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Southern manufactures.
In one respect our Georgia exchanges
are interesting, beyond any others that
come to us from our sister States of the
South, to read. Scarcely a day passes
but they bring us something that reminds
us of what that great “Empire” is doing
or promises to do in (lie way of building
up or encouraging home manufactures. 1
Now it is anew locomotive from the great
manufactory at Savannah, anew car from
the same establishment or those of Macon
and Atlanta, new iron from the rolling
mills of Cherokee, new flour from the
well known mills of Columbus and Au
gusta, new cotton and woolen fabrics
from flourishing factories in nearly every
portion of the State. Almost daily we
notice something that reminds us of the
rapid strides this great commonwealth is
making towards true independence.
And the same may be said of portions
of the adjoining States of Carolina, Ala
bama and Tennessee. The paper mills of
the first named, wc believe, have for some
.time past been supplying not only the
adjoining country, but a number of the
best conducted journals of the North ;
our friends of Memphis are equally busy
in supplying with whatever they need a
large and rapidly developing country,
that naturally looks to them for supplies;
while our not very distant neighbors of
Alabama have of late waked up to the
importance of developing the rich mine
ral resources of that growing State.—
Everywhere around us we already begin
to see evidences that wc are about enter
ing upon anew order of things in the
South.
Heretofore, or at least till within a few
years, the Southern States have only been
known as agricultural States, producing
cotton, corn, rice, wheat and sugar in
abundance, but essentially dependent
upon the North or foreign imports for
most articles of common manufacture
even. A few years more and we firmly
believe we shall in this respect, as in our
great agricultural staples, be exporters
also—we are so in the articles of flour,
cotton goods and paper, as before men
tioned already—or at least we shall cease
to be dependent upon others.
And certainly there is no reason why
this should not be the case. We have the
water power, the raw material of every
kind on hand, and a climate far more ge
nial than any the great manufacturing
States of the North can boast, in which
to work it up. How then can wc fail ul
timately when our energies shall have
been turned in that direction, to produce
a better article and at less expense than
our rivals?
A few days since, indeed, we had occa
sion to speak of the comparative cost of
four Government steamers of nearly equal
tonnnnge, built two of them at the South
and two at the North, aud found that the
difference was upwards of $75,000 in fa
vor of tho former. And what is true of
ship building must bo equally true of
cotton and woolen and iron manufactures,
or whatever may be carried on in tho
South.
Cotton manufactures in particular should
be the object of our earliest considera
tion. What could contribute more to our
wealth and independence, or in what en
terprise could our surplus capital be bet
ter employod? It would be years, doubt
less, before we were able to compete with
older and more skillful manufacturers in
tho production of the liner fabrics; but
we could at least, in every Sonthern
State, as the Georgians have for years
now been doing, supply ourselves with
articles of home and common use, while
in the meantime we laid the foundation
for greater things. Everything is at
hand, the raw material, the motive pow
er, a climate unsurpassed, and our suc
cess could not be a matter of doubt. A
few years would find us as independent
of the world as wc are now dependent
upon it.
Manufactures in iroft, also, aro worthy
of our earliest and warmest encourage
ment. Nothing could contribute more to
our independence as a people, and noth
ing more to our convenience and indi
rectly to our wealth. How vast, indeed,
would have been the saving, the last teu
years, in Georgia, Alabama and Tennes
see, for instance, had the rich iron mines
of those States been developped and made
to contribute tho single article of railroad
iron alone, still for the most part impor
ted from abroad. We say for the most
part, because, though late, wo see the
Georgians and Alabamians are beginning
to think they can manufacture their own
railroad iron, as well as their own flour,
and cottons, and woolens, and as good an
article or better aud more durable than
can be made for them.
The subject of home manufactures is
not, indeed, often enough pressed upon
our people, nor with sufficient ear
nestness and warmth. We are too prone
to forget, in the unparalleled productive
ness of our soil, and the annual returns
it is sure to make, that we have other and
equally inexhaustible sources of wealth.
We are prone to forget, and daily need
reminding that, with all our seeming
prosperity, We of the Southern States as
i yet lack one great element of national
greatness and independence, and that it
can only be supplied by building up and
patronising borne manufactures—manu
factures iu ootton, manufactures in iron,
manufactures in everything that we pro
duce; and what do we not produce in the
South ?— N. 0. Picayune.
A correspondent of the Ohio Citizen
furnishes the editor of that paper with
the following account of a remarkable
family, residing at present in Bourbon
county, Kentucky:
Mr. Editor:—l send you a schedule of
the Bourbon family, as obtained from the
father and sons. The old gentleman is
a native of Maryland, and is in his 70th
year; was brought to the Stato of Ken
tucky when quite young ; and has raised
his family in the above county, consisting
of six sous and three daughters.
In the following table the height,
weight, and entire age of the family are
given :
Height. Weight.
Father G feet 4 inches 200 pounds.
Mother G “ 4 “ 28G “
Thomas G “ 4 “ 230 “
James G “ 4 215 “
Sarah G “ G “ IGS “
John G “ 11 “ 29G “
Mary G “ 2 “ 150 “
Elijah G “ 2 “ 210
Matthew.... 6 “ G “ 220 “
Eli G “ G “ 197 “
Daughter...G “ 4 “ 100 “
T0tat....70 2,298 pounds.
The family are all living, except the
youngest daughter, are all wealthy, and
of the first families of Kentucky. I
might add several of tho grand children
are over feet, and are still growing.
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Additional by tlie Indian.
The Bey of Tunis died on the 22d ult.
Nothing of importance from Chinasiuce
the affair at Peiho.
A Ilong Kong paper says, that Minister
Ward is still aboard bis ship, and it is :
little likely that he will ratify his treaty,
as the English Minister.
Another one thinks that he has proba
bly gone te Pekin.
A Russian dispatch from St. Petersburg,
says that Minister Ward arrived at Pekin, !
and was confined there.
The deputation from Romagna have
waited upon the King of Sardinia. The
King told them that he felt grateful for
the wishes of the people of Romagna;
but as a Catholic sovereign, he should
always entertain the most profound and
unalterable respect for the superior hier
archy of the church.
France has sent to China twenty thou
sand men and twenty-two ships,
Ship News by the lutlian.
The ship Amelia, from Charleston, ar
rived at Liverpool on the 22d. The ship
Jason sailed from Liverpool for Charles
ton on the 25th. The Mary Ann sailed
from Liverpool on the 27th for Charles
ton. The Anna Gray sailed from Liver
pool for Savannah on the 27th.
New York, Oct. 12.—The steamship
Potomac, from Baltimore, arrived here
to-day. She reports having passed a
large quantity of wreck, which was sup
posed to have been a steamer. Fears are
entertained that the wreck seen was the
|ftl-fated Quaker City.
Noah’s Ark aixl the Great Eastern.
