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I From the Macon Tele graph.\
The Law of Nations.
There is no tyranny so oppressive as the ty
ranny of Cast. There’are certain set phrases
which to a large class of men seem more sacred
than religion itself; and there are those who
would sooner overturn a government, than deny
an old formula of the schoolmen. Many of these
phrases have no precise meaning, and no real in
p fluence upon events; but they have passed into
proverbs; they have acquired the precious fl vor
2 of antiquity; they are heard with a reverence
which precludes reflection ; and wo! wo unto
—him, who ventures to dispute one of these hoary
and venerable maxims! The old and yeung
Fogies are horror stricken. They fly hither and
thither, fluttering and moaning and clucking , like
barn yard fowls when they see, or lancy that
they see, the shadow ot a hawk. Some of them
consider the doubt dangerous—others consider it
absurd, but all agree that it is im ious in the ex
treme. They imagine that the established or
s der of things is in learlul jeopardy. They con
clude that the machinery ot the Universe is out
of gear in some very important particular They
j laugh the short, wheezy, asthmatic laugh ot emp-
Y ty self-couceit, whenever they encounter this
ftm Doubt, this dangerous, speculative, agrarian, re
volutionary Doubt; they fire a volley of pooh-
$ at it whenever they meet it; they pucker
their wise brows into a thousand supercilious
wrinkles; they lift up their hands in utter aston
ishment, that any oid dogma of the schools, a
real venerable ancient of a dogma, should be
thus questioned as to his legitimacy,and plucked
by his long and silver beard. Such men are per
fect slaves te the authority ot great names, or
names which they happen to consider great.—
They give to authority a weight which belongs
properly to pure demonstration only. They con
sider a quotation troin some oracular 6age more
conclusive than a logical syllogism, and they es
them it rather agrarian than otherwise when any
one ventures to dispute any proposition Irom
” high places.
Wow, it is our opinion that all men are fallible.
We do not consider a good name a good argu
ment, and whenever we hear a maxim which
seems to us contiovertible, we shall proceed to
controvert it, to the best of our ability, it it has
a thousand names to strengthen arid a thousand
years to sanctify it. Therelore, despute the slut
ter which our recent articles upon ibe law of na
tions have created among the lossil remains ot
Fogydom, we shall not be deteired liom main
taining what seems to us to be the true side ol
the question.
We repeat that the law of nations is nothing
more nor less tnan a collection of piectdents. and
that au act is said tj be contraiy or according to
it, just as it hu opens to sgiee or disagree with
the current piactice ot the world Other than
this, there u no such thing as the law oi nations.
It is a political m> th—a legend ot the > choois—a
mere fiction ol the bookworms, which never has
and never will exercise any important influence
upon the history ot the world. The only law
which evei governed any nation is the law of
inteiest, and for the suppoit ot the assertion, we
reier not to black letter commentaries, but to the
experience ol mankind, and to history every
where. Show us a nation which has ever been
great and powertul, and we will show you one
which has trampled under loot all the inopera
tive maxims which constitute the so called pub
lic law. That is our proof, and it is accessible
to any man who will read the history ot any
government, trorn that ot Abrabacn down to that
ot Nicholas, Autocrat of all the Russias.
Let us revert to first principles. What is law?
It is u rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme
power of a State cor 7 minding what is right and pro
hibiting what is wrong. Tnat ts ttie definition of
Black stone, and a moment’s reflection will teach
us that under this definition, there is no such
thing as a law of nations. For,first, there must
be a rule , and a rule must be certain and unilorm;
and seiond there must be a superior power, which
has the acknowledged right to prescribe that
rule. Now, nations are sovereigns. They ac
knowledge no superior. They recognize no judge
ns between them, each holding itseii supreme.
And it is thus, that it becomes apparent that this
law of nations, can have no existence except by
sufferance and sufferance only.
** Ag»in: of what parts may law be said to
consist ? The lawyers say that it consists of the
declaratory , the directory, the remedial, and the vin
dicatory. Ol these elements, the so called law of
nations possesses the firs only. Grotius, Putfen
dort, and Vatteli declare a law, and so may any
body else. But the question then aiises, to what
does the declaration amount. The law is noth
ing unless it has the power to direct —means to
provide the remedy when it is disregarded—and
authority to punish, to vindicate itself, when bro
ken. And to do this there must be a superior,
*nd a superior who is acknowledged and obeyed.
Where is that superior as applied to nations.—
They acknowledge no master—they recognize
the decree of no earthly Court—besides God,they
bow to no superior. Os tohafc practical, real val
ue, can be these ponderous tomes? They con
tain good maxims—noble maxims—maxims
which ought to be followed, in many instances.
But they have no right to the appellation ot law.
The men who framed them hai no legislative
power, and the remedial and vindicatory elements
are,_pf consequence, altogether wanting. Na-
make their own laws, and it they profess to
pegoverned by the dogmas of the commentators,
they take marvellous good care to interpret them
to suit themselves.
When we speak of the law of a single nation,
we car. form a intelligible idea of its nature. It
is enacted by a power whi h is acknowledge ).
It is enforced by an authority which is recog
fcfized. it provides means to sustain and vindi
cate itself. It it is broken we know where to
go"for 4;be remedy, and if it is doubtful, we have
Courts hose decrees we yield obedience.
But when we begin to speak of the laics of na
tions as extended equally over all, we at once en
counter difficulties. In the first place this ‘7am”
is not uniform—next, it has no officers to exe
_ cute it, and, worse than either, it has no Courts
to decide it. There it is on the books, to be
sure. It is ; lainly printed and the letters are
*Bl large enough, cer airily. Obey it, and you do
well. Disobey, it, and what happens? Are
there any Courts to interfere ? any officers to ar
rest? any executioners to punish. Not at all.
A nation is said to b every naughty , ilit overrides
the wise saws of the schoolmen, and there the
% * matter ends. And yet a code made without au
thority, and having no tntans of enforcement, is
called the law of nations! With what effect, let
history answer. When did it save the weak
from the grasp of the strong, or the strong from
§ the duplicity of the weak? When did it hold
back the hero in full armor, when did it embar
rass the politic and ambitious statesman? But it
may be said, that Heaven avenges the broken
law. It is not our province to go into that dis
cussion We are speaking of human agencies
and human laws; and we defy any body to dis
~y prove what we have asserted.
The truth of our statement is evident from the
cvry nature of thing*; and so puzzled have the
m writers upon this su ject been, that no two of
them a*ree in the definition ol the law of nations.
They define it almost as variously as govern-
P merits interpret it. Justinian say? that it is the
"law of nature ” Grotius, that it is “a system es
tablished by the common consent of nutions ” Puf
feodoif dirt not think th t this "consent of man
kind is the basis of obligation but still blended
tbe law of nations with the law of nature. Vat teli
congratulates Baron '.Volt on giving a better de
finition than Puffendort and then congratulates
[ himself having a better idea than that of
c Wolf And so it goes. Erch man defining it
for himse f. declaring it for himself, and each
f man having the equal right to do so. Itisobvious
that there can be Is ttie unitormity in the rules
laid down, whee any writer feels himself at
liberty to resolve himself into a legislative pow
jw to lay down laws lor all mankind.
