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THE FROG. Ol’ all the funny things that live. In woodland, marsh or Ijoi. That oroop iho ground or tly tho air. The funniest is tlic frog — The frog—the scientifickV.- 1 Os Nature’s handiwork The frog, ihat neither w alks nor runs, But goes it with a jerk. With pants and coot of I—ile green, And yellow fancy vest, He plunges into mud and mire— All in his Sunday host. When he sits down lie’s standing up, As Paddy O’Quinn once said; And for convenience sake he wears His eyes on the top of tiis head. You soc him sitting on a log. Above the “vasty deep;” You feel inclined to say, “Old ediap, .Just look before you leap!” You raise your cane to hit him on His ugly looking mug; But ere you get it half way up, Adown he goes here hug. “ A Life for n Life ”—A Sail Story. A brief account of the death of Dr. Robert M. Graham, of New Orleans, has been given. He is well remembered as the person who killed Mr. Loring, at the St. Nicholas Hotel, in New York, and was sentenced to the Stale prison, but afterwards pardoned out on account of ill health. A New Orleans correspondent of tho Charleston Courier, writing of the event, gives a touching picture of a life made miserable and at last destroyed, by the blight of intoxication. lie says : His reappearance in liis old haunts here created a singular sensation. I never shall forget tho first Mime 1 met him after his return from his ‘Northern prison. He stood in frout of a drug store, that for many years was at the corner of St. Charles and Common streets, and in which he had an interest. It was a gathering place for many street loun gers and politicians. He hud been seen there year after year, when he went to New York, and whilo in prison his portly form was much missed; it was not known that lie was going to come back, and I was fairly startled, when, on turn ing the corner one morning, I saw him in his old place, with Lis u-ual attitude, looking just the same, cigar in mouth, and small cane in band—only a deathly pallor had replaced the usual healthy color of his face. The New York scene of blood flashed over me; I averted my head, and passed on. The same impression was no doubt produced in the community generally, and for a long time this pale-faced man was a stranger in the community where he had lived so long, where there had been so many to give him a cordial grasp of the hand. lie seemed prepared for this; had no doubt made up his mind to it, and perhaps had a secret, defying pleasure in staying in his old haunts, and attending, with silent pride, to the duties of his profession. Gradually a change of feeling came over the mass of our citizens in regard to the man ; we are a warm-hearted sympa thetic people, if we are hot-headed; and tho reserved, unobtrusive course pursued by Dr. Graham, his attention to his pro fession, his avoidance of his former weak ness, after a while induced many to for get what had passed, and tho gained much of his old social acquain tance and a large share of professional patronage. Rut the morbid craving for stimulus, though once quenched in blood could not be cured. It came back after awhile, and it beeamo known that Dr. Graham had occasional relapses into his old habit of intoxication. Still ho contrived not to let this be seen about the streets, and through the influence of his family and friends, ho was a yaar ago elected, by the American party, city physician. A short time ago, he lost the otlice, at the expiration of the term, by the elec tion of Dr. Hart; and for a fortnight, it appears, had been under the impression that Mr. Ernest Toledano, a young man, prominent in the American party, ligcl procured his defeat, it was known that he had expressed himself openly, for some days past, in violent terms, against Toledano, cursing him and avowing his purpose to shoot him at sight. Last night, the Chief of Police, Mr. Adams, who is related to Graham in some way, saw him at the lluhy Coffee-house, on Common street—a popular resort — and noticed that lie was in liquor, lie felt a presentment that something was going to happen, should Graham remain in that condition in so public a place, lie went up to him and told him he must go home; that if he created any disturb ance he would arrest him and lock him up for the night. Graham insisted that he was not intoxicated, but promised to go home soon. Mr. Adams left him to meet some police officers at liis own pri vate office, and a few moments after was called out and told that Dr. Graham had just been shot dead. The body of the dead man was taken into the coffee house, the doors of which were closed, and a physician was on the spot speedily: but his skill was of no avail. The Chief of Police then had his body taken to liis private office, and there stretched out on a table, I saw the unfor tunate man, liis largo, handsome form stiffened ; his pantaloons and boots cov ered with mud ; bis coat, vest and cravat off; his shirt stained with mud and a lit tle blood; his arms crossed; his hands and wrists blackened, tied with his era- vat; his bosom partly open ; and his fine features white and fixed forever. There was no expression of pain about the countenance; it was calm and serene. A physician standing by showed me the wounds, three small black spots below the right breast, so close together that the hand could cover them, and one in the left arm. The last I had seen of the man he stood at my elbow, chatting pleasantly, looking handsome, dignified aud courteous, as usual; now he lay a blood-stained, mud and rain-soiled corpse. Dr. Graham was unfortunate in being overcome now and then with a craving, a morbid longing for liquor; and when under the influence of this stimulus, he, otherwise calm, quiet, courteous, a thor ough gentleman in demeanor and appear ance, became obstinate, hot-headed, quarrelsome, dangerous. His superior education and skill as a physician, fine intelligence, pleasant manner, handsome, dignified person, and highly respectable and influential connections here, made him very popular, and his grievous weakness was borne with for his many good qualities, and the esteem had for his family. The N. 0. Picayune, speaking of the funei'al of the deceased, says : It was attended by a large concourse of the most respectable aud influential of the citizens of New Orleans, included men of all positions, professions and oc cupations iu the community, of which for so many years the deceased had been a member. The services were those set forth in the solemn ritual of the Protest ant Episcopal Church, and were com menced at the house and finished at the cemetry, by the Rev. C. S. Hedges, rec tor of St. Luke’s. A long train ofmour- | ners and friends followed the remains to the Protestant cemetry, in Girod street, six of our most prominent citizens walk ing beside the hearse, as pallbearers. Hattie of Waterloo. The following anecdote is told in con nexion with this battle in the llev. James White’s History of Fiance: It was a Sunday, and while all the church bells in England were calling people to prayer the cannonade com menced. Everybody was in expectation of*a that Napoleon had crossed over into the Netherlands and that YY elliugton was ready to meet him. News was slow of coming and people’s hearts were sick ! with the expectation of the next mail. It chanced that between services on that eventful Sunday a clergyman in Kenr was walking in his garden. Ilis gard- ; ener was an old soldier who had f,,ught in Spain. lie said : “There’s a fight go ing on, sir, somewhere, for I remember when we were in the Peninsula we always knew when a cannonade was takingfplace, wherever it might be, by a crumbling of fresh mould.” He took a spade and dug down a single foot, and along the smooth surface left by the steel an imperceptible i trembling shook down little pellets of the soil. “That’s