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Sew York Fashions lor September.
The modistes determined to make ev
er;,' style fashionable, so that the cosa
que nml bafquo are worn as well as
pointed and round bodies.
The round-waistcd dresses (revived
novelties) seem to threaten us as leading
on to the short waists worn byourances
tois. At present they reach quite to the
hips, and only appear short by the sup
pression of the basque, but little by little
the waist- will be shortened in the same
proportion ns they have been lengthened.
Skirts retain all their fullness, and
most drc?sc3 arc made with bands; full
bodies for light dresses, many of them
with open bodies, trimmed round with
tulle ruche3; high and pointed bodies
are worn fur dresses of silk, or other
thick material.
Sleeves are still worn very full and
open; tight sleeves are worn for morning
dresses, and small bishop sleeves, with a
turned back cuff, are still in favor.
Low bodies are much in request, with
canezons-either of figured nett or muslin,
fastened under the band, and trimmed
across the shoulders with a frill of bouil
lon e.
The Zouave jacket, in ail materials, is
in universal favor.
As neglige, the long casaque, with
skirt of the same material, is much worn, !
either in quilting, chintz, jaconet, steel
colored barege, and printed muslins;
the casaque trimmed with flat plaiting. i
Simple dresses made with four floun
ces, trimmed with ribbon of the same
color, are much worn; ribbons of differ- j
ent colors are abandoned. Jligh-bodied
barege dresses, made either with a gielt
in front, and pointed behind, or rounded
at the waist, with a sash, the bow in front, :
are. fashionable.
Mantles are going out of favor; shawls
of cashmere, luce, silk, muslin, or crape,
arc now the favorites. These are trim
med with two rows of lace, or with gimp, j
fringe, and jet buttons.
For the country, round hats arc adopt
ed. They aro made of leghorn, bound i
with blue or black velvet, and trimmed I
with feathers, or hows of velvet, orna- !
mented occasionally on the front with a
bouquet of flowers, on which is placed a
humming bird, stag beetle, or a grass
hopper.
We have seen some pretty rice-straw
hats, trimmed with white, maueve, or
cerise; feathers or flowers to match ; and
with a hand oflace fastening a bouquet of
fancy grass, ora singlo feather and Em
press roses; black and white ribbon is
still persevered in.
There is a little change in bonnets;
light fancy straws, crape and leghorn are
worn; these are trimmed with a simple
ribbon or flowers, and lace, the inside to
match; any becoming color may be
worn. — Exchange.
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of Tyrannical Laws.
Mr. Robert Russell, who formerly
lived in Schoharie county, N. Y., now
resides in the city of Albany, llussell
appears to be the victim of unpropitious
circumstances. Russell has an unhappy
faculty of doing business contrary to law.
On Tuesday last Mr. Russell was arres
ted for the eleventh time since spring
set in. We give his examination:
•‘Well, Russell,” said the magistrate,
“you are here again, I perceive.”
“Yes, sir. The fact is, ’Squire, I’in a
wiotim. lllow me, if 1 care what Rob
Russell does, he is sure to violate some
law or other. When 1 came to Albany,
1 says to myself: ‘Russell, my boy, we’ll
take a hunt to-morrow, and try them fox
hounds.’ Well, sir, out 1 goes, and what
do you think ? Before I got to the next
corner, Barney Whalen tapped me on the
shoulder, and says,
“That’s against the law.”
“What’s against the law?” I replies,
and he says,
“Having dogs in the street, without
“muzzles.”
“lie accordingly arrested me, and had
me brought to the police court. The re
sult of that piece of fun was a fine of $5.”
“Well, what did you do then?”
“Listen, and I’ll tell you. Isold’ the
fox hounds to one of Aunt Rut’s friends
for S2O. With tho proceeds I bought a
sow and five pigs. 1 took them home,
built a pen in the back yard, and thought
all my troubles were at an end, but 1
was mistaken. Officer Bradwell came
upon me the next morning, and says :
“Russell, keeping hogs in the yard is
agin the law.”
“ I doubted it. This riled officer Brad
well, who had me arrested again. This
time 1 was fined $5.”
“And what did you afterwards?”
“I sold my cow and my pigs, and
bought a horse and cart, and undertook
to draw wood. The very first load I put
on drew the attention of policeman Sick
les, who said that driving a cart without
license was agin the law. He arrested
me for that offence, which caused me :
another fine of so.
“What did you do next?”
“I sold tho horse and cart, and bought
half of a charcoal wagon.”
“Well, what success did you meet with
after that ?”
“The same old luck, sir. The first day
I commenced peddling policeman Shooks
took mo by the collar, and says,
“Russell, that’s agin the law, old fel
low.”
“What’s agin the law ?” I said.
“He replied—
“ Selling charcoal in a wooden meas
ure.”
“That cost me a fine of $3.
“Bid that drive you out of the charcoal
business ?”
“Yes, sir; I sold out, and thought I
would try my fortune in carrying baggage
between the steamboats aud rail roads.
What’s the use ? I only commenced work
to-day, and here 1 am again.”
“What for, now ?”
“For soliciting baggage without a per
mit from the Mayor. As I said before,
I’m a wictim. If I should save a man
from drowning, by jumping into the i
whirlpool, dash my vig if I don’t believe
the first policeman I met, in coming on
shore, would up and say—
“lt’s agin the law, Russell, to go over
board without a license.”
The justice, having heard Russell to
the end, admitted that he was a “victim,”
and let him off without paying the fine.
Russell left tho office saying he would j
go and kill himself only for one thing.
On being asked what that was, he re-”
plied, “that some policeman would dis
cover that it was agin the law to commit .
suicide, and would undertake to -collect I
the fine from his misfortunate children.”
Russell’s case calls for sympathy.
The Return of McLane.
The New Orleans Picayune, noticing 1
the arrival of the Hon. Robt. M. McLane,
our Minister to Mexico, adds the follow
ing remarks:
This intelligence, coming so quickly
upon the important news last received
from Vera Cruz, and so confirmatory of ,
it, is sufficiently startling. It is very
possible that Mr. McLane has fully suc
ceeded in the object of his mission, and
eft'ected at last a permanent and honora
ble arrangement between the two couu- I
tries ; but, so far as the facts have yet
been made public, they would lead us* to 1
the contrary conclusion.
Since the above was written we learn
that Mr. McLane had been quite unwell,
and possibly this, with a strong desire to
seo his family, from which he lias now
several months been separated, was the
immediate cause of his return, and not
the abandonment of his mission.
We learn, in addition, from the same
, authorative source, that Mr. Laßeintrie,
the Secretary of Legation, remains at
Vera Cruz, in charge of the archives.
Mr. Elgee, the Minister’s private Sec
retary, *we understand, returns to his
home in Louisiana.
The Brooklyn, the Government Steamer
which brought him home, made the pas
cage from Vera Cruz to Mobile, in four
days.
Staves are an article of more import
ance in commerce than many persons
suppose. The annual report of the New
lork Chamber of Commerce gives the fol
lowing as the export, in lons, for staves,
for the past three years :
, T New York. Norfolk, N. Orleans,
ending Dec. 31. June 30. June 30. ‘
k 29,920 31.955 13,596
■ *Bo7 00,840 31,685 22,020
■IBSB 41.060 32.105 25.816
Additions.! by the llabana.
