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TIMES & SENTINEL COLUMBUS, GEORGIA THURSDAY EVENING, AUG. 19, 1858. Erratum. By a mistake, somewhere, our last issue on Tuesday, was dated Thursday, August 19th. The error will be par doned, we hope, when it is remembered that on that day we published news from Europe, at least nine days ahead of the usual time. It aroee, we presume, from a diposi tion in the office to keep up. TheSayannah Republican thus humorously alludes to it. “Travellers are said to gain a day in going round the world; our cotemporary gains more than a day and stays at home.** Douglas and Crittenden— Again. The Enquirer thinks we “evaded the point,” in a reply last week to an article in that paper, headed “Douglas and Crittenden contrasted.” Their conduct iu respect to the Kansas question, was the subject under consideration, in reference to which the “contrast” was affirmed. The ex* amin&tion we gave it satisfied us that there was no material point of antagonism, but several points of agreement. The position of our neighbor, if we understood it, was exactly what it is in his reply to us, that Judge Douglae in addition to his vote against the South violated former pledges, while Mr. Crittenden merely voted the same way without incur ring the charge of inconsistency. He says, “He (Douglas) could not set up the plea that he could “.do right” in op posing its legal effect, because he was the author and champion of the bill, and had always affirmed that it was founded on truth and justice. But Mr. Crittenden was net so committed, and could question the justice of that mea sure without at all involving either his consistency or his political integrity.” According to the political ethics of the Enquirer, it would seem that consistency is synony mous with virtue ; for whilst it is undeniable that Douglas and Crittenden gave the same vote against the South, the former is branded infamous and held in utter loathing, while the course of the latter is merely regretted. Now we differ entirely with the Enquirer, as to the importance to be attached to this point of asserted contrast. We de ny that, of itself, there is any virtue in consistency. That agreement of conduct which results from a discharge of duty and an unfaltering adherence to truth and right, is indeed, beautiful; but there is no virtue in il, per se. The virtue consists in the motives which govern the conduct. We deny then, the proposition in reference to Douglas* contained in the first clause of the quotation we have made, aod we say that the fact that “he wast he author and cham pion of the bill, and had always affirmed that it was right,’ should not ‘have weighed a feather in determining his course, if he honestly believed he was right in “opposing its legal effect.” His antecedent pledges may assist us to interpret the motive of his opposition,but they could never justify him in doing what he believed to be wrong. We do not and never expect to believe that he so thought; and we are equally far from supposing that Mr. Crittenden honestly “questioned the justice” of that measure. Our neighbor’s favorite of these gentlemen owes his exemp tion from condemnation solely to the fact, that he was not in Congress at the time of the passage of the Kansas- Nebraska bill. Had he been, it is fair to as6ftme that he would have voted for or against it. Had he voted against it, his name would have been inscribed on the “roll of in famy ’ beside that of his colleague, and he would have been placed in the category of “hostility to the South,” to which even his own party in Georgia, consigned all those who stood in opposition to that measure. Had he voted for it, he would doubtless now share the damnation which our cotemporary so lavishly, but justly, metes out to Mr. Douglas; for he would now bo inconsistent. Which horn ot the dilemma will he accept for Mr. Crittenden ? The Enquirer further says, ‘‘ He (Douglae) bases his opposition to the Lecompton Constitution upon the fac. that it was not submitted as a whole to the vote of the people—assuming that the spirit of the Kansas-Nebraska Act required it to be so submitted. Yet he announces that he will vote for the admission of Kansas with anew eon- etitution, in direct violation of the letter of an act as bindin m the Kansas-Nebraska law !” Not so fa&t, neighbor you are forsaking your standard —consistency ! Would it not be consistent for Mr. Douglas or Mr. Crittenden, who supported a bill to reler the Lecornpton Constitution direct ly to a vote of the people of Kansas, and which provided that, in the event of its rejection on such reference, anew Constitution should be framed and the State admitted un der it by proclamation, would it not be consisent we say, for these gentlemen to vote for the admission of Kansas under any constitution she might adopt, in opposition to the provisions of the conference bill ? They are not “coni” mitted” to carry out the provisions of that bill further than Mr. Crittenden was “committed” to the Kansas-Nebras ka-Act.’ Ou the contrary, they are committed against it. Yet the Enquirer is forging the thunders of its wrath, in advance, for Mr. Douglas’s anticipated action, while it seeks to blunt theedge of condemnation of Mr. Crittenden for like conduct, under similar circumstances, Fiat Jus titia ! So far, therefore from “evading ‘.he point,’ of the controversy, we respectfully submit that we took the only rational view which can be taken of it. Crittenden and Douglas having acted together, and in opposition to the whole South,upon this Kansas question, the only point to be decided, under any system of ethics of which we have any knowledge, is in respect to the motive which actua ted their conduct—whether it be virtuous or vicious, praiseworthy or blameworthy. In our former allusion to this subject we adduced some considerations to show that each was controlled by an unworthy sentiment—the lust of power and place. Both desire to be President. In res pect to Mr. Crittenden, we believe that his course was adop ted for the purpose of courting Black Republican favor in advancement of this object. The result is beginning to prove the hypothesis, and commends in some degree, the policy of his conduct, while it leaves his patriotism still j questionable. We received to day, from a frieod in Illinois, j a Black Republican sheet, called the Mattoon Gazette published in that State, and we find blazoned on its ban ner the names of “Hon. J. J. Crittenden, for President, and Hon l A. Lincoln, for Congress.’ This Lincoln is notori ously and opeoly one of the vilest Black Republicans in the State. Verily, the times or Mr. Crittenden must be “sadly out of joint.” No Opposition Victory. We learn from the Ashville News, that Col- Avery the Democratic candidate from the Clingman District, owes his defeat to reports which were circulated in reference to an unfortunate difficulty in which he was involved some years since, and which resulted in his shooting a man by the name Ellis, the Democratic candidate for Governor, beat Mcßae in the same Congressional dis trict several thousand votes. The News says that Mr. Vance,the opposition candidate declared on many occa sions that he would support the administration of Mr. Buc hanan.’ United States and Nicaragua. A correspondent of the New York Times, at Granada writes that the rumor that the United States Government was about to blockade the ports of Nicaragua, had crea ted quite a sensation there. Gen. “Lamar, our minister, had a protracted interview on the 22d ult. with the Nicar aguan cabinet, and informed them that his Government was about to take decisive measures in the pending ques tions. Crossing the Atlantic in Six Days.— We see it sta ted in one of our exchanges, that Mr. Winans, a wealthy locomotive builder of Baltimore, is now building an iron steamer (not steamship) which he is confident will [run from New York to Liverpool in less than six days. He has been several years perfecting his plans which are now accomplished,and has procured a paient. Such a trick would peem improbable, but in days of wonders who oan doubt but that it may be done. What are you going to do with Douglas?” This is a question which every Know Nothing Journal is now propounding to us with an air of taunt and self gratulation. We do not hesitate'to answer and contrast the integrity of the i two parties—the American and the Democratic. For Douglas’ treason to the South —his abandonment of the great principles upon which the South could rest with security in the admission of new States in to the Union, and his affiliation with Black Republicans in opposition to the Lecompton Constitution, framed by the voice of the people of Kansas, we (the democracy of the whole country,) propose to take his political life; dissecting the body and dividing the good from the evil. — The good, embracing all his past services, patriotic deeds, and glorious achievements, we will bun/ with great honor and eclat, and hope the clods of the valley will re9t sweet’ ly upon it! The evil , including his present heresies and low demagoguism, we will hang on a gibbet, where the vultures of the air and the wild beasts of the forest may devour it. This is what we