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Beautiful P&isage. Lord Ellesmere made a speech at Fancuil, Hall Boston, last week, from which we copy the following beautiful extract: Still, the designs of Providence ar? inscrutable. I bow my anticipation to His will, but as an Englishman looking to his country, I feel and say, come where and ho.v it will, our chastening, "won omiiis tLlMiif " Tlu? ?rv tl>n 1 uown<>*!?? ?",,vv" j i t,,v 111*.7 intellectual feats of ray country shall survive beyond tlie Atlantic. As I look round this room, I am reminded of some lines which one of our minor poets 1ms put into the mouth of a young husband addressing his bride yet in the blootu of her charms, when, not shriuking from the future, he tells her? And when with envy timo transported | Shall think to rob us of our jovs. You'll in your girls again be courted, And I'll go wooing in my boys." Yes, gentlemen. I'll go wooing in ray boys, and the bride will be fame and empire, aud the dower will be the waste roclaimed from the savage beasts or man more savage, and the issue will be freedom and civilization?freedom tempered by a willing submission to legally constituted authority, and civilization founded on the great text book of true civilization, the revealed word of God to man. An Exciting Scene. Yesterday afternoon, just as the steamer Alabama was about leaving her wharf, an Irish woman whoso name we could not learn, attempted to go on hoard.? Not having a ticket, she was refused permission to pass. She plead most piteously, upon the ground that her husband was on board, and that he was about to desert her and her infant, only five weeks old. There was no timo fur an examination I into the facts. The gangway was withdrawn. The almost frantic woman then attempted to climb on board the vessel forward. In this she also failed. She noxt folded Iter arms and remained silent for a few moments, when she made a rush for the river, evidently with the intention of drowing herself. Fortunately a few persons standing near tho edge of the wharf, succeeded in arresting her progress at the moment she was in the act of taking the fatal leap. She appeared perfectly frantic, and resolved upon her fell purpose. She was finally carried off bv the officers in a wagon and properly caried for. Why she persisted in deserting her infant child in order to pursue her husband, teninins a mystery. The rahcreant who would desert a female under such circumstances is unworthy of her affection, and fit only for the pillorv. Sho was a woman of rather respectable appearance, and we learn, of good character.?Suit. Cou. The Hot Weather. Ar Now York, on Friday, the weather I- i I iiMn iisiwii uim,u?tn- ?emj?rrtrmnr, the thermometer marked one hundred and one degrees. At midnight it was 00.? It was not much cooler Saturday. Up to 5 o'clock, on Friday afternoon, no less than th rty sudden deaths were reported at the coroner's olliee. Of these upward of twenty were caused by the excessive beat of the weather. The corner's were busily engaged during the day in holding inquisitions upon the bodies of those who died on Thursday, and many inquisitionshad to be deferred until Saturday. During the week there were 53 deaths in the city from sun stroke. A number of horse* fell dead in the streets on Friday. In Boston, the beat, last week, was intense, and has ocarcelv been lessened bv the going down of the sun. The denizens of the country, as well as the city, suffered much from the oppressive atmosphere. The thermometer was up to 96 in State street on Friday. There were several sudden deaths. In Philadelphia, on Saturday afternoon the thermometer stood at 90. Geo. Key who arrived from Europe the day previous, died from the heat We learn from the Greenville Patriot that the Greenville Rail Road is completed within nine or ten miles of Greenville C. H,and that the President of the Road, Col. Perrin, says that the passenger and freight cars will run to that point immediately. It >s possible that the entire completion of the rail road to Greenville may bo delayed for want of iron. Col. Perriu is now at the North making arrangements in reference to this matter, and may have the iron forwarded in time to prevent any delay in the completion of the Road. Tko xu:?? ^ " a iiu jjunvi vi iiio vrrccnviiiCj Patriot, was shown the other day hy Mr. Chandler, some beautiful specimens of gold, found on the farm of Mr. AndcrsOii,.? the upper pa-tof i^auiuUH District near the Spartanburg and Greenville line. Two of the particles were half as large and much thicker than a finger nail.? These were found in the sand and washed out by means of a tin pan. It is thought that the working will be very profitable when machinery is applied. Thr Oldest Maii in Kuntuckr.