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[Correspondence of the London Dally News ] Details of the Battle on the Taker nuya. Turkish Camp, Kamara, August 18.— The disastrous affair of the 18th of June was at least in a great measure atoned for by a de cisive victory gained on Thursday over h large body of Russians by the French and Sardinians on the Tchernaya. For some time past, as I mentioned in sev eral of my recent letters, rumors have been ailoat each night that an attack in force along the whole line would be made on the morrow. For a long while, however, these appear to have had no better foundation than the fuct, which seemed pretty well ascertained, that the Russians had received large reinforce ments; and, from hearing so many warnings, which time did not justify, as is usually the case, the French and Piedmontese both, I think, fell into a state of greater carelessness than if they had never received any warning at all. Still the air seemed thick with omens; no body could fully satisfy himseif that no dau ger was imminent, though he could not make up his mind as to when or in what shape it would present itself. The deserters hud so often proved false prophets that people began to doubt all their stories,until on Wednesday evening three spies came in, who positively declared that an attack would be made in force on the following morning; and hardly had they ceased speaking when Gen. Allon ville, commanding the French cavalry at Baidar, telegraphed that the heights around were covered with troops, and that he wished to retire, from the fear that he might be cut off, but could uot, owiug to the road being blocked up by some hundreds of commissar iat wagons, lie went on to give some details regarding the attack, which made it evident that he had likewise received some informa tion, when a fog came on and the telegraph ceased working. The Turks remained under arms all night; but, strange to say, the French, who were most of all interested in the matter, seem to have given themselves no trouble whatever about it, but went to bed and slept tranquail ly. A peletou of Chasseurs d’Afrique went out to patrol during the night, und on the other side of tho river fell into au ambuscade and were all made prisoners except two men, who escaped and gave the alarm: but even this was treated as one of the ordinary inci dents of night duty iu presence of the enemy About an hour from daybreak the French sentinels iu front of the bridge thought they could perceive shadows gliding past them in the darkness, and tired. There was no reply, and silence deep as death followed. About the same time a few shots were heard i'tom the hill occupied by the Piedmontese outpost; blit, as the utmost stillness prevailed atterwards on every side, no precautions were taken till just as the lirst streak of light made itself visible in the horizon, a sharp fire was opened from a party of skirmish ers against the tete de pont and a regu lar assault made upon the Sardinian picket. General della Marmora was already vn the ground, and sent a battalion of bersaglieri to reinforce the post, so that they might de fend themselves till the troops could be got under arms and the necessary arrangements made. When the reinforcements arrived half the picket was already hors de combat , and the assailants were up on tho parapet of the little redoubt firing down into them. To prolong the conflict here would only have caused a useless massacre, and the Sar dinians consequently withdrew behind an epaulement on the other side of the river,near tne aqueduct, and there defended themselves till the day broke clearly and the attack be came general. On the side of the French the tete de pout was assaulted iu great force and carried very soon after,the enemy first showed himself on the ground, notwithstanding the heroic resistance of the 20th regiment of the line, which in one battalion alone lost twelve officers. The bridge was now occu pied; two batteries of artillery were brought across so as to sweep the road leading be tween tho two heights toward Balaklava, and a strong oolurun was pushed on to the assault and mounted the declivity. Strange to say, although General Pelissier had recioved full warning the previous night, he refused to believe iu au attack until it ac tually commeuced, aud consequently no dis positions were made and nobody was ready. The Russians had already reached the crest of the hill while the French were still asleep; many officers were awakened by the round shot passing through their tents ; a sergeant had his head taken off while writing the or ders for the day for the division. At this crit ical moment two battalions alone of the 2d regimeut of Zouaves held the whole assault ing column in check,and contested the ground inch by inch till they wdre forced back upon their own tents. In the meantime the alarm was sounding, the troops got iuto order, the artillery into position, and a vigorous onset drove the Russians down the declivity, leav ing it covered with their dead and wounded. All this, be it remembered, occurred in the grey of the morning, which the smoke of the action converted iuto something like positive darkness, leaving everybody as yet in com plete ignorance as to tho force they had to contend with,or the dangers they had to bear. Iu the short pause which followed, however, and during which both sides prepared for a renewal of the struggle, the sun came out from behind the hills, the smoke rose, and the valley of the Tchernaya lay before us like a picture. The tract of table land laving at the foot of the Mackenzie heights was cov ered with the masses of cavulry, infantry and artillery. About thirty guus were ranged m a cres cent outside the bridge, and thundered un ceasingly against the French position. On the hill trooi which the Piedmontese picket had been driven, were crowds of men around a battery of field artillery, which tired inces santly, though against what I could never clearly make out. I must not forget to men tion, however, that they had previously shelled two battalions of Turks encamped in the hollow near Woronzoff road, and forced them to retire. This retrogade movement was the only part the latter bore in the whole aii'uir, but it is right to add that they were under arms already, in case the positions had been attacked. The Piedmontese were drawn up in line behind a small eminence close to the ford on the Tchorgoum road, and their batteries on the heights to the right were vigorously re- j plying to the Russian fire ; the three divisions of French, Camoux, Erbillon, aud Faucheux, were underarms, front line a little away back from the brow of the hill, and a great num ber of Zouaves were lying down in shelter be hind a small ridge. Below on the plain, along the hollow on which the English light horse died so gallantly last winter, every turf beneath their feet a soldier’s sepulchre, were ranged the English and French cavalry, squadron after squadron, extending back nearly to the Turkish redoubts, ready to act iu case the enemy should force the Piedmon tese position and attempt to debouch upon the opou ground behind. The pennons of the lancers fluttered gaily in long lines in the fresh morning breeze, when the sun rose high in glory and poured down its rays full on the plain, making scar let look reader and steal and brass brighter and more resplendent, gilding the hill tops making the tents glitter, aud rolling smoke and mist in great packs up in the valley to ward Inkerman, the scene became one of passing splendor as well