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COLXTKB ITS: Saturday Morning, July 18*6. LARGKST CITY CIKCGLATIOIV. Weather. After a long, dry, liot, and dusty spell, we wero refreshed with good rain 9 on 1 hursday night, which woro hailed with the greatest sat isfaction. More ia yet needed for the crops, and a few cloudy, showery days such as yes terday, would be truly acceptable. Meeting To-Night- We learn from the Times of yesterday that Samuel Hall, Esq., the Democratic Elector for the 2d Congressional District, and P. D. Tra cy, Esq., of Macon, Oa., will address the citi zens of Columbus at Temperauce Hull, this evening, on the issues involved in the Presi dential canvass. The people generally, without distinction of party, are respectfully invited to attend. No Quorum. The regular meeting of the Mechanics’ Un ion of this city, which was to have been held Thursday ovening last, failed to supervene.— There was no quorum present, aud tho few who met, wero compelled, nolens voleus, to re turn home without doing anything. The num ber necessary to constitute a quorum is fif teen ; and we are informed, and have no rea son to doubt it, that there are EIGHT HUN DRED Mechanics in Columbus. The Rome Ua., Courier contains a call for a Grand Fillmore Ratification Meeting and Free Barbecue, atthatplnce on Thursday next.— The call is signed by three hundred and eleven persons, the first signer being Mr. Simpson Fouche, who was reported to have bolted to Buchanan. Dr. Miller, K. S. Bartow, B. it. Hill, and other gentlemen are announced to speak. Efforts are making at LaGrange, Ga., to re suscitate tho LaGrange Light Guards, a de funct volunteer corps of that city. We sup pose the late visit of the Montgomery Blues and Columbus Guards, has revived tho milita ry spirit of “ the infant city.” The Senate’s reduction of the amount to bo appropriated under tho Fortifications Bill was wrongfully reported by the telegraph yester day. Tho amount should have been $1,800,- 000, instead of SIIB,OOO ns reported. Senator Butler’s bill to regulate the com pensation of Congressmen proposes a salary of $3,000 at each regular session, and the present per diem, and 26 cents per mile for travel each way. So says a dispatch to tho Petersburg Express. —• The ship Georgo A. Ilopley whose loss is reported in another column, was cleared from Charleston on tho 18th of April last, by John Fraser & Cos. with 2,387 bales of Upland cot ton, for Cork and a market. Her crew were all saved, and both ship and cargo woro fully insured. Congress has at long h made up its mind to adjourn on the 18th of August. Nobody re grets this wo expect, except the members themselves, and the boarding house and hotel keepers. The session has been lively enough in all conscience, but after deducting tho ex citing scenes, there will not be a great deal left. Brooks and Burlingame. w Tho National Intelligencer of Monday last, contains the following card : A Cari> —l am informed that the Memoran dum of a recent conversation of myself and friends with tho friends of Mr. Brooks has re ceived, in some quarters, from its position, as appended to Mr. Brooks’ speech, an interpre tation which does injustice to its real meaning and to my intentions. This is what I say, and have said, in rela tion to my speech : That I observed in it the rules of personal and parliamentary decorum ; that 1 could not qualify or retract any portion of it, and held myself responsible to any gen tleman aggrieved by it. This is the only construction which I sup posed would bo placed on tho memorandum, which my friends reduced to writing, that there might be no misnnderstanding. But, inasmuch as attempts, not altogether unsuc cessful, have been made to pervert its true meaning, 1 now withdraw it. And, that there may not be any misapprehension in the future, I say, explicitly, that l leave my speech to in terpret itself, and hold myself responsible for it, without qualification or amendment. A. BURLINGAME. Washington, July 19, 1856. A Now Yorker has invented and will soon apply for a patent, for a glass ballot-box for the prevention of frauds. We do not think it will bo found any more available than a wood en one. The Tobacco Crop. This important crop, in Decatur, which is uow boing gathered and cured, is said to be better than usual. There will be a larger yield, and tho tobacco, of better quality, than last year. A tobacco planter just below this has a field of four acres that will average sev en feet high, or thereabout. We cannot, how ever, speak of the crop in every part of tho county. It may be sorry in some places, as the quality and quantity of other crops are not uniform throughout the couuty, the rains hav ing been partial during the entiro season.