-Fro' ably the oldost citizen of Kentucky at this time, is old "Ben Duke", a free man of color who is well known to almost every man, woman, and child in Louisville, lie is now 108 years old, enjoys extraordinary good health, ia in full possession of all his faculties and faithfully attends to his Tegular daily avoeation of hauling saw dust from the mills to his customers throughout the city. Ben has had seven wives, ard any number of children and giandchildren. His last wife died about a year ago, and it is reported that the old man has some notion of taking to himself 1 another rib at an early day. Mr*. Partington says that nothing despises her s<J^aucb as to see people who prdJUn to expect salvation, logo to church without (their pursea 0ben a recollection js to bo taken. [X JUo* FrU*y, the 96th of May next, fhets will be an eellpse of the sun. It will be i f more er lees visible in all parts of the Uni- i uk States and Canada*, ?nd h a a portien I ef both t ill b? annukr. i to/fa MBL How a Man Feels with his Head Off. It it considered on all sides that the body docs not feel one instant alter decapitation ; : for the brain being the saat of sensation to the whole frame, through the medium of the spinal narrow, every part of the body, beneath the joint at which the latter may be divided, must be deprived of feeling. Itut it by no means follows that the head is deprived of sensation immediately after decapita- i tion, not that it may retain its conscious- j Oftut, and, like the head of the Irish Knight, who wns killed by iSnladin in the Holv \? ar, J get up and declare it was never cut off by so I sweet a scimitar before?nor like that of the assassin I.egare, swear roundly at the executioner for not keeping n keener axe; but it is quite possible that it may be troubled with very serious reflections upon the irrevocability of its fate, and the nwfulness of its deprivation. In support of this unpleasant thoo- j ry, many facta are adduced, with grave vouchers for their authenticity. Among others is the unfortunate Queen of Scots, whose lips continued to move in prayer for at least a quarter of an hour after the executioner had performed his duties. Wiudt states that having put his mouth to the car of a decapitated criminal's head, and called him by name, tho eyes turned to the tide from whence the voice canio ; and this fact is attested hy Fonletiello, Mogore, Guillotine, Nauche, and Aldini. On the word murder being called, in the case of a criminal executed for that crime at Coblentz, the half-closed eyes opened with an expression of reproach on those who stood around. Horrible Murder. Tho Alta California publishes the following account of a horrible murder committed iu Sacramento: On Tuesday morning about 3 o'clock, persons residing between 2d and 3d streets, immediately in the rear of tho Madison House, were aroused by cries of murder, and deep groans. Mr. Avalinc, who lived in the back portion of the house, went into the room front of the one occupied by hitn, and there saw the most frightful and ghastly sight one could imagine. A young and beautiful woman lay on the floor in her night-cloths, floating almost in her own blood. Iler throat was eut from ear to ear with a razor, and her head almost divided in twain hy a blow from a sharp axe ; the weapon lay cross h?r h ire limbs, and the razor was on the floor. The bed,wall, floor,chair* and everything were bespattered with blood. In a room next to her was found a man with his head nearly split open ; they proved to bo Henry E. JStriblu and his wife, Agnes SStrible. In the yard, and about fifty feet from tho house, was found, lying undent carpenter's bench, 011 a pile of shavings, another man, Joseph M. Strible, a brother of the other parties, with his throat cut. The truth of the matter appears to be, that for some little time there has been an unkind fueling existing between the brothers, and on the night in question, Joseph went fo his brother's house for the sole purpose of murdering him. He went into the room where Henry and his wife were asleep, and in so doing, awoke Mrs Strible, It appears he did not intend to kill Iter, but awaking, she screamed and aroused her husband when Joseph struck her w ith the axe, and then attacked his brother. After he had killed Henry, ho returned to Mrs. S., and made sure of his hellish work by cutting her itr-rtrmr immrt ??>v w ??1 . >iit out and laid down on the pile of sliavings, and, as he supposed, eut his own throat so eu ?.v a.,..ua I.!.. .1..-4L . I a _ it ? ? iu v.iuat- ma ui'uiii , iiui in mi* ne was mistaken, as lie now lives at the time of 1 writing this, and there is a chance ot'his j recovery. While Joseph supposed he was r dying, he called for a pencil and paper, and i ? wrot ? "I struck her first, and him after; I went a to kill him ; he has not used me well. I was c crazy then, but am not now." d ??? n Singular Device. 