The Sun.
London, England, 1862-12-26 00:00:00

SOU7IIERN EXECU7ION IN TEXAS.

(From the Texas Republican—Southern Paper.)
A week or two ago we gave brief account of the
trouble in Cook county, growing out of the dis-
covery of a treasonable plot to surrender that por-
tion of the state to Federal authority. Cook counts'
is a border county, contiguous to the Indian terri-
tory, and is thinly inhabited, a great portion of the
settlers being originally from Ohio and Indir,na.
It seems there was a secret organisation farmed,
having signs, grips, and passwords. The members
are sworn to secresy, and those found worthy were
entrusted with three degrees. The first degree
bound the member to secrecy, and to avenge s
brother member's 1310'Jd. The second degree was
confined to robbing, jay-hawking, &c. The third
contemplatefl the re-establishment of the old Union.
By some means the whole plot was discovered,
and crecaed intense excitement. About 70 men were
arrested, and most of them, as we understand, love
characters, with here and there a man of limited in-
fluence. About twenty- four of them were tried and.
executed, when the community was freshly excited.
by the intelligence that the son of an hotelkeeper
at Gainesville (whose name we du not recollect)
bad been waylaid and massacred several miles from
town.

Colonel W. C. Young and several others went
out to get the body, but had not reached the spa
when some one in ambush shot Yop:ng
through the
head, killing him instantly. 1-
, was the exas°
peration caused by these 'assassinations that the
community huug several others. The number exe-
g:se.
cuted in Cook county, at last accounts, reached 42,
and the two otheA.s were shot in attempting to
make their escape. The extent of the plot was net
known, but it was not supposed to be very exten-
sive. How could it be, when there are probaely
not a thousand Union men, if so many, in the
State ? It was traced, however, to Grayson
county; some few arrests had been made at Sher-
man, and one man was condemned to be hung.
Others, it was expected, would be summarily dealt
with.

Since writing the foregoing it is rumoured that
several persons have been bung in Grayson county',
and among them a Dr. Lively.

THE CAREER OF GEN. B URNSIDE.

An American paper gives the following sketch of
Gen. B'irnside's career :
"Major-General Ambrose Everitt -Burnside is a native of
Indiana, from which State he was appointed a cadet to the
West Point Military Academy in 1843. He graduated on
the 30th June, 1847, standing number eighteen in a class
of thirty-eight members, among whom we find the names
of Generals Willcox, Viele, and others in the Union service,
besides several who have chosen the path of the rebels. °_,ll
the Ist of July, 1847, ho was appointed a brevet second
lieutenant of the Second Artillery, and on the Sth of Sep-
tember, 1847, was commissioned a full second lieutenant of
the Third Artillery. In December of 1851 he was pro-
moted to a first lieutenancy, and resigned his connexion
with the regular service on the 2d of October, 1853. ll°
then retired to civil life, and was engaged as treasurer of
the Illinois Central Railroad, the same line of travel °f
which General M'Clellan was president and engineer-iw
chief. This position ho held at the breaking out of the
rebellion. The ' clarion call' of the President for troeP.g
to defend the capital soon brought Burnside from 1111
private position, and at the head of the Ist R,egiment
Rhode Island, or Governor Sprague's Volunteers, he t°3,-1°
his way to the capital where he arrived on the 27th of APT".'
1861, within twelve days of the issuing of the proclanasti°l3'
and at the head of one thousand three hundred toeilci
When the army of North-eastern Virginia was organised
under General M' Dowell, Colonel Burnside was appointe"
commander of the 2d Brigade of the 2d Division under
_
Colonel (now General) Hunter. The regiment (three month:
volunteers) returned home, and on the 6th of August, 186 1
Col. Burnside was commissioned as brigadier. general of
volunteers, his appointment being placed to the credit 0f
the State of Rhode Island. He next was appointed to the
command of and organised the famous Burnside expedition;
The dangerous passage of the troops and their successes oy
the coast of North Carolina are still fresh in the reemekra
of all our readers. For his glorious victory at Iloalna
Island he was made a major-general of volunteers, and f
testimony of his services on that occasion the State °a
Rhode Island presented him with a very handsome and
valuable sword. The capture of Fort Macon and other
points along the coast of North Carolina are also accredited
to the skill of Gen. Burnside in carrying out Gen. I\l`Cte't
lan's plans. Having to a great extent restored that %a:.
of the United States to peace, General Burnside was tra,,a
ferred to the army of the Potomac as commander of the
tronP,sche Ninth army corps. With General M'Clellan's
was further transferred to aid the forces in front of the
capital, and was engaged during part of the various
and,
tests in that region. He next served in Maryland!Clel-
,_, en.
distinguished himself at Antietam. When Gen.
i
Bum
lan again advanced into Virginia, via Berlin,
Nove,n.
side had charge of half of his army. On the sth ia com-
ber ho was appointed to succeed General ArClell: a rapd.
mand of the army of the Potomac, and raac • ov(
and brilliant march upon Fredericksburg, where 11° 18 la
operating with those troops."

' M. Soubeyran, Deputy-Governer of the Cralb
Foncier, has just been named member of the Board of Dl-
- of the Northern Railway.
SCIENTIFIC JOTTINGS.—In a paper addressed to
the Academy of Sciences, M. Diethenbacher states that,
having formed a mixture of one part of iodine with 400 parts
of sulphur, lie has obtained a
las subs
many hourstance which possesandses
evert
all
extraordinary elasticity, ting
days. .I'he mixture has a metallic brilliancy, and has
been found very useful in. taking impressions, since it re-
produces the minutest details. M. Delbruck has made
some researches on the quantity of air required for breathing
during sleep. It strikes him as singular that, while all
medical men are unanimous in prescribing several cubic
metros of pure air for each person sleeping in a room as Ab-
solutely indispensable for health, all animals appear to shun-
the open air as much as possible in order to compose them"
selves to sleep. Thus, the lion and tiger retire to some dark
cavern where the air is confined ; the dog goes to his ken-
nel, and thrusts his snout under his belly birds, to which`
the open air would- appear to be necessity, whether asleep
or awake, retire to some private corner and put their heads
under their wings. Now, what does the schoolboy cloo
when left in the dormitory aired with particular
care ? If he finds he cannot fall asleep, the first.
thiag he does is to bury his head under the bed-clothes.
Hence M. Dclbruck concludes, that if, when awake, we'
exhale a quantity of carbonic acid, we must inhale a certain`
[quantity of this gas during sleep, just as plants exhale 11
day the oxygen they absorb during the night.—The Aca-
demy has received a communication from M. Regnault
011
the specific heat of the new metal thallium, which he fixes
at 0.3355. When thallium is heated at 100 deg. Centigrade,
it is covered with a yellowish pellicle of oxide, which dis-
solves in water, and renders it somewhat milky.
Importing tea without colour on the leaf Pre;
vents the Chinese passing oil inferior leaves as in the uslia!
kinds. Horniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore adiPaYg
good aiikek_Sold iu packets by 2,280 agents.