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.... t' 1 ■ —“ Cinws avti ftmtinel. . M— * COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. WEDNESDAY MORNING. OCT. 24- Commerce and Taiatlon— How lo Build up Savannah. The dependence of Georgia upon New York is the most humiliating spectacle which is presented to the age of the patriot in a survey of our soc.al and pol.t.cal j condition. Savannah is our natural seaport and there ought our merchants to lay in their supplies. Lut who trades to Savannah 1 Not one merchant in a theusand ever thinks of stopping there to buy any thing. New York is the mercantile Mecca, ana thither do they all make semi-annual pilgramages,. and spend the hard tamings of their daily toil, and thus aid in giving to the North the control of the commerce of the country. Is there no remedy for this great evil ? r i he Richmond Examiner thinks there is, and that it con sists in a discriminating tax upon merchandise im ported into the State. The Examiner says . “Do the peopleofVirginia know that her present sys tem of taxation not only does not encourage her own commerce as against that of other States, but actually enoourages Northern commerce at the expense of her { own ? If this be so, the propriety of reversing the poli cy will be universally conceded, however much opinions may differ as to the precise scheme of policy that shall be substituted for the present. “Whoever will examine the subject of merchants’ licenses in this State, running through all our tax laws £8 well those of the Commonwealth as of corporations, towns and counties —will discover, that taxation is laid with exclusive referenoe to sales. o.’ the system is no other than to a premium re tail merchants to go out *f the State for their stocks, rather than purchasing them of the Virginia im porter. The Virginia importer is required by law i to deliver to the commissioner, on oath, a schedule of his sales, and is taxed according to the amount of sales. The Virginia jobber is required to do the same thing and is taxed in precisely the same man ner. And the Virginia retailer is required to sched ule his goods also, and is also taxed according to sales. It is plain, therefore, that goods brought into the State by the Virginia importer, sold by him to the Virginia jobber, and then sold by the jobber to the Virginia retailer, who himself often sells to the pedlar, are subjected to three taxations before they reach the consumer, if he buys of the retailer 5 and four taxations, if he buys of the pedlar or neighpornood doggery ? It is plain that the doggery keeper or pedlar escapes three taxations, if he go North for his little stock ; and, which is much the more general case, that the country retailer escapes two taxations by going out of the State for his goods, rather than getting them of the Virginia jobber or importer. “It is obvious from these facts that our merchants will continue to go to the North for their goods as long as the present System of taxation is continued. These two and three per cent discriminations, against our own trade, in its competition with Northern, will always en suie the success of the Northern merchant. So deeis ive is the effect of this system of State taxation upon our trade, that in a recent instance, a large Richmond house, which had sent a cargo of flour to Rio and ex changed it for coffee, found by calculation, when the vessel arrived in Hampton Roads, that they could clear SSBB by discharging at Baltimore rather than at Rich mond, and accordingly ordered the vessel there. None will deny that a system which sends all our retail mer chants North for goods, and concentrates all the import and export trade, legitimately belonging to Virginia, in Northern ports, ought to be changed. “But what scheme shall’be substituted ? It seems to us that the principle of the scheme is obvious, though it must remaiD with the Legislature to devise the de tails of it. It is—not to tax merchants on their sales, but lay the whole tax on merchandise brought into the Slate and sold while in first hands —on the met cant actually bringing it in and selling it, and not taxing it at all in the hands of subsequent purchasers. “In levying this tax, the State would have to take care that it did not become of the nature of an impost tax or duty, which is unconstitutional. She would have to dirtet it to be levied as her tax on merchants is now levied, that is to say, in the form of a license tax : or, else, provide that merchants should furnish a schedule of the goods brought into the State and sold by them, at .he usual periods of the year for requiring such