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Southern shield., 1854-09-30

CHOLERA IN CoLUMBA, PA,-Tbe awful mortality in Columbia is said to have been caused by the putrid carcasses of sheep which had died and been thrown into the reservoir When the water was drained off the bodies were discovered. 4 dispatch from that place dated the 18th states that fifty deaths had occurred on the previous day. The dis patch says:
 'Tbe disease is still raging with uRabated malignity. Several new cases and many deaths this morning.
 The Town Hall las been converted into Q hospital. which is flied with the sick and dy- ing. Tar has been burnt in various parts of the town as a preventive, in hope of purify ing the atmosphere.
 The distress and suffering is beyond de- scription, and principally fer want of nurses and attendants. The dead cannot be buried as fast as required; nearly every person has left the place. It is estimated that out of 8 population of about 5000 only about l50O remain. and among these the scourge is dread ful. All business is suspended and stores closed
 The Baltimore Patriot, of the l4th, says the disease has produced such panic that the country people round the devasted town refuse to hold any intercourse with the citizens, and much suffering from the want of wholesome food has been the result. Dr. Jewell esti- mates that if Philadelphia was ravaged in a degree corresponding with her population, as compared with Columbia, the deaths would have reached seventy-fve an hour. The same gentleman is of opinion that the exciting cause of the epidemic is in the atmosphere and not in the water, as the victims have beer taken indiscriminately from among those who drink nothing but spring water. The Susque hanna, at Columbia, is now extremely low and the atmosphere of the town IS visited by the quantity of decomposed animal matter 1T its bed, or lodged above the dam.
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Harris Ferry, ON W WHITE RIVER.
(Formerly called Rock Roe FeTy. ,


 THE undersigned would respectfully inform the Travelling Public, that he has greatly i'm proved the facilities for travelling by this Fer ". He has opened NEW ROAD through White River bottom, which runs nearly all the way on a Cane Ridge, mostly
 ABOVE OVERFLOW; and avoids the necessity of any but one ferriQge from the Mississippi to the Arkansas River. in low water, making it the cheapest, as well as the nearest and bestroute from Helena, Ster- ling, or Delta, to Little Rock or Pine Bluff. He has new and substantial Ferry Boat. There is a direct road to both Little Rock and Pine Bluff from this Ferry. By the time the river rises, arrangements will be completed so that persons can cross at this place at all stages q qcater.
 Travellers may expect to hear all kinds of reports to induce them to turn off of this route, from individuals interested, or leagued with those who are interested in turning them upon other routes. They even stoop so low as to knock down Sign-b0ards directing to this fe~- ", at nearly all the forks of road
 RATES OF TERRACE: For each wheel vehicle, 10 cts per wheel .. r '' Horse, mule, OK,
 cattle, 10cts per head . For each Person, (drivers ex-
 In very high water the rates are different.
 W. T. o. HARRIS. ROckroe. Dec, 1853.
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The Corn Crop.


 The New York Journal of Commerce pub- fishes two letters from respectable sources re- iative to the prospects ofIndian corn and pork in the West. The writers are understood to be interested in opposite directions. One may be called bull, in Wall street parlance, the other bear:
 CHICAGO, Sept. ?. 1854.
 DEAR SIR: find the corn cropis very good ln Northern Indiana, fair in Ohio. and large m Northern Illinois; and 1 am told much the largest crop ever grown in Wisconsin and Iowa. The receipts of corn here average over 300 900 bushels week. and would. . am told, be twice that quantity if the rivers were not so low. Mr.--. ofthis city. in- forms me that there are not over | .O06 ,000 bushels in warehouses on the Illinois rver.- 14r.---, whom we met at the St. Nicho- las in your city, has so, GOO in store and some 30, GOO on the way here from Illinois river, which may account for his ideas of short crop. There are millions and millions of year before last corn in this country yet. and no end to last years crop. There is old corn en- ough to fatten all the hogs in the country.- The hogs do not require as much corn as usual this season, as they are now two or three weeks in advance of other seasons, dry seasons being favorable for lattening hogs. One hundred and ninety-eight hogs came in here last week, weighing over 300 lbs. each l mention this to show you there are some large hogs now.- took some pains to find out about the corn at Fremont, Tl.) and gentleman who is from there says it will average thirty bushels to the acre, and that corn is now worth thirty-two cents at Pekin and about twenty-five cents at Fremont, and that distance from the river.- So you will see I was right in pronouncing that newspaper story about no corn and one dollar per bushel offered for corn in Fremont a humbug; and the other stories have about as much truht. Yours, Sc.
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To Printers and Publishers,

