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SATURDAY, APRIL IQ.
Death of Hon. Joel Crawford.
We learn from a gentleman of Columbus, who
passed through our citj, yesterday, that this dis
tinguished citizen of our State died at his planta
tion in Early county, a few days ago.
Major Crawford was born in this county, on the
15th of June, 1783 —received his education at a
classical school kept by the eccentric Dr. Bush, or
Bcshnell, in Colombia county—pursued his legal
tudies in the office of the Hon. Nicholas Wabe, of
his city— removed, after his admission to the bar,
5 Miliedgevifle, where, for a few years, he was en
;aged in an extensive practice—served with dis
tinction as an aid to General Floyd throughout
he campaign of 1813 upon the frontier of Alabama
—was elected a few years afterwards to Congress
then to the State Senate, from the county of Han
cock, to which he had removed in“ 1826 in 1828,
and again in 1831 was a candidate for the office of
Governor, and in his long and useful life was em
ployed in many Jimportant public trusts, and
honored with many evidences of the confidence
and respect of the people of Georgia. He has de
parted to that bourne from whence no traveller re
turns, full of years and of honors, and by his death,
one of the few remaining links has been severed
which connect us with the men whose services in
the camp and in the council illustrated the early '
history of our State.
Death of Ileiiry Maney, Esq.
We regret to find in the Nashville Gazette, the j
announcement of the death of Henry Maney, Esq., <
of that city, and formerly an editor of the Gazette. \
He died on the sth instant., at the residence of his j
father, Hon. Thomas Manky. Mr. Maney was an <
accomplished and talented gentleman, and in his :
short career, had given abundant promise of future 1
usefulness and distinction. He represented the city ’
of Nashville in the late legislature of Tennessee. t
Messrs. Gray «& Turley. *
What have you to sell ? where is Tour place of bus i
iness? and wbat inducements are you offering to J
purchasers ? Messrs. Gray & Turley seem to un- •
derstand that it is an important matter to those who j
• are in business to inform the public upon these <
points, and to know (so we judge, by the space which 1
their announcement occupies in our papei> this
morning) that the best and cheapest mode to ac- (
-Omplish this object, is by liberal advertising. 1
We refer our readers to their advertisement; and 1
also to those of Messrs P. & M. Gallagher, and \
Dickey & Phibbs. (
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Paulownia unpcrialis. t
F. M.yrGE has presented us with several branches 1
of this beautiful tree of Japan, which are loaded 1
with large purple flowers. Those who would [
know more about it must consult the “ Japan Ex* t
©edition,” or visit Mr. Mauge’s nursery, on Mar- 1
bury street, where it is in full bloom.
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Frankliu College.
We hare received a catalogue of the officers and \
rtudents of our State University for the current I
lollegiate year, from which we learn that there are 1
now in attendance upon the exercises of the insti
tution ninety-nine students, of whom fourteen are 1
seniors, twenty-two juniors, thirty-seven sopho
mores, twenty freshmen, and six partial course
students.
The Purchase ol Mount Vernon.
The Charleston Courier , of Wednesday, says: “A
private dispatch received in this city from Rich
mond, communicates the welcome intelligence that |
the contract for the sale of Mount Vernon has been j
concluded, and the title of that predial shrine has |
been transferred to the incorporated Mount Ver- I
non Association.
“The details will reach us in good time, and will
encourage all concerned to persevere under more
favorable assurances to complete the monetary con
ditions of the sale.”
The Weather.
•We have at present very pleasant weather.
Operations on the farms and in the gardens are
progressing—vegetation is springing, up and we are
looking forward to a fine crop and fruit year. It
is pleasant to look around and notice the very grat
ifying prospect, but it is prudent to so conduct our
operations that we can readily re-plant in case it
should become necessary.
We have had in this State severe frosts in the
month of April, we find records of frost 3 in
May. Sherwood says in 1774 there was a severe
frost in May, which killed large trees. On the
25th and 26th of May 1831, there were frost and ice
in Savannah.
We have had a remarkably mild winter, which
has been succeeded by a very genial spring; and
if the weather continues favorable we can reason
ably calculate on the most abundant harvests.
While we may hope for the best, we should be
fully prepared for a “ snap.”
ji£sF~ W. S. Mullins, Esq., the President of the
Wilmington and Manchester railroad, was severely
injured, on the sth instant, in geting on or off’ a
train while the cars were in motion.
The price of the Daily Union has been re
duced to two cents a copy. It is now delivered in
Washington, Georgetown and Alexandria, for
twelve and a half cents per week, and sent by mail
to subscribers for six dollars per annum, payable
in advance.
The City Council of Atlanta has recently
passed an ordinance taxing “produce of any kind,
or bacon, or lard, brought to that city on the rail
road cars for sale,” if belonging to non-residents,
if not raised by the persons offering such pro
luce for sale. The tax assessed is sixty-five cents
ip°n every hundred dollars worth of produce sold.
We find the following waif of news among
She drift in our exchanges:
play is announced in Boston, under the
title of *An Editor with five thousand dollars.’ ”
From our knowledge of the craft, we are satis
fied that no such play can be “ founded on fact.”
The Ice Chop. —lt has been estimated, says a
Boston paper, that double the quantity of ice has
been cut this year than during any former season.
