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fcllj tarn BY JAMES GARDNER. VU ESn VY. NOY 20. Texas —Go vernor Pease has issued the cer tidcate of election’for Congress to Co». Matt j V’ard, Democrat, who ha, been e’-ecl. J by a ma jority of twelve votes. His seat will probably be contested by bis competitor, Evans. The 29th day of November has been set aside by the Executive as n day of thanksgiving and praise throughout the Stase. The Democratic party will hold their State, Convention at Austin on the Sth of January next. Kansas Items From the Kansas Herald, of October 2.th, we condense the following: A mass meeting of the iriends of law and or- ■ der was called, to assemb'e on the 14th inst.. at Leavenworth city. A secret “military organization of Freesoilers I and Abolitionists in the Territory of Kanses” was exposed. They had all the 'signs, grips | and passwords, ’ &c. Troy has been selected as the permanent aounty seat of Doniphan county. The Herald contains the proceedings of several meetings in Kansas, of the law and order par ty. &e. We copy the following paragraphs: Border Ruffian" is the name of apaperabout to be published in the flourishing town ot Rich field, Clay county, Mo. A Rjdt i* being built to run in the Missouri river next season, to be ca’ e I the B n itr Rui fiao. This apellation given by the Massachusetts Tankeesto Missourians, i: seems, is becoming very popular. We bear of several distinguished Missourians who intend to name tnefr hist boy, Border Rntfian. The name was first applied by way of derision, but we rather gtress as how its originators are becoming sick and tired of the term. Kansas. —The Kansas Herald, published at Lawrence, of October 27, states that‘’seventy nine wagons, loaded with pioneers from lowa and other Western States, passed Kansas city between Sunday and Wednesday of last week, destined for the Neosho.” Missouri.—Governor Price, of Missouri, has submitted his message to the L.‘_islature ot that State. The entire document is taken up with a discussion of the policy of the State in regard to railroads. Nr.w Counterfeit—Count ifeit fives and tens on the Western Bank of Virginia, are in circulation in Zinesville, Ohio. The paper is Slid to be m’serable, and the execution equal ly so. Tobe Hung—Pri»at- William J. Dunn, of company G.,mounted reflemen United States Army, was recently tried by court martial at Fort Mclntosh, Texas, for the murder of Ser geant John W. Siam , fi*t> 1 3 tilty, and is to be hung Lunatic Asylum Burned.—The Richmond papers state that one of the buildings of the Western Virginia Lunatic Asylum was destroyed by fire on Saturday night last. The building was occupied by the worst class of female pa tients. all of whom were saved. The Cost of Guano—The Fredericksburg L(Va ) Jfivq/jfoijj a calculation as tothenenur;.;-- «mt iruano sold in th-t place, states that the goano consumed in the district, fur nishing wheat and corn to that city, cost $300,- 000. The wheat from that district sold in Fred ericksburg is valued at $608,000; so that the guano costs nearly one-half what the lar mers receive for their wheat. Theological Seminary.—Over fifty students are now at the Episcopal Theological Seminary, N near Alexandria, which is probably a greater number than has ever been in attendance there. Conference. —The annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South of Virginia, will commence its session in Petersburg on the 28th inst. The sa w and planing'mills of Epriam Clayton, Asheville, North Carolina, were wholly des troyed by file on Saturday last. The loss is from $5,000 to «6,000. We have not heard whether Mr. Clayton was insured. Count On war tiff, a distinguished Russian Philologist, and the author of several highly es teemed works, htc just died. He was for some time President of the Academy of Science at St.: Petersburg. Among the Americans returned home from Europe, on the Arago, we observe the names of Dr. LaVert and family, of Mobile. Wik.x Producing ■;♦: the United States.— Toe New York Mirror predicts teat within twenty-five years the ‘United States will not only supply the American people with the pure juice of tie grape, but w ill become the largest wine exporting nation in 'the world. Tnz Ull'kv Laws.—The board of trade of New York are making an effort to obtain a thorough revision of the usury laws of that. State. They seem to think that the traffic in money [should be free from its present restric tions, and left«b» follow the same laws that regu date the valued other commodities. Tme Massachusetts Legislature.