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Kxclitnft Me w» from Chiaa. 1
A eorreapondent of the New York Herald far- J
ixitbM ike following graph* and thrilling *c- !
count of the storming of thu ImperUlUt intrench- ]
m.nl( by the Amerlcens und Eegllah, »t Bh*ng- i
hue, on the 4th of April, 1884:
Tho tuenu of the pest week to Shanghaa, here ,
hJu ofro iute resting e character that I am in- ,
,* ,„ n «mit too an aooonnt of them.
a September the ci y fell into the hands of
.nrTlheii who have continued to boldit up to the
SiZ*£jtboogb the Imperialiata have ever
laboring, it oeema, with little hope of
!££Jsato retake It. To accomplish their object
i her had erected entrenched encampments at every
elimble position around the wait*, several of which
were located on the edge of a small creek which
flows by the race course, and ia the boundary line
of the foreign settlement*.
(hi the afternoon of tho 8d mat., several of the*
citizens, while Uking their ridea and promenades,
were bred at from one of the small encampments,
k!l 1 an attack was made upon a gentleman and
lody, by some of the imperialist scouts, who were
sueaking about the course, in which the gentle
mao received several aabte wounds. Tho alarm
was immediately given, by some parties who hap
pened to discover the attack. The settlement was
thrown into a state of great oom motion—tbe citi
tena flew to arms—signal* of diat'eas were hoisted
on tbs several consulate flagstaff* ashore, and de
tachment* of marines and sailors were promptly
landed from all the men-of-war in port, armed
with mosketa and field pieces. The Americans,
under the command ol Capt. Kelly, Lieut. Guest,
and Passed Midshipman Haxtnn, on reaching the
race oourse discovered that a portion of the En
glish detachment had already taken and fired the
camp from whence the aggression first proceeded ;
while they, and another portion cf the English de
tachment, having s field piece, advanced in the di
rection of the larger encampments nearthe course,
and came to a halt within gnn shot range of them,
to reconnoitre and arrest aoy movement towards
the settlement that might be attempted by the im
perialists. At this point tba commander of the
English forces, scoompenied by her Britannic Ma
jesty's Consul, joined the American detachment;
when a short confereno* took piece among the con
suls and captains, (the United States Consul being
on the ground.) ana it was agreed that a few sheila
ahoold be fired into the main enaompment. The
American volunteer howHasr company having ar
rived in the meantime, with their howitier, a few
shell* were thrown by it and the English field
piece which took effect within that encampment;
after which, there being no eigne of any move
ment observed within it, the whole force retreated
to the guard boose within the foreign settlement,
where patrol* were arranged for the night.
Th# aggressive demonstrations of the imperial-
Its beingdeemed but the commencement of more
nerioaa troubles that might ensue unless prompt
ly resented and checked, the oaptains of the two
English men of-war, the commander of the Ply
mouth, and t it Consul* present, appointed a m> et
log on the morning of the 4th, for the purpose of
concerting measures to etteet a removal of the en
campments to a proper and safe distance from the
foreign limits. It wea determined in council as a
men urn of safety, that the emperalist authorities
should be required to remove them by four o’clock
in the afternoow; and they were notified, that, if
they were not evacuated by that hour, they would
be besieged and destroyed by the combined forces
of lb* English and Amerioan men-ot-war in port.
Preparation* were made for carrying this determin
ation into effect.
At two o’clock detachment* of marines and Bail
ors were thrown ashore from each of the men of
war, those ot the Plymouth, commanded by Capt.
Kelly, Liout. Gueat, and Passed Midshipman Hax-
Inn, and rendezvoused at tho guard house, near
the church, in tho middle of the settlement, where
they were joinod by the volunteer Howitzer and
Infantry companies. At three tho whole of tbo
combined forces, numbering in all about three
hundred took up the lino of march for the field of
action. On arriving at the race course, a halt was
mado tor tho purpose of reconnoitering tho ground
and giving tho iinperalists an opportunity to re
treat. This roconnoissanco was made by Oaptains
Kelley and O’Callaghan, the United Btatoa Consul,
and 11. li. Majesty’s Consul and Vioe Consul, from
some mounds commanding but imported view of
the camp*. After the lapse of a half hour, the
inarch was resumed, and the forces divided to ut-
tack different points.
Tho American*, consisting of aoventy five ma
rines and sailors, and about twenty-five citizens,
composing the volunteer Howitzer company, with
throe field piooos, diverging to the left, followed
the curve of the race course to the westward, and
took their position about a hundred and titty yards
lrom the main field works of the enomy, which
cornored a little to the left of tho oonrse, and ex
tended a long it in a straight line to the right,
whilst the English detachment and the volunteer
infantry company, amounting iD all to 200, con
tinued to the southward, ana took their position
within howitzer range of the southern encamp
rnent. Mo sooner had the Americans taken their
position thun Lieut. Guest made a roconnoisunoo
of the various encampments from a mound in
close proximity to the angle of the main breast
works. At four o’clock the fire was opened on tho
American side with the Plymouth’s twelve pound
field pioce, and the two howitzers belonging to the
voluntoer company, who had gallantly placed them
selves under tho command of Captain Kelly, all of
which throw their shells with grout precision iuto
the midst of tho cumps. Immediately aftor, tho
Knglish opened fire upon the point of attack.
Although the two forces were oo operating, they
were at such a distance from each oilier that their
respective movements could not be seen by either,
yot their shells wore thrown with groat accuracy,
all taking effect within the entronohmoiits. Tno
fire from tho field pieces were kept up some twenty
minutes, without a roturn shot from tho enemy.
Suddenly a volley of musketry was heard in the
direction of tho Knglish position, which was sup
posed to boa charge made by thorn, as a tumultu
ous movemout was observed within the eitcap
meat, as if the besieged were fleeing in a slate of
consternation. At that moment the order to ad
vanoo was given by the American commanding
olficers, which the whole force responded to with
a spirited shout, rushing on to a close aback, and
discharging their first volley of musketry, whioh
was instantly returned with a tremendous dis
charge of jingalls, loaded with slugs, bullets, <Scc.,
from tho entrenchments, behind which the be
sieged wore crouched, and awaiting the advance
ol the assailants. By this first return fire upon
our foroes, who wore entirely uncovered and ex
posed to its fall sweep, Mr. Griswold Gray, of the
howitaere, who was bravely oharalDg In tho front
ranks, was so seriously wounded as to render tho
immediate amputation of one of his legs necessary,
for the preservation of bia life. Capt. Pearson,
of the American ship Roeo Blandish, fell, severely
wounded in he fuco, and one of the Plymouth's
sailors was instantly killed; whilst ihoi*"ore for
tnnaie companions In arms wsro discharging vol
ley after volloy into the oncampmonl, withal most
inconceivable rapidity. At this junction, passed
Midshipman Gray, wlio had ohargo of u guard of
inorchuiit sullors who were statioued at tho D. 8.
Consulate, hearing tho firing, brought his men
to the field, sad participated in the engagement.
The enemy’s fire lasted but a few minutes, ami
severely wounded two marinos and one of the
sailors of the Plymouth. After tho first two or
three volleys, t. » forces wore ordered to cross a
small dyke whichflankod the road, and to advnnco
to several mm -a, (close to the Van King Pan
oreek,) wi. ch commanded the inside of tho en
campmo. ,to .u whence the attack waa vigorously
carried on us i give the besieged no timo to rally
to dialO'V ' t outlrely from their entrench
ments, and enu ’ their precipitate flight iuto tiie
country.
The Amsrieu threes fought under'ho duadvan
tag eof an inn ntly oxposed position, and 1 oing
separated from ti.e enemy’s fortifications by the
Yan King P.m creek, whioh ie impnssnhlo at high
tiile, (whioh ,i i then at tho flood) mid uiihridgcd
anywhere uo*r their point of attack; yet their in
cossant fire drove tho enemy from the encampment
and kept tl -u in check, while tho Knglish do
tabhniont, i ug crosseda bridge user their posi
tion, ami tak.-i iud fired the encampment, against
wluoh thoir k had been so successfully direct
ed, entered ttrod this one also, without any
resistance.
Theoonflict was of short duration, and termina
ted in the d. lodgment of a barbarous soldiery
from cmretichud encampments, in such dangerous
proximity to tin foreign settlement, that Beitlier
tiio livea nor tno property of the community were
in any safely. The whole number of Imperial
ists, withiu the several encampments which wore
destroyed, is variously estimated, but by no one
at a less number than sovon thousand. The ag
gregate combined force todislodgo tliom only three
huudred I The American flag was planted by
Lieut. Guest on tile nearest mound to the oticamp
manta, where it told of triumph; while the flags
aud hauliers, tho tents and catnpt equipments of
tho dispersed enemy, fed tho flames, whoso re
flected light made it no brighter than its country’s
greatness and glory ever rendor it ill the ostium
tiou of tho gallant splritß who marched to victory
under its folds on tho 4th of April, 1854.
The heroio spirit with which the detachment led
on by Commander Kelly, Lieut. Guostand Passed
Midshipman llaxtun, advanced tot e attack, aud
thoir sloadtness under the appalling fire, cannot
be too highly eulogized. Nor can l, in thus nar
rating evonts which ooourred under my own im
mediate observation, being in the ranks of tlie
American forces, omit to render great praise to the
gallantry of the howitzer company, (whoso small
corps experienced one of the saddest casualties,)
who stood atlhoir pieoes like veteran arlilloris's,
rendering effective service durim the whole ac
tion; ana who have received the gratofnlacknow
ledgements of Commander Kellv for their confl
deuce evinced in him by plaoing themselves under
his command, aud for their important assistance
in stormiog the Imperialist entrenchments.
The breastworks having been taken, and the
camp set fire to by the Knglish, Capt, O Callaghan
requested Capt. Kelly to oover his retreat at the
bridge. Accordingly, the American forces »J
vanced about half a mile to the right usd gained
a new position. Here the Americans found the
British rear guard retreating, aud a large body ot
imperialists advancing under oover oflhe batteries
of some war i unks in Bou ChowCroek. Those were
.U..W.1 Uj u.. a.. .( «k« three American
field niooee aud fell back to their deteuccs. The
main body of the British now rejoined the Ameri
cans; and it was acknowledged that our forces,
being whore they were, prevented the British from
being entirely surrounded, and their retreat cut
off. The action having thus gloriously terminated,
the combined foroes marched back to the river
bank, where they were greeted with enthusiastic
cheers from the shipping. The number of the im
perialists killed and wounded is unknown. Ind.
vidualiaicg is scarcely to be oxpeoted in detailing
ancli events as have induced this letter, but I can
not omit paying a passing compliment to Dr. Otis,
the Assistant Burgeon of the Plymouth, for his
coolness aud uotivily in attending to the wounded
on the fic.d of action; aud to Mr. Norris, the Cap
tain’s Clerk, who bravely aooompanied the forces
throughout the engagement.
As a matter ot security, and to prevent thoir re
occupation, the breastworks of tho late entrench
ments wore razed to the ground, under the protec
tion of detachments from the Plymouth and Eng
lish men-of-war, and picket guards stationed on
the oafskirta of the settlement, to keep both the
rebel* and imperialists beyond defined limits.—
They may. ana doubtless will, have nnuy euconn
ter*, and thair struggle may long continue, hut it
is to be hoped, that so far as foreigners are cou
eerned, I
Grim Titaced war ha* imoothed hi* wrinkled ft-oct
And so ends this strange, eventful historv !
Kaillit Account.
From tit lYUni </ C%>nd, April 22.
Shaxohak, April 5, 1854.
Jfr. Elite—Th fight to day wassublime, when
tha three power*. !-'• ueh, American and the revo
lationary cf Ct vere at the same in£i«Lt com
manding ;fcc i "tant forces of China. Every
gun seemH to »ouudiug tne knel! of the pres
ent dyn«b j. 4 taking all the circams'.ance*
into ooostde* 1 suppoae tew that heard them,
*d •eria*i»tß Ihem&etves, regretted
the antic* 'rthrow. When the Auiericau
guns opei* the revolntionUts waved their
O about of victory; aod when
«Td cL.mh. h * J driveu ont t,u > imperialists
monmiTu. * l lb " iut thc - T
good Kugli-i.. 'liu rAhfcr t' tb “ r g"*? *g
Which doubt. . 1 A }** H »***"
iws iKa •.ahrt l** t rmpond«i to most heartily
as us
This isju v .at should have been done > o na
•T>. and it w t have uavad Shan*!... t roal mucf
misery, low oi property and bloodshed. The
writer venlc o suggest in th. local paper
October, in is.-wenoe to the evacuation and aS«n
douineut of l so. by th. imperialist*—•* UiaLt
it not with id-od impropriety, under exiating
circumstances, lie brought about by coreciou I"
Whilauotone oeiievee they will ever succeed in
doing any good for King or country by fighting,
it is perfectly rid culoua lor these foreign powers
to permit thani to carry on the fares by lighting
over their bea-L as they were literally doing the
other morning —firing at the rebel better) from
among the foreign men of-wer and over one of
them.
