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POETRY.
Autumn.
BY LONGFELLOW.
0, with what glory comes and goes the year ?
The buds of spring—those beautiful harbingers
Os suuny skies and cloudless times—enjoy
Life's newness, and earth's garnituro spread out;
And whan the silver habit of the clouds
Comes down upon the Autumn sun, and with
A sober gladness the old year take up
Ui3 bright inheritance of golden truits,
A pomp and pageant till the splendid scene.
There is a beautiful spirit breathing row
Its mellowed richnc*S3 on the cluster'd trees,
And, from a beaker full of richest dyes
Pouring new glory on the autumn woods,
And dipping m warm light the pillar’d clouds,
Morn, on tho mountain, like a summer bird,
Lifts up her purple wing; and in the vales
The gentle wind—a sweet and passionate wooer—
Kisses the blushing leaf, and stirs up life
Within the solemn woods of ash deep crimsoned,
And silver beech, and maple yell-leaved—
Whore Autumn, like a faint old man, sits down
By the way-side a weary. Through the trees
The golkon robin moves ; the purple finch,
That on wild cherry and red cedar feeds—
A winter bird—comes with its plaintive whistle,
And peeks by the witch hazel; whilst aloud
from the cottage roofs the warbling blue bird sings;
And merrily, with oft repeated stroke,
Sounds from the threshing-floor the busy flail.
0, what a glory doth this world put on
For him who, with afervont heart, goes forth
Undor the bright and glorious sky, and looks
On duties well perform’d and days well spent I
For him the wind, ay, and tho yellow loaves,
Shall have a voice, and give him eloquent teach
mgs,
He shall so hear the solemn hymn that Death
lias lifted up for all. that ho shall go
To his long resting place without a tear.
mscellaneousT
The Restrictive Laws of the Olden Times.
We were reading, recently, a history of Con
necticut, from its first, settlement under Geo.
Fenwick, down to the Revolution. The volume
was originally published in London, in 1781, and
re-printed at New Havan in 1829; and we
found some curious enactments therein. Here
are some of the laws;
Whoever wears clothes trimmed with gold,
silver, or bone lace, above two shillings by the
yard, shall be presented by the grand jurors, and
the selectmen shall tax the offender at .£3OO es
tate.”
“A debtor, in prison, swearing he hath no es
tate, shall be let out, and sold tu make satisfac
tion.”
“No one shall read the book ot Common
Prayer, keep Christmas or Saints days, make
minced pies, dance, play cards, or play on any
instrument of mus c, except the drum, trumpet,
and jewsharp.”
“The Sabbath day shall begin at sunset on
Saturday.”
“No woman shall kiss her child on the Sabbath
or fasting day.”
“ No one shall travel, cook victvals, make
beds, sweep house, cut hair, or shave on the Sab
bath day.”
“No one shall run on the Sabbath day, or
walk in his garden, or elsewhere, except rever
ently to and from meeting.”
“No one to cross a liver, but with an author
ized ferryman.”
“No tooti or lodging shall be afforded to a
Quaker, Adamite or other heretice.”
“ Every male shall have his hair cut round ac
cording to a cap,” &c , &c.
We find the following account of a punishment
inflicted for entertaining heretics, on one Deacon
Potter, whom Cotton Mather says was verily
guilty, and that he had a fair, legal and candid
trial, and was convicted on good and scriptural
evidence,
“Deacon Potter,” says Mather, “was hanged
for heresy and apostacy, which consisted in
showing hospitality to strangers who came to
his house in the night, among whom were Qua
kers, Anabaptists and Adamites.” His wife be
trayed him for hiding the spies, and sending
them avvav in peace. There was also a politi
cal offence, the remedy for which is worth noting:
Ilian sUaii hold oliiau who ie Jiyt sound
faith, and faithful to his dominion ; and
whosoever gives a vote to such person, shall pay
a fine of one pound ; lor a second offence he shall
be disfranchised.
The Kev. Geo. Whitfield, in one of his ser
mons, gives the people of Connecticut the follow
ing character : “ They are the wisest of any up
on the continent, the best friends, and the worst
enemies; they are hair-brained bigots on all
sides, and they may be compared to horse and
mule without bit and bridle. In other colonies
I have paid ior my lood and lodging, but never
could spend one penny in fruitful Connecticut,
whose banks flow with milk and honey, and
whose sons and daughters never fail to feed and
refresh the weary tiaveller without money and
without price. On Saturday evening, the peo
ple look sour and sad, and on the Sabbath they •
appear to have lost their dearest triends, and are
almost speechless, and walk softly. A Quaker
preacher once told them, with much truth, that
they worshipped the Sabbath, and not the God
of the Sabbath. Tho»e hospitable people, with
out charity, condemned the Quaker as a blas
phemer ot the holy Sabbath, fined, tarred and
leathered him, put a rope around his neck, and
plunged him into the sea; but he escaped with
his life, though he was about seventy years of
age.”— Cincinnati Times.
A Loafisr’s SoT,n,o(iuy.—l wish I knew
where to get a cent, 1 do. best iff don : t emi
grate to Kamtscahatka, to dig for gold. .Money's
scarcer than wit; can't live by neithei—at least
I can’t. Sold the last old shirit, pawned my
boots for three cents and went home as rich as a
lord.
“Told my landlay I had a hundred thousand
dollars, and wanted the best room in the house.
Insulted me by saying the attic was too good lor
me.
“I’m an injured individual. Surety persecutes
me. I don’t do surety no harm as I knows on.
