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Tuesday Sept. 18, 1860.
Air. Hilliard for Bell and Everett.
We understand, says the Montgomery
Post, that the Hon. Henry W. Hilliard
will address a meeting of the Constitu
tional Union Party, in the City of New
York, on next Wednesday, the 12th inst.
Hon. Alfred Iverson.
Senator Iverson, as the Georgia Fores
ter announces, will address the citizens
of Lowndes, Clinch, Ware and the sur
rounding counties, at Valdosta on the
14th inst. Stockton on the 15tb, and
Waresboro on Monday the 17th inst.
Manager Fleming.
The Savannah Republican says : Mr.
W. M. Fleming will open his theatrical
seasoQ in Georgia, at Augusta, on the
20th inst., and will be in Savannah about
the middle of November. His company
with the exception of our old favorite,
the Comedian, Fuller, will be composed
of entirely new members.
Dealt* of Matliew E. Williams.
We regret to learn from a letter from
Dawson, says the Americus Republican of
the 7th, the death of Mathew E. Wil
liams, Esq ,of Terrell county. He died
on Tuesday last, after an illness of 36
hours. Mr. Williams was the Senator
from Terrell county, in 1857 and 1858.
His death is greatly lamented by the citi
zens of Terrell.
The Vote of North Carolina.
The Raleigh (N. C.) Standard says,
that in the recent Gubernatorial election,
the aggregate vote was 112,062, which is
10,094 larger than over before polled in
the State. Gov. Ellis’ vote is 3,014 more
than it was two years ago, and Mr.
Pool’s is 13,173 larger than Mr. Mcßae’s
—showing an increase of 10,187 votes, as
compared with the preceding election.
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The Roue Courier Bays that John D.
Gray, Esq., the contractor of the Georgia
& Alabama Rail Road, is progressing
steadily in the construction of the bridge
across the Etowah river. The material
is the hard black limestone rock which
abounds in the vicinity of Rome, and the
work when finished will be solid and sub
stantial structure and reflect credit on
both engineer and contractor.
—♦
The Theatre a School of Morals.
In the latest accounts from California,
it is reported that Hamilton J. May has
instituted an action against John Wood,
an actor, to recover $50,000 for the se
duction of his wife.
We trust the jury may render a verdict
assessing one cent damages. Such should
be the treatment of every mau who may
consent for a few paltry dollars, to com
pound such an unpardonable outrage
upon his domestic happiness. Had May
made day light shine through Wood with a
few well directed pistol balls, he would
deserve and receive the applause and
sympathy of the public.
New York and Manhattan Island.
A correspondent of the Petersburg Ex
press relates the following incident illus
trative of the growth and progress of
New York City. It is taken from a his
torical discourse by Dr. DeWitt:
“ As soon as Governor Missnitt, who
came out in 1626, was established in his
government, he opened negotiations with
the savages, and a treaty, mutually satis
factory, was concluded, by which the
entire Island of Manhattan —then esti
mated to contain about 22,000 acres—
was ceded by the native proprietors to
the Dutch West India Company, for the
value of sixty guilders, or about $24 of
our present currency.
About two hundred and thirty four
years have elapsed since that transaction,
rtwd now, the population of New York is
estimated at quite a million, and its
wealth computed by billions.
Santa Anna’s Residence Destroyed.
By a late arrival from St. Thomas,
says the New Orleans Bulletin, we learn
that the residence on that Island of Gen.
Santa Anna, ex-Dictator of Mexico, has
been destroyed by fire. The fire was the
work of incendiaries. The General
bought the building about two years ago
for the large sum of 205,000 francs, and
had expended in improving it 15,000
francs.
We learn, says the Union Springs Ga
zette of Saturday, that there was con
siderable excitement at the Warrior
Stand Camp Ground, in this county, on
Sunday night last, arising from certain
disclosures made by a negro to his master.
Theintelligence was that himself and oth
er negroes had been instigated by white
men to poison the well and springs, but
his love for his master caused him to re
veal the plot. _
Exportations of Lumber.
During the month of August, as we
learn from the Pensacola Observer, with
in a fraction of four millions feet of lum
ber were shipped to foreign ports, which
speaks well for the increasing demands
upon that market and the enterprise of
the proprietors of the mills. It is likely
that over four millions of feet will have
gone hence at the expiration of the pre
sent month.
Death of Mr*. A. J. Stagger*.
It is with sorrow, says the Mail,
that we announce the demise of this esti
mable lady, which took place at Prairie
Bluff on the sth inst., while on a visit to
her relatives. Mrs. Staggers was an old
resident of Montgomery county and city,
and leaves a large circle of relatives to
mourn her loss. She was a devoted and
constant member es the M. E. Church, a
loving and dutiful mother, and a charita
ble lady. She was aged about 60 years.
♦-
Cottou at Nashville.
The total receipts of Cotton at Nash
ville for the year ending the <>lst ult.,
amount to 27,013 bales. The stock on
hand on the Ist inst., amounted to 982
bales.
A bill has been fiiled in the Memphis
Courts to recover the ’stock formerly
owned by the city in the Memphis and
Charleston Rail Road company, and which
was sold some time since by the City
Council to certain parties in Memphis.
♦-
A fire broke out in Alexandria, La-,
recently by which one of the most impor
tant parts of the town was consumed. It
was the work of an incendiary.
VOLUME IV.!
Political Statistics.
For reference during the present polit
ical canvass, we copy from the New Or
leans Picayune, the following table,
giving the number of electors to which
each State is entitled, and the vote cast
by three parties at the election of 1856,
it will be found convenient for preserva
tion :
States. Electoral Vote. Eucbanan. Fremont. Fillmore.
