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The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-25

| Messrs EDIToRs: A manufacturer in the
West has stated in Western paper that he ex-
pected our crop of cotton would this year be the
above enormous quantity. Now, for the infor-
nation of the numerous readers of your widely
diffused truthtelling paper, allow yourselves to
assure those interested in our staple to know
" The fact" that, however many millions we may
plant, still that, owing to the specified known
number of our slaves, (pickers of the crop,) we
cannot, for want of the hands, exceed crop of
100000 bales. One or two years. when the
cotton appeared to come to the seaports in n
larger quantity. it was owing to the stale parcels
of the year before coming down and being added
to such crops be ,ause of the prices of preceding
years being so low not to pay for putting it
up and forwarding to market. Last year and
this year, the prices being at last remunerative,
every bale Das semi that possibly could be picked
Consequently, this year, the quantity that can
come for sale is Should no damage attack The
crop 100000 or 100000 bales less than our
friend in the West desires it. 1t is to be re-
GREETED that our European customers are often
led away by the stories in these country papers,
and refuse to buy in Europe unless at dead
loss to the grower. BY and by the truth comes
out, and the European and American mill-owner
has to come into market and pay fifty to one
y
stop his works and his workmen.
A COTTON PLAN TER, (of Georgia)
A correspondent, in sending us the above,
says:
In addition to the facts above communicated
TO the National Inteiligencer, from which paper
we extract it, we are informed that in order to
pick the quantity nb We falsely stated as the
crop for next year, it would just require
$4,000 additional slaves.
A writer in the Westminster R.pie,c, in ls49,
when the cotton crop was short, and the price
rose nearly 100 per cent, simply on account of
the deficiency of 10 per cent of quantity, ad-
vises that the best policy for the British govern.
ment would be, if she was friendly TO her own
national manufacturing supremacy--p particularly
her 500 millions involved in cotton mills. and
labor connected therewitb--to take off all re-
srictions on the slave trade. Then the poo
negroes could be brought again freely to Anne
RIGA and the West Indies, and would fall in valu
to 100 dollars, and they would also escape tn
murders to which they are at present subjected
by thousands yearly, under their own crue
rulers, in Ashantee and negro Africa-a fac
proved by the accounts of English and Dutcl
government agents, sent to examine the nature
Of the negro government, and their social posi-
ton in Africa, as recently as 1890 (See Craw
ford's Reports of his mission to British govern
ment.)
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The EAsLF DAYS OF n. pE kent1AA--
The following insight into the education and
associations Of n. d. BocMms, who llas lant
been condemned 10 death for murder, 10 extssc-
ted from one Of the Belgian papers, wlsers = y
given M having bee0 taken from the Mespo@Fes
de Voyage OF the Baroness Louise de- B0rnsted.
The marriage 1t refers to "A being then 10 coa-
temptation for NJ de- Rocasme i not that which
he ultimately eontsastsd. a5
~CosLEsrz, June IL, 1889.
"On hoard the steamer on which we em-
barked there WIS one gro up which particularly
attracted our attention. 1t was composed OF
three ladies whom ut glance recognized n
belonging to the highest eIsss. Two Of ths
ladies were young and fair the other, about the
meridian OF life, handsome, elegant and disfin-
gtles, was the most remarkable and the most
attractive She was seated vt table playink
ecdrte with a Spanish gentleman. | sooa "a.
tered into conversation with one Of The 'his
young girls, and learned that the lady attsacslnR
so much attention was called Mime, de Bocar5ne.
tess she is one Of the clevereat aud most a.
complished women Of her age So Wa pre-
scented into this circle Of high life. which was
the object OF the envy Of all on board My a.
lroductress was the affianced bride Of Hyppo.
lite, (the hero Of the late triai,) who was tsav-
cling with his mother, having but lately arrived
from America where he had been living with
his father among tho forests Of Arkansas.
Hyppolite do B0carme was then about nine
teen years of age, timid aud reserved ip his
manner. He seemed rather in awe Of his
mother, md spoke with enthusiasm and reayst
OF the wild and peaceful s0litudes Of America
in which he had hitherto spent his life. The
countess, witty, naughty and satisical, yet 10.
ssssing great beauty and an extraordinary h.
cinati0n Of manner, was of high Belgian finn
lily, and had been married at sixteen to the
Count do Bocarne, then governor OF Java: and
after having resided many years there and IN
India, the countess had alternately lived in Paris.
London and Havre. During the Last eight
years the count had lived with hia s0n ia weet-
ern America. Without any apparent motive he
had suddenly thrown up his appointment, left
the world, his associations and his wife, and taken
his son with him, had disappeared, to lead The
life of a hunter in the face of the Lord. That
was happy life,' said the young Hyppolite.
We passed our days in hunling-at night W.
slept on bed Of dried leaves--our only food
was the flesh of the animals a shot For six
years the only people in the huts we had con-
structed with our own hands were, beside our
selves, an old negress and tried servant Of INV
father. No other human being ever penetrated
into our solitude"
Thus was this boy educated between an as
celtic despot and heartless woman Of the
world. Hyppolite looked with contempt upon
the civilization he was getting to know, and
certainly had more dread than love for his
mother. MN
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-25

