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COLUMBUS:
Friday Morning, July 11* 1856.
I.AKC.KST CITY CIKCCITATION.
DEATH OF COL. A. McDOUGALD
We regret to learn of the death of CoL Alex- ,
ander McDougald, a prominent politician and
lawyer of this city, which took place at his
residence in this city yesterday, about four
o’clock, niter a short illness. Col. McDou- |
gnld had been n resident of Columbus for up
wards of twenty yearn ; had represented the
county in both branches of tho Legislature ;
and on account, especially of his extensive
popularity, had only to offer himself for the
suffrages of his fellow citizens, to be elected,
lie will be sad'y missed by the poor, to whom
he w.. 8 a kind benefactor and faithful friend.
Kind-hearted, honest, sincere, he over meant
well, and where Impressed friendship, was
a friend indeed. Doubtless he had among po
litical opponents some who never thoroughly
understood him, f” l possibly misjudged him.
Hut outside of that sphere, there was no man
in our city who will have more numerous or
sincere mourners to deplore his loss.
Col. McD. leaves a wife and a very inter- i
estiug famny of children.
The mails are very muchoutof joint, and we
fail to receive regularly, : omc of our most val
uable exchanges. Those which <lo arrive, are
deplorably dull, politics oxcepted, and have
been so since the lirst of the month. Tne hot
weather tells as emphatically upon the editori
al energies and brain, as any other. Readers
should be indulgent; for, though power-pres. es
aro cf iron constitution, Editors, whoso busi
ness it is to feed them, are but flesh and blood.
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The Hog Nuisance.
Wo believe that Columbus is tho only city of
its size in the Union, where hogs huvo the
‘•freedom of the city.” As they are a great
nuisance, we would be much pleased to publish
an ordinance prohibiting them from running at
large. Considering tho evil to be one which
every body feels, and is too palpable to require
demostration or argument, we rest satisfied for
the present, with respectfully calling tho at
tention of the authorities to it, and soliciting
its abolition.
Tuskegeo.
We paid a brief business visit, recently to
this spirited place, and found it much improv
ed in the five years of our absence. A great
many splendid residences havo been erected
during that time, having all the modern im
provements and adornments, and costing very
large sums. Two of tho most noticeable public
structures, aro those of the Alabama Female
College, and the Tuskegee Female College.
The former is a B..ptist Institution, under the
immediate supervision of Dr. Bacon, ns Princi
pal; the latter belongs to tho Methodist dc
nominaiion, with Dr. Lipscomb at its head.
The edifice of the Methodist College is not
quite finished, but soon will be. It is some
what more modern than its competitor, though
both are fine buildings.
The commencement exercises at the Metho
dist College transpired last week: at the other
Collego they were progressing during our
stay, but business engagements debarred us
from being present. We had however tho
pleasure of attending a Concert given by the
pupils on Monday evening, which was highly
creditable. The Grand Concert was to have
taken place on the ovening of Wednesday. A
large number of strangers were iu town dur
ing our visit—some in attendance on tho Col
kgo exercises, and others to be present at the
Fillmore and Donelson Ratification meeting,
which wc attended, and where we saw some
things which possibly may not appear iu the
published proceedings. There was much en
thusiasm manifested, and the Fillmore men
had run up a liberty pole, ono hundred and
twenty foot high, surmounted with an im
mense flag 18 feet by 40, having on its folds,
iu addition to the Stars and Stripes, the names
of Fillmore and Donelson.
There are now three papers in Tuskegee -
the Southwestern Baptist, the Macon Repub
lican (American) and the True Union, (Demo
crat’'’ ) The latter is anew journal, owned
aud edited by Messrs. Samford & Slaughter.
By the bye, we have not yet tendered them
our good wishes, as we now do, hoping they
will excuse the delay.
Fillmore Men of Tuskegeo.
We learn that tho gathering at Tuskegoe on
Monday was one after the old Whig spirit and
enthusiasm of that gallant Whig county.—
There wore some 3000, we leuru, iu attendance,
who wore eloquently addressed by Messrs.
Watts, Hilliard, Chilton aud others. The ideu,
we learn, on the part of the part of the speak
ers, was Fillmore, as he has shown himself
tho national, conservative candidate—a man
and a platform, as carried out by him while iu
power, which all conservative men could ral
ly on. This is tho just and politic spirit, and
will, if adhered to, win back the gallant con
servative majority of Macon, which has been
dissipated and divided by misunderstanding
and faction. W c shall publish tho proceed
ings in full ns soon as received.— Alabama
Journal.
