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COLUMBUS: Tuesday Morning, Scyt. 13, 1859. Ton or more Democratic journals of , South Carolina have denounced the non intervention doctrines of Senator Douglas* and spoken out iu opposition to h:s nom iuatiou for the Pi L-.dtii-y. “Sut Lovengood.” Tho Ghaltan -oga Gazette says that I George W, Harris, alias Sut Lovengood, ‘•pleased with novelty, fond of change,’’ has been appointed Conductor on one of the Nashville trains. - - - Col. O. A. Lochrane having declined the nomination for the Legislature lrom Bibb county ; the Democratic Convention which assembled the 10th, as wc learn lrom tho State Press, unanimously nomi nated Judge A. P. Powers to ii 11 the va ■ ranry in the ticket. Tbc Marietta Advocate of the Dili, says that arrangements have been made by Mnj, .1. F. Cooper, Civil Engineer, tooom mence, the survey of the route for the Ellijay and Ducktown Kail Road to-day. The survey will be prosecuted until the fund raised for the purpose is exhausted. Hon. J. YY. Manning has furnished the Atlanta American with a summary of the population of Fulton couuty, from which it appears that the number of in habitants is 15,7L1. The population of Atlanta is said to be about 11,500. The Eutaw (Ala.) Observer understands that in the western part of that (Greene) county, the worms have played the very wild with the cotton crop during the last two or three weeks. The Observer can not give an approximate idea of the dam age done, but says the complaint is gen eral. Tho Herald, published at Benton, Lowndes county, Alabama, learns from what it terms reliablo planters, of that section, that the recent rains have greatly injured the cotton crop, both in quantity and quality ; yet it is believed that there will be about an average crop, as it was unusually promising before the rains. Unknown Elan Kitted. The Augusta Dispatch learns that the up passenger train of the Georgia Rail Road, on Thursday morning, ran over a man eight miles above Augusta, mangling him horribly and killing him instantly. 110 had nothing about, him by which he could ho identified. It is supposed he was asleep on the track. Charleston Courier. Tho proprietors of this venerable and excellent paper, give notice that they will soon issue it in entirely new type and greatty enlarged in size. They are , also about to add another and faster press to their supply of machinery, in order to get off their large circulation in i time for the mails. The Courier has won distinguished success, and wo take pleas ure iu adding that it deserves it. Frost. The Chicago Tribune of the 7th says : “We understand that on Saturday night last, a heavy frost prevailed over the northern portion of the State, doing much damage to the late corn. At Free port the flowers on the State Fair Grounds j were nearly all killed.” Tobacco ami Wheat. The receipts of tobacco at Richmond, ! Va., last month by canal and rail roads, amounted to G,029 hhds; same month last year G,242 lidds. The receipts of wheat last month, by the same lines, amounted to 488,751 bushels, by the dock 118,017 bushels—making a total of 081,708 bushels. A Leavenworth Law Suit. The Leavenworth Register says : “An amusing case was tried before Judge Pe titt yesterday. Col. Isaacks sued the city of Kicapoo, for the sum of SI,OOO | in payment of services rendered as Lobby agent at the second Begus House of Rep resentatives, which met at Lecompton in January, 1857. lie was employed to keep tho county seat of Leavenworth couuty at that thriving city. He didn’t succeed, and now the city refuses to pay the gallant Colonel. Truly, ‘corporations have no souls.’ ” Kail Hoad Movement. The Southern Era of the 10th, says it is mylerstood that a company of Survey ors will leave Opelika to-day, for the pur- ’j pose of surveying the route of tho antici pated Rail Road from that place to Chil- j dersburg. The object being to ascertain the probable cost and the most eligible ! route, and to locate the Road. The j Southern Era is informed that the com pany designing to build the lload to Ox ford via. La Fayette, are permanently or ganized, and will probably commence grading in a short while. . •*• A white man by the name of Frederick , Friete,. was knocked down and killed with a bludgeon last week, in the vicinity of Memphis, Teen., by a negro named Phil, the property of Mrs. Gwynne. It appeared in the evidence before the com mining Magistrate, that tho deceased rented his cooper shop on the Raleigh road to Phil, who wished to hold a negro ball in it on Saturday night. About 10 o’clock Friete, accompanied by his wife and two men, proceeded to the house where the ball was going on and demanded pay for its use, which, not being forthcoming, he seized a basket containing a quantity of eatables intend ed for the supper, and declared he would keep it until he was paid. Upon this a scuflle ensued between Friete and the boy Phil, the latter knocking the former down with a club, inflicting a severe wound, from the effects of which he died on Monday morning. One of the men who accompanied the deceased was also knocked down by Phil, but was not se riously injured. Deatli-Ued of tlie King of Prussia. A correspondent of the Londou Times, writing from Potsdam, Aug. 15, says: The railway carriages were filled with decorated gentlemen, in evening dress or iu full uniform, on their way to make personal inquiries at Saus Souci—some led by kindly recollections of the King, who possessed an amiable manner, and was capable of warm if not lasting friend ships, and others enjoying the opportu nity of displaying their own importance, by asserting their right to take a person al interest in the monarch’s condition, while there were some who made the sacrifice of a few thalers to the sinking sun, in hopes of attracting the rays of the successor. The writer says that Frederick Wil liam IV. was not a favorite with the pub lic, or even the Postdsmers. There is no such scene as was presented nineteen years ago, when his father was dying in Berlin. Then an anxious crowd filled tlie wide space from the Palace bridge half way down the Linden, day and night, closely packed together head to head, and speaking only to ask news in whis pers. The old man was personally be loved, and his despotism tolerated, for the sake of the glorious days he and the country had lived through together. On August 7th, the present monarch was I struck with apoplexy. The Elba Ala.) District, anci.the Sa* vatinah, Albany and G. R R. About three years ago a very large grant of public lands was made by Con gress, in the Elba (Ala.) Laud District, to aid in building the Savannah, Albany and Gulf Rail Road through Alabama to Mobile. At lie session of 1858—’4, the Alabama Legislature granted way to the Cumpuuy, and at the session ; of 1857—8, an Act was passed, through the influence of Judge Yelvertou, of Cof fee county, Alabama, accepting the Gov ernment lands, anil vesting them in the Company. ihe Company, as the States Rights Democrat says, promised to commence operations immediately, which fact in duce'! the passage of the above mentioned Act, but their promise was not, nor has it yet been, complied with. The Demo crat says that Col. Tift, the agent of the Company, endeavored to negotiate a sale of the route and lands to a New York