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Newspaper Page TextCOLUMBUS:_ j Wednesday Morning, Mept. *i 1856. LAUGUST CITY CIRCULATION. The Weekly Bun. The first ntlteber of Tho Weekly Sun will issue on Saturday next. Post Masters hold* ing •übscription lists will please send in the names they have procured. Wc direct the attention of our lady readers to the advertisement of Messrs. Barnett, Elli son & Cos., in another column. ('ever in Charleston. The Board of Health report seven deaths from yellow fever in Charleston for tho 48 hours ending Sunday night 10 o’clock. Five on Saturday and two on Sunday. Preliminary Examinations. The nogro boy Lewis, who was exam ined yesterday before Justices Quin and Wal ker, on a charge of robbing the store of Adolphe Halle, on the evening of the 29th ult., was dis charged by the Magistrate, an alibi having been proven. llopton Gunn, charged with “assault with intent to kill” Samuel I. Hill, underwent an examination before tho samo Magistrates, and Was hold to bail in the sum of Eighteen Hun dred Dollars. Wo aro not apprised whether or not Gunn has given tho required hail. Corrc*j)onilcne of the Daily Pun. Serious Fire In Glennville. GIKNNVILLK, Ar.*., Monday Night, Sept. 22, 10 r. m. J Editor Sun : A lire broke out just now in the Hotel, known as the Mansion House, re cently kept by Mr. Barnett, but sold a few days sinco to Mr. Dinkins. The Hotel is now burning, and almost entirely consumed. The fire has not yet spread, and the citizens aro working bravely to keep it down. What their success will bo is doubtful; but as the night 1r very still and calm, I trust few other houses will bo burned. In the present excitement it is impossible to learn the origin of the fire, but 1 will give you full particulars in iny next. Mr. Dinkins’loss will be severe. Ho paid over $5,000 a few days ago for the Hotel, and hud just got settled as its Proprietor. He has n insurance, if I am correctly informed. An hour Later. It is not probable that any other building will be burned than the Hotel. ‘Die Livery stables just across the street aro in great, danger, but water and blankets are plenty and tho roof is covered with citizens who are doing all they can. The horses were turned out upon the first, alarm. All I can learn as to the origin of tho fire, is, that it eommonoed in the upper story. Many of tho lioardersjnadc narrow escapes, and all in the uppor story have lost their clothing, books, Ac. You may judge of tho intensity of the firo from the fact that large green oaks near the Hotel burned almost like tinder. The building was an unusually largo ono for a village. ‘ T. W. L. P. S. Tho firo is pretty well over, nnd it will be confined to the Hotel. Mr. Dinkins states that the fire was first discovered on top of the house. There was no fire in any of the rooms while the roof was in a blaze—neither any on tho premises, oxcept in the kitchen. Mr. Dinkins saves some furniture, household sup plies, &c.—but a tritlo compared with his losses. Dr. C. M. Pope, temporarily sojourn ing here, loses a fine mam, one of a pair. He had tied them to a treo some distance off, but they were so terrified, in their efforts to get loose, they choked themselves down. One Was cut loose barely in time to save her. The ot her was not reached in time. Should I have any further particulars, will send them by next mail. T. W. L. Correspondence of the Daily Sun. Fire in Macon. Macon, Ga., Sept, 22, 1850. Gontlemen.: A fire broke out this morning between 4 and 5 o’clock in the rear of tho old Washington Hall, or contigious thereto, burn ing every building ofi Mulberry street and all on 2d street to tho clothing store of Messrs. Salisbury, and all on 3d street up to the Bank of Middle of Georgia. The principal sufferers were several Jew establishments on 3d street, names not known, who kept Dry Goods and Clothing; Boardman, who kopt tho Book Store: Messrs. Ells & Son; M. D. Barnes, Jeweller; C. H. Baird, Tailor; E. E. Brown, Grocery, Ten Pin Alley and Billiard Saloon ; Peters & Tailors; Hernandcs, Ci gar Manufactory and Store ; Bclden A Cos., Hat Store; J. L. Jones, Clothing Establish ment; Pierson & Clark, Family Groceries; l’ugh, Daguerreotypist; Day & Mausseuet, Jewellers; St rocker, Druggist; Binder, Boot and Shoe Shop ; Carey, Boot and Shoe Shop ; Butherford, Law Office; Dr. Pic, Shop; Dr. Mctaoe, Shop; Mrs. Audouir, Miliner ; Man ufacturers, and Fire and Marine Bank Agen cies. There wero also others whose names are not known. Some are insured to tho full extent of their loss; others are only partially •o. Every building, with the exception of two, were of wood material, mostly large and ex ceedingly combustible, which burnt rapidly and creating a vast intense heat across Mul berry street. There was a slight breeze blowing from the west, driving the fire direct ly down tho block. This, with the broadness of Mulberry and Third strocts, prevented tho fire from crossing. This is said to be the largest fire ever in Macon, but the loss will mostly fall on the owners of tho buildings.