Alabama ‘. 9 46,739 23,552
Arkansas 4 21,910 10,787
California 4 53,365 20,691 36,165
Connecticut 6 34,035 42,715 2,616
Delaware 3 8,004 308 6,175
Florida 3 6,358 4,833
Georgia 10 56,681 42,439
Illinois 11 105,348 96,189 37.444
Indiana 13 118,670 94,375 22,336
lowa 4 36,170 43,954 9,130
Kentucky 12 74,642 314 67,416
Louisiana 6 22,164 20,709
Maine 8 39,080 67,179 3,325
Maryland 8 39,115 281 47,460
Massachusetts....l3 39,240 108,190 19,626
Michigan 6 52,136 71,762 1,660
Mississippi 7 35.446 22,195
Missouri 9 53,164 48.024
Minnesota 4
New Hampshire.. 5 32,689 38,345 422
New .Jersey 7 46,943 28,238 24,115
New York 35 195,878 276,004 124,604
North Carolina...lo 48,246 39,886
Ohio 23 170,874 187,497 28,121
Oregon 3
Pennsylvania 27 230,771 147,863 82,202
Rhode Island 4 6,680 11,467 1,675
South Carolina.... 8
Tennessee 12 78,636 66,117
Texas 4 31,169 15,639
Vermont 3 10,169 39,561 545
Virginia 15 89,706 391 60,310
Wisconsin 5 52,843 66,690 520
Total .303 1,838,232 1,341,514 874,707
Minnesota, 4 votes, and Oregon, 3, have
been admitted since 1856. The whole
number of votes cast was 4,054,453.
South Carolina, .voting by Legislature,
is not represented in the column of pop
ular votes.
The Grain Movement.
It is estimated that the sales of flour,
wheat and corn in the New York city
markets, during the last week, amounted
to something within a million and a half
of dollars ! The greater proportion of
this is understood to have been on Euro
pean account; but there were operations
of some magnitude, undoubtedly, on
speculation. The Express says :
Prices have been slowly, but steadily
advancing, and, from present appearan
ces, it is probable that the top has not
been reached. The harvests throughout
Great Britain are turning out so badly
that a heavy deficiency in food there
would seem to be certain—a greater
deficiency than can well be made good
from the ordinary sources of supply
on the continent. The American
markets, therefore, must be largely
drawn upon, and the result will be, that
our farmers will soon get back, in ex
change for their cereals, not a little of the
“specie” we have been sending over sea
to pay for European importations. In
this way the whole country will be bene
fitted in the end—though just now the
consumers of bread in the cities may
have to “pay dear for the whistle.”
Death of Dr. By rue.
The Charleston Mercury announces
the death of Surgeon B. M. Byrne, which
occurred of typhoid fever at Ft-Moultrie
on the evening of the Gth inst. He was
formerly Professor of Anatomy in the
Medical College Medical-
General Director on the Pacific coast, and
Surgeon in the U. S. Army, during the
Seminole and Mexican wars. At Palo
Alto he rendered service to Maj. Ring
gold when wounded.
Western Produce Bound to Europe.
The New York Herald of the 3d, says :
There are, at present, afloat on the ca
nals, not less than a million and a quar
ter bushels of wheat, and over a million
bushels of corn. Os tlfis, a large amount
of course, will go to Europe, where bad
crops and a prospective bouleversement will
create a large demand for American
breadstuff's. The transportation of pro
duce from the West, this year, will un
doubtedly be unexampled, and in conse
quence the railroad, canal and shipping
interests will be largely benefited.
Items of news from the Euf&ula (Ala.)
South of the 11th :
Religious Meeting. —An interesting
and promising revival of religion is now
going on at the Methodist Church in this
place. There have been some twelve or
fifteen conversions, and quite a number
have been added to the church.
Cotton Receipts. —The amount of
cotton received at this place is conside
rably in advance of what it was at the
same time last year. This is due not to
any increase in the crop, but to the ear
lier maturity of the cotton. Never before
within our recollection has so large a
proportion of the crop been matured at
this season of the year. The unprece
dented drought caused the crop to stop
growing, and the bolls have been prema
turely forced open. The crop in this
section must inevitably be very short;
amounting, we think, to no more than
half a yield.
The Choice Case.
This case which was so ably argued a
few days since before the Supreme Court,
has been decided. The opinion of the
Judges was delivered yesterday evening.
The Court has refused to grant anew
trial to the unfortunate young man.—
Atlanta Locomotive.
We understand that this decision is not
likely to dispose of the case finally. This
was an appeal from the ruling of the
Court below upon some points involved in
the trial. The friends of the prisoner
will now endeavor to get a decision of the
Supreme Court upon the question of the
Governor’s constitutional power to veto
a pardon by the Legislature.— Enquirer.
A German named J. Treider who kept
a boarding house near Moscow, in Ken
tucky, for the accommodation of a large
number of men employed in building a
railroad, suddenly disappeared on the 4th
inst., taking with him $2,800 worth of
Mobile and Ohio Railroad Income Bonds
belonging to Mr. H. J. Oakley, and pay
able to the bearer. Oakley followed
Treider to Memphis, where he had him
arrested and taken back.
Census Peculiarities.
In a town in Connecticut the census
marshal found two maiden ladies who
were tico years youDger than in 1860.
This realizes the poet’s dream. In an
other instance a woman forty-eight was
found with a son of thirty-six. Thehus
bane of the woman, a second one, was
thirty. Queer things the census shows.
Direct Trade with Europe.
A resolution has been adopted by the
City Council of Augusta, Ga., referring
the subject of “ direct trade between the
Chesapeake Bay and Europe” to the next
Legislature, and recommending a sub
scription of $500,000 by the State to the
stock, under certain provisions.
The Bank of Tennessee.
This institution, under its new auspi
ces, went into operation in Memphis on
the Ist inst. The Enquirer says it has a
large capital, and is governed and con
trolled by able discreet financies, and can
not fail to attain a large measure of suc
cess.
THE WEEKLY SUN.
Tle Meeting Saturday Nlglit.
On Saturday night last a large audi
ence assembled at Temperance Hall, on
which occasion the Committee appointed
previously for the purpose, reported a
Constitution for the Bell and Everett
Club recently organized for Muscogee
county.
The meeting was organized by calling
Col. J. A. L. Lee to the chair and the
appointment of H. M. Sapp, Esq., secre
tary.
After the reception and adoption of the
Committee’s report on the Constitution,
Marcellus Douglass, Esq., the Bell and
Everett Elector for thie District, was in
troduced to the meeting and delivered a
speech of considerable length in support
of the claims of his favorites to the Pres
idency. His remarks and criticisms were
directed principally against Mr. Yancey
and the Breckinridge party ; he was very
light on Mr. Douglas and his friends.
Mr. Douglass is very prepossessing in
manner and is a gentleman of considera
ble talent, but his speech Saturday night
will not compare in point of ability with
the one delivered by him in thiscity during
his contest with Judge Crawford for Con
gress. We believe, however, that it was
well r’eceived by his party friends.
