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The Taw nml Order Meeting in Bal
timore.
Baltimorl, Sept. B.—The town meet
ing called by (he two thousand mer
chants, mechanics, business and profes
sional men of Baltimore, assembled this
afternoon at 4 o’clock in Monument
Square to deliberate cn and devise the
means of rescuing the city from its pres
ent condition and restoring the supremacy
of law and order. The vast Square was
densely packed, and all the avenues lead
ing thereto thronged by masses of most
orderly, respectable and influential citi
zens. The meeting organized, on motion
of Charles D. Ilinks, by calling to the
chair William Woodward, of the well
known firm of Woodward & Cos.
A preamble and resolutions were read,
setting forth in clear and emphatic lan
guage our social and political evils, con
demning club rule, and proposing effec
tive measures to insure a fair expression
of the sentiments of the public at the en
suing election by protecting the purity of
the ballot box, and placing in nomination
honest, capable and fearless men in oppo
sition to the nominees of the political
clubs.
The resolutions provide for a commit
tee to call on the Mayor and demand the
appointment of reliable men as Judges at
the next election, and the appointment of
a special police force to keep the polls
clear emphatically disavow party,
and empower a special committee tonom
nate, irrespective of party, the most re
spectable and reliable men for the offices
shortly to be elected. The meeting was
addressed by Mr. George Brown, a dis
tinguished member of the bar, James
Hodges, merchant, of the firm of Ilodges
Brothers, and Geo. M. Gill, Esq.
The speeches were received with shouts
of approval. During their progress seve
ral efforts to interrupt the speaker by
rowdy gangs were promptly suppressed.
After the adjournment of the meeting a
body of rowdies, calling themselves
“ Regulators,” rushed upon the stand,
and attempted to harangue, but the po
lice promptly arrested the ringleaders,
and carried some fifteen to the lock-up,
amid the loud plaudits of the people, and
waving of handkerchiefs by the ladies
crowding the windows of the hotels and
private residences in tho vicinity. Thus
law and order have been fully vindica
ted, and a most determined opposition to
rowdyism and lawlessness been estab
lished, which already has over-awed a
majority of the most turbulent disturbers
of the peace.
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From tho Hartford Press, Sept. G.
Death of tile Oldest Printer ilk tlie
Villon.
Wo regret to announce to-day the death
of Col. Samuel Green, in the 92d year of
his age. lie had tor some time been ex
tremely feeble, and bis death was not un
expected, either by himself or his friends.
He died at the residence of his son, Dr.
. G. S. Green, in this city, at 12 o’clock
this noon.
Col. Green was the oldest printer in this
.State—possibly in the United States—
and was long actively connected with the
newspaper press in Connecticut. He was
born in New London, where, bis father
carried on the printing business, but in
early life went to New York as a clerk in
a large mercantile house, where he earned
the reputation of being an unusually act
ive businoss man. Yielding to his fath
er’s wishes, however, lie gave up tempt
ing offers for mercantile life, and entered
the printing office in New London. Sub
sequently lie was in partnership with his
father, and, upon the death of the latter,
in 1790, succeeded to the entire business.
Tho paper established by his father—
•‘the New London Gazette”—was contin
ued by him until 1808, when, the labor
being too much for his advancing years,
he disposed of it to John Jay Hyde. Mr.
Green was a vigorous writer, and made
an able paper, one which had a large pa
tronage. During a portion of the time
ho was publisher of the paper, he owned
and carried on a paper mill, designed
primarily to obviate liis own inconven
cnces in procuring elsewhere the neces
sary supply.
The Register, which for many years
was known as Green’s Register, was com
menced by his father, Timothy Green, in
1785. In 1790 his son was associated
with him, and it was published by “T.
Green & Son.” Upon the death of his
father, he continued its publication, and
his first number, issued in 179 G, was a
great improvement upon former issues.
The last number of the Register was pub
lished in 1848. At one time it was very
popular, and several thousands were an
nually sold.
Soon after disposing of his paper, &c.,
in New Loudon, Col. Green purchased a
residence in South Windsor, in this coun
ty, but for several years past he has re
sided with his son in this city. A few
years since lie had a paralytic shock,
which somewhat enfeebled his body, but
his intellect was unimpaired, and occa
sionally, even at his advanced age, he
furnished well written articles tor the
press in this city.
Col. Green was a connecting link be
tween the printers of the present day and
the earliest printers in New England. By
his death the chain is broken, as none of
his descendants continue the business.
A “Wife’s Prayer.
If there is anything that comes nearer
to tho imploration of Naomi than the sub
joined, we have not seen it:
Lord! bless and preserve that dear per
son whom Thou hast chosen to be my
husband ; let his life be long and blessed,
comfortable and holy ; and let me, also,
become a great blessing and a comfort
unto him, a sharer in all his sorrows, a
meet helper in all the accidents and chan
ges in the world: make me amiable for
ever in his eyes, and forever dear to him.
I nite his heart to me in tho dearest love
and holiness, and mine to him in all
sweetness, charity and compliance. Keep
mo from all ungentleness, all discontent
edness and unreasonableness of passion
and humor: and make me humble and
obedient, useful and observant, that we
may delight in each other according to
Thy blessed Word, and both of 11s may
rejoice in Thee, having our portion iu
the love and service of God forever.
Amen.
Land Graduation Law in Louisiana.
The Baton llougo Comet and Gazette,
of the 10th inst., calls attention to the
laud graduating act, under which the rare
opportunity is now oil'ered to the citizens
of Louisiana to become landholders at a
nominal price:
The graduation acts of 1537 aud 18-59
allow any one person, man or woman, to
enter 320 acres of State laud, in either of
the following parishes, at the low figure
of 75 cents per acre: Livingston. Sabine,
Calcasieu, Claiborne, Bienville, Jackson,
Union, Winn, Washington, St. Helena,
St. Tammany, Dossier, DeSoto, Natchi
toches, Rapides and Caddo. All necessary
to obtain it, is to make affidavit before
any Justice of the Peace that, together
with what is applied for, tho individual
applying has not entered more than 320
acres. The land which comes under the
law is the richest land of tho State, the
alluvial bottoms or low land, donated to
the State in 1549, under the act of Con
gress to drain and reclaim the same. If
this fact was generally known to the peo
ple, and the people generally instructed
how to fiud out on the map, where they j
live, a larger number of them would be
engaged in agricultural pursuits.
Sugar in Louisiana.
The stock now in this State is various
ly estimated at from 5,000 to 10,000 hhds.
of all kinds, about one half beig n kettle
sugar. Ido not think there are 5 000
hhds. sugar now in lirst hands in the
State. The growing crop was generally
planted late, and the planting was suc
ceeded by a drought that continued up to
the beginning of June, since which time
we have had seasonable weather. The
plant cane and first year’s rattoons now
promise an average yield, although they
are short and three to four weeks later
th*a la#*eason. The stubble, however
is an entire failure, and under the most
j&vorable from this date to the
tie rolling season, the entire
\.v, State must fall considerably
s product. The estf
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iavurablc figures are
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TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
Cincinnati, Sept. 8 —Mr. Douglas ar
rived at Dayton at 1” o’clock to day, and
was escorted to the Phillips House. It
was expected that be would make a recep
tion speech, but he was too ill to do so,
suffering from a bad cold. He was sub
: sequenily taken to the residence of Dr.