The crisis has been brewing sometime. The
jjrpri.imis in U>e river have not bonneted, when
il eoitedUialr oonvenlencfi, to fir* Oii either The
British or the American flag, when c rried by
small boats. A* these boats were permitted to
carry the flig by the offioor* of the government,
they fait bound to protect th* flag and those who
oamed it. And hence they bavVlelely celled tham
to account once or twice about firing on th* flag.
The other day the imperialist*’ vtwSel ComptoS,
bad to hoist the American flag and salute it or be
sunk. And not long sinoe they flogged one of the
British subjects, ana when the Vice Consul went
to remonstrate with them on the suMeet, they
threatened to thrash him. They sometime since
came among the foreign oommunity with an armed
force, end several of tfaptn were killed. But on
Monday, the 8d Inst., a party ot them came on a
pilfering expedition, and when the foreigners
tried to drive them off; they presented their arms.
Two of theuMwere shot. In the evening, e gen
tleman and lady were taking tbeir evening exer
cise in the suburbs, and were attacked ; the gen
tleman was severely wounded, and the lady’s chair
hacked considerably, and she greatly alarmed.
This was reported, a signal given, the volunteers
turned out, the marines landed; they went out to
wards the encampment and were fired on; bat they
returned it; more came to the succor, and they over
came and shelled the encampment. But night
came on before they made a finish.
Thi* morning (April 4) the imperial force began
to assume the aspect of a tragedy, with other par
ties taking a part in ti e action. The first thing
that can e under our observation was a British
man-of-war taking under its special regard the
imperial war junks; but, two or three attempting
to run away, they were fired on. They however
made their escape up the 800 chow creek. But I
am sorry to say that one of gfe balls from the man
of war, after passing through two houses, acci
dentally struck a Chinese woman in her breast,
while eating her morning rice, sndjfilled bcr.
The British and American officers, civil and
naval, held* council of war this morning, and de
termined to anile their forces and expel the im
perialists by a coercion, should they not remove
tbei Awn accord, beyond the foreign residence.
At two o’clock P. M., the officers and men of
the men of-war—British and American, were mas
tered on shore, and abont three o’clock rendez
voused in front of the Church, where the volun
teers of the city also mustered. The Americans
took two brass pieces, the British one, with which
to shell the camp. Boon the music struck up and
the march commenced in high glee—just as in the
performance of a farce; not one of all the compa
ny (from 200 to 800,) dreaming, I presume, that
he would bo in tternity before sunset! A gener
al interest was manifested by Chinese, ministers
of religion, and even ladies, to see the perform
ance of this grand manoeuvre. Some mounted the
church steeple, some on house tope, sod others
kept pace with the troops, mounting the sugarhef
grave hillocks scattered about the vicinity of the
battle as near as practicable to approach without
too much unnecessary danger. The writer stood
on one of these hillocks, about two hundred yards
from where the foreigners guns commenced the
1 fire, and a like distance from the Chinees enoamp
ment.
’ There wore five encampments in the same vicin
ity well enclosed by canals and mud walla, and 1
' doubt whether they apprehended any seriouadan
' ger near. The spectators proceeded the troops
and crowded every elevation. When the Imperi
-1 alists saw this they began to arenas and look about
1 to see what was to pay, bat made little move. The
1 British took ono position, and the Americana an
other, and oommenced shelling the encampments
1 at different points. This was beautiful. It re
minded me, liowover, of the fable of the frogs,
1 who said to the boys, “ that is fun to you, bat
death to ua." Whether they did muoh execution
I could not discover, but 1 thought not. After
about a dozen Urea from each party, the English
soldiers commenced the tiros with their musketry.
On seeing this the Americana rushed right for
ward upon the breastworks. But, sad to tell,when
'hey got within titty or sixty yards of the battery,
the Chinese within, who had seemed to be specta
tors until now, peeping over the wall, opened a
Are on them, killed ono right off, and very seri
ously wounded two others—one a citizen, the oth
er the captain ol a merchant ship whose log has
since been amputated. But tho firiug then went
on more fiercely until thoy (tho imperialists) wero
thoroughly routed. Whon the foreigners had made
a finish and returned, the insurgents proceeded
upon the vantage ground thus gained, and shout
ed victory over their scampering adversaries.
Bat Whon the writer saw his acquaintance and
friend of the house of Mossrs. Russell <fe Co., fall
wounded and curried off' the field, and one of tho
Bailors fall dead on the spot, he began to feel deep
sympathy for hia countrymen ; and that fighting
was a solemn thing at best, not to be sported with:
and just while engaged in theso thoughts the sharp
whiz of a musket bull, but a tow feet off, inform
ed him of hiu own danger.
Santo ten or twelve among the foreigners wero
killed or wounded. Bo soon uh tho troops were
gone, the native spectators and the villagers around
came in and helped themselves liberally to the
imperialists' camp spoil. This we c u!d not but
fuel wus right enough; for these imperial miscre
ants hud been rubbing the people all around, and
now tho peoplo got something back in turn.
Tills morning (April 5,) the foreign troops wore
again curly on the battle ground to mako a full
finish of what they had begun. After giving a
few shells to tho imperialists who wero skulking
around in sight, thev cleared the field and com
pletely demolished tnoir cncainpmonts; and doubt
less taught tno Chinese a lesson that foreigners
are not to be trifled with. 1 walkod over tho bat
tleground this morning, and saw flficen or twenty
of tho dead imperialists still there, but how many
had been tukon away of the dead and wounded I
know not. It is rt portod that moro than 300 have
boon countod elsewhere.
The re' ols wore earnestly engaged to-day all
around destroying tho battories an l burning up
tho oucampmonta of the iruporiulists. They made
fine capital of this vintage ground. I presume
they will now thoroughly routo the imperialists
from this place very soon.
Yesterday the imperial otlicers would uotlisten
to tho demands of the foreign ollieors; but to-day
thoy sent a delegation and came to terms as re
quired. I was gratified to learn that the foreign
ctiicers design placing a guard for protection in
the outskirts or tho foreign community.
It is greatly to bo hoped that this lesson may be
so thoroughly learned os to save the necessity of
foreigners repeating it during the present oivil
war—at least at Bhanghao. I. J. R.
Lilt of Killed and Wounded in Attack, etc., on ith
April.
H. M. Steamer “Encounter.”—Lient. N. Dew,
slightly. M. Tupmau, Naval Cadet, do. W. Black
man, t.’urpentor, killed. Am. Havens, ordinary 1.,
slightly.
U. M. Brig “Grooian.”—Mr. Henry Thursby,
Midshipman, a severe contusion. Geo. Baby,
Capt. Foretop, very sovnroly. John Budge, A. B.
do. floury Wilcox, (JuartonnaHlcr, do. Henry
Nicoll, do. In Little, Assistant Burgeon, slightly.
United States Sloop “Plymouth.”— Georgo Me-
Corklc, killed—four wounded, (most of them se
verely.
Shanghae Volunteers.—Mr. J. E. Brine, mortal
—bruin protruding. Mr. Gray, shot in both logs
—thigh amputated. Capt, I’ourson, American
merchant shin Kosc Blaudish, very sevoroly wouu
dod. Total, two killed and sixteen wounded.—
Guns found in camps —two 12, four 6, and lour 9
poundors, and a number of wali pieces. Force
engaged about 300.
pAnoTUEit Insult to ocit Fr.*e.—Allusion is made
m the above lottor to the firing upon a bout carry
ing tho Amorican flag, by aChincso man of-war.—
Wo find the following account of tho affair iu tho
North China Herald.
From the North China fjerahl, March 25.
It will bo roeollooted that about three wooks since
ono of the Taontae’s vessels, the Clown, fired n
shot at “Mr. Ayer’s pilot boat, flying the Ameri
can flag, as site was coming up tho touch ;” at the
same time tho otficors and men of tho imporial war
ship Sir Herbert Compton, huuled down the Ame
rican flag. This gross outrage on the Hag of a
friendly ally became tho object of correspondence
botween tho Consnl of tho United States and tho
Taontao, the former demuuding, that insomuch as
tho olficers and men of the imperial war ship Sir
Herbert Compton did tako down by vlolonco the
flag ot the U. 8. vessel, which they captured on the
Hlli ins!., that he should can o in open day, tho U.
S. ling to be rui-ed to the masthead of tho said
Compton, and by them tainted with 21 gnus.
Sometime olupss and no answer was received.—
The Uni'cd States Consul then referred the whole
mailer to Capt. J. Kelly, of the United ship of war
Plymouth. On the 20th, Capt. Kelly dropped tho
Plymouth dow n opposite tho Compton, and bofore
he could give them his ordor, an clficor came on
board from the Compton, and stated that at 12
o’clock on the next day (the 21s: iust.) tiie United
States flag should be hoisted to tho fore royal mast
head ot the Oompt. u,and by them Buluted by 21
guns.
Much speculation was uflout during Monday ns
to what would ousue —but tho salute was made at
the hour appointed on Tuesday, and thus the as *
fair ended—a little wholesome decision having
caused tiio American flag to bo respected, and
which wili, wo expect, prevent any recurrence ot
a similar insult.
A Little Child auono Lunatics. —A day or two
ago, a getn lonian whose < tit iul duties required
him to visit a large asylum near this city, devoted
to the indigent insane, took with him a little hoy
some three yean oland it was an interesting
study to wutoh the efl'oct which the presence of
the young visitor produced among the lunatics of
every grado. An unusual degree of quiet and or.
dor prevailed in every hull, and touching manifes
tations of the softening and subduing influence
of childhood were exhibited by those who were
ordiuurily most Intractable. Tuis wasuarticularly
the case with those who had pasted the season of
youth. One mat),incurably insane, approached the
little boy with a countenance for the tuomeul fnll of
gentleness, and kindness, and with a polite gesture
I auded him a straw, beingult that he had to give—
audsbowed great satisfaction when it was accented
and borne ns if it had been of value. A most all ap
prouchcd and shook hands with the infant, and so
mild was their hoard g that ho did not tor moment
hesitate, and although abashed at what was to him
and unusual crowd, he chcorful’y yielded hia little
hand to their caresses. But the most i terestitig
seeno was in l 1 o woman’s apar'uient. They were
ready to devour the child with their caresses, and
i yot when they observed that their crowding and
volubility annoyed him, instinctively withdrew a
little uud modulated their voices to tones of ten
derness, to winch many of them had long been
strangers. One of the women, herself a mother,
enquired with tearful aies—" Dear little fellow, i*
hia mother living f” An affirmative rep y seemed
to relievo her apprehensions, and her expression
of interest assumed a more cheerful tone. The
most violent, closely confined in cells, watched
every movement of the boy with iut nso i iterest,
and some begged, by all the cflteetion for their own
offspring—winch insanity in its worst I rm had
not eradicated—to be permitted to ombraoo him.
Tho whole scene was calculate 1 to deepen the sym
pathy felt for the most unfortunate class who were
the ohjoot of the visit, end to show how strong y
the society of children is calculated to win back
to gentleness those who, from any cause, have
passed that indefinable line which separates the
sane from the insane. Such soothing effects are
of course trajseient, but it was something to ob
tain for those poor vexed souls oven a moment of
calm delight. —Xae Tori VmrUf.
A (ixoituiAN in Cuba.—Our fellow townsman, B.
A. Thornton, frays the Columbus Tim**) who late-
Iv visited Cuna in company wi'U Ex-Consul
Owen and Mr R-rrv, of Ala., has r turned in fine
health after spending a month or -o id the orange
groves of the Queen of the .Whiles. Hia party
met with the km est reception Irom the iulub
itants iu town and country, and no unreasonable
obstructions were thrown by the Goveri nient
upon the freedom of their movements through the
Hand. Ho represen's the Island as tbe garden
of the world ; bat its political, social and moßctary
condition is most isrut ntuble. Distrnst anivt rsally
pervades the public mind. All look forward to
change, but liar l l v know what to anticipate.
S mt- apprehend that the negroes will be freed by
Government, and this apprehension has produced
the most gloomy forebodings ; and the result is
that capital is fast leaving the country. The best
paper will not be taken at a discount of 25 per
cent. r
Railroad Mbltino.— Wears gratifLdto notice
the call fora moetieg in Jefferson on the second
Monday in July, for the purpose of fixing upon
some plau to orgamae a company for building the
road lor which a charter was granted by the last
Legis’ature, from Adieus to some point on Kuban
Gap road. It is high time that our citiz'ns should
look to this matter It is of theutmost importance
to tho future prosperity of Athens and the snr
ronnaing eonntrv. that this road should be built.
