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COLUMBUS: Tuesday Horning, Not. 99, 1839. There was frost and ice at Houston, Texas, on the 12th and 13th inst. There Were five interments from yellow fever at Galveston on the 12th. A bill has passed the House of Repre sentatives of the Texas Legislature abol- ! ishing the office of Public Printer, and letting the work to competition. Hon. Jere. Clemens has left Memphis for the North, whither he has gone to put in press his new work, entitled “The Rivals.” A few nights since, the residence of the City Marshal in Memphis, was fired by an incendiary, and destroyed, with most of its contents. Mr. Dufour, present representative from Camden county, has been appointed Collector of the port of St. Mary’s, Ga., to fill the vacancy occasioned by the de cease of Julius A. Barrette. ♦- The exports (exclusive of specie) from New York to foreign ports for the week ending Nov. 14, amounted to $1,504,820, making, with the amounts previously re ported, since January Ist, $57,826,676. News from Virginia. In our telegraphic column will be found a dispatch, containing important and ex citing intelligence in connection with the recent trials at Charlestown. The Wanderer Trials, Are still progressing at Savannah. Both sides at present are examining wit nesses, but the testimony of all sum moEed has not yet been taken. • The New York Shipping List announ ces among the freights, the following: New ship Southern Rights, 1,000 tons, now at Richmond, Me., from Charleston to Liverpool, cotton 7-16d., or if to Havre, $■ cents. John and Jesse Lewis, brothers, con victed in the Circuit Court of Anderson county, Tennessee, of the murder of the sheriff and deputy sheriff of Campbell county, have been sentenced to be hung at Jacksonborough on the third Friday in December. Codification of the Laws. On Saturday the 19th, the two houses of the Legislature elected two codifiers of the laws, to fill the vacancies occa sioned by the resignation of Messrs. Johnson and Harris. On the first ballot T. It. R. Cobb and R. H. Clarke, Esqs., were elected without opposition. Fly In Wheat. The Athens (Tenn.) Post says: Some of the farmers in Sullivan and other of tho upper East Tennessee counties, com plain that the fly has made its appear ance, and is seriously damaging the young wheat. In this section, in many places, wheat is up and growing off finely, while others are not done seeding. Texas Official Vote. On Friday, the 11th inst., the vote for Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Texas was counted by the two Houses of the Legislature, in joint session. Gen. Houston received 36,170; H. R. Runnels 27,500; Houston’s majority, 8,670. Col. F. Clark’s majority for Lieutenant Gov ernor over F. R. Lubbock, is 1,133. New Locomotives. The Savannah Republican says that the schooner Manhassett, Capt. Blake, from New York, which arrived there on Thursday last, had on board two new lo comotives, one for the South Western and the other for the Savannah, Albany and Gulf Rail Road Company. . Senatorial Election. In the House of Representatives, Sat urday, a resolution was adopted, which prescribes the time for electing United States Senator to represent this State in Congress. It provides that the election shall come off at the session of the Legis lature immediately preceding the time at which the new Senator is to take his seat. Accident on tlie Memphis and Char leston Road. From the Nashville Union we learn that the passenger and freight trains collided the night of the 15th, about nine miles from Memphis. The locomotive attached to the passenger train was smashed to atoms, and several of the forward freight cars were thrown off the track. The en gineers and firemen leaped from the lo comotives, and thereby saved their lives. No person was injured. ♦ New York Election. Up to this time the majorpy of Jones, Democratic candidate for Secretary of State in New York, is 308. The county canvassers met throughout the State the 15th, to count the votes cast at the recent election. Some newspapers of each party claim the majority for their favorite can didates, but there is no doubt of the election of Jones. “Sut Lorengood.” The Nashville Union says: “We are gratified to be able to announce that our friend George W. Harris, Esq., has made definite arrangements with Messrs. Dick & Fitzgerald, of New York, for the pub lication of a handsomely illustrated edi tion of his “Sut Lovengood” and other sketches. The merited fame of the au thor, and the popularity 4 of his publish ers, will secure for the work a large and ready sale. * Arrest of a. Convict. The Upson Pilot says a man calling himself W. J. Edwards, was arrested at Thomaston, on Wednesday night, under suspicious circumstances. He had on a new suit of clothes, but upon investiga tion his old suit was found, amoDg which, was the Slate Stripes. He then acknowledged he was Ruel A. Turner, and that he escaped from the peniten tiary last Sunday. He was carried back to Milledgeville. o The Atlantic and Gulf Road. The Early County News learns from a private letter, that an arrangement has been effected with the Directors of the Atlantic and Gulf Bead, by which they agree to survey, locate and put under contract, the Road from Bainbridge to Freeman’s Landing, on the Chattahoo chee, as soon as $150,000 is subscribed for that purpose. It is contemplated that the Road will run within six miles of Blakeley. . Mayor of New York. The regular Democratic Mayoralty Con vention to nominate candidates for Mayor and Governor of the Alms House, met at Mozart Hall Tuesday night. Fernando Wood was nominated by acclamation as their candidate for Mayor, and James Lynch for Alms House Governor. James O’Connor was tried for murder in Apalachicola, Thursday last, found guilty and sentenced to be hung the 30th of December next. The case will be taken to the Supreme Court. The steamei"Florida, Captain Nelson, left Apalachicda for New Orleans on the J6th instant. Alabama State Treasurer's Report, | We are indebted to the Hon. E. C. Bul lock for a copy of the biennial report of the State Treasurer to the General As sembly of Alabama, for the fiscal years ending September, 1858, and September, 1859. The total receipts during the two years ending September 30th, 1859, were $1,710,549 03; the total disbursements j during the same period, $2,714,141 83. The balance in the Treasury at the date of the last report, was $1,635,271 80. ! The amount of notes of the State Bank and Branches burned by act of January 22d, 1858, was $1,189,928. Since the date of the last report the number of State bonds redeemed by J. Whiting, Commissioner and Trustee, and filed in the Treasurer’s office, is 137. The amount for which they were issued is $135,555 57, bearing interest at 5 per ! cent. The amount disbursed for educational purposes for the ‘two years is $560,- 422 84 ; the pay of members of the Gen eral Assembly, session of 