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SAVANNAH MORNING NEWS FRIDAY, JULY 26. 1850. THE MORNING NEWS. BY JOHN M. COOPER. WILLIAM T. THOMPSOIf, ED I TOR T K B M 8 : Daily Paper,*. $4,0(R:.::Tri-Weekly t-JOO All new Advertisements appear in both papers- DERAIOT’S DREAM. "Then we are to part, Norah, sure ? Must I travel the wide world alone 1 It’s hard such a fate to endure : Are ye thinkin' my hearts made of atone '< Ye say that yer promise ye'll lcape; It’s methntam doubtin’ that same, For last night not a wink eould 1 slope, So I drlmt a most hard-hearted drame ! 1 thought that right over the deck The say wid the big tempest came; And clurlg, for my life, to the wreck ;— Don't sigh, now—it’s only a drame t ' I drifted and drown’d till, some how, I was saved from the perilous tide : Rut the fever was strong on my brow ; And a stranger to watch by my aide ! I felt my hot eyes overflow, As down on my two knees I knelt, And pray'd that you niver might know The anguish yer poor Derinot felt ! My nurso stood as you, Norah, stand— The tears from her eyes quite a strarne , But why, Cuishlah, trembles yer hand I Remember—it's only a drame ! "It proved Hint this kind girl had come. (Wid her soft hair and eyes of deep blue) From my own darlint swate island home:— Uhl Norah! why wasn't it, pant Her bright eyes so lovin’ly shone, When I asked her the price of my life— That what could I do but—och home 1— Just drame. that I made her my wife f” Then up Norali rose, witli a start, And cried, twixt a sob and n scrame, t “Och I Dermot, wo never will part. For it's I'll he that nurse in yer drame 1” Mrs. F.llis’ "Morning Call.' Southern Cent ml Agricultural Association. The Fifth Annuul Fair of the flouthorn t lentral Ag ricultural Association, will bo held during the week embracing Wednesday, the Nth day of Augustuext, which is tile day of the fifth annual meeting. Tho Committee charged with the duty of proscri bing such general rules as they may deem necessary to a proper management of the approaching Fair, have adoptedRho following GENERAL REGULATIONS. 1st. The Fair Grounds and Buildings will he opened for visitors on Monday morning, and con- tinuo open until Friday evening. It is therefore desira ble that all persons having articles for exhibition, shall lie on the ground as curly as Friday or .Satur day, the 9th and 10th August, when a Committee will be there ready to receive them. 2d. The Association lias an amide fund, and will, in all cases, become responsible for the sate- keeping of articles which may bo placed in thehands of its of ficers and committees, (the owner taking a check lor the same,) until the close of tho Fair, which will be announced beforehand in ample time to give them opportunity to recover their goods, and to prevent thereby the leaving of any goods or articles unpro tected utter the adjournment of the Association. 3d. Mark A. Cooper, Richard l’eters, David IV. Lewis, Win. Ezzarcl, and James M. Calhoun, arc appointed a committee whoso duty it shall be to see Dint all articles entering the fair grounds for exhibi tion,shal have lirst been entered in theriecretury'ahook or registry—then labelled with tho owner’s name and residence—and price, if for sale—giving to the owner a corresponding card—and then classified and arranged by departments, und in such order us tu fa cilitate the labors of tho several committees on pre miums; und also to employ such police and door-keep ers and. clerks, us shall bo necessary for the pro tcction of tho grounds and buildings, and such clerks ns they may need in tho arrangement and labelling of articles. 4th. There will positively he required, in all cases, a minute and nccurato written statement illustrating und explaining every article sent for exhibition—the statement to bo delivered, to tho Secretary. For in stance, if a Machine, a statement of its powers and uses, cost, tim« of invention, and any other lacts deemed valuable by the inventor or maker. If Hor ticultural or Agricultural Products, mode of prepa ration of land and Soil, manure and timeof planting, mode of cultivation. If an Animal, the pedigree or stock, age, mode of raising, &c. if Needle-work or Pulntiug or any work of Art, tho longth of time be stowed on it, or the amount of labor ; the age, it by children or very old persons; the vnlue, uses, &<■: Since this is tho most reliable mode of collecting such information un may be worth publishing in tho transactions of the Society, visitors, patrons und mem bers, all will tako notice, that a premium toil! not be awarded to any article, whatever its merit, unless ac companied by illustrative and explanatory statements, made out in legible haud, and in a style tit ut once for the press. 501. The delegations of the several country Socie ties are requested and enjoined to make out, upon consultation, a report of the present condition of Ag riculture in their several counties, of tho improve ments in farming, tillage, draining and manuring, which liuvo been or are in progress of being adop ted. The leading products of their counties, tho inodes of preparation, time of planting and inode of cul tivation. The means and inensures of preserving and increasing the fertility of lands. Accurate Agrf cultural memoirs from the several county societies would make up an amount of valuable information to be sent out in the published transactions oi the So ciety. 