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&ivtus janir Bmimd. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 15, 1853. FOR GOVERNOR: JIERSCIIEL V. JOHNSON, OF BALDWIN. FOR CONGRESS: A. 11. COLQUITT, of Baker. The Girard Railroad. It is generally supposed that the subscription of one million of dollars, by Mobile, secures the completion of this great enterprise. There never was a greater blun der. It is doubtful whether the Mobile subscription •ver will be made available to the ‘Girard Road. In deed it is certain that without a prompt and munificent subscription by the city of Columbus to the work, it will be lost entirely, and appropriated to securing a connection between Mobile and Montgomery. The Mobile subscription is clogged with conditions. At a late meeting in that city, the following limitations were annexed to the subscription : 3d. That the moneys or other means derived from this subscription, be appropriated exclusively to the work between this cit’ and a point in Butler county, at or near Greenvi 11“ , which appropriation and also the sale of the bonds issued under this act, shall be under the special supervision and direction of the Mobile portion of the board of Directors. 4th. That the location of the road near and at the Mo bile terminus, shall be under the sole control and direction of the city of Mobile. sth. That the authorities of this city be assured by the most satisfactory evidence of the ability of the Company to put the whole road in complete running order within three years. bth. That branches from Montgomery and Selma, and other points in the State of Alabama, shall be per mitted to join the road at any time and place they may select, and that no discriminating charges shall be exacted at any time, on any party of said road. 7th. That no bonds shall be issued by virtue of this or* dinanee until the location of the road shall have been made by the city, and the Mayor shall have been duly notified by the said Girard Railroad Company that the subscription is received and accepted, subject to the fore going conditions. It is perfectly apparent, therefore, that Mobile is not so much solicitous about the completion of the Girard Railroad, as for a Railroad from any quarter, which will connect her with the Atlantic ocean- Hence, the proviso in relation to “branches from Montgomery aod Selma, and other points in the State of Alabama.’’— She is bent on building a main trunk to Greenville, but once this point is reached, she will strike a bargain with the best bidder. In order, therefore, to link Mo bile on to the Girard Road, we must meet her at Green ville. Nay, more, we must meet her there in three years. Look at the sth proviso. She will do nothing towards the completion of the Girard Road unless she is “assured by the most satisfactory evidence of the ability of the company to put the whole road in com plete running order within three years.” There is no mistaking this language. She requires us to respond to her munificence, and place the early completion of the road beyond contingency, or she will dissolve all connection with us, accept the proposition now being rigorously urged to unite with Montgomery in building a road from that city to Mobile, for which a charter was granted by the last Legislature, and thus force the Girard Railroad company to build its road alone and unaided from terminus to terminus, or from a disadvan tageous connection with the Mobile and Montgomery Railroad at Grennville. What is the remedy ? We answer, emphatically, the city of Columbus ought to subscribe for three hundred and fifty thousand dollars additional stock in the Girard Railroad. There is no mistake ab ‘Ut the proposition. She must do it or lose her vantage ground. It is impossible for the Girard Railroad com pany to build the road from Girard to Greenville with her present means. Columbus can, however, do it without trouble, without risk and without taxation.— The corporation owns one hundred and seventy thou sand dollars worth of Muscogee Railroad stock, which is now selling at 95 cents on the dollar, and which will beat par in a month. Let her sell this stock and is sue her bonds payable ill 25 years for one hundred and eighty thousaud more, and invest the proceeds in the Girard Railroad. In three years the ears will run from Mobile to Columbus in a day ; and long, long before the first bonds mature for which the city is liable, the stock of the Girard road will be at par and can be sold and the debt paid without the loss of a dollar to the city.