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Tuesday September G, 1859.
The Democrat, a leading German jour
nal of Western New York, has nominated
Hon. J. 11. Haimnond, of South Carolina,
as the Democratic candidate for the next
Presidency.
Disitngutslicd Arrival.
The Nineteenth Century says: “The
first bale of new cotton, from Houston
county, made its appearance at our depot
on the 20th inst. It was from the plan
tation of James P. Allen, Esq , near Fort
Valley.
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Tlie Cable Successfully Laid.
The St. Louis Republican of the 24tli
instant, says: “The large telegraphic
cable, which we wrote of the other day,
was successfully laid, yesterday morning,
across the Mississippi River, and found
to work like a charm.
Remarkable Receipts of New Cotton.
The N. 0. Picayune says : It is worthy
of note that, yesterday and the day be
fore, the 23d and 24th of August, there
were received in this city, 3,27 G bales of
cotton, of which 3,084 were of tlm year’s
product The Grand Duke, from Vicks
burg, which arrived yesterday, brought
the largest load of the season, thus far.
Tho Seuior editor of the Montgomery
Mail, who has been rusticating at Tallade
ga Springs, reached home Monday, some
where in the “wee sma hours” of the
morning. Wc are glad to learn from a
paragraph in his paper that the mineral
waters and bracing atmosphere of Talla
dega Springs, have exerted a beneficial
influence upon his jaded system.
Selma Full Trade.
The Daily Courier, of tho 27th, says
that tho merchants of Selma are laying
in larger stocks of Fall and Winter goods
than have evtr before been brought to
that market. They are making prepara
tious commensurate with the anticipated
increase of her trade. A great revolution
has taken place iu her commercial pros
pects, which are attributable solely to the :
magic influence of Rail-Roads.
Rosalie Durand.
The San Francisco (Cal.) Herald, of
tho sth inst., reports:
Accident to Miss Rosalie Durand.—
On Monday night, after the performances
at the Opera House, Miss Rosalie Durand,
while opening a bottle of magnesia with a
fork, accidentally broke the bottle, and
cut her left hand dreadfully with the
broken glass. The wound laid open the
ball of the thumb to the bone, and is |
about an inch and a half in length. The
lady appeared with her arm in a sling
last night, and suffered much from the
pain.
Crops iu tlte Cane Brake.
The Linden (Ala.) Jeffersonian says:
The great abundance of rain which we
have had for several weeks past, has
caused Cotton to shed its bolls and
squares to an extent seldom before equal
ed in this section. The rot too lias made
its appearance and is doing considerable
damage. So after all tlie growing crop
may turn out to be a very short one.—
Cotton is much more backward than
last year, but few bolls being as yet open
jn any of the plantations in this part of
t lie country.
Montgomery Advertiser and State
Gazette.
This old and well established paper has
issued the Prospectus for its 26th Volume,
which will commence the 7th of Septem
ber next. It has always been an able and
consistent advocate of the principles of
Stato Eights, of which its past history af
fords a sufficient guarantee. It is pub
lished daily and weekly, by Messrs. Cloud
& Shorter, and edited by the latter, as
sisted by Mr. James 11. Mackey, who j
had, for a long time previously, proved
himself an able contributor to its columns.
We wish that its career may still be suc
cessful.
Adjusted.
We are gratified to see from the last
issues of the Marion Commonwealth and
I
American, that the difficulties existing
between their respective editors, Messrs,
lteid and Caswell, have been adjusted by
the interference of a mutual friend.
They arose from the recent hotly con
tested election in Perry. Mr. Reid con
strued a certain card in the American as
personally offensive, and made threats of |
personal violence against Mr. Caswell.
The former withdrew his threats, when
Mr. Caswell made an explanation which
proving satisfactory, Mr. Reid accepted
it as an adjustment of the difficulty.
Negroes Leaving Virginia.
A correspondent of the Petersburg Ex
press, from Shepherdstown, Virginia,
writes to that paper, Aug. 24th, as fol
lows :
Our farmers on the line between Mary
land and Virginia, are annoyed a great j
deal by their negroes running away.—
They are so near a Free State, that the 1
negroes most always reach it before they :
can be overtaken, and once in a Free !
State, it is with the greatest difficulty ;
their owners can get them, eveu when
they learn their whereabouts, though the
“Fugitive Slave Law” is still in exist
ence. They very soon make their way ;
through Pennsylvania into Canada, and j
there they are beyond reach. Several
gentlemen in this region know that their
negroes are in Canada, but to get them is
utterly hopeless.
Crops in Unrbonr County.
The Spirit of the South, of the 30th
inst., says : “The cotton crop of this sec
tion is not so promising as it was three j
weeks since. The excessive rains which j
we have had recently have damaged the
crop very seriously. We hear considera
ble complaint of shedding, rust and boll
worm. It is becoming the opinion of
many, that the crop of this county will
not be so good as it was last year. ’
From the same paper we learn that ow
ing to the lateness of the season the
South-Western Rail-Road Company have
decided to postpone until next summer
the work on the bridge across the Chat
tahoochee, at Eufaula. The Board of Di
rectors will decide the question of the
location at their meeting in October next.
We learn from a friend that the Hon.
Allen F. Owen, of Talbot county, former
ly member of Congress from this State,
and Consul to Havana under Mr. Fill
more’s administration, was stricken down
by paralysis on the 28th inst., and doubt 6
are entertained of iiis recovery. — Times.
VOLUME 111-}
Political Neutral Magazines.
Frank Leslie’s Magazine is fast becom
ing little better than a Black “Republi
can” weekly. It illy disguises its pro
clivities in that direction Its last essay
in this way is a fling at a gentleman who
Stands high in the estimation of all, for
no other reason than that he is a Demo
crat; then follows a eulogium upon the
redoubtable Oen. Jim Nye, who is repre
sented as little beneath au angel. If
Democrats want to support Black “ Re
publican” papers, we advise them to take
the open and manly, not the sly and cov
ert sheets which, like Frank Leslie’s
Magazine, assume to be neutral or ex
clusively literary, when, in fact, they are
enemies in disguise.
