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Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel. BY WM. S. JONES A T7O VCLhLS'3 FE-l ANNUM - . X,i > MIS YEAR. A ten : LAND ’ i they /'i. ii* ;> I ■' . ■ • r: -,,M < J .vilh • - ■ AH Ut • { . ’ i;x> : lit :: OP COMMIB* 810 i i ark 1 “in < ut of the < .K. R. A, -- .nit v. . s'/, aiuruy, at the Soutl. ' The Virgil• p. • v li ' , ; P li*.- rb.n • t • ‘ they i . iouty^olln •.i :,,i : n li. BE ANT i.ISV, n. A r wil l. pa\ tko ahQ\ eSum for tbcapprehen ; n and 1 Hvk 1 wil Ht, ■ ™±y I N ,i. k . ■ x' *•, iia^s\ •: ■ tia. * CAR I \v >i D’ANTI • AC, i UO»iRT \\ li ARRIS, ” '.\"p&xU:\ Vi SoTEUto&tJ ihe* La- A cb«. . «. »vi, n of Pui-IT TREES. GRAFS Vi.N .S, >iKAV. >{ .; »>v PLANTS Mid BULBOUS FRACTICT OF SORGERY. m menL Ma-u . r -• their Servants will LAND AGTNOY lik. at. ... L.-.L ...T son ali Leads consigned to hii n s . $1 ]>er lot. >'• !iag iiod i ■. 3 per cent. Ail • • Uj u. ada.c-.au. weal Pri*ton, Web htcr conuiy. Ga., will meet will prompt attention, J. A. MOSS. (Lijrmuclf & onen and Inridcntu in the Polar Uenionw. We have already alluded to Dr. K&ne’g admirable Work ou “Arctic Exploration*.” It is, perhaps, the most deeply interesting: publication of the day. The style tb rung bout is admirable, and many novel and ext I ting incidents are described. We subjoin one or two passage* : —Philadelphia Inquirer. A TH HILLING INCIDENT. We fastened at last to the great floe near the d.ore, making our harbor in a crack which opened The imperfect diet of the party wm allowing it *e!f more and inure iii the decline of their rcuscui&r power. They seemed scarcely aware of it them Helves, and referred the difficulty they found in drag ging and pushing to something uncommon about the .ce or sludge rather tLou to their own weakness But, a* we endeavored to renew our labors through 'be morning fog, bolted in or. all Hide* by ice fields so diet* rted ai a rugged as to defy our efforts tocr.jss them, the truth seemed to burst upon every one.— We had lost the feeling of hunger, and were almost -at idled with our pasty » roth and the large draughts of o h which accompanied it. l was anxious to send <»ur small boat, the Erie, across to the iumirie hill at Appal., where I knew from the Esquimaux we *L >uld find plenty of birds ; but the strength of the party was insufficient to drag her. \V. were sorely disheartened, and could only wail for the fog to rise, in the hope of some sinooth . r platform than that which was about us, or some !-. .d that might save *i« the painful labor of tracking. 1 L&u climbed the iceberg; and there was nothing in i< w except the Dalrymple Rock, witii its red bras sy face towering in the unknown distance. But I ! ardly got back to my boat before a gale struck us Vein the northwest, and a floe, taking ujkju a tongue • f ice about a mile to tlie north of us, begau to wing upou it like a pivot, and close slowly upo nour i arrow resting place. At tii wt our own floe was also driving before the wind; but in a little while it encountered the sta t-unary ice at the foot of the very rock itself. On the instant the wildest imaginable ruin rose around us. The men sprang mechanically each one to his station, bearing back the boats and stores; but I gave .un for the moment all hope of our escape. It was not a Lip, imeh as is familiar to Arctic navigators; nut the whole platform where we stood, and Cor hundred of yards on every side of us, crumbled and crushed, and pilej, and tossed itself madly under the pres sure. Ido not believe that of our little body of men ell oi them disciplined in trials, able to measure danger while combatting it, —I do not believe there i one who this day can explain how or why—hardly when, in fact-—we found ourselves afloat. We only l;imw tl.at in the mid-t of a clamor utterly indescri bable, through which the biayingof a thousand trumpet* could no more have been heard than the voire of a man, we were shaken, and raised, and v juried, and let down again in a swelling waste of broken hammocks, and as the men grasped their boat-hunks in the stillness that followed, the boats < blind eway in a tumultuous skreed of ice, uud enow, and water. Wo-were borne along in this manner as long as i • unbroken remnant of the in-shore floe continued revolving,—utterly powerless and catching a e itnpse ( very now and then of the broken headland that look< d down on us through the broken sky. At 1-st the floe brought up against the rocks, the looser liugments that hung round it begun to separate, b wareand boat-Looks to force «»ir battered little Uotilia clear of them. To our joyful surprise, we soon found ourselves in a stretch o. the land-water wide enough to give us rowing room, and with the assured promise of land close ahead. As w«* neared it, we saw the same forbidding wall of belt-ice a. at Suthcr'aud and Kakulyt. We pulled along its margin, seeking in vain either an opening or access, or a nook of shelter. The gale r. se, and the ice began to drive again ; bu* taere . • but get a grapnel out to the belt aud hold on for the rising tide. The Hope love her bottom and lest part of her weather boardiug, and the boats were badly chafed. It was . a.. . .t was not without cougtaut exertion that we kept afloat, bailing out the scud tl.at broke over us, and warding oil the ice with At three o’clock the tide was high enough for us !<> cuie the ice cliff. One by one we pulled up the i arrow sheU, tin- whole sixteen of us uniting at each pull. We were too much worn <. v.;i t«» unload, but a deep and narrow gorge opened in the cliffs almost at the spot where we ri unbered up ; ami, as we pushed the boat into it oi an even keel, the rocks seemed to close above our heads, until an nbruptturn in the course of the ra vine placed a protecting cliff between us and the -ale. We were completely eucaved. The D i utTCRt of Old Gkim.—Now, let us ( eh in ft lighter strain. Poor “Old Grim,” i four footed favorite, has departed, and the Doc* -.’s >oliloquy on the occasion is not unworthy of Dickena: “Old Grim” was a“character,” such as, perad vciiture, may at some tiuie be found amoug beings oi a higher order and under u more temperate sky. A profound hypocrite and time server, he so wrig gled his adulutory tail as to secure every one’s good graces and nobody’s respect All the spare morsels, . d ■ u u ••! the mess, pawed through the winnowing jaws of “Old Grim/’ —an illustra tion not so much of his eclecticism as Ins universal! ty of Uiste. He was never known to refuse auy tiimg offered or approachable, and never known to • o satisfied, however prolonged and abundant the bount y or the spoil. “ Gwm” was an ancient dog : bis teeth indicated many winters, and his limbs, once splendid tractors lor the sledge, were now covered with warts and ringbones. Somehow or other, when the dogs were harm wing for aioumey, *• Ola Grim’* was sore not to bi found ; ana upon one occasion, when he was detected hiding away in a east off barrel,he inconti nently became lame. Strange to say, lie has been ( lame ever since except when the team is away with- , nut him. Cold disagrees with “Grim;” but by a system of patient watchings at the door of our deck house, ac \ ompanied by n discriminating use of his tail, lie be came at last the one privileged intruder. My seal kin coat had been Ins favorite bed for weeks to gether. Whatever love for an individual “Grim” • “xpressed by his tail, lie could never be induced to follow him on the ice after the« old darkness of the winter set in ; yet the dear good old sinner would wriggle after you to the very threshold of the gang way, *n«l bid you good bye* with a deprecatory wag ot the tail which disarmed resentment. ilia appearance was quite characteristic —his muz/.le roofed like the old-fashioned gable of a Dutch garret window; his forehead indicating the in d meagre capacity of brains that could consist with his sanity as a dog; his eyes small; his mouth curtnined by tong black dewlaps ; and his hide a m:*ngy russet studded with chesnut-burs ; if he has g< • indeed, “we ne’er shall look upon his like again.” So much for “Old Grim.” When yesterday's party started to take sound ings I thought exercise would benefit “Grim,” whose time-serving sojourn on our warm deck had begun to render him over corpulent. A rope was fastened round him; for at such critical periods lie was ob stiuate and even ferocious ; ana, thus fastened to Ig .1. commenced his reluctant journey.— Reaching a stopping place after a while lie jerked upon Icslinc, parted it afoot or two from its knot, and dragging the remnant behind him, started off through the darkness in the direction of our brig.— 11 «• has not been seen since. Parties are out with lanterns seeking him, for it is ten red that his long cord may have caught upon gome of the rude pinnacles of ice which stuu our noe, and thus made him a helpless prisoner. The ther mometer is 14 G' below zero, aud old “Grim’s” teeth could not gnaw away the cord. Thk C’knsus of Russia. —The Moniteur de l*Ar ir.ee gives the following as the results of the census of the Russian empire, taken by order of the Em in or at the time of hie accession to the throne:— The total number of the population amounts to 63,- fiuo.ooo, the principal elements of which give results unknow nto the rest of Europe. The clergy of the K sian church stand for the enormous number of 510,000; that of the tolerated creeds, 35,000; the hereditary nobility, 155,000; the petty bourgeoisie, iiiciu.'iug discharged soldiers, -125,000; foreigners roiding temporarily. 40,000; different bodies of t’o.vrtick* colonized on the Cural, the Don, the Wol gn. the 1 flack .va, the Baikal, the Baschkirs, and i!.< hr. mlar Kalmucks, *2,000,000; the population . f tin* towns, the middle and lower classes, 5,000- • : i he populat ion of the country parts, 45,000,000; the wandering tribes, 500,000; the inhabitants of the is ans-Caucasiau possessions, 1,400,000; tiie kingdom . i Poland, 1,200,000; the Grand Duchy of Finland, 1, iOO,OOO, and the Uussiau colonies in America, 71,- 005. At the accession of the Emperor Nicholas t lie et iisus then taken only gave a population of 51,000,- 000. This large increase in the space of 30 years may. however, be readily understood when it is cvuVuicrod that the Russian territory Ims now an ex tent of '2‘2,000,000 of square kilometres (a kilometre is t iis of n mile', ami a length of coast 0f27,000 kilo metres. If the population continues to increase in the same proportion it will, by 1900, amount to 100,- 000.000. The Russian empire, according to the same document, contains 112 different peoples, divided into I*2 principal races, the most numerous of which is the Slavonian, including the Russians properly sn called, the Poles, the Cossacks, and the Servian conusies of the Dnieper. These populations inhabit tie finest aud the most important provinces of the tmpire. High Handed Arrant.—Our city readers are doubtless aware of the fact, says the Richmond Whig, that protracte d meetings have been in pro gt\ss at two of the Baptist churches in Richmond for several weeks, ami that a large number of persons of both sexes have been induced to become “pro fessors of religion." Amoug the converts are three young ladies, who have been reared in the Roman Catholic faitli. Two of them were immersed some days ago, aud the third, who is an orphan, was im mersed on Sunday night. The Irish friends of the latter, on hearing of her intention to become a Pro tect ant, resorted to the mo6t scandalous measures to pn vent the consummation of her resolve. They tirrt sent for her to attend a meeting of her Catholic tricuds and in tlieir presence make a recantation of her profession of Protestantism: but, being fully de termined upon the course she had marked out for hc.’sclf, tiie >ummous was of course disregarded Ou Suuday night, she proceeded to the Second Baptist Church to prepare tor the rite of baptism, and while thus engaged, a party of Irish—men aud women— made their appearance iu front of the church. A small number of them entered the doors, and seated tiumselves < u the front pewqi uttering the most violent threats against the young lady. The atten tion of the pastor, l)r. Howell, having been called to these intruders, he summoned several male mem bers of the congregation to the vicinity of the pulpit and it was determined on consultation to have them ejected from the church, unless they would depart quietly. The efforts to induce them to withdraw met with a blustering opposition, but finally pre vailed, and the champions of Papacy retired, still avowing their determination to be revenged on the young lady for abjuring the religion of her deceased parents. Quiet beiug restored, the services were preceded with, and the ordinance of baptism ad miuistejed to tne young lady, who had been the ob ject of such unscrupulous annoyance. We learn that the two Irish women connected with the above outrage, called at the residence of the family with whom the object of their persecu tion resides, and demanded an interview, no doubt d«' guing to remove her by main force . but, we are glad'to have it in our power to state, that they were tepuised uud warned to keep away from the pre Decisions of ihl Attorskt General of the Emtr St ave>.—Washington,Oct.23.—l. Ship masters in foreign ports are subject to the requsi ti.