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# T>Y JAMES GARDNER. Pennsylvania Elections. I; i* '.veil ku-iwn to cur readers that the Do in ccratic party met will: a severe dvfeut in the tlec recently he!-.2 ia Pennsylvania. The JLvilg-d- of Philadelphia, sais: “ Tae election or* Tuesday, though warmly con tested. passed off very quietly. The result niav be fold m a very few words. * The Democrats have been badly beaten, losing all their Congressional districts except th * first, where Colonel Tticinas lh Fi renec has been success Ia 1, and all tLe county offices. The electiou in the First Congres sional District was very severely contested, and the chief interest of the event seemed to concen trate there. The present Representative, Col. Flo rence, had to contend, not only with the People’s party, but with a division in his own party, which used every exertion to defeat him. In this dis trict there were occasional conflicts, especially in the extreme eastern and western porti ns of it. Few arrests, however, were made, us the police were instructed to allow the largest liberty. Two Baltimoreans were arrested in the fourth ward or> the charge of illegal voting, and were held for a further hearing. In the evening, after the polls had been closed, large numbers collected about the different head-quarters and the newspaper offices, anxious to ascertain the result. Proces sions were formed in many of the wards, and, headed with music, paraded through the city, cheering at diiierent points. Up to a late hour the city was the scene of much excitement. In thellrst Congressional district the vote stood, Florence, Democrat, six thousand one hundred and eighty-six; Ryan, “ people’s,” five thousand six hundred aud ninety-three ; Nebinger, Independent Democrat, two thousand one hundred and fifteen ; Broom, American, in the fourth district, polled two hundred and fifty-two votes. The American can didate for Sheriff polled three hundred and thirty seven votes. The Republicans have elected their candidate for State Senator, Johu 11. Parker, and a majority of their Assemblymen. So far as known, .Smith, Quigley, Wharton and Evans are the only Demo cratic Assemblymen elected out of the seventeen districts iu the city. The Democrats fose two members of Congress ic the city—the third and fourth districts. The partisan papers, of course, assign various reasons for the result. Forney’s Piess thinks it was brought about by “ Lecompton.” It adds, how ever: But this result is not o.nly attributable to the uprising of the people against the betrayal of their representatives and the gross desertion of the popular principle by the chief magistrate of the Republic; but it is, at the same time, a tribute to Pennsylvania feeling, and to that idea which is cherished by all our people—that of protection to American industry. The Pennsylvanian, ( Deni.,) contends that Le compton and Kansas had nothing to do with it. The tariff, it says, did the business. The North AniHcan claims the result as a general rebuke of the National Administra tion, and adds*: Republicans, Americans, Democrat?, Whigs» and others, equally patriotic, of different organi zations, united heartily and honestly with us on this occasion, and to each and all belong the credit of the moral victory which has been achieved. The First Discoveries ofSteam Power. lion. Edwahu Everett, on the 3dth tilt., de livered an oration at an Agricultural Fair at Dan vers, Massachusetts, in which occurs the following remarkable pass-ge: “I never contemplate the history of navigation of the odcan by steam, but it seems to illustrate to me in the most striking manner the slow steps by which a great movement moves forward for gene rations, for ages, from the first germ—then, when the hour is come, the rapidity with which it rushes to a filial consummation. [Applause.] Sir, Providence offered this great problem of navigating the ocean by steam to every civilised na tion almost on the globe. As long ago as the year 1543 there was a Captain in Spain who construct ed a vessel in the presence of the Emperor Charles V, (I state facts, sir, of but limited no toriety,) and in the presence cf Charles V and the court at Barcelona he exhibited a vessel ot two hundred tons propelled by an engine construction which he kept a secret. But ancient documents tell us it was a monster cauldron boiler of water, and that 'there were two movable wheels on the outside of the vessel. The Emperor was satisfied with the operation, but the treasurer of the king dom made great objection to the introduction. The engine itself seems to hive sprung to a poiut of perfection hardly surpassed at the present day ; for we are told that it was very expensive, and that the boiler was apt to explode. [Laughter.J "No encouragement was given to the enterprise. Spain was notiipe for it; the age was not ripe for it; and the poor contriver, a certain Blasco de Guerere, wearied and disgusted at the want of patronage, took the engine out of the vessel and allowed the ship to rot in the arsenal, und the se cret of his machine was buried in his grave. This was in 1548; a century passed away, and Provi dence offers the same problem to be solved in France. In reference to this we have an extraor dinary account, and from a source equally extra ordinary—from the writings of a celebrated fe male, sir, in the middle of that century, equally renowned for her beauty, for her immoralities, and for her misfortune in longevity—for she lived to be one hundred and thirty-four years of age— (laughter)—the famous Marion de l’Orme. There is a letter from this lady, written to her admiral in 1641, which contains these astonishing details. It is an account of a visit she made with the Mar quis of Worcester—where do you suppose, Mr. President? —“an account of some invention in steam navigation, made in a madhouse.” Marion de l’Orme says in this interesting letter that in company with the Marquis, she was cross ing the court yard of that dismal establishment, almost petrified with terror, and clinging to her companion, when she saw a frightful face through the bars of the building and heard this voice ‘I am not mad —I am not mad ; I have made a dis coverv that will enrich the kingdom which shall adopt it.” Well, she asked the guide what it meant; he shrugged his shoulders and said, laugh ingly “ Not Inueb ; something about the powers of steam.” Upon this the lady laughed also, to think that