— Bince the fire has come, a thing contemplated and prepared for, for years past, few will re gret, except those who have been made ten antless, without being able to find another place to do business in until the block is again built up. From the fact that almost every building on the blook which has been burnt, and tho crowded condition and exposure of buildings situated on the Alley in tho rear of Mulberry street, no one has felt secure for a moment, while the most extravagant prices were demanded by Insurance offices to take ♦h* risk of losses. Respectfully, &0-, Q. Telegraphic. Expressly for tha Daiy Bun. FOUR DAYS LATER FROM EUROPE. A'BRIVAL OF THE INDIAN. COTTON FIRM. New York, Sept. 23. The British Steamship Indian, has arrived at Quebec, with advices from Liverpool to the 10th inst. Sales of cotton Monday and Tuesday were 25,000 bales, the market closing firm, without any change in prices since the sailing of the Asia. The stato of trade at Manchester reported favorable. Breadstuff continue to decline. Money market without change. Consuls 95j. From New Orleans. New Orleans, Sept. 23. There was a fair demand to-day and thirty five huudred bales of cotton changed hands at previous rates. Other articles unchanged. Weather cool. boil of Site British Steamer. New Orleans, Sept. 21. The brig Union, at Belize, reports the total loss of the British W. 1. Mail Steamer Tay, which occurred on the 30th ult., near Lobos island. The passengers and mails were sav ed. Harper for October, Wo have received from J. W. Pease, Harper’s Magazine for October. It contains the follow ing articles:—Cooking of Men; Wild Life in Oregon; Passages of Eastern Travel; Insects and Insect Life; The South Beach; Daniel Webster’s Social Hours; A Terrible Night; Why we get Sick; Merlinville; The Double House, by the author of “John Halifax;” A Vizit to Rod Iliver; Little Dorrit. A Sharp Child. The Conservative, published at Aberdeen, Miss., (Amerieuu) charges Mr. Buchanan with siding with Aaron Burr against Mr. Jefferson in 1801—fifty-five years ago, when Mr. Buch anan was only about nine or ten years old. Correspondence of the Savannah Republican. Florida Long Cotton Crop. Mabion Cos., E. Fla., Sept. 6, 1856. In a late editorial of your valuable paper, on the Sea Island crop of Cotton, you say “ the crop promises better in Florida.” This was true a month ago ; but the caterpillar has Bince appeared and swept our fields in a style nevor seen in this latitude. I hear of no neighborhood in the counties of Alachua and Marion—where the finest article of Long Cot ton is grown—that has escaped tho ravages of the caterpillar. We had a wet, cold spring, aud floods of rain in May. Juno and July more than since the famous years of ’ls and ’46. August was dry, and now the leaves are so wilted it is hoped they may not agree with tho worm. We bavo had no rain for fivo weeks. Our best planters estimate the yield as two thirds less than an averuge season. Yet wo see Sea Island Cotton quoted at 18 (o 23 cents. Whilst the breadstuff market is as sensitive as a thermometer. I assure you I have not exaggerated the ex tent of the injury to our crops. Yours respectfully, A Long Cotton Grower. Oceanic Telegraph. The Cork Constitution, of September 2, al luding to the United States steamer Arctic, Capt. Berryman, in Queenstown harbor, re marks: “ She is the bearer of Lieut. Strain, of Da rien notoriety, and Capt. Berryman, who has before, and now again, crossed irorn Newfound land to take soundings of the whole Atlantic coast, from St. John’s to Valencia, with the view to ascertain the probable success with which a telegraph cable may be laid between these points. The result is satisfactory. For some fifty or sixty miles from St. John’s, and nguin on this side, is a bank, varying from twenty-five to one hundred and twenty fath oms. Between those there is a grand plateau, nearly level, the bottom soft, composed of shells so fine that only the microscope can dis cover them, each shell perfect iu its minute beauty, proving the absence of currents at the bottom, and with due deference to Stephenson and others, the want of that vast pressure which was to be so dreaded, and exhibiting, at every point, not only a capacity, but the most perfect capacity for the very use for which it is required. The whole apparatus for arriving at these facts is most perfect.