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COI.TJIVI B TJB: Saturday Morning, Ortobri’ 11, 1856. IiAROKIT CITY CIRCULATION. Pevr In Charleston. The Board of Health report five dentils ill Charleston, from yellow lever, for the 21 hours ending Wednesday night ft o’clock. ♦ Mrs. Gadsden, wife of Gen. .lames Gadsden, late United States Minister to Mexico, died in Charleston on the Bth instant. The lion. ,lohn Jacob Seibels, of Alabama, United States Minister at Brussels, was among the passengers who arrived at New York on the. Arago on the Bth itist. - * The Kinina Watts l^ost. The Mobile Register of Sunday says “the Emma Watts, on her downward trip, sunk, mid has become a total loss. Vassengors ami crew all safe.” Where the boat was from is not stated by the Register, and from all ac counts she could not have sunk in very deep water in the Alabama river just now. r-- ——♦> - - Florida Elections. We have hut few returns from this State. A dispatch from Mobile gives the Democra tic majority in Escambia county, at 25. A letter to the Savannah Republican from Jack sonvillo, gives the American majority in four precincts in that county, at 200, and says it is now thought the American majority in the county will exceed ‘2OO. The Republican also learns from a passenger by the steamer, that the town of Fernandinu, (Nassau county) gave ;’,5 votes to the Democraticuud 8 to the Ameri can ticket. A letter to the Republican from Middlehurg, Kin., says—“ As the steamer is about to leave I will send you the result of the election at this place, up to It e. m. About 100 votes polled, and about tliveo Americans to one Democrat. The county will be largely Amer ican—perhaps half dozen mure votes to poll. We find the following in the Times of yes terday morning—‘‘.lacksou county beard from. The usual majority against the Domoc tnoy is about 250. The majority this election is only 75 to 80 votes. Clear gain for the De mocracy of 170 votes.” October Elections On Tuosday, the 14th inst., elections will be held In the States of Pennsylvania, Ohio ami ■ ludiauu. In each of these States members of Congress are to be elected; in Pennsylvania twenty-five, uv Ohio twenty-one and in Indiana eleven — making fifty-seven in all. In Pennsylvania a Canal Commissioner, Au ditor and Surveyor tire to be chosen by gen eral vote. Two tickets are in the field, the Democratic and the Union opposition. A State Legislature will also be chosen, which will have to select a United States Senator in the place of the lion. Richard Brodhead, whoso term expires in March, 1857. lu Ohio, Judges of the Supreme Court, an Attorney General, School Commissioner, and Commissioner of Public Works have to he chosen. There are three State tickets nomi nated —American, Democratic, and Republi can. In Indiana, a Governor and a full corps of State officers are to be chosen. In this Stale the American party have made no nominations for Congressmen or State officers. — Ant. Intel - In/nicer. Fusion in Pennsylvania. The Savannah Republican closes a discus sion with tho Georgian, about the Fusion in Pennsylvania, in this wise : “ Wo shall not continue the discussion of the political compaction of the men who compose the Union ticket for State offices in Pennsyl vania first, because wo have matters of more immediate importance to occupy our columns : and secondly, for the reason that our profit’s are contradictory, and wo are not likely to ar rive at the same conclusion. Os course wo havo uo personal knowledge of the candidates or their opinions. ♦ Assassinated. TheOrangeburge Southron, of the Bth inst., says thul on Friday night last, a. brutal mur der was committed in St. Matthew’s Parish. Until! 12 o’clock Mr. James McGrew was call ed out of his bed by the assassin, under pre tence of inquiring the direction to the Provi dence camp-ground, al which place a camp meeting was then in progress. When within tour or five steps of the gale, a gun was dis charged, the contents entering his left side sud producing almost instant death. The murderer then made his escape, leaving, so far as now known, no clue for his detection. The deceased was universally respected, ami his loss to the community is irreparable, lie has left a widow and family. .+. ——— Fire at Hodges* Depot. The t'arolina Times learns that a fire occur red at Hodges’ Depot, on the line of the Greenville Railroad, on Monday night last, which destroyed a storehouse in which was deposited groceries and liquors; loss $2,000. The properly was owned by Messrs. Roberts & Adams, and was not insured. The tire is supposed to be the work of an incendiary. —— We gather the following items from the news by the Arago: Late mail advices from the Eastern Medi terranean report a serious collision at Trebi zond, between Russian and Turkish sailors.