The Great Eastern is 133 feet longer
than was the Ark, and about three feet
deeper, but not so broad within eight
feet. As an illustration of the change
in ideas of navigation which the building
, ; f the Great Eastern is calculated to pro
-1 duce, we will quote the following pnra
ij grap i from an elaborate article issued
some thirteen years since, in the Church
of England and Quarterly, on the Deluge,
and re published in Littell’s Living Age:
“Now, as it is clearly impossible that
a vessel of the length and breadth of the
Ark could be otherwise than a floating
vessel, designed entirely for perfectly
still waters, we have supposed it to be
flat-bottomed and stiaight sided, both as
to making it the more buoyant and as
giving to it the greatest capacity. It
was devoid of all sailing properties; had
! neither rigging nor rudder ; its build was
simply that of a huge float, to all out
ward appearance wholly at the mercy of
the winds and the waves, liable to be
drifted or driven about according as cur
rents or winds for the time prevailed ;
but, as we shall show, the Ark could not
for a moment have been subjected to the
influence of either winds or tides. The
extraordinary length of the Ark proves, at
once, the miraculous power that was, at
j every moment, in exercise for its preser
: vation, since no vessel of the Ark's pro
| portions could naturally live in disturbed
waters; the very first wave that rose
would inevitably break its back and reod
it entirely assunder; r.or with all our ex
i perience in ship building would it be
| possible to construct a vessel of the Ark’s
| proportions and navigate it from Dover
to Calais in rough weather —the last swell
• of the ocean, by raising one end and de
j pressing the other, would break it in the
middle and cause it to founder, nor could
any possible contrivance or ingenuity of
| construction prevent this consequence,
i Aud if the very peculiar construction of
the Ark had not made such a conclusion
i irresistable, the purpose for which it was
built would have proved that such was
i the fact, for had the Ark pitched in the
; least from the swell of the waves, or
! rolled at all from side to side under the
influence of the wind, which, from its
I great length and little width, it must
j most distressingly have done, the whole
world of animals therein contained could
! not have kept their footing; of very ne
j cessity, therefore, a dead cairn must have
prevailed around the Ark during the
. whole of the one hundred and fifty days
hat it was floating on the waters.
The Lady of tlie Kitchen.
The Northern papers are making light
of the demands made by female servant
girls upon the mistresses of the house.—
It is, however, a serious subject. The
j New llaven Palladium publishes the fol
i lowing advertisement:
“Wanied to Hike.—A lady, having a
pleasant homo, no incurnberances but a
husband and a child, wishes to place
herself-at the disposal of some servant
who can come well recommended from
her last place. She would prefer one
who would be willing to remain within
doores at least five minutes after the
work is finished. She would also stipu
late for the privilege of going to church
herself once each Sunday, having been
compelled to refuse the last applicant,
who was not willing to allow her but half
a day once a fortnight. Wages satisfac
tory —if under $lO a week.
“ She is deeply conscious of the utter
inability of ladies in general to comply
with the present demands of servants,
but she hops by strict attention to please
in all respects. The best of references
can be given; also, a good recommend
from one who has now left her to the fate
of many housekeepers. Please apply
before six a. m.”
Italian Opera Singers.
A New York correspondent of the
Charleston Courier, in a recent letter,
thus alludes to tho drain Italian Opera
Singers are making on that city, and
suggests a remedy. The writer says:
I think that the Legislature should
pass a tariff on Italian Opera Singers.
Something must be done, or they will
take all the floating money out of the
State. Our city could take it up, and
pass an ordinance that no Italian singer
should be allowed to sing without a li
cense, and that the price of such license
should be $509 a week. Only read the
following list of salaries paid to Italian
artists! It is admirable! Only think,
too, that in their own country, these
sarno singers are but too glad to get
enough to purchase their macaroni and
vermicelli by their performance. Read !
The following aro the salaries per month
paid to the principal members of the op
era troupe, now at the Academy of Mu
sic: Cortesi, $2500; Madame Gassier,
; $2400; Brignoli, $1500; Gassier, SI2OO ;
I Stefani, $1200; Maretzek, $1000; Mu
zio, $800; Amodio, $800; Junca, $800;
| Madame Strakosch, $600; Squiers and
| Rocco, S4OO each. The first violinist
and first tlutest get S2OO each.
Attack on tlie Mails.
Independence, Mo. Oct. 7.— The San
i ta Fe outward mail, of tho 19th ult..
was attacked by Indians beyond the
j Pawnee Fork. The conductor and one
man were killed.
Great anxiety is felt about the inward
mail, due on Tuesday, as Senator Otero,
i Judges Watts and Porter, and Mr. Cren
| shaw, are supposed to be among thepas
j sengers.
Th® Salt Lake Mail has arrived. Ad
vices from Atchison state that emigrants
from lowa and Missouri were attacked by
Indians near Marsh Valley. The In
dians killed one, and wounded three men,
took the cattle, and burned the wagoDs.
Another party of emigrants from Bur
j lington, lowa, were attacked.
Col. Ruggle’s command has been re
| lieved by Chapman’s command ; Ruggles
: left for Lea'veuwortb, on the Bth ult.
I Daring Feat of Wire-walking.
A dispatch dated Bloomington, Colum
bia county, Ta., Sept. 2G, says:
A most daring aud hazardous feat of
’ wire-walking was performed in this place
jon Saturday afternoon. Professor Theo.
McDowell Price, who has successfully
walked across the Susquehanna river on
the tight-rope, traversed the street from
! house-top to house-top upon a wire. One
| end of the wire was fastened to the top
of the Exchange, and the other end to
the cupalo of the Court House, a dis
tance of about one hundred and sixty
feet. The elevation was about sixty feet
above the ground. The ferformance went
off very successfully, in presenco of an
immense concourse of spectators, brought
hither from the surrounding country by
the novel attraction. The Professor went
| through various gymnastic performances,
and even stewed a plate of oysters on the
wire. The time occupied in the exhibi- j
tion was about half an hour.
Tlie Opera Denounced.
A New York clergyman has been “de- i
molishing” the opera by preaching against !
it. The New York Rcrald gives the ser- :
mon entire, and says in spite of its doc- ■
trines “the perverse public to the number
of nearly four thousand, rushed to the
Opera house on Monday, and we presume
that the Brooklyn Academy of Music, at ‘
which this anathema was especially lev- |
eled will still be built. The reverend !
gentleman’s point, that the associations !
of the opera house are invariably bad,
tells against bis brethren, who clamored
for free tickets to the soirees of Jenny
Lind (‘ncthing but an opera singer,’) and
were used by the Chevalier Barnum as !
advertisements.
Served the Fool Right.
Five years since a farmer in Illinois,
notwithstanding all his neighbors insisted j
he was playing the fool, set out on his
farm one thousand peach trees, and this
season he was offered ten thousand dol
lars for the crop, which he afterwards
sold in the lot for fourteen thonsand
dollars. Any man that will be fool
enough to raise fruit ought to be served
just so.
Episcopal Convention.
Richmond, Va., Oct. 12.—There was
nothing of importance transacted by the
Convention to-day. On to-morrow the
consecration of Bishops will take place.
Further by the Indian.
Liverpool Cotton Market. —The sales of
cotton for the three past business days
foot up 21,000 bales, of which speculators
took 1,000 and exporters 5,000 bales. —
The market opened dull and closed easier,
but unchanged.
State of Trade. —Manchester advices un
favorable : all qualities had slightly de
clined.
Liverpool General Markets.— Flour was
steady. Wheat quiet, but steady. Corn
declining—there was but little enquiry,
and prices were weak. Beef firm. Pork
dull —quotations nominal. Bacon quiet.
