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The Health of the CITY,

The official reports of the yellow fever
mortality in the city. published daily in our
columns, furnish our readers. at home and
abroad, with reliable date in regard 10 the
actual condition Of the health of the city.
Il will be observed by an examination of them,
that an increase of mortality is recorded
since Wednesday, though the total number of
deaths from this source for the entire week
may not much exceed that reported for the
week previous.
In examining the statistics of previous
years. when the fever has prevailed in our
city, this fact recurs so often as almost to be
regarded as data for sound conclusions in re-
gard to the regimen of the disease. 1t has
gradually increased for nine weeks from the
date of its first appearance when it has COM
menccd to decline in nearly the ratio of its
previous increase. This is the ninth week
since the fever made its appearance, and by
the rule alluded to-if it can be called rule
the number of deaths should largely exceed
those reported of any previous week But
after all so little is aScertained Of the disease,
so often do all calculations fail, that what
has occurred repeatedly, and almost regular
ly. in past years may not recur again.
The mortality this season is not as great as
it was for the corresponding weeks of 1855.
That year was not regarded by our citizens
or by strangers, one attended with the
scenes usual when an epidemic prevails.
There is scarcely a probability that we shall
be called upon to recordSso high mortality
marked that year, and we may hope soon
to date the commencement of a return to a
normal state of healthy o. Delta.
Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-08-26

There was considerable meeting of the
electors of Ulster at Kingston to-day, to in
augurate the ''fIsion' of parties opposed to
the National Administration. The second
resolution is sufficient to render all attempts
at 'fuson" abOrtive. There are thousands of
the opponents of the Democracy who will
have nothing to do with an organization that
puts the negro in the foreground. We have
had enough of that absurdity."
The above paragraph is from the New York
correspondent of the National Lntellgenca.
The Southern democratic press is just now in
eXtacies over a reputed fusion" of the Amer
lean and Republican parties of New York.
AS far as we have been able to learn, this din
about fusion" is based upon a meeting of a
portion of the people of Ulster county, at
which Mr.. GREEDY was present, aud in which
also Mr.. j. T. HEADLY co0perated. Mr.. IL.
has heretofore acted with the American par
ty, and so far as the record shows, he was
about the only American who was present
and active in the meeting. At any rate the
Americans who were in the meeting. or can
be influenced by its action, constitute very
insignificant portion OF the American party
of New York. The above paragraph pricks
the bubble which the sham democracy are
blowing, and shows how extensively they can
operate on a small capital.
Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-08-26
A Story About Lying.

Davidson county, North Carolina, contri-
butes a good story of man with a very bad
habit AS it is all about lying, the reader
may believe it or not as he likes: In the old
North State lives a certain John Long who
draws a long bow whenever he has nything
to tell. and his character for truth and verac-
ity has been below zero for many year.
Captain johnson had been so taken in by one
of Johns outrageous stories, that he said to
him in pet;
.'If YOU make me believe any of your lies
again in month, I'll give you fifty dol
lars ~
John pretended 10 be hurt at the offer and
went of. A few days afterwards he was rid
ing by the Captains post haste. on horseback,
when the Captain called out to him:
Il say. halloo. JOHNNY stop and tell us a
lie or two this morning"
John rode on, but cried out most dolefully:
mo time for lying now; brother Jimmy has
Just been killed Ia the machine, and I'm going
for the old folks" On he went
Captain johnson ordered his horse, and
rode over TO see the dead man and offer his
services, bat found him alive and well, GIN
ming cotton and in no danger of the machine.
Just then John rode up and demanded the
fifty dollars The Captain declared IL was n
rascally trick. but be would have had 10 pay
the money il John had not let him oil.
Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-08-26