it, sir,” said the gar dener, “they’re at it sure enough.” Be- i ifore the next Sunday came round the £iews had spread from end to end of the 1 kea-girt isle.” Thc Otero and Watts Duel. Under date of Mesilla, A. TANARUS., Septem ber 12, we find a letter in the St. Louis Republican, of the 27th nit., giving a full account of the duel—already briefly men- j tioned—between Judge R atts and Hon. j M. A. Otero. It seems that in a speech | made in the plaza on Sunday, the 4th j ult., Judge Watts charged Mr. Otero i with neglect of duty towards his constit uents, and stated that, on the night of the 2d of March, 1859, during the pen dency of a certain appropriation bill be fore the Senate, Mr. Otero was absent at a ball with his family. This Mr. Otero resented by giving Judge Watts the lie, both in'English and Spanish, in such a mauner that it was impossible for Judge Watts, lie thought, to overlook it. A challenge ensued, which Mr. Otero, through his friend, Col. Samuel J. Jones, (Sheriff Jones,) late of Kansas, and now United States Custom Collector at Mesilla, t promptly accepted, Prank Green, of San | ta Fe, acting as friend for Judge Watts. The weapons selected were Colt’s Davy i six shooters —one barrel loaded —distance j fifteen paces. The parties met at sunrise ‘on the 7th, near the Mexican line. Mr. I Green won the choice of position, also the word. After the first shot, the friends, of the parties endeavored to effect a re conciliation between them, which failed. The second and third shots were then fired, without effect, when, after a con sultation with his principal, and other friends, Mr. Green declared binjself sat isfied, find the parties were withdrawn from the field, the difficulty remaining Unsettled.— N. 0. Picayune. Revision of the British Prayer-Book. Lord Ebury, in a letter to Lord Lyttle ton, says: “My first object, because it is infinitely the easiest, is the re-arrangement of our Liturgy so u3 to render our services con sistent with common sense and conveni ence, aud thus more edifying to ourselves. Rut, beyond this, I earnestly desire that some means should be discovered for a healing of that great breach between ourselves and those millions of non-con formists, both at home and in the colo nies. I will not advert particularly to them here, but unquestionably there are not wanting at this moment many signifi cant symptoms, on both sides, of a move ment in this direction. One object, it seems to me, is common to both—rather to try and plant the standard of the cross in the strongholds of him whom our Great Captain has f aught us to conquer, than to weary ourselves in attempting, in fee ble and ever changing human language, to define ineffable mysteries with logical precision, lor now we only know in part. Forgive tiie hackneyed phrase, In cerlis unitas, in dubiis libertas, in omnibus carilas —such is the device I desire to inscribe on my peaceful banner.” Lord LyttletoD, in reply, remarks : “A commission appointed, and acting with no foregone conclusion, and without restraint, would be, as I conceive, unob jectionable in principle; but its expedi ency is a matter of most serious ques tion.” Are personal fortunes to be judged of by contrast? Judge if so, and how so, by what, a New York correspondent of a Western journal says: “A man in New York was extremely rich who was worlh §200,000, and very few in New York were worth that. There were old Nat. Prime of the firm.of Prime, Ward& King, John G. Coster, Robert Lennox, Stephen Whitney—men worth a quarter of a mil lion. Old Johu Jacob Astor was worth three or four millions. The richest men were connected with commerce. There were then five or six leading commercial firms, such as G. G. & S. Howland, Goodhue & Cos., Grinnell, Miuturn &Cos., Spolford & Tileston. Now there are ma ny hundreds of leading firms, and a man only worth $259,000 is considered a man in ‘moderate,’ not to say ‘indigent’ cir cumstances. Win. R. Astor is worth about thirty-five millions; George Law is worth ten millions; so is Stephen Whit ney. Commodore Vanderbilt will not foot up less than eighteen millions. Dozens of people are worth five millions, and mere millionaries are quite common. To furnish a journal with a list of this poor class would use up sever al columns.” — N. V. News. Naval Forces in the Chinese Waters. As affairs in China and the relations of this country to that exclusive nation are attracting considerable attention, we subjoin a statement of the strength of the respective naval forces of England, France, Russia and the United States : Total British Force.— One steam frigate, 50 guns; three sailing frigates, 40 ; three steam corvettes, 50 ; one sail ing corvette, 26; five steam sloops, GO; three sailing sloopis, 28; seventeen gun boats, 68; three steam transports, 14; one steam tender, 4; three block ships. Total guns,-809 Total men, say, 8,900. Total French Force. —One sailing frigate, 50 guns ; nineteen steam sloops, 104; five gunboats, 26; three steam transports; one sailing frigate, 40; one steam frigate, 40; two steam sloops; two gunboats, 8. Total guns, 268. Total Russian Force. —One steam frigate, 44 guns; seven steam sloops, 59; four gunboats, 12. Total guns, 125. American Force at or North of Shanghai.—U. S. S. Powhatan, 9 guns, rearson ; U. S. chartered steamer Toey wan ; U. S. S. Germantown, 20 guns, Page; U. S. S. Mississippi, 10 guns, Nicholson. At Japan, U. S. survey screw Fennimore Cooper, Lieut. J. M. Brooke. By John Stainbaclc Wilson, M, D, Falling of the Palate. — The soft palate, or the little round, teatlike body in the upper and back part of the mouth, sometimes becomes inflamed aud swollen, aud, by touching the upper part of the tongue, causes a disagreeable tickling, choking sensation. The palate of the mouth is then said to be down, in popu ! lar parlance, and, with some people, the I remedy is to raise it by pulling at the hair i cn the top of the head! From the expla | nation given of the difficulty, it will re di!y be seen that nothing can be done in that. way. The proper treatment con ; sists in means to reduce the swelling and inflammation: these are low diet , Epsom salts, and astringent gargles, as red oak bark tea, alum water, etc. Where the in flammation is not very active, the follow ing gargle is very good : Equal parts of strongred pepper tea and vinegar, with as much table-salt as the fluid will dissolve. Should these simple measures fail, a ! physician can almost always afford relief by scarifying the part, and touching it j with lunar caustic. Peusiom Statement. YVe compile the following statement of | the pensions paid by tile United States government from official data of the U. S. ! Pension Office : j l'tin number of army invalid pensioners on the roils January 1791. was 1,356 The number added up to June 30,1816, was.. 5,818 The number added up to J tine 30,1858, was.. 5,961 Total 13,108 Os this number there were receiving pen sions Juno 30,155S 4,916 The number of army and navy pensions [ that have been allowed, exclusive of those for service in the Revolutionary war, is over 27,000. Up to Juno 30,1555, the amount that had been paid to them was $21,836,062 03 And to revolutionary pensioners 64.518,281 97 Total $56,354.311 50 i that has been paid since the organization of the present government. New Masonic Statue of Washington. General YY’ashingtou was a member of ! the Masonic Lodge at Fredericksburg, Yka , and was initiated November 4th, 1752. The fact is interesting to all Ma sons, while it is especially a source of pride to the old Lodge at Fredericksburg It has been deemed proper to procure a statue of Washington, by Powers, and an order to that effect was given some time j : stnee. The statue arrived at New York 1 | from Leghorn a few days since. It is the S property of the Fredericksburg Lodge, i and has been paid for by voluntary con tributions