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Farther per Africa.
New-York, Sept. 24th—12, M.
The steamer Africa has arrived, with Liver
pool dates to the 13th inst. She brings 144 pas
sengers.
General News. —A violent gale has pre
vailed on the English coast. The Spanish brig
Cervantes was wrecked off Margate, and the
Rotterdam steamer Apollo met with the same
fate on the Kentish shore.
In the county of Antrim, Ireland, while an
amateur lecturer on biology was holding forth
to about 500 personr, in the loft of a windmill,
the floor gave way and precipitated them to the
ground, killing four persons and dangerously
wounding many others.
Madrid papers state that the Spanish Cortez
would be convoked early in November,
The railroad from St. Petersburg to Moscow
was to have been opened on the 3..stof August
by the Emperor in person.
A letter from Vienna, of Sept. 3d, says that
the Austrian government intends taking severe
measures against the press. Numerous arrests
were made at Pesth on the 31st August, on ac
count of the exhibition of the statue of St. Ste
phen, the features of which resembled Kossuth.
Beyond the political discontent which pre
vails throughout Austria, Germany, and Italy,
there is little news of interest.
Berlin advices state that the police inspection
of foreigners, so rigidly observed since 1848, had
been discontinued.
Ship Ocean sailed from Deal on Sept. 11th for
Baltimore, and the Orion on the 7th of Sept.,
from Bremen for Baltimore.
England. —A challenge has been sent to the
yacht America by the beachmen of North Yar
mouth, offering to put one of their clipper yawls
against her for 10U guineas.
Two cargoes of pig iron had bean imported
into Liverpool from China.
In the provincial towns several ladies had adopt
ed the Bloomer costume, and even in London
one or two cases had presented themselves.
Great interest continued to he felt about Cu
ban affairs, and further news was looked for with
much anxiety. The papers are filled with de
tails of the news, and comments on the same.
Great excitement continued to he felt relative
to the Archbishop’s recent letter.
France.—A good deal of feeling has been ex
cited by the promulgation of a decree compelling
foreigners proposing to resiile in France to ob
tain immediate leave so to do from the authori
ties. This decree does not apply to travellers
having | assports, but is aimed at political refu
gees and agitators, and hence the excitement.
Advices from Paris state that instructions had
been sent by the Government to the comman
dant of the French squadron at the Antilles, to
assist the Cuban Government in repelling the
invaders.
Markets. —Barings’ circular quotes Ameri
can stocks in limited request, and unchanged in
prices.
The reports in reference to the potato crop
within the last few days, are much more unfa
vorable.
The Cotton market had been active during
the week, and prices of qualities above ordinary
and below fair had advanced during the week Jd.
The market dosed less active. The sales of the
week have been 50,600 hales, of which specula
tors took 10,400 and exporters 8,800. The quo
tations of fair cotton are unchanged.
Trade in Manchester was good and business
looking up, particularly in yarns. Some goods
being more abundant, prices were lower.
Brown & Shipley’s Circular states that flour
and wheat arc unchanged since the sailing of the
Europa, though a better feeling prevailed in the
market. Corn had declined in consequence of
the large quantities forced on the market.
Middling Orleans cotton is quoted at 5 3-1 (id;
Mobile s ld; Uplands 5. Sales oil Friday were
6000 hales; market closed quiet.
Stocks. —Sales of U. S. 6’s, 1868, at 111 a
112; do. do., 1802, at 106| a 107* ; Maryland
s’s, BSt a 894.
The Paris Stock Market was exceediagly
fluctuating; s’sclosed at 92145 c.
Havre Cotton Market, Sept. 11th.—Sales of
cotton for the week ending the 10th inst., were
3,400 bales. The sales up to two o’clock to-day
have been 1,000 bales. New Orleans 68 a 94f.;
Uplands 70 a 89f. The imports for the week
have been 400 bales. The total stock is 43,000
bales, of which 34,000 were American.
[Second Despatch.}
New-York, Sept. 24, P. M.
The Africa made the passage in about ten days
and a half. She passed, on the afternoon of the
13th. the steamship Canada, bound to Liverpool.
The Africa fired her signal gun off the battery,
at a quarter past 7 o’clock this morning.
General Summary. —The Queen is enjoying
herself in short excursions among the scenery of
her highland home.
The receipts at the doors of the exhibition on
the 11th, were £2,637, and the number of visi
tors 54,800.
The Kaffir war continues.
A war on the River Platte has, ere this, com
menced.
While Northern Europe are conspiring against
the liberty of mankind, the French Government
are becoming alarmed by the alleged discovery
of a conspiracy among the foreigners in Paris.
The arrivals of specie in England are very
large. For the week ending Sept. 12, say about
three quarters of a million sterling.
Money is easier. First class bills are readily
discounted below three per cent.
France. —Louis Napoleon proves more anx
ious as 1852 approaches, and the alleged conspi
racy was opposed to impart strength to his
cause ; but the police, as if malicious, ridicule the
plot by making razzio among some hundred and
fifty German sailors—forty of whom, for sheer
shame, had to be instantly discharged.
