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ifccldi) Sim; • T. DsWOLF R. J. Y Alt! NUTOX....T. (J! LBEIIT. THOS. GILBERT & €O., Itors and Proprietors. SUBSCRIPTIONS. Fir ouo year, payitblein advance $2 00 For iix months, payable in advance 1 25 AD VERTISEM ENTS. Advertise men tn will be inserted in the Weekly Sun at one dollar per square (ten lines or less in nonpareil type,) for the first insertion, and fifty cents for each subsequent insertion of the same. Professional and other cards, not exceeding five . lines, inserted six months for eight dollars, or for twelve months at fourteen dollars. Announcements of candidates for a time not ex- ‘ ceodin't three months, five dollars; for all time over three months, at the rate of two dollars per month—pay required in advance. Tuesday October 11, 183'J. ‘’ _ - -- • :: - . ~~ The largest day’s business at Mobile j this season, was Thursday last, at which ■ time -1,000 bales ot’ cotton changed j hinds. ; Mr. John Wilson, of Anderson C. 11., South Carolina, has received letters pat ent, dated September 27, 1850, for an improvement in cotton girts. ♦ The Mobile Tribune reports that Judge Dargan has declared in favor of the lion. F. S. Lyon as successor to Senator Fitz patrick. The Daily State I’fess, as we learn from the Journal and Messenger, has been discontinued for a while. The Weekly will be issued regularly cu Satur day as heretofore. — Hie lion. 11. W. Hilliard will deliver the annual address before the Alabama State Agricultural Society, in Montgome ry, Thursday evening, Nov. 17th, as we learn from the Confederation of the sth. ♦ Mr. Freeman llawdon, the founder of I the house of llawdon, Wright & Cos., died in New York last week. This is the ! second ol the large bank note engraving houses organized in this country. The most magnificent and complete boat 1 that has yet been built for the Southern trade has just been finished, and is de- I signed for the New Orleans and Ouachita j trade. She is called the Lizzie Simmons, j It is stated that the leading Northern dry goods manufacturers arc to hold a Convention in November nest, to form a trade association something like that which exists among the English manu facturers. The glorious uncertainty of the mails has passed into a proverb. A total failure of the Eastern mail yesterday, and a partial one the evening previous, is not very well calculated, at least, to exhilarate the spirits. Colton Picking in Jones. The Federal Union is informed that on I Tuesday, 27th September, two hands be- j longing to J. W. Finney, of Jones coua- j ty, picked 940 pounds of cotton. The United States mail steamship State of Georgia, and schooner B. L. Berry, from Philadelphia; the schooner 11. L. ! Davis, from Baltimore, and ship Robert Kelly, from New York, arrived at Savan- j nah on the 3d. llog Contracts. In the interior of Kentucky sales of hogs for early delivery are reported at $3 50 gross. Iu Cincinnati some con tracts have been made at $5 50 to $5 75 net. Tin Georgia Telegraph says the va- j cancy occasioned in the Democratic ticket of Bibb county .by the unexpected death ■ of Judge Powers, was filled on Monday morning by the selection of Col. J. 11. I Andrews. ♦- An election for nearly all the State offi cers except the Governor, was held on Monday, in Florida. In Mississippi an election was held for Governor, members of Congress, and the Legislature. The Alabama Signal announces the death of Mr. Henry Claiborne, an old citizen, and a soldier in the war of 1812, which took place at his residence in that place on the 15th. Ilis age was about sixty-eight years. We learn from the Observer that a ! company of gentlemen are about erecting a steam cotton press in Pensacola for compressing cotton, in anticipation of the completion of the ltail lload next year, connecting that city with the interior. The city of Selma, Alabama, has with in its limits, fourteen Artesian wells, several of them throwing volumes of wa ter to the extent of six hundred gallons to the minute. The depth of these wells average about four hundred feet. ■ —♦- The Treasury receipts at Washington, lov the week ending Monday the 25th ult, were $1,599,000. The drafts paid amounted $1,408,000, aud the drafts issued to $84,000. The amount subject to draft was $5,163,459, an increase over last week of more than $758,000 or $1,000,000 within the last two weeks. The Greenville South Alabamian, says j Mr. Farner and an associate have been in Greenville, and are now engaged in | running a telegraph line to connect Mo bile and Montgomery, which will run along the line of the Alabama and Flori- ‘ da llail Iload, and intersecting it south of Greenville. - California Elections. Advices from Sau Francisco, received at St. Louis on the 9th ult., say that La- j tham, Democratic candidatefor Governor, ; is elected by 20,000 majority. Scott and | Burick, Lecouiptou Democrats, are £rob- ! ably elected to Congress. The Legisla ture is largely Democratic. A Good Tonic. Messrs. Ragland & Birch have sup- j plied us with a very superior article of Porter. We have given it a thorough trial, and pronounce it excellent. Do you need a tonic for the stomach's sake?. If so you could hardly find abetter one than a few bottles of this self-same Porter. We are informed that Ragland & Birch always keep such on hand. The Vicksburg Whig announces the j death of the distinguished lawyer, J. M. ! Chilton, on Friday, after a short and se vere illness, at the residence of Major Norton, in Hinds county, Miss., where he was spending the summer with his family. He was about 50 years of age. Texas Sea Islniid Cotton. The Galveston 27ews has been shown some specimens of Sea Island cotton raised in small quantities of a few acres, by several citizens, on Galveston Island. It has been pronounced by good judges equal to the best grown in South Caroli na, and such as will command the highest price—say 00 cents per pound. A negro girl at Ghent, Ky., painted herself and attempted to cross by the ferry to Indiana. The novelty of the steamboat attracted her attention and exposed her ignorance. Suspicion was excited, and she was returned to her “old Kentucky home.” VOLUME III.} Winston anti Douglas. The rumor comes from the Virginia | Springs that ex Governor Winston favors i Douglas. We scarcely credit it.