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From the Washington Union, A mg. 11 Next House of Renresentatives—Poßtmg the Books. Elections for members of the House of Repre sentatives of the next Congress bare now been held in all the States of the Union with the excep tion of Maryland, Georgia, Mississippi, and Louis iana, with the following resuft: Dem. Blk Rep. K. N. Ya’ciea. Maine. € hew Hampshire 8 Vermont 3 Massachusetts. ll Rhode Island 2 Connecticut 2 2 New York 12 21 New Jersey 8 2 Pennsylvania 14 10 —1 Delaware 1 Virginia 18 South Carolina 6 Florida 1 Arkansas 2 Missouri 4 1- Illinois 5 4 lowa Wisconsin g Indiana 6 4- Ohio 8 Michigan 4 California 2 Texas 2 Kentucky • • 8 2 Tennessee 7 3 Jforth Carolina 7 1 Alabama 7 110 91 8 2 In the States of Texas, Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Alabama congressional elec tions were held last week, and, although full and complete returns have not been received, we be lieve that the actual result will verify the correct ness of the figures as given above. Supposing no changes occuring in the remaining four States, where elections arc* to be held, the next House of Representatives will stand as follows: Dem. Rep. K.N. Vacancies. Members already elect ed 110 91 8 2 Members from Mary land, Georgia, Mis sissippi, and Louisi ana, as they stood in last Congress 15 - 8 Total 125 91 16 2 The House of Representatives consists of two hnndred and thirty-four members—one hundred and eighteen members constituting a majority. As the case now stands—allowing no change in the four .States where elections are to be held—the Democrats will have a majority of sixteen in the next House. This majority wo think will be in creased to eighteen, as the two vacancies in the Pennsylvania and Indiana delegations will, in all probability, be filled by Democrats. Cotton Bagging. We take from the New York Shipping and Com mercial List the following circulars from the two principal Gunny Cloth Brokers in Boston and New Turk: BOSTON OITNNY CLOTH STATEMENT '. Htocks at principal ports in the United States Jan. 1, 1857 ....•*•• 26,600 Arrivals since to date ....43,512 To arrive, cleared and loading at Calcutta May 16, for Boston, New Yone, and Phila delphia 5,816 New Orleans 1,350 Stocks in Boston and New York this date, less 10 per cent, for damage 20,970 The transactions of this month have been un usually heavy, comprising from Ist to 24th inst., fully eight thousand bales at 13# a 18# cents for light, and 14 for full and heavy weights—the lat ter figure being paid for three thousand bales for future delivery, and refused for two thousand bales more. During the past week further speculative transactions have occurred, embracing the follow ing parcels: two hundred bules 2.16 pounds aver age, three hundred of 2.15 pound, two hundred of 2.15 pound, three hundred and fifty of 2.12# pound, all at 18j# cents per yard, t}nd one hundred and thirty of 1.90 pound, 18#, in all twelve hun dred and eighty bales for immediate delivery. At the close the same offers were freely made for fu ture parcels, but refused, with but few lots offer ing at 14 cents, most holders waiting a further advance, with limits of 15 cents for heaviest weights. With apparently ample supplies in the country the disposition of stocks in various ports renders extremely problematical any prospect of a decline from present rates. The prospects of present holders for future ad vance are based upon the following facta* the greatly reduced tonage and shipments to Calcutta, tie quantity on the way here (as above) being five thousand eighthundred bales a|taiußttheusu..l quan tity ur tweuiy iHuusanti a twemy-iwothotisand bales —the exorbitant high price of Jute at Calcutta, ren dering the looms inoperative at last accounts—re duced the stock to nine thousand in importers’ hands (the bulk of balance of stock being entirely withdrawn for present or future sale, destined for interior southern marts)— comparative small stock in New r Orleans of eight thousand bales at season of principal demand, against requirements there of seventeen thousand bales, and the requirements al9o ol Charleston, Savannah, Mobile and Galves ton markets, which are as yet not fully supplied. The following is the division of weights of Gun ny Cloth in first hands: 2,500 bales 2.00 ft 2.06 lb. average. 2,850 “ 2.07 a 2.12 lb. 44 4,650 “ JU2#a 2.18 lb. 300 44 2.20 a 2.24 lb. 44 Os the parcels to arrive twenty-five hundred Dales are lull weights, and eighteen hundred bales light weights; balance uncertain. Os the five thou sand eight hundred ami sixteen bales to arrive two thousand three hundred and nine bales are sold and three thousand five hundred and seven bales remain unsold and held above the views of buyers. The following is an exhibit of the wide range and advance of prices of Jute at Calcutta the past five years, by actual cost of cargoes shipped to this conutry’ uud affords an insight to the increas ed cost of cloth manufacture: May, 1852, rurees 7 ($ Mav, 1553 932 (ft April, 1854 13 8 Mav, 1855 10 (d? 12 May, 1856 11 o*l2 May, 1857 18 l9 - 44 With demand now existing (Calcutta, May 16) for England much in excess of limited supplies being brought in.” Oakland Turku.. Boston, July 80, 1857. rescript, July Sis*.—The India mail from Cal cutta, June Bd, brings advices of further shipments with prices about the same. Jute still advancing. Exchange improving, and likely to rule very high. Freights slightly depressed. Advices by private letters from Calcutta of India troubles, have fur ther stimulated the Cloth market. Speculators ap pear sanguine that this new feature wil! further aid in a material advance. Eleven hundred and fifty bales taken at fourteen cents, mostly 2 12,# pound average, to arrive. Postscript, New fork, Aug. 4 th. —ln addition to the above, we have to chronicle further sales of about fourteen hundred bales Gunny Cloth, in Bos ton, on New York account, at fourteen cents for 2# pound weight, with a proportionate reduction for light. The more the disturbances iB India are digested, the more certain it seems that all Calcut ta produce must advance ; therefore, most holders are very sanguine that much higher figures will soon rule, and consequently do not offer their mer chandize at current rates. The nearness of de mand for consumption encourages this feeling, ir respective of ludia troubles, which, of themselves, are a great feature in favor of all East India goods. Wm. Tcrsll & Co. Tax Statistics of Bibb County. We are under obligations to Peter M. Curry, Esq., Tax Receiver, for the following statistics of our county: Number of Polls 1.091 Lands, first quality, acres 6,310 44 second “ 44 94,829 44 third 44 44 158,376 Pine Land, 44 Total number of acres 1,7t>7,9<7 Total number of slaves 5,379 Free parsons of color 1* Value of slaves $8,088,100 Value of city and town property 1,692,803 Aggregate value of whole property 9,925,791 Value of furniture, assessed 123,455 Value of stocks 219,825 Merchandise 707,884 Money and solvent debts . 