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COLIJM 15 ITS:
Tuesday Morning, October UH, IH.jfi.
i.ai(i;kst CITY CIUCUDATION.
Bain at Loot.
After a drouth of two months duration, the
greater portion of which time our city has
been smothered in dust, we had last night a
drenching shower, and at tho hour of going
to press, tho clemonls portray a copious sup
ply of rain.
We call attention to the advertisement of
Riddle, announcing the opening of his new
Daguerrean Rooms, lie is fitted up in mag
nificent style in Jones’ new building, immedi
ately over Purple’s .Jowclry Store.
Columbus can now boast of two as fine Gal
leries in the Photographic Art as any South
ern city.
The Hon. Robert Toombs addressed a largo
and intelligent audience at Temperance Hall
in this city yesterday, in favor of the election
of Mr. Buchanan. It was the first time we
had heard him, and barring his hoarseness
from continuous sjteaking for several weeks
in tho campaign, wc thought lie came fully
up to his reputation. His speech was receiv
ed witli delight by the Democracy. What im
pression it made on tho friends of Fillmore,
if any, will 1m apparent about to-morrow
week.
Baptist Church.
Tho Pews in tho Baptist Church in this city,
were rented yesterday for the ensuing year,
ending October Ist 1857. We understand
they ranged in:price, l'rouis2o to’sl45 —bring-
ing, in the aggregate, about $2,400.
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The Yellow fever seems to have disappeard
from Charleston, no death having been report
ed for several days.
Fire in LaUrunge.
We learn from a slip from the Reporter of
fice, that a lire broke out in that place about
12 o’clock Saturday night, in tlie Millinery
establishment of Mrs. Witham, over the Bar
room ot'C. C. Nimilz, and before any assis
tance could be had the roof of tlie building,
including tlie store of Mr. .). Jaeobe, tiic
Dsguerrcan Room of Mr. P. Prophitt, and the
Hall, known as Concert Hall, was enveloped
in flumes. It then extended from building to
building until the whole of the West side of
the public square was consumed by the de
vouring elements.
The Reporter is unable to give the amount
of Ihe loss, but says it cannot be less than
sso,t)(Kt. Tho number of buildings consumed
were seven, including the stores of J. J. Ja
cohe, Whjtfleld Sc Reid, Lane & Kidd, Myers
X: Cos., J. S. Sc W. P. Herring, J. T. Turner &
t'o., and Ur. N. N. Smith’s oflico, and the resi
dence of J. J. Jaeobe. The residence of Mr.
I'ike was blown up in order to arrest the
(hones.
Most of the goods were saved in a damaged
slate, and some were insured.
Dr. N. N. Smith received a serious personal
injury by the explosion of a house. Mr. John
P. Buchan received some personal injury, but
we trust not seriously.
Telegraphic Connection with Eutaula.
We received yesterday morning, tho follow
ing message from Rufaula, showing the com
pletion of (ho Columbus and Apalachicola Tel
egraph line to that place, and sent in return
iln* operations of New Orleans and Charleston
in cotton on Saturday.
We understand the work of putting up the
wire below that point, is progressing rapidly.
The first messages passed over the line to Eu
faiila on Sunday last.
Mr. Emory Dennis, Jr., a native of Colum
bus, is operator at. this place. Otlice south
side of Randolph street.
Eufaula, Oct. 27.
We quote Middling cotton at 10 to 10!,c.,
Good Middling 11c., and Middling Fail* 11 Jc.
Groensboro College Bunding.
We learn from the Greensboro (Ala.) Bea
con, that the Building Committee appointed
by the Trustees ol’ the Southern University
of tlie Methodist E. Church, located at that
place, have let outthe contracts for the brick,
stone and carpenter’s work, painting and
glazing, including material, at $32,701, and
that the contracts yet to be made for Ivon Or
naments, Slate Roof and Plastering, are esti
mated in amount at $0,754, makingt he entire
cost of the edifice $3!>,015. The corner stone
isto be laid the first week in December. The
building is to be finished during the year
1857.