Edwin Marsh where lie went to bed, and
at 8 o’clock in the evening wa3 up shak
ing hands with visitors. He leaves Day
ton at 4 o’clock to morrow afternoon for
this city. ,
Extensile arrangements were made to
receive him here to-night, and much dis
appointment is felt at his detention. The
Democracy from all parts of the State are
here in large numbers, and also from
Kentucky and Indiana. The Democratic
Executive Committee of this county made
great exertions through the telegraph to
get Mr. Douglas to fulfill his appoint
ment : but liis friends replied be was too
ill to come. He speaks here to-morrow
night.
Washington, Sept. B.—The Postmas
ter General has received additional assur
ances from the parties under the John
son Pacific Mail contract, that they will
be prepared to execute the service.—
United States vessels will render any pro
tection which may be necessary in con
nection with the Nicaragua route.
About 1,100 muskets and rifles have
been sold by order of the Government at
public auction —the former from §1 to
$2 50 a piece, and the latter’at from $1
to $4. The larger part of them were
purchased by a New Yorker, *ogether
with fifteen heavy cannon.
Leslie, the swindler, was taken to Phil
adelphia this afternoon by a police officer
of that city.
Washington, Sept. 9.—Several cases of
appeal having been brought before the
Treasury Department, the Secretary
has decided that worsted button etuff, not
being suitable for the manufacture of
shoes or buttons exclusively, but may be
used for other purposes, is liable to a
duty of twenty, and plate glass of twenty
four per centum, the one coming under
the classification of manufactures of glass,
and the other under that of worsted man
ufactures not others provided for in the
tariff act of 1857.
It is understood that the Cabinet to-day
had the San Juan Island question under
consideration.
A number of members of Congress have
already engaged residences for the next
session.
St. Louis, 10. — A fire broke out this
morning in the store No. 101 Fourth
street, occupied by J. J. Shore as an ar
tist emporium, and Boggs & Leathers,
picture frame manufacturers, almost to
tally destroying it, with the stock it con
tained. The china and glass warehouse
of Gay & Cos., ou North street, was also
seriously damaged. The clothing estab
lishment of Seligruan Brothers, oil South
street, was also considerably injured.
The losses, so far ascertained, are as fol
lows : J. J. Shore, $13,000; Boggs &
Leathers, $27,000; Gay & Cos., SIO,OOO
to $15,000. The amount of insurance is
not yet. ascertained.
St. Louis, Sept. 11.—The fire yester
day was more disastrous than was at
first reported. The loss of Gay & Cos.
will probably reach $50,000, upon which
there is $40,000 insurance. The total
loss by the fire is upwards of SBO,OOO.
Boston, Sept. 9. —Tho English papers,
received by the Europa, report that Mr.
Horsey Sewell, jr., of the firm of Slocum,
Sewell & Cos., of New York, committed
suicide at Manchester Aug. 22, by hang
ing himself.
The following is the monthly statement
of the value of Imports and Exports of
Goods, Wares and Merchandise, entered
at Boston during the month of August,
1859:
Species of Goods, Wares and Merchandise.
IMPORTS. Value.
Dutiable, entered for consumption $2,572,833
Dutiable, warehoused 916,030
Free (exclusive of specie and bu11i0n)..... 1,265,687
Specie and 8u11i0n...., 8,783
Total Imports $1,763,338
EXPORTS.
Domestic Merchandise $1,303,833
Foreign Merchandise, dutiable 58,445
Foreign Merchandise, free 24,890
Specie and Bullion 500,000
Total Exports $1,687,663
St. Louis, Sept. B.—A special dispatch
to the Bulletin says the Denver City Ex
press of the 2d instant, had reached Leav
enworth. At a large meeting at the for
mer city a committee was appointed to
prepare a memorial to Congress, embrac
ing a detailed description of the gold re
gions, and wants of tho inhabitants, and
praying for an Indian agency, a military
post, and a wagon road from Denver City
to Salt Lake City.
The steamer St. Mary sunk in the Mis
souri river above St. Joseph, yesterday,
and, with her cargo, is a total loss. The
boat was valued at $20,000 and was in
sured at $13,000.
Philadelphia, Sept. 10.—The new
iron steamship Champion, built at Wil
mington for Mr. Vanderbilt, arrived here
| this afternoon, remained in the stream a
j few hours, aud was greatly admired.—
| She left for New York this evening. She
is two hundred and forty feet long, and
the largest iron steamer ever built in this
i vicinity.
Boston, Sept. 10.—Captain Hamilton
of the bark Armenia, this port, from
j Constantinople, reports that while passing
! out of the Straits of Gibralta, August 6,
the Spanish fort at Tarifa Point fired
twice on the Armenia; the first was a
blank cartridge, the second a round shot,
which passed through the lower maintop
sail and port topmast studding sail.
Newark. N. J., Sept. 11.—This even
ing Edward Holder, aged 23 years,
walked off tho turnpike bridge as the
draw was closing, fell a distance of fifteen
feet aud was drowned in the presence of
hundreds of people.
New Orleans, Sept. 7.—Advices from
Jamaica to the 18th ult., state that rein
forcements'will be asked from England
for the better protection of the northern
part of the island against negro riots.
There is a prospect of saving the Eng
lish mail steamer Paramatta ashore near
St, Thomas.
North Bridgewater, Sept. 9. Mr.
H. Yolney French, of the firm of French
& Howard of this town, was killed this
morning by jumping from a rail road
train while in motion. Mr. Volney was
shockingly mutilated. lie leaves a wife
and child, now absent.
Baltimore, Sept. 9. —Miltou Whitney,
our State Attorney, has brought a suit
for libel against Messrs Dobbin & Ful
ton, publishers of The American newspa
per, for charging him with complicity
with outlaws. The damages are laid at
SIO,OOO.
New Orleans, Sept. B.—The Picayune
says that it has authentic information
that Mr. McLaue has made no treaty with
Mexico, on account of the American citi
zen protection clause in it.
Albanv, Sept. B. —Mr. La Mountain
lauded his balloon at Hortle, White Creek,
Washington county, at 51 P. M. He left
Watertown to day.
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Cliarncter of Liberian Emigrants.
The President of Liberia, Benson, does
net seem to have a very favorable opinion
of the emigrants arriving in that repub
lic from America. He says :
My fears and anxieties, for the last five
or six years, have been that the moral,
intellectual and industrial training of a
majority of the immigrants who may ar
rive here from the L T nited States, as well
as that of our posterity, bred and born
in this country, will not keep pace with
the advancement of the aborigines in
these elements of individual aud national
greatness. In order to show that these
fears and anxieties are not unfounded, I
have only to state what is pretty general
ly known in Liberia, that there are thous
ands of natives living within the jurisdic
tion of this republic who are intellectu
ally in advance of at least one-half the
immigrants that arrive here annually
from the United States.
