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C OL i; M HXJS: Satnrilay illurulug, October 5*5, 1850. IjAIUJKST CITY CinCUIiATION. The communion i ion relating to the forma tion of a “Young Mens’ Christian Associa lion,” was received too late Tor insertion in this morning’s issue. It will appear on Mon day morning. Wo call tho attention of Planters to the ad vertisement of Mr. John C. Ruse, in to-day’s paper, offering Chatahoochoc River land for sale. The lion. Solomon Foote, Black Republi can, Ims been re-elected by the Legisliflure of Vermont, United .St ates .Senator for four years from t lie 4th of March nest. We leurn from the Selma (Ala.) Reporter that, tho Commercial Rank, located at that, place, will go into operation oil the Ist of November. Serious We leurn from the Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Ob • erver, that the Gin House of Dr. L. M. Clem ents, in that county, containing some 45 or 50 bales of unpacked cotton, was consumed by tire on Friday morning last, the 17th instant. No lives were lost. A dispatch from Philadelphia says tho Sun newspaper of that, pluce, which has lately been leaning to the Fremont side in the l’res idcutial Donlest lias come out in support of Fillmore. VI or bin Klee (lon Complete. A dispatch from Mobile dated October l'.tth, says the returns frout the Kloof ion are now complete. Perry, Democrat, is elected Gov ernor by 400 majority, and Hawkins, Demo crat, to Congress by 800 majority. The Dem ocratic loss since 1804 is 000. The lion. Rufus Choate has declined the nomination for his Congressional District, in Massachusetts. Ohio Klee (ion. It is now reported that Judge Hall, Demo crat, is elected to Congress from tho 9th dis trict, over C. K. Watson, Republican. This will .make tho delegation stand thirteen Re publicans and eight democrats—tho latter a clear gain. A Legislature was not voted for til. t his election. “ Sham Democracy.** The Columbus Sun is exercised about our calling the Buchanan party of Indiana, tlie Sham Democracy It expresses its great love Top the party-—which, by the way, was no se cret. However, tho following from the Ala bama Journal will show what the leader of the Slmin Democracy of Indiana is, and the Sun can still endorse it, if It chooses.-— Mont. Mail. We have no disposition to discuss politics with tho Mail. Annexed are the resolutions, said by tho Journal to have been introduced into a Democratic Convention in Indiana in IRfO : Resolved, That the institution of slavery ought not to be introduced into any Territory where it does not. now exist. Resolved, That inasmuch as New Mexico and California, ure in fact and in law free Territories, it is the duty of Congress to pre vent the int roduction of slavery within their limits. Mr. Willard possibly nmy have introduced lliese resolutions into a Democratic Conven tion as stated by the Journal. Os that the Journal has ftirnishod no evidence. But. ad mitting such to be the fact, it only places him at that time, where the entire American party of the North now stand. In the late contest lie was opposed by a Black Republican, and was denounced by the opposition as the pro slavery candidate of the pro-slavery demo cratic party, and us such boat them hand somely. In this triumph, we, in common with the great body of both parties at. the South, heartily rejoice. Is the Mail sorry? While on this subject, we will state that recently we have been numerously charged with having doffed our neutrality. This wo are disposed to think exists only in a preju diced imagination, so far as the Sun is con cerned. That its editor and proprietor is a democrat in the broadest, sense, no one has ever protended to deny ; and never when ask i and for his opinions, outside of the Sun, as to the result, of the coming or other elections, has he failed to express them l'roely; and when pressed, even backs his judgment, to the extent ol'a subscription to the Sun. We publish nothing political in t lie Sun but thill which wefoel is due to public informa tion. We have carefully laid before our read ers everything calculated to throw light on the opinions of both Fillmore and Buchanan, effecting the institution of slavery, and have given changes in the positions of such politi cians in the South, as stood conspicuous be fore the public. In doing so, we have, in eve ry instance, lot the parties speak for them selves. We shall