I don’t know widders’ houses. I don’t know
widders. I don’t put the bottle to my neigheor’s
lips. I ain’t got no neighbors; and the fact is I
don’t own any bottles. Couldn’t fill ’em if I
did.”
“I’m an innocent man. Nobody can look me
in the face and say I ever hurt ’em—nobody;
and yet l havn’t got a roof to lay my head into.
My old landlady rated me—why ?1 couldn’t pay,
and I left. Cause why? ain’t it better to dwell
in the corner of a house-top, than with a braw
ling woman in a wide house? But I ain’t got
a housetop; and if I had, a coiner wouldn’t be
safe, would it ?
“ I’m a desp’rit man. I’d go to work if it
wasn’t for my excessive benevolence. I’m
afraid of taking the bread out of somebody’s
mouth. Besides, wisdom’s the priuciple thing ;
dont the book say so? Whats money to wis
dom? Ain’t I studying character? If a man
kicks me becacuse I can’t pay for my licker,
ain’t I getting understanding? ain’t it a lesson
to human nature ? I’m told the world ows me a
Jiving. When is it going to pay I wonder ? I’m
tired waiting.”— Washington Star.
Sam Sr.icK on Courting. —Another wise saw
from Mr. Slick’s last book :
“Courtin’ a gal, I guess, is like catchin’ a
young horse in the pasture. You put the oats in
a pan, hide the halter, and soft sawder the crit
ter, and it comes softly and shyly at first, and
puts its nose to the grain, and gets a taste, stands
off and munches a little, looks round to see that
the coast is clear, and advances cautious again,
ready for ago if you are rough. Well, you solt
sawder it all the time : so-so pet! gently, pet,
that’s a pretty doll! and gets to kind a like it,
and comes closer, and you tnink you have it,
make a grab at its mane, and up head and tail,
snorts, wheels short round, lets go both hind leet
at you, and off like a shot. That comes of being
in a hurry. Now, if you had put your hand up
slowly towards its shoulder, and felt along the
neck for the mane, it might perhaps drawed
away, as much as to say hands off, if you please,
I like your oats, but I don’t want you; the
chance is, you would have caught it. Well,
what’s your play, now you have missed it 1
i Why don’t give chase, for that only scares the
critter; but you stand still shake the oats in the
; pan and say cope, cope, cope ! and it stops, looks
! at you, and will come up again, but awful skit
tish stretches its neck out ever so far,steals a few
grains, and then keeps at a respectful distance.
Now what do you do then ? Why shake the pan
and move slowly as if you were going to leave
the pasture and make lor him; when it repents
of being so distrustful, comes up, and you slip
he halter on.”
WEATHER & CROPS?
The Weather and Crops.
The Memphis Eagle and Enquirer, of the 9th,
says :
The weather is very unfavorable for the ma
turing crop of cotton. Too much rain is falling.
The plant is more luxuriant than usual and is
still growing, and the damp, rainy weather will
injure the boils We want dry weather and a
warm sun, blessed with which the cotton crop
will be large.
The Nashville Gazette, of the 10th inst.
says:
The accounts from every quarter seem favor
able to a larger supply of hogs than we have
ever had. From the promising condition of the
crops in our own State we predict a good return
and prices to range accordingly.
The Nashville True Whig, of the 9th, says ;
The weather continues rainy and very disa
greeable. The sun has not been seen for a
whole day at a time for more than a week.
Testeiday it rained steadily nearly ali day.
Our agricultural friends are suffering intensely
in mind and pocket, ar.d unless it clears off sud
denly, a short crop of cotton in Middle Tennessee
is certain.
The Pointe Coupee (La) Echo, of the 10th
inst., says:
From the accounts of weather unfavorable to
the crops that we have lately seen in papers ot
different paits of the State, "we think that vve
have lately been favored in this particular. Al
though the sky has threatened rain almost every
clay lor the last ten days, very little has fallen—
notenough to lay the dust. The cane in this
parish looks as line as possible, and promises to
yield as well as last year. The cotton crop is
lair, considering the unfavorable circumstances
which it has undergone, and which we have
duly chronicled. The health of the parish con
tinues to be very satisfactory.
The following is from the Lauderdale (Miss.)
Republican, of the 6th inst.:
In this county, so far as we have been able to
ascertain, there will not be half a crop of cotton
made. Almost every field has been visited bv
| the boll worm, and in many instances, even
where the weed is large and apparently very
thrifty, but not more than two or three hundred
pounds to the acre will be gathered.
There are complaints in other directions, but
it is doubtful whether any other section has suf
fered equal to this.
The Jackson Mississippi, of the Btb, says ;
From ail parts of this State and Alabama,
there is a general concurrence of accounts of the
great calamity to the cotton crop, a few weeks
ago so promising, irom boll-worms and the un
propitiously rainy season. A letter shown us
from a gentleman who has just traveled over a
large portion of Mississippi and Alabama, ex
presses the confident opinion that the crop can
not exceed 2.500,000 bales.
The Clairborne, (Ala.) Southerner, ol the 10th
inst,, says;
We have had much rain in this section of
country for some time past, which is ruinous to
the open cotton and second growth. It checks
the progress of picking very materially. Should
the present wet weather continue a few days
longer, an incaculable amount of mischief will
be done to the crops.
A steady rain has been falling since night be
fore last, with every appearance of a continua
tion.
The Camden (Ala.) Republic, of the 3d inst.
says:
We are informed that as a general thing our
planters will make more corn than was supposed
during the drought. Their cotton has ( grown too
much to a weed and the boll worm ha* done eoiV
tfomugc. ™
The same paper, of the 10th, says the rains
still continued, and adds that the weather was
just such as at this season of the year is thought
to bo most injurious to the cotton crop—damp,
cloudy, rainy.
