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COLUMBUS: Monday Morning, July 31, IIM* I.AUt.KST CITY OIHCULATION. Columbus Mechanics’ Union. The last meeting of this Association, on Fri day night, was not bo well attended as we had hoped to see it. Everything however must have a start: and now that this lias been ob tained, and tho future meetings will be more interesting—(organizing is dry work)— we an ticipate larger assemblages and a livelier inter est. A Constitution and By-Laws were adopt ed, being taken up section by section, discus sed, amended, &0., and the meeting then ad journed to Thursday evening next. Splendid Coach. We inspected a few days since anew and magnificent Coach which had just been received from the manufactory of J. S. & E. A. Abbott of Concord, N. 11., and is about to be put on Lee & Pridgen’s line between Silver Uun and Eufaula Ala. It will accommodate comforta bly, nine inside and fiv* outside passengers, and is a model coach, whether for comfort, strength, or elegance. The travel from Silver Hun, the present ter minus of the Mobile & Girard Road, to this city, is rapidly increasing, the trains on that Hoad always bringing in a full supply of pas sengers. When the road shall reach Union Springs, it will pour into our city an amount of trade, travel and produce, which at present can hardly be estimated. Meanwhile, so long as the cars cannot be attained, we recommend the line of coaches alluded to above, as the next best substitute for, and almost equal to, tho cars themselves, in every particular save speed. Hail Hoad DiuMtar* For several days past wo have been publish ing accounts of serious accidents on Railroads at home and abroad, the results of Providen tial causes, negligence, and in some cases, dia bolical villainy—tributes, all of them, which tho steam king levies upon his subjects in this age of progress. On the Georgia Railroad, it is stated, that another attempt has been made to throw off tho trains, by tearing up tho track. Such outrages cannot bo guarded against by mere severity of penalty—burning at tho stake it self, would not deter tho wretches who perpe trato these crimes. Norarowe advocates of bar barous penalties like this. But it soems to us that Railroad companies might diminish their danger in this respect, by sedulously cultivat ing friendly relations with all they have to deol with; by sparing neither pains, time or money to ferret out and bring to trial the monsters they have to contend with ; and to this last end, by establishing a more perfect system of vigilance, embracing as one of its features, a secret police force—ubiquitous and incognito. It is the certainty, not tho se verity of punishmont, which deters from crime. But the present penalty in Georgia should be increased in severity. Putting obstructions on tho track, whether they cause accident or not, should boa capital, instead of penitentia ry, offence. The Pennsylvania aecident, by which so many children were killed, wounded, and twenty four burned to a crisp, before thoy were rescued, surpassesaoything wo havo ever read, in the annals of railroading. There must have been gross carelessness to have brought aboutso frightful a catastropho. Glad ly do we turn from tho scene, and drop the veil upon the many hearthstones lmppy and bright, in the morning, to be changed in a few brief hours into altars of mourning. “ The air is full of farewells for tho dying, And mournings for tlio dead; The heart of Kachcl, for her children crying Will not bo comforted ! w Ihe Hon. Howell Cobb, of Georgia, and Sain’l W. Black, of Pennsylvania, were to have addressed the great democrtic mass meeting at ludianapolis, on the 18th inst. The most dis tinguished speakers in tho Union have been in vited and arc oxpected. It is supposed that there will be from 30,000 to 50,000 persons present. It will bo tho largest gathering of the people ever witnessed in the West. The Latest Guillotine. On Friday night last, one of the Telegraph posts in Oglethorpe street fell to the ground, thus lowering tho wire so that at tho second crossing below tho Perry House, it was just high enough to tako a tall pedestrian under the chin; over the carriage way its height was about such ns to strike a rider on horse back or driver ot a vehicle, near the same tender spot. Some gentlemen who wore crossing the street, no ticed this new guillotined, or garrote if you will, and after some deliberation concluded to sever the wire and remove the obstacle and tho danger. This was dono after a good deni ot hard work, nud t’■ e wire was then drawn taut and secured around tho nearest posts. It was something of a liberty to take, but our citizens, and the Telegraph Company should tell obliged at it. It is not impossible that a human life was saved by the act. Wo remem ber to have read of a man somewhere North, having his throat cut while driving rapidly one night under a fallen wire. What our Enemies are Doing. Gcrrit Smith has contributed, at various times, to the Free Soil cause iu Kansas, about $?40,000. The Charleston Mercury comments thereou as follows .