Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

Mcthlij ,sun. r.OsWOL.I R.J VARINGTON....T GILBERT. THUS. (iILBEKT A CO., Kditorw and. Propriftoi'H. SUBSCRIPTIONS. For one year, paynblcin advance $2 00 For .It month*, payable in advance 1 2& advertisements * Advertisement* will be inseited iyi the Weekly Sun at ono dollar per square (ten lines or lees in nonpareil type,) for the first insertion, and fifty cents for each subsequent insertion of the same. Professional and other cards, not exceeding five lines, inserted six months for eight dollars, or for twelve months at fourteen dollars. Announcements of candidates for a time not ex ceeding three months, fire dollars; for all time over three months, at the rate of two dollars per month—pay required in advance. Tuesday August i*3, 1850. Col. Jesse Coe, an estimable citizen of Florida, died suddenly a few days since, at his residence od the Apalachicola river. Mr. Flemming, of the Savannah Athc neum, has leased Concert Hall, Augusta, and will be there some time in October. So says the Constitutionalist. The Third Bale. The Register says the third new bale of the season, for Mobile, has been re ceived there. It is from Mr. It. L. I’owe, of Mississippi, and was shipped from Waynesboro’ station. • The Vote In North Carolina. In the last Congress the delegation from North Carolina to Congress number ed only one Opposition member. The result of the recent elections show an in crease of three additional members for the Opposition. The Bth District, to be rep resented by Vance, is the one formerly represented by Senator Clingmpn, +. The probability is that Logan, Dlaek Republican, is elected member of Con gress from the young State of Oregon. In the event that the Presidential election is thrown into the House, the vote of Oregon will be equal to that of New York, or any other State. So much for disregarding an important provision of the English Conference Bill? to admit a Northern State into the Union. Prof. A. J. Battle, who went to school at Eufuula, graduated at the University of Alabama, and latterly filled the Chair of Ancient Languages in the same Insti tution, has recently been elected Presi dent of Union University, at Murfrees boro, Tennessee, in place of Dr. John 11. Eaton, deceased. A more suitable man could not have been chosen. Prof. Battle is eminently qualified for the high calling he has adopted. The Ball Open. A communication in the Enquirer, sign ed “Many Voters,” suggests ing gentlemen for Senator and Represen tatives : For the Senate—N. L. Howard. For Representatives—Col. F. G. Wilkins, Col. R. L. Mott. “Muscogee,” another correspondent of the same paper, suggests the name of Col. Hines Holt for the Senate, and Col. J. A. L. Lee and N. L. Howard, for the House. The Executive Committee of Muscogee county have made a call upon the voters of the Opposition party of each Militia District in the county, to assem ble in primary meetings, for the purpose of appointing three delegates each, to meet in Convention the first Saturday in September next, to uominate candidates for the Legislature. A New Party Movement. John A. Jones, Esq., a warm advocate of Free Trade and Direct Taxation, has addressed, through the Griffin Independ ent South, an invitation to the “State Rights men of the South” to assemble in Convention at Atlanta, for the purpose of counseling together, anu devising ways and means to raise the South to a condi* tion of equality in the Union, and to res cue her fronj the condition of vassalage which “treason and cowardice” have fixed upon her. Yesterday was the day designated for the meeting, but no further intelligence lias been received from the movement. We presume the call was unheeded. The ultimatums of Southern Rights parties have about as much effect upon those to whom they are addressed, as do those of schoolboys in their fights. Paper Collars. There is a large manufactory in Phila delphia of paper shirt collars, under a patent. The materials used are fine pa per aud very thiu muslin. Three tons of paper are used a month, producing sixty thousand collars. Machinery is employed to cut the collar, muslin, button holes, &.C., and then the materials are put together by hand. After this they are passed through a calendar machine, which gives the paper a smooth, glossy appearance, and also brings to the sur face the impression of the threads of the muslin, thus rendering it very difficult to distinguish the sham collar from the real. The edges are also adorned with an imi- | lation of fine stitching, which remains visible until the collar wilts by occasion of the heat, or becomes dirty. The arti- j cle, it is said, is now coming into very general use, as ten of theni can be pur- j chased for twenty-five cents, and, when dirty, can be thrown into a corner aud i resold for waste paper, at from five to seven cents per pound. ♦ Kentucky Congressional Election. It appears by the returns of the late election in Kentucky, that the State will be represented in the next House of Rep resentatives as follows : Ist Dist.—Henry C. Burnett, Dem. 2d Dist.—Sam’l 0. Peyton, Dem. 3d Dist.—Francis M. Bristow, Opp. 4th Dist.—Win. C. Anderson, Opp. sth Dist.—J. Young Browu, Dem. Gth Dist.—Green Adams, Opp. 7th Dist.—Robert Mallory, Opp. Sth Dist. Simms, Dem. 9th Dist.—Laban T. Moore, Opp. 10th Dist.—John W. Stevenson, Dem. Messrs. Burnett. Peyton and Stevenson were Representatives iu the last Congress. ! Jacob Little, It is said that this famous stock-broker has made his ninth compromise, the last of which caused his reinstatement into the Board of Brokers in New York City. A correspondent of the Charleston Cou rier, writing from that city, the 13th, says : “ Stocks are moving down, and these are for outside orders to be executed by the Board of Brokers. Jacob Little has got back into that institution again. In fact, rather than not have him in the “Board,” the members would have clubbed together and made up a purse to save Jacob’s membership. He is the life and soul of the Board of Brokers, and the snftill amount of “transactions” for several weeks, is owing mainly to the j absence of the meagre Jacob.” Mr. Stephens at Warrenton. There were about a thousand people in attendance at the dinner given by the citizens of Warren county to Hon. A. H. Stehpens. Mr. S. was quite sick, and spoke only about 4o minutes, when he came very near fainting and was com pelled to stop. Hon. Robert Toombs spoke about an hour. VOLUME lIU The Hon.. Dan. Sickles (says the New York correspondent of the Charleston Courier) evidently intends to abandon New York. He has purchased the coun try residence of Dr. Munson, half a mile from Schenectady. Is is a good idea.