1 A singular circumstance, exhibiting in a remarkable degree the reflecting faculties {* of a wolf, is related as having taken place ut Signo-le-lVtit, a small town on the bur- C dors Chnmpage. A farmer, looking through n the hedge of his garden one day, observed a ^ wolf walking about his mule, but unable to , get at him on account of the mole's constant a kicking with his hind legs. As the farmer C1 perceived that his beast was so well able to o defend itself, he considered it unnecessary v to rendci him any assistance. After the at- .. tack nnd defence had lasted fully n quarter of an hour, the wolf ran off to a neighboring ditch where he severul times plunged into d the water. The farmer imagined he did 8l this to refresh himself after the fatigue ho p had sustained, and had no doubt but that the mule had gained a complete victory ; R but in a few moments the **'olf returned to n the charge, nnd approaching as near as ho 1 could to the head of the mule, shook him- f( self, and spirted a quantity of water in flic mule's eyes, which caused liiin immediately to shut them. That moment the wolf leap- I ed upon him and killed the poor mule be- tl fore the farmer could come to his asuis- f| lance. |( ?e Steele paid the finest compliment to a e woman that perhaps was ever offered. Of ono woman, whom Congreve had also ad- c mired and celebrated, ho says, that "to have it loved was a liberal education." "How of- b ten," ho says, dedicating a volume to his ft wife, "has your tenderness removed pain from my afflicted heart! If there n re such ? beings as guardian angels, they are thus cl empioycu. I cannot believe one of them to be more good in inclination, or more charming in form than my wife." His breast seems to warm and his eyes to kindle when a' he meets with a good and beautiful woman, ir. and it is with his heart as well us with his (} hat thut he salutes her. - rr Percussion I/Ocks.?The New York Coo- w rier &. Enquirer of the 5th, says an order will bo issued by the commander-in-Chief , , of New York, and perhaps by the cominan- ' der-in-Chlef of the other States, ihat alt T muskets belonging to the State, issued to is State troops, shall be returned to the arse- n< nuts, and pieces with the percussion locks )l( Siven in oxchuoge. This will be a very juicious measure. We do n't know whuth- 81 er or not all the flint locks have been taken c< from the ranks of the army, nnd percuanion el locks substituted, but this will be done as (c fust as the former csn be converted into the latter. It is of the first importance that the army and militia of Unifed States should ' use the same weapons in their respective d< armies. f, ? ? ai Ths Fins Acts nf the Crystal Par- si Acs.?The New York Day Book thinks the tl line arts do not stand much of s chance in 0) competition with things of s grosser nature. The editor ssys?An exquisite status of s tf girl in prayer is dlaced directlv boaidAinUt- hi form weighing scale, in tho north nave of hi the Crystal 1'alaee. We watched them both u for fifteen minutes, and found that twenty even people weigbed themselves, while on- 11 ly one stopped to look st tlie status. The ? fins arts stand about the same ehans* that a M CA3 iuui to wis at roulatte. ki raiii' Cnrrrspimiienr?. ' NEW YORK. Louis Napoleon's I'urliTs Fair?Lighting up the Palace?Evening Exhibitions? American Fire-arms?Colt's Recoiling Pistol?Porter's Self-Loading Rifle?Its superior Advantages?Thorwaldsen s (treat Croup?Christ and his Apostles?Irish Contributions?Embroideries?Handkerchieffor the President's Wife ? Steamboats for the Amazon?Departure of Laga? Testimonial to Capt. lugraham?Sailing of Foreign Appointees?Jullien and his Prima Donna?Unprecedented Mortality, (j-C, tj-c. New York, August 23, 1853. Mr. Editor:?I.ouis Napoleon has deternincd to be in the fashion. Enelantl and \mcriea having had their World's Fair, lie las resolved that France shall not bo long x'hind. For his universal exhibition lie has ixed the year 1855; and as he will bring all he resources of government into play, and vill do his best to outstrip in point of maglificcncc his potent rivals, there is no doubt hat the Crystal Palace of Paris will not safer from a comparison with cither of its preleeessors. Otlicial information was received mine time since at our State Department, that goods, the importation of which is prohibited, will, on that occasion, be admitted into Paris, nnd that after the Exhibition they may, at the option of their owners.be either re-exported free of duty, or delivered for interior consumption by paying a duty of 30 per cent I-ast evening the Palace was for the first time brilliantly lighted up, editors, reporters, mid other guests having been invited to commemorate the occasion. The long vista of the naves, illuminated with a Hood of light, presented a striking appearance ; while the vast dimension of the dome and the singular beauty of its embellishment seemed rather to belong to the sublimities we read of in fairiy-tulcs than to sober reality. For n week back, workmen have been constantly occupied in putting up gas-fixtnres. Some idea may be formed of the vast size ot the ouilding and the brilliancy with which it is lluminated, w hen we say that four thousand nirners are in full blaze at once. All this s preparatory