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FUN, FACT, AND PHILOSOPHY. (Carefully prepared for the Southern Field and Fireside.) Venerable, my Fellow-Citizens, on the bril liant calendar of American Independence, is the day we celebrate. Venerable as the revolving epoch in our anniversaries of freedom is this avalanche of time. Venerable as the abacus on the citadel of greatness, thou well-spring of hope. Homestead of Liberty, we venerate thy habitation. Monument of immortality, we ado rate thy worth. Pharos of ages, we hail thy glimmerings mid the cataracts of life. Almanac of our country, we would utter thy welcome with reverent awe. Our towers and our battlements, our flags and our heroes, yea, garlanded navies, decorated armies, and unfettered eagles, sleepless at the approach of thy footsteps, have welcomed thee. The clap of thy welcome booms along tesselated lawns, frescoed arbors, and lipping rivulets; while the surges of eloquence join the music of freedom. —( Exordium of E. 11. Tunny's Fourth July Oration , Rome , Tenn.) [We find upon our table a handsomely-printed pamphlet, containing Mr. Tenny’s Oration, and regret extremely that we can find room for the above extract only. —Ed.] At the next election, (I 860,) for President and Vice-President of the United States, the num ber of votes in the Electoral College will be 306; and the number necessary to a choice will be 154. In the Electoral College, each State has a num ber of votes equal to the number of its Senators and Representatives in the lower House of Con gress. Friendship is a silent gentleman that makes no parade. The true heart dances no hornpipe on the tongue. “ What are you doing, daughter?” “ Undressing myself for the party, mother.” The nineteen Free States will have 186 votes. California will have 4 votes for President. Connecticut will have 6 votes for President. You must persuade a child to place confidence in you, if you wish to form an open, upright char acter ; you cannot terrify it into habits of truth. A surly bachelor remarks, that the ladies fashions for the ensuing season, show a persis tent determination in the dear creatures to crawl out of their dresses through the upper part. Illinois will have 11 votes for President. Indiana will have 13 votes for President. lowa will have 4 votes for President. Be not affronted at a jest. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou hast sore places. An old sailor said that he supposed that girls wore their dresses at half-mast, as a mark of res pect to departed modesty. Kansas will have 3 votes for President. Maine will have 8 votes for President. Massachusetts will have 14 votes for President. A woman's tongue is a sharp weapon that she should never draw, except in her self-defence, and then only after the strongest provocation. That weapon, sharp as it is, is never so effective as when tempered with mercy. When a woman arrays herself a la Bloomer, it may be said that she pants for notoriety. Michigan will have 6 votes for President. Minnesota will have 4 votes for President. Neto Hampshire will have 5 votes for Presi dent. Pride. —“ Thus do I tread on the pride of Plato,” said Diogenes, setting his foot on the robe of the Academic. “ Yes, with the greater pride of Diogenes,” returned Plato. The editor who kissed his sweet-heart, saying “please exchange,” is believed not to have ex ceeded the proper “ liberty of the press.” New Jersey will have 7 votes for President. New York will have 35 votes for President. Ohio will have 23 votes for President. What men want is not talent, but purpose; in other words, not the *power to achieve, but the will to labor. An editor received a letter, in which weather was spelt " wethur.” He said it was the worst spell of weather he had ever seen. Oregon will have 3 votes for President. Pennsylvania will have 27 votes for President. Rhode Island will have 4 votes for President. They that laugh at everything, and they that fret at everything, are fools alike. We suppose that the man who, in the hour of danger, turns pale and makes his escape, may be said to come off with flying colors. Vermont will have 5 votes for President, Wisconsin will have 5 votes for President. Every wooden leg that takes the place of a leg lost in battle, is a stump speech against war. When you receive a note from your ladyo love and kiss it, (as, of course, you are expected to do,) why is it like the nightmare ?