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- i ' Dcntli of Vr. It. F. < hew.
The death of this worthy citizen took place on
Thursday afternoon, lie had long been confined
to Ins room by a dropsical affection, and as Ins
family and friends were aware for months past
that liis disease was incurable, his death was not
unexpecied. .... . .
Mr. Chew wan a gentleman of Ingh integrity ;
and to amiability of temper added the refining
qualities of Christian deportment. Hy industry,
ecommfy, perseverance and lair dealing, he acquir
ed „ handsome estate, although he commenced his
early efforts with very humble means. Thirty odd
years ago he commenced Ins labors in this city,
am] throughout the vicissitudes of tiiut time he
sustained an unblemished character.
His remains were followed to the grave on yes
terday bv lus family, relatives and friends, and
his Masonic brethren performed their last sad rite*
I over the manes of their departed brother.
Siitldcu Deaths.
Mrs. M. 1., Nf.iiii, a native of Germany, but for
manv years a resident of this city, died very sud
denly at her residence on Sunday night last. She
had disease of the heart for a year or two past.
Mr. Hr.NJ.tMiN K. Chew, Jr.,died very suddenly on
yesterday, (Monday). He has been in greatly im
paired health for many months.
We learn further, that a small mulatto girl,
owned hy Mr. James Mii.i.eb, died very unexpect
edly yesterday forenoon.
Inquest over the Killed.
The coroner of this county, Mr. Unsay Haiku,
held uu inquest this morning over the bodies of
I,uToKit M. NoaTiiar, James Coouins, and I’atbick
Ki.ki by, wliu were killed on Thursday morning by
the accident on the Augusta and Waynesboro rail
road. The verdict of the jury was tha t the gentle
men came lo their deaths in consequence of n
wash on the railroad track , ami that the accident
Was unavoidable.
Fine Weather.
The weather i» charming appetite* good-bu
■ine*H flourishing—and work in abundance for all
who can and will_ do it. A little jolly music at
night might add somewhat to our entertainment*.
King’s Slnnglo Machine.
\Ve have published in our daily, tri-weeklv and
weekly papers the double column advertisement
of Sauiiki. M. Kino’s Shingle Machine, and from
an examination ol the machine, while in working
operation, ami from the favoruble opinion ex
pressed about it, by the best, most reliable, and
experienced machinist* and mechanics in this city,
wo have no hesitation in recommending it to the
attention of all persons who are in want of stieli a
machine, and to the inspection of ull who admire
neal and suitable mechanical appliances for de
sired ends. There is no complicated machinery
about it, and it perforins it* work very much like
the old band work plan, but with greatly iucrcus*
• ed power, and a correspondingly increased nuiu
a her of sin ogles.
lliuiltli of /kagnstn.
We do not know what reports limy be circulated
by the malicious ami inconsiderate, as to the health
of Augusta. We assert positively that no case of
yellow fever has originated this season ill this city.
We are told hr Mr. Knnmss, the landlord of the
Planters’ Hotel, that some person huS reported in
the up-country that a ease of yellow fever is at his
house. Mr. Koiiiiins authorises anil requests us to
state that the report is false, and that there is not
a ease of sickness of any sort iu his house, nor
has there been for many %m>k> past.
Health ol Savannah.
We uro pleased to Ik* able to communicate to
our readers this morning the following very grati
* fying dispatch from the Chairman of the Hoard of
Health in Savannah to the acting Mayor of this
city :
“Savanna it, Sept. ‘_’o — l*. M.
To Kostkk lti.onoKT, Jr., Viyor />ro. trm.l
//,<r ,Sir: I have heard of no deaths nor any
new eases of yellow fever ti>-day. The sickness
has greatly abated. No apprehension now exists
of any epidemic in llus city. The weather is very
favorable. Wm. T. Thompson,
Cliairnian Hoard of Health.
.Hurtitllty in Charleston.
• The papers of Monday morning contain the re
port by the cit> Register of the number of deaths
for the week ending Saturday evening. The total
number is one hundred and seventy-one. Tim
jjtg deaths by yellow lever were oue hundred and
twenty-eifcht, and by other diseases forty-three.
The wind was generally from the North-east
during the week, and the thermometer ruuged
from sixty-atx to seventy-nine degrees. Three
davs were fair, and four dav* rainy weather.
Commerce on the ('mini.
We arc indebted to the courtesy of Mr. ff».
Chillira, the Kogiueer and Accouutant for the
Augusta Canal Company for the following state-
ment of the commerce on the canal:
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I Howard Association of Charleston.
, Our citizens have been blessed by Providence
I with unusual health ; our merchants and business
men. in all departments, bare been enabled to
carry on a thriving and prosperous trade; and the
season generally, to our business, and the health
of our families and friends, has been one which
should call forth our (hanks, and excite our be
nevolence for those who have been sorely afflicted
in health, business and resources.
