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We subjoin additional interesting detail*, brought
by the steamer i’aaiflo at New York from Liver
pool, lat inat.:
Great Britain. —In the Home of Lord* the Earl
of Hardwick took oooasion to ask the Government
whether any order* had beau given to Admiral
Dunda* to advanoe with the Britiah fleet to the
Dardanelles > The Sari of Clarendon, in reply,
briefly mid—“ Alter what had oootured in the
House only on Friday night last, when their Lord
ships seemed to concur in the propriety of her
Majesty's Government not giving any explanations
on a matter on which they were imperfectly in
formed, he was anre they would atill more concur
in the propriety of hi* declining altogether Vo etate
what order* had been given."
In the Common* Mr. Disraeli, after pointing out
how easily the Russian* might seize the Darda
nelles, put a similar question in these terms :
Taking the contingency refered to into consider
ation, hud Government forwarded directions to
the British Admiral at Malta to proceed with the
British fleet to the Dardanelles T' To this, Lord
John Bussell replied: “ In the present etate of re
lations between liuaaia and Turkey, I feel thataoy
thing which may be said here will be considered
a* to the utmost importance, and 1 most, there
fore, decline answering the question which the
right honorable gentleman has put. 1 must leave
bun to give notioe of any motion on this subjeot
which ne may think proper U bring forward, and
1 shall then be prepared fully to defend the courae
j have now taken." (Cheers.)
(Julian Slat* Trade.—K debate, or rather a con
versation, lor it ended in nothing—took place in
the House of Lords, on the presentation by the
£arl of Carlisle, of a petition from the ladies of
Kingston, Jamaica, complaining of the importa
tion ot slaves into Cuba—he taking the opportu
nity to mk the Government if Spain observed her
treaties faithfully lor the suppression of the slave
trade 1 The Earl went on to state his case in a
three hours’ speech. “True it is, (he said) my
Lords, that no sooner does any Captain General
of Cubs -eem to respeat the faith of treaties, and
the laws alike ot humanity and honor, than very
speedily, for some cause or other, he is sure to be
removed in order to give plaoe to some less aern
pnlons and more accommodating functionary in
his stead. Trne it is, too, my Loida, I hear that
under the present Captain Geueral, Don Canedo,
the slave trade is being carried on with unexam
pled vigor and audacity on the coasts of that un
happy island of Cubs, which I can depone from
mv own experience to be inteuded by our God for
a paradise, bat wniob ever since the while man
Bi.t set his foot there he has converted—l can use
no suiter phrase—into a hell,” [Hear, heat.]
Having gone at greet length into the condition
I r.c Emsiicipadoa, and payings compliment to
, fTvv&’.tridou, wnose ability, which he hoped
vi ild be exerted in suppression of Slavery, he
edded— “My noble friend will, I sm suro, not do
• iiv tha* gross derelictions ol their duty have been
fr. o uentiy manifested on On part of the Spanish
Government- Why 1 talk of causes of war with
F.I. .in : Hare Inm tbul Britain ha* been over and
ove r again in long and ruinous wars on grounds,
which, in mv judgment, were absolutely paltry in
comparison with this. Let me not be understood
as expressing the opinion that Britain iacallod up
on to go to war with Spain, even tor the aupprea
sion ot tho slave trade. But Spain ought to be
told that if she doe* not observe her treaties—ls
she, almost alone, of ail the nations of the earth, per
sists in this infernal traffic, she moat, if her posses
sions of Cuba is ever endangered, be at least pre
pared to And Britain neutral in the conflict. (Hoar,
bear.) Ido not either desire to throw the whole
blame upon the Spaniards, for 1 am not aure that
Ih* United States, considering the liberties they
possess, considering their freedom of origin, have
not, by their Fugitive Slave Law, committed an
even greater outrage upon liberty.” The Earl
concluded by hopingthat Britain would strengthen
her fleet on the coaet of Cuba.
Tho Earl of Clarendon, epeaking for the Govern
ment, ropiled that he had not muoh additional in
formation to lay before the House. Tbe treaties
alluded to, had constantly, feloniously been vio
lated by Spain. What had been said, respecting
the Captain-General of Cuba, was a melanoholy
faot; but Valdez and Concha were honorable ex
ceptions. Assurauctabad been reooived from the
Spanish Government that inatruotiona were sent
to the Cuban authorities to discourage the traffic.
It is, however, mainly from tho exertions of Bri
tain that tho suppression of the trade is to be ex
pected 5Dd nothing will be left undone to aooom
plish tfiat e.”?<i- . . ,
Tho Bishop o.‘ Oxford made some remarks upon
slave grown sugar, i*ot much to tbe point.
Lord Brougham hopeJ hud trusted that there
was not a shadow offoundat}? o . f° r t* lß statement
that tho bulk of tho slave tradeW, employed by
otlior nations, wero fitted out from the port* of the
Onito I States, manned by American seamed, end
furnished by American capital. That these report*
were rife and general, he knew.
Lord W liarriclilfu hopod the Governor-General
of Cuba, would aol as tho Governor of Porto Kioo
’ had done, and stop the trade.
The subject then dropped.
Tho steamship Harsh Sands, from Melbourne,
Feb. 14th, had arrived at Plymouth, with 80,000
ounces of gold on freight. The ship Blaokwall.at
Plymouth, from Melbourne, Feb. 21, hud on freight
two tons and a half of gold, and tho Choapside, at
Falmouth, had 12,000 ounoes. None of these arri
vals brought utty nows as Interest.
Mr. Ilutne, M. P. has an important notico of mo
tion on the order book of the House of Commons
for July 6th, tbul all sugars refined, or to be re
fined under bond by British refiners, bo admitted
into home consumption, on payment of tho same
du'tio* a* uro charged on Dutch, Bolgian, or any
foreign rotined sugars, thereby ptaoiug the British
refiners on a looting of equality with foreigners in
reannot to the borne markets, without imposing on
him the neoessity of transhipping his sugars to
Jersey and baok to evade tho aifferonoc of duties.
Tho couiml'toe of tho projooted Roman Oatbolio
College at Dublin had reoeived £BOO sterling in
subscription from America.
The Arotio Expedition sailed from Queenstown
on tho 26th lor the North.
The Celebrated Achilli Own—“ The Queen vs. Dr.
Newman ’’—had boon finally olosed by Dr Now
man paying all the costa. Aohilli’s costs were run
up to an iinmonso suin, but wero taxed £l,OBl.
Dr, Newman’s own oxponsea were very large—
much largo! than Achilli’e.
An exploring expedition to Australia la projected
tinder tho leadership of M. Huug, agoatleman who
forfeited his commission in the Außtriun servioe
from sympathy with the liborals. The expedition
is to be undertaken under the anspioea of tne Geo
graphical Society.
France. —lt was stated in political oirolea that
the coronation is fixed for the 10th of September.
Ex-King Jerome had resigned the Governorship
of the liivulides into tho hands of Gen. d'Ornano,
and proceeded to take up hie quarters in the Palais
Admiral Stowart, the seoond in command of tho
British fleet in the Mediterranean, has arrived at
Marseilles, where he was waiting, on board the
steamer Caradoo, for the arrival of a courier from
his government.
Swrrr.itiu.Afin.— lb* Suriteer* Preparing for De
fence. —Vienna letters to the 28d of May, say:
“ Austria is ns inflexible in its negotiations with
Sard i lia, as it proved in the case of Switzerland.
There is no hone of a snoody suspension of tho se
questration wl'ioh has boon imposed upon tho pro
perties ot thu Lombard emigrants.”
• From Berne, 28tti, wo learn that tho Federal
Counsel had resolved to issue orders to the various
Caniobg- instructing them to raise their militaiy
o tin "’in,a ft once, mu bo prepared to take the
Hold m‘ tho fir't pall.
Tlv Council nf'.Htate ot Nontchatol had been dis
solved by n ii-olutlon of the Grand Counoil, token
on ilni 23 lof Mav. „ _
I’ht, s ispi nsion bridge at *’oUcy, near Geneva,
fell on the 27th nit.; seven lives we".' o h**-
Germany. —Tito Aurioh Provincial L.'°t had re
quested the Hanoverian Government to J'btam
permission from thu Customs IJiudn to admit mi
manufactured iron tree of duty, and bars at a
merely nominal rato throughout the Zollveroin.
Hamburg letters of 24th ult., mention the failure
of 11. G. Plitt <& Son, ot Lubeek.
Aostiua. —Airkteani Position of Austria etrith
respect to the Turkish Pipe ult!/.— The inetruotions
of tne now Austrian Ambassador to Constantino
ple are understood to include negotiations respect
ing Austrian trade in tho Levant. Baron Bruok,
tli Ambassador, is considered wed qualified to
nudortuke tho subject, hav...g gained experience,
as a director of the Austrian Lloyd’s.
Austria ia in a difficult position jnst now. If
she supports Kussiu, the envied possessors oi the
Btialuuh mouths of the Danube, ahe must give
great offence toiler German allies. If she resists
Russian pretensions in tbe East, ihe relations be
tween the two powers must naturally bo awaken
ed. It is doubtful, therefore, whst horpreoiae
oourse of action may be in relation to Turkish
affairs.
A steamer had arrived at Trieste, from Venice,
with twenty-three political prisoners from Austrian
Italy on board, the majority of them young men of
good family. They were to be confined in the for
tresses of Laybaoh, Konigsgraetxand Josephatodt.
Russia —Despatches, purporting to be from Ka
lish, state that tlio military camp generally formed
during tho spriug, near Warsaw, had been indefi
nitely postponed, owing to tbe state ot affairs at
Constantinople, and the van of the Southern army
of 100,000 men had received orders to approach
the Turkish frontiers. Letters from Jsssy also
stole, the Russian mi itary preparations wore con
tinued oo au extensive scale. A permanent bridgo
is in course of erection over the river Pruth.
A despatch from Odessa, 28d, says“ Prince
Mensohikoff arrived this morning from Constanti
nople. Tlie rest of tho embassy are expected with
in three days.”
Turkxt.—lt is officially annonnoed that all fur
ther negotiations between Prince Menschikoff aud
the Porte had been broken off, and on the 22d the
Prince took his departure from Constantinople for
Odessa. The Ambassadors of Frauce and Eng
land, and th< Ministers of Prussia and Austria,
had previouslv agreed to make a joint attempt at
reconciliation "between tho Divan and Russian En
voy. This attempt, however, was fruitless, as
Mensohikoff porsistod in his demand for the im
munities of the Greek Church. “ Notwithstand
ing this intelligence," says the Monitaur, _ “ it
eeetri's difficult to beliove that the rupture of diplo
matic gelations between Russia and the Ottoman
Porte will be followed by hostilities. One guaran
tee is the wisdom of tho Court of St. Peterabnrgh,
and its assurauoes of peaoe given to all the Euro
pean Courts; aud another consists in the fact that,
according to the right ol nations, the refusal to ac
cede to a demand of concession and advantages
not previously agreed to, is not regarded as a suffi
oient reason tor the commencement of hostilities.”
In Syria there had been much talk of the new
frith w'hick had been started in Persia by the apos
tate Mahomodan Sheikh Bsbee, who denies the
authenticity of the Koran, aud will not recognize
any but God, Moses, David and himself. He had
made many converts in Persia, and is giving the
Seliati much trouble. Babee has promised bis fol
lowers that he will bring back to life all who are
killed in deteuding the faith.
The Supreme Government had,ordered the Pa
cha of Aleppo to form a tribunal of commerce, of
Mucselmcn, and Franks, in that city. This or
der is much approved by the mercantile eommn
nitv.
" Prom Smyruia, May 17th. The agitation which
was caused S) tho late fight between the Greek*
and the Jews bad entirely subsided. Ali Pasha
had taken energetic measure* against the banditti
who infest the environs of tne city.
China.— The news from China ia important—the
rebellion proceeds with unabated fury; the re*
source* of the ,-mpireare becoming exhausted, and
succor is being eagerly sought for from without.
The Chinese Minister, meanwhile, lias intimated
to liis imperial master that opium begin* lobe ex
tensively grown, and thst its growth ought to be
encouraged within the empire and »o save the
£6.000,n0n, sterling paid for it to the foreign pro
ducer : and should common sense gain', lie aseen
denev among the Celestials, or pecuniary difficul
ties compel them to grow for themselv.*., the drug
the people insist on having, away go £8,000,000
Storing of onr Indian revenue at once. Mean
while the Americans have proclaimed thst they
are determined to force Japan to opeu it# ports to
foreign trade, and the inevitable resell of this ie a
Yankee settlement, » fleet nr fort, troops and terri
tories on the Chinese border, the germ, in fact, of
another Angloßaxon Empire in the East. With
these mighty event, pressing upon us on every
side, the Parliament of Englau seems anxious to
preserve the indolent, extravagant, and iucompe
tout form of government long ag*> fetto bafpati
oiNKted and out of date, and ludicrously insufficient
for yhe exigencies of the empire. The opening, on
the Id’h nisi, of the Bnmoay aud Tamah fragment
of the -I;rest Peninsular Railway, the first in opera
tion ill Asia, is the great domestic event of the
fortnight.
Progress of the Incurredim — American* on
kemd —Hong Kong accounts of April llth aay—
•l Kin.,n tie lSxti ult., we have little to report.
Wo nave but meagre account* of the rebellion
from the North* The latest data from Shanghai
iaofthe 29! b ult.. which gives no intelligence that
can be dei ended upon relating to the poettitm of
Nankin. All communication with that
Th«B»pp**«d no doabt of
th« rtfelfomlnvaating th* dty, ad a rap**iwa*
current that oaa of th* outer gate* had been (bread.