- This is the tribute of o:.c man’s mere hos tility to the spread of Southern institutions. We wish we could point to a Southern man who, recognizing Kr. is ns the battle-ground of the South—as the plnce where, of all others, we are to determine whether we will hold our position by power or henceforth exist by the mercy of our enemies—we wish we could name a Southern man who bad given as much tor the cafety of his section as this fanatic for the triumph of his, Georgia and Florida Railroad. The entire gradation of this Road, together f lee and cross-ties, was placed board measure— Alabany Patriot \lth. ‘ COMMENCEMENT DAY, AT THE LAGRANGE FEMALE COLLEGE. From the last LaGrange Reporter, we take the following account of Commencement Day, at the Female College in that city : Wednesday, Commencement Day. We can not speak in terms too commendatory of this day’s scenes and performances. At an early hour a vast concourse of people were assem bled at the Chapel, by far the largest we have ever witnessed on a similar occasion, various ly estimated at from fifteen hundred to two thousand persons, gathered from 8. Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Texas, Louis iana and Georgia. The exercises were opened by an appropri ate prayer by the Rev. Otis Smith. The Salutatory by Miss Laura E. Cameron, was a very excellent composition, and wo may say we have never heard it surpassed. Miss Melissa A. Appleby, of Alabama, read a very interesting composition on “ Kansas.” Miss Martha F. Blackbun, of LaGrange, de monstrated most graphically that “The world is still deceived by ornament.” Miss Laura E. Cameron’s “Appeal in behalf of Mount Vernon” was gotten up iu handsome style, and read beautifully. Miss Martha C. Carter, of Meriwether coun ty, exhibited in the most beautiful and spirit ed manner the emptiness of self-gratulation, and exhorted all who might feel self-exalted to study Burns in that beautiful couplet, “O, wild some pow’er tho giftie gie iih To see ourwelves as others wee us !’* One of the very best addresses of the day, Miss Elizabeth W. Cunningham, of LaGrange, most eloquently and touchingly dwelt on the divine mandate, “ Thus far, and no farther shalt thou go.” Miss Sarah Craig, drinking in the inspira tion of her theme, her native State, “Ala bama,” demonstrated that, while her mind was of no ordinary mould, her soul was proportion ally capacions. Miss Elizabeth A. DeLoacb, of Texas, need not feel embarrassed, that being overpowered with the associations of “My Native Western /toine,” she was compelled to resign the task of reading to the President; for tho whole houso was electrified with the pathos and sen timent that filled every paragraph of her es say. Miss Louise D. Ellis, of Meriwether, read one of the ablest and most chaste productions to which it has been our good fortune to listen, on the subject— “ Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime.” Miss Martha J. Edwards, of Coweta county, showed most conclusively, by facts and argu ments, that— “ Sweet words arc the pearls of life.” Miss Anna M. Haynes, of Atlanta, caused many a heart to take up and swell the chorus, Eureka! Eureka!! Eureka!!! as she dis canted so eloquently on the “ Rewards of Ge nius.” Miss Susan E. Harrail, of Alabama, gave many a brainless professionist a merited chas tisement as with severest sarcasm she touched on “Quacks.” Miss Nancy C. Hill, of LaGrange, carried our minds back and caused us to dwell in transport on the past as the reader dwelt with unaffected emotion on her subject, “Sweet is tho memory of departed worth.” Miss Harriet N. Lipscomb, of LaGrange, touched many a Christian heart and kindled the fires of rapture on tho soul’s most sacred altar as she portrayed in livid colors “ The Land of tho Blest.” Miss Anna A. Meadows, of Atlanta, well de serves one of the young Brookses (if there be one) for tho spirited and beautiful defence which she made of tho distinguished represen tative from the Palmetto State. Her subject was, “Did he do right?” Miss Martha P. McKamie, of LaGrange, read a beautiful and ably written essay on the subject, ‘-God In Nature.” Miss