— But, though we make this suggestion, we have no idea that the city of Columbus will plunge into this seeming extravagance. She is a cautious city, and her council is an exceedingly cautious body. Notwithstanding, we think somewhat can be done by the city of Columbus. It was generally agreed that the iron for the road as far as Union Springs, a distance of fifty-two miles, should be furnished by the city; and by the estimates then made, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars was thought to be enough to accomplish this object ; and if the bonds of the city had been promptly issued, the iron could have been bought with the city subscription. But unfortunately the issue of the bonds was delayed a twelvemonth, and in the meantime iron had risen 100 per cent. The city subscription therefore will on ly pay for one half the iron needed on the road as far as l nion Springs. The city is therefore in some sort bound to double her subscription or fail to keep Iter promise of providing the iron for the first 52 miles of the road. This she can do either by selling her in terest in the Muscogee Railroad or by the issue of her bonds. Lither mode would be acceptable to the Girard Railroad company. This much the city of Columbus ought to do, and we believe will do, but here she iciil stop. When the road reaches Union Springs, the full benefit of the enterprise will be realised by our com mercial interests. All the trade that we can hope to secure by the completion of the entire line will be se cured as soon as the road reaches Union Springs.— From that point westward, Mobile will be our success ful competitor. Bv the completion of the road we would gain somewhat by the trade it would bring through our city and over the Muscogee road, and some slight facilities would be s afiorded to our Grocers at particular seasons of the year. But this interest is too slight to induce us to hope that the city will strain her credit to fill up the gap between Union Springs and Greenville, when it is evident that other interests are more imme diately interested in making the connection complete. The city of Savannah, th** Central, the South-western and the Muscogee Railroads, are all more immediately interested in the completion of the Girard Railroad than is the city of Columbus. If Mobile shall unite with Montgomery in connecting these two cities by raiL and the Girard road shall stop at Union Springs, the immense western trade and travel which will seek the Atlantic by Railroad will pass over the Montgomery and West Point road, and the bulk of it be lost to Sa vannah, the Central, the South-western and the Mus cogee Railroads; whereas, bv the completion of the Girard road the whole of it will pass over this line and pour its enriching flood over the roads which connect us with Savannah. We confess our surprise at the in difference of these corporations to this great enterprise. The timely expenditure of a very small amount of mon ey now on the gap between Union Springs and Green ville will secure to Savannah a Gulf eonueetion in three years, which will quadruple the money invested long before she can hope to reach Pensacola or any other point on the Gulf by any other route. We invite the attention of the Savannah press to a discussion of this very interesting subject; as we are sure, if the immense advantages of this connection were properly considered, there would not be a moment’s delay in its early com pletion. The Spirit of the South. We regret to find in the last Sj4rit of the South that E. C. Bullock, Esq., has retired from the editori al chair of that paper, for the present. He thinks the harmony of the party demands that that paper be neu tral in the contest between Clopton and Abercrom bie in their race for Congress, and as he is decidedly in .avor of the election of Abercrombie, “for his recent manly and Southern course,” lie retires to a private position, in order that he may be free to follow the con victions of Ills judgment. The paper will in future be edited by J. M. Buford, Esq. We are not disposed to quarrel with Mr. Bullock for the course he has pur sued. We know be has been actuated by the sincerest convictions of duty. We are compelled to pursue a diametrically opposite course. We give all praise to Capt. Abercrombie for his patriotic position in oppo sition to the faction which would have surrendered Southern honor and interests to the abolition influences which would have triumphed in the election of General Scott to the Presidency; but when the alternative is presented before us of giving our votes to a man who stood up fearlessly for Southern Rights in the dark hour of our terrible agony, and