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OOrt'tipoiMliQSe of Itir Daily Ksini
Indian Sukings, Ga., Aug. 23, iB6O.
L'ds. Suit: Supposing Ilia-1- it may in
terest some ui your uuuierous readers to
hear fro in this ancient and famous foun
tain of health, ami having much dignified
leisure on hand, 1 thought 1 would give
you a lew of tlie dotlings, or rather post
yon up.
The incessant rains had dispersed the
multitude ere our arrival. I learn there
had been a vast crowd ; the largest, per
haps, ever assembled here. Still we found
a fine company of orderly, sober people,
making society agreeable and excellent.
It is said “the more the merrier,’ but
“ the fewer the better fare.” We are
realizing the truth of the latter remark,
for wc “fare sumptuously” everyday;
our host, old Capt. Varner, spreads a
perfect feast, and 1 learn both of the other
houses are well kept, and all have been
liberally patronized the present season.
We had the good fortune to meet many
old and dear friends here, among whom
arc Gen. Jlenning and family, l)r. Slappy
and family, Gen. J. W. Gordon, and many
others, which adds much to our pleasure
and enjoyment.
It is somewhat amusing to hear the
various speculations of visitors in relation
to the supposed changes of the qualities
of the water; its etfects and modus ope
randi; all of which I deem imaginary;
having visited this place off and on for
the last forty-two years, many times, as
now, sadly afflicted with dyspepsia, af
fords me an opportunity of forming, as I
think, a correct opinion. Although great
changes have been made for convenience
and ornament about the spring, there is
not the smallest variation or shadow of
change in either quantity or quality of
the water. Many suppose the water is
not so strong, because it does not exhale
the same quantity of sulphuretted hydro
gen gas as formerly, when the stream
flowing from the fountain ran upon the
surface, and a constant evaporation was
going on. Now the water is conveyed
from the very fountain under ground;
consequently the exhalation and evapora
tion is entirely prevented, and the fumes
of sulphur not so manifest.
Having a most grateful and feeling
recollection of my first visit to this place,
at the hazard of being thought egotistical,
I will allude to it. Leaving the moun
tains of old Virginia, my native land, in
1810 I located in the county of Jasper,
and embarked in the practice of medicine
in the miasmatic region of Murder Creek.
The ordeal through which my system had
to pass, before becoming acclimated, was
severe, and reduced me almost to a skel
eton. Not being able to pursue my pro
fession, one of my kind patrons, the father
of the late Governor Towns, who had a
shanty here, and whose family had come
out for the purpose of using the water,
took me in his carriage and brought me
to the spring; the use of which, with
kind nursing, soon restored my health.
The retrospection of these events cannot
fail to produce, even now, emotions of
deep and abiding gratitude. The Indians
then were the sovereigns of the land.
They had long known the virtues of the
water, ami hither they brought their
lepers, the halt, and the blind. Yet they
were willing that their white neighbors
should share the benefits of the healing
stream, and hundreds and thousands re
sorted to it annually. In the treaty of
1824, this place was the reservation of
the celebrated chief, Gen. Mclntosh, who
erected those enormous buildings now
the private property of Edward Varner,
Esq.
Excuse me for thus trespassing on
your time and patience.
N. B. POWELL.
Correspondence of tlie Daily Sun.
Pike County, Ala., Aug. 23, ’59.
L’ds. Sun :—ln your Daily of the 17th
inst., you say that Mr. Mclntyre was elec
ted over Mr. Thompson, upon the issue of
calling a Convention in Alabama, for past
grievances. So far was this from the case
that had the Senatorial race been made on
that issue alone, Mr. Mclntyre would
have been overwhelmingly defeated. As
an evidence of this, Mr. Mclntyre arraign
ed Gov. Moore for not calling the conven
tion at the time comtomplatcd by the Ala
bama resolutions, yet that gentleman re
ceived a majority of 493 votes over Mr.
Samford, who it was contended would have
called the convention had be occupied
Gov. Moore’s place. It is not reasonable
that the voters of Pike would have stulti
fied themselves by electing Mclntyre by
23 and defeating Samford by 493 ma
jority upon the same issue.
The cause of Mr. Mclntyre’s election is
simply because lie was the candidate of
the old “ Paramount Union American
Party” under anew name, and he was
elected by that party, aided by some dem
ocrats from personal friendship, and by
others headed by a leader who wanted the
position himself and who feared that Mr.
Thompson if elected would not be Nation
al enough in the Legislative Senatorial
caucus to be hold Montgomery this Win
ter.
To these causes Mr. Mclntyre owes his
success; lienee it will not do to claim it
as a party victory, as that might drive oflf
Democrats whose co operation is necessa
ry to the future success of the American
party in this county.
But some cause of the result must be
assigned, and some Know Nothing move
knowing than the rest has furnished dis
tant papers with a solution—an issue
never heard of in Pike (not even in their
party organ) until it appeared in those
distant papers.
. —♦
Tlie London Times Ofllce.
Mr. Story, son of one of the proprie
tors of the Rochester Democrat, writes to
that paper an account of his visit to the
office of the London Times. We copy a
portion of his narrative :
“ One of the most interesting and novel
departments of the establishment, is that
in which the stereotyping process is car
ried on. You know, perhaps, already,
that every number of the Times is printed
from stereotype plates, thus saving a
great part of the wear and tear of the
type. The stereotype is taken from the
“ form” in three minutes, by a process,
invented by a Swiss and known only to
him. A thin layer of soft and damp
papier maclic first receives the impres
sion of the type, and after it has
been hardened by the application of
heat, the melted lead is poured on which
is to form the stereotype plate. The
papier mache has the power of resisting
the action of the melted lead, and comes
out of the fiery trial uninjured, and
unscorched.
“ The plates are re-meltcd every day
after the issue of the day is printed from
them, and the waste of type metal from
day to day is very slight. By this power
of multiplying the number of forms from
which the same side, of the paper can be
printed, the Times can use three or four
presses at once, and thus print its 59,000
copies, on an emergency, in two hours’
time. The Times employs in its estab
lishment some 350 persons. It has eigh
teen reporters at the Houses of Parlia
ment, and for these, as well as the ma
jority of its compositors, the working
hours are the night hours exclusively.
It owns four cabs, which are employed
solely in carrying reporters and reports
at night to and fro between Printing
House Square and the Palace at West
minister. The reporters relieve each
other at the House every quarter hour,
and thus though the debate in the Com
mons lasts till four o’clock in the morn
ing, the Times gives it in full by sunrise,
though it cover two whole pages of the
journal.”
This is the golden age of the Jews in
America. They number some two hun
dred and fifty thousand, who still adhere
to the faith of Abraham. They have for
ty thousand in New York alone. Two
Senators and four Congressmen are of the
Jewish faith, shows the ancient political
talent of the race. The Christian Jews do
not number more than three or four hun
dred ; of whom one hundred are studying
for the ministry.
3Vew Cotton.
The State Press, of the 24th, says:
The second bale of new cotton was re
ceived on yesterday, from the plantation
of Col. John A. Hunter, of Macon county,
and was sold by Messrs. Adams & Rey
nolds, to E. Price, Esq., at II cents.
