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2 WMq toniinrr. ™ ■-4«.. MW? < - >v -< « ic ri MfAaJ Atlanta, June i isss. THE KNOW NOTHINGS AND THE KAN SAS TROUBLES. Under this caption we do not propose entering into an argument upon the merits of the Kansas question, but merely alluding to a fact in its con nection, which has struck us as strongly indica tive of the status of the Know Nothing party upon the question. We allude to the silence with which they give it the go-by. It is, upon first glance, very singular that so large, and we will say respectable, a body of Southern men, should devote so little attention to a subject of so much importance to Southern interests, more es pecially when it promises such startling results ; but the seifret of their inactivity is, perhaps, to be found in the all absorbing one idea which they are pursuing with a zeal that really amounts to a mania. The columns of their organs are filled with ingenius sophistry to prove the deleterious influence of Foreign Catholics upon this govern ment, but we search in vain for a word upon a subject which threatens consequences far more disastrous than the domination of Roman Catholicism could possibly be to the Union. And why is it! Why are they so oblivious of pass ng events that they seldom refer ’o this impor tant topic, even as a matter of news ! These men certainly cannot be charged with favoring the Northern side of the question, and yet they are indirectly giving ‘'aid and comfort” to the en emy, tacitly acknowledging it a mutter of secon dary importance to the South ! The truthis they have surrendered themselves so entirely to this proscription of Catholicism which has been taught them by Northern men, that, like all other religious enthusiasts, they are literally blind to the side-scenes which their pro genitors are playing in Kansas; and though if aroused from the deadly stupor which they have contracted in their midnight councils they would not, perhaps, lack in loyalty to the South; yet they do lack in that watchful, sensitive patriotism which feels that “the price of liberty is eternal vigilance.” It remains for Democracy to awaken them.— A few more oceans of cold water,such as the Vir ginia Democracy have emptied upon them, will, break the spell which binds them, and show them that while they fought an imaginary Devil, they were heiin* entangled in the ceils of a monster doubly hideous 1 We have full confidence, in creased as it is daily by the Virginia returns, in the quickening power of Democracy; but it is particularly unfortunate at this crisis ot Southern affairs, that the attention of Democrats should have to be divided between the contest in Kansas, which claims their entire efforts, and subduing a raving maniac at home. The effect of the or ganization is, unquestionably, to distract attention from the real issue before the country, and it is painful to reflect that so many men of influence should be carried away with the fictitious issue the Know Nothing combination presents. What more effective ally do the Abolitionists and Free soilers want, than one which sows dissensions in the South, and directs so large a share of her ef forts to abate it ! They bitterly deny affiliation with these Northern men; but we judge a tree by its fruits, and we ask them in, all candor, if their course does not embolden Northern revolu tionizers to still grosser outrages, when they see so many Southern men indifferent to their oper ations! The question now is, how long will these South ern men continue wildly beating the bush after the poor foreigner whose innocent jargon and conscientious mode of worship affects them as . does cold water a mad dog—when may we ex pect convalescence from this hydrophobia! Will they heed the warnings that are daily and hourly given them, or must they be humiliated by such Waterloo defeats as they got in Virginia! Think of it, gentlemen. In Virginia the issue was made direct, that your organization is dan gerous to the South, and the intelligent people of that State, after a dispassionate hearing of both sides of the question, have decided that it is, and have set the seal of their disapprobation upon it by an unprecedented vote. Should this judg ment, pronounced by a people renowned not less for theii; intelligence than for their exalted pa triotism, be set aside, and have no influence upon you! Do you, who profess to know, nothing know more than they ! We shall see wha.t influence it will have in arousing you to a sense of the danger your apathy is bringing upon the South. a funnVmistake. Wo learn that a gentleman named Noble reached our city on Monday evening last and complained to our city police that he had been robbed of $2500 on the cars, and also pointed ut two men whom he suspieioned of the robbery. Our vigilant officers repaired immediately to the hotel, and but for the opportune interference of the Mayor, would have had them safely lodged in the caliboose. He fortunately discovered that one of the gentlemen was Col. Jeff. Davis, Sec retary of War, just in time to save him the mortification of an arrest. The affair excited considerable merriment, and the Secretary laughed as heartily as the rest at what liked to have proven an awkward blunder. VIRGINIA ELECTION. The Richmond Despatch of Monday contains returns, “partly official and part ly reported,’’ from seventy-nine counties and towns, which gave Pierce a majority of 4,668. A like vote for Wise will make his majority 10,956 CONGRESSMEN ELECTED. Ist District-Thomas 11. Bayley, 2nd “ J. 8. Milson, 3rd - “ John S. Caskie, 4th “ Wm. O. Goode, sth “ Thos. §. Bocock, 6th “ . Paulus Powell, 7th “ Wm. Smith, Sth “ John Letcher, 9th “ Charles J. Faulkner, 10th “ Z. Kidwell, 11th “ C.S. Lewis, 12th “ H. A. Edmonson, 13th “ F. McMullen, The Dispatch says: “There is not a single new’ member in the list, and they are all Democrats,” The Panama Railroad.