1857 and 1858, $58,979 80; the contingent expenses of the State government, $10,481 51. We may occasionally notice other items in this report hereafter. Important to Cotton Planters. In the Petersburg Express we find the proceedings of a meeting of the New York Chamber of Commerce. The subject principally discussed was the complaint of the British manufacturers in regard to the adulteration of cotton with sand to increase its weight. To stop these frauds, resolutions were introduced recommend ing that three tickets, with the planter’s mark thereon, should be placed at inter vals on the packages ; also that the name should be painted on the outside. The planter would thus be made to pay for any fraud when discovered, and the hon est planter could be protected. Pardon of Wm. A. Choice. From the Southern Recorder, which arrived here last evening, we learn that the Senate, by a vote of 54 to 53, passed the bill Thursday, pardoning Wm. A. Choice, who ‘is under sentence of death for the murder of Calvin Webb, in Atlanta. A petition from his mother was laid on the desks of the members of the Legislature. The bill was the subject of a long, interesting and able debate. Messrs. Holt, Miller. Payne, and Hill ad vocated pardon, and Messrs. Jones, Col lier, and Williams against it. Savannah) Griffin and North Alaba ma Rail Road. The Directors of this Company met at Newnan, on the 11th inst Upon investi gation there was ascertained to be $716,- 400 subscribed. Col. W. J. Jossey, of Griflin, was chosen Secretary, and Mr. Robert Douglas, Chief Engineer, who will proceed to locate as soon as competent assistants can be procured. Identifying Brown’s Men. The Washington States says detectives Pierson and Woodall, of Baltimore, in company with five residents of Harper’s Ferry, reached the city yesterday morn ing, on their way to Richmond, Lynch burg, Wyethville, and other places, for the purpose of identifying, if possible, the five different persons under arrest at those points for supposed complicity with the recent raid of John Brown & Cos. ♦ The Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Norton were together for the first time in several years, at the funeral of their son, who was buried according to the Roman Cath olic ceremonial, at Wakefield, England, on the 23d ult. They dined together, and Mr. Norton paid his afflicted wife every attention. The hope is expressed that the mournful event may result in their reconciliation. “The United South.” This is the title of anew paper re cently commenced in Abbeville, Ala., by Messrs. John B. Taylor and S. S. Curry, editors. We acknowledge the receipt of the first number, and wish it God’s speed in the accomplishment of its object. The editors are known as gentlemen of abil ity, and are well qualified for the task to which they have addressed themselves. ♦ Large Compensation. The general agent for the Western States of the famous and unprecedentedly successful Etna Insurance Company, of Hartford, receives a compensation larger than that of the President of the United States. The Hartford Times says bis commissions annually range from $25,- 000 to $30,000. Death of Ex-Gov. Gilmer. The Augusta papers announce the death of the Hon. George It. Gilmer, which occurred at his residence in Lex ington, last Wednesday morning, after an illness of one month. Mr. G. was twice elected Governor of Georgia, and we believe, served the State several years in Congress. •* “A Sea. ot Upturned Faces.” The contest about the paternity of this phrase has been settled. The New Orleans Bulletin says it may be found in Scott’s “Heart of Mid-Lothian,” in the interview between Jenny Dean and her sister Eflfle, then confined in the Tolbooth at Edin burgh. Election of State Printers. In the Alabama Legislature, Thursday. Messrs. Shorter & Reid, of the Advertiser, were elected State Printers, they being the only candidates in nomination. In Mississippi, Major Barksdale, of the Mississlppian, has been elected State Printer. ♦ A. K. Moore, of the Petersburg Intel ligencer, and formerly of the Savannah Republican, is a candidate before the next House of Representatives for the Congressional Printing. The Intelligen cer is a Whig paper. A Million of Muskets for Garibaldi. The Italians held a meeting in New York city on Tuesday evening, to take measures to aid Garib&ldj in his efforts to obtain a million of muskets. ’ ♦ Reprieve of Brown. It is stated that a petition is in circu lation at Manchester, N. H., praying Gov. Wise to postpone Brown’s execution until the meeting of the Virginia Legis lature. ♦ Killing. A young gentleman by the name of McCrabb, formerly of Washington City, but more recently of Columbus, Ga., was shot and killed by some unknown person, on the corner of Market and Perry street last night. We understand from an eye witness of the difficulty, that the deceased gave his antagonist a blow with his fist, whereupon the latter drew bis pistol and shot him. Mr. McCrabb ran to the op posite corner, and fell within a few feet of the drug store of Messrs. Glackmeyer & Hilliard. He did not survive exceed ing five minutes after being shot. The ball took effect in the left breast, just above the nipple. The person who committed the deed immediately fled up Perry street. He had not been arrested up to the hour of our going to press last night.— Montgom ery Advertiser of Friday. Cotton Shippers Application Books, handsomely ruled and bound, for sale at the tet. 29. SUN OFFICE. The “Chattahoochee Slack Water Navigation Company.” A few days since, we published a bill which has been introduced in the Legis lature by Mr. Cook, of Early county, bearing the above title. It is a move- j ment in which every man and place af- i fected by the navigation of the Chatta hoochee are deeply interested —particu- ; larly the city of Columbus. What is proposed to be accomplished by it 2 It is to constitute a dozen men, one or more of whom reside in Alabama, and not one in Columbus, a body corporate, and invest them with extraordinary and dangerous powers and privileges—in short, to give them the control and a monopoly of the commerce and navigation of the Chatta hoochee river. Section 5 of the bill empowers the Company, after they shall have built and completed as many dams and locks as in their judgment may be necessary, to levy certain rates of toll upon the freight and passengers of each boat navigating the river, the correctness of the list of which, when rendered, is to be authenticated by the oath of the purser or commander of said boat. For the sake of example, it authorizes them to levy a tribute of five cents per dry barrel, which of course will be collected at every successive lock upon the river until it reaches its desti nation. Suppose that three locks inter vened, a tax of fifteen cents in addition to the freight will have to be added to the original cost of erch barrel, all of which must be ultimately paid by the consumer. The