— Steam power, separate from those of the ship, works the axle from which the sounding lino is ‘plaid out.’ Soundings have been taken to the depth of 27,000 fathoms. A Marine Locomotive. Mr. Vm. Lonsdell, a machinist of Memphis, Tenn., has invented what ho terms a marine locomotive, nnd which is designed to be sub stituted for the present steam water craft, by making the base of the boat the propelling agent instead of paddle wheels, as now used. The invention consists in using two huge par allel hollow screws in tho place of the present keel, and revolving them by means of steam power, so that they will cut their way through tho water as a common screw cuts into wood. The screws are constructed of iron, and, as before stated, are hollow, but are divided into compartments, asa precaution against sinking, in case of an accident. The cabin of tho locomotive will be con structed on frame work, elevated above these screws, and will, altogether, be more pleasant ly situated than tho cabins of our river steam ers, admitting the passage of fresh air beneath its whole length nnd breadth. It is believed that when fairly put upon tho water and under advantageous circumstances, the locomotive can make about thirty miles an hour, and thus compete with our railroad trains in speed as well as in safety. The model has been put upon trial, and has performed to the satisfac tion of the inventor nnd numerous witnesses. Tho meeting called iu I’hiladelphia for Wed nesday evening last, by the Hon. Lewis Levin to repudiate a union between tlie Fillmore and the Black Republican tickets, broke up in a row. The union ticket was repudiated, in a speech by Hon. Lewis O. Levin, when he was immediately hooted down, and hustled out of the meeting. Resolutions were then passed adopt ing a union ticket between tlie Republicans and Fillmore men. The meeting then formed a procession aud joined the Fillmore meeting iu Spring Garden, where similar resolutions were adopted. CottoD Bagging. This is an interesting subject to planters, just at this time, says the Savannah Republi can, growing out of the annually increasing demand for the article nnd its extraordinary appreciation in the market under tho combin ed influence of a limited supply and the’ mo nopolizing of that which is on hand by specu lators. The indications are that pla’hters will have to pay a rouud price in their purchases for the coming crop. At last accounts there was none on sale in the New York market, the entire supply having entered in the hands of Boston speculators. In the New Orleans Bulletin’s annual state ment we find the following report of the con dition of that market, aud general remarks on the trade. It is a fully fair index of the other principal markets of the United States, for the time specified : The market for Kentucky Ragging lias again exhibited but few features of interest. Prin cipally on account of its superior weight, India has superseded the use of it to a still greater | extent than last year, and there lias consc- I quently been a considerable falling off in the receipts, which amount to 38,900 pieces, against 40,600 last year, showing a decrease of 6,700. The estimated stock on hand Rt the commencement of tho year was 8,500 pieces. Added to the receipts, this makes an aggre gate of 42,400 pieces, and deducting from it the stock on hand yesterday, loaves 38,000 pieces as the supply disposed of against4o,loo pieces last year, showing a falling off of 2100 pieces, while tha decrease, compared with the previous year, amounts to 4250 pieces. The ruling rates last September were 10 a 18c., at which the market continued quiet until the middle of November, when prices advanced to 18 a 19c., after which there was no quotable chango until March, when prices wero reduced to 17j a 181 c., which continued to be the rul ing rates until within the last month, when, influenced by the speculative advanco in India Bagging, holders raised their pretensions to 18 a 22c. as the extremes for Hand Loom and Power Loom, and subsequently to 20 a 23. This material advance will no doubt give an additional impulse to the manufacture, and impart increased activity to the market until importations can be made from Calcutta to such an extent as to reduce