a man should go mad on such a Irivo lous subject. The guide went on, to say that the j man’s name was Solomon de Coste; that he came j from Normandy four years before, and exhibited to the King an invention he had discovered, by which, by the power of steam, you could move a carriage, navigate the ocean —in short, if you be lieved him, said the guide, there was nothing you could not do by the power of steam. Cardinal Eichelieu who, at that time, was France itself, and who wielded the whole power of government and, in truth, an enlightened man, as worldly ■wisdom goes—was appealed to by. Solomon de Coste. De Coste was a persevering man, and he followed Cardinal Eichelieu from place to place, exhibiting his invention, until the Cardinal, get ing tired of bis importunities, sent him to the mad-house. There he was sir, and there, the guide went on to say, “he has written a book, and here is a copy, called “Motive Power. “Well sir, the Marquis of Worcester, who was an inventor, was much interested in the book, and incorporated a considerable portion in his well known work called “The Century of Invention. But you see, sir, from this anecdote, how France proved in 1641, as Spain proved in 1543, that she was unable to take up and wield this mortal thun derbolt [Applause.] And so, sir, the problem of navigating the ocean by steam was reserved for the Anglo-Saxon race. Soon after the time of which we now speak, the best mechanical skill of England was turned towards this invention. Ex penments were often made with no success, till some time after the middle of last century, so late as that, sir, those germs of invention which had been floating about in the minds of ingenious men for nearly two hundred years, until the middle of the last century, when the steam engine—and mark you, sir, I do not now speak of the navigation of the ocean by steam, but of the engine itser, that scarcely inanimate Titan, th it living, burning me chanism —was brought nearly to a state of perfec tion bv James Watt, who took out a patent in 176&, the great year in which Wellington and Na poleon were bom—and ages after the names of 1 Au-teriitz and Waterloo tfi.ult perish from roe i memory of man, the myriad hosts of intelligent I labor, marshalled by the fiery champions that Jus 1 Watt has placed iu the field, shall gain their ! bloodless triumph, not for- the destruction but for the si rvice of mankind. Tremendous applause. l ** Ail hail, then, sir, I say, to the mute, indefati gable giant in the depths of the darksome mines, along the pathway of travel and trade, and on the mountain nave, that shall drag, urge, heave, haul for the service of man. No 'fatigue shall’pais v ihv herculean arm, uo trampled hosts shall writhe beneath thy iron feet, no widow's heart shall bleed at thy beneficent victories. [Cheering.] Sir, England invented the steatn engine; but it seems as if by the will of Providence she could not go farther. Queen of the seas, as she deemed herself, she could not apply this invention which she had brought almost to perfection—and the navigation of the ocean by steam, that port of the problem was reserved for the other branch of the Anglo-Saxon race—the branch situated in a region in this western hemisphere whose territory is traversed by some of the noblest rivers that 'belt the surface of the globe, and separated by the world u-ido ocean from the eastern hemisphere. It is amazing to consider how, with the dawn of the revolution, the thoughts of men turned to the ap plication of steam navigatiou. Rumsey, Fitch aud Evans made experiments, and those experi ments a'tracted the notice of one whom nothing escaped belonging to the welfare ol his country — I mean Washington. [Cheers.! And we have a certificate expressing the satisfaction with which he had witnessed the experiment of Ramsey. The attempt proved rather unsuccessful. I rather think it a providential appointment that the ocean was not navigated by steam in the revolulionary age. The enormous amount of Uritish capital and skill, if the ocean bad been navigated by steam, would Lave pat in her possession facilities lor blockading the ports, which might have had a dis astrous effect in the result of the whole contest. “ sir, the revolution passed and indepen dence was established ; the hour had come and the man was there. (Cheers.) In the year 1799 tins system of steam navigation now became ma tured in the mind of Fulton, who found a liberal and active coadjutor in Chancellor Livingston, who in that year ot 1799 came to the legislature of New York for an act of incorporation. Sir, lam sorrv to say that America at that first moment could no't I boast of much keener perception of the nature of J this discovery than France and Spain before. Chancellor Livingston at last had a petition drawn up of the act he desired passed. It was drafted by the young men of the legislature, who, when tired of the matters of law, used to call up the “ steam bill” that they might have a little fun. Young America, on that occasion, did not slu.w himself so much wiser than his senior. (Laughter. ) Sir, nothing daunted at the coldness he received, nothing discouraged by the impartial success of the first experiment, Counsellor Livingston per severed. Twenty years passed away before steam ers were fouid upon our lakes and rivers, and at that time such a system of steam navigation was wholly unknown, except by hearsay, in Europe. This application of steam he made a pressing ne cessity in this country; but twenty yiars more passed away before English capital was first ap plied io that part of the application in which Eng land was so much interested But, sir, I could nor, when the news of the Atlantic telegraph came, I could not but think what the emotions of Fulton and Franklin would have been if they could have stood upon the quarter-deck of the Niagara as she was launched at the Agamemnon ere the com mencement of that electric communication which s the result of their discoveries, and which now binds the two worlds together.” (Applause.) From the Nev: York Journal of Commerce. Letter from Governor Denver. The N. Y. Tribune having published an article on Kansas affairs September 20tb, winch contain ed several gross mis-statement* as to the action of Governor Denver and President Buchanan, the Governor addressed the following courteous letter to the editors of the Tribune, correcting their er rors, but they had not the fairness to print