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We regret to learn from the Trait d’Union of the 4th instant, that California has again been visited by two destructive conflagrations, surpassing even those which have already made San Francisco famous. The news reached the city of Mexico byway of Acapulco, at which place the steamers stop on their way down to Panama. To come directly to this important intelligence, we give below' a translation of everything that we find in the Trait d’Union on the subject. The editor of that print commences by saying that California is decidedly the country of fires. We have often had occasion to recount the fre quent conflagrations of which San Francisco has theater. It is not long since we chron —lclOT the<almost entire destruction of Nevada City, and now we have to speak of two frightful catastrophes, by which the richest portion of San Francisco and Stockton have been reduced to ashes. Our readers remember, beyond doubt, that on the 4th of May, of last year, San Francisco was visited with a fire which destroyed the commer cial portion oithat growing city. This year, on the if to celebrate the terrible anni versary',tot the fifth time in two years, three fourth c| the business part of the city have been agaiflVeduced to ashes. Never, says the Alta California, has so horrible a eonljagratioh been witnessed since the burning of Mjawfiow’. The fire broke out about 11 o’clock on thfe night of the 3d of May, in the second story of a painters shot in Clay street, on the south side of Portsmouth Square, and in the neighborhood of the Grand Plaza. At the moment when the fire made its appearance,it had very little strength,but all of a sudden the house in which it originated the American House and a furniture store became enveloped in flames. The wind, which at first blew moderately, soon increased to the force of a hurricane. The fire engines were quickly on the ground, but unfortunately the chief engineer and his assistant were absent from the city, which prevented operations being carried on with cele rity and vigor. As soon as the three houses above mentioned became ignited.it was seen that it would be impos sible to master the fire. The devouring element then followed this course: towards the west it ascended Clay street nearly to Dupont street; to the southward it traversed Sacramento as far as California street, crossed Kearny, and extending toward the south, along California street, as far as Pine street.^.To'( the westward it ascended Pine until Tt reached San some street; then north ward it took the direction of'California street, and then turning eastward it consumed Battery street, which forms the southern limit of the fire, with the exception of a point at the northeastern extremity, where it crossed Battery street, and destroyed a few houses on the very edge of the bay. In another direction the fire descended Clay street to Harney street, following Harney street towards the north as far as Jackson street; thence along Jackson to Montgomery; then to the north ward as far as Pacific street; then eastward to Broadway, whence at last, crossing Battery street towards the east, it stopped at the shores of the bay. In this circuit of a mile in length and a half a mile in width, scarcely 15 houses escaped. There were many houses of which the walls were left standing, but of which all the contents were des troyed. Some cellars and safes retained their contents in a state of perfect preservation. Nine- squares of houses were destroyed. It is not HRsy to estimate the number of houses consum ■L but it amounts to at least fifteen hundred. — Be total loss is supposed to be between twelve millions: fifteen milltan,'- would !>»• about /- The its work of B 1 son last building being on the morning m t the lire was frigmiu'!.— |HHB|| ■ ' H If 1 i V •; ■ •. - ;■'-B ii* -' m a -t.r.- 1 y v. as But without an a-v 1 yyy; B increase.! by the ,>ight of B who, from time to time. f ' rush from the midst of the BBSB, and precipitating themselves into the were, at least,"Natter vain efforts to es rfo B crushed by the falling buildings. in full B>f hundreds of spectators, unable to render Two persons were in this manner BPax alive in the streets, and six others perish- Wfa in the iron stores of Messrs. Taaffe & McCa ~ hill. The number of persons known to have been killed is eight; twenty others were more or less severely wounded. After the fire, two men were killed by the falling ruins. All the newspaper offices in San Francisco, with the ex ception of that of the Alta California, were con sumed. Two, the Herald and Pacific News, had recommenced publication, and the others were to appear soon. Ten days after the fire, from two hundred and fifty to three hundred houses were rebuilt. The energy of the people of San Francisco did not ap pear to be at all repressed by this cruel blow.