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HISCELLANY.
Mere of Mr. Webster.
A correspondent of the New York Time* giro*
dome incidents of the doss of Mr. Webster's
career. He says;
“Tbe statement that Mr. Webster lay in a sort
of stupor some time before bio deoth, i» incorrect.
He »• exported, indeed, by physical prostration
and protracted suffering; but o hundred little
token* of intelligence end recognition gave unmin-
Ukeable evidence that at no moment did he ever
lone bi» consciousness. Although it t* now seen
that tbe maroh of hia disease bad been straight
forward and rapid for some time; and though he
evidently felt bis sinking situation, and wa. pre
paring for the last great change, he maintained
his cheerfulness to the last, giving thereby hope,
which hie gam triune, either or body or miud,
could not justify.
“ Hia public duties were punctually attended to.
Even as late as Friday last he received the morn
ing’s mail, bad ita contents laid before him by bis
secretaries, and gave directions concerning the
business of which hia letters treated. On Monday
week be wrote hia hurt autograph letter ; it was to
tbe President.
« Bo calm and clear was his mind, that he never
forgot even the health, eomfort ami happiness of
his domosUea. Hisiaithfal nurse refused to U»ve
his side daring the lsst days of his illness to obtain
needed rest. Mr. Webster saw she was worn
down, and insisted so earnestly on her retiring for
nwhile that tbe acquiesced so far as to intimate
her intention to obey him. But a few moments
later she made her appearance again, when Mr.
W., in a compassionating and yet merry tone,
. exclaimed, ‘Ah ! there's that everlasting Barab
*“Vhe great man did not forget even the sensi
bilities of the dependents who hod long looked
upon him as their protector as well as employer.
In bis last hoars he gave instructions for the man
ufcotureof four plain go'd rings, to bo presented
to tha following named persons, who had served
him faithfully for many year*: harsh Smith (the
nurse,) Monica McCarty (his aged cook), Ann
Kean, and Wm. Johnson, domestics. He ordered
the initials of his own name, and that of each of
the beneficiaries, together with the date, to be en
graven on those tokens of regard. #
In looking directly in the face of the deoeased,
the ravages of disease are painiully apparent in the
sharpened, almost ghastly feature*. But standing
a little on one side, thus viewing the strongly
marked profile, one requires all his quickened
sensibilities to sgfle tbe impression that our friend
sloop* the sleep of life, end will soon wake agaiu.
We are inclined to tread softly outlie carpet, and
speak in whispers, lest we interrupt his repose;
and if a pin drops we turn involuntarily to see if
tbe unclosing eye gives evidence that the sleeper
wakens. But, no. alas I tbe end of life ties been
with him, end we know hie future ie in eternity.
The corpse le arrayed in such habiliments as his
compeers of the Senate have often seen him in,
when on a bright summer morning he sought the
Senate Hull, to pour the words of wisdom and the
light of truth upon some topic of surpassing public
interest. A blue cost, with plain guilt buttons,
vest and pants ot sj>otle»s white, are substituted
lor the shroud. A white neckcloth encircles the
throat, over which is turned the shirt collar. The
feet are encased in silken hose and shoes of patent
leather. The liair of the deceased is parted and
disposed as in life; and hia w.iito-gloved hands
are crossed upon his breast. The lips are slightly
parted, just at when about to speak. How fitting
is the appearance of the remains! They seem,
indeed, to sloop but for an hour; and their habili
ments, though prepared for tlio grave, still sug
gests life, *ud feed the lingering imagination
which would reanimate the helpless clay.
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It is designed strictly to regard the dying wish of
Mr. Webster as respects to his funeral. It will he
simple and unostentatious. No military will escort
him to the tomp; and his only dirge will be chairat
ed by theses, whose lotdistantroaringnow breaks
the stillness ofthe evening sir.
It is only a fornight since Mr. Webster last ven
tured in tho open air. On that occasion he rode
over to tlie burial ground, and gave some minute
directions in relation to improvements to bo made.
Ho wa* evidently musing on the theme of death,
and anticipating the spoody realization of all it*
solemn tacts, llisoonversatlnn— as it hud been for
some lime past—was principally upon immortality
—the lit'o beyond the grave. Returning home, he
found seated beneath * noble old elm which stands
nt the east of his mansion, a bridal party from Dux
-I,ury. He smiled pleasantly upon them, but was
tooinuoh exhausted to halt for conversation, and
retired atouce to his room. The gay party on the
lawn soon after sung some songs in compliment to
the distinguished proprietor, when Mr. Webster,
somewhat refreshe , came out and addressed to his
young friends u lew words of weloomo and con
gratulation on the consummation they were celo
bruting. How rapidly wo puss from the bridal hull
to the ohainher of death! The proprietor of
Marabliold, returning from the “place he had pre
pared" for himself, his thoughts on tho world be
yond it, moots aliuppybridul party whose pleuaure
lie sought to hoighted by his benediction;—und in
•me short (fortnight we soo him laid in the cold
grave, and realize that tho eternal world of which
lie wondered then, now lions oil opon before his
viaion!
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At a public mooting in Boston nt which it was
resolved to erect a monument to Mr. Webster, tho
lion. Kdwurd Everett, movod the audience to tours
by recounting inoidenU in his acquaintance with
Mr. Webster.
Mr. Evor stated that whon ho waa ten years old,
lit' attended u school in Short street. Boston, taught
bv Mr. Webster’s brother; the teacher falling sick.
Mr, Webster himself officiated for some days, and
there the acquaintance first qpmmcnced; beneath
Mr. Web-'ter’s influence ho camo into life, and in
connection with that statesman ho had gained the
highest honors of his humble life.
The fact wo* (liontionod that, when the task of
editing tho life of Mr. Webstor was given to Mr.
Everett a few years alljoe Mr. Webßter had mudo
the almost prohibitory request that ull those por
tion* of his speeehos which iisd a tone of uukind
ncss to others in them, should bo erased —also, that
Mr. Calhoun, on his death bed, had said, that there
was no man with whom he had come in oontact
wiiose probity and honor he respected more than
Daniel Webster.
Ti)o remains of Mr. Webster will be deposited on
bU own domains, amid the scenes which wore so
familiar and door to his living days. The Tom'o
bos been prepared with characteristic taste and
-are. It iaatatod by a gentleman wbo visitod this
sacred spot lo womnany with Mr. Webster, that the
i,nly words wliloh he uttered during tho visit woro
uttered while poiutlpg to the tomb and the green
sward, and were as follow* s
“ This must be my home, and here three monu
ments will aoon bo erected; one fbr the uiotbor ot
my children; one, each, for Juliaand Edward; and
there will bo plonty of room In front for the little
nnos that must follow them.”
Daniel Webster's Private Life. >
The N. Y. Commercial Advertiser has been per
mitted to copy the following letter from the proof
shoots fifths ‘‘Private Life of Daniel Webster,”
now in tlifi press of Harper & Brothers, from the
pen of Charles' Lanaman Esq. It is exceedingly
interesting, end the conclusion is touching. It
was addressed to bi»‘ Franklin overseer.
WaauL' ,oTo -‘ i ' March 17th, 1862.
‘•John Taylor—
“Go ahead. The lioart of the Winter it broken,
and before the first day of April all your lanu may
he plowed. Buy tho Oxen of Captain Marstoii »;
you think tho price fair. Pay for the hay. laona
you a cheek for SIBO for these two objects. Put
the great oxen in u condition to be turned out
imd luttened- You have, a good horse team, and
1 think ill addition to this, tour oxen, and a pair of
four-year old steers will do vour work. If you
think so, then dispose of the Stevens oxen, or un
\ oko them and send them to the pasture, for beof.
J know not when 1 shall see you but I hope be
fore planting. If you need anything such as guano
tor instance, write to Josoph Book, Esq., Boston,
imd he will send it to you.
“ Wlialovor ground you sow or plant, see that it
is in good condition. Wo warn, no jtennyioytU
crops. * A little farm well tilled,' is to a farmer tho
next beat tbiug to ‘a little wilo well willed.’ Cul
tivate your garden. Be sure to produce suffloiout
quantities of useful vegetables. A man may halt
support his family from a good garden. Tako care
to keep my mother’s garden in good order, even it
i: costs you tho wages of a man to tuke care of it.
! have sent you many garden seeds. Distribute
them among your neighbors. Send them to the
the stores in’the vilTsgo, that every body may
have u part of them without cost, lam glad that
you have chosen Mr. Pike ‘representative. lie is
i true mun: but there are in New Hampshire many
(persons who call themselves Whigs who are no
'iVfiigs at ull, and are no better than disuniouists.
Any man who hesitates in granting and securing
to every part of tho country its just and constitu
tional rights, is an enemy to the whole country.
“John Taylor! ifouo of your boys should say
that he honors his father and mother, nnd loves
lii- brothers and sisters, but still insists that one
•>f them shall ho driven out of tho furnily, what
ran you say of him but this, that there is no real
tAuifly love in him I You and 1 are farmers; we
never talk polities, our talk is of oxen; but remem
ber this: tout any man who attempts to excite oue
part of the country against another, is just as
wicked ns he would be who should attempt to get
up a quarrel between John Taylor and his neigli
>H>r, old Mr. Jno. Sanborn, or bis other neighbor,
Caplain Burleigh. There are some animals that
Jive best in the fire; and there are some men who
delight iu hem,smoke,combustion, mid evengene
raj wmfiogralion. They do not follow the things
which rnuke for peace. They enjoy Only contro
versy, contention, aud strife. Have no eouimuuion
with »lieh persons, either a* neighbors or politi
cians. You have no more rigbtto say that slavery
< night no* to exist in Virginia, than a Virginiaii
Ins to sav that slavery ought to exist in New
Hampshire.- This is a question left to every state
to decide for ilaalf; and if wo mean to keep the
{State* together, we must jMP to every State thia
jiower of deciding for itsem
“ I think 1 never wrote jm e word before upon
t'olitics. 1 shall not do it again. I only say love
y our country, uud your whole country ; and when
inen attempt to persuade you to get into a quarrel
with the laws of other State*, tell them‘that you
mean to mind your own business,’ and advise them
to mind theirs". John Taylor, you are* free man;
•you possess good principles; you have a large fam
ily to rear and provide for by your labor. Be
tiisnklul to the Government which does not op
press you, which does not bear you down by ex
•aasive taxation, but which holds out to y ou and to
wurs the hone of all the blessings which liberty,
J.idustry and security may give. John Taylor,
,i, mk God, morning and eveuiug, that you were
ylo, u >“ snob a country. John Ta-rior, never write
another word upon polities. Give my kindest
> mem Frances to your wife and children; and
when vt ® look frora >’ our Mrtßrn window* upon
t c graves of m . v f * m, ly, remember that he who is
ft e author v'f this letter must aoon follow them to
uuother worio}- « Dawtxl Wnma"
Mwnmmsu iT h‘> Webster's Fanned Hall
a “RRhE wt‘fl» d the following notice of
• ns of our large, respectab i*
« euominationa—the Ministers of whoee Geueral
4'oufefence were present:
We see here, to-day, delegate mM>t* 8r *
«t the greatest Christian denomiuatiot.. . A" 8
l’nited States, coming from the North prOu .}>
i rtainlv, from the South and West; and who u
lot glad lo see them! (Applause.} They oome !
i » friends; and who would wish to soe them in
my othercapaeity! Andes for myself, gentlemen,
' soy to them, I bid you welcome. [The member*
o•' the Methodist Conference now rose in a body.}
J. .id you welcome to Fanned Hall, the birth place
« ( American liberty. Weloome to Boston, the seat
<. «. mnieroo, enterprise aud literature. Welcome
I , Jfi'-ssaolmsetts, the home of public education.
W’e we.’oome you for your many Christian virtues, !
t d ft>r good you have accomplished in thie
< ciutrv an d abroad. Jn the course of my life I
3 ~v* not box'h «n uninterested reader of your his
t rv. 1 know' something of Charles Wesley. Dy
-1 —at a great aft ®< shortly after our independence
\ secured, Sex’* were his last words: “The ,
v orkmen die, but Jhe work goes ou " [Cheers.}
2 workmen wbo ftwmed the institutions end the 1
t if Coostitation of our fiountry have passed away, j
1 it tlieir work lives after them. These same insti- j
I itionsand that same Constitution have been up- |
1 Id by us, and I trust, will i* sustained by our
children forever. Although the workmen may
< c, yet may the work go on.
I have read many years since, ttc b,ography of
John Wesley, an extraordinary parson, the great
f.under and apostle of the eo«eiy, who died, I
t ink, in 17#l, at the advanced age of eighty-three
j aix. Hi* lest words were, “The best of all is.