The Journal rightly calls the meeting an en
thusiastic one. But the “three thousand”
were not there. The attendance was respecta
ble, b<“h in numbers and intelligence : but we
do not think there were nioro than three to
five hundred persons present, as they were all
accommodated in the Court Room, and very
comfortably, despite the hot weather.
But what says the Alajor to a certain reso
lution, declaring the Tuskegeo Republican and
Montgomery Mail, organs of tho party, thus
giving the Journal the cold shoulder? Evi
dently, in the opinion of tho meeting, the Jour
nal has not heretofore, “in just and politic
spirit,” taken “Mr. Fillmore, as he has shown
himself—the national and conservative man—
&c.” Wul the Alajor publish that portion of
*he proceedings “in full,” also?
Tht ‘ ! elma Sentinel learns that “Alaj. Al
lred Fuller, of Perry county, father of Joseph
A. Fuller, of Selma, was assassinated by being
snot by some wretch on last Thursday evening
about dark, while walking through his own
garden. No clue has ben arrived at, as yet,
as to who was the perpetrator of this cold
blooded and foul murder. ”
Mechanics’ Meeting.
An adjourned meeting of our City Mechan
ics was held on Wednesday evening last, to
receive the Preamble anil Resolutions of the
Committc appointed at the previous meeting.
The attendance was not so largo as at the first
Meeting, but the proceedings were well con
ducted, aud a good spirit animated the ineet
ing.
Air. (1 P. Levy presented the following
preamble and resolutions which were unani
mously adopted, viz:
Whereas, tho Mechanics of the city of Col
umbus are desirous of forming amongst them
selves a more perfect bond of Union and Broth
erhood, with a view of promoting tlieir wel
fare and liappinoss, by extending the means
of Education and Moral Improvement to our
children and the Mechanic Youths of our city,
us well as advancing ourselves in the Mechan
ic Ai ts and Sciences, and providing mutual
relief for ourselves aud families in seasons of
adversity which can be move effectually done
by associations and fellowship, therefore lie
it resolved,
Ist. That this Society shall be called “The
Mechanic’s Union of Columbus.”
2d. That as soon as forty mechanics shall
sign tlieir names, they may go into an election
for one President, two Vice Presidents, a Se
cretary and Treasurer.
3d. That wo hold ourselves bound to forbid
and discountenance, any attempt whatever, to
bring into this society, any political or section
al controversy ; but that our aim and exertion
shall be to promote knowledge and intelligence
among tho Mechanics of our city.
4th. Wo hold this a truth beyond controver
sy, that an association organized and sustain
ed by such principles is an honor and credit
to any community, and a benefit to Columbus,
that can hardly be calculated.
The Chairman then announced that the
list was open for signatures, when the follow
ing i ,rsons enrolled their names, viz :
Edward J. King, j Robert A. Work,
Lewis C. Alien, jW. E. Sanford,
Daniel U. Kean, |A. P. Wright,
Crawford Smitn, ‘<}. E. Janes,
George W. Spellman, j Henry McCauley,
J. E. Brown, |J. N. Herendine,
Miclml Clark, J. V/. Hewitt,
C. P. Levy, ‘dosiah Willot,
11. M. Morris, EL. . C. Babbott,
W. M. McNeill, A. F. Rogers,
Win. P. Johnson, W. R. Harris,
Win. Eyles, S. L. Martin,
Enoch \* ~iit, R. T. Simons,
John S. Allen, : Baxter Watson,
S. AI. AlcCoy, Stephen S. Brooks,
J. Aladox, IW. Boring,
G. L. ltobenett, jW. Blair.
B. F. Werner, |J. D. Baldwin.
A Committee, consisting of Messrs. J. D.
Baldwin, John S. Allen, Charles P. Levy, N.
B. Love and G. W. Spelman was then appoint
ed to draft a Constitution and By-Laws to be
presented at the next meeting.
A motion that the Union should go into an
election for permanent officers at the next
meeting, was adopted, and the meeting then
adjourned to Saturday evening next.
Crops in Texas.
