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COI/ULMBTJS: Morning, Oct. 11* 1850. Russel & Jones, proprietors of Russel’s Magazine, offer that periodical tor sale. The City of Memphis, has passed an ordinance to prohibit negroes from smoking in the streets. The valuation of the State of Wiscon sin for the j’ear 1859, is as follows : Real ! estate, $138,929,807; personal property, $13,007,502. The tax receipts of New York two weeks ago from Monday to the following Friday, inclusive amount to $015,982 —personal taxes alone. A telegraphic dispatch from New York October Ist, to the Mobile Tribune, states that the notorious Capt. dc Riviere has been killed in a duel. Blake, Kingsley & Cos., who failed last week in Boston with liabilities of half a million, have made an assignment for the benefit of all their creditors. Mr. David W. Catlin, of the firm of Catlin, Leavitt & Cos., New York city, died at Newport on the 3d inst. Georgia Ann uni Conference. The Annual Conference of the Methodist ! Rpiscopal Church South, of Georgia, will assemble at Rome, on Wednesday, the 14th of December. The factory of Peck & Smith, Manufac turing Company at Stonington, Connecti cut, was entirely destroyed by fire on the 2d instant, with its contents. The loss was about $75,000. . Gen. Samuel Cruikslinnk, a valued citizen and merchant of Charleston, died in Baltimore last Thursday night in liis | forty-ninth year. Mr. Wardlow, indicted in three sepa rate cases for gambling, was tried at the ! recent terra of the court in Columbia, S. C., convicted and sentenced to 12 months j imprisonment and $1,500 fine A difficulty occurred at the Fair ! Grounds, in Bradly county (near Cleve- : land), Tcnnesse, last week, between Jos. , Taylor and a Mr. Carson, which resulted in the death of the latter. The S. W. Babtist chronicles the death of the Rev. Jesse llarrwell, D. D., which occurred at Mt. Lebanon, La., on the 10th ult. Dr. Hartwell was the first Profes sor of Theology in Howard College. Thomas C. Chisholm, brother of Col. E. D. Chisholm, of Cedar Town, Ca., was shot through the head and killed by a Mr. Morrison on election day. The diffi culty grew out of an interference of Chisholm with some floating voters Mor rison was carrying to the polls. The Newnan Blade says the Stock holders of the Griffin and Oxford Rail Road met in that place last Thursday, and elected Judge Dobbins, of Griffin, President, and Judgo Read and Roberts, of Spaulding, J. M. Thomas and T. A. Grace, of Coweta, and Meador and Wootten, of Carroll, Directors of said Road. p. Another Ascension. The Augusta Chronicle says Prof. Wells mado a successful ascension from the Parado Grounds, near that city, last Thursday. He ascended to a considera ble height, and after taking a good view of Augusta and surrounding objects, de scended in safety, without apparently having moved far from the point of start ing- New Baptist Paper. We are in receipt of the first number of the “Landmark Banner and Cherokee Baptist,” published at Rome, Ga., and edited by Rev. J. M. Wood assisted by a committee of gentlemen, amongst whom we notice the name of Dr. J. S. Baker, former pastor in our city. It is a large and handsomely priuted sheet. Price $2 in advance, The Secretary of War in accordance with law, has made an abstract of the j returns of the militia of the several ! States. They show a total of 2,766,726, of which about 2,700,000 arc infantry, 20,000 artillery, and 34,000 riflemen. The returns make California the high est upon the list; New York next, Illinois next, and Minnesota last; Georgia fur nished 88,099, and Alabama 7G,6G2. Inflection of Solicitor General. _J. J. Abercrombie, Esq., oue of the candidates for Solicitor General in the j Chattahoochee Circuit, in view of the j ■number of the opposition candidates in the field, suggests through the En quirer, of Saturday, the propriety of holding a Convention at Geneva, or some other accessible point on the rail road, to ] nominate the most available and compe- j tent man for the office. The Lawrcnceville News gives an ac count.of a serious affair which took place there on Monday last. Mr. Hardin Cols ton was stabbed in five different parts of the body by Mr. John Fundy, formerly of Augusta. It is thought the wounds j will prove fatal. Iu default of security j Fundy was lodged in jail. The Cauebrake (Ala.) Gazette of the 1 7th, states that the announcement in the previous number of that paper, of the appointment of W. E. Clarke, Esq., of Ma rengo, to the Federal Judgeship vacated by the death of Judgo Gayle, was incor- , rect. The appointee is Win. G. Jones, Esq., of Mobile. A letter in the Choctaw county (Ala.) Democrat states that the Rev. Mr. Bolton, j who 4 was supposed to have committed suicide in Sumter county, was really I murdered by his negroes who took that i method to get back to Georgia. The letter says one of the negroes concerned was recently executed in Georgia for a capital crime, and confessed under the j gallows that while his former master j (Mr. Bolton) was kneeling under a tree, j engaged in prayer, a rope was thrown over his neck, by which he was quietly suspended to a limb and left to die. * ■ Rail Road Bonds Authorized. At a meeting of the stockholders of the North-east and South-west Alabama Rail Road (extending from a point on the Mo bile and Ohio Rail Road via Eutaw, Tuscaloosa and Elyton to Chattanooga, Tennessee.) held at Eutaw on Wednesday last, adopted a resolution authorizing the Directors to issue first class bonds of ‘ said road to the extent of $4,300,000 in addition to those authorized last fall, to bear 8 per cent, interest. The shortest ! time for any of the bonds to run is seven years, and the longest, thirty. The company pledging its lauds and the en- ! tire property of the road for the payment : of the bonds. Conflagration at Montgomery. The Confederation announces that in pursuance of law, $40,079 of the bills of the old State Bank and branches, were burned at Montgomery the 27th of Sep tember. The law required the presence of the Governor, Secretary of State, ; Comptroller and Treasurer, during the fuming. Is It So T The Mobile Register in an article un der the caption of “Dawn Rreaking,” j endeavors to show that Douglas is on “ rising ground” at the South, and confi dently asserts among other indications of popular feeling, that Arkansas, Tennes | see, Kentucky, Missouri, Virginia and Georgia will certainly endorse hisnomina- j tion at the Charleston Convention. The reason for placing Georgia in this cate I gory, is that in the recent Gubernatorial canvass in this State, Gov. Brown refused # t 7 to commit himself against Douglas. True, i the Opposition attempted to make that question an issue, and it was not accept ed by the Democracy. While we heartily coincide with the opposition to Douglas, we can say that Gov. Brown’s non-com- j mittalism against him bad nothing to do j with the heavy majority which the Reg- I ister so triumphantly points to as an indication of Douglas’ popularity in this State. We say this not in the interest of Democracy, but iu our love for the rights of the States. As an evidence among others, that op position to Douglas had nothing to do with the Gubernatorial and Congressional 1 elections, we