—Because it is the ink-you-buss. The fifteen Slave States of the Union will have 120 votes for President at the next election in 1860. The Free States will have in the next Electo ral College, a majority of 66 votes. Wo may owe it to om enemies to forgive: we owe it to ourselves not to forget. On a very pretty girl’s saying to Lwgh Hunt: “ I am very sad-you-see," he replied: “ 0, no, you belong to the other Jewish sect •, you are fair-I-see."' Alabama will have 9 votes for President. Arkansas will have 4 votes for President. Delaware will have 3 votes for President. Florida will have 3 votes for President. Georgia will have 10 votes for President. Natural dignity of mind or manners can never be concealed —it ever commands respect; as sumed dignity, our ridicule and contempt. Bill came running into the house the other day, and asked eagerly, “ Where does charity begin ?" “At home,” replied Tom, in the words of the proverb. “ Not a bit of it,” rejoined Bill, “ it begins at sea (c).” Kentucky will have 12 votes for President. Louisiana will have 6 votes for President. Maryland will have 8 votes for President. Mississippi will have 7 votes for President. “If the best man’s faults were written on his forehead, it would make him pull his hat over his eyes.” “Union is not always strength,” as the sailor said when he saw the purser mixing his rum with water. Missouri will have 9 votes fi r President. North Carolina will have 10 votes for Presi dent. Soidh Carolina will have 8 votes for President. X&K SOTOXKaat VXSX.It SIX vxsssxvs. In youth hearts are trumps, in manhood dia monds and clubs, according to circumstances, but after all, spades are sure to win, when the game of life closes. “ Oh, dear!” exclaimed a young sehool-girl, when she first beheld a cucumber, “ I always thought such things grew in slices.” Tennessee will have 12 votes for President. Texas will have 4 votes for President. Virginia will have 15 votes for President. Sheridan said, beautifully, women govern us; let us render them perfect. The more they are enlightened, so much the more shall we be. On the cultivation of the mind of women depends the wisdom of men. — PERSONAL. Ex-President Van Buber is writing his “ Life and Times." Verdi announces his intention of coming to America, for the purpose of setting to music the Falls of Niagara. Professor J. Madison Watson has been lec turing in Washington before the Board of Edu cation, with great success. Madame Jumel, the widow of Aaron Burk, was recently at Saratoga Springs. She is 80 years old. A new life of Dr. Coke, the first Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, is in prepara tion by Dr. Etheridge, of England. Bishop Spalding, of Louisville, Ky., (Cath olic), has nearly ready for publication, a revised edition of his Review of D’Aubigne. Mr. Alfred Tennyson, the English Poet lau reate, after a short sojourn in Lisbon, has repair ed to Cintra, where he is idyll-ing away his time. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, the greatest female poet of England, has been quite ill at Tuscany, Italy. The President has appointed Wm. G. Jones Judge of the Court of the United States for the Northern and Southern District of Alabama, vice Wm. Gayle, deceased; Hon. Edward Everett has accepted an invi tation to deliver an address at the Georgia State Fair, to be held in Atlanta from the 24th to the 28th of October.— [Crusader. We learn that Rev. J. E. Ryerson, has re signed the pastoral charge of the First Baptist Church in Augusta, and that his resignation has been accepted. It is confidently asserted that the poet Proc tor, “Barry Cornwall,” writes the “Trade Songs” which occasionally appear in “All the Year Round.” The Rev. John Quinian, of Cincinnati, Presi dent of the Mt. St. Mary’s of the West, has been recognized at Rome as Bishop of the dio cese of Mobile, vacant by the death of Bishop Portier. The statement that the Hon. Reverdy John son intends visiting Paris, to have an operation performed upon his injured eye, is contradicted by the National Intelligencer. He is now able to attend to his professional business. Fanny Fern is said to have nearly completed a new story of considerable length, which is to be published by Mason Brothers. Its character, plot, and even its name, are withheld by the au thoress, even from her own family. Jenny Lind Goldschmidt is a member of the New Episcopal Church of St. John, in the Parish of Putney, London. The Bishop of London re cently consecrated the edifice, and Mr. Otto Goldschmidt has undertaken to act gratuitously as organist for one year. The late George Brown, a merchant of Balti more, recently deceased, has left bequests of $50,000 to the House of Refuge in that city; $25,000 to the First Presbyterian Church, Bal timore ; and $20,000 to the Princeton College, New Jersey. By the will of the late Francis Perkins of Fichburg, the sura of