The Harrisonburg (La.,) Independent, of the
7 th, says:
For several days the weather has been very
pleasant, with cool and refreshing breezes. We
hear many reports of the whereabouts of the
cotton worm ; but as yet they have committed
no very serious depredations on the growing
crop. The present weather being favorable for
picking cotton, our planters are all busy.
The Columbus (Miss.) Argus, of the Bth inst
says:
YVe have been visited with several exceeding
ly heavy rains within the last week. YVe
are told that the injury done the cotton crops by
the rot resulting from the many heavy rains
which have been almost constantly falling for a
month past, is very extensive.
Planters all agree that a half crop of cotton
cannot possibly be made in this region. Corn
turns out abundantly, but is decaying from the
effects of the rainy weather.
The Mobile Tribune publishes the following
extract from a letter dated at Black water, Miss.,
on the 12th inst.:
Corn is plenty at 40c. per bushel. Cotton
here will turn out at least an average crop on the
sandy lands, but the black lands will not turn
out half a crop.
The Pensacola (Fa.) Gazette, of the 10th inst.
says that for the previous three days there had
been constant and heavy rain, accompanied by
strong winds from the southwest.
[From the Mobile Advertiser.\
Cotton Crot in Mississippi. —We are in
debted to the politeness of IV^ssrs. Rupert, Mc-
Lelland & Co., for the following interesting let
ter:
Prairie Point. )
Noxubee county, Miss., Sept., Ist., 1853.)
Messrs. Rupert, McLcl/and , &r Co. :
Gents : As you are somewhat interested in
the cotton crops, and as we can pretty weli esti
mate the yield now, I have concluded to drop
you a lew lines on the subject. The past year
has been a singular one; after many heavy and
washing rains, on the 15th March it ceased sud
denly, leaving the lands in a most uncomfortable
slate for planting; from which time, to the sth
! of July, we had one ol the most severe droughts
| 1 ever witnessed ; our corn we thought gone,
j but tire strength of soil and showers early in Ju
j !y have secured a sufficiency of corn, without,
I however, making anything like a heavy crop.
! The cotton crops, during July, although previ
ously stunted by dry weather, grew more rapid
ly and made fruit faster than any previous year
ol my recollection ; and on the Ist day of August
i I have never seen better prospects; the bottom
| crop was superior to anything I ever saw. for the
I time of year, while the middle and top of the
j plant were covered with blooms and forms. At
| this date my crop was good for 150 hales : from
j the 20th of July to Ist of August the season was
delightful, and 1 did hope to be richly paid for
my labor, but alas! at the latter date the rains
again commenced, and continued, unabated till
the 22d August, clearing up with a tremendous
storm of wind and rain. On the Bth of August
I made the first discovery of worms, and in ten
days the entire middle and top crops were de
stroyed, and our heavy bottom crop was rotted
to an extent. Since the 22d August the weath
er has been delightful, until two days since,
when clouds and occasional showers have fal
len ; while I write it falls, and the prospect is
good for wet weather. lam not alone in the
loss of a crop—our county, and the surrounding
country, is in the same predicament; I now
think that if the fall is very dry so that we can
save what little remains, I shall, perhaps, make
50 or 60 bales. The cotton having long since
ceased to bloom, it is now too late to make a top
crop. Now, gentleman, you know the extent
of the disease, and what are we poor planters to
do ? As soon as the river opens I shall order a
box of good smoking tobacco and drown my sor
row in its fumes. We are blessed with health.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant.
William H. Smith.
The weather for the past week has been hot
and sultry in the extreme. We have had one
or two light showers about Shreveport, and iri
some parts of the country one or two pretty
heavy rains.
We have made extensive and strict inquiries
respecting the crops during the past week, and
we regret to state that the prospect is not equal
to what it was ten days since. In some
parts of the suriounding country there has
been too much rain, in others too little.
We have heard of plantations that are much
injured by drought. The boll worm has
been more destructive than usual this seasou ;
and it is said that the genuine caterpillar has ap
pea red on some plantations in the western parts
of this parish, and in the eastern part of Harri
son county, 1 exas. We have made particular
inquiries, and have reasons to fear that the re
port is correct. The general appearance of the
cotton on most plantations is good—the weed is
large, but the picking is three weeks later than
it was last year, and it is not so well culled.
The yield per acre in this and the adjoining par
ishes, and in the adjacent portions of Texas” c m
not, under any circumstances, equal that of last
year. The whole crop will be large, but it is
because there is much more ground planted.—
Shreveport Democrat , Ist inst.
Crops. —For some days past, we have made
strict enquiry ol intelligent Planters, with the
intention of thoroughly acquainting ourselves
with the prospect of the cotton crop. We have
seen and conversed with men trorri all parts of
the surrounding country, and they all concur in
representing the yield of cotton as short—less
than was ever known in this country perhaps.
From average accounts we are satisfied tbatthe
yield per acre cannot exceed 600 lbs ,
majority of the planters fear it will be less, and
the continued wet weather may verify their
fears.
During the months ol May and June, scarcely
any rain fell, but since that time, we have had
continuai showers ; consequently, the worm has
destroyed all the “ top crop,’-' and what is even
worse, the *'bottom crop” is last disappearing
from the rot. This latter evil is worse on the
prairie but prevails also to a great extent on the
sandly lands. Not only is this the condition of
the crop in this vicinity, but pretty much the
same state of things exists throughout the sur
rounding counties. No favorable change can
now prevent the cotton crop from being light—
very light.—Aberdeen , (Miss.) Independent , 17f/t
inst.
