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CITY PHIST ER.
[FOK THE SOL* TII ERN Ml SEIM.]
Lines from a Student to hU Lady-Love.
A1 ary ! hast thou not seen the cloud
In summer’s sultry hour,
O’erspreail the spotless a/ure sky,
And dim the sun - * bright power?
And whilst the heavy vapors threw
Their sparkling drops around,
A little spot of brightest hue
Would in the heavens be found ?
’Tis thus, my love, n settled glooin
Sinks heavy on my htart,
Which dims the sunshine of tny soul,
Till health and peace depart.
But whilst the clouds of sorrow vent
Their torrents on my head,
One star unclouded hrightly beams
When other hopes are fled.
And shall I tell its name to thee ?
Wouldst thou that planet know ?
Have words—though passed perhupsin jest—
Have I not told thee so :
It is thyself ; aye, Mary, aye,
Thy graceful, fairy mien ;
For gloom and sadness both withdraw
W'hen thy dear form is seen.
Mary ! hast thou not looked ere now
Across the cloudless night,
And viewed a meteor cross its path
And cast its snowy light
Like pearls to every glitt’ring crest,
That threw its feeble ray
Where Luna, in lone silence dressed,
Succeeds the orb of day?
’Tis thus thy visage flashed across
My then undarkened sky,
And lit to splendor every nerve,
And then as quick passed by*.
Thy being was, I fondly thought,
A seraph from above,
Sent by the angels from thy homo
For some good deed of love.
But Mart f meteors ne’er return
When once they fade away,
And but a moment can we see
Their beauteous, Hooting ray ;
But now mine eyes may gaze for time
Upon thy cherry cheek,
And think with passion’s fondest rhyme,
And with mine actions speak.
For I have seen thee once again,
Have gazed with rapture still,
And whilst surrounded by such scenes,
What theme can care instil ?
And l have found thee what at first
Thy frankness seemed to be,
A being with all graces fraught,
A fiiend to Jove and me.
But Mary ! thou art young as yet,
Not entered on the sphere
Where woman acts her truest part,
And claims ntfention’s tear.
Then promise now ere thou hast reached
The zenith of thy life,
\\ lion age and prudence shall permit
That thou wilt be my wife.
For sliouldst thou hesitate to seal
This covenant of ours,
Till thou art placed, in womanhood,
Amongst the full blown flowers :
Some nobler heart and stronger mind
Will claim thee as their own,
And bid me wander through the earth
Unhappy and alone.
W. P. 11.
Greene Superior Court.
The Court met on Monday last to pass
sentence upon John Hall, convicted at the
late regular Term, of the murder of Ful
ler. His elder brother, also charged as a
principal in the murder, will not be tried
before March next. The prisoner has the
appearance of being not over eighteen
years of age. When arraigned at the bar,
he was asked, if he had any esuse to show
why sentence should not be passed against
him. His Counsel, after adverting to the
youth of the prisoner and the recommen
dation of the Jury to the mercy of the
Court, remarked that, “against the sen
tence we have not a word to say.” Upon
which Judge Meriwether addressed the
prisoner in substance as follows :
The Jurors who have passed upon your
guilt, have most sincerely recommended
you to the mercy of the Court. By that
recommendation of mercy, I understand
an invocation, that the Court would exer
cise its discretionary power to commute
your punishment of death, to that of im
prisonment for life in the Penitentiary.—
As the evidence upon which you have been
convicted is of that character which in
vests me with the discretion to commute,
I shall most cheerfully yield to the wish
which has been so feelingly expressed by
the Jury.
And to you it is most truly an act of
the utmost mercy, that your life does not
pay the penalty of your crime. The un
happy man who fell by your hand, receiv
ed no mercy from you. Earnest and
honest as was his dying prayer, that you
would stay your murderous blows, yet
brutal, and regardless of every human
sympathy, you continued their infliction
until tliat life, which this day is spared to
you, was extinct in him.
To your tender years, and the once kind
and affectionate relation you bore to your
aged step-father,before the supposed temp
ter led you to the coniission of crime, you
dbubtless owe the boon which your coun
try has invoked in your behalf.
In the annals of crime, 1 can recur to
do case wiiete the blood of man has been
more vindictively sought, than that of Full
cr» b y yourself. He had reared you from
early childhood—lie had ever been to you
a kind and generous connection. He
had protected you, when, in tender years,
you needed his protection—he had sustain
ed you w hen in the hour of childish fee
bleness you demanded bis supporting arm.
