Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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. *" \ ' THE IMPROVEMENT SOUTH. I. Our readers cannot have failed to no'ice the i' frequent paragraphs relating to an anticipated j famine in parts of Aialiania, and the apprehen- | ded evil affords an admirable text to preach a j sermon on the improvidence of the cotton grow- j ing States generally. Cotton, cotton, from the ! first day of die year to the last, is the eternal crv of the Southern planters; and now that this product has for some time past realized something like remunerating prices, provision crops of every kind have been comparatively neglected. Corn is scarce, and high throughout the | South generally at this time; and even t:ie 1 commonest necessities of life, bacon, eggs, ; chickens, butter, &<?., are scarcely to be nad 1 for love or money. Hie Sumter Wnig, of Ala- j baina has the following paragraph, which indi- ; cafes the state of affairs in that section: " Whi'p this state of affai s lasts, will our country friends remember us and send in some- j thing for us to live on ? It is true we have had a little prairie beef at 4 and 5 per cents per j pound, and so far flour has been plenty at | 50 iter hundred pounds, but this is about all. I We can get i?n butter, eggs, chickens nor no- 1 thing?not even com, t'>e staff* of life. Some I planters have been around us wanting to k mv i if we would give them one dollar per bushel j for corn; and we understood on yesterday that 1 there was some Western bacon in town at 17 j cents per pou"d. Will some of our country | friends bring us in some potatoes and if they do, the world may wag o;i " On readiog this, the Mobile Herald has the following j?st remarks, which are applicable ? - . .1 to almost everv locality at me nwiu. "If these men ii: Sumter were nol our brethren, we should say let them starve! They deserve no better fate. "No country anywhere in the world, has more fertile lands than this of Sumter. It will produce potatoes, corn, wheat, oats, apples, pears, peas, beets, cabbage, cauliflowers, hogs, meat, cattle, sheep, chickens, and every thing that civilized and luxurious man needs; and this too, without anv manner of nursing or coaxing. Its people ought to be able to stand up and say to all the rest of the world: " You may go; we need none of your aid!" For ri- ' vers in emergencies, they ought to have profound contempt. The price of corn or bacon in this or any other mart ought to he to them as the price of opium in the marts of Canton; Snmter has so stultified herself that, upon the coming of a rain (whose absence i* not singular in this region) it fulls into trai'ail, like pismires suddenly overtaken in August l?v a frost, and has no rest, save in the hoj>e that the elements will let fall their sympathetic tears and j fill up their rivers, to bring bacon and flour ) from the far west." The planters of the Southern States In ve been lectured on this point for a quarter of a century, and yet it has been of little avail. Mo ney for horses, mules, bacon, and corn still flow from their pnrses, and in larger streams a cotton is high. They ought to calculate and make a balance sheet and our word tor it they will find they are losing under the present system of production. We have no hesitation in saving that this exclusive devotion to cotton is impoverishing the South and crippling her energies. ? Carolinian. IcK produckuby STKAM Po\VKR, *ndsrkam Coxvertko into Sn?ov.?That ice can be produced by mechanical means many have heart!; hot that steam mav 'k* used as an auxiliary for the purpose will seen hardly credible to. any body, and that steam itself mav be con ' verted into snow by the aid of steam, is a phc- j nomenon of which but very few have heard. Yet these are facts, and are now daily demon ! strated at the (Ireat Exhibition, in the relre.-b- j ment room, adjoiniuing the department of ma- J chinery in motion. Mr. Thomas .Masters, of) the Royal Polytechnic Institution, Regent street, the inventor of varum* ingenious niacin ties lor freezing, has adopted one of them for being put ; in motion by steam |M?