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ATHENS POST.
8. P. 1VIN3. EDITOR AN D PROPRIETOR.
TERMS. 92 J"r, payable in advance, or
ft at the expiration of tht year.
y Ka paper ditontinued until arrearget
are paid, except at the option of the PMieher.
For announcing the namet of candidate for
afiee $i. Caek.
ATHENS, FniDAVtJlXYSl1854.
J3F" Chancery Court convenes at Denton,
Polk county, oa the 1st Monday of August,
th7tb.
Atlanta Fair. The Fourth Annual Fuir
of the Atlanta Agricultural, Manufactured
and Mechanical Association, will be held on
the 9th, 10th, nnd 11th of August, proximo.
. Montvale. Some "unmitigated scamp,"
not -hating before his eyes the fear of the
lake that burns with fire and brimstone, has
put in circulation report that times of cho
lera had occurred at Montvale Springs. It is
to necessary to add that there is not the leat
, foundation for the absurd fabrication.
' J37" We learn that the post-office at Ham
ilton's X Roads, McMinn county, has been
hangod to Green's Store, and Mr. Green ap
pointed post-master.
Weather. Tlio weather still continues
irery warm thermometer Tuesday and Wed
nesday up to 04 and 95 in the shade. There
has been no ruin hero for the last four weeks,
and vegetation begins to look as dry and life
less as a Chattanooga paper. The corn is
suffering severely, as the heavens distil no
dews, not cloud has beon seen for days. Viie
hill-tops are continually bathed in a blaze ot
fiery sunshine, and the breezes that occasion
ally play laxity along tho valleys are as op
pressive and overpowering as the sirocco of
the desert. As the preachers say in times of
unusual dearth, "oh, for a refreshing shower!"
By the way, as a good deal has been said
hy some of our cotemporaries at points inter
ested in the Chattanooga and Cleveland road,
about the stock which Knoxville and Knox
county have taken in rail roads, wo should bo
pleased if they would inlorm the public how
much stock the public-spirited citizens of tho
towns and counties immediately on this road
have subscribed to help build the work; how
much they have paid, and whether there is
any probability of their failing to meet all
their calls. We wish to know who live in
glass houses. Knoxville Register.
The Cleveland papers, perhaps, will be
able to furnish the Register the information
dobircd In regard to the stock in the Chatta
nooga and Cleveland rond. Any information
about the amount of stock subscribed by
Knoxville and Knox county in the East Ten
nessee and Georgia Railroad, under the eld
and present organization, and tho amounts
paid in and unpaid, and who has paid nnd
who refuses to pay, can bo obtained by ap
plication in this direction. We are convenient
to the record, and will take special pleasure
In procuring and disseminating any informa
tion on tho subject that may be desired.
Scarcity of Confidence. Complaints are
coming up from every direction about the
"unusual scarcity of money." Tho complaints
are ill-grounded. There is more money in
the country than at any former time. Con
fidence is tho commodity that is scarco, and
tho want of it is causing money to be hoard
ed. All kinds of property rate too high at
figures which every observing mind knows
cannot be maintained, and consequently
thero is an uneasy fueling among capitalists
and moneyed institutions, and a disposition
to "hold on" until matters settle down to a
safe point. There has been a long season of
prosperity, of successful trading and specula
tion, and many act as though it was always
to continue; but the more prudent and saga
cious know better, nnd aro preparing for the
change. It is said that property is always
worth what it can be nold for. No proposi
tion could be moro false. It frequently hap
pens that properly cannot be sold for what it
is really worth, nnd at other times rondily
brings more than its intrinsic vnlue. Long
seasons of prosperity and high prices are al
ways followed by greater or less reverses.
It Is a law of trade and business as inevitable
as the laws of nature.
y Rumor says that Jim Walker, former
ly of the Kndxvillo Tribune, is now in that
city negotiating for tho purchase of the Reg
ister office, with a view to make it the organ
of Hon. Jno. Bell in East Tennessee. Don't
believe It the enterprise would'ntpay under
such auspices.
3JPThe Washington correspondent of
the Charleston Standard writes that Messrs.
Toombs and Dawson, of Ga., Dixon of Ky.,
and Jones of Tcnn., of the Senate, and Ste
phens of Ga., Clingman of N. C, and Pres
ton and Ewing of Ky., have prepared an ad
dress to the Southern Whigs, designed to bo
tho platform of a ntw Southern Whig party;
but up to this timo they have cot succeeded
lo getting any othor Whig member of Con
gress to join them, nnd tho address thoreforo
may not bo issued.
y Friend Hooper, of the "Montgomery
Mail," is entitled to our Lett devoirs for
that handsome notice If wo were not af
flicted with an excessive stock of modesty
we would like to re publish his paragraph,
'but in view of the facts and in considcrn
tion of certain circumstances," as we onco
heard a democratic stumper remark when
about to suppress something that ho wns anx
ious to divulgo, wo must forego oursclf the
pleasure. We welcome the "Mail" to our
table, nnd trust tho bread cast upon the wa
ters In this direction may yield a fruitful re
turn. f-jy We should have stated last wcok
that M. Boullumct, Mobile, is an agent of tho
Southern Military Academy Lottery of Ala
bama, nnd that ticket No. 1128, Class B,
which took the $3,000 prize, was sold at his
office It Is thought ho lias a few more of
tho an mo sort left.
