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Sfetkljf Cmistitiitimniiisi.
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BY JAMES GARDNER.
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young Men’s Christian Association o!
% New Orleans.
k > - Saw OrliASs, Au*. 28.—The Young Men’s
fA’’'‘c Christian Association of New Orleans, haring or
ganised a relief committee, and established infirm
aries to alleviate the suffering of those afflicted
HgjSo with yellow fever in the city and Tieinity, call up-
HpjjpS'' on kindred Associations and friends to collect
- fiinds and send Wtheir relief.
jY 7 “R. G. Lattisg, Chm’n Relief Com.
Late from California.
Niw York, Ang. 27.—The steamship’ Moses
Taylor has arrived with the California and
E? dates to the sth August.
jp ’ The Moses Taylor left at Key West the United
States brig Doiphin, who reported that she had
• captured a slaver under American colors, and sent
her into Charleston. [We have already published
W a dispatch from Charleston, announcing the arri
- val at that port of the three hundred Africans cap
lp~ tured off the North coast of Cuba by the Dol
phin.J
A party of sixty apostate Mormons and iheir
families had arrived at Carson Valley.
The Frazer mines gold fever had almost entire
ifcfe lyßubsided.
* The recently appointed United Stateß Minister,
Mr. Clarke, was received in a very cordial man
, • % ner by the President of Guatemala.
The latest intelligence from Utah states that the
sS* Indians are more hostile than ever.
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HP, I Cable News. ,
[We received the following dispatch, this (Fri
day) morning, a few minutes before eleven o’clock.
jtsP It left London this morning, although we are not
Be- able to state the hour. It is the “latest time” we
have yet recorded over the Cable course.]
It „ Lor don, Friday morning, Aug. 27.—The Em
, peror of France returns to Paris to-morrow, Sat
wa urday, the 2Stb.
■’* + , The King of Prussia iS too 3ick to visit Queen
W,VIOTOBIA.
|gi' \t | Her Majesty returns home on Monday, the 30th
pfe* 'V inst.
i The Chinese empire will be opened to the trade
j ] of all nations; The Christian religion will be al-
A . lowed, and foreign diplomatic agents admitted.
mb'-'" - Full indemnity has been guaranteed to England
• and France, but no mention is made as regards
that point with the United States.
Latest by the Cable Line.
London, Friday, Aug. 27.—Dates from St. Pe
"teraburg to the 21st inst., have been received. The
j announcement of peace having been declared with
China, caused great satisfaction to the Emperor
I 4? and Court.
Dates from Alexandria, in Egypt, had been re
eeiyed up to the 9th inst.
The steamer Madras had arrived at Suez, on the
*- 7th August, with Bombay dates to July 19th.
■Jr r- *“ion of Europe.
I
#V nettled, with saUe to-day of 10,000 tjarrels-State
f ■, brands quoted from *3 90 to *5 94 ; Ohio *5 85 to
KfSSt 4 . „ 10; r.nd Southern *5 30 to *5 7'-. Wheat
i, ‘ 'heavy, with sales of 10,000 bushels. Corn heavy,
with sales of 33,000 bushels—mixed qualities 74 to
fe ? * 84 cents. Spirits of Turpentine 48J£ to-40 cents,
il" oißice dull at VA to 3% cents.
p m
F- . From Correspondence of the Baltimore f un.
Washington, August 24,-The exposition con
tained in the Unton, of this morning, of themten-
I *: tions of the Executive in regard to the Paraguay
6# expedition, is doubtless authentic. It is satisfac
tory to know from such authority that the naval
ft. force at length provided for the service will be
s' adequate to the reduction of the forts above the
L Trees Bocos, and near the capital, Assumption.
§. The instructions to the United States Commission-
S' ers are also referred io as haviug been completed,
W- with a view to meet the evasive diplomacy of Lo
pez. Our little fleet will no doubt give a good ac
-11:. count of itself. ... , ,
Is In diplomacy ihe Spanish Americans excel, and
|i ' H will perhaps be the policy of Lopez to temporise,
Its . and weary our Minister and naval Commander
Hr , with deiaj-3, and force them to refer back to Wash
ington for instructions. Whatever we are to do,
i whether iu war or negotiation, with Paraguay,
B> Ainuki be done promptly. A failure of the expedi-
B: tion would prove disastrous to American reptita
§S* .» tion throughout South America,
j - The population and resources of Paraguay are
understood by the authorities ordinarily referred
raft to. The population is estimated at three hundred
Hr thousand; whereas, according to Mr, Hopkins,
. who was lately U. S. consul at Assumption, it is
- six hundred and fifty thousand. That Lopez had
[5- . . twelve thousand men under arms when threatened
ffi With an attack from hostile neighbors, is well
mm- known. He has also European engineers and tac-
Kj':-.' - ticians in his service. He has had too long a time
9 ' tor preparation against our expedition, and will
tea - perhaps attempt to obstruct the navigation ol the
■fes river above the “three mouths.” But this again
SH& would involve himwin difficulty with England,
Ke'.-A France, Buenos Ayres and Brazil.
- Another of his dodges will no doubt he io seek
HE.- the mediation of a mutually friend'y power, and
m even propose mu arbitration, the acceptance of
ip is probably forbidden by the instructions
H ; to our minister. ' ,* . ,
B President Lopez is the chief merchant, broker,
cigar-maker and steamboat owner in his fertile
Up and is reputed to be worth more mo-
K , ney than the whole amount nowin our treasury,
W increased as it has been by the ten million loan.