— New York would be a disagreeable place for him and his family. I presume he will resign his seat in Congress. To a man in his situation, the honors of political preferment, we would suppose, offer few temptations. The strange anti climax of the Sickles tragedy has elicited approval from some, and condem nation, with the retribution be exacted from Key, from others. They reason that because Sickles has forgiven his wife her offense, it was wrong to have killed Key. But we hold that under no possible cir cumstances was he justified in violating the rules of hospitality and honor. Had Key observed bis obligations as a man and as a friend, Mrs. Sickles would never have fallen, nor her husband’s peace been destroyed. Whatever Sickles had done subsequently does not palliate Key’s of fense. The retribution he gave ought to have been exacted months before. Fe male purity, and the sanctity of home, should be vindicated at all hazards, and surrounded by every possible safeguard. For the sake of the sacredness which society and law has invested the marriage relation; for the sake of his innocent child and the moral effect of his example, we regret that Sickles should reinstate in her marital relations a wife who doffed her vestal purity, and for weeks and months abandoned herself to the seduc tions of an unscrupulous and unprinci pled paramour. Those who approve his cause, without abating one jot of respect for what Key has destroyed, virtually re duco the standard of female virtue to a level with that of man. She should not be brought down from the lofty pedestal where society has placed her, but the aim should rather be to elevate man to hers. The whole affair is overshadowed by the sad reflection that a wife and woman has fallen, and the peace of a husband and family destroyed. Les them seek, in retirement, the peace which society can not give. There charity will at least throw her mantle over their foibles, with the Lope that, while his example is with out a precedent, there may be no occasion nor victim to adopt his. The American Victory pn tike Eng- Ilull Turf. It was announced in the foreign news published yesterday, that in the great Goodwood races, in England, the Ameri can horse Starke, owned by Mr. Broeck, won the Goodwood stakes, and the American mare Prioress gained the third place. This is a decided victory for American horses on the English turf.- There were seventeen horses entered for the race, of which five were American— three by Mr. Ten Broeck and two by Robert Harlan, of Cincinnati. The N. Y. Herald says: The expectations that were so generally entertained in England of Prioress prov ing the winner have been disappointed. By the telegraphic intelligence of the Arabia we learn that she was only able to gain third place; the winner was Prom ised Land, who, it will be remembered, was so great a favorite for the Epsom Derby, for which race he was fourth.— Ilis success was not anticipated, as al though lie has always proved himself a very fast horse, he was generally regard ed as unable to live a distance of two and a half miles. But although unsuccessful in the cup race, the reputation of the American horses has been nobly sustained by Starke, another of Mr. Ten Broeck’s ra cers, who has won the Goodwood stakes. This race, which like the Goodwood cup, is two miles and a half, is far more valu able, as far as its pecuniary worth is con sidered, than the cup. Last yeai*it ex ceeded $5,060, and this year its value will be nearly $6,000, on account of the greater number of horses entered for the race, and which comprised nearly all the best horses in Britain. Mr. Ten Broeck, therefore, although unsuccessful in gain ing the objects of his “first love” and greatest ambition, the Goodwood cup, will doubtless find ample consolation for the disappointment in the more tangible and substantial fruits of his Goodwood stakes victory. It must not be imagined that because the American racers have not hitherto succeeded in winning the Goodwood cup, that they have not succeeded in “ making their marks” on the English turf. Prior ess won the Csesarewitch handicap, one of the greatest and richest races, in 1857, and last year was only defeated by ahead for the same race. She also won the great Yorkshire handicap at Doncaster, and the Queen’s plates at Epsom and Newmarket. The latest New Orleans papers report the health of that city as most excellent, which bids fair to continue so. The Pic ayune says: “Our hotels are putting on their best appearance; our places of amusement are following suit, and we have every prospect before us of a gay, I busy, amusing and prosperous season.” More New Cotton. i The first bale of cotton of the season, received at New Orleans, from Mississippi, was brought by the New Orleans and Jackson Rail Road. It was shipped from I Cantbn, by L. W. Nicholson. The Picayune says several bales of new cotton, from the Yazoo Valley, reached Vicksburg on the 11th instant, which is said to be early for that reg.ou. Hall Rond from Memphis to St. Louis A meeting was held in Memphis, at the Odd Fellows’ Hall, on the evening of the 9th inst., for the purpose of discussing the subject of connecting that city with St. Louis by an air-line Rail Road, com mencing at Iron Mountain and terminat ing at Hopefield, in Arkansas, opposite j Memphis. The route projected passes through a fine, alluvial soil, and inex haustible mineral region. Wm. A. Clarke, Esq. We rejoice to know that the new edi tor of the Cuthbert Reporter is our friend Clarke, formerly of the Abbeville i (Ala.) Advertiser. He is a gentleman of fine attainments, eminently sound upon the political questions of the day, and will prove a valuable accession to the Press of Georgia. We extend to him a cordial welcome. ~ The American says that an effort is being made to procure the attendance of the Hon. Edward Everett at the next Agricultural Fair, in Atlanta. The Sec- i retary is already in correspondence with him, and should he accept the invitation, it will in due time be announced. The first bale of new cotton received at Selma, arrived there on the train the 16th. It was shipped by Mr. William R. Cole, of Burnsville, and was sold to J. M. Clay & Cos. at 131 cents; just half a cent more, we believe, than any new bale of the season has been sold for. THE WEEKLY SEN. Parties In the Next Congress. The recent elections for members of Congress in the several States, show that in the next House of Representatives the Black Republicans will have a plurality of members. The strength of the South ern Americans is sufficient to enable them to wield the balance of power. Their responsibility will be great. The combined Democratic force from the North and South will be insufficient to roll back the tide cf Abolitionism, with out the co-operation of the Southern Americans, in the contest for the Speak ership, or any other affecting the honor and interest of this section. The Black Republicans know their power, and will not hesitate to exert it to further the pre dominance of their principles. Will the Southern Americans go to the Democracy, or will they demand the concession from Democrats ? This question is altogether problematical, and though the past offers