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- *8 ' -? > * HVOLUME 3. CAMDEN. SOUTH-CAROLINA DECEMBER 28, 1852. NUMBER 104. - KTHE CAMDEN JOURNAL. i UBUSHED SEMI-WEEKLY AND WEEKLY BY ^^HOMAS J. WARREN. TERMS. Tub Semi-Weekly Joitixal is published at Three j - Dollars and Fifty Cents, if paid in advance, or Four1 Dollars if payment is delayed three months. The Weekly Jocfxal is published at Two Dollars i r _ - i . .1 m r\ .11 j :rnATr <1 p:uu m uuvuuc?; awo jjunurs hhu ruu vcuio u payment be delayed three months, and Three Dollars if not oaid till the expiration of the year. JlDVERTISEMENTS will be iuscrted at thefollowEf .ng terms: For one Square (fourteeu lines or less) in the semi-weekly, one dollar for the first, and twenty-five cents for each subsequent insertion. In the weekly, seventy-five cents per square for the first, and thirty-se. p>- vea^?n"d a half cents for each subsequent insertion. Single insertions one dollar. Semi-monthly, monthly and quarterly advertisements charged the same as for a singl? insertion. pyThe number of insertions desired, and the odition to be published, in must be noted on the margin of ill advertisements, or they will be published semi-week y until ordered discontinued and charged accordingly NEW CASH-STORE. AFTER returning my thanks to my friends, acquainces and the public generally, for their former liberal patronage, I offer to them a Tariety of Groceries Dry-Goods, Crockery and ^? Hardware, At vv holcsaTe and retail, consisting in part as follows GROCERIES. SUGARS?Muscovado, New Orleans, St. Croix, lx>al, Crushed and Powdered COFFEES?Java and Rio J?OLASSES?$. Orleans, Muscovado and Westludia tSALT?Constantly on hand ?JTOBACCO?Yellow Bank, Ellis, and a variety of IN, common, at prices from 12 to 75c. per pound ty&iS?Gunpowder, Green, Hyson and Black ?EGARS?Rio Hondo. Gold Leaf, Sylva, Palmetto, v "fcnd a variety of common, prices from 6 to $40 per M. CANDLES?Sperm. Adamantine and Tallow VXZ/iZiO?r?uwsiieu uuu uugiiou H^i CON?Sides, Shoulders and Hams j^RL.-LSZ>?Constantly on hand |^PF/Sff?Salmon, Herring and nil numbers of Maekarel Raisins, Almonds, Currants, English -SK/ClKS-'Aaispice, Nutmegs, Cloves, Cinnamon, Ginger, Mustard and Pepper E~ PICELES?English and American, a variety . KETCRUPS?Mnshroou, Walnut and Tomato jj. PRESERVES?Cpson, Orange, Lemon, Pino Apple and Ginger ^ BRAND T-FRUJTS? Peaches, Cherries and Limes JELLIES and JAMS-?A variety LOJBSTERS and SA RDINES?Hermetically Sealed CANDIES?Of all kinds ORACKERS?Pic Nic, Soda, Butter, Wine, Waterand j OUKUt?rOROOKERY Assorted, SADDLES?Riding and "Wagon WHIPS?Carriage, Buggy, Driver's and "Wagon CARDS?Cotton and Wool "POWDER and SHOT j r. ALSO? ? A pew andconniletc stock of DRY-GOODS, consis k^gppart as follows: Kw pieces Prints, at prices from 5 to 15c. per pard 75 do Long Cloths from 6 to 18c. EH 300 do Brown Homespun, from 5 to 12c. 250 pair Negro Blankets from $1.50 to $2 25 perpoir flfc 100 pieces Kerseys, from 12 to 18a Hp Oznabargs?DeKnlb always on hand ALSO?A VARIETY OK M M Tmok Tinnna Tinlfinfffl Anmn H MUBlUia, Oipwu. uusu juuiwuu, . t CT Checks, Shirtings, Drillings, Ginghams, Linseys, Flans' nels, Salicia, Serge, Cashmeres, Pocket Handkerchiefs, Cravats, Suspenders, Hosiery, of all kinds; Gloves of all kinds; Linen Shirts, Merino Shirts, Cloths, Cassimeres, Satinets, Tweeds, Ac. Together with a large iH^assortment of B Ready-IIade Clothing. Violins, Double barrel Shot Guns, from $11 to $15, Rifles, flint and Percussion locks $9 to $12 '-J ~ nf nrtirli?s_ both in GROCERIES i DRY-GOODS, too tedious to mention, r^jri will attend to the Receiving and Forwarding p Business as heretofore, and I am prepared to make liberSp al advances on Cotton shipped to Messrs Chambers, h Jeffors & Co., Charleston. W&fS'I intend selling exclusively for Cash, and most res pec [fully invite any who wish Bargains, to give me a IHcall, and they will find the cash system decidedly pre* ? ferablc. K jyCall at his Old Stand on the corner. mm B. W. CHAMBERS. H Camden, Oct. 5. 