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XsWHJTTLE,
■rrOBNEY AT LAW,
1 MACON. GA. ,
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5 j. 5*Su»^. _
.ttobney at law,
1 MACON, GA.
' iv.him.-f on Block, next to Jioaidman
tio"*-' 1 '"'*' (octSS)
CHAS. ROBINSON
'wTaTcHA ItDEltl AIV,
rTTOUYEV AT LAW,
CllSr0- v - OEOROIA.
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‘ g's &C. ROBINSON,
ttorJioys At X»ftw
1 COTHBEBT, GEORGIA.
„, ..... nrompl attention to nil business en
l !ijSii>th»n. in Knndolpb, Clay. Early. Mii
j„ Terrell, litewart and Qaitman countien
271*®; __ 11
Kl.lMKOUOH A HASS,
SEYS AT LAW
hi, E. 8. Bass,
, ,-o.. Oa- Dawson,Terrellco, Ga.
Ill 0 L’
- rCSUrsnd thecrafts men which arc with him,
■ ''lot! aialnstany man. the Law la open and
rfstie* : let tliem mrucas one another.—
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GEORGE W. NORMAN,
jtoi’noy at Law,
Htuiurg, Ashley County. Ark.,
-v„ lemovcd to Hamburg, Ark., will continue
'vire Lsn- in Ashley and the adjoining conn-
1 trkanMS, also in any other county In the
- the business will authorise it.
Jmm.-llon. E.A. Neablt, Hon. Washington
Triatt, Ksq., Macon, Ga.; Hon. E.«. Cabaniaa,
t t Tni-ce, c. sharp. Esq., Forty!A, Ga.; Messrs.
*;5?S5f Oritani. march Btrts
SltittMSt, r. A. ANBLKT,
Cilvrrhonse & Ansler.
110 R N E Y S AT LA W,
KSOXV1LLE, GEORGIA,
TllLbrsctice in Crawford and the admitting
MbheS. All business promptly attended to.
C.C. DUNCAN,
attobnei at law,
i ti »tj* max.oA.
T)r PARTNERSHIP-
HILL A HILL,
isccmon tolste firm ot Stubbs and Hill,
ILL prsrlieein Macon and adjoining Circuits,
ud in tile Sspreme and federal Courts.
ruri lC£-l*u 3d street. Macon. Ga.
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H. HILL.
J. K. HILL.
OBXSXUtl BUTLER
mVTN Bt BUTLER,
itorxeys at law.
Albany, Georgia.
Hi E is the Superior Courts of the South- w est-
i'-. ait-la Terrell, Randolph and Early Coun
ts huula Circuit—in Worth and Macon Boun
in fitwn Circuit—in the United States Circuit
taumh—and by special contract. In any coun-
ietent Georgia. ,
w tU.im Jan 17
Now Law Tirm.
TttLRFORD & HARRIS.
y.i coy. ga.
awut\ethen Bibb and adjoining counties
uU In the Vhired States Court at Savannah and
Pras-sbo Is m county of the State by special con-
Emrsrusb. — Charles J. Harris*
a <f au s w ir.
SPEER * HUNTER,
lITORXEYS AT LAW,
MACON. GEORGIA.
|. i Tritnf afar Block, Corner of Cherry Street
and Cotton Avenue.
tkiee associated a* partners in the practice
(kit* in the counties of the Macon and ad-
naits, and elsewhere in the State by ape-
I ;-«lsa will uttend the Federal CourU at
id tad Marietta. -
ALEX. M. SPEER,
rt SAMUEL HUNTER.
LAW a-dVIUD-
ssra. Cock, Hobinson & KZontfort,
(L practice la* In the counties of Taylor, Macon,
r "oton, booty, sutnler, Marlon, Schley, and in
ountic. In ibo State as their business Will
LOT umex at Oouthorts.
mup cook.
If. H. ROBINSON,
> T. W. MONTFORT.
THE GEORGIA TELEGRAPH.
rususnuD
EVERY FRIDAY, AT 3, P. M.
PRICE —Two Dollars a year, aheayt in Advan
GEN. LANE IN GEORGIA.
The Marrietta Statesman says that Gen. Lane
has promised to visit Georgia, at an early day
in the canvass, and will bo at Marrietta, as one
of the first points. lie has authorized Col.
Philips to make publication of the fact
CAN’T RESPOND.
Miller, of the Upson Pilot (a lineal descen
dant of “Joe" not Ice, as the compositor made
us say, and a poet to boot,) challenges us to
find a word to rhyme with Breckinridge, which,
not being a poet or rhymester, we are unable
to da “Bell," we sec, rhymes with fell, quell,
tell, dell, smell, swell, and some other disagree
able words, hut Breckinridge is a good, honest,
sturdy name, which can’t be poetized or ro
manced over.
MACON, FRIDAY, 3 O’CLOCK, F. M., AUGUST 10, 1860.
Voiron; XXXIV.—No. 43.
RAILROAD JUBILEE AT VALDOSTA.
The Valdosta Watchman says, the opening
of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad to that place
was celebrated with a public dinner. A train
of seven passenger cars brought numerous
guests front Savannah and intermediate places
on the road, who arrived at Valdosta atone
o’clock, and were welcomed with the heavy
booming cf a nine pounder.
LORD BROUGHAM AND MR. DALLAS.
The fourteenth session of the International
Statistical Congress opened in London on the
16 th. Delegates from all parts of the world
were present. The representatives of the Uni
ted Sates were Judge Longstrcet aud Mr. "Law
rence. Mr. Dallas was also present in the
midst of numerous distinguished guests. At
the preliminary meeting, Mr. Milner Gibson
welcomed the Congress in the name of the Bri
tish government Prince Albert, President of
the Congress, delivered an appropriate inaugu
ral address. After the address the following
little incident occured : Lord Brougham, seeing
the American Minister present said he hoped
Mr. Dallas would forgive him for reminding
him that there was a negro present as a mem
ber of the Congress. This gave rise to loud
laughter and cheering. Mr. Dallas made no
sign in response, but the negro in .question a
Dr. Delaney, arose and returned thanks for the
kind allusion which had been made to him,
and assured all present that he, too, was a man.
1 his was greeted with renewed cheering from
all parts of the hall.
We had by the Prince Albert on the 2d in
stant * disclaimer by Lord Boughatn of any in
tention to “insult Mr. Dallas,” in the foregoing
remark—in other words, that the indignity was
offered to his country and not to himself.—
What else can ho understood by the apology,
or rather by the statement of it as it comes
over the wires? The Southern papers, in our
On the same day the friends of Breckinridge _
and Lane held a meeting, ratified the nomina-1 judgment are justly indignant that Mr. Dallas
__ j t—r» I he mifvht linrn Kin T
and Julian llartridge, Esq.
DISUNION UPON THE EVENT OF
COLN’S ELECTION.
he might have reminded his Lordship that in
respect to the African race we stood as Great
LIN-1 Britain left us ; and if we had not followed her
example since, it was because we saw nothing
The Atlanta Locomotive noticing the posi- beneficial in the results attained—nothin" to be
tionof the Confederacy for disunion In the ,i„ c „ e . . D
1: . T. u_. I mutated in the system of Asiatic slavery pro
event of Lincoln's election says: It is what
we have stated repeatedly was our position,
yet we could not make our party responsible
for it, inasmuch as ours was the only paper
that had given utterance to such views, and
there is not a disunion plank in the platform
upon which Breckinridgs has been nominated.
system i
posed as a remedy.