Our citizens liberally responded, a lew days sgo,
to the call from the Christian Association of New
Orleans. Can we be insensible to the condition of
the Howard Association of Charleston V Our
neighbors, who are in the midst of the pestilence—
our personal, our business friends, are laboring to
alleviate the afflictions of those who are unable to
help themselves. They are invoking aid from
their fellow-citizens of Carolina, but we have heard
the cry in Georgia. We must send them some
aid, though the amount be small. We ask our
citizens to come forward and aid the efforts of
those indefatigable philanthropists in Charleston,
i comprising the Howard Association of that city.
| The Charleston Courier of Friday, says:
; We can assure all disposed to benevolent offer
ings, that the calls and demands on the aid of the
Howard Association are urgent, and are in many
cases so pressing that relief must be given. No
case is refused for want of funds, but the Direc
tors and officers Iqive afforded relief in full confi
dence that they will not be permitted to need
funds. These funds are administered with all
proper regards for economy and prudence, not in
compatible with the nature and aims of the Asso
ciation, and a report will be given in course, at
the proper time. Ollier associations »f charitable
constitutions and purposes will meet largely in
creased demands in consequence of the pestilence
of this season, and wc shall deem it a duty and a
privilege to plead the cause of each and of all in
due time and order. It is, however, the distinc
tive purpose and object of the Howard Associa
tion to afford relief and medical treatment to the
indigent or the ignorant ot the sufferers, under
present visitation of the fever; uud these demands
are only to he met hy present and prompt relief.
We ask our citizens to come forward and add
contributions to so noble and worthy a cause.
Any amounts of money or suitable contributions
for sitcl; an emergency, of whatever kind, will he
received at this office, und promptly transmitted
to its proper destination.
Come to the rescue, and come promptly.
Yellow Fever Theories.
“ X. V. an intelligent correspondent of
the Charleston Courier, makes some very excellent
suggestions for the consideration of tlie medical
men of Charleston and elsewhere. The writer
says:
May not. the yellow fever, or the prevailing dis
ease, be caused by the presence of some acid, so
acrid in its nature us to destroy life ; and, if so,
would not the treatment proper in such case be
very different from that usually adopted ? I have
thought it might be so, because we know Hint man
is a microcosm, being literally an epitome of t lie
universe or great world j the latter is a laboratory
upon a gruud scale in which chemical combina
tions are constantly forming, and impoYtant results
evolved. The luitid of man is enabled to imitate
these combinations, and iu the laboratory winch
lie constructs, using the materials furnished from
the storehouse of nature, be can and does analyse
sulistuiiees. resolving them into their original ele
ments; and he combines substances, thus forming
a .d creating new results.
In the great laboratories, alkalies and acids are
the substances operated upon and with. And so,
too, in the laboratory of the chemist, and emphati
cally is it the case in the microcosmical laboratory.
Alkalies and acids constitute the human body; and
I suppose upon their due proportion and heulllifol
character depend the same condition of the body.
Am I not correct in saying, in all these laborato
ries caloric is the agent, the moving power?
Tin- solar orb is the furnace to the laboratory of
nature; the flame from the lamp supplies the
chemist, ami animal heat the microcosmical. The
presence yf crude food produces fermentation, this
engenders lfeut, and an acid stomach is the conse
quence. Suppose there should be present mephitic
air or malaria, or any unbealtbful state oi atmos
pheric phenomena occasioned by intense beat, anu
this entering into combination with substances
within or without the human body, might not an
acid he erolved, and why not ” marine acid,
which, in its nature, may -.reduce disease and
death? - J select "marine ucid” especially, be-
cause yellow fever finds its home on the coast
not in the interior; when it does find
its way into the country, it is an exception
so tlie rule. I select it, too, because tve know
that marine acid is a component part of corro
sive sublimate, which is very deadly in its .opera
lion upon the Innmiti system. Volt cun better
tell, tliun I can, what would be the effect, the >no-
Ju» optramli, of corrosive subliinutc upon the
tiiucuH meinblane and intestines; whetliet it
would or not produce inflammation, irritability of
the stomach, and a formation and ejection of
something like bluck vomit. Would it not pro
duce fever 1 Might not the acid, which in itself
may be unhealthy without combination, produce
fever ?- and if so, and the fever be treated as a
friend instead of un enemy, would not the chances
be all in favor of the patient f I suppose that in
all eases the fever is a friend, not un enemy—it is
the effect, not the cause —it is the effort Os nature
to afford the means bv which the enemy is to es
cape ; it is an effort through the arterial system of
opening the pores of the epidermis.
If 1 uni light in these views, it would hardly he
considered proper to administer calomel in yellow
fever, hfoausf calomel ami marine acui form corro
tuc* euMim<ite, ami I cannot help concluding that
in the in mi ii my views are worth your considera
tion ; and, because of the success of those long
gone, who practised upon the theory of the sudo
rific system -of the efficacy of vegetable acids, so
freely used in the West indies, the effect of which
is to neutralise acid. Everybody knows tliut lime
juice will relieve uu acid stomach, and the value
of charcoal as un übsorbeut and uuliseptic in
keeping off the disease.
The correspondent, whose remarks we publish
above, may or may not have heard of or read a paper
sHhmilted to the consideration of the Medical and
Scientific Society in Philadelphia utiout the year
171'tl, or IT'.'S, by Dr. Tiios. Coops it, who was sub
sequently the President of the South Carolina
College. It has been many years since we read
that paper. It is to he found in a volume
entitled Cooper's Medical Jurisprudence, and
in *y he of ready access to professional men.
We think Ur. Cooper, as a learned and ex
perienced Chemist, had very much the same
notion übout the generation of an acrid acid in
the human stomach iu cases of yellow fever; and
also suggested fbe probability that that acid dis
organised and destroyed the mucus coats of the
, ' stomach, and thus accounted for black vomit. The
: j Doctor considered that magnesia was the best
medicine that could be administered, from the fact
that it was such a powerful absorbent of acid.
