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CHRONICLE & SENTINEL. BY WILLIAM S. JONES, DAILY, TRI-WEEKLY AXD WEEKLY. TERMS: DAILY PAPER, to City Subscribers, per annum, in advance ,6 00 DAILY PAPER, mailed to the country 7 00 TRI-WEEKLY PAPER, mailed to the country... 400 WEEKLY, (a mammoth sheet) “ ... 200 CASH SYSTEM.— In no case will an order for the paper be attended to, unless accompanied with the money, and in evey instance when the time for which the subscription may be p aid, expires before the receipt of funds to rer ew the sane, the paper will be discon tinued. The Fate of a Drunkard. BY DICKENS. When the dim and misty light of a winter’s morning penetrated into the narrow court, and struggled through the begrimed window of the wretched room, Warden awoke from his heavy sleep and found himself alone, lie rose and look ed around him, the old flock mattress on the floor was undisturbed; everything was just as he re membered to have seer it last, and there was no sign of any one, save himself, having occupied the room during the night. He had inquired of the other lodgers and of the neighbors; but his daughter had not been seen or heard of. He ram bled through the streets, and scrutinized each wretched face, among the crowds that thronged them, with anxious eyes. But his search was fruitless, amd he returned to the garret when night came on, desolate and weary. For many days he occupied himself in the same manner, but no traces of iiis daughter did he meet with, and no word of her reached his ears. At last he gave up the pursuit as hopeless, and long thought of the probability of her leaving him, and endeavoring to gain her bread in quiet elsewhere. She had left him at last to starve alone. He ground Ills teeth and cursed her. He begged his bread from door to door. Every half-penny he could wring from the pity or creduli ty of those to whom he addressed himself was spent in the old way, A year passed over his head; the roof of a jail was the only one that had sheltered him for many months. He slept wuder arches and in brick Helds—anywhere where there was some warmth or shelter from the cold and rain. But ir. the last stage of poverty, disease, and houseless want, he was a drunkard still. At last, one bitter night, he sunk down on a door step, faint and ill. The premature decay of vice aud profligacy had worn him to the bone. His cheecks were hollow aud livid; his eyes were sun ken, and their sight was dim. His legs trembled beneath his weight, and a cold shiver ran through every limb. Aud now the long forgotten scenes of a mis spent life crowded thick and fast upon him. He thought of the time he had a home, a happy home —and of those who peopled it, and flocked about him then, until the forms of his eldar children seemed to rise up from the grave, and stand about him—so plain, so clear and so distinct they were, that he co ud touch audlfeel them. Looks that he had long forgotten, were fixed upon him once more; voice* long since hushed in death, sounded in his ears like the music of village bells. But it was on ly tor an instant. The rain beat heavily upon him ; and cold aud hunger were gnawing at his heart again. He rose and dragged his feeble limbs a few paces further. The street was silent aud empty—the lew passers by, at that late hour, hurried quickly on, and his tremulous voice was lost in the vio lence of the storm. Tbe heavy chill again struck through his frame, and his blood seemed to stag nate beneath it. He coiled himself up in a pro jecting doorway and tried to sleep. But sleep hue! fled from his dull and glazed eyes. His mind wandered strangely, but he was awake and conscious. The well-known shout of drunken mirth sounded in his ear--the glass was at his lips —the board was covered with rich food—they were before him, he could see them all—he had but to reach his hand and take them —and though flie illusion was reality itself, he knojv that he was sitting alone in the deserted street, watching the rain drops as they pattered on the stones; and that there were none to care for or help him. Suddenly he started up in the extremity of ter ror. He had heard his own voice shouting in the night air ; he knew not what or why. Hark : A groan ! Another ! His sen.-es were leaving him —half formed aud incoherent words burst from his lips ; aud his hands sought to tear and lacerate lus flesh. He was going mad and he shrieked for helu till his voice failed him. He raised his head a id looked np the long dis mal street. He recollected that outcasts like him self, coudemeued to wander day aud night, in those dreadful streets, had sometimes gone dis tracted with their loneliness. He remembered to have heard many years before, that a homeless wretch had once been found in a solitary corner, sharpening a rusty knive to plunge into his own heart, preferring cleath to that endless, weary wan dering to and fro. In an instant his resolve was taken ; his limbs received new life ; he ran quick ly from the spot, and paused not for breath until he reached the river side. He crept softly down the steep stone stairs that led from the commencement ot Waterloo bridge, down to the water’s level. He crouched into a corner, and held his breath as the patrol passed. Never did a prisoner’s heart throb with the hope of liberty and life half so eagerly as did that of the wretcl ed man at the prospect of death. The watch pa.-.sed close to him, but he re mained unobserved ; and after waiting until the sound of footsteps hat. died away in the distance lie cautiously descended and stood beneath the gloomy arch that forms the landing place from the river. * • The tide was in, and the water flowed at his feet. The rain had censed, the wind was lulled, and all was for the moment, still and quiet —so • quiet that the rippling of the water against the J barges that were moored there, was distinctly au- I cftble to ins ears. The stream stole languidly aud sluggishly on. Strange and fantastic forms rose to the surface, aud beckoned him to approach ; dark gleaming eyes peered f rom the water, and seemed to mock Ms hesitation, while hollow murmurs from behind urged him onward. He retreated a few paces, took a short run, a desperate leap, and plunged into the river. Not live seconds had passed when he rose to the water’s surface, but what a change had taken place in that short time in a! his thoughts and feelings! Life, life, in any form ; poverty, misery, starvation, any thing but death. He fought and struggled with the water that closed over his head, aud screamed in agonies of terror. The curse of his own song rang in Ms cars. The shore —but one foot of dry ground—he could almost touch the step. One hand’s breadth nearer aud he was saved—but the tide bore him onward, under the dark arches of the bridge, aud he sank to the bottom. Again he rose and struggled for life. For one instant —for one brief instant—the buildings on the river's bank, the lights on the bridge under which the current had borne him, the black water and the fast flying clouds, were distinctly visible—once more he sunk and again rose—bright flames of fire shot up from earth to heaven, and reeled be fore his eyes, whilst the water thundered in his ears, and stunned him witli the furious roar. A week afterwards the body was washed ashore some miles down the river, a” swollen and disfig ured mass. Unrecognized and unpitied, it was borne to the grave —there it has long since mouldered away. Persian Housekeeping.