prices to their range at the commencement of the year. In the meantime there appears to be but little doubt that from a falling off inthe importations the supply of India Bagging on hand in the United States, and the amount which v ill yet come forward in time for the present crop, will be barely sufficient to meet the plantation de mand, and that speculators, who have, to some extent, monopolised tho supply, will bo able to maintain the present advance. In glancing at the movements of this article, we find that at tpo commencement of the year it ruled at 14 a 1 U., but soon, declined to 12 a 13. In November it rose to 141 a 15c., but by the close of January declined to 12.', a 131. From this period until the latter part of April prices continued to harden, withoutany specu lative movement, but when in the early part of May it rose to 15 a 151 c., it attracted some attention, and prices have since rapidly gone up, rising in May to 16, a 17e., in June to 17j a 17j, in July to 17a 18, and during the past month to 23ic. to arrive and24c. in ware house, while at retail dealers realize 25c. An Army to Ue rnisel in OMo to Conrjtncr the South. The New York Tribune, not content with asseverating that the “ Union is not worth sup porting in connexion with the South,” now proposes to raise an army in Ohio to “con quer the South : ” ” Let the governor of the State of Ohio is sue a proclamation for a special session of the legislature, and let the enrolled militia of the State march out to Kansas * by authority ; ’ let ten thousand men be at once despatched after this fashion. Gov. Chase is just the man to inaugurate this movement. With such an array as he could rally to his standard from the bold yeomanry of Ohio, he could conquer the whole South. But let the governors of lowa, Wisconsin, and all the New England States proceed to follow Hie example of the governor of Ohio.” llow will Governor Chase receive this pro position? Here is a chance for seme of the truculent warriors and military heroes of this great State. Their ambition is no longer hem med in by the limits of Kansas. War—a war of conquest—is openly urged upon them by their chief leader. Let Chase raise his army as soon as possible. When he does so, wo hope he will place Greeley at the head of one of the brigades, Biddings at the head of another, and the ferocious and combative edi tor of tho Gazette at the head of a third. On their way to “conquer the South,” we trust that they will pass through Hamilton county, and we promise they will be very cordially re ceived by a few hundred buys: and if there is any virtue in a cold bath, and the Ohio ri ver supplies the necessary element, their val orous purposes will be subjected to that pro cess which is said to be very healthful and ef ficacious in curing fnnitics. — Cin. Enq. Increasing Conlidciiiie of tlie Black Re publicans. Hon. Ephraim Marsh, of New Jersey, Pres ident of tho Philadelphia American Conven tion of February last which nominated Messrs. Fillmore and Donelson for the Presidency and Vice Presidency, is out with a long manifesto in which he gives his reasons for dropping Fillmore and going over to Fremont. Mr. Marsh regards the slavery question as the great issue involved in the approaching elec tion, and thinks that in such a contest there should be no half-way compromise on the part the North. Mr. Fremont is a better man for the North than Mr. Fillmore, and as he has the assurance of Gen. Sam. Houston, Hon. Ilenry Winter Davis, distinguished South Amer icans, and other “enlightened and patriotic Southern men,” that the South will quietly submit tu tiie rule of the Northern free soil party, and with Gen. Houston “pay respectful homage to Col. Fremont when elected, as the chief magistrate of their choice,” helms deci ded to support tho free soil nominees. Only one objection to Fremont has given him any uneasiness—that is “the allegation that he (Fremont) is a Roman Catholic.” This would boa grave charge if true; put his supporters have proveu in to be false, and Mr. Marsh dis misses it. We find tho following in the last Savannah Republican: Vote on the Florida. Ed. Republican—Sir:—A vote was taken on board the steamship “Florida” this day, (Sept. 20th, ) with the following result. For Fillmore 53. “ Ruchatian 30. Mr. J. H. Daniels of Columbus nnd Mr. Ruse of Savannah acting as tellers: Ladies—for Ruchnnnn 12. “ “ Fillmore $. James Brown and William Chasm, were kib ee by lightning in Decatur county, on the 12th instant. They were working on the road at ‘ the time of the