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About Weekly Georgia constitutionalist and republic. (Augusta, Ga.) 1851-185? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 20, 1854)
FOREIGN NEWS. \Tel>graphed for the Baltimore Sun.] Arrival of the Steamer Niagara. Halifax. Sept. 12 —l'he Cramer Niagara ar rived here at 11 o'clock to-night, bringing dates tom Liverpool to the 2.1 inst. I'he Arabia had not arrived out. Tur Baltic—Fiance and England have de cided to dismantle and abac lon Bornnrsund. It is said they offered it, and the Aland Islands to Sweden, on condition ot her declaring against Russia, but S weden refuses to accept. On the 26t.-, Napier and Marshall D Hilliers proceeded to Hangs, in sight ot the Russians, who bicu i.p their fortifications and then rctiicu to Abo. wheie 15,QU0 men are in garrison. A small engagement, without loss ot lile, oc curred at A tx> on the IS’h. between eighteen Russian gun boats .:nU some English steamers in the Black Sea Ths Black Ska.—Reports about Ciitnea ex pedition aie various, but upto August 21st noth ing was known of the embarkation. The cholera continues at Varna. Stormy weather prevailed in the Black Sea. Private despatches from Varna to the 24th uit., state that five ships with troops sailed on the previous day, and six on that day. the destination ot which was unknown. The opinion gained currency that the destination of the expedition would be Anapa, and that the fleets would win ter there. Marshal St. Arnaud w ill hold a general rnili- I iary council at Varna, to inquire whether the ar- i my is tit for service during the present sickness I on the Danube. Tits Danube —The Turks continue to occupy Burcharest, and are strengthening ali strategic portions, and are re-fortifying Giergova. Portions of the Turkish forces are moving I upon Galatz and Abnal. ihe Russians on September 3d would be at Jassay, their head quarters. Their force still holds Galatz far hospitals and magazines. Stain —Queen Christina’s property has been all confiscated, and she has been expelled from the country. | THE MARKETS. Liverpool, Sept 2.—Cotton—there is a strength- ; ened tone in tne market, and middling and low- j er qualities have advanced id: better qualities remain unchanged. Breadstuff?—The weather continues very fa- 1 1 -.'arable for agricultural purposes, and breadstuff, [' have largely declined. Flour has declined 3s. I for the week ; wheat Is. to Is. 3d., and corn is j I easier. The quotatrons are Western Canal 275.; i Philadelphia and Baltimore 285.; Ohio 295.a305; : Canadian 27a285. Wheat, white, Ss.a 95.; red, | 6s.a7s. 91. Money Market.— Consols closed firm at 951 — I j the highest point for a twelve mouth. The Latest. —Lloyd’s has authentic news ] j that Marshal St. Arnand will leave Constant!- | , uople on the 3d to take charge oi the expedition I to Crimea, which by that time would have ‘ reached its destination. Vienna, Friday.— Yesterday Prince Gortscha koff made a confidential communication to Count j Buol, and requested a similar explanation; also notified him. that be had communications to make , to the Emperor in person. Berlin, Friday.— Russia will not accept the , Austria , invitation to commerce negotiations | upon the basis stipulated by the Western Pow- ‘ ers. _ ' J London, Noon, 2d inst.— Consols closed at 95J. ! , (second dispatch.) h Halifax, Sept. 12.—The following further in- I ‘ telligence is gathered from the foreign files : | I From the War.—The hospitals and maga- j Tlu»' s of the Russians are being removed ’to ’ Bessarabia. Ge eral Comorini has gone to Bucharest to I consult with Omar Pasha. The fire at Varna destryed five millions pounds I of bread ; equal to two weeks’ consumption of ! the English army. A cordon has been drawn around the powder magazine at Varna, anil there is great excite ment against the supposed Russian incendiaries. The transports continued to arrive from Malta, and the French are beginning to grumble on ac count of their long continued inactivity. The cho'era was abating, but its ravages in the fleet and army has been horrible—many thousands are dead. Saiad Pasha, the new Viceroy of Egypt, is on a visit to the Sultan. Devert Pasha, a skillful diplomatist, has been sent to the Principalities as the Turkish Com missioner. Riza Pasha is intriguing to have Omar Pasta transferred to the command of the army in Asia. The Sultan refuses. Turkish Disasters in Asia.—The disasters to the Turks in Asia ere confirmed. On the 29th of July, Sei m Pasha was defeated, and the I Russians occupied Bajajid. On the 7th of Au gust, a general engagement took place near Kars. I The Turks attacked the Russian entrenched | camp, Youronkdese, and also drove in the right ! wing ol the Russian army, but a general charge of the Russian cavalry swept them back with im mense loss. Four thousand Turks were killed. An armistice of two days was agreed to after the battle. The Turks retreated into Kars, and abandoned their camp, which the Russians occu pied. The Russians admit a loss of nearly 1000.— The battle lasted five hours, and 40,000 men and I 150 guns were engaged. Selim Tasha nas been succeeded by Mustapha | Pasha, who distinguished himself at Drohudsina. i Peace Proposals.