as of passing inter est. We looked in breathless anxiety for the renewal of the conflict. The combatants had taken breath ; their blood was up, for hun dreds on both sides lay already stark aud stifl’ on the river side around the bridge, and the artillery evidently was simply playing an interlude till the curtain rose upon another act in the tragedy. We were not kept long waiting. From be hind the cloud of smoke which naturally hung around the Russian batteries, came two large columns of the enemy, marching in quick time, about two hundred yards apart, and exactly parallel, a short distauce from the river, and iu a line with the bank. As they wound and twisted, mounted and de scended, following the inequalities ot the grouud in long, compact masses, their bayo nets glancing in the sunlight, they looked exactly like two huge serpents creeping ra pidly along, their scales glistening and their prey in sight. On arriving within eight hun dred yards of the ford, one halted and the other turned olf abruptly towards the river. It was evident they were about to assail the French position more to the right, on the side next the Sardinians. On reaching the water some passed on small bridges hastily thrown over, the rest forded, and on gaining ihe side ot the col umn, broke into loose order and pushed on toward the canal or aqueduct, which rises within an embankment at the very foot of the hill. Befw.v “caching it they had to traverse about two hundred yards of smooth green sward. They were no longer exposed to the French artillery, because the guns could not be depressed sufficiently to reach them ; but they had their flauk turned to that of the Piedmontese, who had got the range to an inch, and fired with an accuracy little short of marvellous. The head of the column had hardly come up dripping from the water, when they found themselves in the midst of a storm ot round shot, grape and shell, bent upon them re lentlessly, unreluxiugly, mowing them down by the score, aud covering the survivors with SAVANNAH DOLLAR NEWS clay and gravel. But I must do these survi vors justice, and say that they bore up right gallantly, marched tirmly onward uutl up ward, passed the canal, though the water was breast high, pushed some yards still on the precipitous side of the hill, though here every wound was mortal, for all who fell roiled helplessly downward into the aqueduct, und were drowned; but at last halted, turned and fled, never stopping till they reached the river, when they got shelter under the banks and among the old willows. An officer re mained for some time alone on the declivity, vainly urging them to follow him. Rein forcements now came up from tho second column; they reformed, but again in loose, open order, or rather no order at all, for they marched like a flock of sheep. This was done evidently so that they might present less mass for the artillery to play upon ; but it was a great mistake, as will be seen alter- w r ards. This time they displayed more pluck and resolution. They fell, to be sure, by the dozen, but they never wavered or faltered, climbed on slowly and laboriously, and at last attained the crest of the hill and came out on the level. When the head of tho column reached this point, the Zouaves, who were lying down behind the ridge, on the Russians’ leit, jumped up and ran to join the main body posted near the artillery on the centre of the plateau, and at the same moment the whole of the French, the artillery included, retired about a hundred yards before the advancing enemy. The tiring had ceased, except broken and puny tile-tiring from the assailants, who now, unable to form in line and mixed up iu disorder, doubtless perceived they should have either mounted in line or halted and deployed before coming out on the open ground above. For some moments I thought the French were about to give way and re treat, und the Russians become masters of the height, but 1 was soon convinced of my mistake. One could sec them, it is true, falling back on all sides and closing up into a small round mass; but in the twinkling of an eye this mass opened out like a fan, two black lines shot from it on each side across the plateau, the centre closed up, divided itself, and the next moment a sheet of flame broke from the whole line, followed bv a cloud of smoke, aud the crash of the musketry fell on our ears iu a long, contiuuous, uulalteriug whirr, like the roar of a waterfall, drowned every se coud by the mightier thunder of the artil lery, which had made half a wheel to the right and naked the crest of the hill with a tempest of grape. Strongly as one’s sympa thies might be engaged for the French, it was impossible to repress for the moment a sentiment of pity as one looked upon the crowd of Russians looming out through the smoke us it rolled across them, feebly return ing tho fire, unable to advance, afraid to re treat—ten thousand deaths in front, ten thou sand more behind—help aud hope nowhere. They paused for a few seconds, seemed to hesitate, but were speedily relieved from all embarrassment as to the course they should pursue, by the advance of the French, whose cheer rang merrily through the morning air, as they levelled their bayonets and rushed to the charge. The Russians gave one “hurrah,” as if they inteuded to come up to the scratch ; but, in stead of suiting the action to the word, they wheeled about and tiuug themselves down the hill-side in coinplcteMisorder, the Sardinian artillery again playing upon them as before. —Some hundreds threw down their arms aud surrendering to the French sooner than run the gauntlet once more across the aque duct of the river. The remnant of the column got under cover on the opposite side of the stream, and remained there for some minutes until two battalions of Piedmontese came out upon the plain, and, throwing out skirmish ers, advanced upon the river. The Russians now retired in haste, and not in very good order, skirmishing as they went, until they reached the high ground on which their caval ry and the reserve of their artillery were sta tioned. During the pursuit the Piedmontese made some prisoners. The moment was propitious for a charge of cavalry, who might have cut them up completely. Major Grovac, the second on the Sardinian etat-major, accordingly brought down their four squadrons ; but the colouel objected to charge iu face of the Russian cavalry force, fully five thousand iu number, unless he were supported by French or Euglish. A message was accordingly sent to Gen. Maurice, the Freuch general commanding the cavalry, re questing him to push forward a body of his men iu the rear of the Piedmontese; but he declined, alleging that he had positive orders not to pursue, having returned a similar answer to a similar request on the part of Gen. Erbillon, who commanded on the heights. This is extraordinary, but true, and the only thing one can say about it is to ex press a hope that there were some good reason lor it not visible at first sight. The greater part of the Russian artillery now retired, fol lowed up for a short distance by the French Chasseurs de Vincennes. The cavalry then advanced iu an immense line, forming a cres cent, from out of which issued three guns, which lired away to protect the retreat till the last column had wound its weary way up the road to Mckenzie’s farm or disappeared among the bills toward Tchionlion. Nothing now rema.ued but to visit the field of buttle, on which the Zouaves had already descended like vultures, and were removing everything portable. The scene which