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[From the N. 0. Pieayunc.]
Revolution in Mexico.—Camargo Taken by the Re
volutionists.
By the arrival at New Orleans of the steam
ship Yacht, Capt. J. S. Thompson, we have
. Brownsville papers to the 24th inst. which con
tains the startling intelligence of a successful re
volution in that portion of Mexico bordering on
the Rio Grande.
We find the following in the Rio Bravo of the
24th inst. published at Brownsville :
Pronunciamiento* on the Rio Granite.
We copy from the Bien Publico of Matamoros
the'followmg plan and pronunciamiento, signed
by Don Ignacio Car.ales and other citizens of
Guerrero, and forwarded by them to the com
manding general olthe Mexican forces at Mata
moros. The movement seems to extend through
out the State of Tamaulipas, and it is said will be
general in all the Northern States of Mexico.
The Patriot forces are commanded by Col.
Don Jose Maria J. Carvajal,and already number
nearly a thousand men. His plan and pronunica
mento are extensively circulated throughout the
Republic, adopting the twelve articles ot the
Guerrero Patriots, as found below,
The movement looks truly formidable; and we
believe is so regarded by the authorities of the
General Government over the way.
Pi.an. —The subscribers, all citizens of the city
of Guerrero, in the State of Tamaulipas, convin
ced that the national representation has paid no
attention to the repeated petitions which they
have sent to that sovereignty, through the cor
responding sources, for the abo.ishment of pub
lications and the reduction of the tariff; the
protection due to stop the depredations of
the Indians, already insupportable, as well as the
oppression they suffer, owing to the restriction
together with the hostility of the barbarians, are
the complete destruction not only of those who
speak, but of the whole frontier, have decided
and resolved to sustain with their arms the con
tents of the following articles:
1. The permanent troops shall be expelled
from the territory of the State, as being perni- j
cions, oppressive, and useless.
2. The citizen is inviolable in the enjoyment :
of his rights and property, and in the use of his
opinions; the judicial power shall be sustained in
the free exercise of its functions, and nothing
shall be taken by the liberating lorces without
payment for the same.
3. As a guarantee of the rights and sovereign
ty of the States, a reformation of the federal con
stitution is required, reserving to the States all the
powers and enjoyments not granted to the General
Government.
4. The national representation, or at least in
the Senate, shall be equal, or by States, and
elected popularly, abolishing the power of the
Executive to appoint Senators.
••5. The abolishment of prohibitions and the
reduction of import duties on foreign merchan
dise is required, and the duties imposed shall not
be over forty per cent, advulorem.
6. The heavy penalties applied to smuggling,
which makes it a criminal offence, imposing
absurd fines shall be abolished, the loss of the
goods, without further responsibility, is enough
and from the product of this a fund shall be creat
ed for the exclusive and sacred purpose of ma
king war upon the savages.
7. The introduction of groceries shall be per
mitted on the frontier of the Rio Bravo free of
duty for five years.
8. For the foreign commerce a frontier cus
tom-house shall be established at the town of
Reynosa.
9. The towns seconding this plan subjecfcjthem
selves to the authorities of the respective States
that may second the same.
10. This movement is eminently national and
liberal; consequently the States and towns that
may adopt the same shall be sustained by the
liberating forces.
11. A portion of said forces shall be permanent
ly destined to carry on hostilities against the bar
barians, until the complete pacification of the
frontier States.
12. These towns will not lay down their arms
until the contents of the eleven preceding arti
cles be granted and realized. If the General
Government should be obstinate in refusing the
armed petition of this frontier, containing all the
wants ot the whole nation, the States adopting
this plan will organize a provisionaffgovernmerit,
laying aside all idea of secession or annexation,
and that in order that this plan may have the
necessary publicity,this meeting has resolved to
address the samejo the illustrious ayuntamiento,
being the body of this city, leaving to their con
sideration and deliberation the manner in which
they will promulgate it.
J. M. Canales,
J. M. Gonzat.es, &e. &c.
Camp at the Loha , Sept. 3, 1851.
GENERAL ORDERS.
To he read to the Defenders of Mexican Liberty , who,
under my orders , swear to combat against Tyrants:
All people on earth, both ancient and modern,
have seen themselves compelled by the enor
mous weight ol the oppression of unjust and cruel
tyrants, to take up arms and reconquer, with fire
and blood, their violated sacred rights, reassnm
ing that sovereignty which as a gift of the God of
the Universe, belongs to them. The people are
sovereign—government was only instituted to
make them happy and carry out their will. The
people, then, are the grantor and government a
mere agent, and the whole world knows that
when an agent, far from carrying out the will of
the grantor, or procuring the well-being of his
interest, usurps powers not granted to him, and
takes unto himself his master's property and
rights, thereby causing his ruin, no other resource
is left but to - remove the bad servant, and in his
place put a more faithful one.
In this case the Republic of Mexico finds itself,
and more particularly the North and Northwest
portions of said Republic. The unfortunate end
of the last war left them in misery, and without
its richest terr tories and resources. Their pro
perty all lost without remuneration, forty millons
of dollars would not pay our losses, without coun
ting our lands, the rights to, and the possession
of which are now doubtful, and we shall have to
spend thousands of dollars to learn if our rights
are re-organized. The savage murders our par
ents and brothers, violates our wives and carries
off our children captives; he desolates oar fields
and robs us of our property, and the Government
remains deaf to our lamentations and complaints.
Its troops, far from occupying themselves in de
fending or consoling us, rob and murder our coun
trymen, under the frivolous pretext that they are
smuggling, although these troops, when before
the enemy, tly coward-like. Repeated com
plaints, teprerentations and protests have been
addressed to the Government ot Gen. Arista, and
far from hearing us, he has attempted to humble
and in intimidate us, as if we W’ere vile slaves.
On the other hand, the nation is on the verge
of a precipice, owing to its bad governors, who
only look out for themselves. The public funds
are not administered with honesty, and the bas-
Jard influence of monopolists is more powerful
than the universal clamor of all the Mexicans.
It is on this account that the atrocious and anti
republican system established by the ancient
Spanish monarchy is sustained, and why the ex
istence of the nation itself is exposed, squander
ing its immense resources, and insulting the sov
ereign people. Our children are not educated
and they want to discipline us in the school of
military despotism, as if our fathers had not con
quered our independence and domestic liberty.
And, what is still more aggravating to-day, is
that the people of the towns are dying of hunger,
the necessaries of life are prohibited.
In short, the children, of the Northern towns
being tired of this oppression, resolve to swear,
and do swear to sustain the twelve following
articles, and such others, in accordance with
these, as may be adopted by a majority of the
towns seconding this plan.
[Here follows, substantially, the twelve arti
cles published above in the Guerrero platform.]
These twelve articles my subordinates swear
to sustain, generally, with all their might and
boldness, fighting gallantly and with fidelity, in
accordance vvith the platform to-day proclaimed,
aTiiftfntil We expel the enemy from our territo
ry, in order that the frontier States may secure
their future felicity, and make the despots who
inhabit the palace of the Montezumas under
stand the claims and rights of freemen shall be
respected.
Viva la Libertad! Death to the tyrants !
Jose Maria J. Carvajal.
Camp near the town of Camargo, September 1 lith
Anniversary of Mexican independence —lß,sl.
The War Begun.
Intelligence, on which we rely, has just been
received from Camargo, that a sharp skirmish
has taken place between the troops of Col. Car
vajal and the regulars of the Government at that
city, in which a number of men were wounded,
and which resulted in the triumph of the Patri
ots. We are not informed of the details. There
is no doubt, however, that Camargo is in the
hands of the victors, and that they are in march
for Reynoso and Matamoros. The Government
has so weakened itsell by sending reinforce
ments to Camargo that these places will fall ea
sily into the hands of the revolutionists. We
learn that Gen. Avalos, commanding at Mata
moros. received the reports of three couriers yes
terday; but what news they brought has not yet
transpired. As there were no demonstrations of
success, no boasting, and as the last company of
cavalry at the disposal of the general was de
spatched last night towards the seat of war, we
infer that the Patriots are sweeping all before
them. Thus has commenced a struggle that
may regenerate Mexico and secure for her peo
ple justice and prosperity. The people of the
United States will not stand with folded arms,
indifferent spectators of this animating scene.
Last Moment.
Wc just hear that the commandant of artillery
on the side of the Government was killed, and
some thirty other persons, military and civil.
Camargo is taken! The fight is up.
We have just received by express, says the
Rio Bravo, several letters which we give below,
giving the details of the battle at Camargo. By
a postscript in a private letter we learn that
Mier and several other towns are in the hands of
the liberators;
Rxo Grande City, Sept. 20—11 A. M.
Dear L.— Ihe battle has been desperately
lought and Carvajal has been victorious. It com
menced yesterday at 2 o’clock, and only ended
this morning at 9. The Mexicans done bravely,
but were at last forced to surrender, with some
sixty odd killed and wounded. Four officers
killed, among whom was Morales. On Carva
jal’s side none killed, and only seven wounded.
The military surrendered at discretion. Carva
jal is now occupied in forming new laws and re
gulations. There was no artillery with the in
surgents, while the Government troops had one
pr more pieces. But the cannoneers were pick
ed off by the rifles until they could no longer i
stand it. Yours in haste, j. h. t.
