure—a period of
more than a hundred yeajs before the first
white immigrants reached tiio shores of this
Republic.
M. Humboldt says: “The whole Archipelago
of the West Indies which now comprises scarce
ly 2,400,000 negroes and mulattoes free and
slaves, received from 1070 to 1825, nearly
5,000,000 of Africans.” VII. 272. Add to
this all the importations, of which no exact re
cord exist, from 1508 to 1670—a period of 177
years, and then add the enormous importa
tion since 1825, down to the present day,
Aug. 8, 1850, to which add tho natural in
crease as proved by the statistical history of
a handful of slaves imported at a compara
tively late period into the slaveholding States
of this Republic, not exceeding 800,000, yet
soon multiplying to 4,000,000. These 300,-
000 ought to have been extinguished wholly
ere now according to the ratio of decline ob
served in other slaveliolding lands—consider
these things, ye weeping philanthropists of
the North, and of realms beyond the ocean,
and of the islands of the distant seas—weep
for the many millions imported during 350
years from Africa, whom the vital statistician
can nowhere find but in the oblivious grave,
in mouldering bones. Why should the heart
of the great world sob itself into convulsions
over the slaveholding States of the Republic,
the oasis of the African desert., where alone
the negro has a home, if not freedom, where
he prospers most, has the greatest amount of
the physical comforts, increases fastest, lives
longest, and enjoys the best health, slave nev
ertheless. The negroes of Africa now more
than ever cat one another. They are every
where crushed out beyond the limits of the
slaveholding States.
A French naval officer, who, with liis suite,
was hospitably entertained by the Negro King
of Dahomey, during the Presidency of Napo
leon, now Emperor of the French, relates that
the King feeds his large army of female and
male soldiers with the flesh of his captives,
whom lie can now no longer sell to the
whites. Tho French officer, shocked at, see
ing human beings thus butchered, frequently
plead with the King to abandon this practice,
but. was always answered by his Majesty and
Cabinet with hearty laughter for his ineffable
absurdity.
“The chief ornament of the royal residence,
containing 15,000 inhabitants, is human skulls,
of which, when a number was wanted to pave
a court or decorate a ceiling, it was not an
unusual process to have some scores of per
sons massacred for the purpose.” (National
Cyclop, v. 210. London, 1848. The female
part of the army is nearly ns large as the
standing army of the United States usually is
in times of peace.
The Ashantee kingdom, bordering upon
Dahomey, is alike free in all barbarities. The
Cyclopaedia already quoted, says: “The
most remarkable among the habitual charac
teristics of the Ashantees are their warlike
ferocity and their love of blood. These pas
sions have, as usual, dooply colored their re
ligious belief belief and observances. The
most horrid of the practices by which they
express their devotional feelings are those in
which they indulge at what are called the Yam
and the Ada! customs, the former commenc
ing in the early part of September when the
consumption of the Yam crop begins, the lat
ter taking place, on a greater or lesser scale,
alternately every three weeks. On all these
occasions human blood llows in torrents.”
If Negro vital progression had been equally
great beyond the limits of the slaveholding
States, as within the latter, perhaps one hun
dred millions would, ere this, have spread
over the West Indies and upon the American
continent, during the last three and a half
centuries. The vital statistician weeps scien
tifically, that is, to say, arithmetically, cesthe
ticnlly. and, if inclined to benevolence, ethi
cally too; he will not. waste sympathy over
four millions of living negroes, whose well
being exceeds that of any portion of their
race, even in their native land,
“Where Afric’s sunny fountains
Moll down their goldoti mrilr.”
including New England hills, Canadian snows,
aud the eternal verdure of West India Island,
which gem the Oarriboan sea.
Mr. Allison, the Scotch Historian, in his
work on Population, in comparing (lie condi
tion of tlie Irish with the blacks of the West
Indies, says: “Unquestionably the condition
of the negroes in tho West Indies, prior to
their late emancipation, generally speaking,
was infinitely preferable. It is, perhaps, the
worst effect of that well meant but disastrous
measure, Unit it will approximate the condi
tion and Habits of the negro race in those
beautiful Islands to that of the Irish peasan
try.” Ii p. 206-7. Indeed, this writer lays
it down as an axiom, that “slavery results
unavoidably from the dependent condition of
the laboring classes.”