80 tf IbpRESII Solar Oil?Received yesterday by P JT Nov. 2. T. J. WORKMAN. P " DPERM and Lard Oil?For sale by ^-nO~ Nov. 2. T. J. WORKMAN^ Mexican Mustang Liniment, v TN Bottles at Fifty Cents and One Dollar. For sale r- a at z. j. dehay'S. ? ? ? T OA A of the handsomest Candies ever offered rx *?AAT?T? o\j\j in this market. w. u muuaq. i Charleston Prices. ? TTARNESS, Saddlery, Trunks, Military Work, Ac. Jl manufeetured to order, and warranted, at Charles e wu prit-vo. gjyTon per cent, discount for cash within 30 days. mm LUKE ARMSTRONG. WW Camden, April23. 23 sw2wt Woollen Goods. Ac assortment of ALL-WOOL PLAINS KERSEYS, LINSEYS f SA TTINETTS, TWEEDS JEANS, dc. dtc. &c. <?:c. For the Plantation and House Sorvants. Purchasers will please call, as they will be sold cheap, by Oct. 21. W. ANDERSON. aRPETINC*. Printed Druggets, Rugs and Ba ze.at iy A. R. KENNEDY'S LEATHER! LEATHER!! ALDEN & MURRAY have now on hand, a choice lot of BAND, HARNESS and UPPER LEATHER, of their own tanning, which will oe sold low. also A superior lot of NEGRO SHOES, of their own f. manufacture, very heavy and warranted good, at prices ^ from 50c. to $1. ALSO Expected in a few days a choice lotof FINE SHOES, ^ of every description, comprising many new and beau trtul styles. Sept. 28. ~ ~ * BRICKS FOB ? ALE. THE subscriber has on hand a large qnntity o GOOD BRICK, which may bo had on application January 23. J. F. SUTHERLAND. THE BROKEN HOUSEHOLD. BV ALICE CAIIET. Vainly, vainly memory seeks Round our father's knee, Laughing eyes and rosy cheeks W here they used to be; Of the circle once so wide, Three are wanderers, three have died. Golden haired and dewy eyed, Prattling all the day, Was the baby first that died ; Oh, 'twas hard to lay Dimpled hand and cheek of snow In the grave so dark and low. Smiling back on all who smiled, Ne'er by sorrow thralled, Half a woman, halfa child, Was the next one called ; Then a grave more deep and wide Made they by the baby's side. When or where the other died Only heaven can tell, Treading manhood's path of pride Was he when he fell ; Haply thistles blue and red, Bloom about his lonely bed. I am for the living three Only left to pray ; Two are on the stormy sea ; Further still than they, Wanders one, his young heart Jim? C ftenest, most I prny for him. Whatsoe'er they do or dare, Whereso'er I roam; Have them,Father, in thy care, Guide them safely home; iiome, on, r atuer i in me ekv Where none wander and none die. From Arthur's Home Gazette. THE TEXAS TARANTULA. by augc5tin. This Texas of ours is an astonishingly prolific country. Every field stands luxuriant,, crowded, so (hat it can scarce wave under the breeze, with com or sugar, or wheat, or cotton. E\;ery cabin is full and overflowing, - ? H *i J I _ J 1 Uirougn mi us aoors ami winnows wun wi liehaired children. Every prairie abounds in deer, prairie liens, and cattle. Ever}' liver and creek is alive with fish. The whole land Is electric with lizards perpetually darting about the grass like flashes of green lightning. We have too much prairie and too little forest for a great multitude or variety of buds. But in horned frogs, scorpions, tarantulas and centipedes, we beat the universe. Everybody has seen horned-frogs. You see thein in jars in the windows of apothecaries. You are entreated to purchase them by loafing boys on the levee, at New Orleans. Tln?y -bwoneatly soldered up in soda-boxes, and mailed by young gentlemen in Texas, to fair ones in the old States. The fair ones receive the t ? nr* j 1 i. a. neat package irom me post-nrnce, are ueiigmed at tlio prospect ol a daguerreotype?perhaps jewelry?open the package eagerly and faint, as the frog within hops out, in excellent health, upon them. A horned-frog, is simply, a very harmless frog, with very portentous horns It has horns because every thing in its region?trees, shrubs, grass even, has thorns ? rwitm-u nlnlroc it in Irooititinr tvifll Jl 11 n"U .? ... ?vv,....0 around it. A menagerie of them would not he expensive. They are content to live upon air ?and can, if desired, live, I am