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Crystal ?alac. The two main driving engines in the Machine j Arcade are nowin complete working order, and i,i a suitable condition for a critical judgment ‘ of their merits, compared with other stationary , engines of the same power. We now come to the third of the large engines • in motion at the Palace, and shall give a com plete description, as it is from the Stated Ala bama, and is named the “Southern Belle.” This , splendid engine was manufactured at the Win* ter Iron Works at Montgomery, Alabama, erec ted in 1847, under a charter obtained of the j State Legislature, by the title of “Montgomery Manufacturing Company’s Iron Works.” Cap ital stock, 8250,000. John G. Winter, Esq., > the principal stockholder, is the managing head ; of the concern. By Legislative enactments in the year i IB4g, the name was changed to the “Winter Iron Works,” John G. Winter and Sons, being sole proprietors. The Works at present are under the immediate direction ot Mr. Jos. S. j Winter, whose energy and public spirit are am- • ply manifested in the style o( the workmanship ; throughout of the “Southern Belle,” which will make his name as widely known as it is through out the Southern State*, where lie stands se* ! cond to none as a mechanic and engineer. Ihe Works employ about 150 hands, turning out about $28,000 worth of work per week. A large item of business is done in const ruet ing Reuben Rich’s ‘ centre vent cast iron water wheel and iron scroll ; an arrangement that is rapidly superseding all others at the South, on account of its superiority anti cheapness, a model of which is to be on exhibition at the pal ace. But to return to our description ot the “Southern Belle.” The manufacture of sta tionary steam engines is another prominent branch of work carried on at this establishment, of which the engine on exhibition at the palace is the finest —in point of tasteful arrangement, justness of proportion, and elegance of finish, altogether the most elaborate specimen ot the kind we have ever seen; and we know of but one other that will at all compare with it in point of finish, and that will be found at the United States Mint, in Philadelphia. The “Southern Belle” is a horizontal engine, manu factured of iron mined in Alabama. The design washy Mr. E. M. Winter and his mechanical en gineer and draughtsman. The bed-plate, weigh ing 5.000 pounds, is one of the most perfect spe cimens of iron castings we have ever seen any where. The cylinder is 14 inches in diameter, 42 inch stroke ot piston ; diameter of the shaft eight inches at the bearings of the journals.— The fly-wheel, which is polished, weighs three tons, and runs with the most complete precision. The cylinder is surmounted by an eagle, carved by the pattern makers of the Works, and adds much to the effect of the engine. The “South ern Belle,” like some of the Belles at the North, is not expected to do any work, but is to serve j the purpose of an exhibition of Southern enter- ! prise, skill and taste. The brass work on the engine is very perfect, and elicits much surprise from our Northern mechanics at the profusion displayed on every part of this engine. The “Southern Belle” is rated at 30 horse power.” How to atop a fire on Shipboard. The Norfolk Herald, records a successful es- : fort to extinguish fire in a vessel’s hold, by the in • troduction of carbonic acid gas. The schooner L. D. Hart, having on hoard a cargo of lime, was discovered to be on fire, from spontane ous combustion of the lime, while ofi* Cape Henry. After seeking in vain for some possible means I to extinguish the flames or to save the cargo, it i occurred to Mr. W. C. Williams, the consignee, j that as carbonic acid gas would stop combustion if applied iu sufficient quantity, it might be suc cessfully tried in this instance, and the experi ment was immediately carried into effect.— Having no retort of sufficient size, its place was supplied by a stout barrel, into which ingredi ents were placed, and the gas conducted into the hold by a pipe. We are pleased to announce that the chemical knowledge and ingenuity of Mr. Williams were entirely successful in extin guishing the flames, thereby saving a cargo worth about $5,000, and the vessel, which must otherwise have been either sunk, or suffered to consume. Had it been sunk, the addition of water to the lime would have burst the schoon er to pieces. The “fire amiihilator” acted ou a similar principle. Didn't know Him. —A good anecdote is re lated of John Price Wetherell, the popular mer chant, who lately died in Philadelphia, leaving an