Georgia Historic Newspapers

    OOLUMBU§:
Tuesday Srpt. O, IS5‘.).
In another place will be found the pro- ‘
cecdings of the meeting ot the Stock
holders of the Muscogee Rail Road, held
in this city yesterday.
Master Edward Raney, of Apalachi
cola, killed a large catamount the after
noon of the 30th, in the woods above that
city. So says the Advertiser.
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lion. N. C. Claiborne, an old Congress
man, died in Franklin county, A a., the
15th ult., in the 83d year of l>i3 age. He
was a representative in Congress from
1825 to 1827.
We were favored with a call yesterday
from lion. E. C. Rullock, of the Eufaula
Spirit of the South,, and W. G. Clarke,
Esq., of the Mobile Advertiser and Even
ing News. The former is just returning
from a pleasure trip to the mountainous
region of Tennessee ; Mr. Clarke is on a
hurried trip to the North.
The Alpha Delta Phi Society, of Ala
bama, convened at Shelby Springs the
24th ult. The annual address was de
livered by Mr. John W. Bishop, of Talla
dega. The subject of his address was
tho objects, aims and destiDy of the So
ciety. The elTort is highly spoken of.
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Intelligence jpas received at Pensacola
tho 31st, that the balance of the iron
necessary for the completion of the
Montgomery and Pensacola Rail Road to
the State line, had been purchased in
England. It is believed that by the mid
dle of next year the road will be comple
ted to Montgomery.
California Lion.
A few days ago, says the Red Bluff Bea
con, Mr. Cochran killed on his branch on
South Cottonwood,a lion measuring eight
feet from the nose to the tip of the tail,
and weighing 150 pounds. lie was first
seen with a hog in his mouth weighing
twenty pounds, when the dogs made at
him, causing him to take refuge in a tree
with his prize, where he was shot by Mr.
Cochran.
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Klllt Sales tsi New York.
The New York Commercial Advertiser,
of tho 25th ult., says : “The auction sales
of fancy silks tp-day and yesterday have
been of great interest. Owing to the
large stock pressing on the market, alow
range of prices was anticipated, and yes
terday fancy silk3 were sold in large
quantities, at 10 to 12 percent, below
cost.” \
Doatli of Q. O. Woodman.
The N. O. Delta records the death of
of Mr. O. O. Woodman, at Conyer’s
Springs, Va , the 30th ult. He had gone
thcro with the hope of recruiting ,his
health, but the domestic afflictions in
which lie was involved, it was believed,
superinduced paralysis and softening of
the brain, to which he succumbed. He
is represented to have been a citizen of
industrious, energetic, and upright habit3.
Tho Tampa (Fla.) Peninsular chroni
cles the death of Mr. George W. Good
win, near that city, under most painful
circumstances. Itis son-in-law, G. M.
Buckley, becoming enraged at liis wife
indulged in a tirade of abuse, when Good
win interfered to make peace. Buckley
then ran to the back part of the house,
and taking deliberate aim through a crack
in the wall, fired the whole charge taking
effect in the old man’s side.
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An illustration of the adage, “misfor
tunes never come single,” is found in the
case of Mr. L. Waterburry, New York.
A few nights since the extensive manu
factory of Waterburry & Cos., was de
stroyed by fire. This hastened his re
turn home from Rochester. Soou after
his arrival, his daughter, together with
her governess, were drowned in the Sound
near New Rochelle, while on a pleasure |
excursion in a yacht with a nephew of!
Judge Roosevelt.
At the last regular monthly meeting of
the Chamber of Commerce, New York
City, a preamble and resolutions were
offered to tho effect that vessels were
frequently lost on the Great Bahama
Bank, under the jurisdiction of the Brit
ish Government, from the paucity of
light houses. As the United States had
erected a sufficient number of lights on
tho opposite side of the channel, the
President of the Chamber was requested
to communicate with the President of the
1 nited States, for the purpose of having
the matter brought to the notice of the
British Government.
Sale of (He llark Rawlins.
In conformity with the decree of the
Judge “of the Northern District of Flori
da, as wo learn from the Apalachicola
Advertiser, the bark E. A. llawlius, her
tackle, apparel, furniture, &c., was of
fered for sale at that city, the 21st ult.,
by 11. K. Simmons, Esq., Deputy Mar
shal. It. was knocked down to Dr. G. W.
Spencer, of Apalachicola, he being the
highest bidder, at the sum of five
thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
The Advertiser says Mr. C. A. L. Lamar
had au agent present.
The General Committee of the New
York Democracy met at Tammany Hall,
the evening of the 2d. Isaac V. Fowler
was appointed Chairman. Among the
greater and lesser lights present, was the
Hon. Daniel E. Sickles, who, however,
took no part in the proceedings, except
to listen to the voices he had been accus
tomed to hear on former occasions. A
resolution was adopted to appoint a com
mittee of one from each Ward, to remon
strate with lion. Howell Cobb, then in
the city, against contracting for the la
bor required in the public stores, and
giving such contract to favorite individu
als.
A Good Example.
The agitation of the question of the fire
alarm bell iu this city will, jre hope, soon
give occasion for an announcement simi
lar to the following, from the Montgomery
Mail: 1
Execution. —The new fire-alarm bell,
weighing 2700 lbs., was hanged in the
rear of the guard house on Saturday af
ternoon last. Os a still night, in case of
lire, the sound of this bell will wake up
every living sleeper within five miles
around, except, perhaps, deaf persons.
Tho tones of this bell arc remarkably
full, soft and well executed.
Condition of Arkansas.
The statistics of the different counties
of the State just published, present very
cheerful figures in almost every instance,
showing a large increase of taxable prop
erty. The growth of the population and
wealth of different sections of the State
surpasses anything before witnessed, and ,
is indeed almost without a parallel iu the
Southern States.—A”. O. Picayune.
Higk Price of Slaves.
The Charlotte (N. C.) Bulletin says:
Two negro men w publicly sold in
Raleigh on Monday last, at the following
prices: One between forty and fifty
of age, at $1,040; and one about j
Shirty years of age, at $1,375. The man
Jwho brought the highest price is a sort
of a “ workman,” and of strong constitu
tion.
GdVbrnor Troup.
In the Sim of Thursday morning, We
copied a paragraph from the Charleston
Mercury, in which the editor of that paper
said the fatuous scutimeutof Gov. Troup,
“The argument is exhausted, let us stand
by our arms’” will not be, and should
never be forgotten. Without any desire
to rake up the political fossils of the past,
we merely endeavored to show the origin
of that celebrated sentiment, and the cir
cumstances under which it was uttered.
