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SUjf dollar Ncmg, s^Asysy-^iga Tlie Foreign Siewa. The papers received by the Africa and Arago at New York, contain little of interest that has not already been given to our readers by telegraph. The latest particulars from Sebastopol are as follows: General Simpson’s mail dispatch of the 18th says General Pelissier having announced to me that the batteries against the Malakoff and adjacent works were prepared to open fire, they commenced yesterday morning against these works aud the Redan. This was continued throughout the day, and the effect produced was as much aa was antici pated. The Russian lire, which at first an swered briskly, became by evening feeble.— In the afternoon shells from our mortars ig nited, und a number of them exploded in one ©f the enemy’s batteries, doing apparently much damage. Captains Oldfield and Ham met have been killed. The British loss is 188. } General Gortschakoff, on the night of the £7th, telegraphs :—Affairs are unchanged, but the fire of the Allies ia occasionally very Strong. There is a report in London to-day that General Simpson ia sick, and that General Ben ti uck (# thc senior officer, has taken com mand. Decisive operations will not be undertaken uatil the Allies have crossed the Tehernaya and occupied the heights on the right bank, and succeeded iu separating the Russian forces on the Tehernaya and Belbec rivers. The reinforcements are collecting for this purpose. Meantime, however, the Russians •re expected to offer the Allies another battle near the Cemetery. The Russians are daily expecting the arri val of Gen. Panmtino with nine thousand cavalry, three thousand infantry, and one hundred and sixty guns. It is reported that Gen. Simpson has be come convinced of his incompetency as Gen eral-in-Chief, and has signified his intention of retiring. The English papers are filled with accounts of the Queen’s visit to Paris, and of the en thusiasm of the French people. The Queen seems to have completely won the hearts of the Parisians, entering into all their gaieties, and charming even the old generals into a momentary forgetfulness of their hatred of “ la per fide Albion.” The Loudon lime* thus ridicules the boait *cd success of the English in the Baltic. We must say that the actual results are an immense deduction from the boasted vic tory. Just consider how the matter really stood at the close of the bombardment be tween us und the Russians. We had not si lenced their batteries, but we had sileuced our own. We were silenced not only for the preseut, but for the whole season, “for any thing that now appears. Our victory of Swea borg is only a lesson of self-defence which we give Russia at no great coat to her, but at im mense cost to ourselves. Our people, indeed, are attempting to calculate tno damage we have done in pounds sterling. But, if this is to be the single achievement of the season in the Baltic, wo fear the balauce is sadly against us, for the fleets iu that sea have not cost the allies a farthing under ten, millions a-piece, and the utmost damage tie can boast to have done at Moeaborj is a million and a half, or thereabouts. The mere pecuniary results of the season, then, arc immensely against us. That, however, is a small affair. The worst is, that we have thrown away the opportuni ties of this year just lor want of looking for ward and being prepared, for the contingen cies o t success. Next year, doubtless, wo •hall have mortars enough ; but the Russians will then be prepared for us, and we may not be able to go through our pretty but destruc tive dunce of gun boats, just within range with the same success. The truth is, the Rus sians learn faster than we do, and will always be ju t so much ahead of us as to set at defi ance our immense superiority of wealth aud mechanical skill; at least, “they will do so still there is rather more of the vivida visan imi, which is ever foreseeing and providing for the future in our conduct of the war. Later from Mexico. The ateamship Orizaba, (Japt. Forbes, ar rived at New Orleans on the 12th from Vera Cruz, with iutelligcnce from that city to the Btb inst., on which day she left, and lrom the Capital to the 51 h. Gen. Ignacio de la Llave, who placed him self at the head of the liberating lorces of Ve ra Cruz, refused to acknowledge the new provisional government under Can-era, as not formed in accordance with the plan of Ay ut la, and meeting with some opposition from rieuor Coroua he took possession of the city', fight ing as much as was necessary to enable him do ao. He .subsequently issued an address to the inhabitants m which he apologized for having found it necessary to disturb them, and laid down the course he intended to pur sue, strictly in accordance with the plan named. A number of meetings were held immediately afterwards, from which acts of adhesion were at once sent m to him, and his administration was acknowledged. He next proceeded to organize the National Guard. In Vera Cruz itseii at latest accounts everything oeemed to be going on satisfactorily. The arrival of the lturbide at Vera Cruz from Havana seems to have scarcely been ex pected. Reports had been circulated that Bauta Anua purposed selling that vessel and the Guerrero ut Havana,aud orders hud been issued to the Mexican representatives abroad to endeavor to prevent his doing so. A company of 144 men of the 9th Regi ment, who hud been imprisoned under the late Government, for having sought to join the liberators, were set free on the 29th, and immediately proceeded to their respective homes. This the Progreso pronounces to be desertion Gen Llave, on tbe 6th inst,., issued a decree, in consequence of having heard that Santa Anna’s agents were disposing of his property ub hastily as possible, ordering that they should be put into possession of Seaor D. Fe liciano Bicarte, in behalf of the Government, to which measures should be immediately’ taken to secure them. The Progreso, noticing the death of Gen. Arista, curtly remarks upon it: “One pre tender less lor the Presidency !” From the capital the principal item ot’ in terest is the announcement that the tariff'of Ceballos Das been adopted. At Zacatecas the plan of San Luis Potosi was at first proclaimed by the garrison and tome others, retaining the late officials at the head of affairs. This was on the 16th, but on 1 the 17th the people rose, armed themselves, and putting the garrison to flight,after an en gagement of seven hours, adopted the plau of Ayutla, and appointed officials accordingly.— General Zamora was charged with the exec- i utive. Gens. Alvarez aud Comonfort were march- ‘ ingon Mexico and were daily expected. The i Omnibus, of the 4th, says that the principal j parties regarded as likely to be considered in , the choice of the President are Alvarez, Com- j onfort, de la Lluve, Vidaurri, and Haro y i Tamariz. Vidaurri is said to disapprove of’ the plan proclaimed iu fcJun Imta by Parrodi, i Guilian and lluro y Tamariz. A number of employees who iiad been re moved by Santa Anna huve been replaced by the new Government. Bagging and Rope.— l The St. Louis Price Curreut of Sept. 6, says: The market for these articles opened unu sually early this season, partly owing ton demand from a portioii of Mississippi not usually dependent upon this market. Country merchants on the line of the Memphis umJ Charleston Railroad have laid in unusual •upplies The market opened at 16W a for Bagging, and &V a fie. for Hope ; but owing to the heavy advances iu Hemp above and light stocks Bagging and Hope, the arti cles have steadily and tinnly advanced ; it is now held in lots at 18 a 19c. for Bagging, and y# a 10c. for machine Hope. At retail the quotations are ly a 20c., and 10c. India Bagging in lots at a 18c., retail 20c. The AniEL. —This vesseel, about which the public have lately hoard so much, cleared on Wednesday, from Charleston, for the prose cution of her voyage to Shanghai, China.