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COLUMBUS:
Tnruday MornliiK, Nnv. 4> 1556,
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liAIIGKST CITY CIRCULATION.
Manuiacturero’ and Meohamc#’ Bank.
Tlusfe was a good dual of excitement in this
city yesterday about this Bank, which failed
to open its doors as usual, and, various were
the conjectures us to its probable condition,
financially. During the forenoon, many anx
ious faces might bo seen in front of the en
trance, with one hand in the pocket, apparent
ly anxiously awaiting the opening of the insti
tution. It did not open, however, and they
finally dispersed, giviug the thing up as a
hopeless case. It is supposod by many to be
utterly bursted. We have heard of several
individuals who hold its bills for over $2,000.
What its condition is no one seems at all in
formed. We saw its bills changing hands as
low as 25 cents on the dollar. We are disposed
to think the case not so bad as to justify so
great a sacrifice. It is reasonable to supposo
its Htockbolders good for at least ha'f of its
liabilities. Everybody accords to Dr. Taylor,
its President, the greatest integrity, and think
the difficulty into which the Bank has gotten,
ii from deception practised upon him by par
ties at n distance, in which he had placed un
deserved confidence. We advise all who
can do so, to hold on to its bills. We have
taken steps to obtain the names of its Stock
holders, and when obtained, shall give them to
the public, when they will bo better able to
judge of the value of its issues.
Superior Court.
The full term of this court, Judge Worrell,
presiding, convened in this city yesterday
morning, and after organizing, adjourned over
till 9 o’clock Wednesday, in order to give eve
ry man a fair shake at the election which comes
off to-day.
We learn that Dr. Taylor was moved from
West Point to the residence of his brother-in
luvv, Mr. Iwwther, in Russell county, yester
day. llis recovery is yet in doubt, liis mind
is said to be much deranged.
Later from lluntnn.
By the schooner Mary, Capt. Stevens, from
Iluatan Island, the New Orleans Picayune has
’ itelligence of an interesting character. The
Mary brings advices to the J Bth inst.
The news of the recent treaty between Hon
duras and England reached liuatan on the
17th, and had caused considerable excitement.
The public opinion was almost unanimous
against the recognition of the sovereignty of
Honduras, and a large portion of the inhabi
tants were determined to resist the measure if
it were forced upon them. Many were in fa
vor of endeavoring to become an independent
republic. The island is inhabited by about
•>|soo people—a large portion of them blacks,
but at! speaking tbo English language, the
same as those of St. Andrew’s and l’roviden
cio, nearer to the New Granada coast.
Import nnl Decision.
Wo find in the South Carolinian, of Colum
bia, that the celebrated Willis case, of Harn
well, has been decided in favor of the heirs at
law, and aguinst the will. It will be remem
bered, perhaps, for much was said about it at
the time, that Mr. Willis carried a colored wo
man on withhim to Ohio, and there oxecutoda
will, bequeathing to her and her children all
the property in this State, died a lew days af
ter. The claim of this colored family under
the will was asserted to the property, and the
case coming up for trial before Judge O’Neal!,
at the late term of Court at Barnwell, and the
will having been contested upon the grounds
ol fraud, insanity, uudue iniiueuce, audits op
position to the policy of this State, ns declared
by the Act of 1811, the jury gavo a verdict
against its validity. Messrs. Bellinger &
Bauskett, Counsellors for tho claimants, have
given uoticc of an appeal, and the motion fora
new trial will be argued at Columbia iu Decem
ber next.— Standard.
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The foreign nows contained in tho private
letters by tho Arabia, gives cause for appre
hension that the Bank of Prance will yet sus
pended, or that there will be an explosion of
the Credit Mobiler. Tho former report of this
suspension grew out of tho fact that directors
bail resolved upon tho measure, subject to tho
approval of tho Emperor, but the latter inter
posed his veto. Private letters state that per
sons in Franco had been iu momentary expec
tation of a suspension of specie payment, but
up to the hour of the departure of the Arabia
it had not occurred. Still, though interest
lmd boon increased to (1 per cent, for short
lulls, and 7 per cent for throe months, it was
not. thought possible that the crisis could bo
avoided. The financial trouble*, it is expect
ed, will end in political troubles, and tho as
pect of Europe is somewhat troubled.
