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Marco Bozznra.
BY FITZGREEN HALLECK.
At midnight, in his guarded tent,
The Turk was dreaming of the hour,
When Greece, her knee insupplianccbent,
Should tremble at his power; *
In dreams, through camp and court, he bore
The trophies of a conqueror;
* In dreams, his song of triumph heard ;
Then wore his monarch’s signet ring,—
Then press’d that monarch’s throne, —a king ;
As wild his thoughts and gay of wing,
As Eden’s garden bird.
An hour passed on, —the Turke awoke ;
That bright dream was his last;
He woke—to hear his sentry shriek, 0
To arms! they come! the Greek ! the Greek -
He woke—to die—midst flame and smoke,
And shout, and groan, and sabre stroke,
And death shots falling thick and last
As lightning from the mountain cloud:
And heard, with voice as trumpet loud,
Bozzaries cheer his band.
“Strike—till the last armed foe expires,
Strike—for your alters and your fires,
Strike—for the green graves of your sires,
God—and your native land.”
They lought like brave men long and well
They piled that ground with Moslem slain.
They conquered—but Bozzaris* fell,
Bleeding at every vein.
His few surviving comrades saw
His smile, when rang their proud—“hurrah,”
And the red field was won ;
Then saw in death his eyelids close,-
Calmly as the night’s repose,
Like flowers at set of sun.
C ome to the bridal chamber, Death!
Come to the mother when she lecls,
For the first time, her first-born’s breath y,
Come when the blessed seals,
Which close pestilence, are broke,
And crowded cities wail its stroke;
Come in consumption’s ghastly form,
The earthquake shock, the ocean storm ;
Come when the heart beats high and warm.
With banquet song and dance and wine—
And thou art terrible: the- Sear,
The groan, the knell, the pally the bier*
And all we know, or dream, o* fear
Os agony, are thine.
But to the hero, when his sw r ord
Has won the battle for the free,
Thy voice sounds like a prophet’s word.
And in its hollow tones are heard
The thanks of millions yet to be.
Bozzaris ! with the storied brave
Greece nurtured in her glory’s time,
Rest thee—there is no prouder grave,
Even in her own proud clime.
We tell thy doom without a sigh ;
For thou art Frcedoom’s now, and Fame’s—
One of the few, the immortal names,
That were not born to die.
* Marco Bozarris the Greek hero, fell in a night attack
upon the Turkish Camp at Laspi, the site of the ancient
Platsea, August 29,1823, and expired in the moment of.yic
tory. His Jast words were —“To die for liberty is a pleasure
not a pain.”
Learn to Spout.— This is the first advice that
a female whale gives its young, and it is jnst the
advice that every American mother should give
her boys. In no country in the world is there
such a field for off hand speakers to operate in
as in the United States. A man capable of stir
ring up a multitude at a mass meeting can
reach any office in the gift of the people, be
ginning with comptroller of poultry, and leaving
off with the Presidency. In the present Con
gress there are fifty-six Senators ; forty-three
are or have been lawyers, leaving only thirteen
for all the other professions. Now, why is this ?
Why should twenty thousand lawyers have
eight times as many representatives in the Se
nate as the whole twenty-five million of other
people ? For no other reason in the world than
that lawyers are generally good speakers; But
why should good speakers be limited to one
profession ? We know not of a single good
reason.
Every school should have a declamation club
connected with it. Boys of all classes should
be initiated in the art and mystery of persua
sion. With early training the mechanic and
farmer would become as successful “on the
stump” as gentlemen who consume their oil in
pouring over the old fogyism of Coke and Lit
tleton. To be a good speaker, all that is requi
red is a first class memory and a little manly
confidence. The former can be acquired by
practice at any time, the latter however can only
be obtained by “breaking the ice’’ during our
schoolboy days. Again we say, “learn to
spout.’’
Mississippi. —We rejoice to see that the dis
sensions and divisions that have so unhappily
existed in the Democratic ranks in our sister
State, since the adjournment of their State
Convention in May, and which seriously en
dangered their success in the approaching elec
tions, have given way to reason and prudence,
and that the party is once more united, with
the single exception of the division attempted to
be produced by Gov. Foote and his friends.—
The number ot these latter, however, is daily
growing “small by degrees and beautifully less.’’