\ver, and which is now in operation daily in the western refreshment room. This apparatus is capable of freezing upwards of 10b quarts dessert ices (sixt v differ- j ent sorts are produced in the one machine) eve- | ry fifteen or sixteen minutes. An unlimited supply can thus be obtained, and of a perfectly smooth quality. 'I he economy of time, labor, and expense tbus ensured must be immense. ! A more perfect and simple contrivance for pro duciug a perenni 1 supply of these delicacies, j in a crowded place like the Exhibition, could not be conctived, and tic invention is iiudmil t . edly one of the most ingenious novelties in the section devoted to the mucciuerv in motion. The machines, ho.vever, are not limited to j making dessert ices; they are made to produce j cylinders of solid ice sufficiently large enough ! to hold decanters of water and many bottles of j wine. These cylinders are made in the form of castellated towers, and have a very novel appearance; they not only cool the wine and water placed in the centre, hut (tiltuse a most agreeable coolness through t!ie atmosoliere. The converting steam or vapor into snow is ef fee.ted by forcing it through the machine, and in this way a whole room may he easily cooled down in the hottest of weather. These are very singular effects. They are, however easily to be understood on an examination of some of the patentee's smaller machines, of which there are several exhibited in class 32; and which are calculated for use in a small familv or bachelor's chambers. The cost of turning pure water into ice for sherry-cobblers, cooling wine, and other purposes, is less than it can be purchased for ut the ice stores. The machines are well worthy of attention of the curious and scientific. Mr. Masters, tlu patentee, is, we understand, the contractor for th supply of the confection ary and dessert ices to the eastern as well as lite western refreshment rooms in the Kxhibilion, and visiters liave thus every opportunity of informing themselves of the merits of these singular inventions.?S::innfifi~ A'narir.aa. Jcdgk Nblson's Opinion.?Judge Nelson, of the U. S. Supreme Court in his late charge to the Grand Jury at Albany N. Y., says the North cannot violate the Fugitive Slave part of the Fed oral compact, and then expect fifteen laveholding States to live under a government where eixteen States violate that part of the compact most essential to them. To violal o.ii* part of tlit* compact, therefore, he infers, to break the whole, to dissolve the Govern ment, to break up the Union; and thus ti crime become one of the vei \ gravest chatai ter against the people of the U. S'ates, an institutions they have established. It is mui to be regretted that Judge Xeho i's opinion are not hi -re generally entertained at the Nort Noktiikhx Pitivrs. -As we niitii*ij>:it"d. t! Northern papers are rejoicing inueh at the r suit of the elections in this S ate, and, as usus are loud in praise f the "glorious Union South Carolina is given, and pmpei I.V enong her position side by side with her sisters in sul nii-sion, Georgia. Alabama, and Aliasis.-dpp In the opinion of these prints, our people a too much attached to the I niou to leave it, i their wrong be what they may. With this I) lief so coininen at the North, what are we l nvriixo In iIim future from a reckless and don " "i"; *" niiijoiity liut injustice? Ami aie v s til to Lear it? .Must we slill fold mir a: ins at quietly suhmit to the dejiriv ition nl'our right because other States, in their blind devotion the Union, are clisp ?sed to do so? If injustii and wrongs are still heaped upon the Sou and our -ister States refused t?? co-operate *vi South Carolina in redressing their coninn grievances, what is to he done? There is tl rub Our Co-operati?kl! friemis, perhaps, v> point out some course by which we may sa1 our honor and maintain our equality in (tie l< ion. We cannot. Georgia, under the influence of her leader is so "Xorthernizod"' in sentiment, it would I a vain effort to ever induce her to st'ike lor h rii lit55. And Alabama and Mississippi are qua II v fast IhhiimI to the Federal ear. 'i lieii?