— The Russian flag was torn down an 1 ihc sail ors tossed into the sea. A serious and sanguinary tight has occurred between some Spaniards and Aloais, oil the 1 cuast of Morocco. The Spaniards lost 90 kill- 1 ed and 70 wounded ; the Moors still j more severely. New Metals. in a paper communicated to the British Association of Science by Dr. Roscoe, of Hei delberg, an account is given of the formation of the new metals, strontium, calcium, lith ium. alumnium, &e., from the chlorides of those substances. The metal lithium is de scribed as possessing peculiar interest from the fact of its being lighter than water or rock oil, in which it is preserved. One great quality of aluminum is its sonorousness, ex ceeding in sharpness of sound when struck I a metal instrument, the finest bell metal. Railroad Connection of Charleston with Macon. From llio ( hnrleston iiurtury. To those who are familiar with the subject, it is a matter of surprise, while Charleston is extending her arms in every direction, to bring to her doors the products of the surrounding country, and expending her millions to furn ish the necessary facilities, that :-lie has made no systematic etfort to open a direct commu nication with Macon, the Central Cotton Em porium of Georgia. Tho following statement, made from official returns, .showing the amount of Cotton, of the crop of 1855, which was re ceived at and passed through Macon, will give sumo idea of tho importance of a direct com munication with that city to Charleston: Received from wagons 54,068 hales Received from Macon and Wes tern Railroad C,-77'd “ Received from Southwestern Rail road 12,909 “ Passed through Macon to .Savan nah by M. At W. R. R ..45,472 “ Passed through Macon to Savan nah by S. W. K. R 145,514 Making uii aggregate of 205,842 “ Which, if the facilities of transportation ex isted, might as readily have found its way to Charleston as to Savannah. But, this is not all. The Southwestern Road in now being ex tended from Amevieus to Albany, the heart of the best cotton region in Georgia; which, by the facilities to a market it will offer, will largely'in crease the production ; and is also extending its line to Futhula, on thcGhattahoocliee river, and will thus intercept and bring, by the way of Macon, the 1 10,000 hales of cotton ibatuow go down the river and find a market at Apa lachicola. Those two lines will he completed, at the furthest, ill two years. When complet ed, it is no exaggeration to say, they will add 200,000 hales to tho above figures, making an aggregate of 465,000 bales of cotton that will annually reach Macon, to be forwarded to such point on the seaboard as will successfully com pete for them. At present, they find hut one avenue to the seaboard—the Central Rail Road •—•lOl miles to Savannah. Can Charleston become a competitor for this immense amount of produce? She can, and at a, very moderate cost. By aiding in the con struction yi a Road of forty miles in length, she can upon a direct communication by rail with Macon, and bring that city within about OH miles, as near to her as it is to Savannah ; and, by doing this, bring over the Hamburg and Charleston Road all that she takes from Macon. The Central Railroad, and Millcdge ville and Gordon Road, are already in opera tion. What is wanted to complete the line, is a Road Iroiu Milledgeville to Warrentou, about 40 miles, where, connecting with the Georgia Rail road, the way is open to Augusta, and thence to Charleston by the Hamburg Road, l'or this Road the charter is already secured, and a Board of Directors appointed under it, who only wait the means, a subscription of the stock, to commence operations. But it may be objected, that there should be no en tangling alliances with the Central Rail Road. To obviate this, the same Company have a charter and an organization under it, of a Road direct from Milledgeville to Macon. If the stock for the entire route from Warrentou to Macou can be secured, well; if not, let the Road troui Warrentou to Mdledgeville be built: and it the Central Road do not make it their interest, then let the Road he continued to Macou. A survey of the entire route, from Warren-’ ton to Macon, has been made by Cos!. Bonner. The distance is 71 miles, and his estimate of the cost is $1,500,000. According to his cal culation, it but 50,000 bales of “through cot ton” go over it, at 60 cents per bale, it will pay on the investment over 10 per cent. By an examination of the map of Georgia, it will be seen that this Road supplies a link in tho lino of communication between the far South and the North, When the traveler from New Orleans, Mobile, Ac., reaches Macon, on his way to Charleston, he must go, either by the way of Savannah, or by Atlanta, or by W aynesboro and Augusta. The latter is the nearest; but the proposed Road shortens that distance 44 miles. To fill up this link, this Road ought tube built. Shall the road he built V Macou, and evory planter in Southwestern Georgia and along its line, are eager l'or it. That city, in her corpo rate, capacity, has already agreed to take $150,000 in stock, and her citizens will add to it, it they find Charleston courting the con nection. The Board of Directors of the Geor gia Railroad, several years ago, recommended to their company to take $400,000 in its stock. The Board arc still anxious for its construc tion. Augusta stands ready to lend her aid ; and stock, to a considerable amount, will be taken on tho line, especially by the people of Hancock county. But Charleston aud the Hamburg Road are the great beneficiaries of the enterprise. Besides the “through cotton” they will receive from Macon, nearly all the cotton on tho lino of the Road, estimated at .50,000 hales—most, if not all, of which now goes to Savannah liy the Central Road—will find its market either in Augusta or Charles ton. What theu, will the Charleston and the Hamburg Road do ? The enterprise waits the action ot Charleston. If she will lead off in a liberal subscription, the Road will be built. Georgians, to the injury of their own seaport, much as they want a choice of markets, will not throw their produce into tho lap of Charles ton, till her people give some tangible evi dence that their favors will be appreciated.— What, theu, will Charleston do? . ♦ Tho French* Fugitives to be Returned. Tho PresHieut lias transmitted from Con cord a warrant of extradition in the French fugitive, ease. It authorizes the arrest ofhetli the Grellots, Fa rot aud Carpeutier. All of these parties but the latter are now in the El dridge street jail, in default of the requisite bail, in the civil suit brought by tho Northern Railway of France against them. They will ho delivered up to the United States marshal uuder the criminal warrant, and will probably be examined before one of the commissioners to-day. Before issuing the warrant in question, the President consulted Attorney General Cushing ami Secretary Money, we undestand, who both gave opinions in favor of the legality of tho proceeding under our treaty with France. M. Townsend took uu order on Saturday in the civil cause to show enuse why the name of I’eliclte Debut, impleaded as a defendant, should not bo struck out of the record. ♦— —- Manufacture of Files. For the last t wenty years skilled mechanics have exercised all their ingenuity in trying to discover a process of manufacturing files at a cheaper cost. A machine, which has proved successful, has now boeu invented by a Glas gow mrehunie. It is stated that, by its agen cy, files can be struck in a very superior man ner, with an advantage in labor alone of at least two hundred per cent. A skilful file cutter will strike by the hand somewhere about twenty common forty inch Hal-bastard files in a day, while, with one of these me chincs, sixty files may be struck in the same time. Frightful Situation—Stoppage of a Train in a Dark Tunnel. On Wednesday last, the train which ordin arily leaves Morrisiania for New York al 1:22 p. rn., left that place fully half an hour after its time. It was not anu nusually large passenger train. On reaching the tunnel, which commences at Twenty-seventh street, and which is about half a, mile in length, the engine was detached and the train was suffer ed as usual to pass down it along its inclined plane. The train stopped, from some un known cause, in this dark, unsighted tunnel, at about the centre. The first outcry was from the conductors for lights; the agitation of the passengers was extreme. No lights were to be had, and the confusion became vio lent.. To add to the horror of the situation, a train passed rapidly in an opposite direction on the oilier rail. No sooner had it, passed, than the passengers descried through the point of light, at the extremity of the tunnel, another train coming down upon them. It approached closely, but fortunately the con ductors of the detained train had time allow ed to