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oMcclUii (Constitutional tai BY JAMES GARDNER. Later from Utah~Brlsham*s Last Ha rangue. We make the following extracts from the Los Angelos Vineyard: From the toilowing, which appears at the head of the editorial columns of the Ileseret Mews, we infer that a controling influence of some kind has been exercised over the Mormon people. The First Presidency and a few others left Provo at six P. M. of June So, and arrived at thesr homes in Great Salt Lake City at thr-e A. M. of July 1. All who wish to return are at liberty to do so. Extract of a letter dated San Bernardino, Aug. 8, 1858: I have just returned from Utah, and thinking a few lines if intelligence may prove acceptable, I send you a copy ol the Deseret New*, of July 14. As you will perceive, everything is quiet. The people are all returning to their homes—the crops look well. The soldiers, some four thousand in number, passed through Salt Lake City on June 25. tu close order, and are now encamped at Cedar Valley, some sixty miles South-west ol the city. The following persons arrived at San Bernardi no last week from Utah: Martin Taylor and family, Carlos Shepherd and family, Mr. King and family, Mr. Stewart and fam ily, Mr. Parish and Hr. Mclntlre. The party brought with them eleven wagons They reported that mauy families will soon leave Utah for San Bernardino. Most of this party were former residents of San Bernardino. They report a state of great and increasing dis satisfaction among the Mormons, and the great probability of an entire disruption of the Mormon organization under Brigham Young. It is believ ed mauy will return East; others will enter Cali fornia both by the northern and southern route. A correspondent of the Los Angelos Otar, writ ing from San Bernardino, Aug. 17, says: By the arrival here ofa company from Salt Lake, I have been able to obtain the following informa tion which may be relied upon as being correct: Two thousand six hundred Uuited States troops, un ter command of Gen. Johnston, ar rived at Salt Lake City on the 20th of June, and are now stationed at Rush Valley, sixty miles South west of the city. At the time my informant left Salt Lake, an escort of five hundred troops, with Gen. Harney, was daily expected, and is sup posed to have arrived ere this. The Peace Commissioners have succeeded in adjusting all difficulties to the entire satisfaction ol all concerned. Gov. Cummings is in Salt Lake City, discharging the duties of his position. Ex- Governor Brigham Yonng returned from Provo with his family to Salt Lake City on the 30th of June. He has intimated that alt others may re turn at their pleasure. Eighty-three head of horses werefstolen’from Beav. r City by the Utah Indians, but by the in tervention of the new Indian Agent, they were all recovered. Daniel Taaft, Jefferson Hunt, and others, left the city with the mail tor Placerville dh the 4th of July. The crops alt look well, and promise an abun dant harvest. Gilbert *ud Gerrish arrived on the 20th of June, with about % ighty tons of assorted merchandise. Mr. Bel!, of the firm of Livingston & Kincaid, also arrived with a large train of merchandise at the same time. BINGHAM ON THE PRESENT STATE OP AFFAIRS. The toilowing are extracts from the discourse of Brigham Young, delivered June 27th, at Provo: I do not wish to say anything in regard to the life aud conduct of this people; those things are before the world ; and, as we have often publish ed, »ve challenge them to prove that we are not loyal subjects of this Government and the king dom of heaven. We have everything that pro duces peace and comfort, and will advance all men in life and happiness, so fur as they will per mit us. Let this suffice, and [ will give you the news. Wbat is the prefloat situation of affairs? For us the clouds seem to be breaking. Probably that many of you have already learned that Gen. John ston pa-sed through Great rjalt Lake City with bis command under the strictest discipline. Not a bouse, fence, or sidewalk has been infringed upon by any of Ins command. Os course the camp fol lowers are not under his coutrol—but so far ns bis command is concerned, while passing through the city, he has carried out bis promises to the letter. We told Commissioners Powell and McCulloch, in conference and in answer to questions, that we most assuredly believed all they said, and all that President Buchanan dictated them to say, so far as their interest w'as concerned. We said .hat we believed that President Bu chanan would fulfill his words when his own in terests prompted him so to do. We did not say win thur he would or not, in opposition to his iu- We have reason to believe that Col. Kane, on his arrival at the frontiers, telegraphed to Wash ing! n. and that orders were immediately sent to stop the inarch of the array for ten days. That sa' ora of an anxiety for peace. I expect to see, if the Lie advices of the government are carried out, that onion ut the United States army now here have the privilege of going where the interests of the country demand them ; and the portion that was to start for this place ordered in other direc tions. And when we hear certainly that there are no more troops com’ng here, we will believe that the government means peace, just as their Com missioners have told us. I can *av, so far as the moves have been made since the President sent his messengers of peace, tluo. everything bids fair for the fulfillment of so desirable a result, and that the President is doing all he can to correct past bad management. So soon us Gen. Johnston finds a place to locate his command - when weget news what be is going to do with his troops—we will go home. W omen, do not iniluee your husbands to go home just yet, but wait until the proper time. It will not he long first. How would it have been if this com munity had been at their homes at the present time- . , . . It is just as much as can be done, day by day, to bear the reflection that gamblers and corrupt men of every kind are coming into the these valleys. Do yon not know that you are much better here than you would he if you were nearer them ? Brothers, tarry where you are for a short time, and make yourselves comfortable. If any of the sis ters sav they have not a house to live in, they can go a short distance from their wagon and get bushes aud make sheds, and look as well, in my estimation, in doing that as going round to gossip with