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COLXJMBTJS: Thursday Morning, Angu*t 7, 1850. LAKUKMT CITY CIRC CITATION. Mechanics’ Union. The regular meeting of this Association will be held this evening, at the Grand Jury Room. 1 Sons of Temperance. We are requested thus far in advance, to re mind the “Sons” of the meeting on Saturday evening next. Business of importance, and which has been long postponed, will be under consideration. Dearth of News, Etc- An old stager in the editorial line once ad vised us never to apologise for a poor paper ; because, said he, you thereby make conspicu ous to all, and palpable to many, a fact which might not have been apparent to any. Never theless, believing that our readers are of supe rior discernment, we cannot refrain lrom tell ing them that the mails are behind, and the telegraph working badly, somewhere north of us. Nothing startling came by yesterday’s mail, except reiterations of a formerly well known fact, that the United States Treasury is in a etate of siege, and “economical” gov ernment an exploded idea. in the local line nothing of interest is trans piring. Everything that could, has gone to the Watering-places, or is about starting. Columbus, in a business point of view, is lying on her oars, recruiting for the fall season to open Boon, when we expect to astonish ourselves and the rest of mankind, by the magnitude of our operations in the cotton, groceries and trade line generally. Large numbers of merchants are gone or starting North, for fresh supplies ; and heavy stocks will soon be on their way to our city in antici pation of increased demand. Mr. Deßow, of Dcßow’a Review, and late Superintcndant of the Census, cautions the public against certain persons who are procur ing advertisements in his name, for a work to be called a “Statistical View of the United States.” The work was long since published and distributed. At the late Commencement of Yale College, the learned Doctors of that institution applied a healing plaster to the wounds of the Hon. Charles Sumner, in the shape of a parchment aflixing to his name the well-known letters, LL.|D., —i. e.: Doctor of Licentious Language. We see it stated that Mr. Sumner has left Cape May for the mountains—it is supposed to make arrangements with some mountain to fall upon and hide him when shamo and mor tification become no longer tolerable. That he is ashamed ond mortified in the extreme, his conduct clearly evinces ; unfortunately tho shame set in too late, and should have pre vented what it cannot now cure. Mr. Stephen Bivins, of Jones county, had three negroes and three mules instantly killed by lightning, on Thursday last. A fourth ne gro was seriously disabled. The party had taken refuge under a tree during a severe thunder storm—the worst thing, ns regards safety, which it was possible to do. The bill compensating citizens of Georgia and Alabama, for losses sustained through the Creek and Seminole Indians, alluded to yes terday, sets apart $360,000 for that purpose. It was discussed Friday in the Senate, and laid over till Wednesday, to enable Senators to examine it thoroughly. Fremont Literati. We see it stated that numbers of Northern literary and scientific men, have left their or dinary seclusion to make speeches in favor of the Black Republican cause. Among them, not to mention others of less note, are W. C. Brynnt, H. W. Longfellow, and G. W. Curtis. Mrs. Stowe takes no part iu the campaign, having gone to England to superintend the publication of her forthcoming batch of slan ders on the South, l’rof. Silliman, has al ready become a veteran, and made for himself as much fame, such as it is, in the Black Re publican army, as he enjoyed for scientific attainments. When we see men of this ilk— poets and philosophers—leaving their study for the political field, wo cannot but recall an old adage advising cobblers to “ stick to the last.” Bill to Secure a President. The general fear lest the Presidential chair should become vacant, has induced Senator Butler, of South Carolina, Chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, to draft a bill, shortly to be reported, providing for extremo contingencies. We find the following synopsis of it in nn exchange : Tho bill provides for those cases omitted in the Constitution, in which not only the Presi dent and Vice President, but also the Speaker of the House is unable to perform or are pre vented from performing tho duties of Presi dent. In that case it provides “that the Chief Justice shall act as President,” and if he, too, is unable, then the next oldest Judge, and so on until the whole Supreme Bench is exhaust ed. It