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CHRONICLE & SE.Ni’INEL. BY WTT.IjIAM S. JONES. BANK UUILDIWfI. DAILY( T ri.WEEKLY & WEEKLY. Daily Paper, to city subscribers, per * annum, in advance Daily Paper, mailed to the country 7 Tri-Weekly Paper, “ “ “ “ ..4 Weekly (a mammoth sheet) “ “ ..2 CASH f-YSTEM. —In no case will an order for the paper be attended to, unless aceompanied with the money, and in every instance when the time for which the subscription may be paid, expires before the receipt of funds to renew the same, the paper will be discontinued, Dopreciatcdjfunds received value in this city. Religious. From the Southern Methodist Pulpit GOD GARETH FOR ORPHANS. A SERMON. By R«v. Li. W. Lee, D. D. of the Virginia Annual Conference. Delivered in behalf of the Male Orphan Asylum, Richmond , Va. “Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child. “ If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, 1 will surely hear their cry . “ And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword ; and y ur wives shall be widows and your children fatherless.” — Exodus xxii : 22, 23, 24. [concluded.] 111. The motives that should prompt us TO MAKE SUITABLE PROVISION FOR THE SUP PORT AND PROTECTION OF THE FATHERLESS. “ If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, / tuill surely hear their cry; and my wrath shall wax hot, and I will hill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless These are fearful words. The circumstan ces of their enunciation invest them with a terrible import. Israel had just escaped the thraldom and hardships of Egypt; and were strangers and pilgrims in the wilderness. God reminds them of their national orphanage and dependence, prescribes the duties demanded by their new and altered circumstances, and teaches them, by ail the marvels of their histo ry, to exercise courtesy to strangers, and com passion to the helpless and unfortunate. Es pecially were they directed to respect the rights of the widowed and fatherless, to main tain their cause ; and in no case to afflict or injure them. And the words <>f the text de scribe the interest God feels for those whose natural protectors have been taken away, and who are friendless and dependent in a world of sorrow and suffering. This last duty is en forced by words and figures that deserve, even at this distance of time, a most grave and devout consideration. They possess an authority we dare not despise, and prescribe a rule of conduct we are compelled to obey ; or challenge, as a punishment of disobedience, judgment untuned with mercy, and wrath that ever waxes hot with vengeance against wrong and oppression It is in the presence of these words of warning and denunciation, my brethren, we are required to ascertain our own relations to the fatherless ; and to weigh the reasons suggested in the text for extending to them ail the aids for physical comfort and moral training it may be in our power to fur nish. A careful study of the law, and the rea sons for its enactment, will supply us with abundant and most impressive motives for yielding implicit obedience to its commands. 1. The first motive for obedience to the law prescribing our treatment of the fatherless is to be found in the supreme authority of the Lawgiver. “ The Lord is our Lawgiver.” His will is a perfect rule of duty. Like him self, his law is changeless and eternal. It neither admits of modification, nor possesses elements of decay. There is but one law for the Christian and the sinner, the Jew and the Gentile; and it is practicable for all, and binding forever. Whether it enforces love or duty, worship or submission ; a profound rev erence for God, or a just regard to the rights of our neighbor, it is alike authoritative in its principles and perpetual in its obligations In ail cares, and ou all questions it is God’s law, and it is holy, just and good; as infallible in its denunciation* against disobedience, as it is certain of fullfilment in its promises to those who “love God and keep his commandments.” It declares that every transgression and diso bedience shall receive a just recompense of reward.” It is this law, and this sovereign lawgiver, that says : “Ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child.” Upon thissubject then, our duty is as clearly defined and imper ative as it can be upon any prescript of reli gion Neglect of orphanage occupies the tame rank in guilt as neglect of the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Indeed, beyond this, the Scrip tures identify attention to the fatherless, with both the form and substance of Christian ex perience. Among other things, the evangelic prophet, makes consideration of the cause of the fatherless and widow, condition* upon which our sins, though they be as scarlet, shall be as white as enow, and though they be red like crimson, shall be as wool. Isa i : 16—18. And an Apostle affirms that “to visit the fatherless and widows in their afflic tion ” is both a proof and fruit of “ pure and undefiled religion before God.” James i: 27. Such, my hreathren, is the position in which God places the fatherless Such is the rela tion which by enactments and decisions of his law, we are made to sustain towards them. It is a relation of great difficulty and responsi bility,. imposing many duties, and requiring great sacrifices ? But how else can the woes of orphanage be mitigated, its necessities re