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4 PRACTICAL STORY PLEASANTLY TOLD.
“ A pleasant day this, neighbor Ghaskill,”
said one neighbor to another, coming into the
barn of the latter, who was engagen in separat
ing the chaff troin his wheat crop, by means of
a tan. •«. .-.
“ Very fine day, friend Alton. Any news?”
returned the individual addressed.
/'Knowing nothing of importance;! bay*
eaHed brer to see if you wouldn’t join Carpen
ter and myself in taking the paper this year.
The price is only two dollars.”
“ Nothing cheap thatyon don’t want,”return
ed Ghaskill in a positive tone, “ 1 don’t believe
in newspapers; 1 never heard of their doing anv
good. It an old stray one gets into onr house,
my girls a re crazy after it, and nothing can be
got out of them until it’s read through. They
wouldn't be good lor a cent if a paper came ev
ery week. And, besides, dollars aint picked tip
in every com hill.”
“ But think, neighbor Ghaskill, how much
information your girls would get it they had a
Iresh newspaper every week filled with all the
Jatest intelligence. The lime the}’ would spend
in reading it would be nothing to what they
would gain.”
“Ami what would they gain, I wonder!—
Gettbeir heads filled with nonsensical stories
. Look at Sally Black, isn’t she a fine specimen
ol one of your newspaper reading gals? Not
wortn to her father, three pumpkin seeds. 1 re
member well ecough when she was one of the
most promising little bodies about here. But
her father was fool enough to take a newspa
per. Any one could see a change in Sally
She began to spruce up and look smart. First
came a bow on her Sunday bonnet, and then
glovesto goto meeting in. ‘After that she must
be sent to school again, and that at the very time
when she had began to be worth something
about home. And now she got a forty piano,
and a fei.ler conies every week to teach her mu
sic."
“ Then you wont join us, neighbor,” Mr. Al
ton said, avoiding a useless reply to Mr. Ghas
kill.
“Oh no. That I will not. Money thrown
away on newspapers is worse than wasted. 1
never heard of their doing good. The time
spent in readings newspaper every week would
be enough to’raise a hundred bushel of potatoes.
JaZ“any®” my ° Pinio0 ‘ “ a ,
° Mr. Alton changed tiresubject, and soon as
s ter lelt neighbor Ghaskill to his own fancies.
“ Have you sold your wheat yet ? ” asked Mr.
Alton.
“ Yes. I sold it day before yesterday.
“ H >w much did you get for it ?”
" Eighty-five.”
“ No more ?”
“I don’t know that I had a right to expect
more. Wheat hasn’t been above that for two
months past.”
“ But it is above that now.”
“ How do you know?"
“ Why, I thought every one knew that the
price had advanced to ninty-lwo cents! To
whom did you sell ?”
“To Wakefield, the storekeeper in R .
He met me day before yesterday, and asked me
it I had sold my crop yet. I said 1 had not. He
then offered to take it at eighty-tive cents, the
market price, and I said he might as well have
it, as there was doubtless little chance of its ris
ing. Yesterday he sent over his wagon and
took it away.”
“That was hardly fair in Wakefield. He
knew that prices had advanced. He came to
me also and offered to buy my crop at eighty
five cents. But I had just received my newspa
per, in which I saw that, in consequence of an
account from Europe of a short crop, grain had
gone up. 1 asked him ninety-two, which alter
some little higgling, he was quite willing to
give.”
“Did he give you ninety-two cents?” ex
claimed Ghaskill, in surprise and chagrin.
“ He certainly did.”
“Too bad! too bad! No bet er than down
rightcheating, to take such shameful advantage
of a man’s ignorance.”
“Certainly, Wakefield cannot be justified in
his conduct,” replied Alton. “It is not right
for one man to take advantage of another man’s
ignorance, and get his goods for less than they
are worth. But does not any man deserve thus
to suffer who remains willitlly ignorant in a
world where he knows there are always e
nough ready to avail themselves of his igno
rance. Had you been willing to expend two
dollars lor the use of a newspaper, for a whole
year, you would have saved in the single item
of your wheat crop, alone, fourteen dollars.
Just think ot that! Wakeful takes the news
papers, and by watching them closely, is al- t
ways pre pa red to make good bargains with some I
dozen others around here who have not wit
enough to provide themselves with the only
sure avenue of information on all subjects—the
newspapers.” !
“ Have you sold your potatoes yet ?” asked
Ghaskill wiih some concern in his voice.
“Ono. Notyet. Wakeful has been making
me offers for the last ten days. But from the
prices they are bringing in Philadelphia, I ajn
well satisfi -I they must be above thirty cents
here.”
“Above I lirty ! Why 1 sold to Wakeful for
twenty-six cents.” •
“A great dunce you were, if I must speak
so plainly; he offered me twenty-nine cents for
lour hundred bushels. But I declined. And 1
was right. They are worth thirty-one to-day;
and at that price 1 am going to sell.”
“Isn't that too bad!”ejaculated the mortified
farmer, walking backwards and forwards im
patiently. “There art twenty-five dollars lite
rally stink in the sea. That Wakefield has
cheated me most outrageously"—
“And all because you were too close to spend
two dollars for a newspaper. I should call that
saving at the spiggot and letting out at the bung
hole, neighbor Ghaskill.”
“I should think it was indeed. This very
day I’ll send off money lor the paper and ir any
one gets ahead of me again he will have io be
wide awake I can tell him.”
“Haveyou heard of Sally Black?” asked
Mr. Alton after a brief silence.
“ No. W hat oi her 1”
She leaves home to-morrow, and goes to R—”
“Indeed. What for?"
“ Her father takes the paper you know!”
“ Yes.”
“And has given her a good education ?”
“So they say. But 1 never could see that it
had done any thing good for her, except to make
her good for nothing.”
“Not quite so bad as that, fnexd Ghaskill. —
But to proceed. Two weeks ago, Mr. Black
saw an advertisement in the newspaper for a
Blady to teach music, and some other
tes in a seminary at R . He showed
it to Sally and she asked him to ride over and
see about it. He did so and returned for Sally
and went back again. The Trustees ot the
Seminary liked her very much and engaged her
at a salary of four hundred dollars a year.—
To-morrow she gees to take charge of her clas
ses.”
“You cannot, surely, be in earnest!” farmer
Ghaskill said, with a look of profound astonish
ment
“ft is every word true,” replied Mr. Alton.
“And, now, you will hardly say that a newspa
per is dear at any price, or that the reading of
them has spoiled Sally Black.”
Ghaskill looked upon the ground for many
minutes. Then raising his head, he half ejacu
lated with a sigh :
“Isl hav’nt been a confounded fool I come
plaguey near it! But I’ll be a tool no longer.
I'll subscribe for a newspaper to-morrow—see
il 1 don’t.
Bhaksphare.—The London correspondent of
the Boston Atlas, writing under date ol May
3d, says:
The Shakspeareau Society held their fourth
annual meeting oa Saturday last, when the re
port of the council was read; from which it ap
pears that much success has attended the efforts
of the Society daring the past year. The main
object of this Society is the direct or incidental
illustration ot the works and life of Shakspeare,
and of the works and lives of his dramatic co
temporaries. For this purpose six octavo
volumes have been issued. From the Duke of
Devonshire and Lord Francis Egertou, two ot
these works were obtained; from the former
the unique originals from which the Society’s
reprints were made of the tragedy on the inci
dents of the reign of Richard HI, which prece
tied Shakspeare’s historical play, and of the old
comedy, printed in 1594, upon which the
“Taming of the Shrew” was founded. For
this old comedy the Duke gave oue hundred
pounds, and it was given in fuc simile to the
members of the Society. Lord F. Egertou con
tributed an edition of the same comedy, with
the date, 1606, and these two reprints show the
sources Irom which Shakspeare derived bis
materials. The Society also issued a work of
great interest and curiosity, being a copy ol
Shakspeare’s “Henry the Fourth,” from a co
temporary MS., io the possession of Sir Ed
ward De ring, Bart. The annual report an
nounced the recent discovery of a quarto edition
of the “Taming of the Shrew," unseen and un
heard ot by all the editors of Shakspeare, and
front which the folio of 1623 was a reprint, al
though it has been supposed hiiherto that this
cornedv, as it appears iti the folio of 1623, was
printed from a manuscript. The business of
rhe meeting was brought to a termination, by
the election of five new members of the council
—Sir Andrew Barnard, Mr. Macready, Mr.
Foster, Mr. B. Naylor, and Mr. Batfield, M. P.
IV A New York paper states that a lady iu
thateity has had six pairs of twias in five years.
Rather Odd.—What would folks fifty years
ago have said, asks the Pittsburg Age, had they
received a London paper with an engraving of
-a fire in Pittsburgh bejore the ru.nu had ceased
smokingl—yet such isthe case now. We received
a paper of this kind on the 4th, and lit a cigar
nmong the ruins on the same morning.
Rebuilding ths Bowery.—Mr. Jackson,
Mr. Hamblin’s treasurer, has leased the ground
on which the “ Bowery” stood, for a term of
years, and is building thereon a fourth theatre.
It will be opened bv the first of August, as the
workmen are now laying the stage and first tier
of boxes. The pit will hold 1300 people easily.
It will be a more extensive establishment than
before.— Balt. Sun.
Chronicle and Sentinel.
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TUESDAY MOItNING. JUNE 24,
Hot, Hotter, Hottest!-Yesterday was the
warmest day of the season, and we think the
warmest day we ever lelt in this city. The
thermometer suspended in our office on a brick
wall, and immediately in a draft, rose to 93, at
which point it stood for several hours. Indeed,
bill for the strong breeze which prevailed
throughout the day, the heat would have been
almost insupportable.
The March op Improvement. —The Spar
tan of the 18th inst., published at Spartanburg
C. H., S. C. says:—The machinery of two
large Steam Engines passed through this place
the other day, one to ; e Cow Pens’ Furnance,
and the other to the Cherokee Iron Works, to
facilitate the Manufacture of Iron.
A new Cotton Factory has lately been estab
lished, 1{ miles north ol this place. The Ma
chinery is new and on an improved plan. Ac
complishing more with the usual momentum.
Attempted Riot.—We learn from the Cin
cinnati Alias that an attempt was made .on the
night of the 11th instant, in that city, to break
up the sitting of the Abolition Convention.—
The police officers being present, promptly ar
rested two of the ringleaders, and took- them off
to the watch-house. While coming down with
their prisoners, an unsuccessful attempt was
made lorescue them by a mob of persons. In
the melee which followed, several persons were
considerable injured, by being hit with brick
bats, but po one was seriously hurl.
