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(fry goods houses wi re
F larger or better aborted, and they are of the latest
and moat approved styles. We refer to the adver- j
tisements of Jackson, Miller A V«rderv, Gray
k Tomer, 1)1 CKIT & rit ins, James llexet, and
r ' others. _
Drug*., Chemicals, Ac.
Angftbla haa long been regarded a* a most de
sirable market for ibe purchase of the leading
. commodities in the drug business; and ue have
establishments every way worthy to receive the
j|jL liberal trade enjoyed here. We refer our readers
ha to the advertiaementa of I’n sn A Lkitnkr, near
the po.-t office corner—the fall trade announoc
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W* -invito • nlion to the advertisements.
In differ ent poi lions of our paper tn-dar, id the I
large and (veil applied clothing eslubnaumi. >'
o 4|H> XtauN, at or. als Kroad street—of .luscpii
Mi saw n* A Co., under the United States Hotel—
. of Clavtos A (Cenmov, under the Augusta Hotel—
Wm. O. Price, No. 2">h llroad street , olid Kamsav
w k La haw, apposite* the Union Hank.
[ These art well known clothing establishments,
[ and do an ejtcnsive business in this Stale, as well
as to Tennessee, Alabama, and North and South
Carolina, llaciug facilities for the purchase and
manufacture of their fabtics, equal to any dealers
in tb« country, they are at all times prepared to
(ill orders ou no favorable terms as the same qua!
ity of goods cuu be purchased elsewhere.
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John Logon, W. J. Wood.
fl'trtliridfgr Alum Sprinyi, Va., Sept. B.—Her. K,
K. Kurd, laaar Henry and lady, Mrs. Foster.
a At MuapKit, Turn., Sept. 5.—J. K. Webeter.
At WiukiAfttM City, Sept. ii J. J. McKoodrcc,
IF, Miblev, J. W. Feaus, 11. I*. Bemnn, fk. Hmall-
Atood.
; jK« At WtuHnglon Citg,Srpt. A 11. J. Lamnr and
/ * lady, J. R, Wimberly, James M. Russell and In
dy, L. S. Smallwood, J. McKinton, llenry W.
Jones, T. Wheatley, J. W. Wheatley and lady,
Joe. A. Calving.
At Nem Fork, Sept. n. -S. Hmitli, J. Harry, 11.
"•» Mo.'*, J 1 O. Cole, Mr. and Mrs. Sbdrtcr, j. (i.
Waruock, B. F. Green, J. 11. Qobb,(l’. Ilorry, 11. 1.,
Mo*a, Miss A. and Miss M. Hainan, A. F. Butler,
* C. J. Bartlett, T. 8. Wulsli, I). O'Connor, S, I*.
I HruiMin, C. A. Boynton, J. Btcwart, J. It. Janies,
| D. U. Johnson, It. 11. Goodman, (1. L. Deinan, G.
F. Oliver, W. 11. Tnrrsll, H. Goldberg and lady,
J. B. Artope, Miss Artope, T. Stone, N. Gordon,
W. H. Kyirk, J. M, Tratnor, wife and servant,
B* *» -George A. Gray and family, It. A. Fairchild and
F Irtyftfiss Fairchild, H. 11. Fairchild, Miss Gru
| ham, U. M. Uenfull.
At City, Sept. T—Miss Conyers, W.
0. Conyers, It. H. Evans, 0. A. Lnngstroct.
At .1 Uile, A/a., Sept. «.-J, W. I, von.
.It .VosAnUr, TVsu,, .Nz/U, Ij,—Jacob Wataoti, F.
8. Ford.
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our African population ha- net bee,,
a ited, uivl that arc not compelled tn re-
I- the Slav.-•fade, under anothei 'mm, to
mir plantations to their normal condition.
point tieueral Cass well remarks, that
|HKc United States have no tropical colonies re
duced from a state of prosperity to adversity, and
which they seek to redeem from this condition by
the introduction of involuntary emigrants of any
color whatever, for the purpose or carrying on
the labors of agriculture. They have no necessity,
nor any design, to resort to other countries for a
supply of forced laborers, whether coolies, oretni
grauts, or apprentices, or by whatever name de
uoinmated; or of any luborers, w ho, if not compet
ed by actual force to enter into distant servitude,
are compelled thereto by considerations little less
voluntary, and an utter ignorance of the true con
dition into which they are about to enter.”
