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I IIKfKACIi vm K>IPM» IN I UK ,'A L %BA\IA I.EGteLA ITHK. 'i be. following resolution in favor of opcn.ng : negotiations for peace, offered by ilr-. Parsons ref Talladega, in the House of Ueps-esftDtativc-s <,f the .State of Alabama, at the special session. Eeptember, 1 JS-t Whereas, Abraham Liacolfi, as President of the United Stoles and comsnander-ia-cbiet of fli<‘ annv and nary thereof, and the frieni.s and , s'lmx.rtei- of his admmi*tr*tipa have declared that uesrot'itlofts for peace cannot hi enter tained except upon toe basis ol a restoration ot ; the t'liiou iu its territoinl integrity and the abolition ol slavery, and that the existing war tuuft l>e prosecuted till the men of these Con federate States are compelled to submit to the.-e j terms, or are subjugated, and if necessary to j m i ure that end, exterminated, their lands con liseated, and their women and children driven . • j. ,i th as wandereis on the face of the earth; an.i ; Whereas, The re-election of Abraham Lincoln 1 10 the office of President of the United Mates, is advocated by many, if not all of his sup- j •porters upon these grounds, and that there is •no other way to terminate the war, insisting i hat there is no disposition on the part of tin* ••people of these States to enter into negotia ' t ions for j»eace, except on the distinct admts ,*.ion of the separate ; independence of these .states as a basis, and Whew*, At a recent convention held in the x ily of Chicago a numerous and powerful par tly has declared its willingness, if successful, to jjuop lighting and opeu negotiations with us -iinon the basis of (lie Federal Constitution as it is, ami tlie restoration ofthel’uiou under ’ it- * Now, therefore, bi) it resolved by the Senate mud House of Representatives of the SWl* of .Alabama, in General Ass'inbly convened. T hat we sincerely desire peace ; if the afore -lid j tarty is successful, we are willing and j '■ready to open negotiations for peace ou the ! '-basis indicated in the platform adopted by s ttd i convention- our sister States o® Hus touted-; < racy being willing thereto. This preamble and resolution being under | .consideration, Mr. Parsons made, in substance, j the following remarks; Mr. Speaker : Tlie re election of Abraham j I incoln reudetH a continuanto ol tire present •war inevitable. Ilia defeat by the party that loin nominated Gen. McClellan will ascertain- . |y result in a cessation of arms and an effort to I open negotiations for peace. '11,,, terms which Mr: Lincoln proposes as the only basis on which he will consent, to open ne irotiationa for peace, are “a restoration of the Union in its entire territorial integrity and Dio alK>lition of slavery.” Those.terms cannot ue "ifcr-ntcd by us, and will pot, while we have -mv pOw er left to resist oppression. They are, •in fact, Hiinjugntion ; because the power that ■Van enforce these terms ns a basis of negotia tion, can impose others also. Uis not submission merely to the loss ol so much property in slaves at the bidding of pow but it is submission to the destruction of (society itself, if the proclamation of Abraham ■j,incoln was enforced in these States. The wldie race could not, remain here, at least that -portion ol it whose intelligence, energy ami moral worth alone, impart, value to the institu tions of society and render it desirable. This we know would bo tho result, whatever he and his co-workers may think to the contrary. The moral viewer of our position is therefore j very <wt*at. We stainl beforo the world, while’ that proclamation remain# in force, as men , lighting for everything which an InUdiigont j chiistian iioople hold dear. The nation*may hold aloof—lift not a hand, raise not u voice, hut the mind, lire conscience, the heart ol eve iy man who knows ouv condition and tlie stern realities by which we are surrounded, cannot withhold its sympathy or resist the conviction that we are right, .that no sacrifice ol lile nod. treasure, which is necessary in sustain sucii a cause, can he too great. Jt is tin's conviction -which has inspired os vvilli a unity and ai-torin -1 nation of purpose, such as no other people in modern times lune manifested. It is this con viction which will sustain them to the end. If Lincoln is re-elected, lie nod his fitends will claim that it Is an endorsement of his ad ministration, and that be is authorised to com plete tho execution of hi3 plans of omgncipa tiou, regardless of the cost to themselves, or -the rttiu which it brings on the people of those ■States. There is now an opportunity to drive linn irom power and institute anew order of things in the l'opted States, by means of the ballot box. A numerous and powerful party aro en gaged in tint effort. Success is r.s important to t'hem iw it is to us ; tor everything they hold dear is involved hr tho issue. Gan we remain idle or indifferent' Shall we not be false to <>ur cause, to ourselves and our posterity if we (to? _ . The adoption of this resolution will enable f ire friends of peace to combat succeHVJly tlie false assertions of the friends ol Lincoln and ■jvar. Already the indications are favorable Seward, his Secretary of State, in his recent spoivh at Auburn, ended von. and to show that (he policy of the administration is simal:*' in this respect to that of the friends of pea.ee. 'I he further prosecution of the war for the purposes professed by Linooln, is not popular with those who must cuter the ranks and ex pose themselves not only to all the hardships and dangers, but also to the diseases peculiar to our climate' Tho effort* theyanako lo ob lain substitutes of any color and at any price, tho threatened draft, all go to prove if. The opportunity of relieving I heuisclvcs front nil this is presented in tlie coming election. .1 think tlie great majority oi these will avail themselves of it and vote with the parly tiiat is pledged to stop fighting and resort to tire arts ot kindue.es and statesmanship to bring about a peaceful settlement- To them the question presents itself thus: Lincoln the war—the draft—or a substitute obtained at any price | On tlie other hand, Mo'itedtan and pence. Gan j there l»e much doubt which those will prefer who must go to the ranks, or VV'hO aro now j there? Without doubt the quarter mautore and i cutracUns, tlie spoils men alid those who in: I eupy bomb-proof positions aider bis ad min is- | 1 ration, will shout, "the war must goon I" ‘‘we | must tight it out,” ‘‘all hope of free govern- ' •picut is forever lost, unless \vn crush the rebels I uiid abolish slavery.” Hut the men who must j «-ntor the ranks ia the bullet-department,' w ill ] updei stand all that. For these reasons and many otlieis, some of which I shall have time to notice before l take »nv ge.it, l urge the adoption of this resolution Oj»w. Ai the same time let us strengthen* our military resources by every means in our pow er, so that if wd -honld fail to negotiate a ut*}it-e on liouoruMo s^ul ” *vii»!y -Mid bettoi prepared to compile tho wur. in this way we shall employ all Oi “'p powers. Man is endowed with both physical'and intel lectual capacity. Fait to what purpose js the latter given us if wO employ it alone in ui- Tectioir the former ' Mom! influences for 100 • most part govern the world. The time is past when mere brute force can can trot nieu. J lie tiiiestiou which l* not settled upon the eternal principles of justice and truth, .will re main setllcl long. A .