—Vienna, Aug. 31.—New i proposals have been made by Russia, which in voke new negotiations. The particulars have i ..ot transpired. England.— The Royal Mail steamer Atrats, with the West India and Mexican mails, and ‘51,654.900 in specie, arrived at Southampton on the 29 th uit. Ine weather has been extremely favorable, u.iu a large portion ot the crops have been se cured. France.—The Emperor Louis Napoleon ar rived in Paris ou the 29th ult., but was to re- I turn to the Pyrenness again in a lew- days altar the transaction of important business. The ex port trade of Paris had experienced a marked improvement, and considerable orders had been received from Portugal, the Brazils, and South America. The advices received from the vine districts were deplorable, and in several the vin tage will be totally inadequate to the ordinal y consumption; the price of wine was therefore, augmenting. Prince Albert goes on a visit to the Emperor; also the King oi Belgium. It was reported on the Bourse that Sweden and Denmark are on the pointof signing a trea ty of alliance with the Western Powers; but the rumor was regarded as very doubtful. General Paixhan,the inventor of the Pa.xban gun, is dead. Prussia.—There was a question of an addi tional article to the Austrian-Prussian Conven tion of April, which would perhaps place Russia on a better footing with England, France and Austria. • Belgium.—The resignation of the Ministry was no« accepted. The cause ot the tender oi resignation was not know. Greece.—Great excitement was occasioned by the announcement that the French comman der—as Pireans is unhealthy—will remove his troops to Athens. The delay g.anted by the Porte to Greece for the adjustment of difficulties with Turkey'ex pired on the Ist of September. No airange ment yet, but negotiations are pending. Spain.—The Union Republican Clubs have been closed by order oi the Government. The National Guards have been ordered to arrest the members if they persisted in assembling. Sevc- • ,l-»nailer clubs had also been dir petted. '"■» t Government has published a list of the <ie. r iTu lions oi the previous ministry, amounting t0>30,090,000, with the revenues of Cuba mort gaged fo* two years, and all the extra resources oi the Kingdom pledged. Etpartero has raised a temporary loan of 62.- 900,000 on the Havana cu .toms security. A decree confiscating the property oi Chris fana has been publisher. Under cover of this ! she has left Madrid fi r Portugal, with the sanc tion ol the Government. Much ol her wealth had l een safely invested in foreign securities. Notwithstanding the profound tranquility rep resented by official reports, private advices re i port outbreaks in Madrid on the 28th, when it ,iI became known that Christina had escaped. A I few barricades had been erected, but were pulled down by the National Guards. The opportune entry ot some regiments of calvalry prevented much mischief. , Saragosa was restless and the whole province ot Aragon unquiet. A Carlist movement is spoken ol in one or two quarters. There was hints ot military disaffection in Gallatia. Italy —The cholera was abaiting in Rom agna, and the Duchies were in a disturbed state. I’he universal jubilee long contemplated by the Pope will be held in November next, and a general convention ot the church will meet at Rome to settle the immaculate conception ques tion. Seven more have been sentenced to death at Parma. Denmark.—M. Movaltke has been appointed President, and M. Buchwald Vice-President of the new Council of State. A strong meeting of the Constitutional Asso ciation was held at Copenhagen on the 29tli ult. to express distrust of the ministry. Commercial Liverpool Cotton Market, Sept. I. Milligan’s Circular reports the sales for the week at 55,000 I bales. Orleans fair 61; Upland fair 6; middling I 5). Tne market has recovered from the decline I noticed in last report. The demand has been I fair, and good qualities have improved most, j Sales to speculators 8,000 bales ; sales for export 7,000 bales. ' Brown & Shipley report that the favorable I weather has strengthened the tone of the Cotton | market. New Orleans lair 6} ; middling 5J ; Mobile lair 6 ; rrfiddling 5 3-16 ; Uplands lair 6 ; middlings 5s ; ordinary 4) a 4s; interior 3J a 4j. Stock oi cotton, exclusive ot shipboard. 888,450, including 605 250 bales American. Dennistoun reports Orleans middling 5 3 16; Upland middling 5 5-16. Tne same circular re ports an advance of 1-16 a f ; Mobile middling I sj. Advices from Manchester are favoable. London Markets, Sept. I.