“Philo Union” thinks we were inaccu
rate in some of our statements concerning
it. We have no “vivid recollection” of
Gov. Troup’s war message, as our cor
respondent has, but our information is
derived from a political history of the
United States, based principally upon the
Journals of Congress, and written by a
man cvidentlv a Federalist, and of course
not obnoxious to the charge of bias or
partiality towards Gov. Troup. We
think, with due deference, that “Philo
Union” is mistaken in saying the war
message of Gov. Troup was predicated
upon a misstatement of what Rufus King
had done, and Attorney General Win had
said. It was’ called forth by the unfortu
nate controversy between Georgia and the
General Government. The allusion to
King’s resolution, and Wirt’s opinion, was
merely an episode in the proceedings of
the Legislature, when a special commit
tee, to whom the subject was referred,
made a report corresponding to the feel
ings of the Governor. That committee
1 j responded to the Governor’s condemna-
I tlon of the offensive sentiments of the At
torney General, in the Supreme Court.
As to King’s resolution, it was never
called up. The mover had offered it at
the preceding session of Congress, merely
to record his opinion on the subject to
which it related. The effect of the reso
lution would have been been to facilitate
tho emancipation of slaves in the South
ern States, and the colonization of free
persons of color without the limits of the
United States. Gov. Troup did not quote
it in its message to the Legislature, nor,
, | so far as our knowledge and investigation
have extended, has it ever been published.
The resolution was never called up by the
mover afterwards. We should have state
ed, in giving the origin of Troup’s senti
| inent, that propositions similar to King’s
had been pressed upon the consideration
of Congress, by the Legislatures of several
slave-holding States. There were In Gov.
Troup's time, and are in the South now,
persons who regard such appropriations
for colonizing free negroes in Africa as
i objectionable.
If Gov. Troup was a demagogue, he was
of a different type from demagogues of
j the present day. He belonged to that
Spartan band who, like the old Guard of
’ Napoleon, never surrendered. His war
j message may have been couched in in
j temperate language. Admitting it was,
something, at least, should be pardoned
to his excessive devotion to what he con
sidered to be the rights of Georgia and of
■ | the South.
Barge Sale of Tobacco.
; The largest sale of the weed, said to be,
ever known in New York, came off in
that city the 30th ult., at McCullough’s
sales rooms, No. 159 Front street, and
! resulted in the establishment of a decided
! improvement in the condition of trade.
At the hour appointed, the auctioneer,
! D. 11. Burdett, mounted the platform, and
| in sixty-five minutes knocked off sixteen
hundred hogsheads Kentucky grades, at
! 5]- to 13 cents.
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Tlie Tuskegee Democrat.
William Hall, Esq., has terminated his
j connection with the Tuskegee Demo
| crat, which has been conducted with
marked ability. B. 11. Kieser, Esq., now
assumes the entire control of the edito
rial and other departments of the paper,
and after the action of the Charleston
! Convention will engage competent con
tributors to assist him—provided Doug
las be not the nominee.
Mr. Judge as United States Senator.
The Mail has received letters from two
Southern Rights politicians, with Demo
| cratic affinities, advising it to urge the
claims of Mr. Judge for United States
Senator from Alabama—or rather to the
compliment of the vote of the State Rights
! Opposition members of the next Legisla
ture. Does the Mail wish to convert the
Alabama capitol into another Thermopy
lae ?
The New Orleans Picayune of the 31st
is informed by the Agent of the Southern
Steamship Company, that anew iron
■ steamship is now building for tho com-
I pany, at the establishment of Harlan,
Hollingsworth & Cos., Wilmington, Dela
ware. She is to run in the augmenting
trade with Western Texas and Northern
i Mexico, via Brasos Santiago. This ad
dition to that trade is an evidence of the
growing commerce between Texas and
New Orleans.
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Chattanooga Markets.
The Chattanooga Advertiser, of the Ist
inst., says: “There are so few transac
tions in market, and prices are in such
an unsettled state, that we deem it the
more advisable course, of not trying to
make out a regular market report. Wheat
would bring from 80 to 90 cents per
bushel; Corn from 70 to 75 cents. Sales
of Bacon made at 10 cents, hog round
sides and hams 11 cents, shoulders 8 cts.
Tlie Seventh District.
The Daily Citizen has learned by a pri
vate letter that Messrs. Kenan and
Joshua Hill had an interview a few days
since, which resulted in the withdrawal
of Col. Kenan from the canvass. The
Citizen has taken down Kenan’s name
and substituted Hill’s.
Cotton Picking.
Mr. D. Watson, of Macon county, Ala.,
writes to the Opelika Era, that one of
his hands picked 205 pounds and another
212 pounds of cotton on the 2Gth.
The first load of cotton of the season,
from Baker couirty, was received at Ma
con on the Ist instant. It was classed in
the following order. Fine Quality;
Strictly Good Middling; Staple Fair.
A dispatch to the Cincinnati Commer
cial, says that Count Walewski has ad
dressed a letter to Mr. Raymond, editor
of the New York Times, thanking him, in
the name of Napoleon 111, for the course
of his paper during the late war in Italy.
Hon. Robert Toombs has accepted the
invitation extended to him by the Demo
cratic Executive Committee, of Rich- >
mond county, to attend the Democratic
meeting, to be held in Augusta on the
Sth. The Constitutionalist will publish,
i in full, his speech on that occasion.
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Twenty-five hundred barrels of sperm
oil were sold at New Bedford, Mass., the
29th ult., at private sale, at $1 25 per
gallou, cash, amounting to about SIOO,-
000.
The New York correspondent of the
Charleston Mercury says that Senator
Benjamin has succeeded in negotiating a
loan of $1,500,000 in England, for the
Tehuantepec route.
Arc Financial Trouble* Tbreaten-
Ingt
Tlie Philadelphia Pennsylvanian has
written an article with an array of statis
tical information, and deduces serious
fiuancial difficulties as a consequence. It
was a general impression that tlie warm
Europe would create a market l'ov our
breadstuffs and provisions. These did
not command high prices, because Europe
did not need them. Had she needed
them, it would have produced a rise of
wages there, and the difference would
have been put upon the price of the
fabrics exported, and nothing would have
been gained by it. Instead of European
capital seeking investment with us, our
specie was exported in unusually large
quantities, and speculation deceived, by
the expectation of a long and general
war, imported fabrics to an unprecedented
extent.
The imports from the Ist of January
to the Bth of August, this year, surpassed
those even of tjie prodigal year 1857,
while the exports from New York are less
this year than in 1857. While the im
ports of gold from California to New
York were less, the exports of specie
from New York to Europe were double
those of the same period iu 1857.
