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COLUMBUS:
Tuesday Morning, Feb. 14, 1800.
Homicide.
A man named Capp was killed by an
other named Jarrett, near Dalton, on
Saturday last. The latter surrendered
immediately to the authorities.
Hon. T. Butler King.
On Saturday last Hon. T. Butler King,
by invitation, addressed the citizens of
Albany on the importance of connecting
that place by a direct communication
with the Atlantic seaboard.
Land Warrants.
The following are the buying and sel
ling rates of Land Warrants in New \ ork :
Baying. Selling.
40 acre warrants, per acre 100 110
80 acre warrants, per acre 88 92
120 acre warrants, per acre 68 73
ICO acre warrants, per acre 07 72
Charleston and Savannah Railroad
The editor of the Walterboro’ Sun is
informed by the President, Mr. Drayton,
that this road will be completed to the
Savannah river by the first day of April,
and passengers conveyed thence to Sa
vannah by steamboat, until the bridge is
completed.
Stephens, the Wife Poisoner.
Two clergymen, who were with Ste
phens (lately hung in New York city,)
during his last hours, have published a
statement in the New York Tribune.
They express the solemn belief and not
without just grounds, that he was guilt
less of his wife’s death.
Wealthy Military.
A mounted military company has re
cently been formed at Port Tobacco, Md.
This company is composed of some of
the wealthiest men in that part of the
State, the Captain (Cox) being worth
some $200,000, and the Orderly Sergeant
between $300,000 and $400,000.
Stock In the Macon Road.
The Augusta Constitutionalist is in
formed that the sum of fifty thousand
dollars was subscribed Friday, by pri
vate citizens, to the stock in the Augusta
and Macon Rail Road enterprise. We
think it likely there will be a liberal sub
scription from citizens, and we feel satis
fied the people will direct the City Coun
cil to subscribe five hundred thousand
dollars.
High Prices of Negroes.
The Cuthbert Reporter, says the ne
groes belonging to tho estate of E. J.
Pearce, were sold in that city last Tues
day, at the following prices. The terms
wero 12 months credit:
Man, wife and two children, under 2
years of age, $4,250; Girl and child 6
months old, $2,005; One man, $2,500,
making a total of $8,755.
♦
A Successful Insurance Company.
Tho Elliott Insurance Company, of
Boston, has been very successful, and the
directors have declared a cash dividend
of fifty per cent., or SIOO,OOO on a capi
tal of $200,000. After the payment of
this sum, the company have a reserved
surplus of $35,000, which is considered
ample for all future contingencies.
To Stock Drivers.
The Chattanooga Advertiser says “the
amount of stock in horses and mules that
has passed this point to Southern mark
ets, has been unprecedentedly large this
past season. Wo learn from reliable
sources that the sale of horses and mules
has been dull and ruled at a low figure as
compared with former seasons. One day
last week a stock drover from Kentucky
arrived in this city with a large drove of
horses and mules, and on ascertaining
the inactivity and low figures ruling in
the Southern markets, had his horses and
mules reshipped and sent back to Ken
tucky.”
A Doubtful (Question.
The Chattanooga Gazette says the offi
cers of that city arrested at the passen
ger depot, on Monday evening, a woman
dressed in men’s clothes, en route to a free
State with a “big fat buck nfkger.”—
They were from Adairsville, Ga., the wo
man married, and the nigger a slave of a
gentleman of Cass county, Ga. They
have been committed to jail to await the
sitting of the next Superior Court. The
Advertiser springs the question, whether
the woman was running away with the
“nigger,” or the “nigger” with the wo
man.
The Crusader.
The first number of the Georgia Lite
rary and Temperance Crusader has been
received. It is now on a safe and proper
footing and will, without doubt, be a suc
cessful experiment. The editors, Messrs.
John 11. and A. B. Seals are well qualified
for the enterprise, and will make the Cru
sader an acceptable family newspaper.
The editress of the Ladies’ Department is
Mrs. L. Virginia French, a Southern lady
and writer, and well known as “Tennes
see’s peerless Queen of Song.” She suc
ceeds Mrs. Mary E. Bryan.
The First Jury Trial in an Etiuity
Court.
The London Star Journal records the
first trial by Jury in an Equity Court in
the chse of Morrison vs Barrow , before the
Master of the Rolls. The case was open
ed on the Tuesday previous and was con
cluded the 13th. Although for some
years the Chancery Courts have been
empowered by the Legislature to summon
juries for the trial of matters in dispute,
this is the first instance in which an Equi
ty judge has sanctioned that mode of trial
in an Equity court.
Liberty and Equality.
The Zanesville (Ohio) Courier, a Re
publican paper, ventures to intimate that
in future State legislation “ the interests
of the white and dominant race should be
fairly and honorably protected, without
regard to Oberlin philosophers.” It is
so remarkable that a Black Republican
journal should once speak in behalf of
the rights of white men that we think it
meet to record the expression. But is
this not treason to Africa ?
Longworth’a Wine.
It is stated that Nicholas Longworth of
Catawba Wine notoriety hhs now in his
cellar four hundred and sixty thousand
bottles of wine. When it is remembered
that there are two or three other large
wine manufacturers in Cincinnati, some
idea may be formed of the extent to
which the grape is cultivated in that
vicinity.
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The Nebraska Legislature have passed
a law exempting homesteads to the ex
tent of one hundred and sixty acres of
land, and buildings without an incorpo
rated village or city, or two lots and dwel
lings within a village orcity, from execu
tion for debt.
Commerce of the Lahti.
The Commercial and Times’ annual
statement of the lakes now being prepar
ed, shows that by converting flour into
wheat, the total amount of grain shipped
from the lake regions eastward over Lake
Ontario in 1859, was 14,800,000 bushels
against 21,800,000 bushels in 1858.
Charleston and the South.
Wc had the pleasure of meeting an Ala
bama merchant in our city Saturday, just
returning from Charleston. He has pur
chased his entire stock of Spring and
Summer goods in that city, and repre
sents that he found every thing necessary
to complete it and without any difficulty.
Several other merchants arrived with
himself, and determined to supply them
selves there, if the city could equal their
demands. He informed us that the mer
chants of Charleston were importing hea
vy stocks of goods in anticipation of a
general patronage from the Southern
States, and unless their expectations
should be realized, they will necessarily
suffer the consequence of serious losses.
