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poetry.
Ode to the Bed.— ** *«* LAT,i THuM “ Hoo£>
Oh. Bed ! oh, Bed 1 delicious Bed !
That heaven upon earth to the weary hc-id i
But a place that to name would be ill-bred,
To the head with wakeful trouble—
> !'is held by such a different lease 1
To one a pi ce of comfort and peace,
All stuffed with the down of stubbie geese,
To another with only the stubble .
To one, a perfect Halcyon nest,
All calm, and balm, and quiet, and rest,
And soft as the fur of ihe cony—
To another so restless for body and head,
That the bed seems borrow’d from .Nettlehed
And the pillow from Stratford the Stony 1
To the happy, a first class carriage ol ease,
To the land ot Nod, or where you please ;
But, alas! for the watchers and weepers.
Who turn, and turn, and turn again
But turn, and turn, and turn in vain,
With an anxious brain,
And thoughts in train
That does not run upon sleepers!
Wide wake to the mousing owl,
Night hawk, or other noctural lowl,
Hat more profitless vigils keeping,
Wideawake in the dark they stare,
Tilling with phantoms the vacant air.
As it that crook back’d tyrant, Care,
Had plotted to kill them sleeping,
And oh, when the blessed diurnal light
Is quench'd by the providential night.
To render our slumber more certain,
Pity, pity the wretches that weep,
For they must be wretched who cannot sleep,
When God himself draws the curtain !
The careful Betty the pillow beats.
And airs the blankets and smooths the sheets.
And gives the matrass a shaking—
But vainly Hetty perlorms her part.
If a ruffled head and a rumpled heart
As well as the couch want making,
There’s Morbid, all bile, and verjuice, and net ves,
Where other people would make preserves.
He turns his fruits into pickles
Jealous, en»ions, and treltul by day,
At night, to his own sharp fancies a prey,
He lies like a hedgehog rolling up the wrong way,
Tormenting himselt with his prickles.
But a child—that bids the world good night
In downright earnest and cuts it quite—
A cherub no art can copy,—
Tis a perfect picture to see him lie
As if he had supp’d on dormouse pie,
(An ancient classical dish by the by,)
With a sauce of syrup of poppy.
Oh, bed ! bed ! bed ! delicious bed !
That heaven upon earth to the weary head,
Whether lofty or low its condition !
But instead of putting our plauges on shelves,
In r.ur blankets how oft we lose ourselves,
Or are tossed by such allegorical elves
As Pride, Hate, Greed and Ambition '
— m JßM—l——— r—nr— ——————l—■—l ti
AiJHil l LITRE.
[ From the Horticulturist,]
Special Manure for Vegetables.
Two or three correspondents, since the pub
lication of our remarks on manures for fruit
trees, have expressed a wish for more light re
garding the chemical composition of some of
the leading vgetables.
They complain of the great difficulty of
growing certain kinds ot vegetables—beans, for
example, in small garden? where the soli h»s
been cultivated a long time, and where, from
not being able to change such crops to new
soil they fail in growing them, notwithstand
ing a liberal supply of animal manure.
What these vegetables want is a supply of
mineral manures, and in order to know how to
apply these most judiciously, our readers must
know something of the chemical composition
ol each vegetable. We, therefore, give the
following abstract of the inorganic elements
which enter most largely into the composition
of such vegetables. It is from the analysis of
the ashes of these plants by DeSaussure, Spren
gel, and other chemists :
•os "2
ca - S '3
ji I .< *
2 -g S> | S i S
2* UO «<i_ i-3 '/} "/)
* 35 lo| 6 334 4 1
Beans 38,111 9 5 31 2 0
Celery 22|00 5 13'15 5 3
Onions, bulb... 32 8 2 12 00 8 3
Onions, stalk 13 14 026 00 16 19
Cauliflower 34 14 2 3 25111 1
Cabbage 31 15 323 10 12 2
Pots'oe, roots 48 28 4j 31 4 6 I
Beet, root 24 53 2 4 2 2 1
Carrot, root 53 13 5 9i , 4 2
Parsnip, root 19 16 6 11 i 2 4 3
Radish, r00t... 21 00 3 8;40 7j 8
We have avoided giving the decimals, as we
only intend a sufficient sketch of the analysis
to furnish practical hints —and the approxima
tion is sufficiently accurate for this purpose.
