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COLUMBUS: Saturday Morning, Auguat 0, 1056. largest city circulation. We learn that Judgo Ulyses Lewie, apromi nent citizen of Russell co., Ala., died at his residence yesterday. The funeral will take place at half past eight o’clock, athis late resi dence, and his burial in this city at ten. Sons of Temperance. We again remind the “Sons” of their meet ing to be held this evening. It is desired to have a full attendance. Mechanics* Union. This Association held their regular meeting on Thursday night last, and was well attend ed. The following persons were elected by bal lot: Messrs. Louis Harmond, Aug. A. Dill, Burwell Murphy, Thomas Stewart, F. M. Gray, M. F. McEvoy and Wiley Williams. A good deal of business was transacted, but uothing of suflicient general interest to require reporting. Prof. Darby had not been heard from, the President stated, but a letter was daily expect ed, and so soon as received, a time for his lec ture will be fixed. Prof. Darby is a very able and practical man. We have heard one of his lectures—on the Resources of Georgia—and judging there from, can promise our citizens an intellectual repast of no common order. Alabama Elections. In Mobile county, for Tax Collector, Henry Turner, K. N., beat John B. Tisdale, Demo crat, 889 votes. In Lowndes county, the Democrats elected the Sheriff, and the K. Ns. the Tax Collector. In Tallapoosa county, the Democrats elected the Sheriff, by a diminished majority. In Chambers county, the K. Ns. re-elected Muse Clerk Circuit Court, by 65 majority. In Barbour county, Col. J. C. McNab, Dem ocrat, is re-elected Circuit Clerk, by a large majority, and Wm. McCormick, (claimed by the Eufaula Native, to be a Fillmoro Whig,) is elected Tax Collector. In Talladega county, H. P. Oden, Demo crat, is elected Sheriff by 82 votes; Driver, Democrat, is elected Tax Collector, as also the entire Democratic ticket for County Commis sioners. In Madison county, Robert S. Spragins, is re-elected Circuit Clerk, and James H. Poor Tax Collector. Both democrats. The Mobile Tribune learns by a private let ter received thero that an affray occurred a few days since in Washington county between Dr.’ W. A. Williams, formerly of Mobile, and a man by the name of Sullivan, in which the latter was killed and the former badly wound ed in the leg. • Messrs. Bocock and Lane as friends of Mr. Brooks, have published a card in reply to Bur lingame’s manifesto. The mails being still behind, we have not yet received the document in question. A correspondent of the South Side Democrat says Mr. Burlingame’s return to Washington is “anxiously” looked for—an intimation that he is possibly “ screwing him self up” to the fighting pitch. Satisfying. Among the curiosities of duelling, a very noticeable one is the satisfying effect of an ex change of shots. We do not understand it It is a mystery and a marvel. It may be, should we ever have tho ill luck to partake of coffee and gunpowder, that it will be no longer a mystery. Hon. Wm. L. Yancey, of Alabama, one of the Democratic Electors for the State at large, is announced in yesterday’s Times, to address the people of Columbus, on political topics, Tuesday evening next, at Temperance Hall.— Mr. Yancy is a fine stump speaker and will doubtless make the occasion one of much in terest to all who like superior oratory. Suicides. The mania for suicide in the United States recently, has reached a fearful height, and if it increases at tho samo rate for a few years, will make America, the equal of France. An exchange has the following hit at the frivolous reasons which have induoed many suicides lately: A young goutleman out west committed sui cide in a novel manner last week. He ate a pint of dried apples, and then drank water un til he bursted. The rash act was caused by his father forbidding him to grease his mous tache with tho butter knife. The Woolly Horse. Everybody has heard of the woolly horse, on which Col. Fremont is running for the Presi dency; but it isn’t everybody that knows ex actly what kind of animal it is. We therefore reproduce from tut old New York paper the following advertisement, announcing tho horse for exhibition ; and may add that the descrip tion is a faithful daguerreotype of the party who are supporting the great Pathfinder, and Mariposa millionare: COI,. FREMONT’S NONDESCRIPT, OK WOOLLY HOUSE 1 Will be exhibited for n few days, at the cor ner of Broadwa; and Reade street, previous to his departure for London. Nature seems to have exhausted all