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SATURD A AUGUST 1.
State of the Weather.
Wednesday, July 29—7, A. M.
At Savannah, clear and vrarm,
“ Macon, “ “
“ Columbus, “ “
“ Montgomery, “ “
" Lower Peach Tree, clear and warm.
“ Mobile, cloudy.
“ Gainesville, “
“ New Orleans, clear.
“ Augusta, clear and hot.
Thursday, July 30 —7 A. M.
At Savannah, warm and cloudy.
“ Macon, clear and hot.
■' Columbus, clear and warm.
“ Montgomery, cloudy.
«< Lower Peach Tree, clear.
“ Mobile, clear and hot.
'• Gainesville, clear.
“ New Orleans, “
“ Augusta, clear and hot.
Friday, July 31—7 A. M.
At Savannah, warm and cloudy.
•< Macon, clear and warm.
“ Columbus, cloudy.
“ Montgomery, “ and warm.
“ Lower Peach Tree, clear.
Mobile, “ and hot.
“ Gainesville, “ “ pleasant.
“ New Orleans, “
“ Augusta, cloudy and warm.
Watermelons.
We believe it is generally conceded that the
finest watermelons raised in the United States are
Cultivated in the neighborhood of Augusla. In
seasons favorable to tlic growth of the melon, they
attain here a very large size and are of exquisite
flavor.
The present summer lias not been favorable for
raising melons, neither as to quantity or quality.
Although the crop is very delieient, yet there is
a fair demand fur melons in the upper portion of
the .State, as well as in the severul villages on the
line of the Georgia railroad. Over seven thousand
laelous, the past week, were forwarded to Atlanta;
and fully as many, wo presume, to other towns and
Cities in thu interior.
Statistics of Itichinond County.
We are indebted to Mr. John Bom. kb, the Re
ceiver of Tux Returns, for the following state
ment :
Polls 2,275
Prolcssions 89
Free persi ins of color 1 24
Children between 8 and 16 years 1,891
Road Hands 1,‘276
Acres lirst quality Land 1,085
“ 2d “ “ 18,818
“ 3d « “ 75,658}$
“ I’iue “ 802,820
Humber of Slaves *7,445
Value of Land f 1,541,068
“ “ City or town lots and houses.. 4,070,100
“ “ Slaves 8,828,205
Money nnd Solvent debts of all kinds.. 6,064,824
Merchandise 1,489,550
Invested in shipping nr tonnage 9,000
“ “ manufactories, Ac 536,620
Furniture over |3OO 280,050
Property not otherwise enumerated.... 876,442
Aggregate value of whole property 18,^73,969
“ “ 11 “ “ after
deducting S2OO 17,907,217
Amount of Tux on Polls, Professors,
Free Persons, Ac 1,623 75
Meriwether County.
W e urc indebted to the politeness of Mr. John
T. Owens, Receiver of Tax Returns for Meriweth
er county, for tlio following statement of the num
ber of polls, professions, Ac., Ac., iu that county,
in 1857:
“ There are 1,265 polls, 84 professions, 1 dentist,
8 free persons of color•
2,251 acres Ist quality land,
*40,987 “ 2d “
64,217 “ Sd “ “
65,014 “ l’ine “
Aggregate vatuc of land $2,582,218 f>o
Ag value of city or town property .. 85,005 00
8,885 slaves, valued at 5,016,782 00
Ain’t, of monoy and solvent debts... 1,280,079 00
Merchandise 98,747 00
Ilousoh’d A kit’ll furniture over S3OO 18,887 00
Ag. value of all other property 572,929 00
Ag. value of whole property $9,889,177 00
Joun T. Owens, K. T. R.
Meriwether county.
Large Sale of CoHee.
The Charleston Couritr of Wednesday states that
the cargo of Rio Coffee, four thousand sacks, sold
in that city, on Tuesday last, attracted a large at
tendance of merchants, and the biddiug was ac
tive. Trices ruled from 11 to 12 cents, but the
hulk went off within the rauge of 11)* and 11%
Bents.
CfT A lively correspondent, writing from Now
York, about the temperature of the weather and
the business of tho city, says: “We are having a
little warm weather here just now, and the ther
mometer alternates between Cherry Cobblers and
Brandy Smashes, which shows sovcral degrees
above Lemonades, business of all kinds is as dull
as a brick, but the prospects for an active fall
trade are os promising and lively as a young colt.”
rsr Mr. John J. Walt Kit, a worthy and estima
ble citizen and and merchant of Columbia, S. C.,
died iu that placo on Tuesday afternoon last.
B3T Mr. Henry MuccKNruss, a worthy and
aged citizen of Charleston, died in that city, on
the 26th instant.
The projected railroad from Puerto Cabello I
to Sau Felipe, in Venezuela, in South America, is
about being abandoned, in consequence of the
sickness which prevails among all European, ag
Well as North American operatives, engaged on the
work. Almost as great fatality prevailed among
the workmen employed in building the Panama
railroad, although by persevering efforts the work
was completed.
The New York Journal of Commerce of the 27th
ijuly, says:
“ We have conferred with a gentleman recently
arrived from Puerto Cabello, who gives a very
gloomy account of the progress of the survey of
the Honduras mteroceanic railway. The climate,
he says, is extremely sickly, and there are frequent
cases of small-pox and cholera. The principal As
sistant Engineer, Mr. Baldwin, and some six assis
tants, had left the work, and the probability now
is, that the obstacles to its successful comple
tion are so great that it will be abaudoned. The
cost of tho work is estimated at from twenty to
twenty.five millions of dollars.”