effect it will produce upon our flour ing mills is only an illustration of the influence it will exert upon the general commerce of Columbus up and down the Chattahoochee. The result will be a di version of much of our trade from that channel, in favor of that from other places. If the successful and better navigation of the river be the object of the bill, it is a work of supererogation. In the winter season the water is frequently high and uniformly navigable, and in this season our heaviest freight is carried up and down the river. In the summer season, when the water is at its lowest stage, the difficulty of shipping freight has been obviated by the construction of a light draught boat, which was fully equal to the exigencies of our commerce by the river the past season. Should the light draught boat be insufficient to meet the demands of our summer trade, another will be built. Capital rarely or never fails to seek a profitable investment. On the score of necessity, there is no de mand for the passage of the bill. Leaving out of view all other consider ations, we desire to be enlightened as to what particular section of the Constitu tion of the State, or of the United States, from which the Georgia Legislature may derive authority to invest this company with plenary power over the navigation of a public highway ! Will some friend of the enterprise enlighten us? If not designed to cripple our commerce, such will be its effect, as well as to create a monopoly dangerous to our good. We hope our representatives at Milledgeville will uso their votes and influence to de feat it, and should it be passed, the Leg islature will be guilty of an unwarranta ble usurpation of power. Petition of Mrs. Choice. To the General Assembly of the State of Georgia : I am the mother of William A. Choice, for whose pardon a bill is now pending before your honorable body. I humbly ask the privilege of saying a brief word in his behalf. The law which cannot know mercy has doomed him to die on the gallows, but I am still his mother, and that tie which Nature creates and makes holy is most sacred—it is not weakened, even by his impending fate. If any among you be inclined to deem me intru sive, let him remember this—let him re member his own mother, and say whether she ought to be silent if a cruel destiny was about to consign you to such a fate. Listen to me, then, patiently, if you can, and in merciful kindness, I pray you. My son’s counsel, who are skilled in the law, and conscientious in their duties, tell me the law does not demand my child’s life —that there is, to say the least, not only reasonable doubt but strong doubt, whether the killing of Webb, whose death I shall never cease to deplore, was the result of my son’s intoxication, on that dreadful day, or of previous mental dis order existing long before. If the latter, then even according to the learned Judge before whom he was tried, he is ex cused—if there be a reasonable doubt which of the two—then the humanity of my State, justifies you in setting the captive free. On this point I implore you to examine the testimony with hearts inclined to lift, if possible, the heavy load of grief which is crushing me. I, though knowing his state of mind better than any one, was not sworn as a witness. The reason was, I was struck down with sickness which made it impos sible for me to go to Atlanta. With pun and sorrow, I have dragged myself here to make this appeal to you, and to say what I would have said on oath in Court, if I had been able. My child, since the year 1850, at frequent periods has not been of sound mind—has not been able to distinguish between right and wrong— and this I know to be true, as well as I know or can know anything, for I have frequently consulted with my friends, Drs. Hamilton and Douglas and others, and the members of my family in regard to it. The propriety of confining him in the Lunatic Asylum, has been fre quently and seriously considered by his friends. lam getting old—the hand of affliction presses heavily upon me—l must soon appear before an All-knowing power, to answer for the truth of this statement and all other deeds done in the body. That God, before whom you and I must answer, knows this statement is true. The cold dry law may say it is not evidence—l can only reply it is truth. Will you have mercy ? The life of my son is in your hands. What small rem nant of peace that is left to me this side of the grave, is also at your disposal. It is your high prerogative to be merciful even to the guilty. Must I be crushed and pressed down still more ? Great, it may be, has been my child’s offence; and grievously already has he answered it; and grievously have I answered it. Oh ! spare me any further woe. If you deny this, a mother’s prayer, I can only go with my unfortunate child to the foot of the gallows, and pray there that a merci ful God may show you that mercy which | you deny to me. MARY A. CHOICE. ) Bxclttng Intelllgenae I Col. Davis iu Charlestown telegraphs to Mr. Barbour at Harper’s Ferry, to telegraph the Mayor of Alexandria to call Capt. M. Marye, or the Mount Vernon Guards, to his aid immediately. Mr. Barbour adds to the Mayor of Al exandria, that the message to him re ported 250 armed men encamped at Ber ryville Ford. Capt. Marye telegraphed that he would leave Alexandria with his company at 5 o’clock on Friday morning. Colonel Stewart and Major Duffy both telegraphed the Governor requesting or ders to take two companies and the artillery. Col. Davis telegraphs to Gov. Wise to order out the cavalry, which he has done. Col. Davis says there is a guer rilla war here, and property of five of the best citizens has been burnt. Upon this the Governor has ordered the Ist Regi ment (Richmond) to be in readiness,|and they were awaiting orders last night. The Governor has given the orders to move immediately upon the Berryville Ford, unless information guided them otherwise —Richmond Index, 18lh Alabama Legislature. In the Senate Thursday, the President ‘ announced the appointment of the stand iDg Committees. The most important position is Chairman of the Judiciary Committee, assigned to Mr. Bullock, Senator from Barbotir. A resolution was introduced by Mr. i Bullock, to bring on the election of Su preme Court Judge yesterday, which was adopted, and sent to the House. A bill to incorporate the Western Bank of Alabama, was referred to the proper Committee. In the House, Mr. Smith, of Lauder dale, introduced a bill to amend the law relating to the emancipation of slaves. Mr. Clitheral, a bill to repeal the an ! nual settlements of Guardians aDd sub stitutes annual statements. Mr. Parsons, a resolution to appoint a ; Committee to ascertain how much of the two and three per cent, fund still re mained in the Treasury. The Rebellion in Northern Mexico. The New Orleans Picayune of Tuesday says: “We learn from private letters, by the last Mexican mail, that the rebellion at