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American Agriculture—What it Is; what
it ought to he,
Pew know what Amp icun ngrizuUuro is,
find fewer whnt it ong’*. io he. The.Jolirnul
of the United States Agricultural Society con
tains full returns f the agii.cultuj'.il.s'-'tiitii * ;
of all the States :i 1 ut Tenitori •■■-', as prepared
nt the Census cilice, i'or the year 1850. I
These statistics jverent many interesting and i
Instructive fact ■, a !indicate romnikabl” pro
gress in {he prediiclivciio.-nof the rural indus
try of the country. The <•:>: tic’ employed ill
agriculture, i ichn i.iy t! • value of l:; Haven
so engaged, exceeds five ihou.-nfid jnillion
dollars. Os ihi -i • snip, the i; i:i • show
that sJ3,2t'.*\!‘2;>.f.'i7 ;.. iuve din lan.!.
This consists of !I A, 1..‘ >.l <* s •-improved
land,” and IM.AftA.O.A :c-t si , unimproved
land.” Prolmhlv • •:. hi •;•, over two thi;d>
of the nation is < niph>. at in tillage and i.u -
liAudrv,
American r.y.iicullttre is riktingni -lied by
two proininet-i at.iv •; .:■ oh tcriven— .< fi
crops and de. trurriv :e i ;!. <'r■ j<s
large in the ergrey. :••, ami i.ometinu** almn
dant per acre, :uc ; - <w <, h , tho i'. 1 ike ly
consuming the eVm:. tc of ft. tilily which .\, -
tore has stored tip ii t'• ■ virgin kind of this
continent, Define any one cii’.i liftvo ft f*o?’-
rect idea of wh.it At:n i can . gi i.aultme is, in
inust oarefully laves'!gate tie Carts which
show how much of the atoms in tin* nnAt e
of the earth tii.it lY.e.i ;i\ hundred tuiilion
(umbels of mai ‘, o ■ h-iiairc-.l amlthi iv mil
lion bushels of vi. , over t oi ! o.i.uml
fnlllion pounds of ■ Ic. ‘.ton, two hmidripl
million pounds of to! .. ~ sugar, and other
crops in Jiro.o-(i ■>. i .ti.Niy leino. df. i:i
the arateil tiel-ri, : -tur : i nv lotS* . < f
tho United St:;:- . l •; is :. i. and to
them again, ‘if iiv. ’r . ti.e > il
losses by tllla; • p 1 in crop-, ;ml v. t i 1
gains in manure,-, i.u a the t:uc eh,-.? ,;c
----ter of our rystcin of In; -h dy. P.tir I • von.
nitty with us is not a •i: >r s‘n ’• , hut
an empirical art. I o ; aunt ii
of the matter cotmmi-d in the growth • “..in.
grass, roots, cot’ i:i, toh .-<•:•, undo:’
vated plants. A .eel phv* i a! I ihor . -
rvlhiug; priiiei] I • and n •.’ la
in our fnmiiog operati > . *\ u r ti.i n.
left of principles Cmitim-l l> r:n acultii; i-u .
All (tint Rllhsi ton li: f ails of til! ige ‘'..,1
husbandry in fid sand villa;. are eqi’ ilv
iiniiiiti<lfti! of tie r al.i lay’ and <-y to fei >1 the
land that food th. a. Not to do 1’ • to
Impnvish the li o. n.l :• v . a :
to a degree ll: I farrier ..noot j.o idy ivnte- i
dy by t!ie i.i.l of ini; art 1 or homo made
manures. One !i> ! ( • ,il'i■ >:; acre van ■
under cultivation mt’ on;lnn • until all
sesthat comp” • i.jr tv.', dylivc millions of
Jiopnhlti• :i, vho j.r • I 1 ;::id clod and !>y t’ e
products of tine oil. e ...e-erat •I I rive •; ■ k
to the Imd i’ • i ■I• !'••!•: o;
tility; Ho I->.’! r u -t : . • > are \,.i md i-i <il -.
uud villa < .
and form. Is they yi II l yraiu, jn .t. and by
product s, fruits, vi •/ fald -, ug-;r, rt , c ..!-
ton, tohacco, f!• •„ la inp.'w.vu!, v. > 1, hmio ‘.
and timh.r ir , unu h rn; t u;!'.t lun’di,
damage. To ( a•• tth so p-. ■i <n
that form cot'nn, h: ’ .ml nu r.t nut tl -ar
flice. of avi” i a roil .e! and .e:n t.* tnurl.i-l,
Is one of th !. i fed :..•••! ad- • I • ,
(ions: and tl. ■• ‘ ■ it i- ‘ ■ t'.a nm-.t m •
slaves and i . hit
lv employed i ‘ta e.