After the great hue and cry in the South
about non-intercourse, the Charleston
merchants have a right to expect that
their efforts to establish Southern inde
pendence will be met with due encour
agement from Southern merchants. It
remains now for the latter to show to the
world, and particularly to our political
enemies, and the endorsers of the rene
gade Helper’s infamous book, whether all
their talk and resolutions shall amount
to something, or turn out, as usual, to be
nothing more substantial than “sound
and fury, signifying nothing The
South has stultified itself long enough,
and we hope for once, that it will show
its independence and determine to rely
on its own incomparable and inexhausti
ble resources. If it refuses to encourage
Charleston after the care and expense
outlaid by her merchants to meet the
Southern trade, we may as well be re
signed at once and for all time, to a per
manent and irretrievable vassalage to the
North.
—
Daniel E. Sickles.
The New York correspondent of the
Charleston Courier says a rumor obtains
very generally here, that the Hon. L'aniel
E. Sickles has experienced a change of
heart, and that he contemplates connect
ing himself with some church. His for
mer friends say that they have noticed a
marked difference in his conduct recent
ly. At Washington, he leads a very dif
ferent life from what he once did in this
city. Before he leaves the Capital, it is
thought he will make a public profession
of Christianity. After that, I doubt if he
will longer follow the vagaries of public,
political life. In view of these circum
stances, some of Sickles’ most sincere
friends almost desire to see him ousted
from Congress by A. J. Williamson, who
contests the seat of the Third Congres
sional District.
True Patriotism.
A Volunteer Company lias been organ
ized at Perote, Alabama, under the title
of “Perote Guards.” They have unani
mously resolved to furnish themselves
with uniforms made of Southern manu
factured goods, and intend to order the
material from the Roswell Factory, Cobb
county, Ga. They would have obtained
it in Columbus or nearer home, but it
could not be done, owing to the inability
of other Factories to supply the kind ne
cessary. This Company have also resolved
to arm themselves with a fire-arm invent
ed in Georgia, to-wit: the Gallagher Rifle,
which has met with so much favor among
military men and other good judges. A
brilliant career to the Perote Guards!
Bank Decision.
In the case of the State Bank of Ohio,
claiming exemption from taxation under
its charter, which was granted previous
to the adoption of the new constitution,
the Supi-eme Court of Ohio have decided
against the bank and the supporters of
the bank doctrine. This was, that the
charter was in the nature of a contract,
and that the State, consequently, could
have no right, by subsequent legislation,
to impose a tax from which the charter
exempted them. The case had been in
the United States Supreme Court, and
decided in lavor of the bank, but the
Ohio judges deny the authority of that
court in cases of this sort, and thus pro
ceed independently to sustain an opposite
judicial view of the question.
Rail Road Iron.
The Jacksonville (Fla.) Republican says
the last cargo of 1,000 tons of iron to
complete the Central Road has arrived,
and we are informed by the Superinten
dent, Mr. Buckman, that in six weeks’
time the road will be completed to Lake
City, from which point the Pensacola and
Georgia Company will immediately com
mence laying down the iron towards Tal*
lahassee.
We invite attention to the Card of
Messrs. Warnock & Salisbury, Cotton
Brokers and Forwarding Merchants.—
They are gentlemen of reliability and of
excellent business capacity, and those
desiring anything transacted in their line,
may rest assured of its receiving prompt
attention.
The steamer Northerner bound for Port
land, Oregon, was wrecked on the 6th of
January, near Cape Menderrin. Eleven
passengers and twenty-two of the crew
were lost. The vessel is a total loss, but
the mails and treasure were saved.
Coni Oil.
The Kanawha Valley Star says that
the coal oil factories of that county are
in a prosperous condition, and making
large quantities of oil from cannel coal.
Other companies are making preparations
to go into its manufacture.
Kx-Senator Weatcott.
This individual was, until lately, one
of the editors of the New York Herald.
Lately, it is stated, that he and Bennett
had a misunderstanding, and he quit the
establishment.
Large Sale of Negroes.
T. E. Shannon, Esq., sold 120 negroes
in Columbia, S. C., on Monday last, tn
families. The gross amount of the sale
was $97,325, averagingsSll,so per heed.
The beautiful residence of Mr. N. L.
Barnard, ofLaGrange, was destroyed by
fire on Saturday morning last. The loss
is estimated at SIO,OOO, and is attributed
to the work of an incendiary.
Chevalier Wykoff, of the New York
Herald, was summarily ejected Wednes
day, from the House of Representatives,
at the instance of Hon. Roger A. Pryor.
An individual claiming to be a New
Vork drummer, was not very politely re
quested to leave Rome, Ga., Tuesday last,
having uttered heretical sentiments on
the slavery question.
♦—
The funeral of Armistead Walker a
colored preacher of Fredericksburg, Va.,
on Sunday week, was attended by over
1,000 slaves and 400 whites, including
many ladies.
The Eufaula Express of Thursday, says
Dr. E. S. Hoole of Barbour county, Ala
bama, was found dead in his bed on last
Saturday morning. It is supposed that
he died of apoplexy.
Hon. R. Toombs has our thanks for a
copy of his able speech, delivered in the
U. S. Senate the 24th ult., on the Inva
sion of States.
Another Arm for the South.
We are pleased to state that Mr. John
H. Butt, Agent, will soon have in opera- ;
tion in our city a first class machine
shop, for manufacturing portable steam i
Engines of the pattern now on exhibition
at tho auction room of Messrs. Ellis &
Livingston, and at the counting room of
Messrs. Dillard, Powell & Cos. A more
neat or compact motive power we have
never seen, and if it accomplishes even
the half of what its builders and design
ers claim for it, it will soon supersede
mule power for plantation use. Just
think—a power equal to six mules for a
less price, and will last twenty years,—
consuming the refuse wood on the plan
tation —do all your grinding, sawing,
ginning, shelling, shucking and weaving
if you will put up spindles and looms.—
While we speak so highly of these En
gines, we do not wish to be understood
as disparaging others manufactured in
our city. We are proud of this competi
tion in engine building, well assured,
that it will only increase the growing
popularity of our city as a mart for the
best steam Engines in use. Success we
say to this enterprise, and as many more
as may spring up in our. city. There is
in our city a broad field opening for cap
ital, in manufacturing. Our cotton and
woolen mills are overrun with orders, and
each could employ twice the number of
spindles now in operation. Will men of
capital secure this prize now while it
may bo taken, or will they permit it to
escape to other less favored localities.—
The whole South is becoming awakened
to the importance, of rendering herself
independent, and it is only requir
ed of capitalists to-meet this laudable
spirit by having on hand such goods,
manufactured in our city to fill orders
promptly. The time was when our man
ufacturers sought trade. Now it seeks
them, and beyond their immediate ca
pacity.