Victoria City, State of Tamaulipas, has been entirely suppressed, and the troops sent thither ordered on to the headquarters of the Liberal camp at San Luis Potosi. The leaders of the rebellion —Jose Maya, Dionisis Hernandez, Anto nio de los Reyes, and Ilipoliio and Ber nabe Iliracheta—were all condemned to death, which they suffered in the public square on the 28th ult. Os their fugitive companions, we hear nothing further. They have, perhaps, long ere this joiued Cortinas and his gang on the Rio Grande.” A Rescue. The Richmond Dispatch of Wednesday says: There are still occasional rumors of a plot to rescue Old Brown and bis companions. The Richmond correspon dent of the Petersburg Express says that orders have been given to the guard, in the event of such an attempt, to shoot the prisoners at once, and then defend them selves from the attacking party. The Governor is still in receipt of vile and menacing letters from the abolition ists. It is evident that a spirit of mis chief is afoot which demands vigilance at a’l points. Hogs in Tennessee. From the Athens (Tenn.) Post of Fri day we learn that several large droves of Kentucky grunters have passed through that place within the last few days. The “Mule season” is pretty well over though there are small lots still passing. This is the great stock route leading from Kentucky into Georgia, and the numbers that yearly travel it are almost incredible. A lot of pork was sold at Athens Inst week, at 6 cents nett, and notwithstand ing large numbers have died from “chol era,” the yield will be large. Corn was selling at 40 cents per bushel. New Steamboat. From the Evening Express we learn that Mr. 11. F. Willink, Jr., of Savannah, is about building for the Planters’ Steam boat Company of Hawkinsville, anew steamer for navigating the waters of the Altamaha and Ocmulgee rivers. From the same paper we learn that the steamer Oak, snagged last year 18 miles below Macon, has been repaired and re fitted with new boilers and engines. Her carrying capacity has been increased 300 bales. New Patents for Manufacturing Sugar. From the Washington Constitution’s lists of patents for the week ending Nov. 8, we take the following: Charles A. Desobry, of Palquemine, La., for im provement in pans for evaporating cane juice. John Aspinxall, of London, England, for improvement in refining sugar. Pat ented in England, February 8, 1859. Tine Wanderer Trials. In the U. S. Circuit Court at Savan nah, on the 16th, the prisoners—charged with bringing African slaves in the yacht Wanderer, in the autumn of 1858, were brought into Court. They had been con fined a year. The full panel of the jurors summoned were not present, but tho counsel on both sides consented to proceed without them. A jury was soon empaneled, and the trial proceeded regu larly. Destruction of Newspapers. By the recent disastrous fires in Griffin and Atlanta, two newspapers have been entirely burnt out, namely: the Empire State in the former, and the Intelligencer in the latter place. We deeply sympa thise with our cotemporaries in their misfortune, and sincerely hope they may rise. Phoenix like, from their ashes. Flection of Judge of tUe Supreme Court of Alabama. On Friday the Bth the two Houses of the Alabama Legislature elected the Hon. Richard IV. Walker as Judge of the Su preme Court, vice Judge Rice resigned. Judge Walker was appointed by the Gov ernor to fill the unexpired term of Judge Rice. ♦ Gin House Burnt. The South Western News of Thursday says : “The gin house of Col. D. B. liar rell, of Webster county, was burned on last Monday. There were some twenty or thirty bales of cotton in the house at the time. The house was set on fire, we understand, by a negro girl belonging to Col. Harrell. Convict Killed. The Wetumpka Spectator says a con vict named Wm. Griffith was shot while in a state of rebellion, by Dr. Burrows, one of the lessees of the State Prison, on Thursday, killing him instantly. , Our Relations witb Mexico. Washington, Nov. 14.—1 tis the belief i in the diplomatic circles here that the President does not expect to come to any j treaty with the Liberal Government of i Mexico, and it is understood now, that Mr. McLane returns to Vera Cruz merely for the purpose of watching the course of events there, and of protecting Ameri can interests. The President, it is stated, will take i strong grounds in his message od our re- I lations with Mexico. From present indications here, there ; would seem to be more chances of a war with Mexico than the conclusion of a ; treaty. — Barbarism in a Palace. | A Constantinople letter of October 3d, in the Gazette du Midi, says: “The barba- I rous custom, dictated by reason of State, . of not allowing any male children born ; | by the daughters of the Sultan to live, lis still in full force at the Seraglio. The ! Sultana, wife of Mahmoud Pasbn, was : recently delivered of a son, who was piti lessly strangled after his birth. The un happy mother, who was well aware what the fate of her child would be, if a son, was in the greatest distress of mind du ring her pregnancy, and her fears were i but too well justified. ♦ Governor Wise to Mr*. Child, The reply of the Governor of Virginia to Mrs. Child, of Boston, (who solicited the privilege of comforting and nursing “Old Brown,” in prison,) is one of the best turned epistles, that we remember to have read. —New Haven Register. GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. Among the bills introduced in the House on the 16th, we observe one by Mr. Dixon, of Muscogee, to incorporate * the “ Georgia Greys,” of the city of Co lumbus'. Williams, of Muscogee—To prescribe the mode in which Judges shall give their charge to Juries. Also, to facilitate the rendition of judg ments against Sheriffs and their Securi ties. The bills to change the time of electing the county officers from the first Monday to the first Wednesday in January, and to alter the time of electing Tax Receiv ers and Collectors in the State were passed. In the Senate on the 17th, the most important bills introduced were by Mr. Hall, of Meriwether—To alter the law in relation to the expiration of the time when evidences of debt, &c , shall go out of date. Mr. Jordan, of Pulaski—A bill to re quire the concurrent opinions of two of the Judges of the Supreme Court, before : any decision shall be made. Also, a bill to amend the act, exempt ing from levy and sale, certain articles necessary for the subsistancc of the debtor. Mr. Poole, of Hall —A bill to require the names of all Becret prosecutors be fore the grand juries, to be written on the indictment. Mr. Delaperriere, of Jackson —A bill to re-organize the Militia laws of the State, and to provide for a call of a con vention of all commanding officers for the consideration of the matter at Atlan ta, on the second Monday in June next Mr. McGebee, of Houston—A memo rial in relation to the necessity of addi tional means for the defense of