little encouragement, yet we have too much confidence in the patriotism of mem bers of all parties from the South, to be lieve they will suffer their own and coun try’s interests to be laid a sacrifice upon the altar of mere partisan feeling. Veri ly the prospect in the next Congress is enough, it seems, to soften the severest asperities of political animosity. The sound, conservative men of the North have been overwhelmed by the pop ular sentiment. They are not in a situa tion to avail us anything, lhe majority of Democratic members elect, from the North, owe their success to the heresy of squatter-sovereignty, the “short cut” to abolitionism. If they desert the South ern wing, as there is great probability, the combined force from the South will be powerless to effect anything, and she will be completely at the mercy of her enemies. Aerostation a Failure. Mr. Wise, the indefatigable aeronaut, recently started from St. Louis for La fayette, Indiana, but during the voyage a South-East wind blew up a rain cloud > which, being condensed, a heavy shower fell. After making three trials to sail in the direction of Lafayette, they landed about thirty miles North-East of St. Louis, in doing which they learned anoth er necessity of perfect ballooning—that of better “coming to” machinery. Tho grapnel caught in the prairie, but tore up and the balloon was dragged half a mile, which was stopped only by exhausting the gas—her motive power. There can be no doubt of tlio utter im. practicability of aerial navigation for long distances; and even for short distances the direction of the balloon and its voy agers is almost as involuntary as that of the unfortunate individual blown into mid-air by the explosion of a steamboat boiler. Tho great and insuperable diffi culty Wise and all aeronauts have encoun tered, is to steer the balloon, which is completely regulated in its motions by the caprice of air-currents. The nature of the medium will always interpose in superable obstacles, which science, while mastering and preventing “disasters by flood,” has never been able to overcome. Should Wise attempt the preposterous feat of crossing the Atlantic, he will stand a fair chance of sounding its depths. Tike SoHcitor-Generalslkip. A number of candidates for this impor tant office have already entered the field. The Enquirer, in a short article yester day, referring to one of them, discourages the practice of party nominations for Judicial offices. In this sentiment we take occasion to express our entire coin cidence. It is due to the dignity and authority of the law, und the responsibility attach ed to its ministerial officers, that they should be elevated above the contests of the political arena. The people should look to the fitness of a candidate alone, for such offices, regardless of his political affinities. We have something more to say, here after, concerning the mode of electing Judicial officers. Number of Seeds iu a Bushel. A Scotch paper gives the following table, said to be based upon actual trials of the number of various kinds of seed in a bushel. It also adds the weight, by which we can judge how the bushel mea sures compare with ours: No. of Seeds. No. of lbs. SS'ame. per bushel, per bushel. Wheat 10,500 58 to 64 Barley 15,400 48 to 56 Oats 20,000 38 to 42 Bye 23.000 56 to 60 Canary Grass 54,000 Buckwheat 25.000 48 to 50 Turnip, Reucle's Swede 155,000 50 to 56 Turnip, Cornish Holdfast 239,000 50 to 56 Turnip, Orange Jelley 233,000 50 to 56 Cabbage, Scotch Drumhead...l2B,ooo 56 Cabbage. Drumhead 5av0y....117.000 50 to 56 Clover. Red 249,000 . 60 Clover, White 686,400 50 to 56 Rye Grass; Perennial 314,000 20 to 28 The Enquirer of yesterday contains a long communication, setting forth the claims of Gen. Lane, of Oregon, for the Presidency—or, at least, for the Charles ton nomination of the Democratic party. It is too late. If Gen. Lane cannot carry his own State, which be has been sup posed to have, politically, in his breeches pocket, his friends need not name him at Charleston. The above is from the Cincinnati Daily Commercial. In a Northern State par ticularly, a politician's weakness at home is as frequently an evidence of soundness upon the “ great question,” as the re verse. If strength at home is to be the standard of availability, the “Little Giant” armed with the prestige of his vic tory over Lincoln, will stand a flattering chance at Charleston. Seward the Republtcau Candidate for President. The Detroit Daily Tribune, referring to the next Presidential election, speaks of W. H. Seward, of New York, as “ the first choice of the people of Michigan in the last two Presidential contests and now!” The Milwaukie Sentinel says that the State of Wisconsin shares in this sentiment, and will gladly give her elec toral vote in 1860 to Senator Seward “as the ablest statesman of the day.” Col. Fremont is said to have settled the Mariposa estate difficulty. We are as sured on good authority that all suits growing out of them have been with drawn, and the Colonel is about to erect new additional quartz mills upon the river. Col. Fremont’s family and house bold are encamped upon the top of Mount Bullion, two thousand feet above Rear Valley, and about forty-five hundred feet above tide water, where the air is comfortable in the hottest season. Mr. 0. C. Horne’s valedictory, as edi tor of the Pulaski Times, appears in the last issue of that paper. For the future it will be under the editorial management of Mr. Charles C. Kibbee, in connection with Mr. Scarborough, one of its former editors. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, AUGUST 23, 1859. Gen. Bethune I Has addressed the voters of this Con ; gressional District, through the Corner Stone, complaining that lie cannot ar ! range with Messrs. Crawford and Doug lass, the terms and appointments for dis j cus.sion during the canvass. The cor respondence he opened with ‘hem has ended, he says, in the peremptory refu sal of Mr. Crawford to make any arrange ment in which he is to be included. His only object in wishing to speak at the same times and places with the other can didates, was not so much, he says, to disQuss with them the measures they may think proper to discuss, as to be heard by the greater number on such topics as he should present. In his opinion, Kansas, ..Know Nothingism, the English Conference Bill and Squatter Sovereign ty, are issues in which the South have no interest. He proposes to leave the dis cussion of those topics to his opponents, while he will confine himself to things in which its rights and interests are more deeply involved. The General has deter mined to attend the appointments of Douglass and Crawford, and says: As I wish not only to see but to be seen and heard by the largest number of the people of the district, with the least inconvenience to them, I shall attend the appointments of Messrs. Crawford and Donglass. In doing this, I have no pur pose to interfere with their