The New York Herald Newspaper, August 27, 1854, Page 10

Affairs in Calffornia. OUR SAN FRANCISCO CORRESPONDENCE. San Francisco, July 29, 1854. The Markets and Storag —The Stock of Provisions—Butter and Pork Sales—A Break-up Expected— Money Market, &c. The market 8 overstocked with all kinds of leading articles, merchandise, &c. Stock of flour, 150,000 bbls., and wheat enough in the fields to make from 300,000 to 400,000 bbls., estimated consumption, 35,000 bbis. per month ; with three cargoes Chil, on the way. Any quantity in warehouse, worth when lgnded, $22 to $24, now, $7 50 to $8; stor- age, $1 to $1 50 per ton per month, from tea to fifteen mouths. Sales at auction yesterday, of 3,000 bbls. Chili, in one-quarter and one-half sacks, at $4 874 to $7; been held about a year. Cost $12 5¢ to $14 when put in store. These are awful papers. No doubt the holder has been paying three per cent per month for money to bold the flour; or if not, he could have received the same iuterest moath): in advance, with A 1 security. . The stock of butter, lard, k, beef, ham, bacon, rice, hardware, &e., &c., is tremendous. Thave seen 500 or 600 packages of butter, in half barrels and hogsheads, sold at auction by one house in a siogle day, at $6 50 to $9, which must have cst $zZ to $25 at home, and held here a)! of from one to two years | and they estimate to be now on baad from thirty to forty thousaud packages of this kind of butter. I know oj a lot of forty hogsheads, 30,000 Ibs, for whch fifty-eight ceuts was | refused for it on Iaudiug, eighteen months | since. Pretty commercial house that! Aad the seme remark apples all round the city. They own large store nouses, aud what do they care when the goods pay by storage? Some must have an account to settle one of these days. Mess pork is dull at $15; clear, $19; good hams, $12 to $14; extra, 1éc, None but the best quality will auswer the market. Mess beef, $16 Large stock of hardware—enough tor two years’ wante, Ames’ loog-handled shovels, $12 at the | Last, sell here from 29 50 to $10; short, $4 75 } to $5; other good brands at half these prices. i Collins’ axes, genuine, $10 50, Any quantity | forced at auction every week; in fact, it is al- | most the only way to sell goods here. Rents are too high. Good fuir-sized stores—two sto- ries, no cellars—reat for five to cight hundred dolfars per month. Clerk hire, $150 to $200 per month, &c., Kec. | I am satisfied there must be a break-up here, | which must affect a great many Eastern houses. No getting away trom their fate. Who are the victims you must juage. Business is very dull Money, three to five percept per month The only ones making mobey are the brokers. My goods are about all closed, which is fortunate, The country is destined to grow to a great place, and San Frasci-co is the only outlet-— the only harbor for a long distaace up or down the coast. Gold is in abundance; soil rich—all kinds of vegetables grow without any trouble, almoet, I should have said, without planting, for potatces, wheat, Xc., left in the ground in fhe fall, spring up and produce the next season. The great want now is a population to work the mines and till the soil. Until this is in the State business cannpt prosper. J. | Say Francisco, July 29, 1854, The Steam Fleet of the Pacific Company— Passages of the Vessels—Route by the Isthmus—The George Law. Ihave taken the opportunity to write you concerning the P. M. Steamship Company line | of steamers on the Pacific and Atlantic sides. The steamef® on this side are some of tho finest steamers in the world for accommodation, speed and comfort to passeng ra going to and coming | from the Stajes to Californta. We have the Sonora, Capt.§& L. Whiting, John L. Stephens, Capt. Pierson, Golden Gate, Capt. Watkins, formerly of tho cteamohip au Francisco, all able and gentlemanly commanders, and well liked by the travelling community, Their average yaseage to and from Panama is about twelve refused to recognise me, although I moved that ex-Governor Mc act as temporary chairman, and had full sentence ficished some ten seconds before Mr. Venneule bad com- menced his motion in favor of Ned MoGowan Why Mr. B. did this is very simple. As you will learn from the papers, on the second day the conventions met at separate balls. We nominated men who were present, whose claims bad been freely canvassed since the close of the Legislature, who are the choice , of the State, and whose opinions are well known regarding the late Senatorial question. | On the other band, the Broderick party have | put forward men who were, and are yet, absent at their posts at Washington, both of whom have written a dozen letters to friends here, declining a renomination emphatically, and one of whom is a candidate for the United States Senate, All this Mr. B. and his friends well knew; but they hoped to lure us to a compro- mise, to prevail upon us to run some favorite of theirs with one of our choice for Congress. They have entrap; themselves in the pit they sunk for us. They well know that Latham | and McDougal will return here before the eleo- tion, and that both, besides declining a nomi- hation at their hands, will caovass the State | for our ticket. So now they propose a compro- mise, and for two vays past have been nearly begging us of the Central Siate Committee to accede to some terms to save the party. We are not going to do any such foolish thing. We have done no wrong—we have nothing to undo. What will be the result it is hard to | judge I think that Demer will be eiected, but | ac rather afraid of Herbert's