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.COLUMBUS:
Monday Morning, Augut 11, 1856.
LARGEST CITV CIRCU-ATION.
We call particulrr attention to the Card of
Messrs. Lee & Carter, anew Commission
house in Montgomery, to be found in our ad
vertising columns. These gentlemen aro re
liable business men.
Alabama Elections.
In Coosa county, the election, was only for
Tax Assessor. Taylor, K. N., is elected by
190 majority. This is a large gain.
In Autauga county, Benson, Democrat, is
elected Circuit Clerlt, over Hogg, K. N., by 70
majority.
lu Perry county, A. B. Davis, K. N., is elec
ted Tax Assessor, over C. C. Brackett, by a
majority of 180 votes.
In Wilcox county, D. C. Gordon, Democrat,
is re-elected Circuit Clerk by 500 majority ;
and Williams, Democrat, elected Tax Assessor.
Both the Whig Senators from Maryland,
Messrs. Pearce and Pratt, have addressed let
ters to their constituents, avowing their deter
mination to support Buchanan, and advising
their Whig friends to do likewise.
Five slaves ran off from Middlebury, Lou
don county, Va., last week. The loss in the
county since December, from the same cause,
reaches SIO,OOO.
A sympathetic correspondence, it is said,
has taken place between lion. Charles Sum
ner and tho “ colored boarders” atCape May.
Hon. E. J. Harden has been elected Corpor
ation Attorney to the city of Savannah, with
a salary of SI,OOO per annum.
Tho State Department bus information that
the trade in Coolies in American and British
vessels continues with unabated vigor in Cuba.
An English captain is under contract for de
livering this description of laborers on planta
tion, where they are treated no better thnn
slaves. The emigration of these Chinese do
not diminish the trade in Africans, who are
sent in large numbers to Cuba.
A Grand International Fair is in contempla
tion in Buffalo, Now York, to be held early in
September. It is proposed, says tho Repub
lic, to offer prizes to tho amount of between
$16,000 and $20,000, for which all the citi
zens of the United States and Canada will be
allowed to compete, in all the varied and ex
tensive departments of agricultural and me
chanical industry.
The late duel between the Richmond editors
eame off in a beautiful grove on the premises
of F. P. Blair. After the first fire, Mr. Ridg
way demanded nuother shot, which was grant
ed by Mr. Pryor: but at this juncture, Messrs.
Brooks of S. C., Edmundsonand Caskie of Va.,
arrived on the ground and persuaded them to
settle the affair amicably, which was done.—
Both gentlemen are said to have shown good
pluck on tho occasion.
Letter from Dr. Ross.
Our readers, or many of them, will remem
ber the famous speech of this gentleman in the
Presbyterian General Assembly, some time
ago, defending slavery as a moral and politi
cal blessing, existing by the will of God, and
authorized by tho Bible. The letter which
we publish to-day, is of a piece with his speech,
though upon a slightly different topic—slavery
agitation. Pungent, spicy, lucid, powerful, it
is one of the most triumphant and conclusive
documents over written in support of any
cause. We commend it specially so Northern
men, who can get out of the beaten track of
prejudice, ignorauce and fanaticism, and calm
ly consider tho argument and the facts on
which it is based.
Tho Cards of Qeu. Lano and Mr. Bocock, in
reply to Messrs. Campbell and Burlingame
have not yet come to hand. But we see it
stated that Gen. L. says that Brooks, Edmond
son and himself regarded Burlingame’s selec
tion of Canada as a miserable subterfuge and
back out. Mr. Brooks under his advice de
clined to go, and cites from the code of honor
to show that the place named for mootingmust
not be at an unusual distance and tho weapon
must be one in ordinary use.
Mr. Bocock stigmatises several portions of
Burlingame’s card as erroneous, particularly
his attempt to represent Brooks as having
sought to persuade him into an explanation.
Mr. Boyce confirms Mr. Bocock’s statement.
