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COLUMBUS: Wednesday Morning, July 30, 1850. LAIUiKST CITY CIRCULATION. m —. —__ ..... . , i . ■ ■ . . SBNT BY RISE, PATTEN’ &, CO., Warehouse and Commission Morchants, COLUMBUS, UKOKOIA. We would call the attention of the reader to the advertisement of Messrs. Ruse, Patten & Cos., Warehouse and Commission Merchants. —♦ - To Correspondents. “Rob Acre.”—We shall endeavor to make room for you to-morrow. Have been pressed for want of space ever since receipt of your favor. To Our Exchanges. Such of our exchanges as Can make room for it, will greatly favor us by giving our Weekly Prospectus a place in their columns, and call ing editorial attention thereto. Those of them who comply with this request, will find us al ways ready to reciprocate in kind, when re quested. Bolar Anniversary. ‘To-day the Columbus Sun is three hundred and sixty-five days old. Just one year ago to-day, the good people of Columbus were startled from their propriety and no little amazed at the appearance in their midst, of a bonafide daily paper. Daily papers were no novelty to them ; but a Columbus daily!—that was indeed something new. The sympathiz ing felt sorry for us, for they were not alto gether sure that the next day would find us flapping through the streets, thus securing to Columbus a daily for two days at least. Fogy ism, good, honest, old fogyism, shook its ven erable head at our temerity, and sighed to think how fast the city was getting. The wise-acres thought we might “fora few days” continue, soon to be “going home;” while the timid waited for some guaranty of perma nence, before investing—truly a queer idea. Suppose we had drowned while they were waiting! Nino perilous days went by, and with our great prototype, who some years since commenced showing a light at a distance of ninety-five million miles away, we, punctual as he, Caine up on the tenth day—and were no longer a nine day’s wonder ! Under the able management of our brother Martin (now of tho Enquirer) the Suu grew brighter daily. In a short time, it threw off its long clothes, expanded in size, and donned its present at tire. From the day of its birth till now, it has steadily increased in patronnge, mid has given us daily demonstration that we had cal culated aright—that a business and reading community, in a thriving and rapidly enlarg ing city, will support a daily paper if it be of fered them. It was uphill work with us at first ; it will ever be so where the general habit of reading a daily, has not been formed; this once acquired and it remains forever. We confidently believe that Columbus has ful ly contracted this habit; that she expects her Sun with the morning meal, and is much pro voked when the carrier forgets her; in some instances even, the Suu is called for overnight by the impatient reader, who in these stirring times is rabid in his demand for nows. There fore we say, that whatever our lot may be; — though we may bo called upon, long before our great namesake, to play Othello, and “put out the light ’ —though tho Sun may go down, and somo other daily rise next morning in its place, wo shall ever claim for ourselves as the pioneer daily of Columbus, to have made not only a daily possible, here, but no daily im possible. The poople of Columbus will have a daily from this time, henceforth and forever; if not ours, then somebody’s; and if not ours so mote it be. Soi. never yet played the dog in the manger. In conclusion of this rather loug and “ half scandalous” piece—excusable we hope as its our birthday—we beg to return our acknowl edgements to tho people of Columbus, not only for tho substantial aid they have extended us, but for many an encouraging word—the most powerful stimulant to laudable ambition. Tbe Suu has risen above the tree-tops—got out of the woods-—but is not yet all we wish it. In voking tho aid of those who have stood by us thus far, we shall continue our efforts on our upward way, hoping ere ninny years to attain tho meridian, wbere wo shall stop—because that’s the highest point; to pass it would be to retrograde. Wegteatly admire our name sake, who makes all this hot weather, but cue bad habit of his we will strive against forever —that of going down. We respectfully direct the attention of our readers to our prospectus for a weekly issuo ; which having done, with a thousand thanks to the friends of the Sun for seeing us safely through a first volume, and with our best bow to all Columbus, sub scribers, uou-subscribers and borrowers, wo closo up the first volume of the Daily