Memphis. Memphis, the " City on tlio
River," must be a nice plnco to breathe in as
tho thermometer approximates 100. About
two-thirds of tlio apace of tho daily papers
is occupied with paragraphs pointing out the
deposites of filth in tho streets, and the other
third witli notices requesting tho municipal
.authorities to have the disease-gen crating
piles removed.
Cholera. W regret to learn that there ia
some alarm existing in the public mind about
cholera, and that a belief is obtaining cur
rency that East Tennesec, hitherto free from
this or acy other pestilential or epidemic dis
ease, is about to be visited by what has prov
ed in other sections to be the most fearful
scourge of the human race. We are candid
and speak our sincere convictions when we
say that we do not believe there ia any real
ground for serious alarm. It is true, and
we have no disposition to disguise the fact,
that at Loudon, some thirty miles north-east
of this, there have been a good many cases of
sickness, some eight or ten of them fatal,
and some said to be strongly marked by cho
lera features, that a panic was created among
the citizens, and that a stampede ensued, and
that the streets of the town now present a
comparatively desolate and dreary appear
ance. But when we recollect that Loudon
ia situated immediately on the Tennessee
river, that that stream is and has been unu
sually low, that a large number of hands
have been employed on and about the rail
road bridge, many of them half the time fa
the water, and breathing the poisonous mias
ma exhaled from tho exposed mud and ooze
along the river banks by the scorching rays
of the sun, it is not at all surprising that
sickness and disease should be generated, and
that deaths should fcccur. In fact,' it would
have been remarble if the town had, under
the eircumstnceg escaped with no more than
1 L - , ....
mo uaup , amount or sickness. London, we
belip ve, has a population ranging between
fight and ten hundred, and according to the
best information we have been able to obtain
ten deaths have (occurred from the disease
which some of th physicians there have
prematuroly, aa we honestly believe, pro
nounced Asiatic cholera. And giving the
subject its worst possible phase, the cause for
alarm has been greatly exaggerated, and the
disease represented to be much more malig
nant and fatal in its character than the fuels
warrant. That there is disease of some cha
racter there, perhaps of a mulignant type, gen
erated by local causes, it would be useless to
deny, and that the citizens who are constantly
exposed to its attacks are in some danger;
but we do not believe there is any more dan
ger to persons passing through there now
than there was eight months ago when the
atmosphere was frigid and the trees festoon
ed wiih snow-drops. If the disease is epi
demic or contagious in its character, the mere
passing through the infected district would
not endanger us to an attack. And the God's
truth about the matter is, with one or two
exceptions, every death that has occurred at
Loudon within the last three weeks can bo
traced to imprudence on the part of the pa
tient, or want of care and attention while
sick.
Our own town and immediate neighbor
hood continues very healthy, and we knowof
no existing causes to produce a change, or to
create the least alarm in the minds of the
people. Alarm and panic frequently bring
about the result so much dreaded, and per
sons whose minds are most violently excited
nnd exercised in times of epidemic diseases
generally are the first to full victims. Sud
den changes of diet, too, aro to be avoided,
as predisposing to disease. We do not ap
prehend the appearance of cholera, or any
epidemic disease here, but we will suggest
to those who feel alarm to keep as cool and
free from excitement as possible to lire on
good wholesome food, to eat but little fresh
meats and to partake sparingly of the sickly
vegetables that have been maturing in the
hot suns of tho Inst few weeks, nndnbove all
to eschew baldface w hiskey and bad brandy.
While sensible- that God is over all, wo have
strong faith in "human instrumentalities,"
and believe it right, particularly at this season,
to uso prudence and precaution. Cleanliness
and cheerfulness are the great promoters of
health. Drink pure water, eat good sound
bacon and well-baked bred, take moderate
out-donr exercise, keep the mind and nervous
system free from undue excitement, maintain
your good nature, aud attend to your ordina
ry pursuits as usual, and then, with a reason
able trust In Providence, you will be mighty
apt to come through safe, cholera or no cho
lera. We repeat, we do not apprehend tho op
pearance of cholera here, or in the adjacent
country, but in view of the many and shame
fully exaggerated reports in circulation, we
have deemed it our duty to write thus much.
Tennessee Monet Abroad. We learn
that at all the Railroad Depots in Georgia,
the following notice. Is hung in sonio conspic
uous place : .
" Tennessee money will not be received here"
Memphis Whig.
Thore is an error in the above statement.
Tho notice referred to as boing hung up at
Railroad Depots in Georgia reads :
"No Bank bills excopt Georgia nnd South
n i:..- ...I,.,- . .
The difficulty with the Tenncsseo money
rests entirely with the Banks themselves.
An agency either at Augusta, Charleston, or
Savannah would remedy the evil complained
of. .
"Tht wicked JUe wken.no one pursueth."