We clip the the New York
Daily News. If the gentleman alluded
to by the News be a reliable friend to
the institution of slavery, it matters little
whether he belong to one or the other
of the parties in opposition to the Black
Republicans. That would not change
the degree of the offense offered the
South. Frank Leslie’s Magazine has
already a circulation in the South which
many similar Southern enterprises have
languished for, and through want of it
have been compelled to be discontinued.
The patronage of such .Magazines can
not be attributed to the slightest indiffer
ence to our domestic institutions, but the
arbitrary decrees of fashion are promul
gated from the North to the South, and
we are so infatuated as not to be able to
throw off our blind and ill-judged alle
giance, even though we receive our
knowledge cf the prevailing mode intern
spersed now and then with an insidious
thrust at slavery. The furor created by
“ Uncle Tom’s Cabin” illustrates the
dangerous character of anti-slavery fic
tion. The influence of such Magazines
as Frank Leslie’s is more to be feared
than all the newspapers at the North
openly advocating the restriction or ex
tinction of slavery, because they have a
wide circulation in the South, and as
sault its peculiar institutions under a
most specious and plausible guise. They
are to be feared as much as a cowardly
enemy who inflicts his stabs iu the dark.
A common cause of complaint against
Southern literary newspapers and peri
odicals, is, they are devoid of interest.
Where lies the fault? The South can
justly boast of the requisite talent. The
conclusion is evident that it is caused by
the unpardonable neglect of the section
which should foster and nourish them
with the patronage which must sustain
any enterprise. No newspaper is self
sustaining, and contributions cannot be
procured without compensation. If South
ern literary enterprises received even one
half the support lavished by the South
upon many of the anti-slavery, catch
penny concerns issued at tho North, we
would soon establish a desirable and cred
itable Literature at home. There is but
one way to rebuke such proclivities, and
that is to limit the circulation of such
periodicals as manifest them, to the lati
tude where they are most congenial.
Tlie Western Corn Crop.
The luxuriant appearance of the grow
ing corn throughout the West is tho sub
ject of general remark. The Cincinnati
Commercial, of Wednesday, says :
The prospects for a corn crop of full
average yield, throughout the region of
couutry about which there was recently
so much apprehension, have been well re
assured by the generous rains of the last
two weeks, and the increased amount of
land planted throughout the West will
make the yield of this great staple, if
present anticipations are realized, much
greater than ever before gathered. We
are informed by a gentleman extensively
engaged in farming in the central portion
of the State, that there are farmers who’
will willingly contract for 3,000 to 5,000
bushels of corn, deliverable monthly after
the crop is fully ready to be marketed, at
60 cents per bushel. This last of the
year’s pvomises of fullness should indeed
inspire our unreserved gratitude. Prices
must be submitted to by producers that
will set the wheels of commerce in mo
tion, relieve tlie country of debt, and es
tablish a firm basis for the resumption of
anew career of prosperity and progress.
Iron Wealth of Missouri.
An assistant of the Missouri Geological
Survey gives in volume 1 of their Report
an estimate of the iron ore in the cele
brated iron region of that State, as fol
lows: Iron Mountain, 228 feet high, cov
ering 500 acres, one mass of specular
ore weighing 230,187,275 tons; average
yield at furnace 56 per cent., or 128,904,-
930 tons of pure iron. Pilot Knob, next
in richness, is estimated to contain 13,-
972,773 tons of ore, or 7,000,000 tons of
pure iron. These two deposits will fur
nish about 130,000,000 tons of iron, the
ore of which all lies above the natural
surface of the country, easily miued, and
furnishing the best of metal. Rail road
iron, 70 lbs. to the yard, takes 1,232 tons
to the mile, and all the rail roads in the
United States would take of that weight
of rails about 3,500,000 tons of iron, or
1.40 of the deposit above spoken of. This
is only the ore above the surface. God
only knows what is below.
llail Road Iron.
The Selma Daily Courier, of the 27th
inst., says: “The steamer Senator came
up on yesterday morning, as far as this
place, and landed one hundred and eighty
odd tons of iron for the Alabama and Ten
nessee Rail-Road. It is confidently ex
pected that the Road will be in running
order to the town of Talladega by the
15th of September—at any rate, by the
time the rainy season sets in Selma and
Talladega will be connected by bonds of
iron, and our up-country friends will be
saved, this winter, the disagreeable tramp
of ten miles ihat so annoyed them in vis
iting our city last winter.”
Iron Bands for Cotton Bales.
The New York Courier and Enquirer
says: “Our attention has been called to
abuse in the use of sheet iron bands on
cotton bales. Six bands which were taken
from a bale yesterday weighed twenty
seven pounds—the cords usually em
ployed weigh only about six pounds. The
difference in this case amounted on the
value of cotton, to i to f cents per lb.
\Ye did not learn what steps are proposed
to stop this abuse, if it may be so termed,
but we hear that the New Orleans Cham
ber of Commerce discountenances it.”
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To Correspondents.
B. & P., Griffin, Ga., will find no ad
vertisement yet for the River Bride. She
is, however, making regular trips, and
we shall have in a few days a regular
schedule for her. In the meantime, you
need have no fears of shipping this
way, gentlemen, as either the “Bride”
or “Stokes,” will always be on hand to
put them through with dispatch, and in
advance of the Catbbert route.
THE • WEEKLY SUN.
Common School* in the South.
It is universally conceded that iu the
matter of educatingthe people, theSouthis
at least half a century behind the North
All of the Southern States have some sys
tem of public education, several of which
have been in operation for years, yet lit
tle progress has been made towards per
fecting them. Is the defect owing to the
want of administrative talent in the min
isterial officers of the school law, or is it
attributable to the want of unanimity in
the people? Many entertaiu the opinion,
and not without some degree of plausibil
ity, that public schools have a centraliz
ing tendency, and are unfavorable to the
development of that independence of
character resulting from individual effort
and self reliance. All concede the ob
jections, but are convinced that they are
more than counterbalanced by the benefits
conferred. The social system of the
North constitutes no objection to public
school systems. The many “isms,” and
the wild theories originating in that lati
tude, arise from the absence of the con
servative influences of the iostitution of
slavery. The Boston Post has published
a series of articles on “Colleges and
Schools in the South,” which concludes
as follows :
“In reviewing the subject of education
in the Southern States, we arrive at this
general result: That the scattered condi
tion of the people is unfavorable to the
very general prevalence of tho common
school system, such as prevails in New
England. Private schools are more gen
eral in the South than any other portion
of the world ; and as to the higher semi
naries of learning, if she is not now an
equal to the North, she soon will be. And
then, the education she acquires from so
cial intercourse may outweigh all the real
instruction imparted through the lyceum
system.