Some of our cotemporaries in Charleston might
very well re-publish Professor Coopers tibws for
the consideration of the public. He was one of
the most learned men of his age ; resided in Phila
delphia during the frightful yellow fever pesti
lence at the close of the last century—was a co
teniporarv of Rt'sn. and was one of the few prac
tically great men that has established a tame for
all succeeding time.
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| The Congressional Nomination in the
President’s District—lion. William 11.
j English.
The Lancaster County Democratic Convention,
held at Lancaster, Pa., on Wednesday last. Dr.
John K. Rack presiding, nominated .(asks M. Hop
sins as the Democratic candidate for Congress, in
the ninth District, by acclamation. The nominee
was present, and accepted the nomination in a
speech in which he took string ground against
sectional political strife and slavery agitation, and
in favor of the immediate admission <f Kansas
•cilhout reference to her population, although the
English bill provides that she shall not be admit
ted after the Lecompton Constitution has been re
jected, until she has ninety three thousand four hun
dred and twentjfinhabitants. l This is the position of
the Democratic nominee for Congress in the dis
trict in which Mr. Buchanan resides—this is
the position in which he is sustained by the
intimate friends, associates and neighbors of the
President. It is a part of the “treason” to the
party and to the South with which Mr. Douglas
is charged by the Washington Union, the organ
of the Administration, that he occupies a position
upon the question of the admission of Kansas,
somewhat similar to that occupied by the Demo
cratic nominee for Congress, in the Lancaster Dis
trict. Now.is not this Lancaster nominee a traitor?
and will not the Union proceed to read him and
all of Mr. Buchanan’s friends and neighbors, who
areliis supporters, out of the party? and throw its
whole influence in the scale ugainst him and in
favor of his Black Republican competitor? and
labor as hard to defeat him and return a Black
Republican to the next House from the Lancaster
District as it has been laboring for months past,
to defeat Mr. Douglas and return a Black Repub
lican to the Senate of the United States from Illi
nois?
Again, in a speech recently delivered at New
Albany, Indiana, by the lion. William H. Eng
lish, he is reported to have declared that he would
vote for the admission of Kansas, whenever she'
presents herself, with a Constitution legally form
ed and approved hy the people of the Territory, re
/ai dless of the amount of population which she may
have at the time of her application. Mr. English
was the chairman of the committee of conlereace
by which the Kansas bill, passed at the last ses
sion of Congress, was reported, (though not its
author, it bears his name,) and the Administra
tion hasexhibited especial interest in his re-election
as an endorsement of the policy of that bill. If
correctly in his New Albany speech, lie
declared his readiness to abandon that feature of
the English bill which requires Kansas to have
ninety-three thousand four hundred and twenty in
habitants before sliecan be admitted intotheUnion
under any other than the Lecompton Constitu
tion, and to vote for her admission at any time,
with any amount of population, and under any con
stitution, legally formed, which has been submitted
to the people and ratified by them. These declara
tions convict Mr. English of all the “ treas in ” of
which Mr. Douglas is guilty, for the charge that he
repudiates the J/red Scott decision, is simply a shame
less ami malicious misrepresentation of his position.
Indeed, Mr. English’s “treason” is rather more
flagrant than that of Mr. Douglas. He declares
that the next Constitution of Kansas must be sub
mitted to the people. Mr. Douglas has made no
such pointed declaration, as far as we are aware.
He declares further that he will vote to admit Kan-
I sas when she applies, without regard to her pop
1 ulalion. Mr. Douglas lias made the same
declaration, but he, at the same time, urges
i ti, a t it is a sound rule to require a Territory
f to have the population which would entitle
’ her to a member of Congress, under our appor
tionment law, before it is admitted as a State
. into the Union—that this rule ought tobq.up
; plied to all of the Territories alike, and he inti
■ mates in his Freeport speech, that if it is vet
1 adopted by Congress, as a rule of universal applica
* tion, that he wo 1 favor the exclusion of Kansas
’ untii she collides -within it, His lunguagein that
speech is M Either Kansas must come in as ufree State
w ith whatever population she may hare, or the rule
mud he applied to all the other Territories alike ”
Mr. English's declarations are more direct in
their application to Kansas, and more unqualified
than any which Mr. Douglas has made; and we re
peat,that his “treason” to the party, to the South,
above all to the English bill, is more flagrant than
that of the Illinois Senator. If Douglas is a “trai
tor,” is not the nominee of th“ Democracy for Con
gress in the Lancaster distr i .• “traitor V is not
Mr. English, the chairman . *' lb* ’’onterence Com
mittee, who reported the Ex i bill, a “traitor?”
and ought not the Union to read him out of the
party? to deuounce him, and denounce the Ad
ministration which sustains him and desires his re
election, as it has denounced Douglas and his sup
porters in Illinois? and labor to elect his Black
Republican competitor, as it is laboring to
elect the Black Republican candidate for the Sen
ate in Illinois? In short, ought not the l'uion %
k ught not the Administration, to deal with all
Democrats occupying the same position, alike,
and if it wages a relentless war with Douglas,
wage the same war with all who sympathise with
him and sustain him— and they constitute ft majori
ty of the Democratic party.
