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S 27. Stale of the Weather. Wednesday, June 24 —7 A. M. At Charleston, clear and pleasant. “ savannah, rainy. “ Macon, “ <* Columbus, clear and warm. ** Montgomery, cloudy and warm. 44 Lower Peach Tree, cloudy and warm. 44 Mobile, rainy. “ Gainesville, rainy and warm. “ New Orleans, warm and stormy. “ Augusta, warm and clear, bat light showers at noon. Thursday, June 27—7 A. M. At Charleston, clear and pleasant. “ Savannah, “ “ 44 44 Macon, cloudy and stormy. 41 Columbus, cloudy and warm. “ Montgomery, “ 44 44 44 Lower Peach Tree, cloudy and warm. 44 Mobile, clear. 44 Gainesville, cloudy and rainy. 44 New Orleans, “ “ “ 44 Augusta, 44 44 warm. Friday, Juue 26—7 o’clock, A. M. Savannah, pleasant. Macon, clear and hot. Columbu3, “ 44 41 Montgomery, clear and warm. Lower Peach Tree, cloudy and warm. Mobile, cloudy and cool. Gainesville, 44 44 “ New Orleans, warm. Augusta, clear and warm. Saturday, June 27—7 o’clock, A. M. Savannah, pleasant. Macon, clear and very hot. Columbus, cloudy and warm. Montgomery, “ “ “ Lower Peach Tree, cloudy and warm. Mobile, clear and warm. Gainesville, cloudy and rainy. New Orleans, raining. Augusta, clear and warm. (ipor«iu IDil I road. We are indebted to the politeness of the officers at the Georgia railroad depot, fortheauncxcd state ment of produce brought to this city, exclusive of all forwarded through to Charleston : Bacon . Corn. Flour. Cotton. June 16—10,300 800 Of* 00 “ 17—17,000 200 90 00 4 i 18—17,000 928 70 00 From the Ist to the 24th of June, eight thousand sis hundred and ninety-six bushels of corn re ceived. From the Bth to the 24th Inst., one thousand seven hundred and eighteen bushels new wheat, but the most of it received since the 20th June. Only one barrel of lard—uiue hundred coils of rope one hundred hushels of pers—eleven hun dred barrels flour three hundred and sixty-nine barr of whisky—received from Ist to the 24th liiu*. Very little cotton now is brought forward on the railroad. The through and local average about three hales per day. Ninety-one thousand three hundred and twenty one pounds of copper ore has been brought down since the 15th instant. New Wheat* The New York Journal of Commerce, of 25th Instant says: “One hundred bushels of new white Georgia wheat, the first of the season, was sold yesterday at two dollars and fifty cents per bushel. The Supreme Court* The Macon Masenyer, of the 24th inst., says . t( The Supreme Court commenced it* hesH'um in this city on Monday last. All the Judges present. Wo are gratified to observe that Judge Lumpkin resumes his duties with health entirely restored. Long may his valuable services bo spared to the State. The docket, we learn, is heavy.” Tlie Military* The following companies, says the Milledgevilh* Federal Union of 2lth iustunt, have accepted the invitation to encamp at the Capital on the 3d, 4tli, 6th ;.nd oth days of July. Columbus Guards, 45 men. Liberty Independent Troop, 24 “ United Kittes, (Co lumbus) 40 “ City Light Guards, 50 “ Putnam Rifles, 50 “ Floyd Kitlos, (Macon,) 50 “ Marietta Cadets, 105 “ Irish Jasper Greens, (Savannah,) 40 44 Washington L ght Artillery, (Augusta,) 40 “ Oglethorpe Light Infantry,(Savannah,).so “ Macon V,du* *ers 50 “ Oglethorpe Infantry, (Augusta,) 50 “ Irish Volunteers, “ 40 “ Volunteer Guards, (Savannah,) 60 “ Republican Blues, “ 60 “ Clinch Uitles, (Augusta,) 45 “ The above sixteen companies have formally ac cepted. We hope others may accept yet, to fill out the complement of one thousand, the number oxpe ‘tod. To these sixteen companies may be ad ded the Baldwin Blues, of this city, as ono of the encampment -numbering fifty men. With the Governor and Staff, the number of military in our city ou the fourth, will uot be short of nine hun dred.” 1 |3g? We refer our readers to the advertisement 1 of a “school wanted” by a ladv. She has placed in j our Lands the very best testimonials as to charac ter and capacity, and we take pleasure in adding our testimony to her superior merit. I tsr The Jiopublkan of Thursday, states that it is rumored Mr. A. R. Lamar has purchased the materials of the Savannah Georgian, and the pub- 1 Mention of the paper will be resumed in a few 1 days. 1-iiT The intelligence by the steamship Persia. I announces the death of Douglass Jkkrold. t-*r The last weeks Aew Orleans i 'ri« Current status that since the first of September last, there lias been shipped, from New Orleans to Charles ton, one hundred and seventy-one hogsheads and fifteen barrels sugar, and one thousand three Lundred and thirty barrels of molasses—and Shipped to Savauuab, thirty-eight hogsheads of Sugar and three hundred and forty barrels of mo lasses. £3?" The sales of cotton in New Orleans for the Week ending the 19th instant, reached seventeen thousand bales, which was taken for France, the Continent, Spain and the North, on/y a/ao hundred bales being taker for Great Britain. So states the New Orleans Prices Current. The New York Albion, of the 20th inst.. States that Mr. Fbancxs Lousada has been ap pointed the British Consul at New York. He was formerly the Consul at Riga, Russia. The lowa Reporter and Crescent of the 17th instaut, says that enough has been heard from the elections in Minnesota, to make it certain that the Constitutional Convention will be Democratic by a decided majority. Among the passengers by the Ericsson, says the London .Star, was Wit. R. Stuart, an attache of the New York Associated Press. Sir. J. Hun ter, who for several years, has had charge at Liv erpool of the European agency of the press, aud who has fulfilled the duties with peculiar ability, is now retiring, and Mr. Sttart is to succeed him. Mr, Stuart has had long experience in connec tion with newspaper affairs. * The personal and political friends of Gen. Quit wan, in Adam’s county, Mississippi, gare him a barbecue near Natchez, Friday last. , The Slavery Question in Oregon. The Charleston Mercury, of the 24th instant, in publishing the annexed extract from a letter, re ceived in that city from Oregon Territory, says it