The vital statistician, sanitarian, or physi
ologist., is warranted in scrutinisiug any dog
ma, social or political institution, in so far as
it may have a direct influence upon the vital
progress, increuse, health, sickness, and lon
gevity of population. If for example, a the
ological dogma required the extinction of a
race,Hie might, as one of the Faithful, adopt
it, but as a statistician he should examine it
by the light of scientific investigation, and
judgiq of its sanitary import, &c., us in the
cases of Mussuliuanic and Mormon polygamy,
African slavery, and the like, although, in
fact, there never was, there is not, nor will
there ever be, a fundamental antithesis be
tween ethical and physical science. The uni
ty and utility of truth arc ever conjoined.
Bentham, the most voluminous writer upon
codification and modern reformation in law,
regarded utility as the criterion of human vir
tue and conduct. He says :“A conscientious
person is one who, having made himself a rule
of conduct, steadily abides by it. In the
common use of the phrase, it, is implied that
his rule of conduct, is the right one. But on
ly in so far as his rule is consistent with the
principles of utility can his conscientiousness
be deemed virtuous. A good conscience is
the favorable opinion which a man entertains
of liis own conduct; an evil conscience is the
unfavorable decision of a man of his own
conduct. .But the value of the judgment giv
en must wholly depend on its being subserv
ient to, or rather on its being an application
of, the greatest happiness principle. That
which produces happiness or misery is prop
erly called virtuous or vicious. Virtue and
’'ice are but useless qualities unless estimated
by their influences on the creation of pleasure
and pain. Effort, undoubtedly, is useful to
virtue, and the seat of that effort, in the care
of Providence, is principally in the under
standing, in the case of effective benevolence,
mainly in the will and the affections. Os all
the actions of man, those which preserve the
individual, aud those which preserve the spe
cies, are undoubtedly the most beneficial to
the community. (Jeremy Bentham. Theory
of Social Science. I. 187, 141, 145, 140.
London, 1834.)
Whether the utility be, or be not the true
ethical platform, it is not necessary to the
purpose in making this quotation, to deter
mine, but in sanitary and vital science, no
other platform need be accepted, and on this,
the vital statistics of the negro race is placed,
as neither the Constitution of the United
States, nor tho “higher law” (eras Luther
termed it, the Pope that every man carried in
liis abdomen,) is material in this inquiry.
If the vital statistics of the negroes of the
Southern States of this Republic, be compar
ed with the vital progress of the aristocratic
classes in England, it will be found that the
comparison will be to t lie utmost degree un
favorable to the latter. The Westminster Re
view for April, 1847, says that, “in England,
in a great majority ol cases the male heirs
of the Peerages—ami in all cases of the Ba
ronetages, become extinct for want of male
heirs, though many of each have female re
presentatives.”
M. Galigni in liis Guide to Paris (1844,)
says that nearly all the old Parisian families
are extinct—particularly’ the male portion,
and that in the great city of Paris, not one
thousand persons can reckon their ancestors
as far back as Louis Xili.
The numerical history of the slave popula
tion of this Republic compared to the ratio of
increase in France, is immeasurably unfavor
able to the latter. According to M. D’Ange
ville, and other earlier and later authorities,
the ratio of increase in France requires 139
years, and according to the very latest cen
sus, 142 years, for the duplication of the
French population.
The slaves of the United States increase
more than five times faster than the popula
tion of France.
In 1840, the slaves numbered 1,833 cente
narians, and in 1850 the number was 1,425,
while all France had, in 1837, but 120 of this
age, an unusal proportion of whom were con
centrated in the valley of the Garonne. The
French population had then, according to the
census, but one centenarian to 240,000 inha
bitants. According to the last census of the
United States, there was one centenarian in
every 2,448 slaves, a ratio 98 times greater
than in the French Empire.
The physiological deterioration of the free
blacks, particularly in the non-slaveholding
.States of this Republic, as set. forth and uni
formly confirmed by every ofticial census, is
unparalleled in the ethnological history of
mankind. This extraordinary degeneration
does not apply to the low ratio of increase,
but to the high numerical proportion of the
insane, the idots, the deaf, dumb, blind, and
so forth. The Indian race in North America,
estimated by Mr. Oatlan at 10,000,000 at the
time the Caucasian family settled in the coun
try, lias dwindled down to a few hundred
thousands, without having suffered from sim
ilar deterioration.
This deterioration was called in question by
several citizens of Boston. It will be seen by
the Compendium of the U. S. Census for 1850,
compiled from official documents by Professor
Deßow, Superindent of the Census Bureau,
and published by the authority of Congress
in 1854, that, after a thorough scrutiny by
the Government, the authenticity of the cen
sus, so unfavorable to the physical and sani
tary condition of tho free blacks of the North
is fully established.