Lard dull. Coffee steady. Sugar dull.
London General Markets. —Breadstuff's
were dull. Sugar heavy—declined GJ to
1 shilling.
London Money Market. —Money general
ly unchanged. Consols were quoted at
951 to 95J.
General News. —lt is rumored that the
treaty of peace will be signed at Zurich
in a few days.
We have received China dates to August
10th. News unimportant. The Ameri
can Minister’s whereabouts is unknown.
The Great Eastern will probably be
further delayed.
The repairs on the Great Eastern were
i actively progressing.
The telegraphic cable from Sicily to
Malta has been successfully laid
The Londou Times contains another
leader in regard to the San Juan affair;
it laments that the former difficulty,
about the Oregon boundary, should have
left any pretext for the question which
has since arisen, and says it is p case
which requires the earliest possible set
tlement.
It was rumored that ten thousand men
had proceeded from China to India.
The American ship, Charles Buck, her
cargo nearly completed, was burnt at
Bombay.
Paris correspondence says that a de
finitive treaty of peace will he signed by
the three powers—Franco, Austria, and
Sardinia—and that the other stipulations
of tho Villa Franca treaty will be adjus
i ted by seperate documents.
The latest intelligence from Loudon on
Wednesday morning states that Col. Haw
kins, and the American Commissioner in
regard to the Oregon boun !ary, bad ar
rived and obtained an interview at the
Foreign Office.
Paris correspondence says that there
will be another hitefi in the peace nego
tiations. as Austria persists in keeping
| arms in Venitia.
Additional by tlie Canada.
New York, Oct. 9. —The Canada’s
mails arrived here this morning, and will
leave for the South this evening.
Richardson, Spence Si Co’s, circular
say that the whole stock was pressed on
the market, which caused a decline of
1-1 Gd. to -Jd. They quote Middling Or
leans at G 15 16d.
Stabterfeht says that prices for useful
qualities were slightly reduced. A lot
of useless, though not the lowest, sort was
taken for export at for Middling Orleans
m
Marnelt & Cos. say that the trade, in the
face of the growing crop, see no reason
to purchase beyond their present supply.
They quote a decline of 1-l Gd. to Jd.
Lower qualities they pronounce unsalea
ble.
Hewitt’s circular quotes a decline of
gd., and that a large portion of the stock
is useless. The imports of the week were
22,000 bales ; at sea 27,000 against 2G,-
000 last year.
.Laier from Mexico.
New Orleans, Oct. B.—The schooner
Star arrived here to-day, with Vera Cruz
dates to the2sth ult., and city of Mexico
to the 23d ult.
A conspiracy had been discovered at
the city of Mexico. The object was the
overthrow of Miramon, and in favor of
Liberals, by the leading otficers and oth
ers. The conspiracy was discovered the
day before it was to have been put iu ex
ecution. Twenty-five officers have been
arrested, but it is supposed they will not
be punished.
At Vera Cruz they were making active
preparations for seige upon Jalapa, Cor
dova, and the Capital.
Coronado’s expedition to Tepic, took
six hundred of tlie Church party, after a
hard fight. Gen. Morena, and several
other officers, w'ere wounded.
The British Consul, Ottway, will leave
Vera Cruz on the third.
The British ship, Calypso, has been
detected in Smuggling three millions from
a small port on the Pacific.
Consul Conner, from Mazatlan, is
aboard the Star; he has secured advanta
geous concessions to our commerce.
Accident to tlie Quaker City.
Norfolk, Va., Oct. 9. —The steamship
Quaker City, from New York, bound for
Havana, smashed her engine on Friday,
fifty miles south of Cape -Hatteras.—
About one hundred passengers have ar
rived here. Tke steamer was sound and
tight. Her otficers, crew and twelve
passengers preferred remaining on board.
The last that was seen of the Quaker
City she was on the edge of the Gulf
stream, about forty miles south of Cape
Ilatteras.
Norfolk, Oct. 10,—Nothing has been
herrd of the steamship Quaker City since
the arrival of the passengers mentioned
in a previous dispatch. A heavy gale
prevailed yesterday, and fears are enter
tained for the steamer's safety. Twenty
three passengers—men, women and chil
dren—remained on board.
Episcopal Convention.
Richmond, Va., Oct. 9. —The House of
Bishops refused to concur with the vote
of the deputies that Chicago be the next
place of meeting. They voted in favor
of Philadelphia.
The Convention on Saturday were en
gaged in the amendments of canons.—
The nrder of the day was postponed un-
I til Monday.
i The consecration of Bishops takes place
j on Thursday.
Richmond, Oct. 10.—The Protestant
Episcopal Convention was busy to-day in
discussing amendments to the Constitu
tion and canons of the Church. Nothing
of special importance was done.
Later from Texas.
New Orleans, Oct. 10.—Brownsville,
Texas, was attacked on the 28th ult., by
Guerrillas, and five persons killed. The
jail was broken open, and the prisoners
set at liberty. Intense excitement pre
vailed. The citizens had mostly fled to
Matamoras. The Mexican authorities
sent assistance to the.people of Browns
ville.
The guerillas were headed by an out
law named Cortimus, and numbered one
hundred strong ; they were mounted and
rode into the city, and posted sentinels.
Gen. Carvajal, and others arrived, and
persuaded the outlaws to leave the city.
Fort Brown was then garrisoned with
Mexican troops from Matamoras, the
citizens forming a patrol. The outlaws
were encamped near the city, some two
hundred strong.
The Mexican General visited the camp,
and obtained a promise that the outlaws
would not molest Brownsville any more;
but the citizens expected to be attacked
again. An express was sent to the near
est point for troops. The Sheriff and a
posse came down to Point Isabel, with
the steamship Arizona’s Mails.
Auotlicr Duel—Amicably Adjusted.
Vicksburg, Oct. B.—A meeting took
place at Desoto city, opposite Vicksburg,
to-day, between Mr. Partridge, Editor of
the Whig, and Mr. McGarr, late Demo
cratic candidate for city Representative,
for the purpose of fighting a duel; but
the matter was refe.red to W. D. Ray and
Dr. Hubbard, and was amicably adjusted.
No shots were fired.
Arrival of tlie Sauta Fe Mail.
St. Louis, Oct. 10.—The Santa Fe
mail, of the 15th of September, has ar- j
rived.
The reported attack on the mail party
by Indians is confirmed. Several bodies
were found, but the mails were unmo
lested.
Savannah, Oct. 12.—The ships Old
Dominion, from Portland, the Exchange,
from Bath, Maine, and the bark Maria
Morton, from New Y'ork, arrived here
to-day.
Texas Progress and Prospects.
The editor of the Trinity Advocate, pub
lished at Palestine, Texas, has just re
turned from the neighboring counties of
Freestone and Limestone. The cotton
crop is as short as in Trinity, say about
one-half. The corn crop was abundant.
The people of the two “stone” counties
appear to have gone into the stock raising
business with energy and unanimity. The
Advocate says: “Large flocks of sheep
and herds of cattle were almost continu
ally in sight after we reached the prai
t ies.” The raising of sheep is increasing
rapidly and the profits are very large—in
some localities as much as 75 per cent.
The town of Springfield, in Limestoue
county, is rapidly tilling up with an in
dustrious population.