‘Jh IV.
rerpiires . lit:! ’ i
wear out de l:.. ; I . I .-••Il I :
Skill in pro ‘ m, with 11 and
adequate u- ly an m- •• ( ]
stlttu of the of i .i• ■ Rt 11 w’d.-h
are naturally f : . i 1 die old ::<d ;.
deserted . h - a? of Idliiayl.uu!
has sew:.:! 1 ia its developmeat; aid
we have | 1 the tir t into I ic second
in such old , h as > w A oik, h: :u . t-Lu
setts, lYnia-v! a:. ft ad .• yl ind. Tie sc-
ntage ■ the th .Ii i till ‘ ; that,
whereas in :! • fa.••me - r.<; ly i. >
manure, as aj: ..1 :td .i ■ ttew land ‘, hut
draw on the lie;. . f • for ir ctnp.s
they now u on I land:- in the .tec >:id
stage some ; - •'a it ich .• lime, 1
Itono du.-t, p\| •. ■ ■! stahL* ia ;•-
yrc to form a |a t of I ir kaive.'-t . Hindi
element of ntid cotton as
were not cr ! : aa .oiler date, are
Mow lieine reu .. iy and. ,i r ] lougliing and
more thorough i nit. .. >;i.
One can pe li :I ‘. t nit of lid i adv.r.u I
practice villi i- itnndi I inly as any Ih
ture ecliijiie of the m n mt in may he fore
told.
To drav. ptii. -a and . • emth from the
Ru)>-soil as v II . ; t.rn !*■-• fu.rface soil, tihe I
Wasted i:i ci:i where cm; re so largely
consum ‘d, is si ii illict deep instead of
shallow ste; iii’.am i I 1 ii tri ,1. ’I !.•
available s i,'pi , line Is that i.n
psrts fruitful
and quite 1 i: 11 i 1 ii v. ••: •! rot
didicult to i ii n•• 1 •ultw I
statistics showi tg . iy. •i > y . I .'.or
the improved I .! >: :• > r eon 1•• • t
or gai ied il i’ •r . m ii ■’ in . ‘ re
mail food mid i.-.i . • I’ >w ‘1 1-1 j • ;
c#nt jier ;iiini; :ll i-n 1 • i;• ‘• I ‘■ ■ h'< ug
under eiihivatkm n 1’ ’’ • ■•’ • • ,
improved lands of tie 1 couiury i :• •ow I
Set down at lt!5,()0t) .'a 1 . Oil; i .’I
large allowance to .-ay that 1.1.'i •
000,000 acn are liol
elements of crop-; I avi ig 100,(500.0 ji:
subject to constant and t r or.alim. In tin na
tional works of e.'duatis;; .g I itid, not the cin
tivntors of the soil aki i*. !-* a all eon line
Sid saeportprs of ag.i •uti'i I•• ■, •-’ ; partiei-
pate equally ii the v.. m : done to our com
mon mother earth. ‘ • i t k' ,-,uv 1 lna ’
ny million tons oi g.ni i. < -n,t • <■••
scc. are forced t> > Ito* i t int ir ‘ j
precious at mis I’i• t i -ive tii• l i ‘.n - i < .< i* (
voted pi in ts. ,
The return of l:e•’ n ‘ <■■ll at r > t 1 ‘ ‘ >■ •
ponde th.e soil whence they were taken do
petide nx.ro on tlie action of those that dwell
in l itii;; and villages than on the action of far
mer have wasted-add destroyed. It is in ci
tips tint both the rt idv and. the practice of
good husbandry must begin before they are
l ppssible in the country, ns society is iy>w
I finned. It is the supreme folly*of the deni-,
I vens of American cities, with tlielr navigable
J rivers and lakes, their canals, and their far
reaching railroads that desolate the land
which supports their commerce, their manu
factures, their trade, their arts, and their pro
fessions, because they greedily grasp all tlnit
tdlngc and husbandry produce, and give no
thing lack to renovate the impoverished folds
of the planter and fanner. The two condi
tion of American agiicuHure is not under
stood, Htr.t. Rinen, innocent of any knowl
edge of the faience, except impossibilities
Tiotli of the roil and its cultivators. Farmers
are reqiti ed to give for indefinite ages to iu
iatid uni foreign coaimerov nnHimtitl quanti
le's ofh'nintin food ami the raw material of
i ‘o iking tikes out of life surface of the ground,,
fil l raceive nothing hut dry goods, gipceiies,
hardware, farm implements, and household
fumituro in exchange. Hue]i is our .present
syf-tchi of rural and political economy. Il
makes the land fiuppoit all classes and all in
terests, while it does toothing whatever to
maintain the enduring fiuitfulncst; of arated
arid depu.-tured fields.