\ou wete sharing in the generous hospi
talities of his humble home, and reposing
in the confidence of his parental-like re
gard for you, w hen the fiendish deed with
which you arc charged, was perpetrated.
A deed induced by the basest and worst
passions of the heart, a murder for plunder.
The killing was brutal beyond concep
tion. Its circumstadces showed an aban
donment of heart seldom met with in one
of your axtreme youth.
Mingled with your blows, were heard
his dying cries toyou for mercy ! mercy ! !
And when darkness had veiled all things
earthly, privately and stealthily you con
veyed his body to the water, and there
with weights and chains about it, you
committed it to its resting place, vainly
thinking, as the last wave closed over it, it
was forever hid from human eye.
But vain indeed, is the effort of crime
to conceal its existence, when penetrated
by the all-seeing eye of God. “Trifles
light as ait” pointed to the deed—events
too trivial to provoke inquiry, except
when crime was involved, unfolded that
tale of crime. That human hair or two
upon the stone —that drop of blood upon
the bar at the gateway, spoke with trum
pet tongue, the perpetration of the horrid
crime. Your hasty flight when none but
a guilty conscience pursued, pointed to
you as its fiend-like author. You were
arrested—your trial has been had.and you
now stand before the country to receive
the sentence of its outraged laws.
Thus it S ever with crime. The best
laid schemes to conceal its existence—
the best concocted plans to escape detec
tion, contain within themselves the very
elements of its discovery. Every precau
tion which you threw aroud yourself for
potection, but pointed the more plainly to
your guilt. And by a chain of circumstan
ces the most perfect in its character, with
-a conflicting ordiscordant fact through
out —after a most patient trial and the
severest scrutiny which the ingenuity of
able counsel could afford, your guilt, be
yond a reasonable doubt, has been most
clearly and fully established.
As the evidence was developing on your
trial, the inquiry frequently presented it
self to my mind, what could have induced
your participation in this most horrid act !
You had ever been on the kindest and
most friendly terms with your aged step
father—you both seemed to have enjoyed
each other’s confidence and regard—your
character as a mild, peaceable, well-be
haved youth was clearly established—no
bickerings bad ever marred your friendly
intercourse—and we heard of no distrust
—no disquietude between you until your
murderous arm was raised to takg the life
of your kind-hearted benefactor. What
could so suddenly have changed this cur
rent of manly and generous affection to
that malignant hatred which could be sat
isfied alone with life l A gloomy myste
ry indeed, overhangs this sudden and vio
lent change!
If it it he true, as has been alleged for
you, that the earnest persuasions of an in
timate relation, exercising a controlling
influence over your mind, seduced you in
an evil hour from the path of virtue, then
your condition invites our deepest sympa
thies and commisseration for your misfor
tunes, while yet we cannot cease to abhor
and condemn the consequences of your
acquiescence. But yet we might still ask,
how it was, that one, so apparently inno
cent, so guiltless, could, in the brief period
of a day or two, become so corrupt, by as
sociation, as to become the murderer of
your own dearest friend ! and that too,
when the prospect of plunder which would
full to your share, the price of your crime,
even if you should be so fortunate as to
escape detection, was so inconsiderable ?
In looking over the history of your life
as detailed by the evidence, theie was one
fact elicited, which, in my humble judg
ment, speaks volumes, as to the cause of
your unhappy fate. You were raised with
out restraint, and spent your Sabbaths fish
ing in the creek, savs one of the witnesses.
Th ere, sir, arises the cause which made
you the ready victim of temptation. You
were raised without the teachings of a
moral education. Those restraining influ
ences which check the passions, and give
to man a proper estimate of his moral ac
countability, as inculcated by the high re
ligious truths of the Bible, never rested
upon you. You were never taught to re
verence the Sabbath day—and habituated
to disregard it—the habitual neglect of
those kindred commands which impose
this duty upon us all, also followed. The
strength of your feelings as to your moral
accountability, if indeed, they have ever
been aroused, was weakened, and vour
moral sensibility had become blunted and
seared, by the immoral habits of child
hood. Hence when the temptation was
presented, with no moral power to resist,
you yielded to its seductions, and doubt
less, without a compunction at the enor
mity of ilie act you were invoked to per
petrate.
In the economy of Providence, man has
been made a morally accountable being.