>i, of the Consul to take on board aud carry to the United States distressed mariners, but not ••'euaien, or other persons accused of crimes and : ■ lu transported to the United St at ee for prose *\* Officers aud crews of the public ships of the j l u.ti-a *..tatee are not entitled to salvage, civil aud mmiary, as of complete legal rights. The allow ni'Av of salvage, civil or military, in such cases, is against public policy, and ought to be abolished iu the sea service, as it was long ago in the land ser 3. District C ourts of the U. S. have power to pro vide specifically for the confinement of persons con victed by federel law, it refused admittance into the jails of the State. Iu such case the persons may be coufined in ihe penitentiary of the District of Colum bia. 4. There is punishment by statute for the act of a ship-master iu unlawfully putting a seaman on >hure in a loreigu port, but not for an assault on a seaman on board of a ship or otherwise in a foreign port. TLt- Ohio Baptist Convention, at Columbus, on tb<* 24tli inst., passed a sorb s of resolutions denounc ing slavery and pledging theme!vee to labor against its extension. From the Baltimore American. Arrest of n Finished Villain—A Second Monroe Edwards. It will be recollected that about a year ago, a man named George Gomer was arrested in this city on the charge of having sold to the house of Brown, Brothers Sc Co., and McKim Sc Co., forged bills of exchange on Ex.gland for considerable amounts, and after Laving been kept in jail for some time, w&j discharged on bail of a nominal amount. It appears that prior to his arr est he had also written to Messrs. W illiam Howell Son, a forged letter of introduction, purporting to be from a ho. se of good standing at St. Bartholomew, with two bills of ex change, which he requested should be sold and the proceeds placed to his credit. The letter stated that a firm named 11 Bcawnier had deposited $7,000 in that house in coin, which was to be shipped by the first vessel. A subsequent letter statea that a ves *'-l had been procured, which would proceed to St. Bartholomew for the specie, and thence to Porto Rico, where she would take in a cargo of sugar aud coffee for a port in the United States About two weeks after that time, Messrs, fl A: Son received a letter signed M. Beauznier, at Norfolk, stating that he was sick, but as soon as he recovered he would come on to Baltimore and see them. A few days more elapsed and a letter was receiv ed from the -ati.* party from New York requesting that the money lor the bills of exchange should be sent on to hint as he bad an opportunity to send some things to the West ludies, by which he eou d make a handsome profit. The money was imme diately sent to a banking firm in New York, but was never called for, and in a short time the bills were returned protested. lie also sold bills of ex change in Charleston for SII,OOO for which he re ceived cotton, which was shipped to New York aud there sold at the order of George Gomer, the name lie then assumed. His next transaction was at Wil miogton, N. C , where he purchased one thousand barrels of spirits of turpentine to be sent to Bor deaux, but the trick failed because the forged bill of exchange he presented could not be negotiated in that city. Though he had been subsequently ar rested in this city, he again returned here in June last and presented a forged letter of introduction, to one our principal shipping houses, purporting to be from Messrs, Indues Sc Co., of St. Thomas. He was precede! by a letter purporting to come from that house which bore its private marks, aud was a ship letter endorsing his credit and character, but which was subsequently ascertained to be a forgery. On presenting the letter of introduction he pro posed to purchase and did purchase flour to the amount of $4,300 for which he paid a bill of ex change purporting to be from the hands of Roths child Sc Cohen aud payable in England. The flour was shipped to New York where that too was sold and the proceeds paid over to Louis Rechard, the name lie had there assumed. He next went to St. Louis where he succeeded in selling forged bills of exchange on the hame house to the amount of' $lB,- 000, to the banking house of Mr. Clark, Dodge &c Co., as soon as they discovered the swindle, the po lice of New Y'ork were put ou the alert and some time since he was arrested and thrown into prison, and on Tuesday of last week taken to St. Louis for trial. On searching his premises but S*J,SOO were found secreted in a blank book, the leaves be tween which the notes were placed having been pasted together at the edges. From advices receiv ed in this city there is no doubt his real name is Beaumies, a native of Martinique, whence he was banished for smuggling and his vessel confiscated. He speaks English and French fluently and is a shrewd business man. In his various forgeries he has used the names of Alexander Grey, J. Imbart, Maline Dutton, Louis Rechard, and Adrian de George. It is said he lias a wife living in Martin ique but when he left that place he took with him the daughter of a wealthy Italian merchant. How much he has obtained by Ins forgeries it is impossible to tell, but there is no doubt the amount is between $50,000 and SIOO,OOO. It is to be hoped that justice will now be done him and that he will be accom modated with quarters where his faculty of imi tation will not avail him except for the benefit of the State in whose service he may be employed. The Cruise of a Slaver. Tiie trial of Baptista and Stabell, the parties charged with owning and fitting out the schr. “C. F. A. Cole,” at this port, for the slave trade, is now in progress in the U. 8. District Court in this city.— The evidence is not yet concluded. A witness, who was cabin boy on the voyage from Baltimore to the slave coast of Africa, and back to Sagua la Grand, Cuba, with a cargo of 335 slaves, gave au interest ing account of the voyage, yesterday, lie testified through an interpreter, (Mr. Jos. Marks,) as follows. Ball. Patriot. He went out last December, in the schr. Cole, from Baltimore; Capt. Baker went along. The ves sel went from here to the coast of Africa—went first to Cabindo. They were two months going to Cabin do; a patsenger named Drummond left the vessel there; the vessel stopped there one day. The ves sel then cruised out one month, aud then went into the river Congo They went into the river between 11 and 12 o’clock in the day time; they anchored in the river and waited for the people from the brig Dolphin to visit them. An officer came on board the schooner Cole and asked for all the papers on the vessel; the officer tried to see what was on board of her. Antonio Silva, the mate, raised the Ameri can colors and said they had no right to search an American vessel. They then guve the officer as much liquor as he could drink; he got drunk uud went ashore. That, is the usual treatment to officers when they come on board. That night they went up the coast to Devil’s Point and anchored. Capt. Labradada and two men went ashore, and the Cap tain again came aboard with the cabin passenger they lauded at Cabindo. They discharged cargo, and the negroes began to come on board iu ten and twelve, all fastened by the neck, in boats. Some 335 negroes came on board, eight or nine boats bringing them off. The negroes were all on board by or 'J o’clock in the day time. The vessel lay one or two r miles from shore. They landed from the vessel nothing except whiskey and lumber.— They sailed from Devil’s Point about l o’clock that day, the vessel going to Sagua la Grande, Cuba ; they were thirty-five days in making the voyage.— About thirty-five of the negroes died on the passage. The passenger who got out at Cabindo came to Cu ba with them. The negroes wero put down in the hold on a deck laid over the water casks, and fed on beans and bread and rice. When they pul the negroes ashore at Cuba they went in the day time, landed the negroes after seven o’clock, aud came out at night. Six men were discharged after landing the negroes at Cuba. Only eight men were on board when they came out from Cuba—Baker, Silva, witness and five men. Capt. Labradada, Antonio Pollens, a pas senger named Lippold, Drummond, Frank Labra dada, (a cousin of the captain) and the cook, got out at Cuba. Four men were discharged in the Chesa peake before the vessels was sunk—they were on vessels from Baltimore. Capt. Baker, Antoine, witness and two others were on the vessel when she was sunk about S o’clock at night. The holes were bored iu her in the bay—she was run ashore, the plugs taken out and she was let go. Nothing was taken from the vessel before she sunk. Witness shipped for Madeira, wishing to get to his own home at Cadiz, Spain. Before they left the vessel, after she was sunk, three pilots came aboard the next morning. The mate Antonio Silva left Piney Point the day they got there—the others went up to Wash ington iu a steamer three days after. Witness then came to Baltimore and went off' that evening. The chronometer onboard, Labradada look ashore with him at Sagua, la Grande, Cuba. Selling a “Drummer.”— A “drummer” is a travelling dry goods salesman, whose business is to “drum” up trade for his employers in New Y'ork.— The following good story is from Porter's Spirit of the Times, and shows how one of them got sold, in a trip he made down South, in Benton count}', Ala. He was riding from Talladega to Benton Point, with Bill Martin, in 1840, ami found out a new way to make a well: Bill and the Drummer were riding along, and stopped to get some water at a newly located farm iu the lower part ot Benton county. The farmer had set fire to an old pine stump near the front door, and at the time our travelers stopped, the fire was in the sap root, some two feet below the surface, all the wood above the ground having been consumed. The smoke issuing from a large hole in the ground, attracted the attention of the Dummer, and turning to Bill, he asked the meaning of it. “Why,” said William, “my friend Thompson here is burning out a well.” “Burning out a well! What do you mean?” “Just what 1 say,” rejoined Bill; “he is burning out a well—have you never seen it done ?” “Never—nor did 1 ever hear of such a thing ; I would like to have it explained.” “Nothing simplier,” says Bill “Throughout this section of the country the soil is strongly impregna ted with high inflammable salts, and all we have to do when a well is needed, is to dig a hole a foot deep and four feet square at the top; wet the ground around the surface to keep the fire from spreading; fill the hole with piue knots, set tire to the knots, and iu a week’s time you have a first rate well.” “Do tell,” exclaimed the wondering Gothamite. “Y’es,” said Bill, warming with the subject, “the fire burns straight down, just the size of the hole at the top; it burns slowly, and thus bakes the sides as hard as brick, aud continues to burn until it reaches water, when, of course, it ceases te burn.” “But," says the Drummer. “1 should think the mass of ashes and cinders would extinguish the fire long before water is reached.” “A very natural prima fade conclusion,” said Bill; ‘ but this is the strangest of the whole pro cess ; there are no ashes ! I am not chemist en ough to explain it, but Professor Brumby, of the University, attributes it to the volatile principle contained’ in the inflammable salts. I|wish I could explain it; but this much I do know, that out of at least one hundred weiis of the same sort in Benton county, I have never seen in all, a bushel of ashes.” A Cowhiding Scrape—Petticoat? Getting Pugnacious. —Ladies are often subjected to imper tinent looks and remarks of fast gentlemen, and some of them are occasionally insulted because pre sumed to be unprotected. Once in a while these “fancy fellows" wake up the wrong passenger, as was the case a few days since. A young and hand some lady was looking out of the second story* win dow of her brother’s house into the] street, when she observed a tall man watching her closely and catching her eye, and though entirely unacquaint ed, gave her a very insinuating bow. Not rel ishiug such uncalled for impudence, and having no male friend at hand to protect her, she armed her self with a cowhide, repaired to the front door, and then took her stand, to se;e if the insult would be re peated. She had only been in the door a few minutes, when the fascinating gallant returned, and suppo sing his attractive person had drawn her down, spoke to her in the most familiar manner, and commenced a conversation He had not said more than three words, however, before she sprang out of the door, and began to pour the cow-skin on his shoulders in such a powerful manner, that he broke and run like a quarter horse, determining, no doubt, in his own mind, to be careful how he attempted to force himself into the presence of a strange lady in future. —Richmond Dispatch . Exploration of the Nile. —The new expedi of the headwaters of the Nile, under the command of the French Count d’Escayrac de Lauture. and under the protection and auspices of Said Pasha, promises to exceed all similar projects hereto set on foot. At Vienna twelve officers of the Austrian general staff expressed their willingness to join the expedition, from which number three were selected, who, together with the mineralogists, Mayer, re cently in the service of the Dutch Government in Borneo, make up the complement of Germans in the expedition. The whole force will comprise twelve Europeans, besides the leader, and three hundred soldiers furnished by the Egyptian Govern ment. Among these latter, who are principally na tives of the interior of Africa, there are supposed to be a sufficiency of interpreters. For the navigation of the Nile, the expedition has thirty barks and two small steamers, aud a crew of one hundred men, besides the necessary men and means to continue the journey by laud beyond the head of navigation. Never before was a scientific expedition fitted out in like manner. The expedition will leave Europe on the 10th of September, Count d’Escayrac. with the Germans, embaikingat Trieste, and the French expeditionists at Marseilles. The entire panv will meet at Alexandijh. and expecl to reach Chartoum by December, where they will remain some time to complete the organization. Thanksgiving Day has been set for observance by the Governors of the States of Maine.jMaryland, Missouri. Connecticut, Vermont, and New Hamp shire, on Thursday, the 20th of November. Per haps other Statee will join them in appointing the MUDe day. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY" MORNING, NOVEMBER 5, 1856. Railroad fleeting in Ulintou. Clinton, Oct. 21, 1856. At a meeting of tiie citizens of Jones county, convened for the purpose of taking into considera tion the building of a Railroad from Macon to Warrenton, it was moved by Leroy Singleton Esq. that Peyton T. Pitts be called to the Chair, aud on motion. Col Lochrane, of Macon, was request ed to act as Secretary. The Chairman, iu a few forcible and pertinent remarks, explained the object and purpose- of ti?e meeting aud organized for business. On motion, ten delegates from Jones county were appointed by the Chair to confer with the delegates present from the adjoining counties, which were ap pointed as follows : Major Leroy Singleton, Gen. D. N. Smith, David E. Blount, Benj. Barron, Capt. Parish, Thoe. O. Bowen, Jas. M. Gray. Win. S. Moughon, Dr. Jas. T. Barron and Tbos. Hunt. Ou motion, the Chairman was added to the dele gat«r*. Col. D. C. Campbell, presented the names of the delegates from Baldwin, as follows : Jas. Herty, li. M. Orrne, Oscar V’. Brown, D. P. Brown, Charles Bonner, Arthur I. Butts, Jno. A. Breedlov *, Thus. Morri-, Miller Grieve, jr.. D. C Campbell, Jno. 11. Biowu, R. L. Hunter, and J. T.. Bivins. Col. Lewis, of Hancock county, presented the names of David W. Lewis and E. Cain as delegates from the county of Hancock. On motion of Gen. D. N. Smith, the gentlemen present from Bibb county were admitted as dele gates, viz.: E. A. Nisbet, Washington Poe, P. Stubbs, J. Rutherford, O. A. LocLrane, C. Anderson, Wm. T. Massey, A. J. McCarthy, Wm. T. Lightfoot, and A. 11. Campbell. The Chairman introduced Judge Nisbet, who pro ceeded to address the meeting in behalf of tiie en terprise in an able speech, reviewing the benefits of Railroad enterprises to the State aud the devel opment of her industrial and monetary resources by the increase of capital aud the enhancement of the products of her labor. Col. Campbell being called on, made a short and sensible speech in favor of the contemplated Road, giving a statistical statement of the present freights paid by the people of Georgia on the several Rail roads, and the benefit competition between them would re mlt in to the cultivators of the soil. Col. Lewis being called on, responded iu a hu morous an i argumentative address in favor of Rail roads in general, and the Road in question in par ticular. He alluded to the cost of the Road, the prospects of bunding it, the wealth of the counties through which it passed, and concluded a capital speech with a happy allusion to the associations it would generate between the people of Jcuea anil Hancock. On motion, the meeting adjourned until 3 o’clock for the conference of the de'egates. The report of their action may be found bo'ow. Peyton 1 Pitts, Chairman. O. A. Loclirane, Sec’y. 3 o’clock, p. .m. The committees from the various counties met ac cording to appointment. Col. D YV. Lewis from Hancock county, was called to the Chair, and J. F. Barron requested to act as Secretary. Col. Campbell of Baldwin offered the following resolutions : That the committee from the county of Jones be requested to suggest names as commissioners, to open books in said county for the purpose of ta king subscriptions to stock for the road iu contem platon. The commissioners suggested by said committee are the following named gentlemen: R. 11. Hutch ings, J. F. Barron and Isaac Hardeman. Col. A. 11. Chappell from the county of Bibb, of fered the following resolution : Resolved , That the Board of Directors be reques ted to cause the books ot subscription to be opened for receiving subscriptions of stock at suitable points along the route of the proposed Railroad, and at such other places as they shall deem expedient; aud that the commissioners for receiving subscription shall make their report to the Board of Directors on or before the second Tuesday in January next. Col. Campbell of theounty of Baldwin offered the following resolution: Resolvf d, That a committee of four be appointed by the Chair to prepare an address to the friends of this enterprise, setting forth its claims, and calling on them to lake stock in the company. Col. A. 11. Campbell moved that the chairman of this meeting be appointed chairman of the commit tee to prepare said address, and also to appointsaid committee, whereupon the chairman appointed the following named gentlemen ; Col. Campbell of Baldwin, Dr. A. Kingman and David E. Blount of Jones, ns his associates on the committee. Mr. Brown of Baldwin, offered the following reso lutions which were adopted : Resolved , That the several corporations and com munities who are interested in the contemplated Railroad from Macon to Warrenton, be requested to appoint and send delega! es to the Ralroad convention to be held in the city of Augusta, on Tuesday, the 13th day of January next. And he it further resolved, That the commission ers appointed at the different points are hereby re quested to make their reports at the meeting in the city of Augus a. And be it further Resolved , That the newspapers m the cities of Macon, Milledgeville, Augusta and Charleston favorable to the construction of said road, be requested to publish the proceedings of this meeting. David W. Lewis, Chm’n. Jas. F. Barrow, Sec’y. Seeing the Elephant. —A friend tells us of a rich incident that occurred tiie other day in the court room at Frankfort, in which the proverbal at tractions of the elephant are very forcibly illustra ted. It seems that, ou the day in question, a me nagerie was expected in the city, and the people were naturally on the qui vive for the approaching sights—an interest in which, as the sequel shows, Lis Honor the Judge kneely participated. Not with standing, the court was held on that day, though not exactly as usual. In the progress of the morn ing's business a case of continuance arose which the Judge was evidently not: at all inclined to favor.— His countenance, indeed, grew absolutely stern with disfavor. The lawyer iu charge, having urged his plea with all the ingenuity and ability at his command, was at length in the act of yielding tiie point in despair, when a brother lawyer, especially up to snuff, rose aud whispered into his ear that the menagerie had arrived, and the elephant would swim the river J The suggestion was big with relief.— Brighteing with hope, thejwily lawerat once drew himself up deferentially, and, addressing the court, said : “May it please your Honor, I have this mo ment learned that the Great American menagerie has reached the city, and the elephant will imme diately swim the Kentucky river ! The people, I am informed, are already thronging upon the banks to witness the feat.” The hit was palpable. The intel ligence of Buchanan's election could hardly have wrought a more wonderful change in the hearing of his Honor. Ilis stern countenance, at once relaxed into the most genial complacency, and, in a tone of generous excitement, lie remarked : “Gentlemen, I grant this continuance, aud adjourn the court.— I never have seen an elephant swim a river, aud as I am an old man, it isn’t likely that I’ll ever have a better opportunity. The court’s adjourned!” The last thing our friend saw of the court it was making for the liver at a speed never contemplated by the Life Insurance Company. Verily there’s no resisting the elephant!!— Louisville Journal. Brigandage in Italy. — A letter from Bologna, of the 6th, in the Correspondance Italienne, says: “Monsignor Berardi, Sub Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs at Rome, left this place yesterday for Ferrara and Pavenna, after having held a long conference with Monsignor Amaci, the Austrian General Degenfield, ana Gen. Kalbermatteu, of the Swiss troops. In order to put au end to the atroci ties of the brigands the Papal Government, they say, is about to distribute arms to the peasantry. Meanwhile, public security is in so precarious a state that landlords, fearing that the municipalities have neither means nor authority to protect proper ty, have actually taken the gen d’armes into their private service, paying them as much as 2fr. a day. The following tragical event occurred here on the 3d. Countess Mazzauerato received a threatening letter the day before, in which she was commanded to send 300 scudi (15,000 frs )to a certain place, if she wished the life of her husband to be respected. She communicated the letter to the director of the polioe, who sent two gen d’armes iu disguise to the place pointed out—one of t hem was to conceal him self, and tiie other was to speak to the robber, and give him a bag having the appearance of contain ing the sum specified. The gen d'armes according ly went ; but the brigand, ou feeling the bag and discovering that it was tilled with pebbles, drew his knife and intiicted several wounds on the luckless gen d’arme, who attempted to defend himself with his pistol, but ineffectually, as it hung tire. His comrade not coming to his assistance, he would in evitably have fallen a victim, had not a guard in the service of the Mazzaeurato family come up in time, shot the brigand through the heart, and fright ened away the others, who were coming to his as sistance.” The Cuban Slave Trade. —A letter from Ha vana states that the slave trade betweeu Cuba and Africa is very active, and adds : “Two landings ou the South side count 963 ne groes ; on the North, East of Cardenas, 374 or 375 ; 1337 in all—having lost by death on the voyages thirty-six in the three vessels, showing unusual care for the comfort of their victims. The importation of slaves is perfectly systematised, aud with the best will for its prevention, iu conformity with the won s of interdiction uttered and reiterated by the Captain-General, can be carried on with impunity : especially as long as your merchant princes, ship-builders, <scc., are interested in its pur suit. ki The orders of the Cuban traders are eagerly sought for in your ship-yards, and ten per cent, of overt profit will make some of your veriest saints sinners in Africa. At any rate, Yankee ingenuity and Yankee enterprise serve to defeat the best ef forts of this Government for the suppression of the slave trade, and they may well give up in despair. The complaints belong at home more than here at the present time, for without a tile of soldiers for every 1800 miles of sea coast, and each one imbued with the power and the spirit of Concha, it could not be prevented, with the temptation that is held out for success/’ Our Country.— The population of the eleven in fant colonies in 1701 was *262,000 souls. Georgia and Delaware were added to the number about 1749, and the census reports give us 1,046,000 In the year 1775. the thirteen collides had 2,303,000 whites and 500,000 slaves. After the adoption of the pre sent Constitution, in 1790, there were thirteen States, with 3,172,664 whites, 50,456 free colored, and 697,807 slaves. In 1850, the States had increas ed to thirty-one, and the population to 19,550,000 whites, 434.000 free colored, and 3,204,000 slaves. — The total population at this time is approaching thirty millions. The number of electoral votes is 296, requiring 149 to elect a President bv the people. The Northern States have 176, and the Southern 120. A tragedy took place in Lockport, X. Y., on Tues day* exhibiting such revolting cruelty as to be al most incredible. A little bov, five years of age, be longing to a Mrs. Story, on Wasliburton street, was roasted alive by a fiend in human shape, named Elizabeth Craig, a white woman whose husband is a negro. The evidence elicited before the Coro ners jury, shows that the victim was left with a smaller child by its mother, when Elizabeth Craig, who lived in another portion of the house, took the opportunity, and entered the apartment and pro ceeded to the execution of the deed, which, it has been shown, she had previously threatened. With horrid imprecations, the child was held on the fire by its tormentors, until its legs and bowels were burned to a cinder, then, with satanic revenge, the body of the child was reversed by the murderess until its back was roasted to a crisp. It died a few hours after, and the woman is now in jail. The Tehuantepec Route.— We learn by a let ter from New Y'ork that the brig Judge Bianey sailed from that port a few days since forme Coats coalcos, loaded with materials for the construction of the Tehuantepec carriage road. Two vessels had previously been dispatched ; but the contractor, tmdin*: labor so abundant, sent for more tools. The probability is that this route will be opened in Janu ary next. It will make a vast difference in the travel to and from California by very materially lessening the time and distance.