It would seem, with the whole power of
France, under a sovereign who brooks no opposi
tion, directed to the protection of the trade for
her colonies, while England neglects to act
efficiently on Spain as to its suppression in Cuba,
and is herself engaged in carrying on a more
objectionable tralnc in human labor, as well from
Asia as from Africa, it would be absurd to ul
leuipt, w ith a squadron mounting eighty guns, to
do auy thing which could hear sensibly on the
great result. It would be like closing a revice in
a rock, while the waters of the lakes were pass
ing over the Niagara cataract. We abstain from
what both of the great European powers are do
ing. We neither invite Avars among the barba
rous Africans for the capture of prisoner- to he
sold to us under the name ot • inigrijuta, nor do
we entire or forcibly carry tbeunoffending Asiastics
on board our vessels to he transported across the ,
ocean to drag out a miserable existence devoid ol i
all the domestic relations, and without that foster- i
ing protection which masters for their own in- i
teresl, not to invoke any higher motives,are wont
to accord to those in whom they have a per- i
munent property. i
We do not covet the unfortunate wretches taken l
from the slavers of all nations, and whose fate by i
the capture is simply changed by having their i
destination altered from Cuba to Jamaica. On the |
contrary, our interposition in the cause of human- •
ity, aa fur us it extends, is not only gratuitous in i
the expenditure ut money, and in the saci dice of
lives on the African coast, hut as early us March,
IK 111, effectual provision was made for the safe '
keeping, support, and removal beyond the limits
ot thu united States, of any Africans captured by
Our ships, and for the appointment of suitable
agents on the coast of Africa to receive them. It
was this arrangement which efficiently contributed
to the early success of the Colonization Society.
In conclusion, we would ask whether there ex
ists uny duly to the people or States of the Union,
any international claim on us, or uny benefit to
accrue to humanity, even if it he competent for
the federal government, from considerations of
general philanthropy, to go beyond the functions
distinctly prescribed for it by the Constitution,
which would justify a continuance of the obliga
tions imposed by the eighth article of the Ashbur
ton treaty.
The honor of the country requires that the gal- ,
lam officers and seamen of the American navy
should no longer act as purveyors ot slaves for
the British planters, and that our squadron ahimid
not ha used as a tender to the Hriti-h fleet, and as
a decoy to bring within the reach of its cruisers
the vessels <*f all nations, to be adjudicated on in
the vice admiralty courts ot England.
tST" All tbe Cabinet officers are now in Wash
ington City.
The deaths .from yellow fever in New Or.
leans, on the 7th inat., were thirty-nine.
teU The returns of the recent election in Ten
nessee show u large majority in opposition to the
call of a Stale Conv. ntion.
J-*?' The last otlieial intelligence from Utah
merely refers to the Inovements of the army, and
contiruis the accounta already published.
The receipts from customs, last* week, in
New York, were eight hundred and twenty-one
thousand three hundred and seveuty-two dollars
and eighty-four cents. .
i*r )n Monday next, 13th instant, the election
in Maine takes place. There a Governor and a
Slate legislature are to be chosen, uml six repre
sentatives in Congress. The canvass has been
quite animated. Manasskii 11. Smith is the Demo,
era tic, and Lot M. Morrill the Kepuhlican candi
date for Governor.
l*r H. T. I'kters, in tbe Charleston O/toier, |
says that a hulf teaspoonful of pulverised charcoal,
mixed iu u glass of water and drank every morn
ing or at night before going to bed, is a preven
live against yellow- serer. He says he has resided
in the West Indies, New Orleans and Charleston
for many years, and has known whole crews of
vessels to have escaped by taking this simple pre
(•entire.
This ••preventive" or “remedy" hoav brought
forwurd by Mr. I’titis is an old uewspftpcr naif,
I ami makes i'.s appearance at irregular intervals, us
j a sovereign remedy for many types of fever, for
irdet s >f the stomach, “ bad breath," cleaning
the teeth, sick head ache, Av., Ac. We have no
doubt Me. I“ktkus is very sincere iu his belief that
the remedy he proposes svilt prove a preventive,
but it must be a source of much annoyance to him
that he has not been able to impress his convic
tions on the minds of the medical fraternity.
Ct’Rt ron Erysipelas. —A correspondent of the
Providence Journal says that in ninety-nine cases
out of every hundred cranberries applied as u
poultice will effectually euro the erysipelas. There
is not un instance known where it has failed to
effect a cure when faithfully applied before the suf
ferer was in a dying state. Two or three applica
tions generally do the work.
JohnS. Fleming, on* of the most brilliant ora
tors tn Virginia, died in Goochland county last
week.
Un the tirst instant, the annual mass, in hontir
of Gen. Lopez, was performed in the Cathedral at
New Orleans.
The annual State Fair of Georgia will be held
in Atlanta from the tilth to the 2Jd of October
next. The fate/.’ipvaorr says it bids fair to be not
only largely attended, but to have a Rue display
Los the productions of nature, science ami art.
