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to-night. Fernando Wood will decline to go into the Convention if necessary to the harmony of it. The programme is yet unknown, but no third party will be formed. The Convention will probably adopt a series of resolutions, endorsing the policy of the President and denouncing Congress. An address will be issued to the country which will embody the principles set forth in the call of the Convention. R. C. Winthrop, of Mass., or Gen. Dix will preside. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 14.—The trains last night and this morning were heavily loaded with delegates and visitors to the great Convention, and the hotels are overflowing. The Reception Room of the Executive Committee has been thronged with delegates registering their names. Every State and Territory is represented. The harmonious feeling of yesterday is still more marked to-day. Fernando Wood's letter declining to appear as a delegate has made him many friends. Vallandigham will not go into the Convention, and has written a letter to that effect. At a meeting of the Chairmen of the various delegations last evening, the following business was agreed upon: Each delegation is to report on one of its number for Vice-President, one for Secretary; two for the Committee on Finance; two for the National Union Committee; two for a Committee to wait upon the President with a report of the proceedings of the Convention, one for the Committee on Credentials; one for that upon organization; two upon resolutions and addresses. There will be no discussion on resolutions as the enterchange of opinions among delegates has exhibited an unanimity of sentiment upon the subject that forbids discussion. The resolutions will substancially embrace the propositions contained in the call for the Convention, which is honestly and cordially approved by all delegates here, North and South, Republican or Democratic. It is proposed that the Convention shall issue a general address to the country, and in addition to the address of the Convention proper, the Southern delegates should unite in a separate address, stating more in detail the position they occupy, the reasons by which they are influenced, and the results they hope to obtain. An informal meeting was held last evening of the Northern and Southern armies, in which a proposition was made and received with favor to call a Convention of soldiers of the two armies at some central point within a few weeks, where men who fought bravely against each other may meet in a spirit of conciliation, and determine to stand together in maintaining the Uninon and the Constitution. Gov. Orr spoke at the National Guards' Hall, last night. He said the people of the South believed they had the right to secede. The North did not agree on the question, and submitted it to the arbitrament of arms. The Northern interpretation of the Constitution has been firmly and legally established, and that decision was pronounced on the field of battle, and the decree is incontrovertible. The South has surrendered her principles and accepts the Northern interpretation. We are willing to abide by it forever. By this war, the people of the South have, to a very large extent the year when our ancestors assembled in this city to form a better Government for the States which composed the Confederation—a Government which has been confirmed and made more enduring, we trust, by the fearful trials which it has encountered and overcome. [Applause], ten have yet no representation in the Legislature of this country and it is this wrong we have come to protest against and as much in our power to redress.— When the President of the United States declared the war had ceased, all the States had the right of representation. The exacting of new conditions is subversive to our national liberty and dangerous to the public peace. [Loud Applause.] Is this the Government our fathers fought to establish, or which we have fought to maintain. We trust that in the deliberations of the Convention the main idea would be to change the present complexion of Congress—to purify the republic and bring it back to its original standard—one country, one flag, one Union of equal States. After the appointment of the Committees on credentials, resolutions and organization, the Convention adjourned until to-morrow at noon. Senator Doolittle has been nominated in Committee organization as permanent chairman. Vallandigham sent a letter to the Ohio delegation declining to go into the Convention. It will be read before that body to-morrow. THE CROPS.—The corn crop is almost a complete failure in this section of the country; not more than half the usual quantity will be made. The accounts from the cotton crop are gloomy indeed. The drought in June and July retarded its growth very much, and now it is taking the rust very badly, even our best clay soils, which are usually exempt from the rust. We hear, also, from different localities that the fatal catepillar fly has made its appearance; if so, the caterpillar itself will soon be seen;— Its coming even at this late season bodes no good to the crops. Taken altogether, the combined causes will give us an unusually small crop. [Florida Sentinel. An address has been issued to the electors of Ohio, which is signed by a large number of prominent Republicans, calling upon all true Union men to unite in sending delegates to the State Convention to be held at Columbus on the 7th inst., for the purpose of selecting delegates to the National Convention at Philadelphia. The address takes strong ground in favor of the policy of President Johnson as but the carrying out of that of Abraham Lincoln; argues that the Union has not and cannot be broken; that the Southern States are justly entitled to representation, and makes a strong appeal for united and vigorous effort in support of these doctrines. The Tennessee Negro State Convention met and organized in Nashville, Monday. Delegates from fifteen counties in the State were present.