it. Under these circumstances, the gentleman towhom it was sent tor transmission to the Tribune, has handed it to us, and we cheerfully lay it before our readers: Lecompton, K. T., Sept. 30, 1858. To tie. Editors oftheXew York Tribune: Gentlemen: My attention has been called to an article in reference to Kansas affairs published in your daily of the 20th inst., and tri-weekly of the 21st, in which you suggest that I had probably been compelled by the administration to resign the post I have held here for some months past, and on that supposition you proceed to make some serious charges against Mr. Buchanan and his administra tion, for all of which there is not the slightest foundation. It is true that I have resigned the of fice of Governor of Kausaa, but it was an act of my own free will. The President desired me to remain, but the condition of my private affairs would not permit me to do so longer. In June fast I sent up my resigination to take effect in August, but while in Washington in July, at the urgent solicitations of many persons in terested in Kansas, and also at the request of the President, 1 then withdrew it for the time being. Those who are conversant with the facts know that it lias been with extreme reluctance that I have remained here from the first, and that I have always declared my intention to resign the office of Governor, as soon as it could be done with safety to the public interests. I have received the most ample assurances of the cordial approval of my course in this Territory by the President and all the members of his Cabinet, and here I must be permitted to say that in all my conversations with the President about Kansas affairs, lie lias always manifested the deepest concern for the peace and happiness of the country, and a determination that' the people of the Territory shoud have a fair opportunity at the ballot box, to settle the ques tions at issue before them in their own way, and without any extraneous influences. Such has been the character of all his communications to me, whether verbal or written, and while endeavoring to carry them out in good faith, I have met with no opposition from the moderate men of the Terri tory, nor from those who have been classed as pro-slavery men. The frauds perpetrated at the election in Janu ary last, were committed by the violent and un scrupulous men of all parties, and the investiga tion of them was partisan, and partial. Such acts as the forging of the returns from Delaware Cross ing were paraded before the public with great gusto, while the destruction of the ballot box and ballots at Sugar Mound, by Capt. Montgomery, was passed by in silence. The actors in all these transactions ought to have been severely punished, but there were no laws that would reach them, and the late legislative assembly, which was all free State, made no sufficient laws to meet such cases in the future, but endeavored to paralyze the powers of the Circuit Courts, and invest the Pro bate Courts with powers they could not exercise. You admit that things have gone op here entirely under my administration. This is not exactly correct. There have been some disturbances in Doniphan, Leavenworth, Linn and Bourbon coun ties, and in every case the disturbances have been produced by persons calling themselves free State men. In Doniphan county an effort was made to assassinate the gentlemen who were elected to the legislature on the first Monday in January last, and, although they escaped with their lives, they were plundered of their property, and their houses burned. No steps have been taken to punisli the perpetra tors. and yet all the county officers were Free State men. The troubles in I-eavenworth City continued nearly all winter, and if the Mayor, and other city officers did not encourage them, they certainly took no measures to have them suppress ed. In Linn and Bourbon counties all was quiet until Montgomery and bis band commenced plun dering and driving off the people who differed with them in political sentiments, in the course of which they committed some most outrageous acts, ! one of which was to drive a farmer away from his j home, on pain of death, and then to take the • ladies ot his family, strip off all their clothing, ; and in that condition compel them to walk back- I wards and forwards for their amusement. I pass ed through the counties where these outrages I were perpetrated, and for some thirty miles it pre i sented such a scene of desolation as I uever ex ! peeled to have seen, end tope never again to see lin a country inhabited Ov American citizens. Is (tA.. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1858. it any wonder 'hat the people on whom such out rages were perpetrated, should become exasperat ed? Some three hundred families were thus robbed of their property, driven away from their homes, and compelled to fly from their Territory. About two-thirds of them from Linn county, where every local oli.cer was and is a Free State man after providing places of security for their families, some of the men, maddened and des perate with the treatment they had received, re turned to seek revenge, and perpetrated the bloody and unjustifiable act of the Marais des Cygnes. Tins was followed, on the part of Montgomery, by setting fire to the town of ForbScott, in the mid dle of the night, while I he people were all asleep; and then pouring in volleys of rifle balls to prevent the people from extinguishing the flames. Although no serious consequences resulted from this act, though several persons escaped very narrowly, yet io its inception, I know of nothing worse in the whole history of Kansas. If such anact had been committed by a band of hostile Indians, it would have sent a thrill of horror throughout the whole country. Such have been some of the troubles in this Territory, and yet the perpe trators are running at large without an effort to ar rest them, in counties where the Free State men have all the local offices, upheld by a portion of those calling themselves Free State men. Among the most active of whom have been the hired reporters of the Eastern newspaper press. If any further disturbances occur in this Territo ry, these are the people who will be justly re sponsible for it. The Pro-Slavery party have abandoned the contest. The Free State men have a majority in every county in the Territory, and they have the sheriff and all other local officers in ail but two or