her in genuity in the production of this Astonishing Animal. He is extremely complex, made up of the Elephant . Deer, Horse, Buffalo, Camel and Sheep! Is of the full size of the Horse, HAS THE lIAUNCHKB OF A DKKK, THE TAIL Or AN ELEPHANT, A fine curled wool of camel’s hair color, and easily bounds twelve or fifteen feet high ! Na turalists and trappers assured COL. FREMONT that it was never known previous to his dis covery. It is undoubtedly “ Nature’s Last,” and the richest specimen ever received from California. To be seen every day this week. Admittance 25 cents; children half price. Men in whom the imagination predominates are apt to convert facts into fictions, and live j in a world of their own creation. An Economical Government. One of the most attractive planks, and one of the oldest in the Democratic platform, was an “economical” government. The party have always avowed uncompromising hostility to internal improvements by the general gov ernment. Mr. Clay’s opinions on this subject had more to do with his defeat in the l’resi- 1 dential race than any thing else ; and the De mocracy used him roughly because of those [ opinions. Nevertheless if we but look at the | proceedings of Congress we find a Democratic Senate appropriating millions for the improve- | ment cf harbors, rivers and roads ; this too, over the head of the President who has endea vored by veto to arrest the silvery tide. We are glad to notice the Charleston Mercury condemning these appropriations and severely lashing itj party for their inconsistency and gross departure from their professed creed. Col. Benton too has been growling after his characteristic fashion, about the enormous ex penditures of the general government in 1855, —575,000,000, which he estimates to be equal to a tux of S2O per head, on every voter, na tive and naturalized in the United States. The cry is still for more. Members of Congress are wanting “more:” Mr. Tyson, of Phila delphia, has reported a bill in Congress to allow Custom House Inspectors four instead of three dollars per day, commencing from the first of July 1866. Upon this last bill the Bal timore Clipper has some very just comments. It says that the Inspectors, if reduced in num ber one half, could do all the work required ; that not half of them work an hour daily, which we believe to ba scrupulously true ; that the Printers of the United States would act as Inspectors, and be glad of the chance for sls per week ; and do it better than it is now done ; and lastly, that the money paid to Custom House loungers would be better spent on hard working, over worked post office clerks; all of which we endorse. A Mayor Stalled! Yesterday morning, we noticed the worthy Chief of our City, sitting behind a gray horse, that had made up his mind not to go. A va riety of arguments were used with him; his check-rein was lowered, his collar loosened, the harness altered here and there by a friend, George Gullen, of universal fame, who also put in an occasional emphatic slap upon the back; but all to no purpose for a long time The Mayor meanwhile, was as cool as the Arc tic ice house. Not a word came from his lips —not a frown upon his brow —not a lash from his whip. At last and at last, the gray chang ed his mind, and the last we saw of him, he was going down street at a nimble hand gal lop. Now for the nioral—the man who can sit patiently behind a horse in the “stulks,” evinces admirable qualities for the administra tion of government. A dispatch to the Times and Sentinel dated Augusta, Aug. 7th, states that Kentucky had gone for the Democrats by thousands. Six, out of the eight Judges elected, are Buchanan men. From Texas. Mr. William Hill, a resident of Wilcox co., Ala., arrived in our city on last Wednesday week, and immediately took his bed, stating that he had had diarrhoea for three or four days before. Medical aid was called in, but Mr. Hill expired on Friday evening. Every attention was rendered the deceased by the gentlemanly proprietor of the Fannin House, Mr. Dyer. In his pockets were found a draft on New Orleans for $1,400, and aletter of introduction to Messrs. Briggs & Yard, of Galveston. He has a family in Wilcox, and, we believe, some relations in Texas. The lamentable details of one horrid murder are scarcely recited before the public are shocked with the recurrence of another still more harrowing. On last Wednesday, a Mr. Perry, as we are informed, rode up to where Mr. Moore was putting up his fence and shot him down as if lie had been a dog. Mr. Moore was a wealthy and