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COLTJMBXJS: Tuesday Morning, August 19, 1856. JLAKUEST CITY CIRCULATION. City Court. The City Court met yesterday ac cording to previous adjournment, Judge Col quitt presiding, and J. Hamilton, Esq., Solici tor pro tem, in the place of J. A. Fox, Esq., ■who is absent for benefit of his health. Prof. Darby’s Lecture. It will be remembered that Prof. Darby, of Auburn, Ala., was announced for a Lecture at Temperance Hall on Thursday evening last, by invitation of the Mechanics’ Union. Prof. D., came to the city, but the night being very in clement, the lecture was postponed indefinite ly. On account of other engagements he was compelled to return home, which he did the same night. This statement to our readers, would have been made before had we been put in possession of the factß. No time for the lecture has yet been set, but due notice will be given of it to our readers. The Alabama Journal of Menday, “regrets to hear of extensive fatal sickness in Columbus, Ua.” and says that the “rumor that the disease is yellow fever, is stated to be incorrect.” Cou pled with these remarks, it publishes a brief account of the formation of the Relief Associa tion of this city, which may load some to infer that the Associatiou has for its object the relief of the “ extensive fatal sickness,” of which the Journal has heard. Now wo have to state there is no extensive fatal sickness hero : there is no foundation for such a charge. The Relief Association was gotten up moreover to relieve the indigent and poor, (large numbers of whom have been thrown upon the charity of the city) and not for tho relief of persons laboring under the “fatal sickness” whose existence here is news to our citizens. Errors Corrected. We published yesterday, a dispatch to the Augusta Chronicle, to the effect that tho “Americans” in Washington, Northern nnd Southern, were about withdrawing Mr. Fill more. Finding it, as we did, in a stanch Fill more paper without a word of comment or a doubt of its authenticity, we of course pub lished it. But the Chronicle publishes a dis patch next day from Hon. N. G. Foster of Georgia, saying that tlio whole statement is a fabrication of “whole cloth”—not true; and tho Chronicle accounts for its silence by saying that the dispatch was received at two o’clock in the morning, after the editors had gone to bed, and was inserted without their knowledge. The editors were caught “napping.” But there is a great deal of fun growing out of this false dispatch which we cannot withhold from our readers. ’Several democratic editors swal lowed the thing whole (as we did) and ac companied it with long winded editorials, say iug that “ was just what they expected,” “they knew it would be so,” aud could “have pre dicted it a month ago ! ” Isn’t that rich ? The other false rumor which wo have to correct (brought by telegraph also) is in rela tion to the Kansas prosecutions. The report, says a late dispatch, that President Pierce re quested Judges Lecompto aud Cato to resign, and that they have been removed, is unfound ed. Noither is there any ground for the state ment that the prosecutions in Kansas for trea son and other crimes are to be quashed. Mr. Ucary accepted the Governorship on no such conditions as alleged. Our exchanges are very discordant in tlieir telegraphic accounts of the bill recently passed in Congress regulating the pay of members of Congress. The amount to be paid them for each entire session is put down by oue paper at S3OOO, by another $5,000, and by another $6,- 000. We presume the first named sum is cor rect. Jonce Hooper Backed Out. The editor of the Columbus Daily Sun chal lenged Hooper publicly through his paper some week or teu days ago and as we have seen no acceptance in the Mail, we infer thnt Jonce will not faco the music. We thought Hooper had more spuuk than to be backed out in that style. It is proper to statu that the challenge was to write a long, prosy, dull editorial aud not to sniff burnt gunpowder. We have been much amused at the serious manner in which some of the papers speak of it. The Mobile Advertiser seems to regard it us a very serious affair, and takes occasion to read editors generally a lesson on tho impor tance of “keeping cool” when the thermome ter stands at 96 in the shade. There is no use in being alarmed, for if the duel is fought the only sufferers will be tho readers of tho Sun und Mail—two of the most valuable papers on our exchange list. —Eutaw (Ala.) Whig. Wish to gracious there was some way of putting a laugh on paper. We had a real