The commercial prospects of France continue
favorable.
Denmark.— Hamburg correspondence men
tions that the recruits drafted from the Duchy of
8c hies wig have been sent to Copenhagen, where
they will be distributed among the Danish ‘regi
ments. 1 his proceeding provoked violent pro
testations from the German press
Austria and Russia.— The treaty of the nav
igation of the Danube, concluded between Aus
tria and Russia, has been prolonged.
Numerous arrests had taken place at Pesth on
the 31st ult.
Italy.— The Neapolitan Government had at
length felt the necessity of issuing some sort of
reply tdShe letters of Mr. Gladstone ; and their
organ, after abusing Lord Palmerston, says that
an ample refutation is on the eve of publication.
According to the Lombardy 1 enetio, of the
2d, the Neapolitan Ministry intended request
ing the British Government to recall Mr. Tem
ple their present Minister at this court.
Turkey. Advices from Constantinople re
port a change in the Ministry, and such is the
scarcity of money, that the Flirt was detained in
port for a fortnight, wholly for the want of funds.
An American steam frigate was awaiting the
liberation of Kossuth and his companions, to
bring them to the United States.
Markets.
Brown & Shipley’s Circular. —Liverpool,
Sept. 12. —After the departure of the Pacific with
our circular of the 2d inst., the cotton market
continued very quiet until the beginning of the
present week, when an active demand sprung
up, aided by speculators and exporters, and prices
of the qualities above ordinary and below fair
advanced one-eighth of a penny per lb. Dur
ing the last two days, however, there has
been less buoyancy, and this improvement is
only partially maintained. The entire sales of
the week reach 51,640 bales, of which 10,480
have been taken on speculation, and 8.810 lor
export. We quote fair Orleans 6d.; fair Mobile
s |d.; fair Uplands s|d.; middling 5 3-16, 5| a
sd. The stock of cotton in this port is 583,000
bales, of which 420,000 are American, against
a total stock last year of 548,000, of which 356,-
000 were American.
There has been a good business in Manches
ter, especially for yarns, but some descriptions of
goods are becoming abundant, and arc sold at
lower prices.
Notwithstanding the continuance of fine
weather which has favored the completion of
the harvest, there has been rather a better tone
in the corn market for flour and wheat during
the past week, but no advance in prices We
repeat our previous quotations, viz: For Balti
more and Philadelphia flour, 18s. a 18s. 6d.;
Western Canal, l ls. to 18s.; Ohiit and Canada,
18s. to 188. 6d. Wheat, ss. 3d. ass. Cd. for
white, and ss. ass. 2d. per 70 lbs. for red. In
dian corn is neglected and difficult of sale, at a
decline of about 6d. We quote white 275. 6d.;
yellow 265. a 265. 6d., and mixed 255. a 255. 6d.
per 480 lbs.
Traces of Sir John Franklin—Amertcan Expedi
tion.
News from the American Exploring Expedi
tion to the 17th September, 1850, has been re
ceived in England, in a letter addressed to the
Admiralty. It is transmitted by the master of
the True Love, a whaler, in a letter as follows:
“ Davis' Straits, July 2d, 1851.
“My lords : May it please your Lordships to
recive at my hands the enclosed testimony, re
ceived on the 12th of July, of the American
searching vessel, of the account of their voyage
in search of Sir John Franklin. On the 13th of
September, 1850, they left the searching vessels
at Cape Martyrs, Cornwallis Island, they not
being enabled to pursue any further westward
direction from that date. A harbor, called the
Assistant Harbor, discovered by Captain Om
manney, three miles south of Cape Martyrs, was
the place in selection by them to winter in. The
bay ice was lorming very strong at that time,
yet the Advance and Rescue were determined to
proceed homeward; but unfortunately, however,
a gale sprung up and drove them up Wellington
Channel fifty miles,and afterwards they were
frozen in. The American Captain, De Haven,
told me that the winter was very mild, and
that he can give no further particulars respecting
Sir John Franklin than the enclosed account.—
He said he was determined to go to the seat of
search again, after having wintered ; and all the
documents received from the admiralty, and
others 1 gave to him.
“John Parker, master of the True Love'”
mlmoranda.
“1. On the 26th of August, 1850, traces were
found to northward of Port Innis, Wellington
Channel, confirming those previously found at
Cape Riley by Captuin Ominanney. These
consisted of fragments ot clothing, preserved
meat tins, and scraps of paper, one of these bear
ing the name of M’Donald, medical officer in
the expedition.”
“2. On the 27th, Capt. Penny's parties re
ported graves. These were at once visited by
Captain De Haven, Mr. Penny, and Dr. Kane.
They bore respectively the names of W. Brainc.