Our Position Tskeii.
The Government of tlie United States
has, wc arc informed by a late telegraphic
dispatch, adopted a truly American poli
cy m regard to the light of naturalized
citizen.’ abroad. It demauds, through its
diplomatic agents in Germany, the release
of all German citizens now held to forced
military service in thcir'native country.
Hitherto the position which this coun
try should assume on this subject had
been undetermined. Cases of hardship,
resulting from enforcing the local laws in
regard to American citizens who had re
visited the place of their birth oc
curred but rarely; and in some of these
the intervention of our diplomatic agents
obtained, as a courtesy to our Govern
ment, what perhaps would have been de
nied as a right.
But the late disturbances in Europe
presented the subject in anew light. The
questions, what are the rights of natural
ized citizens? liow far shall the act of
naturalization be regarded as a protection
abroad? were forced upon the considera
tion of the government.
These evidently were to be determined
on principles eminently American, instead
of receiving their settlement by a refer
ence to international law ; or tlie promises
held out to emigrants to this country were
illusory and deceptive.
That civil allegiance is transferable, at
the will of the individual, is an American
doctrine at war with the customs and law
of nations. But although not absolutely
adopted by the nations of Europe, it has
been virtually acquiesced in, at least
since the termination of the war of 1812.
The position now taken by our Govern
ment is the logical consequence of the
doctrine of the transferrability of allegi
ance. Fealty to two governments cannot
exist at tlie same time. If allegiance can
be transfered, the new government nec
essarily assumes relations to the new
subject as close and as perfect as lie had
sustained to the one abjured. It is
pledged to protect him, not only in his
new home, but wherever he may be found
under circumstances that would admit of
its interfering in behalf of a native born
citizen of the country. Otherwise, the
naturalized citizen is in a false position.
He has abandoned old privileges and pro
tection, without replacing them by his
charge of country. He is a citizen of
two countries at once, with all the disa
bilities of both and only the partial pro
tection of either. The demands of his
adopted country, if responded to, might
make him a criminal in the judgement of
his native land.
When the new question was, therefore
fully and distinctly presented, as it has
been within the past year, what position
the United States would assume on this
subject, it became clear that if it acted
consistently with American principles, it
must assume the protection of all persons
naturalized in good faith, who were not,
at the time of naturalization, liable in the
country of their birth to the penalty of a
violated law.
We are glad to see a decisive step taken
on this subject. It is time that, in all
our intercourse with foreign nations,
prominence should be given to American
ideas. It needs but a distinct announce
ment of our doctrine in regard to natu
ralization, and a firm and persistent but
courteous demand for its recognition by
European governments, so far as our na
turalized citizens are concerned, to secure
their immunity when abroad, so long as
they are inoffensive in their political con
duct, and strictly obey tlie laws.
What we now claim is the natural and
logical consequence of what we long ago
declared when we denied the European
idea “once a citizen always a citizen.”
This is demanded not as a right under
international law, but as the result of an
unresisted transference of allegiance to
our Government. All nations now have
some forms of naturalization, though
they are, in some cases, rarely used; and
all governments feel the duty to protect
the naturalized citizen as they would de
fend the native born. We should have
been false to our principles, and have ex
posed ourselves to the contempt of the
nations had we hesitated to demand the
recognition abroad of the rights guaran
teed at home to our adopted citizens.—
N. O. Picayune.
Typlsus Fever.
The following, concerning tho treatment
of this dangerous disease, was handed
to us by a highly respectable gentle
man, who has tried it with success, in
his own family:
Dr. William McLeod, in a note to the
People’s Journal, says, that typhus fever
cannot be arrested by any drug or other
medicinal means. Bleed aud blister,
purge and calomize, or stimulate, and
the average number of deaths remains
the same from the disease. Dr. McLeod,
who is a Fellow of the Royal College of
Physicians, Edinburgh, does not write
in this way to disparage the art of medi
cine, but to induce the regular practi
tioners to investigate, and society to be
come acquainted with a practice which,
in typhus fever, will save ninety-six out
of every one hundred attacked with it, if
resorted to in the early stages.
The following is the course of treatment
recommended :
Place the patient, as soon as possible,
in a sheet well wrung out in cold water.
This sheet should be laid on a blanket
extended on a mattress, which should be
wrapped close around the patient, as
high as the neck. Then let the blanket
be folded tightly over, so as to complete
ly exclude tlie external air, and two
other blankets, or a small feather bed, be
added. Repeat this process every’ time
the patient becomes restless or uncom
fortable, until the dry, hot skin becomes
softer, and more disposed to perspira
tion, and the fever entirely subsided, even
if it should be found necessary to change
every ten minutes, or should the fever
continue twenty-four hours. Immediately
after each envelope, the patient should
be washed in a slipper bath, or common
tub, the temperature of the water being
seventy-five degrees Fahrenheit, or there
abouts. The bead should be shaved, and
bandages wrung out of cold water be
constantly applied, ‘observing to change
them whenever they become warm, until
the headache is entirely removed. A sim
ilar bandage should be folded once round
the stomach, carefully and closely cov
ered by three folds of dry cloth, to pre
vent evaporation.
Let the patient drink as much cold
water as he pleases during the whole
course cf the disease, a free circulation
kept up, and the room be kept cool.
The process of Dr. McLeod will usually
overcome the fever in twenty-four hours.
For three days thereafter, however, let
the wet sheet envelope’ be used in the
morning, at noon, and in the evening—
the patient remaining in, each time, about
three quarters of an Lour, and his body
be washed after each, with water of the
natural temperature. If the bowels be
constipated, use an injection of tepid
water, every morning, as long as requi
red. Gentle exercise and moderate diet
should be used, aud all stimulants and
medicines avoided.
We know nothing about medicine, and
give this plan of treatment because we
find it in a highly respectable journal,
aud published at a time when the typhus
fever is raging in every city in England.
The Doctor speaks authoritatively. His
position is unquestioned, and he affirms
that “ the average number of deaths
from the epidemic will not exceed four
out of every hundred of the worst cases,
provided this plan of treatment be adopt
ed sufficiently early.”
River News.
St. Louis, Aug. 21. — The river is re
ceding. The upper streams are falling.
The Missouri has 3\ feet water in the
channel. There are also 3T feet water
on the Lower Rapids, and six out to
| Cairo.
Indians Depredations.
St. Louis, Aug. 21. — The Los Angeles
Star reports that 200 Mohave Indians at
tacked the whites at Beale’s Crossing and
carried off their mules and provisions.
Moj. Armistead has gone to chastise them.
Late from Pike’s Peak and Kansas.
Dentes City, Aug. 17.— More gold
: discoveries have been reported. .
An outbreak had occurred in Southern
Kansas, and Montgomery w’as again in
the field. It was feared that there would
be a renewal of old disturbances.
Special Correspondence !:f the N. Y, ileiald.
Political Gbssip, ace.