estate of nearly $1,000,000. On one occa sion, two city bucks drove out to his country seat to visit his daughter. Seeing Mr. Wether ell at the yard’gate, dressed very shabbily, they mistook him for a servant, and ordered him to open the gato. “Os course,” said he, “I will do that,” and suiting the action to the word, he opened the gate and the young dandies drove in, throwing him a quarter as they passed. He quickly picked up the quarter and pocketed it, and a short time afterwards appeared in the par lor, and was introduced to the young ineu by the daughter as her father! Stroke of Wit. —A stroke of wit, accompa nied by a delicacy of insult, was played oft* by a lady who was engaged shortly to be married. The intended bridegroom, perceiving her talking for a considerable time and with much apparent pleasure, to another gentleman, said to her, “I will be revenged of your infidelity, and show the letters which you have written to me.” “Do,” said the lady, “I have nothing to blush for except the direction .” Cotton Receipts at Memphis. —The Memphis Whig of the 20th inst. says: The ne*- crop comes in very sparingly, not more than 80 or 90 bales having been received up to the present time. At this time last year the receipts were some *2OO to 300 per day. Lifut. Whipple's Exploring Party. —The Fort Smith Herald says that Lieut. Whipple’s ex Pj oir * n ß party were, ou the 24th of August, -KL miles from that place. The Lieutenant had oot suceeded in obtaining a guido, but was determined to persevere, depending upon his own energy to ascertain the nature of the coun ty and its adaptation to railroads, &imts uni) Btrdmd. COLUMBUS, GEORGIA.”” SATURDAY EVENING, OCT. 1, 1853 FOR GOVERNOR: HERSCHEL V. JOHNSON, OF BALDWIN. FOR CONGRESS: Ist. DISTRICT JAMES L. SEWARD. I Id. DISTRICT A. H. COLQUITT. Hid. DISTRICT DAVID J. HAILEY. IVth. DISTRICT W. B. W. DENT. Vth. DISTRICT E. W. CHASTAIN. Vllth DISTRICT THUS. P. SAFFOLD. Vlllth DISTRICT J- J- JONES. MUSCOGEE COUNTY NOMINATIONS. FOR SENATE, JOSEPH STURGIS. FOR REPRESENTATIVES, ALEXANDER MrDOUGALD, MARTIN J. CRAWFORD. Review of the Canvass—The Issues Made. The canvass was opened by the Democracy in the Milledgeville Convention, by a re-assertion of the Demo cratic faith as promulgated at Baltimore in 1852, and an endorsement of the President’s Inaugural. Proud es their principles which had triumphed not only in the Federal Government, but were in the ascendant in 27 of the States of the Union, they returned home to buckle ou their armor for a fight with their old enemies, the Whigs, upon the issues presented. Contrary to all rea sonable calculations, they found the Whig camp de serted, its banners trailing in the dust, and not a sol dier left, to tell the story of their destruction or deser tion, but Dr. Andrews, of the Georgia Citizen , who might have exclaimed like Job’s servant, “the oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them ; and the Sabeans (Toombs and Stephens; fell upon them, and took them away; and 1 only am escaped alone to tell thee.” Yes, the camp was deserted, the long cherished and long fought for principles of the Whig party were aban doned and thrown away —“Sarmatia fell, miwept, without a’’—blow. There is but one parallel iu all his tory to this contest. It was the famous siege of Sa maria by Ben hadad, King of Syria. It is related in Scripture (II Kings, 6,) that this great King gathered all his host, and went up, and besieged Samaria. But suddenly one fine morning he was missing, “for the Lord made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host—wherefore they arose and fled in the twi light, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their lives.” So when the great Whig party of Georgia met in Convention, instead of hoisting the gonfalon and sound ing the trump of war, they took counsel “how they should save themselves” “and fled for their lives,” de serting their flag, abandoning their principles, denying their name, and, in the figure borrowed from Scripture, “left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was.” But though the old guard of Whiggery has been beaten, there has arisen another enemy in the field who have carried on a Guerrilla war fare. The history of their achievements during the campaign wo now propose to give. And first of all they have imitated our uniform and copied our banners 5 or in other words, they have made profession of the Democratic faith. Look at their reso lutions on the subject of the tariff, Internal Improve ments by the general Government, economy in the public expenditures. These are close copies of our time honored