—The Aspin wall Courier represents the travel upon the Panama rail road as Very great. In its issue of May 15, it says: The passengers for the states were about a thousand—those for California as many more, by this run. About tan per cent, of these were women and children. This large number make the transit from steamer to steamer with comfort,economy .land conve ne- 'O6, within nine hours, with an cnor ■ts mail, and over 81,500,990 on freight i hundred and sxty troops ate also •• ‘“i ted without difficulty ,in excellent ■ and entirely separated from the other passengers. Telegraphic Anecdote.—The .North Alabamian relates the following story:— One of the men engaged in building the telegraph line through the •infected re gion," when it was first put up, eight years ago, tells an anecdote of an old lady who is now prominent among the believers in the now tneory. When they were put ting up the wire opposite tin dwelling of the old lady referred to. she enmeout and insisted that they should put it further from the house, for, says, she. supposin' thar should be a war, and they should be sendin' cannons and bombs along the tele graft and they should bust right here and tear everything all to pieces. 1 should like to know who’s a gwine to pay for it ? Take if away off thar.'for I don't' like the presky thing no howl” THE CONVENTION. On Tuesday next, the Convention to nominate a candidate for Governor, will assemble in Mil ledgeville. Judging from the meetings held in the various counties of the State, the Convention will be largely attended, and we doubt not its ac tion will, in all respects, conform to the wishes of the true democracy of Georgia, with regard both to its nominee for Governor, and the course prop er to be pursued with all, udiigs and democrats, who are opposed to, and willing to do buttle against, Know Nothingism in our State. In the South there has never existed an organ ization more dangerous to its rights, than the Or. der which has arrayed itself against the Constitu tion under the imposing title of the “American Party.” In no particular is it worthy of that ap pellation. There can be no American Party that is not republican in principle and in action Thu 1 party which attempts to appropriate to itself tha name is foreign both in sentiment and feeling.— It hates the poor oppressed foreigner who has, from a love of liberty and our government, sought an asylum here, from the oppressions of the old world, and would crush the spirit which made him a rebel and an emigrant. In the opinion of most of the leading Know Nothings of the North, the British Government is the perfection of wis dom. Like it they would have ours a grand, consolidated, national government, such as the old Hartford Conventionists, and Federalist in the days of Madison and Jefferson would have had it; and every principle of State Rights and State Sovereignty they would blot out of that in strument, which guarantees to the weak the right to resist the encroachments of the strong. It has no just claim to the title of “American," for its leading and avowed policy is the contrary thereof, in every respect, and in direct opposition to that ofthe illustrious Washington, who-, in reference to the immigration of foreigners, urged that we should “welcome them to a participation in all our rights and privileges.” American policy too as established by the Con stitution, is the equal right of every man to form his own religious opinions, and not to be made a subject of proscription therefor. A contrary pol icy is Ant /-American, and such a one is advoca ted by the Know Nothings. It is American policy and an American privi lege to openly and boldly resist oppression, and on the house tops, as it were, to contend for both personal and political rights. It is An/t-Amer. jean to secretly assemble and plot against the rights of any one citizen of this Republic, or against the Constitution. In such every move ment of the Know Nothings, is Anti-American Anti-Republic, subversive of good government, and in direct opposition to Southern Rights and interests. The Convention about to assemble, we believe, will view the Mysterious Order in the same light that we do, and we hope and trust will act ac cordingly. Never before have the democracy of Georgia been called upon to fight a foe in the dark. Heretofore it was a contest been Whig and Democrat. In the future they have to con tend against a disbanded party, and against treachery in their own ranks. How will the Convention prepare for this contest! The way, we think, is a plain and easy one. Let us briefly refer to it! On every side of us the evidence is presented that a large number ot patriotic Whigs, disgust ed at the murmuring of,and indignant at the as. saults made by the Know Nothings upon princi ples of our government nurtured cherished, and dear to every true American heart, have deter mined to wage war against them even “from the rising to the sitting of the Sun.” At the same time, it is also evident that a portion of the de mocracy, some misled, and others, by design, have abandoned their old principles, and have gone over to the enemy. In Georgia, as in Vir ginia, it is a new era in politics. A political rev olution has taken place, and with new, the Con vention must prepare to face old friends, and a majority of its ancient foes. Apart, then, from the nomination of a standard bearer in the com ing contest, upon the Convention will devolve the duty of inviting the co-operation of all