These remarks will seem to many to embody
new doctrine, but while we simply state proj>o
aitloas, the nations of tbe earth have been acting
them out for five thousand years. Nor will they
I Appear novel to those who have at all studied the
KfslfwfrW* for the most eminent an-hors on the law
f v s nations show themselves pertectly conscious
Y if the objections we have named. It is only to
those who are slaves to set phrases, that this arti
g!« will revolutionary in its tenets.
But as such men yield to quotation an assent
which they refuse to abstract reasoning , for their
sake we will sustain ourselves with authority.
First as to the sources of tbe law. They are
“ -acknowledged to be of three descrip
tions. First, the long and ordinary practice of
nations which affords evidence ot general custom
tacitly agreed to t>~ observed until expressly abro
gated. Second, Re, tals of what is acknowledg
ed to have been the law or practice of nations.
Th'rdly, the Writings of eminent author, who
have long, as it were by concurrence of testimony
and opinion, declared what is the existing inter
national jurisprudence.”
This extract is from Chitty’s edition of VattOi,
and of itself is enough to prove that the law of
nations is a mere collection of precedents; and,
not that the precedents illustrate the law; but
they are the.la w. For by this very extract, it ap
pears that when the practice is abrogated, the law
changes. But again:
“■ A great part of the low of nations
stands on the usage and practice of nations and on
no other foundation; it is introduced by general
principles, but it travels with them only to a cer
tain extent; and if it stops there, you are not at
liberty to go farther,”
These are the remarke of Sir William Scott,
as eminent authority as any.
Will any man say that, that is law in the cus
tomary sense ot the word, which ceases to be
binding when a party gives notice that he no
longer intends to regard it? and yet Chitty says :
“ It seems that most nations agree that
twenty years uninterrupted usage it sufficient to
sustain the same. There must be a reasonable
notification, in point ol time, of the intent r.ot
to be bound by the customary law.”
In other wordi, twenty years custom makes
tbe law, and ?. reasonable notification gives the
right to change it. We ask again, is that law in
the usual sense?
Chitty says again in relerence to treaties:
“ In these cases the treaty between the
two contracting powers either afters or expressly
declares the law of nations and binds each.”
That it may well do, but can that be called a
law of nations with any propriety, which any
two States can alter or declare?
The objection which we have made is fully
recognized in the notes to Vattel.
The difficulty is there is tio general
modern international code, * * * and it wiil
be lound that; in genfeial, the sovereign of each
State, who has tbe power of declaring war, has
as an incident the sole power ot deciding upon
questions ot capture, booty, prize and hostile sei
zure.”
A pretty description of law truly, where it is
interpreted differently in a dozen different ports !
But the lack ot uniformity is leit not only in the
admiralty iaws, bu* in other most important par
ticulars. 1 hus, Lord Mansfield, under the law
ol nations as laid down by eminent authors, de
rived the right to “search lor and seize enemies
property on board neutral ships in case of war.”
Lord Mansfield having found that this was the
law, Chitty seems to hyve considered it a closed
question. But it s _.appened that America
opened it, in the face of Mansfield, the law ot na
tions, and all the eminent Authors who ever
drew a goose quill. In the same way, Chitty
seems to think that there can lie no doubt, that
“ allegiance ” i« something Irom which a nr;an
“can nut by any act of his own emancipate himself .”
And yet the United States, true to its revolution
ary instincts, flies in the lace ot this most vener
able dogma on every possible occasion.
So much foi the uniformity of the law of nations.
But all these objections nave been apparent to
the commentators themselves. They seem to
have agreed that the law of nations is chiefly
theory, which ought to be practiced; and accor
dingly they blend it with the law of conscience,
and take the appeal to Heaven, conscious that
there is little chance for it here below. We do
not say that their maxims are not good. They
are good just as those maxims were good, which
Plato laid down for his Model Republic, and Sir
Philip Sydney for the government of his Area- !
dia. It men would obey them, it were well; !
but it by no means follows that whatever ought j
to be, ot necessity, is. The world is not compos- \
ed ot shepherds and shepherdesses, but of avari- i
cious, grasping men, who would be sadly out of |
place in Arcadia, ana who, we fear, rarely obey \
the subpoena which calls them into the Court ol !
Conscience. It may be unpleasant and it may !
be distressing, but the fact remains. The law of
nations is as yet a mere project, unfulfilled, and
disregarded by the world at large. It lacks all
the essential elements. It has not the sanction
of an adequate legislature, nor the su; port of a re
cognized judiciary. It is a pious attempt of the
schoolmen to tie giants down with ropes of sand.
Wherefore, we say that this hue aud cry,
raised against the men who lavor a Cuban Rev
olution, is Cant, begotten of set phrases and old
formulas. We mean to say that it is Cant, sojlar
as concerns the Law of Nations, which has for
its chiel basis, custom and precedent.
Well, has it b-en said, that public < p'nion is
a Snob, and History the Grand Scribe of the Or
der of Snobs. Success makes the hero—the
w’ant of it the felon. The conqueror, we load
with laurels: him, who fails, we cover with
curses.
Had Brutus missed his mark, we had been
taught to class him with assassins. But as his
dagger went straight to the heart of Caesar, hon
or has been wedded to his name. Had Wash
ington made a failure, he would have come
down to posterity side by side with Jack Cade :
his apotheosis would have been made from the
scaffold, and a curse composed his epitaph. Lo
pez is called, by turns, a madman or a pirate.—
But had success smiled upon the enterprise, pub
licopinion, long before this, wou'd have raised
him an obelisk, and covered it with complimen
tary inscriptions.
Alexander was a successful Fillibuster, and
we call him great. The Legions oi Caesar over
ran Gaul and Britain, and he ranks with Demi-
Gods. The French King conquered Europe,
and obsequious History calls him Charlemagne.
Pizarro and Cortez, .were mighty Fillibustcrs,
and success has thrown a glorious halo, even
over those Spanish Butchers.
England is powerful, and we call her the most
respectable nation in Europe. By a succession
of grand filibustering movements, e took Ire
land, colonized America, acquired India, and
gained a foothold in the Celestial Empire ! Are
we to be told that the Law of Nations has held
her back? Let these facts answer.
It is idle to deny that we hold possession as
Filtibusterß. God gave the country to the Indi
an. It was a fine country, we wanted it, we
were strong, we took it. It is useless to strug
gle against the truth. True to the law of na
ture, and true to the custom of civilized nations
too , we did all this, and it is a poor excuse to
make, that we were strong, and they were weak
—that they were savage, and we were civilized.
It it is contrary to the Law of Nations to attack
a civilized government, the crime is blacker
when we encroach upon the helpless. We do
not mean to denounce our forelathers a9 pirates
and robbeis: but they who prate so much about
the Law of Nations, as being something more
than a collection of precedents, are obliged to
come to that conclusion.