highly esteemed citizen of Colorado county. We did not learn whether Perry was arrestod, but presume he was not. —Houston (Texas) Telegraph. A Bloody Tragedy. A most unfortunate affair took place on Wednesday last, near this place, which result ed in the death of a man named David Cole, who was killed by his brother, Isaac Cole. It seems that ill feeling had subsisted for a long time between them, growing out of some dis pute in regard to the settlement of their Fa ther’s Estate. The deceased, as we learn, was a man of intemporate habits. His brother had said to someone, that David had better be at homo attending to his business, instead of go ing to town, to get drunk. This reachod the cars of the deceased, who made his wife write —he being an illiterate man himself—to Isaac, telling him if he came by his house again, he would kill him. It appears that Isaac had necessarily to goby there, in order to get to a field of his, and in doing so, was attacked by David, who was armed with a piatol. After being stricken several times, Isaac, who was carrying a gun, shot him twice, killing him in stantly. These are the circumstances ns they have reached us.— Tuscaloosa Observer Ith. Immense Map. The New York Tribune states that there has been on exhibition in the Merchant’s Ex change of that city, a map, on the scale of six inches to a degree, which embraces tho whole of North America from the south side of Hud son’s Bay to the mouth of the Rio Grande. It | measures about thirty by seventeen feet. The outlines of the coast are from the Coast Survey ! charts. The Rocky Mountains and all western portions contain much information not shown on any of the smaller maps. It is designed particularly to illustrate the railroads, for the benefit of foreigner capitalists whose ignorance j of the country operates much to embarrass i their investing in American railway securities. | It has been made wi.h the pen alone, and will ‘ remain for permanent exhibition probably in London. Feathering his own Heat. Lnne, the Kausas patriot, is feathering his : nest finely from the contributions of the aid 1 men in this State. He refuses to pay his men, I intending, no doubt, to keep the means for his own use when he gets into the Territory. He has lately had a difficulty among some of his men, who gave him a severe flogging. A few such whippings might do him some good, if he is not too far gone for any influence to reach ; him. Our men here should call a meeting im mediately and send on a fresh supply of means ‘ to this self sacrificing patriot and philanthro- 1 pist! Shall we have a call l—Bloomington j Flag. From the Portsmouth (Va.) Transcript. National Expenditure—A Gloomy and Warning Picture. A Washington correspondent of the Alexan dria Sentinel, [democratic] thus speaks of the Treasury fleecing which a very democratic Senate has inaugurated during the present session: “ That your readers may understand some thing of the enormous expenditures proposed under the plan of internal improvement intro duced into the Senate during the present ses sion, and reported on favorably, in every case j by the Committee on Commerce, I will state that fifty six bills, of a purely local character, have been introduced, involving an appropria tion of two millions six hundred and seventy eight thousand eighty five dollars and sixty five cents!! Six bills of a general character, calling for an appropriation of $360,000, have also been introduced, making a total of 62 bills, and appropriating $3,038,085 05 !!! The floodgates of the Treasury have been rais ed and in defiance of the warning and opposi tion of the Senators and Representatives from Virginia and others, a system has been inau gurated that will deplete the Treasury of its last dollar.” This action of the Senate, with its a demo cratic majority, stands out in strange con trast with the opposition which, until now, the same party, as a unit have displayed against any system of internal improvement by tho Federal government, if we except the convenient doctrine which admitted that works of national importance might receive such aid. But, with the other corruptions which have crept into the party, we have now a practical repudiation of this fundamental idea in the democratic creed, and renounced by the chief men of the party as unequivocally as the old Whig party have surrendered their opinion as to the necessity or expediency of a national bank. But there is this difference: the expe riments of the latter were harmless, while no one can possibly foresee the results