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OOLTXMBTTS: ThiU'iday Morning, July 1800. LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION. The Vote on Mr. Brooks’ Expulsion. We shftU publish to-morrow a complete ana lysis of the above vote, showing the politics and States of the voters, the absentees, non voters, etc. The vote is divided as follows : For the expulsion 119 free State men and two slave State men, or six Democrats and 115 opposition. Against the expulsion 13 free and 82 slave State men, or 63 Democrats and 32 opposition. The two slave State men who voted for expulsion, wero Hoffman, of Mary land, and Cullen, of Delaware, both Know Nothings. We Had Mr. Cullen’s name among the absent or not voting, but we have Mr. Brooks’ authority’ (see his card) for classing him as above. Possibly he afterward* record ed his vote, and if so, the vote would then be 122 yeas to 95 nays. Tho entire Pennsylvania delegation, with five exceptions, voted for expulsion. Cadwal lftder, J. Glaucey Jones and Thos. B. Florence voted against: while David Barclay and Hen ry M. Fuller wero absent. Injunction Dissolved. C Mtgatt et. al. 1 injunction in Muscogee VB, f Superior Court. R. R. Qoetciiilh. J Many of our patrons having manifested an interest in the result of this case, we have ob tained an epitome of the Bill and Answer, which will be sufficient to a correet under standing of the merits of the case. The Bill charges that tho complainants own valuable real estate, being tho lots on which they reside in the city of Columbus, and lying from 100 to 300 feet from the lot on which Mr. Goetchius proposes to build a steam-power sash and blind factory. That complainants’ residences are on tho north side of St. Clair street, and tho proposed factory on the south side of said street. That the proposed facto ry, if built, will resu’‘ in very great damngo and inconvenience, as well as prove a great nuisance to the complainants, and the public at large, because they say that the boiler to be attached to said engine will be in danger of explosion. That tho smoke and soot aris ing from tlie burning of such fuel as is ordina rily used in said engine, will be scattered all over the premises of complainants without a possibility of preventing it; and the sparks arising from said burning as well as the burn ing itself, and the fact that manufactories of this kind are filled with large quantities of combustible matter, will render the said manu factory more liable to be destroyed by fire, and consequently will tlie more subject the premises of oomplair.ants to bo destroyed by fire. That tho continued din, noise and bustle from the lotting off steam from said engine and the rolling and chango and working of machinery attached thereto, and the whistle thereto attached, will subject complainants to the greatest nnnoyanco and unpleasantness ; and in case of sickness will be an insufferable nuisance. That the fire risk would be increas ed and thereby the rates of insurance would be higher, and that by the orection of said building and machinery tho value of their pro perty would lie deteriorated. That tho con gregation assembled for worship *C thu Metho dist Episcopal Church, and tho Odd Fellows’ school would bo greatly disturbed. The Judge of the Superior Court granted Injunction upon the complainants giving bond and security in the sum of ten thousand dol lars conditioned to pay tho defendant all dam ages which he might sustain in the premises. The defendant admits in his answer that he contemplates building a machine shop on lot No. 240. That ho hr.s had on the adjoining lot, for many years, a large wooden and lumber yard, and by his industry and the favor of his friends, he is enabled to put up good aud safe buildings, better suited to his busi ness, and as lie verily believes much safer to his neighbors; and he goes on to inform the Court of the plan upon which he desigus to erect his said building and tho machinery which he proposes to operate therein. The building proposed will bo constructed of brick, with iron doors next to tho furnace, brick engine floor and fire-proof, us near as the same can be done. The furnace will be in the rear of the building. Tho ma chinery will consist of cno or more planeing machines, circular saws, and such other ma chinery r.s are usual in a moderate sized fac tory. That it is intended for building pur poses, including the manufacture of doors, sash aud bliuds. The furnace will be con structed in the most approved manner, entire ly disconnected with all combustible matter. The chimney will be about seventy feet high, and under tho recent