to opening the exhibition on he evening?a stop which will be much to lui J*-of-lit of elerka^lid others w hom btisi" In time of peace prepare for war,*' says i time-honored adage, w hich we Americans ludcrstand and act on, at least if wc may udge from the formidable array of muskets, illos, cannot), and bayonets, to be found long our contributions. It is universally dmitted abroad that the ingenuity of our ountrymen has carried off the paint in this epartincut of iiinnuf.ctiirc. In its comtents on the various contributions at the ondon Fair, the Maidstone (iazettc pul>?i i ...MI i > .... . . siiuu, ii win ue rvmeinDcreil, at llio prmcial cavalry depot of the United Kingdom, olds the following language respecting 'olt'.s repeating pistol: "tl>e result of exomiation and inquiry convinces us that if the Irent Exhibition conferred no other nationI benefit, that of having public attention idled to this formidable arm was one of no rdinary importance." If it held Colt'# reolving pistol in such estimation, what would lis paper say to thodf-loading rifle oxhibi;d in the present Fair, which is capable of ischarging forty shots a minute ! It would ecui as if no impression could bo made ither by bayonet 01 by a cavalry charge on body of men armed with this weapon, no latter how great the disparity of numbers, 'he legislature of Tennessee has adopted it >t the militia of that State, and in January 852, passed a resolution recommending the Inited States Government to purchase from lie inventor the right of manufacturing it in he various arsenals. Louisiana and Florida ave also adopted it, nnd (lenorul Scott has ndorsed it in the highest terms. That it an shoot forty times a minute is almost in redible ; but this is accomplished by n moat igcniou* and yet simple mechanism. It is oth self-loading and self-priming; is per?ctly waterproof, not liable to get out of rdcr, and is said to shoot as far and as ncuralely as any other rifle. Wandering through the various apnrticnts of the Exhibition, we find ourselves t length, nmid a group of silent admirers, , i a room draped with dark velvet, around < le walls of which in bold relief are ranged lirtecn figures. This group is that great j lastcr-piecc of Christian statuary, Thoraldsen'.s ' Christ and his Apostles." The reatest of modern artists, Michael Angulo imself not excepted, in this sublime w ork ( horwaldsen put forth all his powers. There , no unity of time or action in the group; | > particular scone or season is represented( | ; which all were together; yet, notwith- i anding this, harmony of thought and con- < jption prevails throughout tlie whole. The < taracter and disposition of each are indicn- ' d in I ia countenance and attitude. >' Our Savior stands in the eentre, a colloid* I figure, larger than the rest, because intcn- ' sd to stand in a niehe some fifty feet distant om and higher than they. ilia countcn- . nee ia the embodiment of benign majesty, | nlees repose and inedible love. The apos- , ea are arranged abont him in the following i rder. On the right of our Saviour and next < > him la St. Paul, substituted by a pardons* le anachronism for Judaa. With his right i ?nd, the great apostle of the Gentiles points < > Heaven, while his left rata on a sword, t ie emblem of hi* martyrdom- ( Next fob 1 wi Simoo with the aavrwhereby he suffer* 1 the ftnal agony ; Bartholomew with the life to which the Armeniank'ng, Aatyngua f iffjgj- ^ consigned him ; James the brother of John, xbout to set oat on his npostche journey, with his Pilgrim's staff and Palmer's hat ;? Thomas with a square, the emblem of his doubting mind ; and Andrew with the cross on which lie expired. On the left are Peter with the keys ; Matthew with the Publican's money-bag at his feet, seated with a tablet before him as if about to indite his gospel, while an angel kneeling by him, seems ready to assist him in his task ; John, the impersonation of love, with his eyes raised to the heaven in which he trusted ; James the son of Alplieus, with his staff; Philip bowed down by the labor of years ; and Thaddcus with the executioner's axe, by which he testified to the sincerity of his belief. The marble figures, of which these plaster casts were the originals, stand in the metropolitan church of Copenhagen. Ireland is beginning to be worthily represented in the Fair. The show-case of John Iliggins &. Co. makes a creditable display of embroideries. Among these is a splendid handkerchief, intended for presentation to Mrs. Franklin Fierce. It is embroidered in the most elaboritc manner, with the arms of the United States, the Plough, a number of cotton bales, and other appropriate devices. The above-mentioned firm, is an enterprising New York house, which, during the height of the famine of 18-47, opened n brunch establishment in Dublin, for the purpose of manufacturing embroideries. As their enterprise promised employment to a number of the sufferers by that lamentable visitation it received every possible