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,_ IIBM,--rf Our Fntnrt. Tue facility natu whiph. th<fpoople of these Southern States have adapted ' ^ ^ ^thorjiseiyes to the ?xtrs?rd?iMy oir eumstances in which they have been placed by*he results of the late war, .- we think is unparalleled in the history of any country'. ?fiat war. iias deso? lated their most fertile sections; it laid "tfastaiheir fiaest^lantations; it - .? took from them their me?/ is and ap? pliances for procuring their subsist . enosi? and, to a superficial observer, has rendered this garden spot of the United States a barrea wilderness. v And yet, notwithstanding all this frightful desolation, spoliation and . robbery, there aro abundant evidences ?r around ns, that if it were not for the pernicious legislation at Wasbing ' ton-were these States represented, enjoying equal rights, liberty and protection to their property, and not overburdened with unconstitutional and unjust taxes-they would give an example of recuperation that the -world has never witnessed. The future of the Southern States is just now involved in mystery, and if we, could get ''millenium" Dr. " " Commins to predict now- the problem _o? their destiny is to be solved, we Would be under everlasting obliga? tions. But seriously, the instanta? neous change in our labor ?yutem presents difficulties that the wisest and most experienced cannot get rid of. We might plant corn and other cereals amply sufficient to sustain our population, and to export; but we cannot believe, nor never will believe, that the great cotton growing belt on the zones will be diverted from it? natural production. The effort has been made in India, Egypt, and elsewhere, to produce with any profit our great staple, and thc effort has failed. The kingdom of the monarch cotton (we hold he is still a king) is in the Southern States of North Ameriea. As we have before remarked in this paper, the South, in the future, must not only look to the production of this great staple, but should apply - * herself to its manufactitre. In soil and climate, she may be said to have the monopoly of producing this uni? versally-used staple, and her re? sources for manufacturing her own peculiar product are unsurpassed. She has an unlimited supply of water power, or even iu the absence of this, her mines of coal, as yet undeveloped, Uer vast forests of timber, and ot'>ei means and facilities of manufacur in g aro not surpassed by any oountrj in the world The abolition of slavery changes the whole direction of investment ol capital, and, ou the whole, we believe it to bo ono of the greatest benefit* that has been conferred on the ic//?/< people of the South-to tho freed man himself, we believe it to bc t material injury. Capital now is seek ing other chaunelsTof remuneration. Heretofore the planter invested his surplus profits in more land and mon negroes-now the whole thing i: changed; he hos got moro lands thai he can cultivate, and there are n< more negroes to buy. Another feature of tho radica change effected in the labor and pro duotive energies of the South wt find sc T/cll presented in the Louis ville Couria; ve reproduce it: "Instead of being an importer, th? South can, and we have no doab will, become an exporter of even species of cotton fabric. Her fae iii ties for so doing being superior, am exempt as she will bo from thc cos of transporting tho raw material, sb will be able to manufacture cheaper and ere manv years she will centre and monopolize the markets of th world. When that day comes, th revenues of the cotton lords of NIM England, who commenced the cru sade upon Southern rights, will de cline, their manufacturing system wi! wither and perish, and they will hav ample cause to repent of the fanati cism and injnstice which prompte? them to disregard the rights of siste _ States and trample their most value ~ ^.institutions nuder foot. New Eng land will then be as famous for he political insignificance and poverty a she is now for the vileness of he principles and tho bigotry and ink "lerance of her people. Then he sons will struggle in vain for a sui sistence upon those barren rocks an the unthankful soil upon which the were born and reared; and, to escap starvation, they will be compelled t emigrate to more favored climei They will then feel, and, oh! hu deeply, that righteous retribution ha overtaken them for their gigantic an multiplied wrongs upon the nnoflem ?ugSouth." ean.se, -besides ilp trvtk?"lheas? it .ja "calouJated lo r<?ase~?p the energies of oar people. JLf they..are..true to them? selves, tiley have ? 