DnrlngEncape from the Ohio Pent
tentiary—A Woman Lowers Her
self by a Rope.
A woman named Mary Fuller, made her
escape from the Ohio penitentiary, at Co
lumbus, on Saturday week, under the
following circumstances :
Passing out from the fifth story of the
prison by the window of her cell, she
next passed along the side of the build
ing upon a cornice or water table about
eighteen inches broad. Passing along
the front of the building at the immense
height of fifty or sixty feet from the
ground, with nothing to hold to, and
upon the projection scarcely visible from
the ground, sho reached, at the distance
of about forty feet from her room win
dow, a place where it was necessary for
her to jump about twelve feet to the roof
of the west wing.
The leap was taken—proved a safe one
—and the dauntless woman next fastened
to the corner of tho roof a rope which she
manufactured of her bedding, grasped it
in her hands, and swinging from the roof,
passed down on the wall over windows
where other convicts were sleeping, and
down to terra firma, where, at a distance
forty five feet below the roof, she alight
ed in the arms of a man named Cheese
man, her confederate in guilt. The guil
ty pair left the city after the scene nar
rated, but in a few days both were again
in the custody of the law—the girl in the
penitentiary and Cheeseman in jail.
Bond Debt of Alabama.
The report of John Whiting, Commis
sioner and trustee of the old State Bank
and branches of Alabama, shows that
tho present bonded debt of the State
amounts to $3,479,000 beariugan annual
interest of slßo*B3o. Os the bonds sl,-
923,000 fall due in 1860, and have then to
be redeemed. “It is believed that the
existing revenue law, with the North
Carolina and Virginia bonds ($508,000)
will afford the means of liquidating the
large amount due in 1863, after which
the taxes might be reduced very consid
erably.” The bonds bear 5 per cent in
terest, and are not in market except at
par.
Heavy Damages.
A Jispatch from Richmond, Virginia,
to the Wilmington (N. C.,) Journal the
7th, states that a verdict has been given
in the Court of Appeals in favor of the
Washington, Fredericksburg & Richmond
Route, against the Virginia Central, for
violation of charter in carrying through
passengers. It is said that the damages
amount to half a million of dollars.
♦
The Duello In Virginia.
A dispatch from Richmond the 3d inst.
to the Norfolk Argus, says the new duel
ling law passed the House to-day, under
the pressure of the previous question,
and having already passed the Senate is
now the law. This bill relieves all who
were engaged in duels previous to Jan.
10th. Hon. B. Douglas, the Senator from
King William, will now take his seat.
Small Pox.
In consequence of a rumor that there
was a case of small pox in Mobile bay,
brought there by a vessel from Boston,
the Board of Health of Mobile have pub
lished a card in the Tribune, calling
public attention to the subject of vaccin
ation, to prevent the spread of the loath
some disease should it be introduced into
the community.
Charleston and Savannah Railroad.
The Savannah Express of Wednesday,
says McDowell & Callahan, the contrac
tors on that section of the above road ly
ing between the Savannah river and the
Central Railroad, intend to push their
work ahead. To-morrow morning they
will commence grading the track at Cher
okee Hill, fouHeen miles above the city
and proceed down to the Savannah river.
Hon. Wyatt Heflin died in Randolph
county, Ala., on the 21st inst., in the 71st
year of his age. He was for many years
a resident of Georgia, during ten of which
he was sheriff of Fayette county. In
1814 he joined the army under General
Jackson, and in 1840 was elected a mem
ber of the Alabama Legislature, iu which
body he served six years.
♦
New TelegrapL Line.
A dispatch from Pensacola to the
Mobile Tribune, says the telegraph
line from the two cities was comple
ted on Saturday and commenced busi
ness formally the afternoon of the 6th
inst.
The LaGrange Reporter learns from a
letter received by a gentleman of that
place, that Dr. W 7 m. H. McMatb, former
ly of Meriwether county, was shot at
Louisville, Arkansas, about the 20th ult.,
by a man named Boyd.
Collage Difficulty.
The Sandusky (Ohio) Register says
that about fifty students were expelled
from Kenyon College in that State the
Ist inst. The cause was the refusal to
pledge themselves to attend the recita
tions.
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Wheat Crop.
The Rome Courier, represents the
wheat crop in that section to be almost
a total failure. Some will make none at
all, and very few hope to make as much
as half a crop. Discouraging accounts
reach us from every direction.
Exporti from Pensacola.
The Pensacola Observer furnishes a
statement of the exports of that city for
the month of January, taken from the
books of the Custom House. The total
export of lumber, most of which was sent i
to foreign ports, amount to 3,412,261
feet; the total export of laths, 904,000 ;
shingles to St. Mary’s, 135,345 ; Railroad
ties to Havana, 3,917 ; bricks to Key
West, 73,000; salt to NewOrleans, 1,500;
cotton to New Orleans, 1,016. All the
cotton sent to Pensacola, so far, has been
by steamer from Geneva, Coffee county,
Ala., which will be increased to many
thousands on the completion of the Rail
road to Montgomery.
♦
FieudUh Attempt.
On Friday night the 3d inst., an ob
struction was placed on the Montgomery
& Pensacola Rail Road, in the shape of
an iron rail between the cross ties. It
was fixed in such a firm position that the
approaching train would certainly have
been throwu off the track, had not it
have been perceived in time by the En
gineer, who with great effort reversed
the engine and avoided contact with it.
The Company as we perceive by an ad
vertisement in the Pensacola Observer,
offer a reward of SIOO, for the apprehen
sion and conviction of the person who
made the attempt.
A Daucer and Others Burned.
The New York News states that on Sat
urday night, about 11 o’clock, Mrs. Jo
sephine Farren, a tight-rope dancer at
Volk’s Garden, No. 45 Bowery, was dan
gerously burned in consequence of her
clothes taking fire from the foot-lights
while she was leaping from the rope to
the stage. Her husband, who is one of
the musicians, and several others sprang
upon the stage and succeeded in extin
guishing the flames, but not until they
were severely burned. The theater was
crowded and the utmost excitement pre
vailed, the audience fearing that the
building would take fire.
Standing Committees of the House.
In the House Thursday, the Standing
Committees were reported. The follow
ing gentlemen were selected as Chairman
of said Committees :
Gilmer, of North Carolina —Committee
on Elections.
Sherman, of Ohio—Ways and Means.