Kcnl Estate in llichmond.
In pursuance tonti act of the last Legisla
ture of Virginia, a recent assessment of Real
Estate has been in Richmond) Va., by the
Slate with the following result:
buildings $9,899,412, lands $8,2812,357;
total $17,081,7911. The revenuo of the State
will bo largely increased, and this is said to
have been rendered necessary to meet the
heavy expenditure incurred within a few years
past for internal improvements.
We learn from the Dallas Gazette, that John
W. Lapsley, Esq., a distinguished lawyer of
Dallas county, Alabama, an American, and a
Whig all his life, has just returned from a sum
mer tour in the North, and declares it to be
his duty ns a Southern man and a as conser
vative, to vote for Mr. ltuclianan. Wo have
known Col. Lapsley forever twelve years, and
we never knew a truer and more unflinching
Whig. To this our friend who presides over
the editorial department of the Enquirer, can
testify.
Give House Uornt and Three Lives Lost.
We learn from the Alabamian, that the
Gin House of 8. R. Cockrill, Esq., about six
miles from Tuscnmbia, Alabama, was burnt on
Saturday tho 18th instaut, and three negro
men, supposed to bo the property of John L.
Malone, Esq., of Franklin county, perished in
the tlames. The negroes were runaways, and
had concealed thomselveß in the lint room, and
it is supposed in attempting to light a pipe with
a match, the ginned cotton was ignited, and
| they perished in the tlames before they could
f make their way out of tho room. It is esti
mated that some thirty hales of seed and gin
ned cotton were burnt.
Steam Music.
The Oswego (N. Y.) Palladum says the Sy
racusans were startled by the arrival of a
Steam Organ, on the noon train there, on
Wednesday. It is placed on tho locomotive,
and plays Yankee Doodle, Wait for the Wagon,
St. Patrick’s Day, &c., in tones that can be
heard for miles around. The Instrument is
culled tho “Calliope,” and is manufactured by
a “Steam Music Company,” organized at Wor
cester, Muss. In a circular distributed by tho
Company, it is stated that “tho character of
the tones of the “Calliope,” will compare fa
vorably with those of other musical instru
ments, and a tune can be heard ten miles dis
tant, distinctly.”
The construction of this instrument is very
simple, and is played with keys like an Organ,
or with a crank and cylinder.
It is believed that the instrument is destined
to become a matter of utility to navigation as
a system of Telegraphing by sounds, or giving
signals from boat to boat, or as a pleasing sub
stitute for that irksome munotory, the result
of one Whistle.
The Company have instruments completed,
and will furnish them to those that would like
to test them practically.
Supposing some of our steamboat men get
one.
The Memphis Enquirer learns that the lion.
B. N. Kinyon, a leading and influential old
line Union Democrat of Tishmingo county,
Miss., lias come out, for Fillmore against Bu
chanan. Tlie Enquirer says Mr. K. never
belonged t o the American order.
Attempt to Assassinate a U. S. Officer.
A correspondent writing to New York,
from Salt Lake City, under date of August
31st, says:
But the event which has created the greatest
excitement in this city was a most outrageous
attempt at assassination, which was made upon
a United States Officer in the public streets
under the sanction and countenance of the au
thorities of the Mormon church. The facts
are these: About dusk one evening, Mr. Jo
seph Troskolawski, a United States deputy
surveyor, went to tlie store of Messrs. Hoop
er & Williams to make a few purchases.—
Here he met Bill Hickman, a notorious mem
ber of the “Danito Baud,” who engaged in
conversation with him in a friendly manner,
no one having any suspicion that he had the
least unfriendly feeling towards him. Mr. T.
then left the store alone to go to his lodgings.
