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Tuesday October 11, 183'J.
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The largest day’s business at Mobile j
this season, was Thursday last, at which ■
time -1,000 bales ot’ cotton changed j
hinds.
; Mr. John Wilson, of Anderson C. 11.,
South Carolina, has received letters pat
ent, dated September 27, 1850, for an
improvement in cotton girts.
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The Mobile Tribune reports that Judge
Dargan has declared in favor of the lion.
F. S. Lyon as successor to Senator Fitz
patrick.
The Daily State I’fess, as we learn
from the Journal and Messenger, has
been discontinued for a while. The
Weekly will be issued regularly cu Satur
day as heretofore.
—
Hie lion. 11. W. Hilliard will deliver
the annual address before the Alabama
State Agricultural Society, in Montgome
ry, Thursday evening, Nov. 17th, as we
learn from the Confederation of the sth.
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Mr. Freeman llawdon, the founder of I
the house of llawdon, Wright & Cos., died
in New York last week. This is the !
second ol the large bank note engraving
houses organized in this country.
The most magnificent and complete boat 1
that has yet been built for the Southern
trade has just been finished, and is de- I
signed for the New Orleans and Ouachita j
trade. She is called the Lizzie Simmons, j
It is stated that the leading Northern
dry goods manufacturers arc to hold a
Convention in November nest, to form a
trade association something like that
which exists among the English manu
facturers.
The glorious uncertainty of the mails
has passed into a proverb. A total
failure of the Eastern mail yesterday,
and a partial one the evening previous,
is not very well calculated, at least, to
exhilarate the spirits.
Colton Picking in Jones.
The Federal Union is informed that on I
Tuesday, 27th September, two hands be- j
longing to J. W. Finney, of Jones coua- j
ty, picked 940 pounds of cotton.
The United States mail steamship State
of Georgia, and schooner B. L. Berry,
from Philadelphia; the schooner 11. L. !
Davis, from Baltimore, and ship Robert
Kelly, from New York, arrived at Savan- j
nah on the 3d.
llog Contracts.
In the interior of Kentucky sales of
hogs for early delivery are reported at
$3 50 gross. Iu Cincinnati some con
tracts have been made at $5 50 to $5 75
net.
Tin Georgia Telegraph says the va- j
cancy occasioned in the Democratic ticket
of Bibb county .by the unexpected death ■
of Judge Powers, was filled on Monday
morning by the selection of Col. J. 11. I
Andrews.
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An election for nearly all the State offi
cers except the Governor, was held on
Monday, in Florida.
In Mississippi an election was held for
Governor, members of Congress, and the
Legislature.
The Alabama Signal announces the
death of Mr. Henry Claiborne, an old
citizen, and a soldier in the war of 1812,
which took place at his residence in that
place on the 15th. Ilis age was about
sixty-eight years.
We learn from the Observer that a !
company of gentlemen are about erecting
a steam cotton press in Pensacola for
compressing cotton, in anticipation of the
completion of the ltail lload next year,
connecting that city with the interior.
The city of Selma, Alabama, has with
in its limits, fourteen Artesian wells,
several of them throwing volumes of wa
ter to the extent of six hundred gallons
to the minute. The depth of these wells
average about four hundred feet.
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The Treasury receipts at Washington,
lov the week ending Monday the 25th
ult, were $1,599,000. The drafts paid
amounted $1,408,000, aud the drafts
issued to $84,000. The amount subject
to draft was $5,163,459, an increase over
last week of more than $758,000 or
$1,000,000 within the last two weeks.
The Greenville South Alabamian, says j
Mr. Farner and an associate have been
in Greenville, and are now engaged in |
running a telegraph line to connect Mo
bile and Montgomery, which will run
along the line of the Alabama and Flori- ‘
da llail Iload, and intersecting it south
of Greenville.
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California Elections.
Advices from Sau Francisco, received
at St. Louis on the 9th ult., say that La- j
tham, Democratic candidatefor Governor, ;
is elected by 20,000 majority. Scott and |
Burick, Lecouiptou Democrats, are £rob- !
ably elected to Congress. The Legisla
ture is largely Democratic.
A Good Tonic.
Messrs. Ragland & Birch have sup- j
plied us with a very superior article of
Porter. We have given it a thorough
trial, and pronounce it excellent. Do you
need a tonic for the stomach's sake?. If
so you could hardly find abetter one than
a few bottles of this self-same Porter.
We are informed that Ragland & Birch
always keep such on hand.
The Vicksburg Whig announces the j
death of the distinguished lawyer, J. M. !
Chilton, on Friday, after a short and se
vere illness, at the residence of Major
Norton, in Hinds county, Miss., where
he was spending the summer with his
family. He was about 50 years of age.
Texas Sea Islniid Cotton.
The Galveston 27ews has been shown
some specimens of Sea Island cotton
raised in small quantities of a few acres,
by several citizens, on Galveston Island.
It has been pronounced by good judges
equal to the best grown in South Caroli
na, and such as will command the highest
price—say 00 cents per pound.
A negro girl at Ghent, Ky., painted
herself and attempted to cross by the
ferry to Indiana. The novelty of the
steamboat attracted her attention and
exposed her ignorance. Suspicion was
excited, and she was returned to her
“old Kentucky home.”
VOLUME III.}
Winston anti Douglas.
The rumor comes from the Virginia
| Springs that ex Governor Winston favors
i Douglas. We scarcely credit it.— Mail.
We can scarcely doubt it. The Mail
evidently questions, the Democracy of
Winston. —Marian American.
The “Veto Governor,” has addressed
; a letter to the Huntsville Advocate from
Sweet Springs, Va., dated Sept. 10th, in
which he defines his position upon the
issues which have been presented as ul
timatums by one portion of the Democrat
ic party to the other. In 1850-51, he con-
1 sjdered that the question of non inter-
I vent ion w3 presented and accepted by
: the Soutli, and decided against those in
j favor of it. The point settled according
to his understanding, was “That Con
gress was to let the question alone,” —
“hands off” was the conclusion and de
mand of Southern statesmen, and it now
appears to him too late to re-open the
question. lie believes that on an abstrac
tion, as he terms it, the people of the
South are unwilling to resort to that
ultima ratio in defense of their lights—a
disruption of the Union. In a word, he
opposes the agitation of the question of
non-intervention as calculated to distract
and disintegrate the party.