■oiiclasion winch i» forced, must bo maintained by force. !he mo- It is remove'] the vshole true lure .ni,. This priuciple is invariable and reiers alike totte'ud and matter. 1 argue therefore that a nea’e >"hich the sword alone brings, “MeYW s;«t poucipi™ «« i»i eight of, will not be S rt ‘ at val ue, uov of long dnratioif. , , r f Again, if Lincoln is defeated and we fail, af ler every effort to negotiate an lionovA 1 ’ 1 '- l' c, ‘ c with the new Administration, what will 1110 conditionof the respective parties to the w.lr 5f war has to be resumed '■ The Abolitionists will take no further infer ,Ait iu it. b.'cause it will then be prosecuted to res'ore the Union under the Constitution, the eifect,H' which will be to preserve instead of destroy otte peculiar institution. A war eon * ducted so as to secure tbat result, the Aboli lioaists loath aii.'l Late. It will lie renrember- Nd that Lincoln declared in the outset the war tas to restore the Lfiton. The Abolitionists ere not satu'ieil with !hi J , and they never tded in their (.’forte. until he issued his proe aW.Uhiu* slavery. .Then they ral . , a afc side with a zP'-d which a lanatlcisui , moTospiie. That pr.A a aiation secured •_ orenf fueace of every Ate? 51lI on society “Job Via, troia Exeter 11a.. down— v ilue of tbai , u - House to Lands End. Jbe coA'i' v 'a.e is shown by the Tal* X\* war Vrcgaa* - ti:- United «;u y n.ubVW'id in tiorn a newspaper " I in i»uiv id ° ’k.tk, wliKh wo* I’ub • * rliea m, states that "be- jl>ro . j,e war in lire I Tilted State.., one ship per j 4,.,'k ww sufficient to supply tin* demamls ol , t-nd/rante from lliat port -now one shin per I ■ lay is not sufßcictu. This shows the practical value of the moral inltueaee of that soQtiiuent in that country. The high price offered to iu dure emigration bv thtste agents ot those who. must either furnish a substitute or go to the war, and into tue ranks, in person, in connec tion wiih the moral influence brought to bear on the deluded and oppressed poor of that country, ha.® enabled Lincoln to get id most as tnanv inen, in this way, as he has lost since the war began. _ . Mill another important view present* itself. It is this. If' the parties to this destructive war. would stop fighting aud open negotiations for peace, this would induce England and France, if anything would, to interpose aud otter terms to the Confederacy, which they bow withhold and will continue to. as long as the war goes on. _ _ I have never had any faith in Englitliiutcr vention and hut little hope of it from Franao T lie interest and policy of these powers is to a certain extent tlie same lloth want one great staple and our market for their merchandize. ' Each having a largo commercial marine, would j like to do our carrying trade. Hut there are ; other things which they'desire mote. They | want most of all republican Governments bro ken up ami destroyed effectually and forever, i They want the colossi Republic divided into as many separate governments as possible. This is not Irom auy hostility to us as a people hut because t'u.y regard tbfi spectacle of 30,- 000,000 of nee ioen, governing themselves by means of the ballot box. obeying such laws and paying such taxes as they may think tit to im - pose on themselves, in the enjoyment of a de gree of prosperity unequalled in the history of lhe world, dangerous to the peace and security of their own system of government. Now the Union is severed and the two Republics are now waging war willi cash other on a scale, Which may well cause Kings and Despots to tremble at the power of the people. There are hut two contingencies in which it will be their policy to interpose It they saw tligt one was about to be subjugated by the other and ! unity of empire restored by force of arms, or I if we stoj. lighting mnl open negotiations for peace, they would, in my opinion,interpose to j prevent the re construction of one government. \ especially n Republican government Rut j while the parties have strength to light and the war goes on, they willl not interpose. If ] they do not wish us to destroy each oilier, ; their policy renders them willing to stand aloof and let us do it. In tills way we provt the ! truth, as they think, of what they have always ■ told their own people—viz,: that man is inea | pable of self government and that the igno- I rant masses must submit to ha governed by | the intelligent few, who ane alone capable of i it—they must bend their necks to the yoke and bend their backs to the burdens which it is • their lot to beuy They (the nilers) point them to the war licit is now raging and to the I awful destruction of life and property on this continent as proof positive of all they say. They wish to see the same state of things es tablished here that exists iu Europe. There Russia keeps a standing army of 1,1000,000 men; Austria, one of 700,000; l’russla about tho same; France,one of 000,000; aud England, one of ttttl.uOO; besides the largest navy in the world. These live great powers, as they are called, have thus :5.4'21,000 men iu arms. For what V for what ' To keep the people in sub ject ion and to watch each other. 'They want those two Republics to agree on some conventional line, commencing at some point on the Atlantic and stretching westward to the Pacific, mfr kit with forts anil custom houses, soldiers and revenue officers. This we must do, because there is uo natural means of division. A difference in language which God lilmselt'created for the express purpose of scal- I teri ng the children of men on the lace ot the Leartli constitute*) tins first cause ot divisions ' which we read of Color, constitutes another Moan j tains, rivers, lakes, seas and oceans, another; after these,, the line must bo purely couveu- I tlonai, ! these governments will be rivals They will J watch each other. Large armies and navies ; must be maintained by each for that purpose, j Thus, England and France will be relieved of 1 further apprehensions, lor here will be an o;>- [ portuk'ty to take sides ami keep up uu Atueri- I can balance of power. i ( have at waygbeou of tlie opinion since the lirst gun was tired at Fort Sumter that the Union was gone—forever gone—and that “re-con struction,” however desirable it might be, is an impossibility. 1 have always expressed it, both iu public speeches and in private conver sation. I see no reason to change it. Ihe im mense war debt contracted by each party—the thousands who have fallen in battle or by dis ease—i he tens of thousands who have Iwen wounded and crippled lor life—the broken in | Iteilth and constitution —oar desolated homes and cities aud towns iu ruins—our fields laid u asle. together with the terrible passions which have been aro need, are difficulties, which in my judgment are insurmountable. Can ue rea sonably suppose that. Hie North will consent lo be taxed to pay cmr war deb: ' A debt which the Abolitionists say was omitraoted iu an un holy rebellion against the best gov.ofument the world ever u&W, Or dose an# Sane mail sup pose wo will con Mid. to pay Iheir war debt, contracted iu Bending armies and navies to burn our towns and cities, to lay waste our country, whose soldiers have robbed and murdered our peaceful inhabitants? No, Mr. Speaker The Union will never be* reconstructed. Wind is to take its place? i confess Sir, our path tor the future is by no means free from difficulties, as that future ap