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Chronicle & Sentinel
7»m tie Baltimore Sun.
Further CkllfomU Srne.
«•* Hi** torn* further inters ting items of news
tZLWrSL s"<l the Sonthern Coast, from the
'TM^WiS** 0 °l«*Frsncisco
comity, hsd resigned, sad s new election wss or*
d ""\l'«ra Department of Sin Frsncisco elected
tJr offl *r» on th.MI, December. Cbss. P. Do
•HJ,rlinlurThtsteo l-*nd Commission hsd dsci
,l< d » number of claims lately. Inell.tbcyhadde
c’ led forty-nine esses, confirming twenty sis, eon
laining 2*7,boh sores, sod rejecting twenty, con
taining 201,000 seres.
The iuprome Courth»d decided thst the stste
esnnot force gamblers to psy s license, gambling
being, aay they, an immoral set which government
baa no constitutional right to sanction by lioenae.
Messrs. liowlsnd & Aspinwall have been com-
Imllod to nay |i»,000 tonnage duty on
at Acapulco. It i* reported that their s.camers
will not touch lit that port any loDger than tocon
auma the coal they have there.
Wry prolific veins of silver have been diacoter
ed neir the city of Acapulco. They are said to
9 f>e on urpawed in richness by any of tbo mines in
the < Mintrj ro far as has been caplored.
1 core have been several earthquakes in Aca
pulco.
Lynch Law iv Caurosttu.— I The Yreka Herald
cen Min- a long leader upon a hanging affair
, hua recently taken plant in Yreka. The ac
rount iv - no names or dates, and the Herald
lie of it asa horrible affair. A Frenchman who
had killed a citizen was arrested acd placedin con
finement by the legal authorities, borne parties
Irom Greenhorn Creek, came over and took him
from prison, gave him a Lynch trial and hung
him. Ho had been aick for some time, end, It is
aai l, was partially deranged. The Herald thus de
scribe* the dosing scene:
The trembling victim was led to a tree hard by,
where stood a gallows, which had heretofore been
used to trice up butchered cattle—a fit place, tray,
to consummate euch u tragedy. Then he wa«
t lae-d on a horse and tbo rope adjusted to the tree.
The prisoner, seeing that his doom was sealed,
as-isted them in adjusting the fatal cord to tin
tje k. Some one cried out to tie his hands, and
while some officious individual was accomplish
ing this object, the prisoner in some way lon his
balan&eau swung from the horse, amid the wild,
aavagayeUa ofM* executioners. There being no
sudden 4 tree, the noose Caught auder the chin,
and did not slip.
The strangling victim, with a face full of agony,
and eyes starling from their sockets, gazed wildly
around npon the crowd beneath. The cries and
veil, ’hat rent the air wonld have been becoming
in hut g y wolves or half-starved hyenas as they
aeiz .-jpjn tbeir prey. Hut si 1 was not yet over.
The ro| e refine ,1 to do its duty, and several per
son- • might hold of Ihe quiveriu body of the dy
ing nun, and mercifully lent him additional weight
In s op the current of life; while another person
in the tree, with commendable perseverance,
shook the r «po with the same benevolent object.
ilEoacrrs Join iso tiis Revolutionists. — The bun
Francisco Commercial Advertiser save: “Wo
have received, by private advices, intelligence
from the adventurers by the barque Caroline,
wblah sailed from this port in Ootober la-t, with
the ii. ltnowle Igod intention of conquering Sonora.
' Ll Pn after the reduciion ol tho town, the
Ar ,-i- i.m secured above iWO recruits, whocheer
(l . i . I 1,1 Hie ranks, and agreed to go to the
d- if, with the newcomer*.
I ~,u nn. Soctiikun CoA"T.—Tim Hrilish mail
B ,l.ima, Cupt. Bloomfield, arrived at Paua
tna ~'a",lie 2oth of December, bringing |2Si',ooo,
* and advices from Valparaiso to the Ist of that
'"dneMercnrv gives a discouraging report of the
... o Chili, which, it was leared, was tu
• lln the bouvy rains and strong winds.
' It ,-iiiv-N am rnpcried at Valparaiso us exceod
ingl i.t, guiil, and prices generally tending down-
W ir ,'j h'nited States lumber was in demand at
per M. t ionr dull at *4 per owt., six
, and wheat at 80 reals per fui.ega. Freights
were a.".ve, and charter# fteoly ottered, but tho
rates w«r« unchanged.
A mutiny t.sik place on the high seas on board
of an English vessel, carrying 260 colonists to tbe
1; r i,,-!i p is-essions northward of California. The
vi t lias put into Vuldivia, and wo now hour that
the English Admiral on the station has ordered
, ,me officers and marinos to proceed to that place
in I take in custody tho ringleaders ol therovolt.
|q - Lima, Dec. 12, 1853 —Hclsit has retired
into It .iiv a, uiidtheQovornmontof Peru is making
Mtive prepared ma to carry tho war into this coun
try. IS uliiug is kuown ot Domingo Elias or his
tnmeinints.
The Amazon Colony—From a private letter ro
ccive.i In, ii one "f tlio German settlers, who join
id : i expedition, we learn that the suffering# of
the I-.rims inn Ueu very great, amlthat many have
d •-cried to Brazil.
LAK H Our Idlest, datos from Quito, via
are to the 21st of Hot. Congress was to open
i:. rdiimry: -.install* oil ttio 28th iust. Tho
ljw .)• •'mmir the free navigation of llio Eucodor
e.o I'i'nitarics ol ti e Amazon, was expected to
- gb oNOwt by .‘.oiiio of tho Senators.
I o | r ■} .<• ‘ lor authoflalng th* executive to
o-.cn negotiation* with Venezuela and New Grm
i Is, tor t‘ie re organization ot tho Columbia Ro
ll otitic, hue passed the Senate.
l it m A i -TitAT.ta. — The barque Inuhelila Hyno,
aniw l ui Vulptiruiso, on the 29th of Novcuibor,
lnß9iU)*ir in Sul nay, bringing advicea to the
19t‘i of Oct idler. Her passengers wero taken to
Panama in tho Lima, ruaebiug that city in 63 days
from Sind-j.
Tlio inaikcta are reported as tolerably brisk,
will, a g ist prospect lor business during thoom
ing months.
Tin goldmines continue to yield abundantly;
pm * awe rr.wling. Dust is quoted for Now
Month W: lei, ,t:; lb; for Port Philip £3 Ills.
The bin tileiitannor bad arrived ul Hobson’s
Bn., fWnu Jamaica, having ou board a largo indy
ofiottleis, woo are said to include some of the
most wealthy amt respectable geullcinoii of Janiai
ti. Thu, t bit Australia with the intuit of mak
ing it thole Pi*'*--
i ■■■ >. ■ i ■ -the details of a bill
wHct i ai : • ; tlioJ/igis'aiiveCoun
e;• ' Hainan ■ uSh Iby a vote oflltoß. Its
le ire vry liberal. *. provide! 'hat tbo Le
o • -t n ■. ' jpnw'iu, by i. ntooflwo
. t ,s. the wnvarnor iron ..ffloe. Tho
■ , win s 1 hi.- fsutaro us making tho
• nigh tin Governor, the mure agent of
V Jaigislalive will.
The (Jayt.in-Uulner Treaty.
It will be rememborad that dnrittg the last scs
si. n of Cougrot**, a controversy arose in the Se
nato upon the true construction of tho Treaty with
Or, a- Britain in regard to tho occupation and pro
t.<; rale ol Central America. That State paper
w,,. drawn in langnago which admitted somo
d.mb o the intent ol the parlies, and although
too siuioMiian (Ur. Clayton) who subaoribed it on
b, ii of the American Government, wuh perfect
Iv • ia* ns to hi-own understanding, the claims
of the Bi«t. b Government wore based upon a eon-,
alriicimn totally different. The point in dispute
wi- tills : Did England, in signing the ireuty,
agree u> withdraw her protection from tho Mos
quito l’r li •, an 1 renounce the right to acquire any
ni.oo territory in Central America I England
ml. d that -ho had a right to continue hor
nr "t i. an I that tho acquisition of the Bay
Island', a.lj iccnt to her tirritory ot Honduras,
w in - leutal to the title of tho territory itsolf,
■ud » ‘s In i>o waned an evasion of tho Treaty. —
omnlervail this interpretation, Mr. Clayton
a'l’in cJ that thee bad boon a special under
atui. ti _• between himself and tlio British
M.e 'ter, that the treaty should not bo SO coil
s'? ed as to authorise either of the acts now com
plained of.
rue subject has been again brought tip upon a
cmnmiii.n ation of the Briti-h Government, in
whuh ' ey disobiim the Interpretation of Mr.
C.syt.in, and present the opinion of the Queen’s
Atterncy. t hat there can have been no rolinquisli
li.cm of British rights muter a proper legal con
st rme on ol the treaty. England, tlierefoio,
cl unis aright to hold her territory, with its island
apanage-, and affirms a right to protect her an
cient ally, the Mosquito monarch. In addition to
t he t> siim my heretofore avouched by Mr. Clayton,
I c lia- udlc 1 a letter from Mr. Keverdy Johns in,
»t the n.ite ot ttie T'leaty, the Attorney General of
the LnlteJ M ates. This 00-linns tho construc-
ii' i-u-J cn by our Government. Wervgrotn
d 9 ■■■! ice upon a :-abject so very plain, as must
;i the intention of ttio parties. The treaty
w - >„'. i.Jed to be n reoiproe»l release by each, of
' a lOire any territory In Contral Ame
- to J an engagement ti nt both Government*
i the jo nt proprietor* of any way of com -
• ,n„n between the two ocean*, to bo estab
l. -i.,>J through Central Amcr.ca. 11l the course of
a t »'V int-Tosting disquisition upon the history of
the British title to the territory of Uouituras pro
ii.-aueud by Mr. Clayton ale v dayssinco, he said,
th. i, nnsoon-.-r wus tho treaty of Guadalupe Hi
ita.vo (th-' treaty with Mexico of 1848) signed,
th#u the K iel 'li Government occtpiod the lowua
nl s . Juan, ill Nic-ragu..
Toe ot wa» significant. Tho Americans had ac
(ju'.n i territory ou the Pacific, an 1 might bo cx
pictod i.i w.-1* ~ tnojna of oommunieation thero
w-h )■; si . hastened to control the transit
limn actons Central America, convinced that the
*nr.i".i :i ion of territory upon tho Isthmus must
so low the domous’ration* of our Government in
ii. t quarter. Ki glam! also negotiate'' this treaty
in which, claiming Honduras and it* Islands,
with the Mo-q'dto protectorate and the internal
ooi.tr-1 of the Nicaraguan transit, alio ougagod to
bu. i us sever to occupy or acquire an interest in
a country so important’to us. We have always
. ii. i. rc tit sgrave error in our Government to
it.v c trcv'.cd at all upon the subject. The right
w-yu-u.-s Central America is a right chiefly
don., s’ic to ourselves, end wo should not unito in
a<" |<o "tea ion, or co protectorate with any other
- Refits. Whig oiaecr of Exeonive privilege we may
acquire, ong'i-t lobe our own, and the great tho
rv"ght i ea between tho Atianticaud Pacific States,
•bon'd be no more—if it is possible to avoid it—
under the joint ownership of another nation than
tbs o t-na\ Igation of the Mississippi with which
Great Itrit&in encumbered her earlier treaties with
th* Ct ho,l states.
Ti e intercourse of our people across the isth
v> :- ct t'entrai America is immense and ioresac
iug. 1: is a subject of tomptatiou to the local go
varaments. Nicaragua has olaiuied a right to itn
, ... > » T v -i: duly. Panama even deslros to evado
i* c rig'»f the transit company upon that isth
i is. The acknowledgment of such a right, or
t'-e c j'sgo’iv'ht iui our part to obtain noexclusive
P'-’l : rail,'' hsy subject lie to great dbadvun
tag «, aud enable others to levy a tribute upon onr
Inir-,v.inie iiiterv ur»o very profitable to the
pai'i s»! o may acquire it. Wears much grati
do t to ob-erve that Me. Clayton lias boon sustain
ed in Ids coustruct.on of the treaty, aud trust that
tin A' . r an uerprotation may t>e put upon a
pro| er fwtn f uotudbsUndlug thpswitt tosti.no
r.y of tlie Q«ii:'» attorney, who gathered the in
t i t of the panie* from the phraseology ofthe
treaty, ar. I decide* exactly es he was directed. He
bein'vs «e s:i'ip >» to the same class of law olli
ccr- With ti e L ug's attorney, who decided that
tl is continent »u- held by tho British crown as
pared ofthe manor of Blit Greenwich, and tbot
the ooloiiie* were tulljr represented by tho mem
ber ->f parliament from that borough.— SaUimert
Amtruan.