“At the present time, the South is more
active in improving her educational sys
tem than the North. At her recent Com
mercial Conventions the subject has been
freely discussed, and the general view has
been taken that her sons and daughters
should be educated at home, and not at
the North. The Southerners not only
propose to furnish themselves with edu
cation, but with school-books. The last
have been, very generally, procured from
the North. The South has been accus
tomed to pay the North, for school-books
and education, $5,000,000 annually. But
she is now endeavoring to manufacture
both school-books and education for her
own children.”
Politics in Bibb.
The Opposition party of Bibb county,
met in meeting, at Macon, on the 26th,
when a committee was appointed to re
port matter for the action of the meeting.
After consultation the committee reported
resolutions recommending tho uniting
with the Democracy iu the formation of
a compromise ticket for the Legislature,
they to be allowed the selection of Sen
ator, and the Democrats the members of
the House, or vice versa.
The ensuing day the Democracy as
sembled, when tho overtures of tho Op
position meeting were rejected, mainly
on the ground, as the Journal and Mes
senger says, “that they had met to nomi
nate Democratic candidates.” The meet
ing then nominated P. Tracey, for the
Senate, and O. A. Lochrane and L. M.
Lamar for the House.
The Citizen says the proposition origi
nated with the Democrats, and was,
through courtesy,acquiesced in by the Op
position. It nnuiiftsts considerable in
dignation at the action of the Democratic
meeting, and urges the Opposition, on
Tuesday next, to select their best men,
and if they deem it expedient, to place
any solid and able Democrat, regardless
of any feelings of spite, against the
“subterranean” Democracy.
Georgia Manufactures,
The Richmond Morning News, in a well
written article on the domestic manufac
tures of the South, pays the following de
served compliment to Georgia:
That Georgia is the banner State in the
promotion of domestic manufactures, is a
concession that justice and truth demand
at the hands of her sister Southern States.
Whilst Georgia possesses inferior natural
resources, for the successful development
of a home manufacturing interest, than
many of her sister Southern States, yet
she has practically illustrated the wisdom
of that political economy, which teaches
that the wealth of a people depends upon
their productive capabilities for supply
ing their own waits and domestic neces
sities. ‘
We do not think the News does ade
quate justice to our natural resources for
manufacturing. They have never been
fully applied, and when they are brought
into requisition by capital and enterprise,
the result will prove that in this respect,
as in other internal improvement, she is
the “Empire State” of the South.
John Ross, recently re-elected Princi
pal Chief of the Cherokee Indians, has
held that position for 31 consecutive
years. He was elected under the first
constitution of the Nation, in 1828, and
has been re-elected every four years since,
almost without opposition. It is stated
that he is an educated man, of mixed In
dian and Caucasian blood, somewhat more
than sixty years of age, has the sense to
write short messages to the Council, and
enjoys unbounded popularity among the
civilized red-skins. The Chief is under
stood to be a descendant cf Daniel Ross,
a Scotchman, who married a daughter of
McDonald, a Scotchman, who married a
Cherokee woman, McDonald was, at the
time of the American Revolution, agent
for Georgo 111, among the Cherokees.
Awful Tragedy.
The Macon State Press, of the 31st inst.,
says:
We learn that two brothers, Augustus
and Jackson Roberts, about six miles
from our city, shot each other with a pis
tol this morning—the former being in
stantly killed, and the latter dangerously
wounded. The cause of the unnatural
quarrel, which led to this awful tragedy,
we are ignorant of. Both parties were
citizens and farmers of Jones county.
P. S.—Since the above was written we j
learn that the other brother has also died
from his wound.
Correspondence of the Savannah Republican.
Dawson, Ga., Aug. 25.
Mr. Editor: We have this day received
a bale of cotton, grown by Mr. E. Z. Tay
lor, of Terrell county, class Strict Mid
dling, and sold for sixteen cents per
pound. Crops through this country have
been injured by heavy protracted raias,
but not as much as we once thought. We
do hope some of the Banks of your city j
will establish an agency in this place: we
expect to receive ten thousand bales of I
cotton, and dislike to have to look abroad
for funds to operate on.
Respectfully yours, (See. W.
The architect of the Great Eastern, Mr. j
Brunei, the celebrated engineer, Mr. Ste
phenson, and other scientific gentlemen,
will take passage on the monster steamer
on her first trip from the Thames to Casco |
Bay.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 6, 1859.
Life of George M. Troup.
The Charleston Daily Mercury says:
We*learn that a distinguished citizen of
Georgia, Hon. Edward J. Harden, is now
engaged in preparing a life on the Hon.
George M. Troup. The volume will be
issued to a limited number of subscribers,
at $3 in muslin, £3 50 in full sheep, and
i half calf or turkey $4.
Those who are old enough to remember
Gov. Troup, will not forget that his prin
ciples were as identical with those of the
State Rights school of South Carolina as
j any man in this State. His famous sen
timent: “The argument is exhausted—
let us stand to our arms!” will not be,
and should never be forgotten.
A gentleman in this city, who has in
terested himself iu the matter, only from
a desire to perpetuate the principles of
Gov. Troup, has a lis in his possession,
and we can furnish his name to such as
desire it.
The way to perpetuate his principles
as they deserve to be, is not to limit the
work to a few subscribers, but enable
every young man in the country, who has
independence of character sufficient to
form his political opinions for himself, to
read it and familiarize himself with them.
