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COLUMBUS:
Tnesdny Morning, Sept. 23, I*so.
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
The Weekly Sun.
The first number of The Weekly Sun will
issue on Saturday next. Post Math era hold
ing subscription lists will please send in the
names they have procured.
Speaking To-Night.
The lion. Wni. H. Stiles, one of the Bucha
nan electors for the State at large, is to ad
dress the people of Columbus at Temperance
flail, to-night.
Alabama State Fair.
The second annual meeting of the Alabama
State Agricultural Fair, is advertised to come
oil’ at the Fair Grounds in Montgomery, com
mencing on the 11th and ending the 14th of
November.
A telegraphic dispatch Ims been received at
the Bulletin office in Memphis, Term., dated
at Henryville, l‘a., Sept. 11th, v/hich states
that, at a Democratic meeting held in that
place the night previous, alight occurred in
which Gov. iluedcr was killed. Having seen
nothing of it in our eastern exchanges, we do
not credit, it.
In New York the Black Republicans have
nominated John A. King, of Queen’s county,
tor Governor, and Henry Selden, of Monroe,
lor Lieutenant Governor. Mr. King was for
merly a Whig, and Mr. Selden a Democrat.
Mr. King is a son of the late Rufus King,
and wns a member of Congress during Mr.
Fillmore’s administration. He was formerly
a conservative Whig, hut during his Congres
sional term, t 1 rifted over to the Seward ranks.
Fremont in Virginia.
The Wellsburg Herald, published at Wells
burg, Brooke county, Virginia, publishes the
proceedings of a Fremont meeting in lluncot'k
county. Hancock and Brooke, it will of course
be remembered, are two of the extreme North
western counties of Virginia, and share the
abolition proclivities of the Ohio people on the
oilier side of the river. The meeting appoint
ed delegates to the Wheeling Convention to
appoint an electoral ticket. —Richmond Des
patch.
In 1860, Brooke County, Va., had 31 slaves
with a population of 6,061; and Hancock, at
the same time 3 slaves with a population of
4,050. The moral is sufficiently plain to those
who wish to see preserved in its integrity the
institution of slavery.— Chan. Standard.
The Pulpit and Politics.
We sec every day exemplified, the truth of
what Edmund Burke said long ago, in refer
ence to political preachers and preaching.
Said Burke—“ No sound ought to lie heard in
the pulpit hut the, hcAling voice of Christian
charily. Those who quit their proper char
acter to assume what does not belong to them,
are, fir the greater part, ignorant both of the
character they leave, and of tho character they
assume. They have nothing of politics but
the passions they excite. Surely the church
is a place where one day’s truce ought to he
allowed to the dissensions and animosities of
mankind.”
WATCH OUT FOB PENNSYLVANIA.
STATE ELECTION, OCTOBER 14th.
The State election occurs in Pennsylvania
on tlie 14lh ot’ October. The probabilities
are that it will go Black Republican nt that
time, by a moderate majority, to be swelled at
the Presidential election to a tremendous nnti-
Ituchnnan majority.
The South will see in the October election,
the hopelessness of Buchanan. If the State
even should go Democratic by a tornll majori
ty. it will not keep back the tide in Novem
ber.
The above, which we clip from the last Mont
gomery Mail, is indeed rich. It assures its
readers that the Black Republicans will carry
Pennsylvania at the State election in Octoberby
a moderate majority, and says that majority
will he swelled to a tremendous extent at the
Presidential election. It further says if the
State should go for the Democrats by a xmaU
majority in October, it will not keep back t lie
tide in November. Well this is logic for you.
We are inclined to the opinion that if the
Democrats carry the State in October against
the combined forces of Black Republicanism,
ever other ism, and the friends of Fillmore
in that State, thrown in, they w ill be apt to
hold their own in the Presidential election
when Fillmore is in the field on his own
hook. JPon t you think so, Mr. Mail ? Proba
bly the Mail don’t think Fillmore will be in
the ring.
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High Prices for Horses.
