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S 27.
Stale of the Weather.
Wednesday, June 24 —7 A. M.
At Charleston, clear and pleasant.
“ savannah, rainy.
“ Macon, “
<* Columbus, clear and warm.
** Montgomery, cloudy and warm.
44 Lower Peach Tree, cloudy and warm.
44 Mobile, rainy.
“ Gainesville, rainy and warm.
“ New Orleans, warm and stormy.
“ Augusta, warm and clear, bat light showers
at noon.
Thursday, June 27—7 A. M.
At Charleston, clear and pleasant.
“ Savannah, “ “ 44
44 Macon, cloudy and stormy.
41 Columbus, cloudy and warm.
“ Montgomery, “ 44 44
44 Lower Peach Tree, cloudy and warm.
44 Mobile, clear.
44 Gainesville, cloudy and rainy.
44 New Orleans, “ “ “
44 Augusta, 44 44 warm.
Friday, Juue 26—7 o’clock, A. M.
Savannah, pleasant.
Macon, clear and hot.
Columbu3, “ 44 41
Montgomery, clear and warm.
Lower Peach Tree, cloudy and warm.
Mobile, cloudy and cool.
Gainesville, 44 44 “
New Orleans, warm.
Augusta, clear and warm.
Saturday, June 27—7 o’clock, A. M.
Savannah, pleasant.
Macon, clear and very hot.
Columbus, cloudy and warm.
Montgomery, “ “ “
Lower Peach Tree, cloudy and warm.
Mobile, clear and warm.
Gainesville, cloudy and rainy.
New Orleans, raining.
Augusta, clear and warm.
(ipor«iu IDil I road.
We are indebted to the politeness of the officers
at the Georgia railroad depot, fortheauncxcd state
ment of produce brought to this city, exclusive of
all forwarded through to Charleston :
Bacon . Corn. Flour. Cotton.
June 16—10,300 800 Of* 00
“ 17—17,000 200 90 00
4 i 18—17,000 928 70 00
From the Ist to the 24th of June, eight thousand
sis hundred and ninety-six bushels of corn re
ceived.
From the Bth to the 24th Inst., one thousand
seven hundred and eighteen bushels new wheat,
but the most of it received since the 20th June.
Only one barrel of lard—uiue hundred coils of
rope one hundred hushels of pers—eleven hun
dred barrels flour three hundred and sixty-nine
barr of whisky—received from Ist to the 24th
liiu*.
Very little cotton now is brought forward on the
railroad. The through and local average about
three hales per day.
Ninety-one thousand three hundred and twenty
one pounds of copper ore has been brought down
since the 15th instant.
New Wheat*
The New York Journal of Commerce, of 25th
Instant says: “One hundred bushels of new white
Georgia wheat, the first of the season, was sold
yesterday at two dollars and fifty cents per bushel.
The Supreme Court*
The Macon Masenyer, of the 24th inst., says .
t( The Supreme Court commenced it* hesH'um in
this city on Monday last. All the Judges present.
Wo are gratified to observe that Judge Lumpkin
resumes his duties with health entirely restored.
Long may his valuable services bo spared to the
State. The docket, we learn, is heavy.”
Tlie Military*
The following companies, says the Milledgevilh*
Federal Union of 2lth iustunt, have accepted the
invitation to encamp at the Capital on the 3d, 4tli,
6th ;.nd oth days of July.
Columbus Guards, 45 men.
Liberty Independent Troop, 24 “
United Kittes, (Co lumbus) 40 “
City Light Guards, 50 “
Putnam Rifles, 50 “
Floyd Kitlos, (Macon,) 50 “
Marietta Cadets, 105 “
Irish Jasper Greens, (Savannah,) 40 44
Washington L ght Artillery, (Augusta,) 40 “
Oglethorpe Light Infantry,(Savannah,).so “
Macon V,du* *ers 50 “
Oglethorpe Infantry, (Augusta,) 50 “
Irish Volunteers, “ 40 “
Volunteer Guards, (Savannah,) 60 “
Republican Blues, “ 60 “
Clinch Uitles, (Augusta,) 45 “
The above sixteen companies have formally ac
cepted. We hope others may accept yet, to fill
out the complement of one thousand, the number
oxpe ‘tod. To these sixteen companies may be ad
ded the Baldwin Blues, of this city, as ono of the
encampment -numbering fifty men. With the
Governor and Staff, the number of military in our
city ou the fourth, will uot be short of nine hun
dred.”
1
|3g? We refer our readers to the advertisement 1
of a “school wanted” by a ladv. She has placed in j
our Lands the very best testimonials as to charac
ter and capacity, and we take pleasure in adding
our testimony to her superior merit. I
tsr The Jiopublkan of Thursday, states that it
is rumored Mr. A. R. Lamar has purchased the
materials of the Savannah Georgian, and the pub- 1
Mention of the paper will be resumed in a few 1
days.
1-iiT The intelligence by the steamship Persia. I
announces the death of Douglass Jkkrold.
t-*r The last weeks Aew Orleans i 'ri« Current
status that since the first of September last, there
lias been shipped, from New Orleans to Charles
ton, one hundred and seventy-one hogsheads and
fifteen barrels sugar, and one thousand three
Lundred and thirty barrels of molasses—and
Shipped to Savauuab, thirty-eight hogsheads of
Sugar and three hundred and forty barrels of mo
lasses.
£3?" The sales of cotton in New Orleans for the
Week ending the 19th instant, reached seventeen
thousand bales, which was taken for France, the
Continent, Spain and the North, on/y a/ao hundred
bales being taker for Great Britain. So states the
New Orleans Prices Current.
