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OODTXMBTJS: Tnc(U}’ Morulngt July aa, 1856. LAIIOISST CITY CIRCUJL.ATION. Railroad Bridge Burnt. On Tuesday evening, 16th inst., the Bridge over the Chichasahn river, neur Quitman, Mis sissippi, on the Mobile and Ohio ltnilroad was burned by incendiaries. It was tired at both abutments, and fell into the river. . Trial of Engines in Mobile. 1„ u contest between two lire companies in Mobile last Friday—the Torrent No. 6, and Phoenix No. o—for a silver trumpet valued at SIOO, the formertook the prize. Each engine played through an inch nozzle —No. 6 throw ing 188 feet one inch; while No. ti only made i 174 feet 10 inches. ♦ From the Cleveland Herald, July S. The Diver and the Treasurer—True Histo ry of the liaising of the bale of the At lantic. Our readers were several days since highly amused by the fanciful relation of the Detroit Advertiser of the raising of the safe of the steamer At’antic, sunk in Lake Erie, Au gust HO, 1852. This morning wo were favored with an interview with E. I*. Harrington, of Westfield, New York, the successful rescuer of the Base, and give the items of the occurrence, which, if it be devoid of wonderful meetings with ‘•beautiful ladies and children,” is never theless very interesting and true. Mr. Har rington lias had three years’ experience ns a diver, and during the past winter lias been en gaged on the Mississippi in his business. As sociated with him in this undertaking were Martin Quingley and Charles 0. Gardner, of Chatuuque, New York, and William Newton, of Detroit. They proceeded in the schooner Fletcher to the locality of tho schooner Atlan tic, which lies about three miles from the ex treme point of Long Point. They arrived there ou the 18th of June, and that day was used in preparations. On the 19th, Mr. Harrington encased in Wells & Gowen’s submarine armor, made his first descent. This armor is made of two layers of canvass, and one of India rubber, the rubber occupying tho middle. It is loose and flexible, and of course resists no pressure. From in front of the mouth proceeds a tube composed of nine alternate layers of canvass and rub ber, with a copper wire coiled inside to pre vent coliapso. This is inflexible too, and being as long as the depth to which the diver goes, and the upper end being in the open air, se cures proper respiration. The npperture is three eights of an inch in diameter. A wreck line had previ6usly been dropped and rested ugainst the side of tho steamer. Dressed as above described, with leaden shoes, and with leaden weights attached to his body, amounting in all to 284 lbs., with a rope around his waist, by which he could be raised to the surface, and a check, or signal line in his hand, the adventurous diver com menced his first descent. Ho was governed by the wreck-line and struck tho promenade deck about forty feet aft of tho state-room where the Express Company s safe was, which was in tho third state-room aft tho wheelhouse ou the on the larboard side. Ho remained on deck but one minute. After descending from 50 to 70 feot, depending upon the clearness of the air above, nil is dark to tho diver, and he is governed entirely by feeling. The romantic sights recorded by the Advertiser, aie there fore without foundation. The greatest caution as to entangling lines must bo used, and Mr. Harrington went each time outside of the stanchions, moving as ho advanced, his wreck line, so that with each dive he advanced nearer the state-room. Tho second dive he was thrie minutes upon deck; the third four; the fourth seven. Ou the twentieth he made four dives, and the time on deck was respectively four minutes, 7 do., 3 do., and the next or eighth, six, at which time he reached the state-room. Previous to this he had all the time been groping about, and twice was on the hurriean ueck, and once near tho main deck. Tho twenty first he made se ven descents, time respectively, 4,6, 5,3, G and 8 minutes, and during which he was busy in breaking the room window, and breaking down the work on the side and below it, and succeeded at last in getting a line fast to the r.ng in the lid of the safe, but finding tho ap erture he had made too small to allow the pas sage of the safe, ascended to wait till the com ing day. On tho twenty-second the sixteenth dive, being the first that day, he was on deck seven minutes, during which time he sawed through the casing and panel work, and tried to break it off with his hand, but could not. The se venteenth he was on dock nino minutes, in which he fastened a line to the wood-work, and by it the men above pulled it off. The eighteenth nnd last uscent lie was ou dock ele ven minutes, and during it ho succeeded in fastening a line to the ring of the safe, and helping it out of the aperture, it was raised to the deck of the schooner. The perilous work was done, and tlio adventurous men, upon opening tho safe, or rather iron chest, 28 by 18, by 17 inches in size, found themselves the possessors of about $5,000 iu gold, and $31,- 000 in bills, a small portion of which wero unless from the notion of water and insolven cy of batiks, and watches, two of which were valuable gold ones. Tho chest contained pa pers for which the American Express Company paid a handsome salvage. Tho Alantio lies careened, her Inboard side being 185 feet, and the water on her starboard IGO leet deep. Tho safe was about 157 feet from the surface. Upon her deck Mr. llar liugton found a light sediment of three or four inches depth. 