Rio Grande City, Sept. 20—9 A. M.
Dear Sir. —You have, ere this, received my
short communication per steamer Corvette,
which informed you that the Revolutionist, as
they are termed, were contemplating an attack
on the evening of the day on which that letter
was written. It was, however, postponed until
yesterday. The attack commenced yesterday
at 2 o’clock P. M., and the military were soon
compelled to seek refuge in the church and cus
tomhouse. The whole force under Col. Carva
jal were three companies, amountaing to three
or four hundred men, if I am rightly informed.
One company from Guerrero, under command
of Don Jose Maria Canales, was placed in front;
the second company, almost all Americans, was
placed in the centre, under command of Capt.
Tremble; and the third company, from Camargo,
under command of Don Thomas Cabazos. They
were led to the main plaza by Col. Carvajal, in
spite of the cannon and every other mode of
defence which the Mexican troops could adopt.
The houses on the plaza which could afford them
any protection were soon taken, and every Mex
ican soldier who dared make his appearance
above the house tops was immediately shot by
the Texan rifles.
The battle has not yet closed, though I feel
every confidence that Col. C. and his party will
take the place. Yours, truly,
P. S.—l 2 o'clock M —A messenger has just ar
rived from Camargo, who informs us that the
city has just been taken, and everything surren
dered to Col. Carvajal. The custom house has
been taken, and all the goods which have hereto
fore been seized, including a considerable lot of
mantas, imperials, &c.
Rio Grande City, Sept. 20,1851.
Messrs. Editors —l write you in haste to
say that the revolutionary movement on the
other side of the riverfbas commenced in earnest. :
The two parties haveween fighting since the
night of the 18th. The Government party have
one piece of artillery, and are fortified in the .
church—the besiegers have only small arms. A
! courier, who was in the fight, just arrived, re
j ports that about sixty of the Mexican side, in
| eluding four officers have been killed, and four
Americans and six Mexicans ofthe revolutionists
are wounded but not mortally. A small reinforce
ment left here last night, and another this mor
ing.
Amongst the knowing ones at this place it is
said President Arista is at the head of this move
ment,and that he is now en route from Mexico to
the Sierra Madrtgjis object being to revolutionize
all the States
The fellow been furnished %s by a
gentleman who to this city in the \ acht.
There was no excitement at Brownsville nor
Matamoras on account of the revolution when
the Yacht left. The citizens of the latter place
were quietly though anxiously awaiting the ar
rival of the Liberating Army, which was on its
march there. General Avalos was making a
pretence of resistance by barricading his house,
&c., but he has only 200 Government troops
withhirn, and it is thought that he will evacuate
as soon as the Patriots make their appearance.
He has crossed a large amount of money and
treasure to Brownsville for safe keeping. He
made a requisition upon the city /of Matamoros
for 2,000 men to oppose the Patriots, but they
refused to raise him a single man. About 200
' Americans have joined the Patriots under Capts.
Tremble and Lewis. Their march will be a
triumpant one through all the Northern States.
‘ It is said that Tampico is ready to pronounce.
Rabago, collector of customs at Matamoros, es
! caped from that place and came over pasypgm
j on the Yacht. Pie alleges that his life" wag
j threatened.
(From the Baltimore Sun.)
The Anerican Searching Expedition—Belief in Sir
John Franklin’s Safety.
A dispatch in yesterday’s Sun stated that on
Tuesday, the Advance, Capt. De Haver, one of
the vessels sent out by Mr. Henry Grinnell, to
search for Sir John Franklin, arrived at the navy
yard, Brooklyn, N. Y. The editor of the New
•York Commercial has had an interview with E.
K. Kane, Esq., urgeon to the expedition, to
whose courtesy lie his indebted for the follow
ing particulars:
It will be remembered that the latest previ
| ous intelligence from the American vessels, the
Rescue, and the Advance was, on rile 13th of
I September, 1850, received through the English
I papers. On that day they parted company with
I the English squadron, as mentioned in the dis
patches of Capt. Henr.y. On the same night
they were frozen in at Wellington channel.—
! From that point commenced their Nbi them drift,
j and they were carried up the chamijj to latitude
j 75 25, the greatest Northering ever attained in
j that meridian.
From that latitude they commenced drifting
I again to the South, and in November, 1- >O, en
j tered Lancaster Sound. During this time the
violence of the eruptions of the ice was : o great
that they could keep no fires regularly kTon ac
count of (he motion of the vessel. The %ier
cury in the thermometer fell below zero. The
beddii g froze in every apartment, and even the
coffee and soup become congealed as soon as ta
ken off the file.
It was at this time that the scurvy broke out,
attacking all the crews and officers, Captain De
Haven and Dr. Kane included. By dint and as
siduous attention and constant vigilance, how
ever, Dr. Kane succeeded in keeping down the
disease, and fortunately brought them all through
the disease without losing a single man. Any
one who saw Dr. Kane’s eye when he modestly
mentioned this gratifying fact, would readily be
lieve that his attention to his charge would be
alike enthusiastic and unremitting.
The principal eruption in (lie ice, ivc miM
here mention, occurred on the lfth of Novem
her and the Bth of December, 1850, and the 1 "Hi
of January, 1851, on which latter day thmexp--
dition entered Baffin’s Bay. During
tinuance in this ice, the vessels were lifted up the
stern as high as six feet seven or eight inches,
with a list to starboard of two feet eight inches,
the discomforts and inconvenience of which n uy|
well be imagined.
During this whole time, also, the men had to
have their knapsacks constantly prepared, as
well as sleighs, &c., not knowing hut that at
any moment the vessels, strong as they were,
might be crushed by the ice. They were three
weeks without taking off their clothes.
tunately the ice lifted up, rather than cnisj^^ 1
the vessels which lay often at
elevation on the crest of the upheaving ice^
From this ice the vessels emerged on the 10th
of June, 1851, after an imprisonment of nine
months. During this time they had drifted one
thousand and sixty miles, —a polar drift of un
precented extent. The only one in aij way
analogous with it, we Delieve, was
Back, in Hudson’s Bay, which, howevflWid not !
compare with it in extent. During whole
imprisonment in the ice, the two vessels suffered
comparatively little damage. The Advance lost
her bob-stays and part of her false keel; the
Rescue had her cutwater and bowsprit literally
chiselled off
Having got both his vessels liberated, Capt.
De Haven determined aga n to try to prosecute
his search, and turned the Advance’s head to the
Northward. He succeeded in reaching the up
per Melville Bay region, but was there again
hemmed in by ice.
From t! is he was not liberated until the 19th
of August, at which time the season was so far
advanced that it was impossible for him to pro
ceed and accomplish his purpose, even supposing
everything should be favorable and no ice in
tervened. l
He therefore reluctantly determined to return
home. The Advance called at the Greenland !
ports, where she obtained full supplies of fresh
meats, vegetables, fruits, &c., and Dr. Kane soon
j had the happiness of seeing the scurvy entirely
j disappear.
Capt. De Haven’s was the most severe at
i tack, and afforded a singular illustration of one
;of the peculiar features of the disease. A small
i wound on his finger, made when a school boy,
I Ly a blow from a cane, and many years ago
I completely healed and forgotten, was re-opened
by the disease. A similar result attended a
wound which Dr. Kane received in the Mexi
can war, and indeed every man exhibited a sinn
l lar illustration of this phase ofthe disease.
The expedition has returned without the loss
: ofa man, which speaks volumes alike for the of
j licers and men ; and is no mean praise for the
surgeon of the expedition.
The American vessels last saw the English
ship Prince Albert at eleven o’clock, A. M., on
the 12th of August, standing South South-East,
having given up, as Capt. De Haven concluded,
all hope of getting round the bay ice, and making
the Southern passage. Capt. De H. thinks it
probable that she would reach Prince Regent’s
Inlet.
Dr. Kane thinks, after seejhtthe regions and
the resources on shore, Franklin
and his crew are probably The Ad
vance has brought home of bir John’s
visit to the place where three of his men were
buried. Also two or tlwee Esquimaux dogs,
one of them not many weeks old. apparently
very fine andintlligent animals.
Dr. Kane speaks in the highest terms of Cupt.
De Haven, and we are sure that Mr. Grinnell
must feel a proud satisfaction in having set on
foot the expedition.
We learn from Mr. Grinnell that Lady Frank
lin entertains the same opinion as Dr. Kane
with relation to her noble husband.