design doing. Now with equal fairness and truth, we essay to answer the question, “What will the South Americans do with Crittenden?” For his desertion to the South —his oppo sition th the Lecompton pro-slavery constitution—his al” liance with such Republicans as Seward, Corwin and Lincoln, in (heir assiduous attacks upon our institutions, they (South Americans) will join hands with the Black Republicans—will chant with Seward and Crittenden the same litany—will “sound the loud trumpet o’er Egypt’s dark sea” at the mention of the “incorruptible” Kentuck ian’s name, a.id will elevate him, if possible, to the high est position in the gift of the Americ in people! Such in brief is , the attitude of Messrs. Douglas and Crittenden towards the National Democracy and the American party! Such the light in which two enemies to a common cause are regarded, that one is consigned to infamy, and the other is sought to be elevated and pro moted. Crittenden, the “patriot,” eulogised by the Black Republicans and South Americans. Douglas, the rene gade, is denounced by the . Democratic party, North and South. Decide, reader, as to the integrity of the two par ties! Which the most spoils loving? Which the most patriotic and honest? Supreme Court Decision—Again. We lay before our readers a communication from the Savannah UeorgianAn relation to the recent decision of the Supreme Court at Macon, in a Bank m case, from the Superior Court of this county. That decision has been assailed bitterly by several presses in the State, whose editors doubtless are more thoroughly acquainted with the science of the law than politics, and who essay to enlighten their readers on the abstruse questions recently tried before that high tribunal. Indeed, they affect great wonder at the ignorance of {Judges . McDonald and Ban ning on so simple a question as that brought before- their Honors, and intimate a want of integrity on their part, and an interest in the settlement of the cases, as an excuse for their unusual dullness and stupidity. Stripping the ques tion of all its flummery; with the cogency and power of analysis of a Craig in Longsireet’s Debating Society, they conclude with a gusto, that by “internal suggestions ,” and not the “bias of Jurisprudence ,” the votes of faction should predominate at public [elections. Those who de sire to ascertain the law in this case, we hope will take the trouble to look over Kent and Blackstone, and abuse them, and not Judges Bentiing and McDonald, for f this decision. As to Judge Benning’s presiding, the reason be s gave four years ago, when the point was made as to his sitting in these cases, and which we published from the 16th Vol ume of Georgia (Reports, we think are satisfactory and conclusive. A few partizan editors may seek to impugn his reputation, but those acquainted with the man will not, for a moment, suspect his uprightness and purity. Yellow Fever in Philadelphia. Adiepatch trom Philadelphia, published in the New York papers, dated the 12th inet., states that five cases were reported that day. Yellow Fever in New Orleans* New” Orleans, Aug. 13. —There were fifty two deaths from yellow fever iu this city ou Thursday. The Queen’s Message,!!! full. New York, Aug. 17. —At ten minutes before eleven o’clock this morning, the following message was received from Trinity Bay, for Mr. Archibald, one of the Honorary Directors of the Atlantic Telegraph Company: Trinity Bay, Aug. 17, [IBSB. To Mr. Archibald, New York: The Queen’s Message was completed at 5 o’clock this morning. It was commenced yesterday, and during its reception, Valencia desisted sending it io order to make ; some slight repairs in the cable. Though a mistake, the part received was sent South, as : if it constituted the whole message. [Signed] DeSantes. The following was immediately sent to Washington, together with that for Mr. Archibald: New York, Aug. 17, 1858. Tv the Honorable the President of the United Stales, Washington: 1 beg leave to transmit a message, this fmoment received Irom Trinity Bay, explaining the cause which preveutod the whole of the Queen’s Message being telegraphed from Valencia yesterday. Shall we consider your message to Her Majesty a full reply, aud date it this day accordingly? The operatorsat Trinity Bay await our reply. [Signed] Peter Cooter. The following is the Queen’s Message in full.