— The usual mode of living in one house nearly, says Household Words, the same in all that fell under the range of Mr. Burton’s observation. They get up at sunrise, when they have a cup of coffee. The few hours in the day in which the Persians condescend to labor in any way, are from sunrise until 8 o’clock in the morning. After that the heat becomes so intense (frequently 108 or 109 degrees in the shade) that all keep within doors, lying about on mats in passages or rooms. At 10 they have their first substantial meal, which consists of mutton and rice, stewed together in a rude saucepan, over a charcoal fire, built oifl of doors. Sometimes in addition to this dish, they have a kind of soup, or “water-meat,” (which is the literal trans lation of the Persian name, (made of water, mut ton, onions, parsley, fowls, rice, dried fruits, apri cots, almonds and walnuts, stewed together. But this, as we may guess from the multiplicity of the ingredients, was a da.uty dish. At four o’clock, the planting Persians, nearly worn out by the heat of the day, take a cup of strong perfumed tea, with a little bitter orange juice squeezed into it; and after this tonic tiny recover strength enough to smoke and lounge. Dinner was the grand meal of the day, to which they invited friends. It was unlike breakfast, but was preceded by a desert, at which wine was oc casionally introduced, but which always consisted of melons and dried fruits. The ‘ dinner was brought inou a pewter tray: but Mr. Burton re marked that the pewter dishes were very dingy. A piece of common print was spread on the ground and cakes of bread put on it. They had no spoons for the soup, “ water-meat,” but soaked their bread in it, or curled it round into a hollow shape, and fished up what they could out of the abyss.— At the Mirza’s they had spoons for the sour goat’s milk, which seemed to be one of their delicacies. The ice is brought down from the mountains, and sold prettv cheaply in the bazaars. Sugar and salt are eaten together with this iced soar goat’s milk. Smoking narghilahs beguiles the evening hours verv pleasantly. They pluck a quantity of rose blossoms, and' put taem into the water, through which the smoke passes; but the roses last in sea son only a month. MirzaOoaan Koola had a few chairs in the house, lor the use of the gentlemen of the embassey. We have had a considerable quantity of rain in this vicinity for the last day or two, aud we un derstand that during the twenty four hours ending at nine o’clock yesterday morning 4% inches fell. For the month ending the Ist or September the fall was only 8% inch es and two-tenths of ft quarter sh. Coif*. .\ews by the Arctic. Britain.—Lord Cowley’s sudden return from Paris has revived the rumor that he is to be suc ceeded, as Ambassador to France, by Lord Mal mesbury, and that Lord Stratford de Redclilfe, late Ambassador to Turkey, will receive the appoint ment ot Foreign Secretary. These changes, it is said, will take place in course of September. It is stated that the Governorship of Bermuda is about to become vacant, and rumor assigns Mr. Samuel Triscott, formerly Government storekeeper in the Island, to the office. During the week, to 22d, ten ships, including the Great Britain steamer, of the aggregate regis ter of 9,690 tons, sailed from the port of Liverpool for Australia, with 8,000 emigrants. On the night of the 22d, at llh. 30m., J. E. Hind discovered another planet, being the sixth he has discovered within the past five years. The new orb is in the constellation Aquarius, and can be seen with a telescope of very ordinary power. In brightness it equals a star of the ninth magnitude, and appears to have the same yellowish tinge that has been noticed about Pallas, Melpomene, aud others of the same group. At llh. 85m. 335. Green wich mean time, August the 22d, its right ascen sion was 22h. 22rn. 29.7-10 s., aud its north polar distance 97 deg. 82m. Ms.; the diurnal motion, in right ascension, is 525. towards the west, and in N. P. D. about sm. towards the south. Three arrivals from Australia had brought 30,278 ounces of gold, and report another ship due with 15,465 ounces. Great difficulty was found in pro curing sailors, and from £45 to £SO per man, were asked aud obtained for the run to England. At Melbourne, middle of April, provisions were dear: flour, £25 per ton, and likely to go higher' Gold firm at 635. per ounce. The Dublin Evening Post states—on what au thority does not appear—that the Government < ommissioners have selected Limerick as the Transatlantic Packet Station. The Six Mile Bridge affair continues to excite much angry feeling in the locality where it occur red. Mr. C. Delmegee, Justice of the Peace, aud eight soldiers ot the 31st Regiment, have been com mitted to Ennis jail, in accordance with the coro ner’s finding against them of “wilful murder.” A detachment of the 47th Regiment is stationed with in the jail to protect them against any attack of the people. France. —Since the festivities in honor of the Emperor, little has transpired except that many of the Parisians (always dissatisfied) are heard to say that the money wasted in the show might have been better employed. Among ether decrees, the Mouitcur publishes one abolishing the duties at present payable on the export of raw and spun silk. Spain.—A Cadiz journal announces, that the line of steamships plying between Spain and Cuba would be speedily reinforced by two other large steamers, and the departures from Cadiz will then take place twice a month. Portugal. —Oporto letters are to the 20th Au gust, and state that shipmeu s from that port were almost entirely suspended in consequence of the expected reduction aud equalization of the export duties on wines. Several vessels loading for ports in the United States, were detained from the same cause and could not get cargoes. Holland. —We find the following in the Morn ing Chronicle of the 24th—“ The Staats Courant publishes an important communication from the Colonial Department, relative to the past and pre sent relations of Holland with Japan. It appears from this official document, that the intervention of Holland to prevent the departure of the Ameri can expedition, and the abandonment of the pro ject by the United States, in consequence of which the authorities of Japan have permitted their country to be entered in order to arrange the ques tion, is unfounded. All that the Government of Holland proposed to do, was to address to that of Japan an amicable despatch, with the view of preparing a favorable reception for Commodore Ferry, aud to point out the advantages that would result to Japan from the opening its ports to for eign commerce, as the Emperor of China had done in 1842. It is not improbable that the negot.ations may be crowned with success; and that Commo dore Ferry, on arriving within sight of the coast, will find little difficulty m the negotiations he is directly sent to bring about with the Imperial Court/ At the same time it is right t* declare that the Netherlands Government has not ceased since 18M to induce the Imperia l Government of Japan to relax its system of exclusion. Germany.