may refer to the result in i the S-cond and Seventh Congressional Districts iu this State. In the former it is authentically stated that the Hon. Mar | tin J. Crawford declared, that iu the event of Douglas’ nomination, he would advise Lis Southern friends to withdraw from the Convention. In the latter, the Hon. R. G. Harper declared uncompro mising hostility to Douglas’ political doc trines, and yet Gov. Brown’s majority, in both Districts, was fully equal to the party vote. If opposition to Douglas was an issue in the Gubernatorial can i vass, or Gov. Brown’s non committalism I was construed into an endorsement of his heresies, we are unable to perceive ; any difference by reason of it, in the vote for Representatives in the Second uud Seventh Districts. ♦ Dalton anti Jacksonville Hail Road. We learn from the Dalton Times that the contract for the grading and masonry ! on the Dalton and Jacksonville (Ala.) ; Rail Road, has been let out to O’Hara & ! Lainou, from Dalton to the Alabama line, a distance of 04 miles. They are to commence the work by the 20th instant, and complete it by the Ist of January, 18G1. The distance yet, to let, from the State line to Jacksonville, is 27 miles. We also learn that the grading on the Selma and Tennessee Road, from the town of Talladega to Jacksonville, is finished and ready for tho cross-ties and iron. These gaps completed, and a con nection will be formed between Selma, on the Alabama river, and the State Road at Dalton, Ga. The “Galiiant Zouave” not Dead. It appears that the telegraphic dis patch to the Mobile papers announcing that the soi disant Captain de Riviere had been killed in a duel, is not true. The New York News of the 3d, says: Captain de Riviere, the “gallant Zou ave,” aud Billy Mulligan, the ejected Ca lifornian, had a quarrel in Broadway on Friday evening, and the Zouave chal lenged the Ex-Californian. The parties met the following day at Hoboken with pistols and seconds, but no blood was shed. Mulligan says that the Zouave got frightened and run away. The Zouave says his second could not speak English and Mulligan’s second could not speak French, and consequently the prelimina ries could not be arranged. * California Election. The election of Milton L. Latham as Governor of California has already been announced, he having beaten both of his competitors, Curry and Stanford. John G. Downey was elected Lieutenant Gov ernor, and Charles L. Scott and John C. Burch, Congressmen, over Joseph C. Mc- Kibben,- auti-Lecomptonite, and E. D. Baker, Republican. The Legislature is also Democratic. The Memphis Ava lanche was informed by a gentleman, a passenger by the overland route, that the Democratic majority would probably reach 15,000. V. §, District Judgeship. Some time since the telegraph an nounced the appointment of William G. Jones, Esq., of Mobile, as U. S. District ! Judge for Alabama, vice Judge Gayle, j deceased. The last Canebrake (Ala.) Gazette says that William E. Clarke, Esq., has received the appointment. As the Gazette is published in Marengo, the county of Mr. Clarke’s residence, the ; latter announcement is most probably ! correct. State Idled ions. In South Carolina, the election will be ‘ held next Monday. In Indiana, lowa, Minnesota, Ohio and Pennsylvania, next Tuesday. On tho first Tuesday iu November, j elections will be held in Illinois, Massa- ; chusetts, Michigan, New York and New ! Jersey. In Louisiana, on the first Monday in j November, in Maryland, on the first | Wednesday, and in Wisconsin, on the first I Thursday. ♦V The city Gas Works of Wilmington, | Delaware, invited a large party on the j Ist instant, to witness the manufacture ] of gas from water as a substitute for coal j gas. The demonstration was very satis- j factory, the light being very pure and j brilliant. *. N. E. and S. \V. Rail Road. The Central Alabamian says, that Mr. j Corey, one of the assistant engineers on 1 the N. E. and S. W. Rail Road, and a corps of asssistants, are engaged in loca ting preparatory to letting to contract that portion of the road lying above Ely- j ton towards Chattanooga. The Pensacola Observer says that in | all probability the U. S. steamer Fulton will be afloat again, she having drifted I twenty feet on Monday night, and hope is entertained by Commodore Mclntosh that he will be able to bring her to the ! Navy Yard for repairs and refitting. + The New Orleans papers received since the case of yellow fever was reported in that city, do not confirm the report, j There has, however, been an unusual I influx of strangers, and it is not too late j yet for the appearance of the epidemic. . ♦ The Lecomptonites have elected their candidate for Supreme Court of Califor ; nia, Judge W. W. Cope, and also their candidate for Clerk of the same, Charles j S. Fairfax, Esq. ♦- The W etumpka Dispatch has been changed to* the Wetumpka Enquirer.— ! Samuel 11. Dixon, Esq., has become edi- I tor and proprietor, and makes a hand- I some bow to the public. The paper will ! be Democratic in politics. The largest Lager Bier Brewery in America was destroyed by fire in New lork on the night of the 30th. It was situated on 110th street, near the North River. The loss was about $70,000. Mr. G. I. Lloyd was appointed Deputy Sheriff for Muscogee county, by Sheriff Brooks, yesterday. There is no doubt ; that he will make an efficient officer. Nortlz versus South Alabama. A North Alabama paper, alluding to i the recent appointment of the successor of Judge Gayle says: ‘•We Tegret that the claims of North Alabama for a prominent Federal office have again been passed over. The ap- | pointment has, however, been bestowed i upon a geDtleman of character and ability.” Had the appointee been an applicant for a State, instead cf a Federal office, bis residence in South Alabama would have been his misfortune —had there been an opposing applicant from the Northern portion of the State. As an application by a North Alabamian for a State office is tantamount to an election, the press in i that section should not complain if the j fickle Goddess occasionally bestows a J Federal appointment upon a South Ala ! bamian. But “mountains interposed, Make enemies of Nations, which else Had, like kindred drops, mingled into one.” The distribution of State patronage has long been a bone of contention between North and South Alabama. If for no other reason than the removal of the po litical barrier between the two sections of the State, we wish a speedy completion of the North and South Alabama Rail Road. Further Election Returns, Full and reliable returns from the Eighth Congressional District have been received. Governor Brown’s majority is 1,192. J. J. Jones’ majority over Wright 406. Iu 1857, Brown’s majority in the Eighth District was 950. Stephen’s over Miller 1,280. In this, the Second District, we have the authority of tho Times for saying that the Don. Martin J. Crawford’s ma jority will be upwards of 1,500. Complete returns from all the Districts have not been received. In Elbert, one Democrat and one Oppo sition member elected to the Legislature. In Mitchell, one Democrat and one Op position member elected. In Paulding, one Democrat and one Opposition member elected. Iu Laurens, Opposition ticket elected. In