Ho had gone but a few steps when three men,
associates of Hickman’s, stepped up behind
him and knocked him down. One of them
then commenced beating him about tlie head
with the butt of a heavy loaded whip, and the
others stamped upon and kicked him, being
assisted by Bill Hickman, who had followed
him up from tho store, and who cried out to
the other villians, “kill him quick, I’ll stand
the consequences.” Messrs. Hooper & Will
iams, hearing a cry in the street, ran to their
door, and seeing these fellows beating a man,
rushed to tho spot just in time to save Mr. T’s
life. Mr. Hooper seized Hickman by tho col
lar, when the latter drew a knife upon him.
lie, however, succeeded in throwing him off.
Mr. Williams, in tlie mean time, throwing the
other two fellows off, liberating Mr. TANARUS., who
staggered, blind and strangling in his blood,
towards tho office of the mail agent, and was
caught by Mr. Dotson, who carried him in.
Hickman and his associates then jumped on
their horses and rode off unmolested, yelling
and shouting like Indians.”
Beware of Jewelry.
Many persons have suffcrod imprisonmont
and even death on account of rings. The
great antiquarian, Winchelman, was murdered
hy a scoundrel servant for a very precious ring
that ho wore. Conrad, a Napolitan prince,
Hying from Charles, King of Naples, was dis
covered to a sailor by his ring, informed
against, examined, and there being found no
sufficient reason why he shovld live, was put
to death accordingly. Richard Coear de Lion,
having mado a three month’s truce with Sala
din, hoped to get safe home, but was betrayed
to his enemy by the jewelry on his finger, lie
had reached Vienna, when, fearing to fall into
the hands of Leopold, the Austrian Archduke,
whom he had affronted, he took a cook’s place
in a gentleman’s family, but not taking the
precaution to roast with his rings off, ho was
recognized, arrested, and thrown into prison.
The last instance we shall cite of ring prov
ing inimical to the liappiuess of its possessor,
is taken from a remarkable relation of l’hle
gon, of Tralles, llardian’s freed man, who
dealt in marvelaus rocitals, and who gives the
amongst others of his mirabilia: A young
man of the name of Aehatas, traveling in
Greece, became the guest of Demostrates,
One evening after retiring to rest, he was sur
prised hy a visit from the fair Philinnoinc,
(the deceased daughter of his host) who pre
sented herslfin the most bewitching guise be
fore him, and persuaded him to exchange
pledge-rings with her. This nocturnal visit
was repeated for three nights successively, the
young man having no idea the while that his
fair innoniirita was a visitant from another
world. On the third night, a maid, discover
ing a lady in the guest chamber, recognized
her deceased mistress, and apprized the pa
rents of the late Philionino of what she had
seen.
Incredulous at first, at the young woman’s
story, they at length agreed to enter the cham
ber atthosame hour the night following, when,
to their bewilderment and joy they saw their
own daughter before them : but this joy was
soon turned into horror, for the maiden had
no sooner recognized her father and mother,
than, escaping from the embrace of both, sho
reproached them bitterly for thus coming ab
ruptly to destroy the happiness which for three
more nights sho had else enjoyed with their
guest, her leave of absence from the shades
extending to a whole week, and feel a lifeless
corpse on the ground at their feet. On re
covering from the shock, the first impulse of
the parents hurried them to the tomb, whence
the iiody had indeed departed, and all that
remaiued thcro was Achates’ pledge-ring; on
seeing which the unhappy youth, terror-strick
en at having affianced himself to a spectre, fell
upon his sword and died immediately.— Fra~
set's Magabine.
Boats for Florida.
A fleet of thirty metallic boats aro being
built at Francis’ establishment at Grecnpoiut,
designed to aid tho United troops in their ope
rations against the Indians in Florida this win
ter, particularly in penetrating the Everglades.
They are twenty-two feet in length, and three
feet six inches in breadth, with lockers at each
end for ammunition and provisions. Fifteen
of them are already finished, and present a
fine appearance.
