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Uliatliam County Election.
The following is the result of the election
held in this county on'Monday for Governor,
Representative in Congress and members of
the Legislature.
We will only remark that the election was
conducted with the most perlect order
throughout the day, not a single disturbance
occurring at the polls or in the city. It will
be seen that the contest was a very close one
aud resulted in the election of the entire Dem
ocratic ticket. The following is the vote.
For Governor.
Herschel V. Johnson, (Dein.) 097
Garnett Andrews, (American) 921
B. 11. Overby, (Temperance) 28
Scattering. 1
Johnson’s majority 47.
For Congress.
James L. Seward, (Dem.) 089
S. M. Varnadoe, (American; 920
Seward’s majority 69
For Senator.
James P. Screven, (Dem.) 967
Edward C. Anderson, (American) 931
Screven’s majority 36
For Representatives.
Wra. H. Stiles, (Dem.) 972
Alexander U. Lawton, (Dem.) 96,7
C. A. L. Lamar, (American; 924
Francis S. Bartow, (American) 921
Stiles’ majority over Lamar 48
Lawton’s maj.over Bartow 46.
The vote for no-removal was 1607 ; for re
moval to Macon, 97 ; to Savannah, 87 ; to At
lanta 38, and to blank and scattering 33.
REPORTS FROM OTHER COUNTIES.
We learn by passengers and the Express
Agent on the eleven o’clock train last night,
that Johnson’s majority in Waynesboro’ is
67. At station No. 1, C. It. It., Overby is re
ported to have received 18 votes out of 100.
In Eiiingham County there was a tie vote
for Senator aud Governor—the Democratic
Representatives were elected.
Passengers who came through last night
from Augusta, report that at all ihe stations
on the road the accounts were in favor of the
Democratic candidate for Governor.
From Macon.
A despatch from Macon says: The Amer
ican majority iu Bibb County is from 100 to
150, notwithstanding a fraud of 100 against
us in the Warrior District. The majorities
in the adjoining counties are as follows:
In Spaulding 33 for Andrews, and 54 for
Trippe ; in Monroe, 275 to 300 for the Amer
ican candidates; in Taylor, 80, in three pre
cincts, 48 for Andrews, and 54 for Hawkins ;
iu Fort Valley precinct, in Houston, 43 for
Andrews and 75 for Trippe. No majority for
Johnson.
Later trout Maun.
A later despatch from Macon says: In
Bibb County the American ticket is elected
by a small majority. Monroe County gives
275 majority for the Americans. In Pike and
Taylor Counties there have been large gains
on the same side. The American majority in
Fort Valley is 75. Spaulding County gives
75 majority for Andrews.
From Augusta.
A despatch from the Augusta Constitution
alist says: The vote in Richmond Couuty is,
for Andrews, 1,070; for Johnson, 720; for
Overby 66. Lamar’s majority over Stephens
is 176. We have reports of large gains for
Johnson in Columbia, Burke, and Jefferson
Counties.
From Atlanta.
A despatch from Atlanta says : 1291 votes
were polled in Atlanta. 839 had been count
ed out at the date of the despatch. Andrews
was then 7 votes ahead of Johnson and Over
by. 452 votes yet to be counted. The entire
American ticket for the Legislature is elected
by 200 majority.
Improvement in tlie Hugucrrean
Art.
In no department of art has greater ad
vancement been made, or American genius
achieved greater perfection than iu the art of
photography, for the discovery of the first
principles of which the world is indebted to
M. Daguerre, of the French academy.—
Among the more recently discovered pro
cesses, is one called Ambrctyping, by which
the most beautiful and perfect pictures are
produced, We learn from a friend that Mr.
Cary', who has been long and favorably
known iu Savannah, as amoug'the most ac
complished Daguerrian artists in the country
has, during his present visit to the Northern
cities made arrangements for introducing this
and other improved modes of taking pictured
in his Daguerrean establishment in this city,
which will be re-opened on his return, in the
course of a few days.
The Wreck of the Mrtallak. —The brig
Zenobia, which arrived at New York from
this port on Tuesday last, reports ; Sept.
21, off Cape Henry, 30 miles, saw wreck
of brig Metallak, (of Bath) from Savannah,
waterlogged and abandoned, with mainmast
gone ; saw a steamer a few hours previously
steering in her direction ; supposed she took
off the crew.
£t will be recollected that the steamship
Knoxville, which arrived on the 22d, reported
having passed this wreck on the 20th, at 2 I*.
M. We have heard nothing since in relation
to the safety of the crew.
Loss of the Brig Montag a letter j
from a correspondent at lills, Fla., i
we learn that the brig Mofitague, from a j
Northern port, bound to St. Mary’s, went j
ashore about twenty miles south of St. j
John’s bar on the night of the 25th September, j
The vessel will prove a total wreck. No I
goods on boards.
Unmitigated Scoundrelism. —We learn (
that the rooms of the Needlewoman’s Friend ;
Society on Drayton street, were broken into j
sometime between Saturday night and Mon- j
day morning, and robbed of a small amount
of change that was iu the drawer and thirty
or forty shirts, besides some other ar
ticles beloAiug to the Society. It is to be
hpped thatpie villain who is base enough to
“plunder a benevolent society will be discov
ered aud punished according to bis deserts.
“ That Ruinous Mismanagemnt.”— The At
-1 anta Intelligencer of the 21st says,a check for
another cool $5£,000 left this place yester
day, for the State Treasury, as a fourth in
stalment of tho State Road earnings, making
the ruinous sum of $150,000 paid since the
first of January.
Tlie Atlanta Bank.