2,150,280 Mr? Curry requests the publication of the above in our city papers, for the information of the tax payers of Bibb county. —Mason Tiiegraph, Aug. 12. The United States storoehip Supply was at Rio Janeiro June 26, bound to New York, waiting or ders. The sloop-of-vr&r Constellation sailed Irena Gibraltar July 15th, for Malaga from the Savannah Georgian, Aug. 11. i Judge Brown at St. Andrew’s Hall. The lateness of the hour at which the meeting " adjourned last night, prevents us from giviDg a detailed account of the speech of our candidate ] for Governor. The meeting was organized by calling Solomon Cohen, Esq., to the ebair, wbo, in a few brief and ’ well-timed remarks, adverted to the objects of the meeting, the present position of parties, and the eminent qualifications of the gentleman who had been selected as the standard bearer of the Geor gia Democracy. Mr. Hartndge, in behalf of the committee, then introduced with a short and eloquent speech, Judge Brown to the meeting. We have not the time or space at present to fol low Judge Brown through his speech, or even to note the most prominent features in it. Suffice it to say, that it was a sound, clear and dignified argu ment, which, while it reflected great credit upon bis intel!ectandfeeling,atthesame time created a deep and lasting impression in his favor upon the large audience, which gave it throughout an undivided attention. The Hon. Jas. L. Seward being present, was then called upon, and responded to the call with a pointed and forcible speech, fully setting forth his position towards bis opponent, Col. Gaulden, and the present political issues. The meeting then adjourned, after giving three hearty cheers for Judge Brown, and three more for Mr. Seward. We will refer to the speeches of both gentlemen in a future issue. Judge Brown addresses the people of Liberty county to-day, who, doubtless, after a personal ac quaintance with him, will agree with us all here, that the favorable reports which have reached us from every quarter concerning him, do not do jus tice, either to the man, his character or his talents. From the Griffin Empire State , Aug. 12. Business of the State Road. For two weeks past, the transportation has been UDDrecedentedly heavy on this road. One hundred and twenty freight cars were brought down from Chattanooga m one day, freighted with thirty-five thousand bushels of wheat, the freight of which was forty-five hundred dollars. One hundred cars or more arrive in Atlanta daily loaded with wheat, and the travel is greatly increasing. Twenty trains are now required to do the business of the road. The prospect is favorable for a good business for months to come. The crop of wheat and other grain is immense, and the surplus must find an outlet over this road. The tracx is in good order and condition, notwithstanding the heavy rains which have recently fallen, and which have done so much damage to other roads. The equipment is adequate to the emergency, and produce will be forwarded with dispatch equal to any other road in the State. Until the present year, great inconvenience has attended the operations of this road on account of a deficiency in cars, as well as motive power, but now both these are amply supplied, and the friends of this enterprise may now confidently look forward to a speedy realization of those grand results which were so fondly anticipated by its founders and projectors. Being the great artery by which the Atlantic is connected with the fertile valleys of the West, its advantages for a profitable business is superior to any other road in the southern country, and it must ultimately be a source of immense revenue to the State. From the Baltimore Patriot. Additional News by the Indian. Quebec, August 10. —The following additional items of foreign news are embraced in the advices per steamer Indian: The steamer City of Baltimore left Liverpool simultaneously with the steamer Indian. In the House of Lords on Monday, Lord Claren -1 don moved the production of the papers relative to the affairs of India, and spoke strongly in favor i of a complete reform of the Indian government. His motion was adopted. D’lsraeli, also in the House of Commons, moved the production of certain papers relative to the or i ganization of the Bengal army, and elaborately re ! viewed the British Indian policy, asserting that - the present outbreak would result in a national ■ revolt, and denouncing the apathy of the govern [ men! in the present dangerous emergency. Lord John Russell moved as an amendment, that 1 an address bo presented to the Queen,|ussunng her that the House would cordially support the gov ernment in any efforts necessary to suppress the disturbance in India. D’lsreali’s motion was rejected, and Lord Rus sell’s adopted. The utmost dispatch was being used in the ship ment of troops to India. At the General Conference of she Wesleyan Church, in session at Manchester, the Ladies’Anti- Hlavery Society protested against Bishop Simpson and Dr. McClintock, for the delegates from the American Methodist Church, for alleged complici ty in slavery. France. —Nearly all the parties charged by the i Moniteur with complicity in the recent conspiracy, emphatically deny the ukergaa in th© Ixtnaon pa pers. Ledru Kollin is especially bitter against the Moniteur and the French Emperor, and appeals to the British Courts of Justice. Letters from Paris, however, intimate that there is sufficient evidence that France can demand their extradition, but will content itself by simply ask ing England to transport the parties convicted. Spain. —Letters in the Loudon Times state that the English and French Ambassadors at Madrid had notified Spain that she could not rely on assis tance from their Governments in the event of war with Mexico, consequently Spain has acceded to the offers of mediation. A representative from Santa Anna had arrived in Madrid. Germany. —A Berlin dispatch says that the Gov ernments who are parties to the Zolle-Verein con federacy claim from England indemnity for losses sustained by their vessels in the bombardment of Canton. From the Columbus Sun, Aug. 11. The Cotton Prospect* On the 31st of July, 1656, the first bale of new cotton was received at this place. In 1855, the first bale was received on the 4th of August. It is now the lltli of August, 1857, and we have heard of no open cotton, and the probabilities are that none will be received in Columbus before the 20th or 25th of August. The great bulk of the crop was all of twenty days behind that of 1855 uud 1856, when the rains set in about the middle of July. It has rained every day but one, since, and the plant has grown rapidly, and, of course, the fruit is maturing very slow.