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We o-Iiovv that the banks in New Y’ork and
Boston will suspend specie payments in a short
time. But if this is not done, it trill be by sacri-
ficiiijr the great bulk of the manufacturing and
mercantile interests in that part of the country.
Already we hear of an extensive stoppage of trade
—manufacturers suspending np -rations—and mer
cantile houses, still wealthy, failing: to redeem
their obligations. The capital invested in banks
is absolutely insignificant. compared to that which
is being sacrificed by their effort to continue pav-
inp specie. If they succeed in maintaining their
credit as specie paying banks, they will stand
amt 1st the ruins they have created, with their cus
tomers destroyed, tiie whole machinery of com
merce broken up. and the very means of money-
makinptbey seek to secure, useless in their hands.
Suppose, however, that this policy shall be suc
cessful, might the Suntfoin Banks to pursue it?
We are aware of the many difficulties which sur
round the qronfion, bn'. atfe.r lookin'?carefully at
these difficulties, we venture to express the opin
ion thar the Southern H.-inkr ought not to pursue
this policy, hut ought to suspend specie pay
ment®. We assign some of our reasons for this
opinion:
1. We take it for granted that the Southern
Banks are generally sound. They rest on the re
sponsibly of the planters. The planters of the
Booth, as « people., were never freer of debt. They
may he-slow in payment, but they are the best pay
ing r’.iuss of capitalists in the United States Some
of our Banks, who have dealt, largely in ex
changes mi fue North, might gain more paper than
gold in their operations, hot the great bulk of their
debts, directly or indirectly, rest on the responsi
bility of the plauters.
2. Of course, for the planters to redeem their in
debtedness, and ultimately restore the Banks to a
specie basis, their produce must sell. The eon-
snmers of their productions are not at the North.
They are in Europe, At this moment there is no
emlKurassment. amongst the chief consumers of the
productions of the South. Cotton, hv the last ad
vices, was steady, at an advance, in Liverpool and
Havre, instead of going town. If these chief cus
tomers and constimers of Southern productions are
left unembarrassed, cotton wil 1 sell at its fair
value.
it. But it cannot sell at its fair value, if we break
np the usual course of commerce, and instead <>f
taking the manufactured productions of Europe,
demand specie for onr cotton. If the Southern
Banks persist in paying specie, they must get it
from Europe. Tliev must first, by a vigorous de
mand of payments due to them, spread distress
and ruin over the mercantile community in the
South, and then, by drawing on the Banks in Eng
land for specie for onr cotton, produce di-tress
and rum there. We see what this policy has n 1 -
ready done in New England. Ttwill produce the
smv* effect.in Old England. Hills will stop spin
ning onr cotton. Mercantile failures and Bank
panics will, in a few months, most probably make
cotton a drug. This will re-act again on the debts
of the Banks in the South, and will bring many to
insolvency.
4 We look upon the financial and hanking
convulsions of the North, r.s comparatively harm
less to the Snnth,because they arenot ournatural
customers—they are not our great consumers.—
Let the great centres of commerce in Europe,
whore onr commerce naturally lies continue un
embarrassed, and onr great productions will soon
restore confidence to commerce, and reinstate the
Banks. New York is an nnnatnra! intervening
agency, which the operations of the General Gov
ernment and the Union has forced nnon us. But
it is nothing but an agency which we should cast
aside, and look directly to our real and natural
customers, and endeavor to sustain them amidst
th» present embarrassment, and thus -sustain onr-
se’ves.
• r > Suspending specie uavments. the Banks will,
furnish a currency winch can carrv through the
year; and the next crop will enahle fh° Banks
to resume suecie payment®, and restore commerce
to its usual channels. We in the South, who
have the great instrnmcnf of trade between the
United States and Enrope in our hands, hold a
position of power, which wisely used, will not
only be competent to sustain ourselves, hut ‘lie
North.
ft To carrv out the policy we have indicated,
the Bank®, however, must act in concert at nil the
central points of trade, and the Merchants must
act with them. It must he an affair largely of con
sent and confidence. But if the Banks are to act
wlthont concert, and without a regard to the
interest of the people, hut looking to their vaults
alone, shall occasion our cotton to sol! at a specie
price in Furope, when the greater part of that
specie shall he drawn from thence to replenish
their enff-rs, the financial convulsion, beginning
with the greedy and unprincipled speculators at
the North, will spread over the whole commercial
world, and implicate the South in one common
disaster.
From the Columbia Tiroes.
Charleston, Oct. 10.
This has been a day of immense excitment
among all classes of onr citizens. About eleven
o'clock this morning, it was noised abroad that
the Bank of the State had suspended specie pay
ment. This caused a monetary spasmodic move
ment among the molded circles and stock jobbers.
What was at first a vague rumor, soon became a
confirmed fact, andthe muttering thunde;s of the
disaffected masses were breaking upon tlm ears of
the money kings, and a decided demonstration
seemed to be setting in against the banks gen
erally.
The panic spread like wildfire, and a simulta
neous rush ivas made for Broad street in the vicin
ity of the suspending bank, cud the crowd for
a while was immense. Draymen, day laborers,
and others in the humbler walks of life, participa
ted in the genera! excitement, and came rushing
to the bank with one, two and three dollar bills,
as the case might be, and « ere clamorous for their
redemption in gold or silver. Women, pale with
fear and excitement, were seen hastening to the
point of general attraction, whose whole stock of
change happened to he in small bills of the State
Bank.
The knowing ones, among whom were the bor
rowers and lenders, and bank officers and big
Erins, and the hard-up gem rally, were more quiet,
being affected with something like the calm seren
ity of despair, and were gathered about ingroups
at the corners of the streets and about the banks
and brokers offices, conversing eagerly and ear
nestly in under tones, and shaking their wise heads
in a most striking and ominous, manner. The
more nervous and excitable were hurrying to and
fro with rapid and uneasy steps, with hands in
their pockets up to their elbows ns if feeling for
redemption gold or biiver assets. Eveiy body
felt interested, and the disinterested lookers on in
Venice were no where to be found. The panic
seized equally upon the high, the low and the
middle classes, and every other man you met,
you could have sworn, from his nervous step and
agitated manner that he was a large stockholder,
and that his all, including that of his posterity,
was staked upon the sokyency of the suspended
institution.
By three o'clock, the crowd had partially dis
persed, and tlm public puke teat more regular
ly. Those who found that they were not quite
ruined, consented to go to dinner, and leave mat
ters as they stood, in the hands of Providence and
the proper officers. And at the present hour of
writing, (six o'clock, P. M ,) every thing is quiet,
and the banks will all be closed til! nine o'clock on
Monday morning, and of course there will be no
more suspensions before that time.
A panic of this kind is so uncommon in this city
that the people- do not know how to take it. If
such things were of more frequent occurrence,
the people would bear them easier and more
gracefully. The confidence of the thinking por
tion of the community is not shaken in the solven
cy of the bank, and numbers oi its bills have been
passed at their par value this afternoon. It will
cause some temporary inconvenience, but it must
booh blov over, and all will be tight again. And
I venture to predict, although I am neither a
ptophet nora financier, that money will be cheap
er by the first of January than it has been in many
years. Ajax.
The Election In Bibb.
The present able and talented editor of the
“Georgia, Telegriq b” writes a very truthful and
sensible article on the subject of “The Election in
Bibb’’from which we take the following admoni
tion to the Democratic party:
“It is useless to cry over spilt milk, and we
shall indulge in nn criminations We only hope
that the result of the election—the shouts of tri
umph—the exclamations of joy—the taunts and
jeers of the opposition, have taught onr friends
this lesson; that in the future, it is best (or Demo
crats to vote the Democratic Ticket. Let us hope
for better things next time. Let us not be dis
heartened, hut resolve to go into the next contest
and win such a triumph as shall blot out all recol
lection of the disastrous defeatast Monday ’’
This disastrous defeat was not brought about
by the votes of the opposition, as we are informed,
hut by the split tickets of the Democratic party.
Disastrous it was for the men w ho were sacrificed
to this infidelity to party. First, Col. Nathan
Bass, a gentleman of high order of intellect, a
strong party man, who has never faltered in Ids
devotion to the principles of his party, but in
storm and sunshine, was alike -true, and whose
labor, talent, and services, were ever offered to
conduce to the triumphs of Democracy.
