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TIMES & SENTINEL COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. SATURDAY EVENING, AUG, 14,1858, Onr Agent. The services of Mr. B. R. Folsom, have been secured to the Times & Sentinel office for one year. He is autho rized to Ireceive ’’subscriptions, advertisements, &c. and receipt for the same. Our friends will oblige us by re sponding to his call. Douglas and Crittenden Contrasted. With the above caption, the Enquirer of this morning treats its readers to an t article ot considerable length in which it labors to prove that Mr. Crittenden is a better m an than Judge Douglas. The ingenuity of our cotem porary is employed very dexterously, we admit, but we think that, by the use of a ‘more direct and plainer test, he could have arrived at a different conclusion with greater satisfaction and lees space. Had he succeeded, he would not necessarily have established Mr. Crittenden’s claim to any great regard. It is true, he condemns the course ot the last named gentleman on the Kansas question; but he af terwards, commends him so highly and in such a manner, as to acquit him of all blame. The ‘apology more than counteracts the censure. Both may be likened to a huge plaster of mongrel ingredients, say ammonia and honey, possessing respectively caustic and emollient properties; and they are combined in the proportion of about an inch of ammonia to a loot ot honey. Our charge against Mr. . Crittenden is, that he voted againet the admission of Kansas with the Lecompton con stitution, and that in so doing he did wrong—he violated the principles of justice. We assume of f course, that the application was m form and proper. This we understand our cotemporary to admit. It makes no difference, in this view of the matter, whether any “considerations of person al good faith or of consistent statesmanship existed” in the case ot Mr. Crittenden or not. Every man is under a personal prior obligation to do right, and whenever such “considerations” come in conflict with such obligation,the former must yield. Judge Douglas did exactly what Mr- Criiieuden did. He voted against the Lecompton Consti tution and for Mr. Crittenden's own hill. If that bill was right and just, Judge Douglas ought to have voted for it, and sent his “consistent statesmanship” to the dogs. They are the same then upon the record in respect to this ques tion. Now in regard to the inducement that operated up on these gentlemen and controlled their action. We heart ily endorse the strictures of the Enquirer, on the conduct of the Illinois Senator. The‘attribution of motive is not proper, or, rather, is not sufficiently precise. He says it was “hostility to the admission of Kansas as a slave State.” This hostility was the result of r selfish consider ations. Judge Douglas remembered the record'd the last Presidential contest in his State. In the ominous union of the two forces of the opposition which were then divi ded ,he read his inevitable defeat at home. This party therefore had to be conciliated. Judge Douglas, also, is a man of large ambition. He is very anxious to be made President. A survey of the field convinced him that the government would certainly and soon pass into the hands of the anti-slavery power. Against this power he had spent a life-time in honest, zealous warfare. He could not, therefore, expect from it mercy or promotion, without a large atonement. The favor of the god must be won by a great sacrifice. It occurred to him if he were to break with his party upon this great and vital question,and could succeed in defeating the administration upon it, he would propitiate the wrath which had been treasured up against him. His plan, therefore, WBS to divide the Democracy and, at the head of one of its divisions, with the aid of the Black Republicans, to march to power. To do this, re quired him to abandon his professed principles, nay, to re verse his political life, and for his conduct, thus interpreted, he merits 4 the reprobation and contempt of all honest men. Let us see, now,how Mr. Crittenden’s motives will stand the test. We have seen that they were together on the record. Mr. Crittenden moved a substitute to the Senate bill for which Judge Douglas voted. What induced Mr* Crittenden to bring forward his substitute? Our neighbor pays that gentleman a poor compliment when, ;in speaking of the Kansas-Nebraska act,he says, “it is not even known that he (Crittenden) would have voted for it had he been in the Senate.” Such a suspicion is unjust. A bill which was applauded and endorsed with the superscription of “good” by the whole South, would have received the suf frage of tho venerable Kentuckian. We are not begging the question of our neighbor. He says himself that “the essence of the bill was strict non-intervention by Con gress.” It is, in the nature of things, impossible that any true Southern man, or any right minded man anywhere, should honestly object to that principle. We may as well expect a man to declaim against charity or truth. It is further admitted in the article on which we are comment ing, that the spirit of the Kansas-Nebraska act was fairly and fully carried our in the formation of the Lecompton constitution. The conclusion, therefore, is unavoidable that Mr. Crittenden’s motive for opposition to that consti tution was sinister. What