* The plant at this time is very full ot forms and young bolls. On the low grounds, where the plant is very large and i tall, we learn the bolls are rotting in an immatured state. This is the result of the prolonged wet weather, which is bound to prove detrimental to the yield on low as well as up lands, let seasons \ turn as they may hereafter. Should it turn off dry for three weeks or a month after the present raiuv seasou is over, the sudden check the plant will re i ceive, will cause many of the forms and young ■ bolls of the top crop to* drop off', and others to pre • maturely open, causing inferiority of lint. Should, I on the contrary, the rains continue to fall at inter vals, sufficient to prevent a check in the growth of the plaut, a large amount of the under bolls will rot for want of heat from the sun to force them • open. In proof of our theory we will explain: In order to foroe the maturing and opening of bolls, there must be a certain extent of maturity of the plant, and check of upward tendency, in order that the sun may go to and assist in maturing and forcing open the first or lower lruit, else, from too much shade and dampness, and from the growing ten dency of the plant, the hull of the boll turns black and never opens. And on the other hand, such weather as will have the reverse effect on the under bolls, will cut off the top crop of forms on account of the sudden check they will receive in the stop page of the growth of the plaut from the change of seasons. Another disaster that will befall jnnch of the low' and black land cotton, on account of the pre sent long wet spell, will be the rust, which, if it has : not already shown itselt, will soon be apparent. Especially will this be the case on the lime lands. To say the least, we consider the present pros • pect for the maturing of a large crop decidedly • unfavorable. A Curiosity.—The Selma (Ala.) Sentinel, of the • Ist inst., says: 1 We had iu our office the other dav a piece of silver coin, which is seventeen hundred aud fifty ) years old. It was a coin used by the Israelites bc • lore the destruction ot Jerusalem, and is a great curiosity. On one side of the piece is a figure of • the Tree of Life, iu Hebrew letters, the words • “Jerusalem the Holy.” On the other side is an r urn, inscribed in Hebrew characters, the words i 44 Shakel of Israel.” The com must have been made • before the fall of Jerusalem,.which, if our recol lection of Divine History serves us well, was about seventy years after the birth of Christ. It is of a poor character of silver, about the size of i half a aollar, and is worth, in pure silver, about fifteen cents. Mr. Eliesberg, of this city, who is the owner of it, informs us that it has been the property of his family near nine hundred years. From the Irish Nevoe. Letter from John Mitchell. ' To John Martin, Esq., sometime Irish exile. Knoxville, Tenn., July 20,1857. My Dear Martin : Tbe tide of emigration from Ireland hither, keeps flowing, and in a fuller stream. So much the better. In your last letter from Pans, you bid me remack that fact, and add : “Prosperous as Ireland now is, the desire to get away from such prosperity seems to be stronger, and to extend itself among the best of tbe middle classes”—which is right and necessary. Let there be Exodus then, and more Exodus. Until after the final destruction of the British empire, which I hope cannot now be far, there is an end to all hope of liberty there. But no end of liberty here; no end of resources. Every landless man, uprooted out of Tipperary or Donegal, may have land here; may root himself and grow ; not only grow, but act, vote, live. Instead of craving, and. craving in vain for beggarly ‘tenant-right,’ he may establish himself in sovereign landlord-right. From the low estate of being subject to a queen— and of all queens your queen—he may promote himself to citizenship of a very fair Republic. The five years* probation for citizenship has, like Sherris' sack, a two-fold operation in it. Pro bation both for the immigrant and for the Repub lic. It gives the Americans time to judge whether he is worthy to be their fellow-citizen; and him time to judge whether he shall choose to be their fellow-citizen. lie may not suit tbe country ; the country may not suit him : in the former case he will be rejected—in the latter, he may, without blame, change his declared * intention,’ and re ject. In the latter case, to be sure, I would not praise his taste ; would infer, indeed, a large deficiency of common sense. For my own part, after a resi dence of three years and a half, I hold to my inten tion ; I mean, sir, to be an American; to be active, instead of passive—and to begin ruling the land as one of the sovereigns thereof. For you know it is an axiom here, that Americans shall rule America. Not only does America content me—the South especially delights me. You and I, O’Brien and I, are not in accord upon this: the result of your and hts unacquaintance (excuse me) with the mat ter in hand. You remember that before I saw a southern State, or thought I should ever see it, I did, byway of retort upon a ‘philanthropic’appeal of Mr. liaughton’s, wish for a plantation of Degroes in the State of Alabama. Now' that I have seen much of the South and have lived in it eight and twenty months, I wish for two plantations in that respectable State. The South and her institutions are established, strong, impregnable. Amongst civilized commu nities, none are at