Porter's Spirit of the Times, in quoting the
sale of “Lexington,” from the Louisville Jour
nal, says:
” It is possibly true that Lexington has been
disposed of by Mr. Ten llroeck for $15,000,
hut the idea expressed that this is the highest
price ever any horse in the United
States, is not*only preposterous, Nit rid .u
----lous. Delivered here, Priam cos, over S'.’o,-
(iOO. Rodolph sold for $ IS. 000—yes, Ro
dJpli, die humbug! Monmouth Eclipse sold
r SI4.IKK)! and was worth ahout twenty
•'‘tilings. Post Boy, who was the Northern
champion, and run against John Bn, combe,
(■getting jolly well beaten.) was sold for $lB.-
000! Neither he nor Bascombe were worth
“shucks,” and neither has been the sire of a
winner fit to start for sour buttermilk. At
the time of their death. Bertrand would have
brought respectively $35,000, though the lat
ter “ its ten times the superior horse—and so
proved the fact. Shark and Medley sold for !
SIO,OOO each.
Races.
The Mobile Tribune of the 18tli iust., says:
There was more sport at the track yester
day than was expected. Both races were
closely contested. Indeed, we think it the
prettiest day’s racing we have seen for some
time. Me have now only time to give the re
sult :
first Race—Match—Mile heats, pacing :
bluffer 1 1
bob Cottrell “ 2
1 ime—l2:4 l —2: 01.
Second Knee—Match—Best 8 in ft, pacing:
Silver Tail 2 1 1 1
Hull Hornet I 2 2 2
Time— 2:51 11-2:40—2:48
Opinions of Fillmore and Buchanan.
W’e give below, the opinions of these gen
tlemen as reported by their respective
friends, drawn out in personal conversation.
The letter from Mr. Buchanan's friend was
published in the Sun several days ago, and
we republish it now to show the similarity of
their sentiments on one of the great questions
of the day. The letter relating to Mr. Buch
anan, is from a gentleman of North Alabama,
addressed to the Huntsville Advocate.
Memphis, Sept. 12, 1860.
Cot. J. P. Pryor: Dear Sir:—Your note
of this instant, asking, for publication, the
substance of a conversation between the Hon.
Millard Fillmore and myself, upon the sub
ject of “Squatter,” or Territorial Sovereign
ty, has just been handed me. I cheerfully
comply with your request, as I was placed in
no restraint by him in reference to the matter.
Upon my return home from the North, I
cnllcd to sec Mr. Fillmore at his house in
Buffalo, N. Y., on the 4th instant. During
our conversation, I asked him what he thought
of “Squatter Sovereignty,” and in reply, he
entered into a free and unreserved expression
of his views. He said he was decidedly op
posed to this doctrine, as advocated by Cass,
Douglas, Buchanan, Van Buren and others;
he believed that a Territory, until its inhabi
tants were sufficiently numerous to authorize
the formation of a State Constitution, prepar
atory to admission into the Union as a State
could only be regarded as in a condition of
punilage, possessing no sovereignty whatever,
and referred to the Utah and New Mexico
bills, sanctioned by him, as a correct indica
tion of his opinions.
1 was gratified to find that Mr. Fillmore oc
cupied the same position upon this question
which is maintained by the American party in
the South, and by the whole baud of national
Americans at the North, headed by such men
as Fuller, of Pennsylvania, Haven, of New
York, and others, and I told him I would like
to be at liberty to speak of the explanation
received from him. He replied, he had ex
pressed the same views to others, and that 1
could make such use of them as 1 thought
proper. Yours truly,
JOSEPH S. WILLIAMS.
Pmi.AHEi.PHiA, Aug. 0, 1850.
My Dcur Sir: —l spent two hours witli Mr.
Buchanan yesterday at Wheatland. Jtis
grounds are beautifully and tastefully ar
ranged, but, his house is plain and unpretend
ing in the extreme—everything has the air of
unostentatious democracy. But the man him
self is the very impersonation of unaffected
republicanism. I was never more agreeably
disappointed in iny life. Me gave us a cordial
and frank reception, and talked with us with
the freedom of an old acquaintance. 1 really
felt as if I had known him all my life, lie
said the issue involved in this election was
the Union of these States as equals. That
the South lias submitted to the aggressions of
the abolitionists with a patience that might
well challenge t’.ie admiration of the world,
and, considering the fire-eating propensities,
wns di lb cult to understand.
He ridiculed rhe doctrine of Squatter Sov
ereignty, and said that the South had now,
for the first time in the history of the coun
try, obtained from the government (lie con
cession of the true principle, viz: that the
people of a territory have the right, when they
come to form a State Constitution, to say
whet her they would or would not have slave
ry. That by this legislation Congress had
admitted that the power was with the people
and not in Congress, and the only rule was,
that this could be exercised by the people on
ly when they came to form a State Govern
ment, preparatory to admission into the Union.