Among the various report* c&aulatad, tbare wa* a
prevailing one that Keahen, th* former Vweroy of
Canton, bed made* very aucoaaaful attack on the
rebel force with the Imperial troop*, about 160
mile# from Nankin, in which many tbourende of
tbe rebel* were aaid to have suffered. Nearer
Nankin, at Taeplng, the Imperial force ia aleo
•toted to have defeated the rebels with great lost
of life. This new* requires confirmation. Thee
high Manderten at Shanghai engaged tour veeaola,
fbfij equipped, to proceed up the Yangtaekiang to
reinforce Chekiangfoo.
Tbe Bombay Times give* fnrtheretatamenta. On
16th Marob, moat urgent deapatchea were received
from the Governor of Nankin by the Chinese Go
vernor of Shanghai, requiring him to implore the
foreign oonaule to send immediate assistance to
Nankin, and elating that unleaa foreign aid ware
afforded, and immediately, the dtv most fell into
the hand* of tha rebel*, by whom it waa closely in
vested, both by land and water. A fleet of Impe
rial junka, assisted by Portuguese armed lorcbae,
which bad been sent up the river to oppose the
progress of the insurgents, bad been ovei powered
by tbe rebel flotilla; and tha latter, sailing down
the Yantsekiang, had anchored without opposition
immediately opposite Nankin. The diviaion of
the revolutionary army investing the place by land
ia at itad to be Bo,ObO strong, ana increasing. Se
veral days before ibis, tbe Chinese Government
bad alto applied for aauistanoe to Sir C. Bonham,
the British Commissioner at Hong Kong. Sir
Cbariea aocord ngly departed in her Majesty'*
steamship Hetnnea, on tba 15th of March for
Shanghai, but bad not arrived there when the
mail left. Her Majesty's steamship Salamander,
and tbe ship Lilly, ware already there. Tbe
French war steamer Cassini. *Dd the United States
stestner Susquehanna, had both proceeded np
the Yangtaekiang, and Colonel Marshall, tbe Ame
rican Commissioner, has determined to place the
latter before Nankin. The immediate effect of
tbia inteiTerence on the relative position of the
insaigenta and imperialists ia moat momentous.
It ia acknowledged by tbe Chinese themselves,
that the loea of Nankin would have been the loss
of tbe Empire.
Tbe Friend of China mentions a report that
Commissioner 8n had been degraded from bis of
floe, and invited to strangle himself. He had
taken the bint and committed suicide.
Oorreepondenc* of th* Commercial Advertiser.
NBWB BY THE ASIA.
London, June 8,1858.
The present mail takes out the rather startling
intelligence of a rise of a halt per cent, in the Bank
of England rata of discount. Its causes, however,
are capable of immediate explanation, and the
measure is in no way an indication of any apprehen
sions of a penuament increase in the value of
money.
The rise was unnonneed yesterday and was from
8 percent, at which it haa atood since the 2"th of
January last, to per cent. During the past few
days th’aro had been a considerable increase in the
doinand for ara ommod .tion, but it was chiefly tor
temporary purposes, each as payment* to tbe cus
toms under the new scale of tea dut e-, &c., and
there was consequently no expectation on the part
of the pnblio that it would lead to any action by
the Hank, more especially as about £1,600,u00 of
specie has arrived from various quarters during
the week, which ia now in course ot being la ded,
so that it will soon find its way into circulation.
And in their general impression of the state of af
fairs the pubi c were correct. Although they have
been taken by surprise in the advance of the rae
tho proceeding arises from what may be called ac
cidental circumstances, whioh atl'ei t only the Bank
and have no bearing on tli- oonditionol the money
market generally. The nature of these may be
stated in a few words.
it waa mentioned in former advicoa, that the Ex
chequer bills dated in Jane, £2,000,000 in amount,
and comprising one-half ol the floating debt, weie
just becoming due, and that toe Chancellor ot the
Exubeqner had given notice that he would pay
them off unleaa the holders would consent to ao
cept the reduoed rata of one penny per day, £1
10a. 6d. per annum,) instead of five farthings,
wbioh they had hitherto borne ; the other half of
the floating debt, which consisted of bills dated in
March, having been successfully reduoed to that
rata upon their coming to matuniy three months
ago. When this notice was given, the general
price* of the funds and the stato of the money mar
ket left little doubt that tbe holders would prefer
to aocept new bills at the proposed reduction rather
than be loroed to take their money, and although
from that time a fall took place in all descriptions
of securities, there waa still a prospect even os re
cently as two or three days ago, that the number
of holders who would refuse the new bills would
bo very limited.
In this state of affairs, however, the Tuikiah
question suddently assumed a more nnfavorable
aspect than at any former period. A fall of Hourly
2 per cent, took place on the Paris Bourse and the
heaviness in the English market greatly increas
ed.
It became evident that those who had hitherto
wavered with regard to taken the now bills would
now make up their minds to demand money, and
when yesterday afternoon arrived, which was the
last period allowed for decision, it Hppeare.i that
the amount of bills that would be sent in for pay
ment instead of for exohange would be £8,000,000,
to meet whioh the Government would of course
have to draw from thair balanoeain the Bank of
England.
In this posture of affairs it obviously bocame in
some measure nocossary for that establishment to
take steps for reduoing their advanoos in othar di
rections. With £8,000,000 leaa of Government
money at their disposal than they had oalonlated
npon. they must ol oourse draw in a proportionate
Bum from channels in whioh it might but for this
circumstance have been safely left. Tbe most im
mediate way to accomplish this was by checking
thoir disoount transactions, and henoe a riso in tho
rate was resolved upon, which will forthwith have
that effect.
But tho £8,000,000 whioh will be withdrawn by
the Government from the Bank will not be with
drawn from the money market. The loading pow
er of that estab'iahmenl ia reduoed to the extent
of the sum thus taken from it, but as that sum will
forthwith be paid by the Government to the dis
sentient bill holders, it will immediately re-appear
in the market seeking investment. Consequently
although tho Buuk ha* less, other peoplo will havo
more to iond, and although that establishment
puts up its price to avoid custom, the individuals
for who-e account the drain has been made npon
it will be glad to offer what they have uow on
hand, at the sarno rates as those which the Bank
would previously have boon willing to accept.
From this explanation the exceptional nature of
the movement will be clearly understood, and those
whoao commercial interests are involved in tho
question will bo prevented from falling into the
error of viewing it as an indication of an altered
state of general affair*, warranting approlionsion.
With regard to political matter* they still remain
in the samo disagreeable and anxious etate. Yes
terday, there was* report that Couut Nesselrode
had beon sent from Bt. Petersburgh to Constanti
nople, and it waa considered from, his known mo
deration and experience, that this would at once
load to a removal of oil difficulties in tho dispute
between Turkey aud Russia. Subsequently, how
ever, the statement haa turned out to be false, or
at all events doubtful, and there has been a pro
portionate reaction from tho improved feeling
which it occasioned.
One favorable item of intelligence haa been re
ceived in an announcement that diplomatic inter
course baa beeu resumed botwoen Austria and
Switzerland. There are tidings, however, of ar
rogant procoodings on tho part of the Kußsian lo
gution in Persia, as if it were tho object of the Czar
to resort to undisguised aggression in all quarters
Paris, June 2, 1858.
The Legislative body have dieperaod, at the ex
piration ortho fortnight'* prolonged session. Th*
only matter of importannoe laid over until next
January ia the bill extending to thirty years tho
period n which the heirs of a dramatio author may
control the performances of his works. Tho bill
preventing any one from oarryiug tiro or other
arms in Corsica waa passed without difficulty. The
Go. eminent compounded with the reporting oom
inittoe on the death poualtv bill, and consented to
Ujake insurrection a transportable and not a oapi
tat "ffenoe. The report of M. de la Gueronnioro
savs thu* “ k" 8 will the political guillotine bo
finally abolished Nttpolcon 111. in a concert
with‘the Legislative Body." An extraordinary
remark to make, inasmuch *• B* B guillotine m
politics was abol shrd in lb4B, am. ” 18 °,
th* bill under consideration was to re-es!'*bß ,n . it-
M. Gneronniere olaima for Louis Napoleon tn*
merit of the not of the Provisional Government at
the very moment that ho wan seeking to annul
that act, and tings, in a report urging the inoreaae
of capital offences, tha praißcs of th Emperor who
did not iucra is* them ns much as he might. But
he had, neverthe.e-s, tried to increase them, and if
he diil not, it waa owing to au unuiiatakeabl*
manifestation of public opmion.
Y’ou heard by the intervening steamer, of the
confirmation, by the Court of Appeals, of the
sentence* passed npon the “correspondents.” I
only re orto the aubjeot now, to mentiou the sensa
tion caused by the speech of M. Berryer, in de
fence of M. Flandin, accused of dabbling in secret
sooictiea. The orator attacked the government in
language folly as earnest as any ever used by
Victor Hugo, although of course iu terms more
guarded and dignified. He stigmatized tho e.up
d’etat as a crime and denounced the proceeding of
the Minister ot police, who had obtained the ovi
dence agaiiißt the prisoners by opening letters in
the post office, as impure, disreputable and inex
cusable. lie declared tho assertion made by the
Attorney-General,—that the police had tho right to
find ont the truth by any mesne, —to be fal.-e, as
leading at once to the application of the torture, in
alt oases where a confession can only be obtained
by the putting of the “quostion.” He lamented
the degradation into whioh the oountry had fallon,
but thought the 2d of December a proud day for
him, when he waa arrested in the performance of
his duty. Tears started two or three times from
his eyes, and at moments, the whole audience
were wrought to a high pitch of emotion. No
effort waa made to stop the speaker, nor was any
attempt made to check tho applause and murmnrs
of the listeners. The whole affair was tha nearest
approaoh to a “ scene," that has occurred siuce
the suppression of the Tribune. M. Berryer’s
speech will have considerable circulation. I have
seen a well-thumbed manuscript oopy of it, and
am told that it is to be lithographed.
It ia not improbable that tho Bourse may be re
openod on Sunday, by Government authority. A
petition to that e'ffeot has been addressed to the
Emperor, and meets with powerful support from
the higher offloere of the Tutleries. The Ministers
are divided. The grounds for the change are
these. Financiers and capitalists are unwilling to
hold stock from Saturday at 8 until Monday 12—45
hours. During such periods of uncertainty aa the
present, when the whole face of affairs may be
changed by a single line of tioetrio intelligence—
whether true or not, and fortunes may be destroy
ed by an editorial, it is natural that operators re
fuse to buy or hold, if there ia to be uo immediate
opportunity for selling again. Falls often take
place on Saturday afternoon for no better reason
than this. This argument tells strongly with the
Government, and it is thought not unlikely that
the change will bo made, or, at least, the expert
ment tried.
Belgium has entered the field of steam naviga
tion, aud her plans for connecting Antwerp vnth
New York are published. Th* Government has
accepted the propositions of a company organized
for tins object. The first year two steamers are to
make twenty tripe between the two port*; two
more boat* will be added the seoond year, aud the
trips will be f irtnightly. The Government guar
antee* the company a minimum interest of 4 per
cent on the capital employ-d, which must not ex
&ed five million franes. It gives no subvention,
unless the insignificant suin of 1200 fr. a voyage
tor the oonxevance of official deapatchea, can be
eaUi-d one. The Company is to have what it can
make by the transportation of tbe mails.
Tbe Empress has sent 40,000 reals (about $5,000)
to the governor of the province of Coruna, in Spain,
to be diatributad among tbe poor and sick. The
letter accompanying the gift, take* pains to men
tion that the money ia derived from her private for
tune, aa she considers that the portion of her civil
hat which ahe may devote to charity, should be
lt" g of right to the poor and suffering of France.
A heavy fall at the Bourse on the last day of the
month, is a very disastrous event in Paris. It is
settling day for the month’s operations, and when
a man cannot square his account with his agent de
change, he ie considered bankrupt and ruined Dav
before yesterday, the 81*t of Mav, the Turkish
imhrtgtio and one or two other minor matters caus
ed ajjanic among the speculator*; in half an hour
the Five* fell 80 centimes, and the Three* a franc
and a quarie;, or very nearly 2 percent. The
number of victim* was large, and five suicides
were mentioned yesterday in consequence. I was
only able to assure myself of three, however. Per
contra, there were one or two splendid operations
executed. One gentleman risked bis fortune in
purchasing Threes, as tbe bell struck 8 o'clock—
the hour st which tbe police clear* the exchange.
Y'este da>, the rise waa one’ franc and a half and
the gentleman realized 80 sous on every 80 frane
of the venture of the day before.
Two of tbe “correspondents," I have thi* mo
ment learned, have carried their case up to the
Court ot Cassation—the highest oourt of appeal.
Their object cannot so much be to obtain a raver
sion of the verdict, which they can hardly expect,
a* to profit by tbe opportunity to cirenlste more
widely among the public, if possible, a speech or '
two against the Government, sod to make the moat
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of th* ohaoo* of attacking tbs Emporor, Us origin
and hi* system. Conncaca.
Great Britain. — The bill reducing the number
of and otherwise altering the oaths taken on en
tering Parliament was lost in tbe House of Lords,
where it originated, by a majority of 15.
Lord John Hossall has abandoned, on acconnt
of the pressure of other public business, the mea
sure disenfranchising the men employed in the
Government dock yards.