Vera Cnrz, Aug. 25.—Minister McLftue
returned on the 22d. He has presented
President Buchanan’s ultimatum to Jua
rez, which demands an immediate rntifi
catiou of the treaty.
There was nothing important reported
from tlie Capital.
Gen. L'egolado had ordered the troops
from Tampico and the immediate neigh
borhood, to march to San Luis Potosi,
which lie intends to be the general ren
dezvous of the Liberals. lie intends to
attack the Capital in October.
All the Pacific coast is in peaceful pos
se; -ion of the Liberals.
Gen. Viduarie was organising his forces
at Nueva Leon, to march against the In
dians and Americans.
Gen. Pesquera has defeated the In
dians at Sonora, after a severe battle.
Business at Mazatlan was good.
Topic had been recuptured by the Ile
actionists, after considerable fighting.
Gen. Marqueza is conducting three
millions dollars in specie to Sau Bias,
front Guadalajara, for the British war
ship Calypso.
The Governor of San Bias lias resolved
to prevent the shipment if the duties
were not paid. A difficulty was appre
hended.
Gen. Sorona left Mazatlan on the oil), ■
to join the Liberal forces in Jalisco, and
to attack Marqueza at Guadalajara.
Bolton & Barron’s laud claim is a for
gery.
Later from Havana.
New Orleans, Sept. s.—The steamship
DeSoto arrived here to day. She brings
Havana dates to the 2d inst. Sugar firm.
Exchange on London 14 to 15£ ; Exchange
on New York to 5.}
The DeSoto signalled the sloop-of-war
Brooklyn. It is supposed that she is
bound for Pensacola with Mr. McLane’s
treaty.
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Arrival of the Brooklyn.
Mobile, Sept. s. — The United States !
sloop-of-wai Broklyn arrived here to-day. j
She has Minister McLane on board ; he -
leaves this afternoon for Whashington.
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The Education most Needed —Learn
to Labor.
The question is often asked, why is it j
; that so few people are successful in busi
ness, and why property finds such an un
equal distribution ? This man, they say,
received tho advantages of a good Eng
lish education, and that man was educa
ted at one of our best colleges. Both have
been industrious, honest and economical,
and yet neither of them has been success
ful in business. Why is it? asks the
i New York Express; and that journal
proceeds to point out the cause, and in
! the course of its remarks observes:
Tho idea too commonly prevails that a
mere knowledge of books is the beginning
and end of education. The sons and
daughters, especially of the rich,
grow up with fhis notion in their
heads, in idleness, as it were, with
little idea of the responsibilities which
awaits them. Their natures revolt at the
mention of “ labor,” not dreaming that
their parents before them obtained the
wealth they are so proud of by industry
aud economy. How many young men,
college bred though they may be, are pre
pared to manage the estates which their
fathers possess, and which it may have
required alifetimeto acquire? llowmany
young women, though having acquired
all the knowledge and graces of the best
schools, know how to do what their mo
thers have done before them, and which |
the daughters may yet he compelled to do j
at some period of their lives? The chil- !
dren of the poor have to labor or starve, !
and as far as that goes they are educated
to be practical.
The education that scoffs at labor and
encourages idleness is the worst enemy
for a girl, man or woman. Instead of en- I
nobling it degrades; it opens up the road
to ruin. The education which directs us
to do what we are fitted to do, that re
spects labor,that inculcates industry, hon- !
esty, and fair dealing, and that strips us j
of selfishness, is the education we do i
need, and that which must become the
prevailing system of the country before
we can be as people either happy or pros- j
perous.
♦
Coal vs. Wood for Rati Roads.
The large quantities of fuel used by
locomotives has, in the neighborhood of
rail road lines, made wood very scarce j
and consequently advanced it in material
value. So great has become the expense
attending wood burning locomotives in
the Northern States, that the attention of
rail road men has been seriously turned
towards providing a substitute. Coal, of
course, was the first article which seemed ;
likeiy to answer the pui-pose; but a se
rious obstacle presented itself in the loco
motives which had been constructed with
a view solely to the consumption of wood. !
This difficulty, however, was overcome by
builuing engines especially designed for
the burning of coal. The Hudson River
Road made the experiment under the im- j
mediate supervision of Mr. Mendes Co- I
hen, Assistant Superintendent, who pre- j
served and compiled an accurate state- j
ment of the comparative cost of wood and
coal and has presented it in detail
through the American Railway Times.
The statistics are valuable, as they pre
sent the relative merits of each kind of
fuel in an impartial way and with a sole
desire, apparently, to get at the truth.
The verdict is highly in favor of coal,
there being a saving of G 5 per cent, on
the Passenger train locomotives and of 71
per cent, on those engaged in the Freight
service, the coal costing $4 80 a ton and
the wood $6 00 a cord. This knowledge
is of much importance to rail road mana- j
gers, especially where wood has appre- 1
ciated so much; and Mr. Cohen’s efforts !
to bring the matter in a simple and lucid
style before those interested will meet
with the recognition they desire.— Savh.
Republican.
♦
The Court of Appeals have unanimous- i
ly affirmed the judgment of the Circuit
Court in this county, in the case of “San
ger vs. the Central Rail Road Company.” !
At the November term, 185 G, of the Cir- )
cuit Court of Augusta, Jacob Sanger re- |
covered a verdict fo# s6,ooodamages, for j
injuries received by the plaintiff whilst a
passenger on the cars of the defendant, j
The cars were thrown off the track by a
large stone left lying near the rail, by the
carelessness of some hands in the employ
ment of the. contractors who were “balast- j
ing” on the road, and the plaintiff had his
leg broken. At the trial the company
contended that they were not responsible
for the acts of the hands in the employ
ment of their contractors. The Judge
(Thomgson) held that they were, and on
this point the case went up. This is the
first case iu Yirginia settling the extent
of the liability of Rail Road Companies
as passenger carriers, and it holds them
up to the most rigorous responsibility. ]
The judgment amounts to over $7,000 at
this time, exclusive of counsel fees paid
by the Company.— Staunton Spectator.
The Sandersville Georgian of Wednes
day, Sept. 7tli, says:
During the past week we have made it
a special business to inquire of planters,
from different parts of the county, to
what extent the cotton crop has been in
jured by the recent heavy rains - , and have
been pleased to hear a much more favoa
ble report than we feared we should have.
That the crop has been injured there can
be no doubt. In some places by low lands
being overflowed ; on such lands the cot
tog has the rust, as might have been ex
pected. Some planters say their cotton
is injured by the rot; others that it is
shedding considerably, &c., but never
theless we hope for a tolerably fair crop,
much less, however, than was anticipated
some months ago.
Some are of opinion that the people
will be deceived in their corn crop—that
there will be more shuck and less corn.
But we are of opinion that the crop will
be the largest that has been gathered in
this county for many years.
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\\ Governor Douglass issued a protest
against General Harney’s occupying the
1 island of San Juan, and has sent a mes
sage to the Yancouvers Assembly, declar
ing that British forces shall be landed at
San Juan. There was rather a doubtful
rumor in circulation, which states that
the British steamer Sattellite had attack
ed the Island and killed thirty Americans.
