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COLUMBUS: Friday Morning, Oct. .'Il f 1856. liAROEltf CITV CIRCULATIOU. Tho citizens oi 1 Columbus are respectfully requested to notice the fact that Mr. J. M. Hughes is a candidate for City Marshal. He has heretofore idled the office and we have no doubt he can give satisfaction to all. Head his announcement. Montgomery Daily Messenger. We have received the third number of tho Daily Messenger, a small nows and commer cial paper, recently started in Montgomery, Alabama, by P. 11. llrittau, Esq., late of the Advertiser and Gazette. The Messenger is a lively sheet, and gotten up in decided good taste. Wo wish it God speed in tho career of usefulness to the business public of Montgom ery, and of pecuniary profit to its worthy and deserviug conductor. Prom “ small aoorns tall oaks grow.” The columns of tho Messenger exhibit quite a number of business advertisements, which show that the merchants of that city look with favor on the enterprise. This should cheer its ‘ conductor. • When we put forth our bantling, some fif teen months ago, its columns exhibited two solitary advertisements for which we had any prospect of pay, and at tho expiration of the first six mouths, our books presented the be gardly spectacle of loss than one hundred dol lars charged for advertisements. Uuawed, however, by the gloomy prospect thus present ed, we persevered—moved steadily on, and we think we can now safely say the columns of the Sun exhibit a local advertising equal to any of its uucieut competitors. Its circula tion is also fast extending, both in tbo Country and City. Parties, who, at first were most skeptical as to its success, and least disposed to take it, are now among its most stanch and reliable friends. Tho Sun is now out of the woods and firmly on the groat road to prosper ity. It is to its columns that the business men of Columbus and surrounding country now look for light to guide them safely on, and its disappearance from tho surface, many say, would be a serious public calamity. To us, its support for the first twelve months, was a calamity, which is now being repaired by the generous support of a community, whose prejudice, it may bo said, wo have honorably conquered. A private letter received in Savannah from Kansas, dated Kansas City, Oct. loth, says : 44 Gov. Geary has one hundred and two of Lane’s army prisoners. They were before an examining Court last week, and eighty of them committed for murder in the first degree, twenty-two for robbery. 1 hope wo will have a hig tight-ropo dance soon.” Tho Legislature of Indiana. As far as hoard from, tho Legislature of In diana stands us follows; HOUSE. Democrats 42 Fusionists 12 Democratic majority 30 SEX ATE. Democrats 10 Fusionists 4 Democratic majority 6 Our neighbor of tho Enquirer and Mont gomery Mail having been considerably exer cised at our endorsement of the Democracy of Mr. Willard, tho successful candidate, over tho Ulack Republican forces in Indiana, for their especial edification, we give bolow a short extract from a recent spoech delivered, by that gentleman at Louisville, Ky. lie had just emerged from the smoko and din of a battle-tichl, in which ho and his gal lant cohorts had maintained themselves erect and undismayed—in which they had been sub ject to the shafts of Abolitionism and Know Nothingisui. The battle was won by no combination or coalition. Tho Democracy, confiding alone in the purity of their princi ples and the certainty of public justice, had encountered all the vile and fanatical isms of the day, and were rewarded with success. Nor was that victory achieved by fraud. Every man, woman and child in Indiana know that the Democracy fought tho contest with no weapons hut those of honest argument and won their triumph at the ballot-box by no other means than tho will of the majority of tho legally constituted voters. The great is sue presented and discussed—that, upon which tho struggle was made—was tho doctrine of nonintervention in the government of territories. For that he had plead with all his powers. He was opposed to any inequality in tho rights of the States in tho public domain, lie was op posed to any restriction concerning their set tlement. lie desired tho free people of the territories to choose for themselves their institutions. This was the doctrine ho had preached, and this is tho doctrine of tho National Democratic party. It was that doctrine which its orators proclaimed in the North and the South. The importance of this struggle has not been over estimated. Tho Union had been on tho verge of a dissolution—quite as much so as when tho glorious Olay, emerging from tho shades of