Foote has leaned so much to the whigs—coated
thor support so openly, as to render him com
paratively powerless in creating discord in the
party in which he professes to belong. The
principal obstacle to an effective Union of the
party, consisted in the running ot Gen. Reuben
Davis of Aberdeen, a gentleman of much infl u .
ence and popularity, as independent candidate
for Congress from tbe State at large, on account
of unfair dealing which he supposed to have
been practiced towards him by the State Con
vention. This difficulty is now fortunately re
moved. Gen Davis has accepted an agency
from the New Orleans and Great Northern
Railroad Company, and retires from the can
vass. The \ icksburg Sentinel, in .noticing Gen.
D’s. withdrawal, says:
Thus the last cloud disappears from our po
litical horizon ; and thus we see one graod aim
°*! r labors accomplished, the re. uni
-1 ot the Democratic party.-AioMe Reg .
times mtk Smiittfl.
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. ”
SATURDAY EVENING, OCT. 15, 1853.
The Resnlt in Muscogee.
Disappointed politicians can’t see clearly. They are
like blind adders, and strike, in the dark, at every breath
that rustles the leaves around them. We cannot blame
them 5 it would be unkind to grow angry with them ;
it would be unchristian to retaliate even though it would
be as easy to do so as it is about the result in Muscogee.
It is charged that “the Democracy spent much money
to gain the election.” No doubt some money was spent
on both sides; but not as much, certainly, by the De
mocracy, as is usual in general elections. We know
of one Conservative, who spent a cool thousand, and
we would be willing to take a bet, that no one Demo
crat was out of pocket the half of that amount.
“Free quarters were opened iu the city for the
voters.” That may be so ;we did not visit the ren
dezvous. But a more secure, if a more retired, and
cheaper resort, was provided in the country by the olh
er side—if rumor is not dreadfully at fault. At any
rate several “floats” very mysteriously disappeared the
day before the election, and did not make their appear
ance again in the city until afterwards.
A writer for the Southern Recorder charges that
stockholders in broken banks took part in favour of the
Democratic ticket, in order to elect Judges of the Su
preme Court, favorable to their interest, and used the
money freely which they made by the failure of these
banks, to secure its election, and thus defeat a recovery !
This is a most singular charge in the face of the fact,
that Alfred Iverson, the head and front of the Demo
cratic party in Muscogee, is the identical Judge who
made the decisions by which the liability of the stok
holders in these broken banks was fixed. Besides,
there is not a man in Muscogee, spoken of for Judge,
who has any personal interest, in the Bank cases, re
ferred to by the correspondent of the Recorder. And
as further evidence of the futility of the charge, we
proudly and triumphantly refer to the fact that Mr.
Worrel’s name was printed on both the Whig and
Democratic tickets, and he received the almost unani
mous vote of the whole people, albeit he has no inte
rest in the world, in the final issue of these troublesome
causes. It is also well known that large stockholders
in these broken banks voted the entire whig county
ticket, and that a distinguished lawyer, who is counsel
for the stockholders, used all his influence on the same side.
There are twosidcs to this question, if the stockholders were
on our side, when were “the holders of the bills and other
demands against the broken banks in this place?” They,
of course, were on the other side, if the stockholders were
on ours ; and their influence and votes counteracted the
influence and votes of the stockholders. But we are
giving too much importance to this ridiculous charge.
We do do not know, or imagine who the correspon
dent is; but we presume he is one of the “bill
holders, ’’ who imagines that the whole earth revolves
around his little ease. We commend to him the fable
of the wagoner and the butterfly, and for fear he may
not be familiar with the classics, we will mention that
once on a time, a countryman overloaded his waggon with
hay ; the soil was soft and the wheels stuck in the mud :
He whipp’d his horses, but in vain ;
They pull'd and splash’d, and pull’d again,
But vainly still ; the slipp< rysoil
Defied their strength—
A Buterfly, in flower conceal’d,
Had trarell’d with them from the field ;
Who in the wagon was thrown up,
While teasting on a buttercup.
The panting of each lab'ring beast
Disturbed her at her fragrant feast;
The sudden stop, the drivers sigh,
Awoke her gen’rous sympathy.
And seeing the distressing care,
She cried, while springing from'her place,
(Imagining her tiny freight
A vast addition to the weight,)
“I must have pity—and be gone,
Now master Wagoner, drive on.”