The slaveholding States of this Republic,
with a stock of 300,000 such Pagans as those
in Dahomey, Ashantee, kc., have presented
to the statistician about four millions of souls
deeply imbued with the fundamental princi
ples of Christianity, that great civilizer. Tho
numerical proportion of christianized slaves
is probably greater than that of any other
class in the Union. Pile up the pyramid of
Negro Skulls statistically wasted in Africe, in
the West Indies, and everywhere beyond the
limits of the slaveholding States, ami lo! the
Bunker Hill monument and the Egyptian
Cheops will be lost in its overshadowing
shade. Mount upon this golgothau pyramid
—and from its apex survey the vast Aceldama
around its base, which expands inimitably,
save a single oasis that rises to view.
As before stated, statisticians at least,
should economise their sympathy, so as not.
to waste it wholly upon one portion of tiie
American Republic, the vital statistics of
which ought to be accept oil as satisfactory.
Ho might even distrust speculations which
are contradicted by vital arithmetic.
Pennsylvania Politics.
Philadelphia, Oct. 21.—We learn from
Harrisburg that, two members of the State
Ooniiu. ii u of the Americans have seceded to
the Free;.inters, and have been nominated on
the Aiiit-fcLicUamin ticket for electors.
From I’urtar’s Spirit of the Times.
A Tilt .\DEKl\tl COON HUNT.
BY H. P. L.
It’s refreshing to hear Old Tom tell
stories ; for, though he gives the same one
over a dozen times, he never tells it twice
alike! lie let off the following, one mor
ning last week, to an audience of two per
sons, one of whom lias probably heard it
more times than a clock will tick on a long
summer’s day; and who, consequently,
prepared himself for a doze as soon as Old
Tom commenced with —
“I’m an ole man, iny young fren,” but
I tell you I’ve been through a power ov
coon hunts in my time, an’ I’m jus goin’
to tell yer ov one ov ’em. It’s as troo as
I’m a settin’ on this here cheer. (He was
sitting on a bench at the time). Mind
yer, there air fellers who can’t open their
heads, ’bout huntin’ ’speshilly, but what
sartain sure out comes lies. They talk
jus as smoove as welvit; but I know ’em;
they may me purty airly, but they don’t
see no sun rise albro Old Tom does !
They don’t make no mark here! (and at
this he slapped himself half a foot below
where the heart beats). They may hit
mein the years, but they don’t teecli no
heart of mine, no how. Igo in fortrooth
1 do! and I’m goin’ to give yer some this
minit.”
As Old Tom got up from the bench at
this “minit,” his wide awake auditor
thought lie was going to the whiskey bar
rel to get it. But he didn’t; he only got
up in order to sit down again.
“As I was tollin’ on you, I wunst went
on a thunderin’ coon hunt down by Stri
ker’s Pon’. It want proper time, no how,
to hunt the creeters, bein’ as it was the
middel ov summer; but Lishe Propel’, lie
■was bent on killin’ coons, an’ we tother
boys waren’t no way slow to follow arter
him when he led off. Lishe, he had a
couple of the likeliest hound dogs round
them regins—one ov ’em was the complc
test dog for luggin’ creeters I ever seed.
Howsumever, we started from Lish Pro
per’s one July night: if I disremembor
rightly, the moon wos a shinin’ when we
sot out, an’ arter travellin’ nare about two
milds,2we come onter the lower cend ov
the pon’—Striker’s Pon’—an’ all to onst
Lishe Proper’s hounds struck coon-tracks,
an’ tooned up their pipes like moosician
ers, I tell you ! I had a little spaniel dog
’long, who tuck arter coons nat’ral as beef
bones ; an’ purty soon I lieerd him loudin’
up too. Says Ito myself, ‘Tom, there’s,
a big coon thareabouts.’ I know’d Jack’s
woice, the hull way from tooth to tail, an’
he was cryin’ ’bout a big one that time.
We follered the dogs narc four milds,
good measure, ’fore we treed that coon.—
Sitch trampoosin I never seed the likes ov
afore, nowhere. I tored my coat inter
rags, and had no britches on rnore’n would
hev covered a six muns ole baby; but the
coon was treed shure thing, britches or no
britches. One of the fellers he struck a
light, an’ purty soon we seed we needed
it, coz thare was more clouds in the sky
than you could shake sticks at. Thare
we wos, men and boys, curs an’ hounds,
all round the foot ova big white cedar
tree, a waitin’ for sumthin’ to turn up.