returns —not levying it at the time of bringing in the goods,or on the single act of bringing in ; but on the bringing in and sale. —thus preserving its character as an excise tax, and not allowing it to become . a impost \ tax, in the meaning of the Constitution. “So far, the scheme would be a simple measure of or dinary State policy, having no retaliatory feature, and identical with the policy of several other States of the Union. But we should consider the measure wanting” in its most * fficacious and valuable feature, if it simply provided that all goods brought into the State, should be taxed three or fee per cent, in the bands of the merchant bringing them in and selling them. We should go farther and :dd a proviso substantially in these words—‘except such goods as shall be imported, ‘into the State in vessels owned whoii) hv cozens there ‘of, which goods shall be wholly exempt from taxation.’ Such a measure would fill Hampton IF. id* wi.u ve.-stls ; in five years. “If we want to see a simple formula for restoring to \ irginia her lost commercial supremacy ; ::d bringing the North to their senses sooner than any other argu inent, even than that ot’ the sword, it is iu these words— Lay a high lax upon goods brought into the State and sold—payable by the merchant bringing them in; and exempt those imported in our oicn vessels from all taxation. ’ i his is the talisman of our political power, our com mereial wealth, and social peace and independence.” Ihe subject is new to us, hut at the first blush we are disposed to concur in the views of the Richmond Editor. At any rate, we commend the argument of the Examiner to the careful consideration of the next Legislature, and l ope that this proposition to disorimi t ate in favor ot our own seaport and against the over grown cities of Me North will form a pat tof the sys iem ot retaliatory measures which the nujority of the members ot that body are pledged to adopt, by the 13th lesolution of the June Convention. The Campbells are Coming. The mirth provoking and musical band cf Ethiopian Minstrels, know as the “Camj bells, ’’ w ill visit Columbus next week and give a series < f enteriainim nts. Every body will patronise the Campbells. The Albany Standard, of ihe 18th inst.,says ; “We understand that Mr. A. J. Shiue, Senator elect from Worth county, die 1 a few and *ys since at hie residence in Worth.” - * * — A Grand Rally of the Democratic and Anti- Know Nothing Parly at Milledgeville. The recent crowning victory in Georgia, was won by the co-operation of those Whigs and Democrats in the State, who concurred in%pinion upon the platform of principles enunciated by the State Convention of the Democratic party, which resembled in Milledgeville on the sth June, 1855. Many of the new recruits have never yet had the privilege of meeting their political brethren in general Convention. We, therefore, pro pose that there be held in Milleegeville, during the first ! week of the session of the Legislature, a Grand Mass Meeting of the party for the purpose cf consolidating the fruits of our victory, and holding counsel as to the ; future policy of the friends of civil and religious free t dom in Georgia. Our Democratic and Anti-Know Nothing exchanges will please extend the invitation, if they concur in the suggestion. A strong pul!, a long pull, and a pull ail j together, just at this lime, will render our victory com plete, and save Georgia, for all time to come, from the hateful rule of a secret order, and put her in position to meet the coming storm of Northern fanaticism. .Will the Federal Union be kind enough to name the day of 1 meeting l Kansas Meeting at Temperance Hall* There will boa Kansas meeting at Temperance Hall at 11 o’clock A. M„ to-day. The object of the meet ing is to organize a Kansas -Emigrant Aid Society for the county of Muscogee. The publio generally are re spectfully invited to attend. This is a favorable oppor tunity for patriotic citizens to show their zeal tor the cause of the South. Action, and not professions is what is now needed. More Light, for the Savannah Republican. “We feel great interest in our neighbors of the Savan nuh Republican. We have no doubt they honestly desire to belong to that party which is true to the con stitution and just to tlie South. They have been very bitter in their opposition to the Democracy. This, how ever, we are disposed to pardon as they say they have never seen any signs of soundness in the Democratic party, North, outside of Vermont. We have heretofore called their attention to the reso lutions adopted in State Conventions of Massachusetts, Vermont, Pennsylvania