The Little Giant.
We confess ourselves greatly puzzled at the
course which Senator Douglas is pursuing in
the U. S. Senate with reference to the appro
priations for the improvement of rivers and
harbors. Ho denounces the measure: express
ly gays that Government should not embark in
tho scheme; and that the commercial interests
to be benefited, should be taxed to effect the
desired improvements. Yet lie turns around
immediately after, and votes for the bills: de
nounces them in one breath and votes for them
in the next! The only defence we have heard
of this inconsistency, is ns singular as the in
consistency itself. It is, that Mr. Douglas
know if he does not vote for the bills, his po
litical fortunes at home will he seriously dam
aged.
Fire in Louisville.
There was a disastrous fire in Louisville,
Ky., on the night of the fifth.
Four four-story warehouses on the Second
street, between Main and Water streets, were
destroyed. Two owned by Wallaco & Lith
gow were full of stove patterns, castings, &e.
Loss $30,000. Insured SIO,OOO. One owned
by Brady & Davis, was filled with bagging,
bale rope, cotton, whisky, bacon, &c. Insur
ed $35,000. The other was owned by Pitkin
& Brother, and was tilled with agricultural
implements. Loss $20,000.
The Columbus Statesman publishes the sol
ing as “Col. Fremont’s Biography:” “A hus
band without a wedding—a millionaire, with
out a dollar—a statesman without a speech
a legislator almost without a vote—a military
chieftain without a battle. Make room for
Col. Fremont—the gentleman who is never in j
tks right place at the right time.
Political News.
The Republican Convention, 2d District of
Maine, have nominated Charles .1. Gilman of
Brunswick, for Congress.
The American State Convention of Pennsyl
vania, organized at Harrisburgh last week.—
The proposition for a fusion Electoral ticket
was rejected by 72 to 18. The American
County Convention nominated John C. Kunkel
for re-election to Congress. A Fremont coun
ty ticket is talked of.
Wm. C. Alexander bus been nominated as
the Democratic candidate tor Governor ot New
Jersey.
The Massachusetts American State Couucil
held a quarterly meeting at Fitchburgh on the
6th—l6o delegates present. A motion to en
dorse Fillmore andDonclson was amended with
the substitute of Fremont and Johnson, which
was carried by 89 to 52.
B. F. Cook, of Boston, read a document from
the President of the National American Coun
cil, revoking the charter of the Massachusetts
Council, cn the ground that they had refused
to support the nominations of the American
party, fairly made, and granting authority to
the Fillmore men to form new Councils.
The Fillmore wing then withdrew, and
formed anew State Council with A. B. Ely, as
President.
The Fremont portion endorsed tbe renomi
nation of Fremont and Johnson.
Cullen for Fillmore.
The following passage at arms between Mr.
Cobb of Georgia, and Mr. Cullen of Delaware
claims the special attention of the reader, as
it throws some light upon the probable result
of the Presidential election should it be thrown
into the House. It is far from impossible
that Mr. Cullen’s single vote may have to de
cide the contest; in that event as will be seen
below, Mr. Fillmore will be the next Presi
dent.
In the House of Representatives on Monday,
Mr. Cullen, of Delaware, read an extract frem
the Savannah Repuolican, purporting to give
a sketch of the remarks of Mr. Cobb, of Ga.,
delivered in that State recently, in which Mr.
Cullen’s liarno was incidentally introduced.
Mr. Cullen wished to know whether Mr. Cobb
used the language quoted.
Mr. Cobb explained ; the position he had
taken was that it would be dangerous to throw
the election of President into the House,
which would result in the election of Fremont.
The Republicans now have thirteen States. If
a Republican shall be elected in the place of
Mr. Allen and one in Mr. Trumbull’s district,
Illinois would, bo added; and if Mr. Hall,
whose seat is contested, bo ousted and a Re
publican be elected in his stead, lowa would
bo secured for Fremont. Fifteen States thus
certain, his election would be dependent on
j Mr. Cullen, the representative from Delaware.
