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Wcdneiilay Morning, Aujgunt 6, 1H56.
LAROIIT CITY CIUCtLAI'ION.
, Another Old Citizen Gone.
We regret to huvo to record the death of
another old citizen of Columbus, and one of
her most worthy—Judge Ephraim C. Bandy—
which took place at Geneva, Monday last. !
Judge Bandy had been in feeble health for
some time, and was on his way to the Springs,
when arrested at Geneva, by the hand of
death. He was one of the first settlers of our
city—its first Marshal —and during his long
residence here, held several offices of honor
and trust, lie will be long remembered for
his kindness to the poor, his friendly assist
ance of the distressed and struggling, made at
large sacrifices to himself, and for his upright
ness and high character as a peaceable, order
loving c.tizen and gentleman. His remains
were carried to their Inst resting place yester
day afternoon.
Railroad Meeting.
A large preliminary railroad meeting was
held at Georgetown opposite Eufaula, on Sat
urday last, with a view to a railroad connec
tion of that section of country with Cuthbert,
Ga. Several speeches were made, ami a Com
mittco appointed to confer with tho parties at
Cuthbert. Tho Eufaula Spirit strenuously op
poses the policy advocated by Judge Kiddoo,
one of (he speakers, viz : that the people west
of Cuthbert, should assist in bringing tho
road to Cuthbert, and depend upon its being
extended to Eufaula. The Spirit wishes the
western interest to raise all the funds they can
to coutinuo the Road from Cuthbert, and thus
secures its extension, and be able to offer in
ducements to parties now building, or about to
build to that place.
The Georgia Plaindeuler.
Thisisthc title of anew, independent, week
ly journal published at Lumpkin, Ga., by E.
G. W. M’Knight, Editor and Proprietor, the
first number of which is upon our table, pre
senting a neat appearance, and well filled.—
The Proprietor has hud many and arduous dif
ficulties to contend with and deserves much
credit for his energy and perseverance. We
wish him every success. The price of the
Plaindeuler is $12.00 per annum ; and it will
be a good advertising medium for those desir
ous of reaching the people of Stewart.
Expected Editorial Duel.
A duel is anticipated betwoen Roger A.
Pryor of the Richmond Enquirer, and Mr.
Ridgway of tho Richmond Whig, growing out
of some severe strictures on the latter paper,
if we remember rightly, with regard to the
manner in which it was edited. The Enquirer
intimated that the Whig was a paper of no
ability, and offered tc furnish it with editori
als superior to those which it was in the habit
of publishing. Wo write from memory, and
while sure that we lmvo stated substantially
tho origin of the quarrel, we may have made
the wrong pa. ty the aggressor. We cannot
at the moment find the exchange paper in
which we read the combustive article. Mea
sures have been taken to arrest the parties,
but up to 10 o’clock Friday, they had not been
seen or heard of. It is to be regretted that
the editorial corps are not more of a fraterni
ty than they are.
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Blackwood’s Magazine.
The July number of this popular periodical
has been received. The following is its table
ot contents: I. The Crimoan Report, and
Chelsea Inquiry; 2. The Snow Storm; 3.
The Athelings, or the Throe Gifts.—Part II ;
4. Travels in Circassia.—Part II; &. Met
amorphoses ; A Talo. —I’nrt III; 6. Greece
and Italy; 7. The Scot Abroad.—The Man of
Council. 8. A Special Embassy in 1G98; 9.
The Dipute with America.
Tho now volumes of all tho British Reviews,
(except the North British) and Blackwood,
began in July. The present is therefore a
Favorable time for subscribing, and we know
of no investment bettor, for thoso who are
lound of the host standard literature of the
age. For terms &c. see first page and last
column of to-day's paper.
Leases by the Creek Indians.
Among the bills before the Senate on Fri
day, was a Senate bill to compensate citizens
of Georgin and Alabama for losses sustained
by the destruction of their property by tho
Creek Indians. A long discussion was had
upon it, but with what result, we do not yet
know.