which the former may produce. Already the expendi tures of government have reached a startling amount— -572,684,400 a year! $6,307,200 a month!!! $1,452,920 a week!!! ! $207,660 a day ! ! ! ! ! $8,600 an hour !!!!!! $144 a minute !!!!!!! and this previous to the schemes which are now matured for the depletion of the Treasury, and which, once fully recognized, cannot fail of bankrupting the nation. The blindness of party will not, we believe, induce the people, in whose hands is the sovereign power to ap ply the corrective, to close their eyes to the peril in which this action of the Senate places the finances of the country. We are glad to see that the Virginia Senators opposed this in fringement of a sound and safe principle, and we cannot think otherwise than that the coun try at large will condemn the Senate’s action. If, instead of senseless and exciting politi cal discussions, we had working in Congress, it would be better for the peace and interest of the country. We need retrenchment in eve ry department of tho government as well as reform, we care not by which political organ ization it is effected, and we trust that it will soon be commenced. In place of scheming partizans and sectionalists, we want in the halls of legislation men who are loyal to the Union and the constitution, and who, looking beyond mere party or local approbation, will deal exterminating blows at the corruptions and abuses which are now so conspicuous in the government. Until the people abandon the bad policy of sending huckstering politicians to the Senate and House of Representatives— men who are as unprincipled as they are in competent—we must expect to see all profita ble legislation neglected, corruption increased and the Union even less stable thanitis at this moment, when faction is everywhere display ing its hideous head and bringing the national character into disrepute among the nations of Christendom. Bnrning of the St. John. We aro pleased to hear that an investigation is on foot that is likely to result in the discov ery of the incendiaries who fired the steamer St. Johns, at Jacksonville, some ten days ago, and probably the perpetrators of a similar out rage on the Seminole at the same place. A rumor of the destruction of the St. Johns by fire, having been in circulation in this city some days previous to the receipt of any au thentic intelligence of the disaster—indeed, before it could possibly have reached here— Sergeant Wilson, of the Mounted Police, took the matter in hand, and traced it up to Nat, a colored man employed on board the St. Johns, but who runaway a day or two before her last departure from Savannah. Nat was arrested and carried to jail, and be ing about to unuergo a threshing, he confessed that he was present on board the St. Johns at Jacksonville, when a conversation occurred between three negres employed on the boat, in which they stated that they had burned the Seminole and were going to fire the St. Johns. It was understood that she was to have been burned on her previous trip, and as it had not been done, Nat concluded that they would carry out their purpose on the return of the vessel to Jacksonville, and for that reason, he says, he derserted. He also told Sergeant Wilson, that if he would go to Jacksonville and search an out-house in the vicinity be longing to one of its citizens, (naming him,) he would find some of the property belonging to the Seminole. Under the direction of Messrs. Cloghorn & Cunningham, Agents of the Florida line of steamers, Mr. Wilson proceeded to Jackson ville last week, taking the boy Nat with him. Upon arriving he took out a warrant, and in company with several police officers of the town, searched the said premises, but found nothing to confirm the statements of the ne gro. He also nrrested the three negroes above alluded to, and turned them over to the author ties. The examination had been progressing for a day and a half when the Welaka, on which Mr. Wilson came passenger yesterday, left Jacksonville, and it was thought from the testimony that two of the negroes would be convicted. There was much excitement in tho town.