Avery largo boat, twenty-eight feet in
length, finished in good style, with heavy brass
oar-locks and brass tiller, has just been finish
ed for the Governor of St. Thomas.—A’. 1".
Journal of Commaret.
Scene in the Arctic Ocean.
From Dr. Kane’s new work upon his Arctic
Expedition, we make the following extracts.
It will be remembered thathe started a second
time in search of Sir John Franklin, in No
vember, 1852, and for about three years it
was not certain that he was not lost himself.
He has published an outline of his excursion,
and wc take the following interesting sketch
es.
The first is a scene with the moon and sun
botli shining. The second is a description of
one of the many exigencies of that most peril
ous adventure :
“ The moon is nearly full, and the dawning
suidight, mingling with hers, invests every
thing with an atmosphere of ashy gray. It
clothes tlie gnarled hills that make the hori
zon of our bay, shadows out the terraces in
dull definition, grows darker and colder as it
sinks in the fiords, and broods sad and dreary
upon the ridges and measureless plains of ice
tiiat make up the rest of our field of view.—
Rising up above all this, and shading down
into it in strange combinations, is the intense
moonlight, glittering on every crag and spire,
bracing the outline of the background with
contrasted lightness, and printing its fantas
tic profiles on the snow field. It is a land
scape such as Milton or Dante might imagine
—inorganic, desolate, and mysterious ! I have
conic down from tlie deck witli the feelings of
a man wiio has looked upon a world unfinish
by the hand of its Creator. ”
Here is a thrilling narrative in a diiferent
vein :
“ We fastened at last to the great floe near
the shore, making our harbor in acreek which
opened with the changes of the tide.
“ The important dietof the party was show
ing itself more andmore in the decline of their
muscular power. They seemed scarcely
aware of it themselves, and referred the diffi
culty they found in dragging and pushing to
something uncommon about the icc or sludge,
rather than to their own weakness. But, as
we endeavored to renew our labors through
the morning fog, belted on all sides by ice
fields so distorted and rugged as to defy our
efforts to cross them, the truth seemed to burst
upon every one. We had lost tlie feeling of
hunger, and were almost satisfied with our
pasty broth and the large draughts of tea
which accompanied it. I was anxious to send
our small boat, the Eric, across to the
lumme liill at Appall, where I knew from the
Esquimaux we should find plenty of birds;
but the strength of the party was insufficient
to drag her.
“ We were sorely disheartened, and could
only wait for the fog to rise, in the hope of
some smoother platform than that which was
about us, or some lead that might save us the
painful labor of tracking. 1 had climbed the
iceberg ; anil there was nothing in view ex
cept the Dalrymple ltock, with its red brassy
face towering in tlie unknown distance, But
1 hardly got. back to my boat, before a gale
struck us from the northwest, and a floe, tak
ing upon a tongue of ice about a mile to the
north of us, began to swiii upon it like a pivot
and close slowly in upon our narrow resting
place.
“ At, first our own floe was also driven be
fore the wind ; but in a lit tie while it encoun
tereil the stationary ice at tlie foot of the very
rock itself. On the instant the widest imagi
nable ruin rose around us. The men sprang
mechanically each one to his station, bearing
back the boats and stores: but I gave up for
the moment all hope of our escape. It was a
nip, such as is familiar to Arctic navigators ;
but tlie whole platform where we stood, and
for hundreds of yards on every side of us,
crumbled and crushed and piled and tossed
itself madly under tlie pressure. Ido not be
lieve t hat of our little body of men, all of them
disciplined in trials, able to measure danger
while-combating it—l do not believe there is
one who this day can explain how or why—
hardly when, in fact—we found ourselves
afloat. We only know t hat in the midst of a
clamor utterly indescribable, through which
the braying of a thousand trumpets could no
more have been heard than tlie voice of a man,
we were shaken and raised and whirled and
let down again in a swelling waste of broken
hammocks, and, asthe men grasped their boat
hooks in the stillness that followed, the boats
edded away in a t umultuous skreed of ice and
snow and water.
