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et’BLlSaXD DAILY AND TKI-Wtu&KLY BY ttDOAK SSOWUKK. ALEXANDRIA: WEDNESDAY MORNING. Atuisi r2ti, l&tVL , ___ . -__i RrltUlt India. Several letters written by Pic. Pcff, a muie of authority all over the world, espe- j p^cially when connected with the affairs of | British India, have been collected in OH-1 cutta, and published, in which that excel* ^ lent and learned man, gives his views with regard to the present condition and luture prospects of the country where he is now pass- j ing his days, and which is of so much inier c*t at this time. Ho thinks th \t the alleged riason Lr the late Met ny (the greased car tidgres) is a mere subterfuge. “Two general • causes for rebellion are deduced from the facts collected. First, the existence of active elements and agents of treachery, “of j an essentially political character, ’ at ali times ready to take advantage secretly of any chance for Waving native superstition. jeil ousy and dislike, in murderous violence j against the British rule. But the second great cause of revolt is conditional to the h>r iner. Without a general condition of disloy alty and disaffection at heart, toward not on ly the British Government, but even their own regimental officers, such a unanimous . revolt could never be matured to such terri ble success, without forewarning or disclo sure, nor be enable to spread with the suJ deoness and swiftness of a flash, through all the widely scattered regiments of an empire. ! A mixture of the profoundest ignorance and j indifference as to the feelings and character j of the Sepoy, appears to characterize toe ; British officers of the native regiments. No I friendship, gratitude or respect, are cultiva ted generally in the breast of the-e li'nduo ; soldiers, by the exhibition cl a kindly inter est and fellow-feeling, a consideration tor ; - . /• «• i * r a i * l their comtort, tor tneir iceungs, sum mruiui prejudice in private, nor by a high military character and bearing on duty. Almost every <fficer of character is notoriously withdrawn 1 into the civil service ot the Company, and lew are left with the regiments but boys; 100 commoniy effeminate, supercilious and u« diciplioed youths, actually the inferiors in every moral quality of the men they are set to command. The merciless slaughter of aii the officers, with here and there perhaps an honored exception, without one 'r.endly inti mation from an attached aod grateful sol dier, shows what relations subsist between i tbe men and their military superiors. Hut Dr. Duff concludes with glowing anti- } oi pat loon of the moral glory of the issue, in case the tremendous warnings ot all this ex perience are duly improved. Certainly, : there is nothing in the development of In- j dian character, to discourage the efforts to , elevate and beneficently employ its forces, | and even its peculiarities by means of hu manity, superior heroism, education, civili sation, aod Christian hue and truth.” Tlte Commercial Crisis* Some of the Northern papers are discus sing the question, “are we to have another Commercial Crisis?” The New \ork Herald argues affirmatively, and gives us the black- j est and gloomiest side of the picture; but there is another description of papers who present quite a cheerful view ol the matter. They assure us that money continues to be j easy, and that nc l>**dy is alarmed. Penney continues to be easy! ll the mere assertion of the fact could Lut make it so, these pa pers would be most invaluable institutions. Hut unfortunately, tbe rates of i sit crest are on an average more than double ot \v bat they were some three years ago, while the d« manil lor capital is equally urgent, if net more so. The Pennsylvanian turns up, the argu ments by the “panic makers and the “en thusiasts,” ami concludes that whilst it can not “agree with the Herald, because it con siders its comments upon our commercial and financial position greatly exaggerated; still it holds that there exist p« werful rea sons urging the press to raise its warning voice. For a series of years, wo have reck IamIv indulged in habits of wastefulness. and loose speculations of every description; we have stretched our credit, at home and abroad, to the utmost limits of its strength, and now, when the consequences of this thoughtless course are brought home to us ; when it is felt by almost everybody, that the monetary resources are greatly inadequate to the business requirements ot the country, we see the drain of precious metals continue without.interruption, and even exceed that of former years. Previous to 1851 wo reror in any one year exported above$6 5<50.0<K> ot specie and bullion, as an excess of exporta tion over importation ; but Hrre 1n>1 tnat sum rangul between $24,000,000 as a mini mum. and $52,000,01*0 esa maximum, lu 1856 it amounted to 841.500,OtO, and noa it is report. <1. thatio the first <**«'* of this year wo have already shipped *.i, •• 0o0 uiore than for the same peri, u oi lost year. There rhipmeots are tho unuo ,*>nd immediate cause of our troubles, ami it is high time that Congress should direct us at tention to tho subject, since the lnsttar.it act has evidently failed to aicotnplish i s purpose.” ^_ Gen. Duff Green baa adiressed a Circular to “all persons in the t oited States interest ed in Railroads, and the manufacture of Riilroad Iron,” advising them to bold a Convention in the city of Washington, on the first Monday in January next. 1:® Union aaya that the subject of Railroad Iron is now engaging the attention of the Secre tary of the Treasury, and he is at this mo ment occupied in the collection of facts ami statistics with a view of recommending some legislation on the subject looking to the ad vancement of our own industry and of cur own peculiar interests in this respect. The subject embraces many very important in terests, and is worthy of tho most attentive consideration. We had selected from cur Southern ex chaoge paper* * number of articles relative to the late “ Southern Commercial Conven tion,” similar in tone and spirit, to those on the Urn* subjeot that » e already published, intending to insert them in our columns, na proof* of public sentiment; but wc find it is unnecessary to republish them, as tie opin ion of tho whole Sooth is nearly unanimous. There should be no more attempts at “Soutb pftx Commercial Convections.” 