hear ty oue on reading the above. We don't ex chnuge with the Mobile Advertiser and had uot seen tlieir serious construction of our chal lenge. But let that paper be easy. We are a</in duelling, where we are to be the target; and as to fighting Jonce Hooper with anything else than a good steel peu, we wouldu’t think of it. Jouoe Ims a spare spot iu our bosom, aud we wouldn’t hurt a hair of his head. But, like the Whig, we did think lie had some spunk. Hie fact is Jonce eun’t write a dull article. Nothing conies easier to us: and there we have him. We give him however two weeks more to take us up. Sfallow Fever in Charleston. Offjob of Board or Health, l Friday Night, 10 o’clock. The Board of Health report that there have i been two deaths from yellow fever, in the Ma rine Hospital, (among the cases previously re ported,) and that there has been no new cases for the past twenty-four hours. J. L. Dawson, M. D., _ City Register. The Tornado. The storm of wind aud rain which visited our city and its neighborhood on Wednesday night, was a veritable tornado, leaviug very visible traces of its passage, by the destruction it occasioned, which would not be less proba bly than SIOO,OOO, in addition to the items of damages we have mentioned.— Baltimore Clip. | per 16(A. r 1 TELEGRA.PHIC FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. ARRIVAL OP THE BALTIC. COTTON ADVANCING. Telegraphed for the Daily Bun. Colombia, Aug. 17, j Tho American steamship Baltic, arrived at [ New York to-day with advices from Liverpool jj to the 6th iust., being four days later than the i Canada. Cotton is reported firm with a good demand and tendency upwards. Consols 655. The news from Spain is, that Saragossa had surrendered. The Storm at New Orleans. New Orleans, Aug. 14.—A tremendous storm of wind and rain commenced here on Sunday, which has hardly yet abated. Im mense damage has been done, all the streets of the city having been flooded. The waters of Lake l’onchartrain were blown back, submerg ing the plantations along tho Jackson Railroad for many miles, and causing enormous loss. Aug. 15—Accounts from Lake Ponchartrain confirm what Las been already reported, and the storm extended up the river so far as any news has boon received. The survivors of Last Island, in’the Lake, have arrived in the city. Many of those who escaped witii tlieir lives are seriously bruised and wounded, and it is said that the bodies of the dead were robbed by a band of pirates who infest the Island. It is supposed SIO,OOO were lost in this way, be sides $5,000 worth of baggage on the river.— The estimated loss of property on the Island by the storm is SIOO,OOO. The crops of corn, cotton, and sugar are injured to nn extent that cannot be estimated. The Texas steamer Nautilus is not heard from, and the Texas has been sent in search of her. The Perseverance and Galveston, other steamers running between this port and Gal veston, have arrived in safety. The banks at Bayou Sara caved in, carrying away several dwellings, but no lives were lost. At the Government Hospital, atihiton Rouge 14 inches of water fell on Sunday morning. The telegraph lines Lave received much damage from the storm. Several vessels have been blown ashore at the mouth of the river. The British schooner Manchester, from Belize (Honduras) went ashore on South Point. She reports a large fire, by which half a million of property was destroyed at Belize, a few days before she left that port. It is reported that thirty dead bodies have been found in one end of Paillou Island, but no definite particulars have been received.— Many lives have doubtless been lost, however. The latest accounts received from Last Is land, report the number of lives lost on that Island by this storm, as one hundred and nine ty. From Washington. Aug. 15.—The House has passed Penning ton’s diplomatic aud consular bill, but it is not likely the Senate will this session. The ocean mail appropriations were considered, and an amendment adopted giving the Collins line no tice of discontinuance of extra compensation. This bill will certainly be lost, if tho amend ment is persisted in. The bill fixing the compensation of members of Congress at three thousand dollars per an num, has been passed. The bill establishing a Naval station at Brunswick, Ga., has also beeu passed. [Pass ed which House ?] Gen. Joseph Lane has been offered, but de clined, the Governorship of Oregon. The Cabinet have not ordered the suspension of the Kansas prosecutions, as was reported. Aug. 16.