scientific improvements, will be so constructed as to consume a large portion of the smoko and soot ordinarily made. By this means, in bis opinion, iu which he is sustained by scientific mechanics, the objec tion on aocount ot smoke, soot and sparks, con and will be almost entirely obviated. Respondent denies that the erection of the house, eugino and machinery proposed to be placed on said lot will result in very great damage, annoyance and inconvenience ; or prove a great nuisance to complainants, or other persons, or to tho public at largo; and defendant says that the possibility that the engine boiler might explode, is no reason why an engine boiler should not be used. That the progress of the age, the state of scientific improvements, and tho wants of mankind, render it necessary that power of this kind should be ued. The dispensation of hand and horse power is passing away, a..i is sup planted by tho cheaper and more powerful agency of local scientific power. That this powerful agent might, under exigencies, be destructive of the lives ot those about it aud managing it, *o one will deny. but beCftUse of this bare possibility, it should be repudiat ed and enjoined in its use, th re are, fortu nately for the industry of the country, but ew who wil. eriously and upon any just prin ciple, contend. r Defendant refers to the sworn statement of Taomas W. Stanford, ths intelligent Engineer and Mechanic employed by him to construct his boiler, who says that all boilers properly constructed, are intended to bear a pressure of two hundred pounds to tue square inch, and government regulations prescribe that as the capacity of boilers. The said regulations also require that not more than one hundred and thirty pounds pressure shall be allowed, i and that there is not within his knowledge an i instance on record of an explosion when these • regulations are observed. The boiler will be twenty six feet lfing, thirty eight inches in diameter with two return flues. The iron is to be number one, government stamped iron, | one fourth of an inch thick, and will safely | bear a pressure of two hundred pounds to the square inch; whereus the machinery of de j fendant will not require a pressure of more than forty pounds to the sqnaro inch. In the opinion of Mr. Stanford there can be no danger i of an explosion of said boiler. The defendant admits that his machine shop when in full operation may make some little 1 noise, nor does he perceive how it is possible 1 that any mechanical pursuit in wood or metal, can be carried on, without sounds of the plane or the hammer proceeding from it. If a little noise is to be tho basis of an Injunction, then the industry and operations of the mechanic must be driveu from the city. The defendant does not intend to use a whistle ; aud by the improvements in machinery the waste steam from tho scapo pipe or boiler may be discharg ed witli but very little noise. He denies that the working and changing of the machinery will seriously interfere with the comfort even of complainants, and as he does not intend to run his machinery at night or on tho Sabbath day, he apprehends the congregation worship ping ut the Methodist church, will not be dis turbed as is stated by complainants in their Bill. The foregoing is a condensed statement of tho Bill and Answer. The full answer of the defendant, and the opinions and statements, under oath, of C. P. Levy of the Union Iron Works, W. L. Clark Superintendnnt of the Muscogee Rail Road Machine Work 9, Israel 11. Janncy and Thomas W. Stanford, experi enced and well known Engineers and Mechan ics, presents an intelligent and interesting statement of the philosophy and operations of steam power generally, but would occupy more of our space than we can spare. The judgment of the Court below dissolving the Injunction, was affirmed by the Supreme Court. The Rev. Mr. Brown, of Montgomery, de livers a sermon at the Grave Yard of that city every Sunday evening, and it is said he has large audiences. Rather a strange place to preach we should think.