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SATURDAY, SEPT. 4.
Southern Opinion—Letters Irom the
Hon. Anglin* R. Wright ,of Georgia,
and the lion. Jteverdy Johnson, of
Maryland.
Hoo. A. H. Wright, the representative of the
Fifth Congressional district of this State, in the
present House, has recently addressed a short note
to Dr. Colter, of Washington City, upon the sub
ject of Mr. Douglas’ re-election to the Senate,
which (although it was not designed for publica
tion) that gentleman has communicated to the
States, with an introductory note. They are pub
lished in the States of the 28th ult., and are as
follows:
Washington*, D. C., Aug. 27, 1858.
Mr Editor: You will favor me with the publica
tion of the following letter—though not written
for publication—from Judge Wright, of Georgia,
who with all true southern Democrats, sympa
thises with Mr. Douglas in his contest with the
Black Republicans of Illinois. This is but the ex
pression of opinion of scores of sound southern
Democrats, from whom I have received an expres
sion of opinion both verbally and by letter. That
anv conservative man, North or South—and much
less one who claims to be a Democrat—should fail
to sympathise with Mr. Douglas in this contest, is
beyond my standard of a true patriot.
That the Democracy, almost en masse, differed
with Mr. Douglas in the admission of Kansas, is
well known ; but that we should now war upon
him for an honest difference of opinion in the past
—when he now sustains our cause—is preposter
ous, and, it persevered in, will prove suicidal to
the Democratic party. C. P. C.
Rome, Ga., Aug. 23, 1853.
My Dear Sir: Your letter is at hand. I was
glad to hear from you again, and from the metrop
olis. It is very strange that any Democrat should
desire Mr. Douglas’ defeat. There is not an impulse
of my son! that is not with .him in his contest
with the Black Republicans. Douglas is a true man
to his country. The difference about Lecomptou I
regard as a difference about facts, not principles.
wSmtl agreed the people should form their insti
tutions to suit themselves. The question was, had
they done so in the Lecompton Constitution ? We
who supported that Constitution said they had ;
Mr. Douglas said they had not. We said the peo
ple had ratified it; Mr. Douglas said not so—the
people were against it. Who doubts, that knows
Mr. Douglas, if the whole action of Kansas had
been regular and legal, aud free from fraud, that ,
he would Have voted her admission, notwithstand
ing there might have been slavery tolerated there- 1
in ? i
* * * * Mr. Douglas is almost the only j
very prominent Democrat North that has never fal- ,
tered. Yours truly, Augustus R. Weight.
Dr. C. P. Culver.*'
The States of the same date, also contains the i
subjoined letter addressed to Judge Douglas, by '
Hon. Reverdy Johnson, the distinguished Mary- *
lander. We submit it to our readers, together
with that!-of our representative, Judge Wright,
without comment—simply remarking that they
express substantially the same views which we
have reason to know are entertained by many
other prominent members of the party in this
State and throughout the South:
Lyndhurst, near Baltimore, \ i
July 29, 1858. (
My Dear Judge: No one of your friends has ,
witnessed with more pleasure than I have the gen
eral approbation you seem to be receiving at the 1
hands of the Democracy of Illinois. i
The impulse to say this to you is, under the cir- i
Cumstances, so strong, that I hope to be excused .
for yielding to it. That there should occasionally
be differences of opinion amongst men of gener- 1
ally concuring sentiments, is not at all to be wou
dered at. The only wonder there should be, is,
that these differences are not of more frequent
occurrence. To exact universal accordance in all
measures of political policy, however contrary
they may be to past opinions, sanctioned at the
time by general approval; and to ostracise those
who differ, and especially on a measure from its
very nature of temporary duration and influence,
is not only unmixed party tyranny, but the very
essence of folly. And yet this is the character of
the hostility which some of the Democratic presses
are now so ruthlessly waging against vou.
Professing to be, to the very heart's core, op
posed to Republicanism as understood in these
times, and to all its adherents, they are certainly
whether knowingly or not, all that they can
of the United States, from
of that party, who, fVtjbnp**
speeches, is deeply ami tdcura-
Biyuled in ©very me of its political and fatal
heresies. A leaded, whose success on your defeat
will be hailed everywhere by his followers as the J
death-knell of the Democratic party, and rry I
well caused alarm to those who look to * a ie p re .
serration of the peace, true interest" and duty of
every State of the Union, auu. *^ e considered
triumph of a deep settle* bitter malignity, or 1
blind reasoning prejud* lCe to the southern States.
The madness of s.’jch a course naturally excites t<
special wonde; r amongst all the friends of the pre- 0
sent Administration, who look only to its true .
honor a r jd success, uniufluenced by petty motives .
of personal spite to one who, like j T ourself, has J
for so many years, with signal ability and unques
tioned good faith, contributed so much to further
the general measures of policy which have of late r
years established, and with truth for the party, the ,
title of National.
The excuse, such as it is, (it is the only one,)
that you did not agree with the President’s ulti
mate policy in the Kansas matter, is too flimsy to <
deceive an honest observer. That poliev, it is to .
be remembered, was not the one which the Presi
dent adopted beginning. • j
That the President acted conscientiously, and i
as he believed for the best, I have no doubt; but ,
very many of his truest and fastest friends en- .
tertained a different opinion. These thought that f
the proper course was to submit the matter to ■
Congress, without executive endorsement or dis <
approbation, to be disposed of as that body ought
deem the best. I confess that this was my own
opinion. But when he had decided otherwise, j
final and pretty general acquiescence in the measure y
was given from a desire to have a matter so fruitful
of mischievous uneasiness in the country settled,
and from a conviction that in the way proposed
it could be settled; and I see no present reason
for doubting the accuracy of this belief. But are {
those who continue to think otherwise to be, on g
that account, villified and denied communication
with the party? Is that to be the result of an 1
honest perseverance in an original opinion, con- f
curred in, perhaps, at the time, by a majority of $
the party? Are its deadliest foes—foes to nearly (
all of its past and probable future policy—to be
brought into power through the instrumentality 1
of a warfare carried on from the mere indulgence 1
of the ill will and personal hatred which the pur
suit of honest convictions may have engendered ?