—From Berlin we learn that the first sitting of the Congress of the Zollvcreiu was held on Saturday, after several postponements. Noth ing definite was arrived at. It is reported that the negotiations will not now be interrupted, as was at one time apprehended, Austria. —The Voss Gazette, under the date of Vienna, 19th, states that the French Ambassador at Vienna had, in a conference with the Austrian Minister for Foreign Aatfirs, declared, in the name of his Government, that it would continue to nse every effort for the maintenance of European peace, and that he regarded the treaties of 1815 as the condition, sine qua non , of the peace of the I world aud the political equilibrium of Europe. In his turn, the Ambassador was assured of the friendly disposition of the Northern Powers, and their determination never to attempt to force any form of Government upon France. Greece. —The Courier d?Athens of the 9th an nounces the arrival at Athens of Mr. Marsh from Constantinople, and his having obtained an inter view with the Queen Regent respecting the case of Dr. King. Another account says, (no date given,) “The American Squadron left the Piraeus after Mr. Marsh had taken possession of the docu ments relative to Dr. King’s case. The squadron is supposed to be on its way to Trieste.” Latest Intelligence by Telegraph to Liverpool. Paris, Tuesday Night.—The Moniteur officially announces that on Sunday, 22d, the Minister for Foreign Affairs signed two treaties with the Bel gian Plenipotentiaries ; the first reciprocally guar anteeing all property in literary works and* works of art; the second making certain modifications in the customs tariff. The Moniteur further announces that Faud Ef fendi has been appointed Foreign Minister by the ! Sultan, and that the Porte has given full satisfac | tion to France for the Tripoli affair, as well as promised to accede to the other demands of the French Government. Important from Havana. The New York Courier & Enquirer lias further information from Cuba by the Empire City. The discovery of the place of publication of the liheial paper is established by this arrival. All the Ha vana papers allude to it, and there are public edicts in reference to it, as the following: Bv Don Pedro Pablo Cruces, —Knight of the Cross and Star of the order of San Hcrmenejil do, Lieut. Colonel, and Major of Cavalry and Judge of the Permanent and Executive Court Martial of this ever faithful Island of Cuba, etc., etc., etc. Don Juria Luno, aud Don Andres Ferrer against whom 1 am proceeding on a charge of trea son, as the author ox a paper entitled La Voz del Pueblo, having absented themselves from the Capi tol, using the powers conferred by the Royal Ordinances upon the officers of the army, by this my first edict, I cite, call aud summon the said D. Jiina Luna, and Don Andres Ferrer, that within the period of nine days, counting this date, they shall present themselves at the public prison of this city to discharge them from the fault laid to them, in the knowledge that if they do not appear in the time designated, the trial will follow and they shall bo condemned in contumacia by the judge of the Court Martial, without further call or summons, for such is the will of Her Majesty.— This edict shall be posted and summoned in the customary places, and also shall be published in tho Oaceta OgjicieiL for general information. Ha vana, Aug. 26, 1552. By order of Pedro P. Cruces. Manuel Maria Martel, Secretary. An Englishman by the name of Rives is said to have betrayed the place where the Voz del Pueblo was published. Don Eduardo Sariel, Don Felix Maria Casard, Don Antonio Rubio, Don Florenti ne de la Torre, Don Antonio Grenado, Don Anto nio Palmer, Don N. Urquiso, two otiiers whose names are not known, and a mulatto, who were all engaged in publishing the Voz del Pueblo after the escape of the first editor, Don Jose Luna, who is now in New York, were taken to prison in heavy chains, and it is reported that they will all be garrotted. A Dr. Ramon Palma, a poet of some note, his brother, and Don J. Morando Corales, have also been arrested for some supposed impli cation in the offence. In fact, arrests of persons more or less conspicuous, who are engaged or sus pected of being engaged in these revolutionary movements, are made nearly every day. The pris ons are full to overflowing, and the dungeons of the fortifications even are said to be well peopled, although the latter are so foul and unhealthy that their occupants soon give place to other sufferers. The following lines were enclosed to the ed itors of the Courier in a package ot Havana papers ; Before God I say—lt is true that all the Cubans desire to be free, and are making efiorts to gam their freedom, as the crowded prisons attest; but they are so kept down and watched, that it is a difficult task. Arrests are made every day, and every body fears to be taken up, as all are of the same mind. Truth. A letter in the New York Heral gives the sol ing account of tho suppression of the Voz del Pue blo : You will remember that the type and other printing apparatus of the “Voice of the people,” could not be found by the government. They were buried in the earth outside the walls of Ha vana, and the young men engaged in publishing it fled after the third number was issued. Some six or seven other young enthusiasts went to work t* oring out a fourth number. They purchased type, and went to a regular printing office to get it done, when they were reported to the government, and all seized* in the act of preparing the paper for publication. Among them was Facciolo. They are to begarotted in a few days. Terre Hacw, Sept. 2.— This afternoon, at 6, about two hundred feet of the bridge at this place fell; there was a large number of hands at work upon it, two or three of whom are missing. Five or six have been dangerously hurt, three of them so badly that they cannot recover. Chronicle & Sentinel, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING SEPT’R ID, 1852. INDEPENDENT TICKET. FOR PRESIDENT, DANIEL WEBSTER, OF MASSACHUSETTS. __ FOR VICE-PRESIDENT, CHARLES J. JENKINS, OF GEORGIA. ELECTORS: FOR THE STATE AT LARGE, H. H. GUMMING, of Richmond. EDWARD Y. HILL, of Troup. Ist. Dist.— HAMILTON W. SHARPE, of Thomas. 2d. “ WM. M. BROWN, of Marion. 3d. “ WASHINGTON POE, of Bibb. 4th, “ BLOUNT C. FERRELL, of Troup. sth. “ WARREN AKIN, of Cass. 6th. “ YOUNG L. G. HARRIS, of Clark. 7th. “ JOHN J. ELOYD, of Newton. Bth. “ PHILIP S. LEMLE. of Jefferson. Mr. Venable—Congress. On his return home, Mr. Venable, a member o Congress from North Carolina, made a speech ha fore the Democracy of Richmond, Virginia, in which he is reported to have made the following remarks : “He said that the ‘Congress of the United States is the most corrupt body of men on the face the earthand added substantially that with money enough any act of legislation whatever could be procured from them.'’ The National Intelligencer notices the charge Os corruption against the American Congress, and adds : “ Startling as these declarations are, when first presented to the eye in print, they are but the echo of a sentiment which, before the close of the last Congress, was frequently and openly expressed, not that Congress was literally the most corrupt body on earth, but that its integrity was not of that bright ness and purity, ns of the olden time, which no man could dare approach with suggestions or ap pliances addressed to personal interests of mem bers. From such a source, so entitled to credit, such an intimation, in any version of it—even if it took no more positive form than suspicion—is cal culated to attract attention and provoke injury.” A large majority of Congress are Democrats, and Mr. Venable is himself a Democrat —one who has mingled freely with his compeers, and is familiar with their corrupt practices. He is, therefore, a competent witness against the body, of which be was a conspicuous member, and we commend his declaration to the consideration and reflection of the American people. At this dis tance from the Capitol, we have had little difficul ty iu arriving at the same conclusion with Mr. \ E nable, and have for sometime entertained the same opinion. Wc doubt not, therefore, he not only speaks the honest convictions of a judg ment deliberately formed, hut that he also speaks the truth. A truth, too, which will sooner or later, unless there is a greaUfliaugc in the character of the constituent members of that body, burst with all its force upon the minds of the American people. Senator Stockton—Gen. Pierce. It has been generally reported that Senator Stockton will not support the nomination of Gen. Pierce. The following letter in reply to an invi tation to attend a Democratic meeting in New York, is cool enough to indicate that there is some truth iu it: Washington, August 25,1552. Sir—l have to acknowledge the receipt of your kind invitation to attend a mass meeting of the democracy of New York, on the 2d of September. I regret that needful attention to my private affairs, now demand that I should spend some time in Vir ginia, immediately after the adjournment of Con gress, which will place it out of my power to be with yon at the time fixed for your meeting. Your obedient §srvaoc, R. F. Stocton. That the New Jersey Senator is disposed to give the “ cold shoulder” to the New Hampshire Brig adier there can be very little doubt. He is, we think, an independent, honest man ; one not long enough in the impure atmosphere of Congress to be tainted by its contaminating influences ; and, if we have not mistaken his character, has the inde pendence to repudiate any such nomination as Gbn. Pierces’, whether made by his own or any other party. Himself a patriot, he looks with pride upon the great men of his country and her ! onward progress, and he could not well contem plate with any other than a sense of deep mortifi cation, humiliation and loathing the nomination of such a man as Gen. Pierce for the first office in ! the Republic. He is but too sensible of the fact, ; that Pierce is indebted for his nomination, to his j obscurity and his accidental appointment as an officer in the Mexican war, and like a true patriot, he will not by any act of his evince his approba tion. A party of New York capitalists, among whom is Mr. George Law, have associated themselves for the purpose of carrying out a magnificent under taking in the founding of a new city opposite New York, on the west hank of the Hudson, on a tract •f land lying between and comprising^ersey City and Hoboken. We learn that the steamship Granite State will leave Philadelphia for Charleston on Saturday next, and that she will run regularly between the two ports. Tun Nashville Railroad.— The Chattanooga Vindicator announces that the oars have com menced running from that city to a point six miles distant, where they meet the daily stages, now plying thence to Nashville. The work is rapidly progressing on the balance of the lino, and it is hoped that the entire road will he completed to Nashville the coming winter. Let the tracks be united at Chattanooga, and our friends at Nash ville will soon see Savannah cars discharging goods at their doors in four days from the sea board. ~How to Disperse Mosquitoes.— Among the new est books of the season published by Murray, of London, is “Fortune’s Journey to the Tea Coun tries of China,” from which, page 179, an ex change takes the following extract: Seeing the swarms of mosquitoes, our Chinese boatmen asked my servant why he did not go and bny some mosquito tobacco. In a few minutes every mosquito in the boat had sought other quar ters ! and we enjoyed a sound and refreshing sleep. The substance composing these sticks was made with the sawings of resinous woods—mostly juniper—and mixed with some combustible mat ter to make it burn. A piece of split bamboo, three or four feet long, is then covered with this substance, as thick as a small cane. This is book ed on to the wall or the roof of the boat. Some times the sawdust itself is burnt on the floor. Wormwood is employed for the same purpose. Are our Indian friends aware of this artful dodge ? The Fever is, wc are gratified to learn, not ma king any progress, and we trust soon to be com pletely free from the presence of this unwelcome visitor. From thh subjoined report it will be seen that the deaths within the last 86 hours have been limited to two, and we have heard, notwithstand ing we have made strict and diligent enquiry, of no new cases having occurred within the same period.— Ch, Cour ., Mh inst. Office of Board of Health, ) Wednesday, 9P. M. f The Board report two deaths from Yellow Fe ver for tlie past 86 hours : 1 Irishman at the Roper Hospital. 1 Irish Child iu Philadelphia-st. J. L. DAWSON, M. D. The Freshet.—Probably some of our readers may have thought our statement of yesterday, about the plantations overflowed, rathe'r extrava gant, but the continued easterly weather has made it worse than was represented. All of Argyle and Onslow islands are under water, and the Fife S’antation (Heyward’s) has not escaped. Jos. ugcr’s fields have also suffered, because of their low position—they being next the bluff on the Carolina side. The loss will be great, but it is useless to conjecture at present how much. Dr. Daniels, on the first appearance of the storm, left his home, near Altauta, and by the greatest in dustry and exertion, has succeeded in saving the most of his crop at Drakie’s. He we un stand, as high as SIOO a day for extra labor. His lower plantation is of course safe. By the latest information, the water had fallen considerably,— Savannah Republican of Wednesday, Another Awful Disaster. The New York papers of Monday contain full particulars of the appalling calamity on the Hud son, of which our readers have already been in formed through telegraphic despatches. We take principally from the N. Y. Courier, some further particulars of the sad disaster : On Saturday morning the steamboat Reindeer, Capt. C. W. Farham, left her wharf in this city for Albany and the intermediate places, and at a quarter past one o’clock, on leaving the landing at Bristol, near Saugerties, Ulster county, met with an accident which occasioned the death of twenty eight persons and injured seriously nearly