—The Senate has passed the bill, as amended by the House, making the pay of members of Congress five thousand dollars for the session. The Civil Appropriation bill passed the Sen ate last night, with another amendment, ap propriating 3:750,000, ror the capitol exten sion. Revolution in St. Domingo. Advices from Sau Domingo state that a rev olution was in progress, growing out of the terms of the Spanish Treaty, which favors the descendants of Spaniards, who, being most nn merous, desire to hold the Spanish flag again. The citizens and soldiers wore hastening the Spanish Consul to get registered as Spanish Citizens. Great excitement exis is, and the tribunals and public buildings were closed and suspended. The President and Cabinet were threatened to resign. The Foreigners and Lib erals were looking anxiously for a Govern ment vessel to protect them. The Liberals say that the Spanish flag shull never again be hoisted where the Spanish Consul is opposing the ratification of an American treaty, and thwarting the American Consul in all his mea sures. Straight Whig Convention. Albany, Aug. 14—The Old Line State Whig Convention met here to-day, being largely at tended. The convention was organized by calling Franois Granger to the chair. Very large delegations from New York and Brook lyn are present. The convention, this afternoon, adopted an address and a series of resolutions addressed to the \\ bigs ot New Y’ork. They are strongly antagonistic to Buchanan and the platform of the Cincinnati convention ; and Col. Fremont and the platform of the Republican party on account ol the sectional character of the par ty- I lie nomination of Millard Fillmore is warm ly endorsed, the belief being expressed that his election will scoure domestic tranquility and national prosperity. The American plat term is not endorsed, but the \\ hig organiza tion and the principles of the party are main tained. 1 lie resolutions were adopted unanimously and with great enthusiasm. A full delegation was chosen to represent the State in the National Whig Convention to assemble in Baltimore in September. Mr. Granger spoke warmly iu favor of Mr. I illmore, atter which the convention adjourn ed with much enthusiasm. Missouri Election. Bt. Louis, Aug. 12—Sufficient returns have now been received to warrant the announce ment of the election of the following State tick et : Governor, Trusten Polk ; Lieut. Governor, Hancock Jackson; Attorney General, lienj. P. Massey; Auditor. F. B. Ewing; Treasurer. W. 11. Buffiugtou. The above are all Democrats, aud it is con ceded that their majority will average seven thousand. The Congressional Districts have all been heard from, and the n w delegation, it is be lieved, will stand 5 Democrats and 2 Ameri cans, not counting Akens, who is elected sim ply to fill n vacaucy. The regular newly elected delegation is as Follows: Ist Dist. Blair, Republican; 2d do. Anderson, American ; 3d do. Greene, Demo- crat ; 4th do. Craig, Democrat; sth do. Wood son, American ; Oth do. Phelps, Democrat, (re elected ; 7th do. Cnruthers, Democrat, (re elected). The Legislature will be Democratic, but not largely so. Texas Election. New Orleans, Aug. 15.—Partial returns from Texas have been received in this city.— j They indicate an increased Democratic rnajor- TERRIBLE CALAMITY! LAST ISLAND SUBMERGED. 137 PERSONS SUPPOSED TO BE HOST. WRECK OF THE STEAMER STAR. The Survivors Clinging to the Wreck. From the N. 0. True Delta. In our evening edition, yesterday, we notic ed a floating rumor of the partial inundation of the favorite Louisiana watering place on the Gulf coast, in the Parish of Terrebonne, known as “ Last Island.” Little did we imagine that the sad reality would turn out to be a thousand times worse than what only seemed to be an idle rumor. The arrival of the Opelousas train, yesterday evening, from Bayou Boeuf crossing, enables us to lay before our readers the fol lowing sad particulars. Last Island, as many of our readers are aware, is a small island on the Gulf coast, in the Parish of Terrebonne, between twenty and thirty miles in length, scarcely a mile wide in any part, and but slightly elevated from the sea. It is of a horse shoe form the, convex side facing the Gulf. The concave, or what is called the rear or back portion of the Island, is cut up into numerous bayous or back bays, all connecting with a shallow lake in the rear, which, in turn, connects with the Gulf at each end of the Island. Where the principal hotel stood, and the numerous cottages erected in its vicinity lor the convenience of the summer vis itors, the Island, from the Gulf side to the back bay, is but a few hundred yards wide. The