The Jefferson Gazette, published at
Jefferson, on lied River, in Harrison
county, Texas, speaks in the most satis
factory terms of the progress of the
town, which numbers two successful news
papers among its other indications of in
creasing prosperity. There is not a va
cant house in the place. “The mechan
ic’s hammer is heard from morning until
night in every quarter of the town, and
the smoke is seen curling from brick
kilns in almost every direction on its out
skirts.” Tlie population has nearly
doubled in the last eighteen months.
One of the principal reasons of this
progress is that Jefferson, whence New
Orleans receives so much cotton, is the
shipping point for a belt of fertile coun
try two hundred miles wide, and stretch
ing back to a distance of three huudred
miles, which, although only partially set
tled, already gives constant occupation to
forty large business houses in Jefferson
to purchase and forward its. cotton, wool,
cattle, horses, sheep, beef, pork, hides,
peltries, iron, castings, pecans, tallow,
beeswax, aud many valuable medicinal
roots —ali coming to New Orleans. The
Gazette promises that in a few years-we
shall receive from this section of country
abundance of the best flour, before the
supplies from the West can reach us.
“Square leagues of land, capable of
producing a bale of cotton to the acre,
now lie idle, even in Harrison county.”
But how long will this be the case when
the Pacific rail road shall stretch its long
iron arms through the heart of this fer
tile district?
The same paper gathers from a resi
dent merchant, who has just returned
from a long trip through a number of the
counties lying beyond and south of Ca
manche Peak, on the upper Brazos river,
much valuable and interesting informa
tion. The merchant had succeeded iu
making permanent contracts for over
000,000 head of cattle, to be delivered at
.Jefferson, where, as our readers may
know, the beef packing business has be
come quite extensive and prosperous.
We prefer giving the Gazette’s own de
scription of these counties, based on the
merchant’s word of mouth narrative:
The cattle raised in that belt of coun
try grow to an enormous size, many of
them at six years old weighing eleven
and twelve hundred pounds, and none
scarcely coming under seven hundred,
and they keep fat both winter and sum
mer. The horses and mules are tough
and hardy, and when bred from Kentucky
stock are equally as large, and suscepti
ble of bearing much more fatigue—hence,
are more valuable. It is also most ad
mirably adapted to the growth of wool,
which will in a few years, with the ex
ception of cattle, form their principal ar
ticle of export. For hogs it cannot be
surpassed, as they feed and live very well
through the Summer on the mesquite
grass, and become exceedingly fat on the
I post oak mast, which is abundant in
: winter.
Fountains of the purest water are met
with at almost every mile, and the lands
cannot be surpassed in the production of
all the cereals. For hundreds of miles
up the country is pleasant, healthy and
fertile, and most happily adapted to the
rearing of horses, cattle, sheep, hogs,
and every species of stock. It will pro
duce excellent cotton, but being at pres
ent somewhat remote from market, wheat
and corn pay a better profit. The coun
try is, as yet, thinly settled, but emi
grants are now rapidly pouring into it
j from every section of the Union.
The stockholders of the Southern I’a
ciffc Rail Road well know, or if they do
not they ought to, that this is a part of
the rich, wide region of country their
j road is to develope into a vast granary of
j agricultural wealth—a country yet spare
ly settled, but waiting as Douglas Jer
j rold might say, to be tickled by the engi
i neer and the farmer, to laugh with abun
; dance.
Rice Mill Burned.
The lice mill of Daniel Hayward Esq.,
on Savannah Back river, known as the
I Laurel Hill Pounding Mill and Thresher,
was destroyed by fire on Thursday night.
| The mill was anew one, and the first lot
I of 150 tierces of rice, of its pounding,
| was on our market, when Mr. Hayward
| received the dispatch announcing its do
i structiou.
There were insurances as follows:
I SSOOO in the “South Carolina Insurance
! and Trust,” of this city, SSOOO in “Fire
i men’s Insurance,” of this city, and S4OOO
; in the “ Home Insurance,” of New York
j —represented here by James H. Taylor,
0 Broad street —amounting to SI4OOO on
the building and premises.
There was a policy of $4,000 on the
Rice on the first floor from the “Alabama
Fire and Marine Insurance Company,” of
Montgomery, Ala., represented by Chas.
A. DeSaussure, agent in this city.—
Charleston Courier Oct. 10.
Grafting tlie Grape.
The editor of the American Cotton
Planter says : Having practiced grafting
grapes for the last ten days, I never found
any difficulty in this operation ; in fact
they graft as easy as any other fruit.
Instead of propagating grape-vines, as is
usual done, by a single eye as a cutting,
I always found it a more sure way to
graft them to a piece of root, and if it
be a rare kind, of a longjointed growth,
as American grapes generally are, one
i bud was sufficient. 1 hardly ever lost
more than five per cent. I never used
j any graftingwax, but planted the grafts
j in the ground immediately, and covered
( the united piece with earth. This
! s undoubtedly a much safer plan
1 than relying on single buds as cuttings.
; When grafting on stumps, taking two or
: three buds on the graft, I have sometimes
: had grapes the first season, but always
| a fair crop the second summer.
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Blunt County Apples.
The Bluntsville Pioneer a paper re
cently started at Bluntsville in this State,
i speaking of the apple crop of that county,
i which it represents as good, says: “We
were shown the other day, by our young
i friend, Mr. W. Jones, one which weighed
one pound, 5£ ounces.” That was certain
ly a large apple even for Biunt.
“Mrs. Richard C. Davis presented our
“ better half” with one a few days. ago,
j which she brought from Blunt, which
measured Ilf inches in circumference, a
: large and beautiful apple, and we judge.
—for we have not yet tested the fact ex
perimentally—of delicious flavor.
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A Big Balloon.
A New York correspondent says that
there now appears to be every probability
that an aerial voyage across the Atlantic
will be attempted, perhaps not this, but
certainly next year. Mr. Lowe is not a
man who boasts; he has been very quiet
ly preparing the apparatus, which he
feels confident will accomplish the under
taking, and he seems determined to at
tempt it this fall. The balloon, when in
, tiated, will be a perfect wonder, exceed
ing the Trinity Church steeple, in New
York, in altitude ! The lifeboat is a model
in its way.
The Cincinnati papers report an active
demand for Whisky at 26c. per gallon.—
The Cincinnati Gazette of the Bth says :
The high price of whisky and the abun
j dance and prospective low price of corn
are causing some activity in the distillery
line, and the indications are that every
establishment in the West will be in full j
blast before the close of the year. Dis
tillers have had two hard seasons in sue- I
cession, owing to the failure of the corn
crops, and a large number of establish- j
ments were closed ; but better times were
anticipated, and preparations are being
made accordingly.
THE GREAT BALLOON VOYAGE.
Thrilling Narrative of the. Adventures of the Aero
nauts—Descent and Abandonment of the A,r Skn>
—Suffering in Uu: Wilderness— Final Rescue, dr.
