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JfatilnfMor PUBLISHED BT BENJAMIN G. LIDDON. T. A. BURKE, EDITOR. MADISON, GA.: SATURDAY, SEPT. 27, 185(k Oar Weekly (losslp, Wren Readers and Correspondents. In another column, Dr. Bliss discourses most eloquently on the subject of dyspep sia'. Ilis medicine will, we imagine, do all that lie claims for it, but the wisest plan is to pursue such a course ns will ob viate the necessity §f taking his or any other remedy. Dyspepsia is invariably the result of imprudence at the table. If practice makes perfect, mankind should certainly know How lo eat wisely. And yet there are hut few who really do understand the science: witness the large number who are candidates for Dr. Bliss and other medical men. The following excellent advice on the subject., from Dr. Wall’s Medical Journal, is worthy of atten tion : 1. Never sit down to the table with an anxious or disturbed mind; better a hun dred fold intermit that meal, for there wil] then lie that much more food in the world, for hungrier stomachs than yours; and be sides, eating under such circumstances can only, and will always, prolong and aggra vate the condition of things. 1. Never sit down to a meal after any Intense mental effort, for physical and mental injury is inevitable, and no man lias a right deliberately to injure body, mind or estate. 3. Never go to a full table during bodily exhaustion—designated by some as being worn out, tired to death, used up, done over, and the like. The wisest thing you can do under such circumstances, is to take a cracker and n cup of warm ten, ei tiler black or green, and no more. In ten minutes you will fed a degree of refresh ment and liveliness which will lie pleasant ly surprising to you; not of the transient kind which a glass of liquor affords, but permanent; for the ten gives present stim ulus and a little strength, and before-it subsides, nutriment begins to be drawn from the sugar, and cream, and bread, and thus allowing the body, gradually and by safe degrees, to regain its usual vigor. Then, in a couple of hours, you may take a full meal, provided it does not bring it later than two hours before sundown if later, then take nothing for tthnfl day iii addition to the cracker and tea,, mid the next day you will feel a freshness ami vigor not recently known.. 41. No re der will require to he advised a ♦second time who will make atrial as above, while it is n fact of no unusual ob servation among intelligent physicians, that onting heartily, and under bodily ex haustion, is not an infrequent, cause of alarming nml painful illness, and some times of sudden death. These things be ing so, let every family make it a point to assemble around the family board, with kindly fecliugs, with a cheerful humor, and a courteous spirit; and let that mem ber of it he sent from it in disgrace who presumes to mar the onght-to-bc-blest re union by sullen silence, or impatient look, or angry tone, or complaining tongue. Eat in thankful gladness, or away with you to the kitchen, you graceless churl, you ungrateful, pestilent lout that you are. There was a grand and good philosophy in the old time c stem of having a buffoon ar music at the dinner table. How to keep cool. The Newark Advertiser ridicules the flea of traveling in hot weather, for the purpose of keeping cool, and makes these suggestions: “Our recipo is moral and mental. First, you must have a good conscience. We do not commence, as recipes generally do, by saying you must take a good eon science. This must J*e in possession be forehand: you cannot take it; it must come from a part of bouest occupation where'ui you have intended injury to no man. Thus a good conscience toward wan will be yours; we go no further—the rest belongs to the preacher. You must next give up all anxiety about profit and loss, as well ns the great election, till cool weather. Be calm, and you will ho cool. Let not your bodily appetites run away with you while the dog-star rages. They must be kept in leach. The passions must be kept under; they are whips to the hlood. Choler rimy bring on cholic. Anxiety is too often the herald of fever, and an irritable temper descends into the stomach, and becomes the cause as well ns the consequence of dyspepsia. Preserve tfie mind 'serene, the honor clear; throw off the anxious cupidity of gain, and the depressing fear of loss. Do not be lament ing that you are not somewhere except the place where you happen to lie. Worry not yonrself and others about an ideal place, or a means- of happiness you will never attain. The sooner you are con vinced of this, the better. Obtain this comfortable frame of mind, and then vou will be in the neighborhood of content ment, which is only another name for hap piness—all that men will ever realize.” Conning. • “ Courting in the country,” says the Sy racuse Standard, “is altogether a different institution from city courting. In the for mer place you get rosy lips, sweet cider, johnny cake, and girls made of nature; and in the latter a collection of starched I'Ml illlll ¥ISII#E» phrases, formal manners, fine silk, jewelry, and girls got up ‘in hoops.’ Always take the rural districts when you want to get a good style of calico.” Some folks who have tried it, are of opinion that city courting isn’t “had to take.” There’s no accounting for tastes. We dare say there’s nothing disagreeable in cither city or country courting. A Word about Hcops. Graham's Magazine for October says: “Hoops are still the rage,.and in the cen tre of fashion in Europe and America, they have increased to'stupendous dimen sions. A grocer in Baltimore, who does a large business with the wealthy circles, has been compelled to tear out the whole front of his store and enlarge his doorway, to make room for the ladies’ hoops, as many of his customers were unable to en ter, in consequenceof the bnlloonrey char aeter of their skirts. Whalebone and crinoline ape in great demand every where.” A spicey correspondent of one of the Northern papers thus “ lets himself out” on the constantly expanding subject of hoops in ladies’ dresses: “And, talking of the ladies, they are positively getting bigger and bigger. The petticoat mania rages fearfully. They fill up the sidewalks, ns they brush by you; you feel bones—whale-bones, 1 mean, for there aro no others within half a mile of you. What a dreadful reversal of nature is all this f Ido not object to plumpness arid rotundity in the proper place, hut what sense is there in being so tremen dously orbicular about the feet! Between you and me,. Mrs. I’. T. has fallen into tlie fashion, and mangre my remonstrance, has purchased one of tbo most monstrous of these inventions. I examined it with inueh awe tho other night, after she had gone to hod. Oh, Roberto! it was fearful ly and wonderfully made. It is an institu tion. In sizo it is like a small country law office. 1 think it must have been raised like a barn. It is latticed, and cor nered and stiffened with the utmost inge nuity. When she has it. on, my ‘glide wife’ is (so to speak) like Hamlet’s father, ‘clad in complete steel.’ She is entirely shut out from this vain world. Quoad tho earth, she is nothing hut a large skirt. So much for tiie safety of the contrivance. Tho question of beauty is another matter.” Let them be tabooed. We have determined, even at tho risk of losing ail our northern exchanges, to show up their abolition proclivities, whenever they come under our notice. Some of the most rabid abolition sheets published in this country are largely circulated at the South, in spite of tho most earnest efforts on tho part of Southern editors to con vince our people that they are giving “aid and comfort to the enemy” by taking them. Wo have lint little hope that all tho efforts of all tho newspapers in the South will stop the evil; and yet wo are determined to do our duty in the premises. If the readers of the Visitor err, it shall not bo through ignorance of tho facts. Tiie Saturday Evening Poet Ims been shown up so often, that it is not necessary to do more here than allude to it. It has announced for publication the last Aboli tion bantling of that precious piece of mortality, Aunt Harriot Beecher Stowe, which for unblushing falsehood, low-down, contemptible malevolence and unmeasured abuse of the South, is said to excel Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Its columns, week after week,.are filled with language the most insulting, and stories the most outrageous, leveled at our poor devoted heads; and yet, good-natured numskulls that we are, we read and pay for them, as if they were tho most courtly compliments. Some months ago we felt it our duty to warn the South against an abolition sheet published in New York- City by Fowler & Wells, whoso phrenological publications are flooding the country from Maine to California. Their paper —Life Illustrated —still comes to ns, and is yet full'of abo lition rant. It has hut few readers at the South, we think. We have been receiving for months past tiie Portfolio , published at Boston,. l>y John S. Sleeper A Cos. It is a good lite rary paper, and we thought it disposed to let us alone; hut the last number