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EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE, i
The B»Ulc’. sr«w«- 8
The following telegraphic report of «be new! by c
tht»U*mer B.ltic we copy fromibeßaltimore a- f
try t. ltwiliberee n th»ubore.«mocbrep.tit.on t
.td conflict in tie h J
owing to tbe vanaoa eoorcee tbrooph wb.ch the
Enrich journals received the newt. of tbe eeverol ,
' , , h .„ O .ttacke l end captured s
Toe «*y rentier tbe Ka-ai.na with t
!. f" on bJh e.de«. The allies are ea.d
f hit, In-t ten then-and killed and wounded, 1
*' “„ 0 Koeeiana not less than eighteen thousand v
fir-' grand battle took place od the 22d nit.,
W an fort Constantine was destroyed, and other f
farts with two hundred were taken. St* vessels
o’- he Kas-ian fleet were sunk and many lives , ;
secotant says that Menschikrff. after fight
ing retired to Bat tain bay with the remainder of
his forces, declaring that he would burn thecity if j
an attempt was made to capture them. The allies, j
however, gave him six hoars to surrender, ana
the latest rumor was that he had surrendered.
Tne Ra-atana resisted the attack manfully, but «
were finally annihilated. .„ , ~ .
Another account Bays the fall of Sebastopol took
place on the 26. h. That there were 60,000 Ru
ssian* engaged in the battle ol A’ma. They were
defeated by the allies and forced to retreat on
Sebastopol. The allied forces occupied the height*
and three English steamers protected the passage
of the Aima dun* g the battle. The assault upon
Sebaalopol so! owed on the 22d, and the ba’tie
three days, during which the slaughter was
frightful. „ ,
1 hr. gtrrieon, it is said, were offered permission
to retreat, bat preferred to remain prisoners ot
less at the battle of Alma wa* reported at
6,000 French and English, 2,<KO Turks and 6,000
Ru-wian*. Marshal Ht. Arnaud and Lord Raglan
commanded personally.
Three batteries were stormed.
A despatch wan said to have been received by
Gor’rchaktff, confirming the surrender cf Men
achikotf.
The Russians have been forbidden to export
corn to Austria.
The first news of the fall of Bebastopoi was
braught by a Tartar who arrived at Bucharest.—
Considerable donbt, however, wan c-mt upon hie
account, hot the French Government are said to
have received confirmatory advtcea of the affair
from M- de Ban). ,
The Turkish Ambaaaadore at V ienna also te e
graphed. The Turkish Ambassador at L' nd in
oonflrme previous acoonnts. Fall detaila, how
ever, are wanting, an«t the telegraph deapatchee
are somewhat coufi cting. The news, however,
ha-1 caused the wildcat excitement all over Europe.
French arid Kngliah fnuda ailvaucod under It.
The French squadron would again join Admiral
to attack the Russians at
Another despatch atatea that the battle waa
fooght at Alma, which lasted four hour*, in which
the French lout 1400; E .gliah loss not stated.
Prince Napoleon had three horse* killed under
him. Gen. Thomaa was killed and Gen. Cauro
bert badly wounded. .
The allies In the Baltic wore preparing to stuck
Bevel and Cronaladl.
Affaire in Franco and England were tranqnd,
aioeot. great rejoicings over the fall of Bcbaat- pol.
Austria and FruHnia renmiuH a* bofore, mam
U'.ningtbo iWBil attitude towards Russia aud the
A 'l”’ Baltic left x-iverpooi at 8 o’clock on the
morning of the 4h with 222 passengers On the
I2'h ofl Cape K-ice, apoke und waa boarded by the
British schooner John Clemons, cruising for the
nba-ing boat*, -Sos the Arctic, and learn, from
her the particulars of the catastrophe.
The Alrica arrived out on the morning of the
Ist Inal. The aleamer Brandon arrived out on the
Sd The 0. 8. steamer Han Jacinto put back to South
amp ton with her machinery damaged, having off
Faxel broke one i f the fans of her screw, and
would be detained for repair- five or six weekß.
Capture or Sebastopol.
Eight hour" ft'or the departn-oof the Europe,
Official news was iceeived of the groat battle ot
Alma rivi r, In the Crimea.
Ou the 21st nit., the allies stormod the Russian
embankments after four be urs' fighting. lathis
battle the anglo French lost 2 800 killed and
wounded, and the Russians Inst. 6,0C0.
Private despatches supply tho rest of the pews,
via: That ths Risslans, nndet Menscikoff, person
ally rallied -in ihe river Kubscha, on the 28J, and
again gave battle to tho allies, hut wore again de
feated and diivon to the eutrouohmenU behind
Beh*a! opol.
They again rallied, liowevnr, and fought the
third battle, and were a third time dsfonted, and
fled into Sebastopol, which waa beioaguered by
laud at d sea.
>\ rt Constantine blow up, and the other forts
were stormod. Tho Kussisn fleet was f.nrned,
and the ships sink. The Russians lost If,ooo kill
ed and won mind and 22,000 of the garrison capit
ulated und wore made priamirrs.
Mennchikclf, with the ah uerc.l remains of his
army, wore barricaded in the inner harbor, and re
fused to surrender. Six hours hud boon allowed
him, and It is reported, but not officially, that ho
had surrendered.
