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Average I,baa,oab AVeTus- ~'&'1''1'
Average crop of the last seven years exceeds
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last lust double that of the hrst-and the crop of
Ia4S-e was more than lS46-7 by hay per cent.
Average consumpuon in Great Britain Of Amerl-
On n cotton the first years 1,l53,2l9 bales,
The I'd period Of years l,aas'sSs bales
I.arpes, consumption. ls4a, 1866 bales.
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The PAsr, THE Present AND THE fgTuRE.--of
the cotton trade from the London Economist,
August "a, 1880 cit is calculated that upwards
of 4,000,000 persons depend enure'y upon tn's
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(SYEFENS, No. /, Broioa's HOtsi, has just re-
- ceived further and full supply of Beebe' 's
Hats. Also, complete assortment of his own
make, of every quality and style. Gentlemen
wishing Hats Of fancy shapes can have their or
ders filled at
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The whole expenses of the war, estimated In
specie, amounted to Sl35, ,l93,7O9-
COTTON STATISTICS.
We compile from the New York Shipping List
and Price Current, of the llth September the fol-
lowing statement, showing the crop of Cotton IN
The seyersl States for the year ending 3lst August
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PREMIUM.
Any person sending us three subscribers will be
entitled to copy Of the " History of Propellers
and Steam Navigation" repubished IN book form
NOW in press, to be ready about the first OF oc-
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upon the subject ever issued, and will contain
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9. BATTLES OF THE REVOLUTION.

The surrender Of Cornwallis at Yorktown, o.
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October 81, 1S50--dtf H
The southern press., 1851-06-28

APERILous PosITIoN Joseph Seigfried, who
has contracted to paint the spre of the Presby-
terian church on Main street, ascended, on
Thursday afternoon, to within some six feet of
the top, by ingeniously attaching a block-and-
tackle to hook, and fastening the lower end to
large basket He took passage for the upper
regions in that frail barque, and reached an ele-
vation of l52 feet from the ground. Having
been drawn up as high as the apparatus would
admit, and wishing to fasten wire to the top
most spire, he climbed up the rope and stood
upon the tackle block, holding 10 h one hand 10
some projecting pieces Of I'm, while he arranged
the wire with the other. While in this perilous
position, he felt himself growing faint, and his
grasp relaxing. He Immediately slipped down
into his basket, where he lay nearly exhausted,
some ten minutes, with his head projecting over
one side of the receptacle, and his feet over the
opposite. 1t was almost enough to scken a
landslnan to view the feat. Had Mr. s. fallen
from the peak of the steeple he never would
have known what hurt him. Chilicothe, Ohio
| Gazefte.
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cally equal, is II not too much for senator,
standing on the very soil besioloed by the South
on the North, on this principle Of equality and
fraternity, to pretend that this very event Is ev-
deuce that the donor was afterwards To be ex-
ciuded from all future territorial acquisitions
MIR. CHASE objects 10 the Fugitive slave law,
because it assumes jurisdiction for the federal
government, and he thinks the States alone are
bound by the compact on that subject.
But this is idle Mr.. CHASE knows that the
States have not, and will not comply with that
stipulation. And are the people of the South
to be trifed with by being sent first TO the State,
and then TO the federal government, by set Of
politicians who are opposed to the whole duty
of surrendering fugitives We know that the
Northern States, as such, will not deliver them
up, nor will they allow the federal government.
And now with such men as Mr.. WEBSTER and
Mr.. CHASE to advise them, they pretend that the
South is neither entitled to her slaves nor her ter
ritory, and withhold both on pretences Of an atn-
derstanding which would disgrace county conrt
petttogger in case where the value of pig
was concerned They pretend to be devoted to
the Union, to be the party of morality and phi
lanthropy, yet they bubble and equivocatc out
Of their obligations, and then denounce and
threaten a Southern State for repudiating any
farther connection with them.
Mr. CHASE takes great exception to an
expression of ours that the "bright dream
is no more" of JEFFERSON and others, that
an era of universal equality, intelligence, and
felicity, would result from the creation of