local and governmental encouragement. The cinbroideri. s the Dublin establishment has turned out are fully equal to the best productions of France and Germany. The superiority of American mechanics in naval architecture is fast coming to be acknowledged in all parts of the world. One of our countrymen, a short time since,entered into a contract with the government ol' Chili to deliver at Para two steam boats intended for the navigation of Jhc river Amizon. On Saturday last they left for their destination in the "Star of the East." They were of course taken out in sections, competent machinists being sent to put them together when they shall arrive on the ground. They will be the first steamboats that have over plied 011 this noble river, and will no doubt be the means of bringing in from South America many future orders. The Danish man of war, "Saga," which had been for some time lying in our harbor, sailed day before yesterday for the West Indies and South America. The day before her departure she was visited bv Commandant Pooman of our Navy Yard, and Captain Hudson. They were hospitably received, and on leaving the vessel, were honored with a salute of thirteen guns, which was duly returned from Governor* Island. The gallant conduct of Captain In grab an) ?t 1 rxrm? .-frm p. Jt> ttfiily.. fenja. 0 f Our adopted citizens,especially, have appreciated it: and so highly, that they have deemed it right to ifcivo a public expression to their approbation, and present the Cap tain with n sword in token of their respect.? They have held several meetings for this purpose ; and a couimi'tcu of Italian*,? Frenchmen, Germans and l'oles, have been appointed to take up a subscription. The new nppointces to foreign stations, are leaving for their respective posts in great numbers. I?i*t Saturday witnessed the departure of scvcrul of thorn in the Arctic. Autong these were J. M* Daniels, Charge d' Allaire* to Turin ; -August Belmont, Charge to the Ilague ; Mr. Welch, private Secretary of Mr. Buchanan,and K. D. Syekles, Secretary of legation to London. An affecting parting scene took place on board the steamer, between the latter gentleman and his young wife. 8he,Mlike Niobe, all tears,"? could ill endure the agony of a first sepanu tion. In October, I understand, she is to join him in Kngland with their only child. Julien the great conductor, is busily engaged in fitting up Castle Harden for hia concerts, w hich are to comincnco on the 'JUth iiut. His prima (Ionna, Anna Zcrr, when in I?ndon, sung for the benefit of the Hungarian refugees ; and for that act, her name was struck from the list of the Imperial Opera House at Vienna. This will not render ner any less popular in America. Our city inspector's report shows for the week ending the *J0th,the unusual number of 961) deaths. Four years ago, when the cholern was at its height among us, during tho same week, there wore but 968. This excessive mortalily it attributable to the late intense heat. Sun strokes are set down in the list as having produced 1214 deaths. Yours sincerely, HUDSON. 1 I Inoexkous Escape of a Phisoner.? Jiis. 1 >unii, a convict at --dug Sing, N. Y, on Friday last effected his escape from that institution in a very ingetiious man ner. Procuring somo strips of India rubber, he made an air-tight tube sotne six feet long, to the end of which he attached a bag of tho same material, shaped like a Juek. Managing to elude his keepers, ho name to the river, where he threw off and secreted his clothing, and with his new life-preserver plunged in, and when at the bottom kept one end of the tube in bis mouth, tlm bug meanwhile floating un the lurface anil supplying hiin with air. In this way he passed the prison docks, and liad proceeded about half a mile down the stream to Colyer'a dock, when, his j [>i e giving way, he was forced to swim whore, where be met a crowd of people, ind informed them that some one had itoieu his clothes, and left them in pursuit >f the thief, which was the laat that has been heaad of him He was twenty years >f age, had served one term of confinement, and wm at the time of eseape unler sentenco for life. .... The claim of Dr. King at Athens has been settled by the payment of 12,000 hrachms for hie land, taken for the public ise. His religious griefs were not reeoglixsd as sntitle^g^edreee. BeWif2fu&4ke potter to the elay and t became w^l. * " " a i i is > ? n ICanrnster Mger. LAHCASTERVILLE, S. C. VEDNESDAYAUUtJSY mm Acknowledgements willnppenr next week. Controversy. We publish Cnpt. Perry's reply to J. R. H., although, we hope this will be the last of it?in fact, we must protest against the continuation of a controversy, which is productive of no good, and may lend to hnrni; besides, we are sure wo could devote this space to other matter, nt once more instructive as well as more interesting. Large Cucumber. I)r. T. K. Cuueton has presented us with a cucumber, grown in the garden of our esteemed townsman S. B. Massey, Esq. w hich is