'glorious and uros p?rona future bei ore them. -And we ?fe inspired' with faith'and hope that tibe severe lesions recently taught ?hem will contribute to loading, .them in the right direction*. Wo'thrnk'if they avail lb em.sc]ves of their present advantages, they will real izo that the war and its results were "blessings in disguise." ---- . The Jcwd-Cornistoney. The radicals now in Congress are persistently ami continually quoting from the sayings and writings of Mr. Lincoln, and on ?rory occasion de? clare that they arc now only trying to j carry ont his poEoy, and as stubborn? ly denying ihat Andrew Johnson is i laking tho same ground as his, unfor? tunate predecessor. Now, here is what Mr. Lincoln said in speaking of I tiie civil ?nd alleged political rights j o? the negro: lt is a matter of re ' cord, and cannot be denied by the most rampant radical: "? am not," said he, "nor ever have been, in favor of making jurors or voters of negroes, nor intermar? rying them with tho white people; and I will say, in addition to this, that there is a physical difference be? tween the white and black races, which, I believe, will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And, inasmuch as they cannot so live while they remain together, there must be the position of superior and inferior, and L tts much as any other man, am in favor of having the superior posi? tion assigned to the white mun." Now look at the provisions of thc so-called "civil rights" bill, and sec how utterly opposed they are to thc position of the radical party of thc present day. They demand equal suffrage for the negro; they d?niant! he shall sit as a juror; in short, they demand perfect equality between th? two race?, which tho late President, elected especially on the negro plat? form, niost rightfully opposed iu hi: own plain, blunt language, as above quoted. - ... -.>..* GREENVILLE, S. C., May 27, 1806. MESSRS. Enrroas: Permit me, throngl the medium of your pajtor, to state for tin information of those who have account for publishing tho proclamations and ci? ders of the Provisional Government o South Carolina, that 1 have received a lot ter from tho Hon. W. H. Seward, Secretar, of State, ai Washington, informing mt-tba thc Secretary of War will pay all such ac counts, when payment is demanded. Tites accounts were vouched Ly me, last fall and forwarded to tlc: War ??fico for pa\ meut, lt is proper that each one of th parties should receive a blank form froi thc War Ofrico, and make out again thei accounts in ?lue form. These blanks wi be furnisho<l on application. Some hav been already sent to the parties from th War Office. It may be that thev will hav to be approved again by nie as Provisions Governor. If so, they can bc sent me, an ,1 will forward them. A cheek will then L sent for tho amount due from the Wu Office. Whilst I was in Washington, ?ti Februai last, I called en Mr. Stanton to mettle the. printers'' bills. He declined doini,'so ti nc could have an interview with .>! Seward, aud seemed to think that tin. ought to be paid by tho Scale, t told hil that wa? not m accordance with my histru tions from the President and Secretary 1 State. I afterwards mentioned tho subjc< to the President, and addressed a letter ! Mr. Seward. Some time since, Mr. Scwai wroto me that the Secretary of War sa ho would pay the accounts Ute next day, they wero otherwise correct. [ suppose< till very recently, that they had been pai< The parties had better attend to this ma ter at once, Yours, truly. tee, " B. F. PERRY. PROBABLE ADJOUIIXMEXT OF CO: CRESS-RADICAL PLANS.-It is said caucus of the radical Senators w? held last Thursday, at which it wi determined to adjourn about the mb die of July, unless some un fores? >t reason for sitting longer should ari in tho mean time. Tho constitutio al amendments were discussed, and was decided that every attempt shou bo made to harmonize tho views Senators, and that being done, tin should be passed by a strict par vote. - Ridimotid Times, ZSfk. The Special Senate Committ having in charge the subject of coi bining the telegraph system of t country with the Post office Depai ment, will make some important i commendations to the Senate relati to the tolls, kc, the Govcrnme taking control of the various lint Tho Post mater-General is adverse such legislation, and lias written letter to that effect. Reports from South-western Ge< gin give more favorable accounts crop prospects than we have h heretofore. Tho wheat is nearly harvested, and the yield is much abc the average. The corn promises b ter than it has for years. About li a crop of cotton will be raised. Middle Georgia tire wheat ami oott crops are much injure.1. The con: first-rate. It is reported that a bloody r occurred at Quincy, Fia., on Sat day last, between' the whites a negroes. I Th? Trial of Oavis. j The following- irpm the New Yorl ? lfin&^r vctaf be regarded ft? ?omi "We understand that in leas that two weeks from now the trial of Jef ferson Davis, for treason against tin "United States Government, will com meneo at Bichmond. The day ac tnally fixed, we believe, - is the firs Monday in Juno. The indictment i simple -and specifier, but the argu men ts, alike for the prosecution ant the defence, will involve the mos comprehensivo and searching inques .into the constitutional authority o the Government and the relation o individual States thereto that ha probably ever been made since thi foundation of the Union. "Lot the result of the trial ai affects the prisoner be what it may thc importance of judicially testing thc question of what constitute: treason-and whether it is possible t< make the crime of treason odious bj a 1' gal condemnation under such i Government as ours-cannot be over estimated.