— The Alta California calls on the people to take courage and never despair. In truth, business seemed to be scarcely suspended in consequence of the calamity. The merchants while awaiting the rebuilding of their stores, attended the sale of their goods in other parts of the city. j||Prices of merchandise, which were very low before the fire, suddenly were quintupled, and rents rose in the same proportion. * The house of Burgoyne & Co., after the fire, found $1,500,000 safe in their iron chest. The employees in the customhouse saved all the funds that it contained, amounting to a mil lion of dollars, by throwing them into a well. Among the buildings destroyed were the Cus tomhouse, Union Hotel, Parker House, Adelphi Theatre, the Dramatic Museum, National Hotel, New World Hotel, City Hotel, Delmonico Ho tel, Merchants’ Exchange, the Ross building, American Hotel, Revere House, the House of the Steamship Company, &c., &c. The fire at Stockton, taking the relative size pf the place into consideration, was quite as dis 'fisfrous asThat at San Francisco. It took place on the mos May, and commenced in a large and magnificent new building known as the Mer chants’ Hotel. It is supposed that it was the work of some malefactor, who wished to aid the escape of the criminals in the prison which adjoins tne Mer chants’ Hotel. The wind, however, carried the flames in a contrary direction, so that the object of the incendiaries wasjnot achieved. All the business houses on the Levee except six, all Main street, all Center street, all the houses in El Do rado street except two, and all the buildings in Hunter street except three, fell a prey to the de vouring element. The list of sufferers by the dreadful fire in San Francisco fills six columns of the Alta California, even this is not complete. Very few business, houses, either in San Francisco or Stockton, escap ed destruction. It had been said that the fire in San Francisco was caused by the negligence of the people in the paint shop; but the owners, Messrs. Baker & Messerve, have published a card in which they declare that there was no light in their house which could have originated the fire. It was therefore generally believed that this fire also was caused by design. At the time when the people were about to lynch Stuart and Wildred, two months ago, the Austrian convicts who infest the city had formed a plan to take revenge by burning San Francisco They had a ship ready in port to transport them and their plunder from the place, after putting their plan in operation. Fortunately, this diaboli cal project came to the knowledge of the police in time to frustrate it. It is also stated that, a few days before the fire, a person went to a merchant of San Francisco,and told him that if he had any goods he wanted to pre serve he had better send them out of the city, as. on the night of the 3d of May, there would be a great fire, to celebrate the anniversary of the con flagration of last year. Further Particulars. —The great fire in San Francisco on the 3d and 4th of May was a most calamitous event, destroying fifteen hundred houses in the finest portion of the city. In lieu of any reflections of our own we give the follow ing article from the Alta California of the 6th ult. It is a graphic description of the awful scene: To one capable for a little while of divesting himself of his sympathies, the tornado of fire which has traveled its devouring path over our city furnishes a scene of more beauty, grandeur, terror and sublimity, probably, than any other event which has transpired in our nation during the present century. And yet all one’s sensibili ties were inevitably interested, and were neces sary in order that this awful exhibition of nature, in her wildest and most pitiless mood, should duly and perhaps profitably affect man through his more kindly qualities. The commencement of the fire was like the flash of gunpowder, so almost instantaneous was its spread.—For a few moments hope, fear and dread balanced upon the breakes of the engines, and if earnest wishes and well placed confidence in the exertions of our gallant philanthropists, the firemen, could have saved the city, she would now be standing like a bride in her loveliness, instead of the blackened martyr at the stake, as she now appears. Many persons inhabiting or owning buildings which appeared to be entirely out of the possible range of the destruction, look ed upon its commencement without a thought of themseves, only actuated by their sympathies lor others for some time. How suddenly were their dreams of security ended. In a few hours, perhaps in a few minutes, they too were wan derers in the streets, houseless, homeless, hope less, stripped of everyting. in hundreds of cases not saving a suit of clothes. As the first faint hope of stopping the flames at the place of origin died out, the city’s terrible impending fate became more and more manifest. Yet no man’s mind could anticipate in its full extent the scope and completeness of the ruin. The wind, which was blowing fresh from the northwest when the fire commenced, soon in creased whirlwinds around the flaming piles, the heated air, loaded with smoke, cinders ard flames, rushing up towards heaven, crackling and roaring like a tornado, while fresh gusts and gales came whirling in from every side to fill the melting va cuum with new ministers of destruction.