Hickman, of Pennsylvania—Judiciary.
Grow, of Pennsylvania—Territories.
StautoD, of Ohio —Military.
Morse, of Maine—Marine and Naval.
Ashmore, of South Carolina—Mileage.
.
South Western Rail Road.
The following gentlemen have been
elected President and Directors of the
South Western Rail Road Company for
the ensuing year, 9116 shares being rep
resented as we learn from the Macon
Telegraph:
President—R. It. Cuyler.
Directors—John W. Anderson, Win. A.
Black, Win. S. Holt, T. M. Furlow, R.
A. Smith.
A dividend of 4 per cent, was declared
for the last six months.
Lettei- from a Lynn Shoemaker.
The following letter from Lynn, Massa
chusetts, to the Richmond Dispatch, writ
ten the 3d, shows what a workman there
thinks of white and black slavery :
He says—“ I live in the city of Lynn,
in the State of Massachusetts. lam one
of the 3,000 white slaves that work here
uuder the slaveholding shoe manufactur
er for a living. I say slaves, because we
are slaves; we work like slaves, and we
are treated like slaves, and I believe
worse; for the slave is sure of a living
at the South, (but we are not,) aud good
treatment if he behaves himself; but we
don’t get it here. The shoe manufactur
ers here talk about slavery at the South,
I should like to know what they call it
here, where a man has to work eighteen
hours out of twenty four for a living, (ne
groes do not work more than half that
time,) and then not get half a one at that.
For one, I long to be free. I want to
come to Virginia, where I hope to be free;
where a shoemaker can earn bis living
without working day and night,
“ Mr. Editor, if there is a chance for
me to come there to work, I am ready to
leave Lynn and come to Richmond, or
any other place where I can get work.
“ I am a good shoemaker, and can
make any kind of ladies’ boots, and have
had some experience in manufacturing
ladies’ work. If you will inform me
whether I can get work in making ladies’
boots, or cutting out, you will oblige me
very much. Please let me know as soon
as you can. [Signed]
A Northern White Slave.”
Bankruptcies and Business.
The statistics furnished by the books
of mercantile agencies, whose operations
have ramifications through the whole
country, are not devoid of interest.
From them we obtain data to show the
present condition of business throughout
the Union, and to indicate the causes
which operate favorably or otherwise up
on it.
In 1857 there were 4,937 bankruptcies
in the United States, involving liabili
ties to the enormous amouut of $202,750,
000. In 1858 the number of bankrupt
cies was 4,225, with liabilaties of $95,
749,662. In 1859 the number fell to 3,
913, with liabilities of $64,294,000. For
three years, commencing with 1857, the
aggregate liabilities of bankrupts in the
United States and British America was
$468,355,571, of which sum it is estima
ted that $262,908,508 is a total loss.
The greater portion of this immense
sum is due by traders of the free State.
The financial crisis that involved the
country in a disaster represented by a to
tal loss of more than $250,000,000, bad
little of disaster for the South. Not only,
says the N. O. Picayune, was she better
guarded when the storm came, but her
productive energy and the great demand
for her staples caused the clouds to dis
appear like those that accompany a sum
mer shower. From 1857 to the present
moment the producers of the slave States
have been most successful in their busi
ness. Nothing like the magnitude of
their large and constantly increasing
gains is recorded iu the history of com
merce.
The Story of Cinderella.
The origin of this nursery tale is thus
given by a French journalist. We tell
the tale as told to us, but it is probably
of much greater antiquity: About the
year 1730, an actor of equal talent and
wealth, named Tbevenard, in passing
through the streets of Paris, observed
upon a cobbler’s stall the shoe of a female,
which struck him by the remarkable
smallness of its size. After admiring it
for some time he returned to his house ;
but his thoughts reverted to the shoe with
such intensity that he re-appeared at the
stall the next day, but the cobbler could
give him no clue to the owner than that
it had been left in his absence, for the
purpose of being repaired. Day after
day, did Thevenard return to his post to
watch the reintegration of the slipper,
which proceeded slowly ; nor did the pro
prietor claim it. Although he had com
pleted the sixtieth year of his age, so ex
travagant became his passion for the fair
one, that he became (were it possible of a
Frenchman of that day to be so,) melan
cholly and miserable. Hi spain, however,
was somewhat appeased by the avatar of
the little foot itself, appertaining to a
pretty and youthful girl of the very hum
blest class of life. All distinctions were
levelled at once by love ; the actor sought
the parents of the female, procured their
consent to the match, and actually made
her his wife.
A wag being asked the name of the
inventor of butter stamps, replied that it
was probably Cadmus, as he first brought
letters into Greece.
TELEGRAPHIC.
TEL EGR APH ED TO THE DAILY SUN.
ARRIVAL
OF STEAMER
C .A.'.
New Yobk, Feb. 10, 1860.
The steamship Canada has arrived at
Halifax, with Liverpool dates to the 27th
ultimo.
Liverpool Cotton Markets.— Sales of the
week 83,000 bales, of which speculators
took 16,000 and exporters 11,500 bales.
The market closed firm with an improve
ment in Fair and Middling qualities of
l-16d. to |d., particularly Uplands.
Sales on Friday were 10,000 bales.—
Market closed firm.
Additional by the Canada.
Halifax, February 10.—Richardson &
Spence, in their Circular, quote Flour
dull and declining ; Wheat dull and de
clining ; Corn steady ; Pork quiet, but
steady ; Bacon steady ; Sugar heavy ;
Coffee quiet; Rice firm. The authorized
quotations for cotton were as follows :
Pair Orleans 7yyU. I Mid. Orleans 6 16-16d
“ Mobiles IVaA- “ Mobiles 6%d
“ Uplands 7d. | “ Uplands 6%d
The Stock of cotton in Liverpool was
542,000 bales, of which 440,000 were
American.
State of Trade. —Manchester advices fa
vorable, and goods were firm at full prices.
Havre Cotton Market. —Orleans Tree
Ordinaire was quoted at 105 francs, and
Has at 99 francs. Quotations were bare
ly maintained, and the market closed dull.
The sales of the week were 5,000 bales.
The stock of cotton on hand is 102,500
bales.
Liverpool General Markets. —Breadstuffs
declining. Corn firm. Provisions steady.
London Money Market. —Consols closed
at 94§ to 94J for money and account. —
The Bullion in the Bank of Englaud had
decreased £325,000. There was a good
demand for money at unchanged rates.
General News. —The news by the Can
ada is not generally very interesting.
The steamship Kangaroo arrived out
on the 2Gth of January.
