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Suites mttr Sentinel.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 18, 1853.
The Result in Muscogee.
Disappointed politicians can’t see clearly. They are
like blind adders, and strike, in the dark, at every breath
that rustles the leaves around them. We cannot blame
them ; it would be unkind to grow angry with them ;
it would be unchristian to retaliate even though it would
be as easy to do so as it is about the result in Muscogee.
It is charged that‘'the Democracy spent much money
to gain the election.” No doubt some money was spent
on both sides ; but not as much, certainly, by the De
mocracy, as is usual in general elections. We know
of one Conservative, who spent a cool thousand , and
we would be willing to take a bet, that no one Demo
crat was out of pocket the half of that amount.
“Free quarters were opened in the city for the
voters.” That may be so ;we did not visit the ren
dezvous. But a more secure, if a more retired, and
cheaper resort, was provided in the country by the oth
er side—if rumor is not dreadfully at fault. At any
rate several “floats” very mysteriously disappeared the
day before the election, and did not make their appear
ance again in the city until afterwards.
A writer for the Southern Recorder charges that
stockholders in broken banks took part in favour of the
Democratic ticket, in order to elect Judges of the Su
preme Court, favorable to their interest, and used the
money freely which they made by the failure of these
banks, to secure its election, and thus defeat a recovery ‘.
This is a most singular charge in the face of the fact,
that Alfred Iverson, the head and front of the Demo
cratic party in Muscogee, is the identical Judge who
made the decisions by which the liability of the stok
holders in these broken banks was fined. Besides,
there is not a man in Muscogee, spoken of for Judge,
who has any personal interest, in the Bank cases, re
ferred to by the correspondent of the Recorder. And
as further evidence of the futility of the oharge, we
proudly and triumphantly refer to the fact that Mr.
Worrel’s name was printed on both the Whig and
Democratic tickets, and he received the almost unani
mous vote of the whole people, albeit he has no inte
rest in the world, in the final issue of these troublesome
causes. It is also well known that large stockholders
in these broken banks voted the entire whig county
ticket, and that a distinguished lawyer, who is counsel
for the stockholders, used all his influence on the same side.
There are twosides to thisquestion,if the stockholders were
on our side, when were “the holders of the bills and other
demands againßt the broken banks in this place?” They,
of course, were on the other side, if the stockholders were
on ours ; and their influence and votes counteracted the
influence and votes of the stockholders. But we are
g'ving too much importance to this ridiculous charge.
We do do not know, or imagine who the correspon
dent is; but we presume he is one of the “bill
holders,’’ who imagines that the whole earth revolves
around his little case. We commend to him the fable
of the wagoner and tbo butterfly, and for fear he may
not be familiar with the classics, we will mention that
once on a time, a countryman overloaded his waggon with
hay ; tho soil was soft and the wheels stuck in the mud :
Ho whipp’d his iiorses, but in vain ;
They pull'd and splash’d, and pull’d again,
But vainly still ; the slippery soil
Defied their strength—
A Buterfly, in flower conceal’d.
Had traveli’d with them from the field ;
Who in the wagon was thrown up,
W hile feasting on a buttercup.
The panting of each lab’ring beast
Disturbed her at her fragrant feast;
The sudden stop, the drivers sigh,
Awoke her geu’rous sympathy.
And seeing the distressing care,
She cried, while springing from’her place,
(Imagining her tiny freight
A vast, addition to the weight,)
“I must have nity—and be gone,
Now master W asionek, drive on.”
But badinago aside ; we are tired and sick of this
eternal fuss about the bank cases. There are other
people in Muscogee beside very respectable “bill
holders,” and their attorneys, and “stockholders’’ and
their attorneys. The late contenst was waged by them
on party principles—gallantly on each side—and lost
by the one because they oould not get enough votes,
and won by the other becauso they were more active,
or more popular, or had better principles. All exousses
about the money spent on one side, and not on the
other, bill-holders and stockholders, et cetera , are all
gammon, and every body but the man that makes them,
knows they are. Be honest, gentlemen, and acknowl
edge the corn. We oonquored you in a fair fight; the
arms we used, you used ; and the only difference is,
that we plied them more adroitly and in a better cause.
The Eulaula Railroad.
By reference to an other column, it wiH be seen that
a public meeting has boen called, to be held in Tempe
rance Hall, on the night of the 25th iust., to consider
the propriety of making a corporate subscription in aid
of the Eufaula Railroad. The import,nice of this enter
prise, to the city of Columbus, has been often urged in
our oolumns.
The county of Barbour is the third, if not the sec
ond, in Alabama in point of trade and wealth. If ex
periment shall demonstrate that shipments by Railroad
to Savannah can be made to better advantage than by
tho river to Apalachicola, the trade of this wealthy
community, and of the adjoining counties, of w hich Eu
faula is the mart, will pass throgh Columbus and leave
as rich a golden harvest here as the auriferous streams
of the Sierra Nevada deposit in the vallies of California.
During dry seasons at any rate, an immense amount
of trade will be diverted through this outlet. We
think we do not exagerate, when we allege, that the
profits of the trade which sueh a connection would
bring to Columbus, in one season would greatly exceed
the pitiful sum the friends of the Road ask at our hands.
We understand that the Road can certainly be built,
if the city will subscribe fifty thousand dollars.
The subscriptions have been made under the Girard
Railroad charter, of which Road, this is made a branch
by act of the Legislature. The directors of the Girard
Road have already consented to take this branch under
their charge, and to consolidate the stock. There will
therefore, be no waste of the money subscribed in pay
ing Presidents, Treasurers, and Engineers, but every
dollar subscribed will be appropriated, exclusively, to
the building of the Road, and thisstoek will boas valua
ble as the Girard Road stock.
We also learn that over onu hundred and eighty
thousand dollars have been subscribed ui Barbour coun
ty alone. This sum of money is tendered to us to ex
tend our connections. Shall we reject it and force this
wealthy and enterprisi-g community to seek an outlet
by the Brunswick Road, and thus raise up a rival city
at our very doors ? or by a cordial co-operation with
them, receive Eufaula into the corporate limits of the
great city, of which Macon is the central, Savannah
the eastern, and Columbus the western wards ? We
are sure Columbus will do her duty, and guard her in
terest by promply making the subscription demanded
by Eufaula.
We understand that gentlemen, from Eufaula and
Glennville will attend the meeting, who are thoroughly
posted as to the resources of the company, the cost of
the road, and the statistics of the country which it pene
trates.
Revival or Religion in Columbus.— For the two last
weeks, a very extensive revival of religion has been go
ing on in the Methodist church in this city, under the
pastrol oharge of Rev. W. G. Connor, who has been
assisted in his labor of love by Revs. Evans, Arnold,
Duncan an the local ministry of the city. We are in
formed that about 90 have professed religion, and up
wards of 60 accessions have been made to the church.
