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Kj Lore’s Remembrance.
H will remember thee, —in that still hour
When like a dream of beauty, from the west,
I Heaven’s sweetest beam sheds down a golden dower
rr Os light upon the waters, —whoso unrest
And moodiness might well be charmed away,
By the pure loveliness of that soft ray!
I will remember thee, —when night hath thrown
rlts dreams around the sleeper, and repose
lath calmed the worn and aching spirit down
To brief oblivion of its waking woes ;
Then, —when the deep silence reigneth over all,
My lonely thoughts thy image shall recall.
I will remember thee.—when morn hath hung
Her banner on the hills, —and kindling dreams
Os sunlight, in warm diamond showers arc flung
Upon the surface of the hounding streams
Which move in their exulting course along,
Free as tho murmurs of their own wild song.
I will remember thee, —when summer's sigh
Breathes o’er tho mountains and the laughing
Is zoned with roses,—- while deep melody [earth
Hath in tho woods, with tho wild flowers its birth
From joyous birds, who mid their green homes there
Pour fourth their music on the clear blue air.
I will remember thee, —through many a scene
1 Os pleasantness and solitude :—for thou
Upon my dark and troubled path hath been
- A vision blest and cheering,—as the how
A. That spans the thunder-cloud: a thing of light,
early hope's first dreaming* pure and bright.
* Hora®opathy in Great Britain.
In an article entitled “The Doctrine of Homoeo
pathy ,” the Leader, a London weekly newspa
per of a late date, while avoiding the expression
of any opinion on the merits of the system, re
marks, that “no doctrine has ever gained a dis
tinct and indisputable footing in the world, which
has not brought some great truth or half truth in
its hand.” Ti e writer regards it as certain that
the new system comprises, at least, the renuncia
tion of some old error, if it has no other recom
mendation.
Twenty-one years since, homoeopathy was all
but unknown in England. Now it is practised
in all the large* towns, and is getting a footing in
Scotland and Ireland, The number of patients
in Great Britain ‘’ready to trust themselves to a
homoeopathic treatment, is so large that there are
already upward of one hundred and fifty practi
tioners all either licensed as surgeons or posses
sing orthodox degrees in medicine,” These are,
according to the writer, “as well bred and learned
and as capable as their allopathic brethren. The
new school is establishing itself silently and slow
ly,” says the journalist, “perhaps surely.” Its
existence must be recognized by the medical pro
fession, whether willingly or reluctantly, and by
the commentators on public affairs. The writer
in the Leader says:
“Nor do the lay friends of this system prove to
be obscure and unlettered. Archbishop Whately,
the Chevalier Bunsen, and Principal Scott, of
Owen’s College, constitute a trio of its literary
adherents. Messrs. Cobden, Leslie and Wilson,
arc fair examples of its parliamentary partizans.
—Radetzky, Pulzsky, and Gen. Farquharson,
rank among its military defenders. Messrs. Leaf,
Sugden and Forbes, are three of its merchants.
The Duke of Hamilton and the Earls of Wilton,
Erne, Shrewsbury and Denbig, (to say nothing
of Lords Newport, Robert Grosvenor and Kan
niard,) may serve for its body guard of honor.
Queen Adelaide was its patient; and the Dutch
ess of Kent is the patroness of a great bazaar, to
beheld for its behoof in London next June, du
ring the thick of the exhibition. Even Jenny
Lind is its votary.
In conclusion of the w’hole matter, it is clear
that homoeopathy not only spreads apace, but it
also spreads in all sorts of good directions, through
the present fabric of society. And this fact cer
tainly conveys the idea to the mind of an unbias
ed journalist, if not to a more learned medical
head~ that there must be some sort of truth in
homoeopathy, whether pure or mixed, whether
negative or affirmative, whether critical of some
thing old, or declaratory of something new.”
over this list of supporters of the
c doctrine, it occurs to us that there
be some mistake as to one or two of them.
.—TBaeAiomceopathic practice forbids blood let
tingPunNiadetzsky is said to have bled his pa
tents without mercy.
The Late Suicide at Albany. —The Albany
Atlas of the 6th instant, speaking of the late sui
cide in that city, says : “ William H. Cox, of St.
Louis, arrived at Congress Hall, Saturday eve
ning, in the New World, from New York. Sun
day morning he rode out to the Shaker Village
in company with two friends and returned to
Albany towards evening. He conversed with
his friends, until about half-past eight o’clock,
when taking a candle, he remarked that he would
retire to bed. One of his friends occupied the
room with him, and the other the adjoining
room. At half-past nine the two friends of Mr.
Cox entered his room, and found him on the bed
with one of his feet resting upon the floor; his
throat -was horribly cut, the windpipe, carotid
artery, and jugular veins being entirely severed.
His razor lay beside hie hand. The act was a
deliberate one, and from the nature of the wound
it is obvious that death must have resulted imme
diately. A paper was found on the table, on
which the following was written in pencil—
“ Thomas Cox, Farmington. Iowa: Father,
Mother and Brother, AJieu. “WILLIAM.”