The New York Albion, of the 20th inst..
States that Mr. Fbancxs Lousada has been ap
pointed the British Consul at New York. He was
formerly the Consul at Riga, Russia.
The lowa Reporter and Crescent of the 17th
instaut, says that enough has been heard from the
elections in Minnesota, to make it certain that the
Constitutional Convention will be Democratic by
a decided majority.
Among the passengers by the Ericsson, says
the London .Star, was Wit. R. Stuart, an attache
of the New York Associated Press. Sir. J. Hun
ter, who for several years, has had charge at Liv
erpool of the European agency of the press, aud
who has fulfilled the duties with peculiar ability,
is now retiring, and Mr. Sttart is to succeed him.
Mr, Stuart has had long experience in connec
tion with newspaper affairs. *
The personal and political friends of Gen. Quit
wan, in Adam’s county, Mississippi, gare him a
barbecue near Natchez, Friday last. ,
The Slavery Question in Oregon.
The Charleston Mercury, of the 24th instant, in
publishing the annexed extract from a letter, re
ceived in that city from Oregon Territory, says it
is from a gentleman of the highest respectability
and position, and exhibits the views of the settlers
in reference to slavery, considered as a practical
institution. As long as negroes rule at present
high prices, we have no faith in their introduction
into Oregon. But this statement goes far to show
the recognized advantages of the institution, and
the sickly aoutimentality of its opponents. North
ern men are not slow to see the truth and recognize
s it, when their interest does not lie in the opposite
direction, and their sectional prejudice is not stir
red up. Here is a practical demonstration of their
sagacity:
Astoria, O. T., April 20, 1857.
We shall have warm times in this Territory until
we are admitted into the Union as a State. The
slavery question will swallow up every other con
sideration, and you need not be surprised if Oregon
knocks for admission with agpro-sfavery Constitu
tion. The difficulty of obtaining laborers and
family servants, is working a great change in the
feelings of even Northern people settled here,
throughout the fanning portions of the country,
and the mining regions are almust unanimous for
slavery. There will be some how ling done by the
negro worshippers here, before we get through the
fight. I shall go for slavery myself; for I, together
with my wife, have become tired of doing the work
for which negroes only arc by nature made and
confetituted. The present price of labor here will
keep us down for a generation, unless we are per
mitted to purchase staves from the States and hold
them. In such an event we will make Oregon
shove aiiead, and soon have a better state of socie
ty than we now have.
Mississippi*
The Democratic State Convention of Mississippi
met at Jackson on the 23d lost., and made the fol
lowing nominations: For Governor, lion. William
McVVillie; for Secretary of State, A. 11. Dilwortij;
Auditor of public accounts, Madison McAfee;
Treasurer, S. L. Hussey; Attorney General, T. J. ;
Wharton.
Kansas.
The Washington Union, of 24th instant, says
“The country at large have been advised through
the mails and by telegraph, of a studied determi- j
i nation on the part of those deluded citizens of Kan- j
sas who still madly cling to the so-called Topeka f
’ Constitution to take no part in the pending elec- ,
tion contest in that Territory. Friends of law’and .
order, men who arc actuated by the purest and (
most patriotic motives, having in vain urged them (
to vote for delegates to a convention to frame a
State Constitution, there is nothing left but to ex- a
press regret for their folly, and to leave them
to the consequences which are likely to follow their
michievous, if not dangerous obstinacy.
“ The position of the Democratic party, and, it c
is scarcely necessary to add, the position of the e
administration, in regard to existing difficulties in \
Kansas, cannot be misunderstood. It is, that the f
people of the Territory have the right to settle the j
character of their institutions. If a considerable t
or inconsiderable portion of their number con- (
ecive that they can impair and ultimately destroy c
that right by creating difficulties and disturbances, t
or by taking no part in the elections, they labor j
under an error of which they cannot be too soon j
disabused; for the Democratic, conservative por
tion of the country will regard the 'people of Kan
sas only such as are now uniting to frame a form
of government in accordance with the provisions *
of law, and not those who are seeking to paralyze 5
the popular will by illegal subterfuges und the
((nibbles of fanaticism.
“Whatever the Constitution may be-—whether 1
recognising or excluding slavery, or silent in re
gard to the institution —it will be viewed as the
expression of the will of the people of Kansas, as
those who frame it will act under the Federal Con
stitution, and iu a manner recognised by the or
ganic law’.
“ The administration, we are quite sure, stands
, on the doctrine of non-intervention, in the strict
est sense of the term, and will insist to the extent
of its constitutional power that the people of that
Territory shall manage their own affairs in their
own way.”
The Leavenworth (Kansas) Journal of the
23d instant, (as we notice by telegraph reports )
says that twelve regular Democratic candidates in
that county have been elected.
A dispatch from St. Louis, Mo., dated June
23, states there hasbecna terrible hail storm in Bu
chanan county, which destroyed the crops and
killed cattle in the fields. Several persons were
severely injured. Some of the hail stones picked
up were as largo as goose eggs.
The steamship Persia, on her recent pas
sage from Liverpool to New York, performed the
trip iu nine days and seventeen hours.
At a meeting of the Germau Washington
. Rifle Company of Memphis, held at Military Hull
[ in that city on the 19th inst., among other resolu
tions, adopted the following ;
Be*oheJ, That we heartily tender to the milita
-4 ry companies and the City Council of Augusta,
Georgia, our most sincere thanks for their cordial
J reception and splendid entertainments, during our
* stay in that beautiful city, on the 25th and 26th
. ult. That our brief sojourn there will lonir be re
membered by us as fraught with whole som cheer
and generous hospitality, our onlv regret being
( that we had to part so soon with their gallant,
well-drilled soldiers, and their polite and geutle
-1 manly citizens.
