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Tb Wiiksfcnrr* Slave Case. The Philadephia Bulletin of yesterday, ..,vs- Yesterday Afternoon, just after .vi adjournment of-the Court, a warrant , i’ arrest was served upon John Jenkins f „and Jfines Crossin, U. 6. Deputies Mar -:,nl, charging them with a riot, and 1 att ; rv on hill Thomas, an alleged fugi , ve slave, with an intent to kill him. he warrant was issued by a inagistiato . i’ Wilkiharre, on the oath of a man earned GfifLadgeve, of that borough, and , -as served on Marshall by. ihe high Constable |f W dksbarre. Dis trict Attorney Ashmcad applied this mornig before Justice (trier, for a writ , f habeas corpus, and asked that the de fendants he discharged, Judge* Grier, in : lndingtoa case recently tried, in which after a man had been arrested and run i way, the U. S. officers making the nr l osts had been taken in custody by a war rant from a State officer, said: “If habeas < orpuses arc to be taken out after that manner, I will have an indictment sent 1.1 tlie U. S. Grand Jury against the per son who applies for the writ, or assists in getting it, the lawyer who defends it, end the Sheriff who serves the writ, to >oe whether the United States officers arc to be arrested and harassed wlienev they attempt to serve a process of flic United Sates.. I speak ot what is daily done to thwart tbo United States ill the exercise of hor lawful authority. I will see that my officers are protected.” Mr. Brown, in behalf of the Abolition Society, asked for a delay of one week to reduce proof, which was granted by ..*.c Conrt. We suppose we are expected to say something of the health of Montgomery -though wo scarcely know how to go about it, for we know it to be certain i hat a statement of the truth will not gain credence in the face of the fact that so man}* of our people have left the city, mid the marvelous t> les of disease and death some of them have have told in their flight. We have thought the best tiling we could do under the circum stances was to publish the interments frem day to day, which we have done and are doing. It will be seen that very “j v deaths have occnrred, of any disease. Our physicians, we believe, while they s.iy there have been and perhaps are n >v a few cases of yellow fever in the city, concur in saying it is not an epi demic—nor likely to become one. One or two facts, and we are done with the subject.. One month ago , it was report ed that yellow fever was here—hut the oport and tlie cases disappeared in a few days, and yellow fever talk and panic was no more thought of. About ten or t welve days ago, some few cases of a malignant fever ocimrred in certrin lo ilitics, and ten'or twelve deaths, from different diseases, have taken place witli i i the time. Now, mark it! one month It: is elapsed silicon according to all the e • -ports and rumors, the yellow fever j broke out here; and yet, in all that time, I ’:ci'o lias been onlv some forty deaths, including stillborn infants, those who died with consumption, and non-resi dents who came here diseased. Now, is s-.tch the history of the progress of yellow fever in any town in which it has hereto fore appeared? On the contrary, it lias wept like a tornado over every place it has touched. Towns and villages of on ly a few hundred inhabitants have been almost decimated in a day. With this statement we leave the sub jet. We hear of but few wises of sick rjss in the city, and tbo near approach of vinter weather leads to the hope that .•e shall escape any thing like an epi iamic.—Adoertiser and State Gazette. The Outrage at the Cliincha Is land*. A correspondence of the Philadelphia Ledg •r, writing from the Cliincha Islands of the out age to Capt. McCreran, states that he was ta :un aboard the Peruvian guard-ship and there hained hand and foot to a ring-bolt in the leek, and there kept like the vilest criminal for :!irce day3 and nights n° f a soul allowed even 1 1 see him, not excepting even his son, a boy ivelve years of age. Whilst there confined a .aan contrived to speak to him, telling him to • at and drink nothing they give him, as it was poisoned. In this state he was until a doctor, sunt down by the minister at Lima to inqu re into the affair, demanded to see him in the name of the American minister, when he very unwillingly