Crawfordsville Review, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 30 September 1854 — Page 1

lgSUiijr#,»S.-' 4wWu

r. i't 'S\? -Or.pv! .W ,*!A S:

7'i

-cr

-VOLUME VI.

t., THE PROSPKCT. .One of the most interesting subjects •owhich has of late engaged the public atn-n-stion, is that in relation to the prices of breadrttuffs, and provisions generally, during the -approaching winter. For two months past, *we hare had doleful accounts of the de•atrnction of the corn crop in the great corn -^growing regions of the country. But latterly it has been ascertained that these accounts have been exaggerated, and that the fears which have been expressed will not (be realized. The harvest proves to be better than the promise, and we are consequently in no danger of a .famine,' or anything approaching it. High prices there Jinny be, as there have been for a year or

when farmed as this was. And this is a common remark, that even the worst farmers have fair crops of wheat this year.

A journey from London to Birmingham and thence via the Stour Valley and Shrewsbury to Chester, and then through Carlisle to Glascow, has satisfied the editor of the Economist that the great fall in the price of new wheat which has occurred in MarkLane is entirely justified by the appearance of the crops throughout the country. The harvest is everywhere making rapid progress, and very soon a large proportion of the wheat south of Trent will have been carried

TRnf van muci n,u former tlv7f ftno

find the unusually large surplus of Canada, will have no little effect upon the state of things. "The provinces throw into the scale twelve millions of bushels, which will go far to neutralize the loss of the supply from Russian ports.

Oa the whole, our fanners may rely up.

on remunerating prices for the products ot

Jheir capital and labor, while the res,dents I

of cities will be compelled to pay a good:

.dead, he still lives. His voice wiil never be heard again, pealing forth those strains that were wont to enchant a world, but his record is a clear exposition of his views and should be received as the thunders of an Angel cent forth to the Earth. -, In his great Speech upon the compromise measures in 1850 Mr. Clay said: "But if (the Whig party) is to be emerged into a contemptible abolition party, and if abolitionism fe to be engrafted upon the Whig creed, from that moment I renounce the party and cease to be a Whif. I go yet a step farther. If I am alive, I will give my humble support to that man for the Presidency, who to whatever party he may belong, is not contaminated by fanaticism rather than to one who, crying out all the time that he is a Whig, maintains doctrines utterly subversive of the constitution and the tfnion."

Is there a Whig living who does not subscribe to this sentiment? We believe that there are thousands of Whigs in Indiana who will respppd to, the feelings of Henry Clay so nobly expressed, and refuse to vote the fMongrel ticket?-- CVn. Enq,

W A or or to

two past but with an abundant wheat crop, to abuse them already fur daring to dissent the short-comings of the corn will not be permitted to greatly enhance the general price of breadstuff's. In regard to the foreign demand, no definite conclusion can yet he arrived at. All over Europe the harvest lias been more than usually abundant, In regard to the crops of England the London Economist has a long article, in which it is remarked that, as the harvest proceeds the prospect of an abundant yield from the •wheat crop becomes more and more confirmed. Everywhere there is a considerable quantity grown, and even where the land is full of weeds, the produce of wheat /ill still be considerable, the circumstances of the cultivation considered. But where th-} land has received moderately good treatment, the produce is great. Even the drawback which must in many cases be made from blight, will still leave a good 3'ield. In one instance, which came under our own observation, a farmer sold a lield of wheat grown on land not in a very high condition, and the crop showed a good deal

of blight, yet when threshed the yield was 'influence is not large, and they represent about 35 bushels to the acre, considerably but a small part of the Whigs of the North' more th.-n the average growth on such land

into the stack-yaad. Even in the later and them now, before the election, when their more Northern districts cutting has com-1

menced and so quietly has the corn ripen-1 ,r «d that another ?ei days of fine weather

diief «urscs of supply—U--—- °f

will go far to effect a clearance. !£rel Abolitionists? The course of the NaIn. England, then, there will not be so tional Whigs is plain, and they should tread great a demand for foreign grain as usual, 'it with unfaltering firmness.' The success