Georgia. Referred to the Military Committee. Mr. Miller, of Richmond, introduced a bill to pardon John Fundy, under sen tence of death in Gwinnett. On Friday, upon the reading of bills the third time, the report of the Judi ciary Committee against the bill to au thorize the arrest and rendition of per sons committing offenses against the laws of the adjoining States, when they have fled to this State, was concurred in by 8 majority. Friday, in the House, the motion to re-cousider its vote upon the bill, calling a Convention for the reduction of the Legislature, was adopted. The bills from Senate to pardon Wm. A. Choioe and Francis I. Smith, now un der sentence of death for murder, were on motion of Mr. Williams, of Muscogee, read first time. The house ordered 200 copies of the evidence printed. The following were the most impor tant bills introduced : Mr. Lumsden, of Talbot—To appro priate money for the purchase of fire arras for the volunteer corps in this State. Also, to amend the act of December 24, 1857, in relation to carrying concealed weapons, and also the act of Jauuary 12, 1852, amendatory thereto. Also to declare certain words slander ous per se. By Mr. Anderson, of Bibb—To protect holders of bills of exchange and drafts drawn on shipments of cotton. By Mr. Loften, of Oglethorpe—To au thorize executors and administrators to buy property at their own sales, on cer tain conditions. By Mr. Williams, of Muscogee—To incorporate she Mutual Loan and Build ing Association, in the city of Columbus. On Saturday the Senate reconsidered the bill for the arrest and rendition of persons committing offenses against the criminal laws of the neighboring States, which the Judiciary Committee had re ported against. The following with other new matter was introduced: Mr. Boggs, of Liberty, a bill to point out the mode of relief for widows and orphans. Mr. Flewellen, of Upson, a bill to au thorize the Tbomaston and Barnesville Rail Road Company to extend their road: Mr. Hall, of Meriwether, a bill to de clare the meaning of a certain section in reference to the Ordinaries of this State. Mr. King, of Glynn, reported in the name of several members of the Commit tee on Internal Improvements favorably to the passage of a bill authorizing State aid Mr. Seward, of Thomas, a resolution in reference to a difficulty that is likely to occur between the citizens of Georgia and Florida. Also, a bill to abolish the laws of this State in relation to the rates of inter est, &c. Mr. Ritch, of Appling, a bill to author ize Ordinaries to act as Executors, Ad ministrators, and Guardians. A bill to compensate teachers of poor children of Muscogee county, was read a third time and passed. HOUSE. Yesterday the bill for the pardon of Wm. A. Choice, was made the special order. The bill for the reduction of the General Assembly is the special order for to-day. SENATE BILLS BEAD TIIIBD TIME. To amend an act incorporating the Sa vannah, Griffin and N. Alabama Rail Road Company. Passed. Among the House bills read first time were to amend the bill establishing the Supreme Court of this State. Passed. To amend the act relative to the issu ing of attachments and garnishments. Passed. To require securities and endorsers to give certain notices in writing. Passed. To provide for the probate of wills, by taking testimony by interrogatories. Passed. To authorize the Ordinaries to give up marriage licenses, afterthey are recorded, to the husband of the party marrying under such license. The penalty clause was stricken out, and the bill was indefi nitely postponed. The Senate resolutions, authorizing the appointment of a special agent to re pair to Florida, to settle a difficulty in regard to the jurisdiction of Georgia and Florida. Taken up and agreed to. Another Fire. From the Newnan Blade of Friday we j learn that a fire broke out in the village j of Bowdon, Carroll county, about two o’clock Sunday morning, the 13th inst., destroying all the business houses iu the | place. Mr. Thomas Redmond, an old citizen ! of Charlotte county, Va., was shot a few days since, by his son, aged 18, and died j jon Saturday. The son had a difficulty with his father, who drove him from his house. Thirty-seven shot were extrica ted from his side. Health of New Orleans. The report of the Board of Health for the week ending Sunday, showed the number of deaths to be 145. Os these, three were from yellow fever and one from cholera. ► Supreme Court, Met in Milledgeville on Monday last. ; Judges Benning and Stephens present. Judge Lumpkin was detained at home, by the sickness of his family. Official Vote of Alabama. The vote for Governor was counted by the two Houses of the Legislature on Friday, and the result was as follows: j For A. B. Moore, 46,478; for W. F. Sam- j ford, 17,564. Archbishop Hughes, of New York, has been invited to preach the sermon at the next annual commencement of the Uni versity of Chapel Hill. A military company has been organized at Union Springs, Ala., by the election of R. H. Powell, Captain, and the full com plement of officers. Sentence of the Prisoner*, Eentence of death has been passed ! upon John E. Cook, Edwin Coppie, John Copeland and Shields Green. Judge Parker said: Your trials, on which we have been so long employed, have at length ended, ant all that remains to be done to complete ; these judicial proceedings, is to pronounce j and record .the judgments which by law j must follow upon the crimes for which you have been tried, and of which yoir have been found guilty. These crimes lmve all growu cut of ft mad iuroad upon this State, made with the predetermined purpose to raise in our ( midst, the standard of a servile insur rection. In the execution of this pur pose, in the darkness of a Sabbath night, you seized upon a portion of our terri tory, captured several of our best citi zeDS —holding them as hostages of war until your party was itself overcome by f orce —armed such of our slaves as you could seize upon with deadly weapons, which they were to use against their owners, whom you denounced to them as their oppressors ; and, in your efforts to push your “bold and unholy scheme to a successful issue, you have taken human life in no fewer than five instances. The evidence most abundantly proved that all these things had been done, and by the force of that evidence jury after jury has felt itself compelled to bring in its verdict of guilty against each one of you. Happily for the peace of our whole land, you obtained no support from that quarter whence you so confidently ex pected it. Not a slave united himself to your party, but, so soon as he could get without the range of your rifles, or as night gave him opportunity, made his escape from men who had come to give him freedom, and hurried to place him self once more beneath the care and pro tection of his owner. When we reflect upon all the mischief and ruin, the dark and fearful crimes, which must have attended