The fact that La Mountain, the aero
naut, and J. A. Haddock, a newspaper
reporter, who nscended in the balloon
“Atlantic,” from Watertown, N. I .
the 22d ult , have been found alive and
safe in a Canadian wilderness, 300 miles
north of their point of. departure, has
been published. It appears, if they had
staid up a few hours longer, they weu.d
have solved the question of the portli
west passage through the Arctic Ocean
at the usual cost —their lives. Ibe as
cension was made at 27 minutes before
G o’clock, p. m.. and about 7 o’clock they
made the first landing, traveled
the extraordinary distance of miles
in about one hour and a half, i rom a
highly interesting narrative by Mr. Had
dock, we take the following account of
the perilous adventure:
tub first landing.
We concluded to settle down by the
side of a tree, tie up, and wait until
morning. In a moment we were near the
earth, and as we fell I grasped the ex
treme top of a tall spruce, which stopped
her descent, and we were soon fastened
to it by the large drag rope. The touch
of that spruce scut a thrill ot discounter!
to my heart, lor l knew that its- Lind did
not grow in any well settled nor any
warm country. Mr. La Mountain said,
after he looked around and made as much
of an examination of the scenery as we
could do for the darkness and rain (for
it had rained the past hour,) that the
“Atlantic was played out —we were far
into the woods, and if we got out alive
we ought to be thankful.’’
We rolled ourselves up in our blankets
and patiently waited until morning. The
rain dripped down upon us in rivulets
from the great balloon, and it was not
long before wc were as wet as men could
be. After a night passed in great dis
comfort, we were glad to see the first faint
ray of daylight. Cold, wet, and rainy,
the morning broke, the typical precursor,
we were to learn, of many other morn
ings to be spent in these uninhabited
wilds. We waited until six o’clock, in
hopes the rain would cease, and that the
rays of the sun, by warming the gas in
the balloon, would give us ascending pow
er sufficient to get up again, lor the pur
pose, if no other, of obtaining a view of
the country into which we had descended.
The rain did notecase, and wc concluded
to throw over all we had in the balloon,
except a coat apiece, the life preservers,
the anchor and the compass. Overboard,
then, they went—good shawls and blank
ets, Mi*. Fayel’s overcoat, bottles of ale
and a flask of cordial, ropes and traps of
all kinds. The Atlantic, relieved of her
wet load, rose majestically with us, and
we were able to behold the country below.
It was au unbroken wilderness of lakes
and spruce ; and we felt then that we had
gone too far, through a miscalculation of
the velocity of the balloon.
SECOND DESCENT.
As the current was driving us still to
the north, we dare not stay up, as we
were drifting farther and still farther to
that “frozen tide, - ’ from which we knew
there could be no escape. Mr. La M.
seized the valve cord and discharged gas,
and we descended in safety by the side of
a large spruce. We made the Atlantic
fast by her anchor, and for a moment
talked over what we should do. We had
not a mouthful to eat. No protection at
night from the damp ground, were dis
tant we knew not how far from habita
tion, were hungry to start with, no earth
ly hope of raising a fire, and no distinct
idea as to where we were. We concluded
to trust to the compass, and take a course
which would bring us out of any wilder
ness we might be in. We settled in-our
own minds that we were either in John
Brown’s traeffor in the great Canada wil
derness —to the south, we thought of the
Ottawa, and knew that a course south by
east would take us out if we had strength
enough to travel the distance. La M.
stepped up to the balloou and gave the
edge of the basket a parting* shake, say
ing, “Good bye, old Atlantic,” and I fan
cied I could see a tear in his eye when he
said it.
TRAMPING IN THE WOODS.
To the South-east, then, we started.
After traveling about a mile and a half,
we came to the bank of a small creek,
flowing down from the westward. At this
place we were agreeably surprised to
find that some human being had been
there before us, for we fouud several
small trees cut down, the coals from an
old fire, and a half barrel which had con
tained pork. I eagerly examined the
stamp. It read, “ Mess Pork, P. M.,
Montreal.” This settled the question
that we were in Canada—for I very well
knew that no Montreal inspection of pork
ever found its way into the interior’ of
New York State. We traveled all day
Friday up the unknown creek, which
kept'its general course to the south of
west, crossing it about noon, on a float
ing log, and striking on its southern
bank a “ blazed” track, which led us up
to a deserted timber road, lying on the
opposite side from a large lumbering
shanty. Wo hoped one of the lumbering
roads might, take us out to a settlement,
but after traveling up them all until they
terminated in the wilderness, we conclu
ded to cross the creek to the shanty, and
stay in it all night. LaMountaiu got
across it safely;, but my weight was
I greater than his, and the raft let me into
j the stream. I sank in all over, and
swam out, though it required all my
strcngth.to do so, and on reaching the
bank I found myself so chilled as scarce
ly to be able to stand. I took off my
my clothes, wrung them, and we pro
ceeded to the shanty, where we found
plenty* of refuse straw, but it was dry,
and under a pile of it we crawled, pull
ing it over our heads and faces, in the
hope that our breath might aid in warming
our chilled bodies. I think the most re
vengeful, stony heart would have pitied
our condition then. The weary hours of
the night at last wore away, and we held
anew counsel. It was evident, we reas
oned, the creek we were upon was used
for “ driving” logs in the spring season.
If, then, we followed it to the confluence
with the Ottawa, or some stream which
emptied_into the Ottawa, we could in
time get out the same way’ the timber
went out.
TAKING A RAFT.
The roof of the shanty was covered
with the halves of logs, scooped opt in a
manner familiar to all woodmen. These
were light and dry, and would form an j
excellent raft. Why not, then, take four ;
of these, tie them to cross pieces by j
wythes and such old things as we could
find around the shanty, and pole the ,
structure down to that civilization which
a saw-log ought to be able to reach?;
Such was the course we adopted. We
dragged the logs down to the creek, and ,
LaMountaiu tied them together, as he
was evidently more of a sailor than my
self. We got under way, and as we
pushed off a crow set up a dismal cawing !
—an inauspicious sign, and ominous of j
the great, trials and sufferings in store
for us. We poled down stream about ten |
miles, and came abruptly on a pine tree
which had fallen across the stream com- l
pletely blocking the passage of the raft.
No other alternative was left but to untie
*he pieces, and attempt to push them
through under the leg. This was at last
done; tied the raft together again, and i
polled her down stream. To-day tee eat \
each a raw froy, all we could find, and
began to feel that we were hungry. But
there was no more complaining—our talk
was of the hopeful future and the civili
zation we hoped yet to reach. Down the
creek we went into a lake some two miles
long, and into which we of course sup
posed the stream to pass, having its out
let at the lower end. We followed down
the northern bank, keeping always in
shallow spots, so that our poles could
touch the bottom, until we arrived at the’
bottom of the lake, where we found no
outlet, and turned back upon the south
ern bank in quest of it. OtTreaching the :
head of the lake we found that the cur- 1
rent of thacreek turned abruptly to the
right, which was the reason of our
losing it. i
A FEARFUL NIGHT. i
At night we did not stop, but kept the
raft going down through the shades of i
awful forests, whose solemn stillness !
seemed to hold the unrevealed mystery
of our darkening future. About ten
o'clock it be‘Am to rain again. We stopped
the “vessel” and crawled in under some
“tag” alders on the bank, where our ex
treme weariness enabled us to e ct, pn
Laps, half an hour’s sleep. Basing agaiu
(for it was easier to pole at night in the
,ain down a unknown stream, than to
lie on the ground and freeze,) we f ressei
on for a couple of hours until about three
o’clock, when pure exhaustion induced
us to stop again. This time we found a
spot where the clayey hank lacked a
little of coming down to the water. On
the mud we threw our little buiube ci i
straw, and sat down with our feet drawn
up under us, so that our bent bodies pre
sented as little surface as possible for tbe
vain to beat upon. But we could not
staud such an uncomfortable position
long, and as tbe daylight of the Sabbath
broke upon us, we were piling down the
stream with a drizzling rain. At eight
o’clock, we came to a place wnere the
stream canoned —rushing over a stony
bed, down a steep descent between high
rocks on either bank. To get our raft
down this place we regarded as hopeless.