The Hon. Lanodon Curves died at Colum
bia, S. C., on Thursday uight 25th inst., in the
eighty-first year of his age. * l
fj?"E. Waterman, Esq., who has held the of
tree of Ordinary of Georgetown district, South
Carolina for the past thirty-nine years, has declar-
cd his intention to resign. (
•-yy’ Havana. Gonaives, aud San Domingo, are I
the only West India ports where yellow fever is 1
now reported to prevail, and even at these places
it lias manifested itself in a very mild form.
IST The steamships Canada and Argo sailed
from Neiv York on the 24th instant, respectively
for Liverpool and Southampton aud Bremen. The
first named vessel carried out one hundred uud
eleven passengers, and the last mentioned one
hundred and fifty-three. The Canada also took
out one million three hundred and twenty-six thou
sand one hundred and eightv-eiglit dollars in
specie.
Rescue Grass. —Mr. A. B. Davis, Catahoula par
ish, writes to the Independent of his success in the
culture of the Rescue Grass, so called. He sowed
about a peck of seed the first of October last, on
one-third of an acre of ground. Its growth at first
was exceedingly rapid, and throughout the winter
it presented a rich and luxuriant appearance. In
May, being fully matured, it was mowed, and
yielded half a ton of excellent hay, and thirty-two
and a half bushels of seed. Mr. D. thinks the
grass will easily yield two tons of hay and one
hundred bushels of seed per acre. It may be
taken off the ground in time to sow a crop of corn
the same year. _
The Prospect in California— Great Yield ok
Gold Anticipated —We have seen a private letter,
which came by the last steamer, from a gentleman
in San Francisco, which states that in the writer’s
opinion the yield of gold for the year 1557 will not be
much short of one hundred millions of dollars. The
assumption is based on the knowledge that the fa
cilities for washing have been greatly increased by
the completon of numerous canals and ditches
which havelbeen in progress for a year or two past.
The letter further states that trade in San Francisco
will be good throughout the summer. So says the
,New York Ikrrdd.
The Administration and Kansas. —We have
satisfactory information, says the Georgia Tele*
graph, that the instructions to Gov. Walker were
simply to see the principles asserted by the Kan
sas bill and enunciated by the National Democra
-1 cy at Cincinnati, carried out in their obvious im
i port. The policy of the Administration, as indi
• cated and stated to Mr. Walker, was that the
i Government would not interfere with the ques
’ tion of slavery—it being a domestic question, to
l be settled by the people in the formation and
■ adoption of their Constitution. The Admmistra
i tion had seen nothing of this Inaugural Address
5 until published in the newspapers, and whatever
- in it conflicts with a position of entire neutrality
• between parties in Kansas upon domestic ques
tions, conflicts with the views of Mr. Buchanan
and his Cabinet.
I It is bruited about in Washington that the Kan
sas Constitution will probably be altogether si
lent upon slavery, leaving the matter to be con
sidered and settled by the State at its own leisure
and discretion.
The Boston Traveller, of the 18th inst., says
that Mrs. Brown and Katy Fox, the original
“Rochester Rappers/’ have arrived in town. They
came to meet an engagement with Dr. Gardner,
who proposes, through their inediumship, to con
vince the Harvard College professors, among
other things, that sounds expressing intelligence
are made without conscious human agency. The
investigation by the committee of professors is
about to commence, under harmonious arrange
ments and with the kindest feelings among the
contending parties, or rather the interested parties,
for the contest has ended. The strife is not for
the $!i 00, but to secure to the committee the best
opportunity possible to decide whether the phe
nomena are actual or jugglery.
The Scientific American, whose opinion on such
a subject is the best authority, says that metalic
life preservers, made of thin sheet copper, are the
safest and best. Inflated life-preservers, made of
India rubber or such material, were condemned at
the meeting of steamboat inspectors, held last
year. In the casaof the burning of a steamer, on
the Mississippi, which had a number of them on
board, they were found totally useless in the hour
of need. At the recent burning of the steamer
Northern Indiana, on >Lake Erie, numbers of the
inflated life preservers on board had been rendered
useless by being punctured with pins. The editor
ol the American believes it would be very easy to
make every seat, table, and mattress, used on a
steamboat, a life preserver, and thinks that steam
boat proprietors should be compelled to do this.
A Fitting Monument to Franklin. —The tomb
of Franklin —if a plain flag-stone even with the
earth can be so called—is concealed from public
view by a venerable brick wall, at the corner of
Fifth and Mulberry streets, Philadelphia. The
remains of the lightning philosopher are deposited
there, in the old burial ground belonging to Christ
Church. An appropriate monument has been ac
cidentally reared above them, in the shape of a
telegraph post, and the lightning is at constant
play over, if not under, the eye of the man who
first chained it to the earth.
The Defalcation in Ohio.— The Cincinnati
Times, of the 18th instant, says: “We are in
formed that the defalcation in'the State Treasury
still continues to grow in magnitude, and it is now
very doubtful whether sufficient funds can be res
cued to meet the interest on the State debt falling
due the first of July. One of the State officers
was in this city yesterday, endeavoring to effect a
temporary loan to meet the emergency, and as far
as we cau learn was unsuccessful. The principal
embarrassment grows out of the fact that it is very
doubtful whether the State officers have the autfeoepf
ty to make such a loan. Should they fail to obtain
the money, the Governor must call a special ses
sion of the General Assembly. This will, in all
probability, be done.”
