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From the Washington Union, A mg. 11
Next House of Renresentatives—Poßtmg
the Books.
Elections for members of the House of Repre
sentatives of the next Congress bare now been
held in all the States of the Union with the excep
tion of Maryland, Georgia, Mississippi, and Louis
iana, with the following resuft:
Dem. Blk Rep. K. N. Ya’ciea.
Maine. €
hew Hampshire 8
Vermont 3
Massachusetts. ll
Rhode Island 2
Connecticut 2 2
New York 12 21
New Jersey 8 2
Pennsylvania 14 10 —1
Delaware 1
Virginia 18
South Carolina 6
Florida 1
Arkansas 2
Missouri 4 1-
Illinois 5 4
lowa
Wisconsin g
Indiana 6 4-
Ohio 8
Michigan 4
California 2
Texas 2
Kentucky • • 8 2
Tennessee 7 3
Jforth Carolina 7 1
Alabama 7
110 91 8 2
In the States of Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee,
North Carolina, and Alabama congressional elec
tions were held last week, and, although full and
complete returns have not been received, we be
lieve that the actual result will verify the correct
ness of the figures as given above. Supposing no
changes occuring in the remaining four States,
where elections arc* to be held, the next House of
Representatives will stand as follows:
Dem. Rep. K.N. Vacancies.
Members already elect
ed 110 91 8 2
Members from Mary
land, Georgia, Mis
sissippi, and Louisi
ana, as they stood in
last Congress 15 - 8
Total 125 91 16 2
The House of Representatives consists of two
hnndred and thirty-four members—one hundred
and eighteen members constituting a majority.
As the case now stands—allowing no change in the
four .States where elections are to be held—the
Democrats will have a majority of sixteen in the
next House. This majority wo think will be in
creased to eighteen, as the two vacancies in the
Pennsylvania and Indiana delegations will, in all
probability, be filled by Democrats.
Cotton Bagging.
We take from the New York Shipping and Com
mercial List the following circulars from the two
principal Gunny Cloth Brokers in Boston and New
Turk:
BOSTON OITNNY CLOTH STATEMENT '.
Htocks at principal ports in the United
States Jan. 1, 1857 ....•*•• 26,600
Arrivals since to date ....43,512
To arrive, cleared and loading at Calcutta
May 16, for Boston, New Yone, and Phila
delphia 5,816
New Orleans 1,350
Stocks in Boston and New York this date,
less 10 per cent, for damage 20,970
The transactions of this month have been un
usually heavy, comprising from Ist to 24th inst.,
fully eight thousand bales at 13# a 18# cents for
light, and 14 for full and heavy weights—the lat
ter figure being paid for three thousand bales for
future delivery, and refused for two thousand bales
more. During the past week further speculative
transactions have occurred, embracing the follow
ing parcels: two hundred bules 2.16 pounds aver
age, three hundred of 2.15 pound, two hundred of
2.15 pound, three hundred and fifty of 2.12#
pound, all at 18j# cents per yard, t}nd one hundred
and thirty of 1.90 pound, 18#, in all twelve hun
dred and eighty bales for immediate delivery. At
the close the same offers were freely made for fu
ture parcels, but refused, with but few lots offer
ing at 14 cents, most holders waiting a further
advance, with limits of 15 cents for heaviest
weights.
With apparently ample supplies in the country
the disposition of stocks in various ports renders
extremely problematical any prospect of a decline
from present rates.
The prospects of present holders for future ad
vance are based upon the following facta* the
greatly reduced tonage and shipments to Calcutta,
tie quantity on the way here (as above) being five
thousand eighthundred bales a|taiußttheusu..l quan
tity ur tweuiy iHuusanti a twemy-iwothotisand bales
—the exorbitant high price of Jute at Calcutta, ren
dering the looms inoperative at last accounts—re
duced the stock to nine thousand in importers’
hands (the bulk of balance of stock being entirely
withdrawn for present or future sale, destined for
interior southern marts)— comparative small stock
in New r Orleans of eight thousand bales at season
of principal demand, against requirements there
of seventeen thousand bales, and the requirements
al9o ol Charleston, Savannah, Mobile and Galves
ton markets, which are as yet not fully supplied.
The following is the division of weights of Gun
ny Cloth in first hands:
2,500 bales 2.00 ft 2.06 lb. average.
2,850 “ 2.07 a 2.12 lb. 44
4,650 “ JU2#a 2.18 lb.
300 44 2.20 a 2.24 lb. 44
Os the parcels to arrive twenty-five hundred
Dales are lull weights, and eighteen hundred bales
light weights; balance uncertain. Os the five thou
sand eight hundred ami sixteen bales to arrive two
thousand three hundred and nine bales are sold
and three thousand five hundred and seven bales
remain unsold and held above the views of buyers.
The following is an exhibit of the wide range
and advance of prices of Jute at Calcutta the past
five years, by actual cost of cargoes shipped to
this conutry’ uud affords an insight to the increas
ed cost of cloth manufacture:
May, 1852, rurees 7 ($
Mav, 1553 932 (ft
April, 1854 13 8
Mav, 1855 10 (d? 12
May, 1856 11 o*l2
May, 1857 18 l9 -
44 With demand now existing (Calcutta, May 16)
for England much in excess of limited supplies
being brought in.” Oakland Turku..
Boston, July 80, 1857.
rescript, July Sis*.—The India mail from Cal
cutta, June Bd, brings advices of further shipments
with prices about the same. Jute still advancing.
Exchange improving, and likely to rule very high.
Freights slightly depressed. Advices by private
letters from Calcutta of India troubles, have fur
ther stimulated the Cloth market. Speculators ap
pear sanguine that this new feature wil! further aid
in a material advance. Eleven hundred and fifty
bales taken at fourteen cents, mostly 2 12,# pound
average, to arrive.