their neighbors. Fibs—Afire broke outlast night about half past twelve o’clock ic the large brick building, sit uated at the South-west corner cf State and Cum berland streets, owned and occupied by Mr. C. Werner, ana machine andiron feundrv establish ment The fire spread with great rapidity, and in a very short space of time the whole interior of this large brick struclute was one burning mass ; and at the time we write, a quarter of two o’clock, bare walls are standing. Nothing, we learn, was saved, aod the loss to Mr. W’eroer must be heavy, as we learo that h;s patterns were valued at fif teen or twenty thousand dollars. Ifr. W erner, we understand, is iseured for thirty thousand dol lars, but this amount will, by no means, cover his l0 The fire extended to the wooden building on the North-west corner of the above streets, occupied by 3 H. Meyer, aa a liquor statw, btt its progress was arrested by the well dii.votfli energies of onr fire men, and the building boo sustained, very Itttle ra- JU G»e of the workshops on the premises of the new Custom House, took fire lrorn sparks which blew fruross Irom State street. It sustained trifling * damage, as it was immediately extinguished by one of the engines which happened to be in the vicinity at the time. —OkurUtlon Courier, Oct. 2. Cotton G*owing is Algeria.—The cotton plan tations in Algeria, for the present season, are two thousand and fi/tv-eight hectares (.the hectare is two and a half acres) in extent; and of them one «. thousand and eighty-two hectares are in the pro vince of Oran, eight hundred and ninety-five in •hat of Constantine, eighty-one in that of Algeria. The number of plantations in the three provinces, exclusive of those made by Arab tribes in com mon, which, however, are inconsiderable, is four hundred and sixty. Unfortunately several planta tions have suffered from drought. Qalifnarn t {Pam} Utstsnger. Sir Wm. Gore Ouseley’s Mission to Cen- , iral America—English Treaty with Ni- 1 caragtia. The New York Tmei of the 27th ult., contains the complete draft of a treaty negotiated between England and Nicaragua, and accompanies the pub- - lication with the following remarks : “We are enabled at last to understand the cause t of Sir William Gore Ouseley’s prolonged residence ; in Washington, while holding the title of “ her ( Britannic Majesty’s envoy extraordinary and min- , ister plenipotentiary on a speeial mission to the Bepubltc of Ceutraf America.” Sir William origin- , ally; selected Washington as his headquarters, in , order to make himself perfectly familiar with all , the shoals and quicksands of the Central Ameri- , can imbroglio. That done, his duty was to watch ■. the movements of the American government, and J secure a treaty from Nicaragua as comprehensive 1 as any that we might negotiate. So far. StrWil- . liam has been very successful in his diplomacy, , and the following is a draft of a treaty which he, . with the assistance ol' Senors Molina and Jerez, , has drawn up. This draft was dispatched to the , Foreign office last June, and was sent back to this ( country by the Persia. It has been approved by , the British government, and will certainly be rat- , ified by Nicaragua. Sir William is now waiting j in New York forthearrival of a British war steam- , er to convey him to San Juan, lie goes out to . complete the treaty. He will then negotiate a j similar treaty with the other Central American , States.” . , The treaty contains twenty-eight articles, nine teen of which relate particularly to the comrner- , cial intercourse between the two nations, providing generally that complete reciprocity shall prevail between the people of each, and that all privileges ( enjoyed bv the subjects or citizens of any country in Great Britain and Nicaragua shall be enjoyed , by the citizens of each mutually. The next six ar- | tides relate to the transit across Nicaragua, and are as follows: ' Akt. 20. The Republic of Nicaragua hereby , grants to Great Britain, and to British subjects and property, the right of transit between the At lantic and Pacific oceans, through the territories of that Republic, on any route of communication, natural or artificial, whether by land or water, which may now or hereafter exist or be contracted under the authority of Nicaragua, to be used and enjoyed in the same manner and upon equal terms by both parties, and their respective subjects and citizens; the Republic of Nicaragua, however, re serving its right of sovereignty over the same; and, generally, the Republic ot Nicaragua engages to grant to Great Britain and to British subjects the .same rights and privileges, in all respects, in re gard to the transit and the rales of transit, which are or may be granted to, or allowed to be enjoyed by. he most favored nations. Art. 21. Her Majesty, the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, hereby agrees to extend her protection to all such routes of communication as aforesaid, and to guaranty the neutrality of the same. Her Majesty also agrees to employ her influence with other nations to induce them to guaranty such neutrality and pro tection. And the Republic of Nicaragua, on Us part, undertakes to establish two free ports, one at each of the extremities of the communication afore said, on the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. At these ports, no tonnage or other duties shall be imposed or levied by the government of Nicaragua on the vessels of Great Britain, or on any effects or mer chandise belonging to suLjevits ot Great Britain, or of any other country, intended bonajide lor transit across the said route of communication, arid not for consumption within the Republic of Nicaragua. Her Britannic Majesty shall also be at liberty to carry troops and munitions ot war, in her own vessels, or otherwise, to either of the said free ports, and shall bo cntUltd to their conveyance between them, without obstruction by the authori ties of Nicaragua, aud without any cha.geSor tolls whatever for their transportation, on any of the said routes of communication. And no higher or 1 other charges or tolls shall be imposed on the con vevaoce or transit of the persons and property of ' subjecti ol Great Britain, or of the subjects nr 1 citizens of any other country, across the said routes ' of communication, than are or may be imposed on the persons or property of citizens of Nicaragua. And the Republic of Nicaragua recognises the 1 right of the