The “Disbanded Volunteer” of the
New York Times, rusticating in the “na
borin rural districts,” has invoked the
Muses with the following result:
A Fastorial Pieter of Nateral Seenery
i Tis airly mornin. Cmn, my mew;;, declare
1 How things apeers. Iteskribc ern as they air.
(Mews deskribes things as they air.)
The feelds, all kivered with doo-sprenkled grass,
Looks like greenbaze stuck full of brokin glass.
As es the skylites sum darned retch, for ‘greens.’
Hed, on a bender, smasht to smithereens,
j Thf vaUer sun is risin in the yeast.
For bred to labor eallin man and boast;
While old Sol's beams come down in goblin
showers.
Inspeetin all the different kinder flours;
And purty soon they’ll drain each jooey cup,
And make each blade in jooils drest “dry up. - ’
The burds. a flutterin fihm their leefy hums,
In songs onseesin jines the cherry burns;
For airtli and hevin's kunnected, sum folks
thinks,
Bv chanes of angels mixt with bob-o-links.
Here, for a spell, the mews her curtain draws—
Idees is skarse, and hense her silent paws.
(Mews, hein refresht by her paws, purseeds.)
i From yander gorge's throte a gargling creek
Cascades throo rox, and near it stands a Greek,
With poll in hand and reddest kinder hair,
A ketchin suckers with a brass-wire snail-:
Cows, full of milk, is bellerin for the pails.
With becknin horns and tellygraftin tails;
Down in the meddere flox ofluvly lams,
Drors sweet refreshment from a hunderd d—e:
The hens is eaoklin over eggs bespoke;
The steers is standin reddy for the yoke;
; And hogs, impayshint for the usliil swill,
| Music and flagranee both at once distil:
| While in the distans, on the mounting tops.
’ Columby's eguls takes thar mornin hops,
Capping the climacts of a seen as nice,
As the old Sarpint spylt in Pairedice ?
Pardin the mews es now she holds her hand,
And tries to tarn the Agger here for land;
I She’ll sun Vie back, not Levin far to roam,
, And then, in coarse, she’ll finish up the pome.
On Sight and on Demand.
Judge , a well known, highly
respected Knickerbocker on the shady
side of fifty—a widower with five children,
full of fun and frolic, ever ready tor a
joke, to give or take—was bantered the
other evening by a miss of five and
| twenty for noKtaking another wife. She
urged that he was hale and hearty and
i deserved a matrimonial messmate. The
Judge acknowledged the fact, admitted
that he was convinced by the eloquence
of his fair friend that he had been thus
! far very amiss, and expressed contrition
for the fault confessed, ending with offer
ing himself to the lady, telling her she
could not certainly reject him after point
ing out to him his heinous ofl'eDse.
The lady replied that she would be
most happy to take the situation so
unique advertised, and become bone of
his bone and flesh of his flesh, but there
was one, to her, serious obstacle.
“Well,” says the Judge, “name it.
My profession is to surmount such im
pediments.”
“Ah ! Judge, this is beyond your pow
ers. I have vowed if ever I marry a
widower he must have ten children.”
“ Ten children ? Oh, that’S nothing,”
says the Judge ; “ I’ll give you five now
and my notes on demand, in installments,
i for the balance.”
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Rather Late.
The Committee appointed by the
Tammany General Committee to wait
upon Secretary Cobb, to remonstrate
with him against farming out the labor
j of the public stores, after the contract
; had been made, sealed, signed and de
i livered, waited upon that gentleman yes
i terday at the St. Nicholas, and stated
their case. The Secretary listened at
tentively, and then informed these gen
tlemen it was unnecessary for him to
i make a formal speech in reply, for the
! contract was consumated and immedi
ately to be carried into execution.
Whereupon they all retired, went to the
bar of “ Oyster Bay” and took a “ sruile,”
and will be prepared to make their re
port at the next meeting. Why did not
this Committee interest itself earlier in
this business if they were ‘really desirous
of doing anything.— N. Y. Daily News.
“Her Majesty.”
The British Ministry, consisting of fif
teen highly educated noblemen and com
moners, appear unable to write intelligi
bly. The Queen’s Speech, read by com
mission on the 13th inst., at the proroga
tion of Parliament, is scarcely good Eng
lish, and at all events, is disfigured by
ridiculous repetitions. The Cabinet are
the joint authors of that composition.
The commencement runs thus : “We are
commanded by Her Majesty to release
you from further attendance in Parlia
ment, and at the same time to convey to
you Her Majesty’s acknowledgments.”
The repetition of “Her Majesty” is to
prevent the Queen being named as she or
her, as if she were an ordinary person !
This may seem absurd etiquette, but the
fact is as we state it. Here is another
sample, with “Her Majesty” thrice in
one sentence; “A plenipotentiary would
be sent by Her Majesty to assist at such
conferences; but Her Majesty had not
received the information to decide whether
Her Majesty’ may think fit to take partin
any such negotiations.” And again: “It
will be Her Majesty’s earnest endeavor to
promote their internal improvement, and
to obliterate the traces of those conflicts
which Her Majesty witnessed with deep
concern.” Also—“ The financial arrange
ments of that portion of Her Majesty’s
empire will continue to engage Her Maj
esty’s serious attention.” Finally we are
told that “The happiness of Her Majes
ty’s people is the object nearest Her Maj
esty’s heart.”
Who was it that said that Majesty, de
prived of its externals, was a jest ? He
spoke the truth.— Press.
♦
Unfortunate anti Fortunate.
A singular freak of fortune happened
in New Orleans the other day. A young
gentleman of good family, and possessing
many amiable qualities, but withal pas
sionately fond of gambling, was playing a
game of cards with considerable ill luck :
he lost all his money, and still persisting
to combat fate with the hopeful energy of
an inveterate gambler, he pulled out a
lottery ticket which he had bought that
morning, and offered to stake it. He lost
again, and was forced to cease playing.
After the game was over the winner, hav
ing no faith in lotteries, proposed to throw
dice for it, at twenty five cents a chance.
This was done, and a bystander, a poor
devil who never owned a hundred dollars
in his life, and who had been a mere spec
tator until he was suddenly inspired to
risk his quarter of a dollar, won the
ticket. A few days afterwards the Ha
vana steamer arrived, and lo ! the ticket
had drawn twenty five thousand dollars.
The original owner, who had thus thrown
away a fortune, on hearing the news was
taken with an attack of brain fever, and
is even now in a sad condition; it is
feared he will remain an idiot. The
lucky drawer of the prize immediately in
vested a round sum in an assortment of
the most flashy jewelry and garments,
and has been leading ever since a life of
continued revelry; be has become a fast
man, and is following fast the road to
ruin.
Fugitive Slave Arrested with Forg
ed Papers.
A negro man named Armisted, suppos
ed to belong to D. O. Merwin, of Vicks
burg, was arrested yesterday and lodged
in jail. The negro, when first arrested,
claimed to be a free man, and exhibited
genuine free papers; but he subsequently
acknowledged that he was a slave, be
longing to the above named gentlemen,
and confessed that he had obtained the
papers which he exhibited from a free
man of color. Some gentlemen from
Vicksburg, who happened to be in the
city, recognized the prisoner as the pro
perty of Mr. Merwin.— Memphis Avalanche,
3 and inst.
The Louisiana Sugar Flanter says that
a young man, employed as overseer on
one of the cotton plantations in Missis
sippi, recently fell heir to a fortune, by
the death of an uncle in Georgia, of near
ly half a million of dollars. He had never
seen his relative, and had been employed
as an overseer, for some ten years, at a
salary varying from S3OO to SSOO, in
South Carolina.
