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OOrt'tipoiMliQSe of Itir Daily Ksini Indian Sukings, Ga., Aug. 23, iB6O. L'ds. Suit: Supposing Ilia-1- it may in terest some ui your uuuierous readers to hear fro in this ancient and famous foun tain of health, ami having much dignified leisure on hand, 1 thought 1 would give you a lew of tlie dotlings, or rather post yon up. The incessant rains had dispersed the multitude ere our arrival. I learn there had been a vast crowd ; the largest, per haps, ever assembled here. Still we found a fine company of orderly, sober people, making society agreeable and excellent. It is said “the more the merrier,’ but “ the fewer the better fare.” We are realizing the truth of the latter remark, for wc “fare sumptuously” everyday; our host, old Capt. Varner, spreads a perfect feast, and 1 learn both of the other houses are well kept, and all have been liberally patronized the present season. We had the good fortune to meet many old and dear friends here, among whom arc Gen. Jlenning and family, l)r. Slappy and family, Gen. J. W. Gordon, and many others, which adds much to our pleasure and enjoyment. It is somewhat amusing to hear the various speculations of visitors in relation to the supposed changes of the qualities of the water; its etfects and modus ope randi; all of which I deem imaginary; having visited this place off and on for the last forty-two years, many times, as now, sadly afflicted with dyspepsia, af fords me an opportunity of forming, as I think, a correct opinion. Although great changes have been made for convenience and ornament about the spring, there is not the smallest variation or shadow of change in either quantity or quality of the water. Many suppose the water is not so strong, because it does not exhale the same quantity of sulphuretted hydro gen gas as formerly, when the stream flowing from the fountain ran upon the surface, and a constant evaporation was going on. Now the water is conveyed from the very fountain under ground; consequently the exhalation and evapora tion is entirely prevented, and the fumes of sulphur not so manifest. Having a most grateful and feeling recollection of my first visit to this place, at the hazard of being thought egotistical, I will allude to it. Leaving the moun tains of old Virginia, my native land, in 1810 I located in the county of Jasper, and embarked in the practice of medicine in the miasmatic region of Murder Creek. The ordeal through which my system had to pass, before becoming acclimated, was severe, and reduced me almost to a skel eton. Not being able to pursue my pro fession, one of my kind patrons, the father of the late Governor Towns, who had a shanty here, and whose family had come out for the purpose of using the water, took me in his carriage and brought me to the spring; the use of which, with kind nursing, soon restored my health. The retrospection of these events cannot fail to produce, even now, emotions of deep and abiding gratitude. The Indians then were the sovereigns of the land. They had long known the virtues of the water, ami hither they brought their lepers, the halt, and the blind. Yet they were willing that their white neighbors should share the benefits of the healing stream, and hundreds and thousands re sorted to it annually. In the treaty of 1824, this place was the reservation of the celebrated chief, Gen. Mclntosh, who erected those enormous buildings now the private property of Edward Varner, Esq. Excuse me for thus trespassing on your time and patience. N. B. POWELL. Correspondence of tlie Daily Sun. Pike County, Ala., Aug. 23, ’59. L’ds. Sun :—ln your Daily of the 17th inst., you say that Mr. Mclntyre was elec ted over Mr. Thompson, upon the issue of calling a Convention in Alabama, for past grievances. So far was this from the case that had the Senatorial race been made on that issue alone, Mr. Mclntyre would have been overwhelmingly defeated. As an evidence of this, Mr. Mclntyre arraign ed Gov. Moore for not calling the conven tion at the time comtomplatcd by the Ala bama resolutions, yet that gentleman re ceived a majority of 493 votes over Mr. Samford, who it was contended would have called the convention had be occupied Gov. Moore’s place. It is not reasonable that the voters of Pike would have stulti fied themselves by electing Mclntyre by 23 and defeating Samford by 493 ma jority upon the same issue. The cause of Mr. Mclntyre’s election is simply because lie was the candidate of the old “ Paramount Union American Party” under anew name, and he was elected by that party, aided by some dem ocrats from personal friendship, and by others headed by a leader who wanted the position himself and who feared that Mr. Thompson if elected would not be Nation al enough in the Legislative Senatorial caucus to be hold Montgomery this Win ter. To these causes Mr. Mclntyre owes his success; lienee it will not do to claim it as a party victory, as that might drive oflf Democrats whose co operation is necessa ry to the future success of the American party in this county. But some cause of the result must be assigned, and some Know Nothing move knowing than the rest has furnished dis tant papers with a solution—an issue never heard of in Pike (not even in their party organ) until it appeared in those distant papers. . —♦ Tlie London Times Ofllce. Mr. Story, son of one of the proprie tors of the Rochester Democrat, writes to that paper an account of his visit to the office of the London Times. We copy a portion of his narrative : “ One of the most interesting and novel departments of the establishment, is that in which the stereotyping process is car ried on. You know, perhaps, already, that every number of the Times is printed from stereotype plates, thus saving a great part of the wear and tear of the type. The stereotype is taken from the “ form” in three minutes, by a process, invented by a Swiss and known only to him. A thin layer of soft and damp papier maclic first receives the impres sion of the type, and after it has been hardened by the application of heat, the melted lead is poured on which is to form the stereotype plate. The papier mache has the power of resisting the action of the melted lead, and comes out of the fiery trial uninjured, and unscorched. “ The plates are re-meltcd every day after the issue of the day is printed from them, and the waste of type metal from day to day is very slight. By this power of multiplying the number of forms from which the same side, of the paper can be printed, the Times can use three or four presses at once, and thus print its 59,000 copies, on an emergency, in two hours’ time. The Times employs in its estab lishment some 350 persons. It has eigh teen reporters at the Houses of Parlia ment, and for these, as well as the ma jority of its compositors, the working hours are the night hours exclusively. It owns four cabs, which are employed solely in carrying reporters and reports at night to and fro between Printing House Square and the Palace at West minister. The reporters relieve each other at the House every quarter hour, and thus though the debate in the Com mons lasts till four o’clock in the morn ing, the Times gives it in full by sunrise, though it cover two whole pages of the journal.” This is the golden age of the Jews in America. They number some two hun dred and fifty thousand, who still adhere to the faith of Abraham. They have for ty thousand in New York alone. Two Senators and four Congressmen are of the Jewish faith, shows the ancient political talent of the race. The Christian Jews do not number more than three or four hun dred ; of whom one hundred are studying for the ministry. 