— BainbriJge Argus. Southern Bank of Georgia. We learn that the stock of this Bank has been subscribed by citizens of Georgia, and that the Bank will go in to operation, with $50,- 000 in coin paid in, ns soon as the engraving can be completed, which will be in time for the opening of the full business. The location of this Institution in Southern Georgia, is an important acquisition to this portion of the State, as well as u our sister States, Alabama and Florida, whete heretofore no Banking facilities have been afforded, and we predict for it, a prosperous ani successful issue. The Officers of the Han't have not yet been selected, but will be such thtt the community can rely upon for their integrity and honesty. BainbriJye Argus. Whig, in noticing the last l„wfno° f Martl !) Van Buren - P a l s hir “ the fol lowing merited compliment: “If there is a man within the limits of tho Republic, who is cordial y abhorred and detested by intelligent and patriotic men of all parties at the South, that man is Martin Van Buren.” Buchanan’s Early Love. The next number of Harper’s Magazine will bave un article on the “Youth of James Bu chanan,” containing, among other things, an explanation of his bachelorhood, which it is alleged is owing, not to cold-hearted indiffer ence, but his fidelity to an early love. Some of tho papers have procured advance sheets, from which they make copious extracts, flav j ing often spoken of Mr. Buchanan’s bachelor hood, the only point against him which our neutrality permitted us to make, we publish so much of the romantic story ns will set him | right. We should remark that the speaker using the following language is Mr. Buchanan himself. He i addressing a lady friend, who by her blandishments betrayed him, in a mo ment of enthusiasm, to relate his story, as a reply to her recommendations of a young lady whom she wished Mr. Buchanan to marry : “It was my good fortune, goon after I en tered upon tho active duties of my profession, to engage the affections of a lovely girl, alike graced with beauty of person and high social position. Her mother, her only living parent, was ambitious; and, in the thoughtless desire to make un alliance of fashion, opposed the union of her child with one who had only his talents and the future to give in return for so much beauty and wealth. Tho young lady, however, was more disinterested; mutual vows of at tachment were exchanged, a correspondence and frequent personal interviews succeeded, aud the future seemed to promise a most hap py consummation of all our wishes. At that time 1 had just commenced, under favorable circumstances, my profession in my native town; and, making some character, was final ly engaged as counsel in a suit of importauce before one of the courts holden in the city of Philadelphia. The opportunity was favorable to make an impression if I possesed the abili ty to do so ; and I gladly accepted the position, and bent my whole energies to accomplish my auibitiuu. Arranging to write frequently to one who divided my heart with my business du ties, and to receive frequent epistles in return, I set out for Philadelphia, expecting to be ab sent at most not more than two weeks. The law’s delays, however, detained me a month be yond the anticipated time; and, although I suc ceeded beyond my most sanguine expectations, and established myself in a position before the highest court of my native State, my triumphs were dashed that in all the time thus engaged I had not received a line from Lancaster, in stead of which, the atmosphere was filled with rumors that the person upon whom I had set my affections had been seduced into the ambi tious designs of her thoughtless parent, and that I had been discarded—a thing 1 could not believe, and yet which the dreadful silence seemed to indorse. •‘At last, released from my engagement, I took the usual, and, in those days, the only conveyance to Lancaster—the stage. The idle ness consequent upon traveling gave time for consuming thoughts, and my suspense became painful to the last degree; and, unable to bear the slow pace of my conveyance, 1 determined to anticipate the usual time of my journey, by making the last miles on horseback. In carry ing out this determination, I mounted a fleet steed; but just as I reached the suburbs of my native place, the animal, from some unaccount able causo, sprang from the road, threw me with force, breaking my arm and otherwise in juring my person. Picked up by my friends, I was conveyed helpless anb full of physical aud mental agony, to my home. Scarcely had the surgeons performed the necessary duties, than one, whom I esteemed a friend, announced to me the gossip of the village, and, among other things, detailed the particulars of tho court ship and engagement of the young lady in wlinm I wow intoi.outo.l with a wall known person of neighboring city—a person whose claims to regard no one could dispute. These things, stated with such apparent good faith, connected with that fearful silence of six long weeks, had no other effect than to increase my anxiety to unravel the mystery; and on the following morning, concealing my wounded limb under n cloak, probably pale and haggard 1 presented myself at the mansion of my mis tress. 