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CHRONICLE & SENTINEL ■IAII.V TKI-WKEKLY. AND WKHtC’ BY W. S. JONES The American Minister In China —Inierest- ing Description of an Interview with the Commissioners. The American Minister to China, Hon. Mr. Ward, had an interview at Woosung on the 2d of June, with the Impelial Commissioners. The offi cial call wap made with that pomp which is neces eary in China to command attention. A letter to the New York Journal of Commerce thus de scribes it: The grand Imperial Commissioners, who negotia ted the three treaties, the American, French, and English, the last year, at Tien-tein, and who were to conclude them upon the arrival of the respective Ministers of these different governments, had long been in Shanghai or the neighborhood, upon whom Mr. Ward arranged to make his first official call in .he afternoon of Thursday, June 2d. Our Minister, to vigor of intellect and great strength, prompti tude and decision of character, adaa the utmost simplicity of manners, as a strong-minded man can well alTord to do, the pomp and parade ot orieutal diplomacy being held at their true value, while at the same time he is not ignorant of his position or unwilling to meet the conditions it imposed, Ac cordingly arrangements were made to appear before the two Imperial Commissioners, the two highest officials in the Empire, and other dignitaries to be present on the occasion, in a style corresponding in some degree with Chinese ideas of official dignity. Eighty marines from the Powhatan and Missis sippi, under the command of Captain Taylor and Lieutenant Reed, were designated as the escort, with the fine band from the Powhatan, while all the officers of both ships who were not on duty, were required to join the procession, together with the Americana resident in the city, or temporarily there. The band, mostly Germans, with their brass instruments glittering in the sun, took the lead ; then came the large company of marines, dressed in blue, with caps tied under their chins, and arms polished to the whiteness of silver, while every foot seemed to move by a common will which anima ted all; the Minister and his Buit followed, and then the officers ot the ships and American residents and others, all in palanquins borne on the shoulders of coolies, some carried by two and others by four, according to the weight or taste of the occupant, or the courage aud bone and muscle of the bearers.— The coolies were dressed for the occasion, and humble as is their vocation and poor their usual dress, at the presentation they looked manly aud even attractive in the strange and fantastic garb they wore. They were shoeless, but not sans culottes, all wearing blue calico pants and a white lrock bordered with an inch of flaming red, while their heads were covered with white straw hats rising to a point, aud resembling a dish cover, to the top of which red siik was tied in skeins, and sporting in the wind, or moved by the jolts, grace full covered the whole cap. We approached lhe wall, the crowds still increas ing; we entered the gate and plunged into a solid mass of humanity, about five feet aud a halt deep from top to bottom, and ten feet wide on each side of the streets, aud at least two miles long. Such a sight can hardly be pictured and conceived. The streets are quite narrow, paved, but dirty; the re cent rains also making them quite slippery. Seve ral canals pass through the city, containing much filth aud stagnant water, while in one place a heap of foul matter had been piled up for manure, near ly as high as the bouses, and covering a large square. According to Chinese fashion, few of the houses are above one story high, all joined together in solid blocks, with the front rooms used for stores and workshops. Occasionally narrow strips of board painted red and covered with gilt Chinese characters, suspended by the doors of the shops, served to give a little taste and variety to the scene; while not a tree, nor a plant, nor a garden, or a plot of the narrowest dimensions, could be seen. No thing was to be seen but solid masses of men, wo men aud children without hats, without bonnets, without shoes, and almost and often quite naked, treading upon each other, pressing upon each other, overtopping each other, reaching from the side of the street back to the side of the houses, filling up all the space under the projecting roofs, and then the rooms used for stores ana workshops lying back, whiie at the corners of the streets we turned the eye could reach the same solid human flesh filling the entire street for a long distance. There was no movement; there was no out cry ; not a voice was heard, nor was the expression of excitement, or admiration, or dislike, seen on a single countenance. The most perfect order pre vailed, and the most stolid indifference. Such pas sionless faces in the adult disgusted one, while the little children, held by the hand or carried in the arms, who in America would have been on the <jui f. at hearing such straus and seeing such an im posing procession, were equally apathetic, never laughing, never crying, nor even apparently won dering. All looked like two tiers of consolidated human flesh, each two miles long, from the upper surface of which innumerable heaas were thrust up, like those of frogs in a pool or puddle. How they could live was a grave question, and where they could live not less eo. Degradation and im mortality must be the necessary result, which are the well known characteristics oi this immense portion ot the human race. I could but thank Heaven for the broad domain ol our own country, which tor innumerable ages will forbid the sane density of population and the came brutal life. Turning streets, crossing bridges, and ever meet ing the same dull and aipgusting aspect, at length, when we had marched about two miles, the walls arose on the other side of the city, as an unearthly style of music euddeDly bursting upon the ear an nounced that we had reached the Governor's y amun, or paiace, where the reception was to take place. Entering a miserable gate, we proceeded through a narrow court into a sorry buildiDg, cov ering considerable ground, but only one story high, and cut up into various apartments, connected by narrow and dark passages, through which two individuals could not walk abreast. There was a small attendance of sub-officials and servants, and no military. The narrow, dark passages through which we passed into the reception room, awaken ed a suspicion that they were playing a ruse, and about to conduct us down into the cellar or up into the garret, till we were relieved by the thought that in China garret and cellar there are not. En tering at length the reception room, about 31) feet square, with doors opening in front into a small court, and without windows in the rear or on either side, and all of the plainest workmanship, with strips of paper eoverea with gilt Chinese characters suspended here and there on the walls we stood in the presence of the Imperial Ministers. In the back of the room an elevation of one or two expended from side to side like a small stage, with one or two large chairs placed Lack of a table in the iront. Close to the stage on the floor below, were five arm-chairs, in which the Commissioners, Mr. Ward, end other officials, were seated, while Mr. Ward’s suite, the American officers and citi zens, were seated in a line on chairs around the rest of the room. Mr. Ward was