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COLUMBUS:
Monday Morning, Kept. 90, 18S0.
LAUOEKT CITY CIHCL'LATIOM.
Cotton from Talladega, Ala.
Two waggon loads of Cotton were re
ceived here on Saturday from Talladega
county, and sold for 12c. per lb. We under
stand it was fully Middling Fair, and gave
evidence of nice handling. The beauty of the
transaction is, the sellers carried away with
them three hundred dollars worth of groceries,
and went away thoroughly convinced that
Columbus is the market for l'alladegans to
come to.
Fever in Charleston.
The Board of Health report three deaths
from Yellow Feyer in Charleston for the 24
hours, ending Friday night 10 o’clock.
The Steamer Niagara was burnt on Lake
Michigan, on tho 24th instant, and it is re
ported that between fifty and one hundred
persons perished, including the Hon. John
Macy.
The steam Flour Mill in East Boston, Mass.,
the property of the Suffolk Company, was de
stroyed by fire on the 22d inst., together with
its entire contents. Loss estimated at SIOO,-
000, of which SOO,OOO was covered by insu
rance. *
First Sale of New Cotton.
The Apalachicola Advertiser of tho 24tli
September, says the first sale of new cotton
in that market was made on the 22d instant.
Five bales of cotton from the plantation of
Hugh llusk, Esq., of Jackson county, Florida,
were sold by 1). G. Raney, Esq., to J. C. Ma
clay, Esq., at lOjjc. Classification —Strict
Middling.
New Orleans and Urcat Northern Kali
Roud.
The New Orleans Picayune publishes a tele
graph dispatch from New York, stating that
advices have been received from London, by
the Atlantic, that James Roble, Esq., of New
Orleans, lias been successful in his negotiation
for the sale of $2,000,000 bonds of tlie New
Orleans, Jackson and Great Northern Railroad
Company.
——
Effects of the Frost.
The Bannev, published at Dadeville, Talla
poosa county, Ala., says the cotton and peus
in that vicinity, were killed by the Frost of
Wednesday morning last; thus cutting off
the last hope of (lie farmer, tlint a late fall
might slightly increaso his cotton crop and
enable him to save seed peas.
We sec it stated in our eastern exchanges
that within a few days some of the bills of the
Hank of Wilmington, North Carolina, which
were lost last year on the Seaboard Line, have
appeared in Petersburg, Vn. They are genu
ine, but the signatures are forged, and some
of them are slightly scorched.
North Western Indians.
By intelligence from St. Paul to tho 22d of
Sept, we learn that hostilities were threatened
between the Sioux and Chippewa Indians. A
hand of the latter recently surprised a party
ol the former near Lake Traverse, and massa
cred eight women and two men who were en
gaged at work in a field of corn. Shocking
barbarities were committed on the Sioux wo
men by the Chippewas. The Sioux nation
was in a state of terrible excitement. A depu
tation had gone to Fort Ridgely to demand of
the commandant the discharge of the young
men in his custody, charged with outrages
committed in the Chippewa country, and also
indemnity for the recont brutal murders com
mitted by the Chippewa war party’. They
threaten, iu case of his refusal, to wage a war
of extermination against the Chippewas.
“THE^GEM.”
We saw, yesterday, the plan of a Restau
rant to be opened next, mouth uudur the above
name, in the basement of Jones’ new building.
A more appropriate name could not well be
selected; and as no expense will be spared to
fit it up, it promises to be a perfect Gum of a
Restaurant.
We learn that Smith Terrell, lately of the
Oglethorpe Bar, has gone to New York, to se
lect a stock of the choicest Wines, Spirits and
Cigars, that can be procured, irrespective of
cost. Ho inteuds also to bring out with him
a first vote Cook, so that the most fastidious
tastes may be gratified. In fact, from the
Billiard Room to the Kitchen, every thing
promises to be conducted in a style that has
never yet been attempted in Columbus ; and
we predict for Terrell, (who has already made
himself popular by his gentlemanly manners
and strict attention to business,) an unprece
dented career of success.— Tones of Saturday.
Note from Mr. Corwine.
