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L)i.y? v/utt h i^kt tv.to a Wild Cal.—A Janesville cnrreapolident gives to the Chi cago Tituos .tn account of a desperate light between John Weber and a ferocious wild cat Weber and a few other amateur sportsmen wore hunting for rabbits in the woods skirting the banks of Rock River. Webber supposing be had bcri owed arab- bit on the top of the bluff, about one hun dred feet above the water, procured a stick and tiudertook to dislodge the game by punching. His efforts were too suc cessful, for instead of a rabbit a fnrmiablc wild cat spiang out of the hole and ‘pitch ed in” for a fight. Weber, not knowing the nature of his antagonist, was taken at disadvantage. He had a knife, and the varmint's teeth and claws were sharp.— “Mein Gott! du pecst der fader von all rab bit” he exclaimed as the cat made a leap at his throat. The bank was very steep, and at the first onset Weber lost his footiug* and hun ter and wild cat rolied in a rough and tumble fight, and the cat was most, at home in that sort of a contest. The hun ter gave the varmint a few well put “eye- openers,” hut his catship soon put a stop to that game by seizing Weber’s hand with his teeth and holding it fast. With the other hand he then tried to throttle the monster, hut soon found his claws were in the way. After rolling down the hank a distance of ninety fi-ct from where the fight commenced, the hunter succeeded in getting uppermost of his antagonist, when lie hastily halloed “murder!” This brought one of his companions to the rescue, who crawling down the steep hank, placed his rifle to the varmint’s head, and made a hole through it. The wild-cat then gave up beat. It was found Weber had been bit through the bands five times, besides numerous se vere scratches upon his hod}-. The woun ded parts immediately commenced swell ing in an alarming manner, anil he was visited by dizziness and faintness to such a degree that his companions were obliged to carry him home, and provide, medical assistance. He was found to be severely hut not dangerously wounded. The wild cat was one of the ordinary northern spe cies, and weighed twenty pounds. Activity.—Activity is one of the ever lasting laws ofexister.ee. There is no re ligion without work. Laziness is spitual death. Who ever acquired anything worth having by lying still and waiting for it to come? All things are within the reach of man, if he will only go after them; all things will mock him who lingers by tl.e way. Who gains money, but the man who toils with his bauds or his brain?— Who finds knowledge save by the striving of the understanding? Who knows any thing of beauty in nature hut he who spurns the morning couch and is on the hill top while his neighbors are asleep; can defy the snow and the rain, and strain up the mountains summit and en dure the noonday heats? And through what watching and lone wrestling with languor and discouragement the artist leads out human loveliness from the rough marble, and coaxes beauty upon the can vass! And does not every good man go up to his virtue as Jesus went; I’ke him resist Satan in the desert, sweat drops of' blood in Gethsemane and bear his cross up Calvary? Activity is the law of life.— Let us be up and doing. Time waits for no man; all things go on; go on with all things, or you will fall out of your rank in the procession of existence, and never find your place again unless by toils that will wring your soul with anguish. Listen to the voice of the sea for it is the voice of God, which evermore says, ‘ Work while it is culled to-doy.—Christian Enquirer, Conversion of an Actress—Her Experi ence.—The Boston Bee says that Miss Lucy Hamilton, an English actress, per forming on ti e Boston boards, has been con verted, and lately treated a prayer meet ing to a touch of “experience” as follows: “She was going home from the theatre one night with her sister, also an actress, and while passing a church was attracted by hearing some one, exhorting in aloud voice. After a while she went in; her sister would not. The next night not be ing cast in a play, she visited the church instead of the theatre. Her heart was moved. She became convicted that she was a great sinner; that the theatre was a had place; that it was her duty to abandon tlie stage, This thought haunted her ceaselessly. She continued to play for a while, but her heart was not in her voca tion. At length her mind became so much dis turbed that she left the theatre and ‘sought peace in Christ.’’ She destroyed her s'age wardrobe and eschewed Shakspear and Boureicault. Her friends endeavered to convince her that she was foolish, and all that, but to no effect. She persevered and finally found peace. Since then she has been o “a happy woman;” and advises everybody to follow her example. Du ring her remarks she took occasion to ex press an opinion that a theatre was an exceedingly bad place—in fact, no other than “the gateway to hell.”. She knew whereof she spoke, and feelingly warned her heareas not to attend them. The in fluence of the theatre, she felt sure was baneful to the morals and piety of a peo ple, and none could attend the and have the other. She closed testifying to the satisfaction and peace there is in a*religious life. Ortlai-s Second Letter to the Emperor Yapo- leon. The correspondent of the Daily News at Turin transmits a copy of Orsini’s will and his second letter to the Emperor Napoleon. They have ap peared in (he official gazette of Piedmont. The l>adv News’ correspondent is of opinion that they have' been supplied by the French Government. The letter is as follows : “To His Majesty Napoleon III. Emperor of the French.” -Sir.—Your Imperial Majesty having permitted that niv letter written to you on the JJth of Feb ruary 'should be produced for public comment, whilst it is clear proof of your generosity, shows me also that the prayers which 1 have offered on behalf of my country find a response in your ow n heart: and to me, however near I be ro death, it is certainly no small consolation to see how your Imperial Majesty is moved by genuine Italian feelings. In a few hours I shall cease to be ; and so, before drawing my last vital breath, I wish it to be known, and I declare it with the frankness and courage, which up lo this day I have never believed, that assassination,in whatever garb il may be disguised, does not exist among my principles; although, by a tatal error of mind, I have allowed myself to be led on to organise the attempt of the ,14th January. No ; political assassination was not my system, •and | combatted it at the risk of my own life, .both in »y writings and by my public nets, when n govern went mission placed me in a situation to .doso; and toy compatriots, far from putting faith jn itbe system nf assassination, let them reject it altogether, and hold it aloof; and let them know, even by the voice of a dying patriot, that their redemption,ipusl he won by their own self-denial, by consent unity in their efforts, and sacrifices : and by the erxereise of true vir*ue—gifts which are now buddiug iu .the young and active portion of my fellow countrymen., and gifts which alone will be able to make Italy (free, independent, and worthy of the glory wijth whiqh our ancestors have made her illustrious. I -die; Mid. whilst I do so •with calmness and dignity, I wish tunt my mera- nry may not be left stained with,gxty crime. As for the victims of the I4thof January. 