1, mi Palmerston his explained to the Brit ish l!m-»e of Commons the difficulties with France with regard to the Moldavian elec tions; and stated that it had been decided, in c inference at (Lborne, to recoin nend the Sul tan to annul the late electi in. L>rd Palmer ston also stated that there had been differen- ! ces between the English and French G ivern- j ments relative to the Principalities—not as ! to their union, but simply as to the regulari ty of the election. There was good reason to b» lo ve that Austria would concur with the decision arrived at between the French and English Gjicrnmeuts, and that the hub tun, seeing that there was nothing in the measures recom mended that would com promise bis dignity or independence, would adopt their views, and declare the election void. Lord Palmerston said there was no ground to apprehend any estrangement be Twct-o F'ranee and England on account of tho Moldavian d (Scullies. in noticing the fact that a cargo of Italian mirble has been recently received in this country to he used in the erection of the pub lic buildings in Washington, the Philadel phia Ledger remarks, that sending to Italy f r marble, when it exists all around us in this country, seems like a very singular mode of developing the resr.nrccs of cur own country. National buildings it strikes us, would bo more worthy of the name it they were constructed of American marble. This i* a matter in which the Government could legitimately assist the interests of this coun try. Congress should append as a cur.dition to sill the improvements and alterations of the pubkc buildings, that the materials shall he oi American origin and workmanship, especially wheu both, can be obtained in as great perfection and at as.little cost as im ported material and labor. Another of the individuals engaged in the election frauds in Philadelphia, list October, has been convicted and sentenced to nearly three years’ imprisonment. The punish ment is well deceived. Nothing, as the Led ger truly remarks, would tend more to bring our whole system of government into dis credit, and finally overthrow it, than the fact that the ballot-box may be fraudulently tam pered with, and the decisions which it pro uouoces be contrived by previous arrange ment so as to defeat the wish of the people. This is treason in its worst form, for it subverts the government by the people, and _ •. ■ i_.1 c _i_“_i__£3:_.^ jM.il>> ii mui uiu 11 vi puuujciu^, piuuigaitr politicians and partizms. The New York Express says there has of late arisen a new sub division of the Repub lican party, known by the title of Brown Re publicans, as distinguished from the Blacks. Tno Drowns aro slightly of the Young America order. An Addiess is published in the Richmond Enquirer to the Farmers of Virginia, asking them to m°et in Convention, on the Guano subject, and to adopt a determination not to pay over a certain amount (to be agreed upon) fur that article. The Norf lk Argus says that “Direct T>'cn1ct not with Europe, Asia, Africa or South America, but with the interior of Virginia,” is most wanted at this time by the seaboard cities. The quotations of British Consols are not as important to the money market on this side of the Atlantic as they used to be. Tbo home market is not so much affected by them as formerly. The Ohio Life and Trust Company have suspended. Rumors art* plentiful, and the excitement is great in New» York. Whitney & Hinds, wholesale boot and shoe dealers, in Boston, have failed. There was a hail storm at New York on Sunday evening last. -- - Tlic Pi See of Wheat. The editor of the Southern Blunter reviews the estimate of the supply and demand of Wheat f»r the present year, and after ex plaining their uncertain, contradictory char acter, speculates as follows concerning the price which is likely to obtain: But of this the farmers may he assured, | that they w ill get a pretty g<*od price for their wheat thr* r.ghout the year. It is an oid paying that it takes two good crops to fill up the gap made by one bad one ; and the general failure of lr.Pt year authorizes us to apply the maxim to the present time. Two thing'* only we know: 1st. That wheat cannot fall greatly in any short time: 2d, that it cannot drop down below its natu ral L volid nrice for at least a year to come. That level is the value of the currency; and us that hits been depreciated to tbo amount of twenty five per cent, wheat of course must ! go up to that extent. So that if £1 was the I natural price of wheat five years ago, it ! would now under a similar proportionate sup ply, command 1.2-3. Ilut, as under the if flux «.f gold from California and Australia, a still | further depreciation may be confidently ex pccted. we may look for a corresponding in ltoj'so in the price of wheat. Except under the depression of an extra ordinary supply cr a period of general bank ruptcy, we qevtr expect to see wheat sell again as low as£l,2o. , A Horse-Racing Challenge lo KnglatMl, The Savannah Georgian is authorized by responsible gentlemen to make the following challenge—w hich is open to the world, viz: To run a match race of four miles and re pent, at such time a** may be agreed upon, post entries for £100,000 a side, the h»»rses^ to carry weight for ag**, to be run over the len Hrofck course at Savaunah. The Georgian erder to induce our English friends to accept this banter, we are authorized to c iV further, that in the event they should do so, and lose the race, five per cent, upon the money staked, or in other words, ^o.OOO will be allowed them to pay tbo expenses of their horses/^ ^ _ From MlHWenota* St Pah/?, August 24.-The Contention rrf>,.retfPS .