is from a gentleman of the highest respectability and position, and exhibits the views of the settlers in reference to slavery, considered as a practical institution. As long as negroes rule at present high prices, we have no faith in their introduction into Oregon. But this statement goes far to show the recognized advantages of the institution, and the sickly aoutimentality of its opponents. North ern men are not slow to see the truth and recognize s it, when their interest does not lie in the opposite direction, and their sectional prejudice is not stir red up. Here is a practical demonstration of their sagacity: Astoria, O. T., April 20, 1857. We shall have warm times in this Territory until we are admitted into the Union as a State. The slavery question will swallow up every other con sideration, and you need not be surprised if Oregon knocks for admission with agpro-sfavery Constitu tion. The difficulty of obtaining laborers and family servants, is working a great change in the feelings of even Northern people settled here, throughout the fanning portions of the country, and the mining regions are almust unanimous for slavery. There will be some how ling done by the negro worshippers here, before we get through the fight. I shall go for slavery myself; for I, together with my wife, have become tired of doing the work for which negroes only arc by nature made and confetituted. The present price of labor here will keep us down for a generation, unless we are per mitted to purchase staves from the States and hold them. In such an event we will make Oregon shove aiiead, and soon have a better state of socie ty than we now have. Mississippi* The Democratic State Convention of Mississippi met at Jackson on the 23d lost., and made the fol lowing nominations: For Governor, lion. William McVVillie; for Secretary of State, A. 11. Dilwortij; Auditor of public accounts, Madison McAfee; Treasurer, S. L. Hussey; Attorney General, T. J. ; Wharton. Kansas. The Washington Union, of 24th instant, says “The country at large have been advised through the mails and by telegraph, of a studied determi- j i nation on the part of those deluded citizens of Kan- j sas who still madly cling to the so-called Topeka f ’ Constitution to take no part in the pending elec- , tion contest in that Territory. Friends of law’and . order, men who arc actuated by the purest and ( most patriotic motives, having in vain urged them ( to vote for delegates to a convention to frame a State Constitution, there is nothing left but to ex- a press regret for their folly, and to leave them to the consequences which are likely to follow their michievous, if not dangerous obstinacy. “ The position of the Democratic party, and, it c is scarcely necessary to add, the position of the e administration, in regard to existing difficulties in \ Kansas, cannot be misunderstood. It is, that the f people of the Territory have the right to settle the j character of their institutions. If a considerable t or inconsiderable portion of their number con- ( ecive that they can impair and ultimately destroy c that right by creating difficulties and disturbances, t or by taking no part in the elections, they labor j under an error of which they cannot be too soon j disabused; for the Democratic, conservative por tion of the country will regard the 'people of Kan sas only such as are now uniting to frame a form of government in accordance with the provisions * of law, and not those who are seeking to paralyze 5 the popular will by illegal subterfuges und the ((nibbles of fanaticism. “Whatever the Constitution may be-—whether 1 recognising or excluding slavery, or silent in re gard to the institution —it will be viewed as the expression of the will of the people of Kansas, as those who frame it will act under the Federal Con stitution, and iu a manner recognised by the or ganic law’. “ The administration, we are quite sure, stands , on the doctrine of non-intervention, in the strict est sense of the term, and will insist to the extent of its constitutional power that the people of that Territory shall manage their own affairs in their own way.” The Leavenworth (Kansas) Journal of the 23d instant, (as we notice by telegraph reports ) says that twelve regular Democratic candidates in that county have been elected. A dispatch from St. Louis, Mo., dated June 23, states there hasbecna terrible hail storm in Bu chanan county, which destroyed the crops and killed cattle in the fields. Several persons were severely injured. Some of the hail stones picked up were as largo as goose eggs. The steamship Persia, on her recent pas sage from Liverpool to New York, performed the trip iu nine days and seventeen hours. At a meeting of the Germau Washington . Rifle Company of Memphis, held at Military Hull [ in that city on the 19th inst., among other resolu tions, adopted the following ; Be*oheJ, That we heartily tender to the milita -4 ry companies and the City Council of Augusta, Georgia, our most sincere thanks for their cordial J reception and splendid entertainments, during our * stay in that beautiful city, on the 25th and 26th . ult. That our brief sojourn there will lonir be re membered by us as fraught with whole som cheer and generous hospitality, our onlv regret being ( that we had to part so soon with their gallant, well-drilled soldiers, and their polite and geutle -1 manly citizens. The Hon. Lanodon Curves died at Colum bia, S. C., on Thursday uight 25th inst., in the eighty-first year of his age. * l fj?"E. Waterman, Esq., who has held the of tree of Ordinary of Georgetown district, South Carolina for the past thirty-nine years, has declar- cd his intention to resign. ( •-yy’ Havana. Gonaives, aud San Domingo, are I the only West India ports where yellow fever is 1 now reported to prevail, and even at these places it lias manifested itself in a very mild form. IST The steamships Canada and Argo sailed from Neiv York on the 24th instant, respectively for Liverpool and Southampton aud Bremen. The first named vessel carried out one hundred uud eleven