Gov. Win.-Cpu may be honest iu his ex
pressed opinions, but they should be re
ceived “ with’ many grains of allowance”
’ considering his former position, and un
disguised aspirations for a seat in the
| United States Senate.
T!se Opelika and Oxford Hail Hoad.
The Southern Mercury, alluding to the
| encouragement given by the Montgomery
Mail to the Opelika and Oxford Hail Hoad,
i says:
The newspapers of Columbus are so
prejudiced-against our road thatitis use
less to expect any aid from them, even if
we could make it plain as the noonday
sun that it would be for the interest of
that city to assist us. We hope the oth
er papers of Montgomery will join the
Mail in stirring up the people of that
city to lend us “aid aud comfort” in our
enterprise.
The papers of Columbus entertain no
prejudice against the road. Their oppo
sition to it has been merely negative, and
they have not advocated positive assist
ance to it, because Columbus is, at pres
ent, more interested in other enterprises
j of vital importance to her prosperity.
We are not prejudiced against any enter
prise that will benefit Columbus, but be
| lieve that with a connection by rail road
; with Childersburg tia Dadeville, she will
! be better enabled to withstand the ad
verse interests of Augusta and Charles
ton, which would lead those cities to in
tersect the Oxford road by a branch from
West Point, and thus create a diversion in
their favor.
Tile Uriels Trade.
Few have any idea of the extent and
importance of the brick trade iu this and
many foreign countries. The Pittsburgh
True Press has been informed by a gen
j tleman, lately returned from St. Louis,
that 200,000,000 of brick are made in
that city, 40,000,000 in Pittsburgh and
| vicinity, 100,000,000 in Philadelphia
and other places, annually. Bricks also
constitute a very important article of
[ the commerce of Pensacola.
Ciiiriqni.
The Mobile Tribune of the 2d saj-s ;
Capt. Harry Maury left yesterday on
the mail boat, in company with a large
number of emigrants, destined for the
new land of gold and bright prospects,
Chiriqui. They go, as is stated, to New
Orleans, where there aro two vessels
waiting to take them to their destintion.
Within the past week, about three hun
dred strong, athletic young men, mostly
of the better class of society, from Geor
gia, South Carolina, and Alabama, have
passed through the city, all destined for
the land of gold.
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The sales of cotton at New Orleans the
past week were 42,000 bales. The week’s
receipts amounted to 46,013 bales, of
which 25,239 were exported, 23,824 to
foreign ports, 1,415 coastwise, leaving
on hand a stock of 122,512 bales, against
105,989 bales same time last year. The
entire receipts since the Ist September,
comprise 150,806 bales, against 114,652.
to same date last year.
Gtir Minister to China.
A special dispatch to the Charleston
Courier, from Washington, the 2d in
stant, informs us that the President and
his constitutional advisers, have fully ap
| proved the conduct of Minister Ward
and Commander Tatnall, in the matter of
the collision between the English and the
Chinese.
The Newnan Blade has been shown the
subscription list of the Griffin and North
Alabama Rail Road, and a majority of
tlie names down had subscribed ten thou
sand dollars, and the lowest on the list
was five thousand dollars. If there are
many names on that list, and the sub
scribers substantial men, it will do.
Tlie Election in. SavamiaL.
The News of the 4th says the election
Monday passed off quietly in Savannah.
The Opposition had no ticket for Repre
sentatives. The entire vote polled was
j only 1,406. At the time of its going to
press, 1,102 votes were couuted, when
i Brown had 172 majority over Akin;
Love the same majority over Mclntyre.
The maritime trade of New York for
the week ending 29th September, as we
j learn from the Daily News, was as foi
, lows: The total arrival of vessels were
223, of which 72 were from foreign, and
• 151 from domestic ports. The total clear
ances were 134, of which 49 were for
foreign and 85 for domestic ports. The
total number of passengers for the week
from foreign ports, were 2,328.
The Tempbrancc Crusader authorita
tively announces that the Hon. Edward
Everett has accepted the invitation to de
liver an address at the Georgia State Ag
ricultural Fair, to be held in Atlanta
from the 24th to the 28th of this month.
Postmaster Fowler, of New lork, has
received an order for one million of the
new Government self-sealing stamped en
velopes, mainly for the supply of hotels,
educational institutions, city authorities,*
&c.
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The National Democratic State Com
mittee of Illinois, have called a Conven
tion at Springfield, January 10th. to
choose delegates to the Charleston Con
vention.
The Hon. Sherard Clemens, wounded
in a duel with Wise, is now considered by
bis Physician to be in a very critical con
dition.
A Court of Inquiry has been called at
the uavy-yard, Pensacola, Fla., to inves
tigate the loss of the steamship Fulton.
Election Returns.
By a telegraphic dispatch to the Times
of this morning, Brown’s majority in
Chatham county is ascertained to be 96.
Love, for Congress, 15.
In Bulloch county, Brown anil Love’s
| majority 180.
Pike county gives A. M. Speer, for
Congress, 200 majority.
In Richmond county, Akin’s majority
; 212. A. It. Wright’s majority over Jones,
| the Democratic candidate for Congress,
j is 184.
In Newton county. Brown’s majority is
156. Harper, Democratic candidate for
Congress, 19 majority. Democratic ticket
elected to the Legislature.
In Burke county, Brown’s majority 20.
Jones’ majority 36.
In “Warren county, Opposition elected
Representatives to the Legislature, and
the majority for the Democratic candi
dates ‘for Governor and Congress, is re
ported to be 60.
In Fulton county, 30 in ijority reported
for Brown.