Some of our citizens, wo are sorry to learn,
have taken tho alarm and are making prepa
rations to break for the brush. We hope
they will have a plonsant time of it, nnd that
they may all live to get back safo and laugh
at their senseless fears.
13?" Rumor says that the physicians, with
ono exception, were among the first to flee
from Loudon. . For the credit of the profes
sion we hope the report is not true. The post
of duty is tho post of safety as well as honor,
Fire. A destructive fire occurred In New
Orleans on the 9th, destroying property to
the amount of 200,000.
3T There is a contest going on in the
Georgia papers about the removal of the
scat of government from Milledgevlllc, It
is no business of ours, but if ws were a citi
zen of that State we should certainly vote
for the removal. And it seems to us that
Atlautais the most eligible place nnd ought
to be selected, as being nearly central, access!,
bio from all directions by railroad, and of a
healthy and pleasant location.
J37 Mercantile letters from Purls state
that the Russi.ni loan is not allowed to bo
dealt in, nnd that tho Government haro for
bidden all transactions In Russian stock.
THE GREAT POLITICAL JUGGLE OF
THE AGE.
The New York Herald, which is always
well posted on foreign affairs, contends that
the recent arrangement for Austria to occupy
the Danubian Principalities is decidedly for
the advantage of Russia, and that the posi
tion of the former power as ostensible arbiter
and stakeho.der between the Western Pow
ers and Russia m.iy well excite surprise and
distrust amongst the European liberals.
That a Power, whose existence was lately
quivering in the balance, should now herself
hold the scales, is a fact rather humiliating to
the pride of great nations like England and
France, and we can well understand tho dis
quietude and alarm which the equivocal con
duct of the Aberdeen ministry and the ap
proaching occupation of the Principalities by
the Austrian, -with the consent of Russia,
have given rlso to amoBgst all classes and
shades o? politicians ia both countries. The
speech of Lord Lyndhurst, in the House of
Lords, and the motion announced by Mr.
Layard, in tho House of Commons, refleot
faithfully the general impression created by
those doubtful circumstances, and we are in
clined to think that the discussion will rather
confirm than do away with the idea that Aus
tria and Russia are playing into each others
hands, and that the English ministry are play
ing into the hands of both. If the latter
hypothesis be not correct, then Lord Aber
deen and his colleagues must be the veriest
dupes that ever pretended TO diplomatic fore
sight. By allowing Austria to hold posses
sion of the Principalities, in trust, they do
not as they Imagine erent a barrier against
the encroachments aC!ftytter upon the Ot
toman territories, but they afford a seasona
ble relief to the overstrained resources of
Russia in that and other quarters, and onnble
her to concentrate her forces upon those
points which are exposed to the most press
ing danger. As long ns the Austrian hold
tho Principalities she has nothing to fear from
the operations of the allies against her South
western frontier, nnd she will beCOnsequent
ly in a position to direct all her efforts to the
defence of the Crimea, which it is now the
great object of tho coalition to wrest from
her. If this arrangement be not the result
of a concerted plan between the cabinets of
Vienna and St. Petersburg, we must say that
Russia is strangely favorod by tho blindness
and fatuity of her enemies. No conjuncture
of circumstances could have more opportune
ly adapted itself to the present exigencies of
her position, nnd at the same time removed
tho difficulties that opposed themselves to
the'prosecution of her ulterior designs.
Railroad Securities. The New York
Express says:
We do not see any improvement in railway
bonds; this description of security is getting
out of favor and is neglected by capitalists.
On this subject tho Philadelphia Ledger says:
"Credit has up to the present tune been
maintained by the ability of the railway com
panies to borrow at some rate or other, but
we are daily more nnd moro fearing the sus
pension of interest by some of the more
prominent nnd more costly of these improve
ment companies, which, when it comes, will
beset a panic which the good nnd sound
companies will survive with difticulty, nnd
only nt a great sacrifice, if they maintain
credit through it all."
The Boyd Bill. We understand that
Senator Benjamin intends offering the scheme
of Speaker Boyd for donating the unsaleable
public lands in the Beverul States In which
they mny lie, as an amendment to the Home
stead bill of the House, and that quite a
number of Senators are prepared to adopt it,
with a view of urging it, until, if possible,
they mny in time make it the law of the
land.
Washington, July 17.
The Senate, on Saturday, unanimously
ratified the Japan Treaty.
Galveston, July 14.
Considerable excitement exists in Texns
in consequence of a body of Indians march
ing into the- interior of that State, nnd there
being no efficient troops to oppose their pro
gress. J he people are complaining ot lien.
Smith and petitioning the Government for
his removal and the appointment of Gon.
Harney to the chief command.
Thank God the unspoken prayer of peni
tence mny wing its way to the eternnl throne,
though mocking church spires point only
with aristocratic hngors to the rich man s
heaven. Fanny Fern,
There is in tho above liltlo paragraph a
whole volume of rebuke for you, oh, ye
scribes and pharasces, who every seventh
day slumber in your velvet-cushioned pews
beneath the mild and plaintive wooings of a
soporifio declamation, nnd who daily thank
thnt God to whom your lip-worship is worso
than a mockery, thnt you are not as other
men. Oh, for more works nnd fewer words
more practico and fewer precepts t
157" A child only ten years of age has
been sent to jail in Ithaca, New York, for
stealing strawberries.