Major David Burford Greer, the Secre
tary of State of Arkansas, died on Wed
nesday last, at the residence of Capt. C.
W. Jackson, near Memphis. Maj. Greer
was a native of Tennessee, but removed
to the Territory of Arkansas, and upon
the organization of that Territory as a
State, was elected Secretary of State,
which office he held uninterruptedly up
: to his death.
Advertising.
“ Hide not your light under a bushel”
is a maxim peculiarly applicable to bus
iness mcD. Experience has fully demon
strated that where a man, in a commer
cial community, iias anything to sell, be
must not keep dark about it; lie must
hold it up in contact with that universal
and powerful reflector and illuminator—
the public press; he must, paradoxically,
light it up with ink— printer’s ink; and
he must not do this.once, or twice, or
three times, but persistently, systemati
cally. There is as much skill and tact,
and, oftentimes, as much boldness, to tie
displayed in advertising, ns in conduct
ing the most extensive and difficult bus
iness operation; and your Louis Napol
eon of advertisers will move his forces,
now to the front, now to the rear, now on
the flanks—sometimes en tirailleur, some
times in solid colump—here cautiously,
there with impetuosity—“the light of
battle on his brows ;” while your Fran
cis Joseph will move on at the same old
routine, rarely capturing public attention,
often driven back by his more skillful
and daring competitor.
To advertise properly costs money, but
it invariably repays the investment a
hundred fold. You will find many sens
ible men who will calmly utter the para
dox, that they have often advertised, but
it has never benefiited them an iota.
They expect the public to walk into their
stores, and holding up their poor, little
advertisements, inserted once a month,
in some out-of-the-way corner of a big
paper, exclaim: “You have candles—
give me candles; you have fish hooks—
give me fish-hooks !” Egregious error!
The main object for advertising is to im
press this Mr. Public with an ineffaceable
idea of your name and locality and spe
cial occupation ; so that, if he ever see or
hear the one, he will instinctively, im
pulsively, irresistably think of the other.
Once this linked sweetness established
in Mr. Publick’s mind—and only persist
ent, skillful advertising will do it—you
can then vary your efforts, go into details,
draw up a column of groceries, or a half
column of Western produce, or a quarter
column of outer and under garments,
adroitly calling in, now and then, the
| aid of poetry, or mathematics, or history,
S or geography, to titillate the palate of
the scientific, the imaginative, or the
generally well-inGructed reader
It would take a column or two of il
lustrations to fully explain these priuci
| pies. We have neither the time nor the
j space to draw them out, but offer these
i suggestions simply as hints for enter
prising navigators, ready and eager to
launch their barks on the ocean of busi
ness.—N. 0. Picayune.
Hopkins’ Cam Tobacco anil Cotton
Pr ess.
The Petersberg (Va.) Express of the
sth says:
We have already informed our readers
of the patent of the above press, taken
out by Thos. 11. Hopkins, Esq., aud Dr.
It. E. Robinson, of this city. That it is
one of the most philosophical of mechan
ical arrangements, and unquestionably
the most economical and powerful, is be
yond question. In addition to this, its
great simplicity must commend it to
general favor, No portion of the appa
ratus is more liable to get out of order
than the simple straight lever by which
it is put in motion, so if it is built faith
fully of good material, it will never need
| repair, and will last a century. We take
: the following deserved notice from the
New York Scientific American of Satur
day last, decidedly the first scientific
journal in the United States:
“Invaluable Improvement in Pres
ses—This invention consists in giving
the follower of a press a progressive up
ward or downward motion, by means of
two sets of cams with friction rollers be
tween them. The cams are arranged on
disks, which have spur teeth on their
circumference; the upper disk has one
more tooth than the lower one. Into
these teeth a long pinion goars, said pi
nion being moved slowly by a long lever,
and as it turns, the upper disk gradually
gains upon the lower one, and, conse
quently, with the aid of the friction roll
ers, rises and forces up the follower with
a powerjwl pressure, the gradual elevation
being retailed at all times by reason of
the causes of the lower disk which has
no vertical movement, acting antagonistic
to the cams of the upper disk which both
revolves and moves vertically up and
down. This press cannot fail to operate
well; aud as it combines two of the more
powerful and effective elements of me
chanics for giving motion and power, we
think it is just the thing for our Southern
cotton and tobacco planteas. An engrav
ing will be presented in our column- j
shortly.”
Tike Great South Carolina Tunnel.
A few days ago there was a very large
and enthusiastic celebration at the Stump
House Mountain Tunnel, on the Blue j
Ridge Rail Road, in South Carolina. The ,
Governor of the State and other distin- j
guished persons were present. From a ■
graphic sketch in the Charleston Mer
cury we gather these facts :
The Stump House Mountain is a high
elevation, rising to a level of 1760 feet
above tide water, situated in Pickens Dis
trict, at a distance by tiie traveled route
of 305 miles from Charleston. Twelve
miles to the westward runs the Chatuga
river, the boundary between tbe States of
South Carolina and Georgia. The scene
ry from the summit of the Stump House
is sublimely grand, embracing tbe North
Carolina summits, the high peaks of the
Alleghanian chain, Mount Pisgah, Cold,
Ball, and Table Mountain, and the Saddle
Peak. The tunnel is 5864 feet in length,
4163 of which have already been driven,
leaving only 1701 feet to be now worked.
The tunnel is cut to a grade of sixty feet
to the mile, rising westward, and will re
quire the excavation of nearly 70,000
cubic yards of stone. The Middle Tun
nel, at another point on the road, is com
pleted, aud the Saddle Tunnel is one
third through. It is thought that, .in j
twelve months, all the tunnels in South
Carolina could be completed, and also the
road-bed be ready for the track.
Appointments In tike Postotlice.
Departments.
Hugh Francis, Winchester, Tennessee, i
to be special agent for the Tennessee and
Alabama district, vice General G. P. *
Smith, resigned. Salery $1,600.
Jonathan Guest to he agent for the 1
distribution of blanks, making and rating ;
stamps ami postoffice scales at Washing- ;
ton, vice W T . C. Alien, deceased. Salery !
si,boo. !
Thomas B. Barton promoted to a sec
ond class clerkship, ($1,400,) vice Jona- \
than Guest, promoted.
Aaron Goodrich (temporary) appointed
to a first class clerkship, vice Thomas B.
Barton, promoted.
Robert A. Griffin appointed to a $1,200
clerkship, (temporary.) vice Aaron Good
rich.
Domestic Molasses.
We have received from Mr. J. L. Hun- j
ter, Sen., a bottle of syrup made from the
Chinese sugar cane. The flavor is very I
rich, and the color is about that of
strained hoDey. Mr. Hunter, in boiling :
the juice, had the advice of an expen- ‘
enced gentleman from Florida, Mr. Hart
field, a visitor at his house, who recom- j
mended two hours and a half boiling, i
and very rapid. He calculates making
about one hundred and seventy-five gal
lons of syrup to the acre. Mr. M. Ed- j
wards who is also trying it with a supe- !
rior article of caDe, estimates his crop at
two hundred gallons to the acre. Mr.