reach the end of the tunnel just so as to prevent o crash in tlie darkness. Tt was well that, uone of the passenger* of the train alighted, as it was their first im pression to do, but through the earnest recom mendation of our informant they were induc ed to sit still. After remaining a, quarter of an hour in this dilemma, the engine was brought back and being hooked on, rescued the passengers from their perilous position. No explanation lias been given of the cause of all this. The obvious necessity of the tun nel being - well lighted day and night needs no enforcement. The providential circumstance of their being just and barely time to allow of the conductors running to the mouth of the tunnel and back again, rescues this affair from being a tale of the most horrible calami ty within possible imagination. Some expla nation is due to the public as to how this oc curred, and also what step will be taken to prevent its repetition. —.N. 1. Times. Sept. 22. The last, number of Harpers’ Magazine gives an elaborate notice of the life and ad ventures of James Beekwourth, where he is re presented as a descendant of one of the first families of Virginia, as having risen to ilio rank of Head Chief with lke£(ToW Indians, as being now the elegant lord of a broad ma nor in one of the beautiful valleys of Califor nia: and for these manifest reasons, the biog raphy is commended as varitable, and au thentic and reliable. The St. Louis Democrat says upon the authority of those who have known Jim Beekwourth,’’ as lie was called in the mountains, that he is a mulatto whoso claims upon Africa are perhaps fully equal to his claims upon Virginia—that he was noted for being a harmless but most inveterate sto ry-teller amongst the I capers, and that he was for some time employed as an interpreter at one of Ihe posts upon the upper Missouri; and that he never was known to kill an Indian in tiie course of liis life. James Buchanan Followed by Seven Hun dred Fillmore Men. We omitted to mention in bur “Incidents, Ate.,” of Thursday last, that the extra train which left here in the afternoon on the Geor gia Road was drawn by a magnificent new engine named “James Buchanan.” The co incidence gave rise to many good jokes, most ly, however, at the expense of our opponents, who had to submit, on this occasion, to being pulled, hauled, aud jerked about by “James Buchanan.” Another. A venerable friend of ours, and a “wool-dyed” Democrat, happened to be seated among the ladies in front of the speak er’s stand. A rather officious Fillmore man happening to pass, remarked, “ Why, Doctor, you’re iu had company to-day. Don’t you feel bad ? ” “Not at all,” replied the Doctor, “I have just taken refuge among the ladies to avoid tlm evil that might ensue from associating with this multitude of Know Nothings.” If ‘.lie Fillmore man said any more, nobody heard him. —Atlanta InleUiyiheer. i Census of JNebraska. The following figures, says the Dubuque Ileraid, show the ceusus returns of Nebraska Territory for the present year. The whole number of votes in the Territory for the year 1855, was one thousand four hundred and sev enty-five, and the whole population for the year 1855, was four thousand four hundred and eight: Comities. Voters. Copulation. Dukotah 80;) 640 Burt St 146 Washington 811 780 Douglas 1.8G4 3,661 Oass Ssfi 1,251 Otoe 658 1,865 Nemaha. 887 1,277 Richardson l'.’O 520 Fawneo 07 801 Lancaster & Clay. 41 120 Dodge 102 818 Flat I e 21 ; 86 ('inning 8 8 Total 4,006 10,716 It will be seen that the population has in creased over two and one-fourth fold iu a sin gle year, and tint the number ol’ voters is nearly three times greater than in 1865. Privateering. The Fit glial) and French papers are quite dissatisfied with the American position in re gard to privatoeViug. It is natural that such should be the case. If, however, Europe will not consent to exempt private property on the high seas from molestation during war,” it must expect every nation to defend, by all honora ble and honest means, its own commerce.- Privateers are our sea volunteers, and Europe might'as well expect the Unite.l States to give up it* militia oil laud as on the deep. During the late war with England, our privateers were a powerful arm of defence au t annoyance, nu 1 they will be resorted to again, with like effect, iu the event of another European war. The powers of Europe may di--< nt, if it pleases them, front the Anierionii doctrine, and so long as the question remains an abstraction, no harm will be done, if tin y attempt, how ever, to put down privateering by an unusual retaliation, the sunn: Weapon will lie employed against their own regular arrangements.