The Houston Telegraph of the 25th of June,
says ihe promise of a fair cotton crop is now
fully equal to what it was last year. The
growth of the plant has been greatly retarded
by the grass, which grew so rapidly after the
rains the last of April and first of Alay. It is
now growing finely considering the dry weath
er, and blooms are very general. The early
stands give promise of a large yield.
Early corn has been considerably injured by
the drouth, and some apprehensions have been
felt of a short crop.
We leern from the Americus News that Benj.
Woodall was killed ithat place on the 4tli, by a
youth named Jerome Barfield. Deceased was
intoxicated, and got into a quarrel with Bar
field, who struck him a blow upon liis temple,
fracturing his skull. The wound was inflicted
about 4 o’elock in the afternoon, aud death en
sued about 4 o’clock next morning. The Cor
oner’s Jury, returned a verdict of “Wilful
Murder.” Barfield fled and has not since becu
arrested.
The Southern Recorder states that “a daily
passenger coach (Sundays excepted) has lately
been established between Eatonton and Madi
son, which greatly facilitates communication
and connects the travel between the two Rail
roads. The coach leaves Eatonton on the ar
rival of the cars at 5j o’clock, P. AI., and ar
rives at Madison at 11J. It leaves Aladison at
1 o’clock, P. AI., arrives at Eatonton at 5A
o’clock, P. M.”
We learu from the Sh.,annuli Georgian, that
there was a very large attendance at the Cutli
bert Railroad meeting on the 4th. The result
was a determination to unite with the South
Western road in extending the same from
Americus to Cuthbert.
We have seen it stated that the lion. E. A.
Nisbet lmd gone over to Buchanan, hut heard
it contradicted yesterday by a gentleman who
bud just seen another gentleman from Mocou.
Judge N.'s name does not appear in the pro
ceedings of the Fillmore Convention, but we
ure informed by the same authority above al
ludod to, that ho will support the Fillmore
ticket. Should the coutrary appear, we shall
meutiou it.
The Liverpool Times, commoutiug on the
Crampton discharge, calls him au “arrant bun
gler,’’ and thinks he was deservedly dismissed.
It then adds:
“ But whatever estimate Mr. Crampton may
form of himself, we hope it has never entered
into his cranium to suppose that he is of suffi
cient importance to set the two eountres bv
the cars, for if such be bis belief, bis egotism
is doomed to receive a decided shock.”
A young lady of Columbia, 8. C., was se
verely burned on Monday night, by the explo
sion of a camphene lamp. 8o long as Cam
phene is used in lamps tlerewdlbe explosions,
and persons will bo injured.
A New York letter says that the news from
California as to the doings of the Vigilance
Committee lms stirred up to tlieir lowest depths
all the gambling dens, porter houses and stews
of that city. The suicide of Yankee Sullivan
has created among this class of the communi
ty a marked sensation, and one or two of his
old haunts in Cathatn and Centre streets are
drappei mourning in respect to his memory.
There were 53 .hs ir. Charleston, from the
29th of June to the sth of July: Whites 35
Blacks and Colored 18.
The American State Convention.
We are indebted to the Georgia Citizen for
an extra, containing the ofliciul proceedings of
the American Convention at Macon. Sixty
one counties were represented. Air. Bartow,
from Committee on business, submitted the
following report, which was unanimously adop
ted :
REPORT:
The American Party of Georgia adopt the
following declaration of principles.
1. The maintenance of this Union of coequal
sovereign States, as our fathers made it, as
the paramount political good—paramount in
its adaptation to the security of our rights and
the happiness of the people.
2. The means by which wc propose to main
tain this, is obedience to the Constitution of
the United .States, and all laws passed in pur
suance thereof as sacredly obligatory upon in
dividuals and States.
3. We regard the great doctrines of religious
liberty aud the separation of Cliurch and .State
as cardinal principles of our Government—as
well settled and as firmly established as the
right of trial by jury and the writ of habeas
corpus, and therefore wc will oppose the ele
vation to office of any and all persons who de
ny the great American doctrine of liberty of
conscience, or who favor the union of Church
and State, or who recognize any civil allegi
ance to any foreign power, prince or potentate
whatever.