— Mail. We can scarcely doubt it. The Mail evidently questions, the Democracy of Winston. —Marian American. The “Veto Governor,” has addressed ; a letter to the Huntsville Advocate from Sweet Springs, Va., dated Sept. 10th, in which he defines his position upon the issues which have been presented as ul timatums by one portion of the Democrat ic party to the other. In 1850-51, he con- 1 sjdered that the question of non inter- I vent ion w3 presented and accepted by : the Soutli, and decided against those in j favor of it. The point settled according to his understanding, was “That Con gress was to let the question alone,” — “hands off” was the conclusion and de mand of Southern statesmen, and it now appears to him too late to re-open the question. lie believes that on an abstrac tion, as he terms it, the people of the South are unwilling to resort to that ultima ratio in defense of their lights—a disruption of the Union. In a word, he opposes the agitation of the question of non-intervention as calculated to distract and disintegrate the party. Gov. Win.-Cpu may be honest iu his ex pressed opinions, but they should be re ceived “ with’ many grains of allowance” ’ considering his former position, and un disguised aspirations for a seat in the | United States Senate. T!se Opelika and Oxford Hail Hoad. The Southern Mercury, alluding to the | encouragement given by the Montgomery Mail to the Opelika and Oxford Hail Hoad, i says: The newspapers of Columbus are so prejudiced-against our road thatitis use less to expect any aid from them, even if we could make it plain as the noonday sun that it would be for the interest of that city to assist us. We hope the oth er papers of Montgomery will join the Mail in stirring up the people of that city to lend us “aid aud comfort” in our enterprise. The papers of Columbus entertain no prejudice against the road. Their oppo sition to it has been merely negative, and they have not advocated positive assist ance to it, because Columbus is, at pres ent, more interested in other enterprises j of vital importance to her prosperity. We are not prejudiced against any enter prise that will benefit Columbus, but be | lieve that with a connection by rail road ; with Childersburg tia Dadeville, she will ! be better enabled to withstand the ad verse interests of Augusta and Charles ton, which would lead those cities to in tersect the Oxford road by a branch from West Point, and thus create a diversion in their favor. Tile Uriels Trade. Few have any idea of the extent and importance of the brick trade iu this and many foreign countries. The Pittsburgh True Press has been informed by a gen j tleman, lately returned from St. Louis, that 200,000,000 of brick are made in that city, 40,000,000 in Pittsburgh and | vicinity, 100,000,000 in Philadelphia and other places, annually. Bricks also constitute a very important article of [ the commerce of Pensacola. Ciiiriqni. The Mobile Tribune of the 2d saj-s ; Capt. Harry Maury left yesterday on the mail boat, in company with a large number of emigrants, destined for the new land of gold and bright prospects, Chiriqui. They go, as is stated, to New Orleans, where there aro two vessels waiting to take them to their destintion. Within the past week, about three hun dred strong, athletic young men, mostly of the better class of society, from Geor gia, South Carolina, and Alabama, have passed through the city, all destined for the land of gold. “•£*- The sales of cotton at New Orleans the past week were 42,000 bales. The week’s receipts amounted to 46,013 bales, of which 25,239 were exported, 23,824 to foreign ports, 1,415 coastwise, leaving on hand a stock of 122,512 bales, against 105,989 bales same time last year. The entire receipts since the Ist September, comprise 150,806 bales, against 114,652. to same date last year. Gtir Minister to China. A special dispatch to the Charleston Courier, from Washington, the 2d in stant, informs us that the President and his constitutional advisers, have fully ap | proved the conduct of Minister Ward and Commander Tatnall, in the matter of the collision between the English and the Chinese. The Newnan Blade has been shown the subscription list of the Griffin and North Alabama Rail Road, and a majority of tlie names down had subscribed ten thou sand dollars, and the lowest on the list was five thousand dollars. If there are many names on that list, and the sub scribers substantial men, it will do. Tlie Election in. SavamiaL. The News of the 4th says the election Monday passed off quietly in Savannah. The Opposition had no ticket for Repre sentatives. The entire vote polled was j only 1,406. At the time of its going to press, 1,102 votes were couuted, when i Brown had 172 majority over Akin; Love the same majority over Mclntyre. The maritime trade of New York for the week ending 29th September, as we j learn from the Daily News, was as foi , lows: The total arrival of vessels were 223, of which 72 were from foreign, and • 151 from domestic ports. The total clear ances were 134, of which 49 were for foreign and 85 for domestic ports. The total number of passengers for the week from foreign ports, were 2,328. The Tempbrancc Crusader authorita tively announces that the Hon. Edward Everett has accepted the invitation to de liver an address at the Georgia State Ag ricultural Fair, to be held in Atlanta from the 24th to the 28th of this month. Postmaster Fowler, of New lork, has received an order for one million of the new Government self-sealing stamped en velopes, mainly for the supply of hotels, educational institutions, city authorities,* &c. _ -♦ The National Democratic State Com mittee of Illinois, have called a Conven tion at Springfield, January 10th. to choose delegates to the Charleston Con vention. The Hon. Sherard Clemens, wounded in a duel with Wise, is now considered by bis Physician to be in a very critical con dition. A Court of Inquiry has been called at the uavy-yard, Pensacola, Fla., to inves tigate the loss of the steamship Fulton. Election Returns. By a telegraphic dispatch to the Times of this morning, Brown’s majority in Chatham county is ascertained to be 96. Love, for Congress, 15. In Bulloch county, Brown anil Love’s | majority 180. Pike county gives A. M. Speer, for Congress, 200 majority. In Richmond county, Akin’s majority ; 212. A. It. Wright’s majority over Jones, | the Democratic candidate for Congress, j is 184. In Newton county. Brown’s