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COLUMBUS: Tuesday Morning, October ‘41,15.0. - ——■ ■ ,’ —— - - . ... • 3 (iAKUKHT CITY CIHCULATIOK, We have nothing further from i’ennsylva nia, Ohio, or Indiana. Florida Flection. All the State, but two counties, heard from. The vote stands for Governor—Perry 4,063, Walker 3,073. For Congress—Hawkins 4337, linker 3,000. Majority for Perry, Democrat, 288. Majority for iluwkins, Democrat, 737. OoorKia Btnto Fair. The Annual Fair of the Southern Central Agricultural Society will be held in Atlanta from the 20th to the 26th of this month, both days inclusive. The various rail roads to Atlanta will issue tickets, and transport all articles strictly for exhibition free. We congratulate our citizens on the decided improvement, so very apparent in front of the post office. We would further suggest to the I rupriotor of the building, repairs to the floor, in the front portico, out of which night-walk ers are kept only by the covering of a couple of window shutters. “A stitch in time” is very applicable to the ease in point. How easy it would be for some mischievous fellow to let night-walkers through. youth Carolina Flection. •St. Jambs’ boost: Cheek. —Col. Win. Mel laud, Democrat, elected Senator without,oppo sition, and Dr. Joseph Murray, Buchanan Democrat, beat Dr. .1. <\ Mclveown, Buchanan Know Nothing, 5 votes. The election is pro tested. Barnwell. —B. 11. Evans, •). K. Tobin, I). 11. Ilice, and J. J. Ryan, elected Itcprescnta t ives. i'AiuiiM.n.—,N. A. Peay, Senator, without opposition; R. 11. Boylston, W. M. Bratton, If. 11. Clark and J. IV. Cook, Representatives. Si'autamu ini.—J. \\. Miller, J. Wiusmith, l. E. Edwards, .lames Farrow and O. P. Earle, Representatives. Arukville. —J. F. Marshall, Senator; A. M. Smith, S. McGowan, T. Thomson, J, K. Vance and It. A. Griffin, Representatives. Sumter.— ,l. T. Green, J. D. Blending and A. Spain, Represent a lives. Greenville. —J. L. Westmoreland, Senator; J. W. Stokes, 11. F, Perry, W. A. Mooney and Nathaniel Morgan, Representatives. Undersoil — G. Seaborn, B. Hardy, A. Broyles and S. (I. Earle, Representatives. Union.— J. F. Gist, Senator; J. M. Gadber ry, Robert Beatty and Thos. 11. Jeter, Repre sentatives. Chester.— (’. D. Melton, W. P. Gill and J. H. Willson, Representatives. Laurens. —A. Fuller, 11. Carter and C. I*. Sullivan, Representatives. St. James Santee.— A. Mazyck, Senator ; \. J. McClellan, Representative. Sr. Pace’s Parish — Colleton. —B. Perry, Senator ; .1. C. Whaley, Representative. Oranck Parish.— Donald It. Barton, Sena ior; Dr. J. 11. O’Oain and John If. Felder, Representatives. Wire.—lt. (}. McCaw, Senator. Bikieeikei). —'/. W. Carwile, James Black well, M. ('. M. Hammond, W. Gregg, Robert Meriwether and Abram Jones, Representa tives. M e learn from the Reporter that in the 10th District oi Randolph county, on the nigh’ of the nth inst., William F. Kupp shot Stephen Pitman with a gun, the distance being so short, the shot entered the (high making one large wound. Pitman fell at the crack of the gun, and it was thought for some time he would die. Surgeons were immediately call ed in, and we now understand that he will doubtless recover. Sapp was the father-in law of Pitman, and from all we can gather, the cause of the difficulty grew out of a pri vate matter. There was a warrant taken out for Sapp, ns yet lie has not been arrested. The Baptist Church at Cutlihort, says the Reporter, closed its service on the Oth inst., after a protracted meeting of several days, during which time IS members were added to i lie elm ’ch. The Lumpkin Plaindealer of the 14th inst. says “Col. James M. Clark, an old line whig, addressed a small crowd at the Court House lnt Tuesday. We didn't hear all of his speech, but understand lie intends to support Mr. Piuchauan because ho is tlio only man i hut can beat Fremont. Said it was consoling lo know that if he had changed, be changed in illustrious company, and named several of ihe distinguished men of the State and coun try who had declared for liuchuuan. Gave the Plaindealer liberty to pitch into him if it deemed proper, and, —that’s all !*’ Pitch into him, Mr. Plaindealer, ■*- —* Death of Wm. Tumlin, Son. William Tumlin, Sen., father of Col. Lewis Tomlin, departed this life at his residence, near Cartorsville, in this county, at 2.1 o'clock, t*. m., on the Bth inst.. at the advanced age of S7 years and *3 months. The deceased was born in Laurens District, S. C„ and moved to Georgia near forty years ago. He was a consistent member of the Bap tist Church for more than thirty years; and It whig died as ho lived, has gone to realize, in a brighter world, the promises made to the faithful.