6th. It ia desirable to make the Fair a Central Southern Agricultural and Manufacturers Exchange. We request individuals who huve surplus ol choice articles, or who make them for sale—such as choice seeds, machines stock, d,c.—to curry them there for sale, and not alone for exhibition for a premium. 7th. Premiums.—it is impossible to name in a no tice like this all the vurious articles to which, prem iums will be granted. However comprehensive wo might make any enumerated list, there would still bo many articles of merit offered which would not be embraced in it, and yet richly deserving premiums, lest therefore the announcement, of premiums tor particular articles might beconstrued by some iuto an exclusion of all articles unannounced, the Committee roquent the people generally to observe, that it is intended to give the y action of the Association the Very widest scope, embracing every thing that is in- genius or useful in business or art. All then, with whatever they have for sale or exhibition, are invited to come. The only regulation further necessary on this point perhaps is, that on all articles of the highest merit in the department of Stock. Mechanics, Agri cultural Implements, and valuable improvements or inventions in any of the departments, a premium ol acup worth $10 will be given ; on tho second best articles a cup worth §5 will be given ; on the third best $2,50; on the fourth an honor. And on all arti cles of the highest merit in the remaining depart ments a cup worth $q will be given ; on the second best $2,50; on the third an honor, on the fourth. 2d honor. On minor aud miscellaneous articles premi ums from one to three dollars—Ihese, however, are general regulations, and in particular ease or cases of peculiar merit the committees will bo permitted, in deed are requested, to vary the rule. 8th. A hall will be prepared and assigned particu larly to the ladies for their garden products, fruits, flower paintings, needle work, &c. They are cordi ally invited to attend. Their assistance in many de partments of tho fair is absolutely necessary to a proper management. 9th. The facilities of getting to this central point induce u> to invite, aud to expect llio presence and contributions of many of our fellow citizens of Caro - lina, Alabama, Tennessee und Florida. \Ve hope they will unite with us in making this iusitutiou indeed, what It is in name, a Southern Central Agricultural Association. 10th. The President, upon a consultation with such members as he can cull to his aid, shall appoint committees and asaigu them their respective depart ments, and to these committees so appointed tee committee of reception shall furnish lists ol thearti clos classed and arranged in their respective depart ments. In order to the perfection of this arrange ment, the committee appointed to publish these re gulations, will here repeat, aud enjoin upon all, lo take notice that articles for exhibition must be re ceived and arranged oil Friday aud Saturday the 9th and 10th of August, so that when the President shall appoint his committed Monday morning, the com mittee of reception muy have jtheir lists oi articles and the several committees proceed at once to the examination of articles, and,thereby have ample tuno to make their reports to the annual meeting on '\ ed- nfesday. Thursday will he devoted to sale—Friday jo general re-delivery of articles. The exhibition continuing the whole time. Utb. Any alterations of or additions to the fore - going rule* will bo published nt Atlanta early Mon day morning of the Fair week. i2th. The annual oration will be made on Wed nesday, the (lay of tho Anniversary meeting* imme diately preceding the reports of comimttoes, by Lol- John Billups, ol Athens, Oeorgin. 13th. Tho Committee have the prospect of^ma- king nrrnngpments with the Macon, Mare mid (inoi- gin Flail Iloads, to run accommodation cars enrly every morning mid Into in the nlternooii, to Grinin, Marietta, Stone Mountain and Decatur, to give,* visi tors the opportunity of the accommodations ot tlm good Hotels at those places while in attendance upon the Fair. , .. . 1-lth. The citizens of Atlanta have provided cotn- fortable quarters for Conmiittws and Officers, and Others engaged in the laborious business ol the Fuir. loth. The .Secretary is directed to publish these regulations in the Cultivator, and to procure ns for iih practicable their publication,in tho weekly pa pers of this and tho adjoining States. • llv order of the Committee of Arrangements. J DAVID W. LEWIS, Srr’V Southern Central Agricultural Association. Sparta, 25th Juno 1850. S&VAKNiiL&ISI, Friday iHoriling, July till, IN*>0. PUBLIC MEETING. All person.