the Anti. Know Nothing Whigs in Georgia. We hope that this duty will be discharged openly, gener ously, freely. That it will result in a triumph over the combined forces of the opposition, and in the maintenance of Southern Righthand Re publican Institutions, we have every confidence. Its after effect, too, we believe, will be salutary in the extreme. It will banish frdin the South all secret, political, organizations, than which, where slavery exists, nothing should be viewed with more distrust. Disclaiming any attempt to even insinuate that Southern Know Nothings i are amenable to the charge of being inimical in any manner to this peculiar Southern Institution, we yet fear that the time is not distant, when se cret organizations may exist, even in the South having for their main object an abolition of sla very. For this reason among others, the defeat of this first Secret Order, should be paramount with the democracy, and to effect it, the Con vention should invite the co-operatton of all who arc opposed to it. We trust it will do so! ATERRIBLE WHIRLWIND. Chicago, May 24.—Accounts reached this last night of a most terrific I nr'cane and whirlwind in the town of Jefferson, Cook county, and other places north and west of here. On Tuesday afternoon a revolving, funnel-shaped cloud passed swiftly along near the ground, about six teen miles north of here, carrying up large sticks of wood stones, &e. It described a semicircle toward the ‘southeast, twisting off large branches of trees and whisking them out of sight rapidly. The whilwind or cloud then separated and disappeared, but almost immediately formed again, and passed directly back north and west with redoubled violence. It struck a heavy frame house one mile from the Illinois and Wisconsin railroad, tearing the roof off, and almost immediately afterward taking up the whole house with all its contents N ine persons in the house were drawn up and hurled down in different places. Four of them were killed, and others mu filiated beyond any propeet of recovery, i The whirlwind then passed over a post and [rail fence, leaving not the slightest vestige of it. It next took up a barn and threw it upon the horses and cattle it contained ! crushing them at once. The timbers of the house and barn were hurled down to I the ground with such violence as to bury I them almost out of sight The house be longed to Mr. Page, whose wife, son, and two grandchildren were killed. A number ' ot eye witnesses have testifiied to the rava ges ofthe tempest, and describe it as ter rific. The Camel Expedition.—The store ship Supply is now being thoroughly over hauled at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and put in complete order for a voyage to the Mediterranean to bring home the camels which are to be experimented with on our Great Western desert. Iler officers are D. Porter, Lieutenant Commandant; S. Allen Engles, Passed Assistant Surgeon : Thomas Roney, Acting Master. and R. F. R. Lewis, L. H. Newman and Joseph D. . Blake, Passed Midshipmen. THE CUBAN QUESTION IN FRANCt. An article appears in a late number of one of Louis Napoleon's organs in Paris La Patrie, which may be interesting to our readers, says the Washington Union, as indicative of the views of the Emperor in regard to the annexation of Cuba to the United States, It will be seen that ade lay of one year is all that is desired for the ultimate defeat of annexation. Whether the Emperor gives himself a year priser Sebastopol, after which he would be at leisure to protect Cuba, or whether he calculates that the scheme of Africaniza tion of the island will be so far consum mated in a year that the United States will cease to desire its annexation, we are not distinctly advised It does appear, how ever. that the abolitionists, aided by the know nothings, are strongly relied on by the Emperor to prevent the immediate con summation of Cuban annexation. The reader, however, will have no difficulty in making his own comments. The follow ing is a translation of the article: “As to the Cuba question, although it has reached an excessively critical point, where a trifle may bring about an explo sion, we believe that all could be saved if only one year of respite and of statu quo could be secured. In fact, the annexation agitation has its location in the slave States, and its promoters are the most ai dent men of the foreign population. At present the annexationists have their friends in power, and they count on the administration closing its eyes' upon their schemes and their acts if they are not palpably illegal. But the actual administration is crippled by the abolitionists of the North and their auxiliaries, the know-nothings; in other words, its days of power are numbered.— Whatever may be the name of Mr. Pierce’s successor, the general policy of the Union in regard to Cuba will be modified; and if annexation is not consummated before 1856, we indulge the hope that it never will be. In fact, the abolition party of the North gains ground, and it will cer tainly not allow the slave party to be strengthened by the admission of a new slave State into the Union. “If we concede, however, that things cannot go in this way, and that the Cuba question must be pushed to a sudden so lution by a local insurrection, combined with a fillibustering invasion from the American ports, then an adroit but terri ble movement can be brought about. The Spanish government using its incontesta ble right, can proclaim the emancipation of the slaves in Cuba In that case the American annexationists and their Creole accomplices in Cuba will have to struggle at once against the royal troops faithful to the old Spanish flag from gratitude for their liberty, to defend that liberty against the doubly odious aggression of masters and strangers. “This will be a terrible game, but about which Spain will not hesitate, if we can believe the recent declarations made in full Cortes by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, D. Luzuriaga. “This event having occurred, the south ern States in their turn would fear the annexation and resist with ardor what they had before sought to accomplish.