Baltimore resolutions. If they wero soundly and truly converted to our faith, we would re joice over them ns returning prodigals; but the—ah— they have “stolen onr thunder” to wage battle upon us. If they were honest converts, they would give us the right hand of fellowship and join our communion. But. this they refuse to do. Nothing will satisfy them but our overthrow and their own elevation. Therefore, we justly couclude that they have “stolen tho livery of heaven, to sreve tho devil in.” It is the old game of Federalism. When Jefferson beat them to the wall on the alien and sedition laws they all renounced Fede ralism and professed to become good Republicans; and covered up by these sheep skin professions, these raven ing wolves well nigh destroyed the Democratic flock by turning 1 ‘oso upon them Adams and Clay. The lime, at least, these Whigs of 20 years pitched upon for their conversion, excites in us a lively suspicion that they arc not honest converts. There were but four States under the Whig banner when they deserted it! A word to the wise. Next they set up for the peculiar friends of the South ! “That was the unkiudest cut of all.” Men who had rallied under the banner of Clay, Webster and Fillmore, and had preserved a union of twenty years with the Freesoil Whig party of the North, which they now denounce as “faithless,” and have been wag ing a ceaseless war upon every little squad which set up for the defense of Southern Rights—meu who have ridiculed the apprehensions of Southern men when the fugitive slave law was nullified by a sovereign State, and openly set at defiance by armed mobs who imbrued their hands in the blood of the innocent men they had robbed—men who had quietly submitted rampant fanati cism to cheat the South out of an empire on the Pa cific, which had been, in great part, purchased by her money, and won by her valor, and by means of which the power of the Government is eternally transferred to the Abolitiou North. Such men set themselves up as the peculiar guardians of Southern Rights! and pre teud that “the rights of the South are in great and immineut danger,” because Dix is sub-Treasurer at New York, Brown a sort of mail agent in the W r est. and Vroom is Minister to Prussia! either of whom is less an abolitionist than their candidate for President, j Their effrontery is indeed sublime I Toombs has also attempted to get up a union panic,; but we believe his cry of “fire” has not been much re peated. The sea is too calm, the wind too propitious, the sky too bright for the merest landlubber to be alarmed at such a cry at this hour. ludeedtbe danger is that every thing is too prosperous. Even the “Free soilers” seem determined to prove that they are pro slavery men, and “Disuniouists” have turned union savers. That move of the great Ilatnilcar was a feiut, no doubt, to divert attention from the real point of at tack. It was at any rate so badly executed that his own army failed to see its object. These are the strokes of the leaders of the Conser vative party. We now come to the brilliant achieve- * ments of the subalterns iu the army. The most promi nent of all is the “buzzard story,” which they told on Judge Johnson. Certified to by a dozen or more, and contradicted by a score, it was filthy carrion when it was first picked up, and it is no sweeter by its handling ; ; we leave it to be enjoyed by the men who first scen ted it. Next is the olt repeated charge that “Union men were either fools or knaves”—a perversion so gross and unwarranted, of an opinion common to the whole South j that none but fools can be gulled by it and none but j knaves will pretend to be ; and as nuue such read the columns of the Times tj- Sentinel we will leave it also j in the hands of its authors. Next is the wonderful development of the Chroni - ! cle Sentinel , that David J. Bailey employed 11. V. j Johnson to collect the debts of the Central Bank, and was prevented from doing so by Gov. Crawford, on his elec tion— because, we presume, he wanted to give the fees to oe wf his own political supporters. Well, we believe this is the whole record. We for get. There was some fuss made in the opening of the canvass about all the offices being given to “Fire eaters”—but we have heard no more of this since Cobb was offered the mission to France, aud Jackson was sent to Austria. Indeed their grief now is that Cobh will be made Senator, and they charge that 11. V. Johnson made a corrupt bargain to give it to him, if he would support him for Governor. We verily believe they would rather see John A. Quitman elected Sena- i tor from Mississippi, than