Postscript, New fork, Aug. 4 th. —ln addition to
the above, we have to chronicle further sales of
about fourteen hundred bales Gunny Cloth, in Bos
ton, on New York account, at fourteen cents for
2# pound weight, with a proportionate reduction
for light. The more the disturbances iB India are
digested, the more certain it seems that all Calcut
ta produce must advance ; therefore, most holders
are very sanguine that much higher figures will
soon rule, and consequently do not offer their mer
chandize at current rates. The nearness of de
mand for consumption encourages this feeling, ir
respective of ludia troubles, which, of themselves,
are a great feature in favor of all East India goods.
Wm. Tcrsll & Co.
Tax Statistics of Bibb County.
We are under obligations to Peter M. Curry,
Esq., Tax Receiver, for the following statistics of
our county:
Number of Polls 1.091
Lands, first quality, acres 6,310
44 second “ 44 94,829
44 third 44 44 158,376
Pine Land, 44
Total number of acres 1,7t>7,9<7
Total number of slaves 5,379
Free parsons of color 1*
Value of slaves $8,088,100
Value of city and town property 1,692,803
Aggregate value of whole property 9,925,791
Value of furniture, assessed 123,455
Value of stocks 219,825
Merchandise 707,884
Money and solvent debts . 2,150,280
Mr? Curry requests the publication of the above
in our city papers, for the information of the tax
payers of Bibb county. —Mason Tiiegraph, Aug. 12.
The United States storoehip Supply was at Rio
Janeiro June 26, bound to New York, waiting or
ders. The sloop-of-vr&r Constellation sailed Irena
Gibraltar July 15th, for Malaga
from the Savannah Georgian, Aug. 11.
i Judge Brown at St. Andrew’s Hall.
The lateness of the hour at which the meeting
" adjourned last night, prevents us from giviDg a
detailed account of the speech of our candidate
] for Governor.
The meeting was organized by calling Solomon
Cohen, Esq., to the ebair, wbo, in a few brief and
’ well-timed remarks, adverted to the objects of the
meeting, the present position of parties, and the
eminent qualifications of the gentleman who had
been selected as the standard bearer of the Geor
gia Democracy.
Mr. Hartndge, in behalf of the committee, then
introduced with a short and eloquent speech,
Judge Brown to the meeting.
We have not the time or space at present to fol
low Judge Brown through his speech, or even to
note the most prominent features in it. Suffice it to
say, that it was a sound, clear and dignified argu
ment, which, while it reflected great credit upon bis
intel!ectandfeeling,atthesame time created a deep
and lasting impression in his favor upon the large
audience, which gave it throughout an undivided
attention.
The Hon. Jas. L. Seward being present, was
then called upon, and responded to the call with
a pointed and forcible speech, fully setting forth
his position towards bis opponent, Col. Gaulden,
and the present political issues.
The meeting then adjourned, after giving three
hearty cheers for Judge Brown, and three more
for Mr. Seward.
We will refer to the speeches of both gentlemen
in a future issue.
Judge Brown addresses the people of Liberty
county to-day, who, doubtless, after a personal ac
quaintance with him, will agree with us all here,
that the favorable reports which have reached us
from every quarter concerning him, do not do jus
tice, either to the man, his character or his talents.
From the Griffin Empire State , Aug. 12.
Business of the State Road.
For two weeks past, the transportation has been
UDDrecedentedly heavy on this road. One hundred
and twenty freight cars were brought down from
Chattanooga m one day, freighted with thirty-five
thousand bushels of wheat, the freight of which
was forty-five hundred dollars. One hundred cars
or more arrive in Atlanta daily loaded with wheat,
and the travel is greatly increasing. Twenty trains
are now required to do the business of the road.
The prospect is favorable for a good business for
months to come. The crop of wheat and other grain
is immense, and the surplus must find an outlet
over this road. The tracx is in good order and
condition, notwithstanding the heavy rains which
have recently fallen, and which have done so much
damage to other roads. The equipment is adequate
to the emergency, and produce will be forwarded
with dispatch equal to any other road in the State.
Until the present year, great inconvenience has
attended the operations of this road on account of a
deficiency in cars, as well as motive power, but now
both these are amply supplied, and the friends of
this enterprise may now confidently look forward
to a speedy realization of those grand results which
were so fondly anticipated by its founders and
projectors. Being the great artery by which the
Atlantic is connected with the fertile valleys of the
West, its advantages for a profitable business is
superior to any other road in the southern country,
and it must ultimately be a source of immense
revenue to the State.
From the Baltimore Patriot.
Additional News by the Indian.
Quebec, August 10. —The following additional
items of foreign news are embraced in the advices
per steamer Indian:
The steamer City of Baltimore left Liverpool
simultaneously with the steamer Indian.
In the House of Lords on Monday, Lord Claren
-1 don moved the production of the papers relative
to the affairs of India, and spoke strongly in favor
i of a complete reform of the Indian government.
His motion was adopted.
D’lsraeli, also in the House of Commons, moved
the production of certain papers relative to the or
i ganization of the Bengal army, and elaborately re
! viewed the British Indian policy, asserting that
- the present outbreak would result in a national
■ revolt, and denouncing the apathy of the govern
[ men! in the present dangerous emergency.
Lord John Russell moved as an amendment, that
1 an address bo presented to the Queen,|ussunng her
that the House would cordially support the gov
ernment in any efforts necessary to suppress the
disturbance in India.
D’lsreali’s motion was rejected, and Lord Rus
sell’s adopted.
The utmost dispatch was being used in the ship
ment of troops to India.
At the General Conference of she Wesleyan
Church, in session at Manchester, the Ladies’Anti-
Hlavery Society protested against Bishop Simpson
and Dr. McClintock, for the delegates from the
American Methodist Church, for alleged complici
ty in slavery.
France. —Nearly all the parties charged by the i
Moniteur with complicity in the recent conspiracy,
emphatically deny the ukergaa in th© Ixtnaon pa
pers. Ledru Kollin is especially bitter against the
Moniteur and the French Emperor, and appeals to
the British Courts of Justice.
