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COLUMB TJS: Tuciday 9la r i>li>gi Sept. O, 1856. LAUGEBT Cil'V CIRCUI.ATION. The Gale in Southern Georgia. The Albany Patriot Bays the effects of the j gale in our city and the country immediately around, are serious, and to the farmers must proTC almost ruinous. The corn which had just about matured, has been blown down and will rot upon the ground. And the cotton fields have been stripped of their rich fleece. As far as our personal observation has ex tended, it proved more violent East and South of us than to the North. In Dougherty, Lee and Terrell counties, it will long be remember ed with terror. One-third of the cotton and corn of the country must have been totally destroyed. The track laying on the Alabama and Ten nessee Rivers Rail Road, has been resumed, with a sufficiency of iron to take it across the Coosa River. The editors of the National Intelligencer in u lengthy article in last Thursday’s issue, lmvo announced their intention of remaining neu tral during the approaching Presidential can vas. . .. “ Kansas Meeting in Augusta. Enthusiastic meetings were held iu Augusta on Friday and Satuiday nights, presided over by Maj. E. B. Glasscock. Spirited addresses, on both occasions, were delivered by Capt. E. M. McGee, of Missouri, and Capt. B. Jones, formerly of Polk county, in this State, but recently from Kansas. The amount subscribed and paid over was three hundred and three dollars. A Kansas Club was formed on Saturday night, and resolutions adopted to carry out the objects of the Club. Negro Property in Cobb. At the public sale on Tuesday, negroes sold at the following figures : One woman and infant child SIOSO Boy seven years old 005 Woman and two small children 1705 Girl, sixteen years old 1001 Man, thirty years old 1150 Making an aggregate of $5(101 for the sev en, or an average cf SBOO each, and but three grown negroes iu the lot— Marietta Georgian. Thd Cotton Crop of 1856. VVe copy the following article, on the cotton crop of 1856, from the Memphis Bulletin, of the 26th utl. : “ The period lias now arrived when special interest is felt in the cotton crop, and when people begin to make reliable estimates of the probable produce. Even yet the plant is sub ject to casualties, such as storms, insects, rot, rust, early frost, etc., which may seriously re duce the orop below what is now promised ; but from what has already occurred, and from what is at present positively known, we must ooncludo that planters will not realize their ex pectations of a mouth or six wejks ago. The weather during that time has presented a re markable con*rast in respect to the upper and lower country. While the latter Ims been vis ited by continued and excessive rains, the former has sutlered from almost unprecedent ed drouth. While the rich and alluvial soils of Louisi ana and Southern Mississippi, have been stim ulated by an exuberance of heat and moisture, to the production of plants of luxuriant growth, attended by the usual evils, long joints, rot, dropping ot torms, etc., tho extensive range of highlands in Nortli Mississippi and Tennes see, have been parched by long continued drouth, with the still greater evils, diminutive growth, small bolls, and rust. Tho large cot ton of the South has recently suffered tho fur ther injury of hurricanes, which have prostra ted it more or less extensively in different lo calities, and broken many of the plants eveu with the ground. Tho cotton worm too, ,if wc may rely on reports, is making depredations in various placs, and may yet swoop over the whole southern region as iu 1810. Had the occurrences of tho upper and lower country, as above detailed, been roversed—had the rains and gales of the South been trausfer ed to the North, and tho drouth occurred in the South, tho results would lmvo been far differ ent, f nd the present promise would have been equal to that of any former yer. Dut now it ks too lato for existing evils to bo remedied.— The rains which are occurring on tho high lands may stimulate the plant to a rapidsecoud growth, which will bo unproductive of fruit and will be likely to add the rot to the destruc tive rust now prevailing : and if the vaius of the lower country suddenly cease, the shed ding of forms is certain to be greatly increas ed. In any eveut there must be a reduction in the estimates of one fourth and upwards, and such we believe to be the opinion of well in formed planters, both North and South. Bank of Fulton, at Atlanta. The following communication appears in the last Atlanta Republican: Messrs. Editors : 1 do not say that this Bank is “ Wild Cat,” but some things have come to light whioh look very suspicious. That some thing is wrong, and that tho Devil has been “ whipped around tho stump,” there is no I doubt. It is known to be a fact, that most of the stock belongs to parties iu New York, and | to make the thing easy, these parties made ar rangements with certain individuals in this city, to take stock in their own name aud pay in the money, which was furnished them, and after the Bank went into operation, the stock was transferred to tho parties who really own ed it. From indications now apparent to me, l should not be surprised if the concern was rotten to the core ; and if it is, the sooner the people know it tho better. 