majority is 156. Harper, Democratic candidate for Congress, 19 majority. Democratic ticket elected to the Legislature. In Burke county, Brown’s majority 20. Jones’ majority 36. In “Warren county, Opposition elected Representatives to the Legislature, and the majority for the Democratic candi dates ‘for Governor and Congress, is re ported to be 60. In Fulton county, 30 in ijority reported for Brown. In Baldwin county, Brown’s majority 111 ; Harper’s, for Congress, 72. The Democrats elected their Representatives to the Legislature. In Talbot, Akin’s majority 85. Harde man’s majority for Congress, 62. In Taylor county, Democratic ticket elected. In Macon county, Douglass 75 ma jority. In Bibb county, Brown’s majority 69; Hardeman’s 32. Democratic Senator and one Representative elected. Opposition elected one Representative. In Third District, Harper (Democrat) reported to be ahead for Congress. In addition to the election returns from the counties already published, we learn that in Spalding county the Democratic ticket is elected. Iu Harris county, the official returns give Akin 231 majority ; Hardeman 230 ; Iloo'd (American) 183. The American Representatives elected, one by 256 and the other by 234 majority. ‘Whitehurst (American) is elected in Wilkinson county, and Wells (American) in Washington. In Effingham, the Americans have gained. In Monroe and Richmond, the Ameri can ticket is elected. In DeKalb county, Brown’s majority is 439; Gartrell’s, 322. Alexander, and Ragsdale (Americans) are elected to the Legislature. In Walton, Brown’s majority is 72. Whitehurst and Silvers are elected to the Legislature. In Troup, Akin’s majority at LaGrange 250 ; Wright’s 220. Opposition ticket— Hill, Fannin and Ward—elected to the Legislature. In Coweta county, the reported ma jority for Brown is 377 ; in Campbell, 300; in Whitfield, 370. In Cobb, the reported majority for Akin is 200 ; in Cass, 200 : in Floyd, 250. The Atlanta American gives the official returns of Fulton county. Brown’s ma jority,76; Gartrell’s, 326. Collier (Dem.) 15 majority for Senator; Thrasher (Am.) 25 majority for Representative. It is believed that Hardeman is elected in the 3d, and Gartrell in the Bth Dis trict. The returns indicate that Brown gains consilerably over his vote in the last election. In Talbot, we learn the Opposition elected their ticket. In Taylor, the Democratic ticket is elected. In Bibb, the Democrats elected the sen ator aDd cue representative (Tracy,) and the Opposition one representative. In this county the democrats had but one candidate for representative, the other (Judge Powers) having died the day pre vious to the election. In the 7th District, Robert G. Harper, Democratic candidate for Congress, is possibly elected; he having gained in four counties, and possibly two more. In the Bth District—full returns re ceived from seven counties, in which the majority for Jones, Democratic candidate for Congress, is 371. There is no doubt of his election. In Upson county the Opposition car ried the county. Hardeman’s majority 285. In Newton, Democrats elected to the Legislature. Brown’s majority, 20. Hill and Harper tied for Congress. In Clayton, Democratic ticket elected to the Legislature. Brown's majority 90, Gartrell’s 74. Iu Henry, the Opposition ticket is elected. In Ware, the’ majority for Brown is 194. Brown has majorities also in Liberty and Mclntosh. In Dougherty, Brown’s majority 99, Crawford’s 102. Democrats elected their Senator and one Representative; Opposi tion elected one. In Schley, the entire Democratic ticket is elected. ki Thomas, the average majority of the whole Democratic ticket is 125 votes. In Crawford, Brown and Speer have majorities, and Democratic ticket elected to the Legislature. The Democrats have carried all the Congressional Districts except one. Pierce county gives Brown a majority of 168 and Love 200. The Democratic ticket is elected. Appling and Coffee counties give large Democratic majorities. In Oglethorpe, Glasscock, Wilkes, Baldwin. Clarke and Walton, the Demo | 7 cratic tickets are elected. Decatur gives Akin 130 majority, and Douglass 135. Chester (Opp.) elected to the Senate, aud R. R. Terrell (Ind. Dem.) to the House. Glynn gives T. Butler King 40 majori ty for State Senator. Harris (Dem.) elected to the House without opposition. Mclntosh—Brown 137, Akin 86, Love 144, Mclntyre 72, Spalding (Dora.) elect ed Senatcr, and Hopkins (Dem ) Repre sentative. Liberty gives Brown and Love majori ties. Boggs and Harrington (Opp.) elected to the Legislature. In Bryan, Lincoln and Putnam, the Democratic ticket is elected. In Floyd, Democratic Senator aud Op position Representatives are elected. In Jefferson, Opposition ticket elected. Iu Gwinnett, Opposition Senator and Democratic Representatives are elected. In Jasper, Opposition Hcket elected. The returns so far are believed to be correct as to the result, though not as to the exact majorities. When the full offi cial returns are received, we will prepare a tabular statement, showing the compar COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 11, 1559. ative vute of this and the last general ! election. Blakely, Early Cos., Ga.,Oet. 3. Eds. Sun : Below find statement of votes cast at Blakely precinct: For Governor —Brown 189; Akin 75. Congress—Crawford 169, Douglass 75, Potter 9, Bethune 2. Senate—llobiuson 234. Representative—Cook 201. The other precincts will iucrease the Democratic majorities about 70 votes. In the Fourth District, Gartrell’s ma jority is 2,807. Brown’s majority in the District, 2,433. In the Seventh District, Hill’s majority | is 199. Troup county give3 Akin 472 majority ; i Wright 434. In Monroe, Opposition ticket elected. Henry county, Brown 130 majority ; Harper 66 majority. Opposition Senator j and Democratic Representatives to the ! Legislature elected. Milton county, Brown’s majority 243 Underwood’s 200. Democratic Senator and Opposition Representative elected. Forsyth gives Brown 450 majority; Democratic ticket elected. . Cherokee gives Brown 584 majority. Green gives Akin 324 majority; Hill, 377 majority. Columbia give3 Brown 50 majority ; Democratic ticket elected. Clarke county elected one Democrat to the Legislature. Campbell gives Brown 397 majority; Gartrell 388. One Democrat aud one Independent candidate elected to the Legislature. Malone (new county) one Democrat and one Opposition