A METEOR.
On the evening of the 2nd inst., about ten
o’clock, our citizens were considerably alarmed
by the appearance of a meteor, supposed to
have been similar to the one which passed over
New York the evening of the 20th ult This
™ „ ,. _ . . . i meteor or aerolite was the largest ever witness-
The Herald copies and calls attenUon to two e d in this locality. When first seen it appear-
LINCOLN FREESOILISM.
ed to be about half the size of the moon and
was North of East Its direction was Norther-
articles from the Cleveland Plaindealer, Lin
coln's Chicago organ, edited by long “John
Wentworth, some years ago a representative I ly, and in passing over this place it descended
in Congress from that District. If they are very near the earth, and presented a most
fair expositions ofthe views of Lincoln and his beautiful appearance. In passing over this
M e in*'c. S . U ?KY£ e t Lm ? ln or ff* ns I place its body or nucleus appeared to be be-
of the Middle States, that their party propose tween 18 and 20 inches in diameter and was
merely to stop the extension of slavery, and not formed of three rings. The outside one pre-
r^’ai2w5Sfft!SL , t3i*tC !*!?£ * “? h ~*J-
the people. Speaking of Mr. Kcitt’s letter, the
Plaindealer says:
We might at well make vp our mindt to
fight the battle now at at any other time. It
will have to be fought, and the longer the evil
day is put off the more bloody will be the con
test when it comes. If we do not place slarery
middle one a deep crimson, and the center one
a pale yellow. Its tail is estimated to have
been between 60 and 70 feet in length, and was
of a deep red. Notwithstanding the presence
of a full moon in the heavens, it emitted a blu
ish light which was distinctly visible.
The origin of these singular substances is
• . J a - « . t I • « , , I “* lv U * * n * I * KJ A SUl'OL . H14Ulill OtlUhUIIJvUA la
.«the process of ftinetwn now byhemmmg tt involved in the greatest mystery. Some phil-
tn where it it, and not suffering it tJexpand, it osophers among whom is Laplace, the distin-
wtllejctmguwh vt and our liberties. Look at gu j S hcd author of the “ MechauicqucCeleste ”
the Southern States. A poor white ntsn dare supposed them to be ejected from volcanoes in
not speak, write or print his sentiments in them. I the moon; others suppose them to exist ready
If he does, he is mobbed, or dnven from their formed in the celestial space, circulating about
borders. The entire South is now under a woree the sun with great velocity like planets, and
than martial law. Act people are found who foiling to the earth when its attractioiTupon
justify this state of things. • -*— ■ - -■ - - r
Let the South threaten dissolution. Let them
secede if they dare, when Lincoln is elected.
They would have a nice time of it indeed.
them preponderates: others regard them as
fragments of rocks which have been propelled
by terrestrial volcanoes to an immence height
...... . .. , . above the limits of the atmosphere, and again
Why.withoutthepretect.onrfour army and (descend after having described several revolu-
" • - tions about the sun.
LETTER FROjT JOHN BELL.
Hon. John Bell, the Constitutional Union
Again, speaking of the recent troubles in | candidate for the Presidency, has at length
Texas, the same number of the Plaindealer | broken silence in regard to the numerous inter-
navy to day they could not hold their slaves
twelve-month. Do they forget their abject
terror, when invaded by John Brown and a
handful of followers?”
>«• ROBERT C. IIAHDIE,
Hts h!i pnifrsiiflnal imrirtt to the cltlxens of
l.va i&J vidalir. lie may be funnel at all honra
jSfe orerJolmP. Harvey'e store, on Cherry St.
IltUd lm * lr ’
IW. IS. II. 1MSISET
I (Very Street, oyer Menard & Bnrghard's
7 Store, Keildence on the Hill In front of the
^ fir lU Blind. )anl7
pecks on New York
says :
The States mutt be made all free-
| rogatories put to him from Alabama and clsc-
-and if a | where. He writes (July 22d,) to Thomas II.
republican government is instructed with the I Watts, of Montgomery, and transmits to him a
duty of making them free, the work will be done | copy of the “National Union” containing a com-
without bloodshed, without revolution, without | pilrtion of extracts from h.s speeches, and says
disastrous loss of property. The work will be he cannot go beyond this record in responding
one of time and patience, but it mutt and will to the question in Mr. Watts’ letter. We think
Mr. Bell has taken a correct position in this pir-
— , ,. ticular matter. Having been nominated as he lnTT . r „ ,
fired by ambition, the_people of the South allow | stood, and upon no distinct enunciation of prin- ] either of Mr. Douglas’ retirement or the adop-
lfrtflroc in nrA-lnitata 3i«niim »i, —, I -i-i-c -* —,.,1,11.„ Mninci #„ iti—a nAn.;—. tion of an anti-Squatter Sovereignty resolution.
be done.
If, on the other hand, blinded by passion and
From the Atlanta Confederacy,
What will the South do if Abraham Lin
coln is Elected President?
We answer this interrogatory by simply stat
ing that the South will never permit Abraham
Lincoln to he inaugurated President of the
United States. This is a settled and sealed fact
It is the determination of all parties of the
South. And let the consequences be what they
may—whether the Potomac is crimsoned in hu
man gore, and Pennsylvania Avenue is paved
ten fathoms in depth with mangled bodies, or
whether the last vestige of liberty is swept from
the face of the American continent, the South,
the loyal South—the Constitutional South, will
never submit to such humiliation and degrada
tion os the inauguration of Abraham Lincoln.
We, in common with a great majority of the
Southern people, would most deeply regret the
necessity of such a step. We should lament,
and deplore so terrible a misfortune. But the
South has submitted for the last time to aggres
sion—to insult and to dishonor. The South
has yielded much for the sake of the Union, for
the sake of peace—for the sake of harmony—
and for the sake of perpetuating this Republic
of equal rights to all citizens and special privi
leges to none. But forbearance has ceased with
the South to be a virtue!
The election of Lincoln is an overt act itself;
for the reason that, if elected, it will be for the
express and avowed purpose of destroying
the institution of slavery. His administration
would doubtless, at its inception, savor of con
servatism. It would present the soporific charm
of the serpent But slowly and by degrees,
like the boa-constrictor, he would entwine his
damnable heresies around our institutions, and
when once in his grasp the last spark of vitality
would be extinguished. Let the South place
her heel upon the head of this huge black ser
pent of the North, and crush him before he gets
his slimy coil about us.
The Breckinridge party of the South desire
the election of Lincoln, because they well know
that it will dissolve this union of States. They
deny that this is their object, yet they counsel
the support of Mr. Breckinridge, for the pur
pose of dividing the Democratic party and in
suring the election of Lincoln. It is an adroit
scheme of the Disunronists, and unless arrest
ed will as surely destroy the Union as time
lasts. Every vote given to Breckinridge helps
Lincoln, by weakening Douglas, who is his
strongest competitor.
The foregoing, with a good ‘deal more of the
same sort, which makes up a leading editorial in
the Atlanta Confederacy, of Friday last, will he a
severe dose—an awful purgative to the North
ern Douglas Party. They stand on the indis
solubility of the Federal Union, and denounce
the Breckinridge men as disunionists; hut there
is no disunion print in the entire South which
has taken stronger ground than this of the
Confederacy. None have said more than they
were in favor of disunion when Lincoln is
elected.
And now for the Confederacy’s application:
Let us take facts as they exist: How can Lin
coln be defeated? There is hut oneway—lie
must he defeated in the Northern States by a com
bination of all the conservative votes against him.
