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COLUMBUS: Tucstlay Mo riling, Aug. S3, l 85 D. The steamship Montgomery, from New York, and bark Laroy and sclu - . Learned, from Boston, arrived at Savannah on Sunday. On Saturday,'Col. James M.,Calhoun was nominated for the Senate, and J. J. Thrasher, Esq., for the House, by the Uppostion party of Fulton county. Ktrv Cotton. Two bales of new Cotton arrived at New Orleans on the night of the 29th ult.. from Galveston, on the steamship Mexico. President Fowlkes. President Fowlkes left Louisville, Ky., on the 29ih ult., for Marshall, Texas, with $50,000, to pay the first installment on the Pacific Rail Road Compromise. A meeting of the Stockholders of the Alabama and Florida Rail Road has been called at Montgomery on Thursday, 4th instant. The road is said to be progres sing rapidly, and will soon be completed. .—♦ The members of the Bar in Huntsville, North Alabama, have recommended Hon. L. P. Walker as*successor to the late lion. John Gayle, United States Judge, for the District of Alabama. A letter in tire Enquirer, dated at Gle nalta, Marion county, Ga., says, a negro, the property of Benj. Mathews, of Chat tahoochee county, fell dead from overheat ; while being chased by dogs a few days ago. The boy had stollen money from Mr. Majors, and the parties were in pur suit of him. Bayard Taylor goes from New York to California in the steamer of the sth Au- j gust, under engagement with tlie San Francisco Mercantile Library Society to : deliver four lectures in the metropolis of j tho Pacific. He will be absent about three months, and will probably lecture in Sacramento and tho principal towns in the mining region. ♦ Ivaiasna Constitutional Convent lan. I A dispatch from Leavenworth on the 29th ult. says, tho Kansas Constitution al Convention is bringing its labors to a close. Tho Constitution adopted is said ; to bo radically anti-slavery, but does not extend suffrage to negroes. The Legis- ! lature is to consist of 72 Representatives and 111 Senators. A T utmcg ami Cantclope Melons. We are greatly indebted to Mr. John C. Ruse for three delightful specimens of those melons, raised by him near the city, ! They were emphatically ‘‘juicy and well flavored,” and for deliciousness, surpassed anything of the melon kind we have seen. All hands were regaled and bear testimo ny to the above. Them Grapes. The editors, devil, and all hands about the Sun office, yesterday had a feast on the grapes sent us by that most accom modating of merchants, W. 11. If. Phelps. They were pronounced by all hands to be very nice, lie receives fresh supplies daily at his store, 88 Broad street, where those fond of this delicious fruit can be supplied. - . Forty ‘l'lrousaml Dollars. Forty thousand dollars has been paid into the State Treasury by the manage- j incut of the State lload, as the net earn ings of the month of July. A friend of Brown suggests that forty thousand will be about his majority over the nominee of the Atlanta Convention which is to assemble on the 2d Wednesday in this month. We shall see. Pi-lining Voters. We understand penning voters was ex tensively practiced in the recent elec tion, by both political parties, in the neighboring county of llussell, over in Alabama; and we have heard one in stance related where some voters escaped, and were tracked up by dogs and made to come back and perform. They are said to be about three hundred floaters in that county who have to be cared for this way at every election. • . Crop News, The Marion (Ala.) American says of the crops in the Canebrake: We had the pleasure of seeing much of the-crops between this place and Union town a few days since, and must say that more magnificent and promising crops never greeted the eye. The recent rains, however, will doubtless injure the cot- ton to a great extent. • ♦ A correspondent of the New York Daily News, writing from Cape May, notices the following qucrc operation for the ! cure of inilaunnatory rheumatism : A lad who was suffering under the in- I diction was buried in the sand of the ! beach up to his neck. The remedy is said to be excellent, the lad having al- | ready received much benefit from former applications of the sand bath. This fact I deem worthy of making a “note on.” TusUegci; Collegiate Institute. We have received a catalogue of this institution of learning for 18-38-9, print- I cd at the office of the South Western j Baptist. The whole number of pupils matricu lated are 188. Among the Faculty we recognize the ; name of the lion. Wylie W. Mason, for merly Chancellor of the Middle Chancery Division of Alabama, lie is Professor of Elocution and Belle Lettres. Miss Murray, extra Maid of Honor to Queen Victoria, and who has recently left that position, did so voluntarily. She was not forced to do so on account of her views of the slavery question as was er roneously reported. Miss Murray, it will be remembered, made a tour of the South ern States, and had a view of slavery from its South side. The result dissipa ted the erroneous views in which she had been educated, and in her letters she frankly acknowledged the benefits of sla very to the negro. A tour through the slave States has re-educated many pre possessed by education against slavery. The “Southern Teacher.” This is the title of a Journal, the in st number of which has just been issued. It is edited by Prof. W. G. Barton, loDg and favorably known as an instructor of youth, lie is to be assisted by eminent contributors throughout the South. It is to be a medium ol professional intercourse between Teachers, and is designed to ad vance the educational interests of the country. Its introduction to the public is very favorable, and we predict for it a successful career. It is published bi- j monthly, by Barrett & Wimbisli, at Mont gomery, Ala., at §1 per annum in ad vance. StVv’ Cotton. A dispatch to the Charleston Courier .states that two bales of new cotton were received at New Orleans, from Central ‘'Texas, on the 28th instant. Last year, -Awo bales, the first of the bu',y crop, were on the 2GUi—two days earlier L jg*s fl year. , , J ’ roe; tho Daily Sin* nf Saturday. Till- tho f urtli stiibivor: ary, or, the first day of the fifth year of the existence of the Daily Sun. it is useless now to allude to its progress; its many readers and friends have doubtless witnessed its growth and prosperity with pleasure. We to-day present the first number of the fifth volume, in an enlarged form. This enables us to give more reading matter, and affords additional accommodations to advertiser;;. The liberal patronage be stowed on the enterprise encourages us to renewed energy, and we commence the work of the new year with the determina tion to meet fully the wants of the com munity. Having procured a large printing ma chine, (Potter’s,) we are also enabled this week to present the “Weekly Gun” much enlarged and otherwise improved. It contains a larger amount of reading mat ter than any paper in Western Georgia or Alabama, arid is issued at the low price of