—The view' was sad, afflictive, awful. Great masses of smoke ascended and rolled away loaded with the wealth of men, the rewards of toil and danger, bearing far above the city great flocks and sheets of burning cinders, and forming liugh clouds touched w'ith every tint from clear w'hite light to the darkness of night. Frame houses faded aw r ay like frost w*ork.—The beautiful Parker House was made a heap of coals and ashes in a few moments. Brick houses became batteries of flames and poured forth immense jets from their window's and doors. Iron and zinc curled up like scorched leaves and sent forth their brillint flames of green, blue and yellow* tints, mingling with and modifying the great red tongues of fire w'hich flashed up wards from a thousand burning houses. The hillsides w*ere lighted as if the sun w*ere above the eastern mountains, and their trees, shrubs, and houses w f ere as distinguished in the bright light as if it were noon.—Darkness hung over a large portion of the shipping, w T here the broad and heavy ocean of smoke lay dow'n in impene trable gloom over the bay. People became para lyzed. Many removed their stocks of goods, or portions of them, four or five times, and had them overtaken and destroyed by the flames at last. The streets w T ere crammed with masses of human beings and rushing teams, only giving way be fore the advance of the elements, as the smoke and heat and crashing walls pushed back. Men become mad; some rushed headlong into the flames. Weeping women and prattling infancy were w r andering amid ashes and destruction. Every few* moments the earth and air trembled as great buildings were torn into fragments by explosions of gunpow'der, and the atmosphere was filled with shattered timbers, brick and mortar. The multitude hung upon the borders of this “vast sea. of flame;” few comparatively knew, or could know*, what w*ere the dangers and exertions of those who were within the range of the stifli :g smoke and scorching flame. In less than nine hours from the beginning more than twenty squares existed only in memory and in the as sending columns of smoke and flame w'hich cov ered the city’s site. The Union Hotel burned like a furnace until the woodwork w*as nearly destroyed, w'hen the huge walls, five stories high, pitched headlong into the street and over the w r recks of neighboring dwellings, long before they reached the earth completely lost in the flames and smoke w'hich ascended from below*. So intense was the heat, that jets of water poured from the hose became instantly converted into scorching streams or w*ere licked up by the thirsty flames. Nothing less than a river of w T ater seemed sufficient to quench them. But the saddest sight of all w r as the destruction of brave, but bewildered men, W'ho, finding them selves suddenly surrounded with fire, rushed, staggered and uncertain, from flame to flame, in hopeless efforts to escape, until strangled and scorched they writhed and fell in full view* of ! hundreds who w r ere completely powerless to save I them. Others after battling inside of what they I nad considered fire-poofs, finding their efforts to save the buildings vain, endeavored to escape, but too late. The doors and window blinds w r ere red hot and could not be opened in some instan ces, and their last chance of safety failed them. We cannot express our sensations of yesterday, while looking upon the blackened remains of poor humanity, as they still lay burned to coals amid tie fire w r hich filled the cellar of a build ing on Montgomery street, still beyond the reach of all w*ho gazed upon them. May we never again see so horrible a spectacle. North Carolina Harvest. —The Elizabeth City "North State” of 14th instant says— Our farmers have been busily engaged for the past ten days in harvesting. We learn that the crop of Wheat is much better than it has been for many years. There is no rust, and very little smut in any crop of w'hich we have heard, Later from Texas. —By the arrival last even ing of the steamship Maria Butt, says the N. O' Picayune of Sunday, we have received Galveston papers to the 10th inst. Quite a storm took place at Galveston on the 9th inst., but fortunately no serious injury re sulted. The election campaign is becoming very ex citing. A private letter from Dallas county, dated the 19th ult., in reference to the approach ing election, says: "Col. Johnson (for Governor) will carry the frontier en masse from the Colorado to Red Riv er, and will beat Greer in the East. Gov. Bell will receive little or no support on the frontier or in the East. lam convinced that w r e have no chance to heat Greer but to unite on Johnson. [This, says the Galveston Journal, was written before the announcement of Mr. Epperson.] Crosby will beat Ward badly in this section, where the latter thought his main strength lay. Howard will get no votes in the north part of his district. Potter is much the strongest. Gil lett will get the best vote for Lieutenant-Gover nor.” R. M. Williamson has withdrawn his name as a candidate for Lieutenant-Governor. Capt. G. K. Lewis, candidate for Congress, addressed the citizens of San Antonio on the 21st ult—He announces himself a Democrat of the old school. The Journal says that in Eastern