RebeccaO. Powell, of Ilayneville, Ala., described in graphic strains tho great works of our Ancestors. Miss Mary A. Powell, of Hayneville, Ala., carried us into elysian fields, painting every tlower and shrub with roseate hues as she am plified her theme, “Poets and Poetry.” Miss ludianna Pitts, of Newton. Ga., made us feel that surely ours is a goodly land, a glorious birthright, as she painted in glowiug pictures the beauties and excellences of “Geor gia.” Miss Sophia L. Saunders, of Cahawba, Ala., will not soon be forgotten by our citizens for the delicate, chaste, eloquent composition which she read on “The Infant City, La- Grange.” We acknowledge the justice of eve ry rebuke, and glory in the sentiment of the reader in the closing sentence—“with all thy faults 1 love thee still.” Miss Mary C. Tyler, of Columbus, Ga., “Pm pleased and yet I’m sad,” was most delicate ly and sweetly handled. Wo imagined our selves iu the bridal hall the day after a fu neral. Miss Fannie C. Tennison, of Macon, Ala.— The subjeot, “ Truly man mistakes the end of his being,” was discussed with a strength of argument and clearness of illustration that commended it to attention. Miss Philogenia Ware, of LaGrange, prom ised to be another ardent admirer and able de fender of our noble State, “Georgia.” Her composition was well written and elicited much attention and applause, as did nearly all that were read on the occasion. Valedictories to tho citizens of LaGrange, Under Graduates, Faculty and President and class were then pronounced in a style and with a pathos that we have not known surpassed, by Misses Harrail, llavues, Hill and Cunning ham. Address of Prof. Luther M. Smith, of Emo ry College, commenced, and after continuing for nearly an hour, at his request it was con cluded tho next day— at tho close of which the degrees were awarded to the graduates. Thursday the anniversary of the Alum® So ciety took place, and was addressed in the ab sence of Hon. J. Glancy Jones, by Prof. L, M. Smith, of Emory College—when ho conclu- I ded tho address which he commenced on the ! previous day. Our town was very much crowded during ! the week ; and a great many were disappoint ed in not seeing Mr. Jones, of Pennsylvania, who was expected to he present but was pre vented from being with us for reasons assign ed in a communication which will be found on our first page. However, this occasion will be long remembered by all those who were I present. Gift for the Prince Imperial. A letter from Rome to a Brussels paper j says: Among tho presents taken by Cardinal Patrizzi to the imperial family of France, there is oue that deserves especial mention. It is a large emerald, hut is formed of two parts fitted to one another, aud it encloses a straw from the manger of Bethlehem. The Prince Imperial is to wear this relic around his nepk. The straw has been blessed by Pope Pius IX. It is very rare to find ground which pro duces nothing; if it is not covered with tiowers, with fruit trees and grains, it produces briars and pine. It is the same with man ; if he is not virtuous, he becomes vicious. Broke Jail. The well known burglar, Johnson, who broke jail some six months since, and was recaptur ed at Selma aud confined in his old quarters, broke out again on Wednesday night, and es | caped with a comrade named Bibb. Johnson is remarkable for his ingenuity and 1 resources, and has boasted that no prison iu 1 the United States could contain him longer than it suited his convenience. When recap tured ho asked the jailor to put him in his i strongest cell, as his propensity for wandering was excessive, and he did not wish to compro j inise any innocent persons. He was accord -1 ingly put in a strong iron cage and fettered. It is apparent now that he did not remain long i in that position, but in a few days freed him- J self of the said ornaments, and with a piece of 1 iron wire which he obtained from the bale of a | bucket, contrived to pick the five locks of the cage, and commence operations on the wall.