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At an election for Mayor, of Columbus, Ga., on the 18th inst., Dr. J. F. Bonemas was the s m moral candidate.
Latest Northern news.the Mason-Slidell affairinteresting news items.&c., &c., &c. From late Northern papers — some as recent as the 18th and 19th instant--We call the following interesting items: Congressional proceedings — the negro question. From the New York Herald, of the 18th inst., we obtain the following synopsis of the proceedings of the Yankee Congress on Tuesday, the 17th: In the United States Senate yesterday the House bill for raising a volunteer force for the defe18th inst., we obtain the following synopsis of the proceedings of the Yankee Congress on Tuesday, the 17th: In the United States Senate yesterday the House bill for raising a volunteer force for the defence of Kentucky, was referred to the Military Committee. Several petitions were presented for emancipating the slaves of rebels. A resolution requesting the Commissioner of Public Buildings to inform the Senate by what authority a portion of the Capitol had been converted into a bakery, was agreed to. A resolution that the Army shall not be employed in the surrender of fugitive slaves was laid over. Resolutions asking why passengers from New York to San Francisco were required to take out pas
badly beaten, and put to utter rout Col. Johnson is in command of a Georgia regiment, and by seniority led the Confederate forces on the occasion referred to. The battle is reported to have been one of the most terrific of the war, and the slaughter most fearful. Advices were further received at Washington city, representing to the Government that the rout of the Federal troops was disgraceful. Suspension of Specie Payment by the New York Bank. The Baltimore News Sheet, of the 18th instant, says: A telegram from New York this morning announced the suspension of specie payments by the New York banks, doubtless with a view to prevent the sending of funds out of the country, which was being done to a considerable extent, as the transactions in exchange there might indicate. This can have no material effect upon the financial affairs here, as it is well known that our banks e, and have been for many months past, in a state of suspension. Stocks generally were firme