Ashland, had rushod to its rescue in 1850— and that danger was not yet averted unless tho South eauio up to tho rescue and united with tho Northern crushing out tho common foe of the Union, which is Hlack Republican ism. Vet here in Kentucky there are men—a party even—engaged in abetting these enemies and traitors. They had done it in the late canvass by counselling and advising the peo ple of Indiana to vote for lilock Ropnblican candidates. There gentlemen, is tho position of tho “ Sham Democracy” of Indiana. Won’t it do even for the latitude of Columbus and Mont gomery. Mr. Delane, the managing editor of tho Lon don Times, it is said, comes to this county to pick out an American editor to place among tho corps of able writers attached to the col umns of “The Thunderer”—to select a persou sufficiently well informed to take charge of American affairs in that famous journal, and write on the subject with tho proper amount of knowledge in regard to our country, its habits, its population, its institutions, its statesmen, its policy, politics, and politicians. Do is to havo six thousand a year, a comforta ble berth, a position of honor, and an opportu nity to do his native laud a service.— Albany Knickerbocker, From the I’liilmlelpliia Xortli American and U BGazette. What Issue has the Election Settled. it is said that on tho night of the election, when the assembled musses of the Democracy were made certain of the success of their tick et, in the first flush of excitement of victory some of them proposed and gavo three cheers for Preston S. Rrooks. We are not aware that any portion of the party in the North had, up to that time, defended, much less applauded, before the public, the dastardly deed of that bully and bravado. The opposition had pre sented this subject, culling upon the nation to condemn that outrage, which has faded and tarnished our fair fame before the world. The South, as far as its public organs could do it, approved the act; and set up the “club” to preside over our national legislation. Hut the party at the North, throughout the whole canvass, ignored the question. Yet, as when “wine is in, truth comes out,” in the intoxica tion of success, the crowd remembered Hrooks, and sent up to tho heavens a shout of applause for the hero of the bludgeon. Does not this look as though they ignored the question for political purposes, but sympathized with the southern view of it, and considered that the success of their parly would be n popular en dorsement of Hrooks and the club law? But the shouting, limited in its extent, may not be regarded as so significant of this, as the fact that the members of Congress who voted ap proval of his deed, are returned to their seats, and a large majority, having the same political sympathies, are returned with them, to take the places of those who voted to expel that ruffian from the House. Whatever the real signifi cance of tho election may be, Hrooks will feel himself endorsed by it, and those of his way of thinking, will be apt to look upon it as the pop ular verdict of Pennsylvania in favor of the su premacy of the club law, and the subjugation of the freedom of debate. Brooks is, hence forth, the great lion of the House —whether really entitled to a lion’s hide or a “calf-skin,” is still an unsettled point. The great issue was on tho question of sla very extension. Two y- ars ago, the people of Pennsylvania elected, by large majorities, a delegation to Congress who were almost unani mous in condemning, and in seeking to reverse, the whole slavery policy of the Administration. The wrong which the people at that time condemned, lias since then been augmented fif ty fold. We then ask, whether that Congress, elected two years ago, did not truly represent the principles ami the wishes of those who elected them? Wore not the people of Penn sylvania then, as ever before, opposed to the extension of slavery over free territories ? Docs the aggravation of the original wrong (which they then voted to redress) by tho ad dition of all the subsequent frauds and out rages upon Kansas, disarm the people of their former hostility, and incline them now to be friend and favor that which so recently they condemned and opposed ? Have the voters changed their views in respect to tho great principles at issue ? llow, then, arc we to in terpret the result of last week’s election, in its bearing on the question of slavery extension ? Does it mean that Pennsylvania has abandoned former ground of indexible and determined opposition to the principle? Wo doubt not that it will be so interpreted at tho South ; and we greatly fear that this will he regarded as its rightful meaning in that Congress