— Cam-ille Standard. The tobacco cultivators of the Connecticut \alley arc to hold a Convention ut Hartford, on the 20th inst., to perfect measures in con nection with the warehouse system under Mr. i>. M. Seymour’s management, for their mu tual benefit. The old crop of tobacco lias |ui.-.scd out of first hands, the last sales being at 12 to 26 cents, or an average of about 18 cents. The Potato Crop. The Talais Advertiser gives the following sad account of the potnto crop in Eastern Maine : From all accounts the potato crop has been dumaged more by the rot this yenr than ever before since it first made its appearance, and the crop will be shorter. We near of whole fields of four or five acres not yielding a single bushel. This is more especially the case on low, wet lands. Many farmers say they will not got as many ns they planted. Water Works in Columbus. Columbus, Oct. 20, 1860. Editor Daily Sun — Dear Bir : Unclosed I send you an original letter from W. F. Sorrell, ■ Civil Engineer, of the city of New York. As 1 have no pecuni ary interest in the matter, I propose to give you the letter for publication, as it may be of interest, to your readers and more readily taken into notice by the proper Junciionaries and the citizens at large. As we are much in need of water in plcntc oueness and purity, it can be of no harm to publish offers to diminish our needs and ex penses. Knowing your entire affinities to chime with our city’s, allow mo to thank you if you will endeavor farther to push this matter to a con summation. Your obedient serv’t, JOEL T. SCOTT. New York, Oct, 13, 1860. Joel T. Scott, Ear/., My Dear Sir: My object iu addressing you is, to ask some favors, anil having the vanity to suppose thai you will, upon due investiga tion, grant them, shall proceed to business. 1 want to know if a supply of water Inis been brought, into the city of Columbus, and if so, give me wluit information you can— then I have not another word to say on the subject; but if not, and the Council will give nie and ray friends the proper authority to build such works as I proposed to the Coun cil about three years since, (and you are will ing to take the business in hand for me) you are at liberty to say that I will build all the reservoirs, lay all the pipe necessary on the premises, and have a head of water on Ogle thorpe street of from 26 to 30 feet, and give bond and security for performance of same complete to deliver to Council of City of Co lumbus within two years from date of such arrangements; and upon completion or before as the arrangements may be made, to take tiie bonds of corporation of City of Columbus for Hie sum of say seventy-five thousand dol lare with interest payable every three months of 7 per cent per annum, and bonds payable as follows, viz. : The sum of $18,750, payable in three years. “ “ $18,750, “ four “ “ “ “ $87,600, “ six The supply of water to be say five hundred and twenty thousand gallonsfor every twenty four hours. Now in consideration of the foregoing the City Council are to give to me and my asso ciates the exclusive right to lay on or convey water (from the mains) into all houses, fac tories, &c., &c., requiring a supply, at a regu lar tariff of prices for so doing, to be made by us, and of course they (the corporation) mak ing their own tariff of water rates for supply of water. Should nty offer find favor please write me as soon as possible, with particulars. Yours truly, WM. F. SERRELL, Civil Engineer. Falss Packing of Cotton. We publish below, from the Commercial ar ticle of Wilmer & Smith’s Liverpool Commer cial Times, a notice of the fraudulent packing of Cotton by planters. This should not be so. The writer says: Our attention has been drawn to the grow ing practice of mixing cottons, in packing the bales before shipment from the United States. The magnitude of the evil is beginning to ex cite great apprehension. Our correspondent, who brings the mat ter under our consideration, states the firm to which he belongs lias had to make 135 separate claims for American Cot ton returned from the manufacturing districts, as falsely packed, the bales of coorse fail to equal sample. The Mobile merchants and planter's Prices