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jOOX,XJ]VtBTJB: Tuesday Morning, August lit, ISSG. IiARGEST CITY CIRCULATION. • Brooks and Burlingame. We commence to-day, the publication of the Cards of Messrs. Bocock and Lane, seconds of Mr. Brooks, in reply to the cards of Messrs. Burlingame and Campbell. Os course we omit, i necessarily, editorial and other matter; but j we do not think any reader will regret our j having done bo. The Elections. Wo arc in receipt of many election returns, but do not cumber our columns with them, for the reason, that they are, as yet, very incom plete, and amount to nothing positive. The indications arc, that the Democracy have car ried North Carolina, Kentucky and Alabama ; the Bluck Republicans havo Iowa; Missouri doubtful, aud Arkansas reported to have gone for the Know Nothings. More anon. The Trustees of the University of Alabama havo established a Chair of Chemistry, and se lected John W. Mullet to fill it. ‘a he Chair of Ancient Languages has been divided, and the Rev. A. J. Battle chosen for the Greek, and W. S. Wyman for the Latin. “ Ion,” the Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Sun, says that letters from New Orleans just received in Washington, alford undoubted assurances that the plank road over the Isthmus of Tehuantepec will be completed within the time specified in the grant—that is, by next February. The Turkish government lias given orders in England for the construction of a light ves sel of the dimensions fixed by the treaty of the 30th of March, for the service of the Black Sea. This is to serve as a model for five oth ers which are to be constructed in Constanti nople. ♦ It is understood that Mr. Buchanan will leave Wheatland in a few days for Bedford Springs, where he will remain some two or three weekß. The Alabama Journal says that the Hon. Luke Pryor, for whom the Know Nothing members of the last Alabama Legislature voted for United States Senator, and who was selec ted as Elector for tho Fifth Congressional Dis trict, has taken tho field for the election of Mr. Buchanan. Carpenter, another Locofoco on tho said Electorial Ticket, has also backed out of the contest for Fillmore. The first bale of new Cotton, of the Louis iana crop, was received in New Orleans on the 6th instant. It was from Carroll Parish. The Louisville Democrat publishes the namos of thirty old line whigs of Maryland, who havo unnouaccd their determination to support Buchanan. Among them are the names Hon. J. A. Pearce and Hon. Iteverdy Johnson. George Wilkins Kendall, writing to tho Pic ayune from the interior of Texas, gives the following account of a recent homicide at San Antonio: . Sinco I commenced this letter the stage has come in from San Antonio, and some of the passengers report a great state of excitement in that city when they left last evening. John S. McDonald, formerly District Surveyor of Bexar, had been shot by Dr. Devine in the drug store ot the latter, and ono account has it that he died instantly. Politics were at the bottom of the unfortunato difficulty. Tho story is that Dr. D., who is Mayor of San An tanio, had summoned a large number of citizens to protect the person or property cf the editor o, partizan sheet published in Mexican, called the Ranchero, who had written an artiolc which had given groat offence to some of the mem bers of tho American party. McDonald, in particular, was irritated at the course of the Mayor, deeming it an insult to the party, and proceeded to his store and commenced inttict tn personal chastisement. While thus attack ed, Dr. D. shot his adversary as is said from behind his own counter, and thongave himself up and was lodged in jail. ■ -♦ The Bainbridge (Ga.) Argus says a murder was committed near that place on Monday the 28th ult., by one David W. Griffin on tho body of Stansell Barberee. Griffin struck Barberee on the head with a piece of tho heart of aboard block, producing instant death. Tho murderer decamped, and has not since been heard of. A subterranoan rail road is now being laid down in Paris, in tho middle of the Boulovard du Sebastopol. It will connect the holies, or markets, with the extra-mural railways. Anew Life and Voyages of Christopher Col umbus, in two octavos, is advertised in Paris. The author is M. ltosselli de Lorgues, who has writteu from authentic documents obtained at Genoa, Romo and Spain. ■ • - The St. Louis Republican informs us that immediately after the August election a Fre mont electoral ticket will be nominated in Missouri. Victor Hugo is completing his last work at tho Island of Guerney, having been exiled from trance. It is entitled “Contemplations,” a poem of ten thousand verses, embodying his experience of life. • -+ Edward Everett has given to the public schools in his native town, Dorchester, Mass., the sum ot five hundred dollars, to be expend ed under the direction of the school committee, towards tho purchase of a library for tho Dor chester High School. There is not a single Fillmore paper in Ver- ! mont, and it is understood that there will be no Fillmore ticket in the field in that State.