arrange ments ; I shall listen very attentively and respectfully to them, and when they are through, if the people desire to hear me, I shall speak.” Greeley In Utah. The presiding genius of the Tribune has written another letter to his paper from which we make the annexed extract. When last heard from, he was near Salt Lake City. What a fluttering his arrival will create. We await with curiosity the particulars of the reunion with Brigham and the saints : “ We passed yesterday the two places at which a body of Mormons, late in 1857, surprised and burned the supply trains following in the rear of the federal troops sent against them. The wagons were burned in corral, and the place where each stood is distinctly marked on the ground. In view of all the antece dent facts, it seems incredible that the commanding officer who allowed his sup ply train to follow thus in the rear, ut terly unguarded and unwatched, should not have been brought before a court martial. “We have been passing for the last two days scores of good log or ox-chains— in one instance a hundred feet together— which, having been thrown away by California emigrants to lighten the loads of their famished, failing cattle, have been in (he road for months, if not years, and noted by thousands, but by none thought worth picking up. One would suppose that the traders, the herdsmen, the Indians or some other of the resi dents of this region, would deem these chains worth having, but they do not. I had already become accustomed to the sight of wagon-tire, wagon-boxes, &c., re jected and spurned in this way ; but good, new chains thus begging for owners I have only noted this side of the South Pass. They are said to be still more abundant further on.” The “ Gourd Question’’ Again. Col. A. It. Wright, in his letter of ac ceptance, said the paramount question of slavery, like “Jonah’s Gourd,” swallows up all others. The Constitutionalist, wishing to satisfy itself whether “Jo nah’s Gourd” swallowed all the other gourds around it, examined the old Tes tament, and quotes from the last Chapter of the Book of Jonah, showing what hap pened to him whilst he sat upon the East side of the City of Nineveh: “ And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceedingly glad of the gourd. “ But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.” The Colonel, as the Constitutionalist says, perhaps confounded Jonah's gourd with “ Aaron’s rod.” The Enquirer and Clayton Banner will take a note. Religion and Politics. Tbe following, concerning the an£i slavery preachers of Ohio, is perfectly characteristic of the extremity to which fanaticism can drive those possessed of it. If the preachers all turn politicians there, it would be well for the missionary soci eties of the country to look into the reli gious necessities of the people of that State: The clergymen of the State of Ohio, who are apparently anxious to rival those three thousand brethren of the Eastern States, have called a convention, to be composed of themselves and all the anti slavery Christian laymen who cau be in duced to attend, to meet in Columbus on tho 10th and 11th inst. The call invites “ all denominations who believe and deep ly feel that slavery is our nation’s great crime (and her great calamity and the source of her greatest danger as well,) are invited to meet to deliberate and pray, to give public expression to views, and to organize a system of efforts which shall aid in enlisting and arousing the public conscience, and enlightening the Christian energies of the State and nation against this great iniquity.” At a recent convention of Teachers as sembled at Washington, a resolution was passed fordhe establishment of an educa tional bureau, and a committee appoint ed to memoralize Congress in relation to the establishment of a national agency, through which the educational statistics of the States and Territories may be em bodied and distributed throughout the country. The educational statistics of the seve ral States of the Union that have adopt ed Public School systems, can be easily obtained without the expense of an edu cational bureau. There is nothing to prevent the State Superintendent from exchanging his report lor those of others. Some people prefer to leave everything to the agency of Congress. It would not occasion much surprise, if Congress should be memoralized next for the es tablishment of a National Church. ♦ Index to Closing of Stokes. August 20, Louisville, Ky.; Stallion, Stakes, for all ages and four years olds. September 1, Camden, S. C.; for two and three year olds, mile and two mile heats. September 1, Montgomery, Ala.; for two and three-year olds, and all ages. September 15, Leonardtown, Md., Key , Stake for three-year olds, Thompson Stake for all ages, two mile heats, Reli ance Stake for all ages, best 3 in 5. September 15, St. Louis, Mo.; Abbey Course, Stakes for all ages. October 1, Columbus, Ga.; for all ages and distances. October 1, New Orleans, La.: for two year olds, mile heats, (1859.( The city of Galveston, Texas, was lit for the first time with gas on the evening of the 9th instant. Vigilance Committee in Kansas One Man Hung and ‘1 liree Wound ed. The Leavenworth Herald, of the 10th inst., says :* We learn froifi a reliable source that a Vigilance Committee has been organized at Atchison, for the purpose of ridding that county of a band of horse thieves, and that a man named Nelson, formerly of this city, was hung at that place yes terday. They also attacked a party of horse thieves near Elwood, who turned upon them, wounding three, one it is feared mortally. The Leavenworth Times states that the whole of that Territory is infested tilth organized bands of horse thieves and cut throats, who have their headquarters in remote and obscure portions of tbe Ter ritory, while their spies and agents are sent into every community. The Times adds : The operations of these bands are based upon the information of spies and agents, who are purposely sent to every commu nity. All the booty secured, or the pro fits derived from its disposition, with a per centage deducted in behalf of the rogues who secure it, is put into a gene ral fund, and used to advance the ends of villainy on a still larger scale. The ab sence of any thorough organized govern ment, or police system, of telegraphs or rail roads, enables these scoundrels to play their gamo boldly, with but little risk. For loDg years the citizens of the Territory have been subjected to syste matic losses and despoliations. It has become so, at length, that a man is un safe in leaving his house for a moment. The thieves arc ever on the alert, ready to seize every opportunity. Once mount ed and on the prairies, pursuit is almost useless, and capture next to impossible. During the last year hundreds of horses have thus been stolen, and never heard of. A gentleman hitches his horse, pays a short visit, and comes out to find his animal gone. A farmer steps