I The Three Washrpunrs ( Brothers) Again in
I the Firlo.—lsrael Wkshecckh, Jr., has been
for Congress in the Mh district of
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The Democracy of .Michigan*
The State Contention of the Democratic party
of Michigan, assembled at Detroit ou the 2d inat.,
for the purpose of nominating candidates for the
offices of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Trea
surer, Attorney-General, and .Super.nicndent of
Public Instruction. Charles K. Stuabt was nom
inated on the first ballot, as the candidate of
the party for the office of Governor; and subse
quently the following resolutions, in relation to
national politics, were adopted, withont a contest
or a division:
Resolved, by the Democracy of Michigan in State
convention assembled :
1. That we strictly adhere to the principles of
the Cincinnati platform, as those only upon
which our government can be successfully ad
ministered, and bv which our inestimable in
stitutions can be preserved.
2. That we read in the signs of the times the
most cheering evidence that the day is rapidly
approaching when the whole country, without
distinction or division, will cordially accept the
just and equal doctrine of popular sovereignty, as
enunciated by the Cincinnati platform ; that, in
the judgment of this convention, the principles
thus recognised and approved, not onlv import
the sacred right of the people of every Territory
to form and regulate, without intervention from
any quarter, alltheir local and domestic institu
tions in their own way, subject only to the Con
stitution of the United Slates, but equally import
their clear and indisputable right to have any
State Constitution framed for them submitted to
their own full, free, aud direct vote thereon, for
approval or rejection ; and we pledge ourselves to
the maintenance of this wise, equal, and Demo
craticpolicy, with absolute fidelity.
3. That we declare our confidence in the ability,
integrity, and patriotism of the administration of
our venerable President,James Buchanan, and it j
shall have our hearty support in all its measures |
for the maintenance of our glorious Constitution I
and Union, and for the advancement of the pros- i
perity and happiness <»f our whole country. j
4. That the final settlement of the right of'
search and visitation question, upon the broad
and comprehensive ground taken by our dis
tinguished fellow-citizen, General Lewis Cass, in
opposition to the Quintuple Treuty, shows most
.MigmftfMutly the elevated position we now’ occupy
hi the eyes of fht first commercial and naval pow
er of the Old will hereafter elicit for
our flag from all nations that, respect which a
great, rising, and united people have a right to de
mand.
That we adhere to the paternal policy of {
flie Democratic party, which, confiding in the
wisdsm of the people of the Territories, and re
lying on their superior fitness to determine what
institutions are suited to their peculiar wants and
necessities, welcomes, with open arms and
patriotic pride, each new sovereignty, with its in
stitutions of its own free choice, to a brotherhood
of equal states. <
These resolutions, it will be remarked, are sub- *
stunt tally the same as those which were adopted 1
by the regular Democratic convention of Illinois,
by which the course of Judge Douglas was en- 1
dorsed. They express a determination to sustain
the administration, affirm the Cincinnati platform
and the principles of the Kansus-Nebraska bill,
and assert the policy of a popular ratification of
the Constitutions of new States, without making
acquiescence in this policy a test of Democratic
orthodoxy. So did the resolutions of the regular
or DouiiUS Democratic convention of Illinois.
It will be observed, too, that the candidate of
the convention for Gubernatorial honors, is the
Hon. Charles K. Stuart, a gentleman who has
sympathised with and sustained Judge Douglas*,
in every movement which he has made in oppo
sition to the Kansas policy of the administration.
Thus, it appears, that the Democracy of Michi
gan have organised for the iqqiroaching State elec
tion, in opposition In the Black Republicans, upon
a platform substantially the same us that upon
which the Douglas Democracy of Illinois are
standing, and selected for their slundard bearer, a
distinguished member of the party, who has fol
lowed Douglas in all his 44 treason” aguiuet it.
Will the Washington Union denounce the Dem
ocracy of Michigan as it does that of Illinois'? or
load Charles K. Stuakt with the same kind of
abuse which it daily heaps upon Strpuen A.
Douglas? _
The Slute Fair.
The Atlanta Intelligencer, of the Oth inst., says:
44 The annual State Fair of Georgia will be held
in Atlanta, from the 10th to the 2 n >d of October
next. We hope to see, on the occasion, evidences
of increased interest in this institution. It has
doubtless already done much towards the develop
ment of the agricultural resources of our Suite.
These are ample in themselves—surpassed by
none, ami equalled by few,' if any, of the States of
this Union. We hope to see a large attendance,
und a bountiful contribution of specimens from
the agricultural, horticultural, mechanical, and
manufacturing interests of the country.”
There were seventy-six deaths by yellow
fever in New Orleans on Tuesday, the 7th inst.
ijr It is stated that the yellow fever is very rna- \
teriully retarding the receipts of cotton at Vicks
burg.