postmaster-general of Great Britain to enter into contracts with any individuals or companies to transport the mails of Great Britain along the said routes of communication, or along any other routes across the Isthmus, in closed bags, the contents of which may not be intended lor distribution vrilhin the said Republic, free from the imposition of all taxes or duties by the government of Nicaragua; but this lioerty is not to be construed so as to permit such individuals or companies, by virtue of this right to transport the mails to curry also passengers or freight, ex cept any messenger deputed by'the British post office in charge of mails. Art. 22. The Republic of Nicaragua agrees that, should it become necessary at any time to . employ military for the security and protection of persons and property passing over any ot the routes aforesaid, it will employ therequisne force . for that purpose; but upon tatlure to do this tor any cause whatever, her Biiianttc Majesty may, after notice to the government of Nicaragua, or to the minister thereof at London or Paris, employ such force for this and for no other purpose: and when the necessity ceases, such force shall be im mediately withdrawn. Aut. 23. It is understood, however, that her Britannic Majesty, iu according protection to such routes of communication, and guaranteeing theii centrality and security, always intends lhat the protection and guarantee are granted conditional ly, and may be withdrawn if her Britannic Majes ty should deem that the persons or company un dertaking or managing the same adopt or estab lish each regulations concerning the traffic there upon as arc contrary to the spirit and intention of this treaty, either by making unfair discrimina tions in favor of the commerce of any other na tion or nations, or by imposing oppressive exac tions or unreasonable tolls upon mails, passengers, vessels, goods, wares, merchandise, or other arti c.ee. The aforesaid protection and guarantee shall not, however, be withdrawn by her Britanic Ma jesty without first giving six months’ notice to the Republic of Nicaragua. Art. 24. And it is further understood and agreed that, in any grant or contract which may hereafter bemadeor entered into by the government of Ni caragua, having reference to the interoceanic routes above reterred to, or any ad* them, the rights and privileges granted by this™mvention to her Brittanic Majesty and to British subjects shall be fully protected and reserved; and if any such grant or contract now exist of a valid character, it is further understood that the guarrantee and pro tection of her Brittanic Majesty, stipulated in article twenty-one of this treaty, shall be held mopperative and void until the holders of such grant or contract shall recognise the concessions made in this treaty to her brittanic Majesty and to - British subjects with respect to such interoceanic routes or any of them, and shall agree to observe, and be governed by, those concessions as fully as if they bad been embraced in their original grant or coniracl; alter which recognition and agreement, the said guaran tee and protection shall be in full force; ptovided that nothing therein coDtained shall he construed either to affirm or deny the validity of any of the said contracts. Art. 25. After ten years from the completion of a canal, railroad, or any other route of commu nication, through the Territory of Nicaragua, from the Atlantic to the Pacific ocean, no company which rnav have constructed, or he in posses sion of the'satue, shall divide, directly or indirect ly, by the issue of new stock, the payment of divi dends, or otherwise, more than fifteen per cent, per annum, or at that rate, to its stockholders, from tolls collected thereupon; but whenever the tolls shall be found to yield a larger profit than this, they shall be reduced to the standard of fif teen per cent, per annum. Article twenty-six declares that nothing in this treaty shall be construed to affect the claim of the government and citizens of Costa Rica to a free transit on the San Juan river. Article twenty seven limits the duration of the treaty to seven years, or longer, subject to termination thereafter on twelve months’ notice. We regret to learn by a telegraphic dispatch to a gentleman in this city that Mr. John S. Binford, or this city, died in New York on Monday evening, of fever, —Savannah Mews, Oct. 1. AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1858. From the Washington Uusoet, Sept. Si). , Periodical Return of Comets, and their , Influence. < The periods of comets m their revolutions around , the sun exhibit a wide diversity. Encke’s comet, , which has the shortest known' period, completes . its revolution in one thousand two hundred and , eight days, or about three and one-third years; , and it is remarkable that each period is two days | longer than the preceding. The comet of 1811 is , estimated to have a period of no less than three , thousand three hundred and eighty-three years. , Btela’s comet has been seen many times, and its j orbit is accurately calculated; its time of revolu- , tion is about six years and eight months. But | themost celebrated is lhat knowu as Halley’scomet, | whose period of revolution is about seventy-five ( jyr seventy-six years. Antecedently to the fifteenth , century we possess no other evidence of the iden tity of these bodies, except the record of their ap- | pearance at the times at" which we know, from , their ascertained periods, they ought to have ap- , peared. Adopting this lest ot identity, we have , the appearance of Halley’s comet in the year S2B, , und again in 320, when it was described as a com- , et of prodigious magnitude. The next recorded appearance of a comet agreeing with the ascer- > tained period marks the tuking of Rome by Totila, ] in the year 550. After completing five revolu- , tions, it was again seen in 030; and it again ap- | Kd in 1005, on its next return. Three revo- , i would now seem to have passed unrecord- | ed, when the comet makes its appearance once more in the year 1230. Its next visit was in 1305, when a comet is recorded of remarkable appearance and it was again seen in 1880. We now arrive at the first appearance at which observations were taken, possessing sufficient accuracy to en&bls ] subsequent ttivestigators to determine the path of the comet; and this is accordingly the first comet , the identity of which with tile comet of Halley can , be