—Of the lorty members of the Massachusetts Senate last year, only eleven were re-elected, the only a>ne foam Suffolk being Daniel Warren. Os over four hundred members of the House last year, only thirty-eight have been re-elected. In | addition, Hiram Brown, the only Democratic member of last year’s House,has been promo ted to a eeat in the So nite from Hampden county. Dan. E. Bickels, late Secretary of Legation at t St. James, has been elected to the State Senate Is from the city ofNew York. Plasters’ Meeting.— Cotton planters are ■- invited to attend a meeting at Memphis, Tenn.. If;;. Dec. Ist, “to inquire into the causes which are D '.now depressing the price of their produce.” ■Jf [ A Change.—The Rev. Mr. Grover, of the B| plethi'd- -t Episcopal Church, has resigned his position a . a member of t'.e Ohio (.ont«-ren'<-, B and joined the Protestant Epi- :opal Church AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, NOV FAIR B£R 21, 1855. The saw and planing mills al Ephraim Clay- ■ ton. in Ashville, North Carolina, were destroyed by fire on Saturday last. Loss, £3,000. Mr Powers, the sculptor, is st present en gaged on statues representative of America and | California. Returned.—Right Rev. Bishop Eady, of I the Methodist Church, arrived in Richmond j last Sunday from Kansas He has just returned • from organizing the Kansas conference. A Real Hindoo.—Thackery was born in ; Calcutta. Hon. Alexander B Boteler, of Virginia, is named as a Candida's for the clerkship of the i I next House ot Representatives j I’he venerable Justice Clancy, of Michigan, - idled on the Sth inst , at the advanced age of 81 ■ years. • Madame Jenny Lind [Goldsmith, it is said , ! has been stacked with same terrible disease in j the face. The Maryland Legislature stands as follows : Senate — Know Nothings,B : Whigs, 6; Derno- e r ate, 6 ; Union. 4 House— Know Nothings, 35: Union, 16; Democrats 4. O the Senators, six Whigs and save Demo crats hold over. Letters received by the last European steamer give assurance that our Minister to France has entirely recovered from the effects of his paraly" tic attack, and is again blessed with his usual health. The percussion-cap powder factory of Dr Goldsmark, in 65tb street, N.Y. was blown upon Tuesday afternoon,—a keg of powder being per forated by a random musket-bail, fired at a tar get. Loss. 8300 The Democrats of Tennessee design holding a State Convention at Nashville on the Sth ot January next. An Imperial Present. —La Giua. the hand somest and youngest prima donna on the stage has faker. Rio Janeiro by storm. The Emperor of Brazil has presented her with a -pair ot dia mond ear-ring, worth 25 000 francs—Bs 000. Roman letters announce the death of the Abb-' Matranga, Greek Secretary ot the Library of the Vatican and a distinguished scholar and archaeologist, of Father Lombardi, a writer of ‘ meiit and learning. [ B. B. Chapman, Democrat, and Judge Ben ' nett. Whig, are the candidates for delegates -to ' Congress in Nebraska. Bishop Meade ha 1 bis pocket picked of SSO or S6O, and valuable papers, at Richmond, Va., last week. Six hundred and eighty-nine dollars and I forty-three cents have be-n received by the Sy ' nod of Georgia, for Foreign M issions, since 12th | April last. ; Rev. Charles M. Irwin, Baptist Minister at • Madison, intends to locate and preach in Atlanta. Miss Josephine Bunkley’s new work against I the Catholics “ is published by Harper & Broth ' ers, under the protection and auspicesot the Amer i ’.can party.” Os course that party does not in- I terfeie with -env p^rer»n J « rctiglOUS opinions! I A head sold by the Sheriff.—At the re cent sale of the effects ot Captain Henry Love ' by the Sheriff of San Francisco, the head of i Joaquin, the celebrated robber, preserved in I spiiits, and the hand of ‘ Threo-Fingered Jack,’ i one of his companions, were disposed of for $36 to Judge Lyons, formerly oi the California Su : preme Court. Captain Love had killed both of • the men, the last remains of whom went off • under the hammer. ' The New York Evening Post of Tuesday. I contains under its usual postcript head in a con spicuous type what purports to be a letter from | B. B B McKinney, London, Banker, to John | McClure, Esq , Banker, with the following in ■ troductory notice: ! “We are indebted to our friend Mr. McClure, ; No. 197 Wall street, fbi the following copy of a ' letter received by last steamer from his cones j pondent, B. B B. McKinney, Banker in Lon- I don.” I On perusal, the letter proves to be a hoax con sisting of an