—Baring’s circular reports Coffee firm,and prices unchanged, with a moderate business doing. Sugar dull, and prices a shade lower. Tea unchanged, with a limited business at 10 a 101. Crude Turpentine—sales of 1,200 bbls, at 10s. 6d. Spirits dull at 425. Laid in kegs, 50 a 535. Breadstuff? are consideiably lower in price,and the market is dull. I From the Savannah Georgian] Letter from his Excellency Gov Johnson. The follo ving is the beautiful and touching letter, mentioned by us a few days since, in which his Excellency Gov. Johnson tendeied aid from tl.e State Treasury to oui suffering citi zens : Executive Department i Milledgeville, Ga., Sept., 13, 1854. J Hon. John E. Ward, Mayor of Savannah: Dear Sir:— The calamity by disease, storm and flood, which spreads such gloom and grid over the city of Savannah, wasting her eneigies, 1 suspending business, bearing to the grave i hundreds of her citizens, and carrying anguish and woe to every heart and hearthstone, cannot I fail to awaken the keenest solicitude in every ’ benevolent bosom. Being trie seaport of Geor- 1 gia, diffusing thrift and prosperity*by her liberal I enterprise, the State throughout her whole ex tent, will promptly respond to the call for condo- I lence and sympathy which emanates so loudly; ; from her stricken and sulfering people. I have I kept silent as as I can : and I * ei as ! | the Executive of a generous and warm-hearted . people, I should be unworthy my high trust, if I ' withheld, for another hour, the expression of the jpainful emotions with which I contemplate the inarch of the pestilence. Receive, my dear sir. my unfeigned sympathy for the sufferings of the city of Savannah, and the assurances of my highest admiration for the heroism with which you maintain your post, in the face ofdaiiger and death. May God, in His mercy, preserve you, and fill to overflowing your cup of blessing ! In view of the destitution of the poor of youi city, who may be unable to provide themselves with needed comforts and medical aid, consider ing the afflretion o*'Savannah, under theeiroum stauces, as an affliction to the State at large, and that it is but just and humane that all the peo ple should enjoy the luxury of extending relief. I venture to inquire of you the extent of your necessities, in order that I may make a suirabie contribution in behalf of the State. It is per haps not strictly within the province of the Ex ecutive ; but, so far from censuring, I am great ly deceived in the character ol the people of I Georgia, if they will not cordially approve such I an application of a reasonable amount of public money. At ail events, confiding in their mag- I nanimity and generosity, I shall not hesitate to j tender to you, as Mayor of the city, sucti sum as I your reply shall indicate to be reasonable and proper. 1 pray Heaven to rebuke the pestilence, re store the sick, and comfort the bereaved. Respectfully, your ob’t. sv’t, Herschel V. Johnson. Jonathan Olmstead. Truly “ Dta'h loves a shining mark,” and in : lowering jys raven wing upon o'lr devoted Sa j vannah seems to have dropt a plume with which i to record his triumphs over her brightest and I most useful citizens. Pained at the task, dis l heartened at the galling and direful duty, again ; are we called upon to recor ! another and a seri l ous Ims—that of Jonathan Olmstead, late Cash ' ier of the Marine Bank, who expired at his resi dence at 4 o’clock Friday atlernoon. Hisdisease was nervous debility, (assuming somewhat the symptoms of yellow fever a short time before his death) consequent upon the sickness and death of his only daughter, whom he buried but one short week since. Mr. O. came to Savan nah in 1820, and became an active and efficient servant in the promotion of its success. For many years has he filled the responsible position he occupied at the time of his death, with credit to himself and honor to th" Institution—for in his labors were combined ability and assiduity to a degree never surpassed and seldom equalled. I Other places of trust has he filled, but allusion to one is a type ot the rest. He leaves a widow, and a son-now at the Georg.a Militar y Institute at Marietta, to deplore his los*, besides a whole community to sympathise and share with them in their bereavement.— Savanua/i Republican, iSlh inst. Jon T. Nil:-:s.—The name that heads this no tice is one that has become familiar with a large portion of our community, and one most popular ly known in Coiumbus, where he formerly resi ded. Mr. Niles came to Savannah a few months since and embarked in the Factorage and Commission business, with the most flattering prospects oi success as a Merchant, but wasover takeu in hio ca.eer by the prevailing epidemic and fell a victim yesterday at 2 o’clock, p. n?.. deeply regretted by a large circle of friends and acquaintances— lb. Murder most Foul.—We learn that a gen tleman from Abbevilje District, S C., named ■ Lanser, was. brutally murdered on the Clinch i Mountain, in Grainger county, Tenn., a few days ago, by four villains. It seems that Mr. Lanser was buying up horses, and was decoyed | from Beau’s Station to an unfrequented part oi the country, by the scoundrels, and there basely murdered lor his money. They had not, at the : date of our information, been arrested. An old woman, in some way connected with the tian i saction, had been committed.— Miville (A’. C.) News, 14/11 inst. ! Another.—We learn that John Davis, Esq., ; | a highly respectable citizen living on Crooked • Creek in the adjoining county of McDowell, s was assassinated on Sunday night the 3d instant. A rnan living near him has been arrested and . lodged in Jaii at Marion, cir p ::mbtancbs seeming to fasten the crime upon him. - i Crime appears to be fearfully on the increase 51 in eveiy part of the country.