has served to dispel the illusion. Ik contains notices of throe abolition liooks, all of them commendatory. Os Aunt Harriet Beecher Stowe's last production— Dred,. a laic of the Great Dismal Sic amp —it speaks in high terms, as a work “calcula ted to excite the feelings and enlist tiie sensibilities of the reader.” No doubt of it. The next book noticed is Horace Gree ley’s History of the Struggle for Slavery Extension, which it pronounces a “timely publication.” The editor thinks Mr. Gree ley bus performed his “labor in a very able and satisfactory manner.” A volume entitled Political Essays, by Parke God win, comes in for a good notice. These essays, it will be remembered, were pub lished in Putnam's Magazine, and went far to give that journal its abolition repu tation. One of them was so outrageous that a bookseller in Montgomery, Ala., re fused to sell the number of the magazine which contained it. And yet this candi date for Southern favor and Southern dol lars—the Portfolio —considers them “tru ly American in feeling,” presenting “facts and arguments in a light, where there ex ists strong difference of opinion, whieh must carry conviction to many minds.” ibis “strong difference of opinion” is on the slavery question of course. That’s quite enough of the Portfolio for the pres ent. I lie Lnited States Magazine is published in New \ork liy J. M. Emerson- & Cos. When the first number (for July) came to ns, we were pleased with it. The paper is good, the typography neat, and the en gravings very superior. The reading mat ter we thought quite up to the standard of magazine literature. That number, so far as we could discover, contained nothing obnoxious. The succeeding (Angust) num ber devoted, we thought, rather too much space to the illustrated adventures of the woolly horse hero: still we said nothing. But in the .September number, now before us, the editor throws off bis mask and sets up a shriek for freedom which would even make Horace Greeley tremble in his boots. All sorts of ways to get rid of this slavery question have been talked of; but it re mained for this sapient editor to suggest the plan. What a capital Domestic Receipt Book he could get up l Bis recipe for cool ing a hare would doubtless soon super cede tho noted one of Mrs. Glass; and Miss Leslie and Mrs. Hale would soon hide their diminished heads for very 6hame. But how does this second Daniel propose to get rid of the monster? Simply by strangling it —grappling with it, and squeezing tiie very vitals out of it. He proposes to deal with it “in a perfectly thorough manner, yielding to no fears, granting no concessions, assenting to no compromises, accepting nothing short of ‘indemnity for the past and security for the future’!” Ifo talks boldly, does this fellow, and without any fear of the conse quences. “ Neither are tiie people, in such a conflict, affected at all by threats or prophecies of disunion. They know better—they do not anticipate disunion as the effect of any of these just and necessa ry proceedings. They do not intend to dissolve the Union themselves, nor let any body else do it!" If the U. 8. Magazine has any readers at the South, let them cut it off at once. We charge tiie publishers nothing for this notice. Before we close this article, wo desire to except several publications, which aro clever enough to let us alone. The Home Journal, published in New York, by Messrs. Morris A Willis, has established a high reputation, not only as a literary pa per of the first class, hut ns a firm and un wavering friend of the South. It lias a large circle of readors in tho Southern States, mid wo should like to see the num her doubled. The Olive Branch, published in Boston, by E. A. Norris, is also a good paper, and altogether reliable for Southern people. Among tho safe magazines we will mention the Knickerbocker, Godey's Lady's Pool:, and Arthur's Magazine. ISy Friday Morning’s Mail. Two European steamships have arrived sinco tiie Indian—the Washington and the Canada. Tho latter brings three days la ter news than the Indian. The Cotton market is unchanged—a slight decline in Indian Corn and Flour. Consols aro quo ted at, !I4 1-8 England lins stationed two cruizers off' the Isle of Serpents. It is be lieved that a change will be made in tho Ministry of Spain. Prussia is supposed to have concerted tho recent revolution in Switzerland. I he two divisions of tiie American par ty, in New A ork, have united nml nomi nated Ernst us Brooks, of the Express, for Governor. They have also endorsed Mr. Fillmore's nomination. The report that the citizens of