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Hamilton, Sept. <>, \ 554.
CROPS IN HARKIIS
The crops io Harris county have, in
suffered from drouth, but
in other portions of the count}’, corn
crops never were better. From what we
•can learn, there will be over an usual av
•erage of corn made in our county the
present yeah Some of the farmers say
they: never have made better crops ol
“Corn, others say they never have suffered
80 severely for rain; this is also the case
in the adjoining counties. The co|on
■generally, is shedding badly, anti will
.fall far short of an average yield.
sflif* \Ve have given a large spade* <P
to-day's paper to in for nr ation from differ*
cut sections of the union, in regard to the*
Crops,which we presume will be as in*
teresting to our readers as anything we
‘could place before them. Please see our
first page.
Drought.—On Thursday last we re.
■ceived a letter (under date of Aug 24,)
from a sister residing near Waterloo, Sen*
eca county, New York, from which we
make the following extract;:
“The weather still continues as dry as
ever; Vegetation and pasturage are all
dried up, looking as though a fire had
passed over it. Some of our neighbors
are obliged to cut up their corn and feed
it to their cattle while it is just beginning
to “be fit for roasting ears. We have con
siderable fruit but scarce any potatoes.—
in Yates county [about 30 miles distant]
itli'satd to be even worse than here, the
people are cutting down trees for their
cattle to browse, to keep them alive.”
0^* H A Lover of Woman’* came too
late for insertion in this week’s paper; we
did not receive his article until late on
Monday evening, at which time our pa
per was nearly made up. It shall ap
pear in our next. We should be pleased
to have our correspondents forward theii
favqrp as early as Thursday, it they wish
<Ke m Joa ppe‘iFth The Organ on Wed.
nesday following. Our paper is smalt,
nd if their articles are lengthy, we fcre
compelled to put them 9n the ‘first side,”
which is “ worked off 1 ’ on Saturday.
OWe call the attention of those who
are afflicted with the “ Texas Fever” to
the Letter of Judge Henderson, (former*
*y of this place,) which will be found in
another column.
’ Our musical friends will pardon
tis for the non*appearance ol anv thing
in the musical line, in this week’s paper.
The attendance of the Superintendent
and one of our hands on the Convention,
together with domestic increase, a White
edition, is our only apology.
03* We are authorized to state, “ Old
Type,” in bis Versaical correspondence,
has no individual allusions, and courts no
controversy with organizations. His ob
ject being to show the evils of the day,
and the extremes to which they are car.
ried. This he considers sufficient apolo.
gy for all persons, parties and sects; but
he further authorizes us to state that if
there be any disaffection in ranks any
where, objectors have the privilege of
‘shootmg at him whenever they please,
as he fech his capacity to sustain his po
sition with aoy body, whether in prose or
verse. In the langoage of one of our
correspondents, 41 the door is open
plunge it.”
icrln consequence of the protracted
meeting, the meeting at the Court Home
for the purpose of forming a Debating
Society and Young Men’s Library,
was postponed until tomorrow evening,
the 7th inst., at early candle light. We
are instructed to invite the citizens gen
erally, both ladies and gentlemen.
The Soil of the South lor Septem
ber is before us, and filled as usual with
its highly interesting and instructive read
ing matter. It is the best and most prof
itable work in the State. Next Monday
the fall session of the Superior Court for
this county will open here, and no doubt
the publishers will have an agent in at-
I tendance for the purpose of receiving sub
j -rriplitins; our fanner-, should improve
‘^ ,e °PP nr,un ' , - v every man become
Superior Court —The Superior Court
for Harris county, will be held in this
place next week. \V#toe.*o* should hear
in mind that Judge Crawford has estab
lished a rule to pula heavy fine on all
witnesses, who have been lawfully sum*
moused, if they are not in attendance
when their names are called. This is as
it should be ; many rases are put off from
Court to Court because the witnesses do
not think proper to attend, thereby keep,
itfg parties out of their ji*t lights, the
docket oveiflowed, and in criminal cases,
nutting the county to unnecessary ex
pense. Since the above was in type, we
learn that this rule applies to parties as
Weil as witnesses.
*ttae*
Crops and Weather --The editor
of'the Lavaca (Texas) Register, sa vs:—
•• We regret to learn that the worm has
made its appearance in the co'ton fields
up the country. A gentleman from Hie
vicinity of Price’s creek informed us that
his entire crop had been destroyed, that
it had been so completely paten up that
he had abandoned it altogether.
there are heavy complaints from Ceil
tral Texas, of oppressive beat, wan) ol
rain, shedding of Cotton, drooping at ttf
parched appearance of the crops generally-
The State Ti nes sav* the corn crop of
Travis and surrotirulmg counties, will
yield an average ol 40 bushels per acre ;
and the average- 0 f cotton will he from
one to two bales per acre, of 500 pound*
each ; w heat from 20 to 30 bushels per
acre.