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Gen. Eli W. Lawler, of Talladega county,
Ala., nn old and distinguished Clay Whig, is
out iu a letter in the Talladega Reporter, in
favor of the election of Buchanan. We give a
short extract from tho letter :
“I* ‘ s no “ evident, that outsideof the State
of New York, tho American party of the
Northern States is no longer, if it ever was,
conservative andju-t on tho subject of slave
ry ; and that the principle contained in the
lkth section of the platform adopted in June,
1800, has few supporters in flint part of the
luion. And although Mr. Fillmore has some
friends in all of the States, they have not
strength to carry a single Northern State, un
ri S 11 t.* Ncw Vork - nnd oven that is doubt-
Vv'.J “e Americans liavo affiliated with the
Abolitionists nnd in many States have been
almost entirely absorbed by them.
From Washington.
Our latest dates from Washington are by
mail, to Friday last.
The Senate passed several private bills, dis
cussed the notion of the recent naval board
and adjourned to Monday.
In the House, Mr. Boyce presented the
credentials of Hr.n. Preston S. Brooks, who
qualified and took his seat.
The Kansas contested election case was re
sumed. The Clerk finished the reading 0 f
Reeder’s statement. Mr. Whitfield argued his
||claim to the contested seat; and the vote was
then taken upon the resolution rejecting Whit
field. Adopted by 110 to 92. A resolution
was then offered, giving the seat to Reeder,
and voted down by 113 to 88. Private bills
were then considered and the House adjourn
ed.
If Elected.
If, contrary to present indications, to the
wishes of all Southern ‘men, and the hopes
nnd prayers of Northern conservatives and
patriots, Col. Fremont should be elected to
the Presidency, he will bavo to contend in tbe
outset of liis administration, with a difficulty
more perplexing and impracticable than has
ever presented itself for adjustment. Array
ed as lie is against the interests and rights of
tbe South where ho was corn and reared, we
cannot see how any Southern man could, in
justice to himself, his self-respect, and his na
tive land, accept, or continue to hold office un
t der him. We believe we speak the honest sen
; timents of Southern incumhents of govern
ment berths, when we say, that they would
I scorn with indignation not only a gift from
; such a hand, but the hand itself. How then
are the Southern custom houses, post offices,
etc., to be filled by the Black Republican
President? From the North? We opine not.
Northern incumbents would certainly not cross
Mason and Dixon’s line in the “ wild hunt;”
and wo should have presented us for the first
; time in the history of the Republic, the ano
i melons spectacle, office going begging, and
none poor enough to do it reverence! What
then would Col. Fremont do ? Turn traitor to
the party that placed him in this predicament,
as he has forgotten those but for whom he
would never have emerged from his obscurity ?
What man lias done, man may do; what a
given mail has done onco, he may do twice.—
But with two treacheries blazoned upon his
front, liow would his acceptability be heigh
tened in the eyes of Southern office holders or
seekers ? Would he then resign ? Would he
mount his woolly horse and scud for the moun
tains? Would he throw upon the ground the
bauble that tempted biin, and resort to mor
phine, or the Hudson river? Wh-t would he
do ? While we do not believe Col. Fremont’s
election to be within the limits of probability,
it must be remembered that possibility is a
realm whose boundaries are limitless as space.
He may be elected. It behooves him, and his
party, and all Northern men to ponder on this
gigantic dilemma, already beetling over them
with frowning brow, and from which, in the
event of his success, there is no hope of es
cape.
There is one hope yet for Fremont—there
is escape from obloquy, shame, and invincible
difficulty. Curtius, to save Home, gave up
his life, and dashed liis steed into a fathomless
abyss. No such sacrifice is demanded from
the Pathfinder. Let him strike his sixteen
starred flag—own like a man, that he was
tempted, tempted sorely, and fell. Let him
retire from a field in which, though his flag
should triumph for the moment, it must soon
trail in the dust. Let him, in a word, repent
and be forgiven. AVo do not implore this of
him ; we do not ask it as a favor. AVe sug
gest it to him as the only practicable and hon
orable course left him ; for we tell him now,
that the South, unless we grievously mistake
her, will never, never submit to his rule. Let
it be considerered thnt by this course he gains
all and loses nothing. His chance for election
is slim; his election secured, would guarantee
him the Presidency without power, and noth
ing else. By retiring from the field in time,
he may save his reputation, and add to it a
laurel, brighter than any that now adorns it
—sacrifice of his ambition rather than the dis
memberment of the American Union.