Concord iiad refused a pub lic reception of President Pierce, is con tradicted. lion. P. S. Brooks lias been nominated for re-election to Congress. I here were titty deaths in Charleston last week, twenty four of which were from yellow fever. Local Items. Tho revival mooting in the Baptist Church, in this town, of which wo spoke in our last, continues up to this time. There have been several conversions and the interest seems to bo increasing. Tiie weather has been quite wintry since Tuesday night, rendering thick coats and fires comfortable. There were pretty stiff frosts to be seen on Wednesday and Thurs day mornings, ’though not sufficient to ‘kill’ anything, we believe. Fires in Atlanta and Cassville. Tho Car House usually occupied by the La Grange R. R. Company, in Atlanta, was burnt on Thurday morning last. Five engines belonging to tiie La Grange, nml thr eto the Georgia Road were badly dam aged. Loss to tho two companies about thirty thousand dollars. We also learn, with regret, that our old friend, AV m. A. Rogers, of Cassville, had liis dwelling and out houses, with their en tire contents, destroyed by fire, on Tues day night last. Himself and family barely escaped the flames—says the Standard— not having time to save any tiling. ErSF” Hie Cassville Standard takes us down slightly, oil the Matrimonial sensa tion. AVo ‘admit the maize,’ Ben, but you really ought not to have peached on us, old fellow. But as you aro one of the ‘ Robert narratives,’ we ’ll look over it. Chief Justice Taney. —The Warren ton (Va.) Whig states that the health of the venerable Chief Justice Taney has very much improved since lie has been sojourning at the Fauquier White Sulphur Springs, lie looks another person, so much Ims his health improved. A Fast Town. —Chicago is a funny place. It is original in more things- than one. Recently a man committed sui cide there by drowning. Tho body could not bo found, but the Coroner, not to be cheated out of his foes, held an inquest on his hat and jacket, found on the bauk of the lake. Verdict, “found empty.” For the Visitor. A little Gossip about Love and Marriage. Sacred do I consider the bond made be tween two hearts—the so-called betrothal —sacred, holy, and not lightly to be bro ken. But, better break a rasli, hasty promise, than regret it a long, miserable life-time. Another lesson to the impul sive: Enter not rashly into a solemn obli gation. Many an innocent girl gains the “ nondesirable name” of flirt by just such hasty conduct. A ligli , poetical fancy— two or three idle conversations on love, and marriage—a fancied congeniality—an exchange of rows, and rings. Then an awakening, a “ breaking off,” and all the sad consequences involved in such a conrse. Too much cannot be said on this subject. I wou’d some able head would write a book on this very theme. Hasty engagements, hasty marriages, are deplorable, lamentable—aye, a curse to our country! How many inebriate husbands and deserted wives owe their unhappiness to this very source —so seem ingly harmless. They admire a pretty foot, a dazzling eye, perhaps— or a rounded arm —a pink and white face, or snowy neck—or something else equally trivial. Such admiration, idle and momentary, is dignified by the name of Love! Good heaven! and what follows? Disappoint ment, of course, if marriage takes place, and all its endless ills. Study each other's dispositions. (AVhy, Jenny Woodbine, what do yon mean? You are surely an antediluvian —that is, “out of fashion” long ago.) Well! good friend, suppose it is—it is common sense, and common sense uhvnysdeservesconsiderntinn. Study dis positions. I repeat it; and even at the risk of being considered ultra-sentimental, and out of date, I will add, “love each other.’’ Yes, love; for without it,oh! young bride and bridegroom, you will never be able to fight, life’s battles side by side. Disputa tions will arise—the gorgon bead of mal content be raised by one nml the other. Human beings are not angels, and love must throw a considerable quantity of dust in the eyes to make people think so after marriage. All are angels, beforehand, of course —lovers would challenge those who dared deny it. Afterwards, if tho husband considers tho “fnire Indie” a “good, clever woman, but somewhat faulty,” well and good! Let her choke the rising sob—’tis as much as she can expect—aye, more commendation than a groat many get: still, it’s rather hard, after all the prate about “sylphs,” and “seraphs." If worse, “close your fin gers firmly upon the gift; let it sting through your palm. Never m’nd: in time, after your hand and arm have