-, of whatever party, who are fuVorabl to tin passage ol’ the Adjustment Bill reported in tli Senate by the Committee of Thirtcc n, or of any other plan that may settle the vital and important question agitating the country, aro requested to meet at tho Exchange Long Rocrp at 8 o’clock, on Monday Eve ning next, for t!..; purpose of considering and giving expression to their opinions upon the subject Tlio lji*f of Lcttri'M. Wo huve tlio satisfaction of announcing to our readers und the public that the list of letters remain ing in the Savannah Boat Office will in future appear in the Daily Morning News. This disposition of the Post Office advertising is made by our Postmaster in accordance with the Law of 1845, which provides that “All advertisements made under tho orders of the Postmaster General, in a newspaper or newspapers, of letters uncalled for in any l*o-t Office, shall be in serted in the paper or papers of the town or place where tho office advert.sing may be situated, HAV ING THE LARGEST CIRCULATION/’ For the greater accommodation of the public, the Postmaster has determined to publish the list semi monthly, instead of monthly, as heretofore. Our readears will, therefore, find the list of letters remain ing in our Post Office in the News, on the 1st and loth of each month, commencing with August next. We might say much in support of the wisdom and equity of this law, which owes its origin to the ma ture deliberations of one of the most patriotic and enlightened Congresses thqt ever assembled ; but we abstain, lest we might be suspected of interested motives, and especially ns we doubt not that tlio prac tical advantages of its operation will lie duly felt and appreciated by tlioso for whose accommodation and benefit it was intended The Steamer .7. Stone communicated with the Steamship Isabel, Capt. Rollins, from Havana, via Key West, on Wednesday evening at 101 o’clock, and received tho mails and passengers for this city. The passengers for this city are: Maj. Ringgold. IJ. S. A., Capt. W. II. I’owlek, U. S. A., und Mr. W. Ferret. Among the passengers of the Isabel for Charleston, we notice Robert B. Campbell, the American Con sul at Havana, and family. Capture of a Alunftcc or Sea Cow! By the arrival of the steamer Monmouth, Capt. Freeborn, from Indian River yesterday, we learn that Messrs. Clark and Burnham, succeeded in capturing a Sea Cow cu the Uth inst., near Jupiter Inlet, Florida. The animal was caught in a net, is of the male species, and is nine teet three inches in length. They succeeded in taking it alive, and have shipped it to Charleston, in the setir. Charleston, with the intention of exhibiting it at the North during the ensuing summer, und of bringing it South next winter. An individual who saw it describes it ns a remarkably curious animal. Jt was very wild when first captured, but soon became quite tame, and now eats freely of grass, &c. Its tule is in the shape of a fan. und is 2 feet 5 inches broad. It hasnoliiud feet ^ its fore feet are similar to those of a turtle ; has nails like those on tho human hand, but no claws. Its mouth and nose resemble those of the cow ; has teeth on the lower jaw, but none on the upper. Previous to tho capture of the one above describ ed, they succeeded in taking a female, but itjjwas so large und becoming entangled in the net made such desperate exertions to escape, that the captors were compelled to shoot it. They preserved the skin, how ever, which is fifteen feet long. The individuals who made the capture, were in our city some weeks ago making the necessary ar rangements for their enterprise, and expressed their determination to make a capture. They have suc ceeded, and will no doubt be amply rewarded by the exhibition of their great natural curiosity. Barxum of tho American Museum, is said to have ottered them, if successful, $10,000 for their prize. This is the second instance withiu our knowledge that the Sea Cow has burn captured. Some years ago during the For id a war. Col. Harney, shot two of them in the Everglades. He preserved the hides, aud they were exhibited in St. Augustine as a great curiosity. Wo saw a rib of one of the uniiuals yes terday,"in possession of a gentleman of this city, to whom it was presented by. Col. Harney. He in formed us that he had partaken of the flesh, and pro. nouncod it remarkably tender and palatable—far su perior to beef. Mr. Clark, one ol the captors, is a resident of Florida*.a highly respectable gentleman, and well known in this city. The Fasliionnble Bonnet. Speaking of fashions, says the Boston Journal, we cannot forbear congratulating the ladies on the pres ent style of their bonnet, which are light, graceful and becoming, favorable to social intercourse, yet modest and unpretending in their appearance, forming a hap py medium between the hideous “poke bonnets” of undent days, and bold-looking “kiss-me-if-you-dare” head coverings of more recent times. Homely fea tures—if such things can be imagined in a woman— become attractive beneath the influence of one of these modern bonucts, which, like a fairy gift, will also add a charm to a face already lovely. But our customs are unlike those of Japan, and even while we write, the fashion may change. The only wonder is, that a fashion so becoming has lasted so long. From Havana. RELEASE OF ALL BUT TEN OF THE CON- TOY PRISONERS. Confiscation of the CJ corgi ana