pears to me, lot the war end as it may. Os one thing, however, l fool certain, the sooner wastop fighting tho bettor it will be tor both parties. No peace can bo permanent which is not butted on principles of justice mm truth. The sword never has, and never will procure such a peace. T'ne deiif notion which attends R, to life and property —morality and law--the wicked passions which it arouses, are alt in the way of justice and trnUi, and while human nature remains us it. is, will only ob - scure l hem. FROM I I.OIUIIA \Ve jcjirii front i iiO .Floridian that under tin; late orders oi Gov. Milton, Ho organization of the militia of Florida lias been sHCfeesfuliy car ried on ; that every one seems impru red with ; the iinpurtaiie.il of tho measure, a patriotic re»- I response lias been made, and Unit satisfactory organizations h ive been perfected in every county, and Die State stands prepared lo exert • its whole force auainal au invader. Aud , added : “Tlio luililia force ot the Stale is now I one ol its main nuns of defence and on its prea ; orvation and efficiency may depend our safety here. )Ve are sali(ilied Dial every exertion will j be made by the governor to preserve the pre sent ovgauiz itiou that tots hs>on so successfully made, ami we have no doubt that the legisla ture will endorse the action ot Die executive | and do all in its power to perfect and coai ! pleio the organization.." The hope is expressed that the Confederate Government w ill ml take anyk steps calculated I io tlisorgaioz • the lores now jready, as there are jiu it niis ineu who have been detailed or ex j empted for Kgiicultural purposes, some, in fact, who are Elite olff-eeis. It is under the control i of the governor, who, from long experience, Is ; perfectly conversant with the defense* of the j State, and can exercise in his management a degiei of policy looking to the best interest of j the cause in his State. The Floridian says ; •‘Nothing will be left undone by officers or citi zens to make the beat possible use of the mate rial left ill Die §Ute. Kill is bo doue, we can preserve ourselves from devastation unJ rapine, and not otherwise. ” "V hs\e some reliable particulars of the late rudnivm Mariane from Florida under Gen. UH.oteh ir.' is General paid dqariy for his trip. He Us f’UKk with three wounds in , his persons one hi ltd and Which « to be am ! putited. one iu the shoulder, ffmi ► tbirH in tho lowrr j.iw, knocking out several eeUi. lie lost 25 men killed aud To were brought back wounded. His spoils were 20!) head ot • cattle. At Mariana the people lought him j l ravely, even the women taking a hand and I firing at him Irom the windows ol the houses ' and a church. Ashbotch ordered the Ist Maine jtcuvalry io charge, and they refused, lie then j j>i it himself at the head oi another regiment. J charged, aud was shot down. lie encountered 1 nothing but the borne guuid and women at i Marianua. Tiie church was burned. The , casualties among our own people at Marianna 1 ire reported at six killed and seven wona ded Lieut Geu.-Taylor U now at his headqnar i lets at c eluti. . MJRIIIKRN AEVVS A despatch from Washington says that Map Mn’ford. Assistant Agent of Exchange, will ; start wilhiu a few days, for Savannah, with ten j thousand sick and wounded.rebel soldiers, to ' j be exchanged for a like number of the worst ; ; eases of Mck and wounded of our ineu. The I ! steamer 1 t iltic aud other vessels of like capac- i i ity are now preparing to sail on this ex pc- , I riitton, ! More arrests of tin’ Sons of Liberty have been j made L\ Indian*. A large quantity of bomb j shell.*, baud grenades Ac. have been discovered Resistance lms been mu te to the draft in I tlie fifth disiEct iu Ohio aud some shots tired. The Now York Express states-that the largest coffee house in Erazß, with connections iu ; New York, has failed, owing to the heavy fall j in sterling exchange, of which tlmy were large holders. * A terrific hurricane passed over the country j in the section of Mattoon, 111.., a short time I since. Its approach was heralded by a dense black cloud rising rapidiy in the west, and inshing with fearful velocity over the prairie, accompanied by tremendous discharges of elec tricity, which l'airly shook the earth like an earthquake. It struck the Central raiffuad track at Mat loon, unrooting and blowing down buildings and carrying away every movable thing iu its path Aloaded fioigh; train on the Illinois Central railroad, north, was lifted tealily and turned over beside and ac-ioss the track, t'ome of the cars were smashed to splin ters. whiie others were merely unroofed and the freight little injured One* car was car ried half a mile. Rales of cobou, hogsheads of tobacco, barrels of flour aud fragments of tire cars were strewn over a large extent ou either side of the trade. The drouth and failure of the crops in San Luis and C>bispo counties, California, lias caused great distress Many ol the inhabitants are said to be in a starving condition, and measures are being taken tor their relief. The draft is progressing in Washington City. The city council have appropriated fifty thous and dollars to relieve the citizens from the draft. Tho steamer Nashville is reported as captured and burned by the Confederate*, near Canton, Cumberland river. Gen. Thomas Frauds Meagher declares that although he respects McClellan for gentleman ly qualities, his letter Os acceptance stamps him vis unlit lor l’resident. | General Rinks and staff have arrived in New j York from New'Orleans, j' Colonel Cole has been appointed coramand j ant of the post and Provost Marshal ol Frede rick Maryland. Farragut is lo take command of tho block ading squadron off Wilmington. Rear Admir al Lee Is to commute! at Mobile. Tlie Freeman's Journal which at first pro tested against his nomination, now, comes out in favor of the election ot McClellan. A Wisconsin paper says, tiiat times are aw ful-hard in Canada. No business done, wages not. sufficient, lo pay board, and almost impos sible to gel work tit any Ihi tig. Tb-* country is overrun with skedaddlers from the United States and tlie Confederacy, while thonsiinds of Canadians tire leaving for the States to procure work. Major General Hooker lets assumed com mand ot Ure northern department, with head quarters at, Cincinnati. Major General llciutz lemati is ordered to report at Wheeling. Price's force in Missouri is estimated at :ij -000 meu. Softie of tho lioston journals have broke down under the high pricreof piper aud labor. Almost all the entire laud in the Connecticut Valley this year was used in tobacco raising. It is slated irom Washington that a naval attack on. Wilmington is unditited, for which ilie Meets are g Altering and the luad foive is in readiness. Seward has made Grant a visit at bis head quarters. The only Sfciles in which soldiers are al lowed to vote are Indiana and New Jersey. Major Mfilford, assistant Yankee agent for the exchange of prifipneei, has been promoted to a Lieutenant Colonelcy, A few days since near Richmond, a shell from a Confederate battery grazed General Meade's boot leg, t A ok a piece from the tail oi General Humphrey's horse, aud entered tile ground lietweon Generals Bartlett and Griffin. The shell did not explode, According to a statement in tho New York World, more than ouo-third ol‘ the'newspapers iu the United States, published four years ago, have suspended pubiicatiojt. The aggregate circulation of tho remainder hf,s much dimin ished. The price of all the piloting materials has doubled and trebled, and of paper has al most quadrupled. Thu Caroline, anew aud very foist side wheel steamer ot four hundred and seventy tons reg ister, designed for running tlie blockade or Southern ports, has been spoken off Cape Race on her tii.