It will be remembered it was on the occa
sion of the Treaty of the United States
with the Creek Indians, in 1825, in far
ther fulfillment of the stipulation to ex
tinguish the Indian title to lands in
Georgia, that the controversy between
Georgia and the General Government
occurred. The Indians refused to leave
their lands, and Georgia insisted on the
fulfillment of the treaty. A special meet
ing of the Legislature was called by Gov.
Troup, to provide for the survey and
appropriation of the territory acquired
from the Creeks. In his message to the
Legislature, he took occasion to notice
auother subject, which, in his opinion,
took precedence of all others in import
ance. Mr. King, Senator from New
York, at the preceding session of Con
gress, offered a resolution proposing to
appropriate the proceeds of the sales of
the public lands, after paying the public
debt, to the emancipation of slaves and
colonization of free persons without the
limits of the United States. The Attor
ney General had also given an opinion
that a Taw of South Carolina imprisoning
free persons of color arriving there, was
unconstitutional. He denounced these
acts of King and Wirt as “officious and
impertinent intcrmeddlings with our do
mestic concerns.” Another extract in
the same message contains the famous
sentiment which has become stereotyped
in the political phraseology of tlie day.
It is as follows: “If this matter (slavery)
be an evil, it is our own; if it be a sin,
we can implore the forgiveness of it. To
remove it, we’ ask neither their sympathy
nor assistance. It may be our physical
weakness—it is our moral strength. If,
like the Greeks and Romans, we cease to
be masters, we are slaves. I entreat you
most earnestly, now that it is not too
late, to step forth, and having exhausted
the argument, to stand by your arms.”
Indian Territory.
In another place will be found a letter
to the Charleston Mercury, from a South
erner iu Kansas. It seems that we are
to have perhaps the re-enactment of tlie
Kansas imbroglio in the Indian Territory,
if the settlement of the matter be left to
the emigrant aid-societies of Massachu
setts and other abolition States. That
Territory is already inhabited by friendly
Indian tribes, possessing slave property,
and if the General Government regards
its treaty stipulations with them, emigra
tion will take its natural course. The
slaves already there will remain secure,
and it will, in due time, become a slave
State.
The Indian and the “pale face” cannot
amalgamate ; the latter will buy up the
slaves of the former, and cultivate his
lands, and the Territory will gradually
emerge from its state of Territorial pupi
lage into the independent sovereignty of
a slave State. We hope that the rights
of the South there will not be intrusted
to speculating politicians and free-soil
Governors, as was the case in Kansas.
The emigrant aid-societies of the North
had no more efficient allies in Kansas than
Reeder, Guerry, Walker & Cos.
Another County.
A movement seems to be on foot to
carve anew county out of Burke. A cor
respondent of the Waynesboro’ News, of
the 30th, condemns it in the strongest
terms. He opposes it on the grounds of
equity and the reduction of the Legisla
tive Assembly. In pursuance of his re
quest the News calls a meeting of the cit
izens of Burke county, irrespective of
party, to meet iu Convention at Waynes
boro’ on the first Tuesday in September
next, to express their views on both ques
tions, which it considers of vital impor
tance.
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There is a dispute iu the Fourth Con
gressional District of Kentucky, as to
who is elected. The first official account
reports that Andekson, the Opposition
candidate, was elected by three majority.
If certain mistakes were corrected, the
Democrats claim that Christian would
stand elected.
The decision of this question is impor
tant, because it will determine which of
the two parties will have the •majority in
the House of Representatives.
Devotion to Professional Duty.
The Winnsboro’ Register records the
death of John Smart, Esq., formerly a
leading member of the Bar in Camden, S.
C. He died in Fairfield District, at the
residence of Capt. T. W. Woodward. He
enjoyed the reputation of an able lawyer,
and zealous advocate throughout the
State. The cause of his death is believed
to be over exertion in devoting himself to
a professional cause of a capital nature.
Old Fogies.
The following is one of the numerous
definitions of an old Fogy that have been
given at various times. It was given at
a meeting of a Printers’ Society, in the
form of a toast. There is no surer indi
cation of the species. Here it is :
Old Fogies: People who stick up MSS.
notices and advertisements at cross-roads
and on the off-sides of barn doors.
The Waynsboro (Ga.) News of the
30th says: The weather for the last ten
days has been very pleasant for August.
Cotton and Sugar Cane are still growing
finely, and Corn fast ripening into an
abundant harvest.
Tlie Destitute of tlie Azores.
The citizens of Boston have been con
tributing to the destitute inhabitants of
those Islands. The bark Azore, Capt.
Burke, from Boston, is announced as
having arrived at FayaJ, on her way with
the contributions.
South-Western Rail Road.
We have received a copy of the Report
of the President and Directors of the
South-Western Rail Road, made August
11th. The Report shows the operations
aud extension of the Road for tlie year
ending July 31st, 1859:
The net sum earned fur the year, after paying all
ordinary and extraordinary expenditures, as
shown in the Report, is $282,230 20
The following amounts have been paid :
Hiv’d, Feb., 1869, 4 per cent... 585,020 00
Interest on Bond- 28.344 50
Annuity to City of Macon 1.250 00
Dividend declared Aug. 11. on
the stock as held Ist Aug,
at the rate of 8 percent, per
annum 00.100 00
Total $205,374 50
Leaving a surplus pf earnings, after
payment of Div’ds and all Interest $ 70,855 70
The Report is an elaborate one, and
shows in detail the earnings and expendi
tures ; the number of passengers; the
number of bales of cotton ; quantity of
produce of the year just ended, compared
with the previous year. There is a table
showing the number of bales of cotton
transported over the Columbus and Mus
cogee Rail Road, to Savannah, Augusta
and Macon, over this Road, compared
with last year, which we have already
noticed after the publication of the satis
factory Report ot the Muscogee Rail Road.
The President thinks the future of the
Road is full of promise, and that there
can be nb doubt whatever of the ability
of the Company to pay regularly to the
Stockholders at least eight per cent, per
annum. He expresses the opinion that
the net income of the Road for this cur
rent year, after paying all ordinary ex
penses, will be $350,000 —a sum sufficient
to pay all interest, a dividend of eight
per cent., and leave $90,000 to meet ex
traordinary expenses. The Report exhib
its a gradual increase of the business and
operations of the Road.
