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the Manchester (N. H) Daily Mirror, Aug. 15.]
‘I he Manchester Sntc <ie.
JLt about eight o’clock last evening, (Sundav,
August 14,) two young ladies, operatives in the
nrilf, committed suicide by drowning ; the particu
lars of which, so far as we have been able to gather,
are as follows:
One ot them was Miss Catharine B. Cotton, of
Pownal. Maine, aged twenty-1 wo ; the other, Miss
Clara C. Cochran, aged nineteen, a native of New
Boston, hut wh* lately had a home with a brother
at Hopkinton. They roomed together at No. 20,
Manchester Corporation, iD this city, and have fre
quently expressed a purpose to drown themselves ;
but their friends had no apprehension that such was
their design. For a few days previous they had
talked freely of so doing, and communicated their
intention to a room-mate; hut still without creaiing
any alarm. As they left their board ng-house late
in the evening, however, the lady rooming with
them followed and watched them. They proceed
ed hand-in-hand, and with great apparent cheerful
ness, to the bridge crossing the upper canal, lead
ing to the Manchester mills—stopped toge her upon
the stsne wall of the canal just above the brdge,
and together leaped into the water. The act was
seen by one or two persons and the alarm was in
stantly given, though ten minutes escaped before
either was taken out. In that time the bony ol
MissCoiten was recovered—that of Miss Cochian
having floated down the canal, was not recovered
for some time after. All efforts to resuscitate them
failed. Miss Cochran, for some days previous
had been very much depresses and low-spiri ed
Their whole proceed ngs were marked by great
coolness and deliberation Both of them left letters
to their friends announcing their purpose, and giv
ing directions in regard to the settlement of their
affairs and the disposal of their effects. Miss Coch
ran, we understand, was to come into possession
of several thousand dollars at twenty-one years ol
age. Various rumors are afloat m regard to the
cause of this rash act. From all we can learn it is
to be ascribed in both cases to the grief of disappoin
ted love.
Below we ‘n<=ert the letter of Miss Cochran to
her sister at Hopkinton. wit ten just before her un
timely decease, and carefully placed in her trunk:
“Manchester, Aug. 14, 1853.
1,1 Dear Sister :—I received your letter hist Wednes
day, and contrary to your custom, answered it t h
fir<t opportunity. Though I knew it was haying
time, and of course you would have a great deal to
do, still I felt provoked at your silence. You and
aunt Aehsah are my only regular correspondents,
but i now and then answer one of the many letters
that I receive. It is only 6 o’clock a. m., and ]
have begun in good season, sons to write to you
and to Jesse to-dy. I am glad to hear that Louisa
is with you, for a little help is better than n< ne A*
for visiting you, I probably never shall meet you
again in life; eru you receive this I shall be in the
silent realms of the dead ! Start not, dear Annie,
nor shudder, for what use can there be in digging
out a wearisom** life, deprived of all enjoyment 1—
I am only a burden to myself and every one else
who interest themselves in my welfare. Give my
love 10 J >se;>h,to Martha, and to all who care for
mp, or pretend to. Burv me in Vermont, by the
side of my mother, and I have money en< ugh to pay
all funeral expenses. 1 owe Mrs. M iria Foks, my
room-mate, 5*3 ; Mrs. Jacobs, i5 ; a> and $3 for
my board, and there is over sl3 due me at the Arnos
keag counting-room. If there is anything left of
my money a.ter paying my funeral expenses, which
I want to be as as po-sible, and paying my
debts, send it, together with ids loners, (which y u
will find in my pocket,) to John H. Shervvin, No.
14 J Fulton s reef, New York.
“Jesse and Joseph are probably well enough off
already ; and, isl could aid John by a tew dollars,
it might do some good. A copy of JShakspeare,
which I have lent John Jacobs, I should like to
have J.H. S. have ; the rest, my clothes and other
things, you may divide as you see fit.
“And now.gnod bye ; mourn not for me,friends;
tell Jesse I would like to see him once more before
Id e, but that cannot he.