— This wall, consisting of about a foot of solid I timber and about the same thickness of brick j work outside, he succeeded in piercing, and during the storm on Wednesday night descend ed into the yard by a rope twisted from strips of his mattress, and from thence (with his comrade) picked the lock of the outside gate. The said Johnson is somewhat remarkable for his cool impudence, as well as skill, and when ho escaped before, left some letters for the county officers which attracted some atten tion. On this occasion he addressed them, leaving letters for the Sheriff, Jailor, and oth ers. iu which he expressed his regret for his unceremonious departure; stating, in fact, that he fully appreciated the courtesies and hospi talities of the officials of Montgomery county, but as the musquitoes were getting somewhat troublesome, and as his liver indicated some disturbance in that important organ from the beat of the weather, and as the season had arrived for Southern gentlemen to change their air, a duo regard for his health impelled him to make a visit to the Spriugs, and that the necessity of his condition compelled him to depart hastily, and to his regret without tak ing the formal leave customary in good socie ty, &c. Every caro and precaution have been used by the jailor to keep this man safe, but all without avail, and it would seem doubtful if ho could be kept anywhere.— Mont. Journal, 18 th. Sad Accident. As the steamer Selma was nearing the wharf on Tuesday night a female fell off the bluff be tween the Ice House and tho old Post office building. The height of the bluff at the point where she fell must be sixty or seventy feet. After the fall she raised herself on her feet again but appeared to be badly hurt and no doubt death will ensue. We did not learn her name.— Selma (Ala.) Sentinel. The Enlistment Difficulty. By the Canadian we have the following sketch of a debate in the British Parliament: Mr. Moore moved in the House of Commons that the conduct of the Government on the en listment question had not entitled them to the approbation of the House. Several members appealed to Mr. Moore to postpone the motion, but he refused, and the debate proceeded. The Attorney General defended the Govern ment andsaid that the United States dispatch es were not such as might have been expected from a nation anxious to preserve friendly re lations with England. Sir N. Thesiger said that the British agents had violated equally the laws of the U. States and of nations. Mr. Bailie declared that England was dis honored by her attempts to seduce citizens of the United States from their allegiance. Mr. Jas. Walsh said that the Government had confessed, by not dismissing Mr. Dallas, that they had done wrong. Mr. Gilson said that Lord Clarendon’s con duct was insulting towards the U. S. Govern ment, and the American people should under stand that the British people did not support these Ministers therein. Mr. Gladstone contended that the most blameable feature was the concealment observ ed towards the American Government, for which Lord Clarendon and Mr. Crampton were equal ly to blame. Other members also spoke in a similar strain; and Sir George Grap, Mr. Pkillmore, the Soli citor General aud others defended the Govern ment. The debate lasted for two days when the House was divided on the motion for cen sure and the Government was sustained by a majority of 194. - Remarkable Fountain in Florida. Taking a narrow path, I crossed through some dense underwood, and all at once I stood on the Banks of the Wakulla Spring. There was a basin of water one hundred yards in di ameter, almost circular. The thick bushes were almost growing to the water’s edge, and bowing their heads under the unrippled sur face. I stepped into a skiff and pushed off.— Some immense fishes attracted my attention, and I seized a spear to strike them. The boatman laughed, and asked me how far below the surface I supposed they were ? I answered about four feet, He assured me that they were at least twenty from me, and it was so.— The water is of the most marvelous trans parence. I dropped an ordinary pin in the wa ter, forty feet deep, and saw its head with per fect distinctnesss, as it lay on the bottom. As we approached the center, 1 noticed a jagged grayish limestone rock beneath us, pierced with holes—through these holes one seemed to look int* unfathomable dephs. The boat moved slowly on, and now we hung trembling over the edge of tho sunken cliff - ; and far below it lay a dark, yawning, unfathomable abyss. From its gorge comes pouring forth, with immense velocity, a living river. Pushing on just beyond its mouth, I dropped a ton cent piece into the water, which is there oue hundred and ninety feet iu depth, and I clearly saw it shining on tho bottom. This seems incredible. I think the water possessed u magnifying power. lam confident that the piece could not be seen from a tower one hun dred and ninety feet high. We rowed on to ward the north side, and suddenly we perceived in the water the fish which were darting hither and thither, the long tloxiblo roots, and the wide luxuriant grasses on the bottom, all ar rayed in the most beautiful prismatic hues.