SBOOO is bequeathed to the American Unitarian Association, to be used for the purpose of educating destitute young men for the Christian ministry. Mr. Corcoran, the eminent banker of Wash ington, is erecting on Pennsylvania avenue an art gallery, which is estimated to cost some $200,000. The gallery will be free, and will be managed by trustees appointed by Mr. Corcoran. A good example this. Among the missionaries who sail for Japan in November, we observe the name of the Rev. Mr. Allen, of the Georgia Methodist Conference. Rev. L. Wood, of the North Carolina Confe rence, Rev. Mr. Stewart of the Tennessee Con ference, and two Ministers of the Memphis Con ference. Mr. William Siiarswood, of Philadelphia, has presented to the Boston Natural History Society an engraving of Linnaeus, at the age of twenty five, in his Lapland costume, executed in Berlin from a photograph taken from an oil painting in the Library of the Zoological Society of Amster dam. The numerous friends of the Hon. W. C. Pres ton, will be highly gratified to learn his health within these few months has been better than for some years. He is expected the present week by his friend, Judge King, at Flat Rock, where he will spend a few days, on his way to his home in Columbia, S. C. The artist Robinson, of Providence, has re turned from a year's absence in Europe, bring ing with him twenty copies of famous works of art which he has made dunng his absence, most of which were ordered. Among them were fnll sized copies of Rosa Bonheur’s “ Hay Field ” and “ Plough Field,” the former six feet by threo, and the latter somewhat smaller. We learn from the most reliabie source, says the Washington States, that the family of Mr. Preston, in Kentucky, are daily expecting his return from Sp»in. llis arrival is regarded as certain within the next month ; in which event, as our informant tells us, DU domestic interests will not allow his return to Madrid. A paragraph has been going the rounds o r the newspapers lately, to the effect that Wm. Pitt is the only man of eminence who has not tried his hand at poetry. It is a mistake. In Lord Campbell’s Lives of the Chief Justices of England, in the biography of Lord Mansfield, it is stated that Mansfield and Pitt were com petitors for the poetical prize at College. Nothing is talked of in Paris but the armor of Madle. Vestivali in the part of Romeo. It is of aluminum, cost 16,000 f., and weighs four pounds. That worn by Madamo Pasta in the same part was of fine steel, weighed thirty-sev en pounds, was made at the royal works in Prus sia, and cost nearly ten thousand dollars, our money. Hon. Oliver J.< Morgan, of Louisiana, has presented to Bishop Polk, of that State, the handsome sum of forty thousand dollars, as the foundation of a professorship of agricultural chemistry in tho “ University of the South.”— This magnificent donation makes up the entire amount of five hundred thousand dollars, re quired by the charter for the establishment of the proposed University. Hon. Jeremiah Clemens, of Memphis, Tenn., and the author of “ Bernard Lile,* etc., has a new i volume in the press of Lippincott & Co., Phila delphia, entitled “The Rivals'—an historical novel relating to the life and tines of Aaron Birr. Mr. Clemens was foimerly United States Senator from Alabama; bat, in connec tion with the Hon. Solan Borlanc, is now edit ing the Memphis Enquirer. Gen. M. B. Lamar. —“ The h(te mission of Gen. Lamar to the Central American States, and his patriotism and fidelity in the discharge of his official duties, has made him the sibject of abuse by hireling correspondents of nothem papers, influenced to such a course byhisrefusal to lend his support to the aggrandizementpf speculators and contractors. The machinations against him have not even raised a feather in ljs plume. “ The charge at the battle of S<i Jacinto led by Lamar and Sidney Sherman, was one of the most dashing feats of arms ever atipmpted. Not the murderous onset of the Light Brigade at Ba laklava was superior to it in boldness and rapid ity. Less than one hundred men badly mount ed, poorly armed, almost without food for men or horses, charged the entire Mexican army, the dense square of which bristled with bayonets, and under tho immediate command of Santa Anna himself. The most terrible execution was made in the ranks of the enemy, and the freedom of Texas was the result of that battle.” Cohmbus Times. NEWS SUMMARY. The Fillibusters.— New Orleans, Oct. 6. The departure of the steamship St. Louis was not confirmed. The government ordered the U. S. Marshal at New Orleans to seize the steamship Philadel phia, if he was satisfied tljat she was concerned with the fillibusters and t|eir movements. A company of Federal (Artillery from Baton Rouge was on the way to* a point on the river below New Orleans. Washington, Oct. 7.