Slavery in Minnesota. —The Minnesota /lepvtb
lican, published at St. Anthony, says that negroes
are now held as slaves in Minnesota. Every year
men who come from the South bring their slaves
as body servants to the hotels, and take them away
again. And it has positive information that a !
southerner is now holding his slave at Stillwater, |
and declares that under the Dred Scott decision be '
defies the authorities to interfere. He intends to J
remain in the territory, and thus to render slavery
a permanent institution.
Ladies’ Favorites. —There is too much truth in
the following remarks of Addison : “I have found
that the men who are really the most fond of the
ladies—who cheerish for them the highest respect
—are seldom the most popular with the sex. Men
of great assurance—whose tongues are lightly
hung—who make words supply the place of ideas,
and place compliment in the room of sentiment—
are their favorites. A due respect for women leads
to respectful action towards them ; and respect is
mistaken by them for neglect or want of love.
The rock in the Blue Ridge Tunnel, (says the
Virginia Jeffersonian) is now quite cut out, and a
person can see through the entire tunnel; that is,
a person at the eastern end can see the liEflit shine
through at the western end. Preparations are in
progress to enable the cars to pass through the
tunnel early in July, aud also to run them twenty
miles West of the present terminus of the road.
There is a gentleman in Union, N. H., who will
bo one hundred and one years old on the seventh
of July. His name is Ralph Farnham, and a
strong effort was made to induce him to be present
at the Hunker Ilill celebration in Boston, he hav
ing takeu part iu the battle. He declined going
on account of the distance; and when his son—a
lad of titty or sixty years—proposed to accompany
him, replied, “if he went, he didu’t want to be
bothered with the care of any children! ” He says
he don’t remember of ever being sick ; but “be
lieves he had a fever or something, eighty or nine
ty years ago.”
A big ox is now on exhition at Springfield,
Mass. The Republican says it is about the size of
one of Sands, Nathan A Co.’s biggest elephants,
and moves placidly about, much as one of the ele
phants would do. It is said to be the largest
framed ox in the world, and weighs, though far
from fat, four thousand two hundred pounds;
measures six feet seven inches in height at the
, shoulder, girts ten feet, and is thirteen feet in
I leugthfrom stem to stern! Well fatted, it would
weigh in the neighborhood of five thousand
pounds. _
The Cans and Corn in Attakapas.—The Regis
i ter, of the 13th inst., reports excessively hot weath
l er iu that part of the State, but very favorable to
> the growing cane. The crop never, indeed, bore a
> more promising appearance. The fields are en
• tirely free from grass and weeds, aud as clean “as
■ any parlor floor.” Many planters have already
i “ laid by,” and within the next ten days all will
have done so. If nothing unforeseen occurs, the
, Register thinks the crop of St. Mary’s parish will
amount to thirty-six thousand or forty thousand
J hogsheads, larger than ever before made. The
. corn and potato crop of Attakapas is also promis
! *“g-
' Professor Alexander, of Baltimore, has been
■ appointed Commissioner on the part of the United
States, by the Secretary of the Treasury, under
* the joint resolution oi the last Congress to pro
• vide for ascertaining the relative value of the coin
* age of the United States and Great Britain, and
i fixing the relative value of the unitary coins o? the
two countries.
B £3y*A correspondent of the Eufaula (Ala.) Spir
. it of the South, writing from Johnson county,
b Kansas, June 6th, makes the following remarks
_ upon the emigration to that Territory, and the pro
. bable result of the future domestic institutions of
. that section:
“ The emigration to Kansas is immense, in the
proportion of about three free State men (alias
5 Abolitionists) to one white man (or pro-slavery
' man), but then about four Yankees leave to one
) southerner, so the parties are pretty equally bal
l anced. I believe firmly myself that the pro-slave
ry party have a majority in the Territory, and the
best evidence I have of it, is the fact that the Yau
-5 kees still refuse to vote. A Constitution for a State
• Government will be tormed, recognizing slavery,
r croakers to the contrary notwithstanding. But
whether Kansas remains a slave State or not, de
pends, in my judgment, entirely upon the emigra
gration next fall and spring. If the South does
her duty all will be well; if not, why universal
Yankeedom will take possession of the soil. Al
low me to say again what I have so often said, that
there is no country, I have ever seen, where slave
labor can be made as profitable as it can in Kan
sas. I have tried to do my duty in the struggle
and am still willing to continue in the good work.
I shall visit Barbour in November, and return here
in January. If the money can be raised, I will
bring out fifty or one hundred families and locate
them, without charging anything for my services.
I can always get the meD, if the money to pay
their expenses can be furnished. Barbour county
has done more in men and money for Kansas than
any county in the South, and I am sanguine in the
hope that she will make one more effort. Do speak
to your people about it, let us make one more ef
fort and the day is our own.”
Recovering Lost Canary Birds.—Many of our
ladies in the course of the summer may have to
lament the escape of their birds. The following
method suggested by the Hartford Time *, indi
cates a possible way of recovering them :
About a month since, a lady who resides on the
Windsor road, was hanging her cage containing a
pair of canaries, upon the outside of her house,
when the bottom of the cage fell off, and the
birds flew r away to a neighboring orchard. Great
pains were taken to secure them, without avail,
when a lady in the vicinity gave the information
that by wetting them they could be easily caught.
A syringe and a bucket of water was taken to the
orchard, and the little fellows were soon so wet
that they did not attempt to fly, and were easily
taken. This plan may be of use to those whose
birds may hereafter escape.