Company, which, from srome cause, failed. The next news was that the South-Western Rail Road Company had extended their Road to Albany, and provided branches to Eufaula and Ft. Gaines. Thus the broad country between the Chattahoochee and Mobile has been neglected, and left to take care of itself. The people of Cof fee county, as the Democrat represents, have become impatient and indignant at the bad faith thus exercised, and now look to another interest, which is the ownership and settlement of the identical lands withdrawn from market. The peo ple of that Land District are unanimous in favor of their restoration lo market, and will call upon the Government, through their representative iu Congress, to have it done as early as practicable. But for tliis expected action on tbe part of the Government, tho people of the whole District would have long ago united in a petition to this end. Must Have n Itig Bell. It is surprising how small Gowns will ape big ones. A week or two ago we an nounced that a lire alarm bell, weighing 2700 lbs., had been swung up in this city, and straightway the Columbus Sun tries to get tbe good people of that place to buy one just like it! Well, reckon they’ll buy it after a while, if the place continues to grow. One man has already | subscribed ten dollars for it. The above tantalizing (?) paragraph emenate3 from our waggish friend, of the Montgomery Mail. When we last men tioned the subject of an alarm bell, we were not fully advised of what had al ready been done towards swinging it. In the early part of last spring, the Fire Department of Columbus, raised an amount of money sufficient to procure a bell weighing 4000 lbs. We suppose, how ever, one weighing between 8000 and 4000 lbs. will suffice. They have only been awaiting the completion of a tower, when it will be duly swuDg. Wc presume the good people of Montgomery heard of the above, and “straightway” set about getting a big bell, too. “Small towns’’ apeiug “"big ones,” indeed! Well, we should’nt bo much surprised if the “place’ where the Mail is published con tinues to grow, it will aspire to have an alarm bell as big as ours. Death of an Eminent Merchant. The New York papers of Tuesday af ternoon notice the death of Geo. Griswold, one of the roost eminent merchants of that city. The Express says : lie co'inmenced business before he was 20 years old, in the West India trade, which lie afterwards changed to the South American, then to the East India trade, and latterly to rail roads. In all these branches of business lie was perfectly successful, never—as one of his friends remarked —■ “having even shivered,” though hundreds failed during the sixty years of his active business life. He was one of the principal men interested in getting up the Illinois Central and the New Jersey Rail Roads. He was con temporaneous with Stephen Wbituey, John Haggerty, and George Griffin, all of whom are still living. He was a liberal contributor to the Rail Road of his native place, and built a line stone church there at his own expense, and was considered a regular “Old Mortality” there, having fenced in tho burying-ground, restored the broken tombstones, and renovated those which had become defaced by time ; and he bore the name of a very liberal and charitable man. His last illness con tinued for about a week, and he was per fectly conscious up to Sunday. All Mon day lie was unconscious, and thence on up to the hour of his death. It is a very curious fact, that Mr. Griswold always avoided telling his age. We do not know of any man living who knew, from him, how old he was, or who ever heard him speak of his age. He always <■ aded the I subject when pressed. Extensive Telegraphic Enterprise Lines to California and Salt Lake. Contracts were executed in this city 1 to-day by the Western Union Telegraph 1 Company, the Missouri River Telegraph ; Company, and the Missouri, Kansas and Utah Telegraph Company, by which the former company have become the con trollers of all tbe telegraph lines west of St. Louis, and arrangements are now iu progress and ample means provided to extend the lines of the two latter compa nies under the general superintendence of Charles M. Stebbins, Esq., from St. Louis to Fort Smith, 500 miles on the route of the Butterfield overland mail, aud from St. Louis to Atchison and Utah. The latter is now in Successful operation a distance of about 400 miles west of St. Louis,” and the line to California via. Fort Smith, is in good working order, about 300 miles west of St. Louis. By the latter line, which will soon onen another section of about 200 miles, the Associated Press will receive very full reports of California news three or four days in advance of the arrival of the ovevlapd mail at St. Louis, and within the next few months it may be reasonably anticipated that the California and Utah line will become the most important sources of exciting public intelligence.— A*. 17 Jour. Com., 9. Tlie Wine Crop. Mr. R. Buchanan, of Cincinnati, in a letter to the St. Louis Horticultural So ciety, says the vintage of 1859 near Cin cinnati will be the largest since 1853. The average yield will be about 405 gal lons to the acre, although some vineyards will produce 000 to 800 gallons to the acre. Within twenty miles around Cin-~ cinnati it is estimated the crop will amount to 800,000 gallons; so that the wine crop of Ohio the present year may be safely stated as over one million of dollars in value. Chattanooga Markets. The Advertiser, of the Bth, says that Bacon is selling in Chattanooga as fol lows : Ribbed Sides, at 1(U cents, packed; Clear Sides, 11 cents; Hams, 11 to 12 cents ; hog round, packed and delivered, 10] cents. Corn was selling at 65 cents, including sacks, and little doing. Lard selling at 121 cents, stock light. Wheat —a good article—going at 80 cents for Red, and 90 for White. The business over tbe Gulf Road, says the Savannah Republican, shows a very gratifying increase over last year, there being from four to six cars of freight going and returning daily. The freight trains now run 110 miles, and the mail train will soon do the same thins. Thus gradually are we penetrating into South ern Georgia, which we hope to unite with us in bonds of friendship as wellasinter . est. We suppose the Convention [Democrat ic] of next Saturday will take steps to defeat the reported coup rl'eta! of last Saturday. — Sun. The call of the Democratic meeting on Saturday does not. state that it is for the purpose of nominating candidates for the Legislature, but wo suppose that that is what is meant by the above. If, howev er, the Sun meaos to convey the impres sion, by the use of the term coup d’etat, , that the Opporition Convention of last i Saturday did any thing else than what the 1 party selected the delegates to do, it has learned something cf which we are not informed, and we do not believe that it is regarded as a confidential ally of tlie Op position party. Whatever the Democrat ic Convention may do, it. will find the Opposition ticket light hard to “defeat.” Having returned to our post after a short absence, we found tbe above para graph in the Enquirer of Thursday last. By the use of the term coup d’etat, we had reference simply to the selection of the ticket by tbe Opposition meeting. Be yond tliis we learned