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COLUMBUS:
Tuesday Morning, Ang. 28, 1800*
Mr. Wm. D. Marrast, an estimable citi
zen, and for many years Postmaster at
Tuscaloosa, Ala., died in that city on
Monday the 20th.
The Sumter Republican says Mr. Jas.
A. Miers, of Americus, committed sui
cide ou Saturday, the 20th, by taking six
ounces of laudanum. Cause not known,
lie leaves a wife and child.
At the last meeting of the Board of
Directors of the Savannah, Griffin and
North Alabama Railroad, at Carrolton, a
resolution was passed authorizing the
President to buy $65,000 worth of iron
to be used on the road west of Newnan.
The Houston (Texas,) Telegraph is in
formed that an attempt was made a (lay
or two since to set the town of Owcns
ville, Robertson county on fire. The in
cendiary has been arrested. The report
comes to it direct and appears authentic.
The Mobile Advertiser understands
Mr. Trainer, lately a book keeper for the
house of Roulston and Gardien, of that
city, committed suicide by jumping over
board from the steamer Eclipse, on her
upward trip. It was thought he was
under the influence of liquor at the time.
The Aubun (Ala.) Sketch Book, of the
24th says: Little Eddie, a child four or
five years of ago, the son of Prof. John
Darby of that place while playing about
a dry well on Tuesday last, fell in and
broke his leg. The little fellow bears
his sufferings heroically, and is doing
well
The Canebrakc (Ala.) Gazette states
that on Monday night, the 20th in3t., two
attempts were made by a negro to rob
the Hon. Alexander White, while on his
way from Selma to that place. He at
tempted to shoot the negro, but the pis
tol missed fire. The negro had a double
barrel gun, but did not attempt to Bhoot.
The Columbia (S. C.) Guardian an
nounces the death of Hon. L. O’Bryan, at
Walterboro, on Sunday evening, the 19th
inst. He was a member of the State
Convention dnring the secession excite
ment, was a member of the State Legis
lature four years, and was Senator from
St. Bartholomew’s Parish at the time of
his death.
The Nashville Union, of the 23d, says
that a slave, who over a year ago escaped
from his master, a Mr. McConley, of
Hickman, Kentucky, was arrested in
Memphis Sunday evening. The negro
states that during his pilgrimage he has
been in almost every part of the Union.
The Mobile Tribune corrects the state
ment that Mr. Trainer committed suicide
by jumping overboard from the steamer
Eclipse on the Alabama river. He acci
dentally fell overboard.
A negro boy saw the accident and gave
tho alarm immediately, when the boat
was stopped and every exertion was
made by those on board to recover the
body, but without success.
To Postmasters.
Tho Postmaster General has recently
decided that if Postmasters do not give
publishers of newspapers notice when
their papers remain in tho Post Office
without beiDg taken out by subscribers
within fivo weeks, they are liable for the
pay-
+
The Mobile Register, of the 22d says :
Cotton is coming to market quite rapid
ly. Since Friday noon about twelve
hundred balos have arrived, and the indi
cations are that this week’s receipts will
foot up near twenty five hundred bales.
The wharves begin to put on their winter
aspect too, in a business point of view,
much freight for “upriver” being daily
visible on them.
Tile Carrolton Accident.
The Now Orleans Delta say both of the
conductors and the assistant engineer of
the train when the collision occurred re
cently on the Carrollton road, have been
arrested. Sullivan, the chief engineer,
has so far eluded the vigilant search of
the officers. The suits for damages will
cover over SIOO,OOO, and the company
will go through the proper process of the
law.
.
Tornado at Social Circle.
The Athens Banuer is informed that a
terrific tornado occurred at Social Circle
and vicinity on the 12th inst. No lives
were lost, but some negroes injured, and
numbers of stock of various kinds, killed.
Trees two or three feet in diameter were
torn up by the roots, and carried perpen
dicularly up into the air for several feet. A
large steam saw-mill was almost demol
ished, and another mill blown literally out
of sight.
The Selma Reporter of the 22d, learns
that much excitement exists in Talladega,
Alabama, on account of the unfolding of
a plot on the part of several abolition
emmiss&ries to create a servile insurrec
tion. Four white men and eight negroes
havo been discovered, all well armed,
within fifteen miles of town. Negroes
residing in the neighborhood made an ex
position of the doings of the black
hearted villains. None of the party have
been arrested as yet, but the camp has
been discovered, and so far everything
corroborates the statement made by the
negroes.
Missouri Election.
In the Presidential election of 1856,
says the Petersburg Express, in the State
of Missouri, Mr. Fillmore received 48,424
votes, while 58,161 were given to Mr.
Buchanan, his majority being 9,727. —
There are in Missouri 115 counties, from
which returns have been received of 92
counties, which foot up for C. 11. Jack
son (Douglas Democrat), 56,572 ; Orr,
Bell and Everett), 50,856 ; H. Jackson
(Breckinridge), 6,500. The counties re
maining to be heard from will increase
the majority of the regular Democratic
nominee. In the 23 counties still re
maining to be heard from, in 1856, Mr.
Fillmore had majorities in four, amount
ing to 437, while in the 19, Mr. Buchan
an had majorities amounting to 2,843. —
It is fair to presume, therefore, that Clai
borne F. Jackson, the regular Democratic
nominee, is elected by from 8,000 to 10,-
000 votes.
Narrow Escape.
The Americus Georgian says a sister of
Mr. Augustus Tommy narrowly escaped
death in that place on the 20th, while in
a buggy before a millinery establishment.
And while Mr. Tommy stepped in for a
moment, leaving his sister seated in the
baggy, the horse took fright, ran off and
dashed the buggy into fragments against
a china tree in front of Drs.
Hardwick & Lamar. Miss Tommy es
caped instant death by being thrown from
the buggy only a few feet before it reach
ed the tree.
The Selma (Ala.) Sentinel learns that
over two hundred bales of new cotton
were brought to that city, on the 21st
by the Alabama and Mississippi Rail
Road.
Henry A. Wise Opposed to Disso
lution.
The Hon. Henry A. Wise has written
a letter, which was read before the Jack
son Club of Boston, on Monday night
recently. In it he says that he will sup
port Breckinridge and Lane to his utmost.
He concludes thus:
“God grant that our efforts be notin
vain. I fear they will be—that Black
Republicanism is to triumph in the com
ing election. If so, I mean for one to
abide by and in the Union—to Jiyht in it,
and not out of it —aid in saving the coun
try and its Constitution; but not to sub
mit one moment, or to concede one single
item, to a triumph which will degrade me
and mine in this Confederacy of free and
equal States.”