1 was received in the presence of the mother. She confirmed my suspicions. The young lady stood by, the picture of despair, yet silent us the grave. Desperate at what seemed this had faith, I returned to my house, wrote u hasty letter demanding my correspon dence, and returning at the same time, every once cherished token of affection. I received all 1 sent for, save, perhaps, some forgotten flower. “That night the young lady, accompanied by a female servant, left for Philadelphia. Arriv ing at her uncle’s house, she complained of be ing tutigued with her journey, and retired to her room. Complaining of some serious pain, only soothed by narcotics, she sent her faithful but unsuspecting servant aud friend to a neigh boring drug store for some laudanum, received it, expressed the wish t* be left alone, and seem ingly retired to sleep. The following morning, not making her appearance, the family became alarmed, broke open the door, aud found the young lady dead—in her hand the little keep sake retained from my correspondence. The uncle, as if comprehending the particulars which led to this dreadful tragedy, had the body eucojlined, and with it returned to Lancaster. Placing all that remained of this once lovely being in the parlor, he brought tho mother forward, and displayed, what he was pleased to term, the result of her work. “ 1 was sent for, and arrived to wituess the eloquent agony of that mother’s heart. Over the cold remains of the daughter she revealed tho particulars that led to the awful result.— My letters and hers, by untiring industry, the command ol large resources, and paid agents, had been all intercepted. The reasou of my prolonged absence in Philadelphia had been ex plained us the result of the faseinating charms of city belles; even au engagement had been pronounced. All this while the victim lmd been full of hope. She had heard of my arri val in Lancaster, but not of my accident; for long weary hours sho sat in the parlor waiting my presence, but doomed to disappointment. Here was seeming iudiffernee, a confirmation of all that she had heard. On the other side, I was made the dupe of the mother’s arts, and the fiend who had poisoned my ear was merely the agent to carry forward the great wrong.— The last interview 1 have described, which re sulted in the return of correspondence, was en shrouded in the consequences of all these plans. The result was death to one party, and the bu rial of the heart of the other, in the same grave that closed over one who could not survive the wreck of her affections.” Hon. C. J. Jenkins. Wo have it on authority which we deem re liable, that this distinguished ornament of tho Whig party of Georgia—their candidate for Governor in 1853, refuses to support Mr. Fill more. If he votes at all, it will be for Buch anan. Such at least, we are informed, is hia counsel to his friends — Sav. Georgian. Twenty Californians, in a card in the Wash | ington Union, vindicate Hon. P. T. Herbert ; from the abuse of the California papers. telegraphic items. Later from Europe. N>w York, July 23.—The Persia has ar j rived with Liverpool dates to the 12tli inst. Commercial. The Liverpool Cotton Market was steady, and prices unchanged. The sales the i woeek ending the 10th inst., comprised 35,000 bales, of which speculators took 3000 and ex porters 1600, leaving 30,400 bales of all de scriptions to the trade. The market closed at 7d. for Fair Orleans 6 5-10d. for Middling Or leans, h£d. for Fair Uplands, and 6 316d. for ; Middling Uplands. The whole stock of Cot- j ton in port amounted to 700,000 bales, of which 575,000 were American. A dispatch dated at 3 o’clock on the afternoon of tho 12th inst., says that tho sales on the 11th instant, comprised 11,000 bales, and that the market was unchanged in every respect. It being race week at Liverpool rendered the Cotton Market less brisk than probably it otherwise would have been. Advices from Havre to the Bth inst. stato that the sules during the week hud comprised 11,000 bales at 95 francs. The bullion in the bank