— lb. Efl'ectsof the LiteStorra. I The Charleston Courier has been politely fur -1 nislied with the subjoined extiact of a letter j from a planter, dated ; “Ikewin s Island, I’kince Williams Parish, | Sept, 13, 1854.—Having several letters lo wiite ■ to night, I am that I cannot give you j a detuned account ot the late disastrous gale, or ; lather Hurricane. I can only say that our crops of Cotton seem almost entirely destroyed. I can hardly suppose, from present appearances, that the destiuction can amount to less than two thirds. 1 his appears to be the condition of my own, and, Irorn ail tl.e intelligence that has reach ed me, 1 should judge that alt other crops in this section of the country are injured to a like ex tent. A more terrible storm 1 have never wit nessed. A common expression here is that the Cotton crops ‘are gone to the devil.’ “I was ot opinion at one time that my crop was good lor between sixty and seventy bales. In fact,.a finer prospect I have never had, but if I make twenty 1 shall be more fortunate than pre sent indications warrant me in believing I shall be. My summer dwelling house at Twin’s Point was undermined by the influx of the tide, and fell to the ground, the water being between three and four feet deep in my yard. My fami ly all escaped from my house, previous to its settling down in a boat. My furniture, books in fact, everything in the lower story of my horse was much injured. 1 have for two days past been collecting portions of my furniture, books, &c., carried by the tide across the river in to my neighbors’ woods and cotton fields.” The Hog and Corn Crop. Extract ot a letter from a packing house in Louisville, dated August 31, to their correrpon dent in Nashville: The opinion of our best informed men in re gard to corn and I ogs, now is, that prices of both will run very high, as the tain has come too late and in some instances actually done harm by softening the grain The legions of country where corn can be had are too remote fiotrl the important packing points, and even there it is selling at 82 to $2 60 p r barrel, making a hog cost S 3 gross it he should be given to you. You aie then eighty to one hundred and twenty-five miles Irom market, and the com on the road tor i feeding would cost 81 per bushel. The pork ' must therefore, net 85 50 to 85 70 at the pack ing point to get back your money for your out lay. For example : 1 hog 150 pounds, at 1 cent tier pound, 81 50 3 barrels corn, 15 bushels at $2 50 Cost cl driving, average 100 miles, is 70 cents; cor.. 20 to 30 cts. (now nt 90 cents to 81.) fully, 1 50—S10 50 1 hog, 280 lbs. gross would be at S 3 75 delivered at the pen, 10 50 This year hogs will gross more than usual, and when driven 100 miles will net full 30 per cent less thus: One hog weighing 280 pounds, gross costing S 3 75 will net 196 pounds, equal to 85 31. Nothing here is allowed for loss ol hogs in driving, or dead hogs. This calculation will hold good lor niuetenths ot the hogs at this point and about the same result would be arrived at in Cincinnati. Now take a hog in Shelby, our laige hog rais ing county, and we have One Hog, 150 lbs, at 1 1-lc. $2 25 Three barrels Corn, at 83 9 00 Cost of delivering 50 sll 7a weighing gross 280 lbs. and netting 210 isequiv alenkto 85 60; a dearer hog still than the 100 miles off, owing to difference in the value of the uog and the cost of the corn. The shortness ol the crop holds good all over the country; and provisions must go up and re main high, rhe Keutueky crop ot Tobacco will fall 25 per cent short of an average one, and the market with us is giadually advancing. Aid from Columbus.—The following des- i patch was received last evening by a member of! the ‘‘Young Men’s Benevolent Association,” I who has kindly permitted us to coppy it. The people ot the interior of the State have the grateful thanks of our community,and their con duct at this trying time gives earnest of their af fection for then own Savannah, and their benev olence wherever the voice ot distress is heard: , Columbus, Sept. 15. We are doing our utmost and will send to-mor row lour hundred chickens and as much bread as possible , our friends are energetic, and you may depend upon us.’ Do infam me daily ol your necessities and health. lam half sick, but will continue to work as long as lam able. Many are united in this good endeavour, and hope we ; may partially aid your benevolent efforts. I ' write you by this mail. Yours, &c. D. | [Sat’. Rep., ISth inst. ; Mrs. Wilson and Her Brothers. Fort Washita, Chickasaw District, C. N., ( Monday Aug, 14 854. ) Mr. Editor: It may be gra'lying to Mrs. Wilson late captive among Cumanches, who I made her escape to Santa Fe last Winter, an ac- | count of which was given at that time in your paper, to know that her two brothers in-law ! lads who were captured at Fort Arbuckle and I one near heie ever since their release, passed! here on their way so their foirner home in Huut' County, Texas—from where they staited over ; the prai-es to California. The boys were in i charge of Aaron Brown, intelligent