But badinage aside •, we aro tired and sick of this
eternal fuss about the bank cases. There are other
people in Muscogee beside very respectable ‘‘bill
holders,” and their attorneys, and “stockholders’’ and
their attorneys. The late contenst was waged by them
on party principles—gallantly on each side—and lost
by the one because they could not get enough votes,
and won by the other because they were more active,
or more popular, or had better principles. All excusses
about the money spent on one side, and not on the
other, bill-holders and stockholders, et cetera , are all
gammon, and every body but the man that makes them,
knows they are. Be honest, gentlemen, and aeknowl
edge the corn. W T e conquored you in a fair fight; the
arms we used, you used ; and the only difference is,
that we plied them more adroitly and in a better cause.
Judges o! the Supreme Court.
It will devolve upon the Legislature, shortly to con
vene, to elect two Judges of the Supreme Court.
The qualities which are necessary to constitute a
good Judge, of this august tribunal, are so varied that
they can rarely be found united in the same individual.
First of all, he must be a just man ; and this implies
not only scrupulous honesty, but a mind capable of mak
ing the nicest discriminations between what is right and
what is wrong. He has to follow the wrong door in
all the tortuous labrynths of iniquity ana condemn him.
lie must be a bold and incorruptible man. His cheek
must not blanch at the threats of the violent, nor his
palmy itch for the gold of the opulent man. He must
be learned in all departments of the law ; for he reviews
the decisions of all inferior tribunals ; and not only learn
ed, but have the power to apply his knowledge, eo in
stanti , it is demanded by the exigencies of the cases
which come before him. By the peculiarities of our
judicial system, no time is given for lengthy investiga
tion of authorities, and often none even for continuous
reflection.
There are uot many men in Georgia who pos
sess all these qualities. Where ever they can be
found, they ought to be seized upon by our Legislators
and invested with the ermine of justice. Confident,
that, at least, two gentlemen reside in Western Georgia
who possess these qualities in an emiuent degree, we
will not be restained by a false deleoacy from present
ing their claims to the public. We allude, of course, to
Marshall J. Wellborn and Henry L. Benning, Esqrs.
Mr. Wellborn gained an enviable reputation, some i
years ago, as Judge of the Chattahoochee Circuit, and j
has since extended his knowledge by foreign travel, I
and a participation in the complex legislation of this
gt eat country, as Representative in Congress. Since his
retirement from political life, he has devoted himself to
the practice of his profession.
Mr. Benning, we belive, has never filled official sta
tion, but has, for a number of years, devoted himself ex
clusively to the practice of his profession, with eminent !
success.
Both of these gentlemen have the entire confidence
of this community, and all attempts, here or elsewhere,
to weaken their position before the country, are laughed
at, as the mere ebullitions of disappointed political hope#
and aspirations, by the dispassionate and disinterested of
both political parties.
The elevation of one or both of them to the Supreme
bench would give unqualified pleasure to the great
body of both political parties in this part of the State.
Apathy in the Second District.
This is the excuse of several Whig papers for the de
feat of Jenkins in the State. This is unkind, ns well
as unjust, to the gallant men who bore the Whig ban
ner aloft in this district. The defeat of the Whigs here,
is attributable to the superior activity and zeal of the
Democracy, and the strength and goodness of their
cause, and not to any want of ability, zeal, or activity of
the Whigs. They fought every inch of ground, defend
ed every strong hold, brought into the fight every spe
cies of arms, and maneuvered with excellent skill. The
county candidates did their utmost, we know, and we
doubt if one solitary Whig who is now chuckling over
his election, in other parts of the State, did half the
work of their defeated friends iu this District. And
we are sure that James Johnson, their candidate for
Congress did his duty and his whole duty to his party,
lie talked incessently for his side, rode over a very large
extent of country, spoke wherever in the judgement of
his party anything could he made by speaking, and fell
with his feet to the foe. Be generous, therefore, gen
tlemen ; give hono>r where honor is due, but reserve
your censure until you find the guilty man. The
Whigs here feel bad enough on account of a defeat,
which was unexpected, without being held responsible
for faults of which they are not guilty. Take lessons
from us, and learn to be temperate. When the fight
was raging, we did our best to whip you, but now its
over, we give you our right hand in token of continued
love and good felling until war is again declared. Till
then let us live in peace, and let byegones be byegous.
Georgia.
We are gratified at the daily evidences which are
afforded of the high and influential position which our
noble commonwealth occupies in the Federation. The
following extract from an address of Albert J. Picket,
the historian of Alabama, will be read with interest.