His mind has been filled with desites
which are inherent in his very nature, and
his weal or woe in life is made to depend
upon that restraint, to which he may sub
ject their gratification. Our own experi
ence tells us that the more they are indulg
ed, tlie more difficult and impossible their
satisfaction becomes. One indulgence be
comes the stimulant to another. We are
led on ftom desire to desire, from gratifi
cation to gratification, until eventually we
are overwhelmed in one restless desire,
which never knows or feels the power of
satisfaction.
To check these desires, which when
unrestrained, are the parent of vice—and
to hold them in proper bounds, is the pur
! pose and aim of moral education. In a
word, it teaches us moral subordination,
as indispcnsible to the pursuit of virtue,
and without which there is neither happi
ness, nor security from vice, in this world.
It enables us to determine the right from
the wrong, and to resist temptation, how
ever delusive its snare, or however capti
vating its enchantments. This is the
great end of moral education.
It is a desiro most natural and common
to us all, to acquire property, and when
directed by moral education, it prompts to
industry, economy, and energy, and thus
becomes a benefit to society—when left
to its unrestrained impulses, it leads to
theft and to robbery, and even to murder
as a means of their accomplishment. It
was this desire of gain unrestrained by
moral influence which has doomed you
this day, at the bar of vour country, to re
ceive the sentence of its violated laws.—
May I not with truth exclaim, how ruin
ous, how defective lias been your educa
tion, when tliis great element, so cssenlial
to your happiness, and security from vice,
lias been so entirely wanting.
The passenger on the high seas, when
wrecked by the storm, may perchance, by
clinging to some fragment of his vessel,
with propitious gales and waves, reach the
shore in safety. But, yet, luvv many
thousands of others, similarly situated,
find a grave beneath the waves which buf
fet them ! So it is with man on the great
voyage of life—without moral education,
with no temptation to beset him, he may
reach the grave without the parpetration
of crime, yet in the frequent indulgence of
vice. Bullet temptations surround him,
and he sinks beneath a power more resist
less than the surging waves.
Since 1 have presided on this Circuit,it
has occurred before me, in this county,
that twice two brothers have been atraign
ed before me, for a joint participat on in
the crime of murder. One lias forfeited
bis life upon the gallows, another is the
miserable inmate of a gloomy prisor, and
your fate can be nothing better than his.—
In tracing the history of these four men,
flic lamentable fact presents itself, that in
youth their moral education was wholly
neglected ! What a solemn admonition
does not this give forth to every parent
who hears me '! How forcibly does it ap
peal to every parent, to give the most care
ful thought to the moral education of those
who l>y nature have devolved the most
weighty responsibilities upon him ] And
does not this want of moral education
commend itself to every philanthropist, as
having its origin in the still further want
of literary education 1 It is a fact over
which we all may most profitably reflect.
Toyou,sir,amost gloomy future spreads
out. You can look upon the past with
no pleasing reminiscence—henceforward,
your youth, your manhood, and even de
crepid old age, must, be spent within the
gloomy walls of a prison ! How heart
rending is such a thought! and yet, you
owe it all to the indulgence of your own
bad passions. There is nothing in your
position, which by any means forbade a
different fate. From the character of
your crime, you need not hope that the
pardoning power of mercy will ever strike
asunder the chains of servitude which bind
you. It would be idle thus to hope. But
while the pardon of man mav never reach
you let me entreat you to seek that of the
Most High, both to solace you here, and
prepare you to stand at His bar hereafter.
The prisoner was then sentenced to
hard labor during his natural life in the
State Prison.
Experiments with the Cotton Gin.
—l he following experiments with the
cotton gin communicated by a correspon
dent of the Southern Cultivator, will be
interesting to many of our readers. The
writer say Being much troubled by my
gin not dropping ihe motes and trash, I
closed both ends at the bottom- Tnis, by
lessening the current of air under the gin,
was some service ; but not sufficient. The
brush-wheel was made in the ordinary
way, by draming the bristles double
through bars about 11-2 inches wide, un
der which bars was a lining ofosnaburgs.
Being satisfied that the wheel created too
strong a current, I cut strips of osnaburgs
just wide enough to reach from one row
ot brushes to another, tacked them on the
*outside of the bars ; thus destroying the
fan and leavinb nothing but projection of
the bristles to create a current. This was
still sufficient to throw eut the lint, while
the motes and trash fell behind the mote
board. Instead of heavin as formely, to
clean out the trash and motes once a "day,
it now had to be done every hour. Find
ine the experiment succeeded, I had the
brush wheel taSen out and the spaces be
tween the bars closed with thin plank ;
thus converting it into a drum-wheel. The
cotton which the gin now makes is worth
from 1-4 to 1-2 cent more than that made
by the same gin before the alteration.