After inviting the friends of Bell and
Everett to enroll their names to the Con
stitution of the Club, the President ad
journed the meeting.
A Good Sign.
Our exchanges state that the most ac
tive arrangements are being made by the
New York merchants and others for the
monster mass meeting to be held in that
city, of all those opposed to the election
of Lincoln and Hamlin, and it will un
doubtedly be a most imposiug affair. It
will combine in one—a monster Douglas
meeting, a monster Breckinridge meet
ing, a monster Bell and Everett meeting,
and a monster conservative meeting,
composed of all parties who are opposed
to the dangerous sectional faction of
which Lincoln and Hamlin arc the chosen
representatives. It is fixed for the 17th
of September, the anniversary of the
adoption of the Constitution, which the
mass will assemble to preserve and main
tain against the machinations of a mis
chievous band of demagogues. All the
oratorical talent and leading statesmen of
the conservative portion of the country
will be represented there from every
quarter of the Union, and in point of
numbers’entbusiasm and earnestness, it
will excel any of the great revolutionary
demonstrations which Europe has wit
nessed in its stormiest days.
Important Decision.
On Friday morning last the Supreme
Court in session at Atlanta, as we learu
from the Intelligencer, decided that a
payment to a Clerk of the Superior or In
ferior Court of our State, on a judgment
obtained in their respective Courts, is no
valid payment in law of the debt, the
Clerk not being a legal collecting officer
of the Court, in cases of this sort.
The Intelligencer speaks of a case in
the county, in which the editor once re
sided, where an honest farmer, in mod
erate circumstances, paid the amount
due on an execution to the Clerk of the
Court from which the execution was is
sued. The Clerk misapplied the funds,
the old farmer had to pay the debt a sec
ond time, and his pecuniary ruin was the
consequence.
We are informed, says the Savannah
Republican of the 10th inst., that the
Regulators at Silver Hill, St. Peter’s
Parish, Beaufort District, S. C., had up
on Monday last, four persons accused of
tampering with slaves, and finding them
guilty, were about to hang them. They,
however, imprisoned them iu the house
of one of the residents of that place, in
order to act with deliberation in punish
ment of the offence. One of the priso
ners, on giving bonds for his future good
behavior, was allowed to go about his
business, and the other three, a man
about 50 years of age, and his two sons,
were ordered to leave the State. We
learn they arrived in Savannah by the
cars yesterday afternoon. Look out for
them !
Ttie Great Eastern and Direct Trade
between the South and Europe.
A dispatch from Washington says that
if the Great Eastern shall return to this
country at all, she will come to Hamp
ton Roads. Letters by the America will
determine the question. Freight and
passengers paying seventy-five dollars
each trip will be sufficient to establish
her as a regular trader between this
Southern port and England. A house in
New Y'ork guarantees six thousand bales
of cotton, while many statists and politi
cal economists in the South are enthusi
astic for direct trade with Europe, and
the planters and farmers favor it. The
merchants, as a class, are unwilling to
breakup their old commercial arrange
ments or fall in with this new hobby.—
Mr. Mann has hopes that he will over
come this natural opposition of the old
and slow houses. Baltimore alone could
furnish one fourth of the sevenfy five
thousand dollars freight required.
Health of Charleston.
The Courier of Saturday, in response
to enquiries from the country, says:
“Since the two cases of yellow fever re
ported in the Courier of Monday, but one
death has been certified to be yellow
fever, as we learn, and this was a sub
ject who had been exposed two or three
days in the country before his illness.—
As to pending cases and probabilities,
we shall not, and cannot, undertake to
pronounce with confidence. No facts,
however, have transpired to indicate an
epidemic, or anything beyond scattering
and disconnected cases.”
One thousand pounds sterling has re
cently been offered in London for a com
plete set of the The Times newspaper, for
a public library at Melbourne in Austra
lia, but without success. The fact is an
instance of the rising importance of the
things that, at the moment, seem only of
trivial value, scarcely worth preserving,
but which to succeeding generations af
ford the most authentic sources of knowl
edge concerning the “form and pressure”
of their time. The British Museum now
collects and preserves everything; and
the Bodleian Library, which (after much
deliberation, and in the exercise of a
judgment no doubt considered sound at
the time) was expressly debarred by its
founder from admitting the vain and triv
ial light literature of the date of its for
mation, is now glad to purchase the six
penny and shilling plays and pamphlets
of that day at prices ranging from <£so to
£l5O each.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 18, 1860.
Census of .Muscogee.
We are indebted to Mr. E. 11. Mus
grove, census taker, for the following ab
stract of the census of the city of Colum
i bus and county of Muscogee. The large
increase returned since last year is proof
of the fidelity with which Mr. M. has dis
charged his duty :— Enquirer.
White inhabitants in Columbus proper, not
taking in Wynnton or Womack’s settle-^
Slaves .3,265
Free Negroes 10°
Whites in the country 3,379
Slaves 4,556
Free Negroes 65
Total 17,039
The official returns of the last census
taken in 1859 were 14,200, showing an
increase of 2,839. A large number of
our citizens who do business in the city
live in Wynnton, Bealwood and Linwood,
and a great number of factory operatives
and merchants reside in Girard, Ala.—
With these additions, the population of
Columbus would be about 12,000.
Total number inhabitants Columbus 9,039
•• •• •• Country 8,000
Total 17,039
Launch of the John P. King.
This new steamship, says the Augusta
Constitutionalist, was launched at New
York on Thursday last, the 6th inst.—
The New York papers state that the ves
sel is a splendid model and is built of the
very best materials. The tonnage i3 two
thousand ; length of keel two hundred
and thirty-five feet; breadth of beam
thirty-seven feet; and depth of hole
twenty-one feet. She will have a single
beam engine with a cylinder seventy-two
inches and a half in diameter and two
feet stroke. Capt. Richard Adams will
command her.
Counterfeit Money.
We were shown yesterday by Mr. Sas
seen of the Washington Hall in this city,
says the Atlanta Intelligencer of Wednes
day, a counterfeit fifty dollar bill on the
Georgia Rail Road and Banking Compa
ny. It is a very striking imitation of the
genuine bill. The signatures are so much
alike as to render it difficult to discern
the difference. The paper of tho spuri
ous, however, is coarser than that of the
genuine.