>l en opportunity is past, when something coil have heen dune, and now we must hear ll taunts and insults of our adversaries patieutl AbbcvUIf- Haunt r. We copied and denounced a day or tv sini e, a lying state inent first put lortli by tl Wathingtaii fit-public, to the effect that Soul ('-troliii't had lost hut one fugitive since the f?i illation of the government Since then, tl returns from the census, taken by the Feder Government last year, have heen pohlishe which exhibit the following results as to tli subject: According to the census of 1850, the folloi ing was the number which escaped that year Delaware - 10 Mississippi ' Maryland *240 Loni>iaiiu - - ' Virginia - 80 Texas - - - 5 North Carolina . 57 Kentucky - 11 South Carolina 14 Tennessee * ( Georgia - 411 j Missouri ... I Floiida - - ' 16 r Arkansas ... ] A Ixli'ini.'i - - S't I I fist of* ('olmiiii-a .jS' Total 10! So it 6eems that South Carolina has In fn11rl4e.it during the lost year, instead of o, since the h 'ginning of the government; at that the entire number from all the States 1017, these at S1000 per head?which wou he a moderate price, as the most valuable us ally escape, would amount to ?1,017,000 a iiualiy, as the result of .Northern robbery. Mont. A Jr. Jjf OmcUe. PERCUSSION CAPS. Are manufactured largely at Harford, ( In one establishment, eight or ten men ai four girl*, make, oil an average, one hutiiln thousand per day. 'The process for nuiki; them is thus tlesciibed: " 1'ne copper Iro which they are made is first rolled very thin a powerful rolling mill, and afterwards cut i to narrow strips and passed into a uiuchi \vh rh punches out pieces of the required slia and size, and [Kisses them iindei a die whi ? ,i ,.r r.ittto - Sl?llll|J* It 11*111 lilt" <11 11IV lillV WI ( liour. They are then placed upright in a trui and the powder wnioli has heeii by a very sii pie and ex|?e hli..us operation arranged in qua tities exactly suited to each cap, punched in them, They are then ready to lie glazed a packed lor market." Tim Norm.?A-ts are daily transpiring the North, which instead of tending to relic us of our apprehensions for the safety of Soul ern institutions, hut serve to deepen the iiilptt sion on our mind that they are doomeil, unit we take more energetic and determined me sure? for their protection, than we have hitlu to done. Although there are many good, u right, constitution loving citizens at tiie Norl yet they are utterly ttnalile to stem tiie toire of fanaticism, daily increasing in volume a velocity, and rolling on against our most cin islied institutions. Scarcely any attempt now made to recover a fugitive slave, uitn. either the owner, or some one else heing eitli killed or wounded. Look at the Itoriilile traj, ily at Christiana, where several were killed a many wounded At the recent outrage at a racuse, wh re the Marshall, in tiie discharge his duty had his arm broken ?ami say wliel er the prospect isnotdaiK indeed, and wliel er there is any hope of it ever growing hrigl er. Must the boulli still hear on, when s sees the very law on which she anchored ii Hopes u.iiiy inirneieo, ami ner citizens Kill when they attempt to recover their proper Is there no point at which she will resist. j'V. I in-net's .\rst: - ? ? Imi'oiitant Tub\ty with I> i>ia\s.? A tr? Iy with the Prairie Indians has oeon conclud l*y the Coiumissioners, Col. .Mitchell ami ,\J, Pitzpatrick, which guarantees to them the p,-i merit of SjO.OUO annually, in money 01 gun for fifty years, and are required to abstain fr< hostile depredations upon the whites, whetl emigrants or otherwise. 'I here were between six and seven fhousa Indians in the conncil, representing the folio iug tribes, viz:?Cheyentes, Siouv, Arapalio Crows, Snakes, Assinihoines t irosvemres, ickarasand Mamlans. The council was in s siou twelve days, uod about sixty thousand d Iars' worth of goods were distiibuted amo the Indians before it was dissolved. The delegation, whicli^ on it-. way to Wai ington, consists of three Cheyennes, three / aphahoes, four Sioux, one Assiniboine, and 1 Ottoes, each with tiieir squaws. They In with them two interprets 8 ??n?ph?i n i its? H CAMDEN, " FRIDAY MORMNG, NOVEMBER 7, 1851le I f I THO. J. WARREN, Editor. :h Our Market. is The colton market has been inactive since our h last report, and an 1-8 decline has taken placp.? i Extremes 5 1-2 to 7 1-2. ^ Provisions of all kinds are scarce and high. I' Sale of Stocks. jt We learn from the ('andiniun, that a sale of |(. Stocks has been made in Columbia bv Messrs. J. ,j &. L. T. Levin, at the foliuwing rates