Since the New York Banks control,
more or less, the Banks of other States,
j these movements of exports and imports
! of goods and specie, give a clue to their
j situation. The amount of specie export
ed by New York from January to the Sth
1 of August, is just 75 per cent, of the
i goods imported by New York from Jan
uary to March inclusive. There remains
I to be paid on these goods $14,574,810.
The heaviest importations, however, were
from April to August. The rule requir
ing 75 per cent, of the consignments to
be paid every four months after the ship
ment, those of April must be paid this
i month ; those of May in October, and so
| on from July to November, so that the
Banks of New York will be called upon
! for $75,000,000, 75 per cent, of the sum
due, on account of the importations from
April*to July, and the $14,750,000 still
due on imports from January to April,
making in all near $90,000,000. With
these demands upon the Banks, money
must rise, and prices of goods fall. In
1857 the difference between loans and de
posits was great. In 1859 the difference
is still great, though not so much so as
in 1857. Jn May last the Banks had ex
panded to the unprecedented sum of $129,-
000,000, while in the corresponding
month of 1857 it was only $114,000,000.
Since May a contraction has taken place,
and on the 13th of August the loans were
reduced to $117,800,000, but this has not
strengthened the Banks as appears by
the following comparison : o
Mar. 14, M 59 Aug. 13, 1859.
Loans $129,680,480 $11,808,093
Deposits 88,696,639 71,490,612
Excess of loans.. $10,983,841 $40,317,481
The excess of loans over deposits, on
the 13th of August, was greater by
6,000,000 than it was on the 14th of
May. The foregoing facts betray, at
least, some cause to apprehenda financial
difficulty. The business community can
furl their sails in]time.
Hon. 11. B. Thompson and the Mo
bile and Girard Rail Road.
Hon. Henry B.,Thompson, who was de
feated in the recent election for Senator
in Pike county, Alabama, has written a
communication to the Troy Advertiser,
reiterating his sentiments of attachment
to the interest and advancement of the
Mobile and Girard Rail Road, for which
he has labored for the past three years.
The impression was sought to be created
during the last canvass, that he was un
friepdly to the road, which he denounces
as false and characterizes the desertion
of the road as equivalent to a desertion
of thfe interests of the county. He does
Mr. Mclntyre, his competitor, the justice
to say that this “Rail Road story,” tho’
intended for his benefit, was not done at
his instance. To evince his friendship
for the road, he invites Mr. Mclntyre to
a contest, to see which can raise the larg
est subscription, and says the challenge
is given in good faith, and intended for
the best interests of the county. What
ever may be the political issues which
divided the people of Pike in the late
election, it is gratifying to perceive the
unanimity manifested in the desire for
the rapid progress and early completion
of the Mobile and Girard Rail Road
through that connty.
New Jersey Democracy'.
The Democratic State Convention met
ou the 24th ult., to nominate a candidate
for Governor. After several ballots Gen.
E. R. V. Wright received the nomination.
A platform of principles was adopted, in
which they re-adopted and renewed their
adherence to the Cincinnati Platform, and
the doctrine of popular sovereignty as in
terpreted by Mr. Buchanan in his inaug
ural address.
A resolution was adopted, condemning
the doctrine of Congressional prohibition
of slavery in the Territories. The “re
cently started doctrine,” that slavery
should be fostered and protected in the
Territories by Congressional legislation,
was condemned with equal emphasis.
The Convention also disapproved the
revival of the African Slave Trade, and
urged the rigid enforcement of the laws
prohibiting it.
The Lucas Will Case.
The Montgomery Mail says: “This
great Will case, involving tho distribution
of about twelve hundred thousand dollars,
the estate of the late Henry Lucas, of this
county, removed to the Probate Court of
Lowndes, by change of venue, at the in
stance of the contestants of the Will, came
up, according to adjournment, last Tues
day, before Judge Cook, at Hayneville.
The witnesses number largely over one
hundred, and it will consume many days
in the hearing, with the certainty of be
ing carried to the Supreme Court, in any
event.”
The Mail*.
The Savannah Republican, of the 2d,
says that on and after Saturday, 3d inst.,
the Northern and Western mails will be
closed once daily, viz: at 7 o’clock p. m.
The mail for TenniLe and other offices
below, on the Central Rail Road, will be
closed at 11, a. m. This Road has offered
to carry this mail for the 2d, free of cost
to the Government.
Ultra, Decidedly.
Dennison, the nominee of the Black
Republicans for Governor of Ohio, thus
foreshadows tlie policy of his adminis
tration :
“If I am elected Governor of Ohio—
and I am expected to be—no fugitive
slave shall be sent back to Kentucky, or
any other slave State; if I cannot other
wise protect him from bis pursuers, I
will employ the bayonet, so help me God ?”
The attempt mado to consolidate the
several telegraphic companies of the
country into one grand concern, says the
States, has failed. It is fortunate for the
country that it did, else it might have
been called to obey th behests of a tyran- j
ical monopoly.
Thirty bales of new cotton were receiv
ed in Americus, at the warehouse 4 of J. i
V. Price, up to the 2d instant.
Commerce of New “York.
The New York Courier and Enquirer of
the 20th instant, furnishes an interesting
table, collated from the annual report of
the New York Chamber of Commerce,
showing the imports and exports of the
United States, from 1821 to 1858, and the
relative proportion which that great and
growing commercial State bore to the
.whole at each separate period :
IMPORTS.
Year. United States. State of N. Y. Per ct.
1821 . 62,585,000 $ 23,629,000 37,75
1831 103,191,000 57,077,000 55,31
1841 127.946,000 7 5 713,000 59,18
1851 216.224,000 141,546,000 65,53
1857 360.390,000 236.493,000 65.58
1858 282,613.000 178,475,000 63,00
EXPORTS.
Year. United States. State of N. Y. Per ct
1821 $ 64,974,000 $ 13,160,000 20,25
1831 81,310,000 25,535,000 31.40
1841 121,851,000 33.139.000 27.20
1851 218.388,000 86,007.000 39,38
1857 362,960.000 134,803.000 37.14
1858 324,044,000 103,340,000 33.33
Rail Road Meeting at Grifllu.
The Griffin Independent South, of the
Ist, reports the meeting of a large number
of citizens of Griffin and Spalding coun
ty, for the purpose of ascertaining what
could be done towards building the Sa
vannah, Griffin and North Alabama Rail
Road. After the meeting was organized,
the books were opened, and $150,000
subscribed. A Committee was also ap
pointed, to solicit and obtain further sub
scriptions for the Road, and delegates
were appointed to attend the Rail Road
meeting to be held at Newnan on the 15th.