There is an objection to the brush
wheel. The® ristles, as is the usual way,
are drawn in double, and as all hair "is
bearded in one direction, half the beards
are necessarily turned down and serve to
j catch lint ; rendering it necessary fre-
I quently to open tlie gin and clean off the
brushes by hand. If the brush-wheel he
| made of narrow strips of plank, just as
i wide as you wish the rows of brushes a
pait, and (he bristles he glued to pieces
ot tape, or narrow strips of homespun, or
to the edges of the plank itself, with the
small end of the bristles turned outwaid,
they may, on putting the wheel together,
be confined in the joints, so as to hold
them fast, snd the beards being all turned
outwards the brush will keep itself clean.
I will farther add that the breast of ev
ery gin should be closed below the seed
board; leaving, of course, sufficient room
for the seed to fall. The breast can be as
eosily haisted, when necessary, by small
knobs as by the under edge of the breast
board. ’
Railway* in India—Dearth In Cotton.
The gloomy accounts relating to the
cotton crop of 1949, which have been re
ceived during the last fortnight, naturally
cause many of our Lancashire readers to
turn with renewed interest to the subject
of cotton cultivation in India ; and once
more we bear, as on many former occa
sions, innumerable expressions of regret
at the apathy which the people of Eng
land have displayed with regard to all the
various modes proposed, from time to time,
for making us less dependent on America
for the raw material of our staple manu
facture. Little more than half a century
ago, we imported about as much cotton
from our own colonies in the West Indies
as we did from the United States. During
the first half of 1848 and 1549 our imports
from these countries respectively have
been as follow:
IS4S. 1849.
United States, bales 575.367 1,170,132
West Indies, bales 2,356 2,199
Less than thirty years ago our imports
of West India cotton were equal lo oue
tentli of what we received from America,
but since that period they have very rap
idly decreased. Year after year have the
receipts from our own colonies dwindled
away, while the quantity imported from
the United States has been increasiiwfcat
such a rate as to render us almost entirely
dependent upon them for supplying Lan
cashire with the chief material required
for its industry. Comparing the progress
of the woollen trade, during the last thirty I
years, with that of the cotton manufacture,
as regards their dependence upon the im
portation of the raw material employed in
both, one cannot help remaking the singu
lar change which has been going on in
each of these two great branches of indus
try.
In 1522, our woollen manufacturers de
pended chiefly upon Germany and Spain
for the large quantities of foreign wool
they required in the manufacture of
cloth. At that time the whole of our im
ports from our own colonies did not a
mount probably to more than 200,000 lbs.
a year. In 1818, out of 02,103,000 lbs. of
foreign wool consumed in Great Britain,
nearly 40,000,000 lbs. have been import
ed from the following British colonies :
lbs.
New South Wales, 22,091,481
East India, 5,997,435
Van Diemen’s Land, 4,955,968
Cape of Good Hope, &c., 3,497,250
South Australia, 2,762,072
West Australia, 129,295
New Zealand, 95,151
Total, 39,529,252
In 1820, out of 151,572,000 lbs. of cot
ton wool imported into Great Britain, 59,-
999,000 lbs. were from the United States.
Last year, out of about 710,000,000 lbs.
imported, not less than 640,000.000 lbs.
noarly seven-eighths of the whole quantity
consumed, must have been from theUni
ed States. Had the increased production
of cotton wool in our own colonies since
1820 been going on at the same rate as
that of sheep’s wool has been, we should
now have been importing only about SOO,-
000 hales from America, in addition to 1,-
200,000 hales from the East Indies, Aus
tralia, Port Natal, and other colonies fa
vorable to its cultivation.
But it is useless to repine over what
might have been. The only task that is
left for us now is to improve the opportu
nities which still lie before us. In look
ing" over the table of imports of cotton
from 1520 to 1848, we find that in 1841
\vs imported no less than 100,104,510 lbs.
from East India, which is considerably
more than the whole of our average annu
al import from the United States, in the
five years ending in 1824. But in 1848
our receipts of American cotton were near
ly double what they had been in 1841,
while those from East India had sunk to
less than one-half of what they were seveti
years ago ; and how easily it might have
been otherwise % Had the East India
Company merely spent one-fifth of their
enormous revenue during those seven
years in the construction of railways and
other works for facilitating the transit of
goods, we might at this moment be receiv
ing from Bombay one-third of all the cot
ton we consume ; in which case, not to
speak of the greatly improved demand
which would thereby have been created
for the twist and calicoes of Lancashire,
we should have felt comparatively easy as
to the probable estimate of the American
cotton crop of 1849. Now that the rail
way system is about to he introduced into
our Indian empire, it remains to be seen
whether the Court of Directors will so be
stir themselves in promoting its rapid de
velopement, as to give them something
more of a claim upon the legislature for
the renewal of their expiring charter, than
they could venture to urge at present.—
Manchester Examiner.