53* fps progress of msfinement is strikidfely
illustrated by a who, keeps his shop in
the uppef part ot B Tfidway; New York. In
Jhe rear of bis
into a br'-'wte'ar; rather Ziylisb r»-
tiring-room, tasliiowabi; fend luxtnfonsly car
peted and furnish ..: tor the accommodation of
his customers. The centre-table is filled with
newspapers, periodicals, &e. That man has a
steak in good society.
Tj’ln Pennsylvania sheep are exempt from
taxation; and it is said that in many of the
western and northern counties single individuals
are owners often and fifteen thousand.
The (N. Y.) Democrat says, Rockland
county has sent as many as 30.000 baskets ol
strawberries to New York in a day, by the rail
road ; and from SSOO to SIOOO is often realized
in a season from their sale, by one farmer.
It lias been decided by Judge Parsons, that in
Pennsylvania marriage is a civil contract, and
as such may be proved by admissions and acts
of the parties, without the necessity of any par
ticular ceremony. In the case before him, it
was proved that there had been no ceremony
performed, but the parties had lived together as
man and wife, and the man bad treated the wo
man as a wile in the presence of acquaintances.
This, it was held,accordingto the law olPenn
sylvania, was sufficient to constitute a marriage,
and endow the woman with the rights of a
wile.
More of Mesmerism—The Madison Miscel
lany says:—We have been favored with the pe
rusal of a letter from Dr. L. A. Dugas, of Augus.
ta, to a medical friend in this place, in which the
Doctor remarks:
“ I, this morningfjune 13th,) removed another
tumor (about the size of a large ben’s egg,) Irom
the breast of Mrs. Clarke,’ which has been
comingonin place of the removed mamma,
about a month. The operation was performed
in the Mes -eric state, and without the least in
dication of sensibility on her pan. The return
of the disease is unfortunate for her, but fur
nishes another triumph of science over vain
scepticism. She slept on quietly two or three
hours after the operation, and awoke spontane
ously at the very minute we had appointed her t
to do so.”
The Cotton Manufacture.—A letter from ,
London, published in the Commercial List, ,
says:
“I have met with a very intelligent Arneri
can manufacturer who has told me some strik- '
ing facts relative to the inferiority of the cotton j
spinning, weaving and printing’ trade of La
markshire and Lincolnshire, as compared with
and in Rhode Island. He says that if he had
devoted the same labor, energy and skill to the
same business in Manchester, that he has for
thirty years in Rhode Island, he would at this
day be much richer than he now is. He says
the proper place for a large manufacturing es
tablishment is a large town. A city where
labor is abundant and controlable, isafarbelter
site for a large mill than the finest waler in the
world, if you have not with it mechanics,
laborers, &e. located around you. An isolated
establishment where you are obliged to depend
on your resources, for creating a laboring and
mechanical population, is a 'great mistake.—
Manchester is the best place in England, and
Philadelphia is the best in America, because
you havecheap fuel for steam, and also cheap
Schuylkill water for a great varietj’ of purpo
ses, together with skilful and industrious me
chanics. In this country he finds that he can
procure all kinds oi machinery and lay it down
in America, twenty per cent, cheaper than the
same articlescan be got at Lowell, or any other
place in the New England States. He lived
in Manchester along side of a mill of 125,000
spindles, and visited one ol 210,000 spindles—
this latter has more spindles than all Lowell
combined.
Advices had been received from Bexar to the
30th ult. All was peace there. Several Ca
manche chiefs had visited the c>ty and express
ed their gratification that “the blood of their
kindred slaughtered a lew years had been wash
ed away from the walls ot Bexar by the waterot
peace.”
Capt. Hays started on the 30th ult on an ex
pedition to the Pierdinales, whence it was in
terred that the repot that a large body of Mexi
cans had been stationed on the Nueces is incor
rect. He mention”-:'. before he left Bexar,
that he appre'- n “>uger from either In
dians or Mexicans, so savs the Telegraph of the
11th inst.
More Indian Murd-rs.— We have learned
with bitter regret, that the son of Mr. Hornsby
and a Mr. Atkinson, was murdered bv Indians,
near Austin on Saturday last. The Indians
came upon them while they were fishing in the
river, and killed them with spears The body
of Mr. Atkinson was found on Monday morn
ing, pierced with several wounds —Houston
Telegraph, 11/4 inst.
Some specimens of Texas sugar have been
manufactured by Mr. Mercer, a planter on the
Colorado, With four hands he has this year
raired 50,000 lbs. Most of it sold at eight cents
a pound.
Trial of Capt. Voorhees.—The testimony
in the ease ofCapt. Voorhees, before the Court
Martial, was closed on Thursday evening.
The counsel of the accused was, at his request,
allowed till eleven o’clock Saturday, to bring in
the written defence, and the court adjourned to
the usual hour on Friday. The judge-advocate
having delivered the law in his opening argu
ment, will not, il is understood, reply; nor is it
held lobe customary in naval courts martial to
do so. The court will then have to hear the
evidence read over, which will occupy a day or
two before the finding oi tbe judgment. It is
understood, says the Union, that another trial
is to be commenced as soon as this is concluded.
—Baltimore Sun.
A letter fa the Philadelphia U. S. Gazette,
dated Laguayra May 29, says that a very un
expected aud important change ha« taken place
in the political relations of Venezuela. Her
independence has been recognized by Spain,
' and a tr.eaty of peace and amity entered into be
tween the two nations. Spain has never before
recognised the independence ot a revolted South
American colony.
A Caraccas letter of recent date mention, the
' departure from that place for Washington of a ■
bearer ot despatches from Mr. Ellis, U. S.
Charge d’affaires to Venevuela, and adds—“lt
is supposed that 'fie refusal of Congress to ap
propriate Com. Daniels, of Baltimore, the sum
fixed by the Executive of Venezuela, in satis
faction ot his claims, is the subject of one of
i the despatches from Mr. Ellis. Os course,
however, this is conjecture. It is time for our
Government to act with decision in such cases.”
Jackson (La) College.—We learn from
the Bayou Sa’a Ledger, that the buildings of
this institution ordered to be sold, by an act of
the last Legislature, have been purchased by the
Methodist Episcopal Conference of Mississippi.
The Mississippi Centenary College is to be
abandoned, and its furniture removed to Jack
son, where the purchasers intend to establish a ,
College under their separate control.
An Agricultural Congress, after tl e fashion
of the scientific a sociations which meet year
ly io England, and in various kingdoms of the
Continent, »s to assemble in Paris, for the first
time on the Bth of next month, under the presi
dence of the Due Decazes. The meeting is in
tended to be a yearly one. The present session
will last for site weeks; and tbegratjd yeferen
daire will open to the Congress the grand con
troversy of the Luxembourg.
The Orientals appear to have some faint
idea of what luxury is. Th»v mingle rose
leavesandorangetolossctns with their baths, and
then lie for hours and hours in the perfumed
waters, smoking their amber-tipped chiboqne c .
and making themselves comfortable
From the N. O. Tropic 18/A inst.
Later F rom Texas.
The fine steamship New York, Captain
Wright, arrived here last evening from Gal
veston, bringing papers to the 13th instant, in
clusive. Capiain Elliott, the British Minister
to Texas, came passenger in the New York.
By this arrival we have received another Pro
clamation from President Jones to the people
of Texas, which we publish at length, as fol
io ws: -
By the President of the Republic of Texas.
a PROCLAMATION.
The Executive is now enabled to declare to
the people of Texas the actual state of their af
fairs with respect to Mexico, tothe end that the}’
may direct and dispose them as they shall judge
best for the honor and permanent interest of the
Republic.
During the course of the last winter, it reach
ed the knowledge of the Executive from various
sources ot into.mation, unofficial indeed, but
still worthy ot attention and credit, that the late
and present Government ot Mexico were dis
posed to a peaceful settlement of the difficulties
with Texas, by the acknowledgment of our In
dependence, upon the understanding that Texas
would maintain her separate existence. No
action, however, could be taken upon the sub
ject, because nothing authentic was known until
the month of March last, when the Representa
lives of France and Great Britain near this
Government, jointly and formally renewed the
offer of the good offices of those powers with
Mexico, for the early and peaceful settlement
ol this struggle, upon the basis of the acknow
ledgment of onr independence by that Repub
lic.
It would have been the imperative duty of the
Executive at once to reject these offers il they
had been accompanied by conditions ofany kind
whatever. But, with attentive watchfulness in
that respect, and great disinclination lo entang
ling alliances of any description, or with any
power, he must declare, in a spirit of justice,
that no terms or conditions have ever been pro
posed by the two Governments in question or
either of them, as the consideration of their
friendly interposition
’“’Maturely considering the situation of affairs
at that time, the Executive felt that it was in
cumbent upoft him notju reject this opportunity
of sectußsx t““>ple_ of this country, un
iramniwetl Wreonditions, a peacefur, boirorainc
anjfoadvantagecus settlement of their difficul
ties with Mexnco, if they should see fit to adopt
that mode of adjustment.
Thus influenced, he accepted the good offices
of the two powers, which, with those of the
United States had been previously invoked by
Texas, and placed in the hards of their Rep
resentatives a statement ol conditions prelimi
nary to a treaty of peace, which he declared he
should be ready to submit to the people of this
country for their decision and action as soon as
they were adopted by the Government of Mexi
co. But be emphatically reminded those func
tionaries, tor the special notice of their govern
ments, that he was no more than the agent ot
the people; that he could neither direct, control
nor influence their decision; and that hisbound
en duty waste carry out their determination,
constitutionally ascertained and expressed, be it
what it might. Our Representative at the
Courts ol France and Great Britain, in addi
tion to the task of strengthening the friendly
dispositions of those Governments, was also
especially instructed to press upon their atten
tion, that, if the people ot Texas should deter
mine lo putan end to the separate existence of
the country, the Executive, so far as depended
upon his official action, must and would give
immediate and full effect to their will.
