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Southern manufactures. In one respect our Georgia exchanges are interesting, beyond any others that come to us from our sister States of the South, to read. Scarcely a day passes but they bring us something that reminds us of what that great “Empire” is doing or promises to do in (lie way of building up or encouraging home manufactures. 1 Now it is anew locomotive from the great manufactory at Savannah, anew car from the same establishment or those of Macon and Atlanta, new iron from the rolling mills of Cherokee, new flour from the well known mills of Columbus and Au gusta, new cotton and woolen fabrics from flourishing factories in nearly every portion of the State. Almost daily we notice something that reminds us of the rapid strides this great commonwealth is making towards true independence. And the same may be said of portions of the adjoining States of Carolina, Ala bama and Tennessee. The paper mills of the first named, wc believe, have for some .time past been supplying not only the adjoining country, but a number of the best conducted journals of the North ; our friends of Memphis are equally busy in supplying with whatever they need a large and rapidly developing country, that naturally looks to them for supplies; while our not very distant neighbors of Alabama have of late waked up to the importance of developing the rich mine ral resources of that growing State.— Everywhere around us we already begin to see evidences that wc are about enter ing upon anew order of things in the South. Heretofore, or at least till within a few years, the Southern States have only been known as agricultural States, producing cotton, corn, rice, wheat and sugar in abundance, but essentially dependent upon the North or foreign imports for most articles of common manufacture even. A few years more and we firmly believe we shall in this respect, as in our great agricultural staples, be exporters also—we are so in the articles of flour, cotton goods and paper, as before men tioned already—or at least we shall cease to be dependent upon others. And certainly there is no reason why this should not be the case. We have the water power, the raw material of every kind on hand, and a climate far more ge nial than any the great manufacturing States of the North can boast, in which to work it up. How then can wc fail ul timately when our energies shall have been turned in that direction, to produce a better article and at less expense than our rivals? A few days since, indeed, we had occa sion to speak of the comparative cost of four Government steamers of nearly equal tonnnnge, built two of them at the South and two at the North, aud found that the difference was upwards of $75,000 in fa vor of tho former. And what is true of ship building must bo equally true of cotton and woolen and iron manufactures, or whatever may be carried on in tho South. Cotton manufactures in particular should be the object of our earliest considera tion. What could contribute more to our wealth and independence, or in what en terprise could our surplus capital be bet ter employod? It would be years, doubt less, before we were able to compete with older and more skillful manufacturers in tho production of the liner fabrics; but we could at least, in every Sonthern State, as the Georgians have for years now been doing, supply ourselves with articles of home and common use, while in the meantime we laid the foundation for greater things. Everything is at hand, the raw material, the motive pow er, a climate unsurpassed, and our suc cess could not be a matter of doubt. A few years would find us as independent of the world as wc are now dependent upon it. Manufactures in iroft, also, aro worthy of our earliest and warmest encourage ment. Nothing could contribute more to our independence as a people, and noth ing more to our convenience and indi rectly to our wealth. How vast, indeed, would have been the saving, the last teu years, in Georgia, Alabama and Tennes see, for instance, had the rich iron mines of those States been developped and made to contribute tho single article of railroad iron alone, still for the most part impor ted from abroad. We say for the most part, because, though late, wo see the Georgians and Alabamians are beginning to think they can manufacture their own railroad iron, as well as their own flour, and cottons, and woolens, and as good an article or better aud more durable than can be made for them. The subject of home manufactures is not, indeed, often enough pressed upon our people, nor with sufficient ear nestness and warmth. We are too prone to forget, in the unparalleled productive ness of our soil, and the annual returns it is sure to make, that we have other and equally inexhaustible sources of wealth. We are prone to forget, and daily need reminding that, with all our seeming prosperity, We of the Southern States as i yet lack one great element of national greatness and independence, and that it can only be supplied by building up and patronising borne manufactures—manu factures iu ootton, manufactures in iron, manufactures in everything that we pro duce; and what do we not produce in the South ?— N. 0. Picayune. A correspondent of the Ohio Citizen furnishes the editor of that paper with the following account of a remarkable family, residing at present in Bourbon county, Kentucky: Mr. Editor:—l send you a schedule of the Bourbon family, as obtained from the father and sons. The old gentleman is a native of Maryland, and is in his 70th year; was brought to the Stato of Ken tucky when quite young ; and has raised his family in the above county, consisting of six sous and three daughters. In the following table the height, weight, and entire age of the family are given : Height. Weight. Father G feet 4 inches 200 pounds. Mother G “ 4 “ 28G “ Thomas G “ 4 “ 230 “ James G “ 4 215 “ Sarah G “ G “ IGS “ John G “ 11 “ 29G “ Mary G “ 2 “ 150 “ Elijah G “ 2 “ 210 Matthew.... 6 “ G “ 220 “ Eli G “ G “ 197 “ Daughter...G “ 4 “ 100 “ T0tat....70 2,298 pounds. The family are all living, except the youngest daughter, are all wealthy, and of the first families of Kentucky. I might add several of tho grand children are over feet, and are still growing. ’ ♦ Additional by tlie Indian. The Bey of Tunis died on the 22d ult. Nothing of importance from Chinasiuce the affair at Peiho. A Ilong Kong paper says, that Minister Ward is still aboard bis ship, and it is : little likely that he will ratify his treaty, as the English Minister. Another one thinks that he has proba bly gone te Pekin. A Russian dispatch from St. Petersburg, says that Minister Ward arrived at Pekin, ! and was confined there. The deputation from Romagna have waited upon the King of Sardinia. The King told them that he felt grateful for the wishes of the people of Romagna; but as a Catholic sovereign, he should always entertain the most profound and unalterable respect for the superior hier archy of the church. France has sent to China twenty thou sand men and twenty-two ships, Ship News by the lutlian. The ship Amelia, from Charleston, ar rived at Liverpool on the 22d. The ship Jason sailed from Liverpool for Charles ton on the 25th. The Mary Ann sailed from Liverpool on the 27th for Charles ton. The Anna Gray sailed from Liver pool for Savannah on the 27th. New York, Oct. 12.