continue to do so. This is our idea of neutrality. Lancaster, Pa. Seeing a good deal said in ninny of our Soul hern exchanges about tho great victory over Buchanan in Lancaster county, the seat of his residence, and knowing it. to have been a strong whig county heretofore, we were a little curious to look into tho matter. In 1852, Scott had a majority over I’ieree, in l.aneastor county, Pn., of 5058. in 1851, the Know Nothing majority for Pollock, over Bigler, Democrat, for Governor, in li'inciister county, was six thousand two hundred and sixty-three ! At lie recent election, the party opposed to Buchanan and the Democracy—be it Fillmore or Black Republican—both claim it—have a majority of two thousand four hundred and fortv-fouv votes, showing a clear gain for the Democracy, of :!,819 votes. In the city of Lancaster the Democratic majority is 565, being a gain in the city of 447 votes since the last election. We have not noticed this matter with any desire to interfere between the two political fcpart • ■ in the South, but to prevent therend f ers oi the Suu from being misled and risking their money on a false state of facts. Fatal Accident. We learn from the Romo Advertiser that a little daughter of Mr. Pyles, residing in the lo*wer part of Van’s'Vulley in Floyd county, was killed on Monday the 13th instant, Vy the falling of a limb from a tree, which struck her on tho back part of the head, breaking the skull in a shocking manner, and an arm and leg. She lingered in this condition until Tuesday morning and expired. The accident occurred at a school house in the neighbor hood while the children were at play. Tlie Main Trunk Safe. The Commissioners of the Atlantic and Gulf Rail lioad met at. Milledgeville last, Wednes day, present, Hon. Charles Spalding, C. J. Munnerlyn, F. R. Young, Wm. Ponder, Hon. Edward C. Anderson and Dr. James P. Scre ven. We learn from the Savannah Republican that the full sum necessary to secure the sub scription of half a million from the State was subscribed as follows: $200,1)00 by the city of Savannah, $200,000 by the Savannah, Al bany and Gulf Rail Road Company, and $200,- 000, in private subscriptions, chiefly from the counties of Decatur and Thomas. Certified lists of subscriptions were made out and furnished to His Excellency, the Gov ernor, in compliance with the requirements of the Act of Incorporation. It was provided that after not less than thirty days’ notice, an election shall be held in the city of Milledgeville, for nine Directors, under the supervision of the Commissioners, or any live or more of them. The stockhold ers will vote in tills election either in person or by proxy, as may be desired. We congratulate the citizens of Savannah and of Southern Georgia, upon this auspicious result. Facts Worth Noting. From the N. 0. Medical and Surgical .louriiat. The late Mr. Gallatin, formerly Treasurer of the United States, reckons the entire im portation of blacks into the territorial limits of the Republic, at. 300,000 —now not less than four millions! M. Humboldt, in the work above mentioned, (Personal Narrative,) adds up the importation of blacks, into the British West Indies from 1080 to 1780, which reaches, in 100 years, the enormous aggregate of 2,130,- 000. This aggregate includes neither the slaves imported openly up to 1824, a period of 38 years later, nor those imported at an earlier date, reaching back for the West Indies to 1503—a period of 177 years anterior to M. Humboldt’s point of departure—a period of more than a hundred yeajs before the first white immigrants reached tiio shores of this Republic. M. Humboldt says: “The whole Archipelago of the West Indies which now comprises scarce ly 2,400,000 negroes and mulattoes free and slaves, received from 1070 to 1825, nearly 5,000,000 of Africans.” VII. 272. Add to this all the importations, of which no exact re cord exist, from 1508 to 1670—a period of 177 years, and then add the enormous importa tion since 1825, down to the present day, Aug. 8, 1850, to which add tho natural in crease as proved by the statistical history of a handful of slaves imported at a compara tively late period into the slaveholding States of this Republic, not exceeding 800,000, yet soon multiplying to 4,000,000. These 300,- 000 ought to have been extinguished wholly ere now according to the ratio of decline ob served in other slaveliolding lands—consider