Two Dollars a year. The Weekly Sun Las been in existence something over two years, and though no drumming Las been done, or pains taken, to present its claims to the attention of the people, it has attained a wide circula tion, and presents a good medium through which advertisers can present their busi ness to tho public. jLaler from Texas. The Galveston Civilian, of the 25th in stant, says: llill, convicted of the murder of Lyons, on the steamship Matagorda, and con fined in the jail at Galveston, committed suicide yesterday morningabout daylight, by hanging. The prospect of the coming crop is everywhere good. The Indianola Cou rier, of the 25d inst., says : We have accounts of the most reliable character, from almost every portion of Western Texas, and are assured that there has never been such a prospect for crops in this before—especially the cotton crops—the rains net coming in time to make a full crop of corn in some of the upper counties, but of this | there will even be an abundance made. The crop of cotton planted this year is much larger than that of any previous j year, and it is but fair to estimate, that if ! no disaster befalls it before gathering time, the yield will be more than doubled. We estimate that there will be from sev enty live to e ghty thousand bales of cot | ton shipped from our bay, this year’s j crop. The Richmond Reporter says that the San Bernard bridge ig now completed, and the cars are daily crossing lies and : iron for the extension of the road to Co s lumbus. The work of laying | rails is progressing rapidly, and the plan ters of the “liill country” will be spared the necessity, in the disposal of their | next crop, of navigating the mud be tween the Colorado and the Brazos. The San Antonio Herald, cf the 22d, says: By an order issued yesterday Camp Radziminski has been ordered to be abandoned. The troops now stationed there are to go to Camp Cooper. We understand that an express arrived in our city yesterday from Capt. Plum mer, Camp Cooper, informing the De partment that a large number of persons, citizens of the frontier, had assembled near the Indian Reserve, declaring that tho Indians should not be removed. This movement on the part of the frontier citizens is in direct opposition to what they expressed as their wishes a month or two since. Yv'e learn that the commanding general has issued an order commanding several companies to go to the Reserves, for tho purpose of iucreas | ing the escort for (he removal of the In dians beyond the borders of Texas.* Tiie canvass for the State officers wax es warm. There js some probability of the election of Houston for Governor. If any difference exists between them in their professed principles, it is in this, that Runnels is in favor of reopening the slave Irade, though the party who nominated him do repudiate that question as one involved in the contest. Our advices from Brownsville are to the 14th inst. The Rio Grande is still high. The city marshal, Robert Sheirs, was shot on tho loth by a Mexican whom he was attempting to arrest. It is thought that Shears will recover. A Work for Southerners —and par ticularly for South Carolinians. Dr. John 11. Logan, of Abbeville Dis trict, South Carolina, and formerly Edi tor of the Abbeville Banner, will pub lish soon a work with the following title : “A History of tli 1 Upper Country of South Carolina, from the earliest period to the close of the ilevolution of 1770.’ The work will embrace many incidents connected with the early settlement and the border conflicts of the people of Ab beville, Edgefield, Newberry, Anderson, Pickens, Greenville, Union, Spartanburg, Chester, Fairfield, llichland, York and Lancaster. Dr. Logan has spent several years in the preparation of this work, and as lie is a ripe scholar, and an indefatigable student, the intrinsic merits of his Ilis tory will doubtless commend it to the favorable consideration of Southern peo ple generally, while it will bo eagerly sought after by the numerous South Car liuians scattered throughout the coun try, who are natives of the Districts above mentioned. Who of those will not dwell with melancholy pleasure on those stirring times in which their fathers and mothers lived and suffered ? Those desiring the work, on its publi cation, should address the Author, Green wood, South Carolina. A Remarkable Sprisig. Col. James Glover, of the California Overland Mail Company, informs the ed itor of the Gallatin (Teun.) Examiner, of a remarkable spring on his route, 280 miles East of El Paso, on tho road lead ing to San Antonio. It is fully 150 feet in diameter, and has been sounded to the depth of 8,000 feet without finding bot tom. The surface is as smooth as that of a mountain lake. It breaks out, running about three miles, when it disappears, ami again six miles distant re appears, forming a stream fifteen to twenty feet deep in many places. It is slightly im pregnated with alkali and salt, and con tains five varieties of fish. It is called the Leon Hole. Information Wanted. Mrs. Catharine Ncster, cf this city, desires information as to the wherea bouts of her husband, James 11. Nester, a painter by trade, wire has been absent about fsur months. lie is small in statue, light hair, eyes and complec tion: weighs about 110 pounds; about 30 years of age; height about 5 feet. When last heard of he was seen on the Muscogoe Rail Road train, and it’s said his destination was some of the lower or south-western counties of Georgia. He has strabismus or cross eyes. Fearing that he may have wandered off and died, or is now sick among strangers, his wife would be thankful at heart for any in formation coneerniag him. A Huge Melon. A water melon weighing sixty-three pounds, raised by W. B. Lawton, near Savannah, was sent to the Augusta press gang one day this week. Cannot our melon raisers iu this vicinity compete? We shall announce the fact with pleasure Akkama Klectibis. -’ piivtiie dispatch to a gentleman in this city, from his friend in Montgomery, reports 220 majority for Judge over Clop ton in the city. Judge’s majority over Dowdell, in that city, two years ago, was about 200. The same dispatch says, gains lor Judge are reported from several precincts in Montgomery ants Autauga counties. Another private dispatch from Mont gomery reports a gain for Judge at Pratt ville. Autauga county, of 68, and at Mount Meigs of 15. The following dispatch was received at a late hour last night: Montgomery, Aug. 1, 1859. Judge’s majority in Montgomery coun ty, is about 175. Judge's majority in 1857, was 150. Saffold, democrat, is probably elected to the House. Moore, for* Governor, boats Samford. The entire Democratic ticket in Mo bile county, consisting ot T. L. Toulmin for the Senate, and John Forsyth, A. B. Meek, Percy Walker and G. Y. Overall for the House, are elected by over 500 majority. A passenger on the train from Mont gomery, informs us that Clopton got 9 majority at Tuskcgee, and Go at another precinct in Macon county. The following* is the result at Girard, Russell ccunty : * KOit^ovEiixon: Democrats. Opposition. Moore 187 j Samford 122 iron CONGRESS. Clopton 19k | Judge .....156 FOB. REPRESENTATIVES. Calhoun 196 Jones 157 Johnson 181 Thornton 15G 10It TREASURER. Benton 187 | Odom 15G FOR TAX ASSESSOR. Davis. IGB Smith 165 Stevens 14 FOII TAX COLLECT! It. Tucker 172 | Stroud 172 FOR COLONEL. Lewis 189 | Griffin 99 Reported majorities for Clopton ,at Salem 10, Stewart’s 85, Crawford 10; reported majority for Judge at Opelika 70. The vote at Whitten’s stood Clop ton 31, and Judge SO. We re-publisk the official vote for Con gress in the Third District of Alabama. It will be found of special interest at this time in enabling persons to come to seme conclusion as to the result as they hear of the returns: 1857. JUDGE. DOWDELL. Montgomery 1,256 3,10 G • Autauga 548 GB3 Tallapoosa 1,894 1,649 Chambers...: 949 1,139 Macon .