It is luird to see such a man fall, for his services
in the Legislature would have been important, his
counsels needed, and his ability brought into
on
’i" 1 we <^<3 John J. Gresham, a
w mid h ofgTeat experience, whose wisdom
milk" and we pass bv the Bjbb e?« V °'f r "P l!t
better things next time.' hopin S
M«rri/J#e#.—The Phnsdelhia Press .fates *1,.*
Rev. J. II. Grier, of Jersey shore, Pa married si,
1814 four hundred and sixty-five couples , in <J th»?
Rev. J. S. Dnbes, pastor of the German Reformed
Church at Allenton. Pa., has married since Mav
18-20, fifteen hundred and sixty-three couples.
IrjpjrluLoa e' S.tgrtKai Into Caha.
W» fir .1 fell (he FT-.v ires Ctnre«p
trite Of the , v e-.v Orient* Picayune.
the <'a i
jh tl ■
Letter from the Hon. Road! Cobh.
I The fdh.tvv'g k-ffr uldressed by Secretary
| «Tor,b' to the Oommirteo through whom a-i invita-
. ti-n w.-s ext* «mM him,.to be present trt.tt G ‘.ml
t :n to Ratification M- cling pf the; Democracy, of New
hv<< a i Yu, it i *y, which was held at Tammany llali, on
there atthe rime,- aud it was generally know u to i Monday evening the 12th inst:
be a slaver, I did not wish to say anything about it
until I had gathered all the facts. The case was
too important to be treated on hearsay. The facts
as far as ascertained, are as follows. The schoon
er (Spanish) Villanueva, trading between Havana
and San Juan de ios Remedies, and commanded
by Mannel G-dlego, arrived in the offing last Wed
nesday m rningand sent in a boat with the super
cargo to inform the owners that, having been chased
troiii the neighborhood of Cardenas by Spanish j UUU nce “a complete consolidation of all sections
cruisers, they had conic to Havana for further hi-j of the Democratic party.” Now that the Demo-
structions. At 7 in the evenings fisherman'sca-1 craev of New York stand united upon the princi-
noe. pulled out to sea, with orders to the captain to i pics which have been announced by our party, it
eorr.o inside of the port andland the negroes on the ! would be strange if divisions growing out of per-
1’iiuta side, that every preparation was made to i snnal issues should he permitted to disturb the
-ave the cargo About 11 tiie schooner anchored harmony and weaken the strength of the organi-
under the guns of the castle, and commenced dis
charging tier cargo at 12 o'clock.
In less than an hour every soul ou bon'd was
landed, excepting iliree or four sick negroes that
were unserviceable. About two hundred and fifty
were put into carriages and conveyed to places of
sate keeping. The rest w ere scattered in different
directions to elude the vigilance of the Government. ^ _ __
I he officers of tiie guard at the prison and the I’un-' now formed, being one based upon a concurrence
Castle have been arrested as accompltc sin the of opinion, should be permanent. An attempt to
Washington City, Wednesday,Oct. 7, '57.
Gentlemen : It will uot.be in my power to attend
your ratification meeting on Mouday next—my of
ficial duties will not admit of my absence at this
time from Washington.
Allow me how ever to avail myself of the oppor
tunity to express the gratification I feel in common
with your Democratic, fellow citizens of all por
tions of the country, that vou are enabled to an-
zation. <#
With such divisions the country at large could
have no si mpothv. It was a subject of regret wi'h
every patriot, who felt that the unity of the party-
in New York was so essential to the success of
those national Democratic principles, which alone
can give stability to onr institutions and prosperi
ty to our country. The union which you have
landing. As their guilt would greatly compromise
the honesty of the Government, it is not natural to
suppose that anything will be done to them. The
negroes undoubtedly belonged to some of the fa
vorites of the Captain General, otherwise they
would not have dared to attempt a landing in such
a public place. The schooner w as found riding
at anchor next morning, iier sails flapping in the
wind and two or three fainting wretches crawling
about the deck in search of food. A great display
of activity took place which resulted in the capture
of about thirty negroes, the rest having made good
their escape.
In consequence of the repetition of these scenes
in tie- very port of Havana, and at the instigation
of the British Consul, Gen. Choneba has ordered
the arrest of several parties who ate suspected of
being concerned in the trade. I have be-n able to
ascertain the names of but two—Senores Dnranon
and Muros. The former landed a enrgo about two
weeks ago. and secreted them in Havana Several
of the negroes found concealed hi his house when
disturb it by re-opening past dissensions or in
citing new divisions, should be regarded by all
true men. as the evidence of hostility to Democrat
ic principles, and should subjict the author to a
forfeiture of the confidence of his political friends.
In every crisis through which the country lias
b*‘eii called to pass, we find the vindication of
Democratic principles in tiie prosperity which has
invariably followed their legitimate enforcement.
The alarming excitement growing out of the slave
ry question is gradually passing away, under the
practical operation of those sound constitutional
principles for which the Democratic party have .-&
faithfully and successfully labored; and which,
under the highest executive, judicial and legisla
tive sanctions, have become the recognized policy
of the Government. The present financial embar
rassment which so seriously affects the business of
the country, finds its principal source of relief in
the operation of the independent treasury system,
inauguiated by the Democratic party—a result as
confidently anticipated by its friends as it was
arrested. The other was arrested on the evidence • boldly denied by its opponents at the time of its
f one of the sailors of the Yillanctiva, who had a j adoption. These instances nreonlv illustrative of
draft on Muros, drawn by his brother in payment
for his services as seaman toAfiica, and paid on
the coast of the island. Muros was admitted to
bail. It is currently reported here that the negroes
were secreted ou a little farm in Marianao, adjoin
ing the summer residence of Gen. Concha A
thorough investigation of all the facts connected
with tins slaver would furnish ample evidence
against certain officers of this government.
Another slaver, was captured near Cardenas
with nearly six hundred slaves on board. The
vessel was aground, and the Spanish war schooner
Habanera went alongside for the purpose of reuder-
assistance! when she discovered the negroes,—
They were all infected with the small pox, and
presented a horrible spectacle. I am told she was
an American ship, formerly called the Mazeppa,
and sailed from New York. The Captain and
officers are American, the crew Spaniards. They
will all be tried. Several other cargoes, it is
rumored, have also been landed during the last, ten
or twelve days, so that the trade is as brisk now as
if ever was. not even excepting Gen. O'DonnelTs
administration. The principal cause ofthe con
tinuance cf ibis odious traffic is the great facility
afforded the owners of procuring any number of
Cbdulas. The friend of Concha pretended that
they are forged. This may be true, only it must
bo confessed that the forger is a man thoroughly
acquainted with his business, so much so that the
pseudo called forged ones, cannot be distinguished
form the bona fide Cedulas emitted by the Cuba
government.
They are to be had at any time at .$‘25,50 each.
As the holder of the newly landed Africans, must
pay a good bonus besides the Cedillas to-the “Capi
tal! del Pardido," for registering them in the books
of his jurisdiction, your readers may be able to
form an idea of the immense amount of money
pnt in circulation by the slave trade, so much
so that the present administration iR appropriately
called the ‘ riglo d-.aro,” the goldon ago.
From the Atlanter Int & Exx.
The Stair Fair.
The Fair Grounds, we learn, have been pnt in
excellent order, and many improvements made, - ,
since the last annual meeting. The officers here, speeches were made. Among t.ie distinguished
the history of a party identified with the growth,
progress and prosperity of our country.
All other party organizations liave passed away
with the temporary cause which brought them in
to existence—each failing in its turn to bring to its
supporters the promised benefit and relief, and
none of them leaving on the records of the coun
try a single monument to testify the wisdom of its
principles. The Democratic party alone survives
all those changes and vicisitndes, finding in the
constitutional principles of its organization, the
remedy for each new difficulty that arises, and by
the wise and wholesome application of its doc
trines, giving peace, quiet, and prosperity to the
country.
In view of the present state of things in the
country, it may not be amiss to remind tin- Demo
cratic party that the triumph of their principles
and consequent prosperity of the country can on
ly be attained by a close adherence to those prin
ciples. Temporary expedients on the one hand
and unwise ultraism on the other are to be equally
avoided. A firm and steady step in the true faith,
unsedaeed by penaccas arid uuawed by panics,
will, in the future, as it has in the past, carry the
Democratic party and the country safely and tri
umphantly through every crisis.