On examining the coat pocket of the deceased,
a letter was found, written also in pencil. There
is an error in the month and day of the month.
Evening: 8 o’c., Albany, May 9, 1851.
Dear Friends: lam pursued to this place by a
community, charged with committing crimes of
which lam not guilty—but so strong a train of
circumstances which have thrown themselves
around my conduct, and during my stay in New
Yoik, caused by series of excesses, that I deter
mined never to be taken back alive—cause, in
temperance. I have heard that I am charged
with robbing or accessory to it, which God
knows 1 was not—but as I could not account for
the way in which 1 passed one night till eleven
o’clock, I cannot escape—the money which I
have used was borrowed, S3O from T. W. Mar
tin, andsso from J. A. Dougherty, in New Or
leans.
My bills at all the hotels were paid with mo
ney loaned by a friend who had generously offer
ed (knowyig my situation) to pay my expenses
home — a dreadful piece of news to
an aged parent —but I was never arrested, never
j shall lie—may I be forgiven.
Young men, beware of intemperance. I never
| committed or contemplated a crime in ought
else. Tins hour is a great one. I pray God may
forgive me. To &U—farewell.
|WILLIAM H. COX.
Straws showing the Set of the Wind.—A
very nice young gentleman once offered to ne
gotiate a loan of a business man, on a piece of
very “ doubtful paper, carelessly adding that he
would endorse it as additional security to the len
der.
“ Humph” was the reply. “ the note is bad enough
without the addition f
This anecdote has been frequently brought to
our recollection of late, on seeing in Northern
papers (Free-soil included) enthusiastic notices
of the C 'U nion Constitutional' J candidates in Geor
gia, Alabama, and Mississippi, with warm wish
es for their success.
We append a small sample of their kind and
quality from the Ohio State Journal.
Charles C. Langdon, editor of the Mobile Ad
vertiser, has accepted the nomination of the whigs
of his district as their candidate for Congress.—
We receive the Advertiser regularly, and regard
it one of the best papers we receive from the
South. Mr. Langdon will probably be elected,
and will be an honor to his district and State.
The Free-soil orthodoxy of this organ of Ohio
Whiggery, no man in his senses will deny It
knows its friends at the South. But we have
yet stronger evidence to offer.
The special organ of Seward in New York, (the
Albany Journal.) thus u hails ' the anticipated
election of Mr. Cobb to the gubernatorial chair
of Georgia, “as a grateful triumph ” to itself, and
u the friends of the Union every where.” Hear
it.
Hence, if we understand the position of things,
the attachment of the citizens of Georgia to the
Union is to be tested at the approaching election.
And in such a contest all good citizens—all true
men —all who cherish the principles and inherit
the patriotismrof the fathers of the republic, ami
the framers of the Constitution, will ardently de
sire the success of the Union ticket. The election of
Howell Cobb under such circumstances , will be hailed
by the friends of the Union everywhere as a grate
ful triumph.
[ Southern Press.
Assuming, says Fraser, the area of London to
be nineteen square miles, it yields us a population
tojeach square mile of 130,000 human creatures,
performing within that stinted compass all the
operations of life and death, mixed up in a fearful
melee , of passion and interest, luxury and starva
tion, debauchery and criminality, hard work and
idleness; besides an infinity of occupation—useful,
ornamental, and mischievous, making love, beg
ging alms, picking pockets, juggling, grinding or
gans, rolling in carriages, exhibiting “happy
families” in the street, and returning at night to
unspeakable misery at home. This population is
taken on an average of the whole surface. If we
descend into the more densely inhabited parts of
the town we may fairly double it; from which
picture the reader is requested to draw a faint
picture in his thoughts of the condition of exis
tence irrespective of air, cleanliness, food, and
space, in which some hundreds of thousands of
people eat, drink, and die in London from one
year’s end to another. A quarter of a million of
souls subsisting within the limits of a square mile
is a spectacle of a stand-up fight against nature
that cannot be rendered very intelligible by des
cription. The magnitude of the wretchedness
baffles us. Individual sufferings make a direct
appeal to our sympathies, -while the sufferings of
large masses are somewhat vague. The mind can
readily admit a family group stricken on their
straw pallets by famine and disease, but it can
not all at once take in a whole district under
going the slow agonies of deficient food and a
foetid atmosphere. As the numbers crowd upon
us, the distinctness of the misery diminishes.
The following notice appears in the Boston
Transcript:
Who Wants a Child ?—Mr. Spear, the well
known philanthropist, has in his care a fine little
foundling boy, who much needs both a good “ lo
cal habitation and a name,” Who will adopt
him ? The child may be seen at Mr. Spear’s
residence, No. 2 1-2 Central Court.
From this it would appear that parents do not
always take cave of their little responsibilities in
Boston, but leave them “ lying about loose,” to
fall into the hands of “ well known philanthro
pists.”—Sav. News , 11 th ivst,
A Tolerably Hard Hit at Sumner. —Tnthe
Boston Post of the 7th instant, we find the fol
lowing hard hit at Mr. Sumner, the newly elect
ed Abolition Senator from Massachusetts;
Love for the Union is very natural and be
coming in a person chosen to the United States
Senate for six years. If the Union doesn’t last,
the Senator’s “ occupation's gone.”