Mr. Wilde, of Medford, has housed four hundred
and fifty hundred thousdhd tonsjat Spot P .ud; and
other parties have cut one hundred thousand tons
more.
The Cohing Sl-mmee.—lt is said that the Earl of
Rosse, one of the first astronomers in Europe, has
told a gentleman in England that he anticipates
one of the most intensely hot summers this year
Km Tl bee ° knoH ' n - and he ad ™es farmers
to build sheds for their cattle, byway of protec
tion against the extreme heat.
A Capital Fellow.— An editor at the East says-
Our stock in trade consists of industry, economy
and untiring perseverance. Our industry we con
fifteen thousand dollars, making in all an active
capital of forty five thousand dollars.
Small Pox.—We learn from the Eutaw (Ala.)
Whig that there have been several cases of small
pox, at or near Bridgeville, in Pickens county, in
that State. The disease was carried these by a
man by the name of Hughes, who contracted it
while in New York.
Correctly Named. —The Washington Union
very properly styles Crittenden’s amendment to
the Kansas bill, “A bill for keeping up the Kan
sas agitation, and making confusion worse con
founded.”
The Collins Steamers.
The competition of the Cunard line of steamers,
= liberallv sustained by the government of England,
} and the action of Congress, in reducing the subsidy
granted the Collins line for carrying the mails,
have at last compelled the proprietors of the Amer
ican line to withdraw it and sell the steamers be
longing to it. The discontinuance of this line of
steamers, and of others which must follow, will re
sult, it is predicted, in giving to our English ri
vals, a monopoly of the ocean mail service and of
the better part of our own carrying trade. Such
is the result, too, which seems to be anticipated in
England, as may be seen from the following arti
cle in the Bristol (Eng.) Mirror, in which the with
drawal of the Collins line is claimed as a triumph
of the Cunard line of English steamers :
OCEAN RACTNG—TRIUMPH OF THE BRITISH.
The United States packets (Collins line) have
ceased running. For ten years the American
mails were carried by British steamers (Cuuard’s).
The Americans then thought they could build
mail packets as well as Englishmen could; they
accordingly started Sand’s line between New York
and Southampton. These vessels were soon sur
passed in speed and size by new ships built by
Cunard. In 1850 Collins started his line between
New York and Liverpool, in direct opposition to
Cunard. He has built in the whole live ships at
an expense of eight hundred thousand pounds
sterling; two of these, viz: the Arctic and Pacific,
worth two hundred thousand pounds, were lust.
Soon after 1850, Livingstone started another Amer
ican line between New York and Southampton.
His first two ships, the Humboldt and Franklin,
were lost. Cunard established a weekly mail com
munication with America, and the three United
States lines established another weekly communi
cation, thus making the arrival and departure of a
mail between England and America serai-weekly.
Sands’, Collins’, and Livingstone’s packets were
heavily subsidized by the American government.
Collins reduced the passage between New York
and Liverpool to less than ten days. Cunard has
built eight ships since 1850, only one of which,
viz: the Persia, has beaten those of his great ri
vals ic speed, and this superiority is only on the
eastern passage.
Horses, it is said, run faster returning to than
going from their stable, and something like this
would appear to be the case with steamships. The
English mail packets run faster from New York to
Liverpool, and the Yankee steamers beat the Brit
ishers from Liverpool to New York. Sands’ line
ran ten years, ana last year the subsidy was with
drawn—the ships were found to be worn out for
ocean steaming, and they ceased running. They
earned a five per cent, dividend during the last
three years of their career, but nothing previous! v.
Collins’ has never paid simple interest to the stock
holders. The only line now properly subsidised
bv the American government is Livingstone’s, and
the subsidy of this will shortly be discontinued.
When it was first started it paid a seven per cent,
dividend, but this was soon reduced to nil. The
ships by this line only form a monthly communi
cation with England. VanderbiltVship.- carry
American mails for a portion of the postage >n let
ters which such mails contain. The failure of the
American lines is attributed to various causes.
The steam machinery of American steamers is in
ferior to that of English vessels, and the hulls are
not so strongly built, lienee the former ships
break down oftener than the latter, and this causes
irregularities in the mail service. Again, Ameri
can lines work with few’er steamers than English
lines; when there is a breakdown, therefore, with
the former, the mail service must be interrupted,
because ships are not at hand to be substituted for
the disabled one.
There is less certainty also about the continu
ance of the American subsidies than about the
English ones, and there is consequently a difficulty
in raising sufficient capital to provide an adequate
ti.*et for the American lines. Most of the ocean
lines would pay well without mail contracts if they
ran at a moderate speed. As it was the pace wliicn
used to kill horses in mail coaches, so it i* the
pace which wears out steamers an 4 ruins the own
ers. When a line of packets obtains a mail on-
I tract the packets are tasked at a high speed. This
of course secures the most profitable traffic, and
the non-subsidised lines on the same route, if they
do rot run as fast, are ruined. The wide differ
ence in the cost of working steamers at high and
low speed is easily proved. Collins* ships were
obliged to run fourteen miles an hour by contract;
but to do this each ship burnt one hundred and
twenty-eight t ns of coal daily. Now, that same
ship could run twelve miles an hour and only con
sume eighty tons of coal daily; and sixty-one tons
a day only would actually drive her eleven miles
an hour. The truth is, that the power of coal ne
cessary to produce speed must be increased in the
ratio of the cube of the velocity. Rut not only is
the cost of fuel enormous io fast steamers, but the
wear and tear of such ships must be very great.
