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t?o* TB£ TIMES AMD MBMTIKEL.J
To the Teachers of Georgia.
At a meeting of Teachers held at Griffin, Aug.
10th, a society was organized under the name
of “The Teacher’s Association of the State of
Georgia and we were directed to address our
co-laborers as to the objects and hopes of our
union.
These are fully set forth in the 2d Article of
the Constitution and may be classified as follows:
First—lt is designed to seek out and recom
mend the best modes of instruction; and the
means to be employed are : 1. The examina
tion and recommendation of the best Text
Books; 2. The delivery of lectures upon sub
jects connected with instruction; 3. The free
discussion of questions connected with the
teacher’s duties and office.
Second —The Association designs doing ail
in its power to diffuse education among the
people of Georgia, by urging the establishment
of common schools, and by ail other means that
may promote this great object; and finally, one
of its prime objects is to produce and cherish a
friendly intercourse among Teachers. It invites
every Teacher in the State to co-operate with
its founders in the pursuit of these ends, upon
the easy terms of subscribing to the Constitution
and paying Two Dollars annually into the Trea
sury.
The objects above stated will commend them
selves to the favor not only of every right-mind
ed Teacher, but also to every citizen—a friend
to true progress, and they are severally worthy
of a full discussion, if our limits allowed it.
It is growing into a aettled opinion with the
well-informed, that teaching is properly a pro
fetation, and that every fair scholar is no more
necessarily a good teacher than he is a good
lawyer or physician. But while teaches and
iyroa are scarcely, if at all, recognized in the lat
ter professions, and a long course of study in the
art of pleading and one of healing is prescribed
to the candidates for their honors and emolu
ments, the youth fresh from a school perhaps
of inferior grade, or the young inexperienced
collegian, without previous training in tne art
of instruction is admitted to the responsible duty
of directing the moral and intellectual destinies
of our rising generations. The very nature of
the teacher’s duties indicate the necessity of such
instruction, while the facilities therefor are
wholly wanting in the Southern States. There
are schools of Medicine and Laws, and yet it
cannot be believed, that he, who is set to de
▼elope and train the innocent and untutored in
tellectual faculties, and to stamp an eternal im
press upon the moral nature of the plastic young,
needs less direct preparation sot his peculiar
work, than he does who is called to baffie physi- j
cal infirmities, or to guard pecuniary interests. ‘
And yet our destitution of moral schools and of
institutes for the training of teachers, and hith- j
erto of Teacher’s Associations has left this largo j
and useful class of professional men to the adop- j
tjon of such chance methods of instruction as
the example of their former masters, or their
own caprice, or individual genius might supply ;
perhaps in too many cases to no efficient meth
ods at all.
It in any case the teachings of a wise expe
rience are needed, surely there is demand for
them in a work where the subtleties of the men
tal and the perversity of the moral nature ought
to he explored, understood and directed or con
troled so as to develops the native powers of
the mind in the highest perfections in wisdom
and usefulness. Our Association proposes, as
far as we can effect it, to supply the deficiencies
of a regular professional training, and to bring
together tfce individual experience as a common
■tock, from which all may draw useful and im
portant lessons. We hope thus to magnify our
calling by eliciting every possible improvement
in each system of instruction, to subserve more
efficiently the interests of our race in accom
plishing our great mission.
It is not necessary to discuss at length the
measures proposed to effect these objects. It
may be sufficient to say, that while they are
•bviously the most simple, and therefore, most
likely to suggest themselves in the incipiency of
oui enterprise, a large experience will doubtless
lead to the adoption of such other measures as
•hall render it entirely successful.
The second object above mentioned is to do
all in our power to diffuse education among the
people of Georgia by urging the establishment
of common schools, &c. A nation of freemen
should be a nation of scholars, that each man
may read and think and act for himself, unaf
fected by the pernicious teachings of unscrupu
lous demagogues. This is one only security for
a wise maintenance of our liberties. Progress
in other departments, in arts, manufactures, com
merce and the means o: inter-communication is
of questionable benefit to a people, if they are
to be left from generation to generation without
moral and intellectual culture. Hereditary stu
pidity will become a characteristic of the people
and fit them ail the better for being tools to those
whose superior knowledge of shrewdness Quali
ties tnem tor taking advantage of the multiplied
resources of the age to achieve their selfisheuds.
