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to be of tho Bank of Camden. s. G. Thebill
is made up of parts of three bills of different
banks, and is not very we'll executed. The
i Courier thinks the Bank of Candon does not
issue bills $l0o.
is. SENATOR DEAp.-Tho Hon. Calvin
Wiley. formerly United Statos Senator from
Connecticut. died at Stafford, Connecticut, on
the 23d ult lIo would have been oighty-two
years of age if he had lived till the 18th da,
of September.
| ACCIDENT, Near Pittsburg, Pa, on the
lst inst, a serious railroad accident happen
oil. passenger car was thrown from the
track and a lady instantly killed, with 20
others moro or less injured.
NC. ELrcrIoN.-Th returns are all in,
and Judge Ellis majority foots up l6,247-
Aggregate vote in the State 96,l77.
lloT--Seven cases of yellow fever had oc-
Cured at Ferroll, Spain, previous to the 18th
ult. The heat had been intense beyond mem-
ory, The thermometer being every day above
100 in the shade.
GANG BRoEEN UP.-Thc Petersburg (Ind.) J
Reporter gives the details of the breaking up
OF a band ofrobbers that have for some time
infested tho neighborhood. About q dozen
have been arrested. One of them was q ius
| ticc of the peace, and another was postmaster
and constable.
New CoTroN.-Thc total receipts of the
new crop at Mobile Ala, for the present
season, to the 2Sth ult, is 20G bales against
3 up to the same time last year.
RIoT.-A riot occurred at Staten Island,
n. Y, OH the lst inst. 1000 mon broke into
the quarantine grounds, burned tho hospitals,
and threatened tho residence of the health
officer. The cause Of the riot is not given.
lIEAyEY RoBERY.-The residence of Miss
Emily Dodge, ut Georgetown, d. c., was en-
tered Saturday morning about one o'clock,
and large amount of silver was stolen
Our ON BAIL.--Stcphcn III. Branch late
editor and proprietor of the Alligator, has
been bailcd out of the pcnitcntiary at Black
Wells Island. 1t will be recolcctcd he was
sentenced to twelve months Imprisonment for
libel
Terrible HAIL SToRM.-Smith county,
Tenn, was visited by a terrific hail storm
last week. Some of the stones werc as large
as hens egg.
FATAL LAccIDENT-Thomas b. Jarratt. en-
pioyod in mercantile house at Murfrecsbo-
ro Tenn, was killed by falling wall last
week
10 BE LIGHTED WITH GAs.-The Commits
missoners of Raleigh have determined to
light the city with gas. The works will be
in operation and the city lighted, by the meet
ing OF the Legislature in November.
PoIsoNoUs.-A young girl in Baltimore,
maue a narrow escape on Friday from death,
in consequence of having swallowed a con-
siderable number Of the seeds of iimpson or
jamestown weed
The CRoPS.--Thc corn crop in some por-
tions of Albomarlc county, Va, is very good
and the tobacco in that region excellent. In
Madison, the corn cropwill not be as bad as
expected.
LARGE FEEr.-An exchange speaks of
chap with feet SO large that when it rains or
when he wants to get in tho shade, he lies
down on his back and holds up one foot. 1t
fully answers the purpose of an umbrella.
SELF MuRDER.--Ars. Elizabeth T.. BOYD,
ofBoston, killed herself on Sunday, by con
sont of her husband, by swallowing oil of tam
sy, for the purpose of procuring an abortion.
LEAvENwoRrH, Sept. 2,-Thc Pike County
gold excitement is rapidly on the increase--
Two old Californians are making arrange
mcnts for working the mines successfully.
company left yesterday, and others arc
organizing.
New York, Sept. 4.-Thc Democrats of
the Eighth district of Illinois have nomina-
ted Phillip B. Foulkc for Congress, in the
place of Robert Smith.
THE CAPTURED NEGROES Some of
t.e Free Soil papers are cndeayoring to
raise an excitement upon the sub Iect of the
captured Africans in Charleston narbor, on
the pretence that the South Carolinians
will take bodily possession of the negroes,
and that tho crew of the slaycr will have
no chance i of justice. in that latitude
There is no cause for their benevolent ap-
prchension. The people of Charleston and
of the South are not in the habit of steal
ing negroes. The underground railroad is
an institution which belongs exclusively to
another part of the country, and the pro-
prietOrs thereof need have no fear that their