— Sav. Rep. Hung. The boy Bob, says the Clayton (Ala.) Ban. J ner of the 7th, sentenced to be huug at our I last Circuit Court on the sixth, and had anew trial granted by the Supreme Court of Alabama, was executed in the presence of a very large j concourse of people without the limits of Clay- I ton on yesterday. It was rumored in town | thttt a petition had been gotten up, and Bomo six or seven hundred citizens of the county were determined to hang him on the day lie was sentenced to be hung; the Sheriff made arrangements to prevent their design, but the hosts came, and broke open the Jail and took Bob out and hung him. The citizens of the town expostulated, but it did no good ; they were determined to execute him. . appears by the assessment of property just made in St. Louis, that taxation is pretty steep in that city, being two dollars and sixty cents on one hundred dollars. TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS. Editorial Duel. . Washington, August 6.— A hostile meeting . took place to-day atßladeusliurgh, near the res idence of Francis P. Blair, between Mr. 1 ryor, j of the Richmond Enquirer, and Mr. Ridgway, of the Whig, in the same city. The distance was ten paces, weapons, pistols. After an ex- , change of shots, the affair was amicably adjust ed through the intervention of the Hon. 1 res ton S. Brooks, and of the Hons. H. A. Edmuud son and John S. Caskie, of Virginia, as mutual friends. Miscellaneous. There has been an accident on the Baltimore Railroad. Several persons were badly injured. Several jewelry stores in Providence have been robbed to the amount of SIO,OOO. Letters received by the Atlantic, dated W ed nesday, the day the steamer sailed, report the market at Liverpool steady with sales for the | day of 7,000 bales. The Elections. Nf.n York, August s.—Partial returns from the election in Kentucky, report majorities in favor af the American party. Later accounts are contradictory. The Dem ocrats claim the victory. Benton for Governor of Missouri, was ahead at last accounts, and is supposed to be elected. The vote in St. Louis for Benton was 5,139; for Ewing, 4,053, and for Polk, 2,519. Blair, Black Republican, is elected to Congress from St. Louis, beating Kennett by 1000 votes. Partial returns from lowa state that the Re publicans are ahead. From Arkansas the re turns place the Democrats ahead. Aug. 6.—Duvall, Democrat, elected Judge in Kentucky by one thousand majority. The Democrats have majorities in Mason, Newport, Covington, Nelson, Oldham, Henry, Scott, Ow en and Benton counties. The Americans have majorities in Woodford, Glasgow, Shelbyville, Frankfort, Henderson and Harden counties.— Lexington elects a Democratic Marshal. The highest American vote in the city of Lexington is 2,457. The independent vote, 676. In lowa the election in Dubuque city and county has resulted in favor of the Democrats. Blair’s majority in St. Louis is 800. Ben ton’s majority in St. Charles county, Missouri, is 200. Washington, August 6.—From Davenport, lowa, we learn that Scott, Muscatine and Ja cobson counties have given 500 to 650 Repub lican majority. Desmoines has also give a Re publican majority. The above are gains; in deed, the Republicans have carried the State, as ten counties have given 2000 majority. Da vis, the Republican candidate for Congress, in the 2d district, is largely ahead. Congressional. Washington, August 6. — From the corres pondence sent to the Senate yesterday, it ap pears that Col. Sumner exceeded his instruc tions in dispersing the legislative assembly of Kansas, and the President has written him for explanations. The Senate passed the bills for the improvement of the harbors of Apalachi cola and Charleston, Bayou Lafourche, the in land passages of the St. John’s and St. Mary’s rivers, Florida; Mobile, Cape Fear and Red Rivers, Atchafalaya Bay and Red River Fall’s, and also the bill for the construction of a wag road to the Pacific. The House passed the bill granting 1,500,000 acres of land to Missis sippi for rail road purposes. The House, in Committee of the Whole, amended the legisla tive, Executive and Judicial Appropriation Bill, by providing that no money shall be expended for the prosecution of the detaining parties for treason or other political offences in Kansas. The bill then passed the House as amended, by 30 majority, except Mr. Dunn’s proviso resto ring the Missouri Compromise. Mr. Keitt was sworn in to-day. The Austrian Navy. Austria is at present making very serious efforts to increase her navy. The first line of battle ship (90 guns) which she ever thought ot professing was put on the stocks at Pola a few days back, under the name of the Empe ror, and is to have a screw propeller, with an 800 horse power. Two other ships of the line of the same dimensions are likewise to be im mediately commenced, and according to orders sent from Vienna, are to be urged on as rapid ly as possible. Lo! the Poor Niggers. How much will the sympathy of