Probable Heavy Loss.
Horace Greely advertises 500,000 cop
ies of the Life of Abe Lincoln, as yet un
sold. There books probably cost about fif
ty eents apiece, and unless speedily dispos
ed of, for the campaign is rapidly draw
ing to a close, will involve a lass of $250,-
000! Squally times for Horace, surely,
when there is a good prospect of having
so large a quantity of Black Republican
stock left on hand.
Mr. Seaton, the serviving editor of that
time honored journal, the National Intel
ligencer, has associated with him, in his
editorial duties, Mr. James C. Welling,
who has been connected with the paper
for several years in different capacities.
Maine Elections.
Portland, Sept. 11. —One hundred
and sixteen towns have been heard from,
and they give Washburn nine thousand
majority. The whole Congressional Re
publican delegation will be elected.
Multiplying and Replenishing.
The Rome Courier of the Bth instant
says that Mrs. M. A. Mobley, of Walton
county, on the night of the 27th of Au
gust, gave birth to three children—two
boys weighing eight and a half pounds
each, and a girl weighing six pounds.—
All living and doing well on the 2d inst.
Religious Intelligence.
The Abbeville (Ala.) South says that
a meeting of great interest has been car
ried on for the past two weeks in the
Baptist church at Columbia. In the ab
sence of the pastor, the services have been
conducted by Elder M. Brooks, assisted
during part of the time by Elder A. L.
Martin. Fourteen had been received on
Thursday last.
Near Stringer’s Store, a meeting was
held by Elder Knowles, at which we
learn that twenty were admitted into the
church. Anew Baptist church was con
stituted, but we have not learned the
name.
The meeting held at Talbot church,
week before last, we learn resulted in the
addition of seventeen to the church by
baptism.
Cost of Living in Paris.
A Paris correspondent of the Boston
Traveler says there are now 95,000 va
cant rooms in that city, made so by the
exactions of landlords. The writer adds:
It is something marvellous to see how ex
pensive life has become in Paris. For
merly it was one of the cheapest cities in
the world, and people came here to save;
it was the paradise of the half-pay offi
cers from all the armies in the world, the
arcadia of the annuitant and straitened
gentlemen. Rents have increased in Pa
ris, and the enormous taxes laid at the
octroi gates (to enable the city to indulge
in its topographical and architectural or
gies,) on everything we require, have
raised the prices of all the necessities
and luxuries of life. Twenty miles from
Paris living is as cheap as it ever was.—
But in Paris the mere cost of living is
something ruinous.
Shocking Accident*
The Peninsular Gazette states that two
Irishmen, names unknown, left Archer’s
Station, on the Florida Railroad, on
Tuesday, 27th ult., and being intoxicat
ed, laid, down on the track to sleep.—
During the night the down train passed
over them without their being seen by
any one on board, and were not discover
ed until the return train came upon the
dreadful scene tbe next morning, where
they found the mangled bodies of the two
unfortunate men. One had been killed
outright—his body being cut in two by
the wheels, and so mangled as to be un
recognizable. The other was barely
alive, and able to say a few words. One
of his hands was cutoff at the wrist, and
in the other he still held the bottle which
contained the poison thatwa*the prima
ry cause of his destruction. Ilis head
and face were also horribly mutilated.—
He was taken to Gainesville for surgical
aid. It is thought bis injuries will prove
fatal.
Not Going.
The Mormons have no present intention
of leaving Salt Lake Valley. They are
busy erecting in every settlement sub
stantial buildings for council-houses,
court-houses, meeting-houses and school
houses. Grist and saw-mills nail facto
ries, founderies, and every kind of ma
chine shops are becoming common. A
few miles from the city, Brigham is lay
ing out a nursery, with a million trees,
which he calculates will in ten years turn
him in as many dollars. The building
of the great temple has recommenced,
and every spare team is hauling the mas
sive rock from Cottonroad into the city.
Os the magnitude of this edifice, your
readers will form some notice from the
fact that the foundation alone cost $60,-
000, and a contract has recently been
concluded for the hauling of the rock for
the basement story, a distance of ten
miles, SBO,OOO. The building is to cover
an area of 21,850 feet.
The Auburn Advertiser of Saturday
tells the following: “Charles Haynes,
then a respectable and fine appearing dry
; goods clerk of Niles, Michigan, married
a young and beautiful lady of that place.
There was nothing strange in that, but
Charles was fond of variety, and left his
wife and went to Jefferson City, where he
contracted marriage with a second lady.
He passed the honeymoon with her, and
journeyed to a small town in Sebyler
county, where he became enamored of a
third lady, courted her sweetly, and mar
ried again. This time he was found out,
tried and sentenced to the State Prison
for a term of years. On Thursday three
ladies entered the prison, separate and
unattended, and each inquired of the
gentlemanly clerk for one Chas. Haynes.
They were shown into the clerk’s office,
and Charles sent for. He soon made his
appearance, and to his great surprise
was confronted by his three wives, each
of them in tears, eagerly pressing for
ward to grasp him by the neck, and ex
change salutations of endearment. One
brought him choice apples; another took
from a basket some choice peaches ; while
the third forced upon him some sponge
and fruit cake, the produce of the Niles
wheat mixed by her own hands. After a
prolonged interview, Charles was again
sent to his hard work, and the trio of
widows took up their mournful march for
their several homes. The meeting had
been arranged by the Schuyler county
victim, who had made up her mind to
heap up coals of fire on the head of the
deceiver, by visitiDg him in the manner
described, and treating him with kind
ness, even though he had destroyed the
future happiness and welfare of estima
ble and worthy women.”
It will be seen, on referring to our tele
graphic head, that there is almost a cer
tainty that a great calamity has fallen
upon us and a wide social circle in this
city, in the loss, by an appalling disaster,
of F. A. Lumsden, the senior editor of
this journal, together with his wife and
only son.
Our dispatches are from well known
gentlemen, one of whom, Mr. Drake, of
the Tremont House, Chicago, informs us
mat he had visited the wreck of the ill
fated steamer, and that Mr. Lumsden and
his family are among tho lost. The As
sociated Press dispatch tells us that sev
enteen persons were saved, but gives no
names. There is a faint hope (we trem
ble as we reflect that it is so faint) that,
when we come to read the names of these
survivors of the heart rending disaster,
we may find that our friends are among
the number.