lias through life steadi ly and consistently advocated the Democratic principles which so signally triumphed in the election of Frank lin Pierce to the Presidency, and another who wag ed a bitter war upon both, and has only learned to ad mire them since his own party has given tha clearest indications of abolition tendencies, we cannot hesitate in the course which honor and duty dictate. We go for CLorToN heart and soul. We regret that we have not the co-operation of so able a man as Mr. Bullock in this good work. The Watermelon. Peabody must write a special essay upon Watermelons. We, with some of our friends, discussed one in our office the other day of liis raising, which, by unani mous consent, was the watermelon of the season. It weighed thirty-five pounds—“red meat and black seed”—and its size was its smallest recommendation. It beat his Strawberries all hollow. Come, Peabody, show us your hand upon Water -melons in the next number of “The Soil.” [FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.J Mr. Editor : The figures of my communication in Wed nesday’s tri-weekly Times and Sentinel require correction, and through an inadvertence are likely to convey false in formation. I said that from $350 to $400,000 additional aid to the capital stock of the Girard and Mobile Railroad Company was required to carry the road to Union Springs. This can be effected with an additional capital of only $150,000 to $200,000. The resources of the company in round numbers are as follows ; Resources applicable to the route between Girard and Greenville, 110 miles, $1,300,000. Resources applicable to the route from Greenville to Mobile, including city of Mo bile subscription, $1,400,000,-making the total capital of the company $2,700,000. To complete the road from Girard to Greenville will require $600,000, and a now subscription of from $350,000 to $400,000 will enable the company to reach Greenville, using its credit for the deficiency. And this is what I should have said, instead of saying that it would lake the figur©s"mentioned to reach Union Strings. Now, the real interest of the city of Columbus in this road, does not, in the opinion of many persons, go beyond Union Springs. If we tap that country and the road stops there, it is supposed that we draw all the trade from that direction which can be available to us. Although not giv ing in to this contracted view of the question, 1 am willing to assume that Columbus should put forth her power and credit no further than is necessary to reach that point. Mobile and her partners in interest along the line will build from the Southern terminus to Greenville. The city of Montgomery, the M. and W. P. Railroad and the Geor gia Railroad interests will be sure to fill the gap of 45 miles from Greenville to Montgomery, thus making a con tinuous line of road from Mobile Bay to Augusta and Charleston. There then remains a gap between Union Springs and Greenville, and that gap, the city of Savannah and the Railroad companies between Savannah and this place, can never allow to remain open without a palpably short-sighted disregard to their own interests. If they do, the upper roads will always take the lion’s share of the bu siness. This then would seem to be the natural division oi the burthens of this great enterprise. Mobile, having the heaviest stake in it, takes the heaviest part of the work, (in distance, at least, although a great part of the work is through a country highly favorable lor Railroad work,) and builds the 115 miles to Greemrille ; Columbus builds 52 miles to Union Springs; and the Muscogee, South Western, and Central Roads complete the chain by 80 miles of road to Greenville. There are some considerations why the last mentioned companies and the city ol Savannah should not be slow in taking hold of this project. This is a fast age iiu which we live. Men’s brains are teeming with projects, and they fol low so fast on the heels of one another, that the aspects of the enterprise to-day may be seriously affected aud changed by those of to-morrow. The people of Savannah, alarmed at the rising importance of Brunswick, and dreading the rivalry of so near a neighbor, with so fine a harbor and competitor for a vast trade from the same country that now seeks its outlet at Savannah, are spending a great deal of i nk, and perhaps money, to counteract the efforts of the Brunswickers and their friends to open channels for this trade to rhat port. Instead of running a road to tap the Brunswick enterprises at the nearest point —and which, at last, is the whole amount of defensive and counteractive