The doctrine enunciated by Gov. Wise,
if it be true, is as bad than that of re
maining in the Union at all hazards. —
Some talk of the impossibility of peacea
ble secession, and object to a separation
because it would end in a war between
the two sections. But of all opinions that
have been advanced, that of fighting out
the contest in the Union is the most ab
surd and most calculated to drench the
land in blood.
If two individuals make a contract, and
one of the contracting parties constantly
and persistently violates the agreement,
all will concede that it would be acting
according to the simple dictates of com
mon Bense, if the other party demands
what is due him and abandons it, consid
ering himself released, as he is, by the
failure of the opposite party to comply
with the terms, instead of attempting to
coerce him into it. In some instances in
civil matters, it may be necessary to force
a co-contractor to comply with his agree
ment in specific terms. But between the
North and South it could not be applied,
however desirable it may be.
Suppose the Black Republicans attain
the numerical majority, as there is little
doubt, it is reasonable to suppose, that
they will use their power to carryout the
principles of their platform, and will not
succumb to the opposite party until over- .
come by it, nor remain defeated if possi
ble. The condition of the country would
not be dissimilar from that of Mexico,
and would degenerate into a mere field
of action for contending military factions,
the success of the one always fluctuating
with the alternate defeat or triumph of
the other. If war must ensue, it should
be between the North and South as inde
pendent confederacies.
There is nothing desirable in the Un
ion which we could not demand and
obtain out of it, as well as by remaining
in it, and if to the complexion of war it
must finally come, it would be infinitely
better to wage it as two separate govern
ments, which may regard each as ene
mies in war, in peace, friends. Unfor
tunately there is a considerable party in
favor of abiding by the Union and fighting
out the contest in it, but the idea of thus
securing the equality, independence and
rights of the South, is as Quixotic as it is
impractical.
Staunton (Va.) Douglas Convention.
A dispatch to the Petersburg Express,
from the Douglas Convention held at
Staunton, Va., states that A. M. Barbour,
Charles Irving, J. W. Davis and Z. Tur
ner, have been appointed Electors for the
State at large, besides the Electors for
the Districts. Ex-Gov. Foote participa
ted and made a speech.
A second and later dispatch to the
same paper, says tho Committee of Con
ference from the Charlottesville (Breck
inridge) Convention was denounced as a
piece of trickery.
It has directed its Electors to vote for
the Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, if he can
bo elected ; if not, to vote so as to defeat
Abraham Lincoln, the “ rail splitter,”
and much prefers the Hon. John Bell, of
Tennessee, to the Hon. John C. Breckin
ridge, of Kentucky.
The Convention adjourned on the 19th
after unhesitatingly rejecting all propo
sitions to fuse with the Breckinridge
wing.
Another Murder.
The Randolph County (Ala.) Demo
crat, of the 22d learns that a man named
Alfred Nunis was murdered at Lamar,
some nine miles from that place, on Sat
urday evening last, by Robert Crockett.
The parties were both under the influ
ence of spirits, and had been quarrelling,
when Crockett ran up to Nunis and stub
bed him with his knife in the neck, caus
ing death in a short time. Crockett was
committed to jail on Sunday. He is a
cousin of the Crockett who was hanged
in Atlanta last year for the murder of
Lamar.
Tennessee.
We received yesterday a letter from a
gentleman of position, in Tennessee,
from which we learn that the Bell men
there are denying that Hon. Neil Brown
said, in theßell Convention, that he would
give up all the negroes in the South in
preference to the Union.
Wc clip the above from the Montgom
ery Mail, and refoice to perceive that the
friends of Brown repudiate for him a
sentiment so atrocious. The individual
who'could utter or eudorse it is in reality
a worse enemy to his country than the
most open and avowed Black Republican,
and deserves the ignominous fate, that
should reward every traitor, let him be a
Bell, Breckinridge, Douglas or Lincoln
man.
Business on the Louisville and Nash
ville Rail Road.
The Louisville Courier of Tuesday
says: “ Owing to the heavy exports of
flour over the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad, they have been compelled to
shut down on shippers, and to day they
refused to receive freight, owing to the
large amount which they now have on
hand. There is a large demand here for
flour and grain, from parties in Georgia,
Alabama and Southern Tennessee, and
some 1,000 bbls. flour and 5,000 bushels
grain are daily sold in this city, which
has to be shipped over the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad to these parties.—
This, with the heavy receipts which are
daily arriving for them, has so crowded
the railroad that they will have to stop
from receiving for a few days.
Slave Increase.
The new census, says the Charleston
Mercury, will probably show the number
of slaves, in the United States, to be over
4,000,000. This is on the computation
that the rate of increase will be not less
than it was from 1840 to 1850. The ad
dition to the numbers within that period
was 716,756, the rate of increase nearly
29 per cent. ; more precisely 28 80 per
cent. At this rate of increase, which is
not likely to be less, computation have
been made of the future numbers of the
slave population, within a few years.—
The figures are, indeed, startling, from
their multitude. It is very certain, that
within the first quarter of the next cen
tury, it will be at least fifty millions.
Fire.
The Cassville Standard, of the 23d
says : A stable belonging to Mr. Bohan
non in this place, was burnt on last Fri
day night. It was the work of an incen
diary, as there was no chance for it to
have taken fire from accident. There has
been several stables burnt at this place
during the last twelve months. It seems
that some fiend has a mania for stable
burning.
Sole of Negroes,
There was another sale of freo negroes
for non-payment of taxes, on Saturday.
The sale commenced at 11 o’clock —that
is, if it might be called a sale. There
were only a few gentlemen present, and
the sales on the occasion were very few
indeed. It is astonishing with what har
dihood those fellows can look on and
laugh in the teeth of the law when they
find they wont be bought. They pride
themselves on the glory of being “hard j
cases,” and they walk away sneering at j
their own shame, for there must be guilt
where there are no purchases.
We clip the above from the Petersburg
Bulletin of the 21st. Free negroes in
any community constitute a dangerous
element in its population. When the
fault is not owing to any misbehavior or
violation of law on their part, their pres
ence indirectly operates on the slaves,
who thus frequently become discontented,
unruly and insubordinate. The problem ;
of the free negro is one worthy of the !
attention of legislators, and one not very
difficult of solution if divested of the in
terest which a false philanthropy has
thrown around it and viewed in its pro
per light.
The peculiar relation which the South
Sustains to the rest of the world with re
spect to her domestic institutions, ren
ders the question one of vital interest to
her, and demands the serious attention of
the “assembled wisdom” who annually
or bi-ennially make and revise her laws.