1 offer my awn bUi-id as an atonement, and I beg the Italians, when some day they are made independent, to give a worthy compensation to ail those .wito ii6>v«c suffered any injury from it. Let your Imperial Majesty perjpfi! me. in the last place, to beg you to spare the life, not of myself, but of the two accomplices who were condemned to death with me. “I am. with the profoundest respect for vour Im perial Majesty, (Signed) FVxice Orsisi." — mmm ♦ nm ■ Front Washington.—WasH1X«T«*N, May 20.— In the Senate to-day noticing of importance trans pired, Mr. Hsyne appeared and took his seat. The civil appropriation bill passed '.be House. ..eticral Assembly ef Pr;sbjfcrlan Chur.b a. lew Orleans. Fourth Dav.—The Committee on the Board of Foreign M issions reported that the receipts lor the past year had been $212;946, and the payments $191.520.— Special contributions for losses in India unexpended, amounted to $22,612. The balance against the treasury on general account is $1186. The Board has its missions among the f'bippewas and Ottawas along the north western borders of the State* of Michigan, among the Oinahas, the Ottocs, lowas, Sacks and Kickapoos, of Kansas and Ne braska, and among four of the principal tiibesof the Southwestern Indian territo ry. Sixty-seven thousand five hundred and and forty-one dollars have been ex pended on account of those missions. There are fifteen missionary laborers in Liberia, and eight in Corisco. The ex penditures on account of those missions, had been $10,608. There were sixteen stations in India, ten in I.odioim and six in the Furrukliabad Missions. There had been expended on account of these $50,- 128. In Siam there are lour inale and (hree female missionaries, and a Chinese assistant. The expenditures were $8043. In China there are four missionary stations viz: Canton, having two male and two fe male missionaries, and two native assis tants; Ningpo, having eight ministers, one doctor; wi<h their wives; AVm. Gamble, printer, and four native assistants; Chin- hai, a sub-station, with two native helpers; bis stvle rose to the sublimity of his theme and Shanghai, having three ministers and! and his speech throughout was fraught with their wives. The expenditures were $02,- a most refreshing fervor. Methodist 495, and account of mission to Chinese in preachers, he said, would haste to meet California, $1023. the rich, loaded down with jewelry when Expenses of missions in South America they caine forward to join tlie church, —Buenos Ayres and Bogota—were $1862 J while the poor and afflicted were neglected and to Belgium, France, Geneva and IIoI-J and uncared for, etc. etc. land, $5486. There is also a mission j Mr. Crake and, Mr. J. E. Edwards op- among the Jews of New York. Thirty- posed striking out. L. Pierce offered an eight Jews had been received into the amendment. L. M. Lee was in favor of Church last year. | erasing it, because it was too vague and The second order of the day*, to wit: the j dictating about dress was a delicate mat- Bible question, was taken up. ter. Mr. Mafiit. said the speaker, when I)r. Breckinridge, of the committee to asked why’ he did not preach against dress whom the matter had been referred, read j replied, that when he went bird shooting, the following resolution: That the Amer-: he alway Tae Methodist Conference *n Dress. The subject of amending the Discipline of the Methodist Church by expunging the rule prohibiting gaudy attire and or nament was discussed in the general con ference on Thursday. The resolution in question recomcnds tlu: striking out from the Discipline section 8, on page 108, entitled “Of Dress.’ Mr. Lusk was in favor of striking out the rule, because it was a dead letter. (VI)at class of methodists conformed to this rule? Go in our churches in Louis ville, Nashville, Charleston, New Orleans and gold was seen everywhere, in every form that it would he seen upon a Broad- wav dandy in New York. Such was the laxity of administration, that candidates would he received into the church, though loaded down with a weight of gold under which they could scarcely walk. Persons would be taken into full connection, would be licensed to preach, would be recommen ded to the travelling connection, though wearing gold in every form. It was a re proach. It was thrown up to us in every part of the connection. AY by then retain the rule., which was a dead letter? r I hat we might revive it? As well think of re viving an Egyptian mummy, that liad been sleeping three thousand years! 1 he speaker continued to declaim in a most edifying manner about gold studs, and sleeve buttons, and gold spectacles, and gold watch chains, and gold headed canes, and five hundred dollar breast pins; and icau Bible Society having resolved to cease publishing and circulating the “new stan dard Bible,” and to return to the old King James A'ersion, originally published by it, this action meets a cordial response tom the Presbyterian Church, which approves the said return to the old version of the Scrip tures, and desires to co-operate with the Society in the puhlicatication and circula tion of the same. The resolution was adopted. Fifth Day.—The report of the Board of Education was presented by Dr. Van Rennssler. The new candidates during ays tried to shoot down the bird and not to shoot oft’ the leathers. So minis ters has enough to do to preach Christ anil him crucified. Other remarks were made, when, on the call for the previous question by E. Wads worth, the subject was indefintely post poned. Bishop Soule, with reference to the foregoing said: It is made the duty of tiie preachers to read the General Rules (with reference to superfluous ornaments) once a quarter in everj’society, and once a year in every congregation. IIa3 this been done? and may it not be that the the past year 103. The roll of the Board, neglect on the part of the preachers on 385—two more than there were the pro ceeding year. $47,103 were received by tlie Candidates Fund—total receipts, $48,- 473; expenditures, $53,124. The re ceipts by the Board of Ministerial Eduea- tliis important point in the instructions, may have contributed in some degree to the increase of superfluity of ornament in the Church? If this liad been carried out faithfully by the preachers’ I think there 11ion amounted lo $56,492; expenditures, would have been an improved condition of 548,980. There are 100 parochial schools,! things in respect to this matter. The 60 academics, besides the Ashman Insti tute, which educates young men for Afri ca, and 24 colleges. The report of the Committee on the Board of Education was then presented, with the following resolutions; Resolved, That tlie Assembly record, with profound gratitude to God, the at tendant token of the Divine blessing which has attended the efforts of the Board of Education to introduce young men into the ministry, and to aid in tbe re ligious instruction of our children and youth, as seen in the unfaltering attach ment of our churches to the cause, mani fested even during a period of commercial! In the first case the jury disagreed, be- disaster—in the number who have already j cause the testimony of the witnesses was been assisted to enter the Gospel ministry ! so entirely contradictory that they could —the enlarged number of institutions for not conscientiously, convict the pris oner. In this respect the trial is consider- brot her said this section had done no good. I think very differently. At least, sir, fifty hears ago it did good. The Metho dists of that day were a simple people un der the observance of their rules They knew each other everywhere they met.