The worst despotism is that which the control
of vast sources of power gives to the educated
few over the uncultivated “many,” and unless
education and virtue go hand in hand with
physical progress, it may become a minister of
the most flagrant corruption and of the direst
mine. Let us, then, no longer glory in our
vast improvements so long as perhaps tbur-fifih6
of our youth of proper age are not at school, or
while 50,000 of our white population, of whom
more than 16,000 are voters who cannot read and
write. These latter have each a power at the
po Is equal to that of the most enlightened voter,
end it is befitting to say the least of it, that they
•horuld know how to write a ballot or to read
on * afi€r i8 Panted for them. Wo chali nev
er Empire State until the faeili-
ties of at least Common School Education be
afforded to every .*freeborn citizen. We owe
this to each other* and to ourselves, for our in
dividual good depends upon the common weal;
the State owes it to her sons—the sons owe it
to their State to see that none are by necessity
so ignorant that they are not able to learn at
least from the newspaper and the Bible all they
need to make them intelligent and virtuous free
men.
That this is a necessity generally felt is not
to be denied. No more is it, that there are vast
practical difficulties in the way of accomplishing
it. We believe that these, and not indifference,
is the reason of so little being done in this great
cause. None have yet been found with zeal
enough to find the way out of this labyrinth ;
none perhaps have been sufficiently well-inform
ed as to the precise nature of the work to be
done. Who shall be the pioneers in this great
enterprise—shall level the hills and fill up the
valleys and lead the way into the fields of gen
eral culture ? The Teacher, manifestly is indi
cated by the character of his work as the proper
ieader here. His profession makes him ac
quainted with the intellectual wants of the peo
ple—his experience, more than that of others,
may best indicate the remedy—his devotion to
his peculiar task fosters that sympathy for the
young which prompts to effort, and is the surest
pledge of success.
Let us then take hold of the subject, let us
bring together our experience, our zeal, our
knowledge and combine in a common effort to
give a school to every neighborhood, and to
open its doors to every minor, and it will be
done. We may not, nay, we do not vet see the
best method of doing this, but we do distinctly
see the work to be done, and we know that it
can be done, (for it has been elsewhere accom
plished,) and our will shall find for us the way.
Our combined action will arouse the public mind,
awaken the dormant faculties of Legislators and
set in motion forces that shall sweep besotted
ignorance out of our fair land from mountain to
seaboard.
The space already occupied forbids a discus
sion of the third object specified. Suffice it to
say that our first meeting opened to those of us
present such new and lasting sources of plea
sure, that we believe that none of trie members
will willingly be absent upon any like occasion.
In conclusion, we would respectfully invite
and urge every Teacher in the State to be pres
ent at the next semi-annual meeting of the As
sociation which is to be held at Milledgeville on
Wednesday, 30th November at 7 o’clock, P. M.
We further beg leave to suggest that even a
few day’s absence from school duties for such a
purpose cannot meet with the disapprobation of
even the most exacting patrons, since every ad
dition to the efficiency of the Teacher is a direct
benefit to the people, and the advantage will
doubly repay the lost time.
We would refer those who may wish to learn
more of our Association and its objects to the
common School Journal, published in Colum
bus at $1 per year, by Rev. T. F. Scott, and
recommend that every educator in the State
subscribe io this Journal,
Wrth sentiments of paternal regard for our
fellow-teachers in behalf of the Association and
for ourselves, we commend these matters to
their consideration.
E. 11. MYERS, ! C
JNO. DARBY, I |
C. P. B. MARTIN, \ 5
J, E. WILLETT, Ia
L. LAHASTE, f
The committee beg that those papers in the
State friendly to the cause, publish the address
that it may reach all the Teachers.
HOW TO PROCURE WATER.