It can be clearly demonstrated, that the
true and safe policy of the Southern
States and of Georgia, is to rid the coun
try of this element in the negro popula
tion, or enact such laws and regulations
as will neutralize its effects immediate or
remote as they may be, on those in the
condition of slavery. At a future and
more pertinent occasion, we design to
elaborate the subject more at length, and
urge it upon the respectful consideration
of our immediate representatives in the
Legislature, hoping they will coincide
with us in opinion.
“ A Native Georgian” and Hon. I!.
V.Johnson.
A correspondent of the New York Tri
bune, from Washington City, who signs
himself “A Native Georgian, says:
“Mr. Johnson is not, and never was a
disunionist, as is frequently charged in
Northern papers. I am posted on this
point, and I speak knowingly and cor
rectly.”
It matters little to tho country now,
whether Mr. Johnson was ever in favor
of dissolving the Union, as his position
at present, relative to that issue, is dia
metrically opposed to his position in
1850-51. We desire merely to vindicate
the truth of history, which “A Native
Georgia” unmistakably perverts. Among
the most ultra Southern Rights sentiments
during that exciting period, were written
by Gov. Johnson in his messages to the
Legislature of Georgia, and proclaimed
by him on the stump. They were models
of their kind. Among the disunionists
then, he was primus inter pares.
We have no word of reproach for him
on account of the position he occupied
then, and care as little for his political
relations now. But we were enjoying a
Rip Van Winkle sleep then, or our recol
lection is seriously at fault, if Gov. John
son was-not a disunionist in 1850-51.
Rail Road Meeting at Barnesville.
A number of citizens assembled at
Barnesville, on the 20th inst., for the
purpose of appointing delegates to the
Convention at Indian Springs and take
such other action as might be proper.—•
The Convention has been held, and was
called to consider the contemplated Rail
Road from Madison to Barnesvillo via
Monticello, Jackson and Indian Springs.
The meeting at Barnesville expressed
the opinion that the building of the con
templated road to that point would cause
the stockholders of the Thomaston and
Barnesville Rail Road to extend their
road to some point at or near Columbus
on the Muscogee Rail Road, which, in
the opinion of tho meeting, would form
a direct route from Montgomery, via. Co
lumbus, Barnesville, Indian Springs and
Madison, to Augusta, and the most direct
line with less building, connecting at Au
gusta with the great Southern Mail
Route, than any route that has yet, or
will be proposed.
♦
“ Tile Bloody First.”
It will be remembered says the Nash
ville Union, that on the 21st of Septem
ber, 1859, there was a re-union of the
surviving heroes of the First Regiment of
Tennessee Volunteers in the Mexican
War, to celebrate the battle of Monterey.
This meeting took place at the house of
Col. Wm. B. Campbell, the commander
of the “ Bloody First,” near Lebanon :
the object was not simply to commemo
ate for once that hotly contested field of
battle, but it was there agreed that they
should meet annually as long as more
than one of those gallant soldiers should
survive.
Taking the Vote.
The following good hit is taken from
the “ Chow Chow,” anew paper pub
lished in Savannah, which is devoted to
ft crusade against humbug :
Election.— At the suggestion of the
“ Devil,” we took the vote of our office,
with the following result:
Breckand Joe 0
Bell and Ev 0
Doug and J 0
Neutral 4
The Devil being for Lincoln.
Vigilance Committees In Texas.
News from Texas state that these or
ganizations exist In all the towns and
j counties that have been excited by the
| late attempt at incendiarism. It is diffi
cult for a stranger to pass through that
district of the State with safety, unless
he can produce vouchers of his honesty.
These investigations are developing the
existence of much uneasiness among the
negroes.
—♦ —
Killed by Lightning.
Tho Charleston Mercury learns that
i a negro boy, belonging to Dr. E. C. Flem
ing, was killed by lightning at Spartan
burg C. 11., about five o’clock last Friday
evening. The storm was very severe,
! and the lightning shivered a tree near
which the boy unfortunately stood.
♦
The Watermelon Trade.
The books of 4he Georgia Railroad,
says the Augusta Chronicle, show that
| from June 28th to August 9th, there were
shipped over the Road to various points
25,731 watermelons.
The New Orleans Picayune of the 21st
says the steamboat Charmer, which ar
rived on Sunday, brought down 2,443
bales of new cotton ; the Capitol, arrived
yesterday, 46 bales, and the Acadia 257
bales. Total for the two days, 2,746
bales.
Samuel Langdon, Esq., a prominent
citizen of Brunswick county, North Car
olina, died at Smithville, on Monday the
20th ixrst.
Oregon Legislature.
The latest returns from Oregon render
it certain that Lane cannot again be re
turned to the Senate. He-has but 16 of
the 50 members. The remainder are
classified as follows: Anti Lane Demo
crats -1, Old Line Whig 1, Republicans
12.
More Incendiarism.
The New Orleans Picayune, of the2lst
has condensed (he reports found in the
Texas papers in regard to the late extra
ordinary scenes that have been witnessed
in (hat country. The following is from
the Houston Telegraph, oi tiio 17th :
The Tyler Reporter, of the 7th says
that a report has just reached there that
Belleview, in Rusk county, was burned
on the night of the 4th inst.
The same paper says that Dangerfield,
in Titus county, is burned.
At Athens, Henderson county, a well
was discovered to be poisoned on Sunday
night, the sth inst., and over 100 bottles
of strychnine was found in possession of
negroes. On examination the plot was
brought to light, which was to poison as
many as possible at breakfast, and then
the knife and the pistol, with which they
were well supplied, were to do the bal
ance of the work. Ail the old women
and young children were to be murdered,
and tho young women were to be taken
as wives by the hell hounds.
A patrol of one hundred men is cu du
ty every night in Tyler, and this has thus
far saved that town.
A stable, belonging to John T. Car
lisle, in Athens, was burned by an incen
diary on the evening of the 6th.
A negro belonging to Mr. Barron, at
Science Hill, Henderson county, was
hung on the 3d—strychnine having been
found in his possession, and lie having
confessed to having a hand in the insur
rection.
A gentleman, writing from llusk,
Cherokee county, 4th inst., gives an ac
count of a plot to poison the whole com
munity on election day. Poison was
found in the possession of several of the
negroes, and confessions are elicited of a
determination to poison and murder the
whole people. Similar plots had been
discovered in Anderson and Henderson
counties.
The destructive conflagration which
occurred at Houston on the night of the
17th, is admitted to be accidental. The
charred remains of a man were found,
who was burned in Hoffman’s Hotel.
Correspondence cf the Sun.
Whistler, Ala., Aug. 19, 1860.