In Baldwin county, Brown’s majority
111 ; Harper’s, for Congress, 72. The
Democrats elected their Representatives
to the Legislature.
In Talbot, Akin’s majority 85. Harde
man’s majority for Congress, 62.
In Taylor county, Democratic ticket
elected.
In Macon county, Douglass 75 ma
jority.
In Bibb county, Brown’s majority 69;
Hardeman’s 32. Democratic Senator and
one Representative elected. Opposition
elected one Representative.
In Third District, Harper (Democrat)
reported to be ahead for Congress.
In addition to the election returns from
the counties already published, we learn
that in Spalding county the Democratic
ticket is elected.
Iu Harris county, the official returns
give Akin 231 majority ; Hardeman 230 ;
Iloo'd (American) 183. The American
Representatives elected, one by 256 and
the other by 234 majority.
‘Whitehurst (American) is elected in
Wilkinson county, and Wells (American)
in Washington.
In Effingham, the Americans have
gained.
In Monroe and Richmond, the Ameri
can ticket is elected.
In DeKalb county, Brown’s majority is
439; Gartrell’s, 322. Alexander, and
Ragsdale (Americans) are elected to the
Legislature.
In Walton, Brown’s majority is 72.
Whitehurst and Silvers are elected to the
Legislature.
In Troup, Akin’s majority at LaGrange
250 ; Wright’s 220. Opposition ticket—
Hill, Fannin and Ward—elected to the
Legislature.
In Coweta county, the reported ma
jority for Brown is 377 ; in Campbell,
300; in Whitfield, 370.
In Cobb, the reported majority for Akin
is 200 ; in Cass, 200 : in Floyd, 250.
The Atlanta American gives the official
returns of Fulton county. Brown’s ma
jority,76; Gartrell’s, 326. Collier (Dem.)
15 majority for Senator; Thrasher (Am.)
25 majority for Representative.
It is believed that Hardeman is elected
in the 3d, and Gartrell in the Bth Dis
trict.
The returns indicate that Brown gains
consilerably over his vote in the last
election.
In Talbot, we learn the Opposition
elected their ticket.
In Taylor, the Democratic ticket is
elected.
In Bibb, the Democrats elected the sen
ator aDd cue representative (Tracy,) and
the Opposition one representative. In
this county the democrats had but one
candidate for representative, the other
(Judge Powers) having died the day pre
vious to the election.
In the 7th District, Robert G. Harper,
Democratic candidate for Congress, is
possibly elected; he having gained in
four counties, and possibly two more.
In the Bth District—full returns re
ceived from seven counties, in which the
majority for Jones, Democratic candidate
for Congress, is 371. There is no doubt
of his election.
In Upson county the Opposition car
ried the county. Hardeman’s majority
285.
In Newton, Democrats elected to the
Legislature. Brown’s majority, 20. Hill
and Harper tied for Congress.
In Clayton, Democratic ticket elected
to the Legislature. Brown's majority 90,
Gartrell’s 74.
Iu Henry, the Opposition ticket is
elected.
In Ware, the’ majority for Brown is
194.
Brown has majorities also in Liberty
and Mclntosh.
In Dougherty, Brown’s majority 99,
Crawford’s 102. Democrats elected their
Senator and one Representative; Opposi
tion elected one.
In Schley, the entire Democratic ticket
is elected.
ki Thomas, the average majority of the
whole Democratic ticket is 125 votes.
In Crawford, Brown and Speer have
majorities, and Democratic ticket elected
to the Legislature.
The Democrats have carried all the
Congressional Districts except one.
Pierce county gives Brown a majority
of 168 and Love 200. The Democratic
ticket is elected.
Appling and Coffee counties give large
Democratic majorities.
In Oglethorpe, Glasscock, Wilkes,
Baldwin. Clarke and Walton, the Demo
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cratic tickets are elected.
Decatur gives Akin 130 majority, and
Douglass 135. Chester (Opp.) elected to
the Senate, aud R. R. Terrell (Ind.
Dem.) to the House.
Glynn gives T. Butler King 40 majori
ty for State Senator. Harris (Dem.)
elected to the House without opposition.
Mclntosh—Brown 137, Akin 86, Love
144, Mclntyre 72, Spalding (Dora.) elect
ed Senatcr, and Hopkins (Dem ) Repre
sentative.
Liberty gives Brown and Love majori
ties. Boggs and Harrington (Opp.)
elected to the Legislature.
In Bryan, Lincoln and Putnam, the
Democratic ticket is elected.
In Floyd, Democratic Senator aud Op
position Representatives are elected.
In Jefferson, Opposition ticket elected.
Iu Gwinnett, Opposition Senator and
Democratic Representatives are elected.
In Jasper, Opposition Hcket elected.
The returns so far are believed to be
correct as to the result, though not as to
the exact majorities. When the full offi
cial returns are received, we will prepare
a tabular statement, showing the compar
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 11, 1559.
ative vute of this and the last general
! election.
Blakely, Early Cos., Ga.,Oet. 3.
Eds. Sun : Below find statement of votes
cast at Blakely precinct:
For Governor —Brown 189; Akin 75.
Congress—Crawford 169, Douglass 75,
Potter 9, Bethune 2.
Senate—llobiuson 234.
Representative—Cook 201.
The other precincts will iucrease the
Democratic majorities about 70 votes.
In the Fourth District, Gartrell’s ma
jority is 2,807. Brown’s majority in the
District, 2,433.
In the Seventh District, Hill’s majority
| is 199.
Troup county give3 Akin 472 majority ;
i Wright 434.
In Monroe, Opposition ticket elected.
Henry county, Brown 130 majority ;
Harper 66 majority. Opposition Senator j
and Democratic Representatives to the !
Legislature elected.
Milton county, Brown’s majority 243
Underwood’s 200. Democratic Senator
and Opposition Representative elected.
Forsyth gives Brown 450 majority;
Democratic ticket elected.
. Cherokee gives Brown 584 majority.
Green gives Akin 324 majority; Hill,
377 majority.