In the House of Lords, on the evening of June
4, the Earl of Clarendon announced that the river
Parana, now open to all nations to a certain point,
would be opened further aa soon as the Govern
ment of Paraguay and Brazil could come to an
agreement npon the subject.
In the House of Commons the same evening,
Mr. D’lsraeli gave notice that on the following
Monday he ahooid move for* series of returns of
the conversions of stock under the recent resolu
tions of tbe House, and that he would also take an
early opportunity of calling attention to the pre
sent state of the public finances.
Lord John Russell said he would not, in the
E resent etate of public business, give a pledge that
e would proceed with the education bul.
Lord Palmerston stated that the subject of put
ting down betting hooaee waa under consideration
of the Government.
Mr. C. Wood introduced a bill for the Govern
ment of India, about which there has been much
discussion in the English press. Tbe report of
bis remarks ia very meagre, having been trans
mitted to Liverpool by telegraph. Mr. Wood
spoke five hours mainly, so far aa we can judge
from the report, in defence of the policy pursued
by England toward India and gave the follow
ing account of the present condition of that ooun
try :
The American cotton plant could be grown in
almost every part of the Presidency of Madras.—
And the Government having ascertained the fact,
it rested with private enterprise to promote and
enoourage it* growth. He had no doubt that if a
good ana certain market were provided for it, the
plant would be cultivated to a very great extent.
The revenue of tbe country had decidedly im
proved of late years. Salt was the only article of
consnmption which waa taxed. Much had been
done in the last twenty years for the improvement
of the people, besides the discontinuance of infan
citude and other revolting crimes.
The country indeed was now in a better condi
tion, morally, than at any previous time. He aaw
nothing to show that the condition of the peasant
ry of India was not fully equal to that of any
other civilized nation in the world. Exports from
India, had, in the last twenty years, increased in a
far greater ratio than those even of England, and
an immense increase bad also taken place in the
imports: it was important, then, that these peo
ple should be well governed, and he would now
proceed to consider his in two branches,
the Government in India and the Government at
home. He first described the Government at
home. He stated the principal accusation against
the Homo Government, defended it from them,
and reviewed several recommendations for its
change.
Lord Elienborough’s plan would be a double
Government under another name. Lord Har
dinge, a most competent authority, gave-itashis
opinion that the double form of Government was
the beat. With regard to the intentions of Go
vernment, the proposal was to maintain the pre
sent form of Government but to improve the Court
ol Directors by reducing the number to twelve,
and to add six from the Indian service. With re
gard to patronage, it was proposed to do away
with nominations. As regarded the civil servico,
the introduction ot military colleges, and to be as
sistant Burgeons competency, will be tested by ex
amination. The board of Directors to have £SOO
each, and the chairman and deputy-chairman
£IOOO each.
As regards India, improvements are to be made
in the constitution of the councils and in the ad
ministration of justice. The taws are to be digest
ed into a code. The Queen’s Courts and the Com
pany’s Courts, are to be consolidated. Sir C.
Wood oonclnded a five hours’ speech by declaring
he determination of Government to promote the
education of the people ol India, and to respect
their religion.
The emigration, from the port of Liverpool to
Australia, has experienced a slight check, but the
exodus to the United States has increased, while
many sail direct from Irish ports. The number
of emigrant vessels from Liverpool in May was 51,
oouveying 24,202 emigrants. From January 1 to
May 21, 219 emigrant vessels left Liverpool, with
91,695 persons.
In tho House of Lords, the Earl of Carlisle took
occasion to explain with reference to his speech
on the Cuban slave trade, that he acquitted Gen.
Tacon, as well as Valdes and Concha, of any par
ticipation in the slavo trade. Tocon’s admiatra
tion ofCnba(said Earl Carlisle,) was vigorousaod
enlightened ; he did not suppress the trade, but
suffered the money to bo levied, which he after
ward applied for public purposos, and certainly
not for his own emolument. On this account he
would seem to bo entitled to be placed on the
same level with Gen. Concha.
Tho London returns of mortality do not yet in
dicate that improvement in the pnblio health that
might have been expected from the more favora
ble character of the weather. Tho deaths in lam
don duringthe fonr weeks of May, were respective
ly, 1,159,1,099, 1,098 and 1,128 ; the mow. woek
ly temperatures of the month were 47 deg. 9, 45.8,
85.2, and 59.7.
A committee had undertaken to have Baron
Maroohcttti’s collosal statue at Richard Cceur do
Lion, exacted in bronze, oreoted in London as a
memorial of the World’s Fair of 1851.
France. —There is little nows to add to tho letter
ofourl’aris correspondent. The following from
the Monitaur, howover, ia too significant at tho
present moment to be passed over: —
The definition of the Protectorate in matters
of religion which France exercises in the East, has
become on tho Tiart of the journals, both foreign
and Freuch, the subject ol a controversy iu which
we do not feel called upon to engage.
Nevertheless, we have thought that an opinion
which a long time ago was expressed by a man
whoso authority to pronounce oil suoh matters ia
incontestiblo, might at this juncture bo repro
duced, and have the more weight ainco it ia
altogether independent of tho present complica
tion.
In 1785, when M. Ie Comte de St. Priost returned
from Constantinople, where ho had been Ambas
sador since 1668, he submitted to the King, Louis
XVI., according to tho excellent custom ofanoient
diplomacy, certain memoirs, in which wero united
the various labors of his mission, aud especially a
report on tho protection of the Christian religion in
tho East.
Let us see how the Count of St. Priost, after a
practical experience of seventeen years characteri
zes, and that too, in tho first linos, of his report,
tho protectorate of tho Kings of France over the
Catholic in the East.
“The zeal of our kings has been styled by the
name of a ‘protection of the Catholic religion in
tho Levant,' hut this name is delusive, and apt to
mislead those who do not outer deeply it. to the
matter. Tho Sultans havo never at any time on
tortained even the idea that tho French Monarohs
though themselves unauthorized to meddle with
the religion of the subjects of tho Porte. ‘No
Prince,’ says one of my predecessors —the Marquis
de Bonnat—in a memoir on this same question,
however olosely he may bo allied with another
Sovereign, would allow that Sovereign, to meddle
with tho religion of his subjocts. On this point
the Turks havo as muoh delicacy of feeling as
other nations.
“It is easy to understand that France, having
always been on amicable relations with the Porto,
should not have imposed any odious obligations
on that Power. And the first paragraph of my
instructions warned n,e to avoid everything whioh
u ight tend to awaken the suspioious of the Porte
hy giving too extensive an interpretation to re
ligious treaties.”
We need make no commont on this important
quotation aud wo have on y to add, that the
iaoesaro in harmony with the doctrines enunciated
by the Count of St Priost, and that the treaties be
tween Franco and Turkey there is not a fir gle
article which tre-it« of protection of tho subjects of
the Porta.
Turret. —In the correspondence of the London
Times we find the following narrative of what oo
ourred at Constantinople, antecoden to tho with
drawl of Prinoe Mensohikoff. The letters are dated
at Constantinople, May 19 :
Dimplumatic relations with Russia havo been
aupended. Redsohid Pasha announced suoh to be
tbe case to Prince Menschikoff on the morning of
the 18th. The Prinoe replied that he should leavo
Constantinople soon, and demanded that the au
sWtf Os the Porte should be oouimuuicatod to him
officially. Ho afterwards sent his steamboat to
Bessarabia to take on board the sacred ornaments
and vessels belonging to the Russian chapel. The
Prinoe waa to leave in tha eoursa of the following
week, and the affairs of the Embassy were, ad in
terim, to be transferred to the Minister of Den
mark, (another account taye to the Austrian Min
latar.)
Th# resolution of the Porte had been come to
Immediately after a grand extraordinary Council,
whioh lasted two days, that is, the 17th and 18th,
and to which had bocn Invited all the Ministers, tho
civil and military mue/iirA(functionaries,) Cazsski
ers, Ac. They assembled to the number of 57,
having tho aged Khosreff and Raouf Pashas at
thair head. Among tho former Ministers wero ob
served Riza Pasha, Safetty Pasha, Nafttz Pasha,
Fuad Eifendi, SchokitT Effendi, Chekitt Bey. Ziver
Effeudi, Ac. The discussion waa long, and the
more eminent of tho porsons assembled spoke
more than onoe. The letter declares that tho ne
gative reply on the question of the Russian Pro -
tectorate was unanimous, though 1 believe, some
of the persons present were supposed to have had
Russian tendencies.
Lord Stratford had been rccoived by Redschid
Pasha, with whom he had a long conference. Omer
Pasha had received orders to repair with all speed
with a division of tho army to Schnmla. The
Rediffs, or national militia, to tho number of 260,-
000, had received orders to form themselves into
seforal camps. One waa to assemble at Rnschak,
and the other at Brousca, in Turkey, in Asia, the
place of residence of Abd-el-Kadcr. The fleet, un
der Aehmct Pasha, wa* expected at Constanti
nople, aud that of Abbas Pasha about the same
time.
While the Cabinet Council was being held the
chiefs of tho corporations were summoned, and
informed of the rupture ot diplomatic relations
with Russia. They were at the same time admon
ished to act with prudence and moderation, to ad
viso all those in their employment to resist every
inducement to disturb public tranqua'dity, and to
disregard the false rumoi s that malevolent people
might put in circulation.
After tho Cabinet Council was over, tho Sultan
addressed to tho Ministers and the assembled func
tionaries a brief speech. He said that he had, with
has Government, done all that depended on him to
maintain with honor friendly relations with
Russia; that he could not do more unless he had
consented to his dishonor; that he had strong
hopes the affair would be arranged amicably; but
that if it were the will of God that war should
brake out, he would remember that he was the
son of the Sultans, and that he should do his ut
most to show himself the worthy descendant of
his ancestors.
These words, it is said produced a great effect
on the persons to whom they were addressed. The
letters speak verv warmly ot the patriotic ardor ex
hibited in tbe Turkish' capital amoug all classes,
and tii6 UOSPiniity of the assembled ex Ministers
and chiefs, civil sfrfl military, even of tho-e whose
predilections were rather Iff favor of Russia. They
stato that, the Sultan and his Gotwnment have
made up their mind* to reject the pretension* Os
Russia, and they repeal that they will resist to th*
last, and at all costs.
The names of England and France, but espeoi.
ally the former, are, it appears, in every one's
mouth; and in this menacing state of affairs, the
maintenance of the treaties of 1541 is constantly
invoked. In Constantinople, as in Paris, it is now,
it appears, asserted that Prince Menschikoff has
exceeded the instructions ha received from the
Emperor, and whispers re heard that even a dis
avowal is not improbable. On this it would be
difficult to say anything; ail is mere c*' jectur*. It
is stated that the Ruw-ian Ambassador in Paris
appears very anxious to have it believed that the
views of his Government are not at all of the vio
lent kind supposed.
A Prussian officer, who held office in Turkey in
1848-49, has lately published a statements which
throw light upon the construction and condition
of the Turkish army. He says :
The journals in Government pay there exhibit
on paper a brave army of 664,000 men ready aud
longing for action ; but this army is a mere numer
ical estimate, a design ; a plan for raising an army
on tho ruins of the ill starred army of Mahmond
11., on tbe foundation of the new divisions of the
empire, which is as yet unexplored in thousands
of square miles, aud the divisions of which are
still tor the most part unknown to the superior of
ficials.
The system of recruiting i* by lot; the recruit
ing districts are baaed upon divisions of the land
which have not as vet been officially ascertained
and established. The old historical denomina
tion* and boundaries have been done away with,
and thus endlass eoufosion is caused. How little
the interior is known may be interred from the
fact, that within four leagues of Constantinople
there is “unexplored land.”
Sultan Mahmoud 11., who was a soldier, body
and soul, and made greater progress in European
reforms than any of tha “ powers that be” now in
Turkey, felt, after the destruction of tbe janissaries
in 1828, the neoaaaity of creating another army *•-
■ ■■I.IIII ■■ IIIMIII 111 ————
iimilated to the mlUtaiy state tad standing of Eu
ropean armies. He put himself at the head of his
four companies of lire guards, which he intended
to form into a normal school for hit new army;
bnt the lamentable war with Boasia, as well as the
unsuccessful campaigns in Lower Asia and Syria,
destroyed his arrangements in the bnd. In spite
of the great personal care and the enormons sums
he bestowed on the fathering of his plans, ha could
never bring together an army of 80,000 men.
In 1889 a Prussian officer, known in Tnrkey as
Kiss Pasha, was engaged to construct an army, and
though this engagement and the consequent re
forms came to a speedy and premature end, the
divisions of the srmy ss arranged by him still re
main. They are ss follows:—the whole military
force is divided into six armies (sailed order)
eacb’commanded by a field marshal (Mnachi); each
order is divided into two corps, nnder the com
mand of generals of division (rerik.)
Each order is composed of eiz infantry, four
cavalry, and one artillery regiment, and contains
35,000 troops of the line, with a reserve (relief) of
similar strength—toge'her 50,000. The six orders,
therefore, are of themselves 800,000 strong, but in
audition to them are, Ist, ionr detached corps—
the Crete, the Tripoli, the Tunis and tbs Central
artillery corps. These corps are far from being
organized, and their commanding officers are still
at their villas on the Boenborns.
3d. An srmy to be levied in Bosnia and North
ern Albania; as In these provinces an insurre
tion caused by the recruiting system has only
jnst been put down the greater part of those capa
ble of bearing arms have perished, and the rest
lied, little can be expected from this force. Bd.