Improvements in agricultufril miedduefy,
in :dough cullivattftn, and reaper., in no is’
find oikor IVtctlkb s for trehsjiqrting’ crops t/i
market, are helps to hastjui the depletion of
id! th< fiiiiuiiig kinds ja the Ueptildie. Mas
tii • planting of cottoti.am! ctffu
millions of aeres at the South? When was
t .i-: epa. lition so extensively prafltioed us in
the ycur 185S? How cap. the of
twelve pounds’ of cotton to ah acre planted
in toll loco Or wheat- in \ itglnia'qr AlSn'l.mcl,-
and forming a pairt 5f two hundred pop;ids-of*
iV. iv i ,u gu.mo tii.i'.e goSd the does of thirty
six pounds Os potash removed from the, acre
in the crop .’ To put a pound ot buiie earth,
‘a, polish ammonia, or cldurinti into
the e.ittV. and take three jmnndsoht by deep
cr . ‘. I liettef tillage is"s:ii'cly not the way to
it:’ va.-e the eaithly elements, of crops in the
.••.oil. At In at, it is but the com iimpfion of
one’s capita! in premature dividemls-ou bisiu
w-.-tm-nt. I.arge iuuiK'diate profits, wlie'ther
iu atr i u.lture muaufaetivi'es, hanks, or rn il -
ii.: ■-. .a;c ; huo t always ejeoeptive; and fee-
I ipn 1 .tir ] .1 to uuw i-c acti mo oni mi -placed
j eontidcace.
j Atlvmlns*** ofr? float E<m:2cr.
A fiend of ours who has a keen eye for
game and a dis.etiminatiiur tooth withal has
given nt? the following dot til v of an jidventn -e
vvhi.-li lm had a few days siuco. lie left
the ci-'y eai ly one morning in a small battpnu
v\ i;lr tvd. double barrelled guns, a negro man
to : Ail saml a col I dimYrr put tip in-a tin
kettle. ‘ .king his way with all possible,
haste re tl” weßiknown-haunts-ofiils favorite
bifds he soda fmnd himself In the vicinity of
I ipe-m In ;s week, lie had not proceded
far into the creek when 1 e discovered a boat,
parti v concluded by some willow lmshes.-
Hu .il g that all was not light, lie ap
proached c.-oniaudy the spot/whra lie discov
ered two lu.: y negro fellows atleep ih tliej
Ime.t. I'y the f:H ofsoaeh lay a gnn and a
’ knife. It was evident t&at they were rana
wav: r.ini :•• idvedona stout r ?istatsco.
The (. not hunter put hiiusPlf-in posit! 09,
Ivi ie iii; trusty fire-lock aud ; h: iled. The
sleope; • epntng to tin ir arms and showed fight,
Iho hunter \vus not. thus to be “frightened
iV..; 11 lii-; prop! iety” hut plainly twld them that
if they mi ed a hand they should have the
cont ■itv of both Larrcll . After a short pay
l.*y tluy i uriviidered, their weapons to their
, tor. Uere arose a dfienuni;. lie was
afmiJ to trust them iu deep water, knowing
his ovvn negro coal l not swim and fearing
that they might upset the hatteau. lioaceor
dingiy delermined to put theyi ashore and if
po ...i'iJe secure them. He therefore ordered,
them to paddle towards the dry-land, cau
tioning them, at the same time, that if they
attempted to escape he would shoot them. —
j Th.’ moment the boat touched the land they
, put his courage to the test by bounding away
i like deer, not however escaping until each
I had an ounce of cold lead under Ids ocat
shi Our informant .uvr that it had a mar
veil'ills effect ia quickening their pace,
1 im'.iag that his gawo was gone, and that
<• :mall ,!mt was not the thing for buck ne
groes,” he tool; the gang, knives, &c., and
turned Ills face homeward. As the river was
rough he concluded to lmg the lee shore.—
lv. crvthing was going 011 (finely, ami our
Coot l uatcr, who had fallen into a kind
of i I” i■,w as thinking about his adventure
vv fib tin runaways; when suddenly snap went
the | .uldle, and over went boat, negro, hunter,
• gun*, h fives, and tin kettle. All went to the
bottom, anil the heavier articles; of course,
nan; hied there. The hunter canio up direct-
Iv under the boat, but soon extricated lii;n
. If. liis first thought was for the negro,
v. bo could not swkn. He pushed toward hftn,
! ;: 11 •! f.i;lnnately succeeded in sci/lng bi:n by
j th” 1.. nd and enabling him to cling to the
boat, Aft t some tine they | ieked upn pole
: , ; was floating 1 ret, with which they let
c, \ 1,1 1 ashing tlieniselvt s ashore. After
1! f. ing ti eir boat they leached the city the
■ ; i > a'lVa i’.oi.in, as wet as coots and not half
as happy.