“Farewell forever, CLAKA C. COCHRAN
“To Mrs. Anna M, Cochran, Hopkinton, N. H.
“Forward quickly, tor it tells o> death:*
The foil owing w.-.s written upon the opposite
sheet of tne letter by Miss Cochran, and evidently
intended tor the eye other lover:
“And now, dearest, I must write you a few lines,
though ere you receive them the hand that penned
them will be cold in death. Do not think of me
with regret, for ’tis better that it should be so.
‘One more unfortunate, weary of breath,
Rashly importunate, gone to her death.
“I forgive all who have injured me, and crave
for forgiveness of you, if 1 have erred, and I know
I have. Be. happy and forget me not. Even if
you ever marry, si ill ’twill not be wicked to casta
thought on me, and no one would love you the less
for it. I shall, I hope, be buried in Vermont, by
the side of my mother. Farewell.”
She also enclosed in her letter scraps of poetry,
which no doubt expressed her feelings at the time
of wiiting.
The body of Miss Cochran was placed on board
the cars this forenoon and conveyed to her
friends.
The friends of MUs Cotton have not yet arrived,
and her remains ha* e been deposited in the citv
tomb. She also left letters, which we are’not now
at liberty to publish, bin shall do so as soon as we
are enabled to obtain them.
Health of the Prisons —Happening down
at the Workhouse, a day or two since, we felt
anxious to learn whether the unfortunate inmates
of the city prison-houses had suffered much from
the plague. Upon inquiry, we were pleased to
learn that there had not been one case in that
institution, where there are over two hundred
persons confined. The same, we understand, is
the case with regard to other city prisons. We
did not learn whether ail who are confined in
these places are acclimated, but presume they
are not, to the country —though the majority of
them may be to the particular localities which
they occupy. We will not pretend to advance
any reasons for the health of these places, but
merely state the facts, and leave the rest to the
‘‘Faculty/’— N. O. Delta , 22d.
First Bale of Sew Cot'on. —The first bale of new
cotton was received in this city on the 2d h mst.,
fiora the plantation of Mrs. Martha" Matthews, of Bibb
county. It was stored at the Warehouse of Mr.
T. A. Harris, and sold to Mr. D. R. Rodgers ai
10£c. —Macon Tele. Aug. 23d.
Sew Cot ‘on. —The first bale of the new crop was
received yesterday, f>ora the Broad river p anta’ion
of H. P. M ntox. Esq., Elbertcounly, at the Ware
house of Whidock, Coskery & Cos., and sold for
twelve cents. Qualify Fair, and w'ell ginned.—
Augusta Cons. 23 d.
A Comet., — Those of our readers who take pleas
ure in viewing the wonders of the Heavens, may be
gratified, any clear evening, with the sight of a Co
rn ‘t, now visible about lo to 20 degrees above the
Western horizon.
Sinus avti Stnimd.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.
FRIDAY NORNING, AUGUST 26. 1853.
FOR GOVERNOR:
iIERSCHEL V. JOHNSON,
OF BALDWIN.
FOR CONGRESS:
Ist. DISTRICT JAMES L. SEWARD.
lid. DISTRICT A. H. COLQUITT.
Hid. DISTRICT DAVID J. BAILEY.
IVth. DISTRICT W. B. W. DENT.
Vth. DISTRICT E. W. CHASTAIN.
Address to the People cf Georgia.
We find in the Chronicle $ Sentinel an Address
to the People of Georgia from A. 11. Stephens and
others, a committee appointed for that purpose by the
convention which nominated Charles J. Jenkins for
Governor. It occupies four columns of that paper, and
is therefore too long for insertion in our 6. Otherwise,
wo would take pleasure in laying it before our readers.
It will, however, be found in all the Jenkins papers, to
which we refer such of our readers as care to wade
through it. It is not an interesting paper, and is
chiefly devoted to a history of the compromise measures,
with which the whole country is very familiar. It ob
jects to the appointment of Abolitionists, to the extrava
gant expenditure of the public money, to Internal Im
provements by the Government, to the construction of
the Pacific Railroad by the Government, and to Foreign
Intervention in the wars and quarrels of other nations.