received by the Com missioners with many smiles and bowings, and con ducted to the central chair, one of the Commie sioners being on each side, the Tartar on the right and the Chinese on the left, the two other chairs being occupied by the tcu tai. or Governor of the city and the other by the Governor General of three adjoining provinces. Mr. Martin, Ward’s in terpreter, occupied a chair immediately in front, through whom Hr. W ard and the Imperial Minis ters were able to keep up a brisk conversation, the Ministers being in such good humor as often to be guilty of an undignified laugh. The first Commissioner is said to be nearly 70 years old, wears a quiet countenance, and appears to be in full intellectual vigor. The second Com missicner is a Mancha or Tartar ; bis etont lorm and round face, and large head, indicating his race. He is 60 years old, and full of good nature and talk. He seemed to be better informed in georgraphy and about the Western nations, than the Chinese Commissioner. Kwei tsing, the Governor-General, is slender in form, of sharp features, and wears a pair of immense spectacles. He seemed to have the mo3t active intelligence of the whole, listening to every word, freely mingling iu the conversation aud his face indicating emotion and activity of thought. He holds in his hand the absolute power of life and death over nearly one hundred millions of people, or three times the population of the United States ! His salary is $60,000. Soon after the formalities of introduction, and when all bad been seated, cups of almond tea were served, which was quite agreeable, and then com mon tea, of a superior quality, the tea leaves being placed in the cup and hot water poured upon them, the quantity in each cup being sufficient for three or four libation?. After this the Commissioners withdrew, with Mr. Ward, into another part of the yamun, for private consultation, leaving, however, Wang to entertain us, who was in fine spirits, and, through the interpreter, kept up a spirited conver sation, asking questions, and, in turn, cheerfully answering them. It betrayed singular ignorance, however, or else was an attempt at deception, when he as-erted that Japan was a dependence of China ; and when asked if the Emperor had a Minister there, escaped by saying Japan was not thought of sufficient importance to be entitled to one. lie also admitted the Japanese paid no tribute. At the end of an hour we were summoned to dinner, in a much larger and better hall in the ya mun, aud separated by passages, rooms and courts, where a long table was set in European style, so far as the Chinese could doit, and knives, forks and chop sticks at each plate, that every one might consult hie own taste or skill in his style of eating. Mr. Ward occupied the centre of one side of the table, with the Commissioners on his right and left, as before. The conversation, again, was spirited ; and pleasant between our Minister and the Chinese Commissioners, the first and eldest of whom betrayed surprising iguorance of geography and the form of j the earth, inquiring whether Mr. Ward came to China by the way of India, and how Russia was ‘ situated is relation to America. Mr. Ward explain- j ed,—when the second Commissioner, the Manchu, ' as i f mortified by the ignorance of his Imperial associate, seized nervously an orange, and turning it round, expressed his idea of the turrn and motion t of the earth. What shall I say of the dishes ? “Me t miserum! Me infilicem ! Quo fugiaml" They s were innumerable and nameless. 1 succeeded in r swallowing half a tea cup full of bird’s nest soup, t the article costing above its weight in gold, and L being served yaly on the most important occasions, and as a maijp of the highest honor. Shark’s fit s had their place in the course, which I eschewed, instead of chewing, and was proceeded satisfactorily with several unknown articles, when my e.bow neighbor cried out in horror, “Bow wow meat! which instantly closed all further masticatory ope rations. The characteristic of Chinese dishes is insipidit y . These great Ministers of State are remarkable for the simplicity of their dress, nothing but their Mandarian caps, with their buttons, and the feath eu sticking out in the rear, indicating they are more than common men. I had the honor to bow t© the Prince Minister, and he returned it, as though I was his equal, if not more. Thus we met and parted, the sun being ready to go down ; and, mounting our palanquins, we marched again through the solid mass of human flesh, through which a road seemed to have been cut, like a canal through a stretch of marsh and quagmire.— Two days after, Hon. Mr. Ward gave the Imperial Commissioners a reception in return, at Messrs. Heard &• Co.’s, which was as liberal and elegant on his part as it wa~ as honorable to them. They came in great force, if not in a tasteful display, and retired with apparedtly the best feeling towards our Minister, who has obtained a strong influence over them by securing their contidence and respect. From the Columbus Enquire*. The Coat nml Management of the State Hoad. Editor Enquirer : —The mendacity of the Fede ral Union in saying the State Road should have cost but three millions, is only equalled by its au dacity in making a statement so easily disproved. Gov. Johnson commenced his outlay for road bed, right of way, bridging, iron, locomotives, cars, and depot buildings in 1854, after the road had been in operation for twelve of fifteen years. A friend of the writer made a loan to the State twenty years ago for pourposes of construction. Now, then, at the time of Johnson’s advent the road’s cost in principal and interest, commencing in 1838 or 1839, at the rate which the State had to pay for money, was not a farthing less than six millions of dollars. This I knoic to be true. The subsequent outlay made by Johnson for the purposes of construction and equipment was (according to his statement, which 1 gather from a Democratic Brown sheet, the Bainbridga Argus) $1,314,576 25—nearly half as much as the Federal Union says the road is worth, or should have cost if built by private stockholders. The items are as io flows : Locomotives, about thirty.... $241,201 35 Cars, probably three huudred 322,656 59 Buildings for Depots, &,c 211,069 62 Construction, filling in, iron aud ties, &c 539,618 69 Total $1,314,576 25 These are all legitimate outlays, necessary for doing the business of a great road, aud enabling it to do an immense amount of transportation which previously it had never been able to accomplish.— The road was relaid with heavy and expensive iron, well stocked with locomotives and cars, and well supplied with thorough accommodations for its business. After all this had been done and com pleted. in steps the big l Gov. Brown, and reaps in the harvest which Gov. Johnson has sown ready for the reaper, and says “boys, lock and see what lam doing!’’ No more iron to purchase aud put down, no more rolling stock to pay for, no more buildings to erect, and I warrant that not a dollar will be expended in repairs of machinery, road bed, bridges, Sec., more than he is compellea to do pre vious to the election. The whole game is as arrant a humbug as ever was attempted to be played off on any community. Wear and tear and depreciation of road aud machin ery is as sure as death. The next two years will tell a portion of the tale, and when the next election e mes off, woe be to the successor ! He will have to meet the question, and a sorry figure he will < u s . The money will go into the treasury at one door for receipts, and come out of the other for repairs. Mark my words. There is no economy so expen sive as the procrastination of repairs in machinery. Fair Play. A Nice Pnrty to Affiliate With. We copy bdow the “ platform" upon which the two wings of the Democracy ot New Jersey last week united in State Convention. It is abolition aud fresoil throughout, embracing Douglas’ views and his interpretation of the Cincinnati Platform, almost without do'ting an ior crossing at. It will be remembered that our neighbor the Times, a few days ago gave us to understand that it would be willing to unite with Douglas and bis followers in eupport of the nominee of the Charleston Conven tion. provided the basis was a proper one and the candidate a good man. Here s a “ basis’’ for it— it is the only one on which it can co-operate with the Democracy of New Jersey. Is this the “ en tertainment" at Charleston to which it invites the South? If so, it is co-operating with the enemies of the South upon a “ basis” hostile to our institu tions. If not, why does it not denounce and repu diate the aggressive Northern alliance formed by the Democracy of New Jersey ? It could do so with much more certainty than it can denounce in advance an imputed intention of the Southern Op position party to unite with the Seward Biack lie publicans; and we believe that it could do so with a much easier conscience, because it would have substantial facts on which to base its indignation We copy the New Jersey resolutions (which passed unanimously) just as we find them in a Douglas Democratic paper, which rejoices over them with exceeding great joy :— Columbus Ena. “The Democracy ot New Jersey, by their dele gates in Convention assembled, readopt and de clare anew their adherence to the Cincinnati plat form, and to the great Democratic doctrine of popular sovereignty, constituting their doctrine as understood by and interpreted in the Demonra ic State Convention of this S ate, held iu August, 1556, and as interpreted by President Buchanan, in' his letter accepting the Democratic nomination for the Presidency, in which he said, ‘The recent legis lation of Congress respecting domestic slavery (meaning the Nebraska Kansas act) derived, as it has been, lrom the original aud pure fountain of legitimate political power, the will of the majority, promises, ere long, to all ay the dangerous excite ment. This legis ation is founded upon principles as ancient as free government iteelf, and, in accor dance with them, has simply declared that the peo p'e of a Territory, like those of a State, shall decide for themselves whether slavery shad or sh ill not exist withiu their limits.’ “ Resolved , That we unqualifiedly condemn the doctrine of that eectional portion ot the Opposition who insist that slavery should be excluded trom the Territories by Congressional prohibition, because Congress has no power, under the Constitution, to enact any such prohibition—because such a pro hibition would be an unwarrantable and inexpe dient interference by Congress with the domestic affairs of the people of the Territories , and because an effort to enact such prohibition endangers the perpetuity of the Un'ou, and des roys the arnity and fra'ernal feelings which shoj'd exist between the people of the several St ites composing our glorious and cherished Union. “ Resolved , Toat wniie we taus condemn the Re publicau doctrine of Congressional prohibition, we with equal emphasis Condemn the doctrine recently started and now zealously advocated by extreme men. that slavery in the Territories should be fos tered and protected by llongn osional ligislation We condemn it, because it is violative of the tun damen’al principles as self-government, and w-oug and unjust in itself, terming to violate sectional agnation, untri-ndly feeling, and disunion; and because it is tn direct violation off the (Cincinnati platform, and of all the pledges mad ■by the Demo cratic parly m 1864, 1865 and 185 ti—pledges in which tin whole par y, North and South, East and West, united. “ Resolved , That vi e deeply regret, and emphati cally disapprove, of the attempts now being made to build up a party in favor of reviving the abomin able and inhuman foreign slave trade, and repeal ing the la vs oi the land enacted against it, and we earnestly desire that those laws may be rigidly enforcer!. “And wh<rea‘', the late division of the Democrat ic parly in this State related exclusively to the ad mission of Kansas ui.der the Lecompton Constitu tion, and to the acti m of the national Administra tion upon that question, both sections having cor dially approved the course of the Admiuistrat.on in other important matters and measures, and as that question has been settled, and no practical good can result from its discussion, or any expression of opinion as to the ffst action thereon therefore, "■Resolved, That ad sue. pest questions aud dis cussions should, by common consent, be dropped, leaving every Democrat to enj jy his own opinion thereon, untrammelled by any parly action or reso lutions, and that, burying tt.cse past controversies, a common and earnest effort should now be made by every New Jersey Democrat to re-establish our party in power. “ Resolved, That we highly approve of the exer tions now being made by the General Government to lessen national expenses, and in our opinion the next Congress should second the work of economy , by discarding all needless expenditures and cutting down every appropi iahon t > the lowest limit consis ■ teut with the. actual wants of the country." A Good Idea.— Thera is in Ohio a State farm es tablished for the remrmation of juvenile offenders. The farm is carried on upon a large scale, and the vagrant boys of the cities, who would otherwise be inmates of prisons, are there taught to support themselves at a business which never fails to yield a gcod return to labor. It is said that the employ ment of farming is so congenial to the active habits of the boys, that they take great delight in it, and oease to regard the establishment as a place of re straint upon them, and seldom break any of its rules. There are eighty boys in it at present. The system has its different grades of honor and its badges, and when a boy has reached the highest grade, and worn for a specific time, and with appro bation, the highest badge, he is honorably dismissed to his home and parents, and has a passport into any career of usefulness which he may choose ; his transgressions are not remembered against him. An establishment of this kind appears to us to be the best of all;kinds of reformatory schools, and might be adopted in every State with advantage. From Mexico.— The Arizona carrespondent of the St. Louis Republican, writing from Tubac, on the 17th ult., says that an express from Magdalena says independence is about to be declared in Sono ra and Chihuahua, and Gov. Pesqueiera placed at the head of affairs. Large supplies of cannon had been received and 11,000 men enlisted. Cjinmkle & Sentinel WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPT. 7, 185«. FOK GOVERNOR, WARREN AKIN, OF CASS. FOR CONGRESS—EIGHTH DISTRICT, A. R WRIGHT, OF JEFFERSON. FDR CONGRESS: 2.1 Dist.— MARCELLOS DOUGLASS, of Randolph. 3d Dist.— THOS. HARDEMAN, JR , of Bibb. 4th Dist—WM. F. WRIGHT, of Coweta. 7th Dist.-JOSHUA HILL, of Mortar. Bth Dist.