With this slender hope lingering in our
hearts, and with the effects of the stun
ning shock weighing upon our feeliDgs,
we cannot at present say more. Before
our next publication, beyond question,
all doubt will have been removed, and we
shall be able to speak with more certain
ty than is now in our power as to the full
extent of this terrible calamity.—A r . O.
Picayune.
Ttic Hon. Lewis Cass.
A correspondent of the New Orleans
Delta, who recently paid a friendly visit
to General Cass at his fine old mansion in
Detroit, speaks of him as follows :
“ We found the old gentleman in re
markably good condition, looking far bet
ter than when we last saw him, oppressed
by the cares of State and environed by
all the anxieties and annoyances of offi
cial station of the Federal capital. In
truth he looked twenty years younger
than he did in that little office in the State
Department. lie received us very cor
dially, and was quite gay and jolly, lie
said that he had been so long from
Washington that he had worn off the im
press of the yoke and the ‘chains of offi
cial dutjt and responsibility. Allusions
to our excursion and observations to the
Great West brought out the Geneial on
his favorite theme —the wonderful growth
of this region, of which he is the patri
arch. He related several incidents of his
early career, which greatly interested us
all—especially an account of his first visit
to Chicago, where he found but a single
white man at the then distant post—to
reach which he had to travel up the Illi
nois river in an Indian canoe. And this,
he said, occurred when he was not very
young man, as late, he thought, as 1824.
To us, who was full of wonder at the
magnificence, solidity, wealth and refine
ment of Chicago, such an incident could
not but be deeply interesting.”
The Prince of Wales.
Cobourg, Sept. 7.—Everything passed
off quietly here last night.. The Prince’s
carriage was drawn from the wharf to the
“ball room by fifty citizens. The ball was
successful, and the Prince expressed
himself delighted with his reception.
Toronto, Sept. 7.—The Prince left
Cobourg at 9J o’clock this morning for
Peterboro’. lie was accompanied from
the house of the Postmaster General to
the train by an immense crowd. Arriv
ing at Rice lake, he embarked on board a
small steamer and crossed over on the
north shore. The Misissaga tribe of In
dians had erected an arch, and an Indian
chief named Pandosh presented an ad
dress. The royal party resumed the
train, and proceeded to Peterboro’, where
they had a splended reception. From
Peterboro’ the royal suit returned by rail
to Port Hope, where they lunched in the
Town Hall. Thousands of people assem
bled, and all went off harmoniously and
with great enthusiasm. From Port Hope
to Whitby multitudes assembled at differ
ent stations, cheering, fireing salutes, &c.
At Whitby the royal party took a steamer
for Toronto, and arrived at 7 o’clock, and
landed immediately.
Death of ‘‘Gentleman George” Bar
rett.
Geo. 11. Barrett, the veteran of the
American stage, died in New l'ork on
Wednesday. He was born in Exeter,
England, in 1794, and in a few years
appeared at Boston as the infant child of
Cara, in “Pizarro.” At the age of twelve
he appeared as young Norvel, at tbe Old
Park Theatre, in New York. lie was
distinguished for his fine appearance and
manly beauty. In such parts as Charles
Surface, Rover, Y'oung Marlow and Bob
Handy, Mr. Barrett achieved a high
reputation, and was known by the soub
riquet of “Gentleman George.” At a
very early age he married a beautiful
actress attached to the same theatre
where he performed. For many years
Mrs. Barrett was considered the best high
comedy actress on the American stage.
She died at Boston four or five years ago.
In 1851 he made the tour of tbe country
with his daughter, Miss Georgiana Bar
rett, (now Mrs. Phillip Warren,) and soon
afterwards was compelled, by ill health,
to retire from the active duties of his
profession. Mr. Barrett mast be account
ed as the veteran of the American stage,
as it is now sixty-four years since he first
saw the foot-lights.
In Philadelphia, the other day, a mer
cantile firm advertised for a young man
in the counting-house. Though the sala
ry offered was but one hundred dollars a
year, during three days in which their ad
vertisement was in the paper they re
ceived no less than four hundred and
twelve applications for the situation, of
whom a large number were penned by ac
tual settlers of the city languishing for
want of employment.
Diamond Wedding.
Miss Ida Craig, daughter of D. H.
Craig, Esq., agent of the Associated
Press, was married on Tuesday last to
James B. Brown, Esq., of Peekskill, son
of one of the wealthiest residents of that
place. Rev. H. W. Beecher officiated,
and his son and his daughter were grooms
man and bridesmaid. The affair was a
brilliant one.— N. Y. Day Book, Sept. 7.
Further particulars of the Loss of
the Lady Elgin.
Chicago, Sept. B. —The Black Gagers,
Green Gagers, and several fire companies
of Milwaukie, who had been on a visit to
this city, were on board the ill fated stea
| mer.
The names of the saved are 11. G. Cla
vys, clerk; Fredrick Rice, steward; Ed
ward Westake, porter; Robert Gore,
Thomas Murphy, Thomas CunniDgham,
Michael Conner and John E. Hobart, of
Milwaukie ; Thomas Shae, Tim O’Bryan
W. A. Davis, and Millman Mills of Ohio;
Lyman, Updike, of W’aupan, and 11. In
graham, member of the Canadian Parlia
ment.
A son of the proprietor of the London
News is supposed to be lost.
Chicago, Sept. 9. —The Clerk ofthe’Lady
Elgin makes the following statement.
Left Chicago at 11.30 p. m., for Lake
Superior; among the passengers were
the Union Guard of Millwaukie, compos
ing part of a company of some 250 ex
cursionists from that city.
At 2.30 in the morning the schooner
Auguata, of Oswego, collided with the
Elgin, when about 10 miles from the
shore. She struck the steamer amid
ships the gangway on the larboard side.
The two vessels separated instantly—the
Augusta drifting by in the darkness.
At the moment of collision, music and
dancing were going on in the cabin of the
Elgin. In an instant after the crash all
was still, aud in a half an hour the stea
mer sunk. ,
I passed through the cabins, and
found tho ladies pale but silent. Not a
cry nor a shriek was heard. No sound
but the rush of steam and the surge of a
heavy sea. Whether the passengers were
not fully aware of their danger, orwheth
er their appalling situation made them
speechless, I cannot tell.