On all these issues they concur with the Democracy
of Georgia and have come upon our platform. We
feel quite at home there—we are the first occupants,
and claim title to it by right of immemorial possession.
If they can feel at home with us, we are sure they shall
receive at our hands a cordial welcome. But as they
have just arrived there, we hope they will behave with
becoming modesty, and not try to dispossess us of our
lawful possessions. Our platform is large enough to
hold us all, and we hope, instead of bickering and strife,
we will all strive to get the balance of the Whig par
ty to get on it also, and that in future, the complicated
affairs of the good people will be conducted on Demo
cratic principles. We congratulate the country upon
the conversion of the Whigs of Georgia to the Demo
cratic faith, and propose that they be sent as missionaries
to their brethren in the other States who yet lie in the
thick darkness of old Federal Whiggery.
But though the committee give good evidence of a
thorough conversion to Democracy, they are very bit
ter against Democrats who hold or are candidates so.-
office. They want them themselves. This is a leaven of
the old Adam of Whiggery which we hope to see eradi
cated by the time they have gone through a pro
bationary state. It is true, it is unseemly for these
eleventh hour workers to claim prece lenee over those
veteran Democrats who have borne the heat and burthen
of the day. They will, it is hoped, after a while be
content to take lower seats and spell up. We wonder
they do not see at once that it is preposterous for them
to claim the lead so soon after they have professed
principles which they have all their life long con
demned.
With the general principles, therefore, assserted in
the Address we cordially agree. They are time honor
ed Democratic principles. We will not, therefore, dtsert
them because Messrs. Toombs and Stephens have
adopted them. They never embraced them until the
principles of the Whig party to which they belonged
were repudiated by the people ; while we have stood
by them for years, and by our zealous advocacy have
made them popular.
Tbe attack upon President Pierce is very tierce,
very unfair, and very unfounded. The Address says:
In the selection of his constitutional advisers, he did not
call to his cabinet a single person who had been identified
with the compromise, either from the .North or the South,
nor one whose fidelity to these rneasuies could not be justly
questioned.
Well, suppose he did not, what then ? He called to
his cabinet several persons who had been identified with
the South, both from the North and South, and several
whose fidelity to the South cannot be questioned by-
Mr. Stephens himself. When we would like to know,
did devotion to the compromise become the test of or
thodoxy among Southern politicians? The Georgia
Platform Convention submitted to it with a threat. Now
it seems to be the design of the conservatives of Geor
gia to make it the square by which devotion to the
South shall be measured. This is but another evidence
of the propensty of the South to back as the North en
croaches upon her rights. But the Address mistakes
the facts. Messrs. Marcv, Campbell and Cushing from
the North, and Guthrie and Dobbin from the South,
were advocates of the compromise. If Cushing ever
opposed the compromise, it was upon the distinct ground
that it robbed the South of her rights—and surely, no
honest South* rn man will object to the selection of a
Northern man for a cabinet officer because he is too
zealous a defender of Southern Rights.
Again the Address charges:
His (Pierce’s) policy has been just such as we might have
expected from his cabinet. Hostility to the friends of the
compromise has been its leading characteristic.
Tbe only office conferred upon a Georgian of any
consequence, was given to Henry R. Jackson, a Union
man and very near relative of Howell Cobb, who him
self, it is said, has been tendered the Mission to France,
and not l)ix, as the Address insinuates. James Buch
anan is Minister t<* England : the Colleetorship at New
York was tend< red to Dickinson, who refused it and
then given to Bronson. Downs is Collector at New
Orleans. These are all Union men, and if time per
mitted, we might indefinitely extend this list. But this
charge is too ridiculous to merit further notice.