Good Pates.—Wm. Okr, of Brackden county,
Ky., has sold his entire last year's crop of natire
wine to a gentleman in New York for two dollars
and fifty cents per gallon, which is said to be the
highest price erer obtained for native wine in this
country.
Tub Trouble nr Minnesota.— ln Minnesota the
Republican majority of the constitutional Conven
tion still continues in permanent session, day and
night, to keop possession of the Legislative' Hall.
It has gone regularly to work, appointed officers,
committees and cut out tho plan of procedure,
while the Democratic minority meet daily'but do
nothing.
Syrian Wheat. —A gentleman from Alabama
received from the Patent Office some spring wheat
from the Holy Land, which he sowed last spring.
It came to maturity ia seven weeks, producing a
large, full head, with a berry in every respect
equal to the original. This wheat is reputed to
ripen in Syria in sixty days from sowing. It will
thus be seen that our climate hastened its period
of maturity eleven dars.
The Opening ot the Canvass.
: The Gubernatorial canvass was opened at New
nan on Tuesday last, by a discussion of the issues
involved, between the Hon. Joseph E. Brown, the
Democratic nominee for the office of Governor,
and B. H. Hill, Esq., his opponent. They spoke
again at Carrolton, on Wednesday, and at Frank
lin, Heard County, on Thursday.
We have a letter (not designed for publication)
from a gentleman who was present, giving us an
account of the discussion at Ncwnan; and we have
conversed with another gentlemen who was also
present, and both assure us that our nominee bore
himself gallantly in this, his first tilt with his op
ponent, and that the Democrats present were per
fectly satisfied with Judge Brown— the positions
which he occupied and the result of the discussion.
Such, too, is the account which is given by the ed
itor of the Atlanta Intelligencer, to which, in an
other column, we would invite the attention of our
readers.
items from our Kansas Exchanges.
The Lawrence Republican, of the 16th July, fur
nishes the following account of the proceedings
in that town, iu the organization of a municipal
government, which led to the proclamation of
Gov. Walker:
The necessity of a municipal government has at
length become so apparent that our citizens have
completed an organization and elected their offi
cers. The matter was at first discussed in pre
liminary meetings, and a committee appointed to
draw up a charter; the several provisions of the
charter rejiorted by them were discussed in
another meeting, some of them amended; and,
liuallv, the whole was submitted to a vote of the
people for adoption or rejection last Saturday; it
was adopted by the decisive vote of one hundred
and twenty-eight to twenty-nine. The vote would,
probably, have been larger, had it not been for the
intense excitement in regard to the election of
delegates to the State Convention at Topeka. Ac
cording to the provisions of the charter, an elec
tion tor officers was held last Monday. In the
morning n meeting of the citizens was held in
front ot the Morrow House, to nominate candi
dates. The following is an official report of the
proceedings:
A meeting having been called in front of the
Morrow House to nominate candidates for the va
rious municipal offices of the City of Lawrence, on
motion, Col. S. W. Eldridge was called to the
Chair, and C. W. Babcock was appointed Secreta
ry. On motion, the chairmun appointed A. D.
Searl, C. Stearns, S. Tappan, Rev. E. W. Hutch
inson, and Edmoud Clark, a committee to report
candidates for the several offices. During the ab
sence of the committee, John Hutchinson, Esq.,
being culled upon, came forward and made a pow
erful argument in favor of the people, one and all,
going into the election. The committee then re
ported the following names:
For Mayor- -James Blood.
F>r AUJermm —Win. Hutchinson, Wm. A. Phil
lips, George Ford, P. K. Brooks, B. W. Woodward,
Gains Jenkins, George W. Hutchison.
For Afnrslial-S. W. Eldridge.
For A/i.wsors —A. D. Searl, It. Morrow, J. Wil
der.
For ehntice —Edward Clark.
For Treasurer —Columbus Hornsby.
It haring been suggested that Col. Blood would
not accept the nomination, on motion, he was
unanimously nominated, and a committee of three,
N. Wood chairman, was appointed to notify
him of his nomination. The committee reported
that Mr. Blood did not wish the nomination, as he
had promised his support to another man, but that
ho would probably serve if elected. The meeting
re affirmed his nomination unanimously. On mo
tion of O. W. Babcock, the whole ticket reported
bv the committee was unanimously adopted. Mr.
Morrow and Mr. Wilder declining to accept,
Mr. T. Sampson and Mr. John Mack were nomina
ted in their places. On motion the whole meeting
was constituted a committee to rally the votes to
the polls this afternoon. On motion, the meeting
adjourned to meet at the polls.
Col. S. W. Eldridge, Chm’n.
C. W, Babcock, Sec’y.
At the election held on Monday afternoon, the
whole of the above ticket, as nominated, was elec
ted, except A. 1). Searl and John Mack, in whose
steud, J. Boyer, and T. L. WhiUiey were elected.
The vote upon most of the candidates w'ns well
nigh unanimous.
These gentlemen arc all among our most promi
nent, popular and reliable citizens, and are well
qualified for the various offices. Tnoy will no
doubt, in the discharge of ihetr otlicial 'duties, re
ceive the bmmtenance and cheerful support of all
good citizens.
The same paper contains the proceedings of u
meeting held at Lawrence, ou the 10th inst., to
appoint delegates to the free State Convention at
Topeka, held to norhinate candidates for Territo
rial delegate to Congress, and for other offices.