3Vew Cotton. The State Press, of the 24th, says: The second bale of new cotton was re ceived on yesterday, from the plantation of Col. John A. Hunter, of Macon county, and was sold by Messrs. Adams & Rey nolds, to E. Price, Esq., at II cents. Our Position Tskeii. The Government of tlie United States has, wc arc informed by a late telegraphic dispatch, adopted a truly American poli cy m regard to the light of naturalized citizen.’ abroad. It demauds, through its diplomatic agents in Germany, the release of all German citizens now held to forced military service in thcir'native country. Hitherto the position which this coun try should assume on this subject had been undetermined. Cases of hardship, resulting from enforcing the local laws in regard to American citizens who had re visited the place of their birth oc curred but rarely; and in some of these the intervention of our diplomatic agents obtained, as a courtesy to our Govern ment, what perhaps would have been de nied as a right. But the late disturbances in Europe presented the subject in anew light. The questions, what are the rights of natural ized citizens? liow far shall the act of naturalization be regarded as a protection abroad? were forced upon the considera tion of the government. These evidently were to be determined on principles eminently American, instead of receiving their settlement by a refer ence to international law ; or tlie promises held out to emigrants to this country were illusory and deceptive. That civil allegiance is transferable, at the will of the individual, is an American doctrine at war with the customs and law of nations. But although not absolutely adopted by the nations of Europe, it has been virtually acquiesced in, at least since the termination of the war of 1812. The position now taken by our Govern ment is the logical consequence of the doctrine of the transferrability of allegi ance. Fealty to two governments cannot exist at tlie same time. If allegiance can be transfered, the new government nec essarily assumes relations to the new subject as close and as perfect as lie had sustained to the one abjured. It is pledged to protect him, not only in his new home, but wherever he may be found under circumstances that would admit of its interfering in behalf of a native born citizen of the country. Otherwise, the naturalized citizen is in a false position. He has abandoned old privileges and pro tection, without replacing them by his charge of country. He is a citizen of two countries at once, with all the disa bilities of both and only the partial pro tection of either. The demands of his adopted country, if responded to, might make him a criminal in the judgement of his native land. When the new question was, therefore fully and distinctly presented, as it has been within the past year, what position the United States would assume on this subject, it became clear that if it acted consistently with American principles, it must assume the protection of all persons naturalized in good faith, who were not, at the time of naturalization, liable in the country of their birth to the penalty of a violated law. We are glad to see a decisive step taken on this subject. It is time that, in all our intercourse with foreign nations, prominence should be given to American ideas. It needs but a distinct announce ment of our doctrine in regard to natu ralization, and a firm and persistent but courteous demand for its recognition by European governments, so far as our na turalized citizens are concerned, to secure their immunity when abroad, so long as they are inoffensive in their political con duct, and strictly obey tlie laws. What we now claim is the natural and logical consequence of what we long ago declared when we denied the European idea “once a citizen always a citizen.” This is demanded not as a right under international law, but as the result of an unresisted transference of allegiance to our Government. All nations now have some forms of naturalization, though they are, in some cases, rarely used; and all governments feel the duty to protect the naturalized citizen as they would de fend the native born. We should have been false to our principles, and have ex posed ourselves to the contempt of the nations had we hesitated to demand the recognition abroad of the rights guaran teed at home to our adopted citizens.— N. O. Picayune. Typlsus Fever. The following, concerning tho treatment of this dangerous disease, was handed to us by a highly respectable gentle man, who has tried it with success, in his own family: Dr. William McLeod, in a note to the People’s Journal, says, that typhus fever cannot be arrested by any drug or other medicinal means. Bleed aud blister, purge and calomize, or stimulate, and the average number of deaths remains the same from the disease. Dr. McLeod, who is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, does not write in this way to disparage the art of medi cine, but to induce the regular practi tioners to investigate, and society to be come acquainted with a practice which, in typhus fever, will save ninety-six out of every one hundred attacked with it, if resorted to in the early stages. The following is the course of treatment recommended : Place the patient, as soon as possible, in a sheet well wrung out in cold water. This sheet should be laid on a blanket extended on a mattress, which should be wrapped close around the patient, as high as the neck. Then let the blanket be folded tightly over, so as to complete ly exclude tlie external air, and two other blankets, or a small feather bed, be added. Repeat this process every’ time the patient becomes restless or uncom fortable, until the dry, hot skin becomes softer, and more disposed to perspira tion, and the fever entirely subsided, even if it should be found necessary to change every ten minutes, or should the fever continue twenty-four hours. Immediately after each envelope, the patient should be washed in a slipper bath, or common tub, the temperature of the water being seventy-five degrees Fahrenheit, or there abouts. The bead should be shaved, and bandages wrung out of cold water be constantly applied, ‘observing to change them whenever they become warm, until the headache is entirely removed. A sim ilar bandage should be folded once round the stomach, carefully and closely cov ered by three folds of dry cloth, to pre vent evaporation. Let the patient drink as much cold water as he pleases during the whole course cf the disease, a free circulation kept up, and the room be kept cool. The process of Dr. McLeod will usually overcome the fever in twenty-four hours. For three days thereafter, however, let the wet sheet envelope’ be used in the morning, at noon, and in the evening— the patient remaining in, each time, about three quarters of an Lour, and his body be washed after each, with water of the natural temperature. If the bowels be constipated, use an injection of tepid water, every morning, as long as requi red. Gentle exercise and moderate diet should be used, aud all stimulants and medicines avoided. We know nothing about medicine, and give this plan of treatment because we find it in a highly respectable journal, aud published at a time when the typhus fever is raging in every city in England. The Doctor speaks authoritatively. His position is unquestioned, and he affirms that “ the average number of deaths from the epidemic will not exceed four out of every hundred of the worst cases, provided this plan of treatment be adopt ed sufficiently early.” River News. St. Louis, Aug. 21. — The river is re ceding. The upper streams are falling. The Missouri has 3\ feet water in the channel. There are also 3T feet water on the Lower Rapids, and six out to | Cairo. Indians Depredations. St. Louis, Aug. 21. — The Los Angeles Star reports that 200 Mohave Indians at tacked the whites at Beale’s Crossing and carried off their mules and provisions. Moj. Armistead has gone to chastise them. Late from Pike’s Peak and Kansas. Dentes City, Aug. 17.