I give almost his very words. He said, if he
should be elected, he felt satisfied the slavery
question would bo finally settled, provided he
could curry a portion of the New England
States or the State of New York. In other
words, if he were elected by a national vote,
what he would do in the premises would have
a national support, and the strength of Fre
soilism, which is sectional, would be dispers
ed.
The truth is Buchanan is as sound on this
question as was Mr. Calhoun, and the North
ern Democracy arc better Southern men to
day than many Democrats even at the South.
Whatever they may have done heretofore,
now they meet the question boldly, and
defend the institution of slavery with a fear
lessness that we might do well to intimate.
They do not even apologize for it on the
ground that it is recognized in the Constitu
tion ; they say that it is right—that God him
self established it, and that it has the Bible
for its foundation. If we do not sustain these
men in defense of our institutions, wo de
serve eternal infamy. The contest is obvi
viously between Buchanan and Fremont.
Fillmore is not in the race. No man here
pretends to say that lie is.
Death from Stabbing.
One of the most lamentable cases of stubbing
that it lias ever been our painful duty to record,
occurred here on Wednesday night of last week,
between 1* and 10 o’clock. As Mr. Augustus
S. Nix, one of the most worthy and highly
esteemed mechanics of the place, was passing
one of the di inking houses, on his way from
Church to his lodgings, he saw some young
sters plaguing a man by the name of Isham
Langley, with whom he (Mr. Nix) was ac
quainted. He went to him and took him a
lilttlo one side and advised him to get upon
his horse aud go home, that the boys were
disposed to treat him badly. But Langley,
instead of taking his advice, made a stroke at
him with a knife, striking him just below the
navel, inflicting a severe wound from which
Mr. Nix aied on Friday evening about 3
o’clock.
What a lesson this ought to be to young
nun who are in the habit of teasing aiid an
noying dniukon men about the streets. Only
think of it, the lifo of one of our most wor
thy and useful citizens sacrificed, and a poor
woman and her helpless children deprived of
the support that a husband aud father’s labor
ought to have afforded them, while tho tathor
and husband fills a felon’s cell ns the conse
quence of their amusement or their laisckief.-
Daticvillc [Ala.) Banner.
Religious Revival.
We learn that a very considerable religious
excitement is prevailing in the lower part of
this county. Protracted religious exercises
were held, extending through portions of the
past and present week, at what is called Hold
er’s Church, by Messrs. Thomas 11 Jones and
K. Jones, of the Methodist Church, which re
sulted in the addition of between forty and
fifty to the membership of that communion.—
Paulding (Mist.) Clarion.
A Buchanan Family.
The Cleveland Plaindealer speaks of a vete
ran Democrat, a soldier of the revolution.
Paul S. Hideaway, of Harrison county, Ohio.
He votes for Buchanan, lias seven sons, eight
sons-in-law, and twenty-four grandsons, all
of whom, except one grandson, vote for Buck
and Breck,
The Baltimore Whig Convention.
This Convention, styling itself a Convention
of “Old Line Whigs”—which sat in Baltimore
last week, adopted the following resolutions:
Resolved, Tiiat the Whigs of the United
States here assembled, declare reverence for
the Constitution and unaltered attachment to
the National Union, with fixed determination
to do all in-their power for themselves. They
had no new platlorm to announce, but would
broadly rest where their forefathers rested,
upon tiie Constitution, wishing no safer guide
or no higher ’aw.
Resolved, That tli y regard with deep in
terest the present condition of national affairs,
a portion of the country being ravaged by ci
vil war, and sections of the population embit
tered by mutual recriminations. They would
of course, trace such calamities to the culpa
ble neglect in the administration.
Resolved, That the government of the’ U.
iS. was formed by the conjunction in political
unity of wide spread geograpical sections, dif
fering in social and domestic institutions, kc..
and that any cause which shall array such
sections in political hostility must prove fatal
to the continuance of the National Union.
Resolved, That the Whigs of the U. S. declare
as a fundamental article of their political faith
an absolute necessity for avoiding such geo
graphical parties ; a danger discerned by the
father of his country and now become fear
fully apparent in the agitation convulsing
the nation, which must be arrested at once if
they would preserve the Union and Constitu
tion from dismemberment and the name of
America from being blotted from civilized na
tions.
