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COLUMBUS: So.mlny Morning, Hcpt. 80, 185®. LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION. Rev. Mr. O’Neil, of Savannah, being un avoidably detained in Ibis city since last Sun day, will preach in the Catholic Church on to-morrow at 11 a. m. and at 4 p. m. Fever in Charleston. The Hoard of Health report four deaths from yellow fever, for the 24 hours ending Wednesday night 111 o’clock. Our Merchants. Most of our Dry Goods Merchants have been busily engaged for several days past in re ceiving and unpacking their fall stocks. In a few days—as soon as they have a little time to breathe—our lady readers may expect to see their whereabouts pointed out in the adver tising columns of the Situ. Crawford Court. The attention of Members of the liar, and others having business at Crawford Court, which commences its fall term next Monday, is directed to the advertisement of Messrs. Walton & Tharp in another column. + • Boef. Mr. L. 1,. Johnson is now selling Beef in this market at 5 and 6 cents by the mess.— LnOrnnge (On.) Reporter. The same article retails in the Columbus market at 8 and 10 cents. if Mr. Johnson is making a profit, what must our Hoteliers lie doing? Come gentle men, tote fair—live and let live. Our Old Friend Ned. Our old friend, Neil Horse Shoe, says tlie Montgomery Mail, arrived in town several days ago, and, and, wonderful to relate, is here still. We never knew him to stay at home so long, at one time, before. The fact is attri butable, we think, to the fact that he hus grown rapidly fat. We are afraid that he is going to be lost to us — lost, as it were, in fat. lie is otherwise in fine condition. The other Chiefs of the Creek Nation, lie informs us, have returned home from Washington, well pleased with their trip to the Federal city. A Squabble over Expenses. The reception of ex-President Fillmore at New York, has occasioned a considerable rumpus between members of the joint com mittee, and the Council and Aldermanie mem bers continue to disagree. The largest of the bills for the reception have not yet been audi ted, and Alderman Hriggs, the chairman, thinks that the parties will be obliged to sue me city. Some of the bills are undoubtedly rather high, as, for instance, the sum of $125 for one man, and $l5O for another, must he indeed pretty good pay for one night’s work and the few materials required. Then the ho tel bill is thought to be larger than it ought to have been. Contemplated Insurrection. From the Galveston News. Colorado County, t September 9, 1866. j Messrs. Editors: The object of this commu nication is to state to you all the facts of any importance connected with a recent intended insurrection. Our suspicions were aroused about two weeks ago, when a meeting of the citizens of the county w as called, and a committee of in vestigation appointed to ferret out the whole matter and lay the facts before the people of the county for their consideration. The com mittee entered upon their duties and in a short time they were in full possession of the tacts of a well organized and systematized plan for (lie murder of our entire white popu lation, with the exception of the young ladies, who were to be taken captives and made the wives of the diabolical murderers of their pa rent' 1 and friends. The committee found in their possession a number of pistols, bowie knives, guns and ammunition. Their pass words of organization were adopted, and tlicir motto, “leave not a shadow behind.” Last Saturday, the tith inst., was the time agreed upon for the execution of their damn ing designs. At a late hour at night all were to make one simultaneous, desperate effort, with from two to ten apportioned to nearly every house in the county, kill all the whites, save ike above exception, plunder their homes, take their horses and arms, and tight their way to a “free state” (Mexico.) Notwithstanding the intense excitement which moved every member of our communi ty, and the desperate measures to which men are liable to be led on by such impending dan ger. to which we had been exposed hy our in dulgence and leniency to our slaves, we must say the people acted with more caution and deliberation than ever before characterized the action of any people under similar circum stances. More than two hundred negroes had viola ted the law, the penalty of which is death.