aiu) Sunmi Loud ! THE CHOLERA ON~THE~PLANTATIONS! By the Steamer Isabel, which arrived at this port on Wednesday night, we ore in receipt of files of the Faro Industrial to the 1st, mid our commercial and other advices from Havana to the 22d inst The papers contain no news of interest. The death of Gen. Taylor, the news of which was token over from New-Orleans by the Ohio, seems to have excited a profound sensation among the people. Our correspondent informs us that of the 52 -men taken prisoners at Cop toy 41 have been pronounced innocent by the Spanish Tribunal, on the ground that they embarked on board the vessels under the belief thut they were bound for Clmgres, and that when in formed of tho real design of the expedition they re fused to take part in it. One of the prisoners whose name is A. Balleare, and who went out, with a full knowledge of the objects of the enterprizn, was par doned, ho having given testimony on the trial, under a promise of exemption from punishment. The men who were acquitted have been surrend ered to the American authorities, und placed on board the II. S. man-of-war, Congress. There yet remain ten men in confinement, the offi cers and crews of tlio Gcorgiana ami Susan Loud, whose cases aro still to undergo investigation. The two vcssqjs have been declared confiscated to the Spanish Government. The cholera has in a great degree subsided in the city, but lias extended its ravages among the slaves on the plantations, where it rages with uncommon fatality, carrying otf as much us 30 or 40, and in some instances, 50 per cent, of the population. It is spreading in every direction in tlio agricultural dis tricts, and great fears are entertained that it will huve the effect materially to injure the planting interests of the Island, as will bo seen by reference to our commercial circular. The weather at Havana is very similar to that ex perienced here during the past two weeks—hot and rainy. Iler Br. Majesty's frigate, the Indefatigable, arriv ed in Havana on tlio evening of the 18th instant from Lisbon. Accounts from tlio interior represent the tobacco crop as being in a very promising condition. The prospect is in favor of a large yield. The Falcon, from Chagres, at Havana, brought 56 passengers for New Orleans und Now York, and about $70,000 in gold dust, &c., of which $30,000 were in tho hands of passengers. A private letter, received by a commercial friend, says : “ The harbor of Havana is nearly bare of American vessels, which is an unprecedented circum stance. There is now very little rice on hand,—sup plies to sumo extent have come in from Spain and Brazil. Arrival of the Kn-Jish Steamer nt Mobiles The West India mail steamer Tuy, Capt. Chapman, arrived at Mobile on the 21«t inst., from Vera Cruz and Tampico, having made the run in three and a half days. File brought twenty-seven passengers, $720,000 and 571 reroons cochineal. Of the specie $20,000 was for New Orleans and Mobile, and the bal ance for England. The Tribune is in receipt of Vera Cruz papers up to the day of sailing. The cholera was prevailing throughout Mexico to an alarming extent, in Vera Cruz a number of cases had occurred, and was extremely fatal. At Tampico, on the 13th instant, fifteen deaths occurred in the hospital. At San Louis l'otosi, out of a population of 25,000, 300 persons had died, while some of the smaller mining districts were almost depopulated. Tho disease continued uiso with great fatality in tho cupitul. Capt. Tucker, of the brig J. M. Clayton, died at Vera Cruz with cholera. Professor Webster. • The Boston Journal of Saturday’says that Dr. Web ster first learned the decision of the Executive Coun cil, in hisca«e. by/eadlng the report in an evening paper. It is stated that he was but slightly agitated, having, as we aro informed, prepared himself for the worst. It is further stated upon roliuble authority, that lie has expressed of late no desire to have his sentence commuted, and that he appears to have a more realizing sense of the awful situation in which he is placed, and also, that he is evidently prepar ing himself for the awful fate which surely awaits him. Yesterday afternoon Mrs. Webster and family visi ted him in his cell. They had not then learned the decision of the Governor and Council. High Sheriff Evelcth visited the prisoner this morn ing, and found him quite calm, exhibiting no observa ble change in his general appearance. His Excellency Gov. Briggs has affixed his signature to the “ Death warrant,” which lias been duly transmit ted to the High Sheriff. J’he family of the prisoner, tor a long time past, have studiously avoided rending any newspapers whatever, and hence cannot have been advised from that source bf the progress of any matter pertaining to the pain ful case, in which they are so immediately interested. The prisoner expressed the hope this morning that his family would be kept in ignorance of the day fixed for his execution lit connection with this case it may he stated as a somewhat singular coincidence that John W Webster committed the murder on Friday—h n was arrested on Friday-—the verdict of the corner’s (secret) inquest was made public