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jfautMisitor PUBLISHED BY BENJAMIN G. LIDDON T. A. BURKE, EDITOR. MADISON, GA.: SATURDAY, AUG. 23, 1856. Our Weekly Gossip, With Headers and CoRKESroNDEXTS. Do Women Reason? Our correspondent JonsiK Joxqcil takes the negative. Before lie knows it, lie'll got liimself into hot water. If any of our lady friends wish to enter the lists, our columns are open. Where are I.ucie Lilac nndPicooiE? Are the lady readers of the Visitor content to let this fellow run “un wbipt of justice?” We trust not. Uncle Eppr and General Wjf hirgton. A correspondent sends us the following original anecdote of the “times which tried men’s souls.” Uncle Uppy is well known to a number of persons in this community. To appreciate fully the following anec dote, writes our friend, you should see the old man tell it. If I could only transfer to paper the spirit and animation with which lie narrates this, arid his numerous other exploits, I should not fail to provoke tl hearty laugh from your renders: The old man’s name is Eparoinondns llo binson, and his residence Greene comity. He is full of anecdote, and is highly insulted if you intimate that he is going beyond the range of probability. He was a hoy during tho Devolution; though, to hear him talk, you would sup pose he bore a very conspicuous part in that memorable struggle/ It is scarcely ■well to insinuate that the old fellow wnsa lory, unless you want his crutch about your ears. Sometimes lie comes to the little town of Greensboro, where he is well known. Catch him with “ two or three drinks aboard," and usk him : “ Uncle Eppy, do you kuow anything of General Washington t” “General Washington! You ought to a’ been with ns at tho battle of Little York! The English wero pushing us close, I tell you, when the General comes and todies mo on tho shoulder: says lie, “ Eppy,” says lie, ‘ we’re in a box! wliat shall we do? Thar Hint but three bushels of tutors in the camps, and _we’ro surrounded by the Brit ish.’ Says I,” —here the old fellow draws himself up to his full height, and gesticu lates violently with his long, bony fore linger,—“Says I, *’l God, Wash, ice'll give 'em h—IP Yes, yon ought to ’a been thar, my son. The jar of tho cannon split tho chimneys for five miles, so that you could have laid your hand in tho cracks from top to bottom, and, ’1 God, for ten acres around, the blood was knee deep!” fashionable Lift al tbc Watering Places. All the watering places, north and south, are now crowded with “beauty and fash ion,” and their proprietors reaping a rich harvest at the expense of those who have rnoTO money mid time on hand than they can conveniently dispose of at home. A correspondent of a New York city paper says that there aro ten thousand at Sara toga, more than half of whom aro of tho coffer eex. In tho same letter lie g'ves the circumference of a fashionably dressed woman there, at seven feet and a half!, What a jam there must he at the hotels in that delectable region 1 Wo agree with a contemporary that there wou'd he no such tiling as furnishing them all with sleeping accommodations, if their hooped petticoats were not suspended from a peg at night. Belle Britt an, who writes spicy letters to the New York Mirror from Newport, says; “We have to dress about nine times a day here. First we put on a dress to dress in; then we are ready for breakfast. Af ter tliat we dress for the bench —then for the bath—then for dinner —then for tho •drive—then for the hail—nml then for the Shed. If that isn’t being put through a regular course at’ dimity and diamonds, then I am no judge of suoli performances.” l’oor creaturosi liow do they manage to get through with so lunch, especially those who claim to he in delicate health l Re quire one tenth as much labor in any use ful employment,from one of them, and the dear creature would sink under it! A correspondent of the sterner sex, wri ting from one of the fashionable resorts, declares that yotflkui scarcely get within speaking distance, even, of a fashionable woman. He agrees with Puueli, that the man who intends getting round his wife, must start early in the morning. Ue thinks walking round a fashionably dressed woman would he a capital exercise for in valids. Apropos of hoops, the Paris correspond ent of the London Court Journal tells a good “‘big about the new fashion, which he denominates Tba Triumph of CitnolinS. "While upon tho subject sis Crinoline, it may be as tvqil to tell you the .adventure which is forming the chief