— They came out from the world, sir—they were separated from the world. The Totonshend Trials.—The telegraph informs us that Townshend, alias Ale. Henry who has been acquitted of the mur der of Constable Richards, at Merritsville, C.AA'., lias been again committed for trial for the murder of Mr. Nelles, at Cavuge. Christian education, and the special in fluences of the spirit of God which have been poured out upon many of tlie colleges and schools under the care of this assem bly, or connected with Synods or Presby teries of our Church. Resolved, That the field which now lies before our beloved Church, demanding as it does a vast increase of Ministers of the AVord, calls for earnest prayer to the Lord of the Harvest, that lie would send forth laborers, and that the assembly, while they trust the cause, will be daily remem bered by the people of God, recommend the last Thursday of February as a day of special and united prayer, for the out pouring of the spirit upon our colleges and semenaries of learning. Resol red, That the present gratifying con dition of the treasury of the Board encour age this assembly to believe that the churches are impressed with a sense of the duty of providing for a liberal support and maintenance of indigent young men de sirous of entering the Gospel ministry, and authorises a renewed invitation to such of fice. with the confident assurance of being sustained by the churches through this Board, Resolved, That in view of the great work which Christ lias laid upon his church, to preach the Gospel to every creature, it he earnestly enjoined on pas tors to set before youth of piety and prom ise the question ol their responsibilities in this matter, and to endeavor so to direct and assist them as that there shall he an increase of condidates for the Gospel min istry in some measure proportioned to the growing demand of the church and the world. The following members were recom mended for the Board, in the place of (hose whose term is now expired: Ministers.—Francis Herron, D. D.. AYil- 1 in in Neil, I). D., Joseph II. Jones, D. 1)., Francis McFarland, D. 1)., Robert AVatts, VA'illiam II. Green. Jonathan Edwards, l). D.; and Daniel Stewart, 1). I). Laymen.—James Lenox, James N. Dickson, Stephen Colwell, Joseph P. Engles. Eugenius A. Nisbet, James Dun lap, John J. Bryant, AA'ilfred Ilall, Charles S. Carrington. Preacher for next year, Rev. Nicholas Murray, D. D.: alternative, S. B. Mel’he- teis. J. E. Rockmer, Chairman of Com mittee.—Daily True Delta. Exports of Cotton—Crop Prospects.— New Orleans, May 11.—The exports of cotton from this port to Great Britain, dur ing the past week, reached 24,600 bales, and to Havre 5,500 hales. From Mobile; the exports during the week to Great Britain were only lOi-O hales. The estimates for the present crop are running fully up to three million bales again, in consequence of the receipts con tinuing larger than hail been anticipated. They are now within a few hundred bales as large as at the same period last year, and next week it is believed an increase will he shown. As far as reliable advices have been re ceived, the growing crop is not considered to have been materially injured by the recent reverses that have been reported. What Makes a Bushel.—Tbe following table of the number of various articles to a bushel, may be of interest to our read ers: AVbeat, sixty pounds; corn, shelled, fifty-six pounds, corn on the cob, seventy pounds. oat6, thirty-six pounds; rye, fifty six wounds: buck-wheat, fifty two pounds; Irifih potatoes, sixty pounds, sweet pota toes, fifty pounds; onions, fifty-seven pounds; bran, twenty pounds; clover seed, sixty pounds; timothy seed, forty-five pounds, blue grass seed, fourteen pounds; beans, sixty pounds; dried peaches, thirty- three pounds. ed the most remarkable one on record.— The Montreal Herald, in reviewing the case, remarks. Townshend was a person who had been long in ilie country, and was perfectly well known to hundreds of persons, who must have seen him daily for long periods of time. Ilis residence, too, among these as sociates, was not at a distant date, be tween which and the present lie might have been subject to those changes which come from the growth of years. From the murder to tlie trial, last year, no more than some three years had elapsed. In many eases of criminal prosecution, there are reasons which satisfactorily account tor contradictions. There are biases of party or prejudices of some kind or other, which sway ignorant witnesses, and pre vent the tribunals from getting at the truth. This cause if it operates, at all in the present case, seems to he likely to exert only a minimum effect. It is true iliattlie mother and sister of Townshend have been examined in favor of the prisoner. But the great mass of the witnesses on his side are open to no apparent objection of par tiality in his favor more than those who have deposed against him are liable to any reasonable suspicion of hatred. Under these circumstances it may well not only excite our special wonder, but shake our faith in all human testimony, when we see witness after witness coming into the box to declare positively that the man before them is Townshend, the murderer of Nelles, only to he followed by as many anil apparently as unimpeachable witnesses, who declare just as positively that he is not Townshend. Still more extraordinary is the circum stantiality with which the different class es of witnesses corroborate their opinion. For the Crown they say that they recog nize the prisoner by a scar or scars on his face. For the defense they assert that Townshend had large lumps upon the tops of his toes, which showed through his hoots and that the prisoner lias no such protu berances. The Crown officers appear to have calculated on sustaining tlieir case by two witnesses, father and son, brought from Chicago; hut these two persons failed to identify the prisoner. Upon the whole the balance of respectability in station seems to he with the