as many more. The Reindeer, as testified to by her officers went up the river on Saturday at a comparatively slow rate, and alter making the usual calls on the lower sections of the river, ran as customary up to the Bristol landing to take in passengers. She was about to leave, and the wheels had but turned a single revolution, when iu an instant the connec tions of the Hues exploded, splintering the wood work within several feet, knocking down a portion of the cabin ceiling, and prostrating the huge smoke pipe upon the deck. The explosion was terrific, and had not the officers of the boat inter fered many of the passengers would have jump ed overboard. Two or three did commit them selves to the river, but were rescued. The injury on deck was slight, but below deck was of the most serious and fatal character. Around the dinner table sat some fifty or sixty of the pas sengers, and the furnace and cabin doors being open the steam rushed iu as quickly almost as lightning, scalding most of them in a frightful manner. When the steam had slightly cleared away, the unfortunate passengers were found to be writhing under the most excruciating torture. The skin was literally forced from their faces, arms and breasts by the steam, and three of their number were taken out dead ; three others died immediately afterwards, and the injured continued to drop off; and last evening when our reporter ’ left the scene of disaster, twenty-eight had died, and several others were not expected to survive the night. When the explosion took place, men, women and children rushed towards the wharf and to the op ' posite side of the vessel, and it was some time be fore they could be quieted. The cries of the suf ferers could be distinctly heard at Red Point, a distance of three miles. Every effort was made ; by the inhabitants in the vicinity of the lauding, and by the crew of the steamboat and the survi ving passengers to alleviate the heart-rending suf ferings of the persons scalded. Blankets, oil, wool, &e., were procured immediately, and the in jured parties were all taken to the Welden House, and attended by the neighbors, and what physi cians could be procured. The house presented a terrible scene—almost every room in it contained some of the sufferers. Their cries could be heard throughout the village, and every countenance boro an expression of grief at the result of the casualty. Many of the surviving passengers left the steamboat immediatelv after the accident, and took the Hudson River Railroad cars to pursue their journey. The Cause of the Disaster. —Capt Farnham attributes the accident to a defect in the iron of which the boiler was constructed, and most per sons who became acquainted with the circumstances of the occurrence concur with him in this opin ion. It has been explicitly proved that the Reindeer was not racing on Saturday. She Was rather be hind her usual time, and there was no boat going up at the time that she would race with. Further, it has been sworn that she was not racing with the railroad cars. The Captain declares that since the accident of the Henry Clay, he has generally car ried less steam than before, and made a difference of about an hour in the Reindeer’s time. The cer tificate gived by the boiler inspector specifies that the boilers were capable of bearing 45 pounds of steam to the square inch, and when the accident occurred, it is asserted on the oath of the engin eer, that only 30 pounds to the square inch were carried. List of the Dead. —The following is a correct list of the dead; James Brown, of New York. Frcd’k Moutell, the bar-keeper, Poughkeepsie. Francis Dunn, a fireman, do. Peter Fauch, waiter do. John Bowers, head pantry waiter, do. Robert Farrel, waiter, do. Jacob Koche, waiter, do. Sol. Savoy, colored waiter, do. German waiter, name unknown. Mrs. Bowers, wife of David N. Bowers, No. 914 Broadway, Albany. Norman Platt Williamson, son of Rev. Geo. E. Williamson. JolmG. Rumfeldt, employed at Danish Consul, New York. D. F. Holderidge, 74 Eagle-st., Albany. Thomas J. Barnes, Richmond Va. Hugh Riley, do. A. Bache Cox, 2d Engineer. James Brown, a hand. Miss Estell Loup, New York. Garwood Bcnway, steward. Miss Margaret Andrews, Richmond, Va. John Savoy, colored boy. Miss Samella Andrews Richmond, Va. Mrs. Sarah N. Lockwood, Albany. A. W. Whipple, Cambridge, Mass. James Brown, a greaser. Rev. Geo R. Williamson, Amity, Saratoga co. Wm. H. Snell, Richmond Va. Mrs. Williamson, wile of Rev. Mr. W. LIST OF THE SCALDED. David N. Bowers, 914 Broadway, Albany. Wood Baker, Princeton, N. J., of U. S. Coast Survey. J. Hall. New York. Hugh Lowery, Newburgh. Mr. Quigley, Merchants’ Hotel, New York. Nrs. Quigley, do. Miss Quigley, do. Mr. Lockwood. John Hewlett, the Engineer.? Charles McGregor, South Brooklyn, N. Y. Henry C. Heck, do. Captain Hovt. Mrs. Hoyt, "his wife, Mrs. Hoyt s servant. Miss Lockwood, New York. coroner’s inquest. Samuel Merclain, Esq,, Corner of the County of Ulster, proceeded about two hours after the calam ity occurred to hold an inquest upon the bodies of the deceased, and enter into an investigation as to the occasion of the accident. Capt. Farnham, the commander of the boat, John Hewlett, the engineer, and others connected with the boat were examined as to the cause of the explosion. The cause was attributed by them to a defect in the iron of which the connection was formed. The engineer stated that there was but a moderate head of steam on at the time, and that the boat was behind her time, having come up at a slow rate. She had not, however, blown off steam whilst at the landing. The iury rendered a verdict which after enumerating the names of the dead states: “That the said persons, each and every one of them, came to their deaths by suffocation and scalding while on board of the steamer Reindeer, on her passage from New York to Albany; and the said Jury do further find, and say, that at Bris tol, in the town of Saugerties, County of Ulster, the connection of the return flues attached to the forward part of the boiler on said steamer burst, and that such accident is not attributed to any negligence or carelessness on the part of the offi cers of the boat.” Subsequently another jury was summoned by the Coroner, for the purpose of instituting a more rigid investigation. The Condition of the Injured. —The steamboat Chelsea took two or three of the deceased to Al bany yesterday forenoon. When our reporter left Saugerties last evening the following persons were considered in great danger: Daniel N. Bowers, Wood Baker, Miss Lockwood, Hugh Lowery and Miss Quigly. There were slight hopes of the in jured persons mentioned in the list. The Coroner would have examined some of the passengers of the Reindeer, in relation to the accident, but not one of them waited, except the sufferers a*d those who could not testify. The bodies of Mr. Hugh Riley and Ids step daughters, the Misses Andrews, were placed in a private vault. Mr. Riley upon finding that there was no chance of his recovery, a few hours before his death, pro cured an attorney and made his will. He be queathed his property chiefly to his step-daughters, then also suffering, and provided that should they not survive their injuries, hia effects