40,000 men which Bervia has undertaken to bring
into the field. 4th. The army of Egypt, 18,000
men. sth. The marine corps, 84,000 men. Bth.
Police force, which has a military organization and
Os the six orders only the three first are com
pletely organized; not more than half the cavalry
is mounted. The fourth and fifth orders are very
deficient, the reserve being without arms, and to
gether they hardly amount to 10,000msn. The Bth,
the army of Bagdad, has neither cavalry, artilery,
nor reserve, and amounts altogether to abont
6,000 men. _
This order may be looked upon as quite cat off
from the rest by its great distanoe, dereotive eom
munications, and more particularly by the Arab
tribes of the deaert,‘always mere or less in open re
bellion : entire battalions go over to the Persians
from time to time, with big and baggage.
Exclusive of the eontingenta from Bosnia, Ser
via, and Egypt, the disposable force of Tnrkey
when this relormed plan hss been carried out
would amount to abont 840,000 men; at the present
moment it woald be diffloult to get together 160,-
000 to 170,000.
According to the Koran, Infidels cannot be ad
mitted into the army; recruita, therefore, can be
found only in the Moslem population - among the
15,500,000 of inhabitants of Turkey in Europe only
3,800,000 are Moslem; in Asia and Afrioa, out of
16,000,000,12,000,000 are Mnsaelmans; for the re
cruiting of the army of 840,000 men, there is
therefore a population of 16,000,000, which would
be quite sufficient if the system of recruiting were
not so ineffective.
A recruiting commission, consisting of several
staff and other officers, molahß, doctors, and subal
terns, provided with an Imperial firman, proceeds
to the appointed district where lots are to be
drawn. Tne period of lervicc is five years. Those
who esoape in the lot drawing one year must draw
again every year for four more, and if they escape
till the encl of the five years they enter the rediff
or reserve, which is thus composed of rawinilitia,
which is only cxeroised one month in a year.
The appointment of the reernita to the different
arms of the force is made with regard to the per
sonal fitness of individuals, bnt at random or by
caDrice—thus the Albanians, who are good rifle
men, are taken foi the artillery; fishermen, sailors
and peasants, who never sat on a horse, are drawn
off to the cavalry.
The drilling and cxercieing is partly Prussian,
grafted on the remains of the former French sys
tem. The wretched state of the uniforms and ac
coutrements, the bayonets kept loose in the mus
ket that they may ring well on grounding arms,
the nonchalance of the men when in rank and file,
the impossibility of getting them to stand stiller
or silent, or to “ dress,” or to march in a straight
line, or to do anything in a toldier-like manner,
are set forth at great length.
A correspondent of the Daily News says, on the
other hand:—
The Divan, although not admitting the possi
bility of a war, yet believing that in the present
sute of affairs the best mode of insuring peace was
by taking an energetic attitudo, resolved on adopt
iug a series of imposing measures. Orders were
sent to Achmet Pacha, commanding the Mediter
ranean squadron, to return immediately with his
fleet He was expeoted at Constantinople in the
course of the present week.
Tlie fleet of the Viceroy of Egypt was also ex
pected in s few days, a oonrier having been sent
to Alexandria with orders. This fleet wae to bring
a reinforcement of 15,000 men. At the same time
orders were given to Omer Paoha, general in chief
of tho army in Bonmelia, to descend to Bhumla
with hie corps d'armee, a foroe of from eighty to
one hnndred thousand exeellant troops, inured to
war, and a great nnmher of which took part in
the expeditions to Bosnia, Kurdistan and Monte
nogro.
The commandcr-in-chiof haa also ordered the
immediate formation of two camps, one at Boud
jouck and the other at Brussa. These two camps,
oomposed of the redif or reserve, will comprehend
men, who, joined to the active army of
abont 250,000 will form a total effective force of
more than 500,000 available for the defence of the
country.
Besidoa its ordinary reionrcea, Turkey has at its
disposal the reserve ohest, recourse to whioh is
only hsd in extreme ca«es. This treasury has not
been opened sinoe 1827. Its present eontents are
estimated at 800,000 “purses,” or thirty-seven
millions francs, at least. The Turks of alfolasser
are docided in their hostility to the Bussiens; ant
should war break out, it is the whole nation that
will rise against the Muscovite.
Russia.— Bussia demands from the Bhah of
Persia either the immediate repayment of the loan
of 50,000,000 f., or the oessien of the territory of
Astorabad, on the shores of the Caspian. The
Shah has refused compliance with either demand.
It is said that tho Prince Dolzomki, Secretary to
tho Russian Embassy at Teheran, has given ablow
to the secretary of the Shah, and that Ahmet
Effcndi, the Turkish Ambassador, who took the
part of the insulted dignitary, has addressed a cir
cular to the foreign oonsnls *t Teheran.
Austria. —The Minister of Foreign Affairs has
addressed a circular to the Austrian representa
tives at foreign Coarts, dated the 36th of May, in
whioh he declares formally that the meeting of
Sovereign princes at Vienna had nothing what
ever to do with politics. In conclusion, the circu
lar announces the marriago of the Duke of Brabant
with tho Archduchess Maria.
Denmark. —The Danish Ministry of Marine have
issued a notice prohibiting vessels from anchor
ing within certain distances of the sub-marine
telegraph wires; the distanoe being marked off by
buoys painted white.
Tee Coast of Africa,— The African Steam Na
vigation Company’s mail paokot Forerunner, Com
mander James B. Atkins, arrived at midnight with
mails.
Slaving had again commenced on the coast, and
in one or two instances captures had followed.
The Ferret took one ship lying in the river New
Calabar, and the Linnet had captured two lying
in the riverPongas.
The coast was healthy, the rainy season had
scarcely commenced, and the tornadoes were
moderate and lose frequent. Gold, as usnal, was
found in great abundance on the gold coast, and
there appears little doubt that a largesupplveonld
bo annually shipped, if it but attracted English en
terprise and capital. Cotton and coffee were cul
tivated at Monrovia with sucoess, and tha coast
generally offered great inducements to agriculturists
and tradors.
When the Forerunner arrived at Cape Coast
Castle on her outward voyage, the Governor and
troops had left the fort to settle the dispute with
the King of Ashantee, and had encamped near
Dungna in the faoe of aD army amounting to up
ward of 20,000 men, the English, with their allies,
boing 16,000. The disturbance, as previonsly re
ported, wus caused by two ohiefß, who were sworn
to support the English, having broken their fideli
ty ail'd accepted bribes to join the opposite party.
They wero imprisoned in the English fort, bnt
afterward let out on bail. They again attempted
to cross the river Prat and join tho King of Asnan
teo. Ensign Brownhill, of the Gold Coast corps,
with a party of 80 soldiers, succeeded in bringing
thorn back. They were semred in the sells of the
castle, and afterward beheaded by order of oonrt
martial. The dispute was at an end.
Governor Kennedy has not only ancceeded in
putting a stop to the system, thst seems to have
long prevailed etßierra Leone, of selling children
out of tho colony to the people on the banks of
the river, bnt has recovered above 70 of them from
the chiefs, and is still actively prosecuting farther
Inquiries in that direction.
At Liberiathe elections ware over, lint the re
sult was not positively known when the steamer
left, as all the returns were not in: bat there was
scaroely any doubt that President Roberts was
again elected.
PYom the .V. O. Picayune, llii inet.
Later from Texas.
By the arrival of the steamship Mezloo. we have
Galveston papers to the 7th inet.—four dsyi later
than we received bv the Perseverance.
The News publishes the following letter, dated
Cincinnati, Walker oounty, May 3lth, giving an
account of the massacre of a surveying party by In
dians:
Information has jnst been received here of a moat
molancholy character, to the effect that Benjamin
Hubert's survey ing party to the Bed Biver and
Wichita country, have all been killed, with the
exceptioa of Henry Hinds, who lies wounded at
Fort Belknap. He, it seems, was away from the
party on a hunting expedition, and was lanoed and
shot on his return, bnt escaped to the Fort, abont
60 miles off.
Tho Wichita Indians are the perpetrators of this
unfortunate tragedy. The death of the Wichita
chief was mentioned lately in your paper, and the
present slaughter wae doubtless intended to avenge
his death.
In Mr. Hubert, (who tyved in Polk county,) we
lose one of onr mostenterprisingand best business
men. He hss met the fate promoted for him by
his friends, from hie adventurous snd daring spir
it. His death is grestly regretted by his numerous
friends in this State from Alabama snd Mississippi.
A man named Maokey wss sentenced to the Peni
tentiary, from Liberty oonnty, for five years, stths
lest term of the District Court. His offenoe wss
eruelly besting, so ss to osnse the death of t child,
his own etep-son.
Ship on Fret—About a quarter before ten
o’clock last evening, the ship Gondar, lying at
Boyce and Co’s, wharf was discovered to he on
fire. The alarm being given, onr fire Companies
were promptly on the spot { but notwithstanding
their most strennons exertions, and the oopions
streams of water discharged into her hold, the fire
has continued to barn furiously to 2 o’clock, when
the mainmast went by the board, carrying with it
the mizen topmast. The damage will be at least
75 per cent on vessel and cargo.
The ship was taking in Cotton, and had about
two-thirds ot her cargo, or between seventeen aad
eighteen hundred bales on board; of these about
1204 bales were from Messrs. John Fraaher and
Co.; 500 bales from Muir and Co.; 200 firomS.
Mowry and Son, all of whieb were insured in
Liverpool, and 14 bags of sea island from Gonrdin,
Mathiessen and Cc., and were insured in this city.
There were also 885 bbls. Koein on board, from
Stuarl, Harper and Co., which was also insured in
was a /111* ilifrrOf *45 tons bnr
then, commanded by Cftpt> J.G. BilttoWj end wat
owned by him and Gildeon and Williams, of Bos
ton, and J. Johnson, Jr., of Wisoassit Maine. We
are glad to 'earn that they are also inaorsd.— Ck.
Mercury.
Singular NcranrxxT tub .“ Pigsrb Indians.”
—The Columbia (California) Gazette says, that
there are two considerable Indian villages in that
vicinity at the presnt time, and the Indians, who
looked' as loan and g*ont as half-famiebed wolves
during the pest winter, now appear to be enjoying
all the luxuriee thet an abundant supply of dovar
and occtfiootl supply of beef end breed een afford.
Tha hills in the vicinity are verdant with nioa
tender clover, which is devoured by these poor
savages with as much gusto as an epionra would
devour the most dainty dish. They gather the clo
ver in baskets and prepare it for use by heating
large stones and placing slayer ofdover well mois
ten between each layer of atonee It soon becomes
ready for nse, and each one of them will eat a
supply of clover thus prepared, that would almost
satisfy a horse.
Foreign Railroad Iron.— During the last week
•there were imported into New York 41,710 rail
road bars, valued at 1*02,60*. The comparative 1
imports of this article are aa follows : I
Bara. Valne. •
From Jan. Ito June 11,1868, 801,880 $2,2*1,877 )
do. do. 18*2, 178,2*1 «7M*2
Increase months, 122,*8* $1,671,476 j
If the sound American policy had been in j
vogue, the whole of this iron might have been
made by onr own people, from onr own mines, ’
and the two and a quarter millions of dollars sent
abroad to anpport foreign labor have been expend
ed among oar own Amur* c
WEEKLY
Cjjtmatlf £
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
WmwgDAT MOBffaro, JUNE 28, W 3.
Tmk Atlanta Bank. —W e bad sn interview yoo
tord tj with Mr. 8. C. Higginson, the President of
this Institnt.on; and lifting copied an article on
the 31st nit. from the Chronicle <k Sentinel, and
beard many rumors tending to excite distrust and
prejud ce against the Bank and its managers, we
teit it to be due to the public as well as to the cor
porators of the Bank, to make each inquiries of
Mr. Higginson, as to ita present condition and fa
tore prospects, as would satisfy the public confi
dence of the bona fide intention of the Directors, to
manage its affairs in strict accordance with its
charter and tho laws of the State. Itisdne to Mr.
Higginson to ssy tbathisconversation snd answers
to onr inquiries were unreserved. He gave us
every assurance that theaffairs of the Bank will be
regulated according to the best and strictest rales
us hanking, and with reference to the pablic in
terests.
In addition to these assurances, Mr. Higginson
exhibited to ns a letter, of recent date, from the
o-ahier of one of the soundest banking institu
tions of the oity ot New York, to a bank officer in
South Carolina, in which the writer states that
George Smith, Esq., who is represented to be the
principal stockholder in the Atlanta Bank, is esti
mated to be one oi the wealthiest bankers in Chi
cago.
From these representations, as well as from the
known characters of the gentlemen in Georgia, who
applied for snd obtained the charter of this Bank
from our lagielature, wa hardly think “there is a
deliberate deeigu to nae thie Bank charter for
fraudulent purposes.”
Mr. Higgmaon informs ns that the directors in
tend to pursue a legitimate banking business at
Atlanta, and to furnish the business community of
that place with all reasonable monied facilities. If,
however, the business of that plaoe will not require
ail the cironlation of the Bank, it is then the inten
tion of the directors, as it is their right, and as all
other Banks do, to send their bills to Chicago, or
to any other point where they have credit and
where their circulation is likely to be wanted. The
Chicago Banks arc required by law to deposits
State stocks, us security, for the amount of their
circulation, and hence'they attack the issue of oth
er institutions whose circulation there is baaed
upon the personal responsibility of the stockhold
ers only. Mr. Higginson informs us further, that
♦lll,OOO of the capital stock of the Atlanta Bank
have been paid in, and that the balance of the
♦BOO,OOO capital, will he paid in as fast as wanted.
