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(fSecltln §tm. T. ObWOLF R. J. YARINGTON....T. GILBERT. THUS. GILBERT & €O., Kditors and Proprietors. SUBSCRIPTIONS. For one year, payitblein advance $2 00 Fornix months, payable in advance 1 25 ADVERTISEMENTS. Advertisements will bo inserted in the Weekly Sun at one dollar per square (ten lines or less in nonpareil type,) for the first insertion, and fifty cents for each subsequent insertion of the same. Professional and other cards, not exceeding five lines, inserted six mouths for eight dollars, or for twelve months at fourteen dollars. Announcements of candidates for a time not ex ceeding three months, five dollars; for all time over three months, at the rate of two dollars per month —pay required in advance. Tuesday November 1, 1859. DuPont’s Powder Mills, on the Brandy wine, exploded on the 21st, killing five workmen. All the witnesses being dead, testimony could not be taken. A telegraphic dispatch from Lawrence, dated the 22d, says that fuller returns show that Willing is elected to Congress from Jefferson, instead of W'illiams. Dr. J. C. C. Blackburn has declined the candidacy for Secretary of the next Sen ate as appears by a card from him in the Constitutionalist of yesterday. The Memphis Bulletin says the steamer Belfast recently carried down seventy three negroes, designed for the Southern market, and they were from Southern Missouri. There was a heavy frost in the vicinity of Augusta on Saturday morning last. The Constitutionalist understood that ice was found in the neighborhood at the same time. The steamer Bluff City met with an ac cident in Yazoo river on the 19th inst., and sunk. The boat is a total loss. She had on board nearly 1,400 bales of cot ton, most of which will be saved in a damaged condition. The passengers and crew were saved. The vote of Florida in the last Judicial j election gives DuPont 3,930; Wright 3,037; Baltzell 2,494. For Associates, Forward received 5,357 ; Walker 5,070 ; Yonge 2,728; Ilogue 1,097. The major ity in the State against annexation is , 2 °4. t The Hon. A. 11. Stephens, as we learn from the Atlanta Intelligencer, passed ! through that city on the 24th, en route for Cedar Town, whither he goes to as sist the State in the prosecution of Mor ris for killing Chisholm. Morris Las em ployed B. 11. Hill and Hugh Buchanan to defend him. niassacUusctts Politics. The State Opposition Convention of Massachusetts met in Boston Wednesday last, and nominated Ex-Governor Georire N. Briggs for Governor, and Increase Sumner for Lieutenant Governor. Fire in New Orleans. A fire occurred in New Orleans on the night of the 23d, by which the Magazine street market, with four squares adjoin ing, were destroyed. The loss is estima ted at $150,000. An additional dispatch from the Associated Press states that nearly five blocks of buildings were con- i sumed by fire. The-loss is variously es timated from $300,000 to $500,000. Eufaula Hail Hoad. The Spirit of the South, of the 25th, says that a a public meeting of the citi zens of Eufaula, held last Saturday even ing, the proposition of the South Wes tern Kail Road Company, to build the bridge over the river Chattahoochee, and extend the road into the town for $87,- 500, all payable February Ist, 1860, was accepted, and measures adopted which put tho payment of the money beyond question. — Later from Texas. The steamship Arizona arrived at New Orleans on the 24th, from Brazos Santia go with $38,000 in specie, and dates to the 20th inst. Cortinac, the outlaw com mander, was still encamped on the Rio Grande with 350 men. It is said the In dians arejoining him. Advices from Galveston to the 20th in stant, state that the yellow fever at that place continues unabated. The Dallas Herald states that Mnj. VanDorn had at tacked the Indians near Concho river. He killed one hundred Indians, and lost forty men in the attack, as it is reported. Virginia. J. S. Calvert, Esq., Treasurer of the Commonwealth, has made his annual re port of the financial operations of his department for the year ending the 30th of September, from which it appears that tho balanco of money on hand at that date was $222,888, of which $104,013 is to the credit of the Commonwealth, $42,- 519 to the credit of the Literary Fund, $9,217 to the Board of Public Works, and $67,185 to the Sinking Fund. The actual receipts for the fiscal year were $6,571,- 711, and the actual disbursement for same were $6,502,831. . Clierol&ee, Alabama. The Democracy of Chcrokeo county, Alabama, met in Convention at Centre on the 17th inst. Delegates were selected to attend the Convention at Montgomery in January next. A resolution was passed recommending Hon. Nicholas Davis for elector of the State at large, and in the event of his declining, he was recom mended as elector for the 6th Congres sional District. A resolution was also passed endorsing the principles of the Cincinnati Platform as expounded by Mr. Buchanan in his inaugural address and administration. The Montgomery Mail has learned that the new gin-house of Mr. Edmund Ed wards, in Montgomery count} 7 , containing about twenty bales of cottou, was de stroyed by fire about two weeks since, which loss will bear heavily upon him. Samuel G. Reid, Esq., co-proprietor and co-editor of the Montgomery Adver tiser, has sold the Marion Commonwealth to Mr. George C. Rogers, who will act as editor of the local department. The principal editorial department will, as heretofore, be conducted by William D. Lee, Esq. The New York Day Book says that Al len Evans, who is now lying dying and who was one of Brown’s party at Har per’s Ferry, is said to be or have been a member of Beecher’s church in Brooklyn. He was one of the representatives of the Plymouth Church iu the Sharpe’s Rifle affair. At the convention of the Western Tract Society at Chicago, on the 20th in stant, an amended resolution was adopt ed, in consequence of the Harper’s Ferry insurrection, that the Convention desire the abolition of slavery only by peaceable means. The U. S. M. steamship Florida and bark Henry Wilson, from New York, ar rived at Savannah on the 26th. VOLUME III.! Report of tlie Comptroller General. We are indebted to Peterson Thweatt, Esq , Comptroller General, for a copy of his Annual Report to the Governor for the fiscal year ending2olh October, 1859. The report is full and rather voluminous, and contains much valuable information voluntarily furnished, which was not re quired of him by law. The statement of j the receipts and disbursements at the Treasury during the fiscal year 1859, shows a balance at the end of the year of $614,332. Os this $325,564 is altogether unavailable. The following items com pose this unavailable balancfe in the Treas ury : Bank stock. (Education Fund,) $290,900 00 Stock iu G. Rail Road. 20.000 00 Darien Bunk biila 2,237 25 Western and Atlantic Rail Road Scrip*. 