£ Wallace Wilson* was shot dead by Isaac
Logan, in Abbeville district, S. 0., on the oth inst.
Locus Ims been admitted to bail in the sum of two
thousand dollars.
2 « As the late meeting of the stock hoi Jus of
the Kast Tennessee and Georgia railroad, held at
Athens, Tennessee, Thomas Bahkktt, of this city,
was elected as one of the directors of the company,
in the place of Wm. 11. Stark, who declined a re
elcction.
the Washington .correspondent of
the Baltimore Sun, cays: ‘‘The heavy expenditure
which must arise before the final disposal of the
African uegroes rescued from the slaver Echo,
will doubtless turn the minds of our statesmen to
the whole subject of interference with the slave
trade. Why should we keep up a squadron on
the coast of Africa, at a yearly expense of at least
half a million of dollars, when so great powers as
France und England are carrying on the slave
trade under the name of apprenticeship ?”
lu Arkansas at the recent Congressional elec
tion, the two Democratic members elect received
twenty-five thousand one hundred and forty eight
majority. Arkansas may be set down as decided
ly Democratic l
The ruptured Africans.
We find the following card in the Savannah
Morning Metrs of Oth inst:
M r . A Jitar: l see in vour issue of this morning
that "the American Colonization Society has
offered to take the captured Africans, on landing
in Liberia, and for fifty thousand dollars, keep
them for one year and learn (teach ?) them in
dustrial pursuits." Now, 1 desire to make this
proposition to tlu» Government: I will take them
aud give fifty thousand dollars for the privilege,
and will guarantee to teach them ‘‘industrial
pursuits" without auv charge, aud keep them for
a term of years. Which proposition will the
Government accent? They are much in waut of
money, hut eouaiiy in need of popularity North,
and l am inclined to think they will favor the
Society that Judge Lumpkin, of our Supreme
Court, has denounced as a swindle. We shall
soon see. C. A. L. Lam au.
UT Kewt items from the Savannah Rep* r
of the Vth inst:
Rad .1 /iir 7»*.—This celebrated craft was
taken up on the wavs, at the ship yard of 11. V.
\\ illink, Jr., yesterday, to be overhauled, repaired
and re-coppered
flmtrhibie. —Thomas Hennrlltr, who was shot
a few days since, lived four days and ninete.n
I hours with a pistol ball lodged in the left ventricle
j of bis heart.
' Airtd.Ver lair.--At sundown last evening the
Jewish congregation of this city commenced their
j annual festival of Kosh .mmii. >r the bcgmuiugof
1 the year lire thouaand »iV hundred and uineieeu.
lThe services connected with the festival will oea-
I tin’j* lor two day*.
| S3T There were fifteen deaths in Memphis,
Teen., during the week ending September 4th.
tsf E. T. Tebeaw, Esq., a popular citizen o!
Washington county, died in Kill ugh am county on
! Sunday last, sth inst.
] -rff* Th<; total number of deaths in New York
city during the week ending the sth inst., was fits
hundred and ninety-two.
TyT" A new post office has been established in
j Hart county, Georgia, called Rio, and Jobs G.
j McCcery appointed postmaster. Alt packages
. intended for that office should have the name of
the county on them, as there is another post office
called Rio in Coweta county, Georgia.
The Alabama .State Fair has been post
poned from October 18th, to November Ist.
The Tennessee State Fair commences October
11th:
And the Georgia State Fair on the Utb of Octo
ber.
Stephen T. Singletary, a veteran of the
press, and well known by the fraternity through
out the Union and the Territories, was in our
city yesterday. He has walked about fifty thou
sand miles since his travels commenced, and
will probably leave here, in a day or two, “on his
journey.” He is a living Encyclopedia of the
events of the past, and wherever he travels is
kindly and hospitably entertained.
Ax Old Mansion.—The famous mansion house
built, for Governor Craddock, in 1634, of bricks
I brought from England, is still standing in Bed
| ford, Mass.
j The People’s party of DelawareJiave nominated
{James S. Bickmaster for Governor, and Wm. R.
Morris for Congress. The Democratic Slate con
vention of Delaware have nominated, as candidate
for Governor, Dr. William Burton, of Kent coun
ty, aud for Representative to Congress, Hon. Wm.
G. Wbitely.
Remarkable Phenomenon.—Rev. JosEni R.
Walker informs the editor of the Christian Advo
cate of Memphis, thut in Tipton and Shelby coun
ties, Tennessee, the white oak trees are bearing on
the outside of the acorn hull, something in the
shape of wheat, upon which the hogs are feeding
and thriving finely.
Knlabging the Area.—The cultivation of tobac
co has been commenced with Battering prospects
of success, iu Fauquier, Culpepper, Spottsylvania.