Unlicensed Liquor Dealers Sentenced. More than
200 persons who have pleaded guilty, in New York of
selling liquor without license, appeared before Judge
Beebe, on Wednesday morning, to receive sentence.
Fines were imposed upon all, and eleven of the worst
offenders were sentenced to short terms of imprison
ment, either in the city prison or the penitentiary.
The fines varied in amount from $lO to SSO, according
to the circumstance of each case. They were given
to understand that a second offence would be punished
with a greater severity.
Lead Mine —A writer in the Tuscaloosa Monitor,
speaking of the internal improvements of the State,
mentions the existence of a rich lead mine some forty
or fifty miles above Tusoaloosn.
The Result—A Review.
The battle has been fought between the political par
ties in Georgia, and victory perches upon the Demo-,
cratic standard. The trophies of the war are a Demo
cratic Governor, a Democratic Legislature, six out of
eight Representatives in Congress, a United States Sena
tor, two Supreme Court Judges as the legitimate result,
and Democratic ascendancy in the State Government
for two years.
The chief issue in the canvass was the character of
the Presidents appointments. The Conservative party
charged that he had conierred offices upon Secessionists,
Abolitionists and Freesoilers. The Democracy admit
ted that the greater number of the Southern appoint
ments were given to Southern Rights Democrats, but
contended that Union Democrats, in proportion to their
numbers, had received a fair share of the spoils of office.
They denied that the President had appointed any man
to office who was now a Freesoiler or Abolitionist.
The conduct of the great body- of the Democratic party
in this canvass is matter of sincere congratulation. Un
der the pressure of the severest party exigency they
have adhered to the faith. No States Right Demo
crat has denied the right of secession ; in the very heat
of the canvass, Cushing’s speech asserting the right was
extensively published and heartily endorsed by the press
of the party.
Nor did they fail to express disapprobation of Free
soilers or Abolitionists as warmly as in the heated war
fare of 1850. It is true that they defended Dix,
Vroom, and Brown, from the false assertions of their
apponents ; but in no instance have they commended
any men to public favor to whom the suspicion of Free
soilism attached.
The Conservative party attempted to make an issue
with the Democracy upon the Pacific Railroad, but en
tirely failed to effect their insidious purpose. The
leading presses and politicians of the party adhered to
the ancient land murks and condemned this wild Fede
ral heresy. The Democracy of Georgia have again
set the seal of their disapprobation upon the system of
Internal Improvements by the Federal Government.
This triumph, therefore, is doubly dear to us. We
have achieved victory without the surrender o! a single
principle dear to us as Southern men and Democrats.
But victory will prove a curse unless it is wisely used.
In the selection of a Senator, reference ought to be
had to the character, talents, and political principles of
the candidates. Other things being equal, that man
ought to be chosen who is the Representative or em
bodiment of the political faith of the great body of the
party. This is a fair, liberal and just, and Democratic
rule which cannot be departed from with safety or
decency. A Democrat who will trade with the op
position and thus force himself upon the party contrary
to their wishes is a traitor, and ought not to be trusted
by honest men.
In the selection of Judges of the Supreme Court, refe
rence ought to be had solely to the character, talents,
and legal achievements of the candidates ; but if this
be utopian, certainly the democrat who is preeminent
in this regard ought to wear tho ermine of justice.
In reference to State politics, we presume there will
belittle diversity of opinion in the Legislature. Facili
ties for education ought to he brought to every voters
door, and the Railroad system of Georgia rendered
complete.
The State Road, if wisely managed, will afford a
fund amply sufficient for this purpose. It can be leased,
we understand, for 300,000 dollars per annum. In a
very short time this income would carry the steam car
into every portion of the State, and complete the Rail
road system of Georgia. When this preliminary work
is accomplished, the whole fund arising from the various
Roads, in which the State will be interested, can be
appropriated to educational purposes, and will be amply
sufficiantto extend aschool system throughout the State
at as early a day as the wants of the people require.
The State needs a University, a high school in every
county, a common sohool in every district. Upon this
subject we reserve what we have to say to a future oo
easion.
The tax law needs revision. The true rule*of taxa
tion is to make every voter pay in proportion to his in
come. This we believe is the principle upon which the
present tax law was based. Iu some respects it fails
to accomplish its object. It very frequently imposes a
double tax. For instance, a man buys to-day a piece
of land on a eredi tof one year. He also has money
due one year hence. By the law as it now stands he
pays a tax on both land and money, though the land
will be paid for out of the money when it is collected.
This is unjust. These defects ought, and we believe
will be corrected.
Economy is a fundamental principle in the Demo
cratic faith. We earnestly hope the members of the
Legislature will look sharply to all drains upon the
treasury and see that no abuses are allowed to pass un
noticed and uncorreeted.
Apathy in the Second District.
This is the excuse of several Whig papers (or the de
feat of Jenkins in the State. This is unkind, as well
as unjust, to the gallant men who bore the Whig ban
ner aloft in this district. Thedefeatof the Whigs here,
is attributable to the superior activity and zeal of the
Democracy, and the strength and goodness of their
cause, and not to any want of ability, zeal, or activity of
the Whigs. They fought every inch of ground, defend
ed every strong hold, brought into the fight every spe
cies of arms, and maneuvered with excellent skill. The
county candidates did their utmost, we know, and we
doubt it one solitary Whig who is now chuckling over
his election, in other parts of the State, did half the
work of their defeated friends in this District. And
we are sure that James Johnson, their candidate for
Congress did his duty and his whole duty to bis party.
He talked incessently for his side, rode over a very large
extent of country, spoke wherever in the judgement of
bis party anything cunid be made by speaking, and fell
with his feet to the foe. Be generous, therefore, Gen
tlemen ; give honor where honor is due, but reserve
your censure until you find the guilty man. The
W higs here feel bad enough on account of a defeat,
which was unexpected, without being held responsible
for faults of which they are not guilty. Take lessons
from us, and learn to be temperate. When the fight
was raging, we did our best to wiiip you, but now its
over, we give you our right band in token of continued
love and good felling until war is again declared. Till
then let us live in peace, and let byegones be byegous.
Judges of'the Supreme Court.
It will devolve upon the Legislature, shortly to con
vene, to elect two Judges of the Supreme Court.
The qualities which are necessary to constitute a
good Judge, of this august tribunal, are so varied that
they can rarely be found united in the same individual.
First of all, he must be a just man ; and this implies
not only scrupulous honesty, but a mind capable of mak
ing the nicest discriminations between what is right and
what is wrong. He has to follow the wrong door in
all the tortuous labrynths of iniquity and condemn him.