The Augusta Constitutionalist, es Saturday,
says:
There was a rumor in town vesterday that
the Atlanta Bank had failed. We understand
two gentlemen passed through this city on
Wednesday, on their return to Chicago. They
had taken to Atlanta aud Griffin about one
hundred thousand dollars of the notes issued
j by the banks in both cities. The amount on
j the Bank of Grillin was promptly redeemed
in specie. But a small portion of the Atlanta
Bank bills were redeemed, and they'left the
remainder, under protest, in the hands of an
attorney. -•
| Since the refusal of the Chicago baukers to
| take Georgia money, it has been coming back
uppon the banks for redemption. The Chi-
J cage Tribune, of the 22d, notices the depar-
I ture from that city of a geutleuian with $178,-
I 000 of Georgia Wild Cat notes, for which he
would demand the specie at the banks, and
within a few weeks there have been present
ed at the Atlanta Bank, and the Interior Bank
of Griffin, over sf> >.600 of their re
demption. Tlit i omiiml capital of these I?wo
banks is SBOO,OOO, of which $787,000 is owned
by George Smith. Their aggregate circula
tion was $1,877,845.
The principle on which these banks have
been doing business—that of issuing a large
amount of notes, with only a fictitious capital
to sustain them, is one which, sooner or later,
must inevitabitv end iu failure. It is a
course which is universally condemned
iu all well regulated financial communities ;
and it is rendered still more obnoxious in
the present case, where the notes of these
institutions are sent hundreds of miles
away from the place of issue and entirely
out of the course of trade of this section. The
people of the northwest seem at last to have
awakened to the great danger attending this
description of bank notes, backed by no capi
tal or security except the responsibility of a
single individual, whose estate, however am
ple, in case of his death would not be held lia
ble. Acting up >u this view of the uncertain
ty attending these bank notes, they have de
termined to drive home this circulation, even
at a loss to themselves. The result is shown
in the failure of one of the principal of the
Wild Cat banks, the first one established in
this State. The Bank of Milledgeville, the
Cherokee Insurance and Banking Cos., and
the Atlanta Bank, have thus yielded to
the inevitable fate of such corporations.—
There are still four of these institutions in
our State, the Merchants’ Bank, at Macon ;
the Bank of the Interior, at Griffin; the Plan
ters’ aud Mechanics’ Bank, at Dalton, and
the La Grange Bank, at La Grange.
This war between the Chicago bankers and
George Smith has occasioned large drafts of
specie from the New York banks, one of
which sent $50,000 in Specie to Atlanta
and Griffin on Wednesday last. Such a state
| of things could not long continue, as Mr.
j Smith would find it very difficult to force his
! circulation among the farmers and merchants
1 of the West after the principal bankers
j there had refused to tuko it.
Dcuth of Mrs. Barbee,
i We are pained to record the death of Mrs.
J. V. Barbee, which took place a little after
12 o’clock on Friday night. Our readers will
remember that by an explorstob ui’go about
three weeks since, this unfortunate lady re
ceived a severe injury, while her child about
two vearsold,was so shockingly mangled that
it died a few hours after the accident. Mrs.
Barbee, who was near her accouchmeut, had
her ankle crushed in a most shocking man
ner, besides receiving other severe injuries.
After weeks of suffering and ‘peril, her case
gave promise of a favorable termination,
when on Saturday night last, symptoms of
tetanus made their appearance, aud resisting
all medical remedies, resulted in her death
last night. This melancholy case has excited
the deepest sympathies of many in our com
munity. We learn that her infant child is
doing well.
From Norfolk.
A letter from Dr. Read, received in this
city yesterday, dated Norfolk, September 22,
says—
“ The fever is still raging without abate
ment. Last night was the black-night of the
season—there were nineteen deaths between
sunset and sunrise. Four of them were
prominent men. Twenty-five died in Ports
mouth yesterday. We are all tired and worn
out and will leave for home us soon as the
pestilence here will permit. 1 shall come
home by New York. I send the negroes
back in charge of Mr. Skinner, by Railroad.
He will scarcely get off before the fourth
or fifth of October. We are all well at pre
sent.”
John Forsyth, Esq., the able editor
of the Mobile Register at present on a visit
North, writes to his paper from New York :
What I have seen here has all been calcula
ted to make me calm, thoughtful and serious.
I find all parties (especially the Know No
things, or rather what is left of it) thoroughly
Abolitionized, and the only living elemeut of
fidelity to the Constitution and to the South
residing in the Democracy. If the Demo
cratic principle of faith does not save the
Union, it will not be saved. I care not for
names, and when I say Democratic, I mean
the Democratic principle of construction of
Constitutional obligations between the United
States and the States.
TnE Union. —According to the Journal of
Commerce, a “Senator of one of the Southern
States, lately said to us, that if the solid peo
pie of both sections did not speedily agree to
something that would quiet excitement on
the subject of slavery, the ill feeling now gen
erated by agitators on both sides would pro
duce so much alienation, that it would be im
possible to apply a remedy. He hoped that
j the shock would come early, so that there
j might be some fraternal feeling to which pa-
I triotism could appeal.”
! Sudden Death.— Henry Willard, M. D., of
| Boston, died suddenly on Wednesday night,
j at about eight o’clock, at a political meeting
| of the American party, in Redmond Hall.—
i Dr. W. was a delegate to the Worcester Con
i vention, and had given some account of that
meeting, when, upon concluding, he resumed
I his seat, and in a minute or two swooned
I away, and apparently fainted. lie wdMhi
: mediately laid down, and all possible elmrts
i made by his friends to revive him, but he ex
pired iu a few’ moments. The doctor had long
beeu troubled w'ith a difficult respiration,
when walking or exerting himself, and had
often spoken of his complaint, to his medical
friends. He was aot at all excited in his re
marks. He w'as invariably a culm man, mod
erate and sedate in all liis movements, and
never more so than in his last remarks.
“Foreign” Military Companies. —Gov.