R. M„ and John Hartnell, of the Erebus, and
John Torrington, of the Terror, the date ot the
latest death being the 3d of April, 1810. [These
persons belonged to Franklin’s crew.j Added to
these sad but unmistakeable evidences were the
remains of the observatory, carpenters’ shop, and
armorers’ forge. Upon the hill side and beach
were fragments of wood, metal, and clothing, with
stacks of empty meat tins. Everything indi
cated permanency and organization. There can
be no doubt that the cove between Cape Riley
and Beechy Island, facing Lancaster Sound, was
the first water station of the missing vessels.—
On the 31st ot September the impervious ice of
the Wellington Channel underwent a complete
disruption, and by the 6th several vessels pene.
trated the Cornwallis side. Such, however, was
the impenetrable character of the pack in Lan
caster Sound that by the 10th of September the
entire searching squadron were again concen
trated about eight miles south of Griffith's Is
land. This was the furthest westing attained
by the American expedition. The latest dates
from Commodore Austin are of the 13th of Sep
tember.
They were then in momentary expectation
of making winter quarters, and it is probable that
a small liarboi discovered by Capt. Ommanney,
about three miles east of Cape Martyrs, will be
the haven selected. Thence the American ves
sels, while proceeding homeward, w’ere frozen in,
opposite Wellington Channel, drifting during the
ensuing winter from a latitude of 75 25 through
out the channel and sound of Baltin's Bay.
Their liberation, after much exposure and trial,
took place on the 10th of June, 1851. at a point
south of Cape Walsingham 65 30—a linear drift
exceeding 1,060 miles. The commotion of the
ice with its attendant uncertainty was their chief
source of trial. Every officer and man had mark
ed scorbutic disease, but no deaths have occurred.
The crews are now refreshed, and the expedi
tion is endeavoring to regain the seat of search
—I have, &c.
“E. K. Kane, Surgeon, to the Expedition.”
The London News, of the 10th inst., gives
great importance to these notes, and says:
“The intelligence of traces of Sir John Frank
lin and his companions has been scanned with
eagerness by the veteran Arctic explorers now
reposing on their laurels at Woolwich, and many
of them are sa 'guine in the expectation that they
may yet have the pleasure of welcoming at least
the surviving portion of the noble crews who left
Woolwich in May, 1545, with the Erebus and
Terror. It may be interesting to know that the
Royal Marine whose grave was found was Ser
geant Wm. Braine, of the Woolwich division,
who volunteered to proceed to the Arctic regions
with the Exploring party, although he had only
recently returned from service in China.”
It would be curious if the American expedition
should be the first to discover Sir John or his
fate, with certainty.
Singular Cure. —A curious remedy is preva
lent among many of the slaves on the sugar plan
tations in this State, whenever a valued Iruit tree
is attacked by disease. A black cat is caught—
“black” it must be—and, after varions mystic cer
emonies, the unfortunate animal is killed and
buried under the roots of the wooden patient.
This is supposed to be a sovereign cure for the
maladies of orange, banana, pecan, lime and
other tropical fruit-bearing trees. The practice
derives no doubt from the superstitions of Africa;
through, we believe, the inhabitants of Chili, in
South America, prescribe a similar dose in similar
cases. The coincidence of superstition is some
what remarkable, to say the least of it. A wag
at our elbow hints that this medical practice
here may b« the reason why so few black cats
are to be seen in this city or along the coast.
That is a question in natural history which we
leave to our readers to decide.— N. O. Picayune.
[From the Charleston Courier .]
Hydrophobia an Illusion.
Mksses. Editors—l was startled by some re
marks in a late Westminister Review, on the sub
ject of Hydrophobia, which, if well founded, must
produce a revolution in the apprehensions and
practice of mankind in regard to this fearful dis
ease, or rather, it would seem, this disease no
longer. Will some of your medical correspon
dents give the community the result of their ex
perience or researches on this interesting topic?
If the statements of the Review be true, our city
authorities need no more persecute with their
ordinance our unfortunate dogs every summer,
nor our police shoot down or poison every inno
cent, luckless Ponto that happens to stray from
his master’s premises. The Reviewers say:
“The world is not so much wiser in our own
day that we can at all afford to smile at the cre
dulity and superstition of the past in regard to
diseases. The belief continues unabated, even
among the majority of medical men, of the con
nection of hydrophobia in human beings with
the bite of a mad dog, and every year hundreds
of persons bitten by dogs allow their wounds to
be cruelly cauterized with a view of extirpating
the poison supposed to be communicated by the
saliva of a dog— a poison abundantly proved by
chemical analysis and experiment to have no exis
tence. An injury to a nerve, when of such a
character as to be difficult of healing, whether oc
casioned by a bite, a scratch, or even the prick of
a pin, may so affect the system, as to bring on,
in some cases, tetanus or lock-jaw, and in others
deaths by convulsions: but beyond this the only
poisonous influence to be feared is that of a morbid
fancy; the effects of which may, however, be suf
ficiently serious. Many have undoubtedly gone
mad from the belief that madness was inevita
ble.”