—A. R. WRIGHT, of Jefferson. COE. A. R. W RIGHT’S APPOINTMENTS. At the earnest solicitation of his friends, Col A R. WRIGHT has been induced to change hi 8 list of appointments, so as to meet his opponent, be ginning at Elbertou on the 25th lost., as follows Pope Hill, Friday, 9th Sept Gibson, Saturday, 10th “ Louisville, Tuesday, 13th Sept.; Bark Camp, Wednesday, 14th Sept.; Milieu, Thursday, 15th Sept. ; Augusta, Thursday Night, 15th Sept.; Waynesboro’, fcriday, 16th Sept. Saw Dust, Saturday, 17th “ Between the 19th and 25th, the 25th and 27th, the 27th and 30tb, the 3Uth and Ist September, the Ist and 3d, the 3d and 6th, I will till any appoint ment our friends may make for me, that will enable me to meet the next regular succeeding one. If they desire extra appointments, they can make them without consultation with me, and I will till them when I reach their several counties. A.Ji. WRIGHT. River News.— The steamer Wm. 11. Stark ar rived from Savanuah yesterday, with a very heavy ioad of freight The river at 12 o’clock, yesterday, marked four feet six inches. The Louisiana Sugar Crop.—A dispatch to the Charleston Courier, dated New Orleans, Sept. sth ? arys :—“Our papers now concur iu believing that the sugar crop will be short, and some of our most experienced merchants estimate the deficiency at 50,000 to 70,000 hhds.” Nominations. —The Opposition of Thomas coun ty have nominated Dr. D, S. Brandon as their candidate for the Legislature, to run on the com promise ticket proposed by the Democratic party of the county. The Enterprise says that since the nomination, the Democracy have shown signs of “ crawfishing.” The Opposition in Berrien have nominated W. J. Mabry for the Senate, and James Griffin, Jr., for the House of Representatives. The Opposition in Muscogee have nominated Hon. Hines Holt for the Senate, and R. L. Mott for the House. A remarkable case of eccentricity and meanness has come to light in Savannah. A Ur. Hinker has been arrested for burying a colored girl who had died, in the cellar of his house, to avoid the expense of a public interment. The girl died a natural death, and extreme penuiioueness was the only inducement to such an indecent mode of sepul , ture. Our Savannah friends will doubtless be surprised at this paragrrph of home news, from abroad, which we find in the New York Courier Enqui rer. The circumstance, we believe, occurred in Charleston. One of the oldest locomotive works in the coun try is the Taunton, established in 1847. It has manufactured to order nearly 300 locomotives, which are now running in almost every State in the Union. Akin Barbecue — Everybody Invited. — On the last Wednersday in September, (27th,) there w'ij be a grand Barbecue given at Atlanta, by the sup porters of Col. Akin, to which every one will be welcome without distinction of party. Distinguish ed statesmen and speakers from this and adjoining Stales are expected to be present, and every mea sure will be taken to make it one of the most inter esting events of the campaign. The great Western plains are literally covered with buflaio. The number each year seems to in crease rather than diminish. They go in immense droves, and at times seem to cast a dark shadow ■ over the valley. Petrified Body.— A correspondent of the Baltimore American, writing from the lied Sweet Springs, and noticing the Beaver Dam waterfall there, says: “Besides toe leaping water, the wild and tangled wood, the impenetrable shade which make the waterfall so delightful a resort, there are oftentimes to be found curiou-> and beautiful petrifieationa. It | was thought at one time that the water caused these petrificationß, but there must be something of a petrifying power in the earth itself in this neighbor hood. A year or two ago a gentleman who died here and was buried on the hill, not far off, after some months was uieinterred. The body was found to be entirely petrified—a mass of stone— every limb and feature perfect, except on one side of the face where some slight decomposition had taken place. My informant states “you could’nt stick a knife in him any w here ” Bears is Virginia. —The bears are very trou blesome in Roanoke county, Va., this season, and have committed great depredations on the corn, for which the farmers have turned cut gunning for ; them. A letter says : Three or four have been killed on Bradshaw's creek within the lest two weeks, and on last Satur day three were killed about three miles from La fayet'e, near Price's, on the North Pork. W. C. Waskey, Esq , shot a very large one this morning, making the number killed seven or eight during the space of three weeks. So frequently are they seen, and so much excited has the neighborhood become in their anxiety to capture them, that there is scarcely a day passes without some party being out in pursuit of them. The Use of Quails — Win. Norton, an intelli gent observ.ng farmer boy, who makes his home in the Southern part of Illinois, has recently been studying the habits of the quail, or incorrectly “par tridge,” and gives the following testimony to the Cincinnati Artisan : lie observed a small flock commencing at one side of the field, taking about five rows, following them regularly through the field, scratching and picking about every hill till they came to the other side of the field ; then taking another five rows on their return, and thus continuing till he thought they were certainly pulling up the corn. He shot one, and then proceeded to examine the corn ground. On all the ground that they had been over he found but one stalk of corn disturbed ; that was scratched nearly out of the ground, but the kernel was still attached to the stalk. In the crop of the quail he found one cut worm, twenty-one striped vine bugs, over one hundred chintz bugs that still retained their individuality, a mass apparently con sisting of hundreds of chintz bugs, but not one ker nel of corn. The quails have been decreasing in uumber in that vicinity for about five ymars past, and the chintz bug increasing. It is believed that these facts stand in the relation of cause and effect to each other. The Expected Visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada. — Significant Article. —The Quebec Chronicle says it has good authoiity for stating that his Royal Highness, the Prince of Wales, with his tutor, the Rev. Mr. Gibbs, aud one of the court physicians, Mr. J. Holland, may be expected to arrive in the next Canadian steamer, the North Briton. The Toronto Leader, rejoicing in the pro posed visit, very significantly adda : His Royal Highness will receive all the respect due to an heir to the English throne, and the son of a constitutional sovereign, whose reign has been marked by a series of practical reforms. On his part, he visits this country with the full knowledge that, from its position, it never can support a throue for any of his numerous taraily, and that this loyal people will oue day—it may be far diit&ut—march quietly to national independence. But even when that day comes, it will be a matter of real satisfac tion and just pride to England Uat she has given her masculine language, her just laws and her free principles to a second nation in the New World.