chacces. He has a strony man in the whig ranks—Calhoun Ben- ham—as au opponent, agded to which the dis- ativc'ion in our own ranks, is dlmost too muoh to hope aguinst, also fear that our candidate for Cicrk of the Supreme Court, C. A. Leake, Esq, late State Senator, will be beaten by bis whig opponent. Yet it may be possible that our whole ticket will be elected; but 1 think otherwiee. Tre Know Nothings are organizing in every portion of the State, and rumor says their name is already legion. In this city it is claimed that they will poll from 3,060 to 4,000 votes. . This is incredible; it will be impossible, I think, that they cana bring up more than 1,500 to 2,000. ‘This, you know, { is a mighty vote in avy city fora secret party; but it is said these are stronger thau any other party ever sprung up of the sort. [ don’t know vothin’, and [ don’t want to. Iam down on all Native Americanism, for in me to uphold it would be to outrage the memory of a dead father, and blur the escutcheon of all living members of our family. I do not believe in | any class of proscripuon or persecution. These Know Nothings here will not make up a ticket of their own, I understand, but will choose from the various tickets in the field those can- didates that best suit them. The coming election will be a mixed up af- fair throughout the State. In this city there will likely be two democratic nominating con- | ventions, and, per consequence, two tickets for | local and county officers, The whigs, taking advantage of our discord, are likely to overdo | the thing—for now that success seems certaia, | there are about five hundred candidates for the various offices to fill. In fact. nearly every noisy dog that ever yelped whiggery about’lection day is now barking his superior claims, and whining | his distinguished qualifications for the place | sought. Jf perpect harmony does not prevail in the | whig ranke—if they allow disaffection, upoo the part of any clique, the upshot will be that an entire ticket cannot b: elected, and that the most prominent men of both parties may full an cary prey to the balance-of-power intiuence of the hnow Nothings, which will have the ef- fect of elevating into office those little known, less cared for, but who have never led enough in public life to have any antecedents that are traceable, so that if they proclaim themselves | “all right on the main question” of to-day, there will be nobody that kuew their yesterday, who can prove them guilty of vacillation or tergiversation. N ver in my life have 1 seen such extraordi- nary and culpable measures used in the at- tempts after power as at Sacramento during the sitting of our convention, on the first day. Our party, through three or four of its most prominent members, proffered—nay, almost beseeched—harmony and concession, in order tbat no distraction sheuld lounger pervade our 8; for the last three months they have out- jpped al] the other lines, arriving in advance from two to three days. The route acro-s the Isthmus of Panama is pleasant and far preferred to the San Juan route, having but eleven miles of mule travel. The agents at Panama are gentlemanly and courteous to passengers, and do all in their power to add to their comfort, Passengers from your city for the last four months have arrived here in twenty-four days, all in good health. There has not been a case of sickne:s from fever, to my knowledge, since my arrival. Mesers. A. B. Forbes and W. J. Balcock, the agents here, are gentlemen of high standing in this community. Their strict attention to the wants and comforts of passengers forwarded by them is highly spoken of. These steamers are well supplied with provisions, and ail the luxu- ries that a California market can afford are found at the table. I would recommend this route above ali others; having travelled the Nicaragua goute I can speak from experience. The steamer George Law, that brought me to Aspinwall, is a fine steamer, and well adapt- | ed for the California trade. Her qualities as a | fea going vessel were well tested by a gale in | the Gulf stream, and she proved herself a strong aud substantial sea boat; her commander is every inch & gentleman and a sailor. Her state rooms are large and commodious, and well Ventilated, her tables were supplied with the very best. k. 8. EXTRACTS FROM A PRIVATE LETTER. San Prancrsco, July 31, 1854. | The Democratic Convention at Sacramento— Progress of Know Nothingism—The Com- ing Election—Splhits in the Party—Cuban Filibusteros—Annexation of the Sandwich | Islands—A Steamer for the Oregon Route— Execution of a Criminal—Staboing Affray —Fire—Arrival of Steamers—Grading— Value of Real Estate~Money Market— Business. By the papers that I send you this mail, you will see what a devil of a time we democrats had in convention at Sacramento a week ago In all the conventions, caucuses, meetings and assemblages that I have ever attended, I never #aw such ecenes, such excitement, such confusion, ‘at Sacramento. Just imagine a church filled with some seven hundred to eight hundred | aed crammed in—of whom about hundred and fifty @laimed places there, and of whom but two hundred and sixty were entitled to euch places; imagine all these shouting, whooping, shrieking, laughing, curs- ing, threatening, coaxing, whistling, stamping, Clapping, all at once, and you have a faint impression of the ‘first day's” proceedings, This was kept up until half-past ten at night, when ll dispersed, having been literally . ordered ont of the church by the trustees, for Misconduct and rowdyism. King David