Under such suicidal blindness what party can long
survive? Is inability to agree in every measure
proposed, which ultimately receives the approval '
of a majority, conclusive evidence of want of pro- •
per party feality ? i
If so,,how can so many favored members
of the Democratic party who at the first did not
sanction.the poliev of repealing the Missouri slave
ry restriction ? These are, I know , to be found
South as well as North, and amongst these doubt
less can be ranged the President himself. Who
believes, had he at that period been in the legisla
tive councils of the nation, that he would have
given that measure his support ? I certainly no
more believe it than that, had I been there south
ern man as I am, not blindly 1 hope, bat strongly
and affectionately, with equal attachment to the
other States, it woutd have received my support.
But yet, is the President, because of such differ
ence with his party, less to be esteemed an honest
and faithful and honored member of it?
I cannot, therefore, but marvel at, as much as I
lament, the bitterness and madness of the opposi
tion to you of former political associates. I trust,
however, sincerely trust, that their unreasonable
enmity will be of no avail, and that a triumph will
follow your prudent, bold, manly, and patriotic
canvass—a triumph so vital to the continuing suc
m cess of the party, and as involved m it,the continu
ing peace and prosperity of the country. ,
With great regard, your friend and ob’t servant.
Reverdy Johnson.
Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, Chicago.
For the week ending August 26th, seven hundred
and thirty cases of boots and shoes were cleared
at Boston for Charleston, South Carolina, and one
sevety-five cases for Savannah, Georgia.
Charleston Courier.
We can well remember the time when hundreds
and thousands of barrels of flonr were brought to
the South from the North, now the course of trade I
is changed, and we send large quantities of flour 1
to the North. When will the same change take I
place in the shipments of boots and shoes ? The
time may come.
A Dishonored Prophet.
On the 18tb of June, 1858, in a letter dated at
. Washington, Tal. P. Shaffnbr made the foilow
, ing prediction:
“I predict—not as a matter of prophecy, but
as a certain result springing from tne fixed laws
in electric science—that the cable will be laid per
haps one thousand or more miles, and it will be
found unavailable for telegraphing. In this di
lemma the company will have the cable broke again
and the acciderd will be charged to Providence *
This will be the finale.”
In another portion of this very prophetic effort
by Mr. Shaffxer, he says :
“ I have some pretensions to a knowledge of the
science and art of telegraphing. Four years ago
I published to the world in America aud Europe
that my studies and experiments on both conti
nents satisfied me that a current of electricity of
any known form or mode of generation could not
be transraited for telegraphic service from Ireland
to Newfoundland. Since that time there have been
no new discoveries in galvanic or other electric
developing powers changing the state of science,
then calculated upon, in the demonstration of the
impracticability of the proposed telegraph.
“ It has been stated that a current of electricity
has been transmited through the whole three
thousand miles of the Atlantic cable in the ships,
and therefore there can be no doubt but what the
climax has been attained. This imposition has
been fully exposed in my memorial to Congress.
When the cable is laid in the water, the element
of retardation then commences its functions. ‘The
further they lay out the cable the feebler will be
the current,” until it ceases to traverse the wires.”
Mr. Shaffxer had a hobby of his own, on which
he hoped to ride into immortality by a circuitous
route from Quebec to Europe, traversing Labrador,
Davis’ Straits, Greenland, the sea to Iceland, and
and over that isle, and thence by the Faroe Isles
to Norway and North Scotland.
It is probable he thought his scheme would at
tract the attention of those who had confidence in
his pretensions to a knowledge of the science
and art of telegraphing.” He evidently hoped to
damage the reputation of the Atlantic telegraph
company, by his publications—depreciate the
stock—and if success failed to crown the efforts
of the cable squadron, then Tal. P. Shaffxer
would be enabled to move forward on his donkey
expedition.
Mr. Shaffxer has not damaged the Atlantic
Telegraph Company; has not injured the stock ;
and has not made his own “ calling and election
sure.” Alas, poor Shaffxer, he wrote too many
letters for a man of his singular “ pretensions .”
The cable has been laid ; and in spite of the igno
rantly presumed “fixed laws in electric science,”
messages are conveyed by it, and the public have
their own private opinion of the value of Mr.
Shaffxer’s knowledge of “electric science.”
The New Orleans Picayune insists that as
dogs are* property, no person or corporation has
authority or right to poison or kill them, any more
than they have authority or right to kill horses or
cows.
We notice that the Savannah theatre is
advertised to be rented. It may be asked where is
Mr. Marchant, the lessee ? Mr. M. in a card in
the New York Herald of the 28th August states that
he is the lesse of the “Savannah neio theatre, and
of the Charleston and Wilmington North Carolina
theatres.” The Morning Sews asks where is the
Savannah new theatre, and we ask what is to be
done at the Augusta theatre this winter ?
S-SF” The deaths by yellow fever in New Or- j
leans, during the week ending Saturday, August j
28th, were four hundred and two. Deaths on Sat
urday fifty-seven.
The deaths in Savanuah during the week
ending 31st August were twenty—twelve whites,
and eight colored.
Ax Example for Boys. —We have a carrier con
nected with this office, who is between the age of
thirteen and fourteen; who occupies a seat in the
highest class in our public schools, has the geo
graphy of the country at|his fingers’ ends, and who
can cipher around a bevy of
in two and a half years win maHJ
b* Cfcero, anq
HomerTo boot. But In addition
at school, he has three hundred dollars m the Say
ings Bank, drawing five per cent, interest, and is
, daily adding thereto, all gathered together by sell
ing newspapers between school hours.