— Free, Cuba Africanized, would be to the slave States a permanet menace, a germ living and always active for dissolution. “ It is seen from these considerations that if the preservation of Cuba has for Spain real difficulties, its acquisition involves for the United States dangers of greater mag nitude. Prudence and good policy, there fore, unite with loyalty to counsel the United States to respect the property of another, and to confirm once more the maxim that people and kings should nev er lose sight of—honesty is the best poli °y” ... CONSTITUTION OF CONNECTICUT. Hartford, May 23.—The following amendments to the State Constitution were passed in the Senate to-day, almost unan imously, viz: To strike out the word “white" in the qualification of electors to be able to read ; that there be one repre sentative to each town, and that there be one capitol instead of two. All the pro posed amendments required to be sub mitted to the people. The action of the Senate of Connecticut, as above set forth, deserves passing no tice, as indicating the apparently inevita ble tendency of Know-nothing principles. Hostility to the South, hostility to the De mocratic party, hostility to the perma nence of the Union, hostility to Republi can government throughout the world, di&- tinguishes the Know-nothing party. The virtue and intelligence of the people is the only safe basis fora republic. The admission of negroes as suffragans in Connecticut, must have the tendency to debase the standard of virtue and intelli gence in that State. Is not this the cause ? Are the white voters of Connecticut, pre dared for this ? The alterations of the Constitutions of Connecticut, prepared by the Know-nothings, is an open at tempt to sap the foundation of republi can principles. I Besides this, the Congress which meets j in Washington is a quasi Congress of Na ( tions, which, for the benefit ofthe parties jto the Union, have parted with certain j and specified of their sovereign rights, - conferring them upon a general Congress ■ and Executive. In this view of the case, ; is it good faith, or rather, would it not be [ a breach of compact for Connecticut to in troduce negro suffrage, from which would result eligibility, of negroes to office. At the time the Constitution was framed, whites alone were suffragans, and it never entered into the mind of any one to con ceive that negroes were then, or would ever be, looked on as citizens. A Naval Officer Dead.—We regret | to learn that Commodore Ballard, died at his residence in Broad Neck, Anne Arun del county, Md., on Wednesday night last, I of a relapse into a violent attack of pneu monia, from which he was just recovering. He was upwards of 70 years age. I Com. Ballard was a native of Mjir-. l !. and entered the'service on the 2d I*Bo4, over 51 years ago He receivd to I commission, which he held at the time of his daeth, on the 3d of March, 1825, and served 18 years and 8 months at sea, and | 15 years and 8 months on shore duty. He had not been at sea since 1838.—Anna ,polls Republican. t&“‘ Jane’ what h< the albr.het do you like best?" '• V.’--" ; .h.n’t l'':e to say, Mr. M right. nous- use, tell right out. Jane. Which do you like best?’’ “Well,’’-(blushing and dropping her eyes,) ‘I like U the best.” “Sam, did you ev -r : able the Cape of Good Hope?" “ I exp. el 1 have.’— “ When?' “ Last night, when I put mv arm around the cape that belongs to the dress of a young lady that I have good hopes of making Mrs. Dusenberry” VIRGINIA ELECTION. A dispatch from Washington, dated Friday evening says: “The general impression here prevails that Wise is elected- The Democrats freely offer bets." After the above had been placed in type we were*politely handed by a friend the following letter from an intelligent and well-informed gentleman, dated Portsmouth, Va.,- May 25 1855. Friend 1 promised to send you the return of our State election. We received a telegraphic dispatch this evening, that Wise had 3000 majority in the eastern part of the State. Caskie, the Democratic candidate in tha Richmond district, is elected over the Know Nothing candidate by 500 majority. Millson, Goode and Powell, all Democrats, have elected four out of five, having lost one by a small majority. Wise’s majority will be 10,900 in the State. The Know Nothings acknowlegde their downfall. I open my letter to state that we have received a message that the three counties that the Know-Nothings bet would give Flournoy a majority, went for Wise by 6000 majority. Halifax county, Flournoy’s native coun ty, gave Wise 685 majority. A reliable dispatch from Washington, says that Wise will be elected by at least 18,000 majority Rockingham county also. gave 2000 majority, and Fluanna county 2000. Char. Cour. 28th inst. ENGLISH LORDS ON VsPREE IN ALBANY. A few days since two persons arrived in this city and put up at Congress Hall where they registered their names as Phil lip S: Dobbins and George S. Rollson. — They represented themselves as being for eigners, and as being connected with fami lies of nobility in England. Their conduct at least shows that they are fond of sport ing and riding. They patronized Mr. Slauson, where they obtained horses and carriages at a moment’s notice. On rid ing