And yet wc see the Douglas Central Committee
issuing bulletin after bulletin forbidding all such
combinations, and demanding that the vote
shall be so east that they, (the Committee) will
be able to see just how many Douglas men there
are in each State! It is an interesting statistical
enquiry which they are determined to push at
the imminent hazard, (as we learn front the Con
federacy,) of crimsoning the Potomac with gore
—paving Pennsylvania Avenue sixty feet deep
with mangled bodies, and sweeping" away the
last vestige of liberty! Mr. Douglas is a re-
markablu man, but whether the people desire
to take a list of his personal friends at that ex
pense is problematical. He will carry no North
ern State except upon a combination of the en
tire democratic vote upon him, and he forbids
the combination.
But looking at matters as they exist South-
does anybody pretend that Douglas is as strong
as Breckinridge ? and why then should wc aban
don a stronger for a weaker candidate ?
Considering the secession itself, now a thing
of the past and remediless: The Confederacy
charges that it was the work of a “disunion
squad." No man can deny that it might all
have b&cn avoided on the simple condition,
For the Georgia Telegraph.
Science and Inyentions.
THE SLIDING KEEL.
This invention consists of a plate of iron,
other suitable metal, which is moved vertically
in a recess made for it in the keel. A link at
each end attaches the plate to the keel, provi
sions being made by slitting the pin-holes of the
links, to allow for the raising or lowering of the
plate, which is accomplished by racks and pin
ion, or other suitable machinery, worked on
the vessel’s decks—the attaching rods passing
through water-light tubes extending from the
top side of the keel to the deck. The depth to
which the sliding keel can be lowered, is of
course limited by the depth of the main keel;
being somewhat less, but its length being near
ly that of the main keel, a sufficient area is pre
sented to prevent that motion of the vessel
technically termed Hatting off which would
otherwise take place under a side wind. The
old fashioned sliding keel is objectionable, as
the ‘ well’ or opening in which it slides runs
fore and aft of the vessel, for one-fourth or one-
tbird of her lenght, and requires the deck beams
and frames for that length to be cut entirely
through, thereby much diminishing the strength
of the hull. But the plan hero described re
quires no such sacrifice; nothing is cut through,
but the hull is built in the usual way, except
the_recess in the main keel. For vessels navi
gating shallow rivers and bays, this plan is
found very suitable.
VAXl F.tCTL’KE OF BOILERS.
In the ordinary manufacture of cylindrical
boilers, the plates are so arranged that the riv
eted joints run in lines parallel to the axis of
the boiler, and in planes perpendicular to the
axis—that is, the joints run in the direction of
the length of the boiler, and at right angles to
it The joints running parallel to the axis of
the boiler, or the longitudinal joints, it is well
known, are subjected to a greater strain than
those crossing them at right angles and running
round in planes perpendicular to the axis, and
consequently the longitudial jointing is the
weakest, and the part of the boiler first to give
way under pressure.
To remove the defect in question, a plan has
been introduced which consists in so arrang
ing the riveted joints of boilers, and-other arti
cles of similar manufacture, that they shall not
run parallel to the axis, but in a line oblique
thereto, the lines of plates being made to run
round the axis of the boiler in a hetical or cork
screw direction, and the joints cither at right
angles to one another or varying from a right
angle, so as to be oblique to the direction of
the greatest strain. By thus placing the lines
of riveted jointing oblique to the direction of
greatest strain, any given amount of such great
est or lateral strain is resisted by a greater
length of jointing, and consequently greater
number of rivets, than when such line of joint
ing is situated parallel to the axis.
SOL-Ut SPOTS.
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IFACTURERS’BANK
iving! Engraving!
l-t'VARK. Jewelry, Ac. Ac., engraved in
7 unity of Letter, iu lUIrton'i Building,
'■“Block, over Campbell A Colson’s, by
’ It J. E. WELLS. Jr.
iOWN’S HOTEL.
1-OunU THE X(W RAIL ROAD DEPOT,
MACON. OA.
. E. E. BROWN, Proprietor
► H oa the Arrival of every Train
ANITE HALL!!
JWI'- US1ER HOUSE,
[aeon, Georgia
••-ALP ENSE ’
PROPRIETOR.
Warehouse
f'WlSSlON .MERCHANTS
MACON, GA.
| COATES & W00LF0LK
iToiutid tonniief. aud will occupy the
! .1° fV J* r * ho “® Bc,w being erected
pfiwu. Hardeman A Spark a.
lacw made on Cotton when aaked for.
Jtope, Oroeerioa. Ac., shall
i i. »“rution.
L.1 Prompt attention to busiaesa, to raer-
“*re of patronage.
JAS. H. WOOLFOLK,
N. COATES
,-ARPETINGS,
I* "IL CLOTHS, MATTINGS, RUGS,
a AND MATSU
r 7. wk - and a great variety of styles ol
jut received, which will be
- ■!'T* r , li K u «€, and give purchaien a ae-
•*» but stock ever offered in Macon.—
A I, MO ,
DcLAINE, DAMASK
P UCE and MUSLIN,
A-JOW CURTAINS,
111* 8 a D E 8, GILT CORNICESand
tenrie.,.
Jtjjjra'ronsnlt their own interest by ex
in « RjrtRff- n F boss.
Repository!
WARD & CO.,
CTURERS tf DEALERS,
'Vxite the Floyd Ilouee,)
GEORGIA.
[ftwtjajl the attention of the pobiio to our
StJjbpM' comprising Coaches, lire Its;
k(JJ*“a«gies ofthe most elaborate fin-
k^'atsdhaUden North.
|J2jBRATrLEBORO’ BUGGIES con-
|nov IS
jia Medical College.
ECTTJMtffS thli Institution will
t^*nt Wednesday la Octobern. xt, and
^nrasecement on the last Wednesday in
..^ FACULTY:
ku£r v ■ P'l Professor of Anatomy;
h-i Professor of t-orei rv;
-B-, Professor of Materia Medics
ff, Profc.ro/ of Medical Jurlsprn-
2,***^’ M- D. t Professor cf Physiology and
’*-H-M.D.,Prof. -»orof Medical Cheat-
t i/F-D-.Profocr of Institutes nod Prac-
SSSHfi 1 *- D^Pr-jfc.or of Obstetrics:
Proft-seor of l>iscares of Wutuvu
I 1 ” ia' * ■ ®-, Dcumnitrotnr of Anatom;.
1 t, U. DAlNDJUtS, Dean.
their leaders to precipitate disunion upon them, ciplcs, it would be unjust to those who nomina-
and the plan of Mr. Yancey and Mr. Kcitt, for ted him to make a new record. AVc have not
a dissolution of the Union immediately after the (seen the record compiled for Mr. Bell by his
election of Mr. Lincoln, be carried out, then no committee, but we will venture to say it is not
earthly power can prevent a general uprising of | a complete one. AVe think it will omit some
the slaves throughout the South, and a season important matters—among them Mr. Bell’s po
of anarchy, bloodshed and ruin, which no one [ sition upon the abolition of slavery in the Dis
can even contemplate without horror. | trict.of Columbia. Wc will wager the Republi-
Herc, then, is the'home organ of Lincoln | can a button that nothing is said in the“re-
gravely proposing emancipation as the great | cord” on that subject,
work and duty of the Federal Government in
the hands of the Black Republicans, and this
enlightened scheme is to be advised and prose-
TIIE “ONLY ORIGINAL TOWNSEND.