Pimrx Ship Canal Kiruunow.—lt is sutod
i u .' g is.'i papem that the Darien Ship Canal
Kv,o lot- u was to sail from Southampton on the
17 | IH'cicrb.r. It will consist of Dr. Cullen, the
i. ' <r of the r« ute, Mr. Grisbi-rne, engineer
inch ct. Vos s, torde A Brnnett,and fourassis
; ,t «g.n«r», on the part of th aAt toutic aud
la d, J'-ne’ion Company, snd of Lieutenant
b • g IP. I •>». Engineer* uud staff, in behalf of the
'■"‘-n-rnyut. At Jamaica thn expedition
v iv j.m-d by K ent. Strange, Culled States
party under his com
i .nn, ou board the tinted State, aioopofwar
C yen- « rpt. Ilulmcs. The Cyaue will be jmned
b >‘» r, :r f 1 ” f</«» ; he Jamaica station
and IV die french Admiral's ahip, with French
'"TZu Z Martinique and
* ' .*. AC l ° V“ l< ''I°' 1 °'" a Bay.
reinf-ra ed bv her *»> be
piot.wb.o 4 ' baa already ,• t °? r
t It port ; ft ''d tbe surveying parl'-es
'he isibn. "'.‘o the Rivej- Savina where
they will meet boat. parties diepatiibed from 1 !
Bre st: man of War »to *
moo'h, In the Gulf of San M'guel on the Paciflc
amd then commeuoe a dotalv d survey of the
route.
hTEAuaoAr DisA.irva.-Ths Steamboat Franklin.
< apt. Berry, from this place to Apalachicola, with
about 1100 bales of Cotton took lire when abom
eleven mdse above the latter port, on Thursday
nunuiug I"*’, sod was enlire'y ooosuined, cargo
and »U. Most of bor cargo was fro* points on the
river ' slow Columbus, and ws .* .ra time about
IS" b'le* belonging to Mie. Boykiu of ogr ohy
One negro of Ibe rrew tree lost and the Cap ain
hi- self very narrowly escaped, and were only
*a; e t by the assistgrico of the Mate, Markham
\A o have not beard the particulars, but learn that
no b’ame eiuchsa to fU sffioer* of the boat.—
nAmmbtu Liumirtr.
from tit Baltimore Sun of Saturday.
Steamer Baa Francisco.
The despatch published in the Sun yesterday j
morning exclusively, announcing the rumor of .
the probable loss or the fine steamship Han Fran
ciaeo, with some 800 persons on board, including
about 500 U. S. troops, withtbeirotticcrs and fami
lies, created a deep and painful sensation through
out the entire community. There waa intense
anxiety, on tho part of the relatives and friends of
those on board, to ascertsin farther particulars. It
app »rs that the stcumer Illinois did not bring the
news of the disaster. It was received by telegraph
from Halifax. The following is the despatch:
Halifax, Jan. 5, 1854.— A telegraphic dispatch
from Liverpool, N. 8., dated yesterday, bays the
Ma. ia Freeman, arrived there, reports that on the
25th December, in lat. 88 20, lon. 60, fell in with
the new American steamship San Francisco, from
New York for San Francisco, with her decks
swept, boats gone, and completely disabled, as she
could not render her any assistance, as she drifted
out of sight during the gale.
Where she was seen is said to be about 800 miles
east of Cape Heulopen, and 250 E. S. E. of Sandy
Hook. The San Francisco was a new and staunch 1
built vossci,and well officered—circumstance# that
would strengthen tho hope that those on boatd
would eventually reach their home-3 in safety. She
wss destined for Ban Franc sco, via the Straits of
Magellan, touching at Kio Janeiro, Valparaiso and I
Acapulco. She sal od from New York on the 21-t j
ult., and had ou board companies A, B, D, G. H, ‘
L K, and L, of the 8d regiment of U. 8. Artillery , 1
These companies, with the non commissioned j
staff aDd baud of the regiment constituted a force j
of about 500 men. Among her passengers weie
Mr. George Aspinwall, Capt. J W. T. Gardiner, ot
the Ist Dragoons, who intended to join hi# regi
ment in California, aud Lieut. F. K. Murray,of the
Navy, who intended to join the squadron at Kio,
also the following list of army emcera and their
fam lies.
Col. Wm. Gates, commanding regiment; Major
and Brevet Lt. Col. J. M. Washington; Maj. Chas.
S. Merchant; surgeon E. 8. Sauer lev; assistant
surgeon il. K. Wirtz; First L'.. 8. L. Fremont,
Regimental Q isrtennaiier and acting Adjutant;
Ftr#lLt. L. Loser, acting assistant Commissary;
Capt. and Brevet Lt. Col. M. Burke, commanding
company I; Capt. and Brevet Maj. Geo. Taylor,
commanding company A; Capt. and Brevet Mai.
F.O.’Wvae, ccmuianding com [.any D; Capt. 11.
B. Judd, commanding detachment of recruits to
constitute companies Band L ; First Lt. and Brevt.
Capt. H. B. Field, commanding company K ; Firet
Lt. W. A. Winder, commanding company G ; First
Lt. C. S. Winder, commanding compuny H; First
Lt. K. H. Smith; Second Lt. J. Van Voaet; Brev
et Second L - . J. G. Chandler.
Officers families.—Mrs. Gates and three chil
dren, Miss Carter, Mr». Merchant and two children,
Mias Valeria Merchant, Mra. Chase and non, Mrs.
Fremont aud three children, Mrs. Locser, Miss
Eaton, Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. Wyse and child, Mra.
l Judd. There were also on board n iarge number
of soldiers’ wivea and their children.
Wo annex a list of the officers of the San Fran
cisco :—J. T. Watkins, commander; Edward Mel
lu«, Ist officer; Goo. Gratton, 2d do; Chas. F.
■ Barton, 8d do; John Muson, 4th do; J. W. Mar
shall, chief engineer ; A. Anchiolick, Ist engineer;
Jaa. Farnsworth, 2d do; David Dun, am, 2d do;
Jumes Crosby, 21 do; 11. Donaghan, Scl do; C.
Huffman, 8d no.
1 Juat betore the sailing of the Sau Francisco. Col.
Gates, in command of the 3d Artilory, remanded
about 200 dragoons, who were to go in her, to
another vessel.
A largo portion of this regiment lit- been sia
tioned at Fort McHenry, and other stations not
very remote from Baltimore, and many of them
were rccrultod in Baltimore.
It waa expected that a steamer, chartered by
government, wouid be dispatched yesterday from
Now York in aoarcli of the San Francisco.
Tho Washington Star, of last evening, says:
Tho Secretary of Wnr telegraphed on Thursday
evening to r ond off a steamship from New York
for her relief. The Secretary of the Treasury, also
telegraphed, ordering tho Cutter Washington
instantly to aail from New York ; the Walter For
ward troru Wilmington, Delaware; the Campbell
from Nortold, Vu.. and the .J viler tun Davis from
Charleston; all of which are probably already on
their way, except the last, which is not quite ready
for sea sorvico.
Hope-uroentertained by tho War Department
that llie boat may yet ho saved, the vessel being
one of the staunchest steamships over built in this
country, and quite now.
A di-putch received in Washington yestorday
afternoon says tho underwriters ot New York eu
tertam no fears of tho ultimate loss of the San
Francisco, lt is thought that she may drift quite
long enough in her condition as reported toeusuro
that sho will ultimaloly bo relieved. The Now
York Journal ofComtqgroe ul*o says:
“Weloarn thutllio underwriters do not appre
hend a serious disaster. The San Francisco was
provided with a boiler olevated above the main
one, to be used ill case of the latter should bo flood
ed with water, and sho had three independent
steam pumps, in addition to those attached to the
main engine, and independent of baud pumps,
plaeed at each end of die vessel, to bo woilted by
long levers. Every facility was possessed lor na
vigating the vessel in a severe gale.
Heeent Foreign Inventions.
Kendebino Wood Fibe puoof.— Wm. Maugham,
of III)eld-terrace, England, putenlce. A large
iron air-tight cylinder is provided, and to this, in
any convenient manner, is attached an air pump.
It ib filled with a solution, 176 parts by weight, of
the phosphate of soda, and 54 parts of the muria
tod ot ammonia to every 2j£ gallons of water.
The wood is placed in the cylinder through a pro
per door, which is stopped up tight when filled,
and the air pump is then sol to work to exhaust
all tho air, and thus subject the timber to pressure
when in the solution. It is loft in this
iolution for 24 t ours, thon taken out and
dried, when it is fit for use. Tho salts used
ill tho solution is alt that is now. The old liquor
can bo used a number of times by simply recruit
ing ite strength. A hydromoter would be very
useful for tho purposo of testing it, but tho pat
entee duo- uot noom to know the uso of such an
instrument.
I’BEStBVINO VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES. Julieil
Boiicsvo, of Broinplon, England, patentee. This
invention relates to tho presorvatiou of grain and
otlior vegetable substances. Tho substances to
bo operated on are placed in any suitable uir light
box, or vulcanised India rubber bag, and chlorine
and sulphurous acid gas is introduced by means of
utube. The patentee is un engineer, had bo been
n chemist, he would have chosen a much hotter
gas lor this purpose, namely carbonic acid gas.
Oblorino gas, however, is tho best that is known
for destroying any lungi or insect that may be in
the grain.
Artificial Font, —L. G. Dncayla, of Bordeaux,
France, patentee. This artificial fuel is made of
coal anthracite coal dust, dry clay,
poit earth, and common inud, sea suit, uud nitiatc
of lead. Two-thirds of the compound must be of
coal dust, and four Bounds of the nitrate of lead
aro added for every ton. The rest of the ingredi
ents namod aro made up of eqtiul purts by weight,
excepting salt, ten pounds of that being sufficient
•or one ton. These substances aro well mixed
togothor, and formed into dough balls and dried
in tlio sun. These halls may boos any suitablo
sizo. Wo have no doubt but these ingredients
wil. make a very good artificial fuel, which may be
successfully employed where coal and wood arc
high in price. If any of our citizens dosiro to
engage in the manufacture, we can recommend
themtosnv quantity of mud cheap and clean us
any dirt. If any one asks where is it, w o answer,
Broadway and Chambers streets, and all our other
Btrocts.
Wash roB Poßot’s and Other Walls.— B. Bar
rott, of Ipswich, England, pa'tontoe. Toko one
bushol of limestone, and dissolve it in twelve gal
lons of water ; to this add twelve pounds of alum,
dissolved In half a gallon of warm water, also half
a gallon of beer grounds, and a quarter of a gallon
of ox gall. This mixture may he colored with anv
suitable mineral color. It is laid on tho surface of
the wall, whilo lukewarm, with a brush. It soon
becomes haul, and is very duruble.— iscienlijic
American.
Extorts from New York. —From tables prepared
by the J ournal of Commerce, it appears that the
increaso in the exports of produce and merchan
dize trom that port has been steady since tlio first
of tho year, and during the last quarter has been
nearly 100 per cen.t, an excess truly astonishing.
Tho total lor the year ISSB is $20,709.288 greater
than lor tho year 1852, and $23,228,002 greater
than tor tho year 1851. The exports of specie for
the tear 1858 are $211,753,356, against $25,096,255
for the year 1852, $48,743,2"9 for ' lie year 1861,
and $9,932,948 lor tho year 1850. Thus whilo tile
imports have increased 50 per cent, tive exports ot
produce ana merchandize have increased nearly
the same, while shipments of specie for the year
are hut a little laiger thun for last year, and not
half as uirgo a* for the previous year. This increase
in thooxportsconsists largely ol breadstuff's, which
have, in addition to tho freight and Custom House
valuation, paid a large profit to the shippers. The
Journal also gives a oomparitive statement of the
prices of many articles of nroduco during the year,
and gathers trom it tho following results:
Wheat flour allows an advance ot 40 per cent.,
while wheat lias advanced 60 per cent. Cotton,
iron and lead aro also higher, and sole leather has
udvanoed materially. Brandy basso far improved
in price, owing to the short vintage, thnt tho drink
served up under this name at a mnj ri'.y of the
common drinking saloons, is mado’of American
whiskey. Fork, beef, cut meals, butter and lard,
are lower. How prices will rule in t hocomiug year,
it's impos»iblo to tell, breadstuff's must command
a high price up to the re opening of inland naviga
tion, hut thecrop sown is very large, and if no
blight full upon it, the next harvest will be one of
tho largest ever reaped in this country.
Tuk Explosion or rut Zachary Taylor. —We
made brief mention of this disaster iu yesterdaj’s
Courier, and from tho olfieors of tho mail boat yes
terday heard further particulars. This boat was
about seven years old, and had beon condemned,
but strange as it may appear, the Lawrcnccburg
Railroad Company had procured oertiticatea from
the Cincinnati Government inspectors, slntiug,
wo suppose, that slio waaa safe boat, and she was
uotuuliy orowdoJ with passengers. Shortly after
leaving Lawronoeburg her pumps became de
ranged and tho engiues were stopped in order to
fix the pumps, when a flue collapsed in one ofthe
bailors, bursting cut both cuds ofthe boilers, aud
causing the death of three of tho crew, and dread
fully scalding nine or ten others. Both the engi
neers were scalded, ouu it is l’earcJ mortally. Capt.
I’ratzman, the master ot tho boat, aud his passen
gers, escaped uninjured.
The boat was ohartored, or belonged to the rail
road company, and at the time ofthe disaster had
two hulls or Purges iu tow, la ten with hogs. The
Alviu Adams came up shortly af.er the disaster,
and took off her passengers, and carried them to
Cincinnati. The following is from tiic l.awrencc
burg paper:
•‘The name ofthe only one ofthe killed that we
conld get is Tiiouias Dovle. The hums of the
wounded that wo learned are Moses Smith Ist
enginior, slightly; Jack Everheart, 2i cugineer,
badly scalded; A". Smith, of Greonsburg, badly
hurt. We believe the rest ore mostly deck hands;
and their names unknown even to the officers of
the boat.