He must be a bold and incorruptible man. His cheek
must not blanch at the threats of the violent, nor his
palmy itch for the gold of the opulent man. He must
be learned in all departments of the law ; for he reviews
the decisions of all inferior tribunals ; and not only learn
ed, but have the power to apply his knowledge, eo in
stanti, it is demanded by the exigencies of the cases
which come before him. By the peculiarities of our
judicial system, no time is given for lengthy investiga
tion of authorities, and often none even for continuous
reflection.
There are not many men in Georgia who pos
sess all these qualities. Where ever they can be
found, they ought to be seized upon by our Legislators
and invested with the ermine of justiee. Confident,
that, at least, two gentlemen reside in Western Georgia
who possess these qualities in an eminent degree, we
will not be restained by a false delecacy from preseut
ing their claims to the public. We allude, of course, to
Marshall J. Wellborn and Henry L. Benning, Esqrs.
Mr. Wellborn gained an enviable reputation, some
years ago, as Judge of tlie Chattahoochee Circuit, and
has since extended his knowledge by foreign travel,
and a participation in the complex legislation of this
great country, as Representative in Congress. Since his
retirement from political life, he has devoted himself to
the practice of his profession.
Mr. Benning, we belive, has never filled official sta
tion, but has, for a number of years, devoted himself ex
clusively to the practice of bis profession, with eminent
success.
Both of these gentlemen have the entire confidence
of this community, and all attempts, here or elsewhere,
to weaken their position before the country, are laughed
at, as the mere ebullitions of disappointed political hopes
, and aspirations, by the dispassionate and disinterested of
both political parties.
The elevation of one or both of them to the Supreme
bench would give unqualified pleasure to the great
body of both political parties in this part of the State.
Georgia.
We are gratified at the daily evidences which are
afforded of the high and influential position which our
noble commonwealth occupies in the Federation. The
following extract from an address of Albert J. Picket,
the historian of Alabama, will be read with interest.
By the way, why is not this distinguished citizen called
to fill some political position worthy of his moral worth
and large attainments. We suggest him, as Col. Win
ston's successor in the Gubbernatoria chair of our sister
State. Let the State honor the man who honors her.
But to tho extract, Col. Picket saj’s :
The most prospering and enterprising State in the South
is that u hich lies upon our eastern border. She has nine
hundred and ninety-nine miles of Railroad, over which
run, night and day, cars laden with ireight and filled with
passengers. Georgia is truly a great State, and a pattern
for ours and all other Southern States. Her limits are so
large as to compose ninety-nine Counties: the soil of which
is as diversified as the climate; yet, her people and products
are brought together, in the space ol a lew hours, by means
ol the great internal improvements to which I have alluded.
Evidences of remarkable prosperity are observable in all
directions in that Stale. The water-tails are seldom left as
Nature formed them ; but Factories and Flour Mills are pro
pelled by their power. In Augusta, the Savannah river has
been conducted to the most elevated ground, by a long ca
nal, which is studded, also, with Mills and Factories.—
There is, too, a general intelligence existing in Georiga that
we do not find in i ny. other State. Whatever is illiberal
and mean in other States appertains not to Georgia. I
have reference, of course, to her public spirit. The people
look to the interest of their whole State, and effect im
provements upon a scale of magnitude and importance..—
Ravines of great depth are filled up ; the mountain spurs
are levelled : mountains themselves are tunneled ; costly
bridges are thrown across rivers—all—all—for the tracks
of Railroads. From the Tennessee River to her distant
sea-board, Georgia opens to her people every facility ; the
young, the middle-aged, and the old rapidly travel from
one portion of the State to another. No one can visit
Georgia without becoming satisfied that she possesses a
great and happy people.
The Correspondent of the London Times.
The Washington Union charges without naming him,
that C. Edwards Lester is the American correspondent of
the London Times whose assaults upon President Pierce
have been of late characterised by so much violence and
defamation. The motives which influence this shameless
man are thus exposed in the Washington Union.
Wo shall not writedown the name of this hired tradu
cer of his own country’s fame ; but we will daguerreo
type him by the light of truth reflected from the record
of his past life, until all good men will call out for “a whip
of scorpions to lash the traitor naked through the world.”
Before the inauguration of President Pierce, the corres
pondent of the London Times visited Concord, and im
portuned him for a position in tho diplomatic or consular
establishment. Chief among his recommendations to the
i favor of the President elect were his letters to the London
i Times , copies of which he carried with him, and among
; these were the most profuse and extravagant laudations ot
that gentleman. He hung about Concord for [days, and
persisted in his application with characteristic effrontery.
After President Pierce’s inauguration he called on Gov
’ ernor Marcy, and sought to propitiate him by the same
i means, and by offering to procure the insertion of articles
I in the London Times. But all to no effect. Ilis history
was written too plainly and too recently to be forgotten
and the administration would not have dared to listen
1 vorably to his application, and for the reason that it would
, have been a degradation. Ilis petition was rejected, Jand
i now the London Times groans under his calumnies !But
. why was his application rejected? We will answer:
He was a United States consul at Genoa, Sardinia, and
was appointed by Mr. ;Tyb-r in .June, 1842; and though
: professing to be a democrat, removed by President Polk
i in September, 1847. Ilis career at Genoa presents a rec
, ord of misconduct and disgraceful abuse of his trust as an
, American consul which more tahn justified the executive
act which called him home in disgrace. We have no
! wish to nauseate our l eaders by a detail of his profligacy
, and abuse of trust whilst at Genoa, but will be content to
glance at a few of the well authenticated facts. The Hon.
i R- M • W iokliffe, junior, our distinguished charge
d'affaires at Turin during the most of the time that the cor
respondent of the London Times was at Genoa, being
his superior is position,*and more or less acquainted with
him, was compelled to report his misconduct to the home
government. He did so in repeated despatches, the whole
making, as we are assured, a solid and irrefragable mass
of evidence of his unworthiness of the respect and eonfi”
donee of his country. Mr. Wickliffe charges him with
. repeated acts of falsehood, fraud, and deception. He
I claimed to be the nephew of President Polk in order to
induce M. Vespucci, of Florence, to reward him, on eon.
dition of his getting the American Congress to grant him
a large body of land because he was a lineal descendant of
Amerious Vespuoius. To bind the bargain, M. Vespucci
put into his hands a picture of great value and age, which
had been in the family for years. He attempted to pro
cure a large fee from an Italian gentleman who wished to
be made United States vice-consul at one of the Sardini
an ports, the revenue of which he grossly and intention
-1 ally exaggerated. He was charged with appropriating
the wages of the sick American seamen who were lying
sick in the hospital at Genoa, and when he left on leave
of abseenee he provided no money to repay the debt, so
that the poor sailors might be relieved. To save the cred
it of the American legation, Mr. Wickliffe and vice con
sul paid the debts left by him, including money retained
by him, and belonging to the invalid seamen. When he
left in a leave not to exceed four months, but which was
; protracted beyond a year, he directed the vice consul at
Genoa to take the key of the consular el.est, and he
would find in that money to pay the debts of the consu
late by him, the London Times’correspondent, contrac
ted, aud upon opening the chest not a cent was found.