W ishinoton, Aug. 17.—Gov. Cobb was
expected to return here from Georgia this
morning. lie will certainly he back be
fore the end of the week, ile is in high
gUe at tlie state of things in his native
State, and declares that there will be no
opposition there whatever to his Presi
dential aspirations. Neither Toombs nor
Stephens will actively canvass against
him, and the revelations which have re
cently been made in relation to the re
opening of the slave trade, have material
ly aided in giving him strength among
planters and those who control popular
feeling. The opposition which he feared
some weeks ago, he thinks will no
longer have to encounter, and that the
Charleston Convention will find him
the most available of Southern candidates.
Senator Douglas appears to be utterly
disgusted at the progress of the develop
ments which are gradually being made in
relation to the Wise Donnelly letter. —
There is no doubt that, in common with
Dickinson, of New York, and Wise, of
Virginia, he had considered Fernando
Wood as fully pledged to his own inter
ests. Mr. Wood had been in the habit of
visiting and consulting with him in the
most confidential manner, during his fre
j quent visits to the national capital, and,
: even while visiting at the house of the
late Postmaster General Brown, spent
more time at tho mansion of the “Little
Giant” than with his ostensible host.
Mr. Douglas’ friends cry out loudly that
lie is one of a betrayed trio, and that thus
another imbroglio, wholly unanticipated,
is produced by the famous letter which
Mr. Cassidy gave to the public at Albany,
; while pretending to doubt its genuine
| ness.
Banks, of Virginia, f< rmerly of the
| South* Side Democrat, but now editing
\ the Cincinnati Enquirer, is here, rabidly
electioneering for Douglas, and for print
ing jobbery in general, under the next ad
ministration. He is an accomplished
! button bole bargainer for government
! pickings, a veteran lobbyer, though but a
boy in appearance, and derives some con
sideration from his association withStead-
I man to oust Wcmlall, during the last ses
| sion of Congress.
Mr. Ashe, M. C., from North Carolina,
is moving the subterranean firmaments in
your city in behalf of Hunter.
Gov. Willard, of Indiana, is also in New
York, working for Gov. Joe Lane, of Ore
gon, not of Kansas. The ex-Governor of
Kansas is anxious that this distinction
should, at all times, be carefully made.
I Since Willard, by tlie way, has split with
j Senator Blight, the Bright influence in
j Indiana, which goes for Douglas, has been
! uppermost. Bright, however, has achiev
|,ed a victory recently in Indianapolis,
, where administration delegates have been
j elected to the State Convention, in oppo
( sition to the Douglas power.
Letters from many parts of Pennsylva
nia seem to indicate that Cameron will be
presented, with great strength, as the
Presidential candidate of that State.
Peter G. Washington is at Rockway,
betting that old James Guthrie, of Ken
tucky, will be the next President. The
ex-Secretary of the Treasury would do
wisely to choose a more discreet agent.
The babblings of his quondam subordi
nate injure him materially.
Letters from Albany state that Gov.
Seymour and Hon. Erastus Corning have
returned from their Western tour, and
have both been called in to give surgical
assistance to the Albany Regency in gen
eral, Cassidy in particular, and others
who have been wounded in tlie explosion
caused by the Wise-Donneily letter.
Senator Benjamin writes from London,
that if the relations between France and
England continue friendly, he entertains
littledoubt of negotiating the Tehuautepec
loan of $1,500,000. The project is re
garded with favor by foreign capitalists.
It was currently reported here yester
day that Thurlow Weed had passed
through Washington, in company with
Mr. Fernando Wood, on the way to Rich
mond. The motives of this visit to the
residence of the Governor of Virginia
were variously attributed to the re-open
ing of the slave trade, the Wise letter,
and the general management of New York
city and State politics.
WUat Ncxtl
The Louisville Courier describes a knit
ting machine which has made its appear
ance in that city. It says:
It did up nearly a whole stocking right
before our eyes; aud such knitting wo
never saw before. It was far ahead of
the stitches of the prettiest lady in the
country, with the old-fashioned needles,
knitting away and singing a sweet little
song. It seemed to us to make stockings
about as fast as half a hundred ladies in
their best knitting mood and talking hu
mor.
The machine itself, is in the shape of a
lady’s work-stand, is very pretty. It is
constructed for use and durability, with
great neatness and simplicity. It does
its work to perfection, and does it with
great rapidity. It occupies no more space
than a small work-stand, and can be ope
rated b} r a child. All that is necessary to
make it knit is to turn a crank, aud the
knitting is then done fast or slow, accord
ing to the revolutions of the wheel—
] though it would be difficult to turn it slow
enough not to knit as fast as half a dozen
of our grand-mamas at a regular tea
I drinking and knitting party.
This little machine knits hosiery of all
sorts and sizes, of cotton, wool, or silk
| yarn. It also knits tippets, undersleeves,
wristlets, mits, and, indeed, almost every
thing that ought to be knit.
The Directors of the Atlantic Telegraph
Company publish a complete history of
; the operations of the line during the few
days that it was labored with. The list
of dispatches and explanations, together
with the dates and comments, tills a page
of the New York Herald. Some time
elapsed before words could be distin
guished, and the operators constantly
signaled “send slower.” This publica
tion will convince all but the most incred
ulous, that messages were actually trans
mitted from shore to shore. At one time
the line was in tolerable working order.
A single dispatch countermanding the
transportation of a regiment of troops
from Canada to England, saved the Brit
ish government a quarter of a million
dollars. On the 20th Augnst, the ex
change of dispatches between the shores
of tlie two continents was quite lively.
At 9:19 o’clock a. in., Valentia asked
Trinity Bay—“ Have you message ?” At
9:21, in just two minutes’ time, the an
swer came back—“ No.” At 9:31 Trini
ty Bay asked—“ Was message about
Europa made use of?” At 9:43, seven
teen minutes afterwards, the reply came
—“Yes, it was sent for publication.”
At 9:55 Trinity pay asked Valentia—
“ What weather have you?” At 10:8,
thirteen minutes afterward, the answer
was returned—“Very fine, yours ?” The
rejoinder was sent at 10:10—“ Mosqui
toes keep biting. This is a funny place
to live in. Fearfully swampy.”
Disgraceful Riot.
Philadelphia, Aug. 24.—A bloody riot
occurred yesterday at Tacony. There was
aa excursion of the Catholic Sunday
Schools accompanied by a military com
pany, when a band of rowdies attacked
the soldiers while they w-ere engaged in
firing at a target. The soldiers fired and
twenty were killed and wounded. On
their return to the city the riot was re
sumed, but the police prevented any se
rious result.
Baltimore, August 24.—A party of
rowdies from this city, on board a steam
er, Saturday, bound for a camp-meeting,
committed fearful outrages on the pas
sengers, by butchering and robbing tbem
repeatedly in the dark. They stabbed one
man and committed a rape on his wife in
his presence.
The badge of the Spartans, the secret
band to favor the election of the “Black
Dwarf,” is composed of two hands, not
clasped in fraternity, but thus B;
the significance of which is that, as Spar
tans,-they will do a double quantity of
stealing and keep both hands in the pub
lic treasury. —Louisville Journal.
The Spartans are understood to be the
members of the secret organization for
the purpose of making S. A. Douglas the
next President of the United States.
Litter from cnDfot-nla.