- Tho ablest constitutions i lawyers in the country -will bring t< the examination of the case the clear est and most unimpassioned j nd g ment. The trial will be eonductei by the prosecution in no vindictive o; excited temper. The defence, whici has been entrusted to Chas. O'Con or Janies T. Brady, of New York; W B. Read, of Philadelphia; Mr. Brown of Baltimore; Mr. Pugh,, of Ohio and George Shea, formerly corpora tiou attorney for this city, will not so far a?? the leading counsel are con cerned-descend to a more pettifog ging evasion of thc actual issues in volved iu the trial. On both sides we feel assured, the desire will bi that the case shall be tried with i thoroughness and in a temper tha shall correspond with tho vast na tiona 1 interest concerned. .'The occasion will bc one which ii itself will mark an epoch in the con stitutiounl progress of the country and as such, far more titan as th. mere judicial trial of an extraordi nary eilender, thc proceedings wil possess an interest for all time to th> student of thc political history of th American Republic:" RUMORED INVASION OF CUBA.-Th alliance of South American States Peru, 'Bolivia, Ecuador, and Chili has become so formidable tlutt it i said they contemplate offensiv operations. They have endeavorer to draw tho States on the Atlanti coast-Venezuela and sumo of tli Central American States-into thei combination, chiefly with the viei of operating from the Atlantic port upon Cuba and Porto Rico. It i evident that this design is agitated i New York at least. It is reported thu the idea of tho independence of Cub is rife in (Juba itself, and that th inhabitants ure cager to welcom their deliverers. The last news (rt ported through New York) fros Cuba represented that a good deal c excitement prevailed there, and ths the attention of the Government ha been drawn to it. There will be no great difficulty, tho South American allies choose t make thc attempt, to cut loose Cul from Spain, who, we apprehend, cai not make anything like a vigoroi defence. Such an attempt could I. smartly assisted from the States. A Cuba is nearly tho last place whet slavery exists, the Abolitionists ha\ a good opportunity for a final gran . fight. Alter Cuba is liberated-whic we believe will be the case-wont si "annex" herself? She will have 1 do it for "protection," and we will I quite ready to receive her. -? Tun FREEDMEN'S BUREAT.- Tl; Atlanta Ldelliyencer publishes tl following: Gen. W. P. Wottbrd, the meinbi elect to Congress from this Congre sioiial District, telegraphs to tb paper us fe-Hows-his telegraph bea ing date Washington city, thc 251 instant : '.(.iou. Howard has directed Coi Tilson to us.? extraordinary menus i supply the destitute people of oi devastated District with provisions We make record of this considera order with pleasure. Doubtless has been issued through theinfluen. of Gen. Wottbrd ut Washingto: his representation and his feclii appeal in behalf of thc suffern people in his District the Chcrok section <>!' <>ur St.it?', so long ovc nm and devastated bj' Thomi army. (?eu. Tillson cannot move supply the destitute in that sect it of our State too soon. They nei prompt relief, or, we ure assured, many places starvation will overtn many, and they will perish. Gen. Wofford much credit is <1 for his exertions in behalf of 1 : suffering constituency. A DIFFERENCE.- Mr. Sherman, lin: United States Senate, in discus iug his bill for funding the natioi debt, stated that Great Britain pn ! loss aggregated interest on lier io ; billion dollars of debt than did t 1 United States on two billion ci^ ! hundred million dollars, and \ English consols .stood higher tin than live-twenties here. ?00 emigrants from Europe w landed lately in Canada were iu 1 ronto over night on Sunday, May '. on their way to seek homes in t Western States of the Americ Union. Thc Toronto Leader ; marks: "Will our Government ei i otter inducements to emigrants ? remain in Canada?" 