The rumor that 30,000 French troops
were expected to invade Leghorn, is un
true.
The body of Capt. Harrison, of the
steamship Great Eastern, was removed
from Southampton amidst the most pro
found demonstrations of respect ; the
bells were tolled, minute guns were fired,
and places of business were closed.
Lord John Russell stated in Parliament
that a convention or agreement was be
ing drawn up between England and the
United States for the prevention of cruel
ty on American vessels.
The treaty between England and France
engrossed public attention. Some of its
provisions have been published.
Late news from Australia had been
received in London. There was a panic
at Melbourne, and many failures had
occurred.
By Telegraph to Queenstoivn — Liverpool,
Sunday, Jan. 29.—The sales of cotton on
yesterday (Saturday, Jan., 28th,) were
12,000 bales, of which speculators and
exporters took 3,000 bales. The market
closed firm, and the previous advance
was fully maintained. Breadstuffs and
Provisions were quiet.
By Telegraph to Queenstown — Jjondon,
Saturday Jan. 28 th. —Consols closed at
94 “j to 94£ for money and account.
The steamship Arabia, which left New
York for Liverpool, on the 18th of Janu
ary had reached Liverpool.
From Washington.
Washington, Feb. 9.—The election of
Printer has been postponed until Monday.
In the Senate, an amendment was adop
ted, providing for the total abolition of
the franking privilege
The deficiency bill was passed, and the
Senate adjourned uutil Monday.
Washington, Feb. 10 —The House was
much eugaged to-day in discussing the
expediency of instructing the Committee
on Commerce to report a bill prohibiting
American vessels from engaging in the
Coolie or African apprentice trade.
The House weut into committee of the
whole in discussions on the President’s
message.
Yesterday Mr. Miles Taylor, of Lou
isiana, introduced a bill for the acquisi
tion of Cuba, and its incorporation into
the Union.
The Republicans generally express
their dissatisfaction at the construction of
the House committees.
There was a terrible gale here last
night. It has continued all day, and has
extended North.
At New York there has been much dam
age done to the shipping in the docks.
At Philadelphia many houses were
blown down. At Washington the gale
was very violent, but no damage was
done.
Washington, Fell. 11. — The Senate was
not in session to-day.
In the House, the franking amendment
to the postal bill was discussed. There
was no action taken upon the bill.
From Texas.
New Orleans, Feb. 11.—The steam
ship Arizona, from Indiauola and Brazos
Santiago, has arrived.
She brings intelligence from Browns
ville to the sth inst.
A courier, despatched by Col. Ford to
Major Heintzelman, reports that the
American steamer Ranchero, was fired
into 30 miles above Brownsville by Mexi
cans, bearing a Mexican flag. Several
shots were fired and some passed through
the steamer. Subsequently, the Mexicans
fired on Col. Ford’s company of Rangers,
from the Mexican side of the river and
dangerously wounded one of his men.
Col. Ford returned their fire and cross
ed over into the Mexican territory in pur
suit.
Capt. Steneman’s Dragoons have been
reinforced, and now number two hun
dred men.
The people of Matamoras continue, as
formerly, to sympathize with Cortiuas and
his band of marauders.
War is considered inevitable.
Line from Aspinwall, fcc.
New York, Feb. 10.—The Pacific Mail
Steamship Company have determined to
establish a direct line from Aspinwall to
New Orleans. The steamship St. Louie
leaves on the 21st inst. for Aspinwall to
take her place on the route.
The Chamber of Commerce of this city,
on yesterday, adopted a report and reso
lutions against privateering, and in favor
of the immunity of private property on
the ocean in time of war.
Another Representative Caned.
Washington, Feb. 11. — It was reported
here to-day that 11. A. Edmondson, of
Virginia, severely chastised John Hick
man of Pennsylvania, with a cane in
Kentucky, yesterday, for his expressions
against Virginia during his speech at
Pennington’s serenade.
Death W. E. Burton.
New York, Feb. 11.—W. E. Burton,
the great Comedian, died here yesterday.
Later from Pike’s Peak.
St. Louis, Feb. 11.—We have receiv
ed dates from Pike’s Peak to the 3d inst.
There was an outbreak at Denver City,
between the Jumpers of private claims
and the citizens. Serious results were
apprehended. The Jumpers have threat
ened to burn the town in retaliation for
their expulsion.
Arrival of Minister HeLine.
Washington, Feb. 10.—Mr. McLaue,
the American Minister to Mexico, has
arrived in this city. No definite conclu
sion has yet been arrived at by Senators
in regard to the treaty with Mexico.
Overland Mall.
Malloy’s Station, Feb. B.—The over
land mail of the 16th ult., passed here.—
A son of Bloomfield Bishop, of London,
was among the lost on the steamer North
erner.
The Bark Kmlly.
New York, Feb. B.—The bark Emily
recently brought here as a slaver has es
caped and gone to Africa.
Napoleon's Free Trade Manifesto.
Napoleon has addressed a most impor
tant free trade manifesto to Fould, Min
ister of State. It is dated Jan. 5, and
published in the Moniteur of the 15th.
The letter is in effect as follows:
“ Despite the uncertainty which still
prevails on certain points ot the foreign
policy, a pacific solution may confidently
be looked forward to; the moment has
therefore arrived to occupy ourselves with
means of giving greater development to
different branches of the national wealth.
I communicate to you here the basis of
programmes of reform, several parts of
which will have to receive the approba
tion of the Chambers. Our foreign com
merce must be developed by exchange of
products, but we must first improve our
agriculture and free our industry from all
interior impediments which place it in a
position of inferiority. A general system
of sound political economy alone can, by
increasing the national wealth, spread
prosperity amoDg the working classes, j
Every year the State grants considerable
sums to agriculture, for clearing woods
and loweringhilly grounds. Great works
of draining, irrigating and clearing
ground are to be continued. To encour
age manufactured productions it is neces
sary to exempt from all duties primary
articles indispensable to interest, which
will assist in perfecting materials. By
these measures agriculture will find an
issue for its products; industry, freed
from all interior obstacles, will advan
tageously compete with foreigu products,
and commerce will make fresh advance.
To counterbalance the reduction of duties
on primary materials and provisions of
great consumption, redemption of the
public debt will be provisionally suspen
ded.
Startling Occurrence.