Texas the preparations for the convention at Henderson, with a view' to nominate a candidate to heat Judge Ochiltree, are going on. The Texas Monument learns from a Mr. Lance that a serious difficulty occurred at Huntsville, Walker county, on the 31st ult., between a Mr! Hay and another printer in the Presbyterian of fice. Hay stabbed his adversary w'ith a bowie knife in several places, which w'ounds, it is thought, would prove fatal. Several fatal cases of cholera had occurred at Houston. The Galveston papers say that the tow'n of Indianola is rapidly improving. Four new stores w r eie built there last month. The Brassos river is in good navigable order. The crops in Texas are beginning to suffer for want of rain. Near Lagrange no rain had fal len for more than a month. The Bonham Advertiser, of the 13th ult., learns that the birds have commenced their rava ges on the wheat cop of that and Red River county. It will be recollected that the birds de stroyed the entire crop last year. A letter from Liberty co., dated the 2d inst., says: “The crops are suffering greatly for rain. Without it, in a few days, there will be a failure, notwithstanding the tair prospects up to the present time.” A planter of Old Caney thus writes to the State Gazette: Since the Ist of Janunry last I have visited all the sugar plantations in the lower country, and you will be surprised to learn that planters with 300 acres in cane, in many instances, will not make seed for another crop. Wot Satisfied with Howell. So far as we have been able to learn, the nomi nation of Howell Cobb has not given that satis faction to the old Whig Consolidationists in this section of the country, and in fact, judging from the tone of the Consolidation papers, in other sec tions of the State, it has not given the satisfac tion anywhere that it was hoped by the wire workers it would. The Convention missed the figure badly when they nominated him in the vain hope of decoying off from Gov. McDonald, men who had stood by him through thick and thin, and who have triumphed with him on manyj a sanguinary political battle-field. What Democrat will hesitate in his choice between Charles J. McDonald, a man who has always been a Democrat and has never for a moment been doubted, and Howell Cobb, who has for the last three years been “between hawk and buz zard,” a sort of political nondescript, neither Whig nor Democrat—neither an anti-slavery nor slavery man—a Janus faced politician, looking both North and South for popularity—disowned by the Democrats—repudiated by the Whigs donounced by the friends of Southern Rights, he went wandering about like a stall-fed ox at a cattle-show, bearing a flag on which was painted in conspicuous letters, “1 am for sale—who will buy?—will sell dog cheap.” Aud who was the purchaser, and what was the price paid for him! Giddings & Co., were the purchasers, and a Speakership the price? And this is the man that is presented to the people of Georgia by this Union Consolidation Convention, as a candidate for Governor. No wonder that the people are not satisfied with him. The greater wonder is that indignation meetings are not held through out the State, and the Convention that nominat ed him denounced in the most unmeasured terms for attempting to cram down their throats a man who has sold himself to ,the Freesoilers of the North—and a man who is capable of such cor ruption once will be guilty of a second offence should the inducement be offered.— Ogletkrope Democrat , 14 tli inst. The Great Flood on the Mississippi. The St. Louis papers come to us with extended details of ravages of the great Hood on the Mis sissippi, some accounts of which we have already had by telegraph. The St. Louis Times of Monday, the 9th, states that the water was then 33 feet 4 inches above low Water mark, and still rising, being within 5 feet 3 inches of the mark of the great flood of 1844. The bottom opposite North St. Louis was also flooded, and nearly all the fami lies have taken refuge in the 6th ward. It was estimated, that from one thousand to twelve hun dred persons—men, women and children have been landed from the opposite shore, destitute of everything needful for the preservation of health, and were in the occupatien of the Sturgeon mar ket. The depth of -water on the Levee store floors at St. Louis was from 24 to 28 inches. In all the cross streets running to the levee, the wra ter has passed from ten to thirty feet beyond the levee, front of buildings. In the lower part of the town, the water had backed up for several squares, rendering some of the streets impassable. Arsenal Island and Duncan’s Island were entire ly inundated, as was also Bloody Island, except the extreme northern and soutSern points. In Illinoistown, the destruction was immense. Many of the buildings had been undermined and swept away. The current had washed a chan nel around the eastern end of the Bloody Island dyke, and a heav) r body of w r ater was passino through the town into Cahokia creek. At the American Bottom, a few high points were left between the main river and the blufls. At Papp’s town there was a little ground left uncovered by water, but for miles