on Friday—one of the regular days seclected for his family to visit him at the jail was on Friday—the final decision of the Executive was given on Friday, und his execution is to take place on Friday. Lust Moments of Gcu. Taylor. A very remarkable exclamation of General Tay lor’s, on the day of his death, says the correspondent of the N. Y. Express, .has not yet found its way into the public prints. Opening his eyes, after having been either dosing or deeply reflecting, and looking at Colonel Davis, he said— “ Apply the Constitution to the measure regardless op consequences.” / Whatever was the train of thought in the Patriot’s breast, it was evidently concerning his country’s wel fare, and the glorious Constitution was to be “ ap plied” that all should be right. The same writer says, ho was sensible to the last, saying “yes,” “ no;” and even drinking, when asked to do so by a physician a few minutes before his death’ which was without a struggle. The only persons present were his family physician, Dr. Pyne, and Major and Mrs. Hunter. Summer Fashions in Paris. We have very weathernow in Paris. Thermometer 92. Waistcoat nta discount. While I write, ahonton the Seine j passing. Initareaeet of young men and their * settes, and there is not a pair ot trousers or a gowii in the party. One pretty girl as she stands up f n j bout would do for Melville’s Typee Faaway, justleafh ' ing the use of a very light cotton dress. If Paris 1> tiie head of civilization, extremes touch. If XT'* Millard Fillmore is the first President of the Unitqd States born in the nineteenth century. Oft'Montevideo, cm the 18th -May, a large French squadron, under command of Rear Admiral La Prcdour. was assembled, numbering in all, 14 vessels, and carrying 246 guns, and 1500 troops of the line. The object appears to be to force Gov. Ro sas to come to terms with the French Envoy and in the event of refusal, to garrison Montevideo. .Admi ral Le Prcdour bus been endeavoring to treat with Rosas, but the latter has declined to enter into nego - nations with the French Government until its troops are on their way to France. The Corn Crop zn% Tennessee.—The Knox* villo.Register of tho 20th inst. says—The lute rains in this section ot the country huve dissipated the gloom which overspread the countenances of our farmers in anticipation of the failure of the com crop. The prospect now is that we shall have at least an av t rage crop. The Choi*?.—The Baton Rouge (La.) Advocate of file loth iuat. * ays thut the cane in that vi ciuity is doing finely. The planters are nnticipati ng good crops aud high prices. The Advocate says that tho supplie^of corn will be unprecedentedly large. Stagnation of Law.—Official statements made to the Ohio Constitutional Convention, show that there are now pending in the Courts of that State 10,564 suits in chancery, and 15,251 at law. Only lmlf of these are disposed of yearly, and tho remainder are continued at a cost of $85,000 per annum. The new cases average more than 1200 yearly over the cases disposed of. This produces o constantly increasing accumulation of business, which retards the progress of justice seriously. There ia certainly great room ior reform in such matters. Treatment of President Taylor’s Case. A writer in the Boston Transcript, expresses his aston ishment that Gen. Taylor s attendants and his phyei china shouid have Guttered him to cat ice in such quan tities and fill his stomach with ice water until, as the account says, it was rejected. On Friday, says the writer,tiie discuse seems to have been checked: and the symptoms were not considered dangerous until Sun day,when he commenced eating ice. Now it is within the experience of all ox us, that even when in health the effects of cold water upon the stomach are often painiul and unpleasant, requiring some hours for its restoration ; and we doubt whether a strong man eould take so much, with impunity, ns Gen. Taylor is said to have taken : and we only wonder that his stomach had vigor enough left to throw it off*. At all events, we should suppose it would make a case of cholera morbus difficult and doubtful. Impru. deuce in eating, iu the first place, and what we cannot but consider great imprudence in the treat ment ot his case, in tue second, we must consider as the immediate cause of the great loss the country has sustained, ut this juncture, in the death of Gen. Taylor. Coming Home. Hon. John W. Davis, our Com missioner to China, has asked for his recall. Augusta Law School. Col. AV. T. Gould's Law School, at Augusta, will again be opened on tlu;2lst of October. This School is no experiment,—and its reputation is generally known througout the State. All who choose to pat ronize it will find an able teacher, as many of our most eminent jurists can testify, who have there re ceived their legal education. Explosion. A portion of the gas works connect ed with Thurston’8 Fountain Inn, Light street, Bal timore, exploded on Sunday njght last, and commu nicated fire to til# building in which they are con tained and several other buildings in the vicinity. The Sun says: The fire may be safely imputed to carelessness. It appears