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COLTJMBTJS:
Tuesday Morning, Oet. 95, 1899.
Dunlap, formerly Governor of Maine,
died recently at Brunswick, in that State.
The Episcopal Convention at Rich
mond, adjourned sine die on yesterday.
The annual State Fair at Atlanta will
commence on the 24th inst., and continue
four days.
Estabrook, (Democrat) has been chosen
delegate to Congress from Nebraska,
by 48 majority.
The official returns from all the coun
ties of West Florida, show a majority of
60 against annexation to Alabama.
The steamship Montgomery from New
York, the schooners Coggshall, from Phil
adelphia, and Wide World, from Boston,
arrived at Savannah on the 23d.
Mr. P. Edmunds, an old and esteemed
citizen of Galveston, died on the 12th
inst. He was formerly Consul at New
Orleans for the Republic of Texas.
The Hon. Robert Toombs will deliver
the Annual Address at the Agricultural
Fair at Atlanta, next Thursday, at 12 m.
So we learn from the Atlanta American
of the 20th.
Robert H. Thompson, Esq., for many
years county Surveyor, of Greene coun
ty, Alabama, died in the Court House at
Eutaw, Ala., recently, of compression of
the brain.
The overland mail from California ar
rived at St. Louis on the 18th instant.
Judge Terry has been put under bonds
for SIO,OOO. Nearly the whole town of
Monte Christo has been destroyed by
fire.
At the recent rail road celebration at
Talladega, the Hon. Lewis E. Parsons
urged the importance of erecting a monu
ment to preserve the memory of the sev
enteen patriotic Tennesseeans who fell in
the battle at the place.
Yallow Fever In Texas.
Houston and Galveston dates of the
18th, received at New Orleans on the 20th,
show that the yellow fever continues un
abated in those places.
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Death of John Calhoun.
John Calhoun, Ex-Surveyor General of
Kansas and Nebraska, died on the 13th,
at St. Joseph, Missouri. Ho was Presi
dent of the Convention, we believe, which
framed the Lecompton Constitution.
The banks of South Carolina have a total
circulation of $7,110,173; due to other
banks, $2,596,432; due to depositors,
$3,551,714. The banks have in specie,
$2,394,800; due from other banks, sl,-
211,359; domestic exchange, $7,404,802;
discounts, $13,879,655.
The old Spirit of the Times of the Bth
inst., noticing the presence of Southern
gentlemen in New York, sayß:
“Johnson J. Hooper, Esq., editor of
the Montgomery Mail, will be in town in
a day or two. It is unnecessary to say
that “Col. Symon Suggs” will be received
with an ovation.”
By the Overland mail to St. Louis,
from California, the 19th, we learn that
resolutions were adopted at the Pacific
Rail Road Convention in favor of a cen
tral route.
It was reported that a project was on
foot among the Black Republicans to ex
clude Scott ane Burch, Congressmen
elect, on the ground that their election
waß unconstitutional.
Band and Dust In Cotton.
Among the items of news brought by
the Europa, is the great complaint among
ootton brokers and manufacturers against
mixing dust and sand in American cotton.
The American Chamber of Commerce has
been memorialized to put a stop to the
practice. They state that besides the
depreciation of cotton, the losses from
this cause the past year reached one
hundred thousand bales.
The Yacht Wandarar.
Capt. Black and Edward Talbot, who
were carried off in the yacht Wanderer,
from Savannah, on Tuesday night, have
returned, having been allowed to jump
into their boat towed astern, after the
vessel was out of the harbor. As they
separated Capt. Martin stated to Black
and his companion, that he was bound to
the coast of Africa for a cargo of negroes.
Large Receipts of Cotton.
The receipts of cotton at New Orleans
from Sunday morning up to 6 o’clock the
evening of the 17th, amounted to 26,878
bales. Among the arrivals was the Mag
nolia, from Vicksburg, with 6,224 bales
of cotton, being the largest load by 600
bales, that has ever been brought by any
boat to that port. ,
Illgh Price for Lands.
At the recent sales at the Falla planta
tion near Richmond, 655£ acres of land
were sold on an average of $131.85 per
acre. The woodland, consisting of 127 J
acres, averaged $50,05 per acre, and the
open land of 527 acres, averaged slsl
- per acre. As far as the sale has pro*
gressed it amounts to $86,431.
The stock of cotton on hand and on
shipboard at New Orleans the Ist of
September, was 26,022 bales; amount
received in September, 150,806 bales ;
amount received from Ist to 21st October,
182,142 bales. The stock remaining on
hand and on shipboard the 21st, was
218,100 bales.
The trial of Wm. A. Choice, for mur
der, whioh has been progressing in At
lanta, was terminated Friday night, the
Jury returning a verdict of “guilty.”
Application for anew trial being refused.
Judge Bull sentenced him to be executed
on the Bth of December. The case, as we
learn from the Atlanta papers, will be
taken to the Supreme Court.
A Storm.
The Hayneville (Ala.) Chronicle of the
20th, says: On Monday night last a fu
rious wind, accompanied with rain, swept
over that place. The blow lasted about
an hour, materially injuring such cotton
as was open. Tuesday evening the wind
chopped round to the north, and this
(Wednesday) morning traces of frost were
visible to alll early risers.
The Atlantic Monthly, the periodical
recently published at Boston by Philips,
Sampson & Cos., has been purchased by
Ticknor & Fields, who will hereafter pub
lish it. Dr. J. W. Palmer will remain its
New York Editor.
We learn from the Chambers Tribune,
that the gin house of Mr. Caleb Hollo
way, about three miles west of La Fay
ette, was consumed by fire with its con
tents, on the 18th. One thousand dol
lars will cover the loss. The fire was
caused by Motion.
At the late oelebration of the Fire De
partment of New York, Howard Engine No.
was draped in mourning in memory
|of the late Senator Broderick, of Califor
|#ia, who was formerly its foreman.
Columbus and her R. R. Interests.
The recent petition of some of our
strongest and most influential merchants
to the City Council, touching the pro
posed connection, by rail road, of Colum
bus with La Grange, suggests the pro
priety and pertinency of a few thoughts
in connection with the past, as well as
, the future, of our city in respect to her
rail road enterprises. The action of the
City Council in the premises, seems to
have imparted an impetus to the hereto
fore comparatively dormant spirit of en
terprise in our midst. Their action,
and its reception by all immediately or
remotely interested in the continued ad
vancement of Columbus in wealth and
power, augurs favorably for the future.
There seem to be some who have the in
terests of the community at heart, while
like every other community, there may
be found those who are willing to con
tribute nothing to the general prosperity,
but like mere parasites, ingloriously
reap the benefits of the industry of their
more liberal and enterprising neighbors.
