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OOLXJMBXTS: Friday Morning, Aiiguwt ■"' 1856. LARGEST CITY C IRC CITATION. •We give up much of our space to-day to u lengthy appeal in favor of Southern interests in Kansas. There was no news afloat of spe cial interest, except what we give; and not knowing when a like opportunity for publish ing this important document would occur, we , huve thought it best to avail ourselves of the present one. ■■■■■ ■— Alabama Elections. Last Monday was general election day in Alabama. The elections this year, however, were confined to county officers. in Pike, a considerable change has taken place since last August. Then, the K. N. ma jority was over 100. This year the vote is as follows: •lames Nall, democrat, for Sheriff 1233 J. Brooks, K. N 1101 J. Cade, democrat, for Assessor 12G8 Mr. Tyson, K. N HOG b. M. Smith, democrat, for Treasurer... 1270 Mr. Jones K. N 1024 Eloction of Circuit Court Clerk in doubt. In Uusscll, the election was for Tax Collec tor. Robinson, democrat, is reported to be elected. in Montgomery county, the only election was for tax collection. All the precincts heard from but one, gives Cause, K. N. 234 majori ty In Macon couuty, a Tax Collector und Coun ty Commissioners, were to be elected. The average K. N. majority is over 200. The vote for tax collector, two precincts (Enon an So ciety Hill) to hoar from, stands for Mabson, K. N. 800, Brewer, Dem. G 52. James B. Clay, the eldest son of the late Hon. Henry Clay, of Kentucky, is out for Buchanan and Brcckenridge. He is said to have made a speech at the Buchanan Ratifica tion meeting at Mivysville, Ky. For the Daily Sun. University of Georgia—First Day. The Annual Commencement Exercises of this institution were opened on yesterday, Sunday, Aug. 3d, by a sermon from the Rev. ’ Samuel W. Higgins, of Columbus. The prin cipal point of his discourse was, “That relig ion was the only true basis of character.” To illustrate which, he compared tho lives of Moses and Solomon. To say that it was sound, chaste and eloquent, would be paying a small compliment to liis well deserved reputation. As all had heard of his ability, much was ex pected ; to him they gave their profound at tention, and the expectations of all were ful filled. His remarks to the graduating class wefe truly touching. Prom tho throng that tilled to overflowing the capacious Chapel, we judge that the Com mencement will bo more largely attended this year thau for many yeai s past, On Monday evening at 4 o’clock, the Sopho more prize exhibition camo off. The following is the programme of tho orators ; SOPHOMORE PRIZE DECLAMATION. ir * ’ Heasl( ty Troup co.—Adams aud wetterson.—E. Everett. William Barron, of Clinton—Byron— Pollok. . , l’’ onta *ne, of Columbus—Address in behalf of the Greeks—Lacey. A. I. Hodo, of Pickeus, Ala.—-Rienzi’s last Address to the Homu. ? is. William Taylor, of Cuthbert—The Bible—G. r . Pieroe. G. G. Ragland, of Columbus—Bernardo del Carpio—Mrs. Hemans. J. L. Chandler, of Mobile, Ala.—National Monument to Washington— Winthrop. J. lajlor, of Cuthbert—Love of Country— harden. J. It. North, ot Nownan—The Hermitage— Bellew. J. B. Wolte, of Dublin—Mexican War—ll. Clay. R. W. Adams, of Athens—Tribute to Wash ington—Prest. Hartison. Wm. Ward, of Brazoria co. Texas.—Sparta cus to the Roman Envoys. E. P. Hill, of Marshall, Texas.—Bliss of Matrimony—Anonymous. We do not hesitate to say that it was as fine a display of oratory as was over made by any Sophomore class. Wm. Beasley, although he had the disadvantage of being the first on the list, did great credit to himself. Mr. Barron also evinced groat oratorical powers. 11 is chief fault was not speaking suf ficiently loud. Although others may thiuk differently, yet if we had the distribution of tho medals, our choice would be, for the first, Mr. Adams ; for tho second, Mr. Ragland. Mr. A., posses ses a fine voice, free and easy gesture; he seemed to understand liis speech, and to enter into the spirit of it. Mr. R. is undoubtedly possessed of the power of moving men’s hearts. He felt what he said, and said it well. By r proper cultivation, he might become a fine orator. Mr. J. Taylor did not seem at all abashed ; on the contrary, quite oqual to the occasion. Mr. Hill concluding the exercises of tho day with his laughable piece ou Matrimony, which made a good impression on the audience. “Me.” The New York Churches. Noticing the recent completion of the Bap tist Church in Fifth avenue, at a cost of about SIOO,OOO, a correspondent of the Boston Jour nal remarks: “ Wo have now hardly a church that men of moderate means can attend ; most of the down town churches have removed their places, but substantial houses have given place to tho costly and showy structures ; pew rents have risen accordingly. Hundreds of families in New York, genteel but not wealthy, are with out churches or society, because