In these considerations let onr friends in New
York find new incentives to united action, and ad
ditional reasons for harmony and conciliation.
I atn, very respectfully, yours,
HOWELL COBB.
To the Committee of Invitation.
Great Democratic Meeting in Sew York.
An immense meeting of the Young Men’s De
mocratic Union Club, was held iu New York, on
Friday evening last, to ratify the Union ofthe
two wings of the Democratic party, and to open
the campaign against the Black Republicans, by
whom the municipal rights of the city of Neiv
York and the Constitution of the States have been
disregarded and trampled under foot. The meet
ing was held in the Hall of the Academy of Mus
ic, and was of course harmonious. Strong resolu
tions were passed against the usurpation ofthe
Black Republican legislature, and many eloquent
in whose charge they are, are actively engaged in
making arrangements for the accommodation of
exhibitors in every department of industry, agri
cultural and mechanical and for stock of every
description, We are pleased, too to announce that
indicat.ons. thus far, are more favorable than they
have ever been for an extensive display of products,
from the farm to the workshop, of every descrip
tion, and that consequently, competition for the
premiums will be greater than in any previous
year. In a day or two. we shall pay a visit to the
grounds, and having been invited by L. C. Simp
son Esq., the assistant secretary of the Society, to
do so, shall examine into and report upon, sueli
particulars as may be of interest to our readers.
Democrats who occupied places on tin- speakers
stand was the Hon. John E. Ward, of this city, of
whose remarks the AVirs publishes the following
sketch. Being introduced to the meeting by Mr.
Dillarge:
Mr. Ward said that as lie cast his eyes over the
vast assemblage before him, he recognized indeed
no personal acquaintance, yet he believed that
each and all there stood by him as a Southern
man, sustaining his rights, and saying to the waves
of fanaticism, “thus for shall ye come and no
further.” He was an American citizen, and had
stood by the fabric cemented by the blood of our
fathers against the attacks of Northern fanaticism
and Southern treason. I will be guarded by the
In the mean time, we shall here observe, that the. ■ affection our P eo P e -
proprietors of our several hotels, boarding houses j “Long may it staid and every blast defy,
>&e., are making extensive preparations for the ne- j Till time’s last whirlwind sweeps the vaulted sky.”
eommodation of visitors during the Fair week. ! As a Georgian might he not rejoice with people
However numerous these may-be, there will be of New York in their prosperity and mourn with
ample room for them all. | them in their adversity. As a citizen of that far
We are pleased, too, to see the following, which ! off country might he not speak with honest pride
we take from the Augusta Chronicle 5r Sentinel. J the name of one who now stands at the Treasury,
It evidences that more thanMsnal interest is maid-! Howell Cobb. [Cheers.] Watching at this finan-
fested in the approaching Fair, by the Manufactu- j trial crises when the brave begin to fear, and the
rers of our State: ! pious to doubt, watching the city of New York as
"We are gratified to learn that a number ■ of | the rock on which the prosperity of the country
Manufacturers in Georgia, have determined upon j rests. Though a stranger, should he not be per-
holding a Convention at Atlanta, on Wednesday J mitted to say to the Democrats of New York, let
of Fair week, for the purpose of an interchange of all dissensions be forgotten, and rally round the
views, and of determining upon the measures best J banner of our party. Yesterday a battle was
calculated to promote the success of the manufactur- j fought in the State of Georgia lor the Democracy,
ing interests of the State and the South generally. [Cheers.] Though the storm howls, and the bil-
It is desirable, therefore, that the various man-flows roll about you, you carry the Constitution
ufacturing interests of the State should be generally: with you, guard it we’ll, it shall ride above the
represented, and all delegates appointed should I troubled waters, and rest in safety on the shore,
report themselves to Dr. Jno. S. Linton, at the [Enthusiastic applause.]
Atlanta Hotel, on Wednesday morning, at 9 j
o’clock, of' 1 Inir Week.]
We hope the press of our State will notice the
foregoing important movement.
English Revival of the Slave Trade In a Yew
. Form.
The'influence of Exeter Hall is rapidly on the
wane in England. The following significant
article appears in a late number of the Liverpool
Times:
“When the outbreaks in India have been qnell-
< d. as qm lied they must be, the question will arise
what shall we do with the mutineers? The mas
sacres there have be« n so horrible, and accom
panied with atrocities on women and children so
revolting to all notions of warfare, that a terrible
punishment is certain to overtake large numbers
of tliefoffenders. Public opinion will justify a fear
ful retribution, and the example which will be
made will cause human blood to flow like water.
Strong as this feeling is at home.it must be still
stronger and fiercer in India, for there even fe
males, maddened at the scenes which they have
ivitn-ssed and of those of which they have heard
liave lost tiie characteristic softness and clemency
of tin ir sex and become warriors in feeling, if not
iu reality. The musket and the gibbet n ill take
ample revenge on the wrong-doers, and tire sacri
fice of human life cannot fail under the most fa
vorable circumstances to be prodigious. Every
thing that transpires is calculated to whet the
app tite for vengeance, and order will not reign
again in Bengal until the wretched natives have
felt the strengtli of England's power.
“But we cannot shoot, hang, or cut down 100,-
000 men. We may make an example which will
lie remembered in all future time, but wecaiinut
degrade ourselves to the level of the savages
whose horrible atrocities on our countrymen and
countrywomen have appalled the nation through
its length and breadth. Justice will be vindicat
ed by the destruction of the leaders—of those who
are proved to have been more forward than their
followers in the butcheries of which India lias
been the scene. With a meed of retribution which
will amply satisfy the stoutest sticklers for blood,
scores of thousands of offiiuders will grill remain,
and the next best punishment would be to deport
these men from India forever—to transport them,
as we term it h*-re. for the term of their natural
lives, to a far distant land, where the remembrance
of their crimes would haunt them forever, and
where they w ould be compelled, by enforced labor,
to make a fitting atonement for the evil they had
committed.
“We want labor in the West Indies., and the
scarcity of labor compels the planters of the West
to send to the East for it—to hire Asiatics as free
laborers, and give guarantees that they shall be
sent home, if they desire it, at tin-end of a given
1 number ofyearx. Punish the mutineers by tians-
I porting them in thousands during their existence
| to this part of our possessions. The island of
Jamaica and the mainland of British Guiana
j would absorb as mainly as the Indian and the
British government could deport within a veason-
j able time alter the suppression of their revolt.—
We cannot see what objection ean be urged to this
proposal.
“Our philanthropists, dreading a revivttl of the
slave trade, w ill nut allow an importation of five
blacks into the \Y est Indies; but here are, never
theless, criminals guilty of the highest crimes
known to civilized society, whose lives, by their
base and bloody treachery, are forfeited to the
State. A punishment like this would strike terror
into the Mahomniedans and Hindoos of British
India for generations yet unborn; and it seems to
us the most feasible, anff at the same time the
most linieut mode of punishment which can be
imagined.”
Flight of a Wild Cat. —We learn from a reliable
source, says the Augusta Dispatch of Saturday,
that botfi the Cashier and President of the Bank of
Greensborough left that town on Thursday night,
uikiug the cash of the concern (if it had any) with
them. Our informant says that parties in Greens-
borough were busy issuing attachments ou what
ever of plunder they could find, but the amount
of loss sustained, has not transpired.
Professor Agassiz.—Professor Agassiz, of Har
vard University, has been offered by the Emperor
Napoleon the professorship of paleontology at the
Museum of Natural History in Paris, made vacant
by the death of M. d’Orbign v- The following is
the letter from the French Minister of Public In
struction:
Paris, Aug. 19,1857.
Sir.—A chair of paleontology is vacant in the
Museum of Natural History of Paris, by the death
of M. d'Orbigny. Y’ou are French; you have en
riched your native country w ith eminent works
and laborious researches; you are a Corresponding
Member of the Institute. The Emperor w ould be
happy to restore to France a distinguished man of
science, a renowned professor. 1 offer you, in his
name, the vacant chair. Your country will deem
herself happy in recovering one of her children,
the most devoted of science.
Be pleased to accept. Bit, the assurance of my
sentiments of high esteem.
Rnui.tND.