said to be conclusively established. In the year 1456 a comet is stated to have appeared of “ unheard of magnitude;’’ it was accompanied by a tail which exteuded over sixty degrees, or one-, third of the visible heavens, and continued to be seen through the whole month of June. It was re garded by many as the celestial indication of the rapid success of Mahmoud the Second, who had taxen Constantinople and struck terror into the whole Christian world. Pope Calixtus 111. levelled the thunders of the Church against the enemies of his faith, terrestial and celestial, and in the same bull exorcised the Turks und the comet; and in order that the niemury of this manifestation of his power should be forever preserved, he ordained that the bells of all the . hnrehes should he rung at mid-day—a custom which is preserved in those countries to our times. It must be acknowledged, however, that, notwithstanding the terrors of the Church, the comet pursued its course without any deviation, and gradually disappeared in the dis tance, returning with its accustomed regularity in the year 1581, when it was carefully observed by Pierre Appian. These observations were sufficient ly exact to enable Halley to identify this comet, be yond the shadow of a doubt, with that observed by himself in 1682. lu the meantime, it had been seen on its return in 161>6-7 by the celebrated Kepler. In 1682 practical astronomy had madeconsiderable ad vances, and this comet was carefully observed at Paris, Dantzic. Padua, and in England. Shortly after this, Halley undertook to make a table of those comets which had appeared previous to his day, with a view to discover whether auy, and which of them, appeared to follow the (same path. Antecedently to the year 1700, four hundred and twenty-live of these bodies had been recorded in history; but those which had appeared before the fourteenth ceutuiv had not been submitted to any observation by which their paths could be ascer tained with a sufficient degree of precision to identify them with those of other comets. Subse quently to the year 1300, however, Halley found twenty-four comets on which observations jiad 1 been made aud recorded, with a degree of pre ! ciston sufficient to enable him to calculate the ' actual paths which those bodies followed while they were visible. On comparing their paihs, he [ found that the paths of the ot metis of 1531 and 1806 were very nearly identical, and that they 1 we re in fact the same as the path followed by the 1 comet observed by himself ill 1682. Ho therefore was the first to unnounce tho identity of these several comets, and predicted the re-appearance of 1 this celestial visitor in 1758 or 1759. As this period approached, all the astronomers of the civilised world were on the alert, and were grati fied by the fulfilment of the prediction, the comet being first seen on the night of Christmas day, 17087” It remained visible for several months, passing its perihelion on the 13th of March, 1759. The orbit of this comet had now been calculated with such accuracy that its return to its perihelion was confidently predicted to take place in Novem ber, 1835. Moos. Damoiscau fixed on the 4th of theimmtth as the day, and M. I’ontecoulant on tbe 7th; and it actually urrived at that point only a few days afterwards—namely, on the 16th of November. On this occasion its tail tvus about . thirty degrees in length. The next appearance of this Comet will be in the year 1911. At its perihelion it comes within fifty-seven millions of miles of the sun, and at its uphelmn it is sixty times that distance. One of the most remarkable comets which have appeared in modern times is lhat which made its appearance Inwards the close of the year 1680, and which was particularly observed by most of the astronomers of Europe. This comet was remark able for its very near approach to the sun. At its perihelion it was not above one-sixth part of the sun’s diameter from its surface, and its velocity, according io Sir Isaac Newton, was eight hundred and eighty thousand miles an hour. At its aphe lion it is seven times the distance of Uranus from the sun. The period of this comet is supposed to be about five hundred and seventy-five years. It is conjectured that it is the same that was seen in . the forty-fourth year before Christ, in which year Julius Caesar was murdered, and was subsequently seen in the year 531, during the consulate of Luin padius and Orestes, and which appeared in 1106, during the reign of Henry I. This being ths case, its next return may be expected about the year 2255. As thousands are now nightly watching the comet which is visible in the North-west, and which is constantly increasing in splendor and magnitude, it may be well to devote a few mo ments to an inquiry whether the popular senti ment be well founded, of regarding comets as prognosticators of remarkable events. For thou sands of years it has been believed by many that comets were the precursors of wars, famine, or pestilence. While popular superstition may have exceeded the truth in this respect, it would be ar rogant to declare that snch a belief was entirely without foundation. In reference to this point, Dr. Dick, an able and sensible writer, says: •• Although I do not admit the conclusions and the cometary iofluenccs to which I have alluded, I am far from asserting that comets have no in fluence whatever over our globe or its surrounding atmosphere. The universe is one great whole, and all its parts, however remote, must he sup posed to have a certian rela ion to one another; and they may produce an influence, however small and imperceptible, on each other at the greatest distances. The remotest star perceptible to the eye may produce a certain physical influence on our globe, though so small and insensible as to be beyond the limits of the nicest calculation; and Iherefore comets, which sometimes approach pret ty near the eaith, may produce a certain sensible effect upon our globe, particularly should a por tion of their immense tails sweep along the higher regions of our atmosphere. We know that cer tain celestial bodies produce a powerful influence on our globe. The moon, in conjunction with the solar influence, rules the ocean, and perpetuates the regular return* of ebb and flow. Its light not only cheers our winter nights, but produces a va riety of other influences, both on the human con st! tution, the atmosphere, and on the productions ofihe earth; and