— lint by unanimous consent the law was with held and their lives spared with the exception of three of the ring leaders who were, 011 last Friday, the sth inst., at 2 o’clock r. m. hung in compliance with the unanimous voice of the citizens of the county. Without exception, every Mexican in (he county was implicated. They were arrested and ordered to leave the country withiu five days, and never again to return under the pen alty of death. There is one, however, by the name of Frank, who is proven to be one of the prime movers of the affair, that was not ar rested, but we hope that he may yet be, and have meted out to hint such a reward as his black deed demands. He are satisfied that the lower class of the Mexican population are incendiaries, in any country where slaves are held, and should be dealt with accordingly. And, for the benefit “f the Mexican population, we would here state that a resolution was passed by the unanimous voice of the county, forever forbidding any Mexican from coming within the limits of the county, Fence, quiet, and good order are again re stored. and, by the watchful care of our Vigi lance Committee, a well organized patrol and good discipline among our planters, we arc persuaded that there will never ugain occur the necessity of a communication of the char acter of this. Yours, respectfully, JOHN H. ROBSON, 11. A. TATUM, J. H. HICKS, Corresponding Committee. 1 The onion, it is said, destroys the attractive jp>.>dy of the magnet. It has the same effect r with young ladies. Letter from Senator Clayton- To the Editor of the Nat. Intelligencer— Gentlemen : 1 have felt much reluctance in addressing the public by a letter in regard to the party politics of the day. 1 desire not to be suspected of parading my own opinions with the expectation of influencing those of others. Hut these opinions have been made the subject of conjecture and doubt iu a por tion of the public press, and simple justice to myself requires that the course 1 have deter mined to pursue in regard to Presidential can didates should be plainly understood. Hy publishing these few lines you will not only do me this justice, but relieve me from a bur densome correspondence with personal friends who have inquired, and who have a right to know, my determination. I urn too much out, of health to become the active partisan of any candidate l'or the Presi dency, even were I anxious to bo such. Hut the truth is I have long since resolved to be the partisan of no man, to follow the consci entious convictions of iny own judgment alone, and, no matter which of the candidates may be successful, to support him in the Senate in all that I think right, and to oppose liirn there in all that I think wrong, untrammelled by party ties. My object will be true to the country and its interests, knowing no other polar star as > lie guide of my conduct. While the Whig party was in existence as a national organization, after the straiglitest sect of that party 1 lived a Whig. Hut parties have now taken such a direction, and the di visions and distinctions in our country have become so alarming, that I no longer feel my self at liberty to follow the dictates of sects or factions. 1 will, at a moment’s notice help any set of men that stand by the country, and oppose any that refuse to do so. During the small remainder of the days which I have to devote to the public service, 1 will live, hop ing nothing personally from the smiles, and fearing nothing from the frowns of parties or party men, because I believe 1 can thus best serve the interests of the country, I forbear to comment now upon the causes which led to the destruction of the great national party to v'hich I adhered with unfaltering fidelity while it existed, 1 watched over its ciadle, and 1 have followed its hearse. It did not Call by my hand, and l have deeply mourned at its funeral. Let me add that I have been so long in the public councils that i see no ne cessity of pinning my faith and pledging my future course upon I lie policy to be adopted by any of the distinguished gentlemen w-bo are Presidential candidates, for each of whom 1 trust I feel and desire to express all proper respect. 1 shall be a candidate for no public honors or favors that any of them can be stow. If the position I have thus assumed be deem ed by any one liable to objection as novel or unprecedented, 1 have now only to add in the defence of it that the condition of the country is at this time of the same character, and, as I humbly think, requires it at my hands. To the kind friends whose partiality has upheld me through a long course of service in the councils of the nation it will hardly be neces sary tor me to say that I can never prove an apostate to our ancient principles and profes sions, and that 1 shall still entertain for them the same sentiments of personal regard and gratitude which have never failed to actuate me, and which I trust I have always manifes ted towards them when 1 