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laws <o: ..a-UcK.: C»at;sika.
We h ve before as a report of rise five days’ses
sion of the Convention hrad at Lecompton, Kan
sas Territory. commencing 0(1 toe 7 th instant and
ending on tbellth.
Tiie t:rat day their vens only a temporary orga
nisation. On’the second day theGiwt of delegates
•was calash and members were required to take an
obligation of fidelity to the Constitution of the
Vo t'd states and the orgauic act of tiie Territory,
known Ss the Kansas-Nebraske act, andriiat the
oath be administered by a legally authorized offi
cer.
Gen. Jobs Calhoun was elected President of
the Convention. The vote stood; For J. Calhoun
27, Rush Elmore. 12, J. L. F.usfin 45. On taking
the rhair, the President addressed the Convection
in the'following terms:
Gentj.EMEK: For the very flattering expression
of vour sentiments in conferring on me the office
of President of this Convention you have my
profound acknowledgments I am fully »" are of
the importance of the position which you have
assigned to mb; tlndl think, also, of the mipor-
t.inc of the mission which has brought W8 together
Oh this Occasion.
Tin meeting of a convention to frame the con
stitution of a new -fiate is, under ordinary circtim-
stances. a matter of no great interest. The young
ST)ate may spring into being and reach great con
sequence in the Nr.tionAl Pongre.-s and in the
national history, hut still that will be lire uuiform
course of the States of the Union.
We meet here to-day under cxfraoi din ary circum
stances. and I trust that every member of this Con
vention has come here to-day to discharge his
duties, folly impressed with the high responsibili
ties that attach to him, and with their importance
not only to Kansas, but to the Union of which we
propose to become a member. A constitution
wisely framed, and properly, fairly, and honestly
approved by the true citizens of Kansas, will settle
all the di.Ten!tics *hat surround ns and that have
been surronuding us and will at once restore har
mony to the Union.
I may remark hero, without perhaps doing in
justice to tVicIbelings of any lionest and true lover
of his country, that the formation of such a consti
tution prostrates and crushes to earth a party that
is seeking every means within its pow er to obtain
ascendency, even at the sacrifice of the Union
■itself. It is not merely Kansas, it is the Union that
h infere- tod in tiie settlement of our difficulties.
This Convention is not merely the interest of the
people here, hut of the people representing the lie-
^jublie.
One of the greatest issues to he solved by this
Convention is, whether the people of this Territory
shall have power to control its government. _ To
make a constitution is hut a small affair. Not a
sino-’e principle will be embraced in the constitu
tion to he framed during this session that has not
been already implanted in other constitutions.
The old original constitutions of the American
States contained some errors which have since
decn corrected by the popular sentiment: and
wherever old constitutions have been revised and
altered or new constitutions framed they liave had
expressed inthemtlie principvs that the people
have the right and shall elect, not merely Gover
nors and President and the various officers that
are usually elected by the people, but also judges.
These improvements have been made within the
l»«t quarter of a century, and trre expressed not
onlv in the constitutions of such of the old Slates
as have held conventions within that time, but
also in those of the new States that came into the
Union. There are, therefore, no new principles ta
be decided in these conventions to frame constitu
tions.
Put the people of Kansas assume the right to set
tle their !o-al questions f<*r themselves, and it is
that which produces the difficulties, not merely in
Kansas, hut throughout the Union. Those diffi-
cttl'ies most be settled by your deliberations I
think that the character- of the members of this
Convention, over which I have the honor topre-
side. ought t-o give the world the assurances that
their deliberations w ill result, not merely in the
settlement of difficulties here, luit in the settlement
-of fiie question as to whether this Union shall con
tinue, and as to whether tha' party which is em
ploying its time and its treasure to keep this an
t>p< n question till tiie next Presidents! contest w ill
stand oi fa 1 !. If the Union stands that party goes
t>v the b >ard: if that pnri-v triumphs this I nion
cannot live. The high and responsible duty, there
fore tie:elves oil us to take into eur hands the
organic ai-t of this Territory: and. acting upon its
principles, to present to lire Ccngrees of the United
States a constitutions framed in stu b a manner and
having such nn ctidorsem* lit as that we may not
merely petition for admission to the Union, but de
mand that we shall be admitted.
1 trust that wise coniine's will prevail here. T
am confident, from my knowledge of this Conven
tion, that such will be the case. There may be
excitenomt of feeling: there may ire particular
points on which individual members will plant
themselves;but still I trust that every member of
this Convention v iH bring to bear in the judgment
of all issues that noj be presented that calm, sober
deliberation becoming statesmen who have met
together to found a government, who have m< t
tog 1 flier to lav the foundations, on which a great
people shall have to res*. I am fully confident
that you will be and are fitted to the occasion: and.
gentlemen, I can give you the assurance that in all
your actions that will be just and proper to Kan-
to the prosperity of Kansas and the preservation
of the Union—you shall have my full, hearty, and
honest co-operation.
I again toridei to yon my thanks for the honor
which yon liave conferred on me; for I deem it a
higher honor to stand here to-day the presiding
officer of this Convention than to fill any oth* r
position that the American people could confor
upon me.
Mr. Hugh M. Moore, of Lr-venworth. and Mr.
George Grammes, of Lecompton, were elected
respectively president pro trm. and sergant-at arms
bv acclamation. Messrs Th'Unas C Hughes,.!. L.
Nonnnan. 1’. IT. Carey, and Col. Cooke were
elected secretary, assistant secretary, reporter,
and door-keeper, respectively, by large majorities
over th* ir opponents.
On (be third day the President introduced the
■Rev. John G. 5I.u;ub, who made the foliowing
laconic but appropriate prayer:
“May the Lord God, in his infinite wisdom,
imbue this Convention and each of its members
with the same spirit witli which th imbued Wash
ington. Jefferson. Adams, and the immortal Pat
rick Henry.”
The day was spent in discussion as to the best
method of conducting the business of the body.
On the fourth day it was agreed to appoint coni
mitteeson the following suljects:
•'Executive department; -Judiciary: Legisla
ture; slavery; bill of rights; incorporations: miscel
laneous matters: revenue: elections and rights of
suffrage: finances; education; internal improve
ments: Stat boundaries, division into counties,
and their ordinances.”
A resolution to adjourn to the second Monday in
October next was discussed.
On the fifth day, after rejecting several delegates
claiming seats, the legal number (sixty) being
already jires.-nt, amotion to adjourn to the third
Monday in October was carried, and the body ac
cordingly adjourned.
Lunch of the Cheat Eastern —The Cana-
adian . London) ftetes of the 2d instant, says it is
authoriz- d to state that the Great Eastern steam
ship “will he launched in the first spring tides of
next month (October ) The day is not «s yet ob-
solutely fixed, but this important event w ill proba
bly take p aee on Monday, the 5tb of that month.
Tiie tides will he highest on that day.”