“The Forest Queen had the killed and wounded
oil board. The sight was too pitiful for descrip
1,0!1 - The wounded arc reoeiviig tho best of me
dical attendance. I*—Lcuia 1 * —Lcuia UU Cintri<r, 23d /V.‘.
Tun CnvniAL Ahirican Disrrri:.—Just as the
vexed questions ot the Central American territori
al righ's and the British protectorate over lintqtn
tui seemed on the eve of rising up from the grave
dug for them bj Messrs. Bulwer and C lav ton to
plague the wor.d anew, it appears that they ave
rccci ved a new quietus trom an unexpected q -aru r.
The newspapers report, and we ieai u that sue!: i>
the tact, that the Jf sgutfoKicg—he whose election
to the dignity snd whose coronation by tho British
authorities, seme years ago, famished so much
inert-mom —has sold tor a valuable consideration
one-half Ids kingdom, lying ou the coast, to a
company of Amen an cit’zons, whose oh vet is the
settlement aud cultivation ot the land - reputed to
be among the most fertile on the continent, and
capable of yielding in the greatest txuberan-.ceve
ry tropical production.
Tti* we deema very happy turn to tho grim
visaged aflair. \\ c hope that the same company, or
otl.er, may purchase out his copper-skin
ned Msjesty, and save two kindred nations ftom
the discreditable rxhibit.<'n of quarrelling about so
paltry on aflair. The British Government will be
able to retire gracefully from a protectorate, if sneh
ex!»t which we daresay she would gladly be rid
i?£w d,fficalt ? wiH bc finally and for
bv tkrfnt*™ n t ? l b - v ? Q »xotic resort to war, but
oon -‘ l “ r -
Tllt AmassinatxLot-is Kayoleon.—
A eitixen of “»» in Pans, writos to a friend
in the former city, ud- er date of the 7th inst. as
follows, iu relation to tho o.Tged attempt to assas
sinate Lords Napoleon :
“ Napoleon was wounded slightly last week, at
Fontainebleau. Xdo not know whether you will
see the account of it in our papers, as it has not
been published here, ilo was fired at throe times,
one bill parsing within a few iucheaof his head;
another grazed his side. The potpetrator was In
stantly killed, aud the affair is hushed ap.—Albany
Jtyv*, l)tc. £».
Congrewloul.
Baltixobe, Jan. 4.—Tho D. 6. Senate, on Tues
day, had a long debate on the proposition to divide
Oliio into two Judicial Districts, as recommended
by the Judiciary Committee.
The l’re -ident sent to the Senate a message, in
reply to tho resolution of General Cass, calling for
information as to the construction to be placed on
tho Clayton and Bulwer treaty, simply communi
cating certain correspondence— consisting of six
papers—on Central American affairs between
Messrs. Crampton and Marcy, and Lord Claiendon
ar.d Mr. Crampton, and the opinion of the Queen’s
Advpeate regarding the/Treaty.
Tho moot important document in a letter frem
Lord Clarendon to Mr. Crampton, dated the 27th
of May laet, enclosing a copy of tbc opinion of the
Queen’s Advocate as to the meaning oi the treaty,
Lord Clarendon says that England never contem
plated to renounce her rights over her own terri
tories, nor her Protectorate over Mosquito. The
Queen’s Advocate confirms this view ot the treaty,
and pronounces the grounds taken by Mr. Clayton
as incorrect.
Toe Senate ordered the papers to be printed, to
sether5 ether with the opinion of the Hon. Keveruy
ohnson on the subject.
Mr. Clayton complained that his righto as a
Senator had been irvaued by a review of his
speech having been sent to the Senate, and pro
ceeded to discuss the arguments advanced by the
Queen’s Advocate.
On Wednesday, the Bill extending the ware
housing system was passed by the Senate, as, also,
were the following joint resolutions:
Jiuo’ttd, d-e., That the thanks of Congress are
due, and are hereby tendered, to Brevet Major
! Genera! John E. Wool, for his distinguished ser
! vices ia the late war with Mexico, and especially
1 for the skill, enterprise and courage which dis
tinguished his conduct at the battle of Buena
Vista. .
Beeolced, That the President be requested to
cause a sword, with suitable devices, to be pre
sented to Gen. Wool as a testimonial ot the high
| ser.se eatertained by Congress of his gallant and
judicious conduct on that memorable occasion.
I I J (. rjhed, Teat the Pre-idem be requested to
j cause a copy of the foregoing resolution to be
[ transmitted to GeDC-al Wool.
I The question came up whether the Hon. Samuel
S. l’holps, who was appointed by Gov. Fairbanks,
I of Vermont, to fill the vacancy in the Senate,
ttnsed by the death of Senator Upham, was en-
I titled to his seat or net. It was referred to the
Judiciary Committee. Mr. Phelps’ commission
reads thus: “ To serve until the action of the Leg
islature.” As the Legislature a *,
claims that tho seat is still .* '«• -s
eui generis. It has no preceie in- .w-i >.-c.
prevails that tlie claim cann
The appropriate clause in th reads
as follows:
“If vacancies happen by rc VN,!_ r olber
wiso, during the recess of tilt p- re./eef any
State, the Executive thereof m. . mat temp’.rarj
appointments until the next niue .ho Leg
isluturo, which shall then fill se ' acaneies,’’
In the House of Represents; ,es ou Tuesday,
Mr. Win. H. Bissell, of Illinois, report' i from the
Committee on Military Affairs ti e ’ ,etoui-
I tions—given above—relative to General
John E. Wool, which, after some opposition from
Mr. Joshua It. Giddings, of Ohio, w ire passed.
The Bill of Mr. li. Bennett, of New York, grant
i, L . lands equally to the several States to aid in the
coiietructiou ot railroads, and for the support ot
sciool# was taken up, when Mr. Fayette McMullen,
of Virginia, offered aa amendment, referring the
bill to the Committee on the Public Lands, with
irstructions to report the bill for applying the
proceeds of tho lauds to construct aud support tho
navy.
A resolution introduced by Mr. Francis B. Cut
ting, of Now York, calling for copies of the corres
pondence between Ex Collector Bronson, and
Secretary Guthrie, was laid over.
The Bill to repeal the duties on Kail Eoad Iron
was defeated.
In the House on Wednesday, the Foriification
and French Spoliation Bills were reported.
Mr. Cutting called up iris resolution of tho pre
ceding day, which elicit'd a warm debate.
Baltwokk, Jan. s.—ln tho U. S. Senate, on
Wednesday, Mr. Donglas reported a hill for the
organization of Nebra-ka, which provides for the
extention of the Fugitive Slave Law over that Ter
ritcry, and for it- admission as a State or States
into tho Union, with or without slavery.
The Clayton aud Bulwer correspondence has
been referred to tho Committee on Foreign Affairs,
and made the special order of the day for Tuesday
next.
In tlio House of Representatives, ou Wednesday,
Mr. Cutting’s resolution for copies of the corrcs
ponder,o3 between Ex Collector Bronson and
(Secretary Guthrie, was laid on the table.
On Thursday, along debate ensued in tho House
on a resolution tendering a vote of thanks and a
sword to Captain Ingraham.
Washington, Jan. 6, C P. M.—ln tho Senate, to
day, on the call of petitions, Mr. Foot gave notice
that ho would clfor tho Pacific Railroad Bill, with
features different to what ho had beou heretofore
stated.
Mr. Cass’ resolution enquiring into tho expe
diency of Harbor Surveys on the Lakes, was
adopted.
A report from the Committee on I’rinting, of the
propriety of having 20,000 copies of the abstracts
from the Census Reports printed, was concurred
in.
Mr. Hunter’s resolution, enquiring into tho ex
pediency of building new war steamers, was
adopted.
Mr. Cass’ motion in reference to tho Ciavton and
Bulwor correspondence, was referred to the Com
mitlee on Foreign Relations, and mado the ordor
for Tuesday next.
In tlio Ilouso, Mr. Deun, (rom the Committee on
Foreign Relations, reported unanimoaly resolu
tions of thanlis to Oominandor Ingraham for his
judicious and gallant conduct, and requesting the
President to prepare a saitablo medal to be pre
sented to him as a testimonial of thoir high appre
ciation of liis character and services. Tho rcsolu
tion was eloquently discussed until tho hour of
adjournment.
In tho House, tho business was quite unimpor
tant.
Correspondence of the Baltimore American.
New York Items.
New York, Jan. 6. —The Courier notices tho
singular coincidents that tho Bhips Singapore,
Captain Daly; Saxony, Captain Case, and the
mastor schooner or bark Charles Keen, Captain
CbatTm, all cleared from this port on the 17th ult.
The Singapore was abandoned at sea in a sinking
condition, masts out away, <fco., tho crew having
arrived at Liverpool, N. S. The Charles Keen was
reported at Halifax, 8d instant, leaky, and would
have to discharge, and tho Saxony was reported
going into tho sauio port on the 2J, ulsoin distress.
On Tuesday evening 163 pews in Plymouth
Church,the liev. Henry Ward Bsocher pastor, were
rented for the year for $10,047 25—highest prico
sso—including the premiums, which amounted
toll,803; 60 per cont more premium than ever
betbro. There aro 186 pews left, which, when
routed, will make tho whole over $12,000.
Mayor Wostorveltin his message to the new City
Council says tho annual expenses of tho city now
exceeds those of the Govcrumcut of tho four larg
cstStates iu tboUnion. The Mayorthinks it high
time to retrench and reform. The permanent
debt of tho city is $9,828,708; funded debt, $950,-
000.
Am auction salo of lots at Murray Hill took placo
at tho exchangeyosterday afternoon. As this was
tho first sale of real ostato, of any magnitude, since
tlio money market camo “tight;” it was an oc
casion of unusual intorest among tho speculators
in that spcics of property. Murray Hill is near
tho Crystal Palace, and is likely ore long to be the
eontre of “ upper ten dom.” Prices ranged at
from $3,290 up to $12,000. These prices, however,
wnro not considered very satisfactory to the sellers,
and somo of tho property advertised to be sold,
was withdrawn.
A Koebf.r CauorTT. —We learn from Y. J. An
derson 15-q., ol Lauens county, that Mr. Hardy
Smith, who resides ten miles south of Dublin,
was robbed of $2 400, in notes and bank bills, on
the night of the 8d inst., under tho following cir
cumstances. On tho evening of the Ist inst. n
man who gavo his name as Joseph Wilson, called
at Smiths'house and asked for lodgings. He was
received, and during the evening called for pen
and paper, to remit some money to a person by
tho name of John l*. Hull of Savannah. He pre
tended to enclose «'2O in smvll bills, and then col
led Smiths’ attention to the bulky appearance ofthe
letter. Smith vory naturally profored him a S2O
bill in exchange. In this way it is supposed that
Wilson discovered where Smith kept his money.
On the hight of the 8.1, Smiths’ house was entered,
and the money and note? abstracted. The eircum
stancos fixedsnspicion etonco upou Wilson. Mes
sengers were dispatched in all diroctions, and tho
police of tho several towns, placed on the alert.
On the night ofthe sth inst. Mr. Invern of Wash
ingtoncounty, discovered that Wilson had taken
lodgings at a house in his neighborhood. Having
collected some friends, ho repaired to tho house.
Wilson discovered their approach, and made his
escape. Astor pursuing him for half a mile, bo
was overtaken by dogs, and captured; not how
ever, until he had drawn his boots under pretence
of keeptug off his assailants. Ilis object iu doing
this was doubtless to throw away tho inouey, as
none was fouud upon his person. He has been
lodged in the jail at Dublin, for trial at the next
term of t he superior Court.— Sun. Cour.
Death of Qi ken Maria.— Tho Queen of Portu
gal, whose sudden death is reported, was but
thirty-four years of age, having bceu born in
April, 1819. She was about the age of Queen
Victoria, of England, who was born in May, the
same year.
Queen Maria 11, (de Gloria,) was the daughter
of tlie Emperor Don I’cdro, of Brazil, in which
country she was born. On the invasion of Poitu
gal by the French in 1808, the Kojal family of
Portugal emigrated to Brazil, where tho seat of
government was established. They remained
there uutil some timo in 1821, when the distur
bance in Portugal vailed Kiug John aud bis fami
ly home, lie left his eldest son, the crown Prince
Don I’edro, in charge of the government of Brazil.
After kis departure, the Brazilians rovoited, and
made an attempt to establish independence. Don
Pedro joined the Brazilians, aud threw off tho
authority of his father and refused to let in the
troops sent from Portugal to suppress the insur
rection. In 1823 the two countries were formally
separated, aud Brazil became an Empire with Don
Pedro as Emperor.
On Urn death of John VI, King of Portugal, in
1828, his son, Don Miguel, usurped the throue,
which was contested w.'.k him by Don Pedro, who
claimed it for his daughter Domia Maria, abdieat
ing it for himself. A long civil contest ensued, but
Don Miguel finally surrendered his pretensions to
Ins uieoe and quit "the k’Qgiiom in 1884. Don Pe
dro also abdicated the Empire of Brazil in ISSB in
lavor of his sou, the pieseut Emperor, Don Pedro
11, now 28 ycara of age, having been born in 1825.