The mouotury panic in Franco would seem
to have been imparted by the Arabia to New
York, and tho good people of Gotham seem to
bo very much disturbed. The Herald says
that the stock markot opened on the morning
>i the 27th with a panic ; that there was a
great wish to soli stocks, and quite a fall in
prices was incurred ; that the money market
.s rapidly tightening ; that shorts ou time be
giu to look sharp after their contracts : that
Wall-street exhibits apprehension, and that nt
the secoud Board prices were lower than at
the first. The New York Express say* that
Wall-street opened witli an Hast wind upon
that day, and that while men who have no
trouble were borrowing it, this seemed to be
the only kind of borrowing for which there
was much facility. The Journal of Commerce
mentions also the failuro of J. Beck & Cos.,
tamous di\v goods dealers in Broadway, which
had the effect of inspiring a more decided feel
ing of concern, more especially us it was only
one of three failures that were announced,
but they are, perhaps, those of which advices
have already been given by telegraph.
Gov. Johnson has issued his Proclamation
calling upon nil Banks In the State to make a
return of their condition on the day of tho reg
ular weekly meeting of the directors noxt, pre
ceding tho 24th of October.
Gov. Johnson has also issued a Proclama
tion, which appears iu our Savauuoh exchanges,
that he has subscribed $500,000, in behalf of
the State of Georgia to the Atlantic and Gulf
Ball Road, in compliance with tho requisitions
of the Act of incorporation. An election for
Ikniue directors, will be hold on tho 4th day of
■ December in Milledgcvillo.— Atlanta Intelli-
V ‘fencer.
Commercial Accounts by tho Atlantic.
From the Loudon Times City Article.
London, Oct. 14.
The English Funds experienced a further
fall to day of jj per cent. This was the first
day for the payment of the dividends, and a
large proportion of the heavy advances obtain
ed from the Bank of England during the shut
ting season had to he repaid. In several cases
a renewal was desired, but it was for a longer
period than seven days, and this announce
ment was the cause of the depression during
the afternoon. Under existing circumstances,
support to the Stock Exchange could only be
afforded at the cost of some fresh restrictions
on the dividends of commercial paper. The
announcement that the ultimatum is under
stood to have been sent on Saturday to tho
King of Naples, and that its non-aceptance
will bo allowed by the recall of the English and
French representatives and tho dispatch there
of the combined fleets, is stated to have creat
ed the increase depression iu the French
Funds.
The letters from Paris to-day confirms the
moro favorable reports regarding the position
of the Bank of France, and their stock of bul
lion is alleged to Lave been increased nearly
£400,000 since the publication of their last
monthly return. Jt is also stated that tho
Bank does not at present contemplate any new
measures of restoration.
The arrivals of gold from Australia and
America received arc likely to afford a suf
ficient supply to meet tho Continental demand
during tho next few days. No further with
drawals have taken place from the Bank.
The London Times monetary article of Mon
day evening, the 13th, notices that the reports
from tho manufacturing towns for the past
week confirm all that has been said regarding
the extent to which the trade of the country is
independent of the movement of the Discount
market. In no quarter is there the slightest
indication of the advance to six and seven per
cent, having interfered with the regular course
of operations. At Manchester prices have
beenfairly maintained, and goods for the most
part are firmly held At Birmingham there
has been full employment, and general pros
pects are encouraging. Foreign orders are re
ceived to an average extent, while from Aus
tralia the demand is active. For irou previous
quotations are still maintained by tho leading
firms, although there is much underselling.
Tho Notingham advices describe an active bu
siness both in lace and hosiery, with a tenden
cy to higher prices. In the woolen districts
there is great steadiness, the home demand be
ing satisfactory. The Irish linen markets
have again been without variation.
The advices from Bombay, of date Septein
her 12, are filled with accounts of the prepara
tions made by the Indian aud British Govern
ments to invade Persia. The reason of this
invasion is the reported occupation of Herat
by the Persian troops. A fleet is to be sent to
the Persian Gulf with certain demands, which
it is not expected the Shan will accede to,
whereupon an invading forco is to be sent to
take possession of Kurrack and Bushire, as a
basis of operations against Teheran. Six re
giments of infantry, and three of cavalry, with
field and seigo trains, are already detailed for
land scrvico. The fleet will number 22 steam
ers, with a large number of gun boats. In
addition to these preparations large quantities
of ammunition are being sent up the Indus to
the direct assistance of Dost Mahomed and the
Affghan party in Herat. It is expected that
Persia will fight, but that she must speedily
fall before the British force.
