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WEDNESDAY MORNINO, OCT, 3.
Election Return* of MUscogce County.
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Citv iTI? 76’ 71 621 721 557 763 523 551805 748
Upatoie, I 28; 97 28 92 27 90| 25j 27 94j 91
5151,865’ 71 649 816 534 853518 578899 839
IWrJ* were 1512 votes polloch Nearly unanimous
against. removal.
Know Nothings are in italics.
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f.)onnsonT7lßl 14 41~ 42 49 / 60—387
1 I Andrews.*lo6 44 25 52 9 3-237
Q fCrifwford. 191 13 41 43 49 60-397
s[_ Hawkins*. 105 44 25 54 10 3—241
W f Ren£rt>o. 170 11 41 40 50 60—372
2 i Johnsotj*..lo7 44 25 53 10 3—242
tsf Shipp 186 10 39 40 49 60—384
•§ U[tedding*. 98 44 25 53 10 3-233
Those marked * Know Nothings.
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Stewart county. — Uanmhatehee precinct gave a
majority of 90 for the Democratio ticket.
Marion county.— Vivo votes will cover the difference
between Johnson and Andrews, and two or three the
difference between Crawford and Ilawkins. This is
again of about 80 votes on the last election. Jeter
(dem ) is electpd’to the Senate and Wiggins (K. N.) to
the House.
Harris county-. —Partial returns indicate the election
pf Ramsay Democrats.
Talbot Countv.—A report reached us just before
goiriglo pregs that Talbot County had gone for the Know
Nothings by from 190 to 220. Marshall's majority for
the Senatp over South (Dem ) is 190.
. BY TELEGRAPH.
Exp©3sly for the Times and Sentinel.
Savannah, Oct. 2d., 2 P. M.
Chatham County. (Official.) Johnson 997 ; An
drews 921 ; Overby 28; Seward 989; Vamedoe 920.
The whole'Democratic ticket elected to the Legislature.
Macon, Oct. 2d, 1 P. M.
Bill county. —The Know Nothing ticket is elected
by GO majority.
Twiggs county. —The Democratio ticket elected by
150 Majority.
Pike%county,— Tiie Democratic* ticket elected by 50’
majority.’ .
Wilkinson county has givon the Democratic ticket
a majority 250.
BurJsc county has given the Democratic ticket a ma
jority of 250.
Munroe gives the Know Nothing ticket a majority
of 30p votes.
Richmond gives the Know Nothings a majority of
400 votes.
Democratic Majorities.
Atlanta, Oct 2d, 6 P. M.
Cobb county gives the Democratic majority of 379,
Floyd 32, Chattanooga 150, Gordon 100, Walker 150,
Cherokee 354, Forsyth, 255, .Murray’ 450, Polk 5,
Gwinnett 350, Columbia 175, Elbert 130, Oglethorpe
200, Newtown 8, DeKalb 182.
Know Nothing Majorities. —Cass gives Andrews
100 majority, Catoosa 115. Whitfield 60, Walker 60,
Richmond 353, Morgan 176, Clarke 200, Fulton 380.
Augusta, Oct. 2d, 6 P. M.
Four preeinots in DeKalb give Johnson a majority of
90 votes. Newton gives Johnson a majority of four
over all others, one precinct to hear from. Morgan
gives Andrews a majority of 186, and Lamar 117!
Three precincts in Green give Andrews a majority of
446 vote% afid Lamar a majority of 401. Johnson’s
majority in Taliaferro is 80, Stephens majority in the
same js'2sß. ?
Richmond, (ofiijial)— Andrews 1070, Johnson 720,
Overby 69, Lamar
.Reported Majorities.
For the following returns, we are indebted to a gen
teman who * came passenger by the train on Tuesday
afternoon,:
Taliaferro county. —Stephens’ majority is 258, and
Jobnsoft’ is 150 ahead of both his competitors.
Coweta county. — Warner’s majority is 2SB. John*
son*is 275 ahead of,Loth his competitors.
WMijleld county —150 Democratic majority.
Cuhh county —406 Democratic majority. Johnson
is 5J votes ahead of both h a competitors
gives 113 Democratietnajoiity.
M arner, Murray and Gordon Jjlyfe‘Democratic ma
jorities, but the state of the pell is not ascertained, —.
The majority in .Murray is increased. In Newton the
Know Nothings have 10 majority and one precinct to
hear from, which is expected to give a Democratic ma>
j of ity.