—The steamship Potomac, from Baltimore, arrived here to-day. She reports having passed a large quantity of wreck, which was sup posed to have been a steamer. Fears are entertained that the wreck seen was the |ftl-fated Quaker City. Noah’s Ark aixl the Great Eastern. The Great Eastern is 133 feet longer than was the Ark, and about three feet deeper, but not so broad within eight feet. As an illustration of the change in ideas of navigation which the building , ; f the Great Eastern is calculated to pro -1 duce, we will quote the following pnra ij grap i from an elaborate article issued some thirteen years since, in the Church of England and Quarterly, on the Deluge, and re published in Littell’s Living Age: “Now, as it is clearly impossible that a vessel of the length and breadth of the Ark could be otherwise than a floating vessel, designed entirely for perfectly still waters, we have supposed it to be flat-bottomed and stiaight sided, both as to making it the more buoyant and as giving to it the greatest capacity. It was devoid of all sailing properties; had ! neither rigging nor rudder ; its build was simply that of a huge float, to all out ward appearance wholly at the mercy of the winds and the waves, liable to be drifted or driven about according as cur rents or winds for the time prevailed ; but, as we shall show, the Ark could not for a moment have been subjected to the influence of either winds or tides. The extraordinary length of the Ark proves, at once, the miraculous power that was, at j every moment, in exercise for its preser : vation, since no vessel of the Ark's pro | portions could naturally live in disturbed waters; the very first wave that rose would inevitably break its back and reod it entirely assunder; r.or with all our ex i perience in ship building would it be | possible to construct a vessel of the Ark’s | proportions and navigate it from Dover to Calais in rough weather —the last swell • of the ocean, by raising one end and de j pressing the other, would break it in the middle and cause it to founder, nor could any possible contrivance or ingenuity of | construction prevent this consequence, i Aud if the very peculiar construction of the Ark had not made such a conclusion i irresistable, the purpose for which it was built would have proved that such was i the fact, for had the Ark pitched in the ; least from the swell of the waves, or ! rolled at all from side to side under the influence of the wind, which, from its I great length and little width, it must j most distressingly have done, the whole world of animals therein contained could ! not have kept their footing; of very ne j cessity, therefore, a dead cairn must have prevailed around the Ark during the . whole of the one hundred and fifty days hat it was floating on the waters. The Lady of tlie Kitchen. The Northern papers are making light of the demands made by female servant girls upon the mistresses of the house.— It is, however, a serious subject. The j New llaven Palladium publishes the fol i lowing advertisement: “Wanied to Hike.—A lady, having a pleasant homo, no incurnberances but a husband and a child, wishes to place herself-at the disposal of some servant who can come well recommended from her last place. She would prefer one who would be willing to remain within doores at least five minutes after the work is finished. She would also stipu late for the privilege of going to church herself once each Sunday, having been compelled to refuse the last applicant, who was not willing to allow her but half a day once a fortnight. Wages satisfac tory —if under $lO a week. “ She is deeply conscious of the utter inability of ladies in general to comply with the present demands of servants, but she hops by strict attention to please in all respects. The best of references can be given; also, a good recommend from one who has now left her to the fate of many housekeepers. Please apply before six a. m.” Italian Opera Singers. A New York correspondent of the Charleston Courier, in a recent letter, thus alludes to tho drain Italian Opera Singers are making on that city, and suggests a remedy. The writer says: I think that the Legislature should pass a tariff on Italian Opera Singers. Something must be done, or they will take all the floating money out of the State. Our city could take it up, and pass an ordinance that no Italian singer should be allowed to sing without a li cense, and that the price of such license should be $509 a week. Only read the following list of salaries paid to Italian artists! It is admirable! Only think, too, that in their own country, these sarno singers are but too glad to get enough to purchase their macaroni and vermicelli by their performance. Read ! The following aro the salaries per month paid to the principal members of the op era troupe, now at the Academy of Mu sic: Cortesi, $2500; Madame Gassier, ; $2400; Brignoli, $1500; Gassier, SI2OO ; I Stefani, $1200; Maretzek, $1000; Mu zio, $800; Amodio, $800; Junca, $800; | Madame Strakosch, $600; Squiers and | Rocco, S4OO each. The first violinist and first tlutest get S2OO each. Attack on tlie Mails. Independence, Mo. Oct. 7.— The San i ta Fe outward mail, of tho 19th ult.. was attacked by Indians beyond the j Pawnee Fork. The conductor and one man were killed. Great anxiety is felt about the inward mail, due on Tuesday, as Senator Otero, i Judges Watts and Porter, and Mr. Cren | shaw, are supposed to be among thepas j sengers. Th® Salt Lake Mail has arrived. Ad vices from Atchison state that emigrants from lowa and Missouri were attacked by Indians near Marsh Valley. The In dians killed one, and wounded three men, took the cattle, and burned the wagoDs. Another party of emigrants from Bur j lington, lowa, were attacked. Col. Ruggle’s command has been re | lieved by Chapman’s command ; Ruggles : left for Lea'veuwortb, on the Bth ult. I Daring Feat of Wire-walking. A dispatch dated Bloomington, Colum bia county, Ta., Sept. 2G, says: A most daring aud hazardous feat of ’ wire-walking was performed in this place jon Saturday afternoon. Professor Theo. McDowell Price, who has successfully walked across the Susquehanna river on the tight-rope, traversed the street from ! house-top to house-top upon a wire. One | end of the wire was fastened to the top of the Exchange, and the other end to the cupalo of the Court House, a dis tance of about one hundred and sixty feet. The elevation was about sixty feet above the ground. The ferformance went off very successfully, in presenco of an immense concourse of spectators, brought hither from the surrounding country by the novel attraction. The Professor went | through various gymnastic performances, and even stewed a plate of oysters on the wire. The time occupied in the exhibi- j tion was about half an hour. Tlie Opera Denounced. A New York clergyman has been “de- i molishing” the opera by preaching against ! it. The New York Rcrald gives the ser- : mon entire, and says in spite of its doc- ■ trines “the perverse public to the number of nearly four thousand, rushed to the Opera house on Monday, and we presume that the Brooklyn Academy of Music, at ‘ which this anathema was especially lev- | eled will still be built. The reverend ! gentleman’s point, that the associations ! of the opera house are invariably bad, tells against bis brethren, who clamored for free tickets to the soirees of Jenny Lind (‘ncthing but an opera singer,’) and were used by the Chevalier Barnum as ! advertisements. Served the Fool Right. Five years since a farmer in Illinois, notwithstanding all his neighbors insisted j he was playing the fool, set out on his farm one thousand peach trees, and this season he was offered ten thousand dol lars for the crop, which he afterwards sold in the lot for fourteen thonsand dollars. Any man that will be fool enough to raise fruit ought to be served just so. Episcopal Convention. Richmond, Va., Oct. 12.—There was nothing of importance transacted by the Convention to-day. On to-morrow the consecration of Bishops will take place. Further by the Indian. Liverpool Cotton Market. —The sales of cotton for the three past business days foot up 21,000 bales, of which speculators took 1,000 and exporters 5,000 bales. — The market opened dull and closed easier, but unchanged. State of Trade. —Manchester advices un favorable : all qualities had slightly de clined. Liverpool General Markets.