TJ •■ n xt day, accompanied by a friend
who is put up on the Sinn Hatch order, our
adventurer returned to the scene of his disas
ter. After a go *1 deal of judicious diving
ml deedin'', they finally succeeded in liish
i ; r 1111 c.l! tour of (lie gi.r.R mid one ot the
knives. Our info;turn t gives it his deci !•
cd <q i ,i m, and reqiuais us to | uhlisli tt (or j
the 1 an tit of si! laekl hr foot hunters, Unit j
there i< at 1.-.-t one iaf.tr place to carry J
a Ilian** ( inner than i 1 a
From Ulc Fihin; Grounds,
jWr. AdiHson Merchant, of the fifiu of A.
Aferchaid 4c Cos., of Close *ster, rettintetl
homo 09 Saturday from I’iince Edwardjs-,
land, where ho has lmcn to attend to'the
schnonor F’orNrr, vvtiich was seized and ear
riodinto Clmrlottetown. The vessel wqp con*-,
demned and ordered to be sold*at auction.
Mr. Merchant was put to a good deal of
trouhe in recovlng his property. Instead of
selling tho vessel as she came into port, she
wax stripped, and almost every article was
old separately, hhe vessel was knocked off
at aboutslooo, and the other :**tk:Tes brought
SSGO mo, e. These vvitli the expenses attend
ing, make the whole amount which it has cost
the owners to obtain hcrrclease, about 81700.
The Telegraph -says: e
“There has been several arrivals from the
Hay since Saturday morning, all of them w ith
meagre fares. We learn from them that the
mackerel are scarce, and most of the fish play
within three miles of the shore. The pros
pect now is that the American vessels will
obtain poor fares this Pull.
“We loam that ( a t. Demi , . -
schooner Leonard Mchmzic, of this port, j
when passing through the Cut.
In‘lidded down his jib for the pin jm. ’ 1 !
ing fora vessel which was ?-i u.v with .
him to Come up, Wliil • ! >. tv w.. • j
boarded by ati otßcor from Ifer.iiy,
who told Captain D. tliat ho-siimiht seize him.
“Capt. Dealings said iii reply that hisves-
I was not to he taken, as he was not viola
ting the treaty, and if the officer atk pled ••
do so lie should resist to the last. A (ter some
words had passed between thorn, the officer
got into his boat, and went off, tel j the
crew of another vessel near by Jjiat fie was
going after more force, (’apt. . Demings,
however, lias receiver! no farther trouble wiien
the ’William Batman left.
“We also learn that th.e lieutenant v.i” was
in comlnnnd of'the Telegraph tlie first of the
season has been removed, and another pntfin
his place, who docs not disguise Ids vessel,
hut keeps his flag (lying all tlie time.
“We know that some of our fishermen liavo
gone into the Bay, with the •determination ot
never surrendering their vessels the British’
cutter, as long as life remains in them, and if
any of the cutters undertake to capture them
by force they will meet w ith resistance; ; and
where there are so many resolute men togeth
er, should the cutters unnecessarily annoy
them trouble v. ill assuredly result.”
Si.iirs’ IVojjs Mavan.
Arrival at .VO. with dates to August 25)tli,
state that, (lie nine persons arrested ou the
charge of IK-in : : concerned ia the publication
or the ivvoliilioa.i. v paper, were to liegarol
toil on the Ist‘of ‘H’epteuiber., This was tlie
am liver; ary af Lopez’s execution.
IjCtters received by tho Umpire City, at N.
V., date’ll Havana, Aug. 28th, give informa.-
(ion wliicb allies with this reporj, and.the next.’
arfivai vvfllprobaldy iiring m’ost exciting ac
counts from the Island.
The V .V. (knirit t and Enquirer publishes
a long letter from an ’American in Ifavana,
dated Aug. tltUh, which dosefibos the betray
: I of die conspirators by a t’uief named Fives,
who was in the chain gang, and bad soinebow
wot information of them. It was on his re
ports tbit the ‘arrests were made, among
pjwm wore Don Auau Conzales, a rich plan
ter of Sun Crjatobal, and the lawyer ■ 17ou.
Joaquin hi. Fiato. tloirxalcpwas first order
ed to be shot, but was finally taken'te Hava
am, and imprisoned in the Koro.
On the ‘Add of August, tlie ‘ Havana, police
e.nptiiTed the press ai The i o!ae of the Peo
ple, with ftjithe material.; nn(l “from tor No.