He can, therefore, easily pay the amount of in
■jßE . demmty which is claimed on account of spolia-
Hpr tiqos npon our peeople. lon.
H Tbb Weather, Crops, Trade, Ac.—The weath-
KL er in this vicinity has been a little fall-like during
the last few days. The nights and mornings are
H cool and pleasant. It is, however, temporary, and
m we fear we are not yet through with the heat and
H dust of the city.
m" The crops in and around Columbus are not so
■ . favorable as heretofore. The corn crop is plenti
' ful and remarkably fine, bat the cotton is full of
H boll worms and rust. Some of the farmers will
■ not make the third of a cotton crop.
■ Potatoes, beans, peas, etc., are doing well. Upon
■ the whole, the farmer has no right to complain.
|H The trade is getting a little brisk in the city.
The countrymen are coming in with their wagons,
■ • bringing produce, and receiving in return goods
H * and groceries. The fall dry goods of some of the
■ merchants are being received, and the ladies are
examining the advertisements in search of such
a- articles as suit there taste, and the house to find
K.: them. A few beaux and lovers are returning from
.*v, , the summer resorts, jaded with the continued
Ha.. . round of gaieties, and are warmly greeted by their
"■'m RSfe cant-get-away friends at home. This ends our
P||f . Timtsdk Sentinel, 2<jtk met.
- StiDuax Death.—Mr. Seaborn F. Simmons, of
- 5 Jg r v Dglethdrpe countyf dropped dead suddenly in this
S** town on Monday of last week. We understand
? 3HOEfe that be had been seriously ilia few days before,
;K r "| and that at the time of bis death his mind was
ftMi fe seriously impaired. He was, we believe, esteemed
ISSy '-»ndn all tbe relations of life, and a good citizen.
■ I a' * Athens Walkman, Ang. 26,
■y&’Stes... .
iCORIICNICATED.j
Jndge Douglas—Kansas—The Supreme
Court ol Georgia—The Banks—Gover
nor Brown, and the approaching Ses
sion of the Legislature.
Let ns hold a familiar chat, gentlemen, on these
exciting questions, talking plainly, that the side
of truth and right may be illustrated.
You vindicate Judge Douglas, and wish him
success in his fight in Illinois, and you are right.
He vindicates the Dred Scott decision, and bolds
that the Constitution of the United States carries
slavery into the Territories. Is it southern policy
for him to succeed, or for Trumbull, Wentworth,
and their Abolition horde, to bear off tbe impor
tant State of Illinois in triumph ? Let the victory
be to tbe “ little giant.” Bnt the cry is, he voted
against Lecompton, And pray what is Lecomp
ton and anti-Lecompton but humbug, and the foot
ball of presidential aspirants? There was never
any vitality in that question to the South, and it
was always, and is now, only a presidential ladder,
Dot like old Jacob’s on whieh angels are ascend
ing and descending, but aspirants are scrambling
up and'struggling to cast each other down. The
honest masses are sick and tired of tbe contest.
The Washington Union reads Douglas out of the
Democratic ‘party. If this is to be done, what
shall be done with Mr. Buchanan for sendiug
Walker into Kansas, to preach up “ the isother
mal line” against slavery, and to stimulate free
soil emigration to that Territory? Let us be fair,
and if Douglas tqust be read out, take up the cases
of Buchanan, Cobb A Co., and pass upon them.
It can hardly be credited that the administration
endorses the Union' » attacks on Donglas. But if
so, more prudence may enure greatly to the bene
fit of the Democratic party. Jnst now a quietus
on this sorry, thread-bare Kansas question, will
knock the breath out of the Black Republican
party. The administration and the Union may
not only keep it alive, but give it a dangerous
plethora of blood, muscle and political organism.
I commend to the powers at Washington aconplet
from “Two Millions;”
‘-Who fights to the end may win, but doubly wise
Who knowe the moment when to compromise.”
Now, gentlemen, the best thing to be done with
Kansas, is to admit her as soon as it can be done
—there is no chance for her to be a slave State
let her come in, and then, through the supremacy
of the Democratic party, the South may confident
ly look for the extension of her institutions into
regions more congenial to their spread and perpe
tuity. Mark my word, if Kansas presents herself
properly tor admission, and the Democratic party
stands in opposition, a false issue will be made,
and a sad, fatal blunder committed. To save us
from such consequences, the masses should con
trol the machinations of politicians.
You have marked the wide spread discontent of
the people with the Supreme Court decision at
Macon on the Columbus bank cases. A monstrous
decision it is, bemuse it breaks down the protec
tion and safeguards of bill-holders, and opens
give to ifS
ability and independence. It would be weak and
lunstatesmanlike to strike down an institution con
secrated to justice and to right, by the experience
of nearly all the Sta'tes, because of one wrong de
cision. Rather let us endure its present evils, in
the hope of the many future benefits to flow from
its re-organization.
I hear but little of late about the banks and
Gov. Brown. The banks havd done their duty by
returning to specie payments, and the Governor
his by seeking to enforce tbe laws. And now let
there be peace between them. If things are done
in a right spirit, theHegislature will ask nothing
wrong, and the banks will be required to submit
to no wrong. But the banks should remember
the people are masters. Porcupine.