Caroline and several other counties heretofore de
voted chiefly to the cereuls. Several of the west,
ern counties of Virginia have also made successful
experiments this season.
Governorship or Nebraska Territory.—Gov.
Richardson, of Illinois, lias resigned the Gover
norship of Nebraska Territory, and a deputation
is now, it is said, on its way to Washington city,
to ask the Executive to appoint Col. John A. Par
ker, of Henrico county, Va., to fill the vacancy.
Col. P. was formerly register of the land office’in
Nebraska.
Official returns have been received from every
countv in Kentucky but Letcher county. Revill’s
(Dem.) official majority is thirteen thousand and
ninety-five. The vote of Letcher is three hundred
and sixty-three for Rkvill, and one hundred and
seventeen for McKee. This would give Kevill a
majority of thirteen thousand three hundred and
forty-one.
A German importing house at New York lately
received an invoice of real Havana segars, which
were appraised at the custom house at three dol
lars per thousand. The importers thought this
too high, und under their oath the cigars were ad
mitted at one dollar and a half. Their evidence
was that not a particle of tobacco entered into the
composition of said segars, but that they were
wholly composed of oak and other leaves, soaked
in stroug tobacco ley.
Deportment in a Railroad Car.—A trial took
place a month ago at Rouen, in France, that af
fords a good precedent for judicial action the world
over. Two fellows, pretending to be gentlemen,
were pleased to talk indecently in a railroad car,
even after un angry remonsirance of a worthy
farmer, who happened to be with his daughter in
an opposite seat, lie denounced them to the pub
lic prosecutor; they were tried by the Correction
al Court; the sentence passed on each was im
prisonment for two months und a fine of two hun
dred francs.
The official returns of ihe recent election in
North Carolina, as furnished by the Rorth, Caroli
na Standard, are:
Ellis 58,212
Mcßae 39,865
Majority for Ellis 16,247
Aggregate vote of the State 96,177
Cotton in the Yazoo Valley.—A correspondent
of the Picayune, writing from Yazoo county, Miss.,
says that the most sanguine do not now count
upon more than two-thirds of a crop in the hills.
The crop in the bottom he estimates at an avenge
one, deducting the loss from overflow, which, for
that county, he estimates at seven thousand to ten
thousand bales. The hill crop has suffered from
boll worms and drought, the bottom crop from
worms and rust.
Gin House Burnt.—Last Tuesday, says the
Georgia TeUffraph, the gin house of Col. Dempsey
Brown, near Havneville, Houston county, was
destroyed by fire, and with it about thirty bales
of cotton. Col. D. had just returned from Mont
vale to see so large a portion of his crop lost.
Planters should not allow their packed cotton to
accumulate around the gin house. Send it to mar
ket. or at least store it iu our warehouses under
insurance.
[communicated, j
At a meeting of ihe Democratic party at War.
renton, Warren county, on the 7th instant, Archi
bald M. Jackson and Elias Lazenby, were nomi
nated as candidates for the legislature to fill
j vacancies. y\-
j Sense.—A rough summon sense pervades the
. following, in which there is certainly more truth
! than poetry:
| “Great men never swell. It is only three cent
| individuals who are salaried at the’ rate of two
j hundred dollars a year and dine on potatoes and
i dried herring, who put on airs and flashy waist
! coats, swell, puff, blow, and endeavor to give them
t selves a consequential appearance. No discrimi
' natiog person can ever mistake the spurious for
j I the genuine article. The difference between the
. ' two ts as great as that between a bottle of vinegar
, | and a bottle of the pure juice of the grape.”
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‘ . Extraordinary Scicide bt Voluntary St.arva
' ! now. -Jacob Plant, thirty-six years of age, died
, in Manchester, Mass., on Monday last, of volants
jry starvation. Mr. Plant was paying attention to
j a young lady of the above place some three years
i ago, but his proposal for marriage was rejected.
The disappointment preyed upon his mind, and
he sooii afterward attempted to blow his brains out,
i but only succeeded in destroying both eyes. He
; 1 has consequently remained blind for three years.
During that time be once made an unsuccessful
i attempt to starve himself. The second time he
' j w .s successful -meeting his end as above stated,
t ! He had partaken of nothing for nine lewis bul
coffee, swes-teued water and morphine.
_ RAtimort Sun.
i R ather Fisht.—A family named Mackerel hart
recently conn* into possession by ebuneerv. t:
r | Great Britain, ot au estate valued at oiie author
t p. uuds stet hug, left by one Salmon, who diet
j without an heir. The laud Chancellor decider
- ; that as tin i • w re no more Salmons, the larges
lamilt ol Ma.-kcreU eh >uld inherit the fortune.