three of the counties, and there is no county in winch the sheriff cannot preserve the peace’*/ he disires to do so. You make another complaint against the Presi dent. that he has twice postponed ihe sales of the public lands. If I mistake not, last spring you complained because the sales were ordered for'ju ly. The first postponement was made at the .ur gent solicitation of the people in all parts of the Territory, and so anxious were they to have it i done, that they sent on a committee of three to see tlie President on the subject, and the result of their interview was published by you. Tnc second postponement was more necessary (ban the first, for money had become more scarce in Ihe Terri tory, the rates of interest had gone up to five aud ten per cent, per mouth, and there was a good deal of sickness throughout the whole country. By adhering to the second order for the sales to take place ill November, the settler would be placed at the mercy of the money lender, when, to postpone it, the settler would have another year within which to obtain the means to secure a home, without having to give away one half of his land for the rtioney with which to enter the other half. No good government would knowingly impose such terms on her citizens, and hence the second post ponement of the land sales until July next. It was a measure demanded by the condition of affairs here, and of which I have heard no one complain, except such as were determined to be dissatisfied with anything and everything the Administration might do, and a few money lenders whose percent age has been greatly reduced by it. By giving publicity to this, you will correct some erroneous impressions conveyed in the article alluded to, and oblige yours, respectfully, (Signed) J. W. Denver. hom the Philadelphia Press. Clinrles Dickens ns He Was, and Is. Tlie personal appearance of Charles Dickens may here be briefly described i Next February he will have completed his forty-seventh year, hav ing be n born in 1812, at Landport, Portsmouth. When in this country, seventeen years ago, Mr. Dickens somewhat resembled the portrait, by Maelise, which was prefixed, we believe, to the original edition of “ Nicholas Nickiuby.” It was taken when Dickens was twenty-seven years old, and the artist succeeded in poetising features which, though regular, were common place, and in throwing expression into a face which realty had scarcely any. That Muclise portrait, with which American readers are very familiar, simply showed an over-dressed young gentleman, with long hair hanging down in Ihe fashion, commonly called dogs’ ears—the French, we think, cull them oreilles. This hair, which was then very profuse, was darker than chesnut, and lighter than brown. It was flowing and silky, with a tendency to curl. The painter represented his subject as rather gorgeously got up, as respects an extensive front of black salin, garnished with brillant jewelry. The original, when he condescended to visit us, literally had a meteoric nppearance, so brightly flashed his many ornaments—brooches, breast pins, and sparkling rings. Wc have often won dered that, in his days of puppyism, Charles Dickens did not adopt the Italian fashion of wear ing ear-rings. Ileshould have cut offhis love locks, however, to display these ornaments, and proba bly had not sufficient strength of mind to make that terrible saciifice. Seldom did a more highly dressed young gen tleman glitter on Broadway than the Charles Dickens of 1841. Were we satirical—which we certainly are not—we might even say that he was over dressed. Addicted to that description of flashy vests, described by Young England as very loud) stuck into coat and pants on which the ge nius of Stultz had evidently been employed, wear ing the tallest and glossiest of chimney-pine hats, the thinnest morocco boots, the gayest kid gloves, and the tiniest of all delicate canes, Charles Dick ens, as he emerged from the Carlton House, (a great hotel of the time, much affected by English visitors to New York,) was a remarkable loolting young man. He would have struck a passing stranger as an actor, fully dressed to represent the character of a fop, in some comedy or farce, where the dramatist desired to have a fling at young men who, aping at fashion, ran into wild extravagance of attire—out-Brummeling Brnmmel, and out- D’Orsaying D’Orsay. At that time, too, Dickens was as closely “ shaven and shorn” as if he really were an actor, and his face was as deeply lined as the faces of actors often are, from the wear and tear which the muscles are professionally subject ed to. It is very different now. Seventeen years have changed Dickens, and improved his personal ap pearance. He has become stouter without being too full, robust, but not bulky. The orUHet have disappeared. Either time or the barber, has “ thinned his flowing hair.” His taste in dress has become mitigated, and he exhibits a limited supply of jewelry, exhibiting only a single ring. He wears a Kossuth, instead of a chimney-pipe hat. The flash, “loud” vests of bygone years may now be catalogued among Dickens’ abandoned habits. The face, once so smooth, now is hirsute. He rejoices in a full beard and moustache, though he still is whiskerlcss. The hair, which is very sparsely sprinkled with gray, has retired a little off his forehead, so as to give a full view of that “Il .me of thought, that palace of the mind." His features, too, have greatly been improved, as to their expression, by the advance of time. He looks, what he is, a shrewd, clever, observant man. You might easily give him credit for being an humorist—witty' himself, and the cause of wit in others; but tew, gazing upon Dickens, the living likeness of a man of the world, would sus pect what depths of imagination, poetry and pathos lie within bis heart. Had you the oppor tunity of studying that face, you might imagine that Charles Dickens was an astute lawyer, a shrewd merchant, a keen speculator, a clever en gineer—anything, in short, but the tear exciting author of Little Nell, tbe mirth making creator of Ham (Weller; for his expression is wbat we may call keen. He looks as if no one need try to over reach him. You would readily take him for a hard, close, worldly man, and you would greatly mistake him. Charles Dickens may have been foppish, vain, and full of pretence, but be is one of the moßt good natured of mortals, with as tender a heart as ever beat within a human