Commerce cial Bank ol Columbia 828.00, South Carolina L't Kail Road and Bank ?111.00 l'. :? ? In Lancaster Division. it- W<* have been requested to state that Lancaster Division Sons of Temperance wiii held a pubIC' | lie meeting "n Tuesday evening of Court week, S* the 30th hist., which will be addressed by Hon. ' ' J It. O'Neail, and that all the Sons of Temper,|l anc-' in Camden and the District are respectfully t|, invited to attend. Rev. L- Roaser. JM This worthy gentleman and eloquent diving yt. who v in ted our town last wnter, soliciting ? subscriptions in behalf of I.is congregation for erecting a Church, at Alexandria, Va., we are s, happy to see, has succeed in the object of his mis. ..ion, and his Cliuich has recently been dedicated, er as wi'l be seen by the following paragraph: Alexandria, Oct. 29.?The solemn and im"* pressii'e services of the dedication of the new hi .viethodist Episcr pal Church South are just cloii' sed. A large and brilliant audience, including a v, great many preachers now in attendance at conference, were present. The exercises consisted nn anthem by the choir, prayer of invocation, reading ihe 24ih chapter of Ephesians: a dedirak'? tory prayer was next offered, another beautiful 'Ie anthem by the choir; then the Rev. Mr. Kosser, th pastor of the new church, delivered a powerful ir- and eloquent discourse from the text, " It ;s done" lie Revelation?, 31st chapter and 6:h verse. After ..,1 another anthem and an impressive prayer, the j services closed with the benediction. T' e con.' (i-rence has commenced harmoniously and hap,,S l,ily|V A California Millionaire. The St. Lotus Union of .lie 17th ult. says, Col. 1'J Fremont has completed and confirmed the sale of ' I Mariposa tract of gold land in California. The sale was made to a company in London for one i'f million of dollars?one hundred thousand ol j|) # f .,j which (that being the first instalment,) are to be I j paid to t ol. Fremont in New York, on or about g the 15th of this month. Col. Fremont may now be considered among the wealthiest millionaires 17 of the United States. I le has besides the AlarilSl posa tract just sol i, a vast amount of property rif property in San Francisco. id -<s is 11 We see it stated in several of our e.xchanl?l gcs. that Mr. ttive.-, our Miuister to France, lias n- be, n recalled, and as there i- no appropriation " for an outfit'for a Minister, it it is si pposed that ? II, ?,..l'..,0 ,i.u ......?. w ... . _? I ?... .??! W.HIIUIU, Iiir pir.?r||i OTVrflHr)' III Ijt'KUlI'Jll, will be left as Charge d'A flairs, ad interim. ;t Anderson Court Hou e?The Southern Rights ,(| Advocate of Anderson, in speaking of the prospei-il rity of that village, ?ays: "From the l.-t of .March ig up to the present time, about ten hundred thouin sand bricks have beea laid by our masons. AnJ 111 since the 1st of January of the p eseut yu.tr, about "" twenty-three brick build ngs have been couipleteil besides various wooden buildings." 1'' ' Defrauding the Uevenuf.?The custom house ; authorities of .New Or.eaus, within the last week ! or two, have seized about thirty pianos and s< nn i,. I So,000 worth of furniture and damasks, imported lo ' Ire in Europe, and invoiced tar below their actua ml cost. In the United Mates District Court,at New York, on Tuesday, twenty casks of wine wert condemned lo be sold foroeing undervalued, will; nteut to defraud the revenue. ve 11' Mississippi Election. *s5- .... ... ? Telegraphic* despatches stale that (Jen. Foot* " 1 is sleeping the Slate, and tliat liis majority loi G vernor w ill probably reach 2U,U U. Neighbors Freeman and Daustn ere elected to Congress. t'a, * * id 0"The Ihinccratic candidate lor Governor o in) Michigan has been elected by a in lj.niiy ol I",Ml), ur In New Jersey, the Democrats have a large ls majority in the Legislature. The whole Whig State ticket is believed to ht lt'1 elected in New York. There is a whig majority " of 10 in the Senate, but the Assembly is doubtful i id ?? . For the Camden Journnl. !