had an opportunity of doing so. There is a great difference in our relative positions at this period. While t hey are at perfect liberty to take such course in the Presidential struggle as to their better judgment may seem proper, they will, with all their ancient clinrity for me, readily appre ciate the reluctance, nay the loathing, with which, at my time of life and in the present aspect of our national affairs, I should rc-ap pear in the Senate next winter, reek’ng from a political struggle violent as that by which our country is now convulsed. No one of tho candidates who may be selected by my coun trymen for the Presidency has a right to ask of me more than an honest support of his ad ministration in all that is right in my judg ment, and no one of them shall receive less. Governed by- the same principle, I will op pose any of them in every act of his that I think wrong, and he ought to expect no other course at. my hauds. 1 am, gentlemen, with sentiments of great respect and regard, your obedient servant, JOHN M. CLAYTON. Delaware, Sept. 10, 1850. +, Negro Troubles in the Chei’okee Nation. Late advices from ,hc Cherokee Nation de tail serious and bloody proceedings as oecur ing between the Indians and their slaves. A letter from Tahlequah, dated August 30, says: Wo had quite a fracas on Verdigris river a short time since. Four negroes ran away. They were all well armed and mounted, had two horses, flour, meat, coffee, and all neces saries for a camp life. Seven CJierokoes fol lowed and overtook them, one hundred and fifty miles from where they started. The Cherokecs got near them before they were discovered ; the negroes were dismounted and at a spring drinking water. The Cherokees ordered them to lay down their arms. The negroes replied they would not; and at the same time one negro fired both barrels of his gun. Another negro tired and shot Pina Eng land in the thigh; at that the Cherokees fired and killed two of the negroes dead, and wounded the other two; one of the wounded negroes died the uext morning, and it is sup posed the other is mortally wounded. The country is represented as full of runaway ne groes, who in several instances have resisted with arms, when an arrest was attempted. A letter from the Osage Nation charges the out rages upon the preaching of Abolition mis sionaries. Giravd and Mobile Kail Road. We are Informed by Mr. It. A. Hardaway, Superlndent, and Mr. It. L. Coleman, Con ductor of this Road, that the cars will be run ning out to tl.e twenty-uino mile station in a few days. The President and Directors of that Road deserve a great deal of credit for their indefatigable perseverance. The Road will be complete to the Ridge by this, win ter no doubt. It is now nllready far enough advanced to make the planters through this section think of turning all their cottou to the Road, and wo are satisfied that a majority of tho mer chants will have tlicir goods brought through to tho terminus by way of the Road ; it would be a saving of time and money to do so. It takes nearly as long to wagon goods from Co lumbus after arrival there, ns it does to get them from New York to Columbus by the Rail Road. Hurrah for the progress of the Mobile and Girard Rail Road, and long live the noble President, Superintendent and Conductor.— These gentlemen merit the confidence of the traveling public." —Clayton Runner. The exports of domestic butter and cheese from the United States, are on a much larger scale than many, perhaps, are aware of. Du ring the fiscal year of 1855, tho shipments of butter amounted to 2,315,249 lbs., valued at $418,723; and of cheese, 4,847,588 lbs valued at $514,034. Os the butter, the largest pro portion, 461,010 lbs., was Mtit to the British West Indies. , . , FROM CALIFORNIA. From thf California Chronicle, August 20. Releaso of Judge Terry. David S. Terry was liberated this morning at three o’clock by the Commit tee of Vigilance. He was escorted from the Committee rooms to Perley’s Hotel by several members of the Ex ecutive Committee. He remained at the Ho tel with Mrs. Terry until daylight this morn ing, when, yielding to the urgent entreaties of his friends, he went on board the U. S. slooi>-of-war John Adams, now lying in this harbor. He was 5 not accompanied on board by .Mrs. Terry. Tliero are reports that the decision of the Committee iu Judge Terry's ease was received with dissatisfaction bv many of the members. It is stated that his removal from the rooms was effected without the knowledge of a ma jority of the members of the Committee, and when it became generally known, it excited intense indignation. We are told that a rush was made to re-arrest Terry by a port ion