wind being from the southward and east ward, suddenly swept the waters of the Gulf around the east end of the island, rapidly fill ing up the back bays and lakes in the rear. So sudden was the rise, that for some time it is said the waters from the rear rose at the rate of a footaminute! While the waters in the rear were rising with such fearful rapidity the waves from the Gulf side of the narrow strip of land were making fearful breaches over the ridge, and thus, before the unfortunate resi dents bud time to prepare for escape, if even that were possible, or to contemplate their perilous position, they were hemmed in between the rush of waters in front and rear. Many, it is said, sought safety in the hotel and other buildings adjacent, those buildings being con siderably elevated. This, however, furnished them with but a temporary asylum, as the houses were soon washed away, buryluw all those who sought shelter in them in one com mon ruin. The steamboat Star, that has been running during the summer as a semi weekly packet from the terminus of the Opelousas Railroad, at Bayou Boeuf, to Last Island, and which was at anchor in the bay, was blown ashore a few hundred yards from the hotel, and soon became a total wreck. Some of the survivors on the island succeeded in reaching the wreck, many of them in a disabled state, and were clinging to it at last accounts, as the forlorn hojTe of existence. A few, it is said, escaped in small boats that came from the back bay and lake to their assistance. A number of small boats in attempting to reach the sufferers on the island, were swamped, all hands perishing. As soon as the melancholy news reached Ber wicks Bay, the steamer Major Aubery was got ready, and hastily provided with every thing requisite, and senttotbe relief of the sufferers. Tho officers of the Opelousas Railroad have been instructed by the President of the road to furnish every facility and aid within their power, regardless of the expense or trouble, to the returning survivors. We have been furnished with a list of names of those who are to a certainty said to be lost, but we forbear announcing them this morning with the faint hope that the information ob tained may, in some instances, prove incorrect. The return of the Opelousas train this evening will enable us to give fuller and more correct details. What changes—frequently sad and melan choly—a few weeks often bring about. But a few short weeks ago, we formed a portion of the visitors to Last Island. The beauty, wealth and chivalry of our State were there congre gated, all seeming happy and joyful, and now —but wc must draw a veil over the sad and sickening contrast. Since the above was put iu type, wc have received the True Delta of a day later, but it contains nothing additional of essential iterest, except the names of the lost, which wc give below. The list, it must be borne in mind, gives the names only of those lost at Last Is land. Nows had not been received from Grand Caillou, another popular island resort, which has shared a similar fate with Last Island.— Our telegraphic column contains some details not included in the True Delta’s report. LIST OF THE LOST. * Thus. Miller, wife and two children 4 ('apt. Ocliiltro, wife ami seven chi1dren........7.0 Mrs. S. Landry, two children and four svts.... 7 Mrs. Antonio Como, llvo children and three servants n Mrs. Pruett, two children and two servaut.*.7 5 Mrs. Dnrsiue Renstrop and daughter o .Mr. Turner aud wife .j Mr. aud Mrs. Read and child 7.77777777.’ 3 Mrs. Flash and sister .......7. - Mrs. Tlios Maskill three children nnd servant.,') Servant of T. Ellis 4 John Muggah, wife and two childroii"7777 4 James Muggah umksou A. M. Foley and wife o Mrs. Crozier and three servants 4 S. C. Bcutty, wife aud two children 777. 4 Mrs. Bardcs and servants o Henry Landry and three 5ervuiit5.77777777..7'. 4 Mir lieu I laindry 1 Joseph Dugas .7.7.7 Ulysses Simonien..„ 7.7.77”'.’ 1 Captain lhuuchtt 77'.7.777 1 lnlant child of W. N. Pugh .7.777777 1 A. Feihl, wife, child ami servant 4 0. liranenhurg wm. ltoeheii 77717777777 i Captain Itatier 7.'...'..'.'.’.'.'.'.'.7'.'.'. 1 A. Unman Jun 7.7 Mr. and Mrs. Royster 77.7.7 •> A child of Mr. Ette ‘777777.777 1 A child of Mr. lSernnrd “ j A servant of Mr. Marsh 77.7777.77.'.'.'.’ 1 Mrs. Gerard and child 7. •> i Servant of Dr. Hawkins ..77777777777 t O. Miller, wife und child ’7777 7 3 Mrs. Koumage.., .....'..'.’.'...7.7 1 Mr. Voison and daughter •> M. Babin .7.7.'