even your partial success, men everywhere should be thankful that you were so soon and so-easily overpowered. For these offeucesthe law demands the penalty of death, and imposes upon me the duty of pronouncing that sentence. It is the most painful duty I have ever been called on to perform. Iu spiie of your offences against our laws, I cannot but feel deeply for you, and sincerely, most sincerely, do I sym pathize with those friends and relations whose lives are bound up in yours, and whose hearts will be so wrung with grief when they shall hear of the sad fate which has overtaken you, the object of their warmest and holiest affections. For them we all do sorrow ; whilst a due re gard for our safety may not permit us to forgive the offences of which you have been guilty, I hope that they will turn ! for consolation, and you for pardon, to that good Being who, in His wrath, re inembereth mercy. Make, then, your peace with him—for you must soon be ushered into His presence, there to be dealt with as Ilis justice and llis mercy may ordain. To conclude this sad duty, I now an nounce that the sentence of the law is, that you, and each one of you, John E. Cooke, Edwin Coppie, Shields Green, and John Copeland, be hanged by the neck until yiu be dead—and that execution of this judgment be made aud done by the sheriff of this county, on Friday, the 16th day of December next, upon you, Shields Green and John Copeland, between the hours of 8 and 10 in the forenoon, of that day—and upon you, John E Cooke and Edwin Coppie, between the hours of twelve (noon,) and five in the afternoon of the same day. And the Court being of opinion that the execution of this sen tence should be in public, it is further ordered that this judgment be enforced and executed, not in the jail yard, but at j such public place convenient thereto as the said Sheriff may appoint—aDd may God have mercy upon the soul of each one of you. During the delivery of the sentence the utmost silence was observed, and the : solemnity was very marked. A large number of the spectators wept, as also did the Judge. The prisoners were remanded to jail, j there to await the execution of this judg- I ment. For the Sun. Eds. Sun: My attention has been ar rested by a bill introduced into our Leg | islature, under the ponderous title of | “ The Chattahoochee Slack Water Navi ■ gation Company,” with a proposed capi tal of only one million of dollars ; for what purposes is not very clearly defined in the body of the bill. Is it to clean the channel of the river from obstructions, and improve navigation generally ? If so, the General Government should be truly grateful to those citizens for this propo sition of disinterested patriotism. Perhaps j it may. as incidental to this national j work of love, desire to levy tribute upon the commerce of Columbus. The powers asked for are ample for this end. If our j citizens do not share in this outburst of public benevolence, let them speak out at once. Let them instruct our agents in Milledgeville to oppose the bill. There should be no delay. Let all opposed call at your office and register their names immediately, and the list be sent on, that our views may be heard against this mo nopoly. _ ARGUS Incendiaries About, A friend writes us from Greeuville, in this State, under date 11th inst., that an alarm was given on Tuesday night pre vious, that some person or persons were attempting to set fire to-the residence of Mr. Wm. S. Lawson, of that place. A negro woman ran into the house appa rently much frightened, and said that six men were sitting on the fence, one of whom asked her if her master was at home, and on her answering that he was, the man (old her not to say anything about their being there, as they intended set ting fire to his house that night. On ex amination in the morning, a partially burnt chunk and a bundle of fat light wood splinters were found under one corner of the house. Our informant says that there has been considerable excite ment on the subject in Greenville, and that the town has been under strict i.. uard ever since. He also says that sus | picions are directed towards a man who is often there, and whose head-quarters ’ are at Macon—a man whose name is somewhat familiar as having been con nected with the Burdell murder case of New lork. This is tlie substance of the statement made by our correspondent. We repeat, as in another article, it be comes our people to be very vigilant.— Ind. ( Ga .) South. Telegraph to T&llaUassee. Wc l ave the pleasing asssurance from Mr. Howe, superintendent of the work, j that the line projected between this city and Marianna, will be completed by the last of he present month. It is known : that the progress of the work has been materially retarded by the delay of the vessel containing the material, otherwise the line would now have been in opera tion The vessel, however, arrived at Apa lachicola some weeks ago with material all safe, and Mr. Howe bad in the mean time placed an efficient force on the other end of the line, and is now pushing the work forward as rapidly as circumstances I will permit. A letter from him bearing j date at Quincy, on the'2sth ult., gives I assurance that the line in all reasonable probability (barring unforseen accidents) will be completed by the last cf the month. Tallahassee (Fla.) Sentinel , Bth. “I never,” says a lady, “sent that mes sage to the door but once, and for that once I shall never forgive myself. It was more than three years ago, and when I told my servant that morning to say “Not at home.” to whomsoever might call, except she knew it was some inti - mate ftiend, I felt my cheeks tingle, and the girl’s look of surprise mortified me exceedingly. But she went about her duties, and I about mine, sometimes pleased that I had adopted a convenient ! fashion by which I could secure time to myself, sometimes painfully smitten with the reproaches of conscience. Thus the day wore away, and when Mr. Lee came home he startled me with the news that a very dear and intimate friend was dead. telegraphic. ’ .— TELEGRA PH ED TO THE DAILY SI'S. ARRIVAL UK THE STEAMEK CANADA. Ootton Steady Consols 06/S. Halifax, Nov. 19, 1859. The steamship Canada has arrived. She left Liverpool on Saturday Nov. sth, ! but brings Liverpool dates to Monday, the 7th, which she received by telegraph ! from Liverpool to Queenstown. Licervool Cotton Market.