He was unwilling to trust it there, consider
ing Mr. Cullen’s course in the election of
speaker. Was it not Mr. Cullen’s fixed opin
ion that he will not, under any circumstances,
vote for Mr. Buchanan.”
Mr. Cullen replid that Mr. Cobb had no
ground for saying what would be his course in
such a contingency. He came here as a Na
tional American, and against the vote of every
Democrat in Delaware, except half a dozen
personal friends. Was it expected that he
should support the Democratic party, and
vote for bis enemies ? He fervently trusted
that the election will not be brought into the
House, but if it should, he would vote for Mr.
Fillmore first and last. Not for Buchanan,
nor Fremont. And he was satisfied that Mr.
Fillmore would receive a majority of the
States.
Mr. Cobb said in his appeal to his constitu
ents, he did not mistake concerning Mr. Cul
len’s position, which was one of danger to the
South, and favorable to Mr. Fremout.
Mr. Cullen repeated that it was his duty to
vote for Mr. Fillmore to the last and, if God
should permit the election to come into the
House, should fearlessly do his duty.
KANSAS
To n who juesire to Emigrate to Kansas.
I will start from Eufaula Ala., for the Terri
tory of Kansas, on Wednesday, 20th August,
1850, and will be at Silver Run, Columbus and
Opelika, on the 21st, and West Point and Atlan
ta, Ga., on the 22d, inst., in charge of what
ever emigrants may desire to go.
Our route will be by way of Atlanta and
Nashville.
The expenses of each emigrant, and of each
member of his family, will be paid from the
point at which he joins me here, to Kansas Ter
ritory. The money to do so having been furn
ished by subscriptions raised in Alabama and
Georgia by the efforts of Messrs. Baker, John
ston, Clayton and Jones.
1 will take and pay the expense of families
as well as single persons. None but sober men
need apply, aud in every instance satisfactory
recommendations will be required, unless the
applicant is personally known to me.
It Las been asked wliat will bo demanded of
the emigrant in return. I answer Nothing.
Nothing will bo exacted or expected from the
emigrant in repayment, either in land, money
or any thing else. The country has furnished
the money, and only expects that the emigrant
when he gets to Kansas, will remember his
country and be faithful to her.
My obligation to the emigrants, and theirs
to me, will cease immediately on their arrival
in the Territory, the proposition being merely
to take them to Kansas free of charge, they be
ing expected to take care of themselves in
tliUi country, after they get there, as they have
to do do in this. However, Gen. Atchison, in
a recently published letter, to Messrs. Baker
and Johnston, says “ the Missourians will do
all they can to feed and furnish Southern men,”
and without binding myself further, I will state
1 am nssured, that there is no fear of any
Southern man wanting for provisions.
The soil of Kansas is very rich—water abun
nunt, and climate healthy. Every actual set
tler there, is entitled to a preemption of 160
acres of land, which he will be entitled to en
ter at one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre.
Much of this land will bring from fifty to one
hundred bushels of corn, or thirty bushels of
wheat to the acre.
Now, now, is the fortunate time for emigra
tion. Next year it may be too late—the lands
may then bo in the hands of the speculator,
and the poor man can't get them.
We will arrive in the Territory in abundant
time to sow wheat and secure a crop of from
25 to 30 bushels per acre.
I do not advise the man unaccustomed to la
bor, to go, unless he has money. Kansas in no
place for the fop and the Dandy, but the Far
mer nnd the Mechanic, he that is not ashamed
to earn his bread by the sweat of his brow,
will find a noble nnd rich reward for his labor,’
and will bless the day in which he emigrated!
v , , ~ HENRY D. CLAYTON.
Lulaula, Ala. Aug. 9, 1856.