these things, ye weeping philanthropists of the North, and of realms beyond the ocean, and of the islands of the distant seas—weep for the many millions imported during 350 years from Africa, whom the vital statistician can nowhere find but in the oblivious grave, in mouldering bones. Why should the heart of the great world sob itself into convulsions over the slaveholding States of the Republic, the oasis of the African desert., where alone the negro has a home, if not freedom, where he prospers most, has the greatest amount of the physical comforts, increases fastest, lives longest, and enjoys the best health, slave nev ertheless. The negroes of Africa now more than ever cat one another. They are every where crushed out beyond the limits of the slaveholding States. A French naval officer, who, with liis suite, was hospitably entertained by the Negro King of Dahomey, during the Presidency of Napo leon, now Emperor of the French, relates that the King feeds his large army of female and male soldiers with the flesh of his captives, whom lie can now no longer sell to the whites. Tho French officer, shocked at, see ing human beings thus butchered, frequently plead with the King to abandon this practice, but. was always answered by his Majesty and Cabinet with hearty laughter for his ineffable absurdity. “The chief ornament of the royal residence, containing 15,000 inhabitants, is human skulls, of which, when a number was wanted to pave a court or decorate a ceiling, it was not an unusual process to have some scores of per sons massacred for the purpose.” (National Cyclop, v. 210. London, 1848. The female part of the army is nearly ns large as the standing army of the United States usually is in times of peace. The Ashantee kingdom, bordering upon Dahomey, is alike free in all barbarities. The Cyclopaedia already quoted, says: “The most remarkable among the habitual charac teristics of the Ashantees are their warlike ferocity and their love of blood. These pas sions have, as usual, dooply colored their re ligious belief belief and observances. The most horrid of the practices by which they express their devotional feelings are those in which they indulge at what are called the Yam and the Ada! customs, the former commenc ing in the early part of September when the consumption of the Yam crop begins, the lat ter taking place, on a greater or lesser scale, alternately every three weeks. On all these occasions human blood llows in torrents.” If Negro vital progression had been equally great beyond the limits of the slaveholding States, as within the latter, perhaps one hun dred millions would, ere this, have spread over the West Indies and upon the American continent, during the last three and a half centuries. The vital statistician weeps scien tifically, that is, to say, arithmetically, cesthe ticnlly. and, if inclined to benevolence, ethi cally too; he will not. waste sympathy over four millions of living negroes, whose well being exceeds that of any portion of their race, even in their native land, “Where Afric’s sunny fountains Moll down their goldoti mrilr.” including New England hills, Canadian snows, aud the eternal verdure of West India Island, which gem the Oarriboan sea. Mr. Allison, the Scotch Historian, in his work on Population, in comparing (lie condi tion of tlie Irish with the blacks of the West Indies, says: “Unquestionably the condition of the negroes in tho West Indies, prior to their late emancipation, generally speaking, was infinitely preferable. It is, perhaps, the worst effect of that well meant but disastrous measure, Unit it will approximate the condi tion and Habits of the negro race in those beautiful Islands to that of the Irish peasan try.” Ii p. 206-7. Indeed, this writer lays it down as an axiom, that “slavery results unavoidably from the dependent condition of the laboring classes.” The vital statistician, sanitarian, or physi ologist., is warranted in scrutinisiug any dog ma, social or political institution, in so far as it may have a direct influence upon the vital progress, increuse, health, sickness, and lon gevity of population. If for example, a the ological dogma required the extinction of a race,Hie might, as one of the Faithful, adopt it, but as a statistician he should examine it by the light of scientific investigation, and judgiq of its sanitary import, &c., us in the cases of Mussuliuanic