seriously injured himself when he arrogated the power to determine who were proper delegates to a convention which wae not yet organized, and with which he bad no con- nection at that time himself. It his duty, efter his anwarranted assumption tn calling the convention to order, to have received the motion of whoever spoke first, even though it as well known that the mover was not « Gelegate, for until organization temporarily, nd until examination in‘o the credentials of all is made, every persox: present must be Ecotumed a delegate, But Ma; D. C, Broderick | nor adopted any subterfuge. | Nominations, and had made up their whole ranke, so tbat the great democratic party of the State might act In unity In the cumiug cau- vase. Honorable terms of compromise were of- iered, and as often rejected. We proposed thut to properly organize, all should retire from the room, save those whose seats were not con- tested ; that these uncontested delegates should, then, in whatever manner they saw fit, examine avd report upon the contested delegations, de- termining themselves who were and were not duy eutitied to seats. This was refused We then offered to abnegate the existing double- convention, resolve ourselves back to our origi- bai elements, and then proceed properly to the choice of temporary oflicers. This was also re- fused. We then proposed that each chairman should nominate a committee of conference from their respective sides, who should retire and report to the body the next morning. This, too, was declined. We hud now done every thing in our power to reconcile and unite the party; but all our efforts were disgracefully and uncourteously declined, so we proseeded to act as become us. We stooped to no malice, Henceforth ours was a simple onward course, and that we pursued. We organized regularly, and gave the other side the full benefit of all that properly belonged to them. We voted, when all claimed as ours were present, 189 votes; they voted 260, the real number of delegates. This they did by allowing parties to cast the vote of counties not contested, which returned dclegates of one sort, and who refused to meet with them. We simply cast the votes of those who were with us, whose right to | seat was manifest. Another thing: while they had a Committee on Conference under appointment, which oom- mittee was to have a talk with our folks upon the course to pursue, they went on making ticket before the committee had retired. But it is all past, and King David’s day is drawing toa close. He never can be United States Senator from California, The news from the States by the last two steamer?, has caused several of the first Cuban filibustero heroes here to make preparations for their departure on tomorrow's steamers. Whether they have any more definite intelli- epce than is given us through the papers, Ffeaven knows. It may be that they are all ex- tremely anxious tobe in time for a top-slice of that desired addition to our dominion, and are fearful that abeence may render them forgot- ten. Among the number that return to-morrow is the gigantic, though # fee ee Col. Wheat, of New Orleans, who fel & commission in the Lopez army. me disaj tment was evinced here on the receipt of the news up to the 5th July from the other side, that no mention was made of the annexation of the Sandwich Islands, Know- ing ones here confidently predicted that this act would have been consummated, and that the news would reach us uv the steamer of yeeterday at the farthest, ‘e, on this coast, are particularly anxious that annexation should take place, and that immediately. I learn that two fine steamers, the Sea Bird and Goliah, have been purchased by Cupt. J. T. Wright, to ply between the respective ports of the diffe- rent islands, and the company owning the line, whose president is G, W. Ryckman, Esq., for- merly ot Albany, N.Y. sre of success, A very profitable trade can be pur- sued among the ‘Hands, and the have an exclusive charter for steam navigetion for the term of fifteen years. The steamship owned formerly by ten Oe Riots Of compliontel ual, proloaged pO of complicat prol litigation since her arrival here, has at been by the United States Marshal, and sold by the purchasers to Capt. J. T. Wri; She is advertised to run on the Oregon route, and I believe, extend her trips u; into Puget the E #3 es 3 Sound. She is finest steamer we have on this side, and is the Capt. Wright has certainly proved man of t energy in Prosecut upoa 3 Hh #2 steam navigation our Pacific cosst, truly be has been the pinow of every coast pie separate from Panama line, yet established. To be eure he has been haad- somely rewarded: for his enterprise; bat, had it not been for him, some few towns along coast, Row quite » Might not for years 10 come have reached ay tinction. On Friday last, the second legal execution ever held in this city occarred. The criminal was a Wm. B. ; his crime, the murder of H.C. Day. Sheppard was only about 25 years | of age, of a tolerably good a; oe, Bad pos- sessed of more po intelligence. I witnessed the execution—in fact, was on the ecaffold until within a minute of the time that he was swung off; and though I have wi'- essed several die by the rope, never did I see such callous indifference manifested. He re- mained imperturbably cool the whole time, and conversed with those about him in a free, off- hand manner. Not even a momentary spasm of fear came over him throughout the awful preliminaries attending his execution. He pro- tested his innocence to the last. A Cutholic priest attended him up to the