Sun, and open afresh one, full as yet of unsullied and meaningless pages, but duly to bo written upon as the day:= mil over us. Puffing ad Nauseam. Newspaper puffing has long been at a ridi culous height, but it seems there is room yot left for further absurdity. We noticed in one of our exchanges yesterday, a puff of a parson for the manner in which he baptised some lit tle children—copied from a Virginia paper for the gratification of tho Reverend gentleman’s numerous friends 1 Gentlemanly steam boat Captains, princely lanulords, and obliging Postmasters have long been common ; but this last touch almost caps the climax. Soon wo shall see puffs, no doubt, of hearse drivers, for their handsome manner of holding their doleful ribands, and of undertakers, for their artistic style of usingtheir screw-drivers. The disgusting practice to which wo allude, lias been carried to such extremes by tbe Ameri can press, it must necessarily work its own cure at an early period. Alroady, newspaper puffs are iu such general direpute with men of sense, that even an honest expression of commendation is classed with the rest—as gas, pure gas, meaning nothing. Editors will af terawhile learn from this, to be discriminating and more economical with their puffs: nnd thus retrieve the reputation they have so de servcdly lost. Watering-Place Items. Letters from Old Point. Virginia, say that there arc between four aul six hundred visit ors there. At Rockbridge Alum Springs, Va., there are five hundred visitors. At the Green brier, four hundred, at the Fauquirer White Sulphur, three hundred, and at the Montgom ery White Sulphur, three hundred. A Newport letter to the New York Miror, says that a great sensation was lately pro duced there, by the arrival of thirty trunks belonging to a handsome New York widow— one of the trunks being almost as large as an Irish shanty. Among the visitors at the White Sulphur, Virginia, are Chancellor Buckly of Miss., Judge Hopkins of Alabama, and Charles Louis Bonaparte, the last named being an interesting little lad of 13 years old, and grand nephew of Napoleon Bonaparte. Philadelphia has the belle there this season, Baltimore who ruled last year, having surrendered the palm. The broad swiss bat is very common among the la dies, and the hoops are carrying the day. The Montgomery (Ala.) Mail has the follow ing : Ono who is posted, says that tho most bril liant galaxy of beauty which ever shone at any point in Alabama, now blazes at Shelby Springs. The ladies have literally taken pos session of the establishment; and from all ac counts they have a most delightful time of it. The nights have been almost cold, thus far in the season ; musquitoes, there are none ; the music is from the French opera, New Orleans; the scenery and atmosphere are almost heav enly; while the hotel arrangements, larder (inclusive,) are thrice excellent. The company, as we have said, is very large and very brilliant, but presents the queer fea ture of wanting young men, almost entirely. It is supposed that there has been a combina tion among the girls, to send the present crop of masculine youth to other resorts, in order to be rid of them. Avery good plan !—but an elderly “bach,” at our elbow, suggests that even now tho ladies would be glad to see a •dozen or two handsome fellows coining. Per haps so—but being a Benedict ourself, we are half inclined to visit immediately those de lightful shades where there are scores of girls and only a sprinkling of moustaches. A Cape May correspondent says there was a grand hop at Congress Hall on the evening of the 22d iust. He also states that a ball, in aid of tho Philadelphia sufferers by the late railroad accident was to be given last eveuing by the visitors to the Island, the proprietors of the Mount Vcrmon Hotel having generously tendered their mammoth dining saloon for the occasion. Georgia Air-Line Railroad. The corporators of this projected road (to run from Atlanta, to Anderson, S. C.) held a meeting at Atlanta, the 24th instant, and among others, adopted the following resolu tion ; Resolved , That the board deem it proper and wise that tho building of the Georgia Air Line Railroad be commenced as soon as prac ticable after the sum of seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars of stock shall be sub scribed by good and responsible subscribers, and not before; aud that no installment on subscription be called for until that sum is subscribed, except one per cent, to cover the expense of survey. We give place this morning to a communi cation from R. J. Moses, Esq., which