pre sented itself on the banks of tho river below the canal, was soni hing fearful beyond de scription—much more fearful than the ordi nary horrors of a battle-field. The canal itself was choked with dead, most of whom had doubtless fallen into it living, after rolling down the hill side, and found repose in its muddy waters. Broken muskets, bags of bread, cartridges—one dark red stain on the white chalky gravel, often alone marked the snot where the men first fell—in a moment afterward, tumbled back to perdition. Many had fallen after scrambling up to the brink of the aqueduct, aud ere they had time to cross it; and, if not caught in the bushes, rolled into the plain, breaking their bones iu the descent, aud lie there as we passed, shrieking in agony, and imploring us to kill them, and thus put an end to their suffering. Never did eye rest upon humanity in forms so mutilated, defaced, and disfigured as these unhappy men who lay writhing there in bloouv rags, their faces so plastered over with *gore and dust that neither wife nor mother would ever have recognised son or husband in those hideous masses of mortality. Some, but they were a small minority, sought to drag themselves to the shade of the few bushes that skirted the river; some sought to hide their heads from the fiery heat of the midday sun under their tattered garments; and others lay trembling in the last quiver, the flies burrowing iu their wounds. Men shot down by any sort of missile and laying where they fell, gory and mutilated though they may be, is a sight to which oue soou gets habituated, but wounded men who have been rolled over a rough soil and their boues broken iu their progress is one of those sights that oue rarely witnesses, and which he who has once seen it never wishes to see more. On toward the bridge the dead lay thicker and thicker. On the banks of the river, about it, and iu the river itself they were “ heaped aud piled,” mostly line men in the prime of life, many with a vieiuc grognurd air, which bespoke long years of service. Nearly every oue had a brandy bottle either actually in his hand lying near him, or broken under him in his fall. 1 was ridiug with a Polish officer, who conversed with a great many of the wounded, who informed me that large quan tities of brandy hud been served out to the soldiers before aefiou, except the artillerymen. There were a great many simnl platfoiins lying about, some resembling ladders with the rungs very close, and carried by rope slings att tched to each tad, as bridges to be thrown across the aqueduct. The great ma jority, however, passed without them. The Zouaves had made a general collection of the crosses, relics, and medals, uud retailed them to the visitors; iu addition to which pick ings from the dead bodies, they made small collections of money from the persons of the wounded, managing dexterously to extract it from the inside of the trowsers close to the kuee, where the Russian soldier generally carry their money, while pretending to exam ine luto the nature of their wouds, thus avoid ing giving any mental pain to the sufferers. Some very tine rifles, quite new, aud now seen for the first time, were found oil the field, but were instantly taken possession of by the military authorities and the sale pro hibited. Judging from what I saw myself, and from comparing notes with others, and without being able to say how many bodies may be in the acqueduct, 1 should suy the number left on the field was fifteen hundred. The usual calculation is that twice as many are wounded as are killed, and this, with be tween five and six hundred prisoners, uot wounded, taken by the French and Piedmon tese, would mako the total loss of the Rus sians little short of 5,000 men hors de combat. The divisions euguged were the sth, 7th, 12th, and 17th, most of them belong to different corps d’armee. One had never been under fire before, and had made a rapid march from Backshiserai, aud rested eight hours beforo the attack. One man, who fell high upon the hill side, assured us that he was iu the last battalion of the re serve, aud that every single soldier had been sent down from the heigh is ; so Ibid had we Sursued them we might have gained the [ackeuzie plateau along with them and held it. Prince Gortschakoff commanded in chief, and General Martinaloff the assaulting col umns. The whole force, including cavalry and artillery, is calculated at 60,000 men.— There were sixty guns in the field. There were only ten or twelve officers left on the ground, which proves that a great number must have been carried oft* in the re treat. The Piedmontese have lost 300 men killed and wounded, amongst others General Monte Vecchio, commanding one of the bri gades, who was shot through the body, and was uot exnected to survive through yester day. The Freuch have about 1,100 nors de combat. 1 was standing at the bridge while the French were collecting the wounded from the other side and pluc : ng them iu tho ambulan ces. The Russians could see perfectly well what they were about from the Mackenzie heights, and nevertheless had the barbarity to lire from one of their batteries right into the crowd ou the road. A scene of great con fusion ensued; the ambulance mules galloped off’,causing the wounded they were carrying to shriek with pain. It was little short of u mira cle that no one was hurt by the shot, whicu I am told after my departure continued to be lired at intervals during the whole day. Diminution of (lie Forest. Farmer TANARUS., living not over twenty-live miles from Rochester, had a magnificent grove of sugar maples, a part of which ho was accus tomed to tap regularly, aud manufacture therefrom the sugar consumed in his family. But this manufacture involved a good deal of hard labor, sugar went down iu price, aud the wages of hired help went up, wood and timber became an important item of traffic, and all kinds of farm produce gradually rose as the facilities of transportation in creased. Farmer T. was quite an expert in figures, as well as a shrewd manager on the farm, so one day he solved a problem on the following data, to wit—the amount of cash his sugar orchard would bring him, after deducting all the expense of cleariug and fencing the land und delivering the wood aud timber in the market. After carefully working out tho prob lem, he found, to his surprise, that the in terest of this sum would buy all the sugar for his family, save him the labor of tapping and boiling, aud give him the use of his fields for the raising of crops. Without more ado he set a gang of choppers remorselessly to work, and one of the most magnificent forests of maple ever seen on Ontario county (where it was located) or any other, wus speedily converted into cordwood. Farmer T. made money by the operation, although he was well enough ofl* before. He has raised, und still raises excellent crops upou those fields, but his farm is now scant of fencing aud firewood; and if an attempt was commenced to-day to raise a forest upon that farm commensurate to its wants as the residence of a man of taste and liberality, his children’s children would be forgottou m their graves before the trees could iift their heads to half the altitude of those so uncere moniously sacrificed. A brick and mortar structure worth a hundred thousand dollars can be built in a single season; but if a man desires a tree two centuries old, he must take two ceuturies to grow it. The demand of civiiization upon the forest for fuel and timber is enormous and far be yond its capacity to furnish