Letters from Paris, however, intimate that there
is sufficient evidence that France can demand their
extradition, but will content itself by simply ask
ing England to transport the parties convicted.
Spain. —Letters in the Loudon Times state that
the English and French Ambassadors at Madrid
had notified Spain that she could not rely on assis
tance from their Governments in the event of war
with Mexico, consequently Spain has acceded to
the offers of mediation.
A representative from Santa Anna had arrived
in Madrid.
Germany. —A Berlin dispatch says that the Gov
ernments who are parties to the Zolle-Verein con
federacy claim from England indemnity for losses
sustained by their vessels in the bombardment of
Canton.
From the Columbus Sun, Aug. 11.
The Cotton Prospect*
On the 31st of July, 1656, the first bale of new
cotton was received at this place. In 1855, the
first bale was received on the 4th of August. It
is now the lltli of August, 1857, and we have
heard of no open cotton, and the probabilities are
that none will be received in Columbus before the
20th or 25th of August. The great bulk of the
crop was all of twenty days behind that of 1855
uud 1856, when the rains set in about the middle
of July. It has rained every day but one, since,
and the plant has grown rapidly, and, of course,
the fruit is maturing very slow.* The plant at this
time is very full ot forms and young bolls. On
the low grounds, where the plant is very large and
i tall, we learn the bolls are rotting in an immatured
state. This is the result of the prolonged wet
weather, which is bound to prove detrimental to
the yield on low as well as up lands, let seasons
\ turn as they may hereafter. Should it turn off dry
for three weeks or a month after the present raiuv
seasou is over, the sudden check the plant will re
i ceive, will cause many of the forms and young
■ bolls of the top crop to* drop off', and others to pre
• maturely open, causing inferiority of lint. Should,
I on the contrary, the rains continue to fall at inter
vals, sufficient to prevent a check in the growth of
the plaut, a large amount of the under bolls will
rot for want of heat from the sun to force them
• open.
In proof of our theory we will explain: In order
to foroe the maturing and opening of bolls, there
must be a certain extent of maturity of the plant,
and check of upward tendency, in order that the
sun may go to and assist in maturing and forcing
open the first or lower lruit, else, from too much
shade and dampness, and from the growing ten
dency of the plant, the hull of the boll turns black
and never opens. And on the other hand, such
weather as will have the reverse effect on the under
bolls, will cut off the top crop of forms on account
of the sudden check they will receive in the stop
page of the growth of the plaut from the change of
seasons.
Another disaster that will befall jnnch of the
low' and black land cotton, on account of the pre
sent long wet spell, will be the rust, which, if it has
: not already shown itselt, will soon be apparent.
Especially will this be the case on the lime lands.
To say the least, we consider the present pros
• pect for the maturing of a large crop decidedly
• unfavorable.
A Curiosity.—The Selma (Ala.) Sentinel, of the
• Ist inst., says:
1 We had iu our office the other dav a piece of
silver coin, which is seventeen hundred aud fifty
) years old. It was a coin used by the Israelites bc
• lore the destruction ot Jerusalem, and is a great
curiosity. On one side of the piece is a figure of
• the Tree of Life, iu Hebrew letters, the words
• “Jerusalem the Holy.” On the other side is an
r urn, inscribed in Hebrew characters, the words
i 44 Shakel of Israel.” The com must have been made
• before the fall of Jerusalem,.which, if our recol
lection of Divine History serves us well, was
about seventy years after the birth of Christ. It
is of a poor character of silver, about the size of
i half a aollar, and is worth, in pure silver, about
fifteen cents. Mr. Eliesberg, of this city, who is
the owner of it, informs us that it has been the
property of his family near nine hundred years.
From the Irish Nevoe.
Letter from John Mitchell.
' To John Martin, Esq., sometime Irish exile.
Knoxville, Tenn., July 20,1857.
My Dear Martin : Tbe tide of emigration from
Ireland hither, keeps flowing, and in a fuller
stream. So much the better. In your last letter
from Pans, you bid me remack that fact, and add :
“Prosperous as Ireland now is, the desire to get
away from such prosperity seems to be stronger,
and to extend itself among the best of tbe middle
classes”—which is right and necessary. Let there
be Exodus then, and more Exodus.
Until after the final destruction of the British
empire, which I hope cannot now be far, there is
an end to all hope of liberty there. But no end of
liberty here; no end of resources. Every landless
man, uprooted out of Tipperary or Donegal, may
have land here; may root himself and grow ; not
only grow, but act, vote, live. Instead of craving,
and. craving in vain for beggarly ‘tenant-right,’ he
may establish himself in sovereign landlord-right.
From the low estate of being subject to a queen—
and of all queens your queen—he may promote
himself to citizenship of a very fair Republic.
The five years* probation for citizenship has,
like Sherris' sack, a two-fold operation in it. Pro
bation both for the immigrant and for the Repub
lic. It gives the Americans time to judge whether
he is worthy to be their fellow-citizen; and him
time to judge whether he shall choose to be their
fellow-citizen. lie may not suit tbe country ; the
country may not suit him : in the former case he
will be rejected—in the latter, he may, without
blame, change his declared * intention,’ and re
ject.
In the latter case, to be sure, I would not praise
his taste ; would infer, indeed, a large deficiency
of common sense. For my own part, after a resi
dence of three years and a half, I hold to my inten
tion ; I mean, sir, to be an American; to be active,
instead of passive—and to begin ruling the land as
one of the sovereigns thereof. For you know it is
an axiom here, that Americans shall rule America.
Not only does America content me—the South
especially delights me. You and I, O’Brien and
I, are not in accord upon this: the result of your
and hts unacquaintance (excuse me) with the mat
ter in hand. You remember that before I saw a
southern State, or thought I should ever see it, I
did, byway of retort upon a ‘philanthropic’appeal
of Mr. liaughton’s, wish for a plantation of Degroes
in the State of Alabama. Now' that I have seen
much of the South and have lived in it eight and
twenty months, I wish for two plantations in that
respectable State.