Mr. Sumner, since his election is vehement in
his expressions of devotion to the Union. There
is no better way to make a man a champion of
the Union than to give him a present or prospec
tive interest in the government,— lb.
Boston Harbor.— The Governor of Massa
chusetts. in a late veto message, says that the
main channel in the harbor of Boston has, with
in thirty years, diminished several hundred feet
in width, and from three to five feet in depth.—
Several large vessels have recently got aground
while coming into the harbor.
Death of “Dolly.” —We some months since
mentioned the existence of an aged negro wo
man. named “Dolly,” belonging to Dr. H. D.
Holland, of this place. We now annonnee her
death, on the 4th instant, at the age of 116, which
year she completed on the 16th day of April last.
She was remarkable for her tenacious memory
of events connected with the American Revolu
tion, having as we mentioned in our former no
tice, acted in the capacity of cook and servant
with several officers of the Southern army, and
was transported by them from post to post du
ring the war. She retained ‘her skill as cook al
most to her last end, being full able to prepare a
dinner in a style unsurpassed by any modern
adept of the gastronomic art. She was venera
ble and rather stately in appearance, with a bright
eye. fine teeth, erect figure, and hair perfectly
white. At the time of our former notice, she
was prostrated, as it were, on a bed of death*and
her exit momentarily expected. Her colored
friends of all ages then flocked arounn her, bes
towing these peculiarities which among South
ern slaves is singularly superstitious; but amid
incantations, prayers, and day and night watch
ings, the old woman suddenly arose from her bed
to greet the arrival of a female member of her
master’s family who had been absent in Georgia
for some months. She seemed to recuperate from
that moment, and has been since about. But at
last the grim messenger made his inexorable
summons, and the spirit of Dolly took wing to
the House of her Eternal Master.— Jacksonville
(Fla.) Republican.
John C. Turner. Esq., of Hinds county, says
the \ icksburg Whig, one of our California corres
pondents, returned a few days since, after an ab
sence ol about two years. We have not seen Mr.
1 urner. though we acknowledge the receipt of a
bundle of California papers brought by him. Mr.
Turner took with him two negro men, who re
turned on Monday morning last, as anxious to
get home as any returned Californians ever could
be. \V e understand they stuck to him the whole
time, despite the persons of all the Abolitionists
on the Pacific coast, and they are nearly as thick
there as they are in the New England States.
“The Underground Rail-Road.” The
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher, in his speech at the
anniversary meeting of the American and For
eign Anti-Slavery Society, held in New-York,
on the 6th of May, among many other things,
said:
“ I am amazed at the Fugitive-Slave law be
cause it is so utterly unfit for the object for which
it was made. The old law did not send back the
slaves, not one per cent of all that escape. No
more does the new law. Perhaps you are not
aware, my friends, that there is an underground
Rail-Road running through this city. I am not
a conductor on it, but I hear of it, and I under
stand that there are forty slaves who go up on
it, to one who goes back. Bfit the fault is not
in the law. The old law w&s weak through the
flesh, and the new one proves!
Independent Extra , May 10, /
“ We dispute the correctness of the Register 8
denunciation of the Compromise measures. We
deny that Congress, in its passage of the bill pre
venting the bringing of slaves into the District
of Columbia for sale , assumed the right to legis
late over slavery in a manner forbidden by the
Constitution.' 5
The above is from the Montgomery State Re
gister of the 9th inst. In reply we shall not re
sort to argument, but merely quote the first sec
tion of the act itself, and let the public determine
fi>r themselves, whether Congress, in this one of
the lauded Compromise measures, did not “ as
sume a right to legislate over slavery in a man
ner forbidden by the Constitution,” and grossly
unjust to, and aggressive upon, the rights of the
South. Here is the material part of the bill as
it passed:— [Mobile Register.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted , <sr., That from and after.
&c., it shall not be lawful to bring into the Dis
trict of Columbia any slave whatever, for the
purpose of being sold, or for the purpose of being
placed in depot, to be subsequently transferred to
any other State or place, to be sold as merchan
dise. And if any slave shall be brought into the
said District by its owner, contrary to the provi
sions ot this act, such SLAVE SHALL there
upon BECOME LIBERATED AND FREE. 55
Important Decision. —lt will be recollected
that about eighteen months since, the schooner
Mission, of Edenton, (N. C.) Capt. Cobb, while
on a passage from Turk’s Island to Edenton,
with a cargo of salt, was run down by the steam
er Columbus, from Philadelphia,bound to Charles
ton, and all on board lost except one man who
succeeded in getting on board the steamer. Mr.
John Sanderson, owner ol the schooner, soon
atter instituted a suit against the owners of the
Columbus, for the value of his vessel and cargo,
which suit we learn has been decided in his favor,
allowing him the full amount of his claim. We
are also informed tnat the widow of Capt. Cobb
will bring suit for a sum sufficient for her main
tenance.