where those newly elected re presentatives will bo called to act. If it was so difficult last winter to obtain a committee simply to investigate the wrongs of Kansas, there is not the least ground of hope that in the ensuing Congress, into which this delega tion is infused, a solitary wrong that Kansas has endured, will be redressed. The whole Stringfcllow and Atchison scheme is rendered practically triumphant by this vote of Penn sylvania, and by the election of those repre sentatives. The repeal of the Missouri Com promise, once so earnestly resisted, is now pas sively acquiesced in. Nothing was wrong a few months ago, but it is right now. Whitfield comes back triumphant, and takes his seat in Congress. The Kansas Legislature, elected by Missouri invaders and forced upon the peo ple of the territory, is rendered legitimate, and occupies its seat as proudly as the once usurping, but now the legitimate Emperor of the French. Its laws that were deemed so hor rid and atrocious, now enveloped in tho daz zling halo of triumph, will stand upon the sta tute book, (with perhaps a little softening of the outline, a drawing in of some of the mon ster’s claws under his velvet feet,) and will fur nish precedents for future tyranny and outrage. Whatever the slave propagandists ask must at once be granted when they raise the threat of dissolution, Douglas is no longer a renegade, a mercenary politician, who sold himself and his country for the honors of office, but an ap proved statesman, who shall stand up in the Senate, inflated with new volumes of arrogance and self conceit, and with a loud and boastful tongue, put to silence all decent men who have respectjto duty and to principle. And Pierce is taken from the slough of universal contempt, washed from the filth of his slimy deeds, robed with new honors, crowned with laurels, and held up before tho country as a very model of men and of Presidents, a tit successor to a Wash ington and a Jefferson. Trying to Make a Run on n Hank ! Last Saturday night, about eight o’clock, a white man disguised ns a negro, called Mr. James Farley, of tho Hanking House of John llenley & Cos., from his residence, on the pre tence that someone wanted to see him at the Hanking House. Mr. Farley went, but did not go the way the negro indicated—through a vacant lot. When he got to the Hank, he found no one wishing to see him, and suspect ing something, ho sent the police to tho vacant lot. The conspirators had left, but a passen ger was hailed—took fright and ran—and was shot at by tho police. Mr. F., ou his return, found the pretended negro near his house, and after some conver sation, drew a pistol and ordered him to stand —but he didn’t. Mr. Farley tired at him as ho ran. The object of all this manuocuvering was to got Mr. Farley to a rather secluded spot,* and to rob hiui of tho Hank keys. lie had ’been warned a day or two previously, that certain suspicious persons habitually lurked about his premises of an evening. They were perfectly well known by sight to a number of persons in town. They have temporarily withdrawn from society, we understand. In this case the Bank made tbc run on the outsiders—showing a healthy financial condi tion.—Mont. Mail. A good looking friend of ours, who is ou this side of forty, though somewhut'hoary-heudod. whilo absent from the city a few days, used Prof. Wood’s Hair Restorative, and on his re turn called to see Lis lady-love, but was sur prised and amused to find she did not recog nize him, and immediately determined to pass fora cousin of himself; but was eventually chagrined to find he was supplanting his for mer self in the affections of the lady, which caused him to make himself known ; but the lady still says that she likes the counterfeit better than the original, and insists that lie contiuue (if necessary) to use tho iiair Re storative.— St. Louis Herald. Nicaragua. A Virginian traveling in Nicaragua, in a letter to the Petersburg Express, thus de scribes this new edeu: This country is the most beautiful 1 ever beheld, notwithstanding my wanderings in the far West. You can form no just conception of the variety of fruits and flowers that bloom and grow perpetually. The rivers are per fect panoramas of all that can delight tho eye. They are interspersed with innumerable is lands, and the lakes are fringed with moun tains, whose lofty summits seemingly pierce the skies. The bosoms of these beautiful sheets of water, are gemmed with floating is lands, covered with evergreen, and which move about, adding interest to the scene. To such as are fond of nature in its wilder aspects there are five volcanoes, the smoke aud fire of which may be seen at a great