V e learn from the Montgomery papers
that Capt. Dossey, of that city, was killed ‘
on the 15th, by the accidental discharge
of a pistol he was carrying in his panta
loons pocket. His horse falling caused
the explosion of the pistol, a ball from
which entered bis left side.
Additional by the Anglo Saxon.
There had been an earthquake in Sor
gia, Italy, by which two hundred persons
were killed and several injured.
The ship Nimrod, from Savannah, ar
rived at Liverpool on the 13th of August
and the ship Kalco sailed from Liverpool,
on the 27th of August.
In England a Cabinet Council had been
unexpectedly called for, the 29th ult. It
was supposed that the call had reference
to the new phase of Italian affairs.
In France, Forny delivered a speech
which was supposed to enunciate the Em
peror’s views, and attracted public atten
tion. He endeavored to show that the
apprehensions of England, in regard to a
French invasion, were groundless.
Garibaldi had resolved to maintain a
strict discipline in the army of Central
Italy.
The Neapolitan Government had order
ed the purchase of a large quantity of
corn abroad.
The latest intelligence from the Zurich
Conference was to Wednesday. The pri
vate conference continued.
The Paris correspondent of the London
Times says that things go on badly. The
dissolution of the Conference will take
place in a few days, and will probably re
sult in the assembling of tbe Congress,
or iu a resumption of the war which seem
to be the only alternatives.
Late dispatches from Berne report the
Zurich Conference as contradictory; and
that there is every reason to believe that
the Sardinian Plenipotentiary will not af
fix his signature and protocol, in favor of
tbe return of the deposed Dukes.
Lever’s (the ageut of the Galway line
of steamships,) proposition to run the
Great Eastern the first trip from Galway
to New York, has been declined. The
ship will leave the Thames in a day or
two.
Leigh Hunt, the journalist and poet,
is dead.
The Constitutionnel’s leader says that
the Emperor will fulfill his Villa Franca
agreement, and restore the reigning Prin
cess; but if a re-union of tbe Princes
and people is impossible, will not force
either.
Tli people of Naples are very excited,
owing to the high price of corn.
Additional by tbe Ocean (tueen.
Liverpool General Markets. —Richardson,
Spence & Co’s, circular states that the
weather has been unfavorable for crops.
Flour very dull; quotations were easier
but unchanged. Wheat very dull. Corn
firm. Provisions unchanged. Rice quiet.
Sugar steady. Coffee quiet.
The London markets were generally
unchanged.
General News. —The steamship Bor
ings’ with forty thousand dollars in specie,
had arrived out.
The American ship Ben Bolt, from Ha
vana, bound to Falmouth, was wrecked
on the 25th.
The whole of the twelve million Rus
sian loan, has been subscribed at the ex
change in Petersburg, at three centums
lower.
Advices from Athens report the disso
lution of the Greek chambers.
The Bavarian military loan has been
issued at ninety-eight and a half.
Later from Havana ami Mexico.
New Orleans, Sept. 12.—The steam
ship Granada arrived below to-day. She
brings Havana dates to tlie 9th, and
Mexican dates to the Ist inst.
At Havana there was an improved de
mand for sugar. Exchange on London
quoted at 14d. to 15d.
The steamship left Havana ou the 9th
inst.
The Brownsville Flag, of tbe Ist inst.,
says that it is rumored that Miramon
with three thousand men bad marched in
San Louis Potosi. Gen. Marquezza was
at Zacatecas.
General Orlega was killed iu battle.
Arrival of tlie Star of tlie West.
New Y'ork, Sept. 12.—Tlie steamship
Star of the West has arrived from Aspin
wall. She brings upwardsof three millions
in specie, and five hundred passengers.
At Gayaquil (Republic of Ecuador,)
on tbe 19th, the Peruvian fleet was pre
paring to bombard the city. The inhabi
tants who remained were preparing for
a desperate resistance.
Post Office Robbery.
Brooklyn, Sept. 11.—The post office
at this place was robbed on Friday night
last of three thousand dollars. All of the
letters were broken open and the drafts
and money orders mutilated and rendered
valueless.
Arrival of Minister McJLane.
Washington, Sept. 11.—Minister Mc-
Lane has arrived here; he thinks that
notwithstanding his recent failure, that
he will conclude a treaty with Mexico at
no distant day.
Tle Steamship Tennessee.
Washington, Sept. 11.—The steamship
Tennessee will resume he trips between
New Orleans and Vera Cruz, with the
mails, on the 15th of October.
4.
Crops in the South. •
Tbe New Orleans Bulletin says: “In
the South the great staple has already
begun to come in, and the accounts from
all quarters represent it as magnificent.
In this State there is not probably a par
ish in which it will not be more than an
average while in many of them it will be
greater than it ever was before. As to
the sugar crop, we are sorry that we can
not also speak in the same strain. But
the facts will not justify it. If it shall
turn out an average crop it will do fully
as much as can be expected or more. The
cane is some two or three weeks behind
hand, and some of it looks sickly aud
dwarfted. The Lafourche Union of yes
terday says in that parish hardly a half
crop will be made. The result will of
course depend, to a considerable extent,
upon an early or a late frost.
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THe Fire Alarm Telegraph.
The commendable enterprise, though
nothing has been said of it lately, for the
performance of which tbe city authorities
have contracted, is well under way.—
The Messrs. Gamewell, the contractors,
have gone North to superintend the con
struction of the material and send it out
here as soon as possible. Mr. Hebert, a
gentleman well known and respected in
this community, has been engaged and is
still busy in the surveying of the city for
the location of the network of wire.— X.
O. Bulletin.
Frost 111 Western New York.
It was predicted early in the season
by somo person who professed to be
weather-wise, that iu Buffalo and vicini
ty there would be frost “every month in
the year 1859.’’ Thus far the clerk of
the weather has kept up to the schedule,
although the month of August had like to
have got by without a “nip.” On the
29th, however, there was just enough
frost in several localities thereaway to
save the distance of the prophet.
♦
From Ltali,
St. Louis, Sept. 12.—The Utah corres
pondence of the Democrat says the Quar
ter Master General has received orders
from the Secretary of war to receive Mr.
Halliday’s notes as cash for mules. The
auctioneer received instructions to knock
down the mules to Halliday, whereupon
Halliday purchased upwards of one thou
sand mules at a little more than one half
what others would have paid cash for.
Halliday has a contract to supply the
Government at Fort Dallas and Oregon
with one thousand mules at his own
price.
Tlie Steamer Alvarata.
We learn from the Rome Courier, that
the new steamer Alvarata, recently built
near that place to run on the Coosa River,
made her first trip to Greensport and
back to Rome last week. She bad made
no trial trip, but the first time she left the
wharf it was with a large cargo of mer
chandize. The Courier says she is a
snug, trim built boat of good appear
ance, 158 feet long by 23 wide, and draws
nine inches water. There are now three
boats running on tbe Coosa River, and
one on the Oostanaula. The Alvarata
was built by the Coosa River Steamboat
Company, and will run in connection
with the Pennington.
Front Harper's Magazine.
A Political Anecdote.