Minor, of Connecticut, has ordered .the dis
banding of all military companies iii the State
composed of making an exception
in lavor of company of New
Haven. The Adjutant General, however, has
refused to promulgate the order, so it falls to
the ground.
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SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER (>, 1555..
Fall of Sebastopol.
The news of the capture of Sebastopol by
the Allies, which reached this city by tele
graph about five o’clock on Thursday even
ing, produced quite a sensation among all
classes of our community, and it was not un
til the receipt of the fuller accounts, late at
night, that general credence was given to the
report. The accounts by the previous steam
er had not prepared the public mind for such
ati event, and the meagreuess and unsatisfac
tory character of the first dispatch left much
room for doubt as to the reliability of the
news. There was, too, an evident un
willingness in the minds of many to
believe that the resolute, heroic and long en
during defence of the Russians had resulted
in so sudden and disastrous a catastrophe.—
But the subsequent dispatches giving the
details of the conflict on the Bth, establish
the fact that the combined armies,if they have
not in reality taken the town ugainbt which
tuen-utmost i*ui easing fire has been directed
for nearly a ytar, have at least gained an im
portant advantage over their obdurate and
unyielding foe. This advantage however,
has been achieved by an immense loss of life,
and by the most desperate valor. Whether
the victory is worth the blood it has cost, and
whether it brings them any nearer to the
accomplishment of the great object for which
they have so persistently and heroically con
tended—the destruction of Russian pow'er iu
the Crimea—remains to be seen.
A few weeks will show whether the allied
troops are in a better position iu possession
of the Southern ruins of Sebastopol, than
they were in their entrenched camp. The
accounts we have received are from the
French and English side; but even from
their showing, it is, perhaps, too much to say
that Sebastopol bus fallen, or that Gortscua
koff has been defeated. The Southern cir
cuit of defences has beeu destroyed, and
the “ blood-stained ruins” arc in the posses
sion of the Allies, but the Russians still hold
the Northern fortresses, which command the
bay aud the ruins they have left. They are
still strong in numerical force; and if the
Northern heights are as strougly fortified us
we are told they are by the American writer
whose interesting letter we publish in an.
other columu to-day, their dislodgement from
their new position will be as difficult as has
been their expulsion from the MulukofT and
the Redan.
But all this, time will show, and all prog
nostics aud speculations on the subject, as
well us upon the proable course of events to
ibilow, are idle and unprofitable. Mighty as
are the powers that are involved iu this great
struggle, neither of them are capable to con
trol the events in which they are but actors,
nor to foresee the great political and moral
results to which they tend. A mightier than
Kings or Emperors directs the progress of
events to the certain accomplishment of His
own inscrutable purposes. These, time will
reveal.
Since the above was in type we have re.
ceived further telegraphic advices which fully
confirm us iu the opiui n that tlis Allies have
gained very little if any advantage by the cap
ture of the Southern defences of Sebastopol,
u twtwsa t.
doned the battle-worn and almost untenable
fortifications of the South ouly to place him
self in a stronger position ou the North side
of the city. It is highly probable that the
Russians have been preparing for this move
ment iu anticipation of the attack of the Al
lies.
Kansas Emigration and the Slavery
Question. —The committee appointed by the
late Lexington (Missouri) Convention have
issued an address to the people ol the United
States, denouncing the sending of emigrants
to Kansas by societies in the free States, as
dangerous and calculated to circumscribe
slavery to its present limits, and defeat the
true intention of the Nebraska bill. The ad
dress also declares that the rejection of Kan
sas as a slave State would be a gross insult
to the South ; an assertion that slavery is in
compatible with the republicanism, and an
equivocal step towards disunion. The docu
ment is signed by J. A. Naptonjate Supreme
Judge ; Sterling Price, the present Governor
of Missouri, and Mordecai Oliver, a member
of Congress from that State.
Nothing, says an English paper,
could exceed the attention of Louis Napoleon
to his royal guest. On leaving Boulogne, the
Queen suddenly perceived she had left be
hind a favorite lap-dog, and expressed her
very great regret thereat. No notice was
takeu apparently beyond sympathy, but elec
tricity and steam wore made to perform their
most impossible feats, and when the Qneeu
entered her boudoir at St. Cloud, the first
thing she saw was her lap-dog, that jumped
forward to meet her.
A Small Business.— We observe says the
New York Sun that six companies of militia,
composed chiefly of persons of Irish birth,
are to be disbanded in Connecticut. No cause
except their being thus composed, is assigned
for this step, as far as we have yet learned.
If no other cause exists, the disbanding is a
small business. These men are free to own
arms, form volunteer companies, aud learn
military drill, und we do not sue that great
wisdom is shown in casting suspicion ou
their loyalty to the State or to the Republic.
Hartford, Sept. 25.—Governor Miner re
moved, to day, Adjutant General Hodge, on
the ground that he refused to obey the Gov
ernor’s order, disbanding the liish compa
nies. Cupt. J. D. Williams of this city, has
received the appointment, and has issued
the order disbanding the six Irish companies
of the State.
Freedom of the Press.— The Rochester
American thinks young ladies should never
object to being kissed by editors ; they
should make every allowance for the freedom
of the press!
Atseena Otie, East Florida, )
September 21, 1855.
Mr. Wm. T. Thompson, Editor of the
Dollar News—Dear Sir :—1 am so well
pleased with your paper I send yon two dol
lars to renew my subscription, which I find
has run out. The crops here, owing to ihe
recent wet summer, have not turned out ex
tra, the Cotton particularly, and your market
will find purchasers for Corn notwithstanding
you have heard such glowing accounts from
Florida. I will need none from abroad, owing
to tho fact that I planted tho article largely. 1
am sorry to say that not many of our planters
heeded the teachings of last year. They did
not plant as they should have done for a sur
plus, those who move ou this
year might-have hud it near them. New set
tlers will find a scarcity of Corn, as next
spring will show. The crops of Cotton, too,
will be light,—no increase on last, year if it is
as good,—and last year was a failure with
many iu Florida. 1 shall do better, but I
charge it to favorableuess of situation, luck
and hard work, Yours, Ac., J. T. T.
