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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. -♦ 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.