— Flour was steady. Wheat quiet, but steady. Corn declining—there was but little enquiry, and prices were weak. Beef firm. Pork dull —quotations nominal. Bacon quiet. Lard dull. Coffee steady. Sugar dull. London General Markets. —Breadstuff's were dull. Sugar heavy—declined GJ to 1 shilling. London Money Market. —Money general ly unchanged. Consols were quoted at 951 to 95J. General News. —lt is rumored that the treaty of peace will be signed at Zurich in a few days. We have received China dates to August 10th. News unimportant. The Ameri can Minister’s whereabouts is unknown. The Great Eastern will probably be further delayed. The repairs on the Great Eastern were i actively progressing. The telegraphic cable from Sicily to Malta has been successfully laid The Londou Times contains another leader in regard to the San Juan affair; it laments that the former difficulty, about the Oregon boundary, should have left any pretext for the question which has since arisen, and says it is p case which requires the earliest possible set tlement. It was rumored that ten thousand men had proceeded from China to India. The American ship, Charles Buck, her cargo nearly completed, was burnt at Bombay. Paris correspondence says that a de finitive treaty of peace will he signed by the three powers—Franco, Austria, and Sardinia—and that the other stipulations of tho Villa Franca treaty will be adjus i ted by seperate documents. The latest intelligence from Loudon on Wednesday morning states that Col. Haw kins, and the American Commissioner in regard to the Oregon boun !ary, bad ar rived and obtained an interview at the Foreign Office. Paris correspondence says that there will be another hitefi in the peace nego tiations. as Austria persists in keeping | arms in Venitia. Additional by tlie Canada. New York, Oct. 9. —The Canada’s mails arrived here this morning, and will leave for the South this evening. Richardson, Spence Si Co’s, circular say that the whole stock was pressed on the market, which caused a decline of 1-1 Gd. to -Jd. They quote Middling Or leans at G 15 16d. Stabterfeht says that prices for useful qualities were slightly reduced. A lot of useless, though not the lowest, sort was taken for export at for Middling Orleans m Marnelt & Cos. say that the trade, in the face of the growing crop, see no reason to purchase beyond their present supply. They quote a decline of 1-l Gd. to Jd. Lower qualities they pronounce unsalea ble. Hewitt’s circular quotes a decline of gd., and that a large portion of the stock is useless. The imports of the week were 22,000 bales ; at sea 27,000 against 2G,- 000 last year. .Laier from Mexico. New Orleans, Oct. B.—The schooner Star arrived here to-day, with Vera Cruz dates to the2sth ult., and city of Mexico to the 23d ult. A conspiracy had been discovered at the city of Mexico. The object was the overthrow of Miramon, and in favor of Liberals, by the leading otficers and oth ers. The conspiracy was discovered the day before it was to have been put iu ex ecution. Twenty-five officers have been arrested, but it is supposed they will not be punished. At Vera Cruz they were making active preparations for seige upon Jalapa, Cor dova, and the Capital. Coronado’s expedition to Tepic, took six hundred of tlie Church party, after a hard fight. Gen. Morena, and several other officers, w'ere wounded. The British Consul, Ottway, will leave Vera Cruz on the third. The British ship, Calypso, has been detected in Smuggling three millions from a small port on the Pacific. Consul Conner, from Mazatlan, is aboard the Star; he has secured advanta geous concessions to our commerce. Accident to tlie Quaker City. Norfolk, Va., Oct. 9. —The steamship Quaker City, from New York, bound for Havana, smashed her engine on Friday, fifty miles south of Cape -Hatteras.— About one hundred passengers have ar rived here. Tke steamer was sound and tight. Her otficers, crew and twelve passengers preferred remaining on board. The last that was seen of the Quaker City she was on the edge of the Gulf stream, about forty miles south of Cape Ilatteras. Norfolk, Oct. 10,—Nothing has been herrd of the steamship Quaker City since the arrival of the passengers mentioned in a previous dispatch. A heavy gale prevailed yesterday, and fears are enter tained for the steamer's safety. Twenty three passengers—men, women and chil dren—remained on board. Episcopal Convention. Richmond, Va., Oct. 9. —The House of Bishops refused to concur with the vote of the deputies that Chicago be the next place of meeting. They voted in favor of Philadelphia. The Convention on Saturday were en gaged in the amendments of canons.— The nrder of the day was postponed un- I til Monday. i The consecration of Bishops takes place j on Thursday. Richmond, Oct. 10.—The Protestant Episcopal Convention was busy to-day in discussing amendments to the Constitu tion and canons of the Church. Nothing of special importance was done. Later from Texas. New Orleans, Oct. 10.—Brownsville, Texas, was attacked on the 28th ult., by Guerrillas, and five persons killed. The jail was broken open, and the prisoners set at liberty. Intense excitement pre vailed. The citizens had mostly fled to Matamoras. The Mexican authorities sent assistance to the.people of Browns ville. The guerillas were headed by an out law named Cortimus, and numbered one hundred strong ; they were mounted and rode into the city, and posted sentinels. Gen. Carvajal, and others arrived, and persuaded the outlaws to leave the city. Fort Brown was then garrisoned with Mexican troops from Matamoras, the citizens forming a patrol. The outlaws were encamped near the city, some two hundred strong. The Mexican General visited the camp, and obtained a promise that the outlaws would not molest Brownsville any more; but the citizens expected to be attacked again. An express was sent to the near est point for troops. The Sheriff and a posse came down to Point Isabel, with the steamship Arizona’s Mails. Auotlicr Duel—Amicably Adjusted. Vicksburg, Oct. B.—A meeting took place at Desoto city, opposite Vicksburg, to-day, between Mr. Partridge, Editor of the Whig, and Mr. McGarr, late Demo cratic candidate for city Representative, for the purpose of fighting a duel; but the matter was refe.red to W. D. Ray and Dr. Hubbard, and was amicably adjusted. No shots were fired. Arrival of tlie Sauta Fe Mail. St. Louis, Oct. 10.—The Santa Fe mail, of the 15th of September, has ar- j rived. The reported attack on the mail party by Indians is confirmed. Several bodies were found, but the mails were unmo lested. Savannah, Oct. 12.