A resolution was also adopted, requesting
the Mayor of Griffin to order an election
on the 9th, to determine whether the city
! shall subscribe $50,000 to said Road.
The Independent South says it has good
practical Rail Road authority for saying
that $900,000, with the State's endorsement
for the iron additional, will complete and
equip the Road to the Georgia line.
Moses D. Philips, Esqr., senior part
ner of the publishing house of Philips,
; Sampson & Cos., died at his residence in
j Brookline, Mass., on the 20th ult. The
| Booksellers of Boston, where the firm is
prominent in the trade, closed their doors
on the afternoon of the funeral through
, respect to his memory/ The firm of Phil
ips, Sampson & Cos., projected the Atlan
tic Monthly, and it is a noteworthy fact
that they declined the manuscript of
j “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” which was offered
! them.
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Five citizens of New Orleans have been
incorporated by the Legislature of Louis
| iana, under the title of “Dolbear Com
| mercial College of New Orleans,” with
authority to open books of subscription
to the capital stock of $125,000 in shares
of twenty-five dollars. The object of the
corporation is to establish an institution
where the useful branches will be taught
practically, as in business, as well as for
the scientific education of the commer
cial, agricultural and mechanical classes,
which produce the most wealth of the
country. Success to it.
Dr. Lewis, Superintendent of the West
ern and Atlantic Rail Road, being inform
ed that he was charged by a paper pub
lished in Marietta, with exerting his in
fluence to prevent the employees of the
W. & A. R. R. shop from going to hear
the speech of Col. Akin, at Atlanta, a
few nights ago, has denied the charge,
through the Atlanta Intelligencer of the
2<l. The Doctor says he cares not a cop
per where they go to listen, and avows
that he would discharge any of them who
yield their privileges as freemen.
The merchants and cotton dealers of
Selma, held m. meeting recently in that
city, and adopted rules and regulations
by which they will hereafter be governed
in classing, weighing, buying and selling
the great staple of the State. After
adopting several rules, the meeting rec
ommended the City Council to tho im
portance of appointing a public inspec
tor of weights and measures, with a suit
able salary, whose sworn duty it shall be
to inspect all weights and measures, at
least once each month.
Steamboat Accident.
We learn by a private letter from a
friend at Bellevue, that the machinery of
the steamer South Carolina was thrown
out of order, on her upward trip from
Apalachicola to Bainbridge, which caused
her cylinder to break, and disqualified
her for mail service. The steamer Laura
being a consort, will continue the service
regularly until the damage is repaired.
It seems that Lieut. Maury is to be re
tained as superintendent of tlie National
Observatory at Washington. The Secre
tary of the Navy, in looking over the list
of Commanders for the purpose of detail
ing for service, passed by the name of
Lieut. Maury, and designated Comman
der Hunt to the command of the steamer
Narraganeett, and Commander Jordan
to the command of the Michigan.
New Patents.
Among the new patents issued during
the week ending August 23, we find the
following:
J. Carl, of Grenada, Miss., for improve
ment in grinding mills. Herman Ilirsch,
of Berlin, Prussia, for improved marine
propeller, and improvement in the con
struction of ships. Richard M. Hoe, of
New York, N. Y., for improvement in
feeding paper to printing pressed.
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Crops in Mississippi.
The Columbus (Miss.) Democrat says:
“So far as we have been able to Ic-arn,
the cotton crop this year will be a very
large ope. The boll worm has not been
so destructive as was anticipated, and
our planters generally are in fine spirits.”
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M. L. Crockett hasdisposed of his inter
est iu the Richmond Morning News to
his former partner, Geo. W. Gary. Here
after Mr. Crockett will assist A. Judson
Crane, Esq., in the editorial department.
The News advocates the claims of John
M. Botts, the “ head him or die” man,
for President.
The Constitutionalist states that Mrs.
Frances Spellman, wife of Richard Spell
man, Jr., of Augusta, committed silicide
in that city on Thursday morning, by
taking strychnine. She was in a fit of
mental aberration at the time. Her mind
was affected by the loss of her children,
and she had made several attempts before
at self-destruction.
Tall Cotton Picking.
The Reveille, published in Jefferson
county. Miss., says that two boys ou the
Mr. Harrison, near Fay
ette, the 10th ult., picked 1,645 pounds
in ong day; one of them gathering 905
pounds, the other 740 pounds. This was
done on a hill plantation.
Three hundred and sixty-eight bales of
cotton, of the new crop, were brought
down on the Mobile and Ohio Rail Road
to Mobile, on the 30th. The Register
says that the total number of bales re
ceived of the new crop, from all’ sources
up to that day, amounted to 1,006.
An Unfortunate Affair.
Hopkinsville, Ky., Sept.^2.—A diffi
culty occurred this morning between W. !
W. Western and Capt. James Jackson,
candidate for Congress in the late elec
tion, in which Western was shot and in
stantly killed.
Bank F.xcltemcnt In Missouri.
A mass meeting of the citizens of Chili
licothc, Livingston.county, Missouri, was
held the 13th instant, to remonstrate
against the ruu made upon the bank of
that place by the brokers of St J Louis,
and other moneyed ins'itutions. It seems
that the merchants of Chillicothe wanted
money to go East, whiclvthe banks fur
nished at legal interest. The St. Louis
brokers made a run upon the bank,
which the citizens of Chillicothe con- -
! strued into an attempt to disable it. The ’
consequence was the brokers were forced
to leave the town, wit-h such paper as j
they had brought with them. A second
delegation made its appearance to try the
expei iment, and they were aiso compelled
to follow in the footsteps of their prede
cessors.
A series of indignant resolutions were
passed, and a committee appointed by the
chairman, with instructions to wait upon
all persons visiting the place for the pur
pose of drawing specie from the bank, !
and assure them that further runs on it
would not be tolerated, and that for all
proper purposes specie could always be
obtuned.
The merchants of St. Louis were also
solicited to express au opinion upon the
subject, and to consider the necessity of i
maintaining the credit of the bank so far
as admissible.
An institution must be.rather weak if I
it is not in a condition to pay specie for ;
. its notes ; though a run upon a bank
j merely for the purpose of disabling it, i
and promoting selfish ends, is worthy of
condemnation.
Important from Japan—Refusal to
Ratify the U. S. Treaty.