nothing, for our neighbor, the Tinnjs, says the Convention sat with “closed doors.” If report be true, however, the composition of the ticket was a very skillful exhibition of political tactics, and wc presumed, of ! course, that the Democratic meeting of Saturday would take steps to counteract it. We have no idea that the Opposition Convention did “anything else than what the party selected the delegates to do.” We thought it selected a strong ticket, and that the Democrats, like a well drill ed army which defeats its adversary as often by proper evolutions as intrepid courage, would bring into the field avail able men, who were willing to serve. We do not claim to be the organ, or | “confidential ally” of either party, and would be far from trenching upon the i functions so ably and faithfully discharg ‘ ed by our cotemporaries ; but we do claim, and insist upon the privileges cf Ihc “out side dog iu the fight.” ♦ The Best Freight Route. The great obstacle which has long ex isted to prevent the Savannah route from ; being the best and great freight route, i has been removed by the completion of the connection of the Montgomery and Muscogee Roads, and as soon as the trains on the Montgomery Road can be arrang ; ed to go directly through, there will be j a great saving of time between Savannah and Montgomery in the delivery of freight. The change already is a saving fully of twelve hours, and it will be fully twenty-four or thirty when all arrange ments shall be complete. This being doue the Savannah route will possess a large advantage over that of Charleston, because of its shortness, and become tbe great freight thoroughfare from New York to the country west of this city. The control which is exercised over the four fine steamers plying between Savannah and New York (they belong to the Central Rail Road) gives this route, as a freight route, a decided ad vantage over that of Charleston. A train expressly for carrying freight v;est of this city, is running daily between Sa vannah and Montgomery, which, having no discharging to do on the route, goes ! through with great dispatch, leaving but little necessity of paying Express expen ses to ensure the quick of goods shipped over it. Time through from Savannah to Montgomery about forty eight hours. From our Minister JoClilna. The State Department has received dis- I patches from Mr. Ward, our Minister to | China, in which be signifies his intention to leave Shanghai, on the 16th of June, in the steamer Powhatan, for the city of Teintsin, and on his arrival there con , templates finding the necessary arrange ; ments ready to enable liiinAo proceed to | Pekin, in order to exchange tbe ratifi cation of the treaty with the Chinese I Government. * Large Fire in Norfolk. The Mechanics’ Hall and six adjoining stores were consumed by fire iu Norfolk, Va., on Wednesday last. Tlie loss is | stated to be about forty thousand dol lars. The buildings were insured, and the stock partially. The Mexican Treaty. dispatch from New Orleans on the Bth, says that authentic information had ! been received, which states that Minister I McLane did not conclude the treaty with Mexico ; and that the matter remains un j settled. Hog Cholera. The Lawrenceburg (Teun.) Journal leans that the bog cholera is prevailing to a great extent in portions of that couuty. j A gentleman residing a few miles from that town has lost over one hundred hogs iby the disease Several others have lost large numbers. It is stated in our Alabama exchanges | that Mr Jeremiah Brown, of Sumter j county, in that State, has recently do | nated twenty five thousand dollars to | wards the endowment of a Theological ! Professorship in the Howard (Baptist) ; College, at MarioD, Alabama. + Photographing on Porcelain. We were yesterday shown a specimen j of anew discovery by means of which photographs can be produced on porce lain vases, cups and any utensils of that ware, regardless of the irregularity of surface. The merits of the discovery cannot be over-imagined in opening a new channel for decorative art, as every species of landscape, vignette, armorial bearings, &c., can be reproduced ad libi tum, and at a very liberal charge, super seding, as it does, the employment of manual labor for astistic purposes. We had almost believed that the photograph ic art had been exhausted, but thisinven: tion Las given a fresh impulse, from its intrinsic beauty and worth, as well as from the imperishable quality of the pho tography which cannot be removed with out destruction of the porcelian ware.— X. Y. Nexcs. An Englishman named Edward B. Humphries, who is alleged to be a de faulter to parties in England to the amount of £40.000, and who has been searched for through Canada and the States during the last three months, was arrested in Boston on Friday last. The arrest was made on the charge of adul tery, Humphrey having brought to this country a woman not his wife, with whom he had been living, but it is probable that the subject of his alleged defalcation will be investigated as soon as testimony can be obtained. — Savh. Xexcs. Gov. Mcßae, of Mississippi, on Doitg lasism and Southern Rights. The Seacoast Democrat says that Gov. i Mcßae, the Democratic nominee for Con gress in the sth District, in his speech at Mississippi City’, “expressed his ab horrence of the Douglas doctrine of non intervention, and said that should such a construction of the Cincinnati Platform prevail at the Charleston Convention, he for one would not submit. He was for independence out of the Union in pre ference to dishonor in it, and rather than the South should again surrender one single constitutional right, would be for a seperation of the Confederacy.” + • Large Compensation. The general agent for the Western States of the famous and unprecedent edly successful Etna Insurance Company, i of Hartford, receives a compensation lar ger than that of the President of the Lnited States, The Hartford Times says his commissions annually range from I $25,000 to 30,000. Tlie Tomt of Gen. Greene—Where Is it : A few days since, says the Savannah News, we published a communication with the above caption. It was copied into the Charleston Courier, and has elic ited the following very interesting letter, which Avotake pleasure iu placing before our leader-- : Columbia, Lo. Ca., Aug. 28, 1859. Editor of Savannah Xetcs: Noticing the enclosed, which I have taken from the j Charleston Courier, and have some recol- ■ lection of the subject matter, ss detailed by older inhabitants ot your city, all of whom are now dead, 1 take the liberty of answering, so fur as my memory serves me at present. Some years since, I believe, inquiry was made on the same matter of fact, j aud, if I do not err, sundry of the vaults in the cemetery were searched for evi dence of the remains (if any) of General Greene. The search was unsuccessful, i abandoned at the time, and never since j prosecuted for the purposes then intend- ! ed, of placing them (if found) under a monument, in process of erection in your city, in memory of the deceased revolu tionary soldier aud patriot. At the time of enquiry, to which I have ‘ referred, my mother (then residing with me in this city, to whom I mentioned the ! efforts of citizens of Savannah tor the i discovery of the remains of Gen. Greene) j said to me, “why, he was buried at a place called or plantation called 4 Raise Hall’”—and further remarked, “it is singular, that none of the old citizens left in Savannah remember it, for 1 re member it well.” Raise Ilall is about thirteen miles from : Savannah, and is in the vicinity of plan j tations then owned by Mr. Gibbons and Mr. Styles, and also in the neighborhood of the estate of the deceased Judge Cuy | ler, if not the very same. Os this, how ever, (the latter) I cannot write with any certainty. I can remember very well, even when I was a hoy, of hearing that Gen. Green was hurried at Raise Hall, and the im ! pression has ever been with me, and now ! is, that that place belonged to Ge-n. j Greene. I may err, however, in these impressions. 