that specific motive cumstances have not left to conjecture. It is clearly de veloped by the machinery which was immediately and stealthily set in motion to nominate him for the Presidency. By the “dark lantern” which he held in his land he dimly discerned at the end of his path, what he supposed to be the Executive Mansion. Ah! fatal illusion! he will find it instead, the cheerless abode of dishonored retirement. We*have thus shown, we think, that these distinguish ed gentlemen, in the Kansas drama have acted the same part, with similar, if not identical, motives. We .have en deavored to eliminate every consideration which did not bear upon the question of right. In determining this ques. tion, it is obvious that a man’s sectional position, and past politcal affinities can have nothing to do. Such conside rations, however, are generally taken into account in es timating human conduct, and, availing ourselves of the usual license, if we had space, it might be interesting to enquire whether a traitor to a party, is not entitled to, at least, equal sympathy with a traitor to his home and sec tion. Editorial Change. The last number of the Empire State contains the val edictory of A. A. Gaulding, and the salutatory of J. H. Steele to the patrons of that paper. We part with the for mer to welcome him soon in the editorial chair of the At lanta Intelligencer. We have space for only the follow ing short extract from his address: “We have purchased an interest in the “Atlanta Intelli gencer,” and for the future, shall be connected with that paper as one of its Editors and .Proprietors. In leaving a position which has been,in many respects,to us a pleas ant one, we are relieved from many of our regrets, at part ing with so many kind friends, by the consideration, tha* we shall be succeeded by one ( whose j longer experience and superior abilities in the Editorial profession, render him much more worthy of your support than we have been.” Maj. Steele has long and favorably been known to the press and the reading public in an editorial capacity. We insert the following from his graceful salutatory: To assume that we shall be able to fill the place, either as Editor of this paper, or as a resident of Griffin, cf the gentleman who has selected another city for bis future resi dence and labor, would be arrogating to ourself more than we can justly, or have any desire to claim. We will how ever, assume to say that we shall zealously discharge our duty both to the readers of the “Empire State,” and the beautiful and prosperous city in which it is located; tha t we shall “set down nought in maliceand that, while ad voocating the “stern and liberal principles of Democracy,” and the cause of the South, we shall permit no partisan J spirit to lead us into intemperate expressions offensive to I our political adversaries, as they invariably are to a refined I taste. The “argument exhausted,” we shall abandon the I field of political disputation rather than resort to personal vituperation or abuse. In all things though, that which duty prompt?, we shall, with alacrity fearlessly perform. United States Agricultural Fair, It is confidently believed (gays the Richmond Dispatch) that this great National Fair will bring a greater crowd of visitors to this city than ever has been tsen in Richmond* One ot the gentlemen who has been most active in its pro motion, informs us that he has received letters from as far North a9 Canada, expressing an intention to be present, and the whole country, from the Lakes to the Gulf ot Mexico will have its representatives. The vaiiety of articles on exhibition, of blooded horecs, and all kinds of stock, will surpass anything ever before seen in Virginia. To add to the attractions of the occasion, the Hon. Caleb Cushing, of Massachusetts, one of the first statesmen and scholars of the country, is expected to deliver the address, which, alone, wouljl be Worth traveling a long ways to hear. s|cw Advertisements. Mr. A. W. Speed, of Chattahoochee county, offers his valuable place for sale. The land is oak and hickory, and produces wel !• Read the advertisement. William N. Neal, Executor, will offer at public sale on the first Tuesday in October, a valuable Plantation in Talbot county. Parents and Guardians are referred to the notice of the Cottage School. The experience of Mr. Edgar as a tea cher, and the privacy and beauty of bis location, equally recommend this school to public consideration. The Troy Factory is offering bargains in their line to city and county merchants, as well as others needing ar ticles of their manufacture. Patronize home industry. Al3 work done by this company is done well. Read also notice of Legal sales in Talbot county. Southerner and Advertiser for Sale. The proprietor, D. H. Mason offers the above paper for sale. He says it has 1000 bona fide subscribers ; the prin ting material almost altogether new, and the office ad mirably fitted up. He says, moreover, that “the paper is doing an unusually good business—has a ol ad vertising patronago—and, in fact, could hardly be misman aged so as not to make money. The {location is quite healthy, and thejprospects of Rome were never so bright, at any period in her history. A good Democrat, with some little means, has an opportunity which seldoms occurs, to establish himself in business.” Address the proprietor a t Rome, G a., Hon. A H. Stephens. A Cincinnati paper atates that the Hon. A. H. Stephens of Georgia, did not hesitate to declare, while in that city a few days ago, en route for the Northwest, “that he was in avor of the re election.ot the Senate of Judge Douglas, and that he regarded the war made on him and the anti* Lecompton (Democracy of IllinoisJ wickedly foolish.”