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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.