Interesting from Syria. —A correspond
ent of the Journal of Commerce, writing from
Beirut, says that the massive gate of Niueveh -
and other monuments, obtained by Mr. Place,
the French Consul, had all safely reached
Bassora, the port ou the Persian Gulf from
whence they were to be shipped to Havre.—
The day on which they were put on board the
rafts at Mosul was made a holiday by the in
habitants, und *he whole city turrted out to
behold the sight aud render any necessary as
sistance. Between Bagdad and Bassora the
men who accompanied the rafts were robbed
by the Arabs, and when they reached Basso
ra they had not a shirt to their backs. A let
ter from Mosul states that the excavation at
Korsabad and Niairoud had been discon
tinued, and will “not be resumed. All the
French and English scientific explorers had
left the country.
The writer that Dr. Duff of Calcutta
had spent, af r '>'iAys at. Beirut. Ilis health
had received ’benefit irbm his
lust winter’s sojourn i:„ the south of France,
aud still more from his stay under the hot
skies of Syria. His nervous system seemed
to be intensely excited, and his rich, eloquent
conversation flowed as freely as ever.
The commerce of Beirut has been large be
yond precedent the past season. Steamers
and large vessels have always been in port
for Constantinople, to be freighted with
wheat and barley for tlie- seat of war. Prices
of provisions were high at Beirut. Neverthe
less fruits were abuudant and low. Some of
our readers doubtless would love to pass
their summers in a country where half a
dozen pounds of the most delicious grupes
can be bought for two cents, and as many figs
from the trees for three cents. Within a few
years the potato has beeu cultivated in thq
island of Cyprus. They grow to a good size
there aud are fair and sound Beyond a
doubt the potato will soon become an impor
tant article of food in Syria. The price at
present is but forty cents a bushel.
The Whigs of Bojton.— Tee Whig Meeting
held iu Boston ou Wednesday evening was,
from all accounts, quite enthusiastic. The
Pressident, in taking the chair, said the Fu
sion party, conscious that they cannot suc
ceed alone, ask the Whig party to abdicate
in favor of the new party*, based on the single
idea of opposition to the extension of slavery.
The Whig party huve always been opposed
to the extension of slavery—but opposition
has always beeu inside tne Constitution. The
Whig party cannot act then with those who
are not content to abide by the limits of the
Constitution, with those who have placed on
the statute-book of Massachusetts the rankest
nullification, or with those who do not offer
to remove that stain ; who have repudiated
nobody aud nothing connected with the pre
sent State administration except Governor
Gardner, who wls the only man that stood
between the legislature and the rankest trea
son and corruption. These sentiments, says
the Advertiser, were endorsed by the meet
ing, with a protra ted burst of enthusiasm.—
After the appointment of delegates to attend
the Convetiou at Worcester, among whom
are enumerated Robert C. Winthrop, Rufus
.Choate, Appleton, Charles Warren,
aim o. - - . ■ . •
offered the,following resolutions, which he
prefaced by a brief speech, in which he urged
that the Fusion Convention nominated Mr.
Rockwell iu preference to Mr. Gardner, be
cause the latter, by his veto of the personal
liberty bill, and refused to remove Judge
Loriug—uctiou iu which he iss sustained by
the conservative and law-abiding people of
the State—had shown he was unwilling to go
to the full lengths expected iu the anti-slavery
path.
Resolved, That in view of the many objects
and interests which demand the care ami at
tention of the State administration, the Whig
Convention at Worcester ought not to put in
nomination any man who is wiliiug to plant
himself upon the single issue presented by
the late Fusion convention.
This resolution was unanimously adopted.
Public Feeling Respecting tic Fall
of Sebastopol.
GREAT REJOICINGS IN CANADA.
Buffalo, Sept. 27, 1855.—The people in all
the towns in this vicinity are celebrating the
receipt of the steamer’s news with much en
thusiasm.
At Toronto bonfires were lighted, guns
fired, rockets set off, and the greatest excite
ment existed.
At Stratford, the Court of Assizes was in
session when the news was received. It was
handed to the judge on the bench, aud read
by him amidst loud cheers. Some time elapsed
before businesas could be resumed. Hags
were flying everywhere throughout the
town.
At Londou there was a general exultation.
Bells were rung, guns tired, and firemen pa
raded the streets with bands of music.
the feeling in boston.
Boston, Sept. 27, 1855.—The news of the
full of Sebastopol created great excitement
and surprise iu this city. Many received the
news with expressions of regret.
The news of the fall of Sebastopol took
New York city by surprise ou Thursday, aud
spread with the greatest rapidity—and espe
cially among the Freuch and English resi
dents of the city, who were greatly excited
and rejoiced. At one place, in the vicinity of
Wall street, where the news w’as publicly
read out to a promiscuous crowd of mer
chants, including some English and French
business men, three hearty cheers were given
for the fid] of Sebastopol. Ou ’Change the
great event formed the principal theme of,
conversation, and many mutual congratula
tions were exchanged. In the eveniug the
usual resorts of the French citizens, including
Dclmonice’s and several other restaurants,
were crowded, aud the greutest hilarity dis
played, enhanced by the free use of cham
pagne and other wines, which was kept up
until a late hour of the uight.
JggT The Lynchburg’ ! ,Virgiuian reoords the
sale of a portion of Henry Webster’s tobacco
crop there at SBO per cwt.
From Norfolk.