(. al is with ns.” Those sentiment* have been
w underfully Illustrated in the subsequent history
• Methodism, of which Soathy said strongly that
b was “rttigion, i» ton**."
The bullion of the Bank of England has issued
f notice, that f-om the Ist of November ensuing,
• <M will, in future, be weighed by the troy ounce
a ,d its dr.i..i*l parts,instead of by pound*, emtee#,
t'Pinw Ighte. and grains. This will tend math j
simplify calfadatiOM- |
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From (As X T. Commercial Advertiser.
Daniel Webster.
We have baen favored with the perusal of a let
ter written by Mr. Webstar to an iutimate friend in
this city, dated Franklin, May 3,1844, fiom which
we make the extract below, and which we are sure
will be read at this time with unusual intent:
‘•I have made *ati.-fcctory arrangements re
specting my bouse here, the best of which is that
1 can !e.ive it where it is, and yet be comfortable,
notwithstanding ihe railroad.
“ This boose laces doe north. Its front windows
look toward the river Merrimack. But then tbe
river aoons tarns to tbe south, the eastern
windows look toward the river also. But the river
has so deepened ita channel in this stretch of it, in
the last fifty years, that we cannot see ita waters
without approaching it or going back to tbe higher
lands behind ns. The history oi this chAge is of
considerable importance in tbs philosophy of
streams. 1 have observed particularly, and know
something of the theory of the phenomenon,
but 1 doubt whether tbe world will ever be benefits
ed either by my learning or my observation in
this respect.
“ Looking ont at the east windows, at thia mo
ment, (2 p. m.,) with a beautiful sun iost breaking
out, my eye sweeps a rich and level field of one
hundred acres. At the end of it, a third of a mile
off, I see plain marble grave-stones, designating
the place where repose my father, my mother, my
brother Joseph, and my sisters Mehitable, Abigail
and Sarah , good Scripture names, inherited from
their Puritiau tncestors.
“My lather! Ebenezer Webster'.—born at Kings
ton, in the lower part of the State, in 1788—the
handsomest man 1 ever saw, except my brother
Ezekiel, who appeared to me, and so does he now
seem to me, the very finest human form that ever
I laid eyes on. I saw him in his coffin—a white
forehead—a tinged cheek—a complexion as clear
as heavenly light I But where am 1 straying!
“ The grave has closed upon him, as it has on all
my brothers and sisters. We shall soon be all
together. But this is melancholy—and 1 leave it.
Dear, dear kindred blood, how I love you ail.
“ This fair field is before me—l could see a lamb
on any part of it. I have ploughed it, and raked
it, and boed it, but I never mowed it. Somehow,
I could never learn to hang a scythe 11 had not
wit enough. My brother Joe used to say that my
father sent me to college in order to make meequsl
to the rest of the children !
“Os a hot day in July—it must have been one
of the last years of Washington's administration—
I was making hay with my father just where I now
see a remaining elm tree, about the middle of the
afternoon. The Hon. Abiel Foster, M. C., who
'ived in Canterbury, six miles off; called at the
house, and came into the field to see my father.—
He was a worthy man, college learned, and had
beenaminister, but was not a person of any consid
erable natural powers. My father was his friend
and supporter. He talked a while in the field, and
went on bis way. When he was gone my father
called me to him, and we sat down beneath the
| elm tree, on a hay oock. fie said, ‘My son, that
is a worthy man—he is a member of Congress—he
! goes to Philadelphia, and gets six dollars a day,
I while I toil here. It is because he had an educa
tion, which I never had. If I had had his early
education, I should have been in Philadelphia in
his place. I came nearitas it was. But 1 misssd
it, and now I must work here.’ ‘My dear Cither,’
said I, ‘you shall not work. Brother and I will
work for you and wear our hands out and you shall
rest;’ ana I remember to have cried ; and I cry
now at the recollection. ‘My child,’ said he it is
of no importance to me—l now live but for
my children; I could not give your elder brother
the advantages of knowledge, but 1 cun do some
thing for you. Exert yourself—improve yonr op
portunities— learn — learn— and when l um gone
you will not need to go through the hardships
which I have undergone, and which have made uie
urn old man before my time.’
“The next May he took me to Exeter, to the
Phillips Exeter Academy, placed me under the tui
tion of its excellent proceptor, Dr. Benjamin Ab
bott, still living.
“My futhor died in April 180*. I neither left
him nor forsook him. My opening an office at
Bosoowan wus that 1 might be near him. I closed
his eyes in this very house. He died at sixty-seven
years of ago—after a life of exertion, toil, and ex
posure—u private soldier, an officer, a legislator, a
judge—every thing that man could be, to whom
learning never had disolosed her ‘ample page.’,
“My first speech at the bar was made when he
was on the bench—he uover heard ms a second
time.
“Ho had in him what I recollect to have been
the character of some of the old Puritans. Ho was
deeply religious but not sour ; on the contrary,
good humored, fucetious—showing even in his
uge, with a contagious laugh, teeth all as white as
alabaster—gontlc, soft, pTuyl'ul, and yet having a
heart in him, that he seemod to have borrowed
from a lion. lie could frown a frown ; it was but
cheerfulness, good-humor and smiles composed
his most usual aspect.
“Ever truly, your friend,
“Daniil Wzbstbr."
Mr. Webster’s Oratory.
The Philadelphia Bulletin thus alludes to some
of tho characteristics of Mr. Webster’s mind, and
to his oratory:
“Yet Itis intellect was sluggish, rather than active;
and required tiie stimulus of a great oceusion to
bring out it* full strength; like some enormous
machine, it was not easily sot in motion, but, once
having began, it crushed everything that opposed
it.
“This characteristic affords a key to his career as
an orator. It has been customary in Now England
to extol whatever ho said, s if it was tho perfec
tion of rhetoric and stylo, of thought and language.
Yet few men have made so many careless speeches.
When fired, however, by a sufficient motive, his
whole powers became u-blazo in a moment, and a
torrent of burning eloquence rushed forth, scorch
ing und consuming like liquid lava. If it was a
personal insult that roußed the slumbering lion, his
roar of rugo was appulling, and the spriog and
death-blow that followed were lightning-like and
simultaneous. But it was when some great public
interest, in addition, was at stake, that the mightof
his vast intellect shoue transcondunt. When feebler
minds, awed by the darkness ofthe political firma
ment, fled for shelter irom the tempest, he rushed
forth exultiugly to the elemental war, all his facul
ties stimulated to their utmost. When the thunders
of disuuion muttered in tho distance, he wastliore
foremost to watch tho coming storm; and when at
last they hurst, he offered his forehead to the bolts,
like the Mammoth of Idian tradition, shaking
them off as they fell.
“His second replv to Ilavno is an illustration of
tills. Tho ussauft had been made on him, and on
New England through him, with the avowed pur
pose of crushing tho infitionce of both. Even his
best friends trembled lest the coalition should gain
their objoot. Others feared that tho disunion sen
timents, tlion first broached, would find no adequate
uuswer. But Webster was equal to the emergency
that appalled all others. He bus left on record Ids
feelings when he rose to reply. After the first diz
zy moment was over, during which t he sea of faces
whirled round him; after a single recollection
tlmtbis brother had fallen dead, a few years be
fore, in a climax of similar exoitement;—his facul
ties appeared to grow strangely calm, und there
opened before him, as in aboundless gulf of apace,
all that he had ever read, or thought, or felt, so
that he had but to summon, with a wish, whatever
ho required, and it camo. How skilfully he order
ed his sen iod array, how boldly he poured down
with it on his enemies, and how utter was the dis
comfeiture that iollowod, all know who have heard
of thut immortal day.’ So terrible a defeat was ne
ver but once before. We must go to Milton for
language to deseribe »hoscene
“With the sound
Os torrent floods, or of a numerous host,
He ou Ms impious foes right onward drove,
Olootpg as night.”
“it was on occasions like this that Webster was
truly *?cat:r-and then he surpassed all' others.
Hiapondeijut words, at such times, fitly clothed
his ponderous thoughts: and the swell and roll of
hisvoioe, aooordingto his biographer, was like
wavos upon the Bhoreoftha “far resounding” sea.
His very aspect, when powerfully excited struck
terror to the hearts of iiis adversaries. His eye,
from nuder his dark brows, glowed like a volcano,
or shot sudden and angry lightnings; and his tall
lorm, towering like that of a giant, seemed actually
to dilute as lie proceeded. His retorta were invari
ably lelieitous. Ail instance of this occurred in tho
spceoh to wliioh we have already alluded, when he
turned a quotation made by Bayne against the
South Carolinian himsolf. Ho rarely attempted
pathos, but when he did, drew tears. Hib celebra
ted apostrophe to Massachusetts, In this same
speech, made hourv men, it is said, weep like chil
dren. He was fond of the Bible imagery, especial
ly the grand raotuphors of the prophets. His scorn
blighted wherevor it fell. His irony plsyed with
his victim, making it undergo in anticipation, again
and again, tho agonies of death. But all theao
things were only the accessories to the salid pha
lanx of argument, the light troops skirmishing on
the flank of his array; which, advancing column
upon column, ami concentrating atgast on a single
point, bora cvervthing down before it, like aland
slide on Mount Washington."
Masonic Celebration In Cbarleatan.
An iniposingarmy of emblems and device*, ban
ners and official insignia, charaderietic of the large
and respectable fraternity of Masons, ushered in,
yesterday, the interesting exorcises of the Centen
nial Anniversary of General Washington's Initia
tion into tho Order. At 11 A. M., a procession,
composed of the Grand and Subordinate Lodges of
the state, marohed from the Masonic Hull, through
King, George and Mooting streets, to the Hibernian
Hall, where a numerous assemblage of bright and
merry faces had early congregated to hail their ar
rival. The gorgeous and showy appearance of the
various sectiousof the Order—tho Grand Lodgo,
with its rich, sv mbolic colors, of crimson aud gold
—tho Supreme Council of the Last Degree, white
and gold—Koval Aroh Masons, senrlet and gold—
Knight Templars, black aud silver—and Master
Masons, withnluo and silver, formed quite an at
tractive display. The procession,having entered the
Hall—after preliminary arrangements —tho musical
exercises, under the of Professors Spois
sogger and. Reeves, members of the Order, assist
ed by a number of amateurs, commenced with tho
following introductory Odo, which was sung with
enthusiasm, Professor Speissegger presiding, with
hi* masterly touch on the Piano Forte:
INTRODUCTORY ODE.
Cato Thes, great God, belong
Mystic rites and sacred song.
Lowly bending at thy shrine,
W« hail thy M.ijesty divine.
Glorious Architect a hove.
Source of light and source of loro,
Mere thy light and love prevail.
Bail! Almighty Muster, hail!
Whilst in yonder regions bright.
The Sun by day, the moon by night,
And the sure that gild the sky,
Blazon forth thy praise on high.
Join, O earth! and as you roU,
From east to west, from pole to pole.
Lift to Heaven your grateful lays,
Join the universal praise.
ts arm’d by thy benignant grace,
Sweet friendship link'u the human race,
Pity lodg'd within her breast.
Charity became her gTSst.
There the naked, raiment found;
Sickness, balsam foe its wound;
Boerow, comfort, hunger, bread,
Strangers there a welcome abed,
ftf* to M,°Ood, dispense
Thj divine benevolence.
Teach the tender tear to flow.
Me: tin? at a brother'! wo*.
Like Samaria'e son, that wo
Bleat with boundless charity,
To the admiring world may prove
They dwell in God who dweß in lov*.
> A prater by the Grand Chaplain, Rev. John H
Honour, the choir then s un? the
Dedication Hvmn by M. W. B. B. French, Grand
Master of tho District of Columbia, composed in
reference to til* ;
jyyj|}| BT It. W. ». B. rikSCH,
Croud Matter tf#* ***** ts Ooldmbia.
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Dear shade cf our Brother, descend from above.
And li« to our song of affection snd love,
i Kor deep*our hearts doth thy memory aMde;
| Thy virtue and goodness our footttepa shall guide.
i When the star of thy counter was pale in the Beams,
! When stout hearts were quailing ami weak ones wererivsn.
! Thou tnuredat in God, and His arm was thy stay
i Till hurst out of darkness, the sunlight of day.
UL
I And now to tha' Father Almighty, that Friend.
Let praise, and thanksgiving and glory ascend.
That He WaaarwTOs gave us, and formed him to be
The saviour, the founder, the strength of the free.
The music having cessed, the orator of the day.