The bank has new in its vault ♦52,000 in specie,
whioh perhaps exceeds the amount of its circula
tion. As, however, a statement of tho affaire of
this institution will shortly be published, we will
not enter into further particulars.
In concluding these statements, we may be per
mitted to express the hope, that the affairs of thie
institution may bo managed in suoh amanneras not
to reflect injuriously upon the character of Georgia.
Her Banking institutions never enjoyed, and de
servedly so, a higher credit, nor were ever more
sound and flourishing, than at present. In former
imeethe confidence of our people has been abused
and they have been shamefully swindled by heart
less speculators in Bank charters. And no mat
ter for what canse, nor with hour little reason, the
failure of one of our Banks seats suspicions and
distrnsts over the minds of tho people, against all
other banks, and thns onr solvent institutions are
madeinnooent sufferers, on account of the mis
mangement of banks, with which they had no
connection.
The above article, which we desire to use as tho
theme for a few remarks, appeared in the Savan
nah Republican of the 16th inst.
Before proceeding, however, it may not be im
proper to remark, that we know none of the par
ties owning stock in the Bank of Atlanta, (except
Mr. Biooinbon, the President, who yesterday
ealled on ns and introduced himself,) and as we
have no interest direct or indireot (except that
common to every citizen,) in any Banking institu
tion in the State, we have no object to subserve,
but to warn the pablic against what we believe to
be a deliberate purpose to defraud them by means
and through the agency of this Bank.
It ie not remarkable, that the interview with
Mr. Higginson should have confirmed all onr
former suspicions of the deliberate design of
GeorseSmith & Co., to nse the bank charter for
fraudulent purposes, while it entirely removed
all suspicion from the mind of the RepubUean; it
is only an evidence of tho different impressions
made upon different minds by the same facts.
Mr. Higginson seems to be sn amiable, pleasant,
plausible man, and it is not to be supposed that
he would not “ assure" the Republican, as he did
ns, that the operations of the Bank of Atlanta
would be in accordance with the “ best and strictest
rules of banking,” in short, altogether legitimate.
Os oourso he would say all this, (nnd in charity,
we sincerely hope he thinks so, and means to do
to as far as he can,) for no sane man woald go into
a strange community, or even one in whioh he was
known, and proolaim his pnrpoae to commit a
fraud upon the people.
Let as then see how far Mr. Higginson can con
trol the action of the Bank, oven supposing him
determined to act as he proposes. To ascertain
his power, it will be necessary to briefly review
the short but significant hiatory of this institntion.
It was chartered by the last Legislature, the
name of one of the corporators (perhaps more) hav
ing been introduced into the Charter, without his
knowledge, privity or consent. A year or more after
the oharter was granted, George Smith A Co., of
Chicago, Illinois, suddenly appear in Atlanta, jnst
at the time tho subscription for the stock was to be
made, and when the Books were opened, they took
l, allbut ten shares." A board of Directors is form
ed, notone of whom, Mr. Higginson informs ns,
lives in Atlanta, and they elect a President and
Cashier, neither of whom reside in or are known
there, and the first issue of their bills is made, be
fore any officer of the Bank has readied Atlanta,
in Chicago, Illinois, and other points in Wisconsin
and the North-west. Mr. Higginson is jnst now
on his way to Atlanta to commence the Banking
business there, weeks, perhaps months, after the
bills of the bank have been circulated in Illinois
and Wisconsin. “ Smith & Co. own all tho stock
bnt ten shares,” theso ten shares are owned by
persons who eonstitnte the Board of Directors.
Mr. Higginson, tho President, owns one share!
The Board of Directors, therefore, ore the mere
oreatnres of Smith A Co., whom they can make
and nnmake by anol or vote; they are, therefore,
oompelled to do the bidding of Smith & Co., or
lose their places, and they may be parties to the
oontemplated fraudulent use oi the Bank Charter.
Mr. Higginson, too, who only owns one share,
oomes to Atlanta, not because of any interest he
has in the Bank, or other property, for he has
none there, bat simply to obtain his salary as Pre
sident, which Smith A Co. agree to pay him. He
ie, therefore, virtually an of Smith A Co.,
and must do their bidding or loose his plaoe.
What pewer, then, has he to control the action of
the bank within legitimate bonnda. Tho board of
direction, not one of whom live in Atlanta or have
any interest there, will oontrol tho institution, so
long as they conform to the requirements of
Messrs. Smith A Co., and when they disobey they
must give place to more obedient creatures.
Tnis is a briaf and fair statement of the state of
things sooording to the admissions of Mr. Hibqin
aoN to us. It ie, therefore, clearly not within his
power to pursue a legitimate banking business,
were he so disposed, if Smith A Co., will otherwise.
And to show that they entertain no such purpose,
it is only necessary to state that, if such was their
desire they oonld easily have obtained a Charter
under the General Banking Law of Illinois, which
anthorisesany man to bank whodepoeites the pro
per securities with the State Treasurer or Comp
troller.
In oonclusion we give a few extracts from West
ern papers, which we find in Thompson's Rank
Note Reporter, showing what they think of the
Bank of Atlanta, Georgia.
The Chicago Jonroal says:
“ We notice as a very general expression of the
press in this State, Wisconsin and Missouri, that
the issues of this ‘Georgia’ conoern aro discoun
tenancedasof a saspic one character of currency
for safety to trust, and we entirely agree with the
discernment of agricultural as woll as bnsiness
communities, that detect the chafl from the grain
and bogus from coin of standard value, for in well
directed caution there is always safety.
“ In the advertisement of this concern, we no
tice that the owners are stated to be ‘ personally li
able for all ita issues in terms of the act of incor
poration.’
“ The public would like very much to know,
in the first place, what those torma are ? Ana
secondly, if they are all satisfactory, and the ‘ln
stitution’ should close its doors at auy time, how
long it would take and what would be the proba
ble expense of a bill-holder to go to Georgia anl
prosecute for his money ?”
From the Detroit Advertiser:
“ We have before us a copy of the Chronicle A
Sentinel, of GeorgiA, in which there is a leading
editorial, warning the people of that State against
having anything to do with the bills of the Atlan
ta Bank, and we deem it onr duty to repeat the
warning to the people of Michigan.’’
And this from the Chioago Tribune:
“ A firm in this city, desiring to pay some mo
ney in New York, forwarded by express a lot of
the Atlanta bills. Yesterday, the bills came back
by express, with a note saying that they were not
redeemable.”
From Sheldon’s North American Bank Note De
tector:
“Give the Atlanta Bank no credit, for we are
of the number that think Smith A Co. are making
this last wild cat issue out of sheer neoeseity to
oaneel theii former liabilities. The fact of '.heir
refusal to enlarge their Stock Back is to onr mind
prims facia evidence of their inability to do so and
meet their other liabilities. Our present law is a
good one for capitalists to Bank under, but don’t
answer for men without means.”
If Smith of Chicago is rich, then his Shinplas
ter Bogus Bank is an. insult to the whole people of
Illinois and Wiscon»(p—if he is poor, why should
he flood the country with a bogus currency!
Memphis Coavenlloa.
As a part of the history of the times, (not to
•ay of one of the humbugs of the day,) we oom
aenoe the publication, this morning, of the detailed
proceedings of tße Memphis Convention, in which
perhaps quite all of our readers, will feel either
interest or enrioeity. Those who know how
solicitous we have ever been for the advancement
and piOgrest of the South in the development
of her resource*, smi’ttj all those industrial pur
suits which contribute so much to make s nation
great, and a people prosperous and happy, need
no aaeuranoe that we desire most earnestly that
tha labors of the Convention may resnlt most
happily, and accomplish all, apd even more than
its most sanguine friends either contemplate or
anticipate, yet we confess we have little hope that
they will be productive of any permanent good.
We hope we are mistaken. *
Democratic nomination.
Tas Hon. Herscbell V. Johnson hat been nomi
nated as the Democratic Secession candidate for
Governor. We are glad of this; we want to see
with what grace the Union Democrats will swallow
the secession pill.
The Hon. A. H. Stephens, we are gratified to
learn was able to walk about his room Wednesday
last, and it was expected would be strong enough
to leave it in a few days.
Tbs Hon. R. Toombs has out thanks for numar
ot* public document*
The Hon, Charles Muryhy,
The following card appears in the Atlanta Intel
Ugeneert
Decatur, June 15th, 1858.
W. B. Rugous.— Dear Sir: — l must avail my
self of your kindnetn in opening yourcolnmns to
any comma nication I might think it necessary to
publish. And ask you to announce my name m
your paper as sn independent candidate for Con
gress in the 4th Congressional District, at the ap
proaching election.
1 did agree to submit my claims to a Convention
of the re-united Democracy, acting upon the prin
ciples of the old school Democrats, leaving out of
view the prejudices snd heart burnings of the late
issues. But lam informed by undoubted authori
ty, that such a Convention has not been held in
the District, snd thst there will not be such a one,
between now and the first Monday in October
next, I must therefore try to get along without it.
I remain with great respect, yours truly,
C. Mcrfhy.
A Spirted Call. —The citizens of Hancock coun
ty, “ who are in favor of reducing their taxes, let
ten ing the criminal docket, depopulating the jail, and
preserving the health and prolonging the lives of
many addicted to the social vice of Intemperance,”
are requested to meet in Sparta, on the 4th of July
next, to discuss the propriety of suppressing the
retail traffic. This call, which will be found in an
other oolnmn, portrays in bold and striking colors
the evils of a system which has acquired much
power snd influence in the country, and it invokes
the people, in council, to deliberate upon and dis
cuss the propriety of its destruction.
The day selected for the meeting is most appro
priate—it is consecrated to every lover of liberty
and liberal institntions, as the anniversary of the
day on which sprang into existence those active
principles of well regulated constitutional liberty,
which have made us a great, happy and prosperous
nation, and it cannot bo more appropriately ob
served than by uniting in council to rid the coun
try of a greater enrse than ever British cupidity
suggested, or tyranny imposed.
Atlanta Bank in Nkw-York. —Who redeems
George Smith’s wild cat currency in New-York, is
becoming a serious question. A firm in this oity,
desiring to psy some money in New York, for
warded, by express, a lot of the Atlanta hills to a
banker and broker, to be taken at the discount
advertised by Messrs. Smith & Co., in the news
papers in this city. Yesterday tho bills came back
by express, with a note stating that they wero not
redeemable, nor could they bo Bold. If they are
not redeemable in New York, it is time wo should
know something about the place of their redemp
tion, for the Georgia papers do not give us much
ground for hope that they will ever bo redeemed
at Atlanta, in that 6talc, where the bills purport
to be issued.
Thk above paragraph which appeared in a late
number of the Chicago Tribune, does not present a
very flattering prospeot to the bill-holders of this
shin-plaster institution; and wo imagine the ques
tion “ who redeems the bills !” wil become one of
very serious import to the bill-holders before they
are redeemed.
Starching Linen. —To those who desire to im
part to shirt bosoms, collars, and other fabrics that
fine and beautifni gloss observable on now linens,
the following recipe for making Gum Arabic
Starch will be most acceptable, and should have
a place in the domestic scrap-book of every wo
man who prides herself npon her capacity as a
housewife and the neatness of hor own, hor bus
bands and family’s dress, and if she doeß not take
pride in these things, her husband is an “unfortu
nate man.”
Take two ounces of fine white gum arabic pow
der—put it into a pitcher, and pour on it a pint or
more of boiling water, (according to the degree of
strength you desire,) and then having covered it,
let it set all night. In the morning pour itcareful-
Iy from the dregs into a clean bottle, cork it and
keep it for use. A table spoonful of gum water
stirred into a pint of starch that has been made in
the usual manner, will give the lawns (eithor white,
black or printed) a look of newness, whon nothing
else can restore them after washing. It is also
good—much diluted—for thin white muslin and
bobbinet.
Judicial Candidates. —The Hon. T. H. Tripfe,
of Cass, is a candidate for Judge of the Cherokee
Circuit.
Hon. Wm. B. Flxmmino, Hon. Charles 8. Henry,
and Hon. Joseph W. Jackson, are candidates in
the Eastern Circuit.
The DemocMttc Nomination.
The following is the result of the batlotings in
the Convention for Governor:
'l2 8 4 5
Johnson 129 168 172 192 205
Haralson 71 77 91 98 85
Lamar 79 51 26 withd’n
Warner 24 16 8 “
Jackson 8 5 8 8 00
Starnes 00 8 8 00 8
Stark 00 00 00 15 12
Benning 00 00 00 00 1
The Hon. H. V. Johnson, having received two
thirds of the votes cast, was declared the nominee,
whioh was afterwards made unanimous.
A Bishop’s Pay and Perquisites. —The Bishop
of Durham is in embarrassed circumstances, poor
man. His income having been reduced to about
♦40,000 per annum, (it was formerly about $120,-
000,) ho finds himßcifin a state of pitiable destitu
tion, and has applied to tho ecclesiastical commis
sioners for an additional |5,000 a year or so to pay
his “ gamekeepers” and “ watchers on the moors,”
and keep hia lawns- not the lawn he wears, but
tho lawns around his palace—in apple-pie order.