-Rusia—is

closed. The importations from the ports Mongrels will be their icof the Baltic and Black seas last year tory. amount to fourteen millions of bushels.— evs-w™, 7C (C7-iiow many of the eighty-one thous The war will prevent anything coming from

before us is, therefore, a fair foreign de- ,t1

a it at a

during all of the coming vear. Reciprocity rj p,

The National Whigs to'be Proscribed. Let the National Whigs of Indiana re

member that the success of the Coalitionists

will overwhelm them forever. They have

never stood in favor with the Abolition

Whigs who lack but the power to put them

down forever—that power the,-success of

the Coalitionists in Indiana will put into

their hands and it will be exercised with unscrupulous severity. No friend of Mr.

Filmore may then look for favor. They

have stood in the way of these fellows before, and they will never receive forgive

ness for it. Indeed, they are commencing

from the policy of merging the Whig par

ty in the miserable Abolition party. The

Rushviile Republican publishes a bitter at

tack upon them from a Pittsburgh paper.—

We quote a couple of extracts from it:

"THE NATIONAL WHIG PART}*.—Some half dozen Whig papers of respectability in the Northern Stales, have opposed the general desire expressed for a union of all the Anti-Nebraska elements into one political organization with the sole purpose of restoring the violated Missouri Compromise and interposing a formidable and effectual resistance to the further encroachments of slavery. These papers were noted for their support of Mr. Filmore's administration, and of the system of Compromise measures passed in 1850. Their influence is not large and they represented but a small part of the Whigs."

Just witness the sang froid with which

the National Whigs are disposed of. 'Their

—which, in plain English, means a good-

for-nothing, no account, set of fellows! Again:

"The Silver Grey Whigs of the North may attempt to keep up the semblance of an organization, and may flatter their Southern brethern that there is some poiver and vitality about it but it will prove itslef to be a dead carcass,"

Certainly this is all very flattering to the

National Whigs, and they must reel very

grateful for these kindly kicks and cuffs. If this abusive language is used towards

votcs are needed hat win it be af[cr the

cIec"°n.

case of the.success of these Mon-

the Coalitionists is thcir

:and harmony between the North and the

a a re or up on is or

is if a is so on on a

This resolution, adopted by the Demo-

lat.cr Thc Dcmocrat who vote(1 an

Eoriltched lickct for

Mo Jacks0

and Pi

round price for their breadstuff*. tr-Mions. and continues^ vote an unscratch

A WORD FRO.ll HARRY CLAY. Is there a Whig in this region whose! Democracy no man dare gainsay. We sider: iieart yet throbs at the name of Harry

may

Clay? If so we would ask him if he ever! the Nebraska-Kansas bill unnecessary, and paused one moment to consider how that in- unwise, and we may think it wise and propcorruptable old patriot would view the pres- er—may be iu favor of a strict prohibient fusion of Whiggery with Abolitionism *ory temperance law, and we may be in and all the prevailing isms of the day. Al- fJlvor of one not quite so stringent-—but the though the bones of dering in the cold has found its eternal and his counsels are left behind hin. Tho'

rac.V

AN UXERRIM. TEST OF DEMOCRACY after the adjustment of the young ladies' "Resolved, That the best test of a Demoocrat is an unscratched ticket."

crata of Lucas county, Ohio, is true to the spirits for the evening's performance."

jeff(.r50n.

Madi

.m poIt

,nd

Cass

th hout lhdr aJminis

minis-

of of Lucas county. The best test of a Democrat is an untcrat:hed ticket.

