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II0MAS LORUVG, iitor aid Proprietor : BENJAMIN I. HOWZE, Corresponding Editor. ONS DOLLAR Per Annum, infariably in Advance, VOfl 4. WILMINGTON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1850. NO.rl. i 4 i - j : i On limited exjent, will be insefced in the Wceky c Via re I insrti jn. S0,50 . 1 square, 2 months, 2,00 do. i-Jq. uo. 9 3 I do. do. month, 0.75 1,00 1,23 1 do. 3 do. 2,50 1 do. 6 do. 4.00 1 do. I vear. 6.00 -r-i ' - - ' n. r.r Wi mate a sriiiiire: If an advcriigemcnt. exceed ten line?, the price v.ii be in proportion. . , , , - : All ad vertuemenis are p;iy:tiiu ai me ume oi ineir insertion. - . - . , . . y-ij- All advertisements inserted, in me weekly ....;..',nrLXittc, tn one ineortifin in iVmfVi. Wetkfrfree of charge. A i tut: --Nota Bena ARVVh STORY. . . DEMON BRIDE. ' the New Orleans correspon- niirhts since hi ciition square ins ear. and si - This reminc occurred witl V;a:a ago. in man o! great nmong tiiehi biteen years d huue at the man. I uVntofthe Concordia Intelligencer, in hi last letter, ooj.ies ine report which appear- I eJ in the Trule Delta, of the case of a man 1 - who wf s attempted to be murdered some t lie neighborhood of Annun by pouring rnolten lead into s tne oi a singular incident that in my own knowledge, some Col. r., a gentle- respectahuify. and ireqently hili sheriff and representative of the coun- y, died, leaving a wile and several children. very beautiful daughter about f age. The widow, finding 'embarrassed, opened a boarding county sate, and arhong hef buuilers was a Air. W.. a wealthy merchant, over forty ye;.rs. but a very fine looking prop SETII STORES: The Han What Knows How To 31 an a gjTh e - . Womex. " Well, here I am, a leetle the slickest crit ter you ever did see ; I traveled in all parts of this univarsal globe, and I must say, it is wonderful to obsarve the opperatunsfof natiir' on a. b!g scale ; and there's the women too. the dear little critters ; 'lis miraculous to see how nis;c they are dovetailed together. I don't know how it is but they always fallin,'in love with me ; they are always on the giggle when I speaks to 'em ; I expect its my elegant figure; 1 don't know what else. I've hear'n some fo.ks say the wimen was a leetle contrary ; weli, they is a little so, but d you manage right hawl in here, and let 'em out there, you can drive 'em along without whip or spur, jest which way you want-'em to go. When I lived down to Elton, there was a good many fine gala lived there, but I didn't take a likin' to any on 'em, till Squire Cummins come down there to live. The TV? .1 -r , . 2 f aay (town l went, and iSance wa all alone; I axed her if the Squire Was in ; she said he wan't, cause, says I, (makin' b'leeve all the time,) cause "says I, our colt's sprain ed his foot, and I cum to see it he won't lend me his nare to go to town. Sjie said she guessed- he wotfld; better pit down" till the Squire "Ct2ra in. Bo down I sot ; fdie looked sort o' strange, and my heart felt dreadful queer all around the edges ; and arter a while says I. ''Are, you goin' down'to Bets Mar- Said she than t know tor tin's quiltin?" sartin, "Are you would. Ses she lience Dodge?" asrin' I moufrht'nt. gojn' ?" M. Sed I reckoned I spose you -ii take Fa- I said I mout. and then Ses she. k I hear'n tell Ses I, " I should- you'r goin' to git married." 'nt wonder a bit, Fatience is a nice gal," sei I. Tell you wliat, that broughi the tears. Ses I, "Maybe she'jl ax you to be bride's rnnid and with that she ris right up, ant I svvow her face looked jest as red as a biled beet. " Selh Stokes," says she : she couldn't cnr nn mnrp fibn waa rhof.lr full n n inr io Squire had an almighty purfy daughter ; I J ibr, ftf u Wonh vou be bride's-maiJ ? says I. " No," says she, and she boo-hood rirht out. " Will you be the bride ?" savs I. This jreutlcman was the anu stay of the fanSil : rave employment to the 1 -oas. edtu-atetj the daughter at a " lashiona- bio acadamy, retarti, fell d when he stiou He pressed hi the bi-autiiul 5 and. very naturally, on her sperately in love with her, d have preferred the mother. k suit with perseverance, but Mildred resisted his appeals. unci the imnuHtunities of all her lnend. h i- n illy, however, after two years ol assiduity an. -t eln-ate gallantry on the part of