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COLUMBUS:
Friday Morning, Oct. .'Il f 1856.
liAROEltf CITV CIRCULATIOU.
Tho citizens oi 1 Columbus are respectfully
requested to notice the fact that Mr. J. M.
Hughes is a candidate for City Marshal. He
has heretofore idled the office and we have no
doubt he can give satisfaction to all. Head his
announcement.
Montgomery Daily Messenger.
We have received the third number of tho
Daily Messenger, a small nows and commer
cial paper, recently started in Montgomery,
Alabama, by P. 11. llrittau, Esq., late of the
Advertiser and Gazette. The Messenger is a
lively sheet, and gotten up in decided good
taste. Wo wish it God speed in tho career of
usefulness to the business public of Montgom
ery, and of pecuniary profit to its worthy and
deserviug conductor. Prom “ small aoorns
tall oaks grow.”
The columns of tho Messenger exhibit quite
a number of business advertisements, which
show that the merchants of that city look with
favor on the enterprise. This should cheer its
‘ conductor. •
When we put forth our bantling, some fif
teen months ago, its columns exhibited two
solitary advertisements for which we had any
prospect of pay, and at tho expiration of the
first six mouths, our books presented the be
gardly spectacle of loss than one hundred dol
lars charged for advertisements. Uuawed,
however, by the gloomy prospect thus present
ed, we persevered—moved steadily on, and we
think we can now safely say the columns of
the Sun exhibit a local advertising equal to
any of its uucieut competitors. Its circula
tion is also fast extending, both in tbo Country
and City. Parties, who, at first were most
skeptical as to its success, and least disposed
to take it, are now among its most stanch and
reliable friends. Tho Sun is now out of the
woods and firmly on the groat road to prosper
ity. It is to its columns that the business
men of Columbus and surrounding country
now look for light to guide them safely on, and
its disappearance from tho surface, many say,
would be a serious public calamity.
To us, its support for the first twelve months,
was a calamity, which is now being repaired by
the generous support of a community, whose
prejudice, it may bo said, wo have honorably
conquered.
A private letter received in Savannah from
Kansas, dated Kansas City, Oct. loth, says :
44 Gov. Geary has one hundred and two of
Lane’s army prisoners. They were before an
examining Court last week, and eighty of them
committed for murder in the first degree,
twenty-two for robbery. 1 hope wo will have
a hig tight-ropo dance soon.”
Tho Legislature of Indiana.
As far as hoard from, tho Legislature of In
diana stands us follows;
HOUSE.
Democrats 42
Fusionists 12
Democratic majority 30
SEX ATE.
Democrats 10
Fusionists 4
Democratic majority 6
Our neighbor of tho Enquirer and Mont
gomery Mail having been considerably exer
cised at our endorsement of the Democracy of
Mr. Willard, tho successful candidate, over
tho Ulack Republican forces in Indiana, for
their especial edification, we give bolow a short
extract from a recent spoech delivered, by that
gentleman at Louisville, Ky.
lie had just emerged from the smoko and
din of a battle-tichl, in which ho and his gal
lant cohorts had maintained themselves erect
and undismayed—in which they had been sub
ject to the shafts of Abolitionism
and Know Nothingisui. The battle was won by
no combination or coalition. Tho Democracy,
confiding alone in the purity of their princi
ples and the certainty of public justice, had
encountered all the vile and fanatical isms of
the day, and were rewarded with success. Nor
was that victory achieved by fraud. Every
man, woman and child in Indiana know that
the Democracy fought tho contest with no
weapons hut those of honest argument and
won their triumph at the ballot-box by no
other means than tho will of the majority of
tho legally constituted voters. The great is
sue presented and discussed—that, upon which
tho struggle was made—was tho doctrine of
nonintervention in the government of territories.
For that he had plead with all his powers. He
was opposed to any inequality in tho rights of
the States in tho public domain, lie was op
posed to any restriction concerning their set
tlement.
lie desired tho free people of the territories
to choose for themselves their institutions.
This was the doctrine ho had preached, and
this is tho doctrine of tho National Democratic
party. It was that doctrine which its orators
proclaimed in the North and the South. The
importance of this struggle has not been over
estimated. Tho Union had been on tho verge
of a dissolution—quite as much so as when
tho glorious Olay, emerging from tho shades of
Ashland, had rushod to its rescue in 1850—
and that danger was not yet averted unless
tho South eauio up to tho rescue and united
with tho Northern crushing out tho common
foe of the Union, which is Hlack Republican
ism. Vet here in Kentucky there are men—a
party even—engaged in abetting these enemies
and traitors. They had done it in the late
canvass by counselling and advising the peo
ple of Indiana to vote for lilock Ropnblican
candidates.