“ AYe were borne along in this manner as
long as the unbroken remnant of the in-shore
floe continued revolving, utterly powerless,
and catching a glimpse every now and then of
the brazen headland that looked down on us
through the snowy sky. At last the floe
brought up against the rocks, the looser frag
ments that hung round it begun to separate,
and we were able by oars and boat-hooks to
force our battered little flotilla clear of them.
To our joyful surprise, we soon found our
selves in a stretch of the land-water wide
enough to give us rowing room, and with the
assured promise of land close ahead.
As wo neared it, we saw the same forbid
den wall of belt-ice as at Sutherland and Hak
luyt. We pulled along its margin, seeking in
vain either an opening or access, or a nook of
shelter. The gale rose, and the ice began to
drive again ; but there was nothing to be done
but get a grapnel out to tlie belt and hold on
for tho rising tide. Tlie Hope stove her bot
tom, and lost part of her went her boarding, and
the boats were badly chafed. It was an awful
storm ; and it was not without constant exer
tionthat we keptatloat, balingout tliescud that
broke over us, and warding off the ice with
boat hooks.
“ At 3 o’clock the tide was high enough for
’us to scale the ice cliti'. One by ono we pull
ed up the boats upon a narrow shelf, tho whole
sixteen of us uniting at eaeli pull. We were
too much worn down to unload ; but a deep
and narrow gorge opened in the cliff's almost at
the spot where we clambered up; and, as we
pushed the boat into it on an even keel, the
rocks seemed to close above our heads, until
an abrupt turn in tlie course of the ravine
placed a protecting cliff between us and tlie
gale. We were completely encaved.”
Mormonism in Denmark.
Mormonism is making such progress in Den
mark as to cause the religious and reflecting
part of tho inhabitants to look with dread to
tho future, as it might exercise a most baneful
influence on the peasantry and lower classes,
who are exclusively to be found among tho
converts. Several petitions have been sent to
the Government from different parts of the
kingdom, praying that a stop may be put to
the nuisance, and that the Mormons be prohi
bited from exercising in future their religious
ceremonies with so much demonstrative osten
tation as they are now allowed to do. Jutland
is the part where the great hot bed of Mormon
prosclytisrn is to be found: and, as they even
tually make up caravans or parties of four or
five hundred together, to emigrate to America,
in order to settle on tho banks of the Great
Salt Lake, it will have the effect of ultimately
depopulating the province to a great degree,
and depriving its agriculture of many industri
ous hands. It is especially to this point that
tho petition to the King, just sent in from the
town <>f Aalborg, and signed by upwards of
200 ol the principal inhabitants, lays so much
stress, and calls the attention of the Govern
ment.
The Political Showmen and their Guyas
ticutus.
Judge Sandy Morton in a recent address in
New York, illustrated the character of the
Kansas agitation, aud tho profits the Black Re
publicans were deriving from the imposition,
by an allusion to the story of the Guyasticu
tus, which our readers may have heard perhaps
before, but which will bear repetition:
Well, I will tell it to you, as illustrating how
great a hue and cry, and what alarm can bo
raised to sustain a false issue. A number of
yeais ago, about the time 1 was preparing my
self for the active duties of life, a couple of
young bloods, about being emancipated from
college, found themselves without funds to
spend the vacation, or, to use their precise lan
guage, “with not a bit of dough.” Their pa
rents were well to do in the world, but so ex
cessive had been the extravagance of the
youths, aud so frequent their calls for money,
that a stop had been put to further drafts upon
the parental crib. They were too honest to
steal and too pround to beg, so they hit upon
tho following expedient to raise the wind: At
the dead of night they visited an adjoining
town, wh**re they were not known, and the
next morning notified the peoplo, by mammoth
hand bills, that that evening would he exhibit
ed, at a described place, the tremendous ani
mal calle the “Guasticutus.” It was described
a complete nondescript—larger than the mas
todon, more terrific than the hyena, that it fed
alone on human flesh—in fact, a perfect mon
struin horrendum —just about such an animal
as you might imagine a cross to he between a
grizzly bear and a streak of greased lightning.