— More gold : discoveries have been reported. . An outbreak had occurred in Southern Kansas, and Montgomery w’as again in the field. It was feared that there would be a renewal of old disturbances. Special Correspondence !:f the N. Y, ileiald. Political Gbssip, ace. W ishinoton, Aug. 17.—Gov. Cobb was expected to return here from Georgia this morning. lie will certainly he back be fore the end of the week, ile is in high gUe at tlie state of things in his native State, and declares that there will be no opposition there whatever to his Presi dential aspirations. Neither Toombs nor Stephens will actively canvass against him, and the revelations which have re cently been made in relation to the re opening of the slave trade, have material ly aided in giving him strength among planters and those who control popular feeling. The opposition which he feared some weeks ago, he thinks will no longer have to encounter, and that the Charleston Convention will find him the most available of Southern candidates. Senator Douglas appears to be utterly disgusted at the progress of the develop ments which are gradually being made in relation to the Wise Donnelly letter. — There is no doubt that, in common with Dickinson, of New York, and Wise, of Virginia, he had considered Fernando Wood as fully pledged to his own inter ests. Mr. Wood had been in the habit of visiting and consulting with him in the most confidential manner, during his fre j quent visits to the national capital, and, : even while visiting at the house of the late Postmaster General Brown, spent more time at tho mansion of the “Little Giant” than with his ostensible host. Mr. Douglas’ friends cry out loudly that lie is one of a betrayed trio, and that thus another imbroglio, wholly unanticipated, is produced by the famous letter which Mr. Cassidy gave to the public at Albany, ; while pretending to doubt its genuine | ness. Banks, of Virginia, f< rmerly of the | South* Side Democrat, but now editing \ the Cincinnati Enquirer, is here, rabidly electioneering for Douglas, and for print ing jobbery in general, under the next ad ministration. He is an accomplished ! button bole bargainer for government ! pickings, a veteran lobbyer, though but a boy in appearance, and derives some con sideration from his association withStead- I man to oust Wcmlall, during the last ses | sion of Congress. Mr. Ashe, M. C., from North Carolina, is moving the subterranean firmaments in your city in behalf of Hunter. Gov. Willard, of Indiana, is also in New York, working for Gov. Joe Lane, of Ore gon, not of Kansas. The ex-Governor of Kansas is anxious that this distinction should, at all times, be carefully made. I Since Willard, by tlie way, has split with j Senator Blight, the Bright influence in j Indiana, which goes for Douglas, has been ! uppermost. Bright, however, has achiev |,ed a victory recently in Indianapolis, , where administration delegates have been j elected to the State Convention, in oppo ( sition to the Douglas power. Letters from many parts of Pennsylva nia seem to indicate that Cameron will be presented, with great strength, as the Presidential candidate of that State. Peter G. Washington is at Rockway, betting that old James Guthrie, of Ken tucky, will be the next President. The ex-Secretary of the Treasury would do wisely to choose a more discreet agent. The babblings of his quondam subordi nate injure him materially. Letters from Albany state that Gov. Seymour and Hon. Erastus Corning have returned from their Western tour, and have both been called in to give surgical assistance to the Albany Regency in gen eral, Cassidy in particular, and others who have been wounded in tlie explosion caused by the Wise-Donneily letter. Senator Benjamin writes from London, that if the relations between France and England continue friendly, he entertains littledoubt of negotiating the Tehuautepec loan of $1,500,000. The project is re garded with favor by foreign capitalists. It was currently reported here yester day that Thurlow Weed had passed through Washington, in company with Mr. Fernando Wood, on the way to Rich mond. The motives of this visit to the residence of the Governor of Virginia were variously attributed to the re-open ing of the slave trade, the Wise letter, and the general management of New York city and State politics. WUat Ncxtl The Louisville Courier describes a knit ting machine which has made its appear ance in that city. It says: It did up nearly a whole stocking right before our eyes; aud such knitting wo never saw before. It was far ahead of the stitches of the prettiest lady in the country, with the old-fashioned needles, knitting away and singing a sweet little song. It seemed to us to make stockings about as fast as half a hundred ladies in their best knitting mood and talking hu mor. The machine itself, is in the shape of a lady’s work-stand, is very pretty. It is constructed for use and durability, with great neatness and simplicity. It does its work to perfection, and does it with great rapidity. It occupies no more space than a small work-stand, and can be ope rated b} r a child. All that is necessary to make it knit is to turn a crank, aud the knitting is then done fast or slow, accord ing to the revolutions of the wheel— ] though it would be difficult to turn it slow enough not to knit as fast as half a dozen of our grand-mamas at a regular tea I drinking and knitting party. This little machine knits hosiery of all sorts and sizes, of cotton, wool, or silk | yarn. It also knits tippets, undersleeves, wristlets, mits, and, indeed, almost every thing that ought to be knit. The Directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company publish a complete history of ; the operations of the line during the few days that it was labored with. The list of dispatches and explanations, together with the dates and comments, tills a page of the New York Herald. Some time elapsed before words could be distin guished, and the operators constantly signaled “send slower.” This publica tion will convince all but the most incred ulous, that messages were actually trans mitted from shore to shore. At one time the line was in tolerable working order. A single dispatch countermanding the transportation of a regiment of troops from Canada to England, saved the Brit ish government a quarter of a million dollars. On the 20th Augnst, the ex change of dispatches between the shores of tlie two continents was quite lively. At 9:19 o’clock a. in., Valentia asked Trinity Bay—“ Have you message ?” At 9:21, in just two minutes’ time, the an swer came back—“ No.” At 9:31 Trini ty Bay asked—“ Was message about Europa made use of?” At 9:43, seven teen minutes afterwards, the reply came —“Yes, it was sent for publication.” At 9:55 Trinity pay asked Valentia— “ What weather have you?” At 10:8, thirteen minutes afterward, the answer was returned—“Very fine, yours ?” The rejoinder was sent at 10:10—“ Mosqui toes keep biting. This is a funny place to live in. Fearfully swampy.” Disgraceful Riot. Philadelphia, Aug. 24.—A bloody riot occurred yesterday at Tacony. There was aa excursion of the Catholic Sunday Schools accompanied by a military com pany, when a band of rowdies attacked the soldiers while they w-ere engaged in firing at a target. The soldiers fired and twenty were killed and wounded. On their return to the city the riot was re sumed, but the police prevented any se rious result. Baltimore, August 24.