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Sfetkljf Cmistitiitimniiisi. i- - BY JAMES GARDNER. i 4 ' by telegraph, . - . young Men’s Christian Association o! % New Orleans. k > - Saw OrliASs, Au*. 28.—The Young Men’s fA’’'‘c Christian Association of New Orleans, haring or ganised a relief committee, and established infirm aries to alleviate the suffering of those afflicted HgjSo with yellow fever in the city and Tieinity, call up- HpjjpS'' on kindred Associations and friends to collect - fiinds and send Wtheir relief. jY 7 “R. G. Lattisg, Chm’n Relief Com. Late from California. Niw York, Ang. 27.—The steamship’ Moses Taylor has arrived with the California and E? dates to the sth August. jp ’ The Moses Taylor left at Key West the United States brig Doiphin, who reported that she had • captured a slaver under American colors, and sent her into Charleston. [We have already published W a dispatch from Charleston, announcing the arri - val at that port of the three hundred Africans cap lp~ tured off the North coast of Cuba by the Dol phin.J A party of sixty apostate Mormons and iheir families had arrived at Carson Valley. The Frazer mines gold fever had almost entire ifcfe lyßubsided. * The recently appointed United Stateß Minister, Mr. Clarke, was received in a very cordial man , • % ner by the President of Guatemala. The latest intelligence from Utah states that the sS* Indians are more hostile than ever. K ' ■ - i HP, I Cable News. , [We received the following dispatch, this (Fri day) morning, a few minutes before eleven o’clock. jtsP It left London this morning, although we are not Be- able to state the hour. It is the “latest time” we have yet recorded over the Cable course.] It „ Lor don, Friday morning, Aug. 27.—The Em , peror of France returns to Paris to-morrow, Sat wa urday, the 2Stb. ■’* + , The King of Prussia iS too 3ick to visit Queen W,VIOTOBIA. |gi' \t | Her Majesty returns home on Monday, the 30th pfe* 'V inst. i The Chinese empire will be opened to the trade j ] of all nations; The Christian religion will be al- A . lowed, and foreign diplomatic agents admitted. mb'-'" - Full indemnity has been guaranteed to England • and France, but no mention is made as regards that point with the United States. Latest by the Cable Line. London, Friday, Aug. 27.—Dates from St. Pe "teraburg to the 21st inst., have been received. The j announcement of peace having been declared with China, caused great satisfaction to the Emperor I 4? and Court. Dates from Alexandria, in Egypt, had been re eeiyed up to the 9th inst. The steamer Madras had arrived at Suez, on the *- 7th August, with Bombay dates to July 19th. ■Jr r- *“ion of Europe. I #V nettled, with saUe to-day of 10,000 tjarrels-State f ■, brands quoted from *3 90 to *5 94 ; Ohio *5 85 to KfSSt 4 . „ 10; r.nd Southern *5 30 to *5 7'-. Wheat i, ‘ 'heavy, with sales of 10,000 bushels. Corn heavy, with sales of 33,000 bushels—mixed qualities 74 to fe ? * 84 cents. Spirits of Turpentine 48J£ to-40 cents, il" oißice dull at VA to 3% cents. p m F- . From Correspondence of the Baltimore f un. Washington, August 24,-The exposition con tained in the Unton, of this morning, of themten- I *: tions of the Executive in regard to the Paraguay 6# expedition, is doubtless authentic. It is satisfac tory to know from such authority that the naval ft. force at length provided for the service will be s' adequate to the reduction of the forts above the L Trees Bocos, and near the capital, Assumption. §. The instructions to the United States Commission- S' ers are also referred io as haviug been completed, W- with a view to meet the evasive diplomacy of Lo pez. Our little fleet will no doubt give a good ac -11:. count of itself. ... , , Is In diplomacy ihe Spanish Americans excel, and |i ' H will perhaps be the policy of Lopez to temporise, Its . and weary our Minister and naval Commander Hr , with deiaj-3, and force them to refer back to Wash ington for instructions. Whatever we are to do, i whether iu war or negotiation, with Paraguay, B> Ainuki be done promptly. A failure of the expedi- B: tion would prove disastrous to American reptita §S* .» tion throughout South America, j - The population and resources of Paraguay are understood by the authorities ordinarily referred raft to. The population is estimated at three hundred Hr thousand; whereas, according to Mr, Hopkins, . who was lately U. S. consul at Assumption, it is - six hundred and fifty thousand. That Lopez had [5- . . twelve thousand men under arms when threatened ffi With an attack from hostile neighbors, is well mm- known. He has also European engineers and tac- Kj':-.' - ticians in his service. He has had too long a time 9 ' tor preparation against our expedition, and will tea - perhaps attempt to obstruct the navigation ol the ■fes river above the “three mouths.” But this again SH& would involve himwin difficulty with England, Ke'.-A France, Buenos Ayres and Brazil. - Another of his dodges will no doubt he io seek HE.- the mediation of a mutually friend'y power, and m even propose mu arbitration, the acceptance of ip is probably forbidden by the instructions H ; to our minister. ' ,* . , B President Lopez is the chief merchant, broker, cigar-maker and steamboat owner in his fertile Up and is reputed to be worth more mo- K , ney than the whole amount nowin our treasury, W increased as it has been by the ten million loan. He can, therefore, easily pay the amount of in ■jßE . demmty which is claimed on account of spolia- Hpr tiqos npon our peeople. lon. H Tbb Weather, Crops, Trade, Ac.