The same journal describes with minuteness a
rout • of pleasure travel through the United (States
to Chicago and St Louis, and which extended on
Cool.n-: in »,:nr o. Daag:r,
We find the following statement among those
published in connection with tho recent loss of toe
Central America:
Mr. S. Colw ell, <mc of the passengers picked up
by the barque Ellen, states that he was afloat a
period of about nine hours, during which time he
sustained him- If and tw enty pounds of gold dust
and com, belted around him. w ith the aid of a
board nine inches wide and three feet long. When
picked op, he says he was not in the least exhaust
ed, but felt as if he could easily have sustained
himself twenty-four hours longer. He says lie
was by some means knocked overboard, with
many others, about three minutes before, the
steamer disappeared. He went over at the b w,
and sunk many feet in the water. When he came
up. the bows of the steamer were still visible, but
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The following article from the Cincinnati Price
Current of Wednesday last, contains many state
ments of great interest at the present time :
Consequent upon the financial crisis arising out
of the failure of tiie Tru.-t Company, the feeling m
the market lor hogs, as regards contracts tbrfuture
delivery, has been quit ■ subdued the last two or
three wcks: auu though there were plenty of
buyers at $7.00, for November delivery up to
within the last ten days of August, and but tew
sellers, there are now more sellers than buyers at
this rate. The question whether the next hog crop
will he a “long 7 " or "short ’ one is being generally
discussed, and opinions are given on both sides
freely, and supported by plausible logic, to s iv t.?m
it. Letters from various sec ions are be-
xced before the public, stating that tho hogs
at that instant a heavy sea broke over her, and | alloying by thousands in all directions, and that
sho disappeared from s : ght forever. j in many places there are not enough lett to propa-
Mr. C. says when the vessel went down, he was j gate the species: in other places we hear the am-
clasped around both legs by a man struggling for ' mals are unusually abundant, and well taken care
life. His grasp was the grasp of despair, and no of. In some places it is stated with the greatest
efforts of his were sufficient to break his hold. He : pertinaciiy, that all except pigs—the merest pigs
was obliged to take hold of the man’s arm and i —were slaughtered la«t winter and spring, pork
press downwards, while, by the exertion of all I being so high, and then again tve are told that
his strength ho drew up. first one leg. and then I those not slaughtered in winter were, during tho
the other. This effort to free himself from his j last summer. Here arid (li re we find comninnira-
unfortanate companion took him down,he thinks. ( tions in the papers from the correspondence of
twenty or thirty feet. The latter continued to
sink to a watery grave, while he, more fortunate,
rose td the surface.
lie came up in the. midst of a group, several of
whom seize l upon him. and in their struggles tore
from his body his life-preserver and his shirt- He
finally succeeded in freeing himself from them,
aud swam awav in search of something for support
He found the piece-jof board, to which allusion has
been made, and which, in the end. was the means
of saving Iris life. He says that hut little effort is
needed to keep a mail afloat, if he preserves his
presence of mind, and acts with cool judgment
Fright, be thinks, not only Weakens a person, lint
T .V,od-yi)ii and its Tubiic Buildings.
An occasional correspondent of the New York
Journal of Commerce furnishes the following in
teresting gossip about the federal capital and its
public buildings:
‘ The vicinity of the Capitol is still a ruin, tho’
it is the ruin ef preparation—not of destruction.
What acres of marble blocks ! This country at
least affords nothing to be compared with the new
Capitol in the sublimity of extent and majesty of
proportions. It oppresses the mind with its
grandeur. In the interior utility has been consult
ed. For forty years the representatives have
been halloaing to each other in that great forest—
their hall—which echoed aud reduplicated their
voices, until it annihilated them as means of com
municating knowledge. But now a very different
chamber has been constructed, less mysterious,
dark, and inaccessible by the people, the galleries
of which are patterns for sight and hearing. It is
to be regretted that the superintendent has been so
slow about the Senate chamber as not to have it
ready for the approaching long session of Con-
the struggling induced bvit tends rather to sink tin
mercantile agencies, stating that there are very few
hogs in the country. But when it is recollect' d
that these correspondents are county lawyers, who
are “roosting” about county court-houses, watch
ing for clients, it will be seen that their opinion
regarding the le g or other crops is exceedingly
worthless. Dealers and ail interested in the pre
vision mark t, will always find it safe to assume
there are, every year, hogs enough in the country;
there may be less at one time than another, but
there are alw ays enough to fatten so as to make a
long hog crop, in case tiie inducements aud the
means exist to do this.
In our paper w epublish the assessor’s returns of
hogs in Kentucky comp!
We
titan sustain him. While swimming in search of, also publish the returnsfrom thirty-one counties in
some snppoit. lie found his boots weighing heavily , Ohio. 1 lie former show an increase ul ttcenty-
upon him, when he stopped and deliberately drew j nine per cent., as compared •>
them off. ;.Ir. C. weighs a little over two hundred j latter of eightee a per cent.
SecriUry Cjjj.
The financial crisis which has come upon this
country, is iikelv to be met hv Mr. Cobb in such
manner as to make Ins administration the most
prominent and brilliant under the sub-treasury
system. He is a ir.au oi close judgment, very
practical and prompt in carrying out the convic
tions of his mind. Few other men would have
been so prompt to throw into circulation the latge
amount of specie which lay idle in toe vaults of the
United States treasury. But the country needed
it. Mr. Cobb immediately saw and recognized
the necessity, and immediately acted. I he result
of his action thus far has been so clearly stated by
the New Volk Times that we publish the article in
The Secretary of the Treasury lias done the
community of merchants, bankers and other busi
ness people a real service through the present trial
in money affairs. He has promptly and studious
ly for thirty days past, shaped the government dis
bursements to the largest measure of pecuniary
relief. We ’nave seldom known a public tunction-
nr\, under similar circumstances, to manifest
of the other sex, whenever-the crinoline began to
rustle; with another poor gallery opposite, the en
tire front of which is occupied by that useful, but
hard-worked and ever-wearied set of operators,
the reporters, or ‘gentlemen of the pn ss,’ the sov
ereign people have been well-nigh excluded
i CiS.3
To The Public.
The undersigned, Conductors of the Western
& Atlantic Railroad, feel it to bo a solemn duty to
the people of Georgia whose servants they arc. and
in justice to tlurir own outraged characters, to vin
dicate themselves from a disgraceful charge which
has been made against them by B. H. Hill now
a candidate for the office of Governor in this
State.
\V»* )m<1 hpm<T from rnmor fnr several weeks back
th
th
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. Special BoTuTT
WEAKNESjj OF THE STOMAfTl^AvTTTnTiT
GESTION. ‘
Another Great Cure Affected by Bcerhavc's Holland
BiUcr 9.
The wife of Pieter De Witte, living ia Holland Town
Sheboygan county, Wisconsin, suffered much from
weakness of the stomach and Indigestion. She hid
were content to leave the matter where it was.— j great cure effected by your medicine.
But since that time—the evidence that such a We ’nave still to record many wonderful cores eff.c;
the new tariff might work inconvenience to toe
bankers. But the measures taken since the close
of August have been doubly valuab le, and ought
not to fail of proper commendation.
On the 24th August, when the panic began in
this city by the failure ot the Ohio I rust, the sub-
WhcClay, Calhoun, or Webster spoke.hundreds —; ^,j" t Vw V e n.iliions and * half of dollars
upon hundreds could not get near the door. But - f , twentv . tw0 am ] a half millions in
The new Senate gallery could have been finishedj p e P £, c;tt ly strengthened by con
centrating the government disbursements at this
it!i last year, aud the
The returns ill Ken-
pounds.
Mr. C. strs about fifteen minutes before tbe ves
sel went djwn he witnessed tbe parting between
two twin M others, named Casey. They embraced
each other in tears on deck, saying that each must
take rare himself; they bade each other a final
adieu. SiItweqTieTrtlv they were picked up by tbe
barque EfCB, where he witnessed their meeting.
He also srl: two brothers, tamed Harris, from Mis
souri. abo t tb° s.iroe time. They each bad about
fourthons. nd dollars inn valise. They brought
their valise on deck, placed it between them, clasp-1 hv the “hog cholera at a trightiui rate
ed hands taking seats on either side of it, and in j however, is confined to a few localities, e
this position went down with the vessel.
