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THE FROG.
Ol’ all the funny things that live.
In woodland, marsh or Ijoi.
That oroop iho ground or tly tho air.
The funniest is tlic frog —
The frog—the scientifickV.- 1
Os Nature’s handiwork
The frog, ihat neither w alks nor runs,
But goes it with a jerk.
With pants and coot of I—ile green,
And yellow fancy vest,
He plunges into mud and mire—
All in his Sunday host.
When he sits down lie’s standing up,
As Paddy O’Quinn once said;
And for convenience sake he wears
His eyes on the top of tiis head.
You soc him sitting on a log.
Above the “vasty deep;”
You feel inclined to say, “Old ediap,
.Just look before you leap!”
You raise your cane to hit him on
His ugly looking mug;
But ere you get it half way up,
Adown he goes here hug.
“ A Life for n Life ”—A Sail Story.
A brief account of the death of Dr.
Robert M. Graham, of New Orleans, has
been given. He is well remembered as
the person who killed Mr. Loring, at the
St. Nicholas Hotel, in New York, and
was sentenced to the Stale prison, but
afterwards pardoned out on account of ill
health. A New Orleans correspondent
of tho Charleston Courier, writing of the
event, gives a touching picture of a life
made miserable and at last destroyed, by
the blight of intoxication. lie says :
His reappearance in liis old haunts
here created a singular sensation. I
never shall forget tho first Mime 1 met
him after his return from his ‘Northern
prison. He stood in frout of a drug
store, that for many years was at the
corner of St. Charles and Common streets,
and in which he had an interest. It was
a gathering place for many street loun
gers and politicians. He hud been seen
there year after year, when he went to
New York, and whilo in prison his portly
form was much missed; it was not
known that lie was going to come back,
and I was fairly startled, when, on turn
ing the corner one morning, I saw him in
his old place, with Lis u-ual attitude,
looking just the same, cigar in mouth,
and small cane in band—only a deathly
pallor had replaced the usual healthy
color of his face. The New York scene
of blood flashed over me; I averted my
head, and passed on.
The same impression was no doubt
produced in the community generally,
and for a long time this pale-faced man
was a stranger in the community where
he had lived so long, where there had
been so many to give him a cordial grasp
of the hand. lie seemed prepared for
this; had no doubt made up his mind to
it, and perhaps had a secret, defying
pleasure in staying in his old haunts, and
attending, with silent pride, to the duties
of his profession.
Gradually a change of feeling came
over the mass of our citizens in regard to
the man ; we are a warm-hearted sympa
thetic people, if we are hot-headed; and
tho reserved, unobtrusive course pursued
by Dr. Graham, his attention to his pro
fession, his avoidance of his former weak
ness, after a while induced many to for
get what had passed, and tho
gained much of his old social acquain
tance and a large share of professional
patronage.
Rut the morbid craving for stimulus,
though once quenched in blood could not
be cured. It came back after awhile, and
it beeamo known that Dr. Graham had
occasional relapses into his old habit of
intoxication. Still ho contrived not to
let this be seen about the streets, and
through the influence of his family and
friends, ho was a yaar ago elected, by
the American party, city physician.
A short time ago, he lost the otlice, at
the expiration of the term, by the elec
tion of Dr. Hart; and for a fortnight, it
appears, had been under the impression
that Mr. Ernest Toledano, a young man,
prominent in the American party, ligcl
procured his defeat, it was known that
he had expressed himself openly, for
some days past, in violent terms, against
Toledano, cursing him and avowing his
purpose to shoot him at sight.
Last night, the Chief of Police, Mr.
Adams, who is related to Graham in some
way, saw him at the lluhy Coffee-house,
on Common street—a popular resort —
and noticed that lie was in liquor, lie
felt a presentment that something was
going to happen, should Graham remain
in that condition in so public a place,
lie went up to him and told him he must
go home; that if he created any disturb
ance he would arrest him and lock him
up for the night. Graham insisted that
he was not intoxicated, but promised to
go home soon. Mr. Adams left him to
meet some police officers at liis own pri
vate office, and a few moments after was
called out and told that Dr. Graham had
just been shot dead.
The body of the dead man was taken
into the coffee house, the doors of which
were closed, and a physician was on the
spot speedily: but his skill was of no
avail. The Chief of Police then had his
body taken to liis private office, and there
stretched out on a table, I saw the unfor
tunate man, liis largo, handsome form
stiffened ; his pantaloons and boots cov
ered with mud ; bis coat, vest and cravat
off; his shirt stained with mud and a lit
tle blood; his arms crossed; his hands
and wrists blackened, tied with his era-
vat; his bosom partly open ; and his fine
features white and fixed forever. There
was no expression of pain about the
countenance; it was calm and serene. A
physician standing by showed me the
wounds, three small black spots below
the right breast, so close together that
the hand could cover them, and one in
the left arm.
The last I had seen of the man he stood
at my elbow, chatting pleasantly, looking
handsome, dignified aud courteous, as
usual; now he lay a blood-stained, mud
and rain-soiled corpse.
Dr. Graham was unfortunate in being
overcome now and then with a craving,
a morbid longing for liquor; and when
under the influence of this stimulus, he,
otherwise calm, quiet, courteous, a thor
ough gentleman in demeanor and appear
ance, became obstinate, hot-headed,
quarrelsome, dangerous. His superior
education and skill as a physician, fine
intelligence, pleasant manner, handsome,
dignified person, and highly respectable
and influential connections here, made
him very popular, and his grievous
weakness was borne with for his many
good qualities, and the esteem had for
his family.
The N. 0. Picayune, speaking of the
funei'al of the deceased, says :
It was attended by a large concourse
of the most respectable aud influential of
the citizens of New Orleans, included
men of all positions, professions and oc
cupations iu the community, of which for
so many years the deceased had been a
member. The services were those set
forth in the solemn ritual of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church, and were com
menced at the house and finished at the
cemetry, by the Rev. C. S. Hedges, rec
tor of St. Luke’s. A long train ofmour- |
ners and friends followed the remains to
the Protestant cemetry, in Girod street,
six of our most prominent citizens walk
ing beside the hearse, as pallbearers.
Hattie of Waterloo.
The following anecdote is told in con
nexion with this battle in the llev. James
White’s History of Fiance:
It was a Sunday, and while all the
church bells in England were calling
people to prayer the cannonade com
menced. Everybody was in expectation
of*a
that Napoleon had crossed over into the
Netherlands and that YY elliugton was
ready to meet him. News was slow of
coming and people’s hearts were sick !
with the expectation of the next mail.
It chanced that between services on that
eventful Sunday a clergyman in Kenr
was walking in his garden. Ilis gard- ;
ener was an old soldier who had f,,ught
in Spain. lie said : “There’s a fight go
ing on, sir, somewhere, for I remember
when we were in the Peninsula we always
knew when a cannonade was takingfplace,
wherever it might be, by a crumbling of
fresh mould.” He took a spade and dug
down a single foot, and along the smooth
surface left by the steel an imperceptible i
trembling shook down little pellets of
the soil. “That’s it, sir,” said the gar
dener, “they’re at it sure enough.” Be- i
ifore the next Sunday came round the
£iews had spread from end to end of the 1
kea-girt isle.”
Thc Otero and Watts Duel.