The Platform of the Mew York Demo
cracy.
We give below that portion of the proceedings
of the late State Convention of the Democratic
party of the Empire State, which embraces the
platform upon which it has placed itself in the
present cauvass, and the closing address of the
Hon. Horatio Ska hour, the President of the Con
vention :
Mr. J. B. Skinner reported a series of resolutions, ,
which were received with much applause.
Resolved, That we are content that the American j
people should judge the administration of James
Buchanan by its acts. They will recognise what
history will not tail to record, that by its domestic
policy it baa discomfited the designs of sectional
ism at either extremity of the Union; has pre
served the public peace, and has confirmed the
faith of the people in the enduring union of the
States, while by the triumphs of its diplomacy
abroad it has vindicated our fiag against the Brit
ish claim of visitation or search, and extorted the
long withheld concession of our equality upon the
ocean.
Resolved, That the settlement of the Kansas
question by the votes of the inhabitants of the
I Territory has removed that subject from Congress,
and hus'left the luture disposition of its interpal
a trail’s to its own people, subject only to the Con
stitution of the United States.
Revived, That while we look at this settlement
ascertain to eventuate tn the admission of Kansas
as a free State, and hail with equal satisfaction the
accession of Miunesota, and the approaching ad
mission of Oregon, we repel the offensive and dan
gerous assumption of a Senator from this Slate
that bv the preponderance of the uorthern States
iu Congress, a victory has been won over the
South ; that we repudiate auy such appeal to sec
tional numbers against the right of sister States;
and that we rely ujvou the national and patriotic
Democracy of the North, in conjunction wuh their
brethren of the South, to maintain the rights and
equality of all the States of our l nion against any
such usurpation ot the federal power.
Resolved, That we regard all legislation intended
to obstruct the emigration of foreigners, or to de
price them of their rights when naturalised, as
alike impolitic and unjust; that we regard the re
cent proffer of the Republican convention to nulli
fy the rights which naturalised ciuxens now enjoy
by lengthening the term of probation, when con
trasted with their former professions of devotion
to that class, as not less hypocritical and shame
less than the avowals of the same party of area tt
ness to pass a registry law such as they had before
declared unconstitutional and inexpedient.
Resolved, That we are tn tavor of the immediate
1 enlargement of the Erie and lateral canals; that
the t» ue friends of great works are those
who seek by economy and a faithful administration
• of their fiuances to reduce the burdens upon trans
portation. and devote the means of the canal to
their eulargemcut, instead of wasting them in pro-
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wasteful administration the
dow be completed, we look to the election
Democratic administration to perfect wont'
and to complete ihe policy already
bv reducing the tolls has largely increased-tbe
tonnage of the canals and invited new agencies
f«r the developments of iheif traffic.
Ilesototl, That our political opponents, whether
contriving a finacial policy iliat invariably ends in
increased taxes aDd the embarrassment of the trea
sure, or framing a flegro suffrage amendment to
be lost in the pigeon holes of the Executive Cham
ber, whether devising a cumbrous svsiem of Meins
poiitan police in the name of public order, and
converting it to partisan pu-, - >r wasting |
their time in shrieking over .deeding Kansas, j
ibeir ears to the appeals of suffering elas-es in 'heir
■ while closing their own State, and shorting ibeir
eyes to scenes of public disorder, have shown
themselves incompetent for the duties of govern
ment, and unworthy of the confidence ol the peo
ple. „ , .
Resolved, That the question of ordering a con
vention to amend the Constitution, is one that be
longs to the people in their primary capacity, and
that we invite their attention to it as it is now sub
mitted to them ; that relying upon the capacity of
the people for self-government, we shall look to
such a convention, if called, to place our organiza
tion on a firmer basis, and consolidate and
strengthen popular rights, by more strictly de
fining the limits of delegated power, by introduc
ing new elements of unity in the organization, and
greater accountability in the administration, and
a higher standard of public action.
Resolved, That thejDemocracy of New York,
while not indifferent to the merits and claims of
distinguished Democratic statesmen, of their own
and sister States, are devoted to the great work of
establishing the ascendancy of their political prin
ciples within their own limits, and of co-operating
with their brethren of the other States in their
maintenance, and cannot be diverted from this
paramount duty, to mingle in controverses among
political leaders, or to become subservient to the
aspirations of statesmen, however ab'e aud wor
thy; principles, not men, is the sentiment which,
at’this time peculiarly, should be inscribed on
their bantu g, and lead ihjin on to vie my.
Mr. Lawrence, of Queens, moved the unanimous
adoption of the resolutions. Carried wiih three
cheers and a tiger.
Daniel E. Sickles moved a vote of thanks to
Hon. Horatio Seymour for the able, dignified, and
impartial manner in winch he had discharged the
duties of presiding officer, nno to the Vice-Presi
dents and Secretaries, which was adopted, with
Ibree cheers.
Mr. Howell, of Suffolk, presented a resolution,
the reading of whitfh he called for. It was found
to be a resolution of thanks to Peter Hugger anil
Dean Richmond for running the convention. The
reading was interrupted by Daniel E. Sickles, who
moved the suspension of the further reading, and
that the resolutions be immediately returned to
their author. Carried unanimously.
