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Hiupax, Sfpt. B.—The British and North j
American Royal mail steamship Asia, Capt. E. G. j
Lorr, arrired this morning with Liverpool dates ]
to Saturday, August 23th. '
Liverpool Cotton Market. —The sales of Cotton
for the week reach ‘>5,100 bales. All qnalities had
adduced %d. during the week, but the n>arket
closed with less buoyancy.
' London Mone>] Market. —Consols closed at 90%
90%. %
General News.
A prospectus has been issued in England for the
construction of telegraph lines to China and Aus
tralia.
Lord Palmerston has recently visited the Em
peror Napoleon.
The rumor that the French government had de
manded explanations from England relative to the
bombardment of Jedde.h, was doubted.
There is a i eport that Naples had accepted the
conditions imposed by the Western Powers.
It is announced that twenty millions of francs is
the amount of the Chinese indemnity to France
and England.
[second dispatch.]
Halifax, Sept. B.—The sales of Cotton for the
week in Liverpool were G 7,000 bales, of which
•peculators took 5,000 and exported 11,000 bales.
Tj>e sales on Friday were 7,000 bales, of which
speculators and exporters took 1,600 bales. The
market closed quiet. The following are the au
thorised quotations:
► FairOrleans 7 %d. j Mid. Orleans 7[[d•
t .?■ Mobile..7 7-10 d. I “ Mobile ...7d
art, aiid [.Uplands;.. .7%d. J “ Uplands ... .6 15-led.
were American.
Sksbei' arChester advices were favorable, and all
P Burke*mvre Orleans tree Ordinaire was quoted at
law francs.
re™>ir<jj*Liverpool the Flour market was firm, with a
—' jffnp-mand than for some time. Wheat was
firm. Corn dull and unchanged. Rice
al Turpentine heavy, and Rosin steady.
from London on Saturday afternoon,
aftereflkt 2atb, state that later India and China
had been received. That from India was
r R«®nportant, and the China news was not later
te ' %u that received via Russia. The allies were
s alt* the eve of a treaty ; but the American and Rus
axjVjjai treaties were concluded. It is said the
Americans have the privilege of an annual visit
to Pekin.
A Madrid telegraphic despatch says that a mili
tary expedition is preparing for Havana.
Further riots are reported in Candia, and Chris
lians killed.
The Africans.
Washington, Sept. B.—The Government has
concluded an arrangement with the Colonization
Society to support and educate the captured Afri
cans in Liberia for one year, for silt v*thousand
dollars.
Richardson to Stump Illinois.
Washington, Sept. 7.—A dispatch has been re
ceived here, from St. Louis, which states that the
Hon. W. A. Richardson has resigned the office of
Governor of Nebraska, for the purpose of stump
ing the State of Illinois in favor of the Hon. S. A.
Douglas. It is reported in this city that Mr. R.
resigned for domestic causes.
Minister to Paruguny.
Washington, Sept. 7. —The Hon. James B. Bow
lin, of Missouri, late Minister to Bogota, has been
tendered the Mission to Paraguay.
Colonizing the Africnns.
Washington, Sept. 7.—-The government will
probably accept the offer of the American Colon
ization Society, to take care of the Africans cap
tured iu the Putnam, after landing them in Libe
ria, for fifty thousand dollars, for one year, and
teach them industrial pursuits.
Military Ordered to Staten Island.
New York, Sept. 7.—Governor King, of this
State, has issued his proclamation declaring Rich
mond county in a stale of insurrection. In order
to protect the lives of the sick, and protect the
property of the State, lie has felt it his duty to or
der that a military force of sufficient strength be
stationed at Quarantine, until the people return to
their duties and obligations.
Ranks Again Nominated.
1 Worcester, Mass., Sep*. 7.—Banks has bean
nominated by the Republican convention, as a
candidate for the office of Governor of this Com
monwealth.
The Great Fair at St. Louis.
St. Lons, Sept. 6.—About twenty-five thousand
persons are here to-day, at the opening of the
Agricultural Fair. The display of horses, cattle,
Ac., is unsurpassed.
Paraguay Expedition.
Washington, Sept. 8. —Capt. Fausill will be
the senior marine officer in the Paraguay expedi
tion.
Minister to Paraguay.^
Washington, Sept. 10.—It is well understood
here that Judge Bowlin has accepted the tender
of the Mission to Paraguay.
Market Reports.
Mobile, Sept. 10. —Sales of Cotton to-day 700
bales. Middling 12 a 12% cents. Sales during
the week 3,100 bales, and receipts during the same
time 3,150 bales against 175 bales last year. The
stock is 11,000 bales. Freights on Cotton to Liv
erpool %d. Sterling exchange 8 a 8%.
New York, Sept. 10.—Sales of Cotton to-day
1,000 bales, with a firm market. Fiour heavy,
with sales of 11,500 barrels—State $4 95 a #5,
and southern f 5 30 a $5 40. Wheat declining,
with Miles of 10,000 bushels —Red $1 15 a $1 22,
and White $1 25 asl 45. Corn buoyant, sales of
42,000 bushels, mixed 66 a 70%; white SO a 81,
and yellow 90 a93 cents. Spirits of Turpentine
firm at 48 a 48% cents.
Ten Farmer’s Home. —The business of the farm
er is at home—his pleasures are home pleasures,
and his enjoyments are the enjoyments of home.
The merchant may get along without a home ; he
may spend his days in bis office or counting room,
or in the exciting marts of commerce—his even
ings in contriving new schemes, deep plans for
accumulating wealth, or averting anticipated loss.