told, for several months without even that. The Scorpions are precisely like those of Arabia?in the shape of a lobster, exactly, only not more than some three inches long. You are very apt to put one upon your face in the towel which you apply thereto after washing. If you do, you will find the sting about equal to that of a wasp?nothing worse. They are far less poisonous than the scorpion of the East?in fact, none except new comers dread them all. But the tarantula! You remember the elasticity with which you sprang in the air that time yeu were just on tbe point ol putting your raised foot down upon a snake coiled in your path. You were frightened through every fibre of your body. It is ery probable the snake was as harmless as it was beautiful.? Spring as high, be as utterly frightened as possible, when you just avoid stepping upon a tarantula, however. Filthy, loathsome, abominable and poisonous?crush it to atoms before you leave it! know henc 'forth that it is an enormous snider?concentrating in itself all the ' I t w venom and spite and ugliness of all other spiders living. Its body is some two inches long, black and bloated. It enjoys the possession of eight long, strong legs, a red mouth," and an abundance of stiff brown hair all over itself. When standing, it covers an area of a saucer. Attack it with a stick, and it rears on its hind legs, gnashes at the stick, and fights like a fiend. It even jumps forward a foot or two ill its rage?and, if it bite into a vein, the bite is death! I have been told of th? battle fought by one 011 board a sfeamboitf->'l)if!covered at the lower end of the saloon; driving the whole body of passengers before it, it almost drove the whole company, crew and all overboard. The first I saw was at the house of a friend, I spied it crawling slowly ovpr the wall, meditating murder upon the children playing in the room. Excessively prudent in regard to my fingers, I at last, hewever, had it safely imprisoned in a glass jar, unhurt. There was a flaw in the gla?s as well as a hole through the cork by which it could breathe; but in ten minutes it was dead from rage! Soon after I killed three Mi__ I . J upon my place, crawling auoui upon gruuuu trodden every day by the bare feet of my little boy. A month after I killed a whole nest of them. They had formed their family circle under a doorstep, upon which the aforesaid little fellow played daily. Had he seen one of them, he would of course, have picked it up as a remarkably promising toy; and I would have been childless. I was sitting one day upon a log in the woods, when 1 saw one slowly craw! out to enjoy the evening air and the sunset scenert', He was the largest, most bloated one I ever saw. As I was about to kill him, I was struck with the conduct of a chance wasp. It, too, had seen the tarantula, and was flying slowly around iU The tarantula recognised it as a foe; and throwing itself upon its hind leg3, breathed defiance. For some time the wasp flew around it, and then like a flash, flew righl against it, ana stung it unuer us bleeding bell v. The tarantula gnashed its red and venomed jaws, and threw its long hairy legs about in impotent rage, while the wasp flew round and round it, watching for another opportunity. Again and again did it dash its sting into the reptile, and escape. After the sixth stab the tarantula actually fell over on its back, dead; and the wasp, after making itself sure of the fact, and inflicting a last sting to make mat tors sure, new ofl'liappj*, in having done a dutyassigned it in creation. In nn hour more, a colony of ants had carried it down by piecemeal, and deposited it in their cutacombs. But, deadliest and most abhorrent of all our reptiles in Texas, is the centipede. This is a a kind of worm, from three to six inches long, exactly like an enormous caterpillar. It is green, brown, or yellow?some being found r I. i* it i * . i i oi eacn or mese colors, as its name aenores, it has along each side a row of feet, horny claws rather. Imagine that you walk some night across