801 l Bug. —We were shown a few days
since a species of bug, which is found upon the
cotton plant on all the plantations in the parish.
It is a small black insect, with a snout shaped
something like that of a weasel. They destroy
the bud ot the cotton by stinging it, which cau
ses it to drop off. and they enter the boll just be
fore its matuiity, and eat the inside of it com
pletely up. We have conversed with several
planters about this, and they all seern never to
have seen it before. There are said to be more
insects among the cotton this year calculated to
injure it. than we have ever known any pre
vious year. There will not be a full crop of cot
ton made in this parish, by at least one third.—
ft. Franrisville, (La.) Chronicle, 3dinst.
The weather has been warm during the week,
and occasional showers passing about. In some
parts ot the county they have been heavy. Ou
Friday evening quit u a heavy gale sprung up,
and played havoc with the timber in »orwe sec
tions. We regret to learn that Mr. John Harris
of this county had a horse killed, and his buggy
crushed by the falling of a tree during the preva
lence of the wind.— Sanderttvi/le Georgian. 20//i
inst.
""general NEWS™
IFrom the Savannah Georgian. 22 d ins/.]
Wreck of the Schooner Norfolk Packet.
Among the passengers by the
last trip, was Mr. Eaton, of this city. irom ;4 .«dhi
v*e tiiuc rwn-o-TrU «n wccuuiit of the wreck o®the
schr. Norfolk Packet, from New York, bouiT! to
Savannah,on the 7th instant.
The Norfolk Packet, a schooner of the largest
class, Bedell master, heavily freighted with goods
for this port, sailed from New York on Tuesday,
Aug. 30th, having oil board, besides officers and
crew, two passengers. For eight days she en
countered alternately calms, variab'e, light and
head winds. On the morning of the 7th Sep
tember, the wind shifted to N.N.W., blowing a
steady breeze, by which the schooner made
headway at the rate of about seven knots an
hour—the captain keeping topsails and jib furl
ed. At eleven o'clock, on the night of the 7th
mst., in lat. 33 deg. 00, and lon. 76 dpg 20, the
wind all of a sudden shifted from N.N.W. to
S.S.W.. making at the same time two heavy
seas. Instantly the schooner’s masts, spars, sails
and rigging were all carried away. Another
heavy sea following, made a breach over her
quarter, and swept away her life-boat. The
shock—so sudden, and its results so terrific—was
enough to appall the stoutest heart. The dark
nessof the pit W'as all around—the rain fell in
drenching, overwhelming torrents—the wind
swept by with maddening fury—the raging bil
lows threatening each moment to carry into
ocean’s bottomless depths the schooner and ail
on boa;d.
Recovering from the paralysis with which all
were momentarily seized, by the suddenness and
tremendousness of the shock, the captain’s first
order, as the only hope of safety, was that the
rigging should be cut to relieve the vessel of the
masts. This was immediately done. It should
be mentioned, that as soon as the wind shilted, a
command was given to bring all the sails down
to a close reef, but before the order could be exe
cuted, the schooner was a wreck—well-nigh
hopeless.
For thirty-six hours the gale continued, with
a heavy sea, the vessel drifting all the while,
wholly at the mercy of the winds and waves.
On the night of the 9th the signal of distress
was run up, and a brig, laden with lumber, name
not remembered, Irom Jacksonville, bound to
Boston, was spoken. The captain of the brig at
once hove-to bis vessel, and offered all the as
sistance in his power, having, however, at his
disposal, only a small storm-trysail. Unable,
from the heaviness of the sea, to reach the
schooner with his life-boat, he generously offered
to lay by her through the night. This he did,
and. the morning being calmer, furnished her
with the trysail.
On the 12th the bark R. H. Gamble was sig
naled. She was fourteen days from Mobile,
bound to New York, with yellow fever on board.
This effectually repressed all desire on the pari
of the Norfolk Packet’s two passengers to trans
fer themselves to the bark. Os those on the lat
ter one had sickened of the terrible epidemic on
the 3d of the month, and died on the 6th. The
mate and three others were then ill, and not
likely to survive. She furnished the schooner
with a spanker and foresail. With these Capt
Bedell and crew at once went to work, and after
1 the most indefatigable exertions in attempting
to set them—(the schooner being destitute of
spars and gaffs—) finally succeeded in getting
seme sort of command over her.
On the 14th she was fallen in with by the
brig Mary Ellen, a Baltimore packet, Capt. Ma
con ma ter, from S''. Domingo bound to New
York with a cargo of logwood and coffee. Capt.
Mason had no spare sails nor spars, but kindly
offered to take the schooner’s passengers, Mr.
Eaton and Mr. Williams, both of Savannah, whe
most gladly accepted his invitation. After en
countering a very severe gale on the night of
the 15th, which, at one time, seriously threaten
ed the loss of the brig, they reached New York
on Saturday, the 17th, just as the Florida was
leaving. Mr. Eaton immediately took passage
on her for Savannah, which he reached alter a
voyage (in all) of twenty-two days, well con
tent to have escaped from the dangers of the
deep with no other loss than that of his baggage.
When he left the schooner her Captain had
hopes of being able to put her into the port of
Norfolk—whence we trust soon to have further
tidings of her.
One Day Later. —Since the foregoing was
in type, we have received one day’s later intel
ligence from the Packet, from Capt. Carter, of
the schooner Isaac Cohen Hertz, which reached
here yesterday from New York. He reports
having fallen in with the disabled schooner on
Ihe morning of the 15th, in lat. 35 deg. 7 and
long. 74 deg. 57. He supplied her with a staff,
and an awning out of which to make a sail, and
left her in the afternoon —her Captain still ho
ping to be able to work his way into Norfolk.