The mother of Queen Maria was an Austrian prin
cess. The second wife of Don Pedro, and mother
of the young Emperor, was a Beaaharinus, daught
er of ho Viceroy Eugene, and grand-daughter o! j
Emper Josephine.
Tie Queen of Portugal has been twice married.)
The tint husbaDd was Augustus, Duke of Leuch
tenberg, licanharnais, still another member ot the
lucky family of Beauharnais, heing grand son to
Eugene, lie was married iu January. 1886, and
died on tho 88th of the next March. Her second
husband, who survives her, is Ferdinand Augus
tus, one of the still more lucky family of the Co
burg, Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha, nephew of
King Leopold, of Belgium, and cousm of Queen
Victoria, as well as ot Prince Albert.
T .e heir of Portugal is Dot i’edro, Prince Royal,
who was torn Sept. 16lh, ISB7, and is consequent
ly now iu his ITtn year.
Smith O’Briks.—lt was mentioned in the news
by the Africa, that this distinguished patriot had
escaped from Van Dieman’s Island. Tbe follow
ing is the announcement communicated to the
Dub iu papers:
Exporter and Vindicator Orricx, )
I.imei :cx, December, 15, 1853, 7 p. m. I
“We have just been handed a a
highly respectable Irishman resident in
bourne, giving full details of the escape of Smith
O’Brien from the penal exile to which the Brili-h
government doomed him, and from which he has
boon reloased by tbe courage and fidelity of a few
Irish friends in the colony, and the sympathizing
aidot the commander ot an American trading ves
sel, which was in the offiing to take him away to
the free shores of Columbia. There is no doubt
whatever ot the fact; and we need not state that
we feel considerable pleasure iu being the first
medium of announcing it. The writer ot this let
ter was one of those who assisted Smith o’Bnen
in his escape. We may add that Smith O'Brien
was bound by no parole.”
Tlie New York Evening Poet of Saturday aays:
“ We are told, that a letter was received by the
steamer of yesterday at the Citizen effiee, announc
ing the fact that the family of Smith O’Brien, at
Limerick, had received authentic intelligence of
his escape from Australia. Tne letter, dated at
Dublin, stating the particulars of his flight, wilJ
appear iu the first nntuber of the Citizen, which
is tbe new paper soon to be published by John
Mitchai,"
WEEKLY
<%Mtdc & Sentinel
~~ AUGUSTA. GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JAN’Y 11, 1854.
Parties in ISI6.
The following scraps of politic*! history, fur
nished by a correspondent of the Actional Intelli
gencer, should be treasured by every one who
takes any interest in political affairs. Now-s-days
it is very common to hear a cortain class of poli
ticians denounce the Tariff and Bank as “ Federal
measures." Some of them do it through ignorance
while many others, who are lees scrupulous, do
r violence to the truth knowingly, and with a view
to derive those not informed. The reader should
' recollect that in 1816, there were but two political
- parties in this country, Kepublicau and Federal:
3 iltttrt. Eiiton:— On reading the article in your
paper a short time since, in reference to the former
' slate of parties, I was reminded of tbe attitude of
> prominet gentlemen belonging to what w»i then
appropriately called the Republican party. The
e following is tbe vote in the Senate on the passage
r ofthe National Bank bill on the 8d «f April, lSlt:
Yeas —Messsrs. Barbour, Barry, Brown, Camp
i' bell, Chase, Condit, Daojrtt, Fromentin, Harper,
- I lor try, lliwed. Hunter , Lacock, Mason, Va., Mor
a row, Roberts, Talbot, Tait, Taylor, Turner, Var
num, Williams—22.
0 Nays—-Messrs. Dana, Gailliard, Gddtboroufh.,
!" Oort, King, Macon, Maton, X. H, Buggies, San
to ford, Titkenor, Wells, Wilson—l 2.
d Seventeen Kepublicans for the bill, and teven
against it,
0 F re Federalists for the bill, and five against it.
6 Messrs. Bibb, of Kentucky, and Thompson, of
New Hampshire, were the only absentees; the first
“ had voted tor tbe engrossment of tbe bill and the
S latter against it.
h On the Tariff bill in the Senate, April 19tb,
l " 1816, the following is the vote ordering it to be en
e grossed:
n Yeas—Messrs. Barry, Brown, Campbell, Chase,
!' Condit, Daggett, Frornentin, Gailliard, Honey,
h , Hunter. - mo, Laeoch Mason, "W Morrow.
* ! Roberts, Reggies. Sautor .. Talbot, Tait, Thomp
j son, Tickenor, -amain, Wells, W.lltaioa, Wil
. ison—*s.
,s | 1. ays -Messrs. Barbour, OMtconmgh, tore.
Harper, Macon, Mason, N. H., Turner—7.
r " j Twenty oh* Republicans, for tho b’l\ and three
■7 j against it.-
) I Or - it, and four against it.
r 0 • rainent /.' ?■■. leant of that day in the
House of ituj .ei-oalatives who vo for the Tariff
yi bill the following may be uamco
,e Messrs. Archer, Atherton, Baroour Fa -est,
John C. Cai.hocs, Alfbej> Citurert, Davenpoii,
al Desha, Ingham, johusob, Ky., Langdon, Lown
“* des, Wilson Lumpkin, McCoy, Parris, Pleasants,
Smith, Md., Tucker, drc. Tho vote was 88 yeas,
t- 54 nays.
te So tint both Bank and Tariff were then empha
-3‘ ticclly Republican measures.
i, *
The August* Bridge.
1( ! The following very lame apology is made by the
io Charleston Courier for the action of the South
Carolina Legislature in authorising, by charter, two
citizens of that State, who have no more rights to
i( l the property than an inhabitant of Timbuctoo,
to erect a toll gate at the east end of the Augusta
>D Bridge, and collect tolls from persons passing the
n Bridge. Ignorance is no excuse for bad legisla
tion ; it is the duty of legislators to inform them
a- selves upon all measures before acting thereon,
and when they are unable to obtain correct and
satisfactory information, they should exercise
j 0 sufficient moral honesty either not to act at all, or
r so act asi not to prejudice tbe private rights of indi
:ti viduale, (whether citizens of their own or another
1B State,) especially when those rights are guaran
s, tied oy the State of South Carolina. The action of
O' tho Legislature in this mattor, betrays’a reckless
disregard of private rights, granted by the State
,’ to the city of Augusta, which is disgraceful to any
d legislative body, if ignorant of the facts, and
criminal if known to them.
The Ai'ocsta Beidoe. —We are sorry to observe,
iu some of the late journals ot our sister city of
Augusta, indications of what we cannot but regard
as u misapprehension on the part of our friends
in that city as to our disposition towards her, in
consequence of a late enactment of our Legisla
ture. We allude, of course, to the provision rela
te g to the collection of tolls at the Augusta bridge,
the object of which was to enablo two individuals
to exact toils on this side of the river. Tse mat
t. r, we understand, was brought to the attention
of the two Houses for the first time at quite a late
period of the session. It was., es we are informed,
first presented iu the shape of an amendment,
submitted in the Senate to the general road bill,
earnestly advocated by the Hon. J. I*. Carroll, the
Sonator from that part of the State, and adopted
very much upon his suggestions. Upon the re
turn of the bill to the House, the amendment was
objected to by Mr. Hammond, the member from
Edgefield, but receiving the warm support of
Messrs. Middleton, Sullivan, Boylston, Perry, and
perhaps other gentleman, it was adopted. Our
friends in Augusta should remember that the sub
ject of this bridge and the rights connected with
it is not as familiar to the members of our Legis
lature as it has necessarily become to themselves,
and we, therefore, hopo that if a mistake has been
made in consequence of any erroneous impres
sions as to these rights, they should rather ascribe
it to this cause, than to any ill-will or unneighbor
ly foeling towards themselves. Wo believe that
complaint has also been made on our own side of
the river, on bohalf of such of our citizens as ap
prehend iuconvenience from the tolls to be exact
ed. But wo are really not sufficiently informed in
the matter to warrant any expression of opinion
on the merits of any controversy which may pos
sibly grow out of the lute enactment. If it shall
appear, however, that any wrong baa boen done
to tho city or the citizens of Augusta by the pro
vision in question, wo shall surely moat sincerely
regret it; and trust that it will, as we think it
ought to be attributed to hasty action (whioh will
sometimes occur in any legislative body,) and
want of corroct information, rather than to any
thing like spleen or wilful diregard of right.
Southern Cultivator.
We take the liberty of publishing the following
lotterj from one of the moat intelligent and sue
cessful Planters in Georgia—a gentloman of liberal
education and enlarged viows, though not too wise
to learn from others anything of value in his
vocat.on. Agriculture has been his pursuit
through life, and although he has learned much,
like a wise man he feols there is yet much to learn,
and he, thoreforc, reads and stndies Agricnlturai
journals. The opinions of such a man should have
influence with his brother Planters :
Tho enclosed dollar is in exchange for the
Southern Cultivator for 1854. It ie not pretended
that it is an equivalent, but it ie a compliance with
your terms, and this satisfies my conscience. I
have boon a reader of its pages from the beginning,
with the exception of ayearonly. It ought to be
t-aien and read by overy Farmer in tho South.
It certainly has no superior anywhere at the Bame
cost. Respectfully yours, &c.
Baby Show—Splendid Premiums.
Tnx following communication announces the
fact, that the Executive Committee of the South
ern Central Agricultnral Association, have deter
mined to offer some very handsome premiums on
Jlabiee, at the next meeting of tho Fair in this
city. This iB a new feature iu Agricultural ehowa:
[communicated.]
Mb. Editor:— Appended to tho Premium List of
tlio Ladies Department sre the following premiums
offered by private Gentlemen, which will be
awarded at tho next annual Fair:
Ist Premium, Silver Pitcher, SSO for the handsom
est and finest Babe two years old.
2d Premium, Silver Pitcher, $25 for the handsom
est and flnost Babe one year old.
8d Premium, Silver Goblet, $lO, for tho handsom
est and finest Babe six months old.
The children to be clothed in domestic fabrics—
the Premiums to be awarded under the direction
of tho Executive Committee.
Correction. —ln the communication of “ Novt
Ferront," in our paper of Wednesday morning,
tho word Atlanta, in the following sentence, should
have been Athens :
“Ou the other hand the summer travel from
Southwestern Georgia and Florida to Atlanta and
our mountain region would be much incieased.”
E. B. Weed, a prominent merchant of Macon,
died in that city on the Ist inst. The Citizen says:
lie had been for a long time afflicted with a pul
monary disease, and patiently awaited his appoint
ed timo, in the spirit and faith of a devout Chris
tian. The Presbyterian Church of which Mr W.
was a consistent and leading member, suffer an
almost irreparable loss in the departure of so good
a man. As a token of respect to his memory the
stores of the city were closed this morning, during
tho hours of the funeral servioss.
Appointments by the Governor.
The Federal Inion announces the following
Executive appointments:
Wm. Turk, of Franklin, Principal Keeper Pen’ry.
Wm. U. Anderson, Coweta, Ass’t “ “
James Polk, Madison, Inspector
Wm. W. Williams, Cherokee, Book Keeper “
Dr. T. Fort, Baldwin, Physician
Kov. George McCauley, Chaplain “
Jas. F. Cooper, Cobb, onp’t of W. & A. K. K.
W. B. Woflord, Habersham, Trers’rW. & A.B.K.
Jas. M. Spullock, Floyd, Auditor W. & A. K. R.
Tristrum Verstille, Military Store Keeper, Savan
nah.
M. C. Batts, do Milledgeville.
Benj. Cook, Baldwin, Capt. State Huse Guard.
E. K. Johnson, Baldwin, State Librarian.
Republican Union, is the title of new paper
published at Cedar Town, Paulding county, by E.
A. Cothran —edited by W. F. James, Esq. The
first number evinces taste in the mechanical de
partment, and tact and ability in the editorial.
In politics it is right.
Boundary Lim between Georgia* and Flobida.
—The Savannah Kopnblican says: “Among the
passengers who arrived here yesterday by the
steamship Augusta, was Judge Berrien, who re
cintly went on to Washington to argue the ques
tion of boundary between Georgia and Florida.
It w*s oniy a short time since we slated, that the
two States, unable to come to any satisfactory
agreement, had determined in a friendly way to
submit the question of boundary to the decision cf
the Supreme Court.
“We learn from J udge Berrien that the case was
not argued, because the State of Florida, the com
plainant, was not ready to proceed. In cases of
this kind, coming within the origin! jurisdiction of
the Supreme Court, being controversies between
sovereign Sta'es, great indulgence is extended. It
would have been vain, therefore, to have resisted s
continuance, and to have urged a dismiseal of the
bill. Besides, that would not have accomplished
the wishes of Georgia, which are, to have a final
decision of the question on its merits.
“J ndge Berrien acquiesed, therefore, and did not
resist the continuance, contenting himself with
t iking certain interlocutory ordere calculated to
expedite the cause.”
Eivxb \ alley Railroad. —The Hamburg Repub
lican says: Mr. F. C. Arms, the Chief Engineer,
with his corps of assistants, commenced the Sur
vey of the route for this road on Monday, 2d inet.,
and will prosecute the work with all possible dis
patch until completed.
We congratulate the friends of this enterprise
on being able to make this announcement, and
trust we may be able at no distant day to make the
farther announcement of the breaking of the
ground,
The “*-Ti*lr- Imitate.