there may he many effects produ ced by its agency with which we are as yet unac quarxted. The sun not only difl'oses light over every regios of the earth tor the purpose of vision, but rays or emanations invisible to our sight proceed from his body, which promote evaporation, the growth of vegetable*, and the various degrees of temperature which prevail throughout the globe. These ema nations are likewise found to produce certain chemical effects, to dissolve certain combinations of oxygen, and to give polarity to the magnetic needle; and many other effects of which we are ignorant may afterwards be found to proceed from those invisible irradiations. The largest planets, Jupiter and Saturn, and those which are nearest to us, as Venus and Mars, may likewise produce certain effects on our globe, both-in virtue of their i attractive power and of the peculiar nature of the reflected rays they transmit to the region we occu py. We cannot, therefore, but conclude that com ets may exert a peculiar influence on our terrestial system in addition to that of the other celestial bodies, and different from it, particularly those whose bulk and masses are considerable, and which approach nearest to the earth. * * This subject is worthy of some attention; and perhaps luture observers, by more accurate observations than Have hitherto been made, may throw some lightnn an influence which, on the one hand, has been > perhaps too rashly set aside, and, on the other, carried to a pitch'of extravagance beyond the tine of sober reason and observation.” The celebrated astronomer, M. Arago, although he rejects the iuea of comets being the cause of moat calamitous events, yet admits lhat “ not only cometary matter may fall into our atmosphere, bat that this phenomenon is of a nature to occur fre quently, and mav possibly produce those epidemic diseases which have been attributed to it.” Sir Isaac Newton also admitted the influence of comets. The idea that a comet may strike the earth, we be lieve, has been rejected by modern astronomers, without exception. In 1882 some German jour nalists predicted the destruction of the earth by a comet, and great alarm was caused in consequence; bat such fears are utterly without foundation. ’ From the New York Evening Pott. Church Scandal —Bishop Doant and the Rev. Ur. Carden.— We published a few days since, as partof ihMjews of the day, an admonition from the Right ""Reverend Bishop Doane, of New Jersey, addressed to a Reverend Mr. Carden, of i’hiikdelphia, who, as we gather from the bishop’s statement of the case, was guilty of an “act of mis behavior ” in inviting a Methodist minister to as sist him inyflpninistering the Communion in the Diocese of New Jersey. Mr. Carden does not ap pearto enter on his justification in Philadelphia— where he resides—butopens his batteries upon the bishop in the Protestant Churchman, of this city, in the following terms: . “Mere is a bishop who was presented for trial by thrpe of bis peers, all of unblemished and exalted reputation, under charges of grossly immoral con duct, dishonesty, and drunkenness. His accusers declared publicly that they believed him guilty, and stood ready to prove the charges they had brought. He shrunk from an investigation, and by desperate wriggling escaped it, thereby bring ing a atigtna upou his order. “ This Bishop allows one of his own presbyters in a prominent church, in the largest city of his diocese, to disgrace the church by intemperance, and raises no voice of rebuke. Butlo! a presbyter of another diocese happens in a place of public re sort, on the extreme point of a little spur of tho State that forms his diooese, to commit what, at most, was but a trifling breach of ecclesiastical order, and out comes a ridiculous and empty in “We say an empty interdict, for what force will It carry V' None whatever. No moral force, for its source and character both preclude that. No legal force, for the day has not yet come when a single bishop can make canons and execute them. When a bishop becomes such an absolute monarch in his dioeese, that no presbyter can officiate in it in the smallest act, without his consent, it will he refreshing to be made aware of it. We doubt not that the Rev. Mr. Carden wiil treat the affair with the disrespect it so richly merits.” This is pretty severe, and the better to appre ciate its full meaning, it may be added, that the I Protestant Churchman is edited by three eminent ■ clergymen of the Episcopal Church—Rev. Dr. 1 Tvng, Rev. Dr. Anthon, aud Rev. Dr. Canfield. From the Georgia Telegraph. A Slatesiimn’s Home. As the traveller passes over the Georgia railroad fraei Atlanta to Augusta, he will observe on the commit of a ridge on the outskirts ot the village of Crawfordville, a two-story wooden house', well shaded by *. grove of venerable oaks, and with u lawn iu Irout gently sloping to the South, planted with no great order iu regard to shrubbery and fruit trees. The house is without auy pretension to modern architectural style, but is built after the fashion und iu conformity with the plans of ihe country residences of wealthy Georgia planters thirty years ago. This modest mansion, with this novel and at tractive surroundings, is the domicil of a gentle man who has occupied no small share of public attention for the last fifteen years. He is known to his immediate circle of friends as “Aleck”—to his neighbors and acquaintances of Tuliaferro county, as “Squire Stephens,” and to the Repub lic at large as "Stephens of Georgia.” The of Alexander 11. Stephens is a household word in the eighth district. Mr. Stephens began to practice law in Crawford ville about the year 1831, and boarded in the fami ly of the estimable gentleman who resided in and owned the house to which we have referred above. At life death Mr. Stephens was left his Executor, and at the sale of the real estate became the pur chaser of the house and twenty acres of land ad joining, and bus resided there hi me that time when not in attendance on public duties at Wash ington. Until recently no material changes were made in the house, and even now to the front view it stands as originally built—two stor es—porch with plain columns—eight rooms, passage in the middle, Ac. Recently, two rooms intended for li brary and bed chamber, and a small and airy pas sage, have been added to the house. North of the mansion and on the slope ofa hill is the garden, orchard and vineyard, and if a visi tor in the