Resolved, That all who revere the Union,
&c. f must look with alarm at the parties in
the field in the present canvass. One claiming
only to represent 10 Northern States, the oth
er appealing mainly to the passions and preju
dices of the Southern Stntes, and that the
success of either must add fuel to the flame
which now threatens to wrap all in ruin.
Resolved, Therefore as Whigs that their on
ly remedy is to support a candidate pledged
to neither of the geographical sections now
arrayed in political antagonism, but that hold
ing both in equal regard they (the Whigs)
congratulate the friendly Union that such a
candidate (of course) is Millard Fillmore!
Resolved, That without adopting or refer
ing to the peculiar doctrines of the party,
(tlie K. N's,) which had first selected Fillmore
as their candidate, they look on him as a well
tried faithful friend of the Constitution, kc.
Eminent alike for wisdom, firmness, for jus
tice, moderation in foreign relations, for calm
temperament, for devotion to the Constitution
and inflexibility in executing law’s and in pos
sessing the merit of being the representative
of neither of the two sectional parties now
struggling for superiority.
Resolved, That in the present exigency of
affairs they were not called upon to discuss
subordinate questions of ilie administration
in exercising its constitutional powers of gov
ernment, it was enough to know that civil
war raged and the Union was in peril, and to
proclaim thence that their conviction was that
the restoration'of Fillmore to the Presidency
will be the means of restoring peace.
Resolved, That they cordially approve of
Donelson for the Vice Presidency, and re
gard him as a conservative patriot to the
Union, &c.
Resolved, That the spontaneous rising of
the Whigs throughout the country and this ral
ly, to support the national interests with the
spirit displayed there, attest the importance
of re-invigorating their party organizations,
and that a Whig Committee, one from each
State, shall be appointed with authority to call
on any organization of the party throughout
the States. Those resolutions to be submitted
generally were adopted without seeming en
thusiasm. The Convention then adjourned
sine die at 4p. hi. Monument Square was
magnificently decorated for a mass meeting.
The crowd was immense and great enthusiasm
was manifested by all in favor of the result
of the convention.
Tlie Free Horse Party.
The Fort Dos Moines (Iowa) Statesman of
the 28d ult., gives the following particulars of
a visit from some distinguished emigrants :
“Some weeks since, a man calling himself
John Huchinson, (claiming to be a member of
the “Kansas Territorial Legislature,”) came to
our city, and was taken in by the republicans
here, and endorsed by their organ. He made
several speeches, and was considered some
thing of a lion. Shortly after he made his ap
pearance in our midst, two others of the same
school also came to our city, direct from Kan
sas. They were going on East for more of
their friends, who were desirous of emigrating
to Kansas, and in fact, had an in: truinent in
writing certifying to their good characters,
signed by an agent of the aid company, who
resides in the Territory. They had sonic
horses, which tliey T offered quite low to one of
our citizens, who, by the way, is one of the
best of men, but he rather suspected tlr- hors
es were stolen, and would not purchase them
unless they could bring vine person to en
dorse for them. Well, iu this'emergency. w ho
should they go to except this man Hutchison,
who certified to their good character; our
friend Elliott, then, was perfectly satisfied,
bought and paid for the horses. In a feyv days
more, the men from whom the lmrses were sto-~
leis in Kens as, came along and claimed their
property. After an investigation before Es
quire l’orter, the horses were given up to
their owners, and Mr. Elliott was loser to a
considerable extent. We have heard it whis
pered that Hutchinson and those horse thieves
were in partnership, andthat they divided the
money received for the horses with him. We
know not whether that is true, but from cir
cumstantial evidence, it cannot be denied.”
Some time previous to the evacuation of
Charleston, Col. Menzies, of the Pennsylva
nia line, received a letter from a Ilessian olli
eer within the garrison, who had been a pris
oner, and treated by him with great kindness,
expressing an earnest desire to show his grat
itude. by executing any commission with
which he would please to honor hint. Col.
Menzies replied to it, requesting him to scud
twelve dozen cigars ; but, being a German, and
little accustomed to express himself in English,
he was not very accurate in his orthography,
and wrote sizars. Twelve dozen pairs of scis
sors were accordingly sent him, which, for a
time, occasioned much mirth in the camp at
the Colonel’s expense: hut no man knew bet
ter how to profit from tlie mistake. Money
was not, at the period, in circulation: and by
the aid of a woman distributing his scissors
over She county, in exchange for poultry, Col.