1 have not got all tho points yet, but 1 assure you that as fust as the cloveu foot reveals itself, I will post you up with the particulars. A CROAKER. An Arrest. John Copeluud, one of that iufamous gang that has for a number of years past infested the Sonth-east corner of Mobile county, was committed to jail yesterday evening by C. B. King, Esq., as a fugitive from justice from the State of Mississippi. The alledged crime is j the murder of a man by the name of Hardy, in ] that State, two or three years ago. A large reward was offered for Copeland's arrest, and he will.be held subject to a requisition from Gov. Mcßae. —Mobile Xeies. A company of northern capitalists, it is stated. Lave purchased two thousand acres of : land in Henrico county, Virginia, including ’ lb® 0,1 l Springfield aud Deep Run pits, a few miles west of Richmond, and are about to commence coal-mining operations in that re gion on an extensive scale. Prom Kansas. We-find the following letter, written by one of Major Buford’s Kansas Emigrant’s to a rel ative in Montgomery, in the Journal of that city: 14 Milks N. W. of Lexington, i Missouri, August 18, 1856. / Once more I am on the retreat from the Ter- , ; ritory. Jim Lane has arrived in full force, and before this reaches you the pro-slavery cause will have fallen or gained a victory that will be j of some importance to the South. All of Bn -1 ford’s men who have been taken prisoners, have been murdered. Tiie brave and true who were j : with tho unfortunate Treadwell at the time of flight, have paid their last tribute to the glorv ! of the South—they are gone. Clowes, the gaf i lant little editor of the Southern Advocate, i fell, nobly fighting the Northern robbers, at Le | compton; and now sleeps his last sleep in the ; bosom of Kansas! Alabamians, will you lon- I gcr close yonr purse strings, and house your I chivalry, when your bleeding eons are overrun j and crushed by your worst enemy? Can you longer behold these things and remain inactive ? ] Here are your boys, without money, without j clothes, and nothing but the broad prairie for j their beds, nod the canopy of lleaven their on ly covering; disputing with the foe every inch j of ground in behlf of the South; beat back, 1 driven iu, where no succor awaits them, even to their leaders having deserted them and fled ; the crisis. Ido think that Alabamians should no longer dole out by mites the “one thing needful” in supporting them! Wc want hors es—we want to mount every man that remains of Buford's once proud and strong expedition. Fellow-citizens, give us your aid ; we are here to meet, the foe, and are resolved to remain here as long as there is a plank to stand upon. Give not your aid to stump speakers and hifa lutin orators; send it at once to the men who are here—men who will fight for you. Place us on an equallity with your enemies, aud out lives for it, you wiii never have cause to regret the issue. The Borders are now arousing for the battle, 2,000 “Ruffians” will be on the plaius in se ven days, well mounted and equipped. Where as, the Alabamians are but poorly armed and afoot. For God’s sake give us a fair show. — Send us money and iighiting men—no more demagogues—we want none such. Send us leaders wlio are capable of sustaining their po sition and the cause of the South. At the battle of Franklin, there were only 14 of our boys, Georgians and Alabamians. — They fought four hours against 365 of Lane’s heroes; and finally escaped with but a few slight wounds, leaving eight Abolitionists dead on the field, and about 23 wounded. At Le compton, the fight has been bloody on both sides—l 2 Pro-slavery men were killed and 32 Abolitionists. At Treadwell’s camp, there were about 20 of our men taken prisoners and all murdered. The day of reconing is close at hand. “Blood, Blood!” is the Abolitionist’s watchword, and “Blood for Blood!” is the Southerner’s war cry. Where it will end, God above knows. The North is daily sending aid to their hirelings in Kansas, and 1 can see no thing ahead but civil War—bloody War! Ido hope this feeble letter may cause men to feel for their own interest, anti awake the South to a just sense of her danger. The men of Buford’s expedition who are now with me, are Messrs. Charles Daniel, of Savannah, Ua., Ben. Lawrence, of Va., John Lawman, Malone, M. B. Hurst, M. Brown, N. B. Burton, ltobt. J. Taliaferro and R. Jennings, of Ala., and