Columbia give3 Brown 50 majority ;
Democratic ticket elected.
Clarke county elected one Democrat to
the Legislature.
Campbell gives Brown 397 majority;
Gartrell 388. One Democrat aud one
Independent candidate elected to the
Legislature.
Malone (new county) one Democrat and
one Opposition candidate elected to the
Legislature.
Walker gives Brown 350 majority.
Chattooga gives Brown 350 majority.
In Bryan, AVhitfield, Hart, Polk, Mur
ray, Madison and Jackson counties, the
Democratic tickets are elected.
Catoosa gives Brown 70 majority ;
Democratic Senator and Opposition Rep
resentative elected.
Mr. Fleming in. Augusta.
The Dispatch of the 4th says : “Mr.
Fleming opened Concert Hall to a good
audience last night, and his company
made a favorable impression. The piece
presented was Bulwer’s pleasing drama
of the “Lady of Lyons”—a piece that
has maintained a wide and lasting popu
larity, as much, perhaps, from the beauty
of its sentiment aud composition as from
any dramatic qjcellence of the piece.
Every character was creditably sustained,
and we have not, in some years, had on
our boards a company comprising as
much good talent.”
Savannah Municipal Nominations.
The Savannah News of yesterday,, re
ports the assembling of the Democracy
in the Masonic Hall in that city, the
evening of the 4th, when Tlios. M. Tnrn
er was nominated for Mayor. The en
tire ticket for Mayor and Aldermen was
ratified. Tlios. M. Wayne withdrew his
name for Alderman, when Col. Noah B.
Knapp was substituted.
The Crops.
The Southern Champion, published at
Claiborne Ala., says:
The general complaint among our plan
ters at this time, is short crops and low
prices. As far as we have been able to
learn, the cotton crop will fall short about
one-fourth from what was anticipated a
month ago. The planters will be enable
to finish gathering their crops much ear
lier this fall than usual. Large quanti
ties of cotton are almost daily received at
the warehouse.
The Virginia papers announce the fail
ure of the Bank of Manassa, located at
Front Royal, Warren county, which oc
curred on Friday last. Its notes are se
cured by the deposit with the Treasurer
of an equal amount of State Stock, be
sides its assets and the individual liabili
ty of the stockholders.
Montgomery ait cl Pensacola R, li.
In a business letter from a mercantile
house in Pensacola, to the Mobile Even
ing News, it is informed of the following :
We are advised of the engagement of
a ship to load with iron, in England, for
the rail road to Montgomery. She will
be here in November; iu the meantime
the work is.progressing.
Col. Gad Humphries died at St. Augus
tine, Fla., on the 31st of August, in the
74th year of his age. He served through
the war of 1812, and acted as agent for
the Seminole Indians for eight years,
when he was removed. For the past ten
years he was Judge of Probate.
Senator Crittenden said in the com
mencement of his speech at the Chicago
Fair : “I came from home, among other
things, to avoid politics.”
In some other States politicians volun
tarily stay at home to avoid politics, os
tensibly ; but it is really to remove any
obstacle in the path to promotion.
Blississijjpi Election.
The election which came off in Missis
sippi on Monday last, as we learn from
the Memphis Avalanche of the sth, re
sulted in the success of the entire State
Democratic ticket. The Legislatuie is
Democratic, but few Opposition members
having been elected.
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Organization of the Tennessee Leg
islature.
The Legislature of Tennessee convened !
and organized on the 3d instant. In the
Senate Tazewell W. Newnan, of Franklin,
was elected President. In the House W.
C. Whitthorne, of Murray, wa3 chosen
Speaker.
The Raleigh Register says that from
the year ending August, 1859, 51,398
bales of cotton were received at the mar
kets of Petersburg, Norfolk and Ports
mouth, two-thirds of which, it is estima
ted, were raised in North Carolina.
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It is rumored that a Southern lady,
distinguished for her beauty and well
known for her literary achievements, has
: become enamored of the stage, and will
make her first appearance on the boards
in New York, in a few months.
About forty bales of cotton, says the
Selma Reporter, were burned on the
Alabama and Mississippi Rivers Rail
Road, the 3d. The fire was occasioned
by the sparks from a locomotive.
The New York Shipping List of Satur
! day understands that a portion of the
receipts at that port of the new Rice crop
have suffered damage by premature ship
ment.
The Rev. John Quiuian, of Cincinnati,
and President of the Mount St. Mary’s of
; the West, has been recognized at Rome
as Bishop of the Diocese of Mobile, made
j vacant by the death of Bishop Porti/er.
Senator Clay, of Alabama.
The Dayton (Ohio) Empire, in noticing 1
the speech of Mr. Clay, in which he says
that he will not support the nominee of
the Charleston Convention if it. be Mr.
Douglas or any body who coincides with
him in sentiment, makes these observa
tions : “Any one who will make so foolish
a declaration reads himself out of the
party. One who will not conform to the
usages of a party, and who will, in ad- i
vance of its authoritative action, declare
his determination to disregard it, is not ;
worthy to bear its name.” To this the i
Cincinnati Enquirer adds: “He lias no
, more right to caucus with Democratic
Senators next winter than has John I’.
Hale or Senator Trumbull.”
The above emanates from two of Mr.
Douglas’ organs, one of them being a
leading organ in the West. Such senti
ments, we regret to know, are not con
fined to that latitude.- There are even
politicians iu the extreme South, who
would visit Senator Clay, and others of
his boldness aj)d independence, with ex
communication from the party. Ilis de
claration, in advance of its authoritative
action, was demanded by obligations
which, as a patriot and representative of
a sovereign State, he could not disregard.
Should he be placed without its pale, he
will be consoled by the company of
others equally as high in the estimation
and confidence of the South. But there
is scarcely a probability of this ; he could
not and would be spared. The South
needs the presence of men of his ability
and soundness in the councils of the na
tion, and so long as his constituency co
incide with him, as they have done aud
do to-dtiy, he will be retained in his.
present position. When Senator Clay’s
right to caucus with Democratic Senators
is denied and refused, then it will be time
to look for tlie admission of John P. Hale
or Senator Trumbull into full fellowship.