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been ill, but had recover
of the United States cutter Robert McClelland,
lying at the same place, died of the fever on the
10lh uU ’ _
Death Among Immigrants at New Orleans.—
The yellow fever is particularly fatal to newly ar
rived immigrants at New Orleans, and several
vessels from Germany, with living cargoes, are
now on the way there. In view of this the Delta
"A Mr. Ingram, who is largely interested at
Fort Laracca, Texas, has mode Mayor sStith a
liberal proposition to relieve the city of the emi
grant üb*>ut arriving from Europe. Mr. Ingram
proposes to send them to Lavacca, Texas, by the
•steamship, and to give each emigrant a lot to
build upon, free of charge, or two hundred acres
of iand each, at three dollars per acre on three !
years’ time.”
Yellow Fever in Jackson, Miss.—The Vicks
burg Whig , of the 2d inst., says:
Information was received here yesterday that
one death from yellow fever occurred in Jackson
on Tuesday night; and there was also a report
that two others had died yesterday.
Tue Yellow Fever.—lu answer to many in
quiries, we present the following comparative
statement of the weekly reports of mortality from
yellow fever, in this city, for the seasons of 1854,
1656, and the expired portion of the present sea
son :
I~'A. 1 1856. 1366.
August 19 4:August 1 August? 1
August V/ 20! August 16 6i August 14 6
September 2 26 August 23 Si August 21 28
September!! 77[AugustSO 7|A;ieust 23 39*
September 16 127:September . .. If* Sc-pteiaCfcr 4 78
September 23r..J 18 i September 13.... HMt '
September CO 7*2 (September 20
October 7 M j September 27 24
October 16 48; October 4 32
October 21 Si:October 11 23
October 23, October 18 24
Sovember 4 8 , October 23 1C
.Vovemfcerll Cl Novembei 1 5
N vember 18 3j November 8 1
Novembers!?/ filNovember l.*> 0
1 November 22 1
Total 614! *
i Total 206
Charleston Courier , Sept. c .
from the Mjbile Aews, September 4..
Yellow Fever in the City.—lt will be seen
by the subjoined statement, famished by the
Board of Health, that three cases of yellow fever
have been reported in the city. These cases were
first seen on Sunday and Monday, and since then
none hare occurred. The general health of the
city is excellent, and, as the weather is favorable,
v.e do not think that any apprehension need be
felt of the disease spreading here.
It was hardly to be expected that with the yel
low fever raging so violently in New Orleans, aud
to a greater or less extent in cities far North of us,
that Mobile would escape entirely, or even be so
favored as she has been in this particular. Two
of these cases, we learn on excellent authority,
can be traced to New Orleans, as they both occurred
in a house in this city where a young man from
New Orleans recently stopped, where his trunk
was opened and his clothing aired.
We have thus given the facts as they actually
exist, believing frankness in such matters to be
the best policy, und we assure our readers that
they shall be regularly and faithfully informed of
the progress of the disease, if, contrary to our
hopes and expectations, it shall make any further
progress.
The following is the report of the Board of
Health:
Office cf the Board of Health, >
Mobile, Sept. 4th, 1858. j
Three cases of yellow fever have been reported
to the Board within the last twenty-four hours.
All of these cases commenced on Sunday and Mon
day last, since which time none others have been
seen. The city, otherwise, continues to be in a
state of good health, unusual at this period of the
year. By order of the Board,
D. Herndon, M. D., Secretary.
A Pan|o in Jackson.—A friend who arrived
down from Jackson yesterday, says that the soli
tary case of yellow fever there, intelligence of
which reached the city 3'esterday, has given rise
to exaggerated rumors" and consequent terror
which have caused quite a stampede, and raised
all sorts of country accommodations to a pre
mium. Illustratively, we introduce the following
notice, which is an exact copy our informant took
of one posted up in the post office of Jackson. We
like the pine knot candle clause, and agree with
the proprietor iu coosideriug the abundance of
that piney woods product, a strong recommenda
tion of the property.
4 ‘ Yellow Fever.— 4 ‘ I have for reut a good
rough double log cabin, about ten miles from Jack
son, in Rankin county—a good hunting and
fishing range, and a plenty of pine knots which
will serve for caudles should any one take it. It
would suit any one.who may run from the Yellow
Jack. Enquire of Mr. Wm. 11. Terrett.
‘‘Sept. 2u., 1858,”
flew Orleans True Delta, Sept. 5.
Yellow Fever Items.—The fever this year is
characterised by a new development—that of
attacking creoles aud old acclimated people whose i
birth and continued residence m New' Orleans
has always exempted them from its attacks. In
this respect, the fever is far worse than it was in
1853. A number of creole citizens having died,
there is much alarm existing in that part of the
population, many of whom hold the opinion that
ihe fever is not the ordinary yellow fever.