Know Nothing Majorities. —The Know Nothings
have earned Campbell county by 100 votes • Spalding
by 33 vott s • Catoosa by 75 votes ; Morgan by 150 votes.
Ip Pulton county, Hiil beats Warner 428. votes, apd
Ayd rows is 84 votes ahead of both his competitors.
Cass’ gives a majority of 125 to Andrews.
F pun a comparison of ail the returns with the vote
of 1853, we a?e satisfied that Governor Johnson will’be
re-elected ya handsome majority. Some doubts are
felt as to Warner’s election, if the vote of Fulton ooun
ty is correctly given Crawford is gaining in the Sec
ond District, llis election is regarded as certain. —
A. 11. Stephens is certainly yWoted. Tho gains iu his
district are immense.
TELEGRAPHIC— FROM TIIS COLUMBUS ENQUIRER..
Macon,. 2 oYl’k p. in. Oet. 2.
Andrews’ Majorities.
Cass 125, Morgan 99, Mbtirue 250, Upson 400, Cal?
hotin 75, Taylor 20, ‘Talbot 50, Spaulding 1, Sumter
64, Macon 201, Houston 2t), Fulton opt), Floyd smalf.
Johnson’s Majorities.
Pika 125, Murray 300, DeKalb 90, Warren 208,
Columbia 113, Talliafcrrd 80, Gordon"* 100.
pulton gives IXdll 400 majority j Upson gives Trippe
359 majority. * .
Underground The Louisville Courier say*
that at least one slave per c.y effects his escape on the
ears of tlie New Albany amji (Indiana) Railroad.
Georgia Bdoks.
*No people can make nny legitimate -ptetens'ons to a
high civilization which do not produce their own lit na
ture. Up to a very recent date the United States have
bet-n compelled to spend their intellectual strength at
the bar and in the forum. Constitutions were to be
framed and laws enacted to meet the wants of a novel
experiment in Government Within the last twenty
years, however, some of our leading men have adopted
literature as a profession and have shown that the
American m'nd is capable of reaching the greatest ex
cellence in almost every department of science and let
ters. Most of these Princes in literature, however, be
long to the Northern portion of the Republic. Southern
intellect and energy are still mainly devoted to polities
and war. Upon these fields the victor’s wreath has
very generally been awarded to the Southron Wash
ington, Jackson, Scott and Taylor are pre eminently
the most distinguished of our military heroes, and
Washington, Jefferson, Jackson, Clay and Calhoun find
no equals in the respectable list of Northern statesmen.
But the South has no such historians as Bancroft and
Prescott, no such poets as Bryant and Longfellow, no
such novelists as Cooper and lrwing. We are happy,
however, in the belief that the future will develope
Southern Literati who will rival and excell each and
all of these eminent men in their chosen walks.
But to ensure a rapid development of liteiary excel
lence, the Southern people must patronize the produc
tions of Southern authors, and we now propose to call
special attention to two works recently issued of which
Georgians are the authors.
Progress : by Professor Sasnett. —This work is
published by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South;
and is particularly addressed to the members of that
communion.
The object of the author is to awaken the Christian
churches, but more particularly the Methodist Episco
pal Church, South, to the importance and necessity of
making the Church the active and efficient agent in
the progress of the race and to this end of taking educa
catioD, literature, and charities of ail kinds, into its hands
and stamping upon each and all of these powerful en
gines of human development and culture the imprima
tur of the Gospel of Christ, and thereby make them
the means of evangelizing the world, in conjunction
with the ttsual egeneies employed by the church. The
success of the author in establishing his propositions is
complete. The work is filled with original and strik
ing thoughts. The language is clear and forcible, ex
cept that it is sometimes marred by scientific forms
which the common mind may find it difficult to com
prebend. The spirit of a pure Christianity and a lofty
patriotism pervades every sentence. We cordially
commend Progress to the Christian public. Published
by Stevenson & Owen, Ageuts, Southern Methodist
Publishing House, Nashville, Tenn., 1855.