In a marginal note to the foregoing passage,
the Reviewer thus further insists on the doctrine
which he presents;
“We regret to see this popular error counten
anced by so high an authority as that of the Re
gistar General. In his report for the third quar
ter of the present year it is stated, after alluding
to the decrease of nervous affec'ions, and to the
fact that there had been no death by hydrophobia
recorded in London during the last five summers,
that ‘hydrophobia disappears when the dogs
which arc liable to become mad, or to be bitten
every summer, are removed by police regula
tions.’ This statement it would be very difficult
to support by any evidence entitled to credit. 1.
There has been no such extraordinary vigilance
of the police but that unmuzzled dogs have been
seen running about the streets in summer time;
and especially on Monday, in Smithfield Market;
whatever formal instructions may have been
issued respecting them. 2. In the cities of the
East, as in Constantinople, where the heat of
Summer is greater, and where clogs and pigs are
the only scavengers, the inhabitants do not suf
fer more from hydrophobia than in Europe. 3.
It has been proved by Mons. Trolliet, who pub
lished, in a memoir, the dates of all the cases of
hydrophobia of which any account had appeared,
that the greatest number had occurred in Janu
ary, the coldest month of the year, and the smal
lest number in August, which is the hottest. 4.
It has been shown by the records of Hospitals,
that not one person in twenty-five said to be bit
ten by mad dogs ever suffers from hydrophobia;
and in that case the influence of fear on weak
nerves may have been as much a cause as the
actual laceration. 5. Although there are few
persons who have not been bitten by dogs or
cats, the disease has frequently occurred in hu
man beings where no possible connection could
be traced bei ween the malady and any previous
bite or scratch.”
And is it possible, Messrs. Editors, that Hydro
phobia is to be set down among the nonentities
of the past, and to scare future generations no
more than the existence of witches or ghosts! If
the Reviewer’s doctrine be true, a great struggle
surely is to be carried on with the general belief j
of the world, and one generation at least must!
pass away, before the error becomes fully eradi- j
cated. If any one conviction, more than another, i
is entertained by all civilized nations, including
every age and condition, it surely is, that hydro- !
phobia will be almost certainly caused by the
saliva communicated through the bite of a mad !
dog. But this is an age of wonders, and scarcely
a day passes, that, shaken in our beliefs, and as
tounded in our experiments, we are not con
strained to exclaim, WHAT NEXT.
♦For Jan. 1850; Art. 1.
The Great Earthquake in Naples. —Over
Two Thousand Lives Lost—Cities Destroyed and
Damaged. —The Washington Republic publishes j
a letter from the Hon. E. Joy Morris, the Ame
rican Minister to Naples, giving a minute account
of the terrible earthquake which occurred in the
western portion of the Kingdom of Naples, on
the 14th of July, by which some 2,500 lives were
lost, and several towns either totally prostrated
or greatly damaged. Mr. Morris says that pre
vious to the shock a small stream that runs near
the city of Melfi suddenly disappeared, and adds:
At the first shock, Melfi, which contains ten
thousand inhabisants, was prostrated in the dust,
nothing but a few crumbling walls surviving the
general ruin. An unknown number of its in
habitants were buried under the falling mass of
fabrics. Up to the present moment, seven hun
dred dead bodies have been disinterred, and,many
others are constantly being found. More than
two hundred persons lie in the adjacent hospital,
suffering under grievous wounds, while many
have been dug out alive from the ruins. A mon S s t
others, a female iijfant, a year old, after lying
buried for two days, was brought out living and
unharmed, and restored to its afHicted mother,
widowed by the same calamity.
The shocks and rumbling of the earth still oc
casionally occurred at the time of writing his j
letter, and all eyes were turned upon Vesuvius as !
the safety valve through which the struggling j
fires might escape, although no local signs were
yet apparent.
The neighboring towns of Atella. Rionero,
Barile and Rapolla are sufferers by the same con
vulsion. Rionero is a general wreck, not a
sound house remaning—more than a nundred
persons have here perished, and as many have
been maimed or wounded. In Barile, the only
edifice not entirely destroyed is the orphan asy
lum, while the discovered dead amount to about
one hundred and fifty. In the commune of Bari,
the towns of Cerato, Minervino, Spinazzola,
Andria and Trani were all injured more or less.
In Canossa, the ancient Canosium, founded by
Diomed, and whose walls once enclosed a circuit
of sixteen miles, three hundred and seventy-six
houses were thrown down. At the last report
the shocks around Mount Volture continued, and
one-halt oi the city ot Venosa, the ancient Venu
sia, containing six thousand inhabitants, and cel
ebrated as the birth-place of Horace, was de
stroyed. The mountain provinces of the Abruir
zi and of Calabria, where the earthquake of 1783
destroyed three hundred cities and buried thirty
thousand human beings, have thus far escaped.
Harrisburg, Sept. 35.
The Christiana Tragedy. —A man answer,
ing the description of Pinckney, with three
others, who are supposed to have participated in
the Christiana outrage, were arrested to-day, in
Fisherville, Dauphin county, and committed to
prison for an examination before Commissioner
McAllister to-morrow, at three o’clock. All
three admitted themselves to be fugitives.