into a store to make some purchases, and when he comes out his horse has disappeared. Houses have been broken open, citizens waylaid, money and goods stolen, farms and farm-houses plundered, and yet there were neitherprosecutionsnor convictions. Tho law seemed entirely inadequate to answer the ends of justice. Goaded by their losses, and such reflections, large numbers of prominent and intelligent cit izens have joined an organization that lias grown terrible in powet and bloody in its judgments. There is no need to particu larize what has occurred. Though cog nisant, in the main, of what has been done, we have no desire to make public what few, unacquainted with all the cir cumstances, would justify, and what, perhaps, would grate upon the public mind. . All Honor to Horace. It is fresh in the minds of the citizens of Columbus, Ga., and of many of those of this vicinity, that Mr. John Godwin, the great bridge builder of the South, owned a remarkably intelligent and faith ful servant, Horace, to whose skill Mr. G. was greatly, if not chiefly, indebted for his success in that department of me chanics. A few years ago Mr. G., in testimony of his gratitude and apprecia tion of Horace’s services, at considerable trouble and expense, obtained the pas sage of a bill granting him his freedom. This was when Horace had yet hardly passed the full vigor of his manhood. Last February Mr. Godwin died, Horace, in the meantime and during his servitude, having accumulated a comfortable com petency. Not long since we had occasion to visit the Marble Yard of 11. McCauley, in Co lumbus, and while examining the beauti ful works of art there collected, one met our eye bearing the following inscrip tion : JOHN GODWIN, Born October, 1799, Died February, 1859. This Stone was placed here by Horace King. In lasting remembrance of the love and gratitude lie felt for his lost friend and former master. This was a beautiful marble monument. and cost s27s. —Union Springs Gazette. Tike Upatoie Bridge. We have concluded to publish the fol lowing letter, complaining of the condi tion of the Upatoie Bridge. We hope the objection will be speedily removed, as such things do not admit of delay: Pine Knot Mills, Ga., Aug. 12,’59. Messrs. Editors: —You will confer a fa vor on a number of your fellow citizens by calling the special attention of the proper authorities to a considerable griev ance existing in the shape of the dilapi dated condition of the Upatoie Bridge, near the Pine Knot Mills. A more dan gerous concern no person has ever had to cross on. Some say there is a contractor for the Bridge in Muscogee, others say not; this is neither here nor there ; this bridge wants immediate repairs, which if not done, will subject the citizens of Mus cogee and adjoining counties to vast in convenience, and if done early may pre vent the loss of some valuable citizen, or property to an amount which we are cred ibly informed neither of the counties of Chattahoochee or Muscogee can easily pay at present. We understand the peo ple generally, will hold these two counties responsible for all damages which may occur, and not the contractor. Your compliance will oblige, * * The Queen of England does not appear to disapprove of rigid courtly ceremonies. When on a visit to the royal family of France at Eu, the Queen of Belgium had been told that her Majesty of England took every morning at ten o’clock a glass of iced water. Accordingly, on the day after her arrival, a servant duly made his appearance at the appointed hour, bearing on a silver salver a carafe and two glasses, which he tendered to the sovereign, who declined the refreshments by a waive of the hand. The Belgian Queen seeing this, whispered to her son, who was present, to pour out a glass of water and offer it to the Queen : this be ing done, was graciously accepted; the fact being that etiquette would not allow her Majesty to pour out the water for herself when a servant wa3 present!— The Queen may not speak to a trades man; and Victoria has been seen stan ding not a yard away from one address ing all her enquiries to an equerry, who repeated them to the tradesman, and again repeated to her Majesty all his answers. Melancholy Casualty. On Monday last Mr. Doyal, son of Col. L. T. Doyal, of Griffin, came to an un timely end by a gun shot wound. It ap pears, from our information, that he was present where a company of hands were working on the Road, a mile or two above Griffin, when he got upon a fence near by, and a shot gun, which he had in his hand, accidentally went off, lodging the load in his side, killing him instantly. This sad casualty has brought deep mourn ing upon a large number of friends and acquaintances. Mr. D. was the only child of Col. Doyal, was a year or two since married to a very amiable young lady, and was a man of high promise. “What shadows we are, and what shad ows we pursue.” —Atlanta Intelligencer. Garry, the “Sand-fllrter.” The Empire State announces, as a mat ter of news, that Judge Garry Grice, the “ sand-flirter ,” from Tar River, has an nounced himself an independent candidate for the Senate, from Spalding county. Will the Empire State tell us how the Judge acquired this singular cognomen ? Reports of the Grape Crop. At the August meeting of the Cincin nati Horticultural Society: At the request of the President, Mr. Buchanan stated that the grape crop was now quite promising. The crop was bet ter than since 1853, but not quite so good as in thaCJear. The wood was beginning to ripen, and there was nothing to fear but hail storms. He had found no differ ence on the trellis or in the vineyard—in long or in short pruning. He had culti vated some vines much, some not at all— no variation as to rot, but those which were properly pruned according lo gene ral plan, and cultivated, were the best with him. The more wood the more grapes; but how would they ripen most suitably for wine ? He had as much rot on arbors as in the field. Mr. Petticolas observed that grapes touching the wall, he had found, would not rot —attributable to the absorption of moisture and emission of heat from build ings, &c. Mr. Ilaseltiue said that he had noticed grapes ou Dr. Smith’s old place, trained and growing in every way—long and short pruned—some covering trees, others trailing the ground—but those immedi ately against the house were the best. Some on trellises adjoining the bouse had rotted badly. Mr. Rentz said thathehad a good crop, and endorsed what Mr. Buchanan had said. Mr. Mosher confirmed all that Mr. Buchanan had experienced ns relating to the grape on his own place, Latonia Springs. lie would merely add that he had half an acre which bad been left late, and not tied up, or trimmed properly as he thought, and the grapes there had rotted the worst. Mr. Addis said that at Cheviot, of those tied to stakes in the old way, one-half had rotted. With his own long pruned, and laterals not cut, but tied up, they were not so badly