Hartfield informs us that it is made by !
the most of farmers in his region, and is
given to the negroes, young and old,
without stint. It exercises a very healthy
influence over the negroes, especially the j
younger portion of them. —Macon (Mm.) \
Beacon.
Munificent Donation.
Hon. Oliver J. Morgan, of Louisiana,
has presented to Bishop Polk, of that !
State, the handsome sum of forty thous- ;
and dollars, as the foundation of a Pro
fessorship of Agricultural Chemistry in
the “University of the South.” The mu- j
nificent donation makes up the entire |
amount of five hundred thousand dollars,
required by the charter for the establish
ment of the proposed University.
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
Washington, Sept. 2.—The man who
recently brought from Philadelphia to
New York, fifteen young ladies, utiderlhe
pretense of taking them South as school
and music teachers, and then robbed
theta of their money and baggage, was
arrested here last night by Chief of 1 o.ice,
Goddard, and Lieutenant of Police, Mc-
Henry. He was recognized as Hiram I‘.
Leslie, heretofore temporarily employed
as a laborer in the Patent (Jllice. Some
i of our own citizens had been swindled by
him.
His valise contained a large number of
letters from various parts of the country,
the contents cf which showed that he had
traveled in the South, and was extensive
ly engaged in dishonest schemes. He had
a wife living in Washington. Two large
trunks, claimed by him. are in the Ex
press Office, and are supposed to contain
many valuables belonging to his victims,
lie has been committed to jail to await
a requisition from the Governor of New
York.
Leslie had no person with him when he
was arrested. He took lodgings last
night with his wife, at her residence, and
there is no probability that any of his
victims came South with him.
Poston, Sept. 2. — The sloop-of-war
Cumberland, which arrived yesterday at
Portsmouth, left at Madeira, August 8,
the frigate C’ nstellation, which was to
proceed in a few days to the coast of
Africa.
The ship Protector, of Poston, from
Liverpool, for Aden, put into Madeira
August 2, Captain Crocker having been
stabbed by a negro seaman. Capt. Crock
er was attended by the Surgeon of the
Cumberland, and has so far recovered as
to proceed on his voyage before the Cum
berland sailed. The negro culprit was
brought home in the sloop-of war for
trial.
The Cumberland sailed from Boston
June 23, 1857, and had lost but two men
during her whole cruise of twenty-six
months.
Poston, Sept. 2. —Gov. Batiks has ex
tended invitations to the Executives of
the various States to be present at the
muster and review of the entire active
Military force of the State, which assem
bles at Concord on the 7th.
Philadelphia, Sept. 2.—The ladies
swindled by Johnson arrived in this city
last night and their baggage has been re
covered at Washington, whither it was
sent by express ; for which purpose the
directions had been taken off and the
name of Mrs. Leslie substituted.
Ex-President Pierce.
Manchester, N. 11., Sept. 2.—The re
turn of ex-President Pierce to his home
in New Hampshire to-day, called forth a
lively display of friendly feeling. The
Amoskeag Veterans, 100 strong, proceed
ed in the morning to Nasbau, and receiv
ed the ex President, who was accompanied
by Mayor Harrington and other distin
guished citizens, at the depot. Here the
crowd was very large, and the welcome
hearty and enthusiastic. From Nashau
a special train conveyed Mr. Pierce and
his escort to this city, where a procession,
a collation, speeches and firing of a can
non were the features of the occasion.
In the afternoon the ex-President, es
corted by the Veterans and numerous cit
izens, proceeded to Concord, where he was
received with similar manifestations of
respect.
On the arrival of the train at Concord,
a salute was fired, flags were displayed,
and Mr. Pierce was greeted with cheers
by a large concourse of citizens. He
was escorted by the Veterans to his lodg
ings, after which they dined at the Phoe
nix Hotel.
Gen. Pierce received the congratula
tions of his friends this evening, and was
serenaded by the Concord Cornet Band.
AuGthor Itope Walker.
Quite a number of persons assembled
at Charlotte yesterday afternoon to see
“Monsieur Be Motte” cross the river on a
rope stretched from Holden’s Elevator to
the warehouse opposite. At the appoint
ed time the performer made his appear
ance and started out, pole in hand. lie
was dressed in white tights, and wore on
his head a hat decorated with ribbons.
After proceeding tremblingly along to a
point about thirty feet from the shore, he
lost his balance and fell sprawling into
the water beneath, losing hold of his
balance pole, which stuch upright in the
muddy bottom- Be Motte rose lo the sur
face, and was picked up by one of the
boats in attendance. lie was brought to
shore exceedingly damp and shivering
from cold, but not divested of his ambi
tion; for having warmed himself some
what and pulled on a pair of pantaloons
over his tights, he started again, and
after many narrow escapes, succeeded in
reaching the eastern shore’in safety. He
afterwards returned by the same route,
and was greeted with applause as vocife
rous almost as the shouts of laughter and
ridicule which went up when his misfor
tune occurred.
It is said that Be Motte designs to cross
again some time next week.— Rochester
Democrat.
Crops In Arkansas.
A correspondent writing to the Fort
Smith Times, from Russellville, Pope
county, Ark., says that the crops in that
county are superb, and that the yield will
be so great that the farmers wiil have to
build new barns.
The Helena Shield, of the same State,
says: .
This has been a fine week upon crops.
No rain, and the cotton is opening rap
idly over the whole region of eastern Ar
kansas. The prospect is very favorable
for the heaviest cotton crop by far ever
raised in the State. Corn, though dam
aged by drought in May and June, is
pretty good, generally speaking.
Saratoga.
The Summer is over and so is the Sar
atoga “season.” We learn from the last
issue (for this year) of the Baily Sarato
gian, that the number of visitc s largely
exceeds that of any previous yec From
June 20 to Aug. 31, inclusive, a t riod of
73 days, the arrivals foot up as follows:
Congress Ilall 5,529 Marvin House 2,70S j
U. S. Hotel 4,412 Exchange H0te1....1,052
Union Ilall 0.955 Com’l Hotel 634
Columbian H0te1...1.755 All others 1,406 ;
American H0te1....1.101
Smith’s Hotel 662 Total 23,064
The-number of arrivals published dur
ing the same period last year was 18,4G5,
showing an increase of 4,617, or about
25 per cent. When we add to the pub
lished arrivals the thousauds entertained
at private boarding-houses, and at the
Hotels in June and September, the aggre
gate for the season will doubtless reach
as high a figure as 35,000.
The Overland Mail Routes.
In reference to the Overland Mail
routes, the Washington Star deems it
proper to state, as there is such a strong
prejudice existing against the continu
ance of the routes, costing $1,000,000
annually, with scarcely any return, that
it i3 the desire of the Post Master Gene
ral to have them abolished, and that he
would long since have applied the princi
ple of retrenchment in this particular
had he not been prevented by the Attor
ney General. The decision was, that as
the contracts for that specific object was
for four years, and did not contain the
usual clause empowering the Post Master
General to change the service, the routes
in question could not be interfered with.
Should Congress abolish them, a claim
for damages would arise,
Swimming the Ohio.
A German, “half seas over,” swam the
Ohio at Wheeling on Sunday evening
last, for a small wager. He accomplished
the feat with difficulty, and, not being
strong enough to come back the same
way, and some cruel fellows on the other
side retaining his clothes, he started
across the suspension bridgey>r/s natural
ibus, and entered Wheeling at a run, driv
ing crinoline in wild flight before. He
took refuge in an alley, was captured and
clothed, brought before the Mayor and
fined $lO.