From the Saeannah Republican, Aug. 28.
Milford, Ga., Ang. 24.
You ask information in reference to the crops
through this section. As far as I can learn and
see we have good corn crops; and the prospect, at
one’ time for cotton, was fine; but, like all sublu
nary things, it has changed, and for the worse. 1
have seen much for myself, and heard many of the
opinions of good practical planters, asd they uni
versally say that they will havea short crop, owing
to a few weeks’ drouth and the rust. I have not
heard of a farm in South-western Georgia that is
free from this, the terror to planters. It is very
doubtful about our crops reaching even last year.
The plantation from which snch fine specimens of
weed were sent yon last spring, are now literally
destroyed by rust. We have some worm, and no
bolls now smaller than a partridge egg, which
shows conclusively that the cotton has done noth
ing for several weeks back. * *
Extract from a letter dated,
Washington, Wilkes Co., Aug. 20th.
The health of our county was never better. Our
crops of corn are unusually good, and cotton pro
mises a full crop without some disaster; picking
has very generally commenced. My opinmn is,
there will he a larger yield of cotton in Wilkes
than we have had for some years. The cow epi
demic has pretty well subsided; it appeared among
us in rather a modified form, and was not so mtal
as in the lower counties. Yours, Ac., K.
An Excellent Appointment.— Major Charles J.
Helm, of Kentucky, has been appointed Consul-
General of the United States at Havana. This is
essentially putting the right man in the right
place The unfortunate consular corps of the Uni
ted States (of which we shall take occasion to say
more at some future day) has become a sort of r»-
faoium peccatontm. But we are glad to learn that
the appointing power does not in all instances en
tirely overlook qualifications. Certainly after ap
pointing the Dresent incumbent at Vera Crnz, it
was due to Kentucky to make her some atone
ment, wherefore, perhaps, this excelent selection
for Havana. ... . ..
Major Helm performed eminent service in the
Mexican war as adjutant general of Gen. Wool,
and has lately returned from a five years’ service
in the important consulate at St. Thomas. Os the
efficient and highly appreciated course of Major
Helm at St. Thomas, the visitors at his elegant
residence at Newport, Ky., have ample evidence
in the shape of a massive service of silver present
ed by the merchants ofSt. Thomas and New York.
We can only infer that his record in the Depart
ment of State must be perfect, for we seldom hear
of promotion in our consular system, .whence we
might infer that the greater number of consols ac
quit themselves of tbeir official obligation in rath
er a shabby manner.— Washington mates.
TV weather for some days past has been any
thl lf v 4>t agreeable. Lowering clouds, ireqnent
shjjws, and a cool, stiff North-easter have been
the regular order, day and night, and it U a won
der our city remains so healthy under snch a state
ot the elements.
We perceive from our exchanges there was frost
in several towns West of Boston on Friday last.
In Farmington, Mass., tbe mercurv stood, on the
morning of that day, at forty-two degrees.
. Savannah Reps&hcan, Aug. 27.
YXIGrXISTY, GA„ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1858.
From the London Herald., August 5. £3B
The Chinese Rebellion.
The intelligence that Ning-po has fallen into the
hands of the Chinese insurgents, is calculated tcf
awaken the expectation that we shall now le«4
something more certainly of this formidable more?
ment than has been possible hitherto. Xin-po b<4-
ing one of the fire free ports for foreign trad* (f
city, moreover, of considerable literary, as well as
commercial repute) contains many European mer
chants, and a considerable number of American
and English missionaries. From these we shall
probably receive somewhat different representa
tions, according to the different views they may be
disposed to take; but between them, doubtless,
there will be much valuable information forward
ed to this country in the shape of facts, from which
we may draw our conclusions.
It has been assumed, but without apparent
firoof, that Tai-ping, formerly Hung-siu-tsuen, the
eader of the rebellion, was just one of those ban
ditti that were reported in 1850 as infesting the
province of Kwang-si, and that, emerging thence
as a robber chief, and meeting with some success,
he made pretensions to the throne of China ef
fecting political and religious zeal as a pretext for
plunder on a large scale. It has been
that none except Protestant missionaries have be-'
lieved that they could trace a germ of Christianity,
in the rebel proclamations, ana that Hr. Meadows,
who is now consul at Ning-po, has been almost the
only man that has attributed motives of patriotism
to Tai-ping.
What Tai-ping is now we shall no doubt learn
within a short time j but we known from reliable
sources enough of the commencement of his career
to regard the present movement as very different
from the usual outbreaks of Chinese rebellion, and
fraught with very different results. The generally
received facts are as follows: About twenty-one
yedrs ago Hung-siu-tsuen was a promising ana am-,
bilious student, teaching a school in his native vil
lage in the province of Kwang tung. The excite
ment attending an examination for literary honors
at Canton, and the bitter disappointments! proving
unsuccessful, threw him into a fit of illness, which
merged into mental derangement just as his friends
believed it was terminating in death. They anx
iously watched him during the six weeks that he
believed himself employed in exterminating evil
spirits, and ran about his room fighting, singing
and exhorting by turns, till, exhausted with his ef
forts, he lay down to sleep, only to rise and go
through the same exercise again. With the return
of health he became gradually changed both in
character and appearance, acquiring a large sta
ture, great bodily strength, a firm pace and piercing ■
gaze. He resumed and for several years continued
his labors as a teacher, but to his more intimate
friends betrayed that the visions of his illness, of
which be had spoken freely on bis first recovery,
bad made a deep impression upon his mind, as
though some other and strange destiny awaited
him.