Too seldom are the hours or days he snatches
from business cares for recreation devoted to quiet
■—home pleasures; they do not satisfy the ever-fever
:sb brain that crave 3 excitement, even in its re
pose. The watering place, the concert, the theatre,
the convivial party, and the wine cup, constitute,
in too many cases, the pleasures of our men of
wealth. It is stated that a merchant who recently
failed in one of our cities, on being asked
what he intended to do, replied that he should
“first go and get acquainted with his wife and
children.” This, perhaps, was an extreme case ;
yet too many are strangers at tome .' lir.w happy
the man who feels that he has a true home, the
temple of his household gods, where be reigns a
patriarch. priest and kir.g—a refuge from age and i
malice, a shelter from the storms of life, that no |
less < t wealth, no chaoge of circumstances can
effect-.a rose without a thorp—a esn that knows
no seuiDg, »
► * TK „ Sept-. 6.
w migration.
Tmf'. enaving done its worst
by laying .iitfine huitainirs in ashes,
peace now seems IT, prevail there. Os the burning
of the female hospital on Thursday night, the New
York Dimes furnishes the following interesting in
cidents:
Entering through the breach in the West side o.
the wall, a large party came down to the women’s
hospital and began to remove the patients. The
scene was horrible. The poor creatures, in every
stage of suffering, some delirous from fever, and
others in a dying state, were taken out upon their
reeking mattresses, and placed, one after another,
upon the green sward of the angle formed by the
two wails, and about fifty yards from the build
ing. One who had just died of yellow lever was
placed in the covered bier, taken out and set down
close bv the others. One was pointed out as just
breathing his last. The gaunt features and sunk
en eves of these poor wretches, as thev jay scat
tered over the ground, were perfectly visible in
the light of the burning dwelling behind them.
Burning cinders fell iu showers among them. In
full view before them was the noble edihee in
which they had been sheltered and nursed, now
wrapped in flames from basement to dome. The
roar of the flames, and clouds of dense smoke
rolling upward, the furious outcries of the mob,
crazv with their infernal work, all formed a scene
most horrible and impressive. At one time the
mob were intent on carrying the patients out into
the street, through the hole in the wall, for fear
that thev would be suffocated by the smoke and
flames. ' It was only by strong remonstrances
from a portion of the party that this was not done.
The covered way leading Irom the building to the
privies was torn down, so that the heat from it
would not destroy the sick people. These atten
tions to the helpless creatures were a redeeming
feature.
Few of the outsiders ventured in to take a near
view of the sick, but contented themselves bv get
ing a sidelong look at them, through the hole in
the wall. The fact that they were not in present
danger of destruction, appeared to satisfy them,
and nobody inquired how'tbey were to be provi
ded for afterwards. They remained thus exposed
to the excitements of this appaling spectacle dur
ing the whole night, and three of Them died be
fore morning. Their corpses remained unburied
with the living, up to a late hour, where they were
left on the ground.
The fire was set in three or four places in this
building, but the centre of it, about the stairway,
was where the tire made most progress. Inedralt
upwards soon carried the flames up to the cupola,
which was iu full blaze before the wings were well
under way. There was only a light air from the
southward, which fortunately carried the smoke
and flames away from the invalids.
There was a gang of fellows wha.se particular
delight was the smashing in of wiudows. They
were each provided with short clubs, and when
they reached the doomed building they first began
by breaking out the windows. While tins was
foing on others entered the place ; one carried a
alf-gullon measure filled with camphen, which he
poured out liberally on the pile of inflammable
materials, already prepared by his comrades, and
then the whole was set oil' with a match. When
the fire was well under way they passed to the
next, and so on. By far the largest number of
those engaged in this outrage were boys and
young men not over eighteen or twenty years of
age.
While the mob, drunken and infuriated, were
battering awav with a huge piece of timber at the
high brick wall which flanks the hospital grounds
on the lower side, the sick from the women’s hos
pital were lying in the open air on the inner side
of the wall. Messrs. Wood and Egbert, two of
the controling spirits of the mob, were appealed
to to prevent the demolition of the wall, which,
in its fall, would surely kill the patients. Through
their representations those outside of the wall
were induced to forego their previously expressed
determination to throw the wall down.
In the coffin-house, far to the rear of the wo
men’s hospital, there were full twenty or thirty
coffins; all of these were destroyed. The body of
the engineer of the Philadelphia, who died of yel
low fever just before the hospital was fired, was
lying iu the building when the incendiaries ap
proached it. The sick men and women, in their
night clothes, just arisen, weakened with illness
and dreadfully excited, were thronging #bout Dr.
Bisscl on the open grounds adjoining the building,
crying aloud and beseeching him to save them.
. “Will they humus? Will they burn us?” they
would repeat, clinging to him. The physicians
did all they could to quiet the poor creatures. At
this time it was stated that the body of the dead
man was inside the hospital. Some were for let
■ ting it remain there, to be consumed with the
building, but Jim, the “dead man,” as he is called,
of quarantine, (he takes charge of all the corpses
of dead patients,) he rushed into the hospital, and
' seizing the body, carried it out in his arms and
laid it ou a bier in the open air.
When the crowd were about to set fire to Dr.
Thompson’s house, Mr. Tompkins, the agent of
the Saten Island ferry line, exclaimed, “For God’s
sake, let’s save the carpets 1” “ No,” said the doc
tor, “ let them born; I like to see them burn.”
And they were consumed with the building. Dr.
Thompson’s loss is estimated at from fire to six
thousand dollars. Dr. Thompson yesterday was
in the city, and it was not deemed sale for him to
go to the island. The total amount of property
j destroyed is estimated at three hundred thousand
dollars.
All day long the ruins of the quarantine build
ings were visited by the curious, Many of them
from New York, and places nearer and morm re
mote. The inhabitants of the island adjacent to
the '‘lmranlino grounds were loud in their expres
i sions of joy at the destruction of the buildings.