Connecticut Tobacco.
The tobacco in Connecticut is now ly
ing out for drying. This year’s crop is
estimated at $1,000,000. Last year the
crop was 10,000 cases, and prices aver
aged about 17 ceuts per pound.
Miss ?I. 11. Btt tils Authoress.
The Hon John Forsyth, writing to his
paper from Ns*v \ ork, m ikes tne follow
ing mention of Miss Martha Haines Butt,
after alluding to Miss Augusta Evans :
\t the same house i - another \oung
Southern authoress, who attracts a large
share of attention and admiration M;.*
Martlia Haines Uutl, ot Norfolk, \ irgini..-
\t fourteen, she published a volume .n
reply to Cncle Tom’s Cabin. Her fugi
tive essays are numerous —light efforts in
which she is trying the strength ul her
pinions before addressing herself earn
j ostly to a more serious flight. It i=
refreshing, in these days of rapid female
life, of flounces and crinoline, to meet at
the same hotel two young Southern girls,
fearlessly entering the lists of intellectual
combat, and deriving from that whole
some exercise the inspiration and happi
ness which so many seek in dress, co
ciuetry and superficial accomplishments.
L praise these young competitors in the
field of literary fame, because they de
! serve it. I may have a selfish object,
but that proves the sincerity of my re
gard for their abilities, and that is, that
l am not without hope ot inducing both
i of them to let fall some of the drippings
1 of their sparkling pens to enrich tne col
j iimns of the Register.
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An English writer has recently asserted
that an undue proportion of lime in tne
| system is the cause of premature gray
’ hair, and advises all to avoid hard water,
either for drinking pure or when conver
; ted into tea, coifee, or soup, because hard
i water is always strongly impregnated
! with lime. Hard water may be softened
! by boiling it; let it become cold, and then
j use it as a beverage. It is also stated
that a liquid that will color the human
hair black, and not stain the skin, may be
made by taking one part of bay rum,
three parts of olive oil, and one part of
good brandy, by measure. The hair
must be washed with this mixture every
j morning, and in a short time the use of.
j it will make the hair a beautiful black,
| without injuring it in the least.. The
j articles must be of the best quality,
mixed in a bottle, and always shaken well
before being applied.
A Secoiiil Sam Patch, Almost.
Several days ago a fellow hailing from
Rockland county, New York, and calling
himself Jim Patch, jumped from the mast
head of the sloop Sophie into the water
below, a distance of eighty five feet, at
Albany, N. York.
The sloop at the time laid at the lower
dock, Sing Sing, in about seven feet of
water. At the appointed time, in the
presence of about four hundred villagers,
Jim made his jump, firing a couple of
pistols in his descent. He struck the
water and stuck in the mud, and that
was the last that was seen of him until a
young man made a dive from the dock
and brought him up by the hair. By the
aid of a boat hook he was dragged ashore.
After rolling him on a barrel he was
restored to consciousness.
Sew York Press.
The New York Journal of Commerce
complains that many of the papers in
that city are “ in the frequent if not con
stant habit of publishing letters from
their own correspondents, containing
statem nts destitute of even a semblance
of truth, and inserted for the mere pur
pose of having something hi the way of
sensation news, with which to startle the
public ” But the editor goes further,
and says: “If we should av<-w our be
lief that much of this correspondence is icril
len at home, instead of the places where it
bears date, probably we would not be
very wide of the facts. It is well that,
i country readers should understand some
of the freaks of “metropolitan” enter
prise in the management of newspapers.
Steamship Matters.
The New York correspondent of the
Charleston Courier writes :
The nominal price paid by the Califor
nia companies for the Collins steamers
was $900,000, but the actual amonnt paid
for them was only about $780,000. The
Panama Rail Road Company is a stock
holder in the new company .purchasing
these steamers to the extent 0f5500,000,
and the Pacific Mail Company has taken
an interest of their company which to-day
is quoted at 79. The Panama Rail Iload
Company purchased the Atlantic and
Baltic (with their liabilities) for $250,000
each, and the Pacific Mail Company got
the Adriatic for $400,000.
Stock of Sugars in New York.
The stock of sugars, now in New York,
is said to consist of 73,000 lihds., 23,000
boxes, and 70,000 bags. The Post, of
Thursday evening, says :
This is a larger supply than we antici
pated, and, consequently, some holders
are anxious to realize, and have yielded
lto ]c. to-day to effect sales. The an
ticipated liberal supply, lloth of hogs
heads, boxes and bags yet to come for
ward before the close of the season, with
the stock now on hand, leads many to
believe that We shall enter the new year
with a very considerable surplus of stock,
if prices do not in the mean time rule so
low as to induce very free consumption.
Operations of the United States Mint.
The gold coinage of the United States
Mint in Philadelphia, for the month of
August, was $95,151.05, in double eagles,
eagles and quarter eagles. The silver
coinage was $64,487.15, being in quarter
dollars and dimes. Os cents $25,000 were
coined. The whole number of pieces
coined was 2,738,542, of the aggregate
value of $174,638.20. The total gold de
posits of the month were $111,650, of
which $G6,5G6.81 were from California,
and $45,083.19 were from other sources.
The silver deposited was $64,900. Total
deposits for the month $179,990.
♦ ———-
Congressional Elections on the Pa
cific.
According to the latest returns received
by way of California, Stout, the Berno- !
cratic candidate for Congress, in Oregon,
is elected by a majority of nine votes.
The canvass in Washington Territory re
sulted in the election of S evens, the
Bemocratic candidate, by a majority of
420. The opponent of Stout was one Lo
gan, a Republican. Wallace, who ran
against Stevens, called himself an inde
pendent candidate.
Strike oil tlie Michigan Southern
Rail Road.
Chicago, Sept. 2.—The machinists at
Laporte and Adrian, on the Michigan
Southern Rail Road, struck yesterday,
and refused to allow anything but a mail
car and engine to run.
, The passengers who left this city yes
terday morning returned last evening.
The cause of the strike is the inability or
refusal of the road to pay the back wages
of the employees. No trains have left
here on the Michigan Southern road since
yesterday morning.
Reduction of Brazilian Duties.
The State Bepartment is in receipt of
dispatches from Mr. Baily, U. S. Consul
at Para, Brazil, announcing that “an
order has been received at the custom
house at that port authorizing the reduc
tion of the government export duty to
five per centum—a difference of two per
centum in favor of the exporter. The
order took effect on the 28th of July last.”
The reduction has been made throughout
the empire.
No Readies.
As an illustration of the scarcity of
fruit in this vicinity the present season,
one of the largest cultivators in Borches
ter informed the editor of the Bedham
Gazette that, on the same trees from
which he last year gathered five hundred
and fifty bushels of peaches, this year be
has found but five specimens of that
fruit.— Boston Transcript.
An Agricultural SUte.
Illinois, it appears, is taking the lead of
all the other States in agriculture. The
index of this fact is not alone the grain
crops, but the number of her agricultural
societies. There are eighty eight agri
cultural societies in that State, or twenty
more than any other State in the Union.
Anew Baptist Church was dedicated at
Loachapoka, Ala., on last Sabbath. The
dedication sermon was preached by the
Rev. J. H. DeYotie, of this city.