was allowed to see him. Hein-, tantly demanded his release from irons, saying lie could not live forty-eight hours longer in hat position. Ilis sou then was allowed to see him lor the first time. He has since been slow y recovering, though terribly wounded. The writer adds that a duel was about to he fought hy the Peruvian old rial who committed this jutrage and an American captain. [Savannah Evening Journal. The Artesian Well, being prosecuted with great public spirit and zeal, by our fellow-towns-man, N. W. Collier, pro gresa we believe although through diffi culties sufficient to appal any man of common energy. By the way we have in our possession a portion of the bark and wood of what appears to be red oak, found during tbe progress of boring, at the deptli ot two hundred and fifty feet. They are in perfect preservation, and ap pear fresh and heathy. The preservation of such things at such depth is a curious fact, and suggests sin- : gular theories as to the manner m which i the different strata have been formed, and the time they have required to reach their present state.— Albany Patriot. “Bboomehs” is a name which the N. \ ork Journal of Commerce gives to the ladies’ long dresses which sweep the sidewalk of the city, vs. the Bloomers worn by those ladies who put on short frocks and pantaloons. It i B said that several fashionable ladies have underta ken to sweep the sidewalks of Broadway with the trains of expensive dresses. £!)f Cornor Stone. ~ COLUMBDsTGEORGIA. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1853. Removal. Tlie office of the Corner Slone lias been re moved to the building on Broad Street, former ly occupied by the Columbus Times. The Result. The knowing ones, upon figuring up, have coine to ihe conclusion that Johnson has beat- I en Jenkins by a few hundred votes, and that the Legislature is largely Democratic. The Journal and Messenger puts down the majority in the Legislature at *35 or more, and the Times and Sentinel at 30—13 in the Sen ate and 17 in the House We are not very well acquainted with the political whereabouts of the members elect, but from the tables we have seen, and the little knowledge we have of the men, wc are inclined to the opinion that the majority is not sifgreat. There has been so much splitting and turn ing a bold, so much changing of places since the break up of 1850 and the norganization of 1853, that it is now a very difficult matter to assign tp each man his proper position—indeed thercparu many who cannot themselves tell where thnv stand or where they will settle, and very much depends ‘ upon the movements of parties in their final location. By the next week we shall probably be able to lay before our readers something like accurate j information upon these matters, and perhaps give them some speculations upon the move- the merits find the chances of the sev eral contestants for the spoils, which the result of the eljiitcst has put it in the power of the Dem ocratic party to divide out. Senator. We apprehend thero will l some consider able difficulty in settling the question as to who sbaffibe tlie Senator. None of those who have put themselves prominently before the country, can command any thing like a general support of the party only as a matter of neces sity—and We should not he surprised that there should be Something like a spontaneous com bustion in the party, in favor of requiring Judge Colquitt to serve them in that capacity. It is certainly the duty as well as the interest of the party in power to put into office those men who arc most acceptable to the country, and we have no doubt tint the election of Col quitt would not only give more general satis faction to the Democratic party than the elec tion of any other man, but that the Whigs would feel tiiat they had less cause of com plaint. Parties may and often do, by management j and intrigue and log rolling, force upon the j country, men objectionable to the great mass of J the country, hut when they do so, however, it I may advance the interests or gratify the ambi tion of the favored individuals, the party never fails to suffer for it in the loss of power and of character. It is therefore no less the dictate of policy than of duty, that those men shall be put in of fice who are most acceptable to the country. Correction. Judge