they cannot afford to pay the pew rents. A man can do as be pleases with his own house ; but those who erect places of public worship and put the expenses of public worship* above the reach of the average of society, do society substantial and enduring wrong. The Sabbath belougs to the poor man. The Gospel is his. To the poor belong the ordinances. Their success and moral health is the moral health of the peo- j pie, and the corruption and degeneracy of the j masses is the ruin of the whole State.” The Americans of Connecticut, were to have held a convention in that State on the 6th inst. to nominate a Fillmore electoral ticket. THE VOICE OF KANSAS! LET THE SOUTH RESPOND. Appeal by the Law and Order Party’ of Kansas Territory to their Friends in the South, and to the Law-Abiding People of the Union. One of the Committee, (Col. Buford,) places the manuscript in our bauds, and we commend it to tho serious attention of the readers of the Review. The cause is one to which, without : i loss of asiugloday, every Southern man should contribute. Alabama, South Carolina aud j Georgia, have been lavish in their aid. The I loss of Kansas will give to the enemies of j Southern institutions a victory more signal and more important than has yet been won over us. To avert the mischief, prompt aud con certed action at the Soutu is only needed.— Those familiar with the state of ass airs iu Kan sas know that it can only be abolitionized by the supineness of the people of this section, whose all is at stake in these contests. — De Bow's Review for August, 1860. The undersigned, at a recent meeting of the party, were constituted a committee, charged, among other things, with the publication of this address. That a state of insurrection aud civil war exists among us is abundantly evident ; the “ law and order party” on the one side, op posed on the other by the abolitionists, sent out and sustained by the Emigrant Aid Socie ties of the North. A brief review of the points at issue, and their controliug circumstances, may be useful to justify this our appeal for aid. In territorial politics, the question of free or slave State has swallowed up every other. The abolitionists on the one hand, in accord ance with their early teaching, regard slavery as the greatest possible evil; they deem it a monstrous national crime, which their false theories of government impute equally to eve ry portion of the confederacy, and thus be lieving themselves individually responsible for its existence, they feel bound each to struggle for its overthrow; to such extremes have wicked demagogues stimulated their fanati cism, that their perverted consciences justify any mode of warfare against slaveholders, however, much in violation of law, however destructive of property or human life, aud however atrociously wicked it may seem to others ; nay, many of them already go so far as to oppose all law, religion, property, order, and subordination among men, as subversive ot what they are pleased to call man’s natural aud inherent equality. And with them it is no more a local question whether slavery shall , exist anywhere in the Union. Kansas they justly regard as tho mere outpost in the war now being waged between the antagonistic civ ilizations of the North and the South; and winning this great outpost and stand-point, they rightly think their march will be open to an easy conquest of the whole field. Hence the extraordinary means the abolition party has adopted to flood Kansas with the most fa natical and lawless portion of northern socie ty ; and hence the large sums of money they have expended to surround their brother Mis sourians with obnoxious aud dangerous neigh bors. On tho other hand, the pro slavery element of the “ law and order party” in Kansas, look ing to the Bible, find slavery ordained of God; they find there, as by our law, slavery made “an inheritance to them and their children forever.” Looking to our national census, and to all statistics connected with the African race, and considering, too, their physical, in tellectual, and moral natures, we see that slavery is the African’s normal and proper slate ; since, iu that state, that race multiplies faster, has more physical comfort, less vice, and more moral and intellectual progress than in any other. We believe slavery the only school iu which the debased sou of 11am, by attrition with a higher race, can be refined aud elevated : we believe it a trust and guardianship given us of God for tho good of both races. Without su gar, cotton, and cheap clothing, can civiliza tion maintain its progress ? Can these be sup plied without slavery? Nay, in tho absenco of slave institutions, must not social distinctions supervene among the free to tho detriment of republican equality ? This is no mere property question, but a great social and political question of races; it is not a question of wheth er A. or B. shall be