TIIE DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Tbe Democratic presses and orators throughout the country are marching up to! the their duty with right "hearty good will.— wi"

with a fidelity that never wavers Democratic party will tread the path of ty and of right, utterly regardless whether

Thi

They will do their duty to the countiy* fear-!

tion, fanaticism and intolerance. It says to

eclipsed the Emperor of E/ance in theP

one should go in better style than himself,

Hotel. Next came the party, with their

side, who gracefully placed her in the sad-.

southern party to have mounted and taken a respectable ride. I forgot to note, that

aims of

ed ticket, is a Democrat whose claims to!two grcat political parties. Rea and con-

differ on minor point—we may think

tual

that path leads to defeat or to victory.—I prentice Vf ^he^Loui^n^lV^ournal de

the foul combination. Znrane

its cause, it proudly bids defiance to faction and to intolerance. It will preserve its in

tegrity and its Nationality at all

line of duty. Glorious party! not f»el proud of your association?

following language in reflererce to the ,'V.1* '.

the Abolitionists to sectionalize the

They stand by the country—the whole I will stand in menacing and hostile array smell, taste or position. Talk of

couutry—the Constitution and the Union against the other. The collision of opinion swallowing the whale thats no grat fish

The will be quickly followed by the clash of.

A TRUEDISC'RIPTION'.

scr

lessly against the combined attacks of fac-! chievous meetings gotten up for the pur-.

tho Mnncrrpl Pnnvominnc nc

|bes the Mongrel Conventions~as ""mis-

pose of

fusin,r

Come one—come all. new party, whose business is to be constai ock auall fly trom its firm base as soon asl/r agitation of the subject of slavery." Conscious of its integrity, its high call- True to tbe letter. ing, glorious destiny, and the holiness of

hazards.' aD(i

nt0 one a]1 thc

a a in a

A DEMOCRATIC FAMILY NEWSPAPER—DEVOTED TO POLITICS, NEWS, MISCELLANEOUS LITERATURE, MECHANIC AltTS, &C. ',

clergymen of New England The follow-'ton C'itv on the 12th in«t. The Xew* far-

sively circulated, that the ministers of all! Mrs. Benton was Mis? McDowell, daugh-

people in the discharge of their official du-j heart of his domestic circle, and running ties and we regard the assumption that any back through the memories of all the scenes body of men are divinely instructed to sit of his early hopes, ambitions triumphs, and in judgment upon all questions of a moral the full noontide of his, life, and in the and religious nature, as one which, if rec-1 end making utterly desolute the evening of ognized by the people, is calculated to de-Jhis days—Col. Benton should and wiii restroy every vestige of civil and religious ceive the sympathy of every citizen of the freedom, and prostrate all the institutions of State that he so lung served, whose heart our land at the effect of an irresponsible! retains enough of natural kindness and Inland arrogant priesthood." manity to make his smypathy estimable.

TIIOKN, THE MILLIONAIRE, AT SARATOGA. —A correspondedent of the Mobile Tribune, dating from Saratoga, gives the following sketch of an American prince: "Thorn, to whom I refer, has made a lion toasts were drank. of himself by indulging in extravagances! Utah Ihe fairest dau^htci ofLnc.e and eccentricities. He is the man who so

splendor of his "turn out." He is said to I Lonl. have driven four span of horses, richly ca-1 Ltah Among the the last though not parisoned, to the most splendid carriage in! ^c.asti Uncle Sam family. May she in Europe. The Emperor, unwilling that any! .'

Five steeds and a carriage, with a groom t'

ster? en

nci

ll(ss

to her saddle. She placed her foot in the LJncic Sam please take notice.

downfall, the white gloved hand of the groom on the left) Truth and freedom—While the first pre

sei

put as if to a i'unernal. This ceremony This vote showed the l'el-xtive strength of must have taken a half hour—long enough the Whigs and Abolitionists to be, a little I heard an Alabama girl remark, for a more than twenty-two Whigs to one Abo-

11 LIE

CRAWFORDSVILLE, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, IND., SEPT: 'SO,' 185-4.

have died within the last few years, leaving the daughters the only surviving child ren.