11 o could, as we have said above, see nothing, and encountered nothing but the wood-work, cliaius, glass and tho chest. The water was very chilly, nnd Mr. ll.’s hands were so numb that he could not by mere feeling distinguish glass from wood. It was oulv by the former’s breaking that he knew its ma terial. He thinks that his strength below was not more than one-tenth that he has when in open air. He suffered but little from pres sure, except two or three times, when such was the rush of blood to the head, that, ns he says, he saw “bright Hashes in his helmet, like electric sparks.” We have been thus accurate, from justice to Mr. H., who lias thus accomplished a feat nev er before, wo believe, successful. He is a candid, fair-spoken man, and is not n little mortified that any ouo should have so misre presented the matter to the editors of the De troit Advertiser. In the Senate, the other day, at four o’clock, Mr. Toombs got the floor to make a speech on tho action of tho Naval Retiring Board. The Senators being hungry, showed symptoms of disgust, and attempted to stave off Mr. Tootubs. lie took it like a philosopher, and spoke till nn f p ,st, say ing that he did not ear* for the k euators, but he hoped the reporters would eep their seats, as the speech was intended lor the country more than the Senate. This is a piece of goou sense on tho part of a mem ber of our highest legislative body, tho more refreshing because it is exceedingly rare. TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS. From Washington. Jui.v IG.—The Pennsylvania delegation arc preparing a call for a Lnion Convention ot Republicans, Americans and all other ele ments opposed to the Administration s policy and the Cincinnati platform, to meet at Ilar risbuag on the second Wednesday, lor the pur pose ot forming an electoral ticket which shall represent these interests fairly, and concen trate all efforts in otic practical direction. This movement finds favor generally, and inspires a confident hope of ultimate success. The recommendation is already signed by most of the experienced members. The Committee on Waytcs and Moans are waiting for statistical information before pre paring the report relating to the proposed ex tent of the free list. The necessary facts cannot be obtained at the Treasury. New York has furnished her quota, and returns from Philadelphia are daily expected. The present inclination is to admit wool not exceeding fifty cents, and not below fifteen or sixteen cents per pound, free, and to reserve the existing duty on qualities we produce be tween the limitations. These figures are not fixed, and can only yet be regarded as approx imations until all the required knowledge is produced. The Congressional Democratic Caucus, call ed by the Natiaiiul Committee, assembled in the Senate Chamber this evening, Mr. Hright in the Chair. ’The meeting was merely for the purpose of free interchange of opinion con cerning the Presidential election, and compar ing notes relative to the prospects which those present considered to be decidedly favorable to success. Washington, July 17.—1n Congress, to-day, nothing of importance was transacted. The Senate confirmed the whole list of appoint ments in the place of those suspeuded by the Naval Board. July 17.—Mr. Herbert’s trial is progress ing, and great interest is felt in the result. July 17.—General Gadsden, our Minister to Mexico, has been recalled, and Mr. Forsyth, of M obi Jo, will bo nominated to-morrow to the Senate as his successor. July 18.