The information which the practical cultiva
tor will gather from the foregoing, is some
tiling like this: that potash enters more largely
and uniformly into the composition of vegeta
bles than any other of those elements, and
hence that wood ashes are among the most
generally useful applications to the kitchen
garden. Next to this, common soda (which
many be had very cheaply at the wholesale
druggests.) is highly important. Phosphoric
acid, v which may be furnished in the shape of
bone dust,) is also an important element, as
w ell as sulphuric acid. Lime and sulphuric
acid, also considerable constituents, may be
easily supplied by manuring with plaster,
(gypsum.) Silica for the most part enters
very slightly into the composition of the above
vegetable* with the exception of onions, of the
ashes of which it forms nineteen per cent.
Coal ashes ought to be as beneficial to onions,
therefore, as to corn, both of w’hich largely
demand this substance, of which coal ashes are
mainly composed.
To raise good peas, a soil should contain
plenty of potash, soda, and phosphoric acid;
for beans rather more potash is necessary;
celery demands potash, lime, and phosphoric
acid; onions, soda, hme, sulphuric acid and
silica; cabbage, a large proportion of lime; po
tatoes, chiefly potash and soda; beets the same
—but most of soda; carrots, potash and lime;
and radishes a large preportion of phosphate.
An easy way ot applying potash or soda is
to dissolve about ten pounds in a hogshead of
wafer, and sprinkle thoroughly a load of crude | f;
peat or swamp muck This will reduce the | t
peat to the condition of an active manure, and a
then if used precisely as manure, it will fur- i v
nish a proper supply of potash and soda tor i
such vegetables as require it. . , 1
It is owing chiefly to the want of potash m a
the soil, that beaus and other vegetables m
quiring new soil, refuse to yield good crops m i
old gardens. In such so.ls the potash is ex
haustedby long cropping. \
The judicious use of animal and salmc j
nures, will enable the kitchen , better . g
only to raise much larger, but «««
crops of vegetable-6 than by the ordun . j ’
of cultivation.
. "77 , rT r»ii. Experiments.— j
Interesting AOKlclj** 1 , n <
r. r «vneriments ia wheat and lL»ur
contain tvater, and that |
the quantity is more m cold countries than in
warm. In Alsace from sixteen to twenty per
cent.; in England from fourteen to seventeen
per cent.; in the U. States from twelve to four
teen per cent.; in Africa and Sicily from nine
to eleven per cent. This accounts for the fact |
that the same weight of Southern flour yields j
more bread than the Northern. English wheat
yields thirteen pounds more to the quarter
than the Scotch. Alabama flour, it is said. .
yield< twenty per cent, more than Cincinnati; j
and, in general, American flour, according to j
I the authority of one of the most extensive j
I London bakers, absorbs eight or ten per cent.
: more of its own weight of water in being made
i into broad than the English. The warmer the
country the more is the water dried out of the j
grain before it ripens, and hence, when made
into bread, it absorbs more water again, and is
therefore more valuable.—-Professor Beck has
written a report for the Patent Office, in which
he shows that the presence of water unfits
these articles for preservation. The books of a
single inspector in New York city showed that
in 1847 he inspected 218,679 barrels of sour
I and musty flour. In his opinion the loss on
these was $250,000. Every year the total loss
in the United States from moisture in wheat !
and flour is estimated at from $3,000,000 to
$5,000,000. To remedy this great evil the
grain shouid be well ripened before harvesting, j
and well dried before being stared in a good
granary. Kiln drying is preferable. The mode
i of ascertaining the amount of w r ater is this:
| Take a small sample, say five ounces, and weigh
iit carefully. Put it in a dry vessel, which
should be heated by boiling water. After six
i or seven hours, -weigh it carefully, until it
| loses no more weight. Its loss of weight shows
j the original amount of water.
MISIKLUMMS.
1 Black Eyes. Blue Eyes, and other Eyes
“A great quantity of virgin white paper has
been blackened in idle attempts to cry up black
eyes, blue eyes, and all sorts of common place j
optics; but, after all, grey eyes must take the
palm. Os all the eyes in the world, they are
at once the most mischievous ami most intel
ligent; and a woman who has them, needs
nothing else to make insensibility itself fall
worshipping at her feet. As a very sensible
lady writer has said—‘Your blue eyes are holy, .
heavenly, as the sky they reflect; your large
brown, sluggish and indolent. We never knew 1
an energetic person with soil brown eyes.
Your black eyes are evey keen, piercing and.
faultfinding; but your grey! Commend us to
a good clear grey eye, either in man or woman
Such a one, bright and deeply set, intent rather
on seeing than being seen —though when seen
is never forgotten —such an eye, beneath a
well defined brow, can obtain whatever it de
serves.”