Henry Vernon, or the Dream ; by Jas< M. Smytiie
of Augusta, Ga.—Mr. Smytho is well known to the
people of Georgia as a politician, having edited, with
great ability, the Republic newspaper during the stir
ring time of 1850-1. After the merger of that paper
into the Constitutionalist, Mr. Smythe, in conjunction
with Major White, started the Home Gazette, a litera
ry hebdomadal, in the columns of whioh he gave strik
ing evidence of literary ability. He now comes before
the public as the author of Henry Vernon; or the
Dream, a fictitious story of varied incident and interest,
and containing descriptive passages of great power and
beauty, and pervaded with a sound and wholesome
morality.
Asa Georgia book, we welcome Henry Vernon to
our library and are under deep obligations to Mr.
Smythe for this contribution to our home literature.—
We commend it to all Georgians and assure them they
will be instructed, amused and entertained by its peru
sal. A little more dialogue and a little less common
place would have made it still more acceptable.
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The City of Columbus—Health, Business Pros
pects, Improvements.
We trust it is in no boastful spirit that we record the
fact that the city of Columbus has been and continues
to be uncommonly healthy. We conversed recently
with one of our leading Physicians and werein formed by
him that he had but one patient in town and that his
professional brethren were enjoying a like exemption
from business calls. In further proof of the uncommon
healthfulness of the city, we will add that all those of
our citizens who left for a more bracing atmosphere
during the sultry months of Summer have returned
home.
The business prospects of Columbus never were so
bright. Cotton is pouting in with astonishing rapidity,
from every point of the compas. It corr.es from Shor
ter’s depot on the Montgomery and West Point Rail
road ar.d all intervening points; from Clayton and Lou
isville, in Barbour county and front all the region round
about Union Springs. All that comes, is readily sold
at higher prices than can be obtained at any of the
market towns which compete with Columbus for trade.
Our merchants have lain in large stocks of staple and
fancy dry goods, and our grocery market is abundant
ly supplied. Upon a comparison of prices current, of
this and neighboring cities, it will be found that quite
as good average trades can be made in this as in any
up country market.
The improvements going on at present in Columbus,
are more numerous and of a better kind than we have
heretofore noted since the great monetary revulsion of
1830-7.
We are convinced that henceforth, Columbus will
advance rapidly in wealth and population.
T.je Advertiser & Gazette, Ala.—•-We are happy
to announce that Mr. B. M. DeWitt, the able and ac
complished editor of this sterling Democratic paper, is
spending a few days in our city. During the late can
vass no editor in Alabama excelled.Mr. DeWitt in his
advocacy of Democratic principles, and to his stalwart
arm is attributable, in a great measure, the triumphant
success of the cause in the 2d and 3d Distticst. We
cordially welcome Mr. DeWitt to the city as well as all
other citizens of Montgomery who may honor us with
their company during the prevalence of yellow fever in
Montgomery.
More New Goods. —The fashionable part of the com
munity, especially the ladies, will find much to interest
them at the stole of Messrs. Manley & Hodges. We
feel quite sure that they will not slight the cordial in-,
vitation of the polite proprietors. Call and see
at least read their advertisement in another colurrin,
where they give an inventory of part of their fine stock
of goods.
The Closing Scene in the Canvass. —At about 12
o'clock at night 2d mst. the Know Nothing party held a !
street jubilee in front of the Perry House inrihis city. I
Several speeches were made. One of the was
descanting upon the acquisition of Cuba.’when'one of,
the b'hoys cried out “thatVa bad egg, sqjuire,” JfJlush,
hush,’* said a by slander, “that’s one of our men ”
“The devil yori say,” exclaimed his friend, “/tooh him
for a Furriner
Homicide.— On the Istinst , Zachariah Rodgers shot*
David Mi Guirk, killing him instantly. Mr. Rodgers
gave himself up to the authorities. We learn that
McGuirk made an assault upon Rodgers with a knife,
and that Rodgers shot while he was in the act of re
treating. Polities had nothing to do with the fight.
Aitointment of Clerk —We learn that the Judges
of the Inferior Court, on the morning after the election,
appointed Adolphus S. Rutherford to the office of
Clerk of the Superior Court of Muscogee county, to fill
the vacancy occasioned by the death of David J. Bar
ber, E>:q.
Georgia Banks.—We learn from the Milwaukie
Wisconsin, that the banks of that city have held a meet-’
ing at which they all resolved, with the exception of
the Wisconsin Marine Bank (Alexander Mitchell,) that
on and after the 17th instant, they will not receive in
deposit the notes cf any of the Georgia or Tennessee
banks. This is understood to be aimed at the whole
brood of Georgia currency, introduced by George Smith
into the West.