candidate elected to the Legislature. Walker gives Brown 350 majority. Chattooga gives Brown 350 majority. In Bryan, AVhitfield, Hart, Polk, Mur ray, Madison and Jackson counties, the Democratic tickets are elected. Catoosa gives Brown 70 majority ; Democratic Senator and Opposition Rep resentative elected. Mr. Fleming in. Augusta. The Dispatch of the 4th says : “Mr. Fleming opened Concert Hall to a good audience last night, and his company made a favorable impression. The piece presented was Bulwer’s pleasing drama of the “Lady of Lyons”—a piece that has maintained a wide and lasting popu larity, as much, perhaps, from the beauty of its sentiment aud composition as from any dramatic qjcellence of the piece. Every character was creditably sustained, and we have not, in some years, had on our boards a company comprising as much good talent.” Savannah Municipal Nominations. The Savannah News of yesterday,, re ports the assembling of the Democracy in the Masonic Hall in that city, the evening of the 4th, when Tlios. M. Tnrn er was nominated for Mayor. The en tire ticket for Mayor and Aldermen was ratified. Tlios. M. Wayne withdrew his name for Alderman, when Col. Noah B. Knapp was substituted. The Crops. The Southern Champion, published at Claiborne Ala., says: The general complaint among our plan ters at this time, is short crops and low prices. As far as we have been able to learn, the cotton crop will fall short about one-fourth from what was anticipated a month ago. The planters will be enable to finish gathering their crops much ear lier this fall than usual. Large quanti ties of cotton are almost daily received at the warehouse. The Virginia papers announce the fail ure of the Bank of Manassa, located at Front Royal, Warren county, which oc curred on Friday last. Its notes are se cured by the deposit with the Treasurer of an equal amount of State Stock, be sides its assets and the individual liabili ty of the stockholders. Montgomery ait cl Pensacola R, li. In a business letter from a mercantile house in Pensacola, to the Mobile Even ing News, it is informed of the following : We are advised of the engagement of a ship to load with iron, in England, for the rail road to Montgomery. She will be here in November; iu the meantime the work is.progressing. Col. Gad Humphries died at St. Augus tine, Fla., on the 31st of August, in the 74th year of his age. He served through the war of 1812, and acted as agent for the Seminole Indians for eight years, when he was removed. For the past ten years he was Judge of Probate. Senator Crittenden said in the com mencement of his speech at the Chicago Fair : “I came from home, among other things, to avoid politics.” In some other States politicians volun tarily stay at home to avoid politics, os tensibly ; but it is really to remove any obstacle in the path to promotion. Blississijjpi Election. The election which came off in Missis sippi on Monday last, as we learn from the Memphis Avalanche of the sth, re sulted in the success of the entire State Democratic ticket. The Legislatuie is Democratic, but few Opposition members having been elected. ■ ■ ■ —♦ i Organization of the Tennessee Leg islature. The Legislature of Tennessee convened ! and organized on the 3d instant. In the Senate Tazewell W. Newnan, of Franklin, was elected President. In the House W. C. Whitthorne, of Murray, wa3 chosen Speaker. The Raleigh Register says that from the year ending August, 1859, 51,398 bales of cotton were received at the mar kets of Petersburg, Norfolk and Ports mouth, two-thirds of which, it is estima ted, were raised in North Carolina. ♦ ■ It is rumored that a Southern lady, distinguished for her beauty and well known for her literary achievements, has : become enamored of the stage, and will make her first appearance on the boards in New York, in a few months. About forty bales of cotton, says the Selma Reporter, were burned on the Alabama and Mississippi Rivers Rail Road, the 3d. The fire was occasioned by the sparks from a locomotive. The New York Shipping List of Satur ! day understands that a portion of the receipts at that port of the new Rice crop have suffered damage by premature ship ment. The Rev. John Quiuian, of Cincinnati, and President of the Mount St. Mary’s of ; the West, has been recognized at Rome as Bishop of the Diocese of Mobile, made j vacant by the death of Bishop Porti/er. Senator Clay, of Alabama. The Dayton (Ohio) Empire, in noticing 1 the speech of Mr. Clay, in which he says that he will not support the nominee of the Charleston Convention if it. be Mr. Douglas or any body who coincides with him in sentiment, makes these observa tions : “Any one who will make so foolish a declaration reads himself out of the party. One who will not conform to the usages of a party, and who will, in ad- i vance of its authoritative action, declare his determination to disregard it, is not ; worthy to bear its name.” To this the i Cincinnati Enquirer adds: “He lias no , more right to caucus with Democratic Senators next winter than has John I’. Hale or Senator Trumbull.” The above emanates from two of Mr. Douglas’ organs, one of them being a leading organ in the West. Such senti ments, we regret to know, are not con fined to that latitude.- There are even politicians iu the extreme South, who would visit Senator Clay, and others of his boldness aj)d independence, with ex communication from the party. Ilis de claration, in advance of its authoritative action, was demanded by obligations which, as a patriot and representative of a sovereign State, he could not disregard. Should he be placed without its pale, he will be consoled by the company of others equally as high in the estimation and confidence of the South. But there is scarcely a probability of this ; he could not and would be spared. The South needs the presence of men of his ability and soundness in the councils of the na tion, and so long as his constituency co incide with him, as they have done aud do to-dtiy, he will be retained in his. present position. When Senator Clay’s right to caucus with Democratic Senators is denied and refused, then it will be time to look for tlie admission of John P. Hale or Senator Trumbull into full fellowship. Not Married. In the New York Evening Post, not many days ago, it was announced that Hon. John Cochrane, one of the Repre sentatives in Congress from