also provides for those cases in which the different provisions of the Constitution as amended, como in apparent conflict with each other, as, for instance, in the case in which the Speaker of tho House who is called upon to act as President, is not a native of the coun try ; or iu which one of tlio officers or judges designated to act as Chief Magistrate, has not the age required by the Constitution, for Pre sident. One of the most remarkable features is, that the President thus called to act by the operation of law, shall be President for four years, and that no new Presidential election •diall take place before the end of that period. The bill, as will be readily perceived, is of vi tal interest at this juncture. Be Careful with the Guano. It may not be as generally known as it should ) be that great danger may be incurred by the reckless handliug of guano; We understand that cases have occurred of persons having cuts upon their fingers who, iu handling this manure, have received a deadly poison into the system. The guano contains nn organic ele ment which is just as certain to opernte against life if it once reaches the blood, as the corrup tion of a body that gets into a wound upon the person of the dissector. Farmers should be aware of this foot and be cautious. Negro Mechanics. There is a good deal of feeling, pro and con, in Columbia, S. C., on this subject. The can didates for the Legislature have been interro gated as to what policy they will pursue iu re ference to negro mechanics, and also in regard to several other matters. We clip the following from the reply of Mr. Allen J. Green: <i 1 <* in favor of the unrestrained right of the citizen to employ mechanics without re gard to color or condition ;” always bearing in I mind, however, that by tho laws of the State no slave, whether mechanic or not, has a right ’ to make a contract for himself, or to hire his own time.” Mr. William Wallace, outlie same topic, an j swers: “ Drive out the negro on account of his com ing in competition with the white man in me chanical pursuits, and the same principle will force you to drive him out from competition in all kinds of labor. I need scarcely say that I am opposed to such a principle.’ Lightning in the Sanctum. The office of the New Orleans True Delta was visited last week by a celestial visitant, in the shape of a streak of lightning. The editor thus describes some of the effects : “ The clerks in the counting room were sent sprawling from their desks, as if a volley had been fired into them by a battalion of “Thugs.” The men at their cases in the composition room shared no better. The editorial room, however, presented the most ludicrous picture imaginable. The “Devil,” who was standing along side of the mail editor, importuning him for “ copy” for tho evening edition, after turning a few somersaults, finally found him self coiled up in the fire place, whilo the Re porter for the Associated Press, who occupies a desk in our sanctum, was thrown a distance of some ten feet, knocking down the mail edi tor in his involuntary transit. Fortunately no person was killed, and none very geriously in jured. The Reporter for the “ Associated,” Colonel Turner, received the severest shock, and for a few minutes after the occurrence, his case was an alarming one. A few buckets of cold water dashed on him, and a gentle re storative of “ brandy straight,” soon made Richard himself again. Getting Tired of Kansas. The Kansas correspondent of the New York Tribune makes the following complaint of the backwardness of frecsoil and abolitionist movements in favor of Kansas. It is gratify ing to notice, on the other hand, that Southern emigration to the Territory has hardly slack ened : “It is a somewhat singular thiug, that while the Northern States have been ringing with moneys collected for Kansas, there is yet no means here to sustain any body of men for any length of time. But little money has been sent hero for two or three months back. I have had several companies report themselves, and many individuals, as ready to take the field and march to open Missouri river, to guard tho entrance into the Territory by Ne braska, and to be ready to meet and repel any attack that might be made, or outrage, but these have been obliged to abandon such idea for want of means to keep a party of any size iu the field.” French Cattle Show. A French agriculturalist, in describing the show in the Champs Elysses, says]: “Instead of the shows in the open fields, as in England, paid for by subscribers or exhibitors, exposed to rain and sunshine, we have hand an immense garden, under the roofs of a vast splendid