of the Masonic Order generally. It cost five thousand dollars, and is some what larger than life. It was proposed ; also to ereci. a building at Fredericks j burg suitable for the statue, and to in- I augurate it with appropriate ceremonies. Pork Trade Prospect. The following very able article relative to pork, hog crop prospects, &c., is from Raker's St. Louis Merchant's Exchange Reporter and Price Current, and will doubtless l.e read with great interest by farmers, packers, and all others at all interested in the pork trade : To this time we have heard but a lew observations in regard to pork operations the approaching season. This fact indi cates to a good extent the feeling on tho subject; as it goes to show evidently the introduction of new features and the con sequent incapability of operators to judge how tar these incidents, likely to occur, may affect the market. In the first place, then, it is generally conceded that the crop of hogs will prove larger than last year—a concession predicated on the statement for several State returns, espe cially those of Ohio, Kentucky and Illi nois. In the second place, the heavy yield of corn favors the same view. Now, j with such an amount, it is contended by one side that prices must rule lower, taking the further facts into consideration that the Rritish Government having ta booed American meats for the public ser vice, the demand in that direction for that object will be entirely cut off, and that onr domestic consumption cannot by any possibility prove equal to the supply. On the other side, and in answer to this position, it is allcdged that our beef will be required by the English mercan tile marine, and thus a trade will be opened up equal in extent and much more satisfactory. We may here remark that the objection to our provisions is not based so much upon any real deficit in the raw material or its preparation as upon the damage or injury sustained by the meat in transitu, the close confinement during a long trip producing effects which the nice discrimination of the Euglish commissariat rejects. It is known, however, as far as beef is concerned, that our cattle contain too much bone and are not prefercd by foreign economists whose thorough bred stock gives this desirable result. It is objected, too, that American beef shrinks materially ill the boiling process, a defect attributed to grass feed ing. This defect could be remedied by stall feeding for a few weeks, but onr wide and rich prairies present such cheap nutriment that farmers can with difficulty be made to adopt the remedy, although the result would prove equallya s remu nerative. We have the opinion expressed also, that a large amount of barrelled pork will go over to be added to the product of the ensuing season, say 200,000 bbls— an indication not only of a heavy amount, but of the inadequacy of our markets to dispose of the supply under circumstan ces more favorable than can be expected from present appearances. This is met by the counter-view, that although a heavy stock w r as known to be in the coun try iu July and August last—estimated at 270,000 bbls—the liberal consumption in August very satisfactorily proves that but a comparatively small part of that stock will go over. During that month in Now York the consumption reached 20,000 bbls., being almost unprecedented in its extent. The stock of bacon, it is urged, is iu light supply, and barrelled pork must be resorted to for the purpose meeting the demand. Many believe, therefore, that but little, if any, will go over;while others figure the surplus from 50,000 to 300,000 bbls. We give the opinions of both sides, as far as made public and understood, that our corres pondents may judge for themselvs. Tho late frosts have disturbed the views that had become settled, and ren dered speculative opinion more and more prolific. Several droves of hogs have al ready been brought from a section or two in Ohio, where the frost was severely felt, to Illinois, for the purpose of fattening— the process it is said, of taking the ani mal to the corn being cheaper than trans porting the grain to the animal. This fact has verified the frost news to the extent to which it goes, and, added to the constantly accumulating statements from Northern Illinois, lowa, and Wiscon sin regarding serious damages, has pro duced more or less effect. It is known, however, that the corn crop is immense throughout tho entire country, and but few, we presume, will be disposed to pre dicate operations upon any injury it may thus far have sustained. The crop will doubtless prove very large, and the ques tion “what is to be done with it?” is more frequently asked than answered. A good portion of it will be taken for bread and feed, another portion for distilling, while the balance will likely go into pork. How the latter will pay, our correspon dents arc, we suppose, familiar already from practical illustration. It has been computed that pork at 3c. net yields 25c. per bushel for corn ; at 4c. the yield is 82c., and at sc. the farmer realizes 45c. per bushel, Os this statement we can not speak advisedly, except from a gene ral publication which has gone uucontra dicted for several years past. Another matter of more or less inter est, likely to have some influence the approaching season is that outsiders will hardly rule the market to the same ex tent they have heretofore done. Last season they disturbed the legitimate trade very perceptibly by pitching in with out regard to those checks and balances which constitute the only safeguards to operators. The market was inflated by their influence, and prices went up to figures that subsequent transactions have not been adequate to cover. YY r e believe that parties who entrusted the purchase and packing of hogs to others than the trade—those who cut in the regular way on their own account —found it, in every instance, au unprofitable business, and they will net be disposed to enter the field again in a similar way for sometime to come. The experience of last year, therefore, will probably relieve the mar ket of those outsiders —at least such a belief is indulged—and with such a relief ! prices will be more uniformly sustained. As the result of the speculative opin- j ions expressed—j>nd they are but few at I this time—we may state that opening prices are fixed at $4 to 4 50. Os course a great many important changes may oc cur betweeu this time and the opening of business—changes that may affect the entire aspect of things as at present pre sented—but we are only giving the first breathings of the trade—the earliest ex pressed views of both buyers and sellers. The seventh volume of Appleton’s New American Cyclopaedia lias just appeared. A memorandum from the publishers men- j tions the authorship of some of the arti cles: Edwards, (Jonathan) by Geo. Ban croft—the paper read by him before the New York Historical Societj’; Egypt, by Robert Carter; Electricity, Engraving, 1 Fire Engine, Fossil, Foot Prints, by J. T. Hodge; Elephant, Entomology, andJEth nology, by Dr. Kneeland ; Queen Eliza beth, History of England, Prince Euge nie, by C. C. Hazewell; Episcopal Church, by Rev. Dr. YY’ilson; Epizoa, Entozoa, Epighylis, by Dr. White; Eu rope, by Mr. Raster; Alexander Everett. Edward Everett, by G. S. Hilliard ; Eu- i ripedes, by Professor C. C. Felton, France, by P. Arpin. Among the biog raphies of living men are those of Rev. j Dr. Ellis, R. YY T . Emerson, lion. Thomas Ewing, Rev. Dr. Faber, T. S. Fay, Prof. C. C. Felton, YY. P. Fessenden, Rev. Dr. Finney, Henry S. Foote, Peter Force, Rev. Dr. Frothingham, Richard Froth ingham, Jr. Most of the law articles in j this volume are contributed by Professor Theophilus Parsons, of Harvard Univer i sity. * Travel Sixty-Two Years Ago. The Alexandria Gazette furnishes the following: On the 20th of February, 1797, Thomas Jefferson