* 1,316 1,041 Russell... 955 887 6,418 6,505 ‘‘True and False Civilization.” This is the subject of an Address de livered before the Literary Societies of the University of Alabama, on their An niversary occasion in 1858, by the Hon. E. C. Bullock, of Alabama. Until re cently, our opportunity for giving it a thorough and careful perusal has not been such as its merits demanded. It is philosophic in thought, and expressed in “words - that burn.” With a masterly hand, the phenomena of the opposite states of society, and the causes by which they are superinduced are thoroughly elucidated. It is entirely worthy of the able author, who is as genial in spirit as he is gifted in mind, and who is already widely known as one of the rising men of the South. Killed by Lightniug. We learn that Dr. James J. Irby, of Hamilton, Ga., was killed by lightning in that place on Tuesday evening last. He was stricken down while getting out of his buggy. O Marcellus Douglas, Esq., of Randolph county, was nominated by the Opposition Convention at Amcricus on Wednesday, as the opponent of lion. Martin J. Craw ford, for Congressional honors in this District. This puts three candidates on the field—-Mr. Crawford, for tho Democ racy ; Mr. Douglas, for the Opposition ; and Gen. Bethune, Independent, repre senting the free trade advocates. The friends of each are sanguine of the suc cess of their champion. + “Anew school has lately been started in the West to teach people of all denomi nations to mindtheir own business. The fundamental principle of this school, it seems, is that, if every man and woman would thoroughly investigate into their own affairs, they would not only find plenty to do, but could find no time to interfere with their neighbors.”— Ex. Some other points of the compass could •afford .such an institution a liberal pa tronage; but the discipline, if strictly en forced, would necessarily reverse the edu cation of many of its pupils. “It is hard to teach an old dog new tricks.” The last Chattanooga Advertiser states that Messrs. Winston, Larnmer and Han na, have finished their large contract for grading the Chattanooga end of the Wills 1 alley Rail Road. The Advertiser fur ther slates that in a very short time fif teen miles of that end of the road will be ready for the iron. This road connects with the North East and South West Rail Road, which connects at its western ter minus with the Mobile and Ohio Rail Road at the junction of that road with the Southern Rail Road, and when the two are completed, will connect Ohatta ncoga with Mobile and New Orleans by Rail Hoad. Bunker Hill Relics. The Boston Rost says: “One of the places in England just visited by the Hon. 11. C. Winthrop, was the old Chapter House of the Cheshire Cathedral, which is now the library ; and here be saw two standards, somewhat tattered and torn, suspended over the doors. On inquiry, he was told that they were the standards of the Cheshire regiment, and that they were used in America, at a certain battle called Bunker’s llill, where, it was said, that only three of this regiment escaped without injury of some sort. The keeper said it was understood that the Ameri cans got behind some sort of a fence or hedge, where they could shoot others without being hit themselves !” Commodore Tattnall 111. The following item appeared in a Hong Kong paper on the 12th of May: “We regret to learn that Commodore Tattnall is severely indisposed, on board the Uui : te l States steam-frigate PowhnUau. Her stay will be short, as Gen. Ward is anxious to proceed to I’ekin as soon as possible.” A Young Aeronaut. John A. Light, of Lebanon county, Pa., not yet 21 years cf age, made a beautiful ascension from Chaiubersburg on the ICth iast.- He landed at Leitersburg, Wash ington county, Mij., distant twenty miles from Chambfrsburg. lie ascended to the height of three miles. An officer iu the staff of Gen. Twiggs, writing to a relative iu Charleston, cu the -3d inst., from ludianola, Texas, confirms fully all that had been reported, concer ning the restoration of the health of that j distinguished Gcnerah Mr. Everett on ilic Italian ??ation-i ality. , No 2 of Mr. Everett's 52 papers in the “Ledger” appears this week, the subject being “Italian Nationality.’.’ Os the struggle just closed, the writer notes the two conflicting elements made manifest in it—viz: the policy of the Monarch's who conduct- it, and public 1 opinion. Mr. Everett remarks that— “On the score of common origin, the inhabitants of Italy at the present day, have a much stronger claim to be considered a nation than the subjects of the Austrian Empire, in which at least four great races are comprehended—the Italian, the German, Sclavonian and the Magyer, to say nothing of numerous sub races, of radically different stock and speaking languages utterly unintelligi ble to each other. Mr. E. then speaks of the next great bond of nationality—a common language. After the downfall of the Roman Empire, Italy was the first of all the newly organ ized people to emerge with anew na tional language an 1 literature. The English language, as written in the time of Dauto, is almost as unintelligible at the present day to all but the English antiquary, as a foreign tongue. This Italian language thus early fbrmed—■ softened and mellowed in the lapse of five hundred years, but not become obsolete, spoken by the masses with great dialec tical difference, in the different parts of the Penensuia, but perhaps not greater than those of the English language as spoken in Somersetshire and the lowlands of Scotland, is stiil the lauguage of Italy, Dante, and Petrarch, and Boccaccio, and Ariosto, and Tasso, and all the noble line of their successors, are read with equal delight by all who read anything, from Milan to Syracuse and from Genoa to Yen ice. Last there is the great bond’of a com mon farm of faith, and that from peculiar local causes, operating with a force not known in any other country. The Ro man Catholic religion established in every part of Italy as the religion of the State, and with the exception of the Protestants of ihe mountains of Savoy, now tolerated throughout Sardinia, and of the Protest ant chapels