— The assurance of this fact will prohaWv pre vent them from ever indulging iu any thing hut empty Culminations upon the subject.-” Rich Despatch. - Beauuiul Extract. The velvet moss grows on sterile rocks ; the mistletoe flourishes on the naked branches ; the ivy clings to tho mouldering ruins; the pine and cedar remain fresh and fadeless timid the mediation of the receding ; ear—and. Hea ven he praised, something green and beautiful to see, an 1 grateful to the soul, will, in the darkest horn of fat®, still twine its temlrils around the crumbling altniw and broken arches of the desolate temple of the hum in heart. The Louisville Journal announces that John G. Brcckc* l ridge, the Democratic candidate for the 1i • ■ Presidency, has retired truui the stump in account of bis health TibiaEGIUPHIO. ■ ■ ♦ — From Charleston- Chaim, ston, Oct. Id. Two hundred aud fifty bales of cotton were sold io-dny. Market firm, without any chnnnge in prices. From New Orleans, Nkw Orleans, Oct. 0. Owing to the stormy weather very little was done iu cotton to-day, and sales only reached : 1500 bales. Prices unchanged. Whiskey 32c.; other articles of groceries unchanged. Fuller Accounts by the Niagara. ‘telegraphed to the Charleston Courier. -. Liv unroot., Cotton A'akket. —The sales of the week are 78,000, including 20,000 on i speculation and 5000 export. Some accounts give an advance of Jc. on fair qualities. There is a general stiffening of prices, but. ac cording to others no quotable change had been established. The Board of Broker’s Circular reports the sales of Friday, 26th, al 12,060, (including 41100 speculation and export) and gives the following quotations as firmly maintained al closing; Orleans Middling, 0 7-16; Mobile Middling, Ojj-; Uplands, Ojj, State ok Trade. — Affairs at. Manchester continued as before. Jjlvbiu'ooi. Bbkadstuffs. —The market gen erally shows noimportant changes. An aver age business had been done in Flour, without change. The quotations are: Philadelphia and Baltimore, 29 a 81s. Od.; Ohio, 31 a fills. Wheat is quoted, Old Red, Os. a Bs. Od.: New, 9s. a 9s. fid. Old White, Bs. 9d. a 9s. ‘.ld.; New, 10s, a 10s. 4d. The transactions in Corn have been unimportant, and barely sup port prices. Mixed, 312 a 32: White, 33. Provisions generally are unchanged. Rice was quiet, and dull at 80s. a 30s. fid. The weather had been too wet for favorable harvests. The Erricson arrived out on the 24th. New York Markets. New York, Oct. B. Cotton. —Uuder the late advices aud continuing accounts from the Sout h and South West, in relation to the prob abilities and prospects of the supply, prices have stiffened and holders are insisting on terms which buyers as yet are reluctant to yield. Wheat—A decline has changed our quota tions for White to $1.55 a $1.58. No change iu lied. Corn.—We add one cent to our last report for Mixed. Naval Stores. —Rosin has declined and sales of 2,500 bids, are reported at $1.60 a $1.65. Rice.— We have no change to note in Rice or in other articles usually embraced iu our daily reports, which arc not mentioned here. Frjotuhts.— ln Freights the rates previously asked have been confirmed. Connecticut Elections. New York, Oct. B.—The municipal eleotions in Connecticut have been held, and returns havo coine in from 126 towns. Os these, ac cording to the Hartford Courant, 73 are for Fremont, 48 for Buchanan, and 5 closely con tested. Baltimore Elections. Baltimore. Oct. B. —Much fighting, riot and disorder have prevailed during the charter election in this city. In Lexington market a collision occurred which produced a light, lasting half an hour, dmiug which guns, pis tols, knives, &e., were freely used on both sides. Four persons have been killed and twenty wounded, some of them mortally. The Eighteenth Word, it is reported, gives Swann (American) a majority of 1100. In all the other wards together the votes show for Swan 12,020; for Wright (Democrat) 11,600. Later. Swann’s majority is now stated at 1594. The Americans have on joint ballot of the Councils a majority of 6. Delaware Election. New York, Oct. B. —At the election held in Delaware yesterday for Inspectors, Assessors and Road Commissioners in tiie several Dis tricts throughout tlie State, tiie Democrats car ried every district. Majority iu the State 1,800 votes. — The Steamer St. Johrm. We paid a visit yesterday afternoon to the ship-yard of Mr. H. it. Willink, at the lower end ot the city, where we were surprised to observe the progress which has “been made in tho re-building of the steamer St. Johns, which, it will be remembered, was burnt at Jacksonville on the 21st of July last. The steamer, which was burnt down to the water’s edge, leaving nothing but the hull and a por tion of her machinery, has, Phoenix-like/risen from the ashes, and now sits upon Mr. Wiliink’s Marine Railway, tiie same beautiful model as ever, and almost ready to return to Let- appro priate element.