Robinson, Governor of the State of Kansas, under
the Topeka Constitution, M. J. Pauuot, the nomi
nee of the Convention for Congress, Miles Moorb,
and Wm. A. Phillips, Esq., w r crc the speakers.
We extract the following report of the remarks ol
the last speaker, from which it will be seen that
he is “of the New York Tribune ,” and was one of
the persons appointed by Gov. Robi.vson to take
the recent Black Republican census of the people
of Kansas:
Wm. A. Phillips, Esq.,of the New York Tribune,
next took tlie stand and made a thrilling and ef
fective speech. He alluded to the importance of
the position of the free State men, and to the mag
nitude of the interests entrusted to their hands,
lie spoke of the efforts of Gov. Walker to divide
and distract the free State men ; of his efforts to
destroy the Topeka Constitution. He was suspi
cious of the endeavors of ostensible free State men
to induce the people to übandon the State organi
zation. A fact had come to his knowledge while
taking the census, which might serve to snow how
things were being managed, and whence this op
position to the Topeka Constitution was being fed.
It was a fact of importance, and the people should
kuow it. lie had learned, from the gentleman to
whom the proposition was made, that a certain
editor of a paper in this place (Lawrence! had pro
posed to another editor to abandon the State organ
ization, and go in with his paper aud support Gov.
Walker, saying that there was to be a Walker
party in the Territory, and that party was bound
tosucceed. (Great sensation and cries of “who is the
man?” “Name him,” “ Name him.”) Mr. Phillips
replied, “the man who made the proposition isG. W.
Brown, of the Herald of Freedom ; the man to whom
it was made is S. S. Pronty, of the Freemen's Cham
pion.” (Renewed sensation and almost universal
hissing throughout the assembly.) Mr. Phillips
proceeded some time in a masterly strain, showing
the utter folly and ruin of an abandonment of our
position. He was frequently interrupted by the
enthusiastic applause of his hearers.
The Doniphan (Kansas) Oonstitutieoialist , whose
editor has been elected a delegate to the Constitu
tional Convention to be held in that Territory in
September, in speaking of Gov. Walker's plan for
the submission ol the action of that Convention to
a vote of all the people, says:
“Gov. Walker had no authority to make any
such assertion—he has net a thing to do with the
Convention—he has no say-so in the matter. If
he wishes to make a total’failure in his mission to
Kansas, let him pander to the foolish whims of the
Abolitionists.
“As one of the delegates, we state that the Con
stitution will not be submitted to every man who
may accidentally or intentionally be in Kansas on
the’ day of its adoption, Gov. Walker to the con
trary, notwithstanding. But we do not believe
that he ever made the statement attributed to him.
If lie did, he said that a thing should be done,
over which he had no control, and if he should at
tempt to interfere or induce the convention to
throw the Constitution before every straggler that
may be here,|he would be attempting to play the
tyrant, and be giving aid and comfort to the avow
ed enemies of the country, and the defiers of the
law.”
The Freemen's Champion, published in southern
Kansas, thus closes a review of the state of parties
in Kansas:
“ The Democratic party, after insulting us, after do
ing their utmost to crush us, failing in their object,
are now anxious to obtain the honor of making
Kansas a free State. They have sent out a cuu
mng fox, laden with gold, to purchase our princi
ples. and to decoy us into the ranks of our ene
mies. To distract the free State organization and
build up a party under their supervision, is’now
iheir aim. To hire acknowledged free Slate jour
nals to abuse and villify the character of those no
ble men, who, by their severe struggles through
many hard-fought battles, secured freedom for
Kansas, and to cal! them horse thieves, * moon
struck politicians,’ Ac., U a part of their pro
gramme.”
The Third Resolution,
r- In the ConstitutiorioUst of the 23d inst., we see
s it announced that we are opposed to the third re
solution of the Georgia Convention. We do not
e know how our contemporary made that discovery,
'» for we do not recollect ever having published that
e fact.
The above are the two opening sentences of an
article in the Federal Union of the 2Sth inst. We
) had been compelled reluctantly to conclude from
i its editorials that the Federal Union was opposed
5 to the third resolution of the recent Democratic
► State Convention, and said so, in our issue of the
1 22 d inst. Our contemporary, it would seem, objects
to the position we have assigned it, and we there
fore permit it to speak for itself by re-publishing
the remainder of the article of which the above is
an extract, as follows:
We have published several facts which, perhaps,
he may think go to show that the resolution was
unnecnapary, but we have never made an issue with
thosevoted for it, or those whe voted against
it. There were manv things connected with that
resolution very peculiar in themselves, and which,
when known, will at the same time account for its
passage, and exonerate those who voted lor it, and
those who voted against it, from all blame. When
the Convention met, neither Gov. Walker’s In
• augural, nor his Topeka speech had been publish
ed, so far as we know, in any Georgia paj)t*r Not
one member in twenty, and perhaps not one in for
ty, of the Convention’had ever read either. Vague
! reports were in circulation that Gov. Walker had
joined the Freesoilers, and was using his influence
■ to make Kansas a free State. Several of the mem*
1 bers of the Committee on resolutions bad never
: read the speech, and of course were not prepared
i to act on it; they asked time to inform themselves,
» but it was not tfcpught necessary, and was not
i granted. The resolution was introduced before a
1 nomination was made; and the friends of the dif
ferent candidates were afraid of opposing the rcs
i olution, for fear of injuring their favorite candidate;
[ under these circumstances the resolution passed.