Not Married.
In the New York Evening Post, not
many days ago, it was announced that
Hon. John Cochrane, one of the Repre
sentatives in Congress from New York,
was married. But it turns out that the
victim of Hymen is not the Congressman,
but another John Cochrane. The bache
lor M. C. writes thus to the Post :
My Dear Sir: Your last evening’s pa
per, when publishing the nuptials of a
doubtless happy pair, of my patronymic,
thus commenced: ‘
“John Cochrane, the bachelor Congress
man, has at last surrendered.”
Permit me to transmit a later bulletin
from the seat of war. Though in a state
of close siege, I have reason to think the
fortress impreguable. Yet a failure of
supplies might compel its surrender at
discretion.
Yours, in verity,
JOHN COCHRANE.
Imports of Dry Goods.
The total imports of foreign dry goods
at New York for the month of Sep
tember, amount to $5,990,973. The total
amount withdrawn from warehouse is
$640,093, which with the amount entered
for consumption, makes that thrown on
the market $6,631,905.
The imports of foreign dry goods for
the eight months from January Ist,
amount to $87,503,193. The Journal of
Commerce of the Ist, says the remainder
of the year must show a large increase cn
the last quarter of 1857, for the aggregate
receipts for the remaining three months
of that year were less than seven and
three quarter millions. We think, also,
that the imports for the next three months
will show a farther gain upon last year ;
but of this there is less certainty. The
importers have been discouraged by
heavy losses, and some have countermand
ed their orders.
A Reduction Meeting.
The proceedings of a meeting of the
citizens of Emanuel county, to hear an
address from Col. Gaulden on the ques
tions of the slave trade, and reduction of
the number of members of the Legisla
ture, appears in the Savannah News.—;
Resolutions advocating the ve-opening of
the slave trade, and denouncing the re
strictions upon it, were adopted. The
following resolutions were also adopted :
Resolved, That in the opinion of this
meeting the number of the members of
the Legislature ought to be reduced.
Resolved, That one representative from
each county is amply sufficient, and one
senator from four counties ; that the
Legislature, as at present composed, is
an unnecessary expense ami burden to
the people.
Finances of Alabama.
The Montgomery Advertiser of yester
day says: “From an examination of the
report of the State Treasurer, which is
now iu the hands of the State printers,
we find the entire receipts for the fiscal
year of 1858-’59, was $1,327,235 90, and
the disbursements $685,550 90, showing
a balance in the Treasury on the Ist iust.
of $631,679 00.
“And with regard to Montgomery j
county, we found that it is second upon I
the list, ‘paying during the last fiscal
year $56,954 44, which, compared with i
the year previous, shows an increase of
! $4,087 -92.”
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Contest of Etliridge’s Election.
The Nashville Union and American, |
says the Democracy of Henry county,
Tennessee, assembled in public meeting j
on the 19th of September, and requested
Hon. J. D. G. Atkins to contest the seat
! of Emerson Ethridge in the House of
; Representatives, on the ground that ho
I is the “legally and fairly elected Repre
! sentative of the District.”
The editor of the American says, that
during a late visit to that District he was I
furnished with the name3 of a sufficient I
number of the imported voters from Ken- i
tucky to have changed the result of the j
election.
CUickei-ing’s Pianos.
In a card to the public the Messrs, j
Chickering & Son give the incidental in- i
formation that their celebrated manufac
tory was established in Boston, by James !
Chickering in 1832, since which time they
have made and sold in this country, South
America and Europe, nearly twenty-two
thousand pianos, for the superiority of
which, they have been awarded at differ
ent fairs in this and other countries, ;
thirty-eight prize medals.
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An editor of a paper lately informed
his readers that the ladies always pull off j
the left stocking last. This, as may be
supposed, created . some stir among his
fair readers, ond while, in positive terms,
they denied the statement, they insisted
that he had no business to know it even
if such were the fact. He proves it,
however, by a short argument: “When,
one stocking is pulled off, there is an
other left on; pulling off this is taking
the left stocking off last.”
The Telegraph Office in Richmond, to
gether with one or two stores, were de
stroyed by fire on the night of the 30th
1 ult.
High Authority.
Ex-Governor 11. S. Foote, of M ssissipi,
who has taken up his residence iti Nash
ville, Tean., publishes a long letter, in
which he speaks in terms of warm ap
proval of the spirit of Senator Douglas’
magazine article, lie says that he is
sick of conventions and caucuses, and
that his vote will not be influenced by
the action of that at Charleston. He
regards Mr. Douglas as one of about j
twenty distinguished statesmen both
Whig and Democratic, any of whom lie
would like to see elevated to the Presi
dential chair.— Washington States.
The above paragraph, among others, is
collated by a Douglas paper iu Alabama,
to exhibit, it is presumed, the spirit of
the politicians towards the “little giant.”
We suppose the ex Governor regards |
himself as another of the distinguished
twenty, and the one whom he would es- j
pecially like to see elevated to the Presi- j
dency. As to conventions and caucuses,
it is not strange lie should be sick of ‘
them, since they have been evidently ;
long sick of him. We would suggest to j
the editor aforesaid the policy, at least,
of pointing the South to higher authority
for political opinion than a man whose
services in the national councils have
been dispensed with as dangerous to her
vital interests.
In ISSO-51, the positions of the editor
and the ex-Governor whom he quotes as
an exemplar, were diametrically opposed;
now they stand shoulder to shoulder on
the Douglas platform. There is no ac
counting for such revolutions, unless
through the wondrous vicissitudes of
politics.
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Tobacco aud Corn.