4 754 75 Uncurrent Funds 7,'042 00 Total $325 504 CO This leaves only an available balance iu the Treasury of $288,768. The bal ance unpaid on the appropriations for 1859 amount to $258,432 10. The aggre gate amount cf taxes assessed for 1859 is $436,121 91. The public debt of the State in bonds amounts to $3,354,750. Or Ibis $250,- 000 is due the Atlantic and Gulf Rail Road. The State is also bound for a further subscription of $500,000, inclu ded in the above, when the private stock holders raise an addition of $600,000. The total increase on th-e whole pro perty of the State for 1859 over 1858 is $70,534,762 ; the largest increase in value being upon Slaves: Land next, and then Merchandise. The increase of polls over 1858 is 1,897. The return of the number of acres of land is 21,582 less than last year ; the increased value $10,689,910. The number of slaves lias increased 11,- 240 over 1858; the return of their value over 1858 is $44,154,478. The average value of land for 1859 per acre, is $4 43. The average value of of slaves, $612 63. The average value of land in 1858 was $4 11 per acre ; of slaves $526 39. The total population in 130 counties, according to the abstract of the Census Returns for 1859, is 1,014,418. Os these there are 571,534 whites, 439,592 slaves and 3,292 free persons of color. Among other items of extra informa tion are the cost of the public buildings. The cost of the State House is about $200,000; of the Executive Mansion, about $80,000; of the Penitentiary $511,- 152. Besides the public buildings the other property of the State is given as follows: Bank Stock, pledged to education, $290,- 900, which pays an annual average divi dend of 10 per cent; the Western and Atlantic Rail Road, the estimated origi nal cost of which to the State Treasury, is $4,441,532 11 ; the receipts from this source by the State, during the last twelve months, is $420,000, being an increase of $220,000 over last year; amount of Stock in Milledgeville and Gordon Rail Road, $20,000, which pays 6 per cent, per annum ; amount of Stock paid for in Gulf and Atlantic Road, $250,000 ; $lO,- 000 of Stock in Savannah, Ogecbee and Altamaha Canal Company sold in 1837. The recocqmendations of the Comptrol ler as to amending the Revenue Laws, are based ou good reasoning, and will doubtless receive due attention from the next General Assembly. The Report is a gratifying exhibit of the progress ot the State in wealth, and resources. Here after wo may again recur to it occa sionally. Montgomery Mail. We see by announcement in the Mont gomery Mail of Thursday, that Mr. John Whitfield has become a partner in that popular and flourishing establishment. After the 3d proximo, Hooper, Coyne & Whitfield will be the style of the firm. In addition to their present business, the proprietors are making arrangements for the opening of a first class Job Office, which will be under the exclusive control of Mr. Whitfield, than whom we know of no better or more tasteful workman. Moreover, John possesses, in an eminent degree, the auaviter in viodo, or “a way that wins,” and his popularity, added to that of his colleagues, will insure them the full measure of success, fur which they have our heartiest wishes. Hon. S. AV. Inge. Advices from California by the Overlaud Mail, state that the new Governor favors the election of Hon. Samuel W. Inge, for merly of Alabama, to the Senate, so as to secure better chances for himself as suc essor of Senator Gw-wa, who must be elected in the winter of 1861. Mr. Inge was for merly representative in Congress from District in Alabama now represented by Gen. Svd. Moore. -♦ Conflict between an Ofiicer and a Convict. At noon, on the 22d iust., a convict in the Maryland Penitentiary refused com pliance with the orders of the Deputy Warden, and stabbed the latter twice in the neck, while ho was endeavoring to enforce the command. Another officer, Gregory Barrett, fired two shots at the prisoner, inflicting wounds from which he died immediately. It is thought the Deputy Warden will die of his wounds. o Sew Steam Line to Brazil. The London Times of October sth, gives an account of the opening-of anew line of steamers from Great Britain to Brazil, intended, it is supposed, to knit still closer the ties of commercial intercourse which England has already established iu some degree, at the expense of the United States, and entirely through their negli gence. ♦— — : biddings and tlie Insurrection. A special dispatch ‘o the Charleston Courier, dated Wasbii gton, Oct. 24th, says : ‘‘The Constitution will publish letters to-morrow directly implicating Joshua R. Giddings in the recent trea sonable attempt of ‘old Brown'.” The late James M. Brown, of Iberville, Mississippi, who died recently at the age of fifty-four, left an estate estimated at from $790,000 to $1,000,000, all of which was accumulated in sixteen years from a small investment in sugar planting. A destructive fire occurred in Louis ville, Ky., on Saturday night last, which the Journal pronounces to be the most j destructive by far in several years. The loss was over SIOO,OOO. A dispatch from Petersburg the 27th says that Pryor’s friends are confident of his election to Congress, in the election held the same day. ♦ The steamship Cahawba left New Or- I leans the 26th for New York with $50,000 I in specie. THE WEEKLY SIIN. Statistics of Muscogee County, From the statistical tables accompany ing the report of the Comptroller General for the fiscal year 1859, we find the num | her of acres of land in Muscogee county returned for 1859, lo be 207,118, valued at $1,657,102; average