—The weath- KL er in this vicinity has been a little fall-like during the last few days. The nights and mornings are H cool and pleasant. It is, however, temporary, and m we fear we are not yet through with the heat and H dust of the city. m" The crops in and around Columbus are not so ■ . favorable as heretofore. The corn crop is plenti ' ful and remarkably fine, bat the cotton is full of H boll worms and rust. Some of the farmers will ■ not make the third of a cotton crop. ■ Potatoes, beans, peas, etc., are doing well. Upon ■ the whole, the farmer has no right to complain. |H The trade is getting a little brisk in the city. The countrymen are coming in with their wagons, ■ • bringing produce, and receiving in return goods H * and groceries. The fall dry goods of some of the ■ merchants are being received, and the ladies are examining the advertisements in search of such a- articles as suit there taste, and the house to find K.: them. A few beaux and lovers are returning from .*v, , the summer resorts, jaded with the continued Ha.. . round of gaieties, and are warmly greeted by their "■'m RSfe cant-get-away friends at home. This ends our P||f . Timtsdk Sentinel, 2<jtk met. - StiDuax Death.—Mr. Seaborn F. Simmons, of - 5 Jg r v Dglethdrpe countyf dropped dead suddenly in this S** town on Monday of last week. We understand ? 3HOEfe that be had been seriously ilia few days before, ;K r "| and that at the time of bis death his mind was ftMi fe seriously impaired. He was, we believe, esteemed ISSy '-»ndn all tbe relations of life, and a good citizen. ■ I a' * Athens Walkman, Ang. 26, ■y&’Stes... . iCORIICNICATED.j Jndge Douglas—Kansas—The Supreme Court ol Georgia—The Banks—Gover nor Brown, and the approaching Ses sion of the Legislature. Let ns hold a familiar chat, gentlemen, on these exciting questions, talking plainly, that the side of truth and right may be illustrated. You vindicate Judge Douglas, and wish him success in his fight in Illinois, and you are right. He vindicates the Dred Scott decision, and bolds that the Constitution of the United States carries slavery into the Territories. Is it southern policy for him to succeed, or for Trumbull, Wentworth, and their Abolition horde, to bear off tbe impor tant State of Illinois in triumph ? Let the victory be to tbe “ little giant.” Bnt the cry is, he voted against Lecompton, And pray what is Lecomp ton and anti-Lecompton but humbug, and the foot ball of presidential aspirants? There was never any vitality in that question to the South, and it was always, and is now, only a presidential ladder, Dot like old Jacob’s on whieh angels are ascend ing and descending, but aspirants are scrambling up and'struggling to cast each other down. The honest masses are sick and tired of tbe contest. The Washington Union reads Douglas out of the Democratic ‘party. If this is to be done, what shall be done with Mr. Buchanan for sendiug Walker into Kansas, to preach up “ the isother mal line” against slavery, and to stimulate free soil emigration to that Territory? Let us be fair, and if Douglas tqust be read out, take up the cases of Buchanan, Cobb A Co., and pass upon them. It can hardly be credited that the administration endorses the Union' » attacks on Donglas. But if so, more prudence may enure greatly to the bene fit of the Democratic party. Jnst now a quietus on this sorry, thread-bare Kansas question, will knock the breath out of the Black Republican party. The administration and the Union may not only keep it alive, but give it a dangerous plethora of blood, muscle and political organism. I commend to the powers at Washington aconplet from “Two Millions;” ‘-Who fights to the end may win, but doubly wise Who knowe the moment when to compromise.” Now, gentlemen, the best thing to be done with Kansas, is to admit her as soon as it can be done —there is no chance for her to be a slave State let her come in, and then, through the supremacy of the Democratic party, the South may confident ly look for the extension of her institutions into regions more congenial to their spread and perpe tuity. Mark my word, if Kansas presents herself properly tor admission, and the Democratic party stands in opposition, a false issue will be made, and a sad, fatal blunder committed. To save us from such consequences, the masses should con trol the machinations of politicians. You have marked the wide spread discontent of the people with the Supreme Court decision at Macon on the Columbus bank cases. A monstrous decision it is, bemuse it breaks down the protec tion and safeguards of bill-holders, and opens give to ifS ability and independence. It would be weak and lunstatesmanlike to strike down an institution con secrated to justice and to right, by the experience of nearly all the Sta'tes, because of one wrong de cision. Rather let us endure its present evils, in the hope of the many future benefits to flow from its re-organization. I hear but little of late about the banks and Gov. Brown. The banks havd done their duty by returning to specie payments, and the Governor his by seeking to enforce tbe laws. And now let there be peace between them. If things are done in a right spirit, theHegislature will ask nothing wrong, and the banks will be required to submit to no wrong. But the banks should remember the people are masters. Porcupine. From the Saeannah Republican, Aug. 28. Milford, Ga., Ang. 24. You ask information in reference to the crops through this section. As far as I can learn and see we have good corn crops; and the prospect, at one’ time for cotton, was fine; but, like all sublu nary things, it has changed, and for the worse. 