Messrs. Editors: —ln your August number
is an article upon water , seeming which re
minded me of what I saw when on a trip to
Chambers county not long since. I called to
see Mr. Nelsom Clayton. He had just finished
laying the pipes, &c. to bring the water from
a spring into his yard, a distance ofsix hundred
yards. It may not be amiss to give your rea
ders his plan. Tuthe first place he had a ditch
dug the whole distance four feet deep, then laid
the pipes, made of green pine logs, two inch tube.
It runs across a valley about fifty feet lower than
trie end at which the water is discharged, and
about one hundred feet lower than the spring.
At the ,\>west point, instead of connecting the
logs by fitting the end of one into the other in
a straight line, he has inserted one log into the
other at eacii end at right angles, and fastens
he ends of the iogs from both ways with a peg
or stopper. The object of this is to remove the
dirt by pulling out the stopper, should it ever
co lect in the logs so as to prevent the passage
of the water. The logs being laid and scarcely
fastened at the joints, Mr. C. then walled up the j
spring nicely with rock, placed a door to it, so j
that it might be cleaned out, should such a thing
ever i> t and turned the water into the
tubes. : : is now running at the rate of about
sixty gao>. s an hour, or fifteen hundred gallons
in a day and night. Mr. C. intends soon to
build a large reservoir for the water to fall into,
and lay pipes so as to reconduct it to his horse
iotand stables so as to keep a tub of fresh wa
ter in each, and also to arrange so as to have the
water carried to his garden when needed, ft is
estimated that the green pine logs will last twen
ty years. Mr. Clayton says, however, he shall
feel himself amply paid should they last only
four years. Yours, J.
Clayton , Ala., 1853.
Destroying Mildew.— Marshall P. Wilder, in |
a communication to the Journal of Agriculture, j
speaking ot mildew on grapes, greenhouse j
plants, and elsewhere, says:
lve or mor6 than fifteen years used
• £-i U j*° r purpose, and in no instance has
it tailed to effect a speedy cure. We have
known instances were mildew, in the space of
a tew nays, would spread its sporules over a
large rose house, destroying nearly all the foli
age ci the plants. It was extirpated in a short
period.”
(Timts mttr Btniind.
GEORGtA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, OCT. 19, 1853.
The Southern Quarterly Review.
We observe that a number of the friends of this val
uable periodical, have been induced to meet together
for the purpose of devising some means coherent to re
vive its falling fortunes. This able Review, which had
existed so long—which has been for so many years an
honor to the country, and a treasure to the South, is
dying out for want of patronage! Is not this a sad and
shameful commentary upon the Southern people ? The
ability with which it has been conducted, no one has
ever questioned. It has hurled its darted arrows
against the maligners of the South—inculcated a whole
some, patriotic public sentiment—and given through
its pages to Southern pens a noble and brilliant field of
effort and usefulness. Wm. Gilmore Simmes, its able
conductor, has fur years past, labored long and bravely
against the most adverse circumstances. This most
gifted popular writer of the South, has wrought a barren
soil. He has received little or no remunernation, hut
a patriotic purpose and noble pride has kept him toiling
on, hoping and believing that the Southern people
would appreciate the- importance of his aim, and re
munerate the labor of his brain.
For several years past, the annual defie'l caused by
its meager support has been supplied, by a few zealous
literary gentlemen who have thus expended hundreds
of dollars from their own private means, that the pub
lic might be Lenefitted ; but upon this canting noisy cry
of building up Southern enterprise, and encouraging
Southern talent, while the first pens that we boast, are
left to beg for employment ; we say this canting noisy
cry, because facts speak too plainly to be misunder
stood. Show your faith by your works. These boast
ing professions are to be mistrusted when we daily wit
ness them ending in “articulate breath of wind.” Har
per*s and Putnam’s monthlies, and the foreign Quarter
iis, are to be seen upon every shelf. Northern publish
ers and writem grow fat on Southern patronage, while
our enterprising public men and literati are left to
starve. We would not be understood as depreciating
Northern or foreign publications, but we do condemn
that short sighted, unpatriotic, suicidal course which
tends to drive off our talented and cultivated minds to
peek employment elsewhere. We can afford to have
the best Northern and foreign publications, and yet
sustain our own. But when in addition to the better,
wo see much worthless trash filling the tables of our
Boook sellers at the expense of cur own valuable litera
ture, we cannot forbear to speak plainly what we feel.