New Style of Railroad Cars. —We find
in the New York Courier & Enquiier of the
16th inst., the following description ofsome new
cars, which have just been placed on the Hudson
River Road :
“An excursion was made yesterday as far as
Peekskill, to exhibit the excellencies of a new
style of cars, just introduced on the Hudson River
Railroad. Those excellencies consist in the ex
clusion of dust and noise, and the division of the
cars into spacious and eleuant state-rooms or
saloons. There aie four ol these looms in each
car, with a fifth of half size, and other conven
iences. Each room is about six feet by eight,
richly carpeted, decorated in the panels with
medalion paintings, and furnished with sola,
mirror, five easy chairs, a lamp and a small cen
tre table. On one side of the car, a passage two
and a half feet wide, running the entire length,
alibrds access to the rooms. A room in each
train will before long be devoted to refreshments,
from which meals can be sent to any of the
rooms, to be enjoyed at leisure and at any time.
Sleeping apartments are also in contemplation.
The exclusion oldust and noise is effected to a
highly satisfactory degree, by a simple remedy.
The space beneath the body of a car, is boxed
in at the sides, by guards extending down near
ly to the rails, and the space between the plat
forms is closed by sub-platforms projecting from
the ends of the cars and joining t’ghtly to each
other, connected moreover with side guards ex
tending down ward, and forming with those first
mentioned a continuous tight fence on each side
the entire length of the train. Next each pair
of wheels, a section of the guard may he raised
on hinges, to permit access to the machinery.
These guards, when perfected, are to be made of
wood, hollow, and stuffed with some light sub
stance to deaden noise. At present, canvass
guards are used t mporariiy, with a success
which serves to suggest the great improvement
to he expected from the perfected guards. The
effect is to make the space under the train, a
long and unbroken tube, through which, when
in swift motion, the air rushes violently', emer
ging only at the rear, with a hurricane of dust.
It is intended to add a new section to the smoke
pipe of the engine, carrying the smoke and cin
ders down into this passage. With dust and
smoke rushing out at the end like the tail of a
comet, our railway trains will present a formid
able appearance.”
Accident and Death. —On Saturday, night,
17th inst., a few miies below Madison, on the
Georgia R. R., the cars passed over a negro man,
who was lying directly across the track. Os
course immediate death ensued.
He was in the employment of the company,
and when last seen, before his death W;is sitting
upon the Road, waiting for the arrival of the
co-laborers who were to have joined him at that
point. The supposition is that he there fell
asleep and thus lost his life.— Madison Visitor ,
22 d inst.
The Storm. —With which we were visited,
on Friday, the 15th, was truly terrific, probably
more so, than any that we have experienced for
many years. Several lives were lost by injuries
from falling limbs and trees, and one from light
ning.
The injury to the crops we have not yet
learned, hut it must necessartly have been very
great.— lb.
New Cotton. —Cotton is arriving at the
warehouses now very rapidly. There have been
about 1100 bales already received, and it still
continues to arrive.— Dallas, (Ala.) Gazette.l6th
inst.
Tut Weatheji- —The weather for » week
past has been very disagreeable, with continual
winds and show'ers every day. It seems that
the rains of iast week were pretty general above
here, for the Alabama has risen some eight or
ten feet, and is still rising, and in a fine state
for boats — lb.
We regret to learn that the crops in the east
ern part of the county are generally much dam
aged from the recent heavy rains and the boll
worm. The prospect in the canebrake region
tor a crop is very good, the worm has almost en
tirely disappeared, and it will average about
two-thirds.— lb.
We learn from our exchanges, of different
parts of the State, that the present cotton crop
has been, and is still, being injured by the boll
worm, in tbe one place, and wet weather and
grasshoppers in tbe other, —the fact is, we have
not seen chrouicled, the first promising account
of the cotton crop, in any one of our exchanges,
in Alabama, recently, or since the beginning of
the present month. The Alabama (Marion)
Commonwealth, states, that the opinion of a
large number of the planters of the Canebrake
is, that it will be a miracle, if more than a
fourth of a crop of cotton is realized in all that
fine cotton growing country.
The small crop of cotton in this section, was
opening very fast previous to the commence
ment of the wet weather, but since then, we
have not had a fair day,—and the cotton is
sprouting and rotting in the fields. We don’t
believe iiom what the farmers tell us, that the
crop of cotton, will average more than 300 lbs.
per acre.— Lafayette, (Ala.) Tribune, 16th inst.
Tipped with the Romantic. —There is now
in the mountain region of Western Virginia, a
young lady from Kentucky described by the Par
kersburg Gazette as young, pretty, educated,
and sprightly, w’ho is there to protect her rights
to a large tract of land, which descended to her
from her ancestors, to whom it was patented for
Revolutionary services, but it is now claimed by
a land pirate, who formerly acted as her agent.
To defend her rights 1 solitary and alone’ to the
disputed territory, she went, made a clearing,
built a log cabin, and located a tenant. She
always carries one of Colt’s revolvers, and thus
armed, roams fearlessly over the mountains, fol
lowing paths seldom trod save by the panther
and bear.
The Case op Sneed at Niagara. —We have
been shown the Requisition of Howell Cobb,
Governor of Georgia, for Patrick Sneed, on a
charge of murder. The requisition was accom
panied by a forma! affidavit of R. W. Campbell,
stating that on the 6th day of July, IS4O, while
hewasnearthe junction of the Savannah and
Augusta roads proceeding to the city of Savan
nah, he heard the report of fire arms, near the
highway, and immediately after saw Patrick
Sneed emerge from the forest, being on horse
back and having on his shoulder a double bar
reled shot gun—that he appeared excited, &c.,
and was immediately missing from that section,
where he has not since been seen. The papers
are dated Sept. sth. and the great seal of the
State is affixed. —Buffalo Express, 16th inst.