Tucker, of Ga. Limit. Cosgrove has just got in from Tread well’s camp, with Chas. llrabieska and three or four others. Yours truly, J. F. S. ♦ Peach and Honey, a Gentleman’s Drink. Old Judge Cole of Texas, was characterized by his attachment to that seductive beverage called peach and honey, and by his hatred of whiskey and whiskey drinkers. While lidding a court at. Austin, two men were brought up on a charge of a drunken affray. It was a plain one ; the row had occurred in the pub lic street, in open day, and there were fifty witnesses to the whole transaction. So the two delinquets pleaded guilty, by the advice of their counsel, and threw themselves on the mercy of the court. They were then brought up for sentences separately. “ You aro guilty of an affray,” growled the Judge. “Yes, your Honor,” whined the offender, thoroughly frightened. “Drunk, 1 suppose,” granted the Judge. “Yes, your Houor,” murmured the prisoner, with some faint hope that having been drunk would mitigate the punishment. “Drunk on rye whiskey, too, I’ll warrant,” roared the Judge in a voice of thunder. “Yes, your Honor, drunk on rye whiskey,” “Mr. Clerk, record a tine of fifty dollars against this man,” cried the Judge, “send him to jail for sixty days. I shall fine the next one who is guilty uuder such aggravat ing circumstances a hundred dollars, and-send him to jail for six months.” This was poor comfort for the unforteuate j fellow who was waiting his turn, and now came forward with fear aud trembling. As he passed along by his lawyer, that thoughtful j gentleman whispered iu his oar t “When the Judge asks you what yon got drunk on, tell | him on poach and honny.” lie took his stami. “You, too, are up here for an affray,” growled tho old Judge, gnashing his teeth, ns if he would like to bite the culprit at the bar. “Yos, your Honor.” “Drunk, too, I suppose.” “Yes, your Honor; sorry to say it—drunk —very drunk.” “Drunk on rye whiskey, too, 1 suppose? ” i “Oh, no, your Honor; 1 never drink whis- J key. 1 got drunk on peach and honey.” The Judge's features relaxed iu an instant. ! Leaning forward and raising his spectacles, ? ho contemplated the offender with interest, 1 and then with something like tenderness. “Ah! sir,” said tho Judgo, blandly ; “poach and honey, eh! that’s a gentlemanly drink, sir. The court sympathises with you, sir, aud does not regard your offence as very serious. Mr. Clerk,” he continued, iu a softening tone, * “enter a tine of one dollar against this gentle- i men, and discharge him on payment of cost.” J Now Hampshire Democratic State Conven tion. j Concord, Sept. 4— One of the largest dele- ’j gate Conventions ever assembled in N. Ilanip- | shire, convened in this city to day, for the pur- 1 pose of making nominations for the Preaiden- : tial and State elections. Daniel Marcy, tC , Portsmouth, Jonathan T. Chnse, of Carmodjv 1 Horace Chase, of Hopkiuton, David Buffunx. of Walpole, and Elenzer Martin, of Walpole wore nominated Presidential Electors. The- 1 Hon. Jno. S. Wells was renominated by acela- j mation, candidate for Governor, ami Mark Noble for Railroad Commissioner. Tomorrow a mass meeting will be held here, to ratify the - nominations. A Washington despatch says: “I venture the prediction, that the first important infor- -i mation received from Kansas officially, will be- : that Geu. Lane is in irons. Mark this.” Rev. A. Holliday has been chosen Professor of Hampden Sydney College, Va. A Brother to a Baron a Man Before the Mast ou the Lakes. The Chicago Democrat of a recent date gives the following remarkable history of two broth ers, one an Italian Baron and the other a sail or before the mast on our Western Lakes: A short time since a man named Thomas Ward was admitted to the United States Ma rine Hospital in this city. He had accidental ly broken his leg on bonrd the vessel in which he filled the humble post of sailor—a simple man before the mast. lie is an honest, indus trious, hardworking poor fellow, with a wife aud two or three children depending on uini for support. He is well known to several of our old citizens, among others, Dr. Duck and S. J. Sherwood, Esq., who has corresponded for him with his brother. The stranger part of poor Ward’s history, however, is that his brother is an Italian Baron, and lias been Prime Mimister to the Duke of Lucca, and fi nally, on his death, Regent of Parma. We have now before us a flue daguerreotype of the Baron in his court costume, with his stars and orders glittering on his breast, ami we must, say that a nobler looking man caunotbe found —notwithstanding his poor brother Tom is a man before the mast on board a lake schooner, and cannot so much as read or write. The history of tho Baron, John Ward—bro ther of poor Thomas, the simple mariner, is certainly a romantic one. He is an English man by birth, and his elevation to the regency