Tlie Pearl of tlie Antilles.
The receipts into the colonial treasury
of the Island of Cuba during the first six
months of the present year under the
name of “royal rents,” amounted to
$10,067,583,75. Os this sum $3,761,-
904,75 were what are known as ‘‘land’
rents,” or income from the public lauds.
The balance in the treasury were known
as “ maritime rents,” or pert revenues.
During the first six months of the last
year the treasury receipts amounted to
$9,-186,241,75; during the year 1857 to
$9,005,156.
The increase of the “port revenues”
over the “ land rents,” exhibits the true
element of the wealth and importance of
the island, This increase has maintained
itself, notwithstanding the comparative
decrease of business in the products of
the island for the present year.
The following table exhibits the ex
ports of the island for the first six months
of the last three years, from the port of
Havana:
Articles of Export. | 1857. | 1858. | ISad.
Sugar, boxes | 471,231 012,389 521,133
Rum,'pipes 3,830 6,772 7,150
Coffee, arrobas j 10,822 15,853 2,936
Wax, arrobas 25,465 22,650 27,689
Molassis, hhds 25,665 15'457 16,350
Cigars, thousands.. 76,872 108,817 103,511
Tobacco, Leaf, lbs.. 448,007 1,482,053 3,771,081
Pork Packing at Chicago.
Extensive preparations are making by
packers at this point for the approach
ing season’s operations. Messrs. Hub
bard & Cos. have erected anew house on
the old site on the north branch of the
river, at a cost of about $12,000, the ca
pacity of which will be about 1,000 hogs
daily. Thomas Nash, Esq., erected last
summer a packing-house on theTcorner of
Ringgold Place and Wabash avenue, at a
cost of about $6,000 —with a capacity of
cutting about four hundred hogs daily.
We also learn that Messrs. Flint & Sterns
are now building packing houses on the
river, close to Flint & Wheeler’s ware
house, at a cost of about SIO,OO0 —with
a capacity to kill and cut. about 700 hogs
daily. These, with the houses already
built, will give facilities for packing at
Uis point, enjoyed by few cities in the
Union. The new houses above referred
to are built and fitted up in the best
style, with all the modern improvements.
SoutUci'n Express Company.
Eds. Mail: An extensive tour recently
made through the Southern States, ena
bles me to bear witness to the universal
expression of good will and deep interest
in the starting of an enterprise known as
“Tlie Southern Express.” The merchant,
mechanic, and private citizen earnestly
desire the establishment of an express to
compete with the present monopoly. The
stock is distributed, and held by the mer
chants in the different Southern cities,and
the line is to extend from New York to
New Orleans.
The Southern Express, to succeed,
should establish uniform and regular
charges, at moderate rates, and employ
courteous and obliging clerks, and the
whole South, as well as our Northern
friends who do a Southern business, will
unquestionably sustain it— Mail
Sales of Dry Goods hy Auction.
It is estimated that the sales of dry
goods by auction for the current week
will reach fully one million of dollars,
and including sales last week, and those
alreadjtannounced, a value of nearly two
and a half millions will be reached. This
forms a very small proportion of the
sales in this market, the importation for
the last fiscal year being about ninety
millions of dollars, to say nothing of do
mestic goods, so that if ten or even
twenty per cent, of the whole importation
is sold at cost or a little under, the rela
tion of this business to the whole trade
is not of great importance. —New York
Courier <)’ Enquirer.
A Generous Congregation.
The N. O. True Delta says: The finan
cial managers of the congregation of
which the late Rev. Dr Alexander was
pastor, some years since, insured his life
for SSOOO, which, in addition to his sa
vings, makes an aggregate of about $12,-
000 for his widow aud children. The
members of his church, however, not sat
isfied with this amount, have determined
to raise a fund of $25,000 or $30,000 for
the support of the family, and are now
perfdbting a plan for that purpose.
*
The Macon (Miss.) Beacon says: A
serious injury befell a gentleman of that
place a few days ago, by the explosion
of a powder flask which was lying in his
lap. It happened from lighting a cigar.
The extent of the injury is not stated, but
it is added that a gentleman who was
riding with him in a buggy when the ac
cident oceured, had his shirt and pants
destroyed.
Rumored Loss of tlie Congress.
Philadelphia, Aug. 30.—An unveri
fied rumor, believed to have originated at
the navy yard, says that the frigate Con
gress, and all on board, have gone down
at sea.
The frigate sailed from here on the
14th inst,
J. L. Porter, Esq., has resigned the
editorial chair of the lYetumpka (Ala.)
Dispatch to Col. Samuel H. Dixon, who
will change its name to the Wetumpka
Enquirer. Mr. Porter is a candidate for
Solicitor of the first Judicial Circuit.
i The New York Express says that Mr.
A. K. Moore, of the Petersburg Intelli
gencer, and formerly of the Savannah
Republican, is a candidate for Printer to
.he next House of Representatives.
‘‘Buelali.”
A few days since we stated that Miss
Augusta Evans, of Mobile, was superin
tending the preparation of anew work of
her’s, now in the press of Derby & Jack
son, New York city. The following is an
extract from a circular of the Publishers,
in high praise of the furthcoming volume
The undersigned have in press, and
nearly ready for publication, anew vol
ume, entitled “Buelah,” by Augusta J.
Evans, (Mobile, Ala.) One large and neat
duodecimo volume. Price $1.25.
“Buelah” is a tale of Southern li;e, de
scriptive of scenes and events in one of
our Gulf cities. It is the history of a
poor and unfortunate, but proud and re
markably gifted orphan, who struggles
to support herself under circumstances of
great trial, and finally triumphs by at
taining a most exalted position, and win
ning an enviable reputation through her
literary labors. Beginning at the alpha
bet of skepticism, as first suggested to a
childish mind, Buelah’s intellectual and
religious life is traced and analyzed as
she passed successively through some of
the prominent philosophic phases of the
age, and struggled all unaided amid the
morasses of doubt and atheism, ultimately
rested her spent soul in the serene cloud
less atmosphere of Revelation. Some of
the pages contain discussions of the deep
est problems which have so long perplexed
the world, and many of the metaphysical
aberrations of the age are analyzed and
discarded. Throughout the work may be
traced an earnest desire and effort to lead
young and gifted minds into surer parts
than philosophic systems furnish, and to
encourage and foster in every soul germs
of the Beautiful, which properly devel
oped would ensure pure and healthful
of a very gifted and ambitious woman,
whose life, early overshadowed by nume
rous sorrows, gradually brightened as she
earnestly strove to discharge the duties of
her position, and consecrated her talents
to the service of the Good, the True, and
the Beautiful.