1L , "'Vf' tKm> j i" : A case in vol vin? the constitution . ality of the civil rights bill has jost been decided adversely by Judge j Thomas, of the Circuit Court of Vir 1 ginia, sitting in Alexandria. In a ' civil action between white men, one 5 of the parties offered to produce ne ' gr o evidence. The Judge decided " that, inasmuch af) the State laws of " Virginia forbade the introduction of 5 negro testimony in civil snits to -which * white men alone were parties, the i evidence of the negro was inadmissi J ble? and that no Congressional legis \ lation could impair her right to de ' cide what persons, or classes of per ' sons, were competent to testify in her 1 courts. This decision will, no doubt, 1 lead to much discussion, and create no little excitement before its final . settlement by superior authority. In the House, on Thursday, the I stamp tax on photographs, daguer 1 reotypes, ambro types, or other sun ' pictures, was stricken ont, and a tax of five per cent, ad valorem was sub > st itu ted in its place. The stamp tax on packages of ground coffee, pepper, cloves, ginger, 1 spice, mustard prepared for sale, etc., was stricken out. The free list was so amended as to ? restore to taxation lamps and lan? terns, the glass and metals of which have paid tho tax assessed thereon. ? The following articles were added to j the free hst and declared free from i taxation: Mineral coals and pete; j umbrellas and parasols, and the { frames for the same; bags made oi ; paper; cordage and rigging; rock, j gronnd and calcined gypsum; window j glass of all kinds; cement pipes and I tiles; machinery used in the manu ? facturo of syrup and sorghum ; grain j cradles: hand rakes and cotton gins, t Tho State Department has received j some late and very important news j from Mexico-the latest dates from the Mexican capital being the 12th instant. Everything indicated the stability and permanence of the pre? sent Government of Mexico. All the Government works were being prose? cuted with vigor. Mule trains bulen with specie now travel on all the roads with safety. The gold and sil? ver coinage of the Mexican mint foi the mont ii of April was nearly ?500, j OOO. The gradual departure of the i French troops will cause no change I in the condition of affairs. The Jua ' rists have recently suffered severa severe defeats. Instead of going b. Chili uah un, as Senor Romero an nounced a month or two ago, Juara has remained at El Paso. Chihuahua is occupied by a strong force o i French troops. The statements tha appear in some of the papers tba Maximilian is preparing to leavi Mexico are utterly without fouuda lion, lt is the opinion of those per sons here who are best iuformed oi the subject, that even a general Eu j ropean war would not affect the sta I bility of the Mexican Empire, and i . European war is regarded as by ni ; means certain. The arrival of Mrs. Jefferson Davi j this morning has set the busy tongue ! of the rumor brood to work. Th lady has taken rooms at the Ebbit House, and is promised an interview with the President to-morrow. It i reported that the President was mue surprised at the statement made b j Mr. MeCulloch concerning Mi j Davis' health, lie having believed, i I common with the general public, thr . Mr. Davis was in average good healtl The official statement of Dr. Coopt I has prod: jd an impression here thu I cannot fail to favorably affect the eas? i The universal sentiment is "try hil [ or let him go." TUE PRESBYTERIAK ASSEMBLIES. ! despatch from St. Louis dated tl; ; 23d inst., says: i Apart from two or three cases, ii [ eluding the complaint against tl; ' Louisville Presbytery, being put upc i the docket for trial, the selection i I Cincinnati as the next place of mee ' ing of the Assembly and a speei from thc Hon. Mr. Jones, of Bait more, in reply to tho Hon. Sauiu ! Galloway, of Ohio, yesterday, nothir j of special importance transpired : j the Old School Assembly. The tri of the Louisville Presbytery case wi probably commence to-morrow. In the New School Assembly tl ! time waa mainly occupied in the pr scntatiou of reports from varioi committees and routine business. The two assemblies met in cnn munion to-night for the tirst time thirty years. Addresses were madel ; several prominent clergymen fro j different parts of the country. THE TRIAL.- Mr. Davis is indict j under the Act of 1790, under whi ! the penalty, on conviction, is deat He could have been indicted und I the Act of July SI, 1861, for aseditio j conspiracy, the punishment of whi is fine, not over ??$5,000, and imprisc ment, with or without hard labor, c over six. years, Fnder tho Act June 17, 18(52, no person is allow to sit on the jury who was in a ; degree of complicity with the rub ' lion. This insures that the trial sh ! be before a loyal jury. [2?ationid I idell tye nee r. The Franklin, Tennessee, Revi . says it don't know which is the wot the radicals or the cut worms. Bt are doing their lovel best to desti the country. ' Ho ix truly a stump-speaker, who, wi 1 { talking, exhibits a mouthful Of stumps, I VDU would koop your dental fixtures iu i i feet talking order, use tho fragrant So i i dont daily, the recipe is simple, but sm i ; Gov. Fenton was hung in effigy : Reesville, New York, lind week. Jl ' I g g ; ? Th? Bmr?