month of August should tarry a day in the quiet village near by, and should gratify a par donable curiosity by looking over the place, he will find a well selected and choice variety of fruits —peaches, pears, apples, strawberries, grapes, Ac. While strolling over the garden, if the visitor will cast his eye North eastward, he will see tho smoke curling up from the chimneys of a farm house about two miles dislaut and on the highest point of land in the circuit of bis vision. This is the treasured spot above all others to Mr. Stephens. It is his family homestead, the place where his grandfather settled Bhortly after the revolution—trie place where his lather lived and died, and the place upon which the statesman was bum. A ride of a half hour over a brokeu hut beautiful oouotry will bring you to the farm, and ou the right of the road and buta short distance from the farm buildings, on the top of a hill, is the spot where his father lived. The buildings haveall been removed, and there are no traces to the eye of a Btrangcr left to mark the spot, but they are indel ibly impressed upon the memory of Mr. Htepheiis. •Just under that clump of trees is the spring, still flowing pure and free, from which he drank. Near by is the grove of wide-spreadmg oaks under whose refreshing and friendly shade be was accus tomed to play, and all around are the hills over which he clambered when a boy. All these me mentoes of youth are treasured recollectioos with a man whose name is famous for eloquence, learn ing and patriotism, from the Ariostook to the Rio Grande. And it is refreshing to observe the in fluences of home and heartifand youthful associa tions. upon so exalted a nature aud such a loity intellect—to see a great man with such affections glowing, spreading and kindling with tremulous feeling over the recollections of early home an i boyhood, in this utilitarian, practical, uuromanlic age, makes one feel and know that the “greal events with which old story ” are not ail vain and hollow. Nsw York, Sept. 29.—The coast of the suppres sion of the Indian mntiny is begining to excite alarm in England. It is estimated that before the close of the campaign forty millions of pounds sterling will be added to the debt of India, and that there will be an annual deficit of six millions. The Times says that the two most important articles of the China treaty are the resident minister at Pekin, and the right of Englishmen to go to any part of the empire for curiosity or trade. The Valencia correspondent of the Times says that it is according to the ex periments of ProfTThomson, that water has reach ed the conducting wire in at least one place, not less than two hundred and twenty miles from shore. Death of Emerson Foote. It becomes our painful duty to announce the tl death of Emerson Foote, Esq., Superintendent of fi the Central Railroad, who died of yellow fever at c nine o’clock last night, at the residence of R. R. «’ Cuvier. Esq. 8 Mr. Foote was a native of Springfield, Massachu- y setts. Previous to his coming to Georgia, some t twelve years since, hehadhad the superintendency h of several important roads at the North, snd had 1 acquired a reputation for practical knowledge, sci- r entific attainments, and administrative talent, such c as few men possess. j About the year 1846 he took charge of the Ma- , con and Western railroad, then in a most pros- j trate condition, but which, under his management, , soon became one of the most prosperous roads in < the South. During his connection with Ihe Macon , and Western road Mr. F. resided in Macon, where 1 he was universally esteemed and respected. In September, 1857, he was appointed to the sit- ; penntendency of the Central railroad, which posi tion he filled with credit to himself, profit to the company, and satisfaction to the public. During bis brief residence here he had won the respect and esteem of our public, and had made many warm personal triends, who will deeply deplore bis untimely death. In the death of Emerson Foote, the Central rail road loses a chief officer, whose place it will be difficult to supply, and our community an intelli gent, useful ana exemplary citizen. Savannah News, Oct. 1. Official Report of Interments. Savannah, Oct Ist, 1858. 1 7 o’clock, P. M. ) The following is a list of the interments in the city cemeteries for the last twenty-four hours: Laurel Grove Cemetery. —Richard D. Brown, aged nineteen years, yellow fever, Brooklyn, New York; John Wobltman, aged thirty-three years, Covulsions, Germany; Lewis E. Williams, aged one year und ten months and twenly-ihrce days, whooping cough, Savannah; Emer.-oh Foote, aged fifty years, yellow fever, Massachusetts; George Daniel Heidt, aged ten months, cholera infantum, Chatham county; Susan Carter, aged fifty-seven years, yellow fever. South Carolina; Ann White, aged two years, yellow fever. Savannah. Blacks and Colored.— Frank, aged thirteen days, spasms. Cathedral Cemetery. —Bridget Martin, aged sixty years, yellow fever, Ireland: William Sheedv, aged nine years and nine months, yellow fever, Eng land; Dominick Thee, aged six'y-fnitr years, bil lious fever, Italy; Charles Sullivan, aged nine years, yellowlfever, Savannah. W. T. Thompson, Chairman, Board of Health. Savannah News, Oct. 2. From the Utica Daily Observer, Sejit. 27. A Thrilling Incident. During the examination ol' the caaes of alleged frauds upon the Pension office at quite an exciting incident occurred. Captain Minor, a veteran of the war of 1812, a very intelligent old gentleman, was introduced as a witness. He was shown one of his old pav-rolls by Mr. Perkins, a clerk of the Pension office at Washington, and asked if he recollected several of his soldiers whose names were pointed out to him upon it. He readily answered that he did. Question by the Diatriet Attorney : Do you re collect a soldier in your company by the tiamo of BarreDger? Answer: I do, very well. Question : Would you know that man now t , Answer: Ido not think that I should ;itis a l loug time since l bare seen him—more than forty years. Commissioner Conkling then called upon Bar renger, who was in the room among ihe witnesses from Tioga county, to stand up. He rose in a dis tant part of the room, stood firm and upright, in every respect a soldier, and bowed respectfully to 1 Ins old captain, who, after viewing him tor a mo e men!, shook hit head dubiously, mid *#id, “Ido a not recollect him,” and added : “ Gentiwrieti, it is