The commissioners decline to mako the extra al
lowance, the more especially as the worthy “ Lord
Spiritual” haa already overdrawn his account some
♦850,000 since his salary was cat down; or rather,
has retained that amount instead of paying it over
like an honest prelate. In tho diocess of Durham
there are dozens of poor curates with wives and
families to support, who do not receiove £SO ster
ling per annum; and yet the bishop, in his sche
dule of extras, puts down the annual wages of one
gamekeeper at £lOl 6d., and of another at £SB 6s.
6d. Saving his lordship’s game, therefore, is con
sidered a more valuable and important service
than saving the sonls of his lordship’s flock. The
estimation in which his lordship holds carnal lux
uries, as compared with things spiritual, is also
manifested in another part of his “ little bill.” He
puts down the expenses of his parks at £l,OOl, but
modestly charges only £ls for those of his chapel!
That blessed institntion, known as tho “Church
of England,” is based upon a system of the most
monstrous inequalities. If the piety and good works
of its hnmble clergy did not set off the nngodiy
rapacity of its hierarchs, it would be in peril of
th efate of Sodom and Gomorrah.
John P. Reilly, Esq., was, yesterday, admitted
a member of the bar of the Supreme Court of
Georgia.
An Impertinent Question. — The Tribune asks
the Washirgton Union, which had been wasting a
column in demonstrating tbo Democracy and di
plomacy of Auguste Belmont:
“Suppose Mr. Belmont had given or spent no
money to seonre Pieroo’s election, do you think he
would have been this year appointed a Charge
d’Affaires ? Now jnst face the music I”
Complaints of the destruction of the wheat by
the joint worm and fly are general in the eastern
counties of Virginia.
Mr. Gough stated in his lecture at Trenton, N.
J., that 600,000 persons had signed the pledge,
and connected themselves with the Washingtonian
movement: that of this number 450,000 had re
trograded and violated the pledge, and either
filled a drunkard’s grave, or were miserable
drunkard’s; that tho original mover of the pro
ject now kept a low groggery in Baltimore, and
was the best customer himself.
The body of a respectableyoung woman of New
York, named Anna McElroy, was recently found
in the East Biver,bearing unmistakable evidence of
brutal outrage and murder. The city has offered
a reward of ♦IOOO for the detection of the murder
ers, to which SSOO has been added by several gen
tlemen in whose families she had resided.
Judge Starnes, of the Middle Circuit, in his Sta
tistics to Gov. Cobb, concludes as follows: “In
every 100 oases tried, of all kinds, there have been
83.88 cases with which the evidence connected the
nse of ardent spirits as a cause ; or just one-third.
In every 100 cases of crime against the person,
there have been 46-16 cases with whiah the evi
dence connected the uso of spiritous liquors os the
cause, by which it appears that nearly one-half of
the crime against the pernor: are more or less at
tributable to spiritous liquors.”
The Memphis Eagle gives an account of an ex
cursion to the “Sunk Lands” of the St. Franois
river, some fifty or sixty miles from Memphis by
the land route. Daring the earthquake of 1811, a
large scope of land along the St. Francis river was
sank ten or fifteen feet, and immediately cov
ered with water. It has been called the sunk lands
from that time. It is some seventy-five miles in
length, and from two to four in width. It is stud
ded with small islands of willow, but at the pre
sent stage of water very few of them are above
oveiflow. The whole lake, as it might more pro
perly be called, abonnds with fish of all sorts and
sizes. The water is almost perfectly transparent,
and they may be seen distinctly to the depth of
tea feet.
The Mayor or Montreal has been arrested
and held to bail, at the instance of the friends of
the late Peter Gillespie, who was one of the vic
tims of the late riot.
The Canard steam ship Arabia, Captain Jndkinsi
which sailed from New York, on Wednesday, for
Liverpool, was to have taken out, according to
the New York Express, between $700,000 and
SBOO,OOO in gold ingots.
The cholera appears to be on the increase at
St. Petersburg. On the 12th inst., there were
fifty new cases, forty-two cures, and nineteen
deaths. The number of cases under treatment
was 488.
The colonial military expenditure of Great
Britian amounted, in 1849, to £2,972,828, including
$299,548 spent in the penal settlements; and in
1851 the nett total was £2,914,854, including
£278,674 for the penal settlements.
Cotton Piceer.— A. H. Burdinc, of Panola
county, Miss., has invented a machine for picking
Cotton from the stalE, by which, it is said, one
hand con gather aa much as two without it, and in
mnch better condition.
The first railway in Asia was opened at Bombay
amid a vast concourse of people, and unprece
dented rejoicings, on the 16tb of April.
A Model Husband.—Governor Morris, in his
will made a short time before his death, after set
ting npon his wife a liberal allowsnoe, says:
“ And in case my wife should marry, give her
six hnndred dollars more to defray the increased
expenditure which may attend the connection.”
Now, had that been my husband, I would not
have married again, if it most killed me to live
■ingle. Dear, generous soul 1 Providing for all
his wife’s little wants that way after he has gone 1
It makes my eyes as red as a rsbit’s to think of it.
[Fannt Feb*.
The War Rumors.
Under the head of “ Important Butnors,” the
New-York Journal of Commerce has the following
notice, in relation to tho subject matter, oontained
in our telegraphic despatch, relative to the proba
ble or prospective state of affairs between Mexico,
Spain, and the United States, and the Island of
Cuba.
Important Rumor.— Wo learn that information
has been forwarded to our government, supported
by plausible evidence, to the effect that Santa An
na’s bold and daring policy towards tho United
States, is backed by an understanding with Spun.
Spanish officers are filling places near the person
and in the army of Santa Anna. “ Spain,” says a
gentleman, who has better means of information
on the subject than we have, “is preparing to
strike in her protectorate capacity—in which she U
to be protec'ed; and is to pay the fee by the utter
ance of English policy in Cuba, aud then to adopt
the apprentice system for almost nnli nited periods,
say 8,12 and 16 years, by tha free introduction of
negroes from Africa, without molestation.” We
will not undertake to endorse this exact outline ot
the programme, but it is clear that our Govern
ment should keep a sharp lookout iu tho direction
of the Gulf ot Mexico. If our informant is not
mistaken, we may expect to hear something far
ther on the subject before many days. We are
giveu to understand that a deep game is playing,
and will soon open.
We oonieas we are disinclined to oredit this sto
ry, but it comes to us iu snob away that we are
not at liberty entirely to disregard it. Spain is a
proud old country, and no doubt thinks herself
competent to whip the Yankees out of house and
home. She is in trouble about Cuba, aud may con
sent to a nominal emancipation of the slaves in that
island, if thereby she can secure the permanent
possession of the island itself. But will England
guaranteesuch possession? Has she already given
such a guarantee ? Wo doubt it, though we have
no means of denying it.
The Commercial Advertiser copies the above and
appends the following comments:
We took ocoasion, soon after Santa Anna’s re
ception of the Spanish Minister at Mexico, to no
tice what appeared to us to be symptoms of cordial
understanding between the two Governments; and
reft:uwce was made at the same time to the rumor
of offensive and defensive alliance had
been entered into between them, the United
States boing tho object of their mutual jealousy.
With the Journal of Commerce we are quite in
clined to doubt the abovostory—which is possibly
the echo of that rumor—and’ this for tho reasons
then spooified, aswoll as for others. Wo showed
at the time that neither* Spain nor Mexico could
gain by such a coalition, and that were either of
those powers to assume a hostile attitude toward
the United States, and be supported by the other,
tho effect would bo certain dotrimont to both.
Mexioo’s territories would be overrun and con
quered by the American army, and Cuba would
be very summarily wrestod from Spain.
Wo arc the more inclined to doubt the rumor
because of a feature now developed, whioh is com
mon to fulse reports—the moment it attempts to
assume a tangible, practioai shape its improbability
becomes still more apparent. As to tho “deop game
playing, whioh will soon open,” it must be borne
m mind that we have hud occasion repeatedly to
causo tho collapse of those vagne and mysterious
ly bombastic enunciations by incising them with
the lancet of common sense, as in tho oaso of ru
mor* from Havana, the Sandwich Islands and so
forth. For this style of propheoy, we have no
great respect, and in thiß instanco wo acoount tho
first moves in the game as giving but little pro
mise of any masterly manocanvering. In the sim-
Ele fact, (supposing it to be a fact, of whioh wo
ave no sure evidence,) that Spanish officers in
auy'considerable numbers “are filling pluoes near
the person and in tho army of Santa Anna,” we
see no proof of any hostile intent, or “ bold and
daring polioy” toward the United States. Not in
the leaßt. The premises justify no suoh conoiu -
sion. Santa Anna may have personal reasons, and
reasons of national policy also, for mixing officers
of pure Spanish blood with Mexicans, without bo
ing “ backed by an nnderstanding with Spain,” if
he has eo done, of which, however, we repeat,
there is no evidence. •
But the Journal’s informant becomes inconsis
tent with himself the moment he attempts to sub
stantiate his predictions. By a stroke of tho pen
Santa Anna’s “ bold and daring policy toward the
United States” snddenly becomes that of Spain,
for the gentleman assures us that it is she, and
not Mexico, that is “preparing to strike.” Wo re
spectfully submit that the idea of Spain “ prepar
ing to strike (the italics being tho informant’s, not
ours) in her proteotorato capacity ” is altogether
absurd! Why should Spain striko ? On whose
behalf and at whom shall tehe strike? O, she is to
“ striko in her protectorate capacity," and of coarse
the object of her protection is Mexico, and equally
of course the blow is to be aimed at the United
States. Enfoebled Spain takes tho repnblio ot
Mexico under her protection! Not very compli
mentary to Santa Anna or Mexico, we submit. But
supposing that to be understood, why should Spain
“strike” the United States or any other powor,
merely because 6he has taken Mexico under her
protection ? Who has meddled with Mexico, or
threatened to meddle with her ? Not the United
States, certainly. Not any other power, that we
wot of.
IfSpain, then, is “preparing to strike (any one)
in her protectorate oapaoity”—supposing that she
has suoh a capacity—she is doing a very silly
thing; if it is intended to say that she is about to
“ strike” the United States, then tho Journal’s in •
formant has capped the olimax of absurdity. Spain
preparing for offensive war with the United States,
because she has suddenly conceived a politiial af
fection for Mexioo! Why, the idea is supremely,
irredeemably ridiculous, and ovinces tho totally
unreliable charaoter of the wholo rumor, from
the assumption of a “ bold and dating poli
oy,” on tho part of Santa Anna, “ toward tho
United States.” down to England’s protecto
rate of Spain’s protectorate of Santa Anna’s
dictatorship of Mexico. We trust our Government
will wait for something considerably more “ plau
sible” than this “story” bcforeitassuinesa “olear”
case for sending an extra man to the masthead to
“keep a sharp look out in the direction oi the Gulf
of Mexico." Wc beg the Government and people
of the United States not to beuiartred. When
Spain “ strikes in her protectorate oapaoity” at
this republiCj the world will be a vast deal nearer
its end than it now is, as we suspect our contem
porary thought when it uttered tho oracular docla
rution, “ IP our informant is not mistaken, we may
expect to hear something further on the Bulged before
many days." ,
The Baltimore American has tho following com
nents upon tho story of it probable war with
Spain, Mexico and England, whioh was only too
ridiculous to have originated in any place but
Washington City.
The Alliance of Spain, Britain and Mexico.—
The rumor to whioh the N. Y. Journal of Com
merce attaches importance in regard to the com
bined action of Spain and Mexico against the Uni
ted States appears to be hardly worth considera
tion. Tho Mexicans hate the Spaniards a great
deal more than wo did tne British in 1814. It will
hardly be crodited, therefore, that the decripit
cripplo—“ Old Castile”—is likely to hobblo over
on nor crutches to help her recreant bantling, Mex
ico, who has had the rickets ever since she left her
republican cradle. “Spain,” says the informant of
the Journal, “ is preparing to strike in her protec
torate capaoity, in whioh she is to be protected,and
is to pay the fee by tho utterance of English policy
in Cuba, aud then to adopt the apprentice system
for almost nnlimited periods, say 8, 13 and 16
years, by tho freo introduction of negroos from
Africa without molestation.”
This paragraph, stripped of its verbiage, seems
to mean that Spain is about to help Mexico to
“strike” ns, and that England in turn, is to pre
vent ns from striking Spain. In consideration of
this British “protectorate,” Cuba is to be made a
twin sister of Jamaica, in dessolation.
The folly of the proposition is seen as soon as
it escapes from mysterious language into fnteiligi
ble English. If Spain and Mexico ever could
combine to assail our country wo would whip the
pair with the heartießt good will; bat, on the way
to the Mexican coasts, wo would doubtless delay
a few hours to occupy that Queen ol the Antilles
which has recently been so roughly felt by tho fiii
busteros. And, iu that event, who imagines for a
moment that England would crook her linger at
the United States while cotton is wanted from our
plantations, and Constantinople is threatened
by Russia? Is it conooivable that Great Britain
would open the pathway for the Czar and his serfs
to her Indian Empire, in order to shield a Spanish
Island and its negroos in the western world?
Wo regret to see a grave journal, liko our New
York contemporary, countenancing such fogyism;
Hints of this character are calculated to arouse and
not to oalm the excitable blood of our oountry a
gainst Old Spain as well as New. • They are pre
miums and provocatives otfilibusterism.