set out for Phila delphia to enter upon his duties as Yfice- President of the United States. The fol lowing time and fare table, taken from | his “Pocket Account Book,” will be i deemed curious in this fast age: “Left : Alexandria after dinner, February 23d, and reached Baltimore on the 26th. The fare $4 75. Thence reached Philadel phia March 2d. Fare $7. YY’hole amount of traveling expenses from hence, inclu ding §l2 to send home Jupiter and the horses from Alexandria, §49 03.” Fare table now : From Alexandria to Philadel phia, time 44 hours, fare §4 50. Tiie Aft of Preaching. The following article from Fraser’s Magazine, shows the difference between the power and effect of genius, and its counterfeit. We have listened to men, I who devoid of this gift, ignored the sim ple and inherent power of the Truth, and sought to accomplish, by taxing their lungs, and frantic and wild gesticulation, the impression that genius alone could : produce: There is much in common between the j tragic actor and the popular preacher, : but while the actor’s power is generally the result of a studied elocution, the ; preacher’s is almost always native. A ! teacher of elocution would probably say 1 that the manner of Chalmers, Guthrie, or of Caird was a very bad one, but it suits the man, and no other would pro- , duce a like impression. In reading the most effective discourses of the greatest preachers we are invariably disappointed. We can see nothing very particular iu those quotations from Chalmers which are recorded as having so overwhelming ly impressed those who heard them. It was mauner that did it all. Iu short an accessory, which in England is almost entirely neglected, is tho secret of Scotch Nor is it any degradation from an orator’s genius to say that his power ; lies much less in what he says than how |he says it. It is but saying that bis wea- I pon can be wielded by no other hand | than his own. Manner makes the entire difference between Macready and the poorest stroller that murders Shake speare. The matter is the same in the case of each. Each has the same thing to say: the enormous difference lies iu the manner in which he says it. The great est effects recorded to have been produced by human language have been produced by things which, in merely reading them, would not have appeared so very remark able. Hazlitt tells us that nothing so lingered on his ear as a line from Home’s Douglas, as spoken by young Betty: “And happy, in my mind, was he that died.” We have heard it said that Macready nev er produced a greater effect than by the very simple words, “Who said that?” It is, perhaps, a burlesque of an acknowl edged fact, to record that Whitfield could thrill an audience by saying “Mesopo tamia!” Hugh Miller tells us that he hear.i Chalmers read a piece which lie (Miller) had himself written. It pro duced the effect of the most telling act ing, and its author never knew how fine it was till then. We remember well the feeling which ran through us when we heard Caird say, “As we bend over the grave, where (he dying are burying the dead.” All this is the result of that gift of genius; to feel with the whole soul, and utter with the whole soul. The case of Gavazzi shows that tremendous energy can carry an audience away, with | out its understanding a syllable of what i is said. Movements Gs Gen. Walker. New Orleans, October 4.—Collector ■ Batch, yesterday, refused a clearance to j the steamship Philadelphia, for Aspin j wall, on the ground that he suspected she | intended taking Walker and his men to I Nicaragua. Walker has between two and j three hundred uien from Texas, Alabama and elsewhere, here, ready to start osten sibly for Chiriqui diggings. The men encamped at Berwick’s Bay. intending to leave on the sth, but it is suspected that another steamer will take them to Nica | ragua, and that the attempted clearance j of the Philadelphia was a ruse. Later from Mexico. New Orleans, Oct. 4. — We have re j ceived the Brownsville Flag, which says | the yellow fever is fast disappearing from | that locality. Gen. Dollalds, with three thousand j northern Mexicans are“marching South. Gen. Wool is re-inforcing his army, which suffered severely in the recent bat- I tie of Marquese, preparatory to mareh- J ing South, to attack Coronado, who re ; cently took Tepic. I Government anil tile Fillibusters. Washington, Oct. 4.—The Administra tion are fully aware of the movements of j the Fillibusters, and the matter was the | subject for Cabinet consideration to-day. The Administration are determined to en force respect for the neutrality law, even to the extent of employing the military and naval forces. Orders have been I transmitted to Baton Rouge for the Fed eral military to hold themselves in readi ness to act as a posse comitatus if neces sary. Additional by tile Hungarian. New York, Oct. 4. — The Hungarian’s mails arrived here to-day, and will leave for the South to-night. Clare & Sons circular quoted the mar ket as slow, but quotations unchanged. Richardson, Spence & Cos., say that with more pressing on the market, prices l will be (1-d; lower. Departure ol General Walker. New Orleans, Oct. 4.—General Wm. | Walker, and men, left here last night, and sailed from Berwick’s Bay this morn- J ing in their own steamer without clear | ance. It is supposed that their destina- I tion is Nicaragua. Xjouisiann Crops, New Orleans, Oct. 4. Accounts re | ceived here represent the cotton crop as ! first rate. The sugar crop is represented ! as inferior and small. • Tlie Steamship Fulton. Pensacola, Oct. 4. —There is some : hopes of saving the United States steam | ship Fulton, ashore off the coast. First Case of Fever, i New Orleans, Oct. 4.—The first case j of yellow fever occurred here yesterday. O Expedition against Nicaragua, Philadelphia, Oct. 3.—A special dis patch from YVashington states that there is in preparation a formidable fillibuster expedition for the invasion of Nicaragua. ; A portion of the party has already left Charleston and New York, but there will be no demonstration until all the plans are fully matured. General YVheat has been assigned au important position in the expedition. A correspondent of the Louisville Jour nal reiterates the statement, and adds that Costa Rica is embraced in the design. > Sew Expedition to Northeasteni Afviea. The Bombay Times mentions the ap pointment of a second expedition from Bombay to Northeastern Africa to carry out the directions of Captains Burton and Speke, Mr. J. Kennedy, of the Indian Navy, and Secretary to the Bombay Geo graphical Society, and Dr. Silvester, compose it. The former is said to be an accomplished astronomer and meteorolo gist, and the latter a draughtsman and naturalist. They will proceed at once to the great lake district, and endeavor to j circumnavigate the Northernmost of the lakes. They are to set out in November next. —* —— Clilriqui Images. The Charleston Mercury says: YVe saw, a few days since, at the store of Messrs. Carrington & Cos., jewellers, two specimens of the curious Chiriqui images. The one resembled the upper half of a small cat-fish, although the | representation is very rude. The other resembles no animal now known. In some respects it is an imitation of the liz ard, but the body is too stout. These 1 curiosities are undoubtedly genuine spec- i imens of the handiwork of a race who ; formerly flourished in Central America, , and are very interesting. Mr. John Fleetwood, one of the oldest and most experienced pilots of this port, was found dead in a chair at his resi dence, in Magazine YY T ard, at an early hour yesterday morning. The deceased when discovered was in a sitting posture. Asa token of respect, the flags of the pi lot-boats in port were displayed at half mast. —Savannah A 7 etcs of Monday. That’s what I call capital punishment, I as the boy said when his mother shut ; him up in the closet among the preserves, j A Mistake as to tlie Crops iu tlie West. It, is only right to give the views ot a Western authority on a subject of impor , tance to all sections of the Union. Vie ! quote from the St. Paul (Minn ) Times: ‘•The East seems to have a very mista ken idea relative to the crops ot the W est. The leading New York papers persistent ly assert that more wheat and breadstutls | have been raised in the West this year, than for several years previous, when the fact is patent, that in Ohio, Indiana, lowa | and Illinois, the frost and drought have greatly injured the crop, and from those | States will be sent forward this year a : much less supply than for the past two years. In Minnesota the crops are excel lent —were never better, and we are now able to export instead of importing.