would fall toother connections in Richmond, Va. During the time the will was being drawn he was firm and sensible, although suffering from extensive bodily injury. A few minutes after making the will he turned his head on his pillow aud expired. The step-daughters followed him in the course of two hours. Among those badly injured is Wood Baker, Esq., Princeton, N. J. He is one of the U. S. coast engineers, he willed bis property yesterday to his wife and child. His injuries are no doubt fatal, and he was yesterday perfectly sensible of bis condition, and boro it in a Christian like man ner. Incidents, etc. —Several interesting incidents occurred during the consternation on board of the steamboat, A small boy saved his mother by catching her apron, and winding it around the railing. He kept her from jumping overboard until cne of the passengers came up and pulled her back. Captain Hoyt saved himself and wife with great presence of mind. His wife was below; also a little girl named Loup in the ladies’ cabin and the instant he heard the explosion he went below and brought his wife up. The little girl was brought up a part of the way, when she got confin ed, and turning back was scalded by the hot Bteara then rushing into the cabin. She died yesterday i morning. She was a daughter of Mr. John Loup, 1 of this city, 12 years of age, and said to have been ] a remarkably intelligent chid. After the confusion 1 on board, the skin of a man’s hand forming a per- i feet glove, was found on the deck. t The N. Y. Times gives the following list of per sons missing: Charles Carpenter, aged 9 years, was put on I board of the boat by his father, on Saturday morn- t ing, to go to his mother, in Hudson, Columbia I ■ County, and was not heard of. The father of the lad was in the City, when hearing of the catastro phe, proceeded to Bristol and searched in vain l<>r his child. The others not heard of, arc—Mrs, B. E. Boardman. Mrs. Allen, Mrs. Averell, Mrs. Gay on. Mrs. and three children who were with the latter four ladies ; Robert Smith of Greene O’Farrell, and Cornelius McDean of Georgia. The Freshets. —M o learn by the steamer Nina, which arrived yesterday at this port from Geoige towu, (S. C.) that all the plantations on the Pee Dee and Waccamaw Rivers have escaped the effects of the recent freshets. from the Santee, contradictory reports are in ciraulation as to the freshet, and the rain was so heavv at Georgetown, yesterday, as to preclude the reception of satisfactory intormation from that is an extract from a letter received in this city dated c , a , Q{ . o Laurel Hill, Sept. 6, 185_. “We now have the freshet fairly upon ns. It came over ns lust night and is still rising, but not very fast. Mr. H has hut two squares that are entirely covered over; but what the coming tide with this wind will do, lam not able to sav. The plantations above us are entirely cover ed'; not a stalk of rice to be seen; all is one vast sheet of water, us far upas ;,t is possible to see. I have not heard of any loss of Rice. I trust the damage to the crops may not be as serious as was at first feared.” The Savannah Morning News says that the re cent flood is considered the most disastrous which has ever happened on the Savannah river, and the loss will be much greater than was at first antici pated. Indeed the News would not be surprised ■were the rice crop to prove a total loss. It says that upwards of twenty-two plantations have been cohered witli water, and that it is thought by those well acquainted with the river, and the products of the plantations, that upwards 0f300,000 bushels of Rice will be lost. We learu likewise from the same source, that there has been thus far no flood in the Ogeechee river, and that the rice plantations on its hanks are in no danger of receiving injury from the water. Oh. Courier , 9 th inst. Terrific Tornado.—Wo understand that a ter rific and most destructive tornado passed across the lower end of Richmond county, North Caro lina, on Tuesday night last. Its course was from South to North. W© have but a very imperfect account of its devastation. We have heard, how ever, that Stafford Gibson, Esq., on the stage road, suffered much damnge in fences, buildings and crops. On the upper road, we are informed that a Mr. M’Millan had his dwelling swept from its foundation, together with his out-houses and fen ces. At the time his house was blown down, himself and family were collected at the door and all of them escaped unhurt. Near his workshop stood a new heavy cart just finished which was totally demolished, even the wheels were torn to pieces, the spokes were twisted off, and scattered in every direction. The track of the tornado was fortunate ly, very narrow, we consequently have reason to hope its devastation was limited. —Cheraw Gazette. The South Carolina Railroad.—The Hamburg train coming down was thrown off the track yester day, at 1 o'clock, 8 miles from Charleston, by the giving way of a culbert, which had boen impercep tably'nndennined by the heavy rains and flood of Tuesday night and yesterday morning. None of the passengers were hurt except a few slightly bruised ; but an uncommonly smart and intelligent colored lad, in the employ of the com pany, named Elsey, or Doctor Elsey, as he was commonly called was killed. He was standing on the platform at the break, and was crushed in the concussion of the cars. The mail and baggage cars are badly damaged and one of the passenger cars injured, the two other passenger cars were unhurt. The Engine and Tender were thrown on the side, and a good deal injured, propably. A part of the passengers were sent hack to Summerville, the others, with the mail, reached Charleston about half past 5, P. M. The passengers and mail we understand will be carried through to-day as usual— Ch. Gear., 6 th inst. Jokes and Anecdotes from Harper. Harper’s Magazine for September, contains, among much valuable matter, some choice anec dotes. We extract the following: “Human nature is very frail. Few men had a stringer feeling of it, under the influence of a sense of justice, than England’s great admiral, Lord Nelson. He was always loth to inflict pun ishment, and when obliged, as he called it, to “en dure the torture of seeing men flogged,” he came out of his cabin with a hurried step, ran into the gangway, and reading the articles of war which the culprit had infringed, said “Boatswain, do your duty !” The lash was instantly applied, and the sufferer exclaimed, “Forgive me, admiral—forgive me!” On such occasions, Nelson would look around with wild anxiety, and as all his officers kept silence, he would say: “What, none of you speak for him ! —cast him off!” and then added, to the suffering culprit: “In the day of battle, remember me, Jack 1” A poor man on one occasion was going to ha flogged—a landsman, whim few pitied. His of fence was drunkenness. As he was being tied up, a pretty girl, contrary to all rule, rushed through the officers, and falling on her kness, clasped Nelson’s hand, in which, were the articles of war, exclaiming: “ Pray, forgive him, your honor, and he shall never offend again!” “ Your face,” replied the admiral, “ is a securi ty for his good: let him go. The fellow cannot