Current, of September Ist, referring to the practice alluded to, remarks that a planter mixes 259 pounds of Cotton, worth 13 cents per pound, with Cotton worth only 9 cents per pound, and it, is discovered here, the whole 599 pounds would not, in that case, bring over 9 cents per pound around; and should a purchaser find half a dozen bales mixed in a crop, lie would likely, and justifia bly, throw the whole purchase back upon the hands of t lie seller; audit not uufrequently happens, that an entire crop has been sold as mixed Cotton, when, actually, ouly the larger portion of it has been depreciated in this manner. When discovered, after shipment to Europe or elsewhere, the result is reclama tion, trouble and loss, allround, aud creates distrust between buyer and seller, and the ne cessity’ for rigid and scrutenising caution 011 the part of all concerned; which is greatly to bo regretted, not to mention the injury in flicted by this practice upon tlie reputation of Mobile Cotton iu foreign markets, and by which the owner of faithfully packed Cotton is the principal and undeserved sufferer. Equally pungent are the remarks of the New Orleans Merchants Transcript of the same dates “ This negligence often leads to vexa tious reclamations, and sometimes to expen sive lawsuits, as it frequently happens that the discovery is not made until the cotton reaches the hands of the manufacturer, at a distant market. But it also frequently hap pens that the discovery is made here, by draw ing samples from different parts of a bale. In such cases the cotton is thrown back on the factor’s hands as unmerchantable, and when resold ns mixed cotton, the factor can seldom obtain more than the market value of the lowest quality found in the bale. Besides all this, when the irregular packing is once dis covered. as it necessarily must be somewhere and sometime, it throws discredit upon the planter’s crop generally, aud thus operates to liis disadvantage. It also introduces confu sion into a most important, branch of trade, and one that call only be conducted with facil ity and economy upon the basis of good faith in the honesty and integrity of the planter. These virtues being accorded to him lie owes it to himself, lo his factor nml to his purchas er to exercise more care and vigilance over those who have his interests in charge.” The Washington Union publishes a letter —since the Haltimoe election—signed by one hundred and seven Old Line Whigs of Mary land, who say, “ being cognizant that a crisis has arisen iu the affairs of the country de manding of every good citizen to rise above party feeling, we have resolved for the first time in our lives to vote with (lie Democratic party, and to all that in our power lies lo se cure the election of the ouly National and Constitutional candidates, James Buchanan and John C, Breckinridge.” Fillmore’s Acceptance. The following letter from Mr. Fillmore, is in response to one from the President of the late Whig Convention at Baltimore, informing him of his nomination by that body: Buffalo, N. Y., Oct. 1, 1850. lion. Edward Hates — Sir ; Your letter of tlie 19th ultimo, come to hand day before yesterday, informing me that at a Convention of tlic Whigs of the Uni ted States, held at Baltimore on the 17th and 18tli of the past month, I was honored by that convention by being chosen with one voice as their candidate for the Presidency. Whilst some of my old Whig friends, whom i have always highly respected, and whose patriotism 1 am unwilling to doubt, are op posed to my election, aud are engaged, some on tlie one side and some on the other, of po litical parties which are sowing the seeds of alieuation and distrust between different sec tions of our commou country, and waging a sectional warfare tending to weaken, if not destroy the Union of these States, itisa source of inexpressible gratification to me to receive the unanimous nomination of the great rep resentative body of the national Whigs of the United States—no less distinguished lor their intelligence than for their patriotism—and I cheerfully accept it with the profoundest emo tions of gratitude and pride. Although 1 am the known candidate of an other party, yet, 1 can see nothing dishonora ble in receiving die support of all Union-lov ing men, by wliapevor political denunciation they may be known: but, I confess that, i re ceived this flattering testimonial -of the con tinued confidence in my personal integrity