Baruum, with a sad jocularity, when asked
in Lourt what his occupation was, answered i
from bhokspeoro that it was “gone.” I ■
From Knoxville (Tenn.) Presbyterian Witness.
Letter from Dr. Ross.
Huntsville, Ala., July 14, 1850.
Brother Blackburn : I affirmed in my New
York speech, that the slavery agitation has
■done and will accomplish good.
Your very kind and courteous disagreement
on that point, I wiil make the occasion to say
something more thereon, without wishing you,
my dear friend, to regard what I write as in
viting any discussion.
I said that agitation has brought out, and
would reveal still more fully, the Bible in its
relation to slavery and liberty—also the infidel
ity which has long been, and is now, leaven
ing, with death, the whole Northern mind. —
And that it would result in the triumph of the
true Southern interpretation of the Bible, to
the honor of God, and to the good of the mas
ter, the slaves, the stability of the Union, and
be a blessing to the world. To accomplish
this, the sin per se doctrine will be utterly de
molished. That doctrine is the difficulty, in
every Northern mind, (where there is any diffi
culty about slavery,) whether they confess it
or not. Yes, the difficulty with every North
ern man is, that, the relation of master and
slave is felt to be a sin. I know that to be the
fact. 1 have talked with all grades of North
ern men, and come in contact with all varie
ties of Northern mind on this subject. And,
1 know, that the man who says, and tries to
believe, and does, partially in sober judgment
believe, that slavery is not sin, yet, in his feel
ings—in his educated prejudices, he feels that
slavery is sin.
Yes, that is the difficulty, and that is the
whole of the difficulty, between the North and
the South, as far as the question is one of the
Bible and morals. Now, I again say, that
the sin per sc doctrine will, in this agitation,
be utterly demolished. And when that is
done; when the North will know, and feel,
fully, perfectly, that the relation of master
and slave is not sin, but sanctioned of God,
then, and not till then, the North and South
can, and will, without auger, consider the fol
lowing questions: whether slavery, as it ex
ists in the United States all things considered,
be or be not, a great good and the greatest
good for a time, notwithstanding its admitted
evils? Again: whether these evils can, or
caunot be, modified and removed ? Lastly,
whether slavery itself can or cannot pass away
from this land, and the world? Now, sir, the
moment the sin question is settled then all is
peace. For these other questions belong en
tirely to another category of morals. They
belong eutirely to the category of what is wise
to realise good. This agitation will bring this
great result. And therefore, I affirm the agi
tation to be good.
There is another fact, also the result, in
great measure, of this agitation, which in my
view proves the agitation to have been, and to
be of great good. I mean the astonishing rise,
and present stability of the slave power of the
United States. This fact, when examined, is
undeniable. And it is equally undeniable that
it has been caused, in greatpart, by the slave
ry agitation in all its bearings. It is a won
derful development made by God. And I must
believe he intends thereby either to destroy
or bless this great Union. But as I believe he
intends to bless, therefore I am fortified in
affirming the good there has been, and is, in
this agitation. Let bring out to view this
astonishing fact.
1. Twenty five years ago, and previously,
the whole South and West had a strong ten
dency to emancipation in some form. But the
Abolition agitation then began, and arrested
that Southern and Western leaning to emanci
pation. Many people have said, and do say, that
that arrest was, and is, a great evil. I say it
was, and is, a great good. Why? Answer: It
was, and would now be, premature. Had it
been carried outitwould have been, and would
now be, evil, immense, inconceivable—to mas
ter, slave, America, Africa, and the world ;
because neither master, slave, America, Afri
ca, the world were, or are, ready for emanci
pation. God has a great deal to do before he
is ready for emancipation. He tells us so by
this arrest put upon that tendency to emanci
pation years ago. For He put into the hearts
of Abolitionists to make the arrest. And Ho
stopt the Southern movement, all the more
perfectly, by permitting Great Britain to eman
cipate Jamaica, and letting that experiment
prove, as it has, a perfect failure, and a terri
ble warning. Jamaica is destroyed. And now,
whatever be done for its negroes, must be
done with the, full admission that what has
been attempted was in violation of the duty
Britain owed to those negroes. But her fail
ure in seeing and doing her duty, God has
given to us to teach us knowledge; and, through
us, to instruct tho world in the demonstration
of the problem of slavery.