To Editor New York Daily Times —
Sir: l was pained to notice in your issue of
yesterday a statement to the effect that I would
not have ventured upon the recommendation
made in my report of t lie Panama massacre,
without reasonable grounds for believing that
1 would be sustained in it by the United States
Government. Whilst you do not directly as
sert ilie fact that there was an understanding
between the Government and myself as to the
character of the recommendations, the article
wiil bear that interpretation.
I therefore beg to correct you in this res
pect. 1 certainly would not receive a com
mission from Government to which was affix
ed any such condition, whether expressed or
implied, nor do l suppose the Government
would intrust So important a mission tome
with an understanding. All 1 was required
to do was to elicit and report the facts and
circumstances connected with the unfortunate
occurrences at Panama. What l recommend
ed was done voluntarily, with which the Gov
ernment could have had no possible agency ;
but 1 was certainly fully authorized and justi
tied in making the recommendations 1 did, in
view of the outrages committed under official
sanction ; and when all tho facts of the ease
become known to the public. I feel confident
that it will appear that my suggestions were
fully warranted.
1 make this explanation in justice to the
Government at Washington, lest my silence
might be construed into an admission of the
correctness of tho charge implied in your ar
ticle. ,
Very respectfully, yours,
AMOS B. CORWINE.
New York, Sept. 22,185 C.
FROM KANSAS
Inaugural Address of Gov. Geary, delivered
at liecompton, K- T. Sept. 11, 1850.
Fellow Citizens: 1 appear among you a
stranger to most of you, and for the first time
I have the honor to address you as Governor
the territory of Kansas. The position was
not sought by me, but was voluntarily tender
ed by the present chief magistrate of the na
tion. As au American citizen, deeply con
scious of the blessings which ever flow from
our beloved Union, 1 did not consider myself
at liberty to shrink from any duties, however
delicate and onerous, required of me by my
country. With a full knowledge of all the
circumstances surrounding the Executive of
fice, I have deliberately accepted it, and as
God may give me strength and ability, I will
endeavor faithfully to discharge its varied re
quirements. When I received my commission
1 was solemnly sworn to support the constitu
tion of the United States, and to discharge
my duties as Governor of Kansas with fideli
ty. By reference to the act for the organiza
tion of this Territory, passed by Congress on
the 80tli day of March, 1854, I find my duties
more particularly defined. Among other
things, 1 am “to take care that the laws be
faithfully executed.” The constitution of the
United States and the organic law of this Ter
ritory will be the lights by which I will be
guided in my Executive career. A careful
and dispassionate examination of our organic
act will satisfy any reasonable person that its
provisions are eminently just and beneficial.
If this act has been distorted to unworthy
purposes, it is not the fault of its provisions.
The great leading features of that act, is the
right therein conferred upon the actual and
bona fide inhabitants of this Territory “in
the exercise of self government, to determine
for themselves what shall be their own domes
tic institutions, subject only to the con
stitution and the laws duly enacted by
Congress under it.” The people, accustomed
to self-government in the States from whence
they came, and having removed to this Terri
tory with the bona fide intention of making it
their future residence, were supposed to be
capable of creating their own municipal gov
ernment, and to be the best judges of their
own local necessities and institutions. This
is wliat is termed “popular sovereignty.”
By this phrase we simply mean the right of
the majority of the people of the several
States and Territories, being qualified electors,
to regulate their own domestic concerns, and
to make their own municipal laws. Thus un
derstood, this doctrine underlines the whole
system of republican government. It is the
great right of self-government, for the estab
lishment of which our ancestors, in the stormy
days of the Revolution, pledged “their lives,
their fortunes, and their sacred honor.” A
doctrine so eminently just should receive the
willing homage of every American citizen.