effort they can make—they speak of extending that road to Pensacola. When they have completed this gigantic un dertaking they will find that they have been working as much for Brunswick as for Savannah—for Brunswick has only to join that road to derive all the benefits from it that Savannah can. The great object of Savannah should be to reach the Gulf of Mexico in the shortest time and by the most practi” cable route. By way of Columbus 300 miles of a route is already in operation. The means for the remaining 230 miles is more than two-thirds provided for. Does it not seem the dictate of reason to seize upon and help complete this line at the earliest possible moment ? Let Brunswick build railways where she pleases—to the moon or any of the planets—Savannah will have done all the can do, to draw trade from Westward of Brunswick when she lays down a rail between that city and her own port. But there is another idea started, which is growing rapid ly into probability, and in this rapid age, may soon grow into a reality. It is an air line from the city of Colum bus to the port of Brunswick. In two years 100,000 bags of cotton will be distributed from this point, and as Bruns wick is 60 miles nearer as a shipping port than Savannah,it requires small skill in figures to show which direction this trade would take. With such a road, and a branch con necting this city with West Point, Brunswick would become the shipping city of ail of South-Western and Western Georgia, and would compete with Savannah for the great flux of trade that is destined to flow down the State Road I from and through Tennessee and the West. With a road hence to Brunswick, what would become of the Muscogee Road, and how far would the profits of the South-Western and Central Roads be curtailed ? Nay, how dimmed would be the now brilliant prospects of the ci y of Savannah, which is just entering upon the fruition of its grand and sagacious enterprise ? Now’, there is sometimes great wis dom in taking “time by the forelock,” and instead of mak ing nervous and spasmodic efforts to prevent a rival from reaping a trade due her, by the legitimacy of her natural position, would it not be wiser in Savannah to secure and lay fast hold of the prizes she has already done so much to make her own ? Had she not better establish the Gulf route by her own road, the Muscogee and Girard and Mobile roads,and by so doing secure allies here to oppose the direct line hence to Brunswick, and in so far, do away with the necessity of another line ? CITIZEN. [FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.] * * * “We do not say that Major Colquitt would not fight if it were necessary, we only say that as deputy pay master he was not expected to fight. It was not his voca tion. He was not sent to Mexico to fight, and didn’t fight.” f Enquirer . The Enquirer is singularly unfortunate in the statements of this paragraph. The truth is just the reverse of the state ment. The fact is this : Maj. Colquitt w’ent to Mexico as an officer in the Pay Department, not to fight, but when he got there he did fight. He was at Head Quarters at Buena Vista, when Santa Anna with a picked army of 20,000 men was advancing on Gen. Taylor with a handfull of regulars and 4500 volunteers. The enemy was numerous, the Americans few. Maj. Colquitt, although not in the fighting department of the army, lelt that his countrymen needed all the help that was possible on that eventful day ; and he promptly volunteered his services as an Aid to Gen. Taylor. His services were accepted, and he served through out the whole battle, by the side of Gen. Taylor, except when dispatched by him on the more dangerous duty of carrying orders to the different regiments engaged over that wild field of carnage. If Gen. Taylor was exposed to peril and fought on that day, so did Maj. Colquitt, for while we suppose that Gen. Taylor did not with his own hand “slay a Mexican” at Buena Vista, it will net be contended on that account that Gen. Taylor “did not fight” at Buena Vista. And while it is not likely that Maj. Colquitt killed anybody with his own hand, his exposure to the most dangerous duty on the field of battle—that of Aid-de-Camp to the Gen eral in command—entitles him to the merit of having fought at Buena Vista. The Enquirer could not have made a more palpable mistake; and as a friend of the Democratic candidate, I am obliged to the Editor for bringing this subject before the people. And I submit, if Gen. Taylor’s labors and perils on that memorable day entitled him, unfitted as be confess edly was by education and habit, to be made