Camden, Heard, Habersham, Lee, Lowndes, Wilcox and Worth, Democratic tickets are elected. A New Enterprise. A portion of the citizens of Heard county and West Point, Georgia, assem bled at the latter on the 27th of of September. The object of the meeting was to consider the practicability of nav igating tho Chattahoochee from West Point to Franklin, Heard county, and in termediate points. Messrs. Beck & Fleming having examined the river stated that they fiud the navigation would be practicable with Flat Boats, if a mill-dam a few miles above West Point was re moved. A committee was appointed to petition the Inferior Court of Troup county to appoint Commissioners, and have the said obstructions removed. Another committee was appointed to go to Franklin on the 6th instant, and con fer with the friends of the project at that place. The West Point Citizen of the 6th, states that Messrs. Beck & Fleming have commenced building their boats, and will be ready to launch them in a week or two. Florida Elections—Annexation. From the Pensacola Observer of the 4th, we learn that at the election in that city on Monday there were 109 votes in favor of, and 37 against annexation to Alabama. Hon. J. J. Finley having no opposition for Circuit Judge was, of course, elected. Mr. F. de Laßua was elected Circuit Clerk, and Col. W. F. Lee County Sur veyor. Capt. Jordan is probably elected Judge of Probate. For Chief Justice at Pensacola, Wright received 211 votes; Baltzell, 15; Dupont, 9; Associate Jus tices—Yonge, 177; Holland, 104; Walk er, 52 ; Forward, 25 ; Hogue, 1. Correspondence of the Sun, Auburn, Aua., Oct. 7, 1859. Dear Sun: The Male College here has opened under the most astonishingly favorable circumstances. There are already about 60 matricu lates. All the college classes are repre- I sented. \ There never has been an institution opened in this country under as promis ing auspices. We have quite a number of Georgians. Yours, ever* PRETIUM. Detective Instrument. At the late Fair in Cincinnati, an in j strument was exhibited for detecting I burglars. Wires are attached to each ! window and door, and the instant one is opened, an alarm is given in any room that may be desired, and the lamp light ed ! The instrument does not interfere with the opening of the doors or windows in the day time, being, we suppose, de tached. The inventor is named Ross. It gave great satisfaction, and may come into general use. The editor of the Demopolis (Ala.) Gazette, who made a trip from that place to Greensboro last week, and whose route was over a fine cotton region, thus speaks of the prospects of the crop. He says “the cotton crops along the route, bear testimony to the truth of the complaints which have been made, of the ravages of boll worm and the destructive effect of the rains and storms, which have devas tated the crops throughout this region.” A Pedestrian. The Tuscaloosa Monitor says a German supposed to be named Slrumpfeller, came from Greensboro, Ala., to that city on last Monday, from which place he walked within that day some forty miles. He died on Wednssday night at Washington Hall, from consequent exertion and imprudence in drinking cold water. Crops in Tallapoosa. The Dadeville (Ala.) Banner of the 6tb, says farmers from all portions of this county represent the cotton crop as real ly good and promising. In addition to all this, the weather is fine, just the sort to open the bolls. — The whole amount of public land sur veys as returned to the General Land Office for the year ending with the month of September, is nearly 53,000 miles, or about 15,000,000 acres. p The Hon. James Knox, late member of Congress from Illinois, having unfortu nately become blind, is in New York, en route for Europe for the purpose, if possi ble, of having the cataract removed from his eyes. The/oreign imports at New York, in cluding dry goods and general merchan dize, amount to $4,835,676 for the week ending October Ist. The exports of specie for the same time, amount to $1,414,590. * * New York Banks. Compared with last week the differ ences iu the Bank statements are as fol lows: Decrease of loans, $1,178,568; Decrease of specie, $1,401,310; Decrease of circulation, $19,504 ; Decrease of net Deposits, $1,918,494. The United States and Nicaragua. We find in the Galveston News the an nexed note of General Lamar, late Uni ted States Minister to Central America, j in reply to some of his friends who de- ; sired to leara the result of his recent ne gotiations in that quarter: Galveston, Oct. 2, 1859. Gentlemen: In reply to your inqui ries, I am happy to state that a treaty i between the United States and Nicaragua has been ratified by the latter Govern ment, and is acceptable to ours, by which the door to peaceful and friendly emigra- ‘ tion to Nicaragua is opened to Ameri cans. This treaty has laid the iounda- \ tion for the return of confidence between i the Governments; it is ample iu all its] provisions for the protection of our citi- ! zeus in life, property and religion; it is made iu good faith on the parL of Nicara gua, and if violated by her it can be i enforced by our Government, without hazarding the respect of other nations. Should any inconsiderate citizens of ours forego their nationality, by marauding upon a Government which is now in good relations with our own, it will be only a revival of the buccaneering of a past age, when force and not reason, was the rule of nations. The Administration has accomplished all in its negotiations with Nicaragua that ought to be desired by Americans ; and if the result has been tardily reached, the delay by that Government is due quite as much to the dread of fili buster invasion, a3 to the European in trigue or menace. The questions alone remain to be set tled : the claims of our citizens against that Government, and the opening of the transit route. The former will be ad justed, I have no doubt, to the satisfac tion of all parties by a joint commission of the two Governments, and with regard to the latter, although some difficulties continue to exist, which may be further complicated still, much is to be hoped from the intelligence and recent expe rience of the leading men of Nicaragua, when appealed to by the justice as well as energy of our Government. In haste, very truly yours, MIRABEAU B. LAMAR. To Hon. David G. Burnet, Gen. Hugh McLeod, W. Richardson, Esq. —p, Compressed Air as a Means of Com municating Power, g Messrs. Debain, Botton & Zellier have recently a'pplied to the Perfect of the Seine for permission to lay mains through the streets of Paris for the introduction and circulation of compressed air. “This enterprise,” as they say in their applica tion, “consists in the compression of air by means of large establishments, which we erect outside of the city, the com pressed air to be led through the whole city by a system of pipes similar to those used for the distribution of gas, so fur nishing a means of power and life, wher ever it may be needed. It is well known that it requires considerable time to set up the ordiuary machines for obtaining power; whereas we can introduce ours generally in half a day, and in the most difficult case3 in two days, and when this is once done, thr operator who uses it is perfect master of