Under date of Mesilla, A. TANARUS., Septem
ber 12, we find a letter in the St. Louis
Republican, of the 27th nit., giving a full
account of the duel—already briefly men- j
tioned—between Judge R atts and Hon. j
M. A. Otero. It seems that in a speech
| made in the plaza on Sunday, the 4th
j ult., Judge Watts charged Mr. Otero
i with neglect of duty towards his constit
uents, and stated that, on the night of
the 2d of March, 1859, during the pen
dency of a certain appropriation bill be
fore the Senate, Mr. Otero was absent at
a ball with his family. This Mr. Otero
resented by giving Judge Watts the lie,
both in'English and Spanish, in such a
mauner that it was impossible for Judge
Watts, lie thought, to overlook it. A
challenge ensued, which Mr. Otero,
through his friend, Col. Samuel J. Jones,
(Sheriff Jones,) late of Kansas, and now
United States Custom Collector at Mesilla,
t promptly accepted, Prank Green, of San
| ta Fe, acting as friend for Judge Watts.
The weapons selected were Colt’s Davy
i six shooters —one barrel loaded —distance
j fifteen paces. The parties met at sunrise
‘on the 7th, near the Mexican line. Mr.
I Green won the choice of position, also
the word. After the first shot, the friends,
of the parties endeavored to effect a re
conciliation between them, which failed.
The second and third shots were then
fired, without effect, when, after a con
sultation with his principal, and other
friends, Mr. Green declared binjself sat
isfied, find the parties were withdrawn
from the field, the difficulty remaining
Unsettled.— N. 0. Picayune.
Revision of the British Prayer-Book.
Lord Ebury, in a letter to Lord Lyttle
ton, says:
“My first object, because it is infinitely
the easiest, is the re-arrangement of our
Liturgy so u3 to render our services con
sistent with common sense and conveni
ence, aud thus more edifying to ourselves.
Rut, beyond this, I earnestly desire that
some means should be discovered for a
healing of that great breach between
ourselves and those millions of non-con
formists, both at home and in the colo
nies. I will not advert particularly to
them here, but unquestionably there are
not wanting at this moment many signifi
cant symptoms, on both sides, of a move
ment in this direction. One object, it
seems to me, is common to both—rather
to try and plant the standard of the cross
in the strongholds of him whom our Great
Captain has f aught us to conquer, than
to weary ourselves in attempting, in fee
ble and ever changing human language,
to define ineffable mysteries with logical
precision, lor now we only know in part.
Forgive tiie hackneyed phrase, In cerlis
unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus carilas
—such is the device I desire to inscribe
on my peaceful banner.”
Lord LyttletoD, in reply, remarks :
“A commission appointed, and acting
with no foregone conclusion, and without
restraint, would be, as I conceive, unob
jectionable in principle; but its expedi
ency is a matter of most serious ques
tion.”
Are personal fortunes to be judged of
by contrast? Judge if so, and how so,
by what, a New York correspondent of a
Western journal says: “A man in New
York was extremely rich who was worlh
§200,000, and very few in New York
were worth that. There were old Nat.
Prime of the firm.of Prime, Ward& King,
John G. Coster, Robert Lennox, Stephen
Whitney—men worth a quarter of a mil
lion. Old Johu Jacob Astor was worth
three or four millions. The richest men
were connected with commerce. There
were then five or six leading commercial
firms, such as G. G. & S. Howland,
Goodhue & Cos., Grinnell, Miuturn &Cos.,
Spolford & Tileston. Now there are ma
ny hundreds of leading firms, and a man
only worth $259,000 is considered a man
in ‘moderate,’ not to say ‘indigent’ cir
cumstances. Win. R. Astor is worth
about thirty-five millions; George Law is
worth ten millions; so is Stephen Whit
ney. Commodore Vanderbilt will not
foot up less than eighteen millions.
Dozens of people are worth five millions,
and mere millionaries are quite common.
To furnish a journal with a list of this
poor class would use up sever al columns.”
— N. V. News.
Naval Forces in the Chinese Waters.
As affairs in China and the relations
of this country to that exclusive nation
are attracting considerable attention, we
subjoin a statement of the strength of
the respective naval forces of England,
France, Russia and the United States :
Total British Force.— One steam
frigate, 50 guns; three sailing frigates,
40 ; three steam corvettes, 50 ; one sail
ing corvette, 26; five steam sloops, GO;
three sailing sloopis, 28; seventeen gun
boats, 68; three steam transports, 14;
one steam tender, 4; three block ships.
Total guns,-809 Total men, say, 8,900.
Total French Force. —One sailing
frigate, 50 guns ; nineteen steam sloops,
104; five gunboats, 26; three steam
transports; one sailing frigate, 40; one
steam frigate, 40; two steam sloops;
two gunboats, 8. Total guns, 268.
Total Russian Force. —One steam
frigate, 44 guns; seven steam sloops, 59;
four gunboats, 12. Total guns, 125.
American Force at or North of
Shanghai.—U. S. S. Powhatan, 9 guns,
rearson ; U. S. chartered steamer Toey
wan ; U. S. S. Germantown, 20 guns,
Page; U. S. S. Mississippi, 10 guns,
Nicholson. At Japan, U. S. survey screw
Fennimore Cooper, Lieut. J. M. Brooke.
By John Stainbaclc Wilson, M, D,
Falling of the Palate. — The soft
palate, or the little round, teatlike body
in the upper and back part of the mouth,
sometimes becomes inflamed aud swollen,
aud, by touching the upper part of the
tongue, causes a disagreeable tickling,
choking sensation. The palate of the
mouth is then said to be down, in popu
! lar parlance, and, with some people, the
I remedy is to raise it by pulling at the hair
i cn the top of the head! From the expla
| nation given of the difficulty, it will
re di!y be seen that nothing can be done
in that. way. The proper treatment con
; sists in means to reduce the swelling and
inflammation: these are low diet , Epsom
salts, and astringent gargles, as red oak
bark tea, alum water, etc. Where the in
flammation is not very active, the follow
ing gargle is very good : Equal parts of
strongred pepper tea and vinegar, with as
much table-salt as the fluid will dissolve.
Should these simple measures fail, a
! physician can almost always afford relief
by scarifying the part, and touching it
j with lunar caustic.
Peusiom Statement.
YVe compile the following statement of
| the pensions paid by tile United States
government from official data of the U. S.
! Pension Office :
j l'tin number of army invalid pensioners on
the roils January 1791. was 1,356
The number added up to June 30,1816, was.. 5,818
The number added up to J tine 30,1858, was.. 5,961
Total 13,108
Os this number there were receiving pen
sions Juno 30,155S 4,916
The number of army and navy pensions
[ that have been allowed, exclusive of those
for service in the Revolutionary war, is
over 27,000.
Up to Juno 30,1555, the amount that
had been paid to them was $21,836,062 03
And to revolutionary pensioners 64.518,281 97
Total $56,354.311 50
i that has been paid since the organization
of the present government.
New Masonic Statue of Washington.
General YY’ashingtou was a member of !
the Masonic Lodge at Fredericksburg,
Yka , and was initiated November 4th,
1752. The fact is interesting to all Ma
sons, while it is especially a source of
pride to the old Lodge at Fredericksburg
It has been deemed proper to procure a
statue of Washington, by Powers, and an
order to that effect was given some time j
: stnee. The statue arrived at New York 1
| from Leghorn a few days since. It is the S
property of the Fredericksburg Lodge, i
and has been paid for by voluntary con
tributions of the Masonic Order generally.