Dear Sun :—According to promise, I
wiil give you a few dots. I arrived here
safe and sound, am well phased with the
place. Whistler is situated on the Mo
bile and Ohio Rail Road, five miles north
west of Mobile; the place is very pleas
antly situated and is built up by the em
ployees of the rail road, who number
some two hundred. We have the shops
for building and repairs, a Machine,
Carpenter, Blacksmith, Foundry and
Tin shops, all conducted by competent
and gentlemanly foremen, under the su
pervision of Harry Buggies, master me
chanic. We have two churches, a Sab
bath School, Freemason Lodge and a Me
chanics’ Society in successful operation.
This speaks well for a place just in its
infancy. A more gentlemanly and intel
igent people I have not found than the
mechanics of Whistler. The Mobile aud
Ohio Rail Road is iu running order for
two hundred and seventy four miles; the
Company expect to connect with the
mouth of the Ohio soon. They have
plenty of iron on hand to finish laying
the track, and have just received a num
ber of locomotives, new and ponderous
ten wheel machines, some sixty-four iu
number ; quite a number of passenger
and fright cars have been built here this
summer, and they are still building more.
This road is the great enterprise of the
South, and when completed will pour an
immense trade into Mobile, which place
should be under lasting obligation to the
projectors of the road. W’hen this road
is completed I hope the people of Mobile
will lend a helping hand to the Mobile and
Girard Road, which the indefatigable
Howard labored so hard to land on the
shore of Mobile Bay, and would have
succeeded had it not been for treachery
in Columbus. How it would rejoice me
to hear the neighing of the iron horse on
the east side of the bay, just arrived
from home. WHISTLER.
New York Loan Market.
The New York World, whose money
articles are characterized by ability, thus
describes the present condition and pros
pects of the New York loan market:
Capitalists, previous to 1857, have
tried rail road stock and bonds, and land
grant schemes, and mining and other
speculations that promised enormous
profits, and after that expensive experi
ence, both in England and iu the United
States have settled down to the conviction
that the regular, legitimate business of
the county affords the safest, most profit
able, best and least troublesomo use of
capital. Capital is, by this policy, ap
plied to the development of the industry
and resources of the country. The results
are an accumulation of wealth, as in the
position of the United States at the pres
ent time, exceeding any past experience
or statistics. The wholo nation has been
working the last two years, and econo
mizing; and paradoxical as it may seem,
statistics of our commerce prove we have
been, during the same time, consuming
more than we have ever done before; and
in doing all these things, the surplus cap
ital of the country has been a powerful
stimulator and efficient supporter.
No money has been waisted on rail
roads leading to nowhere, or mines pro
ducing nothing—but disappointment. So
long as the people and business commu
nity avoid all speculations, or short roads
to make money quickly, just as long will
the United States increase in wealth ; just
so long shall we perpetuate, with com
pound interest, the years 1859 and 1860.
The fall trades with the dry goods job
bers, has opened in a satisfactory man
ner. There is no rush or excitement.
Collections are coming in before the cus
tomers come on to buy. One bill is in
process of being paid before another is
bought. All are buying prudently, cau
tiously, and for immediate wants. There
is no buying of large bills, because extra
credit is offered by the importers. It is
better for all parties. Fewer bad debts
will be made. Purchases are made in
view of profits effected by quick sales,
and because’ the goods are wanted, and
not for the purpose of speculation. The
surest guarantee for the continuance of
this sound position of affairs, is in the
conservative feeling which pervades every
branch of our trading.
Mayor’s Court.
The proceedings in this Court ibis
morning were of unusual interest, and
drew together a large crowd of lookers
on. The case of The State vs. Ben. C.
Yancey, Jr., Esq., for an assault, was
arranged, by the defendant’s pleading
guilty to the assault. He, however, wish
ed to show that previous circumstances
justified him in so doing. To this end,
Hon. W. L. Yancey was placed upon the
stand, who explained the causes which
brought on the assault, and read in evi
dence a certified copy of the “Constitu
tion of the Montgomery League of United
Southerners.” Our time and space does
not permit a more extended statement.
Thos. J. Judge, Esq., appeared for the
defendant.— Mont. Mail, 28 d.
Corn and Cotton Crops.
The Corn crop throughout Talladega,
Shelby, Bibb, Perry, Autauga and Dal
las, although still below an average has
been very much improved within three
weeks, by the copious rains, and will, we
have no doubt, fully supply the want* of
the people. There are some who never
plant a sufficient quantity of corn but al
ways expect to buy, these of course we
do not include. The Cotton is very poor
and will scarcely yield more than one
third of a crop. A large proportion, if
not the whole, of what is made, will be
badiy stained and injured. Such at least
is the result of our observation a day or
two ago along the line of the Alabama and
Tennessee Rivers Rail Road. —Selma
(Ala.) Issue, 22d.
Acceptance of the Benician Chal
lenge.
My dear Ileenan: On the part of our
mutual friend, Tom Sayers, I accept for
him your challenge to jump off the top
of a house. And being eager to show all
liberality to a gallant stranger who comes
to partake of our hospitality, we propose
to give you Two Minutes start.
Ever yours faithfully, Punch.
* From the LaG range Reporter, 24ih.
A Fatal Affray.
A sad occurrence took place in our
usually quiet town on Saturday last,
about 5 o'clock, p. m., which has cast a
gloom over our whole community. A
difficulty took place between Thomas G.
Ilaynes, of this town, and Alien D. Den
nis, of this county, during which Mr.
John S. Forbes was mortally wounded.
Haynes and Dennis had clinched, but
became separated some several paces
apart, when Dennis snapped a pistol
at Haynes several times, while Haynes
threw rocks at Dennis. At this juncture
(while the pistol was being snapped and
the rocks thrown) Mr. Forbes ran up to
Dennis with a stick elevated, (whether to
knock the weapon from Dennis's hand
or to strike him is not known) when he
(Dennis) turned the pistol to Forbes and
shot him as he approached. [Witnesses
differed as to whether or not Forbes
struck Dennis before the pistol fired.]
Mr. Forbes then ran towards the Sims
House and was carried in, when it was
ascertained that the ball had taken effect
in his left side, just below the ribs, and
penetrated through the body to the right
side and lodged against the skin, where
it was taken out. Mr. Forbes lingered
until 11 o’clock, p. in., when he expired.
As this matter is to undergo trial at
the next term of our Court, we forbear
to make auy further remarks, more than
to say that Mr Dennis has been bailed
on a bond of five thousand dollars for his
appearance at Court; and also that our
citizens deeply sympathise with the pa
rents of each party, as they are among
our most respectable citizens
The First Koiiee of Ccnsumptiun.
The nose is to be regarded as the be
ginning of the lung apparatus, just as the
beginning of the digestive apparatus.