swelled, and quivered long with torture, the squeezed scorpion will die, and you will have learned the great lesson how to endure without a soli.” ’Tis woman’s lot. But are there no good men in the world ? say you. Ah yes —-many. I have not a doubt of it. “Niniau Graeme” was not altogether an imaginary character; nei ther was “ Ulverston,” who figures in tiie same book. There are many noble ones on whoui God’s image is not entirely de faced—many good men and good women, evil men and evil women —and I would willingly believe, an equal quantity of each. I am terribly afraid that in striving to deal out justice even-handed, I will appear one-sided; however, let things take their j course. Can I, who with “mine own eyes” have seen so many unhappy mar riage?, declare to tiie world all are “ states of extreme felicity ?” That will not I. Tiie Bard lias sung, “ God never formed a soul without its own peculiar mate.” If this be so—and who may deny it?—all is oasily accounted for. Men and women do not marry their own wives and husbands. Someone lias treated this subject learned ly, and well—l forget who. It is a vision ary doctrine, and may well cause a smile from the man who, anxious to “maintain his position,” makes a “ marriage of con venience” with art ugly heiress; or the girl who, in receiving the addresses of a lover, thinks not of the “ other self,” hut wonders if he could give her a handsome establishment, on such a street.’ Ah! well. It makes no difference whom such sordid creatures wed. I’m sure I don’t care. Lot them laugh. (“ But, Miss Jenny Woodbine,” says someone, “if your creed bo true, that marriages are made in heaven, and each soul lias its ‘own peculiar mate,’ what do you do with the old maids and old bachelors? where are their ‘twin-spirits’ wandering?”) All! my good sir, somebody has gene rously taken possession of them—marred the intentions of nature; lienee the “hub bub” of ill-assorted marriages; hence the number of those who are paired not matched; lienee tho unions of “hands, not hearts.” Tho old maids and bachelors must learn to wait —“bide their time.” You are incredulous—you smile. Very well, sir—sorry for it—can’t help it, if you reject my doctrine. But oh! you good, patient, “henpecked” husband; are you not a convert? Don’t you agree with the bard, and his humble follower ? Do you believe that termagant creature, miscalled woman, in whoso pres ence you wouldn’t dare to say “ mouse” if she cried “rat,” is your “better half”? Is not mine a pleasant belief? True, you grieve because you made snch a mistake, and because some dear “ kindred spirit’’ away off somewliero is waiting for yon, while you are tormented out of your life. Well sir, the case is plain—you married the wife of somebody else—startling fact I makes you nervous. What if this other somebody should turn np suddenly? Had you not rather fancy all this, and mourn your folly, than believe this “ lady of the tongue” was- made for you, and Fate never intended you any better? (“Dangerous doctrine, Jenny—savors too strongly of romances and fable-land: excuse me—can’t believe it.”) Very good, sir. This is a free country, (a few thanks to our forefathers for that same.) Nobody ever expected.you to be lieve it; how could they, when your thoughts never soared above a counting room, or dingy law-office and musty law books. Yon don’t dream either, do you? I’m afraid not. I know you never do with your eyes open. Yon have no time— you’re afraid it’s sinful. You have no friends in fable-land, (where people die when they get troublesome, and come to life again if we wish them, all in “the twinkling of an eye,”) who grasp you warmly by the hand, and lead you through shaded woodlands, and where flowers never fade and die, unless yon so desire, and where you can have spring, summer, autumn, or winter, just when you like; where the gallant knight always conies along at the proper time to rescue the dis tressed damsel; and unnatural guardians die too at the proper time, before they can accomplish some heart-rending, soul-split ting act; whero the bravest hero marries the handsomest heroine, of course, and poor, plain Jane Maria must wait until fate brings along another gallant somebody “in search of a wife.” (You don’t com prehend this, either, do yon. You ask where is fable-land. Is it north, south, east, or west? No use to tell you, if you haven’t found out where it is yet. I’m afraid you never will. Good day, sir.) But, dear reader, (if I am fortunate enough to have one, lie or she is very dear,) you nml I will meet there one of these days, will we not? In tiiat