The New York Herald Newspaper, October 5, 1859, Page 5

THE LAST AFFAIR OF HONOR iN VIRGINIA, Our Petersburg Correspondence, Perenspura, Va., Oct. 2, 1869. A Virginia Duel—I's Rise, Progress and Bloodless “Ad- justment!’—Ihe Parties 4 Candidate for Congress and ain Edilor. By way of an episode in adull city, we have had a duel—an editorial due), which has ended as Virginia duels generally do, with a fearful shedding of ink, but no blood, ‘All tho arrangements for a hostile meeting, at which the erimson gore shall not be shed, is the chief and desperate measure to which a Virginia editor or politician resorts to obtain a little exciting notoriety. How well the parties succeed with their ridiculous farce the columns of corres- pondence which invariably follow fully show. If these ‘“‘atfairs of honor’? were not go extremely silly to all sensi bie people, here and elsewhere, they might be amusing, For a few days past nervous people have been a little excited in this staid city by various rumors of a duel be- tween Samuel B. Paul, editor of a little sheet here witha few hundred readers, and Col. Thos. F, Goode, the inde- pendent candidate for Congress in this district. Very few people, however, apprehended anything serious, and they were right, as the sequel will show. According to the most reliable version, the affair was in this wise:—Mr. Paul fancied that Col. Goode had mide some disrespectful allusions to himself; whereupon he de- manded an apology in a note, in which he stated that he had ‘learned that you (Mr. G.) had made me the subject of disparaging remarks, &c.”” while he was quite unconscious of having done anything ‘‘to induce them.” Mr. Paul also avowed that he had looked through his editorial columns in vaimto find anything which could provoke an assault; ‘and all the personality in which he ever indulged ‘‘con- sisted in compliments to Goode's talent and manliness.” He also reminded Mr. Goode, emphatigally, that at Goode’s request he, Paul, had applied for and got him the appoint- ment of Distric t Elector, although differing in opinion with him as to conventions, which Mr. Paul argued implied “mutual respect.’? He further charged Mr. G. with hay- ing used the “disparaging” terms with a ‘‘full know ledge” of Paul’s course personally, and so on. His ob- ject in sending the note was, “to’account for the long neglect of my personal rights, which concurrent testi mony of public rumor induces me to fear haye been assailed,” and then declared no other course was left than to “ask’ directly whether you intended to be personally offensive or contemptuous !”? and so on, according to the adopted form of such notes among the F. F. V. chivalry. This portentous document was entrusted in the hands of Captain Menry Clay Pate, of the Kansas field, with “in- structions” to deliver it to Mr. G. after his stump speech at Lawrenceville on Monday last. The ‘instructions’? were, that if Mr. Goode should respond to the note ‘‘amica- bly,” why, “all right’?—the ‘correspondence would then be published;” but if ‘defiantly,’ why then, the other thing, to wit:—“Make in my name a prompt demand, and negotiate for a meeting; telegraph or send message, so that I could join him. N. B.—Accept any terms.” Signed “S. B. P.? All of which, to Col. G.’s nose, savored of pis- tol powder. The valiant Captain Pate duly delivered the fearful letter, to which, after consulting a “ friond,’ Colonel Goode bravely responds, quoting Mr. Paul's charge upon the ‘concurrent testimony of public rumor,” &c., and declares that Mr. Pan! “ accompanies his demand either by the threat of a challenge or a peremptory challenge,” which latter he considers it, and authorizes his friend, Mr. Alexander, to “ arrange the preliminaries.”’ He then denies emphatically that he ever solicited through Sam Paul the appointment whieh the latter claimed to have obtained for him. “Tam happy,” said he, “ to kno that I never asked a favor at your hands.” Quite a posi- tive denial. Colonel Goode thereupon started for Washington, where he registered his name at Brown’s Hote! as ‘John Jones.” His second and surgeop accompanying him also assumed fictitious names. Mr. Paul being informed that his anta- gonist had gone in the direction of Bladensburg, fe! uneasy, and suggested that they nright just as well have gone to North Carolina, or fired their pistols down on the river near Petersburg on a fine morning, without waking up the police. Besides, he felt magnanimously anxious on Mr. Goode’s account, a8 be had an appointment to speak on Thursday night at Phoenix Hall, and might disappoint the sovereign people; also, he, Paul, had friends about Washington, who might see him; furthermore, he avowed that Mr. Goode had misapprehended his note—it was pot a challenge nor a threat. He felta little nettled, though, that Mr. G. left no room for his “ withdrawing ‘the supposed threat.”” ) Mr. P., however, replied, protesting against the con- struction placed upon his note, and against the summons to Washington, and reiterated the reference to Goode’s appomtment as an elector in the¢Letcher campaign. He pluckily told his antagonist that he “regarded” his note as a peremptory refusal to render him the justice which circumstances compelled him to demand; therefore he would meet him at ‘“Brown’s” after dark on Thursday, the 20th of September. But thanks to “good natured friends,” ag Sir Fretful rays, short swords or revolvers were not drawn, and the money that might have been spent for powder was saved for segars or old Bourbon. Some one sent a tele- graphic despatch to Washington, which had the effect to cause Mr. Paul's arrest and being let loose again upon giving bail for good behaviour. All parties then breathed more freely. ‘Friends’? walked up and “adjusted” the matter ‘honorably’ by declaring that one should ‘‘with- draw” his threat, and the other “disclaim” any personal “disrespect or contempt; and as to the appointment uestion, which was affirmed on one side and denied on the other, there existed only ‘‘an honest difference of opinion,” to all of which the principals and seconds sub- scribed. The principals will now publish ‘‘cards” and fee! more chivalrous than ever at this lofty vindication of their honor and dignity. The stamp candidate appeared at Phoenix Hall on Saturday night with aspeech, and the fighting editor returned to his office. Both are ‘awaiting with considerable self-complacency the effect upon the public when the papers have fully chronicled their silly attempt at “an affair of houor,” Samuel B. Paul, Esq., once studied law, then went into the grist mill business, after which he joined the Metho- cist church, and then became an editor. Cotton and Tobacco. ESTIMATES OF THE CUITON CROP. [From the New Orleans Picayune, August 24 } In ali parts of the country parties who bave an interest im the result begin to enlighten the world with the esti- maces of the coming cotiou crop. Some who desire high prices fad evidence that eonvinces them, or wih which they aim to convince others, that the crep will fail below ‘that gathored last year, while others are not content with a har’ jess than 4,200,000 baies. It may not be amiss to suggest that we have not yet reached the period of the year whon auy satisfactory esti- mate of the crop can be made. The result of the weather for the next thirty days will exercise an important infla- ence upon the yield of the cotton fields. Drought may arrest the formatien of the new bolls; too mach rain may cauge the plant to shed its forms and taduce rot; the boll ‘worm, the rust, and a whole army of accidents are to be in safety before the planter himself is asaured of ig harvest. During the whole of the early portion of the season mis- Baps may pot prove seriozs, but whatever now affucts the growing plent cannot be remedied. The amount of the crop also depends much upon the time of the first severe frost, We have known al] open. ing cotton arrested before November, and have alsoseen the fields in their livery of white and green in the middle of January. + It cannot from there observations but be evident to,all that all estimates of tne crop to be gathered are mi res, with only the slightest data for their founda- tion; and whoever is influenced in his operations in the article by them acts a part of folly. The crop in most of the States is some two week ind, though new cotton has been received