free government And he says if this be so
WAsHINGTos, and his comrades, fought and suf
fered in vain, and were deluded. Now we per-
sist in the doctrine that no form of government
can produce universal equality or happiness 1t
too prevalent now-a-days that some scheme of
policy, some theory Of labor, of association, Of
exchange, and of education, will make men free,
moral, wise and happy. 1t is all folly, and
worse than folly. Liberty, knowledge, health,
ard life itself, are by the conditions of our being
dependent on toll, self-denial, courage, and con-
stancy. Whoever has the most of these will
not only deserve to govern themselves, but to
govern others, and will govern Others And it
betrays gross ignorance of our moral nature,
and the moral government Of the world, to pre-
tend that men can be made free, or happy, or
equal, by any system of government or society,
or that they even can have the certainty of a
dinner. Man is not the instrument of external
agency, but has spirit within.
Mr. CHASE thinks there is no danger of dis
union at all, and promises to agitate until sla.
very is abolished, as that, according to him, is
the only final settlement of the question. His
plan is to confne slavery to its present limits,
until it is suffocated. And he then goes on to
tell US he was in favor of giving away the
public lands to European emigrants. And he
winds up with praying God that the millennium
will cOme-in this country
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| A New VARIETY OF sHEEP.-The Providence
Journal notices a new variety of sheep, ram
and eve, Just imported from Africa and in
tended to be conveyed to the fine sheep farm of
| NJ b. Ives, esq, at Potowomut. They came
from the mountains about 800 miles in the in
terror, from the East coast of Africa, and were
present from II. b. NJ Consul in Zanzibar to
a gentleman in Salem. The variety is entirely
new and quite unknown to naturalists. It is
distinguished by the enormous famess of the
tail, and singular dewlap resembling that of
cattle, and the absence of horns in the ram. The
wool is very coarse, more resembling hair than
the article which is beginning to form so impor-
tant staple in the productions Of our State ;
but in recompense Of this the mutten is said to
be unrivalled in flavor and tenderness; and it is
probable that by judicious crossing with our
native breeds, very important variety may be
produced sustaining, or perhaps improving the
well known reputation of Rhode Island nut
ton, and not depreciating its fitness for wool.
A FUe1TryE SLAVE FROM WESTERN PENN
sYLvANIA.-On Monday, at noon, Geo. III. Roset,
esq, assistant United States marshal for the
western district of Pennsylvania, reached Phila-
delphia in the Reading cars, from Wilksbarie,
having in custody Jesse Whitman a fugitive
slave, whom he arrested at Wikesbarre on Sat
urday last. The Philadelphia American says;
Marshal Keyser having been telegraphed to
meet the parties at the depot was promptly on
the spot with an efficient police force, and nc
companied the United States officers and their
charge to the Baltimore boat, on which they
took passage for Maryland at two o'clock
Whitman is large, powerful negro, and fought
desperately before surrendering himself He
struck Roset twice upon the head with heavy
cart whip, and drew large sheath knife, which
he would doubtless have used had it not been
for timely and efficient aid. Whitman belongs
to John Conrad esq, of Loudon county, Vir-
| gna. The matter was managed so quietly, as
far as Philadelphia was concerned, that very few
persons heard of either the arrival or departure
of the fugitive. Some of the coored porters,
wood sawyers, stevedores, and other employees
along the wharfs, indulged in threats, but they
were overawed by the presence of the officers
of the law, and made no attempt at rescue. An
effort was made to detain the slave by a writ OF
babeas corpus, but the boa, showed Off before il
could be executed.
| MIssrssIPPI--Gen John ID. Freeman, who
has been twice elected Attorney General of the
State, s the Union candidate for Congress in
the lid district
Seen. JOHN d. FRERMANp-who is n rabd
loco foco--was, in 1882, printers "devil" in the
Offices of the Cooperstown Freeman's Journal
!
MONSTER OF THE DEEP.-A Shark, of the
Tiger species, measuring eleven feet nine inches
| in length, and six feet two inches in circumfer-
encc was taken in our barbor yesterday morning
and shortly afterwards, another was caught,
measuring nine feet four inches in length. We
understand that the harbor il full of these
umonsters Of the deep w. Charleston Courier
Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-11-01