Our reporter succeeded in effecting an entrance
to the enclosure where the patients, turned out of
doors by the conflagration, were lying on the
grass. There were forty-four male and female
patients there and in a small boat, the Cinderella,
at the wharf. Os these, twenty were yellow lever
patients, and three or four were ill with the small
pox, ami four or live were afflicted with the ship
fever. Doctors Bisscl and Walser had charge of
them, and were zealously administering to their
wants. Neither of these gentlemen had slept
much, it at all, during the preceding forty-ciglit
hours, and the care with which they still attended
[ those under their charge was highly creditable to
them. The exposure to the clear, dry air, the doe
-1 tors said, was rather beneficial than otherwise to
i most of their patieuts, and they were generally
improving in consequ nee of it, but those on board
the Cinderella were in that early stage of the yel
low fever in which draughts of air were not by any
means beneficial to them, and what would be done
. with them they did not know.
The Castleton board of health bad recommend
ed that the patients be removed to an old barn ad
jacent, but the physicians thought that their incar
ceration in it would he certain death to some of
the patients, and the lalter begged that they might
be permitted to remain where they were rather
than go there. None of the patients were ill a
dying condition.
The scene was altogether one which a member
i of this community might well blush to witness.
; i’ersons afflicted with maladies of a dangerous
! character, were here houseless and unsheltered,
and without even common utensils for cooking
their food, and that in the midst of a community
which is called “civilised:” The patients were
living on bread and cold victuals, coffee, boiled
over the three hundred tons of coal which are still
burning near the green, was served around in
pails. At one end of the enclosure a rude canvas
roof had been tacked on to the fence, and covered
the more feeble patients, but the rest were entirely
unsheltered. In one corner of the grounds stood
. a pier, with the remains of the patient who last
died of yellow fever, and the hue of the counte
nances of many of those who lay on the grass
gave evidence that the same pestiferous malady
afflicted them. Aroiujal and about were the trunks
and chests of the poor creatures.
It was rumored on Friday that the mob intend
ed to set fire to the private dwellings in the infest
ed district. A force of one hundred metropolitan
policemen, and a six-pounder, were therefore dis
patched to quarantine by order of the commission
ers of emigration. They reached the scene a little
after six o’clock.
On Friday afternoon ship-owners in South
street and masters of vessels at quarantine, hav
ing received information to the elitet that ’plans
were on loot for the destruction of some seventy
or eighty merchantmen lying within the quaran
tine grounds, laden with valuable cargoes
the board of underwriters telegraphed to the
Secretary of the Treasury, making a request for
protection. The secretary replied immediately
by telegraph, stating that Major General Scott and
Collector Schell bad been ordered, bv telegraph,
to send a sufficient force to protect the shipping
and public property. Acting on this authority,
the collector at once ordered the revenue cutter
Harriet Lace, Capt. Faunce, to the vicinity of the
quarantine anchorage. The U. H. frigate Sabine
was also towed down and anchored opposite the
I government stores. A body of U. S. marines
were also detailed for Ibis emergency. An armed
government schooner is algo on the spot in read:
I ness to co-operate. Collector Schell gave assu
‘ ranee that be would confer with Commodore
Kearney, at the Brooklyn navv-yard, in order that I
the services of the frigate Sabine might be put in '
requisition if found to be necessary.
On Saturday everything was quiet. The wails 1
of the quarantine grounds were strictly guarded \
by the police force from the city, allowing none to :
pass or repass unless duty authorised, or having
permission. There are some one hundred ami
fiftv warrants out for various parties, and the
police are on the alert for those supposed to be
concerned in the outrage.
Michael Carroll, stable keeper; Ray Tompkins, j
centleman ; William Muller, hotel keeper, and :
Justice Charles De Forrest, of Tompkinsville, j
have been arrested, brought up to the city, and .
on Saturday arraigned before Justice Welch, on ;
a change of violating the quarantine laws, in en- j
tering the quarantine enclosure, on the night of
the 2d of September. The defendants, through
their consul, waived an examination, and the
judge held the parties to bail in the sum of two
thousand dollars each to answer the charge at
the Court of General Sessions. Cornelius Van
derbilt, of Staten Islands, became bail for the
parties, and they were discharged.
From Correspondence of .V. J'. Seating Poet. (
Remarkable Phenomenon—lmmense ]
Swarms of Strange Insects. ,
Poplar Ridge, S'. V., Sept. 2, ISSS. t
Yesterday, at about four o’clock, P. M-, the at- ,
mosphere became suddenly tilled with myriads of ,
insects of a tvpe entirely unknown in this region,
as far as I can learn. The phenomenon is known ,
to have extended several miles, and appears to ]
have occurred at the same moment. The insect is ]
about one-fourth of an inch long, and closely re
sembles the common ant. But the strangest part ,
of the matter (that is, to me,) remains to be told. ,
As soon as they appeared, they began to alight :
upon whuteyer object they came in contact with,
aud tv give birth to young insects ready winged, ,
which in a few seconds ascended into the air,
while the old ones threw themselres into violent
contortions, which continued until they succeeded
in ridding themselves of their wings—after which,
they appeared to ieel much relieved, and ran
briskly about upon the ground, as contented, ap
parently, as though they had never possessed the
power of flight. In un hour, the earth was alive
with these fallen insect-angels, and strewn with
their lifeless wings—while their tiny, new-born
progeny, had ascended, and were sporting in the
beams of the evening sun! This morning the
parent insects may be seen secreted among the
grass, or whatever offered protection for the night,
while the new generation appear dormant upon
the surface, awaiting the warming rays of the
rising sun. Eutomologist3 may be familiar with
such a perpetuation of an insect race, without the
intervening link of the larvie. If so, will some
one enlighten us on the subject ?
S. Young.
Additional by the Fulton.
