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» JfiisttllanwuH. ; [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. $ . || # £| Vj 3J SI . 3 tx © .2 y; —< so 3 , S c 2 P . 4> eS O _ < 03 Ai H H 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. homed w k 1 m i.mi.i,hi. ■ ! *i, it 1 'ii MHhFJh, ; - : , ■ ■i i ?**■! i i.r S' ''"'''"Oil thi^^gpgtlhMi'SMtat'4#:ajjggMMHpPPe' it I'k'l —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,