exaggeration of the late manifesto of the London Times We understand that Mr. Debruhl a gentleman very well known in this city, by our mer chants, was found dead on the road, near his residence, in Abbeville District, a few days ago It is presumed his death was caused from a fall from his horse. Wisconsin Election—Private and published accounts all go to confirm the belief that the Democracy of Wisconsin have achieved a most brilliant victory at the recent election. The re-action in public opinion throughout the State is as remarkable as it is gratifying. A corres pondent of the Washington Union, writes: “ lowa county, which last year gave four hun dred and ninety free-soil majority, now gives four hundred democratic majority.” The Wilkes Republican, of Nov. 16th, says: ‘ The Congressional delegation, elected in Louis inia, consists of Ivo Americans and two Demo crats.” The writer is mistaken, as his Know Nothing friend, Hunt, who wss an anti-Kansaj man, is swt elected. Therefore, the result is j three Democrats and one Know Nothing. I The Rej>uA/ira»i also says, that the American party has a majority in the New York Legisla ture. He is wofully wrong again, unless he considers the Know Nothings and Seward’s Iree soil party, the Republicans, al so . leutical in sentiment, as to very readily coalaoce. That may be io. Tbe Pacific.brought heavy dispatches for the State Department, and 893,000 of Asiuerican sfocs s fm redemption. The Washington Star suggests that the wa flurry is only a ruse designed by the British Gov ernment to check English capitalists fiorn invest iog in Amen.': m securities, and to increase the amount of bullk’n in the Bank of England by the sale of such stC'ks as are now held in Eu rope. OurNewYotk Correspondence. Cause of the Panic—Bright Prospects—Elections —Presidcn I d Candidates— Live Oak s Letters— Our Citij Officers— TFar— Canadian Bravery— Terrible Battle. S/c , S>c. New York, Nov. 15th, 1855 Lord Raglan in his dispatches from tbe Cri mea, fully proved the influence of the weather lon the minds, and bodies of men. In these memo- ■ rable State documents it is clearly shown that the men are but animated barometers. With the first day of sunshine the blood begins to cir- : cult te, and an hour of lair weather is sufficient to . make it as sparkling and brilliant as champagne. ■ Hope attends upon sunshine as materially as I bees upon June flowers, while despondency , appears to be the natural offspring of cloudsand I fogs. Those who attribute the present tempera ; ry tightness in our money market, and the fall ot stocks to the European war, mistake consequen- I ces lor causes. The sun h s not been seen in ■ Wall street for the last fortnight. Our city has ; been deluged in 4 rain ; the weather has been cold, I raw and uncomfortable—hence the depression jin trade. How is it possible for men to “bid j up” while their spirits are running down to zero> j or that business should assume a cheerful aspect | while Rheumatism has the joints of business i men now upon tbe rack. Your correspondent is not a propbet nor the son ot a | rophet, but be is willing to stake bis repute.tion upon an in crease of business, a rise in stocks, and a ‘ loose ness” in money with the first appearance of sun shine. Upon the first fine day therefore, be the first to announce in your financial columns, that Wail street has assumed a healthier tone, and “Erie” is looking up The continued rain of the past few days • here made it impossible for people to meet out i of doors, but a grand demonstration is expae'ed ias soon as the weather will permit. Politicians I are already speculating upon who shall be our next-Piesident. The late results are very much in favor pl Dickinson among the Hards. Buch anan was tbe iavorife of the Softs a short time since, but Marcy is now talked of in his Stead- George Law is laying his pipe very deep for a i nomination “by Youug America.” He does not j now pay-so. much money as be did at firs , ‘ perhaps for being kept before the people, but his ' life is being distributed secretly and gratuitously i wherever an impression in his favor is most needed. As this little volume endeavors tn show ■ how good a President “Live Oak” would make, I it is evident that Law has one eye at least upon i tbe White House. It is urged by bis friends that ; although :.e is not as handsome a man as Frank , Pierce, he is sbarpat a bargain, and is more like i ly to make a good speculation out of Cuba. One I thing greatly in favor of Law is that he is not i likely to damage bis cause by letter writing, as i his experience in the chirographic ait has been : confined to putting his mark upon the bil's o: a Bank of which he was one time President. The affairs of our city glide on smoothly. Briggs has submitted to the common council his famous report of the nativity of our chief of po lice. On motion of Aiderman Harrick, it was ordered to be printed. It will be one of tbe most amusing books of the season: the copyright will be a publisher’s fortune. The Alderman against whom a t rue bill was found by the Gran I Jury, has been discharged; not that iris ir.