— The gentle swell occasioned by the boat gnve i to the whole an undulating motion. Death-like j stillness reigned around and a more fairy scene I never beheld. So great is the quantity of water here pour- j cd forth, that it forms a river of itself, large I enough to float flatboats with cotton. The plan- j ter who lives hero has thus transported his cot- i ton to St. Marks. Near the fountain we saw some of the remains of a mastodon which had been taken from it. The triangular bone below the knee measured six inches on one side. Al most the entire skeleton has been sent to Bar num’s Museum. The Indian name of the fountain is beauti fully significant. Wakulla means “ The Mys tery. It said that the Spanisu discoverers sprang into it with almost frantic joy suppos ing they hnd discovered the long soughs “Fons Juvontutis, or fountain of youth, which should rejuvenate them after their exhausting marches and battles.— Ballou's Pictorial. TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS. Frightful Railroad Accident. New York, July 18.—A collision occurred on the North Pennsylvania Railroad to-day near Fort Washington, with an excursion train filled with the children belonging to St. Mich ael’s (Catholic) Church, in Philadelphia. The locomotive exploded, setting tire to the cars. There were eight hundred on the train, of whom fifty were killed, including Father Sher idan, of Michael’s Church. Seventy were se riously wounded. Seventeen were burnt to a crisp in one car aud seven in another. Six cars were totally demolished. The scene is awful and beggars description. Accident on the Central Railroad. Macon, July 16.—A serious accident occur red on the Central Railroad to-day, iu conse quence of the washing away of a culvert near station 13 J. The down night passenger train, drawn by the engine McAlpin, ran into the | breach, shivering the box, killing the 2d Fire man, and severely probably fatally injuring she other Fireman, and the runner, Mr. Hall. None of the passengers were injured. From jj|W ashington. July 17.—The Senate to-day confirmed all Naval nominations, consequent upon the ac tion of tho late retiring Board, by a vote of four to one. General Gadsden, our Minister to Mexico has been recalled, and Mr. Forsyth, of Mobile, will be nominated to-morrow to the Senate as his successor. The U. S. Treasurer issued to-day warrants for $200,000, the damages awarded to Messrs. Glover and Mather for the breach by the Uni ted States of their contract to carry the mail between Louisville aud New Orleans. Mr. Herbert’s trial is progressing, and great interest is felt in the result. ’The Boston. Boston, July 17.—The Niagara has reach ed this port, and we learn from our London files that the English Funds closed on the 4th instant, at a decline of in consequence of a hsavy draft for gold having been made on the Bank of England, for the purchase silver for Australia. Railroad Iron Ashore. Savannah, July 17.—The ship Amelia, Captain McKenzie, owned by Captain James Welsman, of Charleston, from Cardiff, with railroad iron for Savannah, went ashore on Monday night near Tybee, and will probably be lost. The U. S. Revenue cutter is along side of her. Fatal Steam Boat Diaster. Buffalo, July 17. —The Steamer Northern Indiana, for Toledo, was consumed by fire this morning and fifteen or twenty passengers are missing. Fossil Monster. Mr. Kendall, writing from Texas to his pa per, the Picayune, thus speaks of an immense fossil animal of anew species, found in his neighborhood: The great local excitement or attraction here just now is the fact, that within the cor porate limits of New Braunfels, within close pistol shot of our worthy mayor or burgomas ter, the bones or remains of an immense mam moth or mastodon have been discovered. I have not yet visited the spot, or big hole in the ground where the digging is going on, but am told that the specimens so far dug up promise a sizable skeleton when all are put together— say thirty odd feet long by some twenty odd in height. Barnum might make anew start in the world were lie now here to take advantage of this wonderful bringing to light of an un doubted curiosity. Tho discovery was first made by some German well diggers, who fell upon a huge shoulder bone while prospecting under ground for water. I will give more full particulars when they excavate deep enough to bring the ‘entire critter’ out so that we Can all see him, she, or it. If there ever was a spot upon earth where huge animal could find a good range, it is right here where the watersof the beautiful Guadalupe take in those of the more beautiful Comal. Dissolution of the Union. There are now