Trenton. True American
And we will venture a reasonable wager with ,
the editor of the Trenton True American , that the
“ carrier” referred to cannot smoke segars, chew {
tobacco, drink rum, use profane language, stay
out late at nights, keep dissipated company, aud
be engaged in rows, generally, like the promising
jail bird and penitentiary boys of the present day.
Leavenworth.— There is considerable excite- j
ment at Kansas City and Lawrence, from the con- (
firmation of gold discovered at Pike’s Peak.
Removal or the Negroes. —The Charleston Mer
cury, of 31st mst., says the negroes which were
placed in Castle Pinckney on Sunday, were yester
day, under the direction of Dr. Hamilton, United
States Marshal, transferred to Fort Sumter, the
new brick fort hitherto unoccupied, in the stream,
about five miles below the city. The steamer
General Clinch was chartered for this purpose.
The guard of twenty-two soldiers were likewise
carried to Fort Sumter.
Political.— The Warrenton Whig says that it
hears from a source entitled to credit, that George
W. Summers will be a candidate for Governor of
Virginia in the next campaign.
Selling the Fashions. —A petition has lately
been presented to the Empress Eugenie by the
silk merchants of Lyons and St. Etienne, praying
her plajesty to encourage by her patronage the
flowered branch of the ribbon trade. The Empress
graciously replied that the only means in her pow
er was to cover her dress as much as possible with
the richly worked ribbons. And her Majesty has
been as “ good as her word.”
Crinoline. —The French inventor of crinoline,
Monsieur Fristh, who has realised in the course
of a few years a brilliant fortune by his lucky bal
loons, has lately bought, at Baugency, the magnifi
cent gardens of the ancient Abbey, and is about
building a fine, spacious mansion.
A Lady Fined for Wearing Crinoline.—The
Independence Beige states that a young lady living
in Hanover has been sentenced by a court of that
town to pay a fine of two francs “for having
worn a dress which, occupying the whole breadth
of the pavement, is an obstruction to the public
way.”
There is an ordinance in the city of London, re
quiring a five-eighth inch-tube to be inserted near
the ceiling in every room, for the purpose of let
ting the gas off in oase of accident or careless
ness. Such an ordinance in force in the cities of
our country would prevent many fatal accidents.
Items of news from the Macon Messenger,
Ist inst.:
Weather, Health , Business.— The weather for the
last few days has beeD unusually cool for the seasoD,
and its effects upon the growing cotton may be un
favorable. There is some complaint in the middle
and upper counties of rust and insects. Cool
weather is favorable to their antecedents.
The health of this city and vicinity is unusually
good. The same may perhaps be said of the
whole State, with here and there an exception.
Railroad to Tampa Bay.—Forty miles of the
road, commencing on the Florida railroad at Bel
lamy’s station, have been pat under contract—the
I work to commence 15th November.
Sad Casualty. —We regret to learn that Mrs.
, Burford, of Butts county, whilst passing through
1 the streets of Jackson, on Thursday last, was
J l thrown from a buggy, and her skull so severely
3 J fractured that she survived but a short time. She
1 was but recently married.
Bonfires, Music, &c.
Broad street presented a cheerful appearance
Wednesday night, in consequence of the numerous
bonfires throughout its length; and music contri
buted its pleasing strains to enhance the general
pleasures of the occasion.
Our citizens sympathised in the general-con
gratulations of the eastern and western world,
which took place on yesterday and last night;
and their hearts beat responsive to the united
chorus of thanks at the successful completion of
the Atlantic telegraph.
Cable Celebration in New York.
The Mayor of Augusta, anxious to express the
feelings of onr citizens on the successful comple
tion of the Atlantic Cable, and to mingle our con
gratulations with those who were participating in
the grand demonstration in New York qjty on
yesterday, sent by telegraph the following dispatch
to Daniel F. Tiemaxn, Mayor of New York: *
Mayor’s Office, City of Augusta, )
September 1, 1858. j
To the Mayor of New York:
The people of Augusta, Georgia, desire to min
gle their congratulations with those of the people
of New York on the completion and success of the
great achievement of the age.
May the bond of union now so happilycemented
between the old and new world, be the means of
binding together in one united Brotherhood the
people of this vast country, so that they shall
know no North, no South, no East, no West, but
their motto be, “our whole country/'
For the success which has attended the laying
of the cable, and for the influence it is destined to
exert upon the world at large, “We praise Thee,
O God ! we acknowledge Thee to be tne Lord.”
B. Conley, Mayor.
Early in the afternoon of yesterday Mayor Con
ley received the followmg response from the
Mayor of New York:
Neiv York, Sept. Ist.
To his Honor Mayor Conley :
The people of New York return a cordial re
sponse to the congratulations of theigjialjjiw-citi
zens of Augusta, Georgia, on thSHHhderful
achievements of the uniou of the t*M worlds by
the electric telegraph. This gloriousevetif is just
ly regarded as the harbinger of eternal peace
among the nations of the earth, and will, I trust,
strengthen the bonds of brotherhood between the
citizens of every section of our own country. Let
us sedulously cultivate the feelings of good will
which it so impressively teaches, and offer our
gratitude to the Giver of all good for the great
blessings it promises to confer upon His children
throughout the whole world.
Daniel F. Mayor.
Health oi Augusta.
The Macon Messenger, of the Ist inst., says:
“ Savannah and Augusta. —Reports prejudicial
to the health of these cities are in circulation.
The Board of Health in Savannah, and the press,
and the press of Augusta, contradict these rumors.