The publishers do not hesitate to stake
their reputation as judges of what is good,
interesting, original, and most ably writ
ten, upon the merits of this new produc
tion of one of the most gifted and popular
of our young and rising authoresses.
Indian Territory.
The Charleston Daily Mercury says
we have received the following inter
esting letter from a southerner in Kansas.
It points in the right direction:
* Paola, K. TANARUS., Aug. 15, 1859.
Mr. Editor: I take the liberty of wri
ting you a few lines on the subject of in
terest to the South. It is pretty well
conceded that Kansas will be a freesoil,
black republican State beyond question.
The South has not done any thing since
’56, except allow our constitution to be
rejected. We have about 2700 men
in Kansas still, and they intend emi
grating South as soon as Kansas is
admitted into the Union. We arej con
nected with a southern organization, and,
including all, we have about 17,000 men.
The next theatre for action will be the
Indian Territory south of Kansas, inclu
ding Cherokee, Creek and Choctaw Na
tions. The South should prepare for this
in time, and stand by her territorial
rights. They are of the last importance
to our colonization. The abolitionists
are the most constant and incessant
workers I ever knew belonging to any
party. The Danite order is large and
well drilled in abolition tactics. But
with the whole Government against us,
the odds are too much.
I am trying to get a printing-press and
materials for the purpose of starting a
newspaper at Fort Gibson for a friend of
mine and of the order, who is a man of
ability ; and I wish to know if there could
be anything done in the old South State.
Temperance Jubilee in Atlanta.
The committee of arrangements have
completed their preparations for the re
ception of delegates to the Temperance
Mass Meeting to convene there the 15th
instant, we learn from the Atlanta Ameri
can of the 80th ult. The several llail
Roads radiating from that city will con
vey delegates to the Mass Meeting for
half fare—the Central Rail Road for a
fraction over half fare. Passengers go
ing by the Macon and Western Rail Road
must purchase return tickets at Macon.
Certificates of attendance will be issued
to delegates who paying full fare going,
will be returned free by the the Roads, i
We observe that addresses will be deliv
ered on the occasion by ltev. J. E. Ryer- j
soq, Rev. S. McCarter of Augusta, and i
Rev. A. Graham of LaGrange.
Hon. Edward C. Bullock.
The Montgomery Advertiser, of the
9th inst., lias an editorial article compli
mentary to the lion. E. C. Bullock, of
Barbour county, Ala., from which, in
deference to its justness, we make the an
nexed extract:
Although quite young, he has already
made his mark and won an enviable repu
tation—a reputation that will endure and
enlarge in coming years in new spheres
of usefulness and honor. Modest and
apparently unaspiring, he does not seem
to be aware of the high estimation in
which he is held. His friends will,
doubtless, press his claims and qualifica
tions for still higher posts in the gift of
the State There can be no doubt that |
he would sustain himself with credit in
any position to which he may be.eleva
ted.
Heavy Kains.
The Central (Sandersville) Georgian, of
the 31st, says:
Very heavy rains fell in this county on
Tuesday ond Wednesday morning of last
week. Some of the water courses were
very much swollen. Col. J. J. Long had
a very valuable mule drowned while his
driver was attempting to cross, with a
wagon and six mules, what is generally a
small branch. The night was very dark,
and the negro drove his team in not know
ing the depth of the water, and before he
could get the mules loose from the wagon
one of them was drowned, and the negro
himself barely escaped with his life.
Death of Mrs. T. Butler King.
The Brunswick Herald of the 25th in
stant, says:
The community of Brunswick was
pained at the announcement, on Monday,
of the death of Mrs. A. King, consort of
our esteemed fellow citizen Hon. T. But
ler King. She died at 9 o’clock on Mon
day morniDg, after a short illness. She
was a lady of many estimable qualities,
and will be sincerely mourned by her large
circle of friends, as well as relatives.
The afflicted husband has the warmest
sympathy of the community in his great
bereavement.
♦
The Rowdy.
The rowdy is a terrible nuisance. Hear
how the poor Dutch landlord described
his sufferings at the hands of one of these
amiable beings:
Ter rowdy corned in and axed me to sell
him some peer. I tells him he had more
as would do him goot. He calls me von
ole Tutch liar, and pegun to proke two
tumplers. My vise she call for de vatch
’ouse. ’Fore de vatch ’ouse got dare, de
rowdy he kick Hans Scruggle pehint his
pack, kissed my taughter Petsey pefore
her face, proke all ter tumplers ’cept ter
olt stone pitcher, and spilt my vise and
todder peer parrels into ter cellar.
The Nashville Union and American
comes to us considerably enlarged and
otherwise much improved.
INUMBER 21.
An Anecdote from Ten Years of a
Preacher’s Life.
The author of “The Ritle, Axe and Sad
dle-Bags,” William Henry Milburn, has
been induced to write his own biography,
or rather a series of pictures taken from
the life of a blind Methodist preacher.
The opening chapter, containing an af
fecting account of the accident by which
Mr. Milburn lost Iris sight, is followed by
a brief narrative of his early life, and the
causes which induced him to enter the
ministry. Then we have the curious de
i tails of his itinerant life as a wandering
Methodist clergyman, some of which are
highly amusing. Here is an incident:
A Sermon Interrupted.— One of our
beloved bishops, the Rev % Thos. A. Mor
ris, when a young man, was traveling
somewhere in the West, and made an ap
pointment to preach in a neighborhood
little frequented by the ministry. Due
notice was given, anil a large company
assembled. The service was to be held
in a double log cabin with porch in front.