Cobb elected to the Senate, or Chastain or Uillytr, or Wofford to the House from Georgia, although they are “sound. Conservative, Union men.” Some little has been said about the California or Pacific Railroad, but the Democratic fire upon this Federal heresy, has been so much fiercer and louder than theirs, that their guns have been silenced long since. This is a faithful record. We have extenuated naught, nor set down aught in malice. For these ridi culous reasons the Democracy must be repudiated, its great, good and pure men turned out of office, the fir mest friends of the South rebuked, the great measures and policy under the influence of which the country has grown to greatness must be repealed, the “faithless” Whig party reinstalled into power with its Gardiner isms and Galphinisms, its protective tariffs, and its spe cific duties, its Corwins, and Ingersolls, and Fillmores, its Scotts and Sewards. Suppose for a moment that the Conservative party are victorious, and the Democracy beaten, who will reap the spoils of victory ? Unquestionably, the faith less Whig party. The Conservatives can’t hope to do so. They are confined to Georgia and can, therefore, in a general election, carry but a single State. Every where else but here, the people are either Whigs or Democrats. They are the Lion and the Unicorn fight ing for the crown, and no poor little mouse of a Con servative, who is gnawing at the lion’s tail, can hope to carry off the prize, no matter which whips. The issue is between the two great parties which divide the country. The question, therefore, comes home to eve ry voter in Georgia, who are the safest statesmen, the Pierces, Davises, Marcys, Baileys, Soules, Cushings, Buchanans, Dallases and Casses of the Democracy, or the Scotts, Sewards, Fillmores, Corwins, Ingersolls, Toombses or Stephenses of Whiggery ? Let the peo ple answer the question and vote accordingly. We do not pretend that the Democracy are faultless. They have many faults. But when compared with the rot ten and faithless Whig party, they shine as the bright ness of the sun to a farthing can cle ; Mr. Toombs him self has said i. We submit the issue to the people, with the full as surance that they will do right, and the fervent prayer that the kind Providence which has watched over us so far, and turned our very errors into blessings, will direct their suffrages and commit the reins of Government to the men who are the wisest and best. So mote it be. The Chronicle Sentinel. The insufferable dullness of this paper during the last twelve months or more, has caused the press in Georgia very nearly to ignore its existence. It seems determined of late to bring itself into notice by frequent allusions to ourselves. Its attacks have however been mere musquito bites, and never made sufficient im pression to be remembered long enough to be repelled, and would not now if our notice were not attrac ted by the pertinacity with which it persists in its efforts to sting. First and foremost, it alludes to our paper as “a jour nal that hated the Union as it did hell itself.” No such remark has ever occurred in the columns of the Times $• Sentinel, and the editor must have known that he was imputing to us a sentiment which we never used and are incapable of feeling. Again, it published an extract from our paper in which we asserted that the evidence furnished, proved that “Dix was not even u Freesoiler,” as ovidence ei ther of our “ignorance or recklessness.” Pleading to the jurisdiction es the court as incompe tent to decide such questions, we ask in all candor, what is a Freesoiler ? We always understood him to be a man who was opposed to the extension of the slave j power in the United States. If such be the case, Dix is no Freesoiler. He voted for the annexation of Texas, and is now in favor of the acquisition of Cuba ; by the first measure, slave holding territory and power was greatly extended and strengthened, and by the last anew slave holding State will be added to the Union and j the most insidious and dangerous scheme of foreign i Abolitionists defeated. j The Chronicle Sentinel announces in italics, and an exclamation ! that we admit that Dix voted for the : Wilmot Proviso. Well why not ? Is the acknowledg ment of a truth, that cuts against its side, a thing never done by that sheet? We are sorry to hear it. We think a cause which has to be defended by concealing facts or misrepresenting them had better be lost. Such, however, it seems is not the opinion of the Chronicle Sentinel. Again ; the Chronicle Sentinel asserts that the Conservative party never charged Dix with being