— Wash. States. This little morsel is in the mouths of several of our American friends and they roll it about and chew it with characteristic gusto. We have no idea that Mr, Stephens ever said it. If he did, he is no better than Douglas, of course. Westminster Review. — The July number of this pe riodical is on our table with it3 usual amount of interest ing matter. We notice particularly a highly ingenious and very readable article on “Recent Astronomy and the Neb ular Hypothesis.” LaGrange Reporter announces r the death o f Major George Heard, age 73years, a . prominent citizen ot that place. _ _ OF*Mr. Reuben Hill, aged about ninety-five years, died recently in Dawson county, in this State. He was a native of North Carolina, and emigrated to this State about twen ty years ago. telegraphic dispatch from Yow, Pa., on the 7th inst., says there is great rejoicing going ou. “The town is in a perfect uproar, owing to the news of the successful lay j pig of the Atlantic cable. There are bonfires at every cor ner, and all the bells in town are ringing, with a grand display of fireworks, &c. The Worth Infantry Band was also out, playing animated music. In short it is a second edition of the 4th of July.” In many other cities and towns like demonstrations have already taken place, but the grand jubilee of all the civil ised nations of the earth has yet to come off. What a spectacle! Every nation rejoicing at the triumphs of science and skill. [COMMUNICATED.] Rust in Cotton. Since my article for your paper on “Rust in Cotton,” written on last Monday, I have made another examina tion of my crop and I am satisfied that I did not represent matters as bad as they really are, a practiced eye can de tect it in any part of the crop and in any direction. The 10 acres I mentioned as being destroyed are just now begin ing to bud out afresh. I passed a neighbors house yesterday, and learned from from him that he had no rust of any consequence, upon my calling his attention to its peculiarity ot color, &c—he was induced to make a more minute examination, and on my return in the evening of the same day he reported it as “every where in his crop.” All persons who have no rust had better look again and look carefully. If you detect a glossy mahogany spot in the centre of a leaf near where the stems of the leaf unite, set it down as rust. On the under side you will see the same spot, not so glazed and glossy. Go aga n and look at the same stalk in a week and you will agree with me that you had the rust and did not know it. Quere ;Is it rust or insects? A miecroscope will tell. Who has one and will examine. The New Loan—The Award. The bids for the new loan opened yesterday by the Secretary of the Treasury disclosed very nu merous applicants and very large claims. It is very remarkable that the utmost range of the bid ders extended over seven per cent., the lowest be ing at par and the highest about that premium.— Messrs. Riggs of this city, and Mr. Belmont of New York, offered for the entire amount 3f per cent, premium, and as $5,000,000 of the loan was awarded at 5 per cent, advance, and the balance at about per cent., they took “nothing by their motion.” As Messrs. Riggs and Belmont are about as well qualified as any of our moneyed men to detect the smallest change of the financial pulse, and regarded the 3£ per cent, as likely to control the award, we may infer that they are looking for ward to the period when money will be worth more than the present rates of three or four per cent, a year. It must also be remembered that, had any large operator succeeded in getting the entire loan, the bonds would have been worth from one to two per cent, more in the market than under a distribution such as the Secretary is re quired to make on the bids opened yesterday. It was stated by some of the leading applicants that, had the rate of interest been six instead of five per cent, the bids would have ranged about ten per cent, higher than those opened. If this is so, a lit tle calculation will show that the losses of the treasury by the redemption of stock are, after all, very inconsiderable; in fact, it we consider the in terest saved on the new loans and the old stock redeemed, we doubt if the transactions do not prove that the treasury has been the gainer. Of course nobody anticipated the financial revulsion o*’ last year, and much less than in eight months after it reached its height money would be worth ! only 3 per cent, a year. Union. I Brigham Young’s Wives, as seen by a Gentile. A letter from Salt Lake to New York, furnish es the following description of the spiritual wives of Brigham Young. It says : “Brigham is a man of some taste, and his spir ituals are generally fine looking women, some of them, indeed, quite pretty, and all of them, so far as I could judge, intelligent. 