New York, was married. But it turns out that the victim of Hymen is not the Congressman, but another John Cochrane. The bache lor M. C. writes thus to the Post : My Dear Sir: Your last evening’s pa per, when publishing the nuptials of a doubtless happy pair, of my patronymic, thus commenced: ‘ “John Cochrane, the bachelor Congress man, has at last surrendered.” Permit me to transmit a later bulletin from the seat of war. Though in a state of close siege, I have reason to think the fortress impreguable. Yet a failure of supplies might compel its surrender at discretion. Yours, in verity, JOHN COCHRANE. Imports of Dry Goods. The total imports of foreign dry goods at New York for the month of Sep tember, amount to $5,990,973. The total amount withdrawn from warehouse is $640,093, which with the amount entered for consumption, makes that thrown on the market $6,631,905. The imports of foreign dry goods for the eight months from January Ist, amount to $87,503,193. The Journal of Commerce of the Ist, says the remainder of the year must show a large increase cn the last quarter of 1857, for the aggregate receipts for the remaining three months of that year were less than seven and three quarter millions. We think, also, that the imports for the next three months will show a farther gain upon last year ; but of this there is less certainty. The importers have been discouraged by heavy losses, and some have countermand ed their orders. A Reduction Meeting. The proceedings of a meeting of the citizens of Emanuel county, to hear an address from Col. Gaulden on the ques tions of the slave trade, and reduction of the number of members of the Legisla ture, appears in the Savannah News.—; Resolutions advocating the ve-opening of the slave trade, and denouncing the re strictions upon it, were adopted. The following resolutions were also adopted : Resolved, That in the opinion of this meeting the number of the members of the Legislature ought to be reduced. Resolved, That one representative from each county is amply sufficient, and one senator from four counties ; that the Legislature, as at present composed, is an unnecessary expense ami burden to the people. Finances of Alabama. The Montgomery Advertiser of yester day says: “From an examination of the report of the State Treasurer, which is now iu the hands of the State printers, we find the entire receipts for the fiscal year of 1858-’59, was $1,327,235 90, and the disbursements $685,550 90, showing a balance in the Treasury on the Ist iust. of $631,679 00. “And with regard to Montgomery j county, we found that it is second upon I the list, ‘paying during the last fiscal year $56,954 44, which, compared with i the year previous, shows an increase of ! $4,087 -92.” <■ Contest of Etliridge’s Election. The Nashville Union and American, | says the Democracy of Henry county, Tennessee, assembled in public meeting j on the 19th of September, and requested Hon. J. D. G. Atkins to contest the seat ! of Emerson Ethridge in the House of ; Representatives, on the ground that ho I is the “legally and fairly elected Repre ! sentative of the District.” The editor of the American says, that during a late visit to that District he was I furnished with the name3 of a sufficient I number of the imported voters from Ken- i tucky to have changed the result of the j election. CUickei-ing’s Pianos. In a card to the public the Messrs, j Chickering & Son give the incidental in- i formation that their celebrated manufac tory was established in Boston, by James ! Chickering in 1832, since which time they have made and sold in this country, South America and Europe, nearly twenty-two thousand pianos, for the superiority of which, they have been awarded at differ ent fairs in this and other countries, ; thirty-eight prize medals. ♦ An editor of a paper lately informed his readers that the ladies always pull off j the left stocking last. This, as may be supposed, created . some stir among his fair readers, ond while, in positive terms, they denied the statement, they insisted that he had no business to know it even if such were the fact. He proves it, however, by a short argument: “When, one stocking is pulled off, there is an other left on; pulling off this is taking the left stocking off last.” The Telegraph Office in Richmond, to gether with one or two stores, were de stroyed by fire on the night of the 30th 1 ult. High Authority. Ex-Governor 11. S. Foote, of M ssissipi, who has taken up his residence iti Nash ville, Tean., publishes a long letter, in which he speaks in terms of warm ap proval of the spirit of Senator Douglas’ magazine article, lie says that he is sick of conventions and caucuses, and that his vote will not be influenced by the action of that at Charleston. He regards Mr. Douglas as one of about j twenty distinguished statesmen both Whig and Democratic, any of whom lie would like to see elevated to the Presi dential chair.— Washington States. The above paragraph, among others, is collated by a Douglas paper iu Alabama, to exhibit, it is presumed, the spirit of the politicians towards the “little giant.” We suppose the ex Governor regards | himself as another of the distinguished twenty, and the one whom he would es- j pecially like to see elevated to the Presi- j dency. As to conventions and caucuses, it is not strange lie should be sick of ‘ them, since they have been evidently ; long sick of him. We would suggest to j the editor aforesaid the policy, at least, of pointing the South to higher authority for political opinion than a man whose services in the national councils have been dispensed with as dangerous to her vital interests. In ISSO-51, the positions of the editor and the ex-Governor whom he quotes as an exemplar, were diametrically opposed; now they stand shoulder to shoulder on the Douglas platform. There is no ac counting for such revolutions, unless through the wondrous vicissitudes of politics. —— • Tobacco aud Corn. Stimulated by the success of Connecti cut farmers in their tobacco crops, which are always tolerably certain to command high prices in the market, and which have already drawn into their production a large amount of capital and labor that would other wise have been invested in the culture of the good old honest and wholesame crop of Indian corn, the far mers iu some of t'qe Connecticut River Valley towns in Massachusetts have for