lieved, and its wants, physical and moral, be supplied. And could we, when we consider the hardness and selfishness of the human heart, expect less of God as the father of the father less, and the father of the spirits of all flesh, than enactments that would connect compass ion for human suffering with our own ulti mate and perfect happiness. Besides this, the law, imposing these duties, though under the most terrible and appalling sanctions, contem plates our own improvement in goodness; and aims, through the medium of nur own sympathies, to elevate and purify our natures, and fit us for a residence in that good land where tears do not fall, and sorrows never come. 2. Another motive to prompt our sympathies and care of the fatherless is found in the rela tions and laws of humanity G o d “ hath made of one blood ail nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth.” We are all brethren * with an equal origin and a common destiny ; alike exposed to misfortune and suffering ; and mutually dependent upon each other for relief and support. It is impossible wholly to detach and isolate ourselves from man : it is absurd to affect to be independent of each other. Afflu ence brings no exemption from sorrow : and poverty is not always nor necessarily destitute of enjoyment. There are lights and shades in the life of all. There rich of to-day, are the poor of to-morrow. Families, united by tie* that angel’s hands might weave, are soon sev ered. Death enters. The husband and father is gathered to his long home, and society moves •n Unmindful, though a weeping wife, And helpless orphans mourn. Such and so significant, is the life and histo ry of man. How sternly does it teach us to “bear one another’s burdens,” to “be kindly affectioned one to another, with brotherly love,” and thus Lo “fulfill the law of Christ,” and mitigate, if we may not remove, some of the severest afflictions incident to humanity, especially do these principles of brotherhood bind us.to commisserate the woes of orphanage; as they, more than others, need our sympathy »nd care. How can we either hesitate or re fuse this help. Every case of orphanage fur nishes materials for a history over which hu manity and religion might shed (ears of mour ning and sorrow. Poetry and fiction have sought to depict its woes, and to excite a just regard for its wants. But they have failed to attract other than sentimental sorrows and spasmodic efforts. Feeling is a poor laborer in a field so fruitful of suffering; and so barren of fame and recompense. And philanthropy and religion will glean but few sheaves in such an harvest, unless urged and supported by a stern sense of duty, But where can duty so well learn its lessons as in the leaching* of the word of God, and in the consideration of those im pressive and astounding facts everywhere ex hibited in the condition of the fatherless. One fact may illustrate a thousand cases, alike in their general features ; differing only in their minor details. In aruds cavern which pover ty had divested ©fail the elements and pleas ures of home, whose inmates were familiar with want, and its companions, humiliation and suffering, a mother was stretched upon a couch of affliction and death. The friends of her childhood were distant and dead. The father ofher only solace and supporter, was resting from his toils in the repose of the grave, He no longer went forth to the tasks of the day ; and she had ceased to listen for the sound ofhis returning footsteps at eve. With wid owhood, poverty entered her dwelling, and want soon followed ; and as these came, friends and acquaintances deserted and fled. She was alone, suffering, dying. One only object held her to earth. She had a son; and she loved him as a mother only can love ; aud she feared to leave him. as a mother only can tear or feel. And as her end drew nigh, she pressed him to her heart, and wept as she look ed into the cheerless aud darkening future. How could she leave him alone, orphaned, friendless, poor? But death is inexorable ; and he claimed her for his own. As she entered the gloomy porta's of the grave, and as the last refuge of her breaking heart, she bequeathed the sad object of her [hopes to one poorer than herself, by the differences and disadvanta ges of race and color, and begged a poor Afri can to befriend and be a mother to her poor orphan boy. The child of that mother is here, my brethren. Rescued, by the Male Orphan Society, from a course of suffering, and a depth of degradation, more to be dreaded than the grave, he illustrates the charity that visits the fatherless ; and enforces by a logic we can not resist, the duty we owe to those whom providence has bereft of their natural guardians and protectors. 