your chamber floor with naked feet; you put your foot down upon a soft something, and instantly it coils around your foot in a ring, sticking every claw up to the body in your foot. The poison flows through each claw, and in two minutes you will have fainted with agony; in a few more, and you will be dead. The deadly thing cannot bo torn away. It has to be cut off, and claw by claw plucked out.? Even if it crawls over the naked body of a sleeping person, without sticking in its claws, iu? ..i ...:ii l 1 e r. iue [mice win jjam iiiu jiursuii lur \tr<ir3 unci? at least, so I have been told. I have seen the things?in which nature corks up her deadly poison?often; yel I have heard of few cases in which they have bitten or killed any one The kind Being who makes the butterflies to be abundant, in the same loving ! kindness which makes them so beautiful and ' so abundcnt, iuakc3 all deadly creatures to be scarce. Talkativeness, in some men proceeds from what is extremely amiable. I mean an open, communicative tempter. Nor is it a universal i unr, maw WIJVC?C:I i tui' tijuuti mu"ju r*t* T ?* ^tvnib deal m>t worth hearing. 1 have known men who talked freely, Ir cause | hey ha ! : g?yaf ileal to say atiiT delighted in coinmimie iiin:'; for their own advantage au?l the company. And I have known others who commonly sat dumb, because they coull tind nothing to say. In England, they blame every one who talks freely, let his conversation be ever so entertnining and improving.? In France, they look upon every man as a gloomy mortal whose tongue does not make an un interrupted noise. Both these judgments are unjust. Georgia in 1825. Extracts from Gov. Troup's Message, May 25, 1825. I "Since your hist meeting, our feelings have been again outraged by officious and impertinent intermeddling with our domestic concerns. Besides the resolution presented for the considcra tiuii of the Senate, by Mr. King, of New York, it is understood tlmt the Attorney General of the United States, who may be presumed to represent his Government faithfully and to speak as its mouth-piece, luw recently maintained before the Supreme Court doctrines on this subject, which, if sanctioned by that tribunal, will make it quite easy for the Congress, by a short decree, to divest this entire interest, without cost to themselves of one dollar, or of one acre of the public land?this is the uniform practice of the Government of the United States?if it wishes a principle established which it dare not establish for itself, a case, is made before the Supreme Court, and the principle once settled, the act of Coiurress follows, of course. Soon, verv soon. therefore, the United Slates Government, discarding the mask, will openly lend itself to acombination of fanatics for the destruction of every thing valuable in the Southern country. One movement of Congress, unresisted by you, and all is lost. Temporise 110 longer?make known your resolution that this subject shall not be touched by them but at their peril?but for its sacred guarantee by the Constitution, we never would have become parties to that instrument? at this moini-nt, you would not make yourselves t,? out? fVtncfifiifinn without it.?of oniirsn J'ril nwo WW C? it j .. you will not be a party to it from the moment tiie General Government shall make the movement. 14 If this matter be an evil, it is our own?if it be a sin, we can implore the forgiveness of it; to remove it, we ask not either their sympathy or assistance, it may be our physical weakness? it is our moral strength. If, like the Greeks and Romans, the moment we cease to be masters we are slaves?we thenceforth minister, like modern Italians, to the luxury and pleasure of our masters?poets, painters, musicians and sculptors we may bo?the moral qualities, however, which would make us fair partakers of the grandeur ol a great em ire would bo gone. We would stand stripped and desolate, under a fervid sun ami upon a generous soil, a mockery to ourselves, and the very contrast of what, with a little firmness and foresiglu, we