We trust these cherished cities will continue to be
blessed with their usual health.” -
We deem it almost unaecessarry to notice the
paragraph from the Messenger , which we copy
above; but as reports may be in circulation preju
dicial to the health of Augusta, we can only say
that we are not aware of any cause for them ; and
we are satisfied that no cause exists, unless it be
from the ignorance, malevolence, or thoughtless
ness of persons disposed to circulate falsehoods.
The citizens, the unacclimated,
here, enjoy as uninterrupted health as we have
ever known at this or any other season of the
And we repeat, what we stated a few days ago, r
that if a single case of yellow fever originates here h
this full, we will proclaim it to our readers in the n
first paper we issue after we hear of it, no matter
who it displeases, or what interest it affects. Our
country readers expect us to tell them the truth
about such a matter, and we intend to do it “to
the best of our knowledge and belief.
Port Royal Railroad#- I,
We see by the Charleston MtreafiQ that Col. \
George P. Elliott is e of 1
BurnweUxlistrict, at ’
the it Royal 1
The project of this is in ,
contact wmi the deep water of Port Royal harbor, (
by a road estimated at one hundred and ten miles j
in length. ,
It will appear that this project is one of some i
moment to the city of Augusta, and we hope that 1
public attention will be called to this matter. *
Col. Elliott reached our city yesterd ly en route (
to fill one of his appointments in Barnwell.
Columbus Daily Times.
We have received the first number of the Daily
Times, printed at Columbus, Georgia, by R. Ellis
A Co. We are pleased to notice this evidence of
prosperity ou the part of our friends of the Times j
and Sentinel, ( who formerly published a triweek
ly), and it affords evidence of the prosperity of
our sister city of Columbus, when the wants of J
its business and commercial community warrants ,
such an increase in its newspaper department.
The daily issue before us is well stored with edi- !
torials, local and general news, and foreign intel
ligence, and we are pleased to state that the first j
issue of the paper .appears more like a matured j
daily than the first issue.
Our cotemporaries of the Daily Tima w r ill ac
cept our best wishes for the prosperity of their en
terprise.
Georgians in New York.
We notice the arrival of the following persons i
from Georgia, at the hotels in New York, on the '
30th of August: G. W. Sapp, J. C. Sapp, W. Sapp, '
B. Jones and lady, Miss Shumake, J. M. Turpin,
T. J. Nichols, J. G. Moore and son, L. Holt, T. J.
Holt and lady, W. H. Ross, E. E. Ellington, A.
Stafford, O. Oakford, D. B. Hull, J. N. Birch and
lady, W. W. Boynton, J. R. Rockwell, J. L. Kerr,
J. W. Mann, Mr. Scott, J. Robinson, T. D. Bertody
and lady, D. E. Belcher, and E. McCabe.
Jjgp* There were ninety-two deaths in New Or
leans on the 31st of August.
It is reported in England that Lord Palmerston 1
has become the proprietor of the London Miming \
Post newspaper.
JjgT’ Items of new s from the Central (Sanders
ville) Georgian, of Sept. Ist:
Mr. Crooms, the man who killed Mr. George
Tucker in this county a few weeks ago and made
his escape, has been’arrested, we understand, and
lodged in Milledgeville jail.
We have been informed that there are less than
forty cases returned to our next Superior Court, to
be held on the second Monday in this month. This
speaks well for our county.
We continue to hear some complaint from our
planters, that the cotton crop is very much injured
by the rust. Some, however, do not think tie in
jury arises from the rust, but from some other
cause, which we have not learned. The corn crops
are much better than we have knawn them to be
for several years, and our farmers have ceased, in
a great degree, to complain, as heretofore, about
shortness of the corn crop; but each one seems to
claim the credit of making more corn than his
neighbor. We are pleased to see them in such
fine spirits. There is yet a large quantity of old
corn on hand.
*
> An Item for Drinkers.— We copy the follow
’ ing for the benefit of that class of drinkers who
1 make a practice of imbibing to excess and “ lying
around loose.” May they profit by the warning:
7 At Cincinnati, the other night, a man named
? John Butts, while going home intoxicated, fell in
the street, and rolling over into the mouth of a
b sewer, came near being eaten by rats. It seems
• that as officer Lewis was going his rounds about
e twelve o’clock at night, he discovered a pair of
legs sticking out from the well hole of the sewer,
i. He forthwith repaired to the spot, and tailing to
a arouse the owner of the legs, caught him by the
s heels and drew him out, when it appeared that
j one of his ears was eaten off by rats. The ver
a min had just commenced their repast, and would
’doubtless have finished him by morning.
Paper Mills.—There are in the United States sev
en hundred paper-mills in actual operation, having
three thousand engines, and producing in the year
two hundred and fifty million pounds of paper,
which is worth, say ten cents per pound, or twen
ty-seven million dollars. To produce this quanti
ty of paper, over four hundred million pounds of
rags are required, one and-a-quarter pounds of rags
being necessary to make one pound of paper. The
value of these rags, estimating them at four cents
per pound, is over sixteen million dollars.
Difference of Time.—The success of'the At
lantic cable has called attention to the difference
of time in various cities in different parts of the
world. A table prepared some time since by Mr.
John R. Burnet, gives the following interesting
information.