-lowly, an.l some point* of difler ,reo liave been harmonized; but upon other*, more prominent, it is thought that the ton ven'ioft will fail to agree. . The Hep uhlieane are in favor of but one constitution, while the 1‘etmcrat* are tent on the submission of both. ,... , The three half breed* who killed a 9,e.r' man rear Cull Like last week were forcibly taken from the sheriff, near Little Fall*, and hung to a tree. f The crops, notwithstarding the ravages of | the grasshopper?, were never better. Innocent Amusement* 1 Bishop Otey of Tennessee, is not opposed to the Cultivation of innocent amusement. His pleasant disposition is illustrated by the ; following remark of bis : . , 4 Thirty years ago I came to Tennessee with j my wife, my fiddle and a horse and sulky, j My horse and sulky are long since gone, but. | my wife and fiddle remain just as good as j new!” New* of il»* n»y. “Throve the very aye and body of the times. The question, if the Commissioner of Pa- j tents is authorized to refund money in the . case of a man, who having filed a caveat and paid $20, demands a return of $10, and in the | ease of others who having also filed eaveat3 and paid $10 additional, making a total of j $30, demand the return of $20, having come before the Secretary of the Interior, it was ' hy him referred to the Attornery General for decision. The latter holds in the first in stance, that there is no provision allowing the caveator to withdraw any portion of the $20; ; and in the second place, that without con- j forming to the statute in making an applica- j tion, it cannot be suid that one has legally b»en made, and consequently it is impossi ble to withdraw the application before it is made; and that as a caveat is not an appli- j cation for a patent, in aoy possible sense of the term, it is clear that the Commissioner cannot refund any portion of the caveat fee. ! The Washington correspondent of the New York Courier, says:—“The Patent office was j offered to Mr. Holt, the opponent in too late Congressional election o( Col. Marshall, l«t j was declined. Mr. Holt is a lawyer in lucra j tive practice, and cannot afford to take $3,- ; 0(H) a year. The subject has been much can vassed iu the Cabinet, and the President ap- : pears to favor the claims of Col. Hughes, of Maryland, who would perhaps ere this j have been appointed, but for the desire to j find some man who combines a knowledge of law with some familiarity with the the- j ory and practice of mechanics.” A Washington correspondent of the Haiti- j more Clipper sayr:—“For a week past th'TO j have been rumors of a duel between Major ; Tyler, of the Marines, and Kobt. E Scott, esq , one of the counsel who recently defeod ei the persons accused of participating in election riots on the fir?t of June. The Ma jor, it appears, took offence at the remarks of j the latter gentleman, and a correspondence passed, which has had the effect, if not of re- j moving entirely the desire to tight, the post- j ponement of hostilities. At least, such is j the version of a geotleman who ought to know all about the matter.” We expect there is nothing in this rumor at all. The Secretary of the Interior, owing to many applications of late, made for portions of what are known as the Choctaw Orphan Lands, in Mississippi, now held in trust by the Government, has directed that proposals ] Kn roi'nirod 1’ ir thr-m until \r»VPnihpr nPXt. when they are to be sold to those bidding j highest. That is to say, such of them as bring more than the appraisement made in 1855. The rest will then he huid subject to sale at the appraised value. A correspondent of the Petersburg Ex press mentions a report that a mistake ha* been discovered in the vote of Perqurumc us county, N. C , by which Smith, Amer., was deprived of 00 votes. If this be so he is elected to Congress by a majority of *22 over ! Shaw, dem., whose majority was officially de clared to be 38. The correspondent, howev er, places very little confidence in the accu racy of the report. Col. James L. Yoorhces anu others, of Sy racuse, (N. Y.,) own a large tract of sand stone land in Lewis county, Kentucky, on which they planted a vineyard of 30 acres. At the end of the third year, they made some wine, which a French chemist aoalyzed and pronounced superior to that produced in France, excepting the growth of one district. The experiment of raising the grape on sand stone soil, which was of doubtful result at first, has now proved entirely successful. To the statement going the rounds of the press, that tho inventor of the cotton gin died in a debtor’s prison, a New Haven gen tleman writes that his invention profitted • him nothing, but say?:—“Eli W hitrey, died j rich, and his family are now’ enjoying one of ; the largest estates in New Haven, descended j from him, and be and they were and arc j among the most highly esteemed citizens of | New 1 liven.” It will be recollected that some time last year suit was brought against Indian Agent Montgomery for burning a number of cabins ; erected on lands bclorging to ti e Kaw Indi- j an*, of Kansas. This w as done in order to drive oil* intruders. Mr. Montgomery was indicted for arson. The Attorney General has directed the deputy attorney to enter a nolle prosequi, at d dismiss the case. Amongst the distinguished men of South j Carolina who are brought forward by their ! friends to fill the place of the lamented Judge llutler—such as Colonel Pickens, ex Governor Hammond, cx-Governor Adam*, Chesnut, and Keitt—Gen. Hamilton w also presented by bis friends as a candidate for the same honorable post. On Saturday, Mr. II. S. Ward, arrested John Reilly, a bar-keeper at the restaurant of M. IVIvenoiee, in the First Ward, Wash ington, who was* charged on the oath of Geo* Boyd, p. beckman, with sending him a chal lenge to light a duel. The challenge fixed the time and place, when and where the whole was to be settled. Reilly was taken before Justice Clarke, where he exhibited considerable tni< tion, especially wLen the Squire read to him the law on tho subject. Rtilly stated that it never entered his mind to fight with deadly weapons, and he only expected to use his fists in the combat. The Justice administered a pointed lecture to the accused, who listen* d with commendable pa tience, and when it was concluded ho was dismissed. The report cf Mrs. Susan L. Pellett, cor responding secretary of the Ladies’ Mt. A er nin Association, shows the following receipts since its organization: South