The Wisconsin adds that the example set by the
banks of that city will probably be followed by all the
banks in that State, and thus Georgia currency will be
shut out entirely.
For the Times & Sentinel.
Kansas Emigration.
Messrs. Editors: —l see that the editor of the Corner
Stone is canvassing for men and money to push forward
Southern emigration to Kansas. This is a very important
movement and if taken lrold of in the right spirit, would
settle the slavery question in that Territory favorably to the
South. The abolitionists are daily sending large numbers
by means of their Emigration Societies to Kansas, and un
less the South check-mates them, it will come into the
Union as a non-slave holding State. Two reliable Sou
thern men have recently left Talbot county for Kansas,
and there are seven others who are anxious to emigrate.—
There are many others in various parts of the country
who are wiling to go but who lack the means. Will not
every county in the State aid in this good cause by con
tributing of their abundance to assist the emigrants? Will
not Muscogee come to their help? I ask nothing lor my
sell. I have engaged in this business for the good of iny
State and of the South.
Very Respectfully,
Yours, &e.,
GEO. A. McCRARY.
From the Alabama Journal, 2d Oct.
Health, of Montgomery.
We publish below the Sexton’s report of Interments for
the month of September. As much is said in reference to
the health of our city, it will be seen that the list of deaths
during the past month is under the annual average of the
months ol the year.
There have been some cases of sever sickness—yet but
a small proportion of those taken have deceased, and many
who have convalesced are now up, and at their respective
occupations:
SEXTON’S REPORT
For the Month of September, 1855.
WHITES. #’ - # * *
Sept. 2—A still-born child of Sam Celner;
“ 6 —A child of Mrs Ilowlett;
“ B—A daughter of Mr. McCary,
*’ 10—Justus .Wyman; a child of John H. Holt, non
resident;
“ 12—Mrs. McQueen;
*’ 18—A child ot E. Y. Shotts; Mieh’J Harris;
“ 25 —Mrs Beshears;
“ 27—Son ol Z Albertson; —Owen and Rouke ;
“ 29 —Mr McNutt, Mr Hardy, from Hospital; daughter
of Mr. Abertson;
30—William Drone; Bety Freeman; Mr. Woodruff.
Number ol Whites, 17,
BLACKS.
Sept. 1— A negro man ot Geo. Goldthwaite;
“ 4—A negro child of Mr. Worthey;
“ 5—A negro b;iy of the estate of A G Abercrombie.
Number ot Blacks—3.
The above is a correct report of the burials for the month
ol September, 1855, by N.H. GREGORY,
City Sexton.
Office Board of Health, )
Oct. 1,1855—6 o’clock, p. jrn. >
The Board report seven cases ot yeilovv lever and
3 deaths, tor the last 48 hours —making 31 cases and 8
deaths, from the first report on the 25th ult to date.
EfgT’ The community are requested to place no reliance
upon outside reports.
SAM’L. E. NORTON, Secretary.
The Montgomery Relief Club acknowledge the follow
ing contributions:
Mrs Coxe &, Hutchings.... ..SSO 00
CharlesCromelin, Esq 25 00
James H. Smith, Esq. I 5 00
A Citizen 10 00
A. G. KNIGHT,
Secretary, P. T.
From the Chronicle if, Sentinel.
Kansas Meeting in Henry.
On Thursday last, 29th September, a respectable portion
of the voters ot the county of Henry, met in the Court
House at McDonough, for the purpose of giving audience
to Col. Augustus Gargle, of Kansas Territory, formerly
of Butts county Ga On motion, Judge Tomlinson was
called to tho Chair, and Geo. M. Nolen requested to act as
Secretary.
The meeting was then addressed by Col. Cargle in an
able and argumentative manner. He spoke of the lo
cality of Kansas, the temperature and salubrity ot its cli
mate, and the depth, richness arid fertility of its soil.
He describes it as being a healthy, beautiful, well-water
ed, and fine grain growing county; its desirability and the
deep necessity of its being admitted into the Union as a
slave State; and the ruinous consequences to the institu
tions of the South if it wore not. In short, after he gave
a beautiful description ot the country, he, strongly dwelt
upon the importance of unanimity of effort on the part,of
tho South, in peopling -Kansas Territory at once, with
Southern men, in order to repel the influence of the abo
litionists and freesoilers of the north.