They must first be built with great strength, at an
extra expeuse, of course.
After running six years, Collins’ ships cost in re
pairs more than the original outlay tor building
them, am! vet, notwithstanding those repairs, the
ships wouid not last more than twelve years.
Every trip of one of Collins’ steamers to England
and back again cost upwards of ten thousand
pounds sterling. Every six years the boilers have
to be renewed, at an expense of twenty two thou
sand pouuds sterling. Collin’s last" ship, the
Adriatic, cost, in building, one hundred und
seventy thousand pounds sterling. Her speed
has not yet been properly tested. Next to the
Leviathan, she is the finest ship in the world.
Notwithstanding that all Collins’ steamers were
really very fust and splendid ones, they never sup
planted Cuoard’s in public favor, not even wi’h
the Americans themselves. The formidable rivals
to Cunard’s have been fairly driven off the
Liverpool and New York line, and America has
acknowledged the supremacy of England in steam
navigation. The American "Government has not
yet finally decided on the uon-subsidy policy, and
tlolhns, with true Saxon pluck, having been driven
from the Mersey, is contemplating t mining his
magnificent steamers to some port m the British
Channel, where they would be sure to monopolize
the traffic of the wliole continent of Europe with
America.
In reference to the final disposition to be made
of the Collins steamers, we find the following par
agraph in the Journal of Commerce of the 6th
instant:
An energetic effort is now bein<* made by the
Philadelphians to purchase the Collins steamers,
with the view to the establishment of a steam line
betweeu Philadelphia and Europe. According to
the l J tn/u j'f.anian, arrangements have been made
for their acquisition by responsible parties of that
city. The cum of five hundred thousand dollars
is required to accomplish the object, the balance
of th # e purchase money to renin* non the property.
It is intended to form a joint stock company; and
to this end, a subsciiptiou list is to be opened at
the Exchange, and application will be made to the
State Legislature for a charter. The plan is to
run the steamers between Philadelphia and
Southampton, with a view to secure the passenger
and freight transportation from the Continent of
Europe, and thus avoid, to a great exteut, the for
midable competition of the Cunard line.
In case Philadelphia should succeed in purebas-
; ng the steamers, the Pennsylvanian thinks Con
gress cannot refuse a contract for carrying the
mails, or such appropriations as may be required
to sustain the line.
Gen. Johnston to bo Superceded.
The Evening Star , of the sth inst., has the fol
lowing paragraph:
“ We learn that Gen. Persifer F. Smith has been
ordered to Utah, and that the chief commaud of
the expedition will devolve upon him. Gen. S. is
one of the most accomplished aud popular officers
in the service—a soldier bv choice and education,
of thorough and matured study in military science,
of great experience as an officer, aud endowed
withal by a high and acknowledged military
genius. Gen. Harney is also ordered to Utah.”
The same paper says:
“ It has been ascertained that there has been no
acceptance, either conditional or unconditional, of
volunteers for the army in Utah, or other service,
under the bill now pending in Congress.”
ZW" We find the following items of news by
the Indian in our exchanges:
Discontent m Austrian Italy was hourly in
creasing.
The court cf Genoa have given judgment in the
political trials arising from the events of June.
Maz'.ini and five others have been tried in their
absence and condemned to death. Twenty-nine
were acquitted, and twenty-eight sentenced to
prison for from seven to twepty-eight years.
Four of the parties to the outrage on the Ameri
can family at Joppa have been convicted.
It is said that the Count de Chamberd bas re
solved to abdicate bis claims to the French throue
in favor of the Count de Paris.
The Liverpool Mercury says the Leviathan will
not be fit for sea in June.
The Columbia Sooth Carolinian.
The issue of the Carolinian of the 6th inst.,
contains the valedictory of the senior editor, R.
W. Gibbes, M. D. The Doctor carries with him, in
his retirement from editorial labors, the best wishes
of the members of throughout the South.
In our professional intercourse we ever found him
an able, courteous and industrious editor, as we
know him to be a talented and accomplished gen
tleman.
Franklin Gaillard, Esq., has succeeded Dr.
Gibbes in the editorial chair, and in a very neat
salutatory enters upon the discharge of his duties.
A pleasing incident in the withdrawal of Dr.
Gibbes is thus referred to:
“ The employees of the Carolinian office, on the
sth inst., presented the retiring editor, Dr. R. W.
Gibbes, a very handsome gold headed cane, of the
veteran Peckham’s best style, when Mr. P. S.
Jacob’s addressed him as follows :
Dr. Gibbes: It affords me much pleasure that I
have been appointed, in behalf of all engaged here,
to present you, on your retirement from the edito
rial chair, with a mark of the esteem we entertain
lor you as our employer. Within the last three
years you have daily labored in this office till your
paper has attained a standing among the journals
second to none in this State, so that you now can
with confidence give up a portion of your labors.
As the proprietor, however, we hope that you will
successfully remain for many years to come. Your
constant courtesy and the prompt fulfillment of
every engagement with us, makes this expression
a just demand on our feeiings. Accept, therefore,
tins day from me, in behalf of us all, this cane, as
a small*testimonial of the great respect we have
for you as our employer.