It cost five thousand dollars, and is some
what larger than life. It was proposed
; also to ereci. a building at Fredericks
j burg suitable for the statue, and to in-
I augurate it with appropriate ceremonies.
Pork Trade Prospect.
The following very able article relative
to pork, hog crop prospects, &c., is from
Raker's St. Louis Merchant's Exchange
Reporter and Price Current, and will
doubtless l.e read with great interest by
farmers, packers, and all others at all
interested in the pork trade :
To this time we have heard but a lew
observations in regard to pork operations
the approaching season. This fact indi
cates to a good extent the feeling on tho
subject; as it goes to show evidently the
introduction of new features and the con
sequent incapability of operators to judge
how tar these incidents, likely to occur,
may affect the market. In the first place,
then, it is generally conceded that the
crop of hogs will prove larger than last
year—a concession predicated on the
statement for several State returns, espe
cially those of Ohio, Kentucky and Illi
nois. In the second place, the heavy
yield of corn favors the same view. Now,
j with such an amount, it is contended by
one side that prices must rule lower,
taking the further facts into consideration
that the Rritish Government having ta
booed American meats for the public ser
vice, the demand in that direction for
that object will be entirely cut off, and
that onr domestic consumption cannot by
any possibility prove equal to the supply.
On the other side, and in answer to
this position, it is allcdged that our beef
will be required by the English mercan
tile marine, and thus a trade will be
opened up equal in extent and much more
satisfactory. We may here remark that
the objection to our provisions is not
based so much upon any real deficit in the
raw material or its preparation as upon
the damage or injury sustained by the
meat in transitu, the close confinement
during a long trip producing effects which
the nice discrimination of the Euglish
commissariat rejects. It is known,
however, as far as beef is concerned, that
our cattle contain too much bone and are
not prefercd by foreign economists whose
thorough bred stock gives this desirable
result. It is objected, too, that American
beef shrinks materially ill the boiling
process, a defect attributed to grass feed
ing. This defect could be remedied by
stall feeding for a few weeks, but onr
wide and rich prairies present such cheap
nutriment that farmers can with difficulty
be made to adopt the remedy, although
the result would prove equallya s remu
nerative.
We have the opinion expressed also,
that a large amount of barrelled pork
will go over to be added to the product
of the ensuing season, say 200,000 bbls—
an indication not only of a heavy amount,
but of the inadequacy of our markets to
dispose of the supply under circumstan
ces more favorable than can be expected
from present appearances. This is met
by the counter-view, that although a
heavy stock w r as known to be in the coun
try iu July and August last—estimated at
270,000 bbls—the liberal consumption in
August very satisfactorily proves that
but a comparatively small part of that
stock will go over. During that month
in Now York the consumption reached
20,000 bbls., being almost unprecedented
in its extent. The stock of bacon, it is
urged, is iu light supply, and barrelled
pork must be resorted to for the purpose
meeting the demand. Many believe,
therefore, that but little, if any, will go
over;while others figure the surplus from
50,000 to 300,000 bbls. We give the
opinions of both sides, as far as made
public and understood, that our corres
pondents may judge for themselvs.
Tho late frosts have disturbed the
views that had become settled, and ren
dered speculative opinion more and more
prolific. Several droves of hogs have al
ready been brought from a section or two
in Ohio, where the frost was severely felt,
to Illinois, for the purpose of fattening—
the process it is said, of taking the ani
mal to the corn being cheaper than trans
porting the grain to the animal. This
fact has verified the frost news to the
extent to which it goes, and, added to
the constantly accumulating statements
from Northern Illinois, lowa, and Wiscon
sin regarding serious damages, has pro
duced more or less effect. It is known,
however, that the corn crop is immense
throughout tho entire country, and but
few, we presume, will be disposed to pre
dicate operations upon any injury it may
thus far have sustained. The crop will
doubtless prove very large, and the ques
tion “what is to be done with it?” is more
frequently asked than answered. A
good portion of it will be taken for bread
and feed, another portion for distilling,
while the balance will likely go into pork.
How the latter will pay, our correspon
dents arc, we suppose, familiar already
from practical illustration. It has been
computed that pork at 3c. net yields 25c.
per bushel for corn ; at 4c. the yield is
82c., and at sc. the farmer realizes 45c.
per bushel, Os this statement we can
not speak advisedly, except from a gene
ral publication which has gone uucontra
dicted for several years past.
Another matter of more or less inter
est, likely to have some influence the
approaching season is that outsiders will
hardly rule the market to the same ex
tent they have heretofore done. Last
season they disturbed the legitimate
trade very perceptibly by pitching in with
out regard to those checks and balances
which constitute the only safeguards to
operators. The market was inflated by
their influence, and prices went up to
figures that subsequent transactions have
not been adequate to cover. YY r e believe
that parties who entrusted the purchase
and packing of hogs to others than the
trade—those who cut in the regular way
on their own account —found it, in every
instance, au unprofitable business, and
they will net be disposed to enter the
field again in a similar way for sometime
to come. The experience of last year,
therefore, will probably relieve the mar
ket of those outsiders —at least such a
belief is indulged—and with such a relief !
prices will be more uniformly sustained.
As the result of the speculative opin- j
ions expressed—j>nd they are but few at I
this time—we may state that opening
prices are fixed at $4 to 4 50. Os course
a great many important changes may oc
cur betweeu this time and the opening of
business—changes that may affect the
entire aspect of things as at present pre
sented—but we are only giving the first
breathings of the trade—the earliest ex
pressed views of both buyers and sellers.
The seventh volume of Appleton’s New
American Cyclopaedia lias just appeared.
A memorandum from the publishers men- j
tions the authorship of some of the arti
cles: Edwards, (Jonathan) by Geo. Ban
croft—the paper read by him before the
New York Historical Societj’; Egypt, by
Robert Carter; Electricity, Engraving, 1
Fire Engine, Fossil, Foot Prints, by J. T.
Hodge; Elephant, Entomology, andJEth
nology, by Dr. Kneeland ; Queen Eliza
beth, History of England, Prince Euge
nie, by C. C. Hazewell; Episcopal
Church, by Rev. Dr. YY’ilson; Epizoa,
Entozoa, Epighylis, by Dr. White; Eu
rope, by Mr. Raster; Alexander Everett.
Edward Everett, by G. S. Hilliard ; Eu- i
ripedes, by Professor C. C. Felton,
France, by P. Arpin. Among the biog
raphies of living men are those of Rev. j
Dr. Ellis, R. YY T . Emerson, lion. Thomas
Ewing, Rev. Dr. Faber, T. S. Fay, Prof.
C. C. Felton, YY. P. Fessenden, Rev. Dr.
Finney, Henry S. Foote, Peter Force,
Rev. Dr. Frothingham, Richard Froth
ingham, Jr. Most of the law articles in j
this volume are contributed by Professor
Theophilus Parsons, of Harvard Univer
i sity.
*
Travel Sixty-Two Years Ago.
The Alexandria Gazette furnishes the
following: On the 20th of February,
1797, Thomas Jefferson set out for Phila
delphia to enter upon his duties as Yfice-
President of the United States. The fol
lowing time and fare table, taken from
| his “Pocket Account Book,” will be
i deemed curious in this fast age: “Left
: Alexandria after dinner, February 23d,
and reached Baltimore on the 26th. The
fare $4 75. Thence reached Philadel
phia March 2d. Fare $7. YY’hole amount
of traveling expenses from hence, inclu
ding §l2 to send home Jupiter and the
horses from Alexandria, §49 03.” Fare
table now : From Alexandria to Philadel
phia, time 44 hours, fare §4 50.