might have been. I entreat you, therefore, most earnestly now, that it is nol tnn into tn aton fnrt.1i. and havintr exhausted tilt argument, to stand by your arms." Four hundred years have elapsed since the in> vention of printing, yet books are not in circula tion all over the globe; while the use of tobaccc became universal within fifty years of its dis covery. j Calhoun* Monument.? From a private letter i I received from a distinguished gentlemen, a naj tivc of this State, but now residing in Mississippi i and one who has done as nuieh to advance the true interests of the South as aiij- man this side of Mason & Dixon's line?we take the liberty of extracting the following paragraph suggesting the character of the monument which the State, ! should erect to the memory of her greatest statesj man: I ''When reading your remarks upon Calhoun, 1 I was forced to think how soon the present gen; eration forget the worth as a worthy laborer, | and that after generations search up ashes. I i J propose that the State take his remains to Col,! umbia, and get a huge piece of granite, just as i j large as wheels and power can roll 011 the State .! House lot, there lay Calhoun and there place the | huge mass of granite, on which should be in, scribed in deeply cut letters, to be filled with some j lasting black matter?A Nation's Testimony to Worth.?CALHOUN, a Son of the South. "I propose a mass of granite if possible 10 on 20 cubic feet, not dressed, native growth?no prouder monument could I desire. And I would prefer it to a huge pile of Parian marble." This suggestiop is appropriate as it is original and we are :n hopes it will meet the approbation ! of our Legislature, which seems frightened out ; of its propriety at the bare idea of a more costly i testimonial. I - - I .. . ... The (jreat Kailroad.?The -President or the Illinois Central Railroad Company, Robert Schuyler, Esq., ha9 submitted a report to the stockholders, of which the following is a brief synopsis: The share capital is now Si 5,000,000. The first instalment of $6 per share is payable on the 17th of December next. The amount of Constitution bonds negotiated for money is $9,000,000, of which $4,000,000 are taken in the United StnteB and $5,000,000 in England. In addition contractors have taken 81,785,000 towards the cost of road and branches are provivided, exclusive of-the instalments on stock. The bonds are to be paid by the sale of the lands of the Company, which is esteemed fully adequate to the object. The road, it is calculated, will I * ? . t .till Ti men oe a clear gain to me siocsnoiaera. n is expected that in 1854 the main stem from Lasalle to Cairo will be in operation; also the entire Chicago branch, forming a connective line to Cairo, and the division from Freeport to Ga Jena and Dubuque, making by* the Galena and Chicago to the Upper Mississippi?in all, not less than ?25 miles of the most productive parts of the wbohTtine. ^ The Population of the Globe.?A Freuch 1 writer, after enumerating the numbers that cover i.liiG- .surface of the globe, which be estimates^ > at 937,000,000, enters into the following statej incut*: If all mankind were collected in one place, every four individuals occupying a square metre, the I wlioln rnhrht ho contained in a field ten miles square. Thus, generally speaking the population of a country might be packed?without much squeezing, in its capital. But the mean idea this gives us of the number of the human race, is counterbalanced by its capability of cxtention.? The New world is said to contain of productive land 4,000,000 square miles of middling quality, j each capable of supporting two hundred inhabi: tants; and 6,000,000 of a better quality, capaI ble of supporting five hundred persons. Accor ding to this calculation, the population of the new world, as peace and civilization advance, we may attain to the extent of 4,000,000,000. If we suppose the surface of the old world to be double that of America, (and notwithstanding the comparative poverty of the land, this calculation may be