Fremont Stock Declining.
Recent indications shew that Col. Fremont
will not sweep the North so triumphantly as
was at first predicted. The conservatives—
the solid men—the large proDerty-Uoldovo, niiu
something to lose by his election, are
couuting up its cost. And ns the figures indi
cate a rather gloomy result, they are daily
becoming less infatuated, and before election
day will be prepared not only to refuse him
their votes, but to give them to one of the
other candidates. Whatever of patriotism too,
is at the North, will be brought out actively
in the coining struggle, and we need hardly
say, in opposition to Fremont. The Colonel
went up like a rocket at first, and he will
probably play a rocket's part till ho comes
down a stick. Aside from his sectionalism,
the election of a man of no more calibre or
experience than Col. Fremont, to fill the chair
once held by Washington, Madison, Jefferson,
and Jackson, would urgue a degeneracy in the
American people, foreboding the most disas
trous results to our future welfare as a na
tion. The times call loudly for an able Presi
dent—one who can not only refrain from wrong
doing, but from bungling; one capable of wise
right-doing—an active and positive, not a neg
ative President.
Col. Fremont’s election though daily be
coming more doubtful, is within the limits of
possibility. In such an event, speculation is
rife as to whut course the South should pursue.
It is hold by some that the South should sub
mit to his government, if constitutionally elec
ted, until some unconstitutional act in his ca
pacity as President, prompts her to resistance.
Mr Toombs, in a recent letter, (published in
yesterday's Sun) says, “The election of Fre
mont would be the end of the Union, and
ought to be. The object of Fremont’s friends
is the conquest of the South.” Mr. Toombs,
it seems, views the success of Fremont, as a
practical declaration of war upon the South.
It is our own opinion that Fremont’s policy,
should he be elected, would soon enable the
South to determine upon her position. He •
must do this, or prove a traitor to the party j
electing him. But sufficient for the day is its ;
evil.
Late telegraphic dispatches represent Gen. j
Persifor Smith as saying that if Gen. Lane
forced his way with armed men into Kansas,
he (Smith) would arrest him, though at a cost I
of five hundred dollars! The magnitude of
the sum will astound the ordinary reader; |
those accustomed to large sums, however, can
appreciate the remark. Wecannot help think- !
ing that the telegraph must have dropped some
ot the figures in bringing them through.
1 lie (. incinnati Times affirms there is an old
lady in that city so thoroughly anti-Catholic
in her tendencies, that she won’t read Pope’s
poetry. r j
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
The Hurricane—Additional.
Boston, July 30. Letters from Capt. Hen
ry Cork, of theSarnhLouisa, of Provincetown,
state that the hurricane at Green Island, wis
one of the most severe and destructive ever
experienced—the loss of life aud property be- j
ing very great.
The Sarah Louisa aud Samuel Cook, two ot
the vessels wrecked, were insured at the At
lantic Mutual Office, Provincetown, for eight
thousand dollars.
It was thought a vessel would be seut to the
shipwrecked men, who, it was feared, would
suffer severely from exposure and the want of
proper food.
The Disaster on the Mississippi.
St. Louis, July 30.—The burning of tbe
H. Larkin, occurred on Monday morning, when ;
nearing Chester. The flames spread with
much rapidity, nnd soon leveled the vessel to
the water’s edge. Fortunately all the passen
gers and crew were taken off and saved. The
private papers and books, belonging to the
steamer, were also got out safely, but it was
found impossible to save the baggage of the
passengers, all of which was lost.
Marine Disaster.
Plymouth, July 31—A letter from Captain
Howland, of the schooner Congress, of Ply
mouth, dated Plaster Cove, Gut of Canso, 21st
July, states that his vessel was totally lost on
Green Island, in a gale, on the 31st of June.
The captain and crew remained on the island
fourteen days, nnd were then taken off by tho
schooner Romp, of Tremont. He reports that
thirty one vessels were ashore out of thirty
two in the fleet.
Internal Improvements in the Berate.