Old New Jersey turns up again with
the following very entertaining incidents,
which will be relished by tlie parties as
well as the reader:
They tell a capital story here about
the present Governor of this state, Dr.
Newell, and Colonel James W. Wall, who
ran for Congress in 1858 iu the Second
District. In order to initiate your rea l
ers into the humor of the story, they
must be reminded that Governor Newell,
who was then before the people as the
American and Republican candidate, was
a very industrious operator in bis owu
behalf, attending to all places where op
portunities of meeting the people were
afforded, and making himself agreeable
to the sovereigns. On one occasion Col
onel Wall addressed a field-meeting of
the Democracy in the county of Monmouth
where he claimed exclusive domain, hav
ing there his staunchest supporters.
After explaining his own position and his
views upon the political questions of the
day, and why he ought to be sent to Con
gress for the good of the country, the
Colonel turned his attention to the Oppo
sition, and especially pitched into Dr.
Newell, “the hermaphrodite candidate
for Governor, as he called him ; spoke of
his attempt to ride two horses, and that
the time would not be long before he
would come to the forks of the political
road where public opinion branched off
into two distinct paths, and then he
thought, if each horse took a seperate
road, the Doctor would find himself in
trouble; and, in a word, gave the Doctor
a most severe lashing. After he had
taken his seat, otie of the Colonel’s
friends approached him and inquired,
“who do you think, Colonel, has been
listening to the last part of your speech ?”
“Really, sir, I do not know of any one
particular, not being able to recognize
faces in so vast a crowd.’
“I tlioughtyou hadn’t, said the friend.
“Allow me to say that the man sitting in
a buggy yonder is Dr. Newell, the Oppo
sition candidate for Governor.’
“The Colonel looked up quietly, and
recognizing the Doctor, exclaimed,
“Why really !so it is. Well, he only il
lustrates the old adage, that listeners
never hear any good of themselves.’
Well, I am in for it, and must face it out,
so I will give the Doctor a call.” Ac
cordingly the Colonel left the stand, and
pushing his tall, athletic person through
the crowd, approached the Doctor’s car
riage. The Doctor saw him coming, and
smiled. When they met, the most aston
ishing courtesy marked the interview.
“Why, Doctor,” said the Colonel, “it
seems to me you are far beyond the line
of your professional visiting I bis morning,
or else your practice lias enlarged great
ly.” ‘
“No,” responded the Doctor; “I heard
there were many sick and afflicted here in
this neighborhood, and I havecorne down
to see what I can do for them; but, Col
onel, listening to your speech,
and I was delighted to find that you
handled me so gentlemanly—no attack
upon my private character, simply ar
raigning me for my political proclivities,
which belong to the public.”
“The Doctor bowed as he said this;
and the Colonel, not to be outdone in po
liteness, bowed in return, and said:
“Certainly, Doctor, I never indulge in
personalities against the private reputa
tion of any gentleman.”
“Just at this moment one of the fisher
men along shore, who had been listening
to the interview, stepped up, and, to the
great amusement of the crowd and the
parties most interested, said, with great
humor:
“Well, gentlemen, you both are so po
lite that it reminds me of a story I once
heard of an Irishman, who was going
along the road when an angry bull rushed
down upon him, and with his horns tossed
him over a fence. The Irishman recov
ering from his fall, upon looking up saw
the bull pawing and tearing up the ground
(as is the custom of the animal when ir
ritated,) whereupon Pat, smiling at him,
said, ‘lf it was not for your bowing and
scraping, and your humble apologies,
you brute, faix 1 should think that you
had thrown me over this fence on pur
pose !’ ”
Thereupon there was a great roar, and
the crowd quietly dispersed.
Linseed Oil Trade of Indianapolis.
The Indianapolis Journal of the Ist,
contains the following:
The flax seed trade of Indianapolis is
becoming a feature in the city’s business.
One house has bought already over 3,000
bushels of this years product for the
Louisville market. Louisville and Rich
mond purchase all the flax seed crop of
Central Indiana. In those places, mills
are in successful operation for the manu
facture of linseed oil. Why can we not
have a mill in operation here ? The man
ufacture of the oil from flax seed is one
of the most certain businesses in which
money can be invested.
Arrest Him.
The steamer Alice Vivian passed down
on Sunday last loaded to the guards with
cotton. She carries as fine a Calliope as
we have ever heard on the “Father of
Waters,” but we understand that the re
ligious portion of our community take ex
ception to the concord of sweet sounds
emanating from it and have ordered the
Mayor to arrest the Captain of the said
Alice Vivian for allowing such sonl-stir
ring music to be played on board of her,
so as to set all the women and children to
dancing during church time. We are
told that the music had such a salutary
effect upon some of the preachers, that
they stopped in the midst of their sermon
to listen to the notes of the Calliope.—
Vicksburg Sun.
Growth of BritisL Steam Shipping;,
In proof of the growing extent of Brit
ish steam shipping, it is only necessary to
compare the entrances and clearances of
British steam tonnage within the past few
years. In 1849 the entries were 734,763
tons; in 1858 they were 1,750,664 tons.
In the same years, respectively, the clear
ances were 694,044 tons and 1,727,727
tons; showing a ratio of increase on en
tries in the period of nine years of 139
per cent., and on clearances an increase
of 149 per cent., being an aggregate ton
nage movement of Dearly two millions of
steam shipping. —Steam Shipping Journal
Death of E. 11. Dickerson.
We learn this morning, that Mr. E. 11.
Dickerson, for more than thirty years a
citizen and business man of this place,
departed this life j r esrerday afternooD, at
4 o’clock, after a lingering illness. Mr.
D. was in the furniture line, and probably
no house in tbe place was older than that
of his brother, L. li.,and himself. He
leaves a family, consisting of his widow
and several children.
The deceased was one of the passen
gers who were blown up, on the steamer
Franklin, at a wharf in Mobile, many
years since. He never entirely recovered
from the injury to his lungs caused by
inhaling the steam. — Mont. Mail, 15th.
The Latest Style.
“LoNec” Mary Jane, a city servant
girl, thus describes the latest style of
dress to Martha Anne, her country
cousin:
As fur the lo necs the loer it is the
mere fashunabil yu air, and the less cloz
yu ware the fashunbil yu air drest. Miss
Goolra give me a blu silk or hern an i
cut its nec ors an Suzin Simmons cut off
hem, and we attrax a great deel of atten
shun toour necs,promonadynin the streets
lyke uther ladys a\j holdin up our cloz.
Nobody isut nothing now whitch dusnt
hole up her cloz, an the hier yu holds
them the more you are thort ov.
An Afflicted Family.
We are grieved to learn that Hon. Hen
ry G. Lamar and family, have sustained
another sore affliction in the death of An
derson Lamar, Esq., of Baker county, a
young gentleman of worth and promise,
whose corpse has just been brought up
to Macon for interment. This is the
fourth grown child deceased within the
space of two years ! Our whole commu
nity deeply sympathize with the surviv
ing family, under these repeated and
heavy strokes of an afflictive Providence.
—Georgia Telegraph, 13 th.