A letter in the Rotterdam Courant, of
July lOtli, from Japan, says that in con
sequence of a misunderstanding with
Consul General Harris, the Japanese Gov
ernment now refuses to send Commission
ers to Washington to exchange the ratifi
! cation of its treaty with the United States, j
The Loudon Times confirms the state- j
meut. The letter says that four Ameri
j can ships arrived at Ivanagawa for the
purpose of trade, on the 25th of March,
though that port was not to be open, ac
cording to the treaty, until the 4th of
July last. It adds :
Mr. Townsend Harris, the American
Consul-General at Sirnoda, on receipt of
this information, left immediately for
l’edo, with two American steamers, then
on a visit to Simoda, and instead of or
dering those merchant vessels to leave
that port, as was his duty, he applied to
the Council of State for permission to
allow those merchant ships to trade in
anticipation of the treaty—even strongly
insisting upon compliance after the re
quest had been refused by the Council of
State. The Council, however, persisted
in its refusal, and desired Mr. Harris to
immediately order those merchant ships
away. The Japanese Government felt
very much displeased with this act of the
Consul General; the more so, as he had
promised that no American ship, not even
a man-of-war, should visit the Bay of
Yedo before the treaty goes into effect.
In consequence of this, the Japanese
Government has changed its mind in re
gard to sending Commissioners to Wash
| ington to exchange the ratification of
| the treaty.
Tlie Cotton Trade—Tlie Quantity
Exported.
11l spite of the war and individual los
ses sustained here and there by the more
timid holders, the cotton year of 1858-9
! (ending the first of September next,)
| will prove one of the most prosperous
I and remarkable in. the history of the
country. The crop, estimated at 3,700,-
! 000 bales, is the largest ever grown rn
the United States, and estimated at the
1 average of about SSO per bale, it amounts !
to the enormous sum of $185,000,000.
The crop, so far, has been distributed j
as follows:
Estimated crop, 3,700,000 bales.— i
Quantity exported to July 25:
Bales. Value.
To Great Britain- 1,935,000 $96,750,000
To France 424,110 21,200,000
To other foreign ports 537,000 26,850,000
Stock on hand 171,C00 8.550,000
Taken by American man
ufactures 594,000 29,700,000
To be reev’d the Ist Sept. 39,000 1,950,000
Toial 3,700,000 $185,000,000
Some suppose that the present growing j
crop of 1859-60 may reach four millions
bales, or three hundred thousand in ex- !
cess of the present crop. If so, and the j
civilized world should remain at peace for
a year or two to come, it will be con
sumed at a remunerative price. Some
believe, however, that the present supply
of labor devoted to the culture of cotton |
will not be able to carry the yield up to |
four million bales, and few or none con- i
sider that the growth can be pushed
much, if anjq above that amount for some
time to come, without some augmentation
in it beyond the ordinary rate of iricrease.
—iV. Y. Herald.
Parson Brownlow in a Ball Room.
Parson Brownlow, who is seeking health
in the mountains of Virginia, writes to
his paper August 24th, from Warm
Springs in that State. We make the fol- ;
lowing extract :
After tea, I was led to enter the ball- j
room, from hearing a superior female j
I voice, as an accompaniment to the band, ■
playing “Sweet Home.” A perfectstran
ger, aud a mere looker on, I quietly seat- 1
ed myself on a lounge. Soon the ladies |
j and gentlemen came in, two and two, and
never did the highlands of Scotland, the i
green hills of Switzerland, or the rural
districts of Germany, exhibit such dan- j
cers! Their jeweled necks, and ears, i
and fingers, and dazzling brocades, each
said to the other, “none of your dresses j
cost like mine.’i The company in the
j ball-room was small and rather select, a
few of us, passengers, intruding. They
commenced waltzing—hugging each other I
close—they flew round upon a polished
floor. The hoops would fly up—the !
skirts exhibited themselves—the ankles
showed for themselves. I can’t trust
myself any farther on this subject!
Familiar Quotations.
“When I can read my titles clear.”— !
Mrs. Myra Clarice Gaines.
“Go it. boots—wooden legs are cheap.”
— Gen. Santa Anna at the batile of Ccrro
Gordo.
j “Throw physic to the dogs.”— Dr.
. Jayne.
“Pile on the dirt, and and and be he who
first cries before he’s hurt.— James Gor - ;
don Bennett—motto of the Herald.
“Know ye the laud of the cypress and j
j myrtle.”— Gen. Wm. Walker.
“The world is all a fleeting show.”—
P. T. Barnum.
“Our poDy is pawing at the door.”—
J. E. Johnson.
“The Key to the whole mystery.”— Mrs.
Sickles.
‘‘Look before you leap.” —Sam Patch—
who didn't.
“A gone Sucker.”— Supposed to be Ste- j
phen A. Douylas.
“Went up like a rocket and came down
like a stick. —Cyrus IF. Field.
“Adoo! adoo! my native land
Fades o’er the warter blue ;
FarewellJo ye. my warriyer band.
Ye half starved’Hungary crew.”
[Kossuth.
‘•Tell me not in mournful numbers,
Lager is a tempting drink,
For its mostly dead in the tumblers,
And is never what you think.”
[Longfellow.
Seizure of au Island in Puget Sound
by Gen. Harney.
General Harney has ordered a detach
ment of the United States troops to take
: possession of the island of San Juan and
establish there a military post. The right
j of ownership to this and other islands is ;
in dispute between the English and Amer
ican Governments. Gen. Harney, it is to
■ presumed, acts under instructions from 1
the administration, and as British inter
ests have within a year acquired much
importance in that quarter, it is not un- !
likely that trouble will grow out of the
j affair. . j
Muscogee Hail Road Office.
September 3, 1859.
Pursuant to call, the Stockholders of
Muscogee Hail Road met in Convention
this day.
On motion, Mr. Jno. L. Mnstian was re
quested to i reside.
On motion. Dr. James F. Bozeman was
revested to act ns Secretary. •
On motion, the President appointed a
committee, consisting of Messrs. Bowers,
i Farrar and Mott, to examine proxies
’ and report on the representation of stock.
On examination, said committee report
ed 4910. Y shares represented in the meet
ing.
The annual report of the President and
Treasurer beiug rea-J, was t adopted—
Messrs. Bowers and Farrar protesting
against, the principle suggested in the
report, to wit: That the surplus earn
ing of the Road belong exclusively to
the general stockholders. They urged
j that the preferred and guaranteed stock
holder was entitled, on merging his stock
iuto the general stock, now or hereafter,
to share pro rata in the surplus funds
!of the Company. Dr. Bozeman objected
also to the principle, but claimed that the
general stockholder was entitled to 8 per
cent., to be paid out of the surplus funds
of the Company, to equalize him in divi
dends with the special stockholder—the
road having failed to pay but one divi
dend of 4 per cent, in eacli year of 1857
and 1858.