Colton Circular of T. J. Stewart <j’ Cos., for the
I’ersia, which sailed last Wednesday.
The market closed firmly to.day at twelve
and half cents for Middling Uplands, being
three-eighths of a cent under our quotations
per Baltic, having since that date after reach
ing 13 cents buoyant, fallen to 12J on the 23d
instant. Tho decline rose from tho arrival at
about the same period of a large amount of
cotton, which consignees had ordersjto soli “to
arrive,” or from the wharf, and was chiefly
about 22d and 23d instants. Those sales, and
the advices per Arabia from Liverpool to lltli
instant, received on on 2 lth, have caused a
firmer feeling to prevail, so that to proceed in
business, buyers have been forced to pay an
advance of nearly one-half cent. The sales of
the first week were 0,060 bales; of the week
ending ou Saturday evening, 8,000; and yes
terduy 1,000 bales. Although the bulk of the
business has been for the home trade, expor
ters have participated aud are uow in market.
We advised you that no damage had been
done to the crop as a whole, by tho frosts ol’
the Ist and 3d instants, except in partail in
stances and on moist bottom lands. Wo only
altudo to this from the fact that several au
thorities still insist on the correctness of their
advices of killing frosts at those dates. The
frosts wero doubtless sufficiently severe to
open half matured bolls, and this, with tho
natural effect of the drouth, has given full
employment to the force of planters. They
write us as if the opening was spontaneous —
“Our fields are suddenly white aud argue,
a loss of the usual future top growth from the
white frosts. In dry seasons like the present,
tho plant yields earlier, and of course, the
product is less. We have advices of rain aud
colder weather from Memphis ou the 13th;
aud from Georgia and South Carolina, of rains
between the 16th and 18th instants. The cut
ting off of French credits by the Persia*
alarmed cotton factors at New Orleans, and
they submitted to -jo, decline up to 21st inst.
In other markets, any serious fall was arrested
by the purchase for planters’ account. The
extreme estimates by those out of cotton, is
3,000,000 bales. Those now interested, and
growers, put the crop between 2,500,000 and
2,050,000 bales.
A visit to Mrs. James K. Polk.
One of the mauy pleasing incidents (says
the Nashville Union) of the recent Convention
was the well-conceived and appropriate visit,
on Monday evening last, of tho various milita
ry companies, escorted by the Union Guard*,
to the residence of the estimable relect of the
late President, J. K. Polk. The companies ap
proached tho grounds by the main entrance on
Church street, and filed through the yard, with
utarkod precision and decorum, paying their
respects, and passing out in the same order in
which thoy entered. Such manifestations of
respect were no less appropriate on the part
of the military than they were gratifying to
tho distinguished lady. The Union adds:
“Having been so much identified with pub
lic life, aud partaken so fully of the sentiment
of her illustrous husband, for long years the
pride and support of the Democratic party, it
is but natural that she should continue to feel
a lively interest in tho success of the Democra
cy ami the consequent ascendency of its prin
ciples. But whilst she is a cordial well-wisher
for the triumph of our party on this and all
other occasions, she maintains inviolate that
lady-like reserve and abstinence from all overt
political action, so becoming to one of her
age aud position in the esteem of the Amer
ican people irrespective of party. Wo trust
that she may be long spared by the decree of
a kind Providence, a noble specimen of our
Country-women, to adorn society with her ac
complishments and virtue, and as a surviving
link between her distinguished husband and
the gonoratien that is coming after him.”
flow the President and Vice-President
are Elected.
The following is a summary of the constitu
tional requirements and the acts of Congress
upon the election of President and Vive Presi
dent of the United States:
1. The electors are chosen by the votes of
the people, ou the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in November.