bosom. Among the many points of difference between him and Thackeray, the most undeniable is that Dickens is a whole souied, genial man, of large humanity; whereas Thackeray is a cynic and satirist, who simply goes in for enjoying hint 'lf, and, with un doubted ability as a writer, prefers portraying the dark features of the iamily of man. Dickens’ heart overflows with the milk of human kindness, while Thackeray’s is a living fountain of oil—of vitriol! i The advance of years, 100, has not only modi- ljeil the expression ol Dickens’ face, but improve! ms features. The lines about the mouth, so deeply marked in youth, have not become gr eater, anil are non- not unsuitable to his time of life. Dickens has had much to bethankful tonu ihe way ol health. Perhaps he never had two days’ consecutive ill ness in his life. He is fund of society, but never came within many degrees of what is called “a haul liver.” He is as laborious as he is gifted, and the quantity of his wi itiug is us much a mar vel us its superior quality. Some of our readers may desire to have a fist of Dickens’ writings, with the dates of publication. They are as follows : 1. Sketches by Box, 1830. 2. Village Coquettes, a comic opera iu two acts, 1838. 8. The Posthu mous I’upers of the Pickwick Club, 1837. 4. Oli ver Twist, 1888, (published originally in Bentley’s Miscellany of which Dicken’s was the first editor.) 5. Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi, 1888. 8. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nicklcbv, 1889. 7. Master Humphrey’s Clock, containing The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Radge, 1810. 8. American Notes for general Circulation, 1842. 9. The Christmas Carol, 1848. 10. The Life and Ad ventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, 1844. 11. The Cbiinca, a Christmas story, 1844. 12. Pictures from Italy, 1848. 13. The Battle, of Life, a Love Story, 1846. 14. The Cricket on the Hearth, 1846. 13. Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son, 1847-8. 16. The Haunted Man, or The Ghost’s Bargain. 17. David Copperfield, 1849-’SO. 18. A Child's Hi9lory of England, 1852. , 19. Bleak House, 1853. 20. Hard Times, 1854. 21. Little Dorrit, 1857. Besides this, Mr. Dickens edited the Picwick Papers, IS4I. Heconducted the Lon don lhidy yews, for a few months, in 1846, and hasten the proprietor and nominal editor of IluiudkoU Words, of which tlie first number ap peared March 30, 1850. W* believe, too, that he wrote a little volume, called Sunday in London, published, with illustrations hi- Cruikshunk, in 1886. As to uhat Dickeus reads, and how, our friend “ Lyra” must wait until another time. We cannot help being discursive, and have nearly outruu our space. Zi-fi I terns of news from the Athens Manner, of the 14th inst.: Fire!— Sunday morning about one o’clock, a lumber kiln bulungiug to Mr. A. Witherspoon, of this place, was discovered to be on tire, und, with its contents, about seven thousand feet of lumber, was entirely consumed. The loss is estimated at about one hundred and fifty dollars. Both fire companies, and the “Honk and Lad der” were on the spot and prevented the spread of the flames. Oin House Burnt. —We regret to learn tliut the gin house, screw, and a quantity of Cotton belong ing to Ur. H. R. J. Long, of this place, were burnt on Saturday last at his plantation in Madison. His loss is about twelve huudred dollars. Anniversary Orations. —Mr. Win, G. Hill, of Greene county, Ala., has been elected the next An niversarisn of the Phi Kappa Society ; and Mr. J. Y. Wood, <<f Walker coniny, Ga., the Anniversa rian of the Deunmthenian Society. We d<aibt nut these young gentlemen will per form th*le respective parts in the next celebration of these Societies with credit to themselves. Final AtßAWK'ttivrw-rog tub Great Balloon Race. —Thy fiu.fi e* aogements for the great bal loon coa'tcst be'»-ee. Prof. J. H. Steiner, of Philadelphia, the young American ternnuut, and Mobs. Evsknf. Godard, the celebrated French aer&naut, sere concluded at Cincinati, on Monday. ,The Qaistte, says; Both tslluons are to commence inflating at the same 1-atfr V Monday next; lip- one first tilled - io wail for the other; both a-ronauts to take their respective cars at four o’clock, und ut u signal Irom the chairman of the committee, the balloons are to be cast loose, and the great trial trip to the clouds commenced. In determining who is ihe victor iti this freindly contest, the one who travels farthest from the starting point will be declared to hare won the champion's meed of praise. If one teronant goes fifty miles in one direction and is then driven back,'the sumo distance, the fifty miles traveled counts for him in making up the aggregate, provided he furnishes evidence to the committee that he has been to such and such points, cither by descending himself or sending down dispatches. How long the aironauts wifi remain in the air, is a matter of conjecture. They wifi probably take a lung sufficient refreshment for a trip of two or three days. . From the Savannah FepMuian. A Just Tribute. Gratitude, nu less than a sense of juatice, prompts me to u public expression of my liigh ap jireciatiou of the kindness and attention of the Methodists of Kavannuh, during the five weeks just past, of the illness of myself and fannlr. During that time, my every wunt has not only been supplied, but, in most instances anticipated by them. From the first, prof Tera of service were made abundantly above what I could have usked, or there was room to accept. The junior editors of the Xems and the Jlepuli lican, u'mkthe family of Mr. L. N. Faltigunt, not of the Methodist congregations, likewise deserve to be specially named tn this connection ; the two former of whom, with their energetic seniors in office, seemed determined either to write down the panic or nuree it out. And now, Mr. Editor, since no once else has takenin hand to chronicle the fuct, allow me to state to the praise of Savannah, that the above is not an isolated case ; but trom many persons a like tribute is due to the same or differ ent parties. I (Ho far as I have seen in "my visitations to the sick or have heard from others, not a single case has been allowed to suffer for attention or medical aid, after the fact transpired. I’rivate individuals, whose praise cannot be written, hare from time to time canvassed the various portions of the city and enquired for the sick and the destitute, while the city authorities and the benevolent associa tions of the place, have been not only prompt, but forward to send monev and good nurses wherever they were needed. While the charitable provi sions for the destitute have been more than ade quate to the wants of the season, the hand of friendship has been ever ready to relieve the suf ferings of those in better circumstances. My ex perience and observation both incline me to the conclusion, that if one must be sick, it is good to be sick in Savannah. W. 11. Potter. Savannah, Ga., Oct. 15, 1858. Unitko Statf.s Senator ruoit Tex as.