Mr. C says that he put his gold on him in such
tacky are of hogs over six months old on the 1-t
of A;mil each year. In Kentucky we find over one
million hogs over six months old on the L th of
January, 1 457; end. in < duo*. if the increase in the
counties not vet heard from Is the same as it is in
those reported, there were 2,184,326 hogs over six
months-old ou the first of last April. Indiana and
Illinois had no doubt three millions of this age on
the 1st of April, so that it will be seen that the
supply of the animals is ample. Put then it is
aid.and it is true, t fiat hogs are being swept away
This,
hi' flv in
e vicinity of distilleries, and we feel safe in say-
g that the whole number carried off in this way
a wax- that he could, in a moment, relieve himself' for the year ending December 31, 1-b, will not
of its weight in the event ofits proving too much exceed one hundred thousand: or, if it should
for him to sustain. Tie is a man of undoubted cool- \ reach one hundred :uid fifty thousand. it could not
ness and courage, and to tbe possession of those diminish seriously tiie number brought to maiket.
qualities, under a kind Providence, he undembt- ! his will h-- obvious to any person upon the ret! e-
e ilv owes his life. I tinn that in Kentucky. Ohio. Indiana and Illinois
AH mirht linn hern saved — Tn the retrospect of j there were over six millions hogs six months old
an occasion of shipwreck we almost invariable : and upwards on tint 1st of last April, b e think
1 discover that opportunities have been overlooked, i we may assume tiow, without fear of cmttradic-
or a course of action neglected in the hurry aud i th®, that the supply* ot hogs is ample. Ihe next
confusion of the scene, which if availed of would (question is, will tlierebe a iargeor a small number
have saved many lives. This was emphatically |-4 them brought to market? In order to arrive at
the case ill the less of the Central Amerea. ia correct conclusion with reference to this, it is
Nearly five hundred lives have been lost which j necessary for us to examine into the springs of hu-
a single lnclvv thought of «nv one in control on j man actions and-see what men will door not do as
board r.f tbe ill fn’ed steamer could most prnbablv a general thing under certain circumstances,
have saved. While we cannot retrieve tiie past, it! It is safe and reasonable to suppose that the
is well to point out such possibilities that we may j farmer will turn his attention to tiie cultivation of
have a guide for the future. j that which, from the evidences before him or the
Ii is known that the great difficultv on the oc- inducements held out, promises the' most ample re-
e.asion was the drifting of the rescuing brig Ma- " ,lif , '’ 1 !' ' a “d the more overt'heliini.g
rine. a number of miles to leeward, so that onlv are the evidences m tavor ot the profits likely to
eight boat loads of the people could be transfer aocrue. the more assiduity will be exercise- in tbe
red from the steamer to the brig before the former production <•: the article Now let us see wlmt are
went down. Had such precautions been taken on 11 •« inducements to “cultivate hogs, and what w
hoard the -steamer, when the Marine was seen ap- «puh; of the means with which they ran be
preaching, as would have enabled the two vessels . P™P«« d for market Since the 1st of last Jan mi-
to ri'lr together hif a hmrsrr th**v would thon hnvp j rv ’ * ,0 n s l ,ave ru l ,1 F.j K ' r * , n , A , D K s< ‘ ne . s °*
continued onlv a f-w fathoms apart and nil could j yenrs, a.el the demand for them has been active,
have been taken nn board the brig before dark. consequently the inducements to breed them and
■ r -i,! take car-e ot them, have been stronger than they
Capt. Hurt, of the Marine, informs ns that when I , iaye boen for Tears . al „) t ), e n - s „, t of this is
he bore down for the steamer knowing his own hoT . n , „ |e lessor's returns we publish. The
disabled condition, and that he must necessarily ^ H|m t|lo „gh late, have proved nn-
drift far to leeward, and hoping that those | n U al !v favorable for all kinds of veg.-tarion : every
board the steamer wonld realize th.s.hemade every thinjr ' 1liuUe for f)M „, for man and beast grew in
preparation on board fhehng for riding hr a e lest profaP ; ()n tliroughout the length and
| hawser, and . xpected to find a boat out from the of „f (! t ,„. „f.ea t . barl-v, rye. eats
Steamer with the end of one ot her large hawsers ! nJ hav cropg now „ ; , t l 1( -red are th- most abnn-
on board. Tie accordingly rounded to close■ imiler I (1 ^ t . ar J be W( . u imn ,, in ed, and the corn and
tbe stern of the stean.er-sn close that a bison,t w „ ow nearly matured, exceed, both as
might almost have been tossed from one vessel to J ^ ’ , itvand „ ever gathered in
the other, and close enough to have received "”“| t | lc ,. omi ’ trv -. During the Whole summer nod up
of her Unes from a small boat; but to 1.,* dismay.. - t tinie ” tro „ e nP „ts have ex-
non^ sit(*ti wns in r<'»<lincss, an«l in a minuinmore . . 3 . 1 . , “ rC x i .
tt • ci , i isteu to fake the best care ot ho^s, ami none can
ho was (niftinr*’ ranialv away xle is continent! ~ . .1 . .» r . . .
. . , 1 r 1 * *, • 1 1 v suppose* mr .a moment that the nest care has not
that he could have saved every soul if Ik* could j , * *
only have made fast to flio steamer. In this
opinion men of nautical experience must universal
ly concur.
The Central America was provided with several
noble hawsers, strong enonffh to have held the
vessel together in the then state of the weather.
\V e can only grieve that the experiment of run
ning out the hawsers was not attempted on board
tbe ship when a crippled brig was seen npproach-
fapf, Bernden. T. S. B,
The sorrow for the untimely death of this gallant
officer (for there is scarcely room to hope that he
has been rescued) is quit:* as poignant and
universal as the admiration of his coolness, courage,
and self-devotion, under the awful circumstances
iniwliich he was placed, is enthusiastic and general.
It is only necessary to read the harrowing narra
tives of the dreadful scene by the survivors of the
carastroplie to admit that duty was nevermore
heroically performed than by William Leu is
Hkkndox on the fatal night of the J2tb of Sep: em
ber.
The lamented subject of this notice was born at
Fredericksburg, Virginia, in Dili. He entered
the Unifid States Navy as midshipman in 1622,
and for the next ten or twelve years was almost
constantly afloat ir. the Guerriere in the Pacific,
in the Constellation in the Mediterranean, and
afterwards on the coast of Brazil in the Indepen
dence. At the outbreak of the Florida war Hern
don volunteered for service, and was appointed to
the command of a brig at Indian Key, remaining
in that service for upwards of two years. For
three years subsequently he was actively employ
ed intl e National Observatory, under his disting
uished brother-in-law, Lieut, Maury. Finding his
health unequal to his duties at the Observatory,
Herndon resigned, and when the Mexican war
broke out we find him again employed in command
of the s earner Iris, in which he continued till the
conclusion of peace. After another year’s service
at the National Observatory he was appointed to
the Vandalla, on the Pacific station, whence, in
I '-jO, he was detached on special duty—to explore
the velley of the Amazon—for which service his
scientific attainments and his accurate knowledge
of the ispniiish language eminently qualified him.
J he resit t ot liis exploration is detailed in his able! a ud passengers. OntheAninor, as yet, the traffic
his country of a noble and praiseworthy
i citizen. The most eloquent eulogy that can be
j written on the last exploit ofliis life is the testi-
I tnnny to his mifalttfring devotion and -coolness, at
j a time when the stoutest heart might fail, which is
j borne by these v. ho owe their lives to his valor.
[Journal iff Commerce.
deserved well of his country and mankind. Bv
the European Continent to Germany and Switzer- | hls loss the navy is deprived of a tri -d and valued
land, for winch Great Eastern tourist tickets” are 'nfiic.-r
to be provided.
“This tour can be accomplished, sav from New
Fork art 1 back, in about eight weeks, including
the two passages across the Atlantic; but to those
legs pressed tor time, it can be advantageously
extended to from eleven to thirteen weeks. T he
cost of a first elass tourist ticket tor the whole
excursion, of a little under nine thousand miles,
will he about fifty-eight pounds sterling, or say
two hundred and eighty dollars.
“Arrangements are also in progress for a more
extended tour, which, in addition to the foregoing,
and at an Increased cost of about, one hundred dol
lars, "id probably comprise Naples. Rome, Flo
rence. Genoa, 1 uriu and Milan, together with the
passage across the Alps by Simplon.”