Tiie Aft of Preaching.
The following article from Fraser’s
Magazine, shows the difference between
the power and effect of genius, and its
counterfeit. We have listened to men, I
who devoid of this gift, ignored the sim
ple and inherent power of the Truth, and
sought to accomplish, by taxing their
lungs, and frantic and wild gesticulation,
the impression that genius alone could :
produce:
There is much in common between the
j tragic actor and the popular preacher,
: but while the actor’s power is generally
the result of a studied elocution, the ;
preacher’s is almost always native. A
! teacher of elocution would probably say 1
that the manner of Chalmers, Guthrie,
or of Caird was a very bad one, but it
suits the man, and no other would pro- ,
duce a like impression. In reading the
most effective discourses of the greatest
preachers we are invariably disappointed.
We can see nothing very particular iu
those quotations from Chalmers which
are recorded as having so overwhelming
ly impressed those who heard them. It
was mauner that did it all. Iu short an
accessory, which in England is almost
entirely neglected, is tho secret of Scotch
Nor is it any degradation from
an orator’s genius to say that his power
; lies much less in what he says than how
|he says it. It is but saying that bis wea-
I pon can be wielded by no other hand
| than his own. Manner makes the entire
difference between Macready and the
poorest stroller that murders Shake
speare. The matter is the same in the
case of each. Each has the same thing to
say: the enormous difference lies iu the
manner in which he says it. The great
est effects recorded to have been produced
by human language have been produced
by things which, in merely reading them,
would not have appeared so very remark
able. Hazlitt tells us that nothing so
lingered on his ear as a line from Home’s
Douglas, as spoken by young Betty:
“And happy, in my mind, was he that died.”
We have heard it said that Macready nev
er produced a greater effect than by the
very simple words, “Who said that?”
It is, perhaps, a burlesque of an acknowl
edged fact, to record that Whitfield could
thrill an audience by saying “Mesopo
tamia!” Hugh Miller tells us that he
hear.i Chalmers read a piece which lie
(Miller) had himself written. It pro
duced the effect of the most telling act
ing, and its author never knew how fine
it was till then. We remember well the
feeling which ran through us when we
heard Caird say, “As we bend over the
grave, where (he dying are burying the
dead.” All this is the result of that
gift of genius; to feel with the whole
soul, and utter with the whole soul. The
case of Gavazzi shows that tremendous
energy can carry an audience away, with
| out its understanding a syllable of what
i is said.
Movements Gs Gen. Walker.
New Orleans, October 4.—Collector
■ Batch, yesterday, refused a clearance to
j the steamship Philadelphia, for Aspin
j wall, on the ground that he suspected she
| intended taking Walker and his men to
I Nicaragua. Walker has between two and
j three hundred uien from Texas, Alabama
and elsewhere, here, ready to start osten
sibly for Chiriqui diggings. The men
encamped at Berwick’s Bay. intending to
leave on the sth, but it is suspected that
another steamer will take them to Nica
| ragua, and that the attempted clearance
j of the Philadelphia was a ruse.
Later from Mexico.
New Orleans, Oct. 4. — We have re
j ceived the Brownsville Flag, which says
| the yellow fever is fast disappearing from
| that locality.
Gen. Dollalds, with three thousand
j northern Mexicans are“marching South.
Gen. Wool is re-inforcing his army,
which suffered severely in the recent bat-
I tie of Marquese, preparatory to mareh-
J ing South, to attack Coronado, who re
; cently took Tepic.
I Government anil tile Fillibusters.
Washington, Oct. 4.—The Administra
tion are fully aware of the movements of
j the Fillibusters, and the matter was the
| subject for Cabinet consideration to-day.
The Administration are determined to en
force respect for the neutrality law, even
to the extent of employing the military
and naval forces. Orders have been
I transmitted to Baton Rouge for the Fed
eral military to hold themselves in readi
ness to act as a posse comitatus if neces
sary.
Additional by tile Hungarian.
New York, Oct. 4. — The Hungarian’s
mails arrived here to-day, and will leave
for the South to-night.
Clare & Sons circular quoted the mar
ket as slow, but quotations unchanged.
Richardson, Spence & Cos., say that
with more pressing on the market, prices
l will be (1-d; lower.
Departure ol General Walker.
New Orleans, Oct. 4.—General Wm.
| Walker, and men, left here last night,
and sailed from Berwick’s Bay this morn-
J ing in their own steamer without clear
| ance. It is supposed that their destina-
I tion is Nicaragua.
Xjouisiann Crops,
New Orleans, Oct. 4. Accounts re
| ceived here represent the cotton crop as
! first rate. The sugar crop is represented
! as inferior and small.
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Tlie Steamship Fulton.
Pensacola, Oct. 4. —There is some
: hopes of saving the United States steam
| ship Fulton, ashore off the coast.
First Case of Fever,
i New Orleans, Oct. 4.—The first case
j of yellow fever occurred here yesterday.
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Expedition against Nicaragua,
Philadelphia, Oct. 3.—A special dis
patch from YVashington states that there
is in preparation a formidable fillibuster
expedition for the invasion of Nicaragua.
; A portion of the party has already left
Charleston and New York, but there will
be no demonstration until all the plans
are fully matured.
General YVheat has been assigned au
important position in the expedition.
A correspondent of the Louisville Jour
nal reiterates the statement, and adds that
Costa Rica is embraced in the design.
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Sew Expedition to Northeasteni
Afviea.
The Bombay Times mentions the ap
pointment of a second expedition from
Bombay to Northeastern Africa to carry
out the directions of Captains Burton and
Speke, Mr. J. Kennedy, of the Indian
Navy, and Secretary to the Bombay Geo
graphical Society, and Dr. Silvester,
compose it. The former is said to be an
accomplished astronomer and meteorolo
gist, and the latter a draughtsman and
naturalist. They will proceed at once to
the great lake district, and endeavor to
j circumnavigate the Northernmost of the
lakes. They are to set out in November
next.
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Clilriqui Images.
The Charleston Mercury says:
YVe saw, a few days since, at the store
of Messrs. Carrington & Cos., jewellers,
two specimens of the curious Chiriqui
images. The one resembled the upper
half of a small cat-fish, although the |
representation is very rude. The other
resembles no animal now known. In
some respects it is an imitation of the liz
ard, but the body is too stout. These 1
curiosities are undoubtedly genuine spec- i
imens of the handiwork of a race who ;
formerly flourished in Central America, ,
and are very interesting.
Mr. John Fleetwood, one of the oldest
and most experienced pilots of this port,
was found dead in a chair at his resi
dence, in Magazine YY T ard, at an early
hour yesterday morning. The deceased
when discovered was in a sitting posture.
Asa token of respect, the flags of the pi
lot-boats in port were displayed at half
mast. —Savannah A 7 etcs of Monday.
That’s what I call capital punishment, I
as the boy said when his mother shut ;
him up in the closet among the preserves, j
A Mistake as to tlie Crops iu tlie
West.
It, is only right to give the views ot a
Western authority on a subject of impor
, tance to all sections of the Union. Vie
! quote from the St. Paul (Minn ) Times:
‘•The East seems to have a very mista
ken idea relative to the crops ot the W est.