In the year 1843, he and his cousin Li were lad
to examine some books in the Chinese language
entitled "Good Words Exhorting the Age.’’ 't hese
books, according to Dr. Morrison's account, were
written by one of Dr. Miller’s converts, and HM)
revised by Dr. Morrison himself before being print
ed at Malacca. They contain a good many entire
chapters of the Bible, essays from single texts, And
sundry Scriptural miscellanea. In these volumes
Siu believed he found the key to the visions he bad
had six years before, and that fie came to the co%
elusion that he was divinely appointed to destroy! tie
idolatry of his native country and restore it to me
worship of the true God. . •>i-
He and his cousin baptised themselves according
congregations numbering from one hundred to
three hundred individuals.
However far this doctr!" • might be from pure
Christianity it embraced the main points of re
nouncing idolatry and keeping the ten command
ments, any violation of which was severely pun
ished. These now disciples were presently favored
with those marvels which usually attend the com
mencement of great religious movements; they
had visions, ecstatic raptures and miracles nfheai
ing. Taking these things in connection with the
singular reformation of their lives, and the re
markable character of their chief, physically,
mentally and morally, it is not surprising that
the congregations of the God-worshippers in
creased marvelously; that when a pestilential
disease broke out numbers joined from the idea
that they would tffns escape contagion, and that
when quarrels arose between two sets ol inhabi
tants those who were defeated Bought refuge with
the God-worshippers. But presently not only dis
tressed villagers, but bands or robbers dispersed
by the imperial soldiers, sought this alliance,
gladly submiting to their discipline for the sake
of personal safety. In this fact Siu saw an indi
cation of the design of Heaven to raise a valiant
band for the deliverance of China from idolatry
and the Manchoo dynasty. He did not hesitate to
receive them; and this, as he bad foreseen, led to
a collision with the mandarin soldiers. Siu was
blockaded in a spot surrounded by high mountains
and having only a narrow pass kept by soldiers.
A number of his followers assembled, overcame
the soldiers, and delivered their chief. Thus was
the Rubicon passed.
Such were the antecedents of the now rebel
chief, as reported in 1852 by one of his relatives,
who, having been captured, escaped again, and
finding it impossible to re-join his companions,
fled to Hong Kong. There is no reason to doubt
the general veracity of his statement, as received
by Mr. Hamburg, especially as he had no means
of learning the result even of the first collision
with the imperial forces. The subsequent career
of Siu is more generally known than the details of
Mr. Hamburg’s unpretending narrative; how he
was ufterwards joined by many members of those
political societies which had been organising for
some years for the overthrow of the Manchoo dy
nasty; how, when the city of Yung-ngan fell into
the hands of the insurgents, they unanimously de
clared him emperor of a new uynasty, under the
name of “Tai-ping-Wang, or “King of Great
Peacehow he pursued his victorious course till
Nankin was taken in 1855 ; and how he has since
pushed his conquests in various directions till al
raostevery city has more or less felt bis power. Bet
ter acquainted probably with tjie Old Testament
records than the new, he seems to have regarded
himself as another Joshua, difiinely commissioned
to extirminate idolatry by slaying its adherents as
well as by destroying its appurtenances.
is no reason to doubt his original or even his pre
sent sincerity.
He may now, if he chooses, obtain more perfect
instraction in the principles of Christianity; but
it may well be doubted whether he will be as do
cile now as he would have been nine or ten years
ago. Doubtless it would be difficult to induce him
at this stage of his career, to lay down his carnal
weapons and embrace the pacific doctrines of
Christianity. We cannot, with some, regard this
as an ephemeral movement. It may be that the
Imperial troops have regained much ground that
Tai-ping had overrun, but probably-they, have not
reinstated the belief of the Buddhist or Confucian
doctrine in the minds of the people. We do not
predict that this fangtic will overthrow the Man
chco dynasty and sit on the throne of China; but
doubtless he has shaken that throne, which other
circumstances may fill with a better man. We
would be far from exalting him as the apostle of
China, but he may prove to have been the pioneer
whose rough doing opened the tray for the en
trance of Cnristiamty.
English Doubts of the Paternity of (he Empress
Eugenie. —The English are the haughtiest men on
earth; and yet none can bear snubbing and he
initiation better. This fact is illustrated best in
their conduct towards Louis Napoleon. As Presi
dent, they denounced and cursed him, and called
him names; as Emperorj they extolled his great
ness, gladly accepted his aid in battle, and tneir
Queen in person conferred the highest honors
upon him. Just at the moment her Majesty Victo
ria is paying her respects to the Empress Eugenie
—and thus again acknowledging her rank to all
Eurobe—an English journalist volunteers some
“doubts of the paternity o| Empress.” One
would suppose that a proud Englishman would be
slow to tell the world that hi 9 Queen had, in the
highest forms of royal pomp, gone abroad to do
homage to the handsome “foundling.” The ro
mance is in these words:
from Paris Correspondence of London Advertiser.
The lofty and prominent station attained by that
distinguished lady who shares the throne of France
with Napoleon 111, has attracted public attention
of late to some iaw proceeding which took place
some time past at Valladolid and Arevallo—pro
ceedings which throw some doubt upon the pater
nity of that illustrious lady. There has been a
great demand for the Spanish law journals of 1827
and the following year. On searching through
the files of that period we find the subjoined ac
count of the nullity of a divorce pronounced in
1613 between a Spanish wife and husband : .