From the Leavenworth Herald, Aug. 26.
Tire “Mountain Meadows” Children.
Arrival ov Fifteen cf the Number
at Fort Leavenworth. Yesterday
morning a train of fourteen wagons :ir
rived at Fort Leavenworth troin l tah. It
left salt Lake City on the 20th of June.
Mnj. Eastman and Lieut. Elwood, of the
sth Infantry ; Major Whiting, ot the • th
Infantry; Lieut Carroll, ot the lOtli In
fantry, and Lieut. Tyler, of the 2d Dra
goons, came in with the train.
Accompanying the train are also 15 of
the children who escaped the terrible
massacre at Mountain Meadows, in Utah,
some two years since. The particulars
of that unparalleled outrage, perpetrated
by Mormons under the guise of Indians,
startled our whole country when the in
telligence reached the States. We have
not the details before us, but it’ we re
member aright, a company’ numbering
145 persons started from the State ot
Arkansas, in the spring of 1857, for Cali
fornia. They were supplied with an ex
cellent outfit—wagons, moles and an am
ple stock of provisions, &e. They got
along well enough until they reached what
is known as the “Mountain Meadows,
in the south western part of the Territo
ry of Utah. Here whilst encamped they
were surrounded by a party', the larger
portion of whom were Mormons disguised
as balance Indians—and the
whole party brutally butchered, except
seventeen children, who were taken pos
session of by the Indians. The object of
the assailants was evidently plunder.
Early last spring through the vigilance
of Dr. Fortiey, the Indian agent for Utah,
the children were all obtained and prop
erly cared for. Although most of them
are very young, they were enabled to de
i tail with considerable intelligence nearly
all of the particulars of the terrible mas
! saere they had witnessed.
The government has furnished the chil
dren with transportation to Fort Leaven
worth, and male and female attendants.
We saw the children at the Fort yesterday
morning when they arrived—ten girls and
five boys. The oldest little girl did not
appear to be over ten years of age, and
the majority are much younger. All were
comfortably clothed—in good health and
i fine spirits. We saw a little rosy cheeked
j girl, not over, we should think, four years
of age, whose right arm was entirely
helpless. At. the time of the massacre
the child was in its mother’s arms, and
the bullet that sent its protector to an
untimely grave, passed through the little
one’s right arm, just below the elbow.
We saw the scars made by the bullet, but
received only a smile from the little girl,
when we inquired if she could use her
hand.
An agent from Arkansas —said to be a
relative of some of the children, most of
whom are supposed to belong to Johnson
county, in that State—is expected here to
take charge of the children, and conduct
them to their friends.
Two of the little girls—the oldest of
the seventeea —are retained iu Utah to
give testimony in the Courts in relation
to the massacre. They will be kindly
cared for and sent to Arkansas as soon as
the bloody murderers—several of whom
have been detected and apprehended—
are disposed of.
There also came in with the train, un
der the especial care of Sergent Black,
the three Foster children, of whom ranch
has been said in the papers. The father
and mother lived in Connecticut. The
’ father espoused the Mormon faith sev
eral years ago, and left for Salt Lake
City, carrying with him his three little
girls. The mother remained behind,
and all efforts to retain her children were
abortive. About a year ago the father
died, and n ;w, through the efforts of the
Secretary of War, her children have
been reclaimed, arid will soon be where
they can receive a mother’s love and de
votion.
The children will remain either at the
Fort or in the city for a few days, and
those who desire to see them can doubt
less have their wishes gratified.
Branch’s Paper.
The notorious Stephen H. Branch alias
“Alligator” Branch liavingbeen released
from “ durance vile,” which was impos
ed on him for an infamous libel on a
worthy official of New York, has com
menced the publication of a daily sheet in
that city. A special correspondent of
the Mobile Register, from New York
says :
Stephen 11. Branch has started a daily
paper called the Daily Hand. It has
reached three numbers, and the sales have
been very large. It publishes articles
that the regular dailies dare not publish.
It makes exposes of matters that should
be kept secret. It pretends to reveal the
private relations that existed between
Buchanan and the mother-in-law and wife
of Sickles, and the hold Sickles has upon
the President. These scandals have long
been flying about, but Branch puts them
in type. The most nasty part of Branch’s
paper is the bona fide republishing of
Bennett’s editorials in the Herald 25 years
ago! Even Bennett must blush at re
perusing what he once wrote. There are
stories current that Branch is crazy. He
is as sane as any man I know ; somewhat
indiscreet from over earnestness. A
large portion of what he has published
in his three numbers is true to the letter.
Corruption in our high places has never
before reached such a pitch. Rakes and
harlots govern the nation, and in this city
the most frightful state of things exists.
The step to greatness is placed in the
stew's, the gambling dens and the. thieves’
resort. Our most prominent politicians
have been started in life, educated, placed
on the road to fortune by keepers of baw
dy houses. I think the honest publica
tion of these facts calculated to do good—
to promote public morals—make the tone
more healthy. But the man who attempts
it is likely to he assassinated, or immured
in the cells of a prison. Branch was at
tacked on Friday evening by Bagioli,
(Sickles’ father in-law,) but the attacker,
it seems came off second best.
THe Fall Trade of Ncw-Voik.
The Herald says, “ that the coming
business season is to be a prosperous one,
in a financial point of view, is to be seen
in the number of stores and mercantile
builaiugs of evei*y kind which are spring
ing up in our city. Some six or seven
years.ago the wholesale dry goods trade
was in a great measure confined to that
portion of the city lying below Barclay
street. Suddenly it made an up-town
stride, and we find it taking possession
of the neighborhood included between
Barclay and Chambers streets and Broad
way and the North River. All the old
shauties and tumble-down dwellings
which formerly characterized that locali
ty, were levelled to the ground, and
splending palaces now occupy their
places. One can hardly believe that the
Church street of to-day is the Church
street of five or six years ago. This fall
busineas seems to manifest a disposition
to take another up-town leap. Many of
the old buildings and tenements located
between Chambers and Canal, and West i
of Broadway, some of them nearly a cen
tury old, are now in course of rapid de
molition to make way for beautiful stores.
This fact is but a sign of the increasing
prosperity of our affairs, and merchants
aud tradesmen may look forward to a
pecuniary harvest this autumn.”
Crops In South-Western Mississippi,
A letter in the Mobile Mercury of the
9th, dated Baldwin county, Alabama,
Sept. 7, says of the crops in Western and
Middle Mississippi:
I have just returned from a trip through
Middle and Western Mississippi, and took
special pains to examine the crops in the
region through which I passed. The corn
crops are tolerably good, generally, but
in some neighborhoods they are bad. But
the cotton—the great Southern staple—
is positively bad, owing to the dry weath
er in the growing season. Iu some places
they will not make more than half a crop,
and some of the best planters in Western
Mississippi, with whom I am personally
acquainted, will not make more than < ne
third of a crop, or more than a third as
much as they did last year. I gained
this information from personal observa
tion, not from newspaper or other ac
counts.
Great Conflict in Fayette Parlsli—
TUe Vigilance Committee Defied.