There gentlemen, is tho position of tho
“ Sham Democracy” of Indiana. Won’t it do
even for the latitude of Columbus and Mont
gomery.
Mr. Delane, the managing editor of tho Lon
don Times, it is said, comes to this county to
pick out an American editor to place among
tho corps of able writers attached to the col
umns of “The Thunderer”—to select a persou
sufficiently well informed to take charge of
American affairs in that famous journal, and
write on the subject with tho proper amount
of knowledge in regard to our country, its
habits, its population, its institutions, its
statesmen, its policy, politics, and politicians.
Do is to havo six thousand a year, a comforta
ble berth, a position of honor, and an opportu
nity to do his native laud a service.— Albany
Knickerbocker,
From the I’liilmlelpliia Xortli American and U BGazette.
What Issue has the Election Settled.
it is said that on tho night of the election,
when the assembled musses of the Democracy
were made certain of the success of their tick
et, in the first flush of excitement of victory
some of them proposed and gavo three cheers
for Preston S. Rrooks. We are not aware that
any portion of the party in the North had, up
to that time, defended, much less applauded,
before the public, the dastardly deed of that
bully and bravado. The opposition had pre
sented this subject, culling upon the nation to
condemn that outrage, which has faded and
tarnished our fair fame before the world.
The South, as far as its public organs could
do it, approved the act; and set up the “club”
to preside over our national legislation. Hut
the party at the North, throughout the whole
canvass, ignored the question. Yet, as when
“wine is in, truth comes out,” in the intoxica
tion of success, the crowd remembered Hrooks,
and sent up to tho heavens a shout of applause
for the hero of the bludgeon. Does not this
look as though they ignored the question for
political purposes, but sympathized with the
southern view of it, and considered that the
success of their parly would be n popular en
dorsement of Hrooks and the club law? But
the shouting, limited in its extent, may not be
regarded as so significant of this, as the fact
that the members of Congress who voted ap
proval of his deed, are returned to their seats,
and a large majority, having the same political
sympathies, are returned with them, to take the
places of those who voted to expel that ruffian
from the House. Whatever the real signifi
cance of tho election may be, Hrooks will feel
himself endorsed by it, and those of his way of
thinking, will be apt to look upon it as the pop
ular verdict of Pennsylvania in favor of the su
premacy of the club law, and the subjugation
of the freedom of debate. Brooks is, hence
forth, the great lion of the House —whether
really entitled to a lion’s hide or a “calf-skin,”
is still an unsettled point.
The great issue was on tho question of sla
very extension. Two y- ars ago, the people of
Pennsylvania elected, by large majorities, a
delegation to Congress who were almost unani
mous in condemning, and in seeking to reverse,
the whole slavery policy of the Administration.
The wrong which the people at that time
condemned, lias since then been augmented fif
ty fold. We then ask, whether that Congress,
elected two years ago, did not truly represent
the principles ami the wishes of those who
elected them? Wore not the people of Penn
sylvania then, as ever before, opposed to the
extension of slavery over free territories ?
Docs the aggravation of the original wrong
(which they then voted to redress) by tho ad
dition of all the subsequent frauds and out
rages upon Kansas, disarm the people of their
former hostility, and incline them now to be
friend and favor that which so recently they
condemned and opposed ? Have the voters
changed their views in respect to tho great
principles at issue ? llow, then, arc we to in
terpret the result of last week’s election, in its
bearing on the question of slavery extension ?
Does it mean that Pennsylvania has abandoned
former ground of indexible and determined
opposition to the principle?