— Sales of the week GO,OOO bales, of which speculators i and exporters each took 8,000 bales. Middlings, extreme prices, show l-10d. advance for the week, while other quali ties remain unchanged. Sales of Friday 10,000 bales, the market closing steady. Liverpool, Nov. Ith—By telegraph from I Liverpool to Queenstown. —The cotton niar : ket was steady to day, but opened quiet under the news brought by the steamship Africa. | Breadstuffs were quiet. London, Nov. s —By telegraph to Queens ; town. —Consols closed at 96g. Nothing of general interest was fraus | piring. ADDITIONAL BY THE CANADA. I Liverpool Cotton Market. —Ihe sales of cotton for the week reached 60,000 bales, of which speculators and exporters each took 8,000 bales. Some circulars state that all qualities had slightly advanced, and Fair and Middling qualities had im proved Other circulars state that Middlings were very full and firm in price, and in some cases 1-l Gd. advance had been realized. The sales on Friday were 10,000 bales, of which 2,000 were taken on speculation and for export. The authorized quotations were, for Fair Orleans ft and. Mid. Orleans 7 7-16.1. ‘- Mobiles 7%<1. “ Mobile 7!4<1. “ Uplands 7%<1 “ Uplands... 6 15-led. The stock of cotton in Liverpool was 457,000 bales, of which 308 ; 000 were American. Liverpool, Saturday, Nov. s.—Sales of cotton to-day 10,000 bales, at full aDd steady prices. Speculators and exporters took 2,000 bales. Liverpool, Monday, Nov. 7 —By telegraph to Queenstown. —Cotton market steady. London Money Market. —Consols closed on the sth at 96J to and a telegram received on the 7th at Queenstown quote ! consols at 96§. General News.—lt was rumored that ! England had consented to send represent j atives to a European Congress, and that j France and England had agreed on the i basis of negotiations. It was reported that Garibaldi, at an ! interview with the King of Sardinia, had j declared that Italy had been betrayed, and that he would head a revolution to | restore her her lost rights. The King j protested against his proceedings. ! Threatening Aspect of Affairs in Virginia. Richmond, Va., Nov. 19, p. m.—Coi. Davis has telegraphed to Gov. Wise that a large force of armed men were ap | proaching Charlestown from the direc tion of Wheeling. A regiment of 400 strong has just left Richmond in an extra train. Gov. Wise accompauie3 them. More troops have been ordered to hold themselves in readiness. Mobile Cotton Market, Mobile, Nov. 21, 1859. Sales of Cotton to-day 3,000 bales. The market closed quiet. Middlings lOf to 10| cents. New Orleans Cotton Market. New Orleans, Nov. 21, 1859. Sales of Cotton to-day 12,500 bales, j Prices stiffer, but quotations unchanged. The Wanderer Trials. Savannah, Nov. 21, 1859. The arguments in the Wanderer trials were concluded to-day. The case will be | submitted to the jury to-morrow. — Reported Attempt to Rescue Brown Washington, Nov. 17.—There is great excitement in Richmond and Alexandria, In consequence of the repon that an arm ed force was somewhere in the vicinity of Charlestown, for the purpose of attempt ing to rescue Brown. The military have been called out and will leave for Charles town early to-morrow morning. Washington, Nov. 18.—Nothing has | yet been received here to justify the re port that a large force of armed Aboli tionists were near Charlestown. There* was another large fire in that neighbor hood last night, and the troops were called out, expecting an attack, but none was made. Three companies from Alexandria went up this morniDg to Charlestown, to ! strengthen the force that is already there. The government to-day forwarded two thousand pounds of powder, and several hundred pounds of Minnie balls to Ilar | per’s Ferry. i Charlestown, Va., Nov. 19.—Colonel Davis has called for more troops. A ru mor says that letters have been inter | cepted cheering Brown and his associated ■ culprits, and giving assurances that they ! shall be rescued. The property of seve i of the jurors has been burned.— Troops leave Richmond for Charlestown i* n D ie morning. There is considerable , excitement here. Charlestown, Nov. 19.—There was i not Die slightest cause for the ridiculous panic. The fire seen was simply a stack of wheat burning. j r Texas News. , Washington, Nov. 18.—The Star says i .at the War Department have received a dispatch from Geu Twiggs, aated at San j on Die 12th, saying thatCortinas j hatl laid Brownsville in ashes, and killed one hundred Americans. He (Cortinas) then marched towards the Nueces, with eight hundred men. There is some doubt as to the truth of this report, j New Orleans, Nov. 18—The Indianola Courier of the 12th instant says that the express from the sheriff of Nueces coun ty had arrived, and reports that Cortinas, with 1500 men and nine cannon, was in full possession of the Rio Grande from ! Brownsville to Roma, and his forces are scouring the country. All the mail com munication west of Nueces has been cut off. Corpus Christi, however, was not j threatened. Capt. Tobin, with 150 men, from Cor pus Christi, had been defeated, and it was feared cut off. The reports were conflict ing, and probably exaggerated, as no Brownsville dates were given. The latest reliable accounts are by the New Orleans merchants, direct from j Brownsville on the 4th inst., when affairs : were unchanged. General Twiggs tele graphed to the Government to day re- I specting the matter. Arrival of the Overland Mail. St. Louis, Nov. 19.—The overland mail arrived here to day, with California dates ; to the 28th ult. Gov. W’eller has appointed Judge Hawes (formerly of Kentucky) to fill the vacan cy occasioned by the death of Senator Broderick. There was a stampede of the miners to walkers river, in consequence of a mound discovered, the dirt of which was realizing from SSOO to $2,500 to the ton. I Brown Refused Another Trial. Richmond, Va., Nov. 19. — The Court 0 . PP ea^s of A irginia refuse to award a writ of error to the Circuit Court of Jef erson county in the case of John Brown. Brown will, therefore, be hung on the 2d of December. Savannah, Nov. 19.—The steamship Star of the South, from New York, and the ship Emily Gardner, from Liverpool, arrived here to-day. From the Home Journal. N. P. Willis* Visit to the Watch Factory of the American Watch Company. Novelties in mechanism having always been most iuterestiug to me—see • ing, as it were, supernatural and sudden ap parit ons of things hitherto deemed im possible—l accepted very gladly an in vitation to go where I might see watches made by miebinery-. How a watch should be made at all, is mystery enough: hut, that this ultimatum of human ingenuity in hand-labor should be reduced to mechan ism, so that a hundred watches cau be made with the thought aud labor hitherto expended upon ona, was a marvel worth making sure of having seen on this plan et—being very likely to be “a dropped stitch” (like an antediluvian lost art) in a’world to come. If asked, therefore, at some scientific party in the Evening Star (our next pluuet, the poets tell us,) whether I have ever been to Waltham, I am happy to have it to say that I visited the Watch Factqry there, in one of the last years of my previous existence. I may add, for a side ear (a fact about which there is likely to be a sidereal curiosity, I think), that Governo- Banks comes from the same place. From Boston to Waltham, by rail road, is but ttie taking of a seat for a few min utes: and our guide, Mr. Robbins (one of the Company of Proprietors, to