Don Joaquim de Montijo, captain of the regi
ment of Segovia, married in 1810, Donna Maria
de Penaosande, belonging to a respectable family
of Fontepelayo, near Segovia. Shortly after his
marriage he was taken prisoner of war and was
carried off to France, whither he was followed by
bis wife as soon as she ascertained that he had ob
tained an appointment as commandant of prison
ers of war, which made some addition to his pay.
Although Donna Maria went to France in compli
ance with her husband’s request, she does not ap
pear to have lived happily with him. Dissension
soiled the domestichearth—mutual recriminations,
each charging the other with adultery, brought
about a separation.
Don Joaquim haring lost bis appointment in
consequence of the removal of the prisoners of war
from Bourges to Dijon, took service in the French
army, being driven there by want. His wife, find
ing again that he had means of supporting her,
went to his regimental quarters, but was repelled
bv him with disdain, and refused admission. Their
divorce was finally pronounced by the French law
courts in November, 1813. On the return of Ferdi
nand VII. to Spain, Donna Maria returned to Fon
tepelayo with her son, aged two years and a half,
and lived there for six years with her family. Her
husband remained in France till 1820, when Ferdi
nand took oath to renew*theConstitutionoflßl2. He
then returned toSpain.and resided at his native town
of Arevallo, where he had some property; from
thence he wrote to bis wife to claim his son. She
refiised to send tbe child. Don Joaquim went to
exercise his paternal right, but Donna Maria re
fused to give him up. Don Joaqnim returned
home without bis child, but after a few weeks he
went back to Fontepelayo, fell in love again with
his wife, and proposed that they should live to
gether again and say nothing about the divorce,
which was known only to the family and his bro
thers. She returned with him to Arevallo, and
‘there resided with him until October 30tb, 1823,
when he died from the effects of a fall from his ,
horse.
: Her son inherited his lather’s property, under
the guardianship of his mother, who continued to
reside at Arevallo. We say her son, because, al
though at the death of Don Joaqnim she bad a
daughter, aged nine months, the child died short
ly after the death of its father. In the year 1830,
shq had also the misfortune to lose her son, and
her grief was embittered by the conduct of her late
husband’s brothers, Don Antonio and Don Brantio
do Montijo, who ordered, her to leave their l»te
I brother’s house, she having no right to call herself
ihis widow, having by her infamouscouduct neces
[li|*ted a divorce. She refused to Rave her house.
, i'Ufcceefiings were instituted before the Corregidor
1 of Arevallo. Don Joaquim Beneito, who delivered
i rue senienca on the 18th of June, 1827, that
wftereas a ij> wcehad been pronounced in France,
j
pferogStot de Vfontijc, an d whereas the divorce was
proDonneed in * foreign country, then , under the
rule of a usurper, under a government as""illegal
asirreMgious, and not recognised m .Spain; and
divorce had been annulled by the
ultimate remorse of the parties, declares Donna
M&a»a entitled to the life interest in tbe property
of her late husband, to revert to his brothers her
demise.” _ ,
Now, dates are troublesome things. The French
Mpnittur, pf the 4th of June last, announced that
thnt the Empress Eugenia had%ttamed her thirty
second year on the preceding daj, and had receiv
ed the congratulations of her friends on the occa
sion. According to the official Moniteur t there
fore, the Empress Eugenia was born on the 3d of
June, 1826, and according to the undisputed testi
mony of registers and other documentary evi
dence, her father died on October 80, 1828, from
the effects of a fall from his horse. These things
doubtless admit of explanation, but none has yet
been given. Indeed, the French Gazette de Tri •
bunaux, of September 21, 1831, which contains
the verbatim report of this cause celebre , has been
forcibly abstracted bv Imperial ukase from the
files of that journal which are kept for reference
in the reading rooms.
From Correspondence of ihe New York Evening Post.
Marriage of Gen. Cass’s Daughter.
Stonington, Aug. 24,1858.
Our little village has been thrown into a high
state of excitement by the arrival of General Cass,
the Secretary of State, and the marriage of his
daughter, Miss Isabella Cass, to the Minister from
the King of the Netherlands, M. Van Limburg,
yesterday.
The ceremony took place in Calvary church, a
very neat Episcopal church, the rector, Uev. Daniel
C. Merton, officiating. Though occuring in the
chorch edifice, it was strictly private. About two
o’clock in tbe afternoon the bride entered, escorted
by her father, and followed by M. Van Limburg
and two of Gen. Cass’s married daughters—Mrs.
Canfield and Mrs. Ledyard—together with Mr.
Ledyard and his family, and Mr. Zimmerman, the
New York consul for the Netherlands.
The bride was dressed in a neat silk traveling
suit, of the color of a3bes of rose, and a light
French hat of mazzarine blue. From her appear
ance, I should judge the blooming bride to be
about forty years or ,age. M. Van Limburg ap
peared to much advantage. Everything was con
ducted in simple and unostentatious man
ner. .
After the marriage service the party proceeded
to the vestry, where the documents were signed,
and then to the Wadawanuk House. The happy
pair proceeded to Newport in the thiee o’clock
train, where they will occupy the private cottage
of M. Van Limburg.