JVoje is the time to aid in hulling up tne Southern
Qcaterly Review. Send on the subscription price, (five
dollars) and show by your acts that you are a friend to
this great enterprise.
Health of Montgomery.
We have been shown . private letter from Mont
gomery, stating that there is not a single case of yellow
fever in that city. The- writer says, “I have the best
authority for saying that Montgomery is as healthy now
as it has been at the same season for years, and I do
not believe there has been a single case of yellow fever
here, independent of those hi ought from Mobile and
Ntw Orleans.”
The Advertiser ij- Gazette of Saturday, says :
The yeliow fever panic here has died out. As tar as we
can find out, the town is remarkably healthy, and the few
cases of sickness the physicians have icceive double atten
tion in consequence ol the scarcity ot patients. For the
last few days we have heard of more weddings than deaths;
and the tew who put on long faces because they had foolish
ly como to the conclusion that yellow fever was “bound *0
rage here,” now look cheerful and are lively and pleasant.
Though the city does not present the business appearance
usual to this season of the year, yet our merchants are daily
receiving and opening large amounts of goods, and their
counters are wel! attended with customers.
Building has not flagged for a moment, and large number
of handsome tenements, both tor business and residence,
have gone on steadily to completion.
The Methodist Church Suite. —lt is stated that the
New York Book Agents are making arrangements for
an immediate settlement with the Methodist Episcopal
Church South, on terms entirely satisfactory in regard
to a div sion of property. The whole in dispute is to
be reterred to the Lon. Judge McLean, of the Supreme
Court of the United States. The Judge is expected in
New f Vork in a few days, to meet the commissioners
of the two branched of the church.
Mrs. W ebster, wife of Professor Webster, who kill
ed Dr. Park man, died recently. Mrs. Webster was a
isdy much esteemed nd respected among a large cir
cle of acquaintances. The terrible crime and fate of
Her husband had cast a gloom over her life ever sineo
that event, which, beyond the power of the kindest i
sympathies to dispel, has at length followed her to the j
grave.
A Mistake in Identity.—The man arrested in New
York, a few days ago, ns Don Carlos Valencia with several
aliases, charged with attempt'ng the life of a Mr. Mc-
Carty. turns out to be Comalii Von Aiten, a respecta
ble young German, who resembled the alleged offen
der so closely as to deceive a number of persons.
A Letter from Col. Davie.
The following letter from the Secretary of War,
though written only for the satisfaction ot a eorrespon
denti has been furnished for publication by him in eonse
quence of his being involved in that malignant misrepre
sentation, which lias been the lot of every one who lias
refused to acknowledge the incomparable purity and pre
eminent patriotism of a faction of the New York De
mocracy. We copy it from the Washington Sentinel :
Washington, D. C. Oct. 6.
My Dear Sir : I have not seen the publication in the
Herald , to which you refer, Mid which, if seen, would
not have received any notice from me, had it not been
dignified by the attention of same one whose good opin
ion I regard.
Thanking you for your kind interest and confidence in
me, 1 reply that you have not, in this instance, mistaken
my position. Whatever may have been the language
employed, the statement that I had endorsed Preston
King and John Van Buren is false, and, I will add, would !
have been absurd if I had presumed to do so.
I served with the first named gentleman in Congress
and on the slavery question, we were the antipodes ot
each oilier. Os his subsequent course and present posi
tion lam not in'orined. The second named gentleman
is known to me personally only by private intercourse •
Ills position as shown by the publications of the day. has
been very objectionable to me, but now is in accordance
with the genera] amnesty declared in the Baltimore con
vention, and ratified by the presidential canvass of JSS2.
I received the proposition to unite on the platform decla
red by the democratic party in general convention as a
settlement of past feuds, and have been ready to operate
with all who, adhering faithfully.to the principle and pol
icy then declared, are willing to go with mo in the on
ward march of democracy.