this moment so secure as the southern States of America, Instead of anxiously apologizing for themselves, they can now sit se rene, and benignantly pity you all. No nobleman or country gentleman, or whatsoever lauded aud privileged man there be—no baron or squire or knight* of the shire, in England or anywhere else, feels the ground under his feet so firm as the southern planter —attemps to discharge so high du ties, or has any notion at all such duties to be discharged, as he “pauses amidst bis game preservers with awful eye,” and stares hope essly at the riddle of his own existence, environ ment and destiny. Poor soul! let him fire away while the game is good. The credit funds are *till quoted. The Prince Albert opens Crystal Palaces still; and no man has yet cut the felon throat of Second DtcenJjvr. I send you for your enlightenment, certain num bers of the Charleston Standard, ( a straightfor ward journal, conducted by a straightforward friend of mine,) not as the best sample, perhaps, of southern journalism, but as the exposition of southern opinion nearest my hand. You will per ceive that the South begins to be sui juris, to plead in its own court, to form its own opinion, and to be a law unto itself. Os Exeter Hall, and the great canting British public, it steadily sets at naught all the counsel, and will none of the re proof. Based on cotton bales and sugar hogsheads, as on a rock and strong tower; its feet washed by the Mississippi and the Gulf; fortified by the Con stitution, and content with its own experience of its own blcßsiugß; it seems to be ( Union or no Union,) in the straight way of becoming one of the grandest of all countries, ancieut or modern. A glowing anticipation which will not long appear to you extravagant. Mr. Spratt, of the Charleston Standard, claims the merit of having, first in the South, strongly and broadly asserted the genuine southern princi ples—that slavery is a blessing—is a sound moral and benoticient institution, and basis of institutions —that it has a right and duty to develop itself, extend itself and work out its own destinies—that to attain its maximum of efficiency, it demands more negroes from that store-house wly>re Provi dence breeds them for it—and of course that it requires to be disembarrassed of all that fraudu lent pretence of philanthropic cruizing squadrons; whereof I shall have somewhat to say presently. With pleasure I tell you that your old coUoDtra- Uur, Brennan, by his wntuigsib the New Orleans Delta and Times (poor has written his laut> gav© <>urty and in the same di rection. You may remerrtbw**hat I also, three years ago in the Citizen, repeatedly advocated the re-opening of the African slave trade ; but then as I do not reason—only dogmatize—and put every thing forward hard, bare aud rigorous, what 1 say has often a paradoxical, even offensive aspect, which makes the weaker brother turn away from it; for truth stark naked—you know how indecent she looks. That which, three years ago, seemed as unfeasi ble as a project to rev»ve the Crusades, is now at least discussed; whether it shall be adopted or not, depends in the long run, solely on the question, whether the southern States shall judge it on the whole beneficial to themselves. * * * * * Now to return to the South and her fortunes — you can easily perceive that I attach raueh conse quence to those beginnings of down-right southern sentiment and opinion which are noted above. They are so much resistance to the flood of ‘en lightened’ modern cant and slang, which otherwise was threatening t< spoil all our perceptions of right and wrong, of beautiful and hideous, of true and false; so many sufficient piles planted down to form a breakwater agaiust the catalvsm of Exe ter Hall philanthropy, which is indeed 4 one of the worst passions of our nature.’ Nay, they indicate that America is about to originate a ne>v national literature of her own. Hitherto, as you are aware, this continent has had no native literuture worth naming—and what must have been the effect upon her general health of so much foreign garbage, either fresh as imported from England or re-com piled, echoed, edited and mimicked in New Eng land, one may with disgust conceive. An un wholesome mistake has been too prevalent—that it is enough to be politically independent of England; enough that she makes no laws for us; but that her literature, criticism, ethics, beiug manufactur ed, by dint of cheap labor, lower than we can af ford to get up the articles here, may serve our turn; us the Manchester dry goods, do, well enough; nay, that we even do ourselves credit, and show our Anglo Saxon breeding by ‘appreciating’ all that balderdash. But for this grievous mistake America never would have heard of Abolitionism, nor of Know Notlnngism. It is a mistake which has cost her dear; aud which will not, perhaps, be fuliv set right until after the third, aud last war with the ‘mother country. * * * * Tun Latkst Item.—The sporting columns of the Lomiou Illustrated News, of the 25th of July, live days before the Goodwood Cun race, and the morn ing on which the Persia sailed, has the following: “One or both of the American horses will come out in the Cup. The ground will not, we fear, suit the infirm Fazoletto (one hundred aud twenty seven pounds;) Gemma di Vergy(on; buudred and seven pounds) seems over-weighted ; and we do not see how Anton (one hundred and five i pounds) will ever stay. A live pounds allowance is claimed for Arsenal, on the ground that, as the Queen's Vase has no price affixed to it by its royal donor, it has no right to be valued, so as to make this horse “a winner of one hundred pounds, or upwards.” Admiral Rous, we believe, thinks dif ferently; but we trust that the stewards will give “Mr. Howard” the benefit of the doubt, as he seems to have considerable reason on his side, as well as the most eminent legal opinion on horse racing in Westminster Hall. St. Giles (one hun dred and eight pounds) has been kept, it is said for this ; but, with one hundred pounds, Arsenal should be hard to bea\ Os the American horses absolutely nothing is known ; and Mr. Ten Broeck (who has, by the by, some Derby nominations for 1859), and their stalwart negro attendant, keep their own council.” This is somewhat at variance with the statement of the beery correspondent of the Times, in rela tion to Mr. Ten Broeck’s blowiDg. It seems to us that Mr. Ten Broeck is managing his business very w ell.