A boat was lowered at once with the
design of going round upon the starboard
side to examine the leak. There were
two oars belonging to the boat, but just
that moment some person possessed
himself of one of them and consequently
we were powerless to manage the boat.
We succeeded at once in reaching the
wheel, but quickly drifted away and were
thrown upon the beach at Winetka.
Only two boats were left on the steam
er. One of them contained 13 persons,
all of whom were saved. The other bore
8 persons, but only four of them reached
the shore alive, the other four being
drowned at tho beach.
Before I left the steamer the engine
had cease to work, the fires having been
extinguished. The force and direction
of the wind was such that the boat and
fragments of the wreck were driven up
the Lake and would reach the shore in
the vicinity of Winetka.
As I stood upon the beach hopelessly
looking back upon the route we had drif
ted, I could see in the grey morning ob
jects floating upon the water, and some
times I thought that I could distinguish
ed human being, struggling with the
waves.
(Signed.) 11. C. CLAVYS.
Capt. Malott, of tho schooner Augusta,
in his statement says, when he discover
ed the steamer’s lights, both red and
bright, he supposed her to be from a
quarter to a half mile distant, and steer
ing between North and Northeast. It
was raining very hard at the time, and
we kept our vessel on her course, East
by South, until we saw a collision proba
ble, when put helm hard up and struck
the steamer two or three minutes after
wards, just abaft the paddle box, on the
port side. The steamer kept on her
course, the engine being in full motion
and heading the Augusta around to the
North side of tho steamer. We got sepa
rated in about a minute, when the Au
gusta fell into a trough in the sea, and
all the head gear, the gib boom and
staunchers were carried away. We took
in sail and cleared away tho anchor, sup
posing the vessel would fill. After clear
ing up the wreck we got up the foresail.
We succeeded in getting before the wind
and stood for land. We lost sight of the
steamer five minutes after the collision.
Mr. Beeman, second mate of the Lady
Elgin, states that half-past two o’clock a
squall struck us. In five minutes more
we saw the lights of a vessel one point off
port bow. I sang out, “hard a port.”
The vessel seemed to pay no attention
and struck us, just forward ofthe paddle
box, on the larboard side, tearing off the
wheel, cutting through the guards into
the cabin and hull. We were steering
North-west by West, a point to the wind
ward. Our course was at th it time
North-west. After striking us, the ves
sel hung a moment and then got clear. —
I went below to see what damage was
done. When I got back the vessel was
gone.
When intelligence of the of the
steamer with the excursion party reached
Milwaukie yesterday, it spread like wild
fire throughout the city. The telegraph
office was thronged all day with the rela
tives and friends of those onboard, many
of whom were presented with dispatches
in tears, and the most intense anxiety and
excitement were manifested on the coun
tenance of all. In the first Ward of that
city it is said there was scarcely a house
or a place of business that had not lost
some inmate or employee.
All the survivors unite in according to
Capt. Jack Wilson, the commander, great
praise for his bravery and daring through
out. He was foremost in confronting
danger. He was drowned within an hun
dred feet of the shore. Nearly one hun
dred persons arrived within fifty yards of
the beach, but were swept back by re
turning waves and lost. Up to 9 o’clock
to-night, only 21 bodies were recovered,
most of whom have been recognized by
friends as residents of the Milwaukee.
A letter from Madrid gives the details
of a transaction that prove how strong an
animosity exists between the yress and
tho Spanish army. It appears that some
soldiers of the Borbon regiment were re
cently punished and so barbarously that
their sufferings terminated in death. The
Liberal paper, La Discusion, directed pub
lic attention to the severe and illegal pun
ishment the men had undergone ; and, as
a reply to the article, the editor, M. Riv
iera, who is also a member of the Cortes,
received from the colonel of
the regiment; he could not, he said, al
low a civilian to make any comments on
the conduct of military men. The duel
took place; and, as the colonel is an ex
pert shot, while M. Riviera has no skill
in the use of the pistol, the latter was
dangerously wounded. After the duel,
another officer, Col. Almella, came for
ward, avowed himself the author of the
article in question, reasserted the truth
of the statement, and in his turn chal
lenged the colonel of the Borbon regi
ment, but the authorities have interfered
and prevented the duel.
The Tobacco Crop.
The tobacco crop of the present year
will be a small one. In the Green river
district in Kentucky, where the largest
amount of shipping tobacco is raised, the
crop will not be more than half an aver
age, owing to a scarcity of plants in the
spring, and a two months drouth in the
summer. Late in the season as it now is,
the plants in the field are only half grown,
small and immature ; and the little that
may be will be of an indifferent
quality. From Tennessee we have but
few accounts; but as the drouth has
been severely felt in that State, too, the
prospect is, perhaps, no better. In Mis
souri, the crop has not suffered as much
as in Kentucky, bu 4 has suffered enough
to lessen the yield materially.— Louisville
Courier.
The value of the tobacco crop in Mas
sachusetts this year, it is said, will not
fall short of $200,000. The principal
i part of it is sold in Germany.
{NUMBER 22.
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ARRIVAL OF THE BOHEMIAN.
Farther Point, Sept. 11.— The steam
ship Bohemian has arrived with Liver
pool dates to August 81st.
Liverpool Cotton Market , Aug. 30. The
sales of the week reach 52,000 bales. The
lower qualities exhibit a declining ten
dency. Os the sales of cotton for the
week speculators took 3,000 bales and
exporters 11,000 bales. The following
were the authorized quotations:
Fair Orleans 7%d. I Mid. Orleans -CVsd.
“ Mobiles 7 and. I “ Mobiles A'd.
“ Uplands 6%d. | “ Uplands... 6 13-led.
The stock of cotton at Liverpool, was
1,088,200 bales, of which 906,000 bales
were American.
Latest by Telegraph to Ijondonerry—Liv
erpool, Friday, Aug. 31.—Sales of cotton
to-day 8,500 bales. The market closed
steady.
Liverpool General Market. —Breadstuff's
closed dull.
General News.— The steamship Arago
and Kangaroo had arrived at Liverpool.
The weather has been favorable for
crops.
The attempt to make Naples neutral
ground will probably be unsuccessful.
The Coventry strike has ended, the
weavers having accepted the employers,
terms.