Great country, York State. Schuyler, who
recently swindled the Stockholders of a Rail
road Company out of something moro than
two millions and a half, is put down ns an un
fortunate man who yielded to temptation
and has the sympathies of nil Gotham.
Washington, July 15.
In the Senate on Saturday, the further con
sideration of the Homestead Bill was post
poned until Monday, when a compromise
project will be brought forward, it boing evi.
dont that tho bill in its present shape cannot
pass.
The Navies. The following table shows
tho extent of the navies of tho five first pow
ers in the world :
Vessels of War. No. of Guns.
England, 667 18.300
Franco, 728 7,144
Russia, 190 ., 3,896
Holland, 103 3,219
United Stales, 60
1,028
New York, July 11. The scvon millions
Mexican draft was paid here to-day.
A Good Customer. In 1853 our imports
from England, nlono, amounted to nearly
$130,000,000,
New York, July 12.
Money is easier stocks firm. Cotton
quiet. Flour unchanged. Corn dcclined.80
a 83. Pork stlfler uot higher. Lord dull
at 9 n fj.
WHO ARE THE KNOW NOTHINGS.
The New Orleans Crescent has the follow.
ing article upon this subject:
The Washington Sentinel anil the Nation
al Era, the latter a rabid Abolition jourml,
have commenced a sharp quarrel in regard to
the identity of the Know-Nothing fraternity,
the former asserting that Freesoilers and
Abolitionists roiistitute its main strength and
are its chief directors, and the latter casting
back the insinuation nnd endeavoring to make
it appear that nobody loves the alien or the
naturalized citizen so well as the Democratic
Abolitionists and nobody abhers him so ut
terly ns the Southern Whig. Both these dig.
uihed and remarkably high-toned journals at
tach an unlimited amount of odium to any
party or set of men who should be convicted
ot Know-Nothingism. But they do this like
martyrs, with a aoit of self sacrificing tone.
as if they had concluded to do their duty and
abide the consequences, or, as a man will do
sometimes, had taken a course opposite to
public opinion and common sense, to show
how oni'innl and fearless they were.
Since the recent sweeping victories of the
K.now-Iothings in Philadelphia ana Wash
ington, the abuse which they have received
from a certain class of newspapers has been
rather more temperate. There is an intuitive
respect in the human mind for power under
nil circumstances, and persons who deal in
politics soon become sagacious enough to
recognize the cat the moment she is out of
the bag. Upon the eve of these two elections,
when the party journals first took the alarm,
it was terrible to note the onslaught they
made upon the mysterious and dreaded or
ganization which fraternizes with no party
and threatens destruction to all. It was de
nounced as a secret and dangerous banding
together of discontented and malevolent spir
its for purposes which could be littlo less
than treasonable: Grand eloquence took its
loftiest flight to express the enlightened and
liberal policy which this great people should
adopt in the matters of privilege nnd license,
ns well as of protection towards the "down
trodden and oppressed who seek retuge upon
our shores from the tyranny of their own
countries; and finally an earnest exhortation
was addressed to the people to frown down
a party which refused to show its hand, and
was working its way into power ond place by
a system of tactics hitherto unknown tn poli
ticians, and entirely new to all the established
principles of wire-working. This appeal seem
ed to us at the time muuli iike recommending
a man to make mouths at himself in a mirror,
or cut his own acquaintance for having been
so indiscreet as to offend others by claiming
what belonged to him, or like asking a people
to administer a sort of solus self-rebuke for
presuming to investigate nnd decide upon its
own affairs. It appears, however, that this
appeal had little effect; that the public failed
to look upon itself us a band of discontented
and traitorous spirits, although plainly re
quested to do so, and that these independent
and plain-spoken journals fell into tho com
mon error of mistaking the voices of insig
nificant parties nnd factions for the voice of
the great people.
Abolition Poetry. His the poetical opin
on of Mr. Henry W. Longfellow, the nuthor
of "Evangeline" and other poems, nnd of an
interesting prose work called "Outre Mer,"
that there is a poor blind Samson in this land,
shorn of his strength, nnd bound in bonds of
steel, who may, in some grim revel, raise his
hand, and shake the pillars of this Common
wealth, till the vast temple of our liberties a
shapeless mass of wreck nnd rubbish lies."
We do not exactly understand whether the
author of "Excelsior" intends the Common
wealth of Massachusetts as the tcmplo so
greatly in danger of overthrow just now, or
whether tho Uuion it is which ho is "warn
ing" so portentously. Wo shall keep watch
for Samson, with anxious forebodings.
Opium eating is said to be increasing
to a frightful extent in some of the Northorn
cities. A man in Boston was the other day
sent to Deer Island Hospital, in order to be
cured of nn inordinate appotitc for tlio drug.
In New York and other large cities it is re
ported that many reformed inebriates have
used opium ns a substitute for liquor until
their minds have become perfectly unsettled,
nnd they are in a worse condition, if possible,
than had they continued the exessive use of
ardent spirits. .