- nocense was established, but because the jury could not agree. The whole posse of our city officials are so corrupt, that I verily believe they would ostracise an honest man, if by an chance, such a one should be discovered among them. It I is, no doubt, very pleasing to our worthy Mayor, I to have his life published in one of the Sunday .] papers, under the title of " Records of Rascality.” i Every crime, from pocket picking up to arson, i is laid to bis charge, and, in many instances, ■ certified by the oaths, of what are considered i J I creditable witnesses. ; Since John Bull became allied to his ancient enemies, “the frog ea'ers across the channel,” he has had his bead slighly turned. He appears to think this as proper time to have satisfaction or all the injuries he ever received, and he ap pears very anxiors to knoik a chip off Jom f’han’s shoulder. By every mail we learn that we are simply a combination of different tribes banded for the purpose of plundering other na tions. and held together by no higher motive, that a fair divirsion of the spoils. By the last English papers, we learn that we are no longer able to govern ourselves properly, and that the British Government consider it a duty to do this for us. To effect this,a fleet is to be sent im mediately into the Gulf of Mexico. If that has not the desired effect, the militia ot Canada will probably be enrolled and held in readiness to march into this country, take possession of it, and occupy it until they teach us to behave our selves. As an example of Canadian bravery, I instance the attack upon a mill near Toronto in tbe rebellion of 1837. Word was sent to Sir Francis Bond Head that tbe rebels had collected in great numbers at Montgomery’s tavern, and ij not routed, would in a lew hours, attack the city. The drums beat to arms, and two regi ments of militia were marched out immediate ly to check the advance of the enemy. When they arrived at the tavern, there was not a soul to be seen, and the only proof they had, that tbe place was inhabited, was a dinner table, furnished as if for a family meal. The loyal Canadian soldiers rushed upon the viands in or der to make up for the fatigue of the campaign by a good lunch, but Sir F. B. Head, rushing forward, had the tables demolished, and in an eLquent harrangue, in which the horors of dying by poison were vividlv pictured, he urged them to attack the adjacent mil! immediately, as no doubt the enemy were there prepared to defend themselves to the last. The soldiers rushed for ward, and as the mill was in a hollow, they I came upon it unperceived. A tremendous vol ley wag poured into it, and one equally tremen dous was noured out. Unable to bear tip against such a warm reception they retreated precipitate Iv. The reserves were brought iip-the retreating forces rallied, volley after volley was poured into the building, until it wan completely riddled. At length an assault was otdeied—the place was entered arid not a sir.’gle person, dead or alive was fou'nd inside i f was then discovered that this gallant army of Canadian militia, re treated from the echo of its own fire Lawrence. From the New York Daily News. One Week Later From Europe The U- S. Mail steamer Pacific, Captain i from Liverpool, about two o’clock Saturday ternoon, November 3. a:.d one hundred a twenty mtie passengers, arrived at this portabot SJ o’clock Thursday morning. Liverpool Cotton market advanced jd. Flou unchanged Wheat 2d. lower. Corn 64. Sugar excited, at 5 a 7s. advance. Consols 88 a 881. WAR WITH THE UNITED STATES. The news this week is, in one respect, impor tant in the highest degree. Excited by a series ot editorial articles in the London Times, the public mind of Britain had been agitated by the apprehension ot immediate war with the United States! The Times stated that with reference to the recruiting difficulty, ‘the British Govern ment have displayed a most commendab.e spirit of forbearance and moderation, while the pro ceedings of the Government of tbe United States disclosed adesire to force a quarrel * * * * the language and conductot the American Gov ernmeot are extraordinary * * * * and recklessly urging matters to an extremity I To the demands of the United States, the British Government has returned a temperate but dig nified reply, and has seconded its diplomacy by strengthening its West India fleet wi’h the ships that have arrived from the Baltic. In this posi tion affairs now stand.’ These comments of the Times were echoed by tbe provincial press, with exaggerations, until they gained almost universal credence, and, we must do the British public the justice to add, tbe beljef excited gen eral astonishment and regret, until on Friday evening tbe 2d inst. the Liverpool Post issued en extiacontaining these words : RUPTURE WITH AMERICA. “Private messages by telegraph state that the American Minister in London has demanded bis passport, or an equivalent to it, from cur Government. “News so astounding might be received with incredulity, but we can only say that holders of cotton are acting on the report, and there is a sensation on ’Change.” We have to thank His Excellency, Mr. Buch an . for his courtesy, in favoring us by telegraph j mg the following explicit contradiction to our j Liverpool agent, in reply to and inquiry by that i gentleman as to the truth of the rumor: ‘ London. Friday night, Nov. 2,1855. i ‘ The .American Minister to the Jdgent of the Jlsso j dated Press, Liverpool: 1 't is not true that the American Minister has I demanded bis passports from the British Govern ! m.- :d. There is no foundation for such a report.’ : Our agent, not feeling at liberty to m.ke use iof rns information, gave it no publicity in Eng i land, where, as yet the rumor of a rupture re ; m sins ur.contradicted. ; There appeared, in The Times of Oct. 31, a I letter from ‘A Citizen of the United States,’ j ’be style,tone, and presumptive origin of which , | entitle it to attention. The writer conten.is j teat Great Britain need be in no fear of a fili -1 busteiing expedition from the United States; I that the American Government is powerful I enough to preserve its neutrality and arrest such I lawless designs; and that if the British Govern- I ment really anticipated a transatlantic invasion lot Ireland, its proper course was to communi- I cat- i s apprehensions to the American Govern i n ot siirpri«i<:-> them suddenly with j the presence of a large fleet in their vicinity, j the (trfpose ot which they are at liberty to con- I jectnrs, but cannot know. The writer, however, i chiefly regrets the recent action of England, and the excited articles which it has occasioned, be cause they come at a most inauspicious period. l int Times, he says, is mistaken in supposing that there is no real ground of difference be tween England and the United States. There is one, at least, of a very serious character, in volving nothing less thana question of treaty obliSjatJW'.ind national good faith. Bv WZ Clayton and Bulwer Convention of tS-iiy. fiFfwo countries entered into stipulations intended to prevent any occupation ot Central America, not only by Great Britain or the Uni ted States, but by any other foreign power what ever; yet Great Britain not only continues to I occunv in Central America, but she has abso i lutely established a new colony there since the ! treaty was made. This conduct the Uni'ed I States Government exclaims against, not chiefly I as a violation of the Monroe doctrine, or as an I injustice to Honduras, (against whom, indeed, j it is said to ‘smack of buccaneering,’) but as a | plain disregard of a solemn and self-imposed ob ligation; and the writer, therefore, thinks that, while some real causes of difficulty exists be tween the two nations, it is doubly unwise to dwell upon imaginary ones. He closes by re marking: A war with the United States, it seems to me, cugbt not to be lightly spoken of. It is a cootmg«ncy which no lover of his race can con template without emotion. It would be almost a fratriciial war. It would be long, bloody and destructive. Each nation possesses a large population and vast resources. Each is a mari time nation. Each is capable of doing the oth er immense injury; and their interests, indeed, are so connected that neither can strike a blow w.thout feeling, more or less, its reaction. If your fleets would attack our towns, the descen dants of Paul Jones might reciprocate such at tacks; and if your people would illustrate their courage anew in such a war, there is no deed ot gallant daring