The London Court Journal tells the
following snake story:
A lady, who had returned from India
three years ago, was the other day open
ing a drawer in what is termed a bullock
trunk. To her amazement and horror,
a snake reared up its head; her first im
pulse was to push the drawer to, but it
was stiff and heavy. She ran screamiug
down stairs for help. Her brother, who
was in the drawing room, went to her
assistance, and preceded her again up
stairs. The snake was not be seen, and
the gentleman thought it must have been
his sister’s imagination; so, after some
little time, the search was given up.—
The following morning a canary, that al
ways hung in the lady’s room, was miss
ing, and in looking into the cage the
snake lay curled up at the bottom of it,
and all that remained of the bird by his
side. There was no difficulty in destroy
ing the snake, and it was discovered to
be what is termed a green sndke, whose
nature is to make a spring at the eye,
when death immediately ensues. The
marvel is how the reptile lived so long
and the lady escaped.
Action vs. Words.
A Petersburg correspondent of the
Alexandria (Va.,) Gazette, says while the
people of the South at this time seem to
be generally excited upon the subject of
direct foreign trade, and home manufac
tures ; and are holding enthusiastic meet
ings, and passing llaming resolutions
looking to that end; the citizens of this
thriving city are quietly but surely,
proving their faith by their works, as
will be seen by the following announce
ment. The ship Erie, Captain Preble,
cleared from that port, for Liverpool, on
the 10th ult. with 1050 bales of cotton, 200
boxes of manufactured tobacco, and 250
bags of citron bark, &c., shipped by
Tbos. Branch & Sons. This is a capital
way of manufacturing the direct trade
disposition, and we trust it will be con
tinued.
Mr. Bemis, the keeper of the Boa Con
strictor, on exhibition in Boston, last
week came near losing his life. He
was engaged in giving the serpent one
of his customary warm baths prepar
atory io an exhibition of feeding him,
when the venomous animal seized him by
the wrist, and inserted his deadly fangs.
The attendants fled in horror, but were
soon recalled by the outcries of the strug
gling man, the reptile having commenced
to coil around him. All other means to
disengage him proving unavailing, the
snake was pounded upon the bead with a
hammer until he was forced to release
his victim. Mr. Bemis was severely bit
ten, but by the immediate attention given
him it is hoped no fatal consequence will
ensue.
Trial of Hazlett.
Charlestown, Feb. 7. —The trial of
Wm. Hazlett commenced to-day, a jury
h iving been empannelled.
W. H. Harrison, a resideut of Harper’s
Ferry, positively identified the prisoner
as the man he saw the morning after the
seizure of the arsenal, in company with
Coppic, and armed with a Sharpe’s rifle.
M. W. Henser, of Chambersburg, Pa.,
testified to having assisted in arrest
ing him on the supposition that he was
Cook.
Geo. 8. Callis and others, of Harper’s
Ferry, also identified him as one of
Brown’s party.
From Washington.
Washington, Feb. 7.—Judge Itowles,
of Tennessee, has been appointed Treas
urer of the United States, and the ap
pointment will probably be ratified by
the Senate to-morrow.
Hon. John S. Appleton, Assistant Sec
retary of State, declines the Boston col
lectorship.
The Slaver Orion.
New York, Feb. 7.—The slaver bark
Orion, captured on the coast of Africa,
in December, by a British steamer, and
taken to St. Helena, bad 1023 negroes on
board. She was delivered up to the U.
S. steamer Mystic, and the captain im
prisoned by order of the American Con
sul.
The University of the South.
New Orleans, Feb. B.—The Board of
Management of the University of the
South met to-day. There were five Bish
ops present. The charter granted by the
Legislature of Tennessee was accepted,
and the usual committees were appointed.
Overland Mall Newt.
St. Louis, Feb. 9.— The overland mail
train has arrived, and we have San Fran
cisco dates to the 16th of January.
Telegraphic news went through from
New York to San Francisco in fifteen days
and three hours.
There is a movement on foot to elect a
United States Senator, as a successor to
Mr. Gwinn.
Fearful Tragedy.
Hawesyille, Ky., Feb. 7.—H. A. Da
vidson carried a lighted bombshell in a
basket of eggs, into Duncan Brothers’
store, for the purpose, it is supposed,
of killing the Hon. William Sterrett,
who otfended him by his course in regard
to the Lowe tragedy.
The store was blown to pieces, wound
ing severely, and some mortally, incli>-
ding Davidson.
Governor Letcher.
Washington, #eb. 7. —Gov. Letcher of
Virginia, dined with the President to-day.
He leaves here to-morrow morning for
Richmond.
National Democratic Convention at
Syracuse.
Albany, Feb. s.— Mayor Wood and a
large delegation are here, and start to
morrow for Syracuse, to attend a Con
vention of the Delegates to'the Charles
ton Convention elected by Congressional
Districts under the call of the general
Committee.
Conspirator Arrested.
During tbe trial of Stevens, at Charles
town, Va., on Thursday, Mr. Hunter,
counsel for the Commonwealth, received
a letter from Gov. Letcher, informing
him that the brother of Coppic had been
arrested in lowa.
Griffin and Covington Railroad.
At a meeting of the citizens of Griffin,
on Saturday, 4th in3t., J. Q. A. Alford
was chosen Chairman and J. 1\ . Shack
elford Secretary, and the follow’ng reso
lutions adopted :
Resolved, That in the judgment of this
meeting, a Railroad from this city to
Covington and to connect thereat with the
Georgia Railroad, is second to none in
importance to the interests ot our city.
Resolved, That our best efforts shall be
put forth, to secure the building of said
Road—not only by subscribing ourselves
for stock, but in using our influence with
our fellow citizens in this city, and those
who live along the line of said contempla
ted road, to subscribe for stock in the
same.
Resolve d, That J. Q. A. Alford, G. J.
Green, H. Moor, Wm. M. Cline, Dr. S. 11.
Saunders, H. B. Holliday, H. P. Hill, E.
W Beck, Dr. J. H. Smith, James Butler,
J. W. Shackelford, L. T. Doyal, Dr. J.
Connelly, T. D. Johnson, J. S. Travis, S.
W. Mangham, P. Eason, A. G Brown, C.
11. Johnson, be appointed delegates to at
tend the meeting of the citizens of Henry
county, to assemble at McDonough, on
Tuesday next.
Tuesday, 7th inst., being an extremely
inclement day, the meeting at McDon
ough, Henry co., was adjourned until
Thursday, 23d inst., without having taken
any active measures. The following reso
lutions were passed :
Resolved, That this meeting be adjourn
ed to Thursday, 23d inst., to be held in
McDonough, at which time the citizens of
Newton, Spalding and Henry counties
are earnestly requested to attend, to take
active measures for the construction ot
said road.