1 suppose I saw in the shanty “quarters” some thirty women, but whether they were all of them wives of the Prophet, or w hether these constituted his entire household, of course I am not informed. The general impression here seems to be that he has nearly or quite fifty wives. He only claims to have forty children living, having had 47 altogether.— This, doubtless, is the highest figure he can claim, as the “Saints’’ consider a large number or chil dren a subject of pride and boast. These wives are all their own servants, and the nurses of their own children. To see them sitting under the over hanging eaves of the shanties just at dusk, with their numerous children hanging around them, all crying, chattering or teasing at once, was certainly suggestive of a foundling hospital. 1 was curious to know whether these women were happy in the strange life they led, and a glance at their faces impressed me with the con viction that theirs was the happiness of stolid lis tlessness, an existence in which all the higher and holier sentiments of refinement and affection had been sacrified upon the altar of fanaticism. They seemed to be virtuous—willing, perhaps, and re signed—but nevertheless unhappy victims of self inflicted tortures, by which they hoped to merit saintly reward. To a few of them, perhaps, these remarks would not apply. Some of the younger females appeared thoughtless or reckless, but the elder, who were educated in circles where woman was queen rather than vassal slaves, wore their chains evidently with inward murmuring. From the Independent South. From the Necessity of the Case. The Savannah Republican, noticing our identi fication with the new movement for the organiza tion of an association of “United Southerners,” is at a loss to determine where we got our new “rev elation from.” Suppose, friend Republican, we were to answer— from spirit land! Perhaps w T e have been holding converse with the spirits of de funct Compromises, buried Platforms and crushed out Resolves. Who knows? The disembodied ghost of murdered Southern Rights, rises up be fore us, even now, to tell its story ot Federal wrongs and oppressions. The spirit of the Compromise of 1850 admonishes us that the Savannah Repub lican then planted itself upon a line beyond which aggression must not go, at the hazard of a ‘'dis ruption of every tie which binds the South to the Union.” The same spirit tells us that the Sa vannah Republican and every Union press in Georgia, was then pledged to disunion when Con gress should refuse “to admit as a State any terri tory thereafter applying, because of the existence of slavery therein ;” and the Savannah Republican, we think, will even now admit, that Kansas is not a State of this Union because of the “existence of slavery therein.” The spirits also whisper us, that there were no conditions to this pledge; it was not made contingent upon the act.of any particu lar party, but was to be carried out whenever a territory was so refused admission. To be consis tent with its promises the Savannah Republican should have planted itself upon the fourth resolu tion of the Georgia Platform, and announced its readiness to comply with the conditions thereof, so soon as the English bill of rejection passed Congress. If departed spirits have not told us thus much, the spirit of patriotism and true devo tion to the South enjoins it. We have already given the reason why we are not now a Union man, and, having done so, cannot, for the life of us, see any cause for the Republican's special wonder at our present posi tion. The Republican and ourself, may have ta ken different views ol the obligation imposed upon Southern Union men. In 1850 we were dissatis fied with the federal encroachments upon South ern rights ; we were alarmed and indignant at the anti-slavery manifestations, and insisted, as a con dition to the South remaining in the Union, and that slavery agitation should thence-fjrward cease, and the slave-owner’s rights be respected. Our friends of the Republican will hardly contend that either of these conditions have been complied with, al though they may say, that the renewal of agitation and the rejection of Kansas have not been the work of any party to which either of us were attached. No such reservation was stipulated in the bond. It is not for us to deliberate about cau ses or their authors, when the naked contingency provided for, and upon the happening of which we promised to act , confronts us. We were hon est in our position in 1850, as we are now.— We became a Union man upon the express condi tion that slavery agitation should coase—that the slaveholder should not bo excluded from the Union of States, upon a proper application; and but for the assurance that these reasonable demands would be conceded, we would have united with the South ern Rights party of that day, and urged immediate dissolution. Such is the view we took of our ob ligations as a Union man ; if the Republican view ed them differently we cannot help it. We are willing to accord its editors honesty of purpose, and trust they will do the same for us. As for our Americanism , we are no less an American in sentiment to-day, than we have here tofore been; but the Savannah Republican will ex cuse us for saying, that it was among the first to suggest at the South, a reformation of parties— thereby acknowledging, in effect, tho abandon ment of the ’ American organization. We think the Republican was right. The American paity at the South never has had any considerable strength, and in