Dr. Albert G. Msckey, Grand Secretary and Gwud
Lecturer of the Order, cams forward and delivered
the address which had been emxuneed. It was s
well digested historical sketch of Um connection of
the illustrious Fattier of bin Country with the Ma
sonic Order; his zealous appreciation of and firm
attachment to it* prindplcs aud objects, at evinced
in his correspondence aud writings, from which
t tie speaker quolesWoceaeusual extracts, enforcing
' there.'rota the intrinsic parity of an Institution
i which could thus win and command the admira
tion and reverence of so great and good a patriot.
The noise at tha door of tho hall, and especially
the running about to and fro of tiegro nunet and
babitt, (whose capability of appreciating the merit*
of such occa ions as these, is sufficiently doubtful
to render tha propriety ts their admittion a matter
wall vrtrUy of fouje eoatideration) derived pa
• iJ
altogether of the pleasure of hearing the first part
of tbe address. What we did bear was in good
taste, and in keeping with tbe well known relents
and learning of tne speaker and practical familiari
ty with his theme, and wae listened to with un
wavering interest and satiafiKUon by hia audience.
Tbe concluding anthem, with ita inspiring
charms, (the solo, led by the dear melodious voice
of Professor Beeves, and the benediction by the
Grand Chaplain, closed tbe Centennial Celebration
of Washington’s Initiation, in this city. Long
ere another Centennial period shall have rolled
around, the many load and cbeerfu] voices which
united in the harmonious strains and festive senti
ments of this occasion, will have been hushed for- j
ever in the stillness of tbe grave, and the forms i
that now tread the halls ofthe Earthly Lodge ini
tiated in the mysteries ofthe Celestial Lodge above,
where the secrets of all hearts will be disclosed
before the Great Master and Architect of the Uni
verse—Ch. (Jour.
From the S. 0. Picayune letvut.
One Week Later From Mexico.
By the brig America, Capt. Maloney, we have
received onr files of Vera Cruz papers to the 12th,
Jalaps to the 7th, and from the city of Mexico to
the-7 th uit.
The Higlo Piet y Fuete of the 3d ult. says:
•‘Yesterday waa the day named by the commis
sion for opening the propositions for the'Tehuan
tepec carriage road and railway. A
tion having been presented by Senor Lacunza be
yond the terms and time owned in the call, all the
bidders protested against tfo bid and refused to
recognize it if it was opened. On each bidder
being called upon to recognize his scaled proposal,
the representatives of the mixed company said
their proposition was contained in three sheets,
and there appearing only one in the hands of the
commissioners, it was evident they could not form
an exact and impartial judgment on incomplete
documents; that they protested against tbe open
ing of their propositions, and if the commission
then wished to proceed they had nothing further
to sav. The other bidders asked that all the pro
positions shou'd be opened, but the commissioners
not feeling themselves authorized so to do, resolved
to suspend proceedings until next day in order to
consult with the Government.”
We find no turther mention of this subject until
the Siglo Diet y Fusts of the 7th, which says:
“With respect to the propositions for the road
we cannot form any opinion, while we know the
terms of tho Guadalupe company only. If in this
affair there is to be a secret part, the partial pub
licity will be of no service. With respect to the ,
proposition of el Senor Ballange, it seems to us
strange indeed that this gentleman should be said
to represent a Mexican company when not a single
Mexican name is presented by him ; and we think
the Government and commissioners should take
care to be well assured ofthe existence of compa
nies bidding. In regard to the too late proposal,
we understand it is from Mr. Stephens, who is
represented by Mejia and Calderon. Senor Arrago
said at first that it came from Senor Lacunza
through the President; afterwards he said that it
had been received in due time by Seuor Ramirez.
Tbe idea has hsen started that the company which
obtaina the grant shall assume the responsibility
of satisfying the claims oftbe United States. Leav
ing the examination of this idea to some other
time, it would seem to us that this is equivalent to
recognizing those claims, which are entirely
groundless, and such a step would be dishonora
ble for Mcxioo, and would iutroduoe an enormous
difficulty into the question.”
Riva Pulacio has addressed a letter to the editors
of the Siglo Due u Fueve, in tho name of Munoz
Ledo, enclosing them the propositions of the Gu
ansjuto Company, in which he says that State and
those of Mexico and Oazaca are associated. The
propositions are that—
The Supreme Government shall associate with
the company, which shall receive the exclusive
privilege without any other restrictions than the
law of tbe 14th March, 1852:
The company to build a carriage road within
three years; and within four years after that, the
railroad to be finished:
The company to receive all transit dues, storage,
&c., for suoh time as is necessury to reimburse tbe
outlay, provided it docs not exceed eighty yeans:
The" Government to code to the company all public
lands it may consider necessary for the building of
the road and its appurtenances, with the right to
use tho wood and material on public land —private
lands to be paid for:
Machinery, &c., for the road, to pay no import
duty; and, during the first year, food for opera
tives jo have tho same exemption:
The compuuy to build tho whnrves, docks, and
other works necessary for security ofthe ports—
Mexican troops to be carried free, and Mexican
munitions of warata tariff seventy-five per cent
less than freight:
Transit to be free to all nattons, excepting only
such restrictions as tho Government may impose. -
Foreign troops und munitions to bo conveyed only
by express license of the Government.
The company having no views of lucre in the
proposition, und considering only the interest,
safety and independence of the country, leaves to
the Congress thesstipulution of tho recompense
they shall receive after the road has paid for itself.
The company will give security for the perform
ance of the work.
War, cpidcmio or other accident, which may de
lay the execuiion thereof, shall retrievo the re
sponsibility ofthe company.
Government shall not authorize the cutting of
an interoceanio canal until the railroad is finished.
Government to take one-third interest in the
work.
The shareholders not to sell their stock to any
other than a shareholder, without the consont of a
majority thereof. .
Tho law of the press had been published by
nearly all of the Governors of the States. The
Governor of Guanajuato hud not done so, consid
ering it unconstitutional.
The TempoaUtca, of Jalapa, publishes an extra
on the Bth, with a letter to the Governor stating,
that the insurgents had again entered Orizaba, and
that fighting was going on in the streets between
them and tho national guard. At night the guard
had lost flvo killed and eleven wounded, und as
the enemy held several positions, tbe letter says
they would begin again the next inoruiog.
The Universal, of the Bd, says:
“ Even during the day there are troops in all the
towers of tho capital. Many half pay and retired
officers had received orders to hold themselves in
readiness for service.”
The propositions made by the Count Cortina
for the opening of the railroad between Mexico and
Tlilpan, navo been approvod by tho Government.
In Michoagan a decree had been published im
posing penalty of death on the chiefs of pronunci
amientos.
The Siglo Diti y Fueve says last night several
men went into the cathedral and tying the six sa
cristans broke open and robbed tho safe o's one of
tho priests. Ouo of the BsoristaUH was slightly
wounded. The robbers fled. Several robberies of
the diligence bad taken place.
Rebouedo had been attackod when at tho head
of thirty-five or forty men, and tho baud dispers
ed.
A baud of Apaches had bcon defeated near Tes
nado, in Sonora, and a captive woman rescued.
Tho Sflcretory of the French Legation had re
turned to Mexico, as was supposed, with impor
tant despatches relative to the two and a half mill
ion business.
Gen. Uraga had refused the command offered him
in Guanajuato, and had determined to settle as a
planter in the 6ierru.
Two companies of troops were ordered from the
capital to Chaleo.
An opidomic similar to tho cholera has broken
out at Acapulco. •
From the Few Orleans Picayune, 4 th inet.
Two Weeks Later from Mexico.
By the brig Tehuantepec wo have received full
files of our Mexican exchanges up to the 23d from
Vera Cruz, and the 19th ult from the city of Mexico.
The news presents many points of interest, but
they are all of that disorganized character which
has so long marked the advices from tiiat country.
The extra session of Congress opened on the 15th
ult v and General Arista delivered a long speech,
which we shall notice to-morrow. Tho Govern
ment had reoinded the law of the press on the 13th
in consequonoo, as the decree says, of the ascer
tained certainty that the members of Congress
would attend the extra session, and that the Go
vernment could count on their co-oporation to put
an end to the agitations that embarrass the Ropub
lio.
On the 16th three impeachment bills were pre
sented in Congress, one against the Minister of Jus
tice for having decreed the law of the press, one
against Sandoval, chief clerk of the War Depart
ment, for having directed a comandante to disobey
tho orders of the court in tho affair of Senor Be
tancourt; and one against Sdhor Ramirez, ex-Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs, for the dissolution of the
Ayuntamieuto.
The eitv of Mexico was in a continued state of
alarm. The Universal of the 18th says:
“Spies are making their harvest from the credu
lity and fear of the Government. Last night the
roof of the palace was filled with all the munitions of
war necessary to resist an attack; the sentinels were
doubled, watches were set, aud all the preparations
usual under the pressure of fear or danger were
made. Useless precautions; every one laughs at
these stops."
The Signal of the samo day says:
“Last uigbt about half-past 2 a rooket-bomb ex
ploded in tho Pltsa dt Armor, and alarmed the Go
vernment and the pyiice. This will probably give
rise to new arrests.”
Many now papers of an ephemeral charaoter have
been started in the eitv of Mexico, with such titles
as Asmodeus, the Jalisco Monkey, the Mexican,
&0., ass directed atraiust the Government.
The Minister o? War has issued a circular in
which the State authorities are directed to arrest
all military men wlm have not the neoessarv pass
ports, aud to proceed against them according to
law, especially if there is any suspicion thatthey in
tend to join the insurgents.
A bill has been introduced in Congress to grant
an amnesty to parties engaged in the Vera Cruz
movement. Os this movement the Monitor says:
“Senatois Salouiero and Soto, commissioned by
tho State Government of Vera Cruz to confer
with the Supreme Government in relation to the
affairs of that State, yesterday began to hold
interviews with the President and Ministers. It is
proble that measures will be taken to allay the
alarm in those places occupied by the insurgents,
and it is to be hoped concessions will be made to
the people.”
Reboiledo has proclaimed the plan of Guadala
jara with some additions.
On the Ist October Gov. Carkenas took formal
rwesession ofthe gubernatorial chair of Tamaulipas.
The Tampico Commercio says that the trade of
that place is almost entirely destroyed by the im
mense quantities of goods smuggled into the
Northern States over the frontier. The Legisla
ture of Tamaulipas has decreed :
u Th**- do one shall b© prosecuted nor molested
in the State in consequence of religious tenets.”
The Union, of Vera Crcz has dates from Y ucatan
to the td of October. The papers contain no news
of the war carried on there with the Indians. ;
The Siglo Diet y Fueve, of Mexico, says that ]
Don Miguel Barbachan has been reappointed Go- |
vemor of Yucatan.
The Universal says: |
“The aituation of the frontier States is daily
more and more deplorable, and instesd of s decided
and efficacious assistance, they receive only a
sterile compassion. The enthusiasm which some
time since existed here in their favor has subsided.
In fact, nothing is done, nothing is undertaken
with resolution and energy to remove the horrors
to which those States are a prey, and the j
efforts ot a few good citizens, when they are not j
destroyed by the indolence of othors, are ruined *
by opposition from those who should most sup- j
port them.”
A new line of stages is advertised from the city
of Mexico to Tepic, on the Paoific. Stages leave
Vera Cruz every day, and Mcxioo thrice a week.
Fare from Vera Cruz to Mexico $35, from Mexico
to Tepic sso. Time through thirteen to fourteen
j “avs, including two for rest. Road ssid to be ex
oellent, hotels abundant at $2 a day, meals 75 cents.
, A branch line will be run to San Bias as soon as
‘ the read is repaired. Distance twenty leagues,
fare f 10.
The following is a summary of the state of the
several prononciamietitoß cow in Mci
loot
In Michcacan the insurgents continue to make
preparations for resistance.
In Jalisco the Guadala’ara movements is stated
to be in a bad way, and matter* likely to return to
I their former state.
tstato of Vera Cruz, affairs look better for
the Government. The insurgents are repulsed at
Orizaba.
The Supreme Government and that of Jalapa
are about to take measures to establish tranquility
| A movement at Morelia had been suppressed.
Bxaw Salxo* Wool.—Tb# largest single trans
action of wool evsr mxjj in this market is noted
this week, and we doubt whether it has often
been exceeded by any city in the United States.
The quantity sold was 280,000 pounds, amounting
in the aggregate to $125,00© cash. A. D. Bullock,
Esq., wss the purchaser. The prices realized sho w
a verv large advanoe on the rate* at which tfie
market opened —ducimnati Gaeetls Oct. 25.