The nose is one organ of respiration, for
animals breathe nut through the mouth,
but through the nostrils. The nose, too,
has its cough ; sneezing is the name af
fixed to this action. The nose thus viewed
is a part of the breathing apparatus, and
hence the reason appears why, if there is
such a state of the lung tissue as is asso
ciated with blood discharge, it is not un
likely that this tendency existing also in
the blood tissue of the nose, the discharge
of the blood from the nose becomes pre
monitory, and indicative of the decayed
changes in the lungs. What an admira
ble contrivance is it that the discharge
of blood should thus be exhibited in con
nection with the nose, since here the
blood escapes exteriorly, whereas, if
taking in the tissue of the lungs, a suf
focation, an asphyxia of the lungs would
be caused. The nose bleeding gives a
notice, which if homocpathicaliy attended
to, would prevent, in the majority of ca
ses any further development of the lung
disease. It is nature giving warning, and
the wise physicians listens to the notice;
but only he who is homocpathicaliy well
informed in pathognetic effect of remedies
can listen effectually.
Dr. Wm. K. Head and Son KHied.
On Wednesday morning, Dr. Head and
son were shot by Thomas Adams, as they
were passing through Greenwood in a
buggy. A deadly feud had existed be
tween these parties for several weeks,
caused by the killing of Mr. Orr, a citi
zen of Greenwood. Adams states that
Dr. Head and son came by bis house, and
that Dr. Head Called to him to come to
the buggy, which lie refused to do, be
lieving that, ho wished to kill him. He
ran to his house, mounted his horse, and
taking a nearer road, reached Greenwood
before the buggy. lie declared that he
intended to kill Dr. Head as soon as he
arrived. Taking his position in an alley,
he shot both father and son ; killing the
former in the buggy and wounding the
latter, who with a pistol in hand jumped
from the buggy and was shot by Adams.
We have heard that Charles Head shot at
Adams before he left the buggy, and had
another pistol in his hand when he was
killed.— Shreveport {La.) Gazette, 11 th.
Importation of Silks.
Few countries surpass the United States
in the consumption of silk goods. The
value of silks entered for consumption at
the custom house in New York, during
the last five weeks, amounted to five
million one hundred and eighty-two thou
sand eight hundred and seventy dollars.
Dr. Franklin declared that “satins and
silks put out kitchen fires.” According
to the importations this summer, the
“ kitchen fires” must be in a bad way.
Next to silks, a large share of the im
portations of dry goods is woolens, which
in the five weeks named amount to the
sum of $4,297,592. Cotton fabrics came
next, and afterwards flax goods.
Missouri Congressmen.
The following is believed to be the,re
sult of the Missouri election for Congress
men :
Ist. District—Francis P. Blair, Re
publican ; vice Barrett, Democrat. 2d
District—Jas. S. Rollins, Union; vice
Anderson, Democrat. 3d District—John
B. Clark, Democrat, re-elected. 4th
District—Elijah W. Norton. Democrat;
vice J. Craig •sth District—John
W. Reid, Democrat; vice Woodson, do.—
Gtk District—John S. Phelps, Democrat,
re-elected. 7th District—John W. Noell,
Democrat, re-elected.
The Law of Evidence.
There is now before the House of Lords
in England, a bill introduced by Lord
Brougham, to amend the law of evidence,
some notice of which may interest the
profession here. It is proposed, by this
measure, to enable all defendants in crim
inal cases, as is done in civil, to give evi
dence for themselves, on oath, in cases of
misdemeanor, in which the prosecutor
himself is examined, the condition being
that they mu3t also submit to cross ex
amination, and to prosecution for per
jury, if they make any false statement.
There is every prospect that this bill will
be passed this session.
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New Featurein Railroad Acccmmo
• (lations.
Every day brings something new in
the way of accommodation for railroad
travelers. First came the smoking car,
then the sleeping car, and now we have
the restaurant, introduced by the Leban
on Valley Railroad Company, which like
the others, is bound to become a popular
institution. This car, supplied with
every variety of refreshments in the eat
ing and drinking Jine, is attached to the
! through train between Harrisburg and
; New York city, affording passengers am
ple opportunity for appeasing their thirst
| and hunger without lea-ving the cars for
| that purpose.
Freak of Lightning,
During a thunder storm which visited
j this vicinity a few weeks ago, the elec-
I trie fluid descended upon the chimney of
a kitchen on the premises of Dr. J. M.
| Foster, near this place, and passed down
to the ceiling, parted; a part crossing
the room by the ceiling overhead, passed
out at a window in the opposite end ; the
other part descended to the hearth, knock
ed off the lid of an oven in which biscuit
were being baked, thence through the
floor to the earth underneath. Four ne
groes were in the room at the time, but
strange to say, not one of them sustained
the least injury.— Union Springs Journal ,
21 si.
A private letter to the Memphis Ava
lanche, dated Shreveport (La.) August
10th, says :
“ The infernal Abolitionists are play
ing the mischief over here. They have
burnt four towns in Texas—among them
Henderson—which they laid in ashes ;
but three houses being left. N You never
saw or heard of more excitement in your
life. They have caught and huDg seven
scoundrels. Shreveport is in a great
excitement. She has twenty one efficient
watchmen on watch every night. They
have caught two men and got them in
jail. They have sent seven to the peni
tentiary this week, and banished one.
It is stated that Lady Franklin will
visit the Pacific States, and will probably
take up her residence next Winter in San
Francisco, to which she is advised by her
physicians. Though in general good
health, and mild climate is necessary to
her, and therefore San Francisco has
been recommended. Lady Franklin is
now sixty years of age, having been born
Our Rail Road.
We had the pleasure of an interview
with the President of the Opelika and
Talladega Railroad on Monday last, who
has just returned from a visit to Colum
bus, Opelika, &c. The grading aud ma
sonry on the first fifteen Miles of the road
are now under contract, at what we con
sider very low figures. The grading will
most probably average less t’nau 141 cents
per yard, less by three or four cents than
is usually paid fur similar work, aud one
third of this to be taken in stock in the
road. This shows the confidence that
those who are familiar with Railroads
have in our route, and speaks volumes
for the success of our enterprise. These
contracts grade the road within 134 miles
of this place, and through a country
where the people took less interest, prob
ably, than any portion of our route, they
having all the necessary llailroad facili
ties for practiacl purposes. Columbus
seeing the weakness of our enterprise at
the starting point, has magnanimously
stepped forward and issued thirty-five
thousand dollars worth of Bonds to be
used in the present contracts. This is
all our people could ask. And now in
turn will they not step forward and nev
er cease their efforts until the remaining
13] miles, between this and Waverly, are
under contract. This is the most impor
tant link to the citizens of this place, and
vicinity, that will be in the whole road.