The Outlaws Defeated, and Seventy
of Them Captured.' —A friend, who has
just arrived from Ld’ayene parish, in
forms us that on Saturday morning last,
the Vigilance Committee <d that, parish,
were summoned to assemble and proceed
to a place called Bayou Tortue, about
fifteen miles west us Vermillionville,
where a;i encampment ot outlaws had
been formed, the ringleaders ot which ha I
challenged them to battle. Accordingly,
the law and order men of the parish, who
had long suffered from these depredators,
who had robbed, plundered, passed coun
terfeit money and murdered with impu
nity, quickly gathered, and taking a !
piece of artillery with them from the vil
lage of Vermillionville, started for the
rendezvous of the outlaws. At 9, a. tn., on
Saturday about five hundred well equipp
ed and mounted men suddenly appeared
before the entrenched camp of the boast
ful defiers of the laws, where they found j
them in full force, with the Bayou well
guarded, and a house in the centre of
their position, loop-holed, and otherwise
thoroughly prepared for enduring a siege
or resisting a storming party, iite flag
of their fraternity also floated defiantly in
the breeze, and until the “\ igilants had |
formed their order of battle, and un
masked their cannon, all looked as if the
defense would be obstinate and sanguina
ry. The sight of the big gun, however,
struck terror into the hardened hearts ot
the outlaws, and sauve qui peut suddenly
appeared to animate the warriors. Their
number was about one hundred and fifty,
many of whom having horses, managed
to make their escape, but seventy of their
force fell into the hands of the Vigilants. ,
Immediately a court martial was formed,
consisting of two igilants trom each ;
company, io whom the question was sub
mitted whether the prisoners, notorious
evil doers, should suffer death or be pad
died. By a majority of two, it was deci
ded to inflict the padclle punishment, and
thirty-six hundred blows were equally
administered. One fellow committed sui
cide, by shooting himself, to avoid the
paddle.
Subsequently, five others of the gang
were found dead, from gun shot wounds.
Our informant, says that the news of j
this affair caused the greatest pleasure |
among all the honest and decent inhabi
tants of the parish where it occurred, and
the adjacent Attakapas parishes, which
have long suffered from the depredations
of the poweiful and dangerous gang.—
A r . 0. Delta, 10th.
Salt Lake.
A Utah letter gives the following con
cerning this remarkable body of water :
That this lake should be salt is no
anomaly. All bodies of water into which
streams discharge themselves, while they
have severally no outlet, are or should be
salt. If one such is fresh, that is an
anomaly indeed. Lake Utah probably
receives as much saline matter as Salt
Lake; but she discharges it through the
Jordan, and remains herself fresh ; while
Salt Lake, having no issue save by evap- i
oration, is probably the saltest body of j
water on earth. The ocean is compara
tively fresh ; even the Mediterranean, at j
Leghorn, is not half so salt. I am told
that three barrels of this water yield
a barrel of salt; that seems rather
strong, yet its intense saltuess, no one
who has not had it in his eyes, his mouth,
his nostrils, can realize You can no
more sink in it than in a clay bank, but
a very little in your luDgs would suffice
to strangle you. You May make your
way in from a hot, rocky beach, over a
chaos of volcanic basalt that is trying to
the feet, but at a depth of a yard or more
you have a fine sandy bottom, and here
the bathing is delightful.
The water is of a light green color for
ten or twenty rods; then “deeply, dark
ly, beautifully biue.” No fish can live in
it; no frog abides in it. The rugged
mountains in and about it—just such
scraped and seamed and gullied preci
pices as I have been describing ever since
I reached Denver—have a little of fir and j
cotton wood, or quaking asp, in their
deeper ravines or behind their taller
cliffs, but look bare and desolate to the
casual observer; and these cut the lakes
into sections and hide most of it from
view. Probably less than a third of it is
visible from any single point. But this
suffices.
An American Eagle for tlie Empe
ror of Austria.
A Richmond correspondent of the Pe
tersburg Express says:
The Virginia Central brought down on
its train of yesterday afternoon, a rare
bird of the eagle species. At the invito,
tion of a friend I visited this natural cu
riosity to day. It is of enormous size,
resembles the common grey eagle so fre
quently caught in Virginia, but is bicipi
tous, or double-headed—and in this its
peculiarity consists. The two heads are
clearly defined, and seem to be perfect in
all respects. It receives its food with the
same facility in either beak, and appa
rently hears and sees alike through all its
ears and eyes. It was captured when a
mere fledgling, near Luray, Page county,
by Mr. Joannes Schwartzberger, and has
been carefully nurtured and fed by him
self and family ever since. Mr. S. has
disposed of this curious bird to the Aus
trian Consul at New York, who intends to
present it to the Emperor, Francis Jo
seph. A more appropriate present could
not be made his Royal Highness, and he
will, doubtless, prize it highly. The na
tional emblem of his vast empire—you
will recollect—is a double-headed eagle,
but we will venture the assertion that this
is the first live specimen ever seen. It
goes to New York this afternoon by the
Adams Express, and will b% sent out
thence by one of the early out going
steamers.
Tlie Potato Crop in Ireland.
The potato crop of 1859 promises to
turn out the finest grown in Ireland since
the good old times, when the market value
of that article of food ruled from Is. 6d.
the cwt. It will be recollected that for
-several seasons after the terrible disaster
of 1840, the potatoes grown had hardly
the appearance of those of other times,
and, as an article of food, they were very
inferior. Considerable improvements were
gradually brought about by close atten
tion to th.e preparation of the soil, choice
of seed, and after-care of the plants in
their different stages of growth. These
had produced a desirable change in the
quality of the potato, but it was not until
the present season that the perfection to
which the culture had been brought be
fore the advent of tbe famine year was
apparent. Some attempts have been made
to get up the old cry of disease, but the
sound of discontent was too weak to make
way beyond the first wail or two ; and, at
present, even the worthy people of the
“beautiful city,” usually the first to take
up the song of sorrow, have not a word
to say on the subject. Turn to what
quarter we may, the sturdy stem and
broad leaf, which completely cover the
soil in potato lands, tell of a healthiness
of the Celtic families, and of the ample
store of cheap and abundant food for the
mass which a few weeks’ fine weather will
fully mature. —Belfast Whig..
Boston and New Orleans Steamers.
The last Boston Commercial Bulletin
say s : v
We regret to learn that the New Orleans
Steamship Company’s enterprise has re
ceived a temporary check, owing to the
fact that a party interested could not
bring the committee to meet his views,
and for this reason has withdrawn his
countenance and support.
We regret that any parties should de
sire to control an enterprise of tills kind
for their own aggrandizement, and to car
ry out their own purposes. We have
faith to believe that, within a year, a line
of steamers will be in full operation to
New Orleans, and the agency entrusted
to a merchant whose long standing and
varied experience eminently fit him for
the responsibilities of the office, and
whose general reputation, both here and
in New Orleans, will impart confidence to
the enterprise.
The Selma Sentinel says the Alabama
River, at that point, is gradually falling,
and getting very low. The Sentinel sees,
in the uncertain prospect of the River, the
necessity of building the Selma and Gulf
Rail Road.