mass of witnesses for the Crown, hut as far as we can judge from the printed reports, there are men of good standing to he utterly denying that the accused is the man they knew as Towns hend in 1854. The moral conviction is chiefly against the prisoner, from the fact of his failing to explain his past life, which would at once clear up the difficulty, and also from the fact that lie has, in conversation with per sons who went to visit him, spoken of par ticular circumstances and conversation known to those witnesses in which Towns hend took part. Tbe Bankrupt Bill. The provisions of this bill, offered in the United States Senate a few days ago by Mr. Benjamin, of Lousiaua, are represen ted to be substantially as follows. It is a general bill, including individu als, corporations, chartered hanks, and any association of persons authorized to issue notes, hills, &c. It will provide for voluntary and involuntary bankruptcy, and will be retroactive. The retroactive feature will be guarded so as to exclude all who, subsequent to January last or any other time, have made assignments, in con templation of a passage of a bankrupt law, which gave preferrence to one creditor over another, and the bankrupt in such cases shall not receive a discharge unless with the consent of a majority of his cred itor who have not been so preferred. The involuntary bankruptcy applies to cases whore debts exceed $2000, and the person declared bankrupt is entitled to a trial by jury—all transfers of property of any kind for the purpose of giving any creditor, en dorser or other person any preference or priority over general creditors, to be null and void, and the parties obtaining them to be sued for such amount as assets of the bankruptcy. With regard to the hanks anil other issues of paper money, they are to come under the head of involuntary bankrupts; and in addition to all liabilities which at tach to individuals, they may be declared bankrupt for the non-payment, for ten days after demand of any hill, noteor other La bility; all the expenses of proceedings to he paid by the parties interested, and un der no pretence to be paid by the United States. Truth Stranger than Fiction— 1 Remarkable Case. If anybody has any doubt that “truth isstranger than fiction,” or that “murder will out,” let him or her read the shocking narrative we copy from a Chicago paper, relating the history of the bar reled (female) corpse which was brought to this city some weeks since, without fiudiug an owner ora consignee.—.V. F. Pupcr. If a murder lias been committed (and the circumstantial evidence substantiating that theory, and weakening the hypothesis of suicide, it must he confessed, is strong, very strong,) we see here how the most in genious and careful contrivances of wicked men, to cover up and conceal their crimes, fail in tlieir intent. Think of it. An unfortunate woman is murdered by her paramour, apparently for no other cause than her insisting that lie should marry her. Tlie clothing is taken off the corpse and burnt; tlie body is then cut up and put into a barrel, which barrel, thereupon is sent upon a railroad journey of nearly a thousand miles, directed hap-hazard to a certain house in Leonard streei New York. The carman finds there is no house in the street corresponding with the No., on the barrel. Then suspicion is excited—the barrel is broken open, aiul all the ghastly proofs of some shocking tragedy are visible. The police thereupon address themselves to the task of clearing up the mystery— but the only clue to its origin was its rail road truck: That track was closely fol lowed, from this city to Albany, then from Albany along the Central Railroad to Buf falo, thence to the Suspension Bridge, and across the Bridge into Canada, to Windsor. Here the barrel was found to have crossed over from Detroit, and an investigation at Detroit gave color to the conjecture that Ohicigo must have been the starting place of the horrid freight. That conjecture w’as right. Following up the slender thread beginning almost a thousand miles away, in New York city, the officers of the law at length got to the end of it; and discov ered the object of their search in the per son ofa Prussian barber; named Jiunpertz, whose story, and the story of the tragedy speak for themselves. AY'e have seldom read any ihing in the annals of crime more thrilling, or shocking.—N. Y. Express. For the benefit of those of our readers w'ho may have forgotten the facts in the above case, we will here state them briefly. In March last the public—not only of New York, hut this whole section of country as well—were horrified by tlie report of the discovery in New Y ork of a woman’s body cut inp ieces and packed in a barrel. The discovery was made at the Hudson River Kailroad Depot. The mutilated corpse was the body of Sophie Werner, a German wo man, who was murdered or possibly com mitted suicide in Chicago. Sophie was the wife of a barber, Frederick AVerner. Her husband deserted her, running oil’with an other woman, about a year ago. Shortly after slie became acquainted with a jour neyman barber named lienry Jumpetz, who formerly worked in Spring street, N. Y. They lived together as mau and wife, and she loved him devotedly; but lie got tired of her, and tried to get away. They went to Milwaukee; lie came hack to Chi cago, and she followed him. A few days after her arrival, as he asserts, lie found her hanging by the neck in their room. He cut her flesh to see if she was dead: and upon ascertaining that she was so, he be came much perplexed to dispose of the body. Some portions lie cut away and buried on the j rarie beyond the city, and finally, with a dull knife and saw, hacked her to pieces, stowed her in a barrel, and got the barrel shipped to New York. The story is one of unmittigated depravity, and more horrible in its details than that of the murder of Adams, to which the leading circumstances hear a close resem blance. Therapeutics. 1. Experiments, with Bih- ron’s Antidote to the poison of the Rattle snake, 4 r -> by IVm. A. Hammond, M. D., Assistant Surgeon U. S. Army.—Some 4 years since, Prince Paul, of AYurtemburg, the celebrated naturalist, communicated to my friend, Mr. DeVesev, tiie results of some experiments performed before the French Academy of Sciences by Profes sor Bibron, relative to an antidote to the poison of the rattlesnake. According to Prince Paul, Professor Bibron allowed a rattlesnake to bite liim in the lips, cheeks, &c., and, by taking tbe antidote discover ed by him, prevented all alarming symp toms, and, in fact, suffered no inconveni ence therefrom. The antidote in question, as stated by Prince l’asul, is prepared according to the following recipe: B.—Potassii iuilidi gr. iv; hydrarg. chloridi corros. gr. ij; bromini 3v.—M. Ten drops of this mixture, dilut ed with a tablespoonful or two of wine or brand}', constitute a dose, to he repeated if necessary. It must be kept in glass- stoppered vials, well secured. — A Eight with Grasshoppers.