Drinking Brandy on a wager—Fatal Re
sult.—Coroner Geer yesterday held an inquest
at the house No. 79 Eleventh street, upon the
body of Michael McGovern, a native of Ireland,
36 years of age who died from the effects of a
quantity of brandy which he drank on a wager.
From the evidence adduced before the Coroner it
appears that deceased left his home for a grog
shop kept by a man named Melville, at No 97
Eleventh street, on Monday night, that while
there he made a bet with one Owen Fox that he
could drink a quart of liquor without stopping to
take breath. Fox agreed to pay for the liquor if
he succeeded in drinking it. A quart of brandy
was then lurmshed the deceased by Hugh Han
novan the bar tender, and he at once drank it off,
and a moment after offered to drink auotherpint
if Fox would pay for it. He agreed to do so ; it
was lurnished, and he drank it off and then went
home.
His wife testified that he came in the house
very much intoxicated, went to bed and was dead
at 4 o'clock on Tuesday morning. Dr. E. C.
Franklin made a post mortem examination of the
body and found the stomach, lungs and brain,
much congested and inflamed, and gave his opin
ion that death was caused by drinking the liquor.
The jury after investigating the case rendered
the following verdict, viz: That Michael Mc-
Govern came to his death by drinking an over
dose ot brandy, and that such a quantity given
to a person whose constitution was impaired by
former habits of intemperance was the cause of
his death, and that said brandy w r as given de
ceased by Owen Fox and Hugh Hanovan. After
the rendition of the verdict, Fox and Hanover
were arrested and committed to prison by the
Coroner to await the action of the Grand jury.—
N. Y. Sun , 13 th inst.
Indian Corn at Windsor Castle. —Mr.
Stansbury, one ot the American agents to the
Great Fair, in Hyde Park, London, sent Queen
Victoria some specimens of his Country’s home
made com bread, and of the flour of which it was
made. In return he received a note from Win
dsor Castle, in w hich her Majesty's Chamber
lain, Major Gen. Bowles said he had "received
commands to thank Mr. Stansbury for the very
fine specimens alluded to and which were much
admired by the Queen and Prince Albert.'’
Dicken’s Household Words contains an able
article advocating the general use of this flour in
England.
Who will presume to turne up their noses at
corn dogers and hoe-cakes now ?
Donation to Mr. Calhoun.— De Bow's Re
view* contains a biographical sketch of Henry W.
Conner, in w*hich occurs the following state
ment :
“ A short time before Mr. Calhoun’s death, and
about the time it was ascertained that he was de
clining, it w*as resolved by a number of public
spirited gentlemen to raise, by subscription a
mong themselves, a sum of money sufficient to
pay off some debts, that, in his devotion to the
public interests, he had been obliged to contract,
and furnish him w*ith ample funds to travel to
Europe. The design was to demand it of him as
a duty to his State, to quit Congress for a time
and go abroad. He died before they had made
up the amount or communicated with him upon
the subject. The total sum raised was nearly
$30,000. The venerable Judge Huger, M. Gour
din, and Mr. Conner, were the movers in the
matter, and acted as the trustees.”
A Drink of Beer, Forever.— Mr. Emerson,
in one of his lectures, tells a story to exemplify
the stability of things in England. He says that
William of Wyekham, about the year 1150, en
dowed a house in the neighborhood of Winches
ter, to privide a measure of beer and a sufficiency
of bread to every one who asked it, forever: and
when Mr. Emerson was in England he was cu
rious to test this good man’s credit, and received
his measures of beer and his quantum of bread,
though its donor had been dead 700 years!
Message of Governor Young, of Deseret.
We have before us a copy of Gov. Young’s
first annual message to the Legislature of De
seret, delivered on the 2d of last December,
vvbich gives a highly favorable and interesting
pictuie of the condition of affairs in that new
territory. In commencing he announces that
the former Government of Deseret will continue,
in all its departments, until such time as it shall
be superseded by an organization contemplated
under the act ot Congress, establishing a ter
ritorial government. Referring to the past, he
says:
u We have the proud satisfaction of having
sustained a quiet, yet energetic government, un
der all the vicissitudes incident to new and un
tried localities ; and when the General Govern
ment shall have assumed to pay the expendi
ture, consequent upon the Indian expeditions, of
being comparatively free from debt. Unlike the
golden-browed neighbors of our sister State, no
agent of ours is hawking about our State bonds,
to obtain the necessary means to defray the six
teen dollars per diem of the allowance of the
members of the Legislature.
‘‘ The cause of education is flourishing through
out the territory. With the main body of the
Indian tribes the most peaceful relations exist,
and great efforts have been made to introduce
among them the habits and customs of civilized
life, but with only partial success.”
The message states as an instance unparalleled
in the history of the times, that not a single sol
itary case was reported for trial, before the regu
lar sessions of either county or supreme court,
during the past year; and no offence beyond the
control ot the justices of the peace seems to have
been committed.