When legitimately expressed and duly ascer
tained, the will of the majority must be the
imperative rule of civil action for every law
abiding citizen. This simple, just rule of ac
tion has brought order out of chaos, and by
a progress unparalleled in the history of the
world has made a few simple infant colonies
a giant confederated republic. No man con
versant with the state of affairs now in Kansas
can close liis eyes to the fact that much civil
disturbance has for a long time past existed
in this territory. Various reasons have been
assigned for this unfortunate condition of af
fairs, and numerous remedies have been pro
posed. The House of Representatives of the
United States have ignored the claims of
both gentlemen claiming the legal right to re
present the people of this territory in that
body. The Topeka Constitution, recognized
by the House, has been repudiated by the
Senate. Various meusures, each in the opin
ion of its rcspactive advocates suggestive of
peace in Kansas, have been alternately propos
ed and rejected. Men outside of the territo
ry, in various sections of the Union, influenc
ed by reasons best known to themselves, have
endeavored to stir up internal strife, and to
array brot her against brother. In this conflict
of opinion, and for the promotion of the most
unworthy purposes, Kansas is left to suffer,
her people to mourn, and her prosperity is
endangered. Is there no remedy for these
evils? Cannot the wounds of Kansas be
healed and peace be restored to all her bor
ders ? Men or the North—men of the South
—of the East and of the West, in Kansas—
you, and you alone, have the remedy in your
own hnnds. Will you not suspend fratricidal
strife? Will you not cease to regard each
other as enemies, and look upon one another
as the children of a common mother? Let ns
banish all outside influences from our delib
erations, and assemble around our council
board, with the constitution of our country
and the organic law of tlie territory as the
great charts for our guidance and direction.
The bona fide inhabitants of this territory
alone are charged with tho solemn duty of en
acting her laws, upholding her government,
maintaining peace, and laying the foundation
for a future commonwealth. On Jthis point
let there be a perfect unity of sentiment. It
is the first great step towards the attainment
of peace. It will inspire confidence amongst
ourselves, and insure the respect of the whole
country. Let us show ourselves worthy and
capable of self-government. Do not the in
habitants of this territory hotter understand
what domestic institutions arc suited to their
condition—what laws will be most conductive
to their prosperity and happiness—than the
citizens of distant, or even neighboring
States ? This great right of regulating our
own affairs and attending to our business,
without any interference from others, has been
guaranteed to us by the law which Congress
has made for the organization of this territo
ry. This right of self-government—this priv
ilege guaranteed to us by the organic law of
our territory, 1 will uphold with all my might,
and with the entire power committed to me.
In relation to any changes of the laws of the
territory which 1 may deem desirable, 1 have
no occasion now to speak ; but these are sub
jects to which 1 shall direct public attention
at the proper time. The territory of the Uni
ted States is the common property of the sev
eral States, or of the people thereof.
This being so, no obstacle should be inter
posed to the free settlement of this common
property, while in a territorial condition. 1
cheerfully admit that the people of this terri
tory, under the organic act, have the absolute
right of making their municipal laws, and
from citizens who deem themselves aggrieved
by the recent legislation, 1 would invoke the
the utmost forbearance, and point out to them
a sure and peaceable remedy.
You have the right to ask the next Legisla
ture to revise any and all laws; and in the
meantime, as you value the peace of the Ter
ritory and the maintainance of future laws, I
would earnestly ask you to refrain from all
violation of the present statutes. lam sure
there is patriotism sufficient in tho people of
Kausas to lend a willing obedience to the law.
All the provisions of the constitution of the
l uited States must he sacredly observed, all
the acts of Congress having reference to this
Territory must he unhesitatingly obeyed, and
the deeissions of our Courts respected. It
will be my imperative duty to see that these
suggestions are carried into effect.
In my official action here, I will do justice
at all hazards. Influenced by no other con
siderations than the welfare of the whole peo
ple of this Territory, I desire to know no par
ty, no section, no North, no .South, no East,
no West—nothing but Kansas and my coun
try. Fully conscious of my great responsi
bilities in the present condition of affairs in
Kansas, I must invoke your aid, and solicit
your generous forbearance. Your executive
officer can do little without the aid of the peo
ple. With a firm reliance upon Divine Provi
dence, to the best of my ability 1 shall pro
mote the interests of.the citizens of the Ter
ritory, not merely collectively, but individ
ually ; and I shall expect from them in return
that, cordial aid and support, without which
the government of no State or Territory can
be administered.
Let us all begin anew. Let the past be bu
ried in oblivion. Let all strife and bitterness
cease. Let us all honestly devote ourselves
to the true interests of Kansas —develop her
rich agricultural and mineral resources—build
up manufacturing enterprises—make public
roads and highways—prepare amply for the
education of our children —devote ourselves
to all the arts of peace—make our Territory
the sanctuary of those cherished principles
which {protect the inalienable rights of the
individual, and elevate States in their sover
eign capacities.