The Address asks with an air, whether the Democ
racy of Georgia “are the advocates of this wild and
reckless project of a Government Railroid to the Pa
cific ?*’ and asserts untruly, that “upon this point they
aie silent,” and affect to believe that they are the ad
voc&’es of it. Our own press, the Savannah Georgian,
the Marietta Advocate, and every other Democratic
paper in the State which has referred to this schem %
have emphatically condemned it, while the Whig press
generally in the Unit and St3tes, led by the National In
telligencer, have highly commended it. It is more of
a Whig than a Democratic measure. We do not be
lieve Mr. Pierce is in favor of it: and we are morally
certain Mr. H. V. Johnson is opposed to it. This part
of he Address, therefore, is a harmless shot if it was
aimed at the Georgia Democracy, and will only do
ex* cution by rebounding in the f ices of the late colleagues
of the gentlemen who aimed it—the Federal Whigs of
the United Suites. They are the friends of the Pacific
Real. And we are sure there are very many Whigs
in Georgia who ardently advocate it, and among the
number is, if we are not mistaken, Wm. Crosby Daw
son, late Senator from this State. We wonder if this
blow was aimed at him?
The Address throws the blame of lavish expenditure
of the publio money for the last four years upon the
Democracy, because they had a majority in Congress.
It admits that Fillmore, whom its authors supported,
“did not use his official position to arrest the ovil,’’ but
extenuates his conduct by the assertion that ho “never
expended a single dollar which was no appropri ited by
Congress.” They forget that the Galphin and o h.-r j
clrims were paid without the sanction of Congress ; that
Fillmore consumed twice ea much money as was need
ed in the Capitol extension ; and that he oontracted
debts for the removal and support of the army n
the West without authority of Congress, and thus
forced the Democracy either to repudiate or pay them.
But is anything more unfair, than to charge 1 ivisli
expenditures upon the Democracy, because they had a
majority in Congress, when it is known that the body
of the Whig party voted for them while the body of the
Democracy voted against them ? We are amared that
honest men will stoop to so great unfairness, even to hold
up a bad cause.
But we are giving more space to this Address than
it deserves. Its inordinate length will destroy its es
feet. Busy men have no time to search through a
bushel of chaff for a few grains of wheat.
Another Incendiary Attempt.
On Wednesday night last, an attempt was made to
set fire to an out house in the rear of Mr. Durr’s Store,
but was fortunately discovered in time to prevent dam
age.
The Pacific Railroad—Position of the Democ
racy.
While the effort is being trrde in the South to com
mit the Administration to the Pacific Railroad, by the
Conservative party, a directly opposite course is being
pursued at the North by their co-laborers. Ilea” what
the N. Y. Tribune says:
Such a work must necessarily encounter local jealous
ies and deadly hostility. To be completed within the life
time of the present generation, it must be powerfully aided
by the National Government; and it is not to be denied
nor disguised that the great party now ruling the country
is, by its essential genius as well as by its formal declara
tions, naturally opposed to the National prosecution of
works of internal improvement. The pressure of local in
terest or of unmistakable public sentiment i. ay constrain it
o forego this opposition in a particular case; but the spirit
of hostility, however smothered, will be sure to make it
self felt. The leaders may acquiesce and the loedly bene
fited may urge ; but the party at a party will oppose
the railroad so far at it dare. That is an element in the
calculation which cannot be safely overlooked. Whoso
ever arrays himself spontaneously and heartily on the side
of the railroad, will be marked by the Virginia Gracchi
and Cincinnati as of dubious t id fishy Democratic ortho
doxy.
Mr, James Gardner.
We are happy to learn that this gentleman has re
turned from the North, and will in a few days resume
his editorial chair.
Ex-Got. G. R. Gilimer, is out in a strong letter to
Rev. D. P. Jones in favor of passing an anti liquor law.
He contends that the Legislature has the same right to
abolish the retail traffic that it has to punish aduitry.
Hear the other Side.
While the air is burthened at the South with the
wail of Toombs and Stephens over the alleged
appointment of Freesoilers to office by President P.-srcb.
quite a different cry sweeps across tho Sierra N< ala.