By the way, why is not this distinguished citizen called
to fill some political position worthy of his moral worth
and large attainments. We suggest him, as Col. Win
ston’s successor in the Gubbernatoria chair of our sister
State. Let the State honor the man who honors her.
But to the extract, Col. Picket says :
The most prospering and enterprising State in the South
is that v hieh lies upon our eastern border. She has nine
hundred and ninety-nine miles of Railroad, over which
run, night and day, cars laden with freight and filled with
passengers. Georgia is truly a great State, and a pattern
tor ours and all other Southern States. Her limits are so
large as to compose ninety-nine Counties: the soil of which
is as diversified as the climate; yet, her people and products
are brought together, in the space of a few hours, by means
of the great internal improvements to which I have alluded.
Evidences of remarkable prosperity are observable in all
directions in that State. The water-tails are seldom left as
Nature formed them ; but Factories and Flour Mills are pro
pelled by their power. In Augusta, the Savannah river has
been conducted to the most elevated ground, by a long ca
nal, which is studded, also, with Mills and Factories.—
There is, too, a general intelligence existing in Georiga that
we do not find in :ny other State. Whatever is illiberal
and mean in other States appertains not to Georgia. I
have reference, of course, to her public spirit. The people
look to the interest of their whole State, and effect im
provements upon a scale of magnitude and importance.—
itavines of great depth are tilled up; the mountain spurs
are levelled : mountains themselves aro tunneled ; costly,
bridges are thrown across rivers—all—all—for the tracks
oi Railroads. From the Tennessee River to her distant
sea-board, Georgia opens to her people every facility ; the
young, the middle-aged, and the old rapidly travel from
one portion of the State to another. No one can visit
Georgia without becoming satisfied that she possesses a
great and happy people.
The Correspondent of the London limes.
The Washington Union charges without naming him,
that C. Edwards Lester is the American correspondent of
the L ondon Times whose assaults upon President Pierce
have been of late characterised by so much violence and
defamation. The motives which influence this shameless
man are thus exposed in the Washington Union.
We shall not writedown the name of this hired tradu
cer of his own country’s fame ; but we will daguerreo
type him by the light of truth reflected from the record
of his past life, until all good men will call out for “a whip
of scorpions to lah the traitor naked through the world.”
Before the inauguration of President Pierce, the corres
pondent of the London Times visited Concord, and im
portuned him for a position in the diplomatic or consular
establishment. Chief among his recommendations to the
favor of the President elect were his letters to the London
Times , copies of which he carried with him, and among
these were the most profuse and extravagant laudations of
that gentleman. He hung about Concord for “days, and
persisted in his application with characteristic effrontery.
After President Pierce’s inauguration he called on Gov
ernor Marcy, and sought to propitiate him by the same
means, and by offering to procure the insertion of articles
iu the London Times. But all to no effect. His history
was written too plainly and tco recently to be forgotten
and the administration would not have dared to listen fa*
vorably to his application, and for the reason that it would
have been a degradation. Ilis petition was rejected, ’and
now the London Times groans under his calumnies ! But
why was his application rejected ? We will answer :
He was a United States consul at Genoa, Sardinia, and
was appointed by Mr. Tyler iu June, 1842 ; and though
professing to be a democrat, removed by President Polk
in September, 1847. Ilis career at Genoa presents a rec
ord of misconduct and disgraceful abuse of his trust as an
American consul which more tahn justified the executive
act which called him home in disgrace. We have no
wish to nauseate our readers by a detail of his profligacy
and abuse of trust whilst at Genoa, but will be content to
glance at a few of the well authenticated facts. The Hon.