."77 7 Mrs. E. Babin Mrs. Bell 77” I J. Snyder J. Fitzpatrick 1 Servant of U. A. Bryant 7777777777 1 Two children of Mr.” Bouliton 7777.77.7 •’ P. Robenett 7.77 1 Total * All those who were on the Isiaiid'nt the “time of the storm, whose names are not in this list, were clinging to ! the wreck of the steamer Star, when the pilot of the Star left the wreck. The Hon. Rufus Choate of Massachusetts, has published a long letter favorable to Mr! j Buchanan. From California. We glean the followingintellige g 0 from San Francisco papers received yesterday. The Alta California, in its summary ot the news of the fortnight ending on the 21st ult., has the following notice of recent conflagra tions in Califori ia : . Ou the sth of July, a most lamentable mis fortune befel the town of l’lueerville. A lire broke aud destroyed one hundred and eighty six buildings, which, together with other pro perty, were valued at about $600,000. The town was nearly all burned, and Mr. Benhnm perished in the flames, while several others were injured. Collections tor the sufferers are being taken in various places. On the Bth, the village of Georgetown, l’la cer county, was consumed by fire, and the loss is estimated at SIOO,OOO. Seventy building were destroyed. I On the 12th, the town of Fair Play, El Do rado county, was burned, involving a loss of $70,000. On the 16th, a disastrous fire took place at Marysville, aud consumed a large number of buildings, valued at $160,000. A despatch from Nevada, giving an account of the destructive conflagration at that place on the l'Jth of July, says : Every hotel, church, livery stable, printing office, and every business house, with few ex ceptions, were swept away. Out of twenty six lire proof brick buildings, but six escaped. The court house, recently completed at an ex pense of over fifty thousand dollars, was de stroyed, with all the county records. It is es timated that over eight liundredbuildings have been consumed. At lcastten persons are known to have perished in the flames, besides those unknown and unheard from. The following are some of the names known up to the present time have been burned to death : F. Hendrickson, from Albany, N. Y.; A. J. Hagan, Louisville. Ky.: Jay Jobuson, Buffalo, N. Y. ; S. VV. Fletcher, Massachusetts; W. I’ierson, of Democrat office, Boston ; 11. Yates, Wisconsin; Wm. Wilson and J. 0. Thomas, Rochester, New Y’ork ; burned, since dead. The bones of others have been discov ered. Wm. F. Anderson, editor of tlie Democrat, and his brother in law, G. A. Y’oung, are bad ly burned. It is impossible to give a correct estimate of the entire loss at present, but it cannot fall much, if any less than two millions of dollars. A list of individual losses exhibits the destruction of $750,000 worth of property, not to mention four churches, courthouse, &e. Such an unparalleled scene of destruction has never before been witnessed in the State. The few dwellings left on the bills round about are full of families, many of them having escaped with nothing front the flames. Rough and Ready, San Juan and Cherokee, have very liberally subscribed and made pro positions for the relief of the sufferers.— Though Die once proud city of Nevada has been wiped out, her citizens are not of a kind to despair. The axe and the hammer are break ing the stillness of the Sabbath in various parts of the ruins. New buildings are going up among the cinders, and more are contracted for, and tlie lumber is arriving on the ground already. Franklin College. The Trustees have determined to sell the Botanical Garden. To enclose the Collego grounds with an iron railing, to lay them off into walks and adorn with trees. Also to educate young men for the Ministry, by giving them their tuition free. To give the tuition free to ten young men from the State, one from each congressional District and two from the State at large ; from the applicants’ the Facuity are to select. The Valedictory is to be given to the best speaker among those wlio take any of the hon ors. To allow those young men to rise with their class who may fall below the average standard, if they have been punctual, studious and of good deportment. To enforce rigidly discipline among the stu dents in the Chapel grounds, and while in our town. All officers of the College are strictly enjoin ed to carry out this last, and any neglect to do so, the Prudential Committee or Resident Trustees are authorized to convene the Board of Trustees that they may dismiss the delin quent officer. The Trustees filled the vacancies in their Board by electing P. M. Nightengale, Esq., D. W. Lewis, Esq., B. 11. Hill, Esq., and Judge 11. Benning. The degree of D. D. was conferred by them on the Rev. S. K. Higgins, of Columbus, the Rev. J. R. Thomas, of Oxford, and the Rev. J. K. 8. Axson, of Greensboro.