Chickasaw, I who obtained the released of one by purchase! from Camanehes, last Winter, when trading I among them. The other boy was brought into; Fort Arbuckle by some friendly tribe and has j been well taken care of there by the officers of j that post. The interest manifested by Brown in the welfare of the captives, in their lelease, and de- ! livering tfyem in safety at their homes, by him self, is worthy of all praise, and gives evidence ot the fraternal feeling existing between the educated and intelligent red men and whites. It is trusted that Brown will be remurnerafed by the General Govern nest and Texas, for his exertions and time. The boys are about 8 and 12 years old Very respectfully, 8. C. HUMES, Suiter, U. S. A. The War in Europe is increasing the German emigration very largely, the people of that coun try choosing rather to find peaceful homes in American wilderness, than to run the chance of ! getting their brains dashed out for the glory oi j some imperial ma ter or pretty prince no better l than themselves. For the eight months com mencing with January and ending with August, the returns show a total of arrivals at New York, of Irish, 54.547 , German 116,400, m ik ing, with natives of other countries, a grand to tal of 209.414. Many of these German Emi grants are men of capital, who enrich the State in which they settle with their savings as well as with their labor. Mrs. Elizabeth Benton; wife of Col. Ben ton, who died at Washington on Sunday eve ning, was 60 yearsof age. For several yearsshe has been prostrated, having been deprived of ut terance, and of all her energies, but she bore her snfter’ngs, it is stated, with unexampled forti tude and Christian resignation. A writer in the Intelligencer says: ' The ruling feeling in Mrs. Benton’s heart, and strongest to the last, w.is her devotion to her I husband. Oi late she has sat constantly by bis j side when al his labors at home, and indeed their lives mr.y be said to have been inseparable, lor sh, has madu her home wherever his business called him. She was reconciled te part with him on his late return to Missouri, because she was oo weak to accompany bi ,und knew that his duty required his presence at home. When she felt the approach ol the crisis which terminate'! her life, she 'ed her daughter to the vacant, chair in which her husband wonted, and. by look and I gestures, made ft apparent that she required his recall. It was too late. She walked to the bed in the next aj.artmen*,frotn which she was never ‘ able to rise again. | Cnrftutioiiulwt& lUpublir. BY JA.MI.S GARDNER. W' AUGU ST A, G EORGIA. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1854. TERMS: Daily, in advance per annum $5 00 If pot in advance per annum 7 00 Tri-Weekiy,in advance.per annum.... z . 400 If not in advance..... .per annum...... 5 00 Weekly, in advance. ... per annum 2 00 K?*-No Discount fob Clubs Q2z"ALL BBMITTANCKS, BY MAH.. AIIB AT OVB Health of Augusta. For the benefit of the absent, we would state, thr t from the Ist to the 17th of September, there ! were ticent.y-one interments in our cemetery. Os these tour were brought from the country, and one was still born, leaving for the city, including all diseases, sixteen interments. There has been no year within our memory, since we have been ■ a resident of Augusta, that the bill of mortality ) in September, up to the same period, will bear a ; comparison. Below we give the official report of the Board ; ot Health, from which it will be seen that there ■ were no interments on Sunday (a circumstance | which has not come to the knowledge ot our j Sexton for several years, in any month) and | two deaths are reported by Yellow Fever, on I Monday. Meeting of the Board of Health. i Council Chamber, Augusta,! | Friday, Sept. 16, 5 o’clock P. Al. j The Board of Health reports three deaths I from Yellow Fever during the last twenty-four ' hours, one of which contracted the dis-iuse in { Charleston. William a Mulatto boy, 4 years of age. John Bresmahan, Ireland, aged 17 years,.con- ; traded the disease in Charleston. Mrs. Clara M. Butich. The board report the disease in a mild form ; and yielding readily to medical treatment. i L. L. Antony, Sec’y. Board Health. I Meeting Board of Health. Council Chamber. ( Sept. 18, 1854, 5 o’clock, P. M. f ! The Board of Health reports no deaths during | the 24 hours ending Sunday afternoon at 5 I o’clock P. M. The Board reports 2 deaths from Yellow Fever i during the last 24 hours, viz : e James Kelly, aged 28 years, Ireland. Mrs. Hart, aged 25 years, England. L. L. Antony, Sec’y. Board of Health. | Meeting of the Board of Health. Council Chamber, I I Sept. 19, 4 o’clock P. M. J j The Biard of Health repoits 3 deaths from I Yellow Fever during the last 23 hours, viz. Mrs. j— Jacksob, aged 55 years. Pantison Simon, ‘‘ 40 “ Margaret Sintapower, aged 70 years. L. L. Antony, Sec’y. | The Augusta Hotel. W<. understand a report is in circulation that at I the above house there are twenty to thirty cases of fever. This is not the fact. There have been some cases from Charleston and Savannah at this house, but they are all now convalescent. At the present time, we