M. Agassiz, Member of the Institute of France,
Professor of Sciences, Boston, United States cf
America.
Professor Agassiz, says the Boston Courier, has
declined the flattering offer, being unwilling to
sever the ties which hind him to the United
States.
/ esv.lt of Sirnlloicing a Woolen Storking.—In
reading your report of the Boston Society of
Natural History’s last session in August, I observ
ed that Dr. Head exhibited a large, smooth and
ard hair hall, six inches in diameter, taken from
the stomach of a healthy ox in Texas. This re
minds tneof an acident which occurred sometime
ago in the neighboring town of Sherborn. A fine
large ox was taken sick, refused to eat, and in
spite of remedies resorted to, soon died. At a
“post mortem examination,” a bard smooth ball,
of the size of a large apple, and resembling in con-
isfi-nce, as well as in color, a piece of granite
rock, was taken from his stomach, and on break
ing it with a hammer, for cut it you could not, it
proved to he a woolen stocking, which the animal
had swallowed and in it® desperate efforts to di
gest had rolled over and over, and finally com
pressed into that rock-like ball. Nothing, could
give a better idea of the tremendous power of mus
cular action iu an animal of that size.—Boston
Traveller.
Contention of Georgia Mannfirturers.—.We are
gratified to h-arn, says the Augusta Chronicle &
Sentinel, that a number of Manufacturers in Geor
gia have determined upon holding a Convention
at Atlanta, on Wednesday of Fair week, for the
purpose of an interchange of views, and of deter
mining upon the measures best calculated to
promote the success of the manufacturing interests
of the State, and the South generally It is
desirable, therefore, that the various manufactur
ing interests of the State slmiild be generally
.represented, and all delegates appointed should
report themselves to Dr. Jno. S. Linton, at tho
Atlanta Hotel, on Wednesday mowing, at 9 o’clock,
of “Fair Week.' 1
This we regard an important move, and one
well calculated to promote the success of the
manufacturing interests of the State. We should,
therefore, be pleased to see a full Convention of the
most prudent, intelligent and sagacious men con
nected with manufactures. We hope the press
will generally aid in extending the notice ofthe
Convention.
A Large Fortune — J. H- Seltro der, the wire
and liquor merchant of Louisville, says the Conner
is one of the heirs to a fortune of 52,000,000 guild
ers, in the city of Amsterdam. This sum has been
accumulating ever since 1780. at compound inter
est, and has. ofcourse, nearly twice doubled itself.
The lieirs-at-law have, in the meattime, increased
even in a great ratio, the number at present hav
ing reached one hundred and twenty. A guilder
is worth something less than fifty cents, and any
one good at cyphering will see at once that Col.
r’s share is
Schroeder’s si
about half a million.
Timely aud Hopeful Eloquence. !
The following ..-stract fivin the l*t- sr"eeh of!
Hon. Catefc'flushing, at tf Agricultural F»ir. a* i
Newburypurt. Mas®., ab duds iu the upblcst afid!
most opportune ckiqtteuoc: • 1
The Unitod States at this moment, arc passing
through what is called a financial crisis—a strin
gency in the money market—a panic-terror in the
ranks of business men which shocks and disturbs
all the relations of commerce and of exchange.
Happy, at such a time, are you, the cultivators of
the laud, of that boon, mother earth—alma gene-
tnx which, so long as the suu stiines, and the re
freshing rants of heaven fall, and seed-time and
harvest succeed oue another, is the only certain
and exhaustless source of the prosperity and great
ness of men aud of nations.
One of the wisest of the present economists of
France, when reflecting on the losses which that
country has incurred by calamitous river inunda
tions; by the waste of fife and treasure in the war
with Russia; by successive years of deficiency in
the grape and other crops; by the disproportion
ately high price of the necessaries ot life; by the
tendency of the population to accumulate in mis
chievous multitudes in the great cities like Paris
and Lyons: by the admitted physical deterioration
of the inhabitants ; and by the immense^disasters
of revolutionary convulsions ami sanguinary civil
conflicts occasioned by tbe chronic struggle be
tween traditional public institutions and Utopian
schemes of Socialistic change in the conditions of
the human race—reflecting upon all this, 1 say, lie
consoled himself by the further reflection that he
might look w ith undoubting confidence for reme-
d> to all this in recuperative power of the soil and
the agricultural population of Franco.
How pregnant with suggestion is that thought,
to its of the United States at the present time
Not upon our land as upon that of France, have
pt riodical inundations and failures of crops come
to ueulraliz- the labors of man ; not for us as for
her has the best of our blood and of our resources
been squandered in sterile wars of pride, caprice
or national jealously; not along our sky, as in
hers, has the avenging demon of domestic discord
passed, shaking from beneath the tiiunder-cloud of
his black wings the lightning shafts of revolution
and civil war, in terror aud desolation upon men’s
devoted heads; not among us, as there, is a re
dundant population pent up in over crowded cities
and condemned to extort from a long-tasked soil
its unwilling yield; but instead of all this, we
have never-ceasing terrestial productiveness, un
broken domestic peace, institutions strong in their
well-ordered freedom, and this rich country of
ours to cultivate and to occupy, with its glorious
forests, its fertile prairies, its flowing rivers, its in
land seas, its metal-teeming earth—in a word, this
great land, in all its untouched natiie strength, as
it was on the first holy Sabbath of the Creation,
when, as it bloomed and smiled in its maiden
charms beneath His well pleased eye, it was de
clared to he good by the Omniscient Mind and
Omnipresent Voice of the Almighty.
If, then, it ean be so truly said in France, she
has a sufficient remedy for till, even the greatest
calamities, in her agriculttnal reseurtes, how much
more confidently may we look to the same quarter
for relief, for whatever there is most unwelcome in
the commercial crisis, which, at the present mo
ment, afflicts tiie United States. I do not hesitate,
therefore, tu say, that in you. the landed interest
of the conntry, is to be found the solid substratum
of our material welfare, and now, as at all other
times, the sure salvation of the commercial pros
perity of the country. Banks may suspend pay
ment in specie, but the sun docs not cease to
shine; merchants may fail, butthecartii does not;
railroad stocks and bonds may go down, but the
harvest comes, aud its cotton, tobacco, sugar,
corn, wheat, and rice, till our storehouses and our
granaries; hills of exchange may be protested, hut
the coal and iron of Pennsylvania and Virginia,
the lead of Wisconsin, the copper of Michigan,
and the gold and quicksilver of California remain: j
many a weary merchant, as lie scans the pages of
his ledger, may sink in despondency, hut millions
of strong hands and Ixdd hearts will survive to
carry on the business of life; promote individual
well-being, and work out the great problem of the
grow th and grandeur of the United States.
We, it is true, have our petty public afflictions,
and we make the most of them. I fi el ashamed
sometimes to think how petty are the political
troubles which pre occupy us, and then again, I re
joice and feel proud to think how supernal is the
condition of our country which enables us to en
joy the satisfaction of grumbling and fretting
about sncli trivial and insiguifican things.
It' you wen to heed the sensation paragraphs of
the public journals, and the vague declamations
of the hustings, you might conceive that millions
of men here in the United States were in arms for
fratricidal combat, that mighty citadels were lost
aud won daily by contending hosts, that embattled
legions were in the field pouring out tho deadly
| hail of tho musket and rifle, that our cities were
undergoing capture and seek at the hands of in
furiated enemies, and that all the worst calamities
of war, pestilence and famine were now, and for
years had been, raging throughout the Union. All
these things unhappy England now has upon her
hands in distracted and devastated India. But
! we—what is it that we have for political trouble 7
j Why, forsooth, some petty frontier squabble in
' Utah, Neosho, Dacotah, Nebraska, Kansas, or
some other out-of-the-way spot, with or without a
name, and of no more account any way in the
great current of national welfare and happiness,
than the bubbles which form and break one after
the other on the surface of the great river, as it.
rolls majestic on before us to throw itself lovingly,
as it were, into the lap of the expectant ocean.
Once more, then, to you, my triends, I say, be of
good cheer; earth and sea, with all their genial
productions, agricultural, mineral, animal, are
yours; the mind to guide, the will to impel, the
hands to do, are yours. Nature and man working
together still in the everlasting copartnership of
generation and regeneration; aud they together
a.e omnipotent in this our heaven-favored laud of
America.