—1 despatch received here says that the Pantlie has been seized, also her officers and crew, by t le U. S. Marshall, who is now making arrangeme its to arrest the filli busters at the Southwest 1 ’ass. New Orleans, Oct. 7.—' he Fillibusters have been arrested at the Soutt west Pass, by the U. S. Marshall, who was assi ited by the Company of Artillery, from Baton Rouge. The fillibusters peacably surrendered at one o’clock. New Orleans, Oct. B.—The Fillibusters arrived here in custody of the United States Marshal this morning. Messrs. Maury, Faissoux, Ander son and Scott have been held to bail in the sum of S3OOO to answer the charge against them on Monday week. The rest of the men, who were left at the barracks, have since decamped, hav ing been left there unguarded. In coming up the river, the Fillibusters made the soldiers leave the steamer; a colliaion between the two parties was at one time almost certain. The Fillibusters state that they were on a fishing party. New' Orleans, Oct 11.—It is reported on good authority that the Custom House officers have discovered a secret receptacle in the steamship Philadelphia, containing boxes of muskets.— They are supposed to have been taken aboard at New York. Fatal Duel in California — United States Senator killed.—The Telegraph this morning an nounces the fact that Hon. David Broderick, U. S. Senator from California, was killed on the morning of the 13th ult, near San Francisco, in a duel with Judge Terry, of the California Su preme Court. The parties had attempted a meet ing a few days before, but were arrested and put under bonds to keep the peace. Mr. Broderick was a native of New York, and emigrated to California shortly after it became a State. Judge Terry is a native of Virginia. The former was piercod through the lungs, and died on the morn ing of the 16th. The latter was uninjured.— There was a profound sensation at the funeral on the 18th. It was the most imposing spectacle ever was witnessed in California. Judge Terry has been arrested, and the pub lic are very much incensed against him. Emigration to Texas. The McMinnville (Tenn.) New Era says, the emigration through that town for Texas this year is very heavy.— Scarcely a day has passed for the last two weeks that an emigrant train has not passed through that place. The most of them are going to Eastern Texas. Naval Academy. —Under the late regulations the following Congressional Districts are entitled to pupils in tho U. S. Naval Academy at Anna polis: South Carolina, 3d District; Georgia, Ist, 4th and Bth Districts; Alabama, 3d, 6th and 7th Districts; Tennessee, 3d District; Kentucky, 3d, 4th, 6th and 7tli Districts; Mississippi, Ist District; Louisiana, Ist and 4th Districts. The person appointed shall be an actual resi dent of the Congressional District of the State from which appointed, and be recommended by the member of Congress representing the Dis trict in which he resides. Candidates must be over fourteen and under eighteen years of ago at the time of examination for admission, and must be free from deformity, disease and imper fections of the senses. Nominations are sent by members of Congress to the Secretary of the Navy, who issues a per mit to the candidates to present themselves at the Naval Academy to be examined for admit tance. A general examination for this purpose will be held at the Academy between the 25th October and Ist November next. The New York Academy of Medicine had somewhat of an exciting meeting on Wednes day night, the question being the endorsement of the resolution adopted by the National Quarantine and Sanitary Convention, in April, to the effect that yellow fever is not contagious, and that personal quarantine may bo safely abolished, provided that fomites of every kind bo rigidly restricted. Dr. Griscom read a paper advocating the resolutions, which were opposed by Drs. Reese, Francis and Valentine Mott, al though for different reasons. The discussion lasted till a late hour, when the further consid eration of the subject was postponed till the next meeting. Earthquakes. —There were two distinct shocks of earthquakes in San Francisco on the 9th, and another on the 10th September. Reception of the Great Eastern.