E3PThe Ringgold Republican of the
291 h ult. says : “ The Locomotive, with
open cars, arrived at this place oil Satur
day last. The work is progressing with a
rapidity far surpassing public expecta
tion.”
MACON, G A .
SATURDAY MORNING, OCT. 6, 1849.
BEK«TjUL
The “SOUTHERN MUSEUM” Of
fice has been removed to the two story
Wooden Building, at the Corner of Fifth
and Walnut Streets, where we are prepar
ed to execute all orders in the Printing
line with neatness and dispatch.
OC/" Our readers will bear in mind that
the Rev. W. It. Branham will deliver his
address before the Sons of Temperance
on Monday evening next.
The Grand Division, Sons gs
Temperance, will meet in this city on the
24th inst. The Mass Meeting of the same
Order will assemble at the same time.—
The reports from various sections of the
Stale justify the belief that several thous
and persons will be present on the occa
sion of the presentation of the Prize Ban
ner.
The Greene Countv Murder. —The
young man, aged about 18 years, who
murdered his step-father in Greene coun
ty some time ago, was sentenced to im
prisonment for life at hard labor in the
Penitentiary, at the last term of Greene
Superior Court. The beautiful address
of Jude Meriwether, before pronouncing
the sentence, will be found in our columns
to-day.
The Election.
We have not had time to arrange all
the returns received for this issue—enough
however has been received to warrant the
belief that Gov. Towns has beaten his op
ponent Judge Hill, 2500 votes. The
Democrates have gained 12 Representa
tives and 5 Senators—l 7. The Whigs
have gained 10 in the House and 3 in the
Seuate—l3, when compared with the last
Legislature, when they had 7 majority.—
This result gives the Democrats a proba
ble majority in the Senate of 1 or 2, and
2 or 3 in the House—or 4 or 5 on joint
ballot.
The following is the official vote for
8188 COUNTY:
City. Hazzard's. Rutland's IVarrior. Total
GOVERNOR :
Towns, (D.) 540 24 87 83 734
Hill, (W.) 486 56 65 27 634
SENATOR:
Napier,*(D.)ss3 50 70 49 722
Bailey, (D.) 315 IS 68 48 479
house :
Nisbet, (W.) 517 55 75 26 674
Fish, (D.) 479 17 76 67 639
Bivins, (W.) 434 57 71 37 599
Cook, (D ) 405 17 66 G 8 556
*Mr. Napier ran as an independent
Democratic candidate, against the regular
nominee.
CHATHAM COUNTY:
GOVERNOR:
G. W. TOWNS, 756
E. Y. HILL, 666
SENATOR :
THOMAS PURSE, (D.) 756
WILLIAM LAW, (W.) 650
REPRESENTATIVES:
JOHN W. ANDERSON, (D.) 75a
GEO. P. HARRISON, (D.) 733
F. S. BARTOW, (W.) GG4
R. R. CUYLER, (W.) 650
ICU’The Hibernia has arrived bringing
Liverpool dates to Sept. 22. There had
been no change in the cotton market for
the week previous. The Hibernia left
New York for Liverpool on Saturday last
with a mail and nineteen passengers —a-
mong whom were two gentlemen with
despatches, one for France, and tlie other
for Switzerland.
Waynesboro’ Road. —A meeting of
the citizens of Augusta will take place
this afternoon to take into consideration
the communication from the citizens of
Savannah, inviting co-operation in the con
struction of a Railroad connecting Augusta
with Savannah.
UP 3 A lot of 32 bales of new colton was
sold in Savannah on the 2d inst. at 11
cents.
Sad Accident. —The Muscogee Dem
ocrat of the 4th inst. says : “On Monday
last, one of the Stage Drivers, on the route
from this place to Barnesville, was in
stantly crushed to death by the upsetting
of the stage he was driving, he being
thrown under the falling vehicle at the
moment of the accident. The name of
tlie unfortunate man was Cooper, and was
recently from Ohio. One of the lady pas
sengers, Mrs. Mitchell, of Montgomery
county, Ala., was considerably injured by
tlie upsetting of the Stage, not, we hope,
dangerously.”
|O r ”P- C. Guieu, Esq., far several years
editor of the Constitutionalist, recently
died at Augusta.