In the Senate on Monday, the true construc
tion of the Democratic platform just prepared
at Cincinnati was demanded by Mr. Mason, in
order that the people lie represented and the
minority in the South might have a full tin- j
derstanding of the meaning hereafter to be
attached to that portion relating to a general j
system of internal improvement. AA r e once
had, he said, a Constitution which was rever
enced and respected as a safeguard for minori
ties ; but now all its barriers were overleaped,
and tbe will of a majority was to be ruthlessly
exercised, without regard to equality or jus
tice. The estimates of the proper departments
were scouted, and anew system of expendi
ture was inaugurated to give money for har
bors wherever it was asked, aud this without
such information as could satisfy any one of
tbe propriety of the appropriation. Mr.
Toombs also was unsparing in his denunciation
of the system thus about to be built up by
piecemeal. He warned the leaders of the De
mocracy, who were now departing from the
faith of the Fathers of tho Republic, that they
were treading on dangerous ground. He de
picted in strong colors the inequalities of the
distribution, even in reference to such portions
of the South as had, through their Senators,
yielded to the corrupting influences always at
work to get hold of the public money. Gen
tlemen from the North and West had only to
strike the rock of the Treasury, and the
the living stream gushed forth in abundance.
Mr. Toombs said he should continue to de
nounce the system as demoralizing and unjust
as long as he had a place in the Senate.
Orangemen and Ribbonmen’s Feud.
We learn by the Arabia that a fearful riot
had taken place at Newcastle upon Tyne, be
tween the societies called Orangemen and Rib
bonmen. The Orangemen had been commemo
rating the anniversary of the battle of the
Boyne by a dinner, and afterwards had a pro
cession, when they were brutally attacked by
the Ribbonmen, who were armed with swords,
knives, pistols, bludgeons, &c. Several Orange
men were seriously wounded. It was estima
ted that from sixteen to twenty men had been
more or less greatly injured.
Fatal Casualties in Stewart.
During the heavy thunder storm which vis
ited our town on Wednesday last, Mr. George
Palmer was killed by lightning, about two
miles from this place. The deceased leaves
a wife and two children.
On Monday evening last, a yoke of oxen
ran off with a cart in which wore an old
negro woman and a little negro boy. The wo
man was thrown out and instantly killed.—
She was the property of Mr. Daniel Rich
ardson, of this county.
A negro man belonging to Mr. Charles Hum
ber of this county, was also killed, in a sim
ilar manner, on Tuesday afternoon, on the
road leading to Florence. —Lnmplein ( Ga.)
Plaindealer.
Excitement in Scriveu County.
We learn from a member of the Bar of this
city that Hardy C. Parker, of Scriven county,
was required to give bail in the sum of $3,000
at Sylvania, on Thursday last, to appear at the
next term of Scriven Superior Court to answer
to an indictment for committing a rape on a
little girl fourteen years of age, who was the
sister of his wife, and of whom he was the
guardian at law. Parker is said to have borne,
previously, a good character. There is much
excitement in the county against him.— Sav.
Rep. 4 th.
Cloth Folder.
Mr. J. D. Elliot of Leicester, Mass., has pat
i ented a machine for folding cloth. It has been
! in operation for a year past at the Otis Mills,
i Ware, Mass., chiefly on heavy goods. It folds
20,000 yards per day, of ten hours, and is at
tended by a single boy.
A Vigilance Committee in Cincinnati.
The Cincinnati Enquirer states that on
Wednesday night last there assembled at a
Hall on Walnut street, three hundred men to
organize themselves into a Vigilance Commit
tee. The most desperate plans were discuss
ed. The movement was unknown to the po
lice, but the entreaties of two or three men
among them was all that kept the bomb from
exploding in their midst. By a vote of 109 to
112 they agreed to await a certain contingen
cy. This mystic contingency it supposes to
be the decision in the coming trial of Arrison,
for the murder of Catharine Alison. Such
are the evils that maladministration of the
law of the land is daily begetting.
The Dark Hours of Politicians.
A few years before the election of General j
Harrison, he wrote gloomily enough of ],i s po- >
litical prospects, as thus:
“My hopes of bettering my condition in a
political way are utterly extinct. Although 1 I
am confident that I possess the regard of the
mass of the people, l have no friends among
the political leaders of any party. However
they may differ upon other points, they all
unite to keep me down. To attempt to concil
iate their favor bjw any of the compliances :
which are generally employed on such occa
sions, is entirely out of the question. The in
dependence of my character is the last posses- !
sion 1 will part from. Every sheep and pig
upon my farm shall be first sold by the sheriff,
and 1 will then apply for the berth of mate to i
a New Orleans steamer, will solicit
the favor of any of the great men of the day
of any party.”
