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COLUMBUS: Thursday Morning, October t 43, 1556. LAKUEST CITY CIRCULATION. Fever in Charleston. The Hoard of Health report 14 deaths from yellow fever in Charleston lor the 3 days en ding .Monday night, 9 o’clock. —— . On Sunday morning last, a son of J. H. Pearson, in Columbia, S. C., accidentally let fall in front of the fire place a powder flask which he was removing, when the powder ig nited, bursted the flask and inflicted severe injury upon the lad. We see it stated in our exchanges that Gen. Winfield Scott, has expressed his determina tion to support Buchanan for the Presidency, giving as a reason for so doing, the utter hopelessness of Fillmore’s chances for success. “Sham Democracy.” We have for some time past seen allusion made in the Anti-Buchanan papers to the “Sham Democracy,” but were never able till now to discover its meaning. The Montgom ery Mail says “ Indiana has been carried by the .Shorn Democracy.” By this, we suppose, it means to apply the term “Sham” to the Democracy that completely nonplussed the Clack Republicans in Indiana and Pennsylva nia Ins! week. Very good Democracy—hope the “Shams” will extend the good work to other abolition strong holds. — Hancock Fair. The Annual Fair of the Planters’ Club, of Hancock county, w ill be held at Sparta on the 12th, 13th, 14th and loth day sos November, 1856. Liberal premiums are offered, and we doubt not, that as usual, the exhibition will be most creditable to that, old, and in every rc perl. most conservative county. —— ATortll Carolina Hnilrontt. Mr. Garnett, ‘in ids letter to the President of the Company resigning the office of Superin tendent and Engineer on the road, expresses tin l belief, arising from an observation of the regular and rapid increase of business on the road, that the Company will be able to make a dividend of six per cent, on the stock for the year 18-17—1858. To Printers i'Jie Columbia (S. C.) Times says ten first eittM Book’ hands may secure work in this of fice during the Session of the Legislature, commencing on the Ist of November. Wages during the Session sl3 per week, counting • lti hours to the day. and 25 cents an hour for over work, for those who may be engaged on the Legislative work. News hands will be paid 815 per week, dur ing the Session. - Loss of tlie City of Savannah. The Republican learns from a private dis patch received in Savannah on Monday, that the steam propeller City of Savannah, of the Savannah and Baltimore line foundered, Sat urday last, one hundred miles south of Cape Henry. The vessel with lrer cargo is a total loss, though we are gratified to learn that her officers and crew were all saved and had ar rived at Baltimore. The dispatch gives no further particulars. The City of Savannah had just been over hauled and supplied with anew boiler, which greatly increased her accommodations and speed. She left Baltimore on Saturday, and was bound for Savannah city when the disas ter occurred. The Republican is informed by the agents that the accident will cause no interruption to the line. The steamer Totten will leave Baltimore on Saturday, to be succeededbv the City of Norfolk. Important from Pennsylvania. V prominent member of the American party, from New York City, says the New York News, furnishes us with the following information: PmLADKU'iiiA, Oet. 17. The following resolutions passed the Fill more and Donelson Executive State Commit tee to-day, by a majority of 20 in the Com mittee of 22 : Resolved, That we deem it inexpedient to make any alteration in the Fillmore ami Don elson ticket in this State, and we are firmly convinced that any interference with it would be the means of giving tluj State to Mr. Bu chanan instead of defeating him. Resolved, That we refuse to accept either of the propositions of the “North American” State Central Committee, satisfied that the Electoral Ticket already in the field is the only one on which all opposition to Mr. Buchanan ran successfully unite, and pledge it to un compromising opposition, and to the defeat, under any and all circumstances, of his elec tion. This action renders any further union of the Fremont ami Fillmore parties in Pennsyl vania impossible. The original Fillmore Elec toral Ticket wfll be run. For the Bally thin. The City allusion. This intereeling religious enterprise in our city Ims