of England had de, dined £450,000 Sterling. Consols for money closed on the 12th inst. at from 95* to 95jj, and for account 955. Lowe and Lawe, at Manchester, had failed. A large cetton house in Liverpool, has also suspended payments. The unfavorable weather for harvest opera t ons in England, have stiffened prices, in corn, wheat and flour, and the tendency is to a further improvement. Provisions generally are held at very high prices. General Intelligence- There was nothing new in relation to Amer ican affairs, except that the English press had assumed a milder tone on the Central Ameri can question. The ship G. A. Hopley, from Liverpool for Charleston, is a total wreck. The Spinning Mills of Joseph Ainsworth, at Bolton, running 800 spindles, have been consumed by fire. The Persia brings the intelligence of militia riots having oocurred in Ireland, in which sev eral were killed. [We believe the English government authorized the formation of mili tia companies in Ireland, for tho protection of garrisons, public works, and other military purposes, when the Crimean war drew off all the English troops from Ireland. Those mili tia, wc think, were organized for five years. As the regular English troops have returned from the East, it is probable that some conflict may have resulted, and may at least partially explain the dispatch which we publish above. — Con. Jj - Rep.] Brooks and Burlingame. Washington, July 23.—C01. Brooks has published a long statement in the Union, and says that Mr. Burlingame designates Niagara as the point where the difficuly shall bo nego tiated, but that Mr. Burlingame is well aware that it would be impossible for him—Colonel Brooks —to reach the place and return without running the gauntlet through mobs, assassins, penitentiaries, bailiffs, constables, &c., and that the proposition is too preposterous for acceptance, and therefore, he now leaves him to the indignation and condemnation of hon orable men, but will accept a challenge from him hereafter. From Washington. July 23.—The Senate has passed the House bill authorizing the balance of the one hundred and sixty-one thousand dollars, appropriated last year, to be used for removing the bars in the Savannah river, caused by the old wrecks. Tho House to-day ousted Jose Manuel Gal legos, nrwl nflmittpil Otero as tho Dole gate from New Mexico. Bird B. Chapman has been sustained ns tho Delegato from Ne braska Territory. July 18. —A causus of Democratic Senators and members of Congress, was held in the Senate Chamber, on Wednesday evening, and was largely attended. The object aud purpose of the meeting was to compare notes, and a general consultation as to what was necessary in various States to ensure success, aud how matters stood in certain localities. The most glowing accounts were given by tho Northern and North-western members, of the position of tliiugs in their immediate localities. They all predicted that victory would crown their efforts, aud that the bright star of Democracy never shone with more brilliancy and effulgen cy than at present. Senator Janies, of Rhode Island, in a very eloquent and happy spirit, pledged “Little Rhoda” to tho Democracy. The announcement was received with proud satisfaction, as you may supposo. Indeed, to carry that little Abolition Know Nothing State would be a triumph worthy the Jacksonian era. Indiana, llinois, Michigan, Maine, New Hampshire, and Connecticut, were pledged to Buchanan and Breckenridge by tremendous aud overwhelming majorities. • Indian Battle &c. St. Louis, July 19. —Intelligence from the Plains states that a sanguinary battle had oc curred at the crossing of the Arkansas river on the Sauta Fe road, between the confede rate Sacs and Foxes aud the Oamanche In dians, resulting in a complete route of the lat ter. Tho loss of tho Camanches was twenty one, whilst the Sacs and Foxes lost but two. It is noted as a curious coincidence that at the same time two years ago, a hostile meet ing occurred at tho same place between the same parties with precisely the same result. Another meeting was held last night prepar atory to the organization of a Roman Catholic Association, whose object shall be to enable emigrants of that faith, of whatever national ity, to settle on vacant lands in Missouri. The shares of stock have been fixed at $lO. The Railroad Accident. Philadelphia, July 19.