—No business of importance was transacted by the Senate to-day. In the House resolutions were passed that neither Allen nor Archer is entitled to a seat, and that a vacancy therefore exists in the sev enth Congressional District of Illinois. John Forsyth and Walter Fcarn, both from Alabama, wero nominated Minister and Secre tary of the Legation to Mexico. The Herbert trial has been postponed on ae couut of the illness of a juror. The petition for the admission of Utah into the Union will not be presented to Congress this session. The Pennsylvania Railroad Accident. Philadelphia, July 18. — The Philadelphia conductor of the down train committed suicide by taking arsenic, in consequence of the late collision. The engineer has been arrested, and committed for trial. Further from Boston. July. —Williams, the escaped slave from Mobile, as brought before Judge Metcalf of the Supreme Court at 3 o’clock on a writ of habeas corpus that had been issued, and no one appearing as a claimant against him, he was told to go free. An outbust of applause greeted this order, which the officers and Court in vain tried to check. In the mean time the colored man was seized by his friends and hurried out of the Court room. He was taken to the house of a colored citizen and thence put on board the first train of cars for Canada. Capt. Pillsbury of the bark Growler, from whose vessel Williams was taken, did not ap pear in Court. The affair caused great ex citement. Another Caining Affair. New York, July 10.—At the Metopolitan Hotel to day, Bashford W. Vicks, of South Carolina, beat with a cane Jacob Stanford, of Massachusetts, for saying that the attack on Mr. Sumner was a brutal and cowardly act. The parties were separated, and Vicks ar rested. Corvention of Old Line Whigs. Richmond, Va., July 10.—A State Conven tion of Old Line Whigs met at Metrapoliton Hall in this city at 10 o’clock this morning* and temporarily organized by calling Win. H. McFarland of Richmond to the chair. R. 0. ltidgway of the Richmond Whig and W. S. Peters of Lynchburg were the Secretaries. Forty-one counties and four cities were repre sented by 131 delegates. A resolution offered by Mr. Harper of Au gusta, that the Convention was composed of Whigs, acknowledging no other political ties or affinities, was referred to the Committee on Permanent organization. Several speeches were made, among them one by Mr. McFarland, and another by Alex ander Rives, brother of the Hon. W. 0. Rives, who spoke strongly in behalf of Mr. Fillmore, and declared that the Democratic party was not National, but had been scctionalized by the Cincinnati Convention ; that its platform was a filibustering one ; that the Whig party was the only true National party, and that after the Presidential electiou the “American” party would find it necessary to fall back into the traces of the National Whigs. The Convention then adjourned till 5 P. M. Ji'ly 18.—The Whig Convention last night passed resolutions denouncing the Republicans and their candidates; disapproving of the course of the administration in disturbing the Missouri Compromise for party purposes ; also denounced the Democracy and Buchanan, sus taining the Compromise of 1850, and consid ers Fillmore the most suitable person for l’re stdont at the present crisis, but disclaims adopting the principles of the pat ty nominating him, and concludes by calling nil the States to join in a National Convention at Baltimore, on the third Wednesday in September, and then with great enthusiasm adjourned. Judge Ormond, of Alabama. Wo see by the Tuscnloosa Monitor, that at a meeting addressed by Mr. Yancey in Tusca loosa last Wednesday, Judge Ormond, an old line Whig, arose after Mr. Yancey had con cluded. nud declared himself for Buchanan. The Monitor says of Judgo Ormond: Be has been a veteran Whig, and it was a matter of astonishment to many thnt he could desert Fillmore whom he once so cordially supported. We, ourself, had been surprised at it, but we no longer felt so when we heard the Judge brondly announce that he believed that Millard Fillmoro himself would soon de cline the races on 1 come out in favor of Bu chanan ! We could no longer be surprised that one whose powers of reasoning could achieve this brilliant logical prediction, should give his support to Buchanan. The gist of the Judge’s argument was “sectional issues,” “ South in danger,” “ Buchanan the only safety,” “ Fillmore not available,” &c., &c. The Lowell Courier states that the deposits at the Five Cents Savings Bunk in the. :ity, on Saturday, roached $207,000. Niue thou sand dollars were deposited Saturday after noon. The smallest sum deposited yets five cts. The lnrgest, one thousand dollar's. Power of Conscience. Our readers will generally remember the case of Sydney V. Howard, the interesting and pious young gentleman who so ingratiated himself with some of our best citizens ; that lie secured a position intheSiateliank, where by be was enabled to steal fourteen hundred dollars. He was hunted with a good deal of energy and perseverance for some months, but be managed to elude all efforts to capture him. iu the apprehension that he was being pursued, he traveled over nearly the whole country, sometimes, lie says, in the very cars with those hunting for him, and after nearly two years of this unhappy life, went to St. Paul, Minnesota. Worn out with dread, he went to the Marshal of the Territory and told his case, and asked to be arrested. The officer remon strated ; told him he had no authority to make an arrest; that the affair tvas foigotten, and if he intended to make remorse good for any thing, lie had better set to work and earn the money he had criminally got and spent, and pay the bunk and those be had swindled ; that it would be better every way than going to the penitentiary. But Hotvard was resolute to be arrested. The officer wrote to this city, and a requisition was procured, upon which he was brought here on Thursday afternoon. We believe an indictment is pending against him for the larceny. P. S.