4, of which oitly the proof had boon taken for
correction. ‘1 “iia G,ove,rmneftt had been ajvare
for some days of tho locution, and only deter
red tho seizure'until their agent, should set ad
vise, that the pai ties mlgdit i t c apprehended in
the act of offence, in preparing nnd altering
the paper; .which was, accompli died ia - the
lithogrushio establishment 1, of Don 1-idguard
Facciolo, situated upon Ooispo-strcet, and
few stejis from tlie palace. The proprietor*
::Vl his employers are prisoners. It it proba
ble that three of tho persons implicated in
publishing The Voice of the People, have paid
(lift penalty of their temerity at thepunta.—
It was certain, in advance that such would be
their fate, and we suppose they n o prep 1
to meet it.
Still Latf.k.—After the above had I “:j
placed-in type yesterday, the th
Schoonpr /,, 8. Lucas, Capt. A 1
at this port from Havana and ke\ v ost, hav
ing left the former pine a -c. and■”
latter on the fid, irißt.
We learn from tiie captain ot tlie i*. •■*, Lu
cas that the yellow fever nnd Cholera contin
ued to rage with great violence both on ship
board and in the city of Havana.
Arrests were Rtiil being made at the depart
ure of the L. S. Lucas of parties supposed to
he connected with the Revolution:; , journal
The Voice id the People and Capt. Sweeney
was offered :i0 Doubloons to bring off a sus
pected individual, but as a matter of prudence
to risk the safety of the schooner by interfer
ing in the n a ter.
Information was received in Havana on
the 30th nit., that a terrible cathquake, and
hurricane had occurred on the JtOtli ult., on
the South site of Cuba, w hich had caused a
considerable amount of damage particularly
to the city of St. Jago de Cuba.— Charleston
Courier.
{dome robbers having broken into a gen
tleman’s house, went to the bed of the toot
man and told him if he moved, ho was a dead
man. “Tlmt’s a lie !” said lie, “for if I move,
1 am sure that 1 am alive! ’
There arc now six candidates for the Presi
deticv: Din. Pierce, Democrat; Hen. Scott,
U | ig: Dm i I HVbt-r, l nn>n Whig; J. P.
|J;,!.•, i re, il 1; \. in. ( N nil. 11, Liberty matt
Gov*, Troup, t. I
The ret In Cotton-.
Tlie Natchez Courier, of Friday, the 17th
inst., has tlnffollowing remarks about the rot
“in cotton:
Hnijlly an hour passes in the day, without
hearing from planters in this city, and adjoin
ing counties, complaints as to the rot. It is
undoubtedly true that one good picking lias
been obtained, but there tlie crop appears to
have ended. We were informed yesterday
by a planter from Jefferson county, that he
could in his fields hardly find one boll in a
hundred which was not ruined. He said that
lie spent upwards of an hour day before yes
terday, trying to find good bolls, and that lie
had not come across half a dozen during all
that search. He intimates the injury at near
ly, if not quite, a half the expected crop, and
that the same may be said of the plantations
iu his neighborhood.
These reports are too true to be made light
of samples to the rot are continually coming
in as evidences of tlie statement, and all unite
in testifying to the rapidity with which the
ruin has been accomplished, in-fields where
1 week, sine* y,n I --e was mani
| fi st, hardly a healthy boll can now be found.
•'• ,t< that jit - -om the eom
! *ll a a aI 1 ve -ot escaped.—
•Specimens, of 1, 1 <. from sm !j 1 I mts arc
j now in our cl’i* . Air on the .outside..except
i• - ...11 .s.” bed spot, but \v!. : .--k t u
tirely rotted through. A planter of long ex
perience informs us that it is the same disease
which he recollects prevailed at one time al
most universally, when he was a boy, : ’
which was only got rid of by an entire change
of Reed.
Our New Orleans friends may depend up
on these things afe no co* ton ”
Ihe crop may yet lie no riiuil| oho, Because
v great deal Bf cotton was picked before the
hi ase appeared; but that it can reach -in
ti.i - region anything like wfiat was expected
three weeks siiice, none anticipated.
A Candid Adversary.