2. Electors meet on the first Wednesday in
December, and cast their votes. They then
sign three certificates—send tli _■ messenger
with one copy to the President of the Senate
at Washington, before te first Wednesday in
January—another by mail to the same person,
and the third deliver to the United States Dis
trict Judge where electors meet.
3. Each State provides by law for filling
any vacancy in the Board of Electors, occa
sioned by absence, death or resignation. Such
of the electors as are present, are generally
authorized to fill any vacancy.
4. The Governors give notice to electors of
their election before the first Wednesday in
December.
5. On the second Wednesday in February,
Congress shall be in session, and open the re
turns. The president of the Senate shall iu
the presence vt tho House of Representatives,
open the certificate of returns, and count tho
votes. The person having the greatest number
of votes for President shall be the President,
it such number be a majority of the whole
number of electors appointed. And if no
person have such majority, then from the per
sons having the highest number not exceeding
thiee, on the list of those voted tor as president,
the House of Representatives shall choose im
mediately, by ballot, the President; the votes
snail be taken by States, the representation
lroin each State having one vote ; a quorum for
this purpose shall consist of a member or mem
bers from two-thirds of the States, and a ma
jority ot all the States shall be necessary to a
choice.
0. It the choice devolve upon the House of
Representatives, and they fail to make a choice
before the 4th ot March next following, tho
Vice President is to act as President.
7. A Vice President may bo elected, or cho
sen by the senate, as above provided, before an
election or choice of President.
*. !he day fixed by Congress for opening
and counting the votes of the electors, and in
case of its being necessary for the election of
President by the House of Representatives,
ami of Vice President by the Senate of the
United States, is the second Wednesday in
February, after the appointment of electors.
J. I here is no constitutional provision for
the case where there is neither a President or
Vice President elected or chosen, in the man
ner directed by the Constitution. The act of
Congress of 1782 provides that, under such
circumstances, there shall be anew election.
THE ELECTORAL VOTE.
There are so many inquiries after informa
tion as to the electoral votes of different States,
that we publish the list. Let every one cut it
out and preserve it for reference;
SIXTEEN FREE STATES. FITTEEX SLAVE STATES.
Maine 8 Deleware 3
New Hampshire 5 Maryland .8
Vermont 5 Virginia .15
Massachusetts 13 | North Carolina 10
Rhode Island 4 | South Carolina 8
Connecticut tj Georgia 10
New V ork 35 Florida 3
New Jersey 7 Alabama ’....9
Pennsylvania 27 Mississippi 7
() *iio 23 Louisiana (j
Indiana 13 Texas 4
Illinois 11 Tennessee 12
Michigan (j Kentucky 12
Wisconsin 5 Missouri 9
California 4
- Total 120
Necessary to a choice 149
Mew Granada.
The New Granada correspondent of the New
York Herald gives the following graphic de
scription of his prospective tour in that coun
try : “live months have passed since 1 left
New \ ork, and 1 have not made my fortune
yet, nor is it likely 1 ever will in this country
of snakes, tigers, spiders, ants, bats, monkeys,
alligators, naked niggers and gold. We arriv
ed at l’isisi, or Turbo, a small Spanish town,
in twenty-one days, and after waiting on a
sandy bcacli, with millions of musquitocs,
snakes and sand flies, for ten weeks, we were
able to procure eight men to pole us up the
Atrato l iver as far as the mouth of tho River
Sueio, some sixty miles from Pisisi, which took
thirteen days. There 1 left the company, and
went up the Sueio with three Indians in a
small canoe, some seventy miles, to the Antio
ohain mountains, and a very pleasant time I
had ot it I can assure you. It rained every
day and night for twenty days in succession,
and then every night and day since. They get
up the grandest lightning and thunder there
that you can possibly imagine, and the rain is
not slow. The lightning is terrible, trees be
ing struck in all directions around one; it ap
pears as though the very heavens opened 011
one’s devoted head, and 1 need not tell you that
tlioro is no need of shower baths here. The
rivers have a tremendous current; you have
sometimes to asceml rapids of ten to fifteen
feet high, and very often you arc pitched out,
the canoe sunk, ami provisions lost. Wc were
turned over or under twice, and the last time
we would all have been drowned had it not
been for the timely assistance of a canoe from
the shore.”
Female Stump Speaker.