Instrumental Music in Chnrcli>
The New 1 ork Herald teds fchi- an
eedotc:
Thomas Coles—more familiarly known,
fr< in ins great, amiability and good na
tmv.'its Tommy Coles —was a consistent
:n inb -r ot tl.i-‘ Society of Friends. At
the • iUni vi hee f Glen Cove, Long
Is-a .and. wh ■•••• in- resided, the Episcopal
eongrep.iition h-d just erected in the
church a very sw ei toned organ, which
wis ilie a i• >n nor only of the mem
bers. Inn o many others who were at
tracted to the seiviee by the eloquence of
ltev. Mr. Malluby, the rector. On some
particular occasion our venerable friend
Tommy Coles took a seat among the con
e-rogation, and his opinion of the organ
was gathered from the following conver
sation a few days afterwards:
“Friend Maflaby, I am pleased that
thee has got a fine organ in thy church.”
“But,” said the clergyman, “I thought
you were opposed to having an organ in
a church.”
“So l am,” replied Friend Tommy ;
“but then if thee worship the Lord by
machinery, I would like tlice to have a
a first rate instrument.”
Very witty, doubtless. But what says
the inspired Psalmist, the “sweet singer
of Israel,” on this point ?
“Praise His name with timbrel and
harp.” “Praise Him with the timbrel”
—“with the sound of the trumpet”—
“with the psaltery and liarp”—“with the
loud cymbals”—“the high sounding cym
bals;” and “Praise Him with stringed in
struments and organs /” And then, again,
read, in the 88th Psalm, and. see liow
God, the King, wont into-the sanctuary:
“The singers go before ; the players on in
struments follow after; among them are j
the damsels playing with the timbrels.”
: &c.
Cost of Lauil In New York.
The New York Sun says:
It may be curious to many of our read
ers to know that land on Broadway, 100
feet in depth, is worth at the present
time about S4O for each one-sixtnfiptli
part of an inch ; SBO per quarter Jjnch ;
s3soper entire inch; $4,00i) .per foot;
SIOO,OOO for a decently fronted lot ; |
$200,000 for a moderate show,-and a#out
$1,000,000 for a “ splurge.” The cost of
j sites and structures together, of some of
1 the principal buildings, is as follows :
St. Nicholas Hotel $1,200,000
i Bowen & AlcNamee 320.000
A. T. Stewart & Cos 300,000
Astov House 300,000
Metropolitan Hotel 250,000
International Hotel 225,000 ,
La Farge House 200.000 ‘
Lord & Taylor .175,000
Broadway Theatre Building... 150.000
Haughwout & Cos 125,000 j
Brook Brothers 125.000
Wood’s Theatre 65,000
Tiffany & Cos 45,000
In the above list, at present prices, the
; Astor House should be placed at about
! one million of dollars, and Stewart’s at
about eight hundred thousand dollars,
but each of them cost an immensely less
sum. The Astor was built of plain mate
rials, when property was comparatively
cheap. Stewart’s store was built upon a
less valuable lot, but at greater cost of
i decoration, when property had greatly
| enhanced in value, but long before the
rage for dry goods stores on the west side
of Broadway had so enormously increased
the value of property on that street.
Arrival of tlxe Steamsliip Ilabana,
New Orleans, Sept. s.—The steam
ship Ilabana has arrived below. She
j brings San Francisco dates to the 20th
ult., and Manatitlan to the Ist, inst.
The steamer Sonora and Cortez brought !
over two hundred thousand dollars in
| specie, and one thousand two hundred
passengers.
The British man of war Pyladcs had
arrived at Panama; she is supposed to
have brought dispatches for England,
concerning the San Juan dispute.
No arrivals were reported at San Fran
cisco. Business had improved. Pro
visions had an advancing tendency.
Candles advanced ]c. Sugar firm ; re
; fined at 11] cents. Money easier.
Gen. Harney, on the 9th uli., ordered
four companies of artillery from Fort
1 Washington, to re-iuforce Capt. Pickett,
who still occupied San Juan unmolested.
; Harney badforwardeddispatches to Wash
ington.
Horace Greeley had addressed a large
i Pacific Rail Road meeting.
Additional by ilie North Briton:
The Belgium Chamber of deputies have
agreed to fortify Antwerp. The LeNord 1
! contends that the project will endanger
| the neutrality of Belgium.
A defensive league has been formed by
the States of Central Italy.
The result of the National Assemblies
| of Modena and Parma were received with
joyful acclamations.
New Cider Mill.
The editor of the Richmond Morning
News visited the warehouse and machine
shop of Mr. H. M. Smith, of that city, a
few days since. Among other things, he
gives the annexed description of anew
article of husbandry:
Among the innumerable new and useful
articles of husbandry to be found in Mr.
Smith’s warehouse, we noticed a most j
complete machine for making cider. It
1 is about the size of a small-sized wheat
fan. On one end the grinding mill is so
arranged that by turning a crank the ap
ples are completely mashed passing
through three rollers, and falling into a
box. On the other end is a complete
press, with iron screws, and beam with
follower, working into a lattice tub or
curb. To make cider no straw or previ- ;
ous preparation is required. A single
person may grind and press a bushel of ‘
apples in ten minutes, and the whole ope- ,
ration is as complete as though more were
ground. The capacity of the mill is about :
ten barrels a day. We think the intro
duction of this machine calculated to pro- i
mote the farmer’s comfort and add a lux
ury to his household, with but trifling
cost. The price is $43. Several might
own one in partnership, as a small turn
bler-cart can carry it easily.
Habeas Corpus.
Michael Collins, who was committed
for trial in default of SI,OOO bonds on
Monday last, for shooting his wife with
intent to murder, was brought before the
City Court yesterday, and a motion male
for his discharge from custody, on the
ground that his wife, who is the only
witness, could not be forced to testify
against him. Judge McKinstry overruled
this plea, and the wife very reluctantly
gave in her evidence against him. The
amount of the bond was reduced to SSOO.
lie gave it. —Mobile Register, 4th.
Exports of Ciibaii Sugars.
The total exports of sugar from the
ports of Havana and Matanzas the tirst
seven months of the present year was 1,-
018,018 boxes. The same months in 1858
they were 1,021,682; in 1857,878,570:
in 1850, 802,091 ; in 1855, 1,090,241
boxes. Os the exports of the present
year, 273;794 boxes came to the United
States, 388,219 went to Great Britain,
179,433 to Spain, 105,112 to France, 12,-
408 to the Baltic, 19,857 to Hamburg and
Bremen, 11,917 to Holland, and the rest
in about equttl proportions to the smaller
Buropean ports.
A Twenty Mile American Horse in
England.
The Northern Times, of Aug. 12, says:
The hitherto unaccomplished feat of
trotting twenty miles within an hour (in
England) was performed yesterday by a
horse called “Jack Rossiter,'’ (an Ameri
can.) He was handled by a Yankee
jockey, especially brought over for the
occasion.
In Cincinnati, on the 24th ult., the in
fant child of a Mrs. Burns was placed at
a window in the second story of a house.
While its mother was absent, the child
fell out of the window and struck upon
the back of a passing dog. The dog broke I
the child’s fall, and the child broke the
dog’s back. The child’s life was saved,
but the dog’s was the sacrifice.