The circumstances which preceded and led
to an understanding with Mexico, have thus
been stated; and the people, speaking through
their chosen organs, will now determine as they
shall judge right. Butin the meantime, and
until their pleasure can be lawfully and c< nsti
tutionally ascertained, it is the duty of the Exe
cutive to secure to the nation the exercise of
choice between the alternatives of peace with
the world and Independence, or annexation and
its contingencies; and he has, therefore, to issue
the following proclamation:
Whereas, Authentic proof has recently been
laid before me, to the effect that the Congress
of Mexico has authorized the Government
to ouen negotiations and conclude a trealy
with Texas, subject to the examination and
approbation ot that body, and further that the
government of Mexico ha s - accepted the con
ditions prescribed on the part of Texas as pre
liminary to a final and definite treaty of
peace:
Therefore, 1, Anson Jones, President of the
Republic of Texas, and Cornmander-in-Cliiel
ol the Army and Navy and Militia thereof, do
hereby make known these circumstances to the
citizens of this Republic, till the same can be
more fully communicated to the Honorable
Congress an I Convention of the People, for
their lawful action, at the period ol their as
sembling on the 16th June and Ith July next,
and, pen ting the said action, by virtne of the
authority in me vested, I do hereby declare and
proclaim a cessation of hostilities by land and
by sea, against the Republic of Mexico, or
against the citizens and trade thereof.
In testimony whereof. I have caused the Great
Seal ofthe Republic th be hereaffixed
Done at Washington, this fourth day
olJune, in the year of our Lord
[L. S.j one thousand eight hundred and
forty-five, and of the Independence
of the Republic the tenth.
By the President: ANSON JONES.
Eben’r Allen,
Attorney General and Acting Sec’y of State.
Most of the papers we have seen are exces
sively indignant at these developments, and
even the most moderate, such as the Houston
Telegraph, express an emphatic belief that the
proposals ot Mexico will be promptly rejected
by Congress.
The National Register has an article in reply
to the Galveston News, which attempted to in
duce the belief that President Jones had opened
anew negotiations will) Mexico for Independ
ence, for the purpose of defeating annexation,
and that he had actually proposed such nego
tiations as would, in his opinion, obtain that
object. Te Register says :
“Now whatarethe facts ot the case? they are
to this effect: —lmmediately afterthe passage of
the joint resolutions and the signature of the
President to the same was known in Mexico, or
rather as soon as it was considered probable,
the Mexican Government submitted to this Go
vernment to know what propositions would be
received and acted on. To this our President
replied that no proposition other than that of
independence uncoupled with any entangling
alliance, could or would be received, aud no
proposition would be acted on by him; that he
would receive and lay before “ the people” and
the Congress any proposition acknowledging
the independence of Texas; but that on no ac
count must it be considered that he was further
pledged to act than this. These, and these on
ly, are the proposals alluded toly the Mexican
Minister in hi- message to the Chambers
This, and this only, is < ur President pledged to
do; ar d this, we are happy to understand, he
intends doing in as short a time as the necessa
ry documents can be translated and subrnittedto
the people.”
The U. S. Revenue Cutter, Woodbury, arri
ved at Galveston on the 3 I instant from the Ba
lize, with despatches tor our Minister in Texas.
The Galveston Civilian intimates that there
is no intention to order the militia to rendezvous
on the Rio Grande, as was stated by a corres
pondent of the Jeffersonian Republican a short
time ago. The intimation that Commodore
Stockton would co-operate in the movement,
which created much surprise here, is treated by
the Civilian as a mere invention. That paper
dues not seem to have anj faith in the “dis
tinguished and influential” correspom ents of
some of ourcity papers.
The United States squadron under Commo
dore Stockton, and the French man-of-war brig
La Perouse, were stiff at anchor off Galveston
on the 7th inst.
We learn from the News that Col. Kinney,
who has been elected from San Fa'ricid to the
Convention, has arrived in Galveston from Cor
pus Christi.
The News says :
“He has lately been with a company within
■lO or 50 miles of the Rio Grande. He could
obtain no information of the reported concen
tration ot froops upon the frontiers. He, how
ever, informs ua that he has very late intelli
gence from Matamoras by a person who left
that city only seven days ago, on the 6th inst.
All the inhabitants ol that city and ot the neigh
boring Ranches were required to perform mili
tary duty regularly. To this government order
there was no exception, as it embraced all class
es of citizens. The probability is that the same
order is enforced throughout the whole country
ot the ’io Grande ”
We notice that Gen. Houston, Chief Justice
tjemphill, Gov. Reynolds, Judge Lipscomb and
Judge Hunter, are among those who have been
elected to the Convention, Gen. Memucan
Hunt was defeated for the Convention it: Gal
veston county. Major Bache, an annexation
ist. heads the poll.
In reference to the crops, the News says:
“ We have information from the Brazos that
the crops on that river, the Caney and Colorado,
were never better in the recollection of the old
est settlers. The corn crop is remarkably good,
. and is now made beyond all contingency The
. cotton will be open and fit for picking in July.’ l
Bv the arrival at Galveston from Corpus
Christi of the Texan revenue schooner Alert,
recent intelligence has b»en received from the
Mexican frontier. The regular force along
the Rio Grande had not been materially aug
mented, but the frontier had been strengthened
by arming and drilling the militia. A com
pany ot militia, numbering eighty men, un
der ti>e command of Manuel Leija, recently
attacked a party ot 80 Italians and defeated
them, killing 40 of their number and dispersing
the others. The Mexicans pursued th"" and
slaughtered many more. The people ot Cor
nus Christi, hearing that a Mexican force was
hanl bv, went out to give them battle. The
parties met and, after a conference, separated
without coming to blows. It was not before
coming pp with them that l^e Texans learned
tfaf foe Meftlcan’s'weye pt *he Jn-
i dians.
I Gen. Arista is said to be deeply afflicted with
I the troubles and confusion in Mexico, and, it is
reported, endeavored a short time since to de
stroy his life by poison.
From the Indian Country-
The St. Louis New Eraotlhe9lh instant, pub
lishes the following inlqxestinc intelligence, re
ceived by the arrival ol foe steamboat Indepen
dence from Council Bluffs, whicn arc situated
on the Missouri River, about 300 miles above
Fort Leavenworth. The Independence brought
down 430 packs of buffalo robes, peltries, and
Hits, the largest portion ul them for the Ameri
can Fur Company. The Era says:
The I. Ii ft here on the 15 h of May, with a
cargo of about 125 tons, principally corn and
ttour, for the Government, which was delivered
at the Bluffs for the use of the Pawnee and lowa
tribes ol !□■ tans, ivho were to meet commis
sioners on the part ol the United States at that
point on the Ist inst., for the purpose of nego
tiating a trealy.
We learn Irom the officers of the Indepen
dence, that after a difficult and dangerous pas
sage of about fifteen days, they reached the
place of their destination, where they found the
lowas and a large numberoflndians belonging
to the Otto tribe, in almost a starving condition,
having been driven in from the plains by the
Pavnees, who are contin ally committing de
predations upon the neighboring tribes, and
more particularly upon the defenceless women
and children of the cowardly lowas and Ottos;
these attacks ol the Pawnees, together with
their own indolence and unlrugal way of living
had compelled them to come in to the Bluffs to
prevent starving.
The Pawnees are a daring, reckless set of
scoundrels, roving from place to place, having
no fixed quarter to live in, and taking good care
never to let pass an opportunity to depredate
upon their more fortunate and weaker neigh
bors. W ith the object of making them occupy
a more steady position, and to prevent, if possi
ble, lheirfrequentdepredations upon the weaker
tribes, a new’ treaty is to be formed with them.
The Sioux ares id to be the only tribe in
that quarter that the Pawnees stand in fear of;
recently a party of the former met eigt t Paw
nees oti the plains a short distance back of the
lowa Point, fmr of whom they caught, killed
and scalped, flayed them and stretched It eir
skins over hoops, which they brought into the
fort as trophies of victory. It is for the pur
pose ot putting a stop lo such scenes oi blood
shed as this, that the U. S. Government sent
commissione s to the Bluff's to treat with them.
The commissioners to
hxzKt « uaiap with. Abe Pottawaliamies, for the
purpose of purchasing their landsand removing
them south of the Missouri; they are said to
be a powerful and warlike tribe,'much further
advanced in civilization than most of the
Northw estetn tribe-.
The Independence reached the Bluffs on the
29ih ult., discharged her cargo, took on a large
number of robes and furs and started back on
the 2d inst. Up tothe time of her departure,
but few ot the commissioners had arrived at
Belleview, the place ot meeting.
The Fur C mpanies in that region are fast
consolidating into the powerful and extensive
association known as the American Fur Com
pany; who have ibis last winter purchased, be
sides the claims of the Union Fur Company,
those of John Bap-isle Roy and the Coopers,
and arrangements areahout to be made between
them and the Companies of Pierson and Ewing,
by which it is said they will obtain the whole
business in. that section. The officers of the
Independence report having met six boats be
longing to them from Fort Pierre, heavily laden
with robes, and under the charge of Mr. Whi
ting, their agent, a short di-tance below St.
Josephs, descending the river; they will per
haps reach this city in a few days.
Russian Railroads—Military Efficiency of
Railaoads.
A few days since in speaking of the extraor
dinary demand for iron which seems lo pervade
the civilized world, we alluded to the gigantic
system of rail ways projected and now construct
ing by the Emperor of Russia. We spoke par
ticularly ol the St. Petersburg!) and Moscow
railroad. We understand that this great work
is to be extended to Odessa, the principal Rus
sian city on the Black sea; thus stretching irom
the extreme north to the south ol his European
dominions.
It is also proposed lo make a branch (1000
miles in length) Irom Moscow to Astrachan, the
leading seaport on the Caspian sea, at the mouth
ol the Volga river. A branch is also contem
plated lo Warsaw, in Poland, and probably to
Riga a leading commercial emporium on the
Baltic sea.
The St Petersburg!] and Moscow (500 miles
in length) isconsidered the main trunk ot this
giant system ot railways. It is now under vigor
ous construction and its opening is regarded c.f
the more importance, as its results will deter
mine the Emperor upon the farther prosecution
of his original plan. In his mind railways aie
contemplated as the effective levers of a vast
military organization, giving an extraordinary
power to the disciplined legions of his army.—
In Russia, the transportation ol the troops on
account of the badness ol the roads and the bar
renness ol the com try, is always an item ofdil
flculty. The irond will see at’once that rail
ways will put an end to this difficulty. It will
take only Zw-odays to transport an army from St.