3 In the last place a powerful motive for the ex ercise of sympathy for the fatherless will be found in the laws of self preservation and security “Ifthou afflict them in any wise and they cry at ail unto me, I will surely hear their cry, and my wrath shall wax hot against you ; and 1 will kill you with the sword, aud your wives shall be widows, and your children father less.” The literal import of these words is fearfully explicit. The language is so precise and for mal it would hardly admit of any other signifi cation. And yet it would invade the proprie ties of the subject, and the prerogatives of the Divine administration to suppose actual killing by the sword was the only mode and instru ment for punishing the injuries done to the fatherless. Under divine moral government sin never changes its type ; but there are a thousand forms in which it may be exposed and punished. It would be a violation of all correct rules of interpreting the scripture, to restrict the text as an exponent of God’s wrath against those who “ afflict the fatherless,” to the exact and literal sen<e of its terms. But it would be a grosser violation of the laws of language to insist that, since it is not literal, but figurative, it does not involve actual punishment of any kind. Such a con struction to say nothing of its bearings upos the scriptures generally, neutralizes the law in this case, abrogates all just restraints upon oppressors and wrong doers ; and makes it virtuous to injure and “afflict the widow and fatherless.” Surely, my brethren, words such as these, so emphatic, so earnest, so strong in pleading for mercy, and so appalling in de nouncing oppression, cannot be classed among words of doubtful disputation. No They are the ‘words of truth and soberness,” plead ing, by all the terrors of wrath and retribution, in behalf of the destitute and helpless. But the pith of the text, the true point of doctrine involved in these solemn words, is not the fact that God will hear the cry of the fatherless, and surely punish their oppressors : It centres in the character of the punishment threatened against these offences against humanity, and religion and God ! It was the experience of an ancient King, “As 1 have done, so hath the Lord requited me.” His punishment illustra ted the nature ofhis crimes. He was a tyrant, and maimed his enemies ; and God subjected him to tyrrauy, and he was maimed in turn. The Saviour teaches, “With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. This is the doctrine of the text. God is not an un concerned spectator of these misdeeds of men. His justice cries out against them. His wrath is kindled into flame ; and he threatens the perpetrators with a most appalling retribution of judgment without mixture of mercy ; ‘My wrath shall wax hot against you ; and I will kill you with the sword. 1’ Beyond this, and in the unmitigated severity of a righteous indig nation he denounces a terrible tribulation against the object of the oppressor’s love aud care. The wife of the persecutor of widows, shall be a widow. The children of the oppres sors of the fatherless, shall be orphans. God will measure out a retribution that shall accord with thedeedsand injuries with which we have oppressed and afflicted the widow and the fath erless. As we have withheld our sympathies from the unfortunate and suffering, so wi'i God cause those we love to suffer uncared for ; as we have doled out with a reluctant hand the poor pittance of our charity to the helpless and distressed, so shall other hands icy with incfifferecce and avarice, mete out their un wi ling gifts to our wives and children in the day of their calamity and want. Sueh, my b eihren, is the teaching of God’s word. With what judgment ye judge others, God will judge you. It is a solemn lesson ; and urges us. us we would secure God’s mercy to our selves, to be merciful to others; If we would leave a good name, and a merciful providence to our fami ies when we are gone, we must fulfill the great law of love to our neighbor ; If we would leave them a legacy that bad men cannot alienate, and whose value shall never depreciate, let it be that which accrues from doing good, let it descend upon them through widow’s prayers and orphan’s blessings By our own kiadness to these poor of God’s flock, let ns lay up treasure in the memory of him who is the widow’s friend and the orphan’s father. Let us make it a rule of life to be pitiful and kind to these helpless ones. Let us act from a fixed sense of right and duty, then our hearts will be always warm, and our hands will never grow weary of doing good ; and God will remember us, and our families for good. If we would good hand of God upon us for good, let us remember asd do good to the widowed a »d latherless; Praying the while, God do so, and more also to me, and mine when, i am reposing in the grave, and my wife is a wid ow, and my children are fatherless. Amen. -u«aw . , _ Counterfeit Gold Coin. —VVs would put the public on their guard against receiving gold coin, without close examination; The greatest precaution, however, on the'partof any one not critically conversant with coin, would not avail, to prevent the reception of some ten dollar pieces shown us yesterday, which were s nt to the South Western Rail Road Bank, where they were detected. These pieces are of 1848, with the letter O under the eagle, to indicate the New Orleans Mint. The only thing we can describe as differing from a genuine piece before us, is that the impres sions of the die are a little more clutnsey, and the rim and milling more raised. There is also a slight tinge of copper color on the rim, when held to the light. The general similitude how ever to the pare coin, and being of the same weight, induces us to beiieve that many ol them are in circulation. Chronicle anil Sentinel. A UffTJSTA, G- A • SUNDAY MORNING, NOV. 10. RICHMOND CO. UNION TICKET. Election 25 th November. ROBT. P. POE THOS. SKINNER. C. J. JENKINS. A. J. MILLER. BP* See first and fourth pages of daily FOR SEVERAL miscellaneous articles. Mr. Webster—The Union. The citizens of Boston recently gave