Then shall peaceful industry soon he restor
ed—population and wealth will flow upon us
—“the desert will blossom as the rose”—and
the Stale of Kansas will soon be admitted
into the Union the peer and pride of her elder
sisters. JOHN W. GEARY.
PROCLAMATION.
Whereas, a large number of volunteer mili
tia lias been called into service of the territo
ty of Kansas, by authority of the late acting
Governor, for the maintenance of order, many
of whom have been taken from their occupa
tion or business, and deprived of their ordin
ary means of support and of tlieir domestic
enjoyments; and
Whereas, the employment of militia is not
authorized by my instructions from the Gene
ral Government, except upon requisition of
the commander of the military department in
which Kansas is embraced; aud
Whereas, an authorized regular force lias
been placed at my disposal sufficient to insure
the execution of (lie laws that may be ob
structed by combinations too powerful to be
suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial
proceedings; now
Therefore, 1 John W. Geary, Governor of
t lie Territory of Kansas, do issue this my pro
clamation declaring that the services of such
volunteer militia are no longer required; and
hereby order that they be immediately dis
charged. The Secretary and the Adjutant
General of the Territory will muster out of
service each command al its place of rendez
vous.
And 1 command all bodies of men, com
bined, armed and equipped with munitions of
war, without authority of the government,
instantly to disband or quit the territory, as
they will answer the contrary at their peril.
In testimony whereof 1 have here
(Seal) unto set ray band and affixed the
seal of the Territory of Kansas.
Done at Lecompton, this eleventh day of Sep
tember, in the year of our Lord, one thousand
eight hundred and fifty-six.
JOHN W. GEARY,
By the Governor. Gov. of Kansas.
Daniel Woodson, Secretary.
PROCLAMATION.
Whereas : It is the true policy of every State
or Territory to be prepared for any emergen
cy that may arise from internal dissension or
foreign invasion:
Therefore, I, John W. Geary, Governor of
the Territory of Kansas, do issue this, my
proclamation, ordering all free male citizens,
qualified to bear arms, between the ages of
eighteen and forty-five years, to enroll them
selves, in accordance with the act to organize
the militia of the Territory, that, they may be
completely organized by companies, regi
ments, brigades, or divisions, and Hold them
selves in readiness to be mustered, by my or
der, into the service of the United States,
upon requisition of the commander of the
military department in which Kansas is em
braced, for the suppression of all combina
tions to resist the laws, and for the mainten
ance ot public order and civil government.
In testimony whereof, I have ccre
(Seal) unto set my hand and the seal of the
Territory of Kansas. Done at Le
compton, this seventh day of September, in
the year of our Lord one thousand eight hun
dred and fifty-six.
JOHN W, GEAItY,
By the Governor. Gov. of Kansas.
Daniel Woodson, Secretary.
Gentle Satires.
If you ask a lady to walk out with you, she
first looks at your dress, and then thinks of
her own.
If a woman holds her tongue, it is only from
fear she cannot “hold her own.”
Notice, when you have accompanied your
wife to buy a lot of things at her favorite shop,
what ostentatious care she takes of your in
terest in seeing that you get “the right
change.”
How much more difficult it is to get a wo
man out on a wet Sunday than on a wet week
day. Can the shut shops have anything to do
with this ?
The oddest mnemonic curiosity is, that a
woman, who never knows her own age, knows
to half an hour that of all her female friends.
A woman may laugh too much. It is only
ft comb that can always afford to show it's
teeth.
Women will never be punctual. They
scorn the “charms” that hang to a watch
chain.
Small Shot. — Say wlmt you will, a mar
riage by advertisement must, after all, be the
union of two “corresponding” minds.
Life is but a station, where we stop only for
a tew minutes. Before we have scarcely had
time to enjoy a single thing, the hell rings for
us to start again. It is but the affair of a
hreath, and we are gone !
Tiik World's Nursery —The spoilt children
of the present age rarely turn out the great
men of the next.
Sunday Morninu —“ Now, my Love! arc
you not ready for church ?”
“ Ready for church, Mr. Smith ! How you
talk ! When you know perfectly well that odi
ous Miss Jackson lias not sent home my new
Rarege Dress!”