Thus saith a writer whose name w T e do not
know; and whose reputation, if he were known
to allclassess of eyes, might be deemed ques
tionable. The color of the eyes depends very
much on the latitude and longitude in which
their possessors reside.
In Newport, Rhode Island—which the whole
i world admits to be the very Paradise, of Beauty
—you will rarely find a female whose eyes are
not as “black as jet.” And then, again, good
dness gracious! how they do sparkle! The
man who has spent two hours in Newport, and
not realized the effects of all powerful love, is
a stoic, and something of a vagabond.
The Philadelphia ladies, almost without ex
ception, are what are called hazel eyes—
brunettes. They are of that class of beauties j
which were immortalized by Dibden when he
wrote his beautiful song, which Inoledon sung
with so much effect and sweetness:
•'l’ve saved from my toils many hundreds in gold
The comforts of life to besret;
I'Ve borne in each climate the heat and the cold.
And all lor my charming brunette.”
The fair sex of Baltimore possess eyes and
complexions very similar to those of their
friends in Philadelphia, and are remarkable for
the possession and unostentatious display of
all the graces.
The moment you cross the border line of
Virginia, you enter on a region of blue eyes;
and they are,
“ those eyes of blue,”
which every man who is not insensible to love,is
very sure to remember. We recollect of seeing
a pair of them, as they peered from the window
1 of a cottage that stood on the very apex of the
Blue Ridge of mountains, some thirty years
ago, and the influence they imparted is not yet
obiiterated. We often -ee them in imagina
tion now; and if they should maintain their
magical power, some fifty years hence, when
we have become as old as Andrew Jackson Al
> i len, the fact will be recorded in the books of
I the Society of Royal Antiquarians, as it will
l prove that the man who invented the aphorism
1 which teaches that, “although the tree be
dead, the ivy may entwine,” was a man of
■ science and of tunction.
Kentucky is also a blue-eyed region ; and a
class of beauties reside in that glorious eoun
■ tr y* vv ho, iu all that is brilliant and glorious,
1 eclipse those far-famed Children of the Sun,
who were worshiped and deified by the Yem- -
‘ masees.
\\ hoever has resided in Kentucky, has lived
1 in the land of beauty and love, where
——————the gods and their loves”
hold an eternal and a glorious,
unflagging apotheosis. And, to add to the
interests of their superior charms and merits,
they unite a matchless spirit of gallantry with
their other “ delectable powers of fascination
and enchantment.” If there be, in all New
York, a bachelor who is sighing, dying, and
realizing the tortures of Tantalus, or the la
bors ot Bysisiphu=, because of the absence of a
ladye-love, let him go to Kentucky, and wed
a Rockcastle or Knox county mountain divin-
By. _
A Dream Realized. —The following dream,
loreshadowing the fate of the famous Major Aa
• re > °f an old date, though but little known.
Ihe truth is vouched for by a writer iu Ains
! a ß az ‘ne of a recent date:
! -lajor Andre, the circumstances of whose
amented death are too well known to make it
' J iece^ sai T or me to detail them here, was a
friend of Miss Seward’s, and. previously to
, ar . m ® ur America, he made a journey to
Derbyshire to pay her a visit, and it was ar- I
ranged that they should ride over to see the
i ": onder3 ot and introduce Andre to
Newton, her minstrel as she called him, and
to Mr. Cunn.ngham, the curate, who was also a i
poet.
“While those two gentlemen were awaiting
the arrival of the guests, of whose intentions ■
they had been apprised, Mr. Cunningham
mentioned to Newton that on the preceding
night he had a very extraordinary dream, which j
he could not get out of bis bead. He had
fancied himself in a forest, the place was strange
to him, and whilst looking about ho perceived
a horseman approaching him at great speed,
who had scarcely reached the spot where the
dreamer stood, when three men rushed out of
the thicket and seized the bridle, hurried him
away after closely searching his person.
«»i’he countenance of the stronger being very
interesting, the sympathy felt by the sleeper
for his apparent misfortune awoke him, but he
presently tell asleep again, and dreamed that he
was standing near a great city, among thou
sands of people, and that he saw the same per
son he had seen seized in the wood bruoght
out and suspended on a gallows. When Andre
and Miss Seward arrived, he was horror-struck
to perceive that Ids new acquaintance was the
antetype of the man in the dream ”
Till, CONSTITUTION A LIST
Augusta, (Bcovgia.
THURSDAY MORNING, AUG. 9.
DEMOCRATIC NOMIN ATION.
FOK GOVERNOR,
(GEORGE W\ TOWNS.
13 u 1 Magnetic (EcUgrapl).