Stopped Payment. —Montgomery & Co. ex
tensive manufacturers of boots and shoes, at
Bradford, Mass., and wholesale dealers in boots,
shoes and leader, in this city, stopped payment
on Tuesday. This house is one of the largest
of the dealers and manufacturers of these arti
cles in New-England. Their trade is largely
with the South and West.—.Botfo* Trans., Thurs
day.
The Journal says their liabilities is stated at
$500,000.
AUGUSTA, GA. |
TUESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 30.
THE LARGEST CIRCULATION IN THE STATE.
For Governor.
Charles j. McDonald.
District For Congress.
1. IOS. W. JACKSON, of Chatham.
2. HENRY L. BENNING, of Muscogee.
3—DAVID J. BAILEY, of Butts.
4. JOHN D. STELL, of Fayette.
5. WILLIAM H. STILES, of Cass.
6. THOMAS F. JONES, of Newton.
7. DAVID W. LEWIS, of Hancock.
8. ROBERT McMILLAN, of Elbert.
Representatives for Richmond County.
WILLIAM R. FLEMING,
WM. SCHLEY.
received no Charleston papers by last
evening's mail.
(XT’ Proprietors of Warehouses in Augusta and
Hamburg, will oblige us by having the stock of
Cotton in their respective Warehouses carefully
counted for us this morning.
Heavy Damages.— Messrs. Bowen A Mc-
Namee, the celebrated dry goods firm on Broad
way, New York, have entered suit against
the New Haven Journal for libel, in false
ly stating, on Wednesday, that they had fail
ed. The damages are laid down at $50,000.
The Journal, of Thursday, however, contains
a full retraction, saying that they had been de
ceived by others, and it is to be presumed, there
fore, that Messrs. B. & McN. will forego their
severe measures. The Tribune says they stand
ready to shave their own paper at anything
above legal interest.
Death of Brig. Gen. Whiting. —The St.
Louis Republican, of the 17th inst., announces
the death of Brig. Gen. Henry Whiting, of the
U. S. Quartermaster’s Department. Gen. Whit
ing arrived at St. Louis on Sunday, the 14th
inst., from a tour of official duty in Texas, in
his usual health. On the afternoon ofthe 18th,
while in his room in the Planter’s House, he was,
without any premonition whatever, stricken
suddenly dead. His wife was in the room, and
isjcompletely overwhelmed at the suddenness of
his death, and her melancholy bereavement. We
have not been able to learn the cause of his death
but it is attributed to an affection of the heart.
Gen. Whiting was a native of Massachusetts,
and among the oldest officers of the army. His
remains were removed to Jefferson Barracks, on
the 17th inst., for interment.
Col. Haynes vs. Van Vkchtkn. — The New
York Sun lias had communication with Colonel
Haynes, of the Cuban expedition, now in that
city, who denounces Van Vechten as a “coward,”
“deserting his command,” Ac. Col. Haynes
don’t yet seem to be cured of “liberation,” but
thinks the Cubans are still anxious to be rid of
their gevernment.
Barnl-m all Over— The notes of the new
bank of Bridgeport, of which Mr. P. T. Bar
num is a principal stockholder, have a portrait
of himself on one end, and one of Jenny Lind
on the other.
New Poet Offices in Georgia.
Office. County. Postmaster.
Winchester, Macon, Jas. A. Stubbs.
Troublesome, Clinch, J. P. Prescott.
Gum Swamp, Pulaski, Charles Love.
Etna, Paulding, L. P. Garrison.
Sharp Top, Cherokee, Ladson Worley.
Polk, Clinch, S. W. Nicholls.
Debut op Catharine Hayes in New York.
—The most noted city item in the New York
journals is the advent of Catharine Hayes, the
‘swan’ that does sing, and not in dying notes
either. All speak of her voice, itg delicacy, and
power, Ac. Ac., with enthusiasm, and of the rap
tures with which she was received, Ac. but some
say she can not, re-make the Jenny Lind mania.
As to Messrs. Braham and Mengis, who assist
her, they are passed over slightly by the critics.
We subjoin a few extracts from the leading jour
nals, in regard to Miss Hayes’ voice—
(From the Journal of Commerce.)
She sang splendidly; her voice is inconceiva
bly fine, and of a quality and purity so rare and
beautiful that it strikes the heart at once. It is
truly sympathetic. She was encored in every
thing; her ballads seemed to touch every heart,
and indeed we never heard so muoh passion and
so much feeling thrown into a simple melody
before. The leadings were new. and they were
as beautiful as new. We could not fail to ob
serve that she executed the more difficult pas
sages with a degree of effort that gave anythin-*
but a pleasing expression to the face ofthe vo
calist. believe, even her warmest friends
have never been so injudicious as to compare her
with Jenny Lind.
(Front t\e Tribune.)