amusement of the court at this moment, and which imp pened a day or two ago at St. Cloud. The Duchess de P., one of the most crinolined of nil the ladies about the Empress, being in the fullest feather for the dinner to which she hail been Invited l>y her inipe. ritd miatrgsa, was led into the sails aman ger -by the little Count <le JI., a man of great renown hut of small stature, Tho dieliess is of a tall, commanding Bgm - c, and is, besides, particularly liberal of Cri noline, which she is accused of exaggerat ing to most inconvenient proportions. The doors at St. Cloud are not of the same mighty dimensions as those at the Tuile rics; and although the two buttons were thrown wide open, it was with some dis may the little count beheld the work be fore him, wlicu he compared the width of the door with that of the crinoline of the lady on his arm! Just at that awful mo ment of the passage, however, the lady unconsciously dropped her fan—the eonrit, forgetful of bis perilous position, confined between the doorway, having no other fear before his eyes hut that of seeming to he deficient in gallantry and good man ners, imprudently stooped to pick it up. “At the moment, the duchess was ac tually passing through the door—in order to accomplish this difficult feat, she was just ill tho act of giving that peculiar swing to the left which the disproportion of the dress of tho present day with our domestic economy renders necessary, when, to the utter dismay and consternation of the whole assembly, the little count was missed, and tho duchess remained strug gling with some n-secn obstacle which prevented her advancing. The ogre crino line had swallowed up the knight even more effectually than in tho fairy days of old, for no trace of his former existence was visible. The company following in pairs was stopped as a matter of course— those who had gone on before had already readied their se..ts at the table, and turned in wonder to behold tho strange scene which was enacting at the door, where the tali, majestic, .and unusually dignified Duchess do P. was capering and caracoling with a scared and terrified countenance, and tho rest of the company pressing for ward to behold what was tho matter. “Tho confusion and dismay wero at their height when the little man crept out on his hands and knees from beneath tho mountain of crinoline and flounces in which he had been enveloped, and flushed and discomfited, but little disposed to smile, although the tittering of tho com pany soon broke into a hearty laugh,when tho Empress, unable to restrain her mirth, gavo tho signal of a genuine outburst of merriment, which enlivened tho whole re past, and rendered it one of the gayest which had taken place since tho departure of tho Emperor. Os course, this adven ture has given ri.so to epigrams and quoii bets without end, and the poor little count lias become bettor known within the last week in the annals of tho Court than by the three years’ good and honest service which ho Ims passed at the Tuileries. Tho Duchess, meanwhile, towers more majes tically than ever over her fellows; the in cident has not a whit diminished tho inso lenoo of her crinoline, which, growing more prodigious every day, completely ex tinguishes nil tho ridicule which the ad venture of the little Count do M. would otherwise have heaped upon her,” Bcforo wo dismiss tho subject of fash ionables and fashionable life, w e wuut to copy Belle Brittan’s Definition of a Fast Woman, Belle is tho Newport, correspondent of tho Xnn York Mirror , from whom wo have already quoted. The definition which follows, says an exchange, is worthy of being pasted on tho fly-leaf of Webster’s unabridged: “ By tho way, I overheard a funny con versation last evening, between a gentle man and a lady who were promenading behind me, from which I learned the defi nition of a “fast woman.” The couple were discussing the attractions of a young lady, who receives a good deal of attention here from the beaux—(such ns wo have) — when the gentleman remarked that lie had not yet been aide to discover the charms of tho fair one in question. ‘O,’ said tho lady; ‘she is fast, and that’s what makes all the gentlemen like her.’ ‘But what does that mean?’ enquired the gentleman roguishly. ‘Why,’ said tho lady, ‘a fast woman is one yon can say anything to.’ I thought 1 should have dropped.” Col. J. IV. White, of Kansas.' Tho lust Empire State contains a card signed by thirty citizens of Griffin, (among them tho editors of that paper,) recom mending Col. J. M . IV Hite as a gentleman and “an ardent and efficient supporter, advocate and defender of the cause” of tho South. We aro anxious to think well of Col. White. Wo have heard him speak on several occasions, and were pleased with his bold and manly defence of the South, nml his thoroughly original and unstudied manner, hut tliero aro some lit tle matters which it is necessary for him to clear up before ho.can stand well in this community. lie made a speech in this place on the 21th of July, in which lie stated that a company was organizing in South Western Georgia, to leave for Kan sas on tho 11th of August, under the com mand of Col. .M. Brown, of Marion county. One or two young men of our plaeo agreed to join this company, and were to meet it in Atlanta on the 11th. One of them, Robert M. Pkxick, Esq., lett hero on the 9th, for Atlanta, expecting to start with tho company at the time pro posed. After waiting tico days beyond the time , lie writes us that tho company had not arrived, nor could he hear any thing of it, or of Col. Wrim:. Ilis conclu -B,‘C‘tt was that there was “ something rotten in Deti’uark.” Was any such company cver projected? I? so, why did it fail? If not, why did Cdl. White so report and induce oi»r young friel'd to enter upon a wild goose chase? Again: Ctd. W, stated here, publicly and privately, that he made a speech to a large fltid enthusiastic! crowd, j.n Athens, and there collected, in a single night, ekvei i hundred and fire dollars. We have since been in Athens, and had it from undoubted authority that he never made a speech in that place nt all, nor did he ever collect one dollar, so far as we coaid learn. On the contrary, the friends of Kansas made an appointment for him—lie having ar rived too late to fill his first—and the crowd assembled, hut the Colonel was non est. Ilis friends there were entirely ig norant, three weeks afterwards, of the cause of the failure. If Col. White can clear up these little matters, we shall he glad to set him right before our readers, Until he does, we shall be compelled to think, with our friend Penick, that “some body hasn’t done the clean thing.’’ A Vegetable Rarity. Our respected townsman, Nathaniel Allen, Esq., has laid on our table quite a curiosity—the result, of a singular freak on tho part of Dame Nature. We scarcely know how better to describe it than as thirty hco ears of corn growing in a com pact hunch. Each one has a distinct cob, covered with kernels of corn, and on a good number of them the kernels are fully formed and matured. It can he seen at the printing office, for a few days. New Cotton. The first bale of now cotton was sold in this market on yesterday, by Mr. John W- Hanson, for 11 1-2 cents. The purchasers were Copeland, Harris & Cos. Our thanks are duo to fl/c lions. N. G. Foster, Howell Conn and John 11. Lumpkin, for valuable public documents. Southern Education. The editors of the New Or leans Picayune have been favored with a copy of a circu lar letter addressed by Bishop Polk of the Episcopal Diocese of Louisiana, to his brother Bishops of Georgia, Alabama, Ar kansas, Texas, Florida, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina, on tho suh-_ ject of education in tho South, with a pro posal of a concert of counsels and unity of action for tho establishment, at tho South, of a University of the highest grade. “Thoparticular considerations urged by Bishop Polk,” says the Picayune, “are ad dressed to those of his oavu communion ; and itis desiro and design is to have such an institution organised under Episcopal auspices, and to supply tho wants of the members of Ids own church, with which, in his ministrations and associations, lie has become thoroughly acquainted. But tho genera] purpose is more wide, and the want which it recognises arid desires to supply is universally felt throughout the Southern States. “With such few exceptions, in particu lar localities, as only serve to mark the rule ns nearly universal, even the el men tal and preparatory branches of education aro very insufficiently provided for in the South. Tho puld'c school system, for pri mary instruction, is hut imperfectly under stood anywhere upon a scale adequate for the training tip of the youth of a State; and the .seminaries and the colleges aro few, inadequately endowed and rarely pa tronised to the extent of their claims and merits by Southern parents. For a high er, liberal education, we have no institu tions endowed as they should he, possess ing tho advantages which aro olfero 