I a long timesince t have *e«al*irq. lijjf fi NT-six ‘ yearn this very day since I led with tiff cotripitny I the American army of three thousuna men into I Sackett’s Harbor In a moment, without regard.to time or place, or i the fitness of the occasion, a tponlaneoii* cheer, i loud and long, broke from the audience. There r stood, unexpectedly to each other, the two old sol -1 diers face to face, who had, almost half a century ago, ntarehed shoulder lo shoulder to the frontier • to defend their country from an invading foe. They ■ imd met now for the first time since then ; and that upon the anniversary of Ibai patriotic action, i Ho sudden and sympathetic was the expression that the worthy marshal, Col Jewett, allowed his pa ' triotiam to get the start of his love of order and de corum, and forgot to rap with his usual promptness. . And the face ol the good Matured Commissioner, Mr. Conkling, seemed more smiling than ever, and to us uppeared more expressive of satisfaction than of angtr. The lust we saw of the old soldi rs was ufter the adjournment of the court, wo o they were together in the midst of a circle ot people fighting over their old battles. Tub Great Eastkiin Steamship.— lt is already well known that the proprietors of the Leviathan or Great Eastern steumer have for some time beer, in difficulties, so great us to prevent them from finishing the vessel. At length, however, un ar rangement has been made which ufftr ds a pros lieet of this great national project being Ultimate y carried to a successful issue, though by other parties than the present proprietors. A company lias been formed iu the city <•> purchase and finish the vessel, and work her between London and America. This association is culled the British and American Great Eastern Hteam Navigation Company. It has been got up by a number of commercial gentlemen, one of whom is Mr. Hughes, the la'e superintendent of Messrs. Hcott, Russell A Company’s yard, and in fact of the building of the Leviathan throughout. After a series of nego tiations with the original company, arrangements tiave been made lor the purchusc of the vessel lor two hundred aud fifty thousand pounds sterling, being less than one-third of the amount she had cost, viz: eight hundred thousand pounds sterling, and less than the material would letch if the ves sel were sold broken up, and sold by auction in " lots.” The company has been registered under the Joint-Stock Companies Acts 1856-57. The ad vertisem nts will appear in a day or two. The capital is fixed at five hundred thousand pounds sterlmg, in shares of tens, each, of which two shil- I ngs and six pence is to lie paid on application, two shillings and six pence on allotment, and the remaining live shillings in instalments, at inter vals of two months. It is mtended to finish the vessel between this and*'.e spring, and if there is any lime to spare, she, .<1 be used for the purpose of exhibition. It j r .Men proposed to place her on the route between Liverpool and Portland, United Htates, the port to which the Canadian mails are at present carried, and theDce by rail to Toronto, Ottowa, Quebec, and the other British settlements in North America. London Uorning Stair, Sept. 14. A Hhrkwd Financier.—A certain church m this city, being about to replenish their Sabbath school library with new books, wished to raise Ihe sum of two hundred and fifty dollars for that pur pose. At the morning service one Sunday they appointed one of the influential brethern to fix up on a plan. In the intermission he took his pencil and marked rfjainst every membes's name the ium which he thought he ought to give. At tlie close of the afternoon service he read the list, stating that if any one had been assessed too much or not enough be must speak. Suffice it to - say, silence p. evaded in the assembly, and in sis • teen minutes the sum was raised. ! New Bedford Mercury. i t A Break Discovered in the Atlantc Cable. — The workmen employed in cutting up thecshle in t ihe machine shop at the Brooklyn navy yard, found t a break a short time since in the communicating, l copper wire aoout three-cightbs of an 1 neb long, r through which the saw passed in the solid gutta percha, showing that tho disconnection must have occurred during the process of manufacture, and • therefore leading lo the very great probability that • other similar lesions may have occurred in other t pans ol the cable. What have the electncians to I say in regard lo this fact, which is reliably authen ticated?—N. Y. Timet. VOL. 37-JS O. 41. Fob Ready Money Only. —“ Talking about that,” he began, “ I married a man the other day for the third time. Man in my parish. Capital cricketer when he was young enough to run. ’Whatyour foe?’ said he. ‘Licensed marriage?’ says 1. ‘Guinea, of course.’ ‘l’ve got to bring your tithes in three weeks, sir,’ savs he. ‘Give me tick till then.’ ‘All right,’ says I, and married him. In three weeks he comes and pays his tithes like a man. ‘Now, sir,’ says be, ‘about this mar riage fee, sir? Ido hope you will kindly let me oB at half price, for I’ve married a bitter tad ’un this ttme, I've got a half guinea about me, sir, if you’l only please to take it. She isn’t worth a furibing more—on the word ot a man, she isn’t, sir!’ I looked hard in bis face, and saw two scratches on it, and took the half guinea, more out of pity than anything else. Lesson to me, however. Never marry a man on credit as long as I live. Ready money—eb 1 Ha! ba! ha! O, yes! ready money next time.” Dickens’ Household. Words. Peatu or a V eteran.— Sergeant Wilson, of the Ordnance arm of the United States army, died on Tuesday last at Fort McHenry, near Baltimore. He was forty-five years old, and the last twenty years of his life have been spent in the urmy. He was with the American army under Gen. Z. Tay -1 lor in Mexico, and fought in the battles of Monte ' rey, Vera Cruz, Cerro Gordo, and most of the bloody engagements in the valley of Mexico. He was remarked for his bravery, and tbe late Gen. Persifor F. Smith mentioned' him by name in his general despatches to the government at Washing ton, and at the conclusion of the war he was pre sented with a certificate of merit. Washington Union, Sept. 80. , Growth of tue Nails.