— Sat. Intel. Pork from Europe. —lt is stated that the French Government has shipped to the United States, twenty thousand barrels of prime mess pork, pur chased in Cincinnati, Ohio, during the Crimean war. Being no longer wanted, it is sent back for a mar ket EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE. By the Arabia. Correspondence of the Commerdal Advertiser. London, Oct. 10, 1856.—The monetary crisis at Paris is the sole subject of attention. The letters each day and the hourly telegraphic quotations from the Bourse are looked for with the greatest eager ness, to show if a suspension of specie payments is to settle the question, and to constitute a new epoch in the history of France. The imminence of the danger will be understood from the fact, which may be received as positive that some of the leading persons connected with the Bank of France have already urged the necessity of resorting to an inconvertible currency. They ap prehend that if this step be not taken, the run for the specie will not continue untii the coffers of the es tablishment are completely drained, and they argue that if a atop page is to be encountered, it will be better that it should take place while yet they have a good sum in hand. The Emperor, however, looks with extreme repugnance ou the proposal. He sees to some extent the political perils that would be con sequent upon it, and the resolution, therefore, is that it shall not be adopted until every palliative has been tried in vain. Among these palliatives lias been a resumption of the gold purchases on this side. At the present rates of exchange gold could n«»t be drawn from London to Paris, but the Bank of France has given orders to the Rothschilds' to purchase it at any cost. To pay for it they resort to an increased issue of notes, by which they buy up all the bills on London ihev can find; but as this cannot alter the balance trade, the result simply is that in the course of a short time the gold which they obtain at a premium is drained from them at its natural price. The opera tion is exactly that of buying water at a penney a pailful to fill a sieve, but within the present year the Banks of France have thus actually expended about SIOO,OOO. The hope that a recovery may yet take place has further been greatly damped by some proceedings ou the part of the Government, which indicate not only terror at the crisis but imbecility iu grappling witii it. A hurried report has been put forth bv M. Magne the Finance Minister, announcing that the revenue calculations for the next year present the most sat isfaetory prospects ; that the-present panic is whol ly unwarranted :2tliat the balance of trade 13 in fa vor of the country, that there is plenty of specie in circulation ; and that there is not & single thing to create uneasiness, except the wickedness of the money changers who dare to offer a premium for silver with the view of sending it abroad. This pro duction was followed by the issue of a police order against the practice in questions, and also by a noti fication to the newspapers that they are not to enter upon anyjfinancial discussions. Nevertheless, many looking at the affair at a dis tance, may fiud difficulty iu believing that it can have come to such a point as to warrant the appre hension entertained. It is plain that the external demand for specie must by this time have been al most fully met by the sums exported, and conse quently, that it ;s only from the home panic that the dreaded catastrophe can arise. Whether the blind alarm of the people has yet reached an ungoverna ble height, is a matter upon which an opinion can be formed only by persons on the spot. The publica tion of the regular monthly balance sheet, which has taken place to-day, was looked forward to as likely to exert a considerable influence, either in re storing confidence or precipitating a collapse. The prospect now’ is that its influence will be in the latter direction, since although the expose was expected to be a disastrous one, it exceeds the worst anticipa tions hitherto entertained ou this side. The bullion tlurii g the month has experienced a further reduction equal to 113,850,000, and the ag gregate amount now held is only $33,300,000 while the outstanding note circulation is $1*22,500,000. — Such proportions are altogether unprecedented in France, where the people have never yet become thoroughly habituated to a paper currency, and it in to be feared that the discovery of the fact - will lead to an increased rush. Even at the present rate of efflux, the Bank would be thoroughly drained in a little more than two months, and as a panic always increas towards its last moments in a geometrical ratio, there is reason to apprehend that if tilings do not at once take a favorable turn, the conclusion will only be a question of a few days. It is vain to speculate on the moods of the people at such a crisis ; as they are acting under headlong impulses, a feather may turn them one way or the other ; and the French Government ought to be best able to estimate the impulses they have to work upon. If persons in London, however, were to judge of the probabilities of the case by putting themselves in the place of the Parisians, they would have felt that the attempt to regulate the course of the precious metals by transferring the subject fiom the finance to the police department, and to inspire confidence in the situation oy prohibiting any dis cussion upon it, had at once extinguished every prospect of extrication. Os course the monetary disturbance has continued to put the Naples demonstration into the shade. It is reported, however, that King Ferdinand has sig nified his willingness to udopt any measures that may be unanimously recommended by the ap proaching Congress which is to assemble at Paris to settle the Turkish boundary and other points left open by the peace plenipotentiaries at their former meeting. Spectator. Postscript. —Since the above was written, the telegraph has brought the closing quotations of this evening from the Paris Bourse. They show an im provement of a quarter per cent, and it is therefore to be iulerred that the bank statement has, at least, not produced an increase of apprehension. Paris, Oct. 9, 1856.—Since the Emperor’s return on Thursday evening last, there has been great ef fort on the part of the Government to meet the va rious questions that now unsettle the political and commercial worlds. Three or four Cabinet councils have been held at St. Cloud, under the presidency of the Emperor, and a great movement seems to be goiug on in the various departments of state. The question which more nearly interests the peo ple of Paris, this week, is one of an entirely local churacter; and it is this which has occupied the greater portion of the Government consultations. I refer to the threatened commercial crisis. The stringent measures adopted by the Bank of France contribute more than anything else to the panic which reigns. At a moment when the Bourse seem ed on the point of relieving itself from the condition into which it had fallen, from causes which I men tioned in my last letter, this action of the Bank pro duced a bad effect, and served to throw the funds back again to the low point at which they have stood for some time. On Saturday, last, it is said, M. Gautier, under-governor ot the Bank, went to St. Cloud in a desperate state of mind, to see the Emperor. The Emperor was absent in the park, on a hunting excursion with the Empress. The per sistence of M. Gautier was so great, that the mo ment his Majesty returned he obtained an audience. He demanded of the Emperor, with great vivacity, that the forced circulation of the bills of the Bank should be authorized. The consideration which M. Gautier urged for this extraordinary measure seem ed to proceed from the most profound conviction of its necessity. The Emperor was opposed to the measure personally, but he promised to bring it be fore the council the next day, which he did, and it was rejected almost unanimously. As the result of the council of Friday, the Minis ter of Finance has published a long report to quiet public fears, which places the state of the treasury, the bank, and the general resources of the country in a flattering light. He does not believe that there is any need of so much alarm, and hopes that the present panic will pass without failures—a result which is almost impossible. The directors of the different political journals were called on Monday to the “bureau of general surety,” at the Ministry of the Interior, and request ed to be very circumspect on the subject of the cri sis. They were also asked to banish from their ex change bulletins the notices which were designed to propagate the new commerce of brokers in the value of pieces of silver, a species of speculation to which the Administration has offered a direct ob stacle, by interdicting the announcement of the premiums offered with this view and placed on the outside of the offices of brokers. The akirm which prevailed last week on the trade in five franc pieces nas partially subsided since the announcement of these new measures by the Government, and it is said even that silver begins to return into France. — But this may only be an announcement to calm the public mind. At this moment they fabricate daily at the Mint of Paris 2,800,000 francs—ss6o,ooo—in 20 franc gold pieces ; 300,000 francs—s6o,ooo—in 10 franc gold pieces ; and they have just begun, by necessity and against a former decree of the Minister, to manu facture gold pieces of five francs, of which they will turn out about 300.000 francs daily. As to the pieces of 50 francs ($10) in gold, a Ministerial de cree has suppressed their coinage for a given time, and no more of these or of pieces of 100 francs will be issued, unless upon a specific order. The amount of silver coined daily is much inferior to that of gold, and lately has been confined to pieces of one franc aud half a franc. The coining of 5 franc pieces in silver, however, will immediately commence with all the vigor which the meagre supply of this metal will admit, in order, if possible to make up for the vacuin caused by the exportation of this piece into foreign countries. The affairs of Naples, as mentioned in iny last, no longer possess the bellicose appearance which is at tempted to be given to them across the channel. Without ceasing to be a grave question, it is yet no longer regarded as one likely to bring about a con flict. In Paris, financial and commercial affairs have this week almost caused Naples to be forgot ten. The only fact of a salient character connected with this question is that Admiral Dundas, with two English vessels, had arrived at Ajaccio. It now appears that the new conference of Paris, in which this Neapolitan question, as well as the ques tions connected with the late war, are to be settled, will convene ia this city about the 15th of next month. The Neufchatel difficulty, and the proposi tion of Mr. Marcy on maritime law, it is expected, will also be considered by this Congrees. Con gree es are now the fashion, and it is to be hoped that they will inaugurate an era of progress in civili zation. The note of Prince Gortschakoff, which last week occupied so much attention, has lost much of its interest, at least of its alarming character, by the discovery* that it was read to Count Walewski and other Ministers of foreign Governments three weeks before its publication ; and that its reading to these Ministers was accompanied with such verbal ex planations as divested it of all the offensiveness which has been attributed to it since. Os the suspicions expressed in England, that Austria is playing a double game with Russia in the affair of Naples, we have positively no confirma tion at Paris ; and there is every reason to believe that they rest mainlv upon the well known reputa tion of Austria in this speciality in diplomacy. It is safe to say this much, however, that no reliance can be placed upon any position which she may profess to take oil the question. It is now generally admitted that .the Emperor of France, before leaving the Spanish frontier to return to Paris, wrote an autograph letter to the Queen of Spain, in which he counselled her to retain O'Don nel aud Rios Rozas at all .hazards. This letter, if really written, will doubtless strengthen the position of these gentlemen, and predictijns as to their fate become less valuable in consequence. Narvaez had arrived at Madrid, and his movements are atten tively watched. Arrests continue to be made in Paris of individu als" suspected of conspiring against the life of the Emperor. The conduct of his Majesty on the oc casion of his retnm to Paris, and since, give the impression to the public that these arrests are based upou facts which fully warrant the utmost rigor of the police. His entry into Paris was private, unan nounced as regards the hour, and made under the most cautious circumstances. His carriage, which was closed, was surrounded by mounted men, and instead of passing over the usual route, they passed rapidly through the city by the river quays. The same precautions were observed on Monday even ing when he went to the opera. Americis. Losdos Mosey Market, Friday evening, Oct. 10—The rate of discount has been increased 1 per cent, since our last, and now rules at 6 per cent, for bills under sixty days, and 7 per cent, for those of longer date. Trie arrivals of specie have been moderate, and almost wholly from the United States, the entire of whieh have been swallowed in the export demand. The arrival of the Champion of the Seas, now overdue, is looked for anxiously at this crisis, as she is expected to have a large quantity of gold on board. The return from the bank of Englandfor the week ending the 4th of October, gives the following re sults when compared with the previous week : Public deposits... £7,759.490 I Decrease £650,361 Other deposits...