of Parma, is not only a singular instance of the mutability of human affairs, but of the tendency of the Anglo Saxon race, when trans planted to foreign countries, to emerge to emi nence, and surpass others by the homely but rare qualities of common sense and unfaltering energy. Ward was a Yorkshire groom. The Duke of Lucca, who obtained by his fall from horseback in Rotton Row, London, the famil iar soubriquet of “filthy lucre,” spying the lad’s merit, took him into his service, and pro moted him through the several degrees of com maud iu his stables, to be head groom in the Ducal stud. Upon Ward’s arrival in Italy with his master, it was soon found that the intelligence he displayed in the management of stables, was applicable to a variety of other departments. In iact the Duke had such a high opinion of Ward’s wisdom, that he very rarely omitted to consult him upon any ques tion that he was perplexed to decide ; and the success which ever crowned Ward’s advice, gave him in the eyes of the feeble descevdant of the Spanish Bourbons, the prestige of infal libility. As Louis XII used to answer those who ap plied to him on any business by referring them to the Cardinal d’Amboise, with the words “ask George,” so Charles of Lucca cut short all application with “go to Ward.” The expenses ot the stable having been reduced to less than one-half under the administration, while the Duke’s horses were the envy of all Italy, it struck tho Prince naturally enough that it would be a good tiling if the same econ omy could bo introduced into other depart ments. So Ward tried his hand on one thing aud the other, continually enlarginghis sphere ot influence until from horsehold matters lie passed to those connected with tho State, which, indeed, is such a miniature affair that it does not greatly pass the limits of some pri vate domestic establishments. Ward r.ow be came the factotum of the Prince, won in the disturbances which preceded the revolutionary year ot 1848, a diplomatic dignity, and was despatched to Florence upon a confidential mis sion ol the highest importance. Ilewas depu ted to deliver to the Grand Duke the act of abdication of the Duke of Lucca. At first the Grand Duke was doubtful wheth er he could receive, in a diplomatic capacity, a messenger of whom he had only heard in relation to the races of the Cascine, where Ward had been in the habit of riding as a jock ey. But it soon appeared that the Lucchese envoy had in his pocket a commission making him the viceroy of the Duke’s States, which was to be acted on in case the Grand Duke made any difficulty, or even if he refused to receive Ward as the Ambassador of the States of Parma at the capital of the Medicis. Soon after, in 1849, when the Duke of Lucca re signed his other States to his son, Ward be came the head counsellor to this hopeful prince, who has thus been able to follow out a sporting bent under the best auspices, while he had a minister whose shrewd sense was more than a match for the first diplomatists iu Italy. Ward was, on one occasion, despatched to Vi enna in a diplomatic capacity. Scharzenberg was astonished at his capacity ; in fact, the cidevant Yorkshire stable boy was the only one ot the diplomatic body that could make head against the imperious counsels, or rather dictates, of Se’iwarzenhorg; and this was louud highly useful by other members of the diplomatic body. Among others, Mcyendorf, the Russian Ambassador, cultivated him great ty- An English gentleman, supping one night at the Russian Ambassador’s, complimented him upon his excellent ham. “There is a mem ber of our diplomatic corps here,” replied Meyendorff, “ who supplies us all with hams from Yorkshire, of which county lie is a na tive.” Ward visited England. The broad dialect and homely phrase betraying his origin through the profusion of orders of all coun tries sparkling on his breast, lie rarely ven tured to appear at eveningsoirees. Lord Pal merston declared that he was one of the most remarkable men lie liad ever met with. Ward, through all liis vicissitudes, lias preserved an honest pride iu his native country. He does not conceal his humble origin. The portraits of his parents in their homespun clothes, ap pear in the splendid saloon of the Prime Minis ter of Parma. Short Route between Europe and America. Messrs. Allen X Cos., of Montreal, propose to run a line of first class steamers during the summer months between Liverpool and Que bec, provided that the Government es Canada will supply a bonus of &24.000 a year. The Montreal Board of Trade recommend that ad vantage be taken of this route to secure the speedy transmission of news between the two continents, by establishing a line of tele fc rr nh ic communication between Quebec and Fortcau Bay, a point on the shore of tho Straits of Relisle, some seven hundred miles of Quebec. Tho Toronto Ledger