R. W. Wickliffe, junior, our distinguished charge
d’affaires at Turin during the most of the time that the cor
respondent of the London Times was at Genoa, being
his superior in position,"and more or less acquainted with
him, was compelled te report his misconduct to the home
government. He did so in repeated despatches, the whole
making, as we are assured, a solid and irrefragable mass
of evidence of his unworthiness of the respect and confi®
dence of his country. Mr. Wickliffe chat ges him with
repeated acts of falsehood, fraud, and deception. He
claimed to be the neph. w of President Polk in order to
induce M. Vespucci, of Florence, to reward him, on con*
dition of his getting the American Congress to grant him
a large body of land because he was a lineal descendant of
Americus Vcspucius. To bind the bargain, M. Vespucci
put into his hands a picture of great value and age, which
had been in the family for years. He attempted to pro
cure a large fee from an Italian gentleman who wished to
be made United States vice-consul at one of the Sardini
an ports, the revenue of which he grossly and intention
ally exaggerated. He was charged with appropriating
the wages of the sick American seamen who were lying
sick in the hospital at Genoa, and when he left on leave
of abseence he provided no money to repay the debt, so
that the poor sailors might be relieved. To save the cred
it of the American legation, Mr. Wickliffe and vice con
sul paid the debts lelt by him. including money retained
by him, and belonging to the invalid seamen. Wlitn he
left < n a leave not to exceed four months, but which was
protracted beyond a year, he directed the vice eonsn] at
Genoa to take the key of the Consular chest, and he
would find in that money to pay the debts of the consu
late by him, the London Times’ correspondent, contrac
ted, and upon opening the chest not a cent was found.
That wheat production of Ohio is estimated to average
25,000,000 bushels per annum, of which 13,000,000 are
surplus. It is said that only about one-fifth of the land
in the State is under cultivation. While some of the
premium crops exceed 50 bushels to the acre, tho ave
rage yield of the State will not exceed 16 bushels.
Fire in Macon. —The Journal and Messenger of
yesterday says:—On Tuesday morning about two
o’clock, the warehouse on the corner of First and
Cheery-street, occupied by Messrs. Wyche & Gates,
and owned by Leroy Napier, was discovered to 1* on
fire, and notwithstanding the active exertions of our
cit'zens to save it, was totally consumed, together with
a small woodeu tenement, on First street, adjoining it.
The warehouse was insured for $1,500 in the yEtna
Insurance Company of Hartford. The house on First
street was owned by a non-resident, whose name we
have been unable to learn, and was insured in the
Southern Mutual or Savannah Mutual Insurance Co.—
There was a small lot of cotton in the warehoue at the
time of the fire, a few bales of which were destroyed,
together with two or three hundred bushels of corn. —
The adjoining buildings on Cherry and first-street (all
of them wooden) were in imminent peril, and were
saved with great difficulty
Yellow Fever Statistics.— The whole number of
deaths in Mobile by yellow fever, from Ist of August
to the 30th of September, was 782. The greatest num
ber of deaths in any one day was 38, on the Bth of
September. The total number of deaths for the two
months mentioned, from all causes, was 1070. In
1839, the last time the epidemic was in Mobile, the to
tal number of deaths from all causes, for the same two
morkhs, was 531. Showing that the epidemic this
year has been more than twice as fatal as it was in
1839.
Tennessee Legislature. —The Legislature convened
in the new capitol on the morning of the 3d. In the
Senate, Edwin Polk of Hardeman county, received the
votes of the democrats, and was elected Speaker over
Dr. McCarriger, for whom the whigs voted. After
forty-two votes for First Clerk, 11. 11. Harrison, R. S.
Paine, and T. W. Bell, being candidates, the Senate
adjourned. In the house, (all the members present ex
cept Smith of Haywood, and Cummings of Coffee coun
ties,) W. H. Wisener was elected Speaker over Gen.
Wm. Wilmer, for whom the whigs voted. Richard
B, Cheatham was elected First Clerk on the first bal
lot. The balance of the day was spent in ineffectual
attempts to elect a first Assistant Clerk.— Delta.
W. D. Porter, of the U. S. Navy, has an interesting
letter in the N. Y. Post on ship building. He suggests
that our steamers should have narrower paddles, of the
traperian shape, with the largest base near the vessel’s
side. The requisites of a fast steamer, he says, are—
first, length ; seeond, fine entrance ; third, light draft
of water 5 fourth, narrow floats, and few of them, and
and leverage.
[FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.]
The Recorder’s Private Correspondent.
We can easily forgive the spirit that prompted the Re
corder’s “private correspondent,” and pity the state of mind
he is in—and the excessive chagrin he leels at the defeat oi
his darling party based on beau-ideal principles. How
manfully does he beat against that irresistible supremacy
of correot principles which is bearing down upon the weak
ranks of Whiggery, like the strong wave of the oceon on
weeds that gather there—hurrying them against the rocks
and the shore.