2. God put it into the heads of Northern
men—especially Abolitionists—to give Texas
to the South. Texas, a territory so vast that
a bird, as Webster said, can’t fly over it in a
week. Many in the South did not want Tex
as. But many longer headed ones did want it.
And Northern men voted, and gave to the
South exactly what these longer headed South
era statesmen wanted. This, I grant, was
Northern anti-slavery fatuity, utterly unac
countable, but that God made them do it.
3. God put it into the hearts of Northern men
—and especially Abolitionists—to vote for
Polk, Dallas and Texas. This gave us the
Mexican war ; and that immense territory, its
spoil. A territory which, although it may
not be favorable for slave labor, has increased,
and will, in many ways, extend the slave pow
er. r
4. This leads me to say that God put it into
the hearts of many Northern men, especially
Abolitionists, to believe what Great Britain
said namely: that free trade would result in
slave emancipation. But lo! the slaveholder
wanted free trade. So, Northern Abolitionists
helped to destroy the tariff policy ; and thus
to expand the demand for, and the culture of
cotton. Now, see the gold of California has
perpetuated free trade, by enabling our mer
chants to meet the enormous demand for spe
cie created by free trade. So, California helps
the slave power. But the Abolitionists gave
us Polk, the Mexican War, nnd California.
5. God put it into tho hearts of tho North,
and especially Abolitionists, to stimulate
the settlement of new free States, and to be
the ardent friends of an immense foreign emi
gration. The result has boen, to seud down
to tho South, with railroad speed and certain
ty, corn, wheat, flour, meal, bacon, pork, beef,
and every other imaginable form of food, in
quantity amazing, and so cheap, that the
planter can spread wider and wider the culture
of cotton.
6. God has, by this growth of tho North
west, made the demand for cotton enormous
j in the North and Northwest. Again, Ho has
made English and French experiments, to pro
cure cotton somewhere else than from the Uni
ted States, dead failures. In the East Indies,
fcgJ'pt. Algeria, Brazil, God has thus given to
the Southern planter an absolute monopoly,
A monopoly so great, that he, the Southern
planter, sits now upon his throne of cottou,
and wields the commercial sceptre of the world!
\ es, it is the Southern planter who says to
day, to haughty England, go to war, if you
dare! Dismiss Dallas, if y OU dare!—Yes, he
who sits on the throne of the cotton bag has tri
umphed at last over him who sits on the throne
of the wool sack. Eugland is prostrate at
his feet, as well as the Abolitionists.
7. God has put it into the hearts of Aboli
tionists to prevent half a million of freo ne
groes from going to Liberia ; and thereby the
Abolitionists have made them consumers of
slave products to the extension of the slave
power. And by thus keeping them in Ameri
ca tho Abolitionists have so increased their
degradation, as to prove all the more the utter
folly of emancipation in the United States.
8. God has permitted the anti-slavery men
in the North, in England, in France, and eve
rywhere, so to blind themselves in their hypo
crisy, as to give the Southern slaneholder his
last perfect triumph over them. For God tells
the planter to say to the North, to England, to
France, to all who buy cotton : “You men of
Boston, New York, London, Paris—ye hypo
crites —ye brand me as a pirate, a kidnapper,
a murderer, a demon, fit only for hell —and
yet, ye buy my blood stained cotton. O! ye
hypocrites. Ye Boston hypocrites—why don’t
ye throw the cotton in the sea, as your fathers
did the tea? Ye Boston hypocrites —ye say
if we had been in the days of our fathers, we
would not have been partakers with them in
the blood of the slave trade ? Wherefore, ye
be witnesses unto yourselves that ye are the
children of them who kidnapped and bought in
blood, and sold the lavo in America! For
now, ye hypocrites—yc buy the blood-stained
cotton in quantity so immense, that yc have
run up .the price of slaves to be more than a
thousantl dollars, the avenage of old and
young! 0! ye hypocrites—ye denounce sla
very, then bid it live, and not die, in that ye buy
sugar, rice, tobacco, and above all, cotton!