There are in every community, men, the
sum total of whose existence, is to clog
the wheels of progress, and cast a damp
er upon every laudable enterprise. Pay
ing our respects to these, we will ignore
them in future articles on this eubject,
knowing that there are others determined
not to be always kept bound down to the
same dead level with those whose only
value, doubtful as it may be, is to swell
the numerical strength of the commu
nity.
Communities, in many respects, are
like individuals. The benefits arising
from commercial intercourse and inter
change are mutual. When the merchant
sells, and the consumer buys, the result
is a reciprocal benefit, because tbe con
sumer is compelled to be supplied with
merchandise, and the merchant furnishes
it for a reasonable profit for the (rouble,
expense, &c., of supplying it. So with
every occupation, and its various ramifi
cations, and the mutual dependence of
one upon the others. In this light, must
Columbus regard her rail road enter
prises. She Bhould not look with jeal
ousy upon every movement of the kind,
and jump to the unreasonable conclusion
that every proposition for connection by
rail road with her is prompted by selfish
motives, exclusively—that they would
not be submitted, unless some advantage
was desired to be taken. True, that nat
urally and reasonably enters into every
enterprise of the kind, and constitutes
the impelling consideration, but we
should reflect, that while they redound
to the advantage and prosperity of other
communities, we are benefitted in equal
or greater proportion by the same facili
ties as those with whom we arc thrown
into: communication. There are few rail
road connections that would injure a
place of this importance, but it is the
policy of Columbus to concentrate her
energies and resources upon those that
would eventuate in most benefit to her.
Thus much by way of introducing the
subject. In our next we will further pur
sue its consideration, and endeavor to
show some of the errors and the mista
ken policy of Columbus with respect to
other rail roads now in successful opera
tion. Our object will be accomplished if
it results in inducing and arousing prac
tical reflection by all identified with her
prosperity.
Extra-Judicial Vindication of the
Law—Read.
The editor of the Dallas Gazette, who
attended the Circuit Court of Wilcox
county, Alabama, the 15th, relates the
following incident: “One of the first
things we heard was that Judge Dough
erty, who is presiding, had a fight last
week with a man who was brought
before him several years since, on a
charge for fighting. He stopped Judge
D., in the streets for the purpose of hold
ing him responsible for his judicial con
duct in the matter, but as soon as the
Judge saw what he wanted, he turned off
abruptly with the intention of leaving
him, when the man told him, in a threat
ening manner, that he should stop, and
perhaps took hold of him. The Judge
stopped. Mr. Judge of Montgomery was
walking with him, and got between the
two persons to prevent the rencontre he
saw was impending. Mr. Judge expec
ting the man to strike, was watching him
to prevent it, but the Judge, indignant at
the insult offered him, and apprehending
a blow, commenced the fight by giving
his antagonist a stunning blow with a
stout cane. “The fight then became
general” between the two combatants,
and ended in the Judge’s getting the de
cided advantage—so we have been told.
Mr. Judge, in trying to separate them,
received a smart blow on the hand, which
“ barked” it. No serious damage was
done—the Judge vindicated the law, as
laid down by himself; and then the town
authorities vindicated the munincipal law
by arraigning the combatants before them.
The Judge was discharged, but his antag
onist was fined ten dollars.”
In noticing the annual cotton statement,
The London Daily News says the amount
sent to England in 1850 was 2,015,000
bales, an increase of over 200,000 bales
as compared with the same period of 1858.
The annual increase of the yield has run
from three to four per cent, vrhilst the
price is now only a single farthing per
pound above the price of the very abun
dant year 1858. The writer proceeds to
show that other countries, not England,
will reap the greater portion of the benefit
arising from an increased supply, and
adds:
The consumption of cotton in Europe,
excluding England, is about 448,000,000
pounds, while the consumption of England
is not quite twice as much. Abroad, too,
the consumption is increasing very fast.
Since 1844 our exports of cotton thither
have increased more than threefold, viz:
from 421,650 cwts. to 1,335,790 cwts. in
1858. It is, however, plain from these
figures that Great Britain, though still
the large consumer of cotton, is by no
means the only consumer, and that any
increase of the raw material and any re
duction in its price will be equally to
the advantage of ail the cotton manufac
turing countries of Europe and the world.
Missouri in Luck.
The acting Commissioner of the Gene
ral Land Office informs Mr. H. G. Fant,
who has been adjusting the “two per
cent, fund” account, that up to January,
1859, there is Hue the State $374,135 04,
and also $43,376 40 on the three per cent
fund, making a total cf $417,511 44, to
be shortly paid over to the State by the
United States.
Copper in Coosa. County, Ala.
The Shelby (Ala.) Chronicle of the 20th
says it has been shown a specimen of ore
from the mines of Col. George and others,
of Coosa county, which appeared to be a
very fine specimen of copper. It was
dug from that portion of rock known as
the wall or covering of the quartacious
trap formation, richly impregnated with
the sulphurate of iron and copper. The
vein itself must be rich, and needs only
capital to develop it.
The Episcopal Convention, recently ad
journed at Richmond, have agreed to hold
; their next Convention in New York.
Anagrams.
The Montreal Transcript publishes a
collection of these literary curiosities,
gathered by Mr. J. Douglas Borthwiek,
which is very curious. We borrow some
; portions of it, omitting those that have
long been familiar. Our youthful readers
will find amusement in writing out these
i anagrams, and cutting the letters apart.
: Then, by transposing them, the sentence
with each will be formed :
Able was I ere I saw Elba—(the same
backwards.) Arthur Wellesiy—Truly
he’ll see war. Breakfast —Fat bakers.
Catalogues—Got as a clue. Charades—
Hard case. Charles James Stewart—
Claims Arthur’s seat. Christianity—ln
: its charity. Dissemination—l send into
Siam. Democratical—Comical trade.—
Embargo—O garb me. Encyclopedia—A
nice cold pie. Festival—Evil feast. Old
England—Golden land. Gallantries —All
great sins. Lawyers—Sly ware. Minia
ture—True lam in. Misanthrope—Spare
him not. Monarch—March on. Parish
ioners—l hire parsons. Patience —A nice
pet. Pedagogues—See a pug dog. Peni
tentiary—Nay I repent it. Presbyterian
—Best in prayer. Revolution—To love
ruin. Sub Treasnrer —A sure buster. —
Solemnity—Yes, Milton. Wealth —The
law. Victoria Regina in Old England—
I reign a victor in a golden land. ,
The Peculiarities and Treatment
of Negroes in Disease.
From the prospectus of Dr. Cloud’s
Rural Magazine for the next volume, we
are gratified to observe that Dr. John S.