Stimulated by the success of Connecti
cut farmers in their tobacco crops, which
are always tolerably certain to command
high prices in the market, and which have
already drawn into their production a
large amount of capital and labor that
would other wise have been invested in
the culture of the good old honest and
wholesame crop of Indian corn, the far
mers iu some of t'qe Connecticut River
Valley towns in Massachusetts have for a
few years past ventured into the same
business to a considerable extent. The
Northampton Courier says:
“ It is evidently the intention of many
farmers here to engage permanently in
its cultivation, and this appears more es
pecially from the many large and well
built tobacco sheds erected in various
parts of the town.” The same paper says
that in the old town of Hadly the value
of the present tobacco crop will be $40,000,
and adds: This, in money value, is about
double that of the 25,000 bushels of Indi
an corn, which is about the annual ave
rage product of the town for the last
twenty years. The first named crop has
grown on about 200 acres of land, while
the corn crop, worth in market only
about half the money, would occupy full
700 acres, allowing 25 bushels per acre
as au average product. Is it reasonable
to suppose such a difference will be per
manent ?
Virginia Annual Tobacco State
ment.
The aggregate inspections of tobacco at
the various warehouses in Petersburg,
Virginia, for the year ending September
the 30th, is 16,079 hogsheads, showing
a gain of 925 hhds. upon the last year.
The annual statement of inspections in
Richmond foots up 41,797 hogsheads,
showing a loss of 2,829 upon the pre
vious year. Besides the tobacco inspect
ed iu Petersburg, there were about 2,500
hogsheads of loose tobacco sold, the whole
receipts of this kind being about 15,000
hogsheads. This added to the inspec
tions, with a proper deduction of what
was prized at the different factories,
makes a grand total of about 80,000 hogs
heads for the State.
Correspondence of the bun.
Glenville, Ala., Oct. 6, 1859.
Eds. Sun: As you are in the habit of
reporting large cotton pickings, and as
you have not reported any that can come
up to “old Barbour,” will you just give
the following oue turn in your daily to
let the folks see that we can just lick any
one that has yet appeared in your paper:
Mr. J. D. Parker on last Saturday,
Oct. Ist, started 22 crop hands, and they
picked 7,590 lbs., being an .average of
345 lbs. to the hand. Ilis two best bauds
picked 1,000 lbs., and five hands picked
2,400 lbs., being an average of 480 lbs.
to the hand. Now, Mr. Editor, just beat
this if you ca'n, and we will try again.
Yours, &c., J.
The old perplexing query, “How many
children had John Rogers?” has at last
been definitely and historically settled.
At the late celebration in Norwich,
Chancellor Walworth spoke to the senti
ment relative to tlie first settlers of the
town, as follows :
Chancellor Walworth said it was sixty
six years since he left the town of Boz
rah. He named the .original settlers of
Norwich, Dr. Theophilus Rogers among
! them —fifth in descent from the famous
i John Rogers, the martyr. The Chancellor
! settled the long-pending dispute about
the number of John’s children (“nine
j small children and one at the breast,”
! says the primer—were there nine or ten ?)
by exhuming from some old history a
letter or address from John to the gov
ernment, in which was a passage to Ibis
| effect: “I would that my worthy wife
might come to see me ; she has with her
ten children, which are hers and mine,
and I would comfort her somewhat.”
Effect of tlie High Price of Negroes.
The Newburn (N. C.) P<&gre3S says,
j justly, that the high prices of negroes
are drawing them rapidly away from
| Virginia and North Carolina, and that
! the agriculture of these States is sensibly
i feeling the loss. It says:
“One of the most intelligent and suc
| cessful planters on the Roanoke, in the j
old North State, remarked to a friend
yesterday, that although his land needed
: more laborers, yet he could not afford to 1
j buy them at present rates, nor can any I
prudent farmer iu the old States. What j
j then ? Why away they go to the sugar 1
and cotton lands of the South, and the
] agricultural interests of Virginia and
North Carolina must suffer, of course.—
But the question suggests itself here,
how high they will get?”
It matters but little how much higher
| the prices will get. Even at present
prices, Virginia at least will be drained
time enough. —Richmond Whig.
The question cf the restoration of
Bishop Onderdonk is causing considera
ble and excited discussions among church
people. As soon as the intended attempt
at restoration was made public, themem
j bers of the diocese, especially those par
tial to the deposed Bishop, began earnest
’ ly to claim that he should also be fully
restored to ail his Episcopal functions.
This excessive and hasty zeal has givc-n
offense to the Low Church party, and al-
I ready there are signs of a storm brew
ing. Dr. Anthon, one of the first signers
of the petition for restoration, to be pre
sented to the House of Bishops, publicly
withdrew his name from the call.
{NUMBER 26.
Later from Uavaunn.
New 0 leans, Oct. p.—The steamship
DeSoto from Ilavauna, with dates to the
od inst.. arrived here to-day.
The demand of Sug;:r ha 1 improved.
Exchange on London 1-3 to IG. Exchange
on New Votk -1 to 5} for sight; G.V to 7
for GO days.
The politicial news by the DeSoto is
generally unimportant.
Movements of the Filibusters.
New Orleans, Oct. s.—The tillibusters
did not leave trout Bermiks Bay; they
went down the river in the tow boat ,
Panther, and put to sea without any pro- I
visions. The rneu have since been laud- ]
ed at the Southwest Pass. Collector
Hatch still refuses a clearance for the j
steamer Philadelphia, he being satisfied
that she intends taking the filibusters to
Nicaragua. The great precaution that
was used by Collector Hatch has doubt
less frustrated the expedition.
The EpLcopal Convention.
R.cumond, Va., Oct. 4 —The Episcopal \
Convention was organized hero to-day. j
There was no business transacted by tiic
House of Bishops. Bishop Meade pro- j
sided at the Convention.
Arrival of the Parkersburg.
Savannah, October s.—The steamship
Parkersburg, from New York, arrived
here to-day.
The Fillibusters.
New Orleans, Oct. G.—The departure
of the steamship St. Louis was not con
firmed.
The Government ordered the U. S. !
Marshal at New Orleans to seize the
steamship Philadelphia, if he was satis
fied that she was concerned with the filli
busters and their movements.