It would have bean hollow and dishonorable to have ah
M mth TANARUS” that **•.’ * wh the eampoum
wotr.r hi-, .ummoMd tb*m to H „ wer f or ,h„ ir i b ,.
gone” opinions. So tar wa> this from any purpose or pol
icy of mine, that I had forgotten, if indeed I ever knew,
the contents of speeches and letters which have recently
been brought to light,.and present men in whom I had
entire confidence as haviug been, a very few years ago,
the advocates of freesoilism.
Notwithstanding the significant mark of confidence
given to Mr. Dickinson, when he was offered the best fi
nancial and political appointment in the State of New
York, I have not, and will not, approve the anti-slavery
speeches lie made in 1847 and 1849. And although
Judge Brouson holds the high post which Governor
Dickinson declined, I trust I shall not be numbered
among those who subscribe to his letter of July 15, 1848,
I < the meeting to ratify the nomination of Martin Van Bu
ren, and contribute to the extension of freesoil. lam
willing in these as in other cases, to drop the inquiry into
by-gone opinions and associations, to adhere to the com
pact of 1852, to oppose disorganiz ition, to resist agitation
and to promote the harmony of the democratic party as
the b st means of sec rug |:eiee among the St;.! sand
prosperity and perpetuity to the Union. Now, this is not
to approve objectionable antecedents, not to endorse the
opinions at war with my creed, but to act as b comes
those who beiieve the union of the democracy to have
been sincerely, honestly, and substantially made for pub
lie and not personal ends. Holding, as I do, that party or
ganization is a i4eceas.it y means to ensure success to prin
ciples on which parties are formed, 1 cannot but lament
the division which has, without recent cause, opened the
old wounds in our party of New York.
I do not assume to mingle, still less to judge, in this
family quarrel, but will abide the course of rapidly trans*
piring events, and hope that the true democracy may
crush any disintegrating faction which goes into coalition
with the whi^s.
Very truly, your friend.
JEFFERSON DAVIS.
Munificent Gijt. —lt will be perceived by the pro
ceedings of Council, that Dr. Frampton, with an en
larged and wisely directed liberality, has presented his
valuable Library to the College of Charleston, and that
Council has marked their sense of his generosity in a
manner that will prove an enduring and grateful me
morial ot the munificence of the public spirited donor.
Charleston Mercury ,
The King of Holland lately delivered his usual
speech to the States General, c including by 25 minutes
past one o'clock, P. M. It was immediately translated,
transmitted by telegraph to London, and composed and
published by three o’clock the same afternoon. The
line traverses nearly one hundred miles on the bed of
the German ocean. The speech contained 1,750 words
A Daughter of Patrick W. Henry Defending
her Father. —Mrs. I) S. Vinston, an aged widow
lady, formerly the wife of Mr. G. D. Winston,
deceased, of Virginia, arid who resides in an
humble cottage near Athens, Alabama, is a
I daughter of the celebrated Patrick Henry, of i
Virginia, of revolutionary memory ; and we ;
| notice that a late number of the Athens Herald
contains a communication from her, correcting
; a statement in Wirt’s Life of Patrick Henry,
j wherin it is stated that “in one of his earlier
j purchases of land he is blamed for having
; availed himself of the existing laws of the State
| in paying for it in depreciated currency of the
! country; nor was he free from the censure on
! account of some participation which he is said
to have had in the profits of the Yazoo trade.”
Mn*. Winston says that Mr. Wirt was not ac* |
quainted with her father, and never saw him, j
and therefore had to depend upon others for his j
information. The charge was brought against !
him when he was spoken of as successor to
Gen. Washington, and, being conscious of his j
innocence, he never took the trouble to contra- !
diet it. Mrs. Wirt, his wife, and the mother of j
Mrs. Winston, however, wrote to the treasurer i
: of Virginia on the subject, and that officer re- I
plied that the money was paid in gold and silver.