When it is twelve o’clock high no m at New
York, the time is as follows at the stated places :
Newark, N. J il*M*24 London. En« 4 to 42
New Brunswick 11 to CS Montreal 12 01 44
Morristown tl f»3 00 Sebastopol 7 10 23
Patterson 11 .to to St. Petersburg 6 57 20
Plainfield 11 to 12 Turin 5 26 52
Princetou 11 57 16 Jerusalem 7 17 24
Trenton 11 57 00 Hamburg 535 48
Burlington 11 66 32 Geneva 520 42
Easton. Pa 11 65 00 Edinburg 4 42 16
Alton, 111 10 12 28 Constantinople 6 51 41
Buffalo 11 56 32 Calcutta 10 49 to
Charleston 11 36 40 Madrid 4 40 32
Cincinnati 11 16 18 Bremen 531 20
Dubuune 10 53 00 Athens 6 31 08
Harrisburg.. 11 48 44 I Koine 5 46 03
Macon. Ga 11 21 16 St. Helena 483 4S
Key West, Fla 11 28 62 Stockholm 608 20
New Orleans 10 55 40 Liverpool 4 41 30
Philadelphia 11 55 22 1 Dublin 4 30 66
Salt L Jte City 9 27 40| Florence 5 41 26
Oregon Cltv 8 46 40 Albany, K. Y 12 01 04
Honolulu. S. 1 6 21 06 | Lubec, Me 12 28 00
The difference of time between the extreme
East and West points of the United States is three
hours and fifty minutes. it is Monday noon
at New York, it is six o’clock fifty-eight minutes
A. M., Tuesday, at Tahiti, and between twelve and
one A. M., of Tuesday at China. In the China
sea, between Singapore and China, it is midnight
when it is noon at New York.
The time at St. John’s, Newfoundland, is one
o’clock twenty-six minutes eight seconds P. M.,
and the difference in time between Trinity Bay
and Valencia Bay is about two hours and forty
eight minutes.
Fashions.
Bonnets. —The bonnet is of white fancy straw,
trimmed with lace, dotted with chenille of various
colors—crimson most fashionable. The bonnet is
worn more on the head.
The Bagla ns. —Tbe approach of cool weather,
says the New York Express, brings out this new
style of overdress, which promises to become quite
the rage among the ladies. Though introduced
last spring, but few were made up, and those alto
gether in cloth, serving for use in traveling, and
in the cold spells during the summer. The cloth
is much lighter than ordinary ladies’ cloth, aud
dark in color. The raglan is a long and loose
sacque, with wide, flowing sleeves, trimmed only
with a silk tassel here and there. It is buttoned
close up to the throat, and fiuished with a small
collar, over which no muslin or lace collar is worn.
There is no trimming on the other portion, except
a row of buttons down the front, serving for fas
tenings. The effect is not so graceful as the cir
cular, but it is becoming to tall figures. It will be
worn almost universally as soon as the fall opens.
The Weather and Crops.—A subscriber at
Northport, Ala., writing to the Charleston Courier
on the 26th August, remarks:
“A word as to crops. Wheat, a full average. j
Oats, a dead failure. Corn, good enough. But '
Cotton, poor cotton! here lies the rub; drought , ’
rust, and the whole catalogue of usual*. And .
last, but not least, Pwtatoe never finer, now were 1
more planted in any one year.”
What can be Done on an Acre of Ground.— ;
The editor ot the Maine Cultivator published a few
days ago his management of one acre of ground,
from which we gather the following result:
One-third of an acre of corn usually produced
thirty bushels of sound corn for grinding, besides
some refuse. This quantity was .-ufficient for fami
ly use, and for fattening one large or two small
hogs. From the same ground he obtained two or
three hundred pumpkinjund his family supply of
iMbua. fcty>n of square he
JRKained sWyf UfßllelS oroWofli ; these he
sold at $1 per bushel, and the amount broughtpur
chased his flour. Thus from one-third of an acre
and his onion bed he obtained his breadsfuffs. The
rest of the ground was appropriated to all sorts of
vegetables For the summer and winter use—pota
toes, beets, turnips, cabbage, green corn, peas,
beans, cucumbers, melons, squashes, &c., with fifty
or sixty bushels of beets and carrots for the win
ter food of a cow'. Then he had a flower gar
den, also, raspberries, currants and gooseberries, in
great variety, and a few choice apple, pear, plum,
cherry, peach and quince trees.
From the Savannah New, Sept. 2.
Atlantic Telegraph.
The following interchange of messages passed
yesterday and the day before between the Mayors
of Savannah and New* York:
MESSAGE OF TIIE MAYOR OF SAVANNAH.
Savannah joins her sister cities in the chorus of
joy and gratitude for the blessing that has joined
what nature seemed to have eternally sundered.
The Anglo-Saxon race has made the lightning of
Heaven the swift messenger of peace. Our nation
has clasped in the embrace of friendship our for
mer eneuiy. In all this, we see the finger of
Providence guiding the nations in the way of
peace, and the two great branches of our race the
instruments of His hand.
Thos. M. Turner, Mayor Sayaunah.
To Hon. D. F. Tikmann, Mayor New York.
REPLY OF THE MAYOR OF NEW YORK.
New York, Sept. 1, three o’clock and thirty
minutes, P. M.—To His Honor Mayor Turner: On
behalf of the citizens of New York* I send a hearty
response to the kindly message of the citizens of
Savunnah, and heartily congratulate them on the
conspicuous bond of amity between the two kin
dred nations prominent in the great work of lay
ing the Atlantic cable. The fruit of increased hu
man knowledge, it promises to enlarge the sphere
of peace and good will among men.
Daniel F. Tiemann,
• Mayor of New York.
Yellow Fever in New Y’ork.—Two carpen
ters, one living in Division street and the other in
Houston street, have been attacked with yellow
fever, which they took while at work repairing the
ship Rattler, lately arrived from New Orleans. The
one living in Division street has had blaclwvoinit,
and is not likely to live the day out; the other is
convalescing. The Rattler has been sent to quar
antine.
John Coles, the third assistant engineer of the
steamer Philadelphia, which lately arrived from
New Orleans with yellow fever on board, died last
uight at the Ohio House, corner of Warren and
Washington streets, but his physician asserts that
he died of low typhus fever, and showed no symp
tons whatever of yellow fever. Another assistant
engineer of the same vessel lies sick at the same
house, and a medical consultation on his case is to
be held this afternoon.