The men were gathered in one room, the
women in the other, and the boys on the
porch. The preacher stood in the door.
As he proceeded, a couple of men in the
j congregation began to whisper, and at
j length spoke so loud that all the congre
gation could hear them; the theme of
their discourse being a horse swap.
The preacher paused and said that, as
it was bad manners for more than one to
| speak at a time, if it were necessary for
j them to bring their trade to a conclusion
on the spot, he would stop until they had
finished. They were silent, and he re
! sumed, when an officious old gentleman
j came bursting through the crowd with a
! split-bottomed chair, raised high above
his head, and placing it in front of the
preacher, said : “I forgot you had no pul
pit ; a man can’t preach without a pulpit;
here is one.” The preacher began again,
but was soon interrupted by the noise
made by the boys in the porch quarrel
ling. This was promptly quelled by the
old gentleman’s striding among the ur
chins, cuffing and boxing them soundly.
I and shouting, “Be still, you little sav
ages, or I’ll knock your heads off.” Or
der restored, the preacher tried to go on
again, but now there came a noise from
the female side of the house. A boy four
or five years old, who was seated in his
mother’s lap, was engaged in earnest con
versation with her. He said “Mammy,
mammy,” and she, “Hush!” At length
he seemed to think that endurance had
ceased to be a virtue, and howled out, “I
say, mammy, scratch my back.” She, in
fiery indignntion, boxed his ears sound
ly; whereat he set up a terrible yell. She
rose and dragged her promising offspring
after her, forced her way among the aud
itors, rushed by the preacher in the door,
and at once began the satisfactory opera
tion of trouncing, she shouting “hush!”
and he, “I won’t—scratch my back !”
This last attack was too much for the
preachers equanimity, and the excited
state of his risibles obliged him to close
i the services on the instant.
Free Negroes at New Orleans.
In pursuance of the provisions of the
act of the Legislature of Louisiana, pro
hibiting the immigration and residence of
free persons of color in that State, an an
nouncement has been made at New Or
leans that from and after the Ist of Sep
tember, all free persons of color remain
ing in that city, must be imprisoned until
the boat or vessel’ on which they came
leaves the port. As the penalty of this
law will be visited also upon masters of
boats and vessels, it is probable that few,
if any, violations will occur from it.
Dinner to Hon. James Chesnut.
His friends and associates of early life
have tendered Senator Chesnut the honor
of a public dinner, at Camden, S. C., on
Wednesday, the 28th. They desire to
elicit his views as to the best course for
the future conduct of the State, as there
seems to be a contrariety of opinion upon
the political topics of the day.
In reply, the Senator has accepted the
honor tendered him, and promises to ac
cede to the request, though he acknowl
edges himself incapable of throwing any
; new light upon them.
Prentice, speaking of the New York
i Tribune’s recommendation of Bennett as
a compromise candidate for Mayor of
1 New York, says he does not think the
Tribune’s recommendation will be suc
j cessful, “though we must acknowledge
! that Bennett would look with a single eye
to the interests of the city.”
Large Transaction in Corn.
The Memphis Appeal of the 20th says:
“As an indication of the fceliDg in the
corn market in the Mississippi valley, we
have heard of the purchase, recently, by
Mr. I’opham, of Breckinridge county, of
two or three crops, embracing one hun
dred thousand bushels, at thirty-five cents
per bushel, to be delivered at the river
bank below Cairo.”
Death of Mr. Benjamin Screws.
The Selma Reporter says, wc learn
with regret that Mr. Benjamin Screws,
proprietor of Shelby Springs, departed
this life on Sunday morning last. Mr.
Screws was a clever, good-hearted gen
tleman, who did much good for society,
and there are many who will receive the
I intelligence of his death with deep emo
tions of sorrow.
The Cotton Caterpillar.
The Charleston Mercury has a speci
men of the cotton caterpillar just passed
through the chrysalis state. It has pre
served it in a bottle, but for the benefit of
those-who cannot visit the office it is de
scribed as being of a tawny brown color,
with two very prominent eyes. It is very
easy to recognize it after having once
seen it.
Mr. Breckinridge Not a Candidate.
The New York Tribune has received a
, special dispatch to the effect that Attor
ney General Black, in conversation with
a Democratic editor in-Pennsylvania, said
he was in receipt of a letter from Vice
President Breckinridge, saying he would
not, under any circumstances, be a can
didate for President.
The Astor Library.
The Astor Library, established by the
last Will and Testament of John Jacob
Astor, was opened the 30th, in the exten
sions that have been made, when permis
sion was given to visitors to examine the
treasures of literature, &c., there col
lected.
Street Preaching.
A man named Edward Faulkner was
recently preaching on the streets of New
York city, when a policeman arrested him
and carried him before a magistrate to
answer. He exhibited a permit and was
discharged. It seems that a man can’t
preach in the streets there without a li
, cense.
Three Richmonds are in the field for
the Mayoralty of Charleston, namely:
The Hon. Chas. Macbeth, preseflt incum
bent ; Col. A. O. Andrews, President of
the Chamber of Commerce; and Col.
Jno. E. Carew, ex-sheriff, and cx-editor
of the Charleston Mercury.
For the Daily Sun.
The Influence of Kali Roads.
New Haven, Conn., was 190 years old
iu 1820, and had, then, a population of
about 9,000. During the next 20 years,
aided by steamboat communication with
I ‘ °rk, (80 miles distant, ) it struggled
iup to about 14,000 in 1840. At this time
the quickest way to get to New London,
Providence, Boston, aud “Down East”
generally, was to tsfke the steamboat to
New \ ork, and thence go by another boat
up the whole length of the Sound ; and if
any proposed travel in any other direc
tion, the stage-coach was the only means
at hand. “The stage” (and sometimes an
“extra”) left daily for Boston, on the ar
rival of the New York boat. Between
1840 find 1845 the Hartford aud New
Haven Rail Road, 32 miles long, was
built. In 1845 the population W3S 17,-
500. During the next five years the New
\ork and New Haven R. R. t the Nauga
tuck Valley R. R. s and a few miles of
what was called the Canal R. R.. (because
laid upon the bed of the Northampton
Canal,) were put in operation, and in
1850 the population stood at 21,500.