HhetlhoTToxc Map Man.—The Baltimore Ameri
can gives an account of a new method of survey
ing:
The “wheelbarrow man” is a surveyor, busilv
employed in measuring the length and taking the
course of roads, location of bnildinings, boundary
lines of farms, Ac., preparatory to gening up a
tnap of the county Dispensing with a chain, his
wheel measures in a certain number of revolu
tions, exactly one rod on the surface oftlie ground.
To the wheel is attached a clock-work arrangement
and hands, and by inspection, the distance from
Jioint to point is noted as he rolls his barrow along.
To the barrow is affixed a compass staff, and at
every crossing and ciiange of direction in tbe road,
he sets his compass and notes the course. Then
this solitary individual, dispensing with the usual
paraphernalia of chainman, fiiagmeu, axmen,
chains, pins and stakes, by trundelling his lit:lo
machine around, wtll indue time qireseut an ac
curate map of the county. .Showing all the roads,
streams, mill, churches, school houses, dwellings,
irms with their owner’s name, and also plans of
ellli t '^* 1 ' villages, and this too, at a moderate
cost to the purchaser of the map.
lartrii/hiVo/ 1 *!^ * beautiful silver col-
“Etah,” wliich U'attached"to\h* D . r . Kane’cdog,
Melodion on Tuesday evenbL^ e * 4ub T ,u ? a f ll ' e
si ve silver, and upoiMts centre DeXt ' Itlsofmas '
and instructive report of bis expedition, which
was printed by order of Congress in l-rei. This
service completed lie again went to sea in the San
Jacinto, and, after his return in IK>4—5, he was
apponited to the command of the ill-fated Central
America, then known as the George Law.
Having done all that could be done while there
was the least hope of saving his ship thaving saved j *->*-—*■■ - - .......... ..
the helpless women and children, and shewn the ! me pleasure to accept yo.tr invitation. I appreci-
sternest deteindnation to provide for the safety of! :,te import-uice <■, our . unday schools, and I
every soul on board before be thought of himself, | consider then institution among the most valuable
he perished at his post, consoled no doubt by the I aI1 ^ ‘ fl'cient means of religions improvement that
reflection that he had done his durv, and had I have come m oui day.to encourage the noble ef
forts which are making to ameliorate the moral
conditon of the world. And no reflecting man can
The Biot in Belfast.
Particulars are received of the religious riots,
previously reported to have taken place in Belfast
on the titli instant. It.seems that while Rev. Hugh
Hanna was delivering a temperate evangelical ad
dress in tiie open air, to a congregation of some
3,uttO or 6,000 people, first one whistle and then
another in a different direction were heard, w here
upon the crowd immediately divided, each party
taking its own side- Tlte Beliast Mercury thus
describes the scene that ensued:
“A volley of stones came from the party next
by the dock,accompanied by a cheer which was,
answered, and in less time than it takes us to
narrate it, the conflicting parties were fighting
Those n<-xt the docks gave way, pursued by men
who, it afterw ards appeared, were principally ship
wrights, brandishing wooden bludgeons used in
their trade. The fighting portion ot the mob went
up Donegal) quay, and hi a short time afterwards
about 4" young men and boys ran in to the ship
yards at ike quay, from which they speedily return
ed with a further supply of the weapons already
noticed In the meautime their opponents were
reinforced, and came towards the scene of action,
driving the stragglers before them in no very
tender mode, when a conflict ensued, which ended
iu their retreat in all directions.
“Hie treatment some men then received was
dreadful. hen the Catholic nmb sought safety
in flight, they were knocked down in all direc
tions, and brutally treated. One man especially
received such absue, that, if he survives, it may-
lie said a man's skull can resist anything. Tlte
belligerents again went up the quay, hut were
.-topped about Gamble streets by die constabulary
under tsub-Inspector Bindon. The two parties
were then separated, and woe to the unhappy man,
whether J’rotestant or Catholic, whose business or
fiens of Malt* emblems raised in gold* and ert, nit
mg entirely around the collar iT&dUflKL'
representations of the Poiar Bear, Win Mnr.e ' 6
^tive but amid icebergs, and Crig Advim^“"; , ,he constabulary being obliged in self-defence, to
ah himself. It w a . manufactured at a «re on the mob, one young man was k,tied and
Even tbe heavy padlock is of solid ! s " vc,a) "'^rs badly wounded-All was quiet on
and it will be well if loss of life does not result
from the brutality of these miscreants.”
During the night the riots were renewed, and
y being obliged in self-defence, tc
one young man was killed and
[ Hoslun Advertiser.
Monday morning. A large number of rioters were
1 arrested and promptly punished
without difficulty, hut all public works are slow of
construction, except in time of war, when the
timber that stood ill the forests of Champlain in
August floated upon the lake and went into the
iigat in September.
“Through the whole of the summer there have
| been a stream of visitors to the Capitol to see tiie
beautiful statuary wrought by the genius of Pow
ers, Crawford, arid Greenough. While turbulent
politicians are clamoring about the dissolution of
the Union, the real patriots and sovereigns are
proceeding on the assumption that all is well, and
that all will be permanent Plans are set forth for
additional edifices of various sorts. Every comely
eminence throughout the spacious plot of this city,
surveyed by Washington, is to bo appropriated to
some public building. The presidential mansion,
towards which so many ambitions eyes have been
stretched, will he converted into some ‘bureau’ or
or appendage to the Treasury Department. A
! mat Ide paiaee for the future Presidents of the Re
public. will be built on a lofty eminence west of
■ the city proper, and not long since its surbubs, a
| healthy, breezy ’.dace, untouched by the malaria
and chills that might weaken the resolution or im-
p.-dr the judgment of a President. Then the old
District jail, which lias in-id so many scamps, oc
cupies too respectable and sightly a locality for
the public eve, or for its own penal purposes, and
the site will probable be devoted to an edifice for
the Department of the Interior, becoming more
important as our Territory and institutions expand
towards the Pacific. The government does its
work so W'-ll that all these buildings will not only
be solid ill their structure, but highly ornamental.
Even the armory, recently erected not far from
the Smithsonian Institution, is so finished an edi
fice that it might be mistaken for a Philadelphia
church. But tiie weapons of warfare therein de
posited are of a different kind from those w ielded
i.y the church militant. Among the noteworthy
ordnance in tbe 1 ,'idted States arsenal here are spe
cimens of tho cannon captured at tiie surrender of
Yorktowii. On the old brass pieces, especially if
Spanish orFrenel
to‘ L’itiwa ratio retrain. ,
first and last argument of Kings from Nimrod ■
down to Bomba. But a cannon with that motto,
in the hantjf of a set of valiant republicans, is in
deed a curiosity.”
point, and by promptly auditing and pacing the
special and general appropriations of Congress,
which were made to take effect aft r the 1st of
July, JIr Cobb has reduced his balance in .New
York to the amount of $2,750,000, nearly every
dollar of which went into bank. The conse
quence is, that to-day tiie po-itiou of the.specie
held by the sub-treasury aud the banks is com
pletely reversed, end the latter afforded the utmost
relief' the Secretary could arrange for under the
law.
These disbursements will be rapidly continued.
Mr. Cobb determined, a few days since, to reduce
the premium which he is paving on the public
stisjis, unless they are sent in forthwith for re
demption. His desire is to distribute his balances,
as far as they can be appropriated to this object,
to the best public advantage, and at the earliest
dav possible to afford relief to tiie money market.
The new order is, that up to the 1st of November
he will continue to pay sixteen per cent premium
and the accrued interest for the bonds and cer
tificates of loan of 1867—’68. Aftei that day he
will reduce the premium to fourteen, per cent.
One or more of our leading Savings Banks, we
learn, will avail of this notice at once, and ha. ing
the opportunity to re-invest in New I ork States
stocks to advantage, will send on their United
States bonds and certificates for the higher pre
mium. The operation will be equal to so much
gold trasferred from the sub-treasury to active
banking use.