President of this great Republic, that Major Colquitt by the same token earned the more humble place of a representative in Con gress. And now, Mr. Editor, since the Enquirer has thought pro perto discuss with disparaging flippancy the claims of the y®ung Democratic candidate, permit me to ask what has the Hon. James Johnson ever done for his country or man kind, to win for him the applause of the public ? Show us his monuments. Show us the first trace of his public spirit on the annals of his District. Did he ever volunteer to fight the battles of his country ? Has he ever done any thing as a civilian to exhibit him in the light of an active, useful, energetic and enterprising member of society ? What en terprise of a public character has he ever headed or aided ? When and where did he ever make a speech, or wield a pen in behalf of any movement in which the community of which he forms a part was interested ? I say as a public spirited man his life has been a blank. Railroads, Tele graphs, Gas Works, Water Works, all projects in short which challenge the energies and stir the spirit of a soul that sympathises with the well-being and progress of civilized society, have all got along without the slightest assistance from Mr. Johnson. Not that Mr. Johnson has not vivacity enough—not that he has not talent enough to have enabled him to make his mark, wide aud deep, on the current events of the active times in which he lives —but all this vivacity and all this talent has been expended on party politics, and Mr. Johnson’s own private and personal affairs. And pray, what has Mr. Johnson done during two sessions of Con gress to entitle hint to the applause which your neighbor bestows on him for “statesmanship,” &c. ? We ask again for his monuments in this field of effort? Where are they 1 j Echo answers “where ?” We humbly think, Mr. Editor, that the Enquirer has got enough to do, to sustain with fact and argument, the puffed up dimensions of its own candidate, without detracting with sneers that illy become that Editor’s lips, from the modest reputation of the young Democrat who has been called to the field of contest for Congressional honors, j Look to your own doors, and beware that the fancied and charmed invincibility of your candidate who has done noth ing for society or for mankind, is not broken by a youth, whose private character is spotless, and who has exhibited public spirit and love of country enough to ride by the side of Zachary Taylor, throughout the whole of the bloody day of Buena Vista. Prove your candidate’s claims to the admi ration of his countrymen—show us his deeds. We ask for one of them —a single one —and when you make the show ing, we bar the production of the only claim you can pro-; duce—and that was that two years ago he deserted the j Democratic party and went over to the Whigs. If this j makes Mr. Johnson great —then he is great—besides this, he : has done nothing. DEMOCRAT. j Whig Nomination. —The Hon. Charles Murphey, i the defeated aspirant before the Democratic Conven tion recently held in the Fourth District, we see by the Newnau Banner , has been recommended by the Whig Convention assembled in that town, as the can- j didate of the Whig party of that District for Congress. Consular Appointments. — Washington, July B. The Republic announces the appointment of E. Wor rell, of Delaware, as Consul at Matanzas, and J. L. Nelson, of Maryland, as Consul at Turks Island. Buenos Ayres. —Accounts from Buenos Ayres to the 22d of May announce that the Bolivian and Bra zilian Ministers, finding it impossible to come to terms, had broken off the negotiations for peace. The block ade of the port by Urquiza had been vigorously en forced since the 13th of May, and was acknowledged by all the foreign agents —vessels which arrived previous to the 13th, however, were allowed till the 3d of June to discharge. The Buenos Ayreans were making the most strenuous exertions to defend themselves, and the Legislature had authorized the issue of ten millions of dollars in paper money (worth about six cents on the dollar) for the purpose of prosecuting the war to the last extremity. The importations of produce had en tirely ceased, provisions and fuel were becoming scarce, and it would be extraordinary if the inhabitants should be able to hold out many months longer. Rumors were current, that the Constituent Congress, in session at Santa Fe, had deposed Urquiza, as Provincial Direc tor, and ordered the siege to be abandoned under pen alty of excommunication. But it is doubtful whether the Director would pay any attention whatever to the