Several other gentlemen present were called out, who
briefly gave their opinions upon the subject—among whom
were Messrs. Manson, Weaver, Stell and the Secretary.
Col. J. A Thrasher of Fred the following resolutions
which were unanimously adopted:
Whereas, the Government ot the United States having
left the que.-tion ot slavery to he decided by the people of
the Territory of Kansas —and, whereas, the Northern
States are forming Emigrant aid Associations, for the pur
pose of sending Abolitionists and Free-Soilers to said Ter
ritory, with the avowed design of making said Territory a
free Slate] be it therefore Resolved. That the people of
the South are deeply interested and the security <sf the
common interest demands that some measure be adopted
that will counteract the influence of Northern Abolition
ism and Free-Soilism; and that no plan is more feasible,
than the formation of “Emigrant Aid Associations”
thr rughout the South to assist in sending emigrants to
Kansas Territory.
Resolved, Thatsfeps be taken to form an Emigrant aid
Association for the county of Henry; and we invite a gen
eral’ convocation of the citizens of the county at McDon
ough on the 15th October next
Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be sent
to Jhe Chronicle <fc Sentinel, the Empire State and Ameri
can Union, for publication, and with a request that all oth- j
er papers publish the same,ihat are anxious for Kansas to !
be received as a slave State
On motion of the Secretary, the meeting adjourned until |
the 15th of October.
H. Tomlinson, Chairman,
Geo. M. Nolen, Secretary.
President's M :ssaj&.~ - A dispatch from Washington
says : * If-
The Secretaries are now all at their posts and about
commencing, th-rir annual reports which will bh very
lengthy—all of which will be in readiness by the meeting
of Congress.
The President has already commenced his annugi mes
sage, and has marke'4 out the line of policy he is, to pur
sue. Secretary Dobbin is quite fephle, *:nrd it is -$ a ire on
ly doubtful whether 1A wh! be (dole to. undergo ihc labori
ous duties of his office fill the meeting of Congress.
Death of Feargus O’Connor.
Feargus O’Connor, the great chartist leader, died in
his G6tli at hill, on the 6th inst., ptfer, neg
lee ted, and insane. Since 1853 henadJjeen eo'nfined iff
the lunatic asylutn of Dr. Tuke at Chiswick, from whier
he was removed by his sister a few days before his death.
Feargus O’Connor, was the son i of Roger O’Connoi
Esq ,of Dangan Castle, county Meath, and nephew ot
Arthur Condoroet O'Connor, the celebrated United Irish
man and general in the French army. f Both the father
and uncle of Feargus were conspicuous patriots. Fear
gus was born in 1796 at Connorsville, near Bantry. li.
1832 lie was returned to parliament at the instigation ol
O’Connell, for the county of Cork, and sat till 1835. —
Soon after, having quarreled .with the “Liberator,” and
having lost his seat for want of qualification, he went to
England and there became a popular leader of the char*
lists, in whose cause he continued a z-alous advocate un
til stricken with insanity in 1853. In 1847 he contested
tiie borough of Nottingham with Sir John Ilobhoust
(now Lord Broughton) and was elected as the colleague
of John Walter of the Times. lie underwent several
prosecutions by the government, and was twice convicted,
imprisoned and fined. His paper, the Northern Star,
which boldly set forth the rights of the people, attained
an immense circulation 50,000 weekly. Still O’Connor
died in poverty, a proof that though he led the people he
profited nothing by his leadership. He has left his mark
on the history of English democracy; and, in conjunc
tion with Ernest Jones the present undaunted leader ol
the party, his name will be leagued with the story of the
struggle of the English people for independence when the
genealogies of kings, princes and nobles are forgotten in
England.
The Late Convention on Kansas Affairs at Lexington,
Missouri.
Chicago, Sept. 24.
The nddres to the people of the United States from
the Committee of the late Convention at Lexington, Mis
souri, is published. It is quite lengthy and is principally
devoted to a denunciation of the emigration from Massa
chusetts and other States, under the management of aid
Socials, whereby the Kansas-Ncbraska law is a dead
letter. Such emigration is pronounced without precedent,
dangerous in the extrme,calculated to circumscribe slave
ry to its present limits and defeat the true intent of the
Nebraska bill. In conclusion it declares that Missouri
takes the same position as the Lexington convention,
whence it will not recede. The rejection of Kansas as
a slave Stato will be regarded as a gross insult to the
South, and the declaration that slavery is incompatible
with a republican form of government, an unequivocal
step toward a dissolution of the Union. The address is
signed by J. A. Napton, late Supreme Judge ; Ster
ling Price, the present Governor of Missouri ; Mordecai
Oliver, member of Congress ; and L. M. Woodsou a
prominent lawyer. Ex-Gov. Austin A. King refused to
sign it for some unknown reason.