and New York. We now add a very strong string recently adopted by the assembled Democracy of Chicago, Illinois. By the way, we notice that in ISSO there were 43,385 inhabitants in Cook county, of which Chicago is the capital, and 21,863 of them were foreigners. We hope, however, that this fact will not make the proceedings of the meeting less acceptable to our Know Nothing cotemporaries cf the Savannah Republican. We are quite sure they love the South more than they hate foreigners. But to the resolutions : what dots the Savannah Republican th ink of them ? From the Chicago Times. Illinois Democracy, On Friday evening last the democracy of Chicago invited their brother democrats from other parts of the State then in the city to a good, old-fashioned democrat ic festival—a festival where the constitution and the laws would bo regarded and treated as the chief rule of political action. At seven o’clock the square on Slate street was thronged with citizens. A handsome stand had been erected on the east side of the street, near the City Hotel. I liomas Dyer, esq., of Chicago, called the meeting to order, and moved that the Hon. John Moore, of Mo- Lean county, take the chair. The motion was unani mously agreed to, and the old veteran was received with cheers. After returning thanks for the honor done him by calling him to preside at the meeting of the unyielding democracy of the city of Chicago, he entered upon the duties of chairman. The chairman introduced to the meeting the Hon. S. A. Douglas, who, for over three hours, addressed the meeting. Owing to a want of time we are com pelled to defer even our sketch of his speech till another day. Dr. Brainard submitted the following resolutions, which were read, and were adopted with great una- tiimity: . The Platform of the Illinois Democracy. Resolved, That the constitution of the United States is a political contract between the people ol independent sovereignties, which bestows paramount authority to the extent of the powers delegated, but leaves those not dele gated to the States respectively, or to the pe pie ; that a I vigilant guard against the centralization of these powers is ! essential to the preservation of our institutions, and that by | the instrument Congress has no power, express or implied, ! to establish, abolish, or prohibit shivery in the States or j Territories. i Resolved, That we reaffirm the time-honored principles of the democracy, and believe that the only sure guarantee for the-public tranquility is a str.ct adherence to the provis ions of the constitution upon the subject of slavery, applying alike to the States and Territories, observed in the passage of the, compromise measures of 1850, and confirmed in the Kansas and Nebraska act, the corollary of the former mea sure, by which Congress have declared that it is their “true intent and meaning not to legislate slavery into any State or Territory, but to leave the people thereof free toTorm and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States,” and’ that we do pledge ourselves to resist the repeal, amendment, or modification of the compromises of 1830, including the fugitive slaw and the Kansas and Nebraska act of 185i, as we hold that they are wise and just measures, and should be maintained undisturbed for “the preservation of the na tional peace and the Union of the States. Resolved, That the con.-titution of the United States.is founded upon the fundamental principles of entire and ab solute equality among all the States of this Union, and it is i not competent tor the Congress or any other power to im - pose upon new States coming into the Union any condition cr restriction in respect to their domestic institutions or in tern a 1 concerns which the federal constitution has not im posed upon the original States ; and that any effort on the part of Congress or any other power to violate this princi ple should be met and resisted by all good citizens as an attempt t*> trample upon the constitution and destroy our glorious Union. Resolved, That all men have a natural right antecedent to the formation of civil society, and beyond the control of the governments, to religious iieedom, the surrender of which is unnecessary to the temporal welfare of the State, and cannot be relinquished, even by the consent of the citi zen, in a free government; that much less can anymore party, taction, or cabal, regulate that right by any party compact against his consent, and that we hold that the Know Nothing order, in the persecution and proscription ; of Catholics, have violated this cardinal principle, and are bigoted enemies to