In this new affliction—fhe sharpest of all yet received, because penetrating to the

FOURTH OF JULY AXOXG TIIE JIOJlMANS. On the 4th of July, the citizens of Salt Lake had a grand celebration. The follo-

1'story

I'f

solution of the, Union ivill have taken place ^hat? one Abolit onist swallow twelve j-

while the forms of its existence remain.— %out Whigs all at once, without chok-

The most valuable element of union, mu- g-' Whigs to^be in condition to be thus .j

st0IT

fafT.ends and

I scraps of political factions, and forming

constant

dollars were paid for tho ears, hides and

What Democrat does tallow, of the Whigs who were sold out with the Journal?—Bar,. Platform.

can 1

UlU1'-)nis°1-

A MERITED REBUKE. DEATH OF MRS. BEXTCX. I.IZUT. COVEXOR WILLARD AT CHI-jm nev. This was responded to by saying The Warrick Baptist Asssociation off We learn from the St.. Louis Xeirx of AGO. "HE WHS an abolitionist." ••But if an aboliNew York, at its last meeting, administered Wednesday last, that Mrs. ELIZABETH On Saturday evening, the "th instant, tionist," said Lt. Gov. Willard, "he aftera just and deserved rebuke to the political TON, wife of Col. BENTON, died in Washing?. Mr. Willard addressed the people of Chi-.'

n.,.rfl on tho

is thsir declaration: nishes the following facts in the life of the 7. ,'«»« that a Have escaping from his master "Whereas, the assertion has been exten- deceased:

Piophet oi the

rtue cxc a In au

joy happy union.

ordered him to appear no more in the streets Mormonism Born in poverty, ciadled of Paris with the aforesaid establishment, in storms and reared in hurricanes, don't "His party consists of his wife, twoj earthquakes. daughters, beaux, attendants, pages, maids,' Deseret As she is exalted in altitude in grooms, 6ic. I witnessed, a few days since mountains, so may she be in the ceremony of their preparation to ride.:

p' virtue and power above the

and drivers, in finest livery, to each, were', I'tah Land Bill Give me the wives I first presented opposite the United States

1 lnnasomehow.

maidsand attendants. A beautiful mahog-, any bay horse was first led up. whereupon grooms and servants took their position to Signs of the limes. Christian Euiope perform the feat of mounting the fair Mi*s sustaining plurality of wives in Iurke\.

American Giory and American Freedom may they ever keep pace with each

es us, let us preserve the other,

die, while on the right stood another ready Constitution of the bnited States A to catch the jewel if, perchance, it should shield to the weak, a standard for the strong, drop that way. Then came the maids to

aiic^

antidote for tyranny.

SEAT Ef'yOIiT. C52, the strength of the parties stood as follows: at, 82,576 M'Carty, Robinson, Abolition, 3,31)3.

litionist. In November 'following,

dresses, reins, tfce., the horses were sugared (fed) from the hands of the grooms, which I suppose, was to sweeten their gaits and Hrle G.907. Whi-rs and abolitionists

one to about eleven and twofew more Abolitionists were

HENRT CLAY AND THS ABOLITIONISTS.— .... -R tt ii vote tor Hale, than were willing to vote lor In one ot Henry Clays speeches he used ,, ,t

about three

weeks afterwards, the Presid'-nul election came on, and the following was the vote of Indiana: Pierce 9.5,300 Scott C0,C95:

mrcis. A willing to

eou ca oi a lei.

strength, which was less than seven thou-

sand, as above stated.

"The abolitionists, let me suppose, sue-! -These seven thousand Abolitionists have ceeded in their present aim of uniting the

110W

I arrangements to swallow up the

inhabitants of the free States as one man eighty-one thousand Whigs ot* Indiana against the inhabitants of the slave States. great effort, and shows ^reat ca- \y forbear, for the present, naming others. Union on one side will beget union on the

du-• arms." itc., fec. jnali. We are of the opinion that^ many,^. jty, three more for Giddings, and tl

ity ot stomach, as well as great voracity \y'e crjve these as a sample.

other. And this process of reciprocal con- on the part of the kinky heads. Itisconnid-J A few incidents of the meeting we think ered a great natural curiosity to see an

Anaconda or Boa Constructor swallow a

very many, of the true National Whigs of

Indiana are

a.'Sulle.d d.own._by

not quite slippery enough to be

thls

cam}lba,s-

SlIuad of.