Property advanced 70 to 100 per cent, in
value as soon as the Rail Road connection
was made. Between ISSO and 1855 the
New London Rail Road was built, and the
Canal Road extended toward Northamp
ton ; and in this period the population
made a great stride, counting up no less
than 31,500 in 1855. Since that time the
Canal Road has been finished to North
ampton, and the New London Road to
Stonington, Providence and Boston. No
census has been taken since 1855, and
the increase can only be estimated ; but
the best informed put the figures at 42,-
000. . But the increase of value in pro
perty has kept pace, and more, with that
of population. The city is probably Jive
times as rich as it was before the Rail
Roads were buift and connection made in
the city. Manufactures have grown won
derfully in number and amount; as &
single illustration, the carriage manufac
turing of New Haven exceeds in amount
that of any place in the country. The
Banking capital has increased from sl,
600,000 to $3,700,000. Insurance capi
tal, from a mere nominal sum to about
$1,000,000; and Savings’ Banks and othar
similar institutions in like proportion,
&c., &c. And this is the growth of a city
which is surrounded by a piece of coun
try of which a large part is as poor as
“an old field,” and the city also stands
within 75 miles (by R. R.) of the great
metropolis, nnd within 25 to 75 miles of
near a dozen large and prosperous cities.
Mobile anil Girard Railroad.
It is known that we have several miles
of Railroad now graded on this side of
Union Springs, and that the prospect is
good for finishing up the grading within
twelve miles of Troy in the year 1859.
This much was expected by those who
made the subscription for that purpose
in the beginning of this year.
Major Howard, the President of the
road, has recently visited our town and
assures us positively that the track will
be laid to the Springs in a short time,
say in October, and that no delay will be
made at that point, provided, that a few
thousand dollars more can be placed at
his disposal. Will not the friends of the
road come up to the work at once ? In
deed we can see no good reason why the
cars shall not reach the Pike lino in Jan
uary next—the grading being completed
—the iron bought to lay the track, and
only a little money needed to build the
superstructure. Shall this work be re
tarded at this point for the want of, *say
$5,000, which will insure the completion
of the road as far down as Bruce’s
Bridge? Let the money be made up at
once.
We have every confidence in the de
termination of Howard to build the road,
and that too at once, with the least pos
sible delay. Who would not feel that it
were a proud day, when the announce
ment shall be made that the cars are ac
tually running into the county. A little
shove just now, and the thing is done in
time to take off a part of the present
crop from Pike, and no mistake. Maj.
Howard assures us that even now, he
will have a car ready to take cotton from
every point where public roads shall
cross his, for the convenience of planters.
So, that now, we can safely take our crop
to within six miles of Aberfoil—where
the Tuskegee road crosses the track three
and a half miles above the Springs. Re
member that this point is between Chun
nenuggee and the Springs, and, a most
excellent road, to which point, the cars
can now run.
Our whole country will soon be placed
under many obligations to the indomita
ble Howard and his Columbus backers
so” putting this road into Pike. We
have no doubt that the business rela
tions now being established betwoen our
Georgia friends aDd ourselvese this road
will prove both pleasant and profitable
to all. Let the work go bravely on. So
we say.— Troy, [Ala.) American, Aug. 31.
*
The New Bedford Fire.
Five hundred barrels of oil have been
scooped up from the water, since the late
disastrous fire at New Bedford. The
Boston Journal says the precarious condi
dition of this property has raised a curious
question of ownership and of the amount
of salvage to be allowed. The matter was
referred to arbitrator’ who, after consul
tation, agreed as followers:
We, the undersigned, having been cho
sen referees to decide what salvage shall
be allowed on oil scooped up from the
river, docks and streets of the city, have
accorded that such persons saving this
oil are entitled to three quarters of the
oil saved by them.
CORNELIUS HOWI AND
JAMES B. WOOD
Death of a Young Georgian iu Cuba.
We take the following item from the
Havana correspondence of the N. Y. Her
ald:
“There (Red at the Marine Hospital,
Casa Bianca, across the harbor, oppo
site the city, on 17th inst., after only
fifty-six hours illness, of yellow fever, an
interesting youth, named James Fitz
patrick, a native of Washington, Wilkes
county, Georgia—where his parents now
reside—aged fifteen years. His remains
have been emblamed, and are to be sent
to his parents by the earliest opportunj
, .
New Cotton at Eufaula.
The Eufaula Express of the Ist in
stant, says;
The first four bales of the new crop wa3
received here, on Tuesday last, from the
plantation of E. R. Moore, of Stewart
county, Ga., and sold by L. F. Johnston
& Cos., to G. A. Roberts, at II cents—
quality, strict middling. It was shipped
by the South Western Rail Road to Sa
vannah, being the first ever sent that way,
directly from Eufaula.
A Distinguished Visitor.
The Montgomery Mail says: Mr. E. M.
Dillard shows us this morning, a little
“marine,” jrhich he captured, while sein
ing, yesterday afternoon, in the Alabama
River, near the wharf. The Stranger is
a small flounder, weighing, we should say,
some three or four ounces, which some
how strayed from salt water, four hun
dred miles or more. We have seen es
trayed crabs taken from fresh water; and
last year a large shark disported himself
in the river at Claiborne: but this is the
first flounder that we hear of, out of his
range. Mr. Dillard will preserve it in al
cohol.
+
First Quaker Meeting lu California.
On First-day morning, July 31, the
room of the Board of Supervisors, in the
City Hall, was entirely filled by these
who desired to be present on the occasion
,of the first meeting of the “Society of
Friends” in this State. Robert Lindsay
and wife, who recently arrived in the
country, are accredited ministers from
the London Yearly Meeting. Their
presence in California is welcomed by
many who were members, or who had
been accustomed to attend meetings of
the Society of Friends in their former
homes Robert Lindsay delivered a ser
mon of an hour’s duration, marked by a
simple elequence, fervor, and grace,
which charmed every hearer. His wile
followed in a very brief and beautiful dis
course. The whole assemblage evinced
deep interest and close attention. — Na
tional, 1 st.