We tied up and examined the shore.—
Here, again, we found unmistakable evi
dence of lumbermen, as they had evi
dently camped at this point, to be handy
by iti tlje attempts they were doubtless
obliged to make to get the timber down
the canon. The rapids were about a third
of a mile long, and in ail the rapids of
Black river there is nothing so wild and
romantic as these. We descended the
bank and thought it best to try our luck
ou foot. After travelling about a mile
we found the bank so tangled and rugged
and ourselves so exhausted, that locomo
tion was impossible; so we concluded to
go back, and if we could get tbe raft
down a piece at a time we would go on
with her ; if not, we would build as good
a place as possible to crawl into, and
prepare for death.
MORE SUFFERING.
We went back, and after examining (he
stream attentively, concluded to try’ to
get the raft down. The pieces would not
float more than a rod at a time before
they would stick on some stone which tbe
low water left above the surface, and
then you must pry it over in some way
and pass it along to the nest obstruction.
We were obliged to get into the stream,
often up to the middle, and there 1 seve
ral times fell headlong, completely using
up our compass, which now frantically
pointed in any direction its addled bead
thought desirable. The water had un
glued the case, and it was ruined. After
long hours of suck labor we got the raft
down, and La Mountain again tied it to
gether. Passing on, in about an hour we
came to a large lake, ten miles long and
six miles broad. Around it we must of
course pass until we should find the out
let. So we turned up to the right, and
pressed on with as much resolution as
could be expected. To-day we found one
clam, which I insisted La Mountain
should eat, as lie was weaker than my
self, and had eat little or nothing on the
day’ we went up. Around we went into
all"the indentations of the shore, keeping
always in shallow water. At last we
stopped at a place we thought least, ex
posed to the wind. We laid down upon
the cold ground, having lifted up the end
of our raft so that the wind might not
drift it away in the night. We were cold
when we laid down, and both of us trem
bled by the hour, like men suffering from
a severe attack of the agfie. The wind
had risen just at night, and the dismal
surging of the waves upon the shore
formed, I thought, a fitting lullaby to
slumber so disturbed and dismal as ours.
By this time our clothes were nearly torn
off. My pantaloons were slit up both
legs, and the waistbands nearly torn off.
My boots both leaked, aud ‘eur mighty
wrestlings in tlie canon had torn the skin
from our ankles and hands. La Moun
tain’s hat was gone the first.day out; lie
had thrown away his woollen . drawers
and stockings the first day of our trap
ping. as they dragged him down by the
weight of water they absorbed. We
slept but little. It really seemed as
though, during that night, we passed
through the horrors of a dozen deaths
At daylight wo got up by degrees, first
on one knee and then ou the other, so
stiff and weak that we could hardly
stand.
TIIE RESCUE.
It has now been four dull days since
we ate a meal. All we had ate in the
meantime was a frog apiece, four clams
and a few wild berries, whose acid prop
erties and bitter taste had probably done
us more harm than good. Our strength
was beginning to fail very fast, and our
system were evidently about to undergo
an extraordinary change. We turned
the raft around, and poled her back to
wards the place .where we had entered
this last lake. We had gone about a
mile when we heard the sound of a gun,
quickly followed by a second report, No
sound was ever so sweet me as that.
We halioed as loud as we could a good
many times, but could get no response.
We kept our poles going, and had gone
about half a mile, when I called La Moun
tain's attention to what I thought was a
smoke curling up among the trees on the
side of a hill. My own eyesight had be
gun to fail mo to an extent that I could
not depend upon it when a long, steady
gaze was necessary. lie said it was
smoke, and that he thought just below it,
on the bank, was a bark canoe. In a few
moments the blue smoke rolled gently
but unmistakably above the tree tops,
and we felt that we were saved. Such a
revulsion of feeling was almost too much
for us. We could hardly believe our sen
ses, and credited anything favorable to
our condition with the utmost caution.
Our bitter disappointments had taught us
that lesson.
We paddled the raft with the ends of
our poles directly across the lake, near,
perhaps, three-fourths of a mile wide,
and made for the canoe. It proved to be
a large one—evidently au Indian’s. Up
the bank I pressed, leaving La Mountain
at the canoe to cut off a retreat by the
ludian in case lie was timid and wished
to avoid us. I came at once upon the
shanties of a lumbering wood, and from
the chimney of the farthest building a
broad volume of smoke was rising. I
halloed—a noise was heard inside, and a
noble looking Indian came to the door.
“ Parlez vous Francais?” was my eager
inquiry as I grasped his outstretched
hand. “Yes, sir, and English, too.” I
lie drew me into the cabin, and there
was the head of the party, a noble-heart
ed Scotchman, named Angus Cameron.
I immediately told my story: that we
came in with a balloon, were lost, and
had been four days without food: asking
where we were. Imagine my surprise .
when he said we were one hundred and
fifty miles due north of Ottowa—in
the dense, uninhabited forest, whose on
ly limit was the Arctic circle.
From this coint the aeronauts were
taken to Ottowa, Canada, whence they
made their wav home in safely.
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Exile ot tile Pope.
The following startling announcement
appears in the editorial correspondence
of the Courrier des Etats Unis :
Pius IN has abandoned tbe project of
interfering by force of arms in the affairs
of the Legation; but, in revenge, he has ,
manifested afresh and more energetically
than ever, the intention of abandoning
Rome and accepting the asylum offered
to him in the Belearic Isles by Spain.
This voluntary exile of the Chief of I
Christendom will be a fact of which it is
easy to appreciate the gravity, and France
is exerting her utmost influence to pre
vent it. Our Embassador to the Holy
Sea, M. de Grammout, has just arrived
in Paris for the second time in less* than
a month, to make the Emperor thoroughly
acquainted with the real state of things,
and to receive instructions how to act in
this imminent crisis. It is mainly owinir
to his efforts that bicod has not flowed in !
the Romagna, and that the Pope is still
at the Vatican ; but w.e are informed
that he is the bearer,, on behalf of the ■
Holy Father, of a sort of ultimatum from
which there is no hope that Pius IX will
recede. If the astuteness of Napoleon
111 should be insufficient to get rid of
this last and most decisive complication, j
we are on the eve of the most solemn j
crisis in the history of Europe.
Origin of lilt Srf ppti noiig.
A correspondent of the Mobile Inbuilt*
thus corrects the idea that this g* V
of foreign origin :
Ft!.’ Tribune: 1 notice the following
paragraph in your paper this morning.
Tun StKHM’KuanNii. —From Mr.
rep rt w • •'Strict the following in rela
tion to tile origin of tins grape:
Among the tniiivi; var etio-s, the most
valuable he on . idyr- the scuppernoug,
which cannot be cultivated at the North.