In speaking of it, the bills used this language:
‘•When it ilrinks, rivers into it flow;
When it eats, tho mountains less’ning grow;
When it sneezes, whirlwinds from it roll;
Anil when it walks, it shakes the earth from
pole to pole. [Laughter and Applause.]
It was exhibited that night, “Admission
twenty-five cents, negroes aud children half
price.” Well of course there was great anxie
ty to see this curious animal, and the town was
in a continued state of excitemen from one end
to the other. As soon as night fell the peoplo
commenced gathering. One of the young men
put himself at the door to receive tlie mouey,
and the other was bohind the scenes quieting
tho animal. The place of exhibition rapidly
filled, anil just as soon as the last quarter was
supposed to be pocketed, a tremendous rattling
of dhains was heard behind the scenes; groans
add shrieks succeeded, and there was a terrible
scratching upon the floor, and about the cur
tain. The people naturally manifested some
alarm, when the rattling of the chains became
greater, the groans and shrieks more terific, the
scratching more manifest, until finally one of
the young men rushed before the audience, his
hair disheveled, his clothes in tatters, apparent
blood streaming from him, while his face indi
cated the most acute agony, and shouted to the
crowd. “Feller citizens! men, women chil
dren, aud niggers of this good town, for God
Almighty’s save yourselves quick for the Guy
asticutus is loose! the Guyasticutus is loose!”
They did save themselves, and in their con
fusion and fright the young men escaped with
their ill-gotten “dough.”
So, fellow citizens, we have had the Guyasti
curus of the Kansas question! The clanking
of chains, thegroansand “shrieksfor freedom,”
the major intention of all of which has been to
impose upon tho people by false pretenses, as
the young men of whom I spoke in connection
with the Guyasticutus anecdote, imposed upon
the credulity of those who listened to them.
The Cuban Slave Trade.
A letter from Havana states that the slave
trade between Cuba and Africa is very active,
and adds:
Two landings on the South side count 063
negroes; on the North, East ofCardeans, 374
or 375 ; 1337 in all—having lost by death on
the voyages thirty six in the vessels, showing
unusual care for the comfort of their victims.
The importation of slaves is perfectly system
atised, and with the best will for its preven
tion, in conformity with the words or inter
diction uttered and reiterated by the Captain
General, can be carried on with impunity; es
pecially as long as your merchant princes,
shipbuilders, Ccc., are interested in its pursuit.
The orders of the Cuban traders are eager
ly sought for in your shipyards, and ten per
cent, of overt profit will make some of your
veriest saints sinners in Africa. At any rate,
Yankee ingenuity and Yankee enterprise serve
to defeat the best efforts of this Government
for the suppression of the slave trade, and they
may well give up in despair. The complaints
belong at home more than here at the present
time, for without a file of soldiers for every
foot of 1800 miles of sea coast, and each one
imbued with tho power and the spirit of Con
cha, it could not be prevented, with the temp
tation that is held out for success.
Slavery in Nicaragua.