New Inventions.
A London letter of 31st August, publish
ed in the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser
has the following items :
A valuable invention lias been made
in Belgium. It is destined to effect as
great a reform in the manufacture of linen
clothes as the steam loom has made in that
of woollens. It is nothing less than a
steam loom for linen fabrics. All the
ingenuity and perseverance of manufactu
rers have been tested to invent a machine
of this kind; but the fabrics have been uni
formly so poor that the machines have
been thrown away and manual labor again
resorted to. The difficulty lias been re
moved by the scientific skill of a Belgian
engineer. A model of his machine, with
specimens, of his fabrics, has been exhibi
ted at the fair at Ghent. The clothes are
said to rival in firmnes, fineness and smooth
ness the best of those made by hand. If,
on farther trial, it shall be found practica
ble on alarge scale, a revolution will doubt
less be effected in the linen industry of
Belgium, which will have a powerful influ
ence on the political conditions of the
counlry, one half of the peculation of Flan,
ders living, in one way or another, on the
profits of that industry.
A late improvement in the musket will
certainly meliorate greatly the art of war.
This lias been made in Prussia, and the
secret is strictly guarded by the Govern
ment. Nobody is permitted to examine
the work in the manufactories, and the
soldiers are forbidden to show tbeir mus
kets. But these precautions are all use
less ; the improvement will be certainly
known and adopted by other countries
Captain Stone, of the Amcaican army, now
in Sweden, is, I believe, in possession of
the secret. The United States offered to
sell to Mexico her flint lock guns ; she will
soon he able, I hope, to sell percussion
ones. From what I have seen of the new
gun, as well as from what I have heard, I
ccn say a few words to satisfy in part the
curiosity of our officers and gun makers.
The musket has no lock and is loaded at
the stock end of the barrel.
The ball is long and cone shaped,
rounded at the big end. The barrel is
slightly rifled, hut the grooves rre perfect
ly straight and not spiral as in the Ameri
can gun. The hall is consequently thrown
a much greater distance, none of the force
of the powder being wasted in giving it a
useless rotary motion. The common
charge is one half of that used in the per
cussion gun, and is said to carry the ball
to its mark nine hundred yards. None of
ilie powder is wasted, the fire being corn
municated from the side of the barrel and
not from the breech. This is effected by
an ingenious contrivance. The part of
the cartridge next the ball is filled with
an explosive substance simular to that in
a percussion cap. This is made lo ex
plode by the contact of a piece of sieel
about the length of an eight penny nail,
which passes from the outside of the bar
rel through the cartridge. The gun is call
ed the “nail firer.” It can be discharged
by a common soldier eight times in a min
ute and need not he taken from the shoul
der to be reloaded.
The best soldier cannot discharge the
percussion gun more than 3 or 4 times in
a minute, and in battle an officer cannot
count on more than one discharge in that
time. Another advantage of tlie Pruss
ian gun is that the distance to which it car
ries enables a force to fire some twenty
five or thirty times, before an enemy, ar
med with the percussion musket, can get
within shooting distance. The efficacy of
the Prussian troops is thus doubled. The
Prussian anmy might be reduced to half
its present numbers, to the great delight
of every body except the monarch and his
immediate advisers.
Frost.— The Pendleton Messenger says
“Wc had slight frosts on last Monday and
Tuesday mornings in this neighborhood,
which did no injury to the crops. The
Cotton and Pea crops, however, have been
cut very short by the dry weather, which
has lasted neatly two months.”
Despatch from Gen. Twiggs.—We
copy the following important information
from the Tallahassee Sentinel, of the 2d
inst.
lleao Quarters. Western Division,)
Tampa Bay, Fla., Sept. 22, 1549. )
Sir —l have the honor to inform you
that on the 18th inst. I had an interview
wi h the Chiefs of the Florida Indians a*
Charlotte’s Harbor. They disclaim f° r
the nation all disposition unfriendly to the
whites—say the recent outrages were un
known to the nation—and were pertrated
by a few outlaws, who deserved punish
ment, and who will lie surrendered to oar
justice sometime in the course of the com
ing month.
Under these circumstances, I entcr'a* n
the hope that security and confidence wifi
soon he secured to the ciiizens.
1 sin sir, respectfully, your oh’t set v t,
D. E. TWIGCS.