A salute of fifty guns was fired by Commander
K. T. Loper from the fast yacht Madgie, which
was covered with flags and streamers.
Stabat.
Cool Weather.—A heavy white frost was ob
servable early thi3 morning on low grounds in
some of the suburban towns. At Dedham the
frost was so thick that the grass and fences ap
peared as though covered with snow. The vine
vegetables, and even green corn, in such localities,
must have received fatal injury from this remark
ably early visit of “ chilly Jack.”
At Watertown, Framiogham, and also at Glou
cester, there was a slightirost, doing but little if
any injury. At Franklin, N. H., at seven this
morning, according to a correspondent of the Her
ald 9 a snow squall was experienced which con
tinued for about five minutes.
Boston, Transcript , 24 ih inst .
There is a great deal of sickness in Panola coun
ty, Mississippi, at present. In the neighborhood
of the town of Panola there are whole families of
whites and blacks down with chills and fevers,
measles, billions fevers, Ac. In some instances
there are not sufficient numbers well in the family,
to nurse the sick ones. In one family, about five
miles from town, we hear of sixteen being on sick
beds at one time. The mortality is very light,
compared with the sickness.
Memphis Bidletin, 21 st utst.
Just like ’em.—Mamma (staying with newly
married daughter): “My dearest, sweetest, dar
ling! what! crying! Why, what’s the matter?
Daughter (with many sobs): “Ob M m-m-Mamma,
dear! Here’s Ch-Ch-Ch-Charlea so dreadfully
unkind; He knows the H-H-Horae TamiDg secret
and he w-w-w-won’t tell it to me!”— Punch.
Prom the Charleston Courier , Aug. 28.
Arrival of a Slaver.
There reached our quarantine yesterday after-
noon, a brig called the Echo, having on board !
three hundred and six Africans. She was cap
tured on the 21st inst., about seven, P. M., off the I
North coast of Cuba, in latitude twenty-three de- j
grees thirty minutes, longitude eighty degrees '
twenty minutes, by the United States brig Dol
phin, Lieut. J. N. Maffit commanding.
The suspicions of the officers or the Dolphin
were aroused by the brig hauling suddenly off
from the coast of Cuba, when chase was immedi
ately made after her. On nearing the brig, which
the Dolphin did rapidly, two blank cartridges were
fired at her, when she hoisted the American ensign
—the Dolphin being at the moment under English
colors. Two shots were then fired ahead, to make
her heave to; but she continuing on her course
the Dolphin hoisted American colors, and fired a
shot at her, when she was promptly brought to.
Lt. Bradford, of the Dolphin, then boarded her
with sixteen men, and fqgnd on her a crew of nine
teen, composed of En&ffip” Americans and Span
iards, ana a cargo orthree hundred and eighteen
Africans, twelve of whom have died since tne cap
ture. The Dolphin took on board a part of the
original crew of the brig, and took them to Key
West, from which port they will be sent by steam
er to this city.
The negroes, so far as they could be seen, are
about fifteen years of age and good looking. They
are suffering from dysentery. It is supposed that
the present name of the brig is only an assumed
one. She is of Baltimore model and a fine vessel.
The prize crew consists of Lieut. J. M. Bradford,
Lieut. C. C. Carpenter, ten seamen and six ma
rines.
The following is a full list of the officers attach
ed to the Dolphin :
Lieut. J. N. Maffitt, Commanding; J. M. Brad
ford, first Lieutenant; P. Williams, second
Lieutenant; C. C. Carpenter, third Lieutenant;
J. M. Browne, passed Assistant Surgeon; A. A.
Crosman, acting Master.
Pom the Charleston Courier , Avg. 28. .
Slaver in the Bay.
| [Messrs. Editors: An unusual degree of interest
was excited last evening, by the arrival in our
bay of tbe brig Echo, with some three or four hun
dred native Africans. It seems she was captured
on the coast of Cuba, and brought into this port
for such disposition as may be made of them by
the government of the United States. And now
the question comes, what shall be done with them ?
England, under such circumstances, (sends them
to her colony of Sierra Leone, (sensible to the
last, as she always is;) but to us there is no such
colony. Hitherto we have sent them back to Afri
ca, in government ships, aind it; is to be supposed
that such will be the course proposed on this oc
casion.
But is such a course to be adopted ? They are
here on the very threshbold of civilization; shall
we send them back to barbarism ? They are at
the dawn of Christianity: shall we send them back
to heathen darkness ? They are almost within the
pale of law and a social state, where they can take
relations; shall we send them back to the realm
of no law, but that of brute force; no relations
but those that brutes take ? They are here almost
within the pale of a society where they will be
safe, and where every physical.want will be surely
supplied ; will we send them back to the precari
ous subsistence snatched from wretches as starving
as themselves?
But why shoula .we send them back ? Do we
not want them ? They are wanted everywhere —
our planted want them; our mechanics want
3rR f in wanFof I tfSSl U>o™ rrwnr
f are certainly as much li* need of training and in
struction Y There is no reason why we should send
them back, but in this, that it has become agreea
ble to another section of this Un:on tqdook with
disgust on our institutions, and we are called upon
to make this sacrifice of interest and humanity to
propitiate them.