-t trip out in m Glasgow. She was bound for Wilmington, N C , via Halifax, and hud a cargo of machinery. The officers of the • Caroline repmteij sister ship, the Col onel Lamb, woo’d soon pass Cape Race fprihe same destination. There were twelve blockade rtiftpers lying in the haihor of Halifax on Fri day last. flue of them was chased iu on the precious day by one of our gunboats. The United States steamer Florida anchored below Halifax on Sunday, and may, perhaps, ere long try to cut short the career of gome of the ves cels of this fleet. Gen. Cass has written a letter, stating that he shall vote for McClellan aud Pendleton. lion. Thomas F Marshal died ou the 22d pit., at his -residence, near Versailles, Wood ford connty, Ivy., aged about sixty-four years. The Indians in Kansas visiting upon the Yankees a just retribution for their -cruelties to “ou«he(n liien there, and further South. Prentice, of tfle Louisville Journal, is now, for tire first time, supporting * Democratic nominee, and has commenced making calcula tions io the chances for the success ot bis favorite. He says : Congress having refused to adiff’t the vole ol those stales which have passed tlie ordinances of recession, the number ~f uteeloral votes to be cast iu Novemer will be 2dL amt it will require 1! (i votes for mi elec tion 'I ’m tweutv-four voting States now— Kansas and West Vitginia having been hildc-d since the last Preeldeptial election—polled an abrogate vote of J,8G4,f.1:$ for Lim-olu, and Off i oit) for the opposing candidates, so tiiat Lincoln was iu a popukir minofSly of (off.-lfff although Ire obtaitfed a majority oi' tin- electo ral votes. Were these States to vote this year I us thev did ill {fe'fill, Lincoln would receive ISS | and McU!e!«m ffo. Rut in JBC.2, New York, Eewisylvaaia, iffiio, Indiana and Illinois gaye opfaisitjon uinjorities, varying from ff.oOh to Id,'-in, and it cunuot bn doubted that the ad - ministration’s changes of po’L-y will increase those ni"junties in iMit. They give one bun died and nine electoral votes, or but seven less than are necessary (o a choice, aud we can draw ou New Jersey for that number, or on our own glorious Kentucky for eleven. -James If. Hardin, pf lyentncky, citizen,"has been sentenced to twenry years at kaid labor ! for engaging in treasonable designs against the : Government. ' The imports at New York so far, this vear, | are forty millions over last year in the same i time, and the exports, reckoned in currency, j have ine-easeii sixteen millions. } The largest silver block ever moulded in j Nevada Territory, was on exhibition at Virgin lia City a few days since, ft weighed two hun j died pounds and was worth $4,832,0®;. Fort McHenry, near Baltimore, is not now j a depot for prisoners of war, but at i which Pitiz n§ ■'expiate offences, real or iina"-- i inary, against the Government, i as aa evidence of the reliability of Yankee j news and Yankee dispatches we s-e in a North j ern paper of Sept, loth, a dispacih from the ! Secretary of War to Gen. Dlx, ia which ue re j [torts G-npral llardee killed in the battle near i East Foint i The Louisville Journal say» tire tobiiccocrop I in that vicinity threatens to be almost n total i failure. The scarcity of labor and the protract ed drought iu the early pait of the summer, | interfered materially with planting, and now i the fields that were Ranted are being eaten up : with worms. | Judge J. S. Baldwin, late chief justice of the | California Supreme Court, died in San Francis- I co last Satiuiiy. lie mwb a native ol V'ugiuia, j ” .NOUTIitU.V MtWB. A Hartford* paper says th;t Mr. .Vines, of: Falls village, .CL., in trying one of his wrought iron iruas rerectly, loaded it to within four- ! teen iorhi-wof,the-.juu/./.’e with powder and j wadding—tiiien put in a projectile eighteen! inches long, projecting from the muzzle one j third ot its k-ugUi: tfie.i plated the gun against ; an embankment ten fen thick, composed of sevanjl toiSiiHrcaf Hsckeil.«iih earth, and net a slow m r-'uh to the gVpi fired it. The gun lffioiled si.tiy Coet and tlfo Ye the projectiles en tiroly through the solid embankment of t arth anil irou. ••’ • -• « • It is reified of a Min in' Newport. Rfiodo Island ill it lie mai ded bis- second wife six weeks after the death of hisfirstftbe second was killed by a carpet thrown on ben bead, and in four weeks be married a third, who a month after was drowned lie waited .only two weeks this time, and then married number four, whose j husband was. killed four weeks previously in battle. . The restftt of tire town elections in Connect licut on Monday last, a.< given in the Hartford papers, slifftvs large Reaiociatic gains Os the one humified and eight towns from which the result is given, fifty tbuy were carried by tlie Democrat's, filiv-twoby* the Republicans, and iivo divider;. The Djnuocrates carrie l a uum ber of towns v-iiicg been heretofore Re publican, and lajgely reduced lire Hetiublican majorities in oGlefE *’*l'he Republicans gained iu tour or fl ve towns Only. It is p-tipiated that 'npt’far from 75,000.000 pairs of boots aiiJ shoes are annually required for the copstimptidn of the United fctates, whose whole value ia not less than $80,000,000. of these 12,000.000 are made in Massachusetts at a valve'of 400, O.Ot), employing 45,000 men and ff. 375 women. < )ne, half of these are made at Lynn, -which is the largest shoe shop iu lire country; the next, is' Rhiledelphia. Every eighth man in Massiichiisetta is a shoemaker. Boston has* 2u shoe houses, doint; a business of ss2,qQo,OOO'tmmiaily. New York has/ifi ll onse iu foe trade,' doing a buisness of $ Hi,ooo -' - u Tlie New York Herald of lias a letter from Grant to .Sheridan, in which lie directs him to burn every house iu the Virginia Valley; to kill every liorse co*, hog, hog, sheep, or other animal: to destroy every mi.l; to set fire to every barn, wheat or bay stack, to cut down every ornamental tree,, and carry off every negro. Lie. says that if Ibis war continues twelve mooths longer, he desires to convert the whole/V'alley into a howling wilderness. U. L Durham j a distinguished Indiana orator, and a powerful opponent of Lincoln, was fatally stabbed at Salem, Indiana, on the 20th Sept, by a young desperado named Beffejn, a neph - ew of Mr. Durham. The . attack was without provocation, and to gratify an old grudge. Northern dates of Ihe 71. h inst state that fin Tuesday, (thh) the rebel General Stilling Price, with a force of about twenty thousand, was six miles West of Union, marching Westward towards Jefftrsoa City, Tiesigning to take the place, install a Secession Governor and hold ihe State for tlie Confederacy. Tire first' frost oi'l he season was; visible in Savannahtm Monday morning, Oct. 10. Thir ty miles tip the central Railroad it was heavy, but insufficient to kill vegetables. Thu next annual session of the North Caroli na M E, Conference will meet at Mocks villa. Davie Oouilty, on the 7th of December. HtOtl UJIi.HIMiTOft. Tire Wilmington Journal has tlie following account of an attack upon the blockade run ner Night Hawk, and the destruction of a Yan kee gunboat : Loss os rut; Nioht Hawk.