Mr. A. Ilaygood has recently com
menced running aline ofllacks, tri-week
iy, between Union Springs and Clayton.
The Secret of Blantlln’s SuccVs.i,
The wonderful power that Blondin po>-
esses of balancing himself is the poin: of
curiosity and amazement to the ci.-y, !
By explaining a little of the philo-o: -i .
of this feat we may’ lesson the naton
ment of some people, an I perhapr urn
the chief difficulty to a rational amount , f
self-culture, resulting in an improvement
of the nervous system. The common n,v,
of a man spinning on the point ot a v-i: .
explains the whole mallei'. Ih • cet
of gravity is lowered to the base, 1
there it is easily preserved. The use of
the pole answers the same purp sc.—.
Blondin’s pole is thirty-four feet long,
and weighs forty-six pounds, lie -i
below the middle of the body, it bin: gs
his centre of gravity sufficiently near to
the rope, to be easily controlled. Avery
slight elevation of one end and a cafu-s
----ponding depression of the other restores
the balance of the body.
The skill to govern the position, by an
exact movement of the pole to the requir
ed extent, and not an inch further, r
suits from practice. Those who have
seen “the infant phenomenon” of the
Ravel troop on the tiglit-rope, must have
- observed the imperfect management of
the pole in less experienced hands. Philo
sophically, Blondin and his pole constitute
one body, and the extension laterally of
its weight is equivalent to lowering the
centre of-gravity, or enlarging the b.-.se
on which he walks. The most perilous
exploit of M. Blondin is that of carry ing
a man on his back. Here lie runs a
frightful risk, because he cannot com
mand the nervous system of another
person. To this experiment he will fdl
a victim, if he persists in it. The slight
, est trepidation of nerve in the carried
i body will imperil his centre of gravity ,
and put it out of his command, in spite
of the skill with which he adjusts the
weight to rest as much as possible cn his
hips, aud as little as possible on his shoul
ders.
I Travelers over the mountains are
warned by their guides to sit passively n
the mule, without attempting to direct
the animal. This is what the man mint
do who rides on Blondin’s back, liis
own command of nerve must be equal to
i that of his master, or he endangers both.
The fact of dismounting several times
proves that it was so, and that he did not
avail himself of any trick in shutting his
eyes from the abyss below.
This is the whole explanation of M.
Biondin’s seat —his lowering of the cen
tre of gavitv near to the base, and his
amazingly skillful government of it. We
would not advise any one to try hazard-
I ous experiments; but the truth of this
! explanation may be tested by walking a
the odge of a board firmly fixed in the
required position on the ground or floor,
i and by using or dispensing with the bal
ancing pole, or other weight, to control
the centre of gavity.— N. Y. Century.
From the Charleston Mercury.
Aurora Borealis.
Camp Geological Surwey, S. C.,)
In Eastern Abbeville Bist., Sept. 2d. j
Mr Editor: A distinct aurora borealis
as far south as our State is not a very
usual occurrence. Very probably others
may communicate to you a statement re
garding the one of last night; hut, in
case they should not, permit me to call
your attention to it.
I awoke about three o'clock in the
morning, and (my tent facing the north)
observed the whole sky to be beautifully
reddened. It was not exactly’ the glow
of a fine sunrise, but it was flushed with
a ruddier tint, more like the refraction
of a large fire. The most brilliant stars
were barely visible, yet it was still bright
er, lam told, before I saw it. It must
have been a glorious sight in more north
ern latitudes.
The farthest south that I have known
an aurora borealis to have been observed
was the one in the fall of 1851, noticed
by Br. LeConte in Florida, and by iny
self in Itawamba county in north-eastern
Mississippi. It will be interesting to
hear how much farther south this one
has been observed, for it was quite dis
tinct enough to have been perceptible in
in much lower latitudes. Respectfully
yours, OSCAR M. LIBBER.
Tkc Manufacture of Coal Oil.
The manufacture of kerosene and oth
er oils from coal is generally supposed
to be very profitable, and so it probably
is, though we doubt whether such fabu
lous sums have been realized from it as
many imagine. A Mr. Gould, of Roches
ter, N. Y., has recently written a letter
concerning this branch of manufacture,
which a correspondent informs us abounds
in misstatements and fallacies, the wri
ter showing his entire ignorance of the
subject. Mr. Grant assumed that a
bushel of Pennsylvania cannelgcoal, cost
ing five cents, yields a gallon of crude
oil worth thirty-five cents. This seems
a large margin, to pay for transportation,
cost of labor and fuel in retorting and
distillation, but in point of fact coal
suitable for makingjoil cannot be obtained
for five cents a bushel. Western oil is
in bad repute here, the character of the*
coal being such that it is impossible to
get a good burning oil from it. The
large manufactories here pay S2O to $25
per ton for coal from Scotland, New
Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, which yields
a good oil. How much profit they make
we are not informed. With the present
demand for the oil, the profit is doubt
less handsome; but the great demand
and high prices invite competition, and
this will ultimately reduce prices and
lead to more economy in the manufacture.
—Boston Journal.
Signature of tlie Cross
The mark which persons are unable (o
write are required to make instead of
their signature, is in the form of a cross
(f): and this practice having formerly
been followed by kings and nobles, is
constantly referred to as an instance of
deplorable ignorance of ancient times.
This signature is not however, invariably
a proof of such ignorance. Anciently, the
use of this mark was not confined to il
literate persons, for amongst the Saxons,
the mark of the cross as an attestation of
the good faith of persons signing, was re
quired to be attached to the signature
of those who could write, as well as to
stand in the place of those who could not
write. In those times, if a man could not
write, or even read, his knowledge was
considered proof presumptive that lie
was in holy orders. The word clerical
or clerk, was synonymous with penman;
and the laity or people who were not
clerks did not feel any urgent necessity
for the use of letters, The ancient use of
the cross was, therefore, universal, alike
by those who could and those who could
not write ; if it wa3 indeed the symbol of
an oath, from its holy associations, and
generally the mark. Ou this account, the
editor of the Pictorial Shakspeare ex
pression of “God save the mark,” as
a form of ejaculation approaching to the
character of an oath.
Opening of Trade.
j We congratulate our merchants and all
f readers interested in the trade and pros
perity of Charleston, on the bright and
early opening of the Fall trade.
The closing days of the last week gave
i abundant and unmistakable evidences
of increasing activity, and of tbe openii g
of the movements of the Fall trade. This
was especially the case in the dry goods
departments, and with the leading houses
of that line, which are found in Hayne
street, and’near Ilayne in Meeting street.
Those of our merchants who have been
absent for personal examination of their
supplies, have generally returned, or are
on their way, and selected additions to
their stocks already large and well as
sorted, are receiving by every arrival.
Our countr}’ friends have begun to
visit us, and we have now reached a
stage of the season at which the most
cautious need have no apprehensions as
regards health. Charleston Courier, 5/5.
Kansas advices, state that one of the
kidnappers concerned in the adduction
of Dr. Doy has made full confession. J.
J. Huzzy, a New Ilamshire man, was the
party who betrayed Doy and his friends
into the bands of the Missourians. One
of his accomplices, named Whitley, was
induced to turn informer.
Col. John J. Long, an old and va.ued
■ citizen of Washington county, died at bis
residence in that county last Monday.