A QUESTION FOR AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTS.
Will some of our scientific farmers, who have
turned their attention to the subject of agricul-
tural chemistry, furnish us with solution of the
following extraordinary fact the truth Of which
is avoucbed by more than twenty years expert
ence of some of our most intelligent farmers.
Wheat sown in lands in the vicinity of the
salt works, which is extended some ten or twelve
miles on both sides Of the Kanawha river, is
never subject to rust blast scab, or other dis
eases which affect the quantity or quality of the
produce, between the towering of the plant and
the maturity of the grain, but invariably returns
an abundant yield of superior quality, even when
the crop in other parts of the valley is entirely
destroyed, OF seriously injured, which is no un-
common event in our damp climate.
Is this effect produced by the action of the
Qss and smoke from the bituminous coal, used
in the furnaces, or the saline ynpor from the boil
ing salt water, with which the atmosphere is, at
all tines, largely impregnated9
May not an. investigation of the causes Of this
remarkable phenomenon lead to some more ac-
curate knowledge Of the nature and character of
those diseases. by which the productive staff Of
life is so seriously impaired, and the discovery
of some RENE dy by which their ravages may be
prevented or diminished Western Virginian.
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-25

The Kingston Journal notices the arrival in
Jamaica, of the American brig Yuca'an, with a
party of colored immigrants on board. The
Journal surmses that their introduction has
something to do with an experiment in cotton
cultivation, under direction Of some gentlemen
from Georgia
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cW~ We have received handsome sheet.
published by VIM c. BRyASr g. Co, printers,
New York, of the Rates of Postage, Foreign
and Domestic" II ia tastefolly and elegantly
got up, in clear and beautiful type and is Alto
gether very creditabe to The publishers. It
cannot fail TO be very useful.
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CoHs has advanced 30 cents per bushel at
Lynchburg, Va, in consequence Of the great
article Is IN demand Mt 81 per
barrel, or 80 cents per bushel Tobacco is also
advancing.
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-25

EDUCATION IN OLD ENGLAND AND IN THE
NEw-The recent parliamentary reports and de-
bates present most lamentable picture of the
state of education in England, and the indifier-
ence or her Legislators to the subject, when con-
trasted with our own free and happy States II
is hard to believe, that of population of twenty
millions, more than two millions Of adults can
neither read nor write--yet such is the fact.
The little State Of Connecticut, with popula-
ton of 100000, has school fund of more than
two and half millions of dollars whilst it was
found by the last census, that less than one hun
dred native adults in that State were unable to
read or write. New York also has its fnnd of
more than ten millions for educational purposes
and its proportion of the leaven of ignorance is
scarcely greater than in Connecticut. But why
dwell upon the truism how we'll the scholastic
culture of American citizens is cared for by the
governments of their own choosing! Let us
see what is accorded for these purposes by the
wisdom of British parliament; truly large
amount of-tak, and small sum Of money
80 small sum as 100000, (thirry thousand
pounds) $4,000 for the nation's mind-not
for one Of the counties Even this was refused
at the last session of parliament or the session
before One anxious to find fault, might say il
was an illustration of English legislation, that
the bills granting 10000 (seventy thousand
pounds) for the new royal stables ut Windsor,
and this mite for education were brought up on
the same night in the House of Commons.
The stables were voted--the schools were not
The people could wait, it appeared---not 80, the
horses. L.
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-25