a splendid dinner to Amin Bey, the Turkish Embassador, at which the Hon. Daniel Web slkr was present as a guest. The guest of the evening, Amin Bey, responded very happily to a complimentary addressand welcome from Mr. Curtis, who presided on the occasion, in which he stated the object of his visit to America, was to learn something new of our institutions and to secure more intimate com mercial relations, with a view to the improve ment of his own country, and to promote the mutual interest of bo»h nations. The speech of the evening, however, was that of Mr. Webster, in reply to a toast offer ed by Mr. Sturgis— 44 The health of the power ful and fearless Defender of the Constitution. The whole people enjoy the results of his pub lic services.” Mr. Webster began by saying, “I am a Union man, an out and out Union man; but it would be bad taste in me, on an occasion like this, when there are so many topics o! interest, to speak of po litical matters only,” He then alluded to the mis sion of the distinguished Turk, and said, —“He comes among us the guest of the United States ; not as the guest of a faction, but the United, —not as the guest of a dissevered and broken country, but as the guest of the United States of America—States spreading over a vastterritory, of various products and climates, and of interests and institutions; yet, thank God, they are all United States. It is in the capacity of united citizens of united States that we are now assembled to welcome to our fextivity a distinguished man from a distinguished country ; and it is in the capacity of united Americans that we can appear respectable. Others may speculate, theorise, and go crazy, if they please, in arguing to the contrary, said Mr. Webster, “but Isay it is only as a united people we can ever be prosperous at home or respectable abroad.” He had always re sisted the opponents of the Union, and he should al ways continue to do so. He professed to know something of the sentiment of the people of this vast and beautiful country, and he did net hesitate te declare it a sentiment in favor of harmony. An institution, not of our creating, must not disturb the harmony of these happy States. Crazy and mischievous men may attempt it ; but they will soon rind their efforts restrained. The peo ple of this country are ibe people of one country, said Mr. Webster, and they are anxious to preserve the Union, “however bounded, and washed by whatever waters.** Local strifes are temporary —the Union is perpetual. “1 speak with emphasis,” said he, ‘‘because I wish to give utterance to a heart that knows no secret oo the question of the harmony of the great family of S ates. I was born to the Union, and I shali stand by it.” The slavery question New England can only interfere with as a meddler. She has no more to do with it than she has to do with the municipal government of a city in the island of Cu ba. Hut whatever course otliers might pursue, Mr. Webster declared that all his efforts should hereafter —as in funner days—be in favor of the Union. At the conclusion of the speech, the whole company rose and gave three cheers for the Secretary of State, and three for the Union. Comparative Statement of the earnings of the Georgia Railroad in the month of Oc tober, 1849 and 1850; also, duringthe seven months ending 31st October, 1849 and 1850: Passengers. Freight, Mail, <&c. Amounts, 1850 •• • -$21,327 40 $55,359 45 $76,686 85 1849 16.998 74 55,472 84 72,471 58 Increase*.-$4,328 66 Dec.sll3 39 1n.54,215 27 April Ist to November Ist. Passengers. Freight, Mail, <Stc. Amounts. 1650..*5136,617 94 $216,252 73 $352,870 67 1b'49... 99,882 89 187,795 67 287,678 56 Increase, $36,735 05 $28,457 06 $65,192 11 Suffering of California. Emigranti. The papers received by the late arrival from California, give deplorable accounts of the suffering of the overland emigrants. We sub join a few extracts, which are truly heart rend ing. A statement from Col. Waldo, who is out with a relief expedition sent to their assis tance, says:— “From Boiling Spring to this place,”— Great Meadow—have met with but few who have any provisions at ad except the poor ani mals which have worked from the States. Footmen who comprise nearly one fourth of the number now on the road, are not blest even with such food as this; but are reduced to the necessity of subsisting on the putrified flesh of dead animals which so abundantly line the road. This has produced the most fatal consequences. Disease and death are now mowing them down by hundreds. Those emigrants that are yet back several hundred miles must receive relief, or die by starvation ; and to whom can they look, but to citizens of California for their salvation. The land of their homes is too far distant to render them any aid in this hour of distress and danger. It appears that the judgment* of God have pursued them from the time they set out up to the presenthour. First Cholera—then starva tion— next, war, starvation and Cholera. The day has now passed when any one will have the hardihood to say. that there is no suffering “• moiigst the overland immigration— at least no one that is within 200 miles of this place will make such a declaration. No one now thinks of gold, but of bread This is the cry of all. The following is an extract from a letter written by S. B. Bright, one of the immi grants, dated Salmon Trout River, Sevt 22.