Judge Willard moved tile following:
Resolved, That the acts und decisions of the
Hon. Horatio Seymour, President of this conven
tion, have, from the commencement to the close of
the proceedings, amidst all its tiying incidents,
been characterised by the impartiality.even handed
justice, and courtesy which have ever distinguish
ed his public actions, and entitled him to the re
newed assurance of the attachment, and a renewed
expression of the thanks of the Democracy of the
State of New York.
Loud applause, and cries for Mr. Seymour, who
spoke as follows:
I thank you, gentleman, for this renewed expres
sion of your regard. The duties of the chair on
this occasion, while many features of it have been
gratifyiog to me, have not been without some fea
tures that were unpleasant. It is a grateful thing
to meet our fellow Democrats assembled in conven
tion for the purpose of upholding the national and
patriotic party—(cheers)—it is a grateful thing, in
these days of bigotry and intolerance, to find that
there are men to stan-i up on northern soil to breasf
the storms of bigotry—tapplause). It is a grate
ful thing to know that thisacient Empire Stale of
ours, whose whole history has been glorious,
whose almost every square mile of land has been
watered by patriotic blood in the struggles of tbe
revolutions, and all the struggles of the country,
has yet a powerful party to speak for our common
country. (Cheers.) It’is agr telul thing to know
that this State, where the field ot Saratoga lies,
ami whi-re the greatest achievements in our uational
struggles have been performed, in this great State
where the bloodiest border warfare was carried on
by imr-humble population ugainst u savage foe—
this Slate, whose paSt history has been so glorious,
i is about to be redeemed from the clouds that have
lately rested over her. (I.owd And yet
iiilule.wt are all thus filled with fculrjotism, tind
while we all thus meet, aeiuateu by a common
desire to advance the common good, it could
not be otherwise than that there should be a con
flict of opinion us to politics, and a conflict of
views with regard to those to whom we feel warm
attachment, and whom we should be glad to place
in office as good standard bearers in tins contest.
(Cheers.) Ido not flatter mvself that all iny ac
tions here can be regarded by all us entirely im
partial. The position that I occupy has been full
<d' difficulties. 1 know that with regard to many
of the questions acted upon bt.-'e, there has been
some deep feeling left. I’ .• I do hope that how
ever that may be, w< sit .»l all of us go forth with
this determination at i with this impression—if
we want to viudicu* our conduct and our motives
iu the past, wha ever those divisions may have
been, we shall vindicate them by our services and
our patriotism. (Cheers.) The day is gone when
I shall ever have occasion again, and the day is
gone when under any circumstances I will ever
consent to allow my name to be presented for any
office in any place. From this time forth I fight
m the ranks as a common soldier, but light there
with a heart full of a desire to return to my friends
the manv favors I owe them. (Loud cheers.)
The following was announced as the State Cen
tral Committee: First District, Daniel E. Sickles,
Wm. D. Kennedy; second, Edward Briggs, of
Kings, Edward Haight, of Westchester; third,
IVter Cagger, of Übiny, V- L. McArthur, of Rens
sellaer; fourth, U. ‘C. of Clinton, U. 11.
Cushuey, ot Montgon ;v.
From the Richmo »<i. South, Sept. 1?. |
Duel near the City between >lr. O. Jen
nings W ise, of I lie inquirer, and lion.
Slierrard Clemens,
About sunrise yesterday morning a duel was
fought in a retired spot, just beyond Fairfield Race
Course, between Mr. 0. Jennings Wise, one of the
editors of the Richmond Enquirer, and the Hon.
Sherrard Clemens, Representative iu Congress
front the Wheeling district, in this State. The
weapons used weie duelling pistols, and the dis
tance ten paces, or less than thirty feet. Three
shots were exchanged without effect. At the
fourth, the ball from Mr. Wise’s pistol struck Mr.
Clemens in the right thigh, a little below the hip,
and passed through, causing a serious fracture of
the bone. Mr. Wise was uninjured. The parties
then returned to the city, and Mr. Clemens was
conveyed to his hotel, where? he now l es under
surgical treatment. The wound, we understand,
has, as yet, caused him but little suffering; or,
rather, he has thus far evinced the utmost forti
tude, maintaining the composure which he is said
to have exhibited on the field.
The difficulty grewout of certain strictures in the
Enquirer, on Mr. Clemens’ course in connection
with the claims of Mr Letcher and Judge Brock
enbrough, to the Governorship.
A telegraph despatch in the Washington Union ,
is as follows: •
Richmond, Sept. 17. —A duel took place this
morning at Fairfield race course between O. Jen
nings Wise, of the Enquirer , and Hon. Sherrard
Clemens, of Wheeling. Four shots were ex
chonged when Mr. Clemens ft 11, having received
a ball in the thigh. The wound, however, is not
considered a dangerous one. The cause of the
auel was an article in the Enquirer", charging Mr.
Clemens as being guilty of “an act of gross treach
ery towards Judge Brockenbrough, perpetrated
under the guise ot personal and political friend
ship,” and “abusing the columns of the Enquirtr
by requesting and obtaining the insertion of these
sime wilful misrepresentations.” Mr. Clemens is
the present member of Congress from the Wheel
ing district.
Ocr Demands Ac.aisst Par.vgcat.— It is stated
that Judge Bowlin, our new Minister to Paraguay,
will be instructed to demand—hrst, an explana
tion and ample apology for the indignity offered
to our flag; second, full indetnitv to the South
American Navigation Company for ail l">ses sus
tained by them ; and third, a ratification of the
treatv formerly negotiated by Messrs. Scllenck
and fVndleton. Upon the refusal of either one of
these demands Commodore Sbitbnck will be call
ed upon to enforce them.