We confess we were startled with the inten
sity ot leeling—the almost painful intensity—
which she threw into this exquisite aria (the Ah,
mmt fils of Meyerbeer.) The piece was wisely
chosen, as exhibiting what, we think, the best
point of her singing—her extreme pathos—and
we thought it the gem of the evening. Catharine
Hayes’ voice is one of marvellous compass, exten
ding from the highest soprano tones to the deep,
est contralto.—Her highest notes are inferior in
purity, in strength and in sweetness to Jenny
Lind’s, but her lowest are fuller and finer. She
seems possessed of all vocal accomplishments,
[From the ff. Q. Picayune, 33d inst.]
The Crop*.
We have received the following from a gentle
man residing at Rose Hill in relation to the cot
ton crops in Amite county, Miss:
Rose Hill, Amite county, Miss., Sept. 17,
Eds. Pic.—l see from the circulars of some of
the cotton factors in New Orleans, that they
are calculating on a large cotton crop, from the
fact that new cotton has been received in the
city earlier this season than last. Such a crite
rion will prove fallaciious, as far at least as re
lates to this county. It is true that the cotton
commenced opening earlier this season than
last, and has continued to open unusually fast,
but this is not to be attributed to aa uncommon
yield, but to the protracted and severe drought
which prevailed through the summer. So severe
was the drought on many plantations in this
county that the bolls were forced open before
they were fully grown ormatured. Should the
dry weather, which prevails now, continue for
any considerable length of time, it will destroy
the crop of young bolls which the August rains
produced. Be this as it may, I do not think
that the most favorable fall can bring this county
up to an average crop. And if the youn<* bolts
are cut off by another drought, and there sterns a
tar prospect for it,this will rank among the short
est crops that the county has produced. As a
portion of your paper is devoted to agriculture,
and as I suppose you wish to get all the informa
tion you can obtain on this important subject
the extent of the present crop, I have deemed it
I not out of place to say this much in relation to
the crop of this county.
-Yours, respectfully, s. m. o.
The Concordia Intelligencer, of the 20th inst.,
acknowledges the receipt of a communication
from a planter in the parish, residing on Black
river, who states that the army worm has made
its appearance on a plantation in Catahoula par
ish. The Intelligencer says:
Without question the army worm has made it
appearance in Tensas parish, and in portions of
Madison and Carroll. Rumors have also reach
ed us of the appearance of these worms in great
numbers in the neighborhood of St. Franci6viile,
in West Feliciana parish.
Since writing the above, Mr. L. H. Ireson has
sent us a phial oi worms from Major James Sur
get’s plantation, in this parish. Our knowledge
of the natural history of the animal does not
enable us to say whether they are the army
worm or not.
The Red River (Alexandria) Republican, of
the 13th inst., says:
There is no longer any doubt of pre
sence of the caterpillars. They have already
overrun and destroyed many cotton fields, leav
ing not a leaf on them. They are busily at work
on other places, and will no doubt shorten the
crop one half. It is estimated the damage from
them will be about the same as woul-l have re
sulted from a frost at this time.
(From the Mobile Tribune, 24M inst.)
The Crops. —The Selma Reporter of the 19th
inst., says of the cotton crop: We are informed by
intelligent planters that nearly all the cotton
grown upon the sandy lands of this and the ad
joining counties will be gathered by the last of
October or first of November. Almost all the
bolls on the stalk are open. This fact is sufficient
to show how far short the crop must fall. The
ravages of the boll worm have reduced the crop
in the prairies and canebrake at least one-half be
low what it promised to be a short time ago.
The crop of cotton this year in Alabama must,
from all accounts, fall considerably below that
of the last.
The editor of the Eutaw (Greene county)
Whig, who has been absent for some time tra
velling through portions of Perry, Shelby and
Talladega counties, says in his paper ot the 19th
inst.. that he found generally, the corn crops
were very poor; in one place corn was selling at
$1,25 per bushel, in the field, and the citizens
anticipated that it would soon be worth $2.
The cotton crop varied with the land, the culti
vation and the rains. Some portions, scattered
all along the route, were more highly favored
than others, and produced better, but generally
the plants were small, and the bolls few in num
ber. A number of gentlemen who had been
travelling all over the South, one in Tenuessee
and North Alabama, another in South Carolina
and Georgia, and others, with us, over smaller
sections of the country, united in their belief that
the cotton crop of this season could not equal that
of last year.
A gentleman just returned from a visit to
many of the plantations below Eutaw in the Fork
informed the Democrat that the cotton crop for
the previous week or ten days had been bloom
ing and bearing better than at any previous pe
riod during the season. As to the result, there
are various opinions, many believing that from
the second growth nothing can be expected,
whilst others are hoping, that with a la'.e frost a
good top crop may be gathered. Should these
late blooms yield nothing, the crops will certain
ly be shorter than they have ever been before.
We are happy to learn, remarks the Democrat,
that the corn crops are better than anticipated
before the fodder was pulled.
We have been favored with a letter of late date
from the Choctaw Agency,(from which wo ex
tract the following: “In regard to tho crops, I
would say that it is no exaggeration that the cot
ton crops from Demopolis to Starkville, Miss,
(which I have seen) will not average over half
what they did last year: from Demopolis to War
saw, those I saw on the sandy lands will not
average over 250 lbs. seed cotton per acre. Mr.