The South and her institutions are established,
strong, impregnable. Amongst civilized commu
nities, none are at this moment so secure as the
southern States of America, Instead of anxiously
apologizing for themselves, they can now sit se
rene, and benignantly pity you all. No nobleman
or country gentleman, or whatsoever lauded aud
privileged man there be—no baron or squire or
knight* of the shire, in England or anywhere else,
feels the ground under his feet so firm as the
southern planter —attemps to discharge so high du
ties, or has any notion at all such duties to
be discharged, as he “pauses amidst bis game
preservers with awful eye,” and stares hope
essly at the riddle of his own existence, environ
ment and destiny. Poor soul! let him fire away
while the game is good. The credit funds are *till
quoted. The Prince Albert opens Crystal Palaces
still; and no man has yet cut the felon throat of
Second DtcenJjvr.
I send you for your enlightenment, certain num
bers of the Charleston Standard, ( a straightfor
ward journal, conducted by a straightforward
friend of mine,) not as the best sample, perhaps,
of southern journalism, but as the exposition of
southern opinion nearest my hand. You will per
ceive that the South begins to be sui juris, to
plead in its own court, to form its own opinion,
and to be a law unto itself. Os Exeter Hall, and
the great canting British public, it steadily sets at
naught all the counsel, and will none of the re
proof. Based on cotton bales and sugar hogsheads,
as on a rock and strong tower; its feet washed by
the Mississippi and the Gulf; fortified by the Con
stitution, and content with its own experience of
its own blcßsiugß; it seems to be ( Union or no
Union,) in the straight way of becoming one of
the grandest of all countries, ancieut or modern.
A glowing anticipation which will not long appear
to you extravagant.
Mr. Spratt, of the Charleston Standard, claims
the merit of having, first in the South, strongly
and broadly asserted the genuine southern princi
ples—that slavery is a blessing—is a sound moral
and benoticient institution, and basis of institutions
—that it has a right and duty to develop itself,
extend itself and work out its own destinies—that
to attain its maximum of efficiency, it demands
more negroes from that store-house wly>re Provi
dence breeds them for it—and of course that it
requires to be disembarrassed of all that fraudu
lent pretence of philanthropic cruizing squadrons;
whereof I shall have somewhat to say presently.
With pleasure I tell you that your old coUoDtra-
Uur, Brennan, by his wntuigsib the New Orleans
Delta and Times (poor has written his
laut> gav© <>urty and in the same di
rection. You may remerrtbw**hat I also, three
years ago in the Citizen, repeatedly advocated the
re-opening of the African slave trade ; but then as
I do not reason—only dogmatize—and put every
thing forward hard, bare aud rigorous, what 1 say
has often a paradoxical, even offensive aspect,
which makes the weaker brother turn away from
it; for truth stark naked—you know how indecent
she looks.
That which, three years ago, seemed as unfeasi
ble as a project to rev»ve the Crusades, is now at
least discussed; whether it shall be adopted or not,
depends in the long run, solely on the question,
whether the southern States shall judge it on the
whole beneficial to themselves. * * * * *
Now to return to the South and her fortunes —
you can easily perceive that I attach raueh conse
quence to those beginnings of down-right southern
sentiment and opinion which are noted above.
They are so much resistance to the flood of ‘en
lightened’ modern cant and slang, which otherwise
was threatening t< spoil all our perceptions of
right and wrong, of beautiful and hideous, of true
and false; so many sufficient piles planted down
to form a breakwater agaiust the catalvsm of Exe
ter Hall philanthropy, which is indeed 4 one of the
worst passions of our nature.’ Nay, they indicate
that America is about to originate a ne>v national
literature of her own. Hitherto, as you are aware,
this continent has had no native literuture worth
naming—and what must have been the effect upon
her general health of so much foreign garbage,
either fresh as imported from England or re-com
piled, echoed, edited and mimicked in New Eng
land, one may with disgust conceive. An un
wholesome mistake has been too prevalent—that it
is enough to be politically independent of England;
enough that she makes no laws for us; but that
her literature, criticism, ethics, beiug manufactur
ed, by dint of cheap labor, lower than we can af
ford to get up the articles here, may serve our
turn; us the Manchester dry goods, do, well
enough; nay, that we even do ourselves credit, and
show our Anglo Saxon breeding by ‘appreciating’
all that balderdash. But for this grievous mistake
America never would have heard of Abolitionism,
nor of Know Notlnngism. It is a mistake which
has cost her dear; aud which will not, perhaps, be
fuliv set right until after the third, aud last war
with the ‘mother country. * * * *
Tun Latkst Item.—The sporting columns of the
Lomiou Illustrated News, of the 25th of July, live
days before the Goodwood Cun race, and the morn
ing on which the Persia sailed, has the following:
“One or both of the American horses will come
out in the Cup. The ground will not, we fear,
suit the infirm Fazoletto (one hundred aud twenty
seven pounds;) Gemma di Vergy(on; buudred
and seven pounds) seems over-weighted ; and we
do not see how Anton (one hundred and five i
pounds) will ever stay. A live pounds allowance
is claimed for Arsenal, on the ground that, as the
Queen's Vase has no price affixed to it by its royal
donor, it has no right to be valued, so as to make
this horse “a winner of one hundred pounds, or
upwards.” Admiral Rous, we believe, thinks dif
ferently; but we trust that the stewards will give
“Mr. Howard” the benefit of the doubt, as he
seems to have considerable reason on his side, as
well as the most eminent legal opinion on horse
racing in Westminster Hall. St. Giles (one hun
dred and eight pounds) has been kept, it is said
for this ; but, with one hundred pounds, Arsenal
should be hard to bea\ Os the American horses
absolutely nothing is known ; and Mr. Ten Broeck
(who has, by the by, some Derby nominations for
1859), and their stalwart negro attendant, keep
their own council.”