Miss Carrie Filkins addressed a Fremont
meeting nt Dayton, Ohio, a few evenings ago.
The Gazette says,
“She has been actively engaged in this late
canvass in Indiana, and has drawn immense
audiences wherever she has spoken. Perhaps
no speaker who has participated in the hard
fought contest lias addressed so many thousand
people, or with such universal acceptance.
She has attended all the great muss meetings
held in that State, aud has always received the
most flattering signs of popular approbation.
Among the brilliant galaxy of orators that ad
dressed the tens of thousands assembled on the
Tippecanoe battle ground, the stand from which
she spoke always attracted the largest throng.”
Tho Perpetual Motion Delusion,
A joiner in Edinburg Scotland, has commun
icated to one of the newspapers the process bv
which, ho alledgos, he has discovered the long
sought for perpetual motion. The invention is
statedtobea real self-moving power, which
maybe constructed of a size sufficient to drive
all kinds of machinery at no greater expenee
than a litlo oil. According to tho inventions
description, the machine is a wheel propelled
by weights, the weights rising when the wheel
turns to the angle of forty-five, and leaving
three fourths of the wheel empty. There are
fourty weights or balls, two of which arc al
ways working tho wheel, and the other two are
on tho centre or axle, ready to fill the place of
the 1 Gives when they bring the wheel to the
plumb, and before it loses its power. The oue
ball • t tho bottom rises to the axle when the
oth.. .owes to the top, aud so ou.
A Very Polite Judge.
Gov. Ford, of Illinois, tells a very rich anec
dote of oue of the early judges of that State,
but the Governor does not put upon record the
name of one sensitive and considerate mag
istrate
At the court over which this judge presided,
a man by the name of Green wus convicted of
murder, and the judge was obliged to pass sen
tence of death upon the culprit. (Jailing on
the prisoner to rise, the judge said to him—
“Mr. Groen. the jury sny you are guilty of
murder, and the law says you are to be hung.
1 want you, and all your friends down on In
dian Creek to know that it is not 1 who con
demn you.; it is the jury and the law. Mr.
Green, at what time, sir, would you like to be
bung; the law allows you time for prepara
tion?”
Tho prisoner replied, “May it please your
honor, I am rerdy at auy time; those who kill
the body have no power to kill the soul. My
preparation is made, and you cart fix the time
to suit yourself; it is all the same to me,
sir.”
“Mr Green,” returned tho judge, “it is a
very serious matter to be hung; it can’t hap
pen to a man but once in his life, unless the
rope should break before bis neck is broke, and
you had better take <4l the time you can get.
Mr. Clerk, since it makes no difference to Mr.
Green when he is hung, just look into the al
manac, and see whether this day four weeks
comes on Sunday”
The clerk looked as he was directed, and re
ported that that day four weeks came ou Thurs
day.
“Then,” said the judge, “Mr. Green, it
you please, you will be hung this day four
weeks at twelve o’clock.”
The attorney-general, James Turney, Esq.,
here interposed and said,
“ May it please the court ou occasions of
this sort, it is usual for courts to pronounce a
formal sentence, to remind the prisoner of his
perilous conditon, to reprove him for his guilt,
and to warn him against the judgment in the
world to come.”
“Oh, Mr. Turney,” said the Judge, “Mr.
Green understand the whole matter; he has
got to be hung. You understand it Mr. Green,
don’t you?”
“Certainly,” said the prisoner.
“Mr. Sheriff, adjourn tho court.”
Four weeks from that day Mr. Green was
hung, but not so much to his own satisfaction
as his appearance promised on the day of his
conviction.
Fine Cotton.
Our friend Captain 0. 11. Brown has sent us
seven large bolls of cotton grown on one limb ;
five of them are full blown, and tw’o green.
Ho assures us that 50 bolls of this cotton will
weigh one pound, and from the size of those sent
us, we oannot doubt the fact. We have shown
some of the lint to good judges, aud it is pro
nounced to be as fine as the silk cotton, though
the staple is not as long. The kind is said to
be anew variety, propagated from an extraor
dinary stalk Capt. B. found iu his field last
year. We hope our friend may find the seed
to be worth $5 per bushel.