rotted. Mr. Whitmore's, on the trellises, were exempt from, rot. He considered that probably one of the best methods for success would be to distri bute vines on trellises, and long pruned and trimmed on long poles, or somewhat in that way, and he believed ten acres would produce as much as twenty-five would in the common vineyard fashion. But grapes, particularly in this way, must be well fed. Witness the Hampton Court vine, in England, which produced two thousand clusters a year, and extended over very large space, and its great bear ing and size attributable to its roots hav ing iun into a vault of great capabilities of affording to it nutrition. Mr. Wells had trained grapes for twelve years on trellises, as long as possible, and produced twice the amount of the vine yard method on the same space—sixty five clusters on forty feet. They always ripmied well. Mr. D. L. Dickenson observed that the trimming was generally too close. He knew a Connecticut vine yield fifteen to twenty-five bushels, covering two large porches and roof of a house. He thought the vineyard grape should be grown twen ty feet apart, and trailed along crosswise. They would produce greatly more and healthy fruit, freer from rot. Dr. Mosher impressed upon the mem bers that pruning would not produce fruit of sufficient fine quality for wine. The juice would probably be ten degrees lighter ; one vine should not produce more than ten or twelve good clusters for wine. For sale, for the table, of course would be different; then prune long for quanti ty, but instead of wine you would proba bly have something more like vinegar, and sugar is not admissible. Mr. Wells differed from Dr. Mosher; be never drank better wine, and so said his friends than from grapes trained long. In this case, however, he was for giving the vines “high living.” Dr. Warder stated that Mr. J. Werk, a distinguished vine grower, had not found long pruning profitable for wine. * Greeley at Salt Lake City. Greeley has arrived at this refuge of the faithful, and has written to his paper from there. Ilis letter is dated July lltli, but he does not say anything of an interview with Brigham Young, lie says of the “Mormons and Mormonism, I propose to speak only after studying them; to which end I remain here several days longer.” We append his description of Salt Lake City: “Salt Lake City wears a pleasant as pect to the emigrant or traveler, weary, dusty, and browned with a thousand miles of jolting, fording, camping, through the scorched and naked Ameri can Desert. It is located mainly on the bench of hard gravel that slopes south ward from the foot of the mountains to ward the lake valley ; the houses—gene rally small and of one story'—.are all built of adobe (sun-hardened brick,) and and have a neat and quiet look ; while the uniform breadth of the streets (eight rods) and the ‘ magnificent distances’ usually preserved by the buildings (each block containing ten acres, divided into eight lots, giving a quarter of an acre for garden, fruit, &c.,to each household er,) makeup an ensemble seldom equaled. Then the riils of bright, sparkling, leap ing water which, diverted from the streams issuing from several adjacent mountain canons, flow through each street, and are conducted at will into every garden, diffuse an air of freshness and coolness which none can fail to en joy, but which only a traveler in summer across the plains can fully appreciate. On a single business street, the Post Office, principal stores, &c., are set pretty near each other, though not so close as in other cities; everywhere else, I believe, the original plan of the city has been wisely and happily preserved. South ward from the city, the soil is softer and richer, and there are farms of (I judge) ten to forty to sixty acres, but I am told that the lowest portion of the valley, nearly on a level with the lake, is so im pregnated with salt, soda, &c., as to yield but a grudging return for (be bus- I bandman’s labor. I believe, however, that even t his region is available as a stock range—thousands on thou sands of c’attle, mainly owned in the city, being pastured here in winter as well as summer, and said to do well in all sea sons. For, though snow is never absent from the mountain-chains which shut in this valley, it seldom lies long in the val ley itself.” Influence of Music. Napoleon, confessedly the most con summate commander that ever lifted the sword, wbo by his tactics outgeneraled all Europe, had a strict regard to pieces which were played by the soldiers on par ticular occasions. Certain tunes were prohibited, others used only to let loose with a reserved corps; and, it is stated, on makiiig the famous passage of the Alps, under circumstances the most ap palling and dreadful, if the soldiers at any time hesitated in march, he ordered the bugles to sound their liveliest notes; and if the obstacle was so great as to bring the army to a dead halt, the whole band were ordered to peai forth the charges to battle, which never failed to bear them over the most formidable diffi culties. Texas. The following, says the Galveston Civilian, of the 11th, is the postscript of a letter from ex-Gov. Pease: Austin, Aug. 7.—Returns from 88 counties give Houston 8,495 majority; Clark, 1,410 majority; White, 1.947 ma jority ; Hamilton, 2,010 majority. Tne Houston Republic, cf the 10th, says that as far as heard from, in 50 counties, the members of the Legislature elected are 25 Democrats and 29 “Oppo sition.• {NUMBER 10. From the Mobile Tribune. BEAUTIFUL VENICE. BY ‘MADAME T.E VERT. *• throned ou her hundred isles— She looks a sea Cylielo. fresh from Ocean, Rising With her tiara of proud towers. “ Along the coast of Northeastern Italy, where the waves of the Adriatic gaily meet the waters of the Breuta, the Adige, atnl the l‘o, along sand-bauk tells of their union, forming a bulwark against the fierce storms which often sweep over this turbulent sea. It is called the Lido, and is pierced by six canals, through which vessels enter the port of Venice. These passways are strongly fortified, and ob structions placed within them can readi ly hinder tiie entrance of an enemy’s ships. Fifteen hundred years ago, between the Lido and the mainland, there were eighty small islands, formed by the thbris brought down from tlie Alps by these three rivers. Here, the terror-stricken Yenetii, driven from their home by the in road of the Huns, led on by the fearful Attila, sought a refuge. Like the sea bird driven from the land, they hid among the sedges and rushes of these islets, scarcely above the surface of the water. It was the boast of old Rome, that its people imbibed strength aiul vigor from the wolf’s milk, which nourished its first founders. Hence, we may truly say, the Venetians derived their energy and indom itable industry from the unceasing neces sity of action, of toil and struggle. A kind Providence seemed to have given them a genius and adaptativeness to their