decidedly the largest we have ever s??cn. It measures in length 13 inches, and in cireumfcrancc 8 inches. :-ir Charleston, with her accustomed liberality, has sent over six thousand dollars to the sufferers in New Orleans : from the Courier office nlone, five thousand dollars lias been sent. From the urgent appealmade to the people of Charleston, as well as to those of the state generally, we would not be surprised if the amount swells to ten thousand dollars, from that oflico alone.? The Courier has acted nobly in this cause of philanthropy. Dccumcntory History. Da. R. W. Gibhes the author, h:.a very kindly sent us a very neatly printed volume, containing pages, bearing the following title :?" Documentary History ofthe Auiorcan Revolution, consisting of letters and papers relating to tt contest for liberty chiefly in South Carolina, in 1 "781 and 17^2." What cau prove more interesting to our people, than a history o! our own beloved " n,m'" Marion, Green, Rut ledge, Hampton, Sic ; the mention of whose names, is sufficient t<i show the interest the work possesses. 11 can l>e obtained at uny of the Coluiubhi Book Stores. Price ono dollar. The Recent Soath Carolina Duel. Wo published a tellegraphic despatch some days since, announcing a fatal duel at Charleston, the papers of which citv have been silent as to the nature of the difficulty. Tlio Washington Si'tar ol Saturday, however, g'vos the following particulars:?Savannah Courier. "Mr Lcgaro was engaged to a young lady in Columbia. Iler friends inquired of Douavaut what was the character and habits of L.f This coming to his cars, he inquired of 1). what he had nnswered;nni] found that he had spoken favorably tl him. l>ut not satisfied with a verbal statement, he demanded it in writing, which was refused. Logare challenged on this refusal. The distance was twelve paces. Legare fired at the word "one,' and missed: Ihmovntit tired at the word two and killed his antagonist. The survivor was wholy unskilled in the use <>i mo pistol, having never In-fore lia<l anything to do with a duel. Ia-gare, on the contrary, was notoriously, a cra? k shot having, h few days before tiie uiTuir came off. tin practising,) pheed forty-eight out of fifty balls in a card at loo word. He became verv nervous on starting for the ground, and re narked that he felt apresentment that he would fall, notwithstanding his skill with the pistol. lie was formerly in the Navy as a Midshipman, from w hich he was dismissed, it is said, for running a sword through a marine." The above uiny be correct, excepting that the young lady resides in Chester, and not Columbia. Business In Charleston. We aro truly gratified to extract the following paragraph from the Courier: M\Ve are gratified to learn that the Fall busiuesa of this city is likely to be verylarge. Considerable quantities of goods are daily arriving, and buyer* from Alabama and Tennessee have already, we understand, made their appearance in the market. The city, to^use the phrase of one of our leading medical practitiom ra.beintr a W m 7 ? larimngly healthy, no one need fear coining at once, and auch an impetus we trust will be given to the trade of our city by an early attendence of our country friends aa to place Charleston at the highest pinnacle of commercial prosperity ahe haa ever atpuoed." * Hew Cotton. The Charleston Courier of Thursday saya that two more bales of new cotton reached that city on the previous day from Newberry District, consigned to Mesan. Keeder k DeSauasure. The Cheater Standard aaya that a bale of new cotton from the plantation of Mr. Thomas Shannon, of that District, waa offered for sale in that market last Monday and bought by Tlioa. 8. Mills, at 10 7-8 BT" Tax haat^feirVork ta Mgbtfcl. Ninety deaths oecovred ftote the beet oe Stndey. BEITORXAL CORRESPONDENCE. Philadelphia, August 15. 1853. To-day and yesterday have been excessively hot days in the Quaker City. It was so very warm yesterday, that I did not go to church. We are stopping at Jones' Hotel, which used to be the cruckcd Hotel here, but now it is eclipsed by the Gerard House, which I am told, is one of the most extensive in the United States. It is capable of accommodating five hundred lodgers. I will continue my trip from Camden, where I left you. Wo arrived in Camden on the afternoon of the the 9th. Having some Bauk business to attend to, which occupied all the spare time I had there, 1 was unable to call on several of my friends, amongst them, Majors Rosser and Warren, who I was anxious to see. I tvas made acquainted in Caaiden, with Messrs. Grant and West, the former Cashier, and the latter Teller of the Bank of Camden. Mr. Grant, the Cashier, I found to be a very affable gentleman, nnd Mr. West very courteous and obliging. It was after Bank hours when we arrived there, and Mr. West was at first not disposed to accommodate us, but upon further consideration ngrced to do so. While in the Ban' he took some pains to show me the manner in which they