religious liberty, and foes to our consti tution, our laws, and our tree government. .Resolved, That we do not recognise any distinction among citizens of the United States based upon the aristo cratic piinciple of birth, and we hold that it is dishonest to repudiate’the‘contract given by the government conferring ail the rights of American citizenship in its letters of natu i ralization, and afterwards by a party compact to debar : naturalized citizens from the full benefits while we leave them subject to the full burdens of the agree meat. Resolved, That open discussion of public affairs is the foundation of the intelligence of the people and the sate guard of freedom ; that any secret association or brother hood for political objects is dangerous to free institutions, to the frank and manly character of a true American, and that we regard with abhorenee the organized falsehood and treacherous secrecy ot the Know Nothing order. Resolved, That the recent election in the city of Louis ville was marked by the most glaring fraud upon the elec tive franchise, amid conflagrations, murders, and barbarities, contrary to the character and unknown before in the histo ry of this people, the offspring of a cruel system ot religious bigotry and political haired of race, engendered in and exe cuted by a secret, oath-bound, Jacobinical society, repro ducing in America the savage scenes that stained the supremacy of their kindred fraternities during the French revolution. Resolved, That the President of the United States and the present administration have been faithful to the princi ples of the democracy, and especially deserve the thanks of the country for the course pursued in relation to the Kansas jind Nebraska act, for the measure to secure our western frontiers, and for the maintenance of the honor and dignity of the government in our foreign relations. Colunbus Building and Loan Association. The second annual meeting of this association, says the Colutnbns Enquirer , was held at Concert Hall on Sat urday evening last, and S4OOO were hid for at 51 per cent premium, S2OOO at 50, and S2OOO at 48 per cent. The report for the first eleven months was read and re ceived, which exhibited a highly prosperous business season—and indicated that if its future profits approxi mate those of its past year, the institution will wind up its affairs in a shorther time than has been set by the estimates of any of its friends or supporters. The report, including the business of the last meeting, will bo forth coming in a day or two —or as soon as the committee can make it out. The annual election of officers for the ensuing year also took place—and the following gentlemen were unanimously chosen. With the exception of Mr. Munn, it is the same Board that has served for the year just closed : T. Lomax, President. Directors. —R. L. Mott, Dr. J. E Bacon, J. P. Flenricks, J. Rhodes Browne, F. G. Wilkins, John Munn. Treasurer. — Sterling F. Grimes. Secretary, —Jordan L. Howell. Rain. —On Sunday and Tuesday, 21st and 23d inst. we have been blessed with genial showers of rain, which cooled the atmosphere, laid the dust and gives promise of a speedy opening of the Gulf trade. A little more of the same sort of weather will save the towns on the river below from annihilation. The January Elections. —From appearances, in different sections of the State, we are satisfied that the Know Nothing party intended to make a vigorous effort to restore their lost power and influence in the result of ;he October elections, by renewed efforts to eleot their county officers, all over the State in January.— We give warning to our anti Know Nothing friends in time, and urge them to renewed diligence in the corning contest. Our triumph in October last is not enough— we must complete the woik in January. We must stand firmly by those friends who stood by us then.— The sworn cohorts of Know Nolhingism will go in solid phalanx for their men—let us imitate their example, and support our men. — Con. Rep. i Governor Wise’s Letter to the Boston Abolitionists. In reply to an invitation to deliver a lecture on slavery in Boston on the 10th of January, 1856, Gov. Wise.writes the following characteristic letter, which we extract from the Richmond Enquirer: Only, near Onacock, ) Accomack County, Va., Oct. 5, 1855. $ Gentlemen: —On my return home, alter an absence of some days, I found yours of the 19th ult., “respectfully in viting me to deliver one of the lectures of the course on slavery, at Tremont Temple, in the city of Boston, on Thursday evening, January 10,1856; or if that time will not suit my engagements, you request