-10.3iE1.813 Increase 366,749 Rest 3,785,466 | Increase 31,072 On the other side of the account: — Gov't, securities £11,464,276 | Decrease £500,675 Other securities 21,562,464 Increase 1,966,080 Notesunemployed.3,77s.s9o | Decrease 1,604,120 The amount of the notee in circulation is £20,- 1 920,155, being au iucrease of £ 701,925, and the stock ot bullion in both departments is £ 10,750,257, showing a decrease of £985,115, when compared with the preceding returns. The greatly increased value of money has in some measure checked the heavy demand for specie, but still large orders are in the market, and more are anticipated ou arrival of the next China mail ; pri ces, therefore, are not quoted lower. The future will, of couise, depend much ou the operations of the Bank of England, it being important to put a stop to the present enormous aeuiat d for export. If the efforts to do this are successful, prices must come down. English securities have been subjected to many variations, owing to the stringent state of the money market, aud the rapid advance by the Bank of Eng land in its rates of discount. The uncertain state of the political world, as lar as regards Naples, tends to increase the dullness. Y esteraay was pay day in consols, and the difference of the last monthly ac count have been liquidated. A failure was announ ced in the Stock Exchange, but it was not of i mpor tance. Consols opened 91|to91§, when they ad vanced to 91 at which there were alternatively buyers and sellers until the afternoon. The market then showed increased steadiness, and the final pri ces were 91 £to 91f for money, and 911 to 92 for the 6th of November. To-day the market was very firm, closing at the following rates :—Consols for ac count, 92 S> 92o ; ditto for money, 9s‘&9ls. From the Louden Times , Oct. 11. Thk Bank of France.— The monthly returns of the Bank of France, published yesterday, although it appears not to have produced a bad effect at Paris, is little calculated, when taken in conjunction with the police proceedings against the bullion dealers, to diminish the anxiety regarding that es tabUshment. It exhibits a further fallen off of £2,770,000 in the stock of specie, which is now’ reduced to £6,650,000, without any proportionate contraction hiving taken place iu liabilities, the re duction in the note circulation, which was previ ously £24,800,000, being only £336,000. At the same time the unfavorable character of these figures is greatly aggravated by the fact that they do not represent the full extent of the drain, since an ex penditure of £25,(H10, (equal to 2$ per cent, on n million sterling) has been incurred during the mouth iu purchasing gold at a loss, which to the extent of the total thus artificially brought in, must lesson the receipts to be relied upou for the feature. Even supposing these purchases to be continued, os will mostly likely be the case, although at nu increasing cost, the process of exhaustion at its present rate would be completed iu little over two months.— There is, therefore, no cause for surprise at the in tensity of the impressions lately felt as to the im pending peril. The other figures of the return pres ent an extraordinary increase of £2,900,000 in the discounts, consequent upon the rush to obtain a full supply of moueybefore the recent advance in the rate, and an increase of £700,000 in the.deposits, which is to be attributed, it may be presumed, to this supply having been considerably beyond the commercial requirements of the moment. The ad vance on stocks and shares remain almost without alteration, the former showing a decrease of only £92,000 und the latter of £7,000. The Govern ment balances present a decrease of nearly £700,- 000. The private letters from Paris state that during the last two days the drain from the Bank of France has partially subsided, the amounts withdrawn not having exceeded half of those taken ou the two previous days. The view for the moment was, therefore, less desponding, aud’the idea of a volun tary suspension ot specie payment is said to have been abandoned, the Emperor being inflexibly oppo sed to it. Mouths of the Danube, Sept. 29.—We have been thunderstruck here by the intelligence that four thousand Austrian soldiers had suddenly poun ced upon Galiz and occupied it—done the same at Ibrail —and seized all the ports of the * Danube.— The Constantinople Journal speaks only of Ibrail being occupied, but no doubt both have been so. They have not only quarteredJheir troops in these towns, but they have taken possession of police and post offices, so that all persons and communications must pass through then* hands. This of course shuts the door in the face of the commissaries charg ed to consult with the principalities, and you may, in consequence, expect Sir Henry Bulwer home.— You will be better able to judge than I am the cause of this defiance to the Western Powers. Is it a set off for any demonstration of ours against Na ples, and a significant declaration that if we carry out our liberal poilcy in Italy, Austria will cany out a contrary one upon the Danube and in the Eux ine ? This would be a very grave challenge, for Austria is not the power to cast that challenge, it' it did not know that it was supported by some other power, aud there is none to support it in such a poli cy except Russia. I)«*N|ttitcii from Governor Geary. Washington, Out 27.—Among the official de spatches received here to-day from Governor Geary of Kansas, ia one dated Lecompton, Oct. 15, in which he details the circumstances attending the ar rest of an organized band consisting of about 240 persons among whom were very few women and children, comprising seven families. This party was regularly form d in millitary order under the command of General Pomeroy, Colonels Eidridge aud Perry und others. They had with them twenty wagons, in which were a supply of new arms, most ly muskets, with bayonets and sabres, and a lot of saddles, Sc c., sufficient to equip a battalion consis ting one fourth of cavalry and the remainder infan try. Besides these new arms, which Gov. G. says were evidently intended for military purposes, and which were in the wagons, and the search of which was strongly objected to. The emigrants were provided with shot guns, rifles, pistols, knives, etc., sufficient for the ordmafy uses of pel s ns travelling in Kansas or any other western Territories. From the reports of the ofli cers it appears they had with them neither oxen household furniture, mechanics tools, agricultural implements, nor any of the necessary appurtenances of peaceful settlers. They were permitted to pursue their journey un der the escort of a squadron of dragoons, and subse quently Governor Geary according to promise met them near Topeaka. They apologized for their evi dent and undeniable disregard of his proclamation which apology, though plausable, was far from be ing satisfactory. After welcoming them as peaceful emigrants and assuring them that he woula positively enforce his proclamation und suffer no party of men to enter or travel through the territory with a warlike or hostile appearance, to the terror of the peaceful citizens, and the danger of renewing the disgraceful and alarming scenes which the inhabitants had so recent ly passed through. Governor Geary insisted upon the immediate disbandment of the combination which was agreed to with alacrity. The majority of the men were evidently gratified to learn that they had been deceived in relation to Kansas af fairs, and that peace and quiet, instead of strifeland contention, were reigning there. His remarks were received with frequent demonstrations of approba tion, and at the cloee the organization was broken up and the members dispersed in various directions. After they had been dismissed from custody and the fact announced by Major Selby their thankful ness for his kind treatment toward them during the time he held them under arrest was expressed by giving him three hearty cheers. In conclusion Gov. Geary expressed his regret that societies exist in some of the States whose ob ject is to tit out such parties as the one just descri bed, and send them to Kansas to their own injury and the destruction of the general welfare of the country. He says: “Very many persons arc in duced to come out here under flattering promises which are never fulfilled, uud having neither money to purchase food and clothing nor trade or occupa tions at which to earn au honest livelihood are driv en to the necessity of becoming either paupers or thieves; and such are the unfortunate men who have aided materially in filling up the measure of crimes that have so seriously affected the prosperity of Kansas. “It is high time this fact should be clearly and gen erally understood. This territory at the present season of the year and especially under exciting cir cumstances offers no inducement for the immigra tion of the poor tradesman or laborer. The country is overrun with hundreds who are unable to obtain employment, who live upon charity and who are ex posed to all the evils of privation, destitution and want.” Among the documents is the report of the immi grants to Gov. Geary complaining of the rough treatment they received from the troops acting as they understood under the orders of Mr. Preston, the Deputy United States Marshal, declaring their mis sion to Kansas to be peaceful, having no organiza tion save one of police for their own regulation and defence on the way. And, coming in that spirit to the territory, they claimed the right of American citizens to bear arms and be exempt from unlawful search or seizure. Capt. Silbey, who had them in charge says they were never for one moment made to feel the res traints of military discipline, but on the contrary re lieved from the onerous duty and necessity of night ly guards, and assisted rather than retarded in their journey. The Captain, agreeable to Gov. Geary's instructions restored such of the arms as were claim ed as individual property. The Election in Indiana. It is claimed by the Republicans that if the. bal lots were purged of the fraudulent votes cast at the polls during the recent elections for State officers, the Fremont ticket would have been successfully carried by a majority of more than 10,000. In thirteen counties of the State, fraudulent votes have been detected, covering more than Willard’s majority. In DeKalb, Noble, Width ; . Allen, Cass and Huntingdon, over five hundred 1 Uh laborers, freshly arrived, were brought forward by the De mocracy and voted. “The facts as they have been furnished from the bestsources,” says the Indianapolis Journal, “prove indisputably that thousands of railroad workers, who have no residence in the State, coming upon the call of such hand-bills as we saw posted up about the city, and are always flying thick when an elec tion is approaching, and staying only till another job calls them to another location, with no intention of remaining a moment beyond the completion of the contract they are upon, voted in all the counties in the Northern part of the State and along the Wa bash, aud in the central section, where railroads were being made, or made their transportation to a desired point easy and cheap. These tacts cannot be disputed, and are not denied. But the claim that such men are legal voters, is impudently ad vanced in the very face of law and reason. Thus frauds are defended aud excused, and elections are carried against the citizeus by wandering bands of hired voters.” Where a portion of these illegal voters came from, may be understood by a statement made in the Louisville Journal. That paper says that “fully three-fourths of the Irishmen 1 1 work on the Louis ville and Portland Canal were discharged. On Monday and Tuesday few or none of them could be faund in this city, but the vote of Fl >yd county, In diana, just opposite here, was increased about the number jof discharged Irishmen.—Ball. Pat. Affray—Probably Fatal. —Yesterday, in the forenoon, an affray occurred in front of the Wil liams’ Grocery, opposite the Perry House, in this city, between Mr. Peter Edgar and Wm. T. Price and his son John Price, in which Edgar received a cut in the head with a butcher knife, inflicted by Wm. T. Price, and three stabs in the back—one very large one near the region of the heart—with a knife, inflicted by John Price. The large cut was to the hollow and very large—made large evidently by a wrench of the knife. It is thought Edgar can not survive his injuries. The affray is said to have originated from a very trivial cause. Edgar was slightly intoxicated, and some words passed between W. T. Price and him self, in a jocular way, when Price drew the butcher knife and struck at him, when knocked him down with his fist. Price then rose and came at him again, and inflicted the wound on the head, when they both came to the ground. While down, John Price gave Edgar the stab in the back. In the excitement of the moment they were permitted to escape. They are said to have crossed to the Alabama side of the river. The Sheriff of Musco gee and Deputy Marshal Robinson are in pursuit of them, but with no success up to the time of going to press. Wm. T. Price is about forty-five years of age, five feet eight inches high, has black hair and eyes, dark skin, sharp features, is stoop shoul dered, and his lingers present the appearance of deformity, having been affleted with bone felon. John price is about eighteen years of age, chunky build, has black hair and eyes, and weighs from 110 to 120 lbs. From all we can learn, the Prices are very bad men, and the public, wherever they may go, are in terested in having them brought to justice.