The Sarsaparilla conflict was a terrible one
cutcd under the still more enlightened and pru-1 ; n its day and is still fresh in tho minds of
dent statesmanship of Abe Lincoln, flat boat | country printers and their readers. The point
cook and rail-splitter, a “ respectable lawyer for j between the belligerents - was which was the
Springfield, but a d n fool for President," ac-1 genuine, original, and which the simulated and
cording to the veracious testimony of Long John counterfeit Townsend. Tho “ Old” Doctor Ja
himself.
Bleeding' Texas dried Tip—A Hot Bay ?
There has been, according to all accounts, an
cob Townsend spread his griefs before the na
tion, under the picture of his venerable lace, and
complained how a dishonest young man had
usurped his name and reputation and was vend-
U J? o® ^, cn ' Mrnntly, in the Chronicle & Sentinel I W o rt |, a ’ gt^-. The young Doctor hurled back
of Sunday says, (18th July) no rain or snow thc chsrge inthc old Ascal’s tceth-sxid he was
had fallen to wet tho earth to any desirable not j, ln g raore than an ignorant, dishonest old
deptff for four cen months. The mercury on p eter £ llnk _ picke ,i up by some adventurers,
Saturday, the 7th day of July, at Fort Scott, his nl ^ le w#s Townsend, to foist on the
ro ®®, * *“! *2 e ol ? 1 . . . ,1 community a worthless mixture of Molasse&and
The birds of the prairies approached dwel- wotcr T f 10 young Doclor pro a uce d hundreds
lings, as if in pursuit of shelter from the heat, „f certificates to prove himself thc “original Dr.
and the drafts of air were more like flames I Townscnd ." Tho old Dr. rejoined with still
blown from a burning,praine, than any compart-j ardor and produ ccd five hundred wit-
son that now serves me. Doora of houses were j negges i 0 prove himself tho “ only original Dr.
shut to get nd ot the heat, and tires about pre-1 Townsend,” and thc other an impostor. The
mises were extinguished to prevent accidents I controversy was furious and would have con
front any thing that might occur. We have had tinued nnt fi this day, if thc people liad not at
several days since of oppressive heat, ami what | taken both at their word—given impartial
is to be the termination, finite minds «nnot lj it to ^ testimony, and decided both to he
foretell. Water for man and beast is difficult I humbugs.
to get at; and our crops are considered an en- The violence of that controversy is likely to
tire failure. No wheat or oats were saved in I ^ renewed in the claims of Jhe Douglas and
this region, and garden vegetable of any kind, the Be „ men to lhc position of-the “only true
cannot he found. Union Party.” The Bell men appear to repre-
A letter written on the same day (7th July) Lent tho Old Dr. in this quarrel, and claim to
at Movnd City to the New York Tribune, says: j be the “only original national party.” The
Hark! hear me tell God’s truth. As I write Douglas men say they have got the original re
in my house, the wind flaps over me; the sun I ceiptand are the genuine Townsends in the uus-
hcats it so, that the wind almost burnt me; my incss. Old Jacob is pathetic, cross and full of
wife is now roasting eggs on the stone steps in certificates. The young Townsend is piquant,
front of my house; the stove and tin boiler are I defiant, baastful, and talks of vending mil-
too hot to bear my hands on them, standing in (lions of bottles. The Old Dr. says the Douglas
the house where the sun cannot reach them— | Union Sarsaparilla is miserable trash, sour, fer-
they are hot by the wind blowing on them menting, Squatter Sovereignty stuff—worse
through thc open door. Why, every flap of the than tho disease; while the young Doctor avers
wind is like the heat of fire front a burning | his adversary s nostrum is mere claptrap and
building.
I have just shut-the door to keep tin M
wind from blowing on me, so that I can write.
To say that it has not reined for twelve months
would not be telling the truth; but to say that
dishwater, not worth a thought. AN ill thc peo
ple credit them both ?
GEO. N. SANDERS AND BUCHANAN.
I Sanders throws two columns of mud at Mr.
not more than four or five inches of rain had | Buchanan, through the New A ork papers, but
fallen in that time, would be nearly quite true, tho missiles come from too low a piacc to hit
Now, for God’s sake, what are the people to do ? tho object The worst crime of Air. Buchanan
We can’t stay here without food for ourselves was in appointing such fellows to office P°IAl
and cattle. Manyofushavo not got Money cians by trade—men who worm their subsis-
to pay for cur land, or get away with, to say tcnce out of the public Ircasury, and whose
nothing of buying food for our wives and chil- necessities and habits render them insensible to
- • ' • n fo now all patriotic and noble considerations. ' rl ’»
VI UUJ iUq ivvta tut wkak it 1 • to unu vuu- i —— - - ■ , , .
i cither here or somewhere else. It is now all patriotic and noble considerations. Ine
i for nil kinds of green sauce, yet nono is steady growth of such an ill-omened brood is
i. Our last year’s crop is all gonc t or near* I one of tho worst signs of the times the curse
Urcn cither here or somewhere else,
time
here, v .w>. j ——- — --—,- h. «... v. i.w. | — - w _,
ly so. Unless the great God of Heaven sends I of the government and the country. No man
us manna from some place, some of us must is fit f° r office who lacks the energy, the intel-
starve.
jigencc and thc will to earn his own bread, and
I who is not therefore independent of office.
DRAWING LOTS AND A SITUATION.
The Government, finding it necessary to re
trench, determined to reduce thc number of
Tnr. Fourth in Salt Lake Crrv.—A cor
respondent writing of the celebration of the
Fourth of July among tho Mormons, says:
The patriotic of both sexes, and all ages and | young ladies employed at the Philadelphia Mint
conditions, assembled, to the number of three or in adjusting coin from 40 to 23. Female charms
four thousand, in thc Bowery, between the and the political influence exerted by thc slaves
hours of 9 and 10 a. m. In a short time came and followers of tho damsels made the task of
tiic procession, with the Governor and great of selecting those to he discharged a very difli-
tnen, who quickly filled the stand. Only to cult matter. It was therefore determined that
_ink—Presidents, prophets, seers, revclators.
apostles, high priests, elders,_ bishop
the selection should bo by lot Accordingly,
postics ■■■*■■ {mentis, etue..-., u,suv,», federal forty pieces of paper, twenty-three of which
dicers, county officers, city lathers, Jews and were marked “returned” and the rest blank,
Gentiles, saints and sinners, sheep and goats, were placed in a box. Those who were so un
lions, lambs and kids, all mingling in the most fortunate as to draw blanks received their pay
delightful harmony, to celebrate tho national I and retired. The others will be retained until
birth-day! This is certainly hard to beat Sure- the close of next week, when their work will
ly the millenium is at hand, at Salt Lake any | cease until the first of September. The pay of
ay. A'crily, how good and how pleasant
jjing it is to live in a great country.
the young ladies is liberal, and the demand for
the position correspondingly large,
Both were refused sternly, persistently, in tho
face of an inevitable division of the party. The
Douglaa men had ample time to weigh all con
sequences and make an election. They were
not taken by surprise, and it was a matter of
deliberate choice with them whether by a just
and reasonable concession in a candidate, or a
platform, to consolidate the party and lead it
to certain victory over the black republicans,
or by persisting in a selfish demand for a single
man and a platform to suit him, to consign all
to inevitable defeat and ruin. They had six
weeks to choose which alternative to take, and
they chose the latter; and now in the same
spirit they reject the only means by which the
country may possibly be saved thc consequences
of the election of an ignorant and besotted fa-
natic.