Resolved, That Dr. S. H. Saunders,
A. T. Brown, and Maj. Henry Moor, of
the county of Spalding, and John Still
well, George M. Nolan and Dr. L. M.
Tye, of the county of Henry, be appoint
ed as corresponding committees. New
ton county being unrepresented, no com
mittee was appointed.
Resolved, That the Georgia Railroad
aud the South Carolina Railroad be in
vited to attend the meeting by delegations
or otherwise.
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Trial of Stevens at Charlestown.
Charlestown, Feb. 4. —The trial of
Stevens was concluded to-day. No new
evidence was adduced. The speeches of
counsel were mostly of a political charac
ter, discussing the present position of
the questions between the North and
South.
The Commonwealth made a proposi
tion to submit the case without argu
ment, but the counsel for the defense
wished to be heard for his client.
Mr. Harding made the opening argu
ment. He denounced as a falsehood and
libel that assertion of John Brown, that
he was to receive aid from the laboring
classes at Harper’s Ferry. He claimed
that they were true to the Constitution
and the State, and referred to their ac
tion in putting down the invasion. He
concluded with an earnest appeal to the
i Jury to vindicate the law and charged
! that the prisouer was a blood thirsty vil
| lain and wretch and worse than Brown.
Mr. Sennott, for the defense, made an
able and eloquent speech, going into a
history of the rise and progress of the
j Republican party, closing with un earn
| est appeal to the Jury to spare the life
j of the prisoner.
Mr. Hunter closed on the part of the
; Commonwealth. He replied to the ar
j guments of the defense with telling effect,
j He had no confidence in the Union meet
i ings held at the North. The invasion
i had been a benefit to the South, as it had
! shown them the position in which they
were placed. He referred to Mr. Hick
, man’s boasting of the eighteen millions
I of Northern men, and declared the South
; was prepared for any emergency.
The case was submitted to the Jury at
4 o’clock. They then retired, and after
fifteen minutes’ absence, returned a ver
dict of guilty on all the counts.
The prisoner received the verdict with
most perfect indifference, and smiled at
the announcement.
Southern Manufacture.
Some of the neatest casimeree that we
have seen made any where, are now man
ufactured by Messrs. Orem, Hopkins &
Cos., of Maryland, specimens of which
may be seen at the clothing store of Mr.
E. B. Spence, corner of Main and Gover
nor streets. These goods are all wool,
and are manufactured within six miles of
Baltimore, and are so superior in their
style and fiuish that they are purchased
as fast as they come from the loom. If
the factory could supply the demands of
the South—cr if there were others of the
same kind in operation in Maryland and
Virginia—our people might well refuse to
patronize the Yankee looms that are kept
in motion by the slave-labor dollars upon
which they fatten and grow rich.
The people of the South, if they wish
to retaliate upon the abolitionists of the
North in a way to be felt, must give up
the use of all their manufactures, and re
ly upon their own resources to supply
their necessities. If Virginia goods can
not be had, get them from a sister South
ern State, if possible; and, if not, then
rely upon direct importation, or go with
out. It is all folly for the South to re
solve and make speeches, and talk about
independence, unless she is going to act
as well as talk. Many of our citizens
have shown their intentions by dressing
in Southern made goods, and if their ex
ample is followed by both sexes, in less
than two years Virginia, Maryland, and
Georgia, will be manufacturing cloths of
every description, and supplying not only
the people of their own State, but all
others who patronize them, with better
goods than the Yankees are now turning
out for Southern use.— Richmond Dispatch.
For the Sun.
Columbus, Ga., Feb., 10, GO.
Dr. N. P. Banks, Persons, Ala.
Dear Sir: Excuse us for replying to
your enquiries through the medium of
the Daily Sun, regarding the Portable
Engines; as we will not only gratify
you, but numerous other correspondents
whom we have not time to write by mail.
The Portable Engines are gotteu up en
tirely for Planter’s use, by enterprising
men of this place. They weigh from
1400 to 2500 lbs., according to pattern
and order. The Engines are constructed
after Winter’s improved style, (and there
are none that will probably equal them in
this country. The whole is constructed
from top to bottom in the best manner
and of the very best material and work
manship. As to capacity they exceed
anything in our knowledge; ginning from
six to eight bales of cotton and grinding
50 to seventy-five bushels of corn per day.
In addition to this, they are constructed
on trucks by which you can move them
to any point desirable on the plantation.
Hie cost is much lower than ever offered
before, and within the grasp of any
Planter who needs one.
For the sake of others asking similar
questions we would mention, as soon as
practicable, one will be put in operation
near the Palace Mills, for the inspection
of those interested.
Respectfully your’s,
Dillard, Powell & Cos.
An anecdote, relative to the late Pro
fessor Wilson, is just now circulating.
When the suitor for the hand of Profes
sor Wilson’s daughter had gained the la
dy s approbation, he was, k of course, re
ferred to papa. Having stated his, prob
ably not unexpected case, the youDger
gentleman was directed to desire the lady
to come to her father, and doubtless her
obedience was prompt. Professor Wilson
had before bim, for review, some work, on
which was duly inscribed, ‘With the au
thor’s compliments.’ He tore this out,
pinned it to his daughter’s dress solemnly
led her to the young lover, and went back
to his work.
A Small Pox Incident.
An eminent physician of New York got
on board of one of the city railroad cars a
few days since. In a moment he said—
*’ Eadies and gentlemen, there is a ma
lignant case of small pox on board this
smell it.” In a moment the car
was stopped, and the passengers fled, all
but one, and she a woman olosely veiled.
The doctor asked her to lift her veil. She
did, and be beheld a most dreadful case
of that foul and dangerous disorder. She
said she was on her way to the hospital
—her attendant was on the outside.
Scandal In High Life In Chicago
an Ex-Member of Congress and a
Banker's Wife.
We yesterday alluded, says the Buffalo
Republic, to a case of immorality and
crime that had just come to light iu Chi
cago, in which parties of hitherto highest
respectability were the actors. We print
below an account of the affair. The lady
implicated iu this unhappy affair passed
East from Suspension Bridge, a few days
since, to her frieuds iu this State :
The city was startled early during the
past week by the rumor that a leading
banker hud discovered his wife to be
holding improper intimacy with a distin
guished lawyer.