out the other day, for the purpose of seeing the country they passed through Lancaster street, when they observed quite a pretty young lady sitting at the window of a private residence. They saluted her, when she returned the compliment One of the gentlemen subsequently sent her a note, solicity her company to a place of amusement, which she declined, but in her note she insinuated that he would be a welcome visitor to her house. The note was pondered over, but no decided ac tion was agreed upon until last evening. They started off yesterday for a ride, and after getting ashort distance from the city their wagon broke down. They, how ever, managed to get it home, but in do ing this they were obliged to stop at all the public houses on the way, the result of which was they got somewhat inebria ted. After they had returned the horse and wagon they resolved to make a call npon the lady in question in T.ancaster street. This occurred rather late in the evening and upon rapping at the door they were met by the young lady’s father, who denied them admittance. They loitered around the house for some time and after another unsuccessful attempt to see the lady they became vexed, when one of the gentlemen in anger threw a paving stone against the door. This created some alarm among the inmates, when the brother of the young lady was dispatched to the 4th district station-house to obtain the service of a policeman. After throwing the stone they loitered about the house for some time, and were finally arrested and taken to the station house by the police They were obliged to take up their abode last night at that place, and this morning they were brought before Justice Cole, who af ter a hearing of the case, committed them to jail. With their pretensions to nobili ty, they could only show about 828 this morning, and upon being asked where they resided refused to give any satisfac tory answer. Who are they.and where do they belong ? are questions that will doubt less be asked by many of our readers As soon as we are informed we will di vulge that which is now a secret hid in their own breasts. THE SOLDIER IN BATTLE. The correspondent •!' the New York Sun, writing from the camp before Sebas topol,- thus describes the feeling and con duct of a soldier in battle : Before the battle begins it is usual to feel no little tremor, and many cheeks which are known to be in communication with stout hearts blanch visibly. As Bffie conflict becomes imminent courage returns; and with the first flow of blood an enthusa ism is raised which constantly increases, and very seldom flags in the least till the last shot is fired. The effect of seeing a comrade shot down is to excite an inap peasable thirst for vengeance against the foe, though in the end one “gets used to it.” When wounded less than mortally, it is not usual for the soldier to be imme diately aware of the fact, unless some bones are broken. A sabre may be run through any fleshy part of the body, and a bullet lodge in dangerous proximity to the vitals, and he, for a long time, be to tally unconscious ofeven a scratch. When life is taken at a single blow, the effect varies with the nature of the wound, as as well as with the temperament of the man. Sometimes the poor fellow will leap high in the air, giving a pierceing scream and again he will lie down quietly. Of tener, however, he falls dead without a struggle. In most cases the features of the killed remain unchanged for long time after death—eyes open and brilliant, and, perchance, a smile illuminating the face. To see such an one it is difficult, indeed, to realize the presence of the grim monster, Death. Bishop Doane on Women’s Rights— Bishop Doane, of New Jersey, has no fancy for strong minded women and in bifurca tions. In the course of his address the other day, to the Female Graduating Class, < t Mary,s Hall, Burlington, after allu j.-igto the value of intellectual accom plishments m women, the Bishop never theless observed: “The highest human graces that a wo men ever won have but ensnared her soul in vanity and sin, and wrought destruc tion. through their attraeticns,|for the souls' of others. And intellectual powers and inteligent gifts, not subordinated to the providential orderings of God, not chas-’ tened and controlled by His renewing grace, are, at this time, unsexing women, and thrusting on tne astonished world a race of monsters, in that Amazonian crew who clamor, now, for ‘woman’s Rights,’ such as no mythology has ever dreamed of." An autograph letter of Gen. Wash ington recently sold in London for at auction: SINGULAR AFFAIR. The New York correspondent of the Charleston Courier writes : One of the wealthiest and most respect able merchants in this city, and his wife have just separated by reason of the in compatibility of their religious opinions. They recently returned from six or seven months tour in Europe, wjiich they seem ingly enjoyed very much. A few days after they had settled down at home, his wife remarked that she would go down and see her sister, and would not probably return home until the next morning, he thought nothing of this. After dinner the next day he walked down to where she had been staying, and after spending the evening very pleasantly, he rose, took his hat, and suggested to his wife that it was time to go home. She concluded to remain there another night. He was somewhat surprised at this, but saying nothing returned home. The next day he received a letter from her, regretting that it would be impossible for them to live longer together She accused him of nothing, and only gave as a reason that she could live with no one whose religious views did not correspond with her own.