he deems due him by way of personal explanation. We need hardly say that wo had no intention to put him in a false political position—neither do we think that our language is capable of that construction which has been put upon it by some. The words ( though present) were intended to indicate that he was an attendant on the meeting. And it is so common on such occasion, for gentlemen not to respond when called upon, though fully identified, it may be, with the aims and objects of the meeting where they are present, wo are surprised that any should infer, from our statement of such a fact in this instance, that Mr. Moses did not sym pathize with the proceedings. Bust of Columbus. Mr A. Herbemout, United States Consul at Genoa, Italy, possesses tbe only bust of Col umbus now in the native city of the great dis coverer. Mr. lierbemont found a bust in tbe Cnmpidoglio, at Rome, which was the only ono in Italy, except one at Naples. From the former ho procured two casts, one of which was sent to Sonth Carolina College Library, at Columbia, and the othcris in the U. S. Con sulate at Genoa. We know of no city better entitled to a copy of this bust, than our own. If a copy can be procured at any thing like a reasonable price, we should think it desirable to have ono for tho adornment of the Council Chamber. Volunteer and Fire Companies. For benefit of the Columbus Volunteer and Fire Companies, we clip the following recent Supreme Court Decision from the last Macon (Ga.) Telegraph. “A decision was made last week by tbe Su preme Court while in session in this city, by which the members of Military and Fire Com panies arc exempt from serving on Jury duty. The question of exemption was raised at the last term of our Superior Court by F. S. Bloom, Esq., Foreman of Protection Fire Com pany No. 1, and was decided adversely by Judge Powers. The case was, however, car ried up to the Supreme Court nnd there deci ded, ns above stated, in favor of the Companies who uuitc in pronouncing it a “righteous deci sion,” to which, wo think, the majority of our citizens will respond amen.” Stockton’s Letter of Withdrawal. Gentlemen : Our efforts to prevent the great American party from being sectionalized or abolitionized, have been successful. It has been purged of all sectional and abolition men and dogmas. The national camp has endorsed Mr. Fillmore’s Americanism, and he is pledged to uphold the integrity of American principles nnd the perpetuity of our reformed organiza tion. My object has been attained, and I am no longer n candidate for the Presidency. Your friend and obedient servant, R. F. Stockton. To Messrs. Allen. Jones, Robbinett, &c., &c., The political character of Mr. Speaker Banks has been sketched by the Boston Pilot. It says: “Banks was forty years of age last month. He has had a varied life. He lias been a factory boy, a earpeDter. a machinist, a danciDg master, an actor, an editor, a law yer, a national Democrat, a coalitionist, an ardent lover of the Irish, a champion of reli gious liberty, a Know Nothing, and is now a Know-Nothing-Frcesoiler. This is a chequer ed lise.” Communicated. Mr. Editor: In your report of the proceed ings of the Democratic meeting on Saturday night at Temperance Hall, you say, “ It. J. Moses was then loudly called for but not ap pearing, though present,” &c. As you have deemed it proper to bring my name before the public (of which I do not complain.) aud as my course on that occasion unexplained, might leave the inference that I either did not fully sympathise with the meeting, or that I was unwilling to declare my sentiments, 1 deem it proper to say, that 1 was not governed by any such influence; my reasons for not res ponding to the call were, Ist. That the hour was late, and the call by no means general. 2d. That I-have neither taste nor ability for public speaking, aud as the argument had al ready been exhausted, and the claims of the respective candidates presented with a degree of fairness, vigor and truth, far beyond my ability, 1 deemed that further remark from me would have been entirely out of place. I was an attentive listener to the able argu ments of our talented Elector and Judge Tra cy, who followed him, and when they con cluded, I felt that no man, whose senses were not sealed by party prejudice, could doubt that Millard Filimoro stood revealed the de feated rival of Win. H. Seward, iu a contest of twenty years ior the anti-slavery vote of the North, while the record of James Buchanan proved him to be, during the same period of time, the consistent advocate of the Constitu