all probability never will have as a distinct political organization; while North it has hardly attained to the dignity of a party nomenclature since purged of its Black Republican element, Had we adhered to that fragment of a party, we should have been in a hopeless minority, inefficient for good. We can be no less so where we are, and it may be, that the South will yet pay some respect to the opinions of men who, disregarding the suggestions of expediency, and reckless of the crushing influences of arrogant majorities, have dared to declare themselves on her side, and have cast their lot with hers, come weal or woe. We cannot promise ourself any great amount of person al profit, or aggrandisement in the course we have adopted, but we do feel a proud consciousness of rectitude, and believe that the Savannah Republic can , whatever it may think now, will some day be compelled to concede that we have only been a lit tle in advance of an absolute necssity. Hence our “new revelation” arises from the necessity of the case ! The Fith Husband Gone. —A few weeks since we mentioned, as a singular circumstance, the mar riage of a German widow in the Third District to the fifth husband—no'one of the previous four hav ing outlived his wedding a year. Well]a few days since"this fifth husband took the yellow fever. He died, and on Friday he was buried. This singu lar and most remarkable fatality among the hus bands of one lady would create doubtful talk among that lady’s acquaintances, were she not well known and respected, and the causes of death of her dif ferent husbands well known to their friends. As it is, it is one of the most curious instancesjof ma rital fatality we ever heard of— N. O. Crescent of 9th inst. Suicide of Another Author. —The New York Daily News thus notices the latest literary sui cide : The suicides of Wm. North and H. W. Herbert, among others of the slightly remote period of the presenters, are still fresh in the memory of their friends and a very large portion of the literary and reading public. That of young James was added to the list during the last week. And to swell the number we read in the weekly Sunday papers of yesterday that James A. Maitland, the novelist, author of “The V/atchman,” “Old Doctor,” “Cabin Boy,” Pirate Doctor,” has probably committed suicide. On Friday afternoon, at 4 o’clock he left his house in Degraw street, Brooklyn, in a state of great excitement. Since that time nothing has been heard of him. The following letter, addres sed by him to the editor of the New York Dispatch was received by post yesterday morning, and suf ficiently explains itself: “Brooklyn, July 30, 1858. “3fr, Williamson —Dear Sir : I find it impossi ble to sustain the accumulation of misfortune which has befallen me. Long before you shall re ceive this I shall be no more. You have ever been my friend, so has Captain Toone, Mr. Jones and others; but I have found enemies among those whom I would a year ago have trusted with mv life, and among those whom to .have for enemies were worse than death. “I shall die unseen and uncared for. I hope, even if my remains are found, they will never be recognized; and I hope that the curtain of silence will be drawn over my errors since I call God to witness that I never willfully wronged a human being* “To only one person beside yourself have 1 confined the subject of my death. I wish for no notoreriy, and that I may be forever unknown. Yours truly. James A. Maitland. Mr. Williamson, on receipt of this letter, dis patched Captain Toone and other friends of Mr. Maitland in search of him, but up to a late hour last evening no tidings ofhim had been obtained. Mr. Maitland was an Englishman by bird], and served for several years as a midshipman in the British navy. Some years ago he came to this country, and entered upon the profession ol an au thor, maintaining a strict secrecy as to his family relations. We believe that he was married about two years ago to a widow lady named Miller, al though he has frequently denied the fact. He was an accomplished classical scholar and a proficient in the modern languages. Ho was assiduous in the pursuit of his profession, the proceeds of which, with proper economy, would have enabled him in a few years to acquire a competency ; but he lav ished everything upon the woman of his choice, and in order to gratify her wishes, involved him self pecuniarily in every direction. His death is doubtless attributable to the fact that Jiis creditors were becoming clamorous for Jheir dues, and the lady for whom he had thus involved himself lat terly manifested a coolness towards him. A French Flying Machine. —The Emperor has justmadea present 0f5, 000f, to a private in the line, who asserts he has discovered a solution for the great problem in mronauties—the art of flying. He has invented a kind of airship, consisting of a platform of silk stretched over whalebone, to be propelled by two gigantic wings of the same ma terial, placed on each side. The aerial navigator is to be suspended at a distance of about tour feet from the platform, while his feetiest on pedals, by means of which the wings are set in motion while his arms rest on a lever which imparts to the platform the direction heffehooses to give it. Only a model of this machine has yet been constructed, and it appears to work well. It is now about to be