— On the 27th of September, Governor Runnels forwarded to Hon. Matt. Ward, of Cass county, a commission as United States Senator from the State of Texas, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Gen. Henderson. He will hold office untill the legisla ture of this State shall elect a successor. The ap pointment of Mr. Ward is a good one. He is a modest, unassuming gentleman, but imbued with much firmness of purpose. He is well posted on the political questions of the day, and will be a zealous advocate of the rights of the South. His course as a Senator will be characterised by Catriotism, a scrupulous and earnest attention to usiness, sound judgment, and a disposition to be useful rather than to acquire fame. Term Stale tjazette, Oct. 2. To-day, 13th October, is the anniversary of the bank suspension in this city a year ago. How shall it be celebrated ? By a procession of lame ducks?or how? What a contrast in the state of the money market between the 13th October 1857, and 13th October *IBSB. • N. Y. Journal _ of Commerce, Oct . 13. Hoh. Thomas W. Thomas.— This gentleman, as our readers have doubtless seen, is announced as a candidate for Judge of the Superior Courts of the Northern Circuit. Thus far he has no opposi tion, and we presume will have none. The voters of the Northern Circuit, not alone, but all who are interested in seeing able men upon the Bench will, we doubt not, hail Judge T’s. election with great pleasure. His distinguished ability as a ju rist, and determined energy, arc sme guarantees that his administration of the law will not only ( reflect additional lustre upon himself, but be pro motive of the best interests of his constituents and the country.— Afk+n* Banner, Oct. H. The Great Overland Mail. A\ e find in Ihe Washington Vniin, of Ihe 13th j instant, an able and interesting letter from Sena- j lor Gvvix, addressed to the President, upon the subject of the overland mail route to California, I und the necessity of protecting it by military posts! I Tie following is an extract : The conveyance of the mail twice a week each I way was entrusted to the leading expressmen of the country, Mr. John Butterfield and his asso- j elates, nearly all of whom had great experience. The contract was executed in the month of Sep tember after your inauguration. The contractors were allowed by law ouc year to locate the route and commence the enterprise. Precisely twelve months thereafter—to-wit, on the 16th of Septem ber last—the stages started from San Francisco, St. Louis and Memphis. The great experiment of running four horse post coaches between these points in twenty-five days, over a route two thou sand six hundred and nfty-one miles long, wus commenced on the verv day named in Ihe contract, and has been successfully accomplished. The first stage load of passengers ever driven between Sun Francisco and St. Louis made the journey in twen ty-three days and four hours, thus exceeding not only your own hopes, but those of my most san guine constituents. It is a great achievement, and fraught with the most important consequences. This will no doubt call to your memory the ori gin of mail communication, and regular travel by coaches over the mountains of your native State, first by pack-mules and horses, then by stages, over the rough mountain routes, requiring a week from Philadelphia to Pittsburg; subsequently by turnpikes, and now by railroad in a few hours. The blue mountains, the sidling hill,the Allegheny, the chestnut and laurel ridges, constituted more serious obstacles at that day than those tha 1 have heretofore separated California from the Mis sissippi river. Upon this auspicious commence ment of an enterprise whose object is to connect tlie eastern settlements of California with those qf the Mississippi valley, and thus render our diverts interests homogeneous, allow me to tender yon my lii-artv congratulations. Permit me to thank you, in betialf of my constituents, for the courage with n btch you murched up to, our wants and supplied (liem to the extent of your power. The success al ready accomplished on this route, as well as on that from St. Joseph, via Salt Isike, to Plucerville, Sun Antonio, via El Paso, to San Diego, soon to be followed by that from Independence, via Albu querque, to Stocklou, indicates the certain triumph of your whole policy. It is obvious now, as throughout our national career, that emigration and settlements will follow the stage coach. Where mail stages and travelers are regularly carried, theie will the pioneer set tlers make their farms aud secure their pre-emp tions. From this time forth forever regular over land communications will exist between California and the Mississippi States. Neither hostile In dians nor subsequent govereraent neglect can un do what has been so wisely accomplished. The path is reveuled to the settler, and every fertile* spot aloug these long lines enterprising citizens will immediately occupy, to furnish the requiste supplies for horses anil travelers. Shall these fearless pioneers be protected from the Indians ? or shall ihey be left exposed to the tomahawk and scalping knife, as was so often the case in the earlier history of our country, when the govorn nientwaa destitute of troops and money ? You have now some eighteen thousand troops under your command. Snail a sufficient numbei be detailed to insure safety and confidence to tin traveler on these routes ? If so, then the early cx tension of our western settlements to the Pacific the deve'opment of California, of Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico, of Kansas, Nebraska, TTtab, > Oregon, and Washington, s;> long closed by serious i «U»'ack>e and. by the doininat; >n of sdvagi will be assured. As an illustration of the elTcrt I on all the routes, a line of temporary posts from i Fort Smith, eia Fort