around the country presents the appearance of a great lake. Thousands of farms bordering on the upper streams were reported by steamboat captains as entirely under water, and their improvements and stock swept away—an amount of loss to repair which will require the labor of years. The Hannibal (Mo.) Union says: Considera ble damage will be done in this city though noth ing to compare with less elevated places above and below us. From many quarters we hear of the most distressing scenes, accompanied by great loss of property. In one house atTully, it is re ported that there are seven families huddled to gether into the upper stories. The rest are all driven from their homes. At Alexandria the water is said to be up to the second stories. Ma rion city, of course, is completely submerged, not a foot of dry land being anywhere visible. An Abolition Meeting, held in Philadelphia on Sunday, at Franklin Hall, vras broken up by a mob. Mrs. Grew' and Lucretia Mott had address ed the audience, w r hen a colored man attempted to speak, but was prevented and driven from the Hall. There was great excitement. Ice Produced by Steam, and steam converted , into snow, is part of the scientific entertainment provided for the visitors of the London exhibition; and surely the capabilities of the apparatus are among its wonders. AUGUSTA, GA. SUNDAY MORNING, JUNE 22. For Governor. Charles j. McDonald. CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION. The Convention to nominate a Southern Rights Candidate for the Eighth Congres sional District, will be held in this City on SATURDAY, the 12th day of JULY. Disagreements among the Oonsolidationists. The organs of the Toombs and Cobb party are not yet attuned to each other. They are giving out rather discordant notes. Some of them have not yet got exactly the hang of the consolidation. State coercing, doctrines they are called on to advocate, and are putting forth constructions of the platform which they occupy, which others, who speak ex cathedra , wholly repudiate. The Chronicle <§- Sentinel , borrowing the idea from the Journal and Messenger , insists that the Toombs and Cobb party advocate the right of secession as unequivocally as the Southern Rights party. To prove this it quotes the fourth resolution of the Georgia Convention, which is a part of the platform of the Consolidationists, and thus com ments on it as conclusive on this point: “ The resolution embraces the corner stone upon which Southern Rights are based, and by which Southern institutions may be secured. In it are openly and broadly declared and enforced, the great principle of the right to dissolve the government, and the duty of the patriot to do it, whenever that government shall attempt to do certain things, which the people of Georgia re gard as too great an outrage upon their rights and property to be borne. What more can the disunionists ask, if they are sincere in their de sire to have the abstract right of secession ac knowledged by the people ? Here it is proclaim ed in its broadest, fullest and most comprehensive sense, and has been so endorsed by them in their approval of the action of the Convention which adopted the resolution.” Gov. McDonald puts the same construction on the resolution. But the Athens Banner , Mr. Cobb’s special organ, scouts the idea. It is down upon the ex-Governor for supposing the Georgia Convention claimed for the State any such right. It insists that all it claimed was that, in case of intolerable oppression , the people of Georgia could take their choice ol loyal submission, or of being bayoneted by federal troops, and hanged, drawn and quartered as traitors, if their Yankee Abo lition Unionists should prove strong enough to conquer them. On this point, the Banner thus discourseth: “False Construction.— Gov. McDonald, in his letter of acceptance, has artfully endeavored to impress upon the public mind the idea that the doctrine of secession, as claimed by his party, is recognized in the resolutions of the Georgia Con vention. We deny it. The doctrine of the dis unionists is the right of a State to secede from the Union at discretion and without restraint. The position of the Georgia Convention is resistance to unconstitutional or grossly unjust legislation —in other words the right of revolution for in tolerable oppression. The fire-eating doctrine takes a State out of the Union without just cause places her right upon her uncontrollable sovereign will and pleasure .” As the Editor of the Banner is, by his position, leading organist, the others will have to chime in. How else can they support their standard bearer who denies also this right of secession ? This article of the Banner contains some cu rious doctrines, which it may not be amiss to dwell a moment upon. It supposes the case, that if South Carolina conclude to resist the compro mise measures, or in other words secede, while Georgia has concluded to submit and remain in the Union, then it is the duty of Georgia to help coerce her back. The Banner thus puts the case: “ Does it follow that because one State as sumes, in advance, an attitude of resistance or revolution upon the happening of