or • separate enterprise to which our people would not show themselves equal. Every consideration, but of duty and of inter est. requires both countries to keep peace. But neither country is unmindful of its self respect. Great Britain, I am sme, would not yield its convictions to any threat; and tbe United States. I am equallj' sure, will regard with indignation, rather than fear, the menace in its seas of a hos tile fleet. PROGRESS OF THE WAR. The intelligence from the seat of war con tains little that is really news. Correspondence is to hand detailing the capture of Kinburn and the forced destruction of the fort of Otchakoff. In the Crimea a belief prevailed that the Rus sians would attack the allied positions, conse quently the advance of the troops was counter manded, and the British have returned to Eupa toria, the French to Baidal, and the Turks and Sardinians to the Tchnernaya. The Allies are repairing and arming Sebastopol, and they keep up a desti tory fire against the North side. The London Times, apparently speaking from au thority, says: ‘ We believe there can be no doubt that the operations for the expulsion of the Rus sians from the Crimea are abandoned for the present season. The main body of both armies will at once go into winter quarters. Five months of inactivity are thus before the armies of the East.’ Gert. Sir William Codrington is appointed Commander-in-Chief of the British army in the Crimea, in room of Gen. Simpson. His ap pointment is regarded favorably by the army and people. I Acceding to Vienna letters, the Emperor of It n .S' i was desirous of bolding a p"rsoual inter view at some place on the frontier with the Emperor ot Austria. King of Prussia, and pro bably other potentates, with the view of com ing to some understanding foi the conclusion of peace. VARIOUS ITEXtS. Gen. Simpson states in one of his despatches hat the fine weather has permitted great pro gross so be made in the repair of the railway | and construction of new roads, and he entertains I no anxiety of there being a scarcity of anything ■ during the approaching Winter. Dr. Hal), Brit- ’ 1 sai tw übe low five and t under Trebisi Crimea, the Tel thousand ville, sixty sand: at Kim. way to reinforce ... Deniper, twenty-five thoi eight thousand ; reserve in ten thousand. GREAT BRITAIN —AFI’OINTM. The political intelligence tant. Lord Stanley, son of will, it is said, become a mem merit. The Daily News state Secretaryship was offered t< declined by him in favor of Lc Lord Harrowby has been menti tion with the vacant post. It is e Hardingne is about to resign the c. chief ot the British army, isnd will b ed either by the Duke of Cambridge < ■ Seaton. Sir Hamilton Seymour will be ap; ed Minister to Vienna. Violent storms had been experienced along t. eastern coasts of Britain, causing considerable loss in shipping. , Among the passengers by the mail steamer, La Plata, at Southampton, were Genera! Balia*, of Bolivia, on a tour, and the negro Baron Jean Baptiste Damler, appointed to represent the Em pire of Hayti during the temporary absence of the Haytien Minister at London. Victor Hugo, with his son. and those who signed the recent protest, have been expelled from the Channel Islands IRELAND. An Irish Philipic—The Rev. Dr. Cahill has addressed a long letter to Lord Palmerston, tbe spirit of which may be gathered from the opening paragraph, which runs in the following gentle strain : “So. my lord, you have advised your embassador, Mr. Crampton, to enlist the Irish in America. You want them now in order to recruit your wasted army in the Crimea, or to garrison the growing weakness of your dis tant colonies- Glory be to God; that tbe insatia ble cruelty of English law, in exterminating and banishing tile poor, faithful Irish, is now forced to acknowledge the national crime by em ploying your embassador to seek their retnrn. Heaven be for ever praised I that tbe perfidy of Lord John Russell’s administration (your former chief in the persecution of Ireland) is now ex posed before the willing scorn of all the nations of the civilized world. So you now offer a boun i ty, and pay, and the Queen’s uniform, to the despised exiles, whom within the last seven I years your administration starved, and jibed, and j banished. 