— Still, the fact that there has been a larger ’ yield of Western produce in 1859 over : previous years,-is by no means true. The ostensible object of these reports is to induce farmers to send forward their grain at a low figure. This grain will be ! stored away by speculators when the price ; will be advanced, and these speculators will realize handsomely on the rise. We do not hesitate a moment to give our ! opinion as to the be-l course to be pur | sued by cur farmers. If they have loaned ! ! money at 1,2, or 3 per cent, per month, let them dispose of a part of their crop at as early a period as possible, and get out of debt. If they are out of debt (as | but few of them are) it would be well to | hold on until toward Spring, as there | must be an increased demand for grain | ere the lapse of many months.” Negro Population. These statistics are valuable if not very new: Below we give a table derived from the tables accompanying the report of the ! Census of the United States, for 1850— showing the colored population of the Atlantic free States of the North, both free and slave. A number of these States as late ns 1810, viz: New Hampshire held 1 ; Rhode Island 5; Connecticut 17; New York 4; New Jersey G 74 ; Pennsyl vania 64; Ohio 8; Indiana 3; Illinois 331 ; Wisconsin 11 ; lowft 16. In 1850 Utah had 26, and New Jersey 230. At this moment there are slaves held iu New Jersey. COLORED POPULATION OP THE ATLANT IC FREE STATES IN 1730. ISSO. Free Slave Total Free Stave Maine 53 8 .. .OSS 1,056 N. Hampshire 600 158 788 520 Massachusetts 5,403 .. 5,463 9.061 Rhode Island.. 3,469 952 4.421 3.070 .. Connecticut ... 2.SCI 2.759 5,560 7,693 New York 4,651 21,321 25,978 49.069 .. Pennsylvania. 0,537 3 737 10.274 53.623 New Jersey... 2.702 11,123 14,125 23,810 230. Vermont 255 17 272 71S Total 27,049 40.370 67,419 149,523 236 The increase of the slaves at the South lias been, on the average, for each de cade since 1790, at the rate of about 30 per cent. This rate of increase applied to the colored population of the Free States named should have given a much larger popul ition in 1850 than what the census of that year exhibits. Platt’s Patent Portable Press. The want of a cheap press for copying letters, for the use of families and offices —and one that can be carried about in the valise of trunk of a party traveling either for business or pleasure—has long been felt. The importance of preserving perfect copies of letters in business mat ters is too well appreciated to require comment, and (lie pleasure of preserving such copies of friendly correspondence is only second to the preservation of those received iu answer to them. The ordina ry Copying Press is too expensive to be brought into generai use, and is too bulky aud heavy to be carried about in travel ing. Both these objections are overcome in the Portable Press, patented by E. & J. B. Piatt, of this city ; wtiich is much less expensive, while it. is but a twentieth part the weight of the ordinary Iron Press. At the same time it is so con structed as to be packed within a small space convenient for traveling. It is as perfect in its operation as the most ex pensive Press, whi'e the pressure upon the book is full}’ equal to the power ex erted by the Screw or Lever Press gene rally used. The low price at which it can be sold, the facility with which it can be operated, the perfect execution of its | work, combined with its portability and compactness commend this Press to the notice of the classes above mentioned, as j the best adapted to its purpose of any j that has been brought to our notice.— Chronicle <j* Sentinel. A Sitalic for a Bedfellow. About two weeks ago Mr. John Eider, ] of this town, had an undersack for a bed j filled with straw at “Kenmore,” by a ne- J gro man. It was brought home and ; piaced under a feather-bed, which was j slept on by a daughter of Mr. E. The j youug lady complained on a number of occasions of having her slumbers dis turbed by distinct thumps from under neath, but examinations revealed nothing. On Thursday morning, whilst Miss E. i was sitting, down stairs, facing the steps j which led up to her room, she was start- j led by a curious noise, and looking up discovered a moccasiu snake descending, j blowing and hissing in a style peculiar to the reptile. An examination of the up-stairs premises was made at once, when a small hole was discovered in the under-sacking, and on lipping the bed open, the full leguth skin“of a snake tv as found at the hole, which his snake-ship had shed before he resolved on the strike for his freedom. The lady has occupied rather unenviable quarters for the last fortnight.— Fredericksburg ( Va .) Herald. We gave an account the other day of a singular fraud of a mau named Dr. Itos vally, practiced on the wife of Dr. Gra ham, recently killed in New Orleans.— He volunteered to assist in the post-mor tem examination of the deceased; and the next day, after the body had been prepared for the grave, he went to the ! residence of the widow and declared that j he had dropped a valuable ring in it.— ; Rather than reopen the corpse, lie was paid the value of the ring—thirty-one j dollars. It was almost known to acer- j tainty that he told an untruth. Com plaint was made and the case was up before Recorder Summers last Saturday. ; The proof was plain of the man’s guilt, ■ yet, to the surprise of nearly every one, the case was dismissed. A meaner crime is hardly conceivable, and it ought to have been followed by the. greatest punishment that the law provides. Mobile Tribune. Poisonous Quinine. The Wood (Texas) Ileral i says that a little daughter and a negro woman of Mr. Warren, who resides near Quitman, took each a small dose of quinine, a few days since, were almost instantly seized with spasms, and died in the course of an hour. The daughter of a neighbor, who took some of the same, was also expected to die. The bottle was branded Powers & Weightman, and on examinaticn the contents were found to be one-fifth strychnine. Ten grains to a dog pro duced death in two hours. Higii Prices for Negroes. The Ilolmesville (Miss.) Independent, of the 17th, has the following: Fanny, a woman twenty-seven years old, with her infant, and child Sylva, seven years old, 3-100; Cloe, a girl twelve years old, §1385 ; Tom, a boy ten j years old, §llOO. * Crops in Pilie County. j The Southern Advertiser, of the 30th ult., says: The cotton crop is no- likely to turn out so well as at first anticipated. We ; hear much complaint of the dropping off of the bolls. The crop will not be an average one in this region, for the amount planted. Affair of Honor. Washington, Sept. 29.—5. 13. Paul, editor of the Petersburg Press, and J Thomas G. Goode, also of Virginia, ar- j rived here to-day to settle an affair of ; honor. Mr. Paul was arrested this after noon, however, and held to bail in $5,000 to keep the peace. o Yesterday was the seventy-ninth anni versary of the battle of King’s Mountain, j A New Acvi/.I CUnrioi. V new candidate for public wondei has appeared in England in the person of Viscount Carlingf ud, who ha cou.