- Her decks and sides were covered yesterday with busy workmen, who, w were told, will have her ready for launch ing by the latter part of next week. Her boiler has been renewed at the foundry of Mr. A. N. Miller, and is ready to go aboard, while her cabins aud upper works are being rapidly completed by Messrs. Perry & Hoffman, of Now 1 ork. By the latter part of next month j it is expected that the Bt. John's will again take her place in tiie Florida bine, where she was so valuable an auxiliary in tho accommo dation of the increasing trade and travel be tween ihoeities of East Florida aud Savannah. The work of her re-building has been perfum ed by Mr. Willink, under the personal direct- I ion of Cupi. N. King, formerly of the Welaka, i and Messrs. Ulaghorn & Cunningham, the en ! terprishig and public spirited agents of the j Company.— Savannah Newt. ■ —• Will Mr. Buchanan Withdraw? f fora satisfactory reply to this olt-reiterated | interrogatory, the pious editor of the Evening Bulletin, tor some days past has evidently been lon the ‘anxious bench. Again and again is j the question asked, and answer demanded. If it he any relief to the editor of that journal, ; we will state that We are .authorized to reply jto hiv question in tiie affirmative. Mr. Bu chanan does intend to “withdraw.” In obe dienes to the call of the American people, on the 4th day of March, in the year of our Lord 1867, it is his purpose to “withdraw” from his calm and peaceful retreat an Wheatland, to take possession of the White House, at Washing ton, in the capacity of Presijeut of the United States. This is the only withdrawal, however, that Mr Buchanan has in contemplation. Is the editor of the Bulletin satisfied, or does he repeat the silly question in his prayer?—l‘enn svlnamnn. —.- Slnle Minesiu Shelby. This county is certainly compelled to be one of the richest iu the State. Goal, li on. Cop per, Silver, and Slate, are now being worked at. 1 hese Sate mines have recently been open ed, and from what we learn, they are produc ing a first rate quality, and being accessible t? toe Railroad, will make it profitable—— Sel ma [Ala.) Ser.tinel, GENERAL ITEMS. N. P. Willis has written a letter iu f„„ Mr. Fremont. The cotton crops of Arkansas, saystli,. den Herald, are bad. They will ),'e slu! nearly one half. The Mobile Tribune says the Steamer s Prentiss was raised on Saturday l as ( now undergoing repairs to fit her for during the ensuing season. A friend from Liberty county iufoi Ul , . Savannah News that the yield of tha-a cotton, in that county, this year, [ ’ amount to more than half a crop. A gentleman lately heard a laborer m-. inform two comrades that a “74 pouimj'''’ cannon that sends a pound ball exactk- „ ~ 1 u v scteii. ty-tuur utiles. We have heard of an economical man always takes his meals in front of a lu ;,, he does th is to double the dishes. If that philosophy, we would like to know whitin' 1 ” A man named William B. Smith, in p county, Mississippi, over 70 years’of fl J‘! recently been sentenced to a term of ,]n in the State prison for killing his own s„l" J ’ The title of D. D. was conferred on tke!■• J. B. Taylor, of Richmond, Va., at them": commencement of Columbia College : i til | Religious Herald states that he decline- ‘ I oeptiug it. The Republican and American Convent of Rhode Island have nominated the folW .’ Electoral ticket: Edwin W. Lawton, of N port; Isaac Saunders, of SeituatC; \y„, j Bullock, of Providence; Wm. D. Bravt Warwick. 3 ’ Jeremiah Baldwin, who was arrested bv f Planter’s Bank at Memphis, Tenn., forobtaC ing goods under false pretences has beet, ac quitted of the charge. He has sued the B:I and others for false imprisonment, lavine V damages at $50,000. 