attached to foreign legations in the Italian residences, no other form of Christian worship is known. The ac knowledged bead of the Roman Catholic faith throughout the world is established in Central Italy, and the devout Itaiion Catholic regards his country as charged, in a peculiar sense, with the custody of his church. There is nothing like this in some of tho States of Europe. Eng land has six or seven millions of Catholic subjects in Ireland, besides the division of her Protestant subjects between the establishment and the various dissenting communions. A similar state of things exist in Prus sia ; and Catholic France and Austria have a considerable Protestant popula tion. Under constitutional governments like that of England, this diversity of communion, taken in connection with an established church, is a source of mani fold embarrassment. It is the great root of bitterness in Ireland, and has caused vast trouble in Prussia. When the con tending churches, instead of being branches of the common faith of Chris tendom, stand opposed to each other like Christianity and Mahometanism, in the Turkish Empire, they make a genuine and prosperous nationality impossible. They admit no relation, at least as far as modern historical experience gees, but that of dominant and subject races. On al! these grounds, then, of geo graphical position, race, language, and religion, the Italians might fairly claim to stand as an independent State, in the great family of Nations. There, is real ly no other people in Europe, winch unites, in the same degree, the four great elements of a prosperous nationality, not either of the great contending powers whose armies now cover her soil; nor England, Prussia, or Russia, who, with hands on their swords, are anxiously watching the progress of the struggle. What, then, is wanting to the Nationality of the Italians; and iiow does it happen that the people, whose forefathers gave law to the world, have for taken the law from France, from Spain, and from Germany. Mr. Everett promises an answer to this important question, in another paper. +. — A Chinese 21i.i1. A correspondent of the Baltimore American thus describes a representation of the punishment of the wicked after death, according to the Buddhist theolo gy, which he witnessed on the suburbs of Canton : After a walk of about a mile, we came to the “Temple of Horrors.” This is a horrible place, that is, the scenes are hid eous. The intenticn is to represent what a bad man would suffer after death. It is composed of ten different groups of I statuary, made of clay, and many of them are crumbling to pieces. The first group represents the trial of the man ; he is surrounded by his family and friends, who are trying to defend him ; the second, where he is condemned and given over to the executioner; in the third, lie is undergoing a semi-transforma tion from the man to the brute; the fourth, where he is put into the mill with his head downwards, and being ground up ; his dog is by the mill licking up his blood. In tho fifth scene he is being packed between two boards, and is being sawed down lengthwise; sixth, he is un der a large bell, which is rung until the concussion kills him ; seventh, the man is placed upon a table, two men are pad dling or spanking him with large wooden paddles ; eighth, he is.upon a rack, and the executioners are tearing his flesh with red hot pinchers ; ninth, he is in a caul dron of boiling lead; the tenth scene represents him upon a gridiron, under going- the process of roasting. In all of these scenes his family is present; also a large figure who represents the jury, executioners, little devils, and various instruments of torture.. Steamer Huntsville on Fire. We are indebted to the politeness of Mr. A. D. Brown, Sr., for a telegraphic dispatch dated Charleston, July 29th, to the effect that the steamer Huntsville was on fire on Charleston bar. Those having relations on board will be gratified to learn that her passengers are all safe. Further of tiie Huntsville. We are informed that Mr. Spencer, the pilot of the Huntsville, has returned to this city, and reports that the only hole burned through her deck, is about two feet from the forward hatch and Immedi ately over the baggage. The origin of the fire can only be conjectured, and as access to the baggage was frequently had during the day by passengers, it is pos* sible that someone may have carelessly dropped a lighted cigar, or, what is more probable, matches, wliich arc so frequent ly carried by travelers iu their trunks, may have ignited. There are reasons for hoping that but very little damage has been sustained by the vessel. —Savannah Jiepublican, Ist. A Man“. Melted” to Death. James Doyle, a blacksmith by trade, died in Chicago last Friday under the following circumstances as detailed by the Times of that city : He was an extremely athletic person in appearance, and was considered by his fellow-woikmen as possessing a remarka ble degrt* of strength and bodily vigor. On Thursday he worked in the shop as usual until G o’clock, when he went to supper in as sued health as usual. After supper he complained of extreme heat, and continued to complain until 12 o’clock, .when he went to bed. At three o’clock in tiie morning his room mate awoke and found him breathing his last. A post mortem examination revealed no unusual appearance of the body, except a remark able and unusual quantity of adipose matter. By overwork and the heat of the day, he was literally melted down. The coroner's jury found this to be the cause of his death. Dangerous Policy, • In Davies county, Kentucky, recently, a systematic conspiracy was detected among the slaves in a certain neighbor hood, the object of which was robbery, poisoning, arson, burglary, &c. Pre parations were made by the justly out raged citizens to inflict summary punish ment upon the offenders, which was pre vented only by a promise on the part of their owners, to remove them beyond the limits of the State. This action demands the severest con demnation, and is calculated to victimize other communities by the unscrupulous avarice of such slave owners. If the ne groes in question were unfit as thejr own ers impliedly acknowledge, to remain in Kentucky, it is certainly wrong to foist and dangerous to admit them into other communities. This practice is assuming the propor tions of a great evil. Leaving out of consideration the impunity with which these identical slaves may concoct their plans, and perpetrate mischief, it is uu questionably rendering the slaves of life community where they may be disposed of, liable to the evil influences of associ ation with them. It is time that something should be done to put au effectual stop to this evil. Communities should be protected against the consequences of introducing vicious slaves promiscuously among them, and the only remedy is for each State to en act stringent laws against it, with the severest penalty annexed to their viola tion. ‘ We do not know whether this State has any law among her