Girard Railroad. —We are pleased to see
that the friends of this enterprise are sparing no
exertions to secure its early completion, and that
success attends their efforts. We learn that Mr.
Bleckmon, of Chunnenuggee, attended several
P-ailroad meetings in Pike, at which the capitol
stock was increased about $75,000, and that ma
ny of the most influential citizens of the county,
(among whom we recollect Mr. Solomon Siler.)
have consented to act as local agents, and wiil
probably increase the above amount to $150,000,
which will secure the extension of the road from
Union Springs to a point at, or near the line of
Montgomery county, and about 45 miles from
Greenville. We thus see that the gap of 68
miles, to be provided for, is being rapidly filled
up.— Columbus Times , 21s/ inst.
[F/om the American Cotton Plant \
The South—Circular of Executive Council.
To the friends of our cause throughout the
slaveholding States we appeal. “The Agricul
tural Association of the Planting States,” has,
lor its object, the diffusion of knowleuge as it ap
pertains to all branches of agriculture anjl of our
peculiar institutions. We desire a closer bond
ot fellow'ship that we may develop our resources
and be united as one man in our interests.
It has been said that “the world is against
us.” Be it so. The world, we know, is depen
dent on us, and we glory in our position. Let
us be true to ourselves, and all will be well
In the discharge of our duty as “ Executive
Council of the Association,” we have fixed the
time of the next meeting of the Association to
be on Thursday, the Ist day of December next
at Columbia, South Carolina, which will be
during the first week of thesesssion of the Legis
lature of that State. From every slave State
gentlemen of distinction have been applied to
by us to present essays and addresses before the
Association on the various subjects of interests
connected with it.
To the Southern Press we also appeal, and we
hope that every newspaper will not only pub
lish this circular, but will give their ablest efforts
to the cause, time and again, in their editorial
columns.
We earnestly desire that all who fee! the im
portance of the work before us. and desire to ad
vance and firmly establish this Association, will
send forward their names and initiation fee,
which is So, to Dr. N. B. Cloud, Lockland, Ala.
The lunds raised will be applied to the pub
lication of all the essays and addresses for gratui
tous distribution in book or pamphlet form.
Executive Council Agricultural Association-
E. A. Holt, Ala.
Dr. C. Bellenger, Ala.
B. S. Bibb, Ala.
G. H. Young, Miss.
W. Anderson, Ala.
A. G. Summer, S. C.
J 31. Chambers, Ga.
G. R. Gilmer, Ga., Pres’t) ■
N. B. Cloud, Ala., Secy ( ex -° fficio '
The Epidemic. —We stated a few days ago
that there were some signs of an abatement in
the epidemic. Those signs, we regret to say,
were delusive. The disease has begun to invade
those classes within whose reach are all the com
forts and securities against sickness.
The number of deaths Thursday, considering
the reduced population, is probably as great as
that of any day—perhaps greater.
The disease, too, is by no means confined to
the city limits. It exists in almost all parts of
the surrounding country. On Ann street, be
tween that and Spring Hill; on Spring Hill,and
almost every where within the neighborhood.
It is not either the result of communication with
the city, but makes its appearance spontaneously.
We are glad to see that our fellow citizens in
the interior and at the north are taking into
consideration our necessities and are subscribing
the means to meet them. It is impossible to
estimate the vast amount of good (limited only
by a lack of money) which our charitable socie
ties are doing—our Can’t-Get-Away Club and
our Samaritan Society, &c. They are every
where seeking out the sick and needy and ad
ministering aid, day and night, in the kindest
and most devoted spirit.— Mobile Tribune , 17 th
inst.
We regret to learn that Mi. Clayton, the chief
operator of the Washington and New Orleans
Telegraph Company at the Mobile office, died in
that city of yellow fever at three o’clock in the
afternoon of Monday. Mr. Clayton, who had
been for some time in the service of the Com
! pany, and much esteemed on the line, was. we
I understand, an excellent young man, and a most
! faithful and efficient operator, and fell at his post
—indeed, the conduct of the operators of this
Company at New Orleans and Mobile is beyond
all praise. Noswifhstanding the epidemic has
made sad inroads in their ranks, the survivors do
not shrink from their duty, and the public are
deeply indebted to them all, but more especially
we learn to Mr. Arthur Wire of the New Orleans
office, Mr. George Smith of the Mobile office,
both these gentlemen' having from the com
mencement of the pestilence devoted their whole
time and attention to their arduous duties, rot
wiJ>star><lffjg the danger they incurred.— Char.
Courier, 21 st inst.
Religious Revival. —For past a
deep religious feeling has pervaded this commu
nity. A revival, which began in the Methodist
Episcopal Church, is still in progress, amt almost
every denomination has shared in its benefits.—
Sunrise meetings for prayer, and inquiiy meet
ings, besides preaching, are conducted regularly
in the Methodist and first Baptish Churches, and
in several other Churches religious exercises of
various kinds are held daily. Every thing is
conducted quietly. There probably never was a
time when more solemn, deep-felt seriousness
rested upon the people. It is a beautiful thought
that, in the midst of Heaven’s merciful visita
tions in the form of health and other temporal
blessings, the pa§ple of Savannah are offering up
prayer for spirit^pblessings, and that in answer
to prayer copious showers of Divine grace are
descending upon them.