—The ships Old Dominion, from Portland, the Exchange, from Bath, Maine, and the bark Maria Morton, from New Y'ork, arrived here to-day. Texas Progress and Prospects. The editor of the Trinity Advocate, pub lished at Palestine, Texas, has just re turned from the neighboring counties of Freestone and Limestone. The cotton crop is as short as in Trinity, say about one-half. The corn crop was abundant. The people of the two “stone” counties appear to have gone into the stock raising business with energy and unanimity. The Advocate says: “Large flocks of sheep and herds of cattle were almost continu ally in sight after we reached the prai t ies.” The raising of sheep is increasing rapidly and the profits are very large—in some localities as much as 75 per cent. The town of Springfield, in Limestoue county, is rapidly tilling up with an in dustrious population. The Jefferson Gazette, published at Jefferson, on lied River, in Harrison county, Texas, speaks in the most satis factory terms of the progress of the town, which numbers two successful news papers among its other indications of in creasing prosperity. There is not a va cant house in the place. “The mechan ic’s hammer is heard from morning until night in every quarter of the town, and the smoke is seen curling from brick kilns in almost every direction on its out skirts.” Tlie population has nearly doubled in the last eighteen months. One of the principal reasons of this progress is that Jefferson, whence New Orleans receives so much cotton, is the shipping point for a belt of fertile coun try two hundred miles wide, and stretch ing back to a distance of three huudred miles, which, although only partially set tled, already gives constant occupation to forty large business houses in Jefferson to purchase and forward its. cotton, wool, cattle, horses, sheep, beef, pork, hides, peltries, iron, castings, pecans, tallow, beeswax, aud many valuable medicinal roots —ali coming to New Orleans. The Gazette promises that in a few years-we shall receive from this section of country abundance of the best flour, before the supplies from the West can reach us. “Square leagues of land, capable of producing a bale of cotton to the acre, now lie idle, even in Harrison county.” But how long will this be the case when the Pacific rail road shall stretch its long iron arms through the heart of this fer tile district? The same paper gathers from a resi dent merchant, who has just returned from a long trip through a number of the counties lying beyond and south of Ca manche Peak, on the upper Brazos river, much valuable and interesting informa tion. The merchant had succeeded iu making permanent contracts for over 000,000 head of cattle, to be delivered at .Jefferson, where, as our readers may know, the beef packing business has be come quite extensive and prosperous. We prefer giving the Gazette’s own de scription of these counties, based on the merchant’s word of mouth narrative: The cattle raised in that belt of coun try grow to an enormous size, many of them at six years old weighing eleven and twelve hundred pounds, and none scarcely coming under seven hundred, and they keep fat both winter and sum mer. The horses and mules are tough and hardy, and when bred from Kentucky stock are equally as large, and suscepti ble of bearing much more fatigue—hence, are more valuable. It is also most ad mirably adapted to the growth of wool, which will in a few years, with the ex ception of cattle, form their principal ar ticle of export. For hogs it cannot be surpassed, as they feed and live very well through the Summer on the mesquite grass, and become exceedingly fat on the I post oak mast, which is abundant in : winter. Fountains of the purest water are met with at almost every mile, and the lands cannot be surpassed in the production of all the cereals. For hundreds of miles up the country is pleasant, healthy and fertile, and most happily adapted to the rearing of horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, and every species of stock. It will pro duce excellent cotton, but being at pres ent somewhat remote from market, wheat and corn pay a better profit. The coun try is, as yet, thinly settled, but emi grants are now rapidly pouring into it j from every section of the Union. The stockholders of the Southern I’a ciffc Rail Road well know, or if they do not they ought to, that this is a part of the rich, wide region of country their j road is to develope into a vast granary of j agricultural wealth—a country yet spare ly settled, but waiting as Douglas Jer j rold might say, to be tickled by the engi i neer and the farmer, to laugh with abun ; dance. Rice Mill Burned. The lice mill of Daniel Hayward Esq., on Savannah Back river, known as the I Laurel Hill Pounding Mill and Thresher, was destroyed by fire on Thursday night. | The mill was anew one, and the first lot I of 150 tierces of rice, of its pounding, | was on our market, when Mr. Hayward | received the dispatch announcing its do i structiou. There were insurances as follows: I SSOOO in the “South Carolina Insurance ! and Trust,” of this city, SSOOO in “Fire i men’s Insurance,” of this city, and S4OOO ; in the “ Home Insurance,” of New York j —represented here by James H. Taylor, 0 Broad street —amounting to SI4OOO on the building and premises. There was a policy of $4,000 on the Rice on the first floor from the “Alabama Fire and Marine Insurance Company,” of Montgomery, Ala., represented by Chas. A. DeSaussure, agent in this city.— Charleston Courier Oct. 10. Grafting tlie Grape. The editor of the American Cotton Planter says : Having practiced grafting grapes for the last ten days, I never found any difficulty in this operation ; in fact they graft as easy as any other fruit. Instead of propagating grape-vines, as is usual done, by a single eye as a cutting, I always found it a more sure way to graft them to a piece of root, and if it be a rare kind, of a longjointed growth, as American grapes generally are, one i bud was sufficient. 1 hardly ever lost more than five per cent. I never used j any graftingwax, but planted the grafts j in the ground immediately, and covered ( the united piece with earth. This ! s undoubtedly a much safer plan 1 than relying on single buds as cuttings. ; When grafting on stumps, taking two or : three buds on the graft, I have sometimes : had grapes the first season, but always | a fair crop the second summer. ~ Blunt County Apples. The Bluntsville Pioneer a paper re cently started at Bluntsville in this State, i speaking of the apple crop of that county, i which it represents as good, says: “We were shown the other day, by our young i friend, Mr. W. Jones, one which weighed one pound, 5£ ounces.” That was certain ly a large apple even for Biunt. “Mrs. Richard C. Davis presented our “ better half” with one a few days. ago, j which she brought from Blunt, which measured Ilf inches in circumference, a : large and beautiful apple, and we judge. —for we have not yet tested the fact ex perimentally—of delicious flavor. •* A Big Balloon. A New York correspondent says that there now appears to be every probability that an aerial voyage across the Atlantic will be attempted, perhaps not this, but certainly next year. Mr. Lowe is not a man who boasts; he has been very quiet ly preparing the apparatus, which he feels confident will accomplish the under taking, and he seems determined to at tempt it this fall. The balloon, when in , tiated, will be a perfect wonder, exceed ing the Trinity Church steeple, in New York, in altitude ! The lifeboat is a model in its way. The Cincinnati papers report an active demand for Whisky at 26c. per gallon.— The Cincinnati Gazette of the Bth says : The high price of whisky and the abun j dance and prospective low price of corn are causing some activity in the distillery line, and the indications are that every establishment in the West will be in full j blast before the close of the year. Dis tillers have had two hard seasons in sue- I cession, owing to the failure of the corn crops, and a large number of establish- j ments were closed ; but better times were anticipated, and preparations are being made accordingly. THE GREAT BALLOON VOYAGE. Thrilling Narrative of the. Adventures of the Aero nauts—Descent and Abandonment of the A,r Skn> —Suffering in Uu: Wilderness— Final Rescue, dr. The fact that La Mountain, the aero naut, and J. A. Haddock, a newspaper reporter, who nscended in the balloon “Atlantic,” from Watertown, N. I . the 22d ult , have been found alive and safe in a Canadian wilderness, 300 miles north of their point of. departure, has been published. It appears, if they had staid up a few hours longer, they weu.d have solved the question of the portli west passage through the Arctic Ocean at the usual cost —their lives. Ibe as cension was made at 27 minutes before G o’clock, p. m.. and about 7 o’clock they made the first landing, traveled the extraordinary distance of miles in about one hour and a half, i rom a highly interesting narrative by Mr. Had dock, we take the following account of the perilous adventure: tub first landing. We concluded to settle down by the side of a tree, tie up, and wait until morning. In a moment we were near the earth, and as we fell I grasped the ex treme top of a tall spruce, which stopped her descent, and we were soon fastened to it by the large drag rope. The touch of that spruce scut a thrill ot discounter! to my heart, lor l knew that its- Lind did not grow in any well settled nor any warm country. Mr. La Mountain said, after he looked around and made as much of an examination of the scenery as we could do for the darkness and rain (for it had rained the past hour,) that the “Atlantic was played out —we were far into the woods, and if we got out alive we ought to be thankful.’’ We rolled ourselves up in our blankets and patiently waited until morning. The rain dripped down upon us in rivulets from the great balloon, and it was not long before wc were as wet as men could be. After a night passed in great dis comfort, we were glad to see the first faint ray of daylight. Cold, wet, and rainy, the morning broke, the typical precursor, we were to learn, of many other morn ings to be spent in these uninhabited wilds. We waited until six o’clock, in hopes the rain would cease, and that the rays of the sun, by warming the gas in the balloon, would give us ascending pow er sufficient to get up again, lor the pur pose, if no other, of obtaining a view of the country into which we had descended. The rain did notecase, and wc concluded to throw over all we had in the balloon, except a coat apiece, the life preservers, the anchor and the compass. Overboard, then, they went—good shawls and blank ets, Mi*. Fayel’s overcoat, bottles of ale and a flask of cordial, ropes and traps of all kinds. The Atlantic, relieved of her wet load, rose majestically with us, and we were able to behold the country below. It was au unbroken wilderness of lakes and spruce ; and we felt then that we had gone too far, through a miscalculation of the velocity of the balloon. SECOND DESCENT. As the current was driving us still to the north, we dare not stay up, as we were drifting farther and still farther to that “frozen tide, - ’ from which we knew there could be no escape. Mr. La M. seized the valve cord and discharged gas, and we descended in safety by the side of a large spruce. We made the Atlantic fast by her anchor, and for a moment talked over what we should do. We had not a mouthful to eat. No protection at night from the damp ground, were dis tant we knew not how far from habita tion, were hungry to start with, no earth ly hope of raising a fire, and no distinct idea as to where we were. We concluded to trust to the compass, and take a course which would bring us out of any wilder ness we might be in. We settled in-our own minds that we were either in John Brown’s traeffor in the great Canada wil derness —to the south, we thought of the Ottawa, and knew that a course south by east would take us out if we had strength enough to travel the distance. La M. stepped up to the balloou and gave the edge of the basket a parting* shake, say ing, “Good bye, old Atlantic,” and I fan cied I could see a tear in his eye when he said it. TRAMPING IN THE WOODS. To the South-east, then, we started. After traveling about a mile and a half, we came to the bank of a small creek, flowing down from the westward. At this place we were agreeably surprised to find that some human being had been there before us, for we fouud several small trees cut down, the coals from an old fire, and a half barrel which had con tained pork. I eagerly examined the stamp. It read, “ Mess Pork, P. M., Montreal.” This settled the question that we were in Canada—for I very well knew that no Montreal inspection of pork ever found its way into the interior’ of New York State. We traveled all day Friday up the unknown creek, which kept'its general course to the south of west, crossing it about noon, on a float ing log, and striking on its southern bank a “ blazed” track, which led us up to a deserted timber road, lying on the opposite side from a large lumbering shanty. Wo hoped one of the lumbering roads might, take us out to a settlement, but after traveling up them all until they terminated in the wilderness, we conclu ded to cross the creek to the shanty, and stay in it all night. LaMountaiu got across it safely;, but my weight was I greater than his, and the raft let me into j the stream. I sank in all over, and swam out, though it required all my strcngth.to do so, and on reaching the bank I found myself so chilled as scarce ly to be able to stand. I took off my my clothes, wrung them, and we pro ceeded to the shanty, where we found plenty* of refuse straw, but it was dry, and under a pile of it we crawled, pull ing it over our heads and faces, in the hope that our breath might aid in warming our chilled bodies. I think the most re vengeful, stony heart would have pitied our condition then. The weary hours of the night at last wore away, and we held anew counsel. It was evident, we reas oned, the creek we were upon was used for “ driving” logs in the spring season. If, then, we followed it to the confluence with the Ottawa, or some stream which emptied_into the Ottawa, we could in time get out the same way’ the timber went out. TAKING A RAFT. The roof of the shanty was covered with the halves of logs, scooped opt in a manner familiar to all woodmen. These were light and dry, and would form an j excellent raft. Why not, then, take four ; of these, tie them to cross pieces by j wythes and such old things as we could find around the shanty, and pole the , structure down to that civilization which a saw-log ought to be able to reach?; Such was the course we adopted. We dragged the logs down to the creek, and , LaMountaiu tied them together, as he was evidently more of a sailor than my self. We got under way, and as we pushed off a crow set up a dismal cawing ! —an inauspicious sign, and ominous of j the great, trials and sufferings in store for us. We poled down stream about ten | miles, and came abruptly on a pine tree which had fallen across the stream com- l pletely blocking the passage of the raft. No other alternative was left but to untie *he pieces, and attempt to push them through under the leg. This was at last done; tied the raft together again, and i polled her down stream. To-day tee eat \ each a raw froy, all we could find, and began to feel that we were hungry. But there was no more complaining—our talk was of the hopeful future and the civili zation we hoped yet to reach. Down the creek we went into a lake some two miles long, and into which we of course sup posed the stream to pass, having its out let at the lower end. We followed down the northern bank, keeping always in shallow spots, so that our poles could touch the bottom, until we arrived at the’ bottom of the lake, where we found no outlet, and turned back upon the south ern bank in quest of it. OtTreaching the : head of the lake we found that the cur- 1 rent of thacreek turned abruptly to the right, which was the reason of our losing it. i A FEARFUL NIGHT. i At night we did not stop, but kept the raft going down through the shades of i awful forests, whose solemn stillness ! seemed to hold the unrevealed mystery of our darkening future. About ten o'clock it be‘Am to rain again. We stopped the “vessel” and crawled in under some “tag” alders on the bank, where our ex treme weariness enabled us to e ct, pn Laps, half an hour’s sleep. Basing agaiu (for it was easier to pole at night in the ,ain down a unknown stream, than to lie on the ground and freeze,) we f ressei on for a couple of hours until about three o’clock, when pure exhaustion induced us to stop again. This time we found a spot where the clayey hank lacked a little of coming down to the water. On the mud we threw our little buiube ci i straw, and sat down with our feet drawn up under us, so that our bent bodies pre sented as little surface as possible for tbe vain to beat upon. But we could not staud such an uncomfortable position long, and as tbe daylight of the Sabbath broke upon us, we were piling down the stream with a drizzling rain. At eight o’clock, we came to a place wnere the stream canoned —rushing over a stony bed, down a steep descent between high rocks on either bank. To get our raft down this place we regarded as hopeless. We tied up and examined the shore.