the Tap pans, the Garrisons, theGreeleys and such like, be increased and multiplied for their poor, starved, colored brethren in the benighted South’ when they learn that in the African Methodist Church on State street, above Hamilton, on Sanday last a collection was taken up among the dark congregation, which amounted to three hundred and thirty-nine dollars. Such sum, freely contributed by “the poor negroes,” shows how badly the race is used by the bad Southerners. —Mobile News, sth. Water is getting frightfully scarce in New York. On Saturday the Croton Aqueduct Board sent in a communication to the Commis sioners of Health, informing that body that the Croton Water must not be used to clean the streets. No water has crossed the Croton dam for a period of nine days, they say, and what is more, the water in the darn itself is falling at tho rate of an inch and a half a day. At a very learned discussion on stratas the other day, at the house of the learned profes sor, a Mr. B ,of this city, asked if there were any strata of precious gems. “No, none whatever,” replied Professor Agassiz! “Ive heard of one,” Mr. B . ‘‘lmpossi ble!” was the rejoinder. “Oh, yes,” said B , and it was called a strata-gem! ” If you don’t wont to be bothered with cus tomers, don’t advertise. When every one knows what you have for sale, it is more than likely that you will have many calls, for arti cles in your line. But if your keep your mat ters close, and r.one but your particular friends and regular customers know the ex tent and quality of your stock, you will be sure not to be crowded. Lord Hardinge, the Commander-in-Chief, when he went down to Aldershot to attend the previous review there. *as struck by par alysis, and now lies in a very precarious state. His Lordship is old, and this attack was a pretty distinct intimation that his days of so journ on this planet are drawing to a close. He has, therefore, resigned, and the Queen’s cousin, the Duke of Cambridge, has been ap pointed to succeed him. We beg to state that the proverb “Lightly ! come, lightly go,” does not apply to the gout, nor to one’s mother-in-law, nor to the rheuma- ! tism, nor to freckles, nor to a light sovereign; i for all these plagues come lightly enough, and I yet there is the greatest difficulty sometimes in getting them to go. Mr. Heald, the young English gentleman of fortune who married Lora Montes shortly af- j ter her separation from the King of Bavaria, died at Folkstone. England, last month, of consumption. | general items. , Rufus P. Rowe, of Amelia county, Va., was robbed of $740 at the Richmond depot in Pe tersburg, Wednesday evening. There is a firm in Cincinnati which employs a capital of ten thousand dollars in the rath er singular business of preparing sausage skins for the European markets. An Irish paper, describing the result of a duel says; “The one party was wounded in the chest, and the other fired in the air.” [This must have been a triangular duel.] A sturgeon, measuring five feet two inches in length, jumped on board the quarantine boat in the harbor of Boston on Thursday night. About sixty-five emigrants from South Car olina, under command of Major Wilkes, passed through Augusta on Tuesday afternoon, on their way to Kansas. AtEdgartowu, Mass., recently, a man nam ed Conner was severely cowhided by Captain Pease, of the U. 8. revenue service, for an al leged insult to the Captain’s wife. Newark, N. J., contains now 58 distinct 1 church organizations, or one to every thous- r and inhabitants, and therefore may justly be styled the “The City of Churches.” Men’s happiness spring mainly from mode rate troubles, which afford the mind a health ful stimulus, and are followed by a reaction which produces a cheerful flow of spirits. The Boston Post has credit for the last li quid remedy for baldness, as follows : “Use brandy externally until the hair grows, then take it internally to clinch the roots.” Mr. George M. Waldburg, an old and re spected citizen of Savannah, died a day or two ago on his plantation on St. Catliarino’s Island. Mr. Andrews, near Onarga, in Iroquois county, Illinois, has an artesian fountain upon his premises, from which flows so powerful a stream that mills are about to be erected upon it. Sporting gentleman, newly arrived in Tex as. “Any game hereabouts, sir ? ” Texan. “Reckon so, and plenty of ’em. There’s blufl', poker and euchre, and all fours, and monte, and jest as many more as you like to play at.” The value of the ready made garments sold by wholesale in the city of New York in 