1 can remember when Gen. Lachlan Mclntosh was hurried in your city, in the early part of this century, and that may be the burial to which Heaclly makes reference, as having been the Interment at which there was au immense concourse of people, &e. My friends and associate school-fellows of bygone days, Dr. W. 11. Cuylcr, R. R. Cuvier, Esq., and Judge L. 8. DeLyon, must certainly remember the funeral pro cession of Gen. Mclntosh, and to whom I respectfully refer you for my own iden ! tity. Ido not think Judge Nicoll was in Savannah at that time, although he was one among us, at the school of a certain Richard Davis, of (at that time) well known notoriety. I am not aware that any others are remaining of my cotempo raries. Troubling thus much, for alone what it may be worth, I am, sir, very respectfully yours, JOHN GLASS. Boats for Flint anil Cliattaliooeliee. A letter from Pittsburg to the Bain bridge Argus, makes mention of three new boats now buildiDg in that vicinity for the Flint and Chattahoochee trade. The writer says : The “John C. Calhoun” will run us a mail boat between Apalachicola alter nately to Baiubridge and some points on | the Chattahoochee river. This boat is now receiving her machinery, and will be i in readiness to leave with her consort for Apalachicola, via New Orleans, about the first September. She is built both for speed and comfort, and will make the i time to Baiubridge by several hours less ! than ever before attained. Tbe cabin, j which will extend nearly the entire length ; of the boat, is being fitted up with great j taste for comfort, having state rooms tor ; about fifty passengers, besides those for the officers, and all the appointments will be such as to make her a favorite passen gor boat. She will also have capacity for freight, but as she is built more as a pas | senger boat, and for the mail service, she never will be so over-loaded with cotton as to make it dangerous to passengers. The “Munnerlyn,” as her name indi cates, and which will no doubt be appre ; ciated by your citizens, will be mainly a i Flint river boat, and no doubt you will chronicle her as a regular visitor to your I thriving city. When the trade warrants i she will extend her trips to Albany and ; intermediate points, which will give the merchants and planters in that section a ; sure and speedy mode of receiving their | supplies and sending their cotton to mar ket ; and as her accommodations for pas sengers arc of a superior sort, no doubt many of the citizens will avail themselves of an opportunity to regale themselves with the fish and oysters which are in such abundance and perfection at Apa lachicola. This, is a stern-wbetfl boat, will carry with ease six hundred bales of cotton, draws light, sixteen inches, and will carry a fair freight on two feet draught. ‘ The “Munnerlyn” is nearly completed, has her machinery on board and cabin al most finished, but will not leave until the “John C. Calhoun” is in readiness. Capt. McAllister deserves great praise for the energy and enterprise displayed | by him in prosecuting this work, and the i citizens of Decatur may congratulate I themselves on the improvements made for | their shipping and passenger accommoda | tions. I also paid a visit to the boat yard, where Capt. Van Veghten is building bis j splendid boat to be called tbe “Mariana,” ; which will run as a packet between Apa | lacbicola and Columbus. She will be j complete in every respect, will carry with j eace sixteen hundred bales of cotton, and j her passenger accommodations will be | such as to make her a favorite boat on | that line. From the LaGrange Reporter. Rail Road Meeting, LaGrange, Sept. 6, 1859. Pursuant to adjournment the friends of | the Columbus and Hamilton Rail Road ! met iu the Court House to-day. j On motion, John E. Morgan was-called jto the chair and N M. Harris was re | quested to act as secretary. The chairman explained the object of | the meeting. Committees appointed at tbe last meet ing were called upon to report; but a quorum not being present the report was j deferred. Col. A. B. Fannin being called out made one of hiS usual sensible, telling speech es, challenging the opposition to show a single instance why said Road would not be as good a paying Road, in every par -1 ticular, as the Atlanta and West Point lload. No unbiased mind can listen to i Col. Fannin and not be convinced of the utility of the Road. His arguments are unanswerable. Several gentlemen present mndespeech es in favor of tbe enterprise. The books were open for the taking of stock, and $2,500 was taken unconditionally, and Jesse McLendon and Thomas Leslie took $20,000 more conditionally. Albert E. Cox offered tbe followingres olutions, which were unanimously adopt ed : 1. Resolved, That we have continued confidence in the feasibility of building tbe Columbus and Hamilton Rail Road; and that the enterprise must ultimately succeed if its friends only prove faithful to the interest involved. 2. Resolved, That we believe the mer cantile interest of this city cannot be damaged; but that it, together with the planting interest of the entire section , through which the Road will pass, will be greatly benefitted by the construction of said Road. On motion, the proceedings of this meeting were ordered to be published in the LaGrange Reporter. On motion of Col. Fannin, the meeting adjourned. J. E. MORGAN, Ch’n. N. M. Harris, Sect'y. A loving husband, at St Louis recent ly telegrapeed to his wife as follows : (‘What have you for breakfast, aud how is the baby ?” The answer came back, “Buckwheat cakes an the measles.” From the dev. land Hendd. Twenty Years Among ttic Indians. One of the most extraordinary narra tives that we have had the fortune to re late, has just come under our notice. It was told us by the hero himself, and the most searching investigation fails to shake the truth of the story, astonishing as it may seem to be. If there is any d<?cep ticn in the cnee, we tail to see its object. About twenty six years ago some Can ad a Indians were in Cleveland, and did some trading with the people, in the course of the trade the Indians fancied they had been cheated, and, iu order to revenge themselves, stole a three year old boy from the city and carried it off to Canada. As far as can be learned, the child was stolen from a small brown house, but iu what part of the city, or any further particulars of the theft, can not be learned. The captors kept the boy in Canada for a few days, and then, fearing his recovery by the whites, sold him to a party of Pot