it. He can run it by day and by night, and can begin and end work whenever he pleases, without in terfering with his neighbor. The amount of power furnished i3 measured by a meter. He has no boiler to heat, and loses none of the power which is lost in the ordiuary use of steam. In a word, it is power domesticated. “And this air is not confined in its use to the moving of machinery. A simple cock will replace the aumbrous bellows in the smiths’ shops, and will furnish much more oxygen, the air being more com pressed than by the bellows, producing a much more perfect and much more in tense combustion. Those trades which require a continuous or an occasional draught of air, will always have it at hand. “It will also be of great use in the economical heating of buildings, as a current of compressed air blowing the fire in the furnace will produce a perfect combustion of the fuel. The power which it gives may be applied to elevat ing water into the upper stories, and much other work. “The health of the city will be im proved by the diminution of smoke, which will, in the end, be entirely consumed. Hospitals, sewers, workshops, tenant houses and places of assembly may be ventilated by a current of compressed air more cheaply than in any other way. “The price at which it will be furnished to the public for use will place it within the reach of all. “There is no danger to be apprehended from it; even should the pressure be so great as 150 pounds per square inch, tubes can easily be made which will sus tain it, and if a tube should burst, the air streaming out would be no injury, except its loss to us.” Family Discord Produced by a Music Teacher. The Washington correspondent of the Boston Journal relates the following inci dent, which has made some stir in the social circles in the City of Magnificent Distances : One of the leaders of a choir here made great professions of piety, and was noisy and dogmatic in his religion. He had a wife, and boarded with a lady who had a pleasant daughter. The -intimacy be tween the singer and the daughter was quite marked, and was not relished by the mother. The daughter took it into her head to go into the country. Soon after the man lost his place in an office that he held, and letters sent to him were sent over to his boarding-house. One came just before dinner one day. It was in the familiar hand of her daughter. She opened it, and her worst fears were realized : her child was ruined, and the singer was the author of her shame. He came late to dinner that day. lie was welcomed by the mother with a carving knife. He flew round the table as by magic—ladies were tumbled under it, or fled shrieking away. The chase was continued; the assailed made for the door; the mother plunged the knife at him, and it went through the door panel. It would have gone through his body had he not been agile and dodged well. He tied from the house hatless and in terror, and has not been seen since. Tom Sayers, John C. Heeuan, aud Aaron J ones. A correspondent of the New York Clip per writes : I was in Bell’s Life office on Friday last, and told Mr. Dowling that in the Clipper of a few weeks since I saw a paragraph stating that it was rumored that Aaron Jones had written for his money and had received it. This he denied, as the £2OO remains in his hands now ; and if he re fuses fighting Sayers, according to Jones’ own challenge, he will have to forfeit £SO. So that after Sa3’ers fights the Unknown, and if he wins, Jones is to be the next; and if he beats Jones, or Jones does not fight him, but forfeits the £SO to the champion, then I will try to come to terms with HeenaD, for Sayers to fight him for not less than S2OO and the cham pion’s belt; and should the champion re tain the belt till June next year, when it will be his own, Sayers and myself will visit the shores of America in the Sep tember following, not for any hostile pur poses, but for pleasure. Cotton in Asscnsion Parish. The New River Acadian, of the 6th in stant, says: The cotton planters of this vicinity could not have had a more favorable season for cotton picking, if they had been able to have controlled it. It is true that the late spring was a serious drawback to us, but a larger crop of cot ton was never made in this vicinity than is made and gathered this year. ♦ Green Tea. Mrs. Joseph Redd, of Clarksville, Ga., sends us a specimen of green tea, raised by herself, which she says has been pro nounced the genuine article, inasmuch as ; we do not use it. It certainly smells like i tea.— Athens Watchman. . p i What is society, after all but a mix ture of mister-ies and miss-eries. Water Gas at Wilmington. On Saturday evening, tbe neighboring j city of Wilmington was splendidly j ed with gas made from water, under the patent of Prof. Sanders, ot Cincinnati. The charges were drawn from the retorts ; the supply of coal gas was turned off: the water gas was run through the pipes, and Wilmington had a light thrice as brilliant, thrice as pure, as any it had ever known before. Tbe ope r ation was observable to the citizens of Wilmington in its results, while its practical working was witnessed by several journalists, many inhabitants, and some parties who are actually inte rested in the production of coal gas.— Among these last were the President of the Philadelphia Northern Liberties Gas Works, and the President of the Financial Board of that Company. All agreed it j was a decided success. We are not going into long scientific details of the principle thus developed— our cotemporaries, who are les3 pressed with advertisements, may have space for | such a purpose. But we may state, very . ; briefly, that the theory of Sanders’ pro cess is this : Water, as steam, is decom | posed by being passed over red hot | charcoal, and the resulting gases (hydro ; gen, carbonic oxide, and light carburetted hydrogen) are chemically combined with | heavy carburetted hydrogen, or liglit i giving gas, by the decomposition of rosin ; or coal vapor, simultaneously with, and | in the presence of, the decomposition of the vapor of water. At the Wilmington gas works are now three water gas re torts, aggregating only one-tweuty-sev enth of the cubical area of .their coal gas 1 retorts, yet more productive tbau the j whole of their present coal gas appara- I tus, making 1200 to 1800 feet per hour. | The gas manufactured is superior in i color and strength of flame to C at pro j duced from coal. Rosin is used as the carbonizing element, requiring from 25 I to 40 pounds for every 1000 feet of gas, j which is free from sulphur or nitrogen, and has an odor rather agreeable than ; otherwise. Will it pay? The price of coal gas in New York is $2,50 per 1,000 cubic feet. | In Philadelphia it is $2,25 for the same I quantity. The cost of making 1,000 cu bic feet of such water gas as illumined— we might say, as illuminated—Wilming ; ton on Saturday ranges from 30 to 50 cents per 1,000 cubic feet. Rosin alone need not be the basis, for Sanders’ pro- I cess covers the use of bituminous coal, ! lignite or any of the multitudinous forms of h dro carbonaceous material. There need be no expensive erecting of large j gas works, and the gas produced makes I neither a bad smell nor “blacks.” The I gas itself, by a simple adaptation, actu i ally can make red hot the charcoal, which assists in decomposing the water which supplies it! The Great Eastern, in point of fact, might be lighted with water gas | made on board and have the heat thus | generated used in lien of coal for her j engines. The quantity of coal gas annually used ’ in the city of Philadelphia is estimated : at 6,000,000 cubic feet, for which the : public pay $13,500,000 per annum. Say that the water gas be supplied at $1 per j per 1,000 cubic feet, and our public save | $7,500,000, for light alone every year. | New York, it is estimated, consumes twice as much coal gas as Philadelphia; therefore, 12,000,000 cubic feet costs $30,000,000 a year. Should the water gas be substituted, the gaving would be $18,000,000 a year.