This meeting-in JeflS rsoti is the first step, and that
village deserves much credit tor the enterpniee
evmi*d by its inhabi'ants in taking this step,
we hope there will be a fat! attendance. Remem
ber it is tbe 2d Monday in July, several gentle
®en well experienced in railroad matters are
expected to be present— Athtt.e Runner.
,Mk 1 me die iu Ihe country, where I shall not
rati like a leal of the forest, unheeded; where those
who love me need not ma«k the heart to meet the
care eis multitude, aud strive to forget me I Bury
me in tho country rrnid the prayers of the good
and the te rs of the loving; not in the dark, damp
v * oll y away f our the aweel scented a ! r and the
cheerful aunah.ne, but in the open field among the
flowers that 1 loved and cherished white living.—
/annjr t'orftt Ur,
Oorretpondtne* Ms BaUumCrt Atntncar.
THIBTY-THI Hl> (vi* CHK-H—Flrel Peasloa.
■Washikotok, June 84.— The House passed four
teen bill*, including the Senate’s bill to reimburse
to the Common Council of New York City **P»n
ditures made for the first regimant of New York
volunteers.
Mr. Houston moved the House go Into commit
ter on the general appropriation bill, wishing to
finish it to-day, so as to take up on Monday the
bill appropriating ten million do'lan to carry the
Gadsden treaty into effect.
The motion was agreed to.
Mr. Chandler offered an amendment appropria
ting half a million of dollars for continuing the
aqueduct for supplying the District of Columbia
with water. A long discussion ensued. The
frieoda of the proposition contended it was
necessary to the preservation of the public proper
ty, comfort of the national Representative* and
cleanlineea of the city that the work should pro
fress. Congress heretofore empowered the Fresi
ent to select the site end plan, which be has done.
The opponents of the scheme insisted at the time
the appropriation was made lor surveys no one
thought Congress would be involved in a work
which would cffkt $6,000,000, or thrice the amount
of Capt. Meigs’ estimates. Water oould lie pro
cured, they said, at the cost of $1,000,000, while
others thought the people of the District abouid
build their own water-works.
Pending the amendment the committee rose,
and the House adjourned.
INSEN AT® • Juke 26.
Mr. Ball presented a aeries of resolutions of the
Legislature of Tennessee in favor of the repeal of
the duty on Iron; m favor of the Pacific Railroad ;
in favor of constructing a levee on the east bank
of the Mieaiaaippi; m favor of granting land to
the Tminessee mounfed volunteers of the war of
1812; un favor of making the same allowances for
horses lost in tho Mexican war as in other ware;
also, in favor of cheap ocean postage.
Mr. (Ayton from the committee on foreign re
lations, reported a bill in favor of the more effec
tual suppression of the slave trade in American
built vessels, and spoke at some length on the
subject.
Mr. Chase gave notioe that to-morrow
ask leave to introduce a bill to prohibit slavery in
the United States.
Mr. Rockwell’s Boston petition for the repeal of
the fugitive slave law was taken up.
Mr. Jones, of Tennessee, took the floor, and
spokeat some length in reprobation of the petition
and its signers, and also reviewed with scathing
sarcasm the recent address put forth by the mem
bers of Congress who opposed the Nebraska bill.
He considered these petitions the result of a com
bination of those who were willing to take part in
every scheme to break down the constitution ot
the United States, and to place the Sonth under
degradation and humiliation. It came from a
oity where the laws were openly set at defiance—
where the templeof justice wae surrounded by an
armed mob to prevent the execution of a constitu
al duty—where treason stalked boldly through
the streets at noonday, and the officers of the law
were butchered.
Mr. Rockwell replied at considerable length, de
fending the petition and the character of its sign
ers, who he represented to be the bone and smew
of the active business men of that city—it was
signed by men who had acquiesced in the compro
mise measures of 1850, of wbioh this act wus one,
but who were moved to ask for the repeal of this
obnoxious law because Congress had repealed a
previous and long standing compromise. He
begged gentlemen to remember that the Constitu
tional aulhoritives ot Boston took the recent dis
turbances in hand and disposed of them. Bud
den tumults and affrays had occurred in other
places than Boston.
The debate was further continued by Mr. Jones,
Mr. Broudbead and Mr. Bumner, and ala late hour
the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
The House refused to suspend the rules to ena
ble Mr. Biles to intioduoe a bill authorizing tho
Secretary of the Treasury to appoint an agent to
investigate and bring to justice cortain offenders
against the United St dee laws, and appropriating
$15,04)0 for that purpose. He alluded to the Marthu
Washington conspirators, aud those who recently
robbed the Pittsburg Custom-House.
Mr. Houston moved that the House go into com
mittee of the Whole on the state of the Union on
the bill appiopriating ten millions for carrying the
recent treaty with Mexico into ellect.
Mr. Peckhain wished to offer a resolution which
was merely read for information, calling on the
President, if not inconsistent with the public in
terests, to communicate copies of all correspon
dence touching or concerning the treaty concluded
between this Government und Mexico, on ' he 80th
of December last, and all the subject mutters
thereon.
Mr. Benton. I have a qnoslon to make which I
think will take precedence of both motions. I muke
the motion of whioh I gave notice boiuo days ago
01 tho privilege of tiiis House. It is one which I
apprehend lakes precedence of all other motions,
and especially it takes precedence of that now
made to go into committee of the whole for the
purpose ol taking up this bill. lam right in my
upprehensions ot the dignity and of the obliga
tions attached to tho privligo I shall plead, I will
go on and state my motion.
Speaker. The ohair will hear the gentleman’s
motion before he decides as to the question of
privilege.
Mr. Benton. I have reducod to writing the
points of privilege which I make to the House in
order to uvoid any misconception or misappre
hensions.
Knotted, That the House will not consider the
question of appropriating ton millions of dcl'urs
to carry into effect tho Me .i an treaty of Decem
ber 80. h, 1851, for the acquisition of foreign ter
ritory, until it shall first have > oußidcred whether
there was u broach of the privileges of this House
in negotiating and concluding said treaty; nor
until aftor the House shall have obtained lull in
formation of the negotiations and conclusion of
said treuty.
Knott.d, That the said treaty depending for its
execution on u law of Congress, to be passod on a
■deject submitted by the constitution to tho power
of Congress, it is the Constitutioual right and du
ty ot the House of Representatives to deliberate on
the expediency or expodieucy of carrying Buch
treaty into effect, and to determine as in their
judgment may be most couducivc to tho publio
good, that is copied from the resolutions adopted
by the House of Representatives in the year 1796,
after l’resident Washington had refused to oom
munioute papers to the House on that subject.
Mr. Houston. If the gentleman is through with
his questions of privilege—
Cries of “Wait till ho is heard on it.”
Mr. Houston. As far as the gentleman has
gone I desire the decision of the Chair.
Cries of order.
Sir. Uoustou. lam in order, and I know what
lam doing. 1 have a right to state my point to
the Chair.
Mr. Benton. Certainly.
Mr. Houston. Well, sir, 1 wont the decision of
the Speaker whether the question of the gentle
man from Missouri, is such a qnestionof privilege
us will arrest tiie privileged motion which I have
submitted for the adoptionofthe House.
Speaker. The Chair prefers first to hear the
additional resolution. There were three of them
as tho gentleman from Missouri announced. The
Chair will then be able to decide at once, the gen
tleman lrom Missouri will excuse the Chair lio n
iudioutirg that remarks should be di-peused with
until tho question of order or privilege is presout
ed.
Mr. Benton. Yes sir; the third resolution is as
follows:
Knotted, That tho admission of new States into
the Union, being a question exclusively giautod to
Congress by the Constitution, aud treaty stipula
tion for acquisition of foreign territory, with a
right to be admitted as a State without author
ization from Congress, is a breach ofthe privileges
of that body, a violation of the Constitution, und
illegal and void.
Knotted, That a purchase of foreign territory by
the Federal government, not having been provi
ded for in the Constitution, a concurreuco of tho
legislature and oxeoulivo department ol tho goveru
metit former by an act of Congress, tho latter by a
treaty stipulation,is ueoessaiy to theconsumtsation
of tho act, and has been so held iu the purchase
of Louisiana, Florida and California.
Kee Iced, That the House of Representatives has
a right to the information which would enablo it
to jndgo tho merits of the Mexican treaty in its
Legislative consideration thereof, and tho Presi
dent be respectfully requested to furnish to'.ho
House of Representatives, a copy of the instruc
tions under which the same was negotiated, and
of the papers connected with tiie subject, the said
copies ti be communicated confidentially it in the
opinion of tho president tho publio good may not
admit of their publication.
The Speaker decided that the motion of Mr.
Benton was not a question of privilege, and alter
some unimportant business the Hours resolved
itself into committee of the whole, and took up the
hill appropriating ton millions of dollars to exe
cute the third article of the treaty with Mexico.
Tito bill being under consideration Mr. Benten
finally got the floor and spoke his hour in opposi
tion, deelariug that the President in negotiating
this treaty had invaded the privilege of this House.
Mr. Bnyly, of Virginia, obtained tho floor and
replied to Mr. Benton.
Mr. Jones, of Pennsylvania, then obtained tho
floor aud the House adjourned.
IN SENATE J bnx 27.
A few petitions were presented and appropriate
ly referred.
Sixteen private bills were recieved from the
House and referred.
The bill making Fronteras, in Texas, a port of
entry was passed.
Tiie bill creating a new collection district in Cal
ifornia, was passed.
After some debate as to what business should bo
taken up, the Senate took up the bill providing
for the rc examination and settlement of accounts
betweeu tho United States and the State of Mary
lan I, for interest on money advanced to the United
States during the last war.
HOUSE.
Mr. Harris, of Mississippi, asked, but did uot
oMaiu leave, Mr. Ciingmau objecting, to introduce
a resolution requesting the President, so far as in
his opinion is uot incompa.ible with the public
inteiesU, to furnish the House with any informs
tiou relative to citizens of the Dnitod States and
other persons residing therein, being engaged in
organ zng and fitting out a military expedition
for tbo invasion of Cuba, as may have been in his
possession c n the 81st ot May last, the date of his
proclamation.
Mr. Houston offered a resolntion to terminate
the debate on the Mexican treaty bill to morrow
at noon. He said great anxiety ie expressed that
this session shall terminate on the 81st of July,
and in that feeling he sympathized as much as
any member. On Monday nezt be should move
to take up the resolution for adjournment and if
the progress of business shall wairant it will vote
for it.
Mr. Haven said that from the turn the debate
has taken it was evident that if tbe House shall
not cal I for the correspondence and instructions
relative to tne Mexican treaty, the debate might
as well be closed now as not. It seems to be con
ceded on all hands that this House has the right
ts a matter cf expediency to withhold tbe appro
priation. If the friends’of the administration are
willing tbe instructions and cortespondence shall
be laid before the Honso, that it rnsjj be acted on
ts a question ol expediency cud propriety, thou
the debate ought not be closed for several days.
He supposed the correspondence and instructions
was in a condition to be transmitted to the House,
having already been betore the Senate coi.fideu
lially. Tbe treaty looks fair on its face, tmt if the
House would test whe.her it is a proper one they
should have the documents betote them. The
resolution to close the debate at noon to morrow
was adopted—voas 84 nays 58.
Mr. Mace offered a resolution which was adopt
ed, allowing the select commitee on frauds connec
ted with the mail steamers to employ a clerk
twenty days.
The House then went into.committee on the
Mexican ties'.) bill. ...
The debate was continued until 8 o clock in the
oveuing, in the course of which speeches were
made pro aud con on the Mexican Treaty, when
there being no quorcra present, and almost tota!
darkness, the etiandliers not being lighted, the
Hon.se adjourned.
IX SENATE Jrxs 28.
Mr. Pettit made a personal explanation as to
the report in the trio be, of his remarks of Mon
day’s debate, accusing Hr. Sumner of having in
terpoiated remarks into Mr. Pettit’s speech, which
ho said were never ottered. Mr. Sumner respond
ed with much bitternes-, aud the terms “fetee”
and “falsehood,” were repeatedly exchanged be
tween them.
Alter some unimportant business, tbe Senate
took up the proposition to refer the petition tr m
the citizens of Boston, tor the repeal of the Fugitive
Slave Law to the committee on the Judiciary.
Mr. Dixon proceeded to addrese the Senate on
the subject matter of tbe petition. The debate, 1
which became personal in its character, was eon- I
tinned by Mr. Mallory, Mr. Clay and Mr. Sumner, |
W ithout concluding the debate, the Senate ad- l
joarued. i
HOUSE.
Mr. Skelton introduced a bill for the better pre
servation of life and property from shipwreck oa
the coast of the United States. Referred to the
committee on commerce.
The House resumed the consideration of the bill
providing for a weekly mail service between the
Atlantic States and San Francisco. A conversation
ensued as to the effect of this bill on existing con
tracts.