— Selma Sentinel. We do not agree with you. Shakspeare says there are sermons in stones, and serious ly sneuking, for we would not speak lightly on such a subject, there has always seemed to us much more of a sermon in the tombstone than any other. But aside from this, we cordially approve out door preaching for the benefit of tho great mass who never go to Church, aud who, not to mince matters, are not often wel come there, as society is now constituted. A correspondent of the Pennsylvanian states that the New York Herald has lost one thou sand subscribers in Philadelphia since it has come out for Freinunt. TTe Have Leant of no such stampede in Georgia where the Herald has a larger circulation, as we believe, than any other paper north of Mason and Dixon. Yet Georgia has much more reason than Penn sylvania, for ignoring the Herald, and refus ing to contribute to its support. Bennett has not only gone for Fremont, but has denounc ed, in vile language, the South as a section. +. The Charleston Mercury announces the death, in that city, on Monday last, of Mr. James English, for forty years one of tho most active, esteemed, and successful busiuess men of Charleston. The Savannah Georgian states that the stock of cotton on hand in that city, and on ship board not oleared, Monday, amounted to 3,575 bales uplands, and 850 bales Sea Islands. Os this, less than 800 bales are on sale. From Brunswick. The Macon Telegraph states that the Bruns wick lload is now under full headway, and regular trains are running daily over the first completed section of twenty five miles, which is in good order, well built, aud laid with hea vy rails. Tho bridge over the Satilla wil! be finished, and the road extended two miles west of it in ample time for the present crop. It will thus secure for the next Beasou the cotton and other produce from Wayne, Ware, Clinch, Lowndes, Thomas and tlie neighboring counties. The road is under contract to tho Allapaha River, about a hundred miles from Brunswick ; and the company are pushing the work vigorously forward, having at this time over three hun dred hands engaged upon it. Agricultural and Mineral Specimens from Nicaragua. General Goicuria brought with him from Nicaragua specimens of the sugar, chocolate, the gold, silver, copper, and zinc ores, and the coal of that country. The sugar, though made by the rudest of processes, and self-crystnliz ed, is one of tho finest specimens we ever saw The grains are very large, and almost trans parent, and the sugar possesses a racy flavor and riohuoss unknown to that which is pro duced in a more ungenialclimate and soil, and granulated by chemical appliances. Tho ores are all rich in metal. The gold imbedded in quartz which requires to be broken or ground; but even to the rudest specimens of labor the yield is sometimes immense. About two years ago, two Frenchmen went into the gold re gions of Nicaragua; they had no machines and no tools but pick nxes ; yet a few weeks back, after paying the most ruinous freights and charges to Greytown, they embarked for Europe with a net gain of about forty thou sand dollars. In a short time, we presume bonds of the Nicaraguan Government will be agitated, con vertible into land script at a certain minimum price per acre ; and it is contemplated, we un derstand, that the reservation of land for this purpose, will be distributed so as to lie partly in the sugar regions, the character and re sources of which, respectively, are but par tially exhibited by the specimens to which we refer— N. 0. Delta. Mr. Brooks’ Letter to His Constituents. We find in the Columbia South Carolinian of tlie 22nd, the following letter from the Hon. Preston S. Brooks, addressed to his constitu ents. It will be lead with interest: — A Cabu. 1 am induced to address the voters of the Fourth Congressional District, through the col i uuuis of the “South Carolinian,” because it is a paper having an extensive circulation in rny district, and because of the shortness of the ■ time that will elapse before the election to sup ply the vacancy created by my resignation, which 1 have observed is on the 28th inst. When l accepted, fellow-citizens, the oom i mission to represent you, I felt that you had ! committed your honor to my care, together j with your interests. Upon the instant of my j first election, the responsibilities of my new ! position weighed heavily upon me. I found re | lief, however, in the reflection that, although ! a benificent Creator bad vouchsafed great intel i lectunl endowments to comparatively but few j of his creatures, yet that he had constituted every man of common sense with power to be just, loyal and true; and I silently vowed that, though nature should deny me the privilege of adding even an humble intellectual flower to the ciiaplet of South Carolina, I would be a sentinel to her honor and guard the glories, with w hich better and abler men had graced her brow. On the 19th and 20th of May last past, a Senator from the Commonwealth of Massachu setts falsified her history and defamed her char acter. I remembered rny resolve, and per formed my vow. For this act, with which you are familiar, the House of Representatives en deavored to expel me