The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore
Sun has the following speculations:
Washington, June 15.—A rumor prevails that
advicos have been received by the Government
from Havana, showing that Santa Anna is abont
to be seconded by Spain and by England, in bis
hostility to the United States. Advices represent
ing that some intrigues of this sort are on foot
may have been received, but I cannot believe them
to be well founded. The rumors are probably of
flllibnstier origin, and are intended to produce an
excitement against Spain, and in favor of another
descent upon Cnba.
It is known that the Fillibusters are now strong
er than ever—that they have money, arms and
men at their disposal. It is proven that they
are watching this Government, and that this
Government is watching them. They are watch
ing only for the acquiescence of tho present ad
ministration in their movement. Bnt this Govern
ment will not wink at their proceedings, while
Spain preserves good faith towards us. Therefore,
it is now the flllibnster policy to prodnee tho be
lief that Spain is in hostile alliance with Mexico
against the United States. The moment thisoould
bo established, all the ends of the Fillibusters
would be accomplished, as from every part of the
Union armamonta again*t Cuba would be immedi
ately fitted out, and in such strength as to be irre
sistable.
All the rumors as to intrigues of Great Britain
in regard to Cuba are undoubtedly false. The
fishery question is to be settled very sood, and
nothing can occur to produce any difficulty between
the United States and John Bull.
Rain at Last. —Yestdcrday we had several de
lightful showers of rain, which effectually laid the
dust, the first time since early in April, revived
the drooping vegetation, and seemed to make all
nature animate and inanimate rejoice. The clouds
look loving and we hope for more.
An Inquest was held on Sunday, npon the body
of John M. Bernadon, who was ’drowned in the
C'nal, Saturday night, while bathing. The Jury
found a verdict in accordance with the facts.
Bishop Wainwright, of Now York, on Sunday,
12th inst., confirmed five deaf mates. The service
was performed by signs, the Bishop’s address
being translated to the mutes by the Rev. Mr.
Galiandet, their religions instructor. The scene
is described as one of nnnsnal interest.
Mb. Stephens. —The Macon Citizen of the 18th
inst., says, this gentleman has so far recovered
from the effects of the late accident, aa to think of
leaving for home in a day or two. He suffers some
from the bruises on his sboolder and broken arm,
bnt not sufficiently to prevent him enjoying the
conversation of his friends or the flavor of a cigar.
As usual, he takes much interest in politics and
has the assurance of frith, that though the “Coon
killer” is abroad and a “spiritual rapper” is
knocking at the door of the Executive Mansion,
the people will not let him in!
Dividend. —The Board of Directors of the Bank
of Georgetown, So. Ca., have declared a semi
annual dividend of two dollars on each share of
the capital stock from the profits of the last six
months—being sixteen per cent.
Fire. —A fire occurred in Oglethorpe on Tues
day last, by which Col. Elbert Lewis lost bis dwel
ling honse, kitchen and dairy. Losa SBOO. No
insurance.
On the Hndson River Railroad lately, the en
gineer having been ordered by a party of the offi
cers, whom he was transporting, to increase bis
speed, succeeded in making twenty-three miles in
twenty-one minutes.
The Pittsburgh Despatch says, that, on Satur
day week, the fast train on the Pennsylvania, Rail
road, when near Greensbnrgh, attained the extra
ordinary speed of eighty mile* per hour. A per
fectly straight skotch of tan jflles was run in seven
and a half minutes. believe, is one mile
to the hoar, faster th*a|jflqalokeit XngUib time.
Hod. W. 0. Mm.
This Memph.it Eagle pays the following hand
some compliment to our Senator:
Th* CojrvumoN, and its Phksidins Officer.—
The recall of the gruat Southern and Western
Convention at Homphis, is now before the ooun
try. That it has clone all—or nearly all—it was
expected to do, and that too in the most national,
impartial and harmonious manner, is a fact ad
mitted by all, and one that will soon be potent to
tho whole country.
Wo all know that much depends, in matters of
this sort, upon tho startmade —tho impetus given
to the course of their proceedings in their incep
tions. Every delegate who was present at the
opening of the Convention will rouombor that a
patriotic, national, and impartial impulse was giv
en to the deliberations of tho Convention by the
opening speech of the able and distinguished gen
tloman from Georgm, Hon. William C. Dawson,
whosescrvicos the Convention was a second time
so fortunato as to seourc. His remarks on that oc
casion have been published to the world. They
were enthusiastically received—they were firmly
aud energetically enunciated, and gave the right
direction to tho various sentiments, interests, feel
ing and opinions prevailing in that immense throng
of Southern and Western representatives.
On tnis account, and in view oi the dangers
which beset the action of the Convention, owing
to tho supposed sectional and partisans proclivi
ties of some, too muoh oannnot be said in praise of
the distingusbed President. Certainly there is
but one sentiment prevailing among the delegates
from all the various Statos and seotions represent
ed. A striking evidence of the satisfaction, and
oven enthusiasm whioh his course inspired, was
given by the highly respectable delegation from
t>t. Louis, which authorized their chairman, Hon.
L. M. Kennett, cx Mayor of St. Louis, to wait
upon the honorable Senator, and tender to him
the hospitalities of thoir city, at auch time as may
suit his couvenincc. Judge Dawßon, we also
learn, accepted the invitation, aud promised to
meet the citizens of St. Louis in November next.
Judge Dawson will carry with h'm the warm
esteem and well wishes of every oitizen of Mem
phis. His course as President of the Convention
attracted their admiring attention throughout, and
towards the olose won upon thoir ad > iratiou to a
degree seldom witnessed. They saw—as all saw—
that although devoted heart and soul to tho eleva
tion of tho South aud West and to the improve
ment of their national interests by all logtimate
means, that hlB breast harbored no sectional, or
exclusive, or anti-national feeling whatever. His
“ were the fair delightful aims of Peace, unwarp
ed by party rage, to live like brothers.” His sole
object seemed to be to plaoe the national interests
of tho South, Southwest and West, on an equal
footing with those of our Northern and Eastoru
brethren.
We repeat, therefore, that the successful and
entirely harmonious action of the Convention,
was in no small degree duo to the courtesy, aud
impartiality, of Senator Dawson, as presiding
officer, That action, was the action of a unit. If
any sectionalism was evinced, or if any looal or
party prejudice wero involved, the promptness
with which suoh exhibitions were frowned down,
or quietly overlooked, mußt have been cheoriug to
the most* conservative, highly creditable to the
dignity and intelligence of tbe vast body of the
Convention, aud eminently ausploioas of good,
and powerful moral effoots In tho future.
Diplomatic Reforms.— The Washington corres
pondent of the New York Herald mentions the
introduction of Borne important and long-desired
reforms in oonneotion with onr diplomatic and
oonsular servioe. Tho Herald soys—
Amerioans travelling abroad have often been
shookod to witness tho employment of foreigners
in many of our European legations, and in the
United States consular offieeß almost everywhere.
Governor Marcy has corrected this abuse by di
recting that horeafternono but Americans are to be
entrusted with diplomatic and consular secrets and
archives.
Horeaftor, it is said, our foreigu ministers are to
tranßaot their own business, and not transfer to
their secretaries the onus and responsibilites of
official signatures. For the future all our foreign
legations are ordered to be opened every day, ox
oept Sundays, from 9 A. M. to 8 P. M., ior the ac
commodation of Amerioan oitizens. Hereafter
American passports are to be vised gratis by tbe
ministor, in all places whore one resides. This
will bo found an important reform, in Bomo and
Naples particularly, and in some other oities. The
now Secretary has abolished consular and diplo
matic uniforms in all oases where they can be dis
pensed with. We wish that wo could add that
ministers and consuls were required to remain at
their posts except on leave of absence.
The Paris correspondent of the New York
Journal of Comajorce says that it is not Russian
ultimatums whioh tho Ottoman Porte has moat to
four, but the numbers aud progress and disposi
tions of tho Christians and distinot races in Euro
pean Turkey. The following statistics are deemed
the most authentio:—
Thenumber of Turks at Constantinople is 400,000
Turks in European Turkey and lilanda.. 2,900,000
Greeks at Constantinople 160,000
Greeks in European Turkey, the Islands
and coast of Asia Minor 4,960,000
Greeks of free Greeee 1,200,000
Slavonians, Servians, &o 1,200,000
Wallaohianß(Dracianß) 4,000,000
Vlaks (of Pindus) 900,000
Albanians (Christians) 1,900,000
Armenians (Christians), Constantinople 260,000
There are also at Constantinople about 10,000
other Christians of all nations and 20,000 Israel
ites, who from hatred to the Christians, always
side with the Turks against them. Among the
2,600,000 Turks of tho provinces, 800,000 in Bos
nia are renegade Solavonians, and almost all the
Turks of Epirus aro renegade Albanians.
The Cincinnati Commercial says that on the 9th
instant, a man named John W. Wells, was ob
served sellirgbank billson tho landing, at five per
cent, off tho face. He had a large quantity of bag
gage on tho steamer Golden Gate, and on search,
a package, consisting of SBO,OOO in notes of $6
was found. The bills read: “The Wetumpka
and Coosa Bailroad Company, will pay James
King, or boarer, at the Union Bank of New York,”
&o. The engraving was good, and the whole ap
poaranco of tho bill was calculated to deoeive in
experienced persons. The names of Knwdon,
Wright <fc Hatoh, engravers, New York, appear
on the lower margin. The head margin reads:
“ Union of Boston and New Orleans by the South-
Western Internal Improvement.” Wells olaims
to have bought the lot of a postmaster in Georgia.
The Wetumpka and Coobb conoern blew up some
yeaia ago. His trunks also contained a galvanio
battery, a quantity of chloroform, and a number of
bills, which indicated that Wells had been lectur
ing on temperance. He was lodged in the Ham
mond-street Station-House, to await examination
by the Polioe Court.
Not a Candidate.— Hon. Edward Y. Hill, in a
letter to B. J. Morgan, Esq., published in the La
Grange Reporter, has refused to permit his namo
to go before the convention shortly to assemble in
Milledgeville to nominate a oandidato for Governor.
Ho gives os a reason that he is not and will not be
a oannidate for any offioe, as he intonda to retire to
private life.
A Native Georgia Lion.— Bobinson & Elared’s
Circus has recently been exhibiting in Borne, Ga.
The Southeraer says, there is in the Menageiie,
attached to tho Circus,! a young lion about two
months old, a native of Georgia. It was nursed
when very young by Mrs. Bobinson.
The remedy of puncturation is sometimes resort
ed to in dangerous oases of dropsy. Prof. Lan
gonbeok, of Berlin, while operating in this man
ner to save the life of a patient, a lady of high
rank, reoeived a few drops of the discharged fluid
on his hand, and waa In a few hours in a danger
ous oondition himself, from which he is jußt re
covering.
The New York Economist expresses the opinion
that tho production of gold Is even greater in
amount than the multiplication of paper. Daring
the thirty days ending February, 1868, the mines
of Australia and California yielded over $12,000,-
000 a month. The average yield since, per month,
has boon about $15,000,000, or an average of SIBO,
000,000 per annum. This, indeed, is an enormous
sum.
j. The National Bank of Boston has been organ
a ited under a late charter granted by Massachu
r setts, with a oapital of (800,000. J. H. Wilkins,
President, and Charles B. Hall, late State Treasu
-1 rer, Cashier.
r A telegrapbio despatch to Elwood Walter, Esq.,
N. Y., dated Norfolk, Juno 18th, states that the
" brig Wilsoh Fuller, Capt. Johnson, from N. York,
for Savannah, is ashore, five miles south of Nag’s
; >
l My notions about life, says Southey, are muoh
i the same as they are about travelling—there is a
1 great deal of amusement on the road, but, after
s all, one wants to be at rest.
The Hon. Wm. L. Sharkey is spoken of in Mis
sissippi, as% candidate for the office of Governor
| of that State.
1 A verdict of (2000 damages was rendered in the
New York Court of Common Pleas on Wednesday,
against Dr. Talbot Watts, as compensation for in
. juries done to the health of a patient by the ad
, ministration of a patent medicine called ‘‘Watts’s
| Nervous Anodyne.” The medicine was given for
[ epileptic fits, and its effect was to produoe per
, nent mental derangement and idiocy.
The Natural Salt Ponds on the Florida Keys,
' which in 1849-50, yielded about 75,000 bushels of
i salt, have been, during the last winter, greatly im
’ proved and extended, so that the evapoiating sur
face is now 600 acres, and will soon be increased
to 800. During the winter the .ponds have con
-1 tained pickle sufficient to make 500,000 bushels of
' salt.
i _
Official ratifications have reached the State De
partment that Messrs. Loake & Meade, of Virginia,
severally declined the posts of Commissioner to
the Sandwich Islands and the Chargeship to Ssr
| dinia.
r The Boston Times says “ people look upon
i Russia as they do upon the devil—as being very
, great, very wicked, and sure to have her own
i way.”
In China a man is permitted to be divorced from
his wife for seven causes, one of which is loqua
oity.
The N. Y. Senate have passed the Maine Liquor
Law, by a vote of 17 to 18. They have also passed
by the requisite constitutional majority, the bill
incorporating the Pacific Railroad Company. The
Company are allowed two years to finish and put
■ in operation 100 miles of the road.
The General Railroad Association will hold their
next convention at Saratoga Springs, on the last
Wednesday ot this month. A general attendance
is requested from all parts of the Union.
Three hundred and forty-two licensee to retail
liquor have been granted in the 18th ward, New
York, in which the Crystal Palaoe is located.