The leading New York papers persistent
ly assert that more wheat and breadstutls
| have been raised in the West this year,
than for several years previous, when the
fact is patent, that in Ohio, Indiana, lowa
| and Illinois, the frost and drought have
greatly injured the crop, and from those
| States will be sent forward this year a
: much less supply than for the past two
years. In Minnesota the crops are excel
lent —were never better, and we are now
able to export instead of importing.—
Still, the fact that there has been a larger
’ yield of Western produce in 1859 over
: previous years,-is by no means true. The
ostensible object of these reports is to
induce farmers to send forward their
grain at a low figure. This grain will be
! stored away by speculators when the price
; will be advanced, and these speculators
will realize handsomely on the rise. We
do not hesitate a moment to give our
! opinion as to the be-l course to be pur
| sued by cur farmers. If they have loaned !
! money at 1,2, or 3 per cent, per month,
let them dispose of a part of their crop
at as early a period as possible, and get
out of debt. If they are out of debt (as
| but few of them are) it would be well to
| hold on until toward Spring, as there
| must be an increased demand for grain
| ere the lapse of many months.”
Negro Population.
These statistics are valuable if not
very new:
Below we give a table derived from the
tables accompanying the report of the
! Census of the United States, for 1850—
showing the colored population of the
Atlantic free States of the North, both
free and slave. A number of these States
as late ns 1810, viz: New Hampshire
held 1 ; Rhode Island 5; Connecticut 17;
New York 4; New Jersey G 74 ; Pennsyl
vania 64; Ohio 8; Indiana 3; Illinois
331 ; Wisconsin 11 ; lowft 16. In 1850
Utah had 26, and New Jersey 230. At
this moment there are slaves held iu New
Jersey.
COLORED POPULATION OP THE ATLANT IC FREE STATES IN
1730. ISSO.
Free Slave Total Free Stave
Maine 53 8 .. .OSS 1,056
N. Hampshire 600 158 788 520
Massachusetts 5,403 .. 5,463 9.061
Rhode Island.. 3,469 952 4.421 3.070 ..
Connecticut ... 2.SCI 2.759 5,560 7,693
New York 4,651 21,321 25,978 49.069 ..
Pennsylvania. 0,537 3 737 10.274 53.623
New Jersey... 2.702 11,123 14,125 23,810 230.
Vermont 255 17 272 71S
Total 27,049 40.370 67,419 149,523 236
The increase of the slaves at the South
lias been, on the average, for each de
cade since 1790, at the rate of about 30
per cent. This rate of increase applied
to the colored population of the Free
States named should have given a much
larger popul ition in 1850 than what the
census of that year exhibits.
Platt’s Patent Portable Press.
The want of a cheap press for copying
letters, for the use of families and offices
—and one that can be carried about in
the valise of trunk of a party traveling
either for business or pleasure—has long
been felt. The importance of preserving
perfect copies of letters in business mat
ters is too well appreciated to require
comment, and (lie pleasure of preserving
such copies of friendly correspondence is
only second to the preservation of those
received iu answer to them. The ordina
ry Copying Press is too expensive to be
brought into generai use, and is too bulky
aud heavy to be carried about in travel
ing. Both these objections are overcome
in the Portable Press, patented by E. &
J. B. Piatt, of this city ; wtiich is much
less expensive, while it. is but a twentieth
part the weight of the ordinary Iron
Press. At the same time it is so con
structed as to be packed within a small
space convenient for traveling. It is as
perfect in its operation as the most ex
pensive Press, whi'e the pressure upon
the book is full}’ equal to the power ex
erted by the Screw or Lever Press gene
rally used. The low price at which it
can be sold, the facility with which it can
be operated, the perfect execution of its |
work, combined with its portability and
compactness commend this Press to the
notice of the classes above mentioned, as j
the best adapted to its purpose of any j
that has been brought to our notice.—
Chronicle <j* Sentinel.
A Sitalic for a Bedfellow.
About two weeks ago Mr. John Eider, ]
of this town, had an undersack for a bed j
filled with straw at “Kenmore,” by a ne- J
gro man. It was brought home and ;
piaced under a feather-bed, which was j
slept on by a daughter of Mr. E. The j
youug lady complained on a number of
occasions of having her slumbers dis
turbed by distinct thumps from under
neath, but examinations revealed nothing.
On Thursday morning, whilst Miss E. i
was sitting, down stairs, facing the steps j
which led up to her room, she was start- j
led by a curious noise, and looking up
discovered a moccasiu snake descending, j
blowing and hissing in a style peculiar
to the reptile. An examination of the
up-stairs premises was made at once,
when a small hole was discovered in the
under-sacking, and on lipping the bed
open, the full leguth skin“of a snake tv as
found at the hole, which his snake-ship
had shed before he resolved on the strike
for his freedom. The lady has occupied
rather unenviable quarters for the last
fortnight.— Fredericksburg ( Va .) Herald.
We gave an account the other day of a
singular fraud of a mau named Dr. Itos
vally, practiced on the wife of Dr. Gra
ham, recently killed in New Orleans.—
He volunteered to assist in the post-mor
tem examination of the deceased; and
the next day, after the body had been
prepared for the grave, he went to the !
residence of the widow and declared that j
he had dropped a valuable ring in it.— ;
Rather than reopen the corpse, lie was
paid the value of the ring—thirty-one j
dollars. It was almost known to acer- j
tainty that he told an untruth. Com
plaint was made and the case was up
before Recorder Summers last Saturday. ;
The proof was plain of the man’s guilt, ■
yet, to the surprise of nearly every one,
the case was dismissed.
A meaner crime is hardly conceivable,
and it ought to have been followed by
the. greatest punishment that the law
provides. Mobile Tribune.
Poisonous Quinine.
The Wood (Texas) Ileral i says that a
little daughter and a negro woman of Mr.
Warren, who resides near Quitman, took
each a small dose of quinine, a few days
since, were almost instantly seized with
spasms, and died in the course of an
hour. The daughter of a neighbor, who
took some of the same, was also expected
to die. The bottle was branded Powers
& Weightman, and on examinaticn the
contents were found to be one-fifth
strychnine. Ten grains to a dog pro
duced death in two hours.
Higii Prices for Negroes.
The Ilolmesville (Miss.) Independent,
of the 17th, has the following:
Fanny, a woman twenty-seven years
old, with her infant, and child Sylva,
seven years old, 3-100; Cloe, a girl
twelve years old, §1385 ; Tom, a boy ten
j years old, §llOO.
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Crops in Pilie County.
j The Southern Advertiser, of the 30th
ult., says:
The cotton crop is no- likely to turn
out so well as at first anticipated. We
; hear much complaint of the dropping off
of the bolls. The crop will not be an
average one in this region, for the
amount planted.
Affair of Honor.
Washington, Sept. 29.—5. 13. Paul,
editor of the Petersburg Press, and J
Thomas G. Goode, also of Virginia, ar- j
rived here to-day to settle an affair of ;
honor. Mr. Paul was arrested this after
noon, however, and held to bail in $5,000
to keep the peace.
o
Yesterday was the seventy-ninth anni
versary of the battle of King’s Mountain, j
A New Acvi/.I CUnrioi.