 THE subscribers, Type Founders, Nos. 20, 3l and 33, Beeklnan street, near the Park, New York, beg to return their thanks for all past fayors and assure their friends and the printing public that they have added very many new and elegant fancy faces, and many other articles to their heretofore extensive col lection, all of which, together with their new series of Scotch cut faces, from pearl to great primer, which have given such universal satis- faction for their durability and beauty. they are prepared to furnish on as reasonable terms, for cash or credit, as any other type founders in the country. Everything required in print ing establishments from shooting stick to mammoth press, furnished at the lowest man. utacturing prices.
 JAS. CONNOR & SONS.
 Papers publishing the above four times will be entitled to their pay in type on purchasing four times the amount of their bill.
 July 22, 1854.
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FOR three likely negro men, or four wo- men, those well located town Lots on Rightor street leach having good and commodious dwelling house, out-houses, &c., each pay ing me one hundered and fifty dollars per an- nun, monthly, in advance, now worth, in cash, respectively, $l loo $l 200, & $l 400, This property is annually increasing in value, and pays about 14-per cent.
 W. R. RIGHT0R. Helena, Sept. 2, 1854.
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LOUISVILLE, (KY.) Sept. 4, 1854,

LOUISVILLE, (kY. Sept. 4, l834.
 The prospect here fer the ensuing crop of hogs in my opinion looks more gloomy than before the late rains, notwithstanding the news paper reports to the contrary l am fully as sured that in the hog-feeding counties within one hundred miles of Louisville there will not be half the last years crop in weight; in fact, I do not believe it will be hall in number, and the weight will be from thirty to fifty per cent. short of last season. This is no idle or panic opinion, but based on facts. The only sec tions of country that we will get good hogs from, or that our packers are now turning their attention to, are the northern part of h. diana and Illinois. They have purchased large quantities of corn in those sections and will drive the hogs there and feed them. This will shorten the crop at Terre Haute, Lafay- cite, and other points on. the Wabash We will probably get some twenty-five to forty thousand hogs from this section of country, where we have never before got any hogs, and with this extension to our packing we do not now expect to kill over from two hundred and fifty to three hundred thousand hogs. Allow ing them to be thirty per cent, short in weight of last season, it will not make equal to 250, GOO hogs of equal weight to last years hogs, and in this we will get 40, GOO hogs from a section of country where weneyer got any be- fore. give the foregoing as my honest opin- ion of the ensuing crop.
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 T'HE Hydromagen is . valuable discovery for protecting tAefcet from damp or cold and therefore preventive of many Lung diseases, gitb0H Gny d0ctoring CbateUer The Hy- dromagen is in the form of a sole. and worn inside the boot or Shoe Its medlcated char acter is powerful antidote to disease.
 For Gentlemen it will De found agreeable warm. and healthy to wear in the cold est or rainest weather, as the foot cannot become wet if toe Hydromagen is inserted.- Ladies may wear the lightest sOled boots or shoes in the most inclement weather with im- punlty; while Consumption, so prevalent among the young of the country, may be thwarted by their general adoption They entirely suPersode orer shoaS as the latter cause the feet to perspire in a very unhealthy manner; and, besides, are not dangerous wear to pedestrians in icy weather, like india rubbers. While the latter cause the feet to appear extremely large the Hydromagen, be- ing mere thin slice of cork prepared, peculi- arly placed inside, does not increase the size of the boot, or cause the foot to appear untidy. To children they are extremely valuable, as they may engage in exercise with comfort and healthy effects Their expense is so slight as to scarce need mention; besides, those who pa- tronize them will find their yearly doctor s bills much diminished thereby
 As the Hydromagen is becoming more known, its sale is increasing to an almost in- credible extent. Last year in London, Man. chester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Glasgow, Leeds, Dublin, Paris, Antwerp. Hamburgh, and Berlin, our sales reached ,732 45O pairs of Cork Soles. This year the number will far surpass that.
 Ask the Faculty their opinion of their val ue as preventive for CoUGHs, COLDs, BRoN- CHITIs, ASTHMA, and CONSUMPTION.
 MEN SIZE, pr pair, 85 Gents.
 LADIES' do. do 30 do
 BoXs & MISSES 3 do
 NOTICE. From the Retail Prices we make a very liberal allowance tS Jobbers and Wholesalers, so that any storekeeper may make a fine sale, while they are an article that may be kept in any store, among any class of goods.
 For terms, apply to
 HARCOURT, BRADLEY < CO.,,
 38 ANN STREET. NEw-YORK.
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A new and beautiful Philosophical apparatus purchased in New Y ork, will be ready for use at the commencement of the session. Board will be furnished in genteel families, at ten dollars per month washing, fuel and lights included.
 A limited number of pupils can obtain board in the family of the Rev. Reuben Jones, and be under the immediate care of the teachers.
 c. c. BLISS.
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HSPThe Democratic Press, of Chicago, the editor of which is one of the old friends, social and political, of Douglas, says: "Mr. Doug las made no effort in this city to conceal the fact that he regarded the administration as a dead failure, and that it was utterly beyond the power of human efforts to reinstate it in the confidence of the democratic party. "
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T1L T 1s3L Es OH E 2 E
MEDICRTED FUR CHEST PR ROTECTOR,