palace, iu the midst of a magnificent metropolis and of the finest promenade grounds in the world—trees, swards, parterres, flow ers, statues, fountains, numberless lodges or stalls for animals, arranged with perfect taste and cleanliness, chosen specimens of all the races of Europe all transported and fed at tho expense of our public treasury—herdsmen and their wives and daughters, of .u uutiuus —from Tyrol, Switzerland, Hungary, Scotland, Spain—with their picturesque costumes —and then, multitudes of handsome ladies in ele gant spring toilettes roving in the midst of these wonders, and astonished that agricul ture, which they supposed to be a dirty busi ness, could be rendered so grateful and at tractive.” The John Jay. A passenger on board this steamer, recently burned on Lake George, has written a letter detailing some of the incidents, from which we copy the following : The remains of Miss Reushaw, from New Orleans, were brought to the hotel. She was a beautiful creature, just 18 years of age, and the only daughter of parents that bad lavished everything that money could bring upon her education, which she had just completed, and was making this northern trip under the pro tection of her uncle and his wife, J. A. White and lady. Mrs. Twing, who was lost, was tho mother of a noble little boy, who was travelling with her. When the little fellow had got safe to shore from the wreck, he saw his helpless mo ther floating beneath the surface of the water; he sprang to save her, but was held by those whose feeble arms were as helpless as his own. He then knelt upon the stones and poured forth such a fervent prayer to God to save his poor mother; but no—her doom was sealed. Her widowed husband and motherless child have gone to their desolate hearth, followed by the remains of her who had made their home the happiest spot on earth. Congressional. Saturday Aug., 2. The Senate was not in session to-day. The House passed eleven House nod six Sen ate private bills. The fortification appropria tion bill was then considered in committee, and reported to the House with a recommendation to strike out the enacting clause with a view to defeat the bill. The House disagreed to the recommendation—ayes 80, noes 96. The bill was then passed. It appropriates one million five hundred and eighty-three thousand dollars. Mr. Herbert made an unsuccessful effort to introduce a resolution authorizing the interna tional laud and naval forces to be used in San Francisco. The House then went into com mittee on the bill to defray the expenses of the legislative, executive, and judiciary de partments of the government. Mr. Herbert made a personal explanation, branding the charges made against him from the Pacific and the Atlantic coasts, as falsehoods ; that they came from political enemies, and were compli mentary rather than disgraceful. The bill was debated till the hour for taking a recess. There are now upwards of 25,000 Postofli ces in the Union, and the number is rapidly in- ! creasing. A London Reviewer, in answer to the ques tion, “What is man?” says, “Chemically speaking, a man is forty-pounds of carbon and nitrogen, diffused through five and a half pails of water.” The New York Democracy. Tlv 3 following are the resolutions reported to the Union Convention of the Democracy ot Nev York, at Syracuse, on the 31st ult., and unanimously adopted : RcmJjced, That we congratulate the Demo crats of New York and the Union upon the auspicious results of the deliberations of this Convention, by which all animosities and divis ions of the past have been buried aud anew career opened to the Democrats of New York; in which, united in heart and action, harmon ized in sentiment and consolidated in organi zation, they will restore that brilliant era in political history, when New York, at once the champion of State Rights and the foremost defender of the Union, lead forward the con federated States in the cause of Constitutional liberty and the true principles of Democracy. Resolved, That wo especially rejoice over the fact of our Union at this time, and the spirit of self sacrifice that have secured it, because it enables us to pledge the State of New York to the cause, and the candidates of the Democ racy presented at the Cincinnati Convention. That we cordially approve of these candidates, and recognize iu them the tried statesman, James Buchanan, and in his gallant associate, John C. Breckenridge, men intrenched in the hearts of the people, and worthy of the unan imous, devoted and enthusiastic support of the Democracy of the State and the Union. Resolved, That we cordially approve of the platform and the principles