value, $8 per acre. In 1858 the number of acres re turned was 208,180, valued at $1,494,622; average per acre, $7 18. The whole number of slaves returned for 1859 is 6,252, valued at $4,015,690 ; average value, $642. In 1858, the num ber returned was 6,764, value ! at $3,- 306,015; average value, s4*B. The number of polls as returned on the tax books for 1859, is 932 ; number of children between Sand 18, is 1,163 ; professions, 67; free persons of color, 28; value of city property, $2,214,420. The proportion of State tax paid is $8,891 46. The highest on the list of counties in proportion to the State tax paid, is Chatham ; next Richmond ; next Troup, and next Muscogee. The reduc tion of Muscogee’s proportion of the State tax is attributable to making the limits of the county but comparatively little larger in extent than the city cor poration. Hon. T. L, Guerry. We are reliably informed that the gen tleman whose name heads this paragraph h is yielded to the solicitations of his nu merous friends and admirers, to accept the Presidency of the next Senate, should it be tendered to him. There are others, doubtless, who have been mentioned in the same connection, who possess the qualifications requisite for that responsi ble position, but none in a more eminent degree than the Senator from Quitman. As President, for a season, of the last Senate, he fulfilled the expectations of his friends, and should he be re-elected, as there is every probability, he would bring to his aid the resources of an able and experienced legislator. Time and the approving voice of the country would vindicate the wisdom of the selection. *. A Timely Hint. The Charleston Courier, speaking of the revelations made by the plans and maps of the Harper’s Ferry affair, says : “ Concerning some of these places de signated within the State of South Caro lina, we have received information ren dering it probable that emissaries connec ted with the plot and conspiracy lately defeated, had visited them for the purpose of securing details for eo-operation and correspondence. Magistrates, officers and good citizens resident near any of these places, may do service in taking the hint in time, and paying proper attention to unknown or suspicious persons.” Would it not be well for Magistrates and good citizens generally, in places designated in Georgia, Alabama, and other Southern States, to do likewise! Trial of tine Insurgents. The Richmond Dispatch, of the 24th, says: The Circuit Court of Jefferson county, Va., is in session, and the trial of John Brown and his abolition associ ates will commence, probably,'on Thurs day next. Robt. Y. Conrad, of Winches ter, Va., has been appointed by the Court, to act as counsel for the prisoners, and the prosecution is to be aided by Andrew Hunter. The prisoners will be indicted for “ treason, murder, and inciting slaves to insurrection.” A citizen guard has been established of twenty men at Har per’s Ferry, twelve at Shepherdstown, and eighty at Charlestown. The Outlaw Cook. A dispatch from Washington on the 26th states that Cook, the notorious out law, was arrested at Chambersburg, Pa , Tuesday night. A requisition has been made for three others supposed to be iu the mountains of Pennsylvania. Diligeut search is being made for their discovery and arrest. A dispatch from Harrisburg, of the same date, states that Gov. Packer has ordered Cook and Hazlett, who were ar rested iu Pennsylvania, and charged with being Harper’s Ferry conspirators, to be delivered up to the authorities of Virginia for trial. A Negro Funeral. The Macon Journal and Messenger of the 26th says: We noticed, on Monday last, iu our streets, what might seem a singular scene in a slaveholding commu nity, to some of the sympathizing Aboli tionists. It was the funeral of a negro man slave called John Butler. The hearse was preceded by a band of music —to which he had belonged—playing the ‘‘Dead March,” and followed by sixteen carriages and a numerous procession. Alabama and Florida Hail Hoad. From the Montgomery Mail of the 26th, we learn that Col. S. G. Jones, who has just returned from Pensacola, says the laying of the track is progressing briskly on the Florida end of the road, as well as below Greenville. The Flori dians are laying rail at the rate of about one mile a week. It is the opinion of Col. Jones that the entire road will be completed by January, 1861. . T Tnc Jasper Advertiser states that Elias Wright recently killed in Walker county, a rattlesnake that measured eight feet in length and fourteen inches arouDd the body. The skin of this reptile was taken off and three pecks of bran put into it. But three rattles were attached to the snake’s tail, the others—number not known—haviug been shot off in the killing. The examination of the filibusters was concluded at New Orleans on the 21st. Wells, the telegraphic operator, was the only witness sworn. His evidence against the defendants was as non-committal as that of other operators. The case was submitted without argument, and the Commissioner reserved his decision until Monday at 12 o’clock. On last Monday, twenty four miles of the new track on the Mississippi Central Rail Road, was opened for travel. This leaves but twenty-six miles on the whole route that will be traveled by stages, which distance is expected to be covered by rails by the middle of December next. The Hon. George Evans, of Maine, is in Washington, interceding with the President tor a commutation of the sen tence of Capt. Holmes, convicted of mur der on the high seas, and sentenced to be executed on the 15th of next month. The Milledgeviile Recorder, of the 25th, states that they have returns from all the counties. Gov. Brown s majority is 21,577. The vote polled is, for Akin, 42,506 ; Brown, 64 083. The next General Convention cf the Episcopal Church, will be held in New York, three years hence. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 1, 1859. Columbuit and tier R. R. Interests* In our first article on this subject, we endeavored to suggest a few thoughts as to the spirit with which Columbus should regard and enter into Rail Boa i enter prises. It is evident that her failure to engage in former enterprises of this char acter, resulted either from jealousy of other communities and places, or a want of due estimation of her natural and ac quired resources. If the true cause may be ascribed to either, the past shows that her action was not well founded. At any rate, her Rail Road policy has resulted in detriment to her interests, and it be hooves her now to arouse to a proper conception and appreciation of her condi tion,"and retrieve the errors of the past ere the exertions erf rival cities shall render it too late. In every instance quite, iu which Colum bus failed, by refusing to extend thus the circle of her trade and influence, she has simply stood very much in her own light. Instance the Montgomery and West Point Rail Road. When our flourishing sister city, Montgomery, desired a connection with the East, proposi ositions and overtures were made to Co s lumbus. The result was a refusal to en courage the enterprise, and Montgomery,, not to be discouraged, was driven to a connection with West Point. This was not the natural course of the road, and the stranger unacquainted with the facts won’ders why it was not originally ex tended through Columbus. But the con nection with West Point instead of Co s; lumbus, being completed, what was the sequel ? In a few years subsequent, Co lumbus was placed in the attitude of a petitioner and by the assistance of rival interests farther East, built the Opelika Branch Rail Road—a virtual acknowl edgement of the error of refusing the original proposition from Montgomery. So in the case of Macon, which was driv en to run her Road up through Monroe; a wide departure from the line which na ture seems to have originally designed. The time has been when Columbus could have secured a direct communica tion with Eufaula by Rail Road, and thus secured the benefits resulting from the rich and profitable trade of South-East ern Alabama. There were not wanting those in Barbour county, who infinite ly preferred a connection with us to any other city in Georgia, and at one time, had she made the necessary ad vances and held out proper encour agement, we do not hazard contradiction in sayir.g the cars would now, or soon be making regular trips on a branch Rail Itoad from Eufaula to Silver Run, or other convenient point on the Mobile and Girard Rail Road. What are now the relations between Columbus and Eufau la? The latter has concentrated the in terests of Savannah in her favor, and in a few months at farthest, the iron horse from Savannah will make its appearance on the east bank of the Chattahoochee. In yesterday’s Sun we chronicled the fact, that the proposition of the South West ern Rail Road Company to extend a bridge across the Chattahoochee and ex tend the road into the town of Eufaula had been accepted by the citizens, and measures adopted to place the payment of the necessary amount beyond ques tion. A rail road connection between Montgomery and Union Springs may be regarded as a “ fixed fact.” It is the policy and desire of the former to extend the road eventually to Eufaula. Thus we see the consequences of a re fusal of Columbus to embrace the golden opportunities to build up her trade, and increase her wealth by the mutual benefits of these communications.. They have left her in a comparatively isolated position, and literally circum vented by more energetic and enterpris ing communities. But her situation is, by no means, desperate or hopeless. She has ample opportunity still, to profit by and turn to advantage the opportunities which now present themselves, and which other communities are urging upon her attention. In our next we will continue this sub ject, and endeavor to show the proper line of policy which Columbus should adopt towards the cities east of her, and also the advantages which would result from Rail Road enterprises recently projected, and by which she can open other chan nels to trade which is legitimately hers. Locating Survey. Frota the Selma Sentinel of the 25th, we learn that Y. L. Yuille, Esq., Chief Engineer of the Selina and Gulf Rail Road, commenced the work of making the locating survey, on last Saturday morning. He has a full corps with him, and will continue it until completed. James Revel was executed at Knoxville, Crawford county, on Friday last. Some, time since ho was sentenced to be hung for the murder of Adams and Hammock, in that county, but after his sentence was liberated by his friends and escaped to Tennessee, where he was overtaken and brought back to meet his fate. *. — Singular and Fatal Accident. The Bristol News learns that Mr. John Dorsey, an engineer on the Virginia and Tennessee Hail Road, lost his life on the \ 17th inst., by a most singular casualty. He was running a freight train to Lvnch burg, and about a mile East of Seven Mile Ford, Smith county.'Va., and while leaning out of the window of the cab of I his engine, (the ,f Knoxville,”) a large j limb, blown from a tree on the roadside, j struck him upon the head, fracturing his skull, and killing him instantly. He was j a young man, about twenty-six years of ; age. a careful and skillful engineer, and highly esteemed by all who knew him. Killed. The Greenville Democrat learns that, an o-ld gentleman by the Dame of Mitch ell, a citizen of Washington couDty, was run over by the train on the East Ten nessee and Virginia Rail Road on the 14th inst., and killed. The old gentle man was deaf and could not hear the train as it approached him from behind. The Democrat says this is the second case of the kind which has occurred within a few years on that road. A man by the name of David Riley,’ from Tennessee, died, we learn, on Sun day, the 16th, on the road from this city to Macon, near the house of Mr. M. W. Lowe. He had been, he said, to Florida, for the benefit of his health, laboring under consumption, which a Coroner’s j inquest rendered as the cause cf his j death. Riley claimed to have friends and relatives in Macon. —MiUedgevilU Re j corder. Louisville and Nashville Rail Road. The Louisville Democrat, of the 23d, says that on and after Saturday next, freight trains will run through from Louisville to Nashville, and that the pas senger trains will follow on next Monday. Col. Bowen, of Burbonr. In a notice of this gentleman, pub lished in a late number of the Advertiser, he is set down as a planter. This we con ceive to be a mistake, Col. Bowen, if we remember correctly, being an eminent and rising lawyer of Midway, in the northeastern part of Barbour. The gal lant Colonel will please consider himself transplanted from the temple of Ceres to that of Themis.