of tlie members, and tl.at another portion made an attempt to ring the alarm bell, which is suspended upon the roof of the Committee Buildings, but the Executive Committee had taken the precaution to have the the bell muz zled, so that it could not be rung. The action of Judge Terry’s friends seems to show that these reports were not without foundation. The removal of Judge Terry from the hotel to the sloop-of-war was effected dlcntly but speedily. During this morning he had been visited on board by many of his friends, and the wharves in the vicinity of the sloop-of-war have been thronged with people. Os course any attempt to take Terry forcibly from the would be resisted by her officers and crew. During a conversation this morning, Judge Terry stated that lie left tlie rooms of tlie Com mittee as he entered them, without conceding a point or entering into any agreement which would compromise him in any way. He in tended to go to Sacramento with the intention, it is presumed, of resuming his seat on the Supreme Bench. From fie San Francisco Herald. No well-deserving citizen of old Homo was ever greeted with more enthusiastic ova tion on his reti-.u from perilous battle ground, than was Judge Terry yesterday by the people of San Francisco. The cabin of the John Adams was crowded all day with a throng of ladies and gentlemen, who visited the Judge for the purpose of congratulating him on his escape from the den on Sacramen to street. At four o’clock lie went off on the ship’s cutter and boarded the Helen Hensley, which was absolutely thronged, fore and aft, by a deputation of liis friends. The deafen ing clioers which went up from the steamer on his approach, were caught up by those who crowded the wharves and vociferously echoed. When the boat came alongside the John Ad ams, a salute was fired by Captain Bout well, and the rigging was manned to give the Judge three cheers. These were given with a will, and were heartily responded to on board the Helen Hensley, the ladies waving their hand kerchiefs the while, in compliment to the gal lant commander of the John Adams. Anoth er salute was fired by the Revenue Cutter, Win. L. Marcy, as the Helen Hensley passed and the steamer with its immense number of enthusiastic passengers went on its way re joieing. The Sacramento State Journal says that Judge Terry was received with the greatest enthusiasm by the people of Sacramento, and escorted in procession with music and banners from the wharf to the Orleans Hotel, where apartments were prepared for him. On his ar rival at the hotel he was eloquently addressed by Hon. Tod Robinson, from a stand overhung with wreaths. The remarks of Mr. Robinson being most eloquently and feelingly replied to by Judge Terry, the immense crowd gave three cheers for their recovered friend, and dispersed. Bouquets were showered upon Judge Terry by the ladies on the balcony during the re marks of Mr. R. and himself. From the Alla Californian. The Vigilance Com.hi mm.—Much has been said of late about the adjournment and dis bandment of the Vigilance Committee on and alter Monday next, As there seems to have been some misapprehension about the real de sign of that body, we have taken some little pains to ascertain their real objects. We are assured that their intention is not to adjourn or disband at present at all events, but on Monday next to give up a large portion of the space of rooms they have been occupying, aud go into their orginal quarters in one building, which they at first occupied, and where their arms are located. Much of the time since the organization they have been compelled to occupy two or three adjoining buildings, on account of the large number of prisoners on hand, and the necessarily large guard continually at the rooms. A small guard will now be engaged for the protection of the Committee’s Headquarters, and tho Ex ecutive will hold its regular meeting, and as often as emergencies require it, but not so continuously as formerly. + Wild Man of Africa. There is another inhabitant of the woods bv the Gaboon river, move to be feared than the African boa. It is the wild man of the woods —not the ourang outang, though an lnmense ape—always acting on the offensive arid ready to attack man. The bones of his extremities are longer than those of an ordinary sized mnn. 1 have examined them here, and while contemplating the skull, the jaws. and tlicir terrible apparatus, really experienced a sort of shuddering. The canine tooth are upwards of two inches long and of proportionable bulk. There is a ridge running from the top of the nose backward on tlie crown of the head; to this is affixed a muscle by which the Hving animal