— And in that feeling of pride and satisfaction, it will not be bsneath a constitutional sovereign to share. Louis Napoleon’s Model Tenant Houses. — There has just been completed on the Boulevard Mazas, a block covering about 1,000 feet by 100, which is divided into 311 tenements, 3b shops aud 10 porter’s lodges, aside from the fifth story, which is cut up into single rooms to be let singly. The whole building is supplied with water and gas. The tenements consist of a small reception room, din ing room, kitchen and one or two bed rooms. Great care has been taken to secure good ventiia n. The whole block will accommodate a popu on of 1,200 to 1,300. PROCEEDINGS OF COUNCIL. Regular Meeting, ) Sep 2d, 1859. > Three o’clock P. M. ) Present—Hon. Foster Blodget, Jr., Mayor. Members —Messrs. Foster, Clarke, Smith, Heard, May, Usher, Miller, Gibson. The Minutes were read, and during the reading Mr. Usher gave notice that he should move a re consideration of the proceedings as far as related to the action at the last regular meeting es Council upon the petition of L. Chas. Dugas, in reference to paving in front of his property. The minutes were confirmed. Mr. Usher moved a reconsideration of the peti tion of L. Chas. Dugas, ofFered at4he regular meet meeting of Council, August sth, 1859. The motion prevailed. Mr. Usher moved that the petition of L. Chas. Dvgas, cffsred at the meeting of Council, August sth, 1859, ce refused. The motion was carried. The petition of Susannah Broadhuret, requesting Council to pay half the expense of paving in front of her property, from Ellis to Greene street, was refused. Mr. Ford appeared.and took his seat. The petition of J. Scully .and D. McCarthy, re specting the signatures attached to the petition pre sented to Council in reference to the location of an Engine House in the centre of Dublin, was referred to the Engine Committee. The petition of Mary McAffetry, praying the privi lege “of extending the portico in front of her resi. deuce on Greene street, an additional width of one and a half feet,” was granted. The petition of- Stephen Faughnan, asking the Council “ to fill up the ditch in front of his lot, op. posite the Artesian Well on Lincoln street. Re ferred to Street Committee. The petition of several citizens praying the City Council to have paved the following eidewalks : the sidewalk on the South side of Reynolds street between Campbell and Jackson streets ; the side walk from Engine house No. 5, to the tank of the Canal; the sidewalk on the west side of Washing ton between Fenwick and Calhoun streets, and the east side of Jackson from Greene to Telfair street. Also, to grade and protect the sidewalk from the Canal to South Boundary street, were read Mr. Clarke offered this resolution, which passed : Resolved, That the Street Committee be author ised to give the usual notice for paving the side walks on the south side of Reynolds street bet ween Campbell and Jackson; east, side of Jackson ftvtn Watkins street to the Canal bank ; the sidewalk on the west side of Washington between Fenwick and Calhoun streets ; also, east side of Jack dou frnn Greene to Telfair. Resolved, That the sidewalk on Jackson irom the Canal to South Boundary street, be graded and pro tected Irom the eucroaebments of wagons, &o The petition of C. P. Freval and others, requts 1 :- iug the location of a Pump at the corner of Walker aud Houston streets, was granted. The following report was read : The Bridge Committee report that they have examined several plans for Draws, and think the plan to draw back on the Bridge, the most feasible and cheapest, w'hich will probably cost about three thousand dollars, and your committee have thought proper to make the report so that you may act as you think best. If there is a draw put in the Bridge, the wharves above will have to be repaired, and the channel of the river deepened, to render the draw of use, and it remains with you to determine which will promote the interest of the City most, to make these,improvements, or to extend the wharves below the Bridge, ail of which is respectfully sub mitted. Wm C. Sibley. S. I) Heard, A. Usher. Augusta, August 11th, 1859. Mr. Usher was allowed permission by Council, to have his signature erased from the above report. By Mr. Gibson —passed Resolved, That His Honor the Mayor, appoint a committee of four to examine and report to the next Meeting of Council the propriety of opening Cam ming street between Eilis and Broad streets. The committee appointed are Messes. Gibson, May, Smith and Clarke. Mr. Heard called up the Preamble and Resolu tions offered at the meeting of Council August sth, 1859, in reference to the Augusta Law, and moved to insert the -word Tuesday instead of Friday in said Resolutions, the motien prevailed, the Pream ble and Resolutions passed. The yeas and nays being called for w*-re : yeas Messrs. Smith, Heard Ford, May, Usher, 5 ; nays— Foster. Clarke, Miller, Gibson, 4. Mr. Heard called up the Preamble and Reso lutions offeed at the last regular unset ng in rela tion to a change in the Charter Election and moved their passage —they passed The yeas aud nays resulted as follows—yeas, Clarke, Smith. Heard, Ford, May, f»; nays, Fos ter, Usher, Miller, Gibson, 4. His Honor the Mayor appointed the following Committee, in reference to the Charter Election : Messrs, bledge, Foster, Ford, Miller. By Mr. Foster, passed : Resolved. That the street committee be authoriz ed to have Centre street Planked, from the Bridge to Broad street. The following Report was read and received : Asgl'sta, Ga., Wednesday, Aug 31. To the Honorable City Conned of Augusta : Gentlemen —The Special Committee on Water Works, byway of their usual monthly Report, beg leave to state that nearly all the contracts for the works have been arranged for the progress ot the work under their charge, and that since their last report the excavation, embankment, <fce , tor the basins or reservoirs, and the brick and iron work for the elevated reservoirs, have been iet to Mr. Wm. V. Keener, Rutherford & Green, and Mr. Wm. M. Might, as the lowest bidders for the werks It is expected Mr. Keener will commence h's work early next week, aud that the other contractors are making the necessary preparations to proceed expeditiously with their respective works. It is expected that on the Ist of October the whale work will be fairly under way, and that your Committee will have the pleasure of c.-mmunicating to you the satisfactory progress of this important undertaking Some apprehension appears to be entertained that the disturbance of the soil in our streets fir the purpose of laying the pipes, will be dangerous to the health of the citizens in their neighborhood, and it will perhaps be a relief to the public to be in formed, as the committee now inform ycur honorable body, that no pipes will belaid before the Ist of October, when, it is presumed, the sickly season will be passed. Your Committee make this state ment not so much from any fears entertained by them as to affecting the health ot the city, as from their desire to take from the captious all real or imaginary sources for disquieting the oublic mind. In this connection, it may be proper at this early date, to meet a false impression attempted to oe produced by those, who, in their position of form ing, or leading public opinion should know better. It is an error to suppose that large sums have been saved to the city by the judicious, letting of the contracts for the Water Works. Ttie eommitte at the beginning had estimates made for them of the cost of the various works &.C., and as some of the bids were below, and many of them greatly above these estimates, It does not follow that the dif ference between the lowest and the highest bids was