Mr. Mace said the select committee on steamship
frauds will report next week. The Collins line
needs overhauling and a ci itical examination.—
Alter the report shall be submitted, the House
will have it in their power to curtail greatly the
expenses cf the Ocean Mail service, and afford
equal facilities to ihose which now exist between
New York end Liverpool and California at gieatiy
reduced rates. He was not prepared at this time
to saddle the Government with the additional ex
pense of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars
per year for a weekly service, when we are paying
almost twice as much for a semi-monthly mail.
Alter much discussion the bill was amended so
as to make it the dntpol the Postmaster General to
determine any contract to be made for the service
required, and to make a new contract therefor
whenever a greater expedition can be procured
within the provisions of the act expressed.
The main question on the passage of the bill was
then about to be put, which was strongly opposed,
and alter a contest of about an hour the bill was
laid aside and the House proceeded in commit
tec of the whole to consider the bill apDroprietiD?
ten millions of dollars to carry out the Gadsdeh
Treaty with Mexico.
Mr. Benton’s amendment, with all the other
amendments, were finally voted down, and the
Committee rose, and, under the operation of the
previona question, the bill was passed—yeas 108,
ibays 92.
The House shortly after adjourned.
IN SENATE ...June 29.
Mr. Fessenden presented a petition from New
Hampshire praying the repeal of the Fugitive
Slave Law, said that this petition was not open to
the objections of locality which bad bees urged
against the memorial of the men of Boston. It
came from a town whose population was abont
2,0C0, and was signed by over three hundred vo
ters, which he supposed comprised ail its voters.
Moreover, the town was Milton, the birthplace of
the President beferred.
The bill to establish a line of steamers between
California and Shanghae, via the Sandwich Islands
and Japan was taken np.
Mr. Seward explained and advocated the bill.
The Hcnse bill appropriating t10,00C,000 to ful
fil the Mexican treaty was received.
Mr. Hunter moved to take np the ten million
bill.
Mr. Shields demanded an Executive session
on that motion. Granted, and the doors were
closed.
At 4 o’clock the doors were opene- ... and lit .
Bayard objecting to the third reading ot the hill
to-day the Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr. Faulkner Enid the condition of the azmj at
this time requires prompt and effective legisla
tion. The President in his message, and the Sec
retary of War in his report have called attention
to the demands and necessities of this branch of
the public service. It is proposed to increase the
army by an additional regiment, but there are two
bills which the committee are ready to report
which aro of vital importance to the efficiency and
organization of the army, and which ought to be
passed at an early day. He was satisfied unless
there were additional inducements held out, asone
of the bills docs for enlistments, in tho course of a
very short time we will have no army at all to pro
tect our frontier settlement". Small as onr army
now is, thcro is at this time a demand for six thou
sand four hundred recruits, and they cannot be
had bacause tho pay will not induce any man to
enter the army. By desertion and expiration of
tho period ofenlistment, wo will soon be without
an army to protect our settlements. He moved
those bills be made the special order for the filth
of July.
Mr. Jonos, of Tennessee, objected. Let the
morning hour commence before anything further
is done.
Mr. Mace made a personal explanation. It was
due to himself and Mr. Kichardson. It s ems from
a telegraph despatch referred to Mr. Bichard
son yesterday, and published in the New York
Times, that his name is embodied in oonneotion
with the charge, that Mr. Kichardson, in his sub
stitute for the Senate’s Nebraska Bill, covertly
perpetrated a fraud on the House and country.—
Now, he had ibis to say, that so far as that de
spatch is concerned, and so far as he was person
ally conoerned, ho was responsible for no such
charge ; and in addition to that, it gave him plea
sure to state, that daring the contest on the pas
sage of the Nebraska and Kansas Bill, the course
of Mr. Kichardson was honorable. He, (Mr. Mace)
was incapable of charging the gentleman with any
thing like fraudiu incorporating in his substitute,
a provision to deceive the House or country.
Tho House resumed consideration of tho bill to
amend Hostage Lew.
This Bill washoretoforo introduced by Mr. Olds,
and provides that in lieu of tho rates of postago
now established by law, there shall be charged for
a single let'er conveyed any distance not exce;d
ing 8,000 milos, three cents; exceeding3ooo miles,
ten cents ; when conveyed wholly are in part by
sea and to or from a foreign country, for any dis
tance not exceeding 3000 miles, the ocean postage
thall*be five cents; for any distance exceeding
3,000 milos, oocan postage, ten oonts, excepting,
however, all cases where such postages have bcem
or shall bo adjusted at different rates, by postal
treaty or convention already concluded or here
after to be made. Double, treble, and quadruple
letters in proportion. Upon all letters passing
through or in the mail, cxceptinr such as aro from
a foreign country, the postagos as above specified
shall bo prepaid, und from and after first of Janua
ry next such prepayment shall bo by stamps. All
drop letters for delivery only, to be charged with
one cent each ; all advertised letters an additional
cent.
Mr. Olds o(fired an additional section that it
shall not be lawful for any postmaster or aDy other
persons to Bell post office stamps or envelopes for
more than appears on their face ; the offence to be
misdemeanor, subjecting tho offender to a fine not
ksa than ten nor more than five hundred dollars.
After the debate the bill thus amended was passed
—ayes 1(14, nays 55.
The House had heretofore designated the 14th
of August for a final adjournment, but the Senate
had substituted for this from July 17th to the 16th
of October. Mr. Orr now proposed to strike ail
that out, and substitute a sine die adjournm- m
the 81st of July.” He felt oonfident that the
House oould pass all the general appropriate■ hllV
by that time.
Mr. B-icock replied that there were othi -
than thoso which should first be passed, in ~.dit>g
the bills for reforms in tho Army an J Navy. Ho
had in charge a very important one connected
w.lh the last branch of the public Bervice, which
ho was extremely anxious should receive at least
two days of consideration.
Mr. Orr thoughtlhat the bills alludod to by the
gentleman might also bo considered il the House
would go earnestly to work. He did not believe
that gentlemen were serving tho country most
when they legislated most.
Mr. Disney was opposed to the agitation of the
question at this time, and moved that the subject
be referred to tho commiitoe on unfinished busi
ness, in order that they might inquire into the
Btate of the business, and report for the intel
ligent action ot the House.
Mr. Orr said that members have now been from
homo seven mouths—tho hot weather is cn them—
they are threatened with approaching disease, and
they may soon find themselves without a quorum.
They could come here next December and go right
to work.
Mr. Kichardson replied, if the House should ad
journ as early us the gentlemen desired, members
on coming back, would muko speeches instead of
attending to business as heretofore. He was in
favor of tho 14th of August, by which time nearly
all the business might be disposed of.
Mr. Ewing said that it the Houso waited to get
through with all the business they never would
adjourn. He preferred a sine die adjournment to
a recess which was a novel experiment He want
ed to loave the city to get som tiling to cat, und to
sleep at night. [Laughter.] H- was tired of going
to the dining room with a weak stomach and
smelling the odor, and was sick of getting up an
appetite by tonics.
The Houso rolused torofer tho resolution to the
committee on unfinished business. Yeas 47, nays
125.
Mr. Orr’s amendment was also disagreed to—
-1 ayes 80, nays 89.
Mr. Jonos, of Lonisinna, moved to lay the
L resolution on the table. NegutivoJ—aycs4B, nays
1 118.
' The House then refused concurrence in the
1 Seuaie amendment—ycss 7, nays li)s.
Tho House thus still adhere' to its original de
sign to adjourn on the 14th of August.
’ Thu Speako laid bcforo the liouso a message
* from Ibe I’resident, cuulosing tho note from the
1 British Minister on the subject of the health of
emigrants during their voyage from Europe to this
country. Mr. Crampton says he is instructed by
1 her Majesty’s Government to inquire of tho United
States Government whether uny Bteps can bo
i taken to procure more aconrste information re
• spooling tho causes to which diseases and death
' among the passengers on board emigrant ships are
to bo attributed. Retorted to the Committee on
foreign Atfairs.
Tho House then adjourned.
IN SENATE....* .June 30.
The chair laid before tho Senate a message from
the President transmitting certain correspondence
, respecting emigrant passenger vessels, being the
same document sent to the House yesterday.
Mr. Clayton’s resolution of yesterday calling for
information was reconsidered, because informa
tion has alroady been mode pnblic.
A motion to reconsider the vote by which the
, bill for relief of David Myerle was passed, a month
ago, was taken up, and it was agreed to—yeas 19,
, nays 17.
The bill was amended hy reducing the appropria
tion from SBO,OOO to 15,000, and passed.
The for adjourning on the 14th of
August wits returned by the Houeo, they having
disagreed to the Senate amendment for a recess
from July 17 to October lfi.
Mr. Gwinn moved that the Senate insist on iti
amendment—agreed to. A committee of confer
ence was ask-d.
Six other private billawcre p seed. Amongthem
one for tire relief of tho Utica Steam Woollen Com
pany.
Mr. Adams’ resolution, that hereafter tho Senate
shall meet daily at 8 o’clock, wae laid over
Mr. Badger moved that when the ccnate ad
journed to-morrow, it be to meet on Wednesday
next. Agreed to.
Tho Senate at 8 o’clock adjourned, no quorum
having been in attendance alter 1 o’clock.
Mr. Houston makes a personal explanation to
morrow-respecting his course ou the Neb.aska
bill. '
HOUSE.
Mr. Dickinson asked leave to offer a resolution
that the select committee ou Military ra. superin
tendent)- of the armories, be authorized to visit
Harpers Ferry and SpriDgfield for the purpose of
malting such examination as will enable them to
furnish information to the fulleet exten', before
final action ou the subject by congress. He said
the committee hai been examining into this ques
tion, and bad before them a great mass of testi
mony together with tho report ot the commission
ers appointed by the President, who sat at Spring
field lor three months la-t yea*. Tne testimony
however, is contradictory. Ho had recently viai
ted Springfield and he learned rnor in half a day
there thau be had within the last three months,
an t so it would be with the committee.
M*. Clingtnan eald he looked outlie whole con
trover*) as a bumccmbe hnnibng to justify the ab
sence of the committee from their dutiw*, there
fore he objected to the resolutkn
Various reports were male from committees, a*
mong them one by Mr. May from the committee
on ihe judiciary, authoiiz eg the President of the
United States to purchase a site for a prison
and to precure the estimate of cost of budding the
seme, in New York. It is intended for U. States
prisoners and sailors and others held as witnesses
for persons detained under extradition treaties, fu
gitives for service, etc. Referred to the commit
tee of the w hole on the state of the Union.
Mr. May also reported a bill for reorganizing the
judicial system ot the District of Columbia, and
reforming its laws.
The House ordered the appointment of a commit
tee of conference to confer with that of the Sen
ate on the disagreeing amendments to the resolu'
tion filing Ike dsy of the adjournment of Congress.
The House wetit first into committee ou the pri
vate calender and next on general appropriation
bill, but there being but little disposition to act iu
either case the commitl s roee at bait past two
o’clock and the Hoase adjourned.
Concord, June 29.—The New Hampshire Lcpa
iature again proceeded to bahot lor a l nilfed States
Senator to-day, but without sncce a. Hon. John
S. Wells, the regular democratic caucus nominee,
lacked six ot an election.
Singular —The Louisville Journal states, upon
the amboriiy of agentieman who arrived there
from Lexington, that the hair of Weigert, found
guilty of murder in the first degree, which was
formerly black, baa turned tekUe sinoe hie con- {
victiOD. i
Me 4. “
When, in the coarse of human events, it be
comes neceaflarv (hr neoplc to dissolve the po
litical them with
another, and to assume, among tb« powers of the
earthTthe sen-rate aad equal station to which the
lawsof natureand «?n*«re’s God entitle them,
a decent respect to the opinions of mankind re
quires thattbey ahonlddeclare ths causes which
men are createdeouai ; that they are endowed by
their creator with certain unalienable rights; that
among these, are life, liberty, »ad the pursuit of
happiness. toaccura these rights, govern
ments are instituted among men, deriving their
just powers from the consent of the E o ™™*'* ’
that whenever any form of government becomes
destructive of tklse ends, it is the right of the
people to alter or to abolish it, sod M lDS * lt J*
new government, laying its foundation on such
principles and organizing its powers in such form,
as to them moat uke *y
safety and happinere. Prudence, indeed, will dic
tate that governments long established, should not
be changed for light and transient causes I, and
all experience hath shown. tha man
kind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are
sufferable, thantoright theinaelvee by abolishing
the forms to which they are accustomed. But
when along train of abuses and usurpations, pur
suing invanably the same object, evinces a design
to rednee them wnder absolute despotism, it
is their right it is their duty to throw off
such government, and to provide new guards
for their future security. Much has been the
patient suffrance of these oolomes, and such
is now the necessity which constrains them
to alter their former systems of government. The
history of the present king of Great Britain is a
history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all
having, in directobjeet, the establishment of an
absolute tyranny over these States. To prove this
let facts be submitted to a candid world :
He has refused his assent to laws the most
wholsome and necessary for the public good.