Capt. W. A. Walker exhibited to us the oth
er day a fine sample of silk cotton raised on
his farm this year. It was taken from the
bulk after it passed through the gin, and ex
cels anything we have seen this year. It
might well be taken for Sea Island Cotton. We
are informed that C. T. Scaife plants the same
variety, aud that it brings one dollar iu the
hundred pounds more than the ordinary kinds
in the New York market.— Chester Standard.
Outrage.
On Wednesday ‘night two or three vicious
scoundrels forced an entrance into St. John’s
Church (Episcopal) and endeavored to destroy
the pulpit biblc, liymn book, baptismal font
and organ. After doing what injury they
could iu the body of the chuich, they ascended
the stairs to the singing gallery, where they
laid hold of the organ with the intention, it’ is
supposed, of destroying it. The noise madein
th s attempt awakened a servant iu the reeto
ry adjoining, who seeing alight in the church,
screamed so loud that the villains heard her
and fled. The baptismal font was found this
morning outlie floor not much injured, and
the pulpit bible and hymn book with several
of the leaves torn out and much defaced. The
object was evidently not to rob the church, as
no effort was made to take away any article of
value. The vestry room, which contained the
church silver service, surplices and the rector’s
private library, was not entered.
The servant states that she saw three men iu
the church with lighted tapers or matches in
their hands, aud that after she gave the alarm
luey lied down Monroe street, shouting as if in
triumph, over the deed which they had com
mitted.
The circumstance caused considerable ex
citement yesterday morning, aud surmises were
rife indicating that politics or denominational
sectarianism was the cause. We are assured
by the Rector, Prof. Ingraham, that there is
no probability of such being thecase. He ex
presses himself as satisfied that nothing denom
inational or political is connected with the act.
—Mobile Tribune.
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Col. Titus and Gen. Walker.
A correspondent of the N. Y. Times, in a let
ter dated Lecompton, Kansas, October 14tb,
says;
Col. Titus, the famous leader of the pro
slavery party, (and he is one of their bravest
officers,) has received a letter from General
Quitman, of Mississippi, inviting him to leave
Kansas and tako command of the expedition
for Central America, and that two hundred
aud fifty thousand dollars has been, or will be,
provided for the object contemplated—the con
quest of Ccutral America, and more slave ter
ritory. Tho Colonel expresses liimse'f dis
gusted with Kansas, and is very desirous of
leaving for a more congenial climate and asso
ciations than are found here. The South is look
ing towards Ccutral America with more into 7
est than towards this State, in hope of making
slave territory in that vicinity with more ease
aud with less excitement than the conquest of
Kansas is likely to cost them.
Col. Titus is nn intimate and personal friend
of “ President William Walker,” and sent him
from Florida tho first company of soldiers
he received. This company numbered about 30
men. Tho Colonel has the reputation in the
South of being the most efficient military filli
huster that can be found anywhere, and just
at this time his valuable services are required,
and ho is sent for.
Col. Titus has not yet recovered from the
Wounds received at the time he was taken
prisoner, in September last, by General Lano.
He carries about, an once of “free soil load”
in his body, at this time, and has but partially
recovered the use of his hands and arms. He
walks about, however, taking oliarge aud look
ing out for his companies, who have the guard
ing of the prisoners.
Sir John Franklin.
Meetings have been held throughout Lin
coln, England, with the object of raising funds
for a suitable monument to the Into Sir John
Franklin The people of Spilsby, tho birth
place of Sir John, are particularly activo in
tho matter.
THREE DAYS LATER FROM EURopj
ARRIVAL OF THE CANADIAN
Telegraphed to the Dully s UIJ
New York, Nov. 3,
The steamship Canadian hasarrived atii,,
bee with advices from Liverpool to the 2lst I
October.
The Canada’s advices which reached Liv fc . 1
pool after the departure of the Asia, gave a .
ditional activity to the market, and cause] ’
cotton to advance 3-l Cd.. and a large spent',
tive demand. Sales of Monday, Tuesday (j
Wednesday up to the sailing of the Canadian!
were 60,000 bales, of which speculators t,
31,000 bales.
From Charleston.
Charleston, Nov. 3, i
CIIARLSTON, Nov. 3. I
The salts of col ton on Saturday *
twenty-five hundred bales, at full prices.