— j She is under the command ot Capt. Cutler, and is manned by an entirely new crew thosa originally engaged for the voyage being i retained as witnesses tor the investigation of the murder of Capt. Eayrs. New Cotton.— On the 2d instant we re oeived, per mail steamer Cusseta, the first lot of the new crop of cotton —22 bales—from the plantation ot'Maj. Jesse Cole, Jackson •ouuty, Florida. The staple is unusually floe and long. It was consigned to D. G. Raney, Esq., and was sold on the 6lh inst. to Messrs. J. U. Macluy Cos. at 10 cents.— The classification of the cotton was, 13 bales of Good Middling, and 4 of Liverpool Mid-’ 4Uog.~~ Apalachicola Afotr titer. UiST The uu## of New York oity this year J JM $5,141,5f1t: J SAVANNAH DOLLAR NEWS i Fall Fevcr*f and How to Avoid Them ’ The season has come when fevers prevail. | A fever taken iu the fall, moreover, is more { apt to be stubborn than one Caught in the spring. Under these circumstances, a few hints, without regard to autumnal fevers ‘ may do good. i Most fevers are the result of carelessness. l Of course, we speak of fever in its ordinary j form, and not of it when epidemic. The pre vailing fever of the full seasou is the inter- I mittent, commonly known us the ague, in which the fever goes off for a time, or inter : mit-s, making way lor an access of cold, i which, in severe cases, rises to a chill that i shakes the whole person. This fever, once i taken, is frequently not got rid of till the fol | lowing spring, and often hangs about the I victim for u longer time, continually recur ! ring. A drink of iced lemonade, or a north easterly wind, has been known to bring back 1 this fever, long after the individual hud .sup pose himself cured of it. Not uufreqently it lis present when least suspected. A nervous ! irritability, a slight disposition to chilliness, aud a feeling of indescribable wretchedness, often attend persons, who are yet unable to tell what is tbe matter with them. They really suffer from intermittent * fever.— In fact, it prevails, under this low’ type, to a ! far greater degree than is generally imag ined. Exposure to the night air at this season, sitting in damp rooms, or remaining with wet clothes on, are the most ordinary exam ples of the carelessness through which this fever is caught. Citizens who are visiting in the country, or who live iu suburban cot tages, are particularly liuble to intermittent, for they sit out in tho moon light, without their heads being covered, just us they would in town, and the consequence is a fit of the chills. Others, forgetting that country houses are damper than city ones, neglect to uiuke fires morning and evening, a ‘thing almost indispensible for health, lor though farmers do not do this, it is because they sit in their kitchens, where there are such tires, and therefore do not feel the need of it. Phys icians attribute these fevers to the miasm in the atmosph re, caused by tho decay of veg etable matter in damp localities. Jntermit teuts always prevail most where, after heavy rains iu June and July, the sun comes out hot in August and September. To live near 1 a tract of land actually buried under water, is not therefore as unhealthy as to reside near j a half drained meadow or swamp. High I lands generally, though not invariable, are M exempt. A wood or lull sheltering a house j from the winds that blow from a noxious lo cality, frequently protects the inmates from tukiug the disease. ! Cure, iu avoiding an intermittent, is the I most necessary, beease the fever sometimes, ) though not often, runs into severe types.— j Next in danger to intermittent is the remit | tent, in which the fever subsides for a while but afterwards returns with its old violence, j The ordinary bilious fever is of this charac- I ter. The continued levers are the most dau | gerous’of all. When yellow fever prevails epi i uemicully, fevers of less virulence, and of all : types, rage in the same region, attacking j those who escape the pestilence; and some j physicians say that they also exist, to a j greater degree than usual, for a year or two j preceding the epidemic, thus giving warning jof its approach. But this opinion is not uui- I versally held. A careful collection und|auayal ! ysis offacts, derived from the late experience I of New Orleans, Savannah, and Norfolk, ! might, however, definitely determine ibis question. ! Exhaustion of the physical powers, either j by excess? fatigue, or protracted grief, ren i dera the individual peculiarly liable to fall ! fever. The surest way to avoid them is to I live moderately, eating nourishing food, i food, taking daily exercise, and cultivating j cheerfullness of mind. An “ounce of pre j ventive,” remember, is worth “always a { pound of cure.” —Philadelphia Ledger. - I Fight with an Elk.—Tbe Ohio State Jour nal says that on Monday evening last John Steiner, herdsman to Mr. M. L. Sullivan, had ! a desperate fight with a buck elk. Mr. S. ! was attempting to drive away the cows, when i the elk, which was always associated with the cows, constituting himself leader of the Hock, and making them go where he pleased to the pasture, shook his head, stamped his feet, and showed that he did not wish the ! cattle to go away. Mr. S. picked up a stick, and the elk, with his hair bristled up, plunged ! at him. Mr. S. struck the animal an ineffec tual blow, and then seizing him by the horns and nose, attempted to protect himself from | the thrusts of his tremendous horns, and i continued the struggle for more than an j hour, when he fainted, and the elk, thinking | him dead, left him. Mr. S. was hardly able, | when he recovered his senses, to drag him self to hia cabin, and there be managed— ’ finding that owing to internal haemorrhage I his breathing was becoming difficult, aud ! there was no one near to help him—to saddle i his horse and ride to Frank Union, a distance of two miles. His injuries are thus de | scribed : i One prong of the antler entered his chest j a little below the heart, lacerating the left j lung, the other piercing the right. A dread ful gash, some five inches long, on the right | thigh, barely missing the femoral artery, and ; the back and body are very much bruised. The elk has always, previous to this occur i renee, been peaceable, lie is described us a | noble specimen of his race, proud and creet J iu his carriage, and crowned with a pair of j enormous spreading antlers. Pennsylvania ajtcl the South. | The Richmond Whig, in speaking of the re -1 suit of the Wheeler c>so in Philadelphia, ! makes the following pungent comment : j “ The Judge, (Kelly,) in his charge, besides ■ intimating very clearly his sympathies for the • black ruffians, laid it down as indispensible law, that the negro woman and her children were us free as Col. Wheeler, as soon as they ! touched Pennsylvania soil—that no mas | ter can take his slave with him in passing through Pennsylvania without thereby libera- I ting him. In other words, that the property j of a citizen of Virginia is no longer property !in Pennsylvania. Well, this being law in I Pennsylvania, we suppose, it is competent | for Virginia to pass some laws bearing upon j Pennsylvania property. If they rob und steal our negroes under color of law, we may, and we shall be recreant to our best in ! terests if we do not, speedily take redress into j our own hands. Citizens of Pennsylvania, no doubt have a large amount of property— | goods, wares and merchandise, and, perhaps, i some heavy debts, within the limits of Vll - ginia. Let the law lay hands upon every par ticle that cau be found in the Commonwealth aud let express provision be made, that no officer shall be required to swear to support the Federal Constitution, where those States j are concerned who disregarded that instru | ment. f We much prefer carrying on this sort of ! system of reprisals with our Yankee brethren, j There is plenty of Yankee property in the | South at this tune to reimburse us for all the negroes they have stolen from us. One gene ral, comprehensive, sweeping statute in every Southern State, will reach the whole of it.