Wilson, near this city, has been engaged
to furnish at least one page, for the ensu
ing year, of valuable information on the
Peculiarities of the Negro, both in
Health and Sickness, and also the prop
er treatment to be observed in managing
his diseases on the plantation. This will
greatly enhance the interest with which
this periodical is received. Wo cheer
fully endorse the following from the No
vember No. just received:
Dr. Wilson is widely and favorably
known as the correspondentin the Health
Department of “ Godey’s Lady’s Book.”
Dr. Wilson, also, has in press a very
valuable book for the family, which
should be read and consulted by every
mother. The “ Woman’s Home Book of
Health.”
Dr. Wilson is an intelligent practical
man, engaged in the practice of medicine
near Columbus, Ga., and is well qualified
to interest and instruct planters on this
vitally important question.
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Gin House and Cotton Burned.
The Canebrake (Ala.) Gazette gives the
particulars of the burning of a giu house
and sixty bales of cotton, near Jefferson,
on the 6th instant: “The gin house on
Mr. James Manning’s plantation, near
Jefferson, in this county, was burned on
Thursday, tbe 6th instant, together with
about sixty bales of cotton which it con
tained at the time. It is not known how
the fire originated. The house was burned
before daylight in the morning, and
tbe gin had been going the day before.—
If the fire was produced by friction, it
seems strange tbat the house was con
sumed so long a time after the gin was
stopped.
Firemen’s Parade in New York.
The Fire Department of New York had
its second triennial parade on the 17th
inst. A splendid banner, wrought of
heavy double silk, and nine by twelve
feet in size, which cost SISOO, was pre
sented by the City Council. There were
six thousand persons in the line, which
occupied an hour and a half in passing a
given point. There were also sixty
bands, numbering one thousand two hun
dred and sixty musicians, in the proces
sion. The Fire Department embraces
forty-three Engine, fifty-five Hose, and
fifteen Hook and Ladder ‘Companies,
which number about 3,700 men.
The Rev. Dr. Parsous, formerly a pop
ular actor in New York, delivered a mis
sionary address at Nashville, Tenn. At
the conclusion of the services, the Rev.
Dr. Barth, a German missionary, arose
and said that when Mr. P. was an actor
he and two of his brothers were in the
orchestra where Mr. Parsems was en
gaged. Now all the parties occupy dis
tinguished church positions. The coin
cidence was somewhat remarkable.
A summary of the trade at Shanghae
for the year 1858, has just been made at
the State Department. It appears that
the aggregate imports amounted to nearly
$34,000,000, the aggregate exports to
$59,000,000. The total value of opium
imports was upwards of $23,500,000.
The inward and outward tonnage show
four hundred and sixty-four British, and
one hundred and fifty-three American
ships, and five hundred and fifteen ships
of other nations.
Chattanooga Markets.
The Advertiser, of the 20th, reports
the market inactive. A fine article of
white wheat would command $1 00; red,
from 85 to 95 cents. Stocks of Bacon
light—Clear Sides packed and delivered
in depot at 12 cents; Ribbed Sides at
11 to 11.) cents ; Shoulders at 9 cents,
packed and delivered. There were no
reliable speculations as to the probable
prices of hogs.
Bishop Onderdonk.
A telegraphic dispatch to the Augusta
Constitutionalist from Richmond on the
21st. states that the house of Bishops
have decided to allow Bishop Onderdonk
to withdraw his memorial for restoration
which is equivalent to a rejection.
From the Marianna Patriot, we learn
that A. J. Lingo, found guilty of the
murder of Mr. Duncan, and J. Gann,
found guilty of the murder of Wm. Col
lins, were hung at that place on the 21st,
in accordance with the sentence of the
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law.
Mr. Wm. Russell, of Augusta, while
writing a dispatch at the telegraphic
office in Griffin on Saturday, 15th inst.,
was severely burned about the face, neck
and hands, by the upsetting of a lamp
filled with that dangerous fluid, Cam
phene.
Hon. Emile Le Sere, of New Orleans,
has been nominated by the Democracy as
their candidate for Congress from the
first Congressional District of Louisiana.
He formerly represented the same Dis
trict in Congress.
From Pike’s Peak.
A special dispatch to the St. Louis Re
publican says that a party of men from
Pike’s Peak arrived at St. Joseph’s the
20th. They brought SIOO,OOO in gold
dust.
From the Rome Southerner of the 20th
we learn that the steamer DeSoto, which
formerly plied between that place and
Calhoun, ran upon a log the 19tli, and
was totally wrecked.
On the 21st the weather was very cold
in New York. At Philadelphia the ther
mometer stood at 34 degrees, and at 38
degrees-at Washington.
A fire broke out at Chicago on the 15th
by which twenty buildings occupied by
business houses were destroyed. The
loss was $50,000.
Wm. Lee, who defrauded the Fulton
Bank of New York, out of some $60,000
has been discharged from custody upon
a legal quibble.
TELEGRAPH IG-
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TF.LEGRM'HET) TO THE DAILY SIX.
ARRIVAL.
OF THE STEAMER
ANGLO-SAXON.
Cotton Improved!
New Yoke, Oct. 23, 18-39.
The steamship Anglo-Saxon was board
ed off Farther Point to day. She brings
Liverpool advices to the 12th inst., being
four days later than the Europa’s.
Liverpool Cotton Market. —Sales for
three days 28,000 bales, of which Specu
lators took 2,500 and Exporters ‘O,OOO
bales. Cotton firm with an improved
demand, though no actual advance. Fair
and Middling qualities improved most,
some accounts state Jd. advance.
Manchester Trade. —Advices from Man
chester are unfavorable. All qualities
of goods had slightly declined, and fully
i sd. on some yarns.
: Liverpool Breadstuffs Market. Bread
| stuffs firm. All qualities slightly ad
i vauced, which was caused by steamer’s
advices from United States.
Liverpool Provision Market. —Provisions
quiet.
London Money Market. —Consols slightly
advanced, and quoted at 95J to 96.
ARRIVAL OF THE
OCEAN_QUEEN.
New York, Oct. 24, 1859.
The steamship Ocean Queen, with dates
from Liverpool to the 13th, has arrived.
Sales of two days 18,000 bales. The
market closing steady, with a good en
quiry at extreme rates.
London Money Market. —Consols quoted
at 95f to 95|.
New Orleans Cotton Market.
New Orleans, Oct. 24, 1859.
• Sales of cotton to-day 8,500 bales.
Prices stiller, but quotations unchanged.
The steamer’s news caused greater firm
ness.
Mobile Cotton Market.
Mobile, Oct. 24, 1859.
Sales of cotton to-day 4,000 bales.
Market firm: quotations nominal. Mar
ket generally unchanged.
Additional by tbe Europu.
| New York, Oct. 21.—The mails by the
steamer Europa left for the South this
evening. The following are the author
ized Broker's quotations:
| Pair Mobiles 7%d. | Mid. Mobiles....o 131 Gd.