accepted, if we say nothingof Australia and the various archipelagoes,) it would support 8,000.000,000 ; and thus the aggregate population of the entire globe might amount to 12,000,000,000, or twelve times the present number. Industry and Perseverance Rewarded.? We see it stated in one of our exchange papers ? ' * Tf % IT ll^_ that h well lias oecn suiik in nocKing vauey, Ohio, to the depth of six hundred feet, for the purpose of obtaining salt water. The object of the enterprising individuals has been fully accomplished, a supply of water having been reached which requires but fifty-three gallons to make a bu<hel of salt of fifty pounds. The water rises spontaneously to the surface, and flows at the rate of 4000 to 5000 gallons per day. Expenses of the Government.?The estimates from the Secretary of the Treasury, in a 1 * ? ? i f !J 14 punted lorin, nave wii i.-iu ouiuio vuuyira. n will cost tor the next year about ten million dollars to govern the new territory, and about twenty five million dollars the old. Then there is the interest and principal of the public debt to be provided, so that the entire expenses will exceed fifty millions. The legitimate expenses of carrying on the Government do not exceed thirty-five dollars. The total amount of appropriation for the. year ending June 30, 1854, is estimated at $46,1 203,753, to which is to be added $480,086 for several appropriations which will be carried to the surplus fund. There will also be required 1 for the service of the last three quarters of the fiscal year, ending June 30, 1853, made by forf iner acts of Congress, the sum of 815,355,271. I Education of Teachers.?There is a biil I before the Legislature, providing for the educai tion of Common School Teachers. It provides , that the State- shall pay for the tuition of 27 in; digent young men in each of the following instii tutions, to wit; Wake Forest, Normal and Davidson Colleges?one such man to be selected from each county, by the Board of Superinten dents of Common Schools, and shall give a - pledge to teach one year in the State. This is > an important measure, and we hope it will be - passed. It will accomplish great good at small expense,?North Carolina Star, ? -J If? We mentioned lately that a law had been introduced into the Ohio legislature to protect the rights of persons claimed asfugitive slaves. We now learn from the Ohio papers that Mr. Cushing (whig) has brought forward in the Senate a bill to prevent the further settlement of blacks and mulatto persons in the State. The first section provides that after the first of January, 1854, 110 black or mulatto person, not already a resident, shall settle or reside in the State. O ~ O ZA..~ i!..i 11 1- - 1 l-.? cn-c. - |>iuvlut's mat an uiactt anu mulatto persons shall record their names in the Recorder's office previous to January 1,1854. Sec. 3, that the names of all black children born thereafter shall be recorded. Sec. 4, that all blacks found in the State after January, 1854, whose names are not registered, shall be held to be nou-pcsisdents. 5 th, that after that time no non-resident"***"^ black can hold real pro) erty, but it shall become forfeited to the State. Gth, makes it the duty of , the Prosecuting Attorney to recover property so forfeited, 7th, any black violating any of the provisions, is guilty ol an offence,v and to be punished by imprisonment not less than six months nor more than twelve?that a residence j of every ten days after expiration of imprison ment is a new offence. 8th, District Assessors to return to the Recorder, names of all blacks. 9th, Recorder to compare the list returned with that in his office, and report to the Prosecuting Attorney such as returned and not found in his H office, to bi prosecuted for the offence. 