The following extracts from a letter from La
dy Franklin, we find in the New York Journal
of Commerce. They will be read with interest:
SI Bedford Place, London, )
Sept. IS, 18,51. J
Mv Dear Mr. Grinnkll:—
1 write to you in much agitation and confu
sion of mind, which you will not wonder at when
you hear that Captain Penny, with his two ships, j
has returned, and announces the approaching re
turn of Capt. Austin’s squadron, alter beiug out
for only half the period for which they were
equipped. ******
Capt. Penny’s letter is to-day before the Board
of Admiralty, urging them in the strongest terms
to despatch instantly a poweriul steamer to
Wellington Channel, in which quarter, to the
north-west, he has discovered the passage which
there can be scarcely a doubt the.ships have ta
ken, since it is the only opening they have lbund
any where, and hundreds of miles of coast have
been explored in the lower western direction, to
Cape Walker, Bank’s Land, and Melville Island,
without a trace of them. Drift wood in con
siderable quantities has come out of this north
west channel, and also a small bit of rathei fresh
English elm, which Penny pronounces must
have belonged to our ships, and was probably
thrown overboarJ. Thus the right track of the
north-west passage, and the course of the miss
ing ships are identified; and I can only regret
that our squadron was pot told they might at
tempt the making of the passage if they could,
for in that case we should have had no abandon
ing of the search till many more struggles had
been made to get into Behring Straits. The
barrier of ice in Wellington Channel did not
break up last year, nor had done so this, when
Penny left; but his explorations, which extend
ed to 180 miles from the entrance, were made
beyond it in boat sledges; 60 miles beyond this
he saw water, with land standing to the north
west. I can hardly conceive how he could re
sist following the open water which he saw be
yond him, and which he is convinced leads into
the so much talked of Polar basin. He is also
convinced, with Dr. Kane, that there is a better
climate in those more northern latitudes, with
more natural resources of food and fuel; some
proofs of which he brings forwaid. We have
every reason, then, to hope that some of our lost
friends and countrymen may yet be able to sup
port life in this region, though unable to return
by the way which they came; and the absence
of any traces of them north of Cape Innes, on
the east side of Wellington Channel, proves
nothing at all against it, since they were not
likely to linger on their way to examine shores
and islands, but would push on as fast as possible
while the opportunity favored them; and the
next traces to be found would probably be their
second winter quarters. In confirmation of this
view. Penny tells me that there are signs of their
first winter encampment at Bachey Island, &c.,
of their having left it suddenly; and that the
summer of 1846, though extremely unfavorable
to the whalers, who, on account ot the prevail
ing winds, could not cross over to the west side
of Baffin’s Bay, must have been quite the re
! verse to our navigators. You may imagine in
what a slate of anxiety and agitation we are, till
we learn the decision of the Admiralty on the j
appeal now made to them. I have written a j
strong letter also, and I know that Sir F. Beau- 1
fort, Capt. Hamilton, and Mr. Barron, who are
all at their posts, will allege the necessity of i
prompt measures with all their powers. Should j
we fail, we must look to America alone as our
resource. I o you will belong all the virtue and
credit ol continuing the search, when our own
* countrymen fail, and to you will belong the
; honor and glory of succoring the distressed, and
of settling" forever that vexed question, which
for centuries it has been the ambition of Europe, j
and of England, in particular, to solve. I can- ;
not abandon my husband and my countrymen
to their fate just at the very moment when the j
pathway to them has been found ; and, if need
be, and my coming to the United States would ;
help in engaging the active and energetic sym
pathies of your countrymen, painful, in many
respects, as this trial would be, I would brace up
my courage to the proof. But my head is grow
ing weak, and my health is sinking, and then I
have a beloved sister, (not to mention an aged
father, who is not now in a state to be conscious
of my absence.) whom it would almost break
my heart to leave. lam sure you will tell me,
with all your accustomed truth, and candor, and
kindness, what is your view of this point, in case
the Admiralty fail me.
*******
It appears that it was Capt. Austin’s inten
* tion to look into Wellington Channel himself,and
also into Jones's Sound, before he returns home;
but as to the former, Penny says, he will find
the ice impassable, so that he will be sure not to
jbe able, as an eye witness,to see the opening
Nothing, perhaps, could penetrate it in its pre
sent state, but the 100 horse-power steamer, and
1 that cannot be done this year, though Perry
say.', if the steamer could be ready to sail in three
1 weeks or a month from hence, he thinks he
could still get her up to Lancaster Sound this
season, or at any rate, to some convenient locali
ty, which would enable him to commence early
jj operations next spring. I intended writing
*T much more to you about your own two gallant
ships, and their winter of almost unparalleled
anxiety, but as I wish to address a few lines to
Judge Kane, I believe I must forbear, and refer
you to my note to him, which I shall enclose and
leave open. Capt. Penny ha?studded the north
i ern part of VVellington Channel with your
names, and the names of our brave and generous
> allies in your ship. lam pressed for time, having
' more writing than I can possibly get through.—
Believe rne, clear Mr. Grinnell. ever, most truly
and respectfully, yours, Jane Franklin.
> '
(From the Baltimore American , 19/A inst.)
The Resources and Trade of the South.
The policy of developing the resources of the
South, which are so abundant in the elements of
I commerce, lias been for some time past a subject
j of much interest to Southern people; and the de
i sign, in accordance therewith, of opening and
sustaining a direct trade with Europe, by means
of regular lines of steamers, has already become
so lar matured as to render its accomplishment,
sooner or later, a matter of certainty.
The steady progress of internal improvements
m the Southern States, by which the transmis
sion of the products of great interior regions to
the seaboard is facilitated and production itself
continually increased, must require, as a neces
sary result, corresponding facilities for the trans
portation of those products across the ocean. Wu
may properly regard, then, the movements now
on foot in the South, for the establishment of
lines of steamers between Southern ports and the
ports of Europe, as part and parcel of that great
system o£intercommunication which, beginning
at home, is destined to extend its connections
I throughout the commercial world.
A Convention, as our readers are aware, has
been recently held in Richmond, with a view to j
the concentration of the trade ofthe James Rivei
! for the purpose of sustaining a line of propellers
to some European port. This movement was
| confined we believe, or was intended to be con
lined, to the State of Virginia. But a more gen
eral movement is now contemplated, having lar
ger aims in view on a more comprehensive
scheijMV-A Convention lor the whole South, as
r we understand it, is invited to meet at Macon,
in Georgia, on the 27 th of October naxt, and vve
take occasion now to allude to this meeting to
digest the importance of having Baltimore rep
resented in that body. Os all the Southern At
lantic seaports, the city of Baltimore may, with
out undue pretension, claim to be the first—first
I in population, first in the materials of commerce
’ fust in resources, and, we hope, not behind any,
in respect to enterprise and energy. Surely it i
would lieu strange thing if a great Southern
movement, having reference to the development
of Southern capabilities and the advancement of j
Southern interests, should go on without the par
ticipation of Baltimore in it.
We would, therefore, commend this subject to
1 the consideration of our business men, and res
pectfully urge their early attention to it, with a
view to prompt action. Our city and her com- |
| tnercial interests ought to be represented by a 1
Committee of our most intelligent merchants and
men of business in the Macon Convention, that
our Southern brethren there assembled may have
definite and full information ofthe nature, char
acter and capacity of our market, both with re
gard to its commanding relations with important
domestic staples, and also in reference to its fa- ;
ciiities of communication with Europe. We
may claim our place in that body to receive in
lormation, too, as well as impart it—to exchange
ideas, in fact, to compare notes; to participate in
common counsels, and to discuss matters of gen
eral interest to the whole South. The occasion
is too important to lie lost sight of. Our South
ern trade, already large and capable of immense j
extension, gives us a deep interest in everything
pertaining to the commercial progress of the j
South—to say nothing of the affinities which
bind all the Southern States together by similari
ty of institutions, common alike to Maryland and
i to Georgia.
IxoKNiors Device. —We were told yesterday
of a very amusing instance of Yankee ingenuity.
Not long since there arrived here a brig or
schooner—we do not remember which—sent
from a Yankee port, built of Yankee timber and
by Yankee mechanics, manned by a Yankee
: crew, commanded by a Yankee captain, and fill
ed with a cargo of Yankee notions. The latter
were disposed of, the vessel’s hold cleared, and
as our skipper was waited for at home, he pro
ceeded to look out for a return cargo and ffor
ballast. He could get neither, despite the most
diligent and persuasive efforts. We mistake, he
could be furnished with ballast—the regular ar
ticle—round stones—at $1 per ton. The Down
Easter had no objection to such a price being
asked, but he most decidedly objected to paying
it. He tried to beat down “ Round Stones," but
they would not be beaten. They had had enough
of that already. Exit skipper from office of
"Round Stones' ” owner, with downcast counte
nance and whistling “Old Hundred.” He was
not long at a loss, however. “Round Stones”
was surprised to meet him the next day, smiling
and cheerful, and whistling “Yankee Doodle.”
“ Yeou can't take nothin shorter than a tour,
mister, for them stones V “Not a cent less.”
“Well, I calkilate I’ll git on without ’em.” —
“How so, skipper ?” “ Why, yeou see, mister,
yeou Neou Orrleens fellers have got an almighty
sight of miul in your diggins, and I sort’er guess
I'll deu without them stones, and fill the Mary
Ann up with that ere mud!" 1 “Ballast in mud 1”
exclaimed the astonished “Round Stone.” —
“Nothin shorter, mister, coolly replied the im
perturbable Yankee, “ there’6 plenty on it, and
stones ant shucks to it for cheapness /”— N. O.
Pic . 25th ult.
An Illinois Court Scene. —We sometimes
get rich jokes from Illinois, and the latest is the
following: It is a good bit of drollery, quite
original, we believe, and we must put it on the j
file among the funny things of the times.
A constable that had lately been inducted into
office was in attendance on the court, and was
ordered by the Judge to call John Bell and Eliza,
beth Bell. He immediately began at the top of
his lungs,
John Bell and Elizabeth Bell?”
“One at a time,” said the Judge.