—Some noble fellows have already perished for want of food. Others are eating cattle that they have found dea l by the road side, which have died by the double cause—disease and starvation. The most common food used for a number of weeks has been lame and worn down cattle — which, if every particle of tallow was rendered out, would not make one candle! Others have eaten their dogs and horses ! There is at the Sink of Humboldt, and also on Salmon Trout river, flour for sale at one dollar per pound, but the people are out of money. Ido riot mean to say that beggars are out of money, for this is a common case, but those in good circumstances in the States, whose misfortunes have been brought on in various ways. Whole teams have been lost in crossing the various deserts The immense crowds of stock have eaten up the grass and willows, and for days they have had nothing to eat, which has much retarded their speed. Money, teams and parts of teams, have been stolen by the Indians. Many emigrants have been killed by them. Others robbed, and even killed some of the Indians; so you see there remains no brotherly feelings on the road be tween the red men and the whites. From the best estimate ofmy own, and from others that daily overtake me, there must be some fifteen or twenty thousand souls yet behind, impeded by various causes, and unless some immediate relief is rendered by your great and God-iike enterprise, they will either be cut off by the Indians, or perish in the snow on the East of the mountains. The Alta California of October 1 says:—A gentleman who has already “done the state some service,” came down to this city on Wednesday, and represented the exigencies of the case to Col. Collier, the Collector of the port, and we are rejoiced to learn that that offi cer assumed the responsibility and stated his willingness to turn over to Gen. Smith the sum of SIOO,OOO, to be disbursed by hhn for the re lief of the suffering immigration, assuming the responsibility of accounting to the Govern ment for the same. We regard this determina tion in the Collector as praiseworthy in the extreme and perfectly justifiable, and we have not the slightest fear that the United Stales Government will ever condemn him for such an appropriation of the funds. Union Meeting' in Dauielsville. At a large and enthusiastic meeting of the friends of the Union, held this day in Daniels ville, Madison county—by far the largest po litical meeting ever held in the county—Co'. Gabriel Nash and Judge Ranford E. Hitchcock was called to the Chair, and James S. Gholston and Walto* H. Griffith, requested to act as Secretaries. The object of the meeting having been ex plained by Col. G. Nash, in a few appropriate remarks, the following preamble and resolu tions were presented by Judge Willis Strick land : Whereas a spirit of disaffection to the Union is a brood in the land; and whereas it is the part of patriotism to resist every attempt to dissolve the Union or break up the Government for light and tri vial causes. Ist. Resolved, That in (he late enactments by Congress, embrace ! in the series of compromise measures of the slavery question, we rind nothing authorizing or justifying non-intercourse or secession, which are but other words for disunion and revolu tion. 2d. Resolved, That we find nothing in those mea sures is violative of the Constitution of the United States, and n thing which the honor of the Southern States requires us to resist. 3J. Resolved, That as a separate and distinct measure, we were opposed to the admission of Cali fornia into the Union as a State, under her late or ganization, and with her present boundaries; yet, when viewed in connection with the other measures included in the Compromise, we believe it to be the duty of the whole American people to acquiesce therein. 4lh. Resolved , That in the opinion of this meet ing, Congress has n* constitutional power to legislate upon the subject of slavery, either in the States or Territories. sth. Resolved, That the approaching State Con vention should not do, or recommend anything to be done, which would probably result in a dissolution of the Union—or involve this State in conflict with the arms of the United States—for any cause of com plaint which now exists. 6tb. Resolved, That we will not vote for any one as a delegate to said Convention, who is not willing to sustain the principles avowed in the preceding re solutions. 7th. Resolved, That the delegates to represent this county in the coming Slate Convention, be instructed not to entertain or support any proposition or mea sure looking to non-intercourse, secession or disunion, or indeed any threatening or violent action on the part of tha State. Bth. Resolved , That the nominees of this meeting report instanter to the meeting, their views aad opin ions in relation to the late adjustment by Congress of the slavery question, and whether they are for the Union upon the basis of that adjustment; and any person receiving the nomination of the meeting, whose views do not accord with the principles eel forth in the preceding resolutions, not to be consider ed a nominee. 