Gov Young recommends in the strongest
terms that the capitalists of the State should in
troduce machinery for the manufacturing of all
kinds of machinery that will hereafter be want
ed * or * ac^o U es? kc ; , also, that stoves, and other
articles of heavy importation should be manu
factured by the people of that territory.
The Governor states that a Rail-Road will
nmbablv be constructed to Iron county, as
- fCjUfnvnife termi
nating at San Diego, and that whatever aid the
Legislature should see fit to extend to it he shall
acquiesce in, if within the range of his constitu
tional duties. —Boston Journal.
AUGUSTA, GA.
THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 19.
For Governor.
Charles j. McDonald.
CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION.
The Convention to nominate a Southern
Rights Candidate for the Eighth Congres
sional District, will be held in this City
on SATURDAY, the 12th day of JULY.
Mr. Cobb’s Suppressed Letter.
When the delegation from Clarke county
went down to Milledgeville to attend the Con
solidationists’ Convention, they carried with
them a letter from Mr. Cobb, defining his views
on the political questions of the day, to be laid
before the members of that Convention. It was
intended to apprise the members in advance
what sort of a man they were about to nominate,
it all being cut and dried, that Mr. Cobb was to
be the nominee, in order that they should have
no pretext afterwards for kicking out of traces
and refusing to support him. The purport of the
letter has transpired, as also the disposition made
of it. It was found by Messrs. Toombs, Meri
wether, Floyd, and others, managers of the Con
vention and chief wire- workers, to whom, only,
it was submitted, to be too much of a Federalist
document to be allowed to meet the eye of the
outside public, or even be laid before the body of
the Convention. It avowed the most open Con
solidation doctrines. It emphatically denied the
right ot a State to secede from the Union under
any circumstances, and claimed that in any such
event it was the right and the duty of the Fed
eral Government to make war upon her, and to
subjugate her by the military and naval forces
of the confederacy.
It was thought very hazardous to put such
views before the Convention, many of the mem
bers ot which were still State Rights men, as
past days, when none in Georgia but a few rank
Consolidationists denied the sovereignty of the
States and the right of secession.
It is notorious, that there are thousands and
tens of thousands ot Whigs, as also of Democrats,
in the same political ranks with Messrs. Toombs,
Stephens & Co., who will never subscribe to the
ultra federal doctrine that a State cannot right
tully interpose her sovereignty whenever she
sees proper to protect her rights and institutions,
and secede from a government which had be
come destructive of both. They will never sur
render to the slavish doctrine of u passive obe
dience” to power, and agree that when a sov
ereign State should in the exercise of her best
judgments resume her original position as an in
dependent State prior to her voluntary ac
accession to the Federal Union, she exposes her
selt to be conquered and subjugated at the point
of the bayonet, by Northern armies, and her citi
zens to be hanged as traitors by the hands of abo
lition executioners.
Mr. Cobb's letter was sent back to him. It
was pronounced imprudent to give it to the pub
lic. But, gentlemen wire workers, it is in vain
ye attempt to play this game of deception and
suppression. That letter will have to see the
light. The people of Georgia will not be hood
winked and led blind-fold to the polls. They
will insist on having the opinions of the candi
dates for their suffrages fully before them.
The mum policy w*as tried in 1849, in the case
of the Hon. Edw*ard Y. Hill, and signally failed.
Let Mr. Cobb and his friends take warning from
his fate.
Mr. Cobb is in a bad dilemna. If he plays
mum he will be beat, and if he comes out with
his consolidation doctrines he is destined to the
same fate.
Convention of Alabama Southern Rights Asso
ciations.
A second Convention of Southern Rights As
sociations of Alabama, was held at Montgomery
on the 12th inst. There w*ere nineteen Associa
tions represented, from nine counties in the
State.
The following Preamble and Resolutions, re
ported by the Hon. Wm. L. Yancy, were unan
imously adopted:
a W hereas, in the opinion of this Conven
tion, events of recent occurrence indicate that
one of the sovereign States of this Union is
placing herself in a situation to secede, and will
secede from this Union.
u And whereas, in the opinion of this body,
any State has the right to secede, and from the
very nature of the case, is the only judge of the
justice and propriety of such act.
" And whereas, it is not improbable that the
exercise of such right by the seceding State will
be opposed with arms, by the General Govern
ment. Therefore be it
'"Resolved, That in the event any Southern
State, in the exercise of its own judgment,
should see proper, for causes which now exist to
secede from the Union, in the opinion of this
Convention it would become the duty of this
State, as of all the other States, to oppose, with
force, any attempt upon the part of the General
Government to coerce such seceding State.”
The last resolution expresses the correct sen
timent, and the majority of the Southern people
w iH, should the occasion arise, respond to it. But
we do not believe South-Carolina will secede.
We believe if she does, no attempt will be made
to coerce her. But she will be victimized by
hostile legislation by the Federal Government.
State of the Treasury.
The New York Express says—The entire re
venues for the fiscal year, ending June 30,1851,
will exceed the estimates by fiive millions of dol
lars, and will reach (including the receipts at
California for a part of the past and the whole of
the present fiscal year) fifty millions of dollars !