We know that manv who voted for it, regretted it
■ before they left Milledgeville, for they told us so
themselves. Upon the merits of the resolution,
• men may very innocently did'er in opinion. No
one, perhaps, approves of ail that Gov. Walker
• has said and done. We have good reason for be*
: lieving that the Administration does not. But if
he was recalled, and twenty others sent in suc
i cession, we should not expect to find one whom
■ all would approve. Our friends in Kansas ap
i pear to be satisfied with Walker, and that, it seems,
should go far to satisfy fts. At any rate, we see
■ no reason why we should quafrel among ourselves,
aud quarrel with the Administration oi our choice,
• a majority of whom are southern inen, merely
upon the propriety or impropriety of the third res
• olution. We have the most profound respect for
the Convention. We like the candidates uoniina-'
ted, and shall give them our hearty support. If
, any of our contanporarics differ with us about the
■ third resolution , wo ahull not quarrel with them
about that difference; we are willing they should
enjoy their opinion, and we claim the same privi*
leg e/or ourselves.
We .-übmit now that it has “published the fact,”
that it is opposed to the third resolution of the
Democratic State Convention, and we may add,
we regret that it has.
The Right Policy.
In the discussion at Newnan, on Tuesday last,
between Judge Drown aud B. 11. Hill, Esq., the
Kansas question seems to have occupied a large
portion of the time ulotted to each speaker. It is
the question of the canvass—one which cannot,
ought not, to be shirked by the Democratic party;
and we arc glad to know that its nominee for Gu
bernatorial honors has not shirked it, but has given
us a plain and explicit declaration of his position
upon it. The following paragraph is from the re
port of his remarks at Newnan, published by us on
yesterday:
u Du the subject of Walker’s policy in Kansas,
Judge Brown took bold and unequivocal ground.
He condemned, in unmeasured terms, his officious
intervention—his impertinent threats and fulse ar
gument in favor of Kansas becoming a free State.
He approved of the third resolution of the Demo
cratic Convention, and said that he had confidence
in the President, and was willing to wait until he
had still time to investigate, officially, Walker's
course—and when he did, and it became evident
to every body that Buchanan participated in, and
approved of the obnoxious policy of Walker, he
should no longer sustain him.” . . . .
This U tbo right position. It is the position oIT
the Democratic estate Convention, and of an over
whelming majority of the Democratic party of this
State. The Convention denounced Walker, and
expressed its confidence that Mr. Buchanan would
recall him—the Democratic nominee denounces
Walker— approves of the action of the Conven
tion, but does not think it necessary, in order fully
to sustain that action, that he should denounce the
Administration. We repeat, that this is the right
position. Lot us rally upon it, and reserving
our censure of the Administration until its com
plicity with Walker is ascertained, turn our bat
teries upon the American party, end preserve
the ascendency of Democratic principles in this
State, by electing a Democratic Governor and a
Democratic Legislature. This is the first duty of
every true Democrat in the State.
The conclusion of the American [.arty that wc
must incontinently denounce the Administration
and sever our connection with the National De
mocracy, in order to sustain the action of our
State Convention, is simply designed to distract
and divide the Democratic party, and give to its
opponents a short lease of power in the State. He
is exceedingly simple who does not understand this
policy of the enemy and appreciate, at its proper
value, the new born zeal of the American party for
southern rights, and its loud-mouthed indigna*
tion against any affiliation with an unsouud na
tional organization. That party judged impar
tially by its record, has no right to assail
Walshr— no remedy to propose for the wrong
which he has done. It has attempted nothing in
behalf of the South in Kansas, and yet arrogates
for itself, its policy and its principles, the protec
tion of southern rights in that Territory. It has
denounced the Kansas-Nebraska act, and yet de
nounces Walker for a violation of the principles
of that act. It condemns him, yet condemns the
principles he has violated, and pursues a policy,
the effect of which is indirectly to sustain him.
Our tear is with this party and icith Walker.
When that has been crowned with victory, and
the ascendency of Democratic principles in this
State has been secured, we shall have more leisure
and more light, deliberately to consider and wisely
to determine, our relations to the Administration,
and to the National Democracv.
Gen*. Concha’s Wealth. —Gen. Concha, it is
stated, remitted last year a surplus from the reve
nues of Cuba of four millions of dollars, and the
present one promises to yield a still larger return.
It is also stated that he sent home a million of dol
lars on his own private account, realized iu success
ful stock speculations.
A National Disunion Convention.— A call has
been issued by Garrison and his party for a “na
tional disunion Convention.” Os course, the body
will be composed of those frothy elements which
are perceptible in the anti-slavery convocations of
Massachusetts.
Galusha A. Grow, member of Congress from
Pennsylvania, has just returned home from a buf
*falo hunt beyond the Dig Sioux river, in Dacotah
territory.
The Congressional Library at the Capitol now
comprises no less than sixty-five thousand volumes,
many of them rare and valuable.
Oliver well known law booksel
ler, died on the 21st instant, at Morristown New
Jersey.
The wife of Hon. W. P. Fessenden, one of the
Maine Senators in Congress, died on Thursdav.
L. M. Gotschalk, the renowned pianist, is in
Carraccas, South America, giving concerts with
unbounded suecess.
Judge Brown’s Appointments.
The Savannah Georgian announces that Judge
Brown, the Democratic candidate for Governor,
will address the people at the times and places
designated below:
Savannah, Monday loth August.