New Obleaxs, Aug. 20. — The steam
ship Havana is below from San Francisco
the sth.
The ; tephtns and Orizaba steanifrs
brought, down ovn- two milium., in spe
cie.
Over two thousand passengers had ar
rived at San Francisco since tlie 30tli of
July.
The following vessels had reached San
Francisco: The Northern Eagle, Amos
Lawrence, Flying Eagle, Orpheus, Ocean
Express, Chariot of Fame, from New
York ; the May Flower, DashiDg Wave,
front Boston : tho Achilles, from Sydney ;
the Tear, from New’ Orleans; the Prin
cess Royal, from Melbourne: and the
following sailed : the Guantletr, for New
York.
Business was dull, and prices generally
had a downward tendency. Candles were
firmer; choice Orleans Sugar was quoted
at 10 to 101 c. ; Flour, $9 per barrel;
Money was easy.
Horace Greeley had arrived at San
Francisco, and was lionized everywhere,
lie estimates that thirty thousand emi
grants were coming overland.-
Tl>e McLane Treaty.
Washington, Aug. 21.—Information
has just transpired which leaves little, if
any doubt, that Minister McLane will
conclude a treaty with the Constitutional
Government of Mexico, and send it here
early in September.
Tlie provisions of the treaty arc mainly
in reference to a transit over Mexican
territory, with certain privileges and cus
toms exemptions, for which our govern
ment will make satisfaction.
Later from Havana and Mexico.
New Orleans, Aug. 21.—The steam
ship Cahawba has arrived with Havana
dates to the Bth.
Sugar was firm at 7f to Bd. Lard buoy
ant, at 18 to 19. Exchange on London
at 14 to 15; on New York 2J. Money
tight.
Two cargoes of Coolies had arrived.
A correspondent of the Crescent, says
that the Tehuantepec mail robbers found
nothing valuable, and that the mails had
been recovered.
Fire at Trnuo.
Sackville, Aug. 22.—The stables at
Truno and ten horses, including the ex
press of the Associated Press, was burnt
by an incendiary to-day.
This may be a part of a fraud intended
to be practiced’towards the press, in re
lation to the steamship Canada’s news,
now about due at Halifax.
The public should be unusually cautious
in regard to foreign news, until tlie press
report is bulletined.
Later from Mexico.
New Orleans, Aug. 22. re
ceived Vera Cruz dates to the 11th inst.
It was reported that Hargous & Jecker
had purchased the Tehuantepec transit
route, and that their agent at Minatitlan
had been ordered to engage engineers
and re commence work—the steamship
Adriatic to run ou the Pacific side, in
connection.
An Honest Confession.
The London Times, after a review of
the actual condition of the British West
India Islands and a contrast of their for
mer prosperous condition with their pres
ent state of decline, closes with the fol
lowing emphatic paragraph against the
policy of black emancipation :
We wish to heaven that some people in
England—neither government people,
nor parsons, nor clergymen—but some
just minded, honest hearted and clear
sighted men, would go out to some of the
islands—say Jamaica, Dominica or Au
tigua, not for a month, or three months,
but for a year—would watch the precious
protege of English philanthropy, the
freed negro, in his daily habits ; would
watch him as he lazily plants his little
squatting; would see him as he proudly
rejects agricultural or domestic service,
or accepts it only at wages ludicrously
disproportionate to the value of his work.
We wish, too, they would watch him,
while, with a hide thicker than that of a
hippopotamus, and a body to which fer
vid heat is a comfort rather than an an
noyance, he droningly lounges over the
prescribed task ou which the intrepid
Englishman, unaccustomed and uninured
to the burning sun, consumes his impa
tient energy, and too often sacrifices his
life. We wish they would go out and
view the negro in all the blazonry of his
idleness, his pride, his ingratitude, con
temptuously sneering at the industry of
that race which made him free, and then
come home and teach the memorable
lesson of their experience to the fanatics
who have perverted him into what he is.
A State Government for Nebraska.
From a letter in the St. Joseph Ga
zette, dated Nebraska City, N. TANARUS., Au
gust Gth, we gather the following items
of interest:
The writer complains of the great and
unnecessary accumulation of business in
the Courts; and of the indifference of
the judicial officers to the wants of the
people. This neglect of duty, on the
part of the Territorial Judges, has occa
sioned so much inconvenience, that the
people have determined to get rid of them
altogether, and to that end have taken
the initiatory step for the organization of
a State Government. It is proposed to
call a convention in October, which will
draft a Constitution to be submitted to
the popular vote in November. If rati
fied, application for admission into the
Union as a State, will then be made at
the same time that the claims of Kansas
are presented. Everybody, it is repre
sented, is tired of the present provisional
mal-government, and a change of some
sort determined on. The plan of annex
ation to Kansas was at one time popular
in Nebraska; but since the action of the
“ Nigger Convention,” assembled at Wy
andotte, the idea is generally scouted.
The land sales had been in progress in
Nebraska City for several days. Three
hundred thousand acres had been offered,
but not more than two thousand found
purchasers.
Military Defense of Cuba.
The Spanish Government have at
present twenty five thousand of their
best troops in Cuba, a larger number of
soldiers than the whole standing army of
the United States, and have, besides,
thirty or forty men of war, about half
the number of all the ships in the U. S.
navy, stationed around the little island,
ready to protect it from any attempt of
invasion. There are, besides, 4,000 well
drilled volunteers in Havana, and 50,000
country militia. The fortifications, too,
are of a very formidable character, that
of the Moro, which guards the city of
Havana, being almost impregnable.
Not satisfied with these ample applian
ces of security, the Governor General has
lately organized a corps of two thousand
Africans, who are to be drilled as regular
soldiers and form part of the regular
army. It is conjectured that the object
of the Spanish Government in enlisting
this class of her subjects is, in the event
of a revolution, or a declaration of war
between the United States and Spain, to
use this African nucleus of two thousand
to raise the whole negro mass against the
white population.— Richmond Dispatch.
Tlie Cotton Crop.
We have conversed with several plan
ters, and with those who receive letters
daily and weekly from their planting
friends, and we have come to the conclu
sion that there is considerable difference
in the opinions entertained. Some report
their crops in fine promising condition—
others say they have poor prospects, and
will not make more than half a crop.
Striking about an average of the opinions
expressed, we have come to the conclu
sion, (if nothing materially affects the
crop, after this time,) the cotton
yield will not be very different in quan
tity from that of the passing commercial
year.— Augusta Constitutionalist.
At a recent commencement of the Cen
tenary College of Louisiana, the honora
ry degree of Doctor of Divinity was con
ferred upon Rev. Wm. H. Watkins, of
Natchez, Miss., and upon Rev. Wm. Mur
rab, of Alabama. The honorary degree
of Master of Arts was conferred upon
Rev. C. C.: Gillespie, of New Orleans,
and upon Rev. A. S. Andrews, of Mobile.
Ffr.iii (ho Sen York TrffcMW**
TWO HOURS WITH BRIGHAM YOUNG.
. alt Lake Citv. Ltal*. July 1", 1860.