indefinitely. Na ture must have a season of rest aud a half dozen of centuries to reuew her gigantic de corations. The dust of perished cities must feed its roots for ages ere a magnificent forest can cover up the uusightly ruins. There is anew feature jsst now being de veloped in the call for timber, that ought not to be lost sight of or ignored, and it is this : Heretofore the demand upon the broad belt of forest that extends north and south parallel with the Atlantic coast, and before it was en croached upon, stretched east and west 1200 miles, has been open to market only ou the eastern side ; but now the broad aud compar atively treeless prairies of Kansas aud Ne braska, to say nothing of the new States near er home, must be supplied. This double de mand is accelerating the previous rapid im molation of the forest. The axe and the saw are eating their way towards the ceutre from both sides, and consequently doubling the destruction. Far-seeing men will guard their forests as among the most valuable trea sures of their farms, und not permit a dimin ution beyond the point where natural growth will keep up a sufficient supply, at least for their own use. Rnllrouds and Crops. The Athens, Tenn., Post thus speaks of the crop of wheat, and of the benefit the farmers have derived from the building of the East Tennessee and Georgia Railroad. The price of wheat continues at one dollar. One hundred and nineteen wagons unloaded ut the Depot here ou Thursday, the 6th. This country will export, of the late yield pf the harvest, one hundred and sixty thousand bushels. Other counties along the line of the railroad, will, perhaps, do as well. The three counties of Bradley, McMinn and Mon roe, from the information now in our posses sion we have no doubt will sell for export over 400,000 bushels, at an average of one dollar per bushel. Here then is the snug sum of between four and live hundred thous and dollare diffused among the people of these counties for article of wheat alone—the product of a single harvest. — How mnch wheat did these same coun tius export before the railroad was built, aud what price? Not more than twenty-fire thousand bushels, and that small amount was sold at au average of fifty cents per bushel. Iu the mean while, lands have quad rupled in value, and the owners have actual ly become rich by the enhancement, almost without any effort of their own. Wonder if people ever think of these things when they are complaining at the road’s inability to do three months work in a single week. Boat Race at Boston—Success of the St. John Club. —The long talked of boat race between the “Superior Club,’’ of St, John, New Brunswick, aud the “Maid of Erin,” of Baston, took place on Thursday afternoon on Charles River, in the presence of an immense crowd of spectators. The stakes amounted to $2,000. The distance out aud home was three miles, and had to begone over four times, making the total distauce twelve miles. The St. John Club exhibited superiority from the start, and at the end of the ninth mile the Maid of Erin gave up the contest. ‘Slaves Cannot Breathe in England!’— Two laborers left their work (haymaking) on a farm near Chelmsford, England, recently to see the review of the Essex Yeomanry,aud on the complaint of their employer were sen tenced to fourteen days imprisonment and hard labor. Maj. Palmer, the commaudent, asked the home secretary to remit their pun ishment, but Sir George Grey declined. Indian Attack on a Surveying Party.— We have received advices from Nebraska city to the Bth iust. Col. Monnies’ party of Gov ernment surveyors was attacked by a band of Pawnee Loups about thirty miles up the Platte River. Col. Monnies aud live others reached Nebraska safely, but six others were dispersed and have not been heard from. A company of fifty men was immediately raised aud started in pursuit. The Maine Law. —The New York Journal of Commerce is of opinion that the prohibi tory principle of the Maine Law is dead, be cause of the doom iu Maine, its birth-plaee.— The reaction there is considered as premoni tory of what is everywhere to follow. Ne vertheless, urges the journal, let us push on reform and restraint, and temperance iu the old way, and not permit intemperance to riot in the reaction brought about, in a measure, by the intemperate action of a few professed, but fuuutical temperance men. A writer iu the Richmond Whig states that whatever opiuion may be enter tained of the origin of the fever in Gosport, there is no earthly doubt that” the disease in Norfolk was of local origiu. The first case appeared in tenements in which three cases of yellow fever were noticed last year, but at too late a period to spread and cause alarm, and the subjects had no codmunication with persons from Gosport. Texas Sea Island Cotton. —The Gonzales Enquirer states that several planters iu that couuty are producing Sea Island cotton. — There are four hundred and fifty-nine acres planted this season, which the Enquirer thinks will yield better than other cotton. It estimates the product on many farms at 500 pound to the acre, and in some instances it will exceed that quantity. A sample of this crop has been compared with some South Carolina Sea Island, which brought fifty cents per pound last year, aud was pronounced but little inferior. The N. Y. Tribuns flattoringly notes tho Fred Douglass State nomination, —but thinks Congress is the proper place for him, not Albany, While Seward white men want these Albany spoils places, there is no room there for the negro. J-lgr Mrs. Gillepsie died on Friday, at Bur lington. of the injuries received in the late railroad disaster on the Camden and Amboy Railroad. Hlgh-hanied Proceedings. We find in the Columbia South Carolinian , of the 18th, the following account of an out rage upon Dr. R. W. Giubbs, the proprietor of that paper, an old and well-known citizen of Columbia. The name of E. J. Arthur will be remembered henceforth as belonging to a man “ clothed with a little brief authority,” \ who took advantage of his position to offer insult and indignity to a man old enough to be his father, and denying to a citizen uni versally known and respected, the right to be present at the deliberations of the municipal government. TUB ISSUE WITH TIIB CITY COUNCIL. We gave notice, some time since, that we had made application to the City Council of Columbia for an abstract of their proceedings for publication, and subsequently for the courtesy of having a reporter at their public meetings. Both were refused, upon the ground that the ollicial organ of the Council had a vested right in their publication by contract. This extraordinary claim of a representa tive body to barter their minutes to a public journal for a consideration, and exclude the citizens from having them published by any other journal until their official organ had published them, determined us to test the question as hi the right of a citizen to attend their public meetings and report their pro ceedings, if he saw fit. We gave notice to the mayor that we purposed to attend the next meeting, aud on yesterday did so, with several friends. The following proceedings took place, written out by one of the wit nesses : Council Chamber, ) Monday, Sept. 17, 1655. ) Present—Mayor Arthur, and the six Aider men: Dr. R. W. Gibbes, J, S. Guignard, Jr., N. Ramsey, C. Neuffer, 11. P. Dougal, spec tators. The minutes were read; when the Mayor addressed Dr. Gibbes: Mayor.—Dr. Gibbes, did you hear of a re solution, passed at a meeting of Council, not to admit you as a proceedings of Couucil ? Dr. G. answered—l heard of such a reso lution. Mayor.