A compauy of Federal Artillery, from
Baton Rouge, was ou the way to a point
on the river below New Orleans.
Later li-oai Brazil.
New Orleans, Oct. G.—Official infor
mation has been received here that Bra
zil had reduced her export duty on sugar,
hides and other uative products to eight
per centum.
Barge Fire.
Chicago, Oct. G.—The Rope Factory
was burned down to-day. The loss is
estimated at five hundred thousand dol
lars. There was an insurance on the
factory of seventy-eight thousand dol
lars.
The California Mails.
New Orleans, Oct. 6.—The Vander
bilt line of steamers takes the California
mails via. Panama. There will bo no in
terruption in the semi-monthly mails
from New Orleans, with the exception of
the first trip.
Mississippi Flections.
New Orleans, Oct. G.—The returns of
the Mississippi elections show large Dem
ocratic gains.
Louisiana Vigilant Committee.
New Orleans, Oct. G.— The Vigilant
Committee in Louisiana still continue
their operations.
Judicial Jolcc.
A few years ago there sat upon the
bench of a court, not a thousand miles
from Memphis, a judge whose disposi
tion had been soured from some cause or
other (for he was a bachelor) until he
fancied that the bar, officers and all,
were defying his dignity, and attempted
to bring the judicial ermine into con
tempt. At the commencement of one of :
the sessions of his court, he determined j
to bring the bar, clerk and sheriffs to a
just appreciation of the dignity .of his j
court, and the first thing he did was to ;
fine the sheriff and his deputy for the ;
non-performance of an impossible duty.
Ilia next attention was paid to the mem- i
bers of the bar. One after another was |
fiued, until it came to the turn of one of i
the most talauted and boldest advocates. J
lie (the lawyer) was busy in the exami
nation of some papers, when Lis atten
tion was arrested by an order from the
Judge to enter up a fine of $5 against
him. “ May it please your honor,” said
the advocate, “for what am I fined?”
“ For contempt of court,” thundered the
Judge. “Well,” said the advocate, “it:
is the fi/st time in my life I have known
a man to be fined for his unuttered j
thoughts. ” —Memphis Avalanche.
Arkansas Hot Springs.
A correspondent of the Mobile Register,
sojourning at the Hot Springs in Arkan
sas, makes the following allusion to
them in a letter to that paper:
The Springs are situated between two
lofty mountains, and the water gushes
out of rocks and is as hot as boiling wa
ter. The thermometer in the bath
houses ranges from 110 to 130 degrees,
and when one first ventures into the bath
he is impressed with the idea that “his
time has come.” After one or two batl)3
you become perfectly acclimated, and
you have no idea how pleasant it is to
“drink hot water and sweat.” Immedi
ately under the vapor bath, yesterday, I
saw a hog scalded and the hair was taken
off as clean as a whistle. Eggs are fre
quently boiled in the water in from ten
to fifteen minutes. There are two hotels
here, but owing to the possession of the
Springs being in dispute, the houses are
constructed very commonly, and the
place is not arranged with that taste that
characterises our Alabama hotel-keepers.
The Kanawha (Va.) Republican gives
us the following facts -and figures: On
Wednesday last A. Parks and H. H.
Wood, trustees,’ sold fifty-one negroes, ’
the property of Andrew F. and William >
Donnelly. The sales amounted to $28,-
880 30, being an average of $556 30.
One slave sold for $25 ; four for SSO
each ; several for less than $200; sev
eral at an average of SSOO. One girl j
sold for $1,500; one for $1,250. One j
man aged forty-five, sold for $1,400;
several men and women for over $1,200. !
Taken as a lot, the negroes are considered
rather indifferent and prices obtained are 1
considered very good.
Significant.
An exchange says: “It is a singular i
fact that though the Democracy of Maine !
fought their recent election squarely and
openly on the Douglas platform, the re
sult shows a heavy loss. In the counties !
i marshaled by the Douglas leaders the De
j mocracy suffer very heavy losses, while
: in two, where the party stood up for Bu
: chanan, they fully hold their last year’s
i vote.”
In an “Essay on Woman,” a writer re
| marks that beauties generally die old
maids. They set such a price on them
j selves that they don’t find a purchaser 1
till the market is closed. Out of eleven
beauties that have come out within the
last eighteen years, ten are still single, j
They spend their days in working great
dogs on yellow wool, while their evenings
are devoted to low spirits and French
novels.
Messrs. George Forrester Co., of
Liverpool have just finished anew steam
yacht for Prince Ismali Pasha of Egypt.
The new yacht is 180 feet long by 18 feet
G inches beam, and has engines of 80
horse power. She is gorgeously fitted
: up, and her estimated cost is about
I £20,000. t
“I can’t bear children,” said Miss Prim,
disdainfully. Mrs. PartiDgton looked
over her spectacles mildly before she re
plied : “Perhaps if you could you would
like them better.”
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The Mechanics’ Bank of Augusta de
clared a semi-annual dividend of five
dollars per share, on Monday last.
Opelika anti pitildersburg Railroad
Survey.
We learn from the Tallapoosa Times
that the surveying company of the above
road encamped at Daileville Thursday
night last, and moved on to Cliildersburg
on Friday. The Times says:
We visited the camp at night and were
shown the road beautifully delineated ou
paper, as far as the plotting bad been
done. In many places between this and
j Opelika, it looks as though nature had
prepared the road-bed nearly ready for
: the timbers; at other there are
intervening hills and ravines which will
j require heavy grading. Taken as a
whole, the grading of the road from this
i place to Opelika, a distance of just 28
i miles, in point of cheapness, will com
pare favorably with any road in Ala
bama. The average cost of grading be
i tween this and Opelika, in our opinion,
; will be less than five thousand dollars
per mile. This is based upon the fact
that the engineer told us he would like
to take the contract at six thousand dol
. lars per mile.