—The Gon zales (Tex.) Inquirer has an amusing ac count of the invasion of that city by grass hoppers, and the attempt of the citizens to rebel the intruders; “Everybody turned out—men, women and children, white and black—everybody with ‘fire and sword,’ brushes and brooms blankets and buckets, carried on the dead ly conflict, hut to no avail; the hoppers hopped on, and the defending forces were obliged to heat an inglorious retreat, leav ing the barbarians in possession of the conquered city.” • — Electricity as an Anastlictic Agent.—AA'e witnessed, yesterday, at the office of Dr. Clarke, on Congress street, the application of electricity in that most painful of opera tions, tooth pulling. We regard it as a complete success. A colored woman, of a delicate and nervous appearance, took the chair when three of her teeth were drawn in quick succession, witnout her giving the slightest evidence of pain; indeed she as sured us that she felt none, the only sensa tion produced being the ordinary shock from the battery. The mode of applica tion is most simple; the patient takes one wire in her hand and the opposite pole is simply wound around the handle of the for ceps, and around this latter a non-conduc tor, such as a silken cloth, so as to prevent contact with the hand in grasping the in strument. This is truly wonderful, yet, af ter all, simple. To what purpose w ill this subtle agent, next be applied. It rides on the whirlwind and directs the storm; is a motive power for machinery; the mail car rier for a great part of the world; is used as manure for the soil; and is no doubt the mysterious agent at wock in the plague and pestilence- It does all these, and yet, is just beginning to unfold its powers to the comprehension of the human mind.—Sav. Republican. American Traci Society. The New l'ork papers are filled with acc-'unts of the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Tract Society, which met in that city on A\ r ednesday, in the Reform- w ed Dutch Church, Layfayctte I’laceL-et^ri About two thousaud persous. from various sections of the Uniou, were admitted by ticket, showing great interest taken iu tho question at issue—whether or not the exe cutive committee w’ere justified in suppres sing or suspending the publication of the tract “The Duties of Masters” alleged to have been offensive to the people of the South, especially slaveholders. The publication of this tract was commenced under a resolution adopted at the last annual meeting looking to tlie discussion of the moral aspect of slavery. Soon after the opening of the meeting—over which Chief Justice AVilliams, of Conn.,, presi ded—Kev. Dr. Adams made a report justifying the executive committee. Tlie Rev. Dr. Magee made a few’ re marks. Two truths were plain to the commitee, anil these considerations had governed them. Had they published the tract to which reference had been made, they w'ould have dismembered the society. That w'as one conclusion at which they had arrived, and the evidence upon which it w’as based was not, and could not he, so well appreciated by those who had not their opportunity of judging it. They did fully believe it. Another was that a large majority of tlie friends of the society were not prepared to adopt a course w Inch should thus result. A further and equally plain consideration was that it was useless to publish a tract addressed to masters which would have but a small circulation in the South amongthose to whom it was ad dressed, and which in the North was not needed. They had decided not to mix the American Tract Society w ith the great exciting question. This was their simple decision. The matter was now before them, and in judging it he hoped they had so sought the grace of God, and would act under his guidance. Great interests were at stake.— Should they adopt a course which would separate them from fifteen States and ten millions of people, a field where thei la bors were most called for/ Such were the views of the committee. [Hisses and ap plause.] The president hoped there would be no demonstration of approval or dissent, as this w as not a political meeting. Bishop Mcllvaine moved that the action of committee be sustained, and made a long speech. I’rof. Crosby read from a tract, entitled “Sambo and i’ouy,” in which slaves are counseled not to go from plantation to plantation, and obey tlieir master, and asked if the society published it. Amid much confusion and cries of “or der!” Dr. AY'm. Adams said the tract was published twenty years ago. Dr. Tyng attempted to get the floor, amid cries of “order!” “l)r. Tyng!” “Let ’em answer the question!” &c. Order being restored, Dr. Tyng spoke in favor of the resolution of the society admitted the discussion of the moral as pects ofslavery to be a legitimate subject for the society to discuss, and moved to lay Bishop Mcllvaine’s motion on the ta ble, in order that a resolution re-affirming that position he affirmed. Dr. Tyng’s motion w’as voted upon viva voce and the chairman said it was lost.— A division was called for, and tlie affirma tive was counted; hut when the negative arose it so largely preponderated that a count was deemed unnecessary. Much excitement prevailed. Some called fora count: others declared that the motion was lost ten to one, and the mem bers of the committee displayed many symptoms of delight. There was a long delay and groat con fusion. A partial count w r as made; hut order w r as finally so far restored that Judge Jessup attempted to move an amend ment to Bishop Mcllvaine’s motion, hut was interrupted by loud calls for the pre vious question in all parts of the house, and another scene of tumult followed.— Several of the majority declared that it was not fair to choke off discussion. Judge Jussup read his amendment, rea ffirming the resolution of last year, which was declared to be unanimous. Dr. Betluinc protested that it was not unanimous. lie was requested to say for Dr. Spring that he did not vote for it, and he (Bethune) did not. Dr. Thompson—Did either of yon vote ainst it? Betluinc—No- [Laughter.] Thompson—Then there was no vote against and it was unanimous. Dr. Bethune said that, at the meeting last year, he was asked by Dr. Thompson to second the resolution, hut refused to do it. lie thought that anything coming from the chief editor of the Independent was to he regarded with suspicion, and not likely to meet his approval. Laughter, hisses, cries of “Order!” and general confusion followed. J uilge Jessup at last got tlie floor; and said it was vain for gentlemen to say that the action of the ociety last year was not unanimous.