learn from the landlords there is not a case of Fever in his house. Is it not Strange? In Charleston, last week, there were 116 deaths, of which seventj’-six were by Yellow Fevet. Os the 76, two were blacks, one an adult, the other a child. In Savannah, last week, there were 210 deaths —l3l by Yellow Fever— two oi these blacks, one an adult, the other a child. In Augusta, in 1839, when the Yellow Fever raged, there were 243 deaths by that disease, of which number but thirty-seven were blacks. In Augusta, in 1854, with the most healthy August and September months experienced for , many years, with a population largely increased | by sickness in Savannah and Charleston, and | with citizens ol both places, coming among us j with the yellow fever on th .m, who were nurs- . ed by our citizens, foreign and native, until they ; recovered, without any of them taking the dis ease, the first death reported, said to have ori ginated in the city, was a negro girl. We repeat it, is it not stange, that with a large foreign population, of a class mostly sub ject to 'hat disease where it is epidemic, the first death of Yellow Fever reported should be a ne gro ? Progress of the Pestilence. The Savannah Georgianoi the 17th inst.,says —We trust that we are not mistaken in announ cing, as the conclusion to which our inquiries have-brought us, that there is an abeyance in the progress of disease in our midst. Should the weather, which has been exceedingly warm for the most part, since the storm, grow colder, the change to which we have alluded will probably immediately become palpable. We regret to say that there is stiP a good deal of suffering for lack ol physicians and nurses. Yet eveiy effort is being made to relieve it. Thanks, (ten thou sand thanks!) to the liberality of our friends abroad, we have now the means of alleviating to a great extent, the wants of the poor and des ti'ute. Among the deaths ol yesterday, we are sorry tn announce that of Judge W. Harris, of the firm of Harris & Brown. Ml. Harris was we believe a native ol Hancock County, for many years lived in Macon, and for the last '.wo or three has resided in this ci’y. He leaves many triends. His partner, Mr. Brown, is also ill with the epi demic. Since the foregoing was written we have had a copious shower, the effect of which we hope will be favorable. At Carover, Mass., the.ie is a shoe-string fac tory turning out two thousand gross of shoe strings per month. According to De Bow’s Review the total population of the Island ot Cuba is 1,000,600 viz: —whites 501',988; free colored, 17.6 647; slaves, 330.429. Er. Stephen N. Harris. The Republican of the 16th inst., in announ cing the death of the above gentleman, says:— “ We have with much sorrow to record another fata! case in the ranks of our devoted Medical Faculty. The shaft of the relentless destroyer, has been successfully sped, and has reached the heart of one of the noblest men of the age. Wildman, Schley, Welles, Eiiis, were victims enough, and we hoped Jnot to be forced to add another to the catalogue. But another shining light has been extinguished tn the person of Dr Stephen N. Harris, who departed this life at 2 o’clock, yeeterday morning. Oh! that the lile of this good and gifted man could have been spared to this stricken, deeply afflicted commu nity, to his bereaved and respected family, and numerous friends. His decease has caused a sen sation of sorrow in our midst, the extent of which pen can not describe. He has fallen a victim to the most devoted attention to the sick and the distressed. The writer has seen him worn and.baggard, snatching brief repose in his buggy I whilst in his daily rounds of practice. Alas! he now sleeps the long sleep of eternal repose. He I had a presentiment of dying by the epidemic, i ) but undaunted by the picture, he continued to pay the most unremitting attention to Lis pa tients until it forced him to his bed of death. His last prescription was for the gallant and ever to be regretted Wildman. Dr. Harris was a native ol Libefty county Georgia, and had been in successful pr-ctice for several years in this city. No man of his age has ever had a larger or more lucrative practice m Savannah, enjoyed more of the confidence of the people in his medical skill, or commando.! to a greater extent the esteem of his Medical Brethren. Death, of Dr. Ellis. We notice with deep regret (says the Savan nah News of 16th inst) the death of our lamen ted triend, Dr. Thamas 31. Ellis, who died at the residence of Dr. Arnold, on Monday, the 12th instant, aged 24 years. Alas! Death has claimed a noble victim! Surely if aught could I.uve softened that reqtless heart—his mar.y virtues—his steady adherence to the cause of duty and humanity—bis untiring I devotion to the wants of the poor and needy, should have caused him immunity from his un timely fate. In the duties of bis profession, ar duous as they were, he never parsed, even for a moment, when the cry of >he sufferer reached his pitying ear. Ah! why could he not have been spared to us; whose kind and loving dispo sition endeared him to every heart, while his tal ents, which were of a rare and high order, pro mised fair, in a few years, to rank him as one of the heads of the profession. While we deeply deplore his loss, we bow in lesignation to the divine will. O, Lord ! thy will be done. Mayor Ward, of Savannah is still impro ving. We understand he was setting up yester day. The Cotton Trade.