It is charged by the Froesoilers of California, that‘near- 1
ly every office in that State has been given to pro
slavery men. Hear what one of them says through
the columns of the N. Y. Tribune :
California Politics.
San Francisco, July 15, 1853.
I presume that considerable dissatisfaction is expressed
in certain quarters in the Atlantic States in regard to the
appointments of President Pierce, it being charged that
many of the beat offices have been given to the most bit
ter opponents of the Compromise measures, including
Freesoilera and Secessionists. Whatever may be the
cause there, it is the fact here, that the appointments of
the President have been most miserable, both for giving
strength to Ilia party, and for the promotion of domestic
quiet and harmony. The appointments here have been
almost entirely from that wing of the Democratic party,
which were at the time dissatisfied with the Compromise,
and have ever since been engaged in concocting some
scheme for getting cheap laber in California.
California was admitted as n Free State, as a part of
the Compromise measures, yet we have an abundance of
political hacks here professing the strongest approval of
them, who are nevertheless at work, and have been for
years, in trying to effect a division of the State, for the
purpose of making the lower portion of it sLve territory.
This would be in direct violation of the Compromise, yet
has nearly all the Government patronage been given by
the President to that wing of the party which is most fa
vorable to these designs.
This wing of the party is, as I shall show, ridiculous
from its arrogance as well ns contemptible from its weak
ness. It embraces but a miserable faction of Southern
politicians, who to effect their objects are willing to coa
lesce with Whigs or any body else, and so that they can
get this dear blessing of Slavery on the Pacific coast they
care not how it is effected or by the aid of what
tion or part}-.
Vicksburg , Shreveport and Texas Railroad. —The
Shreveport Democrat , of Thursday last, says :
We are informed by Mr. Tournadre that he is pro
ceeding with the final location of the railroad track be
tween Shreveport and the Texas line. Several of his
hands have been sick : otherwise, the location by this
time would have been completed. We are happy to
learn that there is no difficulty in getting the right of
way from our planters. In about two weeks, contracts
for clearing and grubbing will be let out, and immedi
ately thereafter advt rtisements will be inserted in the
papers inviting proposals for grading, &c. The cost
of the track will not exceed the original estimate.—
Responsible parties near the line of the road have al
ready made known their wish to undertake heavy con
tracts.
We now regard the success of this great work be
yond a reasonable doubt. Subscriptions to a large
amount have already been obtained, and still they are
daily increasing on the whole line from Vicksburg to
Texas.
Health of Macon. —We are informed by our medi
cal friends that Macon never was healthier than at
present —there being no epidemic of any character in
the city, and very little, if any fever. While our friends
in New York have been sweltered to death with the
intense he3t, and sometimes sixty a day of her citizens
destroyed by sun stroke, we have been luxuriating un
dr a gentle temperature of 80 to 85° at the highest.
We respectfully suggest to our Northern friends the
propriety of making the city of Macon their summer
resort in future.— Macon Telegraph.
Monument to Mr. Calhoun in New York. —A wri
ter in the Journal of Commerce proposes that a monu
ment be erected in the oity of New York suitable to
the commemoration of the abilities and genius of the
late Mr. Calhoun, and offers his check for SSOO, pro
vided $9,500 more be contributed for that purpose.
froa THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.]
Montgomery and Union Springs Rail Road.
In the Alabama Journal of the 19th inst., we notice an
article from the pen of A. A. DtXTER, Esq., in the shape ot
a letter to some of the prominent citizens of Montgomery,
the object of which seemed to be rather to persuade the
citizens of Mobile to apply their means to the i'enefit ot
Montgomery, than to secure the Union Springs road. And
this is to be attained by an application ot the Mobile sub
scription to the Mobile and Montgomery Railroad; alter
which, we suppose, the Union Springs connection will be
made.