Mr. W.. and th threats and fiir girl rtlut and became ' largo farty v ol it Mr. VV atil sick head and halJiiiir nuriieu a way On searching .ine was fun a wt.man. wi) by p'Hiriiig le atuun a d thti Jirocured from t combined tears, entreaties, persecution, ol tier lamny, the lantly stocxi before the altar us wile. 1 lie next evening , a sis given them, but in the midst being attacked with vertigo tche. was compelled to with draw. II is voung wile hutiir over him in the silent wukohes of niiiiit, apparently in and insisted on giving him. a potion: she poured out a wine-glass lull ol laudanum, anil tie swallowed it, unconscious It acted as an emetic, but left him stupid ami wandering. His senses reel ed. One moment he iuv motionless. a ll on e spirit world, and tiiejiext he convulsively, a strong man m W . deiMed all admission er. At leiiiTih he lell into a Hho then stooped for a moment ildering embers approached the brink of tit would leap uj his agony. Aur into the chain Jeep sleep. over tue mo the bed gazbd at her' sleeping husband heated ladle in her hand at tempted to .pour a stream of melted lead in his ear ! .Shu t rembled, and the hissing li quid, intended to scald the brain, and kid without a He shrieked revellers, in ti thus trace, tell upon his cheeic. i excruciating torture, and the e adjoining saloon, rushed in to the chamber. There wri hed the still stupid husband. the lead rivitekl deep into his cheek, and there u wife, her bridal Inlets yet upon her brow, the instrument o.f death in her hand, an ! an ,e,tnity vial" .labelled ' lau danum, laying on jthe tloor. The fearful re alities ol The 'case flashed upon every one, and. in the confusion of the moment, she was , and -aken to a distant State. the apartment, an old maga- at containing 1 tie coniessjou ci o had murdered five husbands ad into their ears. The laud- ead. it-was ascertained, she the store of Mr. W., a few le nuirriatre, and the ladle was . nays oelon pait ot his w next mornin ti've, and the edding- gift. " The grand jury found a bill against -the tugi legislature, being in session, forthwith decreed an absolute divorce. What renders this rase more extraordinary is, .that proverbial for the blandncss of ami uniform sweetness ofdispo was a blonde. The rose leaf r Aliss l. was her manners sition. She tinted herlilk" cheek, as a sunbeam gleams on snow. H sweet, and 1 firm more tant retfenrt- She had jus star i. ... JJer career, jrcapablc of Then, indce " lhe dead said come of the gals was fust-rat but Cum-1 mins was fust-rate a leetle more. There was a good many dressed finer and looked gran der; but there was something jam ijp about! iance, that they couiun't iiolti a candle to. II a teller seed fier ouce, he could n t look at another gal for a week. I tuck a likin' to her right off. and we got as thick as thieves. We used to go to the same meetin ' and sit in the same pew. It took tne to find the Salmi? :' and Hymsfor her ; and the way we'd swell 'em out was a caution tQ hardened sinners. Then we"d mosey hum together, and the gals and fellers kept, lookin' on as tho' theyM like to mix in. I'd always stay to supper, and the way she could makeinjin pakes, and the way I would stick 'em over with molasses and put 'cm away, wa'nt nothin to nobody. She was dreadful civil, tue : always gettin' somethin nice. I was jp to the hub in love, and was goin' in lor her lik.e a Jocomotive. Well, things went on this way a spell, till she thought she had me tight enuil; then she be gin to sho'V off independent like. When I'd go to meetin' there wa'nt no room for me in the pew, and when she cum out she'd streak off with "another chap and jeaye me suckin' my fingers at the door ; yes. and rhe kept cuttiu' round with all the fellers, just as if she cared nothin' about me. no more none what somdever. I got considerable riled, and thought I might as well come to the end on it at once. So down I went to have it out wid her. There was a hull grist of fellers there, they seemed mighty quiet till I went in, then she goX taikiu' all manner of nonsense, said noihin' to me. and d,arn'd little of that. I tried to keep mv dander down, butjt wa'nt i She looked up, and I svvow to natur'. to Jc hue, to kingdorn cum, I never see nothin' look so awful purty. I tuk hold of her hand. " Yes says ' 3J " Yes; says l, and I gin or No !" savs