from that body. The vote on the resolution to expel was 121 yeas and 95 nays—less than two-thirds, which is tlie number required by the Constitution to expel a member. There were circumstances of gratifi cation attending this vote, but there were also circumstances of displeasure. Every member from the slave-owning States voted to sustain me but two, and they were Know Nothings— the one from Maryland (Mr. Hoffman) and the other from Delaware, (Mr. Cullen.) Thirteen gentlemen from the free States also voted against the resolution to expel. But a majority of the House has pronounced me, because of my act, unworthy of a seat in the American Congress. I could not, as the representative of a high-toned and gallant con stituency, rest with this imputation upon you and myself. I resigned my seat, and, kicking the black dust of a Black Republican majority from my feet, I left the Hall in indignation and disgust. My appeal is to you. If I have represented you faithfully, then re-elect me with an unan imity which will lliunder into the cars of fa naticism the terrors of the storm that is coming upon them. If iu aught I have failed to represent you as you are, then in God’s came send some man whose blood is more slug glisli than mine. It was my purpose to have made my appeal to you in person, but there are circumstances, not necessary now to mention, which have in duced me under the advice of discreet friends, to remain “on the ground.” For nearly two months I have been in daily receipt of many letters, threatening my life, whether in the Capitol, in the streets or in my chamber.— Though seemingly undisturbed during the time, now that the crisis is past, I realize that I have been in a condition of continuous excitement, and that I need repose. I could be but one week in the State even if I were to return, and of necessity could sec but a few of my constit uents. While I am here, though I may not represent you ns a member, I can and will, as a private gentleman, defend tho honor of our good old State from assaults proceeding from any and every quarter. I herewith couple an extract from the “Jour nal of Commerce,” which is published in New York city, together with the comments upon it by tho “New York Daily Times: ’ P. S. Bbooks. —We are glad to see that the first impulse of approbation expressed by some of the Southern papers [of Brooks’ attack up on Sumner] has passed away, and that nearly the whole South, in common with the whole North, now condemn the assault as unjustifia ble and brutal. —Journal of Commerce. “ We shall soon have an opportunity of test ing the truth of these assurances. Mr. Brooks has gone home to appeal to his constituents.— If it be true, as the Journal of Commerce and other papers of the same stamp assert, that his conduct is condemned by ‘the whole South,’ or by any considerable portion of it, as ‘unjustifi able and brutal,’ they will manifest that dis pleasure by refusing to re-elect him. Under the circumstances of the case, his re-election would be the strongest possible endorsement of his conduct. And if his constituents aro desi rous of having it understood that they do not approve of it, they have a very simple way of making it manifest. This will be tho only is sue presented in his case. Upon all other sub jects others may readily be found who will be as acceptable representatives as lie. If he is re-nominatod and re-elected, it will be solely and exclusively because his constituents desire thus to endorse and applaud his assault upon Mr. Sumner. “Now, does tho Journal of Commerce be lieve they will re-elect him, or not 0 If it does, it can hardly pretend also to believe that they condemn his conduct as ‘unjustifiable and brutal.” The issuo involved is distinctly set forth in the above extracts, and it is for you to say which of these editors is the Daniel in judg ment. 1 have the honor to have been your servant, and am respectfully your fellow citizen, P. S. BROOKS. Washington City, July 18. Mr. Toombs and the Naval Board. Last Thursday, Mr. Toombs introduced the following joint resolution, declaring the notion of the late Naval Board in the case of Lieut. Washington Bartlett to be in violation of the Constitution of tho United States : Resolved, &c. That, by the Constitution of the United States, “in all criminal prosecu tions the nccused shall enjoy tho right to a speedy and public trial, and to be informed of the nature aud cause of accusation, to be con fronted with the witnesses against aud to have j compulsory process, for obtaining witnesses iu . his favor.” 