a few years past ventured into the same business to a considerable extent. The Northampton Courier says: “ It is evidently the intention of many farmers here to engage permanently in its cultivation, and this appears more es pecially from the many large and well built tobacco sheds erected in various parts of the town.” The same paper says that in the old town of Hadly the value of the present tobacco crop will be $40,000, and adds: This, in money value, is about double that of the 25,000 bushels of Indi an corn, which is about the annual ave rage product of the town for the last twenty years. The first named crop has grown on about 200 acres of land, while the corn crop, worth in market only about half the money, would occupy full 700 acres, allowing 25 bushels per acre as au average product. Is it reasonable to suppose such a difference will be per manent ? Virginia Annual Tobacco State ment. The aggregate inspections of tobacco at the various warehouses in Petersburg, Virginia, for the year ending September the 30th, is 16,079 hogsheads, showing a gain of 925 hhds. upon the last year. The annual statement of inspections in Richmond foots up 41,797 hogsheads, showing a loss of 2,829 upon the pre vious year. Besides the tobacco inspect ed iu Petersburg, there were about 2,500 hogsheads of loose tobacco sold, the whole receipts of this kind being about 15,000 hogsheads. This added to the inspec tions, with a proper deduction of what was prized at the different factories, makes a grand total of about 80,000 hogs heads for the State. Correspondence of the bun. Glenville, Ala., Oct. 6, 1859. Eds. Sun: As you are in the habit of reporting large cotton pickings, and as you have not reported any that can come up to “old Barbour,” will you just give the following oue turn in your daily to let the folks see that we can just lick any one that has yet appeared in your paper: Mr. J. D. Parker on last Saturday, Oct. Ist, started 22 crop hands, and they picked 7,590 lbs., being an .average of 345 lbs. to the hand. Ilis two best bauds picked 1,000 lbs., and five hands picked 2,400 lbs., being an average of 480 lbs. to the hand. Now, Mr. Editor, just beat this if you ca'n, and we will try again. Yours, &c., J. The old perplexing query, “How many children had John Rogers?” has at last been definitely and historically settled. At the late celebration in Norwich, Chancellor Walworth spoke to the senti ment relative to tlie first settlers of the town, as follows : Chancellor Walworth said it was sixty six years since he left the town of Boz rah. He named the .original settlers of Norwich, Dr. Theophilus Rogers among ! them —fifth in descent from the famous i John Rogers, the martyr. The Chancellor ! settled the long-pending dispute about the number of John’s children (“nine j small children and one at the breast,” ! says the primer—were there nine or ten ?) by exhuming from some old history a letter or address from John to the gov ernment, in which was a passage to Ibis | effect: “I would that my worthy wife might come to see me ; she has with her ten children, which are hers and mine, and I would comfort her somewhat.” Effect of tlie High Price of Negroes. The Newburn (N. C.) P<&gre3S says, j justly, that the high prices of negroes are drawing them rapidly away from | Virginia and North Carolina, and that ! the agriculture of these States is sensibly i feeling the loss. It says: “One of the most intelligent and suc | cessful planters on the Roanoke, in the j old North State, remarked to a friend yesterday, that although his land needed : more laborers, yet he could not afford to 1 j buy them at present rates, nor can any I prudent farmer iu the old States. What j j then ? Why away they go to the sugar 1 and cotton lands of the South, and the ] agricultural interests of Virginia and North Carolina must suffer, of course.— But the question suggests itself here, how high they will get?” It matters but little how much higher | the prices will get. Even at present prices, Virginia at least will be drained time enough. —Richmond Whig. The question cf the restoration of Bishop Onderdonk is causing considera ble and excited discussions among church people. As soon as the intended attempt at restoration was made public, themem j bers of the diocese, especially those par tial to the deposed Bishop, began earnest ’ ly to claim that he should also be fully restored to ail his Episcopal functions. This excessive and hasty zeal has givc-n offense to the Low Church party, and al- I ready there are signs of a storm brew ing. Dr. Anthon, one of the first signers of the petition for restoration, to be pre sented to the House of Bishops, publicly withdrew his name from the call. {NUMBER 26. Later from Uavaunn. New 0 leans, Oct. p.—The steamship DeSoto from Ilavauna, with dates to the od inst.. arrived here to-day. The demand of Sug;:r ha 1 improved. Exchange on London 1-3 to IG. Exchange on New Votk -1 to 5} for sight; G.V to 7 for GO days. The politicial news by the DeSoto is generally unimportant. Movements of the Filibusters. New Orleans, Oct. s.—The tillibusters did not leave trout Bermiks Bay; they went down the river in the tow boat , Panther, and put to sea without any pro- I visions. The rneu have since been laud- ] ed at the Southwest Pass. Collector Hatch still refuses a clearance for the j steamer Philadelphia, he being satisfied that she intends taking the filibusters to Nicaragua. The great precaution that was used by Collector Hatch has doubt less frustrated the expedition. The EpLcopal Convention. R.cumond, Va., Oct. 4 —The Episcopal \ Convention was organized hero to-day. j There was no business transacted by tiic House of Bishops. Bishop Meade pro- j sided at the Convention. Arrival of the Parkersburg. Savannah, October s.—The steamship Parkersburg, from New York, arrived here to-day. The Fillibusters. New Orleans, Oct. G.—The departure of the steamship St. Louis was not con firmed. The Government ordered the U. S. ! Marshal at New Orleans to seize the steamship Philadelphia, if he was satis fied that she was concerned with the filli busters and their movements. A compauy of Federal Artillery, from Baton Rouge, was ou the way to a point on the river below New Orleans. Later li-oai Brazil. New Orleans, Oct. G.—Official infor mation has been received here that Bra zil had reduced her export duty on sugar, hides and other uative products to eight per centum. Barge Fire. Chicago, Oct. G.