Petersburg!) to Moscow, whereas now it requires
Hl Isnt' 1,..0 niccHs. 1
When the Emperor jf Russia’s railway or
ganiz*ri..n »« oo.npterr, n wilt embrace loads tn
the aggregate of five llumsand miles, at a cost of
not less than one. hundred and fillo) mitlions of
dollars. This is a large sum, but as he is a
despot in every sense ot the word, who spends
Irom twenty to thirty millions per annum to
keep up his vasi military establishment, he will
have no hesitation jn making this large outlay
to give efficiency to his arbitrary power.
It is also more than probable that the con
stru tionofa perfect system of railways would
diminish the necessity ol keeping so tnanv troops
in pay—as fifty thousand troops would then, by
the rapidity of railway transportation, be able to
be nearli as effective as one hundred thousand.
It is well known that Napoleon considered ce
lerity of movement as the avalanche of military
organization.
It is worth remarking, that while in Russia,
railways are constructed for military purposes,
on the contrary, here they are regarded solely
tor commercial purposes. Ourvb wis certain
ly the wiser and nobler, as ministering tothe
comfoitsof the masses; yet it cannot be over
looked that railways, in our country, would give
extraordinary nerve and power to the military
organization of the United States.— Albany Ar-
Affecting Anecdote—Filial Piety.
A young lad, but newly admitted into the
military sch .ol in France, soon made himself
appear of rather a singular disposition by his
remarkable abstemiousness. Whatever varia
tion ol diet was allowed, he never ate anything
but bread and soup, and drank nothing but wa
ter.
The Governor being informed of thisconduct
so very uncommon in a boy, attributed it to an
indiscreet devotion, and reproved him for it.--
Nevertheless, the lad persisted, and the Govern
or mentioned the circumstance lo Monsieur
Paris Dnverncy. He bad the boy called before
him, and with his usual mildness and modera
tion mentioned to him that such singularity was
by no means proper or allowable in a public in
stitution, and that he must certainly conform to
the rules and diet established there. He after
wards unsuccessfully tried to find out the rea
son that could induce the boy to act in such a
manner and at last threatened him it he persisted
that he would send him home to his family.
This menace had the desired effect, and he then
disclosed the motive of his conduct.
You will not, 1 hope, be displeased with me,
but I could not bring myself to enjoy what 1
consider a luxury, while I reflect that my dear
lather and mother are in the utmost indigence.
They could afford themselves aud me no better
than the coarsest bread and very little of it.
Here I have excellent soup, and as much fine
white bread as I would choose. 1 look upon
this to be a very good living, and the recollec
tion ol the situation in which I left my parents
would not permit me to indulge myself, by eat
ing anything else.
Monsieur Duvciney and the Governor could
not restrain their tears at such an early instance
ol fortitude and sensibility.
It vour father has been in the service, said
M. Duverney, how comes it that he has no pen
sion ?
For want of Iriends and money, sir, replied
the louth. He has been upwards of a year so
liciting one; but his money and resources fail
ed ; and rather than contract debts at Versailles
he is poptent to languish tn the manner I have
told you.
Well, said Mr. Duverney, if the last appears
to have bezn as you have stated it, I will en
gage to procure your father a pension of five
hundred livres. In the mean time, here are three
louis d’ors for yourself as a present from the
King, and I will advance vour father six
month’s pay oat of the pension I am certain ol
obtaining for him.
How can you send the money to him, sir,
ask’ d the boy.
Let that give you no uneasiness, replied M.
Duverney. I shall find means.
Ah, sir, said the boy precipitation, it
you can do it so easily, be pleased io send him
these three louis d’ors you were so good as to
stve me. > want nothing here, and they would
be of the greatest service to my father for my
brothers and sisters.
How delightful to the sensible mind are such
early emanations of pious gratitude I
It appears from a paper read at a meeting of
the New-York Farmers’ Club on Tuesday that
the best method of using guano tor horticultural
purposes is to dissolve on* pint of it in four gal
lons o! water and apply it freely about the roots
ot plants.
Some statements ivere made at the same meet
ing regarding the effects of galvanism on grape
vines which have been found to flourish won
derfully under jts influence.
Thesubject ot preserving fruit treesalsocame
up for consideration, wireit a gentleman stated
that he had kept a large pea' h orchard of over
200 trees perfectly free from tfie grqb for seven
or eight years, by the use of hard soap freelv
used upon the body and limbs of each tree. —
Balt. American.
Th»y have steamboats in Arkansas, intended
to jn yery shallow waters The Littl*
Rock Intelligencer, spe;Vi n k the “ Luev
Long," savs it can "run anvwhere ihat the
’ around is a little damp I
L
Battle of the Mlc.
’Tis an old story now, that battle ol the Nile,
but a Lravestory can never die ol age; an" as
the traveller paces by these silent aud deserted
shores, that have twice seen England’s flag,
“triumphant over ware and war,” he lives
again in the stirring days, when 'he scenery
before him was the areha whereon France and
England f contended forthe empire ot the East.
Let us rest from billing sun and weary travel
in the cool shadbntaglf this palm-tree. Our
camels are kneding mind us, and our Arabs
light their little fires la silence. They remem
ber well the scenes we are recalling, though
many a Briton has almost forgotten them, and
the names ol Nelson and ol Abercrombie are
already sounded faint through the long vista of
departed times. . We overlook the scene ot both
their battles, and envy not Thermopylae to the
Spartan, or Salamis to the Athenian.
What Greece was to the Persian despot,
England was to Napol can; nation after nation
throughput Europe had shrunk from staking its
existent* agninsta mere principle, and England
alone was at war with the congregated world,
in defence, of that world’s freedom. Yet not
quite alone: she had one faithtul ally in tne
cause of liberty atTH Christianity, and that ally
was—the Turk!
The Bay is widejbut dangerous from shoals;
the line <>f deep blue water, and the olrt castle
of Aboukir, map out the position of the French
fleet on the Ist of August, 1798. Having land
ed Buonaparte and his army, Brueys fay
moored in the form of a crescent, close along
the shore. His vastly superior force.* and the
strength ol his position (protected towards the
northward by dangerous shoals, and towards
the westward by the castle and the batteries,)
made him consider that position impregnable,
andon the strength of this conviction, he wrote
to Paris that Nelson had purposely avoided him.
Was he undeceive id. when Hood in the Zealous,
making signal Sial the enemy was in sight, a
cheef of triumph burst front every ship in the
British fleet?—th?t fleet which had swept the
seas with borsiingsails for six long weeks in
search of its formidable foe. and now bore down
tip n him withafejpjess exultation.
Nelson had Eng been sailing in battle-order,
and he now dlly lay-lo in the offing till the
rearward shie st touid come up. The sottnd-
bay were unknown to
that, where there
*‘s^ to swing, there must be room
” Spman to anchor at each side ol
him, nnd frt<2i„ cer lhe betrer. __
As hts p'dpdaisF tearless fleet came on he
hailed Hood?t-> ask his opinion as to whether
the action should commence that night; tt en,
receiving the answer that he longed for, the
signal for “close battle” fletv from his tnast
bead.
The delay thus caused to the Zealous, gave
Foley the lead, who showed the example ot
leading inside the enemy’s line, and anchored
by the stern, alongside the second ship, thus
leaving to Hood the first. The latter, putting
his own generous construction on an accident,
exclaimed, “Thank God, he has nobly left to
his old friend still to lead the van.” Slowly
and majestically, as the evening fell, the re
mainder of the fleet came or beneath a cloud of
sail, receiving the fire of the castle and the bat
teries in portentous silence, only broken by the
crash of spars or the boatswain’s whistle; each
ship furling her sails calmly, as a sea-bird
might lidd its wings, and gliding tranquilly on
wardtill she found her destined' foe. Then the
anchor dropped astern, and the fire burst from
her bloody decks with a vehemence that show
ed how sternly it had been repressed till then.
The leading ships passed between the enemy
and the shore; but, when the admiral came up,
he led the remainder ol the fleet along the sea
ward side, thus doubling on the Frenchman’s
line, and placing it in a defile of fire. The sun
went down soon after Nelson anchored; and
his rearward ships were only guided through
the darkness and the dangers of that formidable
Bay by the Frenchman’s fire flashing fierce
welcome as each enemy arrived, and went
hovering along the line, where he coolly scru
tinized how he might draw mostot that fire upon
himself. The Bellerophen, an old seventy-four,
fastened on the gigantic Orient, by whose terri
ble artillery she was soon crushed and scorched
into a wreck. Then she drifted helplessly to
leeward, hut not until she had done her work
the French Admiral’s ship was on fire, and
through the roar of batue a whisper went that
for a moment paralyzed every eager heart and
hand; during that dread pause the fight was
suspended, the yery wounded eeased to groan
—vet the burning ship still continued to fire
broadsides from his flaming decks—his gallant
crew alone unawed by their approaching fate,
and shouting their own brave requiem. At
length the terrible explosion came—and the
column of flame that shot upward to the very
sky for a moment rendered visib'e the whole
surrounding scene from the red flags aloft to
the reddened decks below—the wide shore, «ith
all its swarthy crowds, and the far-off glittering
sea, with the torn and dismantled fleets. Then
darknessand silence came again, only broken
by the shower of blazing fragments, in which
lhe brave ship fell upon the walers.
Till ihat moment, Nelson was ignorant how
the battle went. He new that every man was .
d inghlgdnfy. hll> 1... l-wy— 1,... hxiw
lyj he bAd been wounded in the forehead, and
rWw unnoticed to lhe deck tn the sus
pense ol the coming explosion. Its light was a
fining lamp tor eye Hire his lo read by. He
saw his own proud flag still floating every
where; and at the same moment his crew re
cognized I heir wounded chief. Their cheer of i
welcome was only drowned in the renewed roar '
of artillery, which continued until it no longer ,
found an answer, and silence had confessed des
truc'ion.
Morning rose upon an alteted scene The
sun had set upon as proud a fleet as ever sailed .
from the gay shores of France: tom and black- i
ened hulls now only marked the position they
had occupied; and where the admiral’s ship had (
been, lhe blank sea sparkled in the sunshine. ,
Two ships ot the line and two frigates escaped, ,
to be captured soon afterwards, but within the ,
Bay the tricolor was flying on board the Ton
nant alsae. As lhe Theseus approached to at
tack her, attempting to capitulate she hoisted a
flag of truce. “ Your battle-flag or none,” was ,
the stern reply, as her enemy rounded-to, and
the matches glimmered over her line of guns.— j
Slowlv and reluctantly like an expiring hope, ,
that pale flag fluttered down from her lofty ,
spars, and the next that floated there was the ,
banner of Old England,
'Nearly as three to two.