1 thank eternal retributive justice, | in the present instance, in thus compelling the I public executioner of my country to confess I with his own mouth bis cruelty to Ireland I am grateful to the unerring laws of the Supreme Arbiter of nations that the conspirator against the religion and the prosperity of Iteland stands at this moment gibbetted by his own confes sion on the pillar of public scorn.” The New York Day Book. There is certainly one truly national Demo cratic paper in New York, and that one supports fully, fairly, and with marked abdity, the ad ministration of President Pierce. There is no mistaking its principles or 'TJs --meaning of its language. Whatever may bk .>aid of the un ; soundness of other New York napers on the j great question of the day, Freesoilism and Abo I litionism, in any of their forms, cannot be laid I to the charge of tbe New York Day Book. It is one of those papers in the North that come squarely and boldly up to the line in their advocacy of the principles ot the Kansas-Ne braska bill; and the ability and earnestness with which it enforces its arguments, as well as its bold and manly defence of the national adminis tration, cannot but have a beneficial effect on the public mind. Whilst we regret to hear—as we have heard— that the Day Book is not supported and sustained by the patty in New York as it deserves to be, we are glad to learn that its circulation is rapid ly increasing throughout the country, and that it now claims a larger weekly circulation than any other paper, except the Tribune, published in New York. The Day Book must ever be a favorite paper with Southern and Western Democrats, as it now is with the true friends of the administration everywhere.— Washington Union. Charleston and Savannah Kailroad. From the Savannah Morning News, we copy the followirg report of the proceedings of the Ci'y Council of Savannah on the 15th inst , in reference to the above road : An Ordinance was read the first time, giving the Charieston'and Savannah Raislroad Com pany the privilege of crossing any streets neces sary to reach their depot, when they shall have purchased the land on the same terms, and under the same restrictions are provi d--d in the case of the track of the Sa vannah. Albany and Gulf Railroad, running fom their depot to the river. Provided, that said depot be located west of West Broad street, a id that the streets shall not be blocked up, and the passage of the Canal impeded Solomon Cohen, Esq , appeared, and was heard in reference to this ordinance. He stated that the C. & S. R. R. Co , had permission to use the track of the Central Railroad for three years, but that the business of the latter was increasing so rapidly as to render it necessary for the C. & S. toad to look out for a depot for itself. This road will run for fifteen or twenty miles through this State, where no other road probably ever will run, developing the resources of that sec tion, besides bringing trade to Savannah from a large section of South Carolina. The President of the road, Hon. Thos. D. Drayton, had writ ten to urge the importance of this measure, as one or two large subscribers in Charleston had hesitated about paying in their subscriptions until it was ascertained that the City Council would grant them the privilege asked for. It was important that this ordinance should pass Council at this meeting, if possibe, in order that Mr. Drayton might conclude contracts for about nine miles of the grading before leaving Charles ton to attend to his duties in Columbia, as Sena tor, where be would be detained some five or six weeks. After one or two slight amendments, on mo. , tion ot Alderman Mallery, the Ordinance was read the second timo and passed. Chicago, Nov. 14—The Missouri Legislature met on the 12th. but refused to go into an elec- | tion lor U. S Senator. Two Democratic can- , cuses were held, and the prospects of an election i were considered doubtful. t . . ...e Georgut m return home and unfurl the ban . lebellion. Nay more,—they will nomi <e a sectional candidate and organize a sec tional party, and thus take the step towards breaking the Union of these States. L<“t the dispassionate men of the country think of this. 1 If the Convention, tin willing to encounter • -Scylla on the one hand or Charybdis on the other, should neither accept nor reject the pro position, as it probably will not. then the wise ’ men of the body will come together and devise a platform which will mean all things to ail men > —a Delphic production, full of promise to the Noith and encouragement to the jSouth. This the delegates from Georgia will be prevailed upon to accapt as an equivalent to their ultima tum, and returning home, their work and their patriotism will be held up to the admiration rs the country. If, in the meantime, the Ameri can party shall have