Iverson says wo did him injustice last week. He says that he did not go into the nomination for Senator in 1842, when he wits run by the Whigs and a few democrats, and Colquitt was elected —that he withdrew his name from the nomination in favor of McAl lister. We have not a sufficiently distinct recollec tion of all the facts to state exactly how it was —but we know that the Judge was there, seek ing an election for Senator —we know that Col quitt was there, and that lie said he did not de sire a nomination, and requested his friends to nominate Iverson—and we suppose that he withdrew his name only when he saw there was no chance for him to get the nomination.— Whether he was run afterwards by or against his consent, we do not know, though it is our impression that he declared himself a candi date. If, however, there is any thing incorrect in our impressions about the matter, and the Judge will write out for us a full and correct statement of the facts, we will take great pleas ure in publishing it. We know that we are liable to mistakes about the Jud ;e —we used to consider him a first rate fire eater, and we thought at one time that our opinions were very nearly alike in re lation to this glorious Union, blit in his speech at Halloca the other day, he came down upon ns like a thousand of brick about our disunion propensities, and the way he talked about this | government, would have gladdened the heart of the best Union man in the country. The Broken Banks and the Elec tion** in il>l County. We see in this Southern Recorder an extract from a letter from this city, stating that the re sult of the election in this county is due to the efforts and the money of those who are sued as Stockholders in the broken Banks, and that ! their object is to change the officers of the Su- . preme Court. We know nothing of the truth I or falsehood of this statement, but if it is true, we are tbe man they ought to have supported, for we are not only in favor of beating out the i present Judges, but of abolishing the Supreme Court, which we consider the greatest nuisance with which the country has been afflicted. We take, it however, that the truth of the matter is about this—that each party spent all | the money that they thought was necessary to | secure the election, and if there was less money I spent, or less exertions used by the Whigs, I than the Democrats, it was only because of the ’ belief that they roll hi succeed without them. nembcr of Legislature. Appling—Reddish, Dyal. Baker—Clark, Rowell. Baldwin— r-Brown, McCombs. Bibb—Dean, Green Hardeman. Bryan— Love , Bulloch —Cone, McLean. Burke— Gresham . Shewmake , Jones, Butts —Lyon, Andrews. Camden—Patterson, Smith. Canipbel I—Watts, Latligun. Carroll—Boggess, Reid. Cass—Cannon, Linn, Crawford. Chatham—Anderson, Ward, Harrison. Chattooga— MeCtmndl. Ilawkins. Cherokee—Camden, Fields, Alread. Clark— Hull , Carlton , Harden. Cobb—Lawrence, Gartrell, May nor. Columbia— Stoval, Watson, Barnes. Coweta —Smith, Bridges, Dodd. Crawford—Walker, Cleveland. Decatur— Crawford, Dowell. DeKalb—Collier, Smith, Henderson, Dade—Hall, Parris. Dooly—Mounger, Shine. Early—Holmes, West. Effingham— Morel, Down's. , Elbert White, Martin , Itticker. EmanuA— Fayette—Stell, Denham. Floyd— Lambeth, Ilaynie. Forsyth— trickland, Rice. Franklin—Morris, Holland, Poole. Gilmer— Glynn —Piles Dubignon. Gordon—Dabney, Mays. Green— Dawson. Gwinnett —-Thomas, Whitworth, Hud sor. Habersham—Trammel, Philips, Cleve land. Hall—Dnnagan, Hayden. Hancock — Stephens, Stewart. Harris— Pratt , Mobley, ILood. Heard—Echols, Stokes. Henry— Turner, Arnold, Masters. Houston—McGehee, Taylor. Hardison. Irwin— Jackson —Moon, McMuliin. Jasper— Jewe won — Boyd, Stapleton. Jones—Walker, Motighon. Laurens— Guyton, 1 opp. Lee— Newson , Richardson. Liberty—Jones, Smith. Lin col n— Moore , Strother. Lowndes— Knight, Iladford. Lumpkin—Singleton. Keith, Railey. Macon— Robison, McMullen. Madison—Deadwyler, Eberliart. Marion— Peebles, Brawn. Mclntosh—Dumvoody, Hamilton. Meriwether—Gaston, Leveret, Nickols. Monroe— Crowder , Woodard, Red ding. Montgomery— Adams, Williams. M. u-gan— Saffold, Bostwick. Murray—Laughridge, Turner. Muscogee—Sturgis, Thornton,hleTknt gald. Newton— Williamson, Reynolds, La-, mar. Oglethorpe— Willingham, Me Worter, Clark. Paulding— _ i