—Ar rangements have been made at Portland, Me., to signal the steamship Great Eastern thirty miles out at sea; on her appearance the flags of the United States, England and France, will be displayed from the City Hall and Observatory, signal guns will be fired, and the fire-alarm bells rung. As she approaches the harbor, salutes will be fired from Fort Prebble and other points, and the bells of the city will peel forth a merry volume. The English papers strongly denounce the in- complete and hurried manner in which the ship was sent to sea. A vague rumor has been cur rent that her first voyage would be postponed until next year, and that in the interim she would be exhibited at the principal ports in the Kingdom. This, however, .is authoritatively contradicted, and she is still advertised to leave Holyhead for Portland, on the 20th of October. Remains of Franklin. —The screw steamer Fox, Captain McClintock, sent by Lady Franklin to the Arctic regions in search of the traces of Sir John Franklin’s expedition to England had returned to England, having been completely successful. At Point William, on the North west coast of King William’s Island, a record was found dated April 25, 1843, signed by Capts. Crozier and Fitzjames. The record says, the Erebus and Terror were abandoned throe days previously in the ice, five leagues to the N. N. W., and that the survivors, in all amounting to one hundred and five, were proceeding to Great Fish River. Sir John Franklin died J une 11, 1847, and the total deaths to date had been nine officers and fifteen men. Many deeply interesting relics of the expedi tion were found on the western shore of King William’s Island, and others were obtained from tho Esquimaux, who stated that after their abandonment one ship was crushed in the ice and sunk and the other forced on shore, where she remained. The Fox was unable to penetrate beyond Bel lot Straits, and wintered in Brentford Bay. Minute and interesting details of the expedi tion are published. Several skeletons of Franklin’s men, large quantities of clothing, etc., and a duplicate re cord up to the abandonment of tho ships, were discovered. General Twiggs has asked to be relieved in November, from the command of the military department in Texas. The Austin State Gazette has information that the Camanches and other tribes are forming a grand expedition against Northern Texas, the coming winter. Late accounts from Texas state that the In dians are committing great depredations on the Rio Grande and frontier, in Texas, since the withdrawal of the United States troops. Circassia. —Schamyl was betrayed and de livered a prisoner to the Russians for a bribe of six million roubles. The Circassians continue to war against Rus sia. The Times' Paris correspondent again draws attention to the great activity in the French dock-yards, and states that he had been assured there are now budding, or under orders to be built, twenty ships-of-tho-line, ten of the very largest size, and tho othsrs of inferior calibre; but all strictly fighting ships, steel-plated, and all provided with iron beaks or prows. Cherbourg is about to be armed completely on a war footing, and that rifled cannon is being provided for all its batteries. The Pope remains in a very alarming state, and Cardinal Antonelli had declared him unfit to attend to public affairs. Conclusion of letter from the Republican on China, Minister Ward’s proceedings, and the English defeat at the mouth of the Peiho.— (From “News’ Summary” of last week.) “At 9 P. M., the tide rising, we were again afloat, and dropping below the line of the French and English, cast an anchor. During the night, a portion of the first barrier was blown up by the English, and two shots were fired from the forts. The day following, Saturday, beihg the last day of grace given by the Admiral, we watched his movements with intense anxiety. At 10 A. M., the squadron was placed in posi tion for attack, and there allowed to remain within fire but without molestation, until 24 P. M. Up to this time there had not been seen upon the fortifications, a single Chinaman, nor a single gun been visible. The bows of the ships having now turned with the tide towards the entrance of the river, the admiral weighed an chor and passed within the first barrier. Scarcely had he done so, when he was fired upon from the forts. Quick as thought he dropped his an chor, returned the fire, and the battle became general. Never, perhaps, had the expression, “catching a tartar,” been more applicable. The English and French, entertaining an ex alted opinion of their own prowess and invinci bility, and from past experience, a very con temptible one of the Chinese, anticipated an easy victory. Two ideas seemed prominent in the mind of every man engaged in the expedi tion—success and promotion. Gallant fellows, they are, tool Upon the Flag ship the loss of life was fearful; at one