Cl0War?^

thl$ Sl

uad

Indiana wlU be

far as 111S

ons 1

the religious denominations in the northern ,'ier of the late C1. James McDowell, off IIe was allowed to proceed for some name of Robert Morris, who furnished States "have united in protesting against Cherry VKIIV, Rockbridge county, Va., time in explaining generally the principles, Washington with means to recross the some of the enactments of our national leg-! a gentleman noted for his intelligence, be- or popular sovereignly, but the moment he iDeleware, and carry his troops in victory islature, we deem it due toourselves, as an nevolence and worth. She was also sis- a! tempted to show that the Nebraska and to Trenton and Print-ton! association of churches professing the re- tcrof Ex-Govenor McDowell, of^j., one of Kansas act was framed purely upon that wish the citizens of Illinois,-and of ligion of our Lord Jesus Christ, to say, that, the most accomplished geutlemt^Pind ora-, principle, the same disorderly gang of abo- the country at large, to note the positive as citizens, our members possess an inalien- tors of the nation. htionist rowdies who the week before had refutation this mob affords to the false palable right to petition for, or remonstrate l-'^Mrs. Benton was married to Col. Benton insulted Judge Douglas! as if by concert, iations and apologies and justification givagainst, any legislative enactment which [about the year 1G20, and she was, at the commencd braying, bleating, groaning, on by the two abolition and the whig jourthey may believe to be calculated to pro-j time of her death, about sixty years of age. yelling and hooting. These elegant per- nals of this city, for the mob of the previous mote the welfare or endanger a King who'She was the mother of six children, who furmnnces, which evidently were most nut- week. The Tribune and Democratic Press declares that his kingdom is not of this grew to the age of majority, to wit: Mrs. ju'*al to those engaged them, were relieved world, we entirely disclaim any wish, as Jones, of Washington, Mis. Col. Fremont, of their monotony by such cries as—"That's such, tointefere with the political affairs of Mrs. Jacob, Miss Susan Benton, and a lie," "You get down," "Kick him out our nation, and we utterly repudiate all to McDowell and Randolph, two sons, who protest, in the name of Almighty God, against the passage of laws for the organization of territorial governments, or other purposes, and His name to fulminate anathemas against the representatives of the

annals of American

oserne(

bj"

"Sliut him up, "Rub his head with a brick etc., etc., eUch of these choice remarks of approbation.

When Gov. Willard spoke of freedom on of speech as an American right, those wreches would answer, "Speak the truth and we will hear j*ou, but if you lie, you shan't be heard and then, any--thiug he uttered in support of the bill, they cried down, groaned and hooted at as "a lie."

He attempted to show, by the bill itself, that it did not legislate slavery into Nebraska, and this the crowd pronounced a lie.— Ho then proposed to read the 11th section of the bill, and the mob would not let it be heard. He read the letter of Mr. Jefferson, in which would result from the establishment of a geographical line, and the letter was groaned!

He told them that our Revolutionary fathers had risked life, fortune and honor to secure the right of self-government, and the statement was groaned, hissed and pronounced "a lie." In spite of the preserving disorder kept up by the abolition gang, whose number was much less than at the previous meeting, Gov. Willard continued in admirable humor to discuss his subject, electing at times the warmest applause from the orderly and well disposed portion of the meeting.

We regret that !h.e crowded state of our columns does not allow u« to give an extended report of (lie remarks of Gov. W. Suffice it to say that both upon the question of Nebraska and upon that of Knnw-Noth-ingism he made a speech replete with sound argument, searching rebuke (o the disunioni-ts, and displayed in admirable colors the beauty of truth, which only required examination to command the allegiance of every hone in.