Pike—Green, Arnold, Trice. Pulaski —JJc Lamar, Ilarral. Putnam— Griggs, Gallaway, Dawson. P< >lk— llubbard, McGregor. Rabun— Randolph—Guerry, Hendricks, Rob inson. Richmond— Miller, Walker, Walton. Seri ven— Jackson , Gross. Spalding—Moseley, Crittenden. Stewart—May, Bell, Williford. Su m ter —lvi ng, 1 Villiaim. Talbot Dixon, Max\oM, Walton. Taliaferro— Bird, Harris. Tatnall— Surency , Moody. Taylor—Drane, Stewart. Teifair—Wilcox, Hatton - Thomas —Brown, McDonald. Troup— Ridley . tannin, Cameron. Twiggs—Reynolds, Griffin. Union—Jimerson, Young. Upson— Drake , Grant, Stephens. Walker —Dickson, Clement. Walton—Hill, Williams, Ha^ph Ware—Lott, Sweat, Warren— Bealle , Cody, Pottle. Washington- Bullard, Boatright,Rob inson. Wavne—Bryan, Rump. Whitfield— Bealle, Cody, Patten. Wilkes— Pope, Anderson, Irwin. Wilkinson—Cochran. Taylor. Whigs in Italics. There will be a Democratic majority, on joint ballot of 35 or more in the Leg islature, though there are several mem bers elected, whom it is difficult to clas sify. \ Judges Elected. WM. B. FLEMING, Eastern Circuit. P. E. LOVE, Southern *- W. W. HOLT, Middle G. ANDREWS, Northern “ R. V. HARDEMAN, Ocmulge “ J. 11. STARK, Flint “i J. JACKSON, Western T. TRIP PE, Cherokee “ E. 11. WORRILL, Ciiafta’cliee “ — Congress. In the First District, Seward, dem., is !21 votes ahead of Bartow, whig, and Cline]/ to hear from lie is without doubt elected, j In tin; Second District, Colquitt, dim., ed over Johnson, whig, by a decisive majority. This is a Democratic gain. In the Third District, we learn by Telegraph ic dispatch from Macon, that the official returns, at Milledgeviiie, show that Bailey, dem., is elected by a mojoritv of 20 votes over Trippe, whig. In tiie Fourth District, Dent, dom, is elected over Calhoun, whig, by a large majority. In the Fifth District, there is no doubt about the election of Chastain, dein., over Tuinliu, In the Sixth District, Hillyer is ahead as faT as heard from, though Wofford is locked With him. 11‘dsey is far behind, and Stanford and Morton distanced. In the Seventh District, Reese, Whig is elected. In the Eighth District, Stephens, whig, is elected. The Representatives of Georgia in the House nr* 0 dem., 2 whig*. Later From Australia. The Pannma Star has received Melbourne (Australia) papers to the’ 20th of July, and ! Sydney to the 19th of that month. The intelli- j gence is, therefore, nearly three weeks later than we had on the arrival o£the Falcon. We copy from the Star as follows.; — N. 0. True Delta. The Svdney Empire is chiefly occupied in discussing the subjects of legal taxes and ed ucation. j Mining business was exceeding dull,owing,it , is said, to unfavorable weather. No appreciable increase of bussness is notice- ! able this week. In consequence of the late | heavy rains the gold arriving is small in quan tity and the diggers in many places have sus pended operations. The exchange increasing jo 2 per cent, caused some demand, but the market is almost drained of samples in first hands. My advices from Melbourne quote the price there at 775. 6d. to 775. 9d. Though there was no reason to apprehend any serious decrease in the yield, the impassable state of the roads ren dered it difficult to ascertain the state of ope- i rations at the mines. Avery beautiful sample of gold from M’lvor lias been received in Syd- j nev ; one nugget of 10 ozs. sold for £4 4s. per oz. j The escort from the Western Diggings lias ; brought down 100,1 ozs. 13 dwts. 0 grains. Another gold circular dated Sydney, Jnty 15th, says; The gold market this w£ck has been more ! active. But very little gold now reaches us from the sister colony, in consequence of the price in Melborne approximating*) the rates in this market; and the flooded state of the coun try has been such that none of the escort! on our side have arrived. Letters received from ill# Turon and other diggings, are all anxiety for” the report of the Select Committee on the Gold Fields Manage ment Bill. Upon that depends our future pros pects ; if mild laws are enacted population flow in. The gullies and places distant from the river will then enable the digger •to cart his stuff from a distance, and employ hands, which at present cannot be done, with the heavy im post now levied. Our mines up to the present have only been scratched ; there is no