St. Jon.ss, N. F., Sept. 4.—The steamship Ful
ton, from Havre for New York, was intercepted
off Cape Race, on Friday, by the news yatcht of
the New York Associated Press, but, owing to un
favorable our despathes did not reach
here till this evening. Iler dates from Liverpool
are to the 2.lth ultimo. The news is interesting,
though not fery important.
Queen Victoria continued her progress in Ger
many. She was received everywhere with the
most extravagant demonstrations of respect and
good will.
Preparations were making for a royal visit to
luieds, on the return of the Queen from Germany.
The world renowned steam frigate Agamemnon,
which covered herself with glory in the laying of
the telegraph cable, had been on tire, but for
tunately sustained little damage.
There had been a collision between two excur
sion trains on the Oxford and Wolrerhampton
railroad, involving dreadful consequences. Several
persons were killed, a and great many frightfully
injured.
The condition of the Thames river, the filthi
ness of which has excited much remark, had been
improved to some extent.
The notorious horse, Cruiser, which was tamed
by Mr. Rarey, is now performing at a circus.
The accounts of the Imrvest are very satisfacto
ry. The late rains caused same delay in the gath
ering of tile crops, but no permanent injury was
done.
The universal exhibition of industry at Vienna
had been postponed.
The treaty concluded with the Chinese does not
confer on the allies the right of haring permanent
diplomatic agents at Pekin, but the Cousul Gener
als resident at Tien-9ien will be admitted to di
rect intercourse with the cabinet of the Emperor.
A despatch from St. Petersburg says the Chinese
empire is to be open to foreigners, and the left
bank of the Amour river is henceforth to be the
boundary between Russia and China.
Baron Gros, the French plenipotentiary, is ex
pected home from China in October.
The continental exchanges show great firmness,
especially at Paris.
Messrs. Chudomars, Duncan & Gibb, of Liver
pool, had supended payment, but their estate will
cover their liabilities.
The papers contain further accounts of the Im
perial progress of the Emperor and Empress of
France, aud their return to St. Cloud.
Their reception at Rheims was extraordinary.
An immense number of priests and people gener
ally had assembled and cordially greeted them.
The plenipotentiaries of France, Austria, Great
Britain, Prussia, Sardinia and Turkey had assem
bled to sign the convention relative to the organi
zation of Moldavia 6 I'd Wnllachia. The exchange
of the ratifications of the convctP'on will take
place at Pans in about live weeks.
The Emperor Alexander of Russia will arrive at
Warsaw on the 4lh of September, when the '.hllty
five thousand troops who have been concentrated
in the city, will be reviewed by the Czar.
The Grand Turks Nicholas and Michael go to
the Caucasus to take part in the military opera
tions against Schamyl.
M. Tlionvena, the French ambassador at Con
stantinople bail sent a note to the Porte support
ing the application of Prince Damelo of Montene
gro, who demands of the Turkish government to
give up to him the harbor of Spitsen, in the Adria
tic, which he clnims.
The Fulton left Cowes at ?,: 10 P. M. on the
25th, and has two hundred and fourteen passen
gers hut no specie—the steamship Indian, from
Quebec, arrived out on the 24th.
Providence.- —“What a strange Providence,
that a mother should be taken in the midst of life
from her children!” Was it Providence? No!
Providence has assigned her threescore years ana
ten ; a term, long enough to rear her children, and
to see her children’s children; but she did not
obey the laws on which life depends, anil, of
course, she lost it. A lather, too. is cut off in the
midst of his days. He is a useful and distinguish
' ed citizen, anil eminent in his profession. A
general buzz arises on every side, “Wbat a strik
ing Providence !” This man has been in the habit
of studying half of the night—of passing bis
days in his ofiice or in the courts, of eating luxu
rious dinners, and drinking various kinds of wine.
He has every day violated the laws on which
health depends. Did Providence ent him off?
The evil rarely ends here. The diseases of the
father are often transmitted ; and a fjeble mother
rarely leaves behind her vigorous children. It
has been customary in some of our cities for
young ladies to walk in thin Bhoc-s aud delicate
stockings in mid-winter. A healthy, blooming
young girl, thus dressed in violation of Heaven’s
laws, paid the penalty—a checked circulation, cold,
fever, and death. “What a sad Providence!” ex
claimed her friends. Was it Providence, or her
own folly ? Look at the mass of diseases that are
incurred by intemperance in eating and drinking,
in study or business; by neglect of exercise,
cleanliness, and pure air; by indiscreet dressing,
tight lacing, Ac.: and all is quietly imputed to
Providence. Is there not impiety as well as igno
rance in this? Were the physical laws strictly
observed, from generation to generation, there
would be an end to the frightful diseases that cut
life short, and of the long list of maladies that
make life a torment or a trial, and it is the opinion
of those who best understand the physical system,
that this wonderful machine, the body, this “good
ly temple,” would gradually decav, and men
would die as if falling asleep.
\kw Map of Georgia.—Oar citizens have long
felt the need of an accurate and reliable m:q>
our State, and we are pleased to learn that our
former Surveyor General, Mr. James R. Butts, of
Macon, has in contemplation the early publication
a a Cf j fn P' e,e Map of Georgia, embracing well
defined boundaries of the newly made counties,
their county sites, newly created post offices,
county lines, lines of the various railroads that
nave been completed and those in coarse of con
strnction, together with the old and recent
surveys of the Okefenokee Swamp, by Mansfield
lorrance and Richard L. Hunter; also a com
plete check map of all the lots of land in the
counties of originally Appling, Irwin, and Rabun, ,
embracing four hundred and ninety acres. i
r ■ Hulls wiil be amply repaid for his i
labor, by a remunerative sale of his reaps; as we .
known aim to beoffleien* and reliable. <
MilledgtriUe litcorder, September 7. j
The Slavers.