and patriotism of my old Whig friends, with much more than ordinary satisfaction; and 1 trust, that, if elected, 1 shall do nothing to disappoint the hopes or dishonor the prefer ence of those who have so generously bestow ed their confidence. With renewed expressions of my high res pect. lor yourself, personally, and my venera tion for the intelligent and patriotic body over which you preside, I am, sir, your friend and fellow citizen, Millard fillmore. - Triumph ol’ Fremonters in Ohio an Penn sylvania. When it was telegraphed to New Y'ork that the Democrats were defeated in Ohio and Pennsylvania, the New York Herald, a Fre mont paper, in publishing the rasult, headed it, in large letters, “Triumph of the Fremont ers in Ohio and Pennsylvania.” The editor, on Thursday morning last, said: Pennsylvania lias gone for the Republicans by from live to ten thousand majority. Cap tain Rynders’ six-pounder, in the Park last evening, very appropriately celebrated this triumph of Col. Fremont. The gallant Cap tain’s magnificent display oi’ fireworks in Ca nal street, although intended for a different purpose, was a well-timed illumination of the success of the Pathfinder. As the returns from the back counties come in, they show that the general result is better for the anti- Buclianan coalition than could have been ex pected from the first reports. This result of a Republican triumph in Pennsylvania, whether of ten thousand, five thousand, one thousand, or one hundred, is glory enough for one day. It secures, by good management, the reserved vote and the floating vote for Fremont in November, not only in Pennsylvania, but in every other State of hitherto doubtful tendencies, and virtually settles the Presidential election. But the great cause of the small Republican majority in Pennsylvania, is in the fact that they fought the battle upon false party organ ization and upon false issues. Nnow Noth iugism was the dead weight which nearly broke the camel’s back in Pennsylvania. On the countrary, in lowa, Vermont, Maine, Con necticut, Ohio, Indiana, where the Fremont party kicked this mischief-making monstrosi ty of Know Notliingism out of doors, and fought the fight upon t lie simple issues of hos tility to this Pierce administration, and this rotten nullification Democracy, and of hostil ity to the Bemocratic policy of making Kan sas a slave State by tire and sword, they have carried everything before them. This was the course, and is now the only course for the opposition party to pursue in Pennsylvania. Let them rid Fremont of this dead carcass of Know Notliingism—let them put up a clean Fremont electoral State ticket, and fight the battle upon the living issues of the day, between the constitutional policy of Fremont, and the nullification, fillibustering and border ruffian pro slavery policy of the debauched Democracy. Next, having done tins, let the Fremont party, thus purified and liberated from the dead weight of a dead bodv, proceed to organize, circulate documents, and papers, and speakers, and judicious agents in behalf of floating voters, in every hole and corner of the State, and then, on election day, three weeks hence, with the reserved vote of ten thousand men of the quiet, and religions old settlers, the victory in Pennsylvania in November, Distend of Jbcing fivo or ten tliuo sand majority, as shown by the ret urns of this morning, will be made a glorious victory for Fremont of twenty or thirty thousand. In a word. Mr. Fillmore in the northern States, is “a dead cock in the pit.” These late elections prove that his opposition is a benefit and his assistance an injury to t li e Fremont movement. The mixing of Know Nothingism with the Fremont cause in Penn sylvania probably lost the opposition thou sands of honest voters who can be reclaimed. Pennsylvania, upon a clear party platform of uniitixed Fremont principles, and a pure Fre mont electoral ticket, will give an overwhelm ing and triumphant vote in November. With a popular majority just obtained in the State contest, if it be but a majority of a hundred votes or less, the victory in the national battle is sure. No time is to be lost. En arant. Wonderful TTansportation. Two fair ladies were reading the other day Byron’s “Prisoner of <’billon.” That is, one lady was pretending to read it aloud to the other lady. No woman has ever been, now is, or ever will be capable of listening without interrupting. So, that at tlio very