storm, and took sheiter under a tree, which was struck by the fluid. Two mules ero killed by the same bolt. University of Georgia. By a resolution of the trustees, ten students will be educated at the University without charge of tuition. The appointments Wul be made by the Faculty on the 25th of October— one from each Congressional District, and two from the State at large. To receive the ap pointment, the applicant must be a resident of the State, of good moral character, and unable to uferay the expenses of a Collegiate education, lie must also be over fourteen years of age, and have pursued at least t v, j studies which are required for admission to the Fresh man Class, one term advanced. Applicants are requested to send their testi mounds, showing that they fully comply with all the requisitions to the President of the University. —Athens Manner, Sept. 15. - . ■ . Revolving Steam Boilers. An exchange says: By a newly invented : mode, steam boilers are now constructed in j such a way that they may gradually revolve j on nn axis, so that a fresh surface of the boiler j may be constantly exposed to the action of the | fire, instead of allowing tho latter always to j net on the same surface, as is usually the case, j One of the ways of accomplishing this is, sup- i posing an ordinary cylindrical boiler to be j chosen for the purpose, tire patentee bolts, rivets, or otherwise fastens at each of its ends an axis of a suitable length, supported on bear ings in the usual way. One of these axis may be of solid iron, but it is preferred be be shal low, and provided with a stuffing box, through which a water-pipe passes, in order to feed tho boiler with water, aud it is also on this axis the inventor prefers placingawater-guage, to indicate tho level of tlie water in the boiler. To this is fastened a cog wheel, into the cogs of which an endless screw or spur-wheel is working, or else a pulley with a chain, by means of which a slow revolving motion is giv en to the boiler. Affairs in Kaiemsi Mr. Jonathan Crews, a citizen of Lafayette, Indiana, who has been for some weeks past in Kansas, was in this city yesterday, on his re turn. Business relations have, from time to time, called him in to Kansas, for two years past, and he is well posted as to what has taken place. From him We have derived some inter esting information of recent occurrences in that territory. He knows all about the affairs at Franklin, the attack upon, and destruction of Col. .Titus’ house, and nearly every event that has trans pired in the territory since the middle of Au gust. He corroborates, in tho main, the state ments made by out* regular correspondents, and describes the men act Big under Lane’s or der, and in all the late outrages, as the veriest ■ set of scoundrels unhung. They have been guilty of burglary, robbery and violence to peaceable men and women, not only in one but in many places, and they are there not with any view to settlement, but with a view to plun der peaceable, industrious and well disposed citizens.— St. Louis Republican, 14 tk inst. Tlie Mammotii Cave. E. Meriam is furnishing the Portsmouth Journal with a series of interesting articles about the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. He says the last estimate of the Gave gave 226 avenues, 26 domes, 8 cataracts, and 23 pits; yet all is not discovered, and centuries may elapse before it is fully explored. The floor of the Cave is covered by three or four feet of dirt, yielding about three pounds of nitrate of lime to the bushel, and such is the condition of the atmosphere of the Cave that the dirt, after being lixiviated and thrown back from the hoppersTnto the Cave, re-impregnates i.O fully in three years as it was before iixiviation. Glauber and Epsom salts are abundant in some apartments of the Cave. Pebbles, chal cedony, including geodes lined with crystals, flints, fibrous sulphate of lime, oolite, chalk, red and gray ochre, calcareous spar, gypsum and soda, are found in the Cave. The Height a Colt will attain when Grown. Mr. J. R. Martin, of Lexington, Kentucky, gives out the foliowing upon tins point : 1 can toil you how any man may know, within an inch, the height a colt will attain to when full grown. The rule may not hold good in every instance, but in nine cases out of ten it will. When the colt gets to be three weeks old, or as soon as it is perfectly straight ened in its limbs, measure from the ego of the hair on the hoofs to the middle of the first joint, and for every inch it will grow to the height of a hand of four