But there is a case yet more in point. Hard
ly two hundred years ago, the English people
became restless. They wanted change: they
wanted revolution ; and William ol Orange cross
ed the sea and gave it to them. The Dutch
Prince entered the country, expelled the Stuarts,
and took the throne. Was he a pirate? Was
he a Robber? Let History answer—History
which calls him the great Prince of Orange, the
Defender of Pro estant Europe, and the Saviour
of English liberties ?
Again, the nations of Europe considered the
government of Bonaparte detrimental to their
interests. They matched to Paris, deposed a
dynasty, and gave away the Empire ! It you ask
tor their justification, they say that their safety,
their interest demanded the interference. The
justification is a good one, and embodies the on
ly law which ever governed nations, from the
time of the Patriarchs to the present. It wan
for their interest . and they did it.
But why go to Europe for instances, when
our o*n history is full of them. America want
ed Revolution. France was at peace with Eng
land. Lafayette stole away from his native
coast, and came to bleed at Brandywine and to
fight at Monmouth. Kosciusko came to devote
his sword of freedom. Pulaski met death at
Savannah. D Kalb and Steuben came to train
our armies. Were they Pirates? Were they
Robbers? We have raised monuments to them
all. They did not need them : their fame was
ftt'l without them; but we raised them to per
petuate the memory of our gratitude.
By what right do we stigmatize Crittenden
and his companions ? By what rule of reason,
do we rear temples to Layiayette, and deny even
a frimdly tear to the memory ot those who
died in Cub* ? The difference in the result
made the difference in our judgment. History
and public opinion, p'aying the Parasite and
tbe Toady, heaps favors on those who succeed,
and has nothing but sneers for those who faij.
If it is said that filibustering is contrary to the
law of conscience, or contrary to the law of the
United States, there may be virtue in the objec
tion. But to say that the custom of civilized
countries condemns these men, is Cant. History
is crowded with such instances as we have enu
merated, and the last century is as full of them
as any. We will not apply to tbe Cuban Revo
lutionists rules which do not extend to all. We
will not hold them to a stricter account than the
world holds others. We will not demand of,
them a rigid observance of tenets which ai* na
tions have disregarded. If Crittenden wa3 a Pirate
so was Lafayette. If William 111, deserves honor
for driving out an hereditary tyrant, Lopez de
serves the same for making the attempt.
We repeat that the law of interest is the su
preme law of nations. We do not try to justify
it; we only assert a proposition written on
every page of history. No man can fail to see
it, unless he shuts his eyes.
The Filibusters may be engaged in an enterprise
contrary to our law. If so, they should be watch
ed and guarded against by the proper authorities.
But even if they are, we will not agree that they
are Pirates and Robbers. There are among
them as gallant men, as ever shed blood in a
righteous cause ; men who have testified their
devotion to the United States in time of war,
men who love liberty, and are willing to risk life
in her behalf; men who are to the full, as brave
and henorable and high minded as the best of
those who denounce them. We would much
prefer the government itself would take the Isl
and ; and it is for that reason, that we oppose
the filibustering movement. The stake is too
important to be left to the chances of individual
enterprise. But if the United States were to
take possession to-morrow, they could justify
the deed in the face of all Europe—the law of
nations to the contrary notwitstanding.
“He that hath ears to hear, let him hear !
Tbe genius ol your country beckons to you from
the summit of the Cordilleras—woos you in the
balmy airs of the Pacific—sighs to you out of the
palm-groves of the Antilles, as chained Andro
meda sighed for her deliverer. Aye, and Oppor
tunity,too, a winged horse of Perseus, saddled and
bitted, comes bounding by;—miss it, and you
may sit long helpless by the wayside ; but seize
the steed, mount, and ride victoriously, and the
sounding corridors of Time si all long echo the
clang ol your trampling hoofs, and the pages of
history shall gleam and glow forever with the
pomp ot your pre destined march.”
So says John Mitchell in a late oration ; and
so say we.
{From the Mont. Advertiser Gazette , 1 Ith inst.\
Supreme Court.
J uly, 7, J 854.
In the case of St. John,' Powers & Co. vs. The
Bank ot St. Mary’s, J. S Winter & Co , et al.,
from ihe Chancery Cour of Mobile, tbe decree
ot the Chancellor has been affirmed; Justice
Ligon delivering the opinion oi the Court.
This decision settles the following points,
among others:
That the bill was properly filed against the
Bank, John G. Wiu er and Jose h S. Winter,
both under the ordinary powers of the Chancery
Court and under the attachment law of 1846.
That John G. Winter was estopped from de
nying his residence in Georgia, having held him
self out to the world as the President of the Bank,
whose charter required that a l its directors
should be resident citizens ot Georgia.
That the substitution of George W. Winter’s
draft on Holcombe for the notes of the Bank
which Henley held, was not a payment of the
debt, and did not discharge the liability of the
Bank.
That the having appeared by counsel
in the Court below, and made motions in the
cause, could not be heard to complain, on error,
ot any irregularities in the order of publication
and decree pro confesso against it.
That the conduct of the directors of the Bank
j in allowing the stockholders to withdraw the
| amount of their subscriptions from its vaults, and
| in permitting John G. Winter and J. S. Winter
1 & Co., to use its funds without security, in their
j own private business, was a fraud upon thecredi
| tors of the Bank, and rendered not only the direc
| tors liable for the sums thus fraudently with
; drawn, but also each agent of the Bank who
i participated in it, in his individual capacity for
so much of said sums as could be traced to his
hands.
Thai John G. and Joseph S. Winter are liablg,
individually, for the full amount ot the notes of
the Bank which they issued and put in circula
tion in this State ; and that the firm of J. S.
Winter & Co., is equally liable.
That the extension by the Bank, when on the
eve of insolvency, of Joseph S. Winter’s indebt
edness to it, was a fraud on its creditors.
ThatMolton and Fariey were not necessary to
the bill.
Thai John G. Winter’s stock in the Central
Plank Road might be attached and sold in the
case.
That the defendants could not be heard to
complain that the Chancellor rendered hisdecree
in vacation, inasmuch as this was done with the
consent and at the request of their Solicitor.
Valley Railroad Report. —We are indebt
ed to Mr Blackwood of the Hamburg Bank for
a neat copy of this Report, with a well prepar
ed Map ol the Valley Route attached. It is a
concise paper, indicative of the good taste and
practical sense of its author, Chief Engineer
F. C. Arms.
There will be required (if the Depot is loca
i ted on the river) some 7000 feet ot low trestle
, work near Hamburg. Going up from Hamburg,
i the line follows the banks oi the Savannah to
the mouth of Stevens’ Creek, a distance of 8
miles. “This portion of the Road,” says the
report, “ will be expensive, the greater part ot
the excavations being of rock, &c.” The Road
will then take the ridge between the river and
the Creek in tbe direction of Dorn’s mines.