constructed on a large scale. Capt. de Riviere Discharged and Constable Galloway Incarcerated —The Finale of the Blount Romance. We were not present at the special Justices’ Court held at the Court House on yesterday, and cannot, consequently, give a detailed account ot the ludic rous termination of the famous Blount de Riviere romance. The facts of the case however, are substantially as follows. After the imprisonment of the Count, Miss Emily was despatched under care of one of her counsel for Mobile, and the remaining counsel of both parties set themselves to work to bring about a settlement without the further intervention of the law. In pursuance, therefore, of a plan agreed upon Constable Galloway conducted the Count to the Pulaski House, where he was closeted with Mrs. Blount. In the meantime, Justices Russell and Staley had assembled with due solemnity, and surrounded by a large and curious crowd, were gravely awaiting the appearance of prisoner, prosecutor, attorneys and witnesses to commence the investigation anew. After remaining in quiet conclave for sometime, and none of the parties making their appearance, the crowd began to give unmistakable evidence of a fast spreading belief that they were ‘sold, ” and the Court seriously considered whether or not it had not been treated with contempt, the result of which was the sending of the county Sheriff with at tachments against the persons of sheriff Pendergast, Col. Blount and constable Galloway for a contempt of Court. The parties were soon arrested at the Pulaski House, and proceeded to the court House, followed by a large crowd of anxious spectators. Upon being brought into the presence of the Court, Justice Russell delivered a short and sententious speech, containing many patgiotie sentiments and a fair amount of concentrated judicial wisdom, and wound up, amid the applause of the crowd, with the emphatic declaration that he intended to do his duty, and to maintain the majesty of the law and the re- spectability of the Court. Sheriff Pendergast was then called upon to purge his contempt. Upon motion of his counsel he was released, as the Court had no jurisdiction over him. Col Blount, upon motion of counsel, was also discharged for the same reason, and poor Galloway, the most inno cent party, but unfortunately an officer of the Court, had to bear the brunt of the storm, and was fined $2 and imprisoned six hours.—Taking in considera tion the dignity of the Court and the enormity of the offence, the judgment of the Court stands as a noble instance of the sword of justice, tempered with mercy. Col. Blount’s counsel then made a motion to dismiss the prosecution against the Count—to which the Court objected and insisted upon trying him, and Col. Blount was sworn and exam.ned. As he stated that he could not substantiate the allega tions contained in his affidavit—the Court after a neat speech from Justice Russell was discharged, amid the cheers and congratulations of his friends of whom, he seems to have any quantity—now that his star is in the ascendant. Thus ended a farce, whose various acts have been performed in Mobile, New York, New Jersey and Savannah—and which has left a record of American morals and manners’ that every consid eration of pride and policy would induce us to hope should be buried in oblivion as soon as possible. Col. Blount and Lady are to go to Mobile, the Count remains in our city. It is rumored that the terms of the honorable and amicable sett ement of the difficulty are as follows: Miss Emily is to re main with her parents, while the Count proceeds to arrange the little obstacles that now stands in the way of a marriage, after which, he is to return to the full possession of the charms, ideal and solid, in the pursuit of which he has encountered so many “moving accidents by flood and field.” Incite from California. New York, Aug. 11.—The steam-hip St. Lonis from Aspinwall has arrived, with California dates to the 20th July. The Star of the West left Aspinwall on the 3d inst. with one million five hundred thousand doll ars in treasure. The Frazer river excitement had somewhat subsided. A collision had occured between the miners and Fremont’s men, in which the latter were vic torious. The Douglasites, under the lead of Broderick are contesting for seats in the nominating conven tion, with the Administration Democrats. Gen. Lane and De Lazon Smith, have been chosen as United States Senators, by Orgcon. Murder in Forsyth County. The Athens Watchman says: We learn by a letter received from Mr. Thomas Collins, that a murder was committed on Saturday nfoht last about a mile from the Wild Cat Court ground in Forsyth county. The man killed was Claiborne Vaughn. At the time our correspondent wrote his letter, an investigation was going on before the Cor oner, front which it appeared that some half dozen or more persons were concerned in the perpetra tion ol the foul deed. We omit their names, be cause, it seems, the testimony was incomplete. All of them save one had been arrested. Bloody Murder in Cobb—The Editor of the Augusta Dispatch writes from Marietta, August Bth. “A horrible tragedy was perpetrated at Powder Spnngs on Wednesday last. A. Mr. Duncan was ktlled by Mr. Lingo, his brother-in-law, in a most cold blooded atul fiendish manner. “Duncan ran away with Lingo’s sister, about three months ago, and married her, at which Lingo threatened to kill him; and on the day the fatal deed was committed, he publicly avowed his pur pose, and started in pursuit of him about the vil lage. Duncan avoided him, and asked the bystan ders not to let Lingo reach him, as ho had threat ened to take his life. But Lingo persisted in fol lowing him up, with a drawn sword cane, when Duncan, finding that he could not get away from him, fired a pistol at him. A scuffle then ensued, in which Duncan was thrown down, when Lingo’ stabbed him several times, causing his death in°a few seconds. Lingo is in jail in Marietta, chained, and the jail is guarded.” First Bale at Madison, Fla.