about the me time as inst year. Portions of the cotton region suffered severely by the floods from the Missiamippt and tribut streams. (a the other hand a larger force 1s employed {n tho flelds, and a greater breadth of land is in cultivation the present yea ster part of the cotton’ region the crops are in ap ing condition. With favorable weather and a late frost the crop will rise beyond any that bas ever ‘been gathered; affected by any of the cagualities of the neanon to which it is now exposed, and it may not much exceed that of the past seanon. * It ie our object not to Lae any estimate of the crop, but to warn the planter and the merchant against making ‘ertimates at the present moment, and others from putting any confidence in the statements made, as they have no pound data. It is a false policy on the part of the planter to decry his prospecis of acrop. The cry of small yield, followed ‘by a great harvest, destroys all confidence in the state. ments which may afierwards be made in regard to the prospects of the harvest, ant forces the purchaser to await the result before be operates largely. The assurance of a large increase of production will, if ‘Delieved, be an injury to the producer in the beginning of the business season The most we can do is to watch the vicissitudes of the fall and the coming into market of the cotton, We may form onr opinion upon the data that, day after day, is farniehed us from the country, but this the prudent man ‘will find undergoes various modifications between August and November. THR CONNECTICUT TOBACCO CROP. . [from the Hartford Times, August 29.) The tobacco in Connecticut is now lying out for drying. Nearty double the quantity of land of any former year— an we estimate it after viewing a good portion of the to. bacco region of the Stato—has been sown to this crop the Present summer. We may have over estimated the amount, but the increased breadth in tobacco this year Cannot porribly be lees than 60 per cent greater than in any preneding season. Whether the amount of grod to- ‘acco secured for the market will prove to be Jargor than last year, remains to be seen; that depends upon several contingencies. In the first place, a good portion of the crop is backward, not yet ready for cuiting, and conse- quently not yet out of dan; from ‘whether an of it was Injured by frost ‘this (Monday) morning, we have not heard. Again, many persons Shot tnexperi- enced in tobacco raising and curing have into it this season, and the result may be a considerable quantity of a Witive ful caval tt torent. hyd wil 'y equal, if not su; any of ite predecessors. (asaathy incinded) 10 tity . Wohave heard its value estimat- ed at $1,000,000, Last year the crop was 10,000 onees. and prices averaged about 17 cents Dee pee what the price ae of 1860 will & , Femaing to be de A BAttoom ‘Trex.—The Utica fing special tole, owe Oct. 1.—1 ing while gettin and js probably fatally injured. ‘We learn from the Rome Sentinel that Profossor Coo was on Saturday Whig Rive ed and related the par. ticulars of the accident. Ho fell seventy feet, striking ‘upon his head and shoulders. The ground wag soft, otherwise be murt Dayo been instantly + Insured BY FALLING FROM A of Saturday contai re hie despatch an the Ballaw fessor Coo foll from a treo this morn. his balloon from the trees in the swamp, NEW YORK HERALD, WEDNESDA AFFAIRS IN JAMAICA. Our Ki ton Correspondence. Kixcstoy, Ja., Sopt. 10, 186% Bank of Jamaica—lis Half-Yearly Report and Its Sta- bility—Stagnation in the Mercantile Circle~ Particulars Y Failure—An Editor Brutally Assaulled—Railway Ba lension—Kztraordinary Light in the Abnosphere—Alarm of the Inhabitants—The Mutual Life Assurance Society— The Demagogues Preaching Sadition—Vhreats to Inun- date the House of Assembly with Miterate Black Men, dc. ‘Ihe forty-fifth half-yoarly meeting of tho suarcholders of the Bank of Jamaica was held in thiscity on Tuesday, 6th inst. The following is an epitome of the report made by the directors:— Amounts of profits for the half year ending June 30, 18659 . eeew Wes x Business oxp : Six months divide ent per ARUN, , .. aie —— 4,811 Surplus on half year’s business. . £2,150 Debtss...++00s00+ 218,698 Specie vicees 802 ‘The directors stated in their report that during the past half year great caution was necessary in the conduct o the business, Numerous failures had taken place, result ing in serious losses to importers, but the bani lose2es did not exceed £200. There is at present great stagnation in the mercantile circle. The failures that haye taken place have had a pernicious effect on business. Importers are «isinclined to give credit to retailers, and the consequence is that the prices of articles are high. ‘The total amount of the lia- bilities of those parties whoge business has passed iato the hands of the official assignees during the past quarter exceeds £40,000, About the same summthag also been loat by merchants in compromising with other traders. The island is for the present tranquil. The Walworth rioters are erating their trial, which will take place in. November next. It is said that it is the intention of government to introduce a bill into the Legislature extend- ing the period for the sitting of the Trelawny Court. ‘This will enable the Crown to dispose of the several cases arising out of the riot. Among the many atrocities com- mitted by the Bucities, or, in other ,words, the rioters, was a serious assault on J. O. Clerk, the editor of the ‘Trelawny newspaper. The promoters of the line of railway from Spanish Town to Qid Harbor have at length succeeded in forming acompany in England, The directors are all connected, with Jamaica, and four of the number resided here for many years, The directors aro John Carter, William D. Child, John P. Heywood and William Smith, Esqrs., and Sir Joshua Reme, C. B., our late Chief Justice. The capital of the company is £60,000, in 12,000 shares of £5 each, he Yhinimum ‘dividend is six per cent per annum, which has been guaranteed by the Colonial Legislature for forty years. But a limited number of shares have been ré served for Jamaica, but it is notexpected that even this small number will be taken up. It is possible that £55,000 of the capital will have to be subscribed at home. An extraordinary light appeared off the northern re- gion of our atmosphere on the night of the Ist instantand the morning of the 24. It appeared as if there was a co- loseal fire on earth which reflected its flames on the heavens. The whole island was illuminated, and bun- dreds of persons left their homes to witness the awful sight. The light was seen at Montego Bay at 10 0’clock at night, but itwas not observed at Kingston until one o’clock Friday morning. Tt continued until five, when it gradually disappeared. There was nothing in the light of a fluctuating character, and it varied nowhere in its in- tensity. It looked as {f Cuba was on fire, and many be- lieve that a portion of this island has been destroyed by a conflagration. Other persons were of opinion that the light was that of an aurora borealis, but the aurora has never before been seen in these latitudes. A similar fre was apes on the north side of Jamaica on Sunday, the 27th ult. The Reverend Mr. Johnson, the editor of the Watchman, has recently made bis appearance in the quiet parish of St. Thomas and in Vale, where he delivered one of his red republican discourses on liberty and equality. The period for the registration of electors is fast ap- proaching, and the clerks of vestry have already issued their notices. ‘The demagogues have threatened to innun- date the registers with twenty-six freeholders, and thus to secure the return of black men to the Assembly, at the general election, which will take place next year, but there is little chance of the threat being carried into exe- cution, as it is necessary for every voter to place his qualification on a ten shilling stamp.” This regulation has been passed for the pu: ‘of keeping the registers free of lazaroni, and of thus upholding the respectability and intelligence of the popular branch of the Legislature. Mr. John Dumetz, of this city, bas manufactured a grand piano, which is equal, in the opinion of connoisseurs, to the best of Collard’s manufacture. Mr. Dumetz made every part of the instrument, including the casing, with his own hands. He is a native of the