; Mrs. Winston admits that her lather was con
cerned in the Yazoo purchase; but she adds that
the “well informed need not be told that many I
persons of unquestionable integrity became
purchasers of the Yazoo stock, and that all the
criminality of the affair is attached to the orig
inators of the scheme.”
The Abolition Whig Party alive again. —
Under this caption the New York Herald de
votes a column to the Hon. W. 11. Seward and
his party. In refernnce to Win. Seward and
i the party which he represents, the Herald re
marks :
*‘A great political miracle has recently been
wrought in this country. Nothing less is it
; than tiie revivification of the whig party, with
| all its destructive tendencies. Let it he every
; where proclaimed abroad, so that all men may
know and ask in surprise tiow this change thus
came to pass.’’
ihe Herald thus assumes the task to explain
the “wonder’’ and point out the consequences
and finally introduces the annexed compli
mentary remarks for especial benefit of Mr.
Seward. j
*******
In this series of successful manoeuvres Wil-j
liam H. Seward has given ample evidence, if j
such were needed, of his great skill and talents
as a politician. VVe admit his high qualifications
in this regard. We would not deprive him of
an iota of the credit due to such excellent man
agement. But we denounce the political senti
ments of which he is the impersonation ; we
abhor the principles which would scatter dis
union throughout thie prosperous land by
arraying the abolitionists of the North against
the slaveholders of tin* South, and vve would
mourn the day when the Presidential chair
should be filled by such a man as William 11.
I Seward.”
O’ Attorney General Cushing’s opinion on
the Texas five million matter, it is stated, has
been fully approved by President Pierce. The
opinion, pronounced by emineut legal men as
exceedingly able and learned, occupies about
fifty manuscript pages, and is destined to en
hance the fame of its author. The opinion re
commends the retention of the five millions bv
the treasury, until further legislation on the part
of Congress is had, and on the main points ful
ly sustains the course of President Fillmore’s
administration in relation to the subject. Mr.
Cushing in his opinion, it is also said, handsome
ly compliments the ability and legal learning of
the Hon. Reverdy Johnson, Attorney General
under Gen. Tavlor.
Secretary of the Navy at the Crystal Palace.
—Mr. Dobbin, in company with Capt. Magru
der and other officers of the navy visitetUhe
. r * y ® a Pa-ace t riday evening, remaining about
two hours, and expressed themselves pleased with
the whole character of the Exhibition. Mr.
vanderheuvel, the private secretary of Mr. Dm
pont, the general Superintendent, in the absence
ot his superior, conducted the party through the
Exhibition. The Secretary and his party visit
the navy yard to-day on a tour of inspection.
Qatisi 3nieUifsrrtce,
Further European Jntelligenco by the Canada.
New York, Oct. 14.
It is said that the French Government had received
pacific overtures from the Emperor of Austria at 01.
mutz, and that France was ready to join Austria.
The Koszta affair was to be discussed at Olmutz.
The war party at Constantinople insist that under
existing circumstances according to the tenets laid down
in the Koran war is imperatively necessary. The
Sultan, however, has refused to sign a declaration of
war.
The allied fleets had passed the Dardanelles and pro
ceeded to Constantinople for the purpose of protecting
the Sultan and the Christian residents from the fury of
the Turkish populace. The Sultan, however, regarded
th.s movement ts unnecessary, and derogatory to his
dignity.
The insertion of some new arrangement in the Vien
na note has been demanded by England, which has
caused Austria to state that she would assent to no fur
ther modification of its tenor. Russia and Austria are
now perfectly united.
It is rumored that Russia now demands the cession of
the Turkish Provinces and payment of the ex; eases,
Avery violent storm occurred on the English and
Dutch coast on the 25th and 20th ult. Rotterdam was
inundated. Many vessels were also lost. The steamer
Amsterdam was wrecked on the Zuyder Zee—-a gulf of
the German Ocean, in the Netherlands.
[From the Savannah News.]
THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE.
ARRIVAL OF THE ATLANTIC.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT FROM THE EAST.
War between Russia and Turkey commenced.
CONSOLS FURTHER DECLINED i
KOSZTA GIVEN I P !
New York, Oct. 16.