glorious place it is unlike this life, where “ The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust, liurn to the socket.” There nre no dry, dusty hearts there—no indeed; we put them out of tiie way soon enough, I’ll assure you. But the good live always: so do the flowers, and the birds. AVlmt a pleasant place, to be sure. Hurra for fablo land! Reader, when this world grows too shockingly prosaic for your fastidious self, just take a “summer trip” to fable land; and somewhere, in some of its retreats, you will find Jenny AA'oodbjne. For the A r isitor. “ l>o Women Reason l” Mr. Editor: Did I not belong to that class who “ will always have the last word,” I should not again take my pen, to do battle in the cause which I have es poused ; not that I look upon it as a fail ing cause; not that I have been convinced by the cogency of the reasoning of either Joiinie JoNQim. or Oconee; but. that a friend has reminded me of the scripture warning, “ not to cast pearls,” Ac., and that 1 am convinced, from the obstinacy with which they maintain their position, that they would not acknowledge their defeat, however signal; that they would not hearken to the voice of the charmer, let him charm never so wisely. In proof of thi«, just hear what Oconee says, (for as lie has more direc'ly attacked me, I will notice him first): “As to the vapid non sense and fulsome flattery with which men are compelled lo insult the good taste and good sense of women,” I have only to say, that men adapt themselves to the ca pacities of those with whom they are talk ing.” Now is not that unbearable? Could I he silent under such slanderous insinua tions? And as if that was not sufficient, he goes on to add, Phehesays, “and should she attempt to change the conversation into something more interesting, she is at once silenced by a shrug of the shoulder or the opprobrious epithet of “Blue Stocking. The difficulty which is here presented is natural, and is likely to occur; for when a woman is smart and learned (I think I see the sneer that curled his lip when he penned that line,) and attempts to show off, it is disagreeable, and she will be classed among the Blue Stockings." Now, Mr. Editor, I appeal to you if Oconee does not indirectly admit my rea soning in that case; and is it a matter of course that women desire to show off as lie expresses it; or that she must be guilty of pedantry, and become a bore if she en deavors to introduce some sensible topic of conversation ? lam sure you are too candid and just to make any such admis sion. I do wonder that Oconee, belong ing to that class which reasons, should have invited attack in such a vulnerable point—deny that she can reason in one sen tence, and in the next admit that she is correct. He says further that he did hear Bishop Pierce’s address; that he did ad mire it; but believes that he was only de bating on the affirmative side. That such was not the case, I heard from the Bish op’s lips. I heard him declare that he truly believed the sentiments that he then uttered, that “he held women naturally to be endowed with the same degree and kind of intellect with man ; and it a differ ence was seen, it was the difference of training which had served to develop some faculties of mind in a greater degree in one sex than the other.” High authority, that. I wonder that Oconee will attempt to gainsay it. Now I take it from the style of his piece that he is an intelligent, educated man, and as snch is acquainted with history. He has read to but little purpose if he has not heard of Madame de Stae), that brilliant woman of whom it is said “that the great monarch who made thrones his play things ’ respected her opinion and feared her pen more than every other person in his realm ; and this to such an extent as to lead him to banish her from France, whence she was not allowed to retnrn un til another house occupied the throne. Miss Edgeworth, too, was pronounced by one of the first men of her day to t>« one of the very best writers he ever read_ Such examples are few, I admit; bnt as things are at present, I only wonder there should be as many. And now for a brief notice of Johnie Jonquil. In his last he seemed rather to complain that I had passed strictures npon his piece without ever having read it. Now being unwilling to do him any injus tice, and determined to make the amende honorable , if I had done so, I put myself to the trouble of hunting np the paper, and having found it, read it through, and with the Queen of Sheba was forced to exclaim, “The half has not been told me.” Mr. Editor, Susie did not give him