be had who has such a lovely creature to plead for him.” The man subsequently rose to be a lieutenant. This is a flue passage of Paulding’s :' “Nothing is more easy than to grow rich. It is only to trust nobody ; befriend no cne; to heap interest upon interest, cent upon cent; to destroy all the finer feelings of nature, and be rendered mean, miserable, and despised for some twenty or thirty years, and riches will come as sure as disease, disappointment, and a miserable death.” A lady, a friend oi ours, had occasion to take a conveyance for a few miles, from a point on the Erie Railroad. Among the passengers was* grace loss personage, who amused himself aud annoyed the other passengers by roaring forth fragments of negro melodies, and sueh-like choice musical bits. All at once it seemed to strike him that his per formances were not appreciated. “Ladies,” he remarked to the passengers gen erally, “p’raps my singing isn’t agreeable to you.” The suggestion was agreed to, nem. con. “I’m sorry you don’t like it; but I do ; aud when I travel I always make a point to enjoy my self—that’s what 1 travel for, 1 do. I’m sorry you don’t like music; but 1 don’t see how I can help it I”—and he struck up another “melody.” Some time since one of our ship-owners, in dis patching a vessel, had a good deal of trouble with one of his meu, who had got very “top-heavy” ou his advance wages. After the vessel had ac complished her voyage, on settling with the crew, it came to this man’s turn to be paid. “ What name?” asked the merchant. “ Cain, sir,” was the reply. “What! are you the man who slew his broth er ?” rejoined the merchant. “ No, sir,” was the ready and witty reply of Jack, with a knowing wink, and giving his trow sers a hitch—“ I am the man that teas stewed /” The term “ Putting your foot in it,” it seems is of legitimate origin. According to the “ Asiatic Researches,” a very curious mode of trying the title to land is practised in Hindostan. Two holes are dug in the disputed spot, in each of which the lawyers ou either sider put one of their legs, and remain there until one of them is tired, or com plains of being stung by the insects—in which case his client is defeated. In this country it is too generally the client, and not the lawyer, who “puts his foot in it!” Destiny of Egtut.—Niebuhr, in his work just fiublished in London, entitled lectures on Ancient listory, says: “There is no doubt hut that Egypt must become the possession of a civilized European power; it must sooner or later become the connecting link between England and the East Indies. European dominion natuarally supports science and litera ture, together with the rights of humanity, and to prevent the destruction of a barbarous power would be an act of high treason against intellectual culture ants humanity. When that shall have ! been accomplished, new treasures will he brought i to light, and Egyptian antiquity will be laid open ] before our eyes ; we stand at the very threshold of i a new era ir the history of antiquity. In Nine- i veh, Babylonia, and Persia centuries long past will 1 come to light again, and the ancient times will present themselves nearly and distinctly in all 1 their detail. It is true that all those nations are deficient in individuality, and in that which con- < stitntes the idea of humanity, and which we find 1 among the Greeks, Romans, and moderns; but i their conditions and changes will become clear. In 1 all its details the ancient world will acquire a fresh reality and fifty years hence essays will appear cu the 1 history of those nations, compared witn which our * present knowledge is like the chemistry such as it was a hundred years before the time of Berzelius.” W e were informed last evening by the operators i at the office in this oity, that telegraphic ccmmu nication between New York and New Orleans had ‘ been re established on their line, but that the re- - pairs were not quite complete, as to eommuuieate with this city, aud the North, it is neeceasary to f, send via Macon. It is anticioated, however, that d all will soon be again in working order.— Ch. Cour. u Chambmwburo, Pa., September 6.—The cholera ha* again broken out in this place. There were thirteen deaths last week and tliree deaths to-day, with several new eases. a From the Charleston Courier—By Telecjrpak, Baltimore, Sept. B.—The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce ha» recommended that the mails for the United States be sorted ou board the steamers. France is quiet. It is rumored that the commer cial treaty with Belgium has been concluded. Two steamers are about to be added to the line that is to run semi-monthly between Cadiz and Cuba. The shipments from Oporto have been suspended in consequence of the contemplated reduction of export duties. New Orleans, Sept. 7.—Advices from Havana to the 3d inst. state that great excitement pre vailed, and that the arrests continue. The Ameri can papers are strictly prohibited from entering 1 the Island. The prisons are rapidly filling up. Baltimore, Sept. 7.—Some four hundred bales of Cotton were disposed of in New York on Tues day, at the same prices that ruled on Mondav, viz; cents for Middling Orleans, and 10)4' cents for Middling Upland. 1,000 bags of Rio Coffee changed hands at 9 cents. New Orleans, bept. 7.—On Saturday 1600 bales, of Cotton were disposed of, and on Monday 1800.— The market has been firm since the receipt of the Arctic’s advices, and middling which had been previously quoted at from 0% a 9% cents advanced to 10 aents. Bacon sides were worth and shoulders S% cents per lb. Whisky was quoted at 20% cents per gallon, and Rice at cents per lb. Baltimore, Sept. 7.—ln the Baltimore market on Tuesday 3,800 barrels of Flour changed hands at $4.25. Red Wheat was worth from 85 to 98 cents, and whits 93c. a sl. White Corn was quo ted at 63 cents, and Yellow at from 67 a 68c. New t York, Sept. 6.—ln the Supreme Court to day Judge Edwards decided in favor of the appli cation to discharge Collyer and others, owners and officers of the Henry Clay, upon bail, as their crime under the statute amounted simply to manslangh te. The parties were therefore bailed in the sum of SIO,OOO each. Albany, September 6.