Ye hypocrites—ye abuse the devil, and then
fall down and worship him ! Ye hyocrites—
ye New England hypocrites—ye Old England
hyocrites—ye French hypocrites—ye Uncle
Tom’s Cabin liypocrites-ye Beecher hypocrites
—ye Rhode Island Consociation hypocrites.
0 ! your holy twaddle sinks in the nostrils of
God and He commands me to lash you with
my scorn, and Ilis scorn, so long as ye gabble
about the sin of slavery, and then bow down
to me, and buy, and spin cotton—and thus
work for mo as truly as my slaves. O! ye
fools and blind—fill ye up the measure of your
folly and blindness, and shame. And this ye
are doing. Ye have, like the French infidels,
made reason your goddess, and are exalting
her above the Bible. And in your unitarian
ism and neology and all modes of infidelity, ye
are rejecting and crucifying the Son of God.
Now, my brother, the controlling slave pow
er is a world wide fact. Its statistics of bales,
counts by millions. Its tonage counts by hun
dreds and thousands. Its manufacture is reck
oned by the work-shops of America and Eu
rope. Its supporters are numbered by all
who thus must be clothed in the world. This
tremendous power has been developed in great
measure by the Abolition agitation controlled
by’ God. I believe, then, as I have already
said—that God intends one of two things.
He either intends to destroy the United States
by this slave power—or he intends to bless
my country and the world by the unfoldings
of his wisdom in the matter. I believe he
will bless the world in the working out of this
slavery. I rejoice, then, in the agitation
which has so resulted, and will so terminate,
to reveal tho Bible and bless mankind.
Your affectionate friend,
Rev. A. Blackburn. F. A. Ross.
4*
Great Fire at Troy.
Troy, N. Y., Aug. 2. —Seventy thousand
dollars’ worth of property was destroyed by
fire in the village of West Troy this morning.
The following is a list of the principal proper
ty destroyed.
Lamb’s carriage establishment and residence,
owned by E. &P. Wiswell. John Perrigo’s
dwelling, Patrick Kelly’s livery stable, the dwel
ling houses of Wm. Clements, Wm. Crowner,
J. D. Lobdell and Mr. Cardee.
All the lumber on the east side of the canal
from Canal street to the residence of Abm. Dy
er, was destroyed. It was owned by Smith &
Craig and Lee & Hall. Loss of the former is
about $15,000 and of the latter $30,000.
The lumber on the opposite bank of the ca
nal caught fire, but no more than SI,OOO worth
belonging to Hill & Ogden was destroyed.
A Negro Tarred and Feathered at Hudson
New York.
The Hudson Star of Tuesday, says that be
tween the hours of 8 and 9 o’clock on Monday
evening that usually quiet community was
thrown into an extraordinary state of excite
ment, in consequence of a tarring and feather
ing affair which came off in the upper part of
the city. The subject was Wm. Mowens, a
colored barber and an old resident. He is sup
posed to have been on terms of too great in
timacy with a respectable white girl.* He
was taken from his shop by force, marched
upon the public square, and’in the presence of
a large “Vigilance Committee,” a coat of tar
and feathers was well applied. He was then
given till Tuesday morning to leave the city.
He left as soon as he could conveniently, after
getting out of tho clutches of his “friends.”
*The good people of Hudson must havea very
rare idea of what constitutes respectability , if
the one referred to is “respectable.” [Ed.