He lias forbidden his Governors to pass laws of
immediate and pressing importance, unless sus
pended in their operation till hia assent should be
obtained ; and, whe > so suspended, he has utterly
neglected to attend to them.
He has reftised to pas* other laws forthe accom
modation of large districts of people, unless those
iioople would relinquish the right of representa
tion in the legislature; a right inestimable to them,
and formidable to tyrants only.
He has called together legislative bodies at places
unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the de
pository of their public records, for the sole pur
pose of fatiguing them into compliance with his
lie has dissolves repreacuiauve houses repeafc
ediv, for jiiiWuig with manly firmness, his u-.va
si'cii’- •#« ■ lOgMSSV She people
He's* MwesVtpre long tun- after ■wfcfffsse-’
iuti'.us, to cause others to bo r iveted; whereby the
legislative powers incapable ot annihilation, have
returned’to the people at large for their exercise ;
the State remaining, in the moan time, exposed to
all the danger of invasion from without, and con
vulsions within.
He has endeavored to prevent the population of
these States; for that purpose, obstructing the
laws for natrulizutiun ot foreigners; refusing to
pass others to encourage their migration hither,
and raising the conditions of new appropriations
of lands. _ ...
Hu has obstructed the administration of justice,
by refusing his assent to laws for establishing ju
diciary powers.
lie has made judges dependent ou his will alone,
for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and
payment of their sdarics.
He lias erected a multitude of new offices, and
sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people,
and eat out their substance.
He has kept amoag us, in times of peace, stand
ing armies, withoutthe consent of our legislature.
He has affected to render the military indepen
dent of, and super.or to, to the civil power.
He has combined, with others, to subject us to a
jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unac
knowledged by our laws; giving his assent to their
acts of pretended legislation :
For quartering large bodies of armed troops
among us:
For protecting them, by a mock trial from pun
ishment, for any murders which they should com
mit on tne inhabitants of these States.
For catting off our trade with all parts of the
world:
For imposing taxes on us without our oonßent:
For depriving us, in many cases, of the benefits
of trial by jury:
For transporting ns beyond seas to be tried for
pretended offences:
For abolishing the free system of English laws
in a neighboring province, establishing therein an
arbitrary government, and enlarging its bounda
ries, so as to render it at once an example and fit
instrument for introducing the same absolute rule
into these colonies:
For taking away our charters, abolishing our
most valuable laws, and altering, fundamentally,
the powers of onr governments:
For suspending our own legislatures, and de
claring themselves invested with power to legislate
for us in all eases whatsoever.
He has abdicated government here, by declaring
us out of his protection, and waging war against
ns.
Ho has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts,
burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our
people.
lie is, at this time, transporting large armies of
foreign mercenaries to complete tne wolks of death
desolation and tyranny, already begun, with cir
cumstances of crueltv and perfidy scarcely paral
leled in the most barbarous ages, and totally un
worthy the head of a civilized nation.
lie has constrained our fellow citizens, taken
captive on the liigh seas, to bear arms against their
country, to become the executioners of their
friends and brethren, or to fall thcmselvos by their
hands.
He las excited domestic insurrections amongst
us, and lias endeavored to bring on the innabitants
of our frontiers, the merciless Indian savages.
Whose known rule of warfare is an undistinquished
destraction of all ages, sexes, and conditions.
In every stage ot these oppressions, we have
petitioned for redress, in the most humble terms;
our repeated petitions have been answered only by
repeated injury. A prince, whose character is thus
marked by every act which mav Hefln« « tyrant, is
■.•blit, to bu Ui* i *.re vs a live people.
Nor have we been wanting in attention to our
■*[-*fiS*i 1 ehevr t *Vnm
time to time, 6?i.' - e!u, :* made by their iegisiuture
to .atml ,iu w m.r. .utablu jurisdiction over us.
We have reminded them of the circumstances of
our emigration and settlements here. Webaveap
pealed to their native justice and magnanimity,
and we have conjured them, by the ties of our
common kindred, to disavow these usurpations;
which would inevitably interrupt our connections
and correspondence. They, too, have been deaf to
the voice of justice and consanguinity. We must,
therefore, acquiesce in the necesaity, which de
nounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold
the rest of mankind, enemies ill war, in peace,
friends.
JOHN HANCOCK.
New Hampshire. George Taylor,
Josiah Bartlett, James Wilson,
William Whipple, Georgo Boss.
Matthew Thornton. Delaware.
Massachusetts Bay, Csesar Rodney,
Samuel Adams, - George Bead,
John Adams, Thomas M’Kean.
Robert Treat Paine, Maryland.
Elbridge Gerry. Samuel Chase,
Rhode Island. William Paea,
Stephen Hopkins, Thomas Stone,
William Ellery. Charles Carroll, of Car-
Connecticut. rollton.
Roger Sherman, Virginia.
Samuel Huntington, George Wythe,
William Williams, Richard Henry Lee,
Olver Wolcott. Thomas Jefferson,
New York. Benjamin Harrison,
William Floyd, Thomas Nelson, Jr.,
Philip Livingston, Francis Lightfoot Lee,
Francis Lewis, Carter Braxton.
Lewis Morris. North Carolina.
New Jereey. William Hooper,
Richard Stockton, Joseph Hewes,
John Witherspoon, John Penn.
Francis Ilopkiuson, South Carolina.
John Ilart, Edward Rutledge,
Abraham Clark. Thomas Heyward,'Jr.,
Pennsylvania. Thomas Lynch, Jr.,
Robert Morris, Arthur Middleton.
Benjamin Rush, Georgia.
Benjamin Franklin, Button Gwinnett,
John Morton, Lyman Hall.
George Clymer, George Walton.
James Smith,
From tree Athens Banner.
Honor* and Appointment* In Franklin College.
The following is a list of honorsawarded, and
appointments of the graduating class.
First Honor. —G. A. Bull, L&GraDge; J. B, Cam
ming, Augusta; J. H. Hull, Athens.
.Second Honor. —N. W. Long, Russoll Co., Ala.;
J. B. Cabiness, Forsyth.
Third Honor —K. D. Blackshear, Thomasville;
T. M. Daniel, Danielsville.
Fourth Honor. —E. N. Brown, Warrenton, Geo.
Appointments.—O. M. Banks, Enou, Ala.; M. A.
Candler, Carroll co.; W.J. Gorham, Hamilton; D.
E. B. Hamilton, CaseviDe; J. C. Henderson, Jef
ferson, Texas; T. G. Holt, Macon; W. F. Holt,
Macon; M L. Lenoir, Gwinnett co.; P. A. Philpot,
Corinth; G. 8. Btovall, Athens; T. W. Walker,
Green co., Ala.
The following have been selected by th« Faculty
to represent the Junior Class in the Commence-
ment exercises:
Beat writer in the Demoethenian Society, D.
Scott, Chattooga, co., Ga.
Beat writer in Phi Kappa Society, K K. Bose
man, Forsyth, Ga.
Best speaker in Demoethenian Society, J. A.
Stanly, La Grange, Geo.
Best speaker in Phi Kappa Society, E. 8. Law,
Savannah, Geo.
For Scholarship, Wm. A. Clark, Henry county,
Ala ; Audiey Maxwell, Athena, Goo.: George W.
Philpot, Corinth, Geo.: Alexander Atkinson,Cam
den 00. Geo.; Walter 8. Chisholm, Liberty county,
Geo ; Robt. McGoogh, Fortytb, Ga.
The following is a list of the Sophomore prize
Declaimera:
H. F. Andrews, Washington.
Win. M. Cbaae, Athens.
B. H. Crawford, Columbus.
W. O. Flemming,Savannah.
J. D. Garliugstou, Lawrens District, 8. C.
W. D. Gram, Walton county.
J. L. Hardee, Savannah.
C. T. Hart, Liberty oounty.
L. W. Holt, Macon.
Jehu Lamar, Macon.
J. R. Lyle, Athens
E. D. Newton, Athens.
J. Pon, Talboton.
J. H. Wilkins, Jefferson oonnty.
W. H. Wilkins, Jefferson county.
T*x Tube.— Tba New Fork Spirit of the Times
contains the following challenges by Mr. W. W.
Boyden :
American Horses Again vr Forxisn.—The un
dersigned will name two American bred horses
which be will run sgainst any two Foreip bred
hones at Thr«« and Four Mile Heats. The three
mile race he will bet *50,000 to *O,OOO. To make
a race, one or both of the matches may be taken,
and one half the amount of the sums proposedto
be deposited, as a forfed.wih Mills anrfCrome
line, Bankers, No. 50 Wall street. New York, on
or before ibe first day of April, 1855, st which
time the horses must all be Earned. sh .
To be run over the National Course, ue *JL
city of New York, on the and W«i
nesday in May, 1855, end to be governed by the
Rules of said Course.
Glbmooes Against Boroxa—The
will name four horses, the °f
which he will ran •£* inst TT at one
produce of ■»
race to be for *3,-
to be for »2,0 w, ice i* . ~ *a ,w) • *hm fAnr
0O0; the three mil. » Wj™, the four
raiier.ee to be for 9i,<M one half the
matchee must be all depoßited M
amount of the smt Bankers. No. 50
w W ‘ « vs-g o“«r before the first day
near tbo city of New York,
ss'a'rrt’-s- ”ste^ftas
Coune.
The Slate Shit Glamorgan.—lndietmentti have
been returned in the United States Ureut Court
against Caaper Kermer, Vi!!
gan," recently brought into this port from the
coast of Africa, and also against John McCormick,
tbs aste, charging them with being engaged in
the slave trade. The crew were not indited but
are held aa witnesses. The triata are assigned for
next week. Distriot Attorney B. F. Hallett for
government; J. JL Prinoe for uefenoe.— JSottvn |
WEEBXT *"
& JStntmtL
AUGUSTA.” GEORGIA.
WknaxaDAT MOBJTUB, JULY 6, IM4.
Tka fertile Cm DkMH.
The following Telegraphic despatch from Jaa.
L. Pimaac, Esq., to the Hon. A. J. Maun, was
received yesterday, announcing the decieionof
Judge Gilchrist in the Bridge case:
“Tne Injunction ia granted unconditionally.”
The effect of this decision will be to dose the
gate on the Carolina eide of tha river, which had
been authorized by the disgraceful action of her
Legislature.
The opposite party may appeal to the Supreme
Court of the United States, but we presame there
is littie prospect of that.
Found Dead.— On opening the First Presbyte
rian Church of this city Sunday morning for wor
ship, the existence of a very offensive odonr aa
from a dead body, induced a search of the premi
ses, when the body of a man in a state of decom
position was discovered under the boilding. Af
ter getting it out it was discovered to be the body
of Thomas Livxhman, e brick mason. A Jury of
Inquest was summoned and an investigation bald,
when it was ascertained that on Thursday he had
been at work near by, exposed to the heat of the
aun, and complaining of a severe pain in the head,
left his work and went into the grove aronnd the
Church to lie down in the shade, which was the
last seen of him till found Sunday morning. Tbs
Jury founds verdict in acoordanoewith the facta.
Thx Weather— We do not like to find fault
with this “ institution,” but really we must be per
mitted to observe that the heat for the lest few
days might have been slightly diminished without
detracting mnoa lrom public enjoyment. The
mercury during the greeter portion of yesterday
afternoon, stood at (8 degrees in the very ecoleet
shade , and even manifested a tendency to go
higher 1 But, ae this fluid went up, however, va
rious other “fluids" went down, and upon tha
Whole, the balance was tolerably preserved 1 We
shall, however, be pleased to note any abatement
of heat that may oeour, and hope to have that
pleasing duty to perform soon.
The Weather, Again!
Oob figures of yesterday did the weather of the
preoeding day a alight injustice in elevating tha
mercury to 98 instead of 94 degrees, ea wa wrote
it. Thermometers vary somewhat, aceordirg to
location, some marking as high as 100 degrees for
a few days past, though the avenge range through
out the city has been from 92 to 98 degrees. We
have thus far heard of no deaths from excessive
heat, in this section, bat our Northern exchanges
contain many aooounta of such caanaltiei. Great
oare and circumspection are neoesaary at this junc
ture, to ward off the effeots of the sun’s scorching
raye. A light and cooling diet, thin clothing,
avoidanco of too severe exercise, and great caution
ia tie uie of cold drinks when the system is overheated ,
are the most obvious precautions, to whioh we may
add, keep quiet and “shady” and take things gene
rally as calmly as possible. Do not add to the lever
of your blood by any undue excitement, end ferad
venture the hot spell will pass off in its own good
time leaving you “ a thinner and a wiser man”—
“scotched but not killed.”
The Charleston Courier, “enlarged and improv
ed,” reaches ns in a new and very tastefnl typo
graphical costume. We rejoice in thiß evidence of
tho success of onr contemporary, and wish it oon
tinued prosperity.
Death or an Editor.— The Borne Courier cornea
to db clad in mourning for the death of Mr. F. C.