1 by the principal colleges in the Northern States of tho Union. Southern families have been constrained, in order to give their sons tho benefits of a thorough edu cation, to submit to the sacrifices of send ing them away from their homes, beyond the roach of parental care and affection, in an uncongenial climate, and we will add, which tho Bishop merely intimates, sub ject, of late, to inauspicious influences. “The merely economical view, in the largo expenditures which aro annually made abroad for what would lie infinitely' better if it could ho Avell done at nil at home, is but a secondary consideration, al though one in itself of no small moment. What is of value —not to ho expressed in dollars and cents—is that tho benefits of good education up to the highest attaina ble anywhere, should ho brought within the roach of the people of tho Southern States; and this necessity is felt more keenly since tho tendency of Northern col leges has lately developed itself in so many instances to ho in favor of doctrines and tra nings which aro repugnant to tho inodes of thinking, and hostile to he so cial organization in the Southern States. It is becoming unsofo to trust the imma ture iplnds of Southern youth to teachings which are assuming the tones of propa gandism in many places that are of an in sidious character, and likely to unsettle principles that aro believed to he essential todomestic and political peace at home. So many of the distinguished professors in tho great institutions North have become pub lio deelaimers for abolitionism—public re vilors of the,whole frame-work of South ern society as sinful, and public partisans in schemes to overthrow them, by insidi ous or by violent means, that few thought ful men of tho South can reconcile it to themselves to p’aco their children under such guardianship, or within the contami nation of the teachings which must accom pany such fntia icnl sentiments. There is a growing sense in tho slaveholding States that it is becoming the highest of domestic duties, as well as a great political duty, that tho South should provide within it self for the education of its own sons, as a measure of self-protection against system atical aggression which has passed from legislative halls, tho forum and the polls into academic groves, the pulpit and the college commons. It is a preparation for defence which must he made, and the ne cessity being acknowledged, the public mind is ready to receive with favor any project which gives promise that it shall be done thoroughly and well.. “There is a great public Avant, disclosed, acknowledged, patent and urgent, and thev who offer a plan of relief, something that meets fully the whole want, or promises to supply fully a part of it—a plan which is practicable, and within our means should command the most earnest and fa vorable attention, and, if made acceptable in its details, receive a generous and prompt support. There is, in this plan of Bishop Polk, an idea which concurs with tiie ardent wishes and most earnest con victions of the thinking mass of the South ern people. We believe it has been the subject of a good deal of consultation and correspondence already among leading cit izens in tho States named, and that it is received with much favor, irrespective of tho denominational character which it w ill have by being brought forward under Epis copal auspices, and placed under tho direc tion of the Bishops of that church. There is a liberal disposition, and there aro am ple means. The South is rich enough to endoAv a university so amply that nothing shall be wanting which can be obtained elsewhere for a complete education; and it is ready to listen to proposals, which come under such imposing auspices as those which Bishop Polk indicates, and such ex tended and weighty influences as he in vokes to the cause.” For the Visitor. Do Women Reason f Some weeks ago I heard a distinguished clerical gentleman, on the subject of Fe male Education, and I have thought several times since, tliat I would give my views on tho great question of equality of the sexes. Now, Mr. Editor, I like the ladies; I wish that distinctly understood. lam deeply scnsiblo of their many delightful qualities. In a vast number of tilings they greatly excel us men; indeed in cer tain matters wc can’t pretend to match them at all. But when some over-gallant gentleman, like Bishop Pierce, or some outro specimen of her own sox, gets up and proclaims that woman has exactly the same amount of intellect as man, and is