Chron. & Sent.
Florida Volunteers.
Inspector General Churchill renders a bad
account of the volunteer force in Florida.
Most of their time is spent at their homes,
and they are no more effective than if never
mustered into the public service.— Washing
ton Letter. J
N o should like to know what account the
General renders of the regular “ force in Flo
rida.” Just about the only succesful fighting
done and captures made, since the commence
ment of hostilities of which any account,
has reached these parts, was the work of the
volunteers. We think well of the regular
army, and despise the demagogues who have
attempted to array popular prejudices against
it and its officers. But there is one service for
which we aro convinced that it is ill adapted.
That is for fighting Seminoles amid the swamps !
and morasses of Florida. “As well set a wag
gon and team to catching rabits,” is the simile I
of the late Gov. Duval—and an apter one he !
never uttered.— Sac. Georgian.
True to the Last.
Mr. T. L. Berry, baggage master of the Fall
I l s iver train, who was on board the Empire
State when the late accident occurred, had
j just been speaking to the third Engineer, Ezra
\\ illiamson, at the door of the engine room,
when the explosion took place. Mr. Berry
sprang forward and escaped injury, but Mr.
Williamson, obeying a dictate of duty, stop
ped the engine before he left the room, and
then he ran upon the deck. Berry followed
him and raised him up when he fell, and the ‘
first words ho spoko after tho accident, and
almost the Inst lie ever articulated, were, “Did i
I stop the engine?” The poor fellow’fell n
victim to his sense of duty, and but for his fi
delity and devotion the boat would have been
disabled so as to render her return to Fall
Ri\er impossible. Mr. Williamson was a fa
vorite with the officers and crew of the steam
er, and was considered, as ho proved at the
expense of his life, a faithful and capable en
gineer.
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
Later from Europe.
New York, August 7. — The steamer Asia
has arrived with Liverpool dates of the 26th
ult.
Cotton was firm, at unchanged rates. Sales
of the week 45,000 bales, including 9,500 to
speculators and exporters. Fair Orleans 7d,
middling 5 5-l Gd. Fair Upland ofd. Mid
! dling OJ.
Consols closed at 95J.
Brown and Shipley quote cotton as follows:
Fair Orleans 7d.
Middling Orleans Gjfl.
Fair Mobile Os
Middling Mobile 6 3-l Gd.
Fair Upland Ofd.
The imports since the departure of the At
lantic, are 40,000 bales. Stock on hand 700,-
000 bales.
The Manchester trade is rather quiet.
General Intelligence.
Tho Spanish insurrection continues. Mr
Dallas has been furnished with full authority
to settle tho entire Central American question
which will undoubtedly be satisfactorily nd
justed.
Lord Palmerston stated in Parliament that
there was no reason to believe Napoleon in
tended interfering in Spanish affairs. The
subject causes much uneasiness at Paris, but
it was thought France would only interfere in
case the Duchess of Montpensier becomes the
next heir to the throne, or a Republic should
be proclaimed, in which case a French army
would invade Spain. Lucicn Bonaparte had
gone on a mission to Madrid.
The Nationnl Guard had been almost entire
ly disarmed at Madrid, and numerous arrests
made. At Barcelona the fighting lasted three
days, the people fighting behind barricades
with determined courage. Twelve huudred
dead were left in the streets. The troops
however were successful at every poiut. The
Government were sending out all the available
troops to the points of disturbance. Sarra
gossa was now the headquarters of the insur
gents, but would be abandoned.
The latest advices say Espartero was still
at Madrid, bat O’Donnell had offered him his
passports. Narvaez had been appointsd Min
ister to Paris. All persons taken with arms
will be executed.
The London Advertiser says the American
question is virtually settled and the fact will
probably be announced on the prorogation of
parliament. The terms are that the Bay Is
lands shall revert to Honduras, she pledging
herself to maintain the sovereignty over them.