Slaughter of the Mamelukes.—To me, the 1
most interesting spot within these crime-stained
precincts was that where the last of the Marne- 1
lukes escaped from the bloody treachery of Me- 1
hemet AH. Soon after the Pasha was confirm- '
ed by the Porte in lhe Viceroyalty ofEgypt, he '
summoned the Mameluke beys lo a consulta- 1
lion on the approaching waragainst the Waha- '
bees in Araoia. As his son Toussin had been
ivested with the dignity of pasha of the second 1
order, the occasion was one ot festivity as well '
as business. The beys came mounted on their 1
finest horses, in magnificent uniforms, forming '
the most superb cavalry in the world. After a
very flattering reception from the Pasha, they
were requested to parade in the court of the cit
adel. They entered the tonification nnsuspect- 1
ingly, and the portcullis fell behind the last of 1
the proud procession. A moment’s glance re- '
vealedtolhem their doom. They dashed for- 1
ward—in vain I —before, and around them, no
thing was visible but blank, pitiless wallsand 1
barred windows, and the only opening was to- 1
wards the bright blue sky: even that was dark
ened by their funeral pall of smoke, as volley
after volley flashed from a thousand muskets '
within lhe ramparts upon the defenceless and
devoted band. Startling and fearfully sudden
as was lhe death, they met it as became their '
fearless character—some with armscro-sed up- 1
on their mailed bosoms, and their turbaned '
heads devoutly bowed in prayer; some with 1
flashing swordsand fierce curses, alike unavail
ing against their dastard and ruthless foe. All
th it chivalrous and splendid throng, save one,
sank rapidly beneath lhe deadly fire into a red
and withering mass—that one was Einiin Bey.
He spurred his charger over a heap of bis
staughleretf comrades, and sprang upon the bat
tlements. It was a dizzv height, but the next
moment he was in the air—another, and he
was disengaging himself from his crushed and
dying horse, and amid a whole shower of bul
lets. He escaped and found safety in the sanc
tuary of a mosque, and ultimately in the deserts
oi the Thebaid.
Rather Queer.—A case is now on trial in
this city in which the Government ot the United
Stales is plaintiff, involving a principle relating
to pursers in lhe Naw, upon which large
amounts depend, although the sum immediately
at issue is onlv $15,000 Vice-President Dallas
is counsel against tbeGovernment. Everybody
knows that Gen. Jackson proclaimed that gov
ernment was an unit—a queer unit, divisible
into adverse parts! but we suppose it is al)
right, in political arithmetic, that an executive
officer of the government, receiving S6OOO per
aununi, should thus assist in promoting its cause
—new fangled democracy has rare illustrations
ot consistency.— PhUa. Jdorth American.
From the Prairies'.-—The Camanches seem
to think that encroachments are being too ra
pidly made upon their hunting grounds by the
whites and more civilized Indians. The Isst
Chetokee Advocate states that there is conside
rable stir amongst some ot the prairie tribes.
The Caddoes have recently killed four of the
Camanches, who have given notice to a Mr.
Warren, a trailer, located some fifty or sixty
miles above Fort Washita, to abandon his post
and return tothe settlement*.
A Mammoth Steamer.—The largest steam
boat ever built was launched at New York on
Tuesday. It is in leng'h 340 feet, in breadth of
beam 35 feet, and including guards, 68 feet;
depth of hold 10 feet, and measures 1200 tonv
She covers the same water that a sea going ves
sel ot 2,91X1 tons would, and is called lhe Hen
trick Hudson, ft is designed to run as an eve
ning passenger boat between New York ana Al
bany, on the inderendenl plan. Another mon
ster steamer, two hundred tons larger than lhe
above, is now bejng built,
O’ Boston appears to be infested by a gang
>t incendiaries. Six places in different parts o
•he city were fired on Fridry night, but all o'
'hem fortunately were extinguished before much
damage had been done.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JUNE 25
The Weatiieu.—Yesterday was another
warm day, the thermometer ranging about the
same as on the day previous, viz: 96°, accord
ing to some 98 s .
Our Table—We are indebted to Mr.
Holmes, of the for a copy of the “Co
lumbian Magazine,”
for July, embellished number;
also Part . Gardner's Popular Lec-
tures; and Pictorial Double
Sheet Brother Jonathan, for the approaching
National Anniversary. They are lorsale at the
Depot.
The Bank of Hamburg has declared a dividend
of One Dollar and Fifty Cents per share, paya
ble on nnd after the first oi July, being at the
rate ot sixprr eent. per annum for lhe last six
months.
The Union states that the negotiations con
cerning the Oregon Question, will not be trans
ferred to London.
The N. Y Tribune says: —“ Money is be
coming more abundant, and the latge houses
in the street are anxious to discount their own
naner at 5 per cent. Large lots of money, in
one case SIOO,OOO, have been loaned for a long
time at 4/ percent.”
Governor Stockton oi Delaware, lias issued
a Proclamation, calling upon the Magistrates
and other oflicersof the law, to seek out, arrest,
and bring to judgment, all those who have been
engaged either as principals or abettors in tire
late duels fought within the boundaries of the
State of Delaware.
There were shipped from New York, from
the Ist to the 17th of the present month, 1,758,
packages ot Cotton Goods.
T'a’l'he Long Island Railroad company have
made a further reduction in fare, and the price
is now $2 through to Boston. This is a very
nleasam.rzuite, occupying ten hours and avoid
ing the necessity bflrrent travet. -.
West Po'nt Academy. —The Annual ex
amination of the Cadets of the Military Acade
my at West Point, says the Baltimore Sun, was
expected to close on Wednesday, last.—The
graduating class numbers forty-one, and lhe
entering class ninety-two. Last year, the grad
uating class did not exceed thirty. The exam
ination was conducted by a board of officers, of
which Maj. Gen. Scott was President, and the
proficiency of the pupils was tested bv a vigo
rous inquiry into all the branches taught.
There was a foot race over the Oakland (Kv.)
Course on the 14th inst.—mile heats, best 3 in
5. It was won bv Seaherrv Williams, of Ken
tucky—in 5 17—5 47—5 32.
The Nashua and Jackson manufacturing
corporations have each declared a semi annual
dividend of 10 per cent, and the Appleton and
Hamilton a semi-annual dividend of 6 per cent,
each. The Eastern Railroad has declared a
semi-annual dividend of 4 per ct.
Important from Liberia.—A le'ter from
Gov. Roberts dated April 17. and published in
the Sun ot this morning, says that the colonial
schooner John Seys has been cantured bv an
English man-of-war—apparently in retaliation
tor a seizure of goods on which the owner re
fused to pay the colonial duties at Grand Bassa.
We shall doubtless have farther particulars
soon.
Extract of a letter, dated
Calcutta, April 4ih.
The cholera is raping here. From five to six
hundred die daily; though not many among the
shipping.— N. Y. Jour. Com.
Another Slaver Expected.—We learn by the
brig Brothers, which arrived at this port this
morning, from Rio Janeiro, that the brig Por
nois, of Bruns ■ ick, Me., which was se'Z**d at
Rio sometime since, suspected of being a slaver
was to sail from thence on the 13th ot M=>v tor
Boston, under command of Sail ing master Duer,
ot the U. S. ship Raritan. —Boston Transcrivi.
Rains.—We have had delightful showers
since our last issue, and the crops in lhe a'ja
eent country are improving wonderfully tinuer
this influence. The prospect for a heavy corn
crop was never better at ibis season of the vear
- ■)’■■. U IV C...nuiu fa , —
IHth lust.
Correspondence of the Ba ltimore Patriot.
Washington, June 19,1845.
The appointment 11 the Hun. Louis McLane,
as Minister to England, is an acknowledgment
on the partof the Administration, at dacredi a
nle one also, lhai in great questionsofemergen
cy, and great difficulties, they must rely upon
others than extreme Locofocos to guide the ship
ot state safely through the storm. Mr. Polk
feels this, and therefore relies upon the strong
arm ot Louis McLane to help him out of hi-
Oregon difficulties. No matter to what party
Mr. McLane may have, ar one time or another,
been abaehed, he has always stood by the Con
stitution and the Laws! He opposed South
Carolina’s system ol nullification. He opposed
the removal of the deposites from the plact
where the law had placed them and where they
were pronounced by Congress to be sale. He
opposed the party act ot the House ot Repre
sentatives in the Mississippi ease and New
Jersey case. He opposed the nullification, by
tour ol the Slates; ot lhe law of the land tn rela
tion to the election of Representatives to Con
gress by single districts. He opposed the D.in
revolutionary doctrines in Rhode Island. In all
things he isune nt the conservative pillars of the
Union, and Mr. Polk has done well to call him
to his aid in the present emergency. It is like
iht fact that all members of the Locofoco party
who are placed upon lhe bench of lhe Snpn me
Court (where they areout of the way of politics)
become Whigs, and give Whig decisions, an
other evidence—and acknowledged by Mr. Polk
—that the Government cannot b • carried on ex
cept, in greateror a less degree, upon Whig prin
ciples. It was hardly expected that Mr. Polk
would so soon acknowledge lhe fact. But he
has done so, and let him rechive the proper
credit. Some of his party are very angry at the
appointment. They do not know, or will not
see what is for the benefit of the country I
Much is said in this city about the manner
in which Gov. Van Ness was removed from the
New-York Coliectorship, and the glnoe which
the editor oi the Union has artfully given to the
matter, in puffing Gov Van Ness to the skies,
and representing that he was not removed, but
resigned I
It is stated that the Collector wrote a private
note to the Secretary of the I reasttry, some
lime ago. generously offering to resign, if the
President shot Id desire it. And upon the
strength ol this note, his resignation has been
demanded, and his office conferred upon another
man.
It is stated that a day or two after Mr. Polk
offered lhe Collectorship to Mr. Lawrence —
Gen. Van Ness, of this city, wi'hout knowing
of lhe fact, waited on the President and made
strong and urgent representations in beha'l ot
his brother’s being continued as Collector—that
Mr. Polk heard him through, without inform
ing the General that lhe matter had been dis
posedofbv the appointment of Mr. Lawrence,
iu place of his brother, and kindly promised that
his representations should be duly considered
and acted upon !