The following Preamble and llesolu
i tion were offered by Col. Seaborn Jones:
Whereas, It has always been the pol
icy of this Company, to adopt such meas
ures as shall do equal justice to all par
ties, who are stockholders iu the same;
and, whereas, the general stockholders
have failed to receive two regular divi
dends, amounting to 8 per cent, on the
general stock, be it therefore
Resolved, That the Directors of this
Company are hereby instructed to pay to
the general Stockholders two “extra”
dividends of 4 per cent, each, so soon as,
: in their judgment, tho surplus fuuds will
authorize the same. Adopted.
On motion, the Convention went into an
election of President and six Directors for
’ the next year, with the following result:
President— John L. Mustian.
Directors —L. T. Downing, J. F. Boze
man, L. G. Bowers, S. M. Farrar, R. L.
Mott, Richard Patten.
On motion of Col. S. Jones, the follow
ing resolution was adopted :
Resolved, That the offices of President
and Superintendent of this Road be sepa
rated, and that they be filled by different
persons ; and the Directors just elected
are hereby directed to elect different per
sons for said offices respectively. j
On motion the Convention adjourned.
JAS. F. BOZEMAN, Sec’y.
Economy of Sewing Machines.
The Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine
Company has prepared tables showing by
actual experiment of four different work
ers, the time required to stitch each part
of a garment by hand and with the Sew- ;
ing Machine. The superiority of the
work done by the Machine, aud the
healthfulness of the employment, are ad
vantages quite as great as the saving of
time. We subjoin a summary of several
of the tables :
liY MACHINE. BY HAND.
Hours. Minutes. Hours. Minutes.
Gent’s Shirts 1 5 13 31
Frock Coats 2 3S 10 35
Satin Vests 1 14 7 19
Linen Vests 0 48 5 14
Cloth Pants 0 51 5 10
Summer Pants....o 33 2 50
Seams of any considerable length are
stitched ordinarily at the rate of a yard a
minute.
The Presidency.
The Tribune having exhausted its ef
forts in regard to a candidate for the
Mayoralty, has now taken up ihe subject
! of the Presidency. It is discussing the
i merits, qualifications, &c., of the two
j great French rope dancers, Messieurs
Blondin and De Laive. As yet, however,
- it is quite undecided which one will make ‘
j the best “Republican” candidate for
i President of the United States.
After making a hero of Fremont, we
cannot see why as great ones might not
be made of Blondin and De Laive. If the
| trial ivas made, they would not be tbe
I first Black “Republican” candidates
| wbffse renown consisted in having dan
gled from a tight rope.— New York News.
Health of New Orleans.
The Delta of 31st ult. says : The deaths
j in New Orleans tor the week reported ;
| were 130. In St. Louis the deaths for i
the week preceding the 20th of August,
were ICO. To render this exhibit more
flattering and favorable as to our sanitary
condition, our population is unusually j
large for this period of the year, most of
our absentees having returned from the
various summer resorts. The aspect of
our streets nearly resembles that of mid
winter, and our avenues begiu to present
quite a lively scene of commercial acti
vity. Our returning citizens declare that
i they find New Orleans more comfortable
and healthy than the country resorts from
which they have returned. There are a
great many more persons and far more
| activity in the city now than there were
j in the middle of November last year.
I The weather is cool and pleasant, with
; timely rains and bracing atmosphere.
The Provincial Fiaherles.
i The Halifax Chronicle of the 25th says:
We are glad to learn that .mackerel have
made their appearance in considerable
: quantities on the shores of Yarmouth
1 County, but so far they have been very
I scarce here and to the eastward. The
Herald of the 18th inst. says: For some
days past our coast has been swarming
I with mackerel, and large quantities have
; been caught at various places which we
have heard from, between Pubnico and
1 St. Mary’s Bay. The Newfoundland Ex
i press of the 16th says: The accounts of
1 the fishery are conflicting. In many pla
■ ces there will be a short catch, while
upon tha whole it may amount to an ave-‘
! rage.
The St. Louis Republican remarks that
tbe amouut of Pike’s Peak gold thus far
brought into that city is trifling—some
three or four thousand dollars. Includ
ing that reported as in private hands
I the aggregate does not exceed SIO,OOO or
$15,000, and yet every day or two the
country is startled with reports that the
astounding richness of the mines has
been confirmed, and that large shipments
iof gold are on the way. The whole thing
i is an outrageous swindle, a trap which
| sharpers have set to catch the unwary,
and thousands have dearly paid the pen
*alty of their rashness.
Black Tongue and Hog Cholera.
The Little Rock Gazette says that in
the region of country comprising the
corners of White, Conway, and Prairie
counties (Arkansas) the deer are dying
of the disease known as the black tongue,
and that several deaths have occurred
1 among persons that have eaten of the
diseased venison.
We learn, from private sources, that
the disease is prevailing with great fa
tality in other parts of Arkansas, and
that the “hog cholera” is also committed
great ravages among the swine.
♦
Short Wheat Crop.
The millers of this place, ascertaining
that there is no more wheat in this coun
ty than will be needed for home consump
tion, have made arrangements to obtain
a supply from the West, to grind for other
markets. We imagine that this is the
i first time that grain was ever imported
from other States by the Millers of Clarks
burg, and the faet speaks as wellfor their
enterprise ns it evinces the shortness of
our crops. Clarksburg ( Va.) Register.
■ ♦ ■ --
In the month of June, G ships, of an
aggregate of 4629 tons, landed guano at
at the Chinchas ; of these, 3 of 1522 tons j
sailed for Europe, and 3 of 3165 tons to
! the United States. On tbe Ist of July ;
there were 23 vessels of 22,298 tons at
the Islands.
The Pork Trade.
The Louisville Courier, of the Ist inst.,
in its “Annual Repott ot the Commerce
of Louisville,” says :
The pork trade is of immense impor
tance, being, in fact, the heaviest interest
in the aggregate eomriurce of the city,
forming, as a d.e. . the le > Lng ntic'.e of
export and freight luulo. The packing
around the Falls last season va- 287,-
861 hogs, added !■> whicu was the pro
duct of 13,000 hogs slaughtered at Shaw
nee Town, ami i urcbused Lyre, also a
portion of the product of St. Louis, Up
per Mississippi and portions of Illinois,
, amounting to 113,000 hogs The slaugh
ter of Nashville, -Clarksville, Trice’s
Landing, Owensboro, Bowling Green,
Oregon, and other points were controlled
here, making the sum total last year to
exceed 600.000 hogs, and the product in
Found numbers at sls per hog, amounts
to $9,000,000. The number of hogs in
Kentucky this year, according to the as
sessment. of the State, shows an increase
of 254,000 hogs over the previous year.