been budding into useful life during the present year, under the care of llev. Win. A. Simmons and Indy. The day and Sabbath school services are working well, in behalf of the children. The pastoral visitations, lecture and sermons of the Missionary, all tell upon the objects of the Mission. But tve can not do half business there, without u lot and Mission Chapel on it. Allow me, my gen erous friends, to call your attention to this noble charity. The quarterly Conference some time ago appointed Rev. W. A. Sim mons. I)r. John A. Urquhnrrt and 0. P. Dnn forth arommittoe to attend to this important interest. But sickness, absence, &c., have induced delays. Something must he done definitely before the first day of Decem ber. A lot is now the greatest necessity.— Will any one owning lots, come to our relief, either by donation or a favorable sale ? See the committee. L. PIERCE. P. E. Columbus, Oct. 22,185 G. Will the city papers please publish this for the Mis sion ? The State Elections. Krom the Baltimore Sun Oct. IS. The returns published in the Sun yesterday morning left but little doubt of the success of the Democrats in Pennsylvania and Indiana, and of the Republicans in Ohio. We have very little to add to-day except by way of con firmation. PENNSYLVANIA. The official returns from several of the coun ties reached us last evening by telegraph and differ in many cases considerably from the previous reports. Tioga county, which lias been set down at two thousand seven hundred majority for the union ticket, isj now said to have given only one thousand five hundred. This and the official corrections have increas ed the Democratic majority in the State. The following despatch gives the official returns alluded to: Philadelphia, Oct. 17. —The official vote of Dauphin county gives the Union ticket 525. The official vote of Philadelphia stands—for Canal Commissioner, Scott, Dem., 36,088; Cochrane, Union, 82,004 —making the Demo cratic majority in the city 3,484. : Bradford county—Union majority 3,850. Northumberland county—Official Democra j tic majority 1,228. Berks county —Democratic majority 0,001. Montgomery county—Democratic majority 1,996. Cumberland co. gives 3.240 for the Demo crats, and 2,975 for the Union ticket. Demo cratic majority 271. Lancaster gives 8,029 for the Democrats, and 10,478 for the Union ticket. Majority for Union 2,444. York county official, gives the following Democratic majorities : Canal Commissioner, 1,482; Auditor, 1,544; Surveyor, 1,539. Bucks county gives 650 Democratic majori ty, a decrease on t lie previously reported ma jority of 344. Monroe county gives 1,519 Democratic ma jority, a gain of 19. Lehigh county gives 810 Democratic, a loss Tis 70 votes. Schuylkill county gives 1,738 Democratic, a loss of 102 votes. i Franklin county gives 110 majority for the Union ticket, an increase of 10. RECAPITULATION. We correct our table of majorities, as indi cated by the official returns above, and find the result as follows—subject, however, to such changes as more reliable advices in relation to several of the unofficial reports may render necessary. Democratic Majorities. Union Majorities. Adams 75 Alleghany 4200 Bedford 140 Armstrong 500 Berks 0001 Beaver 800 Bucks 050 Butler 500 Cambria 1200 81air.... 700 Carbon 575 Bradford 3850 Centre 875 Chester 452 Clarion 700 Crawford 1200 Clearfield 000 Dauphin 525 Clinton 200 Delaware 400 Columbia 1500 Erie 1800 Cumberland 271 Franklin 110 Elk 250 Forrest 50 Fayette 300 Huntingdon 200 Fulton 250 Indiana 1705 Greene 1070 Jefferson 70 Juniatta 175 Lancaster 2444 Leiiigh 810 Lawrence 1700 Luzerne 1500 Lebanon 400 Lycoming 305 Mercer 800 Mifflin 100 McKean 250 Montgomery 1990 Potter 425 Monroe 1519 Snyder 300 Montour 550 Somerset 000 Northampton 2320 Susquehanna 1000 Northumberland. 1228 Tioga 1500 Perry 150 Union 450 Philadelphia 3434 Warren 300 Pike 500 Wayne 300 Schuylkill 1738 Washington 100 Sullivan 100 —— Venango 130 Total 27,681 Wyoming 50 Westmoreland.... 700 York 1482 Total 33,702 , Democratic majority 0,021. The Democratic plurality last year was 11,- 530, but the “Unio-t” majority in the State at that time over the Democrats >as 2,734. The following dispatch sets down the ma jority somewhat larger than we make it: Philadelphia, Oct. 17—The entire returns, official and reported, with all the corrections, received up to two o’clock to-day, show a Democratic majority in the State of 0,048. Cincinnati, Oct. 17.