and Mormon polygamy, African slavery, and the like, although, in fact, there never was, there is not, nor will there ever be, a fundamental antithesis be tween ethical and physical science. The uni ty and utility of truth arc ever conjoined. Bentham, the most voluminous writer upon codification and modern reformation in law, regarded utility as the criterion of human vir tue and conduct. He says :“A conscientious person is one who, having made himself a rule of conduct, steadily abides by it. In the common use of the phrase, it, is implied that his rule of conduct, is the right one. But on ly in so far as his rule is consistent with the principles of utility can his conscientiousness be deemed virtuous. A good conscience is the favorable opinion which a man entertains of liis own conduct; an evil conscience is the unfavorable decision of a man of his own conduct. .But the value of the judgment giv en must wholly depend on its being subserv ient to, or rather on its being an application of, the greatest happiness principle. That which produces happiness or misery is prop erly called virtuous or vicious. Virtue and ’'ice are but useless qualities unless estimated by their influences on the creation of pleasure and pain. Effort, undoubtedly, is useful to virtue, and the seat of that effort, in the care of Providence, is principally in the under standing, in the case of effective benevolence, mainly in the will and the affections. Os all the actions of man, those which preserve the individual, aud those which preserve the spe cies, are undoubtedly the most beneficial to the community. (Jeremy Bentham. Theory of Social Science. I. 187, 141, 145, 140. London, 1834.) Whether the utility be, or be not the true ethical platform, it is not necessary to the purpose in making this quotation, to deter mine, but in sanitary and vital science, no other platform need be accepted, and on this, the vital statistics of the negro race is placed, as neither the Constitution of the United States, nor tho “higher law” (eras Luther termed it, the Pope that every man carried in liis abdomen,) is material in this inquiry. If the vital statistics of the negroes of the Southern States of this Republic, be compar ed with the vital progress of the aristocratic classes in England, it will be found that the comparison will be to t lie utmost degree un favorable to the latter. The Westminster Re view for April, 1847, says that, “in England, in a great majority ol cases the male heirs of the Peerages—ami in all cases of the Ba ronetages, become extinct for want of male heirs, though many of each have female re presentatives.” M. Galigni in liis Guide to Paris (1844,) says that nearly all the old Parisian families are extinct—particularly’ the male portion, and that in the great city of Paris, not one thousand persons can reckon their ancestors as far back as Louis Xili. The numerical history of the slave popula tion of this Republic compared to the ratio of increase in France, is immeasurably unfavor able to the latter. According to M. D’Ange ville, and other earlier and later authorities, the ratio of increase in France requires 139 years, and according to the very latest cen sus, 142 years, for the duplication of the French population. The slaves of the United States increase more than five times faster than the popula tion of France. In 1840, the slaves numbered 1,833 cente narians, and in 1850 the number was 1,425, while all France had, in 1837, but 120 of this age, an unusal proportion of whom were con centrated in the valley of the Garonne. The French population had then, according to the census, but one centenarian to 240,000 inha bitants. According to the last census of the United States, there was one centenarian in every 2,448 slaves, a ratio 98 times greater than in the French Empire. The physiological deterioration of the free blacks, particularly in the non-slaveholding .States of this Republic, as set. forth and uni formly confirmed by every ofticial census, is unparalleled in the ethnological history of mankind. This extraordinary degeneration does not apply to the low ratio of increase, but to the high numerical proportion of the insane, the idots, the deaf, dumb, blind, and so forth. The Indian race in North America, estimated by Mr. Oatlan at 10,000,000 at the time the Caucasian family settled in the coun try, lias dwindled down to a few