—Then, do you come here as a re porter ? l)r. G.—l come here as a corporator. Mayor.—Answer, do you come here to re port the proceedings'? Dr. G. —I come here as a citizen, and as a corporator; 1 claim the right to attend yfur public meetings, without let, hindrance; or question. Mayor.—Then you refuse to answer the question ? Dr. G. —You may consider it so. Recog nize the right of no man to ask me such a question. Mayor.—Mr. Burdell (marshall), put Dr. Gibbes out of the room, using just us much force as it will require, and no more. Dr. Gibbes refusing to go, the marshall pushed Dr. Gibbes across aud out of the room. Dr. G. then turned at the door and protested against the act. We attended the meeting with a view to the preliminary measures for submitting the case to a court of law ; hence we bore the indig nity of being thrust out by violence from & public assembly as a matter of business, though the spirit did rebel at the idea of the high-handed inquisitorial outrage by the or der of our owu municipal agent. Multuiu in Parvo. A correspondent of the New York Tribune has most happily illustrated how much of pleasure aud profit may be derived from the judicious cultivation of a yard 20 by 40 feet. How many of our city readers might, by pro per exertions, realize the happy lot of the writer: Reader, did you ever plant a vine? Two years ago I planted four Isabellas, and now they are loaded with a rich profusion offruit, and present a pleasing and most gratifying appearance; splendid bunches which vill weigh nearly one pound, now hanging upvm the *vines, already in purple hues, which almost tempt all beholders to regale them* selves with this desirable fruit, even before it bus fully attaiued its perfect and sugared sweetness. These vines are the admiration of all who have seen them, and simply prove that the oc cupaut of every house in our city, if be had the disposition, might grow more of this delightful fruit than his family could con sume. j I planted these vines at an expense of $1.25, and arose an hour earlier in the morning when they required attention. On wash days the soapsuds were saved aud applied to their roots. Last fall two barrels of blood was ob tained from the butcher, a treuch dug around the roots, the blood poured in and covered up, which has been rich food for them ever since. Now for the result: Last year 1 gathered over 30 lbs. of grapes, equal to Underhill's, worth to my family 18d. per lb.; $5.62 From a careful estimate by couutiug the buuches of the present crop, it will amount to over 300 lb., at last year’s prices, worth $56 25-100. My yard is 20 by 40 feet; besides these vines, it contains four apricot trees, peach, dwarf pears, Lawton blackberries, and the usual varieties of flowers, rose bushes, &c. Who would not be willing to be called an enthusiast, as I have been, for devoting my mornings before breakfast iu cultivating these fruits. Who can show so small a yard iu our city better cultivated ? And who, after reading these statistics will not go and plant a vine? An Amateur. From Havana. The steamship Grenada arrived at New Orleans on Friday, with Havana dates to the Sth inst. The Havana correspondent of the Charleston Standard , furnishes the following items of news: Santa Anna has not succeeded famously in his voyage to St. Thomas, but was compelled by a gale to put into Neuvitas, whence be sends to this city for the Santa Anna, which yet remains iu port, to take him through the remainder of his journey; but as that steamer is yet detained for her’refusal to pay for the damages which were repaired in the Govern ment ship yard, it may be a question whether Mr. Santa Anna does not have to look about for some other means of transportation ior self, wife and’accompaniments. There is no news,of a political character worth the mention. Senor de Zayas, who, it will be remembered, was arrested on a charge of making ball cartridges for insurgent pur poses, ana on the information of one of bis own negroes, has been sentenced to eight years in the chain gang. Senor Jose J imiuez, who was also implicated in the affair, has met a like fate, while several others, equally guilty, but men of less considerable fortune, have been forgiven upon a suitable manifest ation of repentance. I can hardly make a report of good health in the city. There is a good deal of fever among the shipping, and the poor sailors are suffering severely. The Hospital of San Francisco is crowded with these patients, and the cholera has also appeared iu the hospital aud carried off several who had become con valescent es the fever. Amusing Duel. —Baden-Baden, which has been so long one of the temples of folly,would S eeui—if the chronicles of ihe place which the newspapers supply may be trusted—to have taken a tone and temper at once moral and practical. The cpde of the gaining table, is, apparently, falling from its authority,with the threatened deposition of the gaming ta ble itself. Swo strangers, an Englishman and a Prussian quarrelled, according to a very common incident, over their play, and agreed in the usual course to fire at one another, as the recognized means of settling a dispute.— The Englishman was so lucky as to win the first fire, and so unlucky as to miss his adver sary. The latter had only now to shoot his man at his ease, and prepared to thke his aim accordingly, when the Englishman cried out, “Stop, stop ; I’ll buy your shot.” The first impression made was that of the novelty of the proposal—the second, that it contained the preliminaries of a mutually profitable transaction. The conditions of the arrange ment were accordingly entered upon; and the two leading elements were, that the English man was ric.'i, aud the Prussian .; good shot. The redemption was valued at £I,OOO, and the parties returned to the city, alike satis fied with their bargain. The case was worth reporting, aud we are glad it was the Eng lishman who set the first example of this clear insight into the rationale of dueling. [Athe/ueutn. Maine. —lt is believed that not a single “ Republican,” alias Fusionist, is elected to the Senate. Last year they bad the entire Senate, and ail but forty members of tho House. This year they win themselves have no more than forty in the House, out of a to tal of 151. fry Com, Downing, late of the United States Navy, who died in Bucks county, Pa., last Thursday, entered the service at an early age, was a bravo patriot,and fought as a mid shipman under Decatur. On September 11th, 1845, he was cashiered, owiug to his conduct in South America, in relation to the recep tion of Com. Coe on board a U. S. ship, after Coe had betray ed theoauso iu which ho was engaged. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1855 [From the New York Tribune, Bep. 17.] Stabbing Affray at Die St. Nicholas The St. Nicholas Hotel was on Saturday evening the scene of another frightful en counter, similar to that enacted about a year ago, when Col. Loring, of Mississippi, lost his life. It appears that shortly before 9 o’clock on the eveuiug named, two of the boarders,Capt. J. J. Wright, aud Mr. R. S. Dean, were seen talking together in au excited manner in tho bar room. Suddenly Capt. Wrighs drew from his pocket a cowhide, with which he s ruck Mr. Deau in the face. Instantly the latter drew from a sheath which ho car ried under his vest a large bowie knife, the blade of which he pluugeu almost to the hilt in the side of his antagonist. The wounded man immediately dropped the cowhide and attempted to get away, but was followed by his antagonist, who again wounded him in the abdomen. Lieut. Stage of the Eighth Ward police happened to be present, and as Mr. Dean was in tne act of making another thrust with the knife at his adversary, caught him by the collitr aud prevented the further iufiictiou of violence. Capt. Wright soon fell, exhausted from loss of blood, to the floor, aud was conveyed to his room where he was attended by several physicians, all of whom pronouuced his wounds to be mortal. Mr. Dean in making tho third thrust with the knife cut himself severely in the thigh, and was also conveyed to a room in the hotel, where the wound was dressed by a surgeon. He, us well as a friend of his, named Mont gomery, who witnessed the affray, are under arrest and will bo kept iu custody until au examination shall take place. The whole affray occupied but a few mo ments, aud was conducted so quietly that many who were in the barroom at the time were unaware of its occurrence until it was over. The news however, spread rapidly, and soon the halls and rum-room were cowd ed by the excited inmates. The quarrel, it was said, grew out of some thing Dean had said and circulated reflecting upon the honor and character of Captain Wright. They had had frequent and bitter altercations in regard to the objectionable lan guage, aud on Saturday night met, by pre vious appointmeut, in tho rum-room of tho St. Nicholas. Deau, fearing violence ou the part of Capt. W., had armed himself, and when the Captain struck him with tho cow hide, used his weapon. The knife with which Capt. W. was stab bed was seven inches in length, aud entered the abdomen almost up to the hilt. The phys icians iu attendance were yesterday of the opinion that the blade had glanced, and not divided the intestine, audit* such be the case, the wound though frightful, may not prove mortal. Yesterday afternoon he appeared to sulfer p-.i:?,a!id informed our reporter that the reason of his hostility to Mr. Dean was that the latter had made a statement that he (Capt. W.) had misappropriated some plate which was on board the steamer Jewess, which was lost at Sandy Hook iu October last, and which was owned by him and Mr. Deau. He first heard of the slander while he was in Boston last week, and immediately came on to have it retracted. He had several interviews with Mr. Dean, who put him off from time to time,and ou their meeting at the St. Nicholas, he being again refused, drew a cowhide, but was immediately held by Mr. Montgomery,a friend of Mr. Dean’s ; and had it uot been that he was so held. Mr. D. would uot have succeeded iu stabbing him so se verely. On Monday morning his condition was thought by his physicians to be much more critical. There were, however, slight hopes of recovery. The State Railroad. The Atlanta Intelligencer of Wednesday gives the following explanation of the sale, in Tennessee, of cars belonging to tho Western and Atlantic Railroad: The facts of the case, are simply these.— Several suits have been commenced in the courts of Tennessee by certain residents of that State, against the State of Georgia, for damages which the former claims to hav e sustained by Jdelay of shipments, under a a former Administration. The superinten dent of the Western & Atlantic Raiiroud be lieved these claims to be vexatious and un just, aud in accordance with his duty at tempted to defeat them. In order, therefore, to gain time which he deemed necessary for the preparation of his defence, he permitted a few stock cars, for which the State had no immediate use, to be sold. These cars were bid in by order of the Superintendent, aud are now in possession of the State; there has been no harm done; no loss sustained; and wo apprehend the honor of the State is placed on too firm a basis to be affected by so paltry a transaction as this. It is the duty of the Superintendent, in all exigencies such as we have named, to pur sue that course which he may deem most advantageous to the interests of the road; we presume that he did so iu this instance. — Will the Chronicle & Sentinel say that he did not ? Let the people receive this as a perfect answer to every charge of “ Mismanagement of tho State Road,” which the opposition press have brought against the adminis tration, that the road was never iu such a flourishing condition as at present. It has already paid SIOO,OOO into the Treasury, which will shortly be increased, and has a large surplus ou hand to meet every exigency that may arise. Arrest op a Georgia Slave in Virginia.— Several days since we noticed the arrest of a man calling himself John Gray, and hail ing from Georgia, who had in his possession a black fellew called Thomas Gray, which he claimed as his slave. At the time tho arrest was made, several geutlemen from the South gftve it as their opinion that John Gray was uot a white man, out a slave, and that he was attempting-to get to the North. Under these suspicions the Mayor committed the two to jail for safe keeping, since which time both of them have made clean breasts, by confess ing that they were runaway slaves, and that the one calling himself John Gray, wus named Aaren, aud belonged to Mr. William Butts, of Marion, Georgia ; while the one call ing himself Thomas Gray, and professing to be the slave of John Gray, was named Peter, aud belonged to Mr. Brown Barker, of Mo rengo Cos., Alabama. These two fellows met in Georgia, and according to their own con fession. there arranged their piuu of escaping to the North. Aaron being almost white,and possessing long, straight hair, assumed the position of master, aud taking the railroads, could readily have passed,unmolested,but for taking lodgings in Mr.Lumpkins’ house, where most of the traders stopped, and where he was at first suspected. The two were brought before the Mayor yesterday, and afer being allowed to make their own statements, were committed to prison, there to be safely kept until called for by their owners. —Richmond /•js/Hltr/,. COMMERCIAL. LATEST DATES. Liverpool,Sept. 8 | Havre, Sept: 6 I Havana, Sept 8 Market, Sept. ‘A'Z, COTTON. —Arrived since the 15th lust., 4,731 bales of Upland, and 41 do. Sea Island. Os the Upland, 4,455 werejby Railroad, and 276 by river. The exports for tho same period amount to 1705 bales Upland and*no Sea Islund. viz : To Philadelphia, 561 ba.es; to Baltimore, 151 bales, and to New York, 993 bales —leaving on hand and on shipboard not cleared, a stock 01j5,142 bales of Upland und 364 do. Sea Island, aguiust 2,600 bales of Upland and 600 do. Sea Island same time last year. The market Is Inactive, with a decline of >a to \c during the week. JVl’lie sales of the week {amount to 749 bales ut the following particulars :17at9, 15 at 9} 4 - 25 at 9} B . 112 ut;9>*, 11 at 9 9-16,12 at 9%, 60 at 97*. 2CB at 10,16 at a t 1013-l Cc. The accounts by the Baltic, with dates from Liv erpool to the Bth, showing a decline of 1-16($}*', wer° received un Thursday, at noon, but have not yet had any perceptible effect on the market. Tho market yesterday was dull, with few transactions of lmpoi tuuco. QUOTATIONS : Middling to Strict Middling 9 ($ 9. 1 i Good Middling I J9.