—The Cincinnati Ga zette says the Republican majority is over 30,000 in the State. New York, Oct. 17.—C01. S. Medary tele graphs to the Journal of Commerce, from Co lumbus. that the Democrats have elected to Congress Groesbaok, Pendleton, Miller, Cox, Cockrell and Hall. Medill and Horn’s dis tricts are not in. Bounding the Atlantic. The steamer Arctic which arrived at New York on Tuesday, has sounded the Atlantic all the way across, finding the greatest depth 2,070 fathoms (more than two miles.) It was not accomplished without difficulties, as many of the instruments used were new inventions. Tlie bed of the ocean in the section traversed by the Arctic, is a plateau, as already an nounced by Captain Berryman, who had twice before sounded across the Atlantic. The bottom in the deepest part is a very fine mud, of a mouse-gray color, so that the eoundiug instruments frequently sank several feet into the mud. They brought up speci mens of the bottom, at every sounding, in quills which were attached to the end of the sounding instrument. Toward tlie shore on each side, this mud changes into a fine green ooze. No other substances were met with, no rock, nor anything thnt might prove fatal to a telegraph wire. There seems to be now nothing to hinder the great work, to unite Europe and America by means of a telegraph wire, an undertaking so grand that few thought it possible. The whole distance across was toundto be 1,649 sea miles, from Bt. John, N. F., to Valentin Harbor, Ireland. The greatest depth was found nearly in the centre between these two places. The profile of the Atlantic bed. on this route, is of by far easier grade than many of railroad profiles. Madam Macallister. This la Iv, it appears, had. at last dates, ar rived .;i Bt. Louis, from Keokuk, (where her husband died.) By the advice of her friends she intends to appear again before tlie public, as soon as circumstances will permit. Mae allistor's cabinet will be remode ed and improv ed by her: and she is fully competent to do it. Sourti of her friends at St. Louis intend getting her up a complimentary benefit, with (fid Sol Smith at their head. It lias been go ing the rounds that Macallister died wealthy, which was not the case. As she has no busi ness agent for the present, Sol Smith has kind ly taken charge of her ass airs, and all commu nications for her should be addressed to his care. The Presidential Election. The following is a summary of the laws and constitutional requirements in the election of a President and Vice President: 1. Electors elected on thefirst Tuesday after the first Monday in November. 2. Electors meet on the first. Wednesday in December and cast their votes. They then sign three certificates—send a messenger with , one copy to the President of the Senate at Washington before the first Wednesday in January—another by mail to the same person, and the third deliver to the Unit ed States Dis -1 trict Judge where electors meet. 3. Each State provides by law for filling any vacancy in the Board of Electors occasioned ■ by absenoe, death, or resignation. Such of the electors as are present, are generally au ; thorized to fill any vacancy. 4. The Governor gives notice to Electors of ; their election before the first Wednesday in 1 December. 5. On the second Wednesday in February, Congress shall be in session and open the re turns. The President of the Senate shall, in i the presence of the House of Representatives, open the certificate of returns, and count the votes. The person having the greatest num ber of votes for President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors, I shall be tlie President. 0. If no person has a majority as above, the . choice is to be made from the three highest i returned. The members of the House, by i States, form themselves into Electoral Com | mittees, and the majority determine which is to be the choice of the State—each State hav j ing only one vote. 7. If neither of the candidates get a ma jority of the States before the 4th of March, j then the Vice President shall act as Presi dent. 8. If the people do not elect through their Electors a Vice President, then the Senate of the United States shall make the election from the two highest candidates returned to them by the Electors. Bank Statement. j We publish this morning the