Droto the X. O. Picayune.
Farther Tram Mexico.
We wi in our last evening’s issoe a rapid
sketch orthe news from Mexico, brought by the
Tehuantepec. Wo now present those points
which a want of time and space compelled ns to
deiav.
The French vessel of war Oreste, now at Vera
Crux, appears to be only the forerunner of a
Freuch squadron on their way to support by strong '
argument, if necessary, the demands of the" French i
Miuister in Mexico, in the case of the French sub
ject, laifont, who was some time since, at the in- |
stance of the Mexican clergy, thrown into prison >
for marrying a Mexican woman merely under the j
civil form of contract, without the assistance of a |
priest.
It was reported that the commander of the Span- I
ish brig of war Galiaco, now at Sacrifieios, nad ;
gone up to the city of Mexico as bearer of official j
documents from his Government, making strong j
demands for the paraent of certain large stuns |
due by the Mexican treasury to Spanish creditors.
It is stated that all the documents relating to
Tehuantepec will be handed toSenor Fernando'
Ramirez, to be arranged in order, and also that he
may draw up a reply in answer to the report on
the subject of the United States Senate Committee
on Foreign Affairs.
Gen. Ursga, being ordered to the city of Mexico
to account for his conduct, replied that he would
come os soon as his health permitted.
Tho French Miuister has peremptorily asked for !
the immediate payment by the Mexican Govern- !
ment of $50,000, due, by a diplomatic agreement, i
to a French subject, M. Segment.
The Constitucional, the Government organ, an- I
nouoces that in consequence of certain changes in '
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and of Justice, it j
will cease to appear, but that in its place will be
published the Archico Mtticano.
The Government commission had not yet taken j
any decision in regard to the proposals for the Te- I
huantepec Railroad. The Siqlo has twice attacked
the published proposals made by the Mexican i
companies of Gttnanajuato aud Garcia, and in a 1
atyle that excited a wide sensation.
The Minister of War has ordered the snspen- '
sion of all measures for closing the port of Mazat
lan. The Government will soon give an answer to j
the request of Mazatlan to be maoe a separate |
State. This news created great joy at Mazatlan.
Senor Aneelmo Zurutuza' a rich" Spaniard who i
died recently in the city of Mexico, left $50,000 to :
establish a hospital for the blind, Hnd $50,000 for j
the compania lawesleriana.
The speech of President Aristaon the opening of i
Congress is too long to reproduce in onr columns i
and we must limitfourselves to a concise sketch of j
it.
It opens with the assertion that since the closing '
of the last session the Government has confined it
selfto an effort to carry out the laws; that peace i
and social order begins to dawn upon the Repub
lic, and the adventarers of the Kio Bravo had j
ceased their depredations, when domestic quarrels
again disturbed its repose.
The movement of the Vera Cruz Legislature is j
then spoken of in a condemnatory tone, and with J
statements partial to the Supreme Government and I
not in exact conformity to the truth. The Ma
zatlan and Jalisco difficulties are then lightly touch- ;
cd upon, but without any statement of facto, ex
cept the following, speaking of the measures
adopted by the Supreme Government:
“Thisaffair was accompanied by circumstances
that gave rise to reclamations by the diplomatic
corps, because of the apparent violation of consu
lar privileges, in the manner in which some of
them had been treated by the Governor.”
The President proceeds to touch upon the Gua
dalajara movement, which he says placed the fed
eral institutions in imminent peril and forced him
to appeal to the nearest States for succors of men
aud money. Against this movement lie directed
the energies of the State, because he considered
that its suppression would necessarily lead to the
fall of that of Mazatlan. The States did not refuse
their aid, but were unable to afford it, and not
withstanding that the Government directed all its
power agoing it, the insurgents gained hope from
other movements ami were endeavoring to make
it a common centre of insurrection.
The President says:
“The alarming aspect which this revolution took
demanded measures proportionate to tho danger,
and to put these iu practice the Government was
under tne necessity of availing itself of the limited
and last means in its power.”
The brigade of Gen. Uraga, the troops of Jalisco
and other States, aud even Gou. Minion, with a
part of those of Tehuantepec, have been sent to
the theatre ot the movement, and the Government
awaits the result.
The President says:
“The seeds and elements of this rcbellionalthongh
debilitated are sufficient to produce a general con
flagration, if not soon exterminated. Tho General
' Government has thus far been üble to resist them,
though not with the efficacy it had hoped for, be
cause it could not command sufficient resources.
Among those it has used thore are many that can
not be termed usual and ordinary, and though all
have been used to the last point "in defence of so
cial order, it tlnda itself unable to preserve it and
reimburse the funds which it has taken, meet the
honary engagement of the Treasury, and to cover
necessities which, it not cared tor, will weigh heavy
upon the nation. This is the principal object tor
which you aro called together.”
He then recommends them to take into consid
eration the situation of the frontier States, now a
prey to the savages, and that they recognize tho
apostolic delegate sent from Home. The following
is all that is said in regard to Tehuantepec:
“The groat benefits which Mexico and the world
expeot to derive, wore a matter of consideration by
the last Congress, which enacted for its termina
tion the decree of tho 14th of May. The Govern
ment has neglected no measure nor precaution of
any kind to expedite its execution in such manner
as shall avoid the great difficulties which surround
it, without losing the advantages it confers. In
this mattor and to secure a better conclusion, it
may have shown such self-denial as to subject it
to censure from those who find in its course an
abandonment of its high perogatives. But looking
only to the true and solid interests of the nation;
not wishing to expose to contingencies an affair
that may hold within it tho future destiny of the
Republic, and, in fact, to do away with pretexts
and close the mouths of the malicious, the Govern
ment resigned itself to a determination to meet tho
great sacrifices it wss called upon to make, the first
and greatest of which was tho loss of those Minis
ters who had yiolded such great services to the
country, with an indefatigubleassiduity mid ardent
enthusiasm, and a probity exempt from re
proach.”
With some further regrets on the loss of his Min
istry, the President goes on to sum
“This business, which only the Government of
Mexico has a right to discuss, and which certain
declarations by that of the United States authorized
us to believe had been returned to its natural cen
tre, lias apparently assumed a new aspect in the
Senate of the United States, where a right has-been
asserted to remove the question from its proper
ground. No determination has been made bo far,
and it is to bo hoped they will take that course
which reason and a sense of justice would require.
Tlie game body, with transparent design, liar, or
dered the publication of tlie diplomatic correspon
dence on the Tehuantepec question, but it is to be
remarked that this whien has been published is
not complete, aud tho Government iu order to re
sist its effects, and ih view that the Beal of secrecy
has been broken by the United States, and that
there is no reason to preserve it in Mexico, has di
rected the publication, not only of tlie diplomatic
negotiations, but of every thing relative to the
affair from its origin, that tlie people of both coun
tries may know all aud in this knowledge adopt a
reasonable course.”
Ho Bayß the labor is in an advanced state and they
will soon have the entire documents before them.
The question ot the dottcit is next touched and re
commended to their consideration. The freedom
of the press is thus spoken of:
“There is.anothcr cancerous sore which innocu
lates with its virulent matter every artery aud even
the most delicate fibres of our society, permitting
nothing to be raised, destroying all that is establish
ed, weakens every branch of Government, and
menaces the very existence of the Republic as a‘
nation, through the discredit it sows within and
without.”
He styles the late “law of the press” a circular,
and closes as follows :
“The Executive has presented a concise review
of the most important necessities of the Republio
confining himself to snch subjects as aro within
your consideration. Those which will now occupy
your attention are so vital that they must be held
as preliminary to those which await your usual
session, for nothing cun then be done without you
now secure its foundation. A terrible crisis 'in
volves the Republio and it is absolutely necessary
to be met with all the power which the laws place
in vour hands.”
the press of Mexico attack the President with
out mercy, and it is somewhat remarkable that
his speech contains no reference to the foreign af
fairs of the Republic when French and Span
ish mea 01-war are lying at Vera Cruz to enforce
claims.
Another of the Tehuantepec propositions has
been published—that made by Garcia & Co.
The oompany confines itself to the construction
of the ror. f. It cedes the duties on goods to the
Government, but asks for more free grants ofpub
lic land to support the large number of cattle ne
cessary for the work. It also asks for liberal grants
to settle™ on the isthmus. Tho work on the car
riage road to be commenced in six months—the
railroad to be begun withtwo years and finished
in seven years. The company will depodto SSOO
- Mexican bonds as gnarruutee—declares
all its shareholders to be Mexican#—Mixicau troops
anna, <fcc., to be transported gratis—all materials for
the road and its equipment to be imported free—
the road to be givcu up to the Government at the
termination of its grant—term of grant to be silty
years—one third of the ne: profits to be paid to the
Government—exciusive privilege of transport on
the Isthmus to bo givan to the company for niuc
years, and for tho navigation Costzaooalcos for
fifty years. No foreigners to bo employed except
such'as are absolutely necessary, a
Tho papers of Mexico call fora publication of the
other proposals, but none have yet complied.—
Messrs. Olurte, Payno and Pcsado have published
a denial of the assertion that Mr.Sloo claims orde
sires any damages from Mexico, and assorts that he
has not the slightest connection with the Gary
grant.
The oessation of the Constitucional has induced
the Government to establish an official bulletin.
In Chihuahua acompany of aighly men has been
formed to resist the savages, and the Gover
nor asks of the Supreme Government for an order
tor SB,OOO on the customs of El Paso.
Late papers from Aguas Calientes notice revolu
tionary movements in tho State ofSan Luis.
The British Minister at Mexico is said to have
received from the British Minister in Washington
advising him to use his influence to have the
Tehuantepec route opened as soon as possible.
Ou the abrogation of the law of the press, the
papees came out in large letters with: “We can
now write;" and they at onoe fell upon the Presi
dent and the Cabinet with a vigor renewed by their
short rest.
Late and Important from Havana.
! We had the pleasure of meeting yesterday with
a passenger, wno came from Key West on board
thosteamship Isabel,and who had ample oppor
tunities of conversing with several Caban Exiles
who were on board. He informs ns that he learn
ed from them that the state of affiiirs on the Island
was daily becoming more and more deplorable.
Spies are placed bythe Government in almost eve
ry public house in Havana. They are also on
board the steamers and in all places of public re
sort, so that it is impossible for any oue to utter a
whisper against the Government, without bei ig
liable to arrest and incarceration.
Oulv last week an aged and wealthy Creole, for j
some slight offence, was ignominously garroted. j
It will be recollected that some time siuoe, four :
vouag ladies were imprisoned—one for making a j
Lone Star flag, and the other three for being en
gaged in manufacturing cartridges. A few days |
since one of them died in prison, and the others j
were sentenced for three years. Our friend says
that the passengers informed him that mauy of I
the Creoles had beeu driven to despair, and were j
offering their property forsaie at almost any price. |
with a view of leaving the Island. The Govern- |
ment, ho we vet, was throwing every obstacle iti j
to* wty of their effecti It was impossible ,
for them to get more than from one-third to one
half of its value, and then, upon that amount, the
Government levies a tax of five per cent. Some
were actually deserting valuable estates, and flee
ingtlie country, in order to escape the terror* of
the base system of espoinage instituted by the
Government. It has become customary now, j
whenever a party applies for a pessport, to get np :
some pretext for delay, under the presumption
that he has been gruilty of some offence which may
com* to light, and euqject ir.m to punishment.
W« coutd give name® and fecta to ehow the en
tire correctness of these statements; but wo sup
press them, lest their announcement might eel
down the vengeance of the Spanish power upon
innocent parties in the Island. There is not much
excitement tn Havana, and the Island is quiet—but
it is the quietude of despair. There is but little
business doing, as capitalists are afraid to invest.
Sir. Oo*r.
Annaeus —Since the gold movements in Aus*
tralis, thirteen vessels have been despatched from
and New York, with lies passengers.
WHEAT *
& Sentinel.
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 10, IMS.
Kalocy ox Henry Clny.
Thursday last was the day set apart by our
citizens to do honor to the memory of America’s
great patriot and statesman, Henry Clay ; and in
accordance with previous announcement and ar
rangement, a procession composed of our four vol
unteer military companies, the Fire Department,
Medical Facuity aud Students, Sons of Tempo range,
Odd Follows, Masons, Mayor and Judicial
Clergy and Orator, Citizens, Strangers, <fcc. Ac.,
was formed on Broad-street between 10 and 11
o'clock, A. M. *
This procession, when moving forward to its
destination, formed quite an interesting and im
posing spectacle. The banners of the military
were shrouded in mourning—the engines of the
Fire Department were also draped iu sable wedds
—the bells of the different churches pealed forth
their sad chimes, responsire to tho wailing and
dirge-like strains of martial music; and the solemn
booming of the minnteguns fell npon the ear with
shuddering sound of gloom and sorrow.