— Dorter's Spirit of the Tunes. Such a Turnip!—The other day at our office, what we might term the father of all turnips. It measured ihirty-one inches round, and weighed fifteen pounds 1 This turnip is from the garden of Mrs. Gilbert, on Peach Tree street, to whom we are indebted for it. She will please accept our thanks for this spe c;men of her superior gardening. AUanta Intelfifenoer, Aug. 18. Weather and Crops. Still it Rains. —We are in the midst of a long rainy spell and the clouds still hang heavy. The river continues to be in fine boating order and fre quent trips are made to Apalachicola by our steam ; era. The crops in the poor sections of the State ’ are mnch benefitted, but cotton in the rich lands is suffering.— Columbus Times, Aug. 11. More Rain. —The Montgomery (Ala) Mail, of the 11th inst., says: “When we wrote aparapraph [ yesterday morning, with a clear and pleasant sky above ns, saying that fair weather had come, we had forgotten bow easily it could rain in these lat ter days. Before we went to press it was raining, and still the prospects are for more. The Weather and Crops. —For the past fewdays we have been visited with an over supply of rain. Never at this season have we witnessed the fall ot such heavy rains. It is certain that it will benefit navigation, and it is equally certain that it will greatly damage the cotton crops. We learn that on many plantations the water is standing in the furrows—think of that in August. With a back ward spring, a visiiation of “rust” and “insects,” and now tbe heavy tall of w r ater, which must in evitably produce a shedding of squares and young bolls, the present crop of cotton in this State will turn out a very short one. Should an early frost set in, even as early as last season, the crop will be far shorter than any previous year. Nearly every disaster to this important staple that could happen on the Arkansas river, has occurred, to cut short the prospects of our farmers. Corn, 1 ow . ever, will be raised in g;eat abundance, and thus filace it within the means of the farmer to raise a arge portion of his pork. Lillie llo*:k (Ark.) True Democrat, Aug. 4. From the Empire State. Indian Springs, Aug. 2d, 1657. Mr. Elitor: Having a few spare hours to-day, while it is raining, I nave concluded to drop you | a few lines in regard to our prospect for a corn and 1 cotton crop. From the abundance of wheat har vested, and though the ears of corn on the ridges will generally be small, vet the bottoms are fine, and all takeu together, 1 venture to predict that corn will not sell here for more than sixtv cents per bushel. The cottou is generally small, par • ticularly on the grey lands, and many fields have a poor stand, as the spring was cold and back ward, which will, beyond a doubt, make the crop 1 short; should the frost, however, stay off until late, the crop may stretch out a little. The valley of the Brazos, from Washington coun ty up to the Falls, shows a very poor prospect in deed. The long continued drought has cutoff the corn crop almost entirely, and had a very serious effect upon cotton. Rains have lately fallen there, which have induced some of the planters to plant corn again, even ut this late day, hoping to make a sufficiency yet, should the season prove favora ble, for bread. In Washington the corn crop.is also short. Some letters from there are hopeful, while others assure us that half the farmers there will not make five bushels per acre. Cotton, it is hoped, with seasonable raius, may still make half a crop. On the lower Brazos, better rains have fallen, aud a good three quarters of a crop (per haps equivalent to a fair average crop) will be made of cotton, corn un<l sugar. The Colorado valley and westwards was suffering greatly from dry weather all the earlier part of the season. Later, however, rains have been more favorable. Houston (Texas) Telegraph, Aug. 5. Crops. —A correspondent at Laconia, writing to the Napoleon Planter on the 29th uli., says : “ Tbe crops in this neighborhood are very prom ising. There will be a larger amount of cotton raised here this year, if the season continues favor able, than hue ever been produced any previous year. We have had several very refreshing show ers recently.” The Nyw Orleans Prices Current <*f Bth instant, says: Rain fell very copiously in the early part of the week and showers have fallen almost daily since, and we hear complaints of excess and damage from many points of the cotton region. The Lake Providence Herald, of the Ist inst., . says: “ Yesterday and the day before we experienced heavy thunder showers, which, almost as fast as they fell, were absorbed by the thirsty soil. Should there not be a too frequent repetition of aquatic bounties, the crops will be all the better from what they have received.” The New Iberia (St. Martin) Star, o! the Ist. says : “We have had occasional "Lowers for some time, and during the present week we were visitel by heavy rains, which have t&Dded greatly to the cooling of the atmosphere, and we fear there has been entirely too much for the cotton crop. But us to the corn, there will be more raised in our parish than ever before, as our planters have put a double quantity in the ground, and which will soon be ready for gathering. Tbe cane crop looks Uue, and a rich harvest is expected.” Tragedy in Arkansas.—A letter addressed to us received yesterday, gives the particulars of a terri ble tragedy which took place in the vicinity of Pine Bluff, Ark., about two weeks ago, in which a very estimable citizen lost his life at the hands of a runaway negro. The remains of tbe gentleman, Dr. Guinn, who bad been missing for several days, were found in the river between Pine Bluff and New Gascony, horribly mutilated, with his skull broken, as if by some sharp instrument, in several places. A jury of inquest was held and suspicion rested in the minds of the popu lace upon a negro, then a fugitive from his master, Louis Bogy, jr., residing near the latter place. The fugitive was afterwards arrested, and confessed to the perpetration of the crime, as well as many other atrocities of the most revolting character. He stated that he had killed his for mer master, before having been purchased by Bogy, and that he was guilty of rape and theft in many instances. The excitement was intense during hus relation of those horrors, and the