— Philadelphia Press. It was for a long time supposed that Mount Washington, of the White Moun tain group, was the highest peak east of Rocky Mountains. But this honor must now be definitely conferred upon Smoky’ i Mountain, belonging to the Black Mouu | tain group, and situated in Jackson coun ty, North Carolina, near the Tennessee | line. Professor John LeConte, of South : Carolina College, accompanied by Mr. Cliugmau and Mr. Muckley, has made accurate burometic observations of the ! various hights composing this group, tlu- I ring the past summer. These gentlemen, | and Prof. Guyot, have ascertained that North Carolina has no less than fifteen peaks higher than Mount Washington. According to Capt. Cram, of the United States Coast Survey, the bight of Mount Washington is 6,293 feet. The elevation of Smoky Mountain is 6,737 feet. * Editorial We. It is a custon now very prevalent for editors, in using a personal pronoun of the first person, to use we instead of 1. According to all the grammars with which ■ I am acquainted, we is always plural, im * plying two or more persons, among which lis the speaker or writer. When that pro noun appears in a sentence it is always attended by a verb in the plural also.— Now why do editors use the pronoun ice when they refer only to themselves, and yet join to it a verb in the plural form ? Would it not be more in accordance with grammar rules to say we is, we was, &c.; or else to use the singular pronoun as other writers do ? LACON. * Jolin Henry Bradbury I Left Tigerville, La., in July or August i 1858, for Rome, Georgia. As he has i not arrived, or since that time gave his ! relations or friends any information as to his whereabouts. We will feel under | lasting obligations to any persons who j will communicate to me any intelligence i relative to him. Address. MRS. M. E. MITCHELL, Rome, Georgia. | P. S.—Papers copying the above will i confer a great favor. Pod Office New post offices have been established at Flag Pond, Ilenry county, Ala., and ’ Hampton, Hamilton county, Texas. The post offices at Atwood, DeKalb ; county, and Ripley, Calhoun county, Ala bama, Grahamsville, Choctaw county, and Cato, Rankin county, Miss., Alabama | Bayou, Pointe Coupee parish, La., Seven Oaks, Galveston county, and Burns’ Ford, Burnett, county, Texas, have been discon | tinned. Among the resolutions introduced at I the recent Western Virginia M. E. Con ference, we find the following: Whereas, Brother Clawson has up to this time been disappointed in his ex pectations of anticipated fortune, and, | whereas, his anticipations have been the means of producing financial difficulties. Resolved, Therefore, that this Confer ence earnestly solicit the brother here after to incur no further debts on the ex i pectations of said fortune, until develop ments shall be made sufficient to warrent an assurance that said fortune will abso lutely be realized. The Texas C. S. Senatorship It is stated that the following names will be prominently before the Legisla ture for the honorable position of United States Senator : B. H. Epperson, L. D. Evans, Col. W. P. Hill, G. W. Smythe, Robert 11. Taylor, L. F. Wigfall, Matt Ward, H. R. Runnels, and Gen. Houston. * There is a printer in Utica who has just finished walking six hundred miles before breakfast. He commenced 17th April last, and has walked every morning, before breakfast, from two to ten miles, the average being four mile3 per day, twenty-five miles per week, at tbe least calculation. He has gained both flesh and strength since he began. The daughter of the proprietor of a coal mine in Pennsylvania was inquisitive as to the nature of hell, upon which her father represented it to be a large gulf of fire, of most prodigious extent. “Pa,” j said she, “couldn't you get the Devil to buy hiß coal of you ?” Forty-one banks of Boston will pay a dividend on th ■ first of October that will in the aggregate amount to $1,188,067, j on a total capital of $35,525,600. Two | banks, the Suffolk and Exchange, pay 5 per cent. Eleven banks pay four per cent and upwards, with possibly an exception or two of banks but very recently estab lished. ♦ An unfartunate difficulty occurred in Waldo, Florida, on the 3d inst., between W. D. Clark and J. M. Chieves, both of Alachua county, in which the latter indi- j vidual was killed. The Cause of the San Juan “War. The following is a brief review of the troubles ip the Northwest, which, in the opinion of some, threatens a war with England. The Island ot San Juan, oi Bellevue, is said to be a disputed poiut between American and English territory. It is between fifteen and eighteen miles long, by seven at the widest part. It is peopled chiefly by a few American squat ters, an Euglisli Squire, (au employee ot the Hudson Bay Company.) and a num ber of unruly hogs, some of whom be long to the squire. The quarrel is all about these hogs. Said hogs persisted in break ing through the hedges and digging up and eating the potatoes of Mr. Cutter, an American settler He gave them —that is, their masters —a fair warning, and then shot one of them, which turned out : to lie a boar belonging to the’squire. Mr. Cutter was sorry, and offered to pay: but the squire had sworn vengeance; he attempted to have Cutter arrested and 1 brought to Victoria, there to be tried and transported. Now there happened to be j some United States troops, under Gene ral Harney, at hand, and when a British war steamer arrived from Victoria to car ry off Mr. Cutter, Gen. Harney refused to deliver him up. It was then that the question arose as to whose jurisdiction the Island of San Juan belongs. War like preparations now commenced on both sides. The English hesitated to strike the first blow. The Assembly in Victo ria have issued a long address to Gov ernor Douglass, setting forth that it would be a lasting disgrace to the British name if the Americans were not at once driven from the Island. Governor Doug lass does not know what to do. The Eng lish commander of the naval force in those waters is reported to have said that “the first broadside he would fire at the American settlement on San Juan would cost England more than the island was worth.” In the meantime the Amer icans have received reinforcements from Steilacoom, &c., and commenced fortifi cations. They arc already five companies of infantry and four of artillery on the spot. The island is thus practically “an nexed.” Both sides arc “spoiling” for the fight, but, according to the latest