We find in the Charleston Courier the follow
ing documents, relating to an application for a
writ of habeas corpus by the attorneys of the crew* of
the slave brig Putnam, now confined in the
Charleston jail:
I ITXITED STATES OF AMERICA —SO. CA. DISTRICT.
I To the Hon. A. tr. MaaraUi, Judge of the District
| Court in and for the said District ts South Caro
j Una:
’ The Petition of R. T. Bate's, Alexander Rogers,
| Archibald Scott, William Henrvs, Domeneco Del
i lephene, George P. Akens, John E. Copell,
| Antonio Almado, Jose de Costo, Antonio Gorinas,
j John Barber, Thomas John Pasco, Vital de Mirau
da, Jose Gousalves Lima, Antonio Milanowitch,
i showeth unto your Honor that they are unlawfully
j detained in c'ustodv of D. 11. Hamilton, Esq.,
; Marshal for the said District, as they understand,
• and are imprisoned in the common ;ail of the
I State of South Carolina, for the District of
Charleston, in the said State, whereof is
jailor, by virtue, as it is said, of a warrant of ar
rest or some other mandate, under color of au
thority of law, issued by Robert C. Gilchrist, Esq.,
Commissioner of the United States for the said
District, charged, as they have heard, with some
offense against the laws of the United Slates,
the particulars whereof and the testimony where
upon the charge is made, being withheld from
your petitioners.
And your petitioneis further say, that they were
taken into the custody of the said Marshal, by his
lawful deputy (as they understood ami believed
him to be), on Saturday, the twenty-eighth day of
August last past, and were thereupon taken imme
diately to jail, where they have ever since re
mained. That they have not been examined be
fore any magistrate, nor has there been any exam
ination of their accusers confronting them, or any
evidence against them taken in their presence, but
they have been imprisoned, and are still held in
prison, without any lawful commitment, and con
trarv to law.
Wherefore, your petitioners humbly pray your
Honor to grant them the writ and process of this
Honorable Court, commonly known as the writ of
habeas corpus, directed to the said D. 11. Hamilton,
Esq., Marshal ns aforesaid, commanding him to
bring your petitioners before your Honor, that the
pretended cause of their imprisonment being,
known and seen, such further proceedings may be
had thereon us are agreeable to law and justice.
Signed by the petitioners.
Sworn to before me, this 6th day of September,
1858. Henry Buist, Magistrate.
Mucbeth & Buist, L. W. Spratt, Jas. B. Camp
bell, F. D. Richardson, counsel for the petition
ers.
The process prayed for was granted in accord
ance with the following order:
EX-PARTE R. T. BATES AND OTHERS.
On hearing read the petition of habeas corpus in
this case, and after argument by Mr. Buist, Mr.
Spratt and Mr. Campbell for the petitioners, and
Jas. Conner, Esq., Attorney for the Uuitcd Stales,
for this District of South Carolina, against the pe
tition, it is ordered that the writ of habeas corpus
do issue as prayed for, and that the same be re
turned 1.1 Wednesday next, the Bth inst, at ten
o’clock. A. G. Maurath.
September 6,1858.
The Captured Slaver.—The press have gen
erally given currency to the statement that the
brig Echo, or Putnam, is the first captured slaver
that has been brought to our ports. This is be
lieved to be an error—a belief that is confirmed by
the subjoined letter which we find in the Charles
ton Courier :
“ The present case is not without precedent, and i
the action of the government then, may indicate
what will probably be its course in the present in- ]
stance. I
Thirty years ago a vessel with a cargo of Afri- ,
cans was Wrecked on Carysfort Reef. The Afri- ,
cans were landed and transferred toSt. Augustine, I
and placed in the custody or safe Keeping ot the
U. S. Marshal, who received instructions from the
authorities at Washington to hire them out , and
make them defray their own expenses, until a ves
sel could be sent for them. They remained for
sometime in Florida, perhaps a year. In the fall
of 1829, a vessel arrived in the port of St. Augus
tine, and soon as the Africans ascertained the ob
ject of her coming, most of them, unwilling to
leave the flesh pots of Florida, took to the woods.
and it was with some difficulty that the Marshal
could muster them for embarkation. They were
Anally gotten together and shipped for Liberia.
What became of them afterwards we had no
means of knowing.”
News items from the Savannah Daily
Xeu's, Sept. Bth.'
Savannah Georgian. —The printing presses, en
gine, type, fixtures, forms, printing utensils and
appurtenances, good will und patronage of the
Georgian , were sold yesterday at the Court House,
under a foreclosure of mortgage. The purchaser
was Solomon Cohen, Esq., and the price paid was
one thousand one hundred dollars.
Sales at the Court House. —ln addition to the
sale of the Georgian , snoken of elsewhere, the
sales were as follows : The western part of the
‘eastern end of Trust lot W, between State and
President streets, forty-five by sixty feet, together
witli the improvements, consisting of a two story
brick dwelling, without buildings, sold for two
thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; a number
of shares of Planters’ Bank stock brought ninety
five dollars.
The sales by the United States Marshal were a
tract of land/in the twelfth district of Lowndes
County, containing ntri? huuvlryd and thirty-six
acres, together with improvements, for three thou
sand nine hundred and seventy-five dollars } two
negro girls, nine and fourteen years of age, for
five hundred and fifty-live dollars, and nine hun
dred dollars; two neg<;o boys, seven and ten years
old, for four hundred and twenty-five dollars, and
six hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifty
cents; and two negro children, five and six years
old, for five hundred and five dollars.