time but three men be ing left capable of duty. The firing from the forts was worthy of the most skillful gunners; it was incessant and every shot told. But al though every sbip in the action was struck, al most riddled by balls, not a mast was shot away; to sink the vessels being apparently the main object. So well supported in point of num bers, courage and ammunition were the Chinese, that, although each of the thirteen vessels on gaged, fired four hundred rounds, yet not one of the forts was permanently silenced. At SP. M. we received a message from the Admiral, stating his desperate situation, and requesting the use of the Toeywan to tow up their storming party. The Admiral had been twice wounded, had two ships sunk under him, and had trans ferred his flag to the third, whence, reclining on deck, he issued his orders with the utmost cool ness. Commodore Tatnall and Minister Ward consulted together upon the propriety of render ing the required assistance, and finally concluded that an act of humanity should not be construed into a breach of neutrality. Before leaving, however, upon this business, the Commodore insisted that the Minister and entire American Legation should quit the shrt). We were, ac cordingly, summarily dispatched upon a neigh boring junk. When the steamer, however, re turned to take a second load of troops, we sig nalled for a boat and returned on board. We then anchored in tho midst of the vessels, and while transferring the men Ac., were in the thi/*‘ est of the fight. Here, the cannon balls d ew thick and fast about us. One passed between our heads and the awning, and sever" 80 near that I could have almost caught thn« n in my hat Commodore Tatnall, like a chivaV° U3 Georgian, as he is, went in his open ba"B>© through the most exposed positions, to r*y a visit of sym pathy to his wounded brother officer, the Admi ral. While within a few feat of his ship, a ball struck and sunk his toat, killing his coxswain and stunning his fl.-tf Lieut. Trenchard at his side. • At half past ** the storming party landed, under a destructive fire from each of the eight forts. Swimming and floundering over two ditches of mud and water, they came to the third fill'd with soft mud and iron spikes, which they found impossible to pass. Here, entirely at tbe mercy of the Chinese, who, it now being dark, threw up rockets to expose the position of their adversaries, they were shot down like rice birds. The desperate resistance and deadly firing of the previous four hours seemed not at all to diminish the confidence of the English. An officer of their Marine corps, who, with his Company, spent the night upon the Toeywan, stood at my side with his opera glass, and com- ‘ mented upon their supposed progress and suc cess. Alas, poor fellows! they had despised the old maxim, ‘ never underrate your enemy,” and dearly did they pay for it. Os the five hundred comprising the storming yarty, nearly one half were killed and wounded, and not a half dozen approached nearer than two hundred yards of the forts. Until ten o’clock the firing was kept up with undiminished vigor, and during the en tire night random shots were fired on both sides. At daylight, the English and French dropped below the line of fire, leaving behind them sunk, or abandoned, one dispatch and five gun-boats. Seldom, if ever, has a naval engagement proved more fatal; six of the thirteen ships in action sunk or abandoned, and five hundred, of less than eleven hundred men killed or wound- 1 ed. The English Admiral, as above stated, was twice wounded; the French Admiral wounded: I the gallant Captain who came to our assistance while apronnd, lost his head at the first tire. The Senior Captain of the English Squadron was severely wounded, and the Captain of the " Jfagicienne" (English minister’s ship,) was twice wouuded, and suffered amputation of the leg. The fleet Captain (a fighting man with 1 Crimean medal) was severely wounded. Major and Captain of Marines killed, Ac., Ac. ] The English have succeeded in recovering two of their ships. Even now, eight days after the action, the firing from the forts still con tinues. On "Wednesday last, 29th nit., our Minister being determined to leave no effort untried to reach Pekin, or effect the exchange of the treaty, 1 entrusted me with «- letter addressed to the Governor General, and despatched me In the 1 Toeywan, in search of the place (north entrance ' of the Peiho) and the man. After steaming , about six miles, in a northerly direction, we dis covered junks’ masts over the land, and an inlet J well fortified. The water being shallow, and no channel known, we could only approach within