|iwik Wer. - The following article from th? Kew York Herald will be read with interest mt this tizne:,; In the peonliar facts and circum? stances of the late ominous speech of Napoleon, at Auxerre, much more than in the speech itself, the Eu? ropean kings and money changers are justified in their acceptance of it as a declaration of war. First, the -flavor of Auxerre, ia welcoming the Emperor, tells him that "fifty-one years ago, the Em? peror Napoleon I. was received in this town with such proofs of de~ Totedness and joy that he retained a vivid recollection of them, which he expressed on his deathbed (at St. Helena( in the most affecting terms," and that the same devotion of the town has no more been found want? ing to the nephew "in the days of trial and adversity, than in those of prosperity and triumph." Here is a good foundation, and the Emperor builds upon it. He says1 to the Mayor: "Be certain that on my side I have inherited the sentiments of the head of my family for the ener? getic and patriotic populations who supported the Emperor in good and in evil fortune." Hence he stands as a party leader, rallying his support? ers from the masses of the French people, the adherents of the Em? peror, peace or war, against Bour? bons, commercial conservatives and intractable republicans. Next he teils his friends what is coming in telling them that they elected lum to the French Assembly of the republic of 1848, because they knew that his interests were those of France and that "like the majority of the French nation, I detested thoso treaties ot 1815, which some parties of the present day wish to make the sole basis of our foreign policy.'* This means war-a revival of the '.gloire" and ''victoire*'' of Austerlitz ? a revival of tho empire as it stood before its expulsion and the humilia? tions inflicted upon Finance by the Holy Alliance, and mainly through the perfidy of Austria. A financial war panic instantly fol? lows. The shop-keepers and stock? jobbers of Paris are thrown into a high state of alarm and indignation. It becomes expedient to soften dowe their apprehensions. Hence thc semi? official journals undertake to explair that this dreadful Auxerre speech wa; perfectly harmless, and that there wa; nothing in it that Napoleon had nol often expressed before. But, in ad dition to the suggestive circumstance) detailed, it appears that this speech after its delivery, was revised by tin Emperor and forwarded by him tc the Moniteur, with instructions for it" immediate publication, and that it i: a much stronger war manifesto ai published than it was as delivered The conclusion is justified, that afte delivering the speech, considering tin temper of his audience and the Na poleonic France it represented, tin time and the place were deemed pro per for a Napoleonic declaration o war. Hence the failure id the sootninf explanations attempted by the semi official journals of the French copi ital. The Emperor himself, meantime having issued Iiis manifesto, hai nothing more to say. A word o peace from him would suffice, but li I does not speak it. lu short, al things being ready, lie has given th signal for war. The Paris corros pondent of the London Tinten say that the sentiments of this Auxerr . speech "are the revenge take: ?upon the commercial and bourgeoi classes," the advocate*, of peace; tha ' tho Emperor cannot *'breathe freely I among them; but that he got* "among the working men and th j peasants to find the true genius c ? France." [u other words, the Franc of the Bonapartes and the empire i j among the producing classes-th j bone and sinew of the French pei ! pie. It is the Franc?; inherited b tho first Napoleon from tho first vt public and by the present Napoleo from the second republic. It is th ; empiro by the will of the peoph ! Herein lier, the strength of Napoleoi It is the strength of the many again : the few; of the masses against ti ! aristocracy; of Andrew Jaekso ! against the old United States lian i and the old Whig party of this com ? try, and of Abraham Lincoln again the aristocratic slaveholdiug Bon ? bons of the South; it is Cosar again Pompey; it is Napoleon against tl Holy Alliance. The Emperor first proclaims h party, and then he proclaims wa because he knows that his party w ' absorb all other parties in France thc revival of the empire as tl armed dictator of the continent. ! THE FKENCH FOREION MINISTERE . PLAINS.-M. Dronyn de I'Huys, ini almost apolog?tica! manner, assur the embassiulors of Bussia ?uni En I laud, who called on him tor au ? planation of the Emperor's speec that it was a pure "theoretical nisei sion" of the necessity "toreconstm the map of Europe. " "Wesuspoct tl Lord Cowley regards any "neeessit i to "reconstruct the map of Enrop a thing of much too practical a natl to bc covered over with the phr: "theoretical discussion. " lt is reported that a radical merni of the Harris District of Penna vania, in his speech in the House ! Wednesday, urged his co-laborers hurry up their business, as t ! might be the last Republican C< ' gross that would moot for some fir if not forever. j Local Xtexri?. - Mortgages und Conveyances or tV* tate for ?ale at this office. S Tko Provost Court was not io ne anion yesterday, ?t Twill iteet to-Aay, at W? o'clock. On city readers are notified that toe Board of Health win visit tbe different Wards on Saturday, thc 9th. June. Hav. your promises thoroughly cleaned. "THE JOHNNY REIS."