This is somewhat at variance with the statement
of the beery correspondent of the Times, in rela
tion to Mr. Ten Broeck’s blowiDg. It seems to us
that Mr. Ten Broeck is managing his business
very w ell.— Dorter's Spirit of the Tunes.
Such a Turnip!—The other day at
our office, what we might term the father of all
turnips. It measured ihirty-one inches round, and
weighed fifteen pounds 1
This turnip is from the garden of Mrs. Gilbert,
on Peach Tree street, to whom we are indebted for
it. She will please accept our thanks for this spe
c;men of her superior gardening.
AUanta Intelfifenoer, Aug. 18.
Weather and Crops.
Still it Rains. —We are in the midst of a long
rainy spell and the clouds still hang heavy. The
river continues to be in fine boating order and fre
quent trips are made to Apalachicola by our steam
; era. The crops in the poor sections of the State
’ are mnch benefitted, but cotton in the rich lands
is suffering.— Columbus Times, Aug. 11.
More Rain. —The Montgomery (Ala) Mail, of
the 11th inst., says: “When we wrote aparapraph
[ yesterday morning, with a clear and pleasant sky
above ns, saying that fair weather had come, we
had forgotten bow easily it could rain in these lat
ter days. Before we went to press it was raining,
and still the prospects are for more.
The Weather and Crops. —For the past fewdays
we have been visited with an over supply of rain.
Never at this season have we witnessed the fall ot
such heavy rains. It is certain that it will benefit
navigation, and it is equally certain that it will
greatly damage the cotton crops. We learn that
on many plantations the water is standing in the
furrows—think of that in August. With a back
ward spring, a visiiation of “rust” and “insects,”
and now tbe heavy tall of w r ater, which must in
evitably produce a shedding of squares and young
bolls, the present crop of cotton in this State will
turn out a very short one. Should an early frost
set in, even as early as last season, the crop will
be far shorter than any previous year. Nearly
every disaster to this important staple that could
happen on the Arkansas river, has occurred, to cut
short the prospects of our farmers. Corn, 1 ow
. ever, will be raised in g;eat abundance, and thus
filace it within the means of the farmer to raise a
arge portion of his pork.
Lillie llo*:k (Ark.) True Democrat, Aug. 4.
From the Empire State.
Indian Springs, Aug. 2d, 1657.
Mr. Elitor: Having a few spare hours to-day,
while it is raining, I nave concluded to drop you
| a few lines in regard to our prospect for a corn and
1 cotton crop. From the abundance of wheat har
vested, and though the ears of corn on the ridges
will generally be small, vet the bottoms are fine,
and all takeu together, 1 venture to predict that
corn will not sell here for more than sixtv cents
per bushel. The cottou is generally small, par
• ticularly on the grey lands, and many fields have
a poor stand, as the spring was cold and back
ward, which will, beyond a doubt, make the crop
1 short; should the frost, however, stay off until
late, the crop may stretch out a little.
The valley of the Brazos, from Washington coun
ty up to the Falls, shows a very poor prospect in
deed. The long continued drought has cutoff the
corn crop almost entirely, and had a very serious
effect upon cotton. Rains have lately fallen there,
which have induced some of the planters to plant
corn again, even ut this late day, hoping to make
a sufficiency yet, should the season prove favora
ble, for bread. In Washington the corn crop.is
also short. Some letters from there are hopeful,
while others assure us that half the farmers there
will not make five bushels per acre. Cotton, it is
hoped, with seasonable raius, may still make half
a crop. On the lower Brazos, better rains have
fallen, aud a good three quarters of a crop (per
haps equivalent to a fair average crop) will be made
of cotton, corn un<l sugar. The Colorado valley
and westwards was suffering greatly from dry
weather all the earlier part of the season. Later,
however, rains have been more favorable.
Houston (Texas) Telegraph, Aug. 5.
Crops. —A correspondent at Laconia, writing to
the Napoleon Planter on the 29th uli., says :
“ Tbe crops in this neighborhood are very prom
ising. There will be a larger amount of cotton
raised here this year, if the season continues favor
able, than hue ever been produced any previous
year. We have had several very refreshing show
ers recently.”
The Nyw Orleans Prices Current <*f Bth instant,
says:
Rain fell very copiously in the early part of the
week and showers have fallen almost daily since,
and we hear complaints of excess and damage
from many points of the cotton region.
The Lake Providence Herald, of the Ist inst.,
. says:
“ Yesterday and the day before we experienced
heavy thunder showers, which, almost as fast as
they fell, were absorbed by the thirsty soil. Should
there not be a too frequent repetition of
aquatic bounties, the crops will be all the better
from what they have received.”
The New Iberia (St. Martin) Star, o! the Ist.
says :
“We have had occasional "Lowers for some time,
and during the present week we were visitel by
heavy rains, which have t&Dded greatly to the
cooling of the atmosphere, and we fear there has
been entirely too much for the cotton crop. But
us to the corn, there will be more raised in our
parish than ever before, as our planters have put a
double quantity in the ground, and which will
soon be ready for gathering. Tbe cane crop looks
Uue, and a rich harvest is expected.”
Tragedy in Arkansas.—A letter addressed to us
received yesterday, gives the particulars of a terri
ble tragedy which took place in the vicinity of
Pine Bluff, Ark., about two weeks ago, in which a
very estimable citizen lost his life at the hands of
a runaway negro. The remains of tbe gentleman,
Dr. Guinn, who bad been missing for several days,
were found in the river between Pine Bluff
and New Gascony, horribly mutilated, with his
skull broken, as if by some sharp instrument,
in several places. A jury of inquest was held
and suspicion rested in the minds of the popu
lace upon a negro, then a fugitive from his
master, Louis Bogy, jr., residing near the latter
place. The fugitive was afterwards arrested, and
confessed to the perpetration of the crime, as well
as many other atrocities of the most revolting
character. He stated that he had killed his for
mer master, before having been purchased by
Bogy, and that he was guilty of rape and theft in
many instances.