1 have seen much for myself, and heard many of the opinions of good practical planters, asd they uni versally say that they will havea short crop, owing to a few weeks’ drouth and the rust. I have not heard of a farm in South-western Georgia that is free from this, the terror to planters. It is very doubtful about our crops reaching even last year. The plantation from which snch fine specimens of weed were sent yon last spring, are now literally destroyed by rust. We have some worm, and no bolls now smaller than a partridge egg, which shows conclusively that the cotton has done noth ing for several weeks back. * * Extract from a letter dated, Washington, Wilkes Co., Aug. 20th. The health of our county was never better. Our crops of corn are unusually good, and cotton pro mises a full crop without some disaster; picking has very generally commenced. My opinmn is, there will he a larger yield of cotton in Wilkes than we have had for some years. The cow epi demic has pretty well subsided; it appeared among us in rather a modified form, and was not so mtal as in the lower counties. Yours, Ac., K. An Excellent Appointment.— Major Charles J. Helm, of Kentucky, has been appointed Consul- General of the United States at Havana. This is essentially putting the right man in the right place The unfortunate consular corps of the Uni ted States (of which we shall take occasion to say more at some future day) has become a sort of r»- faoium peccatontm. But we are glad to learn that the appointing power does not in all instances en tirely overlook qualifications. Certainly after ap pointing the Dresent incumbent at Vera Crnz, it was due to Kentucky to make her some atone ment, wherefore, perhaps, this excelent selection for Havana. ... . .. Major Helm performed eminent service in the Mexican war as adjutant general of Gen. Wool, and has lately returned from a five years’ service in the important consulate at St. Thomas. Os the efficient and highly appreciated course of Major Helm at St. Thomas, the visitors at his elegant residence at Newport, Ky., have ample evidence in the shape of a massive service of silver present ed by the merchants ofSt. Thomas and New York. We can only infer that his record in the Depart ment of State must be perfect, for we seldom hear of promotion in our consular system, .whence we might infer that the greater number of consols ac quit themselves of tbeir official obligation in rath er a shabby manner.— Washington mates. TV weather for some days past has been any thl lf v 4>t agreeable. Lowering clouds, ireqnent shjjws, and a cool, stiff North-easter have been the regular order, day and night, and it U a won der our city remains so healthy under snch a state ot the elements. We perceive from our exchanges there was frost in several towns West of Boston on Friday last. In Farmington, Mass., tbe mercurv stood, on the morning of that day, at forty-two degrees. . Savannah Reps&hcan, Aug. 27. YXIGrXISTY, GA„ WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1858. From the London Herald., August 5. £3B The Chinese Rebellion. The intelligence that Ning-po has fallen into the hands of the Chinese insurgents, is calculated tcf awaken the expectation that we shall now le«4 something more certainly of this formidable more? ment than has been possible hitherto. Xin-po b<4- ing one of the fire free ports for foreign trad* (f city, moreover, of considerable literary, as well as commercial repute) contains many European mer chants, and a considerable number of American and English missionaries. From these we shall probably receive somewhat different representa tions, according to the different views they may be disposed to take; but between them, doubtless, there will be much valuable information forward ed to this country in the shape of facts, from which we may draw our conclusions. It has been assumed, but without apparent firoof, that Tai-ping, formerly Hung-siu-tsuen, the eader of the rebellion, was just one of those ban ditti that were reported in 1850 as infesting the province of Kwang-si, and that, emerging thence as a robber chief, and meeting with some success, he made pretensions to the throne of China ef fecting political and religious zeal as a pretext for plunder on a large scale. It has been that none except Protestant missionaries have be-' lieved that they could trace a germ of Christianity, in the rebel proclamations, ana that Hr. Meadows, who is now consul at Ning-po, has been almost the only man that has attributed motives of patriotism to Tai-ping. What Tai-ping is now we shall no doubt learn within a short time j but we known from reliable sources enough of the commencement of his career to regard the present movement as very different from the usual outbreaks of Chinese rebellion, and fraught with very different results. The generally received facts are as follows: About twenty-one yedrs ago Hung-siu-tsuen was a promising ana am-, bilious student, teaching a school in his native vil lage in the province of Kwang tung. The excite ment attending an examination for literary honors at Canton, and the bitter disappointments! proving unsuccessful, threw him into a fit of illness, which merged into mental derangement just as his friends believed it was terminating in death. They anx iously watched him during the six weeks that he believed himself employed in exterminating evil spirits, and ran about his room fighting, singing and exhorting by turns, till, exhausted with his ef forts, he lay down to sleep, only to rise and go through the same exercise again. With the return of health he became gradually changed both in character and appearance, acquiring a large sta ture, great bodily strength, a firm pace and piercing ■ gaze. He resumed and for several years continued his labors as a teacher, but to his more intimate friends betrayed that the visions of his illness, of which be had spoken freely on bis first recovery, bad made a deep impression upon his mind, as though some other and strange destiny awaited him. In the year 1843, he and his cousin Li were lad to examine some books in the Chinese language entitled "Good Words Exhorting the Age.’’ 