tional rights of the South. Between Millard Fillmore with but the frag ment of a party, standing upon a platform frotu which the only Southern Flank had been riven by the Freesoil power of the North, and James Buchanan, the leader of a great Nation al party, which in the impending crisis has boldly planted itself upon the constitution, and given to the country a platform on which eve ry conservative man in the Union can Island, and for which every Southern man should fight, rather than see it abandoned my choice is an easy one ; for I feel, beyond a doubt, that we must either carry tho Demo cratic party triumphantly through this contest, or be driven to the alternative of inferiority, vassalage and degradation in the Union, or Equality, Independence and Honor out of it. With these views I should be false to myself, to justice and to truth, if I were to desire to conceal my opinions, or fail on any proper occasion to enforce them; and so thinking, I stand ready at any time to maintain them in fair and free discussion, relying less upon my own ability than upon the strength of the cause of which I am an ardent advocate. Truly Yours, R. J. MOSES. Columbus, Ga., July 29, 1856. Go it Jessie 1 Having given the other day, a love-story about Mr. Buchanan, we now give one about Fremont; and if the Fillmore men can get up a love-scrape in which their candidate figured, we will also publish that. We quote from the Detroit Daily Advertiser;— Col. Tom Benton is a great man, sir! He always has been a great man since he has been any man at all. He was a great man, and a Senator from Missouri, with a house at Washington, when John C. Fremont was a poor draughtsman and mappist. Fremont would not have dared to proposo to Col. Ben ton to run away with him. Such a tiling would not have occurred to him, for he regarded Col. Benton with becoming awe. But Col. Benton had a daughter, a sweet and amiable girl, of whom young Fremont was not at all in awe.— He had passed many an evening in her compa ny, and the oftener fie saw her the oftener he wished to see her. Love overcame timidity, until one day he found himself hat in hand, with heated breath, in the presence of the Great Tom Benton, asking him for his daugh ter. But Tom would not do it. lie was inex orable, and he refused to do what in a few days afterwards he was ready to do—Tom refused to “give him Jessie.” He also forbade Fre mont the house; but that the draughtsman cared little for, because it was not the house lie wauted. Finding all persuasion useless, the young couple determined to be married clan destinely, and so they set about the prelimina ries. They found the Protestant clergy over awed by the awful dignity of Col. Benton, and afraid to act; but they found a Catholic priest, who stood iu no such fear, and the knot was tied. Just before the decisive step was taken, and while her last step lingered upon the pa ternal threshold, the sweet daughter’s heart yearned for the mother, who she was thus ab ruptly leaving, perhaps forever, and she hung her head and sobbed ; the carriage-door stood open, the horses pranced, and another moment, and all might have been lost. “Go it, Jessie,,, was the word from the bridegroom; the bound was made from Benton to Fremont, (a great leap at that time;) the horses tore the pave ment in their flight; the night wore on; “They’ll lmvefleet steeds who follow,” thought the young draughtsman, as his arm encircled Jessie, and he looked at that moon under which so many strange things have trans pired. Col. Benton waked in the morning, de scended to the breakfast table, but found no Jessie. Her room was explored, but no Jessie was fourft, and her bed had not een been oc cupied. There was the great Col. iu a great rage, sir. He frothed and foamed, and roared and ranted ; perhaps he swore. He promised he’d give the rascal a cowhiding—he’d give him six years in the penitentiary—he’d give him “ You had better give him Jessie ,” was the quiet suggestion of the mother—perhaps she was about half right. Power of the Imagination. A marvellous cure, through the influence of the imagination is related by the Westfield (Chautauque C 0.,) Transcript. It seems that an old gentleman by the name of Branch, of Jamestown, has revived the practice of heal ing diseases by “laying on of hands.” A young lady, daughter of Mr. John Wilcox, of Westfield, had been unnble to rise from her bed for fifteen months, without assistance, when Elder Branch, hearing of it, called upon her. nnd placing his Lnnds upon her head, told her to get up. She immediately rose from her bed