— I Os the political newspapers in the Green Mouu- j tain State, 23support Fremont, and bare for ; Buchanan. Turin papers announce the discovery of an unpublished poem of Petrarch, and of the original drawing of the “ Holy Family,” by Raphael. A post office has been established at No. 2s, on tho Georgia Central Railroad, called Clifton,’ and Mr. P. R. a. Marlow appointed Postmas ter. From tho Wahington|U'uion. To the Public. The following statements, which have been delayed an entire week because of the absence of Mr. Burlingame, who left the city on the evening that his publication was made, and has not yet returned, and made in justice to ourselves and a gentleman who, at different | times, has been guided by our counsel. As ! far as relates to the objectionable portions of j Mr. Burlingame's speech, our connection with the matter has terminted. THOS. BOCOCK. JOSEPH LANE. August 5, Tuesday evening. Card. No man could be more averse than I am to appearing before the public in relation to mat ters personal in their character ; and nothing could induce me to do so in this case but the conviction that justice requires it. Mr. Burlingame, of Massachusetts, in the card which he published in the National In telligencer of the 28th July, commits several errors, one of which seems to demand correc tion from me. He attempts to produce the impression that I, in behalf of Col. Brooks, of South Carolina, and at his instigation, endeavored by means, sometimes confidential, to persuade him to make some explanation which would satisfy Col. Brooks’ friends with his failure to call on him for satisfaction for the offensive lan guage used in his speech of the 21st of June last. To show that I have not mistaken his pur pose, 1 make the following quotation from his card. Speaking of language cut out of a note of mine to him, he says: “ These few words disclose the desire of Mr. Brooks, through persuasion, to get something which might sat isfy his friends for neglecting me in his liberal calls on gentlemen for personal satisfaction.” Now, 1 assert that nothing could be more un just to Mr. Brooks, and nothing more untrue than such a construction of what passed be tween Mr. Burlingame and myself. The communications which 1 made to Mr. Burlingame from Mr. Brooks were: Ist. His desire to know whether Mr. Burlingame would accept a call for satisfaction from him; 2d, That he [Mr. Brooks] was satisfied with Mr. Burlingame’s explanation, made in answer to the question ; 3d, That Mr. Brooks desired to havo a written statement, containing the sub stance of that explanation, to be used in his own justification; and that, on failure to ob tain such a one, he would take some decided step in relation to tho matter. Now, it never occured to me that these com munications, though made with all the cour tesy of which I was capahlc, would be regard ed as particular persuasive in their character or in tho circumstances under which they were made. Let the public judge. When I first waited on Mr. Burlingame for Mr. Brooks, my personal acquaintance with him was very slight, and the accounts which had reached us of his views and expressions on public ques tions were not such as to commend him to Southern men. I certainly had no thought of offering him persuasions as to his personal af fairs. I had a simple question to propound, and all I sought was to do it a courteous and becoming manner. It seemed to me proper that it should be done privately and quietly, rather than with a flourish of trumpets and in the midst of a crowd. That it was to be entirely confidential I did not dream, because such an idea was inconsistent with the object of my mission. I bad come not only to bear a mes sage, but to carry back an answer. That an swer might havo been as plain aud brief as Mr. Burlingame chose to make it. He might have said simply that he would accept, or that he would not accept. But, instead of this, ho chose to enter at large into an exposition of his feelings towards Mr. Brooks, and the view which governed him in making his speech. In doing this he requested that many things said by him should be confidential, and these I have therefore not made public. I will say, how ever, as he seems to think that their publica tion would beuefit him, that he can remove the seal of confidence whenever he chooses. All that was said by either party, with the times aud places of