momeut that the death~ap was drawn over his eyes, He wrote & confession, as it is called, which he gave to one of his keepers, to be published only after his death; but in it the only confession made is that he has ever been a model man, and thet he did not kill Day, nor anybody else. He was a most incorrigible wretch. On Saturday vighta man named Atkins stabbed his prriner, named Way, to the heart with a bowie-knife. Way died instantly. At- kins declares he was first attacked, and did the deed fn pure self-defence. As there were no witcesses to the tragedy. it is imposstble now to judge of the affair. Atkins is in custody to await bis trial, There has been another large fire in Marys- ville, which destroyed and damaged property to the amount of $150,000. This I hope will prove the last victim to the fire epidemic which rages so fearfully every year throughout our State. The Uncle Sam arrived here from Panama on Sunday morning, the 30th inst., in thirteen days und four hours from Panama. She brought a large number of passengers-—-among them, Judge Farwell, recently appointed one of the Land Commissioners for our State. The Golden Gate arrived last night about five o'clock, in fourteen days from Panama. She brought a large mail and a fair lot of pas- sevgers. Samuel Brannan, of this city, came in her. The steamer of the Nicaragua line is not re- ported yet. For some strange reason, the steamers of this line have not recently made any quick trips, while last year they were al- most invariably ahead of the mail steamers. The subject of city grades is causing much interest among the property holders. Heaven knows, they are all bad enough at present. Three months ago the City Engineer ordered Sacramento street to be filled up twenty-three feet, and it was done; now it has to be cut down to thirteen feet—a difference of only ten feet. The beauty of it is that the owners of several brick houses and wooden tenements have raired and underbuilt the twenty-three feet, and have now to lower and cut away the ten feet difference. Mighty fine thing to own property there, isn’t it? Real estate is somewhat more firm than it has been for a few months past, though but few sales are made. Money is tighter than ever, and rates of interest do not abate. The Sheriff can safely anticipate a busy year and a profitable | one. Very few clippers are now arriving, and iu- deed we need none of them: yet for a while. The immense stock of goods at present in mar- ket is sufficient for another year’s consumption, and home shippers will save themselves great | losses by witholding freights for a six months at least. Fruit is fast pouring in from all parts of the surrounding counties, and from the lower coast. Business of every description is in a stagnant condition, and if speedy relief does not ensue we shall have several failures to report ere long. Restvent. Fashions For August. As aes Eran ees for Coe pbauwe vad uphesitatin quote or; and tar! 3 sy are admirahi adapted for tho excessive ‘degree of dependent of that quay: they pretent no fv able lepender: at quality, t! resent go fav. a medium for the japee Ballonaces which vow consti- tute so decided a feature in fashionable dvesses. It is not, therefore, surprising that we see go excellent and varied an assortment of these materials exhi- bited by the leadiog maisons de nouveantés. They are made with double and triple skirts, with figared borders either in white or some rich but subdued color, and produce a charming ettect. On some, the upper skirt, which falls from the waist over the others, is composed of four flappets, the sides and bottom trimmed with the same design as on the lower skirts, The elegant and light appearance this arrange: ment produces may be conceived, by supposing a a ae piers el entire le ang: rg ‘ully all round tl igure, and imparting a stl more wrial character to this fairy-like fabrics but, to assist the ep Byewry we will give the de- scription of a few of most effective we have seen. Bortge forms algo a pretty material for evening dreeses, when made with flounces a dispositions; on the latter are printed, in bright colors, pines, roae- buos, wreaths, and various other designs of a sim ple pattern, en relief, of black velvet, or to match, forming an effective drese. An ¢legant robe of blue crépe, with three deep festooned flounces, shared with its fair wearer the admiration of her friends. The two upper flounces were looped up at intervals by small sprigs of pink acacias. This drapery of blondes and ribbon gave quite a Pompadour cha- racter to the dress. The corsage, in Louis XV. style, was trimmed in frovt with ap échelle of blonce, and a ruche of rib- bon encompassed by acacia blossoms, which termi- nated on the shoulders, and formed loops which fell Pccy on the arm. One of the most remarkable onovations of the day is the evident attempt to bring about the adoption of the small hoop of the time of our ancestors—not perhaps immediately, nor by a coup d'etat, but by gradually acc: the eye to the increasing rotundity, and to its par- ticular locality. Barege, muslin, silk, or line dresses are worn with a japon of stiff taffetas, of the same shade as the robe, and is gathered in with it at the waist. Besidés this contrivance, a stiff talle, of the same shade, is placed under the flounces, which gives them great support and firmness. Smali ruches of ribbon on the edges of the founces of dresses, of light fabrics, ma‘erially assist the effect of the shape of the skirt, without detracting from the cheracter of the material. Muslin dresses are much