“One at a time—one at a time—one at a time,” }
shouted the constable,
"Now You’ve done it,” exclaimed the Judge,
j out of patience.
".Now you’ve done it—now you’ve done it—
I now you've done it!”—yelled the constable.
There was no standing this: the court, bar and
bystanders broke into a hearty laugh, to the per
fect surprise and dismay of the astonished con
stable.
A Cool Specimen. —A lady was with her
three little children in a coach, awaiting the re
turn of the driver, who had left his horses unat
tended wJiile he stepped for a moment into a
neighboring hotel. During his absence the
horses started, wheeled the coach about,and trot
ted off down the street at a moderate speed.
The lady who naturally enough, was somewhat
alarmed at the incident, called out to a gentle
manly dressed man who was approaching the
carriage from the opposite direction, that “the I
horses were going without a driver.” “I see !
they are,” said the fellow with entire sang froid,
and passed on. The lady said she was so much j
amused with the impudent nonchalance of the
rascal that it quickly restored herequaimity till a
true gentleman, in the livery of a charcoal man,
came to the rescue. —Boston Post.
London and Paris Fashions,
Costume for the Carriage Drive or Dress i
Promenade. —Robe of white poult-de soie, the
skirt trimmed with five flounces of graduated
width. These flounces are figured with a chequer
ed pattern in bright rose color. The corsage is
open, and has a basque, edged round with a quil
ling of rose color satin ribbon, the tint corres
ponding with that on the flounces. The sleeves !
are wide at the ends, ornamented at the edge
with rose color chequers like those on the floun
ces, above is a row of quillei ribbon. Open
under sleeves of richly worked muslin or lace.
Bonnet of French chip, trimmed on each side
with a moss rose and foliage; under trimming
small rose without foliage. Pale yellow kid
gloves. Over this dress may be worn a black
lace shawl.
Ball Costume. —The dress is composed of
tarletane muslin, and is profusely embroidered
with straw, horizontal rows of the embroidery
ornamenting the lower part of the skirt, while
the ground of the dress is covered with sprigs of
the same. Head dress, straw flowers intermin
gled with the corn rose. Pearl necklace. White :
kid gloves, and white satin shoes.
Evening Dress. —Robe of pink gros-de-Na- j
pies, trimmed with two flounces, scalloped and
edged with five rows of black velvet ribbon, the
top flounce headed by a bouillonnee of gros de
Naples. The corsage has basques, and the berthe
scalloped at the edge, and trimmed with rows of
velvet to correspond with the flounces. Chem- i
isettes trimmed with frills of Honiton lace. In
the hair, on one side, a cluster of pendent loops
of narrow pink and black velvet ribbon. Petit
collier of black velvet round the throat, fastened
by jewelled clasp. White kid gloves, and white
satin shoes.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS ON FASHION AND DRESS.
The season being now far advanced, no change
of fashion can be looked for until autumn shall
have fairly set in: but a great variety in costume
! is obtained by the different combinations oi the
articles already introduced. This may have been
seen from the descriptions of complete costumes
which we have from time to time given, and we j
may now mention a few of the walking and car- i
riage dresses worn in the parks and other places
of fashionable resort within the last few days.
One was a dress of green silk, the skirt trimmed
with three flounces edged with rows of black
velvet ribbon, the corsage with basques; the
basques and end of the sleeves trimmed in the
same manner as the flounces. Bonnet, pink crape
bouillonnee with white tulle, ornamented with
two bouquets of roses intermingled with tulle;
under trimming rose buds. A black lace shawl
completed this costume. Another consisted of a
: dress of chequered silk, rose color on a brown
I ground. A white straw bonnet and a richly em
broidered China crape shawl, the ground white.
A third costume were as Sallows: Dress of gray
■ silk, ornamented with a front trimming consis
| ting of a fontage of ribbon intermingled with
j black lace. This trimming was at intervals l'as
; tened to the dress by bows of ribbon. Bonnet, j
primrose color crape covered with blonde. Cash
mere scarf. •
Several dresses worn at the most recent even
ing parties are of a style which would not be in
appropriate for winter soirees, lor instance, some
of the new silk dresses intended for evening
wear are trimmed with black lace flounces, the
' corsage ornamented and edged with narrow black
velvet. Many dresses of printed organdy have
been prepared for evening costume; one has the
design printed in pink, the pattern being small
bouquets; another, with the pattern in blue, is
i made with seven flounces, and each flounce is
edged with narrow gauze ribbon, the
l ornamented with gauze ribbon. This
trimming renders the dress Very elegant.
The head dresses worn at evening parties jBB
; sent no novelty. Natural flowers may be worn
in the hair with greater advantage at this season
I than at any other, as they fade less rapidly than
i the summer flowers.
The newest style of full dress for little girls
1 i comprise some very pretty white muslin dresses,
| ornamented with ta'oliers of needlework. Bows
' j of ribbon ornament the sleeves, and one is fixed
i | at the waist behind. A white muslin dress, worn
; over a pink or blue slip, is a fashionable style for
• little girls. With these dresses should be worn
’ ! a sash with flowing ends. Some of these dresses
I are made with basques, net withstanding that
i the corsage is low and —e» short. The
skirt is always short and trowsers are indispen
i sable.
For little boys who have inot yet attained the
' | age for wearing the jacket, the tunic or blouse is
i adopted. The Russian blouse is made all in one
piece, but opening on the left side; or the blouse
may be. made in the style called tin' Scottish
blouse*patnely, with a plain corsage, having
basques of tails, the skirt very full, and cut bias
w ay. Either of the above forms are fashionable,
| and they are made of almost every kind ol ma
, terial, but those of chequered silk, especially for
i very little boys, are the most distingue. Short
trowsers and socks complete the costume.
A set of pocket handkerchiefs have just been
completed in Paris which are remarkable as
specimens of needlework. The set consists ol a
dozen handkerchiefs, and in the four corners of
i each are represented in embroidery the portrait.
! the initial, and the arms of a king and queen of
;Fi ance. Each handkerchief has ah embroidered
border, the pattern consisting of arabesque and
; architectural ormaments in the taste of the epoch
' indicated by r the portraits.
A superb fan, received from Paris, is ornament
ed with a line painting representing .Mary
j Queen of Scots surrounded by her auurtiers in
Holy rood house. The fan is
: wrought in a light lace pattern, a wreatpHRPWW
era being also formed on each of the suck? by
j precious stones of every variety of color.— Lady's
j Newspaper.
\ Woman’s
ate number of the BostorfAledical and Sur
gical Journal publishes a papel lead before the
Boston Society for Medical Improvement, by j
Dr. W. E. Coale on the present ujliion of dress ,
amongst our women, in relation to their health.
The following paragraphs merit the wise conside- ;
ration of all whom it concerns : *
With a view of improving their shape, the
lower part of the dress of women now consists of
six, eight, or even more skirts, made of various
materials, cotton—the stiff woollen material, in
tended for curtains called moreen flannel, and at
times quilted with cotton wool—weighing to- j
! gether, as ascertained by actual experiment, ten, i
1 twelve and even fifteen pounds. Each of these
is supported by a string drawn very tightly
round the body. We have seen the marks of
these strings tor days after the shirts had been
rerfioved—we have seen them even after death.
Here, then, is the first source of evil —the con
tinued pressure and constraint that these strings
keep up, evidently embarrassing greatly the or
gans within.
When to this, however, we add the weight of
the skirts, we cannot but at once perceive how
great an additional force is set to work, particu
larly if its operation, as exerted upon organs
having amongst themselves a mobility almost as
great as that of fluid, be properly estimated. To
protect the abdominal viscera against this pres
suie, remember there is nothing hi front at least
save a thin partition of woman .. soft and tension
less muscle. That these viscera should be forced ,
; downwards is not surprising: they must in turn
exert an equal force downwards on the pelvic i
viscera is apparent. * * * Here we i
■ have an explanation full, and we trust, convinc- ,
| ing, of the frequency of a disease in the youngest ,
and heartiest of the sex—which twenty years
ago was considered peculiar tothose whose pow
ers of life were greatly exhausted by demands
upon them, or were already ontlie decline frjin
age ; an explanation, I may mention in passing i
not yet offered, as far as 1 can ascertain, by any
other writer.
Dr. Coale says that until the hst fifteen years,
although the dress was at times,worn low on the
chest, it was hung by broad shouller straps often
coming from the shoulders high up towards the
sides of the neck. Prints illustraang the fash
ions of this country, prior to the tine mentioned,
and the costumes of England and France for any
period, prove this. About fifteen years since, as
a bail dress, the shoulder-straps were left off, so
that the upper line of the dress was perfectly
horizontal; and this, with the .ehstic views of
delicacy so peculiar to fashion, vas often low
enough to disclo e the edge of thr arm-pit. In
this style there was danger of the dress slipping
down, and it would do so but for the ingenious
contrivance of whalebone upriglts, the lower ,
ends of which are supported at tie expense of
the inner vital organs, over wiich they are
placed.