—Another anti-rent out rage was attempted near Berlin, Rensalaer county, on Saturday night last, which resulted in the death of one ©f the scoundrels. A party disguised as Indians went to the house of Mr. Shaw and attempted to entice him outside, but failing to accomplish their object, they threat ened to burn down his premises. They then at tempted to put their threat into execution, when Mr. Shaw fired a revolver upon them, killing a man named Joseph Wilbeck instantly, and wound ing two others. The other miscreants fled. Last fall Mr. Shaw was tarred and feathered by the anti-renters, and three weeks ago they burnt down his outhouses. American Inventions and British Claims. The last number of the Edinburgh Review in an elaborate article on English Agriculture, ascribes, with much complacency, the original invention of the American reaping machine, both Hussey’s and McCormick’s, to British genius. We are told that Hussey’s machine was invented by a Scotch Pres byterian minister, whose brother, a farmer, used it, after some improvements, for a dozen successive years in reaping his crops. The National Society, we are further told, gave to the inventor a prize of £SO. In 1834, the account further states, sever al of these machines were in operation in Forfar shire, and at length four of them were sent to New York from Dundee. The history of the machine when it reached Am erican hands becomes less obscure. “The reaper was re-constructed,” says the Review, “modified in different ways, as so complicated a machine could not fail to be, and probably for the better by ingenious machinists, was brought into success ful oparation, made by thousands for the farmers beyond the American Lakes, and obtained a de servedly high reputation, as a means both of doing work v. ell and of saving labor much.” In 1851, the American reaping machine proved the main at traction of the United States department of the Great London Exhibition. Mechanists vied with, each other in seeking to secure the privilege of manufacturing the patented machine for the En glish market; thousands of practical men became persuaded of its economical applicability to the English soil and crops; hundreds of machines were bespoke by English cultivators—and all the while, gravely remarks the Reviewer, “No one knew that the original model machine was at the very time quietly cutting its yearly harvest on the farm of Inch Michael, in the carse ot Gowrie.” The original McCormick's reaper, it is also sta ted, was a machine invented in 1822, by a Mr. Ogle, at Renington, near Alwwick. Os this*a draw - ing and description, it is said, were published in the British Mechanics’ Magazine for 1828. It is no doubt characteristic of British modesty that tliC'C inventions should have remained un known to the world until the less diffident Ameri cans took hold of them. If the original inventor of Hussey’s machine had not been so engrossed by his clerical duties, as to prevent him from per fecting and making known to the whole British public this happy offspring of occasional hours of liesure; if the ingenious Mr. Ogle, the progenitor of McCormick’s invention, had not attended to other things instead of pushing his discovery into all forms of successful application—then perhaps the Scotch Presbyterian minister and his agricul tural brother would have made a fortune by the sale of patents—thus m king use of his reaper to secure a golden crop—while “a Mr, Ogle,” would hare been known as the Mr. Ogle, and recognised as worthy to take precedence even of that distin guished Briton who was in the habit of announ cing himself to strangers as the celebrated Mr. Trawley who invented the patent flat-iron. But these untoward ll ifs n which operated to keep those worthy gentlemen in obscurity, belong to that cl as a of contingencies illustrated by the adage that i/itt* dog had not stopped be would have caught the rabbit. The pretensions advanced by the Review In be half of British originals of which the public know nothing, to the prejudice of the claims of Americans inventors whose success attests the practical value of their machines, are to a purpose similar to that attempted by certain critics, who search in old and ancient authors for the germs of some of Shaks peare’s grandest .conceptions. We may next ex pect to see the fame of* Powers depreciated as tho sculptor of the Greek Slave, on the ground that the statue existed previously in the block of marble, and that the artist did nothing but remove certain, superfluities so that the features and tho form might appear as we now see them. But our in ventors and mechanists and artists, can afford to. bear a great deal of disparagement from our* friends cf the Bull family, so long as real value and practical success continue to characterise the productions of their skill and genius.— Balt. Am Means of Committing Suicide.— Wear - t^-n shoes on damp nights, and in rainy wea f ’ * Building on the “air-tight” prineipl ' ' Leading a life of enfeeblinsr, str .®,’ and keeping the mind in a round 0' t ’ citernent by reading trashy novel' ‘ uml " tur ’ ll ro!ms Pil * ° n f<MthOT bOdS iU *' --'en-by-nine hed- H on • tkm t 0 Mother,through coftee, chewing, smoki aud drinki ’ ? w of® e masticate tho food. t 5/ wtr » am 80 absorb our minds as not to leave us time tc , attcud t 0 healtl p Fo .owing M’ unhealthy occupation, because money can 00 made by it. J Tempting the appetite with niceties, when the stomach soys, No. 0 ontrivmg teop in a continual worry about something or- nothing. Retiring at midnight and rising at noon. Gormandizing between meals. (jiv’.ng way to fits of anger. OBITU4RL Departed this life, on Saturday morning of the 21st ult at the residence of Neal Johnson in Elbert county Geor* gia., Mrs. MILLEY SULLIVAN, in her 76th year ’ Mrs. Sullivan was born in North Carolina, and was “o^^ l r ar y if V°nT aDt SullivaQ > a Revolutionary ™ e '; <Y h o died about 12 years ago) and moved to Grccn \ ille District, S. C., thence to Elbert county, Georgia r, h '? re ® he Pf ld d?® last debt of Nature, and sleeps the sleep ( ea.h. Mis. S. Has much beloved and respected by all who knew her, especially hy those of the Baptist Church, ot h Inch she was an exemplary member for the last thirty y® a f*- Rufl as it is appointed unto all men, once to die,, she has fulfilled her alloted space—leaving several children to mourn her loss, whose loss is her eternal gain, for she rests in that world of etherial felicity, from whose bourne no traveller returns. J. p. seplO The Anderson (S. C.) Gazette and Greenville Patriot, will please copy. ’ FEMALE SEMINARY. MRS. JAMES P. KING respectfully announces *<r her friends, and the public generally, that she wili open, on the FOIST MONDAY IN OCTOBER next a. SEMINARY for Young Ladies, in which wiR betaught .S the branches of a substantial and elegant Edncation. Sh# hopes that devoted efforts to advance her Pupils, and a scrupulous rgeard to the behavior and morals of those en trusted to her care, will insure for her a liberal share of patronage. The services of an able Scholar and accomplished Gen tleman will be secured to assist in the higher branches. Mrs. Ring has rented the large and commodious houstr at the corner of Broad and Camming streets (formerly c copied by Mr. Stovall) where she can accommodate witfe. board \ oung Ladies from the country. A great induce-- ment is offered to those learning French, as that language will be spoken in the family. Circulars containing Terms, Ac., maybe obtained by ap plication to Mrs. Ring, at present on Greene street, oppo-" site the Methodist Church. aul2-tf TO MERCHANTS. '\T’ r A.\TED, a situation as BOOK KEEPER, by a per- VV son who can produca the best testimonials as to ca pacity and character. For particulars, apply at this office* s9-dtf NOTICE. IDO hereby forewarn all persons from trading for & PROMISSORY NOTE, given by me to John A, Moore, for Two Hundred and five Dollars and seventy-seven cents, due May 24th, 1S51; as 1 do not intend to pay said note unless compelled by law. JAB. P. FLEMING. Augusta, Sept. 8, 1852. so.4t WANTED. A YOUNG man who has been employed in a grocery Store, and can also write a good hand, may he ß*l a situation by calling at this office.