Carolina, ^2, 454 25; Georgia. $1,057; Alabama, $1,078 57; j Pennsylvania, $f>4;> 00; A irginia, $2 524 85; j tbe Everett turd, $1,500. One contributor, i Mr-*. Eoiily Tulman, a native ot Virginia, now meiding in Augusta, G*., gave $500—tbe lar gest subscription named. Tbe preparations for the great Agricultu ral Fair at Louisville, Kentucky, which is to commence on the 31st instant, arc on an ex tensive tcale. The exhibition is expected to exceed any ever held in this country, lhe Kentuckians are “spreading themselves ’ to tbe work, and the erewd of strangers will be welcomed with becoming hospitality. The latest dodge to “raise tbe wind,” is for one to carry a packet containing useless materials, sealed, and marked “By Express,” and get the boarding house keeper to pay tbe j charges, in the absence of the boarder it is directed to. Several \ ersoDS have been swin• died in this manner. The Louisville Journal announces a forth coming work from the pen of Rob. J. Breck- j inridge, of Kentucky, entitled “Tbe Knowl edge of God Objectively Considered, being the first part cf Theology considered as a sci ence cf positive truth, both inductive and de ductive.” The arrangements for dramatic and oper- i atic entertainments the comiDg season in New York are quite extensive. The great moving world that is congregated there at all times, will fiod no lack of amusements, The annual session of the Columbian Col lege, D. C., will commence on Wednet'diy, the .°>0:b of September next. Students will j be examined for entrance oil the Monday and Tuesday previous. The preparatory' depart- I merit of tin-* college will open on \N edoc&day, the *Jih of September. There have been some interesting exoeri- | ments at West Point with breech loading ri- ! flea, under the direction of a Board o( Uni- | ted S a tea Officers detailed for the purpose, j There were eighteen competitors. The re sult will not be knnvn for several days. I The B >ston Post say# that the action of lhnald McKay, the ship builder, against hi# brother, Laughlin McKay, is not, as has j been stated, for slander, but for an unlawful abuse of legal proces®, by maliciously at tempting to force him into insolvency. _ ... I 1 here are irequ*nt mysterious disappear ances of citizens, of whom no trace can be i found. One of these occurred on Wtdnes- : day last. Mr. Alanson Weed, a resident of Brooklyn, started to go to his place of business, and has not been heard of since. j The English papers have but little faith in the success of the Atlantic Telegraph. Ar gument on either side would seem to be use- j less now, as two or three days will settle the i question. Messrs. Page »fc Allen, the enterprising ; and skillful ship builders of (1 isport, Virgin- j ia, arc among the competitors for building the steam propeller sloop of war authorized ; by Congress. It is stated that the Be?. J. B. Byrne, pas- j tor of St. Matthew’s Cithulic Church, in Washington, has declined the appointment of coadjutor Bishop of Pittsburg. The New York Surrogate ha® decided ! against Mrs. Cunningham’s claim to the ! Burdell estate, lie gives it to the blood re- j lations of the deceased. The season at Cape May is over. On j Friday there were not five hundred strangers in all, od the island, and most of the houses were closed. There is considerable agitation in Now Y'ork on the subject of postal delivery aud the insufficiency of present post-office arrange ments there. Mr. Meek, of Pennsylvania, declinos the appointment of Agent of Iudian Affairs in Utah. History of Blllnrd*. The origin of this game, according to a little book lately published by the Appleton?, ; like the birth-place of Homer, is a contested ! point ; and its antiquity, like that of many j elderly spinsters, is involved in considerable i doubt. Some suppose it to have been im ported into Koine from Persia under the con- ' sulship of Lucullus, vvSiile others hold that j Caligula introduced it from the East. The records are unauthentie. until the return of the Templars from the first crusade. It soon j became the favorite amusement and means j of exercise to which the clustered monks of ; that period were permitted to have recourse, j The game fell with tbo Knights Templar.*, j and was revived by Louis XI, of France, who preferred it to the bloody touramonts then in vogue. Henry 111, still more widely patron ized it; and wo find that Mary Queen of Scots, in a letter written the evening before her execution, complains that her “billiard table has just been taken away from her, as a preliminary step to her punishment.” It became a favorite game with the ladies ! in France and Germany. Madame de Srael j was an enthusiastic advocate of billiards.— “Even when exiled to Switzerland by Napo- i Icon, she overstayed the time limited for her departure from Paris, in order that she might personally superinterd the removal of ! her billiard table.” The Huchess de Kerri j was also noted for her fondness for the game, i Mr. Phelan says that “the Frenchman is the ! most brilliant, the English the most careful, j the American the most successful, and, there fore, if that he any argument—as it is coni- , monly admitted to be the most conclusive— j the very best of billiard players.” Scnnlor i)ui!ij;iNg, On the occasion of laying the corner-stone <.f a new l diversity in Chicago, the land for which was given by Judge Hjuglas, Hr. j Howard, a Baptist clergyman passed an eu- i logy upon Mr. Hooglas in the following style: ! “There ure doubtless many around me to- ! day who are looking anxiously for the time when he shall gra-p the scoptre and sway the destines of this great republic. I>ut should he reach tlm goal of hi? noble ambi- 1 tion—should the glowing wishes of his friends and admirers be finally and fully re- j alized —this alone will not secure for him the loftiest and most enviable position which j man can occupy. When all his civic glories ! are lost in the gathering gloom of the past j _I — —. I. ! . m #1 L 1.1 nl a LiAr(Viiti«jli> ik I — Will'll III* I'lVIJUlUll/ UUU uni j bavo passed from the memory of man, and i even from the musty record? of history—this j noble deed, and other kindred benefactions, J will keep his name frpsh and bright to the I end of time. This charming gro\e will nev er cease to whisper it—the granite structure which will soon he reared will perpetuate it —and the youth who shall come hero to j drink at the fountain? of knowledge will re peat it with ever increasing delight and ad miration.” A Rush for Water-Melons. The Norfolk Argus gives an account of a | recent excursion on a JUilroad in Tennessee, and adds this :— “The train stopped at a station where water melons were exposed lor sale. Goodness £»a cious, what a rush there was! Ike. Tom. Dick, and Harry, bolted for the vendors, and soon re turned, each with a melon tor Ids sweet-heart, under his arm. Then commenced the atrack: dress was forgotten, and the fair daughters ot Tenntsste, utterly regardless ot the remorseless ju'ce that spirited and squirted over laces, rib bons and silks, cut and ate the luscious Iruit.