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

SOU7HERN EXECU7ION IN 7EXAS'.

(From the Texas Republiean—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 county
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 Indiana-
It seems there was a secret organisation formed,
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 a
brother member's blood. The second degree was
confined to robbing, jay-hawking, &c. The third
contemplated the re-establishment of the old Union•
By some means the whole plot was discovered,
and created intense excitement. About 70 men were
arrested, and most of them, as we understand, IoW
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 do 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 spot
when some one in ambush shot Young through the
head, killing him instantly. Such was the exits'
peration caused by these assassinations that the
community huug several others. The number exc'
cuted in Cook county, at last accounts, reached 42'
and the two others were shot in attempting to
make their escape. The extent of the plot was not
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 tho.t
several persons have been hung in Grayson county,
and among them a Dr. Lively.

7HE CAREER OF GEN. BURNSIDE.

An American paper gives the following sketch of
Gen. Burnside'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 natt°
of Generals 'Willcox, Viele, and others in the Union service,
besides several who have chosen the path of the rebels. °„11
the Ist of July, 1817, he was appointed a brevet seal'
lieutenant of the Second Artillery, and on the Bth of Serf
tember, 1847, was commissioned a full second lieutenant °f
the Third Artillery. In December of 1851 he was Pr):,
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meted to a first lieutenancy, and resigned his connexion
with the regular service on the 2d of October, 1853. "'-
then retired to civil life, and was engaged as treasurer of
the Illinois Central Railroad, the same line of travel nf
which General M'Clellan was president and engineer-aililt;
chief. This position he held at the breaking out of '—
rebellion. The ' clarion call' of the President for troePa
to defend the capital soon brought Burnside from his
private position, and at the head of the Ist Regiment °4
Rhode Island, or Governor Sprague's Volunteers, he 1119 a
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his way to the capital where he arrived on the 27th of Mr-
-1861, within twelve days of the issuing of the proclamatioth
and at the head of ono thousand three hundred
When the army of North-eastern Virginia was organised •
under General M' Dowell, Colonel Burnside was apPein ct
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commander of the 2d Brigade of the 2d Division till7s
Colonel (now General) Hunter. The regiment (three went
volunteers) returned home, and on the 6th of August, 18" '
Col. Burnside was commissioned as brigadier• general of,
volunteers, his appointment being placed to th© credit of
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 en
the coast of North Carolina are still fresh in the mlo°,ll
of all our readers. For his glorious victory at R,oane!-:
Island he was made a major-general of volunteers, and 1
testimony of his services on that occasion the state
Rhode Island presented him with a very handsome an
valuable sword. The capture of Fort Macon and °ther
points along the coast of North Carolina axe also accredited
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to the skill of Gen. Burnside in carrying out Gen. Al`Cla t
lan's plans. Having to a great extent restored that pars_
of the United States to peace, General Burnside \vas trance
ferred to the army of the Potomac as commander oft_ e
Ninth army corps. With General M'Clellan's
was further transferred to aid the forces in front of
capital, and was engaged during part of the various con-
tests in that region. He next served in Maryland'
distinguished himself at Antietam. When Gen..l lel-
By • Gen lan again advanced into Virginia, via Berlin,
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side had charge of half of his army. On the 501 'in
com-
ber he was appointed to succeed General M'Clellia
made
a rapid
mand of the army of the Potomac, and be is now'
and brilliant march upon Fredericksburg, where troops
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operating with those troops."

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SCIENTIFIC JOTTINGS.—In. a paper addressed to
the Academy of Sciences, M. Diethenbacher states that,
having formed a mixture of e,ne part of iodine with 400 parts
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days. .The mixture kas a metallic brilliancy, and has
been found very useful in taking impressions, since it re-
produces the minutest details. N. Delbruck has made
some researches on the quantity of air required for breathing
during sleep. It strikes him as singular that, while aU
medical men are unanimous in prescribing several cubic
metres 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 thew--
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 beadle
under their wings. Now, what does the schoolboy doo
when loft in tho dormitory aired with particular
care ? Ii he finds ho cannot fall asleep, the first
thing he does is to bury his head under the bed-clotlieS.
Hence M. Delbruck 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 by
day the oxygen they absorb during the night.—The Aca-
demy has received a communication from N. Regnault on
the specific heat of the new metal thallium, which ho °5
at 0.3355. When thallium is heated at 100 deg. Centigrade,
it is covered with a yellowish pellicle of oxide, which dosffl
solves in water, and renders it somewhat milky.
Importing tea without colour on the leaf pre-
vents the Chinese passin off inferior leaves as in the usual
kinds. Horniman's Tea is uncoloured, therefore alwao
good a1tke,,,,,,.501d in packets by 2,280 agents.