Execution of the Fugitive Slave Law.
Col. Wynkoop, one of the Maghals of Pennsylvania,
informed the Secretary of the Interior, a few days since
that the officers were threatened with resistence to the
execution of the fugitive slave law at Wilkesbarre and
asking his advice as to the employment of counsel.
The prompt reply of Gov. McClelland breathes the true
spirit:
Department of the Interior, \
Washington, Oct. 4, 1853. j
Sir: Yours of the 3rd inst. has been received, and I have
telegraphed you to consult the district attorney, employ
counsel, il necessary, and use all reasonable means for the
enforcement ol the law. This department is determined
that the fugitive law shall, so far as depends upon it, be exe
cuted in good faith, and the officers legitimately employed
m carrying it into effect shall be sustained. They need not
tear any difficulty here so long as they discharge their duties
efficiently and faithfully.
I am, sir, &e.
. R-McCLELLAND, Secretary.
Col. Francis M. Wynkoop, Marshal Eastern District,
Pennsylvania.
The Inauguration ofi Gov. Broome of Fla.
A correspondent of the Alabama Journal gives the
following description of the Inauguration of Gov. Broome
of Florida.
I had the pleasure of witnessing the inauguration of
Governor James E. Broome, and hearing his address.—
The Governor is a very plain, unassuming gentleman,
and his address was well written and delivered with con
siderable energy, though his manner was by no means
that ol a polished speaker. He, of course, made very
patriotic declarations of his purpose to discharge his du
tics faithfully and earnestly, and was warmly applauded
by his friends as he progressed with his address. The re
mov and of the Seminole Indians from the State, he declared,
was call for most imperiously by the necessities of the
Commonwealth and its future l prosperity, and emphatical
ly declared that nothing should be wanting oil his part to
effect that purpose, ft seems that the last Legislature au
thorized flic Governor to raise a brigade of men for the
purpose of forcing them from the State, and of lendering
them to tiie President for that purpose, which, if their ser
vices were refused, then the Governor should bring them
into tile field himself, If he should become satisfied that
the General Government did not intend to secure their
removal. He fully and emphatically pledged himself to
the faithful execution of the law, which was loudly cheer
ed by- the audience present. He, as a good democrat,
gave in his adherence to the administration of General
Pierce, and claimed his election as an evidence that the
people intended to maintain the principle of a strict con*
struetion of the constitution.
The Pensacola (Florida) Gazette of the Ist instant,
says : “The usual quiet of our city was disturbed this
morning by an affray between A. J. Collins aud Charles
Winiers, at the coffee honse of the latter, which result
ed in the death of Mr. Winters, from a punctured
wound in the abdomen. Mr. W. leaves three small
children to mourn his untimely death, his wife having
died some two weeks since.
Tiie Countv of Clinch.— The slow coach has at last
arrived. Hurrah for Clinch ; only one week beyond
the reach of modern civilization, she has done nobly •
and we are not without hopes that when the car and
telegraph penetrate her venerable pine forests, and up
root her wire grass, that the Democracy may count on
a majority even in Clinch. We learn from the Savan
nah Republican that Jenkins’ majority in Clinch was
155 ; a Democratic gain of 6 votes on the vote between
Jackson and Hopkins in 1851.
It is said that ninety miles of cotton cloth are daily
manufactured in Manchester, N. H.
Health of Montgomery.!
We have been shown a private letter , from Mont- i
gomery, stating that there is not a single case of yellow
fever in that city. The writer says, “I have the best |
authority for saying that Montgomery is as healthy now
as it has been at the same season for years, and I do
not believe there has been a single ease of yellow fever
here, independent of those brought from Mobile and
New Orleans.”
The Advertiser ij- Gazette of Saturday, says :
The yellow lever panic here has died out. As lar as we
can find out, the town so remarkably healthy, and the few
cases of sickness the physicians have receive double atten
tion in consequence of the scarcity of patients. For the
last lew days we have heard ofmore weddings than deaths;
and the few who put on long laces because they had foolish
ly come to the conclusion that yellow fever was “bound to
rage here,” now look cheerful and are lively and pleasant.
Though the city does not present the business appearance
usual to this season of the year, yet our merchants are daily
receiving and opening large amounts of goods, and their
counters are well attended with customers. ?
Building has not flagged fora moment, and large number
ot handsome tenements, both for business and residence,
have gone on steadily to completion.
The Methodist Church Suite. —lt is stated that the
New York Book Agents are making arrangements for
an immediate settlement with the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, on terms entirely satisfactory in regard
to a division of property. The whole in dispute is to
be referred to the Hon. Judge McLean, of the Supreme
Court of the United States. The Judge is expected in
New York in a few days, to meet the commissioners
of the two branches of tiie church.
Sparkling Catawba. —We are indebted to Mr.
Peabody, of the Soil of the South , for the privilege of
testing the good qualities of Mr. Longworth’s Sparkling
Catawba wine. It has the body, flavor, and efferves
cence of the best champaign. The bottle broken in our
sanctum was one of a basket which thegeneions manu
facturer presented to Mr. Peabody as a testemonial of
his regard for him ns n successful Horticulturist.
The Crystal Palacf,. —The Mineralogical Depart
ment of the Exhibition is now open. The display of
ores and minerals is said to he exceedingly rich, the
entire cabinet being valued at SIOO,OOO. The gold
specimens alone are of the value of $60,000. The Dum
ber of exhibitors is two hundred and seventy-three.
The estimated value of the goods on exhibition in all
departments of the Palace is set down at $5,000,000.
Health of Apalachicola. —The Advertiser of the
29th nit. says : “We have certainly been blessed be
yond comparison ; here we are at the fag end of a long
summer, hale, hearty and healthy, and while the yel
low fever has been raging all round us—North, South,
East and West—we have been spared thus far from
the ravages of this terrible disease. The weather for
the past week has been cool and pleasant, and we have
no apprehension now that the yellow fever will make
its appearance among us.”
Judges Elected. —Wm. B. Fleming, Eastern Cir
cuit :P. E. Love, Southern Circuit; W. W. Holt, Middle
Circuit; G. Andrews, Northern Circuit; R. V. Harde
man, Ocmuigee Circuit; J. H. Stark, Flint Circuit; J.