brutal manner in which he bad performed his last act of villiany, and it was feared summary vengeance would be taken against him upon the spot. It was agreed, however, that the law should have its course, and the cul prit was placed under a strong guard to be escort ed to the jail at Pine Bluff. But such was the in tensity of the feeling against him, excited by his many villainies, that he was seized by the mandate of Judge Lynch before reaching his goal, aud hung to a tree. His victim, l)r. Guinn, was uni versally loved ami esteemed in the neighborhood, and it could not be ascertained what instigated the murderer to such a foul and unprovoked deed. Memphis Appeal, Aug. 11. J_.gr Items of news from the Griffin Empire State, of 12th inst.: “ On Thursday last, a son of Mr. Isaac McLeroy, of Pike county, was killed by being caught in the machinery of his gin, while threshing wheat.” “On Friday following, a negro man, belonging to Mr. Sherrod Sims, of Pike county, was run over by a freight train on the Macon &. Western rail road, and instantly killed.” “On Tuesday morning, about two o'clock, A. M., the dwelling house of Rev. Jesse H. Campbell, was discovered to be on fire. I: was, however, promptly extinguished before any material dam age was* done. It was evidently the work of au incendiary.” ! *• Mr. Roderick Rutland, of Monroe county, lias seut us a boot, from his garden, measuring eigh teen inches in circumference, the largest we have seen this season. Great year this, for corn, peas, potatoes, beets and other vegetables.” < Driving Across Railroad Tracks.—The Court ! of Appeals, New York, has laid it down as a rule of law, that an individual, on approaching a rail mid track, is bouud to look if a train is approach ing. It holds that railroads are among the best improvements of the great age of progress, and their permanent affairs are not to be postponed to the concerns of individuals. It holds that no one has a right to cross a railroad track without first taking every precaution for safety. The same rea son that holds railroad companies to the strictest responsibility to the passengers, imposes upon every one who crosses the track of these great public thoroughfares, more than ordinary care not to jeopardise the lives of those who are availing themselves of the benefit of this great modem improvement in the mode of traveling. This ev idently refers to the daDger of injury to the train as well as the carriage on the highway, in case of collision between the moving masses, *a fact which has beeu many times illustrated in the case occur iug on the Camden and Amboy road a year or more since, in consequence of backing against a pair of horses, and by which several cars were smashed and many lives lost. He who, without pausing or even looking, will drive upon a railroad track, is guilty of more than carelessness. Baltimore Sun . A young man named George Kerschler, former ly of New Haven, Connecticut, a printer by trade, committed suicide at Cincinnati a few days siuce, in oonsequenee of being unable to obtain employ ment. Irom the New Orleans Picayune , Aug. 6. r The New Tehuantepec Company. » We published, yesterday morning, the articles . of association of the “Louisiana Tehuantepec Com - P a “7” . ; This is a new company altogether, in which ail j the rights, claims and property of previous com panies are merged, under circumstai ces which, at p ien gth, give promise of peaceful, energetic a*d successful prosecution of one of the great works \ of the age. Heretofore, with the best dispositions on the part or the Mexican Government and of the Gov ernment of this country towards the enterprise, it has languished from the want of barmonv among the claimants toconflicting rights, who have car -1 wed ©n their controversies in a temper of embit tered rivalry. With magnificent grants from Mex ■ ico, and a right of way at controversy—with mil : lions upon millions as property, and incalculable in its value to the commerce of the world—the on - ly result, after years of strife, has been the build • ing of a temporary travel route across the line, ■ and an accumulation of indebtedness and waste, which was frightful. There was no hope for the ■ confidence of capitalists in the work, grand as it is [ confessed to be, until these dissensions were ap -1 peased, and a unity of counsels obtained upon the • basis ot recognized and admitted rights, and defi l nite and declared responsibilities. r These have now been obtained by a fair agree l ment among all the parties in the United Slates i who have any interests or rights to be consulted. ■ The result may be seen in the formation of this > new company, in which all rival interests are con • solidated, and which presents itself to both gov ernments and to the public of both countries, with fixed rights, definite obligations, joint councils, and the most encouraging auspices. It represents all the Mexican grants. It provides for the equi , table settlement of all just claims against either of i tbe former companies. It defines distinctly all its [ liabilities and responsibilities, and provides meaus ■ for adjusting them finally, and opens a new and i clear account for the future of the work. These , are great advantages, and the Directory who have : undertaken the management, under their new uus i pices, are such as to command implicit confidence . in their capacity, energy and probity. • It will be seen by the charter that the capital . stock of the new association is to be ten millions i of dollars, and that the new company does not as i sume the payment of any debt or contract what ever, made by any previous company or parties. But for the purchase of all rights and the settle ment of all claims, this company agrees to tranfer to the trustees who represent the previous compa nies, who unite in this agreement, two millions of the stock, and to issue to them one million of eight per cent, bonds of tbe new company. This three millions is assigned in payment for the titles of Hargous in the Garay grant, and Falconnet, who is the assignee, recognized by the Mexican Gov ernment, in what is called the Sloo grant. This sum of three millions, of which two mil lions is in stock of the company, is assumed by the ■ trustees to be sufficient to discharge every equita ble debt of the old companies, und pay for ail the rights under the several grants. We believe it will be ample, and