passengers, and the last mentioned one hundred and fifty-three. The Canada also took out one million three hundred and twenty-six thou sand one hundred and eightv-eiglit dollars in specie. Rescue Grass. —Mr. A. B. Davis, Catahoula par ish, writes to the Independent of his success in the culture of the Rescue Grass, so called. He sowed about a peck of seed the first of October last, on one-third of an acre of ground. Its growth at first was exceedingly rapid, and throughout the winter it presented a rich and luxuriant appearance. In May, being fully matured, it was mowed, and yielded half a ton of excellent hay, and thirty-two and a half bushels of seed. Mr. D. thinks the grass will easily yield two tons of hay and one hundred bushels of seed per acre. It may be taken off the ground in time to sow a crop of corn the same year. _ The Prospect in California— Great Yield ok Gold Anticipated —We have seen a private letter, which came by the last steamer, from a gentleman in San Francisco, which states that in the writer’s opinion the yield of gold for the year 1557 will not be much short of one hundred millions of dollars. The assumption is based on the knowledge that the fa cilities for washing have been greatly increased by the completon of numerous canals and ditches which havelbeen in progress for a year or two past. The letter further states that trade in San Francisco will be good throughout the summer. So says the ,New York Ikrrdd. The Administration and Kansas. —We have satisfactory information, says the Georgia Tele* graph, that the instructions to Gov. Walker were simply to see the principles asserted by the Kan sas bill and enunciated by the National Democra -1 cy at Cincinnati, carried out in their obvious im i port. The policy of the Administration, as indi • cated and stated to Mr. Walker, was that the i Government would not interfere with the ques ’ tion of slavery—it being a domestic question, to l be settled by the people in the formation and ■ adoption of their Constitution. The Admmistra i tion had seen nothing of this Inaugural Address 5 until published in the newspapers, and whatever - in it conflicts with a position of entire neutrality • between parties in Kansas upon domestic ques tions, conflicts with the views of Mr. Buchanan and his Cabinet. I It is bruited about in Washington that the Kan sas Constitution will probably be altogether si lent upon slavery, leaving the matter to be con sidered and settled by the State at its own leisure and discretion. The Boston Traveller, of the 18th inst., says that Mrs. Brown and Katy Fox, the original “Rochester Rappers/’ have arrived in town. They came to meet an engagement with Dr. Gardner, who proposes, through their inediumship, to con vince the Harvard College professors, among other things, that sounds expressing intelligence are made without conscious human agency. The investigation by the committee of professors is about to commence, under harmonious arrange ments and with the kindest feelings among the contending parties, or rather the interested parties, for the contest has ended. The strife is not for the $!i 00, but to secure to the committee the best opportunity possible to decide whether the phe nomena are actual or jugglery. The Scientific American, whose opinion on such a subject is the best authority, says that metalic life preservers, made of thin sheet copper, are the safest and best. Inflated life-preservers, made of India rubber or such material, were condemned at the meeting of steamboat inspectors, held last year. In the casaof the burning of a steamer, on the Mississippi, which had a number of them on board, they were found totally useless in the hour of need. At the recent burning of the steamer Northern Indiana, on >Lake Erie, numbers of the inflated life preservers on board had been rendered useless by being punctured with pins. The editor ol the American believes it would be very easy to make every seat, table, and mattress, used on a steamboat, a life preserver, and thinks that steam boat proprietors should be compelled to do this. A Fitting Monument to Franklin. —The tomb of Franklin —if a plain flag-stone even with the earth can be so called—is concealed from public view by a venerable brick wall, at the corner of Fifth and Mulberry streets, Philadelphia. The remains of the lightning philosopher are deposited there, in the old burial ground belonging to Christ Church. An appropriate monument has been ac cidentally reared above them, in the shape of a telegraph post, and the lightning is at constant play over, if not under, the eye of the man who first chained it to the earth. The Defalcation in Ohio.— The Cincinnati Times, of the 18th instant, says: “We are in formed that the defalcation in'the State Treasury still continues to grow in magnitude, and it is now very doubtful whether sufficient funds can be res cued to meet the interest on the State debt falling due the first of July. One of the State officers was in this city yesterday, endeavoring to effect a temporary loan to meet the emergency, and as far as we cau learn was unsuccessful. The principal embarrassment grows out of the fact that it is very doubtful whether the State officers have the autfeoepf ty to make such a loan. Should they fail to obtain the money, the Governor must call a special ses sion of the General Assembly. This will, in all probability, be done.” Slavery in Minnesota. —The Minnesota /lepvtb lican, published at St. Anthony, says that negroes are now held as slaves in Minnesota. Every year men who come from the South bring their slaves as body servants to the hotels, and take them away again. And it has positive information that a ! southerner is now holding his slave at Stillwater, | and declares that under the Dred Scott decision be ' defies the authorities to interfere. He intends to J remain in the territory, and thus to render slavery a permanent institution. Ladies’ Favorites. —There is too much truth in the following remarks of Addison : “I have found that the men who are really the most fond of the ladies—who cheerish for