“ Uplands 7*4(1. | *• Uplands 6%d
“ Orleans I “ Orleans 7d.
Hewitt & Cos. quote Ordinary Orleans
, Cotton at 4jd. to s|d.; Good Ordinary at
s|d.; Middling Orleans at 6 15-16 ; Mid
dling Mobile at 6Jd.; Middling Uplands
6§d.; Good Middling Orleans at 7jd.;
Good Middling Mobile at 7d.; aud Good
Middliug Uplands at 6|d.
Stolterforth reports an improved feel
ing and an increased demand at an ad
vance of 1-1 Gto J-d. Inferior grades un
saleable.
Hewitt & Cos. report a good demand,
! confined to the better descriptions. The
■ imports of the week were 80,000 bales;
known to be at sea 36,000, against 7,000
i bales same time last year; and 125,000
bales from the East Indies, against 70,-
000 bales last year.
Wakefield & Nash quote Middling Or
leans 7d, vith a steady demand. Amer
ican grades above Middling readily sale
l able at the full rates of last week. Infe-
I rior and sandy grades unsaleable, ex
| cept at a reduct jpn.
Later from Havana.
New Orleans, Oct. 21. —The steamship
Cahawba arrived here to-day with dates
from Havana to the 18th inst.
At Havana sugar was firm and active.
Lard steady at to 19;]. Sterling Ex
change stiff at 171. Exchange on New
York G.
Additional from Harper’s Kerry.
Washington, Oct. 22.—A man was
seen near Chambersburg yesterday, sup
posed to be the insurgent Cook. He was
arrested at Carlisle about noon, and is
evidently a desperate fellow and one of
the gang ; but it is thought that it is not
Cook, lie was committed for a further
examinatio.
The colored millitary company was
disarmed to day in Philadelphia by the
Adjutant General on account of the Ferry
affair.
Savannah Ship News.
Savannah, Oct. 22.—The ship Garnet,
from Boston ; the R. A. Helm, and the
Showmut, from New York; the Robert
Cushman and the Eloise, from Philadel
phia, arrived here to-day.
Snow Storm.
Washington, October 22.—There is a
heavy snow storm falling here to day.
Poison in Plants.
Dr. Edmund Davy, Professor of Agri
culture and Agricultural Chemistry in
the Royal Dublin Society, has made
some startling statements, conveying the
result of his experiments as to the pres
ence of arseuic in crops. He states posi
tively that arsenic as it exists in the dif
ferent artificial manners (such as super
phosphate) will be taken up'by plants
growing where those manures had been
applied! Ho found this to be the case
with cabbages ; and turnips taken from
fields in which superphosphate had been
used gave the most unmistakeable evi
dence of having been arseniated. The
facts thus collected appear to Dr. Davy
to have some important bearings, for
“ Though the quantity of arsenic which
occurs in such manures is not large when
compared with their other constituents,
and the proportion of that substance
which is thus added to the soil must be
still small, still plants may, during their
growth, as in the use of the alkaline and
earthly salts, take up a considerable quan
tity of this substance, though its propor
tion to the soil may be but very small.
Further, as arsenic is w'ell known to be
an accumulating poison, by the continued
use of vegetables, containing even a
minute proportion of arsenic, that sub
stance may collect ha the system till its
amount may exercise an injurious effect
upon the health of man and animals.”
♦
Throwing Stones at the Devil.
A late reverend divine, well known for
his quaint wit, as well as for his kind
ness of heart, walking out back of his
house, where anew street was opening,
saw an Irishman hard at work with a
crowbar, striving to dislodge a huge stoue
from the ground, where it was held fast
by the roots of a tree. His patience was
fairly exhausted by the vain struggles he
had made, and at last exclaimed, in a
great passion : “ the devil take it! The
devil take it!” The old pastor ap
proached him, and quietly remarked that
he ought not to make such free use of the
name of the evil one, and certainly not to
throw such a big stone at him as that.
The Irishman was quiet in a minute,
and striking his crowbar into the ground,
and leaning leisurely on it, he turned up
his face at once to the Doctor and the
sunlight, and while over it played those
indescribable forerunners of genuine
Irish wit, be replied : “Och, then, and
its yourself that’s findin’ a fau’t wid me
for saying that same, when its yees aDd
the like of yees, that’s paid by the year
for abusing the ould gentleman all the
time!” The old pastor turned away to
smile and eDjoy the retort.
M. Larez, of France, in the course of
his investigations on the teeth, has ar
rived at the following conclusions: Ist.
That refined sugar, from either cane or
beets, is injurious to healthy teeth, either
by immediate contac. with these organs
or by the gas developed, owing to its
stoppage in the stomach. 2d. That if a
tooth is macerated in a saturated solution
of sugar, it is so much a’tercd in the
chemical composition that it becomes ge
latinous, and its enamel opaque, spongy
and easily broken ; this modification is
due not to free acid, but to a tendency of
sugar to combine with the calcareous
basis of the tooth.
Harper’s Ferry.
Harper's Ferry, where the disturb
ance, which promises a most bloody
finale, has taken place, is situated in the
Valley of Virginia, at the confluence of
the Shenandoah and Potomac rivers, and
is located on a hill which is washed by
both rivers. It contains about b,OOU in
habitants. It is chiefly sustained by ibe
Armory works, the laborers at which re
side there. On the summit of the hill
are many handsome residences, erected by
the Federal Government for the resi
dence of the officers at the Arsenal. Ine
Armory, which has been captured by the
insurgents, lies chiefly on the Potomac,
whose waters propel the mach nery used.
On the other side cf the town, on the
Shenandoah, is situated the Armory, es
pecially devoted to the manufacture of
rifles. Capt. 15. Mills, is Master Amor
er, and A. M. Ball* Master Machinist of
the works. The bridge captured by the
insurgents, and which was to be stormed
on Monday by the U. S. Marines, is thus
described in a recent letter to the Rich
mond Dispatch :
“ The Rail Road crosses from the left
bank of the Potomac by a powerful
bridge to tbe town. As it emerges from
the bridge, it takes it course up the right
bank of the Potomac, along a spacious
platform that has two trucks, and is sus
tained by pewerful timbers resting on
iron and stone pillars, covering a part of
the Armory grounds, and extending for
near six hundred yards. Embankments
could not be made, because the Armory
must necessarily communicate with the
river, which is easily done under the su :
perstructure. On this broad platform
the inhabitants take their evening prom
nades, and it is a great convenience to
them, as there is but little space here for
locomotion, unless you ascend the hills.”