— She is a Swedenborgian. An irrevocable separation has taken place. Mutual friends delicately labored to reconcile her to her lot, but their ef forts were fruitless. Both parties are among the most respectable in the city, and there is not a breath of suspicion up on the tame or character of either. The matter is discussed freely in society.— She is the sister-in-law of a distinguished literateur of this city, and the second wife of the husband, to whom she had been married only two years. It is a matter of universal surprise to the world’s people, that a lady over forty years; should be willing to give upasplen did establishment in Union .Square and every luxury that wealth can purchase, for the sake of religious principle. She has passed the romantic age when such things would be attributed to fancy or fol ly, and can only have acted under the strange fascination of some absorbing mo nomania. Sincere regret is expressed by all wjio know the parties, either personally or by reputation. It is a most painful case. FILLMORE AND DAWSON. The Tallehassec Sentinel expresses it self warmly in favor of Messrs. Fillmore and Dawson for the Presidency and vice Presidency, as the candidates of the “American," party at the next election. It says : “Millard Fillmore for the Presidency, and ex-Senator W. C. Dawson of Georgia, for the Vice Presidency ip ’s6— that's the ticket! We know nothing of their Know Nothing proclivities and care less. Fillmore has been tried and proved true —weighed in the balances and not found wanting—tested in the crucible and came out pure gold. “Mr. Dawson is a man of talents and Southern to the “manor born,” and be longs to a class of politicians or statesmen which is fast passing away and of which there is unfortunately but too few, in these degenerated times. Few men won for themselves a more enviable reputation at Washington, than did ex-Senator Daw son, during his Senatorial career. “That’s the card—the American party with that ticket, will hold the right and left bowers, and with tact in playing their hand, may in a pro-slavery platform, lead off with the ace and make a march. Death of the Widow of Dr. R. Hi Bishop.—Remarkable Coincidence.— The venerable, widely known and well loved Robert Hamilton Bishop, D. D.,our readers will remember, died after a long life of eminent usefulness, at his residence on College Hill, some weeks since. His wife, with whom he had lived happily for near sixty years, was precisely two weeks his junior, and after his death, tottered about as if lost, and seemed, though sur rounded by her affectionate children and grand-children, to feel utterly alone, and that this world was no longer the place for her; and strange to say exactly two weeks after his departure it was decreed that her imprisonment here’ should not be length ened out, and she was caHed to join him in a better world. His death occurred on Sabbath morning the 29th April, and she received the, to her joyful summons, to go to him at about the same hour on Sabbath morning, the 13th inst.— Cin. Com., Thursday. THE HURRICANE LAST NIGHT. As we closed our columns, after 12 o’clock last night, a violent gale of wind from the north-west commenced—unhing ing shutters, blowing down trees, and do ing other damage within hearing of our office. So sudden and violent was the wind, that it broke in one of the heavy doors of A. Bonaud’s grocery establish ment, at the corner of Bull and Bay streets forcing it from its fastenings, and wrench ing its shutters from one ofthe large win dows of his store. We have reason to fear that much inju ry has been sustained by the shipping in port, and cannot but be apprehensive of serious results to vessels along the coast. Fortunately, however, the wind was off shore, and may have driven them put to sea. At one o’clock this morning, the gale par tially subsiding, a rain followed, and as we close this paragraph, seems to have started afresh. The one o’clock train on the Central Road arrived safely at its usual time.— Sav. Georgian. Well Spoken.—A foreign-born cor respondent of the Pittsbuig Christian Ad vocate makes the following point: I have renounced on my oath citizen-[ ship in all the countries, and I am then to bedenied in tiffs? The Arabs or the ' Tartars might refuse to admit me to their j rights, but even their sense of honor would ! forbid them to thus ensnare me. I must | be lost to every country, and every conn-' try loat to me save the country where the I arm f man cannot sway the scales of jus- j tice. I read my Bible in the language of j Luther, and learned to be- a Protestant; I and from my Bible and Wesley I learned i to be a Methodist. No one asks, me to i disbelieve the Bible because ft came from India, Protestantism because Luther was ! a German, or Methodism because Wesley! was an Englishman. No one refuses me | a membership in the Church because 11 was born a foreigner. I can join them ’ in praising God for his fav s. and invok-, ing his His blessing on on- I can I commune with them at - ment board, and yet refuse me y will I cast ther ballot side by siUe with the 1 vilest scouudrel that ever disgraced the i Boil on which he was born. 1 NEW S ITEMS The Wounds of the Heart.—You mav go into a ball-room, writes the author of “ Human Nature," where there are two hundred women. One hundred and ninety-nine of them you will pass with us much indifference as one hundred and ninety-nine pullets; but the two hun dredth irresistibly draws you to her.— There are one hundred handsomer and ninety-nine cleverer ones present; but she alone has the magnet that attracts you.