Churl* eton Evening Sues.
Mr. A. H. 11l rge, a worthy and highly es
teemed gentleman, and some years ago the book
keeper in this office, died in Charleston of the
■ prevailing fever on Sunday last.
manner- I I > -• —■■■ ■■
of the ■ l cf our ' i
lagt d l ' Colonization -
pa*- ’olonia! Governu by an emigrant
in the colony of I
~S.\ln or ten ye..rs past, to his son, has
been handed to us for publication. I.ike.all others
received in this country from the negro republic,
it is an urgent appeal for aid, and in this .instance
is addressed to slaves:
August otb, 1858, Grand Cape Jlont, Liberia.
ill/ Pear tyoii Hoses :
I once more embrace the opportunity of sending
you a few lines, bopiug to find you all well ; I am
not as 1 have beeD, but thank God I am able to be
about, and am still contending tor the faith once
j delivered to the saints; I still hold up Christ to a
perishing world my last sermon preached before
: I wrote tnis letter was from these words in Johns
Gospel “ Labour not for the meat that perisheth
but for the meat that endurith for Eternal Life.”
1 have tuet with the Loss of my wife by Death
she died afi r Long llness of 3or 4 years on the
I'.tth day t List July and has left 3 small children
here bei.md her with me. The times are so hard
here that we have hard work to get along and this
makes me that I am obliged to beg you all a little.
1 wish you to have this letter read in all the Bap
tist Churches aud try and send me a little help I
want an over coat and some shoes No 11 I would
also be very glad to receive any thing that any of
my ft tends may have to spare such as Clothes To
bacco or Provisions and I hope that you will re
member the aged servant of the Lori and what
is given to the poor is lent unto the Lord Give
my best respects and love to all the Christian
Brothers and Sisters and all of my enquiring
friends please let me hear from you by the return
Os the M. C, Stevens, and you will greatly oblige
your Father pray for me that I may prove faithful
until Death.
Your Father Moses Dent.
*SP" The Washington Union, of the ISth instf,
says that the President of the United States is now
at Wheatland, on a visit of a few days on private
business. His health has been unusually robust
and buoyant since his late visit to the Bedford
Springs. He sometimes walks into the city from
the Soldiers’ Home, a distance of nearly four
miles. _
On Saturday or Saturday night last there
was a car load of cotton, containing twenty or
twenty-five bales, burnt up on the Georgia rail
road.
The Galveston (Texas) papers continue to
report deaths from yellow fever. Up to the 11th,
fourteen deaths had occurred, and since then
others are reported. *
Maj. McDougald, one of the most promi
nent criminal lawyers of East Mississippi, died at
Enterprise, Miss., on the 21st ult.
jgyMr. David Pincuback, of Chester, S. C.,
was accidently killed, on the 18th instant, by the
explosion of a pistol.
Wilmington .Journal, of Saturday,
18th instant, denies that there is yellow fever
cases iu that city.
jgf No steerage passenger tickets are now sold
by the agents of the New York‘and Charleston
steam packets.
John R. Joy, Ordinary of Kershaw Dis
trict, S. C., died in Camden on the ltfth inst.
Molasses of the new crop, five barrels, were
received in New Orleans on the 16th inst.
Mrs. Lewis’ residence in Thomasville, Oa.,
was destroyed by fire on Monday, the 10th inst.
The Contest in Illinois.
We take the following extract from the letter of
a correspondent of the Ecening Pott, written
from Springfield, Illinois, the day after the ad
journment of the anti-DocGLAS Democratic meet
ing, held at that place on the 7th inst. The
writer, it is fair to presume, is altogether impar
tial, and therefore correct in his representations
of the respective strength of the two wings of the
Democracy of Illinois:
“I have tints given yon an outline of the discus
sion yesterday, to indicate the nature of the - ‘har
mony’ existing between the Buchanan men and
! Mr. Douglas. The former are ‘gritty’ and mad,
1 and have the Administration to back them. They
will listen to no terms with Douglas, and cannot
unite in any way with him and his friends. Bu
chanan has commenced removuls, and it is under
stood that he will proceed farther. The Spring
field meeting had, in secret session of the Sachems,
a roll of Postmasters to be proscribed, and heads
will tall from one end of the State to another.
About as fust as a head is taken oft) it is picked up
; by the Douglas men aud put in nomination for the
i legislature. On the plea of persecution, sympa
thy is expected.
The Nationals deny, in toto, that Judge Breese,
their candidate for Senator, whom the telegraph
reports as declining, has declined; but they add
that they are not coutined to him for a Senatorial
| choice. They have an abundance of favorable
men—of course they have. One peculiarity of
. their convention was the number of veterans
.. present, old war-horses w'ho have never veered
from a straight line of march. That they are few
, in number, cannot be disguised. The mate of the
' democratic party is with Douglas, and on!,/ a
. fractional part has left him. Os this fraction
maul/ are now in 'Jfice, and the rest will be before
election. The fight, therefore, narrows dou-nto the
Htpuhlieant and Douglasites. Little account can be
’j- made of the Buchanan cote, as it is too small to be a
very disturbing cause."