The Leader of the Insurrection. —
We were informed last night that Ander
son, the leader of the rioters, is a noted
Abolitionist, .and agent of the under
ground rail road. He is from Troy, New
York, and has, heretofore, made frequent
visits to Harper's Ferry. Ills conduct
toward the black population on these oc
casions had been noticed, and involved
him in suspicion. lie is represented as
a most determined and dangerous man,
and one who is likely to cause a great
deal of trouble before lie will yield.
A New Candidate for Senatorial
Honors.
In the Augusta Constitutionalist of the
21st, we find the following communication
addressed to tbe citizens of Georgia. We
suggest to the new candidate the propri
ety of the publication of his letters of
the 6th of August last, and his address
at Gibson the 24th of September there
after, that the people generally may un
derstand his “record:”
Mb. Editor: —ln accordance to a pre
vious notice of my intention to be a can
didate before the next Georgia Legislature
for the office of United States Senator,
and that I would define the entire politi
cal condition of the country with the
dangers attending thereto, &c., that my
merit for this position might be approved
of or disapproved by my countrymen, I
now beg leave to say that this record is
made up in my letter of the 6th of Au
gust last in defining the political condition
of the country, which letter has been ex
tensively circulated ; and in my address
upon the Home and Foreign policy of the
United States, at Gibson, Ga., the 24th
of September thereafter, which will be
in the possession of the Legislature men,
and all applicants, where it will not have
to bo seut by mail, until all the copies are
exhausted ; and upon this showing, I will
be ready for the decision of my country
men. . Respectfully,
W. J. WILCHER.
Augusta, Ga., Oct. 20, 1859.
Distinguished Arrival.
Among the distinguished arrivals by
one of the recent steamers from Europe,
is Madame Omar Pacha, wife of the cele
brated Turkish commander who won so
many laurels in Silistria. We understand
that she ha3 come to reside in this coun
try, at least for the present. Her history
is somewhat remarkable. She is a na
tive of Transylvania, and at 11 years of
age was sent to school at Bucharest,
where she developed a wonderful genius
for music, and at fifteen had become cel
ebrated in private circles by the brillian
cy of her performances. Omar Pacha
was at that time Military Cinnmander of
Wallachia, and meeting the young lady
at a soiree was delighted, first with her
music, and then with her manners and
conversation—became devoted to her,
and finally married her. Not sharing at
this time the Turkish notions about wo
men, instead of shutting up his wife at
home, she was allowed to accompany him
in his military expeditious, and composed
several pieces of military music, which
became favorites with the Turkish army
during the campaign. After the war was
over, the Marshal, yitdding to more am
bitious views, and conforming to the cus
tom of bis country, married the daughter
of Hafiz Pacha, with whom he kad main
tained political relations, and directed the
young Transylvanian to enter his harem.
This, with a good deal of indignation and
spirit, she refused to do—but at once
sought and procured a divorce from the
Marshal, and some two years since re
paired to Paris, where she has since re
sided. She has lived entirely in private,
but has published several very popular
pieces of music, and has become very well
known in the musical circles of the me
tropolis. She arrived iu this city by the
Arago a few weeks since, and intends to
spend the winter here.— N. Y Times.
.
Trade and Wages in Ireland.
It is noticed as an evidence of the
changed state of affairs in Ireland, that
there has not for many a day been so
much activity in the building trade as at
the present time. A recent Irish paper
says:
In Dublin, master painters, decorators,
&c.. find it impossible to procure suffi
cient men for the work in hand,, and
wages in those branches, especially, are
increased. A painter of any capacity
will get £1 16s. per week. This extraor
dinary demand is easily accounted for.
There has been, since the famine, a
steady and very decided increase of
wealth iu Ireland, extending to landlords,
farmers, traders and other classes. For
merly the owners of the soil were sunk
deeply in improvidence. But all that is
changed now. The towns arc improving,
country mansions are improved, and
many new ones are in course of erection ;
and so general is the demand for arti
sans that the supply is inadequate. Be
sides, there are orders for tradesmen of
this class from some parts of England,
and altogether employment is much more
active and labor is better remunerated
than perhaps at any former period. The
accounts*from Ulster show that employ
ment is more brisk in the linen trade,
and that the prospects are improving.
Guinea Fowls a Protection to the.
Poultry Yard.
A. J. Farnham, of Bucks county, Pa.,
writes to tlie xVmerican Agriculturist to
say that guinea fowh are nearly a pro
tection against the depredations of hawks
in the poultry yard. When one appears
they set up their peculiar clatter, which
alarms the hawk and he leaves without
his dinner. This may be so, but we
should prefer the music of oue old mus
ket to that of a dozen guinea fowls for
this purpose—yea, two of them.
They have a pet feet Samson in the New
Jersey State prison, in the person of a
man named Johnson, recently convicted
of forgery in Passaic county. Handcuffs
and ropes are no for Lis muscle.
He broke three sets of handcuffs, snap
ping them like pipe-stems, and when his
hands were tied behind him by a. rope he
released himself in a few minutes. He is
full six feet in height, spry and lively,
and evidently a dangerous customer.—
Even the Benicia Boy would be but a
baby in bis hands.
The receipts and expenditures of the
American Tract Society, for six months
of the current year of the Society ending
Oct. Ist, have been for publications sold,
$103,506 34; in legacies and donations,
$39,380 47; in all, $142,886 81—being
$5,069 50 more than for the correspond
ing months of the previous year.
From the Savannah Kews ot 21st.
Tlie Wanderer Gone to tUe African
Coast after a Cargo of Negroe*.
We published yesterday an account of
the theft of the yacht Wanderer, and o
her escape to sea, in which we stated
that Capt, Wm. F. Black, a Shipping Mas
ter, and Edward Talbot, a runner of this
port, had been carried off by that vessel.
The anxiety of the friends of these individ
uals for their fate was relieved yesterday
morning by their return to the city in
their boat.
From what we have been able to learn,
it appears that Capt. Martin, alias Fat
ten, who represented himself to Mr. C.
Hussey as being in negotiation for an in
terest in the Wanderer, some time in the
latter part of last week engaged him to
ship a crew for that vessel for a voyage
to Mauianzas. Mr. H. engaged to do so,
and furnished Martin with a number of
his cards, after which one by one men
came to him with his card, upou the back
of which was endorsed :
“ Ship the bearer for the Wanderer,
D. S. MARTIN.”
Fourteen men were shipped by Mr.
Hussey, all of whom signed regular ar
ticles, and ‘or whom he intended to ren
der his bill and expected to receive his
usual fee, according to custom, after the
vessel bad cleared at the Custom House,
which the Captain informed him woud
be done at 11 o’clock-on Wednesday morn
ing-
The following are the names given by
thirteen of Abe crew shipped by Mr. II.:
Thomas King, 2d Mate; James Kenny,
Steward, Ireland ; Geo. Chilister, Cook,
Maine; John Smith, Mass.; Ned Allen,
Philadelphia; Harry Somers, Massachu
setts; Peter Lynch, Ireland; Wm. Davis,
Maine; Albert Morgan, Maine; Charles
Brooks, New York; Chas. Hunter, Maine;
George Pepper, Ireland ; M. F. Donnell,
Maine.