Wo doubt not that it will be so interpreted
at tho South ; and we greatly fear that this
will he regarded as its rightful meaning in
that Congress where those newly elected re
presentatives will bo called to act. If it was
so difficult last winter to obtain a committee
simply to investigate the wrongs of Kansas,
there is not the least ground of hope that in
the ensuing Congress, into which this delega
tion is infused, a solitary wrong that Kansas
has endured, will be redressed. The whole
Stringfcllow and Atchison scheme is rendered
practically triumphant by this vote of Penn
sylvania, and by the election of those repre
sentatives. The repeal of the Missouri Com
promise, once so earnestly resisted, is now pas
sively acquiesced in. Nothing was wrong a
few months ago, but it is right now. Whitfield
comes back triumphant, and takes his seat in
Congress. The Kansas Legislature, elected
by Missouri invaders and forced upon the peo
ple of the territory, is rendered legitimate,
and occupies its seat as proudly as the once
usurping, but now the legitimate Emperor of
the French. Its laws that were deemed so hor
rid and atrocious, now enveloped in tho daz
zling halo of triumph, will stand upon the sta
tute book, (with perhaps a little softening of
the outline, a drawing in of some of the mon
ster’s claws under his velvet feet,) and will fur
nish precedents for future tyranny and outrage.
Whatever the slave propagandists ask must at
once be granted when they raise the threat of
dissolution, Douglas is no longer a renegade,
a mercenary politician, who sold himself and
his country for the honors of office, but an ap
proved statesman, who shall stand up in the
Senate, inflated with new volumes of arrogance
and self conceit, and with a loud and boastful
tongue, put to silence all decent men who have
respectjto duty and to principle. And Pierce
is taken from the slough of universal contempt,
washed from the filth of his slimy deeds, robed
with new honors, crowned with laurels, and
held up before tho country as a very model of
men and of Presidents, a tit successor to a Wash
ington and a Jefferson.
Trying to Make a Run on n Hank !
Last Saturday night, about eight o’clock, a
white man disguised ns a negro, called Mr.
James Farley, of tho Hanking House of John
llenley & Cos., from his residence, on the pre
tence that someone wanted to see him at the
Hanking House. Mr. Farley went, but did
not go the way the negro indicated—through
a vacant lot. When he got to the Hank, he
found no one wishing to see him, and suspect
ing something, ho sent the police to tho vacant
lot. The conspirators had left, but a passen
ger was hailed—took fright and ran—and was
shot at by tho police.
Mr. F., ou his return, found the pretended
negro near his house, and after some conver
sation, drew a pistol and ordered him to stand
—but he didn’t. Mr. Farley tired at him as
ho ran.
The object of all this manuocuvering was to
got Mr. Farley to a rather secluded spot,* and
to rob hiui of tho Hank keys. lie had ’been
warned a day or two previously, that certain
suspicious persons habitually lurked about his
premises of an evening. They were perfectly
well known by sight to a number of persons in
town. They have temporarily withdrawn from
society, we understand.
In this case the Bank made tbc run on the
outsiders—showing a healthy financial condi
tion.—Mont. Mail.
A good looking friend of ours, who is ou this
side of forty, though somewhut'hoary-heudod.
whilo absent from the city a few days, used
Prof. Wood’s Hair Restorative, and on his re
turn called to see Lis lady-love, but was sur
prised and amused to find she did not recog
nize him, and immediately determined to pass
fora cousin of himself; but was eventually
chagrined to find he was supplanting his for
mer self in the affections of the lady, which
caused him to make himself known ; but the
lady still says that she likes the counterfeit
better than the original, and insists that lie
contiuue (if necessary) to use tho iiair Re
storative.— St. Louis Herald.
Nicaragua.
A Virginian traveling in Nicaragua, in a
letter to the Petersburg Express, thus de
scribes this new edeu:
This country is the most beautiful 1 ever
beheld, notwithstanding my wanderings in the
far West. You can form no just conception of
the variety of fruits and flowers that bloom
and grow perpetually. The rivers are per
fect panoramas of all that can delight tho eye.
They are interspersed with innumerable is
lands, and the lakes are fringed with moun
tains, whose lofty summits seemingly pierce
the skies. The bosoms of these beautiful
sheets of water, are gemmed with floating is
lands, covered with evergreen, and which
move about, adding interest to the scene.
To such as are fond of nature in its wilder
aspects there are five volcanoes, the smoke
aud fire of which may be seen at a great dis
tance—presenting at night a scene of awful
grandeur. The burning lava which has been
ejected from these stupendous works of na
ture, are visible for miles, having formed into
an immense field of rock.