Now the entire weight ot the article depends upon the
completion of the link from Union Springs to Montgome
ry, which, we think, will never be completed, for the fol
lowing reasons :
The distance by location of the Girard Rai] Road from
Columbus to Union Springs is about 50 miles, while the
distance on an air line from that point to Montgomery is
381 miles, and by Rail Road it would be at least 43 miles
A connection of the two roads at Union Springs is imprac
ticable in consequence of the difficulty iu ascending the
Chunnenuggee Ridge, the general elevation ot which is
from 250 to 300 feet above the streams on the North and
West making into the Alabama and Tallapoosa rivers,
and which is higher at Union Springs than any other point,
if the water courses or the eye be a correct indication. ‘I he
Conecuh river, rising seven or eight miles to the East of
Union Springs, flow s westwardly until it reaches this point
where it turns abruptly to the South, thus indicating the
greater elevation of the country; and this indication is con
firmed by an examination of the ground, which presents a
steep bluff, with no ridge making up to the Springs of suffi
cient elevation to sustain a rail road line. There are only
two points on the western side of the ridge from Chunne
nuggee to a point below Greenville at which the ascent
could be made with easy grades ; one is near Sandy
Ridge P. O. in Lowndes county on the line of the Pensa
cola and Montgomery Railroad, and another at Fort Dale
in Butler upon the line ofa road from Montgomery to Mo
bile. We may then suppose that a calculation upon an air
line in such a country would fall far short oflhe actual dis
tance by Railroad, and the difference in distances would
probably bo 25 miles against the Montgomery count ctionof
15, as Mr. Dexter supposes. Furthermore, the probability
is very remote that Montgomery, even if she were in earnest
in the matter, could now reach Union Springs far ahead of
Columbus, and save the forty thousand bags of cotton
which are annually booked at that city.
In addition to the natural obstacles to the speedy com
pletion of this road, we presume others equally as formida
ble would present themselves.
The comtraction of 25 miles of Railroad would connect
Union Springs with Montgomery by a branch from the
West Point road, and this is the route by which the con
nection will be made, if made at all. The necessity lor
the Columbus and Montgomery roads entering Union
Springs upon the same level would not then exist, for the
two roads differ several inches in the widih of track and
the engines and cars of one could not be run upon the other.
This branch road would secure the interest of the West
j Point Raiiroad company, comprising many of the wealth
j iest and most influential citizens of the city and county ot
j Montgomery, who would certainly oppose & parallel road,
I the construction of which would dry up effectually their
; resources by taking ofi three-fourths of the way business
} and by shortening the through distance from four to ten
| miles over a better track.
A subscription from Savannah, the Central, South Wes
tern and Muscogee Railroads to the Girard Railroad equal
in amount to that which the city of Montgomery alone
must make to the Union Springs Railroad would ensure its
completion in three years from tho Gull to the Chattahoo
chee. We believe that the parties in interest will not allow
an indirect connection to be made to their prejudice where
tito use of their credit alone would prevent it. The only
argument in favor of the divergence by Montgomery, is the
insufficiency of means to supply the link from Union
Springs to Greenville; “it is the first step only which costs”
and the rich cotton lands of Pike, the lower part of Mont
gomery, Lowndes, and the eastern part of Butler will con
tribute equally with the other counties to swell the freight
list of the Girard and Mobile Railroad. If the short sight
ed policy of the connection by Montgomery were adopted,
there is wealth enough in these counties and their necessi
ties would force them to supply the link from Union Springs
to Greenville, thereby giving Mobile a larger trade by de
veloping the resources of a country now- not thickly settled
but far from unproductive, which would be left in its pres
ent inaccessible condition by Mr. Dexter’s plan, while she
would retain all which the Alabama river now brings to
her wharves ; the navigation of the Alabama not being af
lected in the least by the construction of the Girard Railroad
on the direct line. The determined purpose which already
has secured 50 miles of the Girard Road will complete the
pr ject, and that in good time. The violent opposition
with which it meets is the surest proof of the strength of its
position to command trade and travel.
When the Girard road was getting under way, we were
told that plank roads to Union Springs and Greenville were
superior to Railroads. W T ould not a piank road supply the
present necessity ? H.