Know Something State Convention.
Syracuse, Sept. 24.
But very few delegates to the Know Something Con
vention have yet arrived here. It is thought the Con.
vention will hold over and not make any nominations
until after the Whig and Republican Conventions have
held theirs. A number of delegates are expected
in the midn gh ttrain.
[From the Richmond Enquirer.]
Retaliatory Legislation.
We must have trade, we capnot do without it, and it
will be infinitely bettor tor us to bring in the foreign trade,
fully and c unpletely, than to be halting between an in
complete foreign commerce and a crippled domestic trade.
But, how shall this be done 1 Here is the rub, we
confess. We are not permitted by the Supreme Court to
tax imports until they are incorporated with the mass ol
property in the country, when it may ‘be impossible to
distinguish them. We cannot require the importer to
take out a license, or tax him, or interfere with his sales.
But, there are certain things we may do that will ren
der the position of importer anything but comfortable.—
We can declare that any person who shall import goods
manufactured in any State, on the Atlantic, proh biting
slavery by law, shall be incapable of holding any office of
honor, trust or emolument under the Commonwealth, of
being the President, Director or Cashier of any Bank, of
being a President or Director in any internal improvement
company, of suing in the Courts of the Commonwealth,
of taking out a license to sell goods, or to practice any pro
fession, or to pursue any calling licensed by law, in short,
be may be outlawed as an enemy ol the Commonwealth.
The purchaser of such goods from the importer might,
also, be subjected to penalties and disabilities, although
this, perhaps, would be encroaching upon the right of
sale guaranteed to the importer by the decision of the
Supreme Court.
We do not see how mere personal disabilities of the
character we have indicated, could be field unconstitu
tional. It would be a great stretch to consider them as
regulating commerce ; far greater than the Court ventu
red upon in Brown vs.. The State of Maryland. Nor do
we see how an importer could who could not
sue in the State Courts, or sell anything but imported
goods, tojwhich the want of a license would restrict him
We are conscious, however, that provisions of this kind
are difficult to frame, where there is much temptation to
evade them. Nothing hut continued legislation serves to
defeat evasions, and that would have to be resorted to
when needed.
We are, by no means, wedded to these opinions, and
give them as suggestions to be considered, rather than as a
plan proposed for adoption. The subject is a difficult one,
and many suggestions should be made before the adoption
of any measure.
W T e repeat, to avoid being misunderstood, that we do not
favor retaliation. We prefer being either in or out of the
Union. If we are to have Union, it should be under and
in strict accordance with the Constitution, with no’ eva
sions of that instrument, in letter or spirit, on our part. If
our fidelity will not secure reciprocal good faith, we had
better separate. A Union on any other terms than recip
rocakgood feeling and good offices, will be too hateful tor
endurance. Retaliation will banish these and he the enter
ing wedge for separation.
The Fever in Montgomery.
We received a dispatch yesterday morning from the
publishers of the Montgomery Mad, stating that J. J,
.Hooper, the editor, was down with the fever, and that
the Mail has been suspended'for the want of compositors.
We also learn from another Source, that there were
four deaths from yellow fever in Montgomery, on Sun
day.
Another dispatch received yesterday, says Mrs. Nor
ton, wife of Rev. S. E. Norton, and Gus. McGibony are
down with the fever, and mentions the names of John
Knox and Powhattan Bolling among the deaths which
occurred on Sunday. Mr. Woodruff, of the firm of
Cowles. Woodruff & Cos., died “Saturday night. —Daily
Sun, Oct. 2nd.
Office of Board of Health, (
Sept. 29, 1855, —6 o’clock, p. m. j
TheJßoard report ten easts of yellow. Three deaths
Making twenty-four cases and five deaths, from the first
report on the 25th inst. to date.
A Visit to the Widow of Silas Wright.
Canto n, Sept. 20, 1855.