Ilymeniul Liberality.
Avery praiseworthy custom lias been i„ !
troduced in Memphis, at the suggestion of lil(
Bulletin. It is this—whenever a couple v
married, to enclose a sum of money alone
the announcement of the happy event to th
printer, to be applied by the latter f or t ],
benefit of some charitable institution, (p
John W. Todd, of Memphis, who recently i m ,,’
ried Miss S. Amanda Fe.allin, of Ohio, onclo<w"l
$lO for the Orphan Asylum.
Minnesota.
The St. Paul’s Pioneer gives further returns
of the election in that Territory lbr member
of the Legislature, &c. They are iu general I
favorable to the Democrats.
Fire this Morning.
A fire broke out yesterday, says the Mont-1
gomery Mail of Saturday, at about33l,. 1 , o’cl’kia
a house on the North side of the cityq occupied [
by Mr. Geighler, and owned by Mr. Jas. F uni; . ;
tain. Tho liamos communicated to the hon-c
owned and occupied by Mr. Abel Hawk. Botli
bouses were consumed. Mr. G. lost nearly dll
his furniture; Mr. Ilawk saved his. Mr
Hawk’s house was insured, but the other -
not.
Wo hejar nothing of the origin of the fire.
United States Troops.
Three companies of United States troop-,
numbering 200 in all, passed down the river
on Monday, says the Memphis Bulletin, on
the Maria Denning, eu route for Florida.-
They were from Jefferson Barracks, aud under
the command of Maj. Russell. Asa whole,
they were a fine looking body of men.
TO SOUTHERN MERCHANTS.
CAUTION TO THE PUBLIC.
?IMI K whole country is flooded witli Counterfeit am:
.1. Imitation Schnapps. The public should be card:;
to purchase only tho genuine article, manufacturedaul
imported by Udolpho Wolfe, which lias the name of tin
manufacturer on the Bottle, Cork ard Label.
l or sale by till respectable Grocers and Druggists
Read the opinions of the New York Press.
UDOLPHO WOLFE,
22 Beaver St., New York.
From the New York Mercury.
FitAim-i.ij.Nr Imitations or Superior Commodities,
Among the many dishonesties of trade which the mor
al sense of the community is called upon to suppress, ■*
would particularly notice a most pcrniciousandinfaiueii
pructice adopted l.y unscrupulous dealersof imitatiugatid
counterfeiting the exterior appearance and precautionary
labels of popular drugs, medicamenta, aud other article
of personal consumption, and thus, by seizing upon tin
well acquired reputation of an enterprising trader, pal
ming off most destructive and worthless compounds, to
tho sore detriment not only of the consumer, but to the
character of the man who lias expended thousands ti
dollars in bringing the genuine articlo into esteem ami
demand. These petty larceny thieves are the pest of all
honorable dealers and traders, and the trade is as nincli
highway robbery as the violent appropriation of their
neighbor’s purse ; in fact they are beneath the burglar
and highwayman in dignity—for hese latter felons ci
dibit a bravery or recklessness of character in nowise dis
tinguishing the mercantile assassin who stabs in ttie
dark. And ought they liojt be rewarded with a puni-li
went commensurate with the cowardice of their crime:
e were led to these remarks by accidentally observing
a spurious counterfeit of Udolpho Wolfe’s Sclichhm
Schnapps. Tte labels were imitated perfectly, witli the
slight addition of a few letters to plead technics! avoe!-
ance of the law against counterfeiting; the bottles were
very similar, and every thing carefully prepare Ito im
pose upon a careless purchaser. Now is not the man trim
perpetrated this fraud, a felon a robber? Assuredly hr
is: for, as Mr. Wolfe has expended large sums to bring
his genuine imported schnapps into popular demand,
that demand may he justly considered a part of his ■)■
ital in trade, and a fellow stealing a part of his repnta
tmu is as much of a thief as if lie had stolen n barrel us
his schnapps in bulk. And to this crime lie adds a fur
ther one of defrauding the community by giving them a
ruinous article for the money they intended to expend
for a commodity in which they had coniidence. And.
further, every man who participates indirectly in the
fraud, by selling spurious articles is as muehoi'anoßen
der as the principal who planned the imposition. Tile
remedy of Mr. Wolfe should lie iu his holding all concer
ned up to the contempt of the community tliusswindled
by their operations, and unconsciously imposed upon hy
their noxious composition. We trust that Mr. Welle
will obtain names, not only of the eonoeetors of thew
counterfeits, but of every man offering them fur sale, and
then publish them to the world ; for his own reputation
and the health of tlic community demand that all parti’ -
should bu nailed to the pillory of popular execration.