Os this sum, ttvo millions will be credited to
California, and $48,000,000, at least, to the At.
lantic ports; and of this $48,000,000 New York
will have received an enormous amount; the re
venue collected here for only nine months of the
year being $2,375,012!
The receipts from the sales of the public lands
will exceed the estimates by about $600,000, and
reach, for the entire year, about $2,500,000 ! And
this, notwithstanding the sales through Land
Bounties, Land Scrip, &c., &c. The Land Office
some days since, had returns of sales exceeding
two millions of dollars, (2,005,000,) and many
heavy returns were to come in.
Mayhem by a Boy.—' TtaSt. Louis Organ and
Reveille tells of a little boy who cut off his sister’s
nose. The boy had attended the exhibition of
Mac Allister, the magician, and saw him cut the
nose off of one of the audience, and then placed it
on again as “natural as life.” This made an as
tonishing impression on the boy’s mind and he
requested his sister to let him try the experiment
on her nose—she consented, and he got a big car
ving knife and cut it off; his sister’s screams soon
brought persons to the spot, and there they found
the boy trying to put the nose on his sister’s face
again. Fears are entertained that the little girl
will not live.
General Talcott’s arrest, it is said, was by
order of Gen, Scott, in consequence of charges
preferred by the Secretary of War, against him,
ot insubordination and disrespect —principally,
it is understood, in refusing to submit, for the
Secretary's approval, certain contracts for casting
cannon at Richmond.
Remarkable Casuality. —Judge Turley of
Memphis, Tenn.,one of the most eminent jurists
of that State, came to his death a few days since
by one of thejmost remarkable accidents we ever
recollect to have heard of. which is thus related
b) r the Memphis Enquirer.
“It appears that Judge T. was leaning upon a
small cane, while conversing with a friend,when
the cane shivered with his weight, and a splin
penetrated his side, resulting in his death, despite
of every exertion.”
“A corresponpent of the New York Day Book’
writing from Louisville, Kentucky, the State
which Mr. Clay pledged to send a regiment
horse dragoons into South Carolina to subjugate
her people, discourseth thus:
t ..“They (the Kentuckians) are willing to talk
‘L nion! every thing for Union!’ and this in good
faith; but il fate should will their hopes to blast,
they will stand as a pillar of the South. They
seriously believe that South Carolina is about to
withdraw from the Union, and should the North
still cling to her Sewards and Sumners in this
crisis, and the President call out the United
to subdue the Palmetto, fifty thou
sand Kentucky bayonets will face the music of
Uncle Sam, and make Carolina's cause her own.
Mark this prophecy.”
The following toast was given after a dinner
at Queenston, Canada, last week:
"Dam your canals, blast your furnaces, sink
your coalpits, down with your railroads, away
with your electric telegraphs, and over with
your suspension bridges.'’
Melancholy Catastrophe.
We are pained to learn of one of the most
melancnoly and heart-rending occurrences that
it has ever befallen our lot to record, by which
our worthy fellow-citizen, Gen. Thos. J. War
then, lost a son and ward, in the most frightful
manner. It seems that on Friday night last, the
children above named, were sleeping in the up
per part of an out-house on the General’s river
plantation, near his dwilling when the building
took fire; a negro boy sleeping in the basement
of the same building aw«ke in time to see the
stairway leading to the apartments wherein the
children were sleeping, entirely enveloped in
flames. In his bewilderment he called to the
children to make their way through the burning
aperture, ran for the General, who, arriving at
the place, called to his son, and having no answer,
he clambered up agaiast the end of the house
and attempted to pull off the weather-boarding,
from which position he fell, his hands having
been badly blistered by contact with the heat,
the fire raging more fiercely, involving the entire
building and succeeded by an immediate crash,
all hope was gone—they had perished, doubtless,
from suffocation ere the succoring hand of the
parent and friend could be reared in their behalf.
Such are the circumstances as we have been en
abled to learn them of this truly calamitous affair.
The fire originated in the chimney place of
the lower apartment, from which the stairway
runs up, and was occasioned, it is supposed, by
carelessness of the boy in taking a torch about
the room, or by accident from the fire place. This
occurred about 12 o’clock at night.
By this terrible catastrophe the General has
lost his only and much loved son. an interesting
youth of some fourteen years, and a little boy
somewhat younger, whom he had taken to rear
and educate. United only by the common ties
of humanity, the loss of the latter, under eirem
stances not so appalling to human sensiblity,
would have unmaned his generous and sympa
thising heart, but when aroused at the dead hour
ot night to witness tne heart-rending destruction
ot an object of almost idolatrous love.snatched in
the midst of life with but a moment's warning
into utter nothingness, is a stroke of calamity
sufficient to fell the stoutest heart and strongest
nerve. But we will not harrow up parental
grief already too intense, over bereavements to
which human nature is the inalienble heir. Our
community deeply sympathise with Gen. War
then and family in this sad and melanchoiy dis
pensation.—Sandcrsville Georgian , 11th inst.
From Havana.— lmprisonment of a Youth.