—A party of rowdies from this city, on board a steam er, Saturday, bound for a camp-meeting, committed fearful outrages on the pas sengers, by butchering and robbing tbem repeatedly in the dark. They stabbed one man and committed a rape on his wife in his presence. The badge of the Spartans, the secret band to favor the election of the “Black Dwarf,” is composed of two hands, not clasped in fraternity, but thus B; the significance of which is that, as Spar tans,-they will do a double quantity of stealing and keep both hands in the pub lic treasury. —Louisville Journal. The Spartans are understood to be the members of the secret organization for the purpose of making S. A. Douglas the next President of the United States. Litter from cnDfot-nla. New Obleaxs, Aug. 20. — The steam ship Havana is below from San Francisco the sth. The ; tephtns and Orizaba steanifrs brought, down ovn- two milium., in spe cie. Over two thousand passengers had ar rived at San Francisco since tlie 30tli of July. The following vessels had reached San Francisco: The Northern Eagle, Amos Lawrence, Flying Eagle, Orpheus, Ocean Express, Chariot of Fame, from New York ; the May Flower, DashiDg Wave, front Boston : tho Achilles, from Sydney ; the Tear, from New’ Orleans; the Prin cess Royal, from Melbourne: and the following sailed : the Guantletr, for New York. Business was dull, and prices generally had a downward tendency. Candles were firmer; choice Orleans Sugar was quoted at 10 to 101 c. ; Flour, $9 per barrel; Money was easy. Horace Greeley had arrived at San Francisco, and was lionized everywhere, lie estimates that thirty thousand emi grants were coming overland.- Tl>e McLane Treaty. Washington, Aug. 21.—Information has just transpired which leaves little, if any doubt, that Minister McLane will conclude a treaty with the Constitutional Government of Mexico, and send it here early in September. Tlie provisions of the treaty arc mainly in reference to a transit over Mexican territory, with certain privileges and cus toms exemptions, for which our govern ment will make satisfaction. Later from Havana and Mexico. New Orleans, Aug. 21.—The steam ship Cahawba has arrived with Havana dates to the Bth. Sugar was firm at 7f to Bd. Lard buoy ant, at 18 to 19. Exchange on London at 14 to 15; on New York 2J. Money tight. Two cargoes of Coolies had arrived. A correspondent of the Crescent, says that the Tehuantepec mail robbers found nothing valuable, and that the mails had been recovered. Fire at Trnuo. Sackville, Aug. 22.—The stables at Truno and ten horses, including the ex press of the Associated Press, was burnt by an incendiary to-day. This may be a part of a fraud intended to be practiced’towards the press, in re lation to the steamship Canada’s news, now about due at Halifax. The public should be unusually cautious in regard to foreign news, until tlie press report is bulletined. Later from Mexico. New Orleans, Aug. 22. re ceived Vera Cruz dates to the 11th inst. It was reported that Hargous & Jecker had purchased the Tehuantepec transit route, and that their agent at Minatitlan had been ordered to engage engineers and re commence work—the steamship Adriatic to run ou the Pacific side, in connection. An Honest Confession. The London Times, after a review of the actual condition of the British West India Islands and a contrast of their for mer prosperous condition with their pres ent state of decline, closes with the fol lowing emphatic paragraph against the policy of black emancipation : We wish to heaven that some people in England—neither government people, nor parsons, nor clergymen—but some just minded, honest hearted and clear sighted men, would go out to some of the islands—say Jamaica, Dominica or Au tigua, not for a month, or three months, but for a year—would watch the precious protege of English philanthropy, the freed negro, in his daily habits ; would watch him as he lazily plants his little squatting; would see him as he proudly rejects agricultural or domestic service, or accepts it only at wages ludicrously disproportionate to the value of his work. We wish, too, they would watch him, while, with a hide thicker than that of a hippopotamus, and a body to which fer vid heat is a comfort rather than an an noyance, he droningly lounges over the prescribed task ou which the intrepid Englishman, unaccustomed and uninured to the burning sun, consumes his impa tient energy, and too often sacrifices his life. We wish they would go out and view the negro in all the blazonry of his idleness, his pride, his ingratitude, con temptuously sneering at the industry of that race which made him free, and then come home and teach the memorable lesson of their experience to the fanatics who have perverted him into what he is. A State Government for Nebraska. From a letter in the St. Joseph Ga zette, dated Nebraska City, N. TANARUS., Au gust Gth, we gather the following items of interest: The writer complains of the great and unnecessary accumulation of business in the Courts; and of the indifference of the judicial officers to the wants of the people. This neglect of duty, on the part of the Territorial Judges, has occa sioned so much inconvenience, that the people have determined to get rid of them altogether, and to that end have taken the initiatory step for the organization of a State Government. It is proposed to call a convention in October, which will draft a Constitution to be submitted to the popular vote in November. If rati fied, application for admission into the Union as a State, will then be made at the same time that the claims of Kansas are presented. Everybody, it is repre sented, is tired of the present provisional mal-government, and a change of some sort determined on. The plan of annex ation to Kansas was at one time popular in Nebraska; but since the action of the “ Nigger Convention,” assembled at Wy andotte, the idea is generally scouted. The land sales had been in progress in Nebraska City for several days. Three hundred thousand acres had been offered, but not more than two thousand found purchasers. Military Defense of Cuba. The Spanish Government have at present twenty five thousand of their best troops in Cuba, a larger number of soldiers than the whole standing army of the United States, and have, besides, thirty or forty men of war, about half the number of all the ships in the U. S. navy, stationed around the little island, ready to protect it from any attempt of invasion. There are, besides, 4,000 well drilled volunteers in Havana, and 50,000 country militia. The fortifications, too, are of a very formidable character, that of the Moro, which guards the city of Havana, being almost impregnable. Not satisfied with these ample applian ces of security, the Governor General has lately organized a corps of two thousand Africans, who are to be drilled as regular soldiers and form part of the regular army. It is conjectured that the object of the Spanish Government in enlisting this class of her subjects is, in the event of a revolution, or a declaration of war between the United States and Spain, to use this African nucleus of two thousand to raise the whole negro mass against the white population.— Richmond Dispatch. Tlie Cotton Crop. We have conversed with several plan ters, and with those who receive letters daily and weekly from their planting friends, and we have come to the conclu sion that there is considerable difference in the opinions entertained. Some report their crops in fine promising condition— others say they have poor prospects, and will not make more than half a crop. Striking about an average of the opinions expressed, we have come to the conclu sion, (if nothing materially affects the crop, after this time,) the cotton yield will not be very different in quan tity from that of the passing commercial year.