Menzies lived luxuriously, while the fare of
his brother officers was a scanty pittance of
famished beef, bull frogs from ponds, and
craw-fish from <lie neighboring ditches.—J/o
hilr Tribune.
The Ohio river, it is stated, is now forded
safely at all points at Wheeling. There were
but fifteen inches water in the channel on
Wednesday and falling steadily, Os course no
boats are running, nud business there, in eon
seque .. ~ quite dull.
TELEGRAPHIC. !
From New Orleans.
New Orleans, Sept. 22.
The sales of the day comprise about 1800 j
bales at previous rates. Receipts to-day
large.
Corn 01c. per bushel. All other articles
unchanged. Heavy rain is falling.
THE DEVIL’S LADDER.
UV LhiTCH RITCHIE.
The lord of an ancient castle, it seems, of
which there are now ony som “Canty ruins
left, was of a churlish disposition; and one
night in particular—it was a dark and stormy
night—turned away from his door, a “little
old man,” who implored shelter. The next
day this lord’s young and lovely daughter was
missing ; and in the afternoon the wretched
father saw her clearly from his castle window
standing mi the inaccessible heights of the
Ilederick. He knew now, of course, with
whom he had to deal the evening before —one
of the gnomes of the mountain! and set to
work to strew his bread and alms, and to
curse and to pray, and make all vows and lad
ders. All in vain.
Four years after, when a young knight, re
turned from the wars of Hungary, was wan
dering among the rocks of the mountain,
dreaming of tlie fate of Garlinda, who was by
this time the heroine of the popular songs, lie
saw an old man in a situation of singular dan
ger. The wretch was far above the knight's
head, lying on the very brink of a rock, and
fast asleep. Every now and then a .wist of
his limbs brought him nearer the edge; he
was evidently in the midst of a dream : and
in another moment he would undoubtedly roll
into a gulf where he must be a dead man long
before he reached the bottom. To shout would
only hasten .his fate ; and the generous knight
with extraordinary hazard to his neck, climb
ed up the rock to his rescue.
He had just grasped the unfortunate being
by the collar, when the latter awakened, and
perhaps terrified by the touch, sprang over
tlie cliff! He struck, however, on a projecting
point of the rock, and clung on with a death
grip. The knight, horror-struck, risked eve
rything to repair the mischief lie had done.
He followed, but more cautiously ; and would
have succeeded this time in saving his man,
had not the strength of tho latter given way
at the moment. He sunk helplessly to anoth
er ledge of rocks ; and there also was pur
sued by our enterprising philanthropist.
Our adventurer, however, was now sudden
ly alarmed by the growing darkness of tlie
gulf, and by a strange conviction lie felt, that
the old man was not alarmed at. all; and all
at once he began to mutter a paternoster, and
re-ascend the rocks. Ilis foot slipped, how
ever, at the moment, and he fell upon tlie ob
ject of his fear and compassion, who received
him with shrieks of wild laughter, and both
parties tumbled head over heels to tlie very
bottom of the cliff.
“ What is all this noise about ?” demanded
another little old man, coming of a hole in the
rock in the dress of a miner, and with a lamp
in his hand. The knight’s companion was for
some time unable to answer for laughing ; but
at last—“ Brother,” said lie, “this young
fellow would needs gave my life, and venture
his own to help me out of the rocks! What, shall
we do in return ? Shall we give him Garlinda
to wife ?”
“Garlinda is in the safe keeping of our eld
est brother on the top of the mountain. We
have no more control over her than we have
over the moon.”
“I know that; hut our eldest brother is a
good natured fellow, at the bottom, although
lie hates churls. Do you, who understand
the trade, make a ladder for the young man
to ascend the mountain and leave the rest to
me.”
Telling the knight then to take care and be
at a certain place at the bottom of the moun
tain by daybreak, he shoved’him a subterra
nean passage by which lie easily found his way
out of the Gulf. As the adventurer retreated
lie already heard the noise of felling trees, the
grating of the saw, tlie thump of tlie hammer,
and he pleased himself with the idea that the
little old man’s ladder was something* more
than ajoke.
The next morning he was punctual to liis
appointment, and sure enough a ladder ap
peared reaching to the very top of the moun
tain! The knight„was a little giddy at, first
w hen he began to mount; but taking care not
to look down, ami to keep saying his pater
noster incessantly. lie at length gained the
summit. Here a sight awaited him beautiful
enough to repay a thousand such dangers; it
was Garlinda, lying asleep upon the velvet
turf. Lilies and roses ! was there ever such
a girl! Tlie knight’s lips Watered as he looked
at her.