The morning, too, as if in sympathy with the
j hearts of the people, was ’dark, lowering and
! sombre. Huge clouds rolled in ponderous masses
; to the zenith, obscuring the face of the sun, and
| threatening every moment to distil themselves in
! fears. ‘As the procession moved onward, how
ever, the clouds were withdrawn; and when the
i mourning column reached the City Hall, the sun
| a ?ain shone out clearly, and we were blessed with
j onaof those bright and balmy autumn days, which
I have been so Common for a few weeks past.
A vast multitude of our citizens, of both sexes
j and all ages, with very many, also, from onr sister
i town and the neighboring counties,
I were assembled in the City HSll Park, to testify,
i by their presence, the deep sympathy which they
! felt in the national bereavement, and to participate
j in the exercises of the occasion. The trees of the
I Park were hung and festooned with mourning
; weeds—tne stand was very appropriately ornament
! ed with a full length portrait of Henry Clay, (by
\ Bereft) flanked on either side by portraits ot
: Washington and LaFayktte, all in sablo drapery ;
i and when the Clergy, the Orator of the Day, and
I the many other distinguished gentlemen who took
| part in the ceremony, were fully assembled, it
I formed quite agrand and impressive scene. Prom
; incut among those assembled upon the stand, we
i noticed the veteran Gen. Le Hardy, of Belgium;
I the hero of many a hard-fought and bloody field;
but who has now exchanged tho sword for the
more peaceful implements of husbandry, and be
come a resident of this land of freedom. Among
the many interesting objects npon the stand, which
the multitude failed to recognize, were jive chain ,
formerly used by Gen. Washington, at Morris
town, Ncw-Jersey. These chairs were very kindly
loaned for the occasion by Mrs. Form, of this city;
and to those aware of their value, the historical
associations which clustered around them, made
j them, most highly prized and valuable.
After tlie reading of the funeral service and an
appropriate prayer by Rev. Dr. Ford, the assem
• bled multitude was hushed into silence, and the
i moot respectful and engrossing attention was given
I to The Eulogy.
What shall we say of the Eulogium pronounoed
by the Hon. C. J. Jenkins? Nothing—nothing
that can convey to the reader who did not hear it,
a faint idea of its beauty and excellence, or the elo
quent and impressive manner of its delivery. The
Exordinm was chaste and elegant, after which the
Orator gracefully turned aside, for a moment, to
pay a most beautiful and eloquent tribute to Cal
houn qpd Webster. His allusion to the latter,
tho confidence with which the American people
leaned upon and clung to him, after the demise of
his great compeers, and his recent death, which
has so thrilled the American heart, was touching! j
eloquent uud impressive. His sketch of the life ot
the illustrious “ Sage of Ashland,” though neces
sarily brief, was faithful and just. With tho hand
of u master, he traced, as with a pencil of light, the
eventful career of “ the great American Commoner”
from the cradle tothetomb; and portrayed, in bold
and striking colors, his long and faithful services
to the country, his great intellectual powers, his
high moral virtues and his undying patriotism;
and earnestly invoked the young to emulate his
illustrious example. Powerful and impressive as
the whole had been, which literally enchained the
immonse audience, the conclusion was finished,
eloquent, and surpassingly beautiful and appropri
ate—in which the orator summoned the highest
powers of his art, causing many a manly heart to
thrill and many an eye to pay a willing tribute to
the illustrious dead.
J The Oration ended, the audience quietly diepers
s ed,the Procession re-formed and returned to Broad
5 streot, where it was dismissed.
New Jersey,
The successful candidates for Congress in New
i Jersoy are Alexander C. M. Pennington, W hig, and
t Nathan T. Statton, Charles Skelton, Samuel Lilly,
■ and George Vail, Democrats.
• The Democrats have also elected a large majority
. of the members of the State Legisla: ure, whioh
will give them aC.S. Senator, in the place of the
(■ Hon. James W. Miller, whose term of service will
, expire on the 4th of March next.
1 Wk shall feel no regret at seeing Senator Miller
- made to walk the plank, for his Freesoilftn. His
3 colleague, Dattox, shared the same fate, very just
r ly, and very much to our sincere gratification. The
, Whig party needs purging of all such elements,
3 and the soonor it is accomplished, the sooner will it
! return to the old conservative landmarks, when
- conservative men can conscientiously, and will cor
-3 dially rally under its standards. Just now the
] signs nre propitious for such a return, the necessi
r ty for which the late election has very powerfillly
t and conclusively demonstrated ; a fact, whioh the
more sagacious and candid journals of the North
J arc now owning up. They begin to see, when it is
- quite too late, thut Freesoilism has destroyed, for
1 the time, the power of the party, and they are ma
s king the acknowledgment. Whether they have
. tho manliness and independence, however, to
shake off the influence, remains to be seen. Ccr
-1 tain it is, they have, heretofore, in their party ac
. tion in too many instances truckled to it, and they
i have now reaped their reward. We congratulate
t them upon the fecundity of the harvest.
J The Conservative Whigs of the North have but
f to kiok out the Sewards, Johnsons, Daytons, Mil
-1 lers, and all others of like kidney, and rally to the
support of conservatism and they may hope to
> control the destinies of the Government, if
they eschew generals, and select statesmen who
. have some claims for the first honors of the repub
i lie for tbeir candidates.
It is altogether a mistake to that the
I whole cause of Gen. Scott’s defeat was his supposed
i unsoundness on the Compromise—there were
thousands of Whigs who regarded him perfectly
’ safe on that question, who would not support him
because of his entire nnfilness, and the absence of
all claims upon the country fortbe office.
New Jersey Election.
, Newark, >ov. B. — Returns from all the coun
ties have not yet been received. The State has
goue for Pierce. Pennington (Whig) is elected to
Congress. The first district is still doubtful. The
other three members of Congress elected are dom
, ocrats. The Legislature is strongly Democratic.
Something of a Rout.— ln the whole City oi
New York' the Whigs have only suooeeded in
electing one Legislator and three Aldermen. The
Democrats ca ried everything else. We think it
probable the Whigs will profit by the lesson, and
in future eschew the intrigues of the Sewardites or
make the necessary efforts to pnt them down.—
This election is t fruitful theme for reflection, and
we may recur to it again.
Presidential Election.
The returns received at Baltimore, up to Thors
day morning indicated that Scott would only get
three States, viz: Massachusetts, Vermont and
Tennessee.
Nothing had been beard from Florida, Arkan
sas, lowa, Texas, Wisconsin end California.
All the others had gone for Pierce, juding from
the returns received.
Pierce’s majority ia Louisiana will probably reach
12,000 to 15,000.
For Pierce. —Maryland, 8; Delaware, 3; Penn
sylvania, 27; New-York, 85 ; Maine, 8 ; New-
Hampshire, 5; Ohio, 23; Virginia, 15; Michigan,
8; Connecticut, 6; Rhode Island, 4; South Caro
lina, 8; Georgia, 10.
For Scott.— Massachusetts, 18; Vermont, 5;
Kentucky, 12.
There can, therefore, no longer exist any doubt
that Pierce and King are elected by an over
whelming majority, sueff, perhaps, as no candi
date ever before received in this country. This
is not probably the result of any particular stength
or popularity of theirs, but the almost entire ab
sence of both in Gen. Scott. If both conld have
been defeated we should have rejoiced, for neither
are fitted for, or had any claims to the office; and
it is a severe reflection upon the intelligence and
independence of the American people, that they
have permitted such teen to be thrust upon them
as candidate* tor t he office by tho Conventions that
nominated them.
New York Election. —The Decmocracy have
carried their Governor, and every thing in the late
Election.
The Congressional delegation stands 10 Whigs
and 28 Democrats—Mix* Walsh among the latter 1
Hurrah for the Subterraneans! This is a great
country!
Negroes at (sheriff’s Sale.
We have been requested to call the attention of
capitalists and others to the large sale of Negroes,
advertised by the Sheriff of Elbert County, to take
p ! aceat Eloertou on the Ist Tuesday in December
next. The tale will positively take place, we are
assured by both Paintiffs and Defendant, and
persons at a distance need not fear a postpone
ment.
Washington Moxnrorr.—'The amount eontrib
j a ted at the polls in Savannah on Tuesday, was
three hundred and fifty dollars.
, In Griffin it was eighteen dollars and twenty-five
! cents.
Washington Monument. —The amount collected ;
in Cincinnati on Election day in aid of the Wash- j
I ton Monument, was 31.210, in Buffalo $348.25 and j
in Baltimore 11,500.
Frost.— Yesterday morning a very light frost, j
the first of the season, was visible in this city.—
Vegetation was not injured by it.
Health of Charleetaa.
The Board of Health report twenty-two deaths,
17 whites and 5 blacks, in the city of Charleston
for the week ending Saturday last, the 6th insti;
of these eight died of yellow fever and one ot bil
ious fever. This is one death to every 1,954 per
sons in a population of 43,000.
Alluding to the report of the Commiitee, the
Charleston Courier remarks:
“ The mortality for the week has been unusually
small—in fact, unprecedented, we believe, at any
season ; and although the item of yellow fever has
the figure eight attached to itj yet we are assured
by Dr. Dawson, our city Register, that the victims
to the disease were all old cases, and that no new
eases have occurred at ail during the week.
“ Os the ten natives who have died, four, we un
derstand, were under five weeks of age, one under
two years of age, one aged eighty-one, and one
seventy years; indeed, as we have before stated,
Charleston is unusually healthy, and Dr. Dawson
authorizes us to state tnat *he conscientiously be
lieves that strangers visiting our city incur no risk
wliatsoever in su doing; although until a frost
takes place, he thinks it possible that some sparo
dic cases may occur among those unacclimated for
eigners who have resided in the city throughout
the prevalence of the epidemic, and hare the seeds
of the disease already in them. The rain, howev
er, that fell yesterday, together with the cool
weather that followed it, has tended much to puri
fy tho atmosphere, and it is hoped that frost will
speedily occur. In the meantime we would advise
our country friends not to put implicit credence
iu tho reports that are circulated so industriously
throughout the country to the prejudice of Charles
ton. As public journalists, we have a duty to per
form to the community at large, as well as to our
city, and we shall never, we trust, be guilty of sa
crificing the safety ot the former to the interests of
the latter. Whatever we state as te the health of
the city, we do on the authority of those medical
men who are qualified to give"an opinion on the
subject, and whose standing in their profession
entities them to the fullest confidence of the pub
lic.
Limber Trade of Darien.— A Correspondent
writes the Savannah Republican, that the Lumber
Surveyors of Darien have measured nearly twenty
one millions of feet of timber and steam sawed
lumber, from the Ist of Sept., 1851, to the 81st
August, 1852, the most of which has been sawed
and shipped, making our shipments double the
previous year. #
There are now six first class mills in operation
and one other building. We have an inexhanstable
supply of timber on the Alatomaha, Oconee, and
Ocmulgee, which is sold readily at fair prices on
arrival.
New-Yore Congressional Election.— Fourteen
Whigs, eighteen Democrats and one Abolitionist
are eleeted to represent the Empire State in the
next Congress. In the present Congress the dele
gation is equally divided, each party having seven
teen members. ThoStatc loses one membernnder
the new apportionment. The names of the mem
bers elect are as follows:
1. James Maurice, Dem. 18. Peter Rowe, Dem.
2. T. W. Cumming, D. 19. Geo. W. Chase, W.
8. Hiram Walbridge, D. 20. O. B. Matteson, W.
4. Mike Walsh, Dem. 21. Henry Bennett, W.
5. W.M.Tweed, Dem. 22. Gerritt Smith, Abo.
6. John Wheeler, Dem. 28. Pearson Mundy, D.
7. Wm. A. Walker, D. 24. *Daniel.T. Jones, D.
8. Fran. B. Cutting, D. 25. E. B. Morgan, Whig.
9. Jared V. Peck. Dem. 26. J. H. Woods, Dom.
10. ‘Win. Murray, Dem. 27. John J. Taylor, D.
11. T. R. Westbrook, D. 28. William Irvine, W.
12. “Gilbert Deane, Dem. 29. Azariah Boody, D.