Scott, one of its Editors and Proprietors.
The Southerner in noticing his death, remarks:
Ho adorned the relations of son, brother and
friend. A devout and sorupuloua professor of
Christianity, ha exhibited the excellencies of reli
gion in all his intercourse with others, esteeming
it his highest duty to poitn them to the Saviour by
precept and example. And although our young
friend had just attained his majority, our commu
nity feel that by his death they have sustained
more than an ordinary loss.
“So life but opens now, and now decays;
The cradle and the lomb,al •! so nigh,
To lire ii scarce distinguished from to die,”
Health ox Nashville. —The Banner of Tues
day tne 27'h inst., says There were 18 inter
ments in the City Cemetery during the 48 honrs
ending at 8 o’clock, P. M., yesterday. Os these
seven were of persons who had died of cholera.
The cholera subjects were interned Saturday af
ternoon and Snuday. Yesterday, np to 8 o’clock,
P. M., there had been no interment of a cholera
subject, but two graves were ordered. This is a
favorable indication of the subsidence of the dis
ease. The weather contiuuosclear and hot.
Health and Weather or Nashville. —The
Union of Tuesday the 27th inst., aaya:—There
were thirteen interments in the city cemetery for
the twodays ending at 8 o’clock yesterday, of
which seven were of cholera subjects; most of the
cholera oases having oaeurred on Saturday night
and Sunday merning. Weheardofbut one death
by obolera in the eity yesterday, up to 8 o’clock.
We are enjoying the hotteat weather known in
Nashville for ten years—the thermometer, on Sun
day, indicating 94 degrees in the shade, and 98
yesterday.
The Health or Nashville. —The Whig of Wed
neiday, says: The City Sexton reports eight inter
ments at the Cemetery for the 24 honrs ending at
BP. M. yesterday, of which only three were the
remains of persons who died of cholera.
Effect of the Hxat.— We noticed on Tuesday,
says the Newberry Sentinel, that the rails on the
Greenville & Columbia Bailroad had expanded
very much from the excessive heat. The vacant
spaces between them were cloeed up, and the rail
drawn up iu the form of an arch, five inches at
the highest point from the Btringer, at the same
time drawing out two spikes. The rails were so
hot that it waa like handling hot coals to touch
them. Wenoticed two other rails slightly arched.
The foreign papers Bay that Marshal de St. Ar
naud has scot bitter complaints to Marshal Var
iant, the Minister of War in Paris, of the conduce
of Prince Napoleon sinoe his arrival in the East.
He declares that the entourage and intimate frieDds
of the Prince, consisting, as they do of the most
violent of the refugees, may seriously embarrass
the commanders of tbe armies and disturb the
plan of tbe campaign. These complaints were, on
Saturday, the 8d inst., brought by Marshal Vaii
iaint before the Connoil of Ministers held at the
Palace of St. Cloud, when the Emperor author-
Izid Marshal Vaillant to say that if Prince Na
poleon’s presence was a real source of embanass
mont, he would be recalled.
Bank Dividends.— The Commercial Bank of
Columbia, 8. C., has declared a dividend of *1.35
per share, and the Bank of Hamburg, S. C., *4 per
share, for tbe six months ending on the Ist
proximo.
Singular Fruit.— Mr. I. D. Mordecal showed
ns, says tho South Carolinian, a large sized fruit,
perfectly formed, one section of which was a nec
taiino, the remainder beings peach, each portion
retaining the peculiar color and smell of the re
spective frnits.
The True National Democrat and Homing Star
—wbat a name—has been read out of TammaDy
Hall for its abuse of Irish Cstholios. It hss been
tbe free soil or soft shell organ of tbs democracy
of that city, and is published by C. C. Childs, one
of the sachems and formerly Treasurer of Tam
many Society.
A special Committee of New York Counoilmen
are about visiting Cincinnati for the purpose of
inspecting the practical operations of the Bteam
fire engines in use in that city.
The Late Indian Battles Lieut. Col. P. St.
George Cook, 2d Dragoons; Sd Lieut. David Bell,
2d Dragoons; 3d Lieut. Geo. B. Crosby, Mounted
Bifiemen; and Bergeanta C. H. McNally, John
Green and John Williams, of tbe same regiment,
are severally commended by the Secretary of War,
in an official order, for their gallant conduct in tbe
late engagements with Indiana in Texas and New
Mexico.
Few persona except foreigners appear to suffer
from sickness, either in Boston, New York, Phila
delphia or Baltimore. Os three fatal cates of
Asiatic cholera in New York last Monday, two
were Irish women end the third s German.
The Common Council of New York have appro
priated *3,800 to be expended in fire works, pow
der, <fec. r in honor of our national anniversary next
Tuesday.
The New York Herald, in one of its free and
easy leaders, remarks that the Southern Whigs
are in a position to command the balance of power,
and if they act accordingly “ may right the ship of
Btate, and defeat the conspirators against tbe
Union, North and South.”
Buicide on a Grave. —On Wednesday last, in
New York, An drew Goetz, a German committed
suicide by blowing out hia brains with a pistol.
About three weeks since he buried his wife, and a
short time previous hisonly child. This so preyed
upon bis mind that on Wednesday, while laboring
under abberation of mind, he went to Union
Cemetery, and after writing a letter to a relative,
destroyed his life while seated on the new-made
gra /e of his wife.
Tbs Noxthkbn Democracy. —ln the Maine Dem
ocratic State Convention on Wednesday Mr. W.
B. 8. Moor, the Chairman of the Committee on
Resolutions, said:
“ We came into power eighteen months ago with
an unprecedented majority in the Nation; and in
the State we bad a greet moral power, perhaps
teo much. Since then changes have come over
the aspect end the prospect of the D.-mocracy.
We have lost Maine, Rhode Island, Connecticut,
and it is merely s draw game in New Hampshire,
that ought to stand firm aa her granite hills.’
Stabtation. —A german family named Flap con
sisting of husband, wife and daughter, were found
wandering about tbe streeti of Jereey (Sty last
Thursday in a starving condition. They were
placed in charge of the Poor Masters. We see in
this circumstance one of the peculiarities of tbe
free States. The poor are free to starve.
Mercer University. —Tbe annuel commence
ment of this institution, takes place on tbe lest
Wednesday in July. The commencement oration
is to be delivered by the Hon. F. S. Bartow, of Pa
» ■ ■
Flora LTMWAr ; or Passages of an K>entM Life.
By Mrs. Moodib, author of “Mark Hardleatone,”
“Boughing it in the Bnsh,” <feo. New York:
Dewitt A Daves roRT. 1854.
The enterprising publishers have iaened this
very delightnl work from advsnoe sheets, ahead of
the European edition. Under the light veil of fic
tion, and eu assumed name, it i» in reality an auto
biography of that amiabla and exemplary woman,
our authoress herself. The thrilling passages in
her eventful lift, before starting for the new world.
It describes in a life-like and Interesting manner
the toenea that the passed through, and the char
acters that she met both before she left England,
end also while on e long and perilous passage
across the ooean. Though it bear? the stamp of
truth on every page, ezoeeda any work of fiction
we have ever read in enduring end ever-varying
interest.
In thia lineof trothful end simple description,
Mre. Moodie hie few equals, and the whole is en
livened by a vein of quiet humor that is really re
freshing. Thia work ends where her former work,
“ Boughing it in the Bash,” oommencea. As all
who have read the former will want this, we pre
dict an immense sale for thia book. Those who
have not road any of her works, do not know whet
e treat they have missed.
It may be obtained at the Bookstore of Geoxsx
A. Oates A Bxos.
Twenty Years in the Philippines. Translated
from the French of Paul P. De La Gironiere,
Chevalier of the Order of the Legion ot Honor.
With illustrations; New York : Harper & Bro
thers.—lßs4.
Monsieur Giboniebb wields e lively and graphic
pen, and the relation of his rna y wild adventures
among the savage tribes of the Philippines eaunot
bat interest and amuse all classes of readers. Uis
narrative is very naive and Bobinson Crusoe-taii,
and some parts of it, perhaps, betray too much of
the imaginative faculty so characteristic of hia
countrymen. Upon the whole, however, it may
be regarded as a very readable book, and‘well
adapted to dispel the mental lassitude and ennui
produced by the almost purgatorial heat of tbe
weather. Go and purchase it from McKinne A
Hall.
Leather Stocking and Silk; or Hunter John
Myera and his Times. A Story of the Valley hf
Virginia. New York. Harper A Brothers.
1864.
The title of this book forcibly recalls tho great
and original “Leather Stocking,” or “Hawk Eye,’
of Fbnnuiorx Cooper ; and the work is modelled
somewhat after the manner of that author. It is
a plain, rambling and unambitious tale, the scene
of which ia l id in the valley of Virginia at the
beginning of the present oectnry, and it abounds
in pleasant and amusing pioturei of frontier life
and adventure. The author’s name is not given,
but he ia evidently an Amorican, and familiar with
the persona tad ecenos whioh he desoribee.
For sale by MoKinnx A Hall.
Aubbet. By the author of “The Wilmingtons,”
“Ravenaoliff," Emilia Wyndbam,” Ao.
We have not yet found time to read this work,
but from our previous knowledge of the author
(or anthoroas) we should bo led to expect a tale of
no ordinary interest. A dull or prosy book never
emanated from the pen of the writer of “Emilia
Wyndham,” and we doubt not “Aubrey” is equal
to its predecessors.
It forms number 190 of Harper’s Library of Se
lect Novels, and may be found at the Bookstore of
MoKinnx & Hall.
Wealth or Atlanta. —The Atlanta Republican
learns from the Clerk of the City Couuoil, that the
assessments of taxable property for the present
year, In that place, are abont os follows :
Real Estate *1,800,000
Personal Estate 1,000,000
Real Estate, not taxable 415,000
“The above is not official, but is given os being
near the eorrect statement.
“Aocordiug to this the tax for tho present yoar,
will be about SIB,OOO.
“l’be assessments on real property and returns
last year, were about $1,100,000, which shows the
increase on real property above, in one year, is
about *700,000.”
Slttlehent or Kansas and Nerraska.— A cor
respondent of a New York paper, writing from
Kansas, says that emigrants are now pouring into
that territory from Missouri and Arkansas by thou
sands, and that at the last advices from the border
three thousand claims for pro emption had already
been staked off by them. They have organized
and resolved to proteot each ether’s claims until
the lands are surveyed and opened for entry, and
the writer adds that they are all eithor slave
owners or the friends of slavery. He adds tlia t
emigration to Nebraska, whioh is not as numerous
as this, is exclusively composed of Northerners.
The Gcano Trade.— There were loading at the
Chinoha Islands on the 28d May, one hundred and
five vessels, aggregating sixty-three thossnd and
eighty-five tone register. Os tho above number
t-venty-one were American (registering 18,898
tons), sixty-four English, four French, five Ham
burg, oue Bremen, two Dutoh, one Buboo, two
Swedish, two Danish, one Prussian, one Auatruin
and one Fernvian.
“Hot, intensely hot,” is tho ory of tho papers
reaching ua from all points. In New York, last
Tuesday, the mercury in the thermometer reaohod
90 degrees, in Philadelphia and Baltimore, 96;
Washington, 97, and Cincinnati, 98. On Wed
nesday the meroury stood at 95 degrees in Boston.
AnNIXATION OX AN ITALIAN PuIXCIFAUTT TO TIIK
United Statio.—A letter from Haris to the New
York Tribune, dated June 10th, states that the
Principality of Monaco, on tho shores of the Medi
terranean, between Nice and Genoa, with a popu
lation of 8,600 souls, and two small soaports, is a
candidate for admission into the Union of the
American States. It contains three cities, which
cover nearly all its area. They are Menton, the
largest, Roquobruno, and Monaco, tho lutter being
the oapital. The sovereignty of Monaco is vesled
in the Princes of that name; but from tho year
1814 until 1848 it has been under the protection of
Sardinia. In 1848, when all Europe was iu a state
of resolution, Menton and Boquebrune revolted,
and doelared themselves independent. Monaco,
the capital, being occupied by a Sardinian garri
son, remained faithful. The Sardinian Chamber
of Depuliee has recently prepared a project of law
to incorporate tho revolted cities and all the prin
cipality into the kingdom ae an integral part there
of, without any separate rights, aud it was proba
bly in view of this, that the Duke of Talentinois,
one of tho Princes of Monaco, made an attompt in
April to seise his hereditary possesions. He failed,
however, and both parties have appealed to tho
United States representives at Paris, to take pos
session of the territory. The Prince wishes to soli
ont to the United States his rights for the purpose
of raising money as he is in noedy circumstances,
while tho people of the principality wish to be
taken under the wing of the American Union, in
order to secure republican liberty, and the protec
tion of a powerful government. The United
States Secretary of Legation at Paris bus under
taken to investigate the matter. The souports aro
Baid to be good ones, and would prove vuluablo to
us, while tho territory is described as rich in mines
of silver, iron, meroury, Ac.