VlTRFrEp SocKETED TUBss.-A new me-
dium Of conducting water, gas, steam, oil and
other fluids has recently come into notice in
New York, which seems destined to supersede
all others in use, not excepting iron and lead
These pipes or tubes are tw feet in length, and
Of various diameters ranging from two inches to
thirty-sx, with rims or sockets Of equal thick
ness, being moulded upon wooden blocks, thus
avoiding the possibility of weak parts or mper-
fections They are then highly glazed or vitri-
fed out side and within, in straight line from
end to end, so ms to prevent obstruction by
the accumulation of oil, and easily cleanscd by
the constant flush of water These pipes are
intended to be laid horizontally, and fastened
together in the sockets by Roman cement,
which very soon becomes firm and hard. There
are also single and double functions and bends
for branch sewerage, and traps to pervent nox-
Gus vapors. Thus an entire row of houses can
be severed by one main pipe twelve inches
in diameter, with branch pipes of four or five
inches in diameter. The superiority of these
pipes consists in the incoruphbe material of
which they are composed, re ndering them inn
pervious to acids or corrosive agents, heat or
rust, while their great strength enables them
to resist the action of frost and heavy traffic
crossing them, when laid within few inches
of the surface Their cost is less than one
third Of iron pipes and less hon one si.rth of
that of lead and in view of their cheapuess
strength, durability and ease Of repair, we do
not hesitate TO pronounce them superior 10 any
hing of the kind noe hare seen, and destined to
come into very general use. We may add the
fact that We are informed that they have been
exclusively adopted by the corporations of Lon
don, Liverpool, Birmingham, Manchester, Car
isle and other principal towns, as the means
of municipal sewerage. They have already MT
,racted notice in this ctv, and heavy contracts
have been made for public and private sewer
age in this and neighboriug citics.--N y.
Courier.
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-25

SERIOUS RIoT AT SAco, MANA rio. occur-
d at Saeo, Maine. on Friday last, growing ont
OF the arrest Of Mr. Guerney, for selling liquos
Ills fr end, James Tuttle, was arrested, and snb-
sequently rescued from the police, but when
the hight was over, he gave himselfup. SevsfAl
OF the police were badly beaten, and large
extra force has been sworn In. Three arrests
OF riotara have haon rnade
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Below Petersburg, Va. they have had no rain
since the lat Of Iune and every thing is parched
10 death
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-25

SINGULAR SCENE IN CHURcH.-The Rev.
Charles Kingsley, author of Yeast" and q Al
ton Locke prenched sermon lately in Fitzroy
Square, London, on the Gospel Message to
the Poor" 1t was so full of democratic
thoughts and so severe upon the richer Glasses,
that the rector Of the church, when he hal
closed, raised in his pew and protested vehe.
mently against the doctrines, as "pernici Gus in
tendency and untrue in fact" The congrepa-
ton dispersed in disorder.
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-25

GEHMAsy.--The Revived German Diet ia
fairly under way. 1t is composed Of twenty.
one members, representing thirty six States,
which have population Of as 675,OOO in ronpd
numbers, including the l2,400O 900 belonging to
the Austrlan-German. crown lands The oyaclea
conjecture that treaty Of alliance, offensive
and defensive, between Rnsisa, Austria, and
Prussia IS the result of the conferences At
Warsaw and Olmutz
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Two Of the survivors Of the New York rsgi-
ment Of Mexican voluntsers have died 10 tia
past week aa
The southern press. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1850-1852, 1851-07-25

The FUGITvE SLAVE CASE IN PHILADELPHIA.
In the case of Danl Hawkins, claimed IA a
fugitive slave by William NJ Risteau, of Bati.
more county, Md, hearing was had before
u. s. Commissioner Ingrahm, at Philadelphia
on Tuesday morning, who ordered that he be
sent back to his master He left at 2 o'clock
this afternoon, for Baltimore, in custody of the
U. s. marshal There was no excitement, and
David Panl brown. the counsel for the slave,
having no testimony to offer inconsistent with
that adduced by the claimant, remarked that if
owners would thus appear in court and make
out their case in regular manner and by due
proof, persons would find that there was no dis
position on the part of the courts, such as has
been attributed 10 them, to resist the due execu-
ton Of the law. The Bulletin says;
Some half dozen colored members Of al o
ition societies, and the regular committee of the
Pennsylvania State abolition society, were in at
tendance at the hearing, apparently more with a
view to see that the proofs were ample and the
proceedings regular, than with desire to embar-
rass the case by throwing unnecessary difficulty
in the way of the master obtaining his legal
rights. Ball. San.
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tons in Europe, we may see the truth OF the OBJ
seTatioas We have made respecting the diminu.
ton of authorty--we might say, its annihilatiou
as power, in and among States.
The world has indeed been over suluch
governed" 1t is for us to set the example of a
new snti-meddling system We must carefully
watch, that our own public officers do not inter
fere with the independent actions and rights Of
each Of U.S. And let the States themselves, and To-
cal authorities of every degree, rival with each
other in roofing out the evils Immediately about
them, before they venture to interfere with the Ito
them) supposed ills Of other States, or portions
OF the same.
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THE UNION.