The fever this year is conspicuous for its fatali
ty among young men and children. Within the last
fortnight there have been more deaths of young
men, aged from fifteen to twenty-five, than we
can recollect in any previous visitation of the
fever.
The different benevolent and charitable societies
continue nobly at work. The Howards, who are
doing the most, axe operating with a balance of
thirty-seven thousand dollars, left over from the
last epidemic, and are consequently not necessita
ted to appeal to the public at present for assis
tance.
The Young Men’s Christian Association are not
behind the Howards in their noble endeavors. In
the Fourth District, where the fever is now very
bud, they have a hospital, over which our friend
Dr Berthelot presides. Though their hospital is
up town, they are ou the alert for suffering in all
parts of the city, and ready to open a new hospital
wherever the concentration of sickness may re
quire it. The different associated brotherhoods
are acting up to and above their mottoes in their
respective spheres of action.
Xew Orleans Daily Crescent , September 4.
Tub Gold Mines in Kansas. —The city of Kan
sas Journal , of Aug. 2Gth, says :
We were surprised this morning to meet Mons.
Bordeau and company, old mountain traders, just
in from Pike’s Peak. They camd for outfits, tools,
Ac., for working the newly discovered gold mines
on Cherry creek, a tributary of the South Platte.
They bring several ounces of gold, dug up by the
trappers of that region, which, in fineness, equals
the choicest of California specimens. Mr. John
Cautreli, an old citizen of Westport, has three
ounces which he dug with a hatchet in Cherry
creek and washed out with a frying pan.
Mons. Richard, an old French trapper, has sev
eral ounces of the precious uust, which he dug
with an axe.
Mons. Boesinettee has several rich specimens.
The party consists of nine men, all of them old
lountaineers, who have spent their lives in the
mountains. Mons. Bordeau has not been in the
States for nine years, until the present time.
We have refrained from giving too great cre
dence to the gold discoveries until assured of their
truth, but it would be unjust to the countrv longer
to withhold the facts of which there can no longer
be a doubt.
Kansas City is alive with excitement, and par
ties are already preparing for the diggings.
In order to give a correct idea of the locality of
these mines, wo will state that they are on Cherry
creek, one of the most southern branches «»f the
South Platte, in the centre ot the best hunting
grounds of the Rocky Mountains. Game exists
iu great abundance, and plenty of timber, water
and grass. They are in latitude thirty-nine de
grees, and doubtless extend to all the streams of
l region. The waters of the Arkansas and the
> South Fork i f the Platte rise together about the
. same parallel, and no doubt all partake of the
: same auriferous character.
The best route for emigration to take is by the
great Santa Fe road to Council Grove. Walnut
creek, or the crossing of the Arkansas by Beale,
1 Fremont and Gunnison’s route, to the Huerfano,
i i thence following the Arkansas river, which will
t lead them into the heart of the mining region
1 Outfits can be procured either at St. Louis, In-
I peodenee, Kansas city or Westport, and the best
t natural road in the world for two-thirds of the
distance.”
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thropy uasßaribly
the late proposition
to the
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I Government, it i.- rumored, is likely to
Quixotic enough to accept the proposition.
In anticipation of such an event, let us
balance sheet and see what this chivalrous
ment has cost us: Imprimis— the re-captors are
entitled, by the law of 1&I9, to twenty-five dollars
per head on tne emancipated cargo, whicharaoants
to the neat little sum of eight thousand dollars;
item, twenty thousand dollars byway of contin
gencies, such as the daily maintenance of the
blacks up to the time of their delivery to the So
ciety’s agents, fat official fees, etc., etc.; item,
fifty thousand dollars to that most benevolent and
lachrimal of all bodies corporate, the American
Colonization Society—aggregate, seventy-eight
thousand dollars.
* Here we have something like eighty thousand
dollars extracted from the public coffers, and for
what? For the prosecution of a scheme as idie
as it is pernicious. If Government must necessa
rily be diverted from the purposes for which it
was originally instituted—if it must arm itself
cap-a-pie, take sword and lance and sally out to
succor distressed damsels and forlorn widows, and
conquer pride in the haughty, and subdue cruelty
in the wicked—if it must engage in Quixotic ad
ventures—in the name of all that is righteous, let
it make its own territory the theatre of its mag
nanimous exploits. We have hitherto con
ceived that Government was framed in order
to extend protection 10 its mucu,-. If rr» are
deceived in our views, if it is an clemosonary in
stead of a protective institution, we would then
respectfully suggest, that there is not a large city
in our whole broad domain w hich has not stronger
claims upon its charity,than all Africa put together.