our subsequent meetings, may all come forth at his call. I know no wnr.i 1 sv>oUa -wLioi* uimi, u a gentleman, and as the friend of Mr. Brooks, I would not be perfect ly willing should be known to the world. In his last card, Mr. Burlingame said: “ I owe it to truth to Bay that, from wkat I had heard and seen of him prior to his assault on Mr. Sumner, I had formed a high opinion of him; and that act, which I have properly stigmatised, I did think must have been abhor rent to his better nature. In remembrance of my opinion of him, nnd feeling that through his conduct I could still detect traces of a gal lantry which some day might cause him to condemn, as heartily as others do, his assault on Mr. Sumner, I had a larger charity for him than did most of my friends. Indeed, I have been blamed for intimating the opinion that, in spito of that act, he was yet a brave man. Even as late as my conversation with General Lane, when he stated that Mr. Brooks desired a speedy meeting, I felt a glow of admiration for him as a gallant fooman; but T was wrong. The expressions of kindness for him, in which, following a proclivity of my heart, I had in dulged, wore entirely misplaced.” It was theso “expressions of kindness” for Mr. Brooks now publicly avowed by Mr. Bur lingame, which iu our first interview tended so much to satisfy me that there ought not to be a hostile meeting between them. Then it was that 1 suggested to Mr. Burlingame the propriety of saying nothing on the subject, because rumors in relation to settlements of ten re-opon difficulties. Mr. Burlingamo admits that, on our first interview, I propounded a question from Mr. Brooks which was categorical in its character; it clearly follows that the door was opened for a categorical answer on his part, lie, how ever, voluntarily chose a different course. What his answer, in substance, was, appears to me to be conceded in the cards both of Mr. Burlingame and Mr. Brooks. He said “that he [Burlingame] had no unkind feeling what ever for Mr. Brooks, but, on the contrary, re garded him a man of courage and a man of honor; that while he disapproved of the assault on Mr. Sumner, and felt bound as a Massa chusetts mail to condemn it, he had designed to discriminate between the man and tho act, and had said no more on tho subject than his sense of representative duty required. Under these circumstances, ho was surprised to find that Mr. Brooks had taken exception to any thing which he said. In relation to the boasts that had been throwu out in liis name, he stated they had not been authorised by him ; but, on the contrary, be very strongly con demned both them and their authors.” This is the substance of his answer, aud in strength of expression is certainly not over stated. It omits ninny more expressions of good fooling to which he gave utterance. The mere intention to be parliamentary was not then insisted on. The phrase was not men tioned. Believing Mr. Burlingame to be sincere, I advised Mr. Brooks, without hesitation, that he could pursue the matter no further. He agreed to accept the answer as satisfactory. ) Mr. Burlingame expressed himself gratified at that result. And I rejoiced to believe that the affair was honorably ended. To meet any contingencey which might arise, however, 1 j made a memorandum of tho interview the next day after it happened. Some days after this Mr. Brooks informed me that, in consequence of remarks which he heard were common in certain circles about Washington, he considered it proper that he should have a written statement of the settle ment as it had occurred. Regretting that the I necessity for it had ari.en, 1 prepared a state- j ment at length, and on the day named in the j cards of these gentlemen I submitted it to j Mr. Burlingame, with the request that he would look over it, and say whether he would approve it. When he had kept it at least a half-hour, I applied to him to know the result of his exam ination. With a strong compliment to my fair ness, he said it was correct. In his recent card he says : “When I read the first part I thought it did me justice.” I can but presume that “the first part,” as designated by Mr. Burlin game, included his answer to Mr. Brooks’ question. He would have hardly’ stopped short of examining that before answering as to the correctness of the statement. When he informed me that it was correct, he expressed a desire to retain it longer in order to show it to a friend. That evening he sought au interview with me to say that he had looked at my statement more carefully, and while he could deny tho corrrectness of no expression attributed to him in it, yet, by the grouping of them which had been made, it placed him in an improper position, aud, if published, it would