Tat* article which we publish to-day, reviewing
the report of th* Smiltoonian Institution, and
exposing the humbug—for it ia certainly the great
est humbug of the age—ot the whole thing will be
read with interest. We had intended to take up
the report when it wee received and expose tho
folly into which the government had been led, but
it was misplaced aud forgotten ; we have, there
fore, to thank the Baltimore American for having
performed the work so much better.
If the philanthropic Bibthson has, in these days
of apintual visitations, aver visited Washington,
and seen the ridiculous follies of the Government
in executing hie will, he rests unquietly in his
grave. He bequeathed the fund to this govern
meut, not only because of hie admiration of the
institutions of the country, but because he hsd
observed tbe exercise of so much practical good
sense in the management of our affairs. Hence
he gave it “for the di»»emin*iion of knowledge
among mankind.’’ When we take into consider
ation the object of the testator, is it possible to
conceive how the government could more succss
fully have thwarted that object, than tbe plan
pursued! We think not. Certainly knowledge
has not been disseminated among mankind 1
New Mall Schedule.
On this subjeotthe Marion, (8. C.) Star remarks
as follows:
“ It was reported that the mail south would be
carried over the Wilmington and Manchester
Koad after the Ist inst. We also see it stated
that it will not be so carried until some time next
spring.
“We are ofthe impression from information re
•eived, that the mail will be carried over the road
as soon as the railroads south of it will conform
to the schedule time agreed on. This, we learp,
will soon be done. After to-morrow there wit,
be but three miles of staging on the Wilmington
and Manchester road, andnone, we should tbmk,
after the 20th inst, so thit there is no good rea
son why the mail should le kept from this route
longer than that time.”
In copying the above paragraph it has occurred
to us, to inform our busiulßa men, that all letters
?-s -;i matter goi“g nnrth arc under the pre
, -cut schedule, delayed twenty-four seuri in
vnarleston. The. same if' rue of all matter from
j places south r.rd west of .Is, that paos -'.vet this
; line, * fact whiob. we pre- me, - i.".iw kn wn.
1 bLS«LLA» Law St-rr —V’&tngular Law ;-nit la
! now pneiing against the city of Philadelphia at
I the .nsunce of Abbaiam Habt. The oireuin
i staves i re these:
Tho *uit ’- orci .t-t against the city to rec<>\ •
ei damages f*--th r entire --roof the plaintiff sus
tained by tha great lire in December, inoz, at the
corner ol Sixth aud Chesnut streets. The allege
tion is, tha; the authorities had negleoted to pack
tho fire pligs with straw, as was usual aud neces
sary ; that in consequence of this neglect the plugs
were so frozen that the water would not flow un
til the fie had attained such a headway as oc
casioned tho entire destruction of the building
> and its contents. It is also insisted that the fire,
at first, was trivial, and with the ordinary supply
of water, could have been extinguished readily;
and as the great injury was attributable to the
negligence of tho city authorities, the piaintitf
claims to recover from the city the amount of his
loss, estimated at about 165,000, including the real
estate, as well as books, copper plates, &c., con
tained in it and belonging to the plaiutiff.
Nashville and Chatxanoooa Bailboad.— Tho
Chattanooga Gazette of the 8d inst., aaye: We
learn that the Bridge across the Tennessee river )
will be so nearly completed that the Cars will run
through from Nashville to this city soma time this
week. This will be a new era in the history of
Internal Improvements in thiß State. The com
pletion of this gigantic enterprise, will give a now
impulse to the progress of the.various improve
ments connected either directly or indirectly with
it, and create a new spirit of effort throughout tho
whole Stato. Various works are now projected
that only need some encouragement from the pro
per source to push their ahead. Tennessee pos
sesses, in abundance, the material for making a
populous and wealthy State. Her resources must
be developed by Railroads and Manuiactories.
Her citizens are industrious and enterprising.
Her soil is rich in Agricultural and Mineral wealth
—possessing a mild and salubrious climate and
occupying a central position in the Union —giving
us many advantages ior our Boads which will Dot
alone depend upon the products of our own State
for support, but will make them the bighwayß to
market lor tho rich produce of our sister States,
which must be grvat inducements for pushing for
ward our enterprises without delay.
Nra fob Abolitionists to Cback. —Sometime
last fall, says th« Maysvillo Express, the Hon. E.
H. Stanton permitted his negro woman to go to
New Richmond, Ohio, to seo hor relations at that
place. The Abolitionists of that place prevented
her return, and run her off to Canada. Upon her
arrival there, elie wrote to her master, requesting
him to come for her; that Bhe was unhappy, and
wanted to come home. Her husband, soon after it
was ascertained that she had left, followed her,
and has joined her in Canada. He writes homo
that the maa who abducted his wife, stole all her
money and jewelry, and left her to starve. They
both express a warm desire to return home. In
their new found land of freedom they have to work
harder and fare worse than in slave Kentucky.
The Railroad Tbodbles at Erie —The Erie
Gazette says that all ia quiet now in .that quarter,
and that the track of the Western road has beon re
laid, and will not be molested until the final de
oision of the Supreme Courtis known. The peo
ple, however, will Dot permit the North-east road,
to put down the four feet ton inoh track on the
North-east road, and the long gap on that road
therefore remains. The Erie Gazette says, the
four feet ten inch track “ never can go throngh
Erie connty.”
In the Pennsylvania Legislature a movement has
already been made in both Housos in relation to
tho guage difficulty at Erie. Mr. Skinner has in
troduced a bill in tlieSenate, regulating the guage
of railways in Erie coucty, and Mr. Ball has also
made a move in tho House upon tho subject.
Increase oj the Armt. —Tho military commit
tee of the House of Representatives have decided
favorably on Secretary Davia’ recommendations in
reference to the increase of the Army. They are
prepared, it ia said, to report a bill which will fix
the minimum organization of all the oompanies at
64 privatos. It also provides for the addition of
one rogiment of dragoons, and two regiments of
riflemen to the present military establishment,
which will give a minimum organization of 15,528
officers and men. The bill further leaves in the
handß of the executive tho power in the event of
war to double the number of privates in euoh
oompany, which would give us a war establish
ment of 27,818 offloors and men. Another com
pany of sappers and miners, to be added to the
Engineer corps, will also, probably be authorised.
The South Australian Government has, on the
motion of the Legislative Council, awarded the
sum of £4OO to Captain Champion, of the steamer
Victoria, in consideration of hia having made the
voyage out from England to Port Adelaide, with a
mail, in 60 clear days. The like sum will be
awarded to any other vessels which shall make the
voyage out, whether under sail, or by steam, in
67 days, within tho next two years, To provide
for this the sum of £6OOO has been voted. It is
made a condition that such vessels shall take out a
contract mail.
The latest advices from Australia inform us that
in the quotation of gold a decline had occurred of
Is. per ounce, owing to the announcement that the
local government, in an intended re-arrangcment
of the tariff, were about to abandon the license
system, and to substitute an export duty—a mea
sure which seemed likely to meet great opposition.
The plan in question had not yet made its appear
ance ; but it was generally surmised that ail exist
ing duties would be increased, and that a new
one would be placed on sugar.
Ocmulgee Bank Biles still in Cibcclation. —
The Charleston Courier says: “We have been
shown a five dollar bill purporting to be issued
from the Ocmulgee Bank at Macon, Georgia, and
are informed that several of various denominations
have been circulated pretty ireely in Charleston,
to the cost, we regret tossy, of the parties who
received them, •« tts Okmulgee Bank failed some
years since. The plates therefore must have fallen
into bad hands, bnt we trust that this notice will
have the effect of putting the unwary on their
guard.”
The deposits of gold st the Mint, daring the
month of December, were $4,445,000, against
$8,386,931 during December of last year. The
total amount of gold deposited during the year
amounted to $58,878,552, against $51,066,276 the
previous year. The total coinage for the year was
$59,808,518 28; of which $51,888,882 was in gold ;
$7,852,571 in silver; and $67,059 in copper.-The
total deposts of Amerioan gold at the mint and
branches since the discoveries in California in 1848,
may be briefly stated at two bnndred and twelve
millions six hundred thousand dollars. The total
coinage at the mint daring the month of December
was $4,806,631 46.
The Broadwat Railboad Scheme. —The New
York Times of the 2d inst. informs us that the
Broadway Railroad scheme did fall through, after
all. The new project passed by the Board of As
sistants on Friday night, and which was skillfally
framed so as to obviale the objections of the May
or, did not commend itself to the Aldermen, and
they accordingly laid it on the table. The reason
assigned was that it dH obviate the legal objec
tion urged—that it considered the grant a fran
chise, and proposed to dispose of it accordingly.
It is not easy to see why this should have consti
tuted an objection to passing the bill; bat proba
bly the Aldermen had their reasons. At all events,
the whole matter is now left to the action of the
new Common Council.
Rev. Tbos. F. Scoir, of the Episcopal Chnrch
will be consecrated Bishop of Oregon, in Savan
nah, on Sunday next.
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Sisors, THE Coast or Postts, in' Asia Misoß.-
The following notioe of Sinope, where the recent
battle was fought between the Turks and Bus
aians, wilt at the present moment be read with in
terest :
“Thetemples, palaces, and porticoes, erected bv
a powerful line of kings, have been levelled with
the dust. Naught remains of so mnch magnifi
cence save a dirty oriental town of a thousand
wretched houses, surrounded by crumbling walls
and tottering towers of Byxantine construction.
Almost equally a wreck is* the enormous boll of
an embryo two-decker, which etands unlannched
on the stocks; built here where timber and work
are cheap; never finished; allowed to rot. Alas
for Binope!”
Mr Dixon, of Ky., it is said, will retire from the
Senate. Mr. Crittenden will probably be elected in
his place.
I
The lire»i Philadelphia More.
The reader will doubtless recollect, the an
nouncement by telegraph, on the 28d December,
that a great excitement had been produced in “the
City of Brotherly love,” by the opening of the
splendid new store of Mobbis L. Hallowell &
Co., extensive dealers in silks and fancy goods,
said to be the most spacious and elegant establish
ment ofthe kind in the Union.
The following description of this Merchants’
palace, given by the U. S. Gazette, may interest our
readers, and induce some of them, when visiting
Philadelphia, to “just pop in,” aud “look round.”
The firm is one of long standing, and extensive
business relations; aud has attained a well merited
reputation for high integrity aud strict mercantile
honor. Wo shall therefore be pleased to learn,
that their business with Southern merchants is
largely increased:
Sflbndid Improvement The new store of Mor
ris L. Hallowell & Co., has just been completed,
and, in poin f of size and elegance, as well as in tbo
derails ot the interior, is ouo of the most extensive
and magnificent places of business in this country,
if not in the world. The tront, which has been
executed by Strothers <fc Sod, is of solid New
Brunswick brown stone through tbo whole thick
ness of the wail; the style of architecture ia that
known as the Italian Renaissance of the XVth
century. The first story, which is elevated two
feet above the pavement, resembles an open arcade,
with arches supported by Roman Done columns
and large Corinthian pilasters in the corners, to
receive the architrave above. The second story is
in the lonic order, and the third and fourth stories
are in a free version of the Corinthian order, with
arched windows between the columns. Tbe fifth
story represents, in a measure, a large frieze, with
caryatids figures, in place of brackets, To support
the heavy projecting cornice that crowns the
building.
The interior of the store is no leas almirable.
The tront part of the building, one hundred and
thirty two toet deep by twenty-six teet wide, is
ornamented on bothaides with rich lonic pilasters
and a handaomo heavy cornice. The rear portion
extends one hundred and seventy-one feet farther,
by sixty-seven feet in width, and forms a vory
striking feature in the establishment. The ceiling
ofthe vast room is about thirty feet high, with
wide galleries on bothaides, supported by columns
ofa light and florid Corinthian style. Thecolutnns
that support the cornice of the oeiling above, as
j * IBO the -•'thsr details of tho interior, are made
J to correspond in style, producing a very testefo!
aud harmonious effect..
! -V’lie north end of tho bundles, (a distance of
upwards of three hundred feet from the front
do- on Market street,) is a douMe sTaiTvrsv
starting from th- autre, and winding right and
left, leading to tbe gifiienuo.
The sk> lights each contain but one pane o f
glass, measuring twelve feet by five feet, sod are
so constructed as to exclude all tho direct rays of
the sun, admitting only tbe pure northern light.
The large buaement room i« well lighted by mean
of nun..: jus “deck lights” of giound glass, set in
tho floor of the story immediately above it. Tho
space under the galleries on the wost side is di
vided into departments for different kinds of
goods, eooii of which is to bo under the care of a
manager, producing thus, iu all those subdivisions
undor one roof, tbe same attention, completeness
and method that would characterize as many dis
tinct houses.
In the space under tho east gallery is situated a
range of eight neat and commodious apartments,
which will be fitted up in an elegant mannor as
counting and sample rooms, dec. One of these will
be appropriated to the use of customers, the design
being to make such persons feel at home by pro
vidmg them a placo where they may converse,
write letters, and otherwise employ themstdvos
without feoling that t s ey are in the way of or in
terrupting tho business of tho bouse. Another
similar apartment will be arranged as a reading
room, and will be supplied witli files of a number
of leading commercial papers of this and other ci
ties ot the United States. All of the rooms on this
range will be brilliantly lighted with gas, and sev
eral of thorn are furnished with speaking tubes
communicating with remoto parts of the estab
lishment.