Still another case of undisputed yellow fever,
from the Philadelphia, has been reported at the
Mayor’s office.
Another case is reported in East Broadway.
The carpenter, who sickened on the Rattier, died
yesterday.
The Health Commissioners resolved to-day to
allow no more vessels from Charleston or New Or
leans to come to the city for the present.
The steamer Philadelphia has been ordered im
mediately to quarantine.
New York Evening Post, Aug. 30.
“ Monsier Foix, a Frenchman who went to Ja
maica to embark in business, had been sadly
abused there. He had been robbed, whipped, put
in prison, his property confiscated, and every
species of indignity ana outrage offered him. On
his return to New Orleans, he told the story most
pitifully to Col. Pike, of Arkansas.
“Why, Monsieur Foix,” said the Colonel “ac
cording to your story Jamaica must be as bad a
. place as the infernal regions!”
i “Ma foi”—it is worse,
i “Now, Monsieur, do you really mean that?”
s “C’est vrai”—it is true.
t “Well now, Monsieur Foix ” said CoL Pike,
f “ suppose you were on your death-bed to-night,
. and the Lbrd should appear to you and say you
) might go back to Jamaica or go to the infernal’ re
i gions_what would you say ?
t “I vould say, Monsieur good Lord, if it beez all
- ze zame to you, if it makee no difference at all, I
i should very much choose to please, to prefer much
raier to go to h—ll.”
[communicated.]
Relief for the Nervous Headache.
Mr. Editor: I have been a sufferer with the
headache for more than thirty years; sought a
cure in many of the “ certain cures,” and found
none; und finding relief in a dose of morphine
ten years ago, and being afraid of an injurious
effect upon the stomach that a continued taking
cf opium in any form would produce, I concluded
to try sniffing morphine, and always finding relief
in a few minutes after snuffing a small portion of
morphine, about as large as a grain of wheat; and
having known it tried by others, and never with
out speedy relief, unless the head was so stopped
up that the morphine could not be drawn up, I
have concluded that the discovery is worth giving
to the public, and for that purpose I offer it to
your valuable paper. Leroy Pattillo,
Monroe, Ga., Aug. 23, 185 S.
(communicated.)
Mr. Editor'. I spent tbe greater portion of last
week at Crawfordvilie. The Superior Court was
in session, his honor Judge Thomas presiding. The
bar was well represented by resident lawyers ; also,
many from the adjoining counties.
I had the pleasure of hearing Hon. Alexander
U. Stephens, as well as his brother Linton, in a
couple of cases. The first gentleman appeared in
tbe defense of James Floyd, a free negro boy,
about nineteen years of age, who had killed his
elder brother, Wilson Floyd. It uppeared, from
the testimony, that the deceased was much strong
er than the prisoner at the bar, and had oftentimes
kicked and cuffed, as well as inflicted a wound
with a knife, on the person of his brother James.
It also appeared, in the testimony, that the de
ceased was very unruly and passionate. His father
and mother had frequently to send for their guar
dian to rule him. On the contrary, James was a
mild and obedient son.
One day, after a difficulty, the boy James was
sent by cne of his parents to the wood pile to pro
cure some lightwood, and while there his brother
Wilsou, tbe deceased, followed him, when the
murder was committed. Lafayette—a small boy
about twelve years of age, and brother of Wilson
and James—was the only person who saw the kil
ling. He stated, from the stand, that Wilson was
advancing on his brother James with an open
knife in hand, whereupon James warned him to
retreat; but, still advancing in this menacing atti
tude, and when sufficiently near, James seized the
axe and felled him to the ground—inflicting a
mortal wound about three and a half inches long
and about one inch and three-quarters deep, be
tween the ears on the back of the head.
In the defense, Mr. Stephens was truly eloquent;
and in the argument stated ttiat he had recently
visited a tew of our sister States, and was present
at some of their courts of justice and their admin
istration, and that he had now returned home to
love Georgia and her laws more than ever—that
here the high and the low, the rich and the poor,
the bond and the free, had justice meted out to
them alike—that he was proud of being a Geor-
I did not hear the verdict of the jury in this case,
as they had not retired before I left. *
There was another case tried previous to this—
a white man harboring a runaway s*ave—Mr. Lin
ton Stephens appearing for the State. The pri
soner was convicted, although defended by Mr.
Nelms, of Warrenton, who made quite a logical
and ingenious argument, m which he donenim
self great credit. This speech proves that he is a
young man of much promise. The argument of
Mr. Stephens was keen, searching and convincing,
and with that degree of eloquence peculiar to the
man, and which is always listened to with pro
found respect. Both he and his brother are look
ing well, having recruited by their western tour.
The charges made by some of the Know Noth
ing presses, that Hon. A. ii. Stephens hud gone
out West to see Mr. Douglas, for the purpose of
harmonising the difficulties between him and the
Democratic party, was a great libel to truth. Mr.
Stephens informed me that he did not sec Mr.
Douglas in his travels—he (Mr. I>.) being iu a dis
tant portion of Illinois when Mr. Stephens was in
that State. His tour was entirely one of recrea
tion and pleasure.
WhileatCrawfordville, I visited the vineyards of
Mr. L. Trope and Mr. Axt. The first is at the West
end of the town, the latter about three-quarters of
a mile further. Mr. Trope’s vineyard covers about
two acres of land; in it he has the Warren, Isa
>eUa, the Tpkftv .or Hurmarian grape* and iha
Catawba. HiS vineyard consists chieflv of the
latter grape. The ’Tokay is very similar to the
Catawba in s ? ze and bunch, although more red
and transparent.