Deaths of English Kings.
William the Conqueror died trom the
enormous fat, from drink, aud Horn ih>
violence of hi- p i-s'.oos.
William Huf'us died the death of the
poor stags that iu* hunted.
Henry the Fr.-t lied of gluttony.
Ilenry U-r S- <■ n.-J died of a broken
heai ! m-easii-He i t> ■ tin* bad conduct of
his childn u.
Richard iVeur de Lb>n died like the
animal fr< in which his heart was named,
by an arrow fro u an archer.
.Lditi died, nobody knows how, but it is
said of chagrin. Which, we suppose, is
another term fur a dose of hellebore.
Henry the Third is said to have died a
natural death.
Edward the First is likewise sail to
have died of a “natural sickness,” a sick
ness which it would puzzle all the college
of physicians to denominate.
Edward the Second-was most barba
rously and indecently murdered by ruffi
ans employed by his own mother and hei
paramour.
Edward the Third died of dotage, and
Richard the Second of starvation, the
very reverse of George the Fourth.
Henry she Fourth is said to have died
“of fits caused by uneasiness,” and un
easiness in places in those times was a
very common complaint.
Henry the F’ifth is said to have died
of “a painful iniffiction, prematurely!”
This is a courtly phrase for getting rid of
a King.
Henry the Sixth died in prison, by
means known then only to his jailor, and
kuowu now only to Heaven.
Edward the Fifth was strangled in the
tower by his uncle, Richard the Third.
Richard the Third was killed in battle.
Henry the Seventh wasted away as a
miser ought to do, and Henry the Eighth
died of carbuncles, fat. and fury, while
Edward the Sixth died of a decline.
Queen Mary is said to have died of “a
broken heart.’.’ whereas she died ofasur
feit, from eating too much of black pud
dings.
Old Queen Bess is said to have died of
melancholy, from having sacrificed Essex
to his enemies.
Jamss the F’irst died of drinking” and
of the effects of a nameless vice,
j Charles the First died on the scaffold,
| and Charles the Second suddenly, it is
said, of apoplexy,
William the Third died from consump
five habits of body, and from the stumb
ling of his horse.
Queen Ann died from the attachment to
“strong water,” or, in ether words, from
drunkenness, which the physicians polite
ly called tne dropsy.
George the First died of drunkenness,
which his physicians as politely called am
apoplectic fit.
George the Second died of a rupture of
the heart, which the periodicals of that
day termed a visitation of God It is the
only instance in which God ever touched
his heart.
George the Third died as he had lived,
a madman. Throughout life, he was at
least a consistent monarch.
George the Fourth died of glutton)’ aud
drunkenness.
William the Fourth died amidst the
sympathies of his subjects.
English Volunteer Force,
The London correspondent of the Na
tional Intelligencer writes:
la the year 1803, when Napoleon the
First, in the plenitude of his power,
threatened England with invasion, and it
was generally believed that he would at
least make the attempt, there was an al
most general enrolment of the adult males
of the kingdom into volunteer corps. The
abstract printed by order of the House of
Commons of that period, shows that the
effective power of these volunteer corps
was as follows:
Cavalry; 024 troops men 33,832
Infantry, 3,890 companies.... “ 313.927
Artillery, 102 companies.- tl 8,817
350,076
Os these the cities of London and West
minister furnished 28,715, and the three
surrounding counties of Middlesex, Kent
and Surry, 27,557 —making a total of
50,272 men. If a similar arming from a
similar cause should take place at this
time, a volunteer force of from 500,000 to
000,000 men would easily be organized.
Crisp in Nashville.
The Nashville Union aDd American, of
the 11 tli, speaking of Ihe performances of
Mr. Crisp’s Company, at the Gaiety Thea
tre in that city, says:
The first week at the Gaiety has closed,
and the performances have given pretty
general satisfaction, and public opinion
is very decided that this is the best Com
panygManager Crisp has had. Other en
gagements have so interfered that we have
seen but little^of the performances, but
gentlemen, in whose judgment we can
confide, assure us that the leading mem
bers of the Company have acquitted them
selves in a manner highly creditable.
This is gratifying news to the theatre
goers of our city, who may look forward
for amusements of a high order during
the season.
Manager Crisp lias commenced the sea
son in a commendable spirit of enterprise
and liberality, and we trust the friends
of the drama in Nashville will extend to
him'R patronage commensurate with this
spirit.
Restoration of Bishop Onderdonk.
A movement is in progress for the re
mission of the sentence of suspension by
the House of Bishops, passed upon Bishop
Onderdonk, formerly bishop of this dio
cese, a number of years since. A petition
to the House of Bishops is in circulation
in the diocese. To a memorial prepared
in accordance with the terms of the peti
tion, Bishop Onderdonk has affixed his
signature. After acquitting his brethren
of improper motives in his conviction,
acknowledging the justice of their act of dis
cipline, and professing his sincere sorrow
and repentance, he asks thatliis sentence
may be remitted. This petition and me
morial will doubtless be presented at the
next general Convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church, which assembles at
Richmond, A a., on the sth of next month.
We understand that names representing
all shades of opinion in the church are at
tached to this petition.— N. Y. Com.
Later from San .Tuan.
\ obk, Sept. 13.—We have re
ceived Victoria dates to the 13th of Aug.
Gen. Harney and Governor Douglass
are both concentrating all of the forces at
their disposal on the island of San Juan.
It was reported that the British were de
termined not to permit any more of our
troops to land. No British troops have
landed on the island, nor has any steps
been taken towards the joint occupancy.
All the British troops in the colony are
proceeding in haste to the spot.
Gen. Harney has ordered all his avail
able troops in the Territory to concentrate
at San Juan.
At the Primary Medical School, inthi3
city, we learn that a skillful and entirely
successiul operation was performed on
Wednesday last, by Dr. J. J. Knott, Jr.,
in the amputation of the leg of a gentle
man 45 or 50 years of age. The limb
being incurably diseased in consequence
of a severe burn, affecting the bone from
the knee to the ankle. The patient,
under the influence of chloriform, was
insensible to pain, while knife and saw’,
in skillful hands rapidly performed the
dismemberment—which occu
pied, as we are informed by a spectator,
but about a minute of time from the first
incision to the legation of the arteries.
flriffu i Empire State.
Tall Rice.
The Savannah News says: A friend of
the manager of Mr. Robert Habersham’s
Causton Bluff and Deptford plantation,
left at our office, yesterday, one of the
finest specimens of rice on the stalk we
have ever seen. The stalks are not so
tall as some we have heard of this season,
as they measure but six feet, but the
heads are large and well filled, and we
are informed that a large portion of the
crop on that place this year, w’ill average
as tall and well headed as the sample
which may be seen at our counting room.
The largest portion of the rice on this
plantation is already cut and stacked.
Professor Maury’s First Marriage.