A London letter states that Mr. Crumpton
is named as the successor of Mr. Rligh as Rru
ish Envoy to Hanover. This favor is by ik>
means a promotion ; and may serve to show
the exact estimate the British Government has
ot Mr. Crumpton. The post is only a second- :
ary Continental mission.
To win the maid the poet tries.
And sometimes writes to Julia's eyes ;
She likes a verse—lmt, cruel whim.
She t ill appears a-verse to him.
[Punch. I
TELEGRAPHIC-
Expressly lor the Daily Sun.
From New Orleans.
New Orleans, Sept. 27.
The demand for cotton to-day was active,
and 11,500 bales changed hands at previous
rates.
Flour is drooping. Other articles of groce
ries have undergone no change in price.
Political.
Columbia, Sept. 25. —Private letters from
leading Democrats North, it is stated, have
determined the policy of that party to
strengthen Fillmore in New York, to let Mas
sachusetts “go by default,” and concentrate
on Pennsylvania and New Jersey.
Modes of Labor.
Does it never occur to such economic phi
losophers as Olmstead, Greeley, Blair and oth
ers who undertake to enlighten us on the rel
ative merits of slave and free labor, that tlieir
contrasts, even if true and fairly drawn, only
prove the superiority of whites over blacks.
This, indeed, is the cardinal fact which under
lies domestic slavery, whether, we look to an
accidental subjection of individuals and tribes,
or to permanently marked differences of races.
Will these gentlemen show us where the negro
has ever achieved as much individually, or
for an aggregate population, in their favorite
inode of labor, as has been effected under the
mutually advantageous relation of domestic
dependence. The South asserts and recog
nizes, practically, the inferiority and necessa
ry dependence of the negro, and yet our
Northern philosophers wade through weari
some columns of figures—and very often in
vent figures, both iu rhetoric and arithmetic,
to show the superiority, in sonic respects, of
free labor—that is, white laborers —over slave
labor, or negro laborers. Our Northern
friends indulge in gratuitous comparisons, al
though there is a probability—if they go on
iu their maddening self-debasement of fanatir
cism—that it may become matter of nice com
parison, whether beyond a certain parallel of
latitude, the white man is any better than the
black.— Charleston Courier.
Three Parties in Kansas.
A Kentuckian, and a minister of the Gospel,
writes to his brother, living in Louisville, Ky.,
from Kansas, as follows:
Conservative men everywhere should know
that Kansas is divided into these parties :
1. Abolitionists of the Garrison stamp,
who trample upon the Constitution ami the
Bible, and join in bands to maraud through
the territory.
2. Moderate Free State men, who uphold
the Constitution, and because they refuse to
leave tlieir homes and join the armed Aboli
tionists, are actually driven into Missouri by
men who profess to be seeking the same ob
ject, tlieir horses stolen and t-lieir houses pil
laged.
8. Pro-slavery men, the greater part of
whom desire peace, but yet are goaded to de
termined revenge by the memory of long
years of Abolition aggression.
The advent of Lane’s armed men was the
signal for the Abolitionists, with all the out
laws in the country under them, to commence
their depredations almost simultaneously up
on a Georgia colony—upon Treadwell’s settle
ment and the town of Franklin. Then began
the extraordinary impressment of Free State
men—a spectacle that should startle the
North. For proof see the affidavit of Martin
White, a Free State man in Kansas, and for
merly a member of the Illinois Legislature.—
He, an old man, shouldered his rifle and
fought, by the side of pro-slavery men at Os
sawatomie on the 30th of August. Upon one
of the twenty Abolitionists killed he found his
son’s boots, and also recovered two of his
horses. He regards it as a signal protection
of Providence that not a solitary pro-slavery
man was killed. The conservative Free State
men now see clearly that Abolitionism is as
destructive to the North as to the South.—
Hundreds of them are now receiving the hos
pitalities of the Border Missourians, and are
imploring the latter to go in and assist in put
ting down the marauders.
Accident oil South Carolina Railroad.