Moving a Mountain. —The Rible tells us that
if we have faith we shall lemore mountains,
as if the moving of mountains yere the last
of physical impossibilities. But if we believe
what the Hungarian Gazette, quoted by a
Geneva correspondent of the Newark Daily
Advertiser says, there is a mounted in Transyl
vania which has moved itself L’teems that on
the 13tn of August last—by-theoray. that w'as
the very day on which the greatearthquake oc
curred in Italy—the mountain " fhjleztas,” in the
county of Clausenburg, Transylvinia, moved to
wards the “ Venyikes"—both nbantains being
from bight hundred to one thiusand feet in
j height. The town of “ Monj r or<Lezek,” which
was, before the movement, an hair's walk from
the last named mountain, is nowfciarcely eighty
paces distant from it, having beef moved with
the torrene movement, and is threatened mo
mentarily with burial. This nbvement lasted
from the afternoon of the 13th toi'ae noon of the
15th. It occasioned incalculable) losses; all the
plains at the foot and around theirnoved moun
tain, with their ungathered harvfct, being ruin
ed. In their places now appeal rocks of great
height, and the features ot the lafilseape are en
tirely changed. No one of theotd owners can
recognise his fields. Waters hale broken out in
the whole vicinity, which is converted into a
rocky marsh. The population jof the village,
some four or five hundred, fief to their next
neighbors.
Edwin Fobrsst. —Mr. Toned had a benefit
in New-York on Friday nighL which is de
scribed as a most brilliant ati .ir, The house
was jammed to its utmost capaci yi At the close
of the performance he was called bffore the cur
tain and made the following remarls :
Once more, ladies'and gentlemejjfdevolves up
on me the pleasure of thalking you for your
kindness. This is the most brilliant, triumphant
and gratifying professional engagenent I have
ever fulfilled. It has not only been gratifying to
my professional pride, but it has sorthed, relieved
and cheered a heart whose depths have been sound
ed by the sorest affliction. And. believe me, ladies
and gentlemen, the pulsations of that heart must
cease, before the record of your kindness can ever
be effaced. Exhausted and overcome, as I am,
from the exertions of the evening. I feel that I
cannot address you in appropriate phrase. Per
mit me, therefore, in the siftipie and sincere lan
guage of a grateful heart, t*say at once, thanks
—good night.
Fire. —About 3 o’clock yesterday morning, :
i just as onr paper was going to press, a fire broke
out in Mr. H. R. Box’s hat store in Broughton
street. The engines were promptly on the 1
ground and put out the fire before it extended to
any other premises. We understand Mr. B. has ;
an insurance on his stock, but we could not learn
the amount, and it can hardly cover his great loss,
as his stock which was not burned is almost
ruined by being wet.
The second floor was occupied by Mr. James
Stratton, and his stock of gas fixtures were con
siderably injured; but we ream that his loss is
covered by an insurance in the Howard Insurance
Company of New York. The building w r as own
ed by Isaac Cohen, Esq.
Mr. Box has an insurance of $7,000 in the of
fices of the Southern Mutual, and the Columbia
Insurance Companies. We regret to learn that
Mr. Box lost all his hooks, and from some cir
-1 cumstances, he is led to believe that his store
I was broken open and the fire intentionally kin
dled. No lights were lit on the previous eve
ning, and there had been no fire in the store for
; a week.— Sav. Republican, 4 th inst.
i A Welcome. —Among the passengers by the
Baltic, which arrived at New York, on Sunday,
was Mr. John C. Stevens, of Hoboken, late
owner of the yacht America, that whipped the
Royal Yacht Squadron of England recently,
! He was honored, t unday morning though it was.
i with a salute of two hundred guns, one hundred
in New York and one hundred from the Yacht
| Club house at Hoboken.
A Chinaman's Funeral in California.—
John’Chinaman sticks to his old customs, with a
| tenacity that bids defiance alike to precept and
example. Progress may crush him beneath her
chariot wheels, hut she will never induce him to I
take a seat as a passenger in her vehicle. The
other day, a Mr. Anthony, a respectable mer
chant from Canton, died at San Francisco, from
the effects of a disease contracted on the voyrge
thither. The San Franciscans wished to give
; him “Christian burial;" but his countrymen, of
i whom there are some thousands in California,
! would not hear of his being buried in any other ,
than the celestial fashion.
The funeral procession of the Chinese, attired
in their native costume, was very striking, and
piohably the largest ever witnessed outside the j
Celestial Empire. On arriving at the ceme
tery, they all proceeded to the different graves
of their fbuntrvmen, buried there at various
times, sprinkled wine upon their tombs, and per
formed a variety of other ceremonies very singu
lar to us “outsiders,"’ after which the body was
consigned to the grave with much ceremony—
throwing into the grave the white riband which
they all wore upon their left arm as a badge of
j mourning, burning candles, incense, torches, and
: slips of gilt paper, at the toot of the grave, with
! a salaam for each. They then made way tor the
brother of the deceased, who approached the
j grave, much affected, and performed nine genu
-1 flections, kissing the ground and salaaming. Af
ter which they profusely distributed wine, cigars,
i.a id perforated Chidese coin, among all present.
3 hey then returned with the mast perfect deco
j rum to their homes. The whole scene appeared
! to be one of joy instead of mourning.— N. Y.
| Star.
Father Mathew.—This apostle of temper
ance is about to return to Ireland, where a dreary
prospect awaits him, if not aided by the citizens
11 of the U. States. It appears that, in his zeal in
' | the temperance cause, he was induced to relieve
Li the distressed to an amount much beyond his
having borrowed large sums to aid in his
purposes. He e\p,'cti*il !o l>" aide to
these sums by a legacy from an aim!: but
disappointed, she having died suddenly be
mWp executing the will, although it was prepar
1j e 1 tor her signature. It appears that he is in
1 j debt to the amount of some twenty-live or thirty
thousand dollars; and the Hon. Henry Clay has
• written a feeling appeal to Henry Grinnell, Esq.
■ j of New York, asking that he will interest him
> sdf in devising measures to extircate Father
Mathew from his difficulties. Collecting com
-1 mittees have consequently been appointed, and
r we presume that the citizens of Baltimore will
i i be asked to assist. Father Mathew has done so
> much in the U. States to improve the morals
t j and promote the happiness of the people, that we
i | presume there will be no dufficulty in sending
■ j him home freed from a debt incurred in the cause
!of humanity. The peo, le of England should
! j never have permitted him to visit this country
> laboring under such a burthen—but, as they neg
‘ le -ted their duty, let us endeavor to perform
• i oar's, by acting in a different spirit. The sum
1 required to relieve and send him home happy
: can be easily raised by small contributions in our
'• i cities—and we hope that he will be made to "go
: 1 on bis way rejoicing."— Baltimore Clipper. 30/A
: J
| Fire Anniiiilator Company.—The Fire An
! nihilator operation bids fair to surprass any other
, speculation Mr. Barnum has ever been
i engaged. The profits of the company during
the current week will compare with that of any
'I b.usines > association in this or any other country.
' The orders for machines alone from,this and ad
joining cities have exceeded SIOO,OOO, and the
; sales, or contracts for sale oi territories, 'have 1
I more than doubled that amount. The secret of
success is to be found in this dLse partly in the
character of the invention and partly in the wise
i and liberal policy of the company No patent
!of any considerable value he, • >een sold be
i fore upon such m.-v ..te t.-, i .>i only to agents,
j to purchasers may'..nes The right of
Ij manufacturing uj n , '-n,'U' profit a^sr
r i the cost, is re'ami . the eo
' | oft!u ' • -•» complllSi i£a.
clnnery necessary to manufacture the
| and chemical charges By this arrangement the
| purchasers and sellers become, in effect, one vast
r association for the furtherance lof their mutual
; interest. Mr. Barnum retains his present posi
i tion as general manager of the v '"de concern
I N. Y. Star. '
! Mr. Clay s Health.—ln a paragraph pub
: lished yesterday, copied from the New York
| Mirror, it was stated that the health of Mr. Clay
was in such a feeble state that it was doubtful if
he would be able again to visit Washington.
We were yesterday shown a letter from Mr.
Clay himself, to a friend in this city, in which,
i speaking of his health, lie says:—•• It has not "
i been good the past summer, and is yet feeble. I
! hope and believe it is improving, but when this
: machine of ours gets out of order, it is difficult to j
re-adjust the misplaced screws, and we have
1 only to await the result with patience and re-
I signation. —Charleston Courier, HOth alt.
The late J. FknNimohe Cooper.—A rneet
j ing of literary men was held in New York on
| Wednesday to take measures to show a proper
respect to the memory of the late J. Fennimore i
: Cooper. Washington Irving was called to the
! chair, and Messrs. Fitzgreen Hatleck and Rufus !
Griswold acted as Secretaries. After some litlie
discussion, the subject was referred to a special
committee, consisting of Judge Duer, Fitzgreen
Halleck, Richard Kimball. Hon. George Ban
croft, Dr. Francis, Mr. G. A. Blunt, Washington
Irving, and Rufus Griswold. The meeting then
adjourned.
lai.sk Packing of Cotton. —At a recent
meeting of the American Chamber of Commerce,
i held in Liverpool on the 13th ult., the following
j resolution upon this subject was unanimously
; adopted:
Resolved , That it is the opinion of this Cham
her that the present system of returning falsely
packed cotton, entails so much loss upon the im
porters that it is expedient to limit the time
within which such cotton may be returned, to
three calendar months from the date of sale, and
that Messrs. W. Rathbone and F. A. Hamilton
be appointed a deputation from this Chamber to
obtain the concurrence of the importers in an
agreement to sell upon these terms only'.’'