Tho N. Y. Courier, says the shock
which tho lata frauds have excited is the best
proofs of tho elevation of our commercial
character; ond tho severity of tho condemna
tion demonstrates tho strictness of our com
mercial principles, and the universality with
which they are recognized. Thero is no
surer test of uprightness than its instinctive
indignation ngninst wrong.
Murder Will Out. Mr. Theodore A.
Parker, late librarian to the House of Repre
sentatives, who hns boen removed through
the influence of Mr. Forney, and has since
refused nn appointment promised to him by
the President, is making somo rich revela
tions of the secrets of tho Pierce dynasty,
through tho New York Express. Tho Ex
press informs us that Parker states positively
that Judce Campbell denies that he owes ins
appointment ns Postmaster General to Mr.
Buchanan, nnd asserts that "an arrangement
had been made between himself and Gen,
Pierce before his election, by virtue of which
he was to secure for Gen, Pierce the Catholic
vote of Pennsylvania, and receive therefor a
scat in the Cabinet!" This statement of
Campbell, Parkor declares himself ready to
confirm by his affidavit if it is disputed in
any question.
The Senatorial Election in New Hamp.
shire. The New York Herald, in nlluding
to the failure of tho Legislature of New
ilnmpshiro to elect U. S. Senntors, asks:
If the administration has been, after so
brief an exorcise of power, so thoroughly
"crushed out," even in Now Hampshire, as to
lose its public printer nnd itschosen favorites
lor the Senate, through the pressure of free
soil principles nnd drugyed liquor, what can
it be expected to accomplish nt the next Bal
timore convention? In his over-Issues of
IV.... tin at.w.k. fli.ni.i-n I l'i- IllHV be
called tho Robert Schuyler of tho party.
.... C. .1 . A II ...I...,
Lnn nny ol his ooutnern organs ten mwiun
will be tho value of his assets to his as
signces In 1856? What a lucky man was
Captain John Tyler I
An Unhealthy City. Tho total number
of deaths in New York, fur tho week ending
July 8, reached 750; un incrcaso of 233 over
tho previous week. Tho cholera cases
are but 12 over last week, or 02 in all. 4
JigT" A prospectus has been issued for n
newspaper, to lie published nt Belliview, in
the territory of Nebraska, to be called the
Nebraska Palladium.
jqgr During the month of April of this
...,..- i TT7 T I ! ImtlwU ,,f Indian corn were
imported into England.
a rvr, SrnT Tlin Tmv Whiif. of Wed
nesday says: "On Monday lust snow lay on
.1.. ........ M Ati.il.iina I.'..., nf Ititrlitlrrtnn
The peaks of the mountains were white for
miles.
PROGRESS OF THE WAR PLAN OF
THE CAMPAIGN.
The RusIans are in full retreat from Wal
lnehis and from the Dorbrodia, though they
have not altogether abandoned the siege of
Rilistria. Nearly all their renowned Generals
are wounded, and Dannenberg has taken the
command. Omar Pasha's next move sinee
Silistria is already freed, though the Russians
continue to bombard it from ncross the Dan
ube is the relief of Rassova, which, aa it
now turns out, has not been abandoned by
the Turks, nnd holds out against fenrful odds.
It is likewise said thnt the Russians have
been dislodged from Glurgcvo; still, this re
port requires confirmation.
The retreat of the Russians from Wallachia
will be attributed to the remonstrances of
Austria, though it is the necessary conse
quence of the defeat before Silistria, and of
the arrival of the auxiliaries at Varna. It is
believed here that the troops sent to Varna
will immediately embark once more, and sail
to the Crimea, the object of the last campaign
being the expulsion of the Russians from the
Principalities, which is to be the task of Tur
key tho occupation of Transcaucassia, which
may soon be achieved by Schamyl Bey, nnd
the conquest of the Crimea and of Sevastopol,
which must be closed by St. Arnnud and
Raglan. As to Schamyl, we have no positive
information, but it is beyond doubt that he
must have struck a serious blow in the rear
of the Russians, as they have suddenly aban
doned their threatening position towards Kara,
and left the plateau of Armenia, which is now
only defended by the fortresses of Akiska and
Alexandrnpol, (Gumrj.)
Th8 Turks will now take the offensive all
along their Asiatic line. Solim Pasha is to
advance by Katais toward Tiflis, and to meet
there Guyon nnd Kmetty with the army of
Kars and Erzerum, and Schamyl descending
from the mountains into the plains of Geor
gia. The plan is excellent, and the result
must be the surrender of the Russian army in
Transcaucassia unless a speedy peace or
truce baffles tho operations. Austria is en
deavoring to arrange such a negotiation, in
concert with Prussia, but the Czar still relies
upon his forces, though vanquished every
where. Ho did not even come down to the
Prussian frontier, to meet his brother-in-law;
until the honor of the Russian arms is re
trieved, he does not want nny final negotia
tions; but he would be glad to gain time for
reorganizing his army.
f?F"Itis common to speak of Judge
Douglas as tho author of the repeal of the
Missouri Compromise. This is not the enso.