commencement, when the reader read the passage— '• Nor grow it white In a Tingle night, A men’s have grown from smitten fears"— the listener interposed ns follows : White! How odd, to be sure! Well, 1 know nothing about men’s hair: but there is our friend. Mrs. G ,of Twelfth street, the lady who has just been twenty-nine years old for the lust, fifteen years—her liushand died vou linow. last winter, at which misfortune her grief was so intense that her Imir turned com pletely blnek vitliin tweniy-fmr hoars after the occurrence of that sad event. - _ —. Small Pot. This loathsome disease, wo learn from the I.durational Journal, is provailing in Perry and Fort \ alloy. Hoaston county, and that several deaths had occurred in that vicinity from it: but active measures had been taken ! to pr v it its spending. The Flection in Kansas. The Washington Union learns from a gen tleman who was in Kansas at the election, and who reached Washington on Mondaj’, that Ihe elections went off quietly, and that Gov. Geary had made every necessary arrangement to secure to every voter the unmolested exer cise of his privilege. The anti-slavery voters, however, declined to avail themselves of their rights, and allowed their opponents to carry the election without a contest. Gen. Whit field was voted for by the pro-slavery party, and is elected, it turn-: out, as has been gen erally predicted, that the black republicans in Kansas have listened to the counsels of their leaders in the eastern states, and have permitted elections to go by default, when their strength was claimed to be as six to one over their opponents. This show s that they value fanatical agitation more than the elec tive franchise. A Georgia Story. Twenty years ago it was the custom in northwestern Georgia, as indeed it was throughout the southwest, for dry goods dealers to keep a barrel of ‘spirits’ in the back room, aud to treat liberal customers to a glass whenever desired. Fillous & Dewberry were such dealers iu one of the small towns indicated, and they had for a customer a clever, frolick ing old fellow, who drank whiskey in pre ference to water always, and whose wife was ‘flesh of his flesh’ in that particular. The old couple would come in town, trade quite freely, and freely imbibe the spirits in the back room of the dealers we have named. On one occasion both the old man and old woman continued their potations inor dinately ; and as Fillens observed that his goods went better the drunker to old wo man became, he pressed her to drink. At last she refused unless he ‘would sweeten it with a little store sugar.’ Fil lens indulged her, and when the old peo ple started for home late in the evening, the old man could scarcely mount his horse, and the good wife had actually to be lifted and placed on the pillion behind him. Happily she leaned one way and her husband the other, so that the gravi tating- point was between; and as she clung to himself Distinctly, they passed out of the village safely. Before reaching their homes, however, they had to cross a small creek, and when the horse stepped in to drink, the old lady, having reached unconsciousness, released her hold and slid quietly into the stream below. Arriving home the children in quired for ‘mammy,’ but the old man could only say that she had been on the critter, and the critter hadn’t kicked nar ry time, so he could’t say where she must be, and threw himself stupid on the bed. The girls and boys flew along the road the old man had come, yelling ‘mammy!’ ‘mammy !’ but of course, no mammy re sponded. When they arrived at the creek, the oldest girl yelled, ‘there she is sitting down in the creek !’ And there she was seated comfortably in the water, which came nearly up to her mouth. As she swayed back and forth, now yielding to the impetuosity of the stream, and now resisting it with some success, the muddy fluid would occasion ally wet her lips, and each time it did so she would exclaim, with a grim effort to smile : ‘Not a drap more, Mr. Fillens, ’thout it’s sweetened.’ Liberalty Well Bestowed. We understand that, our respected fellow citizen, William Jones, Jr., Esq., has ordered a first class Locomotive, to be built for the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, which he will pre sent to the Company. It will be a most, ac ceptable gift, and will be appreciated, not on ly by the Company, but by the great public, who are interested in the success of this great work. We take peculiar pleasure in record ing this act of generosity on the part of one of our oldest, most wealthy and respected of our fellow-citizens. The machine will be as fine as can be made, and will, doubtless, be superior to auy run upon Southern roads. —Mobile Advertiser. South Carolina Gold Mines. The Gold Mines near this city, in South Carolina, arc becoming, we are pleased to learn, a most important interest, and some of them are being worked with much more ener gy and capital than in former years. The mines in the lower part of Abbeville District, South Carolina, worked by a New York com pany, known as the ‘ Dorn Mining Company,’ are said to be now yielding very rich ore, from veins worked at a greater depth than formerly attained iu that region. They are drained by a powerful pumping apparatus, worked by steam. The appearance of the mine is now reported as very flattering—Au ffusta Chronicle. Mr. Coi'win on the Stump for Fillmore. Cincinnati, Oct. 13.—Hon. Thomas Cowin spoke at Carthage, Kentucky, on Saturday, lie defended Mr. Fillmore’s administration, aud denounced the abolitionists, who refused to support Mr. Clay against Mr. Polk in 1814. He maintained the right of Congress to legis late on slavery in the territories; disclaimed the purpose of electioneering for any man. lie belonging to an old party, now extinct, lie was an orphan, and spoke simply as a citizen who desired to confer with his fellow citizens as to their duty in this emergency. He had no political aspiration, lie had had enough of involuntary servitude and claimed the benefit of the ordinance of 1787. The people themselves were to blame for much of the trouble the country had been brought, into. He believed that Mr. Fillmore's views were the same as his own concerning the pow er of Congress to legislate on slavery in the territories. Some Northern man calls the Black Repub lican ticket “the Kangaroo ticket.” Dayton is so far superior to Fremont, that the very beggars in the streets of Washington echoes it. on the ground that all the strength is in the hind legs. Hit him again. The National Intelligencer, in noticing the recent decease of Col. Andrew Joyner, of Halifax. N. C., says; “A\e may be permitted lo mention, in attestation to his excellence of character, that, at the time of his death, he had been a continuous and punctually paying subscriber to the National Intelligencer for fifty-one years. TELEQRAPHIC, TjbvgT.iphod to tbo IY.ily From New Orleans. New Orleans, Oct. 10. Tbo sales of cotton to-day amounted to for ty-five hundred bales at feeble prices, yy’ dliDg 1H to life. Flour has advanced to $7 in consequence of diminished supply p c^ . drooping. Freights depressed. From Charleston. Charleston, Oct. 2G The sales of cotton to-day amounted u , nineteen hundred bales at full prices. Sentiment in ftontli Carolina Hon. W. W. Boyce, of S. C., addressed his constituents of the Richland District last week The following passage occurred in his speech which was loudly cheered : “But suppose the N. rth should not prorm a compromise ? Have we not the brightV above our heads, and the firm earth beneatl, our feet ? Can we not work out our own jJ tiny, upon our own soil, in view of the gran of our fathers, defend our rights, and maintain our independence ? The election of Frem,", must not be submitted to. The South may tin go with me, but! must say for myself” th ! rather than submit my neck to the yoke which Sumner, Burlingame, Wilson, Seward, and oth ers of that stamp would impose, I am in f, JVor of secession, resistance, death, anything “’1 [Loud and long continued cheers. Statue of Franklin in Boston. The citizens of Boston have lately inaugu rated a splendid statue of Franklin. We hone the sight of it will lead them to emulate tin sound common sense, the moderation, justice and love of country, so characteristic of the great philosopher. We have in our posse sion a number of the Pennsylvania Gazette published by Franklin in 17 82, which the Bus tonians ought to have had to deposite amoin. his memorials. It is a seven by nine sheet mostly filled with advertisements, many or which are of runaway negroes, worded in much the same style as those in Southern p ;l . pers, which now give so much offence to the Beechers, Stowes, eke. Tlie Bostonians are welcome to it if it will suit their modern style of thought.