probably do him great injury at home. We then attempted to agree upon such al terations as would preserve the substance of the statement in a similar shape, but were un able. Thus the matter stood, when on the next day, the 15th of July, I addressed him a note from my seat in the House of Represen tatives. The use that Mr. Burlingame has made of this note is the most extraordinary feature in his very extraordinary card. It strikes me as very strange that he considers this note, to gether with the fact of his unwillingness to in sert the word “honor.” in the last statement, as in no way private, while he seems to con sider his answer to Mr. Brooks’ first question as being confidential. I forbear here to sug gest reasons or to make comments. Strange, however, as is this position, there is yet a stranger feature connected with his use of that note. He cuts from the context single phrases to produce the impression that Mr. Brooks, through me, was persuading him to make ad missions, when the note itself, upon its face, places Mr. Brooks in an entirely different po sition. In the very beginning of it I announc ed to him that I had that morning heard from a friend of Mr. Brooks that he had resolved to take some step in relation to the difference between them, and that I could no longer con trol the matter. I thus put Mr. Brooks in the position of resolve and determination, not of persuasion. This, I say, would be evident from the whole note. When I said that Mr. Burlingame ought not to object to saying, in answer to that note, that he did not intend to reflect on Mr. Brooks personally, I merely meant to say that he ought not to object to put in writing what he had so often declared to me verbally. He says truly that he did not answer in writing. I confess I was struck with the apparent ease with which he avoided writing. Had he written, as he in frankness might well have done, all question about his position then would now be put to rest. It would be comfortably or uncomfortably clear. He came to my seat and said, not what he states in his card, but simply that he would like to confer with a friend, and he asked if I would have any objection to unite in the con ference. I made no objection, but suggested that I might have a friend along, also. The meeting took place very speedily thereafter in one of the rooms of the Capitol; but my friend hav ing previously left, I was alone with Mr. Bur lingame aud his friend. In some conversation which occurred be tween Mr. Brooks and myself that day, Uo Lad said that, ho -wao willing to accept any paper from Mr. Burlingame which disavowed the purpose to reflect on his courage or honor, and in the interview in the Capitol the only question of difference was that I contended for the disclaimer in that very language, because Mr. Burlingame’s disclaimer in our former in terview had gone fully to that extent. He contended that in disclaiming, as he was will ing to do, any intention to reflect on the “per sonal character” of Mr. Brooks, he included everything that makes up character, and that therefore it was unnecessary to insert the word honor expressly; and he stated that, in consequence of the probable effect of it else where, he preferred not to use that word. After some discussion, being unable to agree with him upon the phraseology to be employed, I rose to leave the room, remarking that it ap peared clear that the matter could not bo ar ranged satisfactorily between us, and that I regretted to believe that nothing was left but for Mr. Brooks to send him a note, which he would probably do in the course of that eve ning. Mr. Burlingame asked me to pause, nnd said that he preferred that the matter should not go out of my hands, and himself suggested a further conference at hisownroom that evening. This expose of fact has been made necessary by the partial and delusive givings-out of Mr. Burlingame about his refu sal to allow the word honor to be inserted in his last disclaimer. The conference called at Mr. Burlingame’s room was attended by himself, Mr. Speaker Banks, Mr. Boyce, and myself. In opening up the matter on that occasion, I gave the history of my whole connexion with it, and especially the first message of Mr. Brooks and Mr. Bur lingame’s answer, the drawing up of the orig inal statement, its being placed in Burlingame’s hand, his declaration, after keeping it some time that it was correct, and his subsequent objec tion to it on the ground that the grouping of his expressions in regard to Mr. Brooks was such as if published would do him an injury. 