Bank State -1 merit tor the month of September, and find but j little change from the condition presented by j the statement made the month previous—cir -1 dilation is 87,344,798, against $7,048,812, showing a ailing off of a little more than $304,GU0. Net profits on hand are 81,677,- 977 against $1,594,424, which shows an in crease of a little more than $71,000. Depos its are $3,253,844, against $3,477,980, which shows a falling off Retain of 8224,000. Specie is $1,383,208, against. $1,340,088, which shows a picking up again in specie at least of about $48,000. Notes discounted upon per sonal security are $11,997,549 against sll,- 085,988, showing an increase of about $312,- 000. Loans secured on own stock are 8525,- 740, against $522,293. Domestic exchange is $7,880,222, against $8,017,288. Foreign ex change Is $275,176, against $873,871 —show- ing a decrease on foreign and domestic ex change of near $250,000. Suspended debt is $1,601,048, against $1,008,522. Altogether, this statement is about what might have been expected from the stagnant condition of our trade for the last month. Merchants with debts to pay and with but limited receipts, have wanted exchange and have used it; they have wanted, also, the use of their deposits, and, in the absence of an active business with the country, the Banks have not been able, without unnatural effort, to keep their bills in circulation. In considering these statements, however, it is always necessary to that they include two distinct classes of irflft tutions; distinct, at least, with inspect to the causes that effect them, and while, therefore, there has been a falling off with every City Bank, in the circulation, there has been an in crease in the circulation of all but four of the Country Banks, and those four have been nearly stationary. —Charleston Standard. Letter from Col. Hose. IYf.tumpka, Oct. 17,1856. Messrs. Editors : I was not a little surprised to find in 4 the Mail of yesterday, a notice of what you call “that big bet” that you now ex tract from the New Orleans Picayune, that you have been told, however, thnt the propo sition came from me. I beg to assure you, gentlemen, that your informant is entirely mistaken in the information that he gave to you. I never made such a proposition—to any man, woman or child, in my life. Nor have I ever authorized any human being to make such a statement or anything like it, and I trust in God that 1 never shall. The mode and manner, the amount of the big bet, the way it has found its way into the news papers, and the occasion and terms that call ed it forth, are exceedingly distasteful to me. And 1 have some misgivings that it was in tended to place me before the public in a wrong position. I trust that no man who knows me, and is disposed to deal with me fairly, would suppose me guilty of such wretched folly as to propose to wager SIOO,- 000 on an election, that too. against the man whom am going to vote for, if 1 can ascertain before the election in November, that he will get move electoral votes than Mr. Fillmore. 1 regard Mr. Buchanan as a safe and reliable man, and so I do Mr. Fillmore—equally as safe for the South ; my object is to give my vote to the man who I think stands the best chance to defeat Col. Fremont, and not to bet $25,- 000 that he gets more votes than Mr. Buch anan. This matter originated about AYetumpka, and was intended to place me in a ridiculous position as a gasconader. 1 am an old man. have not meddled in politics for a good many years—dislike very much to appear in the newspapers any how, and much less when such notices place me in a false position. HOWELL HOSE. The Shadow on the Pillow. The following incident was communicated by Sir John M'Neil: “A Highland soldier had ltis arm so severely wounded that it was about to he amputated, when Miss Nightingale re quested the operation delayed, ns she thought that under careful nursing the arm might be preserved. By her unremitting care this was accomplished, and the poor soldier, on being asked what he felt towards his preserver, said that the only mode he had of giving vent to his feelings was by kissing her shadow when it fell on his pillow as she passed through the ward on her nightly visit.” Change of Proprietorship. The Newspaper and Job Office, together with the buildinging belong to the Advertiser and Gazette, of this city, were sold yesterday, under executions vs. M. P. Blue and Britten Blue. Jeff. Jackson, Esq., of the law firm of Watts. Judge & Jackson, became the purchas er, at a bid of SI,OOO for the establishment, subject to certain mortgage incumbrances on the building amounting to $8,500. Messrs. Cloud ami l nderwood are continuing the pa per until its affairs are dciinitely settled.