island. The piano was sold on the day it was exposed to view for seventy guineas This is the first time that such an article has been made in Jamaica, and, therefore, the Society of Aris intend to present Mr. Dumetz with a medal. ‘Tho haif-yearly meeting of the members of the Jamaica Mutual Life Assurance Company will be held.on Monday next, when the ied of the directors on the transac- tions and affairs of the society to the 30th of June last will be submitted. The number of policics issuei up to the 30th of June was 427, and the amount as- sured £173,720. This shows an increase since 81st December, 1858, of twenty-one policies and £6,700 in the amount assured. ‘The casualties for the half year have amounted to £1,075 19s. 8d. ‘The society has divided bo- nuses to the extent of £16,875 98. Od., and has paia to the representatives of deceased members the large sum of £28,044 9s. 6d. Its present surplus, principally invested at six per cent, amounts to £44,049 12s. Od. The Kingston and Liguinea Water Company have bad their half yearly meeting, and declared a dividend of seven per cent per annum, There has been no report from the mining companies since my last. The directors of the Ellerslie and Bardorvie Company are about to pro- ceed at law againgt those sharebolders who haye not paid up the recent call. Business has not improved since my last report. Ex- cept in fish stuffs, of which only one cargo arrived during the fortnight and sold readily at good prices, there has been very little done. Breadstuffs haye been dull, in cun- sequence of a plentiful supply of native ground provi- sions, and the general impression which has prevailed among buyers that a decline from present quotations must take ph Tt will be seen by our review that the trans- actions haye been very limited, and it is feared they will continue 80 for 6ome time. The Wealth and Resotrces of Nebraska. OUR OMAITA CORRESPONDENCE. Omana, N. T., Sept, 9, 1859. Report of the Special Commissioner sent by Governor Black to Bramine into the Wealth and Resources of Western Ne- braska, de., de. Mr. Williams, of Council Blufls, came in from Denver City, in the Western stage last evening, bringing the latest news from th8 gold fields of Nebraska and Kansas, which is of most favorable character. He was but seven days in making the trip from Denver to Omaha, and had the Ieavenworth express arrived a few hours sooner at Kearney, and made the connection with the Western stage at that point, he would haye come through to Omahnin five days. What will the good people of the Atlanticseaboard say ‘when they read this:— From New York to Omaha in five days, from Omaha to Denver and the Rocky Mountains in five days.” lextract the following from a letter received by this mail from Hon. W. E. Moore, the Special Commissioner sent out by Governor Black to examine and report upon the wealth and resources of Western Nebraska and upon the feasibility of organizing counties in the mining dis- tricts. Our party, consisting of fifteen, loft Auraria August 3, with a view of visiting the South Fork, the sources of the Platte, the Arkansas, and if practicable the sources also of the Colorado. We proceeded to the, Gregory diggings, passing inferior points without examination, and there found about 1,200 men engaged in working lead claims, and from personal observation and reliable sources found that the more successful were making from fifteen to twenty- five dollars per day, but the majority not. perhaps averag- ing five dollars per day. In some cases they had on- countered a hard substance known as the piatese of iron, and from the difficulties encountered and the absence of proper implements for drilling it, many had become dis- couraged, and some even abandoned their claims. Tho more persevering, however, have succeeded in getting through, and again struck the vein, greatly enlarged and yielding’ immensely more profitably than before. From Gregory’s we passed up five miles to Russell’s diggings, and there found about 800 men at work. ‘These are gulch diggings, and average about $10 to the hand per day. In this vicinity are many other diggings, equally remunerative, but less extensive. From this we passed west to the Spanish diggings, and found a force of about seven hun- dred men. ‘These diggings are less remunerative than any of the preceeding, not perhaps averaging over $5 to the hand. Other rich diggings are also in this vicinity. From this place my company struck into the mountains and, after severe labor and iniinite difficulties, succeeded in attaining the snowy range. From the summit of the mountains we obtained a view of the South park, and the prospect equals, if it does not excel, any point’ on the American continent for sublimity, grandeur and beauty. After two days travel and much difficulty we reached its northern limit, and here the park is from fifteen to twenty-five miles in width, gontl undulating, with occasional hills or knoll, covered wit excellent fine timber, coursed by several streams and covered with the rankest growtti of nutritious grasses. Buffalo, elk, antelope and other animals scamper abroad in every direction, imparting a dogreo of at- tractiveness to the country that can only be realized by being seen. ‘We skirted the western side of the park for twenty miles, and until we reached a stream where gold had recently been discovered. That evening all present in that region convened, and we formed six companies to explore the streams flowing into the Platte. The. result of our investigations was th a of gold in paying quan- tities only on the south branch of the Platte, and here the gold seems to be more generally distributed, in quantities paying from three to fifteen cents a pan, than at any other diggings yet discovered. If the intervention of boulders should not interfere, I doubt not but that those mines will ‘be successfully worked the coming spring. Little can be done this year, owing to tho extreme elevation and the’ speedy termination of the working season. From this place we crossed the second snowy range, the divide between the head waters of the Platte and Arkan- sas, Travelling twenty-five miles to the northern branch of the Arkansas, we came to other new diggings, and witness- ed better indications of a golden region than at any other point previously explored. While ‘on this stream ‘we were overtaken by a party who had descended somo miles below, and had found.tho bodies of some eight ani- mals, killed by the Indians. To-day a gentleman came in camp who had discovered the bodies of nine Americans. the leader of this party destroyed belng ono Williams, of Fountain city, on the Arkansas, and for sonm months in the country. From the indigations they wero attacked Y, OCTOBER 5, 1859.—TRIPLE SHEET. by from two to three hundred Tadians, Utahs (Utes), and the entire party killed. From the Arkansas we returned direct to Auraria, cross- ing back into the South park, traveling southward by the way of Pike’s Peak, and throngh the most beautiful coun- try Inaginable, having been gone eight days and travelled two hundred miles. ‘Thus it will be seen that gold exists in paying quantities thronghout all Western Nebraska and a portion of North- western Kansas, That many will go out nextseason and be disappointed , even utterly fail, is only one of the contingen- cies of @ mining country. That hundreds are making, and have made money, is equaly true, und timeand improved facilities will largely increase the number of the lucky ones. By the Rocky Mountain News of the 20th of August I learn that three quartz mills have arrived at Auraria, and will immediately be put to work crushing out the quarts rock. Hundreds of cords of this quartz, yielding from four to twenty cen ts to the pound, is now piled up await- ing the crusher, and thus ultimately the Western portion of Nebraska, hitherto called worthless, is to be & source of wealth to our government, not excelled by California, and if still other discoveries should be made the early construction of the great Pacific Railroad up the Platte valley is @ fixed and certain fact. The existence of these mines in the very heart of our Union is a subject fraught pith interest to the statesman, the capitalist and the mer- chant, —_—_______ Our Georgia Correspondence. Tuomaston, Ga., Sept. 9, 1859. The African Slave Trade—All Cry and No Wool—Prospects of Douglas in Georgia—Cunvass in Georgia—Colton Crop— Ravages of the Worm, dc., £e. . Nothing has surprised me more, since I first commenced reading the Heraxo, than the imposition which you have suffered lying correspondents to practice upon you in re- gard to the landing of large numbers of African slaves on the coasts of Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi. The number landed is stated to be as high as 15,000; and these “barbarians,” according to your veracious letter writers, having been introduced into the swamps and hammocks along our coasts, and especially in Florida, are distributed throughout the cotton States. Even Mr. Douglas, accord- ing to your issue of the 3d inst., ‘has stated in Philadel- phia, New York, Washington and Baltimore, within two or three months, that seventy vessels, with over fifteen thousand slaves, had been landed within a year and a half upon the coast of Florida,and that twelve vessels would discharge their swarthy living freight between the ports of Pensacola and Key West during the ninety days frpm the Ist of June to the Ist of September of the cur- rent year.”