condition, unprecedented in the annals of the world. Resolved to build a great city, they drove piles into the deep marsh, for it could not be called ground. With in these circles, they threw stones and great rocks, brought from the main land by infinite labor, and upon these they built houses, after a firm foundation was obtained. The space between these islands they cleared away, suffering the waves of the Adriatic to flow freely through them, forming streets, like ca nals. Thus, the gondola becomes as necessary to Venice as sunlight to flow ers, and quite as much a part and portion of her glory as are its splendid palaces, glittering domes and lofty towers. In a few centuries the Venetians had triumphed over all the surroundings of hard fortune, and had become the great commercial power of the world. All the sunny isles of the Archipelago were hers —the trade of India was hers. The ships of Venice were on all the seas, and its merchants were styled “ Princes.” To be a Venetian was to be free, indepen dent and rich ; it was their boast all the world over, as it is the boast of our free people that we are Americans. From the period of the city’s first cre ation by the fugitives from the desola ting power of Attila the Ilun, until its downfall before the victorious army of Napoleon Bonaparte, there were nearly fifteen hundred years. First, there was poverty, terror, and constant combat with stern difficulties ; next, prosperity, triumph, and gorgeous splendor; then, corruption, oppression, and treachery, and at last the surrender of all power into the hands of strangers and tyrants. In 1848, for a brief period the old love of liberty blazed up, and the fire of true patriotism gave earnest of the brightest days of the past, but alas! the “Island of Sacrifice,” although each grain of its sands were steeped in the heart’s warm blood of loyal men, moved not the pity of European nations, and again lladetz ky, with his fierce and cruel Austrians, became its master. From Attila to Bonaparte there is a long array of glorious names, which still light up the pages of history, and can never grow dim, while the love for Shak speare, for Byron, for Schiller, for Dante, and for Tasso have a home and hold upon the human heart; they have perpetuated the noble deeds, and graven upon the soul the impassioned romance of its peo ple : “Ours is a trophy, which will not decay With the Rialto; Sliylock and the Moor, And Pierre cannot he swept or ÜBrn away— The keystone of the arch ! though all were o'er, For us re-peopled were the solitary shore.” Bladon Springs, Aug. 10. Tomato Wine, Now, that tomatoes are more abundant than they have ever been known to be in former years, the following recipe for making from them a wine, said to be equal to Heideiek, will be read by every body: Take small ripe tomatoes, pick off the stems, put them into a tub, wash them clean, and then strain them through a linen bag. (One bushel will make five gallons of pure wine.) Add two and a half to three pounds loaf sugar to each gallon, then put into a cask and ferment, and fix as you do raspberry wine. If two gallons of water be added to the five gallons of juice, it will still make a very nice wine. Brown sugar may be used instead of loaf, but the wine is much more sparkling when loaf sugar is used. The United States might export this wine by the ship load. It is said to be a de lightful beverage, equal to Ileidsick. The New York Daily News says the Cunard Mail Steamers are in future to carry mail agents, who will hereafter as sort the letters on the voyage and thus hasten the dispatch on arrival. This is no new system of the British Post Office Department, as some of our cotemporaries allege. It may, perhaps, be new as ap plied to the Cunard mail line, but unless we mistake it has long been in practice both on the railways and in the channel steamers of Great Britain, a mail agent accompanying every mail train and mail ship, whose duty’ is pretty much the same as that which Mr. J. G. Nash had been deputed to perform during the Arabia’s voyage. The idea, at all events, is good enough to be borrowed here. Baptist Statistics of 185S. The New York Examiner says that there are in the United States 500 Baptist associations, 12,103 churches, 7,500 or dained ministers, 1,035 licentiates, 092,- 851 communicants, and that the number baptised in 1858 was 08,508 —nearly one hundred thousand baptisms, and a little less than a million of members ! These are figures for which entire accuracy can not be claimed, but they may be accepted as the closest practicable approximation to accuracy, and as more likely to be too low than too high. The largest number of Baptists reported from any one State Virginia—lls,l46. The largest Dumber baptised in any one State is New York — 10,802, and next largest. Georgia—7,o44. There are 33 colleges, 14 theological sem inaries, 29 weekly newspapers, 10 month lies, and 2 quarterlies, in the United States, that depend on Baptists for sup port ; 04 new church edifices were erected in 1858, 238 new churches were consti tuted, and 304 ministers ordained. From Washington. Washington, Aug. 15— Prof. Alexan der Dimtry, Translator of the State De partment, was appointed to day by the President, Minister to Costa Rica and Nicaragua, and will leave here at an early day for Central America. The statement of the London Herald (brought by the Vanderbilt) that our Government has officially notified that of her Majesty that the United States have resolved to abandon privateering as a por tion of the maritime law agreed upon at the Congress of Paris in 1850 is entirely without foundation. [The London Herald of August 2d, says that the statement referred to was the result of a misprint, as the word “re solved” having been substituted by the compositor for “refused.” The editor meant to say that our Government have refused to abandon privateering.] For tho Tally San. The Csavais Opened. Eds. Sun : The canvass-for Congress in the Second Congressional District was opened on last Thursday, at Cu -eta. by Messrs. Douglas and Crawford. Mr. Crawford opened, with a speech of one hour, in which he took strong Southern Rights ground, much akin to what we were glad to hear enunciated from every stump in 1850. He defined his position upon the great question of Northern ag gression upon Southern constitutional rights, so plainly and emphatically, that none can honestly misunderstand or mis construe him. We were really gratified to see Mr. Crawford walk up so boldly, without a muscle twitching, to this plank in Southern politics, and plant himself firmly upon it. In a very few remarks, he explained the position of the South in tlie Government; her weakness in the next Presidential contest, if she be divid ed. He explained the cause of his vote for the English bill; reviewed the history of the Opposition party at some length: and gave way to his competitor, Mr. ‘Douglas. Mr. Douglas is quite a young man, and possesses