1 Eleven miles of it will be heavy work. The
remaining distance to the “ Mines” will be com
| paratively easy of accomplishment. From
Dorn’s, the line pursues nearly a North course
| to the neighborhood of Lowndesville, where it
bears slightly to the left to reach the village of
Anderson.
The total of the experimental line from Ham
: burg to Anderson C. H. is ninety three and a
: half miles. But this distance on location can be
reduced to 92 miles. The total cost of the
Road (to be first rate in all its parts) is put down
jat $1,811,270,00. This estimate is made at
! prices within which it is confidently believed that
the Road can be built. To the high credit of
land owners upon the route, the right of way,
almost without exception , will be given free of
charge.
The line recommended will vary only 8 miles
from an air line. The distance between Ander
son and Charleston by this Road will be 28
miles shoiter than by the Greenville & Colum
bia Road.
' Mr. Arms speaks in high terms of the pros
pects ot the Yfoliey Road’s complete success if
economically built and with sufficient capital.
The Report, as a whole, is highly encouraging
to tbe Valley Company, and will doubtless re
-1 kindle their enthusia in in the cause. It may
expected that they will again put their shoul
ders to the wheels of progress, to stop not until
! they have attained their object. That they may
succeed beyond the most sanguine anticipations is
1 to be desired by us all.— Edgefield Adv., 13 inst.
Liquor Law Unconstitutional.— We learn
from a passenger on last evening’s train, that
Chief Justice Corwin has decided that tbe Li
quor Law passed by the last Legislature is un
constitutional. Under which decision, several
persons confined in the Champaign country jail,
lor vioiatiug provisions of said law, were reieas
-1 ed from confinement.— Ohio Statesman.
A Freak of Nature.— The Kinderhook,
( Rough Notes has been shown a stalk of the
i spotted tiger lily from the garden of a resident
ot this village, formed by the consolidation of
i twelve single stalks, bearing twenty-five full
grown lilies, the whole forming a natnral and
■ beautiful boquet of twenty-four inches in eir
s cumference.
! Mr. Braham, the once great singer and compo
; ser of war songs, and who, though tbove ninety
t years of age, may be seen walking with won
> dertul alacrity about town, wearing magnificent
curls, and a superior black moustache, which
i give him the air of a man of a vigorous fifty
. years—is taui to declare that he will even now
find voice to deliver himself of an appropriate
“carmen triumphale” ou the taking of Cron
, stadt.
i Clark Mills, it is stated, has received an order
: for an equestrian statue ot General Jackson, to
be place in Jackson square, New Orleans. Mr.
Mills is to receive lor the statue the munificent
, sum of thirty-eight thousand dollars.
AUGUSTA, GA. j
SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 1571854. '
The Charleston Courier says, the Rev. Dr.
Piggotfc, of Baltimore, the father, we believe, of
T. S. Piggott, Esq., the telegraphic agent in
Columbia of the New York Associated Press,
has perfected certain improvements in the Geo
graphical and Celestial Globe, which will in
crease its practical usefulness very greatly. It
may properly be called a terrestrio-celestial
Globe. The terrestrial globe is indented with
the lines of latitude and longitude, with the out
lines of the surface of the earth, as well as for the
Colures, Ecliptic, &c. All the constellations are
represented by metallic stars, varying in size,
and arranged in their natural order, according to
the relative proportions of the planetary system.
The Globe is thus a convaco-convex sphere, or
two hemispheres, shutting on .each other as a
globular box. The inner concave is the celestial
globe. These globes can be prepared in segmen
tal spheres of any dimensions. They will ad
mit of the utmost precision lor the purposes of
practical advantages.
An Excellent Society.— A Society has for
some time existed in New York, under the title
of the “ Prison Association.” It was organized
uuder a legislative charter, and possesses great
facilities for the investigation of prison abuses,
and the alleviation of prison miseries. During
the past year this Society assisted no less than
one nundred and thirty-eight discharged convicts,
and enabled them to regain position arxf charac
ter. Besides giving their attention to claims of
this nature, the agents are accus'omed to visit
systematically, the various city prisons and
houses of detention, for the purpose of discover
ing and aiding those who have been arrested on
suspicion, or, through the malicious procurement
of designing enemies, have become inmates of
these abodes of the vicious. Many such have
been assisted in obtaining their discharge during
the year, and restored to their friends and to so
ciety.
Prof W. T. Brantly. —We are really grati
fied to learn,(saysthejAthens Bannerol the 13th
inst.,) that Protessor Brantly has withdrawn his
resignation ,and will continue his duties as Pro
fessor of Oratory and Belles Lettres in the Uni
versity of Georgia. This announcement will
be received with pleasure by our citizens and the
friends of the College everywhere.
It is rumored, also, that Prof. MeCay is desi
rous of returning to his old place in the institu
tion. We do not, however, attach much impor
tance to the rumor, but merely give it lor vvba*
it is worth.
John Morissey, the prize fighter, who was
lately taken on to Massachusetts, to answer for
being engaged in the fight with Yankee Sullivan,
has plead’guilty, and.been fined $1,200 and costs,
and in default of payment committed. The fine
and costs are to be paid within seven days, or
he will be imprisoned for sixteen months. It is
said the necessary amount was sent from New
York on Sunday last. Sullivan, it will be re
collected, forfeited his bail ot $1,500.
Tiik Wool Trade. —The Washington (Pa )
Reporter states that the clip of wool in that coun
ty, this season, is large, and that full one third
of last year’s crop is still on hand. Some very
good clips have sold at 40 cents, and none over
45 cents per lb. The Reporter is of opinion that
the bulk of the wool in that county will be sold
at from 40 to 50 cents per lb. The market,
however, is du'l, with no prospect of last year’s
prices being realized.
The Domestic Trade of Boston. —The
Boston Transcript claims that the domestic trade
of that city amounts to more than the foreign
imports and exports of New York. The
tered tonnage of Boston is increasing in a more
rapid ratio than that of Aew York, and the dif
ference of 271,000 tons will be nearly one-half
overcome the present year, by the large fleet
of ships now building for Boston account. As
regards ship building, Boston 4he present year
will show more tons built than New York. The
rest of the article is in the same vein, tending to
show that Boston is nearly equal to New York
in everything, and the great centre of the domes
tic goods trade of this country.
The President has appointed, by and with the
consent of the Senate, John McKeon, of New
York, to be Attorney of the United States for
the Southern Distict of New York, in the place
of Charles O’Con nor,resigned, to take effect 20th
July, 1854; and Chailes L. Weller, of California,
in place of Thomas J. Henley, resigned, to take
effect Ist August, 1854.
The Government of the United States have
purchased about three acres ‘of shore-ground on
Staten Island, adjoining the Light House proper
ty, for $12,000. It was deemed important to
possess this property for the purpose, if need be,
of extending the fortifications.
Progress of the Cholera. —A private dis
patch, received at Cincinnati from a gentleman
of St. Louis, states that in that city the cholera
was raging as an epidemic, the deaths reaching
as high as 80 per day. The official reports show
that for the week ending the 3d inst., there were
207 cholera deaths there. The disease has also
broken out in the Lunatic Asylum, near Cincin
nati, and four deaths have taken place.