that the man who attends to the aparatns went into the building and neglected to supply the water box with water. It consequently became heat ed, and when in this condition a quantity of water was let in which caused the explosion. The man was terribly frightened, and the numerous lights in the hotel were immediately extinguished. We should add that the gas works here alluded to, were not connected with the City gus works, but were on h new plan which has recently been intro duced in the Clipper office and Fountain Hotel, in Baltimore, aud by which gas was made from turpen. tine and oil. The chief recommendation of the in vention has been thnt, by it every establishment was enabled to produce its own gas. The explosion will not have tho effect to recommend it to the public, as it is very evident that the apuratus is dangerous when not carefully munaged. v Another Battle in I Mi i hide Iphia. 1 he correspondent ot the Baltimore Sun, writing truin Philadelphia, under date of 20th instant, says. A battle with fire-arms took place about 1 o’clock this morning in the vicinity ol the Wharton market Houthwark. It resulted from uu attempt, by certain riotous characters from Moyamensing, to storm the Huffier hose house and carry off their carriage.— Thi- object was defeated and the assailants driven oft. but, as bosh parties hid their kill* d und wounded tiie amount of personal injury conseqm nt upon the artuir is unknown. Till It about the insecurity of life and property at the South 1 The Northern cities will shortly have to employ standing armies to keep their citizens in sub jection to tlio laws. Those who are in the habit of rolling up the white ot their eyes ut the thought of file awful peri] of leaving tiie South to tuke cure op herself,’would do well to turn their attention to their own population, and set to work to devise some means of promoting their own safety. Bov Dkstkotkd by a Bkab. The St. John's New Bruuswicker of tiie loth inst., says: A most sincuhir und unfortunate event occurred in the rear of the Catholic Clutpelin l‘ortland,(N. 11.) on Tuesday lust. It appears lhat two young lads went al'iout a mile into t.o- woods lor the purpose of pick ing lu-rries, when a Bear deliberately walked from tiie thicket und curried one oi them otf. The ill-fun died was between 11 nod 12 years of age, the soil of ala- boring miui named Coyle, who thus without a trio- | meuts's notice wee deprived of a promising bov.— j .v-nrch was atterwards made, and tho mutilated re mains were discovered. The bear tvas accompanied by sculi, aud w«s evidently its dam. I if * Messrs Fisk: 7 : & Butin, by their Biological hum- beggings, are doing more mischief than they can re pair In Rochester and Chicago they huve occasioned eases of insanity from such teachings. The first of these gentlemen hns gained, heretofore, considerable notoriety as a Universnlist minister, editor, politician, etc., hut seems now to be in the zenith of his popular ity in his aim to build up a new science, and adding another to tho isms of the day. N. Y. Express. Burnt is notorious in a small wny in the same line ot business. He had n congregation at one time in Philadelphia, was editor ol a new-light quarterly called the Nineteenth Century, and was the toady of the celebrated ia®ok-dntmutic, blood-and-thunder ! book-maker, GeoWe Lire,*itu, whom he attempted j to baptize a born genius in a pamphlet of some sixty I pages. The crazy humbugs practised by these men I are calculated to delude the weak-minded, and, as it I appears from tho above paragraph, have already | wrought serious injury to society ; and yet, the lec- j turers are puth tl into notoriety by the press for so | much per square of leaded notices. This is wrong, and the press should be held responsible to the public ior the imposition thus practiced upon society. ISP At Augusta. Me., the powder used in firing the funeral salute in honorofthe late President, was Mexi can powder, done up in the original Mexican bags,bouv’ part of a large quantity token by our troops at the city ot Mexico, and sent to Augusta for deposit in the U. S. Arsenal there. Earthquake at Smyrna. A correspondent of the Newark Advertiser, in a letter dated April 17 gives the following interesting missionary lotto r. ° The lust fortnight has been a period of fear and anxiety on occount of earthquakes. There have been throe principal shacks, suliicient to crack' walls, to stop clocks, and to throw down fragments from ruined or unfinished buildings, beside ninny smaller shocks. Great numbers of the people tied in terror from tiie city, especially, a week ago yesterday, many thousand wont out upon the neighboring hills and spent tiie night, chieliy resorting '"to a church about two miles from the city ; and thousands more did not. cl, so their eyes that night, because certain monk tmd predicted that on that day the city would lie des troyed. It pleased God to prove him a false prophet, as that night passed without any shock whatever. During the week, however several others occurred, one of which was nearly as strong as the first one. •"Saturday, the lllth inst., whs a very gloomy day. The sky Was lowering, the air seemed to be filled with the halations, and shocks were occurring during ex- whole day one in tiie morning being quite severe. We ielt culled upon to come together, and to seek Diving protection by special prayer. 