Many wears ago. says the st. Louis Republi-
can. of the 18th inst, Baron Friedrich Won
Oertel. whose family was one of the most
Independent and aristocratic in Saxony, fell
in love with poor girl and determined to
marry her. He thus incurred the displeasnre
of his wealthy father who. on learning of the
proposed alliance, at once disinherited the
yonng nobeman. and turned him from his
doors. This sudden reverse exasperated
and maddened the lover, and bidding
silent farewell to the home of his childhood.
and without informing the object of his affec-
tons he bent his course to this country. On
arriving here, he joined the United States
Army and served ten years as a soldier. 1t is
said that his bravery and true heroism on the
fields of Mexico won the admiration OF all
who had opportunities to observe them. At
the expiration of the ten years service, he
returned TO Germany to ascertain how the
estate of his family was managed. He found
that his parents were in their graves, and
that the property was distributed equally
among his brothers and sisters himself being
wholly overlooked and disrrgarded in the
will. To add 10 his dark fortunes, he
ascertaincd that the girl who vas the innocent
cause of his ruin. had married and moved
away. Won Oertel's mind never fully re-
covered from the shock this Intelligence had
created. Wandering in reason, he returned
to the United States and came to st. Louis
Here he was Frustrated by violent sickness,
for some months. When he convalrsc i he
found himself entirely destitute of means
His pride was thoroughly broken down, and
for livelihood the Baron actually took to
selling ''bretzels," kind of pastry in much
favor with the Germans He continued at
this paltry but honest business for sixteen or
eighteen years, and gained the appelation of
"BretZel Fritz" Three years ago. having
saved up the snug sum of 5000, and having
met one of the opposite sex in whom he
thought he could confide, and whom he
believed would make him good and faithful
wife, though she was several years his junior,
Won Oertel was married. One day, a few
months afterward. on going home with his
basket h. found that his wife had eloped with
a seducer, and not content with bringing her
husband to disgrace, had taken his money
and everything of any value about the house,
leaving him the pOssessor of a basket of bret
Zcls and dishOnored hearth. The old man,
for he was now fifty-three years of age,
quietly bore his new grief, and again, with
perhaps an imprecation on the false one. adj
dressed himself to the one great task of his
liie-forgrttiug.
..DrctZel Fritz" has been well known in
ST. Louisa wrinkled, slow-paced, STOPPING
old man with his basket on his arm and
rarely a smile on his face. In the last three
years he has laid away $500, the profits of his
little business. Yesterday he was buried,
having been sick three or four weeks. Before
he expired he benevoiently bequeathed his
small possessions to the orphan children of
poor man, well known to many of our
citizens who died abont year ago. And so
ended the eventful career of Baron Frederick
Won Oertel.
Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-08-26
The Crops I'm Texas.

G. W. Kendall writes to the New Orleans
PicapHae the following statement regarding
the corn and Chinese sugar-cane crops in
Texas -
There is to be no want Of corn in Western
Texas, for every field which escaped the raw
ages of the grssshOppers, is yielding album
dainty, and many localities escaped these
pests entirely. The crops Of Chinese sugar
cane, which laughs at grasshoppers and
droughts, is at the same time immense, and
the first heads Of ripe seeds are already gath
cred. Some Of my nsighbors are having Il
ground, and are making bread of II, speaking
of il in commendabie terms. while everywhere
they are preparing 10 grind the stalk, and
convert the juice into syrup or moiasses.-
That this is To be a valuable addition to our
crops in this section, there can be no doubt:
IL stands drought better than any other plant
is no more affected by dry weather than is
a salamander by fire. The grain makes
good article Of bread-so many say: the
leaves make an excellent fodder; while the
stalks can be converted into moiasses aud
perhaps sugar-nothing is lost. / have often
heard it stated that the grain is hurtful 20
horses, and this may be- 30; yet IL any one
has any of it To SPAR. am willing to feed IL
out to my work animals n an experiment, and
will run all risks OF its injuring them. In
fact. fed out no inconsiderable quantity OF
il last year, and would have used IL more
freely, had had il TO spare. A bashel OF IL
weighs some forty-eight pounds, or eight
pounds less than a busbel Of corn. We have
not yet learned all it, uses.n
Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-08-26
Useful Hints 10 Young Men.

How many young men ignorantly deny them
selves fortune. There is scarcely young
man OF good sense IN this city who cannot
save 500 easily rom his annual earnings,
and, II he will forrgo cigars, billiards, aud
julsps, he can save double that amount. FL
gurrs sometimes produce almost incredible
results. Titus, for INSTANCE, If young man,
upon his twentieth birth day, will invest 500
in any stock paying ten per cent, aud annual
ly thereafter will Invest the same amount,
and the accommodations of interest, he viii he
worth, when he is thirty years old. 81, 1885,
when forty years old SO, 800; when hfiy years
old SlS,i50; when sixty years old SIS, 100.
How simple then Is the plan by which a
youth OF Che present day can pass his old age
Ia comfort and luxury. lie has only 30 re-
gulate his expenses 80 as Ia save oas ksssaTsd
a.llars each year from his income. Ii the
amount saved b. larger, then the sum total
will be increased ia the same proportion.
Only think of IL, that $500 saved annually
aud invested Ia ten per cent stock will amount
in forty years 20 s234, 500. One million In
vest a Ia the SANE way for ten years viii
amount to sz,593.6 900; In twenty years 10
So, T26, 500; in thirty years to slI 3si62S;
10 forty years TO SIS $50 1888. No woud, r,
then ID 1t the RoIeh childs have anna sd such
boundless wealti.
Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-08-26
Monument TO Gen. Quitman.