A Tekruile Pi nimimlnt.—The London Spec
tator contains the following expression ot opinion
as to what should be done with Neua Sahib in tbe
event of his capture alive:
He should be caged as a matter for study, and
after exhibition iu India should he brought to
England, and carefully guarded to live out the
term of his natural, or unnatural life, like a mon
ster—without sympathy. His physical health
should be preserved with the utmost care, and he
should live to undergo the most painful of all pun
ishment to such a luiscieant—the absence of all
sympathy, aud the knowledge that he w as teduced
to the condition of a captured beast of prey, a
study for the natural philosophers of the nation
he had outraged—as some compensation for for
feited humanity. He should be caged in the Tow
er, as the real Bengal tiger, with some of the four-
footed tigers—his brethren—in cages alongside of
him for comparison. We do not revenge ourselves
on wild beasts; we kill them out of the way, or
keep them as specimens; and we cannot afford to
waste the opportunity for the punishment of a hu
man tiger ns a warning, a punishment that distance
from the scene of his atrocities will magnify man
ifold as a deteriug influence. He is a gentleman,
a high caste, ever susceptible of mortification by
the process of degradation Irotn the condition of
humanity to that of brutality; devoid of moral
feeling, probably a moral idiot, and only sensitive
in pride or vanity. The spectacle of his hopeless
captivity will do more to deter than would the
hanging of a hundred thousand of his fellows.
Mere death would he no punishment to this hu
man brute—would liave- no effect on the future.
Honor Bright.—Times like the present test
the integrity of men of business. Like the cruci
ble to gold, so is a panic to the characters of those
affected by it. An exchange says truly that:
The men who will best succeed in these times
will be men of courage, who will struggle to the
last to pay every claim. Compassion w ill also be
much needed, for there must and will he much
suffering. And of all the community he will be
tin- most deserving who can find profitable employ
ment for the greatest number of working people.
Above till things, let personal honor and integrity
be kept above suspicion liy those who have yet re
tained it. There is no loss so great or injurious to
society as these. The word of an honest man, his
bearing and his very look, will inspire w holesonte
confidence when banks fail, and all securities are
prostrate. The real bankruptcy of tho country
would be the bankruptcy of these., should they fail.
Alas! they have already failed in individual cases
of high trust; but the great majority of our peo
ple will rise from all these troubles with a firmer!
conviction that “righteousness exalteth a nation.” j
Notable Failures.—We have a report of two
failures in New Y’ork, which are of much more
consequence titan usually attaches to such calami
ties. Bowen & McNamee have hitherto supplied
the sinews of war to Black Repuublicanism iu the
city of New Y’ork. They are the proprietors of
the Independent, and the pillars of Parson Beech
er's Church. They fattened upon their philan
thropy, and made ostentatious profession of indif
ference to the trade of the slaveholdiug States.
Their bankruptcy is a natural consequence, if not
ajust retribution.
The suspension of the Messrs. Harpers, the fa
mous publishers, is the occasion of an almost uni
versal expression of regret.. These people have
been of intrinsic service to tbe literature of the
country, both by the patronage of authors aud the
publication of books. They are remarkable for
sagacity and enterprise iu business. Their fail
ure is the consequence of the calamity which be
fell them last year, when they lost a half million
of dollars by tire. The panic caught them in a
crippled condition, and they found it impossible
to weather the storm. They will resume, we im-'
agine, before very long. Meanwhile*, the public
need be under no appfebeiision about “Harper's
Magazine," or “Harper's Weekly.” They support
themselves.
Genin, the notorious hatter, has also “gone by
the board.” Besides these individual bankrupt
cies, the Illinois Central Railroad, thought to be
the wealthiest corporation in the country, is sud
denly forced to an assignment, and the New York
Erie is embarrassed beyond the hope of relief.
Tennessee Senator.—The Legislature of Tennes
see, now in session, have elected Ex-Gov. Andrew
Johnson, United states Senator for six years from
the 4th of March next, in place of Hon- John Bell,
whose term expires at that time.
[From 1‘uiie Correspondence of London Tunes ]
riean E\p<-riBe:-'s *a tfcr l»t of Else Irnis—
It-. Importune:-.
An article in on of our cotoinpoiaries, suggest
ing the formation of corps of volunteers as protec
tion against possible invasion of England, is no
ticed by oue or two of to-day’s Paris journals,
which evidently thinks the cry of alarm uncalled
for, and which describe as “very curious” the
means of defence advised. But there is no harm,
when we are compelled to send away the bulk of
our armv, in raising the question as to how far an
invasion could be successfully resisted by a turn
out ot the population, by the rush that would, no
doubt, be instantly made by men of all classes to
repel the assailants, or lose tbeir lives in the at
tempt. England, with its small fields and innu
merable hedges and ditches, would be a splendid
country for the operations of riflemen, but these
advantages would be of little avail, unless they
were skillful with their weapons to a greater ex
tent than mere fowling-piece practice can possibly
make them.
The subject reminds me of a recent conversation
with afeAumrican now holding a high position at a
European Court, who was “reared” 2,000 miles up
the Mississippi, spent many years iu the Western
Pioviuces, has travelled much in his own country,
and is high authority conceruiug it. His opinion
was that tite great security of America, that which
makes her of all countries in the world the one
that has least to f ar from invasion, is tho familiar
ity and skill of her citizens with rifle and pistol.
YVith this to fall back upon, she has no need of an
army. There every mail is expert with rifle and
revolver; those wlto arenot aro exceptions, and
are remarked as such, and a very large proportion
are nut onlv export but of first rate aud uueering
skill.
This accomplishment, combined with that An
glo-Saxon pluck aud daring common to English
and Americans, has enabled tiie volunteers of the
United States to do wonders on variuus occasions
against superior numbers and regular troops. The
cotton bags of New Orleans would lsrdly have
protected any hut first rate marksmen from tho
bayonets of Paekenham’s gallant soldiers; when
matched on many occasions, in Mexico and Texas,
against an inferior foe, we have seen mere hand-
full.-. of selt'-relying Yankees scatter their oppo
nents when tho oddi were 20 to 1 ; recently, in
Cuba, although the little band of Fillibusters un
der Lopez was ultimately overwhelmed by an im
mensely superior force of the best troops in Spain,
it was not until they tuqj shot down more than
their number. An economical and uumilitary (al
though not an unwarlike) nation, the English,
like the Americans, will neither pay for t lie support
of a numerous army nor submit to be taxed in
kind by a conscription, probably the ouly means
by which it would be practicable for Great Britain
to keep up a iarge, permanent, and effective army.
No body but an alarmist will pretend that there is
the remotest chance of any power taking advan
tage of England’s having sent so large a part of
her army to India to pick a quarrel with her. But
nobody can answer for the future; and it certainly
could be no disadvantage to the young nun of
England to apply themselves to become good rifle
shots, to practice skirmishing, and even to familiar
ize themselves with forming square and a few of
the commonest manoeuvres of infantry iu the
field.
Nena Sahib.—The following account of a man
who has gained a fearful notoriety in the history of
the insurrection in India, is from a Bomba paper;
“Nena Sahib is the adopted son of the late Peish-
wa BajeeRao, who front the time of his deposition
till his death, lived at Bithoor, in the neighborhood
of Cawnpore, upon the pension allowed him by
the British government. On the death of the ex-
Petshwa, N.-ita strove hard, but without success, to
obtain from the Indian government a continuance
to himself of the pension allowed to Bajee Kao.
Failing in this, he despatched an agent to agitate
his claims in England, and transmitted, it is said,
to Calcutta, to meet the expenses of sueli a mis
sion, a single piece of company’s paper of the val
ue of five lacs of rupees. The mission to Eng
land was as unsuccessful as the attempt made to
influence tiie local government.
“The India government may in some measure
thank itself for having allowed tins man to ac
quire the local influence he possesses. It is well
known that for years baek. since tiie death of Ba
jee Rao. Nena has kept the Begums of the Bajee,
the rightful heirs to the property of the deceased
chief, in close confinement in the Zenanah, so that
none likely to take stops relative to rescuing them
from confinement or restoring to them their pro
perty could obtaiii access to where they were.