9th- Resolved, That wo hereby approve of the course of our immediate worthy and distinguished Representative, the Hon. Howell Cobb, upon the subject of the slavery and territorial questions ; also of the Hons. Robert Toombs end A. H, Stephens. After the adoption of these resolutions, it was then, on motion of Maj. R. H. Bullock, Htsolvtd , That the meeting now proceed to ballot for candidates to represent us in the Stale Convention, and that one from each party be nominated as the Union ticket, and that the Chair appoint three suita ble persons to superintend the ballolings. Whereupon the Chair appointed Wilson J. Bird, B. S. Ware and J. B. Long, Esqs., that committee. On motion of B. M. David, Esq , Resolved, That the Democrat and Whig who re ceive the highest vote, shall be considered the nomi nees. The meeting then proceeded to the nomina tion, which resulted in the choice of Capt James Long, Whig, and Major Richard H. Bullock, Democrat—who, after complying with the requisition of the eighth resolution, were declared by the Chair, nominees of this meeting. Judge Willis Strickland then offered the fol lowing resolution, which was unanimously adopted: Resolved, Thai the resolutions and proceedings of this meeting be published in the Southern Banner, Southern Recorder, and Chronicle & Sentinel. The meeting then adjourned. Gabriel Nash, Ranford E. Hitchcock, 1 n * James S. Gholston, ? a . Walton H. Griffith-, J Secretaries. November sth, 1850. Lithography.—Lithography is the art of printing from stone. This process i* based upon the fact that printing ink, being largely composed of oil, will not adhere to any surface which is wetwiih water. Every one knows how utterly impossible it is to mix oil and water. To lithograph, then, all that is necessary is,to draw on the smooth surface of a dry stone, with a greasy crayon, whatever is desired to be printed. A weak solution of nitric acid is then rubbed over the stone, which fastens the drawing so that it can not be rubbed off. After this, a solution of gum-arabic is passed over the surface, and then the stone is ready for printing. By means of a sponge, water is now rubbed on the stone, and while yet wet the inking rol ler is applied. The ink of course adheres to the lines of the drawing, because they are oily, but to the wet stone it does not stick. The pa per is now laid on, and, with the stone, passed through the press; the result being a beautiful and exact copy of whatever is drawn. Such is the process by which the lithographic prints, that are sold in all parts of our country, are made. The colored ones are painted with water paints after the printing is comple ted. The stone employed for lithography is of a peculiar kind of lime and c'ay nature, resem bling in appearance a smooth, yellow hone, yet possessing the quality of absorbing water. This stone is known as iithograpnic, or com pact lime. It is found chiefly in Bavaria, one of the German states, though there are quarries of it in England. The Bavarian stones, however, are those most universally employed, and their importa tion is & considerable object in commerce. In New Vork these stones are worth from five to ten cents per pound. —The Student. War in Hayti. —Advices from Jeremio, Hayti, to the 15ih of October, state that hostili ties have actually commenced between the Haytians and Dominicans. On the 9th inst., as the vanguard of Solcnque’s army was de scending the Pass of Bonica, they were at tacked by about 500 Dominican trjops, who drove back the Haytiens with terrible slaugh ter. The announcement of this defile skirmish caused much uneasiness to the Emperor who marched on the 11th Irom Petit Goave, at the head of his staff and 400 of bis Guards, to take the field in person against the Dominicans. In addition to the above defeat, a Haytian brig-of war. with 250 men on board, was captured off Scott’s Bay by two Dominican schooners-of war, or gun boats, and carried as a trophy into Macao Roadstead. These hostilities have had a very disastrous effect on the trade of the Is land. There was no coffee to be had, and the calling of logwood and mahogany was under restriction Cholera in the West Indies— We have files of West India papers by the Empire City, loOctober 28 inclusive. In the Kingston Morning Journal of 0ct.19 we find a long circular from the Board of Health giving very minute instructions respec ting preventive measures and medicinal treat ment of cholera. The Board met daily. Sev eral cases have occurred at Kingston, on the previous day, nine at Port Royal and three at passage Fort. There had been cases also at St. Catharine and other places. A company for the plaQtiflg and growing of cotton had been formed, which was to com mence operations on the 21st of October, at Grecnwolle, St Davids. In the twenty four hours ending at noon on the 22nd ulto. there bad been fifteen new cases of cholera and thirteen deaths at Port Royal. At Kingston during the twenty-four hours ending at 9 A. M. on the 25th October the num ber of new cases was 79, and of deaths 37 On the following day, there were 64 new cases and 26 deaths.— N. Y. Com Adv. A Happy Man.