Jackson, Western Circuit ; T. Trippe, Cherokee Cir
cuit; E. 11. Worrell, Chattahoochee Circuit.
Koszta in Prison. —On the 24th ult. Koszta was
confined in the French hospital at Smyrna, in a room
ten feet square furnished with a Turkish divan, several
chairs, two tables, upon both of which stood vases of
flowers, a wash stand, and an iron bedstead. His coil
finement is said to be by no means rigorous.
U. States Stock. —It is reported that the Secretary
of the Treasury has been very successful in calling in
United States stocks, held in England, redeemable in
1868. One paroel, amounting to SIOO,OOO, arrived at
the Treasury on the 27th, from Liverpool.
Liberal. —lt is stated that the M. W. Grand Lodge
of Free and Aceepted Masons of the State of New
York, at a special Communication, has granted in aid
of the New Orleans sufferers SIOOO, and to Mobile
$5,000.
The total amount of money collected for New Or
leans, Mobile and Galveston is estimated at $270,000.
Checking Railway Trains. — An experiment was
lately tried in England to ascertain how quiok a rail
way train, under full headway, might be stopped. The
train was allowed to attain a speed of fifty miles an hour,
when three breaks were applied and the steam shut off.
It came to a dead stand after running about five hun
dred yards. The experiment was tried to ascertain if
a signal of danger could be seen in season to stop the
train.
Information Wanted.— ls the wife or any heirs of
James Tatom will apply at this office, she will hear
something worth her attention. James Tatom married
a Miss Bibb, at or near Petersburg, Ga., kept a tavern
at Abbeville, C. 11., and died in Hamburg between 1828
and 1852.— Abbeville (S. C .) Banner.
Receipts of a Telf-grai-h Company—The receipts of
the Washington and New Orleans Telegraph Company
for the month of August, 1853, amounted to sll,-
872 06, against $9,239 97 for the corresponding month
the previous year, showing an increase of $2,032 19.
Fire in Macon. —The Journal and Messenger |of
yesterday says:—On Tuesday morning about two
o’clock, the warehouse on the corner of First and
Cheery-street, occupied by Messrs. Wyelie & Gates,
aud owned by Leroy Napier, was discovered to be on
fire, and notwithstanding the active exertions of our
citizens to save it, was totally consumed, together with
a small wooden tenement, on First street, adjoining it.
The warehouse was insured for $1,500 in the JEtua
Insurance Company of Hartford. The house on First
street was owned by a non-resident, whose name we
have been unable to learn, and was insured in the
Southern Mutual or Savannah Mutual Insurance Co.—
There was a small lot of cotton in the warehoue at the
time of the fire, a few bales of which were destroyed,
together with two or three hundred bushels of corn,—
The adjoining buildings on Cherry and first-street (all
of them wooden) were in imminent peril, and were
saved with great difficulty
Yellow Fever Statistics.— The whole number of
deaths in Mobile by yellow fever, from Ist of August
to the 30th of September, was 782. The greatest num
ber of deaths in any one day was 38, on the Bth of
September. The total number of deaths for the two
months mentioned, from all causes, was 1070. In
1539, the last time the epidemic was in Mobile, the to
tal number of deaths from all causes, for the same two
months, was 531. Showing that the epidemic this
year has been more than twice as fatal as it was in
1839.
Tennessee Legislature. —The Legislature convened
in the new capitol on the morning of the 3d. In the
Senate, Edwin Polk of llardeman county, received the
votes of the democrats, and was elected Speaker over
Dr. MeCarriger, for whom the whigs voted. After
forty-two votes for First Clerk, H. H. Harrison, R. S.
Paine, and T. W. Bell, being candidates, the Senate
adjourned. In the house, (all the members present ex
cept Smith of Haywood, and Cummings of Coffee coun
ties,) W. 11. Wisener was elected Speaker over Gen.
Wm. Wilmer, for whom the whigs voted. Richard
B. Cheatham was elected First Clerk oil the first bal
lot. The balanoe of the day was spent in ineffectual
attempts to elect a first Assistant Cleik.— Delta.
W. D. Porter, of the U. S. Navy, has an interesting
letter in the N. Y. Post on ship building. lie suggests
that our steamers should have narrower paddles, of the
traperian shape, with the largest base near the vessel’s
side. The requisites of a fast steamer, he says, are—
first, length ; second, fine entrance ; third, light draft
of water ; fourth, narrow floats, and few of them, and
and leverage.
Commodore Coe (with his lady,) who lately com
manded the fleet of Gen. Urquiza in the River Plate,
and after defeating the Buenos Ayrean fleet, and cap
turing two of their largest vessels, surrendered his own
the Buenos Ayreans, for which service it is said he
received $250,000, in gold and silver, has arrived at
New York from Pernambuco.
Appointmenrs by the President. —The President
has appointed John W. Underwood, of Georgia, As
sociate Justiee of Utah ; Wm. W. A. Davis, of Penn
sylvania, Attorney for New Mexico, and Charles Blom
ney, Marshal of New Mexico.
Death o f Hon. Mahlon Dickerson. —This gentleman
died at his residence in New- Jersey on the sth inst., in
tiie 84th year of his age. He was Secretary of the
Navy under Presidents Jacksons and Van Buren.
Gold has been found on the plantation of Mr. Samuel
Hester, near Calhoun's Mills, in Abbeville district,
s.c.
Rev. Alexander Speer has been elected to the
Presidency of Oak Bowery Female College, in place of
Rev. W. F. Samford.
Ashland'the home of Henry Clay, which was
sold al public sale last week, was purchased by Jas. B.
Clay, his son, atjsl4o per acre. The tract contains 337
acres.
That wheat production of Ohio is estimated to average
25,000,000 bushels per annum, of which 13,000,000 are
surplus. It is said that only about one-fifth of the land
in the State is under cultivation. While some of the
premium crops exceed 50 bushels to the acre, the ave
rage yield of the State will not exceed 16 bushels.
(FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.J
Hon. Alfred Iverson.
Tiie election for Governor of the State and members ot
the Legislature is now over. Nobly and gallantly has
the contest been borne, and victory now perches on
our banner, from the seaboard to the mountains. De
mocracy is again triumphant, and we rest from the toils
aud strife of the political battle-field. But as eternal vigi
lance is the price ofliberty, it now becomes us in the cool
er moments of quiet and .political repose, to look well to
the future.
The people in the exercise of their sovereignty have dis
charged their duty and their whole duty. And now their
chosen representatives have responsibilities to assume ; du
ties of no small magnitude to perform. Among the most
important ol these is the election of a United States Senator.
Many prominent Democrats who have in the late animated
contest borne themselvesfeallantly and deserve well of their
country, will doubtless be put f forward by their friends for
this high office. Without disparaging the claims of any,
we fed that we may call the attention of the Legislature
to the distinguished gentleman whose name appears at the
head of this article.