and walked across the room. In three days she was able to go East, visiting. She has since returned, and is in excellent health. At a Black Republican meeting at Camden, N. J., negroes were invited to attend the gathering of their political friends. The in vitation was accepted by the colored republi cans of both sexes. The evening being warm, the atmosphero was not quite ns desirable as might have been, nnd so before the meeting was called to order, officers were despatched to induce them to retire, thus giving a practi cal commentary upon the hollowness of their professions about negro equality. TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS. From Washington. July 26. —Messrs. Burlingame and Camp bell are out iu a statement of three columns of the affair between Messrs. Brooks aud Burlingame. The tone is moderate, and Mr. Campbell assumes all the responsibility of tho management of the affair, aud says that he in dicated the time aud place of meeting, and that Mr. Burlingame was opposed to tho place, aud said that lie would meet Mr. Brooks in South Carolina or elsewhere. Iu the House of Representatives to-day no business of importance was transacted. There is great excitement here among the Irish population on account of the acquittal of Mr. Herbert. Two members of the Bar have beeu held to bail not to fight a duel, which seemed likely to take place in consequence of some difficulty that grew out of the trial. Mr. Herbert left the city this morning. Further from California, Oregon, Nicara gua and Mexico. New Orleans, July 26.—The steamship Grauada arrived at this port last night, with advices from San Francisco to the stli instant, aud Greytowu to the 21st. The Granada has on board §1,640,000 in specie. Iu San Francisco there was no abatement of the excitement. The Vigilance Committee was still iu session and firmly established, and had captured the government arms and ono hun dred prisoners. Judge Terry, of the Supreme Court, was arrested for stabbing a Committee policeman while making au arrest. The Go vernor remains at Sacrameuto. The ac counts from the mines are good, and the agri cultural prospects cheering. The conduct of Herbert in Washington excites indignation. In Oregon skirminishes continued to take place. Col. Wright had not been killed. Col. Buch anan had a fight at Big Meadows aud killed forty Indians. Few whites were killed. The election returns were not all in. The result, however, was probably Democratic. The Isthmus was quiet. Aspinwall was sickly. Col. Walker was inauguarated President on the 12th instant. Rivas holds Leon. It was reported that many natives had declared against Walker, considering that he had usurp ed the Presidency. Among the deserters were Kcndell and Gen. Chilton. Much sickness ex isted among W'alker’s troops, and desertions were frequent. Major Walters’ command had been sent to Leon on account of a rumor of the approach of armed forces from Guatemala, and were fired on by Rivas’ party. One was wounded, and several of Rivas’ party killed. Walters then retired. There was then no sign of an invasion, but it was certain that a North ern League existed, and au invasion was look for at the close of the rainy senson. The whole vote for President was 21,000, which Walker had 14,009. The rest were for Rivas. Advices from Mexico state that a conspiracy had been detected at Puebla to restore Santa Anna, and many persons were implicated. Texas. The Legislature of Texas commenced its session at Austin on the 7th inst. On the Bth the Governor transmitted a message setting forth necessity for action upon the code, at this session, and also in reference to the scc tionalizing of the public lands. The Legislature has passed an actgiviDg per sons unrestrained power to dispose of their property, by will, as they please. The Governor has vetoed the Texas Western Railroad Company bill, aud the bill granting the taxes to the counties, passed at the last session. Mr. Ochiltree, chairman of the House com mittee on slaves and slavery, has made a report, and introduced a joint resolution to appropriate §50,000, for the promotion of peaceable em igration to Kansas. The riport was adopted and the joint resolution was made the special order for the 16th inst. A letter from Austin to the Galveston News, says the river bill was set for the 16th inst., and the lone bill the 17th, and that there seems so be no doubt that the loan bill, in some shape, will pass. Tho newspapers say that a severe drought is prevailing in many portions of the State, especially on the Colorado and its tributaries. Corn