—We learn that Howard was sent to the penitentiary, on Saturday, for two years, lie plead guilty. —lndianapolis ( Ind. ) Sentinel. Mechanical Ingenuity. Mr. Thomas Stamp, a citizen of our place, has invented a water wheel ou an entirely new principle of action which must be of immense benefit in the mechanical world. This wheel was exhibited at tho Fair in Montgomery last fall, and received the endorsement of Daniel Pratt nnd Mr. Dußois. Its name indicate its mode of action and its advantages over any other wheel now known. It is the Horizontal Sliding Current Wheel. Its horizontal posi tion will enable it to give great porver from a small current of water, and it slides to suit all stages of water. Back water nor high water, nor low water will not effect it. This wheel is so arranged that it can be placed in the wa ter and made to turn machinery at a distance. All needed for a perpetunl power, is a bank and a current. Mr. Stamp has applied for, and will receive a patent, when this wheel will be tested in our river. Should it be success ful (and any one who will look at the model cannot doubt it) there will be no use for canals to run machiery, for the river will suffice for all puposes without any canaling or darning. A Point. A noteworthy incident transpired in the House hall yesterday, immediately after Mr. Edmundson concluded his speech. We refer to the tacit acknowledgment worked out of Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, that the publication of the ex parte and remarkable affidavit of Senator Sumner made before the House Select Com mittee, in advance of the Committee’s report, was the work of that gentleman himself, or someone immediately in his confidence—not of any member of the Committee or their Clerk, who alone had access to the copy* of it in their possession. What renders the act of Mr. Sumner in thus seeking to get before the public au ex parte statement in a case where he was personally involved the more reprehensi ble, is the fact that the testimony of other Senators and gentlemen, subsequently taken by the Committee and delivered in the ’Senate in the course of the debate on the matter, com pletely exposed the utter want of foundation of many of the most important things stated in Mr. Sumner’s testimony thus surreptitious ly and improperly put before the public by himself or his confidants. The truth is, that act was but a “shriek for freedom”—a trick all truly honorable men must condemn—a trick on a par with the policy which has mark ed much of the Congressional canvass for “freedom in Kansas,” —Washington Star. Kansas Meeting at Lowndesboro’. Messrs. Baker, Johnson and Jones (says the Haynesville Chronicle) were at Lowndesboro’ on the 10th inst. A meeting of the citizens was called, and on motion, Y. W. Graves, Esq. took the chair, and C. W. Williams acted as secretary. The meeting was then eloquently addressed by Dr. Jones and Mr. Baker, in fa vor of aid to Kansas. The people generally had forgotten (!) the appointment, and there was consequently but a small audience; yet $142 were immediately handed over to aid the good work. On motion, a committee of five was appoint ed to solicit further subscriptions. We learn that S7OO were subscribed in Ben ton.—Montgomery Journal. A Large Defaulter. Richard Metcalf House, alias Richard Stan ford Graves, was brought before the Chief Jus tice of the Court of Common l’leas in Toronto, Canada, last week, under the Ashburton Ex tradition Treaty, charged with being a defaul ter to the State of Mississippi in tire amount of nearly two hundred thousand dollars. He was formerly Treasurer of that State, and has lived in Toronto for fifteen years. After n full ezamination, lie was discharged, the Judge holding that the Treaty does not provide for cases of embezzlement. He has been a magistrate in Torouto for ten years, and owns considerable property. +. Norih East and South West Railroad. The following items of information in regard to the progress of our N. E. and S. W. Rail Road will give satisfaction to the many friends of the great enterprise. Much of the success, which up to this time, the