secured the vault. It is secured by two heavy iron doors?the inner door, having a lock, the key of which is so constructed, that there arc fifteen hundred ways of putting it together (after it is taken apart, which is done whenever they close the vault,) before it can be opened. If you do not exactly arrange it, the only one iray out of 1500, you cannot open it. As T observed to Mr. West, it would take a burglar, even if he possessed himself of tins various pieces of the key, a week trying, and then may l?e net succeed.? It is not probable lie would hit the [dan in a thousand trials. Even the outer door which is not as ingeniously arranged, appeared to mo to be ample security. The precious metal though, possesses such a charm, that it ever requires a vigilant eye to its safe keeping. PuiLAnr.i.nrtA, August Iti. 1853. We think seriously of returning home.? The weather is so very hot, and we are told the yellow fever is in New York. Persons drop in the streets from the excessive heat, nnd if medical aid is not at once procured, I am told they die in a few minutes. In New York from roup tie soil some CD or 70 are dying per day. It has never been known to be so warm in that city. Mr. Faust a verykind gentleman, who composes the tinn of Faust & Winebrenner. II aril ware Merchants, North Third street, advises us to do what business wo have to do in Philadelphia, sud return South. Wo will no doubt set upon bis suggestion. 8ome how or other, I am continually desiring to take a trip, and no sooner have I left home, but I wiuit to return. At last u there is no place like home." 1 snxious to call on my kindred in > Charleston, Dui u.s?..K ?,w **?um|na?lin 3oat > immediately as we left the cars, I was uttert ly unable to do so. A great ninny travellers i going North now, take the Wilmington and Manchester llnll Road, which, excepting Home 'li or 30 miles, is completed from the Camden Branch, to Wilmington; by this route aea sickness is avoided. When this i romi is completed, 1 expect this route will be ' abandoned. There is nothing interesting between Charleston and Wilmington after j. j you leave Charleston harbor. The Cape Fear River is a turbid stream, and reminds one of the chief articles of commerce of the , Old North Stole through which it runs tar, | pitch and turpentine. | They have a very fine Hotel in Wilmlng! ton, the Carolina Hotel. From Mr. Ilobt. B. Wood, Uie gentlemanly bar keeper, 1 I learned that the former Hotel of the same ' name, wus destroyed by lire in 1840, and ' this tine structure erected the succeeding ? year. The distance from Wilmington to , Weldon by Rail Road is IflO miles?n very fine road it is. Very much improved since ! I rode over it three years ago. The country i is uninteresting?blazed pine'trees, and barrels of tar and turpentine all along the road. Weldon is not much of a place, it was our intention there to tnkc the Bay Line, but having met with some friends from Winnsborn, Dr. Me Master, and Messrs. Clarke und Wolfe, we concluded to accompany them on by way of Richmond, Washington, &c. Something calls my attention off. More anon. B. ? ii itii r' 5 ? a jj I r. Godv's Lady's Hoo*.???'Tho Mepiumbrr number ia a very handsome one. It contains a Inrge amount ?f excellent reading matter, a handsome fashion plate, beautiful steel enjrravlng, uThe Hehoolmoslvr in I?ove," una several well executed wood cute. The price of the Lady's Hook is 93.00 per year, but those who will pay up for the Ledger can get iLf< r 93. L A. (JODEY, Philadelphia. (Jr aiiaw's Maoazise.?The September nomber ia a most excellent one. "Annie" is a very handsome steel plate. In looking over this number, it strikes US- lllPIW is s lnrt,i? rniumiil "-? I!-? , . ? MIM'-HMV VI IVitUlllg IUUIter, and something good, too. Does any one tnk? Graham's Magssinu here J If aot, do tome one try it The price ie $3, we will furnish it for $'i by your paying for the 1 /odgur. CEO. R. GRAHAM, Philadelphia. Foa tub I.edob*. A few Word* is Reply. Tame, August 23d, 1853. Mb. Editor,?Allow ine through your columns to return thanks to a friend, for ids most consoling piece of last week. Mr. J. R. H. you have lost your subject fror* which you wish to write. It appears to ho a eotton blossom io the garden upon tha 13th of Jons, but you iu your last pioee admit that it was the 16th. In law matters ? anything admitted is evident* iu tbo ease.? So it appears you hare quit ths garden and gone to the field, as 1 hod blooms there by that date. You admit, 1 am not disponed to talk about myself. Mr. J. ft. H., I admit - i wm - l that you are in a free land aa well as myself, that is what we Tank people think, that is what tnnkcs us ant as we do. Tank people do not try to excel, but to keep even. And as for your starting something now, you are about to start something new indeed, if you can come to any precision on the growing crop; for it appears to have been the study, (from what information I can gut by reading,) of all the mercantile establishments . both in Europo and America, to come at somo true estimate; but we see them fall far short of it, with interest to stimulate them to their study. If they could come at the production while in a growing state, knowing as they do the consumption, there would be no need for so much loss in the traffic of cotton.? You seem to intimate that I am to be chargeable with tho downfall of cotton. Well if my few early blooms knock down the market, I will have to bear it with the rest of you. For 1 did not think that Tank, with a good crop could make any, or scarely any difference, as the State of South Carolina is considered so small in making up the amount necessary for the consumption of the whole world, to say nothing "of the rest of mankind. I would prefer the large or true estimate, ?the large estimate is not very injurious to any part of our community, agricultural, or commercial. If the estimate is large the farmer may lose a little nt the commencement on his fair article but he will make it up toaards spring on his inferior cotton, but if the representation is too small, wo lose more on the inferior than we make on tho fair. But I should prefer tho true estimate : then nobody is hurt, the merchant is not hurt; the farmer gets what the foreign market will warrant, and the man who has no gin is cna'.lcd to git Ills cotton off at the same rule of his more fortunate neighbor, or nearly so Mr. J. R. II., you want me to hold up the man that wrote my piece for me, till you taken peep at him; that is just what I am trying to do. I am not quite no illiterate as you took me to bo, for I can blotch out my own piece. That makes it worse to think that a man of your learning, should take up a man that he considered unqualified to compete with himself, and this is the only apology I expect to offer for the arrangement of my piece that appeared nome time ago. I am superlatively happy to find in tho person of Mr. J. R. II. or his dictator, my old friend of (lie telegraph, long since lost to view. In speaking of lightning's speed, Aic. he revealed an old acquaintance of mine that had it not been for the revelation, must have remained forever lost to mo. Rut while I rejoice in the disc overy of an old associate, I must beg lieve to urge that ho omitted a considerable portion of tho narrative that nevertheless has made me to feci such ecstatic joy. M\ fiicnd says, that "I hitched my horse,' but be should have done ine justice, for wo were both there on borrowed horses, and when I took RIV horse ???r tVoin that drat, ted machine, says lie, "Friend, let him stay, and let us see it ii nrli " -5- i" _ ...... .... an . nay a lt if you want to ace it work, put your horse there." "I don't caw if I do," nays he, "for he's not mine no how," So up he rides, hitches his horse to the post, alights nod takes a sent upon n log, nnd says: "Now stranger, let's see Iter go it." Ahout this tiiuu I left, nnd the last I saw of inj friend ho still occupied Ids sent seemingly intent upon seeing her go it." If the nbovo conversation be admitted by Mr. J. R. 11. or his dictator, I own we must have seen each other, as he supposes, if not, there must be some mistake about the matter. As you have quit the garden and gone to the field, your piece would rail for some information on the culture of cotton, nnd it would make me happy to ucconmiodate you, hut you have opened such an extensive field for thought, that if 1 was to tuko up nil the points 1 fear I should not be ndmittod into our most excellent Paper. Hut hoping you may be informed upon ths subject, I shall bid you adieu. J NO. S. PERRY. roK THE LEDOKK. * Oh call Her not to Earth Again. TO THE SPIRIT RAPPERS. Yc rulers of the spirit-realui * * ,, I Your magic powers please restrain, -^ Forbear to more thy wsnd?thy helm ; Oh ! call her not to Earth again. In silence long, her soul at rest Released from care and earthly pain, Among the sainted and the bleat; Oh ! call her not to Earth again. 1 would not that she should renew The sorrows of this world in rain, To time and mo she bade adieu; Oh I call her not to Earth again. The tears Pre shed, were idly spent If she be roused by fox's train. To me, at first, she was but lent; Oh! call her not to Earth again. Let! her not lose one moment's time, Where joys and bliss eternal reign To riait this ungrateful clime; Oh! call h?r not to Earth again. Let her, I beseech the* ever In the bright spirit-world remain, Call her not back, no, no, oarer; Oh ! call her not to Earth again. To Mary aoon, my aoal shall gut tier tuft embraces to regain. Beyond death's rale no parting know; Oh \ eali us not to Earth again. .... Tat Freeman'* Journal state* that the distinguished Henator, at praaant ht Europe, recently concerted to Roanoi?a,ls net Senator Douglas* of Illinois. .... Ma*. Fmaca, tha President's villa, has reesived as a presentfrtwn Dublin, a mag! nileeot embroidered poaket handkerchief, the embroidery sold to be eqonl to anything of the kind dons io France, i '}