I. "right oft. i she. '; Tfjat's your sort," her a hug ana a buss, ana ii you won t say nothin' about it, J'll tell you what it tasted like: it was jest as sweet as new cider out of the bung. a pin in my trowsers ; I sweat as if I'd bce.ia j wm mg a faU thrashin'; my collar hung down jest as tho' Mary others ii was uuug over my block io ury ; i couiuu l : stand it. so I cleared out jest as soon as 1 could, for 1 see it was no use tryin'to say no thin' to her. I wentstrate to bed and thought the mattor over a spell. Thinks 1, that gal is jest tryin'me 'tain't no use of her playin' possum." I'll take the kink out of her. If I dpn't fetch her out of the high grass, use me for sausage meat. I've hearn tell of a boy what got to school late wance, and the master says. ''You tar nal sleepy critter, what kept you-so late I"1 LIGHTNING vs. FLYING. The Norristown (Pa.) Register tells a good story of a poor negro who took into his head the notion that he could fly. So he fixed a pair of leather aprons on his shoulders, and leaped out of a garret window ! Directly his master heard him cry : "Massa! massa!" " What do you want. Pomp?" asked the master, who was sitting in the house, igno rant of the poor fellow's catastrophe. ; Massa !" " Come, here, if you want anything." Me can't come dere massa oh, how me leg ache ! me can't come dere, massa me leg smash to flinters." - His master came out, and seeing &ure enough, that his thigh was fractured, he ex laimed, ki How is all this, Pomp !" t; ph. massa, me been fie win from de gal -let winder." Flew in i" " Yesse, massa. me flew wid dese ledder apun," lifting up his wings "and dey no hold me up and so me break my tigh." u You're a lool. Pomp." 'I Aln r n-n it m ! cevi crr'tpf mid iwin V. V 11 A,., 11111' V, 1 . ...... . oufd liy but pride, massa. and so hub pour Pomp " might profit by'this downfall of poor Pomp. Leather wings are not alto gether out of fashion. er blue eyes were indescribably er golden hair floated around a erfect and voluptuous than ever Apelles dreamed of, or Petrarcli sung. ihe sea ll el df this romnnnp. is vr.f. mnrp. sin- V ears rolletl invar, and W. contin ued a wretched and solitary man. But the spell of the emchaniress.was still upon his soul xie closed' Ins store, sold his estates, collected MS amnlft niMiis mu tmrM her tn hp.r hs- o make a new oiler of his hand ! married a gentleman of high standing, acquainted, with all the details of huddenng at the trageay, but resisting her charms. Poor W. I, did the iron enter his soul. A PRACTICAL JOKE A gentleman of considerable talent as an orator, became a member of a legislative bo dy, in one of the eastern States. In speak ing, he was addicted to an odd habit of hand ling his spectacles; first placing them on his nose suffering them to remain a minute" or 'Whv," says the boy,itWevefJastia'.s I couldn't got aWig took lorwards l went two steps. pack ward and I cbuJdn't got here at ail -if lihadnr'i-fjiii ned back to go tother way," . jJjow, - fhm jest my case ; I've been pultin'aTter.thatgi a consiuerame time j now, inmKs i'lig: tother way ; she s been shghtin7 me, now I5 slight her ; what's sace jir ,me goose is sac for the gander: Well. I didn't" go to se Nance no more. Next Sunday I slicked mv sell up. and i due say. when I ge.t rrfy iixet on. 1 take the coat tail off of any specimen d human natuiJ in our parts. Well, ahou meetin' time, off I puts to El I ha rq Dodgc-'s.- Patience Dodge was as nice a g&H as y$u see t wixt here and yonder, any more than sh wasn't jest Jike Nance Oummius.-;,iiph .via sy used to go to see her ; he wrava cle veEfe low, but he was dreadful jealous; Well went to meelinwith Patience. undet lTigl: afore Nance. I didn't set eyes on her tiy H ter mpciin : she had a feller with - her Avhf had a blazin' red heard, and JegsUke a4 pa of compasses and Bhe had a lace as long grace afore a thanksgivin' dirniervl khow who she was thin kin' about, anti i.t.M FVom the Delia. LEARNING THE LANGUAGE. Some few weeks ago, and since the famous Cuba Expedition, I was making a trip up the river, iron Now Orleans, on ' the steamer a pleasant and trim craft iixnjd jM, combined with a sociable ipompany, conduced to make time pass rapidly; with us all. We had not been long put of port, when a young foreigner made himself conspicuous among us by his ihquisitiveness