them the highest respect —are seldom the most popular with the sex. Men of great assurance—whose tongues are lightly hung—who make words supply the place of ideas, and place compliment in the room of sentiment— are their favorites. A due respect for women leads to respectful action towards them ; and respect is mistaken by them for neglect or want of love. The rock in the Blue Ridge Tunnel, (says the Virginia Jeffersonian) is now quite cut out, and a person can see through the entire tunnel; that is, a person at the eastern end can see the liEflit shine through at the western end. Preparations are in progress to enable the cars to pass through the tunnel early in July, aud also to run them twenty miles West of the present terminus of the road. There is a gentleman in Union, N. H., who will bo one hundred and one years old on the seventh of July. His name is Ralph Farnham, and a strong effort was made to induce him to be present at the Hunker Ilill celebration in Boston, he hav ing takeu part iu the battle. He declined going on account of the distance; and when his son—a lad of titty or sixty years—proposed to accompany him, replied, “if he went, he didu’t want to be bothered with the care of any children! ” He says he don’t remember of ever being sick ; but “be lieves he had a fever or something, eighty or nine ty years ago.” A big ox is now on exhition at Springfield, Mass. The Republican says it is about the size of one of Sands, Nathan A Co.’s biggest elephants, and moves placidly about, much as one of the ele phants would do. It is said to be the largest framed ox in the world, and weighs, though far from fat, four thousand two hundred pounds; measures six feet seven inches in height at the , shoulder, girts ten feet, and is thirteen feet in I leugthfrom stem to stern! Well fatted, it would weigh in the neighborhood of five thousand pounds. _ The Cans and Corn in Attakapas.—The Regis i ter, of the 13th inst., reports excessively hot weath l er iu that part of the State, but very favorable to > the growing cane. The crop never, indeed, bore a > more promising appearance. The fields are en • tirely free from grass and weeds, aud as clean “as ■ any parlor floor.” Many planters have already i “ laid by,” and within the next ten days all will have done so. If nothing unforeseen occurs, the , Register thinks the crop of St. Mary’s parish will amount to thirty-six thousand or forty thousand J hogsheads, larger than ever before made. The . corn and potato crop of Attakapas is also promis ! *“g- ' Professor Alexander, of Baltimore, has been ■ appointed Commissioner on the part of the United States, by the Secretary of the Treasury, under * the joint resolution oi the last Congress to pro • vide for ascertaining the relative value of the coin * age of the United States and Great Britain, and i fixing the relative value of the unitary coins o? the two countries. B £3y*A correspondent of the Eufaula (Ala.) Spir . it of the South, writing from Johnson county, b Kansas, June 6th, makes the following remarks _ upon the emigration to that Territory, and the pro . bable result of the future domestic institutions of . that section: “ The emigration to Kansas is immense, in the proportion of about three free State men (alias 5 Abolitionists) to one white man (or pro-slavery ' man), but then about four Yankees leave to one ) southerner, so the parties are pretty equally bal l anced. I believe firmly myself that the pro-slave ry party have a majority in the Territory, and the best evidence I have of it, is the fact that the Yau -5 kees still refuse to vote. A Constitution for a State • Government will be tormed, recognizing slavery, r croakers to the contrary notwithstanding. But whether Kansas remains a slave State or not, de pends, in my judgment, entirely upon the emigra gration next fall and spring. If the South does her duty all will be well; if not, why universal Yankeedom will take possession of the soil. Al low me to say again what I have so often said, that there is no country, I have ever seen, where slave labor can be made as profitable as it can in Kan sas. I have tried to do my duty in the struggle and am still willing to continue in the good work. I shall visit Barbour in November, and return here in January. If the money can be raised, I will bring out fifty or one hundred families and locate them, without charging anything for my services. I can always get the meD, if the money to pay their expenses can be furnished. Barbour county has done more in men and money for Kansas than any county in the South, and I am sanguine in the hope that she will make one more effort. Do speak to your people about it, let us make one more ef fort and the day is our own.” Recovering Lost Canary Birds.—Many of our ladies in the course of the summer may have to lament the escape of their birds. The following method suggested by the Hartford Time *, indi cates a possible way of recovering them : About a month since, a lady who resides on the Windsor road, was hanging her cage containing a pair of canaries, upon the outside of her house, when the bottom of the cage fell off, and the birds flew r away to a neighboring orchard. Great pains were taken to secure them, without avail, when a lady in the vicinity gave the information that by wetting them they could be easily caught. A syringe and a bucket of water was taken to the orchard, and the little fellows were soon so wet that they did not attempt to fly, and were easily taken. This plan may be of use to those whose birds may hereafter escape. The Trans-Atlantic Telegraph and the News papers.