Belknap and El Paso, to the I mouth ot the Gila river, thus excluding all hostile Indians, would double the value of the lands, the population, and travel on all that route ; and. whilst occasioning no additional expense, w mid guard uguinst future Indian hostilities. It would arrest the incursions of the Camanches inio Texas and Mexico, as well ns those of the Apaches into Arizona and .Mexico, and lead to the rupid develop ment of the mineral and agricultural resources of these great regions. It is believed that three thousand troops, onc sixth of our army, will protect the entire settle ments for more than fifteen hundred miles from Fort Smith to Fort Yuma, save hundreds, and per haps thousands, of lives, and prevent devastating and expensive Indian wars. As thoarmy is now chief ty maintained for the defense of our frontier and ter ritories occupied by Indian tribes, my constituents 1 wish it so disposed as to relievo border settlements and new Territories from the presence of danger. 1 When the Indians arc thus forbidden to cross ' into Texas, and that .State, relieved of their pres- ' ence, is settled up td its frontiers, two-thirds of ' these troops can be detailed to other points of I danger, and the same policy will accomplish aim- I ilur results gradually on all the routes. In this way, j and in this way only, Indian hostilities will soon 1 cease throughout our whole country, by extending J our settlements westward across the continent. ‘ The Union itself, so dear to every patriotic Amcri- 1 can, will be strengthened and perpetuated by cn- 1 couraging these continuous settlements and the * intermingling of interests from the valley of the J Mississippi to the Pacific. This great policy, fraught with such incalculable advantages to our whole country, having been commenced by you, may I not urge you to con summate its certain and speedy success by the es tablishment of military posts to protect of all these routes, together with the mails and passengers, from Indian depredations and massacres? This was the policy of your first great predecessor, Washington; when, succeeding .lay’s treaty, he established military posts for the protection of our western settlements trom hostile Indians, and un der the lead of the patriot of vour own great State, Gen. Anthony Wayne, drove back the savages from the fertile valleys of the Ohio and carried our posts to the borders of our North-western lakesund the Mississippi. What Washingion then did for the great valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi you can now accomplish bv similar means for the great country between tbe Mississipi and Pacific ocean. With great respect, your obediant servant, W«. M. Gwm. The Iteggar —\ True Tale. One cold winter morning, the last Hunday of December, 1819, a half naked man knocked timid ly at the basement door of a fine, substantial man sion, in the city of Brooklyn. Though the weath er was bitter, even for the season, the young man had no clothing but a pair of ragged cloth pants and the remains of a flannel shirt which disclosed his muscular chest in many large rents. But in spite of this tattered apparel, and evident fatigue, as he leaned heavily upon the railing of the basement stairs, a critical observer could not fail to notice a conscious air of dignity, and the marked traces of cultivation and refinement, in his pale, haggared countenance. ~. . , The door was speedily opeued, and disclosed a large, comfortably furnished room, with its glow ing grate of anthracite: before which was a ouslv furnished breakfast table-a fashionably at tiredf young man, in a brocade dressing-gown and velvet slippers, reclining in a "fauteual, busily reading tne morning papers. The beautiful young wife had lingered at the table, giving to the ser vant in waiting orders for the household matters of the day, when the timid knock attracted atten ll°Bhe commanded the door to be opened, but the young master of the mansion replied that it was quite useless, being no one but some beggar; but the door was already open; and the , sympathies of Mrs. Haywood enlisted at once. “Come to the fire,” cried the young wife, im pulsivelly, 14 before you perish/' The mendicant, without exibitmg any surprise at such unusual treatment of a beggar, slowly en tered the room, manifesting a painful weakness at every step. On his entrance Mr. Haywood, with a displeased air, gatb-red aphis papers and test the apartment. The unwise lady placed the half-fro7A-n mao near the fire, while she prepared a bowl of fragrant coflee, which, with abundant food was placed before ■him. But, noticing the ►abrupt departure of her husband, with a clouded conntenance, left the room, whimpering to the ser vant to remain nnti! the stranger should leave. VOL. 37-IS O. 48. She then ran hastily up the rich mounted stair ca.ses, and paused before the entrance of a small laboratory and medical library, and occupied ?o!e~ ly by her husband, who was a physical chemist. She opened the door and eutered the room. Mr. Haywood was sitting at a small table, with his head resting on his hands, apparently in deep thought. “Edward,” said the young wife, gentty touching him on the arm, “1 fear 1 have displeased yon; but the man looked so wretched that 1 could not bear to drive hiui away,” and her sweet voice trembled us she added. “Von know I take the sacrament to-day. “I>ear Mary,” repliad the really fond husband, “I appreciate your motives. I know it is pure goodness of heart which leads you to disabey me, but still I must insist upon my oommand, that no beggar ever be permitted to enter the house. It is for your safety that 1 insist upon it. How deep' ly you might be imposed upon in my frequent ao seuce from home. I shudder to think. The man that is now below may be a burglar in disguise aud already m your absence taking impressions in wax of the different key holes in the room, so as to enter some night at his leisure. Your limited experience of city life makes it difficult for you to credit so much depravity. It is no charity to give to street beggars, it only encourages vice, dear est. “ It may be so," responded Mrs. Haywood, “but it seems wicked not to relieve suffering and want, even if a poison has behaved badly—and we know it. But I will promise you not to ask another into the house.” At this moment the servant rappel violently at the door, crying out the beggar was dying. •‘Come, Ed., your skill can save him, I know,” said