—Colutu bu» Sun , Oct 29. Hogs in Ohio.— The total number of hogs in Ohio over six months old on the Ist of April, 1856, was 1,740,972, against 2,044,003 the previous year. This estimate includes all the counties but seven. From the A. O. Picayune. Later from the Rio Grande—Success of Vl datirri. Tiie Nueces Valley, of the 18th, has received by private hand,advices from the Mexican frontier up to the 12th inst. Vidaurri, at the head of his forces, had marched from Monterey upon Mier, aud en'er ed that town without any resistance, as Garza’s forces retired to Camargo. That paper says: Ihe possession of Mier supplied Vidaurri with the much ueeded “sinews of war,” as anumberof mer chants had their stock of goods ready to pass through that place for the Monterey market, and they made him the necessary cash advances to satis fy his claims for introduction duties. From Mier Vidaurri moved on against Camargo, with every prospect of takiug that place, without much loss, as it was well known that of the troops defending it— consisting of the National Guard from Guerrero, Mier, Camargo, Reynosa and Matamoras—only those of the latter place were really hostile to Vi dauiTi’s principles ; and it was after all more than expected that terms of au arrangement would be patched up betweeu them. But, in any event, Vi daurri’s troops were more than sufficient to make resistance from the opposing party unsuc cessful. Col. Jordan commands Vidaurri’s Artillery, lie commanded this corps at the battle of Saltillo, a year ago last May. when Santa Anna’s General, Guitian, was shamefully whipped, chiefly owing to the man ner in which \ idaurri’s Artillery was mameuvred. Col. Juau Zuazua, in command of his Lampazos Riflemen, is also aloug with Vidaurri. [This conflicts with our former accounts from Tampico, where it was officially announced that Colonel Zuazua had abandoned Vidaurri, aud si ded with Governor Garza. We are inclined to think these latter advices are correct. — Editors Picayune. ] Gen. Canales has been on the American side of the Rio Grande for some time, waiting a favorable opportunity to “pitch in,” and take advantage of circumstances. The former Governor of Tamaulipae, Don Jesus Cardenas, is also on our safe side of the lvio, with the same intentions It is believed by both that Vidaurri has the best chances of success, and they are ready to fraternize. Messrs. Mathew and thomas Nolan, who left Ca margo ou the night of the 11th inst., after having participated in several skismishes betweeu the belli gerent forces, in company withothei.Americans, re port the following news: The fighting commenced ou the 10th, and up to the night of the llth, success had not favored either party. Vidaurri has 3,000 men under his command, sonic of whom are Americans. Camargo is de fended by 1,300 Mexicans, under command of Gen. Garza. Camargo is situated about three miles from Rio Grande City, on the opposite side of the river, and the troops of the contending forces are scattered up and down the river for several miles. 011 Suuday last, Gen. Carvajal was sent for by Gen. Garza, to take command of the Government forces, lie had gone down to Camargo, but whether he had accepted the invitation is not known. No general engagement had taken place, but Gen. Vidaurri had sent a despatch to Gen. Garza, informing him that uuless he surrendered the town immediately, hi* should commence to bombard it. [Besides several pieces of heavy ordance, Vidaurri has four howit zers, or mortars, in his possession.] Garza sent word for Vidaurri to “pitch in!” aud immediately proceeded to fortify himself. This was the state of affairs ou the other side of the river, when the Messrs. Nolan left. The accounts from the Rio Grande concur in sta ting that Vidaurri is popular on botli sides of the river, and has at his command money and men suffi cient to enable him to prosecute the pending revolu tion to a successful issue. In addition to the foregoing we have been favor ed with ail extract from a private source to a gen tleman of high standing in our city, which states that Geu. Vidaurri lmd possession ot Mier aud, proba bly, Camargo also ; and that he was making ar rangements with merchants along the line for the in troduction of goods into Nuevo Leon. The excite ment at Rio Grande City was very great in conse quence ot these events. Texas Items. The Austin Times , of the 18th, notices the arrival of Mr. A. J. Byrd in that city, direct from Fort Belknap, and says: The Indians on the Reservation, when Mr. Byrd left, were quiet. About three weeks since a party of Wichitas made a descent upon the settlements, and carried off nine 01* ten horses and mules. They came close to Fort Belknap without being discovered. Near a month since a stealing party of ten In dians, said to be Keechies, but generally thought to be Northern Camanches, made a foray upon the frontier, and took off’upwards of fifty animals be longing to sundry persons. They passed almost within sight of Cainp Cooper, a cavalry post, where they stole horses and mules from Charles Barnard and others. They also robbed Mr. Harvey Mat thews of fifteen head of horses and mules within five miles of Fort Belknap. The troops at this post made no movement for the recovery of the stolen property; but the force is all infantry, and they could have effected little or nothing. The mounted men from Fort Cooper pursued the Indians ; were out two days, and returned witii the usual regular luck —not having seen or done anything. These are but two of many such occurrences transpiring on the frontier. There are complaints of the inefficiency of the troops stationed on Ihe Texas line north of the Col orado. The friendly Delawares, Shawnees and Cad does of the Reservation are the only dread of the Indian depredators. Thay follow them with perse verance, and fight them with skill and gallantry.— The others do not fancy the kind of fun they get in these encounters with their more civilized breth ren. A war should be made upon the Northern Coman ches the Wacos and Wichitas. The most appropri ate and effective force for the prosecution of a cam paign against these tribes would be the citizen sol diers of Texas, aided by the above mentioned friendly Indians. Jose Maria, Caddo chief, has said he could put an end to this predatory war with in eight months, or charge the government nolhing in case of a failure. The Corpus Christi Valley of the Bth inst., has the following: At Rio Grande City there was great excitement, not ouly in consequence of the fighting upon the opposite side of the river, but, to a great extent, produced by a personal difficulty between Captain John S. Edmondson, of this city, and Mr. Andrew Wright, of Victoria, which resulted in the death of both parties. All day, ou the 10th, they had been together, in Camargo, and at night crossed the riv er, and were iu a drinking house at Rio Grande City. A dispute arose between them, and a real or imaginary insult was passed, when Wright drew a six-shooter aud shot Edmondson through the side.— Capt. E. grasped his revolver, and, with uneering a’m, shot Wright through the breast. Both parties expired almost immediut ly. The Columbia Democrat, of the 21st inst. says : The cotton parking for the last two weeks has been very much retarded. There are some com plaints that cotton is sprouting anew. Ou Thursday morning last we had the first frost of the season. There whs a frost, at Gonzales on the mornings of the 16th and 17th inst. The Gonzales Inquirer is informed that the cot ton crop of tlmt county cannot possibly exceed one third of what was raised last year—some say one fourth. Trying to make a run on a Bank. —Last Sat urday night, about eight o’clock, a white man dis guised as a negro, called Mr. James Farley, of the Banking House of John Henley & Co., from his residence, on the pretence that sone one wanted to see him at the Bunking House. Mr. Farley went, but did not go the way the negro indicated—through a vacant lot. When lie got to the Bank, he found no one wishing to see him, and suspecting something, he sent the police to the vacant lot. The conspira tors had left, but a passenger was hailed—took fright and ran—and was shot at by the police. Mr. F., on his return, found the pretended negro near his house, and after some conversation, drew a pistol and ordered him to stand—but lie didn’t. Mr. F. fired at him jus he ran. The object of all this mano:uvering was to get Mr. Farley to a rather secluded spot, and to rob him of the Bank keys. He had been warned a day or two previously, that certain suspicious persons habitually lurked about his premises of an evening. They were perfectly well known by sight to a number of persons in town. They have temporarily withdrawn from society, we under stand. lc this case the Bank made the run on the outsi ders—showing a heavy financial condition.—Mont gomery Mail. A Stimulant to Patriotism. —William Lang is the name of a trumpeter lad who wont to the Cri mea at the age of thirteeen. He was frightened at the whistling of the cannon balls on the banks of the Alma for the space of half an hour, but never has been afruid of them since. The night after the bat tle he was found by an officer lying under a bush half dead from exhaustion ; he was wrapped in a horse rug and carried to the camp, where he speedily recovered. He sounded his trumoet at Bulakluva, at Inkennann, and during the who*le siege at Sebas topol. His comrades gave him the highest praise for his intrepidity. He would ride througn a storm of shot to carry provisions to men in the trenches, and when he could be spared he attended the sick with all the care of a Nightingale. He returns to his native town of Woolwich decorated with the medal with four clasps, the youngest but not the least gallant hero of the war.— English, jiaprr. Mr. Fillmore in Louisiana. —The following is an extract of a letter from a prominent merchant in New Orleans, dated October 18,185 G: I am glad you think so well of Mr. Fillmore’s pros pects, and hope Maryland will not falter. I think Louisiana is perfectly safe for him. We will give a tremendous majority for him iu this city. It is a rare thing to see a Buchanan man about here now-a days. 1 consider the thing about certain now that Millard Fillmore will be our next President. Don’t be afraid of Louisiana. We are all Fillmore men here. We keep the ball rolling, and shall continue to do so until the day after election. Fire at Aiken. —We learn by private letter re ceived in this city from Aiken, S. G\, dated the 28th instant, that the kitchen on the premises of Dr. Amory Coffin, took fire on the night of the 27th, and was burnt to the ground. The most unfortun ate incident was, the burning up of a favorite negro woman, who for very many years had been a nurse in the family of Dr. Coffin.— Charleston Courier. Letter from Fremont.— The San Francisco papers publish a letter from Col. Fremont, in an swer to a letter of enquiry about political matters andressed him by the Editor of the Evening Bulle tin. The same letter was addressed to the other two Presidential candidates, but neither of them an swered. The Bulletin says Fremont’s letter has given great satisfaction to the citizens generally. Presbyterianism and Slavery in Canada.— The Presbyterian Church in Canada, in Synod as sembled, has enjoined its Presbyteries to be careful, in admittingjto fellowship Presbterian'ministers from the United States, to examine them on the subject of slavery, and to be satisfied before receiving them that their views accord with the resolution passed by the Synod in 1850 and 1853, asserting non-fellow ship with slaveholders. Dr. Crane, the Phrenologist. —The Wilming ton North Carolina Times says : Dr. Crane squatted here for a short time in Virginia not long since, and there he left the lady he took from Portsmouth, to her fate, and it is said trotted off with the lady of his landlord 1 Officers are in hot pursuit of the de mon, and if captured, he will pay dear for his impu dence. We warned the public a week or two ago, to watch that man. Artificial Fish. —There was a new feature at the Agricultural Fair at Cleveland, Ohio—a show of fish raised artificially. They are chiefly spotted brook trout, from six months to two years old, and were in a large tank with glass sides, supplied with a running stream of ice water. Doctors Garlich and Arckley. who furnish the exhibition, have quite a ‘•fish raising” about two miles from Cleveland. I i pond are thousands of| fish, principally trout, all raised by artificial means. How to Avoid Sleepless Nights.— At a la'.e meeting of the Scottish Curative Mesmeric Asso ciation, held in Edinburgh, Mr. A. J. Ellis announced to the audience that if they wished to avoid sleep less nights, they should lie with their heads to the north —not on any account to lie with their heads to the west. Remarkable Fact. —ltiis a remarkable fact that every man who has ever been presented by the abo litionists as a candidate for the Presidency was a Democrat ! Biniey, Gerritt Smith, John P. Hale, Martin Van Buren, and John C. Fremont, were all Democrats in good standing with their party, and the “sage of Kinderhook” is now one of their “shining lights !