A letter from Sprinpfield states that the
corn crop w ill he very good, but the cot
ton light. They have had no rain for t 5
week*.
The Gonzales EnqnireT says: “Rain is
wanted in some portions of the country,
yet, from all that we can learn, the crops
no where within this and the adj titling
counties 3Tc suffering for the want ol it
The San An gusline (Texas) Ri-gi.-ler |
says: “ The coin crop was planted un
usually early, and w.- pretly well made
before the drouth set in : but cotton crop*
have been seiiously damaged by the
drouth and boll worm.
- 4$ ■* ■’ ‘ - - r ~ * ■**” • -
Arthur’s Hume Magazine —We
hnve received the Augcst number of this
highly interesting Magazine, which should
be taken bj’ every lover of good reading
It contains as many choice articles ol
reading matter as anv publication of the
day, and are generally short and pithy
which is one of its most valuable features.
The present No. Contains nineteen beau*
tiful Illustrations, including the Fashions.
Our thanks are due for the July No.,
(duplicate,) which will compare with any
Magazine now published.
Terms-—s 2, two copies S3 Address
l’-S. Arthur & co., 107 Walnut Street.
Philadelphia.
Graham’s Magazine.— We have not
been lavored with a perusal of this valu
able Magazine lor some time, but have
received the September No., in which
we discover there has been no falling off;
it is as interesting, rich and racy as ever.
It is beautifully illustrated with engrav.
ings to the principal leading articles giv.
ing an eye view of the seenes of the
revolution, which are explained by the
reading. It is truly a National Magazine!
> Terms, $3 Address Richard H. See,
& Cos., 106, Chestnut Sheet. Philadelphia.
Cass County Texas )
July 27. h. 1851. }
Brother White ; Dear Sir—Having
noticed an article in the Urgan dated
May 98th, from the pen ol Win. Harts-
Field, giving some account ol the for
ward ness of the crops in Jackson county,
Florida,—-not his own, but his neighbors.
I have thought proper to state some facts
in iHerence to my own. which is bv no
means extiaoidinarv lor Tx*s. As you
are well aware, 1 did not mach my pres
ent home until the 28th of January, and
lound it as I anticipated—alotie in tne
woods—having all tnv building to do I
commenced and continued clearing until
I fenced 150 acres ol ground, and had it
ready for the plough. 1 commenced
planting cotton on the 4th d,iv of May
was stopped on the gth, and planted tin
more until the Kith, in .consequence ol
too much rain. We will now suppose
that it was not more than a stand on the
‘2oth; this May astonish Iriend Billy.
but that is time enough in Texas, when
the ground is in good order, say 4 d*ya
’ —— r
to come up Welt® the cotton that oas
planted on theH6Hi May, trail bloom* on
the fmir diy ol July and was fro i> knee
to hail thigh ‘-high and this was on land
half cleared, half plowed, and htll’plant-1
ed. *'l wilt farther Stale that on the 16th I
ot May 1 was in parson Tavtor’s pl'anta- ;
riftn. and took a walk in hi* corn crop,
which was about sijpv acres,—l found it
higli'to as high as i could
reach, tassefing mid shooting generally ;
it was well nigh in roasting ear on the
28 h of May—the d’tv that Billy found
the silk rn ids neighbor's find, not his •,
own.—lt any of my triends doubt this, -l
wilt refer them to Judge Brooks, of Cuth*
belt, Randolph county Georgia.
Respectfully Yours.
James U. HendersuW.
General Intelligence*
OHIO Dl.-GAACISD.
A* if bent on finding the lowest depth#
of self-aba<ement io which abolition fa*
naticism is cnpable of degrading its delu
ded■ victims, ;the negro, Fred Douglas,
v as recently inSK^rf-to’deliver an addies*.
(no doubt prepared for him and commit*
led t ) tnemoty for the ocr,asion.) before
the Ideraiy societies of ihe Western Re
serve Cos liege in “Ohio. An abolition
sheet thus describes the disgracetpi’and
humiliating spectacle-:
” Yf nterday afternoon. (July 24.) Fred
erick D ing!a*s addressed the lit. raTy so
cieties of tire We#i*Hi Reserve College,
on tine occasion of the annual commence
men*. It was an exert i-e wrh a peculi
arity about it. which will distinguish it
from dl of the kind ol Ihe present age.—*-
It is an anomaly in the'history of Ami.-m
----can literature. A black man i* invited
to instruct the already well instructed
Anglo Amerhan Student in his own Un
iversitv Halls. We say we have seen
the turning of a in out litera- *
lure. Douglass’ p<siu<>n was not won
lor him without a stiuggle on the part of
his friends. 1 n his intioduction he dunk
ed the societies which had so kio-dlv and
so perseveringU given him ihe initiative.