— Banner. Resignation of Dr. Church. We learn from tho Athens Banner, that Dr. Church, President of Franklin College, handed in his resignation at the late meeting of tho Board of Trustees cf the Institution, to take effect tho first of January next. We learn that a Committee was appointed by the Board to wait upon the President, and urge him to continue his connection with the Col lege. Much as we respect Dr. Church, wo hope he will not he persuaded to remain. After all the wrangling of the last few years, we think lie but consults his own quiet and the interest of the College by retiring— Augusta Chroni cle. Cullum’s Spring. Our interior watering places have been un fortunate this season in having robberies com mitted upon tlieir place of deposites. At . “Lauderdale” a very large amount was lately j abstracted but most fortunately recovered: and now wc have tidings of a very heavy ab -1 str action of funds from the iron safe of Mr. I Charles Cullum, as will be seen by the gub ! joined extract of a letter from that gentleman: Cuj.i.um’s Springs, Aug. 11.—Gentlemen: Sixteen hundred and twenty-three dollars and and ninety cents was stolen from out of the : icon safe in my office, an entrance to which j was effected by some person or persons, as yet unknown, entering the window of the room of Mr. Redwood and abstracting the key of the safe from the pocket of his pantaloons, which were hanging at the footing of his bed while he was a sleep. Suspicion rests on two free negroes whom I discharged from my hotel Inst ! Wednesday, and who were heard to saj* that they were coming and were afterwards heard in a room at Bladon counting money. I have evidence, also, that they were seen to enter the room of Mr. Redwood before he retired, but as yet I have not been able to force the boys to confess the deed. The money consists of the notes of the Southern Bank of Ala bama, Bank of Mobile, Citizens’ Bank and Bank of Louisiana, nnd gold. The deposites of tlie boarders, amounting to some SISOO or 2000, fortunately escaped the eyes of the vil lains. A friend returned front the Springs yester day morning, confirms the fact that net ad. V lar belonging to any of the visitors was taken. He had a considerable deposito there himself. J —Mobile Register. GENERAL ITEMS. The widow of Lord Byron is yet alive and hearty. She has recently purchased the res idence of the late poet Rogers, iu London. The Rev. E. C. Bolles, of Bridgeport, Conti., ) has accepted the call of tho Unitarian Church, in New Orleans, of which the Rev. Theodore Clapp has for thirty years been pastor. The report of a spiritual marriage of a youtg lady at Bordentown, N. J., with the corpse of a young man to whom she had been engaged, is said to be totally without foundation. A gentleman named King, a member of the Newport Bar, died suddenly at the Belevue | Hotel, Newport, last week. He had just Lcdp- J ed a lady next to him at the dinner table, I when he fell back dead. Hogs are dying in large numbers through | out Ohio and some other parts of the country On examination, a portion of tlie intestine, 7 were found to be filled with a peculiar specie; ■; of white worm. Rev. J. 11. Graves, editor of tho Tennessei 1 Baptist and author of the “Great Iron Wheel, was united in marriage to Miss LouisaJ,|i daughter of Dr. George Snider, on the 31st oil ■ Jnly, t at Jackson, Tenn. ltev. John Donnelly, a Catholic Priest, oil Springport, New Y’ork, was killed at tlie dept,: J of the Central Railroad in Rochester on tlie at- ¥ j ternoon of the 9th inst., by being crushed in I a freight train which came upon him unawares 1 In the Maine Supreme Court, on Tuesday last, Michael Dunrow, convicted of placing# obstructions on a railroad, was sentenced thirty days’ solitary and twenty years iu the State prison. This is a just sentence. This, Tuesday morning there was about oik o’clock au occultation of Jupiter with tiiefi Moon, the star being hidden nearly au hour. Occultations of planets are comparatively rare, 1 and looked for with no little interest by as- 9 tronomers. A correspondent of the Boston Telegraili 1 says that a Fremont electoral ticket will soon 1 be nominated in Virginia, and that this demon- § stration is owing very much to the expulsion J of Mr. Underwood from the Old Dominion, for ] participating in the Philadelphia Convention. The Huntsville (Ala.) Democrat, of the 14th 1 inst., confirms the report of the death of Mr. J Tuttle, the civil engineer. It appears that Mr. Tuttle