?” * * ® ‘Moreover, the Illinois Giant has declared, over and over again, that he himself had visit- ed depots of savages at Charleston, Columbus and Mem- phis; has named the proprietors of those marts, and has expressed the conviction that the planters and slave proprietors of the Southern States were perturbed and indignant at the confusion they foresaw from the novel African invasion, and were prepared to resist it to the bit- ter end.”” Now, all this is the merest bosh and nonsense in the world, Tundertake to say that there is not one grain of wheat in all the chaff you have written and published and ventilated tothe public upon the subject, and that notaeolitary African slave, excepting the Wanderer’s cargo, has been landed or introduced into Florida and Georgia within tho last ten years, According to Mr. Douglas, the present slavebolders are “indignant,” and ready to ‘resist’ the revival of the slave trade ‘to the better end.” And yet we hear nothing bere at the South of the landing of these cargoes of wild Africans of which you and Mr. Douglas speak so knowingly. Do you sup- pose that cargo after cargo of Africans could be brought here and distributed aff over the country, in opposition to a hostile slaveholding population, without the thing ever getting into our Southern papers and becoming public? Don’t you know that the whole thing is an arrant hum- bug from beginning to end? The fact of the landing of the ‘Wanderer’s cargo was promptly published to the world by the papers of this and the other Southern States; and if a fresh importation were made, and our journals should seek to suppress the fact, there are Yankee schoolmasters enough in the South who would soon give it to the winds. Simply and briefly, it would be impossible to conceal the thing, if there was any disposition to do so. Tean understand why Mr. Douglas should seek to cre- ate the impression upon the Northern mind that the Afri- can slave trade is pow in active operation in the Southern States; but Ido not understand why the Heraup should lend him its powerful aid, when it ought to. know there is not a particle of truth in the whole thing. That there is some discussion here of the subject is not denied; and that there are Hotspurs scattered all through the South, whose folly is calculated to lose us the respect of mode. rate and sensible men everywhere, is equally true. Tad- mit, also, that we are not without advocates of the trade in our midst, and that some of our people, with a goodly number of Northern capitalists and shipowners, may now be engaged in the trade to Cuba. But the charge that we have actually reopencd the slave trade in the Southern States, in violation of the laws of the land, is another and @ serious matter, and, if true, would goon involve us in a sectional struggle that would issue in rivers of blood; and if untrue, will at least do the South the wrong to array against her, for the time being, the entire North. The HeRALD ‘Mr. Douglas should, therefore, be careful how they trifle with so grave a matter. Bnt enough of the slave trade, unless it he to say that if you are opposed to its revival the wisest thing you can do is to be silent. Mr. Toombs delivered a political address at Lexington in this State, a few days ago, in which he denounced Mr Senator Iverson for his late ’renunciation of the Kansas vill on account of its principle of squatter £0 vereiguty. He also defended Mr. Douglas, and took issue with Mr. Gartrell, member of’ Con- gress from the Fourth district, for saying he would hot support Douglas if noruinated by the Charleston Con- vention. Mr. Toombs also expressed himself against the revival of the African slave trade. There is great divi- sion of sentiment among the democrats of Georgia in re- gard to Douglas. In addition to Mr. Toombs, it is under- stood that Mr. Stephens and Mr. Wright, late members from this State, and other prominent democrats, together with the Augusta Constitutionalist, Macon Telegraph, and other papers, are in favor cf his nomination. On the other hand, the Southern rights wing of the party (far the most numerous), with many Union democrata, are as bitterly opposed to him. Another element of discord is the con- ‘est now waging by Mr. Iverson and ex-Goyernor John- son for Mr. Iverson’s scat in the United States Senate. Johnson has the support of the Douglas people, while Iverson represents, for the most part, those who are op- posed to him. If’ the election should take place this Win- ter, Iverson will probably be re-elected. Que of the most puzzling questions now being addressed to the democratic candidates for Congress is, whether they would support Mr. Douglas if nominated at Charleston? In addition to Mr. Gartrell, Mr. Speer, the nomince of the Third dis- trict, has answered that he would not vote for him if nominated by a thousand Charleston Conventions. Mr. Jones, the nominee in Mr. Stephens’ old district, has re- plied vaguely, that he would s@pport him sooner’ than he would a black republican. And 80 we go, The delega- tion in Congress will stand as heretofore, with a chance for a gain to the opposition in the Eighth district. There is not much excitement in regard to the Guberna- torial contest. The present incumbent will, doubtless, be re-elected. Both parties have nominated mauy of their ablest and most experienced men for the State Legisla- ture, The prospect of the cotton crop has been greatly damaged within the past two weeks by the worm. This worm is batched from an ag deposited by a smal fy (resembling the candle fly), in the top of the cotton salle, and at the extremities of the upper limbs. After being hatched ont it descends the stalk and limbs, and com- mences its ravages by boring into the forms and green bolls, and soon completely destroys them. There are myriads of these creatures now at work in Georgia; and if they are doing the same amount of mischief in other cot- ton States as in this, it is not going eid the mark to es- timate the loss they are occasioning the planters at nearly a million of dollars a day. They are the most fatal of all the scourges to which the cotton plant is subject. Wet weather rust has also appeared in the cotton. The corn crop is abundant. Wheat an average yield. Oats poor. Fruit crop almost a failure. The Case of Mr. Fitzpatrick. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD, New York, Oct. 4, 1859. Having scen my name mentioned in your paper of this day as being a defaulter, I wish to assure the public through your columns that Ihave never received from the city government or any individual one dollar that I was not entitled to as justly my due. The cauge of my name hav- ing ever been mentioned in the matter to which you refer was my being the assignee of Charles Devlin, and my name being used and forged by parties to effect their own purposes. Ihave never received on the whole matter you refer to one cent for my own benefit, and have already (upon an investigation held befare the Recorder) received an honorable discharge. I invite the investiga- tion of yourself and jhe press generally to the documents now on file, and other means, which will be readily affordeq, as to my participation in the matters in question, and if 4 particle of guilt can be found attached to me Iam willing to bear the stigma; but I feel keenly the injustice of keeping my name before the public as ‘a participant and gamer by frauds with which Ihad no other connection than that of a mere assignee, without any knowledge a the time of the commission of such frauds, or any benefit from the result thereof, or any connivance rewith whatever. JOHN FITZPATRICK. The Mulligan-Riviere Affair. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. New York, 682 Broapway, Tuesday, Oct. 4, 1859. ‘My attention has been called toa statement published in your paper of this morning, signed “‘H. A. de Riviere,’? and to an accompanying card, bearing the signatures of “A. Smecchi” and “R. Prati,” on the subject of the ro- cent meeting between Mr. William Mulligan and the above named persons on Saturday last. Having acted on behalfiof Mr. Mul on that occasion (and he not being present in the city), I feel called upon to characterize the card signed “A: ‘Smecchi? and “R. statement subscribed “‘H. A. de Riviere,’ as false and dishonorable statements, and in no essential particular correct tations of what happened off or on the ground. have merely time, sir, at present, to send to you this: heed against their deliberate misrepresenta: tions, and I will, if you will kindly afford me the space in your columns, give to-morrow a full and true account of all that transpired in the premises. Meantime, I am, dear sir, Yery respectfully, your obedient servant LORENZO The Crops. Massacnomerts.—Al etter from Pittsfield says:—We hear complaint of the fros n some parts of the county, and have had some in this town, but not enough to damage crops materially. ‘Wiscoxsin.—The frost of last Sunday night, 4th inst., was serious at and about Prairie du Chien, The Leader fays that one-fourth of a crop of corn will be all that will be harvested. Buckwheat must be all killed. Oats will command a higher price—fortunately there has beon a heavy yield. But ifthe effects of this frost bave been uniformly bad throughout the West, says the same, there Will be but # small number of cattle fattened for Eastera markets, and not enough pork for the home demand, Farmers inform the Kenosha (Wis.) Telegraph that much of the corn has been severely injured, aud (hat potato vines where not already nearly killed by the lng Continued drought, have been entirely destroyed by the frosts. Garden vegetables, especially vines, haye algo n many places been entirely ruined, ‘Texas.—The Galveston News says:—We learn | gen- tleman just from Fort Bend county, that the late droug.t has écriously injured the cotton crop, A month ago the prospects for a crop were never ) otter. b w our in- formant states that the crop jy Wh \ Fort Bend counties will fall short of ay. cage ch ‘uliy one-third, and he thinks the ere) will be nol (er in the other counties of the Brazor | Colorado riy Viraia.—T) ksville Zobacco Plant of the 9th inst. says:—The s:ason for cutting has arrived, and 80 far as our information extends we believe there is every indication of a very abundant crop, of whieh there will be a great proportion of very fine tobacco, Such at any rate, is our view of the crop’ in this immediate section of country. About Oxford, in Granville county, N. C., we have heard it said that the crop is inferior, owing to the drought in the early part of the summer. But we are in- clined to think that this condition of the crop applies ,to only a small district of country. Loviiana SuGaR.—The New Orleans Crescent says, re- rains sugar, the talk is, that the present prospects are ighly flattering. With the same season, or rather the her, from this time until November, that we had last year, a crop of 440,000 hogsheads is con fidently expected. We agree in the expectations, and with a very late season 440,000 hogsheads may be expected. Corron IN Lovmiana.—The Lake Providence Herald says:—Cotton picking is progressing ragidly, particularly on those plantations in the upper part of the parish, where the rust has spread its blighting influence over scores of acres. Wo hear continued complaints of the rust aud boll worm, and fear the crop will be seriously injured by these destructive agents. In conversation with an intelligent gentleman from one of the back parishes, he said that the crops which three weeks back promised an abundant yield, are now withering away with rust, giving scarcely half the promised cotton. Sxvure Drovcut rm Vermont.—A correspondent at ‘Weathersfield, Vermont, under date of September 10, says that ‘‘the farmers of that vicinity have suffered severely from the long drought. Many have for weeks drawn their water from one-quarter to one-half @ mile to supply their family wants, and also those of their sheep and cattle. On the low lands their crops of corn and potatoes have been nipped by the frosts in August and early this month, Now, 3 P. M., it has commenced raining, to the relief and joy of a great many sufferers in this section of the Green ‘Mountain State.” New York.—The Rome Sentinel says:—The heavy rains of Saturday in this vicinity will do much good for fall feed. The grounds were very dry and pastures were drying up. ‘The first Alabama cotton by the inland route was re- ceived in Richmond, Va., on the 1th inst. ‘Tak Wxeat Crop or Western New York AND CANADA.— The Auburn (Cayuga county) Daily Union says wheat i3 being threshed out in that county, and the yield is enor- mous. We have not heard of any wheat that averages less than twenty-five bushels to the acre, while the greater portion runs from thirty to thirty-five ‘bushels per acre. In some parts of Canada the yield has been from thirty- seven to fifty bushels of wheat an acre. WiscossiIv.—The wheat that is brought to market this year, says the Racine Journal, is remarkably free from all extrancous matter, such ag oats, chess, &c. Farmers are evidently remembering the lesson that it has taken years of practice and considerable expense in the shape of reduced prices to learn, that it is better to take more pains with their grain than to hurry it forward to mar- ket in a condition not fit to sell. Wisconsin wheat this year will stand A No. 1 in the Eastern markets. ‘The farmers seem to have given up all hope of realizing mayne this year from their corn, potato and buckwheat fields, says the Dodge county Citizen. This long continu ed drouth, which has not yet been relieved, and the vere frosts within the past week, have about finished up what there was left of the late crop. Of the frost a weck ago Thursday night, the Albany (Wis.) Times says it completely used up everything in the vine line that was spared on the night of the zotn ult., and did immense damage to corn, potatoes and buck- wheat. Almost every corn and buckwheat field for miles around, is sey ‘done for.” The countenances of the farmers around there are as long as the moral law. The Nashville Patriot says that wheat is selling on the Fast Tennessee and Virginia Railroad at 60 cents per bushel, ‘Tam Westers Corn Cxor.—The luxuriant appearance of the growing corn throughout the West is the subject of general remark. The Cincinnati Commercial says:—The Prospects for a corn crop of full average yield throughout the region of country about which there was recently 50 much apprehension, have been well reassured by the genial raing of the last two weeks; and the increased amount of lapd planted throughout the West, will make the yield of this great staple, if present anticipations are realized, much greater than ever before gathered. We are informed by a gentleman extensively engaged in farm- ing in the central portion of the State, that there are farm- ers who will willingly contract for 8,000 to 5,000 bushels of corn, deliverable monthly after the crop is fully ready to be marketed, at 60 conts per bushel. A gazette extraordinary was issued by the Canadian government on the 14th inst., appointing Thursday, Nov. 8, to be observed as a day of Thanksgiving throughout the Province for the abundant harvest. Sarps oF Cory.