whose courageous faith and persevering rnake work-ativeness, much of the success of the enterprise is attributed), soon opened | the door for us at the shop of the Time j smiths- Three of our party were broth er-artificers, Mr. Stuart, Mr. TiltoD, and myself, being “manufacturers of public opinion and the fourth was a lady not altogether of an unsympathetic profes sion, Miss Booth, the lady-historian of the “City of New York.” To the worth while-ativeness of so intelligent a group of companions, lowed the obliging par ticularity with which the riddles of me chanism were unraveled to us. It is a curious necessity of a watch-fac tory that it should form a part of a beau tiful landscape —a secluded place, a moist soil, or the bank of a river, being requis ite to its operations. The original site of the factory, at Roxbury, was aban doned, because the light aud dusty char acter of the Soil aud the degree to which the atmosphere was charged with dust by the winds and the industrial move ments of the neighborhood, materially in terfered with the nicety of the work. Hence was chosen the present beautiful hillside on a bend of the Charles river, where the hundred or two of male and female operatives, as they sit at their benches, regulating the different move ments of the machinery, can look out of the windows before them, upon hits of river scenery that would enchant an artist. Itis another poetic peculiarity of watch making (at Waltham, at least), that the more delicate fingering of woman is found to work best at it. Os the large number of persons employed in th factory, more than half, if I observed rightly, were of the sisterhood left idle by the sewing ma chine—a happy compensation of Provi dence! Gradually, in this way, proba bly, the indoor employment of all trades and vocations that do not require mascu line strength, will be given over to woman. The Watch Factory is of brick, two stories in height, aud enclosing a quad rangular court; and, along the closely placed inner and outer wiuduws, stand the work-benches at which are seated the succession of operatives—each of the one hundred and twenty parts of the watch requiring separate manufacture, and ad justment. What impressed me particu larly, as I walked through these long galleries of seated and patient artificers, was the exceeding delicacy and minute ness of it all—the inevitable machinery accomplishing, with such powerful ex actness, the almost invisible wonders of transformation aud construction, and hu man aid seeming only needed to supply the materia! and measure the work, with movements of hand scarce perceptible. ’ The succession of minute instruments | were like long ranges of little fairies, : each weaving its cobweb miracles, under ’ a careful sentinel’s superintending eye. | It is the novelty of the Waltham Factory | that this is so—machinery doing the ! hundred little dexterities which have I hitherto been dona only by the variable hand of the workman. With the machin ery once regulated, therefore, a number of watches of the same size and pattern are made with invariable exactness—all equally sure to keep lime, whereas, for ’ tnerly, each watph was only a probability j by itself. The minuteness of very essential parts !ot the watch astonishes the visitor. A small heap of grains was shown to us, looking like iron filings, or grains of pep per from a pepper caster—apparently the mere dust of the machine which turned them cut—and these, when ex mined with a microscope, were seen to bo perfect screws, each to be driven to its place with a screw-driver. It is one of | the Waltham statistics which is worth remembering, that “a single pound of steel, costing but fifty cents, is thus man ufactured into one hundred thousand screws which are worth eleven hundred dollars.” The poetic part of a watch, of course, is what the truth in a woman’s heart has been so often compared to—the jew el upon whicit all its movements arc piv oted and which knows no wearing away or variation—and to see these precious truth-jewels and their adjustment was one of my maiu poiuts of curiosity. The aid of the microscope was again to be eaiied in, to see these—the precious stones, as we first saw them in the glass phial, resembling grains of brilliant sand. They are rubies, sappnires or chrysolites, inferior only to .the diamond’s point in I pivoted reliance. The process is thus ’ described in the article to which I atn indebted for my statistics:— “1 he jewels are first drilled with a dia : mond, and then opened out with diantoud j dust, on a soft hair-like iron wire, their nerforations having ceriain microscopic differences. In like manner the pivots : of steel that are to run in these jewel-, i without wearing out in the least, must |be exquisitely polished. By this opera ; lion their size is slightly reduced. The jewels and pivots, after being thus fin ! ished, are classified by means of a gauge, | so delicately graduated as to detect a difference of the ten thousandth part of an inch. The jewels are classified by means of the pivots, the jewels and pivots of the same number fitting each other exactly. The sizes of the several pivots indjewels in each watch are carefully recorded un- I der its number, so that if any one of | either should fail in any part- of the , world, by sending the number of the I watch to Waltham, the part desired may be readily and cheaply replaced wi ; h i unerring certainty.” Os this, and all the other operations, too minute for detailed descriptii.n —th® ■ first cutting of the stamps and dies fro® | sheets ot brass, hardening and forming the barrels and chambers, coiling and tastening the main springs, gearing j wheels and cutting their teeth, shaping of pinions and axels, cutting off escape wheels, burning and making the porce lain dials, and final putting together and adjusting of the various parts —the super intendent, Mr. Denison, discoursed to us most interestingly. I could not but think, as I listened to this philosopher of mechanic art, telling us these beauti ful secrets with his quiet concentratiTe ness of voice and eye, and his brief ex pressive language, how much better i [ ; was than the “seeing of a play” or the ■ reading of a Dovel. My two hours, 0 I following him and listening to his “d l3- I course with illustrations,” were like the passing of a dream. N. !’• “• A queer Remedy. . .. A good lady, who bad two children sn> with the measles, wrote to a friend tor the best remedy. The friend had ju -t received a note from another lady, inquir ing the way to make pickles. In th e confusion, the lady who enquired about the pickles, received the remedy of th° measles, and the anxious mother of th® sick children read with horror the fu 1 ’ sowing: “Scald them three or four tim° s in very hot vinegar, aud sprinkle the® well with salt; in a few days they be cured.” The Mobile Medic*. 1 College was open ed on the 14th inst. Forty or fifty stu dents were enrolled.