news, Governor Douglass will first send to St. James for instructions. If a war ensues, that boar of a hog has been the cause of it — N. P. Post. City of Mobile. There is much in Mobile that is atlrac tive to those who have lived in larger ci ties. Its hospitalities, its refinements, its intelligence and its virtues are conspicu ous There is an absence of ostentation and elaboration, we mean by comparison, which is truly refreshing; the lawyers are eloquent and able, the physicians— | but who are the superiors anywhere of ; Nott and Le Vert ? Perhaps at this point ! we might make a remark about the- sex which neither lawyers, doctors nor mer chants include, though it rules them all —the ladies. All the world over our preferences are with them. In Mobile our acquaintance includes some of ex quisite beauty of person and character. They have charms which in dreams re visit us. But enough, the name of the eminent physician mentioned above, sug gests pleasing memories of his beautiful home among the rich and elegant resi dences of Government street. Here his fascinating, intelligent and accomplished lady dispenses hospitalities and courte sies to citizens and strangers, and espe cially the latter, with lavish hand and warm heart. Her home, embellished w r ith all that can contribute to elegance and taste, gathered in every part of the j world, is the centre of attraction for a large and polished circle. Her recep tions are like those of a courtly minister. :We are invading, however, upon the sanctuary of private life, and hastily beat a! retreat at the very beginning of a tri ; bute which our heart was about to pay. | — Deßow's Review. ■ “♦ Incidents of tbe Explosion of tbe Great Eastern. A correspondent of tbe N. Y. Times, who was on the Great Eastern at thetime i of the disaster, writes : The usual variety of incidents occurred, showing the respective traits of character | which such disasters call out. The pilot, j Mr. Atkinson, was of course, on the < bridge, abaft the scene of the explosion, and under the shower of glass and splin ters. Pulling his hat over his head to shield himself, he stood fast in Lis place, remarking, “That’s none of my business; I’m going to steer the ship as long as she is a ship.” Another hard headed old fel low was laying a floor on a part of the wheelhouse. lie was sawing off a plank at the lime of the disaster, and, without ta ing his knee off the timber, he looked up till the shower of projectiles had fallen, and then quietly resumed his sawing as if nothing had happened. One gentle man nervously took his friends apart one i by one, and whispered that the ship’s side was blown out, and we should sink.within fifteen minutes. Another, white and trem bling with terror, long after the immedi ate danger had passed, assured all who came near him, in broken accents, that he never felt more composed in his life. One of the newspaper reporters betook himself to the extreme stern of the ship confidently expecting that the other nine ; boilers must necessarily go off in their : turn, like a train of mines. One person, approaching an officer, exclaimed, “Tell me theworst, I am prepared to meet my God.” Very few were loud and profane, as I have sometimes seen people in the very jaws of death, Alabama Coal Mining Company. “Occasional,” a correspondent of the Mobile Mercury, writing from Selma, on : the 29th ultimo, speaks as follows of the ! prospects of this company : I met with Col. Storrs on my trip up the Tennessee road, returning from a tour to the mineral regions of Pennsyl vania and elsewhere. His principal ob i ject was to acquire what information he j could from personal observation of coal mining particularly, and other mining | operations generally, lie is connected with the Shelby Coal Mining Company, ; and has returned with the knowledge and means of operating more successfully.— He has purchased a steam engine for the j company, by which means they will mine from a shaft, and get better coal, and get j it faster and cheaper. *. Correspondence of tbe Sun Selma, Ala., Oct. 6, 1859. Eds. Sun: I see a paragraph in your paper of the sth instant, stating that | “thecity of Selma, Ala., ha3 within its limits fourteen Artesian wells, several of them throwing volumes of water to the extent of six hundred gallons to the minute.” lam informed that there are within the corporate limits of the city at least thirty Artesian wells—some of them throwing volumes of water to the extent of 900 and 1,000 gallons to the minute. There are upwards of one hundred arte sian wells, 1 am informed, in this county (Dallas,) one of which, at Cahaba, throws 1,200 gallons a minute. Yours, respectfully, H. Arrested, Anarchy, another one of the Frizzel negroes suspected of having participated in the wholesale poisoning of that family in March, 1857, as an accomplice of Schmiska (now undergoing the sentence of imprisonment for life in the peniten tiary) and Nancy, who was hung in this county last spring, was last week arrest ed and lodged in our jail to await her i trial at the next Circuit Court. The true 1 bill was found against Anarchy at the recent sitting of the Grand Jury for this county. —Abbeville {Ala ) Advertiser. The Trotting Match at Cincinnati. Cincinnati, Oct. 7.—ln the trotting match to-day, for SIOOO, Flora Temple won over Ike Cook in three straight ■ heats, making the fastest time on record. ; Time—first heat, 2:27} ; second heat, I 2:27 ; third heat, 2:21}. The first half mile of the last heat was trotted in I:9A. Gov. Letcher 111. The Richmond Enquirer learns that | Mr. Letcher is in a very dangerous condi- J tion from an attack of erysipelas, a 1 disease to which he has been subjected for some time, but which is now more i formidable than usual. Mr. Letcher is | at home in Lexington. Elopement from the Sultan’s Harem- Exploit of au Italian Musician. Galignaai’s Messenger states that the master of the Sultan's band, au Italian, arrived at Geneva with his wite, a o-.,.u tiful Circassian, early in the present month According t< a letter train ( on st a lit iinq-lc ibis worn a ’. who c name is Serselras II limn), .s t-u- me tim in the harem of the Bulan, and was one ot his favorites. “One day she called tor her carriage, and, accompanied by two female slaves an i a woe attendant, went to Ortakie. There she stopped at a house which she indicated, and she was re ceived by two women with marks ot the most profound respect. She entered the house, followed by two slaves, while the other remained at the door. She was in troduced into a sumptuously furnished drawing room, and there she dismissed the two slaves, who went with the domes tics of the house to an apartment where they were entertained with canes, eltes and coffee- Two of the uomestics quitted the room from time to time, as L to see that nothing was wanted in the drawing room, and after a while they all left. The two female slaves continued to amuse themselves with their codec and cigarettes. At last, getting surprised at not seeing any of the servants return, they went out in their turn, and finding all quiet, advanced on tiptoe to the draw ing room. Hearing no noise they enter ed, and to their astonishment found thit their mistress had disappeared. They called out, but received