owner, but of whether the slave, still having a master, shall still be a working bee, and not an idle drone in the hive: a question of whether the South shall still be a land flowing with milk and honey, or a laud of mendicants and vagabonds ; a great question of races ; a question of whether we shall sink to the level of the freed African, and take him to the embrace of social and political equality and fraternity; for such is the natural end of abolition progress. Fanaticism must defend its beneficiaries—first, by sending the federal army to protect them, and ultimately by giv ing them the right to bear arms, vote, testify, make and administer laws—in short the right to eat out our substance, to pull us down” to their level, to taint our blood, and bring us to a degradation from which no time can redeem us. Thus radical and marked is the difference between the two parties, and not less their difference in practice ; while wo, iu good faith, sustain and uphold the laws, the abolitionists on the other hand, in effect, repudiate and set them at defiance ; with open disloyalty they assert the invalidity of the territorial laws, while they render our national insignia only the mockery of a hollow respect; indeed, more than once, they have openly resisted the mar shal iu the sorvico of process, and, in some places, their organized armed resistance to the territorial laws is so overwhelming that minis ters of the iaw there never attempt the dis charge of their official duties ; they have re pudiated payment of taxes, and have held and published the proceedings of large public meet ings in which they resolved to resist, even to blood, the territorial laws, and especially the laws for the collection of tho public revenue. According to testimony under oath lately given before the Congressional Committee, they have secret military organizations for resisting the laws and for carrying out their abolition de signs uponKausas—organizations in which the members are bound by tho most solemn oaths to obey their leaders', in all cases, not except ing even murder and treason. It is abundant ly proved by eye witnesses, of unquestioned veracity, that at this present time they have at different points in the territories banded to gether in actual enenmpment large numbers of armed men, subsisted and kept together by their aid societies for no other object than to make forays upon the country and drive our frieuds from their homes. By such banditti the murders near Ossa- , wattamie, on Pottawattamie creek, were com mitted; declarations by the perpetrators eo temporaneous with their foul deeds indubita bly show (the parentage of these crimes; six victims, whose bodies have been fouud, fell in that massacre, besides four others missing from tho neighborhood, and not yet heard from. Os the six, one was Allen Wilkinson, Esq., a member of the territorial legislatare und postmaster at Shermanville; sick with the measles; for no other offence save that of being a law and order man, he was dragged at midnight from his bed, and from the side of a sick and imploring wife, by a band of aboli- tion assassins, acting as they said in the name j of the great northern army; within hearing of the terror stricken wife, with fiendish bar barity, he was flayed alive, his nose and ears were cutoff, his scalp torn from his heal, aud then lie was stabbed through the heart. Such ; is the sworu evidence of his widow, lately ten dered in Westport, before the Congressional Investigating Committee. It revealed on the 1 part of their friends sucli a picture of sav- 1 age ferocity that the Committee for ouee , blushed, and even stultified themselves, rather | , than receive the testimony as competent. — 1 They had already received nnd recorded the ( ! evidence of Pardee Butler, testifying that [ since their appointment as Commissioners lie ; bad been tarred and feathered for negro steal ing ; but this decision they unblushingly re versed, aud erased the evidence rather than be forced to put up against their friends this horrible tale of the Ossawattamie murder upon the record. Besides Wilkinson, William Sherman and brother, and Mr. Doyle and two sons, were proved to have been murdered at their respective homes on the same night aud by the same band; one of the Doyle’s also had bis fingers and arms cut off before he was fi nally dispatched. Incredible ns these things may seem, they unquestionably happened in Kansas Territory in the latter part of last month: yet what is more incredible, but not less true, is tho undeniable fact that these out rages are not, as some pretend, the mere ex travagances of a few irresponsible individuals, but ou the contrary are justly chargeable to the abolition party, as tho legitimate fruit of their party measures and party discipline, ana as naturally resulting from the public teach ings, advice and course of their chief men and distinguished leaders. The