In accordance with this resolution the various
importers were waited upon by the deputation,
and the result has been the agreement by the
principal houses to act in conformity with the
rule suggested by the American Chamber ol
Commerce, which rule went into effect on the
10th ult. The following merchants are among
those who have assented to this arrangement :
"E. Zwilchenbart & Co., Baring, Brothers &
Co.; Isaac Low & Co., Robert & George Benn,
Dunant & Frommell, Robert Higgin, A. C.
Brown and Green, Edward Moon, Eggers it
Taylor, Duckworth & Williams, Richardson,
Brothers & Co., Washington Jackson, Sons & Co.,
A. Dennistoun & Co., Thomas & John Brockle
bank, Bailey, Brothers & Co., Glen & Anderson.
R. L. Bolton. David Cannon, Sons & Co., Rank
in, Gilmour & Co., J Beazley. William Moon.
Nicol, Duckworth & Co., A. McGregor,Maclean,
Maris & Co., Tenants, Clow & Co., John O.
Johnsofi & Co., George Green, Son lie Co., John
Toole.
Two thousand bales of Cotton were sold on
Tuesday, and three thousand on Wednesday.
demand is good but prices are lower. Mid
dling is quoted at 7? and good middling at 8J
cents. Prime Yellow Corn is worth 18 cents.
Mess Pork is offering at SIS, but there are no
buyers.
New Orleans, Oct, 9,14 A. M.
On Thursday, thirty-five hundred bales of Cot
i ton were sold. Middling was worth BBacon
has a downward tendency, and Sides are quoted
at eleven cents. Freights are advancing, and
Cotton to Liverpool is quoted at half a penny,
and to Havre at one cent.
Columbia, Oct. 3, S P. M.
There was no change in the Cotton market
to-day. The transactions which amount to 163
bales, were in favor ol buyers. The sales were
at extremes ranging from 63 to 9 15-100ths.
Russian Justice. —ln the beginning of July,
several prisoners, detained in the citadel at War
saw, were condemned by Court Martial and had
their sentences communicated to them. The
families of these unfortunates expected to obtain
their pardon from the Emperor, but they had
hoped in vain. On the 20th of July, four of the
convicted were publicly flogged. One received
2.000 lashes, two 1,500 each, and the fourth
2.000. This last fell dead, after having received
1.000 lashes, and they placed the body on a
stretcher, where they administered the remain
ing thousand to his corpse. Thirty others, of
whom the greater part were entitled to the am
nesty granted to refugees, were sent to the mines
j of Siberia. The council of war is inexorable in
respect to any one engaged in the Hungarian
struggle.
Cross Examination. —“ Mr. Smith you said,
you once officiated in a pulpit; do you mean by
that you preached ?”
“No, sir; I held the light for the man who
did.”
“ Ah 1 the court understood you differently. !
They supposed that the discourse came from ;
you.”
“ No, sir, I only throw’d a little light on it.”
“No levity, Mr. Smith. Crier wipe your [
nose, and call the next witness.”
! The Election of Bishop Creighton. —ln
! the New York Episcopal Convention, when the
election of Bishop Creighton was announced,
there was great joy over the result, and an ani
j mating scene ensued. The organ pealed forth a
j loud and jubilant voluntary; the Convention, all
i the audience joining, sang, “Te Deum” and
; “Gloria in Excelsis,” and the Fishop elect thus
feelingly addressed the body:
j “Brethren and Priends: You have elected me
| to the highest honor, in my estimation, to which
any man can be raised. You have chosen me to
the office of a Bishop in the church of God, a
station to which there is none superior in res
pectability, influence, usefuless, dignity, sanctity,
solemn and awful responsibility. For the favora
ble opinion, the kind feeling thus expressed, 1
thank you; with my whole heart I thank you!
But, brethren and friends, it is well known that,
on two suitable occasions, I declared iny repug
nance, my decided refusal to have my name
brought before the church for this exalted station;
and 1 thought I had expressed my sentiments in
terms such as could not be misunderstood, and
such as you have now taken. My opposition
Was been disregarded, and the office of Bishop
over this large and influential Diocese has been
proffered to me. lam not prepared to accept it.
1 ought not, without some consideration, to de-
I dine it. I must have time; you must give me
time for consultation with judicious friends—for
reflection—for prayer—that 1 may be guided to
a right decision in this momentous matter.”
The New York Commercial, in announcing
the election of the new bishop, says:
“We believe that he is a moderate High
j Church-man, conciliatory in his views, and not
i disposed to push his personal predictions to ex
; tremes.—The brief address in which he acknowl
; edged his election is indicative of the modesty
j and sincerity of his Christian character, and visi
| bly affected the members of the Convention. Dr.
! Creighton is a native of this city, and graduated
at Columbia College in 1812. For some years
| after his ordination he performed the duties of
assistant minister in Grace Church, and was sub
sequently rector ot St. Mark's iff the BovvAiy, for
fifteen years, He is possessed, we are informed,
of ample private means, and from his #ivn re
sources'created a handsome church in his parish
; at Tarrytown, m which he has, lor a number of
years past, officiated gratuitously.”
A married gentleman, every time linnet the
i father of his wife, complained to liimßtbe ugly
| temper and disposition of his daughters At last
i upon one occasion, the old
weary of the grumblings ex
claimed: "You are right.
ja le. and it t hear any of her, 1
will disinherit her.” The made no
more complaints.
Packard's Distilling Aitrajatus.—Mr.
Packard, of 239 Water street, \im furnishes
ships with cabooses, etc. has just a* up, in the
clipper ship Wild Pigeon, a muclße for conver
ting salt water into fresh, at the Me of four gal
lons per hour. The operation of i thus describ
ed: On the top of the galley, or «okLs house, is
j placed a tank capable of hoklinJtjjo Inquired
I gallons of salt water, which al large
wooden tank inside the ‘gaff 1 * jEE feeds a
I wrought iron boiler kept on which is
I connected by pipes, and the into a
lead tube running through the hpeWank, in the
same manner as a distil wormjne cold water in
the tank condenses the steam* the tube, and
from a faucet in the bottom offie tank a stream
of cold fresh water constant) wns. If this in
vention performs ul.i' this, it vfll prevent a good
deal of suffering among vessel on long voyages,
who invariably get out of waer before reaching
their destination. If is said 11 lumii general use
among the French vessels./A 7 . *Y. Evening
Post. I
From Nassau.—A frientfias favored us with
a file of the Nassau B; i anjHerald, to the 10th
uit., brought by the Fr str.- Eliza L. Susan,
('apt. Sweeting, arma I c> erday, from
Harbor Island, from v. we perceive that
since the Ist of Ai gust, 5 vessels have loaded
with Salt at Rum -tv. rai taking on an aver
age, 10,000 bushels Gaj? was paid for ten car
goes, at 10 cents . r busrl R iking still pro
! grosses. _
Provisions a’ ry areo at Long Cay,
Crooked Islan >ot. barrel of flour can be
bad, nor can pr o iom b> purchased at any
price: one vessel to ra 1 V < cargo (8000 bush
els) of Salt in Augiint.;'
No summer made at the out
; I viands ip weather.—
Charleston Courier,
German Amin iF-eh German lias
i his house, his trees, so laden
1 with fruit, that if carefully prop up
and tie toge: we. so m many places hold the
i boughs together w wooden clamps, the}’
i would be to- . •J .e 'la ii own weighty—
-1 le has his cnv. ■
so 141 for
j slant exerjJ^Pl^Wsee the effect of this in his
111 German js lost. The produce of
„ t ffu trees and tfaKvs is carried to market; much
tmit is dried f'oijff > , use. You see strings of
them h iffeir chamber windows in
the sun. :!’.*> .a; irept up for the greater
pirtot tue j. fi* 1 ever • green thing is collect
ed'tor the n. JR-, httlenook where the grass
grows by li. , P 11 1 lii >
carefully pßMNPnKr_bro''k,
or. sickle, and can led 'me
• ..a , , lion . as
¥
‘ >■ a.''” .4---" m
1 1 the cows, ion see
the little children 1 " Til theatre* >!’ .ae
villages, in the st ' inTfcn sp*lierally run
dowiTthem. busy washing these YVWfcrili.'fore
they are given to the cattle.
They candidly collect the leaves of the marsh
g.flss. lops for them,
m. l even -V JPgatli-'i- given leaves
: from the cannot help thinking
continually of the enormous waste upon such
things in Englaad—of vast quantities of grass
ion banks,by ro«-sides, in the opening of plan
tations, in lanes'in church yards, where grass
from year to year springs and dies, but which, if
jfcarefiilly cut. would maintain many thousand
cows for the poor
The Law [of Taeason.—Judge Kane, of th
| United States Djwict Court, at Philadelphia,
• charged the on the law of
; treason. To he
says:— T
“ There must have keen a combination or con
! spiring together to ojmose the law by force, and
i some actual force unit have been exerted; or
the crime of treason consummated. The
highest, or at least the* V; proof of the com
bining, may be found purposes of
the individual party actual outbreak; !
or it may be derived from proceedings of meet
ings, in which he took part openly, or which he
either prompted, or made effective by his coun
tenance or sanction—commending, counselling
and instigating forcible resistance to the law. 1
speak, of course, of a conspiring to resist a law,
not the more limited purpose to violate it, or to
prevent its application and enforcement in a par
ticular case, or against a particular individual. I
The combination must be directed against the
law itself.