** VOL. LXX.—NEW SERIES VOL. XX. NO. T> The ReecYM Disaster on hone Island Sound. The Boston Traveller, of Monday, says : Among the incidents connected with the circumstances of the gale of the 17th, some transpired as magnani mous as others weieludicrous. When it was ascer tained tliai the steamer Connecticut could uo longer weather tiie head sea aud wind with safety, the cap tain, already in a disabled condition, sent for Mr. Brown, the pilot. After ordering him to put the ship about, as the Inst hope, a person asked the pilot ou his way to the wheel house, what was to be done.— He replied—“ Put the vessel before the wind, and if necessary die at my post.” The persevering con duct of the engineer was equally praise worthy.— Deaf to all enquiries and cries of danger alike ; not unnerved by the harrowing scenes around him, among the deck passengers, lie stood (the joint power of the boat witii the pilot being in his hands) at his critical post unmovea, until his coolness and intrepidity was rewarded, by the half-wrecked craft ploughing before the wind. The delay in putting about—which, probably, will be the subject of some condemnation—can be ac counted for by sea faring men, and those acquaint ed with the immense guards and upper works of an ordinary Sound boat, deeply laden iu such a furious gale, and seas literally mountains high—and when this ''dernier resort this forlorn hope, was adopt ed, the cry “look out for your guards,” naming along the decks, and echoing from lip to lip, was terrific. At this juncture, a demented man, and how many such were there, was a “vis a-vis” chair, minus the seats, with a ffieet, to wards the forward doors of the upper saloon, al ready to commit himself (beiug almost clad in life preservers) to the boiling deep ; and when the ves sel was actually about, and safe, comparatively, it was difficult to persuade him to relinquish his liold upon his frail craft. During the rush through the uper saloon, and at the heightii of the frenzied work of destruction-go ing on among the passengers, a man burst open the door of a state room and came upou a fellow passen ger in tiie act of adjusting his means of safety.— Fearing the loss of his last hope, the life-preserver, he took up the key of his *t ite room door, present ed it in the face of his intruder, and cried, "Another step and you’re a dead man.” The discomfited plunderer awful consternation, resolving for ill** present to reserve a choice of deaths. The most ridiculous part of the proceediug occurred iu the morning, in the discussiou between the parties as to who was iu earnest,and who thought tin* stateroom key to be a revolver. We are strongly inclined to be! eve the hallucination mutual, although each par ty charged the other with fear and consternatiou. Amid all the scenes of terror and confusion, how ever, some of the passengers, and some few ladies among them also, remained perfectly collected, and by their conduct inspired others with hope aud con fidence in the providence of God. The Bergen Tunnel — A (treat Work. —As has been already stated, the Long Dock Company, chartered by the State of New Jersey, is cutting a tunnel four thousand three hundred feet in length, through the Bergen Ilill, about two miles from jer sey City, for tin* use of the New Y'ork and Erie Rail road,— the object be ng to afford a direct and inde pendent approach to this city, for that great chan nel of travel and traffic; to secure adequate depot accommodations at the New York terminus of the road, with extensive warehouse and dock privileges for the trans-shipment of foreign bound freiglit ; and especially to avoid the dangers of‘‘Bergen Cut,” aris ug from the number of trains passing at that, point. The tunnel is cut directly through a ledge of hard trap rock by drilling and blasting, and its construc tion is a very formidable work. It will bo twenty three feet in height mid twenty-nine feet six iuches in width, affording ample space for two wideguage track. It is estimated that 1,500 kegs of powder will be used in cutting through. There are eight perpendicular shafts or openings from the tunnel to the Buface, varying iu depth from 70 to 90 feet. In five of them the bottom has been reached, and the drift (tunnel) commenced. The others are nearly ready for tunnelling. The eight shafts and two Jnp proaches will "resent eighteen faces where the rock can be assailed, and with two Hets of men for day and night, eighteen different gangs can bo employ ed, numbering in all, about 1,200 men. The present force is about 700, as a larger number could not now be advantageously employed. Near the opening of every shaft there is an engine t»f thirty-live horse power, to pump water, i*uise stone and inject fresh air. The large piles of stone near them show what has already been accomplished. So far as practica ble, the debris is carried, by means of locomotives, to tlie proposed dock and depot ground between Jersey City and Hoboken, to assist b filling out the water front, which extends 1,130 feet, and will form the bulkhead for six piers 800 feet in length. Four steam excavators arc at work at this point. A descent into the shafts is attended with very peeuli: r emotiops. The visiter steps into a tub, and 13 instantly swung off over.a dismal orifice appar ently bottomless, for the smoke, from repeated ex plosions ot powder, rolls up as from a large chimney, and only the dripping sides of the rock are visible. But-just as tiie light, of day is almost gone, the tul) strikes bottom, and the figures ol men are dimly discovered, by the aid of numerous tallow caudles, stuck upon the sides of the cavern with lumps of clay. All is damp, murky, and cold, and the ear is deafened with the noise of implements. Before and behind are rows of workmen, each with his light, diligently plying their tools, and slowly but surely urging then* way through the adamantine walls.— When all is in readiness lor an explosion, the men retreat up the bucket, and to save time, it is so ar ranged that the several explosions takes place sim ultaneously. The shock is felt for a long distance, and people residing within the circuit of a mile, are often roused from their slumbers by its violence.— The construct ion of this tunnel was commenced last July. The contract says the work must be com pleted by the 15th of December, 1857. James II- Maiiery is the contractor. — Jour. Commerce. Indian Excitement in Minnesota.— The Sioux Indians in the vicinity of St. l*aul, Minnesota, are in a high state of excitement, caused by the murder of one of their number. It appears that on the 4th, one of the Sioux Indians called at the house of a Mr. Brannel and complained of having lost a blan ket. Sympathizig with his loss, Mr. B. and his wife started into the fields to assist iu finding it. He wandered off some hundred yards, when the treach erous Indian threw off the garb of his friendship, and commenced u deadly assault upon Mrs. Bran nel. lie held his victim firmly by the tiiroat, but het cries for aid, I hough smothered and interrupted, attracted her husband to the snot, who rushed to her protection. At his approach the Indian left his vic tim and turned upon Mr. B. with u drawn knife, when the Frenchman seized a loaded rifle and shot his assailant through tlie head. The remaining Sioux in that vicinity are des 1 perate, and have sworn vengeance. They are con tinually prowling around the place in bands of 50 1 to 75, declaring if they cannot revenge them selves 011 Brainier, they will take some of his near- ( est neighbors—that they will have a white man’s 1 scalp to dance ou before they are content. The neighbors are in constant tarror, and lmrdly dare to leave their homes. From Honduras.—The New Y'ork Herald's cor respondent at Belize, Honduras, writing on 26th of ■ September, states that tlr* popular feeling against Americans from the United States had obtained such a height in Omoa andTruxillo that many of our citizens had left the mines und other fields of labor, in order to return home. Some of them died at Belize. The reports from the goldmines are dis couraging. Only a fine sand could be found in the interior, and that was scarce. Pure gold had been discovered 011 the const, near Truxillo, but the men had only made one dollar u day as yet. Our desti tute sailors and land travellers suffered greatly at Belize, and a call is made on the Cabinet to provide an aid fund. The merchants of Guatemala, Hon duras, and San Salvador are represented as being much incensed against Walker for Lis assumption of the Presidency of Nicaragua, and vow his over throw, with the aid of Chile and Peru. A very un easy state of public feeling prevailed in Belize. On the Rio Hondo—north—tiie Indians had commenced to interfere with the mahogany cutters, and a chief, named Lucianno Zue, huu seized on all the wood cut ou that river, and demanded a payment of four dollars per log for it. The t inber had been previ ously bought on British account, from the Yucatan people, with the consent of the Mexican govern ment ; and if Zue did not give way some trouble was expected. The weather was very hot. The Territories.—There are now open for set tlement the Territories of Minnesota, Oregon, Ne braska, Washington, New Mexico, Utah and Kan sas. These Territories contain, according to a com pendium of the census of 1850, published in 1854, the following area: Miiinnesota 166,025 square miles. Oregon 185,030 “ “ N ebrask a 325,882 “ “ Washington 122,022 “ “ New Mexico 207,007 “ Utah 299,170 “ “ Total 1,286,136 or 928,127,040 acres. Kansas 114,798 or 73,470,720 “ The first named six Territories contain 1,286,136 square miles or 823,137,040 acres of land, as the total area of all the States and Territories belonging to Union is 2,936,166 square miles, they comprise near ly one half of the whole. They run through seven teen or eighteen degrees of latitude, and embrace millions of acres of the finest laud and mineral de posits, in the finest climate, on the finest rivers in the world. What a noble prospect! With peace and prosperity, wlmt may we not anticipate of the future ! This country is merely in its infancy. Its growtli in power and population has scarcely com menced. Let us keep true to each other and tre Union, and what a glorious heritage shall we be queath to coming generations.— Phil. Inq. The Ocean Telegraph.—The Journal of Coin inerce gives some interesting facts concerning this novel and roost important undertaking: “The arrangements for laying the wire are not yet complete, Mr. Field being at present in England with reference to this matter; but we learn that the telegraphic connection between this port and St. Johns, N. F., is very nearly complete. An unex pected delay arose from a miscalculation as to the length of the wire required for going through Nova Scotia, occasioned by inaccurate surveys, so that it was necessary to return to England, and procure twenty-five miles additional—making the whole length of atmospheric wire J 25 miles. This portion is nearly finished, and the two sub-marine cables sunk between St. Johns and Prince Edward’s Island, and across the Gulf of Sh Lawrence —one over fif teen miles in length, and the other eighty-five—are found to be complete, and iu the best working or der. The entire expenditure on this important en terprise, up to the present time, is between $600,- 000 and $700,000. The cost of the ocean survey is defrayed by the United States Government. The National Character of the Protestant Episcopal Church. —The proposition introduced in the General Convention of the Protestant Epis copal Church, at Philadelphia, to give to the Gene ra! Convention the initiative in the proceedings against accused bishops, and taking it away from the dioceses, was defeated, ns those who have read our daily reports of the proceedings will have no ticed. There is a significance in this vote which perhaps may not have struck the casual reader. It proves the caution of I he convention, many of the members having been really in favor of the proposed change, on some accounts, yet voting against it rather than incur the danger of bringing the slavery question into the councils of the church. It also illus trates the harmony of the convention and the ab sence of all sectional lines, New York and Alabama, and Louisiana, Pennsylvania and South Carolina voting together. While some other denominations of Christians in our country have allowed themselves to be split up into sectional divisions, by means of admitting this firebrand into their councils, the Episcopal denom ination has always sedulously avoided the snare and the danger, and so far with complete fluent '.*, and so, we do not doubt, will always continue to do.— N. O. Picayune A correspondent from Tully, Miss., writing to the Baltimore luii, says : I saw yesterday one of the greatest natural curiosities now extant—a snake iith two heads, one at each extremity. Ihe body wa- about two feet iong and two inches in diame ter in the centre. The snake was well formed, large in the centre, and gradually tapers to eaeb end, with two perfect heads in every respect. But the most novel thing to witness was its actions toward the gentleman who caught it, running one way with as much ease, apparently, as the other, with both tongues out, each raging, apparently, with anger.— I have no doubt many of your readers will look up on this as false, (a snake story,) but it is a fact, and can be vouched for by many of our most respectable citizens. Columbia, Oct. 30.