worn. Fancy straw is still much in favor, on account of the great progress lately made in its manufacture, so that plain straw is quite put aside for the beantiful open work stcaw, woven, with velvet in A stad jatterus, or with blonde, taffetas, and_ ribbon. mneta of paille d'italie are very simply trimmed; a besutifal spra; of flowers or feathers being often the sole Abonnet made of ban:ia of paille de riz, placed alternately with buillonnéés of blonds, orna mented on one side by a yellow rose and buds, with leaves of bla’ k velvet, the veins of which are o! open straw, and the inside trimmed with leaves match, mixed with small yellow half-open rose buds and buillonnées of blonde, may be well placed on our list of chapeaux de visite. Flowers are much used for trimming bonnets, as are also beau- tiful imitations of the various fruits of the season. Tae Caourra at Monrrmat.—The Montreal Herald, of the 22d inst., publishes 9 statement the ravages of the cholera in that city during the nt season, and also s comparison of the deaths uring the years 1832, 1834, 1849 and 1854. The in 1834, seven weeks, 913; and for eight weeks in Herald g 1854, the deaths were 1,186. The ‘ang The disease in each case appears to have wn the greatest violence within a short period of its appearance. In 1832, the day of the tality was the 19th of June, and Sroatent mor. the uiath or tenth lague. The number of deaths that day than 149. In 1834, the hi Hi He itieti H i if ‘ E i é ii €: i the | | | | ere Gre caused by sparks and cin- ders flying from tes center a (From the Hartfo.d Times, Aug. 25.) How day it is! This exclamation is made a thou- sand trmes 8 day; and daily the great red sun, hot, bornivg, almost bloosy in appearance, rises and sets, bis brillisncy dimmed by the same hazy, thick atmvepbere, dry in ap; ce, and almost oppres- | sive to res ination. For two months the clouds have held the rain, save on one or two occasions, when they let fall a swall quantity for a few | mivutesst atime. For one month, more especially, have the ea been helelg aed becoming brown. The leaves on some of the trees of tie mountains are turning gellow one Dias bathe The : 7 ground. The running wots, and stances, ceased to flow. save on damp or meadow toes have generally continued to grow till this time. A beavy rain, lowed by scalding heat, would probably do them more harm than The crop of rowen hay bas been cut off. The corn loka Mag ng? well, though it is not so stout and busby aa it generally is jing @ good crop. The dust is above the fetlock u; to the city, and rises in clouds at every The fruit trees are dusty, and seem to be peoting with thirst. T.¢ citizens are becoming dry. Wagon tires are loosened The watksare dusty, Shingles on the roof are d. The woods of us are On fire, and the forked flames are running as if fed by old dry prairie grass. Still good people pray for raic, ond yet the great red eun, in bazy | atmoepbere, goes bis rouns day by day, ouryiak drought in ite poverty on his very face. Raia tain! When shall we have rain? How dry it is! (From the Boston Atlas, Ang. 26.) The country in this region is anffering severely from the dry weather. mapy places the corn crop will be materially injured on the lighter aoila, Potatoes will suffer severely, and in many cases are already past recovery. Some fields will hardly pay the expense of harvesting. Fruit is also aufferin, from the drought. Apples in many places are fi ing off,and unless we have rain soon the crop, which promised to be abundant, willbe poor. The astures look as though they had been scorched by re. Unless we have rain soon, the hopes of the husbandman will fail them. {From the Utica Telegraph, Aug. 25.) From almost every section of country we hear or read GS drought. e Shiney earth ne for rt, and the growing crops are drying up for want of it. “In theswent or thy brow Shale ou eat bread,” was one of the maledictions of the primeval curse, ané this year bow fally has it been realized. For more than a month past tie sun has been king of tbe eartb. The artizan and the laborer, as the: sought the daily toil which secured themselvzs au those they loved the bread and comforts which sus- tained them, bave wiped their brows and prayed fer rain. Tbe merchant has left his cowater and hie desk to reek the quiet of his home, and prayed forrain. The dust clouds that blinded and stified them bave euch day | Pee more dense, hot and in- tolerable, until they have all united in one earnest prayer for rain, [from the Milwaukee Wisconsin, August 22) Rain is much needed here. The trees and grass are dying, and earth is calcined, under the long aie of dry weather. But fortunacely the cropa are beyond danger. The corn begins to glaze and It is four weeks potatoes are ripe enough to dig. k ogo on Monday night last, since the heayy rain which was supposed to have done so much dam- age. Yet itis manifest that without that heavy rain, our corn crop, which is now so sbundant, would bave beena failure. {From the Warsaw (Mo.) Democrat, Aug. 17, Never since the settlement of this country bas the prospects of the corn crop been #0 discouraging as the present. The whole of Southwest Missouri, and to scme extent the whole State, with a part of Ar- Kansas and Texas, is within the range of this dread- ful dronght. The Osage river is lower than ever befcre known. The corn crop of this region will not yield more than a fourth of an average crop. Many fields—nay, farms—will make none, not even seed. The corn on all the gravelly land is now fied nearly to the top blades. The wild on the Ticges is all dead— shed up—as well as wild sbrubbery in many es. Many of the trees are dying on the gravelly ridges. In fact, the graas ani ves of the shrubbery are 80 parched in many laces, that it will burn as it ordinarily would in Nocemhar, We have had no raic, except one or imo paritl showess that did but Hittle ‘good, for some ten weeks, Luckily Wé a tolerable har- vest of wheat, and oats was excellent. Tne water tills are all dry, and for the want of steam mills this part of the country is in a deplorable condition for biead. Flour is worth from four to five dollars per hundred, and none to be had; corn meal, $1 25 per bushel, and scarce. ‘The Rain on Friday Night [From the Newark Mercury, Aug. 26.