10th, any officer failing to discharge the duties required, to pay not less than 850, and be incapable of I holding olllce ever thereafter.? Char. Courier. When an uninitiated traveller crosses the Isthmus of Panama, he is likely to be well fleeced unless he possesses more than ordinary shrewd- ^ ness and nerve. As a specimen of charges made upon such occasionally, we give from the Panama Echo, the following experiences of a small party who recently made the trip: " At their first stopping place, without bread and without seats, they drank five cups of coffee and eat five eggs. For this they paid $5,50. The party consisted of two gentlemen, a lady and two boys." m Superintendent of Common SchooIs.?Calvin FT Wiloc nrto nf V*/* n/isfam aP . ... mi ? v??v v? vuo vuivvio VI tUlO papCTy was, on Monday last, elected by the Legislature to this office, and will, as soon as he can make the necessary arrangements, enter upon the ae tive discharge of its duties.?Southern Weekly Pott. To Editous.?A Journeyman Printer, named Joseph Stephens", of Fort Waype, Indiana, left home in 1844, anfl-was heard of in 1847. His parents are in great distress on his account, and. will he thank^l te ariv one-who Mttll give them any information of him. Address "Mr. D. Stephens, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Editors everywhere will please copy. Impertinence well Punished.?Some travellers were visiting an elegant private garden at. . Palermo, in Sicily, and among the little ornamental buildings, they came to one upon which was written Non aperite, that is, " Don't open." This prohibition only served to excite their curiosity, and they very uncivilly proceeded to disobey the hospitable owner's injunction. On open ing the door a forcible jet of water was squirted f..n e. - * .1 l iuii in meir iaces?a very jusi. mougn not very severe retribution. Night.?" Why is it," said Hermione, " that by night not only is our memory aroused, bat also our courage V " Hermioue," answered I, " at night the world to come draws nearer to the solitary breast, and unfolds Itself before us, as the beauties of our earth are veiled in darkness, but the jewels of the mind still radiate ; we are like that wondrous flower which blooms by night in the old world, because it is theu day in tfie new world whieh is its hour." Ravages of the Cholera in Cuba.?A letter received in Boston says that at St. Jago do /.. 1-.: lOiii n j n/i/-i\ . 1_ - j it. \juuiv ^pujjumuuu IU lotu, iue ueaius by cholera previous to November 10, had b?en as high as 135 some days. The principal victims were the blacks, poor whites and soldiers. v~" It had also been very fatal in the interior, planters having lost from 20 to 50 slaves. At the last accounts the sickness was abating, buHbe weather was sultry and damp, and there had. been further shocks of earthquakes. Substitute for Bridges.?Mr. J. W. Gilfi of Wheeling, has patented a substitute fur bridges in crossing rivers by railroads, flis patent is the building of a submarine railway, laid below .the channel of rivers or harbors. diKhjs run wheels, and on the wheels erect a platform of iron?lay rails and run the cars and locomotive on them, to' be propelled by stationary power on shore, with an endless chain, by power on the platform, or even by the common locomotive itself, the proper gearing being on the platform and always ready for use. Maine Lumber ?The quantity of lumber surveyed at Banger, (Me.) averages annually about 200,000,000 feet, the value of which cannot fall far short of 3.000,000. The quantity got to market this year, is less than last year, owing to the great drought in the early part of the season, The demand has been great, and the prices of all qualities have run a dollar higher per thousand feet thau last vpfir<p0 that although the quantity will fall short by some 15,000,000 of feet, the sales will amount to nearly a quarter of a million dollars more than last vear. The Celebration of the Obsequies of Calhoun Clay and Webster, in New Orleans, was the most imposing ceremonial ever witnessed in that city. Business was entirely suspended the flags of the shipping in the harbor were displayed at half mast and the popular demonstration of respect corresponded fully with the order of the proceedings as prescribed by the public authority, "A.- " " VV * ?.