four miles of the shore. Thence we steamed 1 in a north-west course for about five miles, and discovered a large village. The steamer being ) unable to approach nearer than two and a half miles, I took a small boat, and with Mr. Martin, interpreter, and Mr. Merchant, midshipman, pulled for shore. It being then low water, and i the beach shelving very gradually, even our small boat got aground at a distance of three quarters of a mile from shore. "We then boarded l two junks in the vicinity, in the hope of finding some one who would undertake to deliver the 1 letter. Both the junks, had, however, been de serted at our approach. Determined to fulfil , my commission, and seeing no other mode of doing so, I proposed to wade ashore. To this ) my companions assented, and rolling up our pants, we plunged in. As we neared the shore, we saw the villagers flying in every direction, t on foot, horseback, and in covered wagons. Upon shore, we succeeded in holding communication i with two of tho villagers, who told us or rather * the interpreter (for neither Merchant nor I un- ( derstood a word of what was passing,) that a large force of Tartar cavalry was in the vicinity; j that runners had been sent for them, and that wo had better hasten back to our boat, as they were seen approaching, and would certainly ) kill the party. The interview lasted certainly not over five minutes, during which time Mr. j Martin was in such a state of excitement, that be did not translate a word for us. Suddenly we saw him thrust the letter and cards into the hands of one of the villagers and take to the j water for the boat. Merchant looked at me, and I looked at him, with tho simultaneous exclama tion, “what in the deuce is he running for?” f It was soon explained by the visible presence of a body of cavalry, numbering some four or five v hundred, who came thundering down upon us. No more questions were asked, but never, I suspect, were straighter coat tails seen, nor bet- ' ter time made through water, than on that oc- i casion. We were pursued only a short distance into tho water. This running through the water, up to tho knees, is hard work and poor j fun, when kept up for three-quarters of a mile. An hour’s pull brought us to the Toeywan, to the v great joy of our friends, who witnessed the flight ' and chase. At 8 P. M. we were again aboard the Powha tan. I wish you distinctly to understand (as I ( reported to the Minister) that we ran, not be cause we anticipated the slightest danger or en tertained the least fear, but simply because, hav- t ing delivered the letter and fulfilled our commis sion, we wore anxious to get back to the Pow- t hatan and report thereon as soon as possible t ‘ On Saturday, 2d inst., two large junks came ( down to us laden with provisions, sheep, pigs, poultry, vegetables, fruits, Ac. They brought j also a letter from the Tonti, or Chief of the Dis trict, addressed to “ Tho American Minister,” announcing tliat his letter had been received j into responsible hands, and would be delivered to the Governor General, who, we understood « them to say, will be on the coast in a few days ' to furnish us with means of conveyance to Pekin. What will be the result, what or when our next move, it is impossible to say. Yours, Ac.. Powhatan. Nothing of importance from China since the affair at Peiho. _ A Hong Kong paper says, that Minister Ward is still aboard his ship, and it ishttle like- 1 ly that he will ratify his treaty, as the English Minister. < Another one thinks that ho has probably gone to Pekin. I A Russian dispatch from St. Petersburg, says that Minister Wai*> arrived at Pekin, and was confined there. France ha* sent to China twenty thousand men and twenty-two ships. t Upwrfds of a thousand mariners, strong de- » ofthe rifle brigade, two light infantry ( raiments, etc., were to leave England for China oy the overland route. The first of the squad- ) rons for the service against China had already sailed. The Government intend dispatching fif ty gunboats, besides frigates and other vessels. } The monster Tournament of one hundred com- | petitors, which was arranged some months since at the Case de la Regence, in Paris, has just been < completed. Os the five prizes, Johrnoud won the first, and Potier the second. 1 The London chess-publishing journals are full of extracts from Mr. Morphy’s Ledger column; j bis admirable notes to the Labourdonnais-M’Don nell games are loudly praised. v MARRIED. t At Trinity Church, in this city, by the Rev. Wm. L , Hawks, on the evening of the sth inst, Mr. JOHN H. BUTTB and Miss JOHN GELINE M. WINTER, daughter of John 6. Winter, esq.— [Columbus Sun. 165