The London Times of the l4th instant has an
other article on the Cuban affair, suggested by the
arrival ofthe Havana prisoners in Spain. Its tone
is quite contrast to that displayed in its former
articles on the same subject. The following is an
extract from the article:
"The first batch Of Cuban sympathzers has arrived in
Spain, and the other side Of the Atlantic observe with
great satisfaction that the revvng wisdom Of the American
people the subject Of foreign expeditions has been oPpor
uney encouraged by the highest e1pounders of the law
The charge delivered to the Grand Jury at Nashville in the
State of Tennessee by Judge CArRos of the Supreme Coort
Of the Union, contains stragh rtoard opposition of
American h,o, and uncompromising condemnation Of
the Cuban delnquents, could haze been produced by
any authority IN Europe After recitng the provisions Of
the act Of 1918, which declared it high msdemeaDor for
any person within the territory jurisdiction Of the United
States to enlist himself in any foreign service to prepare
the means for any military expedition enterprise against
foreign States, the Judge applied himse without fear ia
to the recent violations Of the law, and instructed the
Grand Jury omit effort in bringing the angressos to
punishment"
Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-11-01
TRANSIENT NEWSPAPER POSTAGE.

The fact is not to be disguised that the presen:
high and complicated rates of postage on transient
newspapers is cause of general complaint with
the public. 1t is equally true that many, whose
motives we will not stop to question, have endea-
vored to create the belief that the Post Office De-
partment, in its construction Of the late Post Office
law, is responsible for this and those whose duty
it is 10 see the law faithfully observed have come
in for large share Of censure, not always unmixed
with abuse, on this subject.
Now, let us see how far the truth will sustain
this charge against the Department The language
of the law with reference to transient newspapers,
&C. is as follows: 1886
Sand there shs be charged upon every other newspaper
and each circular sealed handbi, engraving pamphlet,
periodical magazine book and every other description Of
printed matter which sha be unconnected with any manu-
script or written watter and which may be lawful to trans
NIT through the mail Of greater weight than ounce,
for any distance exceeding five hundred miles, cent
and for each additional OF fraction Of ounce
cent for any distance exceeding hundred miles and not
exceeding one thousand Eve hundred miles, double those
rates for any distance exceeding thousand five hundred
miles and not exceeding Thousand five hundred miles,
treble those any distance exceeding thousand
five hundred miles and not exceeding three thousand five
hundred miles four times those rates for any distance
ceedng three thousand five hundred miles, five times those
rates."
The following is the table prepared and sent out
by the Post Office Department in pursuance Of the
above DroyisiOns viz:
Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-11-01
ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD.

The Washington correspondent of the Journal
of Commerce says:
Private letters from London have been received here
stating that Mr. r. J. WALKER had received much
agemant there to the important objects of his visit HI
for the purpose of obtaining aid from capitalists in fur
therance of the Illinois Central Road and for which Congress-
at the late session, made grant of landsabout twenty
hundred thousand which security, well
that of the Sate he proposes to raise funds to prosecute the
work.
the State Of Illinois furnishes remarkable exempf-
cation Of the progress Of this country towards wealth,
aon, prosperity anil power It is in the recollection Of all
that her bonds at time selling in market for six
teen cents on dollar. State constitution adopt
ed which established the credit Of the State by providing
that mills the taxable property Of the State should be
annually levied and collected and appropriated to the purpose
of exnguishng the public debt The State funds rose and
last year forty per cent? and since they have risen
seventy dollars in the hundred Illinois will unquesionaby
become one Of the most ppulOus it is Of the most
fertile, States in the Union"
Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-11-01

FAILUnE MEssRs. JAcoB LITTLE & CO., OF NEW
YoRK.-We have seldom written paragraph with more sim
regret than this which tho suspension of the
great Banking House OF Messrs Jacob Little & Co. The
senior partner who has withstood all the financial storms Of
twenty years. and justly earned the title Of The Money King
Of Wall street, has succumbed at last TO the ncxoabe
OF unsccountabe fluctuations Of The stock
market and yesterday, for the first time in his life, he
compelled decline receiving delivering stocks bought and
sold on tme The announcement produced very great
element in the street, and the Bulls they techn
caly termed had hoyday, though do not believe
among them all was heaess enough to regret the
nerne Of hsir great antagonist the Ursa Major of Wall
street. We are happy to learn that the commercial hansac
tons Of the house Of Meesrs Little g. Co., strictly
speaking, its banking operations will not be interrupted the
suspension being confined to stock transactions alone
rNeu York MrrDr.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-11-01

THE SToRN PRIscE EDwARD's IsLAsD-A com-
mtee of Fishermen sent Prince Edwards Island look
after the wrecks there, report that about vessels
are lost and shoe and that about hundred and fifty
lives lost Of whom the of ninety have been
asceained The Charlotte Town Advertiser Of the 18th
gives some further accounts Of disasters American fishing
vessels and says that large baque from Europe in ballast
bouud to Rchbucto shore Sable Head north side Of
the isand and that is reported number Of vessels have
been in the gulf riding their anchors swept Of every
thing and oil hands supposed be dead About fifty bodies
have been driven ashore between Backys Point and Cav
endsh The Prince Edwards Islander reports that large
vessel driven ashore of North Cape, bottom up and
hundred and eleven bodies taken Of her, but this report
doubted.
Weekly national intelligencer., 1851-11-01

GREAT UsIoS MEETING IN MIsHssIrrI.--The great
Union meeting at Jackson (Miss the 9th and 10th
instant characterized by degree Of enthusiasm and ha
mony that augurs well for the result of the pending election
in that State The barbecue the 9th given in grove
adjoining the city Judge sHARKEr, Chief Justice Of the
Supreme Court, called upon to preside. The principal
speaker Senator FooTE, whose reception Of the
most gratifying He was followed by Judge A. r.
HorKrNs, Of Alabama J. SHAW YERsER, Of Washington
county; Gen. p B. srARKEr, Of Bolivar county; Capt d.
R. RUSSELL, of Carroll county; Mr. LucKsrT, Of Madison
county; Mr.. 4. r. BucKSER, of Scott county M. w.
BaooKE, of Lexington, and Gen. W. R. MrLEs, Of Jack
Shortly before the adjournment the Of the result
Of the Georgia election received The fleet of this
Intelligence" says the True Delta, was electrical; shout
Of joy succeeded shout for several minutes the genter
participated in the universal ubilaton and the glorious
suit triumphant to the Union party beyond the most
gune expectation, the theme of conversation long after
the assembage dispersed" The speakers on second
day Judge s. s. Born, Of Na.che.; Gsn.J. D. FREr
KAN, Judge saARKEr, Gen. w. CEAnKE, Col. j. N. DA-
VIZ, and @. M. HsLLInR, Of the Natchez Courier.