From the New York Dispatch.
AN INFAMOUS BUSINESS.
When an enterprising man strikes out anew Husiii'-ss.
to the establishment of which he gives his jmlustrju time,
talents and pecuniary means, can anytliingbe more cun
temptible than to have another steal in. and, under spe
cious pretexts, hold out to the public an inferior article,
and endeavor to obtain their patronage? Pray, wind
difference is here, so far as the honesty of the thing -
concerned, botweed purloining the business by which a
citizen hopes to make his bread anil stealing the bead
itself? A common thief, if he takes without leave, how
ever hungry, a loaf of bread from a baker’s shop, is appre
hended and condemned to tlio penitentiary for daring it
a surreptitious manner to appease his appetite: hut pat
a respectable looking coat on his back and a few dollar
iu his pocket, and he may, with impunity, nay, even
with the upp'uuse of his fellows, by knavery, forgery “i
other infamous means, take tlio business of an hom*l
man from hint, and go unscathed of justice, dll tlii- :•
wrong. Some years since a gentleman of tli is city (Ud.l
pho Wo'lo) iut oducodtotho citizens of the United Ftsi ■
a medicated article of gin, w hich was highly approved liy
professional gentlemen ns a superior tonic and dcobstir
out, and the knowledge of w hich lie, hy advertisement
aud otherwise, disseminated throughout the country -
So soon as tricksters, who puss in the business commu
nity us honest men. saw that Mr. Wolfe was likely I
have handsome returns for tlio time and money whit'- 1
lie had expended, they set about forging Ids labels aid
palming off'upon tho people detestable aud poleonuji
compounds which they have Uieliardihoodto call “FchP
dam Schnapps.” In some Instances they have gone
far ns to put Wolfe's name to their villainous liquid-. -
As this horde are growing hold iu their rascalities, it
time tho puldlc in town and country were put upon their
guard, f'onsumcrs should bo sure that they purclia*
the genuine article, or ol ie their health may be im pio
lily injured by using the horrible stuff tliat iinsirupulvN
-11104, because they cun buy it cheap, widofferas the gc ]
tilne article. Pure Scbeidaiu Schnapps can only la “ r
talned at the stores of respectable merchants and dim
gists, in town uml country, aim at the establishment’
Udolpho Wolfe, N<*. IS, iu and 22 Beaver Street, j n t*"’
city, w here it Is gotten up exclusively. We think it a du
ty w ldcli Mr. Wolfe owes to himself and the coiniumuq
to publish, by nano-, the rascals who are thus attempt
to defraud both l.itu and those who would be bis cii“|”
mors. He should not permit his modosty to hold linn
back from niukin so righteous an expose.
AGENT,S IN SAVANNAH:
John B. Moore ,V Cos., A. A. Solloinoiis A o*'.. A (
nuud.M. .1. lUloy. W. W.Goodrich. McMahon*
Webster A Palmer, i. V. Ooiinoriit, Claghoru A bunum
lmm, Swift A Cos.. Holcomb, Johnson A Cos.
LOST POCKET BOOK.
IOST oil tho ISth Oct. la-t between the |ts£-2vr"4
j Pest office and Martin A Dudley’s stable |j vJ
a small calf-skin l’ockat Book
one twenty dollar note on Win. C. Skinner.***
mid one for twenty dollars on Wesley P. (’lemons. |
one receipt for collection of note by It. Watson m 1 -
Usip, for forty dollars on Wesley P. Clemons, and 1
ceipt on Moses Mays Esq., fur, I think, ten dolls!-'‘
several other papers not now rememlierod. nil ■’ “
are payable to me. A liberal reward will be pod ■
turn of said pocket ‘look to Jerry Terry or John I 1 ' 1
Nov. 4-3 t. NBWITT L. SMITH