“* liusli! hush ! whispered a little old man,
stealing out on tiptoe from behind a rock ; “ I
am one of the carpenters, your honor, that
made the ladder, ~..d 1 am sorry to tell you,
that Garlinda’s master is inexorable. He is
he-o, however, lying as fast asleep as she is,
and a single blow ot your sword will deliver
your mistress and save your life !’’
*• 1 would not slay a sleeping man,” replied
the knight, “to deliver a dozen mistresses, or
to save my own life, were it as manifold as aT
cat’s.”
“Oh! do not slayliim!” exclaimed Garlin
da, awaking at the moment, “ lie lias stolen
me Irom my father it is true, but indeed lie has
been a father to me himself 1”
“What is to do here ?” said the eldest bro
ther, in a gruff but broken voice, as he came
from behind a rock, wiping his eyes. “ Let
us have no more words, for I kno.v all. Here
is your dowry, Garlinda, (giving her a basket
of precious stones,) tell your father that 1 for
give him. Good bye, sir knight; you that would
break your neck so save an old man’s, but
who would not slay a sleeping man either for
love or fear! good bye! T shall see you again
at certain lamily epochs, as often as they oc
cur, and never come empty-handed. Nov,
show them the subterranean route, and let the
ladder hang as a warning to the count.y, till
it falls in pieces by the action of the elements.”
A Printer in a Scrape.
The St. Louis Republican tells a story of a
printer, well known to the craft, who was re
cently “locked up’’ in the apartments of a la
dy, at one of the hotels in that city. The la
dy lmd a husband, who suspecting the “devil”
was “subbing” at his “case,” broke into the
room, where he was furnished with a “proof ”
of their guilt. The Printer, however, had a
“shooting stick,” one barrel of which lie dis
charged at the enraged husband, and then
fled. The “leaded matter.” fortunately, did
no injury to the “form” of the husband, who
after giving “chase” for a short distance, re
turned to his room, satisfied that his domestic
happiness was knocked into “pi.” Tiie eraft
generally consider i; a “matter” that cannot
be “justified,” and that the guilty fellow ought
to “distribute” himself as wide as possible.
.Sir Henry Holland, physician to tjueeu Vic
toria, is ju Boston, a guest of lion. Edward
Everett.
GENERAL ITEMS. I
Advices from the Cape of Good n or
port the murder of Rev. Mr. Thomas .J* I
leyau missionary, by the Caffrcs. ’ * lr 'l
It is stated tha over sixty thousand h
of lager bier will be manufactured I
in Milwaukee alone. 5 R* I
Gov. Reeder, of Pennsylvania, and ]’
Taylor, of New York, have come out l at
mont. r
In a Dutch translation of Addison's r
the words—“ Plato, reasonest well,” m .. #l
dered : “ Just so—you are very riWt
heer Plato.” ‘ ‘• t ’
The Hon. Townsend Harris, the Am •
Minister to Siam, Ims lately concluded “ C,!
morcial treaty between that Government 10 ' 1 ’
our own. ‘ ai "l
Mr. J. N. Harwood, of Frederick c <„„.
Md., captured an Otter four feet in len
the Sugar Leaf mountain, on Saturday r ■”
last.. J
The expenses of the San Francisco y
lance Committee, it is said, amounted to
$60,000. The last assessment p (l ij V.' 1 ’
members amounted to $30,000.
There is a rumor from England to tl, e et r
that an English Earl, who was engage a ‘
Crimean war, is about to lead to the liyi )e
altar the noble-hearted and self-sacvin
Florence Nightingale. ‘ |: -
Mr. George Peabody, the London banks
arrived at New York on Monday in the At'p .!
He is to be handsomely entertained by ‘
merchants of New York, Boston andll.h’
more.
Sportsmen may be interested to learn t!
small shot, when mixed with about one-fly
its quantity of fine sand, will keep morceC
ly together when fired and kill at a (list!, “
of eighteen or twenty yards Either than !
dinary.
The Democrats of New York made four
their six congressional nominations ViV„„
day night. John Kelly was nominated in t 1
4th district; in the sth, W. B. Mad fry ■ ‘
the 6th, John Cochrane; and in the 7th V
jah Ward.