't hese books, according to Dr. Morrison's account, were written by one of Dr. Miller’s converts, and HM) revised by Dr. Morrison himself before being print ed at Malacca. They contain a good many entire chapters of the Bible, essays from single texts, And sundry Scriptural miscellanea. In these volumes Siu believed he found the key to the visions he bad had six years before, and that fie came to the co% elusion that he was divinely appointed to destroy! tie idolatry of his native country and restore it to me worship of the true God. . •>i- He and his cousin baptised themselves according congregations numbering from one hundred to three hundred individuals. However far this doctr!" • might be from pure Christianity it embraced the main points of re nouncing idolatry and keeping the ten command ments, any violation of which was severely pun ished. These now disciples were presently favored with those marvels which usually attend the com mencement of great religious movements; they had visions, ecstatic raptures and miracles nfheai ing. Taking these things in connection with the singular reformation of their lives, and the re markable character of their chief, physically, mentally and morally, it is not surprising that the congregations of the God-worshippers in creased marvelously; that when a pestilential disease broke out numbers joined from the idea that they would tffns escape contagion, and that when quarrels arose between two sets ol inhabi tants those who were defeated Bought refuge with the God-worshippers. But presently not only dis tressed villagers, but bands or robbers dispersed by the imperial soldiers, sought this alliance, gladly submiting to their discipline for the sake of personal safety. In this fact Siu saw an indi cation of the design of Heaven to raise a valiant band for the deliverance of China from idolatry and the Manchoo dynasty. He did not hesitate to receive them; and this, as he bad foreseen, led to a collision with the mandarin soldiers. Siu was blockaded in a spot surrounded by high mountains and having only a narrow pass kept by soldiers. A number of his followers assembled, overcame the soldiers, and delivered their chief. Thus was the Rubicon passed. Such were the antecedents of the now rebel chief, as reported in 1852 by one of his relatives, who, having been captured, escaped again, and finding it impossible to re-join his companions, fled to Hong Kong. There is no reason to doubt the general veracity of his statement, as received by Mr. Hamburg, especially as he had no means of learning the result even of the first collision with the imperial forces. The subsequent career of Siu is more generally known than the details of Mr. Hamburg’s unpretending narrative; how he was ufterwards joined by many members of those political societies which had been organising for some years for the overthrow of the Manchoo dy nasty; how, when the city of Yung-ngan fell into the hands of the insurgents, they unanimously de clared him emperor of a new uynasty, under the name of “Tai-ping-Wang, or “King of Great Peacehow he pursued his victorious course till Nankin was taken in 1855 ; and how he has since pushed his conquests in various directions till al raostevery city has more or less felt bis power. Bet ter acquainted probably with tjie Old Testament records than the new, he seems to have regarded himself as another Joshua, difiinely commissioned to extirminate idolatry by slaying its adherents as well as by destroying its appurtenances. is no reason to doubt his original or even his pre sent sincerity. He may now, if he chooses, obtain more perfect instraction in the principles of Christianity; but it may well be doubted whether he will be as do cile now as he would have been nine or ten years ago. Doubtless it would be difficult to induce him at this stage of his career, to lay down his carnal weapons and embrace the pacific doctrines of Christianity. We cannot, with some, regard this as an ephemeral movement. It may be that the Imperial troops have regained much ground that Tai-ping had overrun, but probably-they, have not reinstated the belief of the Buddhist or Confucian doctrine in the minds of the people. We do not predict that this fangtic will overthrow the Man chco dynasty and sit on the throne of China; but doubtless he has shaken that throne, which other circumstances may fill with a better man. We would be far from exalting him as the apostle of China, but he may prove to have been the pioneer whose rough doing opened the tray for the en trance of Cnristiamty. English Doubts of the Paternity of (he Empress Eugenie. —The English are the haughtiest men on earth; and yet none can bear snubbing and he initiation better. This fact is illustrated best in their conduct towards Louis Napoleon. As Presi dent, they denounced and cursed him, and called him names; as Emperorj they extolled his great ness, gladly accepted his aid in battle, and tneir Queen in person conferred the highest honors upon him. Just at the moment her Majesty Victo ria is paying her respects to the Empress Eugenie —and thus again acknowledging her rank to all Eurobe—an English journalist volunteers some “doubts of the paternity o| Empress.” One would suppose that a proud Englishman would be slow to tell the world that hi 9 Queen had, in the highest forms of royal pomp, gone abroad to do homage to the handsome “foundling.” The ro mance is in these words: from Paris Correspondence of London Advertiser. The lofty and prominent station attained by that distinguished lady who shares the throne of France with Napoleon 111, has attracted public attention of late to some iaw proceeding which took place some time past at Valladolid and Arevallo—pro ceedings which throw some doubt upon the pater nity of that illustrious lady. There has been a great demand for the Spanish law journals of 1827 and the following year. On searching through the files of that period we find the subjoined