dis tance—presenting at night a scene of awful grandeur. The burning lava which has been ejected from these stupendous works of na ture, are visible for miles, having formed into an immense field of rock. The natives have much the appearance, so far as complexion is concerned, of newly tan ned leather, and appear to be a cross of the Indian, Mexican and Spaniard. The females, generally, are good looking ; but the better classes havo all left tho towns through which I have passed. ‘They dress in the most costly muslins (flounced) and embroidered in gorge ous style with silver and gold spangles. They wear a small flap, resembling a baby’s “bib,” ovor the bosom. This flap is gathered into small folds or plaits, and trimmed with pink, crimson, or purple ribbon, as fancy may sug gest, the whole richly bedizened with spangles. Their hair, which is very luxuriant, is neatly plaited, and hangs down their backs. A few wear slippers upon their feet, but the majority go barefoot. A scarf thrown over their shoul ders, which serves the double purpose of shawl and veil, completes the toilet. Tire Troy Factory, Columbus, Ga. We walked through the AVare Rooms of the Troy Factory, in this city, recently, and were surprised and gratified, as well at the quantity as the quality, of the wares, on hand. AVo found chairs piled on chairs, tubs on tubs, bucdiets on buckets, and any quantity of bed steads, bureaus, tables, wardrobes and wasn stauds ; all cf which were made of Southern lumber, and manufactured by Southern hands. The following inventory of wares on hand, will give our readers some idea of the business done by Troy Factory; o,ooobuckets, s,ooochairs, 2,700 tubs, 500 churns, 250 bedsteads, &c., &c. These wares are sold, by the Troy Factory company, cheaper, we learn, than they can be procured from the Northern markets, and yet, we are surprised to learn that several of our merchants have, this year, made purchases of similar goods at New York. We also learn that the Troy Factory is able to double the amount of their present product, and would do so, if the demand justified it; and further, that the demand would be equal to their capacity to manufacture', if tho charges upon the Railroads entering Columbus were not so high as to make it unprofitable to ship their goods over one hundred miles from the city. The wares of the Troy Factory are of the best quality, and in finish, are equal to the best imported articles. Wo are gratified to have the opportunity of calling public attention to this instance of the success of Southern enterprise, in the hope of stimulating competition in every branch of manufacture with the North. All that is ne cessary to make the South independent of New England is for our people to believe that they can successfully compete with the Yankees.— Times. Report of tile Comjilroller of Texas. AVe are indebted to Mr. AV. 11. S. Verstille, lormerly of this city, but for some years past a resident of Wardville, Texas, for a copy of this document, showing tho operations of the Comptroller’s office for the past two years, and the present financial condition of the State.— The receipts for the two years, including the means on hand in Oct. 1858, were $4,522,000, and the expenditures $2,907,000, leaving a balance in the Treasury of $1,615,000. The amount of Special School Fuud is $2,241,000, and of General School Fund $40,000. The Comptroller recommends that the balance of the “Revenue Debt” be discharged; when, he says: 44 AVe would then present a condition, as regards our finances, which few States of the Union could exhibit—a Government out of debt, with a surplus of over a million of dol lars in tlie Treasury—a permanent 5 per cent School Fund of ten millions of dollars—an un appropriated public domain, estimated at one hundred millions of acres, which if judiciously used would subserve all the purposes of inter nal improvements required by the State, and a tax lighter than is imposed on any other peo ple, and which is adequate to all the wants of the Government.” The aggregate amount of taxable property is very nearly $150,000,000, being an increase of $22,500,000, over the previous year. The present financial condition of the State is highly satisfactory, and calculated to inspire confidence in its ability to carry out the grand schemes of internal improvement to which the aid of the State is pledged.