 TO all persons of all ages and conditions, as l a certain and safe shield against those fearful diseases, Consumption. Bronchitis, Asthma. Coughs Colds, and other aliictions of the Lungs. which arise from the exposed state of the chest, according to fashion, and the continual changes of our climate.
 "The Protector is simply a chemically prepared fur. lined with silk and paddei, which. suspended from the neck, covers the chest, in 50 agreeable a manner that, once worn. it becomes c necessity and c cOmfort.
 The Protector. " although but recently introduced into America is making rapid pro- gress through the United States, the Cana das, South America. and the West Indies It has for q long time been a staple article in England and on the continent OfEurope while, it has grown in many countries to the posi- ton of an article of dress.
 To demonstrate these facts enquire of any English resident in your vicinity ofhis knowl edge of the beneficial effects of wearing the Protector, qrthom recourse 10 doctor1ng of any kind. The cost of wearing these articles is a mere trihe, and one will last some years. No one who values the health of himself or his family will bawithout them. The Hospi tals in the country are not alone recommend ing them, but rapidly introducing them.- Harcourt, Bradley < Co.,, of London, and Manchester, England, were originally entrust- ed with the manufacture of the Protectors by the lamented Dr. Cooper, and continue to manufacture according to hls original instruc- tions, and therefore recommend those who would wear ''The Protectors, " to see to their being genuine.
 i REMEMBER EIIIS IS 4 STAPLE ARTICLE, AND NO PATENT MEDICINE.
 RETAIL PRICES.
 GENT's SIZE, $l, 50 each,
 LADIES' do. LOO do
 Boys < MISSES do 75 do
 HARCOURT, BRADLEY S CO.,, 1 38 ANN STREET & 102 NASSAU STREET, NEw-YoRK. U. s. PRINCIPAL WAREHOUSE, l02 Wood Street,
 Cdeapside, London
 l MANuFACToRY, A. Market Street, Manchester,
 Engldnd.
 H. B. < Go. are establishing Depots for the sale of ''The Protector" in all parts of America. Physicians, Surgeons, Druggists, Clothers, Dry Goods Merchants, Hatters and Milliners, also Gentlemen's Furnishing Store Keepers are entrusted with the wholesale and retail distribution of them, and to whom most liberal terms are offered for their enterprise, and splendid opportunity opens to them for safe and profitable business.
 For terms, applyt to
 HARCOURT, BRADLEY < CO.,,
 38 ANN STREET, NEW YORK, U. s.
 Sept. g. 1854.
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ALL GoNE.-All the family of the late Gen. Taylor, who occupied the White House, are dead-the noble General himself, his wife, his daughter, Mrs. Bliss and Col. Bliss Mrs. Fillmore and daughter are also dead.
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KNow-NoTHINGs IN BALTIMoRE.--A Bal timore correspondent of the Richmond Bulle- tin writes:
 Fl learn that the Know-N -Nothing5 are ac- lively engaged in preparing for the fall cleo ton. They will soon make nomination for Mayor. That this mysterious party is strong in Baltimore cannot be doubted. They claim to have seventeen thousand members within the city limits, and expect to elect their May or by 5000 or 5000 majority. The entire State of Maryland is full of them, and they are said to be increasing with wonderful ra- pidity."
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How TO BECOME A KNOW NOTHING. The Buffalo Express says that a gen. tleman in that city who for sometime past has entertained a burning desire to become a Know Nothing, recently ap- piled to an acquaintance, whom he sup posed to be one of tho order, for an explanation*, His frieA graveIy prom ised him assistance and to the great delight of the aspiraht for secret hon. ors, called upon him a.few evenings af- ter for the purpose of inducing himin. to the mysteries of the sect. He led him to certain street in the city and telling him to remain their until he "saw and heard something," he left him. The Would-be Know Nothing re- mained there an hour, during which time he neither saw nor heard anything unusual, and as his friend did not re- turn, he was finally forced to conclude that he had been egregiously sold.
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TERRIFIc.-AImost every other day the Washington Unj0n-the great cen tral organ of PIERCE Democracy-be- comes furiously "exerciscd'' on the subject of ''Know Nottingham" It charges upon that mysterious order every crime in the catalogue of villainy, every trcachery laid down in the voca- bulary of treason, every meanness of which human nature is susceptible.
 From the following, which is the concluding paragraph of a long arti- cle, the public may judge of the opin- ion of the Union:
 "This fell spirit may be murdered from graceless pulpits, canting hypocrtes, sancti- monious propagandists, and inyeigling cOlpor- teurs, political demagogues, stipendiary press, the rabbie followers of vice, the mid night saturnalias of council conclaves. and the incantations of black spirits and white, red spirits and gray; but the stern power of free men will gather around the constitution, and give it new strength for the support of civil and religious liberty"
 That will do, at least for the present. Further extracts would be too much for the nerves of our readers, this hot weather. If the thermometer ranged about zero, instead of going above the nineties, we might possibly administer another dose-another paragraph, we mean.
 When the Union gets the "stern power of freemen" to bear, we hope it will inform outsiders little in advance, so that timid persons may be allowed some slight opportunity to seek har- Dor of refuge. That's all we ask That 'stern power'' will prove a terri ble affair, if the averments of our CO., temporary are correct.
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sept. 6. I854.
Helena High School.