Latest from Mr. Fillmore.
Mr. Fillmore has written recently, the fol
lowing letter which will explain itself:—
Bi ffalo, N. Y., July 29, 1856.
Gentlemen: —I have the honor to acknow
ledge the receipt of your letter of the 25th
in-t., informing me that at a Convention ot the
Executive Committees of the several Chapters
of the Order of United Americans in this State,
convened in tbe city of New York on tlio 21st
inst., it was unanimously resolved to adopt my
nomination as your candidate for President of
the United States, of which you were instruct
ed to give me official notice.
My position before the country is well known
admitting neither of disguise nor equivocation.
I am the candidate of the American party, but
1 see nothing inconsistent with that position, or
dishonorable, either to myselt or those who
may support me, in receiving the votes of all
those who, knowing my position, prefer to cast
them forme: and I feel peculiarly flattered
where it is done as in your case, on the ground
of ipy past official acts. I therefore accept the
nomination so generously tendered by the Or
der of United Americans, and hope they may
never have have reason to regret this signal
proof of confidence.
T have the honor to be, gentlemen.
Your friend and fellow-citizen,
Mili.ard Fillmore
Messrs. Simeon Baldwin, Erastus Brooks, etc.
Excess of Receipts and Exports of Cotton.
From the Savannah News
Die Keceipts of Cotton at all the ports from Ist Sept,
to the latest dates, give the following result as compared
with the same time last year :
Increase at New Orleans 181,771
“ Mobile .190,828
“ “ Florida 5,819
•• Savannah 19,589
“ “ Charleston 8.073
Decrease (it North Carolina 2.802
“ “ Virginia... 5,671
Total increase 733.043
The Exports to Foreign Forts, as compared with the
corresponding period last year, show flic following re
sult :
Increase at New Orleans 515,632
“ “ Mobile 158,750
“ ■ ‘ Texas 10,047
“ “ Savannah 7,526
“ “ Charleston 58.382
•• North Cavolina 37
“ “ Virginia 70
“ New York 3.848
“ • Other Ports 8,067
768,959
Decrease at Florida 620
Total increase 768,339
The exports from all the ports, as compared with last
year, showing the following result :
Increase to 0 real Britain 451,561
“ <i France 75,289
“ “ Other Foreign Forts 241,489
Total increase to Foreign Forts 768,339
The shipments to Northern ports show an increase over
last year of 46,024 bales, making a total net increase of
exports since Ist September, of 814,363 bales over the
corresponding period of 1854-
The stock on hand at all tho ports is 124.433 bales less
tiian at the game time last year.
Beware of the Gipsies.
A correspondent of tbe Lynchbui-g Virgin
ian says :
A small company of Gipsies composed of
three indifferent looking men, two horribly
ugly women, and seven or eight children, late
ly camped near Appomattox Court House to
give organ grinding concerts and tell negro
fortunes, as is supposed, in payment for all
kinds of stolen commodities, corn, oats, and
other provender for their four horses, and
other provisions for themselves. The fortune
of all the slaves, they say, is the same. They
say to them, “Be of good cheer ; you wil soon
bo better off than your masters ; in two years
you will be free.” Their concerts are held at
night, and great gatherings of the slave popu
lation are held, when and where the whisky
jug is handed around freely.
They were driven off from Appomattox at
short notice; in quick time pass them on.-
They are supposed to be rogues and abolition
ists. Look out for them camped near Lynch
burg. We know not whether they came hon
estly by their four horses, but feel certain they
fed them on Tibbs’ oats stolen from the stack.
V. .—We would like to know how they got
the four horses. A Friend.
Independence of Dominica.
A vessel at Grand Turk, from Port nu
Platt, reports that the Emperor Soulouque
was about to acknowledge the independence
of the Dominican republic, and that a treaty
of peace will shortly be concluded between
the two parties who inhabit the island of’ St.