It cannot be doubted but that there are
men, of ability, enough in the vicinity of
this road, between tins and Waverly, to
form companies and do the entire grad
ing, and take every dollar of their wages
instock; and thereby not only enhance
the value of their real estate, but make
from four to five hundred dollars per an- j
num, to the hand in as good Railroad j
stock as can be found in the Southern !
country. — Tallapoosa {Ala.) Times 23d.
Desperate Affray.
We learn that on Tuesday evening last !
a difficulty occurred at Gray’s Grocery in
Jones county, which resulted in the
death of one person and the severe and
perhaps dangerous wounding of two oth
ers. The actors in this affair, together
with a number of others had assembled
for the purpose of having a shooting
match.
A man by the name of Mattox and the
grocery keeper, Gray, had a quarrel,
when a man named Loyd made some re
mark about Mattox, whereupon Mattox
raised his gun, charged with buckshot,
and shot Loyd dead. He then ran into
the grocery for the purpose of shooting
Gray, and Gray took refuge under the
counter, the bottom board of which was
off, making a large orifice through which
Mattox protruded his gun and fired at
Gray, but missed him. Gray then arose
and shot Mattox with a pistol, it is
thought fatally wounding him. A brother
of Gray was also shot by some one,.and
it is thought- fatally wounded. Liquor
was the cause of this difficulty.— Macon
Telegraph, 24 th.
A Singular Affair.
As one of our citizens, aphysiciau, was
coming to town, from the country, yes
terday morning, he observed a while
man conversing with a negro by the road
side; and as he came up to them the
white mau withdrew,/While the negro re
marked to the Doctor that he believed
that the white mau was crazy—he spoke
so strangely.
The Doctor, on reaching town, com
municated the circumstances to one of
our policemen, who, ou going to the
place mentioned, found the stranger, who
stated that he had been a merchant of
Fayetteville, North Carolina ; that he had
settled all his valid debts ; that he had
been in Augusta, but hearing so much
about exchange, protesting notes, &c ,
he would not remain : that he had slept
out in the woods the night previous; and
that he was on his way to New Mexico.
The policeman found in the possession
of the stranger fifteen hundred dollars,
and believing him to benotofsane mind,
brought him to town, and placed him in
jail, where he remains with his own con
sent. There is no charge against him ;
but the mystery is as to his identity, his
presence in the woods with so large an
amount of money, and his apparent in
sanity.—Aug. Constitutionalist.
Touching Scene.
Avery touching incident occurred at
the funeral of Mr. W. B. Clifton, who
died in Louisville, Ky., last week. Prior
to his decease he manumitted his slaves,
numbering some forty, a large number of
whom attended his funeral on Saturday
last. During the march, an old slave
who had been greatly attached to his
master, came up quietly to the hearse,
the fringe of which he respectfully kissed,
and behind which he walked the whole
distance to the cemetery. After the pray
ers at the grave were ended, and all had
gone save the blacks, the old man signed
to them to kneel, and throwing himself
upon the ground, prayed most vehement
ly and tearfully for his master and those
he had left behind, which so affected the
listening mourners that the place was
filled with cries and groans.
A Woman without Curiosity.
There is an old lady in thi3 town, active
and in good health, who has not seen the
market house for thirty years, although
she lives within two squares of it, and
who has never seen the rail road and has
no curiosity to see it. She says she did
get a glimpse of the cars once from the
street in front of her house, as they
passed over the bridge, but she “ paid no
attention to them.” She has not been to
church for forty years, and the reason
she gives i3 that people now-a-days go
to church to look at each other’s fine
clothes and show their own, whereas,
when she was young, they went there to
pray and hear preaching.— l’aris {Kg.)
Citizen.
Surveillance in Russia.
No newspapers, magazines or reviews,
are permitted to enter Russia by the post.
They must be subscribed for at the post
office itself. All travelers, be they Rus
sians or foreigners, have all their books
taken from them on passing the frontier,
even guide books or conversation books,
or even engravings or drawings. They
are removed to the nearest censor, who
returns them or not, just as suits his
fancy or convenience. All strangers ar
riving at St. Petersburg have to appear
before the political police, who interro
gate them as to their objects in traveling,
as to whom they are acquainted with, and
what letters of introduction they are the
bearers of.
Drowned iu tile Surf.
The New York Express of last Monday
says : “ Gustavus A. Ratz, the well known
proprietor of the Philadelphia House in
this city, and a boarder at his house by
the name of Gardiner, were drowned on
Sunday, while bathing at Shrewsbury.
A party of seven were all submerged by
the undertow, five of whom were rescued.
The wife of the unfortunate Gustavus was
saved in an insensible condition, but she
subsequently revived. A similar casualty
happened at Long Branch, on Saturday
last, resulting in the death of Edward 0.
Dummer, of Jersey City, and of Mr. John
Whittaker, of Trenton.
The negro Delainey, whose presence in
the Statistical Congress occasioned the
insult of Lord Brougham to Mr. Dallas,
was one of the negro scoundrels who was
present and an active participator in the
proceedings of the convention held at
Chatham, Canada West, as can be seen
by reference to the journal of the pro
ceedings of the convention, pages 45, 46,
and 47, of the Senate Harper’s Ferry
Investigation Report. Recalled the con
vention to order, nominated the officers
etc. Reals, in his testimony, page 99’
says: “The whole tenor of Dr. Delainey’s
speeches was to convey the idea to John
Brown that he mi;.ht rely upon all the
colored people in Canada to assist him.”
Col. Fremont is crushing about 200
tuns of quartz rock daily in California,
which yields him, on the average, a net
of one thousand dollars.
St. Louis, Aug. 20.—88 counties offi
cial give C. F. Jackson 64,732; Orr 59,-
382; H. Jackson about 9,000; Garden
hire about 6,000. 21 counties unheard
from.
Col. G. Wright, of the 9th infantry,
succeeds Gen. Harney in command of the ‘
department of Oregon. I
Arrival of the City of Baltimore.
. The steamship City of Baltimore has
been telegraphed from Cape Race, which
she passed on the 21th. The sales of
cotton for the two days previous to her
departure amounted to 25,000 ’>hl<
The market was firm, an I had partially
advanced ]-l(i to l. Consols unchanged.
Further hy the City of Baltimore
hates’ Liverpool, Wetbirsdan. — The sales
of cotton to (lay were 18,0i>0 bales The
market was buoyant, and had advanced
Jd. siuce the sailing of the Arabia Os
the sales of two days speculators and ex
porters took 9,000 bales. Os the sales of
Wednesday speculators and exporters
took 7,000 bales. Middling Orleans was
quoted at OJd.
Stale of Trade. —Manchester advices
were favorable. Yarns were firm.
Liverpool. —Flour steady. Wheat steady;
advanced Id. Corn firm : advanced 6d.