therefore capable of exercising the same social and political functions, and ought to enjoy tiie same rights, I must back—l can’t go in with that, Sir. Such an idea strikes nt the root of all thoso very prop erties in woman, which I find so agreeable. It would make her out to be something, indeed, which avo men shoilld regard with indifference, if not disrespect. No, Sir, tho true individualism of wotiinn, her attraction and Iter strength, lies in her be ing something engagingly less than man— a charming imperfection , if I may ?o ex press it. • A distinguished logician and divine of tho prdSont day gives the following defini tion of woman: “ A creature that cannot reason, and who pokes tho fire from the top.” Thut'e just precisely iny idea of the sex. They Can do a hundred fine things, with and without Berlin wool, within and beyond the bounds of crochet: but they cannot reason. But for the fact that man possesses the gift of reason, I question if humanity would yet liavo attained to the power of kindling a fire nt all. I am pretty sure Avoman never would have ac complished it. 1 take it upon mo to say that sho Avould never, by herself, have thought of floating a ship, planting corn, or fashioning a flint into nil arroAv or a knife. Now, don’t get in a passion with me, gentle readers, for I liko you all tiie bettor for it. I doubt if she ever Avould have arrived at tho idea of baking or cook ing, of sewing or woaving. Man has con ceived all her tasks, set her to them and kept her at them, she going on in unrea soning, mechanical, beautiful obedience from tho beginning. And so far is she from suggesting any scientific improvement in any of them, site can hardly he brought to understand, much less to admit and aet upon, any such improvement which man may suggest to her. I never yet knew a Avoman put on a fire upon rational princi ples, or in any other than a haphazard sort of Avny. Os the expedients for making its kindling certain, sho lias not, and appa rently cannot torm the faintest conception. Then look at tho dear creature’s Avays and doings regarding dress. What a record of preposteronsness in her Avhole chronicle of fashions. It is evident tliat sho has no idea of making one thing fit or tally Avith another- -is for instance, a shoo big enough for the foot, a bonnet big enough for the head, or a bodice wide enough for tho waist. It is mere chance whether she wears sleeves large enough to hold her Avhole body, as they Avcro twenty years ago, or diminished to a mere hand across the shoulders, such as Avero worn by an Irish literary lady; Avlien a gentleman who met her at a ball, ami observed her laugh ing at him, congratulated himself that at least sho Avas candid and downright, and clearly had no thought of laughing at him in her sleeve. Neither has she any percep tion of Avhat is convenient and what in convenient in dress. Just now the whole sex are found wearing dresses of such vast circumference that they aro almost unap proachable. The fame garments are loaded Avith six or eight flounces, which the la dies themselves understand to be an ele gant ornament to their figures, but Avldch practically, in tho eyes of rational, observ ing men, only serve, on their rising from ,ilie table, to give them the most ludicrous profiles that could by any means bo de vised, and aro the more remarkable as be ing ahvays the last feature of the fair Avear er Avhieh leaves the room. We see them also exhibiting hanging sloeves, and orna ments pendulous from tho wrist, as if alto gether blind to the fact that these super fluities arc liable at table to he al wavs draggling in the soup and sauce, and are t in short, a nuisance to themselves and all who sit near them. To shape means to ends, or to adapt things to each other for a serviceable result is in the power of many of the interior animals, as all stu dents of natural history know; but—now don’t be offended, dear ladies, for I protest that I like you all the better for it—such ingenious adaptations are clearly beyond the scope of the human female intellect. They cannot understand such things, even when explained to them by AA-ell-meaning specimens of the reasoning eex, Avho may take an interest in seeing that self-incurred inconA eniences brought to an end. So they go on, bearing with an insensitive weak ness evils altogether beyond masculine philosophy; eA’en, it may be, ineonlmo diousnesses that threaten health and life itself; as, for instance, compressing the Avaist to about one third its natural propor tions, or Avearing thin shoes in damp weather; the first marring all the func tions of some of the most delicate organs of the human frame; the other ensuring consumption and death. But lam becoming prosy. Women do not reason, though—that’s beyond all question. No use to talk to her after her mind's made up. Dear, enchanting, un reasoning creature, sad and many are the scrapes von fall into from want of reflec tion, and vexing sometimes are your argu ments —which are no argnments at all —— and conclusions without and in spite of data. Kut avlio would have you other- Avise than as yon are?