Reported for the Constitutionalist.
Election News.
The following intelligence will be highly
gratifying to the Democracy, and will throw
all Coondom into a perfect spasm of conster
nation. It is a lofty fall, and takes the Whigs
; completly by suprise.
From our correspondent, dated,
Washington, August 7th, 1849.
TENNESSEE.
Trousdale, the Democratic candidate is
elected Governor hy three thousand majority.
Ewing, Democrat, is elected in the Nashville
District.
The Democrats gain three members of Con
l gress, thus far.
The Ben ton Platform in Georgia
A paper has but small regard for its charac
ter, as a reliable journal, that indorses as able,
j • J
: searching and truthful, the absurd string of
falsehoods put forth by a writer in the South
ern Recorder, over the signature of “ Crawford.”
i The Chronicle and Sentinel chimes in with this
scribbler in charging that there is such a thing
as a Benton wing of Democracy in Georgia.
! In the following sentences the Chronicle and
I Sentinel , of the 2nd inst., has crammed together
as many misrepresentations as can well be
found in the same number of words.
It asserts that there is a majority of Demo
crats iu Georgia opposed to Calhoun and his
views on the slavery question, and who coin
cide with Benton. It then goes on to say :
“ This majority has with due consultation
! erected the Benton platform, and repudiated
! that of the couthem address. The truth of
this statement cannot be denied. Governor
Towns stands with Cobb, Houston, Benton
j and Van Buren on a common platform.”
So far from the fact is it, that this statement
cannot be denied, we assert, as w ill every' man
who knows anything whatever on the subject,
that there is not a w'ord of truth in this state
ment. A more deliberately false statement we
| have never yet iseen in the editorial columns of
| a political journal.
What is this Benton platform ! Is it not
; that the Wilmot Proviso is constitutional —
: that it ought to be applied to the new territo
ries—that he will vote for so applying it—that
| “ it is absurd to deny the right of Congress to le
gislate. as it pleases on the subject of slavery in the
; territories ” —that his personal sent! ments were
against slavery—thaUwere it a new question
he would oppose its introduction into Missou
. |i and into the United States ?
These are the well known views of Benton,
recently se> f Tth in distinct terms in his Jefter
j son City Speech, and well known to the editor
of the Chronicle, at the time he penned the
| statement, which he says cannot he denied,
j Had the editor said Benton juid Alexander
! II Stephens, Robert Toombs and the Chroni
i cle and Sentinel stand on a common platform,
1 he would not have been quite as iar from the
truth. Toombs declares slavery to be an evil.
His personal sentiments and BentonVaresim
ilar on this point. Stephens Jam no
defender of slavery in the abstract. Liberty al
ways had charms for me, and I would rejoice to
see all the son s of Adam's family in every land and
clime, in the enjoyment of those rights which are
set forth in our Declaration of Independence as
“ natural and unalienable,” if a stern necessity,
j bearing in some instances (he marks and impress
I of the hand of the Creator himself did not int.rpose
| and prevent.” jt- Speech iu Congress, Jan. 25th,
j 184-3. •
| What the sentiments of the Chronicle $ Sen
tinel on this subject are, it is not here necessa
|ry to reiterate. Its character on this subject is
pretty well established. One word more as
j to the other political grounds occupied by
Benton, in common with Toombs and Ste
phens and the Chronicle 4 Sentinel.
i They all agree that the conquest and cession
| of California and New Mexico, did not annul
the old Mexican laws against slavery, and that
the extension of the Constitution of the Uni
ted States over them, did not convey their
I protection to the slaveholder in his slave prop
erty. Upon that little affair of the Protocol,
they are all on the same ridiculous footing.—
Benton drew forth the Protocol, and Stephens
was his instrument in the House to try and
give it consequence. The Chronicle published
his speech with sundry fulsome compliments
to its ability and sound reasoning. Toombs
voted with Stephens, together with six aboli
tionists, and they constituted Benton's Cor
i poral’s guard of opposition to the Treaty ap
j propriation.
Here are sundry points of sympathy be-
I tween Benton and Toombs, Stephens and the
! Chronicle & Sentinel,
J *
As to Mr. Cobb’s occupying the same plat
foim with Benton and Van Buren, it is quite
sufficient to know that he never gave a vote or
uttered a sentiment which could establish the
slightest sympathy between him and those
men on the slavery quest .on. His vote in
favor of the Oregon bill, after hurt’s amend
ment was rejected, was gLcn in common with
many other Southern men, represents ives of
slaveholders, and whose fidelity to Southern
rights and Southern institutions defies impu
tation. It was given upon the declared
ground that it was in conformity with the con
ditions of the Missouri Compromise, that
slavery should not exist in Oregon, five and a
half degrees North of the compromise line.—
Upon every question of constitutionality, ex
pediency, right and justice, of the Proviso, he is
in direct opposition to the Benton platform.