demands of the Congress ; indeed, at the latest dates, it was reported that he was preparing to make a sys tematic attack on the city ; if so, the unfortunate people are probably, by this time, again subject to his mercy. __ [N. Y. Herald. I'he Telegraph. —Elam Alexander, Esq., of Macon, Ga., President of the Washington and New Orleans Telegraph Company, declined a re-election at the late annual meeting of the Stockholders, at Washington city, and Mr. S. Moeney, of Charleston, has been elec ted President of the Company in his place. A dividend of five per cent, from the profits of their operations was declared, and the Report of the Presi dent exhibited a satisfactory condition of the affairs of the Company.— Sav. Rep. Immense Lump of Gold. —The “Union” is informed by Mr. Young, from Nevada, that on Friday last a miner brought into that plaoe a lump of gold, mixed with quartz, which weighed forty-five or fifty pounds, of which twenty-five pounds consisted of pure gold. This magnificent nugget was dug on Hopkins’ Creek. COUNCIL CHAMBER, Macon, July S, 1853. At a joint meeting of the Macon Volunteers and Floyd Rifles, the following preamble and Resolutions were unanimously passed, and the undersigned were ap pointed a committee to notify the Commanders of the Military Companies of Columbus of the passage of the same. Lieut. BUTTS, ) Com. Serg’t DIBBLE, > of Priv. TRACY, ) M. Volunteers. Lieut. HARDEMAN, ) Com. Serg’t HARRIS, V of Priv. MIX, ) Floyd Rifles. Whereas, In this utilitarian age, the social relations are almost forgotten and the obligations of society entire - ly overlooked in the selfishness of individuals. And whereas, in our recent visit to the city of Columbus, we have witnessed an exception to these generalities, in the generous feelings and unbounded hospitalities of the citi zens and Military of that beautiful city. Therefore, be it Resolved, That to the citizens of Columbus (the ladies especially) we are under lasting obligations for their untiring exertions to render our visit pleasant and agree able. Resolved, That to the Military Companies of Columbus, we owe a debt of gratitude we feel we can never repay, for their wholesome generosity and unparalleled hospitali ty manifested in every word and act during our sojourn with them, and that for those acts of kindness we tender them the grateful acknowledgments of soldier hearts. Resolved, That for Capt. Hall, the Quarter-Master of the Camp, we will ever cherish the warmest emotions of respect and gratitude for his generous nature —liis ac u commodering disposition—his gentlemanly deportment, and for his repeated acts of kindness towards our corps, we will ever hold his memory in grateful remembrance. Resolved, That our city papers be requested to copy these resolutions, and a copy be forwarded to the Officers of the Military Companies of Columbus. At a called meeting of the Macon Volunteers held at Council Chamber, July Bth, 1853, the following reso lutions were unanimously adopted, and a committee ap* pointed to notify Lieut. Hardeman and Mr. Dorsey of their passage: Rmolved . Ist, That the Macon Volunteers are deeply indebted to Lieut. Hardeman of the Floyd Rifles for the eloquent response delivered by him in behalf of the Floyd Rifles and Macon Volunteers, to the receptional address delivered by Capt. Cooper, of the City Light Guards, to the two companies on their arrival at Camp Montgomery. 2 nd. That the Macon Volunteers hereby tender their warmest thanks to Mr. Dohsey of the Planters’ Hotel for his kindness and hospitality so cordially extended to them on their return passage through Fort Valley. Lieut. BUTTS, ) Serg’t. DIBBLE, > Committee. Priv. TRACY, ) [From the Mobile Tribune.] Mobile and New Orleans Railroad. Now that the company for carrying this enterprise in to execution is fully organized and the work itself is as suming importance, a brief history of it will not be unac ceptable to our readers. The company was incorporated by the Alabama Legislature oil the fourth of December, 1851, and by that of Mississippi on the 25th February, 1852. The first meeting of the corporators —Colin J. Mcßae, P. Phillips, Benj. Toomer, Mm. F. Cleveland, W. 11. Nevili, Joseph Krebs and James Sands—was held in this city on the 23d of April last, P. Phillips in the chair and James Sands acting as secretary. At that meeting it was resolved that books of subscrip tion to the capital stock of said company be opened and kept open under the direction of the secretary until fif teen hundred shares of the stock should be subscribed aud paid for in cash, as provided for by the act of