— Tlie fact that one, two or fifty might not have concurred did not change the fact that there was no dissenting voice, anil that the resolution meant hut as the unanimous sentiment of this society. He went on to uc the reasonahlness of that resolution, and deprecate the idea of receding from it, as a measure which would open the flood-gates of agitation, and disturb again the peace of the society. Dr. Bethune got tlie floor at the close of Judge Jessup’s remarks. A scene of con fusion followed, and there were, for several miuuti‘6, mingled cries of “Bethune” Ques tion,’ and “Order.” Rev. Dr. Bacon then got tlie floor and made a warm anti-slavery speech, and was followed by the Rev. Dr. Bethune, on the opposite side, in a powerful and effecting speech. He deprecated the idea of no fellowship with slaveholders; for that was excommunicating them from the Church of God, and thus the unhappy South were prevented from having the gospel. He thought the devil never instituted a scheme so truly malignant as this to pre vent the spread of the gospel. The worst canniblcs in Africa, the natives of Congo, all would have the gospel preached to them, hut flic extreme men of the North would first deny them the gospel ami then deny them the tract. Wliat, then, was to become of these millions? were they to be permitted to go down to hell beeause these extreme people willed it?— God forbid. Rev. Mr. Thompson (editor of Iudcpen- dent)offered an amendment accepting the statement of the publishing committee, hut ordering a tract to be published on tbe duties of masters. AfterDr. Thompson's speech the society agreed to take a vote at 3 pm. Five minute speeches oocupied the hour from 2 till 3. Prof. Howard Crosby offered a resolu tion that “no tract bearing on the slavery question he published, and that the tract called Sambo and Tony he suppressed. Rev. Mr. Denison, of S. C., said it was impossible in five minutes to speak on what others had spoken of for hours. The South, he 6aid, is not represented in this society; it is not on its committees, is not represented in the caucuses which cut and dry things before hand. Should Bishop Mcllvaine’s motion pass without amend ment, he helived the South would be sat isfied. They do not wish the North to interfere with an institution of their own.— They will do the thing themselves. 'He had preached on the duties of masters and servants the last Sabbath he was at home, anu it was acceptable, he believed, to all. The action of the committee of fifteen had well nigh destroyed the confidence of Southern men in the society. The dona tions of Georgia and South Carolina for the last year had fallen oft' from five or six thousand dollars to a very small sum; and if the course of the executive committee the last year should not be approved by the society, the nexf year they will be come nothing- He believed “the rejec ted tract” would have been regarded as an incendiary publication, and could not have been safely taken to the South. The tract on the “Duties of Masters” would not have been objected to in itself, hut it would not have been received with favor coming with a Northern imprint. They would publish and circulate it at the South themselves. Rev. l)r. Johns, of Baltimore, then spoke five minutes, saying that he should 1’eturu home, assuring his friends that the hearts of members of the society at the North, beat iu unison with theirs at the South. He and the Maryland delegation came here not to discuss the slavery ques tion, hut to vote for sustaining the action of the committee. He thought the North could best understand and correct evils at the North. The South could not in telligently do it, and just so it is impossible for the North to interfere with the evils relating peculiarly to the South. Dr. Johns fun her stated that he had come to the meeting to pay a legacy of 810,000 from a slaveholder. Rev. Air. \A T iIliams, of Baltimore, had the concluding five minutes. He would sland by the constitution of the society.— If that is infringed, the South will with draw entirely, leaving it to he tlie Northern and not the American Tract Society. He contended for the right of the South to take care of its own children without interfer- AVhen tlie hour for taking the question arrived, tho amendment of Prof. Howard Crosby was first almost unanimously re jected. The amendment of Rev. Dr. Thompson (Independent) was lost by a large major ity- The resolution of Bishop Mcllvaine was carried as follows by a large majority:— Resolved, That the action of the execu tive committee he approved. [From the Southern Recorder, May IS] Supreme Court, .Tlillt-dgerille Jliiy Term, 1838. Southern Circuit. James B. Edwards plaintiff in error, vs: Neiil McKinnon, defendant in error—Cirtiorari, from Thomas county. The Court reversed tiie decision of the Court below, in this case, on the grounds— 1st, that the witness rejected by the Court below, as incompetent, as being interested, was a compe tent witness, as bis testimony would not go to bar any suit which might be brought against him for the same subject matter; ami, 2d, that Edwards was not liable, as tiie contract under which Mc Kinnon claimed bad not been entered into by Ed wards, hut by a third party. Spencer for plaintiff in error, llansell for plaintiff in erior. David M. Latitte, plaintiff iu error, vs: Alexan der 11. Lawlou, defendant in error—Equity, from Thomas county.—The Court reversed tlie decision of tlio Court below iu this case, which turned upon the construction of a marriage settlement. Eu gene H. Hines, for plaintiff iu error; A. K. Law- ton for defendant in error. Ocmulgce Circuit. David S Johnson, plaintiff in error, vs: Robert Crawley, defendant in error—Claim from Morgan county.—The Court affirmed the judgment of the Court below in this case. Jenkins and Cummitig were for the plaintiff in error; Cone for defendant. Wm. M. Ross ct at. pin utiff iu error vs: Martha B. Ross, defendant iu error—attachment from Futnani county.—A motion was made in the Court below to dismiss an attachment which had been levied by a summons of garnishment on certain stock iu the Eatonton branch railroad. The 8upe riur Court refused to dismiss the attachment. The Court reversed the decision of the Court below, holding that tlie attachment should have been dis missed—stock in a corporation not being the sub ject of garnislim. nt under the act of 1856. Davis and Lawson for plaintiff in error; Hudson for de fendant in error. The State, upon the refn., &c., plaintiff in er ror vs. Lavinia, (a woman of color,) defendant in error. The State, upon the rei’u., itc., plaintiff iu error, vs: Wilkes, (a siave,) defendant iu error— Warrant from Baldwin county. These two cases wi re consolidated, and heard together. In the first case, a warrant was issued against Lavinia, a woman of color, for being without a master, and enjoying the profits of her labor, and not having her name registered according to law. In the sec ond case, Wilkes was charged with returning from tiie State of New York, a non-slavehoiding State, to the State of Georgia. The Justices of the In ferior Court dismissed the warrants iu liolli ensefc, and ou tlie cases being carried to the Superior Court, that Court refused to interfere, on the ground, “that the proceedings being of a criminal nature, and the defendants having been acquitted by the Inferior Court, tlie Superior Court had uo constitutional power to order a re hearing; and this decision was affirmed by the Supreme Court. McKinley fur plaintiffs in error, Kenan and Har ris for defendant in both eases. Thornton, (a slave) plaintiff in error- vs: the State of Georgia, defendant in error—Murder, from Greene county.