saved, and the only saving, if it can be proper ly so called, is the difference betweeu the accepted bids and the original estimates. In some cases bids have been acceptsd above the estimates, but it is hoped that whatever is saved in one case, will meet the increased cost in the other, and that the whole work as we now have reason to believe will be accomplished within the limits of the original estimates. The committee would also state, that the con tract for furnishing the earthenware pipe have been let to the Porcelain Company, and that the President of that Company, Mr. O J. Jenkirs is now at the North making the necessary arrange ments, so as to furnish the pipe at an early day. Foster Blodget, Jr. Chm'u S. C. &. W. W. J. A. Robert, Sec’y. By Mr. Usher, passed : Resolved, That His Honor the Mayor, appoint a Committee of four, one from each ward, tor the purpose of selecting a suitable person to take the census, not to be taken before October Ist, IB£>9, Erovided the same shall not cost more than three undred dollars ($300.) Tha f Committee are Messrs. Usher, Foster, Ford, and Sledge Mr. Foster moved that the salary of the Collec tor and Treasurer, be increased to two thousand dollars ; the motion did not prevail. The yeas aud nays being called for were Yeas —Messrs. Foster, Ford, May—3. Nays— Messrs. Clarke, Smith, Heard, Usher, Miller, Gibson—6. Mr. May moved that the salary be increased to eighteen hundred dollars. Lost. A reconsideration of the motion, authorizing the increase of two thousand dollars, prevailed by the following vote. Yeas—Messrs. Foster, Clarke, Ford, May, Usher, Gibson—G. Nays—Messrs. Smith, Heard, Miller—3. Mr. Clark offered the Resolution : Resolved, That the City Council proceed on Wednesday next, at 3 o’clock P. M., to elect a Collector and Treasurer, at a salat y of two thousand dollars, and Teacher for the Male and Ft male De partments of the Houghton Institute, and that notice of said election, be published in the public Gezettes of this City. The Resolution passed:— The Yeas and Nays being called for were:— Yeas—Messrs. Foster, Claik, Ford, May’, Usher, Gibson—6. Nays—Messrs. Smith, Heard, Miller—3. Mr. Heard moved an amendment to the 111th Section of the General Ordinances, to strike out so much of that Ordinance, as authorises the Collector and Treasurer, to allow three percent, discount on all Taxes paid within thirty days, the amendment was postponed until the next meeting of the City Council. Council instructed the Clerk to draw a check in favor of David Daniel, for five dollars, for work done on the streets. The following reports and returns of c slicers were made : The City Marshal reports 544 nighta served by Regular Watch; 107 by Substitutes, aud 171 by Captains City Watch. Also, the confinement of 8 Whites and 13 Blacks since last report, and returns $2lO 75. The Sexton reports 34 burials : whites 19 ; blacks 15. The Jailor reports 27 prisoners : whites 14; blacks 13, and returns $124 06. The Hospital Keeper reports 9 patients: 6 males and 3 females. The Clerk City Court of Augusta returns $63 00. The Magazine Keeper repor's 1,77-1 i kegs pow der in store. The accounts and salaries were ordered paid. The City Council then adjourned until Wednes day next, at 3 o’clock P. M. S. H. Crump, Cfk Council. From California — Seizure of the Island of San Juan by the. U. S. — English Retisleh.ce, ,$-e The overland mail from California, with dates from San Francisco to the 12 s h of August, has arrived at. St. Louis. Business genera’ly «.is inactive and prices unchanged. N P. Wilkins, E q., District Attorney for nutter I county, nd a candidate for the Legislature, was | shot by .Judge ■ ay, of Yuba county, whose daugh ! ter Wilkins had seduced. . rnatdr Broderick addressed a pubiic meeting at | Sacramento ou the 9 h uit.,and made a lull expose ! of the bang an and sale arrangements at the last | Senatorial elec ion. ! Later da cs from Utah s’ato that a convention held in Carson Valley had framed a constitution for a Provisional Government, and declares that Car son ValVy is independent of Utah It gives the name of Nevada to the territory. We also have Victoria dates to the 6th of August. The island of San Juan, between Vancouver"and the main land, is claimed by our government as a part of Washington Territory, and has o-en occu pied by sixty United States troops, under diri-o i n of Gen Harney. Gov. Douglas has issued a i rotest claiming the island for the British crown, lie has also dispatched some armed English vessels to the island, with 200 sappers and miners. Trie United States vessels Massachusetts, .Irffer roa Davis, Shu brick aud Active, and the British vessels Tribune, Satteliite and Plumper were either anchored < ft' the island or in the immediate vicinity. It was unofficially stated at Victoria, that the maker would be compromised by the joint occu pancy of the island until the British and American governments are advised of the existing elate of affairs. The Fraser river mining news is enc imaging Seventy-five thousand dollars worth of go d had reached Victoria within a fortnight. Advices from Oregon state that the Polose In diars were harrarsing Lieut. Mullen’s wagon road expedition, destroying mil - posts, and burning grass on all the camping grounds. The Los Angelos Vineyard of the 15th gives ac counts of a ba'tle between fifty troops under Maj. Armbtead, with four hundred Mohave Indians, on the -ltb of August, in wh.ch about fifty Indians were killed The Seizure < k the Island oe San Juan —A despatch dated Washington, S<ot 3d, rays :—Gen. Harney has fully advised the Depart met t of his proceedings in taking possession of the island of ! Juan. A reply will be s-nt by to-morrow’s steam er. From what has recently transpired here, it is believed that there can be no com promise by our government, as it is fu 'y “Mi tied tl-.«i the rdand is the clear property of cheJLiuiled State*. An Acknowledgement vi Last.—liie Lin don Times and Napoleon III.—Ju the London Times of August 18, we fit d the sod >wing tardy but not unhandsome a< knowledge cent that the Emperor ot France has some goodness : We have been among the sharpest criti-s of the Emperor s career, and we shall be so again, if the occasion arise. We have never trusted, and we would never trust English intere.its to his forbear ance, for England shou’d always b- strong en •uuh to maintain her ow n position, and should never hold it by sufferance. But we must fairly avow that Napole n 111. has iu his dome * ic ru’e recently shown a desire to return in.o 'a t right path from which passion or r. sentm-mt, or ; Ym for his dynasty, or bad advice, had caused him t > diverge imme diate!} arier the Orsini tragedy. There is a w.scorn about this iast set which ought not to pass with ut appreciation. The greatest proof the Emp-ror can give to Europe that bis power is consolidated I and his throne secure would be to wipe away the i past, and erase ail records of i-v. y dat ger he has surmounted. If be has hope for his dynasty, that is the on'y policy by whmh he can eauie that hope to fruotity. A strong-minded man may govern by fear, hut only interest and popularly can continue the sceptre in bis line. We believe the time is come when it has been made abundantly plain that the party of order iu France is also the party of strength, and when the best aeeuritv against the designs of the enemies of order is to allow them to propound their nonsense with impunity Tee Em peror has not yet advanced so tar as this, but tics amnesty is a great step, aud we shall have au un expected reason to congratulate France upon her Italian victories if they should have so far strsngth ened her Emperor as to enable him to demonstrate the extent of his power by the ienity of his rule. Threatening Letters to Queen Victoria.