And do they now make these elected conse
quences the ground of an appeal against Breck
inridge ?
From the London Times, IStb.
THE MASSACRE AT DAMASCUS.
The accounts received yesterday from the
coast of Syria have realized all our worst fears.
On the 9 th of this month, thc city of Damascus
was attacked by thc Druses and 600 Chris
tians are said to have perished. The Consu
lates, with thc exception of thc English, were
burnt down. In short, the whole place seems
to hare been at the mercy of the marauding
army, the Turkish authorities having shown
their usual complicity with tho aggressors.—
This frightful event must remove the scruples
ofthe most cautious politician. Instant action
must take place to save the world from crimes
which will be a reproach to it for ages. No
one can tell what another week may bring
forth. The nest mail from Beyrout may in
form us that Aleppo lias shared the fate of Da
mascus, that at Jerusalem Christians of every
nation and church, including a number of Prot
estant Englishmen, have been put to the sword.
AVhatevcr may have been the beginning of this
movement, there can he no doubt that it has
assumed a most formidable character. Yester
day it was a feud between two mountain
tribes; to-inorrow it may be the onslaught of
the Mussulman races on thc Christians, whom
recent events have caused them to look upon
with increasing hatred and dread. Before suc
cor can arrive, before the Turk can he made to
feel tliat Europe will stand no trifling in this
matter, it may be tliat every village in Syria,
nay in the whole of Asia, may be stained with
blood. Races which have lived in security for
centuries under the protection of thc European
Powers may be swept from the earth by this
fierce outbreak of fanaticism, all hope of a bet
ter future may be destroyed, and the regener
ation of these unhappy lands made impossible
forever by a single month of unchecked law
lessness. ’ AA'hen too late, it may be discovered
that civilization has been once more over
whelmed by a deluge as it was beginning to
blossom and to giro hopes of bringing forth
fruit
Falusu of a Bridge—A Douglas Procession
Precipitated into tue River.—A laughable in
cident occurred at tho Douglas celebration in
Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. While the proces
sion was crossing Division street bridge, over
Fond du Lac river, it gave way under such an
unwonted load of democracy as had gathered
upon it, and let thc crowd into the water below.
Fortunately the tnud was much deeper than thc
water, and no other serious consequence ensued
than the fright and the thick envelope of slough
material brought up by those whom tho bridge
refused to transport in safety over this peril in
the lino of march. Several ladies took the un-
elcomo descent and when rescued appeared
in a much deeper shade of mourning than is a
usual style of dress at a gala celebration. The
light of torches changed to a scene of merriment
among a crowd of fun-loving hoys what might
otherwise have been a serious accident—Janet-
tills Gazette.
A young lady who had lost or misled her
heatt "was advised to bang up her fiddle. She
said the advice did great violence to her heart
strings.
M. Schurabe, a German astronomer, has for
thirty years past been engaged in researches re
lative to the spots on the sun ; his method being
to note by a number each spot in tho order of
its .appearance, carrying on his notation from
the first to the last spot in oach year. He reck
ons an isolated spot, or a cluster of spots where
there is no visible separation between their
penumbra;, as one group. Hence, he observes,
the number of spots will depend in a great
measure on the excellence of the telescope that
is used in such investigations.
The result of -the observation thus made, lias
been to establish with a degree of probability
almost amounting to certainty, that the solar
spots pass through the phases of maximum and
minimum frequency, and tiee rerta, in a period
not very different from ten years. He enters
into no speculation relative to the nature and
origin of the spots, but calls attention’toan ap
pearance which, he says, is not uncommon, but
which he cannot explain on the generally re
ceived theory, that the spots are portions of the
surface of a solid body, seen through openings in
a latniuons atmosphere that surrounds it at a dis
tance, and another intervening atmosphere.—
This theory, it is well known, has been found
adequate to explain most of thc phenomena of
the spots.
FUEL FOR LOCOMOTIVES.
A scries of experiments has been made in
London, with coal and coke in locomotives,
showing that coal is superior to coke in respect
to heating power, and consequently, more econ
omical ; that a plentiful supply of steam can be
generated by it for working engines at high ve
locities and for drawing heavy trains; that coal
burning engines can be made to consume their
own smoke; and that the fire-boxes and tubes
when, coal is used, last longer. The contrivance
or arrangement consists in so dividing the fire
box as to increase the amount of direct heating
Surface and to diminish the indirect or tube sur
face, whilst the combustion chamber affords
sufficient space for the introduction of a series of
fire-tiles; these latter are used for the purpose of
retaining a portion of the heat given off from
the combustion of the gases and far diffusing
tho unconsumed carbon, as well as effecting
complete mixture of the air with the gases, and
thereby producing a mass of flames which
brought in contact with the direct iieating sur
face of the combustion chamber before it enters
the tubes. With regard to the durability of the
tubes, it has been found that in the coke-burn
ing engines, about ninety-four thousand miles
are the average duration of a set of tubes, whilst
of the experimental engines burning coal, one
had already ran one hundred and eighty-one
thousand miles, and the tubes still exhibited
themselves in a good condition.
succeeding numbers of the series may be found
by mere additions or subtractions, and the lat
ter process may be avoided by using arithameti-
cal complements.
Thc machine accomplishes the additions by
the movements of a number of cylinders hav
ing on the convex surface of each the series of
numbers I, 2, 3, 4, 6, C, 7, 8, 9, 0, and tho oper
ations arc of two kinds; by the first, the addi
tions are made, and by the second there is in
troduced the 1 which should be carried to the
ten’s place every time that thc sum of two num
bers is greater than 10. Thus, let it be imagin
ed that there are side by side several vertical
axles, on which are several cylinders one above
another, and that these axles with their cylin
ders are capable of being turned by wheelwork,
so that any one of tho ten figures may be made
to stand on the face of the machine, and imme
diately under a fixed index. Then, the general
axle of the machine being, by a winch, turned
one quarter of a revolution, only the first, third,
fifth, Ac., axles turn, and every cylinder on
each of these axles turns, at the same time,
through as many tenths of a revolution as are
expressed by the figure in front of the cylinder
immediately on its right hand.
WEAK IN THE UPPER STORY.
General George Bickley, “K. G. C.,” whose I
THE TEXAS CONSPIRACY.
From tho Galveston News of the 28th ulL,
mysterious movements have been the occasion we extract the following in regard to the Abo-
of a good many paragraphs, from time to time, lition plot recently discovered in Northern
has lately issued what he calls an “open letter” ~
to the Knights of the Golden Circle. We have
IMITATING MARBLE.
There are many processes in the arts, by
which an attempt is made to imitate thc veins
and mrrkings of marble. Marble itself may
be stained or dyed of any required color,
litmus or indigo for blue; logwood for brown
alkanet root for crimson; alkanet and wax for
flesh color; salatnmoniac, verdigris, and white
vitriol, for gold color; sap green or verdigris
for green; dragon’s blood or cochineal for red;
gambago turmeric, or saffron for yellow—these
are the coloring mattors employed, used while
hot The marbling of books or papers is effec
ted by applying to them a colored preparation
of the required tint. The jugments employed
are Prussian blue, indigo, rose, pink, or any of
thc well known colors, chiefly mineral. These
are ground up with a little ox-gall and small
beer to a proper consistence. Linseed and water
arc boiled in a copper pan to a mucilaginous, con
sistencoandarepouredintoatrough tocool. Thc
colors arc then successively sprinkled on thc
surface of tho mucilage in the trough with a
brush, and are waved or drawn about with a
quill or stick, according to taste. When the
design is thus formed, the book, tied tightly to
gether between cutting-boards of thc same size,
is lightly pressed with its edge on the surface
of thc liquid pattern, and then withdrawn and
dried. It will be found to have taken up a thin
layer of color. This illustrates one only among
many ways of marbling paper. Ordinary book
edges arc simply sprinkled with colors, from a
brush dipped into it The marbling of wood
is simply an attempt to imitate the tints' and
markings of marble by ordinary painters’
colors.