A private letter dated at Laurel Hill, g f
Sept. 18th, says: “The freshet has’ton,,
the Rice crop, and will damage it material!,
in this section. It has stopped the harvest!,
entirely.”
A fast young man in Newport, Ky. t
married last Wednesday—lost $C0() in ; y g;,.,,’
bling shop on Thursday—was scolded l,y \,
bride same evening so badly, that on Frida!
morning he took five ounces of laudanum a
came near dying.
The Republican Mass State Convention
held at Pittsburg Wednesday, is said to Lav!
been the greatest demonstration ever held and
that city. Cassius M. Clay, N. P. Banks, ami
a host ot other abolitionists, addressed tk
vast assemblage.
The Boston Evening Ledger has the folio*
ing: \ esterday afternoon, an Irishman no.:
down to India wharf, divested himself of If.,
clothing, which lie threw overboard, and then
jumped into the water. He was soon pulled
out, and when asked to give a reason for bi>
proceedings, said that he was bouud for Ire
land, to rescue his countrymen.
It is stated in some of the Boston papers
that a splendid line of packet steamers is
about to be established between that city and
some European port. Commodore Vanderbilt
and other gentlemeu of experience, energj
and n ealth, arc said to have taken the matter
in hand.
A Dutchman, in Albany, some time buck,
went out to his milkman in the street, with i.
dish in each hand, instead of one, as usual.
The dispenser of attenuated milk asked if he
wished him to fill both vessels. The Dutch
man replied, suiting the action to the word,—
“ID. for do milluk and dis for de water, an I
I wiu mix them so as to shute mineself.”
The new telegraphic cable, one hundred and
twenty miles long, which was being laid be
tween Sardinia and the coast of Africa, na>
lost in a storm, making the second cable lost
in this attempt to establish conimuniciition
Viith Africa. Theeable was insured for £2l\-
000.
The Wilmington Herald of tho|l7th instant,
contains an intimation or announcement that
L. .J. Fleming, Esq., had resigned or ivus
about to resign the office of Engineer and Su
perintendent of the Wilmington and Manches
ter Railroad, having been appointed Chief Eu
gineer of the Mobile and Ohio Railroad, at ?.
salary of six thousand dollars.
The Governor and the Scarecrow.
Gov. D , of , was a plain, fur
mcr like person—in fact aside from his politi
cal office, liis profession was that of a fanner,
lie had an orchard behind his house, to widen
he paid a great deal of attention.
In personal appearance the Governor wa
not very prepossessing. He was tall and
gaunt, and when about liis work was general
ly in the habit of wearing a faded gown, which
was ot exceeding length, coming nearly to Id
feet.
-—lt, chanced one day (lint a gentleman, hub
ionably dressed, called at the Governor’s resi
deace and inquired for him. lie was in quest
of a certain office which lay in the Governor'*
gift.
“He is not at home just at present,” said
Mrs. D., “ but if you will come in and take
a seat, no doubt lie will be along soon.
The visitor accepted the invitation, and seal
ing himself in tlie plain sitting room, entered
into conversation with the Governor’s lady.-
“ 1 believe,” said he, “ that this is considered
a tine agricultural place. Does your huabium
own much land ?’’
“Some thirty acres. He is quite a tar
mer.”
•• I caught a glimpse of an orchard just be
hind the house. That I suppose belongs I”
him ?”
“ ‘ es, he prides himself on his orchard.
•• 1 see you find it. necessary to use scare
crows to frighten away the birds.”
“Scarecrows!” The Governor’s lady ‘ w
astonished. “ No,” said she, “we never em
ploy any.”
‘• Why, lam quite sure 1 s’ w one in cue
ot the trees, rigged up in a long flutter*"?
robe.”
“1 don’t think Mr. 1). has put any one h* io
the orchard. You can look from the windo".
and perhaps you can see thoobject which y" 1
mistook,”
“ There it is now"—was the reply, s
pointed out a figure standing ona limb of ons
of the trees, dressed in a pair of overalls, if* l ' l
a faded robe fluttering in the brcez.e —“th“ ‘
the scarecrow! 1 was sure that I was not m e
taken !”
“That a scarecrow!” said Mrs. D-- “
amazement, “ why that’s my husband.
The victim of this emburrasing mistake i* 1 ’
just enough voice left to inquire for his h** l,
upon which he immediately withdrew, *h' r ‘
ing ir best to defer his application for ofli’
a more convenient season.