*' In .Esop we read of an inliim old man win went into the woods to gather some sticks lot lit- fuel, having found them plenty he soon made "? up a bundle which he thought he could carry iei with ease, hut when lie attcmp'ed to raise it from ^ the ground he found it too heavy, whereupon ht I.iid it down, gathered a lew nin e and added them to that which was already loci weighty tor him to bear ?the fable is familiar to every ,1 school boy, and we will not purine it further :ij but turn our attention more directly to the oh. iy ject we now have in view. The ntiinissioti of California as a State intil the Union, was a violati >n of the Cnu&titutioi if tlii' United States and of the lights of tin nd South, which should never have been nihinUleti w* to ; the disiiu iiiheriueut of Texas, .vas ail in road ujioii the rights and honor of the Southeri V r ? L.s. iieo|ile, which should not have heen submitter ?|. to. 'The idiolition of the slave trade in the Disj ug trict of t'olu nhia was another encroachiiien upon the rights, and another act of defiance ti ^ the people of the South th;it should not liavi rt'o 'we!l 8U,,niittedto, hut they have been suboiittoi ivv t'S i'"d still our friends of the (so-called) Co operation party, advise us to lay on a few ioon ?????? sticks to our bundle of wrongs and insults,? the bundle is too light for us to lift it with ease, ? that when an arrogant Freesoil majority i.i Congress propose the repeal rfthe present ineffective Fugitive slave law, when they dare go a step further and propose the ABOLITION OF SLAVBRY IN THE STATES, aided by a Freesoil Xdmiiiistralion and Cabinet, and the Representatives of the South are too weak to oppose these measures; then and not till then, will the bundle be heavy enough (I) to lift with ease. Tub Nkw Yokk Election.?The New York State election comes off next Tuesday, for State officers and members of the legislature. The field has been warmly contested between t he parties. They both, in their conventions at Syracuse, agreed to disagree 011 the slavery question, and unite for the sake of the snoils which will accrue to the successful party, in the disbursement of some nine millions of dollars fur the enlargement of the Erie and the other State canals. For all Union or compromise purposes, this election is a dead letter. The Whigs at Syracuse refused to endorse the Fugitive slave law. The Democrats at Syracuse laid a similar, indeed the same resolution from the Union committee of New York city, on the table. Seward controlled the one party, and lohn Van Buren managed the other. The two factions of each party have now united, the Freesnilers, on both sides, being satisfied. The Union committee of the cily have selected a ticket, ha'f and half of each of the regular party State tickets?so (hat the compromise people of the outh have nothing left to swear by in New Y'o-k, except the Herald. The result of the election, therefore, either way, will be a Freesoil triumph?most decided l> so. if tiie Whigs succeed, as it is propable they wid. And yet if they do, we expert to see the organs here claiming it as a victory of Urt o/linotniont X\ Hi / A/>r? ? (IIV lUIJUJllllVllk. ?M#UIU? # < I ? There appears to be no doubt that the Aus train Minister has required his passports,should Kossuth arrive in this country. The Minister is reported to have had an inteiview with Mr. Webster on Saturday in relation to tiiis matter. it is surprising that the Austrain Government should mil lie bet er informed as to what the American Government can do, or cannot do, under our system of Republican rule It should know tout taero is no power in eiter Executive or Congress to prohibit the mere landing of foreigners on our shores. Tiie peiiod at which the Austrain authorities ought t<? IflVil III Lull tifTi l.fJJ it' J1IIV IMIIlltl f iP f:lLi?ll was when a national vessel was ordered to bring tile reluge to our shores, and not now. tiiat act not being remonstrated against, when to prevent bis reception by our people is beyond toe power of the Gove'inneot. Ciinr. Ecr. Nrvcs. CONVENTION AT MACON. The Southern Cotton Planter's Convention assembled on l.ie 'Gst.?JUU delegates attending, of wnom "dJJ were from Georgia, OS from Alabama, l8 from floi.la, and a lew from each of the several other Southern Slntts. J'he following is an epitome of the New i'ork Courier and Inquirer's report of th proceedings: Mr. Baylor, our Consul at Amsterdam, delivered an address, urging tne Convention to adopt measures for establishing a direct trade between the Smith and