On or about the first of this month, during a pub
lic the University of Havana, a
youth sixteen years of age, son of Sir. don Cirilo
Ponce, a wealthy citizen of Cuba, was arrested
and imprisoned for the following offence: Back
of the staging erected for the declamers. was a
black board, on which was written, while the
curtain was yet- down, in large letters with
chalk, “Viva Narcisso Lopez, y Mueran los Real
ists”—"Live Narcisse Lopez, and Death to the
Royalists.” The audience being assembled, and
the Captain General and suite having arrived,
the curtain was raised for the declamers to begin
their speeches. On noticing the writing on the
board, the Captain GeneraTimmediately ordered
the entrances to the building to be guraded, and
summoned all the students to appear befere him,
in order to find out which of them was the offen
der. Young Ponce stepped forward and ans
wered with firmness: “I am the one who wrote
it.” Ihe Captain General asked him why he
did it. He answered, ‘‘l wrote no more than
what I wish to come to pass.” He was ordered
to prison, and the public are at a loss to know
what will be done with one so young for his in
discretion.—Savannah Republican , 17 th imt.
The Weather.—We yesterday stated that
the ram on Monday evening had! set in in
good earnest, and had continued without inter
mission for several hours. We might indeed have
. rain throughout the night, as during the twenty
four hours, ending yesterday morning at 9 o’cfock
there was a fall of nearly 3 5-8 inches of water
which is the heaviest fall of rain that has been
experienced in tins city, since the Ist of Septet
oml lß^V When Xt reached 4 1-8 inches. On the
.OthofMay 1848, about 5 1-4 inches fell.
Ihe weather moderated at an early hour ves
hiS 17 ' 3Jurin g Monda y, the wind was rather
high especially during the night, when it blew
at intervals very hard, but we have heard as yet
()f no marme disasters.— Ch. Courier , 18 th imt.
The steamers Metamora,' Pe7k~foT Savannah
and Wilmington, Sterrett,for Wilmington, were
both prevented leaving port yesterday in conse
quence of the North-east blow.
Ihe Savannah boat due yesterday did not ar
rive, being detained no doubt by the state of the
weather.— Charleston Courier , 18 th inst.
In Wales a fire has been raging in a coal mine
ior twenty-six years, and has consumed, it is
eompnted, $500,000 worth of coal. Within five
years alter its commencement it w r as greatly re
strained by the construction of an enormous wall
which cost SBO,OOO. At present it is about pas
sing this wall, threatening very extensive des
truction, and learned engineers have been em
ployed to consult on some new measure for arrest
ing its progress. *
Provoking.— Malthus, the great British wi>
ter against the rapid insrease of population, has a
:son who has a wife and 14 children.— Brit Pa
per,
|i) JHoflitrtif tflfflrdjtlj.
Reported for the Constitutionalist
Charleston, June 18—P. M.
Cotton. —Sales to-day 500 bales, at 6 1-4 to
10 cents. Prices unchanged.
New York, June 18.
Cotton. —The market is firm and unchanged,
and 1,000 bales sold.
The Crescent City has arrived.
(Telegraphed for the Baltimore Sun.)
St. Louis, June 14th.
The steamer Sultana was burned yesterday.
She had on board a full cargo for New Orleans,
consisting of bacon and hemp. The boat was
insured for $50,000. The fire thence communi
cated to the sugar refinery of Agelrodt, which
was entirely consumed. Loss $25,000, but fully
covered by insurance.
Mr. Burt arrived last evening from Fort Mac
kay, where he had attended a convocation of In
dians, numbering some 3,000. Four tribes, the
Ohiemies, Caniway, Camanches, and Arapahoes,
were represented, and exhibited a very friendly
feeling towards the U. States.
Major Fitzpatrick was met by Mr. Burt at
Crow Creek. Mr. Burt thinks the Indians will
not meet the Commissioners at Fort Laremie,
where it was intended, this summer, to hold a
grand convocation of all the tribes in that region.
Mr. Burt did not meet Col. Summers and the
troops under his command, but learned that they
were proceeding slowly on account of the preva
lence of cholera among them. Eight to ten were
dying daily, and numbers deserting. Dr. Ken
nedy and another Surgeon had died.
The cholera had also appeared among the trains
of traders, and the teamsters were deserting in
the general panic.
The river is slowly receding, but has only
fallen 8 1-2 inches. Accounts from above state
that the river was falling there.
Detroit, June 14.
Trial of the Rail-Road Conspirators. —The Ad
vertiser says the evidence in the Rail-Road con
spiracy trial becomes more and more positive
and clear against Fitch, Riley, Bennett, and the
remainder of the ringleaders, and there seems to
be no escape lor them. Proof is made of crim
inal acts and of the agency of the prisoners, as
hiring and paying for their commission.
Buffalo, June 14.
The Outrages on Beaver Island. —The wife of
Samuel Bennett was made, by the Mormons, to
accompany her husband and his dead brother in
the boat after the murder and outrages. They
were taken to the “ Harbor,” where a jury of
Mormons returned a verdict that ;i Thomrs Ben
nett came to his death while resisting the law.”