— We noticed, one beautiful girl off by herself with an exceedingly melancholy look, and fearing it was on account of her being neglected in thr ; general treat, we were about to invest some ioose change for her benefit, when she stopped our generosity by screaming out with all her lungs “Jeemee, fetch me a water-million.* — James replied he had'nt time to fetch it. when again she shrieked, louder than before, and with ihe greatest excitement, “fling it in ihe w indow* then.” and in it came squash on her rrmshns. to my horror, and her delight, for it in* sooner readied her than she was hard at woik trying its quality.” Sugar and Molftiica by ilie Acre. The Boston Journal of Saturday last, states ; that there is now stored on the Boston wharf, ! Suutb Boston, in bond, ever six acres of these j two articles. There are also large quantities in other localities. The Philadelphia Jnqui- I rer says: “We learn that a large wholesale dealer here, who supplies many retailers, reports that he has not sold a tenth part of the amount of these articles this year, compared j with his former sales. Very few families use acid fruits this year, or put up \ reserves, i*nd every family purchases a pound or two, j instead of their usual barrel or half barrel, i Brown 6ugar at 14 and while at 15 cents per pound, and New Orleaos molas-es at 75 j cents per gallon, is tuo high for consumption. Within a year or two, New Orleans molasses has been there purchased at 12} cents per j gallon.” Tl»c British Parllnmtnl. The following picture of the two Houses of Parliament, is from the graphic pen of . Rev. T. L. Cuvier, of New York : ‘‘About 4 o’clock, yesterday. I went to visit i the Houses of Parliament. The new build ing* arc a perfect wilderness of (J >tbic tow- • ers, grained ceilings, superb halls, lined with marble statues of departed statesmen and warriors. Millions of money (enough to en dow a school in every parish) have been lavished on this gorgeous eiiti-'e. A* we reached the door of the 11 >use of Commons. | the elegantly dressed dooikeeper cal'ed out, I ‘Tne Speaker is in the chair/ i was shown ■ to a scat in the small Speaker’s gallery. The ] hall is grand in ornament: of oblong shape, 1 with rows of green cu-hi med benches on i either side, ant! no desks ia front of mein- ! hers. The Speaker wears a huge wig and gown. The members, most outlarolishly, all j wear their hats, except while speaking; the j effect is exceedingly had. I was also eur- : prised at. tne youth!til appearance of many ! in the II )U*e; at least a score of them sernv j ed like members of a senior class in college. 1 Considerable loud conversation was carried on thiring the debates, and m Hubers were walking about continually. The speaker of th? evening inaat listened to, was Mr. (liad"tone of Oxford. He is an ea-y, Howftahinf converter, with no elaborate language, hut his style was very attractive, j While he was speaking there was a constant cry or ‘heir. hear,’ which s -unded like ‘yeh —yeh— yeh/ After him full >wed the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, a graceful, tluent statement maker. Loru Palmerston pulled off his hat and spoke in a slow, careless tune far half an hour. He does not look so old as 1 expected. S r James Hraham is a huge, easy country gentleman, who sat like a man of leisure in a coll’-e room. Tne only outre and shabby member, in face, figure and dress, i* the radical, Roebuck, ot Sheffield. He has a waspish, petulance in his tone, and i* the man for ‘inquiries’ and ‘investigation/ The <> d hero**, Sir Charles Napier and li:n. Williams of K ir*, attracted mnch attention. A* a body of men, the H<»u*e of Common is not so imposing in appearance as our American Senate. Lord John Russell sat smiling and silent. Pisraeli looked sarcastic and sullen. 11c is the sharpest debater ot tb*ni all. From the House of Common* w? go by a splendid hail to the House ol L >rds. Tne»r room is the most superb in the kingdom. It is a-blaze with crimson and gold. As we enter, we see the noble Lnd Shaftesbury on the red cushion by the <1 >or. Reside him, , that handsome, youthful fac*, under the thick, gulden hair, belongs to the Puke of Argyle, the ri-ing hope of the Scotch Pre-by terian*. Old L ;rd Aberdeen sit* next in a flf-'pn reverie. Aero*s the tioor. in (ront ot the ‘woolsack/ waik*> feebly an old man in green coat, buff vest, and cheek trowsers, with short white hair, and that unmistakable j turn up nose. As wc look at th° bent, de- i erepid veteran, it is b ird to recognize in him | the once gallant ‘Ilarrv Brough am/ <>l the j House of Commons. Ilesit>djwn by A her- j deen—two antiquities together. We hear speeches from L >rd Camden, Lord Granville, and the dc.shy Hoke of Newcastle. These magnificent women in yonder galle ry arc the wives and daughters »d the Boers. < I do not know enough of millinery t<» d - Kcrihe their ‘rig’ for your lady readers; but it i may he s-me gratification to American ladies i to kn< w that the lace and pen fled bonnets on the heads of the Buchesse* and Countesses j were fully as large as a saucer! 