adopted by the National Convention at Cincinnati, because they exhibit the Democracy in its true attri bute as a party of broad and generous sympa thies aud earnest patriotism—not sectional, proscriptive, or distrustful of the people, but embracing every portion of the Union in its affections, and acknowledging unreservedly the equality of the States, defending the rights of man, self-government, and civil and religious liberty, equality of all citizens irre spective of tests of creed or birth, faithful to tho interests of the people, and ready to make all sacrifices to defend the national nopor and extend the example of the glorious institu tions and influence and power of our country’s name abroad. Resolved, That every year’s experience serves to confirm the justice and wisdom of the Democratic policy in regard to our public works and the finances of the State, and we invoke the electors to contrast the career of extravagance and error pursued by both branches of the opposition, by which the Treasury has become impoverished, the tax payers grievously burdened and still unfinish ed canals threatening an increased load of debt, with the economical, energetic and successful administration of affairs under tjre Pemocrat ic auspices, and to decide for themselves which party are the truest friends of the ca nels and the most faithful guard ans of the people’s interests. Resolved, That we regard the nominations of Fremont and Fillmore for the Presidency, by the two factions into which the traditional enemies of the Pepnocracy are now divided, as equally repugnant to the true sentiments of the American people, and alike characterized by a spirit of bigotry and intolerance, at war with the genius of our institutions, that we believe the people of these States will repel the attempt made in the names of these can didates to organize sectional and sectarian par ties, the preponderance of which would ine vitably corrupt our institutions and establish a tyranny so intolerable as eventually to de stroy the union of the States. Resolved, That we repel and deny every charge that tends to asperse the National char acter of the Democratic party, by attributing to it sectional positions, either pro-slavery or anti-slavery, in character; that we point to the entire unanimity of the Democratic Sena tors of Congress, on the votes upon the pas sage of the bill for the pacification of the dif ficulties in Kansas, as timely and gratifying proof of the unity of principle that actuated tho Democratic party in regard to the practi cal treatment of territorialjquestions; that the wiso and just provisions contained therein, to secure the people a free, fair and untromeled exprpßoion mid r uvniment ot their wishes in regard to tho form of institutions which they may choose to adopt, should command the en tire approval of the patriot citizens of all par ties, and the opposition with which this bene ficent measure is met by political leaders, proves them more intent upon making politi cal capital out of existing difficulties than con tributing to their removal by prudent and ef ficient legislation. The Appropriation Jiillg. The prospect of the failure to pass, daring the present session, the appropriation bills, through the tricks of the Black Republicans in tacking other foreign matters to the end of them, is likely to cause considerable em barrassmsnt in the business worlU at Washing ton, whoso breath of life, as it is well known, is drawn from “public patronage.’ 1 The offi cers and employees of the legislative and ex ecutive branches of government were not paid for their last three months’ services, owing to the delay in the passage of the appropriation bill for the present year, and it is said that the pay clerks, who have heretofore been ac commodated with advances, updey similar cir cumstances. are now refused by the banks for fear of what may not come during the present session. Lind and Wagner. The musical critics of London are at logger heads about the relative merits of the two ar tists, Jenny Lind and Joanna Wagner. The friends or partizans of the first named, depry with all their might any claims to notice of the Teutonic songstress, saying she has no voice or action, while on the other hand, the Wagneritcs assert that “the Lind” has a small reputation, beyond which she cannot go, and that her chief merit consists in her wonderful ventriloquial exhibitions. The result is that Jenny has pocketed some §130,000, and it is fair to infer that Joanna will meet wfth flip same pleasing evidences of appreciation. Bloody Affray. A few days since, Dr. Taylor, of Marion coun ty, Missouri, had a difficulty with a citizen, and shot him iu the head, the ball entering the mouth and coming out at the neck. The cause assigned was the writing and publishing of some insulting poetry about Taylor and his wife. Dr. Taylor is the individual who had the difficulty with Broadus in the year 1843, in Palmyra, challenging him to fight with dou ble-barrelled shot guns, at a distance of less than five feet. The principals did not fight, but the two young men who acted as seconds, met shortly after, and killed each other on the street in Palmyra.