consented to await the ac tion ofthe Cincinnati Convention,or shall have ' committed itself in any way to its decision, it will find itself completely circumvented; for it will then be too late to call a Convention and to bring forward a candidate. We conclude, then, that if the Convention ac cepts the proposition of the Democratic party of Georgia, it will lead to wide-spread agitation at the North ; that if it rejects it, it will call into being a sectional party in the South : and that 1 if it does neither, it will at least adopt a set of high sounding but meaningless resolutions, by which both sections, and especially the South, will be cheated. If, however, we are mistaken, and 'he Cin cinnati Convention shall do what is right, both in regard to the platform it adopts ar.d the can -1 didate it nominates, no Democrat in Georgia , will be more rejoiced than our-elves. We shall ‘ in th-t event, not only not offer any factious op ! position, but if the American party shall not come fully up to its duty, we will go further and ’ counsel a union of hearts and hands throughout all the borders of the South. Mr. Win.?. Wright in bis late cotton circu lar, sent forward to Liverpool, by the last stea mer, communicates to his European friends, in relation to the cotton crop, as follows : Crops, &c—lt seems pretty generally ad mitted in the South that the frost ofthe 24th and 25th October did but partial injury to the crop in some localities. The weather subsequent to the frost has been dry and warm, and picking has been carried on under highly favorable cir cumstances; under these influences, the letters from the South received bere during the last week have very generally spoken of increased es timates of crop. There is still, however, a wide range in opinion on this subject; in the course of another week or two I hope to be in posses sion of data v hereon to form an opinion ot its probable extent. Savannah Valley Railroad. The Columbia Times of 16th inst., says : A Convention of the stockholders in tbe Sa vannah Valley Railroad Company was held at Anderson Court House, on Wednesday, to con sider the present condition and future prespects ot their road, and to determine the course proper to be pursued so as to secure its construction. Af ter the meeting was organized for business, a commtetee was apppointed to report upon the various matters for the consideration of which the Convention was called. This committee reported in substance that the road could only be built by abandoning the scheme of connecting w.tb Hamburg, and by crossing the Savannah river at Bnllsluice and connecting with tbe South Carolina Rsilroad at Augusta. This report was adopted. To enable the company to make this crossing and connection, it was- resdve! to memorialize the Legislature of this State to amend the charter. Upon the adoption of the iep.,it and resolu tions accompanying it, those representing the stock taken by citizens of Hamburg and of a portion of Edgefield District, protested against the action of the convention and withdrew from ail participation in its proceedings. The following gentlemen constitute the Boaid of Direction for the ensuing year: President: John A. Calhoun. Directors : Robert Jennings, James Tompkins. J W. Hearst, John Brownlee, D. W. Rodgers. Daniel Brown, J. W Harrison, W. B. Dorn, Charles Hammond, Josiah Sibley, N. Merriwe ther, John Speer. Voters in Territories.—The total vote in New Mexico at the late election for a delegate in Congress foots up thirteen thousand seven hun dred and twenty-nine. This is larger than the vote polled in any of the organized Territories of the United States. At the recent contest in Minnesota, about nine thousand were polled, and in Oregon over ten thousand. A census just taken in Minnesota shows that Territory to nave fifty-five thousand inhabitants. Found Dead —We learn that Mrs. Finnagan. wife of Mr. Dan. Finnagan,residingjust beyond the North Common, on the Talbotton road, was found dead in the house she occupied, on Tues day night. She was at the time, living alone, her husband being in Savannah. An inquest was held over her remains yesterday, and the body examined by a physician, and no marks of violence being discovered, we understand the conclusion ot the Jury was, that she came to her death by the too free use of ardent spirits. Columbus Daily Sun, Nov. 15. Two MEN killed by a LvNATrc.—At the lu natic asvlttm in St. John, N. Bj on the 30th ultimo JohnE Clark, a patient, killed William Carroll and Barry Mills withan axe with which he was chopping wood.