**(s 9‘* Middling Fair nominal. Fair nominal. YVo omit tlie Compartlve Statements of the Re ceipts aud Exports of the various ports, us tho small amount of business,done the current year, and tlie lniperft ct returns so far received, would render it incomplete. In place of this wo present the State ment of the Cotton Crop of tho United States, for the year ending Aug. 31,1855. SEA ISLANDS—Thera have been no transactions the past week, The receipts huve been 41 .bales, making a stock on hand of 364 bales. RICK—We have no change to notice. The ship ments for the past week have been 235 casks, of which 120 was exported to New Orleans, 105 to New York, and 10 to Philadelphia. CORN—We hear of sales ot prime white at 95c. One lot of old Corn, of au Inferior quality sold at 75c. Tho stock is light, and buyers waiting for the now crop, FLOUR—The market Is well supplied. Georgia Floar is held at $8(0)9, and double extra selling at 912 V bbl. WHEAT—The receipts forth# past week amount to about 60,000 bushels, of which 17,000 bushels have been exported to Northern ports. We hear of sale* In the early part of the week at 91 50 for red, and $1.55 for mixed. Y’estenlay prices were a little atlffer. We quote good to prime Red at and White at 91,6C(51,65. OATS—The stock on nand Is heavy. We quote a t 55(3160 cts. Oat. Meal for feed. Is selling at 70c In small lots. BACON—The stock is very light, and prices havo advanced %<jslc. and are still tending upwards. Bal timore Shoulders are held at Ufa® 12};, Sides l4}- a (s 15, and Hams 14(a) 16 cents. Scarcely any Shoulder 8 or Sides In market. SUGARS—The stock of allk nds la light, aud prices have advanced. We quote Porto Rioo and St- Croix at *<slo, New Orleaus at B> a (s9, Loaf at 11*, and Stuuit’s at 10($ll cts ft lb. COFFEE—We have no chango to notice. The de mand Is light with a good stock ou hand. MOLASSES—The stock is light, and quotations un. changed. We hear of no transactions ot Importance the past week. SALT—Thero have been no arrivals during the week. Liverpool is selling in lots from store at $1.25 ($1,37.‘a V sack. HAY—The stock on haud is light, and prices aro unchanged. We quote North River at $1,60(!b1.62>i, and Eastern at $1,62.' a (51,75, lu lota from store. LlME—Prices are unchanged. Sales are made from store at $1,25. BAGGING—The stock is small, uml,prices aro tend ing upwards. We quote Gunny at 15> a ($16 cts yard. We have heard of a sale ot a lotot 100 bales Gunny, to arrive, at 16>* cts. ROPE—There is a bettor feeling In the market, al. though no quotable advance in prices. Holders are tlrm, with un ample stock. EXCHANGE.—We quote Sterling Exchange at 2> per.cent. prem. The Banks are selling Sight Checks on all Northern cities at per cent prem and purchasing Sight Bills at par; 10. days at;}*; 30 days at >i(s3*. and 60 days at $4 cent discount. FREIGHTS.—To Liverpool for Cotton. Coast wise—To Boston, 1 *; to New York, 5-16 c. by steam ships,and $1 per bale by sailing vessels. To Balti-* more >*, and to Philadelphia, nominal. Wheat to New York 7 cts in sailing vessels, and I2}*c. lu steamships: to Philadelphia in steamships 10 cents and V2X cts. delivered in New York; to Baltimore in sailing vessels 7. Copper Ore to New York aud Bal timore in sailing vessels $2 %4 ton. Statement of Cotton* 1854-’55. n 1863-’64. 8. Tsl. Upland S. Isl. Up I’nil Stock on hand Sept. 1 3UU 700’ 00u 2,600 Rec’d since (Sept 15.. 41 4.731 “ previously 23 3,433 ! Total receipts 364 8.864 j 600 2.600 Kxp'ted this week 1,705 “ previously... 2,0171 Total exports 3,722 Remg on hand Sept 22 364| 5,142j| 600 2,600 Export* of Cotton from Savannah. I From Sept, l,i iFromSept. I, ’55. to Sep. 22, ’ 4,t0 Sep. 22, I 1355. [1 1854. PORTS EXPORTED TO 18. Ul Upl’d.H 8.1. )UplVi~ Liverpool, |J I ]j | Totd Great Britain I | I j | Other Freiich Ports.”.| Z.ZZ.\ ZZZ Total France | p || f Other Foreign IWWt..| ..1.......... 11 j Total Foreign Portal TZ. ifZ.~r.ZZ7~. 805t0n..... | . 227 j j i New York I ’ 1606 ! I Philadelphia j I 131* Ii Baltimore A Ncrlolk-. j 1 6701| I Other U. 8. Ports j j (J | “Total Coastwise “..7.1 1 3.722 r~TTT. ’ Grand Total | | 3.722|| Exports of Ulcc and Lumber from Sa vannah. I From Sept, 1, 11 From Sept. 1 1855, to Sep. 22,1 1854, to Sep.22,’ I 1855. 1| 1854. hsi ™'itei tireat Britain I | ii ... St. Johns Si ilalit’x I 384.UUU ; Wcet Indies.* I 86.UU0 Other Foreign P’tsl j 66,50 e Total Foreign Pt J 1,134.5Qj| Massachusetts | \ Rhone Island, Ac... New York 171 233,000 PhiladelpUi 10 Baltimore A Norfkl 50 13,000 Charleston I New Orleans, &c.. | 120 Other Ports I Total Coastwise.-1 351 612,5T.0| Graud Total, I 3511 1,747,QU0! Exports of Cotton, liice ami Lumber, FROM KEPT. 15TU, 1855, TO SEPT. 22D. 1855. Jbrtt. Jsl'd. Upland. Rice. Lumber Falmouth, Me - ..176,500 Bail., Me 70,t K3 Camden, Me 120.00 J Baltimore 151 Philadelphia 581 10 New York 903 105 145.000 New Orleans 120 Total 1705 235 * 611,500 Comparative View of Vessels LOADING IN’ TUE UNITED STATES FOR FOREIGN FORTS 1855. 1854. PORTS. | ||fj |g 5* = New-Orleaus, Sept. 15....i l 6 i 2 M 3 , 4 i 4 Mobile, Sept. 14 4 0 11113 2 Florida, Sept. 7 0 0 0 0 0 W Saviinmth, Sept.2l 1 0 1 ‘ 0 1 0 0 Charleston,Sept 13 1 l I 2 I 2 I 1 i l Other Ports, Bept. 7 4 0 6 8 2i 11 New York, Sept.ls 17 7175|| 18 | 6| 4 Total 134 I_l 4 187 II 32J 16 |lo2 Bunk Note Table. GEORGIA. Bk State of Georgia par South Carolina.... par Planters’Bank...... “ New Orleaus 3dis Marine Bunk “ Mobile 2(53 “ CURA Lauk’g Cos “ Montgomery 2(53 “ Bank of Savannah “ State Bk Alabama 3(o 5 “ Meehanics’Sav’gßk “ Northernßk,Mlss 3(55 “ Bank of Augusta “ North Carolina ... 3(Tc 5 “ Mechanics’Bk. Aug “ Virginia 1( l “ Aug.lns.Aßank’gCo “ West Tennessee 3<ss “ Ga.lt K ABank’gCo “ Nashville 2<s4 “ Bank of Brunswick “ BkoiChuttuuooga 2<s3 “ City Bank “ ** E Tennessee Union Bank “ “ Knoxville... “ Man ut. Bk, Macon “ Tazewell “ Merchants’,Macon2@3dls Farmers’BkKuox Man f.&Mechanles’ Ocoeoßk.Clevel’d • “ Bank, Columbus par Exchange Bank... 3<ss “ Planters’ A Mech’s Miners’ and Man- Bank, Dalton s@lodis ufacturers’ Bk Insur’coßk,Dalton Farmers’ A Mor- Interiorßk,Griffin6(slodis chants’ Bank.... Bank of La Grange s(s 10 “ Mechanics’ Bank, Atlanta Bank 2(53 “ Memphis Hank Shares and .stocks, INSTITUTIONS. COST FHEs'T. PRICE. I DIV. Bank State of Georgia lUU 113 liu^ct Planters’Bauk 8U 95 14 ” Marine Hank 50 65 14 “ C K K and Banking Cos lUU 106}* 8 “ Hunk of Savumiah 100 none ottering lu * Mechanics’ Savings’Bank IUU “ IU “ Gas Light Company 25 30 8 South Western II K Cos IUU 100 8 “ Muscogee UK Cos 100 nom.ual 8 “ Savannah A Alb’y Rlt Cos A ugustu A Waynesboro’ do 100 nomiuul State Bonds none offering 7 ** City 7 per Cent Bonds 92i a aud lnt. 7 ‘* Exchange. BANK RATES FOR SELLING EXCUANGE. Checks on 805t0n...... > a ct. prem •* “ New York > a ct. preui •• “ Philadelphia * V cf prem ” ** Baltimore >* S* ct. prem BANK RATES FOR PURCHASING EXCHANGE. BUs ou England 9>* <$ V ct. prem. Now Yurk, sight par ($ 6 days. % ($ V ct. dlsc’t.. - “ 10 “ Ai <$ V “ “ “ 30 •* y ($ h # *• “ go “ u <$ ih ¥ *• “ 90 “ 2 <$ 2A* “ “ *’ Boston, 60 “ i\ ($ I*b V “ “ Philad’a., 60 “ .1?,, (g/ l? a “ Baltimore, 60 “ I}* ($ 1& “ ** LIST OF [VESSELS IN PORT ISkips. Alabama, (s) ScliencklSOO NY Padelford.Fay ACo Sardinia, ilustou 734 dls’g Padelford, FA Cos Harks. Glasgow, (B) Ward... 411 rep’g R A Allen A Cos ,i .1 Hathorn, Hathorn39B Llv’l Brigham, KA Cos M 11 Kendall. 8r0ck...273 Phila C A Greiner Vlctorlne, Mowry 540 Boston... Brigham, KA Cos M Morton, Bulkley,.. 425 N Y Cohens (A Hertz Brigs. R MCharlton,Llghtb’ul42 wait’g J Roberts ACo Pad tic. Fuller 000 Boston Master Tallulah,|Amesbury...