— Augusta Constitutionalist. At a recent commencement of the Cen tenary College of Louisiana, the honora ry degree of Doctor of Divinity was con ferred upon Rev. Wm. H. Watkins, of Natchez, Miss., and upon Rev. Wm. Mur rab, of Alabama. The honorary degree of Master of Arts was conferred upon Rev. C. C.: Gillespie, of New Orleans, and upon Rev. A. S. Andrews, of Mobile. Ffr.iii (ho Sen York TrffcMW** TWO HOURS WITH BRIGHAM YOUNG. . alt Lake Citv. Ltal*. July 1", 1860. My friend, Mr. Bemhisel, M. C., took me tbis ulteruoon, by appointment, to meet Brigham Young, President of the Mormon Cbureb, \v!io bad expressed a willingness to receive me at 2p. in. We were very cordially welcomed at the door by the President, who led vis into the second story parlor of the largest of bis bouses, (be has three.) where I was in troduced to llebcr C. Kimball, Gen. Wells, Gen. Ferguson, Albert Carrington, Elias Smith, and several other leading men in the Church, with two full grown sons of the President. After some unimportant conversations on general topics, 1 stated that I had come in quest of fuller knowl edge respecting the doctriues and polity of the Mormon Church, aud would liketo ask some questions bearing directly on these, if there were no objection. Presi dent Young avowed bis willingness to respond to all pertinent inquiries, the conversation proceeded, substantially, as follows : If G —Am I to regard Mormonism (so called) as anew religion, or as simply a new development of Christianity ? B. Y. —We hold that there can be no true Christian Church without a priest hood directly commissioned by and in im mediate communion with the Son of God and Saviour of mankind. Such a church is that of the* Latter-Day Saints, called by their enemies Mormons; we know no other that even pretends to have present and direct revelations of God’s will. If G. —Then I am to understand that you regard all other churches professing to be Christian as the Church of Rome regards all churches not in communion with itself —as schismatic, heretical, and out of the way of salvation ? B. Y. —Yes, substantially. 11. G. —Apart from this, in what re spect do your doctrines differ essentially from those of our Orthodox Protestant Churches—the Baptist or Methodist, for example ? B. Y. —We hold the doctrines of Christianity, as revealed in the Old and Ne\? Testaments—also in the Book of Mormon, which teaches the same cardi nal truths, and those only. 11. G. —Do you believe in the doctrine of the Trinity ? B. Y. —We do ; but not exactly as it is held by other churches. We believe in the Father, the Son, the Holy Ghost, as | equal, but not identical—not as one per son [being.] We believe in all the Bible | teaches on this subject. 11. G. —Do you believe in a personal devil—a distinct, conscious, spiritual | being, whose nature and acts are essen- S tially malignant and evil? J B. Y. —We do. 11. G. —Do you hold the doctrine of Eternal Punishment? , B. Y. —We do; though perhaps not exactly as other churches do. We believe it as the Bible teaches it. II G. —l understand that you regard Baptism by Immersion as essential. B. Y— We do. 11. G —Do you practice Infant Bap tism ? B. Y— No. 11. G. —Do you make removal to these valleys obligatory on your converts ? B. Y. —They would consider them selves greatly aggrieved if they were not invited hither. We hold to such a gather ing together of God’s People a3 the Bible foretells, and that this is the place, and now is the time appointed for its con summation. 11. G. —The predictions to which you refer have usually. I think, been under stood to indicate Jerusalem (or Judea) as the place of such gathering. B. Y. —Yes, for the Jews—not for others. 11. G. —What is the position of your Church with respect to Slavery ? B Y. —We consider it of Divine insti tution, and not to be abolished until the curse pronounced on Ilam shall have been removed from his descendants. 11. G. —Are any slaves now held in the Territory ? B. Y. —There are. 11. G. —Do your Territorial laws up hold Slavery ? B. Y. —Those laws are printed—you can read for yourself. If slaves are brought here by those who owned them in the States, we do not favor their escape from the service of those owners. 11. G. —Am I to infer that Utah, if ad mitted as a member of the Federal Union, will be a Slave State? B. Y. —No ; she will be a Free State. Slavery here would prove useless and un profitable. I regard it generally as a curse to the masters. I myself hire many laborers and pay them fair wages; I could not afford to own them. I can do better than subject myself to an obliga tion to feed and clothe their families, to provide and care for them in sickness and health. Utah is not adapted to Slave Labor. If. G. —Let me now bo enlightened with regard more especially to your Church polity : I understand that you require each member to pay over one tenth of all he produces or earns to the Church. B. Y. That is a requirement of our faith. There is no compulsion as to the payment. Each member acts in the premises according to his pleasure, un der the dictates of his own conscience. 11. G. —What is done with the pro ceeds of this tithing? B. IT —Part of it devoted to the build ing of temples and other places of wor ship ; part to helping the poor and needy converts on their way to this country; and the largest portion to the support of the poor among the Saints. 11. G. —ls none of it paid to Bishops and other dignitaries of the Church? B. Y. —Not one penny. No Bishop, no Elder, no Deacon, or other Church officer, receives any compensation for bis official services. A Bishop is often re quired to put his hand in his own pocket and provide therefrom for the poor of his charge ; but he never receives any thing for his services. 11. G. —How, then, do your ministers live ? B. Y. —By the labor of their own hands, like the first Apostles. Every Bishop, every Elder, may be daily seen at work in the field or the shop, like his neighbors; every minister of the Church has his proper calling by which he earns the bread of his family ; he who cannot or will not do the Church’s work for nothing is not wanted in her service; even our lawyers (pointing to Gen. Fer guson and another present, who are the regular lawyers of the Church,) are paid nothing for their services; lam the only person in the Church who lias not a reg ular calling apart from the Church’s ser vice, and never received one farthing from her treasury ; if I obtain anything from the tithing-heuse, I am charged with and pay for it, just as any one else would ; the clerks in the tithing-store are paid like other clerks, but no one is ever paid for any service pertaining to the Ministry. We think a man who cannot make his living aside from the Ministry of Christ unsuited to that office. I am called rich, and consider myself worth $250,000; but no dollar of it was ever paid me by the Church or for any service as a minister of the Everlasting Gospel. I lost nearly all I had when we were broken up in Missouri aud driven from that State; I was nearly stripped again when Joseph Smith was murdered and we were driven from Illinois ; but noth ing was ever made up to me by the Church, nor by any one. I believe I know how to acquire property and bow to take care of it. 11. G. —Can you give me any rational explanation of the aversion and hatred with which your people are generally re garded by those among whom they have lived and with whom they have been brought directly in contact ? B. Y. —No other explanation than is afforded by the crucifixion of Christ and the kindred treatment of God’s ministers, prophets and saints in al! ages. 11. G. —l know that anew sect is always decried and traduced —that it is hardly ever deemed respectable to belong to one—that the Baptists. Quakers, Meth odists, Universalists, &c., have each in their turn been regarded in the infancy of their sect as the offscouring of the earth ; yet I cannot remember that either of hem were ever represented and regard ed bv the older sect* of their eaily ua\s as thieves, robbers, murderers. B. Y. —ls you will consult the cotem- ; porarv Jewish accounts of the life an acts of Jesus Christ, you will find that he and fits disciples were accused ot every abomiuable deed and purpose —robbeij and murder included. Such a work is still extant, and may be found by those who seek