In the course of a speech recently made at
Pittsburg by Mr. Hampton, he stated the agricul
tural resources of the country at length: 100,- |
503,899 bushels of wheat had been raised in !
1850 ; that $150,000,000 was invested in agri- !
cultural implements, and $14,000,000 of that I
amount was invested in Pennsylvania. There
are six million acres ot cleared land, and eight
million acrces unimproved land in Pennsylvania
, worth $407,875,099.
The Origin of the Know-Nothings. —The
Smasher says, the order w T as instituted in the
garden of Eden, under the auspices of the first
woman, assisted by that other fellow, who took
upon himself the form of a pizen sarpent, the
better to found his institution. The writer says:
“When Eve told the Devil it would never do
to disobey the command to touch not the fruit ot
of the Tree of Knowledge, his Satanic Majesty
replied 4 Evy, my dear, vou don’t know nothing.’
That moment mother Eve was honored with an
apple lation that has come down to the present
day, and now represents a class of individuals
whose numbers, are even as the sands of the
sea.”
But, says the writer, since that day no other
woman has been, nor can be, a member of the
order, “because,” says he, “no woman ever exist
ed who does not know something about every- !
thing and nothing.”
In New York, on Saturday, Tomatos were
worth 37J cents per quart; new potatoes $1.50
a basket, and new turnips $2.50 a basket. The j
N. Y. Post says:
The market is almost entirely bare of fruit to
day. There have been no arrivals this week
and the stock of pine apples on hand is exceed- j
ingly limited. j
Several vessels are expected from Baracoa, !
with pine apples, bananas and cocoa nuts on
Monday.
Mr. Thomas Giimartin sold all of his cargoes
of pine apples and bananas during the week, at
prices ranging for each kind at $1.50 to $lO.
Cocoa nuts, of which there is an abundance, are |
selling at S3O per thousand.
The Wushingtcn Star says that in recently j
disposing of a case submitted to him by the
Secretary of War. the Attorney General has de
cided that an officer of the army is subject to trial
for one and the same act by the civil courts, as
for a violation of the ordinary law of thf land,
and also by a court martial for a violation of the
military law. Thus, where an officer was in
dicted for murder on acconnt of the death of a
soldier and acquitted, he may still be tried by
court martial and punished.
Southern Trade in Ship Timber.—Speak
ing of the growing demand for ship timber,
stimulated by tbe large increase of vessels to
meet tbe requirements of commerce, the Mobile
Advertiser introduces the following interesting
statement. The Advertiser says:
“We have taken pains to inform ourselves
relative to what Mobile is now doing in this
way, and invite attention to the statistics we
are about to pres-nt. It should be borne in
mind, that in the articles which we propose,
considering the traffic is in its infancy, and has
been of so short a duration as to have attracted
the notice of comparatively few of those most
interested, at the North.
Since the first of September last, there have
been exported from this port, 214 spars, 395
masts, 14 bowsprits, 2,165 pieces of timber, and
179 of oak do ; 2,394 pieces of deck plank, 47,-
000 feet of ship lumber, 10.715 handspikes, 2,-
814 oars, 2,092 telegraph posts, 91,665 staves,
154,000 laths, 142,281 shingles, 19 wharf piles
and 25,000 pickets. Os the above, six vessel
loads have been shipped to France by order as
the French Government, and two to Barcelono.
These vessels were mostly laden with ship tim
ber, spars, &c. There is now in port another
vessel loading with spars, and ship timber for
the Spanish Government, and others are expect
ed here on a similar errand. The telegraph
posts were shipped to Cuba, the shingles, laths,
wharf piles and pickets principally to Texas and
other Gulf ports, the staves generally coastwise
and. foreign, and snip lumber to Scarborough,
Maine. The sawed lumber trade is much affec
ted this season by the scarcity of vessels and the
high rates of freight to all points. The demand
is very active, large orders remaining on hand
unfilled, and but for the obstacles alluded to, the
business would be exceedingly prosperous.—•
Notwithstanding these discouragements, the ex
port of lumber are steadily increasing, and
amount since September last, to 3,088,838 ft.
against 2,148.287 ft., the previous year, showing
an increase in nine months of nearly one mil
lion feet over the entire exports of the year end
ing September 1, 1853.
The mills in this vicinity are increasing in
number and efficiency ; the surrounding forests
abound in valuable timber, and with better
adaptation of vessels to the gulf trade, may
count upon a vast and profitable lumber trade in
the future.
The Sectarian Disturbance at the East.
The blowing up of the Roman Catholic church
at Dorchester, Mass, on the Fourth, has created
an intense excitement in the neighborhood of
tbe occurrence. A meeting of citizens has been
held, at which resolutions to spare no pains to
bring to justice the perpetrators of the outrage
were agreed to. The origin of the affair still re
mains involved in mystery.
The subsequently burning of the Catholic
church at Bath, Me., of which we gave an ac
count on Saturday, has also created much excite
ment. It appears the “Angel Gabriel” was
preaching in the street, and that a hack con
taining three men drove through the crowd, and
turning round immediately attempted to re
turn, the driver insisting that the crowd should
give way.
This appears to have incensed those present,
and soon atter, about 7 P. M., a cry was simul
taneously raised throughout the multitude, as if
by previous concert, “to the Old South,” “hurra
for the Old South,” “down with the Old South,”
etc. And thither the multitude immediately
rushed. The church known as the “Old South,”
was built by the Protestants in 1805, and leased
by the Catholics two years ago. Upon reaching
the spot the door was immediately broken open,
and the mass rushed in, and immediately com
menced demolishing the pews, breaking and de
stroying everything that could be reached, after
which it was set on fire in about thirty places
and entirely consumed. To the disgrace ot the
authorities, the incendiary mob, 1,500 in num
ber, were permitted to leave, without a single
arrest. As most ot them are known, however,
it is suppose 1 they will be arrested and punish
ed.
Lucieu Bonaparte and his son, the Lieuten
ant, have arrived at Paris, although they have
not shown themselves in public to the lion ga
zers of that city. A correspondent ot a New
York papers writes:
As yet he has not appeared in public, although
the world is exceedingly anxious to see what
resemblance he bears to his great uncle. It
would be an odd feature in the singular phase
of affairs if, at some future day, the Empire
Republic of America should furnish an occu
pant to the throne of France. His arrival just
now, when Prince Napoleon is absent, is remar
ked. Does he intend to take part in the war?
or is his object simply to embrace the father
who, more ..weakly than wickedly, repudiated
his mother? or does he wish to have some chat
with his emperor cousin respecting the succes
sion ?
Thomas Butler King. —We find the follow
ing in a late letter of the Washington correspon
dence of the New York Times :
A paragraph has been travelling the rounds of
the press for a week or two past, to the effect
that the Treasury Department has allowed the
disputed items in the accounts of T. Butler King,
as Collector at San Francisco, and that said ac
counts have been satisfactorily adjusted. On in
quiry at the proper place, I am informed that
there is not a w 7 ord of truth in the statement.