At the rear end on the first story on tho west sido
is located what is styled the receiving and examin
ing room, in which all tho goods coming to tho
store will be taken, opened, and inspected, and
then distributed upon the shelves in the varions
sales rooms. Through a hatchway on the floor of
this room the goods sold will bo transferred into
the large basement hall below, where they will be
packed, coopered, marked, and then taken up
through another hatchway iußide of the store door
on Fourth street, and theaco despatched to tho
point of shipment, or to the lailway freight de
pots. This arrangement for the receipt, unpacking
and packing of goods will obviato the necessity
of occupying the sidewalks fronting tho store with
bales and boxes, and is a most valuable improve
ment, worthy of general adoption. At the North
extremity of the building, elevated several feet
above the level of the galleries, is a suite of apart
ments, comprising a spacious parlor and bedcham
ber, superbly furnished, and having attached to
them a store, a clothes, a dressing, and a washing
and bath room. These apartments are intended
for the occupation of two members of the firm, and
by means of a window cat in the South wall of the
parlor, a view of the entire extent of the vast trade
saloons below may bo commanded.
The entire edifice will be heated by threo im
mense furnaces, placed underneath the cellars, and
will be lighted by not less than four hundred and
twonty-nino gas burners. Tho gas fixtures are
exceedingly beautiful, and fashioned after elegant
new designs. The arrangements for water and
drainage are very superior. To afford some idea
of the extent of the structure, wo will state that it
requires fourteen thousand square feet of roofing.
The amount of gas to be consumed will be very
large, and as the main on Market street could not
afford a sufficient supply, it was found neces
sary to have a specrnl main extended down to the
store from Arch street.
The aroa of ground oovered by the bnilding
comprises no leas than 18,650 square feet, and the
surface occupied, including tho basement and tbo
floors of the galleries, amounts to upwards of
58,000 square feet.
Tue wuole structure reflects tbo highest credit
upon the architect, and npon the contractor and
builder, for we have never soon a bnilding for the
purpose constructed in a more substantial'and du
rablo manner. In fact, there seems to be nothing
left undone to combine strength and durability
with the beauty and Ingenuity of the arrangement.
In fine the building, as any one may judge from
the above description, is one of tho most elegant
and magnificent improvements iu our city. The
enterprise which has led to its construction de
serves tiie highest praise, and merits universal
emulation, Buoh establishments, of which this
of Messrs. Hallowcll & Co. forms the initiative in
Philadelphia, have long been wanted here, and wo
sbail hope to see them springing up in every busi
ness quarter of the metropolis. A great good has
been accomplished in supplying one house of a
character correspondent to the growing commor
oial importance of the city, and we are convinced
that in the bands of the liberal and intelligent
men who are at the head of it, its influence in
extending'.he trade and raising the business re
putation of Philadelphia must bo eminently valu
able. The stock of the firm, which will bo the
most extensive and best of its kind in the country
will consist of silks, all descriptions of dress
goods, of ail fabrics, ribbands, laces, embroideries,
all sorts of “ white goods,” gloves, hosiery, dress
trimmings and fringes, shawls, cloaks and mantles
and all kinds of linens and furnishing goods. As
regards tho last mentioned class of articles, Phila
delphia has had no single house largely engaged
in tne trade, and Now York has but three or four.
The supplies of Messrs. Hallowed & Co. will be
fully equal in variety, quality and quantity to any
demand, and persons seeking materials for fitting
up dwellings, hotels, steamboats, &c., will hero
after be able to purchase them here at the most
advantageous prices, instead of going to another
market tor tho purpose.
1 Central Railroad Bank. —At an election held
at the banking house in Savannah on Monday, for
President and Directors of this Bank, the follow
’ ing gentlemen were unanimoasly re-elected :
' President—R. R. Cuyler.
Directors—J. W. Anderson, Thos. Purse,
1 A. Low, W. Crabtree, L. O. Reynolds, J. R. Wil
| der, J. B. Gallie, J. W. Webster.
' A Regiment fob Turret. —The foreign refu
‘ gees resident in New York had another meeting
1 a few evenings ago, to make arrangementa for
1 sending forward a regiment to help Turkey against
Russia. The President announced that Mr. Law
rence, of the Erie Railroad Company, had offered
provisions for 259 men for six months ; that J alien
had been requested to give a concert; and that
the landlord of the Shakspeare Hotel had offered
a room for a vooai performance, in order to raiso
funds for the object the society has in view. The
President also said that a committee had waited
on Gen. Sandford, who answered that as a private
citizen, his sympathies were with the projected
expedition, bnt that he could not, in his official
character, give any advice or help.
The Cotton Crop. —Mr. W. P. Wright, a cot
ton broker of New York, thus alludes to the pros
pect of the cotton crops this Beason, in his weekly
circular for Wednesday’s steamer to Europe:
“Receipts at the ports continue to fall off; the
decrease now amounts to 432,000 bales, and on Sa
turday last the deficit, as made np in New Orleans,
was 465,000 bales. It is quite possible, owing to
the low state of various Southern rivers, very few
of which are in navigable condition, that tho
deficit may reach 650,000 bales or even more, and
it ia also probable that the maximum decrease
when attained may diminish very slowly for many
weeks thereafter. The large and increasing deficit
in raocipta as compared with last year give con
fidence to parties whose estimates are below 8,000,-
000 bales, and I understand a large portion of the
business in New Orleans is being transacted upon
crop estimates of 2,800,000.
Renewal or Colt’s Patent.— lt is stated that
l he committee on patent* in Congress have unani
moasly reported in favor of the extension of Sa
muel Colt’s patent for seven years, reserving to
the government of the United States the right to
make and mannfactnre the repeating and revolv
ing arms in ait their own armories for military
and naval purposes. The reasons for granting it
are stated to be that the inventor has not had the
use of his patent in a profitable degree.
Cube for Cholera. —M. Breant, of Paris, lately
left 100,000 franca to the Institute, to be by it
awarded to the discoverer of the cause of cholera,
or a cure for it. The interest of the money is in
the meantime to be nsed in rewarding or encou
raging the authors of my lesser discoveries in
medicine. The Emperor hrs just signed the act
permitting the Institute to accept the legacy and
the conditions under which it is made.
British Navy.— From a careful calculation of the
force of the British Royal navy, at the present
time, it is found that there are 217 ships in actu-1
commission. If fully manned, according to the
established scale of complements, the aggregate
complements of these 217 ships would be above
44.000, of which number 80,800 may be called sea
men, 7,200 marines. But, from the great scarcity
of seamen, and the desertions that have taken
place, probably the effective force of tho navy does
not amount to above 41,0000 f all classes.
The French government has obtained from i
Messrs. Rothschild a loan of 200,000,000 francs,
equal to £8,000,000 sterling, or 40,000,000 dollars,
at 71, which it will issue at the first favorable op
portunity afforded by the state of the Eastern 1
question. The Rothschiidaare now interested in
supporting the French funds, which have risen,
while the English funds have receded.
More than sixty criminals have been executed in
the United States daring the year 1858, and nice j
are now in prison under sentence of death.
For twelve months or more St. Louis has been
blessed with extraordinary health. Daring the
past summer months—in previous years the most
unhealthy of the year—the average mortality was ,
down to the winter guage or healthiest season. ]
And now that winter has come the average ia lower ,
still, almost promising total exemption from dis
ease. The total deaths for the paatweek were on
lj twenty-eight in a population of 100,000, eontin - t
ually recruiting by European emigrants. Thejike i
baa not been known for years. 1
LaFayelte Course.
Tux annual meeting over this course com- ,
menced Monday, with a match race between i
Highlander and Compromise for $5,000 a sido,
three mile heats. The day was bright and beauti
ful, but the rains of last week bad rendered the
track rather muddy aud heavy, though it was in
better condition than we expected to see it;
thanks to the indefatigable industry of the Pro
prietors. The attendance was very good, better
we think, than we have noticed for several years,
and we were much pleased to observe that a few
ladies were present to witness the Bport.
Previous to starting the odds were largely in
favor of Highlander, and ono-and-a-half and two
to one were freely offered against the Tennessee
horse with but few takers. The knowing ones
seemed to consider it a flxod fact, aud the amount
that changed hands was very small for a race that
had attracted so much attention.
At the start they went off at a moderate pace,
Highlander loading after the first quarter, and
coming in an easy winner, in sm. 5Ss. Thoro was
no contest over any part of tho ground.
In tho second heat there was some good run
ning in the first mile, which Compromise beat by
the throat-latch, after which Highlander took the
lead and kept it throughout, coming to the atand
in a gallop iu 6m. 55., indeed it was very apparent
to every one that he could have distanced his com
petitor easily. Compromise, if he ever could have
made a race, was certainly out of condition —if we
m»y judge from that of Monday. •
The second race was rather more interesting,
because better contested. Frank Irwin was the
favorite at decided odds. Tbe filly was untried
and consequently had few backers. Frank beat
her iu two heats handsomely, though she ran well
up throughout. Tbe following ia the placing;
Purse s2oo—mile heats.
H. C. Cassey’s Capt. C. A. Hamilton’s c. h.
Horse, Frink Irwin, 4 years old, by Tempest,
dam Stookho.der—dross fancy 11
8. J. Carter’s c. filly, by Embassador, dam
by Priam, 8 years old—dress blue 2 2
Time first heat lm. 52s.—Second heat lm. 5Ss.
T’-i* was very flue time considering the state of
TIiESPAV- ~RCOND DAY.
!As we anticipated, Utu race yesterday was a vory
: nteresU*g, end Is* » ttar - jiily exqiting ore.
Thoattandar.es was large; than on tlie day previ
ous and ifil accrued srxiou- to witnees tbe oontost
! betwcoa the coits When we arrived, jusr before
the hoof oi starting Gris. Edmondson waa ihe fa
-1 vorite against the field, an l a very ooueidorsble
amount was laid upon the result oven. The field
ers, however, seemed rather more numerous, and
tho backers of Gris. found little difficulty in in
vesting. Some few bats, we learned, wore made
on the Gloncoo filly agaiußt Gris., but they wore
limited.
At the call the four appeared, and after prome
nading for a time wero stripped. Tho favorite
was apparently in the highest possible condition,
and the others all looking well, though it was whis
pered among the knowing ones, that the Glencoe
filly and Col. Carter’s colt, were not in very fine
condition. This, however, did not eliake the con
fidence of tho fielders. At the tap of the drum
they all went off well together, at a dashing rate,
the Glencoe filly having the track, Carter’s colt
second, Gris. Edmondson third, and Belcher’s colt
fourth. Immediately after rounding tho first turn,
Gris. challenged the filly, and after a fierce strug
gle passed her, and led off at a rapid rate of speed.
Bhe was not, howevor, to be shaken off oiisily, and
a most desporato contest ensued between them,
which was kept up, exciting the most intonso in
terest throughout the entire mile and the first halt'
of the second mile, when ho gradually drew out
from her, the othors being some distance in the
rear, and win tho heat by a few lengths, in Bm. 525.
Tbo aspect of things was not so bright now for
tbo fieldors, and many of them feeling their invest
ments wero bad, sought to hedge, but with little
success, while the backers of Gris. considered the
result certain. Thoy all cooled off pretty well,
though it was quite apparent when stript for the
second heat, that Gris. soomed freshest of tho par
ty. When led up for the start, thoy unfortunately
mado a false start, and the Bclchor and Carter colts
ran off with their riders and went entirely round
the track before they could be stopped—the others
wore checked after running a few hundred yards.
This was regarded as still further increasing tho
chances of Gris., as tho filly was thought by so ne
to be ontircly out of the question. After a few
minutes for breathing, they wero all led np and
got off, tho Belcher colt making a very bad start.
Gris. led off nt a rapid pace, followed very closely
by the Carter colt, who challenged boldly for the
lead for three quarters of a mile, whon he gave np
the contest, and the filly took it up in gallant stylo.
She made a desperate effort throughout the re
mainder of the heat, but was never able to over,
tako her competitor, who win the beat by a few
lengths, in Bm. 48s.—the Carter and Belcher oolts
both following behind tho distance stand.
Tho following is tho recapitulation :
T. -I*.—, v —Colt Stake for 8 year olds, 2 mile
heals —t'.'ta. jairaiice, on e
w 4. f 1 added by the Glob. Tho following on- :
tt,?, started :
john Harrison, Scu t>. e. tariff Mu-rndwn, by Chllde |
Harold, San Mary Etmabeth, by Ami, -jr. 1 ] ;
J.ibn Campbell's ok. ally, fcy imp. Olenites, dau.
et;>. (the darn of Moute,) b> jledoc. i i
■ V. TLLX. ■ h oil, c. vj Auumud.. Ly »fr *
Cba-io*. 8 dia.
6: art i. Cartel »b.e. By Epsilon, dam imp. Nanay
Kalian. 4 ilia.
Tune Bm. 52s.—8m. 4.5a. Track heavy.
The following entries bo . ht-ni made for the ,
race to day—Jockey Club puise tone, kmue heato
Mr. Harrison enters Haul of Rlgecomb, 5 years
old, by Boston, dam by Andrew. Rider’s dress
Fancy.
Mr. Dillahcnt enters ch. c., .Judge Ridley,ign.
old, by Wagnor, dam by Loviathan. Rider’s dress
Fancy.