— Sav. Ears. A Rare Prospectus. Morton of the Nebraska News, sends forth the following rare specimen of newspaper pros pectus : The over subscribed individual owns and will (as far as heard from), hereafter control the printing institution above mentioned, lie is a Democrat and a farmer, goes for Buell and Rreck, hog and hominy, and individual inde pendence. Squatters in favor of patronizing a squatter organ—a Nebraska Journal, whose aim shall bo to crush out evil in all places, to down land sharks and to build up the interests of bondage settlers—are hereby informed that Tho News is that paper. Politicians will be slain, skinned aud boiled for weekly consumption of subscribers, as often as public taste may require, while those that rot out themselves, will be removed with as lit tle stench as possible, and in a manner not to offend the most fastidious. The overscribed has nover been whipped, and it is at present, his intention never to be, whilo Colt’s speaking trumpheta continue to utter their melifluent notes at sight, and his legs continue their present amount of celerity. Those who wunt the News can have it as above stated, and those who don’t want it are proba bly ignorant persons who can’t read. ■ The London Morning Chronicle, one of Queen Victora’s organs, deplores the election of Mr. Buchanan for this reason. It said: “We should be sorry to see Mr. Buchanan elected, because he is in favor of preserving the obnoxious institutions ns they exist, and unity of tho States. There is no safety for European monarchial governments if the pro gress ve pirit of Democracy of the U. States is allowed to succeed. Elect Freuiout, and the fret blow to the separation of the United Stat. is elected ? ” Mysterious Affair. In consequence of information, says the Mo bile Tribune, received from Mr. Bolton, a gen tleman residing on the Pascagoula road, Mar shal Alaury, accompanied by Deputy Scollick, went yesterday to investigate a strange and probably foul transaction. About four or five miles from tho city there is a dense swamp, near which a deep ditch and bank, covered i with Cherokee rose bushes, running off at right nngles with the road. In this ditch, a short distance to tiic right of the road, was found a rough plank box seven feet long by two deep and two feet broad, which box had been thrown bottom up into the ditch. The box contained a pillow, two coarse linen sheets, a cotton-flan nel under-shirt, and a coarse linen shirt, all deeply died with blood. AVe are informed by Air. Maury that on the spot were seen indications of a horse having been tied to a tree, and the remnant of a match, which had been lighted; but nothing could be ascertained as to what had been done with the body which the box had probably contained. Upon a close examination the offi cers found a hole, evidently cut with a knife, in the back of the under-shirt, and one in the other shirt corresponding—both of which wero saturated with blood all over, but more entire ly just around the place which was cut. The bottom of the box or coffin was stained also with blood in a place corresponding with the hides in the shirts. From this they inferred that the man it had contained had been stab bed in the back between tho shoulders, and from the match that these things had been placed there at night. The box was made of new rough plank, nearly two feet wide, and was evidently hasti ly constructed. It had no top or lid, and there was no appearance that it had been clos ed at the top at all. Tho shirts had been rip ped down in front, apparently with a knife. The officers inform us that the sheets, pillow case, shirts, &c., wero country made, and dif ferent from any made in the city, or sold in our stores, and that they judge them to have been where they now arc two or three weeks. One of the sheets was marked with indelli blc ink, with (as well as can be made out) the name of M. A. Bickley, and the pillow case was marked either S. Hanly or P. Ilauly.— There are no other marks on the clothes. The Marshal seems to think that some flat boatman or raftman has been murdered and plundered, and the body thus disposed of. If any of our country readers recognize either of the names given, we trust they will forward prompt information for the satisfaction of the police, as from all the circumstances, we fear there has been a foul deed perpetrated. The officers, assisted by a neighbor, search ed the swamp as thoroughly as their time would permit, but were unable to find any traces of the body. The Planter aiul Housekeeper. Effects of heat upon meat. —A well cooked piece of meat should be full of its own juice or natural gravy. lu roasting, therefore, it should bo exposed to a quick lire, that the ex ternal face may be made to contract at once and the albumen to coagulate, before the juice has had time to escape from within. And so in boiling. AVhen a piece of beef or mutton is plunged into boiling water, the outer part con tracts, the albumen, which is near the surface coagulates, and the internal juice is prevented either from escaping into the water by which it is surrounded, or from being diluted or wea kened by the admission of water among it.