incor poration. On the 26th of April the secretary reported that the required amount had been subscribed for and ten per cent, thereon paid in. The secretary was then directed to notify the stockholders that the corporate s j had discharged the duties assigned them by the charter and were ready to deliver into their hands the books, pa pers and moneys of the company. At a meeting of the stockholders, held on the 2d of May last, it was resolved that five directors for the man- j agement of affairs of the company, should be annually , chosen in the city of Mobile on the first Monday of May in each year. Not less than three directors to form a quorum. The following named gentlemen were then ! elected directors for the current year : Colin J. Mcßae, Joseph Krebs, James Sands, Henry G. Humphries and Win. F. Cleveland. The board organized and elected Colin J. Mcßae president of the company. It will thus be seen that the work is in able and experienced hands.— We look for the most prompt and energetic action on the part of the board of directors, and feel assured that neither the stockholders nor the publie will have cause for dis satisfaction as to the progress of the enterprise. The two charters granted by the States of Alabama and Mississippi are now in press and will be ready within a few da_vs for gratuitous distribution. The Tehuantepec Grant. — In the Supreme Court of N. Y., in the matter of Francisco P. Falconet against Albert G. Sloo, to recover $600,0J0 with 5i5,000 interest, an attachment was granted on the 30th ult., against the defendant in New York.— It appears that Falconet, who resides in Mexico, at ! the instance of the agent of the defendant, paid that government $300,0 0 for Mr. Sloo, on account of the Tehuantepec grant, aud bound himself to pay $300,000 more, in two drafts, during July and Au- ; gust. Since then, it is alleged, Mr. Sloo has refu sed to honor the drafts of the plaintiff, upon him, for the money advanced, and hence ihe attachment. J. R. Miller is going to tunnel the Chica go river at Chicago for $126,000. Later from Texas. By the arrival of the steamship Mexico, Cant Lawless, at New Orleans on the 7th, from Indian,,| a via Galveston, we have papers from the fom ~r place to the 28th ult., and from the latter to the Lt iust. The Galveston Civilian of ihe Ist inst. says The expedition gotten up by Gen. Rusk, of Ei. Paso, had not left Fort Graham at the last accounts Mr; Greeley of Boston has reiurred. The South, western American says Gov. Payne is sick at Wa co ; his recovery doubtful. Gen. Rusk was ex pected at Fort Graham in a day or two. Gen. Clarke will go through to El Paso. Maj. Ncioh* burs employed Jem Shaw as a guide for the exp, dition. Should an escort be needed, it will be furn ished free of expense by tlie Texas citizens, and placed under the control cf competent men. Neighbors will qualify as Indian Superintendent, and proceed at once to the discharge of the duties. The News of the 28th ult. says, in relation to the expedition: Mr. Greeley, who, with other gentlemen, passed through our city on their way to El Paso, some ! time since, has now returned. We understand j from him that the company proceeded only to Wa j co, having found that it was impossible for them to I get back in the time prescribed, if they proceeded | the whole way. They, however, fortunately ob | tained all the information they wanted relative to the route, from various and perfectly reliable sources, arid a r e satbfied that the El Paso loute has over whelming advantages over every other, for the Pa | cifie railroad, and will report accordingly. The maiu trunk of the road they will propose will pro ceed from the Mississippi in nearly a due west di ; reetion to El Paso, in about the latitude of thirty : tw'o degrees, crossing Red River near Shreveport, j with two branches from nearly the same point in ; the interior of our State, the one to Fulton and the j other to some point on our coast. Col. C. May, U. S. Dragoons, had arrived in Gal veston from New Orleans, on his way to San An ; tonio, where he is stationed, i On the subject of crops we find the following : During the past w'eek, we have had numerous refreshing showers, replenishing the cisterns and | reviving vegetation. Crops are said to promise well ;in the interior. An abundant y ield of corn, sugar ; cane and cotton, is expected.