My friend, Mr. Bemhisel, M. C., took
me tbis ulteruoon, by appointment, to
meet Brigham Young, President of the
Mormon Cbureb, \v!io bad expressed a
willingness to receive me at 2p. in. We
were very cordially welcomed at the door
by the President, who led vis into the
second story parlor of the largest of bis
bouses, (be has three.) where I was in
troduced to llebcr C. Kimball, Gen. Wells,
Gen. Ferguson, Albert Carrington, Elias
Smith, and several other leading men in
the Church, with two full grown sons of
the President. After some unimportant
conversations on general topics, 1 stated
that I had come in quest of fuller knowl
edge respecting the doctriues and polity
of the Mormon Church, aud would liketo
ask some questions bearing directly on
these, if there were no objection. Presi
dent Young avowed bis willingness to
respond to all pertinent inquiries, the
conversation proceeded, substantially, as
follows :
If G —Am I to regard Mormonism (so
called) as anew religion, or as simply a
new development of Christianity ?
B. Y. —We hold that there can be no
true Christian Church without a priest
hood directly commissioned by and in im
mediate communion with the Son of God
and Saviour of mankind. Such a church
is that of the* Latter-Day Saints, called
by their enemies Mormons; we know no
other that even pretends to have present
and direct revelations of God’s will.
If G. —Then I am to understand that
you regard all other churches professing
to be Christian as the Church of Rome
regards all churches not in communion
with itself —as schismatic, heretical, and
out of the way of salvation ?
B. Y. —Yes, substantially.
11. G. —Apart from this, in what re
spect do your doctrines differ essentially
from those of our Orthodox Protestant
Churches—the Baptist or Methodist, for
example ?
B. Y. —We hold the doctrines of
Christianity, as revealed in the Old and
Ne\? Testaments—also in the Book of
Mormon, which teaches the same cardi
nal truths, and those only.
11. G. —Do you believe in the doctrine
of the Trinity ?
B. Y. —We do ; but not exactly as it is
held by other churches. We believe in
the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost, as
| equal, but not identical—not as one per
son [being.] We believe in all the Bible
| teaches on this subject.
11. G. —Do you believe in a personal
devil—a distinct, conscious, spiritual
| being, whose nature and acts are essen-
S tially malignant and evil?
J B. Y. —We do.
11. G. —Do you hold the doctrine of
Eternal Punishment? ,
B. Y. —We do; though perhaps not
exactly as other churches do. We believe
it as the Bible teaches it.
II G. —l understand that you regard
Baptism by Immersion as essential.
B. Y— We do.
11. G —Do you practice Infant Bap
tism ?
B. Y— No.
11. G. —Do you make removal to these
valleys obligatory on your converts ?
B. Y. —They would consider them
selves greatly aggrieved if they were not
invited hither. We hold to such a gather
ing together of God’s People a3 the Bible
foretells, and that this is the place, and
now is the time appointed for its con
summation.
11. G. —The predictions to which you
refer have usually. I think, been under
stood to indicate Jerusalem (or Judea) as
the place of such gathering.
B. Y. —Yes, for the Jews—not for
others.
11. G. —What is the position of your
Church with respect to Slavery ?
B Y. —We consider it of Divine insti
tution, and not to be abolished until the
curse pronounced on Ilam shall have
been removed from his descendants.
11. G. —Are any slaves now held in
the Territory ?
B. Y. —There are.
11. G. —Do your Territorial laws up
hold Slavery ?
B. Y. —Those laws are printed—you
can read for yourself. If slaves are
brought here by those who owned them
in the States, we do not favor their
escape from the service of those owners.
11. G. —Am I to infer that Utah, if ad
mitted as a member of the Federal Union,
will be a Slave State?
B. Y. —No ; she will be a Free State.
Slavery here would prove useless and un
profitable. I regard it generally as a
curse to the masters. I myself hire many
laborers and pay them fair wages; I
could not afford to own them. I can do
better than subject myself to an obliga
tion to feed and clothe their families, to
provide and care for them in sickness
and health. Utah is not adapted to Slave
Labor.
If. G. —Let me now bo enlightened
with regard more especially to your
Church polity : I understand that you
require each member to pay over one
tenth of all he produces or earns to the
Church.
B. Y. That is a requirement of our
faith. There is no compulsion as to the
payment. Each member acts in the
premises according to his pleasure, un
der the dictates of his own conscience.
11. G. —What is done with the pro
ceeds of this tithing?
B. IT —Part of it devoted to the build
ing of temples and other places of wor
ship ; part to helping the poor and needy
converts on their way to this country;
and the largest portion to the support of
the poor among the Saints.
11. G. —ls none of it paid to Bishops
and other dignitaries of the Church?
B. Y. —Not one penny. No Bishop,
no Elder, no Deacon, or other Church
officer, receives any compensation for bis
official services. A Bishop is often re
quired to put his hand in his own pocket
and provide therefrom for the poor of
his charge ; but he never receives any
thing for his services.
11. G. —How, then, do your ministers
live ?
B. Y. —By the labor of their own
hands, like the first Apostles. Every
Bishop, every Elder, may be daily seen
at work in the field or the shop, like his
neighbors; every minister of the Church
has his proper calling by which he earns
the bread of his family ; he who cannot
or will not do the Church’s work for
nothing is not wanted in her service;
even our lawyers (pointing to Gen. Fer
guson and another present, who are the
regular lawyers of the Church,) are paid
nothing for their services; lam the only
person in the Church who lias not a reg
ular calling apart from the Church’s ser
vice, and never received one farthing
from her treasury ; if I obtain anything
from the tithing-heuse, I am charged
with and pay for it, just as any one else
would ; the clerks in the tithing-store are
paid like other clerks, but no one is ever
paid for any service pertaining to the
Ministry. We think a man who cannot
make his living aside from the Ministry
of Christ unsuited to that office. I am
called rich, and consider myself worth
$250,000; but no dollar of it was ever
paid me by the Church or for any service
as a minister of the Everlasting Gospel.
I lost nearly all I had when we were
broken up in Missouri aud driven from
that State; I was nearly stripped again
when Joseph Smith was murdered and
we were driven from Illinois ; but noth
ing was ever made up to me by the
Church, nor by any one. I believe I
know how to acquire property and bow
to take care of it.
11. G. —Can you give me any rational
explanation of the aversion and hatred
with which your people are generally re
garded by those among whom they have
lived and with whom they have been
brought directly in contact ?
B. Y. —No other explanation than is
afforded by the crucifixion of Christ and
the kindred treatment of God’s ministers,
prophets and saints in al! ages.
11. G. —l know that anew sect is
always decried and traduced —that it is
hardly ever deemed respectable to belong
to one—that the Baptists. Quakers, Meth
odists, Universalists, &c., have each in
their turn been regarded in the infancy of
their sect as the offscouring of the earth ;
yet I cannot remember that either of
hem were ever represented and regard
ed bv the older sect* of their eaily ua\s
as thieves, robbers, murderers.
B. Y. —ls you will consult the cotem- ;
porarv Jewish accounts of the life an
acts of Jesus Christ, you will find that he
and fits disciples were accused ot every
abomiuable deed and purpose —robbeij
and murder included. Such a work is
still extant, and may be found by those
who seek it.