There, are other movements of the Secretary
which have come under our notice tending to simi
lar relief, though of less of importance. The whole
effect has been to popularize the sub-treasury
system, in a season of severe pecuniary trial, and
to afford a degree of substantial aid to business
which tiie public are largely indebted to tli prac
tical sense of the head of the treasury department.
But the far seeing Secretary did not confine
himself to the relict of New lork. To be suie
that was the central fortress that had to be maiu-
uv be seen the portentous mot- i tain ..j j>, lt other places at the same time receiv-
ii. Indeed, torce has men the ^ j, rom pt attention, and so we find the St. Louis
last argument ot Kings from | announces ,hat the crisis there is over and
among the causes that tended to alleviate the pres
sure, was the rapid out payment of money in the
sub-Treasurv. No less than $170,000 was paid
out in a single day Hie editor says: “Money
has thus got to be mow plentiful, and those woo
were heretofore pressed have been able to meet
their engagements punctually. The coin in the
bauks has considerably increased during the past
A Pen and Ink Sketch of Parliament.
The Christian Intelligencer has a letter from an
! American in London, datad July 21st, giving a
j pen-and-ink sketch of Parliament, as follows:
i At 4 o’clock last evening, I went to visit the I week, and will doubtless be more largely inereas-
! House of Parliament with Mr. Kinnaired, member | od tbe next week: so that we may expect the banks
from Perth. The new buildings are a perfect wil- to be able in a short lime to offer extensive ac-
! derness of Gothic towers, grained ceilings, superb cominodations in the way of discounts. Gradnal-
I halls lined with marble statutes of departed states- ly have men more confidence in each other, and
men and warriors. Millions of money—enough to j matters are fast assuming their accustomed secun-
ettdo'w a school in every parish—have been lavished ty-”—Charleston Standard.
! on this gorgeous edifice. As we reached the doorj 7- -■-»•=— —-
I of the House of Commons, the elegantly dressed The Business liorid A more coerrlng neir.
Speaker is in the It is a remarkable, fact connected with the pressure
called out, “the
tv-eu taken of them; and more especially when
I such ample means exist with which to do this. So
then here we find the strongest inducements to
breed and take care of iiogs the last nine months
than lias ever existed before: and along with tins
the greatest abundance of food with which to fat
ten them. Tie* result, then, must be a Targe in
crease in the litunber brought to market and a
‘long hog crop.”
The Russian Government has decided that the
German language shall be no longer taught in the
public schools at Irkontsk. but shall be replaced
by the English language, which, indeed, consider
ing the trade with America, is more requisite in
that part of Russia. It is a curious fact, that the
Gazette dr St. Petersburg, in promulgating that
decree, calls the English language “la langue
Antericaine''
The Berlin correspondent of toe London Times,
writing tbe .‘tth inst, says:
The Emperior has lately et nfirmed a proposal
put forward by the Board of Education, at the
r quest ot the Directory of the Gymnasium in
Irkontsk, that in future the teaching of the. Ger
man language there may be superseded by that of
English. This incident lias been dwelt upon in
the press as a proof of a more concilia! irv feeling
towards England now growing up in high places
in Russia, but the inference is as incoriect as the
supposed fact. Though the languages are the
same, pains, indeed, arc taken to specity that it is
not the English hut the American language which
is meant, andin the ukase itself the wo d “-Ameri
can” is added in parentheses after the ‘English,”
and is in fact a proof, not of any increased love of
the English, but that the inhabitants of Siberia,
particularly those on the banks of tbe Amoor,
recognize that their future prosperity will depend
much rather on their dealings with the United
States to the east, by means, of the Amoor than
with Germany on the west, with a whol • contiment
of land laying between them. In fit therance of
this very evident prospect of future trade, the
government is in other quarters also making great
exertions to develope all the resources of that part
of the empire, and by organizing a fhriila on the
river and a fleet on the Pacific. On the Tur,
Tobol, Irtisch, and Obi, there are already a number
f-sieamers engaged in the conveyance of goods
I Chair!” I was shown to a seat in the small speak-
I er's gallery. The ball is superb in ornament, of
j oblong shape, with rows of green cushioned beneh-
I es on each "side, and no desks in front of members.
| The Speaker wears a huge wig and gown. 'Ihe
members most outlandish!y all wear their hats ex-
has still to he developed, but much is expected
from tlte treaty that has lately been concluded
with Japan.
Gen*. Caps ox Sunday Schools.—The vener
able patriot and statesmen, Gen. Cass having been
invited to address the Michigan State Sunday
School Convention, thus writes: “It will afford
look abroad upon the ^dangerous and delusive
vagaries which, under the name of religion, take
possession day by day of the hearts and minds of
men, leading to individual and social depravity,
without being deeply impressed with the impor
tance of zealous and concentrated exertions to
check this great and threatening evil. And it can
best be effectually cheeked by training tlte youth
ful mind in the knowledge of God and the truths
of His revelation. Standing on this vantage-
ground, the battle may he fought and won. And
I, for one, believe the. contest to he one of the most
momentous which society has ever been engaged
in, and the Sunday school tuition oftlie youth an
assured means, under God, of-eventual success.
So believing, my prayers and best wishes are with
you.”
A Bold Hold,try.—The residence of Mr. Franks,
on the corner of Broad ahd Maine streets, was en
tered on Saturday night, and robbed of mattn ss,
f ather bed, and all the bed clothing. The family
were eating supper in the kitchen a few steps from
the house, and their little trirl, about two-and-a-
ltalf ycarsold, was lying asleep on the lied When
they got through supper and n turned to the
house, they found the eiiihl lying fast asleep on the
floor, and the bed stripped of every article. Mr.
Franks certainly resides in nn unlucky house —
It was only a month or two since lie w .s robbed at
the same place ot $20U or $30ii.—MtAile Mercury.
,\7;r York Papers in Paris.—Th*-New York pa
pers are received Paris with a greater regularity
than for a long time before. They are seldom
stopped at the post office. The reason assigned
tor this is, that they are so full of murders and
other crime that the government is quite "illing
to have them circulated, as a cure for the republi
can tendencies oftlie Parisians, whose own muni
cipal regulations are so admirably calculated to
secure the comfort,independence, safety and plea
sure of the citizens.—Providence Journal, loth.
A correspondent of the South Side Drniorrut says:
It is rumored that the sheriff of Norfolk county
has failed for a large amount, part of which com
prises the free selmol fund of the county. The de
linquency, it is said, wil! not fall short of thirty
thousand dollars.
Old Peovle.—On Monday, the 14th inst., a
French woman went down firom this city, o.. the
cars of the Detriot and Toledo railroad, to Monroe,
who has attained tbe Great age of one hnndrt d and
eleven years. She was nearly blind and almost
entirely helpless.
Tho same day an Indian took the cars for Pon
tiac who had reached the age of one hundred and
fouryears. Ho was smart and vigorous still. Few
such incidents as these occur now-a-days.
, Ditriat Tribune.
gentleman, who sat like a man of leisure in a cot-
lee room. The only outre ami shabby member, in
face, figure, and dress, is the Radical Roebuck, of
8ii (field. He has a waspish petulance in his tone,
and is a man for “inquiries” and “investigations.”
The old le roes, for Charles Napier aud Gen. Wil
liams. of Kars, attracted much attention. As a
body of nten, the House of Commons is not as
impo.-iug in appearance as our American Senate.
Lord John Russell sat smiling and silent. D israeli
looked sarcastic and sullen. He is the sharpest
deba'er of them all.
Ft ont the House of Commons we go by a splen
did hall to the House of Lords. 'Their room is the
most superb in the' kingdom. It is ablaze with
crimson ami gold. As we enter we see the noble
Lord Shaftsbury 0*1 the red cushion by the door.
Beside him that handsome youthful face, under
the thi< k golden hair, belongs to the Duke of Ar-
gylo, the rising hope of Scotch Presbyterians.
Old Lord Aberdeen sits next in a deep reverie.
