The Port Gibson herald, and correspondent., 1851-03-21

lWtNes-~~A CORRESPONDENCE "a taC ss"dv"4e' AsesN
liqeneer, from San francisco. describes farm
Id the neghborhoed, We extract The account
Of the products:
~To SUN up all, we find the product OF this
farm, OF less than one hundred and fifty acres
= Potatoes, Potatoes sl75.ooo
Onions. 10000
Cabbages. $4,000
Tomatoes, o200
Pumpkins, 4,800
Total product, s2is,o5o
Excluding many minor articles
G-A son of the Hon. John G. Calhoun was
ore of the secession candidates for the Con.
vention, ut the recent election IN South Carroll.
ma. lie was BADLY beaten by the opposing
Union candidate.
G The N. O. Pic. says: "The Rhode Is
land papers are still discussing the question
whether their newly elected Senator is Wing
or a Democrat. The ProyidencePost insists
that he is n Democrat The Boston Common.
wealth asks and we agree witt it for once,
what difference there is between National
Wing and National Democrat Not much, We
think, in these days Of secessoland abolition.
1.-THE people Of Burlington, Iowa, by an
overwhelming vote, have authorized the City
Council to subscribe for $4,000 Of stock in a
railroad 10 connect the city with Peoria, and
for 8 5000 to build plank roads and bridges.
GJ- In twenty four of the Western counties
of Virginia, the increase in population within
ten years, has been fifty per cent. The "Old
Dominion is looking mp,
u The population of the city.of Glasgow
in Scotland, at the commercements Of the pre-
sent century, was $1,000. Its now 376,ooo.
This is rivalling the growth of American eli
ties.
az Another fugitive slave case was decided
in Philadelphia on the 18th inst. The proof
was complete, and the owner left with his pro-
perty next morning, for Mary -
GJ-Tha Shakers Of Howard Mass. hare con-
striyed plan for making -four of pumpkins,
and SO preparing it that il can be kept for any
length of time and shipped to all parts of the
world. By means Of this preparation, pump
kin pies, the "peculiar institution" Of New
England, may be enjoyed by her sons at all
seasons, whether at home or in foreign climes
u Pennsylvania has kept her rank in the
Union better Than any other State. She was
the second State in; 1890; and she stilIsholds
the same position, while all around her have
been changing. 70 8.
~ Prof. ]. II. Ingraham, well known as a
writer of novels, and tales for Northernpapers,
is about to be elevated to the ministry in the
Protestant Episcopal Church, having been ad-
mitted to the Diaeonatein Trinity church, Natch-
ez, some two weeks since, andwill proceed to
Aberdeen in this State, to ehdeayof to build
up church there. Prof Ingraham figured in
this region years ago, and is doubtless well re-
membered by some of our citizens.
D- Prof Agassiz, with his assistants, has
just returned from an exploration of the Flori-
da reefs and keys, and is said to have made
some remarkable discoveries relative to their
formation. By the aid of his powerful glass,
he discovered no less than seventeen varieties
of The coral insect, whicn, though almost invis-
ible to the human eye, were by means Of this
glass magnifed to the size of hickory nuts.
II The Union party Of Kinds Co. have nom.
mated as their candidates for the State Con-
venton, Hons William L. Sharkey, II. S.
Foote and Amos R. Johnson This is truly
"a strong team"
" The U. s. District attorney for Massa-
chusetts, pronounces the late resistance to tie
Fugitive slave law in Boston, an act of treason.
Mr.. Webster in late letter to the Union Safe
ty Committee of New-York, expresses the
same opinion.
EFFECTS OF THE FuG1TrE SLAVE Law
We have heretofore argued, in support OF this
law, that the great benefit to be derived from
it would be the security which it would give
the frontier slave States, BY preventing the fu-
ture escape of Negroes. An evidence of the
of this presumption, is found in a
letter recently written bya planter in Fauquier
Co. Va to friend in Montgomery, Alabama,
in which he says that previous to the passage of
this law, their losses we're annually increasing
that crowds went off every summer, but that
since the passage of the act they dare not VEN
Iure.
For the Herald 4 Correspondent
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