If ignorance must be enlightened, if misery mast
be alleviated, if Christianity must be diffused by
a missionary-pliiluutliropic government, let it first
educate, train and Christanise the heathens who
muliiply, vegetate and corrupt in her large towns
and cities. After it bus diffused knowledge &ad
Christianity through all the dark and noxious pur
lieus, it will then be time enough to think of lav
ishing her smiles and showering her favors upon
the odorous sous of a distinct and foreign race
“ Let us be content with what is,” says quaint old
Robert Hurton, “yet it be good to think what
might be.” Such, we suppose, is onr situation at
present. Yet we trust that no piou3 and God-fear
ing northern philanthropist will condemn U 3,
cither in thought or in word, to eternal torment*
for venturing to “ think what might be.” It, then,
“ (bight be ” that some chivalrous, high toned,
kind-hearted South Carolinian or Georgian is will
ling to pay the sum of fifty thousand dollars for J
the cargo of blacks ; that he would transfer them
to his plantation, clothe, feed and Christianise them
—that he would render them useful by employing
them in the cultivation of a plant not altogether
unknown in the chief manufacturing towns of
freedom shrieking Massachusetts—that he would
support and supply them with every comfort when
they were no longer able to work—that the happy
blacks themselves, instead of howling their hid
eous chants at some cannibal orgie, would soon
become initiated in the more innocent mysteries of
fiddle and banjo—and appreciative of the melody
: enshrined in Dandy Jim from Carolina, and oN
Dan Tucker. Alasl this picture is only one of the
large family of “might he’s it can never be j
realised—to the horrors of barbarism the unfor- i
tunate must be returned, “ fta scriptum (at," and, 7
as honest Sancho says, there is nothing left us,but
to shrug our shoulders, compress our lips, elevate
our eyebrows, nr.il ren -in silent. “Truly, tbon
seest not as man : e-st, n ir aotest as man acteat—
oh ! spirit of philanthropy.” ***
[COMMUNICATED.
Wren ville, Ga., Sept. 4th, 1503.
Hr. Editor: My attention has been called to the
omission of Judge Nisbet’s name in the proceed
ings of the meeting held in this (Meriwether)
county, in relation to certain bank cases, Ac.,
which was published in your paper of last w%ek.
I regret very much that the name of Judge
Nisbet was omitted—it was entirety unintentional
on niv part; for Mr. Dougherty 111 speaking of the
old court, mentioned every mem her--Judge Nis
bet in connection with Judges Lumpkin and
Warner.
In drawing up a report of the meeting I have _
done Sir. D. injustice in the omission referred to,
and I hope that you will give this a place in your
paper that the error may be corrected. I hope,
also, that the papers which have published the
proceedings of that meeting will give this an
insertion. Respectfully,
W. T. C. Hit annex, Sec’y.
( communicate;.;
Tot’te Editors./ the hispotok: In your paper of the
25th of August, I observed an editorial eulogising
the services of Dr. N. J. Fogarty, (formerly of this
city,) in dispensing drugs during the yellow fever
in 1354.
Without the least desire to detract any merit
due to him, we think it but justice to one of our
citizens to notice the facts of the case, as you have
already alluded lo them. The drug store of N. J.
Fogarty A Co. was kept open during the whole
time of theyeliow fever in ’54, and was attended
by Dr. Ravenscroft, the present druggist of that
establishment.
Dr. N. J. Fogarty was sick for four icenke dur
ing the most trying time of the epedemic. And
the assistent clerk, Mr. Thompson, took the fever
and died, leaving the whole charge devolving on
Dr. Ravenscroft, who was the only one to be found,
day or night, ready to fill prescriptions, which
were the only hope of the physicians in such try
ing times.
As such services ought not to be overlooked by
any community—especially those which may some
day be visited by the same destroyer; and as so
few eau be found willing to take the chances, we
think journalists onght to be careful that such ser
vices be not misplaced. Justice.
September Ist, 1353.
The Slave Cahgo. —We understand that the
President has issued orders, through the Navy De
partment, for the steam frigate Niagara, now at
New York, under the command of Com. Chaun
cev. to proceed immediately to Charleston to car
ry" back the Africans taken m the slaver Echo, br
the brig-of-war Dolphin. The administration »il!
■ thus signify its resolution to fulfil alftTVJue.- r.sg
laws relating to the slave trade, and everyth ng
that can be done will, no doubt, be done, to fa ill
«3te the return of these captives to their w.
homes. They are said to belong to different t' fW
which maybe separated widely from each ** « ;
and when "we consider this circumstance, in c7d
aection with their ignoiance of the geography of
their native isnd, the difficulties and enormous
expense with which their return will be attended,
become more fully appreciable. .
Washington Star, .Sept. 3.
The nog cholera is raging in Tipton and Shelby
counties, Tenn., and is Terr fatal.