fear, if a liberal policy is pursued, but rich and valuable localities will be found ere the summer has pass ed. The last enactment of our Legislature drove away 5000 of our best miners; we are all anxie ty to know what will be done to bring thethous ands back. Intelligence from the Ovens is still of great encouragement, and a large amount of gold is being obtained, and will increase as the weath er becomes fine. Sydney Gold Escort started from the Ovens on the 9th with 3500 ozs. gold, and £3OOO in specie. My last advices from Port Philip, by the Waratah, state that more gold than usual arriv ed during the week. The M’lvor gold is 1-8 of a grain better than Ballarat, which is con sidered the best. A letter to the Star, from a friend recently arrived in Austria, dated Yass, July 11, says: All the country is gold, or at least a very great part of it; several places between this and ! Sydney, a distance of 190 miles, a very long i time will not elapse before gold is found in ; abundance. But the people have not yet got | into the proper system of mining. For instance, Ni party of Californian diggers have taken a j |)ieee of ground which had been worked and I left by the Austrians as worked out. They have put up a sluice, long tom, <fee., and 1 hear are making £IOOO worth of gold weekly! This is only hearsay, hit my authority is good. Several places have been opened up this week, one being a bill near Mr. Aberdeen’s store, an other ol Scott’s gully, all of which are reported favorably of. We find nothing in the Star’s summary of Aus tralian news in reference to the reported escape °f-the Irish exiles, Mitchell and Martin I Fiftcc -i days later from Hie Pacific. by the arrival of the steamship El Dorado at an J early hour this morning from Aspinwall, we have ! San Francisco papers to the 16th of September being fifteen days later than we received oil the arrival of the steamship Texas, from Vera Cruz. The news is interesting. We commence with the intelligence From California. Tile State election had just closed, and aithougi; the returns were incomplete, enough was known to show that Governor Bigler was re-elected, and that the entire Bigter ticket for Stste officers, was successful. The Alta Californian says the Legis lature will be almost unanimously Democratic, and Bigler—the wliigs and auti-extensiouists ha ving been everywhere badly defeated. The Indian outbreaks in Rogue river valley and other Northern districts, which at one time threat ened to become general, have been quelled and a treaty of peace concluded. During the hostilities Gen. Lane and Capt. Alden were seriously woun ded in an engagement withtiie savages, but have recovered from their injuries. To the promptness energy and discretion of these gentlemen, says the Alta Californian, the country is in a g/eat measure indebted for the early termination of the war. Lieut. Beale, United Stutcs Commissioner, and party arrived at Los Angeles on the 23d of August from the plains and mountains, all in good health. Lieut B. immediately proceeded to Tulare valley, on business of his department. intelligence of an interesting character bad been received from Senora, Mexico, announcing the dis covery of mines of extraordinary*richness. In conseqiTence a decided spirit of filibustering has been revived in this State, and several gentlemen are engaged in the preliminary arrangements for organizing expeditions. The steamship John L. Stephens, which left San Francisco on the 16th ult. for Panama, had 700 passengers, and $1,362,473 in specie. The revised City Charter was submitted to the | people of San Francisco at the election, and rejec ted. We take the following paragraphs from the San Francisco Commercial Advertiser’s summary of the news : The news from the interior in agricultural and mining affairs promises as well as ever, and vast outlays of money arc being made in tluming and damming rivers. The papers from the the ‘upper country report great suffering among the immi grants. A grant scarcity of provisions is spoke of and the military force stationed on the rout will be unable to afford the requisite assistance. The Docto ’s Welcome. —Down east there resides a certain M. D. One cold night he was aroused from hi.