statutes, prohibiting the introduction of negroes of this char acter. If not, the defect should be sup plied by the next General Assembly. Tire Mastadou Newspaper. The Petersburg Express notices the receipt of a copy of “ Robert’s Illumi nated Quadruple Constellation,” printed on a sheet of paper eight feet and four inches in length, by five feet ten inches wide. We agree with the Express, that it is certainly the greatest typographical achievement of the age ; and how it has been accomplished is a, matter of sur prise. How was it printed ? Where is the press with bed of sufficient dimen sion to hold the forms ? And how could any man or men feed the press with such sheets? These are questions which puz | zle professors of typography in this sec tion. Four of the immense pages are profusely illustrated, representing vari ous prominent buildings and noted per sonages. Among the portraits, we re cognize those of Horace Grcely, N. P. Banks, Rev. E. H. Chapin, Henry Ward Beecher, James Buchanan, Alexander Von Humboldt, and James Gordon Ben nett. The “ Constellation” is sold at 50 cents per copy, or three copies for sl. Address George Roberts, Spruce street, New York. Tiie Sunday question. At a meeting of the Young Men’s Chris tian Association recently in New York, : the Rev. 11. S. Lancey read an Essay, in which lie regretted the admission of the : fact that there was no specific command j of Christ or his Apostles to observe the first day of the week as tho Christian Sabbath. He considered she uniform meeting of the Apostles on that day for worship as equivalent to a command. They were inspired men, and nssueh, their ex ample is binding on us. He thought the opinion of Drs. Skinner, Edwards and others, the correct one, viz. that though there is no record of such appointment, the Apostles did observe and appoint the Lord’s Day as the Christian Sabbath. Gen. Foote of Mississippi has located himself here, and is among the strenuous j advocates of Judge Douglas. -1. The above announcement is from a Washington letter, and is in perfect har mony with the antecedents of the “lit- Pacifieator.” What say now Douglas’ Southern supporters? Crops in Tennessee. A private letter to the editor of the Au gusta Dispatch, from McMinnville, Term ~ says—“ For some days we have had line showers, and crops:in this county prom ise to be good, but generally in Middle Tennesse, rain cannot make a half crop. Some districts, I hear of, of rich land will not make two barrels of corn to the acre.” Hail Storm. The llawkinsville Times learns that a very severe hail storm passed over the neighborhood of Mr. Charles E. Taylor, in that county, one day last week, de stroying almost entirely the crops where it went. Mr. Taylor inform the editor that he had about one hundred and forty acres of cotton totally destroyed, and that quite a large field of corn shared the same fate. At the annual election, which comes off in Alabama next Monday, the people are called on to vote on an amendment to the Constitution of that State, requir ing ennial sessions of the Legislature and bi ennial elections. The amendment limits the sessions to forty days, and pro vides that if the session is prolonged be yond forty days, it is done at the ex pense of the individual members. The London Gazette announces two new peerages. The Eight lion. Robert Vernon Smith is created Baron Lyveden, of Lyveden, in the country of Northamp ton, and the Eight lion. Sir Benjamin Hall is created Baron Llanover, of Llan over and Abercarn, in the country of Monmouth. The Charleston Courier acknowledges the receipt, on the 22d, of the first rice of the season, from the plantation of Mr. Henry A. Middleton. Slous. Glondiu Again. Mans. Blondin has decided to cross the Gennessee River, at Rochester, early in August, and on anew rope, procured expressly’ for the purpose, lie has con sented to walk the rope at Niagara again, for the last time, on the 2d of August. Dearth of Sews. The'newspaper world has rarely be trayed such a dearth of news as now ex ists. A universal quiet and ‘ dullness seems to have followed the sudden termi nation of the war iu Europe. Since grim visaged war has smoothed its w rinkle, the reaction seems to have been general. Next week, however, comes the tug of war iu Alabama and several other States. The returns of the elections for Governor, Members to Congress, the State Legisla ture, &.C., will he looked for with anxious interest—particularly by the candidates aud their partisans. The Advertiser regrets to learn from a private letter to a friend in Montgomery, that the Hon. W. L. Yancey, wht> has been visiting the Virginia Springs for his health, is worse and that the waters of the White Sulphur have failed to benefit bis neuralgia. ■ F. M. ’VooJ, Esq., for sometime con nected with the editorial department of the Clayton Banner, has retired from that post, as appears by his valedictory in the last issue of that paper. 9 Lombardy--Venctia. France held in 1805 all the Territories of Venctia exactly as the treaty of U.nn po Formio had given to Austria. They were handed back to Austiia by the trea ty of 1815, and have now been confirmed to her by the “ course of conquest in the treaty of Villa Franca. Lombardy proper is a very recent Austrian posses sor and was forced upon the Austrian Emperor. The protested against the “ grant, 7 ’ and had often occasion to la ment having had its political care entrust ed to lii? hands. The very arrangement which appears to have been now complet ed was suggested by Austria years ago - 1 It was not this, though, which Count fla vour contemplated when he yainly sought to address the rails I’eaco Congress. It was to other parts of North Italy lie had a particular eye. What about these oth er parts? Tuscany, Modena, Parma and the Papal States? The three first are certainly committed to the chance of war. Their people accepted Napoleon’s appral to arise, and their rulers committed themselves to Austria. j If, then, Napoleon consents to allow these Sovereigns io re sume authority, he has more* than lost all, for he has cast desolation and dis content where he could net restore the rights or liberties he pretended to love. If only at fault at this point, the war, as far as France is concerned, must be looked upon as worse then an absolute failure. I>y acquiring Lombardian territory, Sardinia obtains a needed advantage, — The taxes of Piedmont were overpower ing. Lombardy will new have to hold her share in the obligations, and thank lier freedom from Austrian sway by lar ger doses of a newer system” of oppres sion. How long it may last, who can tell ? The leaving to Austria all the power she wields in Venctia, and carrying out the old Austrian idea of a confederated Italy, Napoleon cannot say he has acted acted as a conquerer, while Francis Jo seph may almost say that lie lias. The terms are so decidedly favorable for the fallen power—so called, that it takes a large share of credulity to see the gain of the victorious power—so called. France will have lost an enormous amount of