— Montgomery/ Mail. A pur ter at the point of death being ad vised i eat a piece of a puilet. declined, say ing he nod it might “lay on his stomarch.” TELEGRAPHIC. Telegraphed to tho Daily Sun. From New Orleans New Orleans, Oct. 22. The sales rs cotton to-day amount to five thousand bales at feeble prices, barely sus taining yesterday s quotations. Flour tend ing upwards. Pork nominal 821 25. Freights dull. Political Intelligence. New York, Oct. 20.—The Herald of this city (Black Republican) says the recent elec tions point conclusively to the eleetion of Bu chanan as next President. The German Black Republican organ of Philadelphia repudiates the Fremont ticket formed last Friday. The French Swindlers. New Y’ork, Oct. 18.—Carpentier, the French railway fugitive, has been arrested, and if is believed a clue has been found to the deposit of a large portion of the funds abstracted. Arrival of tlie Texas. New Y’ork, Oct. 20. —The steamer Texas has arrived from San Juan, with 150,000 ir. specie. Walker’s troops were concentrating at Gra nada, and the invaders were advancing. A decisive battle was expected about the 2d inst. The invaders were about 2,009 strong, and daily expecting reinforcements. Walker had <BOO or 900 men. In the battle of San Jacin to the Americans lost twelve men, including Col. Call and Lieutenants Reed and Hutchi son. The enemy’s loss was severe. Walker has sent Maj. Heiss to ratify a treaty with the United States. From Kansas. St. Louis, Oct. 19.—Two hundred and for ty emigrants, near the Nebraska line have been arrested by Cooke’s dragoons. The Elections. Columbia, Oct. 18.—The Democratic major ity is undergoing considerable reduction from the first reports, by accurate returns. The estimated majority in Ohio for the Freedirtevs is 30,000. In Indiana the State Senate will have a Fremont majority and the House Dem ocratic. Columbia, Oct. 18, 9 20 P. M.— Pennsylva nia, it is now’ judged, will stand in Congress 14 Democrats, 11 Fremonters; Ohio, 7 Demo crats, 13 Frcmontcrs. —1 yet doubtful; Indi ana, 7 Democrats, 5 Fremonters. Showing in the three States Democratic gains of 19. Philadelphia, Oct. 18.—The State Central Committee.of the National Americans, (Fill more and Doneison) of this State held a meet ing here this day, and resolved on uncompro mising suppo: t of their own distinctive ticket to the rejection of all fusion or compromise.— The Democratic majority is now placed at 6,000. The Triennial Convention. Philadelphia, Oct. 18.—The General Con vention of the I’. E. Church, now in session here, will adjourn on Tuesday, 21st inst., to meet at Richmond, Va., in 1859. Spanish Claims on Mexico. Late advices from Havana inform us that Spain is about to make anew exhibition of force against Mexico, and compel that gov ernment into an acknowledgment and liquida tion of the claims of Spanish citizens against it. It will be remembered that a few months ago a Spanish fleet was sent from Havana to Vera Cruz to back up the very strong demand made by Senor Santos Alvarez, the Minister from Spain, and that President Comonfort re fused at once, on its appearance before Vera Cruz, to proceed with the negotiations then pending between himself and Senor Alvarez until a disavowal that the fleet was intended as a coercive measure, and a part of it at least withdrawn. The French Minister en deavored to heal the difficulty with apparent ill success, but the final result was that a por tion oftlie fleet returned to Havana, and a convention was agreed upon between the par ties, the substance of which is as follows : The object of the government of Mexico is declared to be the revision of certain credits that had been unlawfully introduced in the Spanish claims, to which the Spanish Minis ter assents, the terms of the convention of 1851 and of the treaty of 1853 to be complied with, and their stipulations fulfilled, and the payments of dividends not to be delayed, but to be placed on a like footing with the credi tors under the French and English conven tions. Two