BABBAGE’S CALCULATING MACHINE.
All former contrivances forperformingarith-
amctical operations may be said to have been
cast in the shade by the machine invented by
Mr. Babbage. Not only are its results ac
complished with certainty, but these results
may be transferred with facility to copperplates
from which any number of copies may be print
ed without a possibility of error.
The manner of using this machine, and tho
principles on which it ^constructed, involve
many interesling points. In any series of num
bers arranged in line or column, if the differ
ence between the first and second, be
tween second and third, and so on,
be taken, there will be formed a 1" .e or column
of what are called first ditlerenccs; if tho differ
ence between the first and second, between the
second and third, and so on, of theso last num
bers be taken, there will be formed a line or
column of what are called second differences.
Proceeding in like manner to form third, fourth,
Ac., orders of differences, there will at length be
found a series of differences which are either
constant, or to a great extent are nearly so.
Then having any one of tho numbers in the
first column, and the numbers corresponding toi
it in the several columns of differences, all thc
DISSOLVING QUARTZ.
The Commissioner of Patents, at Washing
ton, has under examination, at the present time,
one of the most remarkable of all discoveries
of this remarkable age. It is a method of dis
solving silica, or quartz, and all other stones,
with economy on a large scale and in such a way
os to adapt thc solution to a hundred useful pur
poses. When sand has been made liquid, it
can be cast in molds of any form, recrystalliz
ed, used to cement together all rocky substances,
to make artificial stone; and we may have houses,
floors, statues, vessels of all kinds, and number
less things manufactured, with beauty and facil
ity of which we can scarcely conceive. The
gold-bearing quartz of California can be dissolv
ed, every atom of gold separated, and the solu
tion made to take on any required form, in
resuming again it solid or crystaline condition.
Palaces and cathedrals with all their gorgeous
architecture, may be built up by a gradual ac
cretion from a liquid which can be carried in
buckets and poured into molds, until the mag
nificent edifice shall form but one piece from
foundation to pinnacle. The liquid quartz,
combined with variously colored mineral and
ochres, forms the most brilliant paints, • imper
vious to the dampness and indestructible by
time. An egg, simply dipped in the solution,
becomes incrusted with a glass like surface, in
which it is hermetically inclosed, and by which
it is preserved for an unlimited period. Doubt
less, a dead body immersed in this solution,
completely covered with a transparent petrifi
cation, might be preserved in the same manner.
In thin sheets, it is flexible, like mica. Cloth
dipped in thc solution is impervious to damp
ness, and bids defiance to the flames. Cinder
ella, without magic, can wear her glass slippers,
or be dressed in robes of crystal. Paper pene
trated with silex becomes strong, like parch
ment, without losing its flexibility.
It is impossible to enumerate the uses to
which this new and brilliant American discov
ery can be applied. No means have ever been
found to completely protect the patent priming,
now used by ottr government, from moisture.
This will do it perfectly. No varnish has ever
been made which would hold hydrogen gas in a
balloon. Now, the veteran Professor Wise, or
the adventerous La Mountain, may go up and
circulate about in the atmosphere for six months,
or six years, letting down a cord occasionally
and drawing up their provisions; or they might
angle, front their balloons, for birds, beasts and
fishes, andjtaul them up when-caught
Dr. Hayes need not trouble himself about the
sea at the north pole—no one need longer be
troubled about geographical discoveries. A
tight balloon, and a few months’ provisions, will
enable us to solve all the mysteries.
Descending to a lower strata of utilities, we
have the means in this discovery, of not only
building edifices with a cheapness and beauty
unheard of, but can preserve those already built
for an unlimited period Our wooden houses
can easily be covered inside and out, floors and
roofs, -with solid silica. All our timbers, for
bridges, railroads, ships, etc., can be petrified
into absolute indestructibility, by Water or fire,
or decay. Our sandstone buildings, by a wash
of silica, can be preserved forever from the ef
fects of moisture and frost. -The application to
wood, by which it is practically turned to stone
and made indestructible, is alone worth millions.
|ias not, probably, been tried, but wo believe
that a piece of furniture,^ just made of any of
our fine woods, and immersed in the solution of
silica, would bear a polish like thc fine precious
stones, and preserve its beauties forever.
Is this a new discovery ? Probably not It
most likely, the recovery of one of the lost
arts. Statues were found in Herculaneum,
composed of silex and cast. molds. The'
frescoes of Egypt are siliceous, and their colors,
after three thousand years, are as fresh as on
the day they were painted. With this solution
the great stones of the pyramids—which have
puzzled all modern architects to tell where they
came front, and how they were raised to their
present elevation—may have been molded,
where they are, from the sand of thc desert;
just as the Emperor Napoleon may, in the lack
of quarries at thc Isthmus of Suez, mold thc
walls of his great ship canal, to unite the Medi
terranean and Red Seas, from thc red Arabian
sands.—American Engineer.
Texas:
1 n Dallas and Ellis counties committees corn-
only glanced over the document, but have seen | posed of the coolest, steadiest, and most respcc-
enough in that glance to satisfy us of its char- table citizens were appointed, and were at work
acter. It is full of bombastic moonshine about all last week, investigating the whole affair. No
mutability and mutation, analyticism and syn-1 one but those immediately interested, knows
theticism, pyramids and sphynxes. Solomon who compose the committees, nor where or
and Hiram, Uleg-Beg and Genghis Khan, and I when they meet or what they arc doing. Their
a great many other persons and things, from chief object is to ascertain what whites arc at
Mizraim to ilorse, from the Red Sea to Red tho bottom of the plot. No one else interferes
River. The following paragraph may serve as I in the investigation.