His ascending that platform I -count a tri*
tun pit to humanity
His theme was, The Claim of the Ne
gro Race, viewed in a psychological and
physiological light.
The distinguished Gen HArneY tj. ;
V., pa s. and through Mobile s on tl.e 18 h j
on hjs Way savs he Picayune.; to get i
leave of absence tor a vi.-u to Europe
The old warrior, .we i oppose wants to
•nuff the air of that belligerent region.
The Cuban Stupe —The New
Yiok Times affiniAsVlaVe uncle is
sctualU carried on between that citv and
the roast ol Africa, and that New York
merchant* lire constantly sen ling ves-el#
to Africa to bring cargoes ol slave# to Cn*
ba*
A Female Mail RibER.-*-The Alex
ander Gaz tte has the ioilowing para
graph :
Ihe mail between Alexandria and Dum
fries, is now tarriec regulailv and punc*
tnally on horseback, by a young lady,
who acts in live place of her fuller, who
is sick She has tfiw been thus engag
ed for several week*, and has never mis
sed a day. or beefi out of time—riding
twenty five mile* every dav. Her in I
dustrv and courage are worthy ot honor*
able mention.
.’ * 9rr^!S ‘ f
The Corbin Convention.— Legal ad*
thorities ol Great Litain having decided
that the Corbin branches of the Jennings
family wete entitled to the immense slim
of thirty or forty millions ol dollars, known
as the long disputed Jennings estate,
members “f the Du-bin family, to the
number ot fifteen W twenty met at Bar* j
num’s Hotel. Baltimore, on Wednesday,
and held a yonveuion to decide who
were the rightful legal heritors of ihe prin
cely legacy. Mo* of Hie representative#
j resent were ftom Virginia.
The Supreme Ciurt of New York has
adopted a rule providing that a lawyer
examining a wit*a shall stand up. This
standing rule is a capital one for the sa
ving ol time and the protection qj wit
neses* from the iiiipertinencies of law yers
who. lolling comfortably in a chair, care
not how long they mav detain a witness
with unimportant, irrelevant questions.
A ForgeTful Couple.—A youthful
couple were traveling on Ihe Mad Uiver
Railroad, a few days since, wiilr several
small children ami a baby. On reaching
Forest City they got off to take the Eas
tern tram, but Irrgotthe baby, which they
left slumbering in the car. When the
baby had been carried some twenty miles
the passengers discovered that its moth
er was not along, atjd an investigation
being had, the babe was duly labelled,
and started on t return for Forrest Citv.
Cin. Col.
An Unselfish Prater. —A corres
pondent of tb* National Intelligencer,
wilting from Florida, gives an incident
in relation to a prayer offered by request
during a severe drouth, by a venerable
Methodi-t preacher who bore fto -good
Writ H) the Baptists. Hi* prayPr Vvas
somewhat remaikable rdr ils ‘Unselfish
tone, and ran this wise: -Let it rain.
! beginning at my plantation in Hamilton
| co. Ala. coming down the religuhl- neigh
■ hdfhdods id Columbia and Nassau where
’ immersion i* not practiced aod reaching
Biack (Tei k, even Black Creek, and
bringing lorth in abundance, none olyour
little ‘nubias, however, but long ears, as
lortg as this good right arm.’
Murder —Burning of the Murder
—At Mount Meigs, in Montgomery
1 county, on‘Friday night last.Dr McDon
ald was murdered by his negro man.—
A? we have heard the particul*rr. Dr.
McDonald had chastised tile negro for
some insolence dr disobedience, and the
negro started to run away. The Doctor. 1
: a fevv minutes alter wards, went to bis
stable to get hislitfrse, tfnd while there,
was set upon by the negro (who had
; concealed himself about the and
Was bejten to dentil with a large club—
his trkn'll being broken into fragments,
Dr. McDonald was a highly esteem-e/T
citrzen, and this foul murder, of course
produced she greatest ‘excitement. The
negro was aire.-ted, and a iripeting of the
citizen* of Mount Meigs was held, at
which it was-determined by a large ma
jority, tbat the font murderer should be
burnt. Tirt* -enterree lea's daily eVemted,
on'Saturday after-noon last.
|f Theae are Hie tp-irlit olaYs. as we g ith
ered thenV, in a busty conversation tr>m
a gen He man who was i.a Morut Meigs,
on Sunday. We presume Hie citizens of
ihe M-mnl will themselves publish the’
l acts.