outrages above specified were preceded, and up to’the present time, have been follow ed by others of a like character and dictated by a like settled policy on the part of our ene mies to harrass and frighten, by their deeds of horror, our friends from their homes in the territory. Undoubtedly this policy—a well settled party system —lias dictated the notices lately given in all the disturbed districts by armed marauding bauds of abolitionists to the law and order men of their respective neigh borhoods immediately to leave the country on peril of death. Under such notices our friends about Hickory Point, and the Pottawattamie and Rock creeks have all been driven out of the territory, their stores have been robbed, their cattle driven off, their houses burned, their horses stolen, and in some cases they have been assassinated for daring to return ; some, too, of these outrages have been perpetrated under the Very nose of the United States troops, who all the while assert that all is peace aud quietness, and that they will afford ample protection, without the necessity of our banding together in armed bodies for mutual defence. Among many others of our friends thus driven away, we might specify the cases of Messrs. Hargons, Jones and Owens, of Hicko ry Point, whom two hundred United States troops stationed within two miles of their homes have been unable to inspire with a sense of security. Morton Bourn, a most ex emplary, quiet aud unoffending man of our party, living within eight miles of Lecompton, the capital of the territory, where quite a number of troops are stationed, was lately driven from his home by a band of twenty five men, who robbed him of all his guns, five saddles, three horses, the blankets from ■ is beds and over fifty dollars in money. The thieves gave him twenty-four hours to leave with his family, and theatened to kill him if he ever returned, saying, they intended to serve all ihe pro-slavery men in the neighoorhood in the same way. Mr. Bourn is still out of the territory, and though anxious about his prop erty and desirous to return, yet lie dares not do so ; although as often as ho applies, the troops and Governor assure him that all is quiet, and that he shall have ample protection; but he knows that unless they remain constant ly about his house taey cannot keep marau ders and murderers away. This case is spe cified not for its peculiar enormity or hard ships, but because it is a fair (type of a large class of such cases, and because the under signed have all the details from Mr. Bourn himself; aud know them to be strictly true; indeed one of us assisted his family in their flight the day after the robbery. It is but too evident the troops cannot enable our friends ts maintain their ground in any part of the territory where the abolition element is in the ascendant; notwithstanding, we assure our friends that, after the mostdilligent inqui ry aud attention to that point, we firmly be lieve that our party has a well established, de cided, and increasing majority of actual set tlers in the territory. This majority, however, we do not believe can be maintained unless something bo done to give confidence to our friends, where they are few and weak in num ber. This can only be clone by colonizing large settlements together, under one common head with absolute control; let, say from one to three hundred agriculturists, mechanics and la borers to settle together iu some suitable point, to be indicated by the undersigned, or some other committee charged with the general inter ests of the party. This can be lawfully, safe ly and efficiently done, and by this means law and order can be maintained in the territory; and we say this, too, notwithstanding we are in possession of very convincing evidence to the fact, that the abolitionists of the North intend during the coming month to introduce large num bers of their hired bands to put their treason able pretended government into operation by force. These measures of mutual defeuce and future progress, however, require means, and demand aid from our friends abroad. The col onists should be subsisted a reasonable time, and each individual furnished with adequate agri cultural or mechanical outfit, so there can be no want of settlers coming and remaining at the points where they are most needed. Funds ! ave required, nnd for these we call upon our Southern friends—upon all having a common interest—nay, we call on all loving justice and wishing equal rights to each State nnd section of the Union—we call on the honest free State mnn, who,sick of the agitation and strife brewed by the abolitionists, desires the resto- i ration of peace and quiet to the country.