ac count of the nullity of a divorce pronounced in 1613 between a Spanish wife and husband : . Don Joaquim de Montijo, captain of the regi ment of Segovia, married in 1810, Donna Maria de Penaosande, belonging to a respectable family of Fontepelayo, near Segovia. Shortly after his marriage he was taken prisoner of war and was carried off to France, whither he was followed by bis wife as soon as she ascertained that he had ob tained an appointment as commandant of prison ers of war, which made some addition to his pay. Although Donna Maria went to France in compli ance with her husband’s request, she does not ap pear to have lived happily with him. Dissension soiled the domestichearth—mutual recriminations, each charging the other with adultery, brought about a separation. Don Joaquim haring lost bis appointment in consequence of the removal of the prisoners of war from Bourges to Dijon, took service in the French army, being driven there by want. His wife, find ing again that he had means of supporting her, went to his regimental quarters, but was repelled bv him with disdain, and refused admission. Their divorce was finally pronounced by the French law courts in November, 1813. On the return of Ferdi nand VII. to Spain, Donna Maria returned to Fon tepelayo with her son, aged two years and a half, and lived there for six years with her family. Her husband remained in France till 1820, when Ferdi nand took oath to renew*theConstitutionoflßl2. He then returned toSpain.and resided at his native town of Arevallo, where he had some property; from thence he wrote to bis wife to claim his son. She refiised to send tbe child. Don Joaquim went to exercise his paternal right, but Donna Maria re fused to give him up. Don Joaqnim returned home without bis child, but after a few weeks he went back to Fontepelayo, fell in love again with his wife, and proposed that they should live to gether again and say nothing about the divorce, which was known only to the family and his bro thers. She returned with him to Arevallo, and ‘there resided with him until October 30tb, 1823, when he died from the effects of a fall from his , horse. : Her son inherited his lather’s property, under the guardianship of his mother, who continued to reside at Arevallo. We say her son, because, al though at the death of Don Joaqnim she bad a daughter, aged nine months, the child died short ly after the death of its father. In the year 1830, shq had also the misfortune to lose her son, and her grief was embittered by the conduct of her late husband’s brothers, Don Antonio and Don Brantio do Montijo, who ordered, her to leave their l»te I brother’s house, she having no right to call herself ihis widow, having by her infamouscouduct neces [li|*ted a divorce. She refused to Rave her house. , i'Ufcceefiings were instituted before the Corregidor 1 of Arevallo. Don Joaquim Beneito, who delivered i rue senienca on the 18th of June, 1827, that wftereas a ij> wcehad been pronounced in France, j pferogStot de Vfontijc, an d whereas the divorce was proDonneed in * foreign country, then , under the rule of a usurper, under a government as""illegal asirreMgious, and not recognised m .Spain; and divorce had been annulled by the ultimate remorse of the parties, declares Donna M&a»a entitled to the life interest in tbe property of her late husband, to revert to his brothers her demise.” _ , Now, dates are troublesome things. The French Mpnittur, pf the 4th of June last, announced that thnt the Empress Eugenia had%ttamed her thirty second year on the preceding daj, and had receiv ed the congratulations of her friends on the occa sion. According to the official Moniteur t there fore, the Empress Eugenia was born on the 3d of June, 1826, and according to the undisputed testi mony of registers and other documentary evi dence, her father died on October 80, 1828, from the effects of a fall from his horse. These things doubtless admit of explanation, but none has yet been given. Indeed, the French Gazette de Tri • bunaux, of September 21, 1831, which contains the verbatim report of this cause celebre , has been forcibly abstracted bv Imperial ukase from the files of that journal which are kept for reference in the reading rooms. From Correspondence of ihe New York Evening Post. Marriage of Gen. Cass’s Daughter. Stonington, Aug. 24,1858. Our little village has been thrown into a high state of excitement by the arrival of General Cass, the Secretary of State, and the marriage of his daughter, Miss Isabella Cass, to the Minister from the King of the Netherlands, M. Van Limburg, yesterday. The ceremony took place in Calvary church, a very neat Episcopal church, the rector, Uev. Daniel C. Merton, officiating. Though occuring in the chorch edifice, it was strictly private. About two o’clock in tbe afternoon the bride entered, escorted by her father, and followed by M. Van Limburg and two of Gen. Cass’s married daughters—Mrs. Canfield and Mrs. Ledyard—together with Mr. Ledyard and his family, and Mr. Zimmerman, the New York consul for the Netherlands. The bride was dressed in a neat silk traveling suit, of the color of a3bes of rose, and a light French hat of mazzarine blue. From her appear ance, I should judge the blooming bride to be about forty years or ,age. M. Van Limburg ap peared to much advantage. Everything was con ducted in simple and unostentatious man ner. . After the marriage service the party proceeded to the vestry, where the documents were signed, and then to the Wadawanuk House. The happy pair proceeded to Newport in the thiee o’clock train, where they will occupy the private cottage of M. Van Limburg. A salute of fifty guns was fired by Commander K. T. Loper from the fast yacht Madgie, which was covered with flags and streamers. Stabat. Cool Weather.