—lt having been suggested that the rate of messages over the oceanic wile will be a dollar a W <H*l, the New York Timet estimates the cost of the despatches for the press at about a thousand dollars a day. Commenting on this, the Boston Bee says: “This enormous expense will, of course, be di vided among a great many papers, in different pro portions, but it must add greatly to the cost of publication, and as the Times very properly sug gests, must “ lead to what must come to pass, sooner or later —an increase in the price of our leading journals.” While everything else has been advancing in price, newspapers have remained un changed, or have actually been sold at lower rates; the publishers relying upon the advertisements not only for all their profits, but for a large part of the expenses of publication. This is not u true sys tem. The price of a paper ought not to be so low that an increase of circulation without au increase in advertising will be a disadvantage to the pub lisher. A paper should be sold at a price which will lean* a distinct margin beyond the cost of the white paper and of the press work.” Hoop Skirts and Umbrellas.—Whalebone has nearly doubled in price within the past four months in consequence of the enormous consump tion of the article in skirt-hoops. The New York Post, of Saturday, says : ‘ 4 Where the wholesale price was forty or fifty, it is now eighty or ninety cents a pound. The Ommerciai List of to-day reports a sule of eight thousand pounds at ninety-five. An umbrella deal er informs us that at retail he lias been obliged to pay a dollar and a half a pound for the manufac tured article, and the five dollar umbrellas of two months ago are now sold for six. Nor is this all. The braces have become greatly attenuated, being tiardkf more th«o half the size they were in tfie old-fashioned umbrellas. So that the prospect fs, we shall be compelled to rely wholly on steel bra ces, which have experienced no such “apprecia tion.” Hon. F. W. Pickens and the Russian Mission. The statement has appeared in various papers that Hon. F. W. Pickens has been tendered, by Presi dent Buchunan, the mission to Russia, which is entirely correct. But the Carolinian , and others, seem to he uncertain whether Col. Pickens will ac cept it or not. We are enabled to say positively, | that the kind and complimentary proffer of the President wus promptly hut respectfully declined, I nearly two weeks ago. We also happen to know, with certainty, that the friends of tlie Hon. F. W. I Pickens will place his name before the people of i South Carolina for the post of United States Sena tor. It needs not here, that we speak of his emi nent qualifications for that position. Edgefield Advertiser, Mrs. G ask ell’s \*ife of Charlotte Bronte.— This work Ims brought the. authoress into an un fortunate affair. The uneccessary reference to an alleged private fact in Barnwell Bronte’s unhap py career, turns out, after all, to be a wretched lie. Mrs. (Jaskell’s excuse is that she has been deceived ; but even assuming the story to be true, she had no right to parade it in the manner she did. An humiliating apology, through the medi um of a solicitor, has been given the London Times of May 3oth, and very magnanimously ac cepted by the lady who was so grievously injured by the shameful imputation cast upon her. The Ixmdon Critic says: “Mrs. Gaskell ought to be compelled to recall every copy of her work, as far as that- is possible, and to expunge the obnoxious passages.” It adds : “So long as the copy of that book is in its present state, so long will that lady be suffering from au unatoned jury.” Mr. W. W. Carus Wilson also complains bitterly to the Litter ary Journal of the injustice done in Mrs. Gas kell’s account of his father’s charitable institu tion at Cowan Bridge. There is yet another in jured person in the field—the aged Mr. Bronte— who (at least says Mr. Carus Wilson) “feels deep ly Mrs. Gaskell’s remarks on his treatment of his children.” Mail Robbery. —Chas. Cowlam, clerk in the post office at this place, was arrested yesterday ©n a charge of abstracting money from letters. When first accused of the crime he denied it, but a portion ot the money being found m his trunk, he confessed his guilt, and was committed by United States Commissioner Francis. The amount stolen is estimated at four thousand dollars —of w ich two thousand two hundred dol lars was found in his possession. Cowlam is about nineteen years of age, and hails from Michigan. Portsmouth ( VaStatesman, June 23. Occultation by Saturn.—The very rare and im portant phenomenon of the occultation of a star of the thira magnitude (Delta Geininoram) by Sa turn will occur on the 29th instant, and if circum stances permit of its observation, may be of great importance, as affording information concerning the structure and number of divisions of Saturn’s ring. A star of such brightness would not fail to make manifest every division in the ring by gleam ing through at each instant that an opening al lowed its light to be seen. Possibly, too, in case the ring is translucent —as is not improbable, since Professor Pierce has demonstrated that it certain ly is fluid, and we know it to be extremely thin— t"be star’s bright light may actually be capable of detection through the substance of the ring. The phenomenon will be invisible through Europe, but l*rof. Winnecke, of Bonn, has recently published calculations upon the subject, from which he in fers that the most favorable point on the globe will be Cambridge, Massachusetts, as apart from the f .cilities offered by the telescope of that ob servatory, the occultation takes place after sunset, and while the planet is four degress high. The calculation of a star so bright as Delta Gemiuorum, is computed by Dr. Wiuneeke as happening only once in fifteen hundred years, and the rarity aud interest of the phenomenon is greatly enhanced in the present instances by the fact that in this case the star is double.— Boston Courier. The Washington correspondent of the New York Commercial Advertiser says: “Gen. Cass, when last heard from, was remarkably well. He was engaged in preparing for the removal of his family and effects to Washington. lie is packing up his pictures, stationery, mosaics, Egyptian marbles, Napoleon china, *and other articles of vertu , ol which he has a very large collection. All these are to be removed to Washington, which would go to show that he intends to make this his perma nent residence,” J From the Baltimore Sun. Additional by the Steamer Persia. England. —The weather continues very favora ble for the season, and the accounts of the growing crops, especially those from Ireland, are more than usually encouraging. The reports of the condition of trade in the manufacturing districts are generally more encour aging than for some weeks past, but the disposi *ion seems to prevail in many quarters that the production must be lessened in some degree, in or- 1 tier to avert a further fall in prices. The proceedings of Parliament are unimportant. 