“It cannot be said that Nena is not a venturous
traitor. He has staked his all, which is not a lit
tle, upon the die. His game might have been
played so as not to have entirely deprived him of
the sympathy of those he fought against, but, like
every leader the present insurrection has brought
to notice, he was unable to resist that propensity
to cold-blooded murder which seems to take pos
session of most natives simultaneously with their
achieving power to gratify it.”
H.tltfl T1.T1CK.
“Hard Times” is now on every lip,
Ami breathed front every tongue;
The Banks are cursed by one and all,
The aged and the young,
The Merchant lms to close his doors,
And throw his Ledger by;
Such times he vows were never seen
15y any mortal eye.
Tilt- Shopmen quit the counter’s side,
For customers are few;
The times are now so very “Tight,”
It makes them all look “blue;”
The citizen iu vain essays
To make more than his bread,
A pound of which be now declares
Won’t weigh a pound of lead!
There's not a day but some one foils,
Some House that goes to smash;
Anti names that once stood high oil ’Change,
Are out for want of Cash.
Those whom we thought were millionaires,
And rieli iu Shares and Stocks,
Tlteir “ni'/lion liars” now disappoint;
They fail, and leave no “rocks.”
“Hard Times! Hard Times! Was ever seen
Such times as hard us these!”
This is the cry from morn till night,
In which each one agrees.
A Remedy we think we’ve found,
Say, how do yon think ’twill do 7
“Bull oft'your Coat, roll tip your Sleeve®,
And work these Hard Times through!”
The Pennsylvania Bonk Bill.—Harrisburg, Oct.
2.—The following is a synopsis of the bill which
parsed a committee of the whole in the House
this afternoon:
Section 1st, Exempts all the Banks from tiie
penalties incurred by the Act of Suspension, and
extends the time for the resumption of specie pay-
mints to March 1st, 1858.
Section 2, Compels all tlie City Banks to pub
lish a weekly, ami the country Banks a monthly
statement of their affairs and conditions, under
oath, a failure to do incurs a penalty ol'one thou
sand dollars.
Section 3. Makes it obligatory upon each Bank
to receive the notes of every other sol
vent Bank at par hereafter, but the President of
any Bank can make oath of his apprehension of
the safety of any Bank to the Governor, who shall
thereupon appoint a Commissioner to examine in
to the affairs of said Bank, and if proved unsound
its charter shall be declared forfeited by proclama
tion. The Banks resuming specie payments be
fore the 1st of March, arc exempt front the provis
ions of this section.
Section 4, Authorizes Collectors to receive the
notes of all solvent Banks for State purposes.
Section 5, Prescribes that all deposites to the
credit of the State, shall be paid to the State Treas
urer in specie.
Section C; Extends tiie stay of execution, except
in certain eases, for a period of six months from
the passage of this act.
Section 7, Declares that this act shall take effect
immediately, if the stockholders accept it, and cer
tify their acceptance to the Auditor General;
and each Bank accepting shall pay into the
treasury oue-half of one per centum on their capi
tal stock.
'Section 8, Repeals the forty-seventh section of
tiie act of 1850. This bill will pass the House with
out material alteration.
Result of Carelessness.—A few days since, two
young men of our town were out in the woods
gunning. One ot them deeming it necessary o
climb a tree, began to ascend,but finding it difficult
for want of limbs to aid him in his ascent, the oth
er went to is assistance, and with the butt end of
his gun pushed him upwards. After he had as
sisted his companion this way as much as he could,
lie attempted to draw down the gun to the ground
with the muzzle towards himself, and while doing
so, the hammer was forced back by coining in con
tact with the rough bark of the free, and on being
freed from it the hammer fell on the cap, exploding
the charge iu tiie gun, and lodging the shot in tiie
wrist, hand and side of the one who had assisted
his companion.
Fortunately the wounds are not very serious
The wounded one says tite next time he pushes
a companion up a tree with his gun, he will do so
with the muzzle upwards.— Union Springs [ Ala.']
F.r jrres j.
Life in Xnc ForA.-ThejTimes think that two thirds
of the anxious,worn,cadaverous visiages which flit
up and down Wall-street in agony, any of these
days, belong to men, who start in life w ith one of
tw o great objects—to be President of the United
States, eras rich as Mr. Astor. As they- cannot be
more than one President of the United States at a
time, find as tho office cannot be had by any suc
cessful amount of stock-jobbing, the majority
speedily abandon all hopes of presiding over tiie
destinies of this great nation, ami fix their whole
attention ti]>ou Mr. Astor’s fortune.
The first step is to get out of the boarding
house into one of one’s own, possessing a brown
stone front, and furnished with corresponding
magnificence. A largo house is the god of a New
Yorker’s idolatry.
The women, fa.* from standing aloof from the
struggle, hallo their husbands on to bolder ven
tures. They stake largely too, on the result.
They buy boldly at the milliner’* and ieweiler’*
and carriage-maker's, on the faith of their hus
bands luck: If he makes a bad throw, so much
the wor»e for the milliner and jeweller, and car
riage maker. There is consternation in the pal
ace, and bailiffs are iu the hall, but the storm soon
blows over, and the stars shine out again.
From the Charleston News of Saturday Evening.
Sri«jwnsb>h of the Bank of itu Mate of South
GaroDna.
Titis banking institution of the State was com
pelled bv unavoidable circmstances to suspend this
forenoon. A good deal of excitement, ou the an
nouncement of the fact, pervades our community.
There is however no just cause of panic—such a
panic as will induce an unnecessary run on the
other Banks. The liberality of titis Bank in ac
commodating tiie people, when neither funds nor
currency could be obtained from other quarters,
had so extended its discount and circulation
litirs, that when the other banking in
stitutions. insisting on constant discharges ot bal
ances in specie between them—an unwise an un-
congruous measure at titis cricis, made a press
upon it, its suspension became inevitable.
The noteholders and depositors need not how
ever apprehend any loss, unless in their panic they
choose to sacrifice their securities. The immediate
liability on bills and disposites is about a millio
and a half. This is but a small proportion of tiie
assets of the Bank, which are unquestionable.
Its discount iiue of promissory notes, its bonds, its
exchange, its stocks, Ate., all of which are realiz
able in a limited period, are nearly treble those lia
bilities.
In addition to the amplitude of the assets aud
the general soundness of tiie Bank, the state
stands as a guarantor of its eventual liquidation of
all demands. «
It is earnestly to he hoped that our people will
not indulge in a panic, and will pursue their usual
course of making no run on our Banks. If they,
among themselves, have not harmoniously follow
ed this course, the blame of suspension will be be
tween them, and let it there remain. If they, can
not forbear specie demands on each other, how can
they expect a hard pressed people to do it? We
were assured that they were acting harmoniously
together, and so announced a week or so since;
and, yet immediately after we learned that in re
ality; each was pulling the other for specie. From
that moment we could not fail to feel apprehensive.
The Banks can stand, it they choose, aud will sus
tain each other.
The rumor of the suspension of other Banks
is unfounded. We have reason to believe
that they will pay on to the last, and that need
not como.
The Augusta Constitutionalist io noticing the
suspension of this bank attributes its stoppage to
the “peculiar character of the institution,” and
adds that “a large party in South Carolina have
Iona contended that the Bank of the State should
be wound up, aud we hope that this will be the re
sult of its present temporary .suspension.”
“The Bank of the State of South Carolina,” the
State institution, which has suspended, must not
be confounded with “The State Bank of South
Carolina,” a private corporation, which,is believed
to be sound and safe.
3 p t c f rt 1 g o t it t5 —
rr- BUSS’ DYSPEPTIC REMEUY^rr^
ginning the confidence of the Dyspeptics, until it
pronounced by all whu have used it, to be the ll<IW
long caught for but just found. Many have nscdT^
liave been entirely cured of that very distressine ,r, n! “*
Dyspepsia, all who are afflicted with that ooinnr’''
cau have an opportunity of trjing this reme.lv if’ aUlt
plying to either of the Drug Stores in AIill.-d!gtVille \
EXTRACT OF BUCHU.-Idi^^PTT^
and genuine extract of Buchu, has been hivl k-1 ,r ' r ' !
mended lty those who liave used it and is-cn n-rf T
cured ofthe following complaints: diseases ofthe n
der, kidneys,grave], dropscy, weaknesses,obstru. "
secret diseases, female complaints. Ac. This it
for sale by E. J. Whits, also by Jas. Hir tt
Ui.ru,na«i®m--ls only enPed^i^^rTp--
“Lini-h * Anti-Rheumatic Powders,” rm it t i ' ’- T
remedy extant that attack the r.xt’t of the diset
others being ointments, euibrocatio-is Ac 3<,;
palliatives. ’ " e ra °rc'y
It is sold, wholesale and retail by J q ( ...