that 1 will mention at once what Thursday evening, between the middle of December and the middle of March next, will best accom modate me.” Now, gentlemen, I desire to pay you due respect, yet you compel me to be very plain with you, and to say that your reque-t, in'every sense, is insulting and offensive to me. W hat subject of slavery have you “ initiated ” lee* lures upon? I cannot conceal it from myself that you have undertaken in Boston to discuss and to decide whether my property in Virginia ought to remain mine or not, and whether it shall be allowed the protection of the laws, federal and State, wherever it may be carried or may escape in the United States; or whether it shall be de stroyed by a higher law r than constitutions and statutes! Who are you, to assume thus, such a jurisdiction over a subject so delicate and already fixed in its relatiens by a solemn compact between the States, and by States which are sovereign ? I will not obey your summons nor recog nize your jurisdiction. You have no authority and justili | cation for thus calling me to account at the bar of your \ tribunal, and tor thus arraigning an institution established j by laws which do hbt-reach yon and which you cannot j reach by calling on me to defend it. : You send me a card to indicate the character of the ! lectures. It reads: “Admit the bearer and lady to the independent lectures | on slavery. Lecture Committee, S. G. Howe, T. Gilbert, I George F. Williams; Henry T. Parker, W. Washburn, B. ! R. Mussey, W B. Spooner, James W. Stone.” j I: is endorsed: ’ “LectGres at the Tremont. Temple, Boston, 1654-55 November 23—Hon. Charles Sumner, Rev. John Pierpont, poem. December 7—lion. Salmon P. Chase,of Ohio. December 14 —lion. Anson Burlingame. December 21— Wendell Phillips, esq. December 28—Cassius M. Clay, esq ,of Kentucky. January I— Bon. Horace Greely. Jan ury 11— Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. January 18—Hon. John P. Hale. January 25—Ralph Waldo Emmerson, esq. February 8— Hon. -Nathaniel P. Banks, jr. Feb. 15 —Hon. Lewis 1). Campbell, of Ohio. February 22—Hon. Samuel Houston,of Texas. March I—Hon. David Wjl mot, of Pennsylvania; March B—Hon. Ciias. W. Upham.” ( All honorable and sq a ires ex c e ptjiho se who are reverend'. The card doe3 verily indicate their characters by simply naming them ; and your letter, gentlemen, is franked by i “C. Sumner, U S. S.” With these characteristics, lam ! at no loss to understand you and your purposes You say, “during the next season a large number of gen tlemen from the South will be invited,” &,e. Ac. I regret, it if any other? can be found in the slaveholding States to accept your invitation. You plead the example of Gen. Houston. If is the last'l would-follow. I have no doubt ; that you accorded very *4 respectful attention to him last j winter, and were very grateful for his services in your cause. You offer ‘ one hundred and fifty dollars to he paid to the lecturer, he bearing his own expenses.” Let me. tell you that Trent on t Temple cannot hold wealth enough to purchase one word ol discussion from me there whether mine here shall be mine or not; but lam ready to volun teer, without money and without price, to suppress any in surrection and repel any invasion which threatens or en dangers the State ’right- ot Virginia, or my individual lights under the laws and constitution of gmy country, or the sacred Union, which binds slave States and free togeth er in one lond of national confederacy and in separate bonds of independent sovereignties ! In short, gentlemen, I will not deliver one of the lectures of the course on slavery at the Tremiv i Temple, in Boston , on Thursday evening. January 10, 1856 ; and ih.ere will be no Thur sday evening between the middle of December and the middle ol March next, or between that and doomsday, which will best accommodate me so r that purpose. I give you an immediate answer, and, at my earliest con venience, indicate to you that “the particular phase of the subject’ s .that 1 will p esent is, deliberately, to tight if we .most. Your obedient set vant, HENRY A. WISE. Indiana Election. The Indiana Sentinel thinks the and ivneratio majority in that State will be 20,000. Last year 12,623*fu5!0n ma jority—democratic gam, say 32,G23; or, m round rums ; bers, 30,000. The legislature elected a year ago holds i oyer till next year. Fatal Duel. Savannah, Oct. 10.