1 There is a strong Roman Catholic oppositon : springing up to the Jewish disabilities bill. An ir ffuential meeting has been held at Liver- i pool in aid of the movement for procuring an in- < creased supply of cotton. From Birkeuhead there is information that half ' of the submarine cable has been completed, and it \ is pronounced perfect. The steamer Niagara was i expected in the Mersey in a few days to commence i the shipment of the cable. Messrs. Evans, Hoare A Co., of London, Austra- i lian shippers, have failed. Their liabilities amount ' to £2O0 t ouo sterling. The suspension is announced of Messrs. W. Mac intosh A Co., of Manchester, with liabilities sup- \ posed to amount to £loo,ouo. The British pubuc has lost a shinning light, a i ready wit, a powerful writer, and a thoroughly i honest man in the death of Mr. Douglass Jerrold. He died on the Bth instant, of rheumatic gout, as- ; ter au illness of ten days. Prince Napoleon, after visiting the exhibition at Manchester, intends, it is said, to make an excur sion into Ireland. The Lord-Lieutenancy of the county of Tippera ry, vacated by death of Lord Lismore, has been conferred upou his son, the present Viscount. Mr. John Lawlor, one of the Young Ireland party, has got a government situation m Austra lia. A “vigilance committee,” on the system some time since adopted in San Francisco, California, has been established in the ancient town of Gal way to prevent the exportation of potatoes. B. Burch, mate or the American ship Frank Pierce, from New Orleans, bus been held to bail in Liverpool to answer the charge of shooting and slightly wounding John Ward, the second officer. In the House of Commons Lord Palmerston an nounced that the French government had given no opportunity for remonstrance in regard to the firing upon the British merchant vessel by the French war schooner, for it had promptly express ed regret at the occurrence, and dismissed from service the officer who ordered the firing. The bill for the attyiission of Jews into Parlia ment was read a second time. The warehouses of Pickford A Co., railroad car riers for Camden town, were destroyed by fire, to gether with au immense amount of merchandise, including forty thousand quarters of corn, amount ing to one million pounds A deputation headed by Lord Shaftsherrv had waited upon Dord Palmerston in relation to the increase of the slave trade and the means for its suppression. At a meeting of merchants held in Liverpool on Friday for assisting the cotton supply movement, resolutions were passed referring to* the present inadequate and uncertain supply of that staple, as well as the fluctuation in pr.ee, and expressing the opinion that the colonies of Great Britain afford ample resources for the cultivation and develop ment of the cotton plant, aud that it is the duty of the British nation to aid measures by which its growth may be established and extended. A com mittee was appointed to co-operate with the Man chester Cotton Supply Association. France. —The crops present so promising an ap pearance that it is hoped the next harvest will nearly suffice for the entire consumption of France. The election excitement in France is increasing. The red aud white republicans are said to have coalesced. The Bank of France shows an increase in its spo of over the previous month’s returns. It is slated that the new governor of the bank is not only opposed to any immediate reduction in the rate of discount, but that one of the first acts of bis administration will be to enter into another Contract with the Messrs. Rothschild for the pur chase of one million pounds of gold in London. A new batch of Senators has been made. M. Ilatissman, prefect of the Seine, and M. Pietre, prefect of police, are included. The Moniteur of the 1 Ith inst., publishes an im perial decree closing the sittings of the Senate. Marsha! K,union, after reporting his own losses in the expedition against Kaybles, estimates the number of the enemy at four hundred, and wound ed at eight hundred. It is rumored that the government has decided on removing at an early period the interdiction against distillation from corn. The blossoming ot the vines has commenced in the South, and is going on most favorably. Sihiin.— The Spanish and Mexican difficulty is still unsettled. Disturbances still occur amongst the bumbler classes iu Spain, in consequence of the high price of food. Italy. —A serious disaster had occurred at Flor ence. The scenerv in the theatre took tire, caus ing a panic, which resulted in the death of forty three persons, and the wounding of one hundred and thirty-four others. The Sacred College at Rome has contracted a loan of twenty million francs with M. Rothschild, for the purpose of calling in the present wretched copper coinage. At Bologna on the sth inst., Pius the Ninth crowned the image.of the Virgin, much by ihe Bolognese. His Holiness addressed a speech to the people Fifty thousand inhabitants from the North of Italy have arrived at Bologna. The prospects of the Italian silk growers are represetred to be unfavorable, and tne price of silk is enormously high throughout the who’e of the Austro-Italiun districts. Austria..