satisfactory to all claimants. At all events, the Louisiana Company has no re sponsibility further. Its whole debt will consist of ! this one million of bonds, and its liability for the j repayment of the six hundred thousand dollars w hich was advanced by Mr. Falconnet to the Mex ican Government, m compliance with the condi- * tions of the grant. But this sum is a debt only in I form. The Government of Mexico required that j in the nature of an assurance or guarantee, stipu- ; lating that it should be repaid to the company out ; of the proceeds of the twenty per cent, reserved to i the Mexican Government, of the annual proceeds for fifty years of the net revenue of the road. That j liability is, therefore, only a loan to the Mexican j Government, reimbursable on the successful com- | pletion of the road. The enterprise is, therefore, clear of all domes tic difficulties. The untoward feuds are all set tled; all parties are heartily joined in interest, and have combined their energies in behalf of one line of policy for the energetic prosecution of the work ; and the new company presents itself as the purchaser and owner of the right of way, privileges and lands, with only one million of ; positive debt. These favorable circumstances here are met by circumstances equally propitious in Mexico. The cordiality <*f the authorities there towards thi road is beyond question, and no doubt is enter tained of obtaining every additional facility and fa vor that may be either needed or useful. Indeed, we have good reason to believe, from the joint interest Liken in the work by the governments of both coun tries, that new treaty stipulations may be soon had, giving national sanction to the work, and new decrees be obtained enlarging its privileges, and adding to its already great advantages as un invest ment for profit, and a benefit of inestimable value to the commerce of both countries. We know that the best dispositions prevail in Mexico, and that i they are faithfully cultivated by own Government, and will be carefully ixiprovea by the able men , who have gone down to represent and speak for this company. We have sanguine hopes of perfect ' success there; and thenceforward a rapid progress of this long delayed enterprise, to its final triumph ' —one which will prove a fountain of prosperity to the South-west, and repay the long struggles and sacrifices of New Orleans. Curious Story Afloat.— Rd#rt Schuyler report - < ed to be Alive. —Mrs. Robert Schuyler, (widow,) j better known as Mrs. Spicer, the widow of the ] celebrated financier, has erected a sort of caatella ted cottage on Saratoga Lake, about half a mile 1 from the great place ol resort—the Lake House— < where “all the world” go to drive, or to dine on < the famous “fried potatoes.” Mrs. Schuyler hav- , ing planted a mansion of some pretensions near a resort so fashionable, all the tourists of the United States will, of course, drive to take a look at her; and for sixty or ninety days in the year she must i expect people to be almost looking into her win- < (lows. The selection of a spot to build upon in so con- ( spicuous a place, has started the public gossip in- * to all sorts of romances, fictions and fancies; und while there is an earnest inquiry, “where did the ( money come from?” there is not a less earnest as sertion that Robert Schuvlcr is not dead. What 1 gives strong interest to the whole affair is a little ( stoue building some one hundred feet from the mansion, with high windows, up out of sight on j foot, erected nominally for her Roman Catholic Chapel, to which rumor adds—l do not know—for I huve never been down to see—that there is a sub terranean passage from the house. Tbe workmen have been “pumped” and “repumped,” and some i of them hint, if not give out, that Robert Schuy- j ler is there, yet alive, aud that when anybody comes into the house, Mr. Schuyler runs under ground to the chapel, and gets into his coffin, “dead”—to which his ghostly appearance, when i living, would add an air of probability ! The ♦ story is very current, ami is the .natural result of his widow’s erecting a conspicuous mansion in so conspicuous a place. There seems to be a very lively impression in cousequenee of the story and the mansion that Mr. Scbyler is not dead, but yet 1 II veth.— N. ) \ Express. J Memphis and Charleston Railroad.—The meet ing of the stockholders in the Memphis and Charleston railroad came off on yesterday. Nearly the whole stock was represented, and there was a f numerous attendance in person of the especially from Alabama. 8 The President of the road, an esteemed fellow ciiizen, gave a very just and encouraging represen tation of the present state and future prospects of the road, lie estimates its gross income at a mil- c lion and a half per annum. Allowing one-!ialf for c a'! its expenses, it leaves seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars as its nett annual revenue, upon a cost of about six millions. A resolution was passed, authorizing the issuance of eight hundred thousand dollars of income bonds ’ to pay off the floating debt; also, one to declare a t dividend of the past earnings of the road as soon \ as practicable, payable in stock. The salary ef* the President was increased to six thousand dollars per annum. Salaries of the Sec retaries and Treasurers from two thousand dollars to two thousand five hundred dollars each. j .ph 's Appeal, Aug. 11. Reflections on Mafvag. -The leading features 1 in |he character of a woman are mildness, ' complaisance and eq ' •roty of temper. The man, if he be a worthy ai d provident husband, is im- ] mersed in a thousand care? His mind is agitated, , his memory is loaded, and his body fatigued. He returns from the bustle Os the world, chagrined perhaps by disappointment, angry at insolent and perfidious people, and terrified lest his unavoidable connections should make him appear perfidious . himself. Is this the time for the wife of his bosom, his dearest and most intimate friend, to add to his vexation, to increase the fever of an overburdened mind by a contentious tongue, or a discontented brow? Business,in its most prosperous state, is full of anxiety and turmoil. Ob! how dear to the memory of man is the wife who clothes her face with smileß, who uses gentle expressions, and who rqakee her lap soft to receive and hush his caree to ' rest. There is not m nature so fascinating an ob ject as the faithful, tender and affectionate wife. BY TELEGRAPH. arrival OF THE STEAMSHIP CANADA. Halifax, August 11.