Additional time for procuring vouchers has been
allowed Mr. King on several occasions, but
although it is now nearly or quite two years
since his successor was appointed, he has not yet
been able to close his accounts with the Treasury
Department.
Graduation Exercises. —The whole exer
cises of this day, at the Methodist Church were
of absorbing interest. The addresses of the
i young ladies were well written and full of valua
ble thought. The music was excellent, and the
! closing address was one of great force, beauty
| and pathos. The degree of Mistress of Arts was
| conferred upon 19 young ladies. We have no
| time to enlarge, as our paper is on the eve of go
ing to press.— Macon Citizen , 13th inst.
Wesleyan College.— On Tuesday last the
Board of T r ustees of this Institution elected
Professor Osborn L. Smith President, in room of
Rev. E. H. Myers, resigned. At the same time,
the Rev George H. Hancock was elected Pro
fessor of Mental and Moral Philosophy, in room
ot Professor Smith.— lb.
An unusually violent thunder storm was ex
perienced in Toronto, Canada, and the adjacent
country on the 4th inst. Some houses were un
roofed, many chimneys were blown down,
several vessels were upset in the bay, and
j numerous trees were either s* : pped of their
branches and foliage or entii rostrated.—
The|steamer May Queen, with great number
iof ladie- and children who frad gone in her
; upon a pleasure excurs on, was driven high and
dry, and her funnel was blown overboard. Du
ring the gale the schooner Duke of Darlington
| foundered twenty miles below Toronto, and the
captain and five cf the crew were lost. The
only person saved was a lad named Bailey.—
Fears were entertained for the safety of several
vessels on Lake Ontario which had not been
i heard from since the storm.
Nashville, July 12.
Health of the City. —There was but one
1 interment in the city cemetery for the 24 hours
I ending at three o’clock yesterday and that
not of a cholera subject.
There is a delightful change in the weather,
the thermometer yesterday at .3 o’clock mark
ing 82 degrees, and the atmosphere being clear
bracing, and breecy— Union.
The Weather, says the West Point (Ga.)
Beacon. July 13, for a week past has been de
lightfully pleasant in this latitude. We have
been blest with refreshing rains for the lastthree
or four r’ays. If the farmers do not make boun
tiful crops of corn in this region it will certain
ly be their own fault, for never was the seasou
more propitious.
Weather, Crops, &c,
Louisiana. —The Lake Providence Herald, of
the_lßth inst., says:
J? or the last few days the weather has been
overwhelmingly hot. The planters are getting
out ol the grass, and the prospect for a bountiful
crop is rather flattering. Almost every platter
with whom we have conversed seems to be in
good spirits.
The Capitolian V is-a-vis, of the sth says :
A friend writing to us from St. James, says :
.We have had a very poor season tor cane; first
in the seaso.i, not rain enough—latterly too
much, and all the time too much grass. Rattoon
cane looks pretty well; plants quite thin and
small. Judging from the many crops I have
seen in St. James and Ascension, we will fall
short at least one-third of the last sugar crop.”
Wisconsin. —The editor of the Milwaukie
Sentinel has recently taken a tour through eight
or ten counties of that State, and reports as fol
lows on the prospects of the crops:
If there should be no drawback in the way of
unfavorable weather, the crops of wheat, barley,
oats, rye, corn and potatoes, will exceed the most
sanguine expectations «f those who have not
had the like advantage of passing through the
country. The crops now, without exception,
look well, and the only complaint which we
heard in a ten days’ tour, was an occasional one
with reference to the spring wheat, that it was
so heavy that it would probably lodge in the
field. Wisconsin will send forward a vast sur
plus as the result of the harvest of 1854. Judg
ing from the appearance of the winter wheat in
many portions of the State, we think that the
harvest must commence next week, and be well
advanced by the 10th of July, if the present
warm weather continues.
Mississippi.— The Natchez Courier, of the
6th, says:
Above and below ns we have reports of exces
sive heat, while in Natchez we have our share.
It is the time of year for hot weather, and we
therefore ought not to complain.
The Weather and Crops. —The weather
continues very warm, while the prospect of re
markably fine crops throughout this and the ad
joining States was never, perhaps, better than
at the present time. Our exchanges are filled
w ith the most gratifying intelligence in refer
ence to the growing crops, as well as those which
have been harvested.
Throughout this region of the State, the pro
spect of an abundant corn crop was never more
favorable; whilst cotton—though perhaps ten
days behind hand—looks quite promising.—
Athens ( Ga .,) Watchman, 13th inst.
(Telegraphed for the Baltimore Patriot.)
Proceedings of Congress.
Washington, July 12.
SENATE.
After reading the journal of yesterday,
The House amendments to the bill to remove
obstructions to the navigation of Cape Fear
were concurred in.
Messrs. Seward, Rockwell, and Sumner pre
sented memorials for the repeal of the Fugitive
Slave law.
Mr. Houston made a few remarks comment
ing severely on Commissioner E. W. Moore,
chaiging him with wrongfully withholding
money from the creditors end orphans of Mr.
Wiber.
The resolution ordering the printing of anoth
er edition of the Census Correspondence was
passed.
The bill making an appropriation of six hun
dred thousand dollars towards erecting new bull
dings for the Executive Departments, was dis
cussed, and then postponed till to-morrow.
The Homestead bill was resumed, and the
question pending on Mr. Clayton’s amendment
giving money to the moneyless—
Mr. Chase spoke in favor of the bill, and
against discriminating against foreigners who
were not in the country now, but may come in
future. *
Mr. Butler opposed granting lands to unnatu
ralized aliens altogether.
HOtSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
After reading the journa' of yesterday,
Mr. Cutting asked to be excused from serving
on the Colt Committee of investigation.
The House resumed the bill for the repeal of
the law allowing a discount of 50 per cent on
periodicals and newspapers when the postage
was prepaid.
Messrs. Olds, Barry and Smith, of Va., sup
ported the bill.
Messrs. Chandler, of Pa., and Washburn, of
Illinois, made speeches against it, but without
acting thereon, the House went into committee
of the whole on the bill making appropriations
for the repair, preservation and comple’ion of ri
ver and harboi works heretofore comm ?nced un
der authority of the old law.
It was discovered that no quorum was present
and a call of the House was made.
The House then debated the amendments.
I Telegraphed for the Baltimore Sun.]
Cincinnati, July 11th.— The Alleged Priest
\ Rape Case at Cincinnati —Father Kroeger, the
Catholic priest, was tried yesterday before Judge
Flynn, on the charge of assault with intent to
commit a rape. The testimony was about the
same as given before the police court. The ju
ry remained out until about noon to day, when
! being unable to agree, they were discharged,
j They stood six for conviction for an assault with
I intent to commit violence on her person, and
: six for assault and battery. There was a large
| crowd around the court house during the trial.