half his deserts. But I suppose I must not deal too hardly with him, for though he denies that I prove my point, he pays rne the compliment to say I write well. Thank yon, Johnie, thongh I cannot let yon go quite “scot free.” After denying our power of reasoning, you gravely assert that we have “no taste." Now I will condemn you ont of your own mouth. If you do not admire our style of dress, why do you lords strive to copy it so closely? Do you deny this? Well, I will prove it to you. A few years since in the Kalei doscope changes of our fashions, plaids be came “ all the go.” The very next season nothing was seen npon our exquisites but plaids of the greatest possible widths: we discarded our gaiters and substituted slip pers, when lo! yon see slippered feet among the other sex. Then up come short waists and long skirts, and behold! the waists of vonr coats grow by degrees beautifully less, and the skirts lengthen proportionally. We adopt the flowing sleeves—the first thing that greets yonr eyes on entering a store is the Talma, with sleeves both long and wide. Yon have quietly appropriated our shawls; and oh! tell it not in Oath, yon have even stolen our veils. Think of it, ladies—a great rough bearded, bewhiskered, bemoustached face behind our delicate gossamer veils!! But I have done—on'y I must add for your edification two favorite aphorisms, “It will not do for those who live in glass housesand “ Physician, heal thyself.” PngßE Lam well. Madison , Ga. Pen-and-Scissorings. lion. A. O. Magrath, Gen. James Gads den, and Col. John Cunningham, are an nounced in the Charleston papers as can didates for the seat in Congress made va cant by the resignation of Mr. Aikin.... We learn from the Columbus Times that Mr. Lane, formerly of the Sun, of that city, has gone to Charleston to aid as as sistant editor of the Courier Captain Milton H. Fair, of the Newberry, 8. C., company of emigrants, died at Leaven worth City, Kansas, on the 3d inst.... A St.. Louis paper says that the grasshop pers have eaten up the entire tobacco crop of Franklin county, and the last that was hoard from them they were seated on the corners of the fence begging ererg man that paused /or a chew. .. .Geo. N. Race, of Louisiana, has been elected Grand Bire of the Independent Order ot Odd Fellows in the United States.... Rev. Prof. F. A. P. Barnard, LL.D., has been elected Pres ident of’the University of Mississippi, at Oxford, to succeed Judge Longstreet.... The Oxygenated Bitters claim the favora ble attention of those whose principles forbid the use of alcoholic stimulants. This well known remedy for dyspepsia and gen eral debility is richly worth a fair trial. Mr. Joel C. Potts, aged twenty-three years, was killed by lightning, in Gordon county, on the 9th inst The total ex ports of precious metals from San Fran cisco, during the first seven months of this year, reached $30,000,000 Over sixty thousand barrels of lager beer will be manufactured this year in Milwankie alone... .The Swiss Cantons, with a pop ulation of only eight hundred thousand, have two hundred aLd sixty-throe news papers, twelve of which have been estab lished within the last year... .Lorenzo B. Shepherd, a prominent democrat of New York city, died suddenly in that city on the 18th inst “The Churchman,” a Protestant Episcopal paper, comes out in favor of dancing, as “an innocent recrea tion, and as healthful as it is graceful” The Hon. Townsend Harris, the American Minister to Siam, has lately concluded a commercial treaty between that govern ment and our own... .Sir Henry Holland, physician to Queen Victoria, and son-in law of Sidney Smith, is in 805t0n.... Chilblains may be easily cured by a few applications of Perry Davis’ Vegetable Pain Killer. It is equally effectual in cur ing scalds, burns, &c. No family should be without it... A shark, measuring 12 feet 9 inches, was caught on Friday after noon, near the quarantino station, off Charleston... .Our government lands cost one dollar an acre on an average, and champagne two dollars a bottle, now many a man dies landless, who,during his life, has swallowed a township, trees and all The citizens of Concord, N. 11., have refused a public reception to Presi dent Pierce, on the occasion of his contem plated visit. —The National Intelligencer has conclnded to hoist the Fillmore and Donelson flag.. .It is rumored, bnt con sidered doubtful, that the Queen of Eng land will visit Canada shortly. JOT Chief Justice Lecompte, ofKan sas, in a letter to the Hon. James A. Stewart, of Maryland, makes an able defence of his official acts against the charges preferred against him by the I ree State party, growing out of the unfortunate disturbances in that territovy. LATEST NEWS. foreign. New York, Sept. 23.