If G. —What do you say of the so
calld Danites, or Destroying Angels, be
longing to your Church ? j
B. Y. —What do you say ? I know ot
no such band, uo such persons or organi
zation. I hear of them only in the slan
ders of our enemies.
If G. —With regard, then, to the
grave question on which your doctrines
and practices are avowedly at war with
those of the Christian world—that of a
plurality of wives—is the system ot your
Church’acceptnble to the majority of its
women ?
B. Y. —They could net be more averse
to it than I was when it was first re
vealed to us as the Divine will. 1 think
they generally accept it, as 1 do, as the
will of God.
If G. —How general is polygamy :
among you ?
B. Y. —l could not say. Some of those
present [heads of the Church] have each
but one wife, others have more; each
j determines what is his individual duty.
Jf G. —What is the largest number of
wives belonging to any one man ?
B. Y. —l Lave fifteen ; I know of no
! one who has more, but some of those
j sealed to me are old ladies whom I re
gard rather as mothers than wives, but
j whom I have taken home to cherish and
| support.
]f G. —Does not the Apostle Paul say
that a Bishop should be “ husband of
one wife ?”
B. Y— So we hold. We do not regard
j any but a married man as fitted for the
office of Bishop. But the Apostle does
not forbid a Bishop having more wives
I than one.
If G. —Does not Christ say that he
! who puts away his wife, or marries one
whom another has put away, commits
adultery ?
B. Y. —Yes; and I hold that no man
; should ever put away a wife except for
: adultery—not always even for that. Such
is my individual view of the matter. I
do not say that wives have ever been put
i atvay in our Church, but that I do not
i approve of the practice.
11. G. —llow do you regard what is
commonly termed the Christian Sabbath?
B. I'—As a divinely appointed day of
rest. We enjoin all to rest from secular
labor on that day. We would have no
man enslaved to the Sabbath, but we en
join all to respect and enjoy it.
Such is, as nearly as I can recollect,
the substance of nearly two hours’ con
versation, wherein much was said inci
dentally that would not be worth report
iug even if I could remember and reproduce
it, and wherein others boro a part; but,
as president Young is the first minister of
the Mormon Church, and bore the princi
pal part in the conversation, I have repor
ted his answers alone to my questions
and observations. The others appeared
uniformly to defer to his views, and to
| acquiesce fully in his responses and ex
planations. lie spoke redily, not always
| with grammatical accuracy, but with no
1 appearance of hesitation or reserve, and
with no apparent desire to conceal any
thing, nor did he repel any of my ques
tions as impertinent. He was very plain
ly dressed in thin summer clothing, and
with no air of sanctimony or fanaticism.
In appearance, he is a portly, frank,
good-natured, rather thiGk-sct man of
fifty five, seeming to enjoy life, and be in
no particular hurry to get to heaven.—
His associates are plain men, evidently
born and reared to a life of labor, and
looking as little like crafty hypocrites or
! swindlers as any body of men I ever met.
| The absence of cant or snuffie from their
manner was marked and general, I
think I may fairly say that their Mor
monism has not impovished them—that
they were generally poor men when they
j embraced it, and are now in very comfor
table circumstances—as men averaging
I three or four wives apiece certaiuly need
! to be.
If I hazard any criticisms on Morinon
ism generally, I reserve them for a sepa
rate letter, being determined to make this
a fair and full expose of the doctrine and
| polity, in the very words of the Prophet,
|so far as I can recall them. Ido not be
lieve President Young himself could pre
; sent them in terms calculated to render
them less obnoxious to the Gentile world
than the above. But I have a right to
add here, because I said it to the assem
bled chiefs at the close of the above col
| loquy, that the degredation, (or, if you
| please, the restriction) of Woman to the
I single office of child-bearing and its ac
cessories, is an inevitable consequence of
the system here paramount. I have not
; observed a sign in the streets, an adver
| tisement in the journals, of this Mormon
metropolis, whereby a woman proposes to
do any thing whatever. No Mormon has ev
| er cited to me his wife’s or any woman’s
opinion on any subject; no Mormon woman
has been introduced or has spoke to me;
and, though I have been asked to visit
Mormons iu their houses, no one has spo
ken of his wife (or wives) desiring to see
me, or his desiring me to make her (or
their) acquaintance, or voluntarily indi
cated the existence of such a being or
beings. I will not attempt to report our
I talk on this subject, because, unlike what
I have above given, it assumed somewhat
the character of a disputation, and I could
hardly give it impartially; but one re
mark made by President Young I think I
can give accurately, and it may serve as
a sample of all that was offered on that
side. It was in these words. I think ex
actly : “If I did not consider myself com
petent to transact a certain business with
out taking my wife’s or any woman’s
counsel with regard to it, I think I ought
to let that business alone.” The spirit
with regard to Woman, of the entire Mor
mon, as of all other polygamic systems,
is fairly displayed in this avowal. Let
any such system become established and
prevalent, and Woman will soon be con
fined to the harem, and her appearance j
in the street with unveiled face will be
accounted immodest. I joyfully trust
that the genius of the Nineteenth Centu
ry tends to a solution of the problem of
Woman’s sphere and destiny radically
different from this. H. G.
—
Tire Wheat Kui-vest.
The wheat harvest of the West has been
gathered. The result of the sowirg the
present year is the largest wheat har
vest probably that was ever produced. The
St. Louis Republican, in summing up the
reports from tjie entire wheat region of
the North and West, says:
The season has been unusually early ;
the insects and the rust have not been
able to extort from the farmers their usu
al groans and growling?, and with the
exception of a single night of frost injur
ing the crop in a few counties of Western
Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York and
Ohio, the ground sown in what has yield
ed most abundantly. There has been i
a greater breadth of wheat laid out than I
sver before; from New York to Arkan
tsa and Alabama, and from California
ihrough to the Atlantic, more land by far,
et is said, has been cultivated than at any
former time. Whilst the extent and suc
cess of the wheat crop in the United
States are unprecedented, the same is
true of Canada, and in all the old coun
tries of Europe the promise of the har
vest at the last accounts Was extraordina
rily good
A Pike’s Peak in Georgia.
A letter to the Charleston Courier from
New York says:
A couple of gentlemen are on here
from Georgia, trying to sell a portion of
a newly discovered gold mine. They
call it the Allatoony Gold Mine, and de
clare that its ore is unequalled in rich
ness and purity by that of any other
mine on the Atlantic slope. Where is
Allatoony ? It i3 well to know early, as
it may soon become another Pike’s Peak.
Will somebody tell us where Allatoony
is ?
The American party in the First Con
gressional District, in Maryland, have
nominated Mr. C. C. Cox, of Talbot, for
i Congress.
Circular of the Itepnblicnn Sfnllon**
al Committee.