WITH the concurrence of a large number of citizens of Helena | shall opcn Classical and Mathematical School on the first MoQday in October. My intention is to establish a permanent School, and from my experience and education I think I can promise good onc The course of instruction pursued at the Uni versity of Virginia will be strictly followed For the high character of the School, in all respects, confidently refer to my friends and late patrons. Parents desiring to enter sons from distance can procure board for them in respectable families.
 For further particulars see card Of 9 later date. T. c. ANDERSON.
 Ar0 To 1C%f
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MARRIED. D.-In Pennsylvania, Mr. Wright to Miss Betterway. MT. W. had no doubt read Pope's Universal Prayer, particularly the following verse:
 eff am right, Thy grace impart,
 Still in the right to stay;
 If am wrong, o teach my heart
 To find the better-aDay."
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5fbools.
Helena Female Seminary.

THE School, of which notice was given in \ card, published recently by several citizens of Phillips county, will commence on the 4th of October next, under the care of c. c. BLISS and Lady, assisted by Miss AzUBAH J. EASTMAN, as Instructress in Music. Miss Eastman has been successfully engaged in teaching music for the past five or six years, in the city of Bangor, Me. She composes readily, and comes recommended by the first musical talent in New England.
 The course of study adopted will be that ofthe Mary Sharp College, with slight changes So that young ladies who have commenced a regular course of study at any other Institu- ton can enter here upon the same grade and complete it.
 TUITION PER SESSION:
 Primary Department, $l0 % Studies corresponding with Freshmen
 and Sophomore classes in the Mary
 Sharp College, l5 co Junior and Senior. 20 co lncidentais, l 75 Music on Piano. $25 % Music on Guitar, 20 co Use of Instrument, 3 co Embroidery, co Pencil Drawings, % Black CrayOns, co COlOred '' s %
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THE next session of this School will com mence on Monday, October 2d. We cordially recommend the Misses BLACK as fully qualif- ed to conduct the education of Y 1oung Ladies; and from their past experience and success. we feel warranted in saying that every attention will be given to the mental and moral im- ofall who may be placed under their charge.
 TER MS,
 PER SESSION OF FIVE MONTHS. Orthography and Reading, $10 % Orthography, Reading, Writing and Primary Arithmetic, 12 co The above with Primary Geography and Grammar II % Higher branches, l6 % Instrumental Music, 9 % Use of Instrument, 3 % Drawing and Mezzotint, each. 10 co Incidental tax in proportion to expenses. Pupils charged from time of entering, and no deduction for withdrawal or absence except in cases Of protracted sickness.
 H. F. COOLIDGE, I
 WM r. MOORE,
 E. H. COWLEI,
 J. S. HORNOR, e3
 WM. c. MYRTLE, :
 F. HANKS, $
 J. S. DEPUTY,
 GEO. PORTER,
 EDW. PORTER Ct.4 c rO=t
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Open Day and Night.