From 1840, up to 1848, the British cruisers on
the Atrican coast captured 594 Blavere, of wbicli
556 were condemned, and liberated 87,824 sieves.
The entire loss to those engaged in tho slave trade
caused by these captures is estimated at £80,240,-
000, or nearly $150,000,900.
Stocx Speculations —The New York Journal of
Commerce says that stock speculators in that mar
ket have been taught a lesson by the transactions
of the lasi few weoks. An enormous over-issue
of stocks shows that under the present system,
there is not the requisite security Against fraud.
Aud the defalcation of operators shows, also, that
when by shrewdness or good look, a speculator
has obtained a nominal profit, it may elude his
grasp at the lest moment. There was a time when
epetulatume, (to call those stock oporatbns by their
least offensive title,) were not considered within
the range of legitimate business, now, there are
fsw who have not shared in the general scramble
after gains of this sort. Unless the line between
a regular business or calling, and such reckless
pursuits becomes more marked, oredit will soon
be of little value.
The Hoi*. Jim A. Pbabcx. —Wo regret to
lesro, Beys the Netlouel Intelligencer, that this
Senator, who bed just left hie eick chamber to re
lurn to bie duties at the Capitol, has been called
home by the accounts he has received of the great
destruction to bis crops and house by one of the
most violent hailstorms on record. The destruc
tion was complete of more than two thousand
bushels of wheat, the entire orop of corn and oats,
and all the windows in his house end even the sash
itself were broken. This unfortunate incident will
necessarily detain him from hia Beat for several
days.
Health or Njshvills. —The Board of Heath
reporta seven deaths of cholera for the 24 hours
ending at 8, p. u. yesterday, (Wednesday,) five
in tbeoity and two in South Nashville.
Felix Koshtsoh,
Chairman, Board of Health.
Senses and Litibatcbe n* Amesioa. —Dr.
Pierre in his work just published entitled “A
Parisian Pastor’s Glance at America,” says:—
We went to the United States with some preju
dices, and one of them, which we doubtless shared
with many of our compatriots, was the opinion
which we had formed of the degree of literary
cultivation to be found among the Americans.
We were disposed to think, that a people so es
sentially commercially and manufacturing, had
but a low appreciation of scieuce and literature,
and that, with a few exceptions, they concentrated
their activity and energies on railroads, steam
boats, and india rubber. We think differently
now. The love of knowledge is widely diffused in
the United States.
During Commodore Perry’s late visit to Japan,
himself and suite were entertained at a feast by
the natives. Cooked worms, fried snakes, and a
variety of indigestible compounds wereserved np,
of which they were obliged to partake through
etiquette. Hereafter, a strong stomach may be
oonsidered as a high recommendation of our Ja
paneae diplomatists.
Cuolxba.— The St. Louis Intelligenoer says this
disease is rapidly disappearing from among the
patients at the CKy Hospital, only five or six cases
are at present remaining. There is, too, for the
season, an exceedingly limited number of patients
ot all classes. The total number of interments in
St. Louis for the week ending 19th inat., was 178,
only forty of which were of eitiaens.
b«
Washington correspondent of the Now York Cou
rier, generally reliable authority, a despatch bta
been reoeived from Mr. Gregg, onr Commissioner
at the Sandwioh Islands, that ths native govern
ment throws itself into the hands of the American
party for protection from Froneb,' English and
other foreign settlers. The Commissioner hta
been empowered to accept the Island foi the Uni
ted States, and assure the native government of
American protection.
A correspondent of the Boston Post, writing
from Honoluln, under date of March 88, gives the
following particulars of the annexation move
ment:
A native meeting was held last evening, for the
purpose of disoussing the subject of annexation ;
and speeches were made by Alexander Tiholio, the
heir apparent, G. P. Judd and many natives. Dr.
Judd spoke very strongly in favor of anuexing.
Alexander stated there had boon muoh said about
revolutions, but that be was not at all alarmed.—
This nation had treaties with the United Btates,
England and Krance, and certainly thero was no
fear of the independence of the nation being mo
lested by either of those nations. It was his wish
the nation should remain independent as long as
possible, and in his opinion it could maintain its
independence forsomo time to oome. Asst on aait
became evident to his mind that the nation must
sock a protectorate, tbon ho should hold up both
hands lor annexation to tho great republic, but his
object iu speaking wsb to assure the natives that
the island should not bo aunexed without their
consent, and to express the wish of the king, that
tho natives should discuss the subject fully, and
make up their minds as to what was best, beforo
called upon to aot. Most of the speeches were
against annexation at present, but all wero in fa
vor of annexing in tho event of the nation not be
ing able to maintain its independence. The
meeting adjourned to Tuesday evening next,
after passing a resolution to hold a meeting week
ly for the purpose of discueeing the eubject.
I have mentioned that thero is opposition to an
nexation among the foreigners. 1 should say that
there are very few foreigners opposed to it, and
only such as are iutlucnced by the English or
Frenoh consuls. Most of the English, French and
Germans aro iu favor of annexation, and in laot.
tho ex-oousulof Franco, Jules Dudoit, has placed
his name on the petition for annexation. M. For
tin, the present consul for France, says and does
all he oan to oppose annexation. He is much dis
satisfied with the presont government, and would
be pleased to see any change but annexation. He
thinks that tho United Staten, France, and En
f’land, should form a joint protectorate for the
elands to be governed under, eaoh government to
be represented in the eabinet.
Bioh Speech.— The Indianapolis Journal gives
in aeoeunt of the sneoch made in that olty recent
ly by a Mr. Robinson, who was thore as a delegate
to the Domocratio Convention. The speaker took
high grounds in favor of the Nebraska bill, proving
most conclusively that the Missouri compromise
was no compromise at all, and that its repeal was
no breach of faith. The Journal’s account of what
the speaker Baid on the whiskey question is rich,
uud wo append it*
“Now is the time,” says Mr. Robinson, “for the
Domoorats to take ground on this question. Shall
we now help whiskey, which has so long holped
us, or shull wo basely leave the Bold, and see our
friend guttered boforo our eyos I Shall we not
Btand together, must wo not stand togolher, Bines
none of us can stand alone! Shall our party bo
sundered by the cry of sobriety or tho fuuaticism
of deoeney f No I * Whon mv eyes shall be turned
fertile last timo to behold’ the glass iu Its rounds,
may they not see my friends distressed with dif
ferences and recklessly wasting, it msy bo, irater
nat whiskey 1 ‘May they not look upon a country
blasted with’ cultivation cursed with industry, and
the barrel that holds its glory bursted or caved in t
‘But, on tho contrary, may I see their banner, not
defiled with thoso words’ of delusion and so Iv :
‘What does ail this liquor do,’ but, blazoned on
all its folds, wherever it floats in the town or in
the country, thut sentiment dear to every Dotno
crat, Whiskey and Domocraoy, now, and lot ever,
and iuscparaDlo.’ ”
The St. Louis Inteltigenoor loams that on the
19th nit., four cases of cholora, all resulting fatally,
occurred at Adis' Sohool Bouse, about 14 miles
from Warsaw, Illinoii, in Boar Creek township.
The victims belonged to a oompany of emigrants,
on their way from Washington county, Ohio, to
lowa.
The Louisvillo Journal is informed that the
Cholera broke out wi'li great violence in Shophord
ville, Bullet county, Kentucky, on tho 22.1 ultimo.
Sixteen deaths occurred up to Saturday. Tho town
is almost deserted.
Cuolxha. —The Nashville Union says that three
fourths of the cholora deaths there havo tuken
plac t among persons who use spring water, while
those who coniine themselves to hydrent water,
and are otherwise prudent, have nearly all esouped
This, it says, is not mere theory, but a well de
monstrated faot.
HouticdltuualCuihosiiy. —Dr. L. Warrinor has
now in his garden at Warren, Mass., an apple tree
upon one limb of which is growing an apple five
inches in circumtorouco, and a branch of tho saute
limb is just In full blossom. No othor upplos are
growing upon the sumo treo, nor is any portion in
blossom.
Mission to Centkal Amlkioa. —Tho Washington
Star says that the Administration have detormin
ed not to fill this mission, on tho ground that in
the existing condition of Central America, it is not
only useless, bat a serious embarrassment to the
proper care of our intorosts in that quarter. The
plain meaning which wo understand to be that the
Administration thus disposes of Mr. Borland.—
'1 he Star furthor Bays thut the Central Amerioan
mission was Mr. Everett’s hobby. True, but Mr.
Everett nor no othor man oat an usylum, except
the present Administration, ever thought of send
ing suoh a creature ns Solon Borland.
Death of a Millionaikk.— ’Tho Columbia (Pa.)
Spy, soys Dr. Peter tihoenberger, one of the
wealthiest men of the State, died at the residence
of his son at Marietta, on Sunday last, in the
seventy second year of his ugo. Ho has been long
known ns “tho king” iron-master, and Ida proper
ty is estimated to bo wor h over five millious.
Tin Eoarcino or an American Packet iit a
British Wah Steamer. —('apt. Alton, ot the ship
Miuesota, arrived at New York from Liverpool,
reports tliat on the 25th ot May, in lat. 58, lon. 10,
his vessel was boarded by an offleor from the
British steamship Gladiator, who demanded an
examination of her papers. Captain Allen asked
what authori’y ho had for making such a demand,
but the officer gave no satislaclory auswer. The
following is Captain Allen’s roport:
At 11 A. M., May 25th, lut. 58, lon. 10, saw 11. B.
M. steumsbip Gladiator, which tired two guns tor
us to hoave too—the steamer then run near us and
sent a boat on board and ordered the ship to be
hove tooimuiediatuly. Also demanding the ship’s
papers, Cupt. Alien inquired of the officer in
charge of the bout by what authority ho demanded
tium? The officer’s reply was, by the orders of
his government, and stated to Cupt. A. that it was
an unpleasant duty for him, but was imperative.
The papers wore produced and exuminoa, an 1
tiler an hour’s delay, the vessel was allowed to
prooeed.
The N. Y. Expross was informed by the Ist offi
cer of tho M. that the midshipman in churgo of the
boat alongside, stated to him, that had not tho
ship been hove to, after firing the second gun,
shots would have been fired to compel her.
Tie cholera has appeared at Bowling Green,
Ky., and a number of doa; hs have occured there
from. It is stated that many chitons have left the
plueo, and others are leaviug.
Minnesota Territory, according to the Bt. An
thony Democrat, is estimated tocoulain at present
a population of 25,000 inhabitants. In the year
185 U the United Blutes census showed the popula
tion to bo 6,088. Too increase this year will be,
it is thought, about 10,000, but it seems highly
probable thut the Nebraska fever, which is now
raging in ail parts es northern Btates, will detract
considerably from this total.
«.—,
The Tennessee and Alabama road has rooeived
iron enough to lay down the rai Is for 80 miles out
from Nashville as fur as Spring Hill, and will have
it completed that fur by fall.
Hhalts or Nashville.— During the 24 hours,
ending ut 3 o’clock F. M. Saturday the 21th lust.,
there were sevon interments at the city burial
ground, six of which were of cholera.
The total number of miles of railroad in opera
tion in the Btato of Connecticut is 55 I; in process
of construction, 186. Tho whole capital stock is
$25,605,000, ot which $16,002,827 have been paid
in. The cost of roads has been $25,441,788; gross
earnings, $3,288,864; expenditure for working,
$723,867 ; dividends, $653,111; debt, 88,037,888;
number of miles run by all the trains, 2,092,045;
number of passengers, 8,202,000 ; tons of mer
chandise transported, 670,741 ; average whole
cost of operating the roads for each mile, 82
cents; average earnings per mile for each milo
run, $1.67.
The atoomboat season Just aboutclosing on the
Ohio river, is reported to have been the most pro
fitable ever known. A writer in the Cincinnati
Commercial, who appears to be perfectly conver
sant with Ihe facts, declares that no boat win be
named, nn’.ees she lias met with some extraordi
nary ill-luck, that has not coined money. The
packets, in spite of tho great railroad opposition
have carried more passengers than ever travelled
on the river before. The amount of wood con
sumed during a year’s running by the Cinoinnsti
boate, is estimated at 165,000 cords, wbiob at $5
per coid would amount to $822,000, and tbiaina
region of country where less than half a century
ago all thecommeroe was transported in wagons,
or on flat and keel boats. Our railroads will soon
tap tho very heart of Western commeroe, and turn
the tide of a fair share of the business in this
diaectioD.
The great tubular iron bridge over the St. Law
rence, at Montreal, has been commenced. Fifteen
hundred workmen are to be employed on it this
summer.
A fellow named Barken was last week caught iu
the act of running ofi‘ with bis neighbor’s wife and
borse, near Nachitoehes, Looisiana. The jury—
mostly old bachelors—dismissed him on the wo
man, but nold him on the horse.