The following is the latest intelligence re
ceived from Norfolk and Portsmouth :
Howard Hospital, Norfolk, )
September 27,1855. )
Since our last, we have little to say. Last
night the heads of the different delegations,
held a meeting at the National Hotel, and it
was unanimously resolved that as the dis
ease had so far abated, the services of the
young students and apothecaries could be
dispensed with; and that on Monday, those
who were ready, were at liberty to leave Nor
folk. Wo understand most of the young men
are going. Norfolk will bo quite dismal
without them.
The total number of deaths in Norfolk four,
iu Portsmouth 8; ten new cases iu the latter
place—twelve iu our city.
September 28, 6 A. M.—The Charleston,
S. C., and Savannah, Ga., delegations will
will pass through Richmond ou Tuesday,
en route for k home. H. M.
A dispatch to the Petersburg Democrat,
dated at Weldon, Sept2B, says;
Three or four deaths reported in Norfolk
yesterday,and only one death in Portsmouth.
Scarcely ftuy new case# in either place.
[COMMUNICATED. 1’
Political Meeting in Eftin&liam Cos.
. j Springfield, Sept. 28tb, 1855.
Mr. Editor—Dear Sir:—' This haying been
a day of considerable interest to the people
of our County, permit me to give you a hasty
account of the proceedings that engaged our
attention.
Mr. Varnadoe, the Know Nothing candi
date for the first Congressional District, was
here, and addressed the people in an energetic
and, doubtless, well meant speech of con
siderable length, in which he set forth with
much earnestness tho principles and political
features of the party of which he is the cham
pion, in this District,, and to say the truth 1
think the genfkmtvn did very well, when we
consider bow unfortunately bad is the cause
which he espouses, and how much fatigue the
effort of speaking must have cost him.
The audience, who were of respectable
number and consisted of a large majority of
auti-Know Nothings, listened with respect
ful n*f<-ntion until Mr. Yurnl<*e lu<| closed
his address. A proposition was then made
to the Chairman of the ’meeting that Hun.
Solomon Cohen, who w’as present by invita
tion, be heard 111 reply. But immediate op
position was uuttTe to this motion by certain
of the leading Know Nothings—they claim
ing that it was their nseetiug aud that we had
no right to thrust oar speaker upon them.
But, Sir, we were of opinion that Mr. Var
nadoe had come here to address the people
of Effingham County and not the Know Noth
ings only, and that the people had the right
to’ reply if they desired it, and I think
we are correct in the opinion; but though
Mr. Cohen as one of the voters of this dis
trict, claimed this right, it wus denied him,
and denied us through him who was our guest
on this occasion. \Vo proposed to Mr. V.
that Ue reply if he thought proper, when Mr.
Cohen had concluded ; hut strange to say, he
•not only denied the courtesy thus offered
him, not only refused the guuutlet that was
hurled bis feet, not only shrunk, now that
an antagonist was nigh, from defending those
principle!* he lately advocated with so much
confident zea, but lie absolutely quit the
field, and would not so much as sit and listen
while Cohen subsequently addressed the
people.** In explanation, and 1 suppose exten
uation of his refusal, Mr. V. said something
about discussing only with Seward ; but, Sir,
it strikes me that if the principles of a party
be correct, the champion of those principles
should be ready and willing to defend them
wherever and whenever assailed.
The meeting having adjourned, we organ
ized by electing a Chairman and Secretary,
upon which, Mr. Cohen, being presented to
the meeting, proceeded to meet the points in
Mr. V.’s speech, in one of the most powerful,
convincing, and at the same time gentlemanly
arguments to which it has ever been our
privilege to iisteu. In his opening remarks
he said it was the first time in all his hie that
he had seen a candidate turn his back upon
a discussion of the principles he advocated.
Calmly and* dispassionately did he examine
all the points of the Know Nothing party,and
clearly proved to every unprejudiced mind,
the utter absurdity of their boasted positions.
I would that I had time and capacity to an
alyze his address. Suffice it to suy that at
tentive silence, broken only by frequent out
bursts ol” cheering, bespoke the impression
his remarks made upon the minds of Lis hear
ers. With a vote of thunks for his ready re
sponse to our call, and his very able effort in
our behalf, the meetiug adjourned.
River Swami*.
Later f om Mexico.
The steamship Orizaba arrived at New Or
leans on the 25th from Vera Cruz, which
pojjt she left ou the 22d September. The
from Vera Cruz, and to the 19th from the
city of Mexico.
We take the following summary of news
from the New Orleans papers.
The Mexican papers mention the fall of
Gen. Carrera, and the appointment of a coun
cil representing the garrison, which has un
conditionally adopted the plan of Ayutla,
thus abolishing all fears of a collision between
the army and the civilians. Still no gov
ernment exists, and grc.it tears prevail that
anarchy may spring up betore it can be es
tablished. Alvarez was expected at Cuerna
vaca in a few days, and Comonfort in a short
time.
Hostilities have broken out between Haro
y Tamariz and Gurza. The former is in no
favor in the capital.
Yucatan, Carmen, aud other places, are
reported to have declared for the revolution.
Lazcauo’s brigade, about 1,000 strong, h..s
beeu compelled to surrender at discretion to
the new national forces.
Marquez’s brigade is near Leon, some say
with tlie view ot opposing Comoulort, others
with that of joining Degallado, aud others
reported that he had ottered to join General
Vega.
Ueu. Blanco, Santa Anna’s late Minister of
War, having been given guarantees by Gen.
Dablabo, had retired to his residence 1 ; but
this is protested against, and La Revolution
says that Blanco is one of those over whom
the sword of justice hangs at the instance of
the nation.
Veu. Vidauri has published anew liberal
tariff.
Geueral Llave has issued a decree for the
re-orguuiz.itiou of the army iu Vera Cruz,
reducing its expenses and the proportion of
officers. Over live hundred National Guards
have been enrolled and addressed by Gen.
Llave, who continues making reforms, tilling
offices, &c.