1 then stated tho history of our subsequeut ef forts to agree upon something which would be equivalent substantially to the first statement, aud which might be free from the objection made to the •‘grouping” of that one. All which was admitted by Mr. Burlingame. This brought up the question whether the word honor should be inserted, as I contended that it ought to be. Mr. Burlingame again urged that to disclaim any purpose to reflect on the “personal character” of Mr. Brooks covered everything. Mr. Banks thought it sufficient, and Mr. Boyce promptly agreed with them. I stated that it appeared to me enough, but I ap prehended that Mr. Brooks would take a differ ent view of it. Mr. Burlingame suggested that Mr. Boyce and myself, as friends of Mr. Brooks, should 1 advise him that it was sufficient, and that lie j would probaly acquiesce in our opinion. The paper drawn up, as before stated, was taken by Mr. Boyce and myself to Mr. Brooks; j aud we advised him that he ought to accept it as satisfactory, . Several other friends being called in, all united in that opinion, and Mr. Brooks accepted it accordingly. It waspublished as an appendix to his speech, and remained before the public several days, when Mr. Burlingame’s card appeared with drawing it, This reopened a difficulty which I had been glad to believe was closed. Its subsequent his tory is before the public. With that 1 have lit tle to do. It is difficult, however, to resist the reflection that if Mr. Burlingame’s explanation, as published by Mr. Brooks, was not true, it was unmanly in him to consent to give it; if it was true, it was weak and uncandid to with draw it. As to its proper construction, I saw no room for doubt. Mr. Burlingame had expressed himself to me, as appears from his card he might have expres sed himself to others, so kindly towards Mr. Brooks, and so free from any purpose to reflect on his personal character, as, in my judgment, to have rendered it inhuman in Mr. Brooks, under that explanation, to have pursued him further. Mr. Burlingame’s card is erroneous, then, in saying that in his verbal answer to my note of the loth July he suggested “that, as the mat ter seemed complicated, it might be better for us both to hold our future conversations in the presence of others.” Instead of this, he mere ly remarked that he wished to advise with his friends, and asked if I would have any objec tion to meeting in conference with them. It is erroneous, further, in saying that I thought Mr. Brooks would deem his position unsatisfac tory, “as it yielded nothing.” I used no such expression. It would have been inappropriate. I never asked him to retract or yie.d anything which he had said. I had merely asked if he would accept Mr. Brooks’s call. To this ques tion he interposed an explanation; and the on ly question was as to the sufficiency of that ex planation, and whether, as made at one time, it was the same which had been made at a former time. But the most important and grossest error of his card is his attempt to represent Mr. Brooks as seeking, through me, to persuade him to an explanation. As already stated, this is utterly unsustained by the facts, and nobody could know anything better than Mr. Burlin game knew these facts at the time he penned his card. It appeared to me that justice to Mr. Brooks required this explanation at my hands. Hav ing made it, I leave the matter in its other as pects in his hands, well knowing, as I do, that he understands full well how to take care of his own honor. TH. S. BOCOCK- Washington, August 4, 1856. I have examined the foregoing card of Mr. Bocock, and, so far as it states facts purport ing to fall within my knowledge, I find it fair, candid, and strictly true. W. W. BOYCE. Angust 5, 1856. Negro Killed. Night before last, between midnight and day light, a picked body of police sui’rounded an outbuilding in the rear of the residence of Sid ney Smith, on Government street, having been informed that a gang of negroes were there and then gambling. We learn that the negroes were evidently well prepared to make a desper rate resistance, and two of them actually seized one of the officers and attempted to throw him over the balustrade of the porch, and would have done so but for the prompt interference of another officer. Among the negroes was an outlaw belonging to Mr. John Mann of a very desperate character, and it is said that he had sent word to the officers that if they should ever undertake to arrest him he was “fixed” and would kill them; and in the scuffle which ensued a pistol was fired by which a negro be longing to Judge Dargan was instantly killed. Whether the pistol was fired by the negro of Mann at an officer, or by an officer at him, we have not been able to learn positively. Five negroes were brought in and lodged in the guard-house and their cases continued, with the exception of one, who it is shown did not offer any resistance, for which reason lie was let off with thirty lashes. There were in all, six negroes, all of whom were taken and brought to the guard house. They had lying on the table, besides the im plements of trade, such as cards, dice, &c., al so knives, razors, and other weapons.