was taking an evening walk when he was seized with a violent hemorrhage of j the lungs and died in a few minutes. At the laying of the corner stone of Cente nary College, at Baton Rouge, La., last week, 1 a collection was taken up for the benefit of the I institution, and $25,009 was obtained on the f spot, being within S3OOO of the ensire sum 1 needed. Ladies who wear hoops are kindly advised I by the Bellows Falls Argus “to look to their J rigging.” A few days ago the editor observed a lady sweeping along with the air of a queen, with about two feet of whalebone sticking our from her dress. The Library of the Poet Percival who died at Hazel Green, in YVisconsin, a few weeks | since, is to be sold. The library is said to con- j sist of six or seven thousand volumes, many 1 of them valuable and rare, and is supposed to 1 be worth $30,000. The Puritan Recorder, one of the chief or- | gans of the New England Congregationalists, contains a long manifesto issued by the Mendon 1 .Association of preachers, on the serious as- I pect of the present slavery difficulties and ar- j guing strongly in favor of the election of Fre- ‘ mont to the Presidency. Capt. Gen. Concha has received the title of! Marquis of Havana and Viscount of Cuba, in j consideration of his services as Captain Gene- ( ral during his two terms.—i. e., the handsome j manner in which he has oppressed the Cubans | while acting as the tool of a rotten aud corrupt j dynasty. In the Criminal Court at Nashville on Fri day last, Austly M. Stevenson, late of tlie Ju- J lien Minstrels, was put upon his trial, for aD J assault and battery upon his infant child.— 1 1 hough defended by able counsel, the jury j found the unnatural father guilty, aud sen tenced him to three months confinement in the i city jail. Political reports from China continue unsat- I isfactory. In Kiangsi the Imperial troops are 1 said to have been defeated by the rebels, and j to have lost 3,000 men, among them seven Mandarins. In the north the insurgents ap j pear also to have met with much success, and | the town on King-kwo-Foo has been taken by i them. The Hustings Court of Richmond, on Tues 1 day last, sentenced Lott Munday, a free negro, i to the Penitentiary for ten years. Lott wa: J from New Y’ork, and formerly a cook on the I schooner Dauvine. He was tried for kidnap V ping a slave, the property of of Wm 11. Mac farland, Esq., of Richmond. Lott has a white 1 wife in New Y’ork. The unfavorable news for the next crop) from 1 nearly all sugar growing countries, and the I known bad prospects of the Louisiana t crope, j have opened tlie contract fever early this year The New York Post says that a number cm crops have been contracted at various price- ; which it reports at from s2l to $23 per bos ; of 16 and 16[ arrobes, all with more or let, heavy cash advances. Tlie Boston Courier predicts that horse rail’ J roads are destined to supersede the omnibii: | system in all large cities. The editor affirms j that the change will be brought about, not to 1 gratify tho hopes of mere speculators and cap’ 1 italists, hut by common demand of the people-J who will have realized the superior advantage S of the rail travel. What say Lovelace at Vernoy to this ? it is reported that the refusnl of the Ru; s'ans to give up Kars is explained. The Eng lish Commisioner whom the Russians refu.-t to receive, had no authority to ask possessiot ] j *tnd did not do so. lie merely requested pet 1 mission to examine the state of the fortication | which he was not permitted to do. Respect | ing Russian occupation of the Isle of Surpeiih I 1 Lord Stralord de Redclilfe has sent Geners f Mansfield to inquire into it. A communication from Stockholm speaks of J the audiences which the French and Russian I Ambassadors had with the King, and of a grc;it I stir among the diplomatists consequent tnero j on - Report says the subject of the excite ment was a reclamation made bv Norway | against the Russians, who, it is alleged, are I encroaching upon the Norwegian territory, and 1 planning fortifications along the const. Tic f Swedish papers, however, make no allusion’ | the matter. Tho Piano Forte, the favorite parlor instru merit, now considered an almost indispensable J article in every family that can purchase it- ■ was invented by J. C. Schroeder, of Dresden, in 1717; the square piano was first made by I Freideriea, an organ builder of Saxony, aboJ’ I 1758. Piano fortes were made in London ! M. Zumpie, a German, 1796. The man off f ture of this instrument was commenced in tbc country since the opening of tho present ce -1 tury.