— A London paper says: For years past John Wardie, a common miner, at West Broomwicb, has attained notoriety by not only asserting that he is connected with the royal family (thiough his mother and the Duke of York,) but frequently annoys Her Majesty by addressing letters to the Sovereign. In these coarse, lengthy and ill-spelt epistles, threats are held out it demands for money are not complied with. The results of such an inexplicable course (for the fellow is sane enough) have been a regular prosecution of Wardie (before the magistrates.) and imprisonment of twelve months of the offender lie has also been under the surveillance of the Deputy Chief Uonsta file, and trusworthy officers report daily that they have kept au eye on this dangerous an i infatuated man. la this state of things, no sonnet has Wardie been liberated from jailtban he, within a few weeks past, compiles another epistle, a sac simile of its predecessors, addressed t.s before, which he put under cover to the Chief Constable, with a request that this functionary would forward the letter to Her Msjesty. The result was an order that War die should be again taken into custody, and be was brought before the magistrate at West Broomwieh, on Saturday, on a ohaige of sending a threatening letter to the Queen. Wnen brought to the station, he remarked to Sergeant Richards, “They (the magistrates) can only give me twelve months, and when I come out again I’ll cook her goose,” alludii g to violence on the person of the Queen. He was remanded. Improvements in Gas Manufacture. —Some improvements in the manufacture of gas are de scribed in the London papers. The principal fea ture consists La the use of camphor dissolved in naptha, in the manufacture of gas from oils or grease. The apparatus used consists of a retort, aa heretofore, heated external'y. The oil or grease, in a fluid state, is fed into the retort by means of a funnel or a pipe bent into two coils or hoop like bends. Tne products rising from the retort by a descending pipe below the suiface of red hot melted metal contained in a close vessel, aud rise up through such metal, and the gas pass -s away for use. When gas is made from coal it flows into a purifying apparatus to be purified. When puri fying by liquids, the gas is Conveyed in a pipe to nearly the bottom of tbs vessel, and there escapes into the fluid contained in the vessel. The gas, however, is not permitted to ascend directly through the liquid, but by reason of there being a number of discs, at intervals apart, affixed to the descending part, the gas is deflected off towards the sides, then towards the pipe, and then towards the sides of the vessel, and so on until the gas arrives at the upper part of the vessel, from which it is conducted by a suitable outlet pipe. To give greater briiliaucy to the gas before its reaching the burn er, it is caused to pases through camphorated ether. S ingular Ad ventures. —The Cleveland (Ohio) Herald says that a young man is now in that city in search of his parents, from whom he says he was stolen bv Indians 26 years ago, and ever since has been sold from one tribe to another, and has wan dered over a large portion of the Western and Northwestern regions of this continent. His last sojourn was with the Snakes and about 2200 miles noithwest of St. Paul, Min., and about 300 miles from the Nortn Pacific Ocean.— His tribe trades with St. Paul, sending a semi-an nual train laden with furs, and he got leave of ths chief to seek our his parents, and is required to join his tribe in 1860. He expresses no desire to remain among the whites, as he has a wile and two children in his late home. He speaks English quite well, having learned it while with Lading paitlee. The Island of San Juan. By the treaty which settler] ihe Or*go* boundary d epute between the United States and Great Brit ain, the 49th parreliel ofnor.h latitude was made the Hue westward to the middie of the Gulf of Georgia, thence southward, with the main channel to the straits of kuca, and through the mid-t|.» those Straits to the Pacific Ocean. But it f i.'.,ri pens, according to au amhoriy before us, that oe tween the point where the fine leaves the 49 h „ m ahel and the p: i-rt where it enter.- the Strni s of fuca, theie is the Archipelago da Haro, thou h which several large channels run, the two ma u on,* being the Rosario Strait and Canal de Han former is the one most used by vessels go ; o' .„ the ocean to tne mouth of Fraser river "t V th latter is the wider, though obstructed by sor. ~ , m islets. Both are wide channels, deep emu the largest ships. Between them lie a dozen the chief of which are San Juan, Loptz an o,' r Islands, and altogether they may include al ~U T -ipo square miles of land, or 128,000 acres. Ski .tj,;, Idand is the most valuable, and has aboi: ~|j acres, much of it good soil covered with ti; .• The British assert that the If sario Strai ; ,1 ‘main channel’ meant by the treaty, and th i u : cans say the Canal de Haro is meant.” Both parties having joint possession of Sr In a dispute has arisen concerning the title, w n a j have to be settled by the two government • > ested. An account of this controversy reache u by the last California steamer, and yesterday .. „ i, u j. fished a despatch from W ashington, which, if enu tied to credit, indicates that cur Government has already taken the matter in baud, and settled it, 80 tar as the United IS ates are concerned. It consid ers our title to Sin Juan as beyond controversy, and announces, in advance, itsinten’ion to submit to no compromise. Such is the telegraphic ae counts We hope there ia some mistake about this matter and that our Government has not beengui y f the folly indicatrd We preiend to know notnii gos the merits of the question, but we regard it u- mi)8! unbecoming, upon the very origin of a dripuf* between two great nation.-, tor one of them to c 0!I «, forward, in advance of all negotiation, 1 um iu« mere desire to buily, or for popuiar effect, ana take a stand, with the declaration that she wi,i not be driven from it. We should learn something from the sore experience of the past—at least we sho .id shun a couise that once brought upon us an inglo rious retreaf During the Orrgon d’soute, some years ago, which we all recollect, Mr.‘ Polk was guilty of the indiscretion of declaring in hi? annual message to Congress, that our title to the whole of that Territory up t.u 54° 40', was “dear end un quest.unable, ’ and that, we shoo'd maintain it at the point of the tw. r * No vi .1 Vr v,may have been hi iudis Kina upon u, t:r? ileeiaration was a * most unfortunate cite tor h - i.uief M’.gistiate, as subsequent ev-nts mot. c. acu e-.ve'y establish.— We began by as erring an iidispu ab.-e right to 54 J 41K, but ende t by c leerfu iy subscribing to a settle ment on 49 J , in which i.ve a ■ a bait degree-of latcut? ot this same p openy to which we" had so clear a title, win acknos. lsdged to be the property of Great Britain ! Let Uj .earn w.adorn from this ie.-son, and not again disgrace ourselves in the eyes or the world by a granaimquent boast, to be fold wed by an ing'o rious‘‘let down.” If disputes arise, let us enter, like a sober, manly nation, up-m ntgutiatiom- f.