We learn that the Rev. Dr. Cross, of Charles
ton, who had been laboring with the stated
ministry at the Methodist church here, has re
turned from a short visit to his home in Charles
ton, and will continue his labors in Savannah
for a time longer. Upwards of one hundred and
fifty, we learn, have been added to the Methodist
church, and th j re has been a considerable addi
tion also to the Baptists.— Sav. Georgian , 20 th
inst.
Savannah River Railroad.— We copy Irom
the Augnsta papers the proceedings of a meet
ing of her citizens, authorizing a city subscrip
tion of $200,000 to this Railroad. In contem
plating the benefits and advantages which will
accrue to the city of Auaittta by the construction
of this road, we think ■■lt her citizens have
exhibited forecast and in coming forward
and rendering such prompt and efficient aid
towards this great enterprise. That the com
pletion of this road, if only to Anderson Court
House, South Carolina, will greatly promote the
commercial importance of Augusta and advance
j her general prosperity, we have not a doubt;
! and as the relations existing between Savannah
| and Augusta are intimate and their interests are
' closely allied and even blended together, we
j cannot regard with indifference an enterprise
j which promises a rich reward to Augusta, and
I which, directly or indirectly, must beneficially
j affect the interests of our own ancient and hon
-1 ored city of Oglethorpe. We therefore wish
j our sister Augusta God speed in this noble un
dertaking.— Savannah Republican, 20 Ik inst.
i Attempted Suicide.— A gentleman, register
j ed as Jeremiah King, Chailesion, S. C., endeav
ored to kill himself on Saturday night. After
attempting to cut his throat in the rear of the
! Waverly House, he went to the river and flung
j himself in, but was saved by the hands of one of
| the steamboats. He Las money with him, and
| is thought to be deranged. He says he is a black
smith, but is not disposed to communicate. He
; had checks to John King. Should this paragraph
j meet the eye o! any who know him, it will be
j a favor to inform his friends, as fears are enter
j tained that he will make another trial of self
j murder.— Chattanooga Adv., 20 th inst.
* A gentleman claiming to be a “ friend to the
I human race,” and who keeps the run of facts,
j figures and babias, has just laid before “an in-
I quiring world,” the following statistics :
The whole number of languages spoken in
the world amounts to 3,064 ; 587 in Europe, 936
in Asia, 276 in Africa, and 1,264 in America.—
i The inhabitants of our globe proless more than
1,000 different religions. The number ot men
is about equal to the number of women. The
average of human life is about 33 years. One
quarter part die previous to the age of 7 years;
and one half before reaching 17 years of age;
and those who pass this age enjoy a felicity re
fused to one half the human species. To every
1,000 persons only one reaches 100 years in
life; to every 100 only 6 reach the age of 66,
, .ir.d not more than one in 5,000 live to SO years
1 of age.
I Telegraph fur the Charleston Courier.]
IWraoaE Sep*. 20 —Arrival of the 'Steam
a/itj) Hansu at I\ew York.— The steam ship Han
sa has arrived at New York from Bremen, which
port she left on the 29th u!t. She came into
port with only one engine, having broken the
other, on her fifth day out.
, Baltimore, Sept. 20— Departure of Steam
Ships —The steam ship Illinois and Star of the
West, sailed from New York on Tuesday.
New Orleans, Sept. 20. — Progress of the
Epidemic. —-On Sunday there were about 34 in
terments, 33 ot which were lrom yellow fever.
The returns, however, are imperfect. The
luneral of Mr. Harry R. W. Hill took place on
Sunday, and was attended by a large number of
persons.
Mr. Hill bequeathed his business to Messrs. R.
Westlin and Thomas B. Lee.
The interments on Monday were 49, 33 of
wh ch were from the epidemic, and on Tuesday
only 34, including 24 from the epidemic—a !ar»e
decrease.
Mrs. Gardette, mother of the wife of General
Gaines, died in New Orleans on Monday.
Trie pestilence is, however, still raging along
the river, and in the interior of Louisiana, Grand
Gulf, Port Gibson, Baton Rouge, and Yazoo City
and Jackson, Mississippi, as well as many plan
tations in both States, are suffering severely from
the scourge.
On Sunday there were twenty interments at
Mobile, eighteen of which were from the yellow
lever.
New Orleans, Sept. 19. P. M Arrival of
the. Philadelphia at New Orleans. —The steam
ship Philadelphia arrived at New Oileans on
Sunday lrom Aspinwall, which port she left on
the oth instant. She brought no news. On
her passage out she broke her shaft, and reached
Aspinwall on the sth inst. She returned with
one wheel.
New Orleans, Sept. 20. — 0 n Monday, in
New Orleans,soo bales of Cotton were sold at
lrom 11J a 11J cents for Good Middling. The
Arctic's advices were received on Monday even
!unß- Ihe condition of the crops is regarded as
being generally favorable, though there aie some
complaints relative to the caterpillars.
Baltimore, Sept. 20—p. m—ln New York,
on Monday, Cotton was duil, and 300 bales
changed hands.
New Orleans, Sept. 22, A. M.— Later from
the Rio Grande —The Brownsville Flag, of the
15th inst., contradicts the war stories, and says,
that there not only had been no augmentation
ot the Mexican forces on the Rio Grande, but
that the terms on which they are with the Mex
icans were never more friendly.
Baltimore, Sept. 22— Letter from Mr. Everett
to Lord John Russell —The Boston papers pub
lish a letter from Mr. Everett to Lord John
Russell, in reply to the latter’s note in regard to
the Cuba letter. It is very severe, and ably de
lends the positions assumed in his note of De
cember last.