— lndianola Bulletin 28th ult. The Lavaca Commercial says there have recen tly been fine showers in the valleys of the Guada lupe and San Antonio rivers, and the prospect is I good for excellent corn crops. Cotton does not | look so well in the West, but there is time enough j yet for that crop to make a good one. In the in j terior counties the wheat crop promises an abun j dant yield. Some newly broken prairie, it is said, I will produce twenty-five bushels of wheat lo the i acre. Wheat offers tojbe the chief crop in William* son, Tarrant and many neighboring counties. Another Fatal Draw-Bridge Accident. On Friday morning at two o’clock, the freight | train which left Wilmington for Philadelphia, ran | into Brandywine creek, at the draw of the bridge ;on the outskirts of the town. The bridge tender i says he gave the proper signals but no attention | was paid to them. The locomotive, tender, and two large platform ! burthen cars were precipitated into the creek, pre ! senting a mass of ruins. The engineer, named ; Garvin, and the fireman were drowned. The con ductor, and other persons on the train fortunately escaped. If it had been a passenger train, the ac cident would have been equal to the Norwalk ca tastrophe. The accident was caused by the bridge tender going to sleep. He heard the whistle of the train coming out of Wilmington, and in bis fright does I not know what he did. He thinks, however, that he raised his lantern, W’hich was the proper signal that all was right. Thus the officers of the iram were deceived, and thought all was right, and went ahead. Charles Garvin, the engineer, belongs to Elkton, and is unmarried. Reuben Titus, the fireman, was crushed beneath the engine, tender and three platform cars loaded with cross ties. The bridge tender is a very worthy and sober man, and has been keeper of the bridge for six years.— He was only on duty every other night. After let ting the train from Philadelphia acrossatlJ o’clock, feeling tired, he thought he W’ould lie down, lie fell asleep, and was so alarmed that lie did not know what he did. This is his own statement. He was so overcome by his feelings that he atteppied sui cide. He has been arrested on the charge of mur der, and held to bail before the New Castle County Court. The verdict of the jury exonerates the company entirely from all blame, as the instructions of the bridge tender were of the most explicit character. Pardoned. —The somewhat celebrated Dr. Hines, it will be rememtered, was convicted some eight months since in the U. S. District Court, and sen tenced to six months’ imp isonment in the county jail, to hard labor, and at the expiration of that time to pay a fine, and remain in jail until the fine was paid. His term of imprisonment expired some months ago, but being unable to pay the fine, he was detained in prison. We are informed that sev eral citizens who knew that Hines was unable to pay the fine, petitioned the President to have him par doned, which request was complied with, and on Monday last the captive bird w r as once more upon the wing. Whether the Doctor has acquired any lessons in morality, during his sojourn on the South Common, hi* future career will disclose. It is enough for the public to know that the notorious Dr. Hines is once more at large. Elections in August. —Elections will take place j next month in the States of Kentucky, Missouri, j Arkansas, Alabama, Texas, Tennessee and North Carolina. In the two latter States the election will be held on Thursday, the 4ih of August, and the others on Monday, the Ist of August. Jn Ken , tucky and Arkansas members of Congress and of i the State Legislature are to be chosen : in Misseu | ri and North Carolina members of Congress ; and | in each of the Stales of Alabama, Texas, and Ten- I nessee, a Governor, Legislature and members cf Congress are to be chosen. We notice that the Board of Managers for the Washington National Monument have issued a notice requesting that boxes, to receive contributions of the monument, may be put up at the different polls throughout the several S ates, and at all elections hereafter to be ■ held. _ ; his wife, in Albany, has been sentenced to be hung j on the the 26th of August. j Neuralgia. —This formidable disease, which seems to baffle the skill of physicians, yields like magic to Carter s Spanish Mixture. Mr. F. Boyden, formerly of the Astor House, New , York, and late proprietor of the Exchange Hotel, Rich” mond, Va., is one of the hundreds who have been curtu of severe Neuralgia by Carter’s Spanish Mixture. Since liis cure, he lias recommended it to numbei others who were suffering with nearly every loim ot i ease,w th the most wonderlul success. lie says it is the most extraordinary medicine he has ever seen used, and the best blood purifici known. See advertisement in another column. July B—lni8 —Ini