V new candidate for public wondei has
appeared in England in the person of
Viscount Carlingf ud, who ha cou.-tiuct
ed a machine for flying, “like :IU le
iu the air.” The form ol this machine,
or chariot, ns the inventor terms it, is
something of the shape of a boat, cx
tremely light, with one wheel in front ud -
two behind, having two wings sagat.j .
concave fixed to its sides, and sustained :
by laths of half hollow form, pressing i
against them, and communicating their j
pressure through the body ot the chariot,
from one wing to the other, and support
i ed by cords, whose force acting on two |
hoops nearly of an oval shape, hold the
wings firmly in their potation, using a
force that cannot be less than 10 tuns, on
! the principle of corded musical instru
ments. The chariot is provided with a
tail that can be raised or lowered at
pleasure, ar.d which serves for giving an
elevating or declining position, and
worked by a cord that communicates into j
the interior of the chariot, which is dia„ n
forward by an aerial screw of peculiar
construction. The wings of thechaii-t
are covered with a net work of a length
ened square Shane, which te.e ;
effect of birds’ feathers when the machine j
j floats on the air, covered with silk, at
which time may be seen its progression
with the prdnts forward and the same
backwards, by which no pocket, as it
were, can be formed by the pressure ot
the silk on the air.— Philadelphia dSorth
I American.
From W asliington.
Washington, Sept. 30. — The President
has recognised Melhelm Luding Kedenen
as consul of the Kingdom of VS urtemburg
at Philadelphia.
Mr. Lisboa, the New Brazilian Minis
ter, accompanied by his family, has ar
rived in Washington.
Arizona dates of the loth inst. r.re re
ceived. The presentation of the articles
purchased for the Fomas and Mar ie pa
j Indians, under the act of Congress of
February last, was made by Lieutenant
Mowry on the lOtli of September. Be
tween four aud five thousand Indians
were present. About 2,000 farming im
plements, several thousand pounds of
barley and other grain f r seed, axes,
Sic., besides several thousand yards of
cloth, calico, shirts, tobacco, and beads,
were distributed. The reason of these
large presents was explained in a speech
by Lieut. Mowrv, and in reply the Chiefs
expressed real sa'isfaction at the kind
ness of their Great Father, the President,
and promised to continue in the good con
duct which had brought them so great a
reward. The Femes and Maricopas cul
tivate tiiis year 15,000 acres, and have
supplied tho Overland Mail Company
with large quantities of grain It isex
, oted that next year their crops will be
largely increased through the facilities
given them by the government.
Corn and Hogs.
Prospects for a heavy yield of corn,
and for a larger hog crop 1 ban last year,
are very fair. Yesterday’s Louisville
Journal says the Assessor’s returns of
hogs from all the countiesS in Kentucky
but four have been received. They ag
gregate 1,391,875, against 1,057,721 last
year. Accounts from the great corn
country tributary to St. Loins, continue
to come in favorably for a great corn
crop. The- Carlinvilie, 111., Democrat
says: ‘-The rains aud mild weather of
the past few weeks have kept the corn
growing surprisingly. The ears are still
filling out finely, and the appearance now
is that the crop will be very much larger
than was anticipated a month since. In
nearly every instance where the crop has
been properly cultivated, the yield will
be large, many fields averaging 75 to 80
bushels per acre, but where farmers have
attempted to cultivate too much land, or
have neglected it to harvest wheat, corn
has suffered and will make a light crop.
There is little probability that the pres
ent high price of corn will decline mate
rially, as the crop is very short in many
parts of the country, and the demand is
likely to continue.”
Have We ‘'Pure” Wine.
A writer in the Christian Advocate,
asks the following questions of the editor :
i “ Will you be kind enough to inform the
numerous body of stewards in the reach
of your excellent paper, where or how
they can obtain the pure juice of the
i grape for sacramental purposes ?” The
| writer then goes on to say, he is well as
sured that the article now used to repre
sen the blood of our Savior is not the
pure juice of the vine, ‘‘but rather a com
position of poisonous drugs, such a3 log
{ wood, ratsbane, sugar of lead, &c.,” —
i The editor, in reply, admits his inability
j to answer the question, and adds: “If
: any of our readers know of a place where
I the pure juice of the grape can be ob-
I tained for sacramental use, they would
confer a benefit upon the church by
j making it public. Is it not possible to
I escape from the unhappy necessity which
•has for years placed upon the sacramen
; tal board a “poisonous mixture” instead
of wine? Who will answer the above
j inquiry, and otherwise aid in this much
needed reform?”
Extravagance Interfering witH
Marriage.
It is a pretty well established conviction
that the extravagance of these times in
dress, housekeeping matters, &e., tends
to the prevention of marriage. Shrewd
young men are careful and cautious about
undertaking the board, and clothing of
young women. As an instance, the Cin
cinnatti Enquirer has been furnished by
the Clerk of the Probate Court with the
marriage licenses issued in Hamilton
county during the last eight years, which
show a falling off in 1859 from 1852. of
275, and from 1854, of 938. When we
consider that the population of the city
has probably augmented 80,000 during
| the eight years, this decrease is very re
; markable, and well calculated to alarm
1 the advocates of wedlock. —Petersburg
’ Express.
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Bursting of a BaSloon.
Rome, N. Y., Sept. 29.—Professor
1 Coe, accompanied by Mr. Cottman, cf
| Rome, made a balloon ascension here to
; day, from the fair grounds. The county
fair being in session, there were 10,000
spectators. The ascension was fine. At
the height o£ two miles, the balloon
burst, turning up in the top of the net
ting, thus forming a parachute. The voy
agers, after a perilous and exciting de
scent, landed safely in a swamp three
miles from their starting point. There
was intense excitement aming the crowd
below during the descent.
The Search for La Mountain.
Watertown, N. J., Sept. 30.—Mr. La
Mountain was seen at Harrisville, Lewis
county, passing over the New York wil
derness, still going due East, and at a !
great elevation. A reward is offered by
his brother of SI,OOO for the discovery of
the aeronauts alive, and SSOO for their
bodies if deal. A party goes to the
woods to-morrow to prosecute thesearch.
The Providence Journal says that it
has authentic information that a Col.
George W. Barney, who lately died in
Alabama, left an estate in land and slaves
worth $300,000. Col. Barney left a
wife, but no children, and it appears
that George Northey, who is supposed to
reside in Rhode Island or Connecticut,
is the only known of next kin of the de
ceased.
Killed.
The Augusta Constitutionalist says a i
boy by the name of Alfred, the property I
of R. Y. Goetchens, was run over by the i
up through freight train on the Georgia !
Rail Road on the sth, about forty minutes j
past ten o’clock, between the fifteen and {
sixteen mue posts, and killed, supposed to
have been drunk and asleep. The ver- :
diet of the jury was in accordance with ;
the above stated facts.
Wages In California.
A San Francisco writer of late date, f
says the following are about the rates of
wages now paid: Carpenters from $4 to
$7 per day ; bricklayers and masons from
$4 tq s(j‘; blacksmiths, wheelrights, ma
chinists, painters and tinsmiths from $3
to $4 50; common laborers $3; .farm
hands from S3O to S4O per month and
found; servants from $25 to S4O per
month and found ; cooks from S3O to S6O.
From ilio Otiicug > Ileraxl.
A “ Benicia May’’ on the liencii.
L ‘.transport, Indiana, is a pleasant Li
i Go village somewhat iLstiugui.-he i for os
nieii p u t:c*uhirly K
I learned profes-iou ol the. law. Among
| the younger Logans, ambitious id lvg-u
! honors, arc ‘wo i . s-iv • vigi ant rain.-
[ —one an uneumii: u. Ju :.o ot the L ui.-
j moil Pleas Gou-'t, ihi- oth r .in ii.teimit
’ tent ami slightly unpridessiomi practi- !