But such direct proof of this element of the
offence is not legally necessary to establish its
existence. The concert of may be de
duced from the concerted action itself, or it may
be inferred from facts occurring at the time, or
afterwards, as well as before, a
Besides this, there must be some act of vio
lence, as the result or consequcgice of the com
bining. But here again, it is not necessary to
prove that the individual accused was a direct,
personal actor in the violence. If he was present,
direc ing, aiding, abetting, counselling, or coun
tenancing it, he is in law guilty of the forcible
act. Nor is even his personal presence imtispen
i sable. Though he be absent at the time of its
actual perpetration, yet if he directed the act,
devised or knowingly furnished he means lor
i carrying it into effect, instigated others to per
j form it, he shares their guilt In treason there \
are no accessories. ’’
Weather and Crops.—Mississippi. —The I
Yazoo Whig of the 19th says: “Cotton is now i
coming into our market rather rapidly for this !
season of the year. During the last ten days, i
about 1500 bales have passed our office. :,
The Columbus Democrat of the 20th says:
“We had quite a rain during the pastAveek. It
served to cool the atmosphere, lay thwdust, and
has no doubt, much benefitted the potato and I
turnip crops. We may remark in this connection,
; that the corn and cotton crops in this and adjoin
i ing counties, will be scercely half of the average
yield.”
[ Extrart from a litter rercivnl in Idnttd.] ,
“St. Lukes P aui.'ll, Sepn|^Kßsl.
“To give you some idea of the the !
storm in August, I referred to my Cottonpiook ,
of last year to-day, and find I had in last yfar on ;
| this day ninety bales of cotton—to-day If have
in thirty-live bales. My whole crop iooks as if
!it had been visited by a November frost. We j
i are now suffering for want of rain. I have
planted 325 acres of Close Peas. Unless we i
: have rain in a few days they won't be worth ;
, picking. I shall make a very short crop.’’
Not much Trouble to try it. —To raise an
i orchard of grafted fruit without grafting! How
! can it he done' Select the kind of fruit you de- j
sire, then take a linen string and tie it as near ;
! the top as may be. Let it remain one year, \
then you have above the string one year’s
growth. Over the string will form a bulb; cut
of just below and set in the ground, and from the i
I bulb will start out roots, and soon trees of a
! dwarfish size will be seen growing under a bur- j
den of fruit— Exchange.
Cotton Crop. —We hear, every day, com
plaints from every section of the country, of the !
great shortness of the cotton crop in this region.
On some plantations, it will take 5, 10, 15. and, !
in many instances, as much as 20 acres to make i
a good heavy bag. But a few days ago, a gen- j
tleman from Heard, informed us, that on his way •
to this place lie saw a large field, then already
picked out clean, with no prospect for another
picking, and the cattle turned upon it, grazing
about at their leisure, over the blighted cotton
stalks.— Neuman (Oa.) Banner,3d inst.
Trip around the World.—R. S. Wade, Esq.
has just returned from Europe to Boston. In
December last he left Boston for California,
thence proceeded to China in the bark George
E. Webster, and thence to England, via the
overland route from India, thus having taken a
turn around the globe in less than nine months,
stopping two months of the time in San Francis
co, a month in China, anil at least a fortnight in
England.
.11 erfTL. geokuia.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCT. 8.
JAMES GARDNER, JR., )
and ' Editors.
JAMES M. SMYTHE, )
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE STATE.
Election Returns Richmond County.
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For Governor.
C. ./. Me Donald 517 26 68 7 30 654
Howell Colib 047 54 38 55 02 850
Congress.
Robert McMillan 510 27 64 536 642
Robert Toombs 621 53 35 51 61 821
Senator.
A. J. Miller 744 03 48 52 71 978
C, J. Jenkins* 4214 00 00 1 47
Re present at i vos.
W. R. Fleming 444|17 51 4 241640 ■
IK. Schley. 1 525 1 28 88 6 37.084
John Miiledgo 723 51 22 44 61 901
A. C. Walker |570|60154 44 721800
Election of Judges. i I I I
By the People 1478 05 06 00 j 75 084
; By the Legislature i 28j 4 00100>00 27
*Not a candidate. Those in it t/irs are South
ern Rights men.
To our Campaign Subscribers.
The next weekly, to be issued on Wednesday,
I 15th inst. will be the last number sent to our
campaign subscribers. This is pursuant to our
published terms. Those of them, therefore, who
desire to he entered upon our list of regular sub
scribers, will please forward their names and
subscription money as early as practicable. We
hope the inducements are strong enough to pre
vail on a largo portion of those who have taken
our paper for the campaign just closed, to eontin
;ue for the next twelve months. It will he a pe
j'riod of unusual political interest, as it will ern
j brace the approaching session of our Legislature
' —of the Federal Congress, and the Presidential
campaign of next summer.
Besides the matters of political interest which
will attract a considerable portion of the public
| attention, there are other topics embracing the
business affairs of life,fin Commerce, Agriculture
; and the industrial Arts, and the Literature and
current news of the day, which must occupy our
I columns and enlist the interest of our readers.—
| The Constitutionalist Sf Republic is, therefore, not
likely to become less interesting and useful than
heretofore, to its many readers.
The thankful for past kindness,
| hopes that the number of its friends and patrons
j will continue, as has been the case heretofore,
j steadily to increase.
.
i * The Grand Jury in the United States Distrie
! Court at Philadelphia, have found true hills
| against Elijah Lewis v _ Caspar Idanway, Jos.
| Scarlet, and Jas. Jackson, twen
ty-seven negroes, for treason in partieipalmV’TW-*
1 Ihe Christiana outrage. The bill against George ■
4 Wise, negro, was ignored.
KF” Comparative Statement of the Earnings
of the Georgia Railroad during the six months
ending. September 30th, of 1850 and 1851.
Passengers. Freights,Mail, &c. Total,
j 1851.121.233.15 180,44 )18 301,682 03 |
} 1850.115,290 01 160,803 27 276,183 81;
j
1 ue's.s 0,912 01 819,556 21 $ 25J98 82
Condemning wltln^^JEJearing.
The Richmond count of the Con
stitutional Union the Hon. John
M. Berrien under tIiCJBSTui of its displeasure, and
denounced himwuySKafe man so represent j
the people of tlie American Senate.
It at the repudiated the Hon.
Charles .1. Jelffiris as unfit to represent the peo
ple of Richmond county in the Legislature, be
cause lie presumed to differ with the wire-work
ers of that party, as to the claims of Judge Ber
rien—his patriotism—his acquiescence.in the de
cision of the Georgia Convention, and his at- I
tachment to the Union.
J' So far, these wire-workers have hud their
1 own way. carried their points so far
ias Richmond county is concerned. Thgy have
fcfcjdtjus city and the valuable
, services of Mr. Jenkins in the Legislature, where
. they hav« always been very efficient in refer
j once to all matt*is effecting our local interests,
and where they were never more needed than
they will he at the approaching session. The
, hostile interests combined against Augusta will
present a more formidable array, ami be sustain-
I ed with more power than at any former period,
and Augusta will long rue the loss of Mr. Jen- |
! kins’s services and his ill-judged sacrifice upon ;
the altar of party, to gratify the resentment of a
few heated politicians, and feed the ambition of
some demagogue hankering after Judge Ber
rien's seat in the Senate.
But we will leave the folly of this quarrel in
the political wigwam of our opponents, to its own
cure, satisfied that time and reflection, and the
1 realization of the jeopardy and possible destruc
tion of important interests, will bring repentance !
for the intemperate deed. We now only aim to
j draw a contrast between the treatment re
ceived by Judge Berrien from the organs of the
Constitutional Union party, and that shown to
Allen F. Owen, the contemned and despicable
: American Consul at Havana. »The latter v. as
I not hastily condemned without a hearing, though
j enough was disclosed in the first intelligence of
his recreancy to the calls of duty—of national
I sympathy and humanity—to make successful de-
[ fence apparently hopeless. His defence was
j patiently waited for, and when it finally arrived
! over his own signature, it was promptly pub
j lished, both by bis accusers and bis apologists of
the public press. It was a lame and contempti
ble attempt at an apology, for his dastardly and
unfeeling conduct, but still it was published.—
He was allowed a hearing before bis country
men—before his fellow-citizens of Georgia, and
their impartial opinion has been invoked upon i
the merits of that defence.
How is it with Judge Berrien? He has not
been treated with the courtesy and fairness
shown even that contemptible piece of humani
ty, Allen F. Owen. Even the infamous Judge
Parsons of Pennsylvania, has found apologists
and defenders in Georgia, and his conduct upon
the bench has been smoothed over and palliated.
But Judge Berrien has not only been denounced
as an unsafe man, and his political integrity im
peached, but the party press of his accusers, with
one exception, refuses to publish his defence.—
The Southern Recorder , to its honor, has published j
it. That paper is entitled to the respect of hon
orable and fair men, for doing this. It is in hon
rable contrast to the course pursued by the rest.