of manner for he evidently was not able to converse in the Anglo-Saxon tongue.; He proved, upon inquiry, to be a Cuban ; and had, in some way, been connected with;the late outbreak. Of course our sympathies, were enlisted in his behalf immediately upon this fact being ascertained and he was received as 'hail fel low, well met.' His great; desire was evident ly to acquire a knowledge of our language ; and, in the prosecution of it, I never knew a more apt scholar. Every one knew him in a short time and eyery one liked him at once. All became tutors; and, ere long, he had woids at his command, but, as yet, had fail ed to connect them in intelligible sentences. One night, a friend of mine; whom I shall designate as Charley, came to the conclusion he would at least instruct; 'Cuba' in some of the most used sentences and useful; and, so calling him up, he commenced: Charley How are yoir ? Cuba How are you? j Charley--How dJyt do? Cuba How d'ye do? t , Cha ley Good morning. Cuba Good morning, jr Charley How are you? How d'ye do? Good morning: all three--(holding up three fingers as interpreting owe; clasping them to gether tp denote his meaning of their being as one.) i - Cuba How are you? How d'ye do? Good morning: all three one? (making the same finger movement as Charley.) Charley Good English. Cuba Yes, good English. Charley left him for the night, satisfied with the progress of his pupil, and Cuba was about making long strides tor his berth, when a 'chum' of Charley's called him, and prof fered to give him :more English,' which prof fer was readily accepted. He went through the same sentences as Charley substituting, however, for 'good morning?' How's your bowels?' as the last interrogatory making him say thus: 'How are you ?' How dy'e do? How's your bowels? : all three one good English eh ? This finished his instruction, and they went to bed. There, had been a source of petty annoy ance to all the passengers on board, in the person of an old maid, and she had in various ways made herself disagreeable, but especi ally at the table. i f Charley's 'chum' had been obl.:ged to en dure some of these annoyance from his prox imity to her at the table, and resolved, as he turned on his pillow that night, to be reveng ed on her. , " . Next morning, bright and early, he woke his -Cuba' scholar and taking him on the guards, lepeated to him,the lesson ofthe pre vious night, and moreover gave him to under stand that a morning salutation, especially to ladies ofrank, was 'proper and right.' He ext imitated the old rnaid in such an unmis keable, manner, by tossing?his head, spread ing oiU.bis, handkerchiefs and in voice, that Ithe cCuban took, and, at once her greatness Avas impressed by Charley's 'chum' upon the Cub.an's raind and the necessity, too, of mak-fng-biVmbrning salutations to her. p.TheJadies were all seated at the table for breakfast the bell rang,-and down in their .seats went all the gentlrtien except 'Cuba,' jvjiO Btood' up-right behind his chajr, and op- poite the, old maid . . .He was all smiles, and ,?(?em;ed..tol5e inwardly, congratulating him- seiFwben&e caught Jiereye: j 'r !How dye do? How are you? How's your iowELsiall three owe good . Inglish VTbere w.a a si fence for a moment a ti t 4'erinjJfo general i stampede' Imhg-iallbjlowthathey might' in their epectiiye place'pjoy.lthe laughter occas toned by there venge ofVCharl ey 's1 -ch u m -.v-. ; -Iti- - j AMITE. ." yicksbarMississippijJuly, ,1850. earth purer and 1- . . -v gilt to tsay. Pa v ho was di No. says His CUriv hivp hi fliiftimtino e.nnrtshin- .his rnarriagt and the catastrophe the flight 7the divorce his years of misery the new hirthof his passion and now hisdisnppoint- ritient, final and forever came crushing 0vr hirn lik; an iceberg in thetide of bitter memories, a id he prayed for death ! Wheth- . t r uds prayur was granted, I know not. He may yet wahder, broken-hearted, over the 11 hb died a more wretched, yet a nobler snirit never winged its heaven. chnn with a red head nuther. Well; I Ee boeino- Patience about a spell, and ' kept n eye on Nance, to see howthe cat was jumpir rri ll U., tiM'nt cnt a hrtilf ljhrP.v did, and looked rather solemtjleollyV ;vShd gin her two eyejB to kiss anu mane up..