Paris. Victor Emmanuel in his auto
graph letter to Napoleon, declares that it
is an impossibility to resist any longer
the current popular feeling in Italy.
The Great Eastern leaves for New York
on October 17th.
The latest advices from Naples says
that the Military Council advised the
King to leave the city, also the officers of
the army and navy have tendered their
resignation en masse to the King.
An Incident In Syria.
Just before the slaughter, Abu Monsoor,
one of the leading Protestants, a man of
faith and prayer, seeing that there was
no hope of escape, called out in a loud
voice to the assembly, composed of a few
Potestants, and multitudes of Greeks and
Maronites, saying something like the fol
lowing words :—“My dear brethren, the
time is short. The Druses are coming
upon us, and we are all going like sheep to
the slaughter. Death is before us, and
we shall soon leave this world and stand
before God. In whom will you trust ?
There is no Savior but Jesus Christ. Look
to him, call upon, trust in him, and he
will save. Repent and believe, and he
will not cast you olf. Let every one call
on the Lord Jesus, the Savior.” A great
multitude of them then called out with
him to Jesus Christ to save their souls,
as none could hope for escape from the
death of the body. Abu Monsoor, and
others of the Protestants, then continued,
and as Abu Monsoor was praying, he was
killed by the Druses, and literally hewed
to pieces. Many women were killed by
firing of the Druses, upon the promiscu
ous crowd, though the Druse leaders gave
orders that no woman or girl, or boy un
der ten years should be injured. The
dead bodies lay in heaps, and the few
who finally escaped as by miracle, con
cealed themselves under piles of the slain.
The steam carriage in which the Earl
of Caithness has been traveling in Scot
land, has in front all the appearance of
an ordinary open carriage, which can be
covered when required. It is mounted
on thiee wheels much after the fashion of
a perambulator, the front or guiding
wheel being fitted on a pivot below the
body'of the carriage, so as to be turned
by the steering handle in the direction
required. The wheels are of small di
ameter, and in width of rim are fully
double those of ordinary carriages. The
boiler and engine are behind, with a seat
for the stoker, whose occupation is not
much more cleanly than that of stokers
in general. The boiler may contain
from GO to 70 gallons of water, and re
quires to be replenished every hour, or
at about every ten mileß distance, as the
consumption of water is about a gallon
per minute on an average. The engine
is nine-horse power, and is so construc
ted that the boiler and engine together
occupy a very small space, only about
five feet or so of the length of the car
riage being thus taken up. The cost of
the whole is about two hundred pounds.
The consumption of coal is quite small,
about eight pounds per mile. No hin
drance is experienced, as was anticipa
ted, from the frightening of horses wtien
passing so unusual a vehicle. The fire is
entirely concealed from the view of an
animal approaching in front, and the top
of the smoke funnel only rises a little
above the heads of those seated in the
carriage, and is not by any means a
source of terror to our country nags.
Wllians’ Steamer.
On Saturday last, about noon, as we
were quietly seated beneath an umbrella
on the stern sheets of a boat anchored
near the buoy, in the Patapfeco, opposite
to Lacross, lazily fingering a line that we
had just thrown into the water, baited
with a shrimp, for the capture of some
foolish stray perch, our attention was
aroused by a quick and sharp puffing
similar to the Mississippi high pressure
steamboat, and turning to see what it
was, we saw coming right toward us,
Winans’ huge black whale looking mon
ster, on a trial trip, but before we could
prepare to get to get out of the way, we
saw it would pass outside of us, and we
drew in our line, sat still, and had a cap
ital opportunity to contemplate its move
ments. The hull has been lengthened
some 125 feet, we believe, and it now
makes quite a formidable appearance on
the water. It floated like a duck, and
obeyed the helm with the instantaneous
ness of the human will. As it came head
on towards us, several times during its
trial trip up and down the river, we had
a clear view of its propelling wheel. It
revolved with all the majesty of a huge
millwheel, right about the centre of the
hull, and so favorably set were the floats,
that it scarcely lifted the water at all on
the emerging side. There was some sen
sible irregularity at times in the revolu
tion of the propeller, evidently arising
from the cranks passing the dead points.
When they would turn her short round,
she slightly listed, but it was surprising
to see in what a short space she would go
round. On the stretch coming in, her
velocity was terrible, if one may so speak.
—Baltimore Patriot.
Leaden Burial Cases.
The exterior of more than 22,000 cof
fins in the church-vaults of London, and
the contents of a very large number, were
not long since examined by Mr. Walker
Lewis. The result of his researching
leads him to recommend that the use of
leaden burial cases be entirely discontin
ued. He says that nitrogen and carbonic
acid, holding animal matter in suspen
sion, steadily but quietly make their way
through the porse of the lead, and by the
same process to the open air, so that at
the end of fifty or a hundred years, noth
ing remains but a few dry bones, although
the coffins themselves are still uninjured.
Another authority, Mr. It. V. Tuson,
says that the substance obtained from
lead coffins, owing to the gradual decom
position of the bodies within them, is
carbonate of lead—that it is anhydrous,
contains but a small excess of oxyd, and
hence differs in composition from other
carbonates of lead. It was found during
the search of the remains of the celebra
ted John Hunter, in 1855, in the vaults
of St. Martin’s-in-the-fields, that many
leaden coffins had been converted interi
orly into this substance, leaving only a
thin outer plate of foil of lead.
A line of steamers is to be run between
Boston and New Orleans. Two ships, of
over 22000 tons burthen each, are now
being built for this pioneer line, and one
of them will be ready for her first voyage
in January next.
Two Swallow*,
In looking about for a place to build
j their nestp, discovered a cosy little nook
; in the rear part of the cabin of the stea*
mer Young America, which was lying
moored to the old hulk at the corner of
K. street, and forthwith commenced their
labors; the female flying to and fro, car
rying straws, sticks and feathers, and the
mail bird, standing like a master-work
man, overseeing the job, and lending his
aid in placing and completing their tiny
homestead. The first day saw the foun
i dation of their home well laid, and the
i happy birds rested from their labors that
| night, and finished it, perhaps jn their
dreams. The next morning, bright and
early, they were again at work as busy
as nailers ; but, alas ! the hour of seven
came, the steamer’s whistle sounded, and
away went the steamer, nest and all,
en route for Marysville. The |frightened
birds chirped, chattered, and flew back
and forth, but the captain never heeded
their cry. On went the boat and away
went their new-made home. It was a
clear case of squatterism, but they were
sensible birds, aed knew they would be
“plucked” if they went to law, so they
quietly submitted to their hard fate, and
after following the steamer as far as the
Sacramento bridge, they returned to the
old hulk. That was a sad day for the
little couple, and what thoughts crowded
on their little hearts lie only knows who
‘‘holds the sparrows up.”