Mr. Campbell enters g. h., Jno. Diamond, 5 yrs.
old, by Wagner. Rider’s dress Fancy.
Maine. —The Legislature assembled at Augusta
on tho 4th inst. Os the 81 members of the Senate,
only 18 (6 Whigs and 7 Democrats,) have been
elected, leaving 18 vacancies. Parties in the House
stand 66 Whigs, 76 Democrats and 9 Froesoilors.
17 to 20 Democrats are said to prefer Morrill to
Pillsburt, for Governor.
The Augusta Bridge.— The Charleston Courier
of Tuesday says:—For tho information of our
Augusta contemporaries, and in justice to ourselve a
we would obsorvo that it was not our design,by
the tew remarks made by us a day or two since upon
the Augusta Bridge, to enter into any discussion
oi the questions involved in that subject but sim
ply to state, what wa believe to bo the fact, that
under whatover other motive or circumstance the
act complained of may have originated, there was
nothing of unkind feeling or hostility towards the
City of Augusta on the part of tho South Carolina
Legislature, and especially on the part of Charles
ton, inasmuch as we learn that the act was
strongly opposed by one or more of our members
in the House, while the vote of every one of the
delegates from Charleston present was recorded
against it. *
There is but one feeling in Charleston towards
our sister of Augusta, and it is of kindness, good
will, and neighborly regard, and we believe wo
utter the universal sentiment of our community
when we say that the feeling amongst ns all is to
maintain and cultivate the kindest and moßt ami
cable relations with onr Georgia friends generally,
and especially with the good people of Augusta.
An Inquest was held, on Monday, on the body
of Samuel Fort, formerly of Baltimore, a mechanio
in tho employ of the Georgia Railroad Company,
who died on the Bth inst., from tho effects of a
gun shot wound received about a week previous.
The perpetrator has escaped.
The import of sperm and whale the Uni
ted States during 1858, was 108,077 barrels, and for
1852,76,950 barrels. Os whale oil the import in
1868 was 260,114 barrels, and in 1852, 83,776;
showing an aggregate increase in the import of
sperm and whale oil for the present year, of 292,-
466 barrels, or more than tho entire import of
1852.
The Panama Railroad is now completed to Gor
gona, and the river boating, hitherto so objectiona
ble, is now done away with. For the preeont,
passengers leave the cars at Gorgona, and from
thence have about 20 miles mole travel to Panama,
over a much improved road. The transit from
ocean to ocean ia now readily accomplished in 12
hours. The oompany have commenced operations
in Panama, with a force of 8,600 men.
The first fresh shad of the season, from Savan
nah, were offered in the New York market last
Wednesday. They were aellißg at $1.50 each.
Shipwrecks and Great Loss of Life.— The
Philadelphia North American’s correspondent at
Cape Island, N. J., states that the body of a young
sailor boy was washed ashore there on the 29th, '
and that no less than 20 lives have been lost from 1
two schooners wrecked in that vicinity during the
late disastrous gale.
The Late Storm. —The l ates t storm, say* the
Boston Post, was probably the most disastrous
that ever fell upon our coast. It was reported at
the Boston Merchants’ Exchange Reading Boom
that ninety vessels, of various kinds were ashore
between Boston and Cape Cod, and the probability
is that a large number of lives have been lost and
incalculable amount of suffering endnred.
Southern Central Agricultural Society. —The
Executive Committee of this Society are now in
session in this city, for the pnrpose of locating
the next Fair—arranging the Premium List, <fcc.,
Set. We have cot heard of any propositions from
other quarters, and we believe the Committee are
disposed to hold the next Fair here, if they re
ceive proper encouragement from ouroitizena.
The total value of the foreign exports from Bal
timore for the week, ending on Thursday, amount
ed to $146,491. The exports es breadstuff's tor the
week comprises 17,255 barrels of flour, 6,466 bush
els of wheat, 175 barrels of corn meal, and 200
bushels of corn.
The Czar, it is reported, baa expressed the opin
ion that the Stars and Stripes would be the only
neutral flag, among all the leading powers, before
the final settlement of the present Turkish diffi
culty. ,
During the past year 26,549 barrels of flour were
received at the public warehouses at Fayetteville,
N. C., being an increase of 11,789 barrela over the
entire receipts of the preceding year.
It ie said that daring the year 1858, there have
been 81 steamboat accidents in the United Statea,
whereby 819 persons have been killed, and 1(8
wounded. -
lniiftMTiNo from Havana.—The following is a
decree in relation to the suppression of the slave
trade, from the Captain General to the Governors
and Lieutenant-Governors of the Island of Cuba:
“As in the transfer of command from one au
thority to another, those engaged in the Afrioan
s avo trade will take advantage of this oiream itunce
of doubt and perplexity which exists among the
inferior authorities ns to whether the new su
preme authority will adopt measures more or less
rigorous than others with regard to the suppres
sion of this traffic, it is my doty to inform you
that I shall observe the laws in relation thoreto,
and shall exorcise them upon any peraen who may
engage in this prohibited trade. I shall continue
them in force, and chargo their observance upon
you, as also all other instructions that my worthy
predecessors have enjoined—treaties of Spain, of
the 28d of September, 1817, and 28th of June,
1885, relating to the slave traffic, and the observ
ance both in the spirit and the letter of the penal
law of the 4th ot March, 1545. But as the total
extinction of a traffic is difficult along these vast
ooasta, that is supported by tho strength and vig
or of iuterrsted parties, and as we have Been the
iuefficacy of the employees of our faithful andlpow
ertul ally, in its numerous cruisers, and or our
own, and as recent returns have shown a great
mortality among tho sieves, it seems to us indis
pensable that somo substitute should bo intro
duced. I therefore authorise the introduction of
free Indian laborers, Asiatics aud Spaniards, since
it is the will of this government that, without ex
ception, but, at the sume time, without auy privi
ledge, all the undertakings and contraeta that are
under the guardianship of the government should
be favored.”
The Diurio de la Marina, of the 89th December,
gives an official announcement of the statue to be
raised in the plaza of Havana, In honor of the
Queen.
Finances of Tennessee.—lt appears from the
message of Gov. Johnson, of Tennessee, that the
liabilities of tho State are as follows:
State debt prepe-, $9,801,859; bonds issued to
railroads, $1,045,000; United States surplus rev
enue and school land, $1,520,824; total, $7,-
297,181.
The prospective liabilities authorized by intornal
improvement billsalrea 1y passed amount to about
$8,000,000; and if tho internal impiovement bill
now betoro tbe Legislature should become a law,
it will add an additional $6,400,000 to the aum,
making a total State liability of $21,667,181, in
cluding its present and prospective debt. The
1 amount of county and city indeuisdiio* by the
j issue of b .is estimated at about $6,000,000.
i Os the pr>:-'1,1,1 i ccbteuness of the State, $1,830,-
oofi was inonrrud in building turnpike roads. Tbs
annual Interest paid thereon ::: s4t,Bs9, while the
amount received thereon is only $16,106 per ao
num, thus showing an annual lose of $4f66 or
the inveetroont
The Washington Star assarts that tho California
Steamship Company positively refused to delay
. tho departure of their laet steamer, for one day, In
order to allow the Government an opportunity to
send out important despatohea relating to tho oap
turo and trial of California fillibuatera.
Tho Eastern Ice Dealers have oommor.oed opera
tions, and expect to secure a full supply of this ar
ticle, which, once a luxury, has now beoome a
necessity in our sonthorn dime. At Baltimore,
also, tho first crop has been securod, Still Water
Pond having yielded from 8 to 4 inches.
A House in Louisville, Ky., proposes to purchase
by sample all flax grown in the United States, at
prides from $250 to $350 per ton. The Louisville
Journal contends that $75 per acre may easily be
realized from the product.
The probabilities in favor of tho adjustment
and satisfaction by Congress of the Frenoh spolia
tion claims —a matter which has been reported on
thirty-eight times, we believe, by committee, ap
poar to be stronger now than on former occasions.
Tho President has issued a proclamation an
nouncing that tho Government of Wirtemburg
has acoeded to the Convention for the mutual de
livery of criminals to justioe.
Our Now York oxchauges give, as the entire
number of steamships ever built in New York, a
total of sixty-six, whoso aggregate tonnage is about
one hundred and six thousand tons. Estimating
their average oost at $200,000, which is very low,
there have boen invested in building this class of
vessels at that port, thirteen millions two hundred
thousand dollars.
The editor of the Albany Journal boa been into
the wine oollar of Mr. Longworth at Cincinnati,
where he found 150,000 bottles, several hundred
boxes, and 200,000 gallons of unbottled wine. His
champagne and still wines find a ready sale, the
formor at sl2 per dos. During the last summer in
consequence of the nnskillfulness of a man in
oharge of one of his cellars, Mr. L. lost 40,000 bot
tles of champagne. The business, however, has,
after many years, become very lucrative.
The Crystal Palace.— lt is now definitely set
tled (save tho New York Tribune) that tho Crystal
Palace is to boa permanent institution, devoted to
exhibition of industrial and artistic productions of
all nations. We deorn this a matter of high na
tional importance. Not only will thero be a display
side by side, in the duplicate force of positive
character and comparative merit, of the outwork
of oil the vreat nations, bnt there will be the |
••ocittwcai i: f.ms ei■tad.g’ug -•!■ tho ...iue ol the j
tilings so shown. The 'ear-. ~' . "Cisio.iH of juries i
will be brought to !.*■■.. . . .e to time, to |
weigh the rival claims of foKijiMV > .md io- v.;-t
i,he public on arts atnl science- so extensively in- j
oluaed in the catalogue of the institution.
Dense Fous in Euuofx.—So dense were the fegs
in England, the Continent, and at sea, during tho
first week of December, that many coliiaions oc
curred among vossels, 14 being wrecked with con
siderable loss of life.
Marine Disasters.— The New York Shipping
List says that the disasters to Amerioan vessols
for the last six months have been unusually nu
merous, causing a large diminution to the ton
nage of the oountry—tho destruction of property,
and entailing heavy losses to the Insurance inte
rests, in New York and elsewhere.
Comparative Mortality of the Year.— The
Philadelphia Bulletin publishes the following ta
ble, showing the comparative mortality of the four
principal citios during 1868. We are glad to per
ceive that the Bulletin does Baltimore the justioe
to rate its population at 200,000, which it now un
doubtedly is. The table ie as follows :
Deaths in Estimated Ratio of deaths
1858. Population, to inhabitants,
hladelphla... 9,750 440,000* 1t045 W
ew York 21,804 600,000 1 to 27J4
altiniore 6,117 200,000 1 to 39
ston 4,869 160,000 1 to36><
♦This includes only (hose portions of Philadelphia from
which reports of interments are made to the Board of
Health.
Value of Negroes.—The Thomas county (Ga.)
Watohman says Considerable property was sold
here yosterduy at administrator’s sale. Likely
negro fellows—field hands—brought from nine to
twelve hundred dollars. Women hired at from
$75 to $l4O. Fellows from $l5O to $176.
Ei-plobion of a Gasometer. —The largo gosomo
tcr built by the borough council of Franktord,
near Philadelphia, exploded cn Friday morning,
with a terrific report. The gasometer leaked, and
a young man named Roger Shoals applied a lighted
match to ascertain where the gas escaped. This
caused the explosion. Shoals was badly injurad,
but no one elae appears to have boon hurt.
Import of Sperm and Whale Oil.—The import
of sperm and whale oil into the United States do
ing 1858, was 108,077 barrels, and for 1852, 76,950
barrels. Os whale oil the import in 1858 was
260,114 barrels, and in 1882, 88,776 ; showing an
aggregate increase in the import of sperm and
whale oil for the present year, of 202,486 barrels,
or more than the entire import of 1852.
The Storm. —The recent storm, says the Balti
more American, extended over a vory wide extent
of country. From Portland, Maine, to Riohmond,
Va., at Albany, Cleveland, Chicago, and Detroit
we learn it prevailed, and the mails will probably
inform us of its still wider extension. At Boston
the storm was very severe. Both business aDd
travel wore almost suspended. In many places
the streets were filled with snow from four to six
feet deep.
Intebxstino Statistics. —Daring 1858 there were
188 railroad acoidentain the United States,by whioh
284 persons were killed, and 428 wounded. Da
ring the seme time there were 80 fires at which lose
of life occurred—the total number of lives lost be
ing 114. The number of steamboat accidents was
81, by which 812 persons were killed and 158
wounded. The number of executions for murder
in the United States was 61, leaving 9 still under
sentence of death.
A son of the Emperor of Hayti is being educa
ted at Dawlish, Devonshire, England. It is ex
pected that the Emperor himself, with some of the
members of the court, will visit his son during
the enauiDg spring.
It was stated recently that the United States had
offered to advance a considerable sum to the I’orte,
on condition of receiving an Islandfin the Arohi
pelago. We now see it stated that Mr. Buchanan
has been charged in the preliminary negotiation
for the purchase of an island in that soa for a nava
depot or arsenal. It is deemed necessary by the
United States government, it is said, to have a de
pot there or in the Mediterranean.
It is believed that the report of the probable ne
gotiation of a Turkish 5 per cent, loan in Paris for
£4,000,000, through some of the financial institu
tions lately organized, Is not without foundation.