— Mont. Advertiser. The mistake was made by the Adver tiser in the correction. Col. Bowen re sides in the North-eastern portion of Barbour county, and though endowed with the qualifications requisite to have made him an “eminent and rising lawyer,’’ lie has devoted himself ex clusively to agricultural pursuits. He is a gentleman of liberal education, en larged views, and will sustain himself creditably in the Legislature. Barbour will send a delegation to Montgomery of which she may well be proud. Mr. A. C. Barron. Mr. A. C. Barron leaves us this week, to publish the Banner and Baptist, at Rome, Ga. He is a young gentleman of fine habits, good moral character, and is in every way worthy of the position into which he is going. He has been publish ing for us two months, and we have never yet had occasion to find fault with him in any manner. May be have a successful and glorious future. We clip the above from the Abbeville (Ala.) Banner of the 20th. We have had a personal acquaintance with Mr. Barron for a long time, and take the occasion to give a cordial endorsement to“all that is said of him by the Banner. He is a young gentleman of great worth and will always deserve success. Population of tlse Harper’s Ferry Region. The slave population of the region in which the recent abortive attempt of Brown and his hair-brained confederates was made to excite an insurrection, is very large,, as appears from the following, which*shows the relative proportion of whites and slaves at the last census : WHITES. SLAVES. Loudoun county, Va. 18,488 5,641 Jefferson “ “ 11,016 4,841 Berkelv “ “ 9,815 1,956 Clarke” “ “ 3,738 3,614 Frederick “ “ 13,681 2,294 Frederick “ Md. 37,074 8,918 Washington “ “ 28,754 2,000 120,516 23,759 Large Porker for the Atlanta Fair. The Athens (Tenn.) Post says, we were shown at the Athens depot, on Wednesday last, a monster in hog form, measuring four feet in height, nine feet in length, and which weighed at the commencement of the Fair season fifteen hundred and ninety seven pounds five years old next March. He is the prop erty of Dr. McWhorter, of Bedford coun ty, Tennessee. He was on his way to the Eastern Division Fair, at Knoxville, and from thence will go to the Fair at Atlanta. The Holmes Monument. In pursuance of the action of the Geor gia Assembly, recommending the erection of a suitable monument to commemorate the services of Captain Isaac Holmes in the Mexican and Florida wars, the ceremonies, as we learn from the Georgia Telegraph, will iake place on Wednesday at Hose Hill Cemetery. Macon. Hon. Henry R. Jackson, Colonel of the Georgia Regiment in the Mexican war, and Hon. Thomas Hardeman, will deliver addresses on the occasion. A Pike from the Conspiracy. A friend of the Charleston Courier—a representative of the Baltimore press at the scenes lately enacted at Harper’s Ferry—has forwarded one of the pikes’ prepared for the insurgents by the disci ples of the “Beecher’s Bible” school. He writes: Editors Courier: I forward you, per Adams’ Express, a trophy captured by myself. It is in the shape of a pike, or rather a formidable bowie-knife, the han dle being a strong, well-seasoned staff of white oak, about eight feet in length. The Atlanta Fair. >’ We learn from the Atlanta papers that the Fair opens favorably. The city is crowded with visitors. The arrivals of all kinds of stock is very large. The Agricultural Department, though not very full, is better than it was last year. Among other articles on exhibition are Warlick’s Patent Spring Bottom, which attracts attention ; a Double Cylinder Cotton Gin ; a splendid article of Cassi mero, made from Cass County Merino, as well as other things in the manufactur ing line. Ice anti Frost. The Charleston Courier records the ap pearance of a very heavy frost in that city, on Saturday morning last. It was detected in some instances after 7 o’clock. Ice was seen also along the Northeastern Rail Road, to a point distant twenty-nine or thirty miles ‘from*the city. Ice was also seen at and above Midway, on the South Road. - . Fubejl i*of Minister Mason. The funeral of Mr. Mason took place at the American Chapel, Rue de Berri Paris. The correspondent of the Boston Traveler says it was largely attended, including the diplomatic corps, and nearly all the Americans in. Paris. The body will be brought to America by the Arago. ♦ Grain Receipts at Chicago. The receipts of wheat at Chicago for the year ending August 18th, 1859, amounted to 4,750,604 bushds, being 1,826,690 more than the previous year; the receipts of flour 259,355 barrels, be ing 112,519 more than the previous year; the receipts of oats 540,324 bushels, be ing 356,330 more than the previous year. Later from Mexico. Late accounts from ..Mexico state that Yidauii has not left for Texas; but that he is raising troops agaiust the Lib erals, and that some places have declared fer him. Gerrit Smith. It has been hinted, as we learn from a Baltimore paper, that Gov. Wise intends to make a requisition upon Gov. Morgan, of New York, for the surrender of Ger rit Smith, as an accessory to Brown. The Rome Courier of the 26th, under stands that the machinery of the De Soto, lately sunk, will be taken off and anew boat immediately commenced for the Oostanaula river. Among the gentlemen admitted to the bar at the late Fall term of the Circuit Court at Tuskegee, we observe the name of Benjamin B. Fontaine, of Columbus, Georgia. Columbus and tier R. R. Interests. We endeavored in our last article on this subject, to paint out in a cursory manner the loss which has accrued, and the disadvantages under which Columbus now labors, by the refusal or neglect to embrace opportunities, now lost, to ex tend her trade into new and inviting fields. That she would have been bene filted in equal or greater proportion with the communities with which she would have thus been put into immediate com munication, is a self-evident proposition. There is no doubt, also, that the fault