— \ duel wis fought at Fort Pulas ki, on Saturday last, between John Chaplain, Ex Lieut entant in the United Slates Navy, and his brother in law Dr. Kirk, of Savannah, which resulted in the death of the latter. The former was slightly wounded in the foot. Thai Duel. —The Charleston Courier of Saturday speaks of a duel having been fought recently, near Fort Pulaski, between ‘‘John Chaplin” ol So. Ca , and “Dr. | Kirk of Savannah,” in which the form r was “slightly i wounded in the foot,” and the latter “killed, on the third : fire.” We have no Dr. Kirk in Savannah, and upon eu. quiry have been unable to find any one who had. previous to the Courier’s* announcement, heard of the duel. [Sar. Republican , Health of Montgomery.! * Office Board of Health, ) 0ct.20,1855—6 o’clock, p. m. j The Board report no new case of yellow fever and no deaths, for the last 24 hours—leaving 48 cases and 18 deaths, from the first report on the 25th uit. to date. Physicians do not advise to return with their families. There has been no death claimed as being oaused by yellow fever in this city since the 12th instant. The burials for the six days ending the 9th inst. of all diseases, were 13; for the week ending the 13th inst. were 8, and the weekending the 20th inst. were 6. Office Board of Health, ) Oot. 22, 1855 —6 o’clock,” p. m. ) The board report no |new case of yellow’ fever, and no death for the last 48 hours—leaving 48 cases aDd 18 deaths, from the first report on the 25th u!t., to date. Physicians do not yet advise citizens to return with their families. From the Washington Union. United States ; Senate. From time to time we And in many sos our exchanges statements in regard to the classification of the U. S. Sen ate which are calculated to mislead the public. Subjoned we give a correct s list of that body, the class to which they belong, and the vacancies which have occurred through default of legislative action: Class 1. — Term ending March 4, 1857. Adams,Mississippi, Jones, Tennessee, Bayard, Delaware, Mallory, Florida, Bright,lndiana, Mason, Virginia,* Broadhead, Pennsylvania, Pratt, Maryland, Cass, Michigan, Rusk, Texas, Dodge, Wisconsin, Sumner, Massachusetts, Fish, New York, Thompson, New* Jersy Foot, Vermont, Toucey, Connecticut, Geyer, Missouri, Wade, Ohio, Hamlin, Maine, Weller, California. James, Rhode Island, Class 2. — Term ending March ,1, 1359. Allen, Rhode Island, Hunter, Virginia, Bell, Tennessee, Jones, lowa, Benjamin, Louisiana, ; Wilson, Massachusetts, Brown, Mississippi, Sebastian, Arkansas, Clay, Alabama, Stuart, Michigan, Clayton, Delaware,’ Thompson, Kentucky, Douglas, Illinois, Toombs, Georgia, Evans, South Carolina, Wright, New’ Jersey,’ Fessenden,.Maine, Reid,JNorth Carolina, Houston, Texas, Hale, New Hampshire, Class 3. Term ending March 4, 1861. Bell, New Hampshire, Iverson, Georgia, Biggs, North Carolina, Johnson, Arkansas, Butler, South Carolina, Pearce, Maryland, Crittenden, Kentucky, Peugh, Ohio, Collamcr, Vermont, Seward, New York,’ Durkee, Wisconsin, Slidell, Louisiana, Foster, Connecticut, Trumbdll, Illinois, Harlan, lowa, Yulee, Florida. There are now five vacancies in the Senate, the terms of Messrs. Fitzpatrick of Alabama, Atchison of Missouri, Pettit of Indiana, Cooper of Pennsylvania, and Gwin of California, having expired on the4th ol March, 1855. Special Election in Baltimore. FURTHER ILLUSTRATIONS OF KNOW NOTHING PRINCIPLES. A special election was held in the nineteenth ward of Baltimore yesterday, to supply the vacancy in the upper council in that city occasioned by the death of Mr. W. U. Baker,democrat. Tile following which we copy from the l Baltimore Republican of last, evening, will enable the rea j der to lorm some idea as to what the result is likely to be: | “As we go to press, we learn that the most outrageous I proceedings are being carried on by the rowdies and min* j ions of know-nothingiain in the nineteenth ward, where . an election is being held to till a vacancy occasioned by j the death of Win. Geo. Baker. i “The Mount Vernon Hook and Ladder Company took j possession of the polls, crowding out the democratic chal j lengers, and preventing a large number of naturalized cit [ izens from voting. In one case a naturalized citizen i succeeded in getting in his vote, but immediately the ruf i fians around the window cried out, “Kill the and and j Dutch sou of b ■■■ ■ when lie was knocked down and j carried out. j “Another old man, named Myers, who has been a vo- I ter for thirty years, and is sixty years of age, was knocked | down three times and deprived of voting. Messrs. Egles ; ton, Maguire, and others, who were quietly looking oifand | molesting no one, were knocked down. Among the most j active participants in these outrages are found city watch ! men, among whom, we are told, are John English, John | Coates, James Warde!l,.Tohn