very good talent. This occa sion was his first appearance in the hust ings, and of course lie was somewhat “off his foot,” as the saying is. Called quite suddenly, he was not prepared, like his competitor, for a political discussion. His speech was rather a defense of himself than a defense of his party or denounce ment of the administration, lie is shrewd, and difficult to get to a stand point. He declared it as the purpose of his party to give the Democracy an “Indian whip ping”—that is. to whip them until they lie still; and it seemed to us that lie was really’ in earnest in his idea, for his fight was certainly of the Indian style—be hind trees and in the bush. Mr. Doug las, however, will improve as he enters the district, and it will not surprise us it’ he should occomplisli what he set nut to do—reduce Mr. Crawford’s majority con siderably. Both gentlemeh had a concluding speech of fifteen minutes ; at tbe'close the crowd assembled was invited to partake of a sumptuous barbecue, prepared for the occasion, and which was very creditable to the citizens of Cusseta. After pinner Gen. Bethuno took the stump, and spoke for over one hour. He poured grape right and left, into Whigs and Democrats, Know Nothings and the Opposition, and showed conclusively to his own satisfaction, that the voters of (lie Second Congressional District had no earthly use for Douglas or Crawford, in Congress ; they could do nothing if the people sent them there; they would both sit and converse, dine, and even sleep with the Black Republicans. He could and would do something. lie would in troduce a bill for tlie repeal of the Tariff Laws, and have Free Trade adopted in its stead. The General seems very san guine that he could, and would do some thing, if we will send him to Congress. Mr. James Johnson was called for, aud responded in a s,tirring appeal to the peo ple to throw oft’ the shackles of party, and join him in opposition to the Administra tion. We left him speaking. We arc happy in being able to state that we have never seen a more quiet and or derly congregation of people than was assembled on this occasion. We saw but one man on the ground under the in fluence of intoxicating drinks. There was no yelling, screeching or uproarious applause. Every ono seemed to manifest a desire to learn from tlie speakers, and desirous to make a decision in their minds between the opponents, as to which pro mised tho best for the country. We have no fears of tlie result in Chattahoochee, whichever way they cast their vote, feel ing satisfied that they will do so after cool and dispassionate reflection. G. For the Daily Sun. CliaitalioocHee Springs. Eds Sun: We Lave just returned from a visit to what i3 familiarly known as “Tine-Knot Springs,” a place of resort* with many of our citizens during the summer months. This name would seem to indicate that the waters possessed some of the properties peculiar to the commodi ties tar, pitch and turpentine, articles of universal use, and by none more highly appreciated for their medicinal properties than by citizens of the Old North State, who have held at bay many a lurking chill, by the use of tar water, and even arrested them when they had previously taken hold; but as no trace of these sub stances are found to existin these waters, we would suggest to the proprietors a change of its name to that which heads this article. This being the county in which it is situated, would at once define its locality, and arrest many anidleques tion which its present name suggests. The name “Pine-Knot” was given them for the proximity to a creek by this name, whose waters are as pure and limpid as those from the mountain cataract, and furnishes, at all times, the most delight ful bathing; and to the angler fine trout and perch fishing. We should regard this locality as im pervious to epidemics and contagious dis diseascs as the hide of a Rhinoceros would be to the entrance of a mustard seed shot, it being in the midst of a fine forest, of many miles in extent, which imparts to the atmosphere all the elements necessary to drive out all noxious gasses, or other impurities that might arise. We have never seen an analysis of these waters, nor have we any desire to do so; we have felt enough to know that to any one who will drink freely of them, for a week, will become so sulphurised as to lose all sympathy for the beast of the field, the fowls of the air, or contents of a poultry-yard, when submitted to a but cher’s axe or a steward’s knife. As we shared the hospitalities of a friend during our stay there, we cannot add our testimony to the high reputation awarded the hotel keepers; if they ap proximate at all the bountiful and sump tuous viands of mine host and hostess, none will complain, except the dyspeptic, or those wno from necessity are compelled to gum it. NASH. For the Daily Sun. Tire People Will do Hlght. It is frequently said, “If the people are let alone they will do right.” This is said in reference to political excitement, and will, in the main, be found to be true. I suggest, then, to the candidates for Con gress, and all others whom it may con cern, to adopt the following course during the present canvass. If the people need information in regard to your principles and aims, enlighten them in the best way you can, but do not labor to get up a political excitement. Lay before them, in a calm and dignified manner, your opinions and the ends you wish to accomplish, and leave them to exercise their own candid judgment, and to cast their votes in the way that they think will promote the public good, if you get up a warm excitement, you can rally to your support many lukewarm votes, to be sure ; but then you will rally many such voters to vote against you; and it will be quite uncertain whether you gain anything by the excitement. Besides, excitements always lead to some evil results of some kind ; and none can foresee the evil or control the raging storm, when once it is begun. Let not only candidates but their friends also, consider these suggestions. LACON. Indian Battle. St. Louis, Aug. 14. —The steamer Spread Eagle, with 75 United States soldiers from Fort Randall, arrived at St. Joseph on Friday evening, having made the voyage from a point BGU miles above the mouth of the Yellow Stone. She reports a sanguinary battle between the Sioux and Aurakaras on the 22d of July, which resulted in the loss of 28 of the former and IGof the latter. Another battle was anticipated, with the result of the extinction of the weaker party. The Spread Eagle went 500 miles higher up the Missouri than any steamboat before. Carelessness with Firearms.* Mr. J. L. T. Doyal, son of Col. L T. Loyal, of Griffin, Ga., while out hunting on Tuesday last, slipped from a fence, and striking the hammer of his gun, it exploded, puttiug the whole charge in his side, which killed him in live minutes, lie leaves a young wife to mourn his loss. So we learn from the Independent South.