4. The purity of the ballot box —the admin
istration Os our laws—the safety of our people
—-the integrity of our Government—the exclu
sion of pauper immigration, and the enforce
ment of neutrality laws, demand, in our opin
ion, a material modification of our naturaliza
tion laws and a radical revision of our immi
gration laws. By this we do not seek to dis
turb, in any manner, the privileges of those
of our foreign born citizens who are naturaliz
ed under our existing laws, and we invite all
of them who agree to our principles to become
members of the American Party.
5. The territory of the United States we re
gard as the common property of all the States
as coequal sovereignities, and as such open to
settlement by the citizens of the States with
their property as matter of right ; and that
no power resides either in Congress or the ter
ritorial Legislature, or the people of the terri
tories while a territory, to exclude from set
tlement in any territory any portion of the
citizens of this Republic with their property
legally held in the Statesfrom which they emi
grate. We repudiate therefore the doctrine
commonly called squatter sovereignty in the
territories.
0. The right to vote is a privilege of citizen
ship, and should not be extended to foreign
emigrants in a territory before they are natu
ralized.
7. The agitation of the subject of Slavery
should cease. The rights ol the South aro
plain, palpable, well defined and well under
stood, and we believe they should no longer be
treated as opeu questions. We will maintain
our guaranteed Constitutional rights and our
right of property in slaves. Georgia has sol
emnly declared what she will regard as future
grievances on this subject and what her reme
dy will be when these grievances shall be in
flicted. We still stand by the Georgia Plat
form. We believe the continuous agitation of
this subject, either by an attempt to restore
the Alissouri Compromise line, or in any other
way, is made by selfish politicians for personal
and party promotion, and is hurtful to the
South, the institution of slavery and the per
manency of the Union.
And having been represented in none of the
Conventions, which havs presented candidates
for the Presidency and Vice Presidency, and
being left free to select the men, who in our
opinion, are best calculated to meet the pres
ent crisis in our national affairs, and believing
it no time for experiment with men, or untried
men, and one of those presented for the suf
frages of the American people having been
well tried, aud giving us daily assurance that
the patriotism and nationality which so emi
nenuy characterized his former administration
will be continued in the future, and restore
peace and tranquility to a distracted counti-y,
we do hereby nominate Millard Fillmore, of
New York, as our candidate for the Presiden
cy- ; i
Entertaining confidence in the integrity and
patriotism and ability of Andrew J. Donelson,
of Tennessee, we do hereby nominate him as
our candidate for the Vice Presidency.
A Central Executive Committee was then
appointed consisting of tho following gentle
men, viz : Clifford Anderson, Charles Collins,
Joseph Bond and J. Knowles, of Bibb, James
Johnson, of Aluscogee, J. W. Jc:-_s, of Rich
mond, and E. G. Cabiucss, of Monroe.
J. W. Jones, Esq., of Richmond, one of “’e
Delegates from the BtL District, offered tne
following resolution which was unanimously
adopted :
Resolved, That wt* have witnessed >vithplea
sure tli ’ adoption and practice l enforcement
by the Senate of An United States in the pas
sage of the Supplementary Bill by that body
for tho organization of the Territory of Kan
sas, of one of the leading and favorite princi
ples of tho American party of Georgja—to wit:
The restriction of the right of suffrage to na
tive born naturalized citizens of the United
States in the organization of Territories pre
paratory to admission into the Union.
The Convention was addressed, during its
session by Messrs. Miller, of Floyd, President
of the Convention, R. J. Morgan and E. Y.
Hill, of Troup, G. E. Thomas, of Aluscogee, S.
C. Elam, of Fulton and A. R. Wright, of Jes-
JetVerson.
Railroads in India.
Railroads, upon •* truly gigantic scale, are in
course of actual construction in British India,
in furthcrancs of which the East India Compa
ny have loaned their credit. 1. The East In
dia Railway, to Delhi, 900 miles; 91)0 miles
under contract; 100 miles or more now open ;
u .and the whole is to be completed during the
year 1850. The East Indiu Company guaranty
five per cent, interest on their bonds to the ex
tent .f £4,000,000. 2 The Great India Peniu
•:ular Railway, from Bombay, 47 miles opened
for travel last year. Five per cent, guaran
teed on i11,000,000 by the East India Compa
ny 3. The Ai.idus Railway, interest guaran
teed on .C 1,000,000. 4. The Bcinde Railway,
110 .uiles to Indus. 5. Ceutral India Railway,
to Ahmendabnd, 103 miles. Five per cent, in
terest guarar ->d.