Cincinnati, June 14.
The Constitution Election—The Cholera , sr.
Considerable interest is manifested in regard
to the new Constitution, which will be voted for
on Tuesday next. It is probable the instrument
will be adopted by a large majority. The tem
perance men sustain it on account of the clause
prohibiting the sale of intoxicating drinks.
The city is healthy. The cholera prevails
along the river to a considerable extent among
the emigrants, and is unusually fatal.
Toronto, June 13,
Canadian Parliament. —ln the Legislative
Assembly last night, Mr. Cayler moved an ad
dress to the Queen praying for the restoration of
that protection which Canada formerly enjoyed
in the English market. After a debate the ques
tion was postponed until the result of the recip
rocity negotiations with the American Govern
ment are known.
The Council of the Toronto Board on Trade,
has resolved to memorialize the Government
against the project of closing the Canals to
American vessels, and in favor of deferential du
ties, to encourage the trade of the St. Lawrence.
{Correspondence-of the Baltimore Sun.)
Washington, June 15, 1851.
Presentation of a Silver Pitcher to Father Ritchie—
-Ihe President and Jlttorncy General present.
There was a large gathering, last evening, at
Father Ritcnie's, occasioned by the presentation
to the old gentleman of a beautiful silver pitch
er? as a token of respect and regard from the
faithful persmutle of the Union office. It was a
touching affair. Mr. McNerhany presented the
pitcher in behalf of the office employees, and
made a very happy, eloquent address ; to which
Mr. Ritchie responded with much feeling and in
his best style. The President of the U. States,
and Mr. Crittenden were among the number of
distinguished gentlemen present on the occasion.
Such a testimonial of kindness and attachment
on the part of political friends and foes must have
been highly gratifying to Mr. Ritchie’s heart,
while it atiords a strong proof that the gentler
feelings and impulses of our nature are not yet
destroyed by the steam-drying process of parti
'll 3 ; 11 politics. Mr. Ritchie will shortly leave for
Richmond May he there, in the bosom of his
family, find that peace and happiness which his
many virtues so richly merit.
Yours, &c., X
•}j- E *P IV 1 ER AND THE Flood.—^Yesterday, or
w j thm the twenty-fours from 6 o'clock on Wed
nesday to 6 o’clock on Thursday, the river oppo
site tins city rose faster than at any period duriiw
this Hood. From 7 o'clock on Wednesday eve”
mng to 0 on i hursday morning, the river rose
8 1 J inches, and from 8 a. m. until, 6 p. m. yes
terday, it rose 6 1-2 inches, making a total rise,
as taken by Mr. Coote, of the Engineer’s De
portment, 1 leet 3 inches.
So extensive is the flood, that we expect to hear
complaints from every quarter of the failure of
■ ftconnotbe otherwise. lowa, Illinois
and Missouri, the bridges over almost all the
streams have been swept away, and the country
tor miles submerged. Delays must for these causes
occur in the transmission of the mails, and the
people must make all proper allowances for such
lailures. ht. Louis Republican , (sth insJ.
Large Shipment of Specie.—Three hundred
thousand dollars in specie were received by
Adams & Co. s Express Agents yesterday, from
1 ennessee, to be forwaru<xl to New York and
Boston, and was sent on by the above line this
morning. 1 his is by far the largest shipment of
specie e\ er made at this point.— Cin. Commercial ,
9th inst.
Jenny Lind and Barnum. —The following
letter is published as an evidence that the state
ments with regard to a difficulty between Jenny
Find and Mr. Barnum, are incorrect:
"ToT. P. Barnum , Esq. —My Dear Sir: I ac
cept your proposition to close our contract to
night, at the end of the 93d concert, on condi
tion of my paying you $7,000, in addition to the
sum I forfeit, under the condition of finishing
the engagement at the end of one hundred con
certs. I am, dear sir, yours truly,
Jenny Lind.
Philadelphia , 9th June , 18-51.”
Macaulay’s charges against Wra. Penn have
been reluted by the discovery of some valuable
documents relating to the life of the Duke of
Monmouth. Penn was accused of extorting
money for negotiating pardons for persons con
uemned to death. A cash book has been found
by Mr. Roberts, in which it is recorded that a
Mr. Pinney, an ancestor of Wm. Pinney, Esq.,
M. P., w r as condemned to death, and that his
ransom was paid to one t; George Pennc.” Doc
uments which were searched in the State Paper
office by Mr. Roberts for materials for his life of
the Duke of Monmouth, show that “ Mr. Penne’ 7
was in one instance intended for William Penn ;
therefore, the founder of Pennsjdvania is entire
ly exculpated from the serious charges made
against his memory by Mr. Macaulay.
Sale of Sugars.— The cargo of brig William
Chase, from Mayaguez, Porto Rico, consisting of
356 hhds. Porto Rico Sugars, was sold Friday, at
auction, at Georgetown, at prices ranging from
$5 40 to $6 55—and 106 hhds. Molasses at 26
to 29 cts.— Baltimore American,
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