inches,, when its growth is matured. Thus, if this distance be found sixteen inches it will make a horse six teen hands high. By this means, a man may know something of what sort of a horse with proper care, he is to expect from his colt. Three years ago I bought two very shabby looking colts for S2O each, and sold them re cently for S2OO. So much for knowing liow to guess properly at a colt. UngllsU NegropMlism Declining. The Liverpool Post states that the prior pub lication, in London, of Mrs. Stowe’s new anti- j slavery novel, has not realized the success an- I ticipated. After praising “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” ! as the best thing of the kind ever written, nnd ■ speaking coldly of her book on her previous tour in Europe, tho Post says: “It turns out that we are weary of Mrs. Stowe, as Mrs. Stowe, and that the nigger is not just at present “up” in tlie market, Her new accounts of slave life in tho States has j fallen dead on the market, —to the dismay of j the publishers- who speculated in a popularity ! that was fictitious, and does not endure the test. Wc are in good humor with Jonathan now, and are not prepared to applaud the lite rary art which makes money by setting a great confederation by the ears on a topic dependent on events, and not on logic, for its political treatment.” Give of tiie Trickz of Burglars. From a confession made by a rogue, now in jail at Hartford, Ct., for various burglaries re cently committed in Farmington, it appears that 0:10 of the gang with whom he was con nected, traveled through various towns selling polishing powders, with a view of ascertaining where silver plate was to bo found. In visit ing dwellings, he was always quite bold in fol lowing the inmates to adjacent rooms, to test his powders upon silver spoons or plate. lie made a memorandum of what he saw, in a book, noting particularly those houses where a dog was kept. - “ Most careful drawings have been’ made by Mr. \ an do Borg, (to whom has been assigned tho special post of draughtsman,) of the sound ings, showing a profile of the bottom of the son with the greatest accuracy. There can be no and: übt thatcommuuicntions between Ireland aud st. John s, a distance ol 1,649 geograpni cal miles, may be regarded ns a certainty. It is m tho hands of a small American company, but thou: 1 small, i; its members possess but* a tithe of tho energy of their representative, Gyrus \V. Field, who is also hero making every iuquu-y, it will be enough to overcome ever\ difficulty. Captain Berryman laughs at laying the cable. He asks but a ship large enough, and he will undertake to do it at ten miles an hour right across.” GENERAL ITEMS. William F. Baker, a stanch Democrat been elected Alderman, in Madison, Wiscv in place of an opposition man. Miss Martineau, the authoress, R as confined to the house for fifteen months *1“ severe illness. ’’ “J By a letter just received from Kansas , Newberry Mirror learns that Capt. Milt™ ? Fair, of Newberry company of emigrants at Leavenworth City ou the 3rd instant.’ A hogshead of tobacco was sold atLvnr’ burg at the rate of two hundred and a-vu five dollars per 11)0 lbs.—the largest priced tained in any market daring the present cl tury. It appears that the inhabitants of the c010r,,, of the Buy Islands are decidedly averse U ‘ ing transferred to Honduras, as propose. ‘ the terms of the settlement of the Cen* ‘ American question. They prefer the proto toratc of Gen. Walker. Francis P. Blair, Jr., the newly elect, member of Congress from the St. Louis, trict, lias lately visited the office of theV State Journal, at Columbus, a Republic,! sheet; which paper, in announcing the f a adds, that be is a warm friend of Cos!. i’ rer; ~ i At a revival at McGee’s meeting houo, Sampson county, North Carolina, last We ,;/ lady joined ain prayer offered up. When tl,,’ congregation arose, she was discovered on C knees with her hands clenched to the lack ■ her seat, and on examination was found to entirely dead. The coal from the mines in Chatham countv North Carolina, lias recently been tested \\ • great care in New York, and it is found t yield nearly 20 per cent., or one-fifth nior .gas than any coal, either English or American heretofore discovered. The test of five pomi'! yield 24 cubic feet of gas, whereas the Light!: yield-of any coal hitherto, has not exceeded 20 cubic feet. James King, of Wm. is the name, it will be remembered, of the gentleman whose death u the hands of Casey called for tho secoud re organization of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee. After