To which Dr. Gibbes replied:
Gentlemen: lam much impressed with the kind
expression of your feelings towards me in the
agreeable relation which has existed between us
for several years. Most of you have been identi
fied with my office as long as myself, and have
contributed largely to its success by your steady
and attentive regard for duty, and "assiduou? and
cheerful devotion to its practical obligations. It
affords me great pleasure to bear testimony to my en
tire satisfaction with the uniform industry and reg
ularity with which you have ever responded to my
demands upon you. Many occasions have existed
calling for extra exertions, and I have never made
a dratt upon you that has not been honored. In
retiring fromthe active management of the South
Carolinian with the character of which you are
identified, I cannot but express my confidence that
you wilt ever continue your efforts to advance its
interests. I thank you, gentlemen, for the kind
consideration you have ever shown me. and for the
very handsome and solid memorial of it. 1 shall
always cherish it in the spirit in which it is offered,
and with a grateful recollection of the circum
stances which have prompted this demonstration.
“ The migration or importation of such persons
as any of the States now existing shall think pro
per to admit, shall not be prohibited by Congress,
prior to the year e ; ghteen hundred and eight, but
a tax or duty may oe imposed on such importa
tion, not exceeding ten dollars for each person.”
We published in our issue of yesterday a com
munication, designed to show that there was noth
ing in the above, which is the ninth section of the
first article of the Constitution of the United States,
and the only section in that instrument having any
reference to the subject, which prohibits the im
portation of slaves from Africa; and enumerating
some of the evils which have resulted from their
exclusion, and which may result if the policy is
continued. “The only protection the slave interest
can have,” this was the conclusion of our corres
pondent, “is to import negroes so plentifully that
each voter of ordinary means can purchase at least
one or more.”
The writer of this communication is a gentleman
well known throughout the State, who, though
completely identified in feeling and in interest with
the people of the South, was born beyond the line
which divides the slave from the so-called free
States of the Union. We state the fact, because it
indicates that the opinions so boldly advanced by
him, in favor of an importation of laborers, direct
from the coast of Africa, to secure an adequate
supply of labor for the cotton, corn, rice and to
bacco fields of the southern States, are not enter
tained alone, by those who are stigmatised as
southern extremists, but by many of the most
moderate and conservative men in our midst, who
have been led to consider the subject calmly and
dispassionately in all its aspects—moral, social,
political and economic.
Our correspondent was certainly correct in the
construction which he gave to the section of the
Constitution in relation to the slave trade, which
we give above. There is nothing in that section
which commands or requires the Congress of the
United States to prohibit the importation of slaves
from Africa, nor would it, if it choose to repeal
the laws inhibiting such importation which have
been passed under the authority of this section,
“oftend aught save the anti-slavery prejudices of
such as look for wealth, honor and power in a dif
ferent direction.” All this is true. There is no
provision in the Federal Constitution prohibiting
the African slave trade, and Congress has the
power to change our legislation upon the subject,
and relieve the Government of its obligations to
suppress it. Rut, and this is the idea which pro
bably occurred to every one who read the commu
nication of our correspondent, of what practical
value is the existence of this power, as long
as there is a northern majority in our Federal
legislature? The incessant and exhausting
discussion of the subject of slavery, in which
we have been engaged for thirty years, has en
: lightened aud intensified the pro-slavery senti
ment of the South, but has not rerhoved the deep
seated prejudices of the North against the institu
tion of slavery. Its hostility to that institution
has increased with its power, until it will hardly
; recognise rights connected with it which are guar
, antied by the Constitution or permit a new free
State to be admitted into the Union, under a
Constitution which recognises it, and it is
hardly possible that its representatives in Con
gress will ever cease their war upon it, and,
instead of overriding laws to injure, repeal laws
to protect its interests. Os what practical value,
therefore, is the power of Congress to legalize
and regulate the African slave trade, as long as
there is a northern majority in that body? If
the re-opening of the African slave trade must
wait upon the exercise of this power by onr
federal legislature, tlie discussion of the policy
of the measure may be postponed for fifty years.
It is a curious fact, which we may mention in
this connection, that the section of the Constitu
tion, legalising the African slave trade until the
year 1808, which we have placed at the head of
■ this article, was proposed in the convention of
1787, by which that instrument was framed and
i carried by southern men, in lieu of one proposed
\ by northern men, by which the traffic icas legalised
’ forever.
’ Terrible Outrage.— A correspondent of the
1 Bedford Democrat , writing from Rocky Mount,
f Franklin county, Va., states that a shocking mur
der was committed near that place about three
weeks ago, under the following circumstances:
1 “A man named Samuel Ferguson, residing six
1 miles of this place, rose from his bed one night,
» and getting a razor walked to the bed where his
wife was lying, and made a terrible gash from her
ear to her mouth, cutting off a piece of her ear,
and cutting out two of her teeth. She cried out,
aud awakened one of Ferguson’s brothers, who
- was sleeping in another room, who immediately
came in, when the murderer went out at the door.
i The other Ferguson followed him, when the hus
. band went back into the bouse with a hoe in his
• hand, and beat the head of his wife into a perfect
jelly with the weapon. The murderer was arrested
and is in jail awaiting his trial. He pretends to
be perfectly deranged stnee the affair.”