—The plaintiff in error in this case, was tried and convicted as accessory before the fact to the crime of murder, and sentenced to death. On the trial, the siave who had been convicted of the same murder, was admitted as a witness by the Court; prisoner objecting to tiie validity of his testimony. The plaintiff in error exeepted to tlie decision of the Court below, on the gruuud that a slave could not he guilty of the crime of murder as accessory before the fact, and also on the ground that the testimony of the con victed slave was not admissible. 1 lie Court af firmed the judgment of the Court below. James A. Wade, ex’r., Sec., plaintiff in error, vs: David S. Johnson, defendant iu error—Claim, from Morgan comity. The Court reversed the de cision of the Court below, holding that the maehine- ry, engine, dec., of the Madison steam mill were per sonal property, and not fixtures, and therefore, that the judgment of a foreclosure of the mortgage and the execution under which they were levied on were valid, the Justices of the Inferior Court having jurisdiction of the same. Cone for plain tiff in error; Jenkins and Cummings for the do- feudaut in error. General Conference .11. E. Church. I»y the Nashville Christian Advocate we learn that on Wednesday last, Rev. T. W. Dorinau pre sented Report (No 1.) from the committee to as certain the vote of the Annual Conferences on the Alabama and Holston resolutions, to expunge the general rule on “the buying and selling of men, women and children, with the intention to enslave BV authority. LAWS OF TTIE UNITED STATES _ t Public—No. 2. AN ACT to detach Selina, in the State of Alab-, m Horn the collection district of New Orleans district of Moffile?^ ““ Sfi Be it enacted hy the Senate and House nf Rntrescr,,. hvesoftheVnUcd States of America is ColnT'l semldetl. That Selma, i„ the State of Alabin which was constituted a port of delivery the cohictioii district of New Orleans, by'the m? o third March, eighteen hundred and fifty “v™ chapter one hundred and two, be detached from hat district, and be made a port of delivery within the collection district ol Mobile. ' tuiu Approved January 27,1853. AN AC 1’ to supply au omission m the enrolmert rrtam act therein n, uumieni [Public—No- 3.] jply »u omission i oi a certain act therein named. Whereas the following clause of the act en titled an act making appropriations for the support ot tlie army lor the . year ending the thirtieth „■ June, eigbteeu hundred and fifty-eight apurev ! ro a wit- the tLirJ ’ eight ' ;e “ hun *wl»nd li'fty-sJven, “For the manufacture of arms at the national armories three hundred and sixty-tl.ousan.l i lars” was omitted in the enrolment ofS rherefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House ot Representatives of the I idled Slates of Amer ica.i. Congress assembled, That the sum of three' hundred and sixty thousand dollars for the nnnn tacture ol arms at the naiional armories be and UlD ruimi 1C U.ruhi’ n the same is hereb ., in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. Approved, February 4, le58. iy appropriate out of any mom ..y Ilf. nt ll>ruieu ilrmsA,...:. . I J [Pub ic—No. 4. alter the time of holditn? tlm Courts of the United States for the State ot South arn!in'i -'■'LIU AN ACT to Courts Carolina. them ” The vote stands as follow s: Conference. Concurring Not coiicurr Holston - - 78 4 Texas - - 72 U Virginia - - - llfi 0 Florida - - 52 0 Missouri I 46 South Carolina 94 0 Memphis 04 1 > Mississippi - 09 7 Lonisvillo - 13 15 Georgia - 135 l) Kentucky Id 43 St. Louis 17 42 Tennessee - 15 88 Louisiana - 48 0 AY. Virginia Alabama 22 - 115 12 0 East Texas - 53 0 Arkansas - 17 16 AVachita 28 0 Pacific—no action. Kauas Mission—no action. Indian Missiou—no action. Whole number of votes concurring, 11 GO; being Cl) votes over the constitutional majority. A German Rag-Picker Lit ingen Cats and Rats. Tiie New Yolk papers publish the following: A German rag-picker, known only by the uarac of Sliarburgher, who, with his family, has been until recently living in what is knowu as the “Rag-Picker’s Retreat,” No. 330, East Thirteenth street, has disgusted his fellow-tradesmen and drawn upon himself considerable persecution by indulging in dead eats and rats for food. These he gathered from the streets, to the number of five or six daily: us he fouud them in the practice of his vocation. Upon his arrival home he skinned them; served up their flesh for food, in the shape of fricasees, stews and roasts, according to his fancy. The fur of the cats he laid aside for milking pil lows, chair cushions nud matresses. The skins wore hung up around the room to dry, preparatory to being sold to dealers in such articles. - - - Hotlorcay'i Ointment and PitU,—A protection aguinstcounterfeits exists in the Water-mark,_ “Hollo- wuy, New York and London,” which appeals in senii- truusparent letters in every leaf of the book of direc tions. If this is not seen when the paper is held to the light, the name is spurionB. Unlike the mineral prepar ations that the virus of eruptions and sores into tlie vi- tul organs, this marvellous Ointment discharges the poison before it heals the flesh. The Pills incvitaly cure Dyspepsia and all bilious disorders, purifying ana vitalizing (lie Wood, ice. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Revr,*,,, tail res of the f«itrd States if Am, nca in Con- gress assembled, That trom and after tlie passim? tins ac t the terms of tlie District Court of the United States for South Carolina, at its silting Charleston, shall be held on tbe first Mondav January, May, July and October, iu each and eve- ry year, instead ot at the times heretofore appoiut- Sec.2. And be it farther enacted. That from and after Ihe pa.-smg of this act, the term of our Cir cuit Court ot the United Status for South Carolina at its sittings in Charleston, shall be held on the first Mondav m April, in eaeh and every , :ar instead < f at the time heretofore appointed. " ’ SF.C. 3. And be it further enacted, That ali writs recognizances, and process of all kinds, already issued, taken or made returnable to the time hith erto appointed for tlie terms of said court? dmU be cotis.dered and taken as made for the time herein provided for the said courts. Approved February 10,1.