A very able supporter of it he was, but the
original bill reported by him did not contain
any provision of tho sort. Mr. Dixon, of Ken
tucky, moved the amendment by whicli tho
Missouri restriction wns repealed. To him
nnd him alone, was the credit of originating
this great feature of the net due. The Wash
ington Union, at thnt time, denounced the
proposition ns factious. But after the Ad
ministration approved ond Judge Douglas
endorsed it, ate its own words with degrading
and dishonoring servility.
Health Statistics. We learn from the
Nashville True Whig that the wholo number
of interments in the city cemetry from the
first of May to the 11th instant were as fol
lows: Cholera.
Other diseases. Total.
May, 18
15
71
29
115
31
132
40
June, 61
To July 11, 11
' 88
203
These interments include nil the deaths
which have occurred in Nashville, South
Nashville, nnd their suburbs, for two or three
miles, with a population of 25,000, except fa
few interments in the Catholic cemetery, n
list of whicli we have not obtained. Of the
88 cholera cases, a large majority have been
negroes imd children.
The Northern Democracy. In the
Maine Democratic State Convention on the
21st ult,, W. B. S. Moor, the Chairman of
the Committee on Resolutions, said:
"We came into power eighteen months
ago with nn unprecedented majority in the
Nation; nnd in the btate we had a great mor
al power, perhaps too much. Since then
changes have come over the aspect and the
rospect of tho Democracy. We have lost
Maine, Rhode Island, Connecticut, nnd it is
merely a draw game in New Hampshire, that
ought to stand firm as her granite hills."
Syracuse, N. Y., July 12.
The Democratic Hard Shell convention
met here to-day a full delegation was pres
ent. The Committee on officers reported
Samuel Beardsley for President, and eight
Vice Presidents and Secretaries. The Presi
dent made a speech telling strongly on the
treachery of the Administration. A Com-
iniltoe on resolutions was appointed.
Judge Wemdom begged to suggest a name
for Governor, mid amidst deafening cheers
proposed Judge Bronson. Tho nomination
was mode by acclamation. Tho Judge had
written a letter to the convention, tho rend-
in" of which was postponed till the Commit
tee reports.
KJf During the confusion incident to the
sinking of the steamboat Buffalo, al Now
York last week, a German emigrant who had
a trunk of treasure nnd a treasuro of a wife
on board, threw his wifo overboard and
dragged the trunk nshoro. The woman wns
rescued by the bystanders nnd restored to
tho orms of her iiffectionnto spouse.
JTVe are Informed that the Planter's
Cotton Factory, on Mossy Crock, in Jeffei
son county, was destroyed by fire on tho
night of tho 4th inst. It is supposed to bo
the work of an incendiary, as there had been
no firo about the establishment during the
day.
5f0neJohn Harmon, of Nashville, claims
to have prophesied some time since tlio Turk
ish war. He now says that all war will cease
after the last of July, 1854.
After the 1st of August, however, a spirit
ual war will break out with grent commotion,
which will not cense till all existing denomi
nations of religionists will be broken up. It
will lnt sixty-two weeks. In sixty-two
weeks more war will break out over the
wholo world, and end by a final battle be
tween despotism nnd liberty. Ho docs not
soy to whom will be tlio victory.
Bread, mnking, after ull, is nothing more
or less than loafing.
The Wall Street Failure. The N
Y. Mirror; speaking of tho disgraceful failure
of Messrs. R. & G. L. Schuyler, says:
"While we deplore the consequences of
this pecuniary disaster, which, like me inning
of the forest oak, crushes ao many victims u
its prostration, the moral effect of this stu
iMfltlnna fraud and failure cannot be estima.
ted in dollars and cents. It inflicts a blow
upon the credit of New York capitalists
and upon the American name, which years
of honest dealing can neither obliterate nor
rettnir. Rvertf man in Wall street looks
askance at his fellow financier, and is afraid
tn tnin.h his "nniier " almost nfruid to touch
his hand. There is no security anywhere,
or in anything, when confidence in mens
honestv is thus suddenly and irretrievably
lost. There is nothintr in the shape of stock
offered nt the Board to-day, that may not
well be scrutinized if not suspected. Even
the little bank stock which we have laid aside
against a rainy day, may be made worthless
by fraudulent issues: ana, in tins wv, ;..-.
the riches of the millionaire may fulfill the
prediction of Scripture, and suddenly "take
to themselves wings nnd fly away." Alas,
that a man i'l a tight "plactT should not have
the manliness to confess his necessities; and
the courage to sacrifice everything but his
honor. A lost fortune may be recovered;
nnd an unfortunate man may live respected
even by those who hove suffered on his ac
count. But a good name once lost con never
be regained. It is "the immediate jewel of
the soul:" outweic'liiiiL' in the estimate of
both God nnd man, all the stocks and bonds
and bullion of Wall struct."
f3T"Santa Anna, it is stated, availed him.
self of his recent march to Acapulco, to test
the accuracy of the recent reports that tho
mountains of Guerrero contain extensive coal
mines. Tho result of his investigation satis
fied him that theie ore almost inexhaustible
supplies of this valuable article, which can
be obtained, in any quantity, nt Acapulco, at
a cost considerably less than the freight on
that now carried there from England and the
Atlantic States, for tho use of our bteamers.