* THE QUEEN’S MESSAGE To the President of the United States: Her Majesty desires to congratulate the President upon the successful completion of this great work, in which the Queen lias taken the deepest interest. The Qveen is convinced that the President will join her in fervently hoping that the electric cable, which now connects Great Britain with the United States, will prove an additional link between the two nations whose friend ship is founded upon their common interests and recipro cal esteem. The Queeu has much pleasure in thus communicating with the President, of renewing to him her wishes sfor the prosperity of the United States. Wealth of tlie United States.* Thelast number of Deßow’s Review gives the follow ing estimate of the national wealth of the United States It will be seen that the value of farms, |stock and imple ments of agriculture amounts to nearly one third of the whole valuation, equalling the combined estimated value of the public lands, navy yards and vessels, fortifications, public buildings, marine, railroads, cauals, factories, mills,gold and silver coin and bullion, and for eign and domestic goods on h&nd- Value of (arms and cultivated soil, $5,000,000,000 Value of horses, cattle, sheep, &c 1,500,000.000 Value of agricultural implements 500,000,000 Value of mines 4,500,000,000 Value of dwelling houses 3,500,000,000 Value of railways and canals..... 1,100.000.000 Value of factories, mills and machine shops, 400,000,000 Value of [commercial marine 200,000,000 Value of agricultural produce, domestic man ufactures and foreign goods on hand 1,000,000,000 j Va'ueofgold and silver coiu and bullion,.. 300,000,000 Value of public lands, ships of war, fortifica tions, navy yards, public buildings, &c... .4,000,000,000 Total $22,000,000,000 The Moniteur Beige announces that the new treaty of commerce between Russia and j Belgium will come iuto operation on the third of! August. From the Savannah Georgian. The Supreme Court Decision- Mr. Editor: The Supreme Court at its last session in Macon, in the case of Robison vs. Beall, (Lumpkin J., dissenting) decided : That upon the expiration of a Bank Charter by its own limitation, the debts due to and from it, are extinguished. Upon this the press, and to the extent of its in fluence, the public has become remarkably exer cised. Even covert hints at corruption in the Judg es, who trade the decision, have been indulged in, while it is assumed as settled that it is not the law. It is conceded that these editors who have in dulged in the.e denunciations of the Court and its decision, and thus essay to enlighten public opinion, are wise and learned in all the law. And it is perhaps less with the hope of showing that they are or can be wrong—than with the hazard of exposing the ignorance of Blackstone and Kent, and Story and Lumpkin, that the publication of this brief communication is asked. The debts due to, and from a Bank, are extin guished by its dissolution or the expiration ol its charter. This is the naked decision and is it the law ? “A corporate grant is indeed only duripg the life of the corporation, which may endure forever; but when the life is determined by the dissolution of the body politic, the grantor takes it back by re version, as iu every other grant for life. “ The debts of a Corporation either to or from it, are totally extinguished by its dissolution, so that the members thereof cannot recover, or be charged with them in their natural capacities.” It is thus that Judge Blackstone answers the question. See 1 Black, Com. 484. “According to the settled law of the land, where there is no special statute provision to the contra ry, upon the civil death of a corporation, all its real estate remaining unsold reverts back to the original grantor and his heirs. The debts due to and from the corporation are all extinguished. Neither the stockholders nor the directors, or trus tees of the corporation can recover these debts, or be charged with them, in their natural capacities.” And it is thus that Chancellor Kent answers. See 2 Kent. Com. 307. “A corporation by the very terms, and nature of its political existence, is subject to a dissolution by a surrender of its corporate franchises, and by a forfeiture of them for wilful mis-user, and non-user. Every creditor must be presumed to understand the nature and incidents of such a body politic, and to contract with reference to them. And it would be a doctrine new in the Jaw that the exis tence of a private contract of the corporation should force upon it a perpetuity of existence contrary to public policy, and the nature and objects of its charter. And thus it is that C. J. Story, after having re cognized, comments upon the rule as laid down by Blackstone and Kent. See Mumma vs. the Pat, Com. 8 Peters 281. “Upon the threshhold of this discussion we are met with the common law