—The editor of the Pitts burg Chronicle says: “Talk about enjoyment of wealth; it never can be enjoyed! An abundance is a heap of misery. A man who owns a house, a small farm, a small wife, a big dog, a cow, two or three fat pigs, and a dozen children, ought (o bo satisfied. If he ain the never can be.” Items of treneral Intelligence* Thirty thousand dollars nearly, have been collected for the Washington National Monu ment this year. The Asia’s news, on her last arrival, was in New Orleans twenty-five minutes after it reached New York. The Chancery suit in England of tha Attor ney General vs. Treschyan, is now one hun dred and sixty-four years old. M r. And rew Lyon, living near Port Deposit Cecil county, Maryland, raised on eight acres of ground, rioven hundred and fifty bushels of corn. The new brig Saidbin Sultan, which left Newburyport some rime since for Salem, for the purpose of being coppered, has not been heard of since, and is supposed to have been lost. In the Indiana Constitutional Convention, the Committee on Rights and privileges of In habitants have reported an article prohibiting the immigration of negroes into the State, and also their right to hold real estate. The British Mail steamer Mer/in arrived at New York on Monday evening, from Halifax, and will sail on Thursday, the 7th inst. for Ber muda and St. Thomas, being the pioneer of the new steam line between that port and the West India islands. Mr. John Upperhara. of Armstrong County, has raised during the present season some of the largest pumpkins ever known —one of them measured round the girt six feet and a half, and lengthwise seven feet, weighed one hundred and fifty two pounds. The General Asaembly of Rhode island ad journed on Friday evening. The bill for the removal of the political disabilities of those convicted of offences against the Slate in 1842, having special reference to the* case of Ex Gov ernor Dorr, was rejected in the Senate by a vote of 14 to 17. An Outrage. —The barque Helen of Thom aston. from Malaga, arrived at New York on Monday, reports that when abreast of Gibral tar, on the sth of October, a shot was fired from the fort, which shattered the stock of the anchor, and passed within 4 feet of the mate. This matter requires explanation, and we hope our government will demand it. A Packing House at Cleveland. —At Lemin and Shell’s Packing House, 125 head of beef and cattle are daily kiiled and packed ; 3000 head are to put up for Nevries &. Son, New York, worth S7O 000; and during the pork packing season, 3000 hogs will be daily added to the beef business. Other large establish ments are also engaged in packing in Cleve land. Railroad Statistics* The Nashville Whig has a table, compiled from authentic sources, showing that on the Ist of August, 1850, there were finished and in use, in twenty-three of the States of the Union, two hundred and two railroads, with an aggregate length of 7,741| miles, exdusioe of si coal roads, or those used lor transporting coal. The following table shows the States io which they are. their length, and the rate per mile, on an average, charged passengers : States. Roads. Miles . Passage per mile. New York 30. 1,285| 2 80c Massachusetts ••52 993$ 2.62 c Pennsylvania •• *23 740 3.31 c Georgia 6-.--.-660 3 22c Connecticut ----ll 450$ 2.68 c Ohio 8 414 3.00 c New Hampshire* lb 405$ 2 92c Michigan 4 317 3.49 c Maryland 6 315 3.82 c Virginia. 8 307 4.28 c Vermont 4 237 3.01 c South Carolina •• 4 262 3.89 c North Carolina•• 2 349 3.54 c New Jersey 9 239 3,02 c Maine 10 225 2.94 c Alabama 2 112 5.14 c Indiana 2 102 2.95 c Illinois 2 97 4.49 c Louisiana 5 89 4.07 c Rhode Island • •• 2 61$ ......... unknown Mississippi 1 SO* 4.58 c Kentucky 2 55 3.57 c Delaware 1 16 4.63 c 202 7,741 J Os these roads ten are in the Northern and Eastern States, making in the aggregate 4,702| miles; and in the Southern and Western States thirteen, the aggregate length of which is 3 039 miles. Os these roads there are nine located in the slave States, the aggregate length of which is 2,109 miles; and there are fourteen in the non-slaveholding States, with a length of 5,632| miles, The average rates per mile charged for a passenger on the former is 313, and on the latter 3,78, and the average rates of passage per mile on ail the American roads is 3,51. The Creole’s Daughter. Some time after the horrible massacres which signaled the commencement of the French Revolution, the contagious example extended itself to the new world, and resulted in the death and destruction of multitudes of men and women, vvbo, that they might be destroyed at a blow, en masse, without judgment, were assembled together in groups, when suddenly cannons, loaded with old iron and brass, open ed upon them, and the work of death and ruin was complete. An honest old Creole of St. Domingo, who had committed no other crime than that of preserving the heritage of his fathers, and of being rich, was in consequence inscribed upon the list of proscription ; the profligate sol diery, who, while they bathed their hands in the blood of the most honest citizens, claimed the name of patriots, denounced him as an enemy of the public weal, and he was con demned to perish with numerous others. Happily for this old colon, he was a father ; and above ail, the father of a little girl full of tenderness, courage and energy. When the father was torn from the bosom of his family, his child resolutely fallowed him, determined to participate io his destiny, however fright ful and horrible it might be. The old Creole was placed in the front rank among the victims about to be immolated ; already his eyes were bandaged, and his hands tied; already the satellites of death had direc ted their murderous arms upon the unfortunate band, deprived of hope, and expecting only death. O. happiness! O, surprise! What strength is thine, O holy sentiment of nature » At the moment of the signal for the discharge of the artillery, a little girl ran in among the devoted group, exclaiming, “O! my fat her— O! my father!” In vain they strive to wifi, draw