Baltimore, Sept. 22. Oil Factory Burnt. —
Johnson's Oil Factory at Brooklyn, has been
consumed by lire. The loss is estimated at
SI 25,000.
Baltimore, Sept. 22 P. M. — The Kosta Affair.
—There is a rumor in Washington, which, how
ever, is not credited, that England and Faance
have joined in a remonstrance against Comman
der Ingraham’s conduct in the Kosta affair
Sept. 23.— Arrival [of he North
Star. —Commodore Vanderbilt’s stearn yacht,
North Star, has arrived at New York in ten days
and a halt from Madeira, and reports that the
grape crop in that Island had been destroyed by
blight.
Later From Havna.— By the U. S. Mail
Schr. E. A. Henning, Capt. J. M. Taylor, ar
rived yesterday from Havana and Key-West,
we have received the subjoined favors from our
attentive Havana correspondent:
Havana, Sept. 13, 1853 Messrs. Editors :
Since our last of the 27th ult., the more fa
vorable accounts from abroad have produced
rather more enquiry lor Sugar, but the great
scarcity of vessels, and still higeer freights, pre
vent operations to any extent. The quotations
may be placed as follows: Whites ordinary to
middling fij a 7 ris., good 7i a 8 ris.; choice flo
retes 9 a 9| ris.; Yellows 6 a 6£ ris ; fine Yellows
and superior lloretes 61 a7J ris.; Browns 51 a
Oi rib.; Cucuruehos 4j a 4j ris.
Molasses is at 2j lis. >
The business in Coffee is very trifling at 81 a
A Sad Record. —The following announce
ments, from the Pensacola Gazettee, afford a
melancholy sequel to the notice that we have
already made of the death of the late Purser
Fauntleroy :
Died, at the U. S. Navy Yard, Pensacola, Au
gust 31st, of yellow fever, Purser D. Fauntleroy,
of the U. S. Navy. On the 12th irist., Annie;
and on the 14th inst, Virginia D., both daugh
ters ot the late Purser Fauntleroy, of the same
disease.
Congressional and Judicial Districts.
The following list showing the arrangement
ot the Congressional and Judicial Districts, as
now organized, will be interesting at this time.
All those who take an interest in the elections
should preserve it:
JUDICIAL DISTRICTS.
Eastern Circuit—Wayne, Camden, Glynn,
Mclntosh, Bryan, Liberty, Bulloch
and Chatham.
Middle Circuit—Columbia,Washington, Mont
gomery, Tattnall, Emanuel, Scriven, Burke, Jef
ferson and Richmond.
Northern Circuit—Madison, Elbert, Ogle
thorpe, Lincoln, Hancock. Warren, Wilkes and
Telliaferro.
Western Circuit—Franklin, Rabun, Gwin
nett, Jackson, Clarke, Habersham, Hall and
Walton.
Ocmulgee Circuit—Wilkinson, Jones, Jasper,
Baldwin, Green, Morgan and Putnam.
Southern Circuit—Lowndes, Thomas, Telfair,
Irwin, Lawrens, Pulaski, Appling, Ware and
Clinch.
Flint Circuit—Butts, Upson, Pike, Monroe,
Newton. Henry and Spalding.
Cherokee Circuit—Cass, Chattooga, Murray,
Walker, Floyd, Dade, Gordon and Whitfield.
Coweta Circuit—Fayette.Merriwether, Troup,
Coweta, Delvalb, and Heard.
South Western Circuit—Randolph, Early.
Lee, Decatur, Sumpter and Baker.
Chattahoochee Circuit—Stewart, Marion,
Muscogee, Talbot, Harris and Taylor.
Macon Circuit—Twiggs, Bibb, Houston, Craw
ord, Dooly and Macon.
Buie Ridge Circuit—Paulding, Cherokee. For
syth, Lumpkin, Union, Gilmer, Carrol, Camp
bell, Cobb and Polk.
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS.
First—Chatham, Effingham, Bryan, Liberty,
Mclntosh, Tattnall, Bulloch, Emanuel, Mont
gomery, Lowndes, Telfair, Appling, Glynn,
Camden, VV ayne, Ware, Laurens, Clinch, Thom
as and Irwin.
Second—Muscogee, Stewart, Early, Randolph,
Decatur, Baker, Lee, Dooly, Sumpter, Macon
Pulaski and Marion.
Third—Harris, Talbot, Upson, Pike, Butts,
Monroe, Bibb, Houston, Crawford, Spaldin" and
Taylor.
Fourth —Troup, Merriwether, Coweta, Heard,
Campbell, Fayette, Henry, DeKalb and Cobb.
Fifth—Dade, Walker, Murray, Gilmer, Chat
tooga, Floyd, Gordon, Cass, Cherokee, Paulding,
Carrol and Polk.
Sixth—Union. Lumpkin. Rabun. Habersham,
Hall, Forsyth, Gwinnett, Walton, Clark, Jack
son, Madison and Franklin.
Seveuth—Newton, Morgan, Greene, Jasper,
Putnam, Jones, Baldwin, Hancock, Washington,
Wilkinson and Twiggs.
Eighth—Elbert, Oglethorpe, Lincoln, Wilkes,
Taliaferro, Warren, Columbia, Richmond, Burke
Jefferson and Scriven.
Miss Dix, thr Philanthropist. —This lady,
whose philanthropy in the cause of the insane
has made her celebrated, is now at Nantucket,
far the purpose of examining the life boats there,
and devising means of aiding the ships wrecked
upon those shores. She is also engaged in col
lecting funds for providing life-boats for Sable
Island.