} At length, after weeks of arching drou it which bas destroyed the labors of the husbindman, and withered up the very sorings of life’s existence, we were visited last evening with one of those refresh- ing rains which revive almost in an_ hour the laa- id currents of natural life. Upon the heated city, luring the livelong day, the sun had thrown hi burning rays, and the heavens seemed as brass to those who ar upon them, but at night the flery charm was broken, and from. the west came up, as a minister of joy and plenty, the glorious raia which falleth alike upon evil and the good. The almost withered grass lifted up its blades to drink in the element of life, and with gratefal perfume the rose tuned towards its visitant. The old trees which bad been for days and weeks hendivg beneath tome undefined misgivings, lifted up freshly and roudly their branches to the sky. All tirongh e hidden and unseen world, the glorious ele ne it inspired hope and life. The thousand mizistries of the creative mind which wock beneath in the labo- ratories of God,had well nigh stayed their labors,,but now they start anew the mighty levers which throw up from the bosom of the earth the fruits and grains which support mankind. , But it is not alone the inanimate world which re- a at this hour. There is one universal acknow- ledgement of thanks through eVery grade of animate creation. To feel with every passing day that the sun is but a globe of fire, and that the earth is trod- den only by his devastating worshippers, weakens as much the sources of animal as of vegetable life. We gather our existence from the elements of nature around, and incorporate in our very blood the secret essences of the material world. ‘The shadow of withered harvests reste witb gloom upon the pelace of the rich and the cottage of the poor, and the rain which at firat broke on us 80 wildly last night, and then fell so silently and gently, gure Jor C ' troversy with members of the party, but in ‘One had left behind him a wife and two expected to see again, and he joi but feebly in the merriment his companions. Asleep in the day time, the darkness aroused them, aud we beard for hours their songs and b: ac: companimeots. We were favorably im; the Tatelligence and decoroua behavior of the slaves ped be ia Misael, and cond not but think ave: i, was of a grade higher than that oC ear Ne rh negroes, Several Southern claveboiders seemed eager to invite et gene: it was good bumored, and in ‘one instance did we Wes a ronment plantation pars At Jeff reon iy passen; disem| to take quarters in the , Which, for a long distance, had been seen cro’ the summit of a bigh bluff. Four of these were murderers; three Germsos bad each an Irishman ina street affray, and seemed not atall penitent for their offence. 6 antipathy between the Germans and the Irish in 5t. Lonis is excessive, and frequently breaks out in ferocious assau:te. ‘The fourth, a girl, had killed her infant. Something, posny of inteliect, had interce bebalf, and she received a sentence of on)y two years. Just beyond Jefferscn City one of the deck nande fell into the river. The steamer Was stopped, and a boat launched, but had gone but @ little way when it was recalled with curses by the captain, indignant at the detention. Tne an- fortunate victim was seen swimming lustily (but whether from design or from want of presence of mind) directly into the middie of the stream, although we were. then quite near the southern . The strong current bore him far off in a very few minutes, and he no doubt |» His hat waa picked up, by means of which he was ¢ identified. On Friday evening, July 28, after seventy-six hours ot passage, the little of Kansas ap- ared—our it of disembarkation. As a certai xington Lafayette Co.) Sentinel had been for a week or more advising the people of Kansas “‘to cut off the first party of Massachusetts emigrants lon should Ln there,” ve ookens roar eye for the ite preparations. Every , how- ever, waaes tame as @ landing at Newport trom the steamer Bay state. The citizens of Kansas, admirably located on the Missouri, near the mouth of the Kansas, and al- ready ambitious of becoming the St. Louis of the Missouri, knew better than to blast the rising for tunes of their city by listening to such folly. On the contrary, several residents expressed a cordial pleasure at seeing us. In a few minutes we were comfortably housed in the Union Hotel, kept by Mr. Jer kins, an Obioan. We lingered twenty-four hours to perfect our ar- rapgements for departure into the wilderness. Kan- gas will no doubt become a large city; but itis cer ae that the ae haemo! em ee _ ores Ver. ley will be on the ¢ side of the river, al mouth of the Kenat ana within the limits of the new territory. Here a high tongue of land is wash- ed on two sides by the great rivers Missouri and Kansas, penetrating respectively northward and westward 2,500 and 1,000 miles. The site is ad- mirable for a great city,and itis to be deplored thst the Wyandot Indians, only 800 in number, have been expressly guaranteed for eight years longer the exclusive possession of this immeasely valuable land, thereby postponing the founding of the city, which is destined by nature to be the out- let of the produce of the Kansas valley. CHARLESTOWN. An Aagp Cotonep Woman.