— Mobile Tribune. Gross Superstition in the North. The Trenton, N. J., Gazette, of the sth inst., relates the following : A young man residing in Bordentown, who was under an engagement of marriage with a young lady, died on Friday last. Both the gentleman and lady, as well as their families, were firm believers in the doctrines of the spir itualists, and notwithstanding the death of the former, it was determined that the marriage should take place between tho disembodied spirit of the young man, and theliving, breath ing body of his affianced bride. Accordingly on Sunday, the marriage ceremony was per formed between the clay cold corpse, and the warm, blooming bride. It is understood this was in compliance with the directions of the spirit of the bride groom. The devotion of tho lady to the spirit or the memory of her lover, carried her through this ceremony without faltering, but it must lead to unhappine . •, ‘or she no doubt considers herself as the wife of ono whom she shall meet in the body never more. Her heart lies buried in the grave with him who should have been her guide and pro tector. Among all the singular things record ed of the spiritualists we have met with noth ing parallel to this. The Spanish police has seized in various towns in the provinces, and at Madrid also, various imitations of what are called the “ro mances of Ciego”—that is, pieces of popular poety, ornamented with images of saints, and recording miracles—and these imitations re late to pretended socialist miracles, and set forth the most perverse socialist doctrines. Salt Spring Discovered. A letter from St. Joseph (M 0.,) to the St. Louis Republican, says that Major Baldwin, tho agent of the Kickapoo Indians, has discov ered on the Grasshopper river, within the Kickapoo Reservation, “the finest salt spring in the United States, if not in the world.” Major Baldwin says the stream is very copious, and so strongly impregnated that the taste sickened him in a moment, and that it crystal izes on the slightest exposuro and repose. Life-Size Bronze Statue of Webster. Tho friends of Webster will be gratified to learn that Powers has completed the model of his statue for the people of Boston, and that a bronze foundry in Florence is making arrange ments to cast it without delay; so that the work will probably be achieved before the re currence of his 75th birth day. As it is to stand in the open air, the figure is somewhat exaggerated, being eight feet in height; but the action, air, and proportions are all those of the Senator in his finest mood and in ins own proper costume. The colossal man here stands up to the height of his great argument on the Constitution, firmly holding you to the symbol of the L T nion with one hand, as he rea sons from the vital scroll which nerves the other. The identity is complete. We find the following advertisement in the last Mobile Tribune: TO YOUNG LADIES OF FORTUNE. A Bachelor, Young, Amiable, Handsonif and accustomed to move in the highest spheiv of society, is embarrassed in his circumstai cos. Marriage is his ouly hope of cxtrieatioii Ingratitude was never one of his faults, and he will study for the remainder of his life to p his estimation of the confidence placed in hi n . Address (post paid) A. BIGLY, aug. 8. Mobile, Ala. A book of great local interest and value La just been issued by J. W. Randolph, of Rice, mond, in which the early history of the Uni versity of Virginia is recorded as found in tl lc voluminous correspondence of Mr. Jefferson with the late Joseph C. Cabell. John Griswold, Esq., one of the oldest and most distinguished New York merchants, died in that city on the sth inst. Lewis A. Pratt, editor of the Jersey City Sentinel and Advertiser, died in Jersey City of bilious fever, ou the sth inst. The lion. Edward Curtis, who was collector of the port of New York, under Gen. Harrison died on Saturday night. At a recent sale in Paris, a letter of the poet Corneille was sold for §2OO. At the same salt a letter of Fenelon was sold for §42.50; one of Rochefoucauld for §7O; and a signature of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuits, for §4O An Industrous Burglar. Jackson, the property of Dr. Harris, of Lib erty, was arrested last night by foot policeman Pitman, while in the act of enteriug Colonel Knapp’s store in Gibbon’s range. He had pr e . viously during the night entered the house of Mr. John Staley, aud stolen a gold watch and some keys—when taken he had about §3OO in cash, and had the impudence to offer Mr. Pitt man S2O to release him. He also had one or two hundred keys about him to facilitate hi operations. His Honor the Mayor turned him over to the Magistrates for trial.