The excitement was intense during hus relation
of those horrors, and the brutal manner in which
he bad performed his last act of villiany, and it
was feared summary vengeance would be taken
against him upon the spot. It was agreed, however,
that the law should have its course, and the cul
prit was placed under a strong guard to be escort
ed to the jail at Pine Bluff. But such was the in
tensity of the feeling against him, excited by his
many villainies, that he was seized by the mandate
of Judge Lynch before reaching his goal, aud
hung to a tree. His victim, l)r. Guinn, was uni
versally loved ami esteemed in the neighborhood,
and it could not be ascertained what instigated the
murderer to such a foul and unprovoked deed.
Memphis Appeal, Aug. 11.
J_.gr Items of news from the Griffin Empire
State, of 12th inst.:
“ On Thursday last, a son of Mr. Isaac McLeroy,
of Pike county, was killed by being caught in the
machinery of his gin, while threshing wheat.”
“On Friday following, a negro man, belonging
to Mr. Sherrod Sims, of Pike county, was run over
by a freight train on the Macon &. Western rail
road, and instantly killed.”
“On Tuesday morning, about two o'clock, A.
M., the dwelling house of Rev. Jesse H. Campbell,
was discovered to be on fire. I: was, however,
promptly extinguished before any material dam
age was* done. It was evidently the work of au
incendiary.”
! *• Mr. Roderick Rutland, of Monroe county, lias
seut us a boot, from his garden, measuring eigh
teen inches in circumference, the largest we have
seen this season. Great year this, for corn, peas,
potatoes, beets and other vegetables.”
< Driving Across Railroad Tracks.—The Court
! of Appeals, New York, has laid it down as a rule
of law, that an individual, on approaching a rail
mid track, is bouud to look if a train is approach
ing. It holds that railroads are among the best
improvements of the great age of progress, and
their permanent affairs are not to be postponed to
the concerns of individuals. It holds that no one
has a right to cross a railroad track without first
taking every precaution for safety. The same rea
son that holds railroad companies to the strictest
responsibility to the passengers, imposes upon
every one who crosses the track of these great
public thoroughfares, more than ordinary care not
to jeopardise the lives of those who are availing
themselves of the benefit of this great modem
improvement in the mode of traveling. This ev
idently refers to the daDger of injury to the train
as well as the carriage on the highway, in case of
collision between the moving masses, *a fact which
has beeu many times illustrated in the case occur
iug on the Camden and Amboy road a year or
more since, in consequence of backing against a
pair of horses, and by which several cars were
smashed and many lives lost. He who, without
pausing or even looking, will drive upon a railroad
track, is guilty of more than carelessness.
Baltimore Sun .
A young man named George Kerschler, former
ly of New Haven, Connecticut, a printer by trade,
committed suicide at Cincinnati a few days siuce,
in oonsequenee of being unable to obtain employ
ment.
Irom the New Orleans Picayune , Aug. 6.
r The New Tehuantepec Company.
» We published, yesterday morning, the articles
. of association of the “Louisiana Tehuantepec Com
- P a “7” .
; This is a new company altogether, in which ail
j the rights, claims and property of previous com
panies are merged, under circumstai ces which, at
p ien gth, give promise of peaceful, energetic a*d
successful prosecution of one of the great works
\ of the age.
Heretofore, with the best dispositions on the
part or the Mexican Government and of the Gov
ernment of this country towards the enterprise, it
has languished from the want of barmonv among
the claimants toconflicting rights, who have car
-1 wed ©n their controversies in a temper of embit
tered rivalry. With magnificent grants from Mex
■ ico, and a right of way at controversy—with mil
: lions upon millions as property, and incalculable
in its value to the commerce of the world—the on
- ly result, after years of strife, has been the build
• ing of a temporary travel route across the line,
■ and an accumulation of indebtedness and waste,
which was frightful. There was no hope for the
■ confidence of capitalists in the work, grand as it is
[ confessed to be, until these dissensions were ap
-1 peased, and a unity of counsels obtained upon the
• basis ot recognized and admitted rights, and defi
l nite and declared responsibilities.
r These have now been obtained by a fair agree
l ment among all the parties in the United Slates
i who have any interests or rights to be consulted.
■ The result may be seen in the formation of this
> new company, in which all rival interests are con
• solidated, and which presents itself to both gov
ernments and to the public of both countries, with
fixed rights, definite obligations, joint councils,
and the most encouraging auspices. It represents
all the Mexican grants. It provides for the equi
, table settlement of all just claims against either of
i tbe former companies. It defines distinctly all its
[ liabilities and responsibilities, and provides meaus
■ for adjusting them finally, and opens a new and
i clear account for the future of the work. These
, are great advantages, and the Directory who have
: undertaken the management, under their new uus
i pices, are such as to command implicit confidence
. in their capacity, energy and probity.
• It will be seen by the charter that the capital
. stock of the new association is to be ten millions
i of dollars, and that the new company does not as
i sume the payment of any debt or contract what
ever, made by any previous company or parties.
But for the purchase of all rights and the settle
ment of all claims, this company agrees to tranfer
to the trustees who represent the previous compa
nies, who unite in this agreement, two millions of
the stock, and to issue to them one million of eight
per cent, bonds of tbe new company. This three
millions is assigned in payment for the titles of
Hargous in the Garay grant, and Falconnet, who
is the assignee, recognized by the Mexican Gov
ernment, in what is called the Sloo grant.
This sum of three millions, of which two mil
lions is in stock of the company, is assumed by the
■ trustees to be sufficient to discharge every equita
ble debt of the old companies, und pay for ail the
rights under the several grants. We believe it
will be ample, and satisfactory to all claimants.