Lawrence. —The stagnation of business and
dearth of employment in Lawrence, Mass., is
1 greater than any manufacturing town of New
England. Twelve months ago the population was
reckoned at fifteen thousand; by the first of May
it will not exceed ten thousand.
Boston Ledger .
Kansas Scenes in Washington.
The outrages reputed to be perpetratefd in Kan
sas are trifling affairs in comparison with the daily
and nightly scenes of real cruelty, lawlessness and
murder enacted in Washington city. For months
past that city has fully equaled “rowdy Baltimore”
in the number of outrages on life and property.
The Washington correspondent of the Charleston
Evening Netos, writing on the sth inst., says:
Rowdyism, robbery and murder still run riot in
the Federal Metropolis. On Saturday evening be
tween nine and ten o’clock, a party of young men
took a tramp through the northern part of the
city. Going into a grocery store they called for
cigars and liquor, were waited upon, and departed
without paying their bill—the proprietor being
glad, under the circumstauces, to get off so easy.
.Proceeding northward into the suburbs, they over
took a young man named Cornell, belonging at
Columbia College. They accosted him, questioned
him closely about his place of residence, and de
manded his spare change. He handed them a
quarter of a dollar and a cent, stating that it was
every cent that he had about him. But not satis
fied with the amount, and expressing scepticism
of his statement, one of the party held a pistol at
his head, while the others stripped him of his
watch and rifled his pockets of whatever they con
tained. Then returning southward into the city,
they met two young men entirely unknown to
them—one of the two being Marcellus Stomps, a
messenger in the U. S. Treasury Department.
One of the party, since arrested and identified as
■ Wm. Johnson, seized Stoops by the shoulder, af
ter a momentary altercation, placed his pistol to
his breast, and shot him dead on the spot. Four
of the party, including three Johnsons, have been
arrested. It was wdtn much difficulty, yesterday,
that the officers kept Wm. Johnson from being
hung by a mob. Two men, supposed to be the
parties who committed the murderous assault
near the Capitol grounds the other night, have
also been arrested. One of them was a city po
liceman.
Ex-President Pierce writes from Maderia that
the climate of that Island continues to prove high
ly beneficial to the health of Mrs. Pierce.
The people of Main are to vote on the questions
of prohibition or license on the first Monday of
June.
The Presbyterian General Assembly, old school,
meets in New Orleans on the Gth of May.
The Van Buren Intelligencer announces that
Judge Greenwood declines a re-nomination to
Congress from the first district of Arkansas.
The bill to suppress bank notes under twenty
dollars, lias been rejected by the Virginia House of
Delegates.
G. G. Blackwood, the young man convicted at
New Orleans of the murder of Wright, was, on
the 27th ult., sentenced to the penitentiary for life.
The jewelry store of L. Turpia, in New Orleans,
was robbed of fourteen thousand dollars worth of
diamonds, pearls, watches, Ac., on the 29th ult.
The amount bequeathed to the city of Cincinnati
by the late Charles McMicken, to establish a uni"
verstiy to educate orphan children, is eight hun
dred thousand dollars.
It is stated that the President will appoint Ma
jor Ben McCulloch aud Gov. Powell commis
sioners, to proceed to Utah, and endeavor to in
duce the Mormons to yield to the Federal Govern
ment.
The Comet.—lt is stated that the periodical
comet discovered at Cambridge Observatory on the
4th of January, was again seen there on Friday
evening last. As it has now obtained quite a large
southern declination, it will soon cease to be visa
ble at observatories in northern latitudes.
The “Army Medical Board” for the examination
of Assistant Surgeons for promotion, and of can
didates for admission into the medical staff, met at
Richmond, Va., last Thursday. The Board is
composed of Surgeon C. A. Finlei, President;
Surgeons R. S. Sattkiilet and S. P. Moore ; and
Assistant Surgeon L. A. Edwards, Secretary. The
session will continue several weeks.
Speaking o{ the religious revolution now going
on throughout Christendom, the New Orleans
Bulletin says:
“It must be admitted, we think, that, for a num
ber of years past, in this country at least, Satan
has had things a good deal his own way, and has
had a remarkably free sweep ana a long chain.
We shall be most happy if some check can be put
to his operations.”
Came to its Death by being Killed. —The fol
lowing very lucid verdict of a Coroner’s jury we
find in the last Unionville Journal:
State of South Carolina, Union District. —lnquest
held before me, J. Hamilton, Magistrate, and
twelve jurors, and Dr. R. S. Gilliraan, over the
body of a white infant child, found floating in
Tiger river, just below John Thomas’ boat landing,
on the 23d of March, 1858 ; after a careful examina
tion on the 24th March, the jurors rendered in
their verdict that the child came to its death by
being killed, and then thrown into the river.
Mr. Everett’s Address. —There was a large
and delighted audience at the Athenaeum last
night, attracted by the fame of the great American
orator, aud anxious to hear him on the greatest of
themes—the character of Washington.
It is not our purpose, at this late hour, to do
more than allude to this masterpiece of oratory.