I never seed no hounds kerry on like them
’ere ones of Lishe’s; they pitched round
like es they ware goin’ to jump thare hides
off, a yellin’ an’ a howlin’, Ya-hooo-hoooo
lioooooo! (here Old Tom indulged in a pro
longed howl, completely arousing No. 2 of
the audience, and causing him to start up
wide awake). Oh, you’re wakin’ up, are
yc? That a way the hounds sung, an’
the boys shouted, an’ as the fire-light be
gun to shine up the tree, some ov ’em sot
to work firin’away at every nob and bunch
as was to be seen on the tree. There was
a big shower ov bark flyin’ around about
that time, you may believe. Bimeby I
seed, way up on a top-a-most branch, Mis
ter Coon makink himself as small as a
small tater; jus as I was goin’ to fire, may
I he dod-rahbit es I didn’t see two more
coons, on two other branches, alongside of
the fust.”
“How much whiskey had you on board
that time, eh?” asked No. 2.
“Nary a drap more’ii I could kerry jus
well ballusted, an’ a goin of it unucr easy
sail. I wan’t no ways owlly, an’ seed
them three coons as plain as I see that
cow a grazin’ over there in the medder.
Lishe Proper an’ Zeke Scutter, they seed
’em at the same time, an’ Lishe, lie was
so aside hisself with seech a sight, that he
pullt a big bottle right out of his coat
pockit, an’ we all took big drinks on the
strength ofsich a werry blessed sight.”—
At this point Old Tom got up from the
bench and went behind the bar, ostensibly
to get a piece of tobacco. Returning lie
sat down and continued:
“All on a suddint, Lishe hadn’t more’ll
got the whiskey bottle inter his pockit,
afore —‘Whang! whang! Boom-a-roong-a
----roong!” Here Old Torn, as an illustra
tion of the noise, dashed on the lloor what
he thought was an empty porter bottle,
and which he had kept studiously conceal
ed until tills moment, in order to produce
a “stunning effect” on his one-horso audi
ence. By mistake he got hold of a bottle
half full of bitters, and the way it and the
broken glass flew round the room and over
tho audience was “promiscuous.”
“What the are you driving at?”
asked No. 2, jumping from his seat and
trying to wipe off the stains from coat and
pantaloons. Old Tom stood a picture of
surprise and astonishishment. At last,
stammering out —“Why, why, who would
hev tho’t it? I tlio’t Ik no wed there was
nothin’ in that bottle. I’ve lired off
more’ll fifty of ’em a tollin’ this hero sto
ry (l)an’ 1 never knowed one hev bitters
in it afore. Here, Jim, come a here an’
sweep up this muss. Gentle men, let’,
take a drink. Hope nobody’s kilt?”
“Wal, as I was sayin, ‘whang! wham* 1 ”
(“No more bottles, Tom!” shouts No. 2
“Boom-a-roong-a-roong! come the litonin’
knockin’ things all ter bits; stunning 1
men an’ dogs such a way I never wants
ter see the likes ov agin’. It was mitm
dark for a spell with me, I tell you. Al
ter awhile 1 tries to raise upon end, an’
fust hitch, I thort I lied a hive ov bees in
my head, sieh a buzzin’ an’ swiuiniiir
rount. Purty soon I comes too, an’ t] l(i
fust thing I seed was Lishe Proper a hoi
din’ on ter a dead coon with one hand an’
tryin’ to wipe the dust and bark out ov his
eyes with liis tother.
“Lishe,” says I, “where arc we?”
“Tother side of Jordan !” says he, “. lt ,
the ferry boat broke too, at that! No 1114.
ter, we ain’t goin’ to starve!” An’ j„
licit up the coon. Zeke Scutter, he y ; „
most stunted ov enybody. Howsumever
wo got him dow’ii to the pon’, an’ arter
rubbin’ of his face in water, he come tv,
We went back to look at wliar theliteniii’
hit, an’ may I be jammed if thare wan t
Lishe Proper’s hound tryin’ to git at an.
other coon bangin’ up in the crotch of tin
tree, dead as a herrixi’. We got him
down sooner! an’ were on the pint- of tur
nin’ home, when, may I he jammed agin,
if that ere hound dog hadn’ the track 4
the third coon, an’ was diggin’ up tin
ground to get at him. We all got round
the hole an’ ware peerin’ in, when, ova
suddint, Lishe Proper he seed the fur, an’
made a grab at the tail, an’ bro’t out the
third coon, dead as a side of sole leather,
an’ smellin’ like a box of brimstun match
es. The litenin’ had actilly dug a hale
an’ kerried that co.on under grouu’, onl;
leavin’ the tip eend of his tail out for a
toom-stone.