The natives have much the appearance, so
far as complexion is concerned, of newly tan
ned leather, and appear to be a cross of the
Indian, Mexican and Spaniard. The females,
generally, are good looking ; but the better
classes havo all left tho towns through which
I have passed. ‘They dress in the most costly
muslins (flounced) and embroidered in gorge
ous style with silver and gold spangles. They
wear a small flap, resembling a baby’s “bib,”
ovor the bosom. This flap is gathered into
small folds or plaits, and trimmed with pink,
crimson, or purple ribbon, as fancy may sug
gest, the whole richly bedizened with spangles.
Their hair, which is very luxuriant, is neatly
plaited, and hangs down their backs. A few
wear slippers upon their feet, but the majority
go barefoot. A scarf thrown over their shoul
ders, which serves the double purpose of shawl
and veil, completes the toilet.
Tire Troy Factory, Columbus, Ga.
We walked through the AVare Rooms of the
Troy Factory, in this city, recently, and were
surprised and gratified, as well at the quantity
as the quality, of the wares, on hand. AVo
found chairs piled on chairs, tubs on tubs,
bucdiets on buckets, and any quantity of bed
steads, bureaus, tables, wardrobes and wasn
stauds ; all cf which were made of Southern
lumber, and manufactured by Southern hands.
The following inventory of wares on hand, will
give our readers some idea of the business done
by Troy Factory; o,ooobuckets, s,ooochairs,
2,700 tubs, 500 churns, 250 bedsteads, &c.,
&c.
These wares are sold, by the Troy Factory
company, cheaper, we learn, than they can be
procured from the Northern markets, and yet,
we are surprised to learn that several of our
merchants have, this year, made purchases of
similar goods at New York.
We also learn that the Troy Factory is able
to double the amount of their present product,
and would do so, if the demand justified it;
and further, that the demand would be equal
to their capacity to manufacture', if tho charges
upon the Railroads entering Columbus were
not so high as to make it unprofitable to ship
their goods over one hundred miles from the
city.
The wares of the Troy Factory are of the
best quality, and in finish, are equal to the
best imported articles.
Wo are gratified to have the opportunity of
calling public attention to this instance of the
success of Southern enterprise, in the hope
of stimulating competition in every branch of
manufacture with the North. All that is ne
cessary to make the South independent of New
England is for our people to believe that they
can successfully compete with the Yankees.—
Times.
Report of tile Comjilroller of Texas.
AVe are indebted to Mr. AV. 11. S. Verstille,
lormerly of this city, but for some years past
a resident of Wardville, Texas, for a copy of
this document, showing tho operations of the
Comptroller’s office for the past two years, and
the present financial condition of the State.—
The receipts for the two years, including the
means on hand in Oct. 1858, were $4,522,000,
and the expenditures $2,907,000, leaving a
balance in the Treasury of $1,615,000. The
amount of Special School Fuud is $2,241,000,
and of General School Fund $40,000. The
Comptroller recommends that the balance of
the “Revenue Debt” be discharged; when,
he says: 44 AVe would then present a condition,
as regards our finances, which few States of
the Union could exhibit—a Government out of
debt, with a surplus of over a million of dol
lars in tlie Treasury—a permanent 5 per cent
School Fund of ten millions of dollars—an un
appropriated public domain, estimated at one
hundred millions of acres, which if judiciously
used would subserve all the purposes of inter
nal improvements required by the State, and
a tax lighter than is imposed on any other peo
ple, and which is adequate to all the wants of
the Government.”
The aggregate amount of taxable property
is very nearly $150,000,000, being an increase
of $22,500,000, over the previous year.
The present financial condition of the State
is highly satisfactory, and calculated to inspire
confidence in its ability to carry out the grand
schemes of internal improvement to which the
aid of the State is pledged.— Sav. Ears.
A Rare Prospectus.
Morton of the Nebraska News, sends forth
the following rare specimen of newspaper pros
pectus :
The over subscribed individual owns and will
(as far as heard from), hereafter control the
printing institution above mentioned, lie is a
Democrat and a farmer, goes for Buell and
Rreck, hog and hominy, and individual inde
pendence.
Squatters in favor of patronizing a squatter
organ—a Nebraska Journal, whose aim shall
bo to crush out evil in all places, to down land
sharks and to build up the interests of bondage
settlers—are hereby informed that Tho News
is that paper.
Politicians will be slain, skinned aud boiled
for weekly consumption of subscribers, as often
as public taste may require, while those that
rot out themselves, will be removed with as lit
tle stench as possible, and in a manner not to
offend the most fastidious.