A candid Democrat is a rare bird, though’
not wholly unknown. The Louisville editor,
who admitted the irresisthbte force of the tes
timony against General Fierce in relation to
the New,Boston speech, was one'of the rari
ties. Another is Mr, Nicholson, the chosen
champion of the Memphis (Tenn.) Democrats,
put forward to sustain their cause is a discus
sion that has just taken place in that city!—
The Memphis Eagle, in its outlines of the de
hate, has the following :
“The portion of Mr. NichcflsoVs speech
which is most noteworthy was his, admission
of General Bierce’s anti-slavery senfimfnts. —
Mr. X. rt penial the language of the. Manches
ter Speech, as giving expression to the ah
stact sentiments of hostility to slavery univer
sally entertained by men bom ;rnd reared, as
General Bierce has been, at the North, hut
maintained that 110 was not the less reliable
tor the puotcetion of southern institutions, so
far as they are guaranteed by the Constitu
tion. ‘i hist part ol Mr. Nicholson’s speech—
frank, candid and open, and by that very,
frankness and candor lending strength to the
argument iu behalf of General Bierce— must
have weakened the faitli of every Democrat
present in w hat their organs have been telling
them about, the New Boston speech. Mr.
• Nicholson Would not, and did not, stultify
himself by attempting to show the difference
between.the sentiments -there attributed him
to General Bierce, aiid those which lie admit
ted liigi to hold, and to have expressed at.
Manchester—although lie referred to it ‘inci
dent-ally’ as a ‘calumny.’ Mr. Nicholson’s
argument on this point was a virtual admis
sion of all that the Whigs have charged, to
wit, flint General Bierce held sentiments on
the subject of slavery far more objectionable
than afiy over attributed to General Sttott.”,
There is more wisdom as well as m6re
honesty in this recognition of an established
fact, Unfit in the tactics of the metropolitan
..organ In its treatment of this question.
John Van Ihircn.
In a speech delivered by this supporter of
Bierce aiidKing iuFaneuiHi;iU, Boston 20th
ultimo housed the following language.—We
quote from tho Traveler, a journal by. no
means partisan:
1 lie deed w’ ’ : “self in • or of Pierce and.
King, alluded to the . uff.ilo j>latform, and
sai l that he had c'woe ‘‘ C ,, n opposed lo the
. .. -. ■’ r:cnp.. st- ‘'ffbe, and had
.. /••/ ot/s been in f; *•.-• 0/ oho. isiJ'ng slater ip”
The Boston Cos ■■nhimweal i, in its report of
the same speech, at; abut*. *• 0 Van Bo
ren the following papsagts:
“As lie had before had occasion to say, lie
wished the country to know that he support
ed Bierce and King, and gave in Ids adhesion
to their principle. Yet, while he said so, lie
wished it distinctly understood that he had
always be|p, and was now, opposed to that
relation described as human slavery. He
had always been, and was now, an earest advo
cate of the National Government’s abolishing
slavery wherever it had the. power.
riJoea this look like John had “atoned,
in part for his past errors,” neighbor Times ?
Webster (’(invention in Boston.
This Ccrivention, the proceedings of which
we gave last week, was telegraph to have
been attended by “tlirUo hundred persons.”—
The smallness of the number lias exeited the
ridicule of many papers. No correction has
been made of tlie errors of tho report For
the benefit of our readers, who prefer facts to
fiction, we copy from the “Boston Advertis
er,” a Hcott paper, the following:
“'J'lie attendance was larger than might
have been anticipated from the very unfavor
able state of tlie weather, the heavy rain which
began in the morning continuing until the
lime of meeting and afterward. There ap
pealed to be from one thousand to twelve
I hundred persons in th** hall.”
Louisville, Aug. 23.
Two young girls at Henderson, Ivy., on
Monday last committed suicide by tying their
hands together and walked out into the Ohio
river, where they laid down and drowned
themselves. They were sisters, aged 10 and
18. When they were found they were lock
ed in each other’s arms, ‘llie cause was
family difficulties.
The above is a meloncholy picture of tlie
straits to which the human family is frequent
ly reduced by theunkindness ot parents, step-
I’athers and step-Mothers. The suffering
young alas, poor creatures, who shall tell
their tale of sorrow ? How cruelty and tyr
anny drive them to madness and despair. —
How few there are old enough, to narrate
their wrongs, or who have any dear friends
to listen to their sorrows and their woes. On
the contrary, Fate, as if rioting on their deso
lation, magnifies their ills, while Despair,
with her haggard countenance, drives aways
all (who on the happy way to eternity) would
inquire into their wounded bosoms. Barents,
step-Fataers, and step-Mothers, Guardians
and all hear, pause long, and reflect upon
your resposibilities.-. Remember you were
once young, and in a state of utter depen
dence: do not forget your infant entry into
the world, remember your early pleaures, and
1 contributed to them, nnd by those remin
*•_ determine to discharge your obliga
tions for the past, to those young creatures
whom Providence has placed about you. Do
not let wo; Idly desires to accumulate riches,
’ Hunt Ihe feelings of your hearts, let nature
m.*e her wa v in acts of kindness and perform
suck, dictates as she. gives you cheerfully. —
I oamt cross your children in'any tiling that
is - rrf lers, lut allow them evcry,indulgence
the nature-of tlic--c:ie will iidmit of.