— Here, again, we found unmistakable evi dence of lumbermen, as they had evi dently camped at this point, to be handy by iti tlje attempts they were doubtless obliged to make to get the timber down the canon. The rapids were about a third of a mile long, and in ail the rapids of Black river there is nothing so wild and romantic as these. We descended the bank and thought it best to try our luck ou foot. After travelling about a mile we found the bank so tangled and rugged and ourselves so exhausted, that locomo tion was impossible; so we concluded to go back, and if we could get tbe raft down a piece at a time we would go on with her ; if not, we would build as good a place as possible to crawl into, and prepare for death. MORE SUFFERING. We went back, and after examining (he stream attentively, concluded to try’ to get the raft down. The pieces would not float more than a rod at a time before they would stick on some stone which tbe low water left above the surface, and then you must pry it over in some way and pass it along to the nest obstruction. We were obliged to get into the stream, often up to the middle, and there 1 seve ral times fell headlong, completely using up our compass, which now frantically pointed in any direction its addled bead thought desirable. The water had un glued the case, and it was ruined. After long hours of suck labor we got the raft down, and La Mountain again tied it to gether. Passing on, in about an hour we came to a large lake, ten miles long and six miles broad. Around it we must of course pass until we should find the out let. So we turned up to the right, and pressed on with as much resolution as could be expected. To-day we found one clam, which I insisted La Mountain should eat, as lie was weaker than my self, and had eat little or nothing on the day’ we went up. Around we went into all"the indentations of the shore, keeping always in shallow water. At last we stopped at a place we thought least, ex posed to the wind. We laid down upon the cold ground, having lifted up the end of our raft so that the wind might not drift it away in the night. We were cold when we laid down, and both of us trem bled by the hour, like men suffering from a severe attack of the agfie. The wind had risen just at night, and the dismal surging of the waves upon the shore formed, I thought, a fitting lullaby to slumber so disturbed and dismal as ours. By this time our clothes were nearly torn off. My pantaloons were slit up both legs, and the waistbands nearly torn off. My boots both leaked, aud ‘eur mighty wrestlings in tlie canon had torn the skin from our ankles and hands. La Moun tain’s hat was gone the first.day out; lie had thrown away his woollen . drawers and stockings the first day of our trap ping. as they dragged him down by the weight of water they absorbed. We slept but little. It really seemed as though, during that night, we passed through the horrors of a dozen deaths At daylight wo got up by degrees, first on one knee and then ou the other, so stiff and weak that we could hardly stand. TIIE RESCUE. It has now been four dull days since we ate a meal. All we had ate in the meantime was a frog apiece, four clams and a few wild berries, whose acid prop erties and bitter taste had probably done us more harm than good. Our strength was beginning to fail very fast, and our system were evidently about to undergo an extraordinary change. We turned the raft around, and poled her back to wards the place .where we had entered this last lake. We had gone about a mile when we heard the sound of a gun, quickly followed by a second report, No sound was ever so sweet me as that. We halioed as loud as we could a good many times, but could get no response. We kept our poles going, and had gone about half a mile, when I called La Moun tain's attention to what I thought was a smoke curling up among the trees on the side of a hill. My own eyesight had be gun to fail mo to an extent that I could not depend upon it when a long, steady gaze was necessary. lie said it was smoke, and that he thought just below it, on the bank, was a bark canoe. In a few moments the blue smoke rolled gently but unmistakably above the tree tops, and we felt that we were saved. Such a revulsion of feeling was almost too much for us. We could hardly believe our sen ses, and credited anything favorable to our condition with the utmost caution. Our bitter disappointments had taught us that lesson. We paddled the raft with the ends of our poles directly across the lake, near, perhaps, three-fourths of a mile wide, and made for the canoe. It proved to be a large one—evidently au Indian’s. Up the bank I pressed, leaving La Mountain at the canoe to cut off a retreat by the ludian in case lie was timid and wished to avoid us. I came at once upon the shanties of a lumbering wood, and from the chimney of the farthest building a broad volume of smoke was rising. I halloed—a noise was heard inside, and a noble looking Indian came to the door. “ Parlez vous Francais?” was my eager inquiry as I grasped his outstretched hand. “Yes, sir, and English, too.” I lie drew me into the cabin, and there was the head of the party, a noble-heart ed Scotchman, named Angus Cameron. I immediately told my story: that we came in with a balloon, were lost, and had been four days without food: asking where we were. Imagine my surprise . when he said we were one hundred and fifty miles due north of Ottowa—in the dense, uninhabited forest, whose on ly limit was the Arctic circle. From this coint the aeronauts were taken to Ottowa, Canada, whence they made their wav home in safely. •> %t ♦ • 1 ■ Exile ot tile Pope. The following startling announcement appears in the editorial correspondence of the Courrier des Etats Unis : Pius IN has abandoned tbe project of interfering by force of arms in the affairs of the Legation; but, in revenge, he has , manifested afresh and more energetically than ever, the intention of abandoning Rome and accepting the asylum offered to him in the Belearic Isles by Spain. This voluntary exile of the Chief of I Christendom will be a fact of which it is easy to appreciate the gravity, and France is exerting her utmost influence to pre vent it. Our Embassador to the Holy Sea, M. de Grammout, has just arrived in Paris for the second time in less* than a month, to make the Emperor thoroughly acquainted with the real state of things, and to receive instructions how to act in this imminent crisis. It is mainly owinir to his efforts that bicod has not flowed in ! the Romagna, and that the Pope is still at the Vatican ; but w.e are informed that he is the bearer,, on behalf of the ■ Holy Father, of a sort of ultimatum from which there is no hope that Pius IX will recede. If the astuteness of Napoleon 111 should be insufficient to get rid of this last and most decisive complication, j we are on the eve of the most solemn j crisis in the history of Europe. Origin of lilt Srf ppti noiig. A correspondent of the Mobile Inbuilt* thus corrects the idea that this g* V of foreign origin : Ft!.’ Tribune: 1 notice the following paragraph in your paper this morning. Tun StKHM’KuanNii. —From Mr. rep rt w • •'Strict the following in rela tion to tile origin of tins grape: Among the tniiivi; var etio-s, the most valuable he on . idyr- the scuppernoug, which cannot be cultivated at the North. It is claimed to t,e an Give of North Car olina. Ttii?, says Mr. Semiues, is a mis take. It i J a Grecian grape, known as the Alarie, and from which the finest wines of Greece are made. It is there fore, uot improbable that tne most esteemed dessert wines ot tne Greeks, the Thracian and Lesbian, v. ei e made from this grape. . e 1 dislike to spoil the pretty conceit ot Mr. Seiames as to the classic origin of the scuppernoug grape. . The first vine of that name was r und | by the Rev. Charles Pettigrew, au Epis i copal Minister, about the year 1 1 74, ou ’ the low grounds of the Scuppernong river, in Tyvrel county, North Carolina, and from which he planted a vineyard. I have drunk ol the wine made from these vines. During the visit of President Monroe to the Southern States, at a public din ner given to him by the citizens of New bern. North Carolina, scuppernoug wine, then fifteen years old, produced ‘rom the vineyard of his sou, the late Hon. i.nc nezer Pettigrew, was placed upon the table. It attracted the attention of the President, Mr. Calhoun, and othergue.-ts who accompanied them, and the origin of the wine having been purimsely con cealed, they were requeste 1 to determine its quality and origin. It was in their opinion an exceedingly delicious wine, and oi’Grecian or Eastern origin Upon being informed that it was made from the native North Carolina grape, quite a laudation was bestowed, and a desire expressed to procure some of the same quality. The stock in Mr. Pettigrew’s posses sion was not sufficient to meet the de mand, and lie had, in fact, never sold a gallon of it. Subsequently he presented a barrel to the President anJ Mr. Cal houn, which he sent to them at Washing ton.. It there attracted much attention, and was pronounced by those skilled in such matte) s, who knew nothing of its history, to be a rare aud delicious wine brought from seme Eastern country. In Sir Walter Raleigh’s History of the World the great, profusion of grapes on lloanoke Island (some twenty miles from Scuppernong river) attracted his atten tion, and is especially mentioned by him. My only object in this communication is to verify “the truth of history”—to j sustain a “ native American” “ct cuique siium tribuere. Upon reflection, Mr. Editor, can you tell me when the Greek trireme which brought the vine to North Carolina, reached Scupp'ernong river ? l’>. Italians anti Germans Compared. A writer in the Christian Examiner in stitutes the following comparison between the Italians and the Germans: In point of intelligence, the middle and lower ranks in Italy’ are much supe rior to the same classes in Germany, and so far as the charities of life belong to the department of ethics, in morals also. Stupidity’, churlishness and rudeness are as rare among the Italian peasantry, as they are general among the German ; arid as for the hotel keepers, traders and veturini, while in Italy you may be flat tered or argued by them iu paying a few shillings above a reasonable reckoning, you will in Germany be treated with boorish insolence, if you refuse to sub mit to an extortion of as many pounds. With respect to the educated classes, tbe relative position of the two nations is re versed, and the German is superior to the Italian, in just the same proportion as his advantages of education are great er. The reason of this lies in the intel lectual constitution of the races. The German is just what books and scholastic discipline him, and in German life there is no social training which alone supplies their place. Take these away, and you have but a coarsely organized and intensely animal being left. The Italian, on the other hand, has original endowments, a facility and a flexibility’ of nature, and habits of associate life, which enable him to form and develope a character without the aid of the artificial means which are indispensable to the German. The Italians are inherently and collectively a civilized people; tbe German must be reclaimed and civilized de novo, in each individual case. Beecher’s Correspondence. Ilev. Henry Ward Beecher, in the In dependent, is showing how he treats his correspondents, who are more numerous than profitable, and more expectant than wise. That notoriety and talent cost something, is shown by the following : We cannot raise loans for dee ply in : debted churches, however much they j deserve help; we cannot help men to re i deem their mortgaged farms; we are ! utterly unable to take in hand the educa tion of any’ more deserving persons ; we 1 cannot inquire into or relieve the him : (Irgs of a sgs o distressing poverty which exist in every State: we never in vest in speculations; and that ten dollars or twenty-five dollars “that would save from immorality,” we have never sent, and never shall. Wc shall not either persuade any of the “rich men of our | congregation” to put forth their money j in any of the hundred ways pointed out j to us every year. In short, money is riot a thing that letters can get, and it will save much trouble to the various writers, and much surprise of expectation after they have written them, to know that, outside of our friends and personal acquaintances, i we never answer, and almost never read', but invariably burn, letters for money. An Interesting Jefferson’* Jilaimal. The Salem (Mass.) Gazette, alluding to the recent presentation of a copy of Jefferson’s Manual to Mr. Phelps, Presi dent of the Senate of Massachusetts adds: There is at the Mayor’s office, in our City Hall, another copy of Jefferson's Manual, which also ha3 interesting asso ciations of a personal nature connected wuh it. It was formerly the property of tlio late Justice Story, used by him when Speaker ot the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, and full ‘of his mar ginal notes made at that time. It was presented to him by his personal and po litical friend, the late Nathaniel Silsbee, upon bis election to the Presidency of toe Senate of Massachusetts, and used by him during his service in that office and subsequently for eight years as a Senator for Massachusetts in t’onre during which time he was often placed by Mr. Van Buren. then Vice-President, in the chair of tbe presiding officer, a compliment .he rarely paid to one in op position. This copy, which was pre sented to its present owner by President Silsbee, bears marks oi having been much used, and ha3 now been an occu pant for nearly four years of the Mayor’s office at the City Hall. Crojis in ArUansas. The Memphis Enquirer, of the sth in- ‘ stant, says: We are informed by Mr. Dunn, of the firm of M. 11. Miller & Cos., of this ciiy, who has been traveling of late through j some of the counties'of Arkansas, that I the corn and cotton crops uever looked I more promising than at the present time. ‘ He says that there is more cotton open ing now than there is in ordinary sea sons in the month of September. Dr. , Jordan, of South Bend, was shippin” at the rate of 10Q bates a week. The qual ity of the crop is excellent, both on the ‘ uplands and the bottoms; ami there never was so much cotton under cultivation ; before as uow. Favorable reports teach us from almost every direction concern i-g the cotton crops, and we may sup pose that should the weather be propi tious, we shall have an unusual large crop. The planters inform Mr. Duim that the corn crop was never more prom ising, and yield of eighty bushels per acre was confidently expected. Verbatim Reporting 111 us The British Parliamentary reports iu ; - nislied bv the London morning pu|.