France also assents and will sign the treaty if
necessary^.
Elections.
Louisville, Aug. 7.—ln twelve counties of
Kentucky the American vote shows a falling
off and a general Democratic gain. The State
is believed to Lave gone for the Democrats.—
The election was for County and Judicial offi
cers.
From Missouri sufficient returns have not
been received to show the result.
Reiurns from thirteen counties give Benton
1,000 majority over Ewing, American, and
2,600 over Polk, Democrat, Caruthers, Amer
ican is probably elected to Congress.
Davis, Black Republican, is reported elected
to Congress from the Second District of lowa.
Raleigh, N. C., Aug. 7.—The election for
Governor and members of the Legislature toot
place to-day. In this city the vote stood for
Gilmer, American, 357; Bragg, Democrat,
263 ; Bragg’s gain 64; for the Legislature
Rogers, American, had 405; Lewis, Democrat,
274; Read, Democrat, 263; Bledsoe, Demo
crat, 230.
From Washington.
Aug. 7.—The Senate after a long acrimonious
debate, at 9 o’clock to-night passed the Army
Appropriation bill without the House provis
ion, forbiding the employment of the army to
execute the laws in Kansas. The vote stood
28 to 8.
From a message sent to the Senate yester
day, it appears that the Governor of Califor
nia asked the President for 3,000 stand of
arms to aid in repressing the troubles at San
Fancisco, but he replied that the laws of the
United States had not been resisted, and could
not grant the request.
Dersertion of U. S. Sailors.
One hundred and seventy of the crew of
the United States steam ship frigate Merri
mac have deserted.
Strange Occurrence.
Something strange is reported to have oc
curred on Pea Ridge, in Lincoln county, Ten
nessee, a few days ago. A horse nnd plow—
so the story goes—which a farmer was using
in his field, sunk and disappeared in the earth,
leaving a hole to which no bottom has yet
been found, and in which tho farmer himself
came near falling. Ilis neighbors were called
to the place, who, by means of ropes, let him
down in search of the horse and plow, to the
depth of thirty or forty feet, but the farther
he went the larger the hole appeared, and lie
called to his triends to pull him up, which they
did. Several unsuccessful attempts were af
terwards made to fathom the hole. The horse
and plow have “gone thewayof all theearth.’
Last week the Corning and Glazing mills
connected with the powder works at Gorham
blew up, killing Peter Ritchi of Canada, anil
Messrs. Gerry of Portland, and White of Ac
ton, Mass.
The Delaware Republican says there is now
in Wilmington, a gentleman, who is 104 years
of age, and an Indian doctor at that, who was
in tho battles at Brandywine, Trenton, and
other points. He is quite vigorous still, both
in mind and body.
A few nights since in New York, a gerenoil- j
ing party, after spending an hour in produc
ing the most dulcet strains, were informed by
a polite watchman that “nobody lived there
In spinning yarns among silks and satins,*
man ever will bo worsted and twisted. Apd
when n man is worsted and twisted, he may
considered himself wound up.
To ascertain the length of the day andnight,
any time of the year, double the time of the
sun’s rising, which gives the length of the
leugtli of tho night, and double the time of
setting, which gives the length of the day.
k —— ‘♦ *
Old Izaak Walton said: “Doubtless oui J
Heavenly Father might have made a better j
fruit than the strawberry, but, certes, he nev
er did.”
I A hundred and fifty swindlers have been I
caught at the Astor Rouse, by ope of the wai I
ters, within the last six months, trying to leave I
without paying for their meals.
It is stated in a late English paper, that J
pasteboard is now extensively made from beet *
roots.
The favorite cosmetic for removing freckles,
in Paris, consists of one ounce of alum, one
online ot lemon juice, and a pint of rose water
bain Slick says he would rather break a
yoke of steers auy day than try to make up a
quarrel between two women wljen they get
their dander up.