The overscribed has nover been whipped,
and it is at present, his intention never to be,
whilo Colt’s speaking trumpheta continue to
utter their melifluent notes at sight, and his
legs continue their present amount of celerity.
Those who wunt the News can have it as above
stated, and those who don’t want it are proba
bly ignorant persons who can’t read.
■
The London Morning Chronicle, one of Queen
Victora’s organs, deplores the election of Mr.
Buchanan for this reason. It said:
“We should be sorry to see Mr. Buchanan
elected, because he is in favor of preserving
the obnoxious institutions ns they exist, and
unity of tho States. There is no safety for
European monarchial governments if the pro
gress ve pirit of Democracy of the U. States
is allowed to succeed. Elect Freuiout, and
the fret blow to the separation of the United
Stat. is elected ? ”
Mysterious Affair.
In consequence of information, says the Mo
bile Tribune, received from Mr. Bolton, a gen
tleman residing on the Pascagoula road, Mar
shal Alaury, accompanied by Deputy Scollick,
went yesterday to investigate a strange and
probably foul transaction. About four or five
miles from tho city there is a dense swamp,
near which a deep ditch and bank, covered i
with Cherokee rose bushes, running off at right
nngles with the road. In this ditch, a short
distance to tiic right of the road, was found a
rough plank box seven feet long by two deep
and two feet broad, which box had been thrown
bottom up into the ditch. The box contained
a pillow, two coarse linen sheets, a cotton-flan
nel under-shirt, and a coarse linen shirt, all
deeply died with blood.
AVe are informed by Air. Maury that on the
spot were seen indications of a horse having
been tied to a tree, and the remnant of a
match, which had been lighted; but nothing
could be ascertained as to what had been done
with the body which the box had probably
contained. Upon a close examination the offi
cers found a hole, evidently cut with a knife,
in the back of the under-shirt, and one in the
other shirt corresponding—both of which wero
saturated with blood all over, but more entire
ly just around the place which was cut. The
bottom of the box or coffin was stained also
with blood in a place corresponding with the
hides in the shirts. From this they inferred
that the man it had contained had been stab
bed in the back between tho shoulders, and
from the match that these things had been
placed there at night.
The box was made of new rough plank,
nearly two feet wide, and was evidently hasti
ly constructed. It had no top or lid, and
there was no appearance that it had been clos
ed at the top at all. Tho shirts had been rip
ped down in front, apparently with a knife.
The officers inform us that the sheets, pillow
case, shirts, &c., wero country made, and dif
ferent from any made in the city, or sold in
our stores, and that they judge them to have
been where they now arc two or three weeks.
One of the sheets was marked with indelli
blc ink, with (as well as can be made out) the
name of M. A. Bickley, and the pillow case
was marked either S. Hanly or P. Ilauly.—
There are no other marks on the clothes.
The Marshal seems to think that some flat
boatman or raftman has been murdered and
plundered, and the body thus disposed of. If
any of our country readers recognize either of
the names given, we trust they will forward
prompt information for the satisfaction of the
police, as from all the circumstances, we fear
there has been a foul deed perpetrated.
The officers, assisted by a neighbor, search
ed the swamp as thoroughly as their time
would permit, but were unable to find any
traces of the body.
The Planter aiul Housekeeper.
Effects of heat upon meat. —A well cooked
piece of meat should be full of its own juice or
natural gravy. lu roasting, therefore, it
should bo exposed to a quick lire, that the ex
ternal face may be made to contract at once
and the albumen to coagulate, before the juice
has had time to escape from within. And so
in boiling. AVhen a piece of beef or mutton is
plunged into boiling water, the outer part con
tracts, the albumen, which is near the surface
coagulates, and the internal juice is prevented
either from escaping into the water by which
it is surrounded, or from being diluted or wea
kened by the admission of water among it.—
AVhen cut up, therefore, the meat yields much
gravy, and is rich in flavor. Hence a beef
steak or mutton-chop is done quickly and over
a quick fire, that the natural juices may be re
tained.