Coroner's Inguest. —Coroner Eden held an in
quest yesterday on the body of Thomas Uennelly,
who died on Monday uight from a wound {inflicted
by a pistol ball. The verdict of the jury is as fol
lows: “They do say, from the evidence before
them, that the deceased came to his death from a
wound inflicted with a pistol ball, in the left side,
near the anterior edge of the arnius. The ball
was found on the left side of the heart, having
penetrated through the lungs into the left cavitis
of the heart. The jury further Ray that the wound
was inflicted by one Edward Wickm*n orone Jno.
O’Neill, and that they are guilty of murder.”
Hair to the Bald.—-We find the following bit
of joyful news to the bald-headed floating about
loose upon the tide of unclaimed things:
A medical journal says that the decoction of
i boxwood has been successful in cases of baldness.
. Four large handfuls of the stem and leaves of the
garden box are boiled in three pints of water, in
a closely covered vessel, for fifteen minutes, and
allowed to stand in an earthen jar ten hours or
; more; the liquid is then strarnedtand one ounce
and a half of cologue added, and with this solution
the head is to be well washed every morning.
Crinoline and Christianity.—The Dayton (Ohio)
Religious Telescope publishes the following:
Since the wearing of hoops by females has be
come so prevalent, but is believed to be inconsist
ent with a truly Christian character, and indeed,
by some, even considered indecent, and to have
originated with those of a suspicious character, a
majority of the members of he last quarterly con
ference of Rumly station, Miami annual confer
ence, have adopted the following resolution, and
they humbly ask their dear sisters and ladies gen
erally, to give ibis matter a serious consideration :
''Resolved, That we, as a quarterly conference,
disapprove of tbe wearing of hoops by members of
our church. R. Graybkll, Bec’y.”
Things Lost Forever.—Tbe following words
from tbe pen of Mrs. Lydia 11. .Sigourney are
full of instructive meaning:
Lost wealth may be restored by industry; the
wreck of health regained by temperance; forgot
ten knowledge restored by study ; alienated friend
ship smoothed into forgetfulness; even forfeited
reputation w' n by patience and virtue; but who
ever looked upon his vanished hours, recalled his
flighted years, stamped th* rn with wisdom, or
effaced from Heaven’s record tbe fearful blot of
wasted time? The footprint on the sand is washed \
out by the ocean wave; and easier might we,
when years are fled, find that foot print than re
call lost hours.
Philadelphia, Sept. r,.~ The great slavery tour- i
riaoierit between Parson lirownlow, of 'iennessoe. i
ar,ft Kev. Abram Pryne, of New England, will '
commence on Tuesday evening next, arid continue i
live successive evening*. Both gentlemen are now
in tins citv. itr. Urownlow is unfortunately
afflicted with the cronchitis, but will Dot with- t
draw His arguments will be read by some corn- j
peient nuan. '
Health of Savannah
The Savannah Republican of the yth
We this morning publish the report *\ *
Board of Health, which must be very
every friend of the city. There were but /
interments in all ; only two of them
kind of lever, and they were nothing ap /
to yellow fever, showing conclusively / K
positively, that we are entirely free fr< ,
of malarious or contagious disease.
in the interior would confer a special *
ticing this, as evil-minded persons ha
reports in regard toonr health, whicl.i .
refuted. The papers in Columbia, 8. ' ‘L
oblige ns by complying with this reqtie:
yesterday read a letter from a gentleman \\ “
city asking if it were safe to pass through
nan, as lie wanted to go to Florida, but a
tor told him the yellow fever was raging here-e Deff
lently, and that he did not like to venture thn.-qon,
before getting some direct intelligence. This is
but a fair sample of the letters that arc received
here daily, and we are particularly anxious to have
the falsehood of the reports exposed.
The Morning Setts, of the same date says:
“ The general health of the city ivas never better
at tins season of the year. The total number of
deaths for the week ending yesterday, was only
sixteen—eleven whites and five blacks and co
lured. Os the whites seven were children. Among
the adults there was only one death by fever (con
gestive). Os the black aud colored four were
children.”
Threatened Appeal of the Venezuelans to the
United States.—A letter, dated Puerto Cabello,
August 16th, says:
The blockade of this port, with that of Laguavra,
by the combined naval forces of France and Eng
land, had to be raised after one day’s embargo.
The authorities were not bullied by the menaces
of France and England, and demanded their non
interference instanter, or an appeal to the United
States would be made immediately to check such
impertinence. General Sereno remarked that if
China and India succumbed to such intrusions
that is no reason why Venezuelans should follow
on their truck. This address to the English and
French admirals had an astounding effect, and the
consequence was the embargo was raised at once.
The country, under the prorisional government, is
going on well.
The Baptists.— The Baptist Almanac, for 1859, J 1
has just been issued by the American Baptist Pub- '
licstion Society. We gather from it the following t
summary of the Baptists in the United States: ]
Association* five hundred and lire; churches <
eleven thousand ; ordained ministers, seven thou
sand one hundred and forty-four; licentiates, one i
thousand and tweuty-live; baptised in 1557, sixty- 1
three thousand five hundred and six ; total mem- .
bers, six hundred and twenty three thousand one i
hundred und ninety-three. Besides these theic
are the anti-Mission Baptists, fifty-eight thousand; ,
and the Freewill Baptists, fifty thousand three him- i
dred and ten; und of Disciples nod other do- 1
nominations that practice immersion, about four
hundred thousand.. The increase in the last ten
years has been one* hundred und forty-four asso
ciations, three thonsund three hundred and ninety
five churches, two thousand one hundred and nine
ty-one ordained ministers, und two hundred and
twenty-five thousand four hundred and forty-eight
members.
Execution op Burns.—Burns, the murderer of
Maey Ann Montini, a courtezan, was h inged in
Wheeling, Vs., on the 8d inst. The Intelligencer,
describing the scene at the gallows, says:
“ During the prayer of the Rev. Mr. Perkins,
Burns knelt with his face upon a chair which had
been placed for him. We thought we saw a tear
trickle upon the seat and all the misery of a mis
spent life seemed to be crowded into one moment.