-c it up till I like to got Jiia a mess .abaut tience. The critter thought I was goiir5 art hpr for rood, nnd jrot es nroud as a lame lu key. One day Eph come doyn 4o:ourjtac lookin' as wrathv as a malicious-oscner on trainin' da v. -Look here. Seth Stokes,Jaj he, iust as loud as a small clapolthundei "I'll be darned" says he. "Hello,'7 etxyn 'that's broke?" "Why," says he, "I cu down to .crit satisfaction about -ratiend Dodge ; here I've been courtin' her ever sind last grass, and she was jest as good as mm till vnn .rot jjroin' arter hpr. and now.-1 r-t c i . : touch ned what got p JVcoTo'rcd.cJergyiwah, -preaching recently "f a.aiacii uaaieiwie m ine ooutn saiu: i de Lord make us said a Yankee to an Irishman jging in his garden, are you dig- S'nff out a lRole in that onion bed ? pat, I am digging out the earth uaive fc thi nronertvhe i. . . rctunviav ing " jut t. ose indeed"! s'pect, dat - I ,'ack raen,ivas, cause -heuse all de white L aerCnp ffors iie gotXo de -blak man, and he f iiadito make hi mi black But dat jdon't make rip Adds, my r-brederen de. Lord jlook arter 1 blaclrrjoan too. Don't de scipter say dat 8arrihaWks am sold for a fiirde;n, and dat VdeirJad'er 1 WeIijanf my .br.ederen, if ypiife"hcWbnTy fader cars sc much for hawk, 'when you f raja' buy twrj od 'em foi a farden. hariT befcry-much more he care for you. da,t is worth six hundred dollas apiece ?" If that argument' isn't a colored non seuitur, we never ow ft colored non sequitur. f Neverbe atigy vWith your neighbor be r rarasc his rlim'od3 views differ frjim yours: Ttf foKaJI i the branches of a tree do not Jean the isame way. her with a tqrty-foot pole.and I'm ow-coro rrj in this city, who. if Pm goin' to stand it." -Why, -says on ;1U cis. V Tvhcii herfeirents relusato alioW her to at- on earth areyou lalkin' 'bout! i nai.ri , per Douna -vj s have a bawl al nothin' to do with your gal ; but s'pose 1 . minu., homkCInterestinir childahat. there s notnirr ior you to get w likin' to me had, if the gal's taken a fault, and if I've taken a likin he liad no business jnaK tr tnin't ir r.cfoesohirh !" I endeavored to explain . . . - f i j r : Vioimmrrp her fault, and if we've taken a likin' to one , that the nigh price oi . r another tain't your fault ; but I ain't so al- was owing to the earthquake which shook mighty taken with her-you may have her j the berries from the trees before jhe were for me, so you hadn't ought to git wrathy ripe. 'No," sa.d the old dy, Mh.it the about nothin'." Well, now, thinks I. it'a my way tvith you tones-r thing you do thai A womnn that does not love a flower particularly a soi-flower deserves not to be loved. " Snooks was advised to get his life insured. 'Won't dd it,' said he : "'it would l)e just my luck to Jive forever,Tif I should.' Mrs. Snooks meekly paid 'well. I wouldn't, my dear.' A Western editor requests those of-hi subscribers who owe him for more than six years' subscription, to send him a lock of their hair, 6o that he may know they are living. Julius, do you know de halls ib the Mon tezutrrars ?". V"i ' 1' Of. cour t4' , tc liroihcr of Gen. Taylor, and was nursed by Sarah Gordon." "Why, how de darky talks; by and by coloured men will know as much as Jfhe mil itia." 'Susan, stand up, and let me 6ee what you have learned. What does c-h-a-i-r spell?' 'I don't know, marm.' 'Why, you ignorant critter! what do you always sit on?' Oh. marm, I don't like to tell.' 'What on eartli is the matter with the gall ? Tell, what is it ? 'I don't like to telfit ; it was Bill Crass' knee, but he never kissed me but twice !' 'Airthquakes and appta-sarce !' exclaimed the school mistress and she fainted. Two things at Once. 'I say, Paddy,' said a philosopher, 'can you do two things at the same time V 'Can't I V answered Paddy. 'I'll do that any day !" - ' , 'How?' inquired the philosopher. 