< , are very accurate, and embrace evei v tliing transpiring in cither lieu >• p., sessiug any interest lor the public ; bin, although phonogiaphically reported, lin■ \ seldom give the jspe'die- ‘eil-aii;., More than this, the reporters exeici-e their own discretion as to what i-peech: they ought to report and what not. :.•* 38 to the relative length at which tl , speeches they do report ought to be giv en. Did they do otherwise, the mass ..; verbiage aud nonsense which would Uai • appear in the morning papers would goon i disgust their readers. This has beo. verified by experience. Several years r.i’o, a iournal was started in London, i called “The Mirror of Parliament,” f,.’. tbe avowed purpose of supplying what the proprietors conceived a desideratum in tbe reports of the proceeding* in p ;U -. Lament, namely, a verbatim account of everything spoken by lion, member.; The undertaking proved a failure. : those who embarked in the speculation lest some thirty-live thousand dollars in their endeavors to establish it. It was found that the public had no disposition | to read more lengthened reports of p ar . ; liameutary eloquence than those fur i nished by the daily papers, and conse quently the circulation of ihc “Mirror of Parliament” was from the very first al most exclusively confined to Honorable members themselves, which made it b o limited to pay. In Grant's “Parliamentary Reporting” there are some good anecdotes told members who had an anxiety that their speeches should appear verbatim, and who frequently complained to the reporter* ! that their speeches were curtailed. Dr. Stoddart, who for a t me conducted a iournal in London celled “The New Times,” tried the plan of giving rcrhv.'m reports. The result of the, experiment was that the members made dosviir.; ht fools oi themselves. Lord ( a-tlercago exhibited himself as ‘'standing pros:.:. at the foot of Majesty,” Sir Fredeih ; Flood, one Os the Irish members, and a great stickler for verbatim reports, ap peared one morning as having on the previouseveniug enlightened and delight ed the House with the following pro found philosophy and brilliant eloquence: “Mr. Spaker—As l was coming down to this House this morning, to perform my duty to the country, and ouhi Ireland. I was brutally attacked, Sir, by a mob, Mr. Spaker, of ragamuffins,'Sir. If, Sir, any honorable gentleman is to be assulted, Mr. Spaker, by such a parcel of spal peens, Sir, ;.s were after attacking me, Mr. Spaker, then I say, Mr. Spaker, that if you do not, Mr. Spaker, be after protecting gintlemen, like myself, Sir, we cannot be after coming .to the House of parliament, at all, Mr. Spaker. And, Sir, may I be after axing you, Sir, what, Sir, would become, Sir, of the bisness of the country, Mr. Spaker, in such a case, Mr. Spaker? It’s myself, Sir, that would like an answer, Sir, to the question, Sir, as soon as convanient, Sir, which I have asked you Mr. Spaker.” This” proved a complete extinguisher to Sir Frederick’s penchant for verbatim reporting. He went, the day on which his oration appeared, to the editor? of all the morning papers, and said he would thereafter leave his speeches to the dis cretion of the “ reporthers.” We do not know whether there will be any relative of Sir Frederick Flood iu the next Con gress, but should there be, he may arise some morning and find himself immortal ized in the columns of the N. Y. Ilerall by some similar oratorical display. Tiie PlitlosopUy of Emancipation. According to the New York correspon dent of the Richmond Enquirer, the number of negroes in the North Atlantic Free States, by the census of 1850, was 149,759. Ilq gives the following state ment : Negro Population of the Northern Atlantic Pm. Slates. • In 1790 there were, Free 27,049 Staves 40't;70 Total ; 67,4;!* What it should have been at 30 per cent, in crease for each decade, to 1860 320.3 ! What it was by the United States census in lioO 149,77!* Deficiency of 170.3)4 An increase compared with the negro population of the South, within the same period. Tlx re were 49,870 slaves held in the free States in 1790, whose increase, had it been equal to the black population, should have in 1850 (a period of sixty years) reached 195,394 which would have exceeded, alone, the entire colored popu lation of the said free States in that year. To account for this deficiency, observes the correspondent, can only in part be done on the ground that a large portion of the 40,370 slaves held by the free States in 1790, were subsequently sold to the people of the southern States. The St. Louis Democrat states that a similar process is going on in Missouri. It con gratulates the people that they are get ting rid of their negroes by selling them out fa southern purchasers at an average of about SSOO per head. When the ne - groes arc all sold out and the money re ceived by their owners, the consciences of the latter will be so clear as so enable them to wage war against the South, if the people do not agree to surrender their slaves without compensation.— Fichu, Dispatch. Cotton liaised Since July. A young friend of ours, who has been passing some pleasant summer week? among the Mississippi plantations, came into our office yesterday afternoon ami laid upon our table some samples of cot ton on the stalk and in the boll, which was grown on Mr. Cammack’s plantali n, in Issaquena county, Miss. It is of the kind calied the “ little brown Mexican,” and the peculiarity of the specimen to which we are alluding consists in the fact ihat it is the growth of only’ a few weeks. The plantation on which it was raised was submerged, and was not clear of the water until July, since, which time the cotton has been planted and cultiva ted. It is cotton of fine staple, aud look? w eR.—A. O. Picayune. Among the names appended to the late Liack Republican circular issued from Albany, New York, is that of Mr. O. N. School field, of Roberson’s Cross Road*, ienn. ihc editors of tbe Nashville Un ion learn from a gentleman who has re eently conversed with Mr. Schoolfield, taut the use ot Lis name was entirely un authorized by him, and that he does no*, sympathize in the sentiments of the cir cular. The utterly unscrupulous charac ter ot the Black Republican leaders is strikingly illustrated in this atrocious ou.rage upon the rights oi a nrivate citi zen. T!ie Way Clioate Worktd. How often have I observed that, let a friend or client call on Mr. Clicate at his busiest moment, and he would turn to his visitor with ail the ease of an idler. There was no wrinkling of the brow, not h ing in the look or gesture, which said tnat the interruption was unwelcome and must be brief. He could always afford to be interrupted ; and the reason was tout, when the interruption was over, he could retuin at once to bis study; and when he studied, he knew how to sunk. — Parsons. It appears from the Suisse, a Bernese journal, that Mr. Fay, the representative or the Lcited States at Switzerland, h > just submitted a memorial to the Bun desrath, requesting that measures be taken hv the Swiss Federal Government for abolishing the libera! laws against the Jews. Mr. Fay has made a positive Complaint to the effect that persons from the United State?, who are of tbe Jewish persuasion, are treated in such a manner that it is in perfect violation of the treaty which was several years ago made between Switzerland and (be United States. A oat key arose to announce his text a?- follows: “In de fus ‘pistol <*f Glover’ second chapter and two hundred and ninty fust verse.” “Hold up. Doctor,” ctied one of diis hearers, “you’ve got into dq wrong book ; you mean de nistM ol Timothy I ‘sposo.” The preacher, hesi tating a moment, with a very profound look, said: “Well, I must cave in dis time; though I know’d dat de text wtis somewhare among de grasses!”