is attributable to her; as the Montgomery and West Point Road, which should have originally been extended to Columbus, and the Macon and Atlanta Road, which also was designed to form part of con tinuous line from Montgomery to Macon, by way of Columbus, were built without the assistance of Columbus, which shows, at least, that the projectors and builders of those Roads were sincere, and were abundantly able to contribute sub stantially towards carrying out their de signs. That Eufaula was also able to do the same, is evinced in the fact that she has, with the assistance of Barbour county, contributed in the aggregate probably not less than $415,000 to ex tend the South Western Road across the Chattahoochee into the town. Had Co lumbus made the proper advances, and manifested the necessary interest, it shows what co-operation the foregoing cities could have afforded in connections by Rail Road with us. It is due to Eu faula, to say that her recent example could with profit, be emulated by some other cities of five or six times her popu lation. The present commercial rela tions sustained by Columbus towards certain communities and regions of coun try, is due to some extent, to the policy she has always maintained towards the cities East of her, and Savannah in par ticular. Time has demonstrated that policy to be wrong, and in the opinion of a great many, the period has arrived when that policy should, at least, be changed,—so far as other cities than Sa vannah are concerned. It is not to be expected, of course, that. Savannah, Charleston, or any other city, will not consult their best interests under all cir cumstances. Columbus cannot, and does not expect Savannah to promote our in terest to her detriment, but her policy should be to extend the basis upon which she has hitherto acted, and accomplish by a combination and reciprocity of in terests what could not be done otherwise. The question is, shall Columbus re main exclusively dependent upon Savan nah, or should the interest of Charleston be also concentrated here, and enlisted in our Rail Road enterprises? If this is the question for our decision, it cannot be determined too early, and its deter mination depends upon the question, whether Columbus shall maintain a poli cy of “ masterly inactivity,” and be con tent with her present status, or whether she should extend further the circle of her trade, and engage in other Rail Road enterprises? Some may put in the plea of inability, &c. This is the principal reason why we should endeavor to concentrate the interest of some other city than Savaunah here, —the only re source left us to triumph over that disad vantage, if it. really exists. What has been the consequence of our sole depen dence upon Savannah ! She contributed to build our Muscogee Rail Road, and the Columbus and Opelika Branch Road, but she did it, not that she loved Columbus less, but that she loved Savannah more. Our dependence upon Iter has injured us by the extension of the South Western Road to Eufaula, and a branch to Fort Gaines. This enterprise, cf course, will result in immense benefit to Savannah, by diverting to her a greater portion of the trade of South Eastern Alabama and South Western Georgia. She is also furthering the extension of the Savan nah, Albany and Gulf Road, the line of which will run through South Alabama to Pensacola, and on to Mobile eventual ly. Her lines of Rail Road are extend ing in various directions, and Columbus is reduced to the situation of a mere tributary to her wealth and power. Co lumbus is unable to compete .single handed and unaided against the powerful influence of Savannah, and we do not, and cannot expect her to consult the in terest of Columbus iu every enterprise that may invite her attention, and the profitable investment of her capital. If it is the true interest of Columbus to change her policj', and concentrate other influences besides that of Savannah in her favor, we will endeavor in our next to point out the course, which in our humble opinion, will lead to that desira ble object, and which, when acquired, will, with the additional aid of Savaunah, place the prosperity of Columbus beyond contingency. — Examination cf Brawn. A telegraphic dispatch from Charles town, Va., says rown and his accom plices in the recent Harper’s Ferry affair underwent a preliminary examination the 25th. Several witnesses were examined, but nothing new was elicited. Blown is said to be very indifferent as to whether he has counsel or not. The cases will probably go before the Circuit Court for trial to-morrow. He has made.no con fession, relying on God, as he says, to deliver him, as he has in greater peri!. Last Friday night, about 10 o’clock, ail the gas lights in the city of P.ichmond went out, leaving everything in total darkness. It was caused by an obstruc tion ip the main pipe at the works. The Convention at St. Paul’s Church immedi ately adjourned. At the Theater, where a large crowd was collected, the confusion was great, and was greatly increased by the report spread through the house that the insurgents had taken the gas works, and put out the lights. From Washington. It is reported in Washington that the Secretary of War has received an inso lent letter, purporting to be from Cook, dated at Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, threatening to take Harper’s Ferry and Charlestown, Virginia, with an army of several thousand —liberate the prisoners —and perform other ridiculous feats. The Mobile Evening News of the 24th, says a white man (name not learned) and a-negro man, were run over and sunk in the middle of the river yesterday by the steamer Clotilda, as she came up the river to the city. The negro was drowned, but the white man swam ashore. The boat was tied to a snag, and they were fishing at the time of the accident. {NUMBER 29. ARRIVAL OF THE JASON. New York, Oct. 26, 1859. The steamship Jason, with Liverpool dates to Monday, the 19th instant, has arrived at Quebec Her advices are two days later than the Persia’s. The Jason reports the Liverpool Cotton market steady. Sales for the two days 16,000 bales. London Monty Market. —Consols had ad vanced, and were quoted at 98 to 96’. Additional by tlie Jason. Liverpool Cotton Market. —Sales ot cot ton for the two past business days 16,000 bales, of which speculators and exporters took 3,000 bales. General News.