Santa Anna has also satisfied himself that tlio
undeveloped precious mineral wealth of Mex
ico, is immeasurably greater than hns ever
heretofore been supposed; and it is his desire
itud purpose to adopt measures to make these
treasures available.
The Foreign Population. By the census
of 1850, it nppears that of tho white popula
tion of tho United States, then amounting to
19,553,053, there were born in foreign coun
tries, 2,240,535 persons, viz: male, 1,239,434;
females, 1,001,101. Those ascertained to
have been born in the United States amount
ed to 17,279,375, and 32,658 wero reported
unknown ns to their nativity. It thus nppears
that the proportion of natives to foreigners
in 1850 was nearly eight to one in thu wholo
United States. It should be observed, that
since the census of 1850 was taken, tho for
eign population has largely increased by im
migration, amounting to over one million in
nil; so that the number of persons of foreign
birth now in the United States mny be stated
at about three and a half millions. Tluyiro
portien of Germans among the recent immi
grants has been very great.
EsTIt is stated that Major Wall, of Wil.
liamsbnrg, N. Y., has requested the street
preacher, Mr. Parsons, not to appear next
Sabbath in Williamsburg, as his presence
only leads to unnecessary nnd debilitating ex
citeiiient during this hot weather, and the
right to exercise the freedom of speech has
been completely maintained in thnt city.
Mr. Parsons, it is also , stated, hns acceded
to the Mayor's request, nnd will not ap
pear.
JST" Tho German Liberals of Boston have
responded to the call of their brethren in the
West, and put forth a platform almost identi
cal with that laid down by the Free German
Democrats of Louisville. According to them,
the American people have strayed from tho
true principles of freedom and republicanism,
and they demand a number of modifications
in the constitution and laws of tho country,
which modifications aro necessary, in their
view, to remove the imperfections of our ex
isting government. As their platform involves,
among other things, the repent of Sunday law,
Temperance law s, etc., the exclusion of the
Bible from Schools, it is not probable that
the party will thrive greatly in tho uncon
genial atmosphere of New England.
O-Tho nominating committee of tho Ver
mont State Temperance Convention on
Wednesday reported a State ticket for sup
port at the ensuing election, as follows: For
Governor, E. P. Walton, of Montpulier; for
Treasurer, Mr. Bates,of Northfield. Furthor
action is defered until the result of the Free
Soil and Union Convention is known.
f3TThe Russeliville (Ky.) Herald of the
12th says: "The farmers of our county are
u the midst of harvesting. The wheat turned
out finely, and the oats, perhaps, has never
been surpassed, both in size and quality. La'
borers in the harvest field are scarce nnd
wages high. There is a fine opening for
white laborers in this section, both in tho
town and on the farms.
fSfPuring Commodore Perry's Into visit
to Japan, himself and suito were entertained
nt a feast by tho natives. Cooked worms,
fried snakes, nnd a variety of indigestible
compounds were served up, of which they
were nhlidged to partako through etquetto.
Hereafter, a strong stomach may bo consider
ed os a high recommendation In our Japanese
diplomatists.
A Good One. Miss Martincau tells a
story of an old woman who was urged to
cross tho river Forth in n ferry-boat ot the
time that a storm was brewing. Sho hesita
ted; the hnaliii'in asked if she would not trust
to I'rovidenco
"Na, na," exclaimed she, "I w ill na trust to
Providence as long ns there is a bridge nt
Stirly!"
"Fuss nnd Feathers" is tho name given to a
stylo of ladies' bonnets just introduced among
tho fushionablo circles.
Boston, July 15.
Tho grand jury in Boston have found truo
bills against the parties accused of having
been ongagnd in the riots in that city during
tho trial of the fugitive Burns,
New Yohk, July 15.
There wero 139 deaths in New York dur-
ing the week from cholera, and 31 from the
same disease iu Boston.
37"Tho monoy stolen from Bollmonte's
Banking House Iias been returned through
the mail,
Umox of the East and West. Rev. T.
M. Post, of St. Louis, recently delivered aa
address, in his characteristic stylo of brilliant
and glowing eloquence, before the annual
meeting of the American Congregational
Union at New York, of which the following
are the closing paragraphs, as reported in the
Independent:
. 'Stron if lire tho ties I hit hind ns to you.
Your sons bear ever s lengthening chain. We
feel it by the Pictured Rovks of Ijike Supe
rior, at the distant Falls of St. Anthony, and
to the Pacific Sea. We feel your heart beat
across a continent. Wo are "of you still.
Your land of rocky cliff, nnd dell, and crystal
hike, your melancholy pines, your cataracts
that dash above tho storm, your glorious
mountains and free old solemn sea they
come to us in our dreams, that come with the
faces of memory living brows on whicli still
beat life's storm's, with spell of many grains
of honored fathers and brothers that have
fallen in their strength, of gentle sisters that
sleep in sili-nt beauty on distant hill-sides,
and of mothers whose holy love still looks
out upon us from the green mound in the
shadow of the old church, or in dells where
the awful mountains keep guard, like angels -of
the resurrection.