Eat on ton, Ga.,and retailed by Junes Hertv tn'' T"’
ville, On.
SI t£
••Reduced by Dyspepsia to a Bert- SMeton n
Cured by Barhave's Holland Rill,;-.,
Mr. A. Mutehett, a trader probably as well known
any man in Western Pennsylvania, states as foil.\
“I met with a former in Armstrong county who w*
reduced by Dyspepsia to a mere skeleton-, f penmnd^t
him to buy a bottle of Butrbavc’s Holland Bitters 1
lievingit would cure him. Meeting him some montT
after, what whs my astonishment at finding him n l,aU
hearty man; he told me he now- weighed 200 >''
and that this wonderful change had iteeu produced bv
If I'll Hive’s Holland Bitters, to which he attributed
lyltis restoration.' 1
Diamond House, or at R. Chester's Gothic Hull
GALE BROTHERS, Druggist
1S1 Randolph St, Citkago, jn
r or s/ile by F. G. Grieve, Milleiigeville.
Know Nothingism Illustrated.—Gumbo—“Is you
good atspellin. Buck?”
Buck—“Well darkey sagaeiate—What’s de in
terrogatory?”
Gumbo—“I seye’s learned—but can you spell
Know Nttffin without any letters at all?”
Buck—“Y’ou mean Know Nothing, you dar
key.”
Gumbo—“Yes, Know Nttffin—can you duz it?”
Buck—'T surrender it,” as Yorktown said
to Corncob, ea/.e it can’t be did with no letters at
all.
[Gumbo takes a piece of chalk, gets down on his
knees and made.® a big cipher on the floor, then
asks Buck, rolling up the whites of his eyes, if that
ain’t a nuffin? Takes out of his hat an old torn
handkerchief, and rubs the cipher out clean.]
Gumbo—‘Now, nigger, dare’s no nuffiu dar, as
plain as day to dis darkey.”
Buck—“Good! Gum, good! l'ah, yab, yah: just
like de party itself—gone—used up!—rubbed out.”
[ Boston Post.
Important to a man with on Insured Life which
ends on Sunday.—In the Superior Court of Massa
chusetts, [Suffolk co.,] in a suit between Jolu
Hammond and the American Mutual Life' Insur
ance Co., the following points were decided:
“Where the premium on a policy of life insur
ance is made payable quarterly in advance, on or
before noon the first day of each quarter, and the
first day of a quarter falls on Sunday, the pre
mium is not due and payable until the next day a:
noon.
‘‘Where a person so insured dies on the after
noon of a Sunday, which was tiie first day of a
quarter, without having paid the premium fertile
opening quarter, the insurances are liable.”
The Crops.—In the midst of a financial flurry,
of tbe tribulation and downfall of unproductive in
stitutions, it is phasant and reassuring, remarks
the Cincinnati Commercial, to turn to the great
sources of the wealth of the natfon, and find that,
however excessive the panic among those
who dabble in fancy stocks or who have presumed
on fietitous capital, this is at least A year of
PLENTY Tiie soil and tiie skies have been gen
erous. The harvest, that is past was one in which
the toilers reaped golden rewards. The summer
which is ended, was prolific inTruits and fodder.
The autumn which is upon us is rie.lt in the fruition
of promises of plenty held out amid the green splen-
dc-rs of summer.
Our most important staples are Cotton, Wheat
and Corn. The Wheat crop was bounteous.—
There is of bread, enouglt and to spare. The corn
was late, and the year regarding it was so early
frosts might destroy it. The occasion for that fear
happly exists no more. The land is opulent with
corn. 1 here will be sufficient to feed to fatness
all things that desire it, and to fill the cribs, mak
ing provision for years of famine. This week past,
without frost and we will liave an abundant crop
of cotton—indeed, we don’t know if “old Jack” is
not now too late to do any material damage. Pri
ces are good, and for cotton cannot get much low
er. Now where is the loom for fear of a repiti-
tion of the commercial disasters of’37. The thing
looks impossible.—Memphis Sews
Proposed Closing of the Augusta Factories.—A
notice having been posted in the Augusta Cotton
Mills, notifying the employees that in two weeks
the mills would probably close for the time being,
a correspondent iu the Constitutionalist makes a
strong appeal to the citizens of Augusta in their
belialt. The writer says:
At least five hundred persons will he without
means of subsistence, unless something is done for
them. The men may find employment, but tiie
friendless girl, tiie poor widow.and her children,
what are they to do, unless you will in kindness
provide employment for them! They are willing
to work—used to it, anxious if you will but give
it to them—they can wash, sew, cook, nurse, and
in short, do anything to procure an honest liveli
hood.
The Great Lemmon Case.—The Lemmon case be
tween the State of Virginia and tiie State of New-
York, has at length come up in court again, oil ap
peal from the decision by which, some years ago
the-slaves of Mr. Lemmon of Virginia, arriving
in this city with their master in transitu, ou their
way to texas, were declared free. As the question
at issue involves tit - constitutional right of the cit
izen of a slave Ftateto pass with his slaves through
a free State, our readers will percieve that this is a
second Died Scott case in its national importance.
In this view, whatever may be the decision of tiie
present court, we may expect the case tobecarri-
ed to our Court of Appeals, and thence to the Su
preme-Court of the United States, as tho court of
last resort.—,Y. Y. Herald.
F.conomy in Dress.—The population of the Uni
ted States amounts at the present moment to about
25,000,000. “If every individual (says the New
York Herald) in this aggregate werejto economise
ten dollars yearly, tbe annual saving would be
$250,000,(ICO. By wearing our clothes six
months longer the ten dollars could easily be
spared, and we would not be less comfortable or
respectable for the economy.”
- One in a Thousand.—The editor of the Camden
Journal announces the startling fact that one of
his subscribers has actually paid up iu advance to
I860. The editor very justly recommends bun to
the favorable consideration of the press-gang
wherever lie may go. “Mark the perfect man and
behold the uprigiit, for the end of that man is
peace.”
Death of the Child of Mount Vernon.—George
Washington Parke Custis; the grand-son of the
wife of Geu. George. Washington, and the List sur
vivor of the family circle of Mount Vernon, died at
Lis residence, at Arlington, Alexandria county,
says tho Alexandria Sentinel, on Saturday morning
at 10 o’clock.
We understand that the funeral will take place
on Teuaday morning.
A Spartan.—Among tho Europeans who were
endeavoring to escape from Delhi, when it was
ravaged by the cruel East Indians, was an Eng
lish officer with his wife. As he bore her along
amid the dead and d.vin", he was attacked by a
yi.it ty- of mutineers. His good sword was drawn
and seven ruffians tell.—filowly retreating, while
keeping them at bay, tiie fiends made a rush at
his wife, hut a shot from her husband's arm saved
her honor, though it cost her life. Another shot,
by Lis own hand too, and the husband rested be
side the body of his wife.
Horrible Atrocities in India.—Tho Enropean
files of tiie Niagara contain further details of the in
human outrages perpetrated by the Sepoys in In
dia. The following is almost too horrible for be
lief:
One of tiie victims of tiie Sepoy murderers in
India was Mrs. Farqu’uarson. the wife cf Colonel
Faquharson,date ofthe 5th Fusileers, a beautiful
but eccentrii^ oman. One account says she was
burnt alive after the most frightful atrocities were
commited on her person; but the Dublin Evening
Post say.® a private letter has been received in that
city stating that suffering a series of indescribable
barbarities, she was placed alive between two
boards, and cut through with a saw!
The “Dtar” Creatures.—The New Y’ork Herald
in speaking of the costly dresses of the ladies of
that city, says: “Who would think that the hus
bands of those ladies who wear thousand dollar
dresses, and wipe their ‘dear little noses with
hundred dollar pockethaiidkerchiefs,” were shin
ning about Wall sircet, borrowing money at 3 per
cent, a month, or pulling a ltng tace and telling
their creditors they hsvn’t a cent in tiie world!”