—A heavy white frost was ob servable early thi3 morning on low grounds in some of the suburban towns. At Dedham the frost was so thick that the grass and fences ap peared as though covered with snow. The vine vegetables, and even green corn, in such localities, must have received fatal injury from this remark ably early visit of “ chilly Jack.” At Watertown, Framiogham, and also at Glou cester, there was a slightirost, doing but little if any injury. At Franklin, N. H., at seven this morning, according to a correspondent of the Her ald 9 a snow squall was experienced which con tinued for about five minutes. Boston, Transcript , 24 ih inst . There is a great deal of sickness in Panola coun ty, Mississippi, at present. In the neighborhood of the town of Panola there are whole families of whites and blacks down with chills and fevers, measles, billions fevers, Ac. In some instances there are not sufficient numbers well in the family, to nurse the sick ones. In one family, about five miles from town, we hear of sixteen being on sick beds at one time. The mortality is very light, compared with the sickness. Memphis Bidletin, 21 st utst. Just like ’em.—Mamma (staying with newly married daughter): “My dearest, sweetest, dar ling! what! crying! Why, what’s the matter? Daughter (with many sobs): “Ob M m-m-Mamma, dear! Here’s Ch-Ch-Ch-Charlea so dreadfully unkind; He knows the H-H-Horae TamiDg secret and he w-w-w-won’t tell it to me!”— Punch. Prom the Charleston Courier , Aug. 28. Arrival of a Slaver. There reached our quarantine yesterday after- noon, a brig called the Echo, having on board ! three hundred and six Africans. She was cap tured on the 21st inst., about seven, P. M., off the I North coast of Cuba, in latitude twenty-three de- j grees thirty minutes, longitude eighty degrees ' twenty minutes, by the United States brig Dol phin, Lieut. J. N. Maffit commanding. The suspicions of the officers or the Dolphin were aroused by the brig hauling suddenly off from the coast of Cuba, when chase was immedi ately made after her. On nearing the brig, which the Dolphin did rapidly, two blank cartridges were fired at her, when she hoisted the American ensign —the Dolphin being at the moment under English colors. Two shots were then fired ahead, to make her heave to; but she continuing on her course the Dolphin hoisted American colors, and fired a shot at her, when she was promptly brought to. Lt. Bradford, of the Dolphin, then boarded her with sixteen men, and fqgnd on her a crew of nine teen, composed of En&ffip” Americans and Span iards, ana a cargo orthree hundred and eighteen Africans, twelve of whom have died since tne cap ture. The Dolphin took on board a part of the original crew of the brig, and took them to Key West, from which port they will be sent by steam er to this city. The negroes, so far as they could be seen, are about fifteen years of age and good looking. They are suffering from dysentery. It is supposed that the present name of the brig is only an assumed one. She is of Baltimore model and a fine vessel. The prize crew consists of Lieut. J. M. Bradford, Lieut. C. C. Carpenter, ten seamen and six ma rines. The following is a full list of the officers attach ed to the Dolphin : Lieut. J. N. Maffitt, Commanding; J. M. Brad ford, first Lieutenant; P. Williams, second Lieutenant; C. C. Carpenter, third Lieutenant; J. M. Browne, passed Assistant Surgeon; A. A. Crosman, acting Master. Pom the Charleston Courier , Avg. 28. . Slaver in the Bay. | [Messrs. Editors: An unusual degree of interest was excited last evening, by the arrival in our bay of tbe brig Echo, with some three or four hun dred native Africans. It seems she was captured on the coast of Cuba, and brought into this port for such disposition as may be made of them by the government of the United States. And now the question comes, what shall be done with them ? England, under such circumstances, (sends them to her colony of Sierra Leone, (sensible to the last, as she always is;) but to us there is no such colony. Hitherto we have sent them back to Afri ca, in government ships, aind it; is to be supposed that such will be the course proposed on this oc casion. But is such a course to be adopted ? They are here on the very threshbold of civilization; shall we send them back to barbarism ? They are at the dawn of Christianity: shall we send them back to heathen darkness ? They are almost within the pale of law and a social state, where they can take relations; shall we send them back to the realm of no law, but that of brute force; no relations but those that brutes take ? They are here almost within the pale of a society where they will be safe, and where every physical.want will be surely supplied ; will we send them back to the precari ous subsistence snatched from wretches as starving as themselves? But why shoula .we send them back ? Do we not want them ? They are wanted everywhere — our planted want them; our mechanics want 3rR f in wanFof I tfSSl U>o™ rrwnr f are certainly as much li* need of training and in struction Y There is no reason why we should send them back, but in this, that it has become agreea ble to another section of this Un:on tqdook with disgust on our institutions, and we are called upon to make this sacrifice of interest and humanity to propitiate them. Ir any sane man were asked what it is that would be best for these negroes, he would say put them under the discipline and care of some one whose duty and interest it would be to train them to usefulness, and to care for them. Ask a pru dent man what must be done with them, and he will say, no matter how well we may provide for them here, the act of providing for them in any southern State will be offensive to the people of the North; and so, therefore, we must do, not what is right, not what is humane, not what is to our interest, not what is to