—The Illinois State Journal says:—We are informed that sales of corn in the field have to sorhe ex- tent been made at $5 and $6 per acre. Before the late rains the price asked was $9 per acre. THE WHEAT CROP OF THE WEST—ARE THE FARMERS HOLDING BACK? [From the Chicago Press and Tribune, Sept. 12.] ‘The Fast is laboring under asad delusion. They imagine that the entire West is bankrupt, that every farmer is loaded down with debts, which will compel him to rush his grain to market, let the price be what it may. This is very wide of the truth. At least one-half of the farm- ers in the West ean held their wheat over a year, if they think proper; and, although we always recommend {reo deliveries as the best policy in the ‘end, still our expe- rience warrants us in the belief that should prices decline still further, as Eastern journals most industriously pre- dict, the receipts will be withheld. In Ohio and Indiana the farmers are selling but little, as the receipts at the leading markets indicate; and were spring wheat propor- tionately as low as winter, the receipts at this port would not be as large as they are. Last week, when our daily receipts of wheat reached 100,000 bushels, New York became paralyzed, and ope- rators acted as though they were about tobe deluged with grain from all quarters. They forgot that so far this year we have only exported a trifle over two mil- lion bushels, against about six millions last year, and that much of that grain went to feed the §West; that we have not a Crimean war and famine prices to draw forth the last bushel from the farmer, so as to make up in the fall’s exports what has been lost in the spring and sum- mer by the failure of last year’s crop. ‘There are other facts to be borne in mind. This year the wheat is all well cured, and is in better condition tokeep than that of any crop for the past five years; while the stocks, all over the United States, East as well as West, were never ¢o light. Under these circumstances, granted that there will be no export demand for Euro" ‘an consumption, there is not much occasion for the East being frightened out of all propriety by an imagi- nary deluge of breadstufls. The Texas Boundary Survey. particulars have been received at the De- partment of the Interior from the above commission in oats Herd march up the How river eee ce ‘very of = good route up that valley, from the cross- ing near the mouth of Delaware creek, and Anton Chico, on the Whipple route. This new route may prove a short cut to Chihuahua for caravans from Missouri, via Fort and Presidio del Norte, though the distance saved ‘will not be very great. ‘This party were very fortunate to demonstrate the prac- tieability of the Pecos for a wagon road, for che reason that but a few weeks previous to their march along it a mili- tary scouting party bad declared it impracticable. By exam! the groond and keeping up the west side to the mouth of the Hondo, the commission found an ex- cellent road. This river was found tobe deep, and af. forded much more water than the Pecos ; and it being im. possible to cross it without bridging, boats were made of the bodies, and the forried to the east side of the 8. This proved a fortunate circumstance, for asthe had croased the Hondo, in a fow hours the; ‘would have encountered the Atascosa, and have immedi- ately found themselvcs im the midat of the valley of the Seven Rivers, an interminable series of broken bluffs and swampy creeks, succeeded by Soda lakes, which cannot ‘be crossed by horsemen. Besides all these difficulties, there is much more sand on the west side of the river above the mouth of the Hondo, Of the remainder of the trip and the character of the country passed over, the letter writer says :— In contrast with all this—the difficulties just alluded to—excepting one short day’s march, where the Sode Jake extends across the river, we had no difficulty at all in getting the wagons along, and had not anywhere more than an hour’s delay in the way of road making or road selecting.. The Pooos is a remarkable river; it maintains ite character thi » When wo first started wo thought afew days’ march wonld bring us to where it was much clearer and freaher, but the realization of no such heppy anticipation was in store for us; even within orty miles of Anton Chico, where it is confined within a rocky canon, it is still muddy and bitter. We founds great many fine springs, allon the west or right bank, ‘and many of the streams putting in are clear and pure, Dut those that have chemical impurities at all are 80 bad as scarcely to be drinkable. If it were not for the bedy of fresh and pure water thrown would be as as Z i ule ie hall i i Hi i i i Irposes. 16 gr xcellent, and the Né great numbers of sheep here driving them as far down even as Boeq which about twenty miles above the mouth of the fo Pearue Rescate is an extensive valley, well bered with wood, covered with fine grass, and H sé if Hondo. ———_ Naval Intelligence, ‘The United States brig Perry, Commander Tilghman, was at Montevideo on the 16th of August. Officers and crew all well, Political Intelligence. Stare Exections in Grorcia 1np Musussrer,.—The elec- tions for Sta»: fllce’» was held on Monday in Georgia and Mississippi. I) ( eorg a the opposition worked like bea- vers durmg the canvass to defea’ Governor Joseph E. Brown, who wa pre «pied by the democracy for re-elec- tion, and the opposition papers seemed sanguine that their effort in that vespect was almost certain of being crowned with success. Opposed to Governor Brown was Mr. War- ren Aken, The following are the names of the candidates for Congress: Dis. Opposition. A. T. Mcintyre, Martin J. Crawford, —A. M. Seer, 4—Luecius J. Gartrell, lerwood, ‘ames Jackson, K. G, Harper, Joebua Hill, £—John J. Jones, AOR. Wright, In Mississippi the opposition was very feeble, and there is hardly a doubt that the democratic party have again taken all the offices. The following were the State tickets in Marcellus Douglass, Thomas Hardeman) Jr., Wm. F. Wright, No nomination, No nomination, nomipation;— Democratic. Opporition. Governor.,....... John J. Pettus, _H, W. Walter. Seretary of & BR. by H. H. Southworth. Auditor, . E.R. Burt, A. F. Reynolds. ‘Treasurer M.D. Haynes, Joseph Regan. The entire democratic delegation in the last Congress were nominated for re-election with very litde if any opposition. a Democranic Rammcation Meertyc iy Autayy.—The de mocrats of Albany are to have a ratification moeting during the holding of the State fair. Daniel 8. Dickinson is to speak. A Usioy Ticket.—The McKinney, Texas, Merenger pro- poses the abandonment of al! party associations of what- ever name, and the organization for the contest of 1860 of anew party, to be styled the “ Union democracy,” with the following ticket :-— For President—Gen. Sam Houston, of Texas. For Vice President—Robert C. Winthrop, of Mass. ConGreasionaL Nominations iv Iuuvois.—Hon. John A. McClernand, of Springfield, has been nominated for Con- gress by the democratic Convention of the Sixth district of Minois, to Ml the vacancy caused by the death of Col. T. L. Harris. Pouncat Baxps.—The opposition party in Cincinnati have organized a band im that city similar to the Empire Club of this city, which they call the Flying Artillery. Axorngr Coxtesrep Skat.—The Hon. James Chrisman (democrat) has given formal notice tnat he contests ,the seat in Congress of the Fourth district in Kentucky, awarded by the State examiners to Mr. Wm. C. Anderson, opposition. Dickinson ON THE Stump.—Hon. Daniel 8. Dickinson ad- dressed the democracy at Olean, Cattaraugus county, on the 29th ult. He has entered upon the campaign in earnest. A TovGH Trwg.—At the Republican Convention in Bing- hamton, Broome county, on Wednesday, John M. Par- ker, of Tioga, was nominated for Judge of the Supreme Court on the one hundred and forty-first ballot. American Ticket ry On10.—A portion of the Know Nothing party of Ohio, dissatisfied with the action of the State Convention in refusing to nominate a ticket, called a second Convention and put in nomination Joseph R. Swan as their candidate for Supreme Judge. This will make a triangular fight in Ohio. The Convention also selected John Scott Harrison and Edward Bell as delegates at large to the American National Convention, and oue to repre- sent each Congressional district in the State. Ay Eye To Minyxsota.