At all events, the Louisiana Company has no re
sponsibility further. Its whole debt will consist of !
this one million of bonds, and its liability for the j
repayment of the six hundred thousand dollars
w hich was advanced by Mr. Falconnet to the Mex
ican Government, m compliance with the condi- *
tions of the grant. But this sum is a debt only in I
form. The Government of Mexico required that j
in the nature of an assurance or guarantee, stipu- ;
lating that it should be repaid to the company out ;
of the proceeds of the twenty per cent, reserved to i
the Mexican Government, of the annual proceeds
for fifty years of the net revenue of the road. That j
liability is, therefore, only a loan to the Mexican j
Government, reimbursable on the successful com- |
pletion of the road.
The enterprise is, therefore, clear of all domes
tic difficulties. The untoward feuds are all set
tled; all parties are heartily joined in interest,
and have combined their energies in behalf of one
line of policy for the energetic prosecution of the
work ; and the new company presents itself as
the purchaser and owner of the right of way,
privileges and lands, with only one million of
; positive debt.
These favorable circumstances here are met by
circumstances equally propitious in Mexico. The
cordiality <*f the authorities there towards thi
road is beyond question, and no doubt is enter
tained of obtaining every additional facility and fa
vor that may be either needed or useful. Indeed, we
have good reason to believe, from the joint interest
Liken in the work by the governments of both coun
tries, that new treaty stipulations may be soon
had, giving national sanction to the work, and new
decrees be obtained enlarging its privileges, and
adding to its already great advantages as un invest
ment for profit, and a benefit of inestimable value
to the commerce of both countries. We know that
the best dispositions prevail in Mexico, and that i
they are faithfully cultivated by own Government,
and will be carefully ixiprovea by the able men ,
who have gone down to represent and speak for
this company. We have sanguine hopes of perfect '
success there; and thenceforward a rapid progress
of this long delayed enterprise, to its final triumph '
—one which will prove a fountain of prosperity to
the South-west, and repay the long struggles and
sacrifices of New Orleans.
Curious Story Afloat.— Rd#rt Schuyler report - <
ed to be Alive. —Mrs. Robert Schuyler, (widow,) j
better known as Mrs. Spicer, the widow of the ]
celebrated financier, has erected a sort of caatella
ted cottage on Saratoga Lake, about half a mile 1
from the great place ol resort—the Lake House— <
where “all the world” go to drive, or to dine on <
the famous “fried potatoes.” Mrs. Schuyler hav- ,
ing planted a mansion of some pretensions near a
resort so fashionable, all the tourists of the United
States will, of course, drive to take a look at her;
and for sixty or ninety days in the year she must i
expect people to be almost looking into her win- <
(lows.
The selection of a spot to build upon in so con- (
spicuous a place, has started the public gossip in- *
to all sorts of romances, fictions and fancies; und
while there is an earnest inquiry, “where did the (
money come from?” there is not a less earnest as
sertion that Robert Schuvlcr is not dead. What 1
gives strong interest to the whole affair is a little (
stoue building some one hundred feet from the
mansion, with high windows, up out of sight on j
foot, erected nominally for her Roman Catholic
Chapel, to which rumor adds—l do not know—for
I huve never been down to see—that there is a sub
terranean passage from the house. Tbe workmen
have been “pumped” and “repumped,” and some i
of them hint, if not give out, that Robert Schuy- j
ler is there, yet alive, aud that when anybody
comes into the house, Mr. Schuyler runs under
ground to the chapel, and gets into his coffin,
“dead”—to which his ghostly appearance, when i
living, would add an air of probability ! The ♦
story is very current, ami is the .natural result of
his widow’s erecting a conspicuous mansion in so
conspicuous a place. There seems to be a very
lively impression in cousequenee of the story and
the mansion that Mr. Scbyler is not dead, but yet 1
II veth.— N. ) \ Express. J
Memphis and Charleston Railroad.—The meet
ing of the stockholders in the Memphis and
Charleston railroad came off on yesterday. Nearly
the whole stock was represented, and there was a f
numerous attendance in person of the
especially from Alabama. 8
The President of the road, an esteemed fellow
ciiizen, gave a very just and encouraging represen
tation of the present state and future prospects of
the road, lie estimates its gross income at a mil- c
lion and a half per annum. Allowing one-!ialf for c
a'! its expenses, it leaves seven hundred and fifty
thousand dollars as its nett annual revenue, upon a
cost of about six millions.
A resolution was passed, authorizing the issuance
of eight hundred thousand dollars of income bonds ’
to pay off the floating debt; also, one to declare a t
dividend of the past earnings of the road as soon \
as practicable, payable in stock.
The salary ef* the President was increased to six
thousand dollars per annum. Salaries of the Sec
retaries and Treasurers from two thousand dollars
to two thousand five hundred dollars each. j
.ph 's Appeal, Aug. 11.
Reflections on Mafvag. -The leading features 1
in |he character of a woman are mildness, '
complaisance and eq ' •roty of temper. The man,
if he be a worthy ai d provident husband, is im- ]
mersed in a thousand care? His mind is agitated, ,
his memory is loaded, and his body fatigued. He
returns from the bustle Os the world, chagrined
perhaps by disappointment, angry at insolent and
perfidious people, and terrified lest his unavoidable
connections should make him appear perfidious .
himself. Is this the time for the wife of his bosom,
his dearest and most intimate friend, to add to his
vexation, to increase the fever of an overburdened
mind by a contentious tongue, or a discontented
brow? Business,in its most prosperous state, is
full of anxiety and turmoil. Ob! how dear to the
memory of man is the wife who clothes her face
with smileß, who uses gentle expressions, and who
rqakee her lap soft to receive and hush his caree to '
rest. There is not m nature so fascinating an ob
ject as the faithful, tender and affectionate wife.
BY TELEGRAPH.
arrival
OF THE STEAMSHIP
CANADA.
Halifax, August 11.-The British and Noron
American P.oval Mali steamship Canada, Capt. W„
J. C. Laxg, reached here this afternoon, with Lit
erpool dates to Aug. Ist.