certain con tingencies, which may or not happen, that she is bound to allow another to anticipate her and re sist the government, with impunity, for any cause short of those contingencies ? Does the asser tion by you of a righfcto resist your government in certain specified cases of oppression, bind you to acknowledge the right of your neighbor to destroy it, whilst you think it is a good govern ment and worth preserving? Does every man who aids his government to quell insurrection, or attempts at revolution, bind himself to non-re sistance in all cases whatsoever? Does every man who says he will resist certain aggressions of the government, become bound to fold his hands and acknowledge the right of his neighbor to defy its authority for a less aggravated cause, or at discretion ? No. It is this very difference among men as to just causes of resistance, which has always arrayed and ever will array them in opposition, whenever the standard of defiance is unfurled against government.” The essence of this reasoning is, Georgia has no right to secede, or assume an attitude of resis tance in any contingency. But if she choses to attempt it, she does it at the peril of being con quered and coerced back ; and that it is the duty of the other States, both North and South, that prefer remaining in the Union, to help the Fede ral Government to coerce her back, and to help punish her citizens by hanging them, and confis cating their property, and by all other modes the government may see proper to adopt to humble them and break down their free spirit. What a beautiful system of government we would live under when these doctrines, already predominant in the anti-slavery States, should receive the sanction of the Southern people! And how charmingly would it work in the day, not improbable, or very distant, when the Fede ral arm shall be wielded by a John Van Buren. a Seward, a Sumner, or a Giddings !! If these are the doctrines for Southern men to sanction, what a monstrous absurdity—what a farce a bur lesque—to talk of State sovereignty—or State Rights—or of a State having any rights !!! Re served rights are nothing ; Constitutions are no thing; justice nothing. The sole arbiter is the sword, and the law of brute force prevails. “The good old rule, tho simple plan For thoso to keep who have the power, And those to get who can We learn from the National Intelligencer that the Secretary of the Treasury, left Washington, on Tuesday for Ohio, and will probably be absent four or five weeks. Mr. Corwin has been con stantly at Washington for nearly two years, and his close application to his arduous official duties, as well as his recent illness, has rendered some relaxation necessary to his health. Wm. L. Hodge, Esq., the AssistantJSecretary, has been appointed by the President, Secretary of the Treasury, ad interim, during the absence of Mr. Corwin. At a late horse race in England 33 horses were entered. One man lost four hundred thousand dollars on a single bet, New Books. We have received from Messrs. T. Richards & Son, who have them for sale, the following new’ Works: The History of Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, by Jacob Abbott, with engravings. Caleb Field, a tale of the Puritans, by the au thor of “ Passages in the life of Mrs. Margaret Martland.” Eastbury, a tale by Anna Harriet Drury, au thoress of “ Friends and Fortune.” Part I—London Labor and the London Poor, by Henry Mayhew, w r ith Daguerreotype Engra vings., No. 14, Pictorial Field Book of the Revolution. The above works are from the press of Messrs. Harper & Brothers. The Legislature of the State of at their recent session, passed a law to give better remedies to persons injured by railroad accidents. Heretofore all actions brought for injuries to the person, abated by the death of the party injured and in case of death either before or after suit, no right of action survived to the representatives of the party injured. By the new r law, in case of the death of the plantiff in any such suit his per sonal representatives may be substituted to pro secute the action and when death has been caus ed by unlawful violence or negligence, and non suit has been brought by the party suffering the injuries w r hich causes death, the w’idow', or other personal representative, is authorized to maintain an action and recover damages. Immigrants. —Nearly four thousand immi gants arrived at New York on Monday afternoon and Tuesday forenoon. They were brought in ships from London, Liverpool, Dublin, Rotter dam and Bremen. The Guy Mannering had 814, and the Meridian 685—both from Liverpool. The emigrants now are generally in good health. Forgery at Philadelphia. —A forgery to the amount of $1,600, or more, has been success fully perpetrated upon the Philadelphia Bank. The criminal who committed the fraud is know r n, and the police are on his track. The Sun says that his name is John Carrol, a young Irishman. The name forged was E. W. Coxe, No. 233 Ches nut street. Frost in June. —A gentleman from Troy, N. Y., states that there w r as frost on the hills to the eastward of that place.on Monday morning, 16th instant. Colonel Garnett, Chief Engineer of the Vir ginia and Tennessee Railroad, on the 14th in stant, received a severe blow r on the head from a fragment of rock thrown out by a powder blast. The Lynchburg Virginian, in announcing this casualty, states that Colonel Garnett’s injury will probably confine him for several days, but it is not such as to awaken serious apprehension. Egyptian Antiquities for America.