18. Russell Sage, Whig. 30. Benjamin Pringle, D.
14. R W. Peekham, Dem. 81. T. T. Flagler, Whig.
15. H. B. Northrup, W. 82. “Sol. G. Hayen, D.
16. G. A. Simmons, Dem. 83. G. A. 8. Crookor, W.
17» Bishop Perkins. Dem.
“Members of the present Congress.
Naval.— The New York Times gives the follow
ing particulars relative to vessels lying at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard: The frigate Constitution,
50 guns, Capt. Rudd, is nearly ready toreoeivehor
officers and crew. She is ordered to the Coast of
Africa, as flag ship for Commodore Mayo. The
doop-of war Marion, 16 guns, Commander How
ard, destined for the same station, is ready for eoa;
the majority of her officers have been reported.
The sloop-of-war Vinoennos, and brig Porpoise,
are undergoing necessary alterations, to fit them
for tlie Surveying Expedition, in the Chinese and
Japanese seas, undor command of Commodore
Ringgold. The store-ship Southampton, Lieu
tenant Boyne, is nearly in readiness, with stores
for tho Pacific and East India squadron. The
Lexington store-ship has received her cargo of
stores—destination unknown. Tho store-ship Fre
donia, Lieut. Chatard, now lies off Governor’s
Island. She is fitted up with the view of carrying
troops, (now on board,) to the Pacific; but her
destination is now said to be Texas.
The fine old line-of-battle ship Independence,
now a razee, is now undergoing repairs in the dry
dock. The Navy Yard presents a stirring ap
pearance, numbers of workmen are engaged in
every direction.
According to a correspondent of the New-York
Times, Mr. Webster signed his will on the Thurs
day before his death. It was drawn up under his
direction by Geo. T. Curtis, Esq. It gives the
Marshfield property to the widow during her life
time, and then transfers it to Fletcher Webster—
tho only living child of the deceased statesman—
whose son, Daniel—an unusually intelligent and
manly lad of about twelve years—succeeds to the
inheritance. Mr. Webster’s grand ohildren, byhis
daughter, Mrs. Appleton, are already very wealthy,
so that no injustice is done them in this bequest.
He did not forget his numerous friends and rela
tives, but loft to very many of them little marks of
his favor, and memorials of the dead. Jas. W.
Paige, R. 11. Blatchford and Fletcher Webster are
the Exeoutors, and Mrs. Webster, Executrix. Ed
ward Curtis and Petor Harvey, Esqs., are trustees
on behalf of tlie widow.
The Mint. —Tho coinage at the Mint for October,
wa6 $3,787,192. Ofthissnm 498,954 pieces were
gold, #,616,854 pieoes were silver,,and 121,260 were
cents.
The amount of Gold deposited in the same time
was—
From California, $4,065,000
“ Other Sources, 75,000
Total, $4,140,000
Heath of Cities.— The death table of last week
shows that the decrease of mortality in New York
continues still. The aggregate number of deaths
is 801, being 37 less than the week previous. Os
these 70 were men, 67 women, 98 boys, and 71 girls.
Cholera has disappeared. There are but 5 victims
by Diarrhoea, and by Disentery 16. Small Pox 7,
and Marasmus 18. But Consumption was the
cause of 86 deaths, and Convulsions of 82. Worse
than all, beeuuse most unnatural, 4 deaths have
oeen caused by suicide.
There wore 95 deaths in Baltimore for the week
ending Moncfay the Ist inst.
Horrible Punishment.— Mass Hasee Suliman
Kapan, accused as instigating the late attempt on
the life of the Shah of Persia, had his body frac
tured in parts not vital, and lighted tapers inserted
in the wounds; thns illuminntod, he was carried
in procession through the prinoipal streets of the
city, and was afterwards cleft in twain.
Propagation of the Gospel.— Tho total inoome
of the Sooiety for the Propagation of the Gospel
in foreign parts last year, including part of the ju
bilee and royal letter collections, and balance, was
£147,746. Number of missionaries, lay, teachers,
and stndents, 1160. Field of labor:—British
North America, West Indies, Guaina, South Afri
ca, India, Ceylon, Borneo, Australia, Tasmania,
New Zealaud, Seychelles, Tristan. These coun
tries aro now the seat of 22 dioceses.
Quick Work.— An order was forwarded four
weeks since to England for fine Irish butter and
the steamer Pacific brought the article laid Satur
day.—N. Y. Com. Ado. V
The idea of sending to.lrelaud for fresh butter
is altogether a novel one to ns, and smacks rather
more of the ftmcifnl than the practical.
Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad.— The
Chattanooga Advertiser says:—We learned from
Jas. H. Grant, Esq., chief-engineer of the Nash
ville and Chattanooga railroad, who was in our
city a day or two since, that he was much pleased
with the progress of the work generally on his
road between this place and the Tennessee river,
notwithstanding the tremendous slides that are
continually falling into the road, and which will
form insnperable barriers to an entire completion
of this end of the line for some, months to come.
We also learned irom Mr. Grant that he now hat
three surveying parties on the line of his new road
—the New Orleans and Nashville road—who are
urging everything forward in their department
with great promptness. He anticipates the neces
sity of two or three small tunnels in order to
overcome the rugged ranges of hills intercepting
his proposed route, but to counterbalance these
obstructions he has obtained a straight line of over
80 miles in length which will make it one of the
safest and most interesting lines of railroad in oar
country.
w—
The Cholera. —The almost simultaneous appear
ance of this dreadful scourage st Quebec, at this
season of the year, and away off at New Provi
dence, and other islands adjacent, is another
singular evidence of ite erratic character. Ita
breaking out at Quebec was quite sadden—bnt
there it has not been at all so destructive as at New
Providence. A letter from there dated, Oct. 12th
says:
“ The dreadful cholera still continue* its ravages
among ns; though to-day it ha*, I think, abated a
trifle; bnt we can’t tell anything about it. An
all-wise and merciftil God directs it, and in his
hands is the issue. The 7th was observed as a day
of humiliation and prayer by the people, and I
must say, that in no place could a greater amount
of seriousness be observed.”
The Congressional Election, in Florida was
still in doubt at Tallahasscee on the 80th nit.—
Nothing bnt the official returns oan settle the mat
ter.
Washington Monument. —The receipts for the
month of October, as acknowledged by the Treas
urer of the Association, amount to $2,189.59.
We are gratified to learn that the contribution*
in tKs city on Tuesday exceeded one hundred and
fifty dollars.
Sybilline Leaves. —We are indebted to the
publishers, Messrs. Lindsay & Blaxiston, ofPhil
adelphia, Pa., for a set of very beautiful Sybilline
Leaves, or “ fortune telling” cards. These cards
contain appropriate poetical responses to the ques
tions propounded to the Sybil, engraved in excel
lent style, with gilt edges; and in addition to tbeir
amusing and instructive character, are s decided
ornament to the parlor-table.
“The Sunny Side, or The Country JiinitUr't
Wif* ,” is the title of a very pretty and instructive
little book for children, pnblisbed by S. C. Meeks.
Agent of American Sunday School Union, No. 147
Nassau street, N. T. Thirty thousand copies of
this little work slftady been pnblisbed, and
from the examination which we have given it, we
think its great success well deserved.
Railroad Frelgbu Again.
The Chattanooga Advertiser copies the article
which we published yesterday from tlie Huntsville
Advocate, and makes tho subjoined comments.
It may not be improper to remark, in reference
to the Georgia Railroad, that they are nou>, at the
increased rate, carrying the through cotton at ten
cents lets per hundred pounda than any cotton they
transport.
Bat to the Advertiser's remarks:
“We have seen several letters from Alabama
planters, all corroborating the facts set forth in the
article alluded to, and evincing a determination to
seek any other route but this tor their cotton.
There can be no doubt but that a loss amount of
cotton will be received here this winter than last,
if tligse railroad freights remain unchanged. It
the roads were making nothing under the old sys
tem of charges with economical management, of
course it was their right and duty to advance
their charges; but their pMiehed receipts have
heretofore indicated fair profits, and with the pros
pect of a large inorease of freights, their revenues
would undoubtedly have been greatly enhanced.
We cannot look upon this change in the tariff
of charges, at this time, in any light thau as
disadvantageous to all parties concerned.”
Commerce of New York.— The New York Cor
respondent of the Savannah Republican says
The official Custom House returns for the mouth
ending last evening, show that the imports of for
eign dry goods at this port during that period have
increased in value $922,475 over the corresponding
month of 1851, and $962,777 over the Barne month
of 1850, as follows: Total importsofdry goods for
the month of October 1850, $2,646,236; 1851,
$2,686,588; 1852, $8,809,018.
The increase has been confined entirely to goods
entered directly for consumption, the value ware
housed exhibiting a very material decline. Tho
quantity of goods does not exhibit as much excess,
as in the value, most fabrics having been entered at
a higher cost. The imports since January Ist show
a failing off for tho ten months of $4,090,894, as
compared with the corresponding period of 1851,
and of $8,018,228 as compared witli the same pe
riod of 1850,Ghus: Total imports for ten months
1850, $56,155,784; 1851,' $57,288,400; 1852, $58,-
142,506.
The imports from this time to tho holidays will
be very light, from which time up to the Ist of
F’ebruary the Spring importations will be received.
The Btock of foreigu Dry Goods here is unusually
small, and consists chiefly of broken lots such as
are usually leftover at the end of tho season.
The supply of Domestic Goods is also light and
prices are very firmly supported. Tho manufac
turing Interests continue in a favorable position.
Adulteration of Wines.— The London Econo
mitt states that there are some eighteen or twenty
establishments in London duty in 1838
for 148,840 gallous of manufactured wince. Since
then the annual produce has increased to about
600,0u0, of which about 60,000 gallous are British
port. Ginger, green ginger, orange, raisin, black
currant, red current, raspberry, cowslip, elder,
champagne, port, sherry, and tent, are all manu
factured in one house in London. They are all
made much in the samo way, and about equally
spiritons, and flavored with the fruit from which
they are named. Champagne is made from French
grapes; cape wine is used in the manufacture of
port and sherry; tent is made from the black
oherry. British port and sherry oan be told Tetail
at Is. i(d. a bottle. British champagne is sold to
the trade at from 21s. to 28s. a dozen, but the con
sumer has to pay 4s. to 6s. a bottle for it. These
facts are now stated as an argument for the reduc
tion of the import duties upon foreign wines.
Kansas Territory. —A letter of ex-Senator Ben
ton, from Washington, published in tho St. Louis
papers, brings prominently forward the idea of
making a now territory on the Kansas river, ex
tending South to tho Arkansas, and wo presumo,
North to the Platte, and West to the Rocky Moun
tains.
Presidential Elections.— The following table
exhibits the number of votes cast st each of the
Presidential eleotions for tho post 24 year*:
Year* No. of Votes. Years. No. ofVotcs,
1828 1,162,418 1840 2,402,650
1882 1,290 498 1844 2,764,088
1886 1,501,298 1848 2,878,618
From these figures, it will be seen that the num
ber of voter) in the country in 1848 was nearly
equal to the whole population of the country at the
closeof the Revolutionary war.
Slave Trade Extinct in Brazil. —The African
slave trade which for so many yours was exten
sively oarried on by Brazil, has at length become
extinct through the deoidod steps taken by that
govemdlnt. The late advices from Eio de
Janeiro state that the Emperor, in closing the
session of the Chambers, pronounced tho slave
trade extinet, and the laws sufficiently stringent
to prevent its revival. A Portuguese, named Brun
dao, who acquired vast wealth in the trade, had
been expelled from Brazil on euspicion of an at
tempt to renew the hateful commerce.
Cuba Cotton.— The editor of tho Havana Diario
de la Marina, says he has on his table a boll of cot
ton superior to any thing ever produoed on tho is
land. It is only to be compared to Sea Island, be
ing five inches long, and seven in circumference
with a long, silky, and very white staple. Itis not
a selected sample, but is taken at random from
many others in a field.
Three Cent Pieces. —Tho Philadelphia Ledger
says of tho opeartions of the mint during the
mouth:
The manufacture of three cent pieces has been
immense—2,61 58«*00 pieces were coined, represent
ing in value SBO,OOO. Last month, the coinage of
this very convenient little piece was over a mil
lion and a half, and the amount then was thought
to be immense. Large as this supply is, it does
not exceed tho demand. Tho Treasurer lias now
bnt a few on hand.
FuoM tur W haling B’leet. —Tho New Bedford
Mercury of Monday, Bays :
We have reports from about seventy ships on the
coast of Kamschatka, up to August Ist. The ships
have done very well, tho avorage catch being about
nine whales to each vessel. Tho few reports
which wo have from the Arctic do not look so
well, bnt they aro not sufficiently numerous to de
monstrate the fortune of the saason.