-000 Uockp’tCarletonAParsons Augusta, Stone 398 N Y Dana A Washburn Eagle, Fish, 190 Boston...Ogden,Starr ACo Schooner*. S’ J Waring, Neff. N Y Ogden, Starr ACo M Pike, Whitaker Phila C A Greiner Maine Law,Packard Portl’d...Brigham, K A Cos J W Anderson, Watson, Balt Brigham, KA Cos MARRIED, On Monday, Sept. 10th, at Trinity Church, New York, by the \tev- Mr. Young, LEWIS CRUGER, Esq., to LOUISA WILLIAMSON, daughter of the late J. Ancrum, all of Charleston, S. C. DIED, On Sunday last, at Uardlvllle, 8. C., WHITE W. UARDIE, Esq, At Canton, Ohio, on the ovenlng of the Bth Inst. Rev. STEPHEN A. MEALY’, formerly Pastor of tho Lutheran Church In this city, in Effingham county, on Thursday last, Mrs. HAN NAII KAHN, aged about 40 years. In Effingham county, on Sunday last, Mr. JOHN WILSUN, age-1 about 55 years. I'm The very latest stylo high and low UM crown white, drab, pearl aud brown soft HATS, Just received at the Hat and Cup N . K . UAB})UM . f From the Charleston Courier.] Statement of tlie Cotton Crop of til# United State*. FOR THE Y’EAR ENDING AUGUST 31,1865. Rtu> Orleans. 1835. 18W. /?*•'*. Males. Receipts. 1^t&4,76d Less received from Mobile, Flo rida, Texas, and Montgomery, Ala 52.924 Total 1,231,841 1,844.925 Alabama. Received at Mobile , 438,423 Add xports from Mont gomery. Ala . to New leans. 16,323 Less received from Texas, Ac.. .. 1,399 Total 45 J,347 638,684 Florida. Receipts at Apalachicola, St. Marks. Ac.:—Upland* 126,289 Sea Islauds 9.549 Add burn on shipboard Up land, 199; Sea Island, 260 459 Total 136,597 155.755 Receipts 80.737 107,498 Georgia. Receipts at Savannah : Uplands. 370.114 Sea Islands 14.U9S Add stock at Augusta and Uuuiburg, Sept. 1, 1855 1.707 Less Received from Flo rida, Sea Islands 2.448 Less stock at Augusta and Hamburg, Sept, 1, 1854 8.318 Total - 375,353 316,005 South Carolina. Receipts at Charleston— „ Uplands : 481,59? Sea Islands 23.601 Add exports from Georgetown, S. C., to Northern ports 4,753 Le.'s tecelved from Savauuali— Uplands 6,438 Sea Islauds 1.U36 Less teceived trom Floilda— Uplands 172 Sea Islands 3.6; I Total 498,557 418,304 JS orlh Carolina. Receipts 27,805 12,022 Firptfiui. Receipts at Petersburg and Nor ,, folk 31,000 21,936 Kxpoited from Memphis direct to Nothern ports and Liver pool 17.989 Received at New York and Bal timore by railroad, Ac 2.50 J 13.990 Total crop of United States 2,8:5,729 2 929 139 Crop of last year 2,929.139 Decrease 73,410 CONSUMPTION. Total ciop of the Uulted States as above stated 2.855,729 Add- Stock on hand Ist Sept., 1854: In Southern ports 77,762 In Northern ports 49.917 — 127,679 Makes a supply 0! 2.963,498 Deduct therefrom — The exports to for. p0rt52,246,106 Less loreigu included..., 4,182 Stock on hand Ist Sept, 1865 In Southern ports 76814 lu Northern ports 65.976 Burnt at Philadelphia. 4uii Quantity consumed by und In the hands ot manufacturers for 1854 and lr'ss 598,292 Quantity consumed by and In the hand* ot luauutactururs lor 1853 and 1854 619,921 Note,—The estimate 01 the quantity taken for con sumption does not ncludc any cotton tuuuuiaclured lu tlie States south and west 01 Virginia. SAVANNAH WHOLESALE PIfICBJ CURRENT. .\ rl Irlrs, BAGGING, Dundee. 44 Iu yd $ 35 S4O Kentucky yd Gunny yd 16} 16 Tow yd BALK ROPE n> 9'4 10>£ Dillon’s Rope ft BEEF. New York Mess bbl Prime bbl Cargo bbl BACON. Hums ft u 15 Shoulders . ft n>g 12J*’ Sides... - ft, 14‘, 15 BREAD, Navy ft; 6 sj. I*llol ftj 8 fttf BUTTKK, Goshen, Prime ft: 2s 36 No. 2 ft! 20 24 BRICKS, Savunuuh, Ist quul. m 9 00 Northern id CANDLES. Spermaceti ft 33 45 Savannah made. Tallow... ft 12J* 13 Northern do do ft 17 20 Ada'iamtlne ft 25 30 CHKKSK. Northern I ft UH 16 (JOE EKE,Cuba ft Klo ft 12 13 Java ft 16 17 CORDAGE. Tarred ft 15 16 Manilla lb 18 l'J DOMESTIC GOODS Shirtings, Brown yd 4 7 Sheetings, Brown yd 7 10 Brown Drills yd 8,9 Cotton Osnaburgs yd 8 10 DUCK, English bolt 10 00 14 00 American Cotton yd 14 ‘24 FISU, Mac karri. No. 1 bbl 20 00 21 00 “ No. 2 bbi 10 00 ** No. 3 bbl 800 ,11 00 FLOUR, Canal b bl ! Baltimore, Howard si sup bbl ‘ ,rK !“ v, bbi a , a Georgia double extra 12 GRAIN, Corn. Cargo bush] 80 ! KDi Corn. Reran bash I S2'4 1 00 ‘ Oats bush 1 55 tki GLASS, American Window... ini) it 450 700 GUNPOWDER Xb 450 589 HAY,Prime Northern cw j i6O ; 1 62J* ** Eastern cw 1 62‘; 175 HIDES, Dry j, 12)4 Deerskins ft IRON, Swedes, assorted ton 95 50 116 00 I**B ton 30 uo Hoop cwt 400 4UO cwt 4 60 5 50 NaUrods cwt 6UO 600 LARD ft is 14 LIME, Rockland bid 125 i LUMBER. S. Sawed, rtlusc... ra f, cUO 800 Merchantable m j, 14 QJ 16 00 River Lumber, refuse m f t ti 00 900 Merchantable to Prime... m ft 12 00 17 uo Ranging do, for export... n ft 800 9UO Mill Ranging f t 45u 800 White* WaterOakplpestv. m ft 50 On 60 00 do do hhd in ft 30 00 35 U) do do bbl m 20 00 35 00 White Pine, clear 30 00 40 00 Merchantable , n 18 00 25 00 Cypress Shingles m 400 450 Sawed Cypress shingles... B i IQ 00 Rod Oak Staves U 1 12 uu 16 CO MOLASSES, Cuba - ga | 30 35 New Orleans gtt | 36 38 NAILS,cut 4d to 20*1 ft 4*, 6 NAVAL STORES. Tar bb! 475 500 Spirits Turpentine gu | 02>i 70 Varnish ga | 01LS, Sperm, winter strained. Ra i 225 250 ** fall do gal “ summer do Ka j Whale, Racked, winter... ga | 95 100 Linseed ga | 90 95 •Tanners bbl 15 00 16 00 OSNABURUS, Flax V>l 10‘i PORK, Mess, Westeru bbl 20 00 22 Uo Prime b bl 14 00 16 UO Mess, New \ ork bbl 22 00 ‘25 00 POUTER, London, quarts dnz 275 287 RAISINS, Malaga box 350 375 SALT, Liverpool, course sack 125 137 Cargo, bulk bushl lurks Island bualil 65 75 SOAP, American, yellow lb 6 8 SilOT, all sizes ft 9 SEGAKS, Spanish , M 10 00 35 00 American U i 610 16 00 SPIRITS Brandy, Cognac ga ) 450 to lO London Dock gal 4UO 450 Georgia Peach ga ) luo 125 Domestic tfa , to 60 Gin, Holland R al 120 130 Americau ga , 45 50 Rum, Jamaica gu | 16j 175 “ N.EJ. bbls gal 55 60 Whiskey, Phil, and Balt-. ca! 40 i2 I* £** w Orleans gal 42 44 Scotch gal 2UO 210 SUGAR, P. Rico and St. Croix ft 8 10 Havana, white ft “ brown tbl 1 New Orleans ft! Btfl 9 Loaf and Crushed ft: Ilk Stuart’s A. B A C ft! 10 11 TALLOW, American ft: 12 14 TOBACCO, .Manufactured ft 25 40 TEAS, Souchong ft 30 60 Ouupowder : ft 70 85 Hyson ft 60 75 TWINE, Selue ft: 30 35 Baling ft 20 22 WINKS, Madeira gal 175 350 Sicily Madeira g a i 1 ou Teneritfe, L. P gal Malaga. Sweet gal 45 56 Claret, Bordeax case 475 660 “ ChuieauxMusgaux cask 10 Champague, doz doz 10 12 WOOL, Southern Unwashed... ft! 17 is •* Clean ft WOOL-SKINS, Lamb’s each 18 25 __ Sheep’s each 18 26 BOARD OF lIHAL.TII. Savannah. September 19th, 1855. Report of Interments in Laurel Grove Cemetery t Jbr the. week ending Sept, let A, 1856. Sept. 12—llenry Welg.md, 62 yrs, Chills aud Fever, Germany. Sept. 13—*John Frasier, 19 yrs. Bilious Fever,Scot. land. Sept. 17—James C. Waller, 4 yrs 4 mos, Canker in the Mouth, Savannah. Sept’ 17—Anna E. Wenz, 8 days. Spasms, Savan nah. HI.ACIiS AND COLORED, Sept. 12—Daniel, 10 yrs, Brain Fever. Sept. 13—Allred, 7 yrs, Bilious Fever. Sept, 16—Tenah, 39 yts, Consumption. Sept. 16—Blnali, 70 yrs. Dysentery* Sept* 18—Delia. 93 yrs, Old Age. Sept. 18—Nancy,65 yrs, Consumption. Sept. W—David, 2 yrs IMarrfm'a. A. E. TOKLAY, Keeper L. O. Cemetery. Report qf Interments in Catholic Cemetery. for the week ending SejU. IW/i. 1866. Sept. 12—Jane Ilayes, 16 yrs, Bilious Fever, Ire land. Sept. 17—John Qlgglns.9 days. Spasms, Savannah. Sept. 17—Alice J. Price, 6 days, Spasms, Savannah. Sept. 17—John Fagan, 30 yrs, Sun-stroke, Ireland. Sept. 18—Matilda Hughes, 10 days, Spusins, Savan nah. Sept. 18—Ilonora Ryan, 10 days, Spasms, Savan nah, JAMES RAY. Keeper C. Cemetery. ♦Died at the Poor House aud Hospital. Whites, 10; Black and Colored, 7: Total 17. M J. BUCK sER, Chairman B. 11. S. A. T. Lawrence, See’ry B. 11. I ~ CYCLOPAEDIA Britannic* ; or,l)ic^ J tlonary of Arts, Sciences, aud General Litera ture, Vol. Eighth, received by uug 9 JOHN M. COOPER A CO.