! tinner therein v.-.th -t large docket of
: very small Case-. Hi -II nor, the Judge,
i though while warri r who lias*met
! many a military squadron <ti the tented j
! field of parade, is generally “disposed to j
I be friendly,” but between him and the
| attorney aforesaid, an “irrepressible
! conflict” has existed time immemorial,
j This interesting professional feud was
i brought to an “ imminent deadly breach”
a few days ago, in open court.
It seems that during the probate scs
! sion Attorney D presented an tin- ■
j portant and highly lucrative claim ol j
! nine dollars against an insolvent intes- j
; tate’s estate, with which he managed by j
! judiciously spinning the “ throat o! his j
j verbosity” to occupy the generous iriat
j tion of the Court during the whole iOiC
| uoon and opened the afternoon with a
peroration which indicated unlimited con
fidence in the wind of the orator and the !
patience of the Judge. About this time
his Honor, in view of the caliber ot the j
advocate and his cause, deemed it ad
visable to enforce the legal maxim. “De |
minimis non curat lex,'’ and called upon
the eloquent attorney to “dry up,” ad- |
ding by the way of ornamental comment
the unnecessary remark that he had been ;
“pettifogging all day.”
The irate Attorney uttered some pro
fane truths. The Judge replied in Old
Bailey’s best, which provoked young
Coke to the words and figures following,
to wit : “You (meaning and intending
thereby the learned Bench aforesaiu) are
a d— — d fool!” “Mr. Clerk,” shouted
His Honor, ‘ fine him SI,OOO and let him
stand committed until I knock him down! ’
“Mr. Sheriff, adjourn Court to the back
yard fifteen’ minutes.” “Oyez ! Oyez !
Oyez!” answered that functionary. The
Judge descended to the prisoner. “Now
you scoundrel, if you are a better man
than I am, I will remit your fine—follow
me. Mr. Sheriff, l will answer for his
appearance.” In less time than we can
write, the back yard was in arms, and
bets running high—odds on the Bench.
First round —Handsome legal sparring;
Judge struck from the shoulder; Attor
ney put in an “estoppel.”
Second round—Judge in under the belt;
umpire declares it a-case under the Stat
ute of Frauds; Attorney returns one on
IT is Honor’s nib; Judge demurs, and
taps some claret from Attorney’s pro
boscis.
Third, fourth, fifth and sixth rounds— !
The Bench makes out a clear case; the j
bottle is thrown up ; Sheriff resumes his
prisoner; Court is reopened; Judge
“smiles” and takes his seat; business is
conducted by tho Bar with great decorum,
and Ilis Honor listened with “distin
guished consideration.” Five to one on
the Judge!
Clitua ail tlie Great Eastern.
The following letter appears in the
Times :—“These twin disasters which
have been announced together have star
tled us iu our English revelries of tri— j
umphant success. It is well that it j
should be so, and that they should have j
occurred at once and together, ‘for out of j
this nettle danger we may pluck the flow-J
er safety.’ Without anticipating tLo ex
planations from China, it is clear that we ;
must revert to our plan of operations in ;
the first war, and stop the supplies of the
Imperial city, and we should be careful
to make tho most of tho favorable sea- j
son. Let, then, the trial trip of the
Great Eastern be to the waters of China ; j
arm her with Armstrong’s guns, or the
best aud lightest rilled camion, and cm- j
bark in lur a sufficient force of infantry,
engineers, and artillery, and let her j
make a summer voyage to the Yang-tse- !
Kiang, which she may accomplish in six
weeks or so. The appearance of such a
vessel and such an armameat at such a j
time from these shores, would have a j
moral, as well as material effect, not to
be otherwise produced. No delay need j
occur in the equipment of the Great Eas
tern, for it may be presumed, after the
recent disaster, that it will not be deem- !
ed necessary to re-decorate the saloous j
with mirrors and gilding, nor that the !
man who are to achieve such a success
would require them. If Lord Elgin j
should be disposed to resume his post,
let him embark with the expedition, and
the troops would be ready, with lighter
craft, to proceed on, if required, to the
l’ei-ho. As the telegram to India is now
open, let another expedition of European ;
and native troops who are without caste
prejudices be organized and dispatched
from Bengal, Bombay, and Kurrochee,
to so operate. The season is favorable j
fur the voyage, as it is for the operation
in China, and if the French desire to co- 1
operate, the Great Eastern could accom
modate a brigade of their troops with
our own. Let an able officer be sent in j
command from this country, and let Lord
Clyde select the commander for the Indi- j
an contingent, who should be volunteers.” j
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I£a3isas News.
Leaven worth, Sept, 30, —Hon. Anson
Burlingame addressed the people here to
night, and will probably participate in
the canvass for delegate to Congress.
The Utah mail arrived here to-iksy.
News unimportant.
The Denver City express also arrived !
here to-day, with dates of the 22d inst., j
and $5,000 in gold dust,
The increase of crime in and about \
Denver and Auroria, had become alarm- :
ing, and demanded prompt action for its
suppression.
The State organization has been de- !
seated by 3,000 majority. It is alleged
there was gome fraudulent voting.
The election for delegate to Congress \
comes off early in October. Gen. Lan- ;
mer is a promiaeut candidate.
The hunting party of Arrapahoes had |
returned, reporting that the contagion
among the buffaloes was killing them by
thousands.
Prospecting parties had penetrated to
the head waters of the Biuc River, a j
tributary of the Colorado, where rich j
leads Lad been discovered.
xite Slave Trade.
The Charleston News, referring to a
meeting at Mount Pleasant, (S. C.) in 1
favor ot the opening of the African Slave
Trade, says:
We observe this movement with great j
regret, and we cannot withhold the ex
pression of our surprise that intelligent
and respectable gentlemen should be so j
deluded as to approve so impracticable
and ruinous a scheme. If there was the
j slightest reasonable expectation that the j
design of repealing both the Federal and 1
the State laws against the slave trade
could be carried out, or if there was a
shadow of hope that the measure itself ‘
could be of the least service, political
or industrial, there might be a pretext
for the agitation of the subject. But as
it can never be any more than the hobby
of Southern political adventurers and
Northern venal speculators; as it can
never obtain, as now fully shown, the as
sent of the South itself, or any State of
it, much less of the United States, it is
with unqualified amazement that we see
staid planters and law-abiding citizens
agitating a measure which can only dis
tract the public mind and demoralize the
public sentiment,
A singular scene occurred in New York
on Wednesday. A carriage containing a
man and woman, on their way to Ne.v
i lurk Bay Cemetery, to bury the remains
| of their daughter, broke down, and pre
cipitated the coffin and its contents into
the gutter. The man was so drunk that
he could do nothing but sit and look at it
while the woman actsd like a caazy per-
I son - The police finally came to the res
: cue picked up the remains, and des
-1 patched them to a place of burial, the
man, meanwhile, being conducted to the
Station-house until he could get sober.
A Duel.
St. Louis, Oct. 4. —The Postmaster at
Santa Clara writes that a duel was fought
on the 12th, between the lion. D. C. !
Broderick and Terry. The latter
was dangerously wounded in the throat.
A Sr-i-utis. .-li {
I At the recent annual eeting of ih
American Colonization society, in i},_.
i City ,of Washington, B l*-. i’i.ii .
! Slaughter, of Virginia, spoke t i.;;- r-.r
----| JowitiA spirit-stirring resolution :
“ Resolved , That in our jndg a. :
j America in Africa is ihe •“ lu'ion , s’ ;
problem of Africa in America.’