2. Resolved, further, That it is abhorrent to , the principles of natural justice and fatal to toe security of life, liberty, reputation, and property that any person should sit in judg ment upon another who has a direct and sub stantial interest in the examination of the nc cused. >. Resolved. ‘I hat neither Congress nor any j othci Federal authority can deprive any citi sen ot the United States of their inestimable rights. 4 - Hesolved, That the finding of the late i ri aval Bonrd, approved and executed by the President ot the Lnited States, in the case of Lieut. Washington Bartlett, violated these con i stitutional rights of the accused, and is there i fore null, void, and of no effect. Late Texas Items. Mr. J. 8. Thorne was arrested in our city on Saturday, the sth inst., on a capias from lra vis county, and carried to that community to answer the charge of perjury and forgery. It appears that Mr. T. had been dealing very ex- j tensively in bogus land claims, borrowing money under false pretenses, &c. The engine “Paul Bremoud,” together with a second class passenger car, arrived at our wharf yesterday morning. The engine and tender weigh tweuty-eight tons. The car is forty-five feet long and twelve feet wide. Mr. A. D. Kennard is now engaged in the manufacture of salt at the springs located about 100 miles north of Fort Graham, on the Brazos. With the present appurtenances, j Mr. K. succeeds in turning out about ten bush els per day. The salt is of the very best qual ity, and finds ready sale at $2 per bushel. This promises to become a lucrative business to Mr. K., and a benefit to the peoplo of that section of the State. —Houston (Texas) Tele graph 11 th. Fusion in New Hampshire. A correspondent of the New York Daily Times, writing from Concord, New Hamp shire, says: “ Tho Stato is now completely rescued from the grasp of that tyrannical party, which has ruled it with a rod of iron for thirty years.— The various divisions of tlie opposition are now T cordially united. The old Whigs have joined the party of Freedom, and their recent candidate for Governor is now a leader in the Republican movement. * * On the Fourth of July, a second call was made by the State Republican Committee for a Con vention to ratify the nomination of Fremont and Dayton. Rarely has a larger crowd been seen iu Concord. No one estimated it less than ten thousand. The utmost harmony pre vailed and all predicted a triumphant victory at the Presidential election. If numbers, en thusiasm, and unity of purpose are any indi cations of success, tlie Stato is certainly safe for the nominees of the Philadelphia Conven tion. The Republican party, here, presents no divided front. Know Nothingism, Free soilism, and Whigism, are all merged in an in tense love of freedom and hatred of oppres sion. The great principle which moves all hearts is limitation of slavery.” Bible Revision—Gross Mismanagement. The Rev. Dr. Maclay, who has recently re signed the Presidency of the American Bible Union, to which ho was elected on the death of the Rev. Dr. Cone, has made a most pain ful and humiliating exposition of the gross mismangement, if not something worse, of the affairs of the society by his subordinates. Large sums of money have been collected for a revision and new translatian of tho Bible ; and it is alleged that these have been squan dered and misappropriated in a shameless manner, on incompetent translators, some of whose renderings, he says, are “well calcula ted to shake the confidence of men in God’s word.” In the language of the New York Commercial Advertiser, “after such disclos ures, honorable Christian gentlemen can ccarcely remain in connection with it, and those who may still endeavor to carry on its operations are not likely to receive from the community the pecuniary aid necessary for that purpose.” Building with Wet Bricks. We notice in an exchange paper, a para graph upon this subject, which we think of considerable importance to builders. It is sta ted on what is considered good authority, that of experience, that a wall twelve inches thick, built of good mortar with bricks well soaked, is stronger in every respect than one sixteen iuches thick built dry. The reason of this is, that if the bricks are saturated with wa ter, they will not abstract from the mortar the moisture which is necessary to its crystaliz ation, but on the contrary they will chemi cally unite with the mortar, and become as solid as a rock. On the other hand, if the bricks are put up dry, they immediately take all tlie moisture from the mortar, leaving it too dry to harden, and the consequence is, that when a building of this description is taken or tumbles down of its own accord, the