draws backward and forward a “lost frightful crest of stiff’ hairs; when en raged or proposing to inflict injury, lie erects them and draws tho crest forward over his large eyes, uttering most hideous yells at the same time. Nothing teems to intimidate him. Sometimes he advances with boughs of trees broken off for the purpose of concealing his approach aud attack, and suddenly grasps the leg of a human being, brings him sudden ly to the ground, breaks hi; bones by blows of his mighty arms and hands, and tears the flesh by his monstrous teeth. The native huntsman who goes in search or meets with him while pursuing less formidable animals, lias learned that the safest way to engage is to act quite on the defensive: to let the mon ster draw near, when he will immediately seize the end of the muzzle of the g,. u be tween his teeth, instantly it must bo dis charged ; if the man either delays till the ape has compressed the barrel so as to close it, or fails to give a mortal wound, his doom is sealed,— Travels in Africa. A gallant veteran. Col. Frederick Hrowu. of his Majesty’s twenty-eighth regiment, being at the Governor’s table at Corin, was asked by Lady Ruthven, (a blue) if he had read Sir Walter Scott's last work? “Give you my honor. r_ lady, 1 never read but two books in my tile -the Bible and the Articles of War,” The Observations of Mace Sloper, Esq. FAMILIARLY NARRATED, BV HIMSELF. SLOPER’S SUMMER EXPERIENCES. “And so,” observed beautiful Widow Twig itle*. “you have followed me all the way to Cape May?”. “Yes,” answered I, “I came a-Maying af ter the sweetest flower that ever grew—and I have found it.” “In an arbor!’’ “Well, said I, looking around, “if we come to that, 1 reckon I’d better call you a lady ap ple : for that’s the only real pretty, rosy, sweet, firstr.ite, tart little beautiful thing that I ever saw kept under dead leaves. Country folks say it makes the color come. I b’lieve that’s so.” And 1 believe it was, for by the time I had got out that last speech there was a color on Amelia’s cheeks which would have torn down a peck of madder. Perhaps it was the evening clouds which shone that sun-set with an extra ferocious crimson, like as if the fire of the day had burned down some, and the last and hottest coals were being raked out just before the black ashes of night should be piled over them. There we sat in the arbor composed of pine boards, arid covered with dry oak boughs, and the evening winds kept a twisting and rustling the leaves, and we looked down at the roaring great waves running up like cream soda on the beach, and two little boys who kept chasing of them and prodding them with sticks, as if they expected to pin them down, and at the rest of the children, who were dig ging for dear life in the sand, without regard to dress or rank, and one solitary old fogy in a yellow flannel bathing dress, who was out bobbing around in the surf on his own hook, and at three niggers who were bathing furth er off’, apparently in an advanced stage of de lirium tremendous, to judge from the high pressure yells and extra-super-dreadful grins in which they were breaking loose. Way off there was a pilot-boat with a great 11. on its sail, and fur; her still, lots of craft, looking like Millerites in ascension robes on top of the blue shy—half way up to glory. “ Mr. Sloper,” remarked Amelia, “ ever since 1 have been down here, I’ve been trying to think what those waves resemble, or whsut that sea is most like. I sit and watch, and think and think, till all I know is that they ebb and flow, and make wild music ; and that is as far as I ever get. But oh! it is so deli cious to bewilder one’s self in such feeling!” “I rather guess,” said I, “though I can’t pretend to be one of your cute sort, that you’re a good deal nearer to the true nature of the big drink than many folks who come down to recite poetry to it. When I hear folks do that, 1 always think of the days at school, when we used to declaim verses the last thing on Saturday forenoon, just before the holiday of the week began. So these good people seem to think that before their watering-place holiday can regularly begin, they must rush down to the old ocenn, like as they used to go before the old schoolmaster, arid say the scraps they’ve got by heart. Af ter they’ve done that once or twice, they rush off home, and act about as poetical asnewsboys at a steamboat landing. “But as for the. sea ” “Yes, Mr. Sloper: Avhat are your opinions of the sea?” It is a queer point in the widow, —but a first chop one—that she takes an interest in what m.rst folks say, and particularly in what I say. Many and many a time, when I’m breaking loose and trotting along