- slumbers by a very loud knocking at his door. After some hesitation he went to the window and asked : “Who’s there •” “A friend.” “What do you want ?” “Want to stay here all night.” “Stay there then,” was the benevolent reply. Important Invention. * Mr. John M. Reeder, of Memphis, has in vented a safety guard for stet mboat boilers, which, when it becomes generally used, will ! prevent the destruction of human life, which j has been a dreadful characteristic of steamboat | i navigation on the Western waters. It is an j improvement which puts it out of the power of ! an engineer to explode a boiler, either through . : negligence or purposely. Mr. Reeder is in this j city at present, and has a small model of his j invention with him. We witnessed Wed ties- j ! day an experiment with it which proved highly | satisfactory. This improvement provides the j upper part of the boiler with two openings or j aperatures in addition to that for the safety j valve, and the bottom of the boiler with one. j These aperatures are closed by one cylinder and j piston, and by two valves which are arranged to pass the water from the boiler to the fire un der it, when the steam gets to a given height, thus dampening down the fires and preventing 1 explosion should the safety valve or engineer fall to perform their functions. This safety | guard is intended to be independent of the en gineer, hevond his control entirely, to be enclo sed, locked up and the key placed in the pos session of the captain, the inspector having pre viously determined the amount of pressure the boiler” will bear, and adjusted the pea upon the lever accordingly. In the experiment Wednes day, when more steam was raised than was ne ! cessary, the extra quantity immediately lifted and the water rushed out upon the j Around put it out, soon reducing the steam to the proper point. . The improvement can be adapted to the lo comotive boiler, and all other steam boilers. It is one of the most useful and important inven tions of the age, and will have a marked effect npon the navigation of our livers. Trade with Savannah. This important*subject has received the at tention of our merchants, and they have deter mined to forward it by opening steam commu nications with that port. It is of great impor tance that this should be opened as quickly as possible, and for that end, those entrusted with the management of the business, are comple ting the arrangements concluded upon at the meeting held not long since at the Southern and Western Reading Room. Savannah from the advantages ofits position and the enterprise of its merchants, has become the centre of commerce for a great extent of the Southern country. No better exemplification of this could be required than a list of the towns for which packages received by two steamers (one from New York and the other from Philadelphia.) to Savannah, were destined, which we pub lished a few weeks since?’* These towns were in number about a half hundred, and were sit uated throughout the extent of three important producing States, all of which require articles of which Baltimore is a market. Such bring the case, the importance of es tablishing this line immediately Is fully appa rent, and we hope before very long to see a steamer clear from Baltimore, bound on a teg ular trip to that port. — Baltimore Times. Furl her Australia News. The Steamer Sir John Harvey arrived at Sydney on the 16th of July, in 116 days from Boston. The steamer New Orleans is running” between Sydney and Melbourne, and doing a fine business. The Melbourne Argus of June 22, contains President Pierce’s inaugural. The Argus of the 27tli of June states that there.; were 283 vessels, including eight steamers, iii that, harbor, taking in or discharging cargoes. On the Dili of July, a private escort arrived at Melbourne with 9,500 ounces of gold, and on the 14tli another escort arrived with 2,836 oz. Prices of produce continue!l,ui.tonally high. Considerable excitement has been caused in Melbourne by the declaration bn the part of the Americans, of their intention to celebrate their national anniversary. The Government organ strongly opposed it. At Sidney, at last accounts, the weather had been veiy unsettled, with heavy rains. The work of liseharging cargoes, <fec., was at a stand, and much inconvenience arose therefrom. In some places coinrnunii||tion with the interi or was cut off. The markets ware steady. Flour wits dull ami uncertain, being sold in lots at from £ls to £23 per ton. Liquors in demand, at good prices. Segars—stock small. Gold was quo ted dull; 765. 