II does not lie in the mouth OF the administration
TO say hat IL did NOT kaoW OF this "belief" and ser.
peesation" of the American citizens associated with
Lopez when the proclamation issued It did
know, and must have known, that the expedition
was fitted out in that expectation, and upon that be-
h.f There was formal revolutionary declaration
in Cuba Il was republished here. and known OF all
men, The prospect of public war which il held out was
the very basis Of the expedition OF Lopez The admin
straton has not the wetched excuse that any aeu
and redeeming expectation" has to light TO paate
the offence of the men for whom il now pleads, but
whom it before excluded from the pale OF mercy
In this state Of facts call upon the administration
and the country will call upon them-to take definite
ground Let know in this matter how and where The
government OF the United States now stands Is our
government suing to Spain for mercy and clemency to
"plunderers and robbers" or not II Motif these
do not bear that charactehen epudiae and aban-
don your proclamation which falsely denounced them as
such, and thus permitted part of their number to be
slaughtered in cold blood. if they had lost all right
not only TO their trial. which solemn treaty had secured
to them, but had also forfeited all claim to respite to
mercy, and to life
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The CnnYnaa In XlrRiala.

The suboined extract from the Norfolk Argus verifes
remarks in the leading article OF our paper to-day
We doubt that in all the districts of Virginia, the
democratic candidates will be prompt as Gen. Mlson
in making the argumentum ad hominem. Nothing is
than the assertion that the position of the dem
ocrac party the Compromise is the true one for the
preservation of the Union:
The cANvAss-The political ball opened at Suffolk
Monday between Cen. Mlson and his opponent Mr..
Cowper 1t being court day, there respectable
tendance oil the sufffagans Of Nansemond county Mr.
Cowpe led off in speech of two hours in hosanna the
gories of the Union and the beauties of the promises
ignng Gen. MlIson for giving his support the
great OF pac6cation representative in Con-
gress. The reply Of the General learn those
heard him. triumphant and absolutely overwhelming
He proved from the journal Of the house delegates tina
his competitor had been ultra and
Bile the chs rye OF dunionisn than himself and that Mr.
Cow per- member OF the legislature, had actually in
the members OF Congress from this State pursu
more and determined policy than that which he
periodically condemns a pursed by Gen. Mson
This argunenium ad hohninsm irresistible and the ap
paue decidedly in favor of the democratic candidate
We have doubt, since the discussion Mr.. Cowper
pres that he did initiate the wise pie OF Mr. Whit
field aud decline the honor OF being the leader of the for
lsrn hope OF this congressional district
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The Twin Princip pies OF the Wing Party.

By the following paragraph from the New York Trib-
une, it would appear that the whg party of that
ton has two prncples-a mitgated abotonism and an
unmitigated tariff:
"Ther ground [the ground of the whgsI has already
been taken these questions, and is well known They
obey the laws OF the they admit that the fugitive
law, being of hem should be observed and respected
but they regard IL proper law and fit subject
for amendment chsn The proper shall arrive They
Teiteate what they have before affirmed this topic
and, at the same me they put FORTH with all the weight
they give It, the great national doctrine of
with an exultant endorsement and approval"
perhaps difficult, at the first glance, TO determine
which of these two principles forms at this time the
more hopeless and deporabe basis for national party
The fell spirit OF abolition has just shaken the pillars of
the federal Union and in 1882 the oppression of high
protective tariff drove patriotic into the extreme and
dangerous of notification. Both doctrines set at
naught all the dictates of national justice, and poison all
the fountains of national tranquility. 1t is the high
office and the settled policy OF the national democracy in
the future in the past to rescue the country and the
constitution from the destructive and demoralzing effects
of both these baleful political heresics
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New Fail and Winter Goods.

uooE, BROTHER, CO, Pennsylvania avenue between 9TH
III received and 10 the
of the cities of Washing Georgetown
surrounding Maryland and Virginia.
French English India fancy
dry goods Of the mportations. They
Very elegant brocade silks, dark colon
Extra rich brocade silk, for evening
Rich plaid silk, styles
Extra heavy plain poult de sole
Heavy waered silks, all colors
Real Irish poplins, richly waered, all shades
black silks, all widths
Superior wide colored silk yelyets, shade
French Menno and Thbet cloths, great variety
de LANES, designs
French cashmere de latest styles
Rich embroidered chemisetles, with sleeves
Real Nalenciennes lace chemisettes and cuffs
Richly embroidered muslin capes, collars and
Elegantly embroidered and trimmed handkerchief
White embroidered Canton shawls, from sl2
Velvet cloaks and mantlas styles
Silk manullas and visites, also styles
Real cashmere shawls, long and square
Rea Thbet
Long and short sewing silk mits and gloves
Bajious celebrated kid gloves, size and shade
Black silk laces, black and colored silk ffinges
Thread &C and inserings, wide narrow
Muslin and cambria rulings
Muslin and cambrc nsertings and edgings
Sash, neck, and belt rbands, SC. &C.
Together many other entirely and desirable goods
approaching which add
that finding
all during the most fashionable Styles the lowest
prices. -.----- N.--
HooE, BROTHER, n co.
sept i2-u