the interest of the ne gro, not what is agreeable to our own sense of propriety, but what is expected of us by a foreign sentiment. Ami I would ask whether such a state of facts is not inconsistent with the rights and dig nity of a people that are vested with the trusts of liberty and conscience. i When these negroes shall be taken from tbe port ; of Charleston, (except it be to take them elsewhere ; in a slave State,) it will be a brand upon our insti- i tutions that should fire the heart of every man i that loves his country. It will be the declaration J to the world that this condition in which our own < negroes are, is so offensive to even our own gov- { ernment, that it is incumbent upon it to use its soy- ; ereign power in rescuing, from the like condition, | all who come within its reach. We may submit to , proper declarations, to laws whose practical in- ] forceraent is not brought to our doors, but in this i act of reprobation there is a taunt againt which every southern man ought to enter his indignant protest. CußTirs. < Swift Traveling of one of the New Balloons. : Dr. Parsons sent up from his drug store in Port land, says the Advertiser of that city, on the 13th, at eight o’clock P. M., a small India rubber bal loon, attached to which was his card, with this note : “ The finder will confer a favor by address ing A. Parsons & Co., stating where found, date, Portland, Aug. 13, 1858.” On Saturday (the next) morning, at seven o’clock—and it is very likely it fell several hours before—the balloon and card were found by Mr. Stiles Curtis, in Windham, Green county, New York—three hundred miles from its starting point the evening before. Mr. Curtis stated that he intended to “ blow it up ” again, and start it for further adventures. Dr. Rai>hal, a distinguished Jew of Berming ham, thus states the opinion which the Jews have of Christ: f “ While I and the Jews of the present day pro test against being identified with the zealots who were concerned in the proceedings against Jesus of Nazeretb, we are far from reviling his character or deriding his precepts which are, indeed, for the most part, the precepts of Moses and the prophets. You have heard me style him ‘ the Great Teacher of Nazareth;’ for that designation I and the Jews take to be his due.” “Sct Lovengood.”—We learn that Sut Miller, the hero of the Loveugood papers, died suddenly in the neighborhood of Ducktown, a week or two since. Poor Sut! After having innumerable en counters and conflicts with man and beast—been ■hot several times, and consumed “bust-head” enough to run an over-shot mill forty days and nights, died ignobly at last from a blow inflicted with the fist of a fellow man. Athens ( Tenn .) Banner. How to Write for a Newspaper.— When you write for a newspaper, write all your words in full as you wish them printed. This has been said a thousand times, but not one man in ten observes the rule. AH our best writers do observe it. In this paper we printed an article in which the wr - ter abbreviated the word government into govt, and the printers made it gout, so that the powrr of the government was made into the power of the gout. Dot the letter i and cross the letter t> and trv to spell correctly. It you cannot comply with these rules, after you have written your arti cle put it in the tire.— N. Y. Observer. Boston, Aug. 23. —A ship which arrived at this port to-day reports having spoken in latitude thirty-five degrees longitude seventy-four degrees forty minutes, the ship Reliance, bound from Ha vana for New York, short handed. It is supposed that most of the Reliance’s crew were down with the yellow fever. ,r--rr—r--. ivr T—fr . VOL. 37—UNO. 36. % From the Galveston News, August 14. ? We hare had the pamphlet, the contents of ! which we give to-day, for some time on our desk, and have been prevented from an earlier publica- I tion of it by the press of other matter. We give ! the entire argument because it is a practical asser tion of the right of the South, and is therefore a test of our own sincerity in claiming equality fa the Union, and of northern hostility to us, in the i denial of that equality. Mr. Lamar, of Savannah Georgia, baring an idle j ship in port at Charleston, during the commercial distress that followed the late panic, sought new j employment for her by asking for a clearance to the coast of Africa, “for the purpose of taking on board African emigrants, in accordance with the United States passenger laws, and returning with the same to a port in the United States.” Secre tary Cobb replies that the clearance shall be re fused, becaused he suspected that Mr. Lamar meant something: more than was expressed in the appli cation. Mr. Lamar objects to this assumption of motive, and to the contounding of legislative with executive powers, by the Treasury Department. The pamphlet is an unanswerable argument against the Secretary’s decision. Mr. Cobb is himself a Georgian, and Mr. Lamar seems to feel the more deeply and directly injured by this hostilitv to the South from a southern man. It is undoubtedly true that the numerical weak* ness of the South is a seductive bait to the loyalty of her politicians on the slavery question—white her fidelity to the Constitution, as a section, makes her essential not only to the superiority, but to the very existence of the only national or anti-section al party. She is thus a trading capital, in the hands of her aspiring public men, and her rights are alternately proclaimed as a threat to the rears of the North, and then surrendered or sacrificed, as the price of success to southern ambition. We have an interest in this question in Texas, beyond that of any other slave State. We have more territory fitted for slave labor, with a greater variety of staple products; and we lie farthest from the sources of home negro