The Trans-Atlantic Telegraph and the News
papers.—lt having been suggested that the rate of
messages over the oceanic wile will be a dollar a
W <H*l, the New York Timet estimates the cost of
the despatches for the press at about a thousand
dollars a day. Commenting on this, the Boston
Bee says:
“This enormous expense will, of course, be di
vided among a great many papers, in different pro
portions, but it must add greatly to the cost of
publication, and as the Times very properly sug
gests, must “ lead to what must come to pass,
sooner or later —an increase in the price of our
leading journals.” While everything else has been
advancing in price, newspapers have remained un
changed, or have actually been sold at lower rates;
the publishers relying upon the advertisements not
only for all their profits, but for a large part of the
expenses of publication. This is not u true sys
tem. The price of a paper ought not to be so low
that an increase of circulation without au increase
in advertising will be a disadvantage to the pub
lisher. A paper should be sold at a price which
will lean* a distinct margin beyond the cost of the
white paper and of the press work.”
Hoop Skirts and Umbrellas.—Whalebone has
nearly doubled in price within the past four
months in consequence of the enormous consump
tion of the article in skirt-hoops. The New York
Post, of Saturday, says :
‘ 4 Where the wholesale price was forty or fifty,
it is now eighty or ninety cents a pound. The
Ommerciai List of to-day reports a sule of eight
thousand pounds at ninety-five. An umbrella deal
er informs us that at retail he lias been obliged to
pay a dollar and a half a pound for the manufac
tured article, and the five dollar umbrellas of two
months ago are now sold for six. Nor is this all.
The braces have become greatly attenuated, being
tiardkf more th«o half the size they were in tfie
old-fashioned umbrellas. So that the prospect fs,
we shall be compelled to rely wholly on steel bra
ces, which have experienced no such “apprecia
tion.”
Hon. F. W. Pickens and the Russian Mission.
The statement has appeared in various papers that
Hon. F. W. Pickens has been tendered, by Presi
dent Buchunan, the mission to Russia, which is
entirely correct. But the Carolinian , and others,
seem to he uncertain whether Col. Pickens will ac
cept it or not. We are enabled to say positively,
| that the kind and complimentary proffer of the
President wus promptly hut respectfully declined,
I nearly two weeks ago. We also happen to know,
with certainty, that the friends of tlie Hon. F. W.
I Pickens will place his name before the people of
i South Carolina for the post of United States Sena
tor. It needs not here, that we speak of his emi
nent qualifications for that position.
Edgefield Advertiser,
Mrs. G ask ell’s \*ife of Charlotte Bronte.—
This work Ims brought the. authoress into an un
fortunate affair. The uneccessary reference to an
alleged private fact in Barnwell Bronte’s unhap
py career, turns out, after all, to be a wretched
lie. Mrs. (Jaskell’s excuse is that she has been
deceived ; but even assuming the story to be true,
she had no right to parade it in the manner she
did. An humiliating apology, through the medi
um of a solicitor, has been given the London
Times of May 3oth, and very magnanimously ac
cepted by the lady who was so grievously injured
by the shameful imputation cast upon her. The
Ixmdon Critic says: “Mrs. Gaskell ought to be
compelled to recall every copy of her work, as far
as that- is possible, and to expunge the obnoxious
passages.” It adds : “So long as the copy of that
book is in its present state, so long will that lady
be suffering from au unatoned jury.” Mr. W. W.
Carus Wilson also complains bitterly to the Litter
ary Journal of the injustice done in Mrs. Gas
kell’s account of his father’s charitable institu
tion at Cowan Bridge. There is yet another in
jured person in the field—the aged Mr. Bronte—
who (at least says Mr. Carus Wilson) “feels deep
ly Mrs. Gaskell’s remarks on his treatment of his
children.”
Mail Robbery. —Chas. Cowlam, clerk in the
post office at this place, was arrested yesterday ©n
a charge of abstracting money from letters.
When first accused of the crime he denied it,
but a portion ot the money being found m his
trunk, he confessed his guilt, and was committed
by United States Commissioner Francis.
The amount stolen is estimated at four thousand
dollars —of w ich two thousand two hundred dol
lars was found in his possession.
Cowlam is about nineteen years of age, and hails
from Michigan.
Portsmouth ( VaStatesman, June 23.
Occultation by Saturn.—The very rare and im
portant phenomenon of the occultation of a star of
the thira magnitude (Delta Geininoram) by Sa
turn will occur on the 29th instant, and if circum
stances permit of its observation, may be of great
importance, as affording information concerning
the structure and number of divisions of Saturn’s
ring. A star of such brightness would not fail to
make manifest every division in the ring by gleam
ing through at each instant that an opening al
lowed its light to be seen. Possibly, too, in case
the ring is translucent —as is not improbable, since
Professor Pierce has demonstrated that it certain
ly is fluid, and we know it to be extremely thin—
t"be star’s bright light may actually be capable of
detection through the substance of the ring. The
phenomenon will be invisible through Europe, but
l*rof. Winnecke, of Bonn, has recently published
calculations upon the subject, from which he in
fers that the most favorable point on the globe
will be Cambridge, Massachusetts, as apart from
the f .cilities offered by the telescope of that ob
servatory, the occultation takes place after sunset,
and while the planet is four degress high. The
calculation of a star so bright as Delta Gemiuorum,
is computed by Dr. Wiuneeke as happening only
once in fifteen hundred years, and the rarity aud
interest of the phenomenon is greatly enhanced in
the present instances by the fact that in this case
the star is double.— Boston Courier.
The Washington correspondent of the New York
Commercial Advertiser says: “Gen. Cass, when
last heard from, was remarkably well. He was
engaged in preparing for the removal of his family
and effects to Washington. lie is packing up his
pictures, stationery, mosaics, Egyptian marbles,
Napoleon china, *and other articles of vertu , ol
which he has a very large collection. All these
are to be removed to Washington, which would go
to show that he intends to make this his perma
nent residence,” J
From the Baltimore Sun.