project has met with, is owing, in a great measure, to the un faltering industry and perseveranco of the Chief Engineer and General Agent, Col. San ford. All tho grading in Sumter and Grocne except a very small quantity of light work which it is not intended to let out for eighteen months yet, lias been taken by contractors of the right kind, who arc abundantly nble and willing to complete their contracts in the time specified (8 years.) The $09,500 mile in Sumter, the heaviest on the whole road, was taken by Mr. Jere. 11. Brown, one of the wealthiest citizens ol that county. Up to the time of the discov ery by “Gtcene,” of anew light onrail roads, that no more than a dozen hands could work on this section, it was found very difficult to let it out to contract, but as soon as it was known that it was a small matter any way, Mr Brown took it as a job merely to pass his leis ure hours in completing. Nearly all of the grading up to the city of Tuskaloosa has been taken by contractors also. The work of excavating and filling up will soon commence and all kinds of business wiU go on right merrily. There is no longer a doubt of the success of the enterprise. The readiness with winch contracts are taken gives nil idea of the confidence of the people in the project. As has been stated heretofore, there are propositions before the Directory to grade the eighteen miles in Mississippi, one or more of which will, we suppose, bo accepted soon and that part of the line placed undercontract also. —Eutaw Whig. GENERAL ITEMS. J. T. Cady, formerly connected with the I Louisiana press, and latterly a newspaper cor- | respondent in Nicaragua, died at San Juan del Sud, of cholera. Col. John L. Stephens, a worthy and promi nent citizen of LaGrange, and half brother to Hon. A. 11. Stephens, died suddenly, of apo plexy, in that place, \V ednesday last. Miss A. Kimball, of East Hartford, says a Connecticut paper, lias a common native hen that lays very large eggs, a single one meas uring 7| by 6) inches iu circumference. The first bale of cotton of the new crop was ’ received in New Orleaus on the 15th inst. from Texas. It is from the plantation of R. B. Wofford, DeWitt county. Very extensive improvements in the United States Mint at Philadelphia have just been completed. Tho refining and coining depart ments have both been enlarged and new ap paratus introduced. Arrisou, the torpedo man, is being tried at Cincinnati the third time for the murder of Isaac Allison, at the Marine Hospital iu that city, by means of an infernal machine. Hon. Oscar F. Moore, the present Republi can member of Congress from tho lloss dis trict, in Ohio, has declared himself against Fremont, and will take the stump for Fillmore. A letter from Kanses is published in the New York Staats Zeitung, a Democratic Ger man paper of Ncyv York city, in which the wri ter says, that to a man, all the Germans in the Territory go with the Free State party. William Waring Habersham, Esq., lias been elected Secretary and Treasurer of the Savan nah, Albany and Gulf Rail Road —in place of Mr. G. Grant, resigned. The salary is twelve hundred dollars. 0. J. Victor, Esq., one of the editors of the Sandusky, (Ohio) Register, a gentleman of fine talents and some reputation as a poet, and M iss Meeta Nictoria Fuller, a very well known literary lady, have recently been married. Anew daily paper, to advocate the cause of Buchanan and Breckenridge, is to be started in Netv York city within a few days, with a supposed capital of SIOO,OOO. The names of George N. Saunders, and other eminent demo crats are mentioned in connection with its edi torship. A servant girl in London has been fined 40 shillings, or one month’s imprisonment, for pouring a kettie of boiling water upon a cat that was trespassing on her master’s premises. Under the same law, cruelty to animals, Lieut Craven, of the Life Guards, and his groom were fined sls for killing a horse by over driving. The vote for President, on board the May flower resulted in the election of T. Cod, Jr:, when the following resolution was adopted : Resolved, That T. Cod, Jr., is the pathfin der among rocks that we have never seen or expect to see, and this entitles him to be the President of the United States. The London Weekly Times says that Thacke ray complains of the flunkeyism he met with in New York, more especially from one editor, who always dropped in at the Clarendon Hotel just as he was going to dinner ; he b_red the author of Fendennis so, that he was resolved not to come to America again till he hears of his persecutor’s burial. The Havana correspondent of the New Or leans Delta says that, according to a recent census, tho population of the six tobacco grow ing districts of Dinar del Rio, Consolacion del Sur, San Juan y Martinez, Guane, Mantua, and