commissioners for the revision to be appointed by each government, and both governments to repudiate any claims illegally introduced. Bonds which may have been issued on illegal Spanish claims to be holden good as they may have passed to the hands of third parties, but the Mexican Government to have the right to proceed against the original Claimants. Those who have received bonds in this manner can return them and repay the interest they may have received from the gov ernment, and thus shield themselves from criminal prosecution. If the claimants whose claims, although admitted, may be found to have been illegal, refuse to do this, they are to be prosecuted by both governments, civilly and criminally, and their names given to the public. This convention, which amounts on the part ot the Spanish Minister to an acknowl edgment that fraudulent claims had been pre sented by Spanish creditors, admitted by- Santa Anna’s Government, caused an excite ment on its reception in Spain. The Spanish Government immediately refused to ratify it. and Senor Santos Alvarez was recalled. Tlie concessions were asserted by the Gnceta of Madrid to be “incompatible with national pride and the good right which is on the side of Spain in her reclamations,” —and that the quarrel could perhaps only be adjusted by an appeal to arms. Our advices from Havana show that the language which the officialjour ual of Madrid held about the close of August, hud a meaning, and that Spain is in earnest. We shall await further intelligence in regard to this matter with much interest.— X. 0. Pi cayune. Wonderful. The Free-dirt organs are making a won drous ado over , card of ex-Governor H. S. Foote, who publishes a true account of his Senatorial difficulty with Fremont. A similar ado was made over the testimony given by Mr. Buchanan under commission ut the instance of Fremont, It is indeed a matter of surprise to these organs, that gentlemen should tell what they believe to be the truth. Opinion of the X. Y. Post. This journal takes consolation, if tlie Fre mont party is defeated in Pennsylvania, judg ing by the election of 1818, that the State will be carried in November. It bases its calcu lation upon the following fact: “Four or five hundred majority only car ried Johnson, the Taylor candidate, into the Governor's chair in the year 1848, and yet a little while afterwards, on the Presidential election. Taylor swept the State by 14.000 ma jority.” Southern Commercial Convention. Our readers will recollect that this body which held its last session at Richmond Va., adjourned to meet again in this city in December next. We beg leave to direct the attention of citizens of this and other Southern States to this subject, hoping they will take sufficient interest, in the object of the Convention to take early steps for securing a representation therein at the approaching session. It will be seen, from the proceedings of Council last evening, that our author ities have had the subject under consid eration, and authorized the appointment of a committee to make the necessary ar rangements for a suitable accommodation of the Convention.— Sav. Rep. Singular Effect of a Locomotive Whistle on a Horse. An intelligent friend in this city W returned from the State fair at Water town, relates the following singular inti, dent which occurred at Evansville Jefitr. son county, in his presence. A gentle, man with a very fine, high spirited four year old horse had driven down to the station for the purpose, as he said, of ac customing his horse to the locomotive whistle. As the train appeared the en gine screamed, of course, as an engine can only scream, and at the very first sound of the whistle the horse fell down dead in his tracks the victim of a mortal fright.— Buffalo Republic. A Wedding. There was quite an interesting circumstance which occurred in Anderson village on Mon day last. We heard it first, by accident, from 10 to 20 school girls, pretty well grown, who were giving their views and opinions as to tin propriety of the matter. I ascertained from their conversation that one of the school girl in one of the colleges at that place, went di rectly from the school room to the church close by, and there was united in the bands of matrimony with a young gentleman of this dis trict, who took her into his carriage and drove off somewhere rapidly. The girls seemed amazed at the audacity of the act on the pm: of the young gentleman, and its secrecy on the part of their school companion also ama;.