Ir any sane man were asked what it is that
would be best for these negroes, he would say put
them under the discipline and care of some one
whose duty and interest it would be to train them
to usefulness, and to care for them. Ask a pru
dent man what must be done with them, and he
will say, no matter how well we may provide for
them here, the act of providing for them in any
southern State will be offensive to the people of
the North; and so, therefore, we must do, not
what is right, not what is humane, not what is to
our interest, not what is to the interest of the ne
gro, not what is agreeable to our own sense of
propriety, but what is expected of us by a foreign
sentiment. Ami I would ask whether such a state
of facts is not inconsistent with the rights and dig
nity of a people that are vested with the trusts of
liberty and conscience. i
When these negroes shall be taken from tbe port ;
of Charleston, (except it be to take them elsewhere ;
in a slave State,) it will be a brand upon our insti- i
tutions that should fire the heart of every man i
that loves his country. It will be the declaration J
to the world that this condition in which our own <
negroes are, is so offensive to even our own gov- {
ernment, that it is incumbent upon it to use its soy- ;
ereign power in rescuing, from the like condition, |
all who come within its reach. We may submit to ,
proper declarations, to laws whose practical in- ]
forceraent is not brought to our doors, but in this i
act of reprobation there is a taunt againt which
every southern man ought to enter his indignant
protest. CußTirs. <
Swift Traveling of one of the New Balloons. :
Dr. Parsons sent up from his drug store in Port
land, says the Advertiser of that city, on the 13th,
at eight o’clock P. M., a small India rubber bal
loon, attached to which was his card, with this
note : “ The finder will confer a favor by address
ing A. Parsons & Co., stating where found, date,
Portland, Aug. 13, 1858.” On Saturday (the next)
morning, at seven o’clock—and it is very likely it
fell several hours before—the balloon and card
were found by Mr. Stiles Curtis, in Windham,
Green county, New York—three hundred miles
from its starting point the evening before. Mr.
Curtis stated that he intended to “ blow it up ”
again, and start it for further adventures.
Dr. Rai>hal, a distinguished Jew of Berming
ham, thus states the opinion which the Jews have
of Christ: f
“ While I and the Jews of the present day pro
test against being identified with the zealots who
were concerned in the proceedings against Jesus of
Nazeretb, we are far from reviling his character or
deriding his precepts which are, indeed, for the
most part, the precepts of Moses and the prophets.
You have heard me style him ‘ the Great Teacher
of Nazareth;’ for that designation I and the Jews
take to be his due.”
“Sct Lovengood.”—We learn that Sut Miller,
the hero of the Loveugood papers, died suddenly
in the neighborhood of Ducktown, a week or two
since. Poor Sut! After having innumerable en
counters and conflicts with man and beast—been
■hot several times, and consumed “bust-head”
enough to run an over-shot mill forty days and
nights, died ignobly at last from a blow inflicted
with the fist of a fellow man.
Athens ( Tenn .) Banner.
How to Write for a Newspaper.— When you
write for a newspaper, write all your words in full
as you wish them printed. This has been said a
thousand times, but not one man in ten observes
the rule. AH our best writers do observe it. In
this paper we printed an article in which the wr -
ter abbreviated the word government into govt,
and the printers made it gout, so that the powrr
of the government was made into the power of
the gout. Dot the letter i and cross the letter t>
and trv to spell correctly. It you cannot comply
with these rules, after you have written your arti
cle put it in the tire.— N. Y. Observer.
Boston, Aug. 23. —A ship which arrived at this
port to-day reports having spoken in latitude
thirty-five degrees longitude seventy-four degrees
forty minutes, the ship Reliance, bound from Ha
vana for New York, short handed. It is supposed
that most of the Reliance’s crew were down with
the yellow fever.
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VOL. 37—UNO. 36. %
From the Galveston News, August 14. ?
We hare had the pamphlet, the contents of
! which we give to-day, for some time on our desk,
and have been prevented from an earlier publica-
I tion of it by the press of other matter. We give
! the entire argument because it is a practical asser
tion of the right of the South, and is therefore a
test of our own sincerity in claiming equality fa
the Union, and of northern hostility to us, in the
i denial of that equality.
Mr. Lamar, of Savannah Georgia, baring an idle
j ship in port at Charleston, during the commercial
distress that followed the late panic, sought new
j employment for her by asking for a clearance to
the coast of Africa, “for the purpose of taking on
board African emigrants, in accordance with the
United States passenger laws, and returning with
the same to a port in the United States.” Secre
tary Cobb replies that the clearance shall be re
fused, becaused he suspected that Mr. Lamar meant
something: more than was expressed in the appli
cation. Mr. Lamar objects to this assumption of
motive, and to the contounding of legislative with
executive powers, by the Treasury Department.
The pamphlet is an unanswerable argument
against the Secretary’s decision.
Mr. Cobb is himself a Georgian, and Mr. Lamar
seems to feel the more deeply and directly injured
by this hostilitv to the South from a southern man.
It is undoubtedly true that the numerical weak*
ness of the South is a seductive bait to the loyalty
of her politicians on the slavery question—white
her fidelity to the Constitution, as a section, makes
her essential not only to the superiority, but to the
very existence of the only national or anti-section
al party. She is thus a trading capital, in the
hands of her aspiring public men, and her rights
are alternately proclaimed as a threat to the rears
of the North, and then surrendered or sacrificed,
as the price of success to southern ambition.