The report of this year embraces all the
counties except nine. The counties he have
not yet reported are Jefferson, Letcher,
Marion, Harlan, Perry, Simpson. Union,
Franklin, Greenup, Hardin and Hick
man. The report last year embraced all
but two. They were clarion and Harlan,
and the comparative returns of this sea
son with last are as follows:
Hogs assessed in 1858 1,01*9,892
.7 1859 1,309,492
Increase this year 239,000
Estimated increase inOcounties 15,000
Total increase this year.. 254,000
It is expected that the packing this
season around the Falls will vary from
350,000 to 400,000 hogs; but as regards
prices, we are not advised, and, in fact,
have not heard of a single reliable trans
action. It is tho opinion of some that
contracts for Jpigs for December de
livery will be made at 3c. gross in tbe
country, or 4c. to net packers
An Awful Retribution.
Sometime last Spring a company of
Pike’s I’eakers left Grayville, 111., for
the Kansas gold regions. W bile travel
ing through the Indian country on their
I way out, one of the company, a young
man of desperate character, from the vi
cinity of Grayville, named Haynes, de
clared his determination to shoot the
first Indian he met; and unhappily, du
ring the day they overtook a defenseless
squaw, when he, in mere wicked wan- l
toness, leveled his gnu and shot her dead.
His companions were horror stricken at
the blood thirsty deed, but felt that they
had no power to punish him. The tribe
to which Ihe squaw belonged was not far
distant when the deed was perpetrated.
They discovered her lifeless body, and
saw at once the manner of Iter death.
They pursued the party of Illinois Tike’s
Peakers, and in a few hours oxertook
them and demanded to know who had
Committed the murder.
The company of five or six Peakers
found themselves surrounded by nearly
two hundred enraged Indians, who threa
tened to immolate the whole party if they
did not point out and gi.ve up the murder
er. To save their own lives, they gave
up Haynes to their vengeance. He was
taken by the Indians to a distance, while
his companions tarried on their route to
I see what would be his fate.
After a while the Indians returned with
their victim literally flayed alive. They
had skinned him from head to foot. The
wretched being was still alive when brought
back to his companions, but iu torments.
He lived in agony long enough to tell
how lie had been tortured, but was soon
released by death from unspeakable suf
ferings.
Tlie Great 2£astern.
Asa matter of curiosity, we append tlie
tonnage of the Great Eastern, as com
pared with the principal vessels of the
United States Navy :
Names. Tonnage.
Pennsylvania 3,341
Columbus 2,480
Ohio 2,757
North Carolina 2,633
Delaware 2,633
Vermont 2,633
New Orleans 2,805
Alabama 2,688
I Virginia 2,633
New York 2,633
Total 28,131
Great Eastern 26,000
Her'tonnage is nearly as great as the
combined tonnage of the ten tremendous
line-of-battle ships—including the once
unrivalled Pennsylvania—that are regis
tered on the United States Navy list.
Arrest of a Mail Robber.
One Lewis A. Noble, who was arrested
in this city about 12 months since, on a
| charge of obtaining money under false
’ pretenses, and afterwards delivered up to
| the authorities of Georgia, in which
| State he was under indictment in the
} Federal Court for robbing the mail, was
| again arrested here on Friday, charged
| with stealing a horse. He made his es- j
cape from Georgia before being tried for
the offense of robbing the mail, lie is
now iu the city jail, awaiting another re
quisition from the Governor of Georgia.
We understand that bis conviction is al
most certain, should he ever be brought
to trial. —Memphis Avalanahe, Aug. 21 Ih.
Tbe Rail Road.
We learn that the Directors of the
South Western Rail Road have deter
mined, that to locate the depot near the
! steamboat lauding on this side of the
river, is impracticable, and that it will
: be impossible to build the piers for the
bridge, this summer. So we need not to
i expect to see the “iron horse” bn the
west bank of the Chattahoochee before
the winter of 1860-61, if then. The De
pot will be located for the present in
Georgia, but as near the eastern end of
our bridge, as the nature of the ground
will admit. It is now considered certain
that the road will cross below the city,
but no place has been selected for the de
pot.— Eufaula Express.
Boston, Aug. 27.—Ex-President Pierce
and wife arrived in the America. He was ,
serenaded this evening at the Tremout
House by bis friends, and in response
made a very eloquent and telling speech.
After alluding to the death of Mr. Choate,
ho stated that the object of his visit to
Europe—the restoration of the health of
Mrs. Pierce—was partially accomplished.
He then alluded to his gratification at be
ing on New England soil once more, and
closed by enjoining upon all to appreciite
the great blessings which this country
affords to her citizens.
Hogs aud Corn,
In our recent visit to Scott and Lee
counties, we took some pains to ascertain
the prospects of the hog and corn crops.
Fewer hogs will be driven trom those
counties, it is thought by tiie best in
formed, than for several years past —as
the hogs are not in the country. How
ever, such as are driven will probably be
of superior qualify in point of size and
fatness, as the corn crop is very abun
dant. Iu fact, some fields of corn in Lee
are superior to anything we have ever
seen before; and so large v/ili be the
yield that there are not enough hogs to
near consume the surplus. We hear of
grotvers who offered to make engage
ments at 25 cents per bushel. —Abingdon
(Va.) Democrat, Aug. 26.
Some Snakes.
We learn from Messrs. Bonhannan and
Sapp, that about two weeks since, as they
were going to church, they discovered a
very large rattlesnake run into a gopher j
hole; they dug the snake out and killed
it, and upon cutting it open found in its
stomach twenty-five young rattle-snakes,
about one foot long. We have often
heard it said that when there is an alarm
given to the young tribe, the old snake
opens her moutb, and tbe little family
run down for protection, and we suppose
that these young ones had made the re
treat for safety. They doubtless were
too much crammed to feel perfectly com
fortable this hut weather. —Pulaski (tia.)
limey.
Boston, Aug. 27.—The Rev. Mr. Dana,
an eminent Presbyterian clergyman, of
Newburyport, died this morning. His
age was eighty-nine years.
Correspondence of the ft. Lewis Dt-mrcrut.
Sax Francisco, Aug. 1, 1859.
There is little to write about, that is
now, since my last. The war of the p. ii
ticiaus continues to rage with unabated
fury. Broderick is fighting the c unhined
Custom House and State official factions,
and they are turned upon him “ith a
malignity seldom equaled in a political
canvass.
The Republicans are not idle, i itey
vie with Broderick in exposing the shame
of tho Buchanan Administration to the
light. Col. Baker is stumping the State
with great success. At Auburn, on the
30th of July, *L. Sanford, Republican
candidate for Governor, addressed a
meeting. The speech ot Mr. Sanford
was listened to with much attention.