Baja, is 45,139 blacks and whites. They have no less than 3,101 tobacco plantations, and export 100,020 bales of superior tobacco. The population of Cuba is estimated at the present timo at about 1,000,000. Os these, 050,000 are white, 750,000 slave black, and about 200,000 free black. By a royal order of 12th March, 1837, free colored people were prohibited from landing in Cuba on any pre tence whatever. There are in Sweden two thousand four hun dred noble families possessing landed proper ty, estimated at $28,035,053 44—an average of less than $12,100 for each family. It will therefore, be understood that many of the Swedish nobles are extremely poor ; yet so great is their pride, that as a class, they repu diate all commercial or industrial pursuits. The Utica Telegraph contains tho following marriage notice : By , Mr. E. Davis to Miss M. Morris —all from the Lunatic Asylum. The editor says, it came in a queer note, and may not be genuine, but the quarter en closed certainly was. The European times closes an article on the Crainpton case with this language: “But the fact is undeniable that Mr. Crampton blun dered in his mission, and according to a great er diplomatist than Mr. Crampton, a blunder is worse than a crime.” A letter to the St. Louis Republican, of July 14, from Palermo, Kansas, says: The Kicka poo Indians have had a serious difficulty among themselves caused by the free use of liquor. Several were killed. The letter also states that Gen. Lane had entered the territo ry with several hundred men, and had been heard to say that he would take Kansas or die- The New York Herald, publishes a list of twenty one vessels, six barks, two brigs and thirteen schooners—that have been fitted out for the slave trade and sailed from that port within the last year. The trade must afford a profitable investment for northern capital. And then the philanthropists engaged in it only enslave the negroes whom they steal and sell, and they do not hold them in bondage. Twelve hundred tribes, it is said, now ac knowledge the French authority in Algeria.— Eighty thousand hectares are every year plant ed with cotton. Tho harbor of Algiers will contain forty men of war, besides merchant men. Most of the ports of the country were in a delapidated condition when tho Turk ish Government handed them over to the French, and it will cost 80,000 franks to put them in order. The French are already en gaged upon the work. Mrs. Keating. A report has been circulated that the wife of Keating, who was shot at Willard’s Hotel by Mr. Herberl, had died of greif. A Washing ton correspondent writes under date of July 10, as follows: 1 havo just returned from the residence of Mrs. Keating. She is a very pretty little Irish woman, and of real Irish life. She informs me that the house she lives in has been dona ted to her by gentlemen since the death of ljer husband. Executions in (Botth Carolina. M. M. Chaney, copyicted of negro stealing, was hung at Lancastervillc op Friday, lltli inst. He persisted to the last iu his innocence. Moses Gossett, convicted of she same offence, (negro steeling) expiated his crime on the same day at Unionville. A Palpable Hit In some parts of the country preach*, sionally speak from a home-made t * l * preacher of this sort, in the , 1 arose before his cougiogaUuu, at \ w °‘JIh;,J 1 h;, J appointment, and slated, that instead of “ 1 ing us usual, ho would address them- ‘1 subject of “currying.” Said he: * “ 1 have three horses to curry—have curry-comb and lam a first rate hand ■ business. The first horse is Episcopalian * the second is Presbyterianism; the ,i,u , Metliodistism.” 111 11 He proceeded to the process of cum each separately, which he did with vuite „n “■ of triumph ; and in concluding his reman-' 1 extended an invitation to any preseu w l v 1 fit to reply. ’ 0 su ” A methodist preacher—something of a v happening to be in attendance, was not a ji amused at the affair, and walking from his * U< to the neighborhood of the pulpit, he thank 1 ’ the worthy brother lor his courtesy, and he should like very much to makea few marks. “But my situation,” said he, “is soiueui, j embarrassing. Ido not stand on equal groun i with my friend who has just spoken. i n tl ‘ first place, I am not used to the business currying—he is. In the next place, my CUu .