General Vidauri has addressed General
Comonfort, telling him, iu allusion to the
plan of San Luis, that he would not treat
on the subject of the formation of the new
government with any chiefs but those who
had contributed to the overthrow of Santa
Anna.
Gen. Juau Jose de la Garza having granted
an armistice to Haro y Tamariz, Gen. Tuuzua
expresse t his regret to Gen. Vidauri lest it
be a means of enabling liaro to increase his
forces.
The Kestaurador de la Libertad of Monte
rey publishes a semi-official article respect
ing the views of the Vidauri party: The
widest liberty and the sovereignty of the peo
ple may be said to be the sum of tho objects
declared.
4 Don Joze Lopez de Santa Anna, son of the
’ “ex- President, has been apprehended, aud is
denounced iu the severest terms for Neronic
cruelties.
From Kansas. —We hear from Kansas, that
Perkins, who was started as an Administra
tion candidate lor Congress iu opposition to
Gen. Whitfield, has withdrawn from the race.
The pro-slavery men, ulthough there was no
candidate in opposition, were still active, and
would give a full vote.
Gov. Shanuou recently made a visit to Le
compton, the new seat of government, in
company with the Secretary ol the Territory,
ouo of the Commissioners, and others, for the
purpose of selecting a site for tlie capitol.—
Returning, he passed through Lawrence ou a
day when a revolutionary meeting had been
held, and the people were greatly excited by
the incendiary harangues to which they had
listened. He was iuvited to stay iu Lawrence
all night, but ho dechued doing*so ; aud then
the orderly, law-abidiug aud decent citizens
of that town manifested theii reject for the
office and the man, by with
groans and shouts of derision wWe left the
town.
A Bitter Satire.--- Bynmt, the poet, now
in the East, writes in one of his letters, us an
evidence that the Muhommedaos are fast be
coming Europeanised : “ They are becoming
cureless of the marriage vow, get drunk, beut
their Yvives, bruise their children, associate
with the infidels, and in fact ure getting to
be almost like the Christians.”
The Washington Star has a letter
from tho Came Expedition to Tunis, which
states that storeship Supply has reached Tu
nis, aud the officers have been presented to
the Bey,who bus presented the United States
with a pair of camels. The Supply took on
board a beautiful block of marble from tbo
ruins of Carthage for tho Washington mourn
incut.
SIX rOPIES FOR FIVE DOLT. \IIS.
[For the Dally Morning News.]
Mr. Thompson—Dear Sir :—l have copied
the following simple and touching story from
an old number of ihe American Courier, feel
ing coidulent that it must be road with inter
est b}’ all, and in. tho hope that many a little
“fatherless child” “who wante to do some
thing to Kelp his mother,” seeing it, “ may
take heart again. ” Respectfully, yours.
A i*oocl llecomineiiilnilon.
“ [’lease, sir, doiv’t you want a cabin boy V”
“ 1 do want a caWnboy, my lad, but what’s
that 4o you? A little chap like you ain’t tit
for the berth.”
“ Oh, sir, I’rti real strong, l can do a great
deal of work, if I ain’t so very old.”
“But what are you here for V You dou’t
look like a city boy. Run away from home,
hey V”
“Oh, no indeed, sir, niy father died, and
my mother is very poor and l want to do
something to help her. She let me come.”
“ Well, Sonny, where are your letters of
recommendation. Can’t take any boy with
out these.** , *
Here wjjs a damper. Willie had never
thought of its being necessary to have letters
from his minister or his teachers or from
some proper person to prove to st.ruugvrrt
that he was a honest and good boy. Now
what should he do? IE- stood m deep
thought, the captain, meanwhile, curiously
noting the working of his expressive face.
At length he put his hand into his bosom,
drew out bis little Bible, and without one
word put it into the Captain’* hand. Thy
Captain opened to the blank page amt read :
“ \Villre Graham ; presented as a reward
for regular and punctual irtteudauce at Sab
bath school, and his for blameless conduct
theft), and elsewhere. From his Sunday
School Teacher.”
Captain McLeod was not a pious man,
hut he could not consider the case before
him with a hear b unmoved- The little father
loss child, stanuiug humbly before him, re
ferring him to the testimony of his Sunday
school teacher, aji it was given in his little
Bible, touched ir tSilder spot in the breast of
the noble seaman, and clapping Willie hearti
ly ou the shoulder, he said :
“ You ure the boy for me ; you shall sail
with me; and if j'ou are as good a lad ifs 1
think you are, your pockets shan’t be ei?i-|>ty
when you go back to your good mother.”
Kansas Meeting. —A meeting was held in
Henry County, ou the 25th ult., which was
addressed by Col. Cargile. The following re
solutions were proposed.
Whereas, The Government of the Uuited
States haviug left the question of slavery to
be decided by the people of the Territory of
Kansas, aud whereas the Northern States are
forming Emigrant Ai<l Associations for the
purpose of .seliding Abolitionists and Free
sqilcrs to said territory, with the avowed de
sign of making said territory a free State; be
it therefore
Resolved, That the people of the Southern
States Lake some measures that will counter
act the influence of Northern abolitionism
and free-soilism, by the formation of Emi
grant Aid Associations throughout theboirth,
to assist in seudiug emigrants to Kansas Ter
ritory.
Resolved, That steps be taken to form an
“ Emigrant Aid Association” tor the comity
ol” Henry, and wo invite a general faceting of
the citizens of the county at McDonough on
15th of October. <J||
How a Cuilkxo Can Die.—A convicted
culprit, named Scbado, was recently executed
at Sonora, Cal. He addressed the spectators
in Spanish from the gallows as follows :
He said if he had been an American he
would not have been molested, and he advised
all Spaniards, whenever they met a man with
him up to tin tuft, lie coii'ipfahie.V'tfmcTi T
injustice, but he would now show the people
how a Chileno could die. He insisted upon
having a woman brought scaffold
to play the harp for him to dance his way out
of the world, otherwise he wou.d die unhap
py. In conclusion, he said if any one present
desired to send word or money to their
fiieuds, where he wui going, he was just the
man to take it.