money—many ot her best men—-the con fidence of the dangerous revolutionary element. She has gained a suspicious mastery over a distrusted Sardinian vas sal. She has practically strengthened Austria’s hold, not only on Italy, but on Europe : for as the chief power at once in an Italian and in a German Confedera tion, Austria will have the high normal political position which she has been try ing abnormally (so far as Italy was con cerned) to yield. Then, as to this famous Venetian King dom, which is held on ‘‘the square” still for Austria, as compared with the Lom bardian territory that it has lost, what have we to say? The importance of the provinces of VeneKa is vastly greater than that of Lombardy. This is striking ly true, not merely iu a military and po litical point of view, but in other respects equally valuable. The population of Venetia is now about three millions ; that of Lombardy is less. The people are taxed about equal, and very lightly, es pecially as compared with Piedmont. Ed ucation in all Venetia is much more gen eral than in Piedmont, the ascertained ratio being, on the authority of MacGreg or’s statistics, one in eight for Lombardo- Venetia, and one in fourteen for Pied mont. There are forty newspapers pub lished in Venetia, and twenty-five in Lom bardy. In Venice there are nearly two million vineyards ; in Lombardy not quite half a million. There are double as many com mons and forests iu the former as in the latter. There are 200 canals in Venice ; only half the number in Lombardy. Ve nice has a maritime position which Lom bardy has not; and the ports of Venice and Chioz/.a take the great value of the Adriatic trade. The mines in Lombardy are iron; those in Venice are lead and copper. Lombardy exports more, and imports much more than Venice. Vene tia produces nearly double the number of oxen, and treble the number of sheep, that Lombardy does. No country in the world is more skillfully and thoroughly cultivated than the tracts lying at either side of the Mincio or the Adige — New York Daily News. Can Italy Become A (treat Power 1 The London Morning Post, the organ of Lord Palmerston, discusses the ques tion, whether the Italian people can be organized under one government, and a great Power in Europe. The Post takes the affirmative side, and says: In point both of population and geog raphy, Italy, free from Messina to the Alps, would, with good reason, aspire to the position of a great Power. We re cognize five great Powers—namely, Great Britain, France, Prussia, Austria, and Russia; and so indefinite is the criterion of population, that the European subjects of each of these Governments vary from ] G,000,000 to 00,000,000. If Prussia can attain and command this position with a population of only 10,000,000, how much more may Italy—a people by race and by sympathies, far less disunited than the Prussians—do so with a population of 20,000,000? For, be it observed, Prussia ranked as a great Power before the for mation of the German Confederacy, and when just so independent of the old Ger man empire as to be shorn of any sup port or alliance among her own natural kindred. Italy, then, in .point of popu ulation, is on a better footing than Prus sia for the attainment of the rank of a first-class Power. Let us take, in the next phice. the warlike energy of Italy, as compared with that of Prussia. If we take the ex ploits of Garibaldi’s free corps, where men of all Italian nationalities have re peatedly defeated Austrians more numer ous and by far better appointed—if we take those who stood by Garibaldi ten years ago, in his heroic defense of Rome —if we take the Sardinians, who singly defeated the Austrians at Palestro, and who vied with the French at Magenta aud Pozzolengo—wa must presume that the Italians are also a people equal to all the achievements of the Seven Years’ War. Add to this the additional fact that the Italians, above all things, feel and act on the sentiment that they are Italians. When did the sixteen millions of Prussians profess the same mutual sympathy! Rhenish Prussia- has far more love of France and'Belgium than of its own Government, while Prussian Poland undisguisedly hates the yoke of Berlin. . Recipe for Curing tUe Dysentary or Summer Complaint Take two glasses of sweet oil—two glasses of West India inoiasses—two glass es of West India ruin; simmer them well together over a fire until it becomes the thickness of honey, so that the oil may not separate from the rest. While on the fire keep it well stirred, and when taken oft"continue the same until it is cold.— Then the patient, if a grown person, should take a teaspoonful once an hour till he finds the disease abating” and then once in two hours; or as his judgment may suggest, until cured. Children to take it in like manner in proportion to their ages. The person who hands this for publication, is moved by none oilier than a humane motive, lie has experi enced cures in his own family, and knows msny others of the most desparate kind. It is a simple medicine, and not the least injurious to the most delicate constitu tion. Let those who are afflicted try the experiment—it will do no harm—it will certainly save life. Let those who may read this, cut it out and carefully pre serve it. ♦ Crinoline was originally the name of a Parisian modiste —one Madame Crinoline, who kept a set of dressmaking rooms in the Hue do la Pair. It eventually came into use to denote the article most in re pute at her establishment. She it was who, by the invention of horge-hair woven into a sort of cloth and manufactured into petticoats, enabled the fair sex to dispense with that clumsy abomination which always placed them, if not in a headlong hurry, certainly in—a bustle. The name of the petticoat was given from that of the inventor, as ha3 frequently happened: the crinoline, the petticoat, was derived from Crinoline, the dress maker. Orcely’s Opinion of WalKei-’s Po. sit ton. The following ‘extract from the New York Tribune sets forth what the “ phi losopher” of that, paper says of the posi tions assumed by Hon. • Calker of Huntsville. Ala . response to the queries addres.