I 1 After giving a most splendid-picture i,
the discovery*of the American ou: : ,-
i Ry Columbus, and the irres.stifle an i
vet unchecked dominion ot the Aug 1 <>-
American race, spreading rapidly ~
| ocean to ocean, he comes to Africa, a;-, j
says : . , ,
• But there is one people w: e- ,ul-i
| not feel the force of our example. V, 2
I could not go to them because “Pestih i: ......
i stood sentinel at the gates of A rica.”
j Providence seemed to say to the wave of
[Anglo-Saxon population which i- ov,
| flowing the earth, “hitherto shnlt t!i u
! come, but no farther, and here ?h-.lt toy
| proud wavs, be stayed. ’ But G id's w. 3-
i are not as our ways, nor his though is
I our thoughts. If America could n ; r ,,
to Africa, Africa must como to An
j and as they could not come spontaneou-1 .
! having never heard of it, be permitted
avaricious men, in the gr.,tifica iou , f
i their c-wn lusts, to compel them to come.
! This is a great mystery which 1 cam,, t
i expound. I can only see that wh it Lien
! mean for evil, as in the case of Joseph
Sandhis brethren, God often mean for
; good. Ido not justify the ways of ma:
I only justify the ways of God, out of . v .
i educing g-.*d. I recognize facts ,
! where 1 cannot explain the philosophy of
i them. The fact is,'that nearly four n.i !-
i ions of Africans are in America, and
umter the discipline to which they have
been subjected, they have risen in
intellectual and moral order, until they
have reached a statue far above their
race in its native scats. But there stand-
Africa still, the “ Niobe of Nations,” in
her voiceless woe—
An empty nr * within her withered hai.ds,
Whose holy dust was scattered long ago.*’
llow shall her countless millions be
reached by Christian civilization?”
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Sicw Mode ol’ Using “Bank Facili
ties.”
The New York Evening Post, in refer
ring to the case of young Lane, arrested
for embezzling the funds of the Bank in
which he was employed, tells the follow
ing anecdote:
Apropos of speculations of person; in
banks, a curious story is told of another
Bank, in which the discount clerk had
resigned his situation; his resignation
had been accepted; his accounts pro
nounced correct, and a complimentary
vote passed by the Board for his atten
tion to his duties, etc. He then stated to
! the Board that he had a communication
| to make, as a caution to induce them to
: watch his successor. He stated that,
notwithstanding his accounts were fill
correct at the time of resignation, lielia l,
in fact, been using the bills receivable of
the bank for years as collateral for loan?,
and employing the funds in the purchase
of paper at usurious rates. By this
course he had accumulated sufficient
property to meet his moderate desires,
and having no further use for the facili
ties he had enjoyed, he had resigned.
Whether the vote of thanks was recon
sidered is not known.
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Slavery in Western Virginia.
A correspondent of the New York
Times writes, from Western Virginia,
that he found a general unwillingness on
the part of the people of that section to
employ slave labor. Free-soilism, he
says, is no objection to Candidates for of
fice in the West. He is of opinion that
the feeling of the people is in favor of
free soil, but that it is suppressed in def
erence to Eastern Virginia, and from
motives of sectional interest affecting the
progress of the internal improvements of
that section, which rely on the East in a
great measure for their completion.
The Augusta Vindicator says this will
be news to the Western people. We
should think so. The only portion of the
State in which there is any favor for
Free-soilism is in the Northwest, and even
there it. is confined to a mere handful!,
the great majority being loyal to the in
stitutions of ihe South. It they do not
desire to employ slave labor there, it is
because their proximity to the free States
presents such opportunities to kidnap
pers that there is no security for slave
property. —Richmond D isp alch .
The Vigilants at Vern^llionvtlle.
The Echo (Lafayette) of Saturday last,
alluding to the visit of Gov. Wiekliffe
there, says :
Governor W iekliffe has been here : but
we do not think that he will deem it ne
cessary to call out the militia to put down
the “V igilauls. Were he to do so, against
whom would the militia contend ? Not
against our citizens—they arc not rebels,
neither do they question the authority of
the Executive, but recognize aud respect
the chief officer of the State, and it is
our belief that there would not be found
a single man, out of the eight or nine
hundred men who constitute the whole
Vigilant force, including the five parishes,
that would take up aims to oppose the
| militia, were it ordered out. On the
■ contrary, were he to call for men to aid
! him iu the execution of the law, the
| vei T men who form the vigilance com
i mittecs in our parish would be the fir t
to flock to liis standard; aud we doubt
i whether any other parish iu the State
j could furnish firmer supporters of law
. and order, although they are at this
time acting extra-legally/ And whv?—
Because they have been forced by cir
| cumstances so to act,
Knight Templars’ Convention*
Utica, Sept. 29.—-The Knights Temp
lars Convention of the Grand Commaude
i ry of the State of New York held its
i ®'?? llon yesterday, Sept. 28, when the
| following officers were elected: .
I , Charles G. Judd, of Penn Van, Grand
| Commander ; Frank Chamberlain, of A1
! hany, Deputy Grand Commander; Zenos
ot Utica, Grand Generalissimo,
j “• “■ Brew having declined; J. F. Wil
: hnr of Hornelsville, Grand Captain Geu
i ® ra * ®Town, of Aurora, Grand Pre
, bite; Vm. J. Holmes, of Rochester,
I V, r:Ui ' J Senior Warden ;E. P. Breed, of
I new I ork, Grand Junior Warden; John
I Perry, of Troy, Grand Treasurer;
j llobm Macey, of New York, Grand Be
; Col 'der; Aaron Carver, of Little FalD
■ Grand Standard Bearer; E. D. Shuler!
of Lockport, Grand Sword Bearer; C.
II Webster, of Binghamton, Grand War
! den.
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Survey of Boundary Lines.
; , Doties and H. M. C. Brown, who
! i,ave be en engaged as United States Sur
| ve y° l3 the last twenty years, have
| Just arrived in Washington, having re
! eenlly completed the survey of the boun
dary lines of the Choctaw and Chickasaw
1 country—from the 98th to the 100th me
ridian, extending from Red river to the
Canadian river—in a manner entirely
satisfactory to the Government. In 1855,
a treaty was made with the Choctaws ami
Chickasaws, by which the former were to
receivq $600,000 and the latter $200,000
in consideration of a perpetual lease of
territory from them, on which to locate
tne icbitas, CamancLes and ether wild
Lioc> ot Indians. The’Camanchesof the
iexas reserve have already reached there,
with the Nichitas and other
sma!; tribes, who appear to be satisfied
with their new homes. The entire art -
Oi ike Choctaw and Chickasaw countiy
embraces 20,500,000 acres, which a- to
value, Wiil bear a fair comparison with
tuat of any Western territory Out * -
this about 8,000,000 are now set apart
fm the location cf these wild tribes
; Mat. Intel. 22 d.
The Savannah News of yesterday, says
Augustus IV enz, who was stabbed at the
1 lanters Hotel on Tuesday evening,
i died irom his wounds last evening. Sev
eral persons who were present, and par
ticipated in the astray, are under arrest,
and will have a hearing before Justice
Felt to-day.
A correspondent of the New York Tri
! bune states that a subterranean fountain
’ of rock oil has been discovered at Sisters
ville, Pa., which yields 400 gallons of
| pure oil iu twenty-four heurs.