Bow.many poor^piils like the two ifi tlie
.picture, are-driven away from homo into a
II ill hue of misery and infamy. How. many
sons mined by uukindiiesj, stinted for tiie
want of means, conmiit acts, that fix inifamy
upon them for life, that would otlierjrisediave
been useful and ornamental members of socie-
Jj*.
Wliat tales of Terror might be told!
What dark pages yet.unturned, by the pub
lic; are kept shut by the fact, that “Fanjily
difiicnlties” are secret as the gravel! Alas,
for the, injured am} oppressed, they are depriv
ed-of the means of escape, and have, no hu
man being to spefik.to, of their misfortune.-
Tho grave to such, is a resting glade indeed.
There in its quiet wall, secure -from furthc r
insult- and contumely, they are Tree from that
worst ofhll earthly evils,.Parental meanness
and heartless dictation.
It is too late .to repent the Joss of these
poor giiiN. No doubt tliosp whose business
it was to render acts of kindness and tefi them,
repent now, hut they shoifid have reflected be-,
fore. Barents should have n good deal mp:ye
to do with their children, than they genecijly
imagine. They should -associate familiar-/
’ly with them. They should commence at oner
in learning to do any tliing.to-please rfnd liar
mbuize them. Habit is every thing, arid if
once ffiey begin this agree;,l Je course, it will
ever become a great pleasure. Our Saviour
loved little-children,’ and they are far from
liith, and God, who do not by their actions
show tlicy do so also, lie good to tlie young.
—Palmetto Sentinel.
Troapaad Quitman Iffifccliiig.
We have stated that a meeting had been
held -in.-Columbus by the JSecersioriist.s, at
which resolutions were adoped nominating
Gov. Tkoup for*President and Gov. QriT
itAX for Vice-President. Tlie resolutions
-adopted as follows:
liesdlved, That the I’eSeral Government
has 110 right to interfere with the institution
of slavery in flic States, District of Columbia
or Territories belonging to the United States,
in any manner, so as to impair the relation
between master and slave.
Rcsoh fd, That any citizen of the United
States has the right to cany slaves into the
Territories belonging to tlie United State-,
••hid hold thorn there as property, and tliat.it
is the duty of Congress to pass-such laws as.
may be necessary to protect*such property, as
wolf as any other.
liesohul, That the States composing this
Union are sovereign States.
Unsolved, < ‘l'hat tfie people of any State of
this Union have a right to*dissolve their con
nection with the other States for any infrac
tion of the sovereignty of a State, or for vio
lation of the Constitutional compact in the
last resort, and glut the Federal Government
0 rigk't to use force for tlie purpose of
bringing back such Sfiitcpinto the Union.
Resolved, Tliaf it is the right of the people
in all republican governments to be advised
of the views,and principles of all aspiituits to
the highest administrative offices, and that it
is duty of the nominees to answer questions
respectfully proposed to them, touching any
I “hits connected with their Constitutional
rig 1 its. and that whereas, the Southern Rights
Honvi ntiori of the State of Alabama have res
pectfully propounded interrogatories to both
tlie W higs mid Democratic nominees for the
Presidency, involving the principles contained
in the above resolutions, to which they have
failed to reply, we, a portion of the Southern
Rights party of Georgia, can wtvota for ei
ther of said nominees.
Resolved, That we nominate for the Presi
dency Hon. Geohue M. T koup, oi Georgia,
and for the Vico-Presidency, Gen. John A.
Quitman, of Mississippi.
Resolved, That we recommend for Elec
tors for the State at large, lion. JOHN A.
JONES, of Paulding, and JOHN A. TUCK
ER, of Stewart, and we nominate ALEX. 11.
COOPER for tiie 2d Congressional District;
and that we request our Southern Rights
friends throughout the State to nopiinate Elec
tors for their respective districts.
“Black stockings of all colors,” were late
ly advertised in a country paper.
Feverish Condition of Culm
lon of the Baltimore Sim saj*s :
The advice from Cuba are of serious im
port. They show that the population both
the stave population and tlie creole population,
is in a feverish condition, and that a servile
or a civil war —or both—might at any mo
ment braktf out. The Cuban authorities
have very foolishly and presumptuously,
brought their port regulations into conflict
with the commercial and navigatory interests
of the United States. These regulations cre
ate personal irritation, and also may pinch
hard upon our commercial interests. These
are the points, where, as it was supposed long
ago, a collision might ultimately be broght
about between the Spanish authorities and
the United States.