—The New Yotk Piice Current publishes the official statement of the cotton crop for 1853-’54. The total amounts to 2,927 60S bales, or 335.274 less than the one preceding. The export to Great Britain has been 1,003,359 bales, being a decrease of 133,110 as compared with last year. To Fiance 374,- 058 bales; decrease, 52.676. To North of Eu rope, 165,172 bales ; decrease, 6 004. Toother foreign ports, 176,168 , decrease, 17,469. Total exports, 2 319,148 bales; decrease as compared with last year, 200,252 bales. The quantity ta ken for consumption in the United States is 606.769 bales, or 6 4,240 less than last year. The amount on hand in the ports of the United States, including Augusta and Hamburg as well as Boston, Bcc., is 133,866 bales, against 135,643 bales last year. The stock on hand in the usual shipping ports is 11-6,727 bales, against lust year, 107 340. Shippers and speculators during the past sea son have been heavy losers, from the adverse in fluences bearing upon the article in foreign mar kets, aided in a measure by the heavy cost of transportation. Planters, on the contrary, have every reason to be satisfied with the result of the year’s business, since at no time during the season has Middling in the Southern been sold below 7 j cents per lb., and durihg four fifths of it the price has varied from S to 9 cents per lb. The prices for the ensuing year will depend chiefly on the probable extent ol the growing crop, but the war and its attendant circumstan ces will have a powerful influence in Europe in , checking the operations in cotton legitimate purposes. To this fact it is stated merchants i seem fully alive, and there appears to be a deter ! ruination to avoid cotton as an article of specu ! lation until the future gives better promise oi good results than can be at this moment discov ered. Illness of Mr. Alexander. —Lest reports which have gone abroad should occa.-ion unne cessarily alarm to Mr. Alexander s friends, we would state that he was attacked with the pre vailing tever early Thursday morning last, but that his case yielded readily to medical treat ment. He haJ l>ut one paroxysm of the fever, since which he has been hourly improving, and his physician assures us that we may expect him | at his post again in a few days.—Sat’. Rep., \Sth Inst. Extract from a letter received at the Savan nah Republican office dated Bryan Co., Sept. 13. “ I am glad to say that since I wrote you last a thorough inspection of my crop leads me to hope that I am better off than mout if not all of my neighbors. I learn that cu the Ogechee Ri ver the storm was most destructive to rice crops and one of my neighbor, who planted for 150 bales Sea Island Cotton, told me he thought he might now make 20 bales.” Extract from a business letter received at the same office, dated Walthourville, Sept. 13. “The hurricane of the Sth was very severe at this place. A graat many plantation buildings have been destroyed and some cattle and horses killed, but no human lives lost. The cirn crops have been seriously injured by the ears being blown into the water, and the cotton and rice crops litteraly ruined. The health of this coun try is very good. Hoping soon you may be able to give us the same account of Savannah, I re main. The Weather, &c.—Since our lest writing says the Albany (Ga.) Patriot of the 15th inst. the weather has been very warm, “summer lin gering in the lap of autumn.” We have had fine rains, which were much needed. The health of the country is excellent; we heal ot nosickuessof any kind. I A Good Move.—An association has been formed in Columbus forth« purpose of sending chickens, butter, eggs and vegetables daily to the in ligeni sick of Savannah. Price of Coal.—The Boston Cornier says that the price of coal in that city was last year $6 per ton, whereas it is now 89 ; aiffl it de nounces what it calls trade combinations as heartless conspiracies. Some of the New York papers say that coal is now advertised for sale in that city at a lower figure than for some time past. A correspondent of the New York Ilcrali writes from Caracas, that such is the state of affairs thcro there was cot a respectable white man in the city of Caracas who was not in prison, or concealed in the houses of the foreign residents. The Aroh bisliop has had several interviews with Monagan, and has offered to guarantee the innocence of many of the accused—or, more properly speaking, the incarcerated. A number of the prisoners were marched on foot to Laguayra. Ths probability is that taey will bo shot on the road. They are of the most respectable families of the city. There it but little doubt that Monagan will put down ail opposition, as he has the support of the black?. Alunagan went through tho form of a re-election on the ItOh of August. The steamer Benjamin Franklin, under orders tos ill with General Paez against Venezuela was