no answer—the house seemed deserted They then com menced search in the different rooms, and presently found in a boudoir their mis tress’ dress. They were then thunder struck, as it was evident that she had fled. They then raised loud cries, and the male attendant entered. Hearing what had happened, he searched tbe house throughout, but was unable to dis cover the fair favorite. Hastening back to the harem, he told the black Aga ot her disappearance. That functionary in his turn went and searched the house with great minuteness, but could not find any trace of the Circassian, and, after a while he perceived that the Louse opened on the port. An investigation haviug been instituted, it was ascertained that several persons dressed in European style had been seen in a caique near the house, and had suddenly left it. It also turned out that a handsome Italian, named Gua telli, director of the music at court, haa disappeared. The kiosque of the fugi tive was examined ; the gold, silver, jew elry and sumptuous presents of all kinds which the Sultan had made her had been carried off. The beautiful Sersefras, it is said, possesses a splendid voice, which the Sultan admired greatly : and, as she has cone away with an Italian uiaestre, it is not improbable that she may some day appear in the theatres of Western Europe. A Swiss Capitalist, and Miser. A foreign correspondent of the New York Journal of Commerce, relates the following history of a Swiss manufactu rer : Switzerland is a very industrious coun try. Among her principal articles of manufacture are silk and cotton. Low wages and an inexhaustible abundance of water power give to her large manu facturing establishments advantages over many other countries which make com petition easy. Many of the proprietors of these establishments have amassed fabulous riches, unknown to the world, and in some instances to themselves. Last week one of those Swiss cotton lords of the last named category died. His name was Kunz: but he was generally known by the name of “Spinner King.” His large cotton mill is situated in the village of Uster, a short distance from Zurich. He was a self-made man, a man without any education, and without any prominent talents. llis principal quali ties were a horrible avarice, an iron in dustry, and the art of extorting from his laborers as much work for as little pay as possible. He was 68 years of age when he died, an old baehelor. He nev er enjoyed any of the pleasures of life. A low, small, dirty room, with an old bedstead and no other furniture, was his residence, attached to it was a kitchen, where his old servant girl resided and cooked his scanty meals, which he used to devour standing in order to save time. He never gave any alms or any support to poor people. “Nonsense! Good for nothing! Let them save, and work,” was his stereotyped reply in such cases. He did not pay taxes on more than $160,- 000, until two years ago he was com pelled to raise his assessment to $1,200,- 000. He never kept any regular books, never kept a stock book, never took any inventory. About twelve years ago he was persuaded by his business friends to get an inventory taken; but when that inventory, long before it was finished, already showed a net property of 20,- 000,000 of Zurich guilders, or about 10,- 000,000, free of all debts, he stopped the continuation of it with his usual words —“Nonsense! Good for nothing !” True to his principles, that modern Croesus lias bequeathed nothing to bis laborers, nothing to benevolent or useful institu tions, and his laughing heirs will divide amongst them the whole enormous pro perty, the amount of which will he made out very soon by the courts. Finally disposed of. The case growing out of the unfortu nate ami fatal rencontre between Ernest Toledano and Dr. Robert M. Graham, was finally disposed of yesterday. It will be recollected that the jury of inquest, after a lengthy investigation, rendered a ver dict that Toledano killed Dr. Graham in self defense, and that subsequently a charge of manslaughter was preferred against Toledano by the Chief of Police, at the instance of Mr. C. M. Waterman, who though satisfied that Toledano acted in self-defense, desired that a further in vestigation should take place, as at the Coroner’s inquest the defense was repre sented by counsel and the prosecution not j so. The case was yesterday called for ; examination before Recorder Summers, j but the prosecution requested the disrnis i sal of the charge, the Chief of Police j stating that by the evidence he had to i offer it could not be substantiated. lie I found that the- statements cf parties— | who appeared to know a great deal of the ’ occurrence when required on oath, i amounted to no such evidence as their i versions irresponsibly given led him to I suppose. Mr. Toledano, who had been at liberty on nominal bail, was of course at ; once discharged.— N. O. Com. Bulletin. The Strong Man, IVliinsliip, Again. The famous Boston Samson, who did such wonders in the muscular way tome i time since, in that city, has been lectur ing in Portland, Me., with great success. The Advertiser says: He lifted at one effort 929 pounds, an amount which two strong men failed to lift after the close of the exhibition. The exercise with the monstrous dumb-bells was equally wonderful, but when he shouldered a barrel of flour, the enthusi asm of the audience was unbounded. The lecture was admirable delivered, and | drew down repeated bursts of applause. I Dr. W. lectures in Albany on the 27th, ! and soon after in Springfield, Worcester, &c. No one has as yet succeeded in lift ing his weight, though hundreds have 1 ll> ied. Some of the Vv’estern giants, of whom we have recently heard so much, will soon have an opportunity to take a i pull at the weight of the strong lecturer of Boston. Treasury Report. Washington, Sept. 7.— The Secretary of the Treasury reports that the amount in the Treasury sulject to draft is So - 000,000. A pert young lawyer once boasted to an old member of the bar, that he had received two hundred dollars for speak ing in a certain case. “I received more than double that sum for holding my j tongue.” The water that flows from a spring does not congeal in winter. And those sentiments of friendship which flows from the heart connot be frozen in adversity. Miss Dollie Dutton, the smallest girl in the world of her age, being nine years old and 26 inches high, and weighing only 13 pounds, is giving levees in Provi dence, R, I. I We Lain from the Abbeville (Ala.) Banner that Mr. Koonce, of Early county On., committed suicide on t:i■ 28t:i ull., under the 101 l lifting ci re urns •*ces : Sometime list spring lie was seized with a violeut cold, which resulted in a disease of |e head. ll<- had physicians attending him for s me time, and stet i ietaiued his right mind. A short time before the termination of his life, he made his will, and distributed his plop ertv among his children in the ordinary way. A few days prior to his death he had all his guns pill i good order, ami loaded. On the evening of the 28th, Dr. B. C. Flake, his attending physician, was present, and when supper came on, he i requested that the entire family, accom pauied by Dr. Flake, should go to supper, leaving no one widi him except a negro woman and a small negro boy. After the family were gone out ot the house, lie I made the boy carry him a rifle, winch lie examined carefully, and finning it wed charged, he placed” the breech of it on a ; chair on which hi.