Money matters are comparatively quiet.
Concord, N. H., July 10.— New Hampshire
Legislature. —The House to-day laid the Liquor
bill (Maine law) on the table by 16 majority.—
The bill increasing the salaries of th« executive
and legislative officers passed the Senate, and
was read twice in the House.
(second dispatch.]
Concord, N. H., July 11.—The House of Re
presentatives to-day passed a resolution appro
priating $20,000 for a State Reform School.
The Maine Liquor bill was taken from the
table and ordered to a third reading.
Boston, July 11. — The Money Panic. —Jno.
Wetherbee, jr., broker, is reported to have failed
to-day. Stocks have materially declined, and
the money panic is increasing.
Albany, July 11.— Village of Cac/csacie De
stroyed by Fire. —A fire broke out in this beauti
ful, thriving village, situate on the Hudson river,
Green county, N. Y. Before the flames could be
extinguished nearly the entire village was laid
in ruins, including three hotels, the postoffice,
some churches and other public buildings. The
entire loss is estimated at $75,000 to SIOO,OOO
—partly insured. The distress produced by this
calamity falls heavily on the citizens.
Boston, July 11.— The Fishing Grounds. —We
have dates from New Foundiand to the 29th
ult, which brings the most unfavorable news
from the fishing grounds.
Philadelphia, July 11.— Cholera at Philadel
phia, Sfc. —Dr. Bibigsans died to-day, and his dis
ease is reported to the Board of Health as hav
ing been Asiatic cholera. Dr. Knorr and Rob
ert L. Pitfield, president of the Northern Lib
erty Bank, also died to day, said to be of cholera.
Lawrence, Mass., July 10.— Religious Riot —
The Military Called Out. —A serious distuibance
occurred here on Saturday night between the
Americans and Irish, which originated in the
American flag being carried in Irish procession
surmounted by the cross. Both parties were
armed, and guns and pistols were fired, without,
however, doing any great personal damage to
the belligerentsjon either side. The Irish were
finally put to flight and many of their houses
gutted. The military were ordered out, and the
rioters were soon dispersed. All was quiet on
Sunday.
Meal and Flour. —Since the hot weather
commenced, provisions have gone up to an awful
price. Meal is scarce at $1 per bushel. No
body will bring it in. Flour would sell at al
most any price. The last lot went at $4 25, but
there is none in town even at that price. The
farmers are making their “Jack” olf us poor suf
fering fellows now, but we’ll pay them back af
ter a while.
No money, no meal, no flour, no bacon—if it
wasn’t lor the blackberry crop, we would take
the hippo , and give up in despair.— Dalton Times,
13th inst ” |
UTAH AND THE MORMONS—The Histo
ry, Government, Doctrines, Customs and Pros
pects of the latter day Saints, from personal ob
servations during a six momh’s residence at Great
Salt Lake city, by Benjamin G. Ferris, late Secre
tary of Utah Territory.
A Popular Account of the Ancient‘Egyptians,
by Sir J. Gardner Wilkinson.
Footprints of Famous Men, designed as incite
ments to Intellectual Industry, by John G. Edgar.
For sal® by jy7 TflOS. RICHARDS & SON,
BY TELEGRAPH.
Columbia, July 14.
Ccngresa.
The Senate has pass d the bill appropriating
$600,000 for commencing the extra department
buildings and finishing jtheTreasury building.—
The bill granting alternate sections of land to the
New Orleans and Mobile Railroad was also
passed. The Homestead bill was amended and
discussed.
In the House, the Committee on Frauds com
mitted by mail steamship Companies, reported
that they had discovered no frauds. A number
of private bills were passed.
New’ York, July 14.
Cotton.—There has been a moderate demand,
prices unchanged.
Coffee firm. Flour stiffer, but not quota
bly higher. Good Ohio quoted ats7J.
Corammial.
SAVANNAH, July 13— Cotton. —Arrived since the
6th mst., 284 bales Upland (all per Railroad,) and 27 do.
bea Islands. The exports for the same period amount
to 4,076 bales Upland, and 218 do. Sea Islands, viz : to
Liverpool, 3,024 bales Upland, and 196 do. Sea Islands ;
to New York, 553 bales Upland, and 22 do. Sea Islands;
117 bales Upland—leaving on hand and on shipboard,
not cleared, a stock of 4,350 bales Upland, and 1,422 do.
Sea Islands, against 11,107 bales Upland, and 180 do. Sea
Islands at the same time last year.
The accounts from different points in relation to the
growing crops are favorable. We have had some fine
rains in this neighborhood during the present week,
which have been very beneficial to vegetation gener
ally.
The market has not been active any time daring the
week just closed, but has been characterized by the
same dullness which prevailed the previous week, The
accounts by the Baltic and Asia have come to hand
since our last weekly review, noticing an active demand
in the i-iverpool market with rather more firmness
in prices, but these accounts have had no effect upon
this market. The offering stock is very small aDd there
appears to be no disposition on the part of holders to
operate unless at full prices. The sales of the week,
have been limited to 326 bales, at the following partic
ulars: 12 at 7J; 144 at 8; 51 at 8R 15 at 83; 44 at 83; 4
at 8j; 45 at and 11 bales at 93 cents. We repeat
our quotations of last week, viz :
Ordinary to Good Ordinary, 7 @ 8
Low Middling to Strict Middling B|a> 9
Good Middling,
Middling Fair, —(3> 9j|
S'Air nominal
Sea Islands. —There is no demand for this quality of
Cotton, and we have no sales to report. Receipts of
the week 72 bales. Exports 218 bales.
Rice. —The demand for this article continues limited,
and prices unchanged. We hear of sales of 100 casks at
S3J per hundred pounds. Exports of the week 203
casks, all coastwise.
Flour. —We have no change to notice. Georgia
brands are selling at sS(epsß.so per bbl. In sacks it is
selling at $3,373,0; $4, according to quantity. The stock
is light and the demand fair.
Corn. —The stock is light and the demand good. We
quote at 95c,@$l per bushel, the former figure by
wholesale.
Oats —There some demand and the stock is light.
We quote at 65,n)70 cts. per bushel, according to quanti
ty and quality.
Hay. —We hear of sales of Northern from wharf at
$1,123, Eastern at $1 36 per hundred. From store
we quote the former at $1,373, and the latter at $1,623
per hundred pounds.
Molasses. —There is none afloat. We quote Cuba
from store at 22,g>23c., and New Orleans at 24@26c.
per gallon, aceording4o quantity.
Bacon —We have no large transactions tc report.
Salt—ls selling from store, in lots, at $1.373®51.60
P sack.
Lime —The stock in first bands is light. It is selling
at $1.25 p cask.