Possessing talents ot the highest order, a clear head, an
honest heart, a chaste and bumiug eloquence, a devoted
and unshrinking attachment to pure Democratic principles;
with polished manners, and the fearless ability to maintain
and defend our rights ; he would take a position in the
Senate equaled hy few, surpassed by none.
As to Judge Iverson’s past services to the Democratic
party in Georgia, it is scarcely necessary lo speak; they are
identified with its history for the last thirty years ; and the
success of Democratic principles and the name of Iverson
have become in synonimous.
At an early age he began to develope and demonstrate
those principles inculcated by that warm and ardent sup
porter of President Madison’s republican administration,
his father, the late Col. Robert Iverson, not unknown in
Georgia politics.
At an early age Judge Iverson’s talents directed public
attention to him. When scarcely eligible he was called to
a seat in the State Legislature, where the youthful repre
sentative more than realised the expectations of his most
sanguine friends ; his legal abilities soon after (in 1835)
elevated him to the Judgeship of the Superior Court. In
1838 and in 1840 he was placed upon the Democratic ticket
for Representative in Congress, (under tiie general ticket
system,) and in the memorable political campaign of 1840,
he entered the contest with an ability and zeal worthy the
cause in which he was engaged. Every county in South
western Georgia from Troup to the Florida line can bear
witness to his herculean efforts to stay the political tornado
which that year swept rife o’er the land, and left Democra
cy for the time buried deep under its rwins.
In 18-12 Judge Iverson by the partiality of very many o
his friends, was run for the United States Senate and beaten
by a Democrat, under circumstances which would have
shaken the fidelity and alienated the party ties ol any man
influenced by other considerations than devotion to princi
ple.
Ilis position in the State Senate in 18-43 is familiar to the
country—how, almost alone and unaided, the. responsibility
of sustaining Democratic p rinciples against the onslaught
of such a phalanx as Dougherty, Miller, Foster, Bartow,
Kenan and others, devolved upon him.
The next year he was elected one of the Electors at large
on the ticket, which contributed to elevate Polk to the
Presidency, and crown the country with never dying glory.
That the success of Democracy in the Second Congres
sional District owes more to Judge Iverson and his person
al efforts than any (I had almost said every) other man in
the district; no one who claims to know anything of the
political history of it will deny. His efforts in support of
Col. Jones and Judge Wellborn and their success—his own
success over Wm. H. Crawford in a district confessedly
whig, bear ample testimony to the fact.
Tho faithfulness and ability of his administration as Judge
of the Superior Court of the Chattahoochee Circuit since
1849 is fully and amply supported from the fact that he
could have been re-elected without opposition in a circuit
of more than 500 whig majority.
Judge Iverson has in the whole course of his political
life rarely been a voluntary candidate, and seldom pressed
his claims for office ; but has generally been called into the
service of his party by the wishes and voice of his political
friends.
We speak for Southwestern Georgia, and we feel the
most confident assurance that we speak the sentiments and
feelings of ninety-nine hundredths of the Democracy in this
part of the State, when we say that Judge Iverson’s election
to the Senate, would not only be acceptable, but more grati
fying to them than that of any other Democrat in the
State. And we feel that he would cany into the Senate an
ability, an influence, and a devotion to Democratic princi
ples surpassed hy no man in Georgia.
SOUTHWESTERN GEORGIA.
. [FOR TIIE TIMES AND SENTINEL.]
The Recorder’s Private Correspondent.
We can easily forgive the spirit that prompted the Re
corder’s “private correspondent,” and pity the state of mind
he is in—and the excessive chagrin he feels at the defeat ol
his darling party based on beau-ideal principles, flow
manfully does he beat against that irresistible supremacy
of correct principles which is bearing down upon the weak
ranks of Whiggery, like the strong wave of the oceon on
weeds that gather there—hurrying them against the rocks
and the shore.
Would he compare the sum of money won from the
game of broken banks and spent to forward the election of
Democrat, with that lavishly bestowed by spirited “Repub
licans,” the difference would all lie in my eye Bettie Mar
tin. But this private correspondent, like the drowning
man, has caught tho straw, and although the promise of
support i3 as false in the one as the other ; he is welcome
to the hold that stays him up.
GOBBLER’S HILL.
Give me Drink. —Mr. M’Leod, an English
writer, puts the following in the mouths of those
who visit the rum-seller’s den :
There’s my money—give me drink! there’s
my clothing and my food—give me drink! there’s
the clothing, food, and fire, of my children—give
me drink ! There’s the education of the fami
ly and the peace of the itouse—give me drink!
There’s the rent I have robbed from my land
lord, fees I have robbed from the schoolmaster,
and innumerable articles I have robbed from the
shopkeeper—give me drink ! Pour meout drink,
for more I will yet pay for it! There’s my
health of body and peace of mind—there’s my
character as a man and my profession as a
Christian—l give up all—give me drink ! More
yet I have to give ! There’s my heavenly in
heritance and the eternal friendship of the re
deemed—there—there—is all hope of salvation!
I give up my Saviour ! I give up my God ! I re
sign all! All that is great, good and glorious
in the universe, I resign forever, that I may be
—Drunk !
OCT After deliberation, we have come to the
conclusion that the British love for the negro,
and the Russian longing after Constantinople,
are nothing more than an epicurean predilection
for Ham and Turkey.
Senators and Representatives.
Appling; Reddish, Dvul*
Butts ; Lyon, Andrews.
Bibb; Dean, Green, Hardeman.
Baker ; Clarke. Rowell
Bullock ; Cone, McLean.
Baldwin ; Brown , McComb.
Burke ; Gresham , Shewmake, Jones.
Bryan ; Love, Strickland.
Chatham; Anderson, Ward, Harrison.
Crawford ; Walker, Cleveland.
Campbell; Watts, Latham.
Cobb ; Lawrence, Gartrell, Mayuor.
Cherokee ; Camden, Fields, Alread.
Coweta ; Smith, Bridges, Dodds
Carroll; Boggess, Reid.
Chattooga ; McConnell, Ilawkins.
Cass ; Cannon, Harden, Lynn.
Camden; Patterson, Smith.
Clarke ; Hull , Hardin , Carlton .
Columbia; Stoval, Watson, Barnes.
Clinch ; Sermons, Staten.
Dooly ; Mouuger, Shine.
Decatur ; Crawford , Powell.
DeKalb ; Collier, Henderson, Smith.
Dade ; Hall, Parris.
Early ; Holmes, West.
Effingham ; Morel , Powers.
Elbert; White , Martin , Rucker.
McLeod, Durden .
Forsyth ; Strickland, Rico.
Fayette ; Stell, Denham.