Rains and Crops. —The abundant rains we have
had during the past month have so completely brought
out our previously unpromising corn crop, as to banish
all fear of a scarcity. Although our farmers will pro
bably not realize an average crop, yet with their large
quantity of old corn still in the State, there must be an
abundant supply for all necessary purposes. The In
dian corn crop in Tennessee, Kentucky and other
Western States, we learn, is an immense one. This,
with the promising yield of peas, sweet potatoes, and
other minor crops, and our rapidly increasing railroad
connection with the West, must make com rule at
very moderate prices this fall and winter.— Macon
Telegraph.
Tne New England system of common schools is
now in successful operation in California. There are
now in the State 18,060 white youth, under eighteen
years of age, fit candidates for schools. The money in
the treasury, credited to the school fund, amounted in
•January to over SIB,OOO, and S9OO were still due from
the several counties. Os the 500,000 acres devoted to
the production of a school fund, 150,000 had been
sold, and a fund of about $300,000 secured ther efron.
- >
Tennessee Election. —Full returns of the late elec
tion in Tennessee show that five Whigs and four
Democrats have been elected to Congress. Johnson,
the Democratic candidate for Governor, has a majori
ty ot 2,216 votes. The State Senate stands thirteen
Democrats and twelve Whigs, and the House forty-four
Whigs and thirty-one Democrats.
It is said that Madame Achille Murat, who recently
returned from France, wli her she went on a visit to
her relative, the Emperor, has arrived at her planta
tion near Tallahassee.
Another Guano Island. —lt is stated that a large
supply of guano his been found on an island in tho In
dian Ocean, between Mauritius and Culcutta, and that
some of the samples are of a superior quality. The
island ia stated to be twenty mile* long and several
broad, and covered in every part. Should the expec
tations thus raised be fulfilled, it will be a serious mat
ter for Peru.
OCT* John A. Winston, Governor elect of Alaba
ma, was in Montgomery a few days ago on his way
to Virginia. The Advertiser says he is the first na
tive of Alabama elected to the gubernatorial chair of
that State.
OCT* John J. Gilstrap is announced in the Atlanta
Republican as a candidate to represent the 4th Con
gressional District in the next Congress of the United
States.
Two ships arrived at Baltimore on the Bth inst., with
full cargoes of guano, which is much in request in thffT
part of the country.
The wag of the Boston Post gives vent to the
following on the recent marriage of Lola Monttz
to Patrick P. Hull :
The countess, like a gallant bark,
Long bounded over foitune’s wave,
And when the storm cloud gathered dark,
She dared it with a purpose brave ;
But maik the change—stiange destiny !
That will life’s brightest prospects dull,
Here passion sweeps across her sea,
And leaves her nothing but a Hull .
Patrick ! That will account for the courage of the
man. None but an Irishman—a race famous both in
the field of Mars and that of Venus—could have
undertaken such a task.
“In the mean time there appears to be a general
falling aw ay from the President.”—.V. Y. Cc wrier.
Yes! Virgin a has “fallen away” so far as to
send to Congress an unbroken Democratic delega
tion. Alabama has just “fallen awa\ r after the
same fashion. Tennessee, too, has “fallen away”
into an unprecedented majority f r a Democratic
Governor and the election of a Democratic majority
in Congress, in the face of a most atrocious YVug
gerrymander. And, finally, Kentucky and Ndfl’h
Carolina have so far “fallen away” as to put Ihe
Whig party in those States in the worse plight they
ever have been. These “fallings away trom the
President”in the Whig strongholds give token that
the whole country is “falling away’* from them so
fast that soon there will be n< one State left to op
pose his administration.— Examiner.
A noble S irV. —We le rn that a deputation of
you t g men from Baton Rouge arrived in our city
yesterday, having come for the purpose of assisting
the members of the Howard Association, in tbe dis
charge of their arduous and philanthropic duti s.—
Such acts of sympathy and fricrdlu ess for human
ity tend to raise our opinion of the dignity anti char
1v of human nature. Our Bato i Rouge brethren
may be suie that their miss on of mercy will noi be
forgotten by our people. —N O. Courier.