Oh! from nil that mngnificent and bound
less reaim where your brethren seek a home,
from the mystic sprinirs of tho MissisainnL
nnd the tropical splendors nf the Southern
Gulf, to the valleys of the Oregon and the
Alps of Gold, the West pours on you her
thought from hearts and homes without num
ber, weaving the million-threaded web that
binds still our lives together. Yours is tho
power of our mother-land. Use it well. Use
it promptly. We are growing fast out of
your shadow. Be instant, bo earnest, be pa
tient in using the golden opportunity tho
plastic era. But look not on us with cold.
ness and distrust if we grow not exactly in .
your likeness if our prairies produce not
Adirondaeks, or our Mississippi picture not
your Hudson. Accord to us somewhat of
the freedom of your own clorious founders:
and wonder not that forms vary, though
principles be unchanged.
Mexico. The steamer Orizaba arrived,
bringing Vera Cruz dates to the 8th, and
city of Mexico, dates to the 3d.
Alvarez is reported ill beyond recovery.
A new expedition, under Count Boulbon,
was expected ot Eunyamas. Troops hod
been sent to Miclioocan, where tho revolution
continues.
Santa Anna has sent the Cross of the Order
of Gundaloupe to the Soveieigns of Eng
land, France, Prussia, and other European
Potentates. Galveston dates to the 9th inst.,
represent tho crops ns being favorable. Tho
mail from El Passo arrived in 2G days at San
Antonio. It wns attacked by Indians at Ea
gle Springs. Thu Indian hostilities continue
Various tribes ore eonbining against tho
w hites. A goneral Indian war is expected.
Troops have been sent to Eagle Springs,
nnd other preparations are making to operate
against the Indians. Mrs Willson, Into a
prisoner among the Camnnches, had arrived
at El Passo, homeward bound.
ICPThe Governor of New Hampshire ve
toed tho Temperance bill, which hud passed
the Legislature. Tho House by a vote over
ruled it, but the Senate sustained the veto.
?A portion of the Democratic press of
Virginia are urging the erection of a monu
ment to the memory of tho late Thomas
Ritchie.
fci?Tho Boston Journal notices tho oc
currence cf twenty-six deaths by cholera, in
Richmond, Me.
Several of the Virginia papers speak of tho '"'
Hon. Henry A. Wise in connection witli the
gubernatorial chair of the State.
The Nashville Union of Friday says, "there
were five interments In thecity cemetery yes
terday none of cholera. There have been
no deaths by cholera in tho city or its vicinity
for four days."
"The Say Nothings." This new political
order is rapidly increosing; its principof Ab
ject is to run members of Congress in oppo
sition to the present do nothings.
533TThe National Intelligencer suggests,
that inasmuch as it is the Constitution of the
Uuitud States which gives practical value to
the doctrines of the Declaration of Independ
ence, we ought to make the adoption of that
instrument a national jubilee and henceforth
celebrate the 17th of September as well aa
the 4lh of July.
"Ion," the Washington correspond
ent of tho Baltimore Sun, states that a
Frenchman, named Charles Dubois de Tuck
et, has a lion upon the Mexican territory
ceded by the treaty to the United States,
mortgaged to him by tho Mexican Govern
ment, as a security for the payment of ono
million of dollars. It is said that Ixmis Na
poleon has under consideration this claim,
and may proceed to enforce it ngninst Mexi
co. The Attorney General of the United
States will of course have to examine thia
with oil other liens, of which there may be
several.
John L. Marling, Esq., editor of tho
Nashville Union, has been appointed by tho
President Charge d' Affairs to one of the
States of Central America.
Preachino vs. PRACTick.-Douglas Jerrold
speaks in this wise: You will hear a good
lowly creature sing tho praises of puro water
call it tho wine of Adam whon ho walked
in Paradise when, somehow, fate has be
stowed upon the eulogist tho finest Burgundy.
He declares himself contented with a crust,
nlthough a benificent fairy hns hung a fat
haunch or two lu his larder.
Yes, it is delightful to see these humblo folk,
w ho tune their tongues to the honor of dry
bread nnd wntcr, compelled by the force of
fortuno to chew venison nnd swallow claret,
04rTho New York Tribune of Monday,
the loth, says: "The farmers all nround us
ore suffering from drouth, caused by the in
tensely, Incessantly hot days nnd nights of
the last two or three weeks. We had n littlo
shower ten days ago, but it did not affect the
streams, ond the earth hns forgotten it.
Woman's Rights. A good looking hus
band, ciiiht children, and a happy home. As
tlioso rights are easily obtained, we hope the
sisterhood will take them into consideration.
This will pay better than holding offices, or
sitting on a jury.
I cannot bear children, said Mrs. PrimTduZ
duinfully. Mrs. Partington looked ot her
over her spectacles mildly before sho replied,
"pcrhnps if yon could you would liko Ihcni
bcltct.