seized in New York on Wednesday, by the Uni ted states Government, at the solicitation of the Hon. Ramon Azpurua, Ministet lor that coun try. The minister also sent to the Venezuelan Consul at St. Thomas the necessary orders to act in like manner there with the brig Cather ine Augusta, which left New York some days ago with arms for Gen. Parz. In 1 789 the tonnage of the United States reached only the amount of 291,562. In 1553» as shown by statistics furnishrd the United States Treasury Department, it had grown to 4,407,011. In 1807, the tonnage of the United States was 1,212,596. In 1854 the tonnage of the port of New York alone is greater than this amount by over 20,000 tons. The growth shows the rapid increase of the commerce and tiade of the United States. Decline in Breads; uffs. —In consequence of the news irom Europe ot good crops of bread stuffs there, and a consequent decline in flour and wheat, there was a slight panic in flour al Boston on Wednesday, and prices went down from seventy-five cents to one dollar per barrel. The receipts of flour at Boston, the Traveller says, have lately been raeher large. The cholera at .Columbia, Pa., has produced such a panic that the country people around th<? devastat: d town refuse to hold any inteicourse w ith the citizens, and much suffering from the -want of wholesome tood had been the result.-p- The Town Hall has been converted into a tem porary hospital for the victims of the disease. Dr. Jewell estimates that if Ph'ladelphia was ravaged in a degree corresponding with her pop ulation, as compared with Columbia, the deaths would have reached seventy-five an hour ? The same gentleman is of opinion that the exciting cause of the epidemic is in the atmosphere, and riot in the water, as the victims have been taken indiscriminately from among those who use tae. water from the reservoir, and those who drink nothing but spring water. The Susquehanna, at Columbia, is now extremely low, arid the at . mosphere of the town is vitiated by the quantity of decomposed animal matter in its bed or lodged above the dam. Weather, Crops, &.c. • The Bienville (La.) Times, of the Ist instant ! says there was no rain at that place during the ! week, the weather was very warm, and there was no sickness thereabouts. The Shreveport Democrat, of the 31st uit., re ports that the crops then promised a lai ger yield to the planters than was anticipated a week or two previously. The weather during the week had been hot, sultry and oppressive, but there was no sickness in town or country. The Jackson Mississippian has reliable ac counts from North Mississippi, as late as the 30th ult, which state that there has been an almost entire failure of the cotton crop. The Harrisonburg (La.) Independent, of the 6th inst., reports copious showers, cool nights i and a healthy town. That paper says: [ The planters are as busy as bees ingathering their crops. The rot and rust are becoming quite ; injurious to the cotton. We still hold to the opinion that we expressed in the early part ot the season, that hardly halt a crop would be made this year. The most distressing accounts reach us daily about the present crop. We learn from the Franklin Planters Banner, of Thursday last, that the su s ar crop in that vi cinity is looking well. The Banner says: The daily rains which have prevailed for the last five or six weeks will have the effect, it is thought, of rendering it more juicy. Intelligent planters, with whom we have conversed, are of opinion, that if the season continues favorable the crop will compare favorably with that of last year. Texas Items. —A correspondent of the A'. O. Picayune, writing from Gonzales, Texas, on the 23d ult., says :—“ The crops of cotton and corn in this county are large. I never saw such fine crops as there are on the Guadalupe river. The planters here have been picking cotton since the Ist of July. “ The Know-Nothings have been organized in our town, Belmont. The tree will be known trom its fruits. We are ahead of other counties out west. We have voted over two to one against the licensing of grog-shops, and the whole State has voted largely against the traf fic.” A new and convenient life-buoy, in the form of a moveable seat, for ships and other vessels has recently been invented by a young Ameri can by the name of Thompson, now in London it has been tried in the presence of the Queen ar.d also of the Surveyor of the British Navy where it met with marked approval. Its maritat j are so apparent that the Messrs. Cunard have | ordered a number for some of their ships. Buckwheat and TußNirs.-*Both tb-ese. crops have been immensely benefitted by the-latr: rains in the Northern States. Our exchange.: are rapturous over the prospect of turnip-britter and buckwheat cakes. Resigned.—Henry Hill, Esq., for thiity-twc years Treasurer of the American Boa r d of Com missioners (or Foreign Missions, has resigned and made a donation of $2,00(1 to the Society. A dispatch from Atlantic City, N. J., says I that the wreck of a ship or barque drifted ashore i on Friday morning ou Great Egg Haibor Inlet. 1 The vessel is supposed to have bc’H loaded with Carolina lumber.