-tiuct ed a machine for flying, “like :IU le iu the air.” The form ol this machine, or chariot, ns the inventor terms it, is something of the shape of a boat, cx tremely light, with one wheel in front ud - two behind, having two wings sagat.j . concave fixed to its sides, and sustained : by laths of half hollow form, pressing i against them, and communicating their j pressure through the body ot the chariot, from one wing to the other, and support i ed by cords, whose force acting on two | hoops nearly of an oval shape, hold the wings firmly in their potation, using a force that cannot be less than 10 tuns, on ! the principle of corded musical instru ments. The chariot is provided with a tail that can be raised or lowered at pleasure, ar.d which serves for giving an elevating or declining position, and worked by a cord that communicates into j the interior of the chariot, which is dia„ n forward by an aerial screw of peculiar construction. The wings of thechaii-t are covered with a net work of a length ened square Shane, which te.e ; effect of birds’ feathers when the machine j j floats on the air, covered with silk, at which time may be seen its progression with the prdnts forward and the same backwards, by which no pocket, as it were, can be formed by the pressure ot the silk on the air.— Philadelphia dSorth I American. From W asliington. Washington, Sept. 30. — The President has recognised Melhelm Luding Kedenen as consul of the Kingdom of VS urtemburg at Philadelphia. Mr. Lisboa, the New Brazilian Minis ter, accompanied by his family, has ar rived in Washington. Arizona dates of the loth inst. r.re re ceived. The presentation of the articles purchased for the Fomas and Mar ie pa j Indians, under the act of Congress of February last, was made by Lieutenant Mowry on the lOtli of September. Be tween four aud five thousand Indians were present. About 2,000 farming im plements, several thousand pounds of barley and other grain f r seed, axes, Sic., besides several thousand yards of cloth, calico, shirts, tobacco, and beads, were distributed. The reason of these large presents was explained in a speech by Lieut. Mowrv, and in reply the Chiefs expressed real sa'isfaction at the kind ness of their Great Father, the President, and promised to continue in the good con duct which had brought them so great a reward. The Femes and Maricopas cul tivate tiiis year 15,000 acres, and have supplied tho Overland Mail Company with large quantities of grain It isex , oted that next year their crops will be largely increased through the facilities given them by the government. Corn and Hogs. Prospects for a heavy yield of corn, and for a larger hog crop 1 ban last year, are very fair. Yesterday’s Louisville Journal says the Assessor’s returns of hogs from all the countiesS in Kentucky but four have been received. They ag gregate 1,391,875, against 1,057,721 last year. Accounts from the great corn country tributary to St. Loins, continue to come in favorably for a great corn crop. The- Carlinvilie, 111., Democrat says: ‘-The rains aud mild weather of the past few weeks have kept the corn growing surprisingly. The ears are still filling out finely, and the appearance now is that the crop will be very much larger than was anticipated a month since. In nearly every instance where the crop has been properly cultivated, the yield will be large, many fields averaging 75 to 80 bushels per acre, but where farmers have attempted to cultivate too much land, or have neglected it to harvest wheat, corn has suffered and will make a light crop. There is little probability that the pres ent high price of corn will decline mate rially, as the crop is very short in many parts of the country, and the demand is likely to continue.” Have We ‘'Pure” Wine. A writer in the Christian Advocate, asks the following questions of the editor : i “ Will you be kind enough to inform the numerous body of stewards in the reach of your excellent paper, where or how they can obtain the pure juice of the i grape for sacramental purposes ?” The | writer then goes on to say, he is well as sured that the article now used to repre sen the blood of our Savior is not the pure juice of the vine, ‘‘but rather a com position of poisonous drugs, such a3 log { wood, ratsbane, sugar of lead, &c.,” — i The editor, in reply, admits his inability j to answer the question, and adds: “If : any of our readers know of a place where I the pure juice of the grape can be ob- I tained for sacramental use, they would confer a benefit upon the church by j making it public. Is it not possible to I escape from the unhappy necessity which •has for years placed upon the sacramen ; tal board a “poisonous mixture” instead of wine? Who will answer the above j inquiry, and otherwise aid in this much needed reform?” Extravagance Interfering witH Marriage. It is a pretty well established conviction that the extravagance of these times in dress, housekeeping matters, &e., tends to the prevention of marriage. Shrewd young men are careful and cautious about undertaking the board, and clothing of young women. As an instance, the Cin cinnatti Enquirer has been furnished by the Clerk of the Probate Court with the marriage licenses issued in Hamilton county during the last eight years, which show a falling off in 1859 from 1852. of 275, and from 1854, of 938. When we consider that the population of the city has probably augmented 80,000 during | the eight years, this decrease is very re ; markable, and well calculated to alarm 1 the advocates of wedlock. —Petersburg ’ Express. ♦ ■ Bursting of a BaSloon. Rome, N. Y., Sept. 29.—Professor 1 Coe, accompanied by Mr. Cottman, cf | Rome, made a balloon ascension here to ; day, from the fair grounds. The county fair being in session, there were 10,000 spectators. The ascension was fine. At the height o£ two miles, the balloon burst, turning up in the top of the net ting, thus forming a parachute. The voy agers, after a perilous and exciting de scent, landed safely in a swamp three miles from their starting point. There was intense excitement aming the crowd below during the descent. The Search for La Mountain. Watertown, N. J., Sept. 30.—Mr. La Mountain was seen at Harrisville, Lewis county, passing over the New York wil derness, still going due East, and at a ! great elevation. A reward is offered by his brother of SI,OOO for the discovery of the aeronauts alive, and SSOO for their bodies if deal. A party goes to the woods to-morrow to prosecute thesearch. The Providence Journal says that it has authentic information that a Col. George W. Barney, who lately died in Alabama, left an estate in land and slaves worth $300,000. Col. Barney left a wife, but no children, and it appears that George Northey, who is supposed to reside in Rhode Island or Connecticut, is the only known of next kin of the de ceased. Killed. The Augusta Constitutionalist says a i boy by the name of Alfred, the property I of R. Y. Goetchens, was run over by the i up through freight train on the Georgia ! Rail Road on the sth, about forty minutes j past ten o’clock, between the fifteen and { sixteen mue posts, and killed, supposed to have been drunk and asleep. The ver- : diet of the jury was in accordance with ; the above stated facts. Wages In California. A San Francisco writer of late date, f says the following are about the rates of wages now paid: Carpenters from $4 to $7 per day ; bricklayers and masons from $4 tq s(j‘; blacksmiths, wheelrights, ma chinists, painters and tinsmiths from $3 to $4 50; common laborers $3; .farm hands from S3O to S4O per month and found; servants from $25 to S4O per month and found ; cooks from S3O to S6O. From ilio Otiicug > Ileraxl. A “ Benicia May’’ on the liencii. L ‘.transport, Indiana, is a pleasant Li i Go village somewhat iLstiugui.