'I heir faces were generally lair ai d brilliant in beautv. i I came away from the House of Lords j (which contains many able and noble char acter*) in nowise converted to a belie! in he rei/Hary bouses of legislation. Among ttie lortv or fifty Lords present, I could recogniz** in Lords Brougham, Lyndhurst Belper and Campbell, thn only men who have attained a scat in that splendid chamber by any other than the accident of hirth. I came home last night, Atneriean to the eore.” AliiIcIpHleci Surplus fievenue. It is now generally conceded that the reve nue of the present fiscal year, notwithstand ing the reduced tariff enacted by the !a*t r> . Congress, (perhaps we should rather say in consequence of it,) will reach eighty millions of dollars, including tiio proceeds from the Bales of the public lands. As it is rMinuted j that but little more than fifty midi-ms are * necessary fur the annual expenditures of the Government, there wii! remain at the clo^e ot the current fiscal year, it this data should he fi ur»d t<> b.old good, a surplus ol thirty millions to he r.dJed to the surplus of over : twenty millions already Iving in the Trea- ! Miry. S> large a sum permanently abftrac- : ted frotn the currency of the country cm hardly fail, as has been truly remarked, to j create commercial embarrassment and to paralyze the arm of industry. It vid therefore remain for the wBdoin ol Congress I to provide some means by which to remedy i the evil of too much prosperity in our na- j tional finances; and whether that means j idiall be found in the distribution of such surplus among the several State®, or in a J 4 A a! 1 Ailt U A f tk O . gnvmw iiuu ui'i'iu)." i«nv.»o .-.j-... ... tional utility, it is to be hoped that tiie pros- . perity of the country will be permanently promoted by the decision which may be made in the premises. The “strict construc tionists,” who believe thr.-t it is constitutional to distribute a surt lus cl moneys in the pub i lie Treasury anvmg the States of the I nion, 1 while bidding at the same time that it is un constitutional thus to distribute the proceeds r.f the sales of the public lands, will doubt less be careful to provide that no moneys accruing from the latter source < f re,venue tdi xll be counted in such surplus, which, to be capable of npproptiariori among the fStite*, must be left to re-ult wholly from ' the imp; sts on foreign commerce.—Xat. Lit. Sir i Kins t liar^e. • ttfr . On Sunday afternoon, as a party of young i;irls. daughters of respectable lamilies in i the Western section of the city, were walk* ing out the Washington road, and when in the vicinity of a brick yard, they were stop- | ped by three ind*, apparently 17 years of ' tige, who seized one of the party, a young girl named Su*-an Seiff**, about 12 years of nge, when her comrades fled towards the city. They then committed a violent out rage on her person. An al trtn was given, to several citizei s passing in the neighbor- > hood v ho pursued and arrested one of the party, named George Potee, and given in ; custody of officers Hogarth and Mcnser. The accused revealed the names of the other parties when they arrested a lad named Kemble, who was arraigned before Justice Grove on the charge, and committed for a further hearing. The other iar>y has also | been arrested, but we could not ascerttin his name.— Baltimore Amtr. Camp-Mcetlng*. Few persons in this country are ndw stran- j ger* to the institution of cimp-meetings, as conducted from time to time, oot exclusively, j( Lut more especially, by the great Methodist j family. Methodist Episcopalian. Metbcdirt i Protestant, Methodist Chuich Siuth, Wes leyan.or Independent—all Methodists,— hold camp meetings. This being the season most favorable for meetings in a grove, camp meetings, as may be seen by the religious newspapers, are being held by hundreds, ex tending frem New England to Text*, and through all the Western State*; the attend ance on which, iq the aggregate, might be counted by millions. Nor is the attendance confined to any one class of people; the rich and tbe poor, the intelligent and the unedtr eated, all go.Saiional bitelliyencer. “Allegiance to tl»e Democratic Party” Wd have read, in the Enquirer, an article under the head—“Allegiance to the Demo ,»ra»ie party is loyalty to the Constitution and the Union." That article appeared in Thurs day's paper. Oa the same day the article appeared in the South, which we published j in our Saturday's is-me. IIsr*, then, on the name day. we read in two Democratic pa pers, exactly opposite and contradictory arti cles. D the Enquirer is right, then is our respected neighbor of The South guilty of the most entire disloyalty to “the Constitu tion and the Union." We were greatly surprised, moreover, that the Enquirer omitted in that most inauspic: ou*j announcement, the important adjuuct “National." it surely do*'* not mean to be understood as declaring that the South, the Ddta, and ?bo*e Democratic journals which agree with them, are not Democratic? It does not, we are sure, desire to be under stood a* declaring, and to this end. issuing a regular party Hull, that all men of the Dem ocratic pirty w ho do not sustain its course, are not Democrats. And yet, if it does not mean thus to be read, we are not exactly prepared to decide how The South and its supporters are to be regarded by the Eo • piirer a* otherwise than disloyal to the Union and antagonistic to the Constitution, ft le thing is certain, it the Enquirer is the oracle ot the Democratic party, we fear our neighbor of The South, with the Mercury, the Delta, and its rebellious compeers, may wake up some gloomy morning to lind that Mr. Wise has visited upon them, for the want of a better subject, bis oft repeated threat upon the poor Know Nothings, and hang them in his wrath. As a matter of curiosity we would like to know who constitute the “Democratic party" in the vi^w of the Enquirer, hs embraced in the sentiment which we have quoted from it? Is it the tj ivernment ? 