it. If G. —What do you say of the so calld Danites, or Destroying Angels, be longing to your Church ? j B. Y. —What do you say ? I know ot no such band, uo such persons or organi zation. I hear of them only in the slan ders of our enemies. If G. —With regard, then, to the grave question on which your doctrines and practices are avowedly at war with those of the Christian world—that of a plurality of wives—is the system ot your Church’acceptnble to the majority of its women ? B. Y. —They could net be more averse to it than I was when it was first re vealed to us as the Divine will. 1 think they generally accept it, as 1 do, as the will of God. If G. —How general is polygamy : among you ? B. Y. —l could not say. Some of those present [heads of the Church] have each but one wife, others have more; each j determines what is his individual duty. Jf G. —What is the largest number of wives belonging to any one man ? B. Y. —l Lave fifteen ; I know of no ! one who has more, but some of those j sealed to me are old ladies whom I re gard rather as mothers than wives, but j whom I have taken home to cherish and | support. ]f G. —Does not the Apostle Paul say that a Bishop should be “ husband of one wife ?” B. Y— So we hold. We do not regard j any but a married man as fitted for the office of Bishop. But the Apostle does not forbid a Bishop having more wives I than one. If G. —Does not Christ say that he ! who puts away his wife, or marries one whom another has put away, commits adultery ? B. Y. —Yes; and I hold that no man ; should ever put away a wife except for : adultery—not always even for that. Such is my individual view of the matter. I do not say that wives have ever been put i atvay in our Church, but that I do not i approve of the practice. 11. G. —llow do you regard what is commonly termed the Christian Sabbath? B. I'—As a divinely appointed day of rest. We enjoin all to rest from secular labor on that day. We would have no man enslaved to the Sabbath, but we en join all to respect and enjoy it. Such is, as nearly as I can recollect, the substance of nearly two hours’ con versation, wherein much was said inci dentally that would not be worth report iug even if I could remember and reproduce it, and wherein others boro a part; but, as president Young is the first minister of the Mormon Church, and bore the princi pal part in the conversation, I have repor ted his answers alone to my questions and observations. The others appeared uniformly to defer to his views, and to | acquiesce fully in his responses and ex planations. lie spoke redily, not always | with grammatical accuracy, but with no 1 appearance of hesitation or reserve, and with no apparent desire to conceal any thing, nor did he repel any of my ques tions as impertinent. He was very plain ly dressed in thin summer clothing, and with no air of sanctimony or fanaticism. In appearance, he is a portly, frank, good-natured, rather thiGk-sct man of fifty five, seeming to enjoy life, and be in no particular hurry to get to heaven.— His associates are plain men, evidently born and reared to a life of labor, and looking as little like crafty hypocrites or ! swindlers as any body of men I ever met. | The absence of cant or snuffie from their manner was marked and general, I think I may fairly say that their Mor monism has not impovished them—that they were generally poor men when they j embraced it, and are now in very comfor table circumstances—as men averaging I three or four wives apiece certaiuly need ! to be. If I hazard any criticisms on Morinon ism generally, I reserve them for a sepa rate letter, being determined to make this a fair and full expose of the doctrine and | polity, in the very words of the Prophet, |so far as I can recall them. Ido not be lieve President Young himself could pre ; sent them in terms calculated to render them less obnoxious to the Gentile world than the above. But I have a right to add here, because I said it to the assem bled chiefs at the close of the above col | loquy, that the degredation, (or, if you | please, the restriction) of Woman to the I single office of child-bearing and its ac cessories, is an inevitable consequence of the system here paramount. I have not ; observed a sign in the streets, an adver | tisement in the journals, of this Mormon metropolis, whereby a woman proposes to do any thing whatever. No Mormon has ev | er cited to me his wife’s or any woman’s opinion on any subject; no Mormon woman has been introduced or has spoke to me; and, though I have been asked to visit Mormons iu their houses, no one has spo ken of his wife (or wives) desiring to see me, or his desiring me to make her (or their) acquaintance, or voluntarily indi cated the existence of such a being or beings. I will not attempt to report our I talk on this subject, because, unlike what I have above given, it assumed somewhat the character of a disputation, and I could hardly give it impartially; but one re mark made by President Young I think I can give accurately, and it may serve as a sample of all that was offered on that side. It was in these words. I think ex actly : “If I did not consider myself com petent to transact a certain business with out taking my wife’s or any woman’s counsel with regard to it, I think I ought to let that business alone.” The spirit with regard to Woman, of the entire Mor mon, as of all other polygamic systems, is fairly displayed in this avowal. Let any such system become established and prevalent, and Woman will soon be con fined to the harem, and her appearance j in the street with unveiled face will be accounted immodest. I joyfully trust that the genius of the Nineteenth Centu ry tends to a solution of the problem of Woman’s sphere and destiny radically different from this. H. G. — Tire Wheat Kui-vest. The wheat harvest of the West has been gathered. The result of the sowirg the present year is the largest wheat har vest probably that was ever produced. The St. Louis Republican, in summing up the reports from tjie entire wheat region of the North and West, says: The season has been unusually early ; the insects and the rust have not been able to extort from the farmers their usu al groans and growling?, and with the exception of a single night of frost injur ing the crop in a few counties of Western Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio, the ground sown in what has yield ed most abundantly. There has been i a greater breadth of wheat laid out than I sver before; from New York to Arkan tsa and Alabama, and from California ihrough to the Atlantic, more land by far, et is said, has been cultivated than at any former time. Whilst the extent and suc cess of the wheat crop in the United States are unprecedented, the same is true of Canada, and in all the old coun tries of Europe the promise of the har vest at the last accounts Was extraordina rily good A Pike’s Peak in Georgia. A letter to the Charleston Courier from New York says: A couple of gentlemen are on here from Georgia, trying to sell a portion of a newly discovered gold mine. They call it the Allatoony Gold Mine, and de clare that its ore is unequalled in rich ness and purity by that of any other mine on the Atlantic slope. Where is Allatoony ? It i3 well to know early, as it may soon become another Pike’s Peak. Will somebody tell us where Allatoony is ? The American party in the First Con gressional District, in Maryland, have nominated Mr. C. C. Cox, of Talbot, for i Congress. Circular of the Itepnblicnn Sfnllon** al Committee. Albany, N. V. Aug. 16. 1859 The Republican Nat innal Committee, at their uuetiiu. c ■ cutly field in this c-ty, issued tl c I ifiiW'i g t. ircnlar lo tlicit Ke publican tr ■ iul> ti r* c;.! i;nnt the t niou. ii, tile ju {Mi,, ;.l . I ih*’ ni.ih rsigued member? *■ it e Ltcpnhltea .National (fi. ill in ii tee, tin lime La.