We gave in our isssue of yesterday, an ab
stract of the decrees of the Nicaraguan govern
ment, by which the institution of domestic
slavery has been re-established, and ingenious
journalists at the North, connecting this cir
cumstance witli the recent visit of Mr. Soule
to that country, have discovered the workings
of a very comprehensive scheme of Southern
policy. Our readers will remember that one
of the sentiments expressed in tho Democratic
Platform at Cincinnati, was the effect that
the United States cannot but sympathise
with the efforts being made in Central America
to regenerate that portion of the Continent, and
the lact that Mr. Soule left this Convention
and immediately afterwards proceeding to
Nicaragua, and purchasing a sugar plantation
forSSU,UOU, they think conclusively determines
tho meaning of that clause to bo that the re
generation of this tract of country is to consist
in bringing it again under the institution of do
mestic slavery. If the area of slavery were
not already too extensive for the number of our
slaves, we might confess that the policy, even
so interpreted, would be a wise one—but as
we have already too much laud for lubor, we
cannot confess that the policy has been dictated
by Southern influence. The following are the
facts in reference to this movement at Nicara
gua. Nicaragua, prior to 1838, was a ineuber
of the central Ameicun confederacy, embracing
also the four other States of Honduras, Gua
temala, Sau Salvador and Costa Rica. In 1838,
she dissolved hero connection with that confed
eracy, but perpetuated its decrees, one of
which abolished slavery. This was, in all prob
ability, objectionable to Walker as it may have
tended to arrest Southern emigration and it
was perhaps un act of very wise policy upon
his part, whether influenced by Mr. Soule or
not, to abrogate the law, aud tnrow the country
opetyis well to the property as to the citizens
of the Southern States. —Charleston Standard.
Fatal Accident.
The body of an unknown man was found
lying on the track of the Georgia Railroad,
near the five mile station, on Thursday morn
ing. Ho was a passenger on the down tain
of Wednesday evening, and is supposed to
have fallen otf, being intoxicated. As the tick
ets had been collected, he was not missed.—
We learn there was a considerable amount of
money found ou his body, but no clue to his
name, or residence. He is supposed to be a
Tennesseean. —Augusta Sentinel.
TELEGRAPHIC.
Telegraphed to tho Daily Sun.
Owing to tho excessive charge of electricity
in the atmosphere last night, we failed to re
ceive our usual telegraphic dispatches.
Additional by the Arabia.
The London Times in its money article of
the 11th says that the next monthly statement*
of the Banks of England and France will be
looked for with great anxiety, and it is believ
ed will show a great diminution in unemploy,
ed notes.
The discount applications at the Bank of
England in a single day amounted £1,000,0011
a great part of which would fall due on Mon
day 13th. On the same day, however, divi
dends and quarterly annuities would full ,], le
so that no relief is to bo expected from that
score.
Professor Morse has convinced all who have
consulted him, of the entire feasibility of tel
egrnpliic correspondence across the Atlantic.
New York Market.
New York, Oct. 24. —The day’s business i n
Cotton sums up 1,000 bales, at figures allow
our last reports. The quotations were, fit,
lands Fair 18J, Orleans Middling 12£.
Flour has also moved, quotations up to
$7.25 a $7.00 for Southern.
Wheat goes slowly at $1.57, Red, and $1.7:;
White. Corn unchanged.
Spirits Turpentine have declined to 441 c.
Transactions in Rice ai-e given of 700'tier
ces at 5.
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The Elections.
Columbia, Oct. 24. — The official returns
from the several counties of Pennsylvania have
all been roceived at Harrisburg, and the Dem
ocratic majorities stand:
For Canal Commissioner 2,774
Surveyor General 3,735
Attorney General 3,207
The Senate of Pennsylvania, it appear*,
will have a fusion majority of 3; the House a
Democratic majority of o—showing a joint
ballot majority of 3 for the democrats.
Telegraphic Rumors.
New York, Oct. 22. — 1 t. is rumored that
several parties are engaged in fitting out sla
vers, in consequence of the recent, decree of
President Walker re-establishing slavery in
Nicaragua.
From llio Charleston Mercury.
The Protestant Episcopal Church.
Messrs. Editors: It may not have passed
away yet from your memories, that some year
or so ago, you quoted the New York “Church
man,” in of proof Abolitionism beingrifein ihe
Protestant Episcopal Church, and predicted
the division of said Clmrcli, as of other l’ro
testaut. bodies, on the question of slavery.