Across the floor in front of tho “Woolsack,” walks
feebly an old man in a green coat, btift’ vest and
check trmvsers, with short white hair, and that un
mistakable turn-up nose. As we look at the bent,
decrepid veteran, it is hard to recognize the once
gallant “Harry Bongliani,” of the House of Com
mons. lie sits down by Aberdeen—two antiqui
ties together. We hear speeches from Lord Cam
den, Lord Granville, aud the dashy Duke of New
castle.
Those magnificent w omen in yonder gallery are
the wives aud daughters of the Peers. I do not
know enough of millinery to describe tlieir “rig”
for your lady readers ; but it may be some, gratifi
cation to American ladies to know that the laced
and pearled bonnets ou the heads of the duches
ses and countesses wore fully as large as a saucer!
Tlieir faces were generally fair, and brilliant in
beauty.
I cante away from the House of tiie Lords
(which contains many able and noble characters)
m nowise converted to a belief in tbe hereditary
houses of legislation.
Judge Sot a Ban.
Judge not a man by the cost of his clothing,
Unheeding the life-path that he may pursue.
Or oft you’ll admire a heart that needs loathing,
And fail to give honor where honor is due.
The palm may be hard and Ihe fingers stiff-jointed,
The coat may be tattered, the cheek worn with
tears,
But greater than kings are Labor’s annointed,
And you can’t judge a man by the coat that he
wears.
Give me the man ns a friend and a neighbor,
Who toils at the loom—with the spade or the
plow—
Who wins his diploma of manhood by labor,
And purchases wealth by the sweat of his brow.
Why should the broadcloth alone be respected,
And the man be despised who in fustian appears?
While the angels in heaven have their limbs un
protected,
You can’t judge a man by the coat that he wears.
Judge of a man by the work be is doing,
Speak of a man asriiis actions demand :
Watch well the path that each is pursuing.
And b t the most worthy he chief o’ the land !
And the man shall be found ’mid the close ranks of
labor.
Be known liy the work that his industry rears,
And liis chiefdom, when won, shall be dear to his
neighbor,
And we’ll honor the man, whatever he wears.
A Grasshopper Shaver.—By a letter from Kan
sas we are. informed that on the 14tli of^Angust
last, at 2 p. m , a cloud of singular yellowish ap
pearance arose in the North, near the village of
Manhattan, and soon the storm burst upon the in
habitants. It was neither rain, hail, or snow; but
grasshoppers, and in about ten minutes the
ground was covered with them. They came in
droves, and struck the houses like large hail
stones.
Boon the ground was strewn with corn leaves
and ears, some of which, two inches through were
t-aten off' half their length, some with the husks
and corn trimmed as with a knife, leaving the
hare cob standing. Two and a half acres of Inr-k-
wheat, three acres cf turnips, watermelons, and all
vines on which they fed, were eaten up, except
those on the south side of millet. lit font they
cleared out every crop except sugar cane. There
was a field of sugar cane vith corn on both sides
of it: the corn was taken and the cane left. ’Ihe
grasshoppers remained at manliattan 4H hours and
seemed to be travelling South, stopping there to
feed. When they left, they passed over Ogden
high in the air, and did not descend. The cloud
seemed to be about ten miles wide.— UnadUla
Time .
The Burlington, Cumberland, Camden and Sa-
jem Banks arc reported to have failed.
charge has been made by B. H. Hill—has daily in
creased. The following card published in the
Constitutionalist confirms it:
“The Cross on their Hat*.
We have seen it referred to in papers of the
State, that the lion. B. II. Hill in some of his public
speeches, had stated that all persons who express
ed a willingness to vote for the Hon. Joseph E.
| Brown, the Democratic candidate for Governor,
were permitted to ride on the State railroad free
of charge: and that all who had “a cross mark on
their hats” were recognized as good Democrats,
and were passed free of charge over the whole
length,or any portion oftlie State Road.
We were prepared to hear extravagant reports,
of all kinds from the opposition party, hut we did
not expert to hear anything so contemptible and ut
terly unfounded, as such statements from B. II.
Hill.
Dublin, Laurens County. Ga., \
Sept. 21st, 1857. )
Mr. Editor. At a public meeting, at Cool
Spring, Wilkinson, Georgia, the lion. B. H. Hill
asserted that “if any man, Democrat or American,
would promise to vote for Judge Joseph E. Brown,
on ;he first Monday in October next, he eouid ride
over the State road free of charge.” That a pro
position had been made to him, to the following
effect: “if he wonld promise to retain the present
incumbent in office, if he was elected, he might
gain ten thousand votes, up and down the road,”
and that “he (Hill) was travelling on the road and
he saw a great mauy getting on and off with cross
marks on their hats, all of whom he afterwards
learned were Democrats,’ intimating strongly
that this was a mark by which those who promis
ed to vote for Brown were known by the conduc
tors.
The above statements I stand prepared to prove
by unquestionable authority. They are being
used, through this section, against Judge Brown.
I have no idea that there is the shadow or sem
blance of truth in them.
OCONEE.
In addition to the above, any number of private
letters from responsible parties in the low country
warn us that a “decent respect” for public opinion
demands of us a disclaimer of all knowledge of, or
participation in this base transaction. We then
do in the most solemn manner asseverate, each and
every one of us that we have never been guilty of
passing any persons free over the Western & At
lantic Road, while having trains under our charge
as alleged by Mr. Hill—and that we never even
heard of such a delinquency until this charge was
made. We must go farther—poor and humble rail
road men as we are—and express our resentment
—that for personal elevation or party purposes so
base aud malevolent a charge against our individ
ual honesty should liave been made l>y B. H. Hill
—and we therefore fee! compelled to denounce him
as a wilful and infamous liar and slanderer. There
is not even the color of truth about tho statement.
So far as we are concerned, we fearlessly declare
I it to be a lie without mitigation and without proba-
I bility. Some wag it is Iikelv, who had gauged
this man’s greediness in slander, baited hint no
doubt with this falsehood, and upon such authority
he has dared to malign the characters of officers ou
this road.
edby this remedy, but must wait another opponmflty
One thing y ou can rely upon, wlmt we hav.- pnh'U'.j 1
are from persons much respected la onr community
and arc literally true. j_ QUIXTUs ’
Ed. Sheboygan Nietisbode. Sheboygan W-V
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Travis Co., Texas, Aug. 15, 1851.
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Wc would not have trespassed upon the p , lb l ic ! we notice, under any■ circumstance patent
-with suel. a card as tills-nor would we have ^sforatives, or any thing oftlie kind, tor we
! used such language towards B. H. Hill did we not 1 liave a P rc J udlce against most of them. But candor
i conceive that he had already outraged all truth j com P (, 's us to mvite attenten to the advertisement of
land decency in Lis slanders upon us. With ! l’ r °t 4\ 'tod's Hair Restorative in the lust column at
this we leave our vindication in the hands of the j _^ ie bottom of third page ot this paper. Me are too
public. j juvenile to require anything of the kind, but some in-
! S. L. Bell. W. W. Harris, J. M. Lee. J. A. Tate,
I Willis Carlislie, B R Mays, M. C. Allen, W. A.
the money market that the failures in the ful
lest meaning of the term, are comparatively few.
It is true that some of our leading houses have
suspended, bnt in nearly every ease their assets
are far beyond their liabilities, and in several that
have been mentioned to ns the parties liave been
stances ofits nse have come to our knowledge which
almost assures its that it is a sovereign remedy against
the hair becoming prematurely gray. It is not a “Hair
Dye;” but upon its application ns directed, the effect is
produced ou the skin, which brings out the original
native colored hair, without stiffness, and gives it a
glossy and natural appearance. We have seen person*
who have used it,, aud they are much pleased with it.
Orjreaders may tiot be aware of the fact that^ Examine tbe advertisement.—Missouri Republican.
, Fuller. F. South, Thos. II. Crew, W. R. Hill, Thos.
j M. Dean, J. H. Fuller, Thos. J. Echols, H. L.