Wo however are unwilling to let the occasion pass by without tolling what we would rather not have to tell, that the meeting of Saturday night was the same in all respects was the disgraceful mob of the wi ek previous. The same set determination to allow nothing to be heard in favor of the nebraska bill was most manifest

The same outrage upon leceiu Jaw, order and freedom of speech was rc-onac-ted. The only difference was, that the meeting being within doors where the mobites could be seen and identified, reduced their number to some extent.. But nevertheless, the same feli spirit was present. Wo saw many who were engaged in this disgraceful work of disturbing a meet'iiv, and refusing to allow a stanger—and I I that stranger an Executive officer of a free sister State of the North—to be heard in defence of principles honestly entertained by him and the larger portion of his countrymen. Thc names of many similarly enga-

9 ged have been handed to us. Among

1'PVlT10-r''

'!-ein, and among many of lesser note, are

ie 1[nes 0

will beSt

man£ an

compared to the wooly-headed Jo- three more of the Tribune of

re or

°.f

rePud'at?J'.

be found resisting the embrace of the woolv

head who have aimed to purchase and control them. Will eighty-one thousand

O^rlf tbe Indiana Journal, materials, persons, with national feelings and senti- bill should pass and each of those invoca- lution, inasmuch as his

liberal estimate, say ten thousand dol- «md their votes to eleven thousand L^nion IR discussing Know Nothingism, he al-

It will stand up for Truth, Right, and Jus- l»rs, and the same to be sold to the Aboli- hating, law despising, nigger loving Aboli- Juded to the fact that Robert Morri3 of Pen. mandsin the army! What neat? tice, against a frowning world3 No threats tionists for twenty thc usand dollars, is not tionis? Whigs, answer for yourselves n?ylvania, a foreigner, and who sigued the! AKimimmrW-A rrmntry alitor vo3 can awe—no power buy it from the stem reasonable to suppose, that ten thousand Gardening is an employment fit for Declaration of Independence, was appealed ry qcaiatlv remarksf

the Rev. McNomara, one of

th.e Chicago Clergy, made notorious by the letter of Senator Douglas in answer to a celebrated memorial .John W. Waughop, a school commissioner of this city C. L. Jenks, .an attorney, and Phiio Carpenter.

iil

jril

essne!5s

this attempt at extravagant!

outsnakes all these snake stories, Gov. Willard asked them if they did not

now

s0 ve

Jonah

me(

te the phrensv and reck-

which have fastened thJmselvcs up-'

on mob

which now rules in this city.—

that the abolitionists sought to dis-

the Union with the Slave States? and

ie reS

p,,

was cheers, and a few denials,

tciy "there cheers for May" were de-

given with force they follow-

Benton.

car/Q had n0

Abolition dissolution of the Union?

Ab0ll^0n

WHr in

nnd Know-Xr.thir.o-1

'j1?

ie ir oet5n s? s:

accoun

this

three

He asked them if Cfai-

iGterest to be affected by the

dissolution of the Union? to which some

The contract and bill of sale of fellow loudly answered "no," which an-

swer was loudly applauded by the mob.—

intended to absorb the Whig He read to them the statement of Greeley, Icils in the United States have passe party and thousands of honest Whigs will jiat jt

wou

sion prevail, that discord should

mate3 in it£ ruin than that the

type, presses, &c., are worth, at a large ments, bow down and yield their principles tions was cheered by the mob. foreigner, and in entrusting Gen. Lafayette

Paradise so Adam and Eve were gardeners to by Washington for money, when pursued ^edo —but who believes they killed pigs and eat through the Jerseys by the British, that Whoever may like iec«n lake it. 1®^" sausages. Morris out of his own fortuae furnished tks! Whr

•*. jnp

-1

then justified that, mob, and bud it nt the door of Senator Dougl^as. They said he was traitor to the dearest interests of this city, had outraged freedom, and sold the North to slavery, that he attempted to bully the meeting, arid was guilty of violv^ice of language and manner towards those present.