Rice steady. Coffee quiet.
London. —Money was more “stringent,
owing to the rumors of war.
General News. — Fifteen hundred En
glishmen “have landed at Syria.
Eighteen hundred Garibaldians have
landed at Calabria
It was reported that Garibaldi had been
to Naples to confer with the revolutiona
ry leaders.
Naples had been proclaimed in a state
of siege.
It is reported that Austria will renonnee
the Villa Franca treaty, and actively op
pose Garibaldi’s operations in Naples.
The weather has been favorable for
crops.
The Neapolitan claim that they have
repulsed au attempted landing of Gari
baldians near Reggeo.
It was reported that if Garibaldi lands
in Naples, Gen. Lamoriciere will cross
into the Roman frontier under a promise
of Austrian support.
Austria assumes a threatening attitude
against Piedmont, and demands explana
tion concerning Garibaldi s letter to 4 ic
tor Emanuel, amounting to a projected
attack ou Venice.
There was great activity in the Austrian
marine.
The Sardinian loan has been closed.
The subscriptions in Paris were triple the
amount required.
There have been additional failures re
ported in the leather trade, with heavy
liabilities.
The Vigilance Committee in Louis
iana and Judge Lewis,
The Franklin (La.) Banner states that
Judge Lewis, a Bell elector of this State,
was ordered to leave St Martins.ville by
persons representing themselves as mem
bers of a Vigilance Committee, for hav
ing made a speech in favor of the Bell
party in that place. The Banner says:
The facts in the case appear to be
these. Thomas 11. Lewis, Esq., atten
ded at St. Martinsville on the 4th inst.,
by invitation, a meeting to ratify the
nomination of Bell and Everett, and made
two speeches in French and English. In
the afternoon he attended to some busi
ness of his own in the village, spent the
night there, and left early in the cool of
the morning for home to avoid the heat
of the day. After Mr. Lewis had left the
place, the chief of the Vigilance Commit
tee and a companion are said to have
started to notify Mr. Lewis to leave the
place in three quarters of an hour, or
suffer violence at their hands.
We presume if Mr. Lewis had remain
ed in that place six months, nothing
would have been said about compelling
him to leave. Besides, it does not appear
that the said “Chief” was authorized by
any committee to show any disrespect
whatever to Mr. Lewis, nor would the
people of St. Martinsville have permitted
so foul au outrage had it been attempted.
We presume that many of the Vigilance
Committee themselves are friendly to
Bell and Everett., or, if they are not, they
certainly would not have the effrontery
to attempt to regulate politicians as well
as cow thieves.
Texas Items.
The Jefferson Herald, of (he 11th,
says: We learn by a gentleman who
left Marshall Thursday morning, that
the incendiaries who fired the town of
Henderson on the sth instant, have been
overhauled and summarily puuished.—
Three persons left Henderson, immedi
ately after the conflagration, under very
suspicious circumstances. They were
followed by a committee of the citizens,
i Perceiving themselves pursued, they tur
i ned to fight, when one of them was shot
dead from his horse and the other two
were taken and hung forthwith.
The Palestine Advocate confirms the
reported hanging of Wyrick and Cabelle
at Tennessee Colony, and shows conelu
sively that it was justifiable.
A plot was discovered in Hopkins co.,
; on the 4th inst., to burn the town of
| Sulphur Springs, iu that county, on elec
tion day, or the day after. Some negroes
confessed the plot.
The Houston Telegraph has the follow
ing paragraphs:
We are informed that an attempt was
made a day or two since to set fire to the
town of Owensville, Robertson county.
The incendiary has been arrested. The
report comes to us direct and appears
authentic.
We are informed by a gentleman just
down from Waxahachie, that it was re
ported there that Tyler, in Smith county,
and McKinney, in Collin county, had
been burned.
Farther from California.
St. Joseph. Aug. 21. —The overland
i pony express, at this point from San Fran
cisco to Bth inst., brings the following
additional news of interest.
The friends of Hell and Everett will
nominate Presidential electors at Sacra
mento on the sth of September.
The accounts from the San Bernardi
no, Coso and Momo Lake gold and silver
mines are of an exciting character.
The recent vote in the Carson’s Valley
indicates the organization of a Navado
Provisional Government on the basis of
Squatter Soveeignty.
During the election affray at- Genoa,
Mr. R. M. Anderson, late Lieutenant
Governor of California, was shot, and it
is.supposed from the wounds inflicted
upon his person that he will not be able
to live long.
A large number of emigrants are daily
arriving in the Carson Valley, and af
ter stopping there a few days, go in the
direction of Washoe and other mining
districts.
Advices from Oregon state the crop
this season are unprecedentedly large.
Major Steen’s company had another
skirmish with the Snake Indians, and
captured a few as prisoners.
A letter from British Columbia says
the Chinese outnumber the whites by five
to one.
Fast Editor.
A certain knight of the quiil went down
I to the depot, the other morning, to see a
friend oft on the cars; and wishing to
make himself useful, he checked bis
friend’s baggage and procured the neces
sary passenger paste board. Taking
leave of his friend before the train star
ted, he returned home to read the morn
ing papers and wait for his breakfast^—
Happening to thrust his fingers into his
vest pocket just as he reached home, he
found he had brought away the ticket he
had purchased a few moments before.—
Not wishing to be suspected of an at
tempt to chisel a railroad passenger out
of his fare, he turned and leaped over
the palings at a bound and broke for the
depot like a quarter-horse. He had a
very short time in which to make a rath
er long run ; but he got dowu to his work
so handsomely that he was able to thrust
the indispensable scrap of paste board
through the car window just as the train
moved off. And then his faithful but
over tasked legs gave way under him,
and he sank upon the platform, as limber
as a dish-rag. A friendly dray convey
ed him home, and he is now known as the
editor who made the best time on record.
—Nashville paper.
——*
An Irishman, writing fronff Philadelphia
the other day, to a friend in the old coun
try, concluded his letter thus : “If iyer
its me forchune to live till I dy—and God
nose whether it is or no—l’ll visit ould
Ireland afore I leave Philadelphia.”
David Ci-ocLetl.