Floyd ; Lambeth , Haynie.
Franklin ; Morris, Holland, Poole.
Glynn ; Piles, Dußignon.
Gilmer ;
Greene ; Dawson, Armstrong , Champion .
Gordon ; Dabney, Mayes.
Gwinnett ; Thomas, Whitworth, Hudson.
Harris ; Pratt , Mohly, Hood.
Henry ; Turner, Arnold, Masters.
Houston ; McGehee, Taylor, Hardison.
Habersham ; Trammel, Philips, Cleveland.
Hall; Dunagan, Hayden.
Hancock ; Stephens , Stewart.
Heard ; Echols, Stokes.
Irwin ;
Jefferson ; Boyd, Stapleton .
Jones; Walker, Monghon.
Jasper ; Greer, Fish, Smith.
Jackson ; Moon, McMullin.
Lee ; Newsom , Richardson.
Lumpkin ; Singleton, Keith, Riley.
Liberty ; Jones, Smith.
Lawrens ; Guyton , Yopp.
Lincoln ; Moore . Strother .
Lowdnes ; Knight, Radford.
Merrivvether ; Gaston, Leverett, Nickols.
Muscogee ; Sturgis, McDougald, Thornton.
Morgan ; Saffold, Bostwick.
Monroe; Crowder, Woodward, Redding,
Macon ; Robinson, McMullen.
Murry ; Laughridge, Turner 1
Madison ; Deadwyler, Eberhart.
Marion ; Peebles , Brown.
Montgomery ; Adams, Williams.
Mclntosh ; Dunwoody, Hamilton.
Newton ; Williamson, Reynolds . Lamar.
Oglethorpe ; Willingham, McWhorter , Clarke.
Pulaski ; Delemar , Harrell.
Putnam , Griggs, Callaway, Dawson.
Pike; Green, Arnold, Trice.
Polk ; Hubbard , McGregor.
Paulding ;
Randolph ; Guerry, Hendrick, Robson.
Richmond ; Miller, Walton, Walker .
Rabun ; Beck, Adams.
Stewart; May, Bell, Williford.
Scriven; Jackson, Gross.
Spaulding; Crittenden, Mosely.
Sumter; King, Williams.
Troup ; Ridley , Fannin , Cameron’
Talbot ; Dixon , Walton , Maxwell.
Taylor ; Drane, Stewart.
Thomas ; Brown, McDonald.
Twiggs ; Reynolds, Griffin.
Telfair ; Wiicox, flatten.
Taliaferro; Bird, Harris.
Tatnall ; Surrency , Moody.
Union ; Jameson, Young.
Upson ; Drake , Grant , Stephens
Washington ; Bullard, Boatright, Robson.
Walton ; Hill, Williams, Hays.
Warren; Bealle , Cody, Pottle.
Walker ; Dickson, Clement.
Ware; Lott, Sweat.
Wayne ; Bryan, Rump.
Whitfield ; Bailey, McCurdy ?
Wilkes ; Pope, Irwin , Anderson.
Wilkinson ; Cochran, Taylor.
Tho first named in each line are Senators. Those
names in italics are whig.
Yellow Fever Incident. —The Baton Rouge
Comet relates the following anecdote,of a French J
shoemaker in that town :
“During the ravages of the epidemic monsieur
was frequently advised to bo on his guard, lest
the fever should take him ; but he replied to all
this advice with only a shrug, and saying, I
shall tend to my beezuese, and let ze ihve do
his, by gar!’
Two or three of Parlez Vous friends were
taken off, but still he plied ids hammer and
thread as usual. At last a death occurred in his
house. This was enough. Crapeau immedi
ately undressed himself and went to bed and
waited there very patiently three or four days,
for “ze lave,” but no fever came. Thinking he
had done his part in the matter the testy ‘cor
donnoir’ got up in a rage, put on his clothes,
and went furiously to “beezuese” to make up
for lost time. A friend of ours, whose duties
among the sick called him that way daily, ob
serving his old acquaintance again at work,
thought he would inquire about his late absence.
So he asked tho implacable Gaul where he had
been—if he had been sick with the fever.
Looking up from his work for a moment, he
replied, with a shrug and grimmace, such as
a Frenchman only can make : “I seek wiz ze
save ? No, by gar, ze save be dam—l lose one
tree, four day, in ze bed, wait for him come, and
he would no come ; so I lose no more day
for him, by dam. Zefave go to h — l, Igo ’bout I
my beezuese !”
Our friend immediately left, perfectly satisfied
with the explanation of his friend's absence.”
A Loafer's Solioquy. —“l wish I knew where
to get a cent, 1 do. Blest if I don’t emigrate to
Karnschatka to dig gold. Money scarcer than
wit—can’t live by neither—at least 1 can’t.—
Sold the last old shirt, pawned my boots for
three cents and went home as rich as a lord.
“Told my landlady I had a hundred thousand j
dollars, and wanted the best room in the house.
Insulted me by saying the attic was too good
for me.
“I’m an injured individual. Society perse
cutes me. I don’t do soeiety no harm as I
knows on. I don’t rob widder’s houses. I
don’t know widder’s. I don’t put the bottle to
my neighbor’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 I haven’t got a roof to lay my head into.
My old landlady hated me, why ? I couldn’t
pay, and I left. Cause why ? ain’t it better to
dwell in a corner of the house-top than with a
brawling woman in a wide house ? But I ain’t
got a house top ; and if I had, a corner 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
afeared ol taking the bread out of somebody’s
mouth. Besides, wisdom’s the principle thing ;
don’t the good book say so ? What’s money
to wisdom ? Ain’t Ia studying character ? If
a man kicks me because I can’t pay for my lick.,
er, ain’t I getting understanding ? ain’t it a
lesson to human nature ? I’m told tiie world
owes me a living. When is it going to pay I
wonder ? I’m tired of waiting.”
Luttet JutteUigence.
SEVEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
Arrival of the Canada.
Cotton Declined-The Eastern Question still Unset
tled—Russia and Austria Allied.
New York, Oct. 13.
The British mail steamship Canada, with Liverpool
dates to the Ist inst., has arrived at Halifax, N s
bringing news seven days later than the Arabia’s ae’
counts.
Liverpool Cotton Market.
The sales of Cotton in the Liverpool market for the
week ending on the 30th ult., comprise 34,000 bales
of which speculators took 3,000 and exporters 5 0 00
bales, leaving 26,000 bales of all descriptions for ’the
trade. The quotations are as follows: Fair Orleans
6 5-Bd.; Middling Orleans 5 3-4d.; Fair Uplands 6 1 -4d *
and Middling Uplands 5 ! -2d. All qualities have de’
clined from l-Bd. to l-4d. Holders are pressing their
stocks on the market.