1 lie mission lain: lies all met at 5 o’clock ami spent a solemn hour in humbling ourselves before Qod and in imploring His special protection. During that very hour I suppose there were thousands ot people hasten ing out of the city, and after our meeting we all remark- cd that we had never seen so gloomy and portentous u sky. fetill we ielt a comfortable assurance thut our Heavenly rather was near and ready to listen to our prayers; and it pleased him to do so. During the night the weather became clear, and the next day was a heautilul one; and from that hour to this, I have not ielt a single shock, though others have felt slight ones. We trust that the worst of it is over. May we l** Hrn heavenly wisdom both from judgments and from mercies! I had a very pleasant mid profitable visit to Con stantinople. Ir whs particularly pleasant to me to preach to a company of Greeks who have lately been stirred up to inquiry, and who meet for Evangelical instruction and worship. No one ot our brethren uoie preaches in Greek and they had written me be- lore] went that it would be desirable thatl should • d so. I did so during the Sabbaths thut I spent there, (three) mid there were from 18 to 22 Greeks present each time, besides some Americans who understood Greek. They seemed deeply inter ested, ami 1 trust, ir may not be without some good edect. home of my hearers expressed the wish that would come and reside at Constantinople ami reach to them ; and the missionary brethren thought l ought to think seriously of it; but it seems to be tuy duty at present to remain at Smyrna Wo had a communion season with the Americans wbile I was at Cui*tantinople; and a tender feelin" seemed to prevail, though there was no special awak- enmg. f ,, „ O II I T U A R Y . Died, in Talbotton, Geo., on Wednesday July 17a Mrs. ELIZABETH MAHGARETTA. WHITE, Wifi I of the Rev. Rufus M. White, of this city. Shewl! supported through n long und painful illness by nnut. weavering faith in the Redeemer, and died in pert ( „ sereneness and peace, “having tiie testimony 0 f , good conscience; in the communion of the Catt olic Church; in the confidence of a certain faith• in the comfort of a reasonable religious, and holy h opo ; in assurance of favor with her God through the iner’ its of her crucified Suviour, und in pertcct charitv with the world.” ’ ' “Great is the peace which they have, O Lord, thq 1 ove thy law.” PASSENGERS, l’er steamship Isabel, for Savannah—Maj Rincsolri U S A, Capt W II Fowler. USA, and Mr W Ferrott Per steamship Isabel, for Charleston—R B Canto, hell, U S Consul, and family, Mrs Townsend, M j, Mora and family, J DBallahati nnd family, A J Tift, f j Cohen, Col McCoomb, J N Regna. M Mesa, P Fernim. I dez, ,1 L Valeres, Capt.I Stone. W F English, J YVhsl- ton, Captain G Ilutton, E C Howe, J A Thourpa, AJ l’nroso and servant, J Rounge, W Good, P Cebella. J S Morales, T Wentza, D Warren and daugter, f •Swrano and son, Mr f'ulluRa, E Wtule. ARodetiotte .las Doyle, lady and son, P Vaugan, Mrs Stevens, ]j I Cammack and lady, Mrs Kertz, Mrs Withhan, A J Nickerson, A IV Turner, Win Kelly, A Mannhan, \v i’urk, .1 Mitchell, C Cox, J Hardy, C Galle, I 1 Doher ty, J Marvin, and 40 on deck for California, via Phil, pliia. Per U S Steamer Monmouth, from Indian River- Mr John Coy and John Barron. Per steamer Gen Clinch, from Charleston -S 111 Pond, nnd 2 on deck. CONSIGNEES. Per schr Havana, from New Orleans C A Greiner I F T Willis & Co, T It Mills, Ilrigham, Kelly & g 0 | I Cohens A Hertz, Cohen .V. Fosdtek, and order. ' Per steamer Gen Clinch,from Charleston—C It R, | J V Connerut, Miss Kendrick. 1 Commercial. LATEST DATES. Liverpool, July 6 j Havre, July 4 1 Havana, July221 Kfivtiniiali Market, July 2(it COTTON.—The sales yesterday were 285 bales,at I 12i cents. Savannah Exports, July 25. Per schr Olivet, for Baltimore—30,Q0U feet Lum-1 her, 49 bales Yarn, lOObbls Bread. AUGUSTA, July 24.—Freights.—Our River ia now I in good navigable condition, with every* prospect of I its contiuuuncc for some weeks to come. Thereto a i fair amount of Cotton ottering for riavannah. Wei continue to quote tiie rate to tiuvannuh and Charles-1 ton 50 cents per bale. From our Havana Correspondent. Havana, July 22. .Since our report of the 6th inst., the demand for Sugar has continued very steady, while the supplies huve been restricted, although great facilities exist for bringing the article to market, and the state of prices affords good inducement for doing so. These tacts, together with the information received from ditferent parts of the country, render it certain that only a small quantity of Sugar now remains. The stock in the market is very much reduced, und it evi dent that the yield of the crop will be considerably less than was anticipated at the oeginning of the season. Prices have advanced still more and itu likely thut they will be uphe d, as planters have strung reasons for remaining firm. Besides