in my talk, dealing out mere loose nonsense, and such small chaff as men generally bestow’ on ladies, Amelia makes me “hold my horses, will you?” by nothing more nor less than that simple ex pression of interested attention which is so uncommonly becoming to her. I have seen other women—not many—who used to put on that same look, and none but a mighty supe rior woman can ever do it. That look—well, it wilts down and dries up small talk to just what it’s worth; and the man would be a Shanghai stuck up with a vengeance who could answer such a glance with some fol-de riddle-jig-my-diddle stuff. Sometimes that look scares me a little, t hough—it’s so like or ders to fire, and the gun not loaded. There’s many a man who goes 011 spinning the meanest sort of small yarn all his life long, about town, wlio might be regenerated into the very apostlcsliip of common sense— or something more—if he only knew a woman smart enough for him to respect, who would occasionally look him in the face as if she ex pected that there was senneting a-coming worth listening to. That’s all. It made me feel considerably stove in to see Amelia Twiggies suddenly arouse and go forth at me with an air of interest, not having at tho instant any intellectual dimes wherewith to answer the check. Wherefore and there fore I put on a regular top-not-come-down as pect to take-your-time-a-tive-ness and slowly devolved with: “The sea—that is to say, the waves or wa ters of the ocean, or as folks call them, the billows, or as Hiram says, the splurging heavy swells—taken altogether always flash upon my mind like—a woman.” “Really.” “5 os,, and actually.” (Here I began to feel my self in funds.) “Like a woman, and con siderably like love, for the two go together like pudding and sauce, (Ahem!) Well, in love you are always chasing or getting chased. Run away and you’re followed, follow and you get run away from.” “ What a horrible idea !” “1 111 talking ol most cases, as they run, ami not of the prime samples. Well, suppose that Beauty flirts with you. Even if she re treats, like those waves in an ebb-tide, she don t make n clear cut and run for dear life. Not a fraction of it! First she washes Way up to your feet; then runs back ; then sends a cloud of miscellaneous, shining, wordy no things after you like a lot of spray; then sweeps up and around with a scarf of soft foam, just as the dancing girls at Niblo’s pre tend to try to catch the young fellows; and then la la she sinks, sweeps, rolls way back again, giving you the dodge, yet looking at you all tho while with half-shut, die-away eyes and head thrown back, aud 3-011 hear no thing but whishing whispers, and then the first thing 3-011 know the tide’s out and the game s up, aud you are left high and dry with the clams!” “Mournful indeed!” replied Amelia; “and of cour; when the affeotion is the other way Beau ty. even while advancing, keeps falling hack continually, and composes her progress out of numberless little retreats. Well, Mr. Sloper, ; 111 not deny that you’re right. I once saw a pocket-haukerchief, which, now that I think I of it, puts me in mind of 3’our idea of the sea I and of love. In its centre there was a great YES, each letter of which was made up of even so many little noes. It was sent by a lady In Cincinnati to a gentleman who believed that she didn t lavor his suit, when, gooduess knows, tlm poor tiling was d3*ing fur him.— I hey were married., — Knickerbocker Magazine. St. Paul, Minnesota, is now said to have a population of ten thousand souls. In the i year 1849 it did not contain live hundred. TELEGRAPHIC Expressly for the Daiy Sun. From New Orleans. New Orleans, Sept, r, The demand continues fair without change in prices, say 11 J to Ilk-. f or y dling Sales of the day 2300 bales— and t the week 15,500 bales. Receipts of the iv 17,000. Stock on hand 30,000 against bl to same time last year. Receipts since l September 35,000 bales against 80,000 to Sailt time last year. There are no changes to note in the Grot ry market, or in Freights. From Charleston. Charleston, Sept. ](i Not much doing in cotton yet, owing to tp prevalence of fever. Sales of the week tv,, , up 1200 bales. The market advanced an yesterday on the Asia’s news. Good Middlin', 11 1- to 12c. ? National Whig Convention. Baltimore, Sept. 17.