Albany, N. V. Aug. 16. 1859
The Republican Nat innal Committee, at
their uuetiiu. c ■ cutly field in this c-ty,
issued tl c I ifiiW'i g t. ircnlar lo tlicit Ke
publican tr ■ iul> ti r* c;.! i;nnt the t niou.
ii, tile ju {Mi,, ;.l . I ih*’ ni.ih rsigued
member? *■ it e Ltcpnhltea .National
(fi. ill in ii tee, tin lime La.- arrived-tar con
sultation ami preliminary action in re
eard to t fie preaching si niggle for the
Presidency, and they beg therefore to
call your attention to the suggestions
which follow. The Republican party
bad its origin in he obvious necessity
for resistance to the aggressions of the
slave power and maintaining lor tne
states respectively, their reserved lights
and sovereignties. In the contest oi 18-ji>,
by the presentation and advocacy of the
true science of government, it laid the
foundation of a permanent political or
ganization, although it did not get pos
session of the power to eniorce its prin
ciples. When the result, adverse to its
efforts and its hopes, was declared, it un
affectedly acquiesced, giving to the victor,
for the sake of the country, its best
wishes for an honest and fair adminis
tration of the government.
How far Mr. Buchanan’s administra
tion has realized these wishes, is now
patent to the world. With the executive
power of the Government in his hands,
his administration has failed in every re
spect to meet the expectations of the peo
ple, and has presented the most humilia
ting spectacle of corruption, extrava
gance, imbecility, recklessness and bro
ken faith. So apparent is this, even to
our opponents, that the so ealletl Demo
cratic organization, always distinguished
for its discipline and party fidelity, is ut
terly demoralized and distracted, with
out any recognized or accepted party
principle, and threatened with disruption
by r the rival aspirations and struggles of
its leading partizans. While the Admin
istration has been thus faithless to the
interests of the country, and has thus dis
organized the party which placed it in
power, the Republican party lias been
constantly mindful of the great piublic
necessity which called it into existence,
and faithful to the fundamental principle
upon which it was erected. Experience
has only served to strengthen the convic
tion of its’ absolute necessity, in the re
formation of the National Government,
and of the wisdom and justice of its
purposes and aims.
Although some of the exciting incidents
of the election of 1856 have been partial
ly disposed of by the energy, enterprise
and valor of a free people, the duty of
Republicans to adhere to their principles,
as enunciated at Philadelphia, and to
labor for their establishment, was never
more pressing than at this moment. The
attitude of the slave power is persistently
insolent and aggressive. It demands of
the .country much more than it has de
manded hitherto. It is not content with
the absolute control of the National Gov
ernment; not content with the dispensa
tion of the honors and emoluments of the
National Administration: not content
with its well known infiuenee—always
pernicious over the legislation at the
National Capitol—but it demands fresh
concessions from a free people, for the
purpose of extending and strengthening
an institution, local in its character, the
creature of State legislation, which the
Federal Government is not authorized to
establish or extend by any grant of dele
gated powers. It demands by an unau
thorized assumption of power, after hav
ing as occasion required, adopted and
repudiated all the crude theories for the
extension of slavery, of the ambitious
politicians who sought its favor—the es
tablishment anil protection of slavery in
the Territories, by act of Congress, and
the revival of the African slave trade.
Upon no organization except that of
the Republican party can the country
rely for successful resistance to these
monstrous propositions, and for the cor
rection of the gross abuses which have
characterized the present National Admin
istration. It is the duty, then, of all pa
triotic men, who wish for the establish
ment of republican principles and meas
ures in the administration of the Nation
al Government, to aid in perfecting and
strengthening this organization fer the
coming struggle. There is much to be
done involving earnest labor and the ex
penditures of time and money; there
should be—
First—A thorough understanding and
interchange of sentiments and views be
tween the Republicans of every section of
country.
Second—An effective organization of
the Republican voters of each State,
county and town, so that our party may
know its strength and its defieienciees, its
power and its needs, before we engage in
the Presidential struggle.
Third—The circulation of well consid
ered documents, making clear the posi
tion of the Republican party, and expos
ing tiic dangerous character of the prin
ciples and policy of the Administration.
Fourth—Public addresses in localities
where they are desired and needed, by
able champions of the Republican cause.
Fifth—A large and general increase of
the circulation of Republican journals
throughout the country.
To give practical effect to these sugges
tions, an adequate amount of money, will
be required, for the legal and fathful ex
penditure of which the undesigned will
hold themselves responsible. The vast,
patronage of the Federal Government
will be wielded against us, to which we
can oppose nothing but earnest and effi
cient devotion to the Republican cause,
and the voluntary pecuniary offerings of
our Republican friends.
In conclusion, the undersigned may be
permitted to express their opinion that
the signs of the times are auspicious for
the Republican party, and that in their
judgment discreet and patriotic action
throughout the confederacy, promises to
secure a Republican victory in 1860. Un
willing, however, to encourage hopes
which may be disappointed, and to place
their appeal for aid and co-operation upon
the assurance of success in the contest
that is approaching, the undersigned are
constrained to say that they rely most
confidently upon the patriotism and zeal
of their Republican brethren for such
aid and co-operation ; meanwhile we have
the honor to be very respectfully, your
obedient servants,
E. I). Morgan, N. Y. O. X. Schoolfield, Tonn.
Wm. M. Chase, K. J. Thomas Spooner, < *liio.
•Jos. Bartlett, Maine. Norman it. Judd, ill.
George G. Fogg, N. Y. James Ritchie, Ind.
John C. Goodrich, Mrfss.Zaoh. Chandler, Mich.
Lawrence Brainard, Vt. Andrew J.Steneus, lowa
Gideon Wells, Conn. John X. Tweedy, Wis.
James N. Sherman. X. J.t ‘ornelius Cole, Cal.
Thomas Williams. Pa. M. F. Conway. Kansas.
E. D. Williams, Del. Lewis Clophane, 1). ('.
George Harris, Mil. Asa S. Jones, Mo.
Alfred Caldwell, Ya. Alex. Ramsay, Minn.
Cassius M. Clay, Ky.
Republican National Committee.
From Washington.
Washington, Aug. 21. —There is still
little, if any doubt, that a convention or
treaty between the United States and
Mexico will soon be concluded, and re
ceived here from Minister McLanc, early
in September, in which event, Senor Ler
do will return to New York, with a view
to conclude the pecuniary arrangements
already initiated by him, instead of first
laying his plans before the Jaurez Gov
ernment, as he originally intended. The
treaty will probably be confined rnainly
to the United States transit over Mexican
territory, with certain commercial privi
leges or exemption from customs duties
in that connection, together with provi
sion for adequate means of production.
It is confidently asserted that the conpen
sation for these advantages can easily be
rendered mutually satisfactory. Other
treaties will be proposed in due time, and
in these arrangements there is no reason
to doubt that provision will be made for
the satisfaction of American claims
against Mexico.
Distinguished friends of the Juarez
Government, including a number of
Mexicans now here, regard the latest
Mexican news as additionally encoura
ging to the cause of the Constitutional
ists, and speak of the ex-commuiiication
of that party by the Arch-bi-hop of Mex
ico, as a harmless proceedingi
There is no foundation for the rumor
that the Secretary of War will resign his
seat in the Cabinet. He hopes soon to
return to the performance of his official
duties.
J'ii.rt! !ie XT a orlettre- pfi-ayune.