-ed to him by the Hunts ville Democrat: The Hon. L lb Walker us Huntsville, ■Vlabanin has started an entirely new and original argument in favor of the inter vention of Congress fertile protection of slavery in the Territories amt the inser tion into the Charleston Platform of a provision to that effect. lhat argument is stated as follows, in a letter to the Huntsville Democrat: Important as slaves are considered as property, and specially necessary as protection is to slave prop erty there is attached to the ownership of slaves an elective power, n suffrage riwht still more important, itiat elective power, that suffrage right is, so to speak essentially Federal. In munici pal elections, and (except in the single model State of South Carolina) m State elections it dees not come into play. The power of slavery as an elective ele ment is mainly confined to representa tion in the Federal Legislature- It is, therefore, a substantial ingredient in the Constitution of that Legislature, as much so as the right of suffrage of the people of New. York. Were the people of the Slate of New York ousted of their share in Federal elections, their voting faculty might still be able to exercise it self in local elections ; but unless repre sented in Congress, the suffrage of slave ry as an elective power nowhere exists. Therefore, concludes Mr. Walker, its pro tection in the Territories becomes a sa crcd duty of that department of the Government cl which it is a constitu ent, viz. the Congress of the United States. It would be treason against itself for Congress to say this institution has helped To make me; I am here in part by its means, and as its representative, the only direct representative it any where has, and yet I will not protect it! In view of this suffrage right of slave ry, and its special operation in consti tuting the Fedral Legislature, Mr. Walk er concludes that no other doctrine ex cept Congressional protection will meet the exigencies of (lie case.—-V. )'. Trib. une. Extract from Greely’s last letter from South Pass Rocky Mountain, dated July sth: A word on the Salt. Lake Mali. Os the seventeen bags on which I have wridden for the last four days and better, at least sixteen are filled with large bound books, mainly Patent Office Reports, 1 judge— but all of them undoubtedly works order ed printed at the public cost — your cost, reader!—by Congress, and now on their way to certain favored Mormons, franked (by proxy) “Pub. Doc. Free, “J. M. Bernhisel, M. C.’* I do not blame Mr. B. for clutching his share of this public plunder, and distributing it so as to in crease his popularity and impoitance; but I do protest against this business of printing books by wholesale at the cost of the whole people for free distribution to a part only. It is every way wrong and pernicious. Os the slffo,ooo per annum paid for carrying the Salt Lake mail, nine tenths is absorbed in the cost of carrying these franked documents to people who contribu'e little or nothing to the support of the government in any way. Is this fair? Each Patent Office Report will have cost the Treasury four or five dollars by the time it reaches iis destination, and will not be valued by the receiver at twenty-five cents. Why should this business go on ? Why not reform it altogether? Let Congress print whatever documents are needed for its own infor mation, and leave the people to choose and buy lor themselves ? I have spent four days and five nights *u close contact with the sharp edges of Mr. Bernhisel’s “ Pub. Poes.”—have done my very ut most to make them present a smooth, or at least endurable surface ; anil I am sure there is no slumber to be extracted there from unless bv reading them —a desperate resort which no rational person would re commend. For all practical purposes, they might as well—now that the Printer has been paid for tlieni—be where 1 hear tily wish they were—in the bottom of the sea. The Grandson of LaFnyette. The following letter in reply to an in vitation to the American celebration of the Fourth at Paris, was written by a son of George Washington I.aFayette : Sir:—Permit me to thank you for the kind invitation which you have done me the hpnor to address to me, and to. ex press to you all my gratitude for thi3 fresh mark of thoughtfulness of Americans i for the name of LaFayette, a feeling which is manifested from generation to generation. I regret deeply that a forced absence from Paris deprives me of the pleasure of celebrating with you the an | niversary of the Fourth of July: but be lieve me, absent or present, as a grand son ot the brother in-arms of Washing ton, and as a friend to Liberty, my heart is associated with the celebration of the great day, so glorious in the past, by the foundation of American Independence, and so glorious iu the present by the magnificent spectacle offered to the eyes ot the world, in the constantly increasing development of the power and prosperity of a free people. Pray have the goodness, sir, to express, in my behalf, to your committee, and your countrymen my gratitude, and my profound regret that I shall be unable to unite in the solemnity of the Fourth of July, and accept at the sa: e time the as surance of my distinguished considera tion. EDMOND LAFAYETTE. Paris, Sunday, JulyS, 1850. Kicked to Heatli by a Gun. > * S,:mo days ago the Newborn (N. C.) li ogress mentioned the accidental death of Mr. \\ rn. Lee, in the upper part of Craven county. The following further particulars have been furnished the Pro gress : Mr. Lee took his gun on last Sunday week and went out to hunt turkies, and not coming in towards night, his wife, I becoming alarmed, sounded a born. This drew the neighbors together, who, next morning, went in search of Mr. Lee, and soon found him about half a mileifrorn his house, dead. lie was lying on the ground with his gun and a dead turkey beside him. The only injury perceptible about his body was a small wound in the temple. The jury of inquest rendered a verdict of accidentil death from his own gun they coming to the conclusion that he tired the gnn which being overcharged “kicked, ’ and that the hammer made the fracture in the temple. “Voice of Masonry.” e have seen that the “Voice of Ma sonry,’ 7 published by Robert Morriss, Louisville, Kentucky, lias appeared iu a new dress and considerably enlarged. Its corresponding editor, Mr. Cooke, is at present making a tour of Europe and Asia, in pursuit of Masonic intelligence. Mr. Morris is the author of a valuable compilation called the Masonic Library. Uentiala Attention. 1 he American Dentanl Convention is to be holden at Niagara Falls, on the 2d of August. I iic occasion w ill be embraced by Mous. Rlou din to repeat his celebrated transit q! the Niagara river with an entirely new feature, by- way of enhancing the danger of the exploit. So it is stated. Painful Accident. V e regret to learn that Gen. Itobcit Taylor, of Athens, was run over by the cars at Madison last night, aud danger ously it not fatally injured, one of liis legs being severely crushed. Wo did not learn how the accident occurred. — Auytn ta Chronicle of Suturdaij. Serious Accident. We regret to learn that Mr. Wm. Wal lace, a machinist at the South Western R. R. Shops, had his right arm caught iu the machinery this morning and severely mangle-L— Macon Frets, SOM. From tlie St. X,oiiia Democrat. •Vncli Law in Missouri—Two Iluiig and another Burnt— Horvihu Ue.aUs. Maushall, Saline Cos.. Mo., duly ‘V some time ago, you will recollect, a negro murdered a gentleman named Hinton, near Maverly, u, this county. He w.m caught after a long search, and put in jail Usterday he was tried at this place and convicted of the crime, and sentenced to be hung. While the sheriff was con veying him to prison he was set upon by the and taken from that officer. The mob then proceeded to the jail and took from thence two other negroes. One of them had attempted.the life of a citi zen of this