Yellow Fever in -Mobile.
Office of the Board of Health,
Mobile, Sept. 15th, tj o’clock I’. M. )
Twenty-three cases hare been reported to the
Hoard within the last twenty-four hours.
From the rapid increase in the number reported,
and from the disease showing itself more gener
ally throughout the city, the Board considers itself
warranted in declaring it epidemic. They will
hereafter report daily the deaths.
R. Miller, M. D., Sec’v pro tem.
Mobile Mercury.
Yellow Fever. —The Board of Health report
three deaths from fever in the last twenty-four
half as many as we had been led to
expect from rumors current in the city:
1 Office of the Board of Health, i
Sept. 17, 6 o’clock, f
The Board report three deaths from yellow fe
yer for the twenty-four hours ending at 6 o’clock
this day. Dabney Herndon, Sec’y.
Mobile Register.
Office of the Board of Health, l_
Mobile, Sept. 10,1858. )
The Board report one death from yellow feyer,
within the last twenty-four hours, ending at six
o'clock this day.
0. Herndon, M. D., Secretary.
Mobile Register, Sept. 17.
From Correspondence of the Savannah yews.
Centrevillagb, Sept. 0,185 S.
Mr. Editor: There was considerable excitement
at Traders’Hill yesterday, You doubtless recol
lect seeing an aecouut *u the Georgian, in May last,
of the horrid murder of a mati by the name 9*
Henry Jones, by two negroes, Peter and George,
the property of Dr. C. E. Ballard. The negroes
were put in jail at Waresboro, at that time, but
made their escape after a few months’ confine
ment. They were, however, taken up shortly af
terwards, aud deposited at Traders’ Hill, where
they soon made their escape again. They were
both re captured on Saturday last, and the citizens
of the county, deeming further expense and
trouble unnecessary, (the negroes having ac
knowledged their guilt.) took the law in their own
hands, and appointed a committee to decide their
fate. They recommended to their fellow-citizens
the propriety of hanging them without further
trial, stating the insecurity of the jail and the ex
penses tha? would be incurred should they wait
until th. ;»-xt sitting of the Superior Court. They,
therefore, lif.v up an instrument to that effect,
f.*r the signatures of all wuo were in favor of suca
a step All, or very near y all, of the citizens of
the couutv came fofward and signed the said pa
l*t»r. They were marched out about a half mile
distant from the hill, where the gallows was erect
ed, and **. jeuted at one o’clock. The platform of
the gailov > was cousin. *ted so as to attach a long
rope to i 1 in order that every man present might
hire a "pull,” which they willingly did
1 G. T. J. McCall.
\e Indiana paper refuses to publish eulogies
gratis but adds: We will publish the simple an
nouncement of the death of auy of our friends with
j pleasure.
! .'combcnicateJ'
I I said that one great obstacle to u'' c
education was the paucity of teachers.
is there comparatively few educated men
teaenmg in the State, hot, asererv man
vat!oa knows, there are comparatively
ted mem who, wuriou: special
pable to make good teachers. If we ®®
about the country; schools of to-day, while
find some of them governed by educated
cieut teachers, we will find others, a‘nd a larS
her Os them, governed by me, whose JHb
trying to teach, ,s cither tb.t their health*®
poor to allow them tfe go to what they ca£®
work, or that they are .'endeavoring bv this
(and a laudable eadeaviW it is) to eet money X
with to buy an education for themselves. Tuß
tendance upon the schools kept by such
while it is most charitable to the teacher, is s^B"
not beneficial to the pupil, the object of sch®
being that the teacher should help the pupil,
not that the pupil should help the teacher *
And among the educated teaclUrs how
them follow teaching as their profession - hB
many ot them as a means of preparing * ’
professions. It is impossible that these should*
very efbcient, when they are constantly wishiX*'
and expecting to abandon their avocation fo|
another. One would almost insult many of thesl
by complimenting their efficiency as teachers, anl
suggesting to them the propriety of continuiod
so; such being apt to consider, not only such 3
suggestion, hut even such a compliment, as intij
mations of their disqualification for other profesJ
sions. T
The better the teacher the better will be the stu-I
dent; and while it is true (and it certainly is true )
that there are some learned men who, either from
an impracticable or an ill-humored disposition of
mind, cannot become good teachers, it surely needs
no proof to say that ah efficient teacher must him
self be a mail of learning. He may be in all other
respects worthy and well qualified—as in* industry
aud in mental and moral dispositions. Yet these
qualifications are worthless unless he knows what
to teach.
If these things are so; if teachers what w e i
first need, I repeat the question propounded in mv \
first article: How are they to be supplied ? Here- ■
to'ore, in Georgia, as in every other southern State, I
the conduct of education has been the reverse of I
what is its true conduct. He hate always begun JV
the wrong end. We have been educating
lowest period, when we should have begun at^® !