—There now lives in moderate health, near Good Hope, a colored wo- man named Dianna Mudd, whose age is one hun dred and ten years. She is cheerful, and can re- late many events of times “ long ago,” of muoh in- terest to the present generation.— Washington Star, August 25. MABITIME INBRLLIGENCE. ‘8G AI! packages and Ielers intended for the New Youx HERap should be sealed. " ALMANAC POR SEW TORK—THI8 DAY. Port of New York, August 26, 1954, HAMES. Pacific. retic, Co. Ple th W Meyer. & ‘chi CLEARER Steamship Alabama, Schenck, Savannah, 8 IL Mitchill. Steamship Marion, Forter, Charleston, Spofford, Tiles- en & poms Jemestown, Cavendy, Norfolk, Ludlam & asants. Ship Golden Eagle, Davis, New Orleans, WH Rivor- em FE og Heroine (Br), Malden, St John, NB, H& F W leyer Bark Réward, Patterson, Mobile, Fagle & Hazard, Bark Greenfield, Hamlin, Galveston, DC Murray. Brig Abrasia, Stevens, Cape Haytien, A Oakemith, Brig Ebe (Sic), Corselli, Tarragona, Chamberlin & Robinson Brig Issbella Hay (Br), Hudfreth, St John, NB, H & F t Meyer. Brig Exoress (Br), Sharp, St John, NB, Barclay & Livingston Brig Hollander, Brown, St Thomas, E Richardson & Co goEtie Been <0 Castine, Luther, Philadelphia, Brett, » & Co. Schr Katherine {(Ham), Kramer, Oporto, Fanch & Meincke. eehr 8 H Townsend, Rowlaud, Maranham. Schr Flora, Brown, Bermuda, Middleton & Co. Schr Reinceer (Br), Higgs, Bermuda, Micdleton & Co. Echr Martha, Weeks, Beaufort, NC, Davis & Holmes. tchr Jerolemon, Line, sichmond, Johnson & Slaght. Schr fea Witeh, Kider, Norfolk, Johnson & Staght, Schr Oregon, Gautier, Washington, NCS H Mathews. cht Lily, Jones, Wilmington, NC, MoCready, Mott © Schr Herrico, Scranton, Richmond, C H Pierson. Schr Boston, Kelly, Philadelphia, J W McKee. Schr “usp, Rogers, Boston, C H Pierson. Schr Bay State, Sherwood, Bostoo, Dayton & Sprague. Schr Notes, Kinney, Wareham, master. Schr Meteor, Weeks, Wareham, master. Scbr Ann 8 Salter, Hawkins, Wareham, master. Schr Argo, Kelsey, Hartford, H McKomb Gibbs, Crampton, New Haven, JH Havens. Soop hen: and gladness in every gust and in ever; voice of the pattering drops. Even in’ the ly ont cmpay a a a ae conte a ee up a sh heart . ARRIVED in the country who can descri ness O HS SHE Ye Ooemmomen. pe what joy | yoStetmenip James Adger, Turner, Charleston, 54 hours was it welcomed in farm-house, and how the = beasts acknowledged the glorious visita ‘Throughout our State we have suffered severely bared rougot, and we trust that the present shower is but r of @ contiaued rain, which will irrigate amply the parched and fevered earth. It is to be hoy that the injury to corn ond gram will not be irremediable, and that fevora- ble weather may yet save the Portion of the expe ted barvest. At any rate let us rejoice that the drought has at last reached its limit, and that our farmers may lock their condition fairly in the face. In the midet of a commercial depression which is felt om every side, it has been most unfor- that porkon i Brig Cla yy be Livin Pic eck house Brig ba Stepbenson, Sn J to Kehr fot Baltimore), pene ie back aed toSpefford, Tilestou & Co. Thursday, § PM, 36 miles N of Cape Hatteras, passed steamship Knoxville, from New York for Ssvarnah May 7, Anjier Ship Eureka, Whip) Jure 9, Cape of jope July 8, and St Helens July 21. June 1), spoke Br bark John Lawson, frem Singa- pore for Liver) lat 7118, lon 102 31 E; July 16, ex- changed #1 Br bark ‘‘Mab,” from bay for Liverpool, lat 24.22%, lon 9 24 E; 224, was boarded b; whaling bark John Dawson (of New Bedford), Crom: 14 months out, with 650 bbls sperm, two days from Helons, bound to Brazil Banks; Aug 22, » Agnes Heed, 97 dayn from Callao for New York, lat 34 N, loa 71 W, who wisbed to be reported. Mr W A Menfing, late cf Hamburg, died of chronic dysenvery, on Aug 2. The E haa ex; med very light weather since passing Ber- muda ee Mills, Liver; with Neealth’s Sone i Roseway Belle 5 rum, segura old oe, Brig q salt, to Concklin & Smith. ed hee | ees (of Portiand), Libby away fore was the to the No wae wing very hard the city by steamtug BELOW. Ship Koopbandel, Rotterdam, peasengers) also a” Br bar, from ‘Hull, wiih Soul; pean nlon, Havre; Jamestown, Norton D H i Emerald Wind at sunrise, SW; meridian, do; sunset, N. built ta this efiy, 650 tons, 15 yeare Ship old, bas been void for $14,000, Lavncuxp—At Gouldaboro’, Me, 10th a fine 208 tons, copper fastened, built and fi with all modern improvements, called the Orozimbo, ommaey Messrs Tracey, Joy, Jones & coors, ot and J H Cheney & Co, of Boston 18th inst, under of Cai Also, launched at the same i i E nb FE ES i on 220 ee ve BM Bowle the al juccabah, ! Figg wh oe Fy, the re er ‘The Mechanica’ Ship Building Com, were at Notle’s Island, near Portemouta, Pon ge inst, & rior ship of about 900 tons, called the Ladogs, 0: by Messrs 'm Ropes & on, Boston, and intended for the ae Sar Ladoga is the name of « take near i 1 tersburg. | vat Richwond, Me, 284 inst, by T J Sou! Wizard , of 1400 tons, owned by the Babe be Pred ets Ae Cone, of Conmes- ‘tien’ tended for business Pee! ip are believed te workmanabip and materials of the sey Franciaco, Slat ult, a beautiful iii ‘be equél