— The Emperor has signed an ordinance which prescrioes that two-thirds, at least, of the public functions of Hungary are to be confided to natives. The Empress of Austria is sa ; d to be extremely dejected at the recent loss of her daughter Her ' majesty wee. s, it is said, incessantly, and only leaves her own apartments to go to the church 1 tached to the palace. Switzerland. —The Federal Assembly met on the 9tii instant. The message of the Federal • Council recommends the ratification of the treaty relative to the affairs of Neufchatei. Belgium. —A dispatch from Constantinople an nounces that the Porte had demanded of the Bel gian government the recall of its ministers. The Belgian government has refused to comply with ' the demand. China. Later dates from China and India have been reecivt d. out are unimportant. Shanghai dates to the 2"th of April report that the town of Hokow, in the Keangasee province, had been taken possession of by the rebels. Hong Kong exports of tea up to April, fifty million pouuds, agaiust eighty million pounds last year. Ihe lAitest. —No movement of importance had taken place with the English forces in China. Great discontent prevailed at Canton, and Veh’s inactivity had made him unpopular. Hong Kong trade was quiet. The silk crop threatens to be short in consequence of long droughts. The London Shipping Gazette publishes a note from Gen. Cass to Lord Napier, replying to the representations the latter had made to the ITnited States Government touching oppressive treatment received by seamen on board American vessels. Mr. Cass believes that the laws now in force are sufficient to check the evil complained of, and that where the offenders escape punishment, the fault must be chiefly in defective proof. The election movements are the prevailing topics in French politics. The accounts are contradicto ry. One says that the white and red Republican parties have fused and completed their list of can didates, including General Cavaignac. Another, that finding such fusion impossible, the whites have fused with the old CoHStitutionai parties, nominating a common list of candidates, headed by Cavaignac. The ultra-montanists have de clared in favor of an active interest in the elec tions. There have been general rains throughout Ire land, which largely benefitted the growing crops, and giving promise of great abundance. Financial. —The Liverpool Times, of Friday evening, 12th inst., says : The money market is easier and the supply im proved, but the band minimum rate of discount remains without change at six pet cent. The large purchases of goldiOUt of the recent supplies, which canuot fall far short of three-qarters cf a million sterling, by the directors of the bank, have led to the strong belief in monetary circles that, at an early date, a reduction will be announced; but caution has still to be observed, especially as the bank has renewed making advances on the stock, which may lead to a resumption of the active out ward demand of the precious metals. At the dis count houses first-class short dated paper has been easily negotiated under the minimum bank rate. In the Stock Exchange the rate on government se curities ranges from six to six and a half per cent., according to period. The arrivals of specie have • been large, both from Australia and the United States. A considerable quantity has been taken for export to the continent for the purchase es sil ver for shipment to the East, and it is believed the next overland mail will take out the heaviest quantity ever shipped. The British funds have been favorably influ enced by the improvement in the money market the continued arrivals of gold, and the favorable prospects for the harvest. Prices have been re markably steady. Yesterday Consols closed at 93 to 93% ex. div. for the account; and for money special transfer, at 93% to 94% ex. div. To-day Consols were steady. An advance in the French funds of nearly per cent, has favorably affected the market. The last prices of Consols for both money and the account were 93% to 93 V • exche quer bills 25., dis. to 3s. premium. ' ' The Markets. —Sales of cotton for the week 75,000 bales, of which speculators took 13 000 and exporters 8,000. The Asia’s advices caused an advance of an %. The sales on Friday are es timated at 7,000 bale 3. The market closed tiros Fair Orleans 8% ; Middling 715-16 d: Fair Up lands 8%; Middling 7 13-15; Middling Mobile 7%. Total stock in port 588,000, of which 521,000 bales are American. Manchester advices are favorable. Prices nave slightly advanced. Richardson, Spence k Co. quote Red Wheat Bs. 7d. a 9s. 5d.; White 9s. 4d. a 9s. od. Western Canal Flour 30s. a 31s. 6d. ; Philadelphia and Bal timore 31s. a 325.; Ohio 325. a S3s. Corn, mixed, 38s. 6d. a 38s. 9d.; White 40s. 6d. a 41s. Beef is firm. Pork is dull. Bacon is quiet. Lard is steady. Potashes are quiet. : Barings’ London Circular quotes: Breadstufls I are steady. Iron—rails are dull; Welsh bars £7 a£7 ss. Sugars generally closed buoyant at an advance of Is. Coffee is tirm at a slight advance in all qualities. Tea—all qualities have slightly advanced. Stocks.— American securities are slow of sale, but prices are unalfered. From Tomlinson's Circular. Lherpool , June 12, 1857— Breadstuff*. —The sup plies are very limited, and nearly all the American vessels, advised by the last steamer, have arrived and been reportecf. From this date last year to the Ist September, 1856, which is generally con sidered the end of the season, the aggregate arri vals into this port amounted to 824, 60 1 quarters of Wheat; 164,93 r. quarters Indian Corn; 41,807 sacks and 547,857 barrels Flour. From present indica tions it does not seem probable that we shall im port much above a tenth of these quantities in the same period this year. The trade has assumed considerable firmness since Tuesday, and a fair business has been done iu all the leading articles at the extreme prices of that day. This day’s market was not numerously attend ed, yet a fair business was done in wheat, both for consumption and to hold over, at the extreme prices of Tuesday ; in some instances an advance of Id. to 2d. per bushel was realized, but it was not general. Flour attracted a little more attention, and the turn was against buyers. Indian corn was slow of sale and prices unchanged, notwithstand ing excited accounts from America. From the A'. O. Picayune, June 20. Later from Texas. By the steamship Opelousas, A. Van Horne El