The next day came, and with it they
saw the steamer come back to the landing,
and the nest they had partly built still
undisturbed. With merry chirpings of
delight they began again their task, only
to be again unfinished on the morrow by
the departure of the steamer, and glad*
dened on the succeeding day by its re
turn. Thus it has continued with them
for nearly a fortnight, and the nest is not
yet completed. They are kept in a con
stant flutter of hope and fear, and la
bor and loss; but they do not despair, nor
have they sought another and more ee
curo place for domicil. But
strange to say, they have actually learned
to recognize the steamer, and watch for
her coming, and meet her at the bridge
above the city, to welcome her back to
her old moorings. How it will be when
the nest is finished and the eggs are laid
and the time comes for the regular trips
whether the mother will cling to the
homestead and take the voyage to Marys
ville, and the father accompany her,
traveling backward and forward as dead
heads—or whether theirs will be “bro
ken up” by the “ irrepressible” divorce
and desertion, ae hundreds of other fami
lies have been in California we shall
wait to see, — California Bee.
Nbvel Scene-Lady Godlva In New
York.
About 11 o’clock yesterday, the inhab
itants of Sixteenth street were thrown
into a state of excitement, and enlivened
by the appearance of a young woman
(supposed to be from the greenest of isles)
in a state of nudity. It appears she had
taken it into her wise head (probably
under the influence of the “crater”) to
divest herself to her clothing and have a
plunge into the Hudson. While luxuri
ating in the liquid stream, some mis
chievous urchins pounced upon her cloth
ing and bore them off in triumph. Nothing
daunted, she emerged from her bath, and
boldly faced the scoffs jibes of this
heartless world. How far she had tra
versed Sixteenth street, the writer doth
not know, but when seen by him, she was
near the Eighth avenue, with little more
than a fig leaf to screen her; that is to
say, she had put an apron to cover her,
that some good Samaritan had supplied
her with on the road. Ultimately, a
smiling policeman took her in tow, amid
the smiles of the men, the laughter of the
woman, and the screams of the children.
Neither the sympathy of the men nor the
modesty of the women, however, appear
to have been excited to the pitch of be
stowing on her an old garment of any
kind, and in this state she was led off to
the police station.
• A man named Peter C. Buckley was
arrested in Washington, Ga., on Monday
last, while attempting to send off a negro
boy in the employ of Messrs. Maxwell,
tinners, of that place. The Washington
Independent says:
The boy belongs to a Mr. Holbrook, of
Athens, and told his employers he wished
to go home a few days when he would
return, but said nothing about wanting a
pass.
This Mr. Buckley met the boy at the
depot, and getting pen, ink and paper
from the agent, wrote the boy a pass to
Augusta and back to Athens, then buyß a
ticket for himself to Union Point, and a
half ticket to Augusta which he gave to
the boy. All this was seen by persons
on the look out. Mr. Buckly after he
had made all these arrangements was im
mediately arrested, also the boy and an
other boy, a barber—the trio having
been seen intimately together several
times. They were are all brought be
fore the Justice of the Inferior Court,
and the white man and Mr. Holbrook’s
boy committed to jail—the former to
await his trial at the ensuing court and
the latter secured till his master would
relieve him. The barber was liberated.
There are several opinions among our
citizens as to what disposal the criminal
intended to make of the boy.
Tile Floyd Gun.
A correspondent of the New York
Times writes from Old Point Comfort
(Va.) that on Tuesday last the great
“Floyd Gun” was fired for the first time.
“The first shell, weighing3oo pounds,
was thrown fifteen hundred and forty
yards at an aDgle of five degrees—and
striking the sand, bounced seven hundred
and fifty yards further. The charge of
powder was twenty pounds. The sec
ond shell, weighing 328 pounds, was
thrown something upwards of four miles
on the water, at an angle of forty degrees,
and with a charge of twenty-five pounds
of powder. The powder with which this
gun is fired, is in grains of about one inch
cube. The report is not so loud as that
made by the ten-inch guns on the ram
parts, but the whistling of the shell
through the air is terrific. The shell
thrown upon the water was forty-two sec
onds in the air before striking. The
‘Floyd Gun’ is pronounced a success, and
there seems to be no doubt it will reach a
range of six or eight miles. It weighs
49, 099 pounds, and cost in its casting
SIO,OOO. _
Singular Effect of Smelling at a
Bottle.
A laughable incident occurred on Sat
urday night between two gentlemen who
visited Cape May, in company with a
number of excursionists, who reside in
the lower part of the city. Drinks had
been often taken by the two gentlemen
referred to —in fact, the entire party had
not been backward in smelling at a cer
tain black bottle—and about twelve
o’clock the gentlemen were seen with a
fence between them, and a bottle passing
to and fro. As soon as the liquor was
exhausted, one gentleman proposed that
they should go to a neighboring tavern
and finish the night. The proposition
being agreed to, each commenced to get
over the fence at the same time, and to
their surprise they found, on touching the
ground, that the fence still separated
them. The same experiment was repeat
ed several times, until one of the men fell
to the ground, where he remained until
the other stumbled upon the right side.
A Monster Press.
The Scientific American thus describes
a monster steam press, upon which Moses
S. Beach, who has just retired from the
New York Sun, is at work :
He is even now just completing the
construction of a monster steam printing
press, by which the sheets are cut from,
rolls, dampened, printed upon both sides,
at the rate of forty thousand impressions
an hour, folded up, counted and delivered
from the maohinc, ready for the carrier
and the mail. This machine is as high
as a common two story country dwelling
house ; and it will, when finished—if the
expectations of its inventor are ralized
—constitute a most extraordinary speci
men of mechanical skill and Ingenuity.
! * \
Remedy for a Felon.
Cut a hole in a lemon and wear it on
the finger over the felon, like a thimble.
So says an exchange.