— Let the Union stand forever, with the same ! fraternal, cordial feelings which exist in one j quarter, extended to the other. Let us of the I South come to love Yankee property with the j same a. lor that they love Southern pro perty! It is a blessed thing, indeed, to live under a I common Government, with one halfprivileged jto plunder the other with impunity ! But for i our part, as belonging to the plundered, wo 1 are tired of it. We are for extending border law to both sides of the line. Our calculating cousins of Yatikcedom have had a monopoly •il the business heretofore ; for the future, we must share it with thin. We hope our new rulers may take this view of the matter. If Gov. Wise has not fixed Ins eye upon the Presidency, aud is not disposed, like the old Richmond Junto, to trade off the interests of the South to North ern votes, we may confidently expect him to pursue some such energetic course us this which we suggest. At the present time it is perfectly clear that the South bus nothiug to expect from any party at the North. The whole is thoroughly Abolitfonized, or if there be individual exceptions, they are powerless for good. The Black Republicans are omni potent in nil that region, and the South must look to herself for defence and redress. ” Tnc Fall Fashions in Philldklpuia.—A gossiping correspondent of the New York Mirror, writiug from Philadelphia, tells us the fashions thero this seasou are “ excessively i fanciful.” I “ Those ugly, detestable plaids, better suit ed to cover the tioor than a delicately-formed lady, have ugaiu come in vogue ; and, in order to show them to more advantage, whalebones or hoops are employed, which give an extra fullness to the skirt. Board stripes, which being truly American and in perfect uccord nuce with the republican spirit of 1855, must be admired, are to be worn extensively; but unfortunately, the neat gaiter-boot which sets off* the pretty loot and the well-formed ankle, is to be discarded, and in its place high-heeled slippers, with large rosettes, are to be in : troduced. As regards bounets, thoy appear ; to grow frightfully less, aud before winter ! sets in it is probable that a large rosette j fixed on the buck ut the bead will take its I plaoe.” Chinese Hanking. It is well known that paper money lias been for centuries used in China, and tfeutisos on the ancient practice have appeared by Euro pean Chinese scholars; but in a paper read not long ago before tbe Asiatic Society, by Mr. Alcock, “On the Paper Currency ancl Banking System of Fuh-chow-foo,” there is to be found, for the first time perfias, a detail of the practical working of the system, by one who lus been placed in a position to see its action and results. It appears that the government system of paper-money, from various causes, more es pecially the” bad faith of the rulers and want of confidence in the people, gradually grew out of use more than two centuries ago, aud no attempts were made to revive it; But the Chinese people seeing the roul value of the expedient, have kept it among themselves as a regular trade, depending only on the per sonal credit of the parties exercising it, with out any support or guarantees of the authori ties. A want of uniformity of system neces sarily follows from this; and the paper of one part of the country will be of no use in a distant quarter. The description of the trade of Fuh-ebow-foo, therefore, will be found to suit exactly’ that place only. It is understood that, uutil within a recent period, the paper money of Fuh-chow-foo was merely a plan by parties known to each other, of giving notes of hand wheu cash was scarce, and these | notes were taken only by such parties; that it was not until some considerable interval had elapsed that the issue of such notes became a separate occupation ; and until about fifty years ago the trade was small. At that pe riod it began to grow into favor. By 1815 : notes of all amounts were in circulation, and paper is now nearly the sole circulating me ; dium of the entire province, tbe native coin I being almost wholly superceded. The por | fectly unrestricted way in which auy one may issue notes, has at times led to an over-issue and consequent depreciation ; but the great competition resulting Ims had on the whole a good effect, and, by giving the public a choice out ot a large number, it has confined all transactions of any’ considerable amount to parties in whom confidence could be placed. From the nature of the security, these banks cannot assist tbe merchant in the remittance of money to any distant places, nor do they take money in deposit for making payments by cheque. They’ will take deposits, paying in terest at nine and n-halfper cent, but only ns a persoual favor ; and they require the whole of the deposit to be retained or withdrawn in one amount. This does not appear,however, to be the case in the a provinces. The bank ing establishments in the city and suburbs are reckoned by hundreds; but the number of those of any stability is about thirty, with capitals varying from half a million to up wards of a million dollars.cueh. This wealthy class forms a distinct which by co operation, regulates the market. Tbeir notes are very rarely'below par; they pass current with all parties, and are readily cached by ■tiny of the body. These bankers k'.ep some twenty men in their general employ, whose business it is to attend the markets aud re port to their employers everything that is passing; and the bankers, upon their reports, determine the relative prices of notes, bul lion, and dollars. A considerable part of the business of the bankers is the refining silver for payment of taxes to the government, which must always be done in ingots of a certain size and purity; and a pretty large per centuge is allowed them tor this trouble. They also realise a good prufit by making similar payments to the custom-house lor merchants, when re quired to be made iu the sntue way. Ano ther source of profit is derived from the pawnbroker's shops, which are very numer ous m China. These establishments receives a high interest for their loans, and they gen erally refuse anything in payment but cop per cash andjbunk notes,and each shops has its own banker,whose uotesulone it will receive. Such a connection is obviously profitable, aud no banker can carry on a large trade without one. Some bankers have pawnbroker shops of their uwn ; and one is known to have opened live in different parts of the city.— Bankruptcies are very rare, and are almost confineU to the smaller banks; they are usu ally settled by private arrangement, without reterence to the authorities; and the default ers have m most instances paid fifty to sixty per cent on the dollar. Forgery is seldom practised, and ouly for smail notes. The highest punishment is transportation to the distance of one thousand miles; but it is more usually imprisonment or corporeal cas tigation. In one instance a notorious forger, who had been several tunes prosecuted, was taken into the pay of the body, and was found a very effective instrument in detect ing the impositions of others. The bank notes are longer, but much narrower than <>ura. They are surrounded by an elaborate border, studded with sentences recommend atory of the firm, which give them a pretty appearance. They are usually printed from copper-plate, but some of the smaller banks find it more economical to use the ordinary wooden blocks. They represent copper cash dollars, or sycee, and vary in value from about £4 each to above SSOO. [From the Rocliesti r Union oi Thursday evening.] terrillc iiixpiossim - Tlie Gtuenee Powder Mills Blown up. The Genesee powder mills, situated in Brighton, five miles East of the city, blew up between six and seven o’clock last even ing with a terrific explosion,shaking the earth lor miles around. We are happy to state that no lives were lost. The buildings destroyed were four in num ber, viz : two cylinder mills, corning house and press. They were situated a few rods apart and heavy embankments of earth raised between them. There were probably four or live hundred kegs of powder in the buildings at the time of the explosion. As the custom has been, the saltpetre was put into the cylin ders with the charcoal and brinrstoue at live o’clock, wheu the workmen withdrew, leav ing the mills to operate without ‘attendance during the night. About an hour after leav ing the mills, they blew up, making four dis tinct explosions in quick succession. The shock was tremendous—sufficiently great to break glass in houses several miles distant.