— These can be restored only by restoring to the weaker and attacked section the means of fu- ‘ ture defence, in restoring its equilibrium with J .lie mnjority section. Fanatical aggression cannot be quieted by giving, but it may be by taking away the power to etfect its ends. All fair minds who have looked this question full iu ! the face, know and admit that it is not merely a question of whether Kansas shall be a slave j State or not, but a question of whether the en tire South shall not become the victim of mis- I guided philanthrophy. That man or State is ’ deceived that fondly trusts these fanatics may stop at Kansas. To use that territory as the mere “key to the future”—the mere means of ulterior operations against the whole South—-is unquestionably the settled policy of the ultra abolitionists, the hend and soul of the aggres sion, and whose opinions in the end must leav en and control the whole body—the whole mass that acts with them. The most convincing proof (if proofs were needed) of this was recently given before tlio Congressional Investigating Commmittee.— Judge Mathew Walker, a Wyandott, an un impeachable witness, nnd most reliable man, testified before the committee, that before the abolitiunists selected Lawrence as their centre of operations, their leader, Gov. Robinson, at tempted to get a foothold for them in the Wy andott reserve, near the junction of the Kansas and Missouri rivers; that in his negotiations for that purpose, Robinson finding it necessary j to communicate their plans and objects, divulg- ; ’ ed to Waiker (whom he then supposed a sym- j 1 puthieer) that the abolitionists were determined j on winning Kansas at any cost; that then liav- j ing Missouri surrounded on three sides, they ; j would begin their assaults on her; and as fast 1 as one State gave way, attack another, till the | whole South was abolitionised. That this rev j elation was actually made the undersigned have j not the slightest doubt; and we are equally confident that in that matter the abolition par ty was truly represented by Robinsou, who Las always been their chief man and acknowledged leader in Kansas. It is widely reporterted, and generally be lieved, that the northern abolitionists are now raising large bodies of armed men, under mili tary organization and discipline, to be surrep titiously introduced into the territory for the objects of driving out the peaceable inhabitants, setting the laws at defiance, and overwhelming the law and order party at the decisive election for a Territorial Legislature to come off on the first Monday in October next. It is not impos sible they may partially succeed in their aims ; their labors to inflame the northern mind are so incessant, their faculty of misrepresentation is so extraordinary—so fatally bent on mischief. Their papers, for instance, show up the Ossa wattamie massacre as an outrage of our own ; according to their account, “five pro-slavery men were hanging an abolitionist, when his five friends providentially came up and shot them in the act.” All have heard, through the papers, of the killing of Stewart by Cosgrove. The facts were these: Stewart being in Lawrence, when news reached there of an abolitionist having been just killed at Blanton’s bridge, in the vicinity, started off with four others towards the California road, all swearing they would kill the first pro-slavery man they met. Lieut. Cosgrove and Dr. Bratton, two quiet and wor thy men of our party, happened to be passing just as Stewart and his men reached the road. The five halted the two at the distance of only five or six paces, and to the astonishment and horror of the weaker party, immediately after halting them, began snapping and firing at them. Cosgrove seeing Bratton shot through the arm, fired and killed Stewart, and then, with his wounded companion, escaped under a shower of bullets. The next day a Lawrence man being taken as a spy and searched, a let ter was found on his person to a friend in the North, detailing Stewart’s death, in which he says, Stewart was met alone, unarmed, and without cause or excuse; shot down by five border ruffians. Indeed, it was proved before the Investiga ting Committee, that the abolition party had traveling agents in the territory, whose duty it was to gather up, exaggerate and report for publication rumors to the prejudice of the law and order party, and with the view to excite abolitionists to come to the territory ; and the witness, Parrot, admitted in his examination that he, as agent, had prepared such a report, and placed it in the hands of Sherman, one of the committee, since his arrival in Kansas. Sherman was then on the committee, .and did not deny it. How can there be other than the most exas perated state of feeling between the two sec tions ? How can civil war be avoided, when honorable committee-men countenance such reckless mischief ? Look the future in the face like men: if standing up to our rights, to our responsibilities, and to our trust, brings peace and security, so much the better; no other course can effect it. Send us men and means. We must have your