—the most enigmati cal, incalculable, thoughtless, delightful of all creatures! „ “ Ruptured we quit each dozing sage, Oh woman, for thy lovelier page! Sweet book! unlike the books of art, Whose errors are thy fairest part; In whom the dear errata column Is the best page of all the volume.” Joiinie Jonquil. Madison, Geo. Peii-and-Scissorings. An eastern paper says that in the State of Maine there are about one hundred and fifty Baptist churches destitnte of pastors. Ladies are like watches—pretty enough to look at —sweet faces and deli cate hands, hut somewhat difficult to “ regnlute” when once set “ agoing.”.... There was n very largo fire in Chicago on the 13th, destroying several railroad depots and other buildings, valued at about $200,- 000 There has been no rain in DeSoto cojiutv, Tennessee, for over seven weeks- All vegetation has parched to such a de gree that there is not only no prospect for crops, but the cattle are suffering for food. Tlie lion. Itufils Choate, of Massachu setts, lias published a long letter favorable to Mr. Buchanan An Irish paper de scribing the results of a duel, says: “The ono party was wounded in the chest, and the other fired in the air.”... .There were 268 deaths in Chicago in the month of Ju ly “ Lord Stanley, a son of the late Earl of Derby,” says an English paper, “has announced a penny paper, to appear in a short time, under his immediate direc tion.”. .. .The yellow fever panic still pre vails at Fort Hamilton, near New York city Vessels arriving from Charleston, says a Now York correspondent, are nar rowly watched for fear of yellow fever; and yet tliero are probably fifty cases of that disease in New York to where one occnrs in Charleston John O. Lawler, a soldier in the U. S. Army, is in custody in New York in consequence of a volunta ry confession he Ims made, of having mur dered a girl named Mary Dunn, in Ireland. Mrs, June M. Biddle died in Bucks county, Pa., on the 11th iust. She was the widow of the celebrated Nicholas Bid dle .... An extra session of Congress con vened on Thursday The papers in the interior ehroniclo tiie almost total failure of the cotton crop. The crop of cotton will also bo light lion. TVm. A. Rich ardson, of Illinois, has resigned his seat in Congress Mr. Stephen 11. Branch, the well known “Matsell case investigator,” has most singularly disappeared from New York A lady of fashion stepped into a shop not long since, and asked the keep er if lie had any matrimonial baskets, she being too polite to say cradle..... Tho floating rainbow arches the wildest tor rent. So stands God in heaven, and the streams of time rush and roar, and over all the waves hovers the bow of peace Seventy thousand dollars’ worth of prop erty was destroyed in the village of West Troy, N. Y., on the morning of the 2nd inst A destructive fire occurred in Paterson, N. J., on the 2d inst., consuming five largo stores. Loss from $15,000 to $20,000. Partially insured We learn from the Selma Sentinel of the 7th inst., that Col. Buford was at Ent'ala, Barbour county, engaged in raising emigrants for Kansas No proof of temperance—a man with his hat off, at midnight, explain ing to a lamp post the principles of his party....A fire occurred at Alexandria, Va., on tho 4th inst., by which property to the amount of SB,OOO was destroyed. Tho firo was caused by an incendiary It said tiiere are but two tilings worth living for—to do what is worthy of being written, or to write what is worthy of being done Lient. Maury left SO,OOO on las recent visit to Minnesota to be in vested in real estate It turns out, after all, that Greeley and Bennett don’t go for Jessie Fremont. They go for Mary Posa , whose metal is of an entirely different character... .No medicine ever offered to the public has met with snch universal and signal success as Terry Davis’ Vegetable Pain Killer. It is a sure cure for all kinds of pain. Try it and thank us for the sug gestion. .. .The first halo of new cotton at Charleston was received on Thursday. It was from the plantation of George Norris, of Orangeburg District... .Russia refuses to surrender Kars until the last of the al lied soldiers have quittedTurkey Crops throughout the Cherokee country are ranch injured by the drought, and accounts from Tennessee (particularly East Tennes see) are exceedingly discouraging. Corn must be scarce.... When laboring under any disease of the throat or lungs, rest as sured that speedy relief can be obtained by using Dr. Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry. Its success in such cases is unparalleled. Three Days Later from Europe. New York, Aug. 17.—The United States mail steamship Baltic, Capt. Comstock, has arrived from Liverpool, which port she left on Wednesday, Au gust 6th. Brows Shipley Cos. state that the cotton market exhibits no new feature, the quotations are steady and the de mand fair. The sales for the three days ending the Ctb, were 20,000 bales of which speculators and exporters took 7,000. The quotations furnished are: for Fair Orleans 7d.; Middling Orleans 6fd.; Fair Mobile 6fd.; Middling Mo bile Fair Uplands 6fd.; Middling Uplands 0 3-16d. The market closed firm. The weather lias been very favorable for harvest operations, and prices incline downwards. The Flour trade is dull, and prices have declined 1 shilling.— Wheat has also receded in price, from 9d. to Bd. per 70 pounds. Indian Corn is unchanged in value. The business in the manufacturing districts is rather moro active than pre viously reported, and prices aro fully maintained. Yarns have advanced in price. Money was in active demand at from four to four and a half per cent. Con sols unchanged and quoted 9GL The Africa had arrived out safe at Liverpool. Spain is tranquil, as the insurgents at 1 Saragossa have surrendered. Tho Naiionnl Guards have been dis armed. The Frencli army on the Spanish frontier has been withdrawn. Russia has sent fifteen thousand, more men to Kars to repair the fortifications at that place. There has been a dreadful powder ex plosion at Salonica, by which many buildings were destroyed, forty persons killed, and one hundred wounded. The London Times accuses Russia of bad faith in carry it g out treaties. Difficulties arc apprehended. [second despatch.] Pales of Cotton on Wednesday 10,- 000 bales. ■ The latest news froiti the explosion at Salonica (a large seaport in Eastern I urkey, and next in size and importance to Constantinople), reports that seven hundred persons were killed and wound ed, including tho Russian, Dutch and Sardinian Consuls. Ono hundred per sons were killed instantly. There were two hundred barrels of contraband pow der exploded. Arrival of the Africa. The steamship Africa has arrived from Liverpool with dates to the 9di inst. Tire cotton market is urn-hanged; Middling Orleans, 0 5-10 ; Upland, 6£. The sales of the week amount to 53,000 bales, including 12,000 fin- export and speculation. The stock at Liverpool consists of 780,000 bales, of which 050,- 000 bales are American. Breadstuff's have largely declined; Canal Flour 24a285; Southern 29a30s ; Ohio 32a335. AVheat9alos. Spiritsof Turpentine 31 6a325. Rice unchanged. Tho weather has been favorable for the crops. Consols 95. Two London firms—Peckford k Keen, and Courtenay, Kingsford & Cos. have suspended payment. The Mexican bondholders are dissatis fied with the position of their claims, and have resolved to memorialize Comonfort to give his attention to tho matter. They have also resolved to seek the aid of the British government to enforce the de mand. If no relief be granted, the sug gestion is made that the Americans be invited to purchase the bonds, and make Mexico pay in cash or territory. Spain. —The terms of the surrender of Saragosa is unknown. Passports are given to Frauce to all who ask for them. All persons under arrest are released ex cept two. All the Russian authorities in the Cri mea have resumed their functions. The fleet has retired from tho Black Sea. It is rumored that all the supposed difficul ties have been satisfactorily resolved by Russia, Kansas. —We have a telegraphic de spatch from Chicago, a source which is especially tainted with the strong spirit of Abolition, stating that the Southern ers are concentrating men and arms for a general attack on tho Freesoilcrs, Twelve block houses have been built at different points, with supplies of arms and have been garrisoued by Missourians- At a meeting in Kansas City tbev re solved to send two thousand meii into the Territory. The border towns are intensely excited A general muster of the Missourians is demanded. An attack on Franklin was to capture the arms collected there.