6d. at Victoria, 745. for New South Wales. Fortunate Printers. The annual income of Samuel Brannan, of California, is $250,000. — 'Exchange Paper. A liout nine years ago Brannan, a poor and penniless printer, arrived in this city from the west. A crown less hat and a shabby suit of clothes were not very prepossessing recommend ations for an adventurer. But on application to some persons of the same religion as him self, he was supplied with a decent suit of clothes, and was shortly afterwards made edi tor of a weekly paper owned by the same per sons. One of our friends were employed by Brannan, and is aware of the difficulties he (Brannan) experienced in obtaining a de cent living from the small subscription list of his paper. After acting as editor for a little more than a year, lie became attracted with the glowing description given of California by one Hastings, the author of a book on that country. Brannan succeeded in raising a com pany of emigrants, and, as their leader char tered a brig and immediately sailed for the fu ture El Dorado. Two printers, in Brannan’s employ accompanied him, and are now rich and influential citizens of California. Such a m pid rise from extreme poverty to great afflu ence, as in Brannan’s case, is seldom recorded in | the world’s history. —New York Pic. Important from Rio de Janeiro. Advices from Rio to the 19th of August mention the arrival there from Buenos Ayres, of Mr. Schenck, the United States Minister, who, in connection with the Ministers of England and I ranee, had concluded a treaty with the Argentine Confederation, for the free naviga tion of the river Plate and its enormous afflu ents, the Parana and the Paraguay. This trea ty, it is said, is on the most favorable terms, and concedes the right of conscience to our cit izens who may dwell there. The yellow fever still lingers in Rio, but the mortality is greatly diminished. Several Amer cans with the fever wore in the hospital in a dangerous condition. Ship-masters who leave the United States in the months of November, December, January February and March, it is said will have to keep a most careful oversight upon their men while in Rio, for those months will, it is supposed, be most fatal to American seamen. Fire. On Tuesday morning, about, 2 o’clock, the Ware House on corner of First and Cherry | street, occupied by Messrs. Wycbe <fc Gates, and i owned by Leroy Napire, was discovered to be on fire, and notwithstanding the active exertions of our citizens to save it, was totally consumer!, together with a small wooden tenement, on First street, adjoining it. The Ware House was insured for $1,500 in the ./Etna Insurance Company of Hartford. The House on First street was owned by a non-fesidenl, whose name we have been unable to learn, and was insured in the Southern Mutual Insurance Company, There was a small lot of cotton, in the Ware House at the time of the fire, a few bales ol which were destroyed, together with twooi three hundred bushels of corn. The adjoning build ings on Cherry and First street “(all of them wooden) were in imminent peril, and were saved with great difficulty.— Messenger dc Jour nal. Extravagance of Gentlemen. —The news papers have rather ungallantly refereed to the extravagance of the ladies in articles of dress and ornament, but it would appear that gentle men were liable to the same censure in the prices paid for many articles of dress now iir vogue. The most fashionable cravats are sold at five dollars. The fall style of velvet vests 5 range from $lO to $22 each.” Most of the desira ble patterns of the .best quality have been already taken at prices above S2O. . .. In the matter of vest buttons, there is great extravagance. We hear of sales of single setts at upwards of a hundred dollars, and the jewel ers on Washington street have elegant styles at prices ranging from $lO to’ S2O a button, or from S6O to $l2O a set of six. At the latter price a superb sett, with diamond centres, can be obtained. The finest shirts on exhibition in Faneuife’ Hall cost twelve dollars each, and a small for tune is required fora “fashionable suit” of gen ]emeu’s clothes.