— AVhen cut up, therefore, the meat yields much gravy, and is rich in flavor. Hence a beef steak or mutton-chop is done quickly and over a quick fire, that the natural juices may be re tained. On the other hand, if the meat be exposed to a slow tire, its pores remain open, the juice continues to flow from within, as it has dried from the surface, and the flesh pines, and be comes dry, hard, and unsavory. Or if it be put into cold or tepid water, which is after wards brought to a boil, much of the albumen is extracted before it coagulates, the natural juices for the most part flow out, and the meat is served in nearly a tasteless state. Hence, to prepare good boiled meat, it should be put at once into water already brought to a boil. But to make beef tea, mutton broth, and other meat soup, the flesh should be put into cold water, and this very slowly warmed, and finally boiled. The advantage derived from simmering, a term not unfrequont in cookery books, depends very much upon slow boiling as above explained.— Chemistry of Common Life. Wonderful Transformation. Two fair ladies were reading the other day Byron’s “Prisoner of Cliilon.” That is, one lady was pretending to read it aloud to the other lady. No woman has ever been, now is, or ever will be capable of listening without in terrupting. So, that at the very commence ment, whon the reader read tho passage— “ Mow grew it white In a single night, As men’s have grown from sudden fears: ” the listener interposed as follows : White! How odd, to bo sure! AVell, I know nothing about men’s hair: but there is onr friend, Mrs. G , of Twelfth street, tho lady who has just been twenty-nine years old for the last fifteen years—her husband died you know, last winter, at which misfortune her grief was so intense that her hair turned completed black within twenty-four hours af ter the occurrence of that sad event. Commercial Bank of Brunswick. It will bo remembered that the last Legisla ture chartered a bank with the above name, to ho located in this city. The charter is based upon the very stringent, but safe principles of the South Carolina Banks, so as to render its circulation entirely safe to the community. It was feared by many that this would be a bar to its goiug into operation. For speculative purposes it would—and was so intended. It is therefore with unfeigned pleasure we an nounce to our readers that the stock has been taken by a company of capitalists, prominent among whom are the Messrs. Philips, Moffitt iSc, Cos., of Columbus, who design putting the Bank in operation as soon as the plates can be obtained, and other necessary arrangements made.— Brunswick Herald. llow Indiana was Carried. Tho New York Tribune has an article on the recent defeat of the Republicans in Indiana, in which it confesses that its friends “were over whelmed at the State election by a wholly un expected surge of tho Fillmore vote over to the Iluchanau ranks.” It says also that there were thousands of immigrant laborers who would not vote the Republican ticket for tho sole reason that “it had one Fillmore man ou it.” So much for the Democratic triumph in Indiana. The statements are made by the Tribune on the authority of private letters from Indiana.— Sac. Rep. Mighty sorry, ain’t you, Air. Republican? Accltleul. Air. John Slidell, machinist, employed on board the steamer Relief, now lying at the lower wharves, had his thigh broken in two places, yesterday, by the falling of a largo wheel which he was engaged in rolling.— Sav. Rep. TELEGRAPHIC, i Telegraphed to the Daily Sun. From New Orleans New Orleans, Oct. flo The cotton market to-day, was easier l, u N not quotably lower. Sales of the day J bales. The first fifteen half borrels of Aloh ses (new crop) was offered to-day and broim 62c. per gallon. Other articles unchanged From Charleston. Charleston, Oct. 30. The sales of cotton to-day were fiifteen h Ull dred bales, at full prices, market closing f lri , Aliddling Fair 11 |c. Later from Kansas. AVasiiington, Oct. 28.—Geary’s official port is received, giving the particulars of t|. late arrest. The emigrants, he says, armed for resistance to the constituted arnica j ities. Geary explained to them his dettir j nation to suppress all illegal bauds; when tin dissolved organization and greeted him wi’ cheers. The LaGrauge Fire. The Reporter of yesterday morning, ,>i Vo . the losses sustained by the lute fire in p . > Grange: T. J. Thornton, two buildings and a few 01 houses—sß,ooo. J. J. Jacobe, loss in goods, household fur niture, &c,, —not known. • C. C. Nirnitz, loss iu goods, household fm ;] niture &c., —$800. P. Prophitt, loss in Daguerrean instruments —sl,ooo. Airs. AVitham, loss in Millinery goods &c i —52,000. Dr. Johnson, loss in Dental instrument*— I SSOO. Dr. N. N. Smith, one building, together wh;, medicines, surgical instruments, &o.