tawotamies, who kept him sbout a month. By these he was again sold to the Paw Paws, in which tribe he remained a month, but ns there were some fears that be would be traced and taken by the whites, he was traded off to the Winnebagoes of Illinois and Wisconsin. How long he remained in the keeping of this tribe has not been ascertained but he was eventually transferred from them to the Chippewas of Wisconsin, who again sold him to the Sioux Indians of Minne sota. Twenty-five years ago he was sold by the Chippewas to the Snakes and Copper heads of lowa. When this tribe removed to Missouri he accompanied them, and afterward went with them in their migra tions through California and Oregon. That portion of the tribe with which he remained finally proceeded as far north as the Russian possessions, near Behring’s Straits, and tiiere, witli portions of the Creeks, Utahs, and other large bands of Indians, they at present remain. Their principal point of settlement is about three hundred miles from the North Pa cific Ocean, and about 2,200 miles to the North westofSt. Paul. One of the points in tiie Russian terri tory, where the tribe occasionally visits, is “Russian Port,” which is laid down on the map as near Colville River. The hero of this strange adventure says the fort is in the vicinity of a small river, the name of which, other tlian that given by this tribe, he does not know. The Snake and Copperhead Indians trade with St. Paul, having a semi annual train to that place. The train has about 2,000 Indians. One party starts from St. Paul about the same time that the other starts from their hunting grounds, thus meeting about half way. The furs ate packed on ponies, elks and dogs. On their last semi annual trip, the hero of these adventures received a pass from one of the Chief's, (“Maco-chew-a-wa”) to seek out bis relatives, and, if found, to remain with them awhile. The pass re quires his presence in St. Paul at their next trip, in 1860. Seven of the tribe, accompanied “Mo kos e que qua” (for that is the Indian name of theyouug man) to Chicago. From that place he has foot ed it most of the w >y, and arrived here yesterday. At Fremont his features were recognized by a man as bearing a strong resemblance to one Joseph Todd, who is said to have resided iu Cleveland about 80 years since. For some time past the young mau lias been diligently engaged in tracing up his history, and what we have given above is the results of his inquiries. He says lie lias no desire to leave his Indian associ | ates, as he has a wife and two children among them, ile speaks English well, having learned it, he says, in his trading at St. Paul. lie s.Tys that his hair was cut, and his clothes changed to conform to white usages, before leaving St. Paul. We have given bis narrative as lie told Jitto us this morning. It seems extraor dinary, but a close and rigid cross exam ination failed to shake his story in the least. As far as we can learn, his ac count of numerous minute details of the country, and manners of the Northwest ! regions, do not differ from the facts. What motive there is for deception we i cannot see at present, as ho only desires j information as to his parents. Ile is | slightly made, speaks rapidly, and is at present suffering from ophthalmia, occa sioned, he says, by sleeping without his customary blankets. lie says as soon as he can get into the woods to search for roots, he can cure himself. Perhaps some of our older settlers can throw some light an the subject of the al leged stealing by the Indians, and wheth er this “white Indian” is not the son of I one Joseph Todcl. Nortliern Llglils in Hie Tropics. All our exchanges, from the northern | coast of the Island of Cuba, (from the | southern side we have none so .late,) | come to us with glowing descriptions of ! the recent Aurora Borealis, which np | pears to have been as bright in the trop- I ies as in the northern zones, and far more interesting. At Havana it made its ap j pearatoce a few minutes after 9 o’clock, ! and in the most approved style, not as here, gradually crimsoning over the sky, | but, quick as thought, it shot up, and in a moment spread over the whole northern I zone, from the horizon to the zenith. At ! first it was very brilliant, but at half-past j nine it began to lose some of its coloring, ’ as it did of its length, and at ten it dis | appeared altogether. The sky was as ! clear as before. At one in the morning it made its ap pearance again iu the same sudden and | luminousmanner, and at the same height, j but it disappeared as suddenly and mys teriously a tew moments after, only, how ; ever, to appear again. And now began ! the most interesting period of the phe i nomena. The sky was no more, or at least for a moment, completely lit up from the horizon to the pole, but the light came and went, now here, now there, now in this direction, now in that, and each time varying in outline and bril liancy. During the three hours which followed it seems to have had almost every latitude and longitude possible in its field, and to have described every pos sible figure. Finally about half past four in the morning, only yielding to the true Aurora, it disappeared altogether. But twice before have the Northern Lights been seen in Havana within the remembrance of the oldest inhabitants— the fisrt, Nov. 14, 1789, the second, No vember 17, 1848—both in the same month, a curious fact which has been duly noted by the wondering islanders. It is like wise remarked as curious facts, /that the Aurora of 1789 was followed two. years after by a terrible hurricane, while that of 1848 was, by precisely the same num ber of years, preceded by one. It has also been thought worthy of notice by one of our cotemporaries that hail, in consideiable quantities, fell in various parts of the island in the early part of the late month of August.—A'. O. Pica yune. Tiie Creeds of tHe World. The following classification of the in habitantsof the earth, according to creels, is made by C. F. W. Deiterlce, a very thorough and careful statistician, and Director of the Statistical Department of Berlin. Taking the number 1.200,000,000 as the total population of the earth, he classifies them as follows : Christians, 835,000,000, or 25.77 per cent. Jews, 5,000,000, or 0,38 per cent Asiatic religions, <100,000,000, or 40.15 per ccdt. Mabommedan, 100,000,000, or 12.31 per cent. Pagans, 200,000,000, or 25.29 per cent. Total, 1,200,000,000, 100 per cent. The 335,000,000 of Christians are again divided into— -170,000,000 Roman Catholics, 50.7 per cent. 89,000,000 Frotestants, 25. G per cent. 70,000,000 Greek Catholics, 22.7 per cent. Total, 335,000,000, 100 per cent. The Opposition party of Terrell county have nominated Samuel Williams for the Senate and Judge Vancover for the House. . *■ The Marion (Ala.) American says it continues to hear complaints of the worm, rust and rot in cotton, from all sections. Decisions are becoming very general ali over the country that rail road companies are not bound to fence against cattle, and that they are only required to use ortfi narv care not to destroy cattie upon the track. This, remarks the Baltimore Suu, will undoubtedly be the rule ol action with all the court.