-r l heir settlement, without anogat.cn boa t or huiiy ii;g, and then maintain what a- ri*.ht :• the udef Ue •■■hapter Savannah Rtpublican. A 111 nek It epubticanG Opinion of Dougins. Tne K‘•public—the organ of tb« Biack Republi cans at Wa-bmgton- gives its ..pin: n, bridly but. clearly, of D rnglas' last > ff>rt for the ive.-i e: cy. V» e tally agree with our toU mm a ! \ ifcai. h t.> efforts to sriiire both sections of th- Um u of ;r. c sr vote-, he i.t u d.-inag. cue has faded o. joih, and Will fiuO ' : e! ,10 the el.d, ‘e t l lag do Vil U '/LiV -rii two chairs." Here l t • IT public'? opinion, and we consider it a very c-ns b e , ns: “Th* Ort'GUs L) crKia* i}.j n •; luce a consistent theory that we cad c tm. ia*<. so.. i ; ■« fi'e disquisrtii tt of Judge Douglas on r> -- j .? of-• Populai Sovereign-)' m the t'eir.i.uie.-,’' s ; ■ Tne V josti ution s ab-Liies slavery in it)- r, ri'onea, bu - subject to the power of the pe*>i< « o control it through their Teiritriai Lugiala or Hence, in the absence of any legislation < u the .-ob ject by the territorial Legislatuie, a riavt-h - r wuu'il have a constitutional right to take hit ?!av; a into the Territory and hold tn c m there. Butt- .s would he a mere abstract right , wi'hcut any . . </y i'ori‘B infringemen*; for he holds that the coa rs can affirrl no protection to slave property an, i he Territorial Legislature shall pas laws “, ri' . remedies, and imposing penal, ms, and cont- ning jurisdiction upon the courts, to hear and detenu ne cases a? they may arise. - ' The mere refusal »>• Legislature, therefore, to pa-slaw? providing -mu* remednh, and conferring such juriediciion on the Ci ur.s, wi 1 operate as a practical exe'u u nc: slavey, althougn the const tin iomi right h *..> a slaves will exist. j “if this is not a fair statement of the do run* I adv-ua'ed by Judge Daug’ac, we shaii be any obliged to any one wl oshali point out its err I: is a doctrine which will not be hkely to find muth favor either in the North or in the .South. “ The North will never at esp' a io< rine, mhi , i admits that the Goi stitution establishes slavery anywhere, in any sense whatever, or recogin.- - -• its existence an) where, except as a State institution, existing in a titate *• under the laws tiien-of,” wholly independent of Federal authority “The South will be as little diepo ed to sec ot a il jctrioe, which, while it aimits their constituo n right to take slaves into the Territories, denie- an power to enforce and protect that right “ The distinguished Senator will probably tvmS ; himself, in the end, “titling down between \ -. I chairs.” Canine Sagacity.— There may be«**en nta :th- - ! every hour in the day a white poodie dog, at the i house of she Coho ksink U :sa U• r\ ..y. II t.** j Around Irs neck a cottar !v?<r'" g ’ -.me ol C i hooksink. This dog i< ;w • m.-miis <>l.l, * and is a favorite with t--u member- ol the ! Company and the many friends t*.-» re of. Ttie am nw! s 'mu almost endowed ■* -oh r-.-ast . mg i acuities, and h s been taught t<> co .mu ideate an a! mu of tire by the ringing rhe telegraphic beil at th nearest station box W;.e. night nets in. this, fai’hful animat proceeds f ■ tel -gr-cihio pale, and coils himselt i-.t the rout thee-t. apparently’ asleep, but in reality p.-.ving ih.V ail aaims’, d things are not asleep that ba. e torn- _v • -but. la. cise of an alarm striking on ths be;', >listens very attentively, and, as quick as raecrat' .;e starts for the Hose House, and baik* f- r n nnia e or r -. Ha then balks o indicate the atriaiu-r of ;be b-1 . for instance, should the alarm come fr :n box t«-vry ona, the animal barks four times m ra r >"d succession, then stops a moment and barks one * '.me ; thus rh* members of the com any ar- appri ■- -d tup' the tire is nearest to box -ft, or tba - the alarm ies so-m this uu nber Such remark able canu ■-* sagacity we have seldom heard of. —Philadelphia Argtu. The Presbyterian Colony.— i'ue j.r jeet :\y? the establishment o: a Presbyterian Colony in i - ;te Vv eat, recently started in Hollidays burg, Pa, ca rnet with great favor. Ninety one men, most <>f them having families, have signed a d«“ire to ton bark in the enterpiiee, and have offered to invert some $58,1)00 in it. Their vocations are variea and suitable, comprising farmers, carpenters, ca net makers, tinners, printers, teachers, preacher-, stone masons, merchants, artoneys, clerks, Having now secured about the complement fixed upon in the first place, the managers of the all's ir viii i sue a ca 1 for a meeting of those interested, be held in the course of a few weeks, to appoin * committee to visit and report upon pro osed lo<h tiouß for the Colony. Work fur the Next Congress.— The Nath • ,* Legislature, at ns next session, will have coasidr a ble service to perform ia the way of creating i>> v governments, State and Territorial. N > less thin tour Territories and two States wil ask recognition The people of southern Nebraska, disappointed!! gaming annexation to Kansas, are movV-tg for State government. The Governor is about to tad an extra session of the Legislature, that the worn may be regularly commenced They intend to appsy for admission in company With Kansas. !•; addition, the people of Jefferson, Arizona, Daeofan, and Nevada, are also anxious for Territorial gov ernments. ?xta t. Escape —The schooner Neptune’s Bridge arrived at New York, Thursday, from North Can - ‘ lmt > cringing a cargo or naval stores Upon breaaiug up cargo, the dead body ot a siave vas K und, where he was suffocated in his attempt !•> • scape from slavery. When sou-d he was in a sitting posture; his right head dropped forw&ru upon his breast, his right arm resting upon the enr go, and near him were some provisions. Apparent ly the last act of his life was to partake of eom > tood. He was in very close quarter-, where he could scarce'y sit upright. From the state that ins body was in, it is supposed that ho mast. ii«ve 0.,-u soon after the vessel lett poit. His death vas doubtlees caused by inhaling the foul air of the hold, strongly impiegnated with turpentine. Daring Robbery at Barnwki.l O. H—Oa Wednesday morning last, between 8 and 9 o’clock, ?he Commissionei’s cilice was entered, and a port folio, containing upwards of three hundred dollars, besides one or two thousand dollars worth of notes! abstracted therefrom. Mr. Bellinger fad step; *d into the Sher.ff's office to transact some business,, which required but a lew minutes, and ou his ie turn, missed the portfolio. Suspicion rests on no one that we have heard, and up to the present time nothing b&s been discovered that wih lead to the detection of the thief.— Barnwell Standard. Mexico—Recam.§ f Mr Otway —There seems no room to doubt That Mr. Otway has ceased U> misrepresent her Britanie Majesty, at the capital of the neighboring Republic, and that George B Mathew, Secretary of Legation, it now entrusted with the delicate duty of attending to the interests of his country and bis countrymen, in tiie presence of two contestants for the government. Mr. Ot way's recall, however, must be indirectly a loss to the Marimon taction , and we shall rejoice to hes r tha f his locum /emeus has been instructed to join the United States Minister in recognizing Juarez, in whom alone there seems to be any hope oi order, justice, or progress upwards from the mire ot revo lutions. —iV. V. Albion.