B. told me that his crop would not average over
400 lbs. and that his crop, with but few excep
tions, was about an average one of his section.
The planters from Demopolis to Starkville, witn
but few exceptions, will make with close econo
my enough corn to do them and many of those
planting prairie lands will have some to spare.
From Warsaw to Starkville I think the cotton
crop will averge 450 to 500 lbs. (seed) to the
acre, and many planters who cultivate flat prairie
and slough lands will make from 800 to 1200 lbs.
per acre. In the \ioinity of Vienna, Pickens
county, they are making neither corn nor cotton
—say of the former 6 or 8 bushels per acre, and
of the letter 200 to 250 lbs. to the acre.
We learn from the Greensborough Beacon of
the 20th that planters in that vicinity are report
ing more favorably in regard to the cotton crop,
and the impression was becoming quite general
that the yield on most of the black and slouch
lands will exceed that of last year. From the
thin sandy lands the accounts continued unfavor
able. The region lying south of the ridge road
leading trom Marion to Erie will probably make
more cotton than last year, wlfilst that lyin'*
north will make less, °
Money Market, Friday, Sept. 26.—Returns
fcgve been made from the Philadelphia Mint of
about $700,000, in cash, which has been thrown
into the banks to-day, and has thus increased
the amount of specie on deposit in the City
to about $10,600,000. This U sufficient for all
practical purposes, and as all of the institutions
here have reduced their discount lines, they o%
cupv g very strong position. The Salisbury
Bank of Maryland, which has been in bad repute
for some time, has failed to-day, and its notes
are not purchased here except at 4 very low
price. A rumor was in circulated here yester
day that the Farmers’ and Mechanics’ Bank of
New Brunswick had failed, and some ofthe city
papers this morning asserted it as a fact. We
gave no credit to the rumor, and have since re
ceived a despatch, confirming our views. N Y.
Jour. Com.
St. Louis, September 26.
Intelhgence from Independence, Mo., to the
35th, states Shat accounts from Santa Fe had
been received to the 2d inst. Reynolds has a
large majority in Santa Fe for Congress, but it
was supposed that Weightman would defeat
1 .w »? ' .Summers, with his command, had
lett for Naviso county. The Apaches, leagued
with the N avisos, had carried oft'a large portion
ot the stock belonging to the Boundary Com
missioner. Bartlett was to leave the Copper
Mines for Gila, about the Ist September. Grass
and water were plenty between Santa Fe and
Independence,
New-York Sept. 25.— The Empire State
reached her wharf this afternoon. Her bulwarks
and forecastle deck have been carried away
about eight feet. The name of the schooner run
into was the F. T. Tollman, from Alexandria for
Hightpa,
Ihe repeated failure of Bowen A McNamee is
wholly without foundation, and that firm is about
commencing proceedings against the proprietors
of the New-Haven Journal, which paper first
gave currency to the report.
The trial erf J. L. G. Sullivan, and Capt. Lew
is, charged with fitting out the Cleopatra, has
been set down for the next month.
California Lioness. —A noble animal, pro
nounced by naturalists to be of the true lion
species, and caught a few miles above Sacra
mento city, California, is now on exhibition at
No. 404 Broadway. She is owned by Mr. J. Q.
Adams (formerly of Gregory’s Express.) who
purchased her soon after her capture for 52.000.
— N. Y. Journal Commence.
Detroit, Sept. 26th.—The jury in the arson
case came in last night and rendered a verdict of
guily against 12 of the prisoners. The others
were acquitted.
| 33i[ iHagttttit €tltgrapjj.
Reported for the Constitutionalist k Republi,
LATER FROM EUROPE
ARRIVAL ~~
BALTIC.
New York, Sept. 2S.
The steamer Baltic has arrived from Liverpool,
bringing dates to the 19th inst. and ninety-seven
! passengers.
Cotton Market.— Cotton is a shade dearer
since the sailing of the Africa. The sales reach
19,000 bales, of which speculators and exporters
took 7000.
Flour is dull, but prices are unchanged. There
is more demand for Corn, and prices are higher
Coffee dull. Wheat has declined a penny. p ro .
visions unchanged.
At Manchester trade was healthy, and full rates
were paid for goods.
Funds depressed. Consols'closed at 96.
Charleston, Sept, 29, P. M.
Cotton —Prices are about the same as on Sa.
turday. Sales to-day 1100 bales, at 7to 93 cents.
Office of the Board of Health, \
Augusta, Sept. 30, 1851. J
Since my report, on the 15th inst., no new
cases of Small-Pox or Varioloid, have occurred.
The city is entirely free from these diseases, and
from the time that has elapsed, since the break
ing out of the last cases, I feel warranted in
saying that I believe we shall have no more
Small-Pox or Varioloid in Augusta, unless
brought from other places.
Persons may visit the city without fear 0 f
Small Pox as the disease has entirely disapi-, ear .
ed. Wk, E. DEARir <(J ,
Chairman Board rlealth.