—Henry O’Brien, Thomas Kelly and Bernard Donneghau, who were injured on tho North Pennsylvania Rail road, have died of their wounds, making the number of dead fifty-nine. ■ ♦ A Revolutionary Heroine The Winnsboro’ (S. C.) Herald records the death of Mrs. Mary Barkley, at the advanced age of 97 years and 4 mouths. For seventy five years she had been a consistent and pious member of tho Presbyterian Church. At “ the time that tried men’s souls” she had at tained to womanhood, and although then be trothed to the one she loved, sho sacrificed their mutual affections for the espousal of her j country’s cause, and bade her lover go to avenge her country’s wrongs. He obeyed her commands and went to return no more. When his death was announced to her, she i with the fortitude of the mother of the Grac ! chi, rather bonsting of his patriotic martydom j than lamenting his loss, remarked, “we were to be married after the war.” She afterwards became the wife of Mr. Hugh Barkley, and settled in Winnsboro’, where she continued to reside till the day of her death, enjoying in her owu private way social and domestic happiness. Last week Capt. Win. T. Gale fell dowu a flight of stairs at theoffico of the “Bay State” I newspaper, in Lynn, Mass., injuring hinisolf j to badly that he died the next day. GENERAL ITEMS. “ Though lost to sight, to memory dear,” : as the maiden said to her lover, when his face j was buried in beard and whiskers. Tho Sultan has made a rich present to Miss Nightingale for her heroic services in the war. Mrs. Col. Fremont is sojourning at Old Point, Virginia. Senator Seward, in a recent speech, highly complimented Senator Rusk, of Arkansas, who whipped Greeley. Senator Wilson, of Massachusetts, denies that he intends to support Gov. Johnson, in stead of Dayton, for the Vice Presidency. The Republicans have contrived to get all Sumner’s speech printed in a Congressional document about the assault case. The Duke of Bedford aud the Marquis of Westminster have contributed each £10,009 towards the erection of new churches in Lon don. A country editor thinks that Richelieu, who declared that the “pen was mightier than the sword,” ought to have spoken a good word for the scissors. ’’JL’is wicked to persist in kissing a pretty girl when she absolutely declares she don’t wish you to do it. It looks as if you doubted her word. A fight took place in a ballroom in New Or leans last week, occasioned by a gentleman insulting a lady who had refused to dance with him. One gentleman was killed and several others seriously wounded. Anew theatre is tobebuilt onßroadway, N. York, for Miss Laura Keene. The site is near Niblo’s Garden, and according to the contract the theatre is to be completed in sixty days. A hydraulic railway has been tried near Tu rin. The rails are laid by the side of a swift canal in which the paddle wheel of the locomo tive rotates, and so draws the train up an in cline. Grooved iron knees are now used in Liver pool for strengthening ships, in lieu of wooden ones of natural growth, and are said to be in finitely superior. A plan for an agricultural school in connec tion with Yale College, is now before the peo ple of Connecticut. It is proposed to locate the school at New Haven, where the advan tages already existing are estimated at SIOO,- 000. Signor Angius, of Turin believes he has solved the problem of controlling the move ments 6f balloons. Heated air to be the mo tive power; the car of metal; aluminum to be chosen, because of its strength and light ness. The ex-Queen Amelie, in the name of her self and the princes and princesses of her fami ly, gave 25,000 francs to tho sufferers by the inundations in France. The collection in Paris now amounts to two millions. The Halifax Morning Chronicle states that the sub marine cable connecting Cape Breton with Newfoundland, which was submerged on the 10th inst., works admirably, messages being transmitted from shore to shore with tho utmost facility. The passengers by the Cunard steamer Afri ca, ou her last voyage home to Liverpool, were so much pleased with Captain Shannon’s un wearied vigilance in keeping clear of ice bergs, that on arrival, they subscribed fifty pounds, and presented him with a gold watch. It is said there is a chap down east so mean that ho makes gruel of two bone buttons in a pint of water. This lasts him exactly one month. lie has used the buttons so long that he has boiled all the holes out of them. He keeps warm in the winter time by standing under his next door neighbor’s gas lamp. The New York Herald’s city of Mexico cor respondent states that Secretary Marcy had sent a proposition to President Comonfort to purchase another slice of Mexico. Marcy’s offer, it is stated, was $6,000,000 for the 31st parallel of latitude for the boundary line to the Gulf of California. The attempt to maintain the price of bread in Paris at a low and invariable standard against natural effect of the law of demand and supply has proved a failure. The experiment