— Some interesting facts ' are stated in the journals of medicine in regard to , the increase of the uails and hair in man. From 1 the statements made, it appears thatthe growth of , the uails is more rapid in children than in adults, 1 and slowest in the aged. It goes on more prompt e ly in summer than in winter, so that the same i, nail which is renewed in one hundred and thirty n two days in winter, requires only one hundred and i, sixteen in summer- a fact depending on tbe “ vis vitalis,” which seems to be proportioned to it. I. The increase of uails of the right hand is mors rapid than of the left. It differs, also, for the dif f eront lingers, anil in corresponding with the I length of the finger—being more rapid for the - middle finger, nearly equal tor the two either side -of this, slower for tue little finger, and slowest for 5 the thumb. The growth of tho hair is well known to be much accelerated by frequent cutting. It forms more rapidly bv.day than at night, and in but seasons than in cold. Cort of the Africans.— A correspondent of the Charleston Mercury states that the Africans found on hoard the Echo, which was recently captured i off the coast of Cuba, by the Dolphin, were pur ) chased on the West t oast of Africa at from fifty i cents to one dollar a head: and costing scarcely 1 more than ten or fifteen dollars to be delivered on s the coast of Cuba. The cost of returning them to a their native jungles will be about a thousand doL f lars a piece. I/ovk Ann Camnuita UtKJoaroKTABLT Qitebb. — A few Sundays ago, a youthful couple, belong ing to the immediate neighborhood of Melrose were obaerved walking cloaely together under tho shelter of a small umbrella, apparently at the climax of human happiness, and wendiug their way through the damp atmosphere to listen to a sennoD in the Established Church, when, I nek-a day, “the nether gurments” of the fair form be gan tn appear uncomfortably queer, and after a good deal of vain exertion, a complete disarrange , tnent commenced by the successful downfall of one, two, three, four massive hoops, which, a* , every one would suppose, were evidently meant , to nut upon the same principle ns the yards qf a ship do when her sails are unfurled. Conse ’ quently, the sudden hauling in of the anils had the „ instantaneous effect of bringing both male uud s female forms to a fixed stand/’ However, bj . th» Irh'liTJlr cover of the umbrella m IrauUiUll the , support of the sail of the Green Yards in the rear, the loving couple, no doubt much chagrined, r managed to keen themselves as seeluded as cir cumstances would p»>-mil until the throng of the ! church-goers hud „iunewhat abated, when, having summoned sufficient courage, they returned to sermonise a'.one ou tlio unfortunate occurrence tn a more synagogue. — Kelso Chronfile. Hkmarkabi.s Instanck or Canisb Ikhtinct.- We were Informed by a reliable individual, of a singu lar incident that occurred a few days ago at I’rcn . ton, a station on tho Detroit and Toledo rail road. A little girl about two years of age, a child of a brakesman living near the road, got upon the ’ track and was in the act of crawling across the i timbers that spun a cattle guard, when an express train appeared in sight coming at full speed. Thq i engineer saw the child and whistled down the breukes, but the train was under such heudwuy and so n-ur, its destruction would have hern in evitable had not a little dog. a playmate of the child's run out, cuught the child by its dress and dragged it front the truck into the ditch, where it held it until the train passed by I This la Os the most remarkable occurrences wo have heard of in u long time, undone we could hardly credit coming from a less reliable source. Detroit Advertiser. Cork tor tub Bit* op a Man Don. — A writer in the national Intelligencer says, that spirits of hartshorn is a cel turn remedy for the bite of a mad dog. The wound, it adds, should be constantly bathed with it, and three or four doses diluted, taken inwardly during the day. The bartaberu decomposes chemically the virus insinuated into the wound, and immediately alters and destroys its deleteriousness. The w't iter, who resided m Brazil for some time, first tried it for the bite of a scorpion, and found that it removed pain and in humation almost instantly. Subsequently, be tried it for the bite of the rattlesnake, with similar suo cess. At the suggestion of the writer, an old friend arid physician tried it in cases of hydropho bia, and always with success. A I,aw Anitnxo Psopi,*.— The citizens of Mil waukte are the most law abiding people in the world. We asked oue of them why so many peo ple were drowned in the riTer, and he replied that it was on account of an ordinance of that city, which forbids swimming within the city limits. When one of them slipped in, be recalled the or dinance at once, and rather than violate it went cheerfully to the bottom without a struggle. Tit* Comkt —Oppicial.—Mr. Boxo, the Director of the Harvard College Observatory, publishes in the Boston Advertiser the following statements and predictions relative to the comet, whose ap pearance is so splendid a feature in the nocturnal heavens at this time: To the Klitore of the Daily Advertiser : Donaiti’s comet will, in a few days, appear to in crease rapidly in size and brilliancy. It will be nearest the earth on the 9th of October, at which time its brilliancy will be nearly three times as : groat as on the 28d oi September, and its distunoe From ua about fifty-two millions of miles. According to Mr. Hall’s computation, the tail of this C»met, on the 23d instant, extended to the t length of fifteen millions of miles. The nucleus will be near the bright star Arcturus, October stb, • and nearest the earth’s orbit on the 20tb. > Some confusion seems to prevail in regard to ’ there being two comets, similar in appearance, now > visible to the naked eye, but sn«b is not the case. ■ Donatti’s,which isseenin the North-west sfter sun set, is the same which has been seen tn the North east before sunrise in the morning. This is owing to the considerable northern declination of the I comet, with a right ascension differing but little from that of the sun. I mention this because I have had several letters from different parts of the . country, making the inquiry whether there are two comets now to Be seen by the naked eye. Encke’s eomet is barely visible to the naked eye, Tuttle’s third comet of 18.18, can now be seen only with the assistance of a telescope. W. C. Bo.xo. Harvard College Observatory. NbwYobx, Sept. 30.—Victor Milling and Mis# Annie Spott, of Richmond, Va., are set down as among toe lost on the Austria.