lis, commanding, arrived at Berwick’s Bay. yes terday morning, we have Galveston advices to Thursday eveniug, three days later, and from all [►arts of the State as late as* due. The good peo ple of Texas are in great tribulation about the ap pearance of a figure, resembling the letter 8., on the blades of oats grown this season. The Gal veston News, however, says the discovery is nothing new : Our senior remembers the same appearance twenty-five years since, and does not doubt its an nual repetition. If it indicates the near approach of the end of the world, the millenium seems to have been omitted, while the guavascutns has broken his chain before the appoiuted time. Corn is selling at Galveston at one dollar and thirty-five cents per bushel; flour at nine dollars to eleven dollars and fifty cents per barrel. Ba con, lard, and nearly all provisions, says the News, are also selling at higher prices than ever known before. The expenses of living, it may be safely estimated, are fifty per cent, higher than four or fivejyears ago. The Neics, however, is looking for “ wagon loads of Texas flour,” soon, from the sheat-growing region. The Harrison Flag says the crop in that section has never been better than the present season. Iu Central Texas, aiso, the wheat harvest will be very abundant. To the surprise oi all, the black prairie lands have produced much ifce best. Corn and cotton are also promising. The Galveston Nefcs, as well as other papers, an ticipates a large sugar crop in most parts of Texas. The cane is very forward, and it will not now be long before the cutting commences. In Austin, corn is selling at two dollars and fifty per bushel, and scarce at that. |ln the eastern coun ties. singular enough, corn is selling for fifty cents per bushel, and then has to hunt a market. One of Bill Hart’s gang of outlaws, named Fish, was recentlv arrested at New Braunfels. He con fessed that he was a party to the murder of Dr. Thompson and Amasa Clark, near San Antonio, a few days since. The //raid reports the arrest at Corpus Christi, also, of three Mexicans concerned m the murder of a Mexican woman on the San Afltonio river. In view of recent events in that city, General Twiggs, there commanding, has ordered a com of artillery' to he stationed permanently a S»n Antonio for the purpose of protecting pub f,c property and acting as escort to surroundiog posts. The grading on the Harrisburg railroad has been completed to fifty mile station, eighteen miles be yond Richmond. The necessary steps have been taken for receiving the State 'loan on the first twenty-five miles under the law. Important Decision in Regard to “Maiubi.ie Mattkk.”—The Springfield (III.) Journal, givew publicity to an important decision that was ren dered on Monday last, in the U. S. District Court, for the southern" District of Illinois, in relation to the liability of postmasters and other *‘mplovees of the Post Office Department, under the United” States laws, and determining to some extent what may be properly transmitted by mail. In the case of the United States vs. Burton, the defendant, who was a postmaster at Ewington, 111., had been indicted for stealing two watches that came to hi 9 office, which had been mailed at Free port. According to the evidence at the prisoner's first examination, the watches had been put into, a paper box, about four inches square, containing no other letter or writing, and when they had ar rived at Ewington, Burton took them but of the box, and appropriated them to his own use. Burton was indicted under the twenty-first sec tion of the Act of Congress of March 3d, 1855. Hite counsel moved to exclude the testimony of the wit ness who mailed the watches, on the ground that the watches were not “ mailable” matter under the provisions of the Act of Congress of March 3d. 1545. Judge Treat decided that under this act, in con nection with that of 1525, the watches, having been 1 put up m a separate package, were not “ mailable matter” within the meaning of the law ; and that 1 the defendant was not liable to a prosecution undec ; the U. S. laws for abstracting them from the Uni ted States’ mails—being only amenable to the law* ; of the State for the larceny. ; The prosecuting attorney having stated that thift was the only point at issue, the Court instructed ■ the jury to find a verdict of not guilty. Rbmaukabls English Developments.—The de mand for cotton and the prospective, if not present, inadequate supply of it, are, as our readers know* attracting a vast deal of attention in England. It . « apparently very obvious to every intelligent , Englishman, first, that it is not certain that the de mand can be furnished without increased culture within countries wherein its growth is uncertain * i aad secondly, they know that it cannot be furnish ed within the United States, to the full demand, j without additional labor. . These conclusions are evidently beginning topro . duce a moral reaction and moral comnromise among the far-sighted men of England, tropical products, they are beginning to argue, (not exactly syllogistically, but inferentially,)j are essential to British welfare. They caDnot be produced in abun* . dance, except by coerced labor; therefore, we must wink at the slave system in some form. This is not exactly the form of the argument, but , the reflections which now begin to have a hearing l ™ England, lead inevitably to this stout conclusion. Only one event is necessary to put it in form, and 1 that is the inefficiency of the efforts now being 1 to stimulate the growth of cotton without > the United States. \ the opinion of England is evident [ undergoing a marked change on the subject of slavery; and it will surprise no one to see it inau • gurated in some form by the people of that coun~ try within a few years. Their necessities demand it. The staple products of the civilized world are 1 too closely interknit with slavery to allow a great • manufacturing people to withstand the temptations which it offers. —Mobile Tribune, 18 th inst. ; There is a promise crops throughout 1 the State of Arkansas,