This outburst of feeling gave way when he again
rose to his feet, and his countenance assumed that
look of stern resignation which characterised him
throughout the whole of the dreadful scene.
The noose was arranged about the neck of the
condemned und attached lo the beam above. His
lace was turned towards the .South, and we suw
his lips move ns if in pruyer. Revs. Paul und Per
kins, and jailor Smith, shook him by the hand and
bade him farewell. Sheriff Irwin, also, shook him
by the hand, with u ‘ Cod bless yt?u,’ und turned
away much affected. Before the people were aware
of it the bolt was pulled up, the uoor fell, and John
Burns, clothed in the hubilninenls of the grave,
imng struggling in the agonies of death before an
eager, discordant multitude of ten thousand.
Thousands turned away from the fearful scene,
and an awful gtlence prevailed. The body hung
ten minutes, and when the attendant physicians
approached to sec if life was extinct, the knot
sjipped and the body lell heavily to the ground
beneatli the seufliild. An examination then dis
covered the fact that the vital spark had departed,
und the body was given in charge of the under
takers, who placed it in a collin and conveyed it
by hearse to the residence of the deceased’s father,
on Murket street, followed by a large number of
persons.”
Banquet to Prop. Morse.—A bunquet in honor
of Prof. Mouse was lately given in Paris. The
Paris cot respondent of the New York Commercial
writes:
‘‘The allair was rapidly organised at the bank
ing house of John Munrno & Co., under the prin
cipal direction o: Mr. Monroe, and was a most
magnificent entertainment. The number of per
sons present was eighty-three, all Americans.
The Hon. John S. Preston, of South Carolina, pre
sided, and innde a brilliant snccch, preparatory to
the reading of the toasts. At the conclusion of
his remarks, lie introduced Praf. Morse to the au
dience, who delivered a speech characterised bv
great modesty, in whicli he detailed at some length
the scientific points in the discovery of the tele
graph. He was followed by Mr. Mason, American
minister at Paris ; (iov. Fish, of New York; the
Hon. Joseph R. Chandler, of Philadelphia, the
new minister to Naples; Dr. W. E. Johnston, of
Ohio, and others.”
Instruction to a Jury.—Judges are sometimes
far from lucid in their “ charges,” und, in
reality, quite ns fuggy though seldom as truthful,
as his honor who addressed the patient twelve at
the conclusion of a lo.ig trial, somewhere “ out
West:”
1 “If the jury believe, from the evidence, that
the plaintiff lind defendant were partner* in the
grocery, and that the plaintiff bought out the de
fendant and gave his note for the interest, and the
defendant paid for the note by delivering to the
plaintiff a cow, which he warranted “not breachy,”
and the warranty was broken by reason of the
breadlines* of the cow, and he drove the cow
f back ar.d tendered her to tiie defendant but the
. defendant refused to receive her, and the plaintiß
took her home again, and put a heavy yoke or
poke noon her, to prevent her from jumping the
I fence, dv reason of the yoke, or poke broke her
• neck and died; and il the jury further believe
that the defendant’s interest in the grocery was
worth anything, the plaintiff’s note was worthless,
and the cow good for nothing, either for milk or
beef, then the jury must find out for themselves
how they will decide the case; for the courts if it
understands itself, and it thinks it does, don’t know
how such a case should be decided.’’
What Railroads Can Do.—The last issue o(
the Jackson (Tenn.) Whig contains the following :
"The Virginia and Tennessee railroad is two
hundred and four miles in length, and it cost
about seven million dollars. In 1950, the taxable
value of the land in the counties through which it
passes, as taken from the census, was twenty-eight
million nine hundred and forty-two thousand six
hundred and forty-seven dollars; and in 1350 the
State assessment makes it fifty-three million nine
hundred and seventeen thousand two hundred and
twenty-nine dollars, or an increase in six years of
five million three hundred aod sixty-five thousand
five hundred and fifty-eight dollars. This sudden
increase is abme the result of an internal improV(oJ|
ment which has cost only seven million dollars.^®
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fcocratic convention made jßfla
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disposed to listen to the councils of the
good in preference to the flattery of knaves.
ciety cannot exist unless a controhng power upon
the will and appetite is placed somewhere
1! .• !•--■- of 11 there is within, tin more ther^H
I f,t without. It is ordained, m the
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nit In free. Pass;..,, i'B^B
ters.”
CO MMEIiCIATi,
I:: - r IO" i: ■■' l lif \. • -Tis t.-1:»! it:.;- .' - C ||
iron !V t r, t .It Itiitiin to the Unit'd State.- f«-r tin- .-o
in is.v; and 1<57. art- :m follows: ISCf., 51,00.1 ton.* ; 1857
105,613 ton?; 18.58, f».SS6 tons. a '
SAVANNAH. clt. < M‘. M Suit- repo. '.d^H
if dt\ 1 ’ l-il. -. d 1 !.r a !|..\\ It jaio -.-. at Ilk; 1# at 1J :
7 at lev; ; ."7 at 12?; ; M at 12 7 Id ; and U bale? at Jt9>s
SAVANNAH. Sept. 10.- . Cotton. -Arrived sloe* the I*4 i iBBbBB
ii.'t . .17'. b de.- fpl.ii.it (1.93:. pn lullriMKl. 1.20.’ from Augu*
taand landing"' «*ll tin- river, T-from the Oemulgne) and 14do.