to any ever built in this coun! At Rincon Point, San Schr called the J E Murdock, in honor of the trageciam of that name. The 0 ince of this vessel i aid to be very creditable to California st ipbuilders Disasters. Brio Hrratp, of NYork, from Wareham for Balti NBedford 24th, with loss of bowsprit, , be. having been in contact night of 284 fost, Block ) with schr C Loeset, from Br ania Evora, (of Windsor,) Francis, 7 days from Baltimore for Port Soaimy put inte Halifes 1908 40 pro- cure another master, Capt F and first officer being sick. Br prio ANN Crark, Barry, 70 days from Shields for New Haven, went on to thé rocks between Little. asd Great Gull night of 28d inst, and at last accounts was is ‘8 bad situation. Scur New ENGLanp, from Rondoxt for Boston, before reported at the bar io & leaky condition, arrived at Name tucket 23d, where she discharged 60 tons of coal; would proceed immediately to Boston without repairing. Scuz W Grxcory, at Portsmouth. Lower Harbor from NYork, came in without a pilot at 11P M, very at the time, and in coming to anchor struck on rocks, near Kittery Point, where she remains fast. She A damaged, ‘The WG telonged Us Hockinnds aa: tab al . The to was tops, 8 years old. Cargo insured. Scar Nicsoras Bropw, 8; ie, from Stamford, Cana, for York Kiver, Va, woat agnor st Long Branch, meet the wreck of ship Chauncey Jerome, Jr, on Wi end will prove a total ieee ee h and dry on the beach.’ The N B was 16 years old, 130 tons burthen, and owne! three-fourths = Barnegat, and one fourth in this city, and is met sured. Br scorn Inpvs, Day, from Halifax for Boston, witt: 1g condition, 6 tarah, who crew and carried thein to Boston 26th. Arr at Nantucket Aug 24 bere “Apphia Maria, Tr a fantucket 0 rk Ap Pacide Ocean, Talonbusw April 28, are S50 bbis do bpbk. Has on freight about 650 bbls. Saw a whale- ship north of the Gulf Stream, supposed the Nantuoket, bound home, Also arr at do schr Hamilton, Bailey, Shoals, with 50 bbls bpbk oil, Carried away the head of foremant in the blow of Tuesday night. Picked up sails and rigging of some vessel digmasted on Tuesday aint. Arr at do 23d achr W P Dolliver, from the Shoals, 5@ bbls hpb’ oil. At atuth Jane 4 Com Morris, Lawrence, of Fell- mouth. Bark I-abelita Hynes, at San Francisco July 23, frem eat pene passed a large number of whales in lat 4& lon : yea Fayal July 27 Wave, Stanton, NB, no repert of oil. Spoken—July 18, Int 88, lon 40, Esther, of Orleans, no hug 20, of Tack ermuck, Nimrod, 2 days from New Bed ol ernucl ~ ford for Pacific. 4 ili lenraeld Caxtox—In port beat Gravina, % —In Sprague, from Shanghai, uncertain. Gf de Zi : ree ees, one 14 bark 2 tg for — be . for Boat ° Basie Ellon, for Baltimore 18th, n°" 178i —— Home Ports, ALEXANDRIA—Art Aug 24 schrs Ann D, NYork; Ro- sina, Portland. Sid schrs SB James, Dighton; A Felken- burgh, Warebam. ALBANY—A\ rr Ang 25 HB Beach, Sat Haitford. Cid propeller Gane, Oia te ne BOSTON—Arr Ses steamer Osprey, Phite- Pierre (new, arleston), Tes- briga Conquering Hero (Br), Devine, Cadis co ‘July 28; rehen Eupice, Hopving, Soule Ga; George 1 Ee Nm Victory, Baker, and James H Stroup, Corson, Philedek Bia] Fume Furbash, oes id ‘hariot of Fare, Levi Wood! Nickerson, NOrleane; bark ‘Rat ee Kent, ‘illiams,’ Fickett, Havaus; Belle , phia; schiw Mahomet, Hutchiacom, Gowaives; Wm Carroll, Dundar,'and Ingomar, Belcher, Jacksonvitie; Thos H Seymour, Kelley, and Lady Suffolus Baker, Philedelpbia, a barks Hinds, D Webster, Gem? twigs HW Moncure, Celt, Warren Brown; sehr Hamor; and from the Roads tan. Brig Boyd, which was ashore on Lovell’s has been off, and went to sea. : BATH~Arr eee brig Poinsett, Hill, Jacksonville; schr N H Hall, , do. Cld 284 brig Rolling Wi . Guadeloupe. me ee IGHTON~—Arr A’ achr Alvarado, Pratt, Ocra- coke via Providence; Artist, Forrester, Wood! NJ; 24th schrs Increase, Weeks, Port Ewen for Taantoa; 26th Gen Worth, Burt, Philadelphia for do, Sid 28d - sebr James T Brady, Ward, James River. FALL RIVE!—Arr A 24 schr Minerva, McGivern, Baltimore; sloop Thos W 4 ‘orne, Cummings, Port Ewen; 25th scbrs Daniel Brown, Heald, Alexandria; J W Lind- sey, Lewis, do ‘ARDINER—Arr Aug 17 schrs Gazelle, schra Lucretia, 3 og oun. ped New ia, Hooper, wille; le! tte, New York. Sli 20th brig Porto hiladelphia; reba iar Bon Rico, Stinchfield, PI 4 ? ROLE—Arr A schr Exile York for Annapolis, NS. ished elaer rr 24th brige Merrithew, Philadel, ton; Forest State, do tor do; Wa H Parke? Nessie, Fi, for Frankfort; Highland Mary (Br), NYork for Piotou? schrs Mary Elizateth, Philadelphia for Boston: Ea Bictntda, tof eeicToe at, Fe for Newburyport; Portemouth; Gentile, NYore for. Bath; * sont wen for Bangor; Sarah Ja) lantucket for NYork. sla Pes Wm Paks; schra Ontario, J L Hobart and Ex- Arr 26th brigs Attakapas, Rondout for Boston; R Clack, Philadelphia for Eastport; sche Curistortet Loc ser, L Au , EH Nash and ‘Albion. Philadelphia for Pond, Florence and Victor, NYork for do; Boston; LS oe NYork tel; Louisa, NYork; 191] ar eairanaans Agnes, Port Ewen for do; Monclova, Al. mira Ann, Philadelphia for Bath; Zulma for Ma- chias; Mary H Vase, do for Weymouth; Isabella Thomp. son, Boston for Philadelphia; Don Nicholas, Portland for do.’ Sid brigs High'and kary PD: R B Olark; schee Mary, Edmund 8 Jones, Thomas Porter, Gentile, Chelesa, Farah Jane, Christopher Loeser, L Audenried, LS Pond, eee #gnes, Mary H Chase and Isabella In port 11 A M, wind light from NW, brigs Eliza ie Fey oh Arr At bi NaNTUCKET—Arr Aug Hy i New Rondout for (seo disasters.) Tuthill, Philadelphia; 24th, NEW BEDFORD—Arr A: | Wareham for 4