The Columbia train to this city, was thrown
off the track at Indian Field Swamp, this side
of Brancliville, about forty miles from the
city, on the night before last, by a number of
cattle who had taken the fancy 7 to sleep upon
the rails. The engine and tender were thrown
down the embankment and turned upside
down, and the former completely broken in
pieces. The fireman, Mr. William Harthman,
was killed. Three of the cattle were killed,
and it is to be presumed the company will
have to pay for them at a good round price
per head.— Charleston Standard.
The Portuguese Consuls.
It is rumored in legal circles, that in conse
quence of certain representations made by the
Hon. John L. O’Sullivan, Minister of the
United States to Portugal, that the Consuls
of that Government, resident in New York
and Baltimore, have received a notification that
their functions have been suspended. The
revelations made in the recent trials of parties
for a violation of the laws of the United States
for the suppression of the slave trade, have
boon the cause of this movement on the part
of the Portuguese Government.
Accident and Miraculous Escape.
We learn that yesterday forenoon, a child of
two years old, son of Mr. W. W. Barkhimcr,
of this place, fell from the third story of the
boarding house of Mr. Whitney, on Princess
street below Front, striking on the pavement,
and strange to sny, escaped without serious
injury, although coming down on the back of
his head. We believe the little fellow is about
this morning. Os course his head is pretty
badly cut. — Wilmington Journal.
Amalgamation iu France,
A Northern exchange translates from a Havre
journal, the following extraordinary advertise
ment :
“Matrimonial.— A widow thirty years of
age, possessed of a fortune of sixty thousand
francs, wishes to mary a negro between forty
ami forty-five years of age, who has received
a good education. Fm- (further particulars,
address Monsieur Des Due D, Etretat, No. 87.”
l)r. James P. Screven has been nominated
by tlie Democrats of Savannah, for Mayor of
that city, and accepted by him.
M. de Lamartine, who for some time has
been in Macon, France, where lie is suffering
from rheumatism, has received from the Em
peror of Brazil one hundred thousand francs
aa payment of five thousand subscriptions to
the Familiar Course of Literature of the illus
trious ami hard working author.
—— - ♦
A correspondent of the New Orleans Delta
predicts that if James Buchanan is elected
President of the United States, he will be pre
vented from taking possession of the White
Mouse. If J. C. Fremont is elected Presi
dent of the l uited States, he will he assassin
ated.
GENERAL ITEMS.
Two dentists in New York have annoui
their intention to receive pupils of tl*e i
sex. Uia ' f
We notice that John Carew is uomiuat
the Charleston papers as the successor j n c :s
gress to Gov. Aiken.
The Columbus (Ohio) Statesman * a y s ,
two colored men, named Jenkins and’ 1 !”
ston, are stumping the State for Fremont" 1 ’
A few days ago one hundred head of i„;
were sold in Scott county, Ky., at an avtM .
of $177.50 each.
The State elections iu Pennsylvania, 0,/
Indiana, and South Carolina, will be held
the same day, October 14th. Florida, on
Oth of October.
The number of voters in New York s t l!
according to a statement from the census',j”
partment, is 651,820, of whom 510,74.}"!!
native voters, and 135,075 naturalized.
John M. Read, hitherto a prominent den,
crat of Philadelphia, addressed a Freu h
Club at Westchester, Pa., on Saturday eveni,
last.
Mr. Taylor, the author of “Still jy. lt
ltun Deep,” has written anew play, entiil,!
“Retribution.” It is to be performed atij!
Boston Theatre.
A gentleman having been asked on his i ( .
turn from a party the other evening whcil,
he had seen Miss A—, a young lady noted lot
her decollate style of dress—replied that ]
had seen a good deal of her.
Donelly wrote home recently that McGra*
had died from an “affection of the throat
lie was hung last season in California. p, lt
getting around an ugly sentence Donelly takes
precedence of any gentleman of our acquain.
tanee.
The Whigs of Massachusetts fired a salute
of five hundred guns on Boston Common on
Saturday, in honor of the nomination of Mil
lard Fillmore by the National Convention.-
At night they held a great ratification meeting
at Charlestown.
The Ilolston annual Conference of the Meth
odist. Episcopal church, South, will be held in
Knoxville, Tenn., on the 23d of Oct. next, that
venerable and beloved Divine, Bishop .las. it
Andrew, will preside, God willing.