the wife, hastening from the room. The doctor did not reftise this appeal to his pro fessional vanity, for he immediately followed bis wife’s Dying footsteps to the basement. They found the mondicunt lying pule and unconscious upen the carpet where Mrs. Huy wood had seated him. “He is a handsome fellow,” muttered the doctor, as he bent over to ascertain ilie state of his patse. And well lie might say so. The glossy locks of rave hair hud fallen away from a broad, white forehead ; his eyelids wore bardered by long raven lashes, which lay like a silk fringe upon his pale, broazed cheeks, while a delicate, aquiline nose, and a square, massive chin, displayed a model of manly beauty. “Is lie dead ?” asked the young wife, anxiously. “ Oh, no, it is ouly a fainting lit, induced by sudden change of temperature and perhaps the Hrst stage of starvation," replied the doctor, sym pathisingly. He had forgotten for the moment his cold maxims of prudence, and added, “He must be carried to a room without tire, and placed in a comforiublc bed.” The coachman was called in to aaeiat in lifting the athletic atranger, who wua aoon carried to a room in the chamber where the doctor adminis tered, with hia own hand, sttong dunes of port wine sangaree. The young man aoon became par tially conscious, but all conversation was forbade him, and he sunk quietly to sleep. “ lie is doing well—let him rest as long as he can i should be awake in our absence, give him beef tea and toast ad libitum,” said the doctor, professionally, as he left the room. ****** In less than an hour afterwards, Dr. Uuywood and his lovely wife entered the gorgeous church of " the most Uoly Trinity.” Amid the hundreds of fair danina that entered . its portuls, dressed with all the taste and inagni ticenee that abundant wealth could procure, not one rivalled, in grace uud beauty, the orphan bride ’ of the physiciau. Her tall, graceful ligm-o was | robed in violet silk that only heightened, by con - tjrast, her large a?ure uyea,.bright, with the lustre [ of \mitnftil happiness; yet there was a touch of , tender pity in their drooping lids, that won the , confidence of every beholder. Tlie snow ermine mantilla, which protected her from the piercing . wind, revualcd, but could not surpass, the delicate purity of her complexion. MaDy admiring eyes followed the faultless figure of Mrs. Haywood, as she moved with unconscious grace up tne central aisle of the church, but not one with more heart felt devotion than the young wayward, but gener ous man who had recently wed her, in spite of her poverty and the sneers of his aristocratic ac qnamtancus. The stately organ had pealed its last rich notes, which were faintly echoing in the distant arches, when a stranger of venerable aspect, who bad pre viously taken no part in the servicea ot the altar, and announced for his test the oft quoted, but sel dom applied, words of the Apostle: "Be not for getful to entertain strangers, tor thereby some have entertained angels unawares.” Dr. Haywood felt his forcheud flush painfully ; i’ appeared to him for a moment llmt the prom tier must hare known ot his want of charity towards s’rangers, and wished to give him a public lesson ; hut he soon saw from tfie tenor of his remarks ihot his own guilty conscience had msde ihe uppliealion in bis particular case. I have not space, nor indeed the power, to give any synopsis of the sermon ; but that it, combined with the incident of the morning, effected n revolution in the mind of at least one of his hearers. So much, that on the return of Dr. Harwood trom the church, he repaired at once to the room of the mendicant, to oiler anch attentions as he might stand in need of. But the young man seemed to be much refreshed by rest and nutricioui food, and commenced gratefully thanking the boat for the kind attentions ho had received, which without doubt hud saved his life. “Hut I will recompense you well; for thank God, lam not the beggar that I seem. I was ship wrecked on Friday night on the "Ocean Ware,” on my return from India. My name was doubt less among the list of the lost—for I escaped from the waves by a miracle. I attempted to make my way to Newjfork Where I have ample funds in the bunk awaiting my orders. I must bare perished from cold and hunger, had it not been for you and your wife’s charity. 1 was repulsed front every door as an imposter, and could get neither food nor rest. To be an exile from one's native land ten years, and then, after escaping from the perils of the ocean, to die of hunger in the streets of a Christian city, I felt was truly a bitter fate.” “My name is Arthur Willet,” added the stran ger. “ Why that is my wife's family name. She will doubtless be pleused at her agency in your re- cover/.” Os wbat State is she a native?" asked Arthur Willet eagerly. “ I married her in the town of 8., where she was born.” At this moment Mrs. Haywood entered the room, surprised at the long absence of her bus band. Arthur Willet gazed at her with a look of the wildest surprise, murmuring: “ft cannot be -it cannot be. I am delirious te think so.” .Mrs. Haywood with little less astonishment, stood motionless as a statue. “ What painful mystery is that? said Dr. Haywood, excitedly addressing his wife, who then became conscious of the singularity of her conduct. “Ob, no mystery,” she replied, sighing deeply, "only this stranger is the image of my lost brother Arthur,” and Mrs. U., overcome with emotion, and turned to leave the room. “Stay one moment," pleaded the stranger, draw ing a small mourning ring from hia finger, and holding it un, asked if she recognised that relic. “It’s my father’s gray hair, and yon are”— “His son, Arthur Willet, and your brother 1” Mary Willet Haywood fell upon the mendicant’s breast, weeping tears of sweetest joy and thanks giving. Dr. Haywood retired from the room, and left sister and brother alone in that sacred hour of re union, saying to himselt: “Be not forgetful to entertain stranger*, for thereby some bare entertained angels unawares.” Jcdicivl Coxvsstioo. — t'lie Judicial Conven tion, held at Albany the 12tb inat., nominated f>r Judge, the Uon. Richard 11. Clark, of Doughertv; aod for Solicitor, Wm. B. Guorry of Sumter. We will publish the proceedings next week, with an extended notice of the candidate for Judge. Let it suffice for the present to say that we are deci dedly pleased with Col. Clark’a nomination. A’xcrieus It *w», Oct. I*.