- arrived-tar con sultation ami preliminary action in re eard to t fie preaching si niggle for the Presidency, and they beg therefore to call your attention to the suggestions which follow. The Republican party bad its origin in he obvious necessity for resistance to the aggressions of the slave power and maintaining lor tne states respectively, their reserved lights and sovereignties. In the contest oi 18-ji>, by the presentation and advocacy of the true science of government, it laid the foundation of a permanent political or ganization, although it did not get pos session of the power to eniorce its prin ciples. When the result, adverse to its efforts and its hopes, was declared, it un affectedly acquiesced, giving to the victor, for the sake of the country, its best wishes for an honest and fair adminis tration of the government. How far Mr. Buchanan’s administra tion has realized these wishes, is now patent to the world. With the executive power of the Government in his hands, his administration has failed in every re spect to meet the expectations of the peo ple, and has presented the most humilia ting spectacle of corruption, extrava gance, imbecility, recklessness and bro ken faith. So apparent is this, even to our opponents, that the so ealletl Demo cratic organization, always distinguished for its discipline and party fidelity, is ut terly demoralized and distracted, with out any recognized or accepted party principle, and threatened with disruption by r the rival aspirations and struggles of its leading partizans. While the Admin istration has been thus faithless to the interests of the country, and has thus dis organized the party which placed it in power, the Republican party lias been constantly mindful of the great piublic necessity which called it into existence, and faithful to the fundamental principle upon which it was erected. Experience has only served to strengthen the convic tion of its’ absolute necessity, in the re formation of the National Government, and of the wisdom and justice of its purposes and aims. Although some of the exciting incidents of the election of 1856 have been partial ly disposed of by the energy, enterprise and valor of a free people, the duty of Republicans to adhere to their principles, as enunciated at Philadelphia, and to labor for their establishment, was never more pressing than at this moment. The attitude of the slave power is persistently insolent and aggressive. It demands of the .country much more than it has de manded hitherto. It is not content with the absolute control of the National Gov ernment; not content with the dispensa tion of the honors and emoluments of the National Administration: not content with its well known infiuenee—always pernicious over the legislation at the National Capitol—but it demands fresh concessions from a free people, for the purpose of extending and strengthening an institution, local in its character, the creature of State legislation, which the Federal Government is not authorized to establish or extend by any grant of dele gated powers. It demands by an unau thorized assumption of power, after hav ing as occasion required, adopted and repudiated all the crude theories for the extension of slavery, of the ambitious politicians who sought its favor—the es tablishment anil protection of slavery in the Territories, by act of Congress, and the revival of the African slave trade. Upon no organization except that of the Republican party can the country rely for successful resistance to these monstrous propositions, and for the cor rection of the gross abuses which have characterized the present National Admin istration. It is the duty, then, of all pa triotic men, who wish for the establish ment of republican principles and meas ures in the administration of the Nation al Government, to aid in perfecting and strengthening this organization fer the coming struggle. There is much to be done involving earnest labor and the ex penditures of time and money; there should be— First—A thorough understanding and interchange of sentiments and views be tween the Republicans of every section of country. Second—An effective organization of the Republican voters of each State, county and town, so that our party may know its strength and its defieienciees, its power and its needs, before we engage in the Presidential struggle. Third—The circulation of well consid ered documents, making clear the posi tion of the Republican party, and expos ing tiic dangerous character of the prin ciples and policy of the Administration. Fourth—Public addresses in localities where they are desired and needed, by able champions of the Republican cause. Fifth—A large and general increase of the circulation of Republican journals throughout the country. To give practical effect to these sugges tions, an adequate amount of money, will be required, for the legal and fathful ex penditure of which the undesigned will hold themselves responsible. The vast, patronage of the Federal Government will be wielded against us, to which we can oppose nothing but earnest and effi cient devotion to the Republican cause, and the voluntary pecuniary offerings of our Republican friends. In conclusion, the undersigned may be permitted to express their opinion that the signs of the times are auspicious for the Republican party, and that in their judgment discreet and patriotic action throughout the confederacy, promises to secure a Republican victory in 1860. Un willing, however, to encourage hopes which may be disappointed, and to place their appeal for aid and co-operation upon the assurance of success in the contest that is approaching, the undersigned are constrained to say that they rely most confidently upon the patriotism and zeal of their Republican brethren for such aid and co-operation ; meanwhile we have the honor to be very respectfully, your obedient servants, E. I). Morgan, N. Y. O. X. Schoolfield, Tonn. Wm. M. Chase, K. J. Thomas Spooner, < *liio. •Jos. Bartlett, Maine. Norman it. Judd, ill. George G. Fogg, N. Y. James Ritchie, Ind. John C. Goodrich, Mrfss.Zaoh. Chandler, Mich. Lawrence Brainard, Vt. Andrew J.Steneus, lowa Gideon Wells, Conn. John X. Tweedy, Wis. James N. Sherman. X. J.t ‘ornelius Cole, Cal. Thomas Williams. Pa. M. F. Conway. Kansas. E. D. Williams, Del. Lewis Clophane, 1). ('. George Harris, Mil. Asa S. Jones, Mo. Alfred Caldwell, Ya. Alex. Ramsay, Minn. Cassius M. Clay, Ky. Republican National Committee. From Washington. Washington, Aug. 21. —There is still little, if any doubt, that a convention or treaty between the United States and Mexico will soon be concluded, and re ceived here from Minister McLanc, early in September, in which event, Senor Ler do will return to New York, with a view to conclude the pecuniary arrangements already initiated by him, instead of first laying his plans before the Jaurez Gov ernment, as he originally intended. The treaty will probably be confined rnainly to the United States transit over Mexican territory, with certain commercial privi leges or exemption from customs duties in that connection, together with provi sion for adequate means of production. It is confidently asserted that the conpen sation for these advantages can easily be rendered mutually satisfactory. Other treaties will be proposed in due time, and in these arrangements there is no reason to doubt that provision will be made for the satisfaction of American claims against Mexico. Distinguished friends of the Juarez Government, including a number of Mexicans now here, regard the latest Mexican news as additionally encoura ging to the cause of the Constitutional ists, and speak of the ex-commuiiication of that party by the Arch-bi-hop of Mex ico, as a harmless proceedingi There is no foundation for the rumor that the Secretary of War will resign his seat in the Cabinet. He hopes soon to return to the performance of his