— Exchange. The Linden Tree. A correspondent of the Boston Transcript ! snye the Chinese linden, or lime, in addition , to its being the very best and most beautiful I shade tree, is of great importance as a destroy er of the common house fly. In the season of j flies he lrnd found that almost innumerable quantities of dead house flies were, in the morning, under the branches of linden, amounting to thousands upon thousands, the surface around being literally covered with i them. From Kansas. St. Locis, July 26, 1860. Editors Journal: This morning the Leaven worth Journal brings the latest intelligence from the Territory. As to the correctness of the facts, we are in doubt, though Lane is a shrewd, cunning man, and evidently has some I projects on foot. Six hundred and fifty abolitionists, the “flower” of the “redoubtable” Colonel Jim Lqpe’s army, crossed the Missouri river into Kansas, on’Monday, tbedlst inst. They were all “armed to the teeth” with Sharp’s rifles, bnwie knives and Colt’s revolvers. After they had crossed, Lane stated that he j would not go any further just then, but would ! return and force his way up the Missouri with his other regiment. We are indebted to Capt. D. H. Silver, of the steamer Martha Jewett, for the above. — Capt. S. witnessed the crossing of the invad ing forces, and represents them as being the best armed set he ever saw. There wero no women or children accompanying them, and their baggage consisted of a single small car pet bag to each man. Up sovereigns and at ’em.— Cor. Ala. Journal. How was it Done? The Washington Correspondent of the Charleston Standard, writes : A large number of Canadian papers have been received here, giving a notice of the an ticipated fight at the Clifton House. On the same morning Mr. Burlingame left here, these papers published the time aud place of the tight—also, distance and weapons ; more facts than were known in Washington. Tho people arc advised to take a rundown and see a regu lar ‘Yankee fight.’ (Juere-~ -How did these facts find their way to Canada ? As the distance and weapons had not been made known to Col. Brooks and his friends, it is very clear that Mr. Burlingame had made all necessary arrangements to prevent a fight isl the event Col. Brooks was rqsiYenough to follow him to the Clifton House. A Melancholy Affair. We are informed that on Monday last, a most melancholy affair occurred in Macon county, in which Mr. A. Shealy was shot, and died immediately, and a son of liis dangerously wounded. They were traveling on the road in the vicinity of their residence at the time, and report says that it was done by J. C. Helvinston, Esq. or his son. We know noth ing of the immediate circumstances connected with the affair. There had been a difficulty between them of long standing, and it is most deeply to be regretted that it should have ter minated so fatally. Mr. Shealy was probably over years of age.— Macon ( Ga.) Messen ger, Aug. b. From Nebraska. The St. Louis Democrat, of the 26th ult. says: The report that one of Gen. Lane’s regi ments had crossed the Missouri into Nebras ka, is not true. The officers of the steamer Genoa, which was at Bennett’s landing, a few miles below Nebraska City, on the night of the 21st, state that four hundred is the number of the men who had marched with kin* through lowa, and that they had not left that State, but were still encamped in the woods skirting the river, on a spot a few miles from Bennett’s Ferry. The farmers in the neighborhood sup ply them with food, and desertions from the party are of frequent occurrence. Caught in his own Corsets. The Rittsgurg Gazette is responsible for the following narration pf facts, qiR of yybich a suit has arisen: A respectable young lady of this city went to a dry goods store, with the amiable intention of purchasing a corset; She was permitted to take three of the articles home to try on. Finding that none fitted, she sent them back by a younger sister, and set out herself to take the western train. While whaiting in a crowded omnibus at the hotel, she was addressed in an insulting tone by the shopkeeper, who said he must have