says : It is distant from Liverpool only 1,877 miles, while from Liverpool to Halifax the distance is 2,466 miles; so that by the Canadian route there would be effected a saving of 600 miles to the point where the news from England could be telegraphed over flic continent It is manifest, therefore, that no other point presents tho same advantages for tho enrlv i transmission of news ns that which Mr. Young wishes to connect with Quebec by telegraph? Forteau Bay is 122 miles nearer Liverpool than Cape Race in Netherland, and compared with New York—which is reached by the best Col- j Bus’ boat iu ten days—it shortens the distance between tho two continents no less than 1,132 miles, or about four days’ sailing ; so that a first class boat can with ease make the voyage from Liverpool to the Canadian Land’s End— 1 the telegraph terminus proposed by Mr. Youne —in six days. < Tli<* <'hattahoochee has fallen, and naviga tion to tills point suspended in consequence. i NEW RAIL. Improved Continuous Rail for Railroads—ln vented by Charles T. liernur, Civil Engineer. A mere glance at railroad trucks, as niailo at present, will show at once that their con struction is far from being perfect. There is no doubt that the rapid wear and tear of the cars and machinery, and the repeated acci dents, entailing often such fearful loss of life and property, are mainly due to the great un- ! evenness of the surface of the iron rails. A railroad track, to be perfectly safe, must be smooth, uniform, and, at the same time, so arranged that it preserves its level under the heavy loads that pass continually over it.— The old mode of construction has proved it self, in this respect, very insufficient. The track has generally been composed of bars of 18 to 21 feet long, with their ends supported 1 by small cast irou chairs, or short coupling bars. Experience has shown, however, that i joints so made are by no means capable of j sustaining as heavy loads as the bar itself; j that they continually sink down, causing the track to form a succession of 3hort waves, in- j stead of presenting the smooth uniformity of I surface so neeessary for the swift passage of trains; and that the only way to make this evil at all bearable is by constantly “tapping up” such low joints with the earth of the em bankments. The maintenance of the large force of laborers required for this purpose impose an immense cost on railway companies. Many ingenious contrivances have been tried to lessen it. The so-called compound rails have herein been the most successful; for, ac cording to the testimony of superintendents of railroads where the same are in use, their adoption has lessened this expense 50 per cent. The number of accidents from running off the track has also greatly diminished. But while improving these matters, the rail itself has been sacrificed. By endeavoring to construct a bar of equal strength at the joints, either the iron has been split and cut so as to wear out very rapidly; or the joint has been so complicatedpis to make the rail difficult and expensive in its manufacture, and that this is an item of great importance will be evident when it is considered that the pui-ebaso of the rails constitutes from one-half to one-third of the whole railroad. The rail invented by Mr. Lienur is certain ly calculated to obviate all these evils. It is composed of two parts—a top rail and a bot tom rail—which are laid “breaking joints” with each other—that is to say, the ends of the top rail are brought together on the mid dle of the bottom rail, and in the same man ner the joint of the bottom rail comes always at the middle of the top rail. The two are bolted together in a strong and simple manner. When laid, it forms one uniform, continuous rail, every where equally strong. It is so ar ranged that the top rail, which is the only part that is exposed to deterioration, can be removed and renewed, when worn out, with out disturbing the bottom rail; and thereby alone is a great saving effected. It has also been constructed with the view to facilitate tracklaying and to lessen the wear and tear of carwheels. It offers no difficulty in its manufacture and, what makes it more valuable is, that, compared with the old sys tem, its first increased cost is little or none, which is principally because no chairs or coup ling bars are required. Besides, the saving effected by one year’s use, both as regards the rail itself and the trains moving over it, will make it cheaper than any other. There s little doubt that it will supersede all other patterns now in use. We have seen the testimonials of some of the first and most eminent engineers of the country, to whose judgment it has been submitted, and all testi fy to its great superiority in every respect. We have also heard that its immediate adop tion on some of the leading railroads in the south is already