— Thosteamship Arabia arrived at Liverpool on the 15th. The American Minister wascourteously received at Pekin. It is expected that he will send home the ratified treaty, by the 1 mail. It is expected that the Great Eastern will sail for Portland on the 24th of Oc tober. Negotiations at Zurich are still pending. Additional by tlie Ocean Q,ueen. The ship Quebec, of New Orleans, was wrecked at Eddystone Lighthouse, on the 11th instant. Austria refuses to diminish the amount of debt due from Lombardy to Sardinia. Robert Stephenson, the celebrated En gineer, is dead. France and Piedmont proposes to sub mit the Lombardy debt affair to arbitra tion. Numerous arrests have been made in Parma. The principal authors and accomplices, ] in the murder of Anriti, are in the hands of justice. The city is tranquil, and the disarming of the populace has been ordered, al though the city was surrounded by the Modeuez and Tuscan troops. Garibaldi’s proclamation to the central army says : The hour of the new struggle approaches, the enemy threaten and will perhaps attack U3 iti a few days. The Pope was to have an interview with the King of Naples at Castle Gondolfo, where he will prolong his stay, in conse qurnce of the agitation at Rome. After the Pope’s departure, p. demon stration took place, in honor of the Sar dinian Ambassador. It is estimated that ten thousand left their cards at the Am bassador’s residence. The Ambassador was to leave on the 10th. Latest. — Zurich, Oct. 11.—The Con ferences do not draw to a close. Austria’s demands have been resisted by Sardinia and France. France requires that all the expenses of the war shall be paid by Austria and Piedmont. Later from Texas. New Orleanr, Oct. 25.—We have re ceived Brownsville dates to the 20th. The Mexican troops had returned to Matamoras. Lieut. Langdon had ar rived with three cannon. The citizens of Brownsville had cap tured one of Cortinas’ leaders and sen tenced him to be hung. Cortinas threat ened to burn the town if the sentence was executed. Great alarm prevailed among the citizens, who were leaving the town in haste, and threatened to abandon it, unless assistance should arrive soon. Throe hundred troops were expected from San Antonio. The Indians were committing depreda tions all the way down the Rio Grande from Eagle Pass. - ♦— Additional from Harper’s Ferry. Washington, Oct. 25. — A special dis patch from Harper’s Ferry, states that further discoveries have been made of a nature which has not transpired, ten ding to the suspicion that the plan of an outbreak is more extended than it was first supposed. Circumstances have transpired recently which lead to the belief that the ne groes in the adjoining counties are cog nisant to the demonstrations to be^made. It is confidently asserted that Brown has made disclosures to Gov. Wise, which will be placed in the hands of the State Attorney to be used on the trial. - A Mistake. A Columbus correspondent of the Geor gia Telegraph, says : “One thing struck me, the number of cotton bales unhoused: I found the rea son to be want of storage room. This, however, will soon he obviated. Moffett has erected anew warehouse, near the Muscogee Depot, which has been taken by Gray & Greenwood. Hughes & Daniel will soon move into their old quarters and be ready to receive their numerous friends. The Alabama warehouse will also be rebuilt nnd occupied ; and I un derstand that Bass & Cos. mean to pull down the Oglethorpe and erect anew and handsome warehouse. Columbus will then have seven warehouses. Plenty of room, you say. Yes, and clever men to guard the interest of planters.” There ts no w-ant of storage room for cotton. The cotton which the Telegraph’s correspondent thought was unhoused, was turned out for re-marking preparatory to being shipped. Moffett’s warehouse, taken by Greenwood & Gray, we are informed, is receiving cotton. In a few dajs, Hughes, Daniel & Cos. will be ready to house cotton iu their new warehouse, and so with the addition to the warehouse of Dillard, Powell & Cos. There has been already “plenty- of room,” which will be increased by- the improvements com pleted and progressing. Proceedings of City Council. Having been unable to attend the last meeting of the City Council, as we expect to do regularly, we find the report of their proceedings in the official medium of publication. Mr M. L. Patterson, the newly elected Alderman, appeared and was duly quali fied for his seat. The Street Committee submitted a re port recommending the carrying out of ttoe suggestions of his Honor the Mayor with reference to the change in the man agement of the street hands. We hope the experiment wiil be thoroughly tested by the commencement of the next muni cipal year. Our views of the movement cause us to coincide with those who voted in the negative. Alderman Ogletree submitted a motion extending the time prescribed to Messrs. Goetchius & Ilodges for the completion of the new Market and City Hall, until the Ist of February, 1860. This was carried on a division, when the Mayor, as in the previous case, gave the casting vote in the affirmative. There were r,o other proceedings of special importance. New Instrument. Passing Mr. Vandenburg’s music store yesterday afternoon our attention was attracted by the sweet sound of music, we stepped in and found it to proceed from an organ melodeon, which has just •been shipped out, to the order of the St. Cecilia Society. Mr. Vandenberg gave us the opportunity of witnessing its full powers, and its gentlest and sweetest tones, all of which are pleasing and sur prising. This instrument will be used on the occasion of the first concert of that society, which we trust will not be much longer deferred. - Crisp's Gaiety. Kichafd 111 whs presented ou Monday evening, to the largest audience that has attended the performances of the Company this season. There was a good number of ladies iu attendance, whose presence restrained “Young America,” : nnd preserved good order. The full strength of the Company was brought out on the occasion. We cannot say that We were as well pleased with its rendition a* other pieces which have been present ed. Shakspeare’s tragedies are altogether too heavy, except for an extraordinary compauy-, and require more stage room and other appurtenances, to render them satisfactorily, than is afforded by a stage as small and circumscribed as ours.