-. In the densely pop ulated countries of Europe, railroad com panies realize the necessity ot fencing their tracks, for the safety of thi-ir pas stuigeis and the general economy ot their operations. la time, this will be tiie rule in our country, but at present u r roads, of immense lengtl) compared with. Euro penn roads, travel for hundreds of miles through sparsely settled districts, and the cost of fencing 4 and keeping it in order would he enormous. The obligation con sequently falls upon farmers and graziers to take due care themselves to keep their cattle off the rail reads. The human or moral obligation to do this in human iit'c and the property of others is apparent and ineontestible. And the owner of cat tle who has not done this, and by whose neglect life and property are destroyed, incurs an accountability that, reaches be yond the courts of law and the incidents of time. V Indian Southern Apples. A Georgia coir;spondent of the South ern Cultivator gives a list of Indian names for several varieties of apples indigenous to the South. They strike us as quite picturesque, and, like the aboriginal names for rivers and mountains, should be preserved—no doubt the apples are : Tillaqunh, “big fruit,” still growing on a fine old tree, near Franklin, N. C. ; Toccoa , “beautiful,” a delicious, high flavored August apple, found in the orchard Oi J Taylor, an old revolutionary soldier, liv ing near the celebrated Toccoa Falls, in Habersham, Ga. ; Cullascjah, “sweet wa ter,” or “sugar water,” a very aromatic, early winter apple, a seedling from the hoise apple, raised by Mi.-s Ann Brysort, living on the Cullasaga fork of the Ten nessee River, in Macon county, N. C. ; Yahoola , meaning unknown, a fine winter apple, found growing on the banks of an old gold pit, near Yahoola Creek, in Lumpkin county, Ga. ; Chesloa, “rabbit’s head,” from the resemblance to that part of the rabbit’s body. Tlic “Uepubllcans” In a Stew. Dost Master General Holt seems to be an officer of unusual pluck and decision. It may not he generally known, but it should be, that the “Republicans” keep one of their members of Congress at Washington nearly all the time, to frank Ding documents, miserable falsehoods, aud the current misrepresentations in which they constantly indulge, to the States where elections are about to take place. Just now they are very busy in endeavoring to carry Minnesota, but it seems the Dost Master General has stop ped their documents on the ground that they were not really franked by emi gres.-men. but by clerks who used the signature. This has caused quite a flut ter among the faithful. — Savannah News. Stoclo of Sugars In New Toi ls. The stock of sugars, now in New York, is said to consist of 73,000 hlids. ; 22,000 boxes, and 70,000 bags. The Post, of Thursday evening, says : This is a larger supply than was antic ipated, and consequently, some holders are anxious to realize, and have yielded 4to |c. to-day to effect sales. The an ticipated liberal supply, both of hogs heads, boxes and bags yet to.come for ward before the close of the season, with stock now on hand, leads many to believe ! that we shall enter the new year with a very considerable surplus of stock, if : prices do not in the mean time ruie as low as to induce very free consumption. A Monster Bull Among the arrivals in the steamship j Alabama, at Savannah, qu Wednesday, ! says the Savannah News, was a monster specimen of the genus has, probably the largest ever seen in Savannah—his weight being 2,733 pounds. He is the property ! of Mr. W. C. Penn, of Putnam county, | and left for his Georgia home, per Cen | tral Rail Road, last night. Mr. Penn also brought out several horses, among them a fine Morgan Stal : lion, which also left by the same con | veyance. Horace Greeley’s Baggage. A San Francisco paper, in noticing the arrival in that city of Horace Greeley, says: Mr. Greeley’s baggage was taken i: > charge by the committee and hung upon | a hook. It consisted of a leather carpet sack, containing his clothing, that world wide “old white coat” which, he says, he : lias had for thirty years—carried with him through Europe, wore while a mein j ber of Congress, and has been brought with him to California ; a cotton umbrella, | considerably worn, and a pair of .blankets ! done up in an oil cloth cover. Children for the West. Avery interesting spectacle was wit nessed at the depot of the New York and | Erie Rail Road on Monday afternoon, on the occasion of the departure of thirty children who have been reclaimed from the streets (in numerous instances after utter abandonment by their natural pro tectors) through the instrumentality of the New York Juvenile Asylum, and are now on their way to homes in Illinois. ! The company consisted of boys and gills in about equal proportions, filling one | car. The car load was selected from about four hundred at the Asylum near High Bridge, aud who, after undergoing careful training and culture, give promise of becoming useful men and women. They are sent out in the charge of an in- I denturing agent, and will be looked after at short intervals, to see that the new re lationships formed are mutually advanta ; geous. The First Telegraphic Cable. A number of the Hartford, Cl., Times, i of September 7th, 1857, which has been ! sent us, speaks of Col. Sam Colt, the “revolver” man, as the inventor of the first telegraphic cable ever made. It was made by him, and laid in the bed of the East River, at Hell Gate, New York, and on the beds of the several small 1 streams on Long Island; on the line of the “offing” telegraph constructed by Col. ; Coif, in 1842, to Coney Island, and Fire Island Inlet. It was in successful opera tion for six months, and was finally chafed off - on the rocks and broken at Hell Gate The London Civil Service Gazette award to Col. Colt the honor of being the inven tor of the fir-t “submarine insulated wire ever put under water and successfully used.” Is not the Gazette mistaken? The Republican State Convention, of New York, which met at Syracuse, put in nomination the following list of candi dates : Secretary of State, Elia3 W. Leaven worth ; Comptroller, Robert Denniston; ‘Attorney General, Cbas. G. Meyers; State Engineer, Orville W. Story; Treas urer. Philip Dorsheimer; Canal Com missioner, Ogden N. Chapin; Judge of Appeals, Henry E. Davies; State Prison Inspector, David P. Forrest ; Clerk of Appeals, Charles Hughes. A Kew Use for Iron, Dropping in at Hagan’s yesterday, aud while looking at the new books and im mense quantities ot Printers’ Stationery he is receiving, we saw something novel in the slate line. It was an iron slate. On examination we found it was much lighter and less liable to be broken than the ordinary kind, costs but a tritle more, and will last fur ever. It is of fine grain and takes a pencil mark much better than the old kind.— Nashville Union. + From Liberia. New- Yoi?k, Sept. 9.—Liberia advices of July 31th say the small pox is at Mon rovia. Everything i3 quiet at Cape is at Mon rovia. English cruisers are taking slave pri zes on the cost. The Sandy IIiH Herald says that the “Republicans” are going to nominate Blondin for President, as he can stretch a rope from the dome of the Capitol to some point up Sq.lt River and take the whole party vp in a wheelbarrow. ARRIVAL Ot fill stkabm .0 CE A N Q U E E N . Cu’E Race. Sept. L ; . —The steam-hip Ocean Queen p-i*e-<d here this morning. She left ‘-S II: Os! tSi • - 81: t of* A ll g US) ‘■ 1 ’ll -of Cut ■ ton for td • . . ■ • ■ : cl w hich sp I lib.tot.