The same may be said of Governor Towns —
perhaps more—to show' the falsity of the
Chronicle’s assertion. Governor Towns while in
Congress, voted against the Oregon Bill. The
imputation of his sanctioning the constitution
ality of the Wilmot Proviso, has not even that
sophistical ground to rest upon.
Mr. Cobb, in the late Democratic Conven
tion, advocated and voted for the resolutions,
embodying and adopting the S'irginia resolu
tions. These resolutions are certainly not the
platform of Benton and Van Bureu. Govern
or Towns approves and adopts those resolu
tions. We should like to know whether the
Chronicle approves them. Or whether it
adopts the contemptible quibbling ot “ Craw
ford,” in his objections.
One of those resolutions declares, “we
hold the doctiue of non-intervention, which
doctrine denies to Congress the power to le
gislate, either originally or by ratification of
the action of the territorial legislature, either
for or against the introduction of slavery into
such territories, and holding such doctrine, wo
should regard the adoption of the Wilmot
Proviso as unjust and unconstitutional,”
Is this the Benton and Van Bnren platform ?
Does the Chronicle dissent from this doctrine ?
We challenge a direct answer. Ihere
should be a decent regard to truth, or at
lea>t to the semblance of truth in the state
ments of a political journal to entitle it to even
a meagre share of credibility.
Answer to the Southern Recorder
We think our cotemporary of Milledgeville,
puts a very unreasonable if not a very absurd
question to ns. We challenge a direct an
swer.
We think, also, that it gives a very unsatis
factory and shuffling excuse tor not answering
the question we propounded. The question
was simple, clear, apt, and reasonable, and re
quired but a short and categorical answer. —
It was, if Congress should pass, and Gen.
Taylor sign a Wilmot Proviso law, applied to
the new territories, will the Recorder advocate
the assembling of a Convention of the sove
reign people of Georgia ?
The Recorder instead of answering it, talks
about confidence in old Zach—confidence in
his not signing such a bill, &c. &c. We knew'
all that before. But this confidence does not
prevent the Recorder from conceiving the con
tingency we suppose, and its having a prefer
ence in sucli an event for or against such a
Convention.
The Recorder however, while dodging our
question behind unmeaning generalities, seems
to suppose us weak enough to be led off into
statements and discussions as to what we
would advocate, and propose that such a
Convention should do, when assembled. —
What would be the use of our discussing in
advance, what the Convention should do, be
fore we know that the whigs of Georgia will
unite with the democrats to call it? Why
does the Recorder desire to discuss such topics,
before it expresses a desire for holding the
Convention in the contingency supposed ?
Let the Recorder answer our question. We
responded frankly to its inquiry, when it ap
peale I to the democratic press, with the invo
cation, “ Gentlemen, speak out.” We ask
the Recorder, Does it object to a Convention
of the people of Georgia in the case supposed,
to take into consideration the mode and meas
ure of redress ? If so, what is its mode of op
position to the Wilmot Proviso ? It points to
the Whig Convention’s language of determin
ed opposition. What is its mode of opposi
tion and resistance r We retort now upon it,
and say, “Gentlemen, Speak out.”
If such a Convention should be called, by
the joint voice of whigs and democrats, and
we know of no other way for the whigs and
democrats to take steps for that opposition and
resistance which both profess to be determined
upon, we will then give our views freely and
respectfully as to what course it should adopt.
Far would it be from us to speak, except as
an humble exponent of opinion, as to w hat so
grave and wise and dignified a body should
do. It would embody the wisdom, the pa
triotism, and the chivalry of our State. We
should look to it lor v\i»e counsel, and not
presume to mark out a policy for it to adopt.
Not as a democrat—not «s a whig should any
man then speak, or advise ; but as a Georgian,
to whom her rights and her honor were dearer
than life, and who revered her cause and her
authority, and listened to her voice with filial
love and filial obedience.
The avoidance of our question by the Re
corder, excites suspicion. Is it sincere in its
declaration of determined opposition, and are
the whigs sincere in their declaration in Con
vention, of determined opposition to the Wil
mot Proviso r If so, why do their presses re
main si ! ent as to resistance of that measure ?