It has done but justice. Yet. to do this, in man
ly defiance of the ruthless spirit of party proscrip
tion which seeks its ends at whatever expense
of justice, is worthy of commendation.
A Stage Coach.
There are but few of our readers who are not
acquainted with Mr. Douglass, (familiarly called
Bob Douglass) who has been engaged in stage
lines from this city for twenty years past, either
as driver or proprietor. For several years he has
had the contract between this city and Greenville
S. C., and a more prompt contractor, we do not
think can be found in the United States. His
line between this City and Greenville, S. C.,
has always been noted for good teams,fine coaches
and fine horses. He is one of the few contractors
who takes a pride in his business, and would
rather give satisfaction to the travelling public
on his lines, than make money on his mail con
tracts and not consult the comfort of his pas
sengers. We were shown yesterday, a new
nine passenger Stage Coach, intended for his
Greenville line from this city, which for neatness
of finish and comfortable seats, will compare with
most of the finest private carriages. It is
from the manufactory of Mr. J. Stephens Ab- ,
bott, ol Concord, N. 11., and is a credit to the <
establishment in which it was made. It has all
the modern improvements in the way of Stage
Coaches, such as patent breaks, thick wheel |
tire, light but substantial foundation, and sand I
boxes, to prevent friction. It is substantially
built for heavy Work, and yet weighs only 2,265
pounds.
Good Dividends.
The Mechanics’ Bank, it will be seen, has d &
dared a divided often dollars per share out of the !
profits of the past six months, payable on demand, !
and an extra dividend of ten dollars per share, !
payable the first of November.
The Brunswick Bonk has declared a dividend
of Five Dollars per share, out of the profits of '
the past six months, payable on demand.
ll I
Dreadful Steamboat Explosl^
steamer Brilliant, which left New Origins Satur
day evening at 5 o’clock, for Bayou Sara, explo- t
l ded her second starboard boiler, on Sunday morn. -
ing at 8 o’clock, near Bayou Goula, just aftev
leaving Dr. Stone’s plantation where she had
! stopped. The explosion was terriflic, carrying
away the main cabin and state-rooms, as far
back as the ladies’ cabin, and every thing for.
; ward of the boilers, making a complete wreck of
he boat above the hull. There were about 100
hands employed on the boat, who at the time of
the accident, were eating breakfast. About thir
ty only of these were saved. The passengers
were about thirty-five in number—B or 10 of
them ladies. How many of them were lost, lias k
; not been ascertained, but the ladies, it is said, all
escaped. The steamer Natchez No. 2, was near,
I and took off and up forty-two sufferers, fifteen o
| whom died. James Fullerton, the mate, and Mr.
McCarty are among the killed. Mr. Lowison, y
editor of the Baton Rouge Advocate, J. A. Cot
ton, first clerk, S. G. Cole, assistant clerk. Rob
ert Doyle, first engineer, Carnes, second clerk,
and False, second pilot, were all badly scalded.
The steamers Princess and Montgomery brought 1
down several of the wounded to New Orleans:
The last number outlie Southern" Republic
(Camden, Ala.,) says there will be no scarcity
of corn in Wilcox county, except in a few neigh
borhoods. There will he enough lor domestic
consumption.
'I he cotton crop (it says) will certainly lie
short. Owing to the continued and excessive
drought, the crop is nearly all opened, and many
planters more than half done gathering. It j s
estimated the average will not exceed the last
crop. Planters are more than ordinarily dispos
ed to demand good prices for their cotton, it hav
iug been nicely picked and otherwise prepared
for market. i
Gin-House and two Negroes Burnt.— \\V
learn from the Haynevillu Chronicle, that on
Monday night week,a fire occurred on the planta
tion of Mr. F. J. Smith, five or six miles North
east of that place, which consumed his gin-house
and two of his negroes. The two negroes, as
we understand (says the Chronicle) were in the
pick-room engaged in packing down the ginned
cotton, while others were engaged in some other
business about the building with a light. The
lire accidentally came in contact with the cotton,
which being very dry, caught immediately F
wrapping the entire house in flames so suddenly
as to prevent the escape of the negroes from the
room. We have not learned the extent of Mr. j
Smith's loss, but it must he considerable. J
Maryland Elections.— We perceive in oui g
Baltimore exchanges returns of the recent elci - l
tions in Maryland, from which we glean the in- ] i
formation that the Delegation from that State in I
the next Congress will stand as follow.-. f
First District. —Richard J. Bowie, Whig, rr
| elected. Jf
Second District. —William T. Hamilton, Demo.
I crat, re-elected. B
Third District. —Edward Hammond. 1Vi : o.
crat, re-elected. . j
Fourth District. —Thomas Yates Walsh. \V Li.
gain.
Fifth District. —Alexander Evans. Wi _ re
elected.
■f jtixth District.- —Daniel M. Henry, the n
Whig nomTMijc,will, it. is though! 1
ill this Di.it rictnfrWHfcJoseph ( otlin.i:, p >
prudent Whig.
Harper's Magazine. —The Oct
of this popular monthly is reccivei
as usual, with interesting articles,
by Thos. Richards &* Soi, and J. A. Carrie
| & Co.
.The Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. now
owned by the children of the late Gen. Jc- op,
and the children of the late Col. Croghan, who
received it as a bequest from a wealthy relati ■
XT" We have received a marriage notice from
Alexander, Burke county, but as it is not accom- .
panied by the name of the writer, we decline Us 1
publication.
A Sad Occurrence. —On Wednesday night
the 24th ult. Mrs. Morgan, wile of Win. Morgan,
jr. of Penfleld, Ga., Ben. H. Billion, a young
man, about 15 years old, and his sister, were en
gaged in filling a lamp with "Burning Fluid.'
The contents of the jug and lamp took tire, and ,
were spilled upon their clothes and the floor of
the room. By a prompt effort, the flame was
extinguished, hut young Binion was so severely
burnt that he did not survive 40 hours. His death .
seems tgjiave been occasioned by his inkling the
flame, llis sister and Mrs. Morgan have rcco\ -
ered the wounds which received at tin* 4
same time.
The following has come to hand rather to i
late too reach our readers in Jefferson count v
before the election ; but as we are requested tr
publish it, notwithstanding, we do so cheerfully
To the Independent Voters of Jefferson County
Gentlemen: —In respect to the earnest en
treaties of many of both my personal and politi
cal friends. I have determined to withdraw my
name from this canvass.
The motives which prompt many o them
this appeal to me, is to he found in ilieir belie:
that with another name, they can more certain
ly overthrow the caucus Candida rr. and with
him, the despotic system of minority nomina
tions.
My only motive for yielding my claims, is to
join as a volunteer in this Republican crusade
againstthe monopoly of our political rights by a
pew, and the establishment of a " wire-working
dictatorship” over the bridled will of the people
To overthrow this rotten and trichi/ system ol
juggling, is more desirable to me than all the
honors of a personal triumph.
With sincere thanks and gratitude to the nu
merous friends who have thus far encouraged
me on the way, 1 invite them, and all good citi
zens, to join the issue with us, and in solid col
umn we will make this monster " bite the dust. '
I am, gentlemen, your obedient servant,
G C. GORHAM. •
October Ist, 1851.
The Cuban Prisoners. —There arcs printers
o farmers, lb clerks, 5 merchants, 1 doctor. .’
druggists, 5 soldiers, S laborers. J tobacconists. -a
shoemakers, 6 carpenters. 1 mason. I bricklayers
• r > painters, J engineers,l machinist, l moulder, I «
silversmith, 1 confectioner, I watchmaker. J
butchers, 1 baker, 1 saddler, and 7 boatmen,
among the Cuban prisoners sent to Spain. C
A. McMurray, of Md., is a printer; John Boss
well, of Md., a mason ; Thos Hilton, of Wash
ington, a painter ; Chas. Horwell, of Va., a prin
ter; Thos. Hudnell, ofVa., a farmer:Jno. Coop
er, of Va., a clerk ; and Wm. Cameron. Va.. a
carpenter. £
English papers tiie Baltic,announce ,
the following failures,.viz: Messrs Campbell
Arnott & Co., of Liverpool, connected with the
South American trade; Messrs. W. M. Veil &
Co., of Liverpool, grain dealers, Messrs. Spen
cer, Ashlin ix Co., of London, also grain dealers.
The failure of Messrs. Veil & Co., is understood
to have been brought about by the suspension i
of the last named house. The liabilities of the
various firms arc.no£ stated, but those of Messrs
Campbell & Co. are sppgpsed to be heavy.
Health a. Clay. —The Richmond
Times says:—ln f letter of recent date from Mr.
Clay himself to a friend in this city, the venera
ble statesman writes that his health Ims been
feeble during the summer, but be believes it is
mproving, and he expects to Washington
once more.
There was considerable frost in the vicinity of
Newberry, S. C. on the morning of the 28th
ultimo. TendeuVegetation was slightly scorch
ed, though no damage was done cotton or late
i corn.
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—Win. Laughlin and
m. Silk fought in New-Orleaus on Sunday ]
or ening week, with dirks.. Laughlin was kill
f,(* instantly, having been stabbed in four
diffe.ent places. Mr. Laughlin has been a mer
chant some years in the city, and at the time of
his death was one of the nominees of the Dem
ocratic party for the Legislature, an Alderman
of the city and captain of the Emmett Guards,