Would he compare the sum of money won from the
game of broken banks and spent to forward the election of
Democrat, with that lavishly bestowed by spirited “Repub
licans,” the difference would all be in my eye Bettie Mar
tin. But this private correspondent, like the drowning
man, has caught the straw, and although the promise of
support is as false in the one as the other ; he is welcome
to the hold that stays him up.
GOBBLER’S HILL.
[From the Washington Union.]
The Policy of the Administration—Mr Guthrie’s
Letter.
The annexed letters will be read with inter
est, as bearing intelligibly upon the policy and
position of the administration in regard to the
distribution of the public patronage.
Washington, Oct. 8, 1853.
To the Editor of the Union :
It seems the public have obtained, through
the press, an imperfect statement of the contents
of my letter to Collector Bronson and the other
custom-house officers at New York ; and as
the subject is a public one, l place in your hands
a copy of the letter, which you are at liberty to
make public. James Guthrie.
Washington, Oct. 3, 1853.
Dear Sir : Since the conversation we had up
on the subject of the unfortunate division in the
democratic party in New York, I feel more and
more convinced that the present disorganization
cannot fail to endanger the success of the prin
ciples of the party there, and to prove injurious
elsewhere. But the separation is effected. A
conviction has forced itself on my mind that,
by democrats pledged to each other upon a
common platform of principles, the division could
and ought to have been prevented.
You are aware that the principles of the Bal
timore Convention and the policy intimated in
the inaugural address, the President and his
constitutional advisers stand pledged before the
world, ihey have been and are united as one
man upon those principles and that policy, and
had reason to believe that all gentlemen who
consented to accept office under the administra
tion stood pledged to the same principles and
policy.
As the President understands the principles
avowed as the platform of the party at Balti
more, all democrats who joined in upholding
and carrying out the same were entitled to be
recognised as worthy of the confidence of the
united party, and consequently eligible to official
station. That all could not obtain office was
manifest; and that the distribution could not
be exactly equal among the different sections of
the party, was equally certain. Yet the distri
bution was intended to be so made as to give
just cause of complaint to no one section ; and
it is believed that this intention has been carried
out, not only by the President himself, but by
most of his appointees in respect to the offices
under the latter.
It has so happened that your appointments
have been very generally made from that portion
of the party to which you now adhere. This
you thought best calculated to secure union and
harmony. That desirable object has failed to
be attained; and the other portion of the party
feel that they have not been fully recognized by
you, and, as things now stand, may not do justice
to your motives.
I call your attention to this subject, and to
the fact that the President and his cabinet, with
entire unanimity, recognize that portion of the
partion as democrats distinctly avowing am]
firmly maintaining the principles ofthe°Balti.
more platform, and entitled to be recognised by
appointments to official stations in your depart
ment. Allow me to express the expectation
that you will so recognise them in the only way
that will carry conviction with it.
I have not hitherto deemed it necessary to
make any particular inquiry with regard to” the
section of the democratic party to which persons
nominated for positions in the custom house at
New Fork belonged prior to the re-union of the
party in 1849, which re union was supposed to
itiave been thoroughly cemented in the great and
triumphant contest in 1852. But, as the pres
ent excited state of feeling among political
friends who acted together in 1852, and who
now stand unequivocally upon the same plat
form of principles in New York, is suggestive of
a discrimination of which the administration will
not approve, I shall send a copy of this letter
to the naval officer and the surveyor of the port,
in order that there may be no misapprehension
as to the policy which the President will require
to be pursued.
I am, very respectfully,
Jamks Guthrie.
G. C. Bronson, Esq., Collector, New York.
Cutest Intdltymce.
SEVEN DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
Arrival of the Canada.
Cotton Declined—The Eastern Question still Unset
tled —Russia and Austria Allied.
New York, Oct. 13.
The British mail steamship Canada, with Liverpool
dates to the Ist inst., has arrived at Halifax, N. S„
bringing news seven days later than the Arabia’s ac
counts.
Liverpool Cotton Market.
The sales of Cotton in the Liverpool market for the
week ending on the 30th ult., comprise 34,000 bales,
of which speculators took 3,000 and exporters 5,000
bales, leaving 26,000 bales of all descriptions for the
trade. The quotations are as follows: Fair Orleans
6 5-Bd.; Middling Orleans 5 3-4d.; Fair Uplands 6 l-4d.,
and Middling Uplands 5 1 -2d, All qualities have de
clined from l-Bd. to l-4d. Holders are pressing their
stocks on the market.