Why do they denounce democrats for talking
of resistance, even to disunion if necessary, as
if such language were wrong —aye, as if such
language were criminal, traitorous, and deser
ving of punishment if attempted to be carried
into effect- The Chronicle $ Sentinel, the
leading organ of the whigs, uses the language
ot menace towards the democrats who so
speak—as boldly and plainly as do Northern
whig papers, and Northern whig leaders,
it is a plain question of resistance to the
Wilmot Proviso, or submission to it, if it is
enacted. We ai’ e f° r uesistancf. Which are
you for, Mr. Recorder 1 This is a fair ques
tion. Answer it, without dodging or circum
locution.
We are for resistance by such mode as a
Convention of the sovereign people of the
State of Georgia shall determine upon. What
is your mode, Mr. Recorder?
A Pulse Report
Bome alarm appears to exist among the sup- .
porters of Judge Hill, for the high office ot |
Governor, at a rej ort in circulation, that he | i
had joined the order of the Sons of Tempe
rance The Judge himself has taken the
pains to contradict it. as he, too, doubtless fear
ed that the report, if believed, would lose him
a large number of votes that lie now caU ulnlt
on getting. . „ . 1
We have no idea that any body acquainted
with His Honor, the Judge, would believe the
story for a moment. We, however, cheerfully
<nve him the benefit of the contradiction con
tained in the following extract from a letter in
the Augusta Republic of the 7th inst., with
the introductory comment of the editor ot ;
that paper:
We had learned ourself, that the report ot
the Hon. Edward Y. Hill’s having joined the j
Sons of Temperance was not ture. It ononis
us pleasure to insert the following which ex
plains itself: 1
J)e\r Sir * * -1 saw Judge Hill in
Athens and conversed with him on various
topics. He informed me that the report of,
his having joined the Sons of Temperance was
not true. I had imagined as much before, !
for, however much he might respect that j
highly useful order, 1 thought I knew him
too well, to believe that he would join it, un
der circumstances so well calculated to ex
pose himself to charges of doing so for sinis
ter purjioses.
The Savannah Boats —We are gratified to i
learn that the Board of Aldermen, at their i
meeting last evening, passed, a resolution ex- i
empting the Savannah boats from quarantine,
should no sick be found on board when visit
ed by the Pori Physician. — Charleston Mercury,
B lh inst.
Health of Charleston. —It will be per
ceived, upon reference to the Register s Re
poat, that the deaths in our city last week
were but 10. This, in a population of nearly
30,000, will compare, we think, most favora
bly with any city in the Union. — ih.
Declined.— Col. Reuben Davis, whom we
already mentioned as running for Congress in
the Second Congressional District of Missis
sippi, on Ids own hook—as an independent ■
candidate —comes out with a temperate and i
well-written address to the electors ot the
District, which is published in the Monroe
Democrat. He says his course in this instance
was dictated by a desire to test the sincerity ol
the no-party declarations of the whigs, that
finding them insincere, as they put forward a
candidate to run against him, he joins again
the ranks of the party whose principles are
his, and to which he has ever belonged.
{Telegraphed for the Baltimore Sun.)
New York, Aug. s—lo, I'. M*
Arrival of the Hermann —The Cholera.
The steamer Hermann arrived here to-day
from Southhampton in safety, but her news
has already been anticipated by the Cambria.
The Board of Health report 64 new cases
and 32 deaths of cholera, for the twenty-four
hours ending at noon so-day.
Boston, August f.
Increase of the Cholera.— The cholera
is rapidly increasing in this city, 24 deaths
having been reportei to-day. The deaths in
the city for the past week reached 150, of
which 45 wore from cholera. The hospital is
full of patients, chiefly Irish, from the region
of Broad-st.
Pittsburg, Aug. 4— P. M.
Health and Business op Pittsburg. —The
city is perfectly healthy ; we hear of no cho
lera being reported since Wednesday.
The river is very low, the weather cloudy.
Freight to Cincinnati $1 per cwt; passage
$lO.
Montreal, Aug. 3.
Cholera in Canada - Adjournment of Bri
tish League.—The health of the city is much
improved to-day. Only 8 deaths by cholera,
and 5 at Quebec.
The British League, sitting at Kingston,
has separated to come together again at meet
ing of Parliament.
Montreal is quiet, but an attempt was made
to create an excitement at Mad. Laborde’s
concert last night, by calling for the national
song.
The Rain. —We have had up to this time,
more or less rain in this town every day for
twenty or twenty-five days past. The rain,
so far as we can learn, lias been a general thing
in this and the adjoining State—overflowing
many of the larger water courses, and injur
ing very materially in some sections, the corn
and cotton crops. In the early part of the
season wo had no rain scarcely at all, and
every thing bid fair for a long contined drought,
but now the scales are turned, and we have
vn et i\ eatber in abundance. Crops, as a gene
ral thing, we believe, look well through this
section, taking into consideration the late
frost. —Fort Gaines Mirror.