On Tuesday evening about half past 9
o’clock, Capt. Black, who is engaged with
Mr. Hussey in the shipping business, met
Capt. Martin, and knowing that he was
soon to sail, asked him for the amount of
the shipping bill. Capt. M. invited him
on board the Wanderer. He went, with
Edward Talbot, in the boat which was
conveying provisions to the yacht, then
lying in the stream near the lower rice
mill. When on board he was invited by
Capt, Marlin to take a glass of wine,
which lie did. Shortly after, he observed
certain movements which convinced him
that the Wanderer was about to put to
sea, when he proposed to go on shore.
Capt. Martin then stated to him that he
was going to leave the port, and that no
living soul should leave the vessel. That
under the circumstances he would not
trust his own brother, and that he would
blow out the brains of any man who at
tempted.to leave the vessel. It being use
less to offer any resistance Capt. B. obeyed
thß order to go below, where he laid down
upon a sofa, and, after some time, being
much fatigmd, fell asleep. Between three
aud four o’clock in the morning lie was
awakened by a commotion on board, and
found that the yacht was aground. Capt.
Martin was in a towering passion at the
mishap, aud was very uneasy until about
10- o’clock, when the tide enabled the
Wanderer to float, aud she was again got
under way and stood out to sea. Capt.
Black and his kidnapped companion now
renewed their appeals to be put on shore,
to which Capt. Martin replied that he
could not release them, and that if they
would go the voyage with him it would be
greatly to their advantage. Persisting in
their entreaties to be put ashore, the
Captain of the Wanderer finally consent
ed, when he was well out of the harbor,
to let them go. While the vessel was
under full sail, and going at a rapid rate,
they were allowed to jump into their boat
which was towing astern. As the line
was cast oft’ the Captain said to them—
“ Now go—my name is Patton, I am
bound to the coast of Africa fur a cargo
of Negroes—give my respects to the
people of Savannah, and tell them to
.” The conclusion of his
speech which was not distinctly heard
may be imagined by the reader.
The men thus released, after a hard
pull, arrived here yesterday morning,
thoroughly convinced that the present
cruise of the Wanderer has no connection
whatever with tho marooning party, as is
suggested by our neighbor of the Repub
lican in his editorial of yesterday.
Tlie Prison of Havana,
The Presidio and Grand Carcel of Ha
vana is a ’.urge building of yellow stone,
standing near the fort of Punta, and is
one of the striking objects as you enter
the harbor. It has no appearance of a
jail without, but rather of a palace or a
court; but within, is full of live men’s
bones and of all uncleanliness. No man,
whose notions are derived from an Arner
can or English penitentiary of the last
twenty years, or fifty years, can form au
idea of the great Cuban prison. It is
simply horrible. There are no cells, ex
cept for solitary confinement of
immicadots,” —who are usually political
offenders. The prisoners are placed in
large rooms, witji stone lioors and grated
windows, where they are left, from twen
ty to fifty in each, without work, without
books, without interference or interven
tion of any one, day and night—day aud
night, for the weeks, months, or years of
their sentences. The sights are dreadful.
In this hot climate, so many beings, with
no provision for ventilation but the grated
windows—so unclean, and most of them
naked above tbe waist—all spend their
time in walking, talking, playing and
smoking; and at night, without bed or
blanket, they lie down on the stone floor,
on what clothes they may have, to sleep
if they can. The whole prison, with the
exception of the few cells for the “incom
municadosf was a series of these great
cages in which human beings were shut
up. Incarceration is the beginning, mid
dle and end of the whole system.— Dana.
One of our exchanges informs us that
the editor had been to church, whereafter
listening to an eloquent appeal in behalf
of some imaginary enterprise, the plate
was passed round for contributions.—
Parson L., who was one of the basket
bearers, taking the side on'which wc sat.
Immediately in front and upon the next seat
negligently reclined our friend Bill 11., a
gentleman of infinite humor and full of
dry jokes. Parson L., extended the bas
ket to Bill, and he slowly shook his head.
“ Come, William, give us something,”
said the Parson.
“ Can’t do it,” replied Bill.
“Why not? Is not the cause a good
one ?”
“ I can’t afford it.”
“ Poh! poll! I know better; you must
give a better reason than that.”
Well, I owe too much money—l
must be just before I am generous, you
know.”
“ But, William, you owe God a larger
debt thau you owe any one else.”
“That’s true, Parson; hut then he aint
a pushing me like the balance of mg credi
tors .”
s*
About a month ago an auctioneer named
Wm. Little, doing business at 337 Fulton
street, in selling a quantity of old furni
ture, sold an old clock to another auc
tioneer, named Townsend, doing business
in Myrtle avenue, for fifty cents. The
clock remained in Townsend’s store until
about a week ago, when he sold it for ten
dollars to a man who resides in Fulton
avenue, who, on taking it home, discov
ered that a looking glass which was in
the back of the clock was cracked. He
took it out with the intention of having a
new one put in, when, to his astonish
ment, he discovered Dotes of the Bank of
England, behind it, amount'ng to about
£3,000. It is said that the heirs of the
estate to which the c’ock originally be
longed intend to commence an action for
the recovery of tbe money.— New York
Evening Rost.
The steamship Empire City sailed from
New Orleans on the 20th, with $150,000
for New York.
The ship Antarctic from New York, ar
rived at New Orleans on the 20th, and
reports that the bark Augustus Mayo,
from New Yorit, had been ashore on Mus
cle Shoals, and was got off by the wreck
ers.
The brig Dow also arrived at New Or
leans with the crew and a portion of the
cargo of the schooner Ellen Bu-h, from
Philadelphia for Galveston, which sprung
a leak and sunk.
Who Invests In V- S. Fn<l* •
Not the least curious desk iu the sun
treasury in New I ork city, is that o * ie
clerk who pays the interest on the poo
lie debt. The coupons and interest on
about seven-eighths of the debt of tUe uai
• ted States are paid out ot the sub-treas
ury in New York. The balance is in the
shape of an inscribed-debt, on which toe
interest is payable to ibe parties “hose
names are entered on the great rolls at
Washington. Every >ix months the
names of the parties are written out in a
book at Washington and sent here to 1
serve as a guide to the sub-treasury.