King, G. M. Watts, M. L. Roberts, S. F.Campbell,
W. L. Adamson, P. M. Chastain -
Boston Wines.
ijept while speaking. The effect is exceedingly able to show a surplus of from $100 00!) to $500,-
1 bad. 1 was also surprised at the youthful appear- ■ O h It is ch ar, therefore, that the difficulty must
i a nee of many of the House; at least a score of | prove but temporary. Inconvenience will of course
1 them scemod like members of a senior class in col- j hr- experienced,but no loss will be sustained in the
lice-" A considerable loud conversation was car- end. The rates of money have been enormous;
| rfo-d on during the debates, and members were I nay, in some case? it has been hard to obtain
walking almtit continually. I funds to a large amount at almost any price. Indi-
The ;iker of the evening most listened to was ; viduals. tln-re'ore. who have had large payments
Mr. Gladstone, of Oxford. He is an easy, noncha-J to make, liave found it exceedingly uinicult to
his style was very attractive. While he was speak- j well known, have been compelled to postpone tile
ing there was a constant cry of “hear, hear,” I important matter for a few dais nr a few weeks,
which sounded like “veh—yeh—yeh.” After liiin But, as already said, these should he regarded as
came the ('hancellor of the Exch-quer, a graceful,! suspensions of a temporay nature, and not as fail-
fluent, stati ineiU maker. Lord Palmerston pulled | tires. The entire indebtedness will be liquidated,
off liis bat and spi ke in a slow, careless lone for and with interest, tbe moment that monetary re-
half an Lour. lie does not look so old as I expect- !it-f takes place.Meanwhile as much forbearance as
for James Graham is a hale, easy country possible should be exercised on the part of creditors
A man may not be able to pay to-day in full, and
yet lie may be every way reliable in character and
have abundance of property In such a case tho
creditor instead of pressing and thus embarrass
ing, should determine to wait, especially as he can
do so withont the slightest risk. Tne banks, loo,
while sufficiently watchful as concerns their own
interests and those of their stockholders should do
all in fheit power for their customers. These insti
tutions have no doubt had a hard time of it for
some weeks, and we sincerely sympathize with
their officers. Their means have not been equal to
their wishes. But there is a time for ail things,
and. at a critical moment, a hold and liberal policy
is often more effec tive than one of timid or hesita
ting nature. Our merchants aud business men too
must stand by each other to the extent of their abil
ity. A little courage, with mutual forbearance, and
the storm w hich has raged so fearfully for more
than a fortnight will still be weathered. All that
is needed just now* is confidence in one another.
The important fact that, ofalt the suspensions that
have thus far taken place, little or nothing will ho
lost to the creditors is one that is lull of encourage
ment. — Pliiladilphia Int/iiirtr, S'p.24.
Price of Negroes in the Richmond Market.—Mil
lions of money liave been disbursed in Richmond,
during the past 15 months, for negroes, who have,
during that time, commanded more exorbitant
prices than ever before. All negroes are sold for
cash, which is supplied by means of northern sight
drafts, which are disposed of to the brokers.
Enough of tlu-se sight checks are soid to supply
tin- Richmond market with northern exchange;
As before remarked, at tio period before did this
species of property command so exorbitant a fig
ure. Many sell because of the high prices obtained.
In proof of this it may bo stated that if the market
declines, say §50 *0 $100 per head, the receipt of
negroes is visibly affected. It is said by those who
assume to know,that the increase of slaves is great
ly more than to counterbalance the number sent
from the State.
The follow ing statement of flie ruling rates, and
w hich it is confidently asserted are likely to pre
vail for some time to come, is subjoined for the in
formation of our readers:
No. 1 men sell r-dily for $1300 to $2.r00,some-
thing extra a shade higher No 1 girls (field hands)
front $1100 to.$1200, Likely girls (seamstresses)
command from $1400 $1500. Boys from twelve to
fifteen years of ago, $1,000 to $1240. Girls from
twelve to fifteen years old $7-50 to $1000. Good
blacksmiths,fine size, ranging from twenty to thir
ty years old, sell at $1600 to $2 000. Carpenters
command the same rates. Bricklayers bring from
$1500 to $1800. Ail others in proportion,These
prices are for negroes free of defects, and sound
and hralthyJAt. the present time,however, it is safe
to say that negroes, good or bad, command all they
are worth.—Richmond South.
Highway Robbery in Richmond, Va.—We learn
from the Dispatch of the 26th inst, that in Rich
mond on a previous night ,a merchant of Rockbridge
county, 51 r. A. D. Morison. had been knocked
down and violently beaten and stabbed in one of
the principal streets, and robbed of over $3,000.
Mr. Morrison arrived in town W ednesday, to pur
chase goods, and took lodgings at the St.” Charles
Hotel. He then had with him about $3,51:0 in mon
ey, tied around liis body in a pocket haudk rehiefr
tin 1 linrsday lie called at several mercantile es
tablishments paid some biils and bought a portion
of his goods. At night he employed himself in
writing a letter, and about JO o’clock left the
hotel to goto the post office to mail it. On return
ing, he was attacked by three men and robbed
and beaten so as to endanger his iifi; as besides
other wounds bis throat was partialy cut. all
ifitlnn a stone’s throw of the main street iu Rich
mond.
The Revolution in St Domingo.—The Madrid Es-
par.a publishes details of a revolution which has
broken out at several points oftlie republic of St.
Domingo. The province of Seybo gave the first
signal, and on the 7th of July proclaimed itself
independent of the capital. On the next day, tiie
provence of Santiago followed the example and on
tbe D'th, tho town of Puerto Place joined tiie
movement. The Espana's letter ascribes the rising
to the indignation caused 011 the discovery of a
new scheme of 1 ’resident Baez to effect a grand
and profitable operation in new tobacco, by means
of an illegitimate issue of paper money. The re
public of Scvbo lias proclaimed General Santanna
its first president.
Air and Exrreis .—A young man should walk in
in the open air six miles every day. A young
woman, three or four. When still we use 500
cubic inches of air in a mintito. If we walk at the
rate of one mile an hour, 8d(): two miles an hour,
ldt’O; three miles an hour, IGtiC; four miles an
hour, 2300. If we run at six miles an hour, 3060;
trotting a horse, 1750; cantering, 151.0.—Dr. Rad-
clyffc Hull.
: there is at present in our city a manufactory of
j wine from our native grapes, but such is the fact.
Mr. Enoch Page, who has for some years paid at-
| tention to the raising of grapes and the making of
j w ine, at home and abroad, deeming that good
! wine could be made from the common grape, made
I the experiment a year cr two ago, and his first ef-
i fort w as exhibited last year on the tables of the
j Horticultural Society. He began upon a small
scale.but in 5Iay last enlarged his operations,hiring
from the city the arches tinder the reservoir ou
Beacon Hill, and transformed them into wine
vaults.
To-day we paid a visit with several members of
the. imcie.tv to the. i)lac.e_ ami introdi"-*"’
Xlt. 1 age at once, into tlte extent, modes, and re
sults ot his operations. He has on hand from
twenty five to thirty tons of the w ild grape, or
some one hundred and fifty barrels, capable of
yielding four hundred gallons of jfiice to the ton.
i ltese grapes are brought to him mostly from onr
own state—seven or eight tons having been slip-
plied by one man 011 Cape Cod. Some are brought
irora as far away as Connecticut. The amount of
grapes ou hand is very large and the pro
duct of the stock be equal to 10,00U gallons of
wine
Besides the 6,000 gallons of grape w ine already
made, 5Ir. Page has 4,00tl gallons of current w ine
in cask, that proved upon test an article of great
excellence, and more like the product of the vine
than any current wine we ever tasted. He has
also, several casks of huckelberry wine that prom
ise well, though the taste is not so lively* as the
current.