-58. [Public—No. 5 ] AN ACT making appropriations for the payment of invalid and other pensions of the United States, for the year ending thirtieth of June eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rtprtscn- tat ires if the United States e>f America in Congress assembled. That the following sums he, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any umnev iu the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for ili e payment of pensions for the year ending thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. For invalid pensions, under various acts, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For pensions under acts ot the cighte. nth March, eighteen hundred and eighteen, fifteenth day, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and seventh June, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, eighteen thousand dollars. For pensions to widows of those who served in the revolutionary war under the third section of the act of fourth of July, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, the acts of seventh July, eighteen hun dred and thirty-eight, third March, eighteen hun dred and forty-three, seventeeth June, eighteen hundred and lbrty-four, seednd February, and twenty-niuth July, eighteen hundred and "forty- eight. and second section, act of third February, eight, r-nhundred and fifty-three, two hundred aiid fifty thousand dollars. For pensions to widows and orphans, nnder act of twenty-first of July; eighteen hundred and forty-eight, first section act of third February, eighteen hundred and fifty-three, and under special acts, eighty-six thousand dollars. For privateer invalids, five hundred dollars. For navy pensions to widows and orphans, un der act ofllth August, cigtueen hundred forty- eight, ninety thousand dollars. Approved February Tlth’ 1858. Pub: 10. A RESOLUTION authorizing suitable acknowl edgements to he made by the President to the British naval authorities at Jamaica, fur—the re lief extended to the officers and crew of the United States ship ’'Susquehannali” disabled by the yellow fever. litsol red by the Senate and House of RepresrnU- lices of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That the President be, and be is hereby authorized and requested to cause suitable ac knowledgements to be made on the part of this government to Admiral Sir Houston Stewart of Imr Britannic Majesty’s navy, and the officers un der hi- command, for their prompt and efticien* aid and generous hospitality extended to the disabled officers and crew of tho United States ship “Sus- quclmnnah” on her late arrival at Port Royal in the Island of Jamaica with the yellow fever on board—on which occasion, besides placing the naval hospital with an adequate corps of medical officers, nurses and attendants at tlieir service, eighty-five of the sick officers and crew of the “Susquehannah’’ were safely and promptly con veyed on shore with tbe aid of the boats of the British squadron, and the lives of the greater por tion of them thereby probably saved. And that the President be further requested to cause a gold medal with appropriate devices to be presented on behalf of this government to Assistant Surgeon Frederick II. Rose of the British navy, who vol unteered with the permission o' his commanding officer, to join the “Susqu. hannali” mid, at immi nent persona! risk, devoted himself, on the voyage from Jamaica to New Yoik, to the cave of the sick reniaing on board. And that the President causa suitable testimonials to be in like manner pre.'. ni - ed to the medical officers in the British service iu attendance at the hospital, with appropriate re- wards to the nurses and other attendants there, whilst occupied by tho officers and crew of tbe “Susquehannah.” Approved May JIth, 1858. The Road to immortality. AYRAT ME BELIEVE AYI> WHY. It was the remark of a distinguished physician of th® last century, that tlie man who should discover a speci fic tor physical pain, as certain iu its naturuliziug ef fects as water, when applied to fire, would rnuk in ™ estimation of prosperity, next to the inspired writ.-r? Professor Holloway, the founder ot that simple jet pro found system of medical treatment, which bus travers ed with such wonderful rapidity both the old woria «Ji“ tlie now, appears to have accomplished tliis grvnil‘‘CU u ' eratum mid something more. It is alleged by t.io» who have tested the properties of his celebrated ru» mid Ointment iu their own cases, that they not one *e leviaie the agony attendant upon all internal aadf*’ ternal disorders, permanently eradicate them. I™ 1 these remedies are umong the wonder working sgvno of an age of wonders, cannot be questioned. 'la«sv • who believe that the science of medicine is a close mote opoly, ami that there is no medical skill licj’-u" i-' circle of the “Faculty," who look upon a diploma «s * sort of “firman” to which every man should b"" ® homage, will of course prefer being irregularly cer<*- Suoh is not our taste. We cure little for names, nomu 1 - for big words uud oracular shakes of the licud | we see and know we believe; and really the proofs 1 lie unvarying efficacy of Holloway’s remedies an- numerous, so consistent, so in-controvertible, tils'- ' common sense, despite the leaning that we have in C moil with most men, toward tiine-sanetiomd compels us, nolens rolens, to atlach full erect til • _ It l>e may weakness to be guided by our own prvV’T tious ainhthe testimony of honest witnesses, WP 11 ;'’ 1 ' c-nce to, receiving as Gospel that the interesteu 11 cates of a very fullihie system would have ot ,- ' but ive claim a l ight to the independent us.- of our ultii-s, and must state our convictions. '1 ■ ' rl V... of medicine, as practiced by a large propoition o. grave professors, is merely around ot stereotyped scriptures, which every sane man knows do not, «a> ■ out of ten, answer the desired purpose. remedies, as as we can judge, do not tail once o ten times to effect a cure. This is our answer, lou ^ on observation and inquiry, to all who may arraM. judgement for according to these extraordinary pi utious what wc conceive to be a just meed »• P [Cincinnati Cotumtnao- WHAT HOLLAYDERS THIAR OF BffBHBE* H0LI.A.AD BIlTERS! J. Quintus, Ed. of th* Sheboygan Sieuusbodc, ■■> 1 letter duted September 6tb, lk»4, thus remarks, You will observe that I have published s* ' l ‘ r .... tifieates lately. These are not mere ‘puffs’ , .’“ t ‘ ( Iy true, and should you continue advertising wi.J< may expect to secure large orders, from every settlement ill the United States.’ ^ This U au extract from one of the many l* 1 ‘ ^ ceived from the HoUaud settlements. ,v ' 111 L \ allJi ]v Hollanders recommend the Holland Bittcic ,- r Americans may nut hesitate in testing it* ' 11 themselves. Sold by Grieve. & Clark, Milledgcville. Another American Ucssel tired into tnj “ Cruiser.—Captain Howes, of the schooner 1 (k< | arrived at New York, from Mobile, •iffih ult., when twenty-five miles do „, West, saw a steamship to windward btar ^. for us. Hove to speak her. and when > shot distance she commenced hniv the balls from which passed betwee deck and lodged in the bulwarks. _ oref l,v» ed down the jibs, when they fire xj 0 j,j!e r.r; They then scut a boat on board ®'“ j ;hk overhauled the vessel’s papers, and^.led ^ , intention to gei«e the vess'1 , w-t* foreign register on board, but 11 ‘ j r uf tiDg * out doing go. They pve no reasons for / they did, nor did they ‘> n . v n ''" IV American ensign set on onrv essel. fhe was the British war steamer Stvx.