those cor sets ; he was up to such tricks ; she couldn’t steal things from him, &c. The young lady burst into tears, and said she had sent them back; but the man was not satisfied until he was paid the full price by her gentleman atten dant’ Whep tlje storekeeper returned he found the younger sister therewith she corsets; yvho, however, took them home on his saying they were paid for. He afterwards refunded the money. The lady sues for damages. The River Amoor. This magnificent river, which runs through the lower part of the Russian possessions, and empties injo the head of the Gulf of Tartary, is navigable seventeen hundred jnilps from its mouth to the city of Nerthink, the capital of Southern Siberia. The country is densely pop ulated, and great results are anticipated by the adventurers who propose opening a com munication between our Pacific possessions and the Russian Asiatic territory. Two suc cessful voyages from San Francisco to this river have already keep made, and tjie steam ship America, the first of a line of steamers to run between these points, cleared port on the 10th of June last. Snlphur Water. We heard an anecdote the other day of a land lord of certain Springs, which shall be name less, which shows tho different estiniate placed upon sulphur water, (or upon the’ human un derstanding,) by different persons. A wag gish proprietor of one of these popular resorts, on seeing a fourth or fifth stage drive up to his door, crowded with passengers, remarked sub vosa, so companion, “Here comes another stage load of d—d fools to poison themselves with sulphur water j ” Oh, horrible! The next moment he was all smiles aud grace, ushering in the “ d—d fools” j to the abodes of health and pleasure.— Rich. Dispatch. More About Hoops. The follies of grown people are frequently brought opt by cfiijdren in startling promi nence. Two girls of twelve or fourteen years passed along Lake street, recently, surround ed by hoops and trailing long dresses over the dirty pavements. They were novices in the management of such rigging, but determined to acquire the art or die in the attempt. “Do I twist too much ? ” asked one of the anxious couple, as she igriggled along. “Oh, no,” said the other, droppipg a little behipd tp observe her, but if you could raise a littlp on your toes as you twist, it would throw your dress better.” —Chicago Dein. A Converted Indian. At the Into Methodist Conference, the presi ding bjsh.op introduced Squire Grey Eyes, a venerable Indian Chief of tfie Wyandot tribe, who was one of the first fruits of tfje fission among that people while they lived in Ohio.— j The tx-ibe have now removed to Kansas, and Grey Eyes has come from that distant land to attend the conference. He is an ordained min ister in the Methodist Episcopal Church, and is said to be a reraai-kable man. - * Col. Win. Magill, formerly ppfdisbgr of tha Pennsylvanian newspaper, has been appointed Inspector of Customs for the port of Philadel phia. GENERAL ITEMS. Ex Gov. (’all, of Florida, is reported dan gerously ill, with but little hope of recovery. A second bale of new cotton has been re ceived at Savannah, aud a second one at New Orleans. The trial of Arrison for the murder of Mrs. Allison, has been removed from Cincinnati to Butler county, Ohio. Smith O’Brien is visiting his brother, Lord Inchiquin, in the county of Clare, Ireland, and takes no part in politics. The crops of corn and cotton are good in Middle Florida. The grass caterpillars have, however, done some damage to the former. At the “Tip-Top House,” Mount Washing ton, New Hampshire, on the night on the 6th inst., ice formed to the thickness of an inch. Henry Stanton, one of tho Assistant Quar termaster Generals in the United States Army, died on Saturday last, at Fort Hamilton. A great fire occurred at Patterson, N. J., on Saturday last; tho loss very heavy. Particu lars have not come to hand. There have been eighty cases of Yellow Fe ver at N. York Quarantine this season. There is no fever in the city itself. It was agreed at the wino grower’s meeting inCincinnati, that freezing does not injure wine. A heat of 110 deg., however, will completely destroy it. Miss Florence Nightingale has been elected an honorary life governor of the Royal Free Hospital, London, in testimony of her humane services in the Crimea. The Rev. Mr. Bernard, who lectured in Sel ma some time ago, as the agent of the Bible Revision Association, and who was forced to leave iu such a hurry, has been discharged by the Associaton. We learn toleration from children: for no man can have kis whiskers pulled by a young brat without feeling what an intolerable nuis ance he must have been as a child himself.