-These amateur performers gave their first public enter-1 taimnent last night, to a respectable and (judging from the rounds of applause; highly appreciative audience. The second concert will be given this evening*, foi thr. I accommodation of colored persons. "MABYXAND HAMS."-We hate had op? portunity to try one of those Marylau J hams advertised by J. & T. It. Agnew, i Tiley aro splendid. We will simply say to tho reader of this paragraph, "Co thou and do likewise''--that is to say, sro and buy one of tho.?? hams. BOOK ANO Jo? PBINTINO.-The Pkcorix office is now fully supplied with card?, 'colored and white paper, colored ird<, wood type, ?tic, and is now in condition to exe? cute all manner of book and job printin? in the shortest possible time. Give us a call. _ j? TUE BURSINO OF COLPXBIA. -An int*rt esting accrttuit ol the''Sack and Destruc? tion of the City of Columbia, S. C.." ba? ju*t been LssnM. iu pamphlet form, from tit? Phf* a ix steam power pro?s. Orders eau be tilled to any extent, bingle copies 50 couts. C'kCRT or ATFEVLS. -At the opening oi the Court, on Tuesday, it was announced that the sittings for this term would end on Friday next, and that arguments would not be heard after Thursday. Mr. DeSauasure concluded reading of brief in Ramsay cr nt. cs. Executors of Peay et aL, and was heard for appellants. Mr. Banskfctt contra. The^Bank of Charleston vs. the Bank of the St?te. Gen. James Conner for the ap? pellant. DARIN O ATTEMIT AT ROBBERY. -On Mon? day last, while Mrs. Keylor- who lives about two miles from tho city -was in her fi. Id at work, two freedmen entered ber house and stole two trunks. The robbers, upon hoing seen and hailed by a German in the employ of Mrs. K., fired two shots at their detective, but withoUc effect, and then fled, leaving the trunks behind. In? formation of the affair was given to Magis? trate Walker, who obtained a guard from the mditary authorities, and succeeded in arresting the freedmen, who are now safely lodged in jail. Our citizens would do well to be on their guard, as several attempts at robbery have been made by freedmen in the suburbs of the city within the past few day?. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. -Attention is call? ed to the following advertisements, which are published this morning for the first time: Mrs. I). C. Speck- Private Boarding. J. S. McMahon-Special Notice. Extra Meeting Acacia Lodge. Concert at Gibbes' Hall. ANOTITJEK DECISION AOAXNSX A TEST OATH.-At the recent session of the Circuit Court of Hampshire Connty, West Virginia, Judge Bunker pro? nounced Iiis decision upon the law requiring suitors to take the test oath in the following clear and em? phatic language: "This law is in vio? lation of the Federal and State Con? stitutions, violates the essential prin? ciples of our Government, and in therefore illegal and of no obliga? tion." The Paris correspondent of the Loudon Times asserts that the declara? tions in the published speech of the Emperor were not uttered atAuzerre, but that lie subsequently wrote them and had theni not only printed in the papers as his speech, but also had them placarded throughout the large towns. In St. Petersburg, t wen ty; students have been seized, sixty Pole*, and four high officials, charged with com? plicity in the late attempt on the Czar's life, and in Moscow, thirty students htivc- been iodged in jail. Ail of these gentlemen will, doubtless, be sent to the mines of Siberia. Despatches received at the State Department from London and Paris indicate that a general European wat is inevitable. The English Ministry were active in endeavoring to pre? vent it, but it was tho opinion that nothing could be done jusi so long as Napoleon seemingly favored a war. Advices to the Government from Austria state that no more troops will be sent for the present to Mexico to supply tho places of those to be with? drawn. The protest of the American Minister has probably secured this result. An election for slate officers will bo held in Texas on thc 25th of ?lune ; next. At the same time a vote will be taken on adopting or rejecting the I newjCoustitution. The Intest invention is the '"palpi? tating bosom" for the ladies, which gently "heaves" by tho touch of an "emotional spring" concealed under the left arm. Gen. J. B. Hood is at the head of a stock company, forming a capital ; of 8250,000, for draining and sweep 1 ing the streets of the city of New ' Orleans by machinery, j The Picttj/UM thinks that the I negro population of New Orleans ia i now throe or four times larger than it ' was before the war.