Iron Houses. —A building has just been com
menced in Beekman-street, New-York, which is to
be all iron “ from turret to foundation stone," with
the single exception of thß floor timbers of the first
and second stories so that it* destruction by fire
may bo- sidered an impossibility.
Indiana.— Tho new Senate comprises 16 Whigs
and 84 Democrats; the House 88 Whigs and 67
Democrats. Democratic majority on joint ballot,
62. AU. 8. Senator is to be chosen by this Lcgis
lure, to fill the vaoancy occasioned by the death of
Mr. Whitcomb, Democrat.
The burial place of Mr. Webster was not upon
bis farm, says the Journal of Commerce, as has
been erroneously stated in some papers, bnt in s
public burial -ground—the oldest in the town, and
one of the very oldest in the Old Colony. It is a
small burial-ground, containing, possibly, four
acres. It is upon elevated ground, and overlooks
the sea and the mammoth farm, that it immediately
upon ite borders. '
Statistics of the Electric Telegraph. —The
total extent of telegraph in England is nearly 4,000
miles, representing an outlay of about £300,000.
The total amount of wire laid down for tho purpose
is upwards of 4,000,000 yards, and the total num
ber of telegepah posts somewhere about 100,000.
The staff of employees may be taken at npwarda of
800 persons. 1
Tho receipt* of the New York and Erie Rail
road Company in October, were $876,000 showing
an increase of over $20,000, as compared with same
month in lastyear. The earnings ofthe road since
the Ist of January, amount to nearly three millions
of dollars, showing an inoreaso of over eight hun
dred thousand dollars, as compared with the same
period last year. The HorneUsville and Buffalo
branch of the road will be completed on the 15tb
of the present month. _
The New Orloans Bulletin contradicts the report
sent by telegraph from that city, stating that Mr.
Laborde, the Spanish Consul, had returned to Ha
vana, on acoonnt of fears of personal violoDce.—
He was still in New Orleans and expected to re
main there, having no apprehension of being in
any way molested. *
The gross receipts of the eight concert* recently
given by Madame Sontag, in Philadelphia, amount
ed to $28,400, and the nightly expense* ranged
from S9OO to SIOOO.
Boston continues to drive an active trade with
California. During the past month of October,
there were cleared from Boston for California ele
ven ships, two barks and odc brig. Since the first
of January, the clearances from Boston have been
55 ships, 12 barks and 2 brigß—all laden with fall
cargoes, and most of them clipper ships bnilt ex
pressly for the trade.
Yankee Thrift. —The ice trade of the United
State*, it is said, exceeds in amount the wine
trade ofr liordeanx.
Trinity College, Hartford, has founded a medi
cal professorship, and lectures will hereafter be
given to aH the students in medical science. Dr.
George C. Shattuck, Jr. of Bogton, will fill the
chair, and has already delivered his introductory.
The Hon. Edward Everett has been invited, by
the committee of arrangements at Boston, to de
liver the Eulogy oif Mr. Webster before the city
authorities ofßoston.
The ceremony of erecting the first column of the
Crystal Palace came off at New-York on Saturday,
according to announcement. Considerable enthu
siasm was manifested by the large number of per
son* who attended to witness the spectacle. Mr.
Sedgewick, Gov. Hntit, and others, delivered ad
tresßes.
Sea Island Cotton in Elorida.— The St. Angu*
tine Ancient City, of the 80th nit, *ay*“ Large
quantities of new cotton ere coming forward to
market from the interior, to shipping points on the
St. Johns, and it is selling readily at 82 to 88 cents
for prime Sea Islands. This price i» highly remu
nerative to th* planter and will induce a Urge emi
gration from the Southern States this winter.”
The recipts ofthe Fair of the, American Institute
in New York, jnst closed, reached about $25,000
—considerably exceeding those of last year. It is
estimated that it had 200,000 visitors.
A contract has been taken in Philadelphia, by
Captain Loper to build four propeller steamships
for a New house, in addition to the one
about to be commenced on hit own account upon
speculation.
The Home of Representative* of Rhode Island
ha* rejected, by a vote of 49 to 14, a bill to rapes*
the liquor law of the last session.
The Election.
.We subjoin the result of tbo election in this
oounty, on Tuesday. The vote, as we anticipated,
was unusually small, being a little over 1200, in
cluding all non-residents, who were in the oity.
It is quite probable therefore that near 600 voters
failed to vote—certainly over 400. Such was the
indifference produced by the nominations. The
smallness of the vote and the death of Mr. Web
ster, will explain the small vote cast for the Inde
pent Ticket.
Richmond Codntx. ,
OUy P.U Tir. Br. B.A Total.
democratic.
Johnson, 542 40 29 9 5 625
Lumpkin, 544 40 29 9 5 627
Foreman, 548 40 28 9 5 626
Clark, 548 40 29 9 5 626
H. G. Lamar,.... 548 40 25 9 5 626
Haralson, 544 40 29 9 5 627
Brown, 548 40 29 9 6 626
Mitchell, 548 4 0 29 9 5 626
Floumoy, 545 40 29 9 6 628
Schley, 545 40 29 9 5 628
Harris,....' 868 15 4 2 22 411
Crawford, 868 15 4 2 22 411
Walthour, 868 15 4 2 22 411
Warren, 868 15 4 2 22 411
Hardeman, 869 15 4 2 22 412
Simms, 869 15 4 2 22 412
Trippe, 868 15 4 2 22 411
Dupree, 867 15 4 2 22 410
Foster, 868 15 I! 2 22 411
Evans, 871 15 4 2 22 414
INDEPENDENT.
Camming, 108 4 16 15 18 151
Hill, 99 4 16 15 18 147
Hamilton, 96 4 16 16 18 144
Brown, 90 4 16 15 18 144
Foe, 98 4 16 15 18 146
Fannin, 96 4 16 15 18 144
Strong, 96 4 16 16 18 144
Harris, 97 4 16 15 18 145
Floyd, 97 4 16 15 18 145
Lemle, 97 4 16 15 18 145
TUOALO.
Wofford, 85 4 89
Mil lor, 35 4 89
Chisolm, 84 4 88
Irwin, 85 4 89
Lawhon, 85 4 89
Singleton, 84 4 88
ilolscy, 85 4 89
Word, 84 4 88
Slaughter, 841 4 88
Thomas, 85| 4 ].... 89
Troup and Quitman tioket 1.
Taliaferro County.
Independent Tioket 248
Soott “ 19
Pierce, both “ ■ 76
Troupe “ -1
Houston County.—Reported majority for Pierce,
over all, 270.
Stewart County.—Pierce’s majority 160.
Spaldino County.—Piorce’s majority 80.
Greene County.
At Greensboro precinct the vote stands thus:—
Scott Ticket .*. 261
l’ieroe “ 122
Independent ticket 99
Warren County.
Pierce <fc King Ticket 808
Independent “ 147
Scott “ 28
Tugalo “ 26
Walker, Pierce’s majority 400
Whitefiold, “ “ ...; 880
Gordon, “ “ ... r..:,800
Cobb, “ “ 231
Forsyth, “ “ 817
DoKalb, “ “ 500
Pike, “ “ 277
Henry, “ “ 84
Wilkinson, “ “ 893
Butts “ “ 400
Marion, “ “ 180
Crnwford, “ “ ...275
Calhoun, “ “ 140
Jones, “ “ 157
Putnam, “ “ 80
Baldwin, “ “ 11
Cass, Pierce a majority over all others.
Eilingham.—lndependent ticket 98; Pierce 61;
Soott 18.
Dpson County—majority for Scott, 117
Newton, “ “ “ .25
Monroe, “ “ for Pierce....... 107
Taylor, “ “ «i u 157
Walton, “ Pierce 899; Scott 111; Fillmore 107;
Tugalo 400.
Clark county—Tugalo 258; Pierce 225 ; Scott
188; Fillmore 141.
Jackson county—Tugalo 287; Pieroe 44; Scott
82; Fillmore 28.
Madison—Tugalo 144; Pierce 10; Webstor 70;
Scott 28.
Hall—at Gainesville—Tugalo 216 ; Pieroe 50;
Scott 26.
Green—Scott 812; Pierce 172; Fillmore 146.
Muscogee—Pierce 71 over all—l4o over Soott.
Lee—Pierce 228; Soott 189; Webßter 42; Tu
galo 2. .
Baker—Piorce 630; Soott 101; Webster 28; Tu
galo 4.
Houston—Piorce 508; Soott 278: Webster 20.
New Books.
The Cabin and Parlor; or, Slates and Mat
ters. By J. Thornton Bandolfh. T. B. Peter
son : Philadelphia.
We are indebted to the publisher for a oopy of
this new work, and from the cursory examination
that we have given it, ore very favorably impress
ed with its style and matter. The object of the
author soems to be to counteract tbo false impres
sions produced by the misrepresentations of “Uucle
Tom’s Cabin,” and similar publications, and to
present a truthful picture of slavery as it really ex
ist 1 in the South, end tbo so-called freedom of the
despised and persecuted Negro of the North. Mr.
Randolph iB an able and eloquent writer, and his
work is deserving of extensive circulation both
North and South. We hope our readers will not
fail to purchase and read “The Cabin and the Par
lor." It may be had by mail, from the Publisher,
or at the Bookstores. Price, 60 cents in paper; or
$1 bound in doth.
The Southern Lady’s Book.—We have reoeived
the first number of this now periodical, whioh is
published monthly in New Orleans, by Wm. T.
Leonard & Co., No. 108 St. Charles street, at $8
per annum, id advance. It contains many contri
butions of far more than average merit, entirely,
we bolievo, from Southern pens; and as it compares
favorably, both in appearance and talent, with any
of its Northern compeers, it should reoeivs a liberal
patronage from the South, whioh (wo are sorry to
remark, (has heretofore been altogether too tardy
in the encouragement of worthy ‘‘home enterpri
ses.”
Popular Superstitions, and Truths contained there
in, with an account of Mesmerism. By Herbert
Mayo, M. D. eto. Lindsay & Blakiaton : Phil
adelphia.
This is a republioation (from a third London
edition) of a very attractive and interesting work,
in wldoh tiie author endeavors to exhibit in their
true light the singular natural phenomena ol
whioh ancient superstition and modern charlatan
ism and humbug have, in turn, availed them
selves—to goint out and explain the laws, end de
velops the theory of such phenomena, and to ex
plain all that has so puzzled and perplexed the
over-credulous and timid for ages. The book will
be found exceedingly interesting to all lovers ot
the marvellous, and students of miud, matter and
“natural supernaturaiism,” and deserves s careful
and thoughtfiil perusal.
For sale by Jos. A. Carrie A Co., Broad street.
Curiosities of the Microscope.—A very bssutifn)
little treatise illustrating the wonderful power of
that rrarvelloue instrument which makes “every
grain of sand an immonsity, and every leaf a
world,” has also been laid upon oar table, by Jos.
A. Carrie & Co. It is printed and bound very
neatly, and the colored engravings must prove
both attractive and full of instruction to the young
of both sexes, for whom it is especially intended.
t .Chit-Chat ; or, Short Tale* in Short Word*, is
th« title of another pretty and entertaining little
book for the children. We well remember when
the possession of a little “story-bot k” like this,
“fall of pictures,” too, was one of the keenest de
light* of our juvenile existence, and as the raoo ol
children is not yet quite extinct, (though sadly
threatened by the invading encroachment of “boy
men” and “girl-women,”) we doubt not thero are
many among our young readers who will thank
their papas for. a present of this little volume of
“Chit-Chat,” and the “Cnrioaitiee of the Micro
sope.”
For sale by Joe. A. Canaix A Co.
Thx KmoaxKßocxxß.—“Old Knick,” for Novem
ber, with it* usual rich freight of choice literature,
aud most humorous “Editor’s Table,” may be ob
tained at the Bookstore of 610. A. Oatss A Co.
A census of Cleveland, which has just been com
pleted, shows a population of 25,870, being an in
crease of 4,580 since the fall of the year 1851, when
it was 21,140. Ohio city, one of its suburbs, has
7,484, thus giving a total population in the two
cities of 88,184 inhabitants.
A special meeting of the New Jersey Protestant
Episcopal Convention wm opened at Newark on
Wednesday, to consider the char, es against Bish
op Doane, made sinoe the last Convention, and
which by the order of the oourt of Bishops were
left for the action of the Diocesan convention.—
After a long debate, the convention adopted a re
solution appointing a committee to investigate the
new charges—the vote being 4# to 10. The con
vention then adjourned to meet at Burlington on
the Ist of December next, to receive the report of
the Committee of Investigation.