Executions at Yazoo City.
A dispatch to the Vicksburg Whig, dated Ya
zoo City, 27, “ays;
ovar I. condemned te be bung for murder,
was executed at 12 o’clock to-day. He made
quite a long confession, which produced a great
effect on tho people present. Never so many
people assembled here before.
Ihe three negroes condemned to death for
the murder ot their master were swung oft’one
after the other, as soon as Bovard had been
disposed of. Bovard was struggling twenty
seven miuutes before life was extinct. The ne
groes died in a shorter time.
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
The Brooks and Sumner Case.
Washington, July B.— The trial of the Hon.
Preston S. Brooks for assaulting Senator Sum
ner, of Alass., took place to-doy. Air. Brooks
made a speech in extenuation of his offence en
the ground that he had felt it to be his duty to
resent the insults which Air. Sumner had heap
ed upon his native State, South Carolina. The
Court without comment, fined Mr. Brooks three
hundred dollars.
Congressional.
Washington, July 7.— The Senate has pas
sed the bill for the improvement of the mouth
of the Alississippi, over the President’s veto, by
a vote of thirty-one to twelve.
The House refused to consider the Senate’s
resolution providing for the adjournment of
Congress on the 28th inst.
Yellow Fever in Matanzas.
New York, July 7.—Late accounts from Ma
tanzas represent that the Yellow Fever is ra
ging there.
New York Market.
New York, July 7.—Only a moderate busi
ness doing in cotton, but prices are unchanged.
Sales to-day 300 bales. Flour market advan
ced 12| cents per barrel.
Testimony of an Anti-Slavery Man.
We find in the Ilerkmer County (N. Y.)
Americana long letter from an anti-slavery
man, in relation to the troubles in Kansas.—
He says :
I am not a pro-slavery man, (Bungay’s
opinion to the contrary notwithstanding,) but
I do despise, most heartily, this hot headed,
meddlesoma spirit which so extensively exists
iu our country, and I honestly believe that the
Abolitionists of the Territory are the aggres
sors in nearly every case of difficulty which
has occurred here ; at least so far as my hum
ble knowledge extends this is positively true.
There have been, within the last two weeks,
some twelve or fifteen pro-slavery men mur
dered within a few miles of us. They have
been driven from their claims and forced to
leave the Territory, and, in case they refused,
they have been shot down like wild beasts.—
The company that went to Lawrence fell in
with this band of villains—Abolitionists, or
call them what you will—and not knowing
what they were, they encamped together, and
while together their leader, the Mormon aud
Abolitionist, with a few of his own men, went
out in tho dead ofnightand murderedfive men,
returned to camp and boasted of it. Our com
pany soon cut his acquaintance and hastened
home ; but, in the mean time, learned that the
despatch purporting to bes. Lawrence call
ing for help, originated with this same horse
thief anu Abolitionist. Now thetroubled com
menced. Vengeance must be satisfied. Osa
watomie had had a hand in these murders and
must come down. A force of United States
troops were sent for and came to protect the
town, and they are still here, encamped within
a mile of my place ; and now all hands, Free
State and Pro-Slavery men, are out hunting
alter this blood thirsty Abolitionist and his
party. Nine of his party are now lying in
camp, nicely tied up, so that they cannot even
fight mosquitoes, and all I hope is that the
rest may meat with the same or a worse fate.
\ ou may ask how this state of things affects
me. W ell, sir, Igo about my own business
and have no fears of being molested. Nor do
1 think tt ere is the least danger of any person
being molested who wishes to have peace. It
is the lawless of both parties that fear danger.
I hesitate not to avow my principles (which
aro no slaves and no free negroes in Kansas)
even to Missourians, who pass my house al
most daily, and they say that every man has
a right, in this country, to his own views, and
that they have no disposition to interfere with
any man’s rights, &c. They seem friendly and
well disposed, but despise highway robbers and
Abolitionists.