Domingo. Commissioners are to be appointed
by both governments for the purpose of fixing
the boundaries, and the English and French
consuls are to act as umpires in any dispute
which may arise. Hopes are entertained that
the peace may be lasting, and that much good
will result therefrom to the parties concered.
Tom Thumb’s Jewels Returned.
The jewels which so mysteriously disappear
ed from the Melodeon on Monday, to Tom
Thumb s severe loss, as mysteriously came
back tko next day; the box and contents were
discovered beneath the stage. We are inform
ed that a well dressed man with a stick in his
hand, entered the room during the exhibition
on Monday evening, walked up to the place
where the box stood, and passed with it, as if
he belonged to the company, down the stairs
in the rear of the stage. Finding his position
a dangerous one, he came back by the way he
went, and restored the property, to Tom
Thumb’s great delight. —Cincinnati Columbian.
Instances of poisoning from the use of brine
in the place of salt having occurred among the
poorer classes in Germany, and among animals,
Mr. lleynal, the well known physicist and
chemist, instituted a series of experiments, de
ducing the following conclusions; That three
or four months after its preparation, it acquires
poisonous properties, and that the employ
ment of it even in small quantities, mixed with
the food and continued for a certain time, may
be fatal.
Prolific Corn.
Capt. Andrew Daly has presented us a line
ear of corn of the celebrated Canada Prolific,
introduced into this State by Col. Hadley.—
This ear is from one of 15 stalks, the product
of a single grain, each stalk bearing from two
to three ears. Capt. D. thinks 100 bushels
of this corn can be ns easily grown from an
acre of ground as fifty of any other kind.—
The ear is large, well filled, of a beautiful
white color indicating that it is just the thing
for ineal. —Houston (Texas) Telegraph.
The celebrated Dr. Casper, of Berlin, esti
mates the mortality among bachelors, be
tween the ages of thirty and forty-five, at
twenty-seven per cent, while the mortality
among married men between the same ages is
only eighteen per cent. As life advances the
difference becomes even more striking; where
forty-one bachelors attain the nge of 40, there
are seventy-eight married men, a difference
of nearly two to one in favor of the latter.
A the ago of (>0 there are forty-eight married
men to twenty-one bachelors; at 70, eleven
bachelors to twenty-seven married men; and
at 80, ni.ie married men to three bachelors.
No bachelors, it is said, ever lived to be a
hundred.
GENERAL ITEMS.
A New Translation of Facilis descensus
Averni.—The road to ruin is down liill.
Among the Hottentots, if a widow marries
again, she is obliged to cut oft the joint of a
finger for every husband she marries after the
first: this she presents to her new husband
on her wedding day, beginning at one of the
little fingers first.
A large number of English laborers have
recently arrived in New A r ork from the Crimea.
They formed a part of the army work corps,
which, at the time of their discharge, num
bered 3,800.
The Boston Traveller states that ex-Presi
dent Roberts, of Liberia, who is now in that
city, hns been unanimously elected President
of Liberia College by the trustees of donations.
Mr. Roberts has accepted the appointment,
and will probably return next week, by way
of England, prepared to commence the con
struction of the necessary building for the
college.
The Democratic Convention of Delaware
county, N. Y., has re-nominated Hon. John
Hickman for Congress, by a nearly unani
mous vote.
The California Stage Company recently pur
chased seventy tons of new barley at three
nnd a half cents per pound.
The Chinese emigration, which had been ar
rested for some time, has revived, and the Ce
lestial emigrants are arriving quite numerouslj
in California.
Judge Davies has rendered a decision in the
Supreme Court, at Poughkeepsie, that Com
missioners of highways are liable for accidents
on the highways, when it can be proved that
such accidents occurred iu consequence of the
the roads not being kept in proper order.
It is said that the personnel of the Russian
embassy in Berlin is soon to be increased b}
the addition of a member well versed in the
mechanical arts, whose office it shall be to
make himself familiar with every invention,
improvemotit and discovery, in mechanism
and the useful arts, as fast as it appears, and
report upon it to his government.
Punch says: The day after the apparition
of the Yankee at her Majesty’s levee, in a
black cravat, the English funds actually de
dined. A correspondent draws from the fact,
the following moral: The ‘ties’of the two na
tions must he extremely loose, when ‘cravats’
can thus affect the ‘stocks,’
The police Court of Louisville has recently
imposed fines upon about one hundred coffee
house-keepers of that city, amounting to
twelve thousand dollars, for violations of the
ordinances of the city.