I'ura Cotton.—A lot of thirty-nine bales of cot
ton, from the plantation of the Hon. W. C. Daw
son, of Greene county, was sold on Monday, at
10% cents.
A Boston Miluonaib*.— 'The Boston Mail states
that the yearly, income of a certain rich citizen of
that townjsotild buy twelve hundred farms. Bis
income, six per cent, on his entire wealth, would
amount, daily, to more than the wagoe of two hun
dred hard-working men. His income would buy
a bottle of Schneider, or a pair of boots every
three minutes. Every breath the old man takes
is worth another nine-penoe. His enormous capi
tal commands the toil of one thousand laborers
and mechanics yearly to pay the interest.
Instantanxocs Portaits.— The Scientific Ameri
can says that instantaneous portraits can now be
taken on oollodion by a very ingenious French in
vention. The person whose portrait it to be taken
is placed at seme distanoe off, in front of the lens 1
and the operator, while conversing with him, pulls
a trigger. By so doing a newly invented cap
turns on its own axis, and in its rotary movements
allows the light and the image of the sitter to pass
through a hole twice the diameter of the fen.s
The portrait is obtained in the fraotionof a second,
and for quickness can only be compared to eleo
tricity.
The New York Daily Times of Monday, the 25th
nit.,devotes no less than twenty-six columns to a
sketch of Mr. Webster’s career, in addition to an
editorial notioeof two columns and three quarters.
Mm-mmmmaSßmssmm
The Rot In CoUon—lie Cnnse.
The following communication, says the Natohez
Courier, from a most estimable gentleman of Ma
rion county, Ebenezer Ford, Esq., will be found
deeply interesting. Mr. F. has made a diligent,
personal examination luto the cause of the rot in
cotton, and his observations are on that aocou. 9
entitled to groat respect. Many theories have
been broached , and speculations advanced the
present fall upon this subject; but few of them ,
however, have been based on any thing more than
mere opinion, or perhaps a cursory look at a cotton
Hold. Such appears not to be the oase with the
following.
Mr. Ford has obligingly favored us with draw
ings of five species of the'“Pieroe Bug”—vurying
n form and oolor. The drawings are colored, and
appear to be exceedingly natural. We shall be
glad to show them to any friends interested in the
enquiry:
Spring Cottage, Miss., Oct. 12, 1852.
Mr. G. M. Hillyek : Sir—Having noticed many
supposed causes assigned by your and other cor
respondents, of the rot in cotton, and finding upon
a strict examination as to the cause, that ail are at
fault, I will; for the information of the planting
community, give you a description of the bugs
that piorce the cotton boils and produce the fo
menting rot.
It is a varied species of, and very similar to, in
all leading particulars, the bug commonly known
as the Chins bug. Hereunto appended, you have
a rough and hastily drawn sketoii and painting of
five species, differing in form and color. All are
alike armed with proboscis in length in proportion
to the size ot the insect, which they carry unem
ployed on their breast (us an assassin does nis dag
ger.) When turnod down to the body ( it is almost
imperceptible. When engaged at their mischief,
they throw the bill forward at will, and at right
anglue with the body, and commence feeling rouud
on bolls, as though to find a soft place as a mos
quito, then drive it down to the core of th%bo'.l,
and draw it partially up and auok for a time; then
drive it down again and suck; draw it from the
boll and wipe it over, and move round the boil
and pieroe it again, or fly to another. They uppoar
to bo very wild; when approached, they shy off,
orab-iike, to the opposite side of the boil or leaf—
and are to be found at their work of destruction
only late of an evening or early in the morning.
Through the day, they are sooreted in the cotton
bloom, under the oovoring of the boll or forms, in
clusters of loaves.
To establish the (hot beyond a reasonable doubt,
I have .narked bolls that wore spend and healthy,
thut I saw those bugs pierce, and examined them
from day to day uutul rotten. In fair, open
weather, the little ruety brown spot is apparent in
three or four days upon the boll pierced; and in
about the sums space of time thereafter, the bolls
marked were rotten. In rainy, or cloudy woather,
the first percept.blo evidence is s white, mouldy
spot upon the boll.
By obeervation, I have discovered that tbo in
fection imparted by those bugs progresses much
moro slowly in fair, open weather, than in rainy
and eloudy weather. And 1 am of opiuion from
late observations, oonnected with my recollections
of tho rot in cotton from 1818 to 1824, that when
the woather fovors the operations of those insects,
the rot spreads os an epidemic. Huving observed
many other insects, than those described hereto
fore,e sucking the fomenting bolls und flying from
boll to boll, by which I apprehond the contagion
may spread as an epidemic, and os I huve observ
ed during rainy spells many diseased bolls, upon
which 1 could find no evidence of their having
been pierced by the bugs first described, I con
clude others may carry the infection.
If any shall doubt that tho bugs described, cause,
the most disastrous rot in cotton, let suoli but
make the examination as I have done, and they
will doubt no more.
1 have notioe J an opinion entertained hy some,
of au antidote in tho importation or change of
seed. Fresh seed, or a change of seed, gives a
mere abundant yield, doubtless. But it may well
be doubted, whether those inaeota will pay any re
spect to aood, it they shall appear again next sea
son.
On examination of different crops or yields
where I oould find no rot, i could find no bugs as
those described—and wnero I found tho rot, I
found the bugs also. I have noticed further, that
where oottou has been plunted several years in
succession, the rot is moro apparnnt. I have also
marked some difference in tho result between old
aud now lands.
Having discovered the origin of tho rot, I ten
der the information to the public, with tho hopo
that Providence may romove tho cause, or that
some one may disoovor the remedy.
Very respectfully, your ob’t sorv’t.
Eben’b Ford.,
Thr Japan Expedition.— The attention of the
wholeoivilized and oommeroial world, says the
Baltimore American, has been strongly attracted to
the expedition which our Government is fitting
out against Japan. The thing is novel in its de
sign, yet it enlists the sympathies of the most in
telligent in all parts ot the globe. The result of
tho movement remaits completely in doubt. Yet
it is in aocordanoe with tbs spirit of the age, and it
belongs to a speoies of progress whioh the moßt
conservative may commend and support.
Tho following from the London Sun of October
19th, indicates something of the interest which is
felt in Groat Britain for this enterprise, identified
aa it is, with the civilization of the century :
Hero it ti oountry of extraordinary dimensions,
' wbicli has been, in a political sense, so to speak,
huremetically sealed from the rest of the nations
of the earth during no less protracted an Interval
of time than the last two centuries. It is at length
about to be forced into some communication with
the external multitude, thanks to.the generous
enterprise of the United States government. For
it must be observed that the expedition which bos
been so long tollied of, as about to proceed to Japan
f from the ports of the American Keptiblio, has been
i only for a while delayed, not altogether abandon
ed. The interruption is simply attributable to
that unlucky squabblo about the British fisheries,
> which appears to bo undergoing’tlie process of an
- amicable settlement, owing td tha better judgment
, of Mr. Webster and the energotio resolution of
Lord Malemcsbury. Almost immediately may be
* anticipated, therefore, the intelligence that the
- vessols engaged in tho undertaking already speoi
, fled have set out for their very singular place of
destination.
It is impossible not to wait with peculiar eagor
' ness the result of this novel and humane enter
i prise. For ourselves, we look forward to that ro
t suit with some such interst as we might suppose
would ho awakened among the generality were a
balloon to sour off to one of the planets, under the
, direction of some experienced aeronaut. Nor can
r the comparison be rogariled os in any way so very
extravagant, seeing that Japan is to the rest of
the world almost as untrodden a region as the sur
i face of the moon, or of Jupiter. Seriously speak
ing, we may assort that we know rather more -
1 about the inhabitants of the Flying Island than
about the hitherto almoat inscrutable and nearly
[ fabulous Japanese. Golownin, it is true, has giv
on us au account of the latter, but an account by «
no means so categorical or explicit as that fnrnish
, od in refcnco to the former by Lemuel Gulliver.—
i The wonder is how this ignorance could have so
long survived the application of the steam engine
to the purpose of navigation.
It is becoming to the enterprise and spirit of
this Bepublic, continnes tho American, that it
should lend In this work of exploration and adven
ture. The British had their war with China; and
the result of it, whatever might be said of the
causes whiob produoed it, have been in tho main
favorable to exteadod trado and to tha growth of
oommeroial interests. Our expedition to Japan
bears uo hostile aspect. It goes upon a mission of
friendship. The letter of President Fillmore to
the Emporor of Japan breaths no sentiments than
those of kindness and oordiality. If barbarian
pride or prejudioe should ehoose to misinterpret
this friendly missive, it is enough to know the
squadron oompesiog the expedition will be able to
make tho flag of the Kepablio respected, and that
if a pacifio introdnetion to Japanese oivilities can
not be had, the favor of an acquaintance may be
demanded under the auspioos of Artillery as mas
ter of coremonies.
Iu any view of the matter this expedition, we
should think, must be productive of useful results.
Japan, heretofore exeluded almost entirely from
intercourse with the rest of the world, oontains a
population of some thirty or forty millions. Tbs
imperial cities of the Empire vie with London and.
Paris in point of population, magnificence and
splendor. The oountry is vastly productive and
affords the materials of a lucrative commerce. It
is adverse to the interests of the world and to the
fellowship whiob onght to exist among nations
that such a populous and productive Empire
should oontinue in a condition of isolation.
[COXXCHIOATID.]
It is estimated that between two and three hun
dred thousand beings die annually, in the United
States alone, of Lung Affections, and that the mor
tality from that class of disease is -about fifteen
times greater than from any other; and when we
consider that every fatal oase originates In a slight
cold, which might be easily checked at the outset.
The importance of a Medicine which will (if adopt
ed) prevent this great fatality, is beyond all csti- *
mate. From our experience with that valuable
preparation of Dr. Tutt’s, the Pactoral Klixkb,
we believe that that power is peslossed by it, and
would earnestly advise all who contract a cough or
oold not to delay, but to provide themselves with
*he remedy at once. ' Philos.
[coxxdnioated.J
In the late fire at San Francisco, we notice
a large quantity of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral burned,
in the possession of ono of the Druggists of that
city. Gold will not oontrol disease, and even in
that Opbir oountry they must provide this best of
all remedies for colds, coughs and affections of the
lungs. Indeed we happen to know that it is an *
almost indispensable oompanion of the muleteers
and miners, who are so much and 10 continually
exposed to tbs ever-changing atmosphere of thst
olimate. _
The annexed paragraphs show thst Brazil is wak
ing up to the importance of steam boats and rail
roads:
An extensive 20 years privilege bad been grant
ed by the Brazilian Government to Senor Pedrona
de Alberquerque, a wealthy proprietor of Ba ia, for
establishing steam navigation between thst city and
Muceio by a Northern line, ai d Caravellas by a
Southern line of steam packets. A privilege for
thirty yeurs had also been conceded to Senor Iro
uen Evangelista do Soura for the navigation of tha
Kiver Amazon by steamers, In one Jay the 8000
shares of this Company, representing a capital of
1,200 centos, were subscribed for. .
In a pernamjiuoo paper we find the following
paragraph:
“By advices from Rio de Janeiro, we lesm that
Messrs. Edward and Alfred da Mornay had obtain
ed from the Government of nils country the right
of privilege to make a railway from this city
tii rough the interior of this province os far as the
village of Agua Preto, a distance of about twenty
five Feagnes. This grant is for the term of ninety
years, but yet required the confirmation ot Parlia
ment, which we believe may be considered a form
only.” _
Cuba.—Tho New York Express in pnblishing
the recent letter of Mr. Conrad, Acting Secretary,
to George Law, Esq., respecting the “ Crescent
City” affair says—
In this connection the fact may be mentioned
that a story is in circulation to the effect thst the
American Ambassador at Madrid has lately re
newed the offer of $180,000,000 mode under Mr.
Polk’s administration, for the Island of Cuba.
Tlje policy of this Administration has been, and
now is, that of Mr. Adams and Mr. Clay, when
the former was President, and the latter Secretory,
of State, vix: that Cnba should not be annexed to
any European Powers. It bss not, we think,
contemplated s purchase of Cuba for the United
States, at the expense of one hundred and eighty
millions of dollars, and of course has no power
of itself to moke such a purchase. Congress could
alone do this in conjunction with the Executive.
A new remedy for hydrophobia has been found.
Tho wound must be washed with warm vinegar, or
tepid water, and well dried. Then a few drops of
muriatio acid must be poured on the lgitten part,
_ .