Abatement of the Epidemic in the Vir
ginia Cities.— The Richmond Dispatch of
Saturday says:
This morning we have the most joyful news
from the cities of Norfolk aud Portsmouth.—
On Thursday there were only live deaths in
the former and one in the latter city, and
hardly anew ease iu either. We hope and
trust that the plague which has afflicted those
cities in a manner that never were cities af
flicted before iu this country, is now about
tinally to cease. We think there is good
reason to believe tins.
The same paper states that the Savannah
Delegation of Physicians were expected to
psss through that city on their return to-day
Cotton Crop — Corn — Health— From all
that we have been able to learn from perSo
nal enquiry, the cotton crop of this, as well
as other sections of the State, will be short of
last year’s crop, aud short of an average of Vj
UiJtj. This result has been chiefly caused
by heavy rains in the early part of Septem
ber, which produced rot, worm, and falling
of fruit. The weather is now very fine for pick
ing.
The corn crop is being gathered, and turns
out well—corn selling at 50e. per bushel.
The country is very healthy for the season.
[Albany (Geo.) Dafrivt.
News from New Mexico.— St Louis,Sept.
20, 1855.—We have received dates f"om
Santa Fe to the Ist inst., but there is no
news of special interest.
The mail party saw but few Indiaus, and
they all appeared friendly. The Indian rela
tions iu New Mexico were assuming a better
aspect. Treaties had been formed with the
Messcalves, Navuges and Cupate Utahs, and
other tribes haduppoiuted a meetiug with the
Governor.
Some United S4 aU s recruits arrived at
Fort Union on tlw f7th July.
A tire at Little Arkansas had nearly des
troyed the camp/
Captains Bowen and Whittlesey and Lieut.
Davidson left on the 6th for the States. i
Col. Sunnier left Fort Leavenworth on the
20th inst., for the plains, with aeveu oompu- !
nlu *
A Sad Scene Indeed.- A writer from Nor- j
folk to the Charleston Courier gives the ‘
heart-touching scene below:
“ I have witnessed some few sad scenes i
since I came here. 1 saw a boy of six years
old breathing his last in ihe same lilood
staiued pillow whereon his little brother
had expired in his presence a tew hours be
fore, wnilst the unconscious father lay at the
point of death in the next room, and the poor
broken-hearted mother ministering t their
last moments,uearly uncouscious of what she
was doing. The boy said to his mother a few
moments before his death, ‘Mother, weep not, ;
I know I am dying, and my little brother has 1
gone before me; it will be all the same in a
few years hence. We have to part here uow,
to meet in heaven in the presence of that
Great Man. who will reward us for what we
-uffor in this world.’ Many such affecting
scenes as the above have transpired
assure you, and many a tale of woe will be
told for months to come.”
Agricultural Division or the Patent
Office.— The following p®w method of strik
mg fig cuttings inn* been received by this
office from Monsieur Viimorin, of Paris,
“The grouud In ing well prepared, we make
a narrow trench from an inch to an inch and
a half deep, and then drive into the ground
the cutting to the depth of about seven inches.
The upper part of the cuttiug is beut down in
the trench and covered with earth to the level
of the ground; tho top of the cutting, how
ever, must be bent upwardi again and stand
out of the ground. We thefi make around
the top of the cutting a small excavation,
whiuh we fill up with straw, in order to keep
soiljn a gfbod condition of moisture. Plautcd
iu this way. the cuttings will strike root
’ promptly and vegetate thriftily.”
NO 12
LFrorn the New York Herald J
The -News Horn Furopc— SThtr Fall of
Sebastopol.
At last, it seems, French .valor and English
courage have prevailed over Russian endu
rance, and alter a siege of eleven
months, has fallou into the hands of the ene
my. There can be no Tartar in the case, this
time. On the 9th and tOth September the
telegraph wires were, constantly charged with
messages of victory, and multiplied despatch
es from the military and naval leaders ou
both sides leave not the smallest room for
incredulity. It appears that ou the sth the
expected bombardment, commenced on a scale
oUrunpivaedeiitcd magnitude. After three
days’ incessant fire, the assault was made on
the B.th—the French directing their efforts
as before against the Malukoff, the English
aiming at the Redan. From the brief des
patches which have been received, we gather
that the Freuch were repulsed six tinus, and
suffered a loss which has beeu estimated at
15,<hK) men : they succeeded in the end,
however, in establishing themselves in tho
Malakofi', on the night of the Bth. Mean
while [the English had fared differently on
their left. The Redan was carried with com
parative ease. But, after planting their flag
on its walls, the British were aft,ieked**t>y it
tyreo of with such inipetU'liity
that they were tbi ced to vacate the workk—
W hen toe French took the Malakofi',and main
tained themseves there, the other fortifica
tions of the Karabelnaia suburb became un
tenable. Accordingly, during the nights of
the s th, Bf.li, and on tin.- morning of the loth,
Prince Gortachakoff blew up all tho public
buildings and ships, set tire to every House
that would burn, and crossed over! as be
says, with a very small loss, to the north
slue. Tho Allied troops, though occupying
the line of defences from Careening Bav to
the Redan, had not ventured, it seems, to
enter the suburb when the lust account left;
as the whole city was ruined, and every build
ing was either iu flames, or iu ashes.
it is yet too soon to say, us some of the
allied journals have done, that the Sebastopol
drama is played out. We have yet to learn
how the Russians will avail themselves of
their position on the north side. It will be
remembered that for some time we have
heard of preparations being made for a re
treat of the Russian army to the Star Fort,
showing that GortschakofF was not blind to
the possibility of the capture of Karabelnaia,
and indicating that, in tlie opinion of the Rus
sian chieis, its lull would not involve tho nun
of the army. It is possible that the north
fort may yet for some time defy the victorious
Allies.