Additional by the Steamer Persia.
England. —The weather continues very favora
ble for the season, and the accounts of the growing
crops, especially those from Ireland, are more than
usually encouraging.
The reports of the condition of trade in the
manufacturing districts are generally more encour
aging than for some weeks past, but the disposi
*ion seems to prevail in many quarters that the
production must be lessened in some degree, in or- 1
tier to avert a further fall in prices.
The proceedings of Parliament are unimportant. 1
There is a strong Roman Catholic oppositon :
springing up to the Jewish disabilities bill.
An ir ffuential meeting has been held at Liver- i
pool in aid of the movement for procuring an in- <
creased supply of cotton.
From Birkeuhead there is information that half '
of the submarine cable has been completed, and it \
is pronounced perfect. The steamer Niagara was i
expected in the Mersey in a few days to commence i
the shipment of the cable.
Messrs. Evans, Hoare A Co., of London, Austra- i
lian shippers, have failed. Their liabilities amount '
to £2O0 t ouo sterling.
The suspension is announced of Messrs. W. Mac
intosh A Co., of Manchester, with liabilities sup- \
posed to amount to £loo,ouo.
The British pubuc has lost a shinning light, a i
ready wit, a powerful writer, and a thoroughly i
honest man in the death of Mr. Douglass Jerrold.
He died on the Bth instant, of rheumatic gout, as- ;
ter au illness of ten days.
Prince Napoleon, after visiting the exhibition at
Manchester, intends, it is said, to make an excur
sion into Ireland.
The Lord-Lieutenancy of the county of Tippera
ry, vacated by death of Lord Lismore, has been
conferred upou his son, the present Viscount.
Mr. John Lawlor, one of the Young Ireland
party, has got a government situation m Austra
lia.
A “vigilance committee,” on the system some
time since adopted in San Francisco, California,
has been established in the ancient town of Gal
way to prevent the exportation of potatoes.
B. Burch, mate or the American ship Frank
Pierce, from New Orleans, bus been held to bail
in Liverpool to answer the charge of shooting and
slightly wounding John Ward, the second officer.
In the House of Commons Lord Palmerston an
nounced that the French government had given
no opportunity for remonstrance in regard to the
firing upon the British merchant vessel by the
French war schooner, for it had promptly express
ed regret at the occurrence, and dismissed from
service the officer who ordered the firing.
The bill for the attyiission of Jews into Parlia
ment was read a second time.
The warehouses of Pickford A Co., railroad car
riers for Camden town, were destroyed by fire, to
gether with au immense amount of merchandise,
including forty thousand quarters of corn, amount
ing to one million pounds
A deputation headed by Lord Shaftsherrv had
waited upon Dord Palmerston in relation to the
increase of the slave trade and the means for its
suppression.
At a meeting of merchants held in Liverpool on
Friday for assisting the cotton supply movement,
resolutions were passed referring to* the present
inadequate and uncertain supply of that staple, as
well as the fluctuation in pr.ee, and expressing the
opinion that the colonies of Great Britain afford
ample resources for the cultivation and develop
ment of the cotton plant, aud that it is the duty of
the British nation to aid measures by which its
growth may be established and extended. A com
mittee was appointed to co-operate with the Man
chester Cotton Supply Association.
France. —The crops present so promising an ap
pearance that it is hoped the next harvest will
nearly suffice for the entire consumption of France.
The election excitement in France is increasing.
The red aud white republicans are said to have
coalesced.
The Bank of France shows an increase in its spo
of over the previous month’s returns.
It is slated that the new governor of the bank is
not only opposed to any immediate reduction in
the rate of discount, but that one of the first acts
of bis administration will be to enter into another
Contract with the Messrs. Rothschild for the pur
chase of one million pounds of gold in London.
A new batch of Senators has been made. M.
Ilatissman, prefect of the Seine, and M. Pietre,
prefect of police, are included.
The Moniteur of the 1 Ith inst., publishes an im
perial decree closing the sittings of the Senate.
Marsha! K,union, after reporting his own losses
in the expedition against Kaybles, estimates the
number of the enemy at four hundred, and wound
ed at eight hundred.
It is rumored that the government has decided
on removing at an early period the interdiction
against distillation from corn. The blossoming
ot the vines has commenced in the South, and is
going on most favorably.
Sihiin.— The Spanish and Mexican difficulty is
still unsettled.
Disturbances still occur amongst the bumbler
classes iu Spain, in consequence of the high price
of food.
Italy. —A serious disaster had occurred at Flor
ence. The scenerv in the theatre took tire, caus
ing a panic, which resulted in the death of forty
three persons, and the wounding of one hundred
and thirty-four others.
The Sacred College at Rome has contracted a
loan of twenty million francs with M. Rothschild,
for the purpose of calling in the present wretched
copper coinage.
At Bologna on the sth inst., Pius the Ninth
crowned the image.of the Virgin, much
by ihe Bolognese. His Holiness addressed a
speech to the people Fifty thousand inhabitants
from the North of Italy have arrived at Bologna.
The prospects of the Italian silk growers are
represetred to be unfavorable, and tne price of
silk is enormously high throughout the who’e of
the Austro-Italiun districts.
Austria..— The Emperor has signed an ordinance
which prescrioes that two-thirds, at least, of the
public functions of Hungary are to be confided to
natives.