— One block bouse, with 50 stand of arms and cannon, were taken. Senator Douglas’ Report on the House Kansas Bill. Senator Douglas, from the Territorial Committee, to whom was referred the bill passed by the republican majority of the House of Representatives, pro. viding for the' admission of Kansas as a Slate under the Topeka constitution made an elaborate report thereon on Wednesday, rejecting the same. His objections to the House bill in substance were: First, it incorporates into Kansas a portion of the Cherokee county which the United States has by treaty pledged the faith of the nation should not be in corporated into any State or Territory. Second, it also incorporates into Kan sas about twenty thousand square miles of Mexico; establishes slavery therein until 1858, and prohibits it thereafter, in violation of the compact purchasing the country from Texas, and of the compromise measures of 1850, which guaranteed said territory should coiue into tho Union with or without slavery as the people should determine. Third, it legalizes and establishes slavery in Kansas, and over a portion of New Mexico until 1858, and provides that children heretofore born shall he slaves for life, and their posterity after them, provided they are removed into a slave State or Territory prior to 1858. Fourth, it recognises the validity of the existing laws in Kansas, and pro vides for the faithful execution of tliene except those punishing murder, rubberv, larceny, and other crimes. Tilth,it provides no guarantees against illegal voting, frauds in conducting tho elections, or violations, or violence at the polls, but legalizes all such outranks, by declaring that the law under which they could be punished shatl not he en forced. The report recommends the passage of the hill, which has twice passed the Senate, declaring all the obnoxious laws null and void, and allowing the people to form a constitution. Kissing a Queen. There is now on exhibit'd! in our print shops an excellent picture of Franklin at the Court of France; not, however, critically true to history, if my memory serves me right. In this priii*, Franklin stands as he ought to, in tint foreground, he being the soul of the sub ject; his plain attire contrasts well with a brilliant court, embroidered from heal to foot, anil bedizenoil with diamond* and hair powder. Franklin, 1 under-1 stand, was dressed in .second rate home-1 spun, yarn stockings, substantial shoes.l and his hair of its native color; and 1 not at all conscious of any inferiority. I however, but with that self-possesskrl which is tho distinguishing trait of well-1 bred people everywhere. His native I dignity was his sole decoration. As s| stranger, he must have observed tiij common practice in Franco, of kissilifl even in the streets, and other places when friends meet, after a lon«- or short absence, without regard to sex. Tlri kissing, however, is no more than o»|l shaking hands, and is performed by api plying ono cheek to another—once! twice or more according to the intimacy j of tho feelings. It may be called cheek J by-jowling. Franklin may not liavel observed minutely the modus of tins! practice, but have thought that a kivl. was a kiss; or not thought at all abort! it. It is said that he was reminded by ofcH of the dignitaries of the court, '.tig when he was presented he must kiss t-ijj Queen, who it was also said, was a vfjl kissable woman. The Queen appnMCfJ ed familiarly and very near probs-ll impelled by curiosity to see well '-1.1 handsome savage. Franklin reineml'la ing his lesson, without reluctance prtfl in practice, in the only way he had M been taught to kiss, and gave the H a mighty Yankee buss on the lips, t-> ;! y great amazement and horrificatio’ 1 || the old maids, but to the great am** I ment of all others—especially the K*l H who was delighted with this savage s |C jM plicity ; and it is said that he cried —“Encore Biss, Da cappo” or “D o ® again.” How many more things "‘j* said or done, it is not my business t-W to vouch for. Therefore I only to the piint for not being truly hi* lo ■ cal, and especially for not having c^io tS one of the most remarkable of Fra r - I Jin’s court feats. Some of the wags Paris had not tho most implicit faith|| Franklin’s simplicity, and said that B know- more than he pretended to. [J (on Transcript.