the fact oft much smaller quantity existing for shipment, the prospective wants of the United States, where Hu ascertained that the stock is fully 30,000 tons short of lust year, are an important feature although tiro country lias received from this port and Matanw alone, 60,000 boxes more than at same period in 1849. Then it is also interesting to observe the division of the exports to other places. To the Baltic about 50,000 boxes more have gone forward than last year, being composed of white 8ugar. To Franco there is an excess in the sbipin nts from the North side of ubout the equivalent of 40,000 boxes ; and unexci of nearly tiie same quantity has gone forward to Italian ports, as compared with last year, lnthui analysing the exports, it will be found that the other markets ot the North Sea und those of Great Britain taken collectively, huve received much less of i Sugar than last year, and they are likely to find tive competition from those of tbe U. States iu reganl to tiie small quantity yet left tor* shipment, which divided among the various consuming market! abroad will tie comparatively trifling und of no im portance. At this moment the shipments of Sugar to the U. States are suspended us there are no ves«eli in port that can be employed for that object. These facts of wlncn planters arc generally well informed, are likely to encourage them in m»<iiitaio- ing a firm altitude. There is yet another considera tion of a melancholy nature, the tendency of which is the same. Mucli anxiety is felt and a great degree ot uncertainty exists in regard to the progress of the Cholera in the interior of tue Island, and as to its pro-8 bablo effects upon the next und subsequent crops.-r li has not yet become general, but it continues to] spread in various directions, and its ravages in many cases have been appalling. On several estates the dc- struction oi life among the negroes amount to 25 3U p3 ana in some cases even 40 aud 50 pg of tlit whole number, and the most efficient are generally the victims. Should the disease diff use itselt throughout the Island, the loss of life among the slave operative, would, in this ratio, probably not bo short of LUO to* 125,000. Even at the present average rate of mortal I ity on the estates the estimates us to the ultimate def| truction of life among the negroes, in the event of th< Epidemic becoming general taroughout the interior, are not less than 7o or or 80.000. The period of the year, is unfortunately not favorable for checking th<? malady. The laborers curried off’ are an irreparable! lose, because there is no source available at preset;! L'om which they can be replaced. The loss falls beaj vily on the production of Sugar, because tin' branch has already absorbed the available luborei _ previously employed in the culture of Coffee, tlieaj yield of which article has been insignificant for sever " al years. It appears therefore inevitable that the gar crop oi next season will be seriously curtailed » quantity, from the want of laborers, aud this lameuij able iact must make itself felt before long. We place our present quotations us follows Whites, w 10 rials ; fine aud choice Whites, 11 rials ; Yellows. 5J Tv 7 rials; superior Yellows,*i (V 73 rials; Browns, 5j w 5^ rials ; Cucuruchos. •, W 5f rials. There are no Muscovados for sale here, and thcni^ kets 011 the coast and 011 the South side are couiptf utively exhausted. The last sale of Molasses was at 2 rials, but tlictt is very little doing owing to the scarcity of vowd 4 ! The badness in Coffee is extremely insignificant, g Rice. No more Carolina rice has come in, bat about 2500 bags arrived from Spain equal to 800 cad 1 There were sold 700 casks Carolina from store, ^ 11 k rials, and 2300 bags Spanish at 8$ a 9 j rials, uccor ding to quality. There now remuius unsold 160ca^- Carolina. 200 hags Spanish, and a quantity oi Bruzi* equal to 300 casks. Lumber. A cargo of Bath Lumber sold nt $24 nn . prices have an upward tendency owing to the bcbb9| supplies for a long time past. A cargo of Mobile' j P. was placed at $22, being badly' assorted. .j Shoolts. Box rihooks continue in a very depress I condition, and only meet witli chance purchft^ r || Some were sold at 5 rials on credit. Moluascs-Hb I Shook sure in very limited demand, and Sugar Hbjl Shooks quite dull. 'This is also the cuse with einpJ; Casks and Hoops. Freights. There are only two American vefcM in poituud neither of them disenguged, which w L circumstance worthy of notice, and such as has 1 * before occurred during the last thirty years. Tn^v are several vessels of other flags suited tocaffi is limited, a-‘ last charter; were Sugar to Europe, but the enquiry stock of Sugar is reduced. The lao*. . r . at <g|,*17f6 for Spanish vessels to Cowes and » * Ia kut and to Antwerp direct. The rute for dugaf the U. S. is higher, $lj per box having been P a ‘ There are no vessels here that can be employe*.*, tue shipment of Sugar to the U. States. Tuc 1 transactions for Molasses were lit $23 ‘W $3, V/ -' rates are nominal owing to the want of vessels- Etchange on London lOi © 11 p§ premium 1r r York ami Boston pur. J. C. BARNUM & ' '