— Considering the appliances in their pos session, we think they did very well. As we were compelled to leave in conse quence of illness, we could not remain until the conclusion. The afterpiece, as we learn, succeeded finely. It could not be otherwise, with Mr. Sheldon as “Cousin Joe,” and “Mar gery” with the sweet song of “Maggie by my side.” A large and expectant audience was in attendance on Tuesday evening, to wit ness that thrilling story, the Gunmaker of Moscow, published in the New York • Ledger, from which it was dramatized and arranged for the stage. The drama is quite short and rather disconnected, , ■ each act leaving the mind in a state of ’ expectancy, from which it is not relieved by the commencement of another. In short, it seems more like four one act dramas, founded upon the same facts, but entirely disconnected. In our opin iou the drama is a poor oue, and not worth the labor evidently bestowed by the company in getting it up. Mr. Hen derson, as Ruric Neville, acquitted him self well, and so did the others. There was nothing in the play by which any actor could show any extraordinary fiash , es of genius. The afterpiece, Robert Macaire, was well acted and uproariously applauded, especially Jaqucs Strop, by Sheldon. Good order prevailed, if we except that ; the usual quantum of club boys were | around, giving applause when silence ! should have reigned, j There was not so good an audience ! present on Wednesday evening, as on previous occasions. The opening play was Rob Roy, or The Days of Auld Lang Syne, The play is doubtless a very fine thing, but oue who never saw it before was not impressed with iis beauty, or force. The performance of a portion of the company was barely endurable by the audience. It was whispered around that Mr. Taylor was exceedingly unwell, | and hence could not play his part. If ho was, he suddenly recovered by the time the after-piece came on. The great fault with a portion of the company was, they were not “up in their parts” on i the occasion, and hence, frequently ap j peared to the audience in a dreamy state. The usual promptitude of Mr. Stetson and Mrs. Ward, was the salvation of llob Roy before a Columbus audience. Miss Mollie Williams did her part as well as could be expected with such bunglers to sustain her. When alone in her part she was au fait. Her song, “Cornin’ thro’ the Rye,” was really charming and sweet; she is a much bet ter vocalist, we think, than danseuse, and should abandon the latter and devote more study to tho former. The after piece, Sketches in India, was an uproarious affair, and Sheldon, again, showed himself equal to any emergency; the others acquitted themselves very well. We regret to find fault with people and officers, but the truth is, the police who nightly visit the theater are not worth a baubee, so far as keeping order lis concerned. Boys break open tho win dows with impunity, half drunken men ; bawl, and rowdies beat the seats with clubs and then sit and laugh. Mr. Can ning does the only duty in that line that | is done ; still these officers are present every night, as dead heads. Would it not be better for future companies to em ploy their own police, and have them recognized by the proper authorities ? We shall suggest the plan to Mr. Flem ing upon his arrival, at least. To-night the Company give their last j entertainment but one, in Columbus. By | special request, and in view of its recep tion by the public on its first presentation, ; the comedy “Still Waters Run Deep” will be repeated, as well as the “Gun Maker ;of Moscow.” We hope to see a large at tendance as on the other occasions. The interval will be filled by Miss Mollie Wil liams, iu a “Character Dance.” Our County Bridges. It is & disgrace to any county, that j permits her highways for travel to get in a condition unsafe to the traveler, and it is a still deeper disgrace, when bridges which are used daily are permitted to become dilapidated and unsafe for life and limb. We regret to say so, but Mus cogee county stands just now in that position. Time and again has the fact that one and another of our bridges were dangerous, been brought to the notice of the bridge contractor, and also the Judges of the Inferior Court, and yesterday we learned that the wagons of a gentleman living in a county South of this, actually fell through the bridge at Eilbeck’s Mills, down a distance of full thirty feet. For i tunately no lives were lost. Now shall this state of things continue ? There is ; only one bridge on the Upatoie passable, and that is really dangerous. We know this is so, for it has not been long since we crossed the crank-sided thing. Shall the county continue a man in its service, who has shown himself so incapable to discharge his obligations? No; let the Justices at once dismiss him. Our city is suffering vastly, and will continue to suffer, until these bridges are put in a safe condition. Planters will not risk the lives of drivers and teams on i such crazy structures. The Inferior i Court should meet at once, and employ a competent workman to rebuild those bridges, and make the present contractor pay for the work. We trust some •steps will be taken speedily to remedy this evil, or we may find, too late, thousands of cotton bags turned away from our doors. From New Orleans. A dispatch from New Orleans on the j 25th, states that the cars on the Pacific Railway (Texas,) commenced running on the 20th inst. A dispatch of the same date says that the slaver bark Laura had been captured by the British steamer Archer, according to advices of the sth inst. from King ston. The ship Crescent City, from Balh, put into New Orleans on the 2Gth for re pairs. She had 5 feet water in her hold. The Grand Jury in the cases of the re cently arrested fiilibusters at New Or leans, found no true bills against them ; consequently they were discharged. A telegraphic dispatch to the Associated Press states that accounts from the sugar crop of Louisiana continue unfavorable.