— lt is pioper to state, even’ at this late.day, that the line steam er Night Hawk, Opt. Mniley, from Bermuda, in try New Jniez’bar, about a week Nortli breaker, about a i:, tlie ship's boats with her offi cers aud ci^^ Tho senfinqls on Fort Fisher hearing the dis tant report, of musketry, gave the alarm, and Ure Commander of the FOt t suspecting that the steamer agrouad had been attacked, immedi ftto'.y lighted ho.r up by means of rocket3 and shelled rigid arid left- of her. At the first rock el the enemy took (right and skedaddled, leav ing more than half the officers and crew to take care ol themselves. These reached the Fort in safety. The Yankees did not !eav*e, however, unfill they had set the steamer on lire iore-and alt, and as the wind was strong the flames spread rapidly. The garrison of Fort Fisher bad-never seen a ship'destroyed under their cuna, and were de termined, as it appears, to rescue this one, and we me informed, in spite -of lire fore-and-aft, the gallant soldiers hoarded the steamer amid, ships, and vvith all the available buckets, com menced to light the flame* It was not very long before tlie tire was got under, and with the ossiatynce ot boats and crews from other steamers, before noon tlie next day the fire was entirely subdued. Tbe steamer was in the breakers, and only half tho work of saving her done. The soldiers vyeut lo work, unloaded her, and with the aid of negroes at the pumps, enabled tho Engin eers to get up steam and bring the steamer aafeiy to Wilipiogton Ijy her own power. Oapt. Smiley was captured, but his place was tiled by ( apt. May, first officer of the Falcon, who remained here to get tho Night Hawk off, We have given the above facts relative to the Night llawk, because' we think the noble con duct ot our troops at. Fort Fisher dgservp to have some credit for their heroic efforts iu saving a valuable steamer. !)F.ST!tI I'IIOX op A liLOCKADCR —REPULSE OF AN ATTACK ON THE STS AMUR CONDOR. It is generally known that the large, three fuunelled-slearner Condor, from Halifax, N. S , in entering New Inlet Bar a veek ago, was deceived by tlie wreck of the Night Hawk, cud ran aground. It appears tiu£ it was iu at. tempting, lo potass ashore fyom her in about that Mr). Rose GreeiiliQW was. drowned. The Condor has been slowly unloacjing under the reins of Fort Fisher, and a guard as usual, ftis been kept on Wr at. night. On last Fri day nig® the Yankees made ap attempt to board thp Condor, to destroy Irer, but were gallantly repnised by Lieut Mfcwles, of Cos. A, until X. G. Troops-) and a detachment of uien. As soon as the attempt was made Lieut. Sowles communicated tlie fact to Fort Fisher, when her heavy guns burst forth to light and left < I tlnrCondor. Thu second shell fired to tire left of -ihe Condor struck a gunboat that had accompanied tb.e boat party iu, agd so completely ruined her That she was run -ashore oil the South breaker of the bar and abandoned, ihe euomy sot lire to her in several places, and before morning she was totally destroyed, her magazine having exploded upd torn her to gijtees. Kince this oocurropcp ou Frj lay night we arc InfoimeJ tuae tture Las be: a fin «igu:oi t.e enemy off the bar 'at night, aud the j fleet is bull down ifiping tlie flay. FROM RKiVIX’CKY. Ihigadier General Adam R: Johnson, who established the new department iu Kentucky, who was so unfortunate as to be wounded and captured a short fime since, end who has been reported-os dead, is, we rejoice to be able to say. improving. He was shot iu the left side of tlie .bead, the ball taking out the left eye, cut- UngJbj-bridge of the nose, and it was feared fatally Injuring ihe sight of tho other eye. Late accounts from liim say mat be will recov er the sight ot the light eye entirely. FROM VTUNTA The Macon Confederacy has just seen a gen tleman who left Atlanta on tlie 7th. He fays that the 5 abkees have nothing but hard tack to eat, that the whole of their army except qne corps have left the cily, and that they are very uneasy in reference to their situation. No trains were arriving. He says the false of .arge qiiafilities of supplies having been accu mulated by the enemv are without foundation. He is of tne opjnicn that the city was burned on the night ol the 7th, as the light from a large fire m that direction was seen form Jones boro. f I*o*l BAST TEtVAESSEE.* An official despatch from General Breckin ridge receii ed, states that a portion of the en emy’s cavalry, after slight resistance, has been been driven bark from Ivins port towards Ifog ersville, and that there i3 no enemy this side of JoDesboro.’ » •Jonesboro is (ft the Tennessee railroad, about tweuty live mi*-outhwest of Bristol. FitO.VI ViUi.I.VIt. FROM TllK VALLEV. Tlie latest accounts rejireseat Gen. Early’s advauce beyond Mt. Crawford, which is nine miles South of Harrison lung, the enemy hav ing retired from their position .on Nortli river, in the direction of the latter pi ace. There fires been no fighting of any since the enqmv were drived from Waynesboro'. It is jaiti that the c-u-vlrv which vistited Waynes* ’ooto from Shci idaa's command was command ed by edd U. R. officeis. who kept their trooos well in hand, permitted no straggling, and no wanton acts of barbarity. The negro troops they had with them seemed to be most dis posed to run at large and plunder, but they were kicked and battered into propriety by t-beir while officers and comrades. One negro soldier having dv:i wn a pistol on an old lady, who bad ordered him out of her garden, was pursued by :i white officer, who fired at tlie im pudent ebo shin live times, missinghim, how ever, the fugitive being too quick on the wing to keep long within range. The onlv acts of lawlessness committed by them worthy of men tion consisted in the seizure of the surplus provisions of i-undry wealthy citizens and exten i slve millers, and their distribution among the poor people Jiving iti Waynesboro' and tho vi ! einity. _ < A portion id Shf-trduu s cava'yy force uas t!o --icalcd iu the Valley. Oc-L. 7. and a considerable amount of plunder captured by Mosby. On the'lHii Mosby also defeated a body ol the Yan kees near Manassas (lap, defeated them, and captured mnc-b plunder and several prisoners. Sheridan is moving down tire Valley towards Strasburg. At the sametime the Yankees are buildinc tire .Manassas Gap railroad. The Ma nassas Gap raiiroad leads fioin Manassas Juuc tioa to Strasburg. Siieridan is moving to co operate wi'h or perhaps join Grant, ile want ed the Manassas Gap railroad to aid his trans portation, an 1 thus enable him to got a start on Early. In fact, to get to Goidorf'llle first Major General Luredoril L. Lomax, who now commands the cavalry in the Valley, succeeds General Ransom. He is a young anil very excellent officer. He was a second Lieu tenant of cavalry in tlie old United Slates army aud is %son of Major M. Page Lomax, deceas ed, also an old United States officer. The Yankees have been driven thirty miles north of Stanton. Our troops are in pursuit. Tiie Examiner says trustworthy information has been received (hat cmr guerrillas and ir regular bands in the Valley had comp etely cut Sheridan's communications with Winches ter. B[.POETS OF DESEKTKKS. Two deserters, fully armed and equipped, came over from the Yankee picket Hue on Wednesday night, and arrived here yesterday. They state that if the Confederate Government would adopt, some means