The people of Mississippi have generally
received with hearty approval the PROPOSE
ton to erect a suitable monument to the
memory of the late Gen. QUrrMAN. A writer
in the Natchez Free Trader suggests the follow
ing as speedy mode of raising the necessary
means for that purpose:
AT the election in October, let each voter,
if so inclined, deposite with the Judges of
election, his subscription; these Judges 40
place the amount received in the hands of the
Sheriff of their county, and he TO forward the
same to some person Ia NatcheZ, duly author
lied to receive the sPme. An acknowledge
ment of the receipt of the subscription of
each county to be made through the columns
of the Free Trader This, think. a feasible
plan, and likely to attain the object sought"
Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-08-26
Business In the Court orCIaims.

We are gratifed to learn that there is no
doubt the Court of Claims will he prepared,
at its meeting on the first Monday of Novem-
Der. to determine all the cases heretofore sub
mitted to it. The cases ordered to be reargu-
ed, in consequence Of the death of Judge Gil
christ. will then be heard in order, after which
those on the regular perfected trial docket
are, I've understand, to be taken up in their
order and promptly disposed OF. When the
proofs in cases are closed aud the record
printed, il rests wit. the claimants counsel
to determine whether the cause shall be
placed early upon the trial docket. When he
files his brief containing his statement of the
facts aud law. the only delay will be in pre-
pairing the Solicitors brief in reply; and this
delay will be short, rs we understand that
tits portion Of the Solicitors duty is brought
up to the present time. so that every cause in
his hands is now ready for argument, when
the necessary steps on the part of the claim
ant have been taken TO enable him to do So
The present indications authorize the conclu-
sion that the business in the Court of Claims
will hereafter be as thoroughly considered
and promptly despatched as in any other
tribunal where causes of the same cofnplexity
and magnitude are considered and determin-
cd. There is scarcely room 10 doubt that this
court will meet the expectations of the coun-
try, and prove one Of our most useful insti-
tutions. and especially il modified in the par
ticulars which we have heretofore suggested.
- Washington Union.
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For the Patriot.
The Sixth judicial Circuit OF Ten
nessee.

MEssRs. EDITORS: The death of our most
excellent and much lamented Judge, John l..
Goodall, makes it necessary for US to cast
about in our minds for man to fill the posi-
tion thus left vacant. We want a man, as
near as may be, such a. our late Judge was.
of profound legal lore, of the purest and most
exalted morals, with energy, patriotism and
philanthropy; and while we admit that there
are many men, good and true, who are able
and willing to make us a good Judge in the
bounds of our Circuit, we cannot turn our
attention to one so perfectly qualified in our
opinion as Col. Sam. NJ. Fife, of Carthage,
Smith county. He is most certainly the man
the people want and intend to have, ii he will
accept the position. We have conversed with
n variety of persons from three of the coun-
ties in the Circuit and they all, to n man, con-
cur in the desire that Col. Fife shall imme-
diately, announce himself as candidate, or
give assurance 10 his friends that he will
run
Col. Fite is so well known around this Cir
cult, it is useless TO speak here of his legal
attachments, moral worth or gentlemanly de-
pertinent. THE PBSPLE.
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The national organ of the "united Democ

The national organ oil the "unlted DeIioc-
racy'' publishes, with great gusto, the follow
ing opinion of St. Louis correspondent as
to the canvass in Illinois:
..IIlinois. / am sorry to say, is trying the
experiment that we tried. in dividing for the
benefit of a man. TIL" Block Republicans tctu
undoubtedly carry illinois at the neu aection.-
This will be the result of the foolish course
of Mr.. Douglas in his bitter assault upon the
President and the Democratic party OF the
nation"
Not quite so fast. 1t will not be ''the re-
lit of the foolish course of Mr.. DOUGLAS"
bat the result of the preference of the Buch-
anan Democracy for Black Republicans. The
extract of a letter from ISAAC Cook, the Bu-
chanan Postmaster at Chicago, recently pub
lished, shows .'what is what Here it is
1Ir is THE TRUE POLICY of all the friends of
lie Administration in Illinois TO VOTE FOR Re-
PUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR THE LEGISLATURE,
when they are not strong enough to run can
ddates of their own"
If the Black Republicans carry the State OF
Illinois it will be because the friends of the
Administration-the Buchanan Democracy
voted for Republican candidates.
Is it not very consistent in Southern Dem
ocratic presses to he denouncing Americans
for cooperating with Black Republicans,
whilst the Administration, through its sup
p0rters in Illinois, is endeavOring to supplant
DOUGLAS with LINCOLN, an abolitionist. dyed
in the wool?'
Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-08-26
A Gold and silver Currency.