The Empress of Austria is sa ; d to be extremely
dejected at the recent loss of her daughter Her
' majesty wee. s, it is said, incessantly, and only
leaves her own apartments to go to the church
1 tached to the palace.
Switzerland. —The Federal Assembly met on
the 9tii instant. The message of the Federal
• Council recommends the ratification of the treaty
relative to the affairs of Neufchatei.
Belgium. —A dispatch from Constantinople an
nounces that the Porte had demanded of the Bel
gian government the recall of its ministers. The
Belgian government has refused to comply with
' the demand.
China. Later dates from China and India have
been reecivt d. out are unimportant.
Shanghai dates to the 2"th of April report that
the town of Hokow, in the Keangasee province,
had been taken possession of by the rebels.
Hong Kong exports of tea up to April, fifty
million pouuds, agaiust eighty million pounds
last year.
Ihe lAitest. —No movement of importance had
taken place with the English forces in China.
Great discontent prevailed at Canton, and Veh’s
inactivity had made him unpopular.
Hong Kong trade was quiet. The silk crop
threatens to be short in consequence of long
droughts.
The London Shipping Gazette publishes a note
from Gen. Cass to Lord Napier, replying to the
representations the latter had made to the ITnited
States Government touching oppressive treatment
received by seamen on board American vessels.
Mr. Cass believes that the laws now in force are
sufficient to check the evil complained of, and that
where the offenders escape punishment, the fault
must be chiefly in defective proof.
The election movements are the prevailing topics
in French politics. The accounts are contradicto
ry. One says that the white and red Republican
parties have fused and completed their list of can
didates, including General Cavaignac. Another,
that finding such fusion impossible, the whites
have fused with the old CoHStitutionai parties,
nominating a common list of candidates, headed
by Cavaignac. The ultra-montanists have de
clared in favor of an active interest in the elec
tions.
There have been general rains throughout Ire
land, which largely benefitted the growing crops,
and giving promise of great abundance.
Financial. —The Liverpool Times, of Friday
evening, 12th inst., says :
The money market is easier and the supply im
proved, but the band minimum rate of discount
remains without change at six pet cent. The large
purchases of goldiOUt of the recent supplies, which
canuot fall far short of three-qarters cf a million
sterling, by the directors of the bank, have led to
the strong belief in monetary circles that, at an
early date, a reduction will be announced; but
caution has still to be observed, especially as the
bank has renewed making advances on the stock,
which may lead to a resumption of the active out
ward demand of the precious metals. At the dis
count houses first-class short dated paper has been
easily negotiated under the minimum bank rate.
In the Stock Exchange the rate on government se
curities ranges from six to six and a half per cent.,
according to period. The arrivals of specie have
• been large, both from Australia and the United
States. A considerable quantity has been taken
for export to the continent for the purchase es sil
ver for shipment to the East, and it is believed the
next overland mail will take out the heaviest
quantity ever shipped.
The British funds have been favorably influ
enced by the improvement in the money market
the continued arrivals of gold, and the favorable
prospects for the harvest. Prices have been re
markably steady. Yesterday Consols closed at
93 to 93% ex. div. for the account; and for money
special transfer, at 93% to 94% ex. div. To-day
Consols were steady. An advance in the French
funds of nearly per cent, has favorably affected
the market. The last prices of Consols for both
money and the account were 93% to 93 V • exche
quer bills 25., dis. to 3s. premium. ' '
The Markets. —Sales of cotton for the week
75,000 bales, of which speculators took 13 000
and exporters 8,000. The Asia’s advices caused
an advance of an %. The sales on Friday are es
timated at 7,000 bale 3. The market closed tiros
Fair Orleans 8% ; Middling 715-16 d: Fair Up
lands 8%; Middling 7 13-15; Middling Mobile
7%. Total stock in port 588,000, of which 521,000
bales are American.
Manchester advices are favorable. Prices nave
slightly advanced.
Richardson, Spence k Co. quote Red Wheat
Bs. 7d. a 9s. 5d.; White 9s. 4d. a 9s. od. Western
Canal Flour 30s. a 31s. 6d. ; Philadelphia and Bal
timore 31s. a 325.; Ohio 325. a S3s. Corn, mixed,
38s. 6d. a 38s. 9d.; White 40s. 6d. a 41s.
Beef is firm. Pork is dull. Bacon is quiet.
Lard is steady. Potashes are quiet.
: Barings’ London Circular quotes: Breadstufls
I are steady. Iron—rails are dull; Welsh bars £7
a£7 ss. Sugars generally closed buoyant at an
advance of Is. Coffee is tirm at a slight advance
in all qualities. Tea—all qualities have slightly
advanced.
Stocks.— American securities are slow of sale,
but prices are unalfered.
From Tomlinson's Circular.
Lherpool , June 12, 1857— Breadstuff*. —The sup
plies are very limited, and nearly all the American
vessels, advised by the last steamer, have arrived
and been reportecf. From this date last year to
the Ist September, 1856, which is generally con
sidered the end of the season, the aggregate arri
vals into this port amounted to 824, 60 1 quarters of
Wheat; 164,93 r. quarters Indian Corn; 41,807 sacks
and 547,857 barrels Flour. From present indica
tions it does not seem probable that we shall im
port much above a tenth of these quantities in the
same period this year. The trade has assumed
considerable firmness since Tuesday, and a fair
business has been done iu all the leading articles
at the extreme prices of that day.
This day’s market was not numerously attend
ed, yet a fair business was done in wheat, both for
consumption and to hold over, at the extreme
prices of Tuesday ; in some instances an advance
of Id. to 2d. per bushel was realized, but it was
not general. Flour attracted a little more attention,
and the turn was against buyers. Indian corn was
slow of sale and prices unchanged, notwithstand
ing excited accounts from America.