6 It is stated that Mrs. Rives, wife of the ll ( ,n W. C. Rives, of Virginia, formerly Minister to France, a lady who is already known in letters by a volume descriptive of an earlier residence in Europe, tias.in press, “Home, and the \Viv of the World.” The Newark (N. J.) Eagle of the 27th oi September, says: “Mr. Frelinghuysen ha, within a few days past, unequivocally declared his intention to vote fur Millard Fillmore to tho Presidency.” A hog exhibited at the Cliilieothe (Ohio! Fair, last week, weighed 1,135 pounds, ami measured nine feet in length and about the same about the girth. He was two years and three months old. The Bible Times, a religious publication is sued in Baltimore, by the Rev. Thomas il. Stockton, nominates, upon its own responsi bility, Judge M’Lane for the Presidency, an! Theodore Frelinghuysen for tho Vice Vie; deucy. The celebrated pianist, Thalburg, has ar rived at New York in the Africa, from Liver pool. He intends giving a series of concerts throughout the country, under the auspices of Mr. Uimnmi, a gentleman well known in mu sical circles. A correspondent of the London Daily News gets off some wonderful stories about Russia and its celebrities. Among other loud stories he says the Americans have made several ex cellent speculations in Russia, and net a clear profit of £200,000 per annum on the contract for keeping the Moscow Railway in order. Gen. U alter has issued a decree granting to every free white emigrant to Nicaragua a tract of land of 160 acres, which after a resi dence ol six months, he shall become entitled to. Should the emigrant have a family he will lie entitled to 300 acres on the same terras. The Canvass in Pennsylvania. The following letter, said to be from ;i well informed democrat of Pennsylvania, gives a glowing account of the prospects of the inti Nigger party in Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, Oct. 8,1856. We’ve got ’em, sure. The “colored folks” have been playing a heavy game of brag—no thing more. 1 have been over the whole in fected district, and while it is true that some of the counties in it are badly dcmotal ized, politically, it is by no means half so bid its you and all the rest of us were told. There is a bold, active, and determined Democratic party in every part of that “black district.” Tiie Republicans will not get tho half of.wlrat they claim in it; but we can give them the whole of it, and still beat them. The counties on the Delaware river, Northampton, Monroe, l’ike, Carbon, Lehigh, Schuylkill, Burl;- Berks, Montgomery, and Delaware, will roll up such majorities as will swamp the North and West, if it were twice us bad. Berks county’ alone will overbalance Wilmot’s whole district, while Judge Parker’s district wit neutralize the whole of the rest of their north ern and uorthwesteru strength. The rest ol the State, except Alleghany county, is our.-. The opposition lose everywhere in the South, and the centre much more than we do iu the North. The old Whig counties of Philadel phia! Chester, Lancaster, Lebanon, Adams, Franklin, Somerset, Blair, and Huntingdon, will not give them half their old-time tnnjori tios, while iu tho democratic counties East amt South, our majorities will be swelled largely. Out closest and most prudent calculator put our majority iu Philadelphia at h' c thousand. Our majority in the State will he from seven thousand five hundred to ten thou sand. Longevity. Mrs. Elizabeth Buzzard died recently 111 this District at the advanced age of DU year:. ■She resided about eight miles from this place, and had never been out of the State. B'"* bad enjoyed very good health, almost iuvuria- Idy. and may be said to have died of old jP‘- It is said that site was able to work until a few days before her death. Mrs. B. left ton ll .’ descendants, consisting of children, grand children and great-grand-children. We are also informed that her sister, “- 1 died about two years since, reached the l '*‘ traordinary age of U)fi years. We have heard of many other onses ot longevity in Orange; Ling District which me might record, a’ l ” which prove incontestably the extreme hedth fnlness of our climate.— Orangeburg Santhro. Death of Oaptoln James Ross. We are called on to announce tiie death - a veteran, long and honorably known in out ‘Marine. Captain James Ross, for many ye ll /’ a Vice President of tiie Charleston Fori S t’ l '” ty, and Chairman of the Board of Fort Wu dens, expired at Ift A. W., yesterday, D ul , residence of his old and long tried Is l1 ’'I'’ 1 '’ Charles Edmondston, Esq. 'apt. Ross was a native of Serwieh. in uUl ’ of the Shetland Isles, (North Britain. ! ent - ‘ ed sea service at an early age, and wu nearly fifty years a Captain aud Master. “ ing from this poM, chiefly to English pm' 1 ’ lie was a genuine sterling sailor and “• man, iri all Ids traits and qualities, and a- g will lie remembered by his many friend that service and interest. —Charleston Com