'Unis may bo so, for ; we believe the exact meaning of the world ! “Allegiance" is “the duty of subjects to the ii ivernment.” If this be the meaning of the ! Enquirer, we rather incline to the opinion that the ti ivernment will not have “sub jects" enough left to cope with the uon-con formists. Dot to conclude, wo counsel the Erfljuirer that it would at least be the most prudent course to ascertain and inform its readers who are the “Democratic party” to which “Allegiance" is thus due, by way of show- j iiig a proper degree of “loyalty to the Con- j etirution and the Union." And we would iu j the kinder manner privately enquiro of the j Enquirer what has become of the resolutions of / — Kick. Wh 'uj. Tl»e CJreek Slave In a Iioxbury Church. An eager pastor of one of the churchos o! ■ k i i.i i t . I_.1.! Jtjxoury ciugni uie paragrapu irom mu u »» ly press that a beautiful female slave had been publicly sold f r the euormou* sum of -ix thousand d dlars, not knowing that the paragraph allu led to the display ot the cor rect taste ot the American people in paying a fair price tor the great work of art by Pow er-. This was tempting lo<»d tor iliac hun gry class who permit everything else to run to waste, while they continually barp upon the wrongs of slavery—harping that does little or ho good to the slave, and an excita ble public much wrong. The figurative lan guage of the paragraph was so construed, by the pastor of the Mt. Pleasant Church, as to translorrn the cold marble into a beautiful and real mestizo of tlie South, w ho by her beauty of figure and face command'd the high price, “to be sold away,” as he said, •*tu gratify the lusts of a wicked and adul terous generation.” A jortion of the con gregation more enlightened than the preacher, saw the lack of information, which, coupled w ith lhe eager aspirations of the preacher, was used to stir up the favorite topic. The lew smooth faces showed at once who did not lake the papers; and so they added unoili <t horrid illustration of American slavery to their already extended list, while the lar ger portion found it extremely difficult to keep their risibilities in check. — Boston I'ost. The ('onI Wrallli of Western Virginia. The coni fields ot Western Virginia are 200 miles long bv 1<>0 mile* wide, giving a work ing area of 20,000 .■‘qu.iro mile*. At ttio falls of the Kanawha the coal seams in the moun tain aggregate 120 feet iu thickness. The Kanawha Star says: “It is not believed that the quantity or quality of t!s«* c*»al in the mountains about the fails of Kanawha, are any better, if as good, as several of the localities named.— Indeed, ’h: Klk earned coal lias long been acknowledged as superior to any, and the t.’oal river next to it. Taking, then, 120 feet as tin; thickness, which has been found to exist, ( usd much more may be discovered where none is now known,) and 20 000 square miles as the area ot this Western | Virginia coal field, and taking a square foot j in the bank as equivalent to a I ushel of coal j after b*dng mine I, we have 6G,908,160,000,• OliO bushels of coal. which at two cents a bushel, amounts to s!.:;as, 163,200.000. But to avoid even the aj pearance of extrava gance, let the estimate be made at only one half the quantity actually measured in the Kanawha hill*, and we have ft’»09,OXl,Gt.)0t I 00 for the value of these coal fields, with nut including the value of the surlace as land tor agricultural and horticultural pur poses.” Kiilctrie for l«ove* Buried at the Croat Bauds —Wc are relia bly inform- d that on Monday last a young girl named l! irlwine, whose faiher resides on Fish Creek Hills, in Marshall county, committed suicide by hanging. The causo d( tnis earning out of a desperate resolve, ; is disappointment in love. She obtained : permission to go to a clearing near her fatb- ! pr’s house to gather l ark tor kindling wood j sn 1 was observed to take a rope with nor.— | She remnir ed out longer than was her cub- , tuni and starch being instituted, the unfortu nate was found suspended to the limb of a tre*1 lifeless. .Miss Farlwine was at out eigh teen year- of ago. The superstitious people i*i the neighborhood would not allow her to , r e burin! in the church yard and her re- , mains we'e appropriately interred at the i i'r»ss Loads, i:t accordance with a heathen ish custom and an obsolete law.— Wheeling I Intelligencer. A Wife's l*ray er* If th°re i* anything that comes nearer to :he iraploratijn of Kuth and Naomi, than :hc subjoined, wc have not seen it: “Lord \ Moss and preserve that dear person whom ' rtiou hast ohot-en to be my husband; let bis \ life be long and blessed, comfortable and tx.lv; ard let me also become a great hies- ( dng ar.d a coinfort unto him, a sharer in ill bis sorrows, a meet helper in ail the ac* •identa and changes in the world; make me imiahle forever in his eyes and forever dear to him. Loire his heart to me in the dear ?*t b ve and holinfgs, and mine to him in ill its sweetness, charity ai d complacency. Keep ine from ail ungcntlenes*, all discon :entedne89, and unreasonableness of passion md humor; and make me bumble and obe iienf, useful ar d observant, that we may de- j light in each other according to Thy blessed word; and both of os nny rejoice in Thee, having for our portion the love and service *f thul f irever.” / tALTlON TO FISH KKMF.M—The people V j ot Chaptico District, St. Mary's C ounty, i Md . aojicent to the waters of the Wicomico, ! and ot ihe waters about BUcki&ton’s Island, j ti-r»-by give notice to all Fishermen, that from ' an<l after one week from the first insertion of t is notice in the Gazette, they will adopt such j rigid means as will certainly check tbeir an- j. rroyance, by depriving us of ail the advantages of fishing. I St. Mary s County, Md , aug 19—2aw0v The Extension of IN# Orange «,»„ • ndrle Hellroed to L|nrl,Uarg T) the editor of the M flu Charlottesvii.i.r, Augu-t *JJ. |-. has always struck me a- rointwiiai Ul, ble, that the busine.* men 4.f \i v **,f •ir know so little of the O.ange uml A . . extension, and should have turned tt * tention to so small an extent t *.-in creasing their trade with this flmrishing county. With the r"‘ soiu ? 