Hinesville, Liberty co., Tuesday.. 11th “
Springfield, Effingham co 13th “
Station No. C. R. R 14th «
Statesboro’, Bulloch co 15th “
&T President Buchanan left Washington City
for Bedford Springs, Pennsylvania, on Wednes
day last. He expected to be absent about ten
days.
Gov. Andrew Johnson will speak on Mon
day, the 3rd inst., at Chattanooga, upon the politi
cal questions of the day. The election in Tennes
see takes place on Thursday, the 6th inst.
Judge Mason has positively resigned his
office of Commissioner of Patents.
XFFT Mr. A. B. Brown, the Receiver of Tax Re
turns in Coweta county, furnishes the Rome Ban
ner and Sentinel with the following statement:
Polls 1,321
Men, over sixty years of age 80
Defaulters 81
Total 1,48£
Children, between the age of 8 and 16, 1,318
Slaves 6,458
worth $8,474,797; increase over last year $320,443.
There were only seven deaths reported in
Savannah during the week ending July 28th—five
children and two adults.
The Republican, referring to the health of the
city, says : “ When we say that Savannah was
never healthier than at present, and that in this
respect she may challenge comparison with any
dty of equal size in the Union, we have only to
refer to the reports of our Board of Health during
the present season, for the proofs. The mortality
has been very light from the beginning of summer
until now, and it will be seen, from the report in
our columns this morning, that the interments for
the week ending with yesterday amounted to but
*even. Os this number, two were white® and five
bh c : and colored. There were but two adults,
(both black, who died of scrofula and convulsions,;
, the remainder being children under thirteen years
j of age.”
Indigo and the Revolt. —It seems possible that
the revolt in India may have some temporary ef
fect oh our indigo supplies. A private letter from
Agra, of the 22d of May, after slating that tho
forts were being armed and provisioned, and
that there was a prospect of the British residents
being shut up and beseiged, if the outbreak should
become general, adds: “The indigo factories in
this dictrict, and, indeed, throughout the Doab,
arc at a stand still. Contracts and business of
every kiud are suspended, and Europeans arc
flocking in from all quarters for refuge.”
A Locomotive Convention.— A Convention of
American locomotive builders was held on the
15th inst., in the city of New York, in which were
represented twelve of the largest works in the
Laitcd States. The result of a discussion of com
mon interest was the adoption of a resolution to
discountenance the making of contracts for loco
motive engines hereafter, for railroad securities or
for longer paper than is usually taken by merchants
for the sale of merchandise.
New Cotton. —We received yesterday, says the
Greensburg (St. Helena Parish) Imperial , of the
25th ult., from Mr. J. L. . Saunders, of this Parish,
aboil of cotton of this year’s growth, plucked from
his field during the week. This boll is fully de
veloped and opened, and were his whole field in
tho same state of forwardness, he would be able to
commence picking in about ten or fourteen days.
Wc think St. Helena is ahead.
MPfc Ukleins.- The export and
nents from New Orleans I ®* jmMiucts
during the last quarter were twenty-three million
five hundred and eighty-seven thousand thirty-six
dollars, and for the year niuety-one million five
hundred and fourteen thousand two hundred and
eighty-six dollars. The total value of all exports,
domestic and foreign was one hundred and eleven
million two hundred and twenty-two thousand six ,
hundred and fifteen dollars, being an increase of
nine millions over last year.
Candidates fob tbb Legislators. —ffe arc in
debted to a friend, says the Savannah Georgian,
for the following nominations for the Legislature
in the counties of Appling and Charlton:
Appling County. —John Bblnett, Senate ; Mid
dleton Graham, House.
Charlton County. —T. W. W. Maddox, Senate;
Owen K. Mezell, House.
Mr. Preston's Mission. —The Hon. William B.
Preston, of Virginia, sailed for Europe on Satur
day, the Ist inst., on his mission to secure the
establishment of a line of steamers from England
to the waters of the Chesapeake. It is stated that
all the railroad companies in Virginia, and some
in Kentucky and Tennessee, have joined the move
ment, and that the patties now pledged to the en
terprise represent a capital of #50,000,000.
The Cotton Crop of 57- 38.—The Mobile Reg
ister says: “We sincerely believe, from a careful
examination of the reports from all the cotton
growing sections, that the present growing crop
will not exceed 3,000,000 or 3,100,000 bales.’’
Homicide in Lee Cotnty. —We learn from the
Cuthbert Reporter, that a Mr. Johns, of Lee coun
ty, was shot and instantly killed by Dr. Heard, of
the same county, on the 16th ult. The difficulty
occurred in consequence of Johns attempting to
use water from Heard’s well after he had forbidden
him to do so. It is said that Johxs was advancing
on Heard with a stick when he was shot by him.
Hoe s “Last Fast.’’ — Hoe’s new patent ten inch
cylinder press is made up of fourteen thousand
seven hundred and thirty pieces, and twenty thou
sand yards of tape and blanket arc used. The
presses weigh twenty tons three quarters and four
teen pounds, and cost thirty thousand dollars.
At the late commencement of the University of
North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, the honorary de
gree of L.L. D., was conferred upon Hon. A. V.
Brou n, Postmaster General, who is a graduate of
the institution.
Extraordinarx Prices for Tobacco.— J. A.