spoken of. The inventor is one of our resident engin eers ; and has given a great deal of attention to the defects which, it seems to us, he has completely removed by this simple and philo sophic invention— Mobile Tribune. One of the Polk Men. Among the many anecdotes of the late Gub ernatorial canvass, we heard onethc other day, says the St. Louis Herald of a late date, which illustrates the progress of intelligence in cer tain portions ot tho State where a newspaper is as great a curiosity as a roll of Egyptian papyrus. A settler down in the swamp coun try, having heard that Mr. Polk would pass alo: g tlie road near his house ou a certain day, and that he wonld be known by the two famous white mules, determined to get a look at the great man of whom he had heard so much.— Seating himself on a log, he waited patiently for several hours, whittling a piece of red ce dar, and whistling the “ Arkansaw Traveler,” At length tho two white mules came trotting down the road, and the swampite arose, and dotting his coon skin, cried out: ‘ I say, stranger! your name is Polk, ain’t it ?” Being answered iu the affirmative, he jump ed off the log, threw down his whittling stick, and striding up to the buggy, grasped Mr. Polk by the hand. “ Well, darn your picture,” said he, “if 1 ain’t awful glad to see you. I’m going to vote foryou—you can bet your bottam dollar on that! You made a first rate President, and I kuow you’ll do for Governor !” “ Thank you, ’ said thecandidatc, “but you arc laboring under a misapprehension—l am Truateu—” “ Yes, I know, you are trustin’ to the Dimi crats to put you through ; and they’ll do it as easy ns rolling off a log. I gin you my vote when you was running for President, and lam just agoing to plump down for you again.” After several ineffectual attempts to explain to the swamp man that he was not James K. Polk, the canvasser whipped off his mules, leaving his enthusiastic supporter wippiughis | coouskin and shouting—“Hurra for Polk, the best President that ever wore liar.” Y\ ho will say, after this, that there is noth ing iu a mime ? Turning into a Platform. Ethan Spike, the humorous correspondent of the Portland (Me.) Transcript, in the fol lowing citation from his last letter, shows how a fellow feels while he is becoming a plat form: Feller Citizens—l not only innount tho plat form but I’d ride it to Joppa es the safety of the Constitootion an tho Union shall seem to ax 1 shall so kinder mix myself with this platform, that ’twill be hard to tell totherf.om which. Yes—feller citizens, yer looin yer last on the late Unspeakable Libby. I feel the planks going into my ribs, my inerds are hardenin, my legs are feelin awfully timbeiish, an niv tose is turning into twenty penny’s an spikes I shall soon be a platform an my wife will be a widder—onless it are constitoo tional for such kind of furnituro ns I’m becom in to keep wives. Hobbs, the locksmith, Ims picked one of Ban quo’s gory locks : lie did it with a pick axe.— He is now at work on a wedlock. T. I>. Robertson, of Alexandria, Virginia, a few days ago, recovered two fugitive slaves at Chambers!)urg, Pa. GENEEAL ITEMS.’ The Savannah papers state that Haii C . sham’s rice mills were destroyed by five on Saturday morning. Over twenty thou?. ‘ bushels of rice were either burnt up or injun? Commander Henry R. Hoff, of the Unit- States Navy, has received orders from Wa-) J ington to proceed immediately to take i ; command of the United States frigate l Dl -’ pendence, now in the Pacific. lloff will, consequently, leave on the sth h H ’ in the Illinois, for Aspinwall, on his wav Panama. The Detroit Free Press contains an addre--, signed by sixty-nine wliigs of that city , U! . nonneing their intention to support Buchani,,. and Breckenridge, and calling upon the whi? of Michigan to do the same. We learn that the Italians who were exile’ to this country for their political faith, ... progressing famously at the mines of Sc;;,!,, ton, Penn. They get one dollar per clay, healthy, and will soon have their wages uj. vjtnced. They seem to like the country, are anxious to have their relations in lt ; ,] ( come out ami settle with them. The cotton manufacturing interest of ft,., England is stated by recent business circular* still to bo laboring under serious embank ment, and notwithstanding the very satisfy, tory dividends made for two years past h v large proportion of the cotton mills, there is s marked want of confidence in these invest’ ments. There will, however, it is believed, 1,, a reaction. A letter from a bank, containing a genuis. bill for one thousand dollars, was a few (W since returned to the dead-letter office Washington, the pre-payment of the lettei having been omitted Among the banished Mexicans opposed ti the present government in Mexico, who have arrived in New Orleans, are Gen. La Vega well known in this conntry