the Continent of Europe. The principal bussiness oftlie Coir cation being to devise means for providing against fluctuation of the prices of Cotton, toe Cooteuton unanimously passed resolutions approving of the project, and strongly reco.n mending the shipment, us early as practicable, of at least a pnr'inu of the ( otton crop by diI reet transportation. ( There was great confliet of opinion on t!ie subject. I lie matter was finally refered to a Coinuiiitce of Twentr-oiie wtiueonlJ not agree j O upon anything delinite. A resolution, provided tliat a Central Com. uiittee should be established, to which all plan I era should make returns of the coitoti housed by the middle of January, and further, tna befo.e tiie 1st of Alav, not more than two lairds ' of the crop should be sol !, and that at not less ' than eight cents per pound, and that tue tuiid remaining thereafter, should be sold at sucli time as might be recnmeuded by tlie Commit I tee, was, after a protracted debate, rejected; forty three voting in the atli.niative to lorly, eight in tlie negative. O O A iiiiuoi itv repm t was presented by tlie Committee lavoring tlie noted Florida scheme lorn * otton 1'lantt is' nssociutiuii, to he organized with a capital of $20 00(1,"(10 to eiect a warehouse, store tiiu cotton. and rontrol the prices. Tuis was violently opposed in the ConI veiitimi. ' | Resolutions were finally adopted, recommeuI ding the establishment of Central, State, and | County Associations, for the purjaise of collecting statistical and general information - in ! regard to the production and consumption ol j Cotton-?Evening Mews. I In reference to the necessity for literary jour mils suitable for Southern society, the Richmond Republican says: Leaving out of view the importance of a pe' riodical devoted to the development ol Southern Literature, and the advocates of Southern iin: provements ami interests, \vc regard it as unpru, , dent and dangerous for Southern men toencour! age and circulate the literary periodicals ol the ' j North. There are, it is true, some ol them ? ' 1- .1 ? ! i 1* tl.il niiocfirlli nf WHICH (III IIIH llll'TICrC whii ins ' slavery, and whose moral tone is above reproach hut this is hy no means the character of all. , Having had occasion lately to examine those I, periodicals more closely titan was loruiely our n habit, we have been struck with the frequent l sneers, and sometimes elaborate assaults, upt oil Southern institutions, which have met our > eyes. W.iat is the effect of such things upon A j the minds of children, and even upon those cf . men and women who read such papers regui larly Ironi week to week? Undouhtetlly to ' , instil the ides that the institutions under which bj they live are founded in mora 1 wrong, in injus I ?????? tice and oppression; that they are cruel and inhuman in their operation upon servants, and a decided evil to the interest of the master. These opinions may he conscientiously entertained by those who hold them, but when they are thrust A into the faces of Southern men, they deserve to he relinked for thei' impertinence, and to be expelled as pests from the community. AH the open aggressions of abolition in Congress can not effect as much injury to the South as the weekly, yearly, unceasing circulation among her people, of journals which oinit no opportunity to depreciate the institution of slavery. IMPORTANT FROM THE RIO GRANDE. At'nek upon Mitu moras hi) the RevolutionistA? ExrVcment on Ihe. Frontier. By the arrival this morning of the schooner Major Barbour, Capt. Arnet, from the Rio Grande, we have important intelligence from the theatre of war on the Mexican frontier up to Friday last. We have no papers hy this arrival, and the information which we ha?e received is somewhat incoherent, though interesting. It appears th t the revolutionary forces u*'der Carsvajal had attacked Matamnras, and after a despenite fight succeeded in entering the city; but having learned that a small American steamer plying on the Rio Grande, was coming up with Mexican troops, a Itod*- of the revolutionists, consisting of abont 200 Texans, was detached from the main force and pri ceeded to attack her with the intention of capturing the Mexicans and seizing two pieces of artillery which were on hoard. M The commander