in circulation in all the North ern States petitions for the dissolution of the Union, having been sent out by the agents of the American Anti-Slavery Society, with the requestthatthey be signed and sentto Mr. Hale, Mr. Wilson, Mr. Wade, Mr. Seward or Mr. Fessenden, for presentation to the Senate, or to Messrs. Giddings, Burlingame or Comins, for presentation to the House. It is charged and not denied that prominent Republicans in New York have signed these petitions. The citizens of New Market, Va., on the night of the 4th instant, burned in effigy George Rye, of Woodstock, for attending the Philadelphia Republican Convention- The bill for the relief of the heirs of Gen. Ar thur St. Clair of the Revolutionary Army, has passed the Senate. The heirs by this bill will get $30,000. Why Not Successful- The young mechanic or clerk marries and takes a house which he proceeds to furnish twice as expensivly as he can afford; then his wife instead of taking hold to help him to earn livelihood by doing her own work, must have a hired servent to help spend his limited earn ings. Ten years afterwards, you will find him struggling under a double load of debts and children wondering why the luck was always ngainsthim while hisfriends regaded his unhap py destiuion of financial ability. Had they from the first been frank and honest, he need not have been so unlucky. The world is full of people who can’t imagine why they don’t pros per like their neighbors, when the real obstacle is not in banks, tariffs, in bad public policy nor hard times, but in their own extravagance and heedless ostentation. Equestrian Statue of Washington. Mr. Crawford’s grand and spirited equestrian statue of Washington, for Virginia, is entirely finished. The greatest interest has been taken here in the casting of this colossal work, and the foundry was visited by the King and Queen of Bavaria, and the Empress of Austria. Af ter the visit, the King sent to the hotel request ing Mr. Crawford to come to the palace. Dur ing the audience, his Majesty said that he could not allow the artist to leave Munich without expressing to him personally the great pleas ure he had in seeing the statue, and his hope that it would arrive safely at its destination.— Mr. Crawford is closing his arrangements for forwarding the statue, and will leave in a day or two for Paris, en route for America. —Mu- nich letter 12th ult. Soliloquy. “1 wish I was a ghost, blam’d if I don’t.— They goes wherever they please, toll free; they don’t owe nobody nothing, and that’s a comfort. Who ever heard tell of a man who had a bill against a ghost? Nobody. They never buy hats aud wittles, nor licker, nor has to saw wood, and run arrents as I do. Their shirts never have to be washed, nor the trows ers don’t get out at the knees, as I ever hearu tell on. Ghosts is the only independence peo ple I knows on ; I really wish I was one, blest if I don’t. GENERaI, items. - Rev. Theophilus Fisk, recentlv . I Church of Reconciliation in Uti P ° f ‘*• called to the editorial chair of theD.il t, hee l sylvanian, Pennsylvania. a 1 fcUl j* Nathaniel I>. Baker, of Conwav iu member of the Bangor Theological^™?"*'’ l 1 hung himself on the 15th instant ~ Darj ES’BSKF’ ‘•‘i.Stlil The haying season in Vermont l, rnenced about three weeks earlier than C ° ai ’ I and promises a crop one third larger of two or three years past. b On the 2d instant, four young l a j ie „ , fll the white or novice veil of the Sisters of rt°S rity of the B. V. M., at St. Joseph's ten miles from Dubuque. On the same'?® six novices made their religious r. ? Ua ® and took the black veil-the final act pation from the world. 1 I At the Crystal Palace in London, whptl „11 fountains aro in full operation, they hav, n ■ 788 jets playing, and the quantity 0 f J ’■ displayed simultaneously in them u , lV ■ 120,000 gallons per minute. abcu ß Visitors to Paris are struck with the ,i; m - 11 utive stature of the French armv A .n “I offi.e to ten feet is a rarity. Th.p.S'J I ranee seem to be growing like a cow’s downwards. Napoleon ought to issue a deer ■ and have this stopped. All the animals exhibited at the late imj Agricultural show at Paris, were afterward* sold at auction. Bulls at from 800 to 8 GGifl francs, cows from 700 to 8,000 francs moll! lambs at from 1200 to 3000 francs, and’ m .. * swine at from 400 to 1800 francs. A few days ago an affray occured at Vicks I burg, Miss., iu which Wm. B. Blodgett was! stabbed and killed by James Morris. Tj J latter fired, was pursued, and shot, receivirj a mortal wound. °l Amos A. Lawrence, Esq., of Boston, noin-l mated on the Fremont