principle, that upon the dissolution of a corporation the debts due to and from it are extinguished. A doctrine which re sults necessarily from the fact that the corporation having expired, whether, by its own limitation, by surrender, abandonment of its members, or judg ment of dissolution, there is no one in law to sue and be sued.” And thus Judge Lumpkin, Warner and Nesbit concurring answers, in Hightower, vs. Thornton, 8 Ga. Rep. 492. And again he answer with the same concur rence : “Why so much time and talent, and labor, and learning have been employed to establish a pro position which nobody denies, viz: That the debts of a corporation , either to or from it, are extin guished by its dissolution, I am at a loss to com prehend. Certain it is that it was recognized by this court, at this place two years ago, as it had been in more than one occasion previously.” See Thornton vs. Lane, 11 Ga. Rep. 492. The Hon Judge’s assumption that “nobody de nies ’ this doctrine may have been made, for the only reason that the sapient editors of the present day had not enlightened the legal world by their opinions. But again : “Morever I agree that the elementary writers, both in England and the United States, do every where assert distinctly that the debts due to, and from a corporation, are extinguished by its disso lution, unless prevented by the terms of the char ter itself, or by aliunde legislation. And that in the Courts of both countries this doctrine may now be considered too well settled to be overthrown or shaken. And so totally extinguished that the members of the corporation cannot recover or be charged with them in their natural capacities.” Judge Lumpkin, Starns concurring in Moultrie vs. Smiley, et. al. 16 Ga. Rep. 294. Indeed Mr. Editor, Judge Lumpkin might wel have added that this principle, as the law, has been asserted, maintained, upheld, and administered by every Judge who has sat upon the English and American bench, since the origin of corporations. And what more than this have Judges McDonald and Benning done? Instructed by the light of ages, and by the re peated and emphatic recognition of their predeces sors upon our own Supreme Bench, they have de cided “that upon the expiration of a Bank Charter by its own limitation, the debts due to, and from it, are extinguished,” thus, but giving effect to what nail been so repeatedly and emphatically admitted to be the law, even by our own Supreme Bench. And yet the effort is to hold them up to public censure and reproach, because they have overrul ed a decision of their predecessors. Now as to the application of the law, because of certain charter provisions, and certain attempts at differences of opinion do exist between the members of the present and the for mer Supreme Bench. It is no part of the purpose of this communica tion to discuss these differences. That the Judges who made the decisions complained of are fully able to vindicate its correctness, and will do it, I have not a doubt. It remains to be seen whether those editors who have ventured to assail and denounce, as not law, the great principle upon which it rests, will give this brief communication a place in their columns, and adhere to the maxim, “Fiat Jistitia.” Mails on the Sabbath “A petition to the Postmaster General has been I gotten up at Knoxville, Tenn., requesting him to j discontinue the Suday mail through East Tennes see. Similar petitions are said to be on foot be tween Richmond and New Orleans. A general j stirring up of the question of Sunday observance j seems to be determined on.”— Shelbyville Exposi j tor. This is as it should be. We have never yet been able to perceive the reasonableness of allowing Railroad service on the Sabbath, when all other work had to cease. If it is criminal for a single individual to labor on the Sabbath, it is certainly not less so for a company of individuals to do so. The argument in favor of a continuance of the custom, drawn from its interruption to business, will not bear examination. the petitions go round, and let the abomina tion of Sabbath Railroading be discountenanced and discontinued. No business obligations are so big!) as the claims of the Christian Sabbath.