— The sensation was not so distinctly felt iu the city as on the occasion of former explo sions, owing doubtless to the direction of the wind, but to the Eastward of the mills it was far greater. We have not heard an estimate of the loss sustained, but it must be considerable. Pow der had largely advanced recently, and was still rising. There may have been $1,5u0 worth of powder destroyed, to say nothing of stock and machinery. We understand that the proprietors expected to cross their mills in a few days, they being unable to procure saltpetre, not a sack of which article can be procured in tbe Eastern cities. The denmud lor Russia has caused it to advance in price, one hundred and fifty per cent, in the lust sixty days, and Russian agents in New York and Boston bought by sample all that will arrive this year from Calcutta. it is said that there is but one powder making firm iu the United States that has stock to run more than sixty days longer.— They must close then or sooner, and await the result of the Eastern war or bid against the Czar of all the Russias for that indispen sable ingredient for powder, saltpetre. Still they Go—Business and Capital Leaving Us.—We are sorry to learn that our neighbor, Henry Bauer, has closed his house, ana intends leaving for Canada in a few days. .Mr. li. has, within the last two or three years, invested several thousand dollars in the busi ness in which he is engaged, that of a brew er. This he is determined to sacrifice, rather than stay in Louisville. lie says that he feels that there is no protection for life or property here. Mr. Bauer lias already pur chased property in the city of Hamilton, Canada. Another.—A German, a resident of this city lor some years past, who was here at the time of the riots, and übout investing $20,- 000 in country property just above the city, has sold out, and a few days ago shipped by express to New York, his money, amounting to $27,000, and has started with his family to New York, hence to Germany, his own native land, where, *s lie declared before leaving Louisville, his children would not be insult ed, and looked upon as intruders and enemies to the country that he hud vowed eternal al legiance to. — LouisoUle Times. Receipt for Sealing Cans. —A Baltimore druggist sends us the following : Being frequently asked by heads of families what they will use for sealing cans and bot tles, in which to secure prepared fruits und vegetables, I send you the following recipe for publication : Take common rosin 4 ounces, common gum shellac 0 ounces, thick Venice turpentine 1 ounce, common Vermillion % ounce. But the whole together iu a common bowl and heat by means of an ethereal oil lamp filled with alcohol. Keep it fluid with the lamp us above directed while the bottles are being dipped or the cans being sealed.— Should this composition get sticky, add a little more turpentine. “ Laeno.” Vermont Election. —Montpeliee, Sept. 13. —Returns from all the towns of the State but eleven givo Boyce (Republican,) tor Gov ernor, 8,000 majority. wr There was an insurance on the life oi the late Abbot Lawrence to the amount of S4O ,oo#. By his will this is left to his widow. I Breaking up a Cat Convention. —The fol lowing graphic picture is from the Albany State Register: We stated a long time ago that there would be troublesome moonlight nights among the cats that congregate on the long shod in the rear of our dwelhug. We gave notice that we bad wasted more wood on them than we were able to spare—that we hud used up all the brick-bats that we could lay our hands on—that we had thrown away something less than a ton of coal—and had smashed a win* dow ou the opposite block. All this proving of no avail, we said we had got a double-bar relled gun, and percussion caps, and powder and shot; and some morning after a moon light night, somebody’s oat would’nt come home to breakfast, or if it did, it would be troubled with the dumps. We gave fair no tice of our grievances, and what we intended to do about them. Well, the moon came up on Moudny night, with her great round face, aud vveut walking up the sky with a queenly step, throwing her light, like a mantle of brightness, over the whole earth. We love the calui of a moon light night in the still spring time, and tho cats of our part of the town love it too; for they come from every quarter —from the sheds around the National Garden —from the kitchens und the stables—creeping stealthily and softly along the tops of the fences, and along the shear-, clambering up the boards that leun up against the out-buildings, they sat themselves down, more or less of them, in their old try sting plaee,—right opposite our chamber window. To all this we had, in the abstract, no objection. If a cat wishes to take a quiet walk by moonlight—if he chooses to- go out lor his pleasure or his profit, it is no particular business of ours, and wo hav’nt a word to say. Cats have rights and we have no disposition to interfere with them. But they must keep the poace.— They must get up no disorderly meetings, no unlawful assemblies. If they choose to hold a convention they can do it for all us—but they must go übout it decently and in order. They must talk TJTtHrt ?. over calmly ; there must be no riotiug, no fighting. They must relrairl’ from the use of profane language.— the)’ niust’nt swear. There’s law against all this, and we warned them long ago that we would stuud no such nonsense. We said we’d let drive among them with a double-barrelled gun, loaded with duckshot., and we meant it. But those cats did’nt believe a word we said. They did’nt believe we had any powder or shot. They did’nt believe we hail any gun, or knew how to use it if we had. Aud one great Maltese (with eyes like tea plates, and a tuil like a Bologna sausage !) grinned and, sputtered, and spit, in derisive defiance at our threats. “Very well,” said we, “ very well, iV.r. Tom Cat—very well indeed! On your head be it, Mr. Tom Cat. Try it on, Mr. Thomas Cat, aud see ‘who will get the worst of it.” We said the moon came up on Monday night with her great round face; aud all the little stars hid themselves as if ashamed of their twinkle in the splendor of her superior brightness. We retired after the baby had been put asleep ia his crib, and the rumble of tin* carriages and carts hud ceased in the streets, and the screams of the ten o’clock train had died away into silence, with a quiet conscience, ami in the confidence that we should find that repose,to which one who has wronged no man during the day is fully en titled. It may have been eleven o’clock,pos sibly midnight,when we were awakened lrom a pleasant slumber by a babel of unearthly sounds in the rear of our chamber. We knew what those sounds meant —they had cost us fuel enough to have lasted us a week, We raised tie window; aud there, as of old. right opposite us, on the north end of that long shed was uii assemblage of all the cats Ln that psrt of the town. We won’t be pre cise us to numbers, but it is our honest belief that were less than 300 of them ; and if one among them was silent, we fiid’ut succeed iu discovering which it wa. There that same old Maltese, with his great saucer eyes aud sausage tail, aud over against him sat a monstrous briudle; and off’ at his right was an old spottled ratter „ and on his left was one, black as a wolf's mouth, all but his eyes. Which glared with a sul phurious and lurid brightness, and dotted all around, over a spuce of thirty feet square, were dozens more, of all sizes and colors— aud such growling, and spitting and shriek ing and swearing, never before broke, with hideous discord the silence of midnight! We loaded our double barrelled gun by’ can dle light., we put plenty of powder and a handful of shot into each barrel. We adjust ed the caps carefully, and stepped out of the window upon the narrow roof on which it opens. We were just eighty rods from the cat convention, and we addressed ourself to the chairman (the old Maltese) in a distinct ana audible voice, and cried *fc>cat!’ He did’ut recognize our right to the floor, but went right on with the business of the meet ing. ‘fc>cat !’ cried we again, more emphat ically than before, but were answered by an extra shriek from the chairman, and a fiercer scream from the whole assembly. ‘Scut, once !’ cried we again, as we brought our gun to a present, ‘beat twice,’ and we aimed straight at the chairman, and covering half a dozen others in the range. ‘Scat, three times!’ and we lot drive. Bung went the right hand barrel—and bang,went the left hand barrel.— Such scampering, such leaping off’ the sheds, such running away over the tops of the wood sheds, were never seen before. The echoes of the firing hud hardly died away when the whole assemblage was broken up aud dis persed. ‘Thomas,’ said v. e next morning to the boy who does chores for us: ‘There seems to be a cat asleep out on that shed—go up aud scare it away.’ Thomas clambered upon the shed and went up to where that cat lay, and lift ing it up by the tail, halloed back to us,‘ This cat cairt be waked up ; it can’t be scared away—it’s dead.’ After examining it a mo ment, ‘some body has been a shootin’ of it, by thunder,’ said he, as he tossed it down into the yard. ‘You don’t say so,’said we. That cat was the old Maltese, the chairman of that convention —but he wont pieside over another very soon. We don’t know where he boarded or who claimed title to him. What we do know is, that it cost a quarter to have him buried or thrown into the river ; and if any body owned him, all we ask is that he should pay us back our quarter, aud the difference between his value and that of the powder and shot we expended on him. We’ll throw in the vexation of beirg broke of our rest, and the wickedness of using certain exple tives—under the excitement of the occasion— which are not to be found iu any of the reli giousvvorks of the day. The Cotton Crops IN Alabajca. All in telligent correspondent of the Columbus Tutus who dates from Ileury County, Ala., Sept. 10th. says : The antecedent causes of injury to this crop would authorize the opinion, which ac tual results now establish, that in this sec tion of country, the yield will Lull short fully one third below last year’s. Several months drouth, previous to the 18th June, was un precedented —but, commencing with a Hood ing raiu on that date, we had continuous rains for seven weeks. Therefore, imperfect stands of cotton, and a small weed, was the condition of the crops up to the 18th June; and, since that time the heavy incessant rains have produced a rank, luxuriant, but sap weed—full of forms up to the loth of August. -Alter that date, warm, dry weather and the boll worm combined, have done the work of destruction. As these causes are natural and general throughout the cotton region, there can be no doubt at all, but that the crop will fall far short of last year’s. From Havana. —The Havana correspon pondeut of the Charleston Courier , gives the following account of a robbery aud murder on the evening of the 31st ult. Geo. Canning Buckhouse, her Britanic Majesty’s Commissary Judge of the Mixed Commission for the suppression of the slave trade, was sitting down to table about 7 o’clock, i\ M., with a Mr. Dairy tuple, the British translator or interpreter ot the Com mission, when lour negroes entered the room for the purpose of plundering it. They pro ceeded to bind the two gentlemen—Mr. Dal rymple quietly submitting thereto, but Mr. Buckhouse resisting, was stabbed in the side, and died of his wouud in the course of the night. Two of the negroes were arrested before they escaped from the premises, and it is Imped the other two will be taken. Mr. Buckhouse was buried last evening—a very large number of the most respectable inhabi tants of this city and of his countrymeu res ident there following his remains to the gen eral cemetery. The weather bears a threatening appear ance ; the mercury iu the barometer has gone down rapidly within the past 24 hours, Pray heaven we are not to have the hurricane lid ded to our other inisfortuues. Liberality. —A dry goods house in Sum mer street, (Hovey C 0.,) has just divided #5.000 among the clerks, the same being the half-year profits over a certain pur ccut. re tained by the proprietors. The house itself makes at least $30,000 per year, and above this, distributes SIO,OOO among the employed The result of this is that every clerk, as far as possible, takes an interest in the estab ishment equal to the proprietors.— Hot. Bee. I SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 22,.1855. Later from Mexico. j ARRIVAL of tub empire city. i The United Sbates mail steamship Empire City, Capt. Windle, arrived at New York on ! Monday, from Aspinwall, which port she left ! on the Ist inst., at II A. M., with the United | States mails, 600 passengers and one million ♦iu treasure, (received from the Pacific mail steamship Golden Gate, which left Sun Fran cisco Aug. 18th, and arrived at Panama Aug. I 31, 4 A. M.,) without having a single case of i sickness ou board. i The E C., on her outward trip, arrived at Aspinwall Aug. 29th, at 10 A. M. Her nas ! sengers left Panama on the steamship Golden ; Age, Aug. 80th, at 8 P. M., and will doubt ; less be in San Francisco iu 21 days from New York. The J. L. Stephens, with the passengers j by the George Law. from New York Aug. 6th, left Acapulco for San Francisco at 10 A. M. on the 28d. The Nicaragua Transit Company’s steamer Pacific, with the passengers by the Daniel Webster, from New York same date, was met by the Golden Gate, 20 miles below Acapulco, at 3 P. M. Aug. 25th. The Golden Gate on the 25th of August saw a large ship ashore on Manguuno reef, dis masted. Michael O’Conner, steerage passenger, died on the 25th of August, of mama. Nathan Kean, of Cranston, It. 1., died on the 27th, ut 7.80 A. M., soon after having taken u seidhtz powder, supposed to contain poison. J. LI Warren, a friend of Mr. Kean, was from the same cause and ut tho same time in a critical situation, but was saved by tho ex ertions of the ship’s surgeon. The above sei dlitz powders wore brought by them from borne. The El Dorado left Asoinwull for Havana at 11 o’clock A. M., on the Ist September. FROM THE WEST COAST OF MEXICO. The New York Herald has the following letter from Acapulco: Words are inadequate to express my re joicing, or the happiness and rejoicing of the Mexican citizens, at Santa Anna’s abdication. The Romans developed their love of country and feelings of nationality by proclaiming— “lum a Roman citizen Mexicans can this day, with a feeling of patriotism, exclaim with pride, having succeeded in shaking off the yoke of a tyrant— “ 1 am a Mexican citizen 1” By courier, which reached Acapulco this morning at 3 o’clock, we were placed iu pos session of the happy result of tne revolution, commenced and completed by Gen, Dou Juan Alvarez. General Ignacio Munoz Compuzuno, the Commissioner appointed to request General Alvarez to proceed to Mexico, as President pro. tern., by acclamation of the people, ar rived at the General’s headquarters on the 24 th inst. President Don Juau Alvarez leaves for the capital iu a few days. Amongst the most prominent and popular named for the elevation by eleotion to the Presidency, are general Ignacio Comonfort, the gallant defender of the revolution, the friend of liberty and foe to despotism ; Juau Bautista Cavalos, and General Laliare. To enumerate all the cities which have pro nounced would occupy too much space. {Suf fice, the plan of Ayutia, has been triumphant, and peace is aguin restored to this beautiful country. PANAMA. The Panama Railroad is now in excellent condition. Heavy trains have been running over it daily, for weeks past, continuously, without any accident, and with no more than ordinary delay. The Company have, in a great measure, to thank their efficient super intendent of machinery and motive power, Mr. A. 11. Waterman, for this. The labor upon the U. S. M. H. S. Compa ny’s wharf is still going on slowly. Tacre are a great many obstacles to be encounterd in the construction of such a wharf here, which retards its progress, when in any other country it would be progressing rapidly. We are much pleased to hear from a friend, recently from Bogota, of the great popularity of the United States Minister, Judge Bowlin, and family. Judge B. Is laying the basis of excellent and highly important diplomat ic la bors, by his prompt and faithful attention to his duties. It is understood that Costa Rica is raising a large force to invade Nicaragua, and we pre sume she is anxious to have the co-operation of Col. Kinuey in the invasion, as well as to be assured that he will not lend his aid to Ni caragua. We hear said that they have of fered Col. Kinney the Governorship ol Nicar agua, if he would take charge ; we have been told that he reiused for the preseut, and va rious other stories. [Correspondence of the Aspinwall Courier.] Kinney and his Expedition. {San J uan del Norte, ) Tuesday, Aug. 21, 1855. f Col. Kinney has just completed the pur chase, lor $500,000, of all Messrs. {Shepherd and Haley’s right, title and interest in the lands granted to them iu 1839, by the lute Mosquito King. These lands embrace about thirty millions of acres, bounded ou the north by Great River, south by a line extending west from King Bujipan near Boca del Toro, west by the Spanish Mountains, the imme morial limit between the Indian and Spanish and American race, and having on the east a leugth of sea const extending 350 miles. The tract of country thus included may be con sidered the most productive of its extent upon the globe. Every variety of agricultu ral produce belonging to tbe temperate or tor rid zone may be cuitivated with suceess upon the low’ lands of the sea coast, or the elevated healthy plains of the interior. Besides the substantial staples of grain and cattle, there is no limit to the amount of coffee, cacao, cochineal, indigo, cotton, sugar, and tobacco that may be raised on its teeming soil. Rose wood, mahogany, and other costly woods cover a large tract; aud the mineral wealth, including gold, silver, coal, and copper, al though of unquestionable existence, yet waits for its development bj’ the improving lumd of man. This immense region—huge enough for a principality—has been purchased by Col Kinney in addition to his 1,700,000 iu the grazing and mining district of Chontales, which is situated on the north-east shore of Lake Nicaragua.gglle hus now made arrange ments for the establishments of colo nies in all parts of his domains, and for that purpose has prepared a state ments of the inducements held out to industrious and enterprising emigrants from all quarters of the world. There can be no doubt judging from bis former success in Illi nois aud Texas, of the success of his present scheme of colonization, as well us his desigu of breaking down the insolent monopoly of the Transit Company, which thus far has i thrown itself in his way. They must either come to terms or surrender: there is no alter native. While he is here they will not dare to undertake another bombardment. . The new paper, for which the Colonel has just erected a printing-office will be called The Central American. It will be issued weekly,.half in English and half in Spanish. Among the characteristics features of the sheet will be the advocacy of the claims of the people of Ureytown on the American Government, and a full and correct summary of Central American news, which is usually given through the distorting mediums of the official organs of the interior. A gentleman named Young, and an assistant, are now on their way from New York, iu Col. Kinney’s vessel, the Ocean Bird, who will conduct The Central American. They are both ex experienced journalists. In the Ocean Bird and the Get rgo W. Russell, which left New York on the 3d and 4th inst., there are ex liected, besides the above-mentioned, a nura >er of other emigrants, with provisions, printing press and materials for tho sew pa per. On their last trip the Trausit Co.’s steam ers Pacific and Daniel Webster, made extra ordinarily mng prssuges, tho passengers by the former arriving here hi seventeen days from San Francisco, aud those by the Daniel Webster in twelve days from New York.— About three hundred Californians were dc taiuedjiere awaiting the New,York steamship and the way they swore at the niggardly treatment they had experienced on the Com pany’s bouts was a caution. They declared they would never travel on so mean a line again, while there was any other way of cross ing tho Continent. The cause of the detention on the Pncific side was the giving out of the boiler, which thev were obliged to calk with Manilla rope and corn meal to keep under way. The rough weather is the excuse alleged for the delay on the other side. Tho news from the interior by latest ac counts sums up thus : Nicaragua has refused to apologize lor her late iuvasiou of Costa Rica, and hostilities are imminent between the two countries. The former, harassed by internal revolutions, will make bad work of it fighting with the flourishing republic of Costa Rica. Report says that Doputv President Estrada is about to resign, and Don Patricio Rivas. Cominaudaute at San Carlos, will be elected in his placo. Walker and his invading army are on the Pacific doast, preparing for another attack on Granada, the capital of the Legitimist party in Nicaragua. The Liberuls, you knew, un der CaßtJilon and Walker, only recognize Leon as the capital. Notwithstanding their solicitations, Col. Kinney has thus Tar re fused to co-operate with either faction,having, as he says, other business to attend to. From AuMtrnlla. We have via Callao, Melbourne dates to June 25, copied from the Fanama Star, but we do not seo any news of importance, except commeroial. The miners, as usual, are in trouble. A monster nugget, weighing 1,000 ounces and valued ut £4,800, was found on tho Ma ryborough diggings. ViCToaiA, June 25—Serious colliiionshave taken place between the Irish at the Marybo rough digging aud the miners. The “Tips” as the former are called attempted to take the law into their own hauds relative “jump ing” claims, but the miners rose in mass to the number of three thousand, and obliged them to conform to tbe law aud usages. A mutual protection society has been formed, with the sanction of the government. At the Ballarat diggings the Iriidi have also been placing themselves in opposition to the English, Scotch aud American miners and scenes similar to those at Maryborough have occurred. At Maryborough a “Tip’ who rashly presented his gun at a body of 2,000 of the Allies was fired at twice and slightly wouuded. (From th Grllftu Einpiro State.] Southern Emigration to Kansas. Griffin, Sept. 7, 1855. Iu compliance with a previous notice which had been circulated through tae city, a meet ing assembled at Concert Hall to hear an ad dress from Col. Augustus Cargile, of Kansas Territory, in reference to the prospects, agri cultural, social and political, ot that important and promising land. The Rev. Allen Cleve land being called to the Chair, and D. N. Mar tin requested to uct as Secretary. The speaker proceeded in a chaste, brief and very interest ing description ot that couutrv, its fertile prairies, its vast capacities for growing hemp, corn, wheat, oats, hay, Ac., with its flocks and its