her from the danger; in vain they i Ue . nace her; nothing arrests her. nothing intimil dates her. She advances toward her father and clasps him closely in her little arms, and* awaits the moment when she shall perish will the author of her existence. “O my daughter /—Q !my child ! the only hope of a weeping ard almost widowed mother,” exclaims the father, trembling and melting into tears ; ' leave me, return to m mother, I entreat—l command thee !” ' * “ No, ,n y lather,” said the daughter, ‘Wr mu me to die with thee.” F Ah ! what empire hath virtue even over the most ferocious souls! This incident discon certs the commander of the massacre, doubt less he also was a father 1 . The voice of ad miration and of pity rose at once from the depths of his heart. He alleges somespeciom reason for withdrawing the Creole from the place of death, and orders that he be reconduc ted to prison with his child. A moment of d-<. lay is sometimes very precious. Affairs bavins suddenly changed, the old Creole wai set a” liberty, and from that happy day he ceased not to relate, with the most tender emotion, tha heroic deed of his little daughter of only ten yeais. From the Cincinnati Chronicle, Oct. 26. Steamboat Building—Navigation of the West. Ibe annual Document issued by the several Departments of the Government, are not the dry, unmeaning masses of figures, which some persons imagine statistics to be. On the contrary they contain a vivid and sink ing picture of that rapid and powerful devel opement of Empire, which is going on in this country and which exceeds ail the dreams of imagination. The intelligent men, who first floated down the Ohio in keel boats (for they were intelligent,) knew well, that this valley would in some future time, bo the centre ofa gignntic empire. But when ? They knew it# growth would be rapid ; but who could lore see a rapidity of developemcnl, which lisa exceeded all precedent, and ail anticipation T One ol the annual Documents (which lias just got distributed, allhough nearly a year after it was sent to Congress,) is the Report on Commerce and Navigation. VVe always regard this document with interest, because, exhibiting the details of the enormous com merce to which this country has now arrived. We may add en passant, that trie Reports of the Departments are deficient in not exhibit ing the Commerce of the interior—a com merce vastly greater than all we have with Foreign Nations. But in the Report on Commerce, we find an account of Ship Build ing, and a specific statement of the number of Steamboats built. We give the following ag gregates of the number of Steamers built in the United States since 1824—twenty-five years, in periods of five years each. Prom 1824 to 1829 194 “ 1829 to 1834 304 “ 1834 to 1839 504 “ 1839jt0 1844 521 “ 1844 to 1849 969 Total 2,492 Two thousand five hundred Steamboats built wi’hin twenty-five years I These boats have averaged about 200 tons, and consequent ly the Steamboat Tonnage, in that period has amounted to five hundred thousand tons! But, let us see what part the West had in this business. From the Reports on Com merce for the years 1846, ’4B and ’49, we find, that in three years, the Steamboats built in the West compare with the total number, as fol lows ; In the West. Total In 1816 130 175 1848 152 225 1850 155 205 Aggregates 437 60S Thus we see that two thirds of the Steamers built in the Union, were built on the waters of the West. The proportions built in Ohio and in Cincin nati stands thus : In Cincinnati. In Ohio, In 1846 29 34 1848 16 17 1829 38 44 Aggregate 83 95 It appears that one-sixth part of the Steam boats built in the Union are built in Ohio, and one-seventh part built in Cincinnati. The largest number of steamers built, at one place, are built in Pi’.trburgh, and its neighbor hood. Several boats, within the last two or three years, have been built at Brownsville, on the Monougahela, but are recorded at Pitts burgh. The next largest place for Steamboat building is Cincinnati; but in the course of the last twenty years there has been little diffe rence between Steamboat building at Pitts burgh or Cincinnati. As to the number of Steamboats moving fc'.ong the Westeru waters, we can approximate the number very nearly. In the year 1826, there were 143 Steamboats, carrying 24,000 tons, navigating the Western rivers. In the last five years, there have been built I, Steamboats, and of those 700 were built in the West. The life of a Steamboat does not average more than five years on the Wes tern rivers, but there are a large number of boats, which have been patched up, and are much older than five years It is safe to then, that there are more than eight hundred Steamers now running on tho Western wa ters, nearly six times as many as in 1826 Thus we see one element of the growth ol Western commerce ; a commerce whose magnitude must at an early day surpass any thing tho earth has yet seen of commercial developments. ■—————gggg denial Not’ufg __ Jjf Come m Last. —A part of the supply MANTILLAS and VESETES, that I have been ex pecting the last month, have just arrived by express. The Ladies are respectfully invited to call and ex amine them. nlO WM. H. CRANE. *py_ Ti _ O* Augusta Indepe» dent COMPANY, First Division, —TJ Annual meeting of the Caopany be held at the office of William T. Gould, on DAY EVENING next, at half past 7 o cloc*. 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