an Abolitionist. We acquit that paper of the charge; but j Toombs and Stephens have both done so in their speeches, as can be seen by reference to reports of their speeches, as given in the Chronicla tj- Sentinel and Journal Messenger. Mob Law in the Cherokee Nation. —On the 10th ult. a mob of 100 Indians arrested Andrew and G. W. Adair at their residences in the nation, and brutally murdered them, upon some pretext connected with the murder of Ivanasta by Daniel Ro6s. The Adairs were sober, industrious, and highly esteemed Indians, and were the owners of considei able property. After kill ing these two men the mob started in pursuit of others. There is much excitement iu the nation, and many per sons have left the nation to seek refuge from the fury of the mob. The report of the death of Col. William T. Austin is contradicted. He had the yellow fever, but has recov ered, and is now well. [FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.] We belive the greatest interest in a political point oi view seems to be in the race for the Legislature. The Conserva tives have put up Samuel A. Wales lor Senate, and he is a very clever, good natured man, lie’s two years old among us, and when he’s grown may come to something good, but now he’s in a race that he can't win, and every body sees it, and then the race was short—triend Wales ia shorter still, and so he found himself at Gobbler’s Hill,when Sturgis call ed him out to speak, but still he gave what views he had, and eould remember, although his mouth was better filled with wind than words, and soon he closed and left, and there just then Sturgis ran ahead, and still ahead he keeps, though he’s holding back to let friend Wales see which way he goes, that he may keep upon the turf, and not have it said that Sturgis “distanced him,” aud thus destroy his fu ture hopes, for we must say that Col. Wales may yet do well, when he’s old enough to take this track. It seems that Col. Wales was crowded in the race, and very badly needed water, lor all the wells in town could do no good, and perhaps ho must, unless Daggers with an arm of power . should hold him on the river bank, and let him drink until he’s full. All will do no good, he’s far behind, and still must be, aud monday night will show Judge Sturgisnp one hundred clean, ahead of Col. Wales. 1 here come 1 live candidates more, two •! whom alone can have the seats, Bethune, Thorntou, Crawford, McDou gald and Billy Wooldridge, all high up in hopes, and all chock full of cleverness, at least just uow. Thornton dash ed otf with head erect when first, the drum did tap, looked cn, and every body said his friends had him out because they thought him fast, and for the first quarter stretch he made good time, but in a turn, there stood the Liquor Law, and slap up he comes against it ; at first he seemed to shun it, and some thought he’d bolt, but Gen. Bethune was hard upon him, he pressed right on, oven upon his heels, until he run him into a memorial station, where he took the studs, and would not budge ; his friends looked on, and seemed delighted, and to think, we’ll catch the votes of Penn, and all his friends, and thus we’ll win the race ; and just then, McDougald comes along, and stir red him up by passing him. And the way friend Thorn ton gave “practical evidences,” was gratifying to all deal ers in the line. But on he goes, and down the next quarter he seems to run, not with those of “irreproachable charae acters,” and with whom he set out, but away over on the other side, until Crawford comes, doing his “level best,” and causing Thornton strait off to strike towards Billy Woold ridge, who, monstrous fat and slow runs on, and even well from Jamestown station, up to Glenn’s, but puffing on, he needs a shade, in which to cool, and in the town he’ll find it, and time withal to rub his joints, and grease, unless he should be scared away by a load or two of cotton bales, thrown in to win the race, McDougald runs with ease, having often made and wou the race before ; all bet high upon his running out ahead. Crawford leads Thornton, and Bethune, and he seems too, to he a favorite, and though the track is heavy, etill he’s got both speed and bottom. Our money’s up on Sturgis, Craw ford, and MeDougald, when they are beaten all is lost, the County’sjgone forever. Let every man be here to see this race, and lend a helping hand ; we say again, come up and see how handsomely we’ll lay it on. Hurra for Stur gis, Crawford, and McDougald. GOBBLER’S HILL. Aid to Mobile. The following amounts have been contributed by the | oity aud citizens of Columbus in aid of the sufferers in I Mobile : Appropriated by City Council S3OO 00 | Collected by Committees. Tennant Lomax 30 OO Van Leonard 45 00 Joseph Kyle and Jao. Johnson 23 00 J. W. Thomas, O. Danforih and J. P. Brown 112 25 L. H. Durr 53 30 Robert S. Hardaway.... 