mortar from it is like so much sand. Harvesting in Kansas. The farmers in the vicinity of Lecompton are now busily engaged in cutting their wheat which is unquestionably the finest crop we ever saw. Wo had occasion to visit our friend Tod hunter the other day, whom we found scythe in hand, mowing one of the most magnificent fields of wheat our eyes ever beheld. The straw was between four and five feet in length, standing as thick as it possibly could on the ground, and all so near the same height that the whole field seemed to be as level as a mir ror, the golden aspect of which at a distance presented a most beautiful appearance. The wheat crop in this vicinity will average thirty bushels to the acre. Kansas is, doubtless, one of the best wheat growing sections of tho L nited States.— Lecompton Union. Senator Sumner to be a Morgan until af ter the Election. It has now become evident that the game of the opposition is to have Mr. Sumner “play sick” until afte r the election. The Express, of New fork, which has sympathised with Mr. Sumner, has received a letter from Wash ington putting them on the guard. It says : I khow that your press have sympathised with, and protected Sumner from the allega tions made, that he was shamming sickness, or that bis friends were lying about him. The Express has warmly defended him, as if a Black Republican Journal—it may be for old ac quaintance sake ; —but be on your guard: don’t be duped. There is cheating somewhere. Senator Sumner himself is a briliant actor, a dashing rhetorienn, a sparkling fancy man, a j Chesteifleldian gentleman, and a scholar—but he is a man of no mettle, and no stuff—stamina j —and of no real use, in public or private life, j except for party purposes. There are able 1 t men about him, who would freely use him, only ! as“ a good enough Morgan for tho election,” I [ but that he would die for their benefit I have no idea. Nevertheless they have been plying liis imagination with all sorts suggestions, insinua tions, and misgivings—and they make him really believe his head is in peril. Indeed he is just such a man as can thus be frightened, i to death, through his fancy. You have read of 1 reach experiments of a man’s being bled to death— in fancy —when the victim had not lost a drop of blood. Sumner’s susceptibility is just of that character. The unscrupulous men that have him in charge for election pur poses are playing this game—even with him. Be on your guard—and I will write yon fur ther. Fire in Columbia, Tenn. A gentleman from Columbia,Tenn., imform ed us this morning that a very destructive fire occurred in that place on Wednesday night last, which burnt the stable of Messrs. Car ter, Thomas & Cos., 700 barrels of corn, 1 horse and 10 new and valuable stage coaches. The fire was supposed to be the work es an incendiary. Loss estimated at $14,000. ! Florence (Ala.) Gazette. general ITEMS. ~~ A cargo of 750 Africans has landed at Cabanas, Cuba, without Gov. Wise, of Virginia, and a partv n f u friends arrived at Norfolk on w 7 H bound to Cape Charles on a fishing exturst/ 1 Mr. E. McMaster, a New York nr.- ♦ ‘ Kir"’ *° a portrait $ £ that the cholera* has S"appeal l western and south-western suburbs nf v t w i * , „ 801 v *euna 1 In Washington, on Saturday, during ~1 , Herbert trial, Mr. Brooks came into r I and paid his fine of three hundred dollar* “! | eighty-five dollars costs. ‘ 8 ’ 1111 '■ A dog suit was tried at Newark New I sey, on Monday, in which a man ’bitten i 1 The Erie Canal, in the vicinity of Svrno,, ‘ New York, is said to be crowded with h i for five miles in each direction, awaiting n J repairing of one of the locks. b * The Governor of Mississippi has offered *1 reward of SI,OOO, for the arrest of che n e „ 4 or persons who fired the railroad brideo lie J Quitman. 6 ea l . The English Crystal Palace Company ml just put forth its balance sheet. It profj 3 to show liabilities paid, and a balanru, 1 $150,000 on Land. “ nce “f A large number of ships have recently to J traded guano freights to Europe, at from li to $5 per ton, which is the best business f r j ships now offering. 