—On the llth of October the Sate election will be held in Minnesota, at which time two members of Congress are to be chosen, and in view of the probable chances of the choice for President going to the House of Representatives, this election in Minne- gota is rather an important one. The republicans are aware of this, and have despatched a host of stump ora- tors to the new State, and are determined that no effort shall be spared on their part to win the State over to black republicanism and to the adoption of the irrepressi- ble conflict doctrine of Wm. H. Seward. The followiug named gentlemen we notice are stationed in different parts of the State, and their engagements extend down to the 8th of October:—Hon. Galusha A. Grow, of Pennsylvania; Hon. Frank P. Blair, Jr., of Missouri; Hon Carl Schurz, Hon. John P. Hale, of New Hampshire; Hon. Schuyler Colfax, of Indiana; Hon. John F, Farnsworth, of Illinois; Hon. 8. L. Woodford, of New York; Hon. David Cooper, of St. Paul, and United States Senator Kingsley 8. Bing- ham, of Michigan. Tae Last Kick or Dyixc Pourncans.—Hon. Robert C. Schenek, who was once a famous whig politician in Con gress; from Ohio, has gasped out his adhesion to black re- publicanism, and recommended Hon. Abraham Lincoln of Dlinois, as a candidate for the Presidency. Axorure TickeT.—The prohibitionists, at their Conven- tion in Syracuse, on the 21st instant, nominated the follow- ing State ticket:— For Secretary of State—General W. Clark, of Monroe. For Comptrolier—Silas W. Brewster , of Oswego. For Attorney Gencral—Leonard Gibbs, of Washington. For State Engincer and Surveyor—Siiney A. Beers, of Kings. For Canal Commissioner—Milton W. Skiff, of Alleghany. For State Treasurer—Lucins J, Ormsbee, of Onondaga. For Inspector of State Prisons—Robert’ J. Ketchum, of Broome. For Judge of the Court of Appeals—William Goodell, of New York. For Clerk of the Court of Appeals—George L. Brockett, of Oneida. For Justice of Supreme Court—D. ©. Markham, of Onondaga. ‘A CHANGE oF SeNTomT.—Mr. Henry Lutz, formerly a Clay whig,and member of the Ohio Legislature, writes to the Greenville, Ohio Democrat, that he has heretofore ‘been a supporter of the republican party, but he has now come to the irresistible conclusion that the principles of democracy underlie the entire fabric of our institutions, and in consideration of this he will in future be found la- boring for the advancement of the national democratic party. Gov. Wisk Coming Norma to Deresp Hiaserr.—The Philadelphia Southern Moniter says that Governor Wise intends to speak before the people of the North. MarkeD Bat.ots.—The Know Nothing ballots used at the elections in Baltimore have striped or checkered backs, so that they may be readily recognized by the rowdies who surround the polls. Brincine iv Recevrrs.—The new constitution of Kansas allows free negroes to vote, and the Lecompton Democra says that the republicans, in anticipation of the constitu- tion being adopted, are bringing in hordes of free negroes from Arkansas, where, by a recently enacted law they cannot remain, and making black republicans of them. Kxow Notmye Sincerrry.—The Know Nothing address starts out with the declaration that ‘“‘only American born citizens should be chosen representatives of the people!’” ‘The first business in order after the reading of the address in their State Convention was the nomination of a gentle- man born in Germany. Super Doveras axp Biack Repvpiicanism.—The Madi- son Courier, a black republican paper, seems to be de- lighted with Douglas’s squatter sovereignty article in Har- per’s Magazine. It says “Judge Douglas has only to take one step more to find himself a republican.”” Fovrta JupiciaL District.—Hon. C. L. Allen was una- nimously nominated a candidate for Justice of the Su- preme Court in the Fourth district, at the Democratic Judicial Convention held at Plattsburg, on the 2lst inst. PorrTicaL MOVEMENTS IN NEBRASKA TERRITORY.—A corres- pondent sends us the following in relation to political af- fairs in Nebraska:— The first political and party canvass ever made in Nebraska Territory is now being vigorously prosecuted, both by the democrats and republicans. Gen. E. Esta- brook, of Douglas county, Ex.Attorney General of Ne- braska, was nominated by the democrats for delegate to Congress in a convention held at Plattsmouth on the 18th of August. He isa sterling democrat of the old school, and in every way worthy w be the standard bearer of the democratic party in this Territory and to fill the responsi- bie office of Rvlegate in Congress. It was feared by many that the demoerats would make no nomination, dnd that, as heretofore, sectional rivalry and jealousy would pre- yent @ nomination and break up the party. Butevery- thing passed off harmoniously, a platform satisfactory to all was adopted, and the united democracy of Nebraska entered the canvass with exultant feeling. The black re- publican Territorial Convention assembled at Bellevue en the 24th ult., and nominated 8. @. Daley, of Nemaha county, as their candidate for Delegate to Congress. The republicans are making a vigorons Kansas-shrieking can- vass, and will leave nothing undone to secure the auccoss of their ticket. But Nebraska is democratic, aad Gen. Estabrook will be triumphantly elected in October—the Rae of this Territory appreciating the benefits that ave resulted from the action of the democratic party, and from the fostering policy of the administration to- wards the Territories. The length of this letter precludes any extended remarks relative to the platforms and pric- ciples as enunciated by both parties. The best of feeling was manifested towards the administration, and Gov. Black could have been the nominee had he not persistent- ly refused his friends the use of his name in Convention, as @ candidate. TakiNG A Freen Stazt.—Hon. N. B. Baker, formerly Gov- ernor of New Hampshire, is a candidate for the Logisla- ture of Minnesota. Governor Foork crow Senator Dovoss.—Ex-Governor H. 8. Foote, of Mississippi, who has just taken up his residence in Nashville, Tenn., publishes a long letter in the Banner, of that city, in which he speaks in terms of warm approval of the general spirit of Senator Douglas’ magazine article, Ho says that for bis own part he ig sick of conventions and caucuses, and that his vote wild not be influenced by the action of that at Charleston, Ba regards Mr. Douglas as one of about twenty distinguished statesmen —both whig and democratic—all of them honest, qualified and congervative in their views, any of whom ha would like to see elevated to the Presidential chair. Tha election of such a candidate he believes to be the best rae buke to Sewarcism and Southern secessionism. A Voice vox Sam Hovstoy.—Tho Peokskill, (N.Y. Democrat, has raised the standard of Sam Houston, foe President, and in doing 60 says: — A feeling of State pride has inclined us to favor Mr. Dickingon, as the best of all the Northern candidates, and various papers have classed us as for him. ‘The o¢cure rences at Syracuse, which we personally witnessed last week, have lessened our estimate of Mr, Dickinson, and dissipated all our State pride, No Southern man pose sesses 80 many elements of popularity, or comes #o near our standard of a statesman, as Sam Houston, the Hero of San Jacinto, We therefore place his name at the head of our columns as our choice. AxoTuER Dig at Dickinson.—Hon. John Cramer, a yetes ran democrat, who was a@ friend and cotemporary of General Jackson, declines being a member of the hard shell Democratic Central Committee, on account of hig age. Mr. Cramer accompanies his declination with som@ remarks on the events at Syracuse, as will be seen by hig letter :— Warrrrorp, Sept. 22, 1850. At my advanced period of life, with many necessary domestic duties to attend to, I canyot consent to serve ae one of the Central Committce. ‘This duty would be mora appropriately discharged by men in the prime of life. much regret some movements which were enacted byt some of our best friends at Syracuse, and most of all, I regret that our much respected and ever reliable friend » D. 8. Dickinson, shouid have participated in them, for tha’ doubtful chance of being made the favorite candidate of, @ gang of frecsoil desperadoes—the very men who have? exerted their entire efforts wo degrade him in the Stata and nation, and who now boast that they have effectually’ annibilated him—which prediction, I fear, will prove a verity. Is it net melancholy that so few of our publia men can resist overtures of office from men whose politi« cal principles and corrupt intrigues they abhor and de= spise? As to the appomtment of Presidential Electors foe 1860, it should be condemned and resisted by all goo® demoerats. I perceive of the delegates so appointed, eight or ten are Central Railroad directors. This marks the power and baneful influence of that dangerous an® anti democratic monopoly. JOHN CRAMER. A Fexier.