After tlie adjournment to-day of the District Court
the United States, Iks Honor .Judge Hal], accompanied
by the Attorney and Marshal of the United States, and
the other officers, of the Court, made a visit of respect to
Mrs; Wright. She received them, I understand, with
that simplicity and modesty of manner for which she is
noted, and for which her distinguished husband was re
markable. Mrs. Wright appears to be in good health,
i though there is a settled sadness upon her countenance in
keeping with the,widow’s garb in which she is still attired
At the request of some of the gentlemen, Mr. Moody, who
was present, exhibited the beautiful service of plate which
’ had just been prepared for presentation to Mr. Wright at
■ the tune of his decease. Avery plain, simple tomb mark*
| of “the Cato of the Senate,” and an inscriptior
! on its reverse side shows that it was erected by the citi
zens of St. Lawrence county.
Galled Session.
The President of *the State Council of the ‘America l
Pa"tv ctf Alabama, has failed a State Convention to inee
St Montgomery on the 12th of November.
Health of Mobile.
the rnfavorablc v eather of the past
week, tin* mo tuary records, in n > wav, b ar out the
p pular expectation of an increase of deaffis; for the who e
number ot Infermen s is f tit 29 The previous report
showed 33. Os the 29 deaths for the week to yesterday
noon, fi were infants and 6 were slaves. Os only eight
feyer, seven are reported as yellow fever—six deaths arose
from cause “ithknown” •—one from lock jaw, and two
from old age—one I Bancroft) being 81, and the
other."askive woman, recorded as 100 years old. fto in-
found in the practice or observations of our
intelligent physicians to indicate any extension of fever
• uses in the shape of an epidemic, and the timid are re
covering from the alarm they lately felt. Not that this
should induce a’piVhiature return of our absent citizens.
•v [Mobile Register , Sept. 31.
The Queen of Terrors.
An old Scotchman; who has been awfully henpecked
all his life, was visited on his death bed by a clergyman.
The old man appeared very s indifferent, and the parson
tried to rouse him by talking of the King of Terrors.—
Tlouf, tout, mon,’ exclaimed the Scotchman. I'm not
scared. I’ve been living sax and fdbty yeais with the
Queen o’ them, and the Kinj: *canna be mickkle wourJ
Type-Setting hi) Machinery.— lt is stated in a New
York paper that Mr. Win. ll.'Mitchell’s invention is en
tirely successful, and that live of the machines h tve for
several months been in successful operation at Trow's ex
tensive establishment in that city, and that all the work
of the published portion of Irving’s Life of Washington,
Bancroft’s Miscellanies, and a nurfiber of other books, has
been done upon them.
Resignation of Judge Pettit. —Hon. John Pettit, late
United States Senator from Indiana, and more recently
judge of the twelfth judicial circuit court of that State has
resigned his office, to take effict on the Bth ol October
next
Concerted to Spiritualism. —Rev. J. B. Furguson, a
Unitarian clergyman of some noteat Nashville, Tennes
see, has written a letter committing himselt fully to mo
dern spiritualism.
Returning to Life ;±an Awkward 9 Position. —It is
reported that an officer who was supposed to have been
killed in the Cabui campaign ijjore than thirteen years
ago, whose place lias long been filled r up in the “Army
List,” whose wife has contracted a second marriage, and
given birth to a second family, has suddenly turned up.
He has been a prisoner during thisjong period in Kokan.
His name is no secret, and his brother has in the mean
time become a general officer.— Bombay Telegraph.
Know Nothing Nominations of the Blue Book Wing
of the Parly. —The different councils in this city, of the
Blue Book or Simon Pure Wing of the Know Nothing
party met last night for the purpose of taking action on
the nomination of a State ticket. The country councils
were well represented, either in person, l>y delegates, or
by proxies. A*ter due deliberation, a State ticket, stand
ing firmly ou the Philadelphia platform, and particularly
on the eighth plank, was selected. We are not at liberty
to give the names at present. By Saturday next, the tick
et will be officially promulgated.— N. O. True Delia.
Congressional Impeachments. —lt is stated in some
ot tile opposition papers that articles’ of Impeachment will
be moved in the House of Representatives at its ensuing
session against Judge Kane, of the United States District
Court, on account of the alleged unlawful imprisonment
of Passmore Wlliamson.
Curious Rumor. — A letter from Constantinople says :
“When Orner Pacha was here lie was very intimate with
the English ambassador ; and a carious rumor is afloat
that the Generalissimo is about to btcume a Protestant.”