highest period and have educated
not that we have gone or can go to anv very higH
point. We have gone in that direction, and
gone as high as we could. With the present syssl
tem we can never go higher. An elastic ball, tvheta
it drops from a certain height upon the ground*
will always, in its rebound, ascend to the same point v
If we wish it to ascend higher, we must elevate the
position from which it descends. The amount of
learning which a student can acquire must depend
upon tile amount of learning which his teacher
has to impart. The greater number of such teach
ers whom we have had heretofore, we have had to
import. We have not had them ourselves, and we
do not have them now. Whether shall we con
tinue to import them, or rear them amongst our
selves? If the former, then we ought not to con
tinue to call Georgia a sovereign, independent
State. No State deserves so to be called, which
does not possess within itself the power to flefl
velope the whole physical and intelleciual beini
of its citizens. It is* the latter, then, of these alter*
natives which we, as a free and generous people*
are in duty bound to adopt. For this purpose tliß
plan is a simple one, and there is but one. It iB
to establish a great institution; one of whose
i shall he the education of teachers. Such
case in all those countries where
been successful; and such must be the
others where it expects to be similarly
The art of teaching is like all other arts
essential respect: it requires to be
doubtedly the State ought to have a school*,
every district, to which every child iu it can
f sort. But it would be most useless to ereßP
t school houses until they can be supplied wit*
. competent teachers. That would he as if *.
bachelor, who had no prospect of marnag*
should, in the vhgue hope of a distant frateinit*.
i proceed with great haste to the task of fitting uH
clothes for very small children. If the State woulH
i inaugurate the policy of giving gratis to one youn*
, man from each county, a collegiate education,
' quiring him to be taught, besidgs tlje regular ca*
riculum of college instruction, the art of
and then requiring him, as-a compensation-g^^B
- this bounty, to teach for a certain period of V
I within its limits, the impulse such a pohcy-^&B
, give to education amazingly
Allow that many of those young men, after
t expiration of the period for which they were^H
- qaired to teach, would go into other professi^*
■ vet, bv far the greater number of thens would^H
- main ; for the reason that they would accept
, bounty for the purpose of qualifying tliemsej^*
-for teaching, and for no other. Besides, the plß^B
-of those who should yearly leavethe schools wouNB
> be supplied bv continual accessions from the UniS
versify. Who can calculate the . benefits whicfl
those commutfities in which uneducated men arA
at present keeping schools would receive, if tlios#
men were taken by the State, educated in Ituy
manner which I have described, and then sent bacA
to their positions? The money vested in such A
purpose would contribute more to the prevalence cfl
an honest, and in every way exalted citizenship
than ten times such an amount expended *
penal legislation; and would save fifty times tp
amount w hich is expended in judicial prosecution*
Such a policy, or one verv similar to it, is demanp
ed by the only true theory of education. It is p
educate teachers, and then to give them school*
Until the first is done, the last is not only useles*
but injurious. The progress made by children iB
schools with incompetent teachers is like tu*
made bv the blind when led by the blind ; the*
all fall into the ditch together.
Novel as may seem the idea of (caching a n:a*
how to teach, there is yet no profession which r*
quires a better or a more careful preparation
its practitioner than that of teaebiug. None, ini
deed, which requires one so much so; because tH
is the forerunner and pareut ot all the otherslj
And vet it is the only one for which, heretoforwj
amongst us, no special preparation has been*
demanded or been tound by the parents who have?!
set about the education of the children whom
have brought into the world. “My brethren, j
said the pious and practical St. James, “ ni«
brethren, be not many masters, knowing we shall
receive the greater condemnation; a caution:
which many of the school masters of this
| and the State which tolerates them, ought to prig
tit bv. The harm which has been done tn Georg*
by bad teachers —and they are all bad who are niflj
well qualified—constilutes a large portion of tho*
“ deeds done tu tiie tiuily," for which all of us am
to give an account, eifii John M ooLßßtonr. M
Health of the City.— ss e are happy to have i
in our power to state that the diminutive on tb
eases of sickness, which we mentioned in our iysu
of Saturday, continues, and that the present indl
cations are in every respect favorable to health
Saturday and yesterday were clear and bright
with a cool and lively atmosphere; and up to th
present time we have heard of only a few net
cases of sickness of any kind. The cases we hea
of are generally of a mild character and ytdi
readily to treatment. We know of no alartnin ;
cases of sickness at present in private practic
and we were informed yesterday that there 13 n<
at this time a single case of yellow fever tn_ tt
ertv hospital, where there are a number of patten
ill of chills and fever, broken hope fever, and othi
milder tfoes of disease. In view of the abot
facts and the latcßess as well as favorableness ■
the season, we are encouraged to hope that vU
shall escape an epidemic. A few days more wtH
determine. — Savannah Aewe, Sept. 20.
Death of James Campbell.—Though not un :
prepared for the event, the numerous friends anc
acquaintances here and elsewhere, will learn with
grief that our old and highly respectable citizen
James Campbell, has passed away. He died oi
! Wednesday evening, at bis residence near Holly
wood, on the eastern shore. Mr. Campbell was I
native of Scotland, bat had resided in this city so
a period of fortv years, and for the greater part o
this time was one of our most enterprising an
successful business men. —Mobile {Ala.) Mercury,
! VtcKSBrBG. —It is onr duty to announce that yel
low fever has occurred in our city. There hav
■ been two deaths on the levee, and six cases, as wi
' are. advised, in all. We advise our absent friendi
; to await further developments. There are alsc
several cases at the city hospital, and it is slightly
• on the increase in that institution. It has not
1 how-ever, as yet, affected the upper portion of th
city, and we hope it may not.
True Southron, Sept. 14.
5 The local column of the Columbia Guai
- die contains the statement that "water poured*
t the : nr on Friday night last, in Columbia, fc. m
conleaied into ice before morning."