Mr Willis, iu the Home Journal for
this week, relates a curious incident in
the life of Lieutenant Maury. Happen
that the lieutenant in his earlier vvi-.i;;
had visited the Pacific Island -and in:
tered some of the uiaL-cts i,-i the native
On one occasion a young princess, who-e
attire consisted principally nl her ionj.
tresses, came to the ship, and declar
she was sent on a mission by her father
and his tribe to oiler her hand to the
young lieutenant. In order to pay due
respect to tois friendly oliei, the com
mander of the vessel ordered young
Maury to proceed with the dusky damsel
in a boat to shore, to make every assur
ance of amity between the United States
aud Europe, get rid ol espousing ihe
princess if he could, but on no account to
make any such rejection of the proposed
honor asVould lead to a misunderstand
ing. Maury, with the princess, proceed
ed to land iii a small boat, the lady leap
ing out before they the island
and swimming to the shore. After some
hesitation, Maury, on landing, left the
boat and proceeded to the chief’s bungi
low.
“It was some little distance inland,
and, on arriviug, he found he was con
siderably expected. There was every ap
pearauee of preparation lor a festivity,
the tables spread for a royal banquet, and
tlie fruits and drinks in abundant prodi
gality. The chiefs were already in a
state of excitement, - which precluded ali
explanation or modification ot plans.
There was nothing to do but to yield to
circumstances. He must marry (ala
Owhyhee and she,) to keep the peace and
protect the commerce of the natiou.
“The delays were apparently inconsid
erable. In a very short time, the runa
way bride appeared, dressed in ail man
ner of Pacific ornaments, and attended
by her mother and a bevy .of sister island
resses. The Commodore was either not
expected, or not missed ; the ceremony
was performed (what there was of it,)
with only native witnesses, and ‘things
proceeded as usual.’
“For the remaining winter mouths, the
sloop was anchored at the same island,
and Prince Maury, of course, had a nice
opportunity to become acquainted with
the manners and customs. His copper
colored papa proved very gentlemanly,
and, as long as he stayed, he was most
affectionately treated.”
A “Healing” ATediiSi in Trouble—The
Spirits Unable to Cure a Case of Neu
ralgia.
A singular case was brought before
Esquire Horne for adjudication this morn
ing, the particulars of which are substan
I tially as follows: Some weeks ago a Mr.
Loving, residing in the southern part of
the city, called upon a soi disant disciple
of .Esculapius named Richmond, who
keeps a little confectionery on Main st.,
and pretends to work miraculous cures
through the agency of spirits with which
he avers he is in daily intercourse, to as
certain if lie could through supernatural
or any other causes cure his wife of neu
ralgia, a disease that lias troubled her for
some time past. The “Doctor” said he
could, and undertook the case, with the
understanding that if he effected a per
manent cure, he was to receive a fee of
I fifty dollars; if not he was to get noth
ing. Accordingly the Doctor commenced
his visits to Mrs. Loving, who imagined,
after the lapse of some weeks, that she
was much improved, and her husband, on
the strength of his wite’s faith in her new
attendant, paid the “medium” ten dollars
on the contract. Shortly afterward, how
ever, the disease returned with all its
former violence, when the husband sus
pected the Doctor to be a humbug, and
demanded that his ten dollars should be
refunded. This the Doctor refused to
do, alleging that he had information
from heaven that a radical cure had been
made, but that his patient, by a violation
of some natural law, had brought it
back again. Mr. Loving then brought
suit for the recovery of the ten dollars.
After bearing the facts in tlie case, the
magistrate decided that the “medium”
should disgorge.— Memphis Argus.
Washing Morses’ Legs.
It is quite a common custom for carmen
and hostlers to “founder” noble horses,
by the erroneous practice of dashing cold
water on their legs when they are dirty.
In regard to this practice Sir Geo. Steph
ens, the eminent veterinary surgeon,
says: “Whenever it is necessary to wash
horses’ legs, do it in the morning. Most
grooms, acting on a different principle,
wash them aa soon as the animal comes
in. lam convinced this is a bad prac
tice. When the roads are dirty, and the
weather wet, and the legs already soaked,
washing can do no harm; but to deluge
the legs with water the moment a horse
enters the yard, heated with exercise, is,
to my mind, as unnatural and absurd as
to jump into a shower bath after playing
an hour at cricket. My plan is, rubbing
down with straw and a dry brush, and
the next morning wash as clean as soap
and water can make them. Pi<?k and
wash the soles as soon as the horse comes
in.”
-’lie Sons of Malta,.
There is no secret charitable organiza
tion in this community which accom
plishes more good than the Sons of M dta.
the expenses tor charitable purposes last
year exceeded §l*o,ooo. We are informed
that its members have now under discus
sion a project for the accomplishment of a
slid greater good. It is that of founding
anew hospital for the relief of indigent
persons. They purpose erecting a large
building in the city, and furnishing it
throughout with bedding, &c., in a man
ner equal to that of any similar institu
tion in the country. A number of pro
fessional gentlemen attached to one of
our Colleges have generously tendered
their services to the association, without
charge.— Philadelphia Inquirer.
Kail Hoads in tlie United States.
According to the Railway Annual, the
average cost of railways in the United
estates, per mile has been $30,328. In
the Middle States, $40,918 ; in tbe South
ern States, $22,900; and in the Western
States, 36,333. The list of dividend pay
ing roads comprises 78 ; among which two
pay an annual dividend of twelve per
cent. ; nine, ten per cent. ; two, nine per
cent. ; ten, eight per cent. ; six, seven pe:
cent. ; thirty, six per c&nt. ; five, five per
cent. ; one four percent. ; one, two and a
half per cent.; and one, two per cent.
Ice list of delinquent companies, on stock
or bonds, amounts to thirty-three. Tlie
total bonded debt of the American rail
ways, all of which mature between 1859
and 1874, amount to $411,199,702.
“Bobert Wickliffc who recently died in
Kentucky, was probably the wealthiest
man in Kentucky, being worth seven
millions of dollars, owning five thousand
acres of land in Fayette County alone,
and several hundred negroes. He was a
great lawyer, growing smarter as he
grew older, and he lived to be eighty-five.
He made a speech in Court a few days
before his death. He was soon seized
with a congestive chill, of which he died.
The deceased was remarkable for the ex
ceeding bitterness of his prejudices, of
which his hostility to Henry Clay and’tbe
Rev. Dr. R. J Breckinridge furnished a
strong illustration.” He was during the
Administration of l’resident Tyler a mem
ber of his Cabinet.
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Brandy vs. Bourbon,
Au animated discussion, involving the
relative Ilygeniac properties of these
liquors,- was held on one of the porticos
cf the Burnet a day or two since. Final
ly, as a clincher, the Bourbon man cited
Col. , of Lexington, who had drank
pure Bourbon since he was fifteen, and
drank it steadily ; he was now sixty years
old, hale and harty. But the champion
of Cognac retorts: “What do I care for
that—if he’d had good brandy he’d been
eighty by this time.”— Cincinnati Com.
New York Democratic State Con
vention.
. Syracuse, Sept. 15.—The Soft divi
sion of the Democratic Convention which
assembled in Syracuse to-day, reported
resolutions asserting that Congress has
no power to legislate slavery iuto, or en
act a code for the Tciritories, or prohibit
the South from having her just share in
the benefits of the territories.