—Ab has Pasha has granted to Dr. Abbott permission to remove from Cairo his noble museum, and u nique collection for some twenty years; and a por tion is on its way to England. The whole will fill above a hundred enormouns cases. It would seem to be destined to the United States. The Shadrach Rescue Case. —The jury in the case of Hayden, at Boston, on the charge of assisting in the Shadrach rescue, stood nine for conviction and three for acquittal. They were consequently discharged, and Robert Mor riss, a colored lawyer, was on Tuesday put on trial, on a similar charge. Education in Minnesota. —The Territorial University of Minnesota has been located at St. Anthony. The University building is to be erected immediately. The school fund has been so husbanded in that territory, as to secure to every child a common school education, free of all expense to parents. Jenny Lind. —The New York Mirror says of this great vocalist, that she retains her house in Brooklyn until September, and perhaps two or three months longer; and that after her concerts in Boston she will visit the Falls, and make con cert-giving a matter of pleasure more than of labor. Soldiers’ Wives. —A Judge of Probate in Minnesota territory, to whom a United States soldier at Fort Snelling recently made applica tion for a discharge, on the ground that he could not find suitable quarters at the Fort for his wife, granted the discharge, and held that if the Gov ernment enlists a husband it must provide suita ble accommodations for the wile; also, that every enlisted soldier may have a wife provided for. The Yacht American, belonging to Gen. Schuyler, which it is believed will beat anything alloat, excepting Stevens’ Marta, sailed from N. Y. yesterday, for London, to try the speed of the Royal Yacht Squadron. We learn from the Washington papers that a Postal Arrangement has been agreed upon be tween the Post Office Department of the United States and the Post Office Department at New Brunswick, by which, on and after the 6th of Jil ly next, a regular exchange of mails will be made between the United States and the Provinces of New Brunswick, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland, at the same rates of postage es tablished for the United States and Canada mails, to wit: Ten cents the single rate, where the dis tance exceeds 3,000 miles from the line of cross ing. Prepayment of the postage is optional in either country. A New Instrument of Destruction. —A rifle capable of firing 25 balls every minute, in cluding the time of loading, was shown to the editor of the Newark Advertiser, a day or two since, as an important improvement in fire arms. Under the barrel, in the place of the ordinary ramrod, is an iron tube containing the 25 balls, and by cocking the gun a ball is brought up in the barrel and the same operation also brings up from’ the breech a “pill” of priming. The charge of powder is contained in the ball, which is not round, but oblong, and having an opening which is corked shut after the power has been introduc ed. The quantity of powder is only 28 grains, and drives the ball with greater force than the large charge in an ordinary gun. A person intending to start a new cigar man ufactory in Havana, presented the brand and ti tle 11 La Republica” for the necessary license, but was refused. Extensive Fire in Trenton, N. J.—A fire occurred on Saturday last, in the cotton manu factory of J. P. Kennedy, on the Assampink, and the attic and third story, with their contents, were destroyed. The building and machinery, owned by James Hoy, Jr., was insured for $lO,- 000; bui; the loss in stock to Mr. Kennedy was about $2,600. $1) JHugttftic trlffiropl). Reported for the Constitutionalist. (New York, June 21. Cotton.— The market is firm. Sales 1800 bales. Middling Upland 8 3-4 to 9 cents. Sales of the week 5,000 bales. Rice $3,25 to $3 9-16. Sales cf the week 500 tierces. The steamer Cherokee has arrived from Cha gres, W'ith 300 passengers and the California mails. Washington, June 21. President Fillmore went to Old Point Comfort to-day, where he will remain a week. Baltimore, June 21. The market to-day has been dull. 7000 bags Rio Coffee was sold at 8 3-4 to 9 1-2 cent 3. Flour $4 1-16. Cotton very dull. Charleston, June 21, P. M. Cotton. —The market to-day is in favor of buy ers, with sales of 500 bales, at prices ranging from to 93 eents. Telegro])hed for the Charleston Courier. New Orleans, June 19. There has been but a limited demand for Cot ton in this market, and the sales of yesterday and to-day comprise three thousand two hundred bales. Middling is worth from 9to 9 1-2 cents. Two hundred bbls. of Whisky have been sold at 18 cents per gallon. The barque Saranac, Yates, has arrived from Charleston. Columbia, June 20, 9.20 P. M. The same