in connection with the late Mexican war, and Col. May, General Blanco, Gen. Suarez, and two other gentle men, together with about twenty other exile military, lay and clerical. They will nntk, tlie United States their future home. There is a county in this part of Georgia, says the Sandersville Georgian, having about six hundred and fifty votes. We have it from a well informed gentleman of that county that Fillmore will get, at least, six’ hundred j them. Yet Fillmore has no strength, sat those who fear he will defeat Buchanan in, Georgia. Ex Gov. Hubbard, of New Hampshire, the last surviving member of the famous old Fel eral Hartford Convention, is stumping Nett Hampshire. It was stated recently in the British Parlh. ment that during the late war the desertion from the English militia were 13 per eeut from the Scotch militia, 20 per cent, and from the Irish militia only 5 per cent. While the English militia gave recruits to the line at the rate of 7£ per cent; the Scotch, at the rate of 14£ per cent., the Irish gave at the rate of2l per cent. The Irish militia was, therefore, in. comparably the most valuable branch in the service. The well informed Washington correspond ent of the Baltimore Sun says that the account lately received and published in New York, o! the conclusion of the treaties between tin British government and that of Honduras, re lative to the Central American question, is no! credited at the State Department. It pro ceeds, probably, from Mr. Squire, who is con nected with the Honduras scheme for au inter oceanic canal, and whose interests are repre sented at London by Gen. Herron, the Hondu ras Minister. The Philadelphia Ledger referring to the fact that Gen. Pomeroy, reported killed iu Kansas in the last telegraph dispatches, ha> “turned up” in Boston, says, this is the sec ond time, we believe, that lie has been dis patched by murdurous news agents for the newspapers, but killing a man a half dozen times in Kansas is no uncommon feat. It on ly requires an unscrupulous correspondent io one part of the country, and a gullible parti san editor in another, when snap goes the elec tric fluid through the wire, and a man is|“kili ed iu the must savage manner possible,” on score of men, if it better answers partisan purposes. New Tariff of Nicaragua. Anew tariff’ for the Nicaraguan port was pro mulgated ou the 31st of July. It iinpsses o: all unenumerated foreign merchandize a duty of twenty per cent, upon the mauufaat-urers price, or their cost in the markets from whence they proceed, discounting all expense’ of cooperage, packing, freights, insurance, commission, &c. Spirituous liquors of “good quallity” are to pay one dollar per gallon: ‘'or dinary liquors three dollars, and alcohol four dollars. Wines, cordials, beer, &c twentvpct cent. Leaf tobacco seventy-five cents per pound; chewing tobacco, fifty per cent, upon original cost; manufactuaed tobacco, one dollar per pound; snuff, fifty cents per pound. The following articles are to be admitted frees! duty: “All flours, meats, pork, lard, crackers, potatoes, and all kinds of agricultural hard ware, machinery for the improvement of in dustry in the republic, printed books, bell and church organs, stoves, pitch ami tar im ported by the owners of vessels for the expo-’ purpose of using them on their own ships; bag gage and furniture, belonging to families or emigrants established in tlie republic, pro; vided they are destined for their own persona use; seeds, plants, flocks, cattle, and all other animals destined to improve the breeds ot the republic. I’aymcnt of duties to be in cash, where the same does not exceed ten days, ciedit 1111 sums of.$000; thirty days ou $1,800; andfrom thirty to sixty days ou larger sums. St. Domingo and Spain. Jonathan Elliott, Esq., Coumissioner to the Dominican Republic, has returned to this coun try for the purpose, it is said, of exposing the intrigues of the Spanish Consul, Sel o ™’. against of the United States and tho treat,’ commerce and friendship between the tv powers, signed the Bth March last, and trail-- initted to Washington for the usual ratification and received there the 2d of May last. ‘ object of alledged intrigues of senor Beg° vw | said to be the restoration of the island of Domingo to Spain. A Walker. An extraordinary pedestrian feat has 1 performed in Derbyshire, England. A :11, named Alfred Helsoti, undertook to walk, six successive days, the distance of <0 day. He commenced his performance on day, July 20th, and completed it with ‘-a-- Saturday, tlie 26th of July, doing it with’ 1 specified time. The 70 miles were ti- 1 ’ walked in about 14 hours, but on one days they were completed in 12 hours. 1 on travel lie took very little food, except - j ; tea, or a small bit of mutton, half cooke - j a little stimulant occasionally. Hisusuwi I was from four to six miles an hour.