‘ comb is a dull one—his is sharp and p o i u te In the third place, he has had three horses t curry, while 1 am under the unpleasant neeei>’ of currying, not a horse, but—a jackass’ \ my curry-comb is dull, it will be necessary J! me so bear on pretty hard, during which I i, O , W the aforesaid animal will neither kick nor n “ away.” He had not proceeded far before his p V eu t . cessor rose to intevupt him. “ Woa! Woa!” said the speaker—and tun ing to his audience, added, “ 1 was afraid l, would kick.” Presently, unable to stand it longer, theniiu. ister first mentioned took up his hat indignant ly and left. “ There,” raid the witty Methedist, “ J Wils afraid ho would run away.” Public Debt of the United States. The National Intelligencer, of the Dth'insi says: From a report just made by the Register ( > the Treasury in regard to the present condition of the public debt of the United States, wee!., tain the following information : Amount of United stock originally issued of the loans of 1842, 1843,1840, 1847,181s includingl'exas debt and indemnity, and tlit debt of corporate cities $78,797,816 Amount redeemed up to March 4, 1863 7,142,359 U llcbeemed from March 4, 1853, to July 1, 1856 88,917,894 29 Total amount redeemed 46,060,254 03 Amount now outstanding 32,737,562 Bn A Decision in the McDonogh Estate. Judge Cotton, of New Orleans, has render ed his decision in the case of the Society for the Relief of Destitute Orphan Boys vs. the Citizens of New Orleans and Baltimore. This was a suit instituted by plaintiffs to recover of defendants an interest in the McDonogh es state to the amount of $400,000, in accord ance with a provision of the will of the late John McDonogh. The argument of the case embraced many nice legal technicalities, ami occupied the attention of the Court for an un usual length of time. It was submitted a few weeks ago, and the judgment now rendered is in favor of the plaintiffs to the full extent of their claim. A Reverened Politician Roughly Handled. They had a regular fourth of July celebration at Clarksville, Mercer county, Pa., which wa< participated in by citzens of all parties. There was nothing to mar the festivities except a po litical tirade introduced by a Rev. gentleman We extract from the Western Press : “He commenced a.regular abolition, disunion harangue, and so thunder-struck were tie citizens that he had proceeded some minutes be fore they could decide what course of action to take. He went on so far as to speak of the ‘murderous villain who now occupies the chair as chief magistrate of tho country,’ when a simultaneous yell of indignation rose from all parts of the assembly, and intimated to the reverend reviler that he had exhausted their endurance'—Cries of ‘knock him down !'. throw him off the platform!’ &c., followed, an 1 for a time it seemed as if the disciple of the meek and lowly Jesus might find what he would call ‘murderous villians’ nearer home.- llis few friends vociferated loudly about the “freedom of speech,’ but the citizens present, without distinction of party, were competent to distinguish between ‘free speech’ and free blackguardism, and compelled the worthy ex emplar of Christian love and charity to -it down.” A Singular Peat of a Horse. The Count Lauscome made a bet a few day ago, that he could make his English hunting horse, John Bull, trot a distance of one kilo metre backwards in six minutes. The feat was undertaken between the Round Point ot tho Champs Elysecs and the Obelisk of the Place Concorde. From the Round Point to the Grand Entrance of the Exhibition the Count walked his horse, but here he commenc ed to trot, and from this point to the Obelisk he gradually pushed him faster and faster un til he arrived at the end, in five minutes ami 27 seconds. The last twenty rods were ac complished at a rate of speed which put to the test the full trotting powers of some of the horses mounted by the witnesses? of this sin gular feat. Liberia. Ex-President Roberts of Liberia,-is in Bo>- ton seeking to make arrangements for estab lishing a college at Monrovia. His stay in thi country will be short, as lie intends to leave some time in August for England, where he will join his family, and proceed with them to Africa. President Roberts speak very favora bly’ of the state of things in the new Republic- The New York Clipper contains an account, from a correspondent in Watertown, Conn., ot a fight between a hawk and a hen. The hav 1 seized one of the hen’s chicks and made oil with it, upon which the parent immediately took flight after the thief, which she overtook nbout 100 feet from terra finna, and gave him such a drubbing that he was glad to let fall the chick and escape with his life. Shower of Toacls. During the heavy raiu accompanying the thunder storm, on Sunday afternoon,. Comb Square and the City* Ilall Yard, Boston, wet e pretty well peoplpd by little toads, which more than n number of the very credulous were tnm-’ believe had conic down from the heavens ‘"h* the rain. Several took up specimens of the “critters” and bore them liume as curiosities. Doubtless they had been driven outof the < >0 Garden by the fUpyrpit. CHICKENS, EfcitiS AND BI TTER HIGHEST MARKET PRICE, in Cash or Goods. C'“-- for CHICKENS. EGGS. 11 UTTER, Produce. June 20 W r °’