It was rich in glowing imagery—glittering with
pearls of speech—magnificent in its conceptions,
and wonderful in its execution. It was all that
could have been expected from its great author,
aud more than we dare look for from any other
living man.
Mr. Everett will remain in Savannah during the
day, and will be pleased to receive his friends at
the residence of Mr. I. K. Teffr, where he is stop
ping. He delivers his great oration in Augusta
to-morrow evening. —Samnnah News, April B th.
Hard to Kill. —A New York journal thinks that
if the Italian conspirators, instead of adopting com
plicated schemes, would attempt Napoleon’s life
with a single revolver, they would be more likely
to succeed. The plan of a single pistol has been
attempted before, with point blaukaim, and failed.
It has been tried again lately, with no success.
It strikes us that the surest way of overthrowing
the Imperial Government, would be for the con
spirators to blow out their own brains. In that
event, the liberal cause would be saved from the
staggering load of follies and crimes which Maz
zim A Co. now heap upon its shoulders.
The religious revival in Athens still continues,
and a spirit of deep, interest in spiritual matters,
is daily increasing in our community. Accessions
have been made to the different churches during
the past week, and there seems to be a feeling of
sober, serious concern pervading almost all classes
of our citizens. Daily prayer meetings are held in
the Methodist church, and also in the Hall of the
Demosthenian Society. These latter meetings have
heretofore been held in the law office of Thos. W.
Walker, Esq., at noon, but so greatly has the num
ber of participants increased, that on Tuesday last,
it was found necessary to adjourn to a larger room.
Southern Banner, April 1.
New York, April s.—Advices from the army in
Utah, to the 16tn of Februry, have been received.
The healt h of the army was good. The march upon
Salt Lake would probably commence about the
20th of May. Several hundred recruits had arri
ved at Fort Leavenworth. Preparations were
making at the latter place for the early forwarding
of reinforcements.
Col. Hofl'man’s command had been met four hun
dred miles from Leavenworth.
Col. Johnston’s provisions would not last longer
than May, but there were at Fort Scott four months’
supplies for three thousand men, and a train would
be dispatched from that point to Camp Scott im
mediately.
St. Louis, April s.— Advices from the army in
Utah to the Ist of March, state that Col. Johnston
had an effective force of eighteen hundred men and
a thousand animals in good condition, together
with a large force of volunteers. It was the uni
versal impression that Col. Johnston would not
await reinforcements before making an attack.
Nothing further had been heard of the Mormon
preparation.
31 un in pal Election.
At &d election held iti the city of Griffin on Mon
day, the sth inst., for a Mayor and eight Aider
men, the tallowing selection was the result:
For Mayor.— Win. M. Cline.
For Aldermen. —M. D. Smith, Geo. W. White,
A. B. Matthews, B. W. Doe, James S. Jones, Park
er Eason, Jos. Richardson.
The Mayor and first fire of the Aldeiynen named
are Democrats, the two last Americans. Dr. J. N.
Simmons and T. J. Brooks are tied, as the next
highest on the list of Aldermen. Consequently
only seven Aldermen were elected.
Judge O’Neall, in a recent case at Chester
(South Carolina) Court, brought by the owner of a
slave against a captain of patrol, for twice whip
ping a slave with a monthly pass, decided that an
owner has a legal right to give his slavo a pass for
a definite time specified. The Jury found lor the
plaintiff fifty dollars for each offence by the de
fendant.
Rev. Alexander Campbell, founder of the
Campbellite Church, is at present in Nashville.
He is endeavoring to raise funds to revive Bethany
College, in Virginia, of which he was President,
and which was destroyed by fire a few months
“go.
j£grWe understand the proceeds derived by the
Mount Vernon Association from the delivery of
the Address by the Hon. Edward Everett in this
city, amounted to eight hundred and three dollars.
In Savannah the sum of one thousand and two
dollars eighty cents was received.
Railroad Communication between France and
Switzerland. —On the 16th and 17th ultimo was
to be celebrated the opening of the Lyons and
Geneva railroad with appropriate ceremonies. A
great concourse was expected. This junction of
France and Switzerland must be, indeed, univer
sally regarded as a memorable event; of moment
in its prospects, political, commercial, and social;
and travellers, of whatever country, may rejoice
in the convenience of the journey.
The Jaffa Outrage. —The New York Observer
says that the perpetrators of the horrible outrage
pnd murder in the family of Mr. Dickson, at Jaffa,
in Syria, have been arrested and condemned to
death. Fourteen murders have been perpetrated
within two years in the vicinity of Jaffa and Jeru
salem, on persons of different nations, and no no
tice has been taken of them by government.
The American Cousul-in-General in Egypt, Mr. Du
Leon, by his promptness and energy, brought
about the seizure of the perpetrators.
Mr. Bright on Lord Palmerston.— ln a letter to
a friend, at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Mr. Jno. Bright
says: “I congratulate you and the country on the
downfall of the very worst Ministry that I have
known. The Ministry which has succeeded to it
may be deemed a transition Ministry, to be follow
ed, I trust, by one more entitled to the confidence
of the great Liberal party in the country—a party
which includes a vast majority of the nation."