— At* lanta American. From the Savannah Republican. Capt. Deßiviere in Hew York. The Express of Saturday contains a long and circumstantial account of the Blount-Deßiviere affair, from its culmination in New York to its close in Savannah, the materials for which were evident ly furnished by the gallant Zouave himself. Ac cording to his own account, he came off with fly ing colors, and made a complete conquest of all his enemies in this city. We shall simply refer to this latter branch ofhis statement, for the purpose of correcting the Zouave’s facts, which he seems gen erally to adapt to the emergencies of his case. The account says: “On reaching Savannah, however, the Colonel, (so says our informant) broke his agreement and caused the arrest of the gallant Zouave on the same charges as those preferred against him in New York. This so maddened De Riviere that he determined to enter into no more arrangements, but to put the whole matter before the public and let them be the judges, and he therefore concluded to go into Court for that purpose. But a great excite ment prevailed against him; some five or six thou sand persons turned out and determined to take him out of the hands of the officers and Lynch him at once. With much difficulty he was brought into court, and on producing the document printed above, as well as other letters signed by Col. Blount, and authorizing him to go to Savannah, the opin ion of the public was entirely changed, and the Captain was not again molested.” There is something diverting about the Captain’s (it seems he has grown into the full dignity of a “ ColoneV ’ since his return to New York) “conclu ding to go into court,” when he was in the Sheriff’s hands and could not have kept out of it if he would. As to the Savannah mob of some five or six thou sand who determined to lynch him, there is not a word of truth in the Zouave’s statement. We be lieve everybody believed he deserved lynching, but we have no idea that three men in the city had the first thought of administering the punishment. The fact 4hat no demonstration was made while they had every opportunity, is proof conclusive on this point. There i6 another statement of the Captain which we desire to repudiate as a reflection upon the in telligence and moral sense of our community. He says that when he left here “the whole population was on his side ; he had not a friend when he went to Savannah, he had hundreds when he went away.” This is, if possible, a greater untruth than that we have already contradicted. There is no man so base that will not find congenial spirits al most in every place of large population, but that any respectable portion of our community took the “side” of a notorious adventurer and bigamist, whose offense towards Miss Blount, whatever may have been her wishes, subjected him to the penalty of imprisonment as a felon in the penitentiary, and who infamously abused the hospitality of an un suspecting man who had befriended him in adver sity, by stealing away his wife and daughter—no man who knows anything of the people of Savan nah will credit it for one moment. The Oregon Senators Elect. —Gen. Joseph Lane, one of the new Oregon Senators, is too well known to require any notice. He is an able, sound and suitable man for the place. Of the other Sen ator the Rochester (N. Y.) Union has the follow ing: “Delazon Smith. —lt will be seen by reports from Oregon, that Delazon Smith has been elected U. S. Senator from the new State. Mr. Smith was once, and for some time, a resident of this city. We think he left here since 1840, about which time he conducted a daily paper called the Wes tern Herald. Previously, he published for a year or two, an infidel paper called the New York Watchman , and he used to lecture to the “Free Inquirers” on Sundays. Soon after leaving this city he was converted to Christianity, and was at one time a preacher of the Gospel at the west. He is a gentleman of considerable ability, and we were assured by citizens of Oregon a long time since, that he was popular in that Territory, and likely to be sent to the Senate when the State should be organized” New York Corporation Dinners.— The Trib une stoutly objects to a dinner in celebration of the success of the Atlantic Telegraph, and adds, by way of reason: “There was a public dinner'not long since, at which a number of members of the Common Coun cil were so drunk as to be entirely helpless ; and there has not for years been such an entertainment at the city’s expense at which scenes of debauch ery have not been common, on the part of city officers, or the miserable gang, of vagabonds who follow at their heels. Is it too much to hope that better councils will prevail, and that the gen eral joy at the success of the greatest undertaking ever attempted f by man, will not be marred by the scandal which will most certainly follow upon the tide of liquor let loose at a Corporation dinner ?” A Bold and Beautify! Figure. During the delivery of a sermon last {Sunday in St. Patrick’s Catholic