“I tell you, that’s wot 1 call a rah
thunderin’ coon hunt.”
TELEGRAPHIC.
Telegraphed to tho Daily Sun.
From Charleston.
Charleston, Get. 23.
The sales of cott on to-day sum up l;;ij(j
bales —of the week 8,400. Market close
quarter lower to-day. Middling Fair ]]
to 12c.
Charleston, Get. 24.
The sales of cotton to-day reached thiriy
two hundred bales at rather easier prices.
FURTHER BY THE CITY OF BALTI
MORE.
Commercial Intelligence.
The cotton sales of Monday and Tuesday,
Oth and 7th, (the only business days intervon
ing since the last departure on tho -Ith), were
10,000 bales. The market, under the ordinary
iufiuences and advices as to demand ami sup
ply, indicated an advancing tendency, which
was checked, however, by the stringency of
the money market, aud especially by anew ad
vance in the rate of discount, which had been
placed at six per cent, by tho Bank of En
gland.
Bkeadstuffs. — Wheat. —The report shows
buoyancy, at an advance of Id. (a) 2d.; White
10s. 3d. (5) 10s. 6d.; Red 9s. 4d. @ 9s. Oil.—
Flour has also advanced Is., and the figures giv
en are : Baltimore 325. Od. @ 335.; Ohio 335.
6d. @ 345. Od. Corn remains quiet. Yellow
335. @ 335. Od.; White 345. @ 345. (id.
The Money Market.— By advices from
Paris to the 7th inst., it appears that previous
reports were exaggerated as to the probable sus
pension of specie payments by the flank of
France. The Minister of Finance has presen
ted a report which, in a great measure, has al
layed apprehension, and the latest quotations
on the Bourse showed an improvement of j on
the three per cent, rentes. The liauk has re
sumed its purchases of gold.
The Bank of England, as above noted, has
advanced 1$ cents additional io the discount
rate, making it now 7 per cent. 011 bills over
two months. This special provision wasdeem
ed necessary’ in consequence of a resolution of
the Bank of France not to discount bills for any
term over 00 days. In other cases it is now 0
per cent.
General Intelligence.
Switzerland. —The General Convention of
the popular delegates from all the Cantons as
sembled at Marges, declared that tho Monarch
ical intrigues now attempted were dangerousto
the popular liberties.
Nai'LES. —The King appears less disposed to
concede to tho intervention of the Western Al
lies. Their expedition is still detained, al
though it is believed that no alternative is leli
them but to despatch it.
Turkey. —The affairs of the Isle of Serpent
and the Montenegrins remain as before, air*
the allied squadron is still before Constantino
ple.
Ccntrnl American States— ■Jilcoragn*
ami tlie Allied Foes.
New Orleans, Oct. 22.—The arrival of the
U. S. mail steamer Tennessee brings u, later
advices from Nicaragua of an exciting char
acter. President Walker leaving a small re
serve to occupy Granada, proceeded with
1000 men to attack the allied forces ol the
host ile States near Messaya, and succeeded in
forcing them into the city. He was spirit ; -
ly and eagerly follow ing up his success by de
monstration against the city, when a court 11
arrived informing him that 400 men ot 0“’
allied recruits were attacking liis reserve “
Grenada. He accordingly returned 10 >c
lieve that post, and succeeded in capturing
commander, principal officers, field piece-.
kc. The loss of the ullies in killed and wouir
ed is staled at 1100; tiiat of the Nicaragua 11 '-
40.
It was expected that President ‘UiU' 1
would immediately renew his attack on
saya.
The P. K. Chwrcli Convention-
I’ll 1 laiiklimi I\, Get. 22. —A propositi" 11 b’
orect a now diocese, embracing the teriit'’G
of Kansas and Nebraska, lias been rejecte 1 ■
The Rev. Benjamin Tredwe.ll OnderdonK
the suspended Bishop of New York, has 11
restored and reinstated to the exercise i” “■
functions.
The Elections.
Harrisiichc, Pa., Get. 21.—Returns
cially authenticated, have been receive” 11
from all except four counties of Pennsyl' l,ll
and the result is a majority 01 *> ‘’ ~ ( _
George .Scott, the Democratic nominee t" 1
rial <-oinmissioner. In the counties yd “
reported officially, the opposition claim ■( 1,1
jority of 1,693. 111 the legislature the ff®
ernts will have a joint ballot majority 0