by which General Order No. 05 could obtain promiscuous cir edatioo in the Yankee army, there are thous - ands, who would take advantage of i(; that every copy of it which had been hitherto in troduced into tho army had been suppressed by the officers, and, all that was known of it was through hearsay They obtained their information of it through a third person—ono of the fiery few who had accidentally seen the order. They repot t that there are now three thousand troops within Foil Harrison, and tiiat one brigade forms the [ticket line' in front of it. The command of Fort Harrison is held by a Colonel Jordan. They estimate the number of Yankee troops on (bis side *of the river at forty thousand, including one brigade of ue* groes The artillery of their Fort Harrison defences consists exclusively of light pieco3. VARIOUS ITEMS. Doleful accounts e brought by refugees from Prince Geor and the adjoining counties of the suffering e loyal people are compelled to bear. Bu r has recently issued an order that ad uial- sever sixteen must either take the oath o< leave the Eastern District of Vir ginia. Tlita lias nut, as yet, been carried in to execution. The Richmond Sentinel learns that the Sec retary of War has appointed a suitable person to visit the army of Gen, Lee, to procure accur ate lists of the casualties as they occur in each brigade, to be transmitted to the Army Intel ligencer office in that city. Tlie friends ot the soldier's by writing tojbat, office may learn tlie. fate of those whom they are anxious about. The bridge over tlie Itapidan on tlie Cen tral Railroad has again been burned The Secretary of War lias called into- the re reserve force all the cadets of the Virginia Mil itary Institute over seventeen years of age, and invites all under that age to join also. It is thought the Yankees intend to rebuild the Norfolk aud Petersburg Railroad. From information it is believed that a licet is being gathered between Norfolk and Old Point to attack Wilmington. A large raiding p-oity of the ci.eniy passed through Culpepper,-Oct. destination unkown. Mosby Juts entirely recovered from ills re cent wound and is again in tlie saddle. At Petersburg Grant is working hard to fortify himself at Fort Mcßae and to push his pickets towards the Sonthside road. Our troops have gained important successes in Southwestern Virginia. Ditching is being actiyely prosecuted on both ends of Grant's lino—South of Peters* burg and southeast of Richmond. The-Richmond papers say that although Grant is altogether too near ilmt.city lor com fort, yet lie is not as near as-McCtellan was a year and a half ngo—-neither has ho so large a force as that General had. Considering Sheridan's overwhelming force, the Richmond papers think there is good rea son to be satisfied with the result Unis far in that section. Lieutenant Colonel Witcher has jiiMt relum ed from a successful expedition into Western Virginia. Ho visited Bulltown.. Jacksonville. West-over, Buchannon Walkeisvtiie and Wes ton. He reports that he destroyed a milli m doiiais’wortb or stores, raptured three bun dre’d prisoners, with their horses and equip ments, and brought out live hundred horn* aud Uyo' hundred boef cattle. He sustained no loss. . . Tlie Lynchburg Virginan Icarus that it is the purpose oi’ the Governor ol that State to convene the Legislature in November. A complete listct casualties in tlie Army of Tennessee, euibrac'ug Hie engagements ot July 2'M, up to the present tui-e. has beer! received at the Army intelligence. Office, Richmond, and is now ready tor the inspection of the public and those having friends in the army. No fizhtisg of importance, has occurred on the lines south of Richmond or Petersburg since the battle'of last Frid-iy. it is thought that Grant is waiting for the eo-cper-aliofi of Sherman and tor tho comple tion of Butler's Dutch Gup canal. It is rumored that Farragut is to take com mand of the Yankee James river Jlot-ilia. The report that we were driven back qn the Charles City road on Friday is without fpgmia* tiou. . , , ~ , Gfrant-s anny, now perhaps thousand strong, is now divided, halt being nortti .and j hali south oi the James river His sick li.-l is large, 't he reinforcements being sent him are made up of conscripts, guards collected from ail the barrack': of the north and return ed wounded men- Os ihese the latter are the only valuable troops. These are tlm veterans of the army of the Potomac, wounded in the lights from Wilderness to Cold Harbor, and who ha ve recovered sufficiently to be retained to duty. • The military authorities have been seizing all tlie liquor iu Petersburg. The case of R. S.Ferde, late Assistant Clerk of the House of Representatives, charged with the murder of R. L. Dixon, is still pending in Richmond, having been deferred, and still being defe>red from term to term. Grant is laboring to make Fort Harrison im pregnable. The Central Railroad has been repaired to Staunton. Sheridan's movements have been seriously retarded by Mosby’s movements on Salem. FROM MEXICO. According to the IJoustoa. Telegraph ihe French occupied Matamorasou Sept. 2. 'ihe cap ture of that city aud Montery give sthern posses sionof the Northern States of Mexico aud leaves no ground for the Juari.-ta party to occupy- At last reports Cortina had tied, Juarez has fled Qnitaga bad submitted, Vid.uiri wa3 ex pected to do likewise and hostilities have ac cordingly. ere this, Ceased in that part ot tho new tinpire. » Pennsylvania, Indiana and Übio have gone Republican by larg-s majorities. FROM I UK FRONT. When our army mossed the Chattahoochee river in front of Palmetto and Newnau, Stew art’s corps was thrown across the Chattanoo ga railroad at B g Shanty—the camp and gar rison at which plaeo were captured without any resistance of consequence. Everything woikcd prosperously until last Wednesday, when French’s division of Stew art’s corps was directed to take Alatoona. Dis posi icus were made around ilietown and the gar luonand a formal demand for surrender sent in. This was refused, when an tissnult wa3 ordered which succeeded iu carrying tho first and sec ond lines. The Yankee commander then of sered to capitulate but Gen French refused. Oitr men acre led against the remaining works, bur after a stubborn and bloody stiuggle they were repulsed. Gen. French then "drew off leaving his dead and wounded in. the hands of the enemy. < 'a Thursday Stewart came up with the whole Corps and on Friday assaled and carried Ala toona after a desperate tight of two hours.— We captured four thousand prisoners nnd an immense pile of arms, Stores, clothing and Yankee outfits of war generally. The march was from thence renewed up the railroad and will no doubt bo continued os far as Dalton, from whence -Gen. llood will make r. detour to the left of Chattanooga and cross the’ Tennessee river near Huntsville. Atlanta is now garrisoned by Gen. Slocum and the 20? U Yankee army corps. Gen. Iver son last Thursday captured East Point and drove the enemy’s pickets beyond Whitehall which place (fen. 1 held for several hours, oud from there be could plainly overlook Atlanta and its garrison of blue coats. All the stories about the evacuation and burning of Atlanta are false. General Iverson captured fifty wagons at East Point in splendid oqudition, together with an immense quantity of extra harness. 