Allow me to add, what I may have said in
letters to others, that I would not have any one
come here on my representation, for people
differ in taste in regard to these matters as
well as others ; but if the country is healthy
(and I can see i reason why it can be other
wise) it is the country. We cannot live as well
here, at present, as we could in the East, but
such is the case in all new countries. The re
sources of the country in the way of providing
ab the luxuries of the East, and many more,
are abundant. Fruit can be had in any quan
tity in a short time. All kinds of grain may
be much more easily raised here than iu New
A ork. Stock may be kept here almost without
cost, and would be one of the most money mak
ing branches of business a man could engage
in. Any person with means sufficient to start
any branch of trade could readily get rich here
without doubt, and no one need be idle. There
is a wide field for any enterprise, and all that
is wanted is men and means—men of the right
kind of mettle, who are not frightened at tri
fles.
Col Fremont’s Letter of Acceptance.
New York, June 30, 1856.
Gentlemen: I received with deep sensibility
your communication, informing me that a con
vention ot my fellow citizens,recently assembled
in this city, have nominated me their candi
date for the highest office in the gift of the
A merican people ; and I desire through you to
offer to the members of that body, and to their
constituencies, my grateful acknowledgment
for this distinguished expression of confidence.
In common with all who are interested in the
welfare of the country, I had been strongly
impressed by the generous spirit of concilia
tion which influenced the action of your as
sembly and characterizes your note. A dis
position to avoid all special questions tending
to defeat unanimity in tho great cause, for the
sake of which it was conceded that differences
of opinion on less eventful questions should be
held in abeyance, was evinced alike in the pro
ceedings of your convention in reference to mo,
and in the manner by which you have commu
nicated the result. In this course no sacrifice
of opinion on any side becomes necessary.
I shall in a few days be able to transmit you
a paper, designed for all parties engaged in our
cause, in which I will present to the country
my views of the leading subjects which are
now put iu issue in the contest lor the Presi
dency. My confidence in the success of our
cause is greatly strengthened by the belief that
those views will meet the approbation of your
constituents.
Trusting that the national and patriotic feel
ings evinced by the tender of your co-operation
in the work of regenerating the government,
may increase the glow of enthusiasm which
pervades the country, will harmonize all ele
ments in our truly great and common cause.
I accept the nomination with which you
have honored me, and am, gentlemen, very
respectfully, your fellow citizen.
J. C. FREMONT.
A calamity even more distressing than that
which recently afflicted the Dean of Carlisle,
has occurred in the family of the Rev. Mr.
Cwyther (brother to Lord Milford.) The whole
of his children, a son and four daughters, were
swept away by scarlet fever in less than a
week. The son was heir presumptive to the
extensive estates of Pioton Castle.
ITEMS.
The county court of Greenbrier, Va s
$1 each for the scalps of old foxe an If
cents for young ones. ‘ ull
Kenneth Rayner, of North Carolina dec!’
the nomination for Vice President’an t
support Mr. Fillmore.
Queen Victoria gave a grand ball on the i
alt. for which two thousand invitation
issued. Air. Dallas was present. S W
The longest steamboat in the world •
j Isaac Newton, 404 feet. Her stateroom
both decks accommodate one thousand per <
John Statler, aged 97 years, a soldier of
Revolation, died in Loudon county, Vj r •
last week. ’
The wheat crop in Cherokee has been h
ested. The yield is better than was exi) nil
Corn and oats promise to do well.
A memorial, numerously signed, has i
sent into the Senate asking a retroccessi/
Georgetown, in the District of ColumM.
Maryland. 1
There are twenty-one thousand pianos m
in the United States each year, affordin m
ployment to upwards of three thousand
hundred workmen.
The London Times advises Great Brit’
hurry up a settlement of Central American
fairs before Buchanan is made Pi-mis .
the United States. Uem
The loss by fire in the United States for
last six months is set at $8,782,000— not
eluding any fires by which the loss w „, i
than SIO,OOO. 1
Elder Marshall, from Georgia, more thai
century old was appointed to preach at
Oliver street Baptist Meeting House \
York, on Sunday last.
The editor of tho Alilledgeville Union
shown on the 4th instant, several full Kro ,
bolls of new cotton raised on the plantation
Thomas 11. Parker, of Wilkinson county
Dr. Tyng, who preached the abolition si
mon in Philadelphia, Sunday week, is D u ji
A., and not Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, but as
of that gentleman.
Samuel Warren, M. P.„ author of “T
Thousand a Year,” has been voted a bore
the House of Commons on account of the eb
ical tone of his speecliess.