Mr. Axt’s vineyard is chiefly of in? Catawba. lie
has four acres now bearing, and about as much of a
years’ growth, which is set out five feet by eight •
the first, four and a half by seven. He has tried
various experiments as to distance, and thinks
where there is a plenty of land, sufficient room
should be given to each vine; a large post is set
into the ground and wires stretched from post to
post the whole length of the vineyard to about
four rows high—the vines are trailed from North
to South. Here Mr. Trope differs, he thinks they
should be East and West, as the leaves of one vine
would protect the other from the hot summers
sun; for if you notice the grapes this year you
will find that the drought and the heat hare injured
the vineyard at least fifty per cent. A vine pro
perly trimmed and worked in a good season would
yield from two to four gallons of wine at the third
and fourth years’ growth. Although Mr. Axt has
cut off a number of bunches, and with the stated
failure, he will make this year some five hundred
gallons, besides distilling’the remaining pulp in
to brandy. He has now erected a still for that
purpose.’ His wine cellar is nearly completed—it
is at the brow of a hill, some ten by thirty feet in
length and width and about ten feet deep, with about
eight feet of clay thrown on the top, over which
is a shed. You enter the cellar by along avenue or
passage cut through the hill to the cellar door.
After the vineyard gets a start it will pay better
and with less work than anything a farmer can
raise. Mr. Axt thinks the grape would do well in
most of our iime stone counties; some should
give it a trial.
In passing from this place, I left for Warrenton,
where I arrived at five o’clock, P. M. Now as there
is but one train a day to connect —leaving War
renton at three o’clock, P. M., all passengers are
prevented from taking the up or down morning
train, sinless they can get the negroes to come out
from Warrenton with the hand car, which is pro
fielled by pushing, and for which you pay one dol
ar. The citizens of Warren county are much dis
pleased with this arrangement, and hope that a
speedy change will be made for the benefit of all
parties coming to and from Warrenton. The crops
of corn, both in this and Taliaferro counties, are
good. Cotton is rather injured. P.
August 30, 185 S.
[communicated.]
Who Intented the Telegraph ?
Mr. Editor: I thought that I would lie still till
Messrs. Morse & Co. got through with their con
troversy; but as non-claimants are continually com
ing in, I might as well put a stop to all quarrels
by showing that I am the inventor of the tele
graph. It happened in this way. While traveling
in Florida I killed a small rattlesnake, about forty
feet long. I noticed that every time I would tap
him on the head the tip of his tail would fly up.
Why, hi, thinks I to myself, that’s very strange.
I was satisfied in my own mind that there must be
a spontinacious continuity between the head and
the tail of the snake. Afterwards, being on a visit
to New York, I communicated the fact to Profes
sor Morse. He thanked me very much for the in
formation, and remarked that he would make
something out of it. I can prove all this by as
respectable men as reside in my neighborhood.
Eben Sxoodle.
Important News from Venezuela.
We have by the arrival of the schooner Peer
less, Capt. Patterson, at this port from Porto Ca
bello, in the quick passage of thirteen days, the
following very interesting advices:
On the 12th ult., the British steam frigates Buz
zard and Tartar, and a French war steamer, name
not known, under command of Captain Peel, of
the Buzzard, blockaded the port of Laguayra, tak
ing captive a large number of small coasting ves
sels anchored therein ; and on the 14th, ten A. M.,
the same fleet blockaded Porto Cabelto, likewise
• capturing a number of coasting vessels. At the
• latter port there were thirteen sail taken. On the
1 approach of the war steamers the shipping was
- deserted by their officers and crew, most ot them
jumping overboard and swimming to the shore
1 from their vessels that were anchored in the port.
I Capt. Patterson states that the blockade was caused
i by the government refusing to give up the person
of Gen. Monagas.— Baltimore American, Aug. 28.
Cotton Cultivation in Cnba.
The Havana correspondent of the Savannah
Republican says, in the course of his letter of
August 25th:
"Another thing which attracted much atten
tion, was u held ot growing cotton, planted with
seed sent out by a society at Manchester, England
under the auspices of a joint stock company
here called the Algomnera. There is no doubt
that cotton can be successfully cultivated in the
West Indies. It, was tried some years ago in
Jamaica, and only failed because tile requisite
continuous laborcould not be commanded. Should
the above referred to field succeed, os from its
present appearance it will probably do, then it is
likely many of the planters of this Islund will
turn their attention to the cultivation of cotton
and Georgia, the Carolinas and the other cotton
growing States, may yet find Cuba a rival in the
cotton markets of the world.”
The Teleoraph Costrovebsv.—A correspon
dent of the New \ork Times says there is another
claimant for the honor of inventing the magnetic
telegraph. The matter is thus stated :
The controversy between Morse and Henry is
■a ,The truth is, Win. Frost, au humble indi
vidual, was the inventor of the electric wire me
(hum. Morse, as before stated, occupied rooms m
the university. When there, Frost exhibited his
apparatus. Morse expressed his astonishment, and
ollered to get out the patent at his own expense
and divide. Before this, Professor Silliman had
an interview- with Frost, at which time he was in
formed that lie had made this discovery, and di
vulged it to the Professor, who promised to experi
ment on it. Soon afterwards, in this oily, he ad
mitted to Frost that his experiments were favora
ble; he depressed himself in high terms of its
wonderful utility. Besides, the Hon. T. Freling
httysen, who also occupied apartments in the Uni
versity, was advised and knew of Frost’s inven
tion. All these facts will be fullv proved, and will
be made public.
Honors to Ex-President Pierce.— The press,
speaking of ex-Presideut Pierce’s tour in Europe,
says:
All along the route, from Lisbon to Marseilles,
he has been the recipient of distinguished consid
eration from public officers and private citizens.
At Gibraltar, the senior officer in command of the
British naval forces ai that point extended marked
courtesies, and urged the ex-President and Mrs.