a specimen. In Ellis, the County Court has organized pat-
Asia and 1 1 : * " 1 —’ ‘— J —"
icism, and Europe is now fast entering the same j great distances—concur in thc leading points;
state. In Asia and Africa everything is in a and all aver that white men originated the plot
state of repose—the race of man seems, in those I and directed their movements,
quarters of the globe, to have settled down into Waxahatchic was to have been set fire to on
quietudes and political death. This has not I the 8th—the same day Dallas and so many oth-
becn so always. Asia and Africa, in the days er places were fired; but an accidental file in
of Nimrod, Ashur, Fohi, Mizraim, Athotes and the town that day aroused tho citizens, and the
Memnon, were analytic; and in those ages the negro appointed to the deed became alarmed
great cities and works of antiquity rose, nation I and left. He was to have returned and repeat-
struggled with nation for supremacy in every ed the attempt last Sunday, had not the plot
walk of life. Asia no longer builds Chinese been discovered,
canals and walls to environ vast nations of men. A letter from Dallas says:
Pyramids and sphynxes do not now rise on the The details of tho plot and its modus operan-
banks of the Nile. No. Solomon and Hiram— di are these: Each county in Northern Texas
kings of different nations—now_ unite their cf- has a supervisor in the person of a white man,
forts to build temples to the living God. No | whose name is not given; each country is laid
Uleg-Beg now counts the stars and catalogues off into districts under the sub-agents of this
the changes of natures. No Genghis Khan villain who control the action of the negroes in
and Psammeticus now hold in their iron grasp the districts, by whom the firing was to be done,
the reins of state, while their respective coun- Many of our most prominent citizens were sin-
tries give birth to the arts and sciences. All glcd out for assassination whenever they made
is now quiet—their buried cities and entombed their escape lrora their burning homes. Nc-
worksofart are alone left to tell what progress Igroes never before suspected are implicated, and
men made in the spring time of creation. the insurrectionary movement is wide spread to
It is such people as the writer of this, claim- I an extent truly alarming. Iu some places the
ing to be leaders of Southern movements and plan was conceived in every form shocking to
exponents of Southern ideas, that bring ridicule | the mind, and frightful in its results. Poison-
and discredit upon tho South. Pity, they can- ing was to be added, thc old females to be slaugh-
not be put to work at some useful occupation, j tered along with the men, and (he young aud
Mobile Tribune. handsome women to be parceled out amongst
UNNECESSARY ALARM ABOUT CORN.' th( ? e infamous scoundrels. They had even gone
. .. .. so far as to designate their choice, and certain
It is true that the corn crop in many sections ladics had a , read becn ^ t he victims
of Georgia and Alabama are ffistressmgly short ofthcse mLs gui ded mon sters.
—indeed, in some localities there is an almost FortU nately, the country has been saved from
total failure of the crop, ana the farmers will I accomplishment of these horrors: but then,
have to buy corn raised elsewhere. But we are a f ear {- u j du ty remains for us. The negroes have
satisfied that there is no necessity for the jKinie been j nc j ted these infernal proceedings by
on this subject, or for any contracts .^. r the abofitionistsandthecmissiiriesofcertampreach-
procurement of corn at prices near so high as h wcre expelled from this county last
the present The crops of many States of thc The , r ^ have been b am0 ngst
Northwest areabundant, and their great grana- J and of them have been in our midst,
nes can supply the continent It uthew Some of them have been identified, but have fled
ion of the best informed busmess men here— from the country . Olllcro „ liu
remain, to re-
gentlemen who have taken pains to J™ 0 ™ ceive a fearful acoountabifity from an outraged
themselves as to the extent of the probable de- ^ infuriated people. Nearly a hundred ne-
mand and supply—that when the new crop of roes have testified that a large reinforcement
the 'West comes fredy into market, corn can ° f abolilionUts lis expectei, on the first of Au
be laid down here at 80c. to $1 per bushel; gustalld these to be aided by recruits from the
indeed, we hear that one gentleman proposes f nd > n tribes while the rangers are several hun-
to furnish any quantity at Me. Our people dred ^ to tho North ofus . It was desired
who are apprehensive of still higher prices tQ des , Dan in order that the arms and
than the present, and who are disposed to em- aminunit j on of the ArtiIlery comply migh t
brace almost any offer to supply them with l harethesamefate .
corn at any price within the bounds of reason, a flUed with the vi n ai many of
will therefore see that there is no good cause h J will be h and that A ^ an
for much of their alarm. The failure or m- found h at % ur neighbor ^ g city 0 f Fort
sufficiency of their own crops is of course a w h t £ believed to be one of
great loss and much to be regretted, but ire s ’ coundrcl / w ho ar e engaged in this work,
e convinced that they need not fear “famine j Wo learu that he had stored b a £ ay a nurabcr of
rifles, and the day after he was hung a load of
prices.
The following exfract, sustaining these views, I six _ sbo() t ers passed on to him, but were intcr-
is from a letter of a gentleman of excellent d He Wbetrayed b/one of the gang,
judgment and correct observation who, as ft I 1 ^ jj any c th-
will be seen, has extensively traveled and col-1 crs wi „ sbarc & &te
I have never witnessed such times. 1Ye arc
lccted information on this subject as a matter of
largely engaged in the grain and provision
trade, and his letter is dated Louisville, Ky., UD dh fo do
July 31st: . *
“Now I regard all this excitement as entire
ly premature in regard to grain. My recent
trip to the cast, through Cleveland, Buffalo,
Albany, to Boston, returning through Canada,
via Grand Trunk Railroad thro’ugli Michigan,
and night, and know not what wc shall be call-
Coolies in Peru.—A Callao correspondent of
the Charleston Mercury, writing under date
June 24, 1860, makes some allusion to the TJ.
S. claims on the government of Peru, (advising
a seizure of the Chincha Islands as the only
a part of Indiana, Ohio, Ac., satisfies me that means for their liquidatiops,) and proceeds as
if the cotton States make no grain at all, the
demand can be supplied at moderate rates.—
follows:—
There are twenty-thousand Chinese slaves
Such crops of grain were never before known. now ; n p en , t and the demand continues. The
Many think corn and wheat will be lower than i^t cargo of theso coolies was landed about a
for many years. For five hundred miles mon th ago, and they sold for four hundred dol-
through Canada, I came through a wheat field | ars each; the terra of servitude being eight
finer than I ever imagined grew, and as I came years, the wages four dollars a month, two suits
farther South the quantity and quality improv- 0 f clothes in the year, and two pounds of rice
ed. I came through Indiana, and for two hun- pcr day. It costs thc trader about thirty-five
CHARMED BY A SNAKE.
One of the Rochester (New York) papers
gives the following well authenticated instance
of a child in that city under the mysterious in-
fluene of snake charm: -
Thc snake and thc child first met, no doubt,
while the latter was at play in thc yard near
the house, but just bow long since, the parents
do net know. One day Mrs. Davis found tho
snake in the arms of the child, and the little
girl was fondling it as she would a kitten. The
mother was naturally much alarmed by the ap
parent peril in which she saw her child, and
seized a stick to destroy thc reptile. The snake
slowly retreated, showing its tongue, and hissing
at the mother. Thc child cried, and begged so
hard of its parent to desist, that she allowed the
snake to retreat to its biding place.
It soon became apparent that the little girl
thought of little else but her companion, thc
snake, and would return to thc yard in'search
of it as often as she was allowed to do so. Un
der the fascination of this reptile, the child—a
very pretty little girl—has begun to decline, and
now weighs about eighteen pounds. Respec
table physicians were consulted, it is said, and
advised that no violence be used towards the
snake, as it might prove fatal to the child. How
many meetings tho snake and thc child have
had, we arc not positively informed, but we in
fer that they have been frequent. When they
meet they rush to each other with all the appa
rent emotions of friendship and attachment that
can exist between two living beings. Only yes
terday Sirs. Davis came to the city with thc lit
tle girl, and when she returned the party left
in charge of the house informed her that tho
snake had becn more bold than usual, and had
actually becn upon the steps leading to the door
awaiting the appearance of thc child. •
This affair has attracted thc attention of thc
neighbors of Mr. Davis, and many have urged
that the child be allowed to play with the snake
for their amusement; but this has been denied
we understand. The parents feel much alarm
ed and desire to remove their little girl from the
fascinating influence of the snake without prej
udice to her health and her existence. They
have becn told that it is dangerous to take any
sudden step in the matter, and have not yet done
anything to avert thc consequence they fear.