The falsity of these miserable excuses is now made apparent. Lt. Gov. Willards tone temper, and language was wholly unexceptionable. Not even the most abandoned ruflian present w^uld question the correctness of his deportment. lie never voted against the river and harbor bill—lie never voted for the Nebraska bill—lie was not a representative of Illinois. It is not, then, evident

kbeyond

TIIE KNOW NOT IN NF:S7R\ GE\7\VA SIII\ TO.\.

It is said that the Know Nothing resocourse

be better that eternal confu- lutions severely denunciatory of thc

reign,

that the capitol should fall and bury its in- 'l*01 selecting Gen. Washington as Com-, matps in its ruin, than that the Nebraska mander-in-chief of tbe armv of tbe Kevo-rand-father was a.

Nebraska

of the American Congress of the Revolu-

aQd

•'l V*

V-

ISO.

12,.

the Convention which framed the

,os ution oflile S

ut lh, rc :i rovi

*, in another State should be suirendered"—

Jand then the mob groaned and hissed the

all doubt or cavil, that the

cause of this last, as well as the former mob, was the determination of the abolitionists that the Nebraska bill not be defended in Chicago?

We have hope, nay we are confident, 'hat the anti-republican spirit from very want of reason to sustain it, is nmv yielding to sound public opinion, rushing back here from North, South, East and West— from whigs, democrats, and even freesoilers, in condemnation of the outrage upon the rights of freedom. The rapid eflort-n ot the city papers cannot stop, though for a while it rnav cheek thatt reaction. It is' a stream now trickling down the mountain side, now coursing gently alon^r the placid valleys, each hour augmenting in depth, breadth, and velocity anon, it will swell into a torrent, breaking upon us with a force that no such puny arms as those who now assume to defy it, can arrest or controal.

.........

SCENES OK IIOAIRJII—INCIDENTS OF TUB CIIOLEI:A AT HAUUADOES.—The New Haven .Journal publishes the following extract trom a letter written by a gentlemen in Uarbadoes, to his friend in that city, respecting the ravages of the eholara on that ishind:

God forbid that you should ever witness what v/e have experience since Your departure. 1 he death.-, were so numerous as one time that, vehicles of all kinds were used to convey corpses. The horse carts, as they are called, that stand !or hire in ihe square-!, were very generally used.— Six eight—I have seen nine coffins in one cart, and they were so badly constructed, that in passing over the gutters or water courses, they would litterally fall to pieces, and the driver, who was provided for the occasion, would stop and nail up thecoffins in the street, to prevent the bodies falling out. Many, \ery many, were canied to the grave in hand carts mmy on the people's heads and I am told that'the demand was so very great for coffins, that many persons, particularly children, were canied by their parents merely wrapped in tarred sheets.

You may have heard of the "Dead Curt.' I have seen it—the first time was one evening in the bay. A gentleman and myself were walking up to the garrison. Just as we came up to it, it had stopped opposite one of those alleys leading to the beach, the driver, a hideous looking negro, looking down the alley, shouted out—"Got any down there?" The negroes were afraid to touch a dead oody, even of tlieir relations, and too frequntly the driver had to attach a rope to the coffin, and drag it into the cart the best way'they could. From an early age, I was taught self-reliance, and uave always enoeavored to look things -traightin the face, but I must confess that never before experienced so much difficulty in doing it. Up to this time., I believe we have lost from cholera, some 18,-l-i 0U0, or one-eighth of the population and even now, I believe the deaths throughout the Island average fully 100 per day. L-M never heard of the cholera proving fatal so®: quick as it has here. Just immage a man appearand)- in perfect health—at any rate walking about—and complaining at I P. M., jand yet he shall be in his grave at 6 P. M., in five short hours and I believe there have been many such cases.

other eminent foreigners with high com-