I Vista r’s Balsam of Wild. Ckenry.—Proofs oi^thi
great superiority of Dr. Wistar’s Balsam, pour iu from
all parts of the country.
Oxford, New Haven Co., Conn., Jan. 4.
Dear Sir: Having witnessed the effect.® of Wistadt
Balsam of Wild Cherry, in the ease of one of mr
neighbors, who Jins been for several years serioml'r
afflicted with the Phthisic, General Pulmonary Weak-
ness. Bleeding of the Lungs, etc., I have been induced
to ask you to .send me some of the medicine My
neighbor, referred to above, lately had a violent attack
of Bleeding at tiie Lungs, and distress in breathing
He tried a bottle of the Wild Che rry, which has
dueed a most salutary and favorable effect. At hti
instance, anil several otliers laboring under like eon'
plaints, I have been induced to make this request. l! v
attending to the above immediately, yon will oblige
the afflicted, and also vours,
HENRY DUNHAM.
None genuine unless signed I BUTTS o D the wrap,
per. Sold by Agents everywhere, E. J. White Ace-
Milledgeville, Go.
TAPE WORM CURED BY DR. M’LANE'S
CELEBRATED VERMIFUGE.
New Y’ork, August 2. 1852.
A certain Indy in this city testifies that,-after using
Dr. M’Lane’a Vermifuge, prepared by Fleming lire,
ot Pittsburgh, she passed a tape worm ten inches lo-
and lias no hesitation in recommending it to even- per
son affijpted with worms; as, in her opinion, it far "excels
every other remedy now in use. Tiie name of the
lady, and further particulars, can he learned by calling
on Mrs. Hardie, Manhattan place, or E. L. Theail
Druggist, corner of Rutger and Monroe streets.
Sold bv E. J. White, James Herty and F G Grieve
Milledgeville.
Purchasers will be careful to ask for Hr. .If .
Lanes Celebrated Vermifuge, manufactured bv Flemin •
Bros, of Pittsburgh, Pena. All other Veriuifoges in
comparison are worthless. Dr. M’Lane’s genuine Ver
mifuge, also his celebrated Liver Pills, can now he had
at all respectable Drug Stores. None ’genuine inli ne,
the signature of FLEMING BROS.
The Ogygenated. Bitters are doing wonders mtlie
cure of Dyspepsia, Debility, Jaundice, and Liver dis
cuses. Among the thousand uiul one preparations that
have come up, for these diseases, aud those of a ldu-
tlred nature, this alone appears to perform all it prom-
THE HAIR! THE HAIR!!
What Lady or Gentleman would be deprived of a
beautiful head of Hair, when by the use of LY’ON’S
KATHAIRON such an one can so easily be hail! Too
much value cannot be placed on a fine head of Hair—
not only as ail adornment to the person—and no per
son is well dressed without well arranged Hair—hut,
also, as intimately connected with the general health of
the body—for this connection is much closer than b
generally supposed. The Kathairon preserves and
beautifies the Hair, making it soft, curly, and glossy;
and by its cleansing and invigorating properties, givi*
tone and elasticity to the whole system. Sold every
where for 25 cents per bottle.
HEATH, WY’NCOOP & CO.,
Proprietors and Perfumers,
21 6t. 63, Liberty St., N. Y
ry WHEELER’S SHERRY WINE TONIC BH
TERS, is fust gaining favor with the weak and delicate
invalids. These Bitters jiossess the valuable properties
of an Alterative, Antispeptic and Aromatic Bittia-, it
gently excites the secretions of the gaatie jnice, invir-
orates the spirits, &c. It is especially recommended »
ladies of ileliente habit, as an invnluaJjle tonic and res
torative to all the exigencies peculiar to the weaker sex
Sold by all the Druggists. See Advertisement 4th png#
DR. S. iS. FITCH'S “SIX LECTURES/'
3S0 pages, 30 engravings, bound, explanatory of flu
treatment by- which lie cures Consumption, Asthma,
Diseases of the Heart, Throat, Stomach, Bowels, Liver,
Kidneys and Skin. Female Complaints, Gravel, he.,
sent by mail, and postage prepaid, for 40 cents.
Apply to DR. S.S. FITCH.
711 Broadway, X. Y.
ry He has no other office either at Chicago, lluffnk.
Pittsburgh, or elsewhere. He is never absent from
New Y’ork, and no physician elsewhere is authorized to
use his name.
August 1 Sth, 1857. 12 3ir.,
P. lv.
Copy of a letter received by Mr. Carrau, onr Agent at
Calcutta.
Calcutta, June 3,1852.
Mr Dear Julias:—I desire, for the information of
Perry Davis & Son, to state a few instances of god ,
resulting from the use of tiie medicine manufactured
by them called Pain Killer. The first case that I sh«3
mention iu whk-h I performed a cure was that of I
Spleen, of a year’s standing. The person afflicted* I
this disease was a young native. Together with r # j
Spleen lie used to get a fever. Before trying the I’ 4 ® J
Killer, however, I udopted another remedy, but tin-
failing, I resorted to the Pain Killer, and I am happy ' I
say, that both the Spleen and the fev er were reino' • I
in a very short time. A servant boy who had In# rig 1 I
hand severely scalded by the falling of boiling oil on • |
was in a few days perfectly cured by the application a i
a mixture of Cream and Pain Killer, ns directed in #uci
cases. Then my cltibl. a girl three years old, was care
of an obstinate Cough. Lastly, I shall refer to myself—
I took the medicine wider circumstances which it w •
be unnecessary here to state—but it was not from 1 :
confidence I had in it; on the contrary, I took it w. 1 *
great deal (if fear—however, I must own that it sever 1 -
times relieved me of cold in the chest—and it cure !
of a fever—of pain in the left knee—and an ulcer it #
month. In addition to the above I may mention a >'■ •'
of cholera cured by- this medicine, which was
to my notice by a friend. The coachman of mv tra r.
brother-in-law was attacked vvit*> this disease, a- 5 -
medicines kept by ray friend’s family for this eornpx-
vvere given to the man without any effect, and, a#
last resort, when he was cold and speechless, the 1
Killer was administered, which threw it waniU ■
the system and revived his sinking energy'—:a *
the man was restored.
Y’ours affectionately,
R. W. C’HIU-
Prices of bottles 12 1-2 cants, 25 cents, 50 rents a-1
oue dollar respectively. For sale by E. J- W bite.J- I
Hertv and F. G. Grieve, Milledgeville; II.avails’ |
Chichester St Co., Augusta, and bv Drug:i*L< ••'••• f
, to 4t 1
everywhere. ‘
A Planter in South Carolina writes:—“Stnce I
made free use ofthe Vegetable Pain Killer on ».' x
at ion, my medicine and physician bills have been
than one third of what they were in previous y ■' *^-
.4 Remarkable Discord y.—It is well knou n to ^ J
person who has been so unfortunate a® to y' j
flicted for a length offline with that most distre»“j|
of nil diseasi.—the Piles, that every remedy ■■
of as a cure, when tried, has failed in Id#
complisli the end desired. He has suffers
year to year, at most, only obtaining temporary
until lie despaired of ever being cured
Dr
til he despaired of ever being cured
In our advertising columns will be t-um- • lP ^;
. T- H. Cavanaugh, wherein he offers to “ jj*
w ith the disease, n cure, in which lie vv as suppw^ y
the certificates of uiuu of standing and n 4 .^rfuctt 1
to tiie efficacy of his nuale of trea.srvn
lfiO*
Courier.
For sale bv all Druggists.
DYSPEPTICS TAKE HOTICp ;
P ERSONS afflicted with Dyspipsia ci * J vl .
ease of the stomach aud bowc s. iqlBi r
find that Bliss' Dyspeptic m oieP^
diate relief—this Remedy isi highl. us jp{h
by the thousands w ho have bee" C71 . ■y or jj.r"*
This valuable Dyspeptic j* mr J? aP J 11
MiUcdgezilte by F. G. Grieve; J aincs “ ’ a I". * I
J. White; single package f’2, *'* P.'IS^psid r’ I
twelve packages $18; sent by Jftl"’? *
any part of the Union, upon the rccej ti ^
der with the money.
Mlle Rachel—accompanied by
Mile. Sarah, lms arrived at Csnn ^
health than was aciicipateti
winter there.
She will p-^