- ed them. One of them said it was a very se rious affair, and “when once done could not be undone.” “Walked directly from the schoolroom to the church ! ” said another: “just think of that! ” “I am surprised,” said a third, “ so tall a girl as she should fall in love with such a little, short fellow."— “But,” said one, more experienced, “that's always the case, a tall lady falls in love with a short gentleman, and a tall gentleman with a short lady ! ” Someone of them very grave ly intimated that it might injure the school, at a distance, hearing of the circumstance. But the reply was, the parents of the girl live in Anderson village, and no blame can conse quently’ attach to the school. —Ureenville Pat riot. A correspondent of the Charleston Courier, in a letter from Philadelphia the day after the election, writes: I have just received the news of the great Democratic victory achieved in the city and county of Philadelphia, and perhaps also in the great Key Stone State itself. This result effectually bruises the serpent’s head, even be fore his lodgment in our political Eden—the snake is not only scotch’d, but, I really be lieve, actually killed, and the petty little ren egade will henceforth have to “hang up the fiddle and the bow-.” without the consolation of “going where the good niggers go.” Yes terday, (election day here) and to-day. the wind has been high and howling, the weather gentle, cool, and stormy, answering to the convulsion of the political elements about us. After the storm, however, will come a calm, and sunshine, auspicious, I trust, of peace and harmony to our distracted country, and of perpetuity to our great and glorious Union. We find the following dispatch in the Au gusta Chronicle: Philadelphia, Oct. 20 —The Fillmore State Councils of New York, Massachusetts Penn sylvania and Kentucky have issued an Address to the American people asking the Union con servative element throughout the United States in opposition to the Sectionalists, Buchanan and Fremont, and in favor of Fillmore. One passage of the Address will attract special notice, when read in connection with the whole, it is in the following language: “We seek no undue privileges or favorit ism; we give no countenance to the rabid dis unionists of the day, but maintain justice and right, combined with equal privileges due to every free born son of America.” The meeting appointed the Hou. H. Moore, of Philadelphia, Horatio H. Pay, New Y’ork, a Notional Finance Committee Whistle for It. An English paper states that a ‘Mrs. Mart Anne Dixon, widow of a canon residentiary ‘■* York, has presented two ancient silver tank ards to the corporation of Hull. One of them is a ‘whistle tankard,’ which belonged to An thony Lambert, Mayor of Hull, in 1069, when Charles the First was refused admission to the town. Mrs. Dixon ‘bus frequently been tod that there is only another whistle tankard in the kingdom.’ The whistle comes into ph’. v when the tankard is empty; so that when it reaches the hand of a toper, and there nothing to drink, he must, if he wants liquoi. ‘whistle for it,’ which possibly may be tin origin of the popular phra“e.” Go Abroad for the News from Homo- The New York Herald, in a notice of (•;” recent Congressional election held in tM* District, says: “In the Charleston (8- 1 Congressional District. Mr. Miles (American has been elected.” The Herald is somev - ‘ famous for the publication of news. which n- 1 other journal, by any effort or ingenuity could possibly get possession of, and it win.. • be a matterof interest in the present instni.- 1 - to know how it made the discovery that els? or Miles is. or ever bn-< been, a Know - ing. —Charlatan Stand’ ■rd. Death of Aged Printers. Mr. George A. Steele, one ol the printers in New York city, died on l ] ( lie lias been foreman of White & Cos. sc- ■- ment for over thirty years, and council with it, altogether for nearly halt a cent' 1 -. He wns much respected. The Newburvport Mercury announce- •- death of Mr. Henry Barber, who worked* the Mercury office Go years, and died a ( age of 76. During the whole of his H' e - , Barber was never five miles distant from “ and never saw a railroad nor a steam a>a l cept from the windows of the office in ‘ he worked.