On the other hand, if the meat be exposed to
a slow tire, its pores remain open, the juice
continues to flow from within, as it has dried
from the surface, and the flesh pines, and be
comes dry, hard, and unsavory. Or if it be
put into cold or tepid water, which is after
wards brought to a boil, much of the albumen
is extracted before it coagulates, the natural
juices for the most part flow out, and the meat
is served in nearly a tasteless state. Hence, to
prepare good boiled meat, it should be put at
once into water already brought to a boil. But
to make beef tea, mutton broth, and other meat
soup, the flesh should be put into cold water,
and this very slowly warmed, and finally boiled.
The advantage derived from simmering, a term
not unfrequont in cookery books, depends very
much upon slow boiling as above explained.—
Chemistry of Common Life.
Wonderful Transformation.
Two fair ladies were reading the other day
Byron’s “Prisoner of Cliilon.” That is, one
lady was pretending to read it aloud to the
other lady. No woman has ever been, now is,
or ever will be capable of listening without in
terrupting. So, that at the very commence
ment, whon the reader read tho passage—
“ Mow grew it white
In a single night,
As men’s have grown from sudden fears: ”
the listener interposed as follows :
White! How odd, to bo sure! AVell, I
know nothing about men’s hair: but there is
onr friend, Mrs. G , of Twelfth street, tho
lady who has just been twenty-nine years old
for the last fifteen years—her husband died
you know, last winter, at which misfortune
her grief was so intense that her hair turned
completed black within twenty-four hours af
ter the occurrence of that sad event.
Commercial Bank of Brunswick.
It will bo remembered that the last Legisla
ture chartered a bank with the above name, to
ho located in this city. The charter is based
upon the very stringent, but safe principles of
the South Carolina Banks, so as to render its
circulation entirely safe to the community. It
was feared by many that this would be a bar
to its goiug into operation. For speculative
purposes it would—and was so intended. It
is therefore with unfeigned pleasure we an
nounce to our readers that the stock has been
taken by a company of capitalists, prominent
among whom are the Messrs. Philips, Moffitt
iSc, Cos., of Columbus, who design putting the
Bank in operation as soon as the plates can
be obtained, and other necessary arrangements
made.— Brunswick Herald.
llow Indiana was Carried.
Tho New York Tribune has an article on the
recent defeat of the Republicans in Indiana, in
which it confesses that its friends “were over
whelmed at the State election by a wholly un
expected surge of tho Fillmore vote over to
the Iluchanau ranks.” It says also that there
were thousands of immigrant laborers who
would not vote the Republican ticket for tho
sole reason that “it had one Fillmore man ou
it.” So much for the Democratic triumph in
Indiana. The statements are made by the
Tribune on the authority of private letters from
Indiana.— Sac. Rep.
Mighty sorry, ain’t you, Air. Republican?
Accltleul.
Air. John Slidell, machinist, employed on
board the steamer Relief, now lying at the
lower wharves, had his thigh broken in two
places, yesterday, by the falling of a largo
wheel which he was engaged in rolling.— Sav.
Rep.
TELEGRAPHIC, i
Telegraphed to the Daily Sun.
From New Orleans
New Orleans, Oct. flo
The cotton market to-day, was easier l, u N
not quotably lower. Sales of the day J
bales. The first fifteen half borrels of Aloh
ses (new crop) was offered to-day and broim
62c. per gallon. Other articles unchanged
From Charleston.
Charleston, Oct. 30.
The sales of cotton to-day were fiifteen h Ull
dred bales, at full prices, market closing f lri ,
Aliddling Fair 11 |c.
Later from Kansas.
AVasiiington, Oct. 28.—Geary’s official
port is received, giving the particulars of t|.
late arrest. The emigrants, he says,
armed for resistance to the constituted arnica j
ities. Geary explained to them his dettir j
nation to suppress all illegal bauds; when tin
dissolved organization and greeted him wi’
cheers.
The LaGrauge Fire.
The Reporter of yesterday morning, ,>i Vo .
the losses sustained by the lute fire in p . >
Grange:
T. J. Thornton, two buildings and a few 01
houses—sß,ooo.
J. J. Jacobe, loss in goods, household fur
niture, &c,, —not known. •
C. C. Nirnitz, loss iu goods, household fm ;]
niture &c., —$800.
P. Prophitt, loss in Daguerrean instruments
—sl,ooo.
Airs. AVitham, loss in Millinery goods &c i
—52,000.
Dr. Johnson, loss in Dental instrument*— I
SSOO.
Dr. N. N. Smith, one building, together wh;,
medicines, surgical instruments, &o.—about
S2OOO.