Church, in Washington City, the eyes of the congregation were suddenly riveted upon the speaker, Rev, France X. Boyle, by u r hat for the moment, seemed to be a digression to the all-absorbing topic of conversation and conjecture throughout the civilized world—the Atlantic Tel egraph. The eloquent divine spoke in terms of glowing panegyric of this wonderful triumph of human science, and dilated upon the revolutions which the grand achievement will accomplish in the commercial, political and social condition of the two hemispheres thus successfully united by means of the electric wire. What is it after all, exclaim ed the speaker, when compared with the instanta neous communication between the Throne of Di vine Grace and the heart of man? Offer up your silent petition for grace. It is transmitted through realms of unmeasured space more rapidly than the lightning’s flash, and the answer reaches the soul ere the prayer has died away on the sinner’s lips. Yet this telegraph, performing its saving functions ever since Christ died for us on Cavalry, fills not the worid with exultation and shouts of gladness— with iiluminations and bonfires and the booming of cannon. The reason is, one is the telegraph of this world, and may produce wonderful revolu tions on earth; the other is the sweot communion betwean Christ and the Christian’s soul, and will secure a glorious immortality in Heaven.- Wash ington Union. Col. A. A* Franklin^Hill. Of this place, was elected on Tuesday evening last, at the annual meeting of the Society of the Alumni, their orator for the next year, We con gratulate the Society upon its choice, and the gentleman, hi mself, upon the high honor confer red. Flr In Memphis. A fire broke out in Memphis on the afternoon of the Ilth jinst., in the Drug Store of Messrs. Ward & Jones on Main street. They were bot tling Spirits of Turpentine, and in driving the cork a bottle broke and its contents ignited by a light used on the occasion. The room and a portion of the third floor were destroyed. The following are theTprincipal sufferers: Messis. Ward & Jones, Ford, Begbie & Cos.; Candee, Nix & fcCo., and G. W. Hanna. The total loss is about $15,000, most ly covered by insurance. DrOhapiAon the Ocean Telegraph. The following is the very passage in Rev. Dr. E. H. Chapin’s discourse on Sunday, in the Second Universalist Church, Boston, in rela tion to the great submarine Telegraph. “Let us not fail to recognize the greatness, the grandeur, of this achievement. Let no supposed honoring of religion—no exalting the moral or spiritual above the merely physical-hide from us the full glory of that effort by which, for the last three hundred years, man has ob tained this mastery over nature. For, in sim ple truth, it is not man’s glory, but God's glory, that is unfolded in the gradual development of hu man knowledge and human power. Thus the magnificent consummation of the past week,which has simultaneously startled two hemispheres, has awakened in us those feelings that are deepest and highest, making words inadequate, and send ing our thoughts upward not only in astonishment but in reverence and thanksgiving. In such a work we feel the thrill of God's band sweeping through events, and translating into a prophetic symbol the processes of ages and the significance of history. “Men wait upon it breathless, conscious that it inaugurates an era, wondering to what new music the earth’s round wheel will turn, and pondering the incalculable consequences. Yes, first sen timent awakened by such a triumph is a religious sentiment. It demonstrates the fact that spirit is the beginning and the end of all mechanism and all matter. Through every physical barrier mind rushes to the embrace of mind, and heart to heart —sending, swiff as lightning through the larches of the tumultuous 6ea,the viewless course of thought and tempering the thunder of the sky into the si lent pulsations of a world-fell love and joy. In this view, scientific achievement, expanding be yond all mercenary uses, becomes the Shekinah of the living God—at once Hi 9 awful veil of myste ry and the signal of His presence. Texas Items. The Galveston Civilian, of the 9th, says: Our accounts last week from the interior repre sent many portions of the country as beginning to need rain. Not only had the sugar cane began to suffer from drought, but cotton was begining to languish. The Register says that on some plan tations 1 in Washington county the ground is liter ally covered with “squares,” while the plant is undergoing a rapid change from the! healthful and vigorous appearance to the sickly hue