'I here were also near there—there and thereabouts— the wreck and debris of eeventy-fivo burned army wagons and a hecatomb of equine bones. One of the captured wagons was loaded with bacon. Three hogsheads cl' sugar were also secured but given to tlie citizens. (hir pickets are just outside of musket; range of the Yankee works, and no blue coat ever leaves his woiks without being greeted with a load of lead. Tin* enemy 1 nva not a mounted man' in the city—all his light horses haying been surd as - Forrest, Wheeler and Hood. Nor have • lliby any forage upon which to feed bis stock if they had any to feed stock. Ro that the people ol Georgia need apprehend no raid at present. Sherman himself went to Washington a few weeks ago. lie is noi/in Nashville headed oli by Forrest, and Gen. 'Thomas is in command of his tlanked and outwitted army. It. lias been rumored (but Gen. French’s di vison was cut off from the main body of the ai my above Acworlli on Friday, and forced to cut its way out wijh a loss of six hundred. That the division was engaged with tho enemy we are assured, but arc inclined to doubt the truth ofthu statement width has passed cur rent. The Register says a lady who came out of Atlanta on Tuesday states that tho whole of the buildings on Whitehall and Peachtree streets-have been burned by lbs vandals. A gentleman who also left Atlanta about the same time, brings tlie same intelligence, A brigade of Yankees were at Fiat Klloals, a Jew days ago, running theTfiill at that place. Two nights since heavy firing was heard in that direction. The supposition is they have been attacked. Our scouts and cavalry invest Atlanta It is reported only a corps remain there, the rest having moved to countermarch Hood. All accounts from the army of Tennessee aro of the most encouraging nature. There is no doubt that Gen. Hood’s army is on the Chat tanooga aud Atlanta Railroad, and that it is marching northward effectually and complete ly destroying the track as it goes. A signal corps bus been planted at the mili tary Institute near Marietta. J lnTe are said to be but a small amount oi supplies in Marietta, the principal depot be tween Atlanta and Chattanooga being at Czi tersville, which is defended by quite a formida ble chain of earthworks aud stockades, inside of wuich is cooped lip a brigade of Yankees. It is supposed by these who are posted iu military mfttteis that Stewart wiU complete the destruction of the railroad as far up as Altoona and perhaps to tho Etowah—at least his corps will be allowed to amure themselves in tips way until there is some call for them in tho field. Our .scouts report that there ia no Yankees be tween Newnan unefi Atlanta. According to tho articles of capitulation adopted by Gen. Forrest aud Colonel Camp bell at Athens, the Yankee officers were to re tain all their private property, and be sent to Mc-ridian or some other point, in this State un til General Forrest can communicate wi'h Gen era! Wnshburao, when they will be forwarded to Memphis and paroled. Nev. nan is now the central news depot of the Army of J'eunessee, although headquarters are some fifty or sixty miles awav. Our forces have effectually destroyed the Western & Atlanta Railroad, by tearing up Hie rails, burning (he timbers and tearing uw:,y embankments from Koimcsaw mountain north ward nearly to Etowah. Our be,so of supplies aro gorlectly safe and convenient to the army. From our special agent with the army of Gen. Hood, we loam that scouts just in Irom Middle 7V.nncF.sj-e. report the capture of a train on Die Louisville and Nashville Railroad, ou the 271 Li, by a body of guerrillas under Col. Lassells Hall. Great disturbance exists in Central Ken tucky, and a body ot troops has been sent to put down tho guerrillas, wlio.se headquarters are below Hopkinsville. Rc-otits ro|>ort that the Yankees have burned Athens, Alabama. When Forrest had lelt the town tho enemy from Decatur appeared aud alter some sharp tiring from a few straggling scJdic.rs entered the place- and destroyed sever al of tho principal buildings. The light of the conflagration is reported to have been seen by cit/zeus fifty miles away. The operations of Wheeler's cavalry on the State Roid have been active and successful; the capture of Dalton obstructs all transit; and the Yankee column'enroute from the Gate city to the Tennessee river, is supposed to be pro ceeding over land. The bridges on the State'road are destroy ed from Marietta to Dalton. In Gen. flood's battle ox,Hr be says his word is “forward.” He announces lhat Shor-* man baa sent two corps to Chattanooga— that he will leave ono corps to Atlanta—anil that Die residue of his army will not be a match for oift' invincible lit ties band. We have strongly fortified ICennesaw Moun tain. Jackson holds Rome, and Wheeler had possession of Rwaca. Scouts just in from Middle Tennessee report that Forrest made n speech at Columbia in which be said fee neyer intended'to go back, that’d: department is hereafter to bo in Ten nesseo and Kentucky. The Appeal's Grenada correspondent say3 tho President scut Gen. Forrest fifteen hun dred fine English carbines last week, for his roc-n, as an apnreciation of their service during the past few mould. FROM [MOBILE » There is a rumor that all the Fort Morgan prisoners have been, or are to be, sent to Nctv York. M;ij. Gen. Frank Gardner has been ordered to the Tians Mississippi Department, with headquarters at Liberty, and has left for his new command. _ . About six hundred negro snldic-is captured by Forrest at Athens, Ala., have arrived at Mo Pile. They are recently from East Tennessee. Eorae deserters from Fariagut’s fleet have arrived at Mobile. The Way to It. —There is but one way for either party to restore peace on this continent. This one way is negotiation, iret there be a change of parties amt power in the North, then’a truce, then a convention of the States. In that convention wetnhy not agree upon re construction ; but we shall do what is better for both sections of the country. We will make two separate nationalities, cemented In interest by the declaration of the Monroe doc trine, and by commercial stipulations, such as Bo united Congress would ever admit, now much better for the Northwest than tho subjugation of the South after years of blood aud ruin ! How much worthier the vaunted character of the American people,— Mont. Mail. FORGHEV ITEM-'. The total circulation of the notes of the Bank of England, the private banks and joint i lock banks of the United Kingdom, was on the 2Srl of July !as f , about $155,000,000 ’ , A company in London have bought one hun t.re’d and forty acres a few miles from the city and propose to inclose it with glass, making a climatedike that of Madeira, with the fruits and foliage to be ionuc-. in that, isle An hotel add residences are 11 bo built, au t groat pri ces will bo charged for a chance to live under glass. An enormous fossil tooth, found in the oolite in the environs of Poitiers, was exhibited by M 5 arencieunes at a late meeting of the French Academy It is of a cOnical shape, ■regularly rounded and slightly curved. Iu order to show its great size, compared with • hose of existing species, the largest crocodile's tooth which the Museum of Comparative Ana» tomy could furnish was exhibited at the same lime It was one-fourth the siz.9 of the lossif. The sttarian to which the tooth belonged is conjectured by M Yalctfciemies to more than one hundred feet long. l’riuce Humbert the Crown Prince of Italy, bos arrived in Paris after his visit to