A King Consort for Spain. —The latest piece of
gossip at Paris relative to Spanish affairs is that the
Duke de Montpensier, the husband of the Queen of Spain’s
sister, has just had an interview with the Count.de Charn
bord, and that in such interview it was settled between the
princes that the Queen of Spain should be persuaded to
resign in favor ot hersisfer; that the Duke of Montpensier
should then, in right of his wife, be named King Consort,
and, subsequently, by his wdfe’s appointment, and with the
universal approval of the S.paniards, be elected King Re
gent to the throne of Spain
Supplied with Military Chieftains. —-If the Republic of
Mexico be deficient in every thing else that can contribute
to the greatness and glory of a nation, she is certainly not
wanting in military officers. The Trait d’Union, ol the
15th instant, says that since the beginning of Gen. Lom
bardini’s administration, in 1553, until the departure ot Bnn
ta Anna, more than twelve thousand bievet military com
missions were issued. Adding these to'those issued pre
viously, and those issued by the revolutionary chiefs during
the same period, and the sum total of officers now holding
commissions cannot fall much short of thirty thousand ‘
Strange Accident —A young lady named Hood, while
combing her head a lew days ago, ruet with a horrible ac
cident in the factory in which she mis employed at Me
chanicsville, bucks county Pa. She had ihrown her
tresses backwards, when they were caught by the machine
ry, and, with a part oi the scalp, torewfrom her head
Her hands and arms were also badly lacerated in her en
deavors to disengage herself from the machinery.
Lecture.—Rev. Win! W. Miiiburn, the late chaplain
to Congress, lias been engaged to deliver a course of lec
tures in Federick city, Maryland, between the sth and 10th
of October.^
Attempt to Burn a Methodist Church. —The La-
Grange Repoi ter says*:
Some night last week an effort was'made by some
seapc~gallows to burn the Methodist Church. 11 is plan
evinced such a talent for deviltry, that we feel positively
uneasy until we are satisfied that Ire is where-he will bo
kept out Os mischief. It was as follows : Filling a box
with leaves torn from Sabbath Sell’ ol books, [the wretch)
and shavings, he saturated them with oil, arid placing the
box under the pulpit, so, arranged the stopper of the oil
can that it would drip gently upOn the flames and thus
feed them. After setting fire to the combustibles, he fled ;
and the jireTnelting off the mouth of the can (a contin
gency which he had not provided for,],the whole of its
contents came, out at ,onee and extinguished the flames.
The church is a very handsome edifice, and lias not been
completed Jonger than a month.
A Railroad■ Rascal Caught.-- The LaGraifge Re
porter says:
The officers of Qowcta county have at lengtlgsucceeded
in capturing the chap who has been amusing himself for
some time past by burning cross ties, placing hugei-tones
on the track, and similar pleasant freaks to the imminent
risk of the jives of passengers on the Atlantic & L -
Grange Railroad. The jail in Newnan being insecure he
was brought to this place and committed to the tender
mercies of our officers until such time as he may vary
his performance*by doing the State some service in the
Penitentiary.
A Monument, to Israeliutnam. — A movement is on
foot, says the Portland (Maine} Advertiser, to raise the
sum ot 53,000 required by the Legislature of Coumcti
cut, to obtain fromrit a grant of a like sum, for the } ur
pose ot erecting a suitable monument over the remains
of (Jen. Israel Putnam.
PLANTING NKW ORCHARDS.
Loose no time now in sitting out fruit trees.; a tree care
fully taken up and planted this month, will scarcely lk*! its
removal. Give the roots plenty of room, and if the soil
destined for the is poor, fill around the roots, and
as far as the roots are, to run, with mould from the woods
or swamps. Moist fruit trees require a stiff soil for orchard
culture. Plums tyay be planted with advantage, in yards,
in town or country, where the ground is kept hard by con
stant passing. Every family owning a half acre ot ground j
may have a few apple trees for pies and tarts, and a few
pear tree- 1 for delicious fruit. The apple and pear tree are
more ornamental cither wheß in flower or fruit, than most
‘of the strictly ornamental trbes, and withal very useful
The peach and nectarine,should have a stiff clay soil Do
not be over anxious to plant large trees, a tree weil rooted,
the size of the thumb, is more certain to live, and will bear
fruit as soon asooe the size of the arm.