“Be sure you are right, then go ahead,”
is a vi-t* maxim attributed to one whose
iife was a eouiinual illustration of the
sentiment. Every one has heard of “Da
vid Crockett,” the immortal backwoods
man ot Tennessee—the “crack shot” u |
the wilderness—eccentric but honest
member ot Congress—the “hero of the
Alauio ’ —hut few know his origin, his
early struggles and the general current
of his life. History has but a few words
concerning him, but tradition is garrulous
over his many deeds
David Crockett was born at the mouth
of the Limestone River, Green eoutitv
East Tennessee, on the 7th of August’
1787. His father was of Scotch Irish
descent, and took a prominent part in the
war for Independence. It was all a wild
erness around David’s birthplace, and his
son communed with nature in its unbrok
en wilderness, from the beginning. He
grew to young manhood without any ed
ucation, from books, other than he re
ceived in his own rude home. When only
seven years of age, David’s father was
stripped of most of his property by fire”
He opened a tavern in Jefferson
where David was his main help until the
age of twelve years. This vagrant life
full of incident aud adventure suited
young Crockett, but becomipg dissatisfied
with his employer, he deserted him and
made his way back to his former home.
After tarrying there a year, he ran away,
joined a cattle merchant, and at the end
of the journey iu Virginia, he was dis
missed, with precisely four dollars in his
pocket. For three years he was “knock
ing about” as he expressed it, and then
he sought his father’s home again. He
now enjoyed the advantages of a school
fur a few weeks, and finally, after several
unsuccessful lovo adventures, he married
au excellent girl, aud become a father in
1810, when he was twenty-four years of
age. He settled on the banks of Elk
River, aud was pursuing the quiet avo
cation of a farmer in summer, and the
more stirring one of hunter in Autumn,
wheu war was commenced with Great
Britain in 1812. Crockett was among
the first to respond to Gen. Jackson’s call
for volunteers, and under that brave
leader be was engaged in several skirm
ishes and battles. He received the com
mission of Colonel at the close of the war,
as a testimonial of his worth. Ilis wife
had died while he was in the army, and
several small children were left to his
care. The widow of a deceased friend
soon came to his aid, and in his second
wife he found an excellent guardian for
his children. Soon after his marriage he
removed to Laurens county, where he
was made Justice of the Peace, aud was
chosen to represent the district in the
State Legislature. Generous, full of fun,
possessing great shrewdness, and “hon
est to a fault,” Crockett was very popular
in the Legislature and among his constit
uents. In the course of a few years ho
removed to Western Tennessee, where he
became a famous hunter. With the
rough backwoodsmen there he was a man
after our own hearts and he was elected
to a seat in Congress in 1828, and again
in 1830. When the Americans iu Texas
commenced their war of Independence,
towards the close of the year 1835,
Crocket hastened thither to help them,
and at the storming of the Alamo,
Bexar, on the 6th of March, 1836, that
eccentric hero was killed. lie was then
fifty years of age.
From the Abborville(Ala.) Banner.
Suicide.
On Saturday morning the 18th inst.,
wheu Sheriff Holmes, went to the Jail in
this place, he found Edward Bird, who
was confined therein, aud charged with
the murder of Dr. B. D. Joiner, late of
Miller county, Ga., entirely insensible,
and breathing only at intervals with great
difficulty. The Sheriff immediately called
in Drs. Gillespie and Lightfoot, but they
1 could do but little for the patient as he
was unable to swallow anything which
they desired to give him. He was re
! moved from the Jail, to the Court House,
where the Physicians labored faithfully
to restore him, but all in vain. lie ex
pired about one o’clock p. m. The Phy
sicians say, that some opiate taken in a
large quantity was the cause of his death.
From all the circumstances we are satis
fied that it wq3 a deliberate and premed
itated case of suicide. He made a will
leaving his property to his wife. He had
frequently expressed to his counsel, his
preference of death, to imprisonment in
the Penitentiary.
Special Dispatch to the Charleston Courier.
Tlie Capture of Truxlllo.
New Orleans, August 23.—8 yan ar
rival at this port to-day, from Ruatan,
we have further particulars relating to
the capture of the town of Truxillo by
Gen. Walker. Walker attacked the town
with a force numbering ninety men.—
The opposition was not very serious, and
but a single gun was fired. The fire was
returned by-Walker’s party with effect,
and twelve of the Spanish Americans
were killed and eighteen wounded. Wal
ker bad three men slightly wounded, and
is now in possession of the town. He has
issued a proclamation in favor of Caba
nos, and the natives are flocking to his
standard.
The United States Government has
i dispatched the Susquehanna to search
i for the Fillibusters.
Letters received here from Mexico rep
resent that war betewen Spain and Mex
ico is inevitable.
Painful Accident.
Asa party of seven persons, composed
of men, women, and children, were riding
home in a market wagon, about eleven
o’clock on Saturday night, the horse
attached to the vehicle was frightened as
the party were crossing ovor Giay street
bridge, and dashed across the structure
at a fearful rate. The struck
some object after it had crossed the
bridge, and was overturned. By the
accident the whole party were throwa
out, and some of them seriously if n ot
fatally injured. Mrs. Ohlman, who lives
near the Beargrass Cutoff, had several
ribs broken; her husband was badly
bruised ; Mrs. Bardel, who keeps a gro
cery on the Point, was bruised and re
ceived r deep cut in the forehead, and
two little boys, Mr. Ohlmau’s sons, were
thrown down the embankment, sustain
j ing serious injuries. It is feared the
: ladies will not recover.— Louisville Jour.
Deatla from a Snake Bite.
On Friday last one of Gen. J. I>. Grit
fin’s most valuable negro men was found
dead on the General’s plantation uearthis
place, caused, it is presumed by the bite
of a snake, as the small incisions on the
leg and arm of the negro, and the pi son ’
ed appearance of the flesh in proximity to
the wounds indicated the bite of some
venomous reptile. Search was made tot
the snake but without success. This is
severe loss to Gen. Griffin. The deceas
ed was a most excellent negro, about
twenty one years old, and valued accord
ing to the ruling price of negroes, tw
SI,BOO. — Edgefield Advertiser.
Tlie Globe.
It is, perhaps, seldom that a you 1 1!!
woman, departing for Australia, take:
even so thoughtful a view of her futile
lot as one once heard of, who, after he
trunk was packed all ready, rememhertt
how at school she had seen that the e
was round, with the southern hemispbe l ”
on the opposite from the northern, a- 1
reflected that in her new home her P°
tiou would be inverted ; a condition - J
inconsistent with the decorum in v .
she had been trained that no pursues],
would induce her to submit to it-- -
Schoolmaster at Home,” in Black/rood.
Missouri Election.
St. Lotus, August 12.—The follow*®?
arc the official election returns o
counties for Governor of this State-
C. F. Jackson (regular Democrat)
Orr (Union Opposition) ‘jgoo
H. Jackson )irregular Democrat) 2,xw
J. C. Garden hire (Black Republican)
Twenty one counties are yet 10
heard from.
St. Louis, Aug. 21.—The
the complexion of the next House of xe f
resentatives of the State Legisla ture
Republicans 12, Breckinridge Democr
26, Bell men 38, Douglas Democrats
and ten counties to hear front.