Excess of Cotton at Liverpool.—Statements
are made to the effect that there are now 1,300,-
000 bales of Cotton stored in and about Liver
pool, and in order to watch the warehouse cfll
dred miles it was one vast corn-field as far as j dollars to land a Chinaman on this coast, and as
vision could extend; and such as thc richest I he is pretty certain ol getting three or four hun-
bottom lands of Georgia or Alabama will only dred dollars for him, the profits are enormous,
give an idea of. Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Th e Chinamen arc induced to come, by a small
Illinois and Indiana can bread the world, if I advance of money, a fortune in their eyes; for
they had the Railroad transportation. Gcor- man is the cheapest production of the Celestial
gia need not fear having to pay even present Empire, and labor is worth but little to him
prices.”—Columbus Enquirer. (there. To this small sum of money, the agent
thv TT\WK~ANm THE K itti’V adds a judicious mixture of extravagant promi-
1IIE HAW K AND 1UE K1I1EN. ses f()r the future tho „ ew ]and , H ow many
A lady ofthe writer’s acquaintance was once | of these promises are fulfilled, we may judge by
walking amid the lovely scenery .of the Isle of (the number of Chinamen who commit suicide.
Wight, when she observed a little kitten curled A man who lived at thc Chincha Islands a few
up on a mossy bank, in all thc security of a mid- years ago, cited an instance of seventeen of these
day nap. It was a beautiful little creature, and unfortunates hanging themselves in one night
the lady gently approached in order to stroke ; n the same room.
it, when suddenly down swooped a hawk, pounc- I visited, recently, the estate of “Boca Me
ed upon the sleeping kitten, and completely hid gr0j ” nC ar this place. The proprietor bought
it from her sight It was a kestrel. Our friend forty 0 f these recently landed Chinamen, and
was greatly shocked, and tried to rescue the lit- W as anxious to get forty more just like them,
tie victim; but the kestrel stood at bay and re- This cargo was considered a remarkably fine
fused to move. There ho stood on the bank, fot and only twenty-two died in the passage
firmly facing her. and all her efforts to drive him over. A vessel that arrived just before, lost
from his prey failed. The lady hurried on to a a ll but eighty out of three hundred. “Boca
fisherman’s cottage which was near at hand, and ( Xegro," is a sugar estate, very fertile, and
told of the little tragedy with the eloquence of beautifully situated in the valley ofthe Rimac.
real feeling. But thc fisher folk laughed mer- As it never rains in this portion of Peru, thc
rily and said: “ It is always so. That hawk al- j a nd is irrigated from the river somewhat like
ways comes down if anybody goes near the kit-1 our rice plantations. The cane grows for two
ten. lie lias taken to the kitten, and iie stays | years before it is cut, and of course the yield of
near at hand to watch whenever it goes to sleep.’’ sugar to the acre is large. Although the land
The case was so remarkable that the lady in- (j g \ycll tilted, the farming impliments are of the
quired further into its history, and learned that ru dest kind. You see thc old wooden plow
the kitten’s mother had died, and that the fisher-1 drawn by oxen at a snail’s pace, and other
man s family had suddenly missed their little I similar traits of antediluvian agriculture. Five
nursling (Chinamen will do about the same work as was
After some time they obsorvod a kestrel hawk dono formerly by two negro slaves. The free
loitering about the cottage. They used to throw cannot be counted upon as laborers. They
him scraps of meat, and they observed tliat he | neither work steadily nor well, and if the
always carried off a portion of every meal, drag- planter makes a contract for the year with one,
ging evtn heavy bones away out of sight His he is just as likely to be impressed into the
movements were watched, and they saw that he army before he has worked out half of his ad-
carried his stores to the roof of the cottage. A j vanco. A negro man can get sixty to seventy’
ladder was placed, some one ascended, and ccn ts per day for field labor, but he generally
there, nestling in a hole in tho hatch, lay thc only takes to this as thc last resort He never
lost kitten, thriving prosperously under the ten- works an hour after ho makes enough to keep
dcr care of its strange foster-father. Thc found- him a going for a day or two. Thc Chinese
ling was brought down and restored to civilized are great runaways, and as there is no law to
life; but thc bandit protec.tor was not disposed I protect thc landholder in his property in them,
to resign his charge, and ever kept at hand to they arc regarded as a poor substitute for slave
fly to the rescue whenever dangerous ladies labor. As every Chinaman is like another, it
threatened it with a caress. It was observed | ; s extremely difficult to pick out your man, if
that he used to feed his pet by tearing the meat you f, nd him on another estate, or about the
into the minutest shreds possible. Years passed towns. To make himself more secure in this
away—fifteen years passed—and the lady re- respect, the proprietor of “ BoecfXegro" has
visited the fisher’s cottage. A grave, sober-raind- the daguerreotype of all coolies.
cd old cat was calmly meditating on the course
of time, or on other congenial topics. The ro- The Mystery and Invincibility of the Yel-
mance of the hawk-fed kitten had settled into low Fever. Concerning the Yellow Fever in
the sobrieties of this respectable presentation of New Orleaius in previous years, the Bee ob-
advaticed age. And the hawk ? The hawk servercs:
had been gathered to his fathers some time be- “The yellow fever has broken out in New
fore. I Orleans under every conceivable variety of cirr
** eumstanccs—when the streets were clean and
’ The State Debt.—Gov. Perry, during his when they were filthy—when the river was
late absence, made arrangements for the pay- hi<-h and when it was* low—after a prolonged
ment of the Indian War debt of the State, fall- droughth and In the midst of daily torrents—
ing due in Charleston and Savannah in August when the heat was excessive and when thetem-
and September, amounting to some $241,090. perature was spring like and pleasant—when
This debt is justly due by the Federal Govern- excavation and disturbances of the soil had been
tnent It grew out of tho employment of Vol- frequent, and when scarcely a pavement had
untccrs in protecting tho frontier from the in- been laid or buiklin"- erected. If the disease is
cursions of the Seminoles during tho adminis- epidemic and indigenous—a point stili in dis-
tration of Gov. Broome. Before their discharge pute—all we can say is, that research, inquiry
they were regularly mustered into the service a nd sa<mcity are baffled in the attempt to trace
of tho Government, by order of tho Secretary ;t s causes. It comes without warning, and
of War, and their payment was thus assumed g0C3 we know not whither.
by tho Federal authorities. But no money hav- “Almost the only fixed and undeniable fact
ing been appropriated by Congress, anil the connected with the' disease is that its prevalence
Volunteers and their families actually suffering ; s simultaneous with the heats of summer, and
on account of their hard-earned pay being with- that frost is its deadly enemy. From these
ciently, and prevent any fires which might (held, tho State advanced the money by a tern- I frank acknowledgments it may be unuerstood
break out gaining bead, twenty additional po- j porary loan in Charleston and Savannah. It | how exceedingly limited is om knowledge of
lice officers had been added to the fire brigade, I be hoped that at tho next session Congrc;
and 1200 yards of spare hose had beon placed
in stock at the various stations. To show how
necessary it was that every precaution should
be taken, Mr. Dover stated that bales of cotton
had frequently arrived in Liverpool with match
es and other combustible articles in the centre,
which could only have been inserted before
shipments.
will relieve the State.—Flor. <5: Jour.
A missouri editor announces that the publi-
the subject. Although inr>- £ deeply interested
in it, and although for hAfa century the most
prominent and learned physicians have hi stow
ed labor and investigation upon it, they have
it UMU U1 ULJI MVllJhj HDUjl Dill hj I ttutwy j * °
pickled catfiisb, eta, which he has taken for approach of the destroyer, or
subscriptions,
its mages,