800 to 1000 t-jii» of guano, pur,^ in Alexandria, the trade of your cirv « this county is very inconsiderably an.j ;' here and on the extension to 1-*ticM there is enough trade, if securei, t»r*;/< itself 50 per cent, to the popuUti a f » andria, and 100 per cjnt. to the *. ilu- .j real estate. Let us sea what the tm ie m bo made. Tno extension Iruui r,vlri V' ▼tile td Lynchburg traverse* tin* c.;u:. Albemarle, Nelson, and Arnhem. the r,. duction o! which will, this year, am (J V. at least 1,Oik),000 bush el- of mthe.vt, U00 bushels ot corn, and 4 0‘M b tobacco, besides other articles; anl counties will require at , guauo, as many tons of plaster, un j and sugar, and other groceries to ar:; me use extent, to s»y notlrng ot ..rn r ^ cles of consumption. The 0.am*e ar.l \ exaodria R tad will be compieiei to 1,Uh. burg within two year-, it is hoped, tr m date; but the completion ol that wi , .; . will bo a most important Imk in tnd^ r: travel, will not have accompli-ho 1 a;; {y! can be effected for Alexandria in t;,:s d.i- - tion. It is a matter of prime importance t':,*; | there should be an independent hue fr - Charlottesville to Orange Court ILu-h ru . ! ning West of the S mill West umunun»,> * j wav of Barboursville. 0 The advantages ol this extrusion w ml i t 1st. It will shorten the route from A xv dria to Lynchburg by six mile--it U r; only 25 miles from Charlottesville to n ,(, Court House, according to Mr. > o?i»r. * survey, whilst by way ol (ijrdonsvuie it .. 31 miles. 2ud. It will interest all the roads leaiir* from the Westward to Oordonsville, miles west of that point, and will tlm- -to 5 the producers who now haul to that p in* * ship to Richmond or Alexandria, seven iu . going and returning, or fourteen mil— nearly one days’ travel with a wagon. • donsville ships about a fifth of tf»e ent> trade of the Central Road, and supplies l* 1 up and dowu trade of a largo portion of A bemarie and Orange—the entire trad* i _ • r it i » vjieeuu — large portion — *> r .*: a third of Rockingham, and the upper t - of Page. Nearly this entire traie would < taken to Alexandria by tne proposed eiten sion from Charlottesville to* OranCi;r; House. i>rd. The Orange and Alexandria K .i would, by this extension, be rendered an or tire and unbroken road from A^xindn to Lynchburg, thus making tra: m rt .tv ii cheaper, safer from waste, and wh i v m im pendent of the present vexatious dcUy* tli-e always occur at Hordonsville. L**t nt*» ulu* trate. At the present time guano i* tiv-. d Urs per ton cheaper in AiiX.indnatt.afii:; Richmond. It costs nearly twice «- r*«a to briug it to Charlottesville Irom Ahxe dria as from Richmond, as no detenti n r curs from Richmond at Uordonsvillc, n r * there any loss or waste at the l itter ; Ur. Thus although, with nil these disadv»i;fj«” *, guiuo costs about £*J .'dt to &’• hi ) *-r i ’ less from Alexandria than Ktchfimni. i: least two-thirds of the artieie u*cd in t‘ county is supplied from the Utter place i is clear that with an independent rale* entire supply would he furnished from A >i mdrirt; and so of plaster and grocerii *^ : erally. I do not wish to depreciate any oilier it way that contributes, or may hen-ain r e-r tribute, to the prosperity of Alcxan sri i: 1.: there is not one, not even the Mana* i*. Hr lias done so much for your city, nr that w contribute so much, as the Orange ai-d A 'xandria Road There is not <-ft«• t*t tn verses a wider or better country; and *u>b none that can pretend to hope a comiecM« r; so magnificent as that which meet- the r xi it Lynchburg—a connection tliar make* i> hall way station at Memphis, and n- tern, nus at the borders of the great P-jcifi-*. _ALLKMAlibK. | C om mi m< \tm». I see that some sixteen hundred birr.'- . Whiskey have been s*inshf’(J in 1 iftcifinaii,1 • 1 the falling of a house! li it was a1* badWlii- 1 key a^people now generally dunk, nntiv lives will he saved thereby. I saw, v« * ^ day, a cu.ve of a man jhh.som'* i l;X Wfli*k-r I There is no doubt of the lact. He n'kn v Icdged it. • P* P* RANAWAV from the snivelih**r <>t x<4’ day night, 22d in*t. V. ILLIAM II* LKTT, a dark mulatto, with wf i* • * moustache, 2'f To 26 years of age l it'-lv f burn on the instep ol his ugh! . Iw* p*' haps now well enough to wear a L*»f »r * He took w ith him very excellent clothir g Summer and Winter, consisting in par • i HrAti'ii cult in tf’liftflt Summer ( w ! Check Cap.ard Silk Hat •fi.'/O r«*v. ard v: ' paid if taken within Mi miles of Al* x.:t dn • •' in the State of Virginia, ard Jfclfei, and ry expense* if taken out oi the State, *’ cured mo that I get him again. It is life*') • ' may endeavor to find his way *o i'rcn s Ahere he has friends named Ham I ton < Hoy at this time livrg He is He pr rpnr'y • Mr*. A. B. Fairfax, of Alexandria aug 26—eofft ROBERT VV. WIM- \ f . 4 REWARD—Ranaway on Sri •« the 21st inst., negro gir! ELK\^,;fc she ran off from the residence of Mr. .1 • l’M n Alexai dria County, Va , to whom sh» “ uired. She is a dark mulatto. l* years «>; .»;• about f» feet 6 inches high, and looks | e.-.-.i . when spoken to. She had on when she ' ’ ;alico tires* and blue hood. She has be* n n the market house in Washington, I). C . *u ' ihe left, ard where she probably may r a bund. The above reward will be given it retaken and returned to the subscriber i/<' Alexandria,Va. THOMAS W. SWANN aug VC—eo'tt* A YOUNG LADY, who has had tore, experience a* a TEACHER. w>h< • a * * ration a* GOVERNESS in a family it. Virg • - *he teaches the English branches. French I. i nd Music Sat.»tactory reb rn c*** icter and qualification* will be givm dating salary, ‘*E. D. N1." Kerrjville, 4 a,"‘ 1‘ounty, Va , care ol Rev. F. Whittle, aug 26—eol2t riAOURNAMENT at WARREN si k!N<1' I —There will beaTOURNA.MKN I Warren White Sulphur Spring*.on Iridav ■ ' the 28tb instant, and a numerous and g j>' a<“',r blage is expectrd. iog 24 K* 1 OFFER FOR SALE from 41N'E Fl V I DRED and FIFTY to ONE HUNDbH' and SIXTY ACRES OF LAND, m Nim* County, Va , about three miles tr<»m Alex;*1 '* lying on the south side of the Hunting 1 Road, and adjoining the lands ot Ur. R 1 '* ion. and Mr*. B. C. Mason, price fu'r * ^ It i* presumed that those wishing p,;*,r * will first view the premises aug 1—KRANCISE .'OIIX-I- X DR. WM. J. LUCK, having(ratal m Fauquier county, Va., oilers b»s Pr°'^ tional services to the citizens and p*»b ;c rally. He will alw’ays be found at *»•*‘ when not professionally engaged. Salem, Va., jy 2fc—eo2m Herrings—so hbi* No. 1 Rutf**Hrr' J rings, in store, and for eale bv aug 14—vuttm T. A. BKEWIS A »"