When, a day or two subsequently, Gen. Van
Ness heard of this and became sensible that at
the very time he was making representations to
Mr Polk in behalf of liis brother’s continuance
in office, that functionary had already tendered
the Collectorship to Mr. Lawrence, he was very
much provoked to think that he had been so
trifled with and unhandsomely dealt by, and
that too, by the President of the United Slates!
In this state of feeling be received the resigna
ti nos bis brother, with discre'iona , 'y power to
tender, or withhold it, as his sense ol what
would be bestjin the matter might suggest. He
withheld the resignation of course; but soon re
ceived a polite message, through Mr. Secretary
Walker.thatifagreeabletohim, Mr. Polk would
be pleased to see him for a few minutes at the
State Department.
The meeting took place, and it is said that
the General gave lhe President a very genteel
raking dourn for not treating him, at their pre
vious interview, with some show of candor and
fairness, as became a gentleman and the Chief
Magistrate of the Nation, bv telling him that
the matter ol the Collectorship had already been
disposed of, instead of studiously leaving a con
trary impression upon his mind ! it is reported
that Mr. Polk attempted to excuse himself by
pleading that the matter was a Cabinet secret,
and he eould not therefore, at lhe time, inform
Gen. Van Ness of it. The General said he
wanted no Cabinet secrets—he was not curious,
but he at least, he thought, might have been
treated with more fairness than was extended
to him. No former Preside ( had ever so treat
ed him I The interview closed—the resigna
ion of Gov. Van Ness was not given up by the
General—and Mr. Polk repaired to his lodgings,
where he was indisposed for several days.
Mr. Bogardus, the Deputy of Gov. Van Ness,
who was s’aving here, was sent off to New York,
fur the resignation. Gov. Van Ness yielded,
and Mr. Bogardus returned wiih'hedocumenl!
So ends that chapter, put not the next one!
Gen. Van Ness has addressed a printed letter
'o the President and the Heads ot Department,
•n the subject of his brother’s removal, which
« said to be pjarlfed with, mnch just severity.
I have not seen L myself, but have conversed
vith those who have, from whom I obtain the
history 1 ' iv; you ot the whole transaction.
Queer times :.>ese are. of ours.
POTQMAC.
LAMP FROM EUiLAM),
Arrival jpA S ° 1,1 E
STEAMSHIP CALEDONIA.
Fourteen Days Later.
The Caledonia, Capt. Lott, arrived at Boston
' at one o’clock Thursday afternoon.
She left Liverpool on the 4th inst. and brings
London and Liverpool papers to that date.
The cotton market was more depressed, and
prices had (alien offjd for some qualities.
The money market was in a healthy state,
1 and good paper readily discounted at 2J to 2f
per cent.
‘ The protracted winter and the unseasonable
spring has caused the corn trade to “look up.’
In West India staples of sugar, coffee and
cocoa, there has been a good deal of business
' doing, and prices have revived.
The third reading ol the Maynooth bill in the
House of Commons, on the night of the 19th of
May, engaged the exclusive attention of that
, body, until Wednesday, 2lst. The supporters
! of the measure mustered 319, its opponents 186
—majority 133.
’ There was a great repeal Levee at Dublin on
the 30th of May, at which were present O’Con-
| nell, Sieele, and all the leading repealers.
The steamship Great Britain is expected in
'he Mersey on lhe 3d of July, and will leave
i Liverpool for New-York on the 26th. Shecon
. tinues as heretofore, to excite great interest in
• the Thames.
The American provision market continues
in a healthy state. The demand was fully equal
to the import, and every day increases the popu
’ larity ol the provisions from the Western
World.
> The abdication of Don Carlos in favor of his
! son, is the most striking event in continental
■ news which has transpired since the sailing of
. the Cambria.
There is a “cerew loose” between France
and her new ally, the Emperor of Morocco.—
the treaty which was
negotiated,on thepart bis Government, by
Gen. Delarue; and statements are current that,
the French officially endeavored to overreach
his Moorish Majesty by the surreptitious intro
duction of a clause which gave better terms
j. to France than lhe basis of the treaty war
ranted.
The German paners state that preparations
are making at Coburg for the reception of
Queen Victoria, who will visit that place a n d
the Court ot Berlin, in the course of the sum
-1 mer.
The Russian government is about to author
ise the sale of Circassian children, principally
for purposes ol prostitntion, to the Turks.
Lord Castlereagh has been appointed Lord
Lieutenant of the County Do ■ n, tothe great
dismay and indignation of the Downsbire fatni
■y
On Friday, the 30th ultimo, the anniversary
ot lhe imprisonment ot the “ martyrs” was a
grand dav in Ireland.
There s"ems at present some, nerhaps not a
remote, prospect, that the long talked of junction
between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, may
be carried on.
Extracts from English papeis.
New- York P icket Ships, <f-c. —The long preva
lence of easterly winds preven'ed our receiving
any bin one later date,'that of the Ist May, bv
the Southerner, Capt Palmer, on the 24th ulti
mo,) until the arrival ot the Hibernia steamer
on the 31st, which excellent vessel, from having
met with large qua lities of ice fl taring in the
Atlantic, was herself ratherlongei on t er voyage
than usual. She was most anxiously expected,
and we have seldom witnessed more entire satis
faction than was expressed at the pacific nature
of the news she brought. Arriving, as she did,
on Saturday at ernoon, the papers by her were
conveyed to the North and South American
Coffee house, and Lloyd’s, London, by tne ex
press train, on Sa'urday night; but her news
wasn't generally known there until Monday
morning, when its influence upon the Money
and Commercial markets was very considerable.
On Sunday the wind became more favorable,
and has so continued since; so that we have
had in succession the St. Patrick, the C< lumbns.
lhe splendid new shin Henry lay, and the She
nandoah, all of which, of course, had been an
ticipated bv the Hibernia.
this town forthe A • erican steam frigate Prince
ton of which we have given some details in a
former number, was made on Saturday week,
on the sands, North Shore, between Crosby and
Formby. The firing commenced about eleven
in the morning and continued with some slight
intermission until three in the a ternoon. Du
ring Ihat time upwards of three tons of shot
were discharged—each shot weighed upwards
of two hundred weight. The report was dis
tinctly heard in the neighborhood of the docks,
and in the north end of the town, ahhough the
sceneof the firing was some eight or n ne miles
distant. The experiments proved highly satis
factory. The appearance of the shot after each
discharge, skimming alone the water, had a
novel and pleasing effect. The range extended
some miles The day mild and fine, and not
withstanding the fact ol the gun having been
carried out as early as three in the morning to
'he scene of the experiments, to avoid notoriely
great numbers were attracted to the spot when
the firing commenced.
Parliamentary.— The third reading of the
Maynooth bill, in the House of Commons, on
'he night of the 19th May, engagen the exclu
-ive attention of trial body until Wednesday, the
21st. These three nights ot protracted discus
sion evolved nothing new. The old ti readhare
arguments were furnisl ed up again, but having
lost the charm of novelty, the infliction was ne
cessarily soporinc The dissentients out of
doors boasted of the impression they had made
on wavering members, and so confidently was
this belief encouraged, that many persons were
prepared to see the stultifying process of first
supporting, and then opposing, the same mea
sure in different stagesofits progression,carried
out by some of the frightened representatives
of the people. But these exhibitions of weak
ness and irresolution, letting “I dare not wait
upon I would, like lhe poor cat i’ the adage,”
were only confirmed by t« o or '■ hree individuals
o' little mark or capacity. The supporters ot
the measure mustered 319, its opponents 186
majority 133. The number of votes on the se
cond, as compared with the third reading, was
nearly the same—so 3 on the former, 505 on the
iast occasion. Indeed, considering the stir
which the anti-Maynooth men have made out
of doors, their success has been very dispropor
tionate to their noise. Public opinion, that om
nipotent power, which makes and unmak-s
Ministers of Stale, does, occasionally, like a
tornado, sweep everything before it. In such
cases it is irresistible. But then it must he called
into action upon some point on which the na
tional pulse beats high; a sense ol injury, a feel
ing of insult, for instance, or any other ol the
thousand-and-one sensaiions or sympathies re
specting which individuals, like nations, are
otten thin-skinned. To give an extra XI”,(XXI
to a Roman Caiholic College in Ireland—a col
lege which represents the religion of seven
eighths of lhe people, while a million sterling
i« taken from their pockets to support the church
of a small minority, involves no violation of
the eternal principles of justice, nor ought it to
act upon the passions ot sober and reflecting
men. State endowments may be bad in them
selves—many think them so; but while they
exist, the astounding disproportion hetv een the
amount which the Irish people receive from the
State for support ot their own religion, and the
amount which they are forced to contribute in
return to lhe Stare religion, only show that the
people have not the best of lhe bargain.
The bill has been launched into the House
of Lords, and the Duke of Wellington, superse
ding the recognize" representative of the Go
vernment there, Lord Stanley, is its nurse. The
object ot the substitution is apparent. The
dime has a charm or power over the nobility
which no other peer possesses: and while the
influence is freely conceded on the one hand, it
is judiciously exercised on lhe other.
1 he noble duke moved the second reading ol
the Maynooth Grant Bill on Monday night, in
the House ot Lords, in a speech characterised
by much originality. Hisgrace conceives that,
as tlie majesty of England bad been vindicated
by the State trials last year, the Government
ought to concede this grant, lest the Repeal tac
tion should say they were tyrannical. He was
interrupted by bisgrace of Newcastle, who ask
ed if he had obtained the Queen’s permissh n
to make the motion.
Au amendment, for a committee of inquiry
into the character of the education given a'
Maynooth, was moved by Lord Roden, who,
together with the Bishop ol London, strenuous
ly opposed the grant—and the debate, alter be
ing prolonged to I o’clock, was then adjourned.
Ireland.
The Tara Demonstration.— The repeal meet
ing at Tara, respecting which considerable pre
parations had been made forsome lime previous,
took place on Thu.slay, the 22d ult. Mr
O'Connell, Mr. John O’Connell, Mr. Rav, and
others heard mass at Tara at halt-past 12
o’clock, the Rev. Mr M’Evoy, paruh priest of
Kells, officiating. The accounts differ ma e
riallv as to the numbers in alien lance. The
Freeman estimates those who heard mass at
5(1,000, and the numbet of those who look pan
in the demonstration at 200,00.'; but S Hinders,
the Evening Afail. and the anti-repeal papers
represent the attendance as meagre, not ex
ceeding 5 000 or 6 000, and the whole affair a
failure. Both parries agree in this—that lhe
attendance and the enthusiasm were tar in arrear
of th* great meeting on the same spot in 1843. i
Mr. O’Connell came forward to address the
meeting, aud was received with loud cheers.