From an article in the Union and american,
of Monday, we infer that organ is in favor of
an exclusively metallic currency. While it is
discussing the subject of currency business
which it seems to relish we should like to
see it define its views explicitly in relation to
the currency policy it desires to see pursued
in Tennessee. And with that view we re-
specially ask:
Is it in favor of rechartering the Union and
Planters Banks?
Is it in favor of placing the State Bank in
liquidation at the earliest moment that that
step can be taken?
Is it in favor of restricting the payment of
State an county taxes to specie, or of any
O her mode of at once banishing paper money
from the State?
Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-08-26

THE CROPS in Phillips county promise to be
passably fair on an average. Except where
ruined by the overflow or set back for want of
sufficient rain, they may be said to be good.
There have been no general rains in this imme-
date region this summer-some sections hav-
ing plenty, whilst others have suft red almost
drouth. Cotton and corn will consequent
ly turn out very we'll or only tolerable,
according to locality. The young corn,
planted in the bottoms since the overflow,
has been almost totally destroyed by worms.
In some fields scarce a blade is left.-Relna
(4rk.) Democrat.
Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-08-26
Appetite and strength Restore d.

William Young, Of South Pittsburg, says:
CATER having suffered severely for several days
with most distressing attack of DiarrhOea, pur-
chased bottle of Bosrhave's Holland B.tters. 1t
gradually checked the disease and restored my bowels
To perfect order Before had finished the bottle
found my appetite and strength returning Ibelieve
it worthy of the character you give it, and shall re-
il as such " aug24
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1#- William Neeld died in Lincoln county,
on the 10th inst. in the I'D year of his age.
VIM. Nreld was one of the earliest settlers
about Fayetteville, and never was known to
leave Lincoln county, even temporarily, since
he settled in it. lie has several times been
County Trustee.-Hnr. Neace.
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CHARLESTON, Aug. 23.-The fever has be
come epidemic in this city. The Health
officers report twenty eight deaths by fever
during the week ending Saturday 2lst inst.
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NOTICE


IS hereby given that The agency held by Martin
J. sazbacher for Marcus Fechheimer, Of Cincinnati,
Ohio, n from this day discontinued
MARCUS FECHHEfMER
Leopold s Feehhener Is my legally authorized At
torney 10 settle up the business
ang25-St. MARCUS FECHHEINER
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Dialogue between two Ladies
about Babies.

MRS. JoNES--well, we'll, well ! Sarah am as
WI tonished 10 you out shopping 50 soon after
the birth Of your baby, when you remained IN the
house more than a month when your other children
were born. Hsw Is ~ There Il secret about
IL. Do tell me
Ms SMITH, ~ no secret ana II tell You all about
H. Well, saw advertised In the papers, medi-
cine called COWAN'S LIrHOSTTSlfTlC OK MOTHERS
RELIEF. the advertisement stated that u would re
lieve the pains OF labor, and suffered much In
my former conhnements thai thought would get
bottle and try and II u did afford any relief and
never In my life did ! have anything 10 do me-
much good suffered scarcely any when the child
born, and felt almost well enough the same day
10 SIT up. advise every wonaa who IS going 20 be
confined 10 get bottle Il she il DESTROYS OF having
easy time.
Ms. IoxEs-W hat wonderful discovery. IN step
in here 10. BKowSs and get bottle and take Il 70
Ellen a she viii be confined soon. aug9-u
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A. MORRISON & CO.,
No. p Public Square, near City Hotel,
WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
American, French and German
FANCY GOODS.
business Change.

SlUCCFEpING J. C. narden in the Lumber trade,
- will continue the business at the old stand no.
Ill Broadway where wi be pleased TO meet all
the patrons of my predecessor and as many others
may vOr me with call.
| have several mills cutting Poplar and Cedar
Lumbe-, besides large supply Of white and yellow
Pine, thus enabling me TO sell at manufacturers
prices.
Having purchased the books and accounts of the
old firm all who aware of their indebtedness will
please come forward and settle by the FIRST Of Sep
TENDER, or will put their accounts with officer
for collection.
Having determined to adhere rigidly TO the Cash
system, all orders must be accompanied with the
money or be rejected.
aur26-tf J. r. DARDEN.