Hamxer sold lately at Friend's Warehouse, a lot
of tobacco raised by Wa. B. Bowe, of North Car
olina, for the unprecedented price of three hundred
and ten dollars per hundred. The lot contains
one hundred and twenty pounds, and was purchas
ed by Wm. Crouton-. Mr. H. also sold for the
same gentleman one lot for one hundred and fifty
dollars per hundred weight, which was purchased
by T. Love & Sons. These, we believe, are the
highest prices ever paid for tobacco in the Lynch
burg market, and we presume, the highest ever
paid in the State, even in the United States.
The Galveston Civilian, in noticing the arrival
of Dr. Koyal in that city, after wandering some
three or four thousand miles during the last six
months, in the country West of the Brazos, says:
“We regret to find that his impressions of the
crops are mainly unfavorable, though some sections
have been much more fortunate than others. He
mentioas an instance of sixty bushels of corn to
the acre grown on one plantation on the Brazos—
bnt this is an exceptionable case. The Chinese
sugar cane has every where proven its superior
|abUi ty to corn in withstanding drought.”
Crops in Louisiana.
The Homer ( Claiborne Parish) Advocate, of the
I4th inst., says ;
“ from some of oar most reliable plant
ers that the prospects for a good vield of cotton
are becoming daily less flattering. This, we pre
sume, is owing to the unprecedentedly cool weather
for a number of days last week, the nights, espe
cially, proving unusually cool for the season.
“ The corn, we are glad to say. as a general
thing, promises an ample yield, although some
particular neighborhoods, South of Homer, have
suffered for want of rain.”
The Clinton ( East Feliciana) Democrat , of the
25th ( Saturday) reports steady rains the last few
days, and says that if they continue they will do
some injury to the growing crops.
The Greensburg (St. Helena) Imperial, of the
2oth July, says:
“We have had a shower nearly everv day during
the past week, and yesterday and the 'dav before
quite heavy rains, which have tended greatly to
cool the atmosphere; but we fear there has been
entirely too much ram for the good of the planters
many of whom are already ‘ over head and ears in
grass.’ There will be a third more corn raised in
this parish than ever before.”
The office of the Casaville Standard , has
been purchased by John H. Rice, who succeeds
Milton A. Candler, as editor and proprietor of
that paper. With the change of editors, the posi
tion of the paper upon the resolutions of the Con
vention of the Democratic party has been changed.
The new editor in an article upon the subject says:
“We have quoted these resolutions for the pur
pose of showing that in that large convent;on,
composed of one hundred and seven counties re
presented, there was not one single delegate who
did not unite in declaring the course pursued bv
Governor Walker in Kansas as being in the high
est degree reprehensible. That far we most cor
dially indorse the action of the convention, but we
have not been able so far. to get our consent to
make the failure of the President to recall Gov
Walker a casus Ulli.
“If it shall turn out that Governor Walker has
no other justification for his course in Kansas than
what we are advised of, and the same shall be fullv
endorsed by the President and Cabinet, we shati
theu lose no time in denouncing them for their
treachery. But for the present, let us wait patient
ly, hoping to be spared the necessity of a denun
ciation of the President, that if made now vre
might hereafter regret.”
“ Pro-Slavery” Paper in England.— The Day
B'jol: publishes the prospectus of an English news
paper, to be called the Manchester Cotton Press ,
the fir.it number of which will make its appearance
in November next. It is intended to represent the
cotton interest, of which Great Britain is the cen
tre, and is. established by gentlemen connected
with the various branches of the cotton trade. It
will also discuss the negro question and “ the na
ture of the negro, and investigate the laws of his
wise and humane government, without relation to
the abstract theories of Mr. Wilbrrforck, and of
Exeter Hall on the one hand, or to the extreme and
brutal ideas of the Cuban planters on the other.”
Kentucky. —The American nominations for Con
gress in Kentucky are as follows:
Districts.
I—Owen Grimes. ft—John A. Moore.
‘2—James L. Johnson. 7—Humphey Marshall.
s—Warner5 —Warner L. Underwood. B—Roger W. Hanson.
4-Wni. C. Anderson. _ .)—Leander M. Cox.
How Marct Composed ms State Paper*. —The
editor of the New York E*< ning Post, speaking as
if from personal knowledge, says;
“ Mr. Marcy, in Washington, commonlv com
posed his important dispatches not in his office, but
in his library at home. When thus engaged, he
would at once, after breakfast, begin his work, and
write till nearly noon, when he would go to the
Department, receive calls and attend to the regu
lar routine duties of his position. During the
hours of composition, he was so completely en
grossed wiih his subject that persons might enter
and go out, or talk in the same room, without in
the least obtaining his notice. He wore spectacles
—usually sat in his dressing gown, with an old red
handkerchief on the table before him, and one
could judge of the relative activity of his mind by
the frequency of hm application to the scoff-box.
& cWdmt.uT^/?hrf’rr ,^fc“
injuriously a fleeted his voice.
“ He wrote deliberately, with few erasures or
changes, and his thoughts generally in the first
draft assumed the form of expression in which he
was willing to publish them. He almost always
used a pencil, and left the second draft to be
penned dv a e’e k. This, however, he rarely aiter
•d. Ills handwriting was legible and handsome,
-without being clerklv.
Shall Beginning or Greatness.— The little old
house in rue Victorie, Paris, occupied by Bona
farte, when still but General of the army of Italy,
has just been torn down. A writer thus describes
its internal economy:
On the ground floor, tut projecting somewhat
from the house proper, was a little tent shaped
dining room, built under the direction of Jose
phine, who herself planned it. From the dining
room you entered a plain saloon which conducted 1
to another more ornate, in the rear of the building,
that served as a sort of council chamber. The
ground color of this last was green, the frieze or
namented with allegorical figures in tho style of
David, designed, indeed, by that great artist. In
these two saloons the illustrious Generals of the
army of Italy, afterwards to become Princes, Mar
shals, Kings and ingrates, were accustomed to
meet, either in formal council or for private con
versation.