Sci 1-damt. Tim exports tor the same period amount to 1.408
halos Upland. \'u : to Providence 19 bales Upland ;to New* - V *^^B
York 1,113 bales Upland : to Philadelphia 894 hales upland ;
to Baltimore 60 ball's Upland ; and to Chariest oh 25 bales Up*
lam!—leaving on hand and on shipboard, not cleared, a stock
of 2,0.6 bales Upland ami 1 do. Sea Island, against 274 bales
Upland and 793 do. Sea Island at the name tin* last year. J
Our market Is very bare, and a good detnaiHl exists, which
enables holders to sell readily upon a basis of 12% cent* tor
Good Middling.
The following arc the Particulars of the sale* of the week : • „
.3 at 11 %: Batlt \ ;V> at 12 ; 68 at 12% ; Bat IS IMS ; 7.*: at
12% ; M at 12 7-16 ; 363 at 12% ; «!» at IS% * ami 18 bale* at *
12Vc. Total 696 bales. 1 .
JWc«.—Up to last Sunday the prospect for a full crop wu
very line, the harvesting season had been uhry favorable and ,js
the yield good, but a heavy min set In on tlmt day and caught
a great deal lying cut In the Held, which, ifjßot favored speedl- ■&
ly hy drV and hot. weather, will be seriously damaged. If not Jj
totally destroyed. The r.ext week or tan days will be aa
anxious tluie with planter . and will decide the uuottlon of a * i
good or avi ry short crop. » )nly .’>l casks were sold this week,
80 at 2 V*. and 21 casks at 2%c . all of an inferior Quality. .
Hngohig.— Sales of a few bales were made this week at '
1C \ ceuta.
Itiicon The market is fairly supplied, with but little do- v ;
niand. We quote Shoulders H 1 ,(«*B%, and Ribbed Hides
10% cents. ft...
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from store to #1 60 for Eastern, and 87c.(^^H
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<' HA f. 1.!.' I • i -..ti,.,,. The receipts slr.ec- oip^HfraHraiHgPß
r.... h 7,- . 11 —. . i ..t th. - ii-v in the same time foot up
’ I ’ • :»• "• - ptir< • 6 hairs ut H; 2|» a*. : :
;IB at %: r. ill 9K .Iat10; 27 at 10* ; 183 at 10k ?«2 at --'^■■bß
1 \«\ ; MB at 11 ;M m ||>, ;n| ilt 11 H ; 238 at 11V; 382 at 15,
, I'''fit 12V< ;HI at 12', ;pm at
The following ipioi.-itb . .. will giv* a fulr Index of the Mate of '
the market at the < |.>«" «.f the week, vir t OrdlnaryßHood
Ordinary 96*10** ; Middling to Strict Middling
, O' Od Middling \2\iO'\‘}\ : and Middling Fair 15X»—
r /Pee.—The sales have ranged I non to but the bulk yH|
were made within the margin of " a
J Hnrou. —We have to r port a dim.ping market, with 4 >iy fi
t (trooping temietiOy 'h priors.
| Hugging and liopr.— We note ales In a small way, uu* ** Y
bracing In all about .») hales Gunny Cloth, which have been ■ • L.
sold at prices rang ng from 16bi to 17c. About 200 OOll* !
northern press Hope have been sold at 10c. We have no
transactions to report In Western or other descrlpUoM, . .tj
Halt. -The demand, which has hern limited, iia* been sup- '(
piled at prices ranging from 80 to 90c. V sack, according to sire
and condition <»f sack. • - '' V jB
//roeenVs.—The Grocery market baa been very much u#g®
letted since onr last. In Sugars uml Mohusc* nothing ha* |B
been done, and price*, which nro high, arc at the same time
nominal. We note siles of 300 bag’ nb» ('offee, at prices
ranging from 11 h toll Jkc-
COLUMBUS, Sept. B.— L'utUm The feeling in the market A 3
ycuterday was much la tter. The sale# were 216 bales, or fbl
lows: 18 ut 11X ; 106 at 11% ; 12 At 11*. The receipts were X)
416 bales. k
OOTTOIT HTATKMKNT YOB WXKK KITI>fKO HKHT. 4. >9
Stock on huml Aug. 31,1868 bale*.. 812 1
Uec elvcd past four days 606
Total \ 418
Shipped past four days .?48
Stock on hand 1,076
UOLUMBITS. Sept. f».—f.'oßon.—The receipts of Cottdft
yesterday were 308 hales—266 bales sold at price* ranging from
11 % to 1 1\. Market
MACON, Sept. B.— Cotton.— Wew Cotton coming !u freely—
all that Is offered Is readily taken at prices tanging fiorn 10 to
15 ceuts—Hit* latter figure being easily obtained for good lots.
ALBANY, Sept. t.—CatUm* —During the past few rtayi we
have to report a more active market, and a disposition ou tha ' #
part of buyers to pay full price*. The enquiry Is mostly for >. 'w' \
the higher grades, of which but little has so far been received; ' . a
the quality running generally from Good Ordinary to Strict
Middlings. We quote extremes at 9%®11 cents. Strictly '*£.
Good Middlings woidd readily command H%. •
Stock on hand 24 September boles. .686 # v ; j
Hecelpt* post week *i/jL
m jk
Shipped *44
Stock In warehouses v ?4t
MONTGOMERY. ?-ept. 8 demand con . t
t lone* good for lid* artlch:, at 11 %<a 11 \c.
MOBILE, Sept. 6-7 P. M.-Uof/on.—There was ajer>
good demand to day, with fiflles of some 600 bale.s at II %(& 12c. #-<t. < "
for Middling. . jm
MEMPHIS. Sept, b.-f Inquiry wna made ■- ,
yesterday, and several sale*of gmall lots effected. The new
e.rop in coining lit nretty freely, and Is readily taken at !' {% ii '■ .jfl
12c. Wc heard or one small *ale at Ukv
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X. /. Journal of ~ . HHj