has cost the government of France about ten millions of dollars during the two years and a half of its trial. President Comoufort of Mexico has issued a decree requiring the church to sell its vast real estate within three months, and take mortgages for the purchase money. What then is to be done with these mortgages ? That is the next question which will impoverish the clergy. This decree is only a half meas ure, and, like all half measures, it will be found not to answer. Asa freight train passed through the Le high Gap, Pennsylvania, last Saturday after noon, a woman coming from behind a brush heap, threw herself lengthwise between the rails. The breaks were applied, but on the train rushed, passing over the prostrate body, but had hardly passed, when the woman jump ed up, entirely unhurt, and went back into the woods. There w r as no cowcatcher to the loco motive, and hence her escape. A California paper states that during a per formnnee of Lee & Marshal’s circus, in the Southern Mines, a company of banditti stole ten of their trained horses from a shed adjoin ing their tent. On discovering the fact the actors mounted the remaining horses, went in pursuit, routed the bandits, and recovered all their animals. Renewed efforts, it is said, are being made for opening the Tehuantepec route across tho isthmus. It is intended to put the steamers upon tho river Cuazaculca, navigable for nine ty miles for light draught vessels, and to con struct a carriage road from the head of the river navigation to Veutoza, on the Pacific shore, a distance of eighty miles. The latest news from the silk worms is to the effect that, in France they will make scarce ly a quarter of a crop ; Lombardy more than a regular crop, and Piedmont aud Sicily a good middling crop. From Turkey, the accounts are very tavorable. Under these circumstan ces it was thought the fears lately prevalent, owing to the exaggerated reports of a general failure, would considerably be mitigated. “ Anew kind of fraud,’’says the Journal of Elbeuf, “has jnst been originated. Ladies’ muslin collars, to all appearance, handsomely embroidered, are offered for sale, and when the purchaser proceeds to handle the new article a little roughly the seeming embroidery falls off, being nothing else than little lumps of pa per cleverly pasted on the muslin. A man has been arrested in this town for selling such ar ticles. The little steamer Jesse Lazier, on her late trip to Kansas, encountered a storm iu the Mississippi, which nearly capsized the boat. The chambermaid aud a barrel of whisky roll ed overboard, when sho righted, and the pas sengers, by great exertions, fished up the spilt cargo. From tli<i Augusta Conltitui l(llla | i; , t ol , he .. ft Fires Tuesday Night. ~ 1 A fire broke out on Tuesday v i I half-past 10 o’dock, in an untenanSd altl mentof the long range of wooden buildb. I belonging to the Augusta pany, aud used as residences bv a n.,, ti tho operatives in that Factor/ -m, J‘ un * twelve tenements in the row, snd th„ a curred iu No. 10. The b.li “J r “I ly consumed. utll l ! After the Fire Companies had left a fir J” discovered in one of the tenements of the T joining brick row, caused, as wesupp o*e,l 0 *e,I a spark or contiguous fiako from the file f A ing through a chimney and igniting souie’crnl bustible materials on the hearth. This X soon suppressed, with comparatively no or trouble. J °W About three o’clock in the morning aiu i| very short time after the previous alarm tIT back store of Ramey & Story was discovered fc be on fire, as well as a small house close b® The roof of the store house was considerab* burned, but no injury was caused to the oth® house. The stable on the alley running from R e fi j nolds to Bay street, near the liver, used Rand, Wilcox & Cos., was entirely consume® together with what corn, fodder and havue® were in the house. Five fine dray horses wel saved from the flames by great exertion*. This fire followed soon after the one previoufi ly reported. Some few outhouses adjoin® the stable were also consumed. Immediately utter the stable was consume* a tire was discovered in the back store in tb* rear of Wheeler’s buildings, in the upper j,. irt of the city. The alarm was given so early that but little damage was done. On Monday morning last, an attempt w J made to set fire to this back store, but the es. fort resulted in a failure. The row of buildings at the Factory— 1 0 J about $5,000. The loss to the operatives ■ clothes, bedding, furniture, &c., though small will fall upon a class who are almost homs less and penniless, and several of them witi sick families. The property and goods at the fire in R*. mey &Story’s back store the loss will be about $250. The stables and provender, &c., the loss wii be about SSOO. Loss at the back store fire will be trifling. 