Mr. K.'s death, contribu tions wero made in that city for the benefit ot his family, and the sum of $82,060 raised, which has been placed in the hands of trus tees for investment. In addition to this, it j. stated that the King family still retains third interest in the Bulletin, which yields them about SI,OOO a month profits. Mrs. King has also been presented with a house val ued at $3,000. The Massachusetts Republican and Gardner American State Convention met on Tuesday. The two organizations united upon a ticket for Presidential electors, and will hold their conventions for the nomination of members of Congress simultaneously, with a view to a fusion. It was understood that the republi cans would not nominate a ticket for Stale officers, thus leaving the track clear for Gov ernor Gardner and his colleagues. On Monday, Mayor Ferguson, of Norfolk, provided means of transportation North of Mason and Dixon’s line for two men named Caldwell and Malone, who were recently ex ported from CheraW District, S. C., in consid eration of their traffic and tampering with the slaves in that locality. The project of erecting ajmonument to the Pilgrim Fathers, at Plymouth, is said to be progressing with vigor. About $35,000 have been raised of the $200,000 required. The Legislatures of Massachusetts and Connecticut have each appropriated $3,000 toward the ob ject. George G. Fogg, Abolitionist of New Hamp shire, accused a political opponent, Mr. Kix ford, of “ drinking,” to which Mr. 11. replied that, if lying and hypocrisy operated like rum, Fogg would have been in the gutter for the last ten years. The Cincinnati Enquirer makes mention of a large gathering of friends of Fillmore in that city on Saturday last. A torch light proces sion was formed, which occupied one hour in passing a given point. The Spanish journals announce the recall of Senor Alvarez, the Spanish Charge d’ Affaire.- in Mexico. They look upon this measure as a disavowal of arrangements concluded by that agent with tlie Mexican Government. The conflict between Mexico and the mother coun try is thus re-opened. There is said to be very little doubt that the HOll. C. P. Viiliers has been appointed to suc ceed Mr. Crumpton as British Minister at Washington. It is even stated that he has ac cepted the office, and is preparing to leave London at an early day. Mr. Viiliers is a member of Parliament, was President of tin- Crimean Commission, and is a member of the Board of Trade. The Albany Journal says of tbe institution of slavery and the questionsarising out of it: “Its trespasses and aggressions are nearly at an cud. Within twenty years it has receded from Massachusetts to Maryland. A moral pressure has forced it from one municipal Northern stronghold to another, till it is no* in the heart of a slave State, and standing t bay among the merchants nnd manufacturer’ of the almost free city of Baltimore. South ward is the natural current of the Slavery De bate.” Accounts from the Lake Superior cop per region mention that there was considerable excitement among the miners at Ontonagon, which has resulted in a civil war between the Cornishmeu and the Irish. Captain Jeauiug-- agent of the Rockland mine, and Mr. Peek, tho Minnesota mine, were badly injured, the latter, it was thought, fatally. The miner: were leaving in considerable numbers, about fifty having left the Minnesota mines. These laborer- aro “freemen,” however, and therefore tho right to indulge in riots or what ever other kindred extravagances them. The New York Courier aud Enquirer ad mits that the confessions by tlie organ 0 * Archbishop Hughes amount to proof el f rr’ mont’a Romanism, and accuses the Freeman: Journal of “ a miserable trick,” &c. trick, it is presumed, consists in exposing scheme for catching Protestant and Catholic votes. Professor Wilson, of balloon notoriety, man-. an ascent on the 13th instant, from Camp* o0 ’ viilc, when having attained a considerable height, the guy rope of the concern p lVt ed, and made a rapid descent, coming down upon a piine tree, rendering it in twain, ° !l exposing the life of tiie adventurous Proa-- sot- to great peril. Tho only outward i’U uj he sustained, however, was a few light scratch es. Daniel Thompson, of Bethany, Va., a Vl '” ran of nearly a hundred years, passed tlu’o u se” Parkersburg the other day, on his way di"’ the Ohio. The Gazette says he was acorn of Poo and Wetzel in their Indian forays. a soldier in tliu Revolutionary War and n- ■ iccts distinctly the stirriug incidents of U,J great struggle.