— Now, what is that magnet? It is her man tier that charms? It is her voice that strikes on one of those thousand and one chords ot your nervous system, and makes it vibrate as sound does hollow glass ? Or .do her eyes affect yon, so that you have no time to reflect, and no opportunity for your head to judge how you can digest the notions they have put into it ? Or is it animal maguetims, or what the plague is it ? Later from Buenos Ayres.—Advi ces from Buenos Ayres to the 17th of March State that the Brazillian squadron had been permitted to pass throughout the waters of the Platte and Parana, in order to establish the blockade. Three American ship captains had got into a se rious difficulty with a sentry, while riding past the guard-house of Buenos Ayres on the 7th of March. It ended in the sol dier stabbing Capt. J. Lincoln, of the bark Masia, in the breast very severely. The conduct of the sentry is severely de nounced, as the captains were proceeding long quietly when attacked by him. Later From Venezuela.—A letter i from Caracas, dated April 26th, states that the Venezuela Congress had confer red dictatorial powers upon President Monagas in order to meet the anticipated war with New Granada. The American Minister entertained the President, Cabi net Ministers, the Archbishop, and the large party of distinguished personages, at a dinner given on the 23d, at the United States Legation. The country had been visited by fine rains. Pedro Obregon, worth his million of dollars, had been as sassinated at Laguayra. On Thursday, the 26th ult., a dis patch from Sehastopol was posted at Odes- I sa, stating that the French and English I gues were silent, that not a single Rus- I sian battery, was demolished, and that the 1 greater part of a re-in forcement of 59,000 ■ Russians Had arrived in the neghborhood I of Sebastopol. ' Church Troubles Settled.—Bishop I Timon has given notice of the withdrawal of the interdict against the St. Louis Ro man Catholic church of Buffalo, N. Y,, and the ban of excommunication from the trustees. A pastor has been appointed and services will be resumed. " fe-b" A German in New York brought a complaint before a magistiate against a woman who had stolen 8200 from him but when the prisoner was brought into Court the complainant withdrew his plea on con dition that the woman would marry him, which she did instanter. A Capital Idea.—A new clock has been manufactured down east to be used in those States iu which the Maine Law has been passed. Upon the dial, the fig ures indicating eleven and Jour o,clock are omitted, and thus the hippy possessor of the time piece, failing to be reminded of the accustomed hours of refreshment, for gets that he is dry. Sale of Michigan State Lands.— During the first four months of this year, about 17,090 acre® of the State lands in Michigan have been sold for the total sum of 859,000. An American Murdered..—A recent number of the Brownsville Flag contains a letter from Saltillo, Mexico, giving an account of an Ammerican named Dr. > Downs, who was robbed of a large amount | of money by his murderers, and the Mex- I iean officials appropriated what property remained to themselves. .... The Louisville Democrat of Tues day says that Secretary Guthrie is confined by indsposition in that city. .... A National Sheep Show is to be held at the village of Bath, Steuben coun ty, N. Y., the three last days of May, by | the “ Wool-growers Association of Wes ; tern New York;” and the premiums an | nounced are from 810 to 875 for the best pen of five to ten sheep The prizes are all for fine wool varieties. Flagstaff at Cristo Cay.—Captain Leyburn, of the brig Emily W. Leyburn, which arrived at New York, on Wedness day, from Sagua La Grande, inform strangers going to that port that the flag staff on the Point of Cristo Cay, Cuba, has been taken down for the purpose of de ceiving any Filiibusters that may wish to land there. A Monster Train.—The Buffalo Com mercial says that a freight train, consist of one hundred and forty-four cars, sixty-one 1 of which were loaded with cattle, the bal ance with miscellaneous freight, left the city, over the Central railroad, on Saturday. Seven locomotives were employed in the drawing process. .... Mr. Richard Hazard died at New port, R. 1., on the 16th inst., aged 101 years Trophy from Sebastopol.—A mus ket, taken from a Russian soldier at the battle of Inkermann, has been brought home from the East by an American trav eller, and exhibited to the editor of the Troy (N.Y.) Whig. “Tincturt of Barley.”—This is the title of one of the numerous newly named drinks which are liberally patronized in Boston, Mass., since the passage of the prohibitory law in that enlightened and liberal State. Heavy Robbery.—On the 17th,acat tle dealer named S. Weods had 86,00 cut from his vest pocket by some adroit thief, in the cars between Utica and Rome, N. Y. A Census of Cincinnati, just com pleted, shows.that city to contain a total of 25,668 white male inhabitants of the age of twenty-one and upwards. Commissioner Manypenny publish es a lengthy reply in the National Intelli gencer to the attack recently made upon him by Col. Benton in reference to the Beale case and other.maters. .... Fort Scott, in Kansas territory, which was lately sold for 85,000, the Union ventures to assert cost the government less than that sum, instead of 8175,000 as sta ted in some of the papers. .... An English paper reports that the lords of the treasury have granted to Dr Dick, of Scotland, the Author of many well known works, a pension of ten pounds. BJar - The alabaster manufactures of are said to be of the most purely beautiful description possible. The material is found in abundance in the mines of that region, and there are numerous establish lishments which produce, in portable sizes the antiques and famous statutes of the world. The“ Address to the people,” writ ten by Charlotte Corday, and found upon her person when she was arrested,was sold in Paris the other day for 770 fruncs Shy "The inventor of the steam engine was certainly a man of great engine-uity. Watts his name? SgU“Owen Meredith,’’ whose poems have attracted so much favorable notice, is the nom de plume of Mr. Ed. Lytton, son of the celebrated novelist Chicago, May 24.