herds—allowing that in richness of soil and variety, and abundance of its produc tions, it is unsurpassed by any of the {South ern {States. The speaker next took up the subject of the country in its social and political aspects, urging the great necessity for immediate and prompt action on the part of the people of the South, to secure the country from the hands of the abolitionists, to whom he represents as pouring into the country by hundreds and thousands, by the help ot emigrant aid socie ties, and every other possible means for the purpose of electing a Convention which will frame a Constitution prohibiting slavery, and thereby completing the preponderance in f&Vor of freeaoil, and giving the North a per petual supremacy over the South. He then proposed tlie question, whether the South shall send her sons there, and bring the coun try into the Union as a slave State, or suffer the North, with her abolition zeal aud activity, to bring it in an abolition State. After the speaker took his seat, Judge Stark introduced some resolutions, with a lew brief and perti nent remarks on the great necessity for active co-operation by the Southern people. Several gentlemen spoke to the same purport, among whom were Rev. V. A. Gaskill aud Col. U. J. Green, after which the resolutions were unani mously adopted, aud are as follows : The safety of our much cherished Union depeuds to a certain extent on a main taiuauce of the balance of power between the slave-holding and non-slave-holding States —and the Government of the United States having left the people of the Territories of Nebraska and Kausas free to decide respect ively for themselves whether or not slavery shall exist within their limits, aud the people of Kansas having by an initiative vote us more tnau four to one, elected a pro-slavery Legis lature, thereby in the first chapter in their history plainly indicating that their soil, cli mate and productions arc suited to slave labor, and they intend, if undisturbed, so to mould their Constitution as to invite southern slave-holders, and others favoring the great southern institution to come and cast their lot amongst them; and whereas, the unceasing exertions of Northern emigrant aid-societies, and other at the North, unrestrained by the voice ot the people of Kansas so plainly ex pressed to interfere with the natural pro gress of events in Kansas, by introducing into that Territory hordes of abolition voters have not escaped the atteution of the people of the South, aud are sufficient to excite their just apprehensions. Resolved, That the people of the slave holding States be called on to adopt counter vailing measures for their own protection, and to see to it that the aggressive measures of Northern abolitionism are met and coun teracted by the formation of Southern aid societies throughout the South, to assist in sending emigrants to Kansas. Resolved that immediate steps be taken to form a Southern Emigrant Aid Society for the couuty of Spaldiug, and for that purpose we invite* a general meeting of the citizens to assemble iu Griffin on Saturday, the 15th inst. Resolved, That the proededings of this meeting be signed by the chairman and se cretary, aud that the papers of the city, ns well as all other papers fneudly to the South, be requested to pblish the same. All papers, irrespective of party as sociations, friendly to the admission of Kan sas as a Slave State, aud friendly to the South, will please copy, whether in Georgia or uny other Southern State. Allen Cleveland, Ch’m. D. N. Martin, Sec’y. The Empire State says: Another moeting will be held in Griffin on Saturday next, at which time propositions will be made to adopt some measures to give force and effect to the views expressed in the resolutions passed at the late meeting. Col. C. is laboring in this cause. It is his desire, if possible, to make up a company of oue thousand emigrants to go with him tais fall to Kansas. We com mend his object to the calm und deliberate consideration of the people of Georgia. His mission is a praiseworthy oue, and we wish him abundant success, JJlooniiglkt. BY DR, J. HAYNES. ’Tis eve! The fiery blast of the fierce scorching sun is past; in oceans of lavish splendor he reclines his dazzling and majes tic head. The love-eyed Veuus gleams geut ly forth and greets tho playful zephyrs, as they sport on the restless billows of the deep blue sea. The stars have robed themselves in kingly splendor, and their pearly rays dance time to the music of the waves. The mirror enamel ed waves reflect forth the golden glory of the star-gemmed sky, and the flickering twilight of eve bespeaks a full moon banquet. The white fleecy clouds, like flying squad rons, march to the melody of the piping zephyrs, and the crimson fringe of the eastern horizon heralds tho evening grandeur of the Queen of Night. The imperial chariot wheels with august splendor o er the eternal hills, till Night’s lair empress, like some orieutal queen, sits robed in lull orbed grandeur. The gorgeous glory of her apparel is of Cashmere richness, embroidered with fringy gold, and her brow crowned with starry diadems. The sea surfs break forth into singing, and the ocean waves dance at the comeliuess of her presence. Tire gilded mountains bow in ’ reverence at the approach of her coming, and the gold-streaming clouds strew her path , with teu thousand dyes of inimitable beauty. This is the banquet of the spheres, or Na tures universal jubilee; this is paradise re stored. Oh ! Cynthia, thy footsteps enchant the desert,—the wild murmuring of the ocean’s foam is quelled by the wild glance ol thy bright eye. The majestic waves of the great deep raise only to kiss thy feet, and the silver spray breaks forth like a strand of dia monds, or.lv to bid thee linger. The snow white clouds spread their lieecy wings to build thee a pavilion, while the stars weave garlands of glory to crown thee, imperial queen. This spot is hallowed, aud this sight would feast the gods. This is a golden hour : a gem iu Time’s diadem. Senator Toombs for Governor Johnson.— A writer iu the Chronicle & Sentinel says: Air. Toombs, during the short stay he made in this city, ou his way homewards, made no concealment of his decided preference in fa vor of Mr. Johnson's re-election. Indeed, he was so warm ou the subject, that l am in formed ho gave utterance to his feelings in worih almost equivalent to these—that ho would regard Johnson’s defeat as a groat public calamity. The Yellow Fever In Virginia. Baltimore, September 14.— There wero forty-eight deaths at Norfolk during the 24 hours ending at noon on Thursday. At Portsmouth, during the same period, thero were only eleven deaths. There was a considerable diminution in the number of new cases, especially at Ports mouth. Among the new cases were the Rev. Dr. Walke, Episcopal minister, Dra. Webster, of Baltimore, ana Upshur, of Norfolk. Dr. Marsh, of Philadelphia, was conval escent. Several cases of fever had made their ap pearanoe on board the U. S. frigate St. Law rence. There is no fever at Suffolk. iiVom the United States Review.] Sebastopol. Begirt with foes by .oh and land While briatlin * <<uas your ramparts stand, Defiant, isolntoi, Sebastopol! A winter’d snow tins lallon and gone; Another summer'd sun has shone; Nor yet thy boasted conquest won, Sebastopol! Ah ! many a gallant soldier sleeps ‘Neath thy embattled wall, where sweeps The sea, and mournful requiem keeps, Sebastopol! The British Lion bares hln teeth, And glares with fiery oyes beneath Thy ramparts cold aud stern as death; Sebastopol i The Gallic Cock, with clarion loud, Crows from tho palace at Bt. Cloud, Dreading iu then a wintry shroud, Sebastopol 1 Thy ancient foe, tho Ottomlte, Blends with the Cross the Crescent's light, Opposing creeds ’gainst thee unite, Sebastopol ] The unconquered spirit of tha Cs*r Still hovers o’or the field of war, Flashing from death a shrouded star, Sebastopell Brave hearts for thee who fought and foil, And broken ones the tale must