— Their object is to discuss questions of interest to the race in connection with agriculture, mining, manufactures and education. The convention will probably be in session for three or four days. is stated that up to the present time a thousand names have been registered to go. Liberia is the destination of some, we hear, and some are going to Florida. It is rumored that Gen. Ely (some time ago of the Freedmen's Bureau in this city) is engaging hands to till lands for him in Florida. That is a better latitude for them than this. We would encourage their going. [Yorkville Enquirer. Pierce Butler, Esq. of Philadelphia is personally testing the difference between slave and freed labor on his rice plantations in Georgia. Of more than three hundred colored persons, once his slaves, all but a few have returned and accepted the wages he has offered them. The contract between Mr. Butler and the freed people, made with their consent and the approval of the Freedmen's Bureau, has been formally consummated to the satisfaction of all concerned. Mr. Butler's friends anticipate that next year his crop will be larger and more remunerative than in any former season. - In St. Paul, Minn., there is a discharged soldier, named Benjamin Franklin, who has lost both hands and both feet. In December last, while stationed at Fort Wadsworth, he started home on a furlough, and was caught in the great storm of the 11th of that month while near Big Stone Lake. He became detached from his team, got lost, and wandered into a ravine, wherein two of his companions froze to death. Franklin, however, pushed on with the storm, the wind blowing from the northwest, and he traveled eight days in his tremendous struggle for life. At the end of that time he was picked up by a couple of Indian scouts who had been sent out by the Government to look for the lost men. On reaching Fort Ridgeley, Franklin was compelled to submit to the amputation of both his hands and feet. - Our enterprise townsman, Mr. H. W. Lawson is expecting a supply of corn this week, which he is determined to sell at $1.75 per bushel, and anticipates being able to make further reductions on future purchases. We learn upon good authority that corn is selling in Florida at fifty cents per bushel, and that the crops of the Northwest have been so abundant that the Governor of Georgia has been enabled to furnish the suffering poor of that State at a cost of $1 per bushel. There was rather a larger attendance than usual of our fellow-citizens on sale day last. They bring very unfavorable reports of the crops, both of cotton and corn. In some sections the corn is almost an entire failure, and the cotton is very unpromising. The question of subsistence for another year is becoming a very serious one. The close of the year promises to find us with shortened supplies and diminished resources in the way of money and credit. [Abbeville Press. - HY MEN.-- There were thirteen men married the other day, in the same church and by the same clergymen, at Mascatine Iowa, whose average height was six feet five inches -- the tallest being six feet eight inches, and the shortest six feet three inches. wardrobe furniture are, lot them attend some fashionable "up-town" New York church; and if the men want to know what has become of all their fine horses shipped North by any officers and "bummers" let them spend an evening in Central Park. A GERMAN ESTIMATE YOF ANKEE SWAGGER-A large German paper published in this country thus speaks: The interest taken by the Americans in the present German war is greater than it has been in former warlike events of the old world, and we don't regret this is so. The Americans yet see before them all the details of their own civil war. They have not yet forgotten the endless time which was required to strike heavy blows on the rebels. They know their own sacrifices in money, blood, and time for the capture of Richmond, Mobile, Atlanta, and Savannah. They saw that even their most exalted generals could achieve great results only by slow process and with disproportionate sacrifices. They were ungrateful to the able German officers, and they did not protect them sufficiently against the infamous machinations of American Generals who systematically pushed the German Generals in the background, whilst they knew how to make their own native ignorance and incapacity valuable. They were so much accustomed to worthless officers that they raised even the smallest of their successors to the clouds, and they proclaimed any officer a Napoleon, Hannibal and a Caesar for his most insignificant success, if he was only a native born American; and when finally, after a resistance of four years, The South could not hold out any longer with its one hundred and seventy thousand men against the million of the North, they declared themselves the greatest warlike nation on the earth; and they burnt in the most ridiculous manner such immense quantities of incense for their generals, that anybody who did not look at the sight through the spectacles of national vanity was an object of prey. The events in Bohemia have opened the eyes of the Americans in the most cruel way. They have shown them how war should be carried on, and of what value the performance of Messrs. Grant, Sherulan, Sheridan, and all of other American Napoleons were. Compare only what the Prussian army achieved in seventeen days with the deeds of our greatest American generals. REPORTED MURDER OF A CLERGYMAN.