Neither of the guilty pair is handsome
—on the contrary, she is a slight, sallow
woman, very plain, only interesting for
her fine black eyes and black hair, thirty
two years of age, the mother of two girls,
and a third an infant in arms. She was
a meek, lowly woman, apparently ab
sorbed in her Christian and domestic du
ties; a member of a fashionable church
on the avenue, and seemingly much
wrapped up in her self-imposed wori iu
the Sabbath school. She was brought up
under the roof an ex-member of Congress
of New York State, whose jionor and fair
fame in private life have never been
sullied.
She was adopted by him ; her generous
dower furnished by him. His sensible
ideas of dress were implanted in her
bosom, for she was remarkable in our
streets for her neatness of apparel, while
her unostentatious manner was the theme
of comment. She lived in a villa built
palace of Milwaukie brick, on Michigau
avenue, on graperies and hot-houses of
which alone SIOO,OOO had been expended
by her generous and too confiding hus
band. Sbe was a plain, modest, courte
ous woman, of more than ordinary intel
ligence, an I her fall is certainly more
surprising than if she had been a young,
giddy, pretty woman, badly brought up,
and suddenly arisen to fashionable life
and all the blandishments of anew and
flattering position.
The seducer is a lawyer of some elo
quence, of considerable ability, and
marked success. He is a member of Con
gress from a neighboring State, and is a
husband, aud the father of eight children,
and resides in the North Division.
Any one who has attended our courts
has observed a tall, thin man, with a turn
up nose, light hair, sprinkled with grey,
a face almost covered with hair, and
shaved iu the English or Lord Dundreary
style, with ratheran affected,but neverthe
less able manner, conducting cases before
the several tribunals. This is the Hon
orable Mr. S 1, the man who has
brought ruin and shame upon this wo
man, who has crushed the heart of one
of our best citizens, and who seems now
by his brazen parade of our streets to be
without shame. The reasons for such a
fall are as difficult for us to comprehend
as it was for Hamlet to account for his
mother’s crime, the murdering of her
noble husbaud for his craven brother.
What makes the crime still worse, much
of the business of this Honorable (?) was
gained through the man whom he has so
basely wronged ; and the best of it—the
lucrative rail road attorneyships he held
—were gained through the wronged man’s
influence with his unfortunate wife’s
adopted father.
He was likewise the banker’s attorney,
bis confidant, bis friend, and was not only
received into bis home, but through him
he gained access to other families of note
and respectability. For eighteen months
the villain has been defiling the home of
his best friend. Besides being a libertine,
he lost some $3,000 at play about two
years since at one of our leading ho
tels. While in Washington, he was the
subject of a rumor as being one who tried
to ruin a daughter or niece of a now cab
inet minister, in 1857 be effected the ruin
of a married woman on the North side;
and while he was betraying tbe banker’s
wife, this ugly Lothario was recently seen
dancing at the hops gotten up by aban
doned women. We’ll not dwell on the
hypocrisy of this man, or this woman,
who, when a neighboring female was ac
cused of a liaison, she “cast the first
stone,” and said she would not recognize
her in society, even while she was receiv
ing and returning the visits of this wretch
in the form of a man ; aye, and meeting
him in his office.
The affair was discovered strangely.
The banker’s jealousy was aroused by
the familiarity of a young Englishman,
an insurance agent residing here, with
his wife, and in watching for some overt
act on their part, caught in company with
her his friend, his counselor, under cir
cumstances which led him to charge his
wife with disloyalty to her marriage vows,
and she confessed to acts of criminality,
not only with the lawyer, but also with
the insurance agent, and a distinguished
artist, well known in this vicinity and in
Washington. This confession was ac
knowledged before a notary public.
We have it from good authority that the
banker set his confidential clerk to watch
the guilty pair, and one Sunday while he
was supposed to be attending his mission
school duties, he, with his clerk, took
part in the watch. The clerk saw the
Honorable (?) Mr. S 1 enter the house,
and saw him enter the room of the
wretched woman. The clerk then left,
returned with the husband, who caught
the pair in flagrante delicto.
She was sent to her adopted parent, re
signing all claim to the children, save the
baby. He told her that he would make
such settlement of property as Ler adopt
ed father thought right.
Remarkable Midnight Invasion.
A singular affair took place at the
house of Mr. E. S. Hutchins, Newtown
Centre, on Thursday night, says the Bos
ton Traveler. The house is nearly sur
rounded by woods, at a considerable dis
tance from any other dwelling, and is oc
cupied by Mr. Hutchins, his wife, two
children and a servant girl. At about
two o’clock a. m., Mrs. Hutchins was
awakened by the footsteps of someone
about the house, and aroused her hus
band, who soon ascertained that a man
was apparently attempting to effect an en
trance at tbe front part of the building.
He opened a window to speak to the in
truder, who stated that he wanted to and
would come in. Mr. Hutchins warned
him off, and as the man was obstinate,
requested his wife to bring bim his gun,
which, he stated, was loaded with balls.
The gun was brought and levelled, when
the stranger dodged behind a tree.
In order to intimidate him, Mr. Hutch
ins fired at the tree, when the man came
in sight ngain. He was soon after heard
attempting to effect an entrance in the
back part of the premises, and was or
dered to leave by Mr. Hutchins, who
threatened to fire a second time. Putting
his hands in his pockets, the man replied,
“ fire away,” when Mr. Hutchins dis
charged his piece over the head of the
stranger. By this time the family were
thoroughly alarmed, the room was filled
with the smoke of powder, the children
were screaming, and tbe wife was in an
agony of apprehension.
There was another parley, when the
man said his name was Durgin, and de
clared again that he would come in. Mr.
Hutchins said that he could obtain assis
tance, that he also had a number of men
to assist him.
He wanted Mr. Hutchins to come dowD,
when he would show him where had been
a large Are. Finally, after two more
shots bad been fired to frighten off the
man, and the family had been kept in a
state of alarm for several hours, the in
truder departed.
A girl out West having professed re
ligion was so extremely happy that she
was afterward heard singing at the top
of her voice that old by mu, “ The love of
God is coming down,” &c. Nothing
her from singing this song. One day old
Jowler, the house dog, came in while she
was singiDg and helped himself to a piece
of meat that was on the table. Polly
observing the movement of Jowler, con
tinuing her favorite song said :
“ If you don’t go out I’ll knock you down,
Halle, Hallelujah,
You nasty, sneaking, flop-eared hound,
O, glory Hallelujah.”
New Telegraph Line.
St. Louis, Feb. 6.— The extension of
the Western telegraph line was completed
to St. Joseph, Missouri, to-day, and an
office opened for the transmission of dis
patches.