-he i for os nieii p u t:c*uhirly K I learned profes-iou ol the. law. Among | the younger Logans, ambitious id lvg-u ! honors, arc ‘wo i . s-iv • vigi ant rain.- [ —one an uneumii: u. Ju :.o ot the L ui.- j moil Pleas Gou-'t, ihi- oth r .in ii.teimit ’ tent ami slightly unpridessiomi practi- ! ! tinner therein v.-.th -t large docket of : very small Case-. Hi -II nor, the Judge, i though while warri r who lias*met ! many a military squadron <ti the tented j ! field of parade, is generally “disposed to j I be friendly,” but between him and the | attorney aforesaid, an “irrepressible ! conflict” has existed time immemorial, j This interesting professional feud was i brought to an “ imminent deadly breach” a few days ago, in open court. It seems that during the probate scs ! sion Attorney D presented an tin- ■ j portant and highly lucrative claim ol j ! nine dollars against an insolvent intes- j ; tate’s estate, with which he managed by j ! judiciously spinning the “ throat o! his j j verbosity” to occupy the generous iriat j tion of the Court during the whole iOiC | uoon and opened the afternoon with a peroration which indicated unlimited con fidence in the wind of the orator and the ! patience of the Judge. About this time his Honor, in view of the caliber ot the j advocate and his cause, deemed it ad visable to enforce the legal maxim. “De | minimis non curat lex,'’ and called upon the eloquent attorney to “dry up,” ad- | ding by the way of ornamental comment the unnecessary remark that he had been ; “pettifogging all day.” The irate Attorney uttered some pro fane truths. The Judge replied in Old Bailey’s best, which provoked young Coke to the words and figures following, to wit : “You (meaning and intending thereby the learned Bench aforesaiu) are a d— — d fool!” “Mr. Clerk,” shouted His Honor, ‘ fine him SI,OOO and let him stand committed until I knock him down! ’ “Mr. Sheriff, adjourn Court to the back yard fifteen’ minutes.” “Oyez ! Oyez ! Oyez!” answered that functionary. The Judge descended to the prisoner. “Now you scoundrel, if you are a better man than I am, I will remit your fine—follow me. Mr. Sheriff, l will answer for his appearance.” In less time than we can write, the back yard was in arms, and bets running high—odds on the Bench. First round —Handsome legal sparring; Judge struck from the shoulder; Attor ney put in an “estoppel.” Second round—Judge in under the belt; umpire declares it a-case under the Stat ute of Frauds; Attorney returns one on IT is Honor’s nib; Judge demurs, and taps some claret from Attorney’s pro boscis. Third, fourth, fifth and sixth rounds— ! The Bench makes out a clear case; the j bottle is thrown up ; Sheriff resumes his prisoner; Court is reopened; Judge “smiles” and takes his seat; business is conducted by tho Bar with great decorum, and Ilis Honor listened with “distin guished consideration.” Five to one on the Judge! Clitua ail tlie Great Eastern. The following letter appears in the Times :—“These twin disasters which have been announced together have star tled us iu our English revelries of tri— j umphant success. It is well that it j should be so, and that they should have j occurred at once and together, ‘for out of j this nettle danger we may pluck the flow-J er safety.’ Without anticipating tLo ex planations from China, it is clear that we ; must revert to our plan of operations in ; the first war, and stop the supplies of the Imperial city, and we should be careful to make tho most of tho favorable sea- j son. Let, then, the trial trip of the Great Eastern be to the waters of China ; j arm her with Armstrong’s guns, or the best aud lightest rilled camion, and cm- j bark in lur a sufficient force of infantry, engineers, and artillery, and let her j make a summer voyage to the Yang-tse- ! Kiang, which she may accomplish in six weeks or so. The appearance of such a vessel and such an armameat at such a j time from these shores, would have a j moral, as well as material effect, not to be otherwise produced. No delay need j occur in the equipment of the Great Eas tern, for it may be presumed, after the recent disaster, that it will not be deem- ! ed necessary to re-decorate the saloous j with mirrors and gilding, nor that the ! man who are to achieve such a success would require them. If Lord Elgin j should be disposed to resume his post, let him embark with the expedition, and the troops would be ready, with lighter craft, to proceed on, if required, to the l’ei-ho. As the telegram to India is now open, let another expedition of European ; and native troops who are without caste prejudices be organized and dispatched from Bengal, Bombay, and Kurrochee, to so operate. The season is favorable j fur the voyage, as it is for the operation in China, and if the French desire to co- 1 operate, the Great Eastern could accom modate a brigade of their troops with our own. Let an able officer be sent in j command from this country, and let Lord Clyde select the commander for the Indi- j an contingent, who should be volunteers.” j ♦ I£a3isas News. Leaven worth, Sept, 30, —Hon. Anson Burlingame addressed the people here to night, and will probably participate in the canvass for delegate to Congress. The Utah mail arrived here to-iksy. News unimportant. The Denver City express also arrived ! here to-day, with dates of the 22d inst., j and $5,000 in gold dust, The increase of crime in and about \ Denver and Auroria, had become alarm- : ing, and demanded prompt action for its suppression. The State organization has been de- ! seated by 3,000 majority. It is alleged there was gome fraudulent voting. The election for delegate to Congress \ comes off early in October. Gen. Lan- ; mer is a promiaeut candidate. The hunting party of Arrapahoes had | returned, reporting that the contagion among the buffaloes was killing them by thousands. Prospecting parties had penetrated to the head waters of the Biuc River, a j tributary of the Colorado, where rich j leads Lad been discovered. xite Slave Trade. The Charleston News, referring to a meeting at Mount Pleasant, (S. C.) in 1 favor ot the opening of the African Slave Trade, says: We observe this movement with great j regret, and we cannot withhold the ex pression of our surprise that intelligent and respectable gentlemen should be so j deluded as to approve so impracticable and ruinous a scheme. If there was the j slightest reasonable expectation that the j design of repealing both the Federal and 1 the State laws against the slave trade could be carried out, or if there was a shadow of hope that the measure itself ‘ could be of the least service, political or industrial, there might be a pretext for the agitation of the subject. But as it can never be any more than the hobby of Southern political adventurers and Northern venal speculators; as it can never obtain, as now fully shown, the as sent of the South itself, or any State of it, much less of the United States, it is with unqualified amazement that we see staid planters and law-abiding citizens agitating a measure which can only dis tract the public mind and demoralize the public sentiment, A singular scene occurred in New York on Wednesday. A carriage containing a man and woman, on their way to Ne.v i lurk Bay Cemetery, to bury the remains | of their daughter, broke down, and pre cipitated the coffin and its contents into the gutter. The man was so drunk that he could do nothing but sit and look at it while the woman actsd like a caazy per- I son - The police finally came to the res : cue picked up the remains, and des -1 patched them to a place of burial, the man, meanwhile, being conducted to the Station-house until he could get sober. A Duel. St. Louis, Oct. 4. —The Postmaster at Santa Clara writes that a duel was fought on the 12th, between the lion. D. C. ! Broderick and Terry. The latter was dangerously wounded in the throat. A Sr-i-utis. .