official duties. J'ii.rt! !ie XT a orlettre- pfi-ayune. Kosln Oil While merely experiment, the oil produced from the rosin of out- j ibe toi ests encouraged the expectation that, a ueiv source t wealth hsi*i been disc -ci ii iu the South, ilic esperitn* ! * : * tie, i successful. The phi*- barren • ofth : States po-sess a value beyond that of th California gold mine: Ineshan tilde iu the product of rosin, the amount ot wealth which is-to ilow from their broad acre will be limited only by the demand for oil as a lubricator lor the machinery of the country. In a*former notice of the p: ogress of this enterprise —which, irom its influence upon the prosperity of the South, inter ests the whole community —the favor which the most severe tests on some of our t ail roads gave to the oil was noticed. Since that time, its adoption on other roads has exceeded expectation. The following rail roads now make exclusive use of rosin oil on the machinery, viz:— the New Orleans and Opelousas, Ohio and Mississippi, the l’acific, the Terre Haute and Alton, the Macon and Western, the Georgia Central, Western and Atlantic, and the Savannah, Albany and Gulf Rail Roal. Negotiations are now pending with different roads running out of Au gusta, Columbus, and Memphis, and with several of them, are almost perfected. The prolonged tests of the oil upon the Georgia Central road, have resulted iu the following warm and almost unexam pled commendation. Mr. Jackson, who has been for twenty years engaged in the management of machinery, having been selected as the agent to test the rosin oil, says he has “run three trains with the Southern Oil Company's oil a distance averaging five thousand miles each, with only one oiling, keeping the boxes per fectly cool and free from gum, and gives the oil preference over all other oils ever used on the Georgia Central Road.” lie recommends the oil as the best and cheap est now used as a lubricator. This result ou the Georgia Central road will, doubtless, speedily secure the adop tion of this oil on all the roads in Geor gia, the Carolinas, and Tennessee. It has become necessary, from the de mand springing up in the West, to estab lish a permanent agency of the company in St. Louis; aud doubtless the same ne cessity will exist for an agent, in New Ycrk. No manufacturing enterprise has ever been, in so short a time, more suc cessful than this. No one now in this country has more favor among the “solid men” of the land. It is gratifying to southern pride to chronicle the progress of this new indus try. If he who has caused a spire of grass to grow where there was none, be serves praise, how much greater commen dation is due to the genius and the per severance which has converted the bar rens of the Southern States into mines of wealth? This industry now needs no endorsement from the press; it is estab lished and absolutely secure ; but the en couragement which success in this branch of enterprise will give to other species of manufactures, is a sufficient reason to note its prosperity. The new power it gives to the South —the great, value it attaches to the only section of our slave States which had been regarded as un productive—secures public interest in all that concerns this manufacture. Attempting to Fly. The Mdaison Journal relates the ful lowingincident: Two or three weeks since a man named Whiting, living near Sun Prairie, in this county, got religion so bad that lie was too pure for the prairie, and accord ingly attempted to come to Madison or some other religious place. He was too pure to travel like a mortal, and having faith that he could fly to his destination, he attempted the experiment. He pro cured an umbrella, and climbed to the top most branches of a tree in the skirts of a timber. After hoisting his umbrella, he jumped from the tree, and began to kick and squabble, thereby thinking to propel himself througn the air. La Mountain or Wise did not work harder but, alas for human calculations instead of going ahead he quickly descended to the ground, holding on to the umbrella for dear life. He at last reached terra firma in a sound state, and has now made up bis mind that faith is a good thing, but should not be taken in too large doses. Tlie Oldest Skip. The bark Maria arrived at this port last evening, from a three years’ cruise in the Indian Ocean. She was built at the town-of Pembroke, now called Han son, for a privateer, during the Revolu tionary war. She was bought of William Rotcb, a merchant of Nantucket, after wards of this city, in the year 1783, arid in the same year she made a voyage to London with a cargo of oil. Her register is dated A. D. 1782, and she is conse quently in her 77th year. She claims to be the first ship that displayed the U. S. Jlag in a British port alter the Revolu tionary war, which flag is now in exist ence, though in shreds. Her model is of old French construction, tumbling Lome, or rounding very much in her top sides, and she is consequently very narrow on deck, in proportion to her size, 202 tons. It is said that there stands to her credit over $200,000; and from the earliest history of this ship she lias never been any expense by loss to underwriters ex cept once, and that to a small amount.— JYew Bedford Standard, 11 th. tluitc a Mistake A recently married young man in Cin cinnati got intoxicated at a wine party, and in that state went home to his wife. As soon as he appeared she leaped from the sofa, on which she had been half re clining, and throwing her alabaster arms about his neck, inquired, “Are you ill, dearest? What ails you? You do not seem to be yourself.” “Well, the fa —fa —truth is, that—that—that I went to sit —sit up with a si—si—sick brother, be longing to our—our —our lodge, you see, my love, and the li—light—light went out, aud giving him brandy, as—as the doctor had pre—prescribed ; I—l must have ina—made a mistake—a mistake in the da—dark, and taken the liquor myself; whi—which I should—should ha—have hand—handed my friend, you see, my dear.” This explanation was very satisfactory, especially to the hus band, who sat down on his hat and fell asleep. A Venerable Bishop. The Rev. Joshua Soule, D. D., senior Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, preached a sermon at Lebanon, Ohio, on the 31st ultimo. It is stated that some of his allusions to Isis early ministerial life, the deaths of his former colleagues, Wbeatcoat, McKendree, and others were very touching. “ Sixty years ago,” saiu the Bishop, “on the sth of January last I left home to begin the work of a Methodist traveling preacher, andthisday, July 31st, I close the 80th year of my life.” He spoke with his usual distinctness and compass of voice sufScient to make himself heard by a large congregation. How to Say One’s Beads. An aristocratic marriage was celebrated a few days since in Baris, one of'the par ties to which was no less distinguished for her piety than for her beauty. Among the many rich gilts which the bride had offered for her acceptance on the joyful occasion, was a rosary, the beads of which were diamonds! During the fine music which formed a part of the nuptial cere mony, the lady said her rosary with edi fying devotion, and, after receiving with her spouse the benediction, placed the rosary itself in the hand of the priest, as her offering for the poor of the parish. Death of Metliodist Clergymen. The Baltimore Christian Advocate an nounces the death, on the 13th instant, of the Rev. James Stevens, at Williamsburg, Blair county, Pa. He was a member of the Baltimore Annual Conference for many years, but for the last few years a superannuate. Id the short space of a few weeks six ministers have died — Smith, Cadden and Drown, from the East Balti more Conference, and McGee, Stevens and Eakin, from the Baltimore Conference. The schr. S. J. Warring, from New York, arrived at Savannah the 26th.