- 10-. u 2,-". ; M> l a!": , --Il l eXfOit ers 2.500 . The i -.m-aot was firm, ami g.eueesiliy c'o-i-i \vi;U an advancing tendency. Tin 1 qiioti.-i..:! were, for Mid dling Orleans 7 1 10-i and tor Middling Uplands 6 r.-lfid. Latest — Wednesday Hreniny — Sales of Cotton 8,000 bales. The Market was steady. Holders offered freely, but show ed no disposition to press sales. SECOND DISPATCH. Liverpool General Markets. —Broad-tuffs wete dull, and provisions had a declining tendency. London Money Market.— Consols were quoted at 954 to 9511. General News Thei e are no features of unusual interest reportedly tins arri val. Nothing of importance was known in regard to the proceedings of the Zurich Conference. Additional by tile Elivopn. The ship Lydia sailed from Liverpool for Charleston, ou the 2Cth nit. The ship builders on the Tyre have a 1 gone to work at ad anced wages. The London Advertiser’s Paris corres pondent says: The French Minister of Marine has ordered fifty transports capa ble of containing cue hundred thousand troops, to rendezvous opposite Dover by the first of the ensuing year; aud the correspondent further says, that the fact has been telegraphed to the English gov ernment. The Assembly at Modena have con firmed the Dictatorship cf Farni. J. ates Saturday. —The funds were slightly flatter ; but money was iu excess. The demand for best sixty day bills, 2\d. Anti-Rowdy and Anti-Club Meeting Baltimore, Sept. B.—There was a large law and order meeting here to-day. Several resolutions were adopted, re commending the breaking down of the club rule; and to restore the purify of the ballot box. During the meeting there was an at tempt at disorder, by rowdies : but it was promptly suppressed by the police, and fifteen of the ring leaders arrested. Quropa at Boston. Boston, Sept. 9. The steamship Eu ropa arrived here to-day, her mails will -leave for the South in the afternoon train. Lnter from Hayil. Hayti, August 20.—The republic was reported quiet, and was rapidly increas ing in prosperity. From tlio Memphis Avahinche. Fiiobbisai I!igh Life. The country is running wild. Extrav agance, folly, and fraud aie the great pre vailing vices of the time —t he grand char acteristics of the age. It is manifestly more or less in our cities and villages, and its influence is seen in the debasement of men and women, and the complete ruin of children. Every successful speculator or fortunate operator must imitate, and if possible excel, liis neighbor, the lucky banker or the money making grocer: and to do this, without regard to expense, away they go into the marble and satin, the rosewood and silver, keep exiravagwtit carriages with horses to match, and give parties where Brussels and Wilton outvie in their color the silks and the wine which make up the chief past, of the en tertainment. L T p goes tiie new house, with all the decoration which a vulgar or a refined taste may suggest. Up it goes into the air, a huge pile or a fantastic res idence, but not a room iu it for the comfort of the owner or family—all of it for show and the public gaze. The women flauut about in lace and laziness, or recline upon soft cushions in fine carriages, neither knowing whether the money that keeps them up be stolen or honestly gained. They arc happy in the fact that they dash as much as the richest of their neighbors. For an American of fortune—real solid fortune—to dash into all this extrava gance, is folly ; but that man is guilty of downright wickedness who, upon a little money, goes to vast and foolish expense; for he must rob somebody to carry out his plans; or if he has enough to war rant it all, his children, when his fortune is divided among them, will have all the silly extravagant notions of their father without the money to give them reality. Out of all this miserable life there spring evils worse than bankruptcy. The sins of the father are visited upon the chil dren to the third generation. Os what use to society are the children of such people? Sons who have been educated to believe that all this splendor con.-ti tutes the best of life, and that fast horses | and champagne are emblematic of high life. Daughters brought up by a silly, ridiculous mother, who glories in her car pet's and curtains, her carriage and par ties, aud the fashionable training of her children. Nice creatures these for a life battle in Ia world where energy aud Indus’ ry and ; endurance are worth to them more than all the.airs, graces, and style that they learned in the patenal drawing of foreign Out of this struggle to excel in this sort of life there spring, too, fiaud and chicanery, and aft manner of crime; for in the contest, gold, gold, is tlie end and aim of all—the means are not regard ed. The sensible part of the community laugh at this folly, and laugh loudly, too, at coarse vulgarity parading itself in gay equipages, aud moving about with all the airs and affectations of snobbish high life —people elevated above their fellows by a stock operation ora raise in town lots, and rejoicing thereafter in flashy and in gaudy ho uses. It they made fools of themselves alone, it would all be proper enough. But the eflect upon their families and upon socie ty is most to be dreaded. In a country where the law divides among a man’s heirs all his estate after death, unless disposed of by will, and when the chances aie that the property will not remain in the family beyond the second generation, it is utter folly to build palaces to live in ; far better would it be to expend the same money iu building schools or founding asylums, the benefit of which the rich man's heirs may need. On, on, goes our American life! Helter skelter— burly burly—on it goes—Dash— make a sensation—get money—honestly if you can—get money ; but educate chil dren after the same fashion, and then did and be forgotten. Trade cf Western Texas, Thelndianola Courier, of the 3d inst., says: The cattle’ shipping business i< fast in creasing, from this port to New Orleans. All the steamships in tiie tri.de arc en gaged for months ahead, and the demand is sufficient for as many more. The steamers now in the trade, between this port and New Orleans, are the‘Charles Morgan. Suwanee, Magnolia, Orizaba, Matagorda, Fashion, Arizona and Robert Waterman. The Texas and Mexico are temporarily withdrawn for repairs. The Arizona extends her trips to Brazos Santiago and the Waterman to Lavaca. The others stop at Indiiuola —the com- . mercial entrepot of Western Texas. When the fall trade has fairly opened,’ the above steamers will not te sufficient for the increased business. The proba bility is that there will be over 50,000 bales of cotton to ship this season, and a corresponding increase in the number of best cattle—not to mention the increase of wool, hides, pecans, &c. A propeller for the cattle shipping and other business is expected to make a trip from Aransas Bay by the Ist November next. Large Land Grant. By the next mail, says the Washing! m 8 tar, a patent issued to Vasefa Soto for the “Copay” rancho will be transmitted to the Commissioner of the General Land Office. The situation of this ranch is in th 4 county of Colus, in the State of Cali