—A dispatch from Washing ton states that the Providence Bank of the Repnb ic tailed yesterday. Poetry Commerce, The Hon. Edward Everett, whose brilliant gtonuß gives a golden lingo of poetry to every thing it touches, thus speaks of Commerce in his late beautiful speech at the Peabody Testimonial: Track its history for a moment from the earliest period, in the infancy of the world its caravans, like gigantic silkworms, went creeping through the arid wastes of Asia and Africa, witu their infinitesi mal legs, and bound tho human family together in those vast regions as they bind it together now. Its colonial establishments scattered the Grecian cul ture all round the shores of the Mediterranean, a*:d carried the adventurers of Tyre and Carthage to the North of Europe and the South of Africa. The walled cities of the middle ages prevented the arts and refinements of life from being trampled out of existence under the iron heel of the feudal powers. Tho Ilanse Towns \vere the bulwark of liberty and property on the North and West of Europe for ages. The germ of the representative system sprang from the municipal franchises of the boroughs. At the revival of lette.rs, the merchant princes of Florence received the fugitive arts of Greece into their pala ces. The spirit of commercial adventure produced that movement in the fifteenth century, which car ried Columbus to America, and Vasco di Gama around the Cape of Good Hope. The deep founda tions of the modern system international law were laid in interests and rights of commerce, and the necessity of protecting them. Commerce sprinkled the treasures of the newly found Indies throughout the Western nations; it nerved the arm of civil and religions liberty in tho Protestant world—it gradually carried the colonial system of Europe to the ends of the earth, and with it the elements of future independent, civili zed, republican governments. Put why should we dwell on the past? What is it that gives vigor to the civilization of the present day but the world wide extension of commercial intercourse, by which all the products of tlie earth and of the oceau, of the soil, the mine, of tho loom, of the forge, of bounteous nature, creative art and uu tiriug industry, and brought by the agencies of commerce into the universal market of demand and supply ? No matter in what region a desira ble product is bestowed on man by a liberal Provi dence, or fabricated by human skill It may clothe the hill * of China with its fragrant, foliage — it may glitter in tli3 golden sandH of California— it may wallow in the depth of tin.! Arctic seas—it may ripeu and wh ten in the fertile plains of the sunny South—it may spring forth from the dying shuttles of Manchester, m England, or Manchester in America—tue great world magnet of commerce attracts it alike, and gathers it all up for the service of man. A Wki.i. of Gas n Macomb Co.—We learn from the ML Cleinona Advocate that a j.,m* spring lms been discovered on the premises of Mr. Rone, about four mile* above New Baltimore, on the border of Lake St.. Clair. Some workmen had been for a con siderable time engaged in digging a well on Mr. Rose’s premises, a rod or so Northwest of the house, which is of brick and newly built, and had by dig ging and boring in all, attained a depth of 7a feet. They had drawn up tho augur to the place whore they had loft oil* digging, and commenced boring, and there left it with some other tools and were at dinner, when they Were startled by a violent noise, at first like an CAploLi m and then followed a roar like “blowing ofF’a large steam boiler, accompanied by a very perceptible. trembling of the foundations of the house. As may be supposed, the inmates rushed out, and beheld, to their utter astonishment and consternation, the well vomiting forth a hugh column of sand with such force us to throw it to tho height of over two hundred feet. Limbs on a tree dost? by, som * of them two and three inches th ough, were knoekiil otl’aml broken in pieces by the course gravel and pebbles, as tin y would have been by a shower of musket balls; the body of tho tree and the apples trees in the orchard for thirty yards distant wore plastered thick with sand and mud ; the augur was blown 1 - r »0 feet in tho air, and fell at a distance of if>o yards from the well; a stone weighing sixteen pounds was thrown up to nearly the same height end fell a hundred yards off. The ground, for full an acre in extent, w u covered with gravel and sand to the depth of from one to six inches. The gas has been several times igultcd and burns with a bcniritul white tiamo, and although the well has been filled up, for fear that tho entire und t pinning of the Swan Creek country might tie scattered to the four winds, the current of gas i.-j ho strong that it. escapes through several crevic.es and around the edges $1 the well, and maybe at any time ignited, as it often is for the satisfaction of vis iters. Rather gassy-r-that story. Dangerous Counterfeits. —There is now in circulation in this city a vast numberof counterfeits in the shape of American quarters, which are so well devised and executed as in almost defy deter tion. They m - e composed of a brittle metal, which i j plated with silver m such araanm-r »•« to have the appearance of best silver coin. So admirable is this counterfeit, that a number were yesterday received ac one of our hanks an genuine, and their baseness was only afterwards discovered by the weight teat, the acids Inking no effect upon them. They arc somewhat lighter than the genuine. It is supposed they are very numerous in our midst. 'There reems to be, also, circulating in the city at present, « considerable quantity of counterfeit gold coin, pur porting to be quarter and half eagles. Two of the - latter were received yesterday by a gentleman at the cattle show grounds, in exchange for a Virginia bank bill. Doth are dated 1851, and exceedingly well executed ; although being softer and lighter to the touch than the* genuine coin, are easily distin guished by the careful observer. (Quarter eagles of a bnso issue have also been received during the week, by two retail houses oil Baltimore street.— There is evidently in the city a party from the Eastern cities, engaged in passing oft’ bogus coin during the exciting scenes of the cattle show week. —Baltimore Sun, Oct. 24. The Wall Street Forger.— Tim New*Yoik Herald gives us the following description of the Wall street financier : 4< The career of Huntington has been like a dis play of fireworks—brilliant, but evanescent. For a little while he spent money like water. He had six or eight, horses—two pairs for carriages, for himself and wife, and several fast trotters His sideboard was brilliant with massive plate. lie was a great, man at Saratoga, Niagara and liockaway, where his wife had more trunks and j ore diamonds than any one else ; and in town ho kept up two matri monial establishments, one regular and the other irregular—one a Christian home, the other a Mo hammedan seraglio—one according t > flu* laws of New-York, and the--other according to the customs of the Mormons—within a few doors of < ich other. He was a prince for an hour. People ate at his dinners, drove his horses, drank his v\ ino, borrowed his money, and wondered how hegotitull. ifut the crash came at lust, and what, are all his fornn i splen dors compared with his pn sent position? lie bought his luxuries at tremendously high prices.” The first trace that we can find of Mr. Hunting ton’s connection with financial matters dnlcs buck only so far as 1852; when he and two or three other individnais fell into the hands of the police of this city for the share which they had in getting up a fraudulent shinplasier concern under 4he title of the “ Anacostie Hank of Washington, D. C.” In dictments were found against him ami his accompli ct*B on that oocaeion, but they were never brought to trial, on account ( as appears from some endoi re menton.the bill,) of some informality or incom pleteness of the proof. Silver Charge. —The advance (nays the New York Journal iff Commerce) in the v alue of bar nil ver abroad has created a demand for entail silver coin for export to Cuba an J other points Sout h, and a premium has been paid for dimes, which will p ; h for the same as shilling pieces (12£ evuts) when the latter arc scarce. This has led to the impression that silver change is scarce and can only b** procur ed ut a premium. This is not so; silver can Lc ob tained at the United States Mint at Philadelphia in exchange for gold at par, and merchants and others who want it for the purpose of change can it in sums of SSO to SIOO at the sub treasury without charge in exchange for gold. Subscription in New Yoek for One Hundred Cannons for Sardinia. —The Italians in New- York, as well as those who sympathize with .Sardi nia in her present stiugglo against Austria, have opened a voluntary subscription to. contribute to wards defraying the expenses for one hundred can nons, to be presented to the Sardinian peoy.lo for arming the new fortress on the point of erection at Alexandria in P.< dmont. It will be recollected that Sardinia is the only free government in Italy; there is freedom of tin* press —there found shelter all the political exiles jf other Italian Stotta—ihere the Bible j'h permitted to bo circulated, and the citizens enjoy civil and reli gious liberty and for this Sardinia has been de nounced by the Pope. That small State although surrouiided by despotic powers, bus taken the lead for emancipating the whole Italian penin sula. As Austria has already advanced an army towards its frontiers, Sardinia will soon be com pelled to meet the enemy in the open field, and from the result of the struggle, will Italy rise from her political and national grave, or be doomed for ever. Mormon ism. —Late European advices state that Mormo ism i« making such progress in Denmark os to excite considerable alarm in the minds of religious and reflecting rnen. Petitions have been sent in large numbers to the Government, asking that the Mormhns may be restricted from the more public practice of thejr ceremonies. A Perilous Hide. —A journeyman hatter, resi ding about half a mile from Plainfield, while going from that place to his home, on Saturday night, be ing on the track at the time an extra coal train was goine up the Central railroad, was caught by the cow catcher, and after several unsuccessful attempts to notify the engineer of his whereabouts, he arrived 'in Somerville. He kept Lis courage up with the idea that the train would stop at some intermediate station, but it being merely a coal train, he was obliged to go all the way through. Ilia leg was bro ken, and it is a miracle that he was not instantly killed.— Trenton [N. J ) Amer. Recipe for Weevil in Wheat.— -We received the following recipe for preventing the ravages of the weevil in wheat from a .friend, and place it be fore our readers for trial : Sprinkle one-half gallon of salt over eighty bush els of wheat, and mix it together. This, I have found, will drive the weevil from wheat, as well as pre vent it from their attack .—ljaurensville Herald. Boats for Florida.—A fleet of thirty metallic boats are being built at Francis' establishment, at Greenpoint, designed to aid the United States troops in their operations against the Indians in Florida this winter, particularly in penetrating the Ever glades. Th«-y are twenty-two feet in length, and three feet six inches in breadth, wit h lookers at each end for ammunition and provisions. Fifteen of them are already finished, and present a fine appear - ance. , A very large bout, twenty-eight feet in length, finished in'good style, with heavy brasa oar-locks and brass tiller, has just been finished for the Go vernor of St. Thomas. , .... Boats for the Coast.—A large number of life cars, made of corrugated iron, are bunding at Francis's boat factory for the general government, and are to be distributed among the stations on the coast of Long Island New Jersey, established for the security of life m case of shipwreck.-.V 1. Journalo) Commerce. \ Good Jokk. —\Ve are indebted to a Demo cratic friend who relishes a good joke, even at the expense of his own side, for the following At the lati: Buchanan Mass Meeting, in Atlanta, a stalwart Buchaneer was huzzaing lustily for Buchanan, when another equally zealous and excited Democrat, re sponded as lustily— I "Hurrah for Breckenridge!”- Thereupon Bach. No. 1, thinking Buck. No. 2, was cheering for an opponent , assailed him with some opprobrious epithet, which was retorted, and Buch. and Breck. pitched into one another with a will. The man that knew “Mr. P. S. Forward,” probably in terposed to settle the difficulty, and inform the par ties that Breckenridge was the animate , as Bu chanan is the inanimate representative of the great and glorious Democracy. —(tiffin Union. Overworking the Brain. —An intelligent wri ter in one ot our large cities gives a note of warning which many in the present excitement and rush of our country would do well to heed. “Iu one of our lunatic asylums," he says, “there are now several gentlemen, all of whom were one year ago in full health and active business, and 111 each of these ca ses mental aberration is traceable directly to over working the brain. They are men of wealth and social eminence, and until their sad affliction, were distinguished forlusefulness iu the ebuerh and the community. But to these we must add perhaps thousands of cases in which premature old age or premature ill health and mental imbecility liavq arisen irom similar causes.”