—The Fitchburg correspondent of the Springs ficld Republican says, that in the session of the Commitica on Resolutions of the Massachusetts Republican Stata Convention, Simon P. Hanscom, of Boston, offered a ree solve in favor of reducing the period of residence by foreigners previous to naturalization from five to three years, by act of Congress; and he stated that Governor Banks was in favor of it. It received several votes, but not a majority, and was therefore not reported to the convention, Tue Home or THE PrestpENt.—The Democratic Coun!y Convention of Lancaster county, Penn., at its session om the 14th inst., passed the following resolution:— Resolved, That’ the democracy of the county of Lan- caster entertain an unbroken confidence in the unsullied pergonat and political integrity, patriotism and wisdom of James Buchanan, President of the United States. That we believe it has been his cardinal and dearest object, im the administration of the Executive Department of the government, to execute the constitution and the laws of Congress made in pursuance thereof, without fear, favor or affection to any section, State or’ individual. ‘That im thus endeavoring to execute the laws of the country, with an earnest effort to preserve unimpaired the union of the States, we believe that he has accomplished his wholg duty to the best of his ability. Democratic Resorcixc.—The Democrats of Tennesse ard to have a grand jubilee on Saturday, October 1, in honor of the great victory in the August election, Oye Caxpipate WitnprawN.—Mr. Rayner’s name hag been hauled down as a candidate for the next Presidency at his own request, by the North Carolina papers. ‘Tue SrRYKER AsaavLT.—There were six constables pres sent atthe State Convention, but there was no attempt made to arrest the assailant of Mr. Stryker, though the violence was committed within the sight of hundreds, and its author was known to every man on the tloor.— Albany Atlas and Argus. Tn answer to the above the Syracuse Standard says:— We have already stated that these six constables wer@ appointed by Mayor Leavenworth,on the recommendation of leading democrats of this city, and that they were all democrats of the ‘‘soft’’ persuasion. Why does the Atlag and Argus try to conceal these facts from the public? ‘Wxo Took mm Buiues to Syraccse?—The Albany Journal says:—The Tammany democracy have tried to shake off the responsibility of taking shoulder hitters to Syracuse, and to fasten it on their opponents, but with very indifferent success, as the acts of their employéd speak louder than their own professions. Capt. Ryndersy for years notorious as the leader of the rowdy Empir@ Club, was one of the most active Tammany men at Syrae cuse. Heenan, the “Benicia Boy,” makes affidavit that his expenses were paid and admission secured by tha Tammany men. McCabe, another Tammany man, coms mitted the assault on the editor of the News, since which other Tammany shoulder-hitters have been sendiug. threatening letters to various persons suspected of hard shell sympathier Career of the Late I, K. Brunel, the En= glish Engineer. TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD. That we live in an inventive as well as an engineering age, and that Jobn Bull is a most contented as well as @ Most confiding creature, all must agree who will take the trouble to read the following sketch of the successful ca« reer of the English engincer, I. K. Brunel, notwithstand- ing the series of blunders made by him in all his great works:— “To begin at the beginning,” the first public work ta which, when a very young man, he was appojated engi+ neer, was the tunnel under the river Thames, which cost: millions of money, and which has returned since its first: opening barely enough to pay for the coals for the steam: engine to keep the tunnel dry and the money taker wha receiyes the pence from the passengers. This I may call failure No. 1. Next in rotation comes a bridge across the river Avony in England, which was to have been erected by sharese The money required by the estimate of the engineer waa all subscribed in 1839, and barely sufficed to erect a cou- ple of piers; for the arch or bridge across the Ayon to this day has still to be added. This is failure or blunder No. 2. Next in succession comes the Great Western Railway of England, with its broad gauge, its imperial stations an@ monster locomotives. The engineer’s original estimate for this railway was £2,000,000 sterling or $10,000,000, and it was announced in the prospectus that it would pay 10 per cent on that capital. What is the fact? The Great Westerm Railway of England has cost £23,000,000 sterling or $125,000,000—so that an increase of £21,000,000 sterling, or $15,000,000 has been made on the engineer’s original estimate of £2,000,000 sterling. After such gross miscal- culations it is not at all to be wondered at that this railway yields such a wretched dividend. But for the original cost in construction, this magnificent line might have been one of the most profitable and auc« cessful speculations of modern times. The reckless extra- vagance and expenditure on the works by the engineer have dispelled, and forever, any such hope. Burdened ag it is with a larger preference or debenture debt than any other English railway, it has been for years in a strug- gling and hopeless state of insolvency, involving a suspen- sion of dividends—although out of policy the dires- tors now pay one per cent (38) per annum on each $600 invested, if any such dividend has been really earned. ‘That the shareholders are to blame all must admit, but they always place implicit confidence in the directors, wha in return trust all to their engineer; and hence these dis« astrous results in the shattered and bankrupt state of thig great line. This is failure or blunder No. 3 Next comes the South Devon Railway, running fromm Exeter, in Devonshire, to Plymouth, in England—a lina fifty-six miles in length. When this railway was first projected Mr. Brunel was selected as the engineer, and opposed to every practical mechanic of the age, he pre= vailed on the directors to adopt the atmospheric principla of traction, which all_ mechanics had over and over me condemned. They did so. The principle proved, as ha been predicted, an utter failure. The shareholders wera ruined, the dividends now declared on the stock being under halfa dollar per $500 shares, which, but for this crazy atmospheric fancy might have been one of tha best paying lines in England, This is blunder No. 4. Last, but not least, comes the excess in the estimates of the Great Eastern, the awful cost in launching her of £80,000—which a Whitby shipbuilder bad offered to do fore £5,000—and to crown the whole, the mechanical blunder, condemned by all engineers and aired! of the steany jacket round the smoke pipes, resulting, as it did, in the ‘destruction of several valuable lives, and entailing a loss on the shareholders of £10,000. ‘With the excess over the estimates in the Great Easterms Englishmen are not disposed to find fault, for in a work of such magnitude they imagine that every allowance be madefor an engineer. But when the that surrounds the smoke pipe was condemned all ctical mechanics who had tested it, and found it worthe Ieee ‘as well as di rous, their admonitions should had suicient weight sith the engineer to abandon idea of it. But no. Mr. Brunel's opinion was omnipotent: at the Boned of Directors: the mean jucket into the fittings ‘Leviathan, seen, with the loss of valuable lives, Alene dirt atten to the shareholders of $50,000, Tl maybe fae ore owinhstand! all these blundei iotwi bl would have nine hundred and. kinety-uluo, protere sional men out of @ thousand, Mr. Brunel eres t ha profession a8 one of the first and most eminent civil engi« beat And was considered a great authority among scien lc men. In justice to the departed, it must be conceded that was in every sense of the'word a gentleman, kind an@ courteous to all. A better hearted man did not exist tham pl bok ss irée Was pinays open to eet sheen who needed it, and many a struy oung man countenance, money and eaivice ia Reee ‘raised to tits ence in his profession, . DE MORTUIS NUL NISI VERUM.