From the A'. O. Picayune, June 20.
Later from Texas.
By the steamship Opelousas, A. Van Horne El
lis, commanding, arrived at Berwick’s Bay. yes
terday morning, we have Galveston advices to
Thursday eveniug, three days later, and from all
[►arts of the State as late as* due. The good peo
ple of Texas are in great tribulation about the ap
pearance of a figure, resembling the letter 8., on
the blades of oats grown this season. The Gal
veston News, however, says the discovery is nothing
new :
Our senior remembers the same appearance
twenty-five years since, and does not doubt its an
nual repetition. If it indicates the near approach
of the end of the world, the millenium seems to
have been omitted, while the guavascutns has
broken his chain before the appoiuted time.
Corn is selling at Galveston at one dollar and
thirty-five cents per bushel; flour at nine dollars
to eleven dollars and fifty cents per barrel. Ba
con, lard, and nearly all provisions, says the News,
are also selling at higher prices than ever known
before. The expenses of living, it may be safely
estimated, are fifty per cent, higher than four or
fivejyears ago. The Neics, however, is looking for
“ wagon loads of Texas flour,” soon, from the
sheat-growing region. The Harrison Flag says
the crop in that section has never been better than
the present season.
Iu Central Texas, aiso, the wheat harvest will be
very abundant. To the surprise oi all, the black
prairie lands have produced much ifce best. Corn
and cotton are also promising.
The Galveston Nefcs, as well as other papers, an
ticipates a large sugar crop in most parts of Texas.
The cane is very forward, and it will not now be
long before the cutting commences.
In Austin, corn is selling at two dollars and fifty
per bushel, and scarce at that. |ln the eastern coun
ties. singular enough, corn is selling for fifty cents
per bushel, and then has to hunt a market.
One of Bill Hart’s gang of outlaws, named Fish,
was recentlv arrested at New Braunfels. He con
fessed that he was a party to the murder of Dr.
Thompson and Amasa Clark, near San Antonio, a
few days since. The //raid reports the arrest at
Corpus Christi, also, of three Mexicans concerned
m the murder of a Mexican woman on the San
Afltonio river.
In view of recent events in that city, General
Twiggs, there commanding, has ordered a com
of artillery' to he stationed permanently
a S»n Antonio for the purpose of protecting pub
f,c property and acting as escort to surroundiog
posts.
The grading on the Harrisburg railroad has been
completed to fifty mile station, eighteen miles be
yond Richmond. The necessary steps have been
taken for receiving the State 'loan on the first
twenty-five miles under the law.
Important Decision in Regard to “Maiubi.ie
Mattkk.”—The Springfield (III.) Journal, givew
publicity to an important decision that was ren
dered on Monday last, in the U. S. District Court,
for the southern" District of Illinois, in relation to
the liability of postmasters and other *‘mplovees of
the Post Office Department, under the United” States
laws, and determining to some extent what may
be properly transmitted by mail.
In the case of the United States vs. Burton, the
defendant, who was a postmaster at Ewington, 111.,
had been indicted for stealing two watches that
came to hi 9 office, which had been mailed at Free
port. According to the evidence at the prisoner's
first examination, the watches had been put into,
a paper box, about four inches square, containing
no other letter or writing, and when they had ar
rived at Ewington, Burton took them but of the
box, and appropriated them to his own use.
Burton was indicted under the twenty-first sec
tion of the Act of Congress of March 3d, 1855. Hite
counsel moved to exclude the testimony of the wit
ness who mailed the watches, on the ground that
the watches were not “ mailable” matter under
the provisions of the Act of Congress of March
3d. 1545.
Judge Treat decided that under this act, in con
nection with that of 1525, the watches, having been
1 put up m a separate package, were not “ mailable
matter” within the meaning of the law ; and that
1 the defendant was not liable to a prosecution undec
; the U. S. laws for abstracting them from the Uni
ted States’ mails—being only amenable to the law*
; of the State for the larceny.
; The prosecuting attorney having stated that thift
was the only point at issue, the Court instructed
■ the jury to find a verdict of not guilty.
Rbmaukabls English Developments.—The de
mand for cotton and the prospective, if not present,
inadequate supply of it, are, as our readers know*
attracting a vast deal of attention in England. It
. « apparently very obvious to every intelligent
, Englishman, first, that it is not certain that the de
mand can be furnished without increased culture
within countries wherein its growth is uncertain *
i aad secondly, they know that it cannot be furnish
ed within the United States, to the full demand,
j without additional labor.
. These conclusions are evidently beginning topro
. duce a moral reaction and moral comnromise
among the far-sighted men of England, tropical
products, they are beginning to argue, (not exactly
syllogistically, but inferentially,)j are essential to
British welfare. They caDnot be produced in abun*
. dance, except by coerced labor; therefore, we must
wink at the slave system in some form.
This is not exactly the form of the argument, but
, the reflections which now begin to have a hearing
l ™ England, lead inevitably to this stout conclusion.
Only one event is necessary to put it in form, and
1 that is the inefficiency of the efforts now being
1 to stimulate the growth of cotton without
> the United States.
\ the opinion of England is evident
[ undergoing a marked change on the subject of
slavery; and it will surprise no one to see it inau
• gurated in some form by the people of that coun~
try within a few years. Their necessities demand
it. The staple products of the civilized world are
1 too closely interknit with slavery to allow a great
• manufacturing people to withstand the temptations
which it offers. —Mobile Tribune, 18 th inst.
; There is a promise crops throughout
1 the State of Arkansas,