Pierce to take passagejor Tangiers in one of Her
Majesty’s oublic armed vessels. At Marseilles,
the French authorities, headed by the prefect and
the military commander, were especially attentive
and zealous in acts of hospitality.
Lime and Yellow Fever. — An acquaintance of
ours, who some years ago worked at the business
of brick masonry in New Orleans, informed us a
few days since, that it was often remarked, while
he was in the city, that four carpenters died of yel
low fever where one brick mason died and that tt *
latter were more exposed to the sun, and under
ordinary circumstances.would be more liable to
take the fever than the former. He says the dif
ference in favor of brick masons was attributed to
their working so much inlime. - - Ptanlera ’ Banner.
" From the Qdnmbia Guardian , Aug. 31.
Messrs. Fdil'as : You published in your paper of
yesterday the startling news that Mrs. Michell, of
Rome, has made the discovery that peach leaves
makes better yeast for bread than hops. Now,
when did this lady make the discovery, fori have
been enjoying its benefits for more than three
years, and my wife acknowledges that she obtain
ed the information from the wife of a member of
your firm, who did not then claim to have made
the discovery. A Bread Eater.
The Atlantic Telegraph and the U. S. Gov
ernment.—We understand that Lord Derby, in
answer to the representations of the Directors of
the Atlantic Telegraph Company, has signified
the willingness of the British Government to
amend the charter of the Company, so as to place
its oiganization, Ac., upon a footing of absolute
equality as regards the British and American
Governments.— Tel. Rep.
Rev. R. L. Brkck.— A meeting of Hopewell
Presbytery is called in Macon on the 21st proximo,
to consider an application of Rev. R. L. Breck, of
this city, for a transfer of his ecclesiastical rela
tions to the Presbytery of New Albauy, in the
State of Indiana—he having accepted an invita
tion to become pastor of the First Presbyterian
Church, in that city. New Albany stands in rela
tion to Louisville as Brooklyn does to New York,
being located just across the river; and it is a
and thriving city of some twenty' Tliousand
inhabitants.— Macon Telegraph, Aug.il.
Ax American Involved in the Pene Affair. —A
correspondent of a German paper, writing from
Baden under date of August 4th, says that a Mr.
X., “ u wealthy American,” at present sojourning
in Baden, has been, like M. de Pene, called to ac
count by French sub-lieutenants. It having trans
pired that Mr. N. was the author of an article in
an American journal reflecting severely upon the
character of the French sub-lieutenants, several of
the aggrieved party immediately sought him out
and demanded satisfaction for the insult. The
Americau promptly accepted the challenge, and at
noon to-day the parties repaired to the adjacent
frontier, where the American and one of the lieu
tenants were to settle the difficulty according to
the rules of the “code.” After the first fire, in
which neither party was wounded, the American’s
second, an Austrian ex-officer, intimated to his
irincipal that, as he was in fact the aggressor, and
tad satisfied the demands of honor, he should now
make the amende honorable. With this request
the American complied, and thus the affair termi
nated without bloodshed.— Sew York paper.
President Buchanan in an Alarming Position.
A correspondent from Bedford Springs to the Bal
timore Sun, writes as follows :
“The lady of Col. Alfred Spates, of Cumberland,
Maryland, one of the visitors at the Bedford
Springs, by her dashing exploits with a pair of
superb created quite a sensation. Her
admirable tact’and skill in handling the ribbons,
and managing her spirited animals, are the theme
of commendation with all experts at the whip.
She is the same lady who took the silver cup at a
recent agricultural fair in Montgomery county for
the best display of horsemanship. Her style in
the saddle is queenlv, and she would be the envy
of the most accomplished horsewoman at Franco
ni’s. The lady has honored some of our distin
guished guests with an invitation to share with
her the hilarious exercise and refreshing perils~of
a place by her side upon her brilliant charioteer
ing excursions. The other day she sent her card
to the President, who, of course, with his habitual
politeness, placed himself in her charge, and the
lady gave him a glorious round. Dashing through
Bedford town at a spanking pace, the horses
flecked with foam, the lady glowing with excite
ment, and the President known to everybody, very
serious alarm seized the public mind that some
aspiring dame had caught up the Chief Magistrate
of the United States, and was eloping with him.
As it was observed, however, that the President
took it very calmly, called upon no one for help,
and seemed perfectly resigned to the consequences,
whether it was a broken neck or matrimony, no
body interfered. In good time the party returned,
and the President was restored safe and sound to
his anxious friend.”
September Elections.— Elections are to be held
next month in Maine, Vermont and California—the
first on the 13th, and the other two on the 7th of
the month. In Maine, a Governor, six members rs
Congress, and members of the legislature are to
be chosen. The following are the candidates of
both parties for Congress:
First District—lra T. Drew, Democrat; D. E.
Somers, Republican.
Second District—D. R. Hastings, Democrat; J.
J. Perry, Republican.
Third District—A. W. Johnson, Democrat; E.
P. French, Republican.
Fourth District—A. Gile, Democrat; *F. H.
Morse, Republican.
Fifth District—J. S. Wiley, Democrat; *I. Waah
burne, Republican.
Sixth District—B. Bradbury, Democrat; *S. C.
Foster, Republican.
Mannassah 11. Smith is the Democratic, and
M. Morrill the Republican candidate for Governor.
In Vermont the nominations for Congress are
complete, with the exception of the third district.
They are as follows :
First District—C.G. Eastman, Democrat; *E.
P. Walton, Republican.
Second District—W. H. H. Bingham, Democrat;
* J. S. Morrill, Republican.
Third District—No nomination.
Those marked (*) are re-nominations.
The California nominations for Congress had
not been made at the time of the sailing of the
last steamer.
In the sixth district of Maine there is a fair
chance of the Democrats'electine their candidate :
at least, it is so conceded by the Republicans—and
the Democrats have hopes. The present delega
tion is unanimously Republican.