TnE Leviathan. —A Loudon letter writer says:
“ I have just returned from a visit to the Levia
than. She is moored directly opposite where she
was built. There is no machinery in her yet, in
fact she is a mere skeleton. From inquiries on
board I could not leurn when she would be finish
ed. Ido not thiuk it possible to get her ready for
sea before August, and to have her ready by that
time will require night and day labor incessantly.
There are very few men at work on her now.”
The Grand Jury, of Philadelphia have found true
bills against Mr. Allibone, late president, and
Thomas A. Newhall, late director of the Bank of
Pennsylvania, charging them with conspiracy in
certain transactions which have resulted in a loss
to the institution of some two hundred and forty
thousand dollars. They have been held to bail in
the sum of ten thousand dollars each to answer the
charge.
The Mississippi Manufacturing Company has a
factory in Choctaw county, about forty-five miles
from Grenada. Its capital is eighty thousand dol
lars. It was established in 1848. Its clear profits
for the last four years have not been less than thir
ty per cent, per anuum on the capital invested.
Its chief operations are in making cotton yarn,
cotton osnaburgs, and linseys.
In Maine, Michigan, and other States, the farm
ers are about engaging in the manufacture of ma
ple sugar. It is not probable that the product this
year will equal that of the last, which was greater
than ever known before, as the season is likely to
be shorter, and prices are lower.
The Ohio legislature have agreed to hold an ad
journed session, commencing in January next.
The biennial session system does not work well in
Ohio, and every legislature, with one exception,
has disregarded it. It is proposed to amend the
Constitution and go back to annual sessions.
A serious accident followed a late balloon
ascension in Baton Rouge, La. When at a con
siderable elevation, the balloon took tire, when it
fell very rapidly, and caught on the top of a dead
tree. The balloonist fell some forty feet to the
ground, injuring his spine.
An Obliging Jury. —The story is told that a jury
at Taunton, Muss., recently, being unable to agree
in a certain case where a man was accused of steal
ing two dollars and fifty cents worth of nails, re
ported that they were wiliing to pay for the nail*
and let the prisoner go.
A Healthy City. —The Columbus Enquirer
learns from the Sexton of that city that there has
not been a death within the corporate limits since
the 18th of February last. Columbus contains a
popular of near ten thousand.
Assistant Surgeons. —The "army medical
board" for the examination of assistant surgeons
for promotion, and of candidates for admission
into the medical staff of the army, met at Rich
mond (Va.)on the Ist instant.
The strike of the weavers at the Naurakeag mill,
in Salem, has not yet been settled. The strikers
are still off work, and it is said neither they nor
the officers of the mill seem likely to compromise
the matter.
The time occupied in Cincinnati in firing up a
steam fire-engine, lighting her torches, attaching
the horses, and getting the machine into the B\reet,
does not exceed one minute and a half.
Mr. Davis, a well known peach grower, of Cler
mont county, Ohio, reports that not more than one
peach bud in twenty thousand has escaped the
frost.
Gen. Henderson, U. S. Senator from Texas,
is said to be far gone in consumption. Genen 1
Davis, of Miss., is still in a precarious condition.
Col. Colt is said to have made a contract with
the War Department for one hundred thousand
dollars’ worth of his arms.
Later advices from Venezuela report that Mona
gas has made a forced loan of a million to per
petuate his despotic power.
Prof. Hudson, of Oberlin College, was run over
by the cars and killed, at Olmstead, Ohio, on the
Ist inst.
Homicide in Girard.— We learn that a rencontre
occurred near Girard, Ala., on Wednesday, be
tween a man by the name of Veasy, or Beasy, and
a man named Lewis Whatley, in which the latter
received a pistol shot from tne hand of the former,
causing his death in a few hours afterwards.
Columbus Sun, April 9.
BY TELEGRAPH.
ARRIVAL
OF THE STEAMSHIP
AMERICA.
Slight Change in Cotton.
MANCHESTER ADVICES UNFAVORABLE.
Halifax, April 9.—The British and Royal Mail
steamship America, Capt. A. Ryrie, arrived this
afternoon with Liverpool dates to Saturday,
March 27th.
* Commercial Intelligence.
Liverpool Cotton Market.— The sales of cotton
for the week ending March 25th, inclusive, were
65,000 bales, of which speculators took 4,500 and
exporters 9,500 bales, leaving to the trade 51,000
bales. The market opened at an advance of %vo
%d-, but subsequently declined %d. on Middlings,
and %d. on the lower grades, as reported by the
accounts by the steamship Persia.
The authorised quotations were—
Fair Orleans 7%d. I Mid. Orleans 7d.
“ Mobile 7%d. " Mobile 6%d.
“ Uplands.. ..7%d. | " Uplands. 6 11-16 d.
The sales on Friday, March 26th, were 7,000
bales, speculators and exporters each taking 1,000
bales, and the market closed quiet.
The stock on hand was 402,000 bales, of which
299,000 bales were American.
State of Trade. —Accounts from the manufac
turing districts were unfavorable, as there was
but little enquiry for yarns and manufactured
goods, and prices were weak.
Havre Cotton Market. —Prices had slightly im
proved, and Orleans tree Ordinaire was quoted at
104 f.
Liverpool Breadstuff* and Provisions Market. —
Trade in all branches is dull.
London Money Market. —Money is generally un
changed and abundant. The bullion in the Bank
of England had increased £772,000.
Consols for money 97% a 97%, and for account
97% a 97%.