On the first story, you entered first a plain sa
loon, which separated the chamber of Napohon
from that of Josephine. The latter was adorned
with much taste and elegance aDd contrasted
strongly with the former, which exhibited a Spar
tan simplicity, the bare walls being relieved only
by figures of Etruscan vases, and an eagle with a
thunderbolt. The chamber, like that of Josephine,
was in the form of a semi-circle. It was here that
Bonaparte decided upon the coup d'etat of the 18th
of Bntmaire.
In the second story were several smaller rooms,
in one of which Napoleon had a little studv. It
was to this he was accustomed to retreat when he
would pursue his thoughts or labors alone and un
disturbed.
Tiie Poisoning Case in Cincinnati.— The man
ner in which the twenty German children in Cin
cinnati were poisoned is thus explained bv the
Gazette, of that city:
A drunken, half vagabond German, who has re
ceived the sobriquet of “Rat Peter,” from his mak
ing rat poison, and who is in the habit of selling
this poison in the shape of small cakes or wafers
to stable keepers, bucthers and others, was in a
coffee house near Buckeye street day before yester
day afternoon, where he became so much intoxica
ted that he was ejected from the premises. He had
with him, as usual, a small box containing these
wafers, and as he went staggering along he drop
ped a number of them upon the pavement, which
the children thereabouts picked up and ate and
gave to others. This correct version of the pois
oning affair relieves it of all its mvstery and hor
ror, and, to a great extent, mars what might have
been called a thrilling item.
It appears that only one child died, and that the
rest are recovering. Previous to the discovery of
the way in which they were poisoned, two bovs
were arrested on suspicion, and came near beiD°-
hung by a mob of excited persons. It was with
the greatest difficulty that the police saved them
from.the violence of the misguided populace.
Uniform Time.—, The Common Council sometime
ago appropriated three thousand dollars for the
manufacture and putting up of thirty clocks in the
Utv Hall, Hall of Records, new City Hall Courts
and the Rotunda, to be regulated by electricity
for the purpose of giving a uniform time. The
Messrs. Chestar, who contracted for the job, will
begin to-day to place eleven of the clocks in the
City Hall. The regnlatmg clock will be put up in
the Mayor s outer office, and the telegraph clock
in his private office. The localities selected for
the others are the rooms of the Board of Aldermen
Board Councilmen, Clerk of Common Council'
Uerk of Board of Councilmen, Clerk of Common
Pleas, Sheriff, County Clerk, Keeper, and City Li
branan. The clocks are eighteen inches wide on
the backs, and fifteen inches on the dials. All of
the thirty clocks will be connected by insulated
wires communicating throngh the telegraph clock
with a galvanic battery in the basement of the
Hall. Tree tune will be given Messrs.
Sperry, clock dealers.
A". Y. Jar*. Com. July 27.
[communicated, j
The Georgia Democracy fs. The Admm
ist ration.
Mr. Editor : The issue made by the Georgia De
mocracy with the Administration, touching Wait
er's Kansas policy, must be met fearless of cowe
quences. In making and meeting the issue, how
ever, it is indispensable tha: we exercise prudence
as well as boldness and firmness.
It cannot be disputed by any supporter of Mr.
Buchanan, who is both honest and sane, that the
princpiies of the Kansas Bill hare been most wan
tonly and outrageously violated by his Governor
in Kansas. Neither can it he denied, that to bis
support of these principles Mr. Buchanan entirely
owes his election. That we emphatically condemned
Walker and his policy, is already a 1“ fixed fact.”
How this shall effect our relations to Mr. Buchanan
remains to be determined. The recent Democratic
Convention went as far as the then state of facts
would permit, and foreshadowed a future policy,
by haring confidence that the President * wonld
manifest his fidelity to the principles which carried
him into office,” by recalling Walker. The ooia
lon is thereby expressed that nothing less loan a
recall would exonerate the Administration. Con
siderable time has elapsed, and there are not even
symptoms of a recall. The question then arise*,
what policy shall we now adopt? I answer, sus
pend ail opposition to the Administration until w#
hear what the President has to say in his defence.
This delay can work no harm, and may be prodie
tive of much good. We may undertake to show
that \V alker has both exceeded and violated his
instructions. He may admit that he has violated
the principles of the Kansas Bill, and yet he r.\a/y
be able to show from facts not in our knoiptedge
some defence for not recalling him. It mar be that
to recall him at this period would not cure tbe
evils complained of but produce others of cqnol
magnitude. It is also possible that the result in
Kansas may be averse to Walker’s dictation—barp
ly possible, it is true, still it is among the possibili
ties ; and, therefore, if the President and people
of Kansas condemn Walker, the necessity loc aa
issue with the Administration mag not exist.
We cannot come to a final determination legiti
mately until tbe President can be heard, and we
cannot expect to hear his defence until he aenda
to Congress his message in December next, or an
til be asks the Senate to confirm Walker's ap
pointment, or until he shall be called on bv either
house of Congress to furnish Walker’s instruc
tions. If time and his explanations do not fur
nish something in his justification more than wo
now have, he will stand convicted of treachery
not only to the Democracy, but to the whole Soutk.