One convert is known to have been made.
After Mr. Sanford closed, short speeches
, were made by C. A. iuttle and C. J.
lliliyer, of this place. All the speakers
were straight-out Republicans. \\ e shall
roll up a big Republican majority for
San Francisco, and increase our vole in
the State at least 10,000. Next year we
hope to wheel in the ranks of the llepul -
lican inusic of victory and principle.
Horace Greeley is at last among us.
He reached. Genoa on the 30th, and is
expected to arrive in Placerville this
afternoon. Mr. Greeley complains of
nothing but being travelworn, sunburnt
and begrimed with dust. A grand recep
tion is promised him by the citizens ot
Placerville, and the white coated philos
opher must expect considerable atten
tion while there. The Times, this morn
ing, very sensibly says:
“ We are inclined to the opinion that
Mr. Greeley will not care to have his
time Liken up in attending demonstra
tions gotten up for his benefit, lie has
come to get a knowledge of California,
and what will please him best, we imag
ine, will be to be severely let alone. Let
our people furnish him with such con
veyances as may please him, so that lie
can go up aud down the Santa Clara
Valley, up through the Russian River
Paradise, and over by the Geysers, and
down through the Xepa Valley : and then
’ let him take a trip to the Big Trees and
Yo-Semite Falls, and if he does not see
enough to convince him that California
is the finest country the sun shines upon,
then we are mistaken. The last thing
he desires is to be bored to death by
flunkies. He can have enough of that
without coming to California.”
The great overland mail arrived on the
; 30th ult ,at 7:35. It left St. Louis on
the 7th of July, at 9 a. m. ; and reached
El Paso oil the 18th, at 1:40 a. m. ; and
arrived in this city as above given,
making the entire trip in tweflly-two
days, ten hours and thirty-five minutes,
notwithstanding a delay of twelve hours
between Tuspen, and Fort Yuma by
heavy rains.
Major Richard G. Ivallaly, of this city,
was found a corpse iu his bed yesterday,
at his chambers, on Sacramento street.
His son, a lad of ten years, who slept in
the same apartment, was unable to wake
him, and called others into tbe room,
when it was ascertained that life was ex
tinct. Major Kallaly was about fifty
years of age, and had resided some years
in this State.
Toombs vs. Iverson.
It appears that Senator Iverson has a
i new “Richmond” in the field, arrayed
against him. A Lexington correspond
ent of the Augusta Chronicle, iu descri
bing Senator Toombs, speech at tbe for
mer place, Friday Ist, says:
Senator Toombs delivered a speech
here to-day upon the “past, present and
future” politics of the country, glorify
ing himself in the tortuous course of his
polPical acts in the past, with his usual
boldness and unblushing effrontery—
touching up his colleague, Senator Iver
son, with just some of the hardest sort of
cracks with his whip, and endeavoring
to foreshadow the coining event of Doug
las’nomination at Charleston, with his
advance tender of support, in preference,
mark you, to Fillmore, Crittenden, Bell,
or any other man of the Opposition!
The speech will be published, and then
you will see for yourself what a ivar it
will raise in Georgia between the two
Senators. It is evidently designed is an
antidote to Iverson poison, or rather a
preconcerted plan of attack upon Iverson
to defeat him for the Senate this winter.
I Let the Judge make a note of this, and
prepare for his burial. There can be no
question of the fact, that a change will
be made, if the anti-Iverson Democrats
“can make the trip,” and from this
speech and other signs of the times, the
war will be “to tbe knife, and the knife
j to the hilt.”
From Washington.
Washington, Aug. 26.—The State De
partment has been officially advised that
an order has been received at the Custom
House, Para, Brazil, authorizing the re
j duction of the Government export duty to
five per centum, a difference of two per
centum, in favor of the exporter. The
i order took effect on the 28th of July.
Sixteen candidates have recently passed
. through a satisfactory examination aud
will be warrented as Third Assistant En
gineers. The unusually large number of
steamers added to tlie Navy during tbe
past year renders the increase of such
officers necessary.
No definite action has yet been taken on
the case of Quartermaster Cross, recently
investigated by Court Martial. The delay
is owing to the absence from Washington
of the Secretary of War.
i The Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
Mr. Greenwood, has received a dispatch
announcing the arrival at Leavenworth of
the children spared at the Mountain
Meadow massacre. They will at once be
taken to Carrolton, Arkansas, near the
point from which the expedition with
which they were connected set out, and
there restored to their friends.
The Assistant Secretary of State is ab
sent in Maine.
Mineral Wealth of Lnlce Superior.
A correspondent of the N. O. Picayune,
•writing from Lake Superior, August 11th,
gives an interesting description of the
varied and unsurpassed beauties of the
scenery upon its shores. At Marquette,
lie says:
This place, with its pure, bracing air,
it3 fine view of the bay and lake, and its
natural groves of evergreens, is likely to
become a favorite resort for travelers in
quest of health or pleasure. While seat
ed in one of the groves taking notes, a
height train is passing down from tbe
mines, composed of eighteen cars, ail
; heavily laden with iron ore. Inclosed I
hand you a specimen, which may be of
: some interest to those far distant. I also
inclose you a small piece of a valuable
specimen, that I am taking home, of cop
per chip that was cut out from the five
hundred ton mass of pure copper that was
taken from the Minnesota copper mines,
near Ontonagon, some time since. This
posseses the more interest, for having
come from the largest coppc-r mine on
Lake Superior and the largest mass of
copper ever discovered in this country,
so far as I am informed.
A mass has been discovered that is
not yet out, estimated at over 100 tons.
Several masses of 100 to 300 tons have
been discovered and taken out. The pro
cess of cutting these vast masses into
smaller ones that can be moved, is a verv
costly and interesting one.
First. Bale of New Cotton.
The first bale of new Cotton raised in
our county, was brought into market in
this place on Monday last. It was raised
by Mr. Ashley B. Hamilton, originally
ot Pulaski county, Ga., whose plantation
is about ten miles from town, and the
bale weighed 520 pounds. It was bought
by Mr. Isaac Widgeon, at 13 cents, beiug
a premium article of Cotton. —Marianna
Patriot, 21th.
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Mobile Annual Report.
Mobile, Sept. I. — The total receipts of
cotton for the year are 704,400 bales .
against 522,845 bales; and the total re
ceipts of new cotton, up to date 1,006
against 1,088 bales last year. The stock
on hand is 18,600 bales against 10,675
bales. The average sales are 11J cents.
A writer in tlie Selma Daily Courier,
suggests Charles E. Haynes, Esq., of the
Dallas Gazette, as a candidate for clerk
of the Circuit Court of Dallas county,
Alabama.