It is claimed to t,e an Give of North Car
olina. Ttii?, says Mr. Semiues, is a mis
take. It i J a Grecian grape, known as
the Alarie, and from which the finest
wines of Greece are made. It is there
fore, uot improbable that tne most
esteemed dessert wines ot tne Greeks,
the Thracian and Lesbian, v. ei e made
from this grape. . e
1 dislike to spoil the pretty conceit ot
Mr. Seiames as to the classic origin of the
scuppernoug grape. .
The first vine of that name was r und
| by the Rev. Charles Pettigrew, au Epis
i copal Minister, about the year 1 1 74, ou
’ the low grounds of the Scuppernong
river, in Tyvrel county, North Carolina,
and from which he planted a vineyard. I
have drunk ol the wine made from these
vines.
During the visit of President Monroe
to the Southern States, at a public din
ner given to him by the citizens of New
bern. North Carolina, scuppernoug wine,
then fifteen years old, produced ‘rom the
vineyard of his sou, the late Hon. i.nc
nezer Pettigrew, was placed upon the
table. It attracted the attention of the
President, Mr. Calhoun, and othergue.-ts
who accompanied them, and the origin of
the wine having been purimsely con
cealed, they were requeste 1 to determine
its quality and origin.
It was in their opinion an exceedingly
delicious wine, and oi’Grecian or Eastern
origin Upon being informed that it was
made from the native North Carolina
grape, quite a laudation was bestowed,
and a desire expressed to procure some
of the same quality.
The stock in Mr. Pettigrew’s posses
sion was not sufficient to meet the de
mand, and lie had, in fact, never sold a
gallon of it. Subsequently he presented
a barrel to the President anJ Mr. Cal
houn, which he sent to them at Washing
ton.. It there attracted much attention,
and was pronounced by those skilled in
such matte) s, who knew nothing of its
history, to be a rare aud delicious wine
brought from seme Eastern country.
In Sir Walter Raleigh’s History of the
World the great, profusion of grapes on
lloanoke Island (some twenty miles from
Scuppernong river) attracted his atten
tion, and is especially mentioned by him.
My only object in this communication
is to verify “the truth of history”—to
j sustain a “ native American” “ct cuique
siium tribuere.
Upon reflection, Mr. Editor, can you
tell me when the Greek trireme which
brought the vine to North Carolina, reached
Scupp'ernong river ? l’>.
Italians anti Germans Compared.
A writer in the Christian Examiner in
stitutes the following comparison between
the Italians and the Germans:
In point of intelligence, the middle
and lower ranks in Italy’ are much supe
rior to the same classes in Germany, and
so far as the charities of life belong to
the department of ethics, in morals also.
Stupidity’, churlishness and rudeness are
as rare among the Italian peasantry, as
they are general among the German ;
arid as for the hotel keepers, traders and
veturini, while in Italy you may be flat
tered or argued by them iu paying a few
shillings above a reasonable reckoning,
you will in Germany be treated with
boorish insolence, if you refuse to sub
mit to an extortion of as many pounds.
With respect to the educated classes, tbe
relative position of the two nations is re
versed, and the German is superior to
the Italian, in just the same proportion
as his advantages of education are great
er. The reason of this lies in the intel
lectual constitution of the races. The
German is just what books and scholastic
discipline him, and in German life
there is no social training which alone
supplies their place. Take these away,
and you have but a coarsely organized
and intensely animal being left. The
Italian, on the other hand, has original
endowments, a facility and a flexibility’
of nature, and habits of associate life,
which enable him to form and develope a
character without the aid of the artificial
means which are indispensable to the
German. The Italians are inherently
and collectively a civilized people; tbe
German must be reclaimed and civilized
de novo, in each individual case.
Beecher’s Correspondence.
Ilev. Henry Ward Beecher, in the In
dependent, is showing how he treats his
correspondents, who are more numerous
than profitable, and more expectant than
wise. That notoriety and talent cost
something, is shown by the following :
We cannot raise loans for dee ply in
: debted churches, however much they
j deserve help; we cannot help men to re
i deem their mortgaged farms; we are
! utterly unable to take in hand the educa
tion of any’ more deserving persons ; we
1 cannot inquire into or relieve the him
: (Irgs of a sgs o distressing poverty
which exist in every State: we never in
vest in speculations; and that ten dollars
or twenty-five dollars “that would save
from immorality,” we have never sent,
and never shall. Wc shall not either
persuade any of the “rich men of our
| congregation” to put forth their money
j in any of the hundred ways pointed out
j to us every year.
In short, money is riot a thing that
letters can get, and it will save much
trouble to the various writers, and much
surprise of expectation after they have
written them, to know that, outside of
our friends and personal acquaintances,
i we never answer, and almost never read',
but invariably burn, letters for money.
An Interesting Jefferson’* Jilaimal.
The Salem (Mass.) Gazette, alluding
to the recent presentation of a copy of
Jefferson’s Manual to Mr. Phelps, Presi
dent of the Senate of Massachusetts
adds:
There is at the Mayor’s office, in our
City Hall, another copy of Jefferson's
Manual, which also ha3 interesting asso
ciations of a personal nature connected
wuh it. It was formerly the property of
tlio late Justice Story, used by him when
Speaker ot the House of Representatives
of Massachusetts, and full ‘of his mar
ginal notes made at that time. It was
presented to him by his personal and po
litical friend, the late Nathaniel Silsbee,
upon bis election to the Presidency of
toe Senate of Massachusetts, and used
by him during his service in that office
and subsequently for eight years as a
Senator for Massachusetts in t’onre
during which time he was often placed
by Mr. Van Buren. then Vice-President,
in the chair of tbe presiding officer, a
compliment .he rarely paid to one in op
position. This copy, which was pre
sented to its present owner by President
Silsbee, bears marks oi having been
much used, and ha3 now been an occu
pant for nearly four years of the Mayor’s
office at the City Hall.
Crojis in ArUansas.
The Memphis Enquirer, of the sth in- ‘
stant, says:
We are informed by Mr. Dunn, of the
firm of M. 11. Miller & Cos., of this ciiy,
who has been traveling of late through j
some of the counties'of Arkansas, that I
the corn and cotton crops uever looked I
more promising than at the present time. ‘
He says that there is more cotton open
ing now than there is in ordinary sea
sons in the month of September. Dr. ,
Jordan, of South Bend, was shippin” at
the rate of 10Q bates a week. The qual
ity of the crop is excellent, both on the ‘
uplands and the bottoms; ami there never
was so much cotton under cultivation ;
before as uow. Favorable reports teach
us from almost every direction concern
i-g the cotton crops, and we may sup
pose that should the weather be propi
tious, we shall have an unusual large
crop. The planters inform Mr. Duim
that the corn crop was never more prom
ising, and yield of eighty bushels per
acre was confidently expected.