Rev. Cornelius C. VanArsdale, ofPhiy
phia, was found dead Thursday mornin” u
der circumstances tending to the belief that
had committed suicide.
A bug, resembling the lightning bug, w
about the same size, is committing serious and
predations upon the Irish potato crop in Wi
son county, Tennnessee. They get upon t
potato vines by thousands, and in a little lc
than no time strip them from top to bottom.
The crops in the Western and Southwestei
States are represented by the papers to 1
good. Although backward, healthy, and 100
ing well.
Nelly Scriven, a free colored woman, di.
in Charleston on Sunday last, aged one hui
dred and twenty years. Until two months b
fore her death Nelly was iu full possession
her faculties.
On Saturday the corporation and citizens i
Montreal gave a public reception and banqu
to the 30th regiment of British troops, retun
ed from the Crimea. About twelve hundri
persons sat down at the banquet.
Last week at the Montgomery, Va., Whi
Sulphur Springs, a quantity of wool, not ei
tirely free from oil, was spread on the roof <
the hotel to dry. Under the influence of ti
sun, spontaneous combustion took place, an
the roof took fire.
The Fourth of July was to have been cel
brated at Union Hill Academy, near Gordo
Ga., by an oration from Columbus Hoga
Esq., who resided close by. The day cami
the people assembled, but found instead of
breathing, speaking orator, his silent aud lif<
less corpse.
The Boston Post says it is understood thi
the dress-making business is about to be ii
corporated with coopering. A number <
coopers will be required to hoop the ladies’ pe
icoats ; the model of female elegance being
molasses hogshead.
The steam frigate Alerrimac appears tob
no exception from the fatality attached to tb
machinery of our war steamers. From Ke
West we learn that she has been forced t
abandon her anticipated trip to Europe am
return to Boston for repairs.
Catharine Alberti, a beggar and fortune tel
ler, died in Raleigh, N. C., last week. Onex
amining her effects, $2,600 in gold, silver am
notes was found, together with evidences o
her owning a planntion in Kentucky, anil -I
shares of railroad stock. Around her boil;
was a belt full of gold coin.
A tremendous freshet has recently prevailf l
in the upper Minnesota Valley. Villages wen
drowned out, and considerable property wa
destroyed. The country in the vicinity look
ed like a vast lake. In one night large tracts
wore overflowed to a sufficient depth to float
the largest steamers of the Alississippi.
G. W. Kendall, Esq., writing to the New
Orleans Picayune from New Braunfells, Texas,
June 15, says that the people thereabout aro
greatly excited about the discovery of a skele
ton of a mastodon. Air. Kendall, however,
had not seen the skeleton, or the pit from
which it was being dug, but promises informa
tion respecting it when it comes to light.
The Lexington (Mo.) Citizen, of the 21st
June, publishes a letter from Governor Shan
non, of Kansas, to Col. Buford, dated Junel".
stating that he had resigned his office, and was
about going to Alissouri, and telling Col. B. J
ho had any business with the Executive to ad
dress Col. Woodson, the Secretary of tbo Ter
ritory.
A New York letter says that the Alessrs. 3
G. Wilder & Cos. have manufactured a mam
moth safe for the millionaire Wm. B. Astor
It is destined to contain the vouchers ot at
least fifteen millions of property. The sale i--
lined throughout with hardened steel, amt
weighs about 8,500 pounds. It is 8 feet high
7 feet broad, and is furnished with Lit> u ’
Yale, Jr.’s celebrated magic Bank Lock, tin
most carious and reliable lock apparatus, it
stated, ever invented.
W’e learn from the Florida Peninsular that
two engagements took place with the Tndiam
near Fort Frazier, ou the 14th and 16th u t
Some seventeen Indians were killed. 01 1 e
whites, Lieut. Carlton, Lott Whidden, Roooi
Paine, George Howell and Wm. Parker were
killed, and Daniel Carlton, J. H. Holhng
worth, Jas. Whidden, Wm. P. Brook and Jon
L. Skipper were wounded.
A friend, says the Cincinnati ComnieiO il.
telling how hot it was at the wharf yesterday,
said: “A steamboat was discharging a c s, V
of lead—a uiggir would get a pig on 1113
and before he could get ashore, the leaJ “
melt and run all over him, so that he wo
have to be cut out with a cold chisel.