tell; To thorn thy names a withering spell, Sebastopol! And yet thy day of doom may come- Tho bursting roof, the shattered dome- Like Moscow, the iavadere’jtcmb, Sebastopol 1 From the Darla Union, Aug. 21. He- Annexation of Canada to Franee. The Paris Union finds space for discussing a project,uow for the first time heard of, for tho re-annexation of U'auada to Frauce on tho basis of a friendly transfer from Great Bri tain. This proiect is stated to have been ori ginated bv a Air. Bar the, member of the Ca nadian Institute, recently sojourning in France, who has subsequently embodied it iu a work entitled Le Canada reconquis par la France . On this publication the journal has the following observations : All is reduced iuto a single word—the ex change pf Canada ; and this word is not with out danger, but it is complete in opportune ness and foresight at a moment wheaEngland and France, united for the designs of peace and war, are free more than they ever were to en ter into combinations between themselves qf interests and conveniences How doubt in ef fect that the great crisis in which the world is fouud should be resolved otherwise than by profound displacements of authority. Tbe East appears more partioularly destined to be transformed, and ten years will not have passed without Europe having seen what there was of reality or of chimera in the cele brated confidences made to Sir Horace Sey mour by the Emperor Nioholas; but let it not be imagined that a revolution of that kind can ever bo accomplished without infinite re arrangements in the distribution of power be tween the great States; and thus it is the part of wisdom and not of temerity to suggest m advance for the consideration of politicians those indications and conjectures upon tho changes which may one day best agree with tho equity, the interest, aud the harmony of governments and peoples. The w’ork of M. Barlhe is founded upon the capital observation that the exchange of Cana da would be an act of policy useful to the two nations, useful above all to England.— Canada, is in fact, menaced from day to day by the system of the Uuited States, which looks to the absorption of tbe New World, and to the exclusive domiuution of the Pucific Ocean. Will Englaud have the strength to protect Canada against that political invasion, sustained by armed invasions? The Cana dians themselves do not think so, and, de tached as they are from every tie of affection, of faith and of tradition with respect to Eng land, they feel, iu despite of tho good will of their submission, that a force of secret impulsion may some day throw them into the commou destiny of the Uuited States— whatever may be the final term of that fed erution without unity, by consequences with out future. Ou the contrary,in the expressed opiuion of far-seeing Canadians, France re suming Canada, ana finding there ties of sa cred origin, would arrest by that alone the expansive force of American policy, and, as it supposes that iu exchange lor Canada, Guyana might be yielded to England, with other possessions in India, the A nglo-French alliance would be strengthened, therefore, by the interest of a common defence; thus everything makes a law for the prevention of invasion by the United States, by opposing to it a system of possession which the nature of things indicates as that which ought to be more powerful than designs the most fixed and the best followed up. Penetrated with this general observation of utility between the two governments of Frauce and England, M. Barthe comes, there fore, to speak to France of her ancient colo ny. Alas ! for one hundred years she had perhaps forgotten it. Who thiuks of the generations which are no more V Who dreams of re-exciting the re miuiscences of peoples? There are ancestors no longer; nations, like .families, live in the present; it is forbidden to races to pride themselves on their origin; there is no longer a past, searce ly is there history any longer; the metropolis and the colony are strangers the one to the other; man is unknowu to man,and this great rupture of tho ties which in other times nni tea people is called, by a great name—hu manity. The passing visit of M. Barthe, neverthe less, will not be useless to the cause which he wishes to serve, ln order to revive remem brances half extinguished, he has addressed himself by preference to the literary portion of France ; it is in tho name of iuielligence and of the arts, that he has wished to move the nation ; by that appeal a certain elite of men are always moved. Another appeal, an appeal more energetic remains for him to make, this is an appeal to the church ; the great proselytisin ofaffectious and reminis cences is there. The institute has replied to Al. Barthe by compliments ; the church will answer him by acts. It is by the church that the love of origins is preserved ; she is the connecting link of generations aud ages.— Thus the force, the most natural of assimila tions between men is that which is born of a common faith, and Canada remains French above all, because it remains Catholic. Her language alters, all whilst surviving, as seen too much in the book of M. Barthe ; but her religion is entire, and nothing can ever weak en it. This is why the action of religion is that which best correpouds to the desire of preserving the union of the old metropolis and its lust colony. Let then Al. Barthe, whose aeal is beautiful and affecting, ask of relig'on to conquer Canada by education, by instruction, by nooks, by charity, by the as sociation of all good works, and be will soon see sympathies revive,otherwise fruitful than those which awake ou the appeal of tho acad emies. Pmladbli’i’ia, Sept. 14. —Capt. Sam’l W. Downing, late of the U. S. Navy, died yester day at his restdence near Bristol, Pa. Weslyan Female College. r IMIE Eighteenth Annual Session will begin X on Monday, the Ist day of October next, under the following Board of instruction, viz: Rev. O. L. SMLTII, A. M., President, and Professor of Moral Science, and Bcllcn Lettres. Rev. C. W. SMITH, A. M, Professor of Mathe matics. Kev.O 11. HANCOCK. A. M„ Professor of English und Latin literature. MAKCKLLUS STANLEY, A. M., Professor Natu ral Science. M ns. A. REINHART, Professor of Modern Lan guages, and Instructor in Drawiug and Painting. Mr. P.U. (JUTTENBERGER, Prelessor of .Music. Miss FRANCESCO UUTTENBERUEK, Assistant lu Music. Mrs. SUSAN L HANCOCK, Assistant In Music. Madame REINHART, Instructress in Ornament al Department. Miss M. AUGUSTA WALKER, Assistant Literary Department. Mr. K. R. CLAYTON and Lady, Steward’s Depart ment. Two hundred dollars will about meet the expenses of a pupil boarding in the institution who pursues only the regu ar Collegiate course. Latin,French and Vocal Music are taught without any extra charge. Students are not allowed to open store account , or to contract auy debts. For further partlcu ars, address auy member of the faculu uu.i: B—6tw O. W. SMITH, Sec’r. Oil is. AT CIIKK FUR PILLS. Huntsville, N. C., Nov. 1, 1863. Dr. C. M Jackson Dear Sir*-Allow me to express to you my sincere thanks for your discovery of a medicine, which, to say the least of it, has effected a euro that all other modl ctnes that I havo token have entirely failed to do. ‘• Hooltand’sGerman Bitters” have cure l me of the most stubborn and aggravated case of Piles that, perhaps, ever fell to the lot ot man. My case Is not u stranger to this community, as I am well kuown In this and the surrounding counties, aud can truly say that my recovery has astounded all my friends and relations, as I had tried everything rcouimeud od, and nothlug did me any good until I was pre vailed to try the Bitters. You are at liberty to make auy use of this communication, for the bene- Ut of the afflict'd,, as you may think proper. Truly yours, WM. J. ATWOOD. sep 16—3tawdtwAw2w I M The very latest style high and low crown white, drab, pearl and brown soft HATH, Just received at the Hat and Cap Btore, iIA3 Congress street. N, K. BAIUSUM.