Rain —Freshets.—Rain has continued to
fall every day, more or less, during the pas'
week. The Saludas have been very full, and
a large portion of the fruitful! bottom lands
covered with water. Oats in stacks, and the
growing corn, have in consequence been great
ly damaged. The upland corn in the Dis
trict is very supperior.— Greenville Mountaineer,
3 d inst.
The Season and thb Crops. — It has now
been upwards of tour weeks since it commenced
raining in this quarter. There has seldom a
day elapsed, until Sunday last, without more
or loss falling. The country has been literallv
deluged, and the land in some sections much
washed. This state of tilings has prevented
the working of cotton, and the constant rain
gives it a superabundance of weed, without
corresponding fruit, leaving it grassy. This
has now, after the second w eek in August, to
be overcome, conflicting, too, with the seeming
of fodder. Thus, under the most favorable eir°
cumstances for the future, were we called upon
to express an opinion, we should say that there
need not be expected more than two thirds ot
the usual product, if that much.
In icgai d to Corn there has in general been
no particular damage done. Although it will
be somewhat rot'ed, still there will bean abun
dance made. Peas, potatoes, &c,, are looking
well. Ihe oat crop was bat ordinary. The
NV heat crop turned out to be almost a total
failure. Many planters did not secure seed.—
MU ledge ville Recorder, 7th inst.
Com mercial Decision in Ai.ABAMA.-The Su -
premo Court of Alabama has decided that sisrht
clralts and bills are entitled to days ot grace
just as any other draft or negotiable paper.
It not paid on presentation, they must then
be formerlyfpresented for acceptance at once
and if refused, are to be protested, and notice
given to the parties to be charged. This de
cision is supported by authorities, but it is
a? stated in the Mobile Herald, contrary to
long established custom in that State. Jt L
therefore important that it should be gener
ally known.— N. O. Crescent, 3 d inst.
! Fro m the Sew York Expreas.\
The Very Latest from Europe.;
Hem's Victory over the Russians confikm-
Ei} ’ The second edition ol the London Times,
published on Friday, has arepon of the vie
tory over the Austrio-Hus*. n army, by Gen.
Horn —as mentioned in the diplomatic circles*
of Paris.
It is also stated that the Hungarians had ob
tained further advantages before Comorn.
Commercial.
From Wilbmr and Smith’s rimes, Juiy 21-
Throughout the past week we have had a
steady business going forward in most depart
merits of trade. The Produce markets are well
supplied, a healthy feeling continues to pre
vail, and a lair extent ol business has ,igain
been done at steady price 5 . Cotton has been
very animated, and large sales art- again ie
I ported. The Grain markets are dull; and
prices, as the harvest approaches, show symp
' toms of a decline. The Metal trade is siea y
Chi red Provisions command attention, ami both
here and in London a fair amount of business
has been transacted. Money' is stil, abundant,
and readily obtained at 2* to 2k per cent for
first class paner. dhe Funds are steady, and
prices of English Securities have advanced.
The sales ol Cotton, tor the week ending
July 20, amount to 70,490 bales, ol 'v-u- .
i speculators took 23,5G0, and exporters . o
; The market, in the early part ol the week, Wa-.
! active, and although not so animated since
I Wednesday, closed yesterday at a lurtaer ad-
I vance oi one-eight of a penny per lb. for all des
criptions, the Committee’s official quotations
now' being s*d for fan Uplands, oj for fair
: Mobile, and 6gd for fair Orleans; middling 4 g d
to The l s des’of yesterday, July 20, were 8000
bales, the market closing very’ steadily at the
quotations. The present stock ol Cotton in
Liverpool is estimated at 704,220 bales, aga nn
530,970 last year. Should the accounts Iron*
the other side continue to he a* unfavorable as
those brought by the last two steamers, we
may expect a further rise in the value ot the
raw material.
The Markets
Live wool., July 20.—A large business con
tinues to be done in Manchester, and m con
sequence of the scarcity ot Goods, particularly
of the lighter description, Manufacturers have
no difficulty in obtaining higher prices for fu
i tare delivery ; there has also been more de
i maud from the home trade. Spinners again
demanded higher pi ices for Y arns, which pre
vented the business from being as extensive
as it would havo boon, but tlio transactions
wore considerable alter all.