help. Appoint agents, responsible, trusty, reliable men, for every State, district and neighborhood, whose sole business shall be to canvass for aid. Did we know suitable persons who would act, we would not hesitate to appoint them all over the country, Let our friends send their names, with details as to character aud qualification, and we will duly accredit them. One gentle man, an Alabamian, Alpheus Baker, jr., Esq., of Eufaula, Alabama, whom we all know, who has been here, and has distinguished himself by the zeal, success, and signal ability with which for a while he canvassed the border counties in Missouri for aid, we take the liberty of nominating, without assurance that he will accept. We trust that he may. Friends of the cause must contribute according to their seve ral gitts—we must not meanly abandon our birthright, and, without a struggle, yield to grasping monopoly this fairest Eden of our common domain—this laud of flowing brooks and fertile plain. Kansas is indeed the garden spot of America, and in every way adapted to Southern Institutions ; in no other part of the Union is slave labor more productive; and, in the present imperilled state of our civilization, if we do not maintain this outpost, we cannot long dofend the citadel. Then rally to the rescue. Any communications our friends in the South may be pleased to favor the undersigned with, will reach us most safely and certainly, if di rected to us at Westport, Missouri. Funds contributed may be sent to our Treasurer, A. G. Boone, Esq., directed to him at the same place. DAVID R. ATCHISON, WM. 11. RUSSELL, JOS. C. ANDERSON, A. G. BOONE, B. F. STRINGFELLOW, J. BUFORD. Westport, June 24, 1856. Col. Jefferson Buford: Dear Sir—Your colleagues of the committee j appointed by the “law and order” party in I Kansas, to direct and control their action, have unanimously resolved to require you to proceed at once to the South, for the purpose of presenting to tho people of the South the vital importance of their earnest, early, and efficient action to defeat the lawless purposes i of the abolitionists. You can be of infinite service to our cause by laying belore the people a correct exposi- \ j tion of the condition of tho Territory. With j sentiments of sincere regard, we are vour ! friends. D. R. ATCHISON, A. G. BOONE, WM. H. RUSSELL, JOS. C. ANDERSON, B. F. STRINGFELLOW. Mr. Buford is now on a tour through tho Southern States, engaged in the duties assign ed him in the foregoing letter. The statue of Benjamin Franklin is to be inaugurated in the city of Boston on the 17th of September, with appropiate ceremonies, and an oration by Hon. R. C. Winthrop. Tho day is the anniversary of the settlement of Bos ton. The papers are discussing the propriety of keeping this day every year as a general holiday, with a release of the public schools, a military review, fire works and other fea tures. • Hon. E. J. Morris, democrat, of Pa., is said to be warmly advocating the election of Fill. \ more. TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS. Later from Europe. New York, August 4.—The British steam ship Emeu, Capt. Small, has arrived with ad : vices from Havre to the afternoon ol the 22d i ult. Nothing later had been received in rela -1 tion to the Spanish insurrection. Narvaes j had left Paris for Bayonne. It was supposed i that Espartero had been placed under arrest by O’Donnell. Advices from Florence mention that negotiations were under progress between the Governments of Rome, Naples, Florence and Modena for the purpose of forming a fed eration under the patronage ot Austria. Another dispatch gives the following items: The Havre Cotton market was dull. Sales for one day 500 bales. Consols were firm. There have been serious disturbances in the Papal States, owing to the dearness of food. It is rumored that the King of Naples con templates abdicating in favor of the Duke of Colabrin. Spanish advices says that all was quiet at Madrid, but that Barcelona, Saragossa, Bil boa and Lagrove are in a state of excitement, The London Times states that Mr. Dallas j f empowered to propose to the British Coven, ment tho establishment of San Juan as a free Port under Nicaragua Sovereignty, reserving to Costa Rica the right of traffic through it and through such portions of the river San Juan as may be necessary. The Musquito Indians to bo concentrated in a defined terri tory, which shall leave clear the mouth of the River San Juan and tho town, but their rights are to be guaranteed to them and an annuity, for a term of years, to their Chiefs. The Bay Islands to be restored to Honduras, but the Belize to remain as a British possession, with the same territorial limits as in 1850. Still Later from Europe. New York, August 4.