In Massachusetts there are in t lie field fa
Governor and other State officers the Demu.
cratio ticket, the Whig ticket, the Fillmore
American ticket, and the Gardner or Fremont
American ticket. John H. Clifford isonal!
of them except the Democratic.
Our Northern exchanges inform us that At
torney General Cushing has decided that for
eign consuls cannot intervene in tho settle
ment of the estates of their countrymen dyin
iu the United States, except in the way of sur
veillance or advice. They cannot exercise
jurisdiction.
Gen. Harney is to relieve Col. Monroe o;
the command of the troops in Florida on or
before the 10th of November. The companies
of the Ist Artillery, now stationed at Forts
Monroe and Moultrie, the 4th Artillery, the
light batteries excepted, and the sth Infantry,
are ordered to the department of Florida, to
reach there early in November.
The prospects of Texas, it is said, were nev
er more flattering. A plentiful wheat and a
tolerable corn crop have been realized. The
quality of the cotton this season is very good.
About three-fourths of a full crop will be real
ized. But little sugar will be made in conse
quence of the destruction of the plant cane by
the severe cold of last winter.
An unpleasant personal altercation having
occurred to-day, in my presence, at the Kirk
wood House, between the Hon. John S. Pen
dleton and Bennett M. DeWitt, Esq., arising
from remarks misinterpreted in a political
conversation, it gives me great pleasure to
state, as the mutual friend of the parties, that
after satisfactory explanations, the difficulty
lias been adjusted in a manner highly honora
ble to both gentlemen.
Mr. Henry Adams, of New York city, lias
recently patented an improvement in ladies’
saddles, which consists in anew arrangement
of the horns of the saddle, enabling the rider
to sit in a more natural position than those
now in use. It also lessens the weight of the
saddle, and reduces t lie cost.
The reported hostile attitude of England to
wards Mexico is confirmed. Havana corres
pondence received at New York, says, that
the difficulty arose from the non-payment ot
claims due by Mexico to British subjects, it
is reported, that if England’s demands are not
immediately complied with, the chief ports of
Mexico are to he blockaded at once. As pre
viously reported, the British Minister hns de
manded his passports.
Anew style of India rubber over-shoe Ims
recently been invented by Mr. J. A. Pease, of
New York city, which, by having a ribbed or
corrugated inner surface, allows a free circu
lation of air between it and the boot over which
it is worn, thus permitting the perspiration to
pass off from the foot, and rendering them
more healthy.
The Fayetteville (Tenn.) Observer says an
Abolitionist named McKee was discovered
prowling around in that locality last week.—
lie had been tampering with the negroes there
abouts, trying to induce them to run off: I' lll
they-, more honest than he, exposed him. and
forthwith he was treated to a free ride on n
rail, a bath in the creek, and a respectable
blacking, after which he was started off North.
The Hardy Whig says that Judge Parker, in
a case submitted to him last week, decided
that a “Bounty Land Warrant” issued under
tiic act of March 8, 1855, was not liable tor.
nor could it “be in any wise affected by, or
charged with, or subject to, the payment “t
any debt or claim incurred by the soldier pri
or to the issuing of the patent.”
On Friday morning of last week, a nianwlm
had registered his name and residence as h
G. Brown, Stockbridge, Vermont, was found
in his room at tho Massasoit House, Chicago,
nearly suffocated by gas which was escaping
from the burner in his room. Every effort
was made to resuscitate him, but without avail
an Ihe died the following day. It is supposed
that on retiring, Mr. Brown had blown out the
gas instead of turning it off'. A lady from
Kentucky came near losing her life iu the same
manner in Cincinnati on Wednesday night.--
These accidents should serve to render people
careful of how they manage their gas.
Tiie Rich in oik! papers have despatches ‘late i
the 22d tit Chicago, which say that Col. H" 1
vey’s free State Regiment had an engagement
with the Southerners at Hartford, where - e ’
oral on both sides were killed. Col. ll.’a com
man 1 was subsequently captured by the l
troops. These despatches also say that o
ccs from Lawrenco to the 15th, state that - ‘ ,
Missourians reached Fraukliaou the 14th, :U - ■
an advanced guard came iu contact with aPj
ty of free State men on the night of the I" 1
Gov. Geary interfered, aud the Missouri^ 1
fell back to Lawrence.