emigration. At the present rate of increase in our slave popula tion, we shall not get a full supply in a century. In the meanwhile our lands, the most fertile on the continent, are a drug for the want of labor to cultivate them, and will starve any holder who will retain them long enough. The home supply fading, the GuU States have naturally turned to the foreign source. Mississip pi has opened the apprentice system on a small scale to test it, and the legislature of Louisiana failed last winter by only one rote, in the same experiment. ■ fZjn Texas difi'ersin some important features from the States Eastof her. She is the terminus of thecotton xone; it ends with the Guadalupe or San Antonio valley, where the dry belt sets in, and the product* change from the agricultural to the pastoral* While stock raising is rendered both easy and pro fitable by climate in Texas, West of the Colorado or San Antooio, it renders the negro in a degree valueless. The negro works willingly in crowds, at steady labor; and the peon of Indian blood ia equally happy as a solitary shepherd, or in follow ing an unrnly mustang with the lasso. The tw« sections of our State seem adapted by Providence to these two races, as the respective laborers. Pe cuniarily the difference is quite as great. Capital must be invested and sunk in advance, in the ne- gro ; but small wages earned, as they fall due, compensates the peon. The cart war or last winter in Karnes'and Goli ad counties, judged from an outside point, would and a few pounds of dried man age countless flocks apd herds, and behappie. than in any other condition. Our laws do not yet re cognise peonage, but must of neceesity do so soon. The JlekldAK £2;:SnaVs on otber side of the Rio Grande, are losing their peons, who are har bored on onr side. Our adoption of their system, ivhieb could not be locomotive, but would remain, where alone it is applicable, would lead to a mutu al rendition of runaways—poen or negro—and the thief and vagabonds of Mexico would thus be kept at home. Texas from San Antonio to El Pa so, (and especially when Capt. Pope and Capt Forbes Britton shall have shown us now to obtain a cheap supply of stock water,) being one entire pasture, will be covered, one day, by countless flocks, and the peon will be the happy and useful shepherd of both Jfexicah and American proprie tors. We did not intend to wander from tbe point in question—nor have we. Our right to pass a State law to receive Mr. Lamar’s apprentices, or passen gers, and to fix tbeir social status, we hold to be as clear as that to adopt the peon laws of Mexico. Nor have we a doubt that both races, negro and IndiaD, will be elevated to the highest condition they are capable of, and at the same time, con tribute their greatest service to humanity at large. England is supplying her colonies, in various parts of the world, with many thousand African emi grants annually, while our government, usurping a power not given in the Constitution, undertakes to say the slave States shall not supply in the same way that labor, for the want of which mil lions of acres of the richest land in the world must remain uncultivated for ages to come. The Hall of Representatives. —Hon. James Oar., Speaker of the House, in a letter to Captain Meigs, sneaks in the highest terms of the new Hall of Representatives in the Capitol. He says It has been occupied from December uQtil the middle of June—seasons of the lowest and high est temperature of cold and heat; it has been oc cupied with crowded galleries and empty benches, by day and by night; and under all circumstances, in its acoustics, its ventilation, its heating, its lighting, and its conveniences for the comfort of members and the transaction of business, I con sider it eminently successful. When order is pre served, au ordinary voice can be heard distinctly in the remotest part of the hall or galleries. I presume there is no hall in the world having so large a number of square feet within its walls where the speaker is heard Vith so little effort on his part. The ventilation is equally successful. The densest crowd in the galleries during the most protracted sittings, breathed a fresh atmosphere— . free from all heaviness and impurity. , The heating apparatus is so perfect that the en s gineer had only to be notified what temperature . was desired, when in a few minutes it was sup i plied. : . The arrangement for lighting the hall is admi -1 rable ; not a burner is seen, and yet such a flood , of softened light is poured down through the stained-glass ceiling of the hall that it was difficult to distinguish when the day ended and the night commenced. .... . 1 The hall and its fixtures are a splendid triumph of your professional skill, and will ever remain a ' proud monument to youi^genius. Uncscal Corn Exchange Sales.— lncluded in the business at the Corn Exchange yesterday were I the sale* of two gazelles, a jackass and a donkey, all recent importations from the island of Malta. The jackass, which was of unusaal kise for these parts, was sold for two hundred and fifty dollars, rash. The donkey, a smaller breed of the same species, sold for seventy-fire dollars, cash; and the two gazelles, which were said to be beautiful specimens, were sold together for one hundred dollar* for the pair. The latter are merely design ed for pets on a gentleman's country estate. New York Journal of Commerce, Aug. 2®. A rich man sent to call a physician for a slight ' disorder. The physician felt his pulse and aßked, 11 Do you eat well ?” “ Yea,” said the patient. “ Do you sleep well ?” “ I <*<>•” “Then,” said the physician, “I ran give yon something to take away all that, if you think ■- hecessary. Boston, Aug. 25.-T® Canard sTramsMpNi agara sailed at noon for Lirerpooi, ti* ***> with forty-two passengers. - _ She carries out no speeie,