Lumber —
S. Sawed, refuse .p m.ft.. 800@11 00
Merchantable p m.ft. .15 00 20 00
River Lumber, refuse. .p m.ft.. 9 (J« («) 10 00
Merchantable to prime, pm. ft.. 14 00 (u) 16 00
Ranging do, for export. p m.ft.. 900 (a) 18 00
Mill Ranging p m.ft. .10 00 a) 13 00
White Pine, clear p m.ft.. 30 00 ;o) 40 00
Merchantable p m.ft. .18 00 25 00
Cypress Shingles p m. .. 400 (a) 450
Sawed Cypress Shinglesp m. ..16 00(a)
Red Oak Staves m. .. 12 00 16 00
White do. pipe....pm. . .35 00 60 00
do. do. hhd —p m. ..25 00 35 00
do. do. bbl pm. . .20 00 25 00
Exchange. —We quote Sterling at Bj-a>33'p c *- prem
Domestic.—The Banks are selling Sigut Checks on all
Northern Cities at 3 t* 1 ct. prem., and purchasing Sight
Bills at par; 30 day Bills at 3@f p ct. discount; 60
day Bills p ct. discount; 90 day Bills p
ct. discount.
Freights.—' The rate to Liverpool is 3d. P ft.for Cot
ton. Coastwise. We quote to New York 5-16 c for
Cotton, by sailing vessels, and }c. for square, and jc
for round cotton, by steamers. To Boston, 3c. per lb
for Cotton. To Philadelphia, 5-16 c. for square, by the
steamers. Lumber—We quote to St. Johns, N. 8., $lB
P thousand for Timber; to Portland. Bath, Me., Ports
mouth, N. H., and Boston, sl6 for Timber and sls for
Lumber; to New York sl4 for Timber and sl3 for
Lumber. There is a large quantity of Timber and Lum
ber offering for Northern ports.
CHARLESTON, July 14— Cotton. —This article wa#
very much neglected throughout tiie whole of the pre
ceding week, but the tian-actions during thi3 period,
although quite limited, fhoweda firm market, and a full
range of prices, with Good Middling at the close of
business valued at 9§c. The trade in the early part of
the week under review seemed to come t > a tacit un
derstanding to allow the market, if we may so express
ourselves, to take care of itself, as the sales during the
first three days were limited to some 172 bales; on Tues
day, however, the demand improved, the sales during
the day having reached about 700 bales, at a range of
figures fully sustaining our quotations of 4he 7th in
stant. Wednesday was a day »f comparative activity,
buyers having taken upwards of 1400 bales, mostly for
Spmish account, on terms rather favorable to sellers,
without, however, establishing any decided improve
ment. lr »sterday the demand fell off materially, as
the operations were limited to .300 bales, but so far as
prices were concerned, the market fully abstained
the position it occupied on the preay-
In reviewing our quotations of wW*. wo
would remark that some of our figures are rather un
der recent operations, but as no positive advance cau
be said to have been established, they will approximate
as near as possible to the present value of the article.
The receipts since our last comprise 2,133 bales, and the
sales in the same time foot up 2,600 bales, at the follow
ing prices, viz : 50 bales at 7; 32 at 71; 311 at 74; 309 at
7]; 60 at 7s; 183 at 8;
9; 179 at 9]; 087 at 9]; 254 at 9f; 150 at 9J; 14 at 9f;
and 70 bales at 10c. M e quote Inferior 6]®7l; Ordina
ry to Good Ordinary 8@8|; Middling Good
Middling Middling fair 10c. We have nothing of
interest to communicate in the descriptions classed un
der the head of Long Cotton, the business of the week
having been confined to a few balesf .oridas. The stock,
exclusive of the amount on shipboard, after a careful
count yesterday of the quantity in our storehouses,
amounts to 1,085 bales.
Corn. —There was an arrival fhis week of some 2200
bushels Virginia, which were sold at 95c. per bushel,
but as it was subsequently found to be heated the sale
was cancelled. The stock is light, and the first arrivals
will no doubt bring our quotations—9o(c£9sc.—unless a
superior article should be among the receipts, in which
case we think a price above our higtest rate will be
obtained.
Flour. —We have no new feature to notice in the
Flour market. The demand, which has been very limit
ed, has been confined to small lots for city co'nsump
..tion at prices within the raDge of our quotations, prin
cipally, however, at $8 for barrels and $4 for bags.
Bacon.— The transactions have been confined excla
sively to small lots, at prices corresponding with our
quotations,as in quality; we must, however; in our re
marks, except Sides, which have become scarce, and
have occasionally been sold as high as Bc.
Freights.— A vessel has been put on the berth this
week, to load for Liverpool, and has some Cotton en
gaged, at fd. for square bags. There is nothing up for
Havre. The rates to New York are 20«j25c. per 100 for
Cotton. No Rice of consequence offering. Nothing up
for Boston. ° 1
NEW ORLEANS, July B.— Cotton. —Arrived since the
30th ult., 5,184 bales. Cleared in the same time 12,536
bales. Stock in presses, and on shipboard not cleared
on the 7th inst., 148,558 bales. ’
We have but little change to notice in the market
since our last report. The extreme rates paid for strict
Middling have been hardly as full, but there has been
no falling off in the prices of the other grades, and al
though operations have been even on a less liberal
scale than last week, the demand has been steady, and
factors have shown but little disposition to press their
stocks upon the market. The sales comprise about
4,500 bales on Saturday, 3,000 on Monday, 750 on Tues
day, when business was generally suspended by the cel
ebration of our great national anniversary; "3,250 on
Wednesday, 2,000 on Thursday and 1,500 yesterday,
making a total for the week of 15.000 bales.
The receipts at this port since Ist September (exclu
sive of the arrivals from Mobile. Florida and Texas)
are 1,353,949 bales, against 1.597,794'ba1e5, to same date
last year; and the decrease in the receipts at all the
ports, up to the latest dates, as compared with last year,
is 376,008 bales. In the exports from the United States
to foreign countries, as compared with the same dates
last year, there is a decrease of 177,871 bales to Great
Britain, 23.164 to other Foreign ports, and 112,458 to,
France.
NEW ORLEANS CLASSIFICATION.
(Assimilating to that of Liverpool.)
Inferior, 4 @3
Ordinary, 54 <£64
Good Ordinary, 64^7*
Low Middling, 7]@7*
Middling (g>Hl
Good Mi idling, 9 @9}
Middling Fair,
Fair, nominal
Good Fair, nominal.
Good and Fine, nominal.
Sugar—Louisiana —The receipts having been to a
moderate extent, and the reduction in freight giving
rather more animation 10 the demand, prices have ruled
a shade more in favor of holders, without, however, es
tablishing any quotable advance, except ng in our in
side figures for Fair, which buyers have been unable to
purchase at as low a rate as last week. The sales com
prise 700 hhds. during the early part of the week, 600
on Wednesday and Thursday, and 350 yesterday, mak
ing an aggregate of 1 650 hhds We now quote as fol
lows our figures for Choice and Clarified being nominal*
in consequence of the market being nearly bare of these
descriptions.
Inferior, 1] aD24
Common, Sir'll
Fair to Fully Fair. 3i^3*
Prime,
Choice .5 (gi&jf
Clarified, 54® 6
Refined, ,6f^7