These books are a curious study. Many
i 0 f the names they contain are household
! words. Some are the names of Europe-
I -m*- others of West Indians, and even
Asiatics. Barely a third of the public
debt is held iri this country. The bmk
of it, we imagine, is held in continental
Europe. One is DOt surprised to find
the names of John J. Astor. W. B. Astor,
Jacob Little, George Peabody, aud such
men, in the list of the creditors ot the
United States, but they and their coun
trymen are in a minority.
Tbe heaviest foreigu creditor we no
ticed is Lord Overstone,(the famous John
Lloyd,) who has net this country no ‘less
than $350,000. A Spanish lady, Merced
de Layseca, is our creditor to the tune of
$200,000, and a noble friend of hers, the
Count Casa Montlovoy Castillo, draws
six per cert, on SIOO,OOO. Several per
sons connected with the royal families of
Europe ate ct editors of ours. The broth
er of the King of Naples took $50,000
some years ago, and instructed his agent
to invest the dividends as they accrued,
in the same security. He now owns over
$75,000. Hisniece, tho daughter of Bom
ba, is registered as a creditor for over
$50,000. These wise people have been
looking out for a rany day. Another no
ble personage, the late Duchess of Or
leans, has enough in the United States
sixes to save the Count of Paris from be
ing compelled to follow his grandfather’s
example and keep school; several of the
Saxe Coburg Gothas have a’so invested
in the same country.
The Court Rossi saw enough of this
country while he was here, to invest a
few thousands in the famous name of
Sontag; and little Paul Julien has a trifle
—enough to keep him when his violin
fails. One can readily account for the
appearance of the name of the Roths
childs, both in London and Paris; brt it
is curious that the famous publisher,
Panchouke, of Paris, is a creditor of the
United States; and that the dramatic au
thor, Scribe, has also invested enough to
give him nearly 10,000 francs a year.
A careful study of democracy in America
appears to have persuaded Monsieur de
Tocqueville to lodge some of bis savings
in the hands of our government; and
Lord Macauley, who began with a baga
telle of some $5,000, has since increaed
his venture to nearly $30,000.
Lord Elgin saw enough of us to leave
$17,000 of his savings in our six per
cents: and the famous Russian, Alexan
dre Ilerzen, has a bagatelle of SBO,OOO
in the same security. There is another
creditor whose name is a curiosity. It
runs thus: Baron Louis Nuraa Epaminon
das Justinan Aristides Decius Salis Ilal
denstein Lichenstein Gertensteiu. Fancy
a man with such a name drawing twenty
six dollars and fifty cents from the Uni
ted States!
But we shall never end if we attempt
to enumerate all the people who have
their money placed in the United States
securities. Here are Lord Dundonald,
the great sailor, who has a large sum for
a son of Neptune ; the Prince de Beau
vean, the Count de Narbonne, Sir John
Bayiey, the Marquis of Champagne, Bar
ing Brothers, Count de Beaumont, Gen.
Bermoloff, and a host of titled people,
who, perhaps, depend upon the honesty
and solvency of the United States Gov
ernment for a living.
John Brown.
The recent commencement of the “ir- j
repressible conflict” of Seward & Cos., at
Harper’s Ferry, under tbe auspices of its
proto martyi, John Brown, has made the j
latter individual more of a hero than
ever. As public attention has been par
ticularly drawn towards Brown, a tew
reminiscences of his former exploits will
be interesting items of Consideration, j
We are indebted to his old pro-slavery
antagonist, Captain 11. Clay Pate, for the
following facts in his lawless career.
Brown is nearly seventy years old. He |
commanded at “Black Jack,” Kansas
Territory, June 2d, 1856, when he treach
erously took Capt. Pate prisoner, though
a flag of truce was waving over Captain
Pate’s head.
He was defeated at Ossawatamie, 3d
September, 1856, by Captain Reid’s com
mand. After that he headed a band of
horse thieves.
About tbe 25th June, 1856, Brown and
his sons assassinated five ffieu, in the
night, on Pottowottomi Creek (three
Doyles—father and two sons—Wm. Sher
raon, and Wilkinson, a member of tbe |
Legislature) at their homes, all pro
slavery but unoffending citizens.
Last Spring, Brown made an “irre
pressible” foray into Missouri, and car
ried away seventeen negroes. He was j
accompanied by Dr. Day, who was caught,
and recently escaped from jail at St.
Joseph. Brown landed his negroes safely
in Canada, and got his reward from the
abolition societies.
Brown has been a good deal in the
South. It is said that he is the last sur
vivor of “Murrell’s” celebrated gang of
counterfeiters.
He had eleven sons, who all shared in
his enterprises. He has always hereto
fore escaped unhurt.
In his principles he always professed
to be “for war,” and to be a strict disci- (
pie of the “irrepressible conflict” school.
We hope he will recover from his
wounds, that the gallows may not be
cheated of its fit ornament. —Norfolk
Argus.
Latest from Harper’s Ferry—Recov
ery of and Disclosures ly Brown.
Baltimore, Oct. 21.—0n yesterday
while Capt. Brown was conversing in the
I presence of Secretary Mason and the
j Hons. Messrs. Faulkner, Vallandigham
| aud others, he answered questions clearly
! demonstrating the complcity of numerous
| persons in the Northern, Western, and
Lastern States. He refused to answer
whether he had conferred with Giddings,
of Ohio, about the Virginian expedition!
He admitted that lie had numerous sym
| pathizers in all the free States,
j District Attorney Ould has left for
j Washington, thus relinquishing the pris- i
■ oners to the authorities of Virginia.
Gov. Wise ridicules the people of liar- |
per's Ferry for being captured and im- j
’ prisoned by a handful cf men.
LroWn is in no danger from his wound.
Ger:itt Smith’s letter to Brown is an
obscure document, saying that he had
done and would do what, lie could to keep j
Brown at his Kansas work.
Premonitions of their Fat®.
An exchange paper suys that “two of i
the young ladies killed by the fall of the
Albion canal bridge bad premonitions of 1
their fate. One, Sarah Thomas, dreamed
that she was on the bridge with a number
of people, when it fell, and she was
drowned. The sensation was so vivid
• that she mentioned it several times, but
she had no superstitious, dread on the
i subject, as she did not decline to go upon j
the bridge when asked. The other, Au j
gust,. Martin, did not seem to have an 1
ilea how she should die, but ou the day
! she went to Albion, arranged her house I
j hold things very carefully, saying she 1
would not live long and wanted them all 1
; right. Both instances are well vouched ;
for. Mrs. Martin, the mother of one girl,
was so e flee ted by this terrible feature of
the case as to lose her reason.”
j _ ♦
The Louisiana Sugar Planter says of
the coining sugar crop : “Results of ob
: servation in a section of the State where
the crops more rarely fail than in any
other, and the concurrent testimony of
. planters in other sections, have brought
! us to the conclusion that the yield this
season will be less than that of the last
by over IQO.OOO hogsheads.”