— Auyusta Sentinel. Unfortunate. Our friend, Jasper Harris, Esq., (of this county,) jwe regret to learn, while abstu; from home, oil his official duties, as county Su perintendent, had the misfortune to have hi dwelling house, smoke house, corn-cribs, sta ble, Ac., all consumed by fire, on Wednesday tlie Bth instant. Nothing was saved from tlie flames, except a bed, and a few clothes. His extensive library, and many other valuable articles were lost. His loss is between thir teen and fourteen hundred dollars, the whole of which was his own earnings—and about all he was worth above his liabilities. We hope his many warm friends iu the county, will take pleasure in bearing part of his loss. He has always been ready to contribute to the un fortunate, when they needed aid .—Chambers Tribune. The Cotton Trade. To the Editors of the Liverpool Daily Post: Sir: The importance of the subject to which the enclosed extracts refer induces us to be lieve you will kindly give publicity to them, and thus aid to suppress an evil, the magni tude of which is beginning to excite great ap prehension. This year, we have had to make 135 separate claims for American cotton re turned herefrom tlie manufacturing districts, as falsely packed. \ r ours &c., John Wkkilkv & Sons, Cotton Brokers. Liverpool Sept. 25, 1860. Largest Steamer in the World. The following are the dimensions of some of the largest steamers in the world. The Great Western, 23(5 feet long, 25broad; Great Britain, 322 feet long, 51 feet broad; Himal aya, 350 feet long, 43 broad; the Persia, 390 feet long, 45 broad; the Adriatic, 354 feu long, 50 feet brond ; the Vanderbilt, 335 feet long, breadth 45 feet. The Eastern, now be ing built under the direction of Brunei, is more than twice the size of the largest of these, and may well be considered the greatest me chanical achievement of ancient or modern times. • Beans in Sand. —Much soil of this west ern country is unsuited for raising beans, on account of its great richness. The bean runs too much to vine. Hence the best beaus are raised on those portions which have a thin surface soil, (as on the elevations,) as tlie plow here turns up a portion of the subsoil, j which generally consists of a mixture of clay. ; sand, gravel, ike. Whenever this can be mis- * ed with the surface soil, not only the bes: j beans but the best corn, wheat, &c., (though i not the largest growth,) are raised. On ac count. of the great, depth and richness of the ! soil of this country, generally, it. can never s become exhausted. It is only necessary occa sionally to increase the depth of the tillage, which may be done in different places to the depth of two or three to twenty feet or more. But I have strayed from my subject. La.-t year 1 planted several hills of beans in the edge of a pile of sand that, had been left after building. T dug through the sand, placed the beans on the ground beneath, and covered them with the sand. They gvew aud produc ed. The pods were the longest and largest of any of the kind that I raised last year. This year I am doing the same thing on a larger scale, and with a lair prospect of success. The Pilgrim Society ol - Plymouth is now endeavoring to raise money to erect a monu ment as an enduring testimonial to the virtue of the first settlers of Massachusetts. Ac cording to the programme, “the whole monu ment is to be about 150 feet high, and 80 tec l at the base. The statue of faith will he" 1 feet high, aud the sitting figures 38 teet hip l —thus making it in magnitude tlie greater work of the kind in the world, while as a j work of art it will be a subject of pride to , every American citizen. A contribution q ; 25 cents each from the American people e proposed. A neut engraving of the monu ment will be furnished to each subscriber. The sculptor and designer is Mr. Billing"’ the American artist A marriage took place at the hotel of American minister iu Paris a few weeks ng’ The parties were Mr. Joseph M. Heyward. 1 Charleston, South Carolina, and Miss M 9l ' 1 Henrietta Magrodcr, daughter of Captain 1 ‘j A. Magruder, of tlie United States Navy. The Rev. Dr. Hull, chaplain of the British bassy, was the officiating clergyman. Though but eighteen years have ela; since the first vessel wholly propelled by ‘ iU ’ * crossed the Atlantic, now there arc fouviei lines of steamers, consisting 6f forty-’ - vessels, plying between Europe and the 1 ted Sta'es. Out of these forty-eight steaua but twelve are American construction. foreign companies have lost four of their s- 1 ers, and we the same number.