In our Cotton market a large business has
again been done during the first days of the
week, partly upon the impulse given "> the
report that the blockade ot the Northern ports
was to be raised. The demand was freely
met by importers and speculat >rs, the advan.e
having now become so considerable tt at the
latter are desiiuus of realising some of their
profits. During the last days me demand i.as
not been quite so extensive, though it i- id
considerable, the sales of to-day being 10,000
bales, of which 4000 bales were to speculators
The trade have now taken some exit i slock,
and possibly r -be market may remain quiet for
some time, unless a fuither impulse should be
given. Full prices Imvc been given 'lining the
week, and in some instances even higher ones,
we therefore raise our quotation- 1 accordingly.
Speculators have taken 23,500 bales and ex
porters 7.500 bales. The market closes with
much firmness.
Liverpool, week ending Ju-v 2u. Colton
From the extensive operations during the
past week, it appears that confidence in the
article of Cotton is still on the increase both
with the buyers and sellers. The consequence
has been an enhancement of tin value, and
largo speculative as well as trade transactions
; going on daily, it is true that the actual ad
vance in price is not very great, being about
i id. on all kinds of American, with a strong
and upward tendency in other descriptions,
Sea Islands being a full Ad. per lb. higher, ma
j king in that kind an advance, from the lowest
i price existing three mouths ago, of to 2d,
! per ib., according to quality. The Committee
i ot brokers place fair Uplands at s|d., Mobile
s|d., Orleans sg cl- We are somewhat encour
| aged in this more active business and upward
tendency, by the improved state of the Man
chester market and the manufacturing dis
tricts generally, both in Lancashire and York
shire, where the people are all fully at work at
fair remunerative prices to their employers, at
least in ail kinds of light and fancy fabrics
There still remains this difficulty, that the
producers of yarn for export, looking at the
present price ot that article, and the present
pi ice of the raw material in our market, can
hardly see their own again. They, therefore,
and they are a large class, are spinning more
upon hope in the future, towards the realizing
ot which the settlement of the Danish ques
tion will materially contribute, than from any
advantage yet within reach. 21,950 Ameri
can, 510 Surat, 50 Madras, 550 Egyptian, and
500 Bahia have been taken on Speculation,
and 6,290 American, 410 Surat, 650 Bahia,
1 0 Fornam and 20 Maranhams for export
Sales foi Lire week 70,490 bales.
Manchester.—The market this week has
been firm, and there is a firm feeling on the
part of holders to obtain higher prices. Stim
ulated by the still buoyant state of the Cotton
market, tno spinners have claimed a furthei
advance ot Th per lb. generally, and, in many
instances of id. There can be no doubt that
this claim (maintained throughout the day
with unflinching firmness) has considerably re
stricted the amount of business; yet it "has
been so far acceded to by some classes of bu} -
ers, as to render the transactions of moderate,
if not of fair extent, on the whole. The prin
cipal purchasers have been the home manu
facturers and the German merchants ; the lat
ter have paid the advance most readily lor
l warps and pin cops. The India houses, how
| ever, have continued to stand aloof. An ad
j ditional advance has also been demanded upon
j goods, and here again the effect has been a
| limitation of business. The makers of 7-Bth
j an ‘l 9-Bth printers and shirtings, have, how-
I ever . secured another 1 Ad. per piece. The sud
j den and considerable rise which has recently
taken place in 34-inch and 36-inch printers
! aml shirtings is easily accounted lor. For some
I time thf ’r value was unduly depressed throu
j a "ant of demand; and now that the demise*
j has revived, it is found that the production has
j been very much abandoned for that of 40-inch
fabrics, India and China goods are decidedly
firm from their scarcity, and the degree in
| which the manufacturers are under contract.
; In some of the heavier cloths, suitable for
shipping, there is little improvement ; least of
! all in the better qualities for the home market.
Havre, July 19.—Yesterday, after the re
ceipt of -Sew \ ork dates to the 4th inst., a a
active demand sprung up, and 5500 bale* U.
o. Lotions, partly on speculation, were dis
j posed of at an advance ot If a 1.50, Xew Or
leans tres ordinaire having been paid at 80f a
80 50, But to-day the market has been dull,
and very little has been done. The event of
the day is the arrival of M. Guizot, by the
Southampton steamer. He is, no doubt, the
precursor of some new feature. The vessels
entered since yesterday, are the Creole, Judah
lonso, Buena Vista, Diadem, Trenton, Ore
gon, and G. Thatcher, all from New Orleans,
bringing a supply of about 15,000 bales.— Cor.
V. Y. Corn. Adv.
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