Stitcher, and Mr. MeCo j mas. It is said that Mayor Minks’ police are on the ground i quietly seeing these things, arresting none but democrats who may attempt to defend their rights. Among the most i active in scouring the city, in a hack, hunting up voters is I the clerk of the jail. “Is this the admirable police arrangement of Mayor ; Minks for the preservation’of the rights of Our citizens and | the peace cl the city? Fine arrangements, truiv! Our : people should hold the mayor of tiie city responsible for these outrages ; it was in his power to prevent them, but he refused to do so. “The way things are going on we have no doubt of the | defeat of Mr. Hack ; his opponent, however, should not j be allowed to take his seat.” Since the above was in type,'we have received the sol ing telegraphic despatch: Baltimore, Oct. 18,-9 o’clock. : At the special election held in the 19ih ward to way to ‘ | till a vacancy in the Council. Garrison, the know nothing ! candidate, was elected by seventy six majority. There has been terrible righting througbom tlie wholcfof the after noon. Haifa dozen men were shot. A man named Boss Konig was killed and others dangerously wounded Washington Union. The Atlantic’s News in New York. New York, Oct. 19. The European news has caused an entire suspension of 1 operations in the cotton market. Flour is higher. Ohio is quoted at $8.62. Wheat is low er. Com is heavy and unchanged. Later from Mexico. New Orleans, Oct. 19. The steamship Nautilus has arrived, with later dates from Brazos. Metamoras surrendered without any battle, and is now tranquil San Lois Totosi is not yet taken. A fight of three days left the Revolut onisls in possession < f the field of battle” ! Reinforcements had been sent from Monterey. From Washington. Washington, Oct. 17. The Court of Claims opened to-day and the law docket j ] va? taken up. The case of David Myerle was assigned j lor argument to-morrow. ; Eleven attorneys were admitted, including the Hon. G i E.Badger andßeverdy Johnson. The attendance was large. 1 the Star of this evening intimates that Mr. Mason, US. Consul at San Juan has been dismissed for recognizing CoL Kinney’s Government. Minnesota Election. Chicago, Oct. J 8” Minnesota papers ofthe 12th inst., contain partial returns of the election of a Congressional Delegate in that Territo ry. Rice, Nebraska Democrat, had 2,300 votes ; Marshall Fusionist, 1,700 ; and Olmstead, Anti Nebraska Democrat! 1,450. The remaining returns would probably increase Rice’s plurality. Eclipse oj the Moon. —A total eclipse of the moon will take place next Thursday, the 25th inst., which will be visible in North and South America. Six- of the eclipse. 17.556 digits on the northern limb. The total part of this eclipse begins one hour and one minute after the begining the eclipse, and lasts one hour and twenty nine minutes Duration of the whole eclipse, three hours and twenty five minutes. In order to see this grand eclipse, it will be necessary to be up nesday, the 24th. ’ Vermont— ln the legislature of Vermont two amend ments to the Constitution have heen reported, and the council has indicated a determination to recommend their adoption. Ihe first provides for biennial sessions ofthe iegis.ature ; the other tor election of Secretary of State, Auditor of Accounts, Bank Commissioner, and Registet oi Probate by the People.] Further by the Atlantic. GREAT BRITAIN. The Bank of England has raised thp rate of inters another £ per cent., and it now stands 5$ per cent Ti. H has been a good deal of commercial uneasiness in 0,. quence, particularly as the stock of bullion has been de creasing at an alarming rate for several weeks past \)l Bank of France buying up all the specie it can. Several of the journals are crying out*lor a rapeal of Sir Rober Peel’s Bank Act. The stock of gold and bullion in 0 ‘ Bank of England on the 4th was £12,368,255. The revenue retains of the United Kingdom show an increase on the year of nearly 8a millions sterling, chief* Iv caused by the additional income tax. The Board of Trade returns for August show an inertase in the value of importation as compared with the same month in 1854 of £107,759. FRANCE. La Presse says that corn has at length reached its maximum price,and that the high quotations have brought offers of supply from all quarters. Large arrivals of tor. eign flour were shortly expected. The very day on which the articles abont flour appeared in the Moniteur , a house at Havre sent a large older to New Y^ork. The price of butchers’ meat is to be fixed by the au thorities (by decree of the Perfect) every fortnight. Measures are being