'Why,' replied Paddy, 'I'll be sleeping and dreaming at the same time, don't you sec? So none o1 your gammon for a spoony.' Fact. You can never get a lady to admit that she wears shoes that are too' tight for her. No ; nor can you ever get a gentleman to admit that he drinks too much ' buck eye." or chews too much tobacco. -' . . r. FOREIGN NEWS. ARRIVAL of the STEAMER N I AG A It A. THREE DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. Halifax, Aug. 14 A.M. The royal mail steamer Niagara arrived at her wharf -here at cine o'clock this morning. She brings dates from Liverpool to the 3d of August, and London to the 2d. The political news is not CQri24,ered vry impor tant. The steamer Atlantic sails on the 21st instant. Every berth bad already been taken, when the Niag ara sailed. Jenny Lind had positively taken passage in her for New York. FROM JAMAICA.' A Jamaica paper of the 31st ult. says : ' A renewed application has been made to the Uni ted States Consul by the merchants of Kingston, urging upon this jQroyernment die establishment of a United States mail through the Island to lhe ports of New Grenada. A similar application .vvjJJ be made to the Directors ofthe Pacific Steam Company. " The approach of the 1st of August, the day which Great JJrifain emancipated her slaves, had ceased to create any excitement. The day, it was thought, would scarcely be observed in Kingston. " From the other Islands there is little worthy of note. At Barbadoes it was thought from the gene ral growth of yegetation that a third crop would be raised. " In Demerara the weather was favorable. In &t. Lucia the sugar crops, which had suffered for want of rain, were greatly improved by some recent show ers. " " In Trinidad $ 35.QC0 had been voted for the im portation of Chinese laborers. At St. Ann's a serious riot took place on the 22d ult. Several coolies were seriously injured, while the lives pf others were despaired of," f hs Danes and the IIoTgtetner Thcl,ate Sanguinary Battle. j; - Our foreign files "ore filled with the details of tho bloody engagement between the ' Danes "and llol steinere. A letter from. Schleswlg, dated July 25, says - ' " - " vha battle that has ben CjugJjJ to-day lias been even moio aify ui,,,r k. "xt--,htVnxulet lb walls'of Frederics, on the 30th July last year. - Wo have lost tjiany officers, and many medical men have fallen. The loss of the day s to be attributed to the superior numbers ofthe enemy. Our troops fought bravely, so did the Danes. When both parties are brave, and ably commanded, numbers. must decide the day.- The Danes were about 33,000 ; our army not more than 23,000 strong. 1 am told that there were Swedes and Russians in the Danish ranks, but I cannot answer for this beng correct. ' A letter, dated Hamburg, 26th, midnight says t " "To-day orders were issued to evacuate Eckern forde and dismantle the' batteries," which ' was done at 5 P. M. The guns were transported to Rcdcna burg. We fear that Kiel is open ito an attack by land. The Gefion is still in the kceping'or Rrustdn, and is fafe. The Danish Colonel A Uagussen is a ; prisoner of war. ' ' - ; i i ' "The Schleswig-llolstclners muster 25,000 at Wittcnsen. Col. Von derTenn has not been rout ed, and is at the head of 16.000 men." . v A Hamburg paper, ofthe 27th, says : - ' - "The loss on both sides is very great. Scvcra officers, on a rough calculation, estimate it at about 10,000 men. Four guns fell into the hands of the Danes, and four of the Danish field, pieces were driven into a morass and spiked by the Schleswlg Holsteiners. One regiment of Danish " hussars is said to have suffered a great loss from the grape shot of our artillery, 1 ' ' :' At the commencement of the engagement tho left wing was very severely pressed, but the Danes soon threw all their force on our centre, which, after a most obstinate contest, was at length compelled to retreat in the direction of Schleswlg, thd right wing also accompanying it, .-but maintaining tho same relative position to the centre at 6 o'clock in the evening as at 6 o'clock in tho morning. After the retreat of the centre, which defended ilself with tbe utmost bravery, the left wing also commenced a retrograde movement, covering the ' retreat. Tho cavalry is aid to have been but little engaged; and to have lost only three men. " . ' . ". , . v ' . The following infantry officers arc arnong the killed ; Major Urunckhaf ; Lieutenants Iiallerstein, VValtersdorf, Haseler and Sander. ! - And the following are amozjg the wounded; JIa- jor General Baudissin, (slightly ;) Major Lutjtow (slightly; Captains Unruh, Boner, and Carrol ; Lieutenants Schnpbel llilhger, Dudding, Vilding and Jenner. , - . . . v . 