fornia and contains 44, 388,17 acres. AftRIVAli OF Tfl/il EUfiOlA. Halifax, N. S., Sept 8, —The steam ship Kin op n arrived last night, wit Liv erpool dates to Saturday, Aug. 27tb. Liverpool Cotton Market —Bales ot “■. week 4U.000 bales, of which speculator toolt, 2,500 and exporters 5,500 b.il* lnlei lor quuli!ies were dn**, ati-a q ; tion- almost nominal Ho! ■) • fit I freely, but showed no dr :• and o t sales. Lite market, was mea■ iy. London Money Market. Consols wer i quoted at 954 to 95p General News. —Sardinia rt-iusia to accede, aven conditionally, to tiie .annexa tion <.) the Duchies, without consulting other powers, particularly France. The Italians maintain a firm altitude in regard to iheir national independence. The harvest was almost completed. The steamers Ocean Queen and Persia had reached Liverpool. second dispatch. Liverpool Cotton Market. —Cotton was dull, but easier, anil quoiati n uni a:.a ed for clean qualities. Sales on Friday 0,000 bales, of which speculators and ex porters took 1 000 bales. The following were the quotations: Fair Orleans Sand. j Miii. Oidcaas 7 and Mobiles ** Mobile i 44 Uj'hmds 7;; s d. | “ Uplands.... 613 ltd. The stock was 051,000 bales, of which 582.000 were American. Some circulars report all qualities slightly- dee.ined—say from 1-IGJ. to ’d Stale of Trade . —Manchester advices were favorable, and yarns slightly firm. London Money Market. —The bullion in the Bank of Eiglmd had decYeased one hundred and thirty thousand pounds ster ling. Money was slightly easier and abundant. Havre Cotton Market. —Orleans 7 res C - dinaire was quoted at 11 Os., and Ras at lOGf. The market was dull. Sales cl the week 4,500 bales. Stock 130,009 bales. General News.—The political news by this arrival is not very important. Important rumors from Zurich repo t some progress iu the Conference, and the probability of its coming to a successful conclusion early in September. Douglas at Columbus. Cole mu: s, Ohio, Sept. 7.—Hon. Ste phen A. Douglas was enthusiastically re ceived hero to-day ; he speaks this after noon. In Cincinnati, a committee of five hun dred have been appointed by the Demo cratic Executive Committee, to receive Douglas, on his arrival at that place. Extraordinary preparations are being made to receive him. From Jamaica and Trinidad. New Orleans, Sept. 7.—We have dates from the Island of Jamaica to the 15th of August. Reinforcements have been asked ol the home government, for the better protec tion of the northern part of the Island against negro riots. The sugar crop of Trinidad will be about forty thousand hogsheads. Texas Cotton Croj. The Galveston News learns by- a gen tleman just from Fort Bend county, that the late drought lias seriously injured the : cotton crop. A month ago the prospects for a crop were never better, but now our informant states that the crop in Wharton and Fort Bend counties will fall shor t of an average crop fully one-third, and he thinks the crop will be no better in the other counties of the Brazos and Colora do rivers. The injury- from the drought 1 first manifested itself only- some two or three weeks ago, and though rains have since fallen,’ yet they were too late, and done more harm than good, find fill the lute forms have fallen off. Asa general rule, the cotton is now all open and leady to pick, ami there is no chance for any more to mature. Hence, the calcula tion is, that the entire crop wiil bo in the hands of factors much earlier than in any former year High. Prices for Negroes. The Lebanon Herald states that at a Chancery sale ot negroes in that place on the 6th inst, the following high prices were obtained. The negroes belonged to the heirs of Ingrain & Deloach, and were recently recovered against Henry Smith aud others, of Wilson county, after elevea years’ litigation. The terms of the sale were one-third cash and the balance in twelve months. Jerry, 16 years old, one arm defective, §1,125; Harriet, 19 year old, and a little child, §1.G75; Judy. 30 years old, $905; Lewis, 15 years old, $1,406; Jacob, 34 years old, $1,305; Jane, 2G years old, and two sm ll chil dren, $2,050; Sally, 8 years old, $1,051; , Eincline, i years old, $1,051 ; John, 14 years old, $1,575; Para lee, 22 years old, ! and two small children, $2,280; Torn, 21 years old, $1,655: Hsnnah, 19 years old, and suckling child, $1,087; Tabby, 15 years old, $1,501 ; Emelme, 24yearsohl, j unsound, $700; Prince, 10 years old, $860; Bobb, 7 years old, $800: Hasty, GO years old, SIOO. Flow the Suit mi Halses Moaej- The Sultan of Turkey, and his family (which must be a pretty large one, - ! are about to go abroad to see the worid.— They are expected to vLit Smyrna, Syria Egypt, and perhaps Malta. The Sultan demanded sixty millions of piastres, it is said, sos the expenses of the voyage, but the Ministers replied to him that the i treasury was empty. He then directed them to borrow the amount from Galata bankers, but these wary gentlemen re fused to lend ! Asa last resort, to “raise the wind, ’ tlie Sultan ordered that all the officials at the Porte, and the officers of the government whose salaries were above a certain specified sum, should, for one month, receive only half pay, and the other half be reserved for his expenses This is the way they levy the “income tax” in Turkey. ♦ Smolfee. lhe number of cigars consumed in I ranee in IBSJ was as follows: Havana aud Manilla cigars, 36,086,500; domestic manufacture, 481,071,500; cigarettes, 6.- 478,000. Total 523,630,000. The revenue of the French Government from the tobacco monopoly, for the pres ent year, is estimated to reach $36,000,- 000. In Ilu-sia the revenue derived from duties on tobacco exceeds $36,000,000. In Austria it amounts to $14,000,000, Colonel T. B. Shaffner sailed from lio-- ton, o:i Monday week, in tiie bark Wy man, on a voyage of exploration to the North Atlantic, in search of a feasible route lor a line ot telegraphic communi cations between this country aud Europe, by way of Greenland, Iceland, the Faroe Ulauds, and Scotland ; Lis object being to examine the seas, the bays and the lauds, contemplated to be traversed. diaries Antrebua exhibited to us (says the Sacramento Union,) some fine speci mens of cotton on'the stalk, which were grown on the river lank about throe | miles south of the city. The plant was nearly four feet nigh, and the texture of the fibre exceedingly delicate. We do not see why every Californian cannot raise Lis own cotton in Lis own little plot or gar den. Business of tlic Mempliis and OSiiQ Hail Road, Tiie following table will exhibit the amount of business done by the Memphis and Ohio Rail Road during the month of August just passed: Receipts.from passengers jltt.TO- a ■■ freight 4,450 04 18,19 3 i:’ fotul receipts over 18<i5............ 5 s_ • -- Exeo&a over corresp’d’g period last year.. 12.074 11 Howard College. It will be gratifying to the friends and this institution to learn that Col. Jesse 11. Brown, of Sumter, Ala , who so gene rously agreed a short time since to sup port fifty students for the Ministry in Howard College, has just given $25,609 for the permanent endowment of a theo logical chair in the Howard.— Sc-iaUnt 7 eacher. The Democracy of Richmond count.y have nominated Ju’ieu Camming fer the Senate, audEdwaid J. Walker and J. D- Smith for the House.