consequent on the absence of £the proper nourishment. The state of things is said to be confined chiefly to the uplands. The Register says that the cotton on the bottom lands still holds its own, though there are evident signs of its soon following in the wake of the for mer, if not immediately relieved by refreshing showers. Similar accounts reach us from some other sections ; but we trust that the rain which has visited Galveston has extended to the interior, if it was not preceded by the |rains there—a cir cumstance indicated by the northwesterly winds of Saturday and Sunday nights. A meeting of the citizens of Washington and vicinity was held, on the 29th ult., to tender Gen. Sam Houston a public dinner. The Houston'Telegraph, of the 9th, publishes re turns of the election for Justice from twenty-four connties, which show the following re sult : Buckley 5,002. Bell 5,592. From Mexico. The Havana papers received by the Empire City publish intelligence from Vera Cruz to the 27th ult., and from the capital to the 23d. Gen. Zuloaga is reported as continuing at the head of the government, and a6 having formed the following new ministry: of Foreign Relations, Senor Don Jonaquin Maria Castilloy Lanza; of Home Government, Senor Don Manuel Fernandez de Jauregwi; of Justice, Dr. J. J. Miranda; of Finance, Senor Don Pedro Jorrin ;of War, Senor Don Jose Maria Garcia; of Fornento, Senor Don Jose Maria Zaldivar. They x have issued decrees creating a civil guard composed of citizens pos sessing certain qualifications, re-establishing the press-law of Santa Anna, organising companies for the defence of property and public order, call ing in arms in the procession of private persons, with compensation, and enacting anew conspiracy law. Ex-Minister ot War Parra had been nominated Commandante General of Guanajuato and of the Division of the Centre, formed of the forces of Michoacan, Queretaro, and Jalisco, in combination with the divison of the North commanded by Miramon. Gen. Parra was to leave the capital immediately for his command. The report of the capture of San Luis by the constitutionalists, and of the entry of Pueblita into Guanajuato is confirmed ; and it is stated that the latter appears to have subsequently abandoned the city. Gen Moray Villamil is reported to have joined Miramon. —Contradictory|reports are noticed with respect loan alleged defeat of Degollado by MiramoD, on the 2nd ult., at Guadalajara. The constitutionalists, under Gen. Alatriete, are reported to have taken Tuxpan. The death of Senor Gomez Farias is announced. The papers of the capital report that the Gov ernment forces were about to press the attack on Vera Cruz with Vigor; but the Progreso , of the latter city, ridicules the assertion, and declares that Echeagaray has been recalled to protect the capital from the constitutionalist forces, advancing from the South.— N. O. Picayune , Avgust 13. Danger of Gas Explosions. —In speaking of the late serious accident which happened at De troit, Michigan, by which Senator Chandler, hie daughter, and two other persons were severely burned by an explosion of gas, Quantico , the Washington correspondent of the Alexandria Sen tinel, says: “I had a narrow escape myself “last fall. The placing of large station metres in the new wings of the Capitol rendered a change necessary in the position ot the pipes and the metres that supplied the old building. One of the meters as large as a hogshead, was placed back of the furnace under the old hall of Represntatives, the connections made about six o’clock, p. m., and the gas turned . .R? n v * B^n g the Capitol at night, I found the building filled with gas. Afraid to cany a light, I traced the leak in the dark, by the smell, until I found it in a pipe near the metre, to which connection had been made, and afterwards discon nected, and which had been overlooked by the gas fitters. The gas rushed from the hole like steam from a boiler, and I was thus enabled to find the leak, and temporarily plug it until morning. Tho danger from the explosion arose frora the fact that the furnaces were in full blast within thirty feet of the leak, and an explosion was liable to take place any moment.” Market Report*. CHARLESTON, Acg, 16.—Sales of cottoo for the past three business days 250 bale*, without change in prices. NEW YORK, Aug. 16.—Sales of cotton 7CO bales, aod quotations nominal. Flour firm with sales of 10,500 bar rels. Wheat buoyant with sale of 10,000 bushels, and holders are demanding an advance* Corn firm with ealea of 30,000 bushels. Spirits of Turpentine firm but unsettled. Rosin steady. Rice quiet,