1853, reached nearly $20,000,000, including men’s and boys’. The amount sold in the same man ner in 1841, was onby $2,500,000. The aver age earnings ol‘ females in sewing on this work is calculated to be about $4.50 per week. The Journal de St. Quintin publishes a re cipe for curing cattle of the fermentation pro duced in their stomachs from eating clover and other green food. The remedy is a spoon ful of ammonia, dissolved in a glass of water and administered to the animal. The cure, it states, takes place within an hour. It is said that Gen. James who accompanied Mr. Burlington to Canada, is the same renown ed “gentleman,” though familiarly known as Charley James, whom Lewis C. Levin, though only half his size, took into a room in the As tor House, and after threshing and spitting upon him, literally kicked down stairs without resistance. Isn’t he a nice person to act in an affair of honor? The Criterion, in a review of our “Lives of American Merchants,” quotes the maxim of Peter C. Brooks, one of the objects of that work, viz : “The whole value of wealth con sists in the personal independence it secures ;” —a maxim, says the Criterion, that “deserves to be placed on every book in which merchau tile transactions are recorded.” In the towns of Haverhill, Burton, and Piermont, N. 11., wolves are quite numerous, and doing extensive damage to flocks of sheep and young cattle. One farmer in Haverhill lost over forty sheep in one night, about two weeks since. The select men of these towns have now offered a bonnty of SIOO per bead for wolves and the State bounty is S2O. An ignorant, but well-meaning man, having been placed on the commission of the peace in a rural district in England, declared, on taking his seat as a magistrate, “that it would indeed be his most anxjous endeavor to do justice without fear, favor, or affection.” “In short,” said he, emphatically, “I will take care that on this bench I willnever be either partial or impartial.” Saratoga is said to be full. It was estima ted on Monday week that the number of stranges in the village was 10,000. But the southern watering places are gaining on their competitors at the north. Montvale Springs, near Knoxville, Tenn., at last accounts, had three hundred visitors, while most of the Vir ginia Springs were crowded with company. The Montreal Post says: As sure as the destiny of Canada points to an issue, so sure, if Canada remain united, will that issue be independence. It must be a question of years, but it is worth waiting for. It may be a question involving subordinancy to England for a time, but the direct tendency of that country’s legislation is to train us for indepen dent self-government. Jonathan Dayton, of Grand Blane, Genesee county, Michigan, has grown this year some l’ithusian wheat from seed procured by the patent office from the island of Ivica, in the Mediterranean sea, east of the coast of Spain. The berry is large, weighing 70 lbs. to the bushel. The spikes are large, bearing an enormous beard. It is free from insects, and twenty-four ears, exhibited as a sample, weighed six ounces. A Ravenous Alligator. On Wednesday of this week Josiah Ferris and Rufeniu Fales, young gentlemen of this place, started to Long Island, situate about 2 miles distant, for the purpose of fishing.— They were engaged in this sport, when a large Alligator arose alongside the boat, and as quick as thought, dashed ahead, wheeled, turned on his side, t jyid clasped the bow of the boat between his jaws. The teeth made considerable indentures in either side. Find ing but little could be done in way, the mon ster gave several vigorous shakes, tearing the bottom out of the boat and sinking it in four foot water. As tho boat was disappearing 1 Fales, who was poling at the time, struck their antagonist over the head, and after secur ing a foot-hold on the bottom,{repeated his blows with such rapidity us to confuse the mode of attack; finally, after manoeuvering for some time, with mouth extended, the Alligator made a bold charge upon the young men; as ho advanced, Fales succeeded in jamming the pole down his tliroat, arid holding him thus until Ferris, with a small pocket-knife, was enabled to wound him so severely as to decide the contest. After the victory was won, a cursory view of their position, forced upon them, apprised them of the exteme danger to which they were exposed. In close proximity were five of these hideous animals, staring at them, as though determined to make them their prey. The cap tured one measured 15 feet.— Tampa Peninsu lar.