He delivered one oi those effective amt pecu
liar addresses on the subject of Irish wrongs
with which our leaders have been long lamiliar.
At the banquet iu the evening, lor which 820
tickets were issued, Mr. O’Connell made anoth
er speech. He showed that Sir Robert Peel,
omnipotent in the House of Com . uns ■ n every
other subject, was almost harmless as regarded
Ireland. The question was, what would satisfy
Ireland? Nothing short of repeal. He next
proceedc-d to show how be had defeated
Peel. When the late Government were in
power, they had the inclination, but they had
not the means, of serving Ireland. Peel came
in with a majority of a hundred at his bnck, and
by acting on bis lears, they got more from him
than they had teen able lo secure irom the for
mer government.
Dr. Cantwell, the Bishop of Meath, replied
to the toast of the “Hierarchy ol Ireland," pro
posed by Mr. O’Connell.
"The policy of Government, with regard to
Ireland, is changed, and Ireland is grateful for
the disposition ii evinces. (Cries ot ‘Hear,
hear.’) The Government bad intended some
good measure.,, they have announced others,
but are we, on that account, to relinquish our
constitutional exertions? ('No, no.’) Say, it
is our duty to increase them. (Cheers.) Ire
land will be grateful to England tor every in
stalment even ot justice, but lhe liquidation of
the wholedebt will alone satisfy us.” (Cheers.)
The “Repeal Matters” having been toasted,
and responded to bv Mr. John O’Connell, Dr.
G., &c., the assembly separated.
The O Crmnell Levee.—On Friday, the 30th
ultimo, the anniversary of the imprisonment of
the “martyrs.” was a grand day in Ireland.
Repeal Association.— At the weekly meeting
of this Association on the 19th ult, at Concilia
tion Hall, Mr. O’Connell declined making atty
reference tothe education plan of the govern
ment until it had been discussed by lhe Ca holic
Bishops, who were lo assembl” in the course of
a day or two.
The weekly meeting on Monday, the 26th,
was very stormy, and threatens a rupture in the
repeal ranks. Mr. O’Connell, after giving an
account ot his “demonstration”triumphs in th"
county Meath, proceeded to animadvert in
strong terms on what he called the “ atrocity” of
the government education scheme; lie styled
it “ a delusion, a mockery, anrt a snare,” and
expressed his deictminatiou to op; ose it in
every possible shape. His opposition to the
measure goes much further than that ol the
Roman Catholic Bishops. When .Mr. O’Con
nell had done, the association was addressed by
M. J Barry, a barrister, and Mr. Davies, ot the
Dublin Nation, vho as the representatives of
“Young Ireland,” expressed themselves in favor
of mixed education. This drew upon them the
ire of Mr. O’Conn“ll, who spoke bitterly of the
. importance which “Young Ireland” had so un
warrantably assumed. He was glad that that
party had at last openly declared itself, and that
they could now understand the~<m%-«MAuerings
which had been uttered in other places.- ZTjje
rent for the two last weeks amounted to about
ZBOO.
The meeting of the Association on Monday,
the 2nd instant, was presided over by the Lord
Mayorofthe city. The principal feature ol the
day’s pioceedings was the moving of an address,
by O’Connell, to lhe Caiholic Bishops and
Clergy of 'he North and tothe Repeal body
generally, calling on them not to molest or in
sult the Orangemen should they parade on the
12'h of July. The rent for the week amount’-d
to £642 Ils. 8:1. The sums of£loo from Hal
ifax, £2O from Syiney, and £8 Irom Hobart
Town, Van Diem'an’s Land, aided to swell the
sum.
Germany.
The accounis Irom Frankfort slate that the
approaching Zollverein Congress inCarisruhe
was becoming the main topic of conversation
there and in other German cities. It is now
clearly ascertained that many important towrs,
chambers ol commerce, and commercial unions
have declared in iavorofthe protective system,
alter the example ol the so cailed “ commercial
parliament,” recently convened in Berlin. This
forthcoming congress will, il appears, be watch
ed by various diplomatists, lor lhe Baden pa
pers state, that several agents ol the great pow
ers have eilherarrived already in the neighbor
hood ot the above city, or have engaged anatt
ments; and adds, that even American envoys
will shortly make their appearancethere. The
proceedings ol the Berlin assembly were not
officially made public, but short communica
tions respecting their deliberations and their
opinion- appeared almost daily in the Prussian
papers. It is not expected that the daily de
bates in the approaching congress at Carisruhe
will be published either regularly or mixtenso-,
but it is asserted bv some journals, that although
the discussions will take place with closed doors,
a greater degree of publicity wil be given loibetn
than to the previous deliberationsol the Berlin
mesting. In a recent number of the celebrated
Z'dlvereinsblatt, it is asserted that the above c> n
gress promises lo be the most influential one
that has been held since the formation of the
German Customs Union. It may be added, too,
ihat its principal object is to devise and adopt
measures tendin" tn 1
Switzerland.
The accounis from Lucerne to the 25th ult.,
state that th” influence of the three great Powers
yEngiand France, and Austria) began to make
(sell beneficially tell in Switzerland. The re
solve ot those Powers to maintain intact It e fe
deral compact ol 1815, lhe inviolabiliiy <4 the
P' inciple of cantonal sovereignly, and the ex
clusive right ofthe cant >nsthemselves to revise
and aramd the compact ty mutual friendly
agreement among each other, by legal means
alone, to the excli sion of all violence —regard
always being had to the maintenance of the con
dition—sine qua. non.— ot “the inviolability of
the principle ot cantonal sovereignty” above
mentioned.
Turkey.
The accounts from Constantinople to the 7th
of May, state that the health ot the Sultan Ison
the decline. Some even went so far as lo say
that on the previous Friday, in consequence ol
this, he did not pay his usual visit to a mosque
On the Ist instant, lhe Greek patriarch Yerma
nos, having previously given in his resignation,
M -letius, (lie Archbishop ot Gjzins, waselect
ed in bis stead, and invested in his dignities and
decorations at the Sublime Porte. Yerrnanos
was ui d I' bredly an indolent and ignorant man,
unequal tothe arduous and difficult duties ot his
pov.
India and China.
The Overland Mail arrived in London on
the 23rd nil. Intelligence has been received
from Bombay to the sth, Calcutta to the 7th,
and Madras to the 14th of April. The news,
in a political point ot view, is unimportant.—
The expedition ol Sir Charles Napier against
the Pindarees had been successful. Their lea
der, Bejar Khan, and a considerable number ot
his followers, had been captured. The Pun
jaub is still in an unsettled state.
Phond Sawunt and his cons derates continue
to find sanctuary in lhe Goa territories. The
Portuguese Governor still refuses to allow our
troops to follow the rebels within his frontier,
and is unable, even it he were willing, to drive
out lhe fugitives.
The measures for concentrating a body of
troops on .the northwest frontier ol the Sutlej are
nearly completed. Sir Henry Haidinge will
visit the up er provinces during lhe year.
Cholera is prevalent in Calcuita, but is not
of a nature!))create inorethxn ciretoiuaxy*Wfrm.
There is a fi mting report that Aden has hgen
surprise/ and captured, but no reliance can be
placed on a report which has become proverbial
by its frequency
The Bombay Government have promulgated
an order materially affecting the interests ol the
junior members of the civil service. It is to the
effect that no one shall lie employed in the pub
lic service until he shall have passed in two of
the native languages, of which Hindostauee is
to be first, and Mahratta, Goozerathe, or Ca
narese, the second ; a d only fitieen months are
to be allowed to acquire the necessary qualifi
cation, except al the discretion of Governs ent,
which may grant an extension of six months
when they think proper.
Ceylon papers relate a circumstance which
will cause some astonishment, more especially
as it is understood ihat on a former occasion
the home authorities were not backward in
showing their displeasure. Certain Siamese
priests went to Kandy tor lhe nurnose of see
ing and worshipping 'he relic called the tooth of
Birdh, which is carefully preserved by our Go
vernment. Sir Colin Campbell, it is stated, was
at first unwilling that lhe tooth should be dis
played ; hut he was at length prevailed on to
give his consent, and'he sacred tooth was ex
hibited io the adoring priests, in the presence ol
Lord Elphinstone, by Mereer, the assistant go
vernment agent.
From China there is nothing of interest.
COMMERCIAL.
Extract of a letter received in this city dated,
Liverpool, June 3, IMS.
Subsequent lo tlie departure of 'lie last steamer, 20lli
alt . we bad some inere-se of demand for Colton. < bief
ly from consumers, and a good extent of business was
done, butas ihedemand was freely supplied il did not
lead to any decided amendment in prices; and in tlie
last day or two, since lhe arrival of lhe Boston steam
er of 16th ult , the market has become very heavy and
has declined fully gd lb. This is allribu ed to lire
continued urge receipts inlo the American ports, and
the conviction which seemed generally to prevail iu
lhe United Slates that tlie Oregon question was not
likely to lead lo any serious difficulty between lhe two
countries. Qn the other hand I lie account ol' lhe grow
ingCorum crop iu the Ailuntlc elales being unusually
late and injured by drought have attracted some at
tention t rade at Manchester continues encouraging
Tlie sales of Cotton for the week ended 23rd ult , 37.4'20
hales, and for that ended 30th ult. they amounted t*
411,190 bales, of which about 3.000 were taken by spe.
culainrs in each week. Os rl,e American descriptions
sold lasi week 11.600 were Upland at 3) to4§; 13.420
Orleans at 3) to GJ ; 10.320 Alabama and Mobile st 3j to
3; and 240 Sea Island al 9} to It-jd lb. For lhe three
business days which have since elapsed the transac
tions are estimated to amount lo 10.000 bales, no part
to speculators, and of Ibis only 2000 has been done to.
dry. We quote Upland 3J to 4j, fair 4 ; Mobile 3j to
ij fair 4| ; Orleans 3J tn 6). fair ; and Alabama and
Tennessee 310 4|d jp lb. The import into Liverpool
since lhe Ist January amounted to 852,000 bates against
566,000 to same period last season ; from the United
*l»l«s the supply t»<46J»J being au-meseue ot 266,000
bales. The stock in this port it cslini. .6 ■ *• -
against 717,000 al same period fast year u >
• American is about 690,01,0, ot 190,0110 hr e» r ■t„
' it then seas.