Lord Brownlow Cecil, second son of the
Marquis of Exeter, has been cast in £1,376
damages, for bl otting out the date of a prom
isory note given by him.
The Toronto Colonist of the 22d says that
serious riots have taken place in the parishes
of St. Agnis Malbaie, St. Irene, and St. Fi
dels, Lower Canada, the inhabitants having
risen in crowds and attacked the Municipal
Councils, beating them and turning them out
of their rooms, upsetting the tables, and seiz
ing and carrying off all the archives and pa
pers. The cause is imposition of direct taxes
for roads. *
The Senate has passed a bill providing for
the compulsory pre-payment of all transient
printed matter. It does not propose any
change of the existing law with regard to pub
lications sent to regular subscribers ; but only
to make the pre-payment of rates compulsory,
which the existing law prescribes for transient
printed matter when prepaid. The quantity
of printed business circulars put into the
mails unpaid, and on which scarcely any pos
tage is collected, is said to be enormous.
Monsieur Godard made a second balloon as
cension from the Agricultural grounds, near
Boston, on Monday last. He was accompanied
by his wife, Mr. J. H. Sleeper, the junior edi
tor of the Portfolio, and two other gentlemen
The ascension was very successful,
George Smith, the lad who rescued a
child from drowning on a late excursion down
Newlork bay, has been presented by the
Life-saving Benevolent Association of New
ork, with a silver medal and $25 in gold.
The Army appropriation bill, as amended by
the House, contains an item of three thousand
dollars, in order to enable Mr. Barlow to con
struct a rifle cannon, according to the metal
lic model which is now exhibited in the ro
tundo of the Capitol; the government loot
mg to its adoption, in the event of its practi
cability and success.
, Bible Times,” a religious publication
issued in Baltimore, by the Rev. Thomas II
Stockton, nominates, upon its own respond
biliiy, Judge McLean for the Presidency, and
Hon. Theodore Frelinghuysen for the Tice
Presidency.
A trotting match for SIOOO, mile heats, best
three in five, in harness, came off on Thursday
over the Union Course, between Lady Moscow
and Jake Oakley, which was won by the Lady
in three straight heats. Time, 2:35 2:81-
2:34.
A letter from Callao, dated July 4th, say
the steamer Santiago, while running down tie
coast, struck a rock which knocked her whole
bow in. Had it not been for her water tight
bulkheads she would have gone down with all
hands. As it was, she returned safely to Cal
lao.
1 welve bales of Sea Island Cotton, says the
Savannah Republican, were received in tbi
city, Saturday last, by the Savannah, Albany
Gulf Railroad, from the plantation of Mi
W. H. Miller on the Ogeechce. This, we be
lieve, is the first freight that has passed ovei
the road.
Ihe State ot Maine says that arrangement!
aro so far perfected as to ensure the line o!
steamers from Liverpool to St. John’s, New
foundland, and Halitax ; and if sufficient en
couragement is offered, the steamers are t
run to Portland. The lending firms and bus!
ness men of the latter city have subscribe!
heavily to the stock to aid in the enterprise.
Tho Edgefield Informer has hoisted the nan)’
of Hon. F. TV. Tickens for next Governor of <
South Carolina.
The Barnwell (S. C.) Sentinel has beet
shown a cotton stalk which was taken from tbe
plantation of Mr. Joseph Stallings, of tbs’
District, containing thirteen forms and boll”
This stalk from where the first boll shoots
not more than eight inches in length.
The first railway in the Roman States,
which goes from Rome to Frascati, was open
ed on the 7th ult.
A letter dated Callao, June 27, says that the
American ships at the Chinchos intended giving
a grand ball on tho evening of the Fourth and :
July. There wore about twenty American ~
ladies in the fleet.
M 5 C HAKICB UK I o Jf.
\N adjourned meeting of the Mechanics’ Union “ c
be held at tho Grand Jury Room, on Thursday >"■’ .
ninir. August 7th. Rusiness of importance will be ft’
sented for the consideration of the members.
August fi. r, t. SIMON’S- Sec'ry