• Commercial*
Liverpool Marlet.—' The sales of cotton for the
week, reach 62,0*50 bales, of which speculators
took 3,000 and exporters 4,■"■00 bales. The busi
ness of the week shows a gradual advance, auc
middling qualities have improved the most, auc
the market closed with an advancing tendency.
Breadstuff's were steady and provisions firm.
Consols quoted at 91%.
[second dispatch.]
On Saturday afternoon, (the day the Canadt
left) the cotton market was quiet but steady. The
estimated sales, on that day, of cotton, s,oth) bales
Breadstutfs were quiet, and wheat exhibited a
declining tendency.
The Anglo-Saxon, with accounts from the United
States to July ISth, had reached Liverpool, and (as
our telegraph dispatches read) caused an advance
of Jj'ths in the Mobile cottons. The following are
the cotton quotations furnished by the news by
the Canada:
Fair Orleans 8% I Middling Orleans 8%
“ Mobile 8% “ Mobile 8%
“ Uplands 8% | “ Uplands.. .8%.
The stock of cotton in Liverpool 498,000 bales,
of which 405,500 arc American.
The weather has been good in the fanning dis
tricts, and the harvest prospects favorable.
Advices from Manchester were satisfactory.
Havre Cotton Market.
Orleans Tree Ordinaire quoted at llSf.
General Intelligence.
All the vessels engaged in laying the submarine
telegraph eable were at Cork on the Ist August,
and expected to leave on that day for Valentia.
where the cable will connect with the main land.
Experiments through the whole telegraph cable
have proved highly successful.
Mr. Ten Broeck's horses. Prior and Prioress
were beaten in the race for the “ Goodwood Cup
on the 30th July.
The mails from India confirm former telegraph. :
advices. There is no confirmation, however, o:
the capture of Delhi, although the rumor obtained
general credence.
A conspiracy had been discovered for a genera’
rising at Calcutta, and all Europeans have beer
armed.
No other news of general interest.
Southern Commercial Convention.
j Knoxville, August 11.—The Convention met
! in this city yesterday, i t the First Presbyterian
| Church. The attendance of delegates is large.
The Convention was called to order by Major
White, of Knoxville; and :>u motion, Mr. James
Lyons, of Virginia, was requested to act as tem|>o
rarv President, until the organization of the Con -
vention was effected.
The committee on organization reported the
name of J. 1). B. Deßow, of New Orleans, fo
permanent President, which was confirmed by
acclamation.
The names of cloven gentlemen for Vice-Presi
dents, and eleven Secretaries, were reported, anti
approved by the Convention.
Resolutions were subsequently adopted, nrgiDg
the United States Government to withdraw their
squadron from the coast of Africa; recommending
the erection of suitable fortifications in the harbors
of Port Royal, on the coast of South Carolina; and
also, in Mobile Bay.
Other resolutions were offered for the considers
tioß'aud action of the Convention, but were referred
to the Committee on Business. Among the reso
lutions were those endorsing Mr. A. Dudley
Mann’s project for establishing a line of steam fer
ry-boats from the Chesapeake Bay to Milford Ha
ven—resolutions recommending Government pa
tronage to lines of southern steamers, the repeal
of the fishery bounties, Ac., Ac.
In the list of Vice Presidents is the name of Co’.
Thomas B. Latham, of Cahipbell county, Georgia.
Knoxville, Aug. 12.—The business committee
reported resolutions disapproving o c free trade and
direct taxation—against the South receiving goods
coming from States not upholding the Fugitive
Slave law—against the discriminations of Govern
ment iu favor of foreign mail lines from northern
ports—in favor of the exemption of one slave tc
each slaveholder from seizure for debt—in favor of
erecting Arrizonia into a Territory, and in favor of
recovering certain land lost by a recenttreatyjwifh
Mexico.
The committee also reported, that in their judg
ment, the proper time had not arrived for the
Southern Commercial Convention te expr ss an
opinion on the policy of re-opening the African
slave trade.
A resolution was adopted recommending to the
consideration of the Government, the policy ol
withdrawing our squadron from the African
coast.
The Convention determined thattheir next meet
ing should be held in Montgomery, Ala.
The “ Goodwood Cup.”
Halifax, August 12. —The result of the “Goon
wood Cup ” races, in which the American horses.
Prior and Prioress, were beaten, has already beec
telegraphed.
The French horse Monarque won the race. The
English horses Riseber was second, and Fisherman
third. Prior was fifth, and Prioress sixth.
Missouri Election.
St. Lotus, Aug. 11. —The election returns from
the different counties in this Slate are contlictiDg
James S. Rollins’ (American,’ majority will pro
bablv be 1,500.
Indian Hostilities tn Kansas.
St. Louis, Aug. 11.—The Cheyenne Indians re
fuse to treat with the United States authorities, -
and the Shawnees also threaten hostilities.
lowa Vote oa the New Constitution.
Dubuque, Aug. 11.— Returns from thirty-fou
counties show a majority for the new Constitution
of four thousand five hundred.
Arrival o! the Empire City.
New York, August 12.—The Empire City, Capt
McGowan, from Havana, has arrived with dates
from that place to the Bth instant, and with later
intelligence from Central and South America, and
California.
The Empire City brings *1,500,000 in treasure,
The news from Central America is not of special
interest.
The Democratic Convention in California has
nominated the Hon. John B. Welleb, as cand. -
date for Governor.
Theßepublicans, in Convention, have nominated
Edwabd Stanley, as their candidate for Gov
ernor.
A destructive fire had occurred at Valparaiso.
A desperate battle had been fought near Are
quipa, in Peru, between the armies of Veranco,
and those of El Mariscal Castilla, the President
of Peru—both armies claim the victory.
There has been an attempted revolution at Cal -
lao, a fortified town of northern Peru.
Negro Declared Free.
New York, August 15.—A negro girl named El
len. belonging to Miss Louisa Kerr, of Savannah,
was declared, on yesterday, free, by Judge Robwrt—
soh, of Westchester county.