We have an interest in this question in Texas,
beyond that of any other slave State. We have
more territory fitted for slave labor, with a greater
variety of staple products; and we lie farthest
from the sources of home negro emigration. At
the present rate of increase in our slave popula
tion, we shall not get a full supply in a century.
In the meanwhile our lands, the most fertile on
the continent, are a drug for the want of labor to
cultivate them, and will starve any holder who will
retain them long enough.
The home supply fading, the GuU States have
naturally turned to the foreign source. Mississip
pi has opened the apprentice system on a small
scale to test it, and the legislature of Louisiana
failed last winter by only one rote, in the same
experiment. ■ fZjn
Texas difi'ersin some important features from the
States Eastof her. She is the terminus of thecotton
xone; it ends with the Guadalupe or San Antonio
valley, where the dry belt sets in, and the product*
change from the agricultural to the pastoral*
While stock raising is rendered both easy and pro
fitable by climate in Texas, West of the Colorado
or San Antooio, it renders the negro in a degree
valueless. The negro works willingly in crowds,
at steady labor; and the peon of Indian blood ia
equally happy as a solitary shepherd, or in follow
ing an unrnly mustang with the lasso. The tw«
sections of our State seem adapted by Providence
to these two races, as the respective laborers. Pe
cuniarily the difference is quite as great. Capital
must be invested and sunk in advance, in the ne-
gro ; but small wages earned, as they fall due,
compensates the peon.
The cart war or last winter in Karnes'and Goli
ad counties, judged from an outside point, would
and a few pounds of dried man
age countless flocks apd herds, and behappie. than
in any other condition. Our laws do not yet re
cognise peonage, but must of neceesity do so soon.
The JlekldAK £2;:SnaVs on otber side of the
Rio Grande, are losing their peons, who are har
bored on onr side. Our adoption of their system,
ivhieb could not be locomotive, but would remain,
where alone it is applicable, would lead to a mutu
al rendition of runaways—poen or negro—and the
thief and vagabonds of Mexico would thus be
kept at home. Texas from San Antonio to El Pa
so, (and especially when Capt. Pope and Capt
Forbes Britton shall have shown us now to obtain
a cheap supply of stock water,) being one entire
pasture, will be covered, one day, by countless
flocks, and the peon will be the happy and useful
shepherd of both Jfexicah and American proprie
tors.
We did not intend to wander from tbe point in
question—nor have we. Our right to pass a State
law to receive Mr. Lamar’s apprentices, or passen
gers, and to fix tbeir social status, we hold to be
as clear as that to adopt the peon laws of Mexico.
Nor have we a doubt that both races, negro and
IndiaD, will be elevated to the highest condition
they are capable of, and at the same time, con
tribute their greatest service to humanity at large.
England is supplying her colonies, in various parts
of the world, with many thousand African emi
grants annually, while our government, usurping
a power not given in the Constitution, undertakes
to say the slave States shall not supply in the
same way that labor, for the want of which mil
lions of acres of the richest land in the world must
remain uncultivated for ages to come.
The Hall of Representatives. —Hon. James
Oar., Speaker of the House, in a letter to Captain
Meigs, sneaks in the highest terms of the new
Hall of Representatives in the Capitol. He says
It has been occupied from December uQtil the
middle of June—seasons of the lowest and high
est temperature of cold and heat; it has been oc
cupied with crowded galleries and empty benches,
by day and by night; and under all circumstances,
in its acoustics, its ventilation, its heating, its
lighting, and its conveniences for the comfort of
members and the transaction of business, I con
sider it eminently successful. When order is pre
served, au ordinary voice can be heard distinctly
in the remotest part of the hall or galleries. I
presume there is no hall in the world having so
large a number of square feet within its walls
where the speaker is heard Vith so little effort on
his part.
The ventilation is equally successful. The
densest crowd in the galleries during the most
protracted sittings, breathed a fresh atmosphere—
. free from all heaviness and impurity.
, The heating apparatus is so perfect that the en
s gineer had only to be notified what temperature
. was desired, when in a few minutes it was sup
i plied. : .
The arrangement for lighting the hall is admi
-1 rable ; not a burner is seen, and yet such a flood
, of softened light is poured down through the
stained-glass ceiling of the hall that it was difficult
to distinguish when the day ended and the night
commenced. .... .
1 The hall and its fixtures are a splendid triumph
of your professional skill, and will ever remain a
' proud monument to youi^genius.
Uncscal Corn Exchange Sales.— lncluded in
the business at the Corn Exchange yesterday were
I the sale* of two gazelles, a jackass and a donkey,
all recent importations from the island of Malta.
The jackass, which was of unusaal kise for these
parts, was sold for two hundred and fifty dollars,
rash. The donkey, a smaller breed of the same
species, sold for seventy-fire dollars, cash; and
the two gazelles, which were said to be beautiful
specimens, were sold together for one hundred
dollar* for the pair. The latter are merely design
ed for pets on a gentleman's country estate.
New York Journal of Commerce, Aug. 2®.
A rich man sent to call a physician for a slight
' disorder. The physician felt his pulse and aßked,
11 Do you eat well ?”
“ Yea,” said the patient.
“ Do you sleep well ?”
“ I <*<>•”
“Then,” said the physician, “I ran give yon
something to take away all that, if you think ■-
hecessary.
Boston, Aug. 25.-T® Canard sTramsMpNi
agara sailed at noon for Lirerpooi, ti* ***>
with forty-two passengers. - _
She carries out no speeie,