hundred thousands, without having suffered from sim ilar deterioration. This deterioration was called in question by several citizens of Boston. It will be seen by the Compendium of the U. S. Census for 1850, compiled from official documents by Professor Deßow, Superindent of the Census Bureau, and published by the authority of Congress in 1854, that, after a thorough scrutiny by the Government, the authenticity of the cen sus, so unfavorable to the physical and sani tary condition of tho free blacks of the North is fully established. The slaveholding States of this Republic, with a stock of 300,000 such Pagans as those in Dahomey, Ashantee, kc., have presented to the statistician about four millions of souls deeply imbued with the fundamental princi ples of Christianity, that great civilizer. Tho numerical proportion of christianized slaves is probably greater than that of any other class in the Union. Pile up the pyramid of Negro Skulls statistically wasted in Africe, in the West Indies, and everywhere beyond the limits of the slaveholding States, ami lo! the Bunker Hill monument and the Egyptian Cheops will be lost in its overshadowing shade. Mount upon this golgothau pyramid —and from its apex survey the vast Aceldama around its base, which expands inimitably, save a single oasis that rises to view. As before stated, statisticians at least, should economise their sympathy, so as not. to waste it wholly upon one portion of tiie American Republic, the vital statistics of which ought to be accept oil as satisfactory. Ho might even distrust speculations which are contradicted by vital arithmetic. Pennsylvania Politics. Philadelphia, Oct. 21.—We learn from Harrisburg that, two members of the State Ooniiu. ii u of the Americans have seceded to the Free;.inters, and have been nominated on the Aiiit-fcLicUamin ticket for electors. From I’urtar’s Spirit of the Times. A Tilt .\DEKl\tl COON HUNT. BY H. P. L. It’s refreshing to hear Old Tom tell stories ; for, though he gives the same one over a dozen times, he never tells it twice alike! lie let off the following, one mor ning last week, to an audience of two per sons, one of whom lias probably heard it more times than a clock will tick on a long summer’s day; and who, consequently, prepared himself for a doze as soon as Old Tom commenced with — “I’m an ole man, iny young fren,” but I tell you I’ve been through a power ov coon hunts in my time, an’ I’m jus goin’ to tell yer ov one ov ’em. It’s as troo as I’m a settin’ on this here cheer. (He was sitting on a bench at the time). Mind yer, there air fellers who can’t open their heads, ’bout huntin’ ’speshilly, but what sartain sure out comes lies. They talk jus as smoove as welvit; but I know ’em; they may me purty airly, but they don’t see no sun rise albro Old Tom does ! They don’t make no mark here! (and at this he slapped himself half a foot below where the heart beats). They may hit mein the years, but they don’t teecli no heart of mine, no how. Igo in fortrooth 1 do! and I’m goin’ to give yer some this minit.” As Old Tom got up from the bench at this “minit,” his wide awake auditor thought lie was going to the whiskey bar rel to get it. But he didn’t; he only got up in order to sit down again. “As I was tollin’ on you, I wunst went on a thunderin’ coon hunt down by Stri ker’s Pon’. It want proper time, no how, to hunt the creeters, bein’ as it was the middel ov summer; but Lishe Propel’, lie ■was bent on killin’ coons, an’ we tother boys waren’t no way slow to follow arter him when he led off. Lishe, he had a couple of the likeliest hound dogs round them regins—one ov ’em was the complc test dog for luggin’ creeters I ever seed. Howsumever, we started from Lish Pro per’s one July night: if I disremembor rightly, the moon wos a shinin’ when we sot out, an’ arter travellin’ nare about two milds,2we come onter the lower cend ov the pon’—Striker’s Pon’—an’ all to onst Lishe Proper’s hounds struck coon-tracks, an’ tooned up their pipes like moosician ers, I tell you ! I had a little spaniel dog ’long, who tuck arter coons nat’ral as beef bones ; an’ purty soon I lieerd him loudin’ up too. Says Ito myself, ‘Tom, there’s, a big coon thareabouts.’ I know’d Jack’s woice, the hull way from tooth to tail, an’ he was cryin’ ’bout a big one that time. We follered the dogs narc four milds, good measure, ’fore we treed that coon.