Southirn Railroad. —The Vicksburg papers are
discussing the question of levying a tax in aid of
the Southern Railroad, according to an ordinance
of the council to that effect. Mr. Marshall, the
President of the Railroad Company, has been in
defatigable in his exertions to obtain aid from
Northern capitalists; but they are unwilling to in
vest their money in any enterprise in this State,
owing to its repudiating policy. The road, if com
pleted within the time prescribed bv the oharter,
will have to be built by our own oiUzens.—Alaio
m Jcmnai,
f, -i -., .•/ w- fiafoL-.r. v.’i?
ila.i.i a
As tho season for this ..i-uithful luxury is now
with us, wo have thought the following mtiole on
tho subject; from the Philadelphia Bulletin, would
prove acceptable to many of our
Even tbe best things are occasionally productive
ot injurious conscqncnoes, when indulged to ex
cess or used without discretion. liuthiHgis one
inatanoo among many. Too much bathing debili
tates even tho most robust, often dostrore the ap
petite, or leads to other hurtful results. Hot baths,
not tepid ones, are particularly apt to pi >vi- dele
,,rio?®/ Few persons, indeed, oan employ them at
all with advantage. Dr. Tilt, an Engli'sh physi
cian of emmenoo, who has writtou an admirable
worn on tho best means of preserving health, givee
it as bis personal experience that hot baths pro- *
dneo temporary plethora, headacho, and a sense of
weakness amounting almost to fainting. These
are, he thinks, tho general results also. He advl
&68 t therefore, that hot batha should be avoided,
unless when a physician has oxplioitly directed
their uso. '
Tepid and cold baths, to be employed accord ing
to constitution and habits of the particular tndlvii
ual, are the baths to which most should confine
themselves. Aervous persons are osptrciallv bene
ntted by the tepid bath, whioh eeenis to have a di
rect sedativo influence on thenorvous system, pro
babiy by absorbing, according to Dr. Tilt, tho mor
bid irratabihty arising from an endue development
of the mind at tbeoxponso ot tho body. Napoleon
after oxcesßivo fatigue, oither mental or physioal
was aooustomed to take a tepid bath, and, if posil
ble, indulge a whilo iu sleep: and he wus often
beard to declare, that, without rucli a sedativo, it
wonldhavo boon impossible for him to have pre
served his general health. Astor his exhausting
return from Kussia, subsequent to the memorable
conflagration of Moscow, ho went immediately in
to tho Dath before transacting business, and then
si opt, without waking, for eiglitoen hours, and
when he roso he was as fresh as ever. Tho cele
brated Diana of Poiotiers, one of the most beauti
ful women Franco ever gavo birth to, and who
maintained her charms long boyond tho usual
term, owed the preservation of hor lovolinoss prin
cipally to the daily, but judicious use of the bath.
Tims wo see that ordinary health, tlio capacity to
endure great fatigues alike of mind and body, and
the maintainance of personal beauty in the fair
sex, depond, more or less, on the discriminating,
but habitual employment of tbe bath.
The tepid bath is, perhaps, the most generally
suitable. The temperature of a tepid bath should
range from S 3 deg. to 86 deg. Fahrenheit. While
tbo temperature is kept below blood heat, the bo
dy slowly increases in weight, partly owing to the
absorption of water, partly to tho diminution of
imonsihlo perspiration. In a tepid bath, heated
from 82 deg. to 86 deg. Fahrenheit, it was ascer
tained, by Chossat, that the pulse descended Irom
sixty pulsations to thirty-oight: and it was clearly
the soothing effect thus prodnood, which render
ed the tepid hath so delicious to tbo irritable norves
of Napoleon. Dr. Tilt recommends tho tepid bath
after long railway journeys, excessive walking or
riding, or at periods ol nervous irratakilily, super
induced by aDy causes.
Caki baths are favorites with many porsons es
pecially those of robusWrilmoßand high health,
lint it is never wise to remain long in a very ookl
bath. On coming out, if tho stay has not been tho
protracted, tho body fools os if outering into a
warmer atmosphoro, because tho density of tho
wator, aud beoausoalfo the sensibility of the skin
is blunted.
Sometimes headache suporvenos. This Is a sign
of a partially dlsoased skin, oud a want of reac
tion oausing the blood to remain concentrated on
the internal organs, whore it was drivon by the
shock of the cold wator.
The best, perhaps the only teßt, of the kind of
bath proper for oaon particular individual iscxporl
mont. Opinionated persons, ignorant, of the mo
dus operandi of the bath, always maintain, that the
sort adapted to themselves is tho description suit
able for all. We know some individuals who
swear, as it were, by oold baths, aud otbors who
are just as obstinate in bdialf of tepid ones. A
physioian fttmiliar with the habits and constitu
tions of the patient oan generally toll what kind of
bath should be üßod, even without experiment
ing.
Not Grabs.—As the gardens and farms of many
of onr readers are troubled with tills obstinate in
truder, we havo thought it good to let them have
the benefit of the following aooount of tho suc
cessful method of eradicating it, whieh wo find in
the Cheraw Gazette:
“ A gentleman whose garden was overrun with
grass, and who had resortod to every othor expe
dient without even partial suocess,mado un experi
ment thus: He dug and manured a spot about
six feet in diameter in his yard, and set it out
thiokly with nut grass, whioh he suffored to grow
for two rears; in whioli time, as tho saying Is, it
was at thiok as tho hairs on a oow’s back. In the
spring of tbo third year, as fast as itappoared above
the ground, he shuved it off with a hoe, by which
ho effectually prevented the growth of foliage. In
the spring of the fourth year, there were bnt a few
few scattering plants whieh ho treated in tho same
manner. In the spring of the fifth year, nor sinoe,
has a spear ot nut grass appeared. Enoouraged by
his sucoess, bo adopted the samo plan with his
garden: and the soooud year he was but little
troubled with nut grass. Such a result might
readily have been inferred from the known laws
whioh govern vegotablo economy. It Is well known
that there are few plantß or even trees, which can
boar being stripped for one summer ot thoir foli
age. Foliage is essential to maturing the nut of
the grass whioh we aro considering, and if you pre
vent this, yon destroy the plant, nnloss there are
matured nuts of a previous year’s growth on the
soil whioh are not in a position to vegitate, but
whioh subsequent tillage may bring into snoh a
position."
Gen. Rilet.—The death of this distinguished
officer has afforded the Baltimore American the op
portunity to pay the following just tribute to hia
wortn as a man and gallantry as a soldier:
Gen. Bennott Riley wHßanativo of ,the State of
Maryland, having been born in Charles county in
17*0. Ho joined tho American Army in 1818 at
Saokott’s harbor, and served until the close of the
war with England; displaying in all tho positions
in whioh ho was placed, courage and skill, joined
with a coolness that made him conspicuous and
won for him many honorable testimonials. In
1828 bis bravery and conduct in an engagement
with Indians on the Mississippi frontier were re
warded by promotion to the grade of brevoliMajor,
and a few years later, bis services in guarding'the
Santa Ee traders from tho attaoksof predatory
bands of Indians, were acknowledged by the pre
sentation of a sword from the State of Missouri.
The Blaok Hawk and Seminole wars noxt called his
services intoaalive requisition, andaoquitting him
self bravely in these, in July, 1848, he joinod the
army in Moxioo, and at Cer ro Gordo, Contreras and
Churubusoo, in the command of a brigade, won the
brightest laurels, and drew from Gen . Soott, in his
official despatches,the mostgratifying acknowledg
ments of the distinguished gallantry he displayed.
For his servioes throughout the war, the country
rewarded him with tho brevet of Brigadier-Gone
ral. Ho was no less distinguished for his sooia)
virtues than for the skill and bravery he every
where exhibited as a soldier. Respcoted and es
teemed by his follow-officers, belovod and reve
renced by the men he commanded, his reputation
throughout the army was a just subjeot of pride
and eulogium. Though now no more, the memo
ry of his bravo deeds and unsullied charaoter must
form a part of the history of tho country, to whioh
we may always refer with emotions of gratified pa
triotism.
Fire in Fatktvillb, N. O.—Wo take the fol
lowing acoount of the Are that occurred in Fay
etteville on Saturday last, from the North Caro
linian of the same date:
“At about quarter past 12 this morning, the
Warehouse in the roar of tho store oocupied by
Mr. Beverly Rose, and adjoining the Hotel recent
ly occnpiod by Mr. Harman, foot of Ilaymount,
was discovered to be on fire. Tho flames quickly
oommunicated to the three story briok buildings
and entirely oonsumed eight tenements before tl oy
oould bo oneokod. Mrs. Brown had but a few
days previous moved into the hotel—her furniture
we understand was covered by insurance. Messrs.
Beverly Rose, J. & R. Gilchrist, D. J. Moßea,Wro.
Campbell, aad Henry L. Jones, Morchunts, lost a
portion of their goods, and Mrs. Elam, who kept a
Bakery, and Mrs. Revel, who kept a boarding
houso, suffered some less of furnituro, &c. Sever
al Warehouses In the rear of the buildings just
mentioned, wore also consumod.
Tho Hotel ocoupied by Mrs. Brown was but a
short time since fitted up by the proprietors,
Messrs. Stedman & Horne, in a very tasty and
elegant manner. Its loss will be greatly felt by
the community and the travelling pnblie. W e have
no means at hand of estimating the entire amount
of loss oaused by this calamity, but it oan se»ieely
be less than 16 or 20 thousand dollars. Four of
the tenements burnt wore owned by Hon. J-s. C.
Dobbin, one by John D. Starr, Esq., ono by Chas.
Montague, Esq., and two by Mr. Patrick Mon
tague.”
A lotter from Berlin gives the following descrip
tion of the troutuau of tho Princess Anna of Prus
sia, who is about to be married to a Prinoe of
Hesse-Cassel:
“ The troutitau of the bride has been on view
at the King’s palace last Saturday and to-day, and
on eaoh day about 2,600 mostly female observers,
visited it. Os tho two large rooms which the
trovtteav occupied, the first contained the house
and body linen, laid out for tho most part in 12
dozoDs and 24 dozens, all marked with her Royal
Highness’B name in a (to me) unintelligible letter
(12 dozen pocket-handkerchiefs had tho royal arms
woven in them.) In connection with the travel
ling couch were 24 dozen day and night ehemitu,
as many undress and night caps, and other incom
prehensible and unmentionable articles in like
profusion. Tho linen takes up threo side of the
room, the fourth isoocupied by the chautsvre , con
sisting of 24 pairs of silk and leather shoes, and
24 dozen pairs of stockings. In the scc< nd room
were gloves, embroidered handkerchiefs, collars,
scarfs, bats, bonnets, artificial flowers, Ac., in be
wildering profusion; to make all complete, there
was a riding hat, 12 oloaks in silk and velvet; and,
besides all these, the ball and oourt dresses, as
well as the wedding robe, a diadem of brilliants,
and much too many more things for me to enu
merate. According to old practice here, the body
of the wedding dress of white satin was not with
skirt and train, but is kept in the jewel chamber,
where it Is deoorated with the crown jewels, and
not brought out to Cbarlottenburg till the last
moment.’’
Mexico. —The Washington correspondent of the
N. Y. Journal of Commerce write*—
Mr. Jaoques,one of the partners in the English
banking house in Mexico, that advanced the sum
ot (400,000 to the Mexican Government on behalf
of the Sloo Tehuantepec Company, and upon the
pledgo of the contraot itself, has arrived in New
Orleans, and is on his way to this city and N. Yerk,
on business connected with that great contraot.
The funds for carrying the contract into effect,
will not bo advanced by Mexican capitalists, nor
by the Mexican government; and they have pot
yet been raised Hi the United States. It is now
said that an effort is about to bo made to raise the
necessary funds in England.
I learn through private letters from Mexico, that
President Santa Anna has secured the establish
ment of a line of steamship packets between Vera
Cruz and Havre, through a French Company, to
which he has granted very important privileges.
From the same source, I learn that Santa Annahas
given encouragement to every feasible enterprise
of internal improvement—to railroads and other
projeots. These subjects he has taken bold of with
great zeal and spirit—showing a just appreciation
of the capabilities of Mexico, and of the necessity
for their development.
I am confident that the present Administration
intend to give Santa Anna a fair chance to arrange
all difficulties with the United States on terms
beneficial to Mexico. He will have before him tbe
alternative of peaoe and eommerco and prosperity
and bis boasted “nationality” on one side, ana
war, embarrassment, destruction, and final dena
tionalization on the other.
Our government will persist upon the posses
sion of the Mesilla Valley, for the Democrat'c Con
gress has already decided that matter, but they
will pay Mexioo a good round anm for an altera
tion of the boundary line, so as to give ns a ronte
to'the Pacific through Chihuahua and Bonora, and
for an exemption from the obligation of tbe 11th
article of tbe treaty of Guadeloupe, and for the Te
huantopec transit.
Babies m Camxobnia. —Crying children in
church are usually considered as nnisanoes, and
taken out; but this is not alwave the case, as the
following anecdote from the Ladies’ Bepositoiy for
April, frill show:
“ A»brother just returned from California, says
he was present in a congregation of brother Owen
when a babe, in the arms of ite mother, began to
ory. A thing so unusual in California, attracted
not a little attention, and the mother rose to retire
' Don’t leave,’ said the preacher, ‘the-sound of
that babe’s voice is more interesting to many of
this congregation than my own. It is perhaps the
sweetest musio many a man has heard since a
long time ago he took leave of hia distant home ’
The effect was instantaneous and powerfbl, and a
large portion of the oongregaUou melted into