—We notice the arrival in town this morning of a bale of new cot ton from the plantation of Mr. J. D. Watts, and from the sample shown us by Mr. M. D. Griffin, his overseer, we judge it to be a fine article. Mr. Griffin informs us that he has about three bales picked out. This is early.— Messenger, Itli. Fatal Affray— The Cuthbert (Randolph c 0.,) Reporter, says :—A terrible affair occurred in our streets last Wednesday, between William Millirons and C. C. Watson, brothers-in-law, both living in this county. Itseemsthata family difficulty ex isted between the parties, and being in town on the day mentioned above, a rencontre took place in which Watson received two wounds from a double-barrelled shot gun in the hands of Millirons, from which he died in about fifteen minutes. The Coroner’s jury returned as a verdict that Millirons killed Watson in self-defence. The Rail Road. —The Cuthbert Reporter says —We learn that some four hundred hands are at work upon the Railroad between Dawson and this place. A large portion of the Road is graded, and the cross-ties placed upon the grade for laying.— It is probable that the will be completed to the Little Nochaway, ten miles from this place, by Christmas, in which event, a large portion of the cotton crop of the present season will be carried off by the Road, from this section. The Road will be completed to this place by the first of June, 185A. We also iearn that the Company contemplate erec ting a splendid Depot at this place, with Machine Shops attached. Florida Rail Road— The Mobile Mercury quotes from the Florida Messenger the statement that the Florida Rail Road Company has trans ferred its entire interest in the road to a company in New York consisting of George Law, Vander bilt and others—all millionaires; and that they are about to establish an Atlantic and Gulf iine of steamers, constructed with all modern improve ments, and will have the whole under their own control. It is expected that the work on the road will progress rapidly, and that the whole will be in full operation by the first of April next. Kansas —The Richmond Dispatch says: The Kansas, correspondent of the N. Y. Herald, states that the only business which is at all brisk in Kan sas at this time is horse stealing. It appears that the Free State men in the neighborhood of Law rence, are becoming as much enamored of free horses as free negroes. A reverend pol iticia 1 per. son, a resident of Douglas county,who commands a company of horse thieves, preaches on Sundays and steals horses on week days, has been arrested for stealing a number of hon-es from a pro-slavery man. If his reverence can secure a free soil jury he need not concern himself about the result, for it will be easy to show that a Southern man has no more right to property in a horse than in a negro, and that a fine horse is a peculiarly Southern in stitution, and therefore entitled to the benefit of the underground railroad. The Right of Search Question.— Official 1 View. —The Union adverting to the doubts that have been expressed as to the completeness of the settlement of the right of search question, says: “The facts are briefly these: When the English Cabinet repudiated the claim of a right to search or visit our vessels, and abandoned the practice, they suggested at the same time to our govern ment that abuses might take place from the as sumption of our flag by vessels not entitled to it, and proposed that some plan should be agreed upon by which the nationality of vessels-might be verified, and thus these abuses They stated, at the same time, that the French govern ment had proposed, with this view that a boat should be permitted to come alongside the vessels but should not enter unless allowed to do so And our government was invited to propose such plan which would be acceptable to us, and at the same time provide for an adequate verification. “To this proposition it was answered that the American government saw great difficulty in the way of reconciling any examination with that en tire immunity of our vessels, which was dear to the American people, and had no proposition to make upon the subject. But it was added, that if the British Government would submit any pro ject, for” that purpose, it would be fully consider ed by the government of the United Stales. This is all that has passed upon the subject, and here the matter rests. Should the United States agree any plan upon this subject, that conventional ar rangement will settle this point. If it does not fake place, the parties will occupy their respective positions under the law of nations, that neither of hem has the right to enter by force the vessels of l he other, under any circumstances whatever.”