1, Tbe infantry took off their knapsacks, &c, to en able them tp fight the easier, and having 6aved ,the . whole of their baggage, it will at once be seen with what admirable order the retreajt must hayo .been conducted. j The (troops evacuated Schleswig and comtncnccd tbeir march xq wards the south, singing their nation al songs. i "The battle ofldstedt will take its place in history as one ofthe most sanguinary battles on record. On doth sides the loss has been immense; but, the Danes must have suffered most, otherwise, with their great numerical superiority, they would not have remained on the field of battle. They cannot have numbered loss than 45,000 or 50,000.' Twenty officers are among the prisoners taken. ' Many offi cers were killed; and of one battalion of Jagcre on ly 2 officers and 400 men remain! Many other bat talions have been fearfully cut up. From Rio Janeiro. We learn from Capt. Doyde, of the bark E. Corn ing, from Rio Jan 3iro, July 9th, that ihere was a great excitement at Rio when he sailed, in conse quence of the British fleet having taken several Bra zilian vessels, on suspicion of being slavers, and .burnt them in the harbor of Paraguay. The sickness had greatly abated at Rio Janeiro when he sailed. FAMINE AND PESTILENCE. A letter dated Kingstown, S. Vincent, July 16, says : The weather favorable, the Island healthy and crops promising. ' : From Montserrat advices to 12th inst.have cone to hand, representing that island to be s,till reduced to the lowest ebb of misery and wretchedness. Fam ine, pestilence and death, stalk thrpugh .the length and breadth of the land in the most hideous shape; half the inhabitants are starving and. the other half have not the meaps of relieving them." Insolvency stares every man in the face; credit annihilated capital vanished commerce languishing agricul ture at a stand the landed interests uprooted and the shipping interest destroyed- IMPORTANT INTELLIGENCE. The Washington Union of Wednesday ecntains the following.: . A gentleman arrived in this city, in last evenings souther boat, states ihat he is just from San Anto nio, in Texas, and tht there arc COO0 men under arms, preparing to march to he Rio Grande, to de fend the rights of Texas. Thousands more are rea dy, if it should be necessary, to rally under the Stan dard of the State." SHOCKING ACCIDENT. The S. V. Courier and Enquirer of Saturday says: yesterday afternoon, a young man named Andrew Haggie, Engineer in Mr. Swift's steam Sugar Refinery, In Laight street, was caught In the fly wheel while the machinery was in motion and drawn in among the works, and before the engine could be stopped, he was carried around for half a turn-. When extracted, his body' was horribly jtuan- ' gled, and both his thighs fractured.. His fellow workmen conveyed him to the Hospital, where his wounds were attended to, and upon .examination it was found that he had also sustained serious internal- injuries. It was the opinion of the Physicians that he could not survive. ( . i SUICIDE BY A MINISTER. Rev. Alphonso Wm. Henry Rose, a minister of the Chureh-of England, committed suicide ,in Tor onto, on the 19th instant, by cutting his phroat with a razor, while laboring under temporary insanity. Mr. Rose was related to the Duchess pf grilhxr land. . He was educated at tberdCe .College, and afterwards graduated at Cambridge jUniyerity. Disappointed in a situation promised him by the Bishop of London, he came) to Canada some years ago. He was for some ,tinie afterwards settled over St. Luke's Church, in Cincinnati, and is well known in some parts of the United States as a lecturer. MORE FAILURES IN NEW YORK. The New Yurie Dry Goods Reporter stales thar a large manufacturing company of fancy cassimcrcs failed last week, which is attributed to the want of remunerating prices for woolen goods, relatively to the high price of wool. The New York Post says : " A large produce house in this cily is reported to have suspended payment to-day. Wc have not as certained the extent of their liabilities or assets. The recent decline in pork Is mentioned as the cause. .We withhold the, name of the parties that they may not be prejudiced by a premature announce ment f this unhappy event. We are given to understand that but fr the re cent failure ofSHydam &. Co. the house would pro bably have gone through- Why is a fig's tail like knife ? Bccaurt if i . flourishtd ocr a ham. - !, i leavin time to look arter Nance. J7-7?? v-.viav ii on ine iora the hole.-U
Weekly Commercial (Wilmington, N.C.)
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