Mr. Page is an intelligent man, who lias studied
deeply and observed more, and is confident of suc
cess it tiie public will aid him, which we hope the
public will have the good sense to do. We learn
that lion. 51. P. Wilder has sent samples of this
wine to the Holguin Royal Society, deeming it
worthy of their consideration.— Boston Saturday
Evening Gazette. Sept. 26.
The Cotton Crop.—For the last week, assisted
by several gentlemen, we have been making dili
gent, inquiries concerning the cotton crop iu dif
ferent parts of this and neighboring counties, and
we have arrived at the conclusion that our last
week’s statement in regard to it was a correct one
The top crop lias boon entirely destroyed by the
boil worm and grasshopper, and the middle crop
about half destroyed, leaving only the first or hot
tom and the earlier half of the middle crop to ma
ture. Dur accounts say that front three to half a
dozen large worms may be found on every stalk,
besides a number of yo'ung ones. In the black
lands the bottom crop, we are informed, was much
injured bv deep ploughing, and the top aud a por
tion oftlie middle crop being destroyed by the
worm, leaves only about a third of the' entire crop
to be gathered in that section. On the sandy lands
there will more than half a crop mature, so that
this will be a set off with the black lands, and
leave as a general result, a half crop to Le gather
ed.
Our inquiries embrace Greene, 5Iarengo, a por
tion of Perry, Tuscaloosa, Pickens, Sumter, and re
ports from parts of other counties.
It being entirely impossible for the crop to re
cover from the injury already done it, vve may cal
culate only on that set down—a half crop.
The shortness of the crop and the consequent
high prices for it, and the increasing high prices of
labor, will, we imagine, soon solve the labor pro
blems and by some means restore the equilibrium
between it and capital.—Eutaw [Ala,) Ring. 17th
ultimo.
Unlucky Depositor.—It is stated in the New
'fork Times that a down town merchant received a
remittance from one of his correspondents in the
shape of a draft on the Ohio Life and Trust Com
pany for $3,01.0 on the very day that institution
closed i:s doors. He immediately telegraphed the
fact to his debtor, who sent him another draft on
John Tliompson. which arrived the day after the
failure of that broker. The merchant again tele
graphed the failure, and he received in a few days
another draft on Atwood A- Co., just as that firm
suspended.
The difference between rising every morning at
six and at eight, in the course of forty years,
amounts to forty-nine thousand hours, or "three
years, one hundred aud twenty-one days and six
teen hours, which will afford eight hours a day for
exactly ten years, which is the same as if ten years
were added to a man’s life.
A young lady, named Smith, residing in Charles
City county, Va., phy fully snapped a gun at her
lover, SamuelThrog, on Wednesday last, suppo
sing it to be empty. Unfortunately it happened to
be loaded, and when the trigger was pulled it ex
ploded, depositing its contents in the side of young
Throg’s head, killing him instantly.
Another Bankrupt Late.—Some of the New York
papers are discussing the propriety of the adoption
by Congress of another bankrupt” law—one that
shall be uniform through out, and in strict con
formity with the constitution. The advantages
and disadvantages of the former laws which were
adopt*'are setd forth, and tbe experience of Eng
land, which has always had a bankrupt law, is ci
ted to prove the wisdom of such a measure.
Indian Relief Fund.—Contribution of the Em
peror Napoleon—The Emperor has addressed the
following letter to the French Ambassador:
“1 send you £1,606 sterlingas my personal sub
scription iu favor of officers and soldiers cruelly
atflicted in India. I also send the sum of £400,
the result of the subscription of tho Imperial
Guard. We have not forgotten the generous sub
scription of the Queen and of the English people
at the time of the inundations.”
The New Englaud Mutual Life Insurance Com
pany issued a policy, ouly in November last, of
five thousand dollars to Licutnaut Herndon, of th*
Central America.
Sold livall Drucsrists in 51illedgeville.
H 2t
A. S'X’IiLCGfrXSXVX!
Proposition 1st.
Every ladv and gentleman desires a beautiful head of
Hair.
Proposition '2nd.
The use of LYON’S KATHAIRON will, withont
fail, produce such an one.
Therefore:
Every lady and gentleman, will, of course, inrnicili-
atelv commence using LYON’S KATHAIRON.
All pronounce the Katliairon tn be the fint -t and
most agreeable preparation for the hair ever made
Its immense sale—nearly 1,000,000 bottles per year—
attests its universal popularity. Sold everywhere for
25 cents per bottle.
nEATH, WYXCOOP A CO.,
Proprietors and Perfumers,
17 4t 63, Liberty St-, S. Y
R. R. Iv.—Constant Irritation—the Cause of Pain
ful Discharges from the T,„wfU.—There » a great mys
tery about physic, which even in these K. K. K days
the people have not yets, -entlie interpretation.
will endeavor to unravel a tew folds of this mysteri
ous mummy that have been shrouded in darkness to
many centuries. Mr. Smith complains that every pas
sage he has from the bowels, he suffers-gre?u pain, and
feels “very weak and faintish,” a sert of soreness tutd
irritation is ft It after every- evacuation; he lias to take
pills or salts, or else use an injeotirat, as it is with great
ditliculty aud great straining tie:; a discharge takes
place. 51 r. binith s case is the case of thousands of oth-
ers who complain of Liver Complaint, Constipation et
the Bowels. CostiveDeas, Indigestion, frequent attack?
of biliousness, and every once in a while powtrfal
Diarrhea discharges. 5Ir. Smith and many others tak*
salts and senna, common drastic pills, calomel and
jalop, rhubarb and Magnesia, ami other ineffective aud
drastic draining cathartic.?, the effect of which is to
irritate the mucus membrane and intestines, to can?'*
uiccrs and sores to cover the snifiice of *he intestines
and bowels, tbe drainings the bowels sutfei treukf*
them, and the irritations caused by these draal ia irritants
leave them sore anil painful. Whenever a discharge
takes place, it is like scratclung a raw sore on the sur
face; tiie more drastic pills are taken th* weaker sal
sorer the bow, Is become. This drastic purging kills >
bowels, neglects the liver, kidneys, bladder, Nerve?,
and other organs, consequently, those who commenr*
physieing with these drastic pills to have continue theif
use, to l.e afflicted with a distressing discharge, or cene
at all. Rodwav’s Regulators supp.V this trreat defi
ciency. which has so long been needed; one of Rad-
way's Regulators will heal all aoreothat ranvbeinflie
bowels, will force the Liver, Kidneys, Bladder, Heart
and Bowels to the regular performance of their several
functions, and will secure to ail n pieamnt ami eased**
charge from the bowels, at a regnTar time. Radway »
Regulators heals, purges, regulates and corrects a”, an*
healthy conditions of the bowels, Liver, Kiln.'-'
Nerves, skill and Heart. - .
Sold by ditiggisfs and merchants everywhere, E- '
White, Agent. Milledgcviiie, Ga. ® “
A Remarkable Discovery.—It is well known ’.<> every
person who has been so unfortunate as to become af
flicted for a length of time with that most distressing
of all diseases—the Piles, that every remedy he heard
of as a cure, when tried, Ins failed in his case to ac
complish the end desired. He has suffered on from
year to year, at most, only obtaining temporary relief,
until lie despaired of ever being cured.
In our advertising columns will be found the card of
Dr. T. H. Cavanaugh, wherein he offers to the afflicted
with the disease, a cure, m winch tie was supported by
il... »< 1 iincates of men of standing aud of character, ns
to tiie efficacy of liis mode of treatment—Chicago
Courier.
For sale by all Druggists. 10 tit
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380 pages, 30 engravings, bound, explanatory of tho
treatment by which he cures Consumption, Aethma,
Diseases oftlie Heart, Throat, Stomach, Bowels, Liver,
Kidneys and Skin, Female Complaints, Gravel, &c.,
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Apply to DB S. S. FITCIL
714 Broadway, X. Y.
i ^He has no other office either at Chicago, Buffalo,
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New \ ork, and no physician elsewhere is authorized to
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