has suffered. Cotton is also suffering but not so severely. Cass and Guy. A Washington correspondent of the Balti more Clipper says, Guy, Sr., of the National Hotel, and Gen. Cass are so much alike, ’lis hard to tell t’other from which. Last week a gentleman coming down the stairs cried out, “ Guy, I can’t stand this, being put in the third story; having to tramp three flights of stairs every time I go to my room!” The reply was —“Sir ! it is not Guy, but Gen. Cass you ad dress.” Gent apologised, and went out —soon returned : thought ho certainly saw Guy before him, exclaimed—“ Guy! Guy! a good joke—l mistook old Cass for you just now.” “Sir,” said the General, bluffly, “you meet Old Cass again.” American Genius. The inventive genius of American mechan ics, and the perfection of American machinery are now duly appreciated in England. They have the Bigelow loom for the weaving of vel vet and other tapestry carpetings, the Ame rican Type Casting machine, American improve ments in self-acting spinning mules, American patent axles, McCormick’s nnd other reaping machines, &c., &c., and now they are ordering and intioducing the Type Revolving Printing Machine of Messrs. Hoe &Cos., of New York, the most perfect Printing Press ever invented by the genius of man. The Catterpillar. We learn that this destructive insect has made its appearance in considerable numbers on some of tho plantations in this county. There is great danger of cotton being cut short if not entirely destroyed by them, us they have commence their ravages so early that there is scarcely nny cotton matured.— Claiborne [Ala.) American. A Costly Affair. Prince Paul Esterhazy, tlie ex-Plenipoten tiary of the famed “peace proposals,” is hard at work “geting himself up” for the imperial Russian coronation. Twenty blooded horses and carriages resplendent with gold and silver will form a potion of his magnificent “turn out.” His dress, however, will surpass eve rything. Those familiar with the value of gems say that it will cost several milliou of florins—a statement by no means exaggerated since nearly all the family jewels kept in the family castle of Torehtensteiu will be used for this purpose. A single buckle has cost 800,- 000 fiorins or §120,000, and other onrnments wit which his person will be fairly loaded are valuable in proportion. It is now said that ihe Jzar is sincere in his desire to abolish serfdom. A plan for its gradual extinction now commands the atten tion of the Russian Government. It is pro posed to raise a loan, by means of which the Gevernment will purchase the serfs from the private owners, and then liberate them under certain conditions. GENERAL ITEMS. When the butcher bird has secured a victim, it fixes the creature to a thorn, and then tears it to pieces with its bill. What a picture of at torney aud client! A French writer says:—“The seasons in London are equally divided, there are four mouths of winter, four of fog, and four of rain.” There are three things, said Socrates, which I have learned the utter inutility of asking tor; a woman’s age, a friend’s advice, and a cab man’s fare. In Galoa, Illinois, a Fremont paper has just appeared iu the Swedish language. Tbere are now 100,000 Swedes in the Northwest, aud this is their first political paper. The election in the Accomac district of Vir ginia, for a member of Congress, in place of Gen. Bayly, deceased, is to take place on the day of the Presidential election. The City Council of Richmond, Va., have passed an ordinance establishing the chain gang system, under which prisoners in the jail are to be employed on the streets, each prison er to have a ball and a chain afiixed to his leg. The train from Buffalo ou Thursday uuru ing, ran dowu to Rochester, a distance of 76 miles, in one hour and thirty-eight minutes, It consisted of five passenger cars, uud made five stops. Tbe operation of removing a man’s jaw was successfully performed on Tuesdny by Dr Petcolas, at the Medical College in Richmond The patient, a negro, was suffering from a cancerous affection. The Americans fur surpass the English in takiug Daugucrreotypes, Photographs and Ambrotypes. This is attributed by some to the great brightness of the American sun and the dryer character of our atmosphere. In Philadelphia they have meetings for the discussion of the question, “who should be the next President, of tho United States ? ” All partier participate. On Saturday night, about one hundred persons attended the de bate. Speaking aabout prayers, [Elder Knapp says: When Peter was endeavoring to walk on the water to meet his master, and was about sink ing, had his supplication been as long as the introduction to some of our modern prayers, he would have been fifty feet under water.’ The Lowell Courier states that the deposits at the Five Cents Savings Banks in that city ou Saturday, reached §207,000. Nine thous and dollars were depos ted on Saturday after noon. The smallest sum deposited was five cents. The largest §I,OOO. W'eclip the following from the N. O. True Delta : “We were presented yesterday, by Mr. Lawrence, with one of the ice-rined Virginia melons, grown in his garden. The one sent us as a sample weighed over sixty pounds, and was as luscious as it was large. The Amherst (Mass.) Express tells of a doe belonging to Enos Williams, of that town who, seeing a shovel fall unobserved from his master’s wagon, on the public road, watched over it for twenty-four hours, till his owner missing him, made search and recovered both dog and shovel. A portion of the rock over which the water falls at the Falls of St. Anthony, ™a for a distance of from fifteen to eighteen feet from the Minneapolis side, on the Bth instant! 1 he break does not diminish the length of the .all in the least, but removes that portion of it some distance farther up the stream. The King of Prussia has, devoted no les a sum thau £130,000 to the formation of a covered garden in the centre of that city to be used as a winter promenade by the inhabi tants of Berlin. A regular temperature is to be maintained, and rare exotics of warmer climes are to be cultivated in this truly royal The Charlettesville Jeffersonian states that on last Saturday week there remained onlv J. 1 ! t 0 Perforate in the main tunnel under the Blue Ridge. Last month 87 feet were cut through. In tbe Brooksville tunnel 38 feet remains to be arched, and will be finished before September. Daylight will shine througb ££!!“• before ,hec, “ ; The blubber on a fat whale is sometimes in its thickest parts from fifteen to twenty inches thick, though seldom more than a foot • it is of a coarse texture and much harder’ than pork So very full of oil is it that a cask ‘ closely packed with the clear raw fat of the whale, will not contain the oil boiled from it. and scraps are left besides : this has been fre quently proved by experiment. The spiritualists of New York held a picnic in a grove near Flushing, L. 1., a day or two since, when some live or six hundred are re ported to have been present, and the past times were as grotesque as might he witnessed among the less furious of the immates of a lunatic asylum—as ridiculous and harmless, perhaps, as childish sports. Smith, the Ra zor Strop Man, appears to have been the lead ing spirit, in the assembly. A few years since Colonel Colt went to Hart foul, Conn., penniless. The citizons enabling him to raise $25,000 capita], he began the manufacture of his levolvers, since so celebra ted throughout the country. His establish-. ment has supported hundreds of employees, Its has expended §1,000,000 in beautifying and improving the city, and he is to-day worth, probably, over §2,000.000. A good return that for a §25,000 investment. Peace and the Metals. ‘Before Man was created aud when Heaven aud Earth were without form aud void, Ged made the metals. Aud he locked them up in coffers os stone, and, setting huge rocks upon them, buried them deep under the ground. ‘First he made tho yellow gold—gorgeou ; ns the sun. And angels cried aloud, ‘we praise Thee, O Lordl Heaven and Earth art full of the majesty of thy glory.’ ‘Then the white silver—chaste as the moot) was made. And agaiu the angels cried: ‘we Praise Thee, O Lord! ‘Next copper was formed—red as the mor ning. And once morethe angels cried: ‘Heav en aud Earth are full of the majesty of thy * glory.’ ‘And then he made the iron—grey as night— and tbe lead—in color like the thunder cloud. But the angels grieved at the sigh’ and were silent. And Pence bent down her head and weeping . cried, ‘Make them not, make them not! mer ciful Farther! make them not! For, though * Thou lockest tlmm up in coffers of stone, and hidost them in the bowels of the earth, man will find them and use them to slay his broth- 1 er ; and I and my sister angels will have no * resting place on earth. ‘But the angels of Wisdom rose snd cried- 3 Make them. Lord, make them 1 for man after a time i suffered from slaughter, shall, with the iron, 1- set a girdle round about the Earth, that will lj§ prove a surer safe-guard than the sword, and bind tribe with tribe, and nation with nation, \ till tbe whole human race shall be linked.