—The opening of tfo Convention of the old Line Whigs, as call for this day in this city, was attended by l w ? delegations from twenty-six of the States, ail an anxious concourse of spectators. Ex-Gov. Washington Hunt, of New York was called to the chair temporarily, and made a most eloquent address. Washington’s Fur, well Address was then read, aud the Convul tion elected lion. Edward Bates, of Mo. ly sident, and took a recess until 5 r. m., tocom plete organization and allow time for prepars tion of business. SECOND DrSPATCH. The Convention met atsr. m., before a large and attentively interested audience. A cob. mut.ee was appointed to prepare an address to the people of the Union, and will report to morrow. Ex-Gov. W. A. Graham, of North Carolina, in a speech of thrilling eloquence and power declared his reasons for supporting and iw. proving Mr. Fillmore, at which the Convel tion and auditory rose and greeted him with vociferous cheers. The Convention then adjourned to meet to. morrow morning. Kansas News. Chicago, Sept. 15. —Robinson (bogus GOl. ernor) has arrived here, having been admitted to bail for $5,500. The other officers were admitted to bail in $5,600 each. Gov. Geary has released the prisoners held at Leavenworth. Conventions. Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 16.—The American and Republican Conventions met this day, ami were both largely attended. The radical Abolitionists also held a Con vention, at which seven delegates were pres ent.. Anniversary of the Constitution. Philadelphia, Sept. 17.—The celebration of the Democratic Convention assembled in commemorat ion of the adoption of the Constim tion, was an occasion of unparalleled enthusi asm, and was participated in by large delega tions—many from a great distance. Gov. H. V. Johnson, of Georgia, was Ike orator, and made an address of two hours in length, reviewing the history of the constitu tion and the constitutional rights and guaran tees of the South. The procession moved at 8 r. m. to Inde pendence Square, which was brilliantly illu minated. The Crops in Decatur. The account wo gave of the crops in this county', in our last issue, was from exaggera ted reports, and tv as not entirely correct. We have been since informed that, notwithstand ing the immense damages done to them by the late gale, they will average about one-third their usual yield.— Bainbridye Argus. Shooting in Pensacola. From a private letter received in Mobile on Monday, dated Pensacola, September 14th, we learn that a young man by the name of James Noxwell Perigo, of Oswego county. New York, was shot the day before by a Mr. Hancock. We learn that Mr. Perigo was a nephew of Mr. A. W. Van Epps, of this city No particulars were given.— Mobile Tribune. GENERAL ITEMS. The St. Louis Democrat says it is estimated that the wheat crop of Wisconsin, the present year, will not fall short of fourteen mill ions of bushels. The Journal of Commerce says that the Democrats in Maine were defeated by a com bination between the Know Nothings and Black Republicans. The Charleston Gas Light Company have resolved that “a discount of 50 per cent, he made to all private consumers of gas through out the city from the Ist instant.” The coast of Nicaragua put under block ade by Walker is said to be from one thousand to twelve hundred miles in extent, part on the Atlantic and part on the Pacific, anil to enforce it he has one schooner in the Pacific. There are German Buchanan clubs in neat ly every ward in Philadelphia. Stephen M. Remark, Esq., has spoken in that city every night, except Sunday, for the last month making addresses both in English and Ger man. The Fremont papers have been declaring far and near, that ex-Governor Baker, of New Hampshire, had gone over to “the path finder.” Mr. Baker authorities the Concord Patriot to say that it is a silly lie. The London pickpockets have hit upon a new dodge. One gang goes about with a live turtle, which he places on the foot walk and begins to talk about it to any one passing a crowd gathers, and a row succeeds, and then watches, purses, handkerchiefs and nm ney disappear. The Charleston Evening News learns that an affray occurred at Aiken on Thursday, be tween two men named Purdue nnd Morris, m which tlie former was so badly cut with 1 knife that it is thought he cannot recover. Pardue is a fireman on the South Cardin* Railroad, and Morris is n citizen of Aiken. The rate of taxation in Boston, for the P r< sent year, has botjn fixed at $8 on theSU* The real estate in the city is valued at 81L* 574,300, and tho personal estate at $lO5, l-*’ 1 - 800. Since last year, the former lias incrca’ ed $7,223,000 nnd the latter decreased H’ 1 - 100. The New York Commercial of Saturday c'rt ing says, the excitement in the Wheat m’ yesterday was very great aud prices advam ed I‘ullv five cent per liushel. Due he't alone, Messrs. N. 11. Wolfe & Cos., sold 1-’ •’ 000 bushels red and white Western to art• being tlie largest, single transaction ever iu one day by one firm. The sale amount 5 nearly $250,000.