Provisions.— Western Canal Flour has advanced
from 18 pence to 2 shillings. The demand for Rico
was good and prices stiffer. Sugar remained quiet.
London Money Market.
The money market was Tighter, and the rate of inter
est had advanced to 5 per cent. A small business only
was done in American securities. Consols have declined.
Havre Cotton Market.
The sales of Cotton in the Havre market for the week
amount to 5,000 bales. Ali qualities had largely declined
but fair and middling grades had fell off the most. >
The Eastern Question.
Tho Turkish question still continues still unsettled.—
Russia and Austria, however, are perfectly united.
From Spain.
General Poinsell has been appointed Captain General
of Cuba.
Ohio Election.
The Democrats have carried the Elections in the State
•f Ohio.
New Orleans, Oct. 13.
The Cotton Market on Thursday was quiet, and un to
noon barely 500 bales had been sold. Middling was
quoted at 9 5 -Bd.
The Canada’s advices were received at four o’clock in
the afternoon.
Rio coffee was dull. Sterling exchange is quoted at Sja9.
Pennsylvania Election.
Philadelphia, Oct 12.
The Pennsyivania dections, hdd on Tuesday last have
resulted in favor of the Democrats by a large majority.
From California.
The steamer Star of the West, arrived at New York
brings California dates to 16th Sept. She brings Si 000f*I
000 in gold. & ’
The majority for Bigler, democrat, for Governor, is on
ly 1,000, while the remainder of the democratic ticket is
elected by 4to 10,000. Garrison, dem., has been elec
ted Majoi of San Tiancisco, and the whole democratic
city and county ticket was chosen. Both branches of the
L(gislatuie aie laigely democratic The people of ejan
Francisco had adopted the revised charter.
Gov. Bigler’s majority in San Francisco was only 9 votes
Dr. G. M Duvall, of Maryland, had been shot dead in
a Street light with S. J. Downs, of Sacramento. Dr H
C. Gill is had been seriously injured in a street fight with
C. K. Drop, of San Francisco, John Potter, alias Bah
““•re Jack, had been killed at Downieville, by a man
named Memtz. It an attempt made by the citizens to
ynch the latter, Thaddeus Purdy, District Attorney had
ben shot dead. ■”
° f “TV A<I T * Co s” containing
•85,000 m specie, was stolen from the stage between Sono
ra and Stockton.
OREGON.-The hostilities with the Indians, in which
Gen. Lane and Col. Alden were wounded, took place in
Rogue river valley on the 27th of August. There were 90
whites and 200 Indians engaged, and the skirmish lasted
four hours, when the Indian Chief Sam proposed an arnv's
tic, which was granted. Ten Indians were killed and 30
wounded-the whites had 3 killed and 8 wounded Among
the killed was Captain Armstrong. The Indians hav?
continued their outrages at other points h
, j ? V ‘.. L ane > °f Oregon, and Lieut. Alden of the arm v
r u.ther intelligence Irom Honolulu states that a strong
political movement had been commenced to compel the
King to discharge his Ministers, Judd and Armstrong! A
memorial signed by 13,000 persons, to that effect, hacT been
*° lIS a J est y• The indications were decidedly
An Indian War nr Oregon -We regret to learn that
offic^a 1 information has been received by the Government
at Washington that the difficulties which have for some
En!: Xi ß?l^vJil nthel, o lan^ an . and whito inhabitants of
R°^ Rlver Valley, in the Territory of Oregon, have
reached a state of war. The Indians had murdered several
persons, among others the Hon. John R. Hardin and Dr
Lose. The settlers had suspended all business and taken
*“ C Ptam Alden, of the 4th Infantry, eta
li°rtJoilf’ W ? Sa t t^ie i ast account marching to
W v T th , a ew re S ll lars and several hundred
Volunteers were marching from other direc
tions. Several hundred Indian warriors are said to have
as f?bled at Table Rock—many of whom are well pro-
V 1 ur anns an d ammunition.
We trust the prompt appearance of an armed force will
quiet these disturbances (without further bloodshed. — Wash
ington star.
Office Board of Health, )
Mobile, October 10, 1853. )
Report of interments in the city of Mobile for the
twenty-four hours ending 6 o’clock p. in. this day :
Os yellow fever 4
Other diseases 3
Total 7
Geo, A. Ketchum, Secretary.