Kosln Oil
While merely experiment, the oil
produced from the rosin of out- j ibe toi
ests encouraged the expectation that, a
ueiv source t wealth hsi*i been disc -ci ii
iu the South, ilic esperitn* ! * : * tie, i
successful. The phi*- barren • ofth :
States po-sess a value beyond that of th
California gold mine: Ineshan tilde iu
the product of rosin, the amount ot wealth
which is-to ilow from their broad acre
will be limited only by the demand for oil
as a lubricator lor the machinery of the
country.
In a*former notice of the p: ogress of
this enterprise —which, irom its influence
upon the prosperity of the South, inter
ests the whole community —the favor
which the most severe tests on some of
our t ail roads gave to the oil was noticed.
Since that time, its adoption on other
roads has exceeded expectation. The
following rail roads now make exclusive
use of rosin oil on the machinery, viz:—
the New Orleans and Opelousas, Ohio and
Mississippi, the l’acific, the Terre Haute
and Alton, the Macon and Western, the
Georgia Central, Western and Atlantic,
and the Savannah, Albany and Gulf Rail
Roal. Negotiations are now pending
with different roads running out of Au
gusta, Columbus, and Memphis, and with
several of them, are almost perfected.
The prolonged tests of the oil upon the
Georgia Central road, have resulted iu
the following warm and almost unexam
pled commendation. Mr. Jackson, who
has been for twenty years engaged in the
management of machinery, having been
selected as the agent to test the rosin oil,
says he has “run three trains with the
Southern Oil Company's oil a distance
averaging five thousand miles each, with
only one oiling, keeping the boxes per
fectly cool and free from gum, and gives
the oil preference over all other oils ever
used on the Georgia Central Road.” lie
recommends the oil as the best and cheap
est now used as a lubricator.
This result ou the Georgia Central road
will, doubtless, speedily secure the adop
tion of this oil on all the roads in Geor
gia, the Carolinas, and Tennessee.
It has become necessary, from the de
mand springing up in the West, to estab
lish a permanent agency of the company
in St. Louis; aud doubtless the same ne
cessity will exist for an agent, in New
Ycrk. No manufacturing enterprise has
ever been, in so short a time, more suc
cessful than this. No one now in this
country has more favor among the “solid
men” of the land.
It is gratifying to southern pride to
chronicle the progress of this new indus
try. If he who has caused a spire of
grass to grow where there was none, be
serves praise, how much greater commen
dation is due to the genius and the per
severance which has converted the bar
rens of the Southern States into mines of
wealth? This industry now needs no
endorsement from the press; it is estab
lished and absolutely secure ; but the en
couragement which success in this branch
of enterprise will give to other species of
manufactures, is a sufficient reason to
note its prosperity. The new power it
gives to the South —the great, value it
attaches to the only section of our slave
States which had been regarded as un
productive—secures public interest in all
that concerns this manufacture.
Attempting to Fly.
The Mdaison Journal relates the ful
lowingincident:
Two or three weeks since a man
named Whiting, living near Sun Prairie,
in this county, got religion so bad that lie
was too pure for the prairie, and accord
ingly attempted to come to Madison or
some other religious place. He was too
pure to travel like a mortal, and having
faith that he could fly to his destination,
he attempted the experiment. He pro
cured an umbrella, and climbed to the top
most branches of a tree in the skirts of a
timber. After hoisting his umbrella, he
jumped from the tree, and began to kick
and squabble, thereby thinking to propel
himself througn the air. La Mountain
or Wise did not work harder but, alas for
human calculations instead of going
ahead he quickly descended to the ground,
holding on to the umbrella for dear life.
He at last reached terra firma in a sound
state, and has now made up bis mind
that faith is a good thing, but should not
be taken in too large doses.
Tlie Oldest Skip.
The bark Maria arrived at this port
last evening, from a three years’ cruise
in the Indian Ocean. She was built at
the town-of Pembroke, now called Han
son, for a privateer, during the Revolu
tionary war. She was bought of William
Rotcb, a merchant of Nantucket, after
wards of this city, in the year 1783, arid
in the same year she made a voyage to
London with a cargo of oil. Her register
is dated A. D. 1782, and she is conse
quently in her 77th year. She claims to
be the first ship that displayed the U. S.
Jlag in a British port alter the Revolu
tionary war, which flag is now in exist
ence, though in shreds. Her model is of
old French construction, tumbling Lome,
or rounding very much in her top sides,
and she is consequently very narrow on
deck, in proportion to her size, 202 tons.
It is said that there stands to her credit
over $200,000; and from the earliest
history of this ship she lias never been
any expense by loss to underwriters ex
cept once, and that to a small amount.—
JYew Bedford Standard, 11 th.
tluitc a Mistake
A recently married young man in Cin
cinnati got intoxicated at a wine party,
and in that state went home to his wife.
As soon as he appeared she leaped from
the sofa, on which she had been half re
clining, and throwing her alabaster arms
about his neck, inquired, “Are you ill,
dearest? What ails you? You do not
seem to be yourself.” “Well, the fa —fa
—truth is, that—that—that I went to sit
—sit up with a si—si—sick brother, be
longing to our—our —our lodge, you see,
my love, and the li—light—light went
out, aud giving him brandy, as—as the
doctor had pre—prescribed ; I—l must
have ina—made a mistake—a mistake
in the da—dark, and taken the liquor
myself; whi—which I should—should
ha—have hand—handed my friend, you
see, my dear.” This explanation was
very satisfactory, especially to the hus
band, who sat down on his hat and fell
asleep.
A Venerable Bishop.
The Rev. Joshua Soule, D. D., senior
Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church
South, preached a sermon at Lebanon,
Ohio, on the 31st ultimo. It is stated
that some of his allusions to Isis early
ministerial life, the deaths of his former
colleagues, Wbeatcoat, McKendree, and
others were very touching. “ Sixty years
ago,” saiu the Bishop, “on the sth of
January last I left home to begin the
work of a Methodist traveling preacher,
andthisday, July 31st, I close the 80th
year of my life.” He spoke with his
usual distinctness and compass of voice
sufScient to make himself heard by a
large congregation.
How to Say One’s Beads.
An aristocratic marriage was celebrated
a few days since in Baris, one of'the par
ties to which was no less distinguished
for her piety than for her beauty. Among
the many rich gilts which the bride had
offered for her acceptance on the joyful
occasion, was a rosary, the beads of which
were diamonds! During the fine music
which formed a part of the nuptial cere
mony, the lady said her rosary with edi
fying devotion, and, after receiving with
her spouse the benediction, placed the
rosary itself in the hand of the priest, as
her offering for the poor of the parish.
Death of Metliodist Clergymen.
The Baltimore Christian Advocate an
nounces the death, on the 13th instant, of
the Rev. James Stevens, at Williamsburg,
Blair county, Pa. He was a member of
the Baltimore Annual Conference for
many years, but for the last few years a
superannuate. Id the short space of a
few weeks six ministers have died — Smith,
Cadden and Drown, from the East Balti
more Conference, and McGee, Stevens and
Eakin, from the Baltimore Conference.
The schr. S. J. Warring, from New
York, arrived at Savannah the 26th.