Dr. C. Holt, medicines, instruments. &c. k I
the office with Dr. Smith, S3OO.
Bradfield & Boyd, one building, occupied by 1
Whitfield & Reid—slsoo.
Whitfield & Reid, loss goods S6OOO ; insur- (I
ance SBOOO.
AV. A Pullen, one building and ware houn- I
occupied by Lane & Kidd—slsoo.
Lane & Kidd, loss in goods SSOOO ; no in !
surance.
The house occupied by Halpin & Alter*
SIOOO.
Halpin & Myers', loss iu goods—ssoo.
John Douglass, brick building, occupied hv
J. S. & AV. P. Herring and J. T. Turner & Co’ r
S2OOO.
J. S. & AV. P. Herring, loss in goods—S3 - j
000. |
J. T. Turner & Cos., loss in goods not known;
fully insured.
S. A. McCosli, building occupied by Mr
Pike—ssoo.
Making an aggregate loss amount to about I
$30,000.
Many of the losses may be found to exceed
the estimates given above: nor can a faithful
and accurate account be given until the mer
chants shall have had time to examine their
goods carefully.
A suspension bridge is to be built across the
Alississippi, at St. Louis, Missouri, to be
eighty-four feet above high water mark, and
more than a mile in length, The greatest dis
tance between towers will be 1800 feet, and
the foundation of some of the towers will be
60 feet below the surface of low water. Air.
J. W. Bissel, of Rochester, New York, has re
ceived the appointment of engineer. The
bridge is expected not to cost less than two
million of dollars.
A Beautiful Lake Discovered.
We learn from the Henderson (Iowa) Dem
ocrat that on the Bth of September last, liclw.
’ Doulin and Matthew Wilson discovered a beau
tiful lake, five and one half miles in circum
ference, in Sibley county, township 14. On
the 4th inst. a large number of
ted together and gave tho lake the name of
“ Luke Washington.”
Female wages arc still very high in Califor
nia. Advertisements in San Francisco paper
offer S6O a mouth, for a woman and S4O for a
girl. A letter says—“lt would astonish you
to see some of our servant girls in full rig in
Alontgomerv street A $75 blue velvet dress
a S3O bonnot, gold chains aud big cameos to
match are not at all unfrequent.”
John Mannoni, a merchant of Charlottsviile,
Va., was recently arrested on a requisition
from the Governor of Pennsylvania, and car
ried to Philadelphia, on the charge of obtain
ing goods on false pretences, lie was honora
bly acquitted on the 6th inst., and has com
menced suit for SIO,OOO damages against the
merchants on whose oath the requisition was
issued.
Brigham Young has of late been making
some important prophecies—among others,
that if Utah is not admitted into the Union
they would set up an independent government,
and that the Lord will protect them iu it.—
They have been emboldened to this by the
news which was received there from the Btate:
respecting tho Kansas difficulties, which, coin
ing as it did, very much exaggerated, led them
to believe that the dissolution of the Union
was at hand.
An Awful Tragedy.
At Ballinrobe, in Galway, Ireland, the wile
of a farmer, named McGrath, left her two lit
tle children while she went to bring a kettle
of hot water to scald the churn she was about
to use for making butter. The eldest clou
meantime forced the baby into tho churn, no
the mother unwittingly, scalded it to death-
Rendered frantic by tho discovery, she threw
a stool at the other child, which killed it, aii'J
then drowned hertelf.
Large Donation.
There is on foot at Chicago a plan to esta
lish a Presbyterian University a few miles iii'i
of that city. A few days ago, Mr. yylvestf
Lind, of that place, presented to the Tru-te
the magnificent sum ofouo hundred tlioust* ■
dollars, with the condition that s4o,o<Hl f
shall be used for the benefit of professorship
aud the income of $60,000 shall be perpetual.
applied for preparing young men for the nun *
try. The institution is to be called the “h*--
University.”
A Boston paper says one of the fact- 1
in evidence at a trial in the Supreme Com
sustain the will of the late Win. Russell,
that only a few- days before he made the
he called at the office of the Democrat. - 1 ’ ‘
paid for his paper a year in advance, thun
saving fifty cents. The fact was dwelt to
at length t>y the counsel, and commented .
on by the judge as one of great impor l
The verdict of the jury would seem to
tho proposition that a man who bus
enough to pay for his newspaper in advam- 1
is competent to make a will.