—The Atlantic has arrived with Liverpool dates to the 23rd ult. Commercial. The Liverpool Cotton Market had been un affected by the Asia’s advices and was firm. The sales during the three days comprised 21,000 bales, including 2,000 to speculators and 4,500 to exporters, leaving 14,500 bales all descriptions to the trade. The quotations were unchanged. Consols closed at 95f, General Intelligence. Parliament in all probability was to have been closed on the 26th ult. The statements by this arrival in relation to the progress of the insurrection in Spain are conflicting. O’ Donnell had taken such effectual measures for crushing any outbreak, that after thirty hours hard fighting in Madrid, the citizens and Na tional Guards surrendered a nd were immediate ly disarmed. Madrid was tranquil. At Bar celona and elsewhere, the outbreaks were tri fling anil speedily suppressed. It was report ed that at Saragossa, now the head quarters of the insurgents, a more than legal quorum of the members of the Cortes had assembled and proclaimed Liberty and the Constitution. Napoleon had ordered troops to the frontiers of France and Spain. The difficulty between Mexico and Spain had been amicably adjusted. The failures in England reported by previous steamers were John Nunn, cotton broker, Liv erpool, Joseph Wright & Cos., commission mer chants, Manchester; Baxter & Cos., and four others. Their liabilities are large and their assets small. Congressional. Auo. 4.—The U. S. Senate, to-day, passed several River and Harbor Bills. In the House no business of importance was transacted. Aug. s.— The Senate passed to-day four Ki ver and Harbor Bills. The House was in Committee of the Whole on the Appropriation Bill for Legislative, Judicial and Executive expenses. An amendment was rejected to the effect that no money should be drawn until the Bill for the pacification of Kansas had been passed and approved by the President, and until the charges against persons under arrest for political oliences in Kansas was dismissed, and compensation and mileage awarded to the members of the Legislative Assembly. Another dispatch, dated the sth, says: lhe House has adopted several amendment to the appropriation bill, restoring the Mis souri Compromise, suspending the Kansas laws, Ac., and striking out all appropriation: for the Kansas government. In the Senate, a Message was received from the President, denying any orders to Lieut Col. Sumner to disperse assemblages of citi zens in Kansas. Kentucky Elections. Louisville, Aug. 4.— The election is quiet here. The Americans have 2,100 majority. They have, also, majorities in Lexington, Frankfort, Covington and Newport. A Demo cratic success is indicated in the North East ern counties of the State. The vote of the State, however, will probably be close. Aug. s.—The impression prevails in this city, that the Democrats generally have beer, successful. Missouri Elections. St. Louis, August s. —Private dispatches state that Blair, the Democratic Candidate fc: Congress for the St. Louis District, has re ceived COO majority. Benton for Governor has 1000 majority over Erving the America! and COO over Polk, the Anti-Benton Candi date. Later from Kansas. Chicago, Aug. 4.— Advices from Leaver worth to the 30th ult., state that Gen. Lai: A Cos. had not entered the territory, and tha: Gen. Smith threatens to enforce martial la* if they do. The Territorial authorities ha'* commenced to levy taxes, which both partic retuse to pay, and troubles are apprehended Interesting from Montvale. ‘Viator’ writing to the Charleston Standard lrom Montvale Springs, under date, July 81st says, among other things : The grand bull of the season came off la- t! evening, but was not as brilliant an affair m might have been anticipated. The place wn as full as it could be before, and there was n room therefore for an increase of company Some parties, however, from the adjneen’ towns, who were willing to submit to any b amount of stowage that might be necessary came in about dark. Many country peop came stalking in to sec the show and go a” . | again. The ladies turned out in their jewelry and ball-dresses. The fancy dances were fair ly initiated, and the affair went off to the tol erable satisfaction of all parties. The country folks at least, were abundantly gratified ; they , formed early in the evening along one eu<P the hall room, many of them in homespun J and two of the men with their coats off': no later in the night, when crowded to the piazza, they formed in circles round the window some leaning on their rifles, and wateby ~ away unwearied until the ball was over. S’ fancy costume was attempted, and I have no excuse, therefore, for iuvidual allusion:, but I can say generally with great confidence. „ that the assemblage was unusually attractive’ t It is very seldom indeed, that in a company “ ] only two hundred and fifty persons so ninny lovely and accomplished ladies can bo founl t As may be inferred from the above, the pre s ’ * sure of the crowd is unabated, and truly some j hard cases have been presented.