219 25 503 00—303 00 Total SIOO3 00 Which has been this day sent to the Mayor of Mobile. J. L. MORTON, Mayor, j Columbus, Ga., Oct. I, 1853. | Southern Quarterly Review. We again call the attention of our readers to this very useful, able, and interesting periodical. The Oo ! tober number is on our table. The following is its table j of contents: Ist. Sir William Hamilton’s Discussions, by Prof. ! Holmes. 2d. Ramsey’s Annals of Tennessee. 3rd. British and American Slavery, by Geu. Jamie son. 4th. Maury on South America aud Amazonia, by j Col. Hammond. sth. Miles’ De Soto, by Uon. C. J. N. Gwinn. ] 6th. Political Institutions of Sparta and Athens, by Prof. Poreher. ! Tth. What moves the Table ?by Prof. W. P. Miles. Bth. Locke among the Moonlings. j 9th. Septem Contra Thebas, by Prof. J. W. Miles. 10th. Letter on the abase of Suffrage, j Uth, Critical Notices. Address Walker & Burke, Charleston, S. C. Sub scription price $5 ; postage free if remitted before Ist I ! Jan. 1854. Blackwood’s Magazine. —We have received our September number of the above Standard Magazine. The following is the tattle of contents : I. Scotland since the Union ; 11. Foreign Estimates of England; 111, New Readings in Shakspeare ; IV. The Duke’s Dilemma, a Chronicle of Niesenstein ; V. Lady Le’se Widowhood ; VI. Coral Rings ; VII. The Aged Disciple Comforting; VIII, The Extent and the Causes of our Prosperity. A New Wrinkle. —One Dr. T. J. Trundle, of Boone county, Ky., has long enjoyed the reputation of being an active and zealous abolitionist and agent of the underground railroads. A short time since suspicions were excited as to his conduct, and ha has been arrested and held to bail in the sum of $15,000 for kidnapping slaves and sending them to the New Orleans market for sale. Income of the State Road. —August 1851, $22,- 244 71 ; August 1852, $26,< 83 53 ; August 1853, $30,714 08; showing an increase of $17,469 37 over 1851, and of $13,630 55 over 1852 for the month of August. Democratic Nominations. —The principal editor of the Picayune, S. F. Wilson, Esq. and J. A. Brand have been nominated for the Legislature in New Or leans. Mandeville Mareguy for Sheriff, and John For* shee for Coroner. The Weather. —Mobile, Sept. 27.— For the past two or three days we have had quite cool evenings and mornings, while the middle of the day was extremely hot. We are glad to learu, however, that under this condition of the weather, there are very few cises of sickness occurring. But we do not eeusider it yet sale for absentees to return. — Tribane. Desperadoes. — A gang of some four or five despe. radoes attacked the house of a Mr. Lilly, living four or five miles from this place, on last Wednesday night, about ten o’clock, in which was Mr. Lilly and family, and a Mrs. Rascoe, who were forced to leave the house for their lives. These men literally covered one side of the house with shot, and discharged thei* guns several times at Lilly as he was fleeing. Such conduct as this is a great outrage in a civilized community, and it is hoped the persons who were on. gaged iu it, may be identified, arrested and meet with, their just deserts at the hands of the law.— Selma Sen tinel, 2Uh inet. Death of Dr. Randolph. —The Mobile papers an nounce the death of Dr. Thomas G. Randolph, late physician to the Samaritan Society. Judge Mason, the newly reported Frenoh Minis ter, is lying dangerously ill at Richmond. Fire in Cahaha. — Cahaba, Sept. 26.— A fire broke out yesterday evening about 3 o’clock, on the premi ses of Col. Fambru, but was arrested before much dam age was done. Englishmen Rejoicing. —When the Admiral of the British fleet, in Besik a Bay, heard of Cupt. Ingraham’s gallantry in tho ? Kosta affair, it is said he manned all the yards and the seamen gave nine hearty cheers, while the guns belched forth a royal salute. Calfst Intelligence. [From the Charleston Papers.] Further European Intelligence by the ‘Wash ington. The London Times, in its issue of the 14th ult,, announced that the Emperor of Russia had rejected tho Sultan’s modifications, and war was considered inevit able. Previous accounts stated that the English and French Consul had left Jassey, aud that a great panic arose from tho circumstance. General Linders was ad vancing with a fresh corps of Russian troops upon Moldavia. The Czar was to proceed at once to Warsaw, to meet the Emperor of Austria at Olmutz, a strongly fortified city of Moravia on the river March, 40 miles N. E. of Brumi, in which Lafayette was confined for many years from 1794. The Turkish troops on the Lower Danube, under the, command of Omar Pasha, insist on fighting the Russians and it is feared that the Pasha will be unable to 6ubdue their fanaticism. Advices from Spain state that the Hon. P. Soule will be received at Madrid as United States Minister. Later from Texas.