The American steamship Atlantic, with Liverpool
dates to the sth inst., has arrived at New’ York. She
i brings three days later dates than the Canada, at
; Halifax.
Liverpool Cotton Market.
Since the sailing of the Canada on the Ist inst., (he
Liverpool Cotton Market has remained unchanged,
and the sales during the three days comprise 18,000
baits, at previous quotations.
Provisions* —Bread stuffs which had previ usly de
clined, agaiu recovered, and closed at last week’s pri
ces. Rice was in good demand at previous rates.
London Money Market. —Consuls had declined to
90 7-8.
Ihe Eastern Question.
Dispatches from Vienna dated the 3d inst., announce
that the Sultan had on that day, on recommendation of
the Divan, signed a declaration of war against Russia, It
tvas reported that hostilities had already commenced,
and that the Russians had attacked tiie Tutkish posi
tions at Rontsehonk.
previous reports stated that Austria had again sided
with England and France, and that some new propo
sition was to have been made to Tut key., when a dis
patch from Constantinople of the 26th arrived, announc
ing that the Ditan had recommend*d the Sultan to
declare war. This action on the pait of Tut key, was
opposed by the Four powers.
The English and French fleets remained at Besika
Bay.
Kosxta was to have embarked for the United States ©a
the 21st by consent of Austria.
The Cholera was slowly increasing at Liverpool.
France and Naples had extended the term for
the free importation of breadstuifs, and had prohibited
the export of potatoes and ail kinds of vegetable feed.
Among the passengers of tiie Atlantic are Lieut.
Maury and J. R. Ingersoll. late Minister to England.
9 „
New Orleans Cottou Marko*.
New Orleans, Oct. 15.
i The sales of cotton for the week barely nached 7000
j bait s. The decline is 3S to 1-2 cent durii g the week,
j Middling is quoted at 9 ]-2c. The stock is 48,000
j bales.
j Flour.— Flour has advanced half a doliar per bbl,
; since the Canada’s to:cign accounts,
j Corn has also advanced 3 cts. pr bushel,
j Gunny bags have also advanced, and large sales h&v*
j been made at 13 ets.
Sterling exchange is quoted at 9 to 9 1-2.
Charleston Cotton Market.
Charleston, Oct. IG.
The sales of cotton on Saturday were 025 bales, at
Bto 10 3-4 cents. Prices are verry irregular and mar
ket depressed.
[From the Savannah News.]
ARRIVAL OF THE HUMBOLDT.
Baltimore, Oct. 10.
The United States mail steamship Humboldt, Capt.
Lines, arrived at New York on Saturday rooming from
’ Havre, via Southampton, having bten detained ;.t the
j former port in consequence of the low state of the tides
j until the SGult. Tier advices have been anticipated.
Liabilities of Mr. Draper.
j The liabilities of Mr. Simeon Draper, of New York
| are t siimaled at between two and tlnee millions of
dollars.
Yellow Fever at Motile.
The Yellow Fever lias appeared at Spring Ilill Col
lege, near Mobile, and all the students have dispersed.
New York Cotton Market.
Jseven hundred bales of Cotton changed hands in
New York on Saturday, at a decline of half a cent per
pound.
Morrissey the Prize Fighter dead.— James Morris
•ey, Who fought with Yankee Sullivan, on Wednesday,
for a wager of $2,000 near Boston Four Corners, on the
hneef the New York and Harlem Railroad, died on Fri
day atternoon from the * fleets ot the injuries he had re
ceived in the brutal encounter. Ills fi.ee and head were
cut and beat as to present a most horrible spectacle. War
i<iiits have been issued lor the arrest of Yankee Sullivian
as or 16 four seconde—Aud-e Shekan, XVm,
‘L.‘*. fcon> v ’ Gardiner, and Thomas O’Donnell. The
affair has caused great excitement in New York.
Death •/ Tristram Burgess.— The Hon. Tristram
Burgess, for many yesrs U. S. Senator from Rhode
sane, and a man of great ability as an orator, dic-d in Prov.
•deuce on Thursday morning, m ihefeighty-fourth year of
his i:ge,