-The following is a dispatch, dated the 1st instant, from St, Louis to the Cincinnatti Commercial: It is reported on conservative authority that the Radicals on Sunday killed S.S. Headlee, presiding elder of the Methodist Church in the Springfield district, because he insisted upon preaching without taking the oath. The story is that a band of thirty armed men prevented him from preaching in his church, but promised to allow him to proceed upon his own farm. Afterwards his congregation proceeded towards his land but after going about half a mile, were overtaken by several of the armed men, who had galloped after them, and one, drawing his revolver, fired at Mr. Headlee three times, each of the balls taking effect-- two in the body and one in the arm, Mr. Headlee died at about 10 o'clock that night. - The Washington Republican says it is reported that Napoleon will call to his aid James Gordon Bennett in altering the map of Europe." DESCRIPTION OF VIENNA.-A foreign correspondent writes: Although Vienna is already a vast city of nearly thirteen miles of circumference, yet the amount of improvement and building that is going forward is very great. The old city of Stadt is about three miles in circumference, and was built chiefly in the middle ages, and was consequently, densely packed together within a wall that was erected for defense. It is a curious old honey comb, that old city. The streets run crowded about; they are generally only from twelve to twenty feet wide, often not more than eight; the houses tower many stories high, and away down between them the sun is scarcely ever seen. Hundreds of houses are built entirely over the streets, so that carriages drive directly through the house, as it were under arched ways, long and narrow, and dark. Gas burns here day and night. It is surprising what a limited extent of the room a poor family will occupy, the tradesmen working in the same room occupied by his family. Here you are shaved for two and a quarter cents, your boots are mended for 5 cents, you make a substantial dinner of soup, beef, potatoes, and pudding for fourteen cents, and so forth. The same pavement of solid square stones extends all the way across the streets, and you walk in the middle or on the side, as you can find a room among the rattling carriages. You seldom enter a hotel or store, or a large private dwelling form the front, but go in the coach way, which leads to the inner court, and turn to the right or left. THE POPE.-It is announced that for sometime past the health of the Pope has appeared to be failing, and his conditions causes no little anxiety to his Cardinals, with whom he speaks frequently of approaching death. Pius IX., the present Pope, was born in May, 1792, and is 74 years old. He ascended the Papal throne in 1846, and has occupied it twenty years. A correspondent writes to us that there is a general feeling in Rome that no Pope will hold his office longer than did Saint Peter, who is said to have governed the church for twenty-five years. Adrian I. was Pope nearly twenty-four years; Pius VII., twenty-three years five months and six days, whilst several other Popes governed the church for twenty-one years. It is generally agree that the whole number of Popes was 259. PROVOST JUDGES,-We learn that Col. G.W. H. Legg and J.M. Elford, Esq., have been appointed Assistant Provost Judges for the District of Spartanburg, by the military authorities commanding this military district, for the purpose of trying and determining all cases in which freedom are concerned. We learn that these gentlemen have accepted the position for the accommodation of the citizen. The establishment of this court here will save parties the inconvenience and the expense of attending the court at headquarters in Union. [Spart. Spartan. A "Down East" writer, expatiating on the fertilizing properties of guano gives a veracious account of Kansas soil in the following; A few hours after planting cucumber seeds the dirt began to fly, and the vines came up like a streak, and although he started off at the top of his speed, vines overtook and covered him; and on taking his knife out to the thing, he found a large cucumber gone to seed in his pocket. or injudicious use of cooling beverages during the heated term. For the benefit of our readers, we recently applied to an eminent physician for an opinion on the subject, and a prescription that would most readily meet the requirements of thirsty people during the warm weather. Ginger, said the doctor, I consider the very best article, most easily procured and least expensive for all persons to employ. By its proper use, they may have cold water in abundance, and at the same time, avoid most of it not all the ill effects produced by the cooling abominations a great many people pour down their throats this hot weather. Tell your readers, continued the physician, to buy a few ounces of powdered ginger, and every time they are thirsty, let them mix half a tea-spoonful in the cold water they desire to drink. If a spoonful of sugar or molasses is added, it will