electoral ticket of Mas-1 sachusetts, has declined and will support Fill'l more. T. Buchanan Read, the poet and painter I was married Tuesday evening, in Brooklyn | N. Y., to Miss Hattie Denison, daughter of thi*| late Edward Butler, of Northampton, Masa-I chusetts. Miss Morris, of Third Avenue, New York I retired to bed on Monday night, taking a book 1 with her to read, but fell to sleep, without ex I tinguishing the light. By some means the I bedclothes took fire, and she is so badly burnt I that she is not expected to recover. The Pensacola Gazette learns, from a relia-1 ble source, that the Montgomery and Pensa-1 cola Rail lload company proposes to build the I entire length of the Pensacola and Georgia I Road to the Chattahoochee for five hundred I thousand dollars, with the portion of the In-1 ternal Improvement Fund to which the road is I entitled, and the lands lately granted to the I road by Congress. Lieut. A. J. Gwin, of the U. S. revenue I service, and nephew of ex-Senator Gwin, of I California, recently mysteriously disappeared I at Vera Cruz, where he was on a visit. It is I feared he has been murdered. The London Post of Jun® 18th, observes; It I is a remarkable feature in the history of emi- I gration that has taken place of late years from I the United Kingdom, that by far the greater I portion of our countrymen have given the preference not to our own colonies, but to the United States. Col. Bob Wilson, known in Texas as “hon est Bab Wilson,” died on the 25th ult. He was identified with the early struggles of that State for independence. He formerly repre sented it in the U. S. Senate from which body he was expelled for rash words used in debate, but afterwards returned by his constituents. Mrs- Lucy Smith, the mother of the late Joe Smith, the Mormon prophet, died at Nau voo recently. The annual cost of a first rate London Dai ly is estimated by the North British Review at about one hundred aud twenty thousand dol lars, say $375 per diem. About eighteen thousand dollars is paid to editors per annum, besides a host of correspondents, sixteen par liamentary reporters, and fifteen or twenty other reporters. There are- about three hun dred persons employed in the London Times, in one way and another. About ninety Mormons, driven out from Beaver Island, arrived at Chicago last Wed nesday week in a state of destitution. Others were landed at Milwaukie and Racine. They were compelled to leave their property behind them. Notices have been given of intended appli cations to tho legislature of Pennsylvania for new bank charters, together representing a capital of $18,800,000, or a sum nearly equal to the whole of the present banking capital of the State. The New Nork Bank statement shows an in crease of loans of $480,400, and a decrease iu specie of $2,035,827, which was about what was expected. A statue of Washington has been made from sheet copper by a coppersmith of New lork city with a hammer. Moses Cawood, an old respectable citizen ol Washington county, Va., shot himself with a rifle, on the 2d instant, causing death in about three hours. In a recent case iu New York, brought by George Austin vs. the New York and Erie Railroad Company, for demanding extra pas sage money because he did not obtain his tick et at the passenger ticket office—it was de cided, that rail road companies have no au thority to authorize conductors to charge and collect any extra amount from passengers, who may fail to obtain tickets before the de parture of the cars. The Cincinnati papers record the death ot Prof. John Locke, to whom the scientific world is indebted for tho magnetic clock, for making astronomical observations. Eight hundred English Mormons, including women and children, passed through Chicago, on Monday, en route for Salt Lake. They took tho Chicago and Rock Island Railroad to the river, and go thence by the Mississippi and Missouri road to lowa city. They, with their baggnge, occupied twenty-three cars At lowa city they will purchase wagons, teams, provisions, &c., for the overland journey to the Lake. A tabular statement of the deliveries of gold from California for the year ending June 30th, shows a total of $41,979,104, which is only about $55,000 in excess of the previous year, while it falls short some five millions of dol lars of the years 1853-54. ‘I see,’ said a young lady, ‘that some book sellers advertise blank declarations for sale. I wish I could get one.’ ‘ ‘Why? ’ asked the mother, ‘because, ms, Mr. Murphy is too mod est to ask me to marry him ! and perhaps ii could fill a blank declaration with the ques tion, ho would sign it.”