But tne warmest friend of the Russian
cause cannot deny to the Allies,and especially
to the French—to such men as Bosquet ana
their comrades—a tribute of applause for the
achievement wo this day record. Eleven
months have they been encamped on those
heights—sufl’erii.'g every ill that can alllict
humanity, disease, cold, privation and dis
couragement, besides the ordinary contingen
cies ot the battlefield ; the whole world ha3
derided their efforts, and cheered on the gal
lant Todlebco and the men who fought for
their homes and their native soil; ua ives as
well as foreigners have urged the abandon
ment of the euterprize, aud attributed its
commencement to overweening vanity and
ignorance on the paw of the allied chiefs ;
general after general has given it up in des
pair, and gone afvay to die or been recalled ;
over a hundred thousand good men, English
and French, have laid their beaus under tho
Crimea sod ; yet, in spite of all, Napoleon
and his Allies have persevered, and the con
sequence is that Sebastopol exists no-more.—
In a historical point of view tlie event has no
parallel.
There have been sieges where the valor of
the besieged has availed to defend the place
for a longer period of time—but there never
was one at which so much human
or so much scientific skill were displayed;
stance of soTnahyMujpiun 11 ves L L ; C*rng'&rt:HD
in war with in so siffall a compass of ground.
As long us this wojld lasts Sebastopol—or
the site where it ’stood—will be classic
ground.
So far as the war is concerned, it must not
be supposed that tho lull ot Sebastopol im
plies the submission of Russia and the estab
lishnient of peace. So long as Crousuidt de
fies the strongest fleet the Allies can equip,
Russia, it may confidently be asserted, will
hold out. The fall of Sebastopol does not
even decide the fate of the Crimea. It has
dealt a fatal blow at Russian prestige; it. has
destroyed Russian supremacy in the Black
Sea ; it has cost the Czar more money than
teu years of peace can make up; but n does
uot # reduce the Empire to that humiliating
position iu which, as Uortschakoff said at
Vienna it would be bound to accept the terms
dictated by the Allies.
The Treasure Chest of the Atlanti .
The New Haven Journal contains an inter
esting letter from Port Dover, C. W., rela
ting the discovery hv Green, the celebrated
diver,of the ill.fated Atlantic s treasure chest,
from which wo extract the following:
You no doubt have heard of the many un
successful attempts to obtain the money chest
lost with the steamship Atlantic three >ears
ago, said to contain $60,000. The statute, I
believe, limits the claim of ownership of pro
perty thus lost, to three years. In this case
the time limited expired on the 20th iust.,and
Green the celebrated submarine diver, reach
ed here on the 21st., iu the canal boot schoon
er York town, Cupt. Patterson, on his way to
the wreck, _5 miles distant. They returned
yesterday, and being well acquainted with
Captain I’uttcrson, 1 obtained the following
account from him: “About 10 o’clock (says
Cupt. P.) on the 24th, all being ready,Qreeu
descended by means of a line, which, hav.ng
a grapple on the end, became attached to
sometlmig below. lie was dressed with
three pair of flannel drawers, three shirts,
also flannel, three pairs of woolen pauts.three
coats, and three pairs of woolen stockings,
surmounted by his submarine armor; on his
feet he had a pair of stogy shoes, with lead
.sole }■ > or %of an inch thick, and a ibelt of
80 lbs. of shot around his body, to sink him
(and the breast piece cannot weigh less than
50 lbs.) Taking hold of the line he des
cended, finding it perfectly so that he could
see all around him to the depth Os
* sixty feet when it grew dark, and tor the
balance of his fearful juurney amid the cav
! erns of the deep, he was guided solely by the
; line, uutil at the depth ot 140 feet, when ho
struck bottom or something which ho soon
made out to be the wheel-house of the ill-fated
I boat ; groping along, he slid on the hurricuno
j deck, from thence to the guards of the boat;
I by poking around be discovered the precise
I position of the boat aud found himself not far
from the sought for office, and made fast tho
j end of.the line which ho carried down with
: him, to a stanchion near the gaug way, and
giving the signal he ascended, carrying with
him a piece of the wheel house which he had
secured, (a piece of which, about eight iu
ches loug, four inches wide, and one and a
quarter inches thick, was sawed off’ aud pre
sented to me by the captain of the Yorktown.)
He had gone down, m all, 152 feet, aud re
mained just 4o minutes. After resting ho
again descended, having just partaken of a
hearty meal without, removing his dress, save
I tho head piece. His excitement was intensb
at his great success thus far, aud when he de
scended the second time he was quite hot,
(the day was intensely hot.) Descending by
his second line he soon stood on the deck.—
Feeling his way along he soon reached tho
“ third” window, which being unbroken ho
shattered it, jmd reaching in hi 9 hand at last
laid it upon the fcuch coveted safe, just iu ihe
position it hud been described to him. Not
being able to readSifar enough to make this
line fast heagaia for a hook to hook
through the handlel; reaching the deck ho
made known his rtqSy-enu ut, and as uo hook
was ready sat down until one could be se
cured to a line. AW'.Hioy were about ready
he rolled paying lie \\ as sick. They
stripped him and did 11 in their power for
him, but were fraally oblige! to buoy the
lines and makofli for tli.s place for medical
attendance^
E=£T* “ Huum, my boy.” said a tender iethl
•r to hia son,./'you must be more careful
of . ourself. You have not the constitution
©fsoraeJ?
“ Don’t you believe it, dad; I’ve got tho
ooulfiMtioa of • home. Daug if l don't be
hove I’ve got the Constitution of tho Uuit#4