Denmark, lie has been received with due honor by tire Emperor, and his brother in law the Prince Napoleon. There are rumors of a projected marriage between him and Die Princess Anna Murat. They would have greater weight were it, not that tb<i lady is about six years his sen ior, and has already been given by public re port to we'l nigh every available potentate who has yd visited France. The Prince is on ly twenty, years of ago. A soldier by birth and profession, he is likely to be popular among a military people. As described by a contemporary, lie is of irrcgulat features (to use the very mildest possible term.) but of a frank, open, and manly countenance. It would be a most remaikd.de fade* of families were tlie licir to the crown of Italy to many a descendant of the great caval-y officer to whom was given the kingdom of Naples as spoils of .war. The venerable maestro Rossini held a fete on the 27til ultimo, at his vilhit at Pansy. Re-'« oral of the greatest, vocalists of France, En gland, nnd Italv assembled to do honor to the festival. Among them were Mrs. Lemmen.i- Sherringion, MM. Enure, Tamburini, and Yamtevot. It is estimated that tho telegraphic lines in France (exc usive of those used by railways for their own purposes) stretch over 05,4-IG kilometres, or (ilfiSßj milea* the average annual number of privato telegguna is one rail* lion and a half, despatched from 1,80.1 stations* Anew mwvel has been added to tho attrac tions of tiie crystal u rlace in England, iu tlm shape of a railway iq which Die pneumatic principle is nnplkd for passenger tratfio. The iine is GOD yards long, and runs thr. ughout in a tunnel. The tunnel is ten feet high and nine feet wide. Al'ramfisyork aitgchnl to Ure carriage tits the form of tho tunnel, the inter val between the wood and t he arch being filled with a mass of bristles. Two discs 22 feet, in dininete-, revolving in an iron case, constitute tlie motive powci, and are turned by a small steam engine. Moissonier’s “Retreat from Moscow,” a pic ture nine by twelve infthes, or thereabouts, was sold recently for 00,000 francs. A military committee bus reported to Napo leon tho advksability of adopting the l’mssian rifle for tho French army. A foreign journal goes into figures to prove that Adelina Patti, it she sings for twenty years, will m ike £1,000.000 sterling. An international' Congress is 1 1 meet in Geneva,Jßwitzland, whose purpose is the for mation ol an international code - to regulate the status’aud care of tho wounded anil sick on the battle field nnd (hiring war. Advices from St. Petersburg announce the betrothal of King George, of Greece, to Ore Grand Dutchess Alexandrite,a, of Russia. ihe 1/mdon Times (.oinks the democratic party is strong to carry the Northern Presidential election in November next. I’htee c-Lsea e{ lockjaw were cured at Brest, I ranee, by Ore uso oi hot baths. “ J lit- IRxitman’' is the title of anew poem bjr S>: Edward Bulwer I.*tfon. which the En glish critic's pronounce bis best metrical pro duction. 1 ins poem is a picture of his mar riage, separation and reunion: fiom which it appears Di et, after long years of infelicity. Ids dtclucng days have h. on rewedded to the ob ject of bis early affection. The weekly returns of tlie Bank of France show uu increase in Die cash on band of three and a quarter million francs. 'l'ho French journals confirm the statement that a convention bad bcen'concludcd between France aud Duly as already pubjjsbcd, and It is said the vatificaticns were on the 20th Sep tember. i- loreiico is to he Dio Italian capital. The accounts which wo have from all paits ol ltaly announce Djat tiie new Franco Italian treaty is received with the greatest satisfac tion. 'I he Spanish Congress has been dissolved and new elections fixed for Nov 2J. . Anew amnesty in Spain lias hcfti granted fdr ail offenses ot the peers The treaty commenced between Switzerland and Franco has been ratified. 'Hie London Times lectures the Australians w ho talk of separation from England, and says that their charges are Dint England has not been allowed to indulge her taste for military glory. _ The Times then proceeds to sbotv tho Australians that had England gone to war with Russia cm account of Poland, trouble anil dis aster might have fallen upon them. Russia expected an outbreak, and hnd instructed her admirals on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to loavo their respective posts, by different routes for a common rendezvous, ascertained to be mid-ocean, and the fleet thus assembled was to hold itself in readiness and bear down on tho Australian colonics The famous Mersey rams have been form ally handed over to the British Government, under the recent purchase, and were at once taken into Messrs Laird’s yard to be comple ted for sea They to bejare fitted with turrets oft; Captain Cole's [itjnciple, nnd will lie each aim ed with tour i!00 pounder guiis. Tiie rams will be re named the Scorpion and ihe H'yvera. The North lbitisii Mail thus describes what it calls “anew rebel ram”: Mu«3xg. Jones, Quiggan A Cos., of Liverpool, have lately com pleted the Coffined Lamb, n steel pndd e wheel steam eh ip of l,7Stt tons, old measurement.— She has been built and fitted with engine power with a view to areat speed as a block ade nmner. On Tuesday she went on her trial trip, and took tho opportunity of having a two hours' lace with the Hie ol Sian steamer Douglas, Die fastest boat yet known on the Mersey. In two hours and thirty-one minutes tho Colonel Lamb beat the Douglas by about four miles. By log, the ship run sixteen and three quarter knots, or about nineteen nailed an hour. —TO ftft— FROM LOWER MlSSlf»hft*l*J. A correspondent ot Die Mobile Advertiser speaks thus of matters in Lower Mississippi: A terrible ‘fang of these ontlnws.bave (been rendovouslng in comparative security amid tiie jungles of lloney Island— a revamp island some where near the mouth of Pearl River—and is suing to: tii on regular Comanche raids of out rages and robbery. Among their re'cent vic tims was au old widow lady, living unprotect ed in the country, with some thousands of dol lars in gold hidden away lor a rainy day. Their threats not terrifying her sufficiently, they took her out to a tree, put a rops round her neck, and were about to swing hemp, as she thcnghl. when she told were the gold was, and they got it and lelt. Since then, Capt. Aaronstein’a mounted company, stationed at Franklin, have been paying them a visit. Landing on the Island they supre ised a portion of the banditti, killed on a, anil brought oh eleven prisoners, with he r ses, mules, guns, etc The Island will !>e visited ague:, as soon as the adequate force can be spared. Gen Taylor’s late order, allowing parties ex empt from military sei vice to bring from tho enemy’s lines any and all kinds of goods need ed by the Government, and receive tht-ir pay ia cotton, with permissson to take it to the one my, bus created quits a stir in this region. There is yet much cotton scattered around through South Mississippi and East Louisiana, and 1 have no dontl much of it will go through this way. Ths Government will be bedefitedi in two ways: the contraband trade in supei flu kies will be lessened, if not stopped, and val uable army supplies obtained for that portion of cotton which (being confiscated) costa the Government nothing. The, pian certainly ought to work w-11. The Governor General ol Nova Scotia is on a visit to Grant.