—A terrible tornado passed over Jefferson and Oak counties, Illinois, and other places north and west, yesterday. A house situated about one mile from the Illinois and Wisconsin rail road, containing nine persons, was taken up by the wind and scattered in different directions. Four of the persons were in stantly killed, and the others are not like ly to recover. SECOND DESPATCH. Chicago, May 24th.—Later accounts from the region of the tornado say the lo cality has an incredible appearance. It is impossible to learn the extent of the dam age. DALTON AND GADSDEN RAILROAD. We are authorised to state says the Dalton Times that the president and directors of this road, owing to the tighnessof the times and the push of the farmers, have conclu ded to wait until the farmers get through working their crops, before they do any thing more towards the road; after which they intend holding meetings along the line, and opening books for the purpose of taking stock, we hope that we may have good crops, and that all will feel able to subscribe something towards the building of the road A correspondent of the Scientific American communicates the following, which may be of value to sportsmen: “Wash your gun barrels in. spirits of turpentine by dipping a rag or sponge fas tened on your gun rod into the liquid, and swabbing them out three or four times, when they will be cleared from all impu rities, and can be used almost instantly, as the turpentine will evaporate and leave the barrels dry; even if they arc a little moist it will not prevent thcirlgoing off, like water. After being wasned thus, there is no danger of rust, as when water is used. lam an old experienced gun ner, and have practised this for years and found it useful.” Speculations in Breadstuffs.—A letter dated New York, Thursday evening says: Flour purchased early in the day was resold at a profit bf one shilling per barrel and although Jarge transactions are repor ted yet a great deal more could have been sold, ho)dcrs|felt inclined to meet demand freely. A regular system of advance if priecs was kept up during the afternoon. A receiver would sell 309 and 400 barrels and then advance his price sixpence. An ter the sale of about the same quantity, another sixpence would bo added, and so on until one of the largest receivers closed his transactions at an advance of 18J and 25 cents per barrel. .... Steamboat racing on the Hudson is said to be now of daily occurrence, so that in a short time we look out for “ burst up.” .... Withip a month past upwards of four hundred boys have been enlisted in the naval service at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. A&fLouis Napoleon says he fears noth ing so long as he has not fulfiled his mis sion; but when the Italian shot at him, “he ducked his head and spurred horse.” BS£y*The report that a Methodist min ister, meaning Rev. John Chase,had eloped from Troy with another man,s wife, turns out to be altogether a mistake. It is said that the woodcock in New Jersey is building its nest, this year, in open and moist places; and old huntsmen predict in consequence that the summer will be a dry one. BFSK- Gen. Shields visited Stillwater, Minnesota, on the 12th inst., accompanied by Gov. Gorman. The paper, grist and saw mills, be longing to John Perkins, at Exeter, N. H., were burned on Friday evening last. Loss 88000. Bgu The new liquor law is death on any more “hard cider" campaigns, and the whigs may thank their stars that there are no ex post facto laws. A Salute. —There was much rejoicing in Boston, among the abolitionists upon the passage of the personal liberty bill over the veto. Thirty-two guns were fired upon the common on Tuesday afternoon in honor of the triumph—thirty-one for the States and one for Kansas. BAKER IN THE TOMBS. Bakers arrest was much talked of at New York on the 18th. After being com mitted to his cell, which is a double one on the second corridor, in the Tombs, he partook of a hearty supper, when he was left alone for the night. He seemed very much depressed in spirits, and refused to see any one except his counsel, James R. Whitting, Esq., and ex-Recorder Tal madge. He was walking the floor in his shirt sleeves when his breakfast was brought in. On Tuesday evening the friends of the prisoner held a private meeting, when it was resolved that they would do every thing that lay in their power for his com fort during his confinement and trial; and to this end they intend to furnish his cell in a comfortable style, and have his meals brought to him from the restaurant.— They entertain the hope that he will be acquitted on the plea of Self-defence. Morrissey, Hyler, Van Pelt and others, who were arrested for being implicated in the Poole affair, think that their chance to get clear is now more favorable, as Baker was the principal in the affair. On the otherhand, the Poole Association intend to hold a meeting to take meaures for securing Baker's conviction and punish ment. Truth Will out. —“Mother sent me,” said a little girl to a neighbor “to ask you to come and take tea with her this eve ning.” “Did she say at what tim., my dear?” „No, ma’am she only sao .-lie would ask you, and then the thing woujd be off her mind; that wag all she said.’’