do no harm. Extract of ginger may also be employed by those who prefer the article in a fluid form. A bottle of the extract should be placed near the pitcher or cooler, and when people drink, let them pour a tea-spoonful of the extract in their tumbler before filling it with water. For my use said the doctor, I prefer the powdered article, because I believe it acts more beneficially. In the West Indies, this root is considered one of the best preventatives for the summer complaints of the tropics, when it is properly used. On Wednesday last three little girls who had gone to the woods near Watertown, Conn., to pick raspberries, observed a negro sitting on a stump near by and beckoning to them. This alarmed them so that they began to run, and found themselves instantly persued. One of them, a girl of 13 or 14 years of age, named Stella De Morest, tripped and fell, and was caught by the negro, who carried her some distance, violated her person, and fled, leaving her insensible. The other two girls were so frightened as to be able to do nothing but run, and upon arriving at the nearest house, were unable to for a long time to tell their horrid news. The poor child was soon found, and conveyed home, still in an unconcious state. The negro was instantly pursued, and has been tracked to Salisbury and thence to Sheffield, but has thus far contrived to elude his pursuers. He was surrounded last Sunday in a swamp in Sheffield, by at least fifty men, and twenty-five of them mounted, but with more than a fox's cunning he doubled upon them, crossed the mountains, swam rivers, and escaped, and is still at large. Captain E.O. Peck, of Litchfield, and J.A. Woodward, of Watertown, are after him. His name is Charles Brown, and he formerly lived in Meriden, and was a soldier in the 27th C.V. A reward of one hundred dollars is offered for his capture. There was a singular fact connected with the decease of the editors of the Troy Times. Mr. Fonda, expecting Mr. Thorn's death of consumption, had prepared a sketch of his life for publication whenever it should occur, yet Mr. Fonda's death preceded Mr. Thorn's by two hours. Euphrates Lake, Oswego, N.Y., whipped one of his children nearly to death last Saturday, because he would not work on that day. Lake is a Seven-Day Baptist, and is determined to make his children labor on the Sabbath, contrary to the wishes of their mother. convert a dilapidated mouth into lips of ruby with such a beggarly device. Bah! [Edgefield Advertiser. A WIFE'S PRAYER.-The following is beautiful: "Lord, bless and preserve that dear person who Thou has chosen to be my husband; let his life be long and blessed, comfortable and holy; and me also become a great blessing and comfort unto him, a sharer in all his joys, a refreshment in all his sorrows, a meet helper for him in all the accidents and chances of the world; make me amiable forever in his eyes and very dear to him. Unite his heart to me in the dearest union of love and holiness, and mine to him in all sweetness, charity and compliance. Keep me from all ungentleness, all discontentedness and unreasonablenss of of fashion and humor; and make me humble and obedient, useful and observant, that we may delight in each other according to thy blessed word and ordinance and both of us may rejoice in Thee having our portion in the love, and service of God forever." [Basil Montague. SLEEP AND DEATH.-As men begin to be about fifty years old, especially of sedentary habits, the feeling on rising in the morning is as if they had not gotten enough sleep, not as much as they used to have, and as if they would like to have more but cannot get it. They look upon a healthy child sleeping soundly with feelings of envy. But it is curious to observe that there is a bliss we become cognizant of only when we happen to be aroused just as we are falling into a strong sleep; and there are strong physiological reasons to suppose that this state is a counterpart of the great even that comes to all, the act of dying. In fact, those who have in rare cases been brought back to life when on its extremest verge, and in several cases as to those who have been recovered from drowning and other modes of strangulation, or simple smothering , the expressions have been on returning to consciousness, "How delicious!" "Why did you not let me go?" An eminent man, thus brought back, represented that the last remembered sensation of which he was conscious were as if he were listening to the most ravishing strains of music. Let us all, then, cherish the thought that our approach to the sleep of the grave is the strict counterpart of the approach of sleep. WORTH KNOWING.-A poison of any conceivable description and degree of potency, which has been swallowed , intentionally or by accident, may be rendered almost instantly harmless by swallowing two gilis of sweet oil. An individual with a strong constitution should take twice the quantity. This oil will neutralize every form of vegetable or mineral poison with which physicians and chemists are acquainted.-Lynchburg (Va.) News. A curious weapon, called the non-recoil gun, has been invented by Mr. G. Harding, in England. Its principle is simple and extremely peculiar. It is, in fact, a plain tube, without a breach; and open at both ends. The shot is placed in the centre, a wad is placed behind it so as to confine the charge, and a second wad is placed at such a distance as to leave an air space behind the charge. There being no recoil from the gun, it is called the non-recoil.