—The Rope Factory was burned down to-day. The loss is estimated at five hundred thousand dol lars. There was an insurance on the factory of seventy-eight thousand dol lars. The California Mails. New Orleans, Oct. 6.—The Vander bilt line of steamers takes the California mails via. Panama. There will bo no in terruption in the semi-monthly mails from New Orleans, with the exception of the first trip. Mississippi Flections. New Orleans, Oct. G.—The returns of the Mississippi elections show large Dem ocratic gains. Louisiana Vigilant Committee. New Orleans, Oct. G.— The Vigilant Committee in Louisiana still continue their operations. Judicial Jolcc. A few years ago there sat upon the bench of a court, not a thousand miles from Memphis, a judge whose disposi tion had been soured from some cause or other (for he was a bachelor) until he fancied that the bar, officers and all, were defying his dignity, and attempted to bring the judicial ermine into con tempt. At the commencement of one of : the sessions of his court, he determined j to bring the bar, clerk and sheriffs to a just appreciation of the dignity .of his j court, and the first thing he did was to ; fine the sheriff and his deputy for the ; non-performance of an impossible duty. Ilia next attention was paid to the mem- i bers of the bar. One after another was | fiued, until it came to the turn of one of i the most talauted and boldest advocates. J lie (the lawyer) was busy in the exami nation of some papers, when Lis atten tion was arrested by an order from the Judge to enter up a fine of $5 against him. “ May it please your honor,” said the advocate, “for what am I fined?” “ For contempt of court,” thundered the Judge. “Well,” said the advocate, “it: is the fi/st time in my life I have known a man to be fined for his unuttered j thoughts. ” —Memphis Avalanche. Arkansas Hot Springs. A correspondent of the Mobile Register, sojourning at the Hot Springs in Arkan sas, makes the following allusion to them in a letter to that paper: The Springs are situated between two lofty mountains, and the water gushes out of rocks and is as hot as boiling wa ter. The thermometer in the bath houses ranges from 110 to 130 degrees, and when one first ventures into the bath he is impressed with the idea that “his time has come.” After one or two batl)3 you become perfectly acclimated, and you have no idea how pleasant it is to “drink hot water and sweat.” Immedi ately under the vapor bath, yesterday, I saw a hog scalded and the hair was taken off as clean as a whistle. Eggs are fre quently boiled in the water in from ten to fifteen minutes. There are two hotels here, but owing to the possession of the Springs being in dispute, the houses are constructed very commonly, and the place is not arranged with that taste that characterises our Alabama hotel-keepers. The Kanawha (Va.) Republican gives us the following facts -and figures: On Wednesday last A. Parks and H. H. Wood, trustees,’ sold fifty-one negroes, ’ the property of Andrew F. and William > Donnelly. The sales amounted to $28,- 880 30, being an average of $556 30. One slave sold for $25 ; four for SSO each ; several for less than $200; sev eral at an average of SSOO. One girl j sold for $1,500; one for $1,250. One j man aged forty-five, sold for $1,400; several men and women for over $1,200. ! Taken as a lot, the negroes are considered rather indifferent and prices obtained are 1 considered very good. Significant. An exchange says: “It is a singular i fact that though the Democracy of Maine ! fought their recent election squarely and openly on the Douglas platform, the re sult shows a heavy loss. In the counties ! i marshaled by the Douglas leaders the De j mocracy suffer very heavy losses, while : in two, where the party stood up for Bu : chanan, they fully hold their last year’s i vote.” In an “Essay on Woman,” a writer re | marks that beauties generally die old maids. They set such a price on them j selves that they don’t find a purchaser 1 till the market is closed. Out of eleven beauties that have come out within the last eighteen years, ten are still single, j They spend their days in working great dogs on yellow wool, while their evenings are devoted to low spirits and French novels. Messrs. George Forrester Co., of Liverpool have just finished anew steam yacht for Prince Ismali Pasha of Egypt. The new yacht is 180 feet long by 18 feet G inches beam, and has engines of 80 horse power. She is gorgeously fitted : up, and her estimated cost is about I £20,000. t “I can’t bear children,” said Miss Prim, disdainfully. Mrs. PartiDgton looked over her spectacles mildly before she re plied : “Perhaps if you could you would like them better.” - ♦ The Mechanics’ Bank of Augusta de clared a semi-annual dividend of five dollars per share, on Monday last. Opelika anti pitildersburg Railroad Survey. We learn from the Tallapoosa Times that the surveying company of the above road encamped at Daileville Thursday night last, and moved on to Cliildersburg on Friday. The Times says: We visited the camp at night and were shown the road beautifully delineated ou paper, as far as the plotting bad been done. In many places between this and j Opelika, it looks as though nature had prepared the road-bed nearly ready for : the timbers; at other there are intervening hills and ravines which will j require heavy grading. Taken as a whole, the grading of the road from this i place to Opelika, a distance of just 28 i miles, in point of cheapness, will com pare favorably with any road in Ala bama. The average cost of grading be i tween this and Opelika, in our opinion, ; will be less than five thousand dollars per mile. This is based upon the fact that the engineer told us he would like to take the contract at six thousand dol . lars per mile. The Times contradicts the rumor that ! the Rail Road is likely to be a failure, on ; acount of the surveyor not finding a place where it could cross the creek nearDade i ville. It says : This is all a mistake, and probably ! grew out of the eireumstanctv that the | first effort made to reach the creek two I miles above town was likely to prove a ’ failure, owing to the descent being too | rapid for the distance to the stream; but i this was soon obviated by our energetic j Surve3’or, who retraced his