Liver Disease.—Carter’s Spanish Mixture, as a remedy
for liver disease, and the number of fotmidable evils con
nected with a disorganized state of that organ, is unrival
led.
Hundreds of certificates, from tho highest sources, er
sons now living in the city of Richmond, Va.,migl t be giv
en of cures effected by Carters Spanish Mixture. Wc
have only room to refer to the extraordinary cure of Sand.
M. Drinker, Esq., of the firm of Drinker & Morris, Book
sellers, Richmond, Va., who was cured by two bottles ol
Carter’s Spanish Mixture, alter three years’ suffering from
diseased liver. He says its action on the blood is wonder
ful, better than all the medicine he had ever taken, and
cheerfully recommends it to all. See Advertisement.
August 12—lm.
A Remarkable case of Scrofula cured ly Hollo'tay’s
Ointment and Tills. —The son of Mr. Alliday, 209 High
street, Cheltenham, when three years old, was afflicted
with Scrofula in the neck, and tho disease increased so
fearfully, that in four yearn he had ten ulcers on his body,
besides a tumor between the eyes. The best medical
treatment afforded him no relief, the blood beingso corrupt
that it was considered impossible to subdue the disease.
At this crisis Holloway’s Pills and Ointment were resorted
to, and with great success, for in two months the boy was
soundly cured by their use, and he has continued well for
the last three years. August 12—lm
R. R. R. *
In ten minutes cured the Gout. —Mr. M. Edgeeomb, an
English gentleman, residing in Waverly Place, New Yoik,
had been troubled with the gout for six weeks. By the
advice and consent of Dr. Wheeler he applied R. R. Re
lief. In ten minutes after the first application, he was free
from pain, and has not suffered any further inconvenience.
So, reader, it is with all acute pains. R. R. Relief acts
like a charm ; the moment it is applied, the most severe
paroxysm of Neuralgia, Chill, Fevers, Rheumatism, Sick
Headache,Toothache,Cramps, Spasms, Swelled Joint?,
Weakness, and Pain in the Side are instantly relieved, and
the cause quickly removed. The first symptoms of pain,
apply the Relief, either internally or externally, and you
will be free from all further annoyance. In purchasing
R. R. Relief, see that the signature of RAD AY A CO.
i? upon each bottle, and the letters R. R. R. blown in the
gla3. ‘] he genuine will instantly stop the pain. Price, 22
cents, 50 cents, and SI 00 per box. I
August 12—lm.
Good Medicines! ! A celebrated Physician of Balti
more says it gives him “great pleasure to add his testimony
to that of others, in favor of the extraordinary efficacy’
of Sinner’s Diarrhoea Cordial, and the tame eminent Pity 1
sician writes with regaid to their Anodyne Cherry Expec- I
torant, that he “has no hesitation in recommending y t’ I
the confidence and patronage of the public, as a most tutu- I
able medicine.” See advertisement in another column.
August 12—'m.
Read the Advertisement of Ayer’s Cherry Pcct* ]
ral. There are statements of no ordinary interest to ah ■
unfortunate a9 to be afflicted with the difficulties it cure- f
August 12—lm.
DIED.
On Friday the 19th inst., at the residence of his brot.e kl
A. J. O lam, in Muscogee county, ta., after a long ; 1 -’
protracted illness, Mr. Ezekiel H. Odam, in the tin-. |1
second year of his age. He has left a wife and three sms' t
children, with a large circle of friends and relation- j
mourn their loss.
At his residence in Hariis county. Ga., on Wednesi-; l
2Hh July last, after a protracted illness, Col- Keufe v
Crf.ws, in the fiftieth year of his age.
SPECIAL NOTICES.
- T
We are authorised to announce Mr. JOII*
VANPELT as a candidate for the office ot City
shal, at the election in January next, and will be
ted by THE PEOPU
Aug. ‘21,1853 —w&twte.