The Times contradicts the rumor that
! the Rail Road is likely to be a failure, on
; acount of the surveyor not finding a place
where it could cross the creek nearDade
i ville. It says :
This is all a mistake, and probably
! grew out of the eireumstanctv that the
| first effort made to reach the creek two
I miles above town was likely to prove a
’ failure, owing to the descent being too
| rapid for the distance to the stream; but
i this was soon obviated by our energetic
j Surve3’or, who retraced his steps to the
I top of tho hill and soon found a passable
i place nearly opposite town, where, with
‘ a bridge seventy-five feet high, the trip
can easiiy be made. We can assure tho
friends of the road that they need have
no fears as to the difficulties in passing
this place, it will not boas difficult as wo
had apprehended.
Correspondence of tlie Daily Sun.
Selma, Ala., Oct. 4, 1859.
Messrs. Editors: I am now sojourning
for a timo in the beautiful and fast-grow-
I ing little city of Selma, on the Alabama
I river, 100 miles from Montgomery and
000 from Mobile, by water. The city has a
population estimated at about 5,000, and
steadily, not i*apidly, on the iucreaso.
Buildings are in course of erection on all
sides—beautiful residences and flue stores.
The citizens arc a go-ahead set of people,
and are determined, from appearances,
to speedily make Selma what she is des
tined ultimately to be, one of the first
commercial (inland) cities in the South
and West. Boats from Montgomery and
Mobile arrive here daily, loaded down
with freight and passengers, and the
different Rail Roads (of which there are
two in number) - receive and distribute
them through the country for miles
around. Tho merchants hero are doing
an excellent business, though the business
season has not yet fairly set in. Cotton
is now coming in more freely than was
ever before known at this season of the
year, and selling readily at good prices.
There are five large beautiful houses of
worship here—the Methodist, Episcopal,
Presbyterian, Baptist, (the pulpit of
which will be occupied shortly by Rev.
N. L. DeVotic, formerly of Columbus,)
and the Cumberland Presbyterian
Churches. The educational interests of
Selma are not neglected, for there are
now some eight or ten schools, conducted
by experienced teachers, in full exercise.
James Taylor, of the firm of Atkinson &
Taylor, in your city, has a store here,
and if I may judge from the number of
the fair sex who daily throng bis store,
he is doing a very excellent business.
I will occasionally drop you a few lines,
which probably may somewhat interest a
few of the many perusers of your valua
ble sheet. Very respectfully, &c ,
H.
Lord Palmerston.
This tough and genial old statesman is
thus described in a recent letter from
London:
Lord Palmerston is too inveterately
hardened into the routine of official work
ever to give it up, even for a short inter
val. He will die in harness. He is
’ happiest in the traces. At Broadlands,
I though no man tramps the stubbles or
i beats tlie cover with keener zest, or car
j lies a surer double-barrel—and that, too,
| without spectacles, at 74—This is but the
I morning’s amusement. By 2or 3 o’clock
Lord Palmerston is in his room, elbow
j deep in dispatches, and walled about
with office boxes. Visitors at the house
see nothing of him till the late dinner at
eight, and that dispatched—there may
then be an adjournment to the drawing
room, and even the billiard-room, where
the perennial host still handles his cue
like a master, and again without specta
cles—Lord Palmerston is more visible
after 10, but the lights are burning in
his private room till 12 or 1, or even
later. In the intervals of this severe and
protracted labor no one can bo gayer or
sprightlier than Lord Palmerston, or
readier to take and pass the mot pour rire.
Though Lord Palmerston declares he has
no time to read “ anything but manu
scripts;” bo seems au fait of the cur
rent literature. Perhaps Lady Palmer
ston eviscerates it for him, and keeps
him supplied with the essence of conver
sation. It would only be one of many
similar services rendered by this most de
voted of wives to her husband. Not
among the least importance of these is
tbo way in which she discharges the duty
of hostess at Broadlands, making it one
of the pleasantest, most unformal, and
least pretentious or dull of country
houses, despite its master’s standing and
devotion to business.
Tlie Kansas Gold.
After all the contradictory reports
which have reached us from the mines in
Kansas, the fact seems at last settled that
there is gold in the mining region, and
that various shipments to the aggregate
amount of $104,000 have actually been
made. A tabular statement published in
the Leavenworth Daily Times gives a de
tailed account of the receipts from May
18 to August 15; from which it appears
that the business firms in Denver City
• and Auroria have received $72,985 from
j miners, and that of this sum, $45,002
have boen shipped to other ports. Nei
ther of the sums named is a year olu and
these results of three months’ business
; are regarded as gratifying indications.
The express which left Denver City in
j the middle of September carried away
$32,000 in addition ; bringing up the
| yield to the figure of $104,000. *
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Singular Disease.
We understand that a considerable
’ number of cows—some dozen or more, in
j the neighborhood of Ann street and the
I Spring Hill Road; have during the last
i two weeks been affected with a disease
; which nobody has yet succeeded in ac
counting for. It manifests itself by blind
! ness, occasionally of one eye, but gene
! rally of both; the organ ’assuming a
whitish and glossy appearance. The
I blindness is so complete that the animals
while grazing will xun against a fence.
The disease is accompanied by a falling
i off in the condition of the cows, but wc
have not heard of any of them having
died, and we have been told that some
: persons have continued to use their milk
: without any unpleasant consequences,
though we should regard the course as
highly injudicious.— Mobile Mercury.
Strange.
To hear a person at one moment con
fess himself a vile worm of the dust—
‘ the chief of sinners—a hardened rebel
; totally depraved—deserving of eternal
tortures, &c —yet ready to blaze up with
passion the moment one hints he may
have formed an incorrect opinion, im
properly expresses himself, or committed
some action not quite accordant with the
moral code. Which shall be believed—•
the parroted, whining confession, or the
action itself 9 Strange, i-n’t it ? At one
1 moment, the English language has no
words sufficiently expressive of self
; abasement; at another, a broken bead if
you question Lis infallibility.
The Opposition of Northampton coun-
I ty, Pennsylvania, held a meeting on the
j Ist October, and adopted resolutions re
-1 commending A. H. Reeder for Governor.