1 The widows of Marshal St. Arnaud and,] Field Marshal Lord Raglan, the two first com. manders of the allied armies in the Crime’ are at present sojourning together at Pombier for the season. It is said that the Rope with which Palmer the English Poisoner was hung, finds read sale, across the water, at five shillings e inch—rather a low rate compared with prices usually paid for such commodities. A correspondent of the Daily Cincinmu Commercial asserts that in his presence am that of several others, Governor Reeder ex pressed himself strongly in favor of the elec tion of Buchanan. Punch has a pictorial representation 0 “Life at an American Hotel.” In the pictur a guest is represented as holding a revolver ti the head of his opposite neighbor, with tin imperious demand, “Pass the Mustard ! ” The President, Secretary and two trustee of the New York Internal Insurance Compa ny are charged with over issuing stock to tin amount of several thousand dollars, and cer tain other financial schemes involving a lam amount of money. Among the passengers that arrived at Xes York on Thursday;, in the Fulton, s Mr. Craw, ford, the celebrated American sculptor. Hi comes to superintend the erection of tin Washington monument, at Richmond, whicl he has had cast at Munich. The Philadelphia Ledger contradicts the re port that Mr. Vanstavoren the delinquent con ductor in the late terrible accident on tin North Pennsylvania Railroad, had committee suicide, and says that he died of internal in juries received in the collision. The jewels recently stolen from the Madric Chapel, and which were worth 7,000,000 reals, have, in consequence of a communication made by one of the thieves, been found buried in a vacant piece of ground near the prin cipal prison. A River Fire Steamer has just been built al Cincinnati, constructed like a ferry boat, ant having a fixed steam fire engine on board, t( be used in the port of St. Louis, in case of a fire occurring among the steamboats at tbs levee. J. B. Daines, ot London, has obtained a pa tent for a cement which protects walls from damp. It consists of eight parts of oil to on. part of flour sulpher, which, by being heatec to two hundred and seventy degrees, unite The cement is applied by means of a brush. The taking of the quinquennial census it Paris has terminated, and it appears from il that the population, including the soldiers the sick in the hospitals, and the occupants o the prisons, exceeds 1,200,000 souls within tin octori walls, and 1,800,000 within the fortifi cations. The Paris journal, Le Pays, says that all the difficulties in the way of the constructioi of the canal across the Isthmus of Suez ban been surmounted, and that more than the cap itnl required for the execution of the works which are already in progress, has been sub scribed. A Washington letter says: The policy of tin Black Republican Know Nothing majority it the Representative branch of Congress, is to pass Mr. Toombs’ Senate bill, and attach ai amendment restoring the Missouri Compromisf law. The Senate will not sanction the amend ment, and Congress will adjourn without pass ing any new act in relation to Kansas. In a list of States which hold elections prict to November, Georgia is reported to hold lici election next October. This is a mistake- Thero aro no general elections to be held in this State until November, and then for tho election of President and Vice President. Thu same mistake is made in regard to Alabama, having its origin, probably, in the old law. A valuable horse, named “Young llostoD, 1 belonging to Mr. Smith, of Alabama, and jus purchased for $3,000, fell from a freight cax while on the way from Richmond to Peters burg last Thursday afternoon, and the suppo sition is that he was killed, though nothing was known of the accident until the train ar rived at its destination. It is stated that tho Legislature of lot™ have passed a bill giving lands recently dona ted by Congress for railroad purposes, to four railroads running across that State, the Mis sissippi and Missouri, the Dubuque and 13 g Sioux, tho Lyons and lowa Central, and tb Burlington and Missouri. These roads get about 1,200,000 acres each. A gentleman writes to the Hartford Courant that about a year ago, while engaged in count ing over money, he carelessly put his name on the back of a S2O bill. A son of Erin came into his office a few days since with tb bill, and said he came from East Hartford, t ‘ get gold from the endorser. The gentleman looked in the Bank Note Reporter, and font l the bank bad suspended payment, and wa obliged to give the man a good bill for it. George Hastings, Conductor of a frsifbt train on the South Carolina Railroad, wn? un fortunately killed on Saturday last. The tram was on its way from Branchville to Cbaru ton, and the conductor approaching the sue door to give some directions to the Engine; - missed his hold, and fell head-foremost in 1 -- 1 - cross-ties, and thence down an embankment! twenty-five feet. The train was immediate-. I stopped, and every attention was paid t 0 ‘ jj injured man, but without avail, and he > - about two hours after the accident.