St. Lons, Sept. 25.
Late and Interesting from the Plains
Mr. Polk and two others have arrived here in
sixteen days from Fort Laramie, unmolested by
Indians. The treaty ground had been removed
35 miles this side of Fort Laramie, where 12,000
Indians were assembled. Col. Mitchell arrived
on the Ist inst., but a council for treaty purposes
had not been convened. It was expected nego
tiations would close about the 25th. The Ca
manches and Blackfeet would not be preseut.
Mr. Kendall and most of the amateurs had be
come disgusted with the trip, and were return
ing.
A company of Californians had arrived in St.
Joseph's in 62 days from Sacramento, havin'-
had five skirmishes with Indians. An em ; ®
tion train composed of 367 families, 600
3,000 head of cattle, were getting on ’■-.n -P? 118 '
had had a fight with the Snake D ' 'tl
wounded. ™d X* we"
Madison’ deathS L ’ holera are re P° rted in
We understand that several gentlemen of
means intend forming a joint stock company, for
the purpose of manufacturing clothing. The
object ol this move is understood to be to pro
mote the industry of our city, by giving employ
ment to a large number of worthy females who,
trom the large amount of clothing sold in this
city ($197,000) are denied the privilege of earn
ing a decent subsistence. We are informed that
not more than one-tenth of the ready made
clothing sold is maufactured in Norfolk.—Nor
folk Herald.
The Woodville Steam Saw and Grist Mill, be
longing to Leitner & Davison, were destroyed
by fire on Monday morning 22d inst., about 3
o’clock. It is believed to have been the work
of an incendiary, as there had been no fire about
the premises from Saturday previous, and Mr.
Emery, the Superintendant had examined the
Mills at bed-time on Sunday night. The Mills
were in successful operation, and a valuable pro.
perty. No insurance, and consequently a t- o tal
ioss to the proprietors.— Temperance Bannr f 21th
inti.
Richmond gent 26
The Democratic State Conv' . n ti on * me t at
Staunton yesterday, and itwwa ved from in .
dications that Green B. Sam' Je]s of Shenandoah
county, would be nominate j , or Governor. Con
siderabla nva ry exists w nong the friends of the
different candidates. in the first ballot, John
ston received 14,00.0 votes; Samuels, 9,800;
Floyd, 9,300; Wis 3oo. The counties iepre
sented were entitled, respectively, to the Demo
cratic vote polled at the last Presidential elec
tion. Gov. Floyd’s ehance is bad.
MARRIED.
7? Fa V® tto county, Ga., on the 11th inst., by J.
L. Bra jscll, Esq., Mr. Britton W. Allford, of
VIKO county, and Ludicy M. Bras6ell, of tho
■o.rmer placo.
On tho 23dinst., by D. B. May, Esq., Mr. George
J. Miles and Miss Queen Zepporaii, eldest
daughter of William and Elizabeth May, all of
Fayette county. Ga.
On the 26th inst., by D. B. May, Esq., Mr. Mar
shal M. Harold, of Henry county, Ga., and Miss
Susan Brown, of Fayette county, Ga.
Commercial,
Augnsta Market, September3o—P. M.
COTTON.—There has been a good demand to
day, and the sales have been at a slight improve
ment on Saturday's prices.
SAVANNAH EXPORTS, SEPT. 27.
Per steamship Alabama, for New York—4Bl
bales Cotton, and 1 box Mdze.
Shipping intelligence.
SAVANNAH, Sept. 28.—Arr. barque Exact,
Stevens, New York; brig Eliza, Emery, Balize,
Honduras.
Cleared, U. S. M. steamship Alabama, Ludlow,
Now York.
Went to sea, steamship Alabama. Ludlow, New
York; ship Marion, Johnson, do.; brig W.L. Jones.
Kolly, do.; schr. Julia Eliza, Higbee, Philadelphia-
BALE ROPE, BAGGING, COFFEE, SU
GAR, Ac.
1000 COILS Northern and Western BALE
2000 pieces and bales of Dundee and Gunny BAG
GING,
1000 bags fair to prime RIO COFFEE,
1000 barrels assorted DOMESTIC LIQUORS,
100 hkds. fair to choice Cuba and N. O. SUGAR,
1000 boxes “Star' 1 and Adamantine CANDLES,
200 hh s. BACON SIDES and SHOULDERS.
Tho subscriber keeps constantly on hand, all de
scription of GROCERIES, Ac., which he offers for
sale on liberal terms, and solicits orders from those
interested in the trade.
THOMAS G. BUDD,
76 East Bay, Charleston, S. C.
aug 13 w«ts2mos
BOYD’S PERMANENT MARKING INK.—A
fresh supply of tho above celebrated marking
INK, superior to anything now in use, has been
received at GEO. A. OATES A CO.,
sept. 26 Broad street.
SEGAR CASES Gentlemen can- now be sup
plied with a neat SEGAR CASE, at the Book
Store of THOMAS RICHARDS A SON.
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