feeling prevails in our market to-day, as there did yesterday. Prices are full and the demand is good. One hundred and thirty bales have been sold at from 5 1-2 to 9c. We understand from a private Dispatch re ceived in this city, that the barque Imogene, McMunn, arrived at New Orleans on the 19th instant. At the sitting of the Paris Academy of Sciences on the 19th ult. an able committee of four reported, in the highest terms of favor, on M. Masson’s process for the preservation of ali mentary vegetable substances, which I have heretofore noticed. The process consists in the desiccation of the vegetables, at a moderate tem perature, in a stove, and then a powerful com pression by the hydraulic press. When they are to be used, they are made to imbibe the water drawn from them ; they are then simply steeped in warm water. Seven-eighths of their weight are abstracted in the first operation, and the greater part restored in the second. Vegetables thus prepared, say the committee, will cost less than sour krout, and may be transported at very little expense; hence, the navy and our fortresses and armies may be abundantly supplied, and as the process is applicable to medicinal plants, they will be greatly useful to the medical service of the civil hospitals, and above all, to the ambu lance militaires. Merchant-shipping on long voy ages, will be alike benefitted. The cool courage was remarkable of that chap who, when forced into a fight, exclaimed as the bystandersrushed in between him and his antago nist, “ two of you must take hold of him, but one can hold me ! One of the Saratoga hotels, to increase its sum mer attractiveness, announces that several ladies, who wear the new costume, have already taken board. The Weather.— Altera long drought, we were on Sunday afternoon, and Monday morning last, visited by refreshing rains, which has reviv ed the fields of corn and cotton, as well as the hearts of the planters and the people generally. From what we can learn, the season has been pretty general. It came too late, we are sorry to say, to be of much benefit to the Oat crop, which will generally fall far short of the expec tations of the farmer, and in many neighbor hoods the crop will be almost an entire failure. On Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, the wind blew briskly from the E. and N. E. rendering it quite cool, so that fires, overcoats, cloaks, and winter clothing were very comforta ble and acceptable—all looking and feeling more like the middle of November than the 18th of June.— Neuman Banner , 20 th Inst. Moths in Furniture. —Thoroughly saturate the stuffing of solas, chairs, &c., by pouring on and in camphene. This may be done without any danger of injury to carpets or clothing, as they are preserved by sprinkling with the same article. I have tried this method of ridding a sofa, which had been stuffed with villainous hair, from thousands of worms and moths. They were instantly destroyed, without in the least affecting the hair seating or varnish of the wood. —North American. The largest'amount of Silver which probably ever came from the West, reached Philadelphia on Monday, by Adams & Co.’s Express. It was six tons in weight, and came from the Union Bank of Tennessee, at Nashville, to the Philadel phia Bank. The procession which carried this precious load to the bank was quite an imposing one, all the force of Adams & Co. being required to carry it. The ship Lone Star, Capt. Boutelle, which, as we mentioned yesterday, was reported on fire in the offing, has arrived, and, by permission oi the Mayor, been taken up to Smith’s wharf, where she is being stripped of her sails, rigging, &c., and the Fire Companies are filling her with wa ter. Ihe steamer Nina is moored alongside her to tow her out in case of necessity. None of the cargo has been removed. Mr. Nichols, of the firm of Nichols & Gibbs, the consignees, and Mr. H. I’. Baker, Agent ot the Philadelphia Underwri ters, are, however, in attendance, representing the interests of all parties concerned.—Charles ton Courier, 21sf Inst. MARRIED. On the 17th inst., by the Rev. J. S. Jonos, Mr. E. G. Bunson, and Miss E. S. A. Perryman, young est daughter of Elisha Perryman, Jr., of Warren county, Ga. Serial llfltiffS. CP"" We are authorize to announce the name of Brigadier General STEPHEN DRANE, as a can didate for Major General to cemmand the Soeond Division of Georgia Militia. juno 11 HF~Notice.—Post Office, Augusta, June 2d, 1851.—0 n and after this date, the Western Mail will close at 3 P. M. Northern and Charleston Mails at 5 A. M. Savannah Mail at 8 P. M. The Office will be opened at 7A. M. and closed on the arrival of the Northern Mail, which will be ready for delivery by 4£ P. M., after which the office will continue open until 8 P. M. On Sundays, the office will be opened from 8 to 9 A. M., and from 5 to 8 P. M. Persons having Key Boxes and wishing Letters charged, are requested to make the following de signation: “Charge Key Box No.—.” june 3 BENJ. F. HALL. P. M. Soda Water.—Cold SODA WATER, witha variety of Syrups, at the Drug Store of PHILIP A. MOISE, Metcalf’s Range. N.B.— Congress Water always in lee, may 24 5m