of the steamer having ob | taiued information of this movement, immediately put about, and proceeded to the Brazos placed the troops and two pieces of artillery 011 board the Mexican war steamer Neptuno. There thev remained whpn (hint A met ieftlthe Brazos. It was thought that the troops were anxious to to join the revolutionists. The diversion of the Texans frmn Carvajal, caused a suspicion of the attack upon Matar.iorns. But the revolutionary leader was hourly exacting reinforcements from the direction of Camurgo, and when rejoined by the two hundred Texans the attack was to he resumed with vigor. There can be little doubt that Matainnras fell into the hands of Carva- , jal on Friday or Saturday last ' From verbal reports, we learn that manv of the United States troops on the upper line have deserted and joined Carvajal. We also # hear that despatches have been received here for more troops. In the first attaek upon Matnmonts, it is stated that the revolutionary forces lost only three men in killed, hut the mortality on the side of the .Mexicans was mncn greater. We have no particulars as to the number of troops under Gen. Avalos, but his men ore said u> have fought with great bravery. When ("apt. Arnet lefr the Brazos, theNeptuno was ready coaled, and It was supposed . i t r .. i i i ?.,a would fii iKe i?ir ;i pon gnm? out? nummu o??w fifty miles South. The commander of the .Mexicans asked permission to march through the United States territory, in order to reach .M itaiimras, hut this was refused. The tip* peafanee of the Texaiw |?roh.?l?Iv prevented him from going up on the Mexican side iV. 0. Picayune.. Accident on run CYntral Umlroad.? j On Kridty night last, some person, or demon, placed a b ir of iron across the rails, near the 110 mile station, hv which the freight train coming down the road was thrown off the track, two or three of the cars completely smashed and t'.ie locomotive much injured. The road was torn up a short distance. The accident caused the delay of hoth passenger trains on Saturday ; hut we learn from a gen; tleiiian who came down yesterday, that the ro^d ' is fully repaired and free from all obstructions. No person was seriously injured bv the accident. Had it heen a passenger train, ninny persons would h ive l>eeii injured, pcrha|?s kill ed- Hanging is too good for the wretch who | committed the deed. -Savwaah Georgian. The Savan.ili Rrpuh!irmi has received, by the brig G'triiirr, arrived at t'lis port, the subjoined note from dr. 0\vk\: ! "fl wan.*, Oct. 20. 1851. ' To tiie Edit >r of the rfnvanali Republican: "(frnffr'inni-1 have no <?fK -i.il information of my recall bat the facts is announced in the paper of New Orleans and New Vork. i must request that von will do ine 'he lavor to ask that the ptiblln s!i ill not judge me till they shall ( hear me fully. I ask nothing from their mercy; ^ but I have a right to justice. "Very respectfully, <tec., A. F. 0>V&N Tn'cresfiiix Experiment. ? In th? Roscrean workhouse, Ireland, the learned doctor in charge has appropriated one of the wards to the exclusive use ol a deaf and dumb nurse, who has charge of four infant children. They . are to he isolated front companionship with all \vh have the gift of speech, until they have attained the age when children tsually acquire J. a knowledge and use of language. The object is to acquire the natural language of man.? This experiment, if thoroughly tiied will probably show that man has no natural language. I It will he remembered that the Phoenicians once made a sdmewlint similar experiment with an in taut, which was plocca in me orocit in the change of persons sworn not to permit the ntteraiue of a word in its presence, and to afford it sustenance by allowing it to suckle a goat In that instance the first attempt of the child at vocalization resulted in the imitation of tli bleating of its foster-mother.?:V?o York . Times. Health of Citlea, 4 The follow ing statement comprises the deatl s in some of the Atlantic, cities for the week ending October 25, and their proportion to the |?opulation : Deaths. Pnpufntinn Proportion. 7-> 1 in 1927 New York, 824 517,649 1 in J596 Pi.ilad l|>hin, 147 350,000 1 in 2380 Baltimore, 7] 109,025 i in 2380 Charleston, 16 43,014 1 in 2688 j Savaunab, 12 16,000 1 in 1333