His appointment o! Walker will mark the time
when a Democratic administration first used the
power of the Federal Government, and bv uewy*
tion, to crush the life out ot' the South. We mav
safely concmde that in the language of Mr. Web
ster, “it is written over the dour of the Capitol, n*
nv re glair States." Whenever any Territory of
the United States is in the least danger of ad - *pfc>
tng a Constitution tolerating slavery, what other
expedients may fail to accomplish, will be left to
a Government Agent, armed with its powers and
its patronage, and he will see that it is admitted a
free State. This will be done, and the Kacsaa-Ke
braska bill still in force upon the statute books,
but without any utility whatever, only as a mon
ument of northern infidelity.
When once settled that the Federal Government
has placed uh under the ban, one violation of oar
rights after the other will be made, until slavery
will have no existence or protection, save in lie
States where it exists, and there dependent entire
ly upon the local law. The Federal Government
will be no shield, but a sword for it, both at homa
and abroad. With the rapidity of admitting new
States, the power against us will coutinue to in
crease. We will be crippled by legislation to
every possible shape, and at a time not verj - for
distant. Our enemies will hare the numbers to
change the Constitution itself, if indeed it ahafl
need any changing, to enable them the better to
carry ont their designs.
In view of such infidelity to the most sacred
pledges, and of the consequences of the exercise of
such power by any administration, when necewto
ry, the southern Democracy must abandon Mr. Dto
chunan and his administration, let that abandte
ment lead to here it may.
In this way wc hold ourselves for independent
action, and will be prepared in 1860, to make any
fight that the emergency may require, untrammel
led by any hateful party associations. If no mor%
we can exercise the privilege of giving the admin
istration the benefit of our righteous resentnaeat.
We can show to the people of tha Sorrttr rhatr
k— im nav-%?rribrgotteß, and still regard
the assurances made them during the Presidential
campaign. We can maintain our self-respect by
uot kissing the hand that has so “ungraciously*
smitten as. Wc can show to the world that dm
political sentiments have their foundation in pa
triotism, and not m federal patronage.
Nevertheless, there is yet a possibility of justifi
cation, and we may be spared the adoption of sosfc
a policy, and the experience of such humiliation.
It is true the prospect seems dim, vet there is a
chance, and as prudent men, it is better to await
that chance. In the meantime, we make no war on
Mr. Buchanan ; we cannot bring ourselves fully to
believe he can be guilty of such treachery. We
stand firm to our principles; we unite upon - all onr
candidates without regard to shades of difference
upon this question, and go through the campaign
successfully. Ax Old Line Democrat.
[communicated.] .
A Picayune Affair*
Mr. Editor: It has been said, “that all the
world s a stage. I think it will soon be a railroad.
Cars have their entrances and their exits.
Yesterday the long and sorely tried friends nf
the Picayune train were called upon to say fare
well to the “low Mack car,” in which they hare
taken many a pleasant jaunt, and around whi-oh
so many pleasing recollections of the past am*
clustering still. Having run her race, I hope
they will let her rest in peace.
In consideration of the high price of piaoy
woods land, the great increase of travel over thto
line, and what its friends have suffered in days tied
are past, the Georgia Railroad Company with a
liberality that reflects credit upon themselves, and
all the rest of mankind, have added a splendid
new car, from the factory of Pendennis, Fidlers k
Co., with celeit cushions and shagreen glasses. She
made her trial trip last evening, and I am pletwed
to say, acquitted herself very handsomely.
Persons wishing to visit the springs during tbe
present summer, will find this a very aecanmod+te
iny line. _ Frank.
Yice President Breckinridge.—The correspond
ent of the New York Observer, “Iremeus,” wh#
has been making a tour in the South and West,
was lately present en a hymeneal occasion at Lex
ington, Ky., where he met with the Vice President,
and thus describes his person, manners and domes
tic relations;
“John C. Breckinridge, Vice President of the
United States, was one of the guests at the wed
ding. The rough portraits of him that stared every
body in the face last fall give but a poor hkenes6
of this extraordinary'man, who, at a youthful pe
riod of life unexampled, has been called to preside
oyer the most august body of men in this country.
His form is tall, erect ana commanding, his coun
tenance grave and thoughtful, his manners smooth
and graceful, and his conversation indicates a so
ber, intelligent and thinking man. With a lovely
and accomplished wife and sweet children, he re
sides in a modeet cottage, but one story high,
shaded deeply with old trees, a little way out of
town. I could not but admire the simplicity of
our republican institutions, when I saw that ’this
great people have come to this embowered cot to
find a man to preside over its Senate, and perhaps
to fill its chair of State.”
The Atlanta Intelligencer of the 23th yist.,
in noticing the exercises at the recent commence
ment of Oglethorpe University, says:
We were particularly pleased with the manner
of Mr. W. W. W. Clay, of Galesburg, Illinois, who
delivered the valedictory to the truestees. There
is a ripeness about his intellectual powers which
made a profouud impression on the auditory pre
sent. This young gentleman, we understand, was
compelled to leavejan Abolition college in Illinois,
on account of the pro-siavery notions which he en
tertained. He determined to obtain his education
at the South, and selected Oglethorpe University
as the place. We hope that he may soon became
useful in his old home in disseminating more cor
rect ideas about southern society, than seem here
tofore to have been entertained. ’
Thalbkrg, D'Angsi, Boignoll and Dempswh
are a* Saratoga, preparing to give concerto.