The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1839-09-03

| strangers by giving counlenance to every flying
rnmor that prevails in relation to this epidemic
! But /! is the part Of prudence tosbe forearmed.
Yellow Fever is in this city, and though, so far,
| lis progress has not been unattended with great
fatality, and the number ofits victims has been
small, we knew not how soon it may extend its
ravages, and assume its usual epidemic and ma
gnunt character, We perceive by the Hospital
report published in yesterdays Bee, that fifteen
ca ,es Of the disease had been admitted during
the past eek, nine of which had terminated
fatally. Hospital cases to!erable fair, index
! Of the progress of the maady in! town, making
allowances for the fact, that such cases are more
| frequently fatal, both because they are usually
brought to the Hospital long after the first symp-
tom of the disease have appeared, and because
they generally occur i'll subjects whose vital sta
nina have been sapped by irregular and dissipa
ted habi,s.-.N 0. Bulletin, 9Th inst
Interesting Facts. The entire growth of Cot
ton in the world is set down at 100000 900
! lbs OF this $50 millions arc supposed 10 be
grown in the United Staes3O, in Brazi6 liz the
West Indies, 81 in Egypt, 36 in the west of AZ
RIGA, 100 in the west Of Asia 35 in South Amer
lea and Mexico, except Brazil, and fourteen mill
ions elsewhere. At 10 IL cents pew pound Uhe
average price of the last fifty years. the present
growth Of the world is worth 92,500,OO0. At
ten cents il is worth S3l00,O00,000.
OF this, about $50 millions Of lbs. are consum
ed and manufactured in England, the cotton
manufactures of which Island amount TO about
ITO millions of dollars-ahout $50 millions of
lbs in the United States, valued when manufac
tnred at 60 millions-S0 millions of pounds in
France, manufactured into fabrics valued at 20
millions-250 millions Of lbs. IN China and IN
dia, 25 in South Am erica and Mexico, &c.
1t is estimated that the capital employed in
manufacturing, by machinery, in England is2.0
millions in France, 100 millions; in the United
States, ITO millions
The first cotton raised in tue United States,
was raised in 1887. In 1901, the crop OF the
| u. S. amounting to 2 millions Of pounds, "a of
which grew in South Carolina, and ] A in Geor-
gia. in 1901, the crop had reached 40 millions
OF ponndS in 1911, 80 millions; in 1913, 40 mill
in Mississippi, IS in Alabama, rs in Georgia,
G5 / 2 in Soutl Carolina, &c in Louisiana 45 in
Tennessee, 20 in Florida, 16 in Virginia, 9 / 3 in
North Carolina, / 2 in Administrations 1871 to
1896, South Carolina the most abundant
cotton growing State; from 1896 to 1884 Geor.
ga took the lead; from that time Mississippi &,
Alabama have taken the frons rank.
Justice 'Do,cn So,dh..-Jusce is strangely ad-
ministered in Mississippi, end it would seem by
the following from the Natchez Courier that
poverty in the criminal quickcns the work OF the
hadgman!
Fred, were hung at Raymond, Kinds county, on
the 9th instant, pursuant to their sentence. Lew
is it seems unfortunate to be without
friends and being guilty that well other
maleiacor named Hare was more fortunate ana
obtained security for costs and awaits the decs-
ion of the supreme court. 1t seems to Ils} that,
this is Il rather queer business, as told by the
Port Gibson Correspondent. Lewis had obtain
ed from Judge SharrkeV stay TO the proceed
ngs against him, leaving it for the Supreme
Cour in December to say whether or not he
should have new trial. However he was una
bic TO procure security for cost in the case,
which circumstance alone perhaps brought him
to the gallows. warrant was issued forthwith
and he was hung at the appointed time.
Extra SESSIONS OF CoNGEss.-Since the
adoption of the Constitution, Congress has been
con vened four times Oh extraordinary occasions,
to wit in 1897, by JOHN ADAMS, on matters re-
lalng to the with France in 1909 and
1918 by JAMES MADISON, on matters relating
to the war with Great Britain and IN 1897, by
MARTIN VAN buren,, on account Of the
against the Banks and Commercial Credit Of the
country-.N. Y WMg.
MoRMoNIsM.-H appears by the New Jersey
papers that Nlormonsm is thriving in that state.
Some of the disciples of Joe Smith have squat
ted at New Egypt in Monmouth county, and
have actually made converts of several persons
of some standing and influence in society, and
are actually increasing in numbers.
CALIFORNIA PoLYGNY. These people have
their marriages, but they consist of no other Ger.
emony than the consent of the parties, and they
are only binding ill they disagree or choose to
part.-'They have no other mode of cauceling
a marriage than hy using the phrase, Il throw
you awny.-lt is nevertheless true, that
found many couples. both young and old, who
lived in great unity aud peace, esteeming their
children, and their children, hem. Parentage of
nIonship forms obstacle TO their intermar-
ranges 1t is very common for the wife TO urge
her husband to marry her sisters, and even their
mother; and tue custom is, when a man first
,narries he takes the whole lof the sisters for
wives These many wives of one husband live
without ieolousies and disputes, each looking
upon the whole of the children as their own, 81
the whole living in one house.
The piety OF The humble and obscure is less
imposing, but it is more vital, as it is more sim
pie than that which emanates from: uuapproach-
able superiority. The mountain torrent .nay
dash downward magni6cent to the plain, and
roll on in spendor to the ocean but il is the