VYe regrei at Jury <i ne'to vefe t'he eX'e :
curion of ihe laws taken from the pioper
authorities, out there are case* which
justify in ofrr opinion a sum maty pm
cess ; and horn the character of those
engaged in execu ing this fiend, we do,
not tlonbi that Ihe lacts wili j i-lity them
in the eve.* of our whole co mints titty —;
FrrwßlM'rne can.*- Cl other there i* a
spit it of instiliorrliektion in pur -lave pop
ulalioiVMhat is constanilv leading to the;
com mission Tihe most diabolical ciim-s
and which call (ot prompt and summarv
examples Suit We should prefer to see 1
the ‘law take it* course ‘ 1’ i.s Hie be*!
in the long (un We may have more to;
i say o"i this head so r.-idler
dP [.ldv'rtiserSfGrpt'te.
The Know %et ungs.—A ! !l-r
from Philadelphia Tay* : >
•A Geman paper published in this city’
states that an organization called the
‘Know Somethings’ is being formed in
cit y-and State, on an
composed of native* and foteigners. whose
object isoposition to the ‘Know Nothings,
the Jusuits, the extension and prohibition
of slavery and the Sunday law. a* well as
the Maine law, Every member, however
who becomes intoxicated and gives of
fence, it say#, is tObe first Suspend* and
for three months, and on the second of
fence to be pXpelled. It is to be a se
cret society l and as such will •endeavoi
to carry out its views through Ihe hallo’
bigfcs.lp ■v- Vi ~ v-V *
jfflewpt Ho Murder by a Statoe iMr Oh i
Tuesday last Mr. Roben Smith ot Mont*
■ gomeiy co. Ala, attempted to correct one
iof hi* negro m-*n 1 when tile negro drew
a knile and Riade a ferocious attatt on
him Mrs. Smith ran up, to prevent her
S husband being killed, when the negto
I also auarked her. Both received seVere
wound* Irom the knile in the hands bf
Hie .negfo. After iuflictmg the wounds
the negroa made hi# escape, and al
though immediately putsUed, Was hot
caught until vesterday when he was—
brought to this City and. lodged in jail.
I A libsstAN VVasHervYomaN.—The
following pleasant account of domestic
management in a Russian household has
just been given by Capt. Jesse :
One morning, while occupied In wri
j ting a letter, a very odd squirting kind ot
noise outside the door attracted my atien
tion, ahd at length worried me so that I
left my desk and went out in the pa*sage
to ascertain the Cause Ihle 1 found my
neighbor’s housemaid quietly Ironing her
mistress's lace collars and caps—so this
did not afcrount for it t therefore re
entered ivy room, but had scarcely got
seated at inv dCsk. when I heard the noise
■jagain—Whist, whist. 1 1 looked out
one- more, and caught the Ah gail ill the
very act ot filling her mouth with water
which she discharged over a riihlv etn
btoidered muslin dress, to damp it before
ironing. This, to make th*’ spray fall
evenly from between hel teeth done by
! a good deal of method, by first ‘puffing
out both cheeks and then slapping them
sharply with both hands
Missouri.— The fact is now e*tabji*hed
that all tfie members of Congress from
Mis*oori who voted in Invot of tile Ne
braska Bill at the recent session of Con
gress and who were candidates for reelec*
lion, viz : John S. Phelps. Dem.. andOl*
Iver, Lindhy, and Mdler, Whig*, have
been successful, while Thos. H Benton,
1 who voted against it, has b*en defeated*
rcunefr ii#B.
Bv the St j au*hi.) V-I I. at N- V Y rfc,
we have Liverpool da*es to the 12 h iifr.
The Eastern War.— The new* rft
regard to the moveirn nts of the Great
Powers in ‘the war i* quite import mt.
Prince Gortschakoff the Russian En
voy at Vienna, anuou-ices formally, that
Moldavia, a* well a* Wallachia. will be
immediately evacuated. Consequently
the advance of the Austrian troops into
the Principalities has been countermand.
But Austria ha*, subsequently, signed an
engagement with France and E >gland to
insist on guarantiee of future peace frdm
Russia, and not to be sati-fied with the
status quo.