1 Cotton— The market opened very quieta *r. I
’ (riP””"* were heavy of sale st tlie r .aiu. v.
Wr-dne-day, however, there was a constt -
’• "1', d .''""‘" l, r and American, though s
r ' i "*•. , i cco '"" "I"'* aaleable at preyio
f..! 1 !? t “>p"‘‘" cmninue heavy ol sal . hirer Ku-sl
’ can 1^7 K P'’‘ " I '“'>'» bare 'akr !/',! A,„.
I iere.l h' ■ do ''"••'""‘framlJOUslaiocd ■
J l.iei„l*S.X. E ''‘ , ‘y'‘' x ’'
- ”
nnd exporter!. 7u i 4-L J * . ‘
| The sales amount to 40.|<m/ ' urat, a M.dr-s
Slice Friday las'a change fnr ,h. „
place the market has bejorne h '! ,k, “
, ["•bl®. «"4 prices have enn-equemlj d! '."l’ t'
from the quoialrnns nf 1,., p, , 1U ' . a ' I 'll
r very freely offered al the decline Th..- ?
, day were 4< l<> bags, on Monday 4(100 ~ ’
4 here hnw been no Mpecnlative buying. ‘* 7 '
r There isl a regular demand far Co*
I price-* I quote Upland* iU*. fli3; tr«
nrdin. ; non ordin f6i; priit coiiran.
f7l.
’ The mon'h npene with a Mock of 80.0
1 Rnris. and about 23.00 I bale* expected io
) this mouth, which, a this period nf ih« • . .
modeia'e ; and were it not for the diflict
’ duee. a further advance on the raw m
• -eem very probable, but. under lhe pn m i
stances, it can haidly be expected.
I MiV
Cotton— Nothing of a very prominent l ... <.
I curred in the hituation of our markvi, do ~...
sent week, which in the early part ware
appliance, bm ha* since a»siim*‘d t. Ii .- , v
• tivity, and the transactions which al in>
very fair cxtenl. have been nf a regular
to the close. The Hales have dai'y averaj . r ' •*.')
bale* but nnt the shghtrat speculative fer |
evinced, nearly lhe whole quantity havti -en t u
! for consumption, and prices are now vet i> a*
f quotation*. '1 hero is however nothing i
grnee from the manufacturing district*, 1 .r h - ;be
supposition thal the demand,ailhmigh »*x
i the trade has arisen from any symptom '
; me tin the interior; but rather hat a ~ty
, replenishing the stock of the raw male « tn
f immediate canse.
The accounts from the other side of th ai a
I far tiom exhibiting a lively aspect, am I *refr
f little calculated to impart any spirit to I . . ■
I iho-e received from the U- Slates being a
advices aheady in onr possession, ennta noi l *ins
1 peculiarly inieies'ing and were conseqm pr< '»•
I tive of no change It is however antieip *he
» steamer of |6th inat.. which is hourly e II
a be the vehicle of important news, and
therefore looked lorwaid to, with a cert, > .
anxiety.
Imports—R237 bales.
? Saleh from 24th to 31st May.
f S BO . ba,eß N Orle an», duly paid. F 48-
31« “ Mobile, u tt r.4_
f 2' i 62 •* Upland. “ n ki_
p 22») ‘ Brazil, *i uan
e 200 “■ Peruvian, “ «27
’ 3i84 hales.
t Stock 3lßi May, 1845—90,000 bales, of
t bales were American.
s :
e Morsi’s Magnetic Telegn
1 The interest which lhe public h !• :
important invention, induced yg to gait- h
, Mi. Kendall, who ba* just returned
I wliat progress has been made in t|
J ments for bringing it into general us
, The funds were subscribed a mil
I built) aline of two wires tiom Nej
’ Philadelphia, on the completion of '
intended to extend it to Baltimore, ti o i
? nect with the existing line from W j. n.
‘ The contraci for ihe wire lias been.
- but for the inability of the agents d
t pany to procure the consent of the N •
- and Camden anil Amboy Railroad ( .. ■■
to the erection ofthe posts on the use)
of their roads, the Telegraph would .
■ a course of construction. Various pr
: have been made, upon none of whicl
i Railroad Companies come to any i,. . .
’ sion; and we learn that the agent*ot i e'.>
, graph Company, alter spending ovet : u c'i
t in attempting to obtain a decision, I , . .1/
turned their attention to proearing lb- t >1
way on other routes with tlie prospect ..
1 diate success. Il the RailroadCotnpi • • -
suit their own interest however, they •••■ >r,
rloubierily take snne decisive action o • - ib
ject before il is too late.
In ilie meantime, arrahgemeitta h. v
entered upon to secure the construct 1 •. a
line ol Telegraph Irom Buffalo through '■ j st. -,.
&c. to Springfield, Massachusetts, 1 her ■. .)-
nectwitli a line Irom New Yolk to Bog)n I . ••
portion ol this line first to be constructed .■ ■ 1
Utica to Albany, whereon lhe Railroa U
panies have promptly granted the righ' <■'
■ on liberal terms. The readiness oi tl u. u
■ road Companies on that line, and the e. 1 f v
; th” genileinan uho has undertaken the 1
1 John Butteiii-Id, E-q., of Utica, will p
, cause it to be the first constructed ot the
1 lines now in contemplation.
1 This movement will be followed imrc '.
I Iv “v the construction of a line from Nei.
■ <0 B rslon, for which tlie funds have t
been offered on the terms marie with lhe
pany who have undertaken the linelrom
ing to New York.
An energetic movement will in a few
TtiTonsir HaruEiHirg to 'PuisEiirog,
L mis, with a branch tothe Lakes. ASrix*?
spirit has arisen in Kentucky and other \
ein Slates, which wi I meei this move
from the East, and cannot fail to crown it t 1
speedy sutcess.
A lin» has been contracted for Irom New
leans 10 Mobile, the wire has been ordered ■
a portion of it shipped to N”W Orleans, and
or two wires, it is expected, will be in opera
before next winter.
No step lias been taaen towards construe
a line irom Washington through the Soutl r’■
cities to Mobile; but another rear-aill not f
before the people of those cities will be prei
ed to step forward with their means to aid r
bringing to their doors tlie benefits ol this w
derlul invention.
All 'resent turangements are made in
ference to a rule by ihe owners of the patent,
the whole patent right to the next Congress £
making lhe telegraph a governm-nt macli.
if the people desire it; bul if, within then
session, Congress make no provision for 1
purchase, the rights of all those who now 11'
gagein ihe enterprise, will become absolute a ‘i
cannot be divested without thel> consent.
Al lhesame|ime, lhe connections betwr
the various interests ..re so framed, tha' I
whole business may be canted on as a privt
enterprise without inconvenience to the count
or-he proprietors. Tariff's o! charges on 1
different lines will be published and the count
1 tion between them will be such that aco inn
nicatirm paid lor and started at nny point in t
Union will be conveyed without interruptii
or additional charge to any other point whe
■he wires ex'end.
The Telegraph will lie made n servant o/ t
Public, just as the Post Office Department no
is, and not the instrument of private speculatio
It will put down the systems of carrier pigeon
signal firesand private Telegraphs which no
exist in the country and are growing to a
alarming extent. The proprietors of this gre.
invention will be content, with making it th
servant ot others at a fair price for its use, we
knowing that If they were otherwise disposer
they would not and ought not to be permute
lo u«e it as an instrument of privatej<gesjjtaii<H
- Z7. S’ Journal.
Sinotmo-ah COMMO* Schools. —I n Bv-sto
nsTFeTTas B iltnnore, ihe practice is universal
and approved by every body. A docuinen
lately given to the public, signed bv for’v oni
clergymen, embracing the most distinguished ft
that city, expresses their highest confidence ir.
singing, scientifically taught, as a method
mmol suasion, and suggests to their brethren in
lhe ministry, that they enconraGe, by public ad
dresses or other wise, as they may deem proper
the cultivation of music, n .tonlyin common
schools, among the youth of ou- country, hut
also in other common spheres of life. A num
ber of distinguished physicians of New York
have also given their opinion that vocal musie,
properly restricted and regulated, is an exercise
of great value to the energy and healthy condi
tion of lhe vocal organs.— Balt.. Sun.
Another New and Important Rail-Road
Invention.— We are informed bv J. Hancock,
Esq., patent Agent, in this city, that letters pa
tent are now 111 progress for an original Rail
road Safety Guard that bids lair to become an
important invention. Its object is to prevent
locomotives, cars, tec., from running off' the
track, and in the event of an axle's breaking to
save further damages. Disiderata to lhe whole
communitv. The cost of applying it lo rail
roads already in use will not exceed, we under
stand, th” ordinary expenses of repairs, 6k.,
hut on the contrary will serve to lessen the ■;
besides having a tendency to keep animals off
the track. The speed, it is said, can also he
increased to 60 miles an hour, or more, with
perfect safety to life and property.— U. S. Ga
zette.
Ths Footßale was run over the Cambridge
Trotting Course on Tuesday afternoon, accord
ing to advertisement. Os the numerous entries
only three did lhe ten miles within lhe hour—
namelv:
John Gilrleisleeve, of N. Y. 57m. 19».
Michael Cavanaugh, of Conn. 59 19
C. Desmond, of Boston, 59 561
The first took the purse, SSOO ; the next best,
Cavanaugh, won $1 0, and Desmond SSO.
Tne spectators were very numerous, perhaps
5000.-. V. Y Son.
Wool Growing at the West.—Western
papers are cougiamlaiing the people on the
fair clips of wool realized for lhe first time in
many sections this spring. In Jackson county,
Michigan, the yield is estimated by the Patriot,
al 50000 pounds, m rth $12,500. Witt) good
care, in a country where lan 1 costs next to no
thing, the increare ol' flock’ will about nay the
cost ot keep. Wool and wheat growing, aided
by clover, timothy and plaster, will soon be the
In nin inent branchesof Agriculture in Michigan,
Wisconsin and Illinois.
lhe negro woman who was arrested on
suspicion ol selling fire to Mrs. England's I ouse
on Sunday morning last, was yesterday exam
ined belore Justices Raiford, Finney and Hart,
and after a patient investigation of all the facts
“■as discharged, tlie Court being of the unani
mous opinion ihat ’he was not guilty.— Savan
nah Rep.