‘Plie travel by way of tho Isthmus, and the
immense amount of American navigation and
commerce that passes into and from the Gulf,
are all exposed to annoyance from the Cuban
government, should it be hostile to the United
States. Thousands of our citizens must touch
at Havana in passing every month ; and it
has long been feared that Jrom this source
some difficulty might arise. The government
of Cuba cannot, perhaps, keep iu subjection,
and treat with their usual-severity,, their own
population, without* annoying our citizens,
whom commerce and travel may bring to her
ports. But the worst job that Captain-Gener
nl Canedo ever did was to fix a quarrel upon
George Law, and exclude liis ships from the
port of -Havana.
George Law, as I have heretofore shown
yon, does not need tlie Aid of this govornment
to fight his battles, nor will he condescend to
ask it. lie will take-satisfaction at a proper
time, when lie can make something by it. A
letter from Havana appears in tlie New York
Journal of Commerce of yesterday, which
e.dls upon George Law to “put the Island of
Cuba into Li s-breebhes pocket /” This he is
prepared to do at a -proper-time. But tiiere is
to he no more filibustering again in regard to
Cgfin, an(lI am glad to see that Gen. Gonzales
denies, that any expedition against Cuba is
now contemplated.
It is remarkable how aptly destiny seems
to contrive matters so as to render tilings
inconsiderable which at first seem to human
•comprehension as impossible. At the mo
nient ot the oecueriice of difficulties with
Cuba, and at a time when the democratic
Senators are making speeches in favor of
p'etting “more sugar laud,.’’there has also ari
sen a necessity, of a commercial character,
lor the acquisition of the Sandwich Islands,
it is now therefore to be proposed to annex
both to. the federal Union—the former as a
slave, and the jitter ap a free State.
/efftograli between (he two Itemis
/ pheres.
/ The London Correspondent of the Ration
'd Jn'eiljgenctr gives the followirig route and
plan for the submarine telegraph Between
Gloat Britain and America, liis views are
plausible, arid 110 doubt feasible.
V. e stated a few weeks ago, that a project
had been foimod for constiiictirtg a subma
rine telegraph between Great Biitian and the
U. States, by a route not before thought of,
which would very materially shorten the line
of witter transit, render the transmission of
intelligence much less liable to interruption
and m>: j materially diminish the cost of
construction and repairs. We’ have now
lie proposed Submarine lines before us. —
J hyy- commenced ;*t the most northwardly
point.of .Scotland, run thus to the Orkney
islands, and thence by short water-lines, to
the Shetland “hud tlie F’erreo Islands. From
th.e latter, a water, iiiie of 200 to 300 miles
conduct the line to idihind from the western
coast ol Iceland, another Submarine conveys
it to Kloge Bay, on the eastern coast of Green
land; it then crosses Greenland to Juliana’s
H ope on tho western coast of that continent,
i.i latitude 00 deg. 42 min.; and is conduct
ed tlidnfte b v a water li:,c of about 500 miles
across Davis s Ejtrqjts to Byron’s Bay, on the
coast ol Labrador. From this'point the line
is to be'extended to Quebec.
i he entire length ot the line is approximate
ly estimated at 2,500 miles, and the subma
rine portions of.it at from 1,400 to 1,000
miles. The peculiar advantage qf the line being
divided into several submarine portions is,
that ii a tactiue should at anytime occur, the
defective part could be very readily discover
ed nnd repaired pronisly at a comparatively
trifling expense. From’ tiie Shetland Island,
it is proposed to carry a branch to Bergen,
in Norway, connecting it there with a line to
Chistiana, Stockholm, Gottenburgh, and Co
penhagen ; from Stockholm a line may easily
cross the Gulf of Botiiiiua to St. Petersbugh.
‘j lie whole expense of this great international
work is estimated considerably below $500,-
000, but to cover contingencies, it is propos
ed to r;ijse that sum by 25,000 shares of £2o’
each. We confess that we consider this plan’
as by. far the most feasible one which has
been yet produced for connecting Europe
and America by the electric telegraph.
Spain and ils Churche*.
‘1 lie Spanish government are exhibiting
symptoms of n longing to lay their hands on
tlie wealth of the church in that country. An
order has i on i- uedjjy the Minister of jus
tice and Ecclesiastical Affairs, directed to the
bialiop and heads of dioceses generally, de
manding a complete inventory of all the treas
ures and articles of value in the various
churches. All sorts of guesses nre current
ns to the object of this order. It is believed
by some that nothing else is intended thnn to
keep up the artificial credit of the State by
nnd exhibition of tlie wealth of the church.-*”
When it is consider'd tlint the cathedral id
Toledo, for instance, tins articles of gold and
silvers to the amount of some $7,600,000, it
would be no matter of surprise of the g rnnl *
total in the kingdom should reach sl2fl,(W®r
000.