The Russians, at the last arconnts con
tinued to retreat, and the Turks toad,
vance, but there had been no more fight
ing. V _ <*
There is nothing further important
from the Baltic, excepting only % report
of the bombardment and capture of B >m
ersn<y ‘ 4 . **
TWO Convents, an ! some fdh<*r build,
ings w'Mfe b 6 i.haidi-d in the White
The latest account* s*V th it 3033
French troop* h ive landed po the
mu3 of Perekop, he narrow *trip of land
which connect* the Crimea with the main
land. There i* also a report from i|
Baltic that 3 030 French troops have lan
ded on the Island of Ahind, at the mouth
of the Gulf of Bothnia.
Bv telegraph it is amimin vil that-3
000 Fteirch soldi ‘f* and 600 E iglish mi
tines been Ijiuled ai three points ort
the L-land of Aland, with little inteirup.
tiorv and no loss, an the 11th. The tort*
■.vere to be attack -d n-xt dav S r
(Salaries Ntu m wi* >ff B i nejstind iu the
stiiii Bu-id >g
The M oniteftr pttblishrs the F.etuTi
G lvein TiVrit’’* refusal to grant an arm;*
lice bftt that pence may be hid on the
following tern-': file abolition of tlie
Russi ft Pnv cbvrate over Watl ichik, Set
via. ftivl -Mo du'Ai- S'Ceoud, The tr< ti'-
d*m of the u-outh of h Diuu’ie Thrid
\ revision of the Treaty “ nil reference
tblh'C lirru : - Ol Turkey in t e B irk S a
Fourth No power to it Av i piOtet'O te
over Tin k'*l| siihj rts.
Eighty ‘hou-a ol Tui'k* are how stated
to be in W vllaclua. fb- course ol the
from OrsoVa *o Gihuz is how in
in s*e ,*ion eff the Jbitk-.
A"-ti ia and Pi ii -i i are • xiert’ j d soort
f'o prop-me'to he Geimantc Diet that thd
Federal c ntiugencv be placed on a war
looting, Ii
The Cholera has broken out vio'etVHy
at Varna, ahd the lyptiu- his aUd a'p‘
pearrd.
4 *o>,XO E-iiftiyl* <>Kpeditpn hwl gryoAt—
up the Sulina mouth of the Danube. de
si roved the Russian sM ckad-s; and biitn
ed S ilma o the gieu.ml.
>I?AIN Queen o‘nistl na, of Spain-,
has been indicted before the Spatii-h
Cortt.*, ttn 4 of treason. There
had no more fighting at MVdr and
Air mgerfhem.* - ere mad- fir the depart*
ure of Q ecu ( hri-tiiia and h*r timrlv ;
but arfiii and group* *tli > wiirtd.-d the pilace
and preV-nt* dit f lie pupdfa’ce seemed
determined op the pu nsh-VVent ol th**
Queen rfl nhftr, and at leAsl she should
nut be allowed lh quit Spatp unti! tried
by the Dot to*.
England the Briti-h P.iliimetdi
Mr. Hoitte c.died the. -attention ot Ihd
Guvernment to the necessity of taking
still mote energetic measures for the sup*
jiression of the African slave trade and
said he was sure that E*partero would
givy the best assistance to carry oul the
ohj-'cl.
The Government had chartered ships
to rortVev arms and stores for defence to
Halifax. St Johns, N. IV Qu*h-c. Mon
treal, the West India Islands. &,c , &C.
STILL LA I Ell.
Columbia, Aug, 31.
The Europa at Hatitax biings neWSr
that orders tiad been issued for the
trians In enter Wallachia
Burners und in the Baltic has been cap*’
tured but no pir'icutai* are given.
Ihe Sultan has concluded a tieaty
with Scbam \f, the Ciicassi in chief, hv
which the former recognise the indepen
dence of Circa—ia. and the latt<-r agrCPB
to f\nnis!i of) 000 mountaineer troops a*
gaiti-l Russia
Admiral Duchesne had bombarded
Anapa 24 hours. No particulars given.*■
The expedition L the Crimea had ueen
delayed on accomi 4 >f the till- L-ra.
France—The E t pefor of France had
ordered the pay merit of all of the great
Napoleon’s legacies.
Ru-sian intrigues had been discovered
in the army and navy, and in many of
the secret clubs of Paris.
President Fn-ice',* last message relative
to Cuba, asking that $lO 000 000 he
placed at Ins disposal, had caused much
uneasiness in Pari*.
Spain —The French ambassador at
Madiid had protested energetically aga list
anv violence to members of the Royal
Family and Spain.
The Junta# of Malaga and Loredo re
fuse tu recogni-e the new* government.
Don Loui* Sargasto has been appointed
gov of Madrid, Cardorto of Saragossa, and
a brother of Gen. O'Doancll, of Madrid,