General News.
Nothing important had occurred in Parliament.
The new Ministry had introduced its Indian
bill. The main features are like Palmerston’s,
but the details are different.
Pellissikr’s appointment as French Ambassa
dor to London has generally given satisfaction.
Telegraph dispatches from Madrid state that
the government is maturing a project to abolish
slavery in all of the Spanish territories.
Several changes in the. English diplomatic ser
vice have taken place. Mr. Cii.vmpton goes to
Russia.
[second dispatch.]
Liverpool General Markets. —Wheat closed with
an advancing tendency, but rather irregular.
Western wheat, 255. a 265. 6d. Corn steady, 33s
6d. a 345. Rice quiet—Carolina, 235. 9d. Rnsin
steady, 4s. 2d. to 4s. 4d. for common, and ss. to
12s. for medium. Turpentine dull, 41s. 6d. tcT42s.
The British exports have largely decreased,
showing a falling off in the year ending in Feb
ruary, of over £2,00d,000.
[The quotations for Cotton, by the Persia, a
week previous to the America, were, for—
Fair Orleans 7%d. | Mid. Orleans...7 1-16 d.
" Mobiles 7%d. " Mobiles 6%d.
" Uplands 7%d. J " Uplands 6%d.
Congressional.
Washington, April 9.—The Senate was not in
session to-day.
In the House, the deficiency bill was reconsider
ed and passed.
Both houses have adjourned until Monday.
Serious Illness of Ex-Senator llenton.
Washington, April 9.—C01. Benton is said to
be dying.
Latest from Utah.
St. Louis, April 9.—Dispatches from St. Jo
sephs state that Brigham Young has notified Col.
Johnston that if he doea not leave the Territory of -O
Utah before the 10th of March, his forces will be
annihilated.
The Assault ou the Secretary* •
Washington, April 9.—Mr. Besaucan, the indi
vidual who attempted yesterday to short the Sec
retary of the Interior, is out in a card to-day, in
which he states that the Secretary and himself
have always been on the best of terms, and the
affair yesterday was the result of momentary ex
asperation.
Progress of the Revolution in Venezuela.
Baltimore, April 9. —A vessel arrived at this
port last evening, from Laguayra, which brings the
intelligence that Jose Tadeo Moxagas, the Presi
dent of the Republic of Venezuela, has resigned
his office, and that a provisional government has
been organised, and Gen. Castro been placed at
its bead.
Market Reports.
Charleston, April 9.—Sales of Cotton to-day •
2,200 bales—firm and full.
Savannah, April 9.—Sale3 of Cotton to-day 500
bales—market firm. Sales limited in consequence
of waiting for America’s news.
Mobile, April 9.—Sales of Cotton to-day 600
bales, at a decline of %th cent. Middling 11%
cents. The receipts to day are 170 bales. The
sales for the week are 21,500 bales; and the re
ceipts 7,500, against 4,000 bales last year. The
decrease at this port is 4,900 bales. The stock oa
hand and on shipboard is 104,500 bales.
New York, April 9.—Sales of Cotton to-day
4,500 bales, at an advance of %c.; Middling Up
lands 12% cents. Flour heavy; sales 7,000 bar
rels. Wheat firm ; sales 24,000 bushels. Com
dull; sales 23,0u0 bushels. Navals steady.
£5T"“Ion” writing from Washington to the
Baltimore Sun says, in his letter of the 6th inst.:
"The rumor that the President will send com
missioners to Utah to advise with the Mormon
leaders and counsel them against resistance to the
laws and authorities of the Union, is probable,
though the step has not yet been taken. The ex
tensive military arrangements which have been
made for the subjection of the Mormons will not
be rendered the less efficient by a prior resort to
conciliatory measures. It is understood that Gen.
Persifer F. Smith is to take the command of the
army of Utah.
"Private letters from the city of Mexico represent
that the Zulo&go government will be sustained, at
least for some time."
A correspondent of the Temperance Orusw
der writing from Augusta, on the 30th March, says:
"Upon a review of the members of the Baptist
church of this city, I find there three hundred
and eighteen members, consisting of two hundred
and twenty-nine females, of which there are one
hundred and seventy Mrs., and fifty-nine Misses,
and only eighty-nine males. This is a glorious
commentary upon woman.
"A Lodge of the "Sons of Malta," a benevolent
institution, will be shortly organised in this city."
The Supreme Court of the State has at length
adjourned, Laving concluded its laborious sessions
in this city on Thursday. About seventy-five cases
were brought up and decided at this term of the
Court. —Atlanta Examiner y 1( )th inst.
New York, April 7. —The large flour mills,
owned by Homer Ramsdell, laie President of the
New York and Erie Railroad, near Newburgh,
were totally destroyed by fire last night, with their
entire contents. Loss, twenty-five thousand dol
lars. Two or three weeks ago, Mr. Rums-dell lost
a large barn, with eight valuable horses, as well as
a number of sleighs, carriages, harness, tools, Ac.,
in Newburgh, worth twelve to fifteen thousand
dollars, on which there was no insurance.
Washington, April B.—lt is said that drafts to
a very large amount have been returned on the
Treasury department. It is also said that Treasu
ry notes are 8 to 10 per cent, discount in some
parts of the West.