—The steamship Indian has arrived at Quebec, with four days later from Europe. The cotton trade is firm. Flour has declined from Is. fid. to 2s. Trade in wheat very dull with a decline of 3d. to 4d. Indian Corn had fallen off from 6d. to is—demand limited. There has been no change in the money market. Consols at 94J. The political news is unimportant. FROM NEW GRANADA. Minister Corwine reports the govern ment of New Granada uuable to main tain law and order, and recommends the immediate and forcible occupation of the Isthmus from ocean to ocean. FROM KANSAS. New York, Sept. 22.—1 tis annonne ed that Gov. Geary, of Kansas, has dis banded all the voluuteer troops in the territory. The Missourians are greatly incensed, and swear vengeance. Lane with one hundred and fifty men, has moved off towards Nebraska. From the Georgia Telegraph, Great Fire in Macon. MANY HOUSES DESTROYED! IMMENSE LOSS OF PROPERTY!; A little before daybreak on last Mon day, the 22d inst., our citizens were a roused by the ringing of alarm bells and the cry of fire. The cause of the fire is not known, but it was first discovered, we believe, on the premises of Mr. E. E. Brown on Mulberry street, opposite the Lanier House. It soon spread to the neighboring houses, which being mostly built of wood burnt very rapidly, notwith standing the efforts of the firemen and others, who were promptly on the spot and used every exertion to stop the pro gress of the flames. They were not fi nallv checked nntil they had consumed every building (exeept two) on the East side of the Square, bounded by Mulberry and Cherry, and Second and Third »t«; they also crossed over the Alley and con sumed several houses on the Viestsideof the square, approaching so near our own office as to render it in iniinent danger. The following is a list of the houses destroyed, some of which were owned by their occupants, and others bv differ eit persons; Dr. E. L. Strohecker’s Drug Store; Day <fc Mausenet’sJewelry Store; Pugh’s Dagtterrean Gallery; Clark ik Pierson’s Provision Store; Gatey’s Boot Store; John L. Jones & Co.'s Clothing Store; Belden A; Co.’s Hat Store; Her nandez’Segar Store; Peter <fe Jaugstet er’s Tailoring Establishment; Baird's Merchant iailor’s Store ; 11. R Barnes’ Jewelry Store ; C. A. Ells’ Provision Es tablishment; Washington Ilall Building! Board man's Book Store ; Goodman’s Dry Goods Store ; Mrs. Audouin’s Millinerv; Agency of Marine Bank of Savannah; Agency of Mechanic’s Bank of Augusta; Offices of Mrs. Battle, Pye and Matteau er; John Ruthcrfords’s Law Office, ami several other small buildings. Most of these houses were partly insur ed. Me have not ascertained the entire loss. Some of the occupants sustained heavy losses in goods, and all suffered more or less damage and inconvenience from moving, ifce. This is one of the lar gest and most destiuctive conflagrations that Macon has been visited with forma- I ny years. University of Georgia. By a resolution of the Trustees, ten Students will Ik,- educated at the Univer sity without charge for tuition. Tin ; appointments wflT be made by the Facul ty on the 25th of October—one fro® each Congressional District, ami t*o from the State at large. To receive the appointment, the applicant must he t resident of the State, of good moral clutr-J acter, and unable to defray the expenses! of a Collegiate eucacltion. He maul also be over fourteen years of age, ar,.J have pursued at least all the studies* which are required for admission to ti»l Freshman Class, one term advanced. Applicants are requested to set | their testimonials, showing that lie | fully comply with all the requisitions, I J the Persident of the- University. — S» J them Banner. &3T The New York Herald , since l joined the abolitionists, is thrown co* plctely in the background by its allies. They beat it in blackguards lying, and all the old ham bag tricks used to form the speciality of Benue 1 ! paper. The Herald tries a snort, »| and then—makes a spasmodic effort! be heard and attract attention —but S political demons, who dance round 1 ® same cauldron with Bennett, exceed!® in all his efforts—in. feet, comp!® l ® utiscrew his tail,and stsip the poor*® of all his Satanic emblems—exeept >■ horns I it3TSportsmen may be interest ■ learn that small shot, when mixed about one third its quantity of fin® will keep more close together when and kill at a distance of eight® eD ß twenty yards further than ordinary. ■