-The British and Noron American P.oval Mali steamship Canada, Capt. W„ J. C. Laxg, reached here this afternoon, with Lit erpool dates to Aug. Ist. • Commercial* Liverpool Marlet.—' The sales of cotton for the week, reach 62,0*50 bales, of which speculators took 3,000 and exporters 4,■"■00 bales. The busi ness of the week shows a gradual advance, auc middling qualities have improved the most, auc the market closed with an advancing tendency. Breadstuff's were steady and provisions firm. Consols quoted at 91%. [second dispatch.] On Saturday afternoon, (the day the Canadt left) the cotton market was quiet but steady. The estimated sales, on that day, of cotton, s,oth) bales Breadstutfs were quiet, and wheat exhibited a declining tendency. The Anglo-Saxon, with accounts from the United States to July ISth, had reached Liverpool, and (as our telegraph dispatches read) caused an advance of Jj'ths in the Mobile cottons. The following are the cotton quotations furnished by the news by the Canada: Fair Orleans 8% I Middling Orleans 8% “ Mobile 8% “ Mobile 8% “ Uplands 8% | “ Uplands.. .8%. The stock of cotton in Liverpool 498,000 bales, of which 405,500 arc American. The weather has been good in the fanning dis tricts, and the harvest prospects favorable. Advices from Manchester were satisfactory. Havre Cotton Market. Orleans Tree Ordinaire quoted at llSf. General Intelligence. All the vessels engaged in laying the submarine telegraph eable were at Cork on the Ist August, and expected to leave on that day for Valentia. where the cable will connect with the main land. Experiments through the whole telegraph cable have proved highly successful. Mr. Ten Broeck's horses. Prior and Prioress were beaten in the race for the “ Goodwood Cup on the 30th July. The mails from India confirm former telegraph. : advices. There is no confirmation, however, o: the capture of Delhi, although the rumor obtained general credence. A conspiracy had been discovered for a genera’ rising at Calcutta, and all Europeans have beer armed. No other news of general interest. Southern Commercial Convention. j Knoxville, August 11.—The Convention met ! in this city yesterday, i t the First Presbyterian | Church. The attendance of delegates is large. The Convention was called to order by Major White, of Knoxville; and :>u motion, Mr. James Lyons, of Virginia, was requested to act as tem|>o rarv President, until the organization of the Con - vention was effected. The committee on organization reported the name of J. 1). B. Deßow, of New Orleans, fo permanent President, which was confirmed by acclamation. The names of cloven gentlemen for Vice-Presi dents, and eleven Secretaries, were reported, anti approved by the Convention. Resolutions were subsequently adopted, nrgiDg the United States Government to withdraw their squadron from the coast of Africa; recommending the erection of suitable fortifications in the harbors of Port Royal, on the coast of South Carolina; and also, in Mobile Bay. Other resolutions were offered for the considers tioß'aud action of the Convention, but were referred to the Committee on Business. Among the reso lutions were those endorsing Mr. A. Dudley Mann’s project for establishing a line of steam fer ry-boats from the Chesapeake Bay to Milford Ha ven—resolutions recommending Government pa tronage to lines of southern steamers, the repeal of the fishery bounties, Ac., Ac. In the list of Vice Presidents is the name of Co’. Thomas B. Latham, of Cahipbell county, Georgia. Knoxville, Aug. 12.—The business committee reported resolutions disapproving o c free trade and direct taxation—against the South receiving goods coming from States not upholding the Fugitive Slave law—against the discriminations of Govern ment iu favor of foreign mail lines from northern ports—in favor of the exemption of one slave tc each slaveholder from seizure for debt—in favor of erecting Arrizonia into a Territory, and in favor of recovering certain land lost by a recenttreatyjwifh Mexico. The committee also reported, that in their judg ment, the proper time had not arrived for the Southern Commercial Convention te expr ss an opinion on the policy of re-opening the African slave trade. A resolution was adopted recommending to the consideration of the Government, the policy ol withdrawing our squadron from the African coast. The Convention determined thattheir next meet ing should be held in Montgomery, Ala. The “ Goodwood Cup.” Halifax, August 12. —The result of the “Goon wood Cup ” races, in which the American horses. Prior and Prioress, were beaten, has already beec telegraphed. The French horse Monarque won the race. The English horses Riseber was second, and Fisherman third. Prior was fifth, and Prioress sixth. Missouri Election. St. Lotus, Aug. 11. —The election returns from the different counties in this Slate are contlictiDg James S. Rollins’ (American,’ majority will pro bablv be 1,500. Indian Hostilities tn Kansas. St. Louis, Aug. 11.—The Cheyenne Indians re fuse to treat with the United States authorities, - and the Shawnees also threaten hostilities. lowa Vote oa the New Constitution. Dubuque, Aug. 11.— Returns from thirty-fou counties show a majority for the new Constitution of four thousand five hundred. Arrival o! the Empire City. New York, August 12.—The Empire City, Capt McGowan, from Havana, has arrived with dates from that place to the Bth instant, and with later intelligence from Central and South America, and California. The Empire City brings *1,500,000 in treasure, The news from Central America is not of special interest. The Democratic Convention in California has nominated the Hon. John B. Welleb, as cand. - date for Governor. Theßepublicans, in Convention, have nominated Edwabd Stanley, as their candidate for Gov ernor. A destructive fire had occurred at Valparaiso. A desperate battle had been fought near Are quipa, in Peru, between the armies of Veranco, and those of El Mariscal Castilla, the President of Peru—both armies claim the victory. There has been an attempted revolution at Cal - lao, a fortified town of northern Peru. Negro Declared Free. New York, August 15.—A negro girl named El len. belonging to Miss Louisa Kerr, of Savannah, was declared, on yesterday, free, by Judge Robwrt— soh, of Westchester county.