The government, it is said, are disposed to pro
mote it, but, in return, a condition will be exacted
that the Sultan shall bind himself unreservedly to
consent to whatever terms of adjustment with
Hussia the allied Powers may think proper to pro
pose.
Joun KiaxMANhaa been elected Presidentof the
Union Bank of Tenn., in place of John M. Bass,
resigned.
Philadelphia Locomotives. —During the past
year Philadelphia has turned out 182 locomotives,
of which 102 were built by Nobkb, and (0 by
Baldwin.
Messrs. Duncan <k Sherman, of New York, ad
vertise the loss of $40,000 in St. Louis bonds,
which were sent out by the Africa.
Dbv Good Trade or 1858 —The New York Cour
ier in commenting upon the importation of dry •
goods for 1858, says that the “quantities of goods ;
thrown upon the market have been la“ I
of the actual demand, and likewise in or the
ability of the country conveniently to “0«t it,
and to demonstrate its posiUo i, gives a table or
the per capita consumption for the past five yean, ]
from which it appears that while the imports of t
Dry Goods at New York, in 1848, were equivalent
to $2.04 per bead ofthe aggregate population of
of the whole country, they have increased to SB.BB ,
per head daring 1858. or eighty per cent, in J
1858 beyond the proportion, in the year 1848, t
Lake or Como.
Tiik accomplished Mrs. Levert, of Mobile, while
in Europe during tho past yoar, in loiters to her
mother gave her impressions of what she sew in
the “Old World ;” extracts from some of whioh
have fonnd their way Into tho papers. The cor
respondent of the N. O. D'Ua, who saw some of
these letters, says:
“Those 1 saw to-day, roforto that classical home
of arts and artists, Como, whioh, since the day of
Pliny the Younger, who was born on tbe shores of
its romantic lake, has boen tho theme of poet s,
and the abode of retired greatness. Though but
live miles broad, it is fifty-eight in ciroumferonce ;
and the raptures lavished on its scenery by an
cients and moderns cannot be all artificial.”
The following is the extract from Mrs. Levort’s
letter:
LAKE OF COMO.
“ 1 know it will delight you, dourest, to have a
letter from me. written on tho hanks of Lake
Como, surrounded by sueli scenery ns the eye
uover beholds elsewhere. Fancy mo seated at a
small table of a window, overlooking this lovely
soenc—more lovely tar than all the descriptions of
tourists, pictures of artists, or romuticca of the
poetß.
“ To traverso tbe placid wuters, wo took a row
boat, the moat pleasant velrcie imaginable. Iliad
a little table in the middle, on which 1 wrote Im
pressions of the sconery in my journal. Our two
oarsmen were as tulka ivo as Ctctlos, ntul gave
me oopioua descriptions of all the remarkable
plaoes.
“ We passed the villa of Taglioui, within a few
yards ot tho window at which wus seated that
world renowned dauaeuae herself. We glided so
slowly and so closely that I couid see her almost
as p'ainly as if in the same room. She looked fa
ded, wrinklod, pal,id, and old. O ! who could
believe liar so recently the gracotul and lovely em
bodiment of La Bylphido? It is scarcely aovcu
years since she retired.
“ Tagliom is very rich, and owns quite a uumbo r
of villas on the Lako, now rented opt.
“By her side sat a fair and lovely young wo
man, nor married daughter, the Prinoo.-s Trabaa
koc, and the flag ot Bussia floated over the pretty
villa.
“ Tbe next we came to was that of the renowned
Pasta, the friend and preoeptross of Parodi. Only
think, dearest, of two such celebrities—the miry of
the dance aud tho queen ol lbo song—side by side
in curly tamo, and next door neighbors in their
“ We landed at Pasta’s villa, and proceeded to
•mv s visit to Its •ioruiusmistress. Unfortunately,
| dm was on a visit in Gen. a—unfortunate lor us,
! tut happily for bar only child, a icaident thero.
I Still, ter watting maid—F unch—showed us all
ovei tho house, sveu tatha hr -room of the great
i '.oar ot ««biel: is or pure marble,
nil onl In mosaic of the dost exquisite workmans
< ship* Busts and plenael bar in nil boe grout
characters wore abundantly displayed.
“: g bored a sprig from her lavorite bower—a
fli .vor " vored scut, where she aits in the evening
gazing out upou Uio silver lake. I brought also,
iron? The a os in trout, a curious pebble. Oh I
those shores—they j-.cre beautiful tar than pic
tured by Bulwer, aud described by Claude. But
hero am I expaUaling on the bounties of Como,
aud louving unspoken tho glories of the Alps. To
oross these mountains is to realize moro than tho
dreams ot youth. The seonory is grand—sublime.
Tho Bmooth road has a parapet built on tiro outer
edge, so that you can, in complete loduty, enjoy
the maguifleont spectacle of Alps riding over Alps.
We woro buta few yards trom tho glaciers—largo
\ blue Holds ot ico—and acomiugly dose to tho eter
nal snows.
“ At tho very highest peak of tho mountain a
gentleman gallantly presented mo a bouquot of
, flowers. On conversing togethor 1 found ho was
* Mr. Ogden, of Ohiougo. Thus, you see, dourest,
1 I have found friends ‘ cloro sgniußt the skies’—at
o least tho clouds woro fur beneath our leet, as wo
o talkod of our own beloved country.
“Wo had seven Americans in all; and passing
tho night at Isallo, the first Italian town, we trav
elled togothor to Lugo Magioro, visited its ronown
• cd palace, grottoes and gardens, and thenco came
i- on to Como.”
a Thusspouks my charming townswoman of per
sons and places ugrcouble to all. To mo tliu first
are especially soj for I’asta and Taglioui wore rl
*• val deities in lame at the tomple whore 1 first
worshipped the divinity of muaic and poetry of
• motion.
A Swindler — Haisinq tuk Wind. —An individu
al of gontool appearanco, who registered his natno
11. Bauxliy, arrived in this city on Wednesday
last, and took lodgings at tho United States Hotel.
On th 6 following morning he ongaged his services
to Messrs. Wm. H. Maiiarry & Co., and obtained
of them a small sum of monoy to pay his Hotel
bill, be reprosontiug that having travelled a long
distance, his Innds had run short. Ho thonculled
on Messrs. L. Hancock & Co., ongaged his servioos
to them, and obtainod on thesnmo pretext a few
dollars. IIIb next operation, on tho same da), was
with Mr. B. F. Chew, whore he also engaged his
services, but with less suooess in raising tho need
ful. The next morning, when thoso particn sever
ally wore looking for tho individual to comply with
his engagements, it was asoortaiuod Hint he had
decamped from tho oity, loaving tho worthy,host of
the U. 8. Hotel minus his bill.
Tux Kdssla Trade.—During the past year
twenty Amerioan, and two Hussion vossels bound
to tho United Statos loft Cronstadt, tho principal
place of shipment from Bt. Petersburg. Us this
numborsix American vossels woro for Now York;
all the others for Boston. During the same period
18 American vessols with freight, and one in bal
last, sailed for ports in Europe, of which 17 were
for ports in Great Britain. A statement, ourofully
prepared by Mossm. Kow <fc Wilkins, St. Peters
burgh, shows that the merchandise exported to
Boston oonsisted of 6872 poods O. S. and 2520 do.
if. ft. bar iron, 72,525 do.Jh'-ctD-or!, 99,5<*M« "lean
hemp, 67,(514 do. hemp)sin, 08,288 do. culling.:,
•M do. j . i iio'v bristles, 2868 do. 2d sort do., 8180
do.feou.ors, 601,7 do. hnrse manes, 101 do. boise
tabs, 7*9 do. ’- ossit learner, 18 ii« oantharldoe,
:»c pa*. *»-- AKth, S.a dp, Kc.on's itouk, 8100 do.
felt, 181,505 n-.ts, 49,858 arohoens nroad dmper,
2,700,892 10. crash. liW poods flax codiltu, 41,816
do. junk, 1019 do. osklim, 18 do. twine, 61 do,
madder, " dor. linefeed oxen tongues, 109 plecei
Cottoo stuff, 13 boxes books.
Wm don* Everett !—We find the following
paragraph in a late number of the National Era,
whioh we take pleasure in pi icing npon record,
that the people of tho South may know, properly,
how to appreciate Edward Everett:
Committees in tub Senate.— Tho Managers thie
year in the Senate, rshamed of their conduot, at
tho last session, in excluding Messrs. Chase and
Sumner, from all the Committoes, determined to
pnrsno a different course. Tho Democrats pro
posed to provide for Mr. Chase, and suggested to
the Whigs to provide for Mr. Sumner. Accord
ingly Mr. Chase was placed on several committees,
but in tho Whig caucus, a proposition of Mr.
Seward, to make an arrangement for Sumner, tout
opposed by Air. KotrtU, his eolloaguo, and defeat-
Philadelphia Statistics. —The Philadelphia pa
pers of tho Ist inst., contains some interesting
statistics of that oity, from which tho following
items are culled:
The total consumption of water supplied from
tho Fairmount works during tho year, was upwards
of two thousand two hundred millions of gallons.
The daily average throughout the whole year was
6,281,895 ale gallons, and tho largest (quantity
pumped in any one day wus 11,461,790 ule gallons.
The amount expended on account of Fairmount
Water Works in 1858, was $43,611.05—in previous
years, from 1800 to December 81, 1852, $3,247,-
894.04, making the total expenditure, from the
commencement of the works to the present time,
$8,291,405.09. From tho Schuylkill Water Works,
owned by the Northern Liberties and Spring
Garden Districts, 1,869,614,984 gallons wore sup
-1 plied during tho year.
The amount of gas supplied hy the Citv Works,
during tho year, has been 249,772,000 cubic feel;
26,980 private and 110 public lights have been
added during the year. The total length of pipe
laid is 684,288 cubicfcot or nearly 119 miles. The
new gasomoter just completed is 102 feet in
diameter, and 90 foot high, and capable of holding
1,900,000 cubie feet of gas—a larger quantity than
any other tank in the wot Id can contain. This is
supported by 12 pentagon tewors of beautiful con
struction, each 92 feet high and 10 fcot in diame
ter. The retort house is 260 feet long, 60 feet wide
and 50 feet high, witli 24 cast iron Gothic win
dows on each side. It contains 520 retorts, and
facilities have boon introduced to incrcuso the
number as may bo required.
During 1858 there wore imported Into Philadel
phia 177,044 bags, 48 hogsheads, 87 tiorcos, and
116 barrels of Coflec. Os Sugar there were im
ported in tho santo period 24,881 boxes, 32,161
hogsheads, 1968 barrels, and 72,626 bags. 01 Mo
lasses there were imported 16,908 hogsheads, 914
tierces, and 886 barrels. Tho Inspections ol To
bacco for the year wore bat 2262 hogsheads.
Consul Saunders.—The Washington Star inti
mates that jtlio President will probably decline
sending into tho Senate the nomation of Mr.
George N. Saunders as American Consul at Lon
don ; the reason therefor boing, that Mr. Saunders
has, over his own signature, assumed the cliarac.
i ter of the London correspondent of the New York
i Herald, and as such is writing things against
' foreign governments, which those governments
i will be likoly to urge the U. 8. Government as re*
- sponsible for.
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I Letters from Nsples announce that another an*
. cient town has been discovered, several feet under
ground, between Aocrno and Scatfari. It is elated
that it does not resemble Herculaneum or Pompeii
in any respect.
Speed of Ocean Steamers.— From a reespituia
, tion of the trips of the Collins and Canard lines of
, Liverpool steamers, during the pest year, it ap
pears that the average time of the Collins’ line in
their Westward passages was 11 days, 18 hours
I 33 minutes; average time of the Cunard line, 12
, days, 16 hours and 11 minutes—in favor of the
Collins' line for each passage, 21 hours 88 minutes.
> Average time of Eastern passages: Collins’ line,
i 11 days 29 minutes; Canard line, 10 days, 22 bourn
46 minutes—in favor of the Cunard line on each
i passage, 1 hour 48 minutes.
The quickest passage during the year was that of
tbs Arabia’s August trip from Liverpool, which
she accomplished in nine days, seventeen hours
and fifty-five minutes. The longest one was that
of the Asia’s December trip of last year, occupying
seventeen days and twenty-one hours, she having
to put into Halifax for coal. Tho Pacific also had
a seventeen day’s trip last December, from Liver
pool, caused by very heavy weather. During the
whole period there were but four passages under
ten days, three of which wero made by the Arabia
—the Atlantic made the other one.
The Baltimore Times sayathat tbore is a move
ment on foot in that olty to establish a line ot steam
ships to ply between Baltimore and Cuba, and that
ihose connected with it have every assurance of
being able very soon to start the first steamer.
The Baltimoreans have now three separate steam
ship enterprises in embryo.
Ibon Tbadb or Pennsylvania.— ln ten conntiea
of Pennsylvania there are 268 iron works, and over
811,000,000 of fixed capital employed in the menu;
faoture.
The number of deaths in New Tork during the
year was 21,877; being 224 less than the previous
year; of consumption 2,577; convulsions 1,888;
till born 1,417; small pox 430.
Unhid States Mint.— Tho gold deposits at the
Mint for Docember aggregate $4,600,000, and the
total deposits for the year, $58,500,000.
Dr. Samuel McClellan, an eminent physician of
Philadelnhia, died in that olty on Wednesday, in
the 54th year of his age.