— Sitch trampoosin I never seed the likes ov afore, nowhere. I tored my coat inter rags, and had no britches on rnore’n would hev covered a six muns ole baby; but the coon was treed shure thing, britches or no britches. One of the fellers he struck a light, an’ purty soon we seed we needed it, coz thare was more clouds in the sky than you could shake sticks at. Thare we wos, men and boys, curs an’ hounds, all round the foot ova big white cedar tree, a waitin’ for sumthin’ to turn up. I never seed no hounds kerry on like them ’ere ones of Lishe’s; they pitched round like es they ware goin’ to jump thare hides off, a yellin’ an’ a howlin’, Ya-hooo-hoooo lioooooo! (here Old Tom indulged in a pro longed howl, completely arousing No. 2 of the audience, and causing him to start up wide awake). Oh, you’re wakin’ up, are yc? That a way the hounds sung, an’ the boys shouted, an’ as the fire-light be gun to shine up the tree, some ov ’em sot to work firin’away at every nob and bunch as was to be seen on the tree. There was a big shower ov bark flyin’ around about that time, you may believe. Bimeby I seed, way up on a top-a-most branch, Mis ter Coon makink himself as small as a small tater; jus as I was goin’ to fire, may I he dod-rahbit es I didn’t see two more coons, on two other branches, alongside of the fust.” “How much whiskey had you on board that time, eh?” asked No. 2. “Nary a drap more’ii I could kerry jus well ballusted, an’ a goin of it unucr easy sail. I wan’t no ways owlly, an’ seed them three coons as plain as I see that cow a grazin’ over there in the medder. Lishe Proper an’ Zeke Scutter, they seed ’em at the same time, an’ Lishe, lie was so aside hisself with seech a sight, that he pullt a big bottle right out of his coat pockit, an’ we all took big drinks on the strength ofsich a werry blessed sight.”— At this point Old Tom got up from the bench and went behind the bar, ostensibly to get a piece of tobacco. Returning lie sat down and continued: “All on a suddint, Lishe hadn’t more’ll got the whiskey bottle inter his pockit, afore —‘Whang! whang! Boom-a-roong-a ----roong!” Here Old Torn, as an illustra tion of the noise, dashed on the lloor what he thought was an empty porter bottle, and which he had kept studiously conceal ed until tills moment, in order to produce a “stunning effect” on his one-horso audi ence. By mistake he got hold of a bottle half full of bitters, and the way it and the broken glass flew round the room and over tho audience was “promiscuous.” “What the are you driving at?” asked No. 2, jumping from his seat and trying to wipe off the stains from coat and pantaloons. Old Tom stood a picture of surprise and astonishishment. At last, stammering out —“Why, why, who would hev tho’t it? I tlio’t Ik no wed there was nothin’ in that bottle. I’ve lired off more’ll fifty of ’em a tollin’ this hero sto ry (l)an’ 1 never knowed one hev bitters in it afore. Here, Jim, come a here an’ sweep up this muss. Gentle men, let’, take a drink. Hope nobody’s kilt?” “Wal, as I was sayin, ‘whang! wham* 1 ” (“No more bottles, Tom!” shouts No. 2 “Boom-a-roong-a-roong! come the litonin’ knockin’ things all ter bits; stunning 1 men an’ dogs such a way I never wants ter see the likes ov agin’. It was mitm dark for a spell with me, I tell you. Al ter awhile 1 tries to raise upon end, an’ fust hitch, I thort I lied a hive ov bees in my head, sieh a buzzin’ an’ swiuiniiir rount. Purty soon I comes too, an’ t] l(i fust thing I seed was Lishe Proper a hoi din’ on ter a dead coon with one hand an’ tryin’ to wipe the dust and bark out ov his eyes with liis tother. “Lishe,” says I, “where arc we?” “Tother side of Jordan !” says he, “. lt , the ferry boat broke too, at that! No 1114. ter, we ain’t goin’ to starve!” An’ j„ licit up the coon. Zeke Scutter, he y ; „ most stunted ov enybody. Howsumever wo got him dow’ii to the pon’, an’ arter rubbin’ of his face in water, he come tv, We went back to look at wliar theliteniii’ hit, an’ may I be jammed if thare wan t Lishe Proper’s hound tryin’ to git at an. other coon bangin’ up in the crotch of tin tree, dead as a herrixi’. We got him down sooner! an’ were on the pint- of tur nin’ home, when, may I he jammed agin, if that ere hound dog hadn’ the track 4 the third coon, an’ was diggin’ up tin ground to get at him. We all got round the hole an’ ware peerin’ in, when, ova suddint, Lishe Proper he seed the fur, an’ made a grab at the tail, an’ bro’t out the third coon, dead as a side of sole leather, an’ smellin’ like a box of brimstun match es. The litenin’ had actilly dug a hale an’ kerried that co.on under grouu’, onl; leavin’ the tip eend of his tail out for a toom-stone. “I tell you, that’s wot 1 call a rah thunderin’ coon hunt.” TELEGRAPHIC. Telegraphed to tho Daily Sun. From Charleston. Charleston, Get. 23. The sales of cott on to-day sum up l;;ij(j bales —of the week 8,400. Market close quarter lower to-day. Middling Fair ]] to 12c. Charleston, Get. 24. The sales of cotton to-day reached thiriy two hundred bales at rather easier prices. FURTHER BY THE CITY OF BALTI MORE. Commercial Intelligence. The cotton sales of Monday and Tuesday, Oth and 7th, (the only business days intervon ing since the last departure on tho -Ith), were 10,000 bales. The market, under the ordinary iufiuences and advices as to demand ami sup ply, indicated an advancing tendency, which was checked, however, by the stringency of the money market, aud especially by anew ad vance in the rate of discount, which had been placed at six per cent, by tho Bank of En gland. Bkeadstuffs. — Wheat. —The report shows buoyancy, at an advance of Id. (a) 2d.; White 10s. 3d. (5) 10s. 6d.; Red 9s. 4d. @ 9s. Oil.— Flour has also advanced Is., and the figures giv en are : Baltimore 325. Od. @ 335.; Ohio 335. 6d. @ 345. Od. Corn remains quiet. Yellow 335. @ 335. Od.; White 345. @ 345. (id. The Money Market.— By advices from Paris to the 7th inst., it appears that previous reports were exaggerated as to the probable sus pension of specie payments by the flank of France. The Minister of Finance has presen ted a report which, in a great measure, has al layed apprehension, and the latest quotations on the Bourse showed an improvement of j on the three per cent, rentes. The liauk has re sumed its purchases of gold. The Bank of England, as above noted, has advanced 1$ cents additional io the discount rate, making it now 7 per cent. 011 bills over two months. This special provision wasdeem ed necessary’ in consequence of a resolution of the Bank of France not to discount bills for any term over 00 days. In other cases it is now 0 per cent. General Intelligence. Switzerland. —The General Convention of the popular delegates from all the Cantons as sembled at Marges, declared that tho Monarch ical intrigues now attempted were dangerousto the popular liberties. Nai'LES. —The King appears less disposed to concede to tho intervention of the Western Al lies. Their expedition is still detained, al though it is believed that no alternative is leli them but to despatch it. Turkey. —The affairs of the Isle of Serpent and the Montenegrins remain as before, air* the allied squadron is still before Constantino ple. Ccntrnl American States— ■Jilcoragn* ami tlie Allied Foes. New Orleans, Oct. 22.—The arrival of the U. S. mail steamer Tennessee brings u, later advices from Nicaragua of an exciting char acter. President Walker leaving a small re serve to occupy Granada, proceeded with 1000 men to attack the allied forces ol the host ile States near Messaya, and succeeded in forcing them into the city. He was spirit ; - ly and eagerly follow ing up his success by de monstration against the city, when a court 11 arrived informing him that 400 men ot 0“’ allied recruits were attacking liis reserve “ Grenada. He accordingly returned 10 >c lieve that post, and succeeded in capturing commander, principal officers, field piece-. kc. The loss of the ullies in killed and wouir ed is staled at 1100; tiiat of the Nicaragua 11 '- 40. It was expected that President ‘UiU' 1 would immediately renew his attack on saya. The P. K. Chwrcli Convention- I’ll 1 laiiklimi I\, Get. 22. —A propositi" 11 b’ orect a now diocese, embracing the teriit'’G of Kansas and Nebraska, lias been rejecte 1 ■ The Rev. Benjamin Tredwe.ll OnderdonK the suspended Bishop of New York, has 11 restored and reinstated to the exercise i” “■ functions. The Elections. Harrisiichc, Pa., Get. 21.—Returns cially authenticated, have been receive” 11 from all except four counties of Pennsyl' l,ll and the result is a majority 01 *> ‘’ ~ ( _ George .Scott, the Democratic nominee t" 1 rial <-oinmissioner. In the counties yd “ reported officially, the opposition claim ■( 1,1 jority of 1,693. 111 the legislature the ff® ernts will have a joint ballot majority 0