— Boston Transcript. The Fever in Newport, Fla.— The New port Times, of the 28th ult., says: Though our obituary head shows a larger” number of deaths than it did last week, it is no* evidence that the epidemic has increased in the’ number of the attacked or in violence. Most’ of the victims n ere attacked on or before the’ day of our last publication. The disease is now confined to six white patients, and probably ft few more than that number of black*). Os course, in common with our fellow-citizens, we feel a great anxiety for those still sick; but most, if not all, are believed to be convalescent at this time. Among the convalescent is our worthy physician, Dr. Geo. W. Botton, who was unremitting in his attention to the sick a* long as he was able to be about. We expect, to see him out again this week. Notwithstanding the dreadful scenes through which we ha e passed, it is gratifying to be able to state that none of the sick have suffered for want of medical attention or careful moping. Y ellow Fever at Milton, Fla.—The Mo bile Advertiser, of Thursday, says : • Our private advices from Milton, Florida, are truly ‘distressing.*'’ The ravages of the’Tever in. that usually healthy little village have boom marked by a rapidity and malignity almost un paralleled, unless it he at Thibodeaux and a tew other places in Louisiana. In one tainjjv the wife had recovered from a severe attack,, only to find her husband, mother, brother, sis ter, husband’s brother, and his partner in bus iness—all inmates of one family—Part ied off bv the fearful plague. It had been onlv about three weeks since it first broke out. The Editor of the Milton paper, the Courier, was one of the sick, and its publication would probably be suspended for a time. Weather uud Crops. The Baton Rouge Comet of Tuesday last says: Flattering accounts come to us cf the sugar crops on Bayou Maranguoin and tiie Groose Tete. The crops will be full, and the planters commence grinding in a few days. The Trinity (Catahoula parish) Advocate of the Ist instant, says the weather is very favora ble for gathering cotton, but every day’s expe rience, confirms more certainly the prospect of a shortened crop. The Plaquimine Young American, of Wed nesday last, says: The most of our sugar mills will be in full’ operation in ten or fifteen days. While there are superb crops in some localities, there are ve ry had ones in others. This feature, from what we can understand, is peculiarly prominent this, year in Iberville. , Later from Venezuela. The dates from Caracas, Venezuela, received by. the way of Havana, are lip to the. 3d of Sep tember. The Diari del la Mariana,, quoting from the Caracas journals, says that with the exception of two small parties of revolutionists having been routed and dispersed into the pro vince of Barcelona, there is nothing to confirm* the rumor of the political disturbance having been renewed. Far from it, the last dates an nounce the arrival and imprisonment in the r dungeons of Laguayr* of many chiefs of the insurrection. Finally President Monagas had issued a sort of decree of amnesty, an evident sign of his triumph having been secured. In the city of Cumany earthquakes contin ued to be felt with great loss to the houses still standing. The capital of the province has. been transferred from Cumana to Maturin. [Savannah Evening Journals One of the old Stock. —The Port Smith-,. Ark., Herald, of the 24th ult., says: A few days ago, an old man by the name oT Stewart, passed through this place, in search of a son, whom he found in the Cherokee Nation. He is 103 years of age, and came from Red River on horseback, travelling at the rate of 30 miles a day. - He was in the revolutionary war, and gave his papers to an attorney in this city to procure his land warrant, and his pension. He has been married three times, and is the father of twenty-three children. A New Tbavellr* to the Dead Sea. —fa. De Sauley gives an entirely fresh description of this famous water. He affirms that so far from finding it as most persons have represented it, it was a “splendid lake, glittering in the sunshine, with its blue waves gentlv breaking on the sands of’ the softest teach.” He also saw a flock of wild ducks sporting on its waters, and observed beautiful insects on the gravelled teach. Sav. Eve. Journal.