— The yellow fever is still raging in Galveston. The sexton reported 81 interments dur ing the week ending on the S2d. The Civilian of the 20th says: The epidemic rages with unabated violence, and seems destined to constitute the darkest page in the history of our otherwise fortunate city. The disease is certainly more malignant ns well as more extensive than any which has heretofore visited Galveston. Its pecu liar victims are the unacclimated, but even those who have before had tho fever have been attacked, though lightly, in some instances, and, in one case, a native child died with black vomit. Already about two hun dred persons have fallen and three times that number have been attacked. Gen. Carvajal is said to be engaged in surveying i lands in Starr county. The LaGrange Monument says ’ he has an interesting family to support, and intends to i establish a ranch forty miles east of Laredo. ! Indian War in Oregon. Dates from Oregon to the 26th of August have leen received. An Indian insurrection had broken out in Paogue river valley, which created great consternation among the habitants. Several tribes had united and commenced a war of extermination upon the whites. Many massacres had already been committed. Among the victims were Dr. William R. Rose and John R. Harden. Lieut. B. V. Griffin, with a company of troops, had made an attack up& on a party of Indians, but was obliged to retreat, himself wounded. An expedition under Gen. Lane had gone to the scene of action, and bloody work was expected. Twenty whites had been butchered. The Kosta Affair—Mr. Marcy’s Reply. New York, Sept. 29. The New York Herald of this morning, publishes a synopsis of Mr. Marcy’s forthcoming letter to the Aus trian Government, in reference to the arrest of Kosta at Smyrna. The Secretary maintains that Kosta was seized within the nationality of the United States, and that Capt. Ingraham’s interference, under the circumstances, was right and proper. He refuses to consent that Kosta be given up to the Austrian Consul at Smyrna, and insists that Austria shall place him in the same conditions as when arrested. Washington News. The Chinese Mission was certainly tendered to the Hon. Win. Allen, of Ohio, when recently in this city ; but not the Mission to Paris, as insisted on by his most ardent admirers in Washington, j The Attorney General (Cushing) was not denounced I in the resolutions of the convention of the “disappointed,” j in Massachusetts, recently assembled in Boston, as rep* J resented per telegraph. A Mr. Barstow of Salem, in a I speech, however did abuse him right heartily. The Hon. John Y. Mason of Va. —Private intelligence reached Washington last night, representing the situation of this distinguished and popular gentleman to be almost hopeless, we regret to be compelled to write. Progress of the Redemption of U. S. Stocks.—Du ring’the week ending at 3, P. M.,today, about $300,000 in redeemable U. S. stock were received at the Treasury, and duly cancelled. News from Washington. —We copy the following from the Star: Col. John C. Fremont.— Wo regret extremely to write that we have news per telegraph from St. Louis, saying that Col. Fremont hss been compelled to abandon his journey of exploration to California (overland) and return to St. Louis, on aceount of the condition of his health. Secretary Marey left Washington this afternoon for the North, whither ho goes, it is understood, to discharge the melancholy duty of attending the interment of the remains of his son, who died not long since in the West Indies. Nina Victorious. Richmond, Ya., Sept. 27.—Nina won the celebrated match race to-day, beating Red Eye two straight heats. Time—first heat, 3m. 545.; second heat, 3m. 48s. The Washington Sentinel. Washington, Sep. 24.—Beverly Tucker’s new paper, the Sentinel , made its appearance this morning. It sympathises with the Hard Shells of New York and promises to give the President its iudependentj’support Office Board of Health, ) Mobile, September 26, 1853. \ Report of interments in the city of Mobile for the twenty-four hours ending 6 o’clock p. m. this day : Os yellow fever 13 Other diseases 7 Total 26