—about S2OOO. Dr. C. Holt, medicines, instruments. &c. k I the office with Dr. Smith, S3OO. Bradfield & Boyd, one building, occupied by 1 Whitfield & Reid—slsoo. Whitfield & Reid, loss goods S6OOO ; insur- (I ance SBOOO. AV. A Pullen, one building and ware houn- I occupied by Lane & Kidd—slsoo. Lane & Kidd, loss in goods SSOOO ; no in ! surance. The house occupied by Halpin & Alter* SIOOO. Halpin & Myers', loss iu goods—ssoo. John Douglass, brick building, occupied hv J. S. & AV. P. Herring and J. T. Turner & Co’ r S2OOO. J. S. & AV. P. Herring, loss in goods—S3 - j 000. | J. T. Turner & Cos., loss in goods not known; fully insured. S. A. McCosli, building occupied by Mr Pike—ssoo. Making an aggregate loss amount to about I $30,000. Many of the losses may be found to exceed the estimates given above: nor can a faithful and accurate account be given until the mer chants shall have had time to examine their goods carefully. A suspension bridge is to be built across the Alississippi, at St. Louis, Missouri, to be eighty-four feet above high water mark, and more than a mile in length, The greatest dis tance between towers will be 1800 feet, and the foundation of some of the towers will be 60 feet below the surface of low water. Air. J. W. Bissel, of Rochester, New York, has re ceived the appointment of engineer. The bridge is expected not to cost less than two million of dollars. A Beautiful Lake Discovered. We learn from the Henderson (Iowa) Dem ocrat that on the Bth of September last, liclw. ’ Doulin and Matthew Wilson discovered a beau tiful lake, five and one half miles in circum ference, in Sibley county, township 14. On the 4th inst. a large number of ted together and gave tho lake the name of “ Luke Washington.” Female wages arc still very high in Califor nia. Advertisements in San Francisco paper offer S6O a mouth, for a woman and S4O for a girl. A letter says—“lt would astonish you to see some of our servant girls in full rig in Alontgomerv street A $75 blue velvet dress a S3O bonnot, gold chains aud big cameos to match are not at all unfrequent.” John Mannoni, a merchant of Charlottsviile, Va., was recently arrested on a requisition from the Governor of Pennsylvania, and car ried to Philadelphia, on the charge of obtain ing goods on false pretences, lie was honora bly acquitted on the 6th inst., and has com menced suit for SIO,OOO damages against the merchants on whose oath the requisition was issued. Brigham Young has of late been making some important prophecies—among others, that if Utah is not admitted into the Union they would set up an independent government, and that the Lord will protect them iu it.— They have been emboldened to this by the news which was received there from the Btate: respecting tho Kansas difficulties, which, coin ing as it did, very much exaggerated, led them to believe that the dissolution of the Union was at hand. An Awful Tragedy. At Ballinrobe, in Galway, Ireland, the wile of a farmer, named McGrath, left her two lit tle children while she went to bring a kettle of hot water to scald the churn she was about to use for making butter. The eldest clou meantime forced the baby into tho churn, no the mother unwittingly, scalded it to death- Rendered frantic by tho discovery, she threw a stool at the other child, which killed it, aii'J then drowned hertelf. Large Donation. There is on foot at Chicago a plan to esta lish a Presbyterian University a few miles iii'i of that city. A few days ago, Mr. yylvestf Lind, of that place, presented to the Tru-te the magnificent sum ofouo hundred tlioust* ■ dollars, with the condition that s4o,o<Hl f shall be used for the benefit of professorship aud the income of $60,000 shall be perpetual. applied for preparing young men for the nun * try. The institution is to be called the “h*-- University.” A Boston paper says one of the fact- 1 in evidence at a trial in the Supreme Com sustain the will of the late Win. Russell, that only a few- days before he made the he called at the office of the Democrat. - 1 ’ ‘ paid for his paper a year in advance, thun saving fifty cents. The fact was dwelt to at length t>y the counsel, and commented . on by the judge as one of great impor l The verdict of the jury would seem to tho proposition that a man who bus enough to pay for his newspaper in advam- 1 is competent to make a will.