— Punch. The Carroll Will Case, involving a million and a half, was up for settlement of the order of reference in the Supreme Court of New York, last week. This matter lias been in liti gation a quarter of a century. Menschikoff’s traveling carriage, which was taken by the English at Alma, is now in Fa ris, where, after having passed through sever al hands, it was sent for sale. It has beeu purchased by a Col. Dubose. A correspondent of the New York Express says, that at the prison at Sing Sing, last week, five keepers were discharged because they re fused to sign a paper, handed around amongst the employees, pledging themselves to support Fremont. A party of men recently went to the house of a man named John Hutson, near Davis’ Creek, Kanawha county, Va., for the purpose of riding him on a rail. As they approached the house, Hutson shot the leader, Hugh Means, wounding him severely. He was ar rested, examined and acquitted. Last week, says a Hartford despatch, Col. Joseph Plympton, United States Army, was accidentally shot at Green Farms, by the dis charge of a gun in the hands of a friend, and it is feared he cannot recover. He is Colonel of the First Infantry, and a native of Mussa chusctts. Mr. Merriam, “ the Philosopher of Brook lyn Heights, 1 ’ tells us that, according to his records, there has beeu nothing equal to the • “heated term” through which we are now passing, for intensity and long continuance of heat combined, for a period of sixty three years. A fatal accident occurred on she Wqrpestei Railroad, on Thursday last. Four women apd two children, who had been out berrying, at tempted to cross the track when the oars were approaching. Two of the women and one of the children were struck by the locomotire and almost instantly killed. The attempt to keep the dust out of the car; of the Central road by boxing in the wheels, has proved futile, and the rigging has been ta ken off. fjhc casing was continually tearipj off, and frightening into fit timid passenger/ The least obstruction on or near the track—a stick of wood, for instance—was sufficient to tear a side to peices, and so they have been abandoned.— Rochester Advertiser. ’ The Galignani’s Messenger, in its summar of news from the Crimea to the 28th ult says ; “ The English soldiers, in order ‘to oc cupy their leisure time, lmc! constructed on t'c heights of Inkerman an immense battery win 20,000 bottles. It has been christeued “Lo: Cardigan’s black bottle battery.” It is sai the Russians intend to build a similay one of posite.” Belle Brittan writes from Newport: have to press about nine tijnes a day her?. First, we put on a dress to dress in. Themt are ready for breakfast. After that, we dre - forthe Beach—then for the bath—then for dinner—then for the drive—then for the bal —and then for the bed. If that is’nt bein? put through a regular course of dimity an diamonds, then i am po judge pf §pch p'erfm mances.” The United Service Gazette says that 1,6*” or 1,800 of the Italian Legion, now at Malta will proceed to Buenos Ayres as military set tiers, the Government of the Argentine Reput lie being anxious for their services. Proposal’ have beeu tnqde to lopate them in that pouo try, aud give each a habitation orfarm, wlier they can acquire independence and plenty-’ There are at present about 1,600 Italians set tied in the above State, all thriving nnd doit; well. Gold. The Richmond Despatch has the following it relation to the gold mines of Virginia: “Tt>e proprietor pf the quartz gold mine it Orange cpunty isabopt to ship fifty tons of ore’ England, to be tested there by parties pegoti* j ting for his mine. The United States mines owned by a gentleman in New York, are abou’ being opened. The washing of the Vanclus sands refuse yields sls per ton. The Mitcbe mine in Spottsylvania, has been valued at slfW’ 000 by a Party in New York. The Gardiue’ 1 mine, in the same county, is yielding well. ■ —■ A Reply to an Insult. During the late war with Great Britain American officer, who carried a flag overtop British lines, after having dispatched the bus iness of his mission, was invited by the com {Handing British officer to dine. As usual oi such occasions, the wipe grng circulated, an 1 British officer being called upop for a gave “Mr. Madison, dead or alive;” whichtk* American drank without appearing to give particular notice. Whjen it came to the Am ff ioan’s turn to give a toast, he gave, “Tin Prince Regent, drunk or sober.” “Sir,” ’ the British officer, bristling up and coloring with anger, that is an insillt.” ‘‘No, > r ’ answered the American, very coolly, “it is 0° ly a reply to one.”