 In building our new store we have taken especial pains to construct a suit of rooms for the express purpose of taking Daguerreotype Pictures. Our arrangement of light is the most approved by the best operators, produc- ing pictures quickly and true to nature; the rooms are spacious and handsomely furnished, affording every comfort and convenience for our customers. In this branch we have as- sociated with us Mir W. H. De Shong, gentleman of experience and great skill in the art, who will take charge of the rooms, and as we will use none but the best instruments and materials and procure early each improve ment in the art, we trust we shall be able at all times to present our friends and customers with another self. so like that, but for the difference in size, 1t would be difficult to say which was which
 To make this branch of OUT business conl- plete we have increased our assortment of Da- guerrean Jewelry. such as Lockets, with from one to four Pictures; Pins, double and sin gle,
 Rings; Seals; Keys Canes: Watches-A superior article, made expressly for Daguerreotypes.
 F. II. CLARK & co.
 Memphis, October 10, 1853. sFINE and extra fine Razors, for sale by
 A, I. JOHNSON &s co.
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Guns, Fancy Goods &c.,,
Owg' E90essps'ge0zg Cutlery.

W. H. DESHONG, Artist, Is now ready for visitors. with every facilit to produce first quality Pictures.
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Helena Female Institute.

September 23, 1854.
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F. II. CLARK & GO.

April %, 1854.
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A0OrrtisGmtnts.
NEW GOODSl
N lew SLyles!!

WE ARE NOW RECEIVING OUR
 " FALL AND WINTER SToCE of
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I WILL EXCHANGE,

Sept. 30, 1854.
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Furniture Room.

Sept. g, 1854
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-11

NyANTED.-A middle aged Welsh Woman
w wants sstustion TO do GENERAL HOMEWORK, orN
COOK private family. Call on the Lsdy, up stairs, Of
~. n Latch
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paints, GLASS, Sc.

ZINC PAINTS.-The NEw-JERSEY ZINC
- COMPANY having greatly enlarged their works and I'M
proved the quality Of their product prepared 70 execute
orders for their scPERIOR PAINTS
Then WHITE ZINC, which sold dry sround 10 oil
wnrIsp,sd PukE, AID unTurpassd for BODY UFIFORa
method Of preparation has recently been discovered which
enSeies the Company their Paints keep fesh and
sc ID The kegs for any reasonshe time 10 this respect hsk
rants VII be superior TO sny other on the market
Their BROWN ZINC PAINT which "a cold at q low price
1d can only b made from the Zinc Ores "
nov yell Known Tor Its protective qualities whsa spilled
Thsi, sToHE-CoLoR PAINT possesses all the properties
OF The Brown, and Of .geesbs color FOR painting cot
tASes, dspos out bulas bridges &c Dealers supplied On
liberal terms by hAENfN6 & sQUIER, Asests.
No. las wa.hinston-@t NJ Y.
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Danrina ata6emies.

DODwORTH's DANCING ACADEMY,
IA No SO Broadway opposite lthst Is ne~ open ,or oe
reception Of pupils who commence q any tme
and Children on Wednesdays and SATURDAYS 81 and r
Gepteuen either Wednesday, TnaDdays, fdsys snd
SATURDAYS. or all. ~ NJ. Cireu sr Containing days noa
and terms insaesnl be hsd at the Academy 81 any
time or will be sent by post
EEhRERO's DANCING ACADEMY, NO: %
+ We, Isb.s,-MAdame C. DUBREUL FERRERO and
FTRRERO respe etfully thea SCHOOL u open
for the reception OF pupil Ysuns Ladies and Sass
Gentlemeu. Eyenns Ciss. Monday. and rhursdsys at
II NJ commencing Oct Is Saturday ESenn{ Cias ~
,Isun person. At p NJ comnepeins Oct q. B-Puphs
ear IAN AZ any time the quarter commencing the day Of entry