-li { I At the recent annual eeting of ih American Colonization society, in i},_. i City ,of Washington, B l*-. i’i.ii . ! Slaughter, of Virginia, spoke t i.;;- r-.r ----| JowitiA spirit-stirring resolution : “ Resolved , That in our jndg a. : j America in Africa is ihe •“ lu'ion , s’ ; problem of Africa in America.’ I 1 After giving a most splendid-picture i, the discovery*of the American ou: : ,- i Ry Columbus, and the irres.stifle an i vet unchecked dominion ot the Aug 1 <>- American race, spreading rapidly ~ | ocean to ocean, he comes to Africa, a;-, j says : . , , • But there is one people w: e- ,ul-i | not feel the force of our example. V, 2 I could not go to them because “Pestih i: ...... i stood sentinel at the gates of A rica.” j Providence seemed to say to the wave of [Anglo-Saxon population which i- ov, | flowing the earth, “hitherto shnlt t!i u ! come, but no farther, and here ?h-.lt toy | proud wavs, be stayed. ’ But G id's w. 3- i are not as our ways, nor his though is I our thoughts. If America could n ; r ,, to Africa, Africa must como to An j and as they could not come spontaneou-1 . ! having never heard of it, be permitted avaricious men, in the gr.,tifica iou , f i their c-wn lusts, to compel them to come. ! This is a great mystery which 1 cam,, t i expound. I can only see that wh it Lien ! mean for evil, as in the case of Joseph Sandhis brethren, God often mean for ; good. Ido not justify the ways of ma: I only justify the ways of God, out of . v . i educing g-.*d. I recognize facts , ! where 1 cannot explain the philosophy of i them. The fact is,'that nearly four n.i !- i ions of Africans are in America, and umter the discipline to which they have been subjected, they have risen in intellectual and moral order, until they have reached a statue far above their race in its native scats. But there stand- Africa still, the “ Niobe of Nations,” in her voiceless woe— An empty nr * within her withered hai.ds, Whose holy dust was scattered long ago.*’ llow shall her countless millions be reached by Christian civilization?” -*► Sicw Mode ol’ Using “Bank Facili ties.” The New York Evening Post, in refer ring to the case of young Lane, arrested for embezzling the funds of the Bank in which he was employed, tells the follow ing anecdote: Apropos of speculations of person; in banks, a curious story is told of another Bank, in which the discount clerk had resigned his situation; his resignation had been accepted; his accounts pro nounced correct, and a complimentary vote passed by the Board for his atten tion to his duties, etc. He then stated to ! the Board that he had a communication | to make, as a caution to induce them to : watch his successor. He stated that, notwithstanding his accounts were fill correct at the time of resignation, lielia l, in fact, been using the bills receivable of the bank for years as collateral for loan?, and employing the funds in the purchase of paper at usurious rates. By this course he had accumulated sufficient property to meet his moderate desires, and having no further use for the facili ties he had enjoyed, he had resigned. Whether the vote of thanks was recon sidered is not known. —— -♦■ Slavery in Western Virginia. A correspondent of the New York Times writes, from Western Virginia, that he found a general unwillingness on the part of the people of that section to employ slave labor. Free-soilism, he says, is no objection to Candidates for of fice in the West. He is of opinion that the feeling of the people is in favor of free soil, but that it is suppressed in def erence to Eastern Virginia, and from motives of sectional interest affecting the progress of the internal improvements of that section, which rely on the East in a great measure for their completion. The Augusta Vindicator says this will be news to the Western people. We should think so. The only portion of the State in which there is any favor for Free-soilism is in the Northwest, and even there it. is confined to a mere handful!, the great majority being loyal to the in stitutions of ihe South. It they do not desire to employ slave labor there, it is because their proximity to the free States presents such opportunities to kidnap pers that there is no security for slave property. —Richmond D isp alch . The Vigilants at Vern^llionvtlle. The Echo (Lafayette) of Saturday last, alluding to the visit of Gov. Wiekliffe there, says : Governor W iekliffe has been here : but we do not think that he will deem it ne cessary to call out the militia to put down the “V igilauls. Were he to do so, against whom would the militia contend ? Not against our citizens—they arc not rebels, neither do they question the authority of the Executive, but recognize aud respect the chief officer of the State, and it is our belief that there would not be found a single man, out of the eight or nine hundred men who constitute the whole Vigilant force, including the five parishes, that would take up aims to oppose the | militia, were it ordered out. On the ■ contrary, were he to call for men to aid ! him iu the execution of the law, the | vei T men who form the vigilance com i mittecs in our parish would be the fir t to flock to liis standard; aud we doubt i whether any other parish iu the State j could furnish firmer supporters of law . and order, although they are at this time acting extra-legally/ And whv?— Because they have been forced by cir | cumstances so to act, Knight Templars’ Convention* Utica, Sept. 29.—-The Knights Temp lars Convention of the Grand Commaude i ry of the State of New York held its i ®'?? llon yesterday, Sept. 28, when the | following officers were elected: . I , Charles G. Judd, of Penn Van, Grand | Commander ; Frank Chamberlain, of A1 ! hany, Deputy Grand Commander; Zenos ot Utica, Grand Generalissimo, j “• “■ Brew having declined; J. F. Wil : hnr of Hornelsville, Grand Captain Geu i ® ra * ®Town, of Aurora, Grand Pre , bite; Vm. J. Holmes, of Rochester, I V, r:Ui ' J Senior Warden ;E. P. Breed, of I new I ork, Grand Junior Warden; John I Perry, of Troy, Grand Treasurer; j llobm Macey, of New York, Grand Be ; Col 'der; Aaron Carver, of Little FalD ■ Grand Standard Bearer; E. D. Shuler! of Lockport, Grand Sword Bearer; C. II Webster, of Binghamton, Grand War ! den. ♦ Survey of Boundary Lines. ; , Doties and H. M. C. Brown, who ! i,ave be en engaged as United States Sur | ve y° l3 the last twenty years, have | Just arrived in Washington, having re ! eenlly completed the survey of the boun dary lines of the Choctaw and Chickasaw 1 country—from the 98th to the 100th me ridian, extending from Red river to the Canadian river—in a manner entirely satisfactory to the Government. In 1855, a treaty was made with the Choctaws ami Chickasaws, by which the former were to receivq $600,000 and the latter $200,000 in consideration of a perpetual lease of territory from them, on which to locate tne icbitas, CamancLes and ether wild Lioc> ot Indians. The’Camanchesof the iexas reserve have already reached there, with the Nichitas and other sma!; tribes, who appear to be satisfied with their new homes. The entire art - Oi ike Choctaw and Chickasaw countiy embraces 20,500,000 acres, which a- to value, Wiil bear a fair comparison with tuat of any Western territory Out * - this about 8,000,000 are now set apart fm the location cf these wild tribes ; Mat. Intel. 22 d. The Savannah News of yesterday, says Augustus IV enz, who was stabbed at the 1 lanters Hotel on Tuesday evening, i died irom his wounds last evening. Sev eral persons who were present, and par ticipated in the astray, are under arrest, and will have a hearing before Justice Felt to-day. A correspondent of the New York Tri ! bune states that a subterranean fountain ’ of rock oil has been discovered at Sisters ville, Pa., which yields 400 gallons of | pure oil iu twenty-four heurs.