1 We did not learn that any of the propert was insured. There cannot be a question that the sou principal fires were caused by incendiaries Not a citizen entertains any doubt about this What efforts are ever made by our corpoi ate authorities to discover the origin of fire in this city ? This is a question frequently asked, and we should be pleased to be able ti satisfy the public upon this point. All of our Fire Companies, and the Hool and Ladder Company, had their hands full ol Tuesday night. They obtained water fron the Canal a distance of several hundred yards to play upon the Factory buildings, and the; worked long and devotedly. When they hat returned to their Engine Houses, anothe alarm was sounded, and they were employed from one point to another, until the dawn o the morning. Col. Fremont’s Wealth. It is true (says the Washington Union) thai the Supreme Court has decided that the legal title to the Mariposa estate is in Col. Fremont, and that a patent has issued to him; but il does not follow that this decision makes the estate available as a source of wealth to the successful litigant. Col. Fremont is not in pos session of a single acre of the eleven leagues on the contrary, there are on the estate thou sands of men, women, and children, who claim the property as settlers, and who are resolved to maintain the possession at all hazards. II is unquestionable that Col. Fremont could not now go to the Mariposa estate, and assert his right to the property without risking hi: life. We have before us the Weekly Ledger, of the 7th of June, published at Volcono, in the vicinity of the Mariposa property, which discloses fully the obstacles to Col. Fremont’s enforcement of his legal title. It says: In countries where monarchy exists, the precious metals in the soil belong to the sov ereign ; so in this republican country, the gold and silver in the soil should and does belong to the sovereigns—the people —and they should forever bo allowed the free right to dig for it wherever they can find it. Let it but be attempted to interfere with the the miners iu Mariposa and Amador, and the anti-rent or Van Rensalaer troubles in New York will find very much more than a parallel in California. The mining districts are thick ly populated, and the hard-fisted yeomauy of the mountains will defend each other, if nec essary, to the last extremity. — Mrs. Partington on Kansas. Mr. Shillaber, in describing a visit from tho ] talkative Mrs. Partington, to his editorial j sanctum recently, says: We asked her opinion on the Kansas ques tion. “They can be cured, though they are very painful and irrigating, yet they can be drawed out by plasters. They are humorous things, and may be eradicated by proper rem edies.” Heaven help us! she was thinking of eradicating cancers. We looked at her with surprise, mingled with admiration. Here wa an instance of sublime simplicity. Here was one who knew nothing of the Kansas question. ; —whose mind was yet fresh from the pollution j of “border ruffians” or “squatter sovereignty —and we vowed that such a mind, thus uncon taminated, was a treasure indeed. W e looked on her as she sat there, but said nothing Like Ensign Stebbings, after bis Fourth oi July dinner, we were too full to speak. It is not what people eat, but what they di gest that makes them strong. It is not what they gain, but what they save, that makes them rich. It is not what they read, but what they remember, that makes them learned. 1’ is not what they profess, but what they prac tice, that makes them righteous. Revenge is longer lived than gratitude. Lu dorse Mr. .Smith’s note to keep him from bursting, and he will forget all about it in a month. Pull Mr. Smith’s nose, and he will cherish a secret desire to burn your house down for the remainder of his life. Revenge is a passion. Gratitude appears to bo o n b’ a sentiment. We can all hate. But it is omy one man in a hundred who possesses seu-e enough to bo thankful. ■ ♦ A Miss Ilinstou, residing near Dyersbuig. Tenn., committed suicide by hanging herse. on the 4th of July. Miss 11. lived with a step father, aud was denied the privilege ot pa' 1, cipatiug ou the 4th iu any of tho enjoyment of the day, in common with her half brotheis and sisters, aud feeling aggrieved ot this pat Utility upon the part of her step father, retir ed to her room and deliberately hung herse Some curiosity monger has discovered that the following sentence, contains all the L’ “ of tho alphabet: “John P. Brady ga re me black walnut box of quite a small si**-