place, and the other had just committed an outrage upon a young white girl. Alter the mob had got the negroes together, they proceeded to the outskirts ot the town, and selecting a proper piece, chained the negro who had killed Hinton, to a stake, got a quantity of dry wood piled it around him, and set it on fire ! Then commenced a scene which, for its sickening horrors, has never been wit nessed before-in this or perhaps in any : other place. The negro was stripped lo his waist, and barefooted, lie looked the picture ot dispair—but there was no sympathy telt lor him at the moment. Presently the fire began to surge up in flames around him, and its effects were soon made visible in the futile attempts of the poor wretch to move his feet. As the flames gathered about his limbs and body he commenced the most frantic shrieks and appeals for mercy—for death—for water ! He seized his chains—they were hot and burnt the flesh off his hands. He would drop them and catch at them again and again. Then he would repeat his cries: but all to no purpose. In a few moments lie was a charred mass—bones and flesh alike burnt into a powder.— Many, very many of the spectators, who did not realize the full horrors of the scene, until it was too late to change it, retired disgusted and sick at the sight. May Marshall never witness such another spectacle. The ends of justice are surely as fully accomplished by the ordinary process of law’ as by the violence of an excited pop ulace. If the horrors of the day had ended here, it would have been well, but the other twm negroes were taken and hung —justly, perhaps—but in violation of law and good order. They exhibited no re morse. One of them simply remarked, “that be hoped before they hung him they would let him see the other boy burnt!” The outrage perpetrated by the negro was upon the daughter of a highly re spectable farmer named Lamb, living near Marshall. It appears that a number of children had gone out to gather black berries not far from the town, when the negro, who belonged to one of the neigh boring farmers, was at work in the field. According to the statement of the child ren, the first they saw of him was when he rushed in among them perfectly naked, and seized the eldest of them, about thir teen years of age, the daughter of Mr. Lamb. The- others were frightened and ran away, while the negro dragged his victim into a thicket and committed the fiendish act. While he was dragging her along, she told him she would tell his master and her father upon him. He re plied he was a runaway and had no mas ter. In the meantime her little brother, who was of the party, hastened into town and told his parents the story. J party of men immediately started for the spot as directed, and found the girl in convul sions. After bathing her she recovered sufficiently to tell the occurrence. Tliev then went in pursuit of the negro, and from her description of him, found him at work in the field. He was’ immediately arrested, taken before a justice, and con fronted with the girl, who had been con veyed to the magistrate’s office. She rec ognized him immediately. lie was put in jail, but the people took him, with the others, and hung him as 1 have stated. Mr. and Mrs. Lamb, it is stated, are al most insane about the matter. The girl, alihough much injured, will recover.— There must have been upwards of one thousand people present, although many returned before the affair was over. Mors Wonderful than the Mammoth Cave. Dr. I>. L. Talbot, in commencing a sc ries of articles for the Fort Waynes Times, in regard to the Wyandotte Cave, makes the following comparison between Wyan dotte and Mammoth Caves: Wyandotte Cave, one of the most ex tensive and remarkable in the world, is situated in Crawford county, Indiana, about twenty-three miles below New Al bany, on Blue River. I have called it a remarkable cave. The Mammoth Cave of Kentucky has hitherto been designated as the greatest known cave in the world. It may startle your scientific readers to hear me assert the fact that there is one sta lagmite alone in Wyandotte Cave more massive than all the stalagmites and sta lactites in Mammoth Cave put together. This cave 1 have surveyed and mapped a distance of twenty miles in length, and there are numerous avenues, I have nev er penetrated to their end, although 1 have visited the cave for scientific and other purposes, over a dozen different times—spending on one visit four days and nights within its darksome halls. The Mammoth Cave is distinguished’ more for its vastness than its beauty—the Wyandotte for its great extent, its mam moth halls, its lofty ceilings, reaching frequently to the height of two hundred and sixty-seven feet; and especially for its numerous and beautiful natural foun tains which almost continually meet the eye in every direction. A portion of this cave lias been known and visited for over forty years. This portion is about three miles in length, anil is termed tlie Old Cave. In 1850, anew door from within the old cave was discovered, which ex tended the caves united to about twelve miles in extent. In 1853 a still newer discovery of ingress was accidentally blade, which has added eight or ten miles thereto, and disclosed a clan ot formations more extensive and more beautiful than any heretofore known. This cave con tains every kind of formation peculiar to . the Mammoth and other caves, besides some very peculiar and unique forma tions found only in Wyandotte Cave. The City Pacsenger Rail Road system is fully inaugurated in Philadelphia, if’ we may judge by tbe number of cars running on the various routes in that city. The various companies have now 320 cars running and it is estimated that 400 will be in operation by the end of the year. There are eleven companies in active-ope ration, on 1 eight others chartered, which will increase the whole to nineteen. The Great Pedestrian. Mickey Free completed a walk of 110 consecutive hours, at Rrooklyn, N. Y., on Saturday. He walked for a wager of 8500 aad is the same person who out ran a celebrated racing horse at or near Boston, a year or so ago. Steam Mill Unrut. The Montgomery Mail learns that the steam saw and grist mill near Notasulga. owned by Messrs. Toney & Gunn, was destroyed by fire on the night ot the 1 >th iust., opposed to have been the work of an incendiary, boss S3OOO or 1000. Devising Property WUilfe Alive. M.-U Blandina Dudley, the wealth}’ lady who built the Dudley Observatory iu N w York, has disposed ofherprop erty by a deed of trust. She gives in triisi one undivided half of her real and personal estate to Rutger P.leecker Mil ler, Jr., provided he t%kes the name of her father, Rutger Bleecker. The re minder is given in trust to him for her namesake and grand neico. Blandina Du lley Miller. The interest of five thou sand dollars is to be given to the poor of Albany. She reserves five thousand dollars a year for her personal aud house hold expenses. She has adopted this course “no less as a duty than lor the lawful gratification of a rational desire..