How TO OET THE BEAL FIAVOB OF CoFFEE. —In
Knighton’s “Forest life in Ceylon,” are the follow
ing hints on the preparation of coffee, derived
from long experience: The subtle aroma wbioi.
resides in the esscntail oil of the coffee-berry, is
gradually dissipated after roasting, and of course
still mere after being ground. In order to enjoy
the full flavor in perfection, the berry should pass
at once from the roasting pan to the mill, and
thence to the coffee pot; and again, after having
been made, »hould be mixed when almost at a boil
ing hea', with the hot milk. It must be very bad
coffee indeed, which, if these precautions be taken,
will not afford an agreeable and exhilarating drmE.
Two great evils are constantly perpetrated in En
gland in its preparation, which ars more .
against in almost all other t “ on , lr '^^i^ping
materially impair its flavor andstrength Pg
the coffee aconsiderable time roAstiug g
by which its strength is dlmintohod, snff Ms deli
cste snd volstile sroms lost, snd mixing the milk
with it alter it has been allowed partially to 0001.
Hydrophobia Cubed st Vinioaju- A letter from
Vemoe says; “If you were here, you would be
muoh pleased with the discovery made at Udine,
the oapital of Fiuli, a small province belonging to
this republic. The diaoovery is Ibis: A poor
man, lying under the frighttul tortures of tbe
hydrophobia, was cured by draughts of vinegar,
given him by mistake instead of another potion.
A physician of Psdns, called Count Leomses, got
intelligence of this event it Udine, end tried the
same remedy upon a patient that was brought to
Padna hospital, administering to him a pound of
Mnegar in the morning, another st noon, and e
third at sunset, and the man woe speedily and
perfectly enred.”
MvNUFACTURES OF MASSACHUSETTS— The value of
the various kinds of Dry Goods manufactured in
Massachusetts, during the year ending April let,
1645, was a» follows :
Plain Cotton G00d5......... 118,198,440
Printed do 4,776,817
Woollen Goods 8,877,488
W orated Goode 654,566
Carpeting 884,828
Hosiery and Yarn #4,802
Flax 685
Sewing Silk 150,477
r rings and Tassels 54,800
To »«l $27,689,#68
~ table contained in an abstract of the
United States Census of 1850, states that the vslno
of tho entire products per annum .of the mauu
faotnro of Cotton Goods in Mass, was. ,$1»,712,461
Woolleu Goods 12,77<>,2#5
Total $82,488,088
This does not includes!! the articles enumerated
above; had these been included, the increase
would hsve been considerably larger, and it is
very probable that the value of the cotton, wool
ion and worsted goods manufactured in the State
at the presont time, in view of tbe enhanced value
of raw material ami labor, would be found not to
vary muoh from $40,000 per ann"m. The manu
facture of carpeting has increased wonderfully
within the last few years, as have also the manu
facture of shawls, principally the Bay State Shawls,
which now amounts to about two and a half mil
lions annually, aud tbe manufacture of duck,
whioh will not fall far short of two millions more.
Coffee.—Asparagus is waxing potent enough to
threaten a usurpation of breakfastdom. Hear what
experimental philosophy pronounces on the com
ing revolution:
“ Liebig (the illustrious German Chemist) says
that asparagus eoutaius, in common with tea and a
coffee, a principle whioh he calls 1 tuurino,’ and '
which he considers essential to the health of those
who do not take strong exercise. Taking the hint
from Baron Liobig, a writer in the Londtra Gar
dener’s Chronicle, was led to test asparagus ss a
-for coffee. Ho says: Tho young shoots «
1 first propared were not agreeable, having an
alkaline tasto. 1 then tiled tilo lipo soed», th, so
roasted and ground make a full flavored coffee, not
easily distinguished from fine Mooha. The roods . ‘
aro oasily freed from the berries by drying them
iu a ovon, and thon rubbing them on a sieve. In <
f:ood soils asparagus yields seeds abundantly; ami
f they aro charged with ‘taurine,’ and Identical
with seeds ot tho coffoo plant, asparagus coffee
may he grown in tho United States at lose than
half the oost per pound of tho article now so
largely imported.”
Lord Palmerston lias addressed a letter to the
Secretary of the Privy Council Committee on Kda
oatiou, culling attention to the subject of pontnan-
Bhip taught in tho Goverumont schools. Ha com
plains that in somo cases, it is too Bmall, and others
formed by altornato thick and fino strokes, so aato
be dilileult to road. Ho recommends a return to
the stylo of tho oarly part apd middle ollaatoen-
tury. i
A Cajxof Soabx.—Tho Cleveland lloralds tolls
tho following good story about one of thoso trou
blesome little imps of brightness that scatter sun
shine and musio through many a household. It
will do to loealizo almost any whero:
A friend of ours has an ‘equal, undivided inter
est’ in a charming pieoo of personal property, a «
brigh eyod intelligent little girl, of flvo enmmo r’
experience, who rejoices in the name of ‘Alioo.’
In the family Isa servant girl whose horror is rale,
and who, ohuncinc on one of the long-tailed anl
msls in the cellar, makes a most un-Chinote stam
pede, shouting ‘rats.’
‘Alico, sloopi iu a crib so low, that placing one
foot on tho inside of it, she can easily spring in.
A few evenings hince her mother was attending
her to bod wlion she su’d Mamma do you
knowhow I got to bed quick J’ ‘No,’ was ronly .
‘Well,’ said Alice, in groat glee, ‘I step ono foot
over tho crib, and then I say rati, and scare myself '*
right iu!’ ll‘any five your olds’cun bout that trot :
em out.’
Commerce anp Manufactures of Boston.— The
Best: n Atlas of lhoz7th lust.contains u» eleborato
article on tho oommoroo and manufactures of
Boston and vicinity, from which wo make the fol
lowing extracts;
Tho commerce of Boston, imports and rovonno,
at two periods, 1840 and 1858, is shown as fellows:
1840.
Imports in American vosrels $18,517,081
Imports in Foreign vessels 805,227
Revonne iu Amoricau vossols 8,864,608
Revenue in Foreign vo-sels 82,417 *»-
1868. .. Art
Imports in American vossols $26,177,820
Imports in Foreign vessels 17,140,059
Revenue in American vessels 4,589,800 fjj
Revet) oo in Foreign vassals 8,178,488 ■ ?£&
111 tho first quarter of tho presort year tho In -
crease of duties from the corresponding quartorof
1858 was $878,881, ornenrly 20 per cent.
The groat increase of importation in foreign vos
sels of courso is muinly attributable to tho estab
lishmen of thoCunurd line of Htrnmors between
this port and Liverpool.
Itisstatod that the Secretary of Ibe Treasury ;
has thoroughly examined tho aocouuls of the lion.
T. Butler King, formerly Colleator of tho port of
San Francisco, and that tho disputed points have
been deoided in Mr. King's favor.
Fur tks Chronic's A Smlitul
Public Meeting in Hart County.
' “A few malcontents,” (?) “a low loctionlata,"
1 (?) “a few senseless rebels,” (?) “a miserable
squad,” (?) “a small mob,” (?) as thoso who
live on Iho “soil in proximity to tho Savannah
River" are wont to call us, met at the Centre
of the World June 84th, called Job Bowors,
1 Esq. to the Chair, and Ur. J. E. llonc'orson to
i act aB Secretary. The object ol tho mooting was
i stated by Wm. T. O. Cook. On motion, the Dis
-1 trict Committees were requested to present the
1 names of the assignees to the resolutions adopted
on tho 27th ult., to Neal Johnson, J. Hi Skelton,
and J. A. Bowers, to be oxuwined. Jas. E. Hen
derson, J. H. Skelton, J. A. Bowors, L. W. Rico
and B. A. Teasley, were appointed to drall Home
further resolutions. Mr. Thomas, Esq., was then
called for to address the “miserable squad,” (?)
which he did in a gontlemanly style.
Tho committee appointed to report matter for
the action of tho meeting, think proper to report
only tho following fasts : Wo And that 463 legal
voters of Hart county havo signed the resolutions
adopted on 27th May last, not counting those
names obtained by several of tho committee men,
and not roportod here to-day. We further find,
that at tho last county election, 758 votes were
polled ; taking thie for a basis, a majority ot 167
voters have sustained onr action,.and condemned
tho action of the Court as unjust, ill-ad visod, and
destructive to the permanent interest of the county.
Wo further locommcnd tho adoption of the fol
lowing resolutions, (which woroadopted:)
1. Resolved, That wo apnrovo tho resolutions
adopted at the meeting on 27th May last, and are
roaolved not to bo turned Irum our purpose oitlier
by abusive langcuge or the forum of unjust and
despotic power.
2. Resolved, That tho Committeo appointed at
the last meeting are hereby requested to continue
tboir exertions to procure signatures to the resolu
tions passed ut said meeting, and that llio Execu
tive Committee be empowered to fill any vacancy
that may occur in any of said-Uistrict Committees. ‘
8. Resolved, That Beverly A. Teas'.o), Joplha A.
Bowers, Leonard W. Rice, John H. Skelton, and
Ur. Jas. E Henderson, bound are hereby appoint
ed an Executive Committee to call meetings and
munrgo generally the causo wo have iu band.
4. Resolved, That wo highly approve the con
duct of Daniel M. Johnson, who offers to rcaigu
bis seat at any time whon the other Justices will
do so, and thereby give tbo people an opportunity
to be heard in a new eiootion.
5. Resolved, That tho Secretary forward a oopy
of tho proceedings and resolutiona for publication
to the Chronicio <fc Sentinel, Constitutionalist <te
Republic, Augusta, Oa.; Southern Banner. Athens,
Gu., and Southern Righ<B Advocate, Anaerson C.
H., 8. C.
6. Resolved, That we tender onr hearty thanks
to Mr. Thomas, Esq., for his services.
Jos Bowers, Esq , Ch’mo.
Ur. Jas.E. Henderson, Sec’y.
Ne«bo Votimi.—On Wednesday lost, the Con
necticut House of Representatives, by a vote ot
118 to 78 (81 not voting) passed a resolution to
amend the State Constitution i.o as to allow negroes
to vote, on the same terms as white men. Also,
(1( Bto 80) an amendment to prohibit any person
from voting who oannot read. Thoso proposed
amendments were then ordored to be continued J
to the next Legislature, and published with the *
laws.
The Connecticut Legislature are driving a large
business this session, either for good or evil.
They have elected cno regular built Abolitionist
to the U. 8. Senate—passed a Nullification reso
lution—strings of Auti Nebraska resolutions—a
stringent prohibitory liquor law, and done what
thty could towards amending tbs Constitution so
as to permit negroes to vote, snd prohibit [many]
whites from voting. Other things they have
doubtless done, one of which, we now recollect, is,
to authorize the Speaker to invito colored preach
ers to open the sittings of the House with prayer,
in common with white clergymen. In point of
fact, we believe the Speaker has not done this;
but why not? Wily this “ungodly prejudice
against color I—N. Y. Journal Ommerer.
Cuba aw rrs Wealth.—Cuba at this time, com
prises a population of about 1,400,000. Os this
aggregate 800.000 are black, 800,000 of them being
slaves, the balance free and comparatively a nuis
ance. The whole island contains an area of <2,000
square miles—equal to moretbau 20,000,000 scree,
every three of which are oapable, with proper cul
tivation, of producing one hogshead of sugar an
nually. In 1848 theexportEof Cuba amounted to
$26,000,000, and her imports to $26.000,OoO: she
yielded s reveune of $18,000,000, and the property
of tho island was estimated at the value of SBOO,-
000,000. Aod yet but about one-fifth of the island
was supposed to be under cultivation.— Albany
Sceninp Allas.
Nbmseb of Slates in the Would.— Tho Afri
can Institute at Faria, an association for the diffu
sion of civilization and Christian light in Africa,
has recently issued a circular, in which the num
ber of biaoks held in slavery in different countries,
is seven and a half millions, of which 8,095,000
are in the United Slates, 8,250,000 in Brazil. ?00,-
000 in the Spanieh oo.onies, 85,000 iu Holland
colonies, 140,000 in the republics of Central Ame
rica, and 89,000 in European establishments tn
Africa.
A®S^55S335
M ahKi*hslf past three, an effeot was made to
up m 86 Segrees, wkioh iu not quite euc
<**At"ikaoon, Ge., on Monday, the thermometer
mined the even 100 degreee, and kept it fbi sever
il hours. At <% F. M, in the sanctum of the
Georgia Citizeo, it also stood at ICO degree#—a
delightful temperature, no donbt, for editors and M
salamanders, who are ezpeoted to be used to such
things. At t, A. M„ on Tuesday, the raigo was
91 degrees there. A very fair start for a good
days work.— Charleston (Jourisr.
New Yoee, June 27.—ihe weather is very op
pressive, the thermometer ranging from 24 to 96, - f