taken by the authorities ot the va rious departments for the relief of the poorer classes. THE WAR IN THE CRIMEA. The latest official despatches report the South side of Sevastopol oeeupied by detachments of French and Eng lish troops, who have had distinct quarters of the town assigned to them. The Russians concentrated their forces in the North ern forts, and were occasionally firing upon the town, to which the Allies replied from the two forts which re mained intact, (Nicholas aud Quarantine) and from the ! ruins of other torts Prince Gorisc hakoff, in his report, describes the fire of the Allies as heavy. The BiUish and French Engineers are making prepa rations, by the sinking of immense mines, to destrt y the j splendid docks, arsenals aud shipbuilding yards of Sev;.g, ; topol,and thus destroy the fitness of the place for a naval j stronghold. Though there is no official inhumation fin the [ subject—the Allied Generals for obvious reaeons being j silent on their future operations —there are various premo nitions of a vigorous campaign in the open field. Prince Gortsehakoff, on the 23d ult., reported that 26,- 1 000 men had been landed at Kupatoria, aud that on the 26iii this forcee was increased to 33,000 men. lie has since reported that “imposing masses” of the Allied troops continue to threaten the left wing of the Russian arniv from the valley of Baidar, while a force amounting to between 30.000 and 40,000 men threatens the right wing of the Russians from Eupatoria. It is uncertain, and will remain so for some time, which of these threatened attacks is the real one, but there is quite enough in Prince Gortscliaknff’s despatches to she w that he considers himself seriously threatened in front and on both flanks. Another significant fact is that the English land transport corps are in full activity; that the field batteries of the artillery are in marching order ; that large numbers of the French cavalry have embarked lor Eupatoria ; aud by the telegraphic accounts (from Vienna it is stated that the allied fleets had left Sevastopol on some secret expedition. LATER FROM TEXAS. ARRIVAL OF THE BLACK WARRIOR. The steamship Black Warrior Ims arrived, with dates from Havana to the 17ih. Nothing later < f any impor tance. The latest accounts received from Texas state that the official count of votes for members of Congress in the Eastern District, show the election of Ward, the Demo cratic candidate. Capt. Gal ahan had h-.d another fight with the Mexi cans and Indians, during which the town of Hiedras Ne* grans was burnt. It was reported that Capt. C. had re turned to San Antonio for reinforcements. Rumors are prevalent that large numbers of the enemy hid crossed over to the Texas side of the Rio Grande. ‘ A meeting was held at San Antonio, at which it was resolved to raise a thousand men immediately for the service. The Texas debt bill was defea ed by 3,000 majority. The steam saw and grist mill of Gen. T. O. Warthen, near Sandersville, was destroyed by fire on the 14th inst.— This is the third steam mill the General has lost by lire. Robert C. Morris, Esq , has accepted the post of Resi j dent Engineer upon the East Tennessee and Georgia Rail read. Stale Road,. —The income lor September is for Freights 858.558 ; Passengers§l7,ll4 ; Mail 81,895. Total 877,578, j Increase over September, 1854, 835,242. Gen. Santa Anna is safely installed, with his family, in | his residence near Cafthagena. Pennsylvania U. S. Senator. —lion. Join L Dawson, ana Col. J. vv. Forney, the present Clerk of the House of Representatives, are spoken ol as candidates for U. S. Sena tor, to succeed Mr. Cooper. —<g—- Memphis and Charleston Railroad —The Charleston Cornier lias the following dispatch, announcing the com pletion ot the road to Huntsville: Huntsville, Ala., Oet. 13, 1855.— Editors Courier— This day the Iron Horse has, lor the first time, “blown his nose’ at the Depot in Huntsville, Alabama. Epidemic among the Horses. —The New York Timet of vVednesday says: “An epidemic of unusual virulence :s attacking the horses of this city, and in all directions fine plump animals may be seen lying dead by the wayside.— Os course the poor and overworked beasts are more nu merous. We understand that the Knickerbocker triage Company lost forty in one week.” COMMERCIAL. COTTON STATEMENTai iii-fs’lFlTfrii’ : - . a o p ~ -o *"3 on , :=g l&.gs. ?•= §5 =2 hand “•k I eg. i| , u , : ii.2-.11 se. t i. Oct. 21, Ocf 4 20 , 2771 j 1631 4544 6175 1071 1672 2713 IC7I * I 52 1 4311 22722 27063 25-17 10310 12857 13169 Columbus, Oct. 23. . COl ION. 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