— Sav. Republican. Burning of the St. Johns. An examination was held iu Jacksonville, Monday and Tuesday last, by a board of Ma gistrates, relative to the recent burning of the steamer St. Johns, which resulted in the com mitment of two negroes. Dorsey, the proper ty of Mr. Pappy, of Jacksonville, and Tom, the property of Mr. Bennett, of St. Augustine The evidence for the prosecution made oat a strong case of probable guilt, and disclosed a well arranged scheme for the destruction of the boat. The counsel for the prosecution were Messrs. Couper of Savannah, and Flem ing of Jacksonville, for the defence, Mr. Liv ington of the latter place.— Sav. Georgian. Cotton in Savannah. The scarcity of Cotton on sale in our mar ket, is almost without a precedent. The trans actions yesterday, and not reported, amounted to 79 bales at life. This lot has been on the market several weeks, but was held at so high a figure that purchasers were kept at bay The owner dropt a fraction yesterday, and the result is known. Mr. F. R. Shackleford was the purchaser, leaving the market entirely bare, except 4 bales, — Sav. News. Heroism of a Young Lady. The Boston Courier, speaking of the burn ing of the steamer John Jay, on Lake George, says: The nobility of Miss Kate Cole’s conduct during the excitement and the struggle for life on board the John Jay, rises to the dignity and sublimity of poetry. She was travelin; under the protection of her friend and neigh bor, Mr. Pritchard, and when danger was im minent, she turned to him, “Sir, take care of Mrs. Pritchard; I can swim.” Thus saying,she tripped forward, w th a mind composed ands determination fixed, and passed over the side oi the burning vessel. The distance from the shore was over a mile ; but she, relying upoL her own strength and courage, and being un willing to embarrass others who might haw dearer charges, undertook to save herself She swam a mile, and became exhausted. A good boatman, observed that she failed, push ed to her relief and succeeded in reaching her iu time. He took her into his skiff and landed her safely. She, in a transport of joy, and true to that nature, which is always grand, re warded him with a gift more precious to his manly heart than gold. Politicians in Petticoats. The Ladies of Fall River, who have formed an association under the name of the “Jessie Circle,” have resolved as follows: “That the question now before the American public i one of right and wrong, truth and humanity and not one of party politics and therefore we will disregard the cry so often raised l; those interested in the suppression of truth that a woman is overstepping the bounds ci her sphere, and while we have heads i think, tongues to speak, or hearts to feel and pray, we will use them all for tho cause oi freedom and humanity, till our beloved coun ty shall become iu reality, what is only in name, a “Free Republic.” The American Bonapartes. Tho special commission, to which Louis Na poleon referred seueral delicate family matters, has reported, we learn from the Paris corres pondent of Le Nord, of Brussels, upon the ini- - portant question of the Prince Jerome’s first marriage with Miss Paterson in America. The commission confirms the validity of his mar riage, which was always maintained by the Pope, to the great annoyance of Napoleon I. In consequence of this decision the grand son of Prince Jerome and Miss Paterson, who is a young sub lieutenant in the French army becomes a legitimate member of the Napoleon family, while Prince Napoleon, the issue of Je rome’s seeond marriage, is excluded. Nobody should venture into a sick room wheu iu a perspiration, for the moment the body becomes cold it is in a state l.kely to absorb the infection ; nor visit a sick person, if the complaint be of a contag : ous nature, with an empty stomach nor swallow your saliva. 1° attending a sick person, place yourself where the air passes from the door or window to the bed of tho invalid, not between the invalid and the fire, as the heat of tho fire will draw the infectious vapor in that direction, and there i* danger in breathing it, The Russian public have been surprised te see that the most severe criticisms are allowed to be published on Prince Menschikoff's gt‘ D ’ eralship in tho Crimea. He is the only Gen eral who has not been replaced in high com mand. Among tho speakers at the recent Fremont demonstration at Dayton, Ohio, and in very happy association, were the Hon. Mr. Burlin game, of Massachusetts, nnd Mrs. Brown, of Kansas, the wife of the editor of the Herald of Freedom.