Neither may you, perhaps, have forgotten
that I noticed your editorial, and informed
you that, the “ Churchman” had long sunk
100 low in the estimation of most people to lie
taken as any exponent of opinion in this
Church. Aud further, that I had hever, dur
ing a ministery of more than a quarter of a
century, met with a single clergyman of our
church who would allow that lie was an Abo
litionist, excepting only one, who was reput
ed to be half crazy.
Since then, and within a few months, an
other has prostituted the pulpit to the utter
ance of such sentiments; but lias been re
quested by his own Vestry to send in his re
signation, and been condemned by the uni
versal voice of all our church papers, even the
one published in Boston.
The General Convention of the church, com
posed of Deputies, Clerical and Lay, and
Bishops from every quarter of our civil Un
ion, and numbering thirty-two Bishops, one
hundred and thirty in Clergymen, and seventy
two Laymen, in attendance, has now been in
session more than a fortnight. In its lower
house are some of the most distinguished law
yers and politicians of the whole country
such as the Chief Justices, present or pre
vious, of Vermont, Alabama and North Caro
lina —.Judges from Maryland and Pennsylva
nia ; besides some who have been, or are,
prominent in the Senate and House of Repre
sentatives at Washington.
These, with not a few of our most eminent
clergymen, have been discussing questions of
Diocessan aud general legislation, and of the
limits and functions of the two respectively,
involving the whole Judiciary system of the
church. The gravest martyrs have, of course,
been brought into earnest consideration; for
example, the rules of evidence, the persons
who shall be witnesses, and sundry other top
ics, which any of your intelligent readers will
perceive are of extreme delicacy in the pres
ent excited conditiun of the public mind.—
We have just passed the last of several days
in what must be the “test question,” the ex
perimentum crucis in an Episcopal Church—
the Canon for the trial of Bishops. The
ablest men in the Convention have been at
work upon it. It has been debated with the
utmost freedom. The keenest intellects have
sharpened each other’s wits in shaping its in
tricate framework. And yet, from first to
last, through the whole debate, (with the ex
ception of a single speech, which, though in
flammatory enough, fell like a spark upon the
water,) not a word lias escaped from any one.
however, fur away in the North, or the Fast
or the West, which might, not. have been spok
en at the corner of Broad and Meeting streets,
and would not have met approval there.
Ay, more; we Southerners have been greet
ed with most cordial affection, listened to with
respectful attention, and treated altogether
with such fraternal consideration, that our
hearts are very full of love in return, and ot
thankfulness to God. South Carolina and
Massachusetts on the best of terms : New
York and Virginia exchange and interchange
continual courtesies ; Ohio and Mississippi
are arm in arm ; Maine and Texas go side by
side ; and, the whole Convention in hnih
Houses, by acclamation, agree to meet next
south of Mason and Dixon’s line, in Rich
mond, Va., expressly to give proof to the
Southern brethren of confidence and affection,
and evidence to all the rest of the world that,
however, conscientiously we may differ, even
about the “ (jues/io vexata” of the day, weal
are determined that we will not, thereib>' e >
break the bond of Christian fellowship; b" 1
would rather, if we may, help with that
lowship to stay the torrent, which also may
sweep away the fabric of our civil Union.
Yours, respectfully,
I’AUL TRAPIER-
Large Egg Plant-
Dr. W. L. Williams seut to our office a e
days ago, the largest egg plant that wo hau
seen this season. It weighed 5 pounds, !l
measured 22 inches injcircumference. — Ore* it’
bar,(Ala. )Beoeon.
Cooper K. Watson, of Ohio, who was
to Congress two years ago by 2,781 ma.i rl
and this year is defeated by a Democrat, ‘is •
man,” says tbe Chicago Times, “ w ' lo
Jim Lane’s challenge to Douglas. I l| e P e '’’ ,
of his District did not think Jim Lane s sec
a fit man to represent them.”