Provisions.—Western Canal Flour has advanced
from IS pence to 2 shillings. The demand for Rice
was good and prices stiffer. Sugar remained quiet.
London Money Market.
The money market was tighter, and the rate of inter
est had advanced to 5 per cent. A small business only
was done in American securities. Consols have declined.
Havre Cotton Market.
The sales of Cotton in the Havre market for the week
amount to 5,000 bales. All qualities had largely declined
but lair and middling grades had tell off the most.
The Eastern Question.
Tho Turkish question still continues still unsettled
Russia and Austria, however, are perfectly united.
From Spain.
of Cuba" 11 I>oinSdl ,iaS beel ‘ appoimed c “Ptain General
„„ °hio Election.
•f Ohio noCratS haVe Ca,Tied the in the State
m, -New Orleans, Oct. 13.
The CoUon Market on Thursday was quiet, and up to
!es had been sold
th Jaftern.™*' 8 adV ‘ CeS were recei ™d at four o’clock in
Rio coffee was dull. Sterling exchange is quoted at Sia9.
Pennsylvania and Ohio Elections.
Baltimore, Oet, 13.
Ob Tuesday elections were held in Pennsylvania for
a Canal Commissioner, Judge of the Supreme Court,
an Auditor General, a Surveyor General, and local offi-’
cers. In Ohio on the same day, a Governor and mem
bers of the Legislature were elected. In both States
the Democrats were successful by large majorities. In
Ohio the majority is stated to be 35,000.
Failure of Simeon Draper.
Baltimore, Oct. 11
Simeon Draper, well known in the financial world
has failed in New York.
Collector Brownson and Mr. Guthrie.
Baltimore, Oct. 11.
Collector Brownson, of New York, lias written a se
vere reply to Mr. Guthrie’s letter. He will propably
be removed from his office.
Large Fogeries in Boston.
Baltimore, Oet. 11.
It has been discovered in Boston that G. W. Ma
son lias committed fogeries to the extent of $200,000.
Epidemic at New Orleans.
New Orleans, Oct. 10.
The interments in New Orleans during last week
were 12 1, including only 42 from yellow feyer. The
weather is cool and fine, and an immense number of
absentees are returning, considering that the danger is
over. &
Cargoes Damaged.
m, T ANARUS, New Orleans, Oet. 10
Ihe shipsEspanol.v and Hudson, arrived at this port
recently from New York, had, it has been discovered
then-cargoes of dry goods nearly destroyed on the passage
by the bursting ot fourteen casks of Chloride of Lir e
wluel, had been improperly prepared by the Eastern man
utaetures. llie loss is estimated at SBO,OOO.
Health of Mobile.
The health of Mobile is now nearly then
are on[y occasionaly eases of yellow fever.
.... , , New Orleans, Oct. 10.
i tie sales of Cotton during the week at Mobile are es
timated at 1000 bales nearly all of whiehiwere takenffer oui
domestic markets, with the exception of a few small par-
I w'jS? bpa , m ’ Ordinary was quoted at from 8a 8*
Mld,llin ? R>a 1 Middling
Pair 1U i a 1 Os, and Fair nominal.
Georgia Election.
Milledgevilj.e, Oct. 11
Johnson’s majority is 824 votes, Clinch* county to tx
heard from. Six Congressmen elected by the Democrats
Baity is elected by two majority. The Democratic maio’
ntyin the Senate 9, and in the House 18. J
*Clmch gave 155 majority for Jenkins.
Boston, Oct. 7.
Simen Greenleaf, formerly Professor of the Law
School at Cambridge, died suddenly in that city last
night of apoplexy. He was seventy years of age.
Loss of the Steamer Fairy Queen.
Baltimore, Oct 9.
Advices from set. Johns state that the steamer Fairy
Queen had been lost near Pictou, and that three lives
had been lost. The captain and crew had been arrested’
Later from Havana.
The steamship George Law has arrived at New York
from Havana, which port she left on the 3d inst Bu
i ness wasjn isk and freights plenty.
The New York Custom .House.
The New York papers of Saturday, publish a letter
from Secretary Guthrie, demanding that the offices ot
the Custom House be divided between the Hards and the
; bolts.
Later from the Isthmus.
New Orleans. Oct 8
Ike steamship El Dorado lias arrived at New Orleans
fro™ As pm wall, which port she left on the Ist iust. Slit
reports that the Illinois arrived at Aspinwail on Ist inst
from New York, and was to have sailed immediately on
her return with nearly seven hundred passengers. ‘ The
John} L. Stephens arrived at Panama on the *2Bth u>t
The Isthmus was healthy when the El Doradojet't.
From California.
j Tiie steamer Star ot the W est, arrived at New York,
I brings California dates to 16th Sept. She brings SI,OOOO
- in gold.
The majority for Bigler, democrat, for Governor, is on
ly 1,000, while the remainder of the democratic ticket is
elected by 4to 10,000. Garrison, dem., has been elec
ted Mayor ot San Francisco, and the whole democratic
city and county ticket was chosen. Both branches of the
Legislature are largely democratic The people of gan
b rancisco had adopted the revised charter.
Got. Bigler's majority in San Francisco was only 9 votes.
Dr. G. M Duvall, of Maryland, had been shot dead in
a street fight with S. J. Downs, of Sacramento. Dr. 11,
C. Gillis had been seriously injured in a street fight with
C. R. Dron, of San Francisco, John Potter, alias Hal®
timore Jack, had been killed at Pownieville, by a man
named Memtz. It an attempt made by the citizens to
lynch the latter, Thaddeus Purdy, District Attorney, had
been shot dead.
An express box of Messrs. Adams Sc Cos., containing
$25,000 in specie, was stolen from the stage between Sono
ra and Stockton.
Oregon. The hostilities with the. Indians, in which
Gen. Lane and Col. Alden were wounded, took place in
kogue river valley on the 27th of August. There were 90
whites and 200 Indians engaged, and the skirmish lasted
four hours, when the Indian Chief Sam proposed an amiis
tic, which was granted. Ten Indians were killed, and 30
wounded—-the whites had 3 killed and 8 wounded Among
the killed was Captain Armstrong. The Indians have
continued their outrages at other points.
hSi’i V \hi lne ’ of ° re °, n . ami Lie - Alden, oi the army,
Had bothjbeeu wounded m an engagement with tho Indians
on Hogue river, the latter severely.
Sandwich Islands. —Advices from Honolulu of the 18th,
state that the small pox was raging there terribly.
run her intelligence Irom Honolulu states that a strong
political movement had been commenced to compel the
King to discharge his Ministers, Judd and Armstrong. A
memorial signed by 13,000 persons, to that effect, had been
presented to his .Majesty. The indications were decidedly