-t feet were vesting, and placing the muzzle to his head, Lie negro | woman started to run from the loom, , when he ordered her to stop, which she ! did, and after making some violent ! threats towards her, he replaced Hie gun to his foreh ad and shot almost his entire | head off. . . , . He was an enterprising farmer, and had succeeded in acquiring a considera ble fortune and raising a large and highly respectable family of children. ♦ KeLoa's Heart. Human nature is frail. No man ever i had a stronger.sense ol it, under the in | fluence of a sense of justice, than Lord j Nelson. He was loth to inflict punish ment; and when he was obliged, a- he i termed it, “to endure the torture of see ing men flagged,” he came out of his cabin with a hurried step, ran into the gang-way, made a bow to the officers, and reading the articles ot war the cul prit had infringed, said, “ Boatswain, do your duly!” the lash was instantly ap plied, and, consequently, the sufferer ex - claimed, “ Forgive me, Admirai; foigive j me J” On such an occasion Lord Nelson would look around with wild anxiety, I and as all Lis officers kept silence, he | would say, “What! none of you speak j for me ? Avast ! cut him off!” And then j added to the culprit, “Jack, in the day :of battle, remember jne ! ’ He became a good fellow in future, A poor man was to be flogged—a landsman —and few pitied him. Ilis offense was drunken. nesS. As he was being tied up a lovely gill, contrary to all rules, rushed through the officers, aud falling on her knees, clasped Nelson’s hand in which were the articles of war, exclaiming, “Pray for give him, your Honor, and he shall never offend again !” “Your pretty face,” said Nelson, “is a security for his good be haviour. Let him go; the fellow cannot be bad who has such a lovely creature in his care.” This man rose to be a lieu tenant ; bis name was William Pye. The Great Eastern anil Sea Sickness. Like all new things, much prognostica tion of failure has been indulged in with regard to this vessel. It is sufficient that she is the largest vessel in the world Un people to find out ail the shortcomings possible. But there is one thing which, if she accomplishes, will make up for all possible failures of another kind. If she accomplishes the great feat of enabling had sailors to cross the ocean without being sick, she will revolutionize sea transit, increasing the amount of travel ers in the same proportion as modern railways compared with the old stage coaches. Sea sickness is induced by the upheaving of the diopbragm in propor tion as the rising and falling of tbe waves converts the vessel into a moving lever, uplifting stem and stern alternately.— Yet, strange to say, there are people to be found who maintain that the larger the vessel the more she will pitch and roll. They forget that a large log is un disturbed by the ripple on a sheet of water, while a small toy vessel is inces santly moving and tossing, taking every angle of the ripple in its departure from the horizontal line. Tbe question is only one of proportion. If the waves be large, the vessel must be much larger to prevent any disturbance. But the objectors per sist in regarding the waves as solid ridges upon which this long vessel is to rock, forgetting that the weight of the vessel will sink into these ridges, till the displacement is sufficient to support her. She will make a straight horizontal cour.-e through the waves, while their crests and valleys undulate alongside. If 700 feet of length do not accomplish this we must go to 1,000, till we have ruled the waves. Once a Week. Sepoys. We notice that a city journal, which should have known better, puts it down as certain that the famous Sepoys of the British Indian army are of a recent or ganization, aud of a sect or caste known to the natives as Sepoys. This is not so. The first Sepoys employed by the British were llajapoots, and one of the first ser vices in which the new force covered it self with glory was the defeuse of Areat, under Clive, in 1751. All the early De coan wars of the Company were fought by mixed Sepoy troops Both the Eng lish and French forced the native soldiers (usually called Sepoy, from the Per.-iau word Sepuhi, and applied to designate a soldier of India in foreign pay) info their services during their struggles for ascen dancy on the Coromandel Coast, as well as in the other part ot the Empire where they met in arms. The native cavalry of Madras originated with the Carnatic na bob, who borrowed his plan from the French, with whom lie was then in alli ance, and to whom, for a time, his troops were attached. The first cavalry corps acting in the British service under Euro* pean command was led by General Smith in the campaign in Mysore during the war of 1768. It behaved admirably and won its Geueral’s best applause. Sepoys as such were then first designated by their present name.— N. Y. News. Tiic t alttd States Minister gone to Pekin. I} j the following extract from a pri vate letter written by W. L. G. Smith, Consul at Shanghai, it appears that Mr. Ward, the American Minister, has pro* j cec 'ded to Pekin. The letter is of a date J later than any newspaper accounts. Af tergiving an account of the battle be ; tween the English and Chinese Mr. Smith | says: •‘ln the meantime the American Min ister and suit were aboard the Powhatan, I and on the 26th received intellgence that a Mandarin, specially’ deputed bv the Emperor, was waiting to receive him a few miies off, to escort him to Pekin. Ms- Ward, of course, availed himself of tais civility of the Chinese Government, and on July sth, proceeded, under an es j cort of Tartar Cavalry, to Pekin, where I presume he now is, and lias ere this exchanged ratifications of the new treaty in the Imperial capital. The Russian Minister has been in Pekin some days, and the Secretary of the Governor Gen* eral of Sioeria (Russian) also-reached here on the 9th inst., with a letter to me j Hem the Governor Gc-neral, saying that their treaty bad been ratified. Cotton Planters Convention. At the regular session in June last, of the Cotton Planters’ Convention of the State ol Georgia, a Resolution passed, authorizing the presiding officer, (after j consultation with the Vice Presidents) to call the Convention together, shoul 1 bu | siness require it; deeming it important | that the Convention should assemble, and having concurrence of those whom I was ! to consult, I hereby require the Members of the Convention to meet in the City of ! Macon, on IVednesday, the sixteenth day 1 of November next,” as business of the most urgent necessity, requires the action of the Convention. Each member ot the Convention is earnestly requested to he present. It is very desirable that each Cotton growing County in the State should be tepresented, therefore each County is requested to send Delegates to the Con vention. Individual Planters, (not County Dele gates) may attend and become members ot the Convention. HOWELL COBB. Perry, Oct. 3 1859 President.