Ihe crop last year was about 440,060 i
hogsheads.
It is reported that Bishop Davis, of
South Carolina, has become almost total
ly blind.
Later from Texas.
At Galveston, from the 15tli to the 17th
instant, inclusive, nino deaths by yellow
fever are reported. Only a few new cases
are reported, and the sick are recovering.
At. Houston, from the 14th to the 17th,
j,inclusive, there were twenty burials. At
Cypress City, up to the 16th. there had
been twenty deaths. The Houston How
ard Association have a number of nurses
there.
The Directors of the Brazoria rail road
have adopted measures to extend the road
! to Oyster Creek at once, which will leave
but eight miles to Columbia.
1 The Houston Telegraph lias received
samples of new sugar from Col. J. D.
Waters, whose crop is turning out splen
didly.
The cotton crop in Smith county and
neighborhood has been seriously injured
by heavy rains.
The Indians continue their depreda
tions on the northern frontier, murdering
helpless families, in Camancbe and other
counties, and forcing many families to
fly for their lives.
A large amount of Mexican copper ore,
from El Paso, for New York, reached La
vaca on the 14th.
Emigration. —The McKinney Messenger
says thousands of wagons are now oi the
I route from Missouri, destined for Gray
son, Collin and the adjoining counties of
Texas.
Cotton Crop and Movement. —The Gon
zales Enquirer states that the planters
have taker, advantage of the fine weather
for gathering their cotton, and the pro
mise is good of a large crop. It is too
late to suffer damage, except from frost.
The Seguin Mercury learns that a cou
eiderable amount of cotton is now being
transported to Mexico.
The Victoria Ad vocate is confident
many planters of that neighborhood will
gather at least two bales to the acre, and
; some expect, to produce twenty bales to
, j the hand. We think not.
The Matagorda Gazette thinks (he crop
of that region will fall a quarter short of
that of last year.
Wheal — Frost. —The Dallas Herald says:
Major Samuel M. Scott, of that county,
has just housed his wheat crop of 4,000
■ bushels, weighing 04 pounds to the bush
el, and produced at the rate of 24 bushels
to the acre.
The first frost of the season made its
, appearance on the morning of the 2d and
|3d inst. It was seen as late as 8 o’clock
in the morning.
Rope Factory . —The Brcnham Era gives
j an account of anew rope factory at that
place :
It is turning out ten to fifteen thousand
feet of rope per day. The hemp is grown
by the proprietor, Mr. Z. B. Simms, who
has 58,000 pounds on hand.
Hogs—Prices, &c.
The Chattanooga Advertiser of the 20th
inst. says: “We are not far wrong whefi
we state that there are not half the num
ber of hogs in this and adjacent counties
! that there were one year ago. We hear
j of one gentleman who a short time since
turned a drove of some hundreds into a
cornfield to fatten, and on visiting the
field two weeks afterwards, could find
only some ten or a dozen live hogs out of
the three hundred—all had died of hog
cholera. As to the price that will govern
j the liog market, we are as yet unable to
give definite and reliable information.—
We know of one gentleman who bas given
Is 425 per hundred, gross. Another lot
was recently purchased in Middle Ten
nessee at $4 per hundred, gross. These
are the only lots that we have known
purchased.
♦
There is said to be now living in the
! city of Cincinnati a Frenchman, a hog
| driver at present, dissipated in his hab
its, and wretchedly poor, who was born
1 in tbe midst of princely luxury, bis father
holding a high position in the court of
Napoleon I. His baptism was conducted
with almost royal ceremony, Prince Murat
! standing as his god-father, and no less a
personage than tho Empress Josephine
as his god-mother. In the changes of the
government which followed, the child was
banished from France, and in this country
he has lived a life of extreme poverty.
The French government recently’ allowed
; him a small pension, but he spends that,
and all of his trifling earnings, for whis
ky.—N. O. True Delta.
—
Southern Planter’s Convention.
At the convention of planters held at
Nashville, on the 10th inst., a resolution
was passed recommending the adoption
of a plan by the Agricultural Boards of
the SouLhern States, by which semi
monthly reports of the growing cottcn
crops could be had from any county in
the South.
In view of the conflicting opinions as
to reclaiming the great alluvia! deposit
. of the Mississippi river and some of its
lower tributaries, a resolution was passed
appointing a committee to memorialize
Congress on the propriety of issuing an
order to Lieut. Maury to select a suitable
corps of Engineers, and with these, to
make a complete survey of the whole
valley and river from St. Louis to New
! Orleans.
A Warning Conte^lon,
We saw, yesterday evening, says the
Charleston Courier, a bill ($2) which had
i been paid to a conductor on tbe South
! Carolina Rail Road. It was endorsed
with the following :
Here goes the last of one hundred
thousand, and it goes for whisky, which
has been my ruin. To all who see this
bill and drink the accursed stuff, I say
quit. A DRUNKARD.
Dr. Cloud’s Rural Magazine, for No
vember. has been received. It makes its
appearance in. Dew type, and contains the
usual quota of original and well-selected
matter. The proprietor has published a
prospectus for anew and enlarged series
for 1860. Hereafter the Cotton Planter
will have the addition of a Horticultural
Department, for which the services of
Robert Nelson, A. M , a gentlemen of
extensive scientific attainments, have
been engaged. We recommend it as
: worth five times the subscription price,
which is only $2 per annum.
The Eut aw (Ala.) Whig says Commo
| dore Childress, who was wounded in the
. recent duel with Randolph, is rapidly
recovering.
A Pickens oouniy paper states that
j Childress addressed a note to Randolph
the evening before the duei, which was
i not delivered. It is stated that a compro
mise was written out by Gen. Syd. Moore
and someone else, which was signed by
Randolph and then sent to Childress, bat
failed to reach him.
Fast. Trotting.
At the horse show at Boston on the
14th inst., the principal trot was between
Columbus and the Montreal stallion,
Live Oak, of mile heats for a purse of
SSOO. Columbus was the winner, ruak
j ing the first heat in 2 min. 35J sec.: the
second 2 min. 86J sec.; and the third in
2 min. 40 seconds.
The great trotting matoh for the eiti
zens-purse of $2,000 came off at Kalama
zoo, Michigan, on the 15th inst., at the
National Horse Show Course. Flora Teni
pie won, making the best time on record,
viz: First heat, 2:32J; second heat,
2:223; third heat, 2:19f.
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Accident on tlie Mobile and Oii°
Rail Road.
There was a collision of trains on the
Mobile aud Ohio Rail Road, on SundjV
last, causing considerable damage to the
cars, and scaldiDg some four persons.—-
And on Wednesday, five or six cars ot
the down train ran off the track ueai
Whistler, and were considerably broken
up.