steps to the I top of tho hill and soon found a passable i place nearly opposite town, where, with ‘ a bridge seventy-five feet high, the trip can easiiy be made. We can assure tho friends of the road that they need have no fears as to the difficulties in passing this place, it will not boas difficult as wo had apprehended. Correspondence of tlie Daily Sun. Selma, Ala., Oct. 4, 1859. Messrs. Editors: I am now sojourning for a timo in the beautiful and fast-grow- I ing little city of Selma, on the Alabama I river, 100 miles from Montgomery and 000 from Mobile, by water. The city has a population estimated at about 5,000, and steadily, not i*apidly, on the iucreaso. Buildings are in course of erection on all sides—beautiful residences and flue stores. The citizens arc a go-ahead set of people, and are determined, from appearances, to speedily make Selma what she is des tined ultimately to be, one of the first commercial (inland) cities in the South and West. Boats from Montgomery and Mobile arrive here daily, loaded down with freight and passengers, and the different Rail Roads (of which there are two in number) - receive and distribute them through the country for miles around. Tho merchants hero are doing an excellent business, though the business season has not yet fairly set in. Cotton is now coming in more freely than was ever before known at this season of the year, and selling readily at good prices. There are five large beautiful houses of worship here—the Methodist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, Baptist, (the pulpit of which will be occupied shortly by Rev. N. L. DeVotic, formerly of Columbus,) and the Cumberland Presbyterian Churches. The educational interests of Selma are not neglected, for there are now some eight or ten schools, conducted by experienced teachers, in full exercise. James Taylor, of the firm of Atkinson & Taylor, in your city, has a store here, and if I may judge from the number of the fair sex who daily throng bis store, he is doing a very excellent business. I will occasionally drop you a few lines, which probably may somewhat interest a few of the many perusers of your valua ble sheet. Very respectfully, &c , H. Lord Palmerston. This tough and genial old statesman is thus described in a recent letter from London: Lord Palmerston is too inveterately hardened into the routine of official work ever to give it up, even for a short inter val. He will die in harness. He is ’ happiest in the traces. At Broadlands, I though no man tramps the stubbles or i beats tlie cover with keener zest, or car j lies a surer double-barrel—and that, too, | without spectacles, at 74—This is but the I morning’s amusement. By 2or 3 o’clock Lord Palmerston is in his room, elbow j deep in dispatches, and walled about with office boxes. Visitors at the house see nothing of him till the late dinner at eight, and that dispatched—there may then be an adjournment to the drawing room, and even the billiard-room, where the perennial host still handles his cue like a master, and again without specta cles—Lord Palmerston is more visible after 10, but the lights are burning in his private room till 12 or 1, or even later. In the intervals of this severe and protracted labor no one can bo gayer or sprightlier than Lord Palmerston, or readier to take and pass the mot pour rire. Though Lord Palmerston declares he has no time to read “ anything but manu scripts;” bo seems au fait of the cur rent literature. Perhaps Lady Palmer ston eviscerates it for him, and keeps him supplied with the essence of conver sation. It would only be one of many similar services rendered by this most de voted of wives to her husband. Not among the least importance of these is tbo way in which she discharges the duty of hostess at Broadlands, making it one of the pleasantest, most unformal, and least pretentious or dull of country houses, despite its master’s standing and devotion to business. Tlie Kansas Gold. After all the contradictory reports which have reached us from the mines in Kansas, the fact seems at last settled that there is gold in the mining region, and that various shipments to the aggregate amount of $104,000 have actually been made. A tabular statement published in the Leavenworth Daily Times gives a de tailed account of the receipts from May 18 to August 15; from which it appears that the business firms in Denver City • and Auroria have received $72,985 from j miners, and that of this sum, $45,002 have boen shipped to other ports. Nei ther of the sums named is a year olu and these results of three months’ business ; are regarded as gratifying indications. The express which left Denver City in j the middle of September carried away $32,000 in addition ; bringing up the | yield to the figure of $104,000. * * Singular Disease. We understand that a considerable ’ number of cows—some dozen or more, in j the neighborhood of Ann street and the I Spring Hill Road; have during the last i two weeks been affected with a disease ; which nobody has yet succeeded in ac counting for. It manifests itself by blind ! ness, occasionally of one eye, but gene ! rally of both; the organ ’assuming a whitish and glossy appearance. The I blindness is so complete that the animals while grazing will xun against a fence. The disease is accompanied by a falling i off in the condition of the cows, but wc have not heard of any of them having died, and we have been told that some : persons have continued to use their milk : without any unpleasant consequences, though we should regard the course as highly injudicious.— Mobile Mercury. Strange. To hear a person at one moment con fess himself a vile worm of the dust— ‘ the chief of sinners—a hardened rebel ; totally depraved—deserving of eternal tortures, &c —yet ready to blaze up with passion the moment one hints he may have formed an incorrect opinion, im properly expresses himself, or committed some action not quite accordant with the moral code. Which shall be believed—• the parroted, whining confession, or the action itself 9 Strange, i-n’t it ? At one 1 moment, the English language has no words sufficiently expressive of self ; abasement; at another, a broken bead if you question Lis infallibility. The Opposition of Northampton coun- I ty, Pennsylvania, held a meeting on the j Ist October, and adopted resolutions re -1 commending A. H. Reeder for Governor.