Verbatim Reporting 111 us
The British Parliamentary reports iu ; -
nislied bv the London morning pu|.< ,
are very accurate, and embrace evei v
tliing transpiring in cither lieu >• p.,
sessiug any interest lor the public ; bin,
although phonogiaphically reported, lin■ \
seldom give the jspe'die- ‘eil-aii;.,
More than this, the reporters exeici-e
their own discretion as to what i-peech:
they ought to report and what not. :.•*
38 to the relative length at which tl ,
speeches they do report ought to be giv
en. Did they do otherwise, the mass ..;
verbiage aud nonsense which would Uai •
appear in the morning papers would goon
i disgust their readers. This has beo.
verified by experience. Several years
r.i’o, a iournal was started in London,
i called “The Mirror of Parliament,” f,.’.
tbe avowed purpose of supplying what
the proprietors conceived a desideratum
in tbe reports of the proceeding* in p ;U -.
Lament, namely, a verbatim account of
everything spoken by lion, member.;
The undertaking proved a failure. :
those who embarked in the speculation
lest some thirty-live thousand dollars in
their endeavors to establish it. It was
found that the public had no disposition
| to read more lengthened reports of p ar .
; liameutary eloquence than those fur
i nished by the daily papers, and conse
quently the circulation of ihc “Mirror of
Parliament” was from the very first al
most exclusively confined to Honorable
members themselves, which made it b o
limited to pay.
In Grant's “Parliamentary Reporting”
there are some good anecdotes told
members who had an anxiety that their
speeches should appear verbatim, and who
frequently complained to the reporter*
! that their speeches were curtailed. Dr.
Stoddart, who for a t me conducted a
iournal in London celled “The New
Times,” tried the plan of giving rcrhv.'m
reports. The result of the, experiment
was that the members made dosviir.; ht
fools oi themselves. Lord ( a-tlercago
exhibited himself as ‘'standing pros:.:.
at the foot of Majesty,” Sir Fredeih ;
Flood, one Os the Irish members, and a
great stickler for verbatim reports, ap
peared one morning as having on the
previouseveniug enlightened and delight
ed the House with the following pro
found philosophy and brilliant eloquence:
“Mr. Spaker—As l was coming down to
this House this morning, to perform my
duty to the country, and ouhi Ireland. I
was brutally attacked, Sir, by a mob, Mr.
Spaker, of ragamuffins,'Sir. If, Sir, any
honorable gentleman is to be assulted,
Mr. Spaker, by such a parcel of spal
peens, Sir, ;.s were after attacking me,
Mr. Spaker, then I say, Mr. Spaker,
that if you do not, Mr. Spaker, be after
protecting gintlemen, like myself, Sir,
we cannot be after coming .to the House
of parliament, at all, Mr. Spaker. And,
Sir, may I be after axing you, Sir, what,
Sir, would become, Sir, of the bisness of
the country, Mr. Spaker, in such a case,
Mr. Spaker? It’s myself, Sir, that would
like an answer, Sir, to the question, Sir,
as soon as convanient, Sir, which I have
asked you Mr. Spaker.”
This” proved a complete extinguisher
to Sir Frederick’s penchant for verbatim
reporting. He went, the day on which
his oration appeared, to the editor? of all
the morning papers, and said he would
thereafter leave his speeches to the dis
cretion of the “ reporthers.” We do not
know whether there will be any relative
of Sir Frederick Flood iu the next Con
gress, but should there be, he may arise
some morning and find himself immortal
ized in the columns of the N. Y. Ilerall
by some similar oratorical display.
Tiie PlitlosopUy of Emancipation.
According to the New York correspon
dent of the Richmond Enquirer, the
number of negroes in the North Atlantic
Free States, by the census of 1850, was
149,759. Ilq gives the following state
ment :
Negro Population of the Northern Atlantic Pm.
Slates. •
In 1790 there were, Free 27,049
Staves 40't;70
Total ; 67,4;!*
What it should have been at 30 per cent, in
crease for each decade, to 1860 320.3 !
What it was by the United States census in
lioO 149,77!*
Deficiency of 170.3)4
An increase compared with the negro
population of the South, within the same
period.
Tlx re were 49,870 slaves held in the
free States in 1790, whose increase, had
it been equal to the black population,
should have in 1850 (a period of sixty
years) reached 195,394 which would have
exceeded, alone, the entire colored popu
lation of the said free States in that year.
To account for this deficiency, observes
the correspondent, can only in part be
done on the ground that a large portion
of the 40,370 slaves held by the free
States in 1790, were subsequently sold to
the people of the southern States. The
St. Louis Democrat states that a similar
process is going on in Missouri. It con
gratulates the people that they are get
ting rid of their negroes by selling them
out fa southern purchasers at an average
of about SSOO per head. When the ne -
groes arc all sold out and the money re
ceived by their owners, the consciences
of the latter will be so clear as so enable
them to wage war against the South, if
the people do not agree to surrender their
slaves without compensation.— Fichu,
Dispatch.
Cotton liaised Since July.
A young friend of ours, who has been
passing some pleasant summer week?
among the Mississippi plantations, came
into our office yesterday afternoon ami
laid upon our table some samples of cot
ton on the stalk and in the boll, which
was grown on Mr. Cammack’s plantali n,
in Issaquena county, Miss. It is of the
kind calied the “ little brown Mexican,”
and the peculiarity of the specimen to
which we are alluding consists in the
fact ihat it is the growth of only’ a few
weeks. The plantation on which it was
raised was submerged, and was not clear
of the water until July, since, which time
the cotton has been planted and cultiva
ted. It is cotton of fine staple, aud look?
w eR.—A. O. Picayune.
Among the names appended to the late
Liack Republican circular issued from
Albany, New York, is that of Mr. O. N.
School field, of Roberson’s Cross Road*,
ienn. ihc editors of tbe Nashville Un
ion learn from a gentleman who has re
eently conversed with Mr. Schoolfield,
taut the use ot Lis name was entirely un
authorized by him, and that he does no*,
sympathize in the sentiments of the cir
cular. The utterly unscrupulous charac
ter ot the Black Republican leaders is
strikingly illustrated in this atrocious
ou.rage upon the rights oi a nrivate citi
zen.
T!ie Way Clioate Worktd.
How often have I observed that, let a
friend or client call on Mr. Clicate at his
busiest moment, and he would turn to
his visitor with ail the ease of an idler.
There was no wrinkling of the brow, not h
ing in the look or gesture, which said
tnat the interruption was unwelcome and
must be brief. He could always afford
to be interrupted ; and the reason was
tout, when the interruption was over, he
could retuin at once to bis study; and
when he studied, he knew how to sunk.
— Parsons.
It appears from the Suisse, a Bernese
journal, that Mr. Fay, the representative
or the Lcited States at Switzerland, h >
just submitted a memorial to the Bun
desrath, requesting that measures be
taken hv the Swiss Federal Government
for abolishing the libera! laws against
the Jews. Mr. Fay has made a positive
Complaint to the effect that persons from
the United State?, who are of tbe Jewish
persuasion, are treated in such a manner
that it is in perfect violation of the treaty
which was several years ago made between
Switzerland and (be United States.
A oat key arose to announce his text a?-
follows: “In de fus ‘pistol <*f Glover’
second chapter and two hundred and
ninty fust verse.” “Hold up. Doctor,”
ctied one of diis hearers, “you’ve got into
dq wrong book ; you mean de nistM ol
Timothy I ‘sposo.” The preacher, hesi
tating a moment, with a very profound
look, said: “Well, I must cave in dis
time; though I know’d dat de text wtis
somewhare among de grasses!”