On the 25th, Fort Constantine was invested by
sea and laud, and, after an obstinate defence, was
carried by storm. Tho allies then bombardod tho
city and fleet, and teu Ilunatan ships-of the-line
wore burnt and sunk. Tho remaining forto wore
carried, ono after the other, ann 800 gunß wore
silui cod, and 22,000 prisoners taken.
Tho Russian loss in dead and wounded is esti
mated at uot less than B,HOO in Sebastopol.
A later despatch says that Mouscikoff had sur
rendered, and that tho British and Fronch flags
Wavo over Sebastopol,
The entrenched comp of the Russians on the
heights of Alma contained 50,000 men, and nu
merous cavalry and artillery, and was carried at
tho point of bayouct after four hours hard fighting.
No general officer of the British force wus
wounded.
Marshal St. Aruand and Genoral Raglan com
manded in perron. General Thomaason, a French
officer, la thought to have been fatally wounded.
Uan. Canrobert was wounded in the shonldor.
The eooond engagement on tho plains of Kulantai
lasted several bouis; and wus very sanguinary.
It endod in the total defeat of tho Russians, who
were pursued to tho entrenchment bofore Sobas
*°fn!e despatches state that tho garrison ofSobas
topol were < ff -rod free withdrawal, but surren
dertd bk prisoners ot w«r.
The di«patcbo» wero very conflicting. One
dated B rlin 3 i, saya that telegraphic despatches
had beau received there direct froinSt. Fetersburg
to tbe fitfdct that MuuechikriT has telegraphed,
undor date of Bopt, 25, that he had withdrawn his
troops unmolested from before Sebastopol towards
Buhstihi Serui, and that he will there awnit roin
foroemontH, and adds that Sebastopol had not been
attacked up to tho 26th.
The Russian accounts do not conceal the facts
of severe rovorsu* in tho Crimea. BoapaUsbee
from Berlin to the 29ih say that the return of the
French fleet from the Ba t*o bos been commanded.
A djNpmch dated Kiol, Oct. 2d, states that tho
fle«t had bill that harbor to join Nup ; er iu the
Baltic. Napier was before liovel on the 23d ult.
Another account states that two Rasaian ships
of war were aunk with many on board. Also that
the allies captured over one thoueaud of the
enemy’s guns.
The vury latest account from Vienna by tele
graph states that the city of Sebastopol w»a iu
flames, and in all probability had been reduced to
mahes, sacrificing many lives.
LrvxarooL, 001. 4—Messrs. B rrt wn A Shipley re
port oolleti as having advanced The salon of
the three Jays had been but |O,tHH) bales; the ad
vanco being to consequence of the unfavorable re
port of the growing crops aud the victories in tho
Crimea. „ . _
B’-Mdttufs.—R x'hardson reports Breadstnffs
quiet For retail g >od waa firm, and inferior a
tnflo oanier. Corn— MoMscken quotes corn ad
vane- 11s; tho quotations n«vmr B#.-*. Western ca
nal flour is quoted at 81s, aud Ohio at 84*.
by lt>Ugrraph.
A despatch Irotn Bucharest, dated the #oth nit.,
states that it is again aborted that 60,000 Russians
were in Drobudscba, under Gen. Ludors, aud were
oouALantly r ceiving reinforcements.
Omer I‘asha waa ouly waiting St. Arnaud’s or
dern to atlnck Bessarabia.
All the arrangements in the Turkish army indi
cate an intention for a winter campaign.
The R iHsinns are concentrated in tho nighbor
hooJ of Ismail.
The details o the Sebastopol news wits not ex
peo'.e 1 by the British government before the 6th
inatant.
The Turks wore hastening through Bulgaria by
forced marches, tor the sea coast.
The Austrian Ambassador at Paris had called on
Drouyu L>e L Hu>e to express the satisfaction of
his government at the encoess of the allied armies.
Ti e St pctcraburgh Journal publishes a decree
forbidding iht export of o\>rn.
There was gr at rejoicing throughout England
and France over the victory at Sebastopol.
Au attack cu Constadt ig now seriously menaced.
frr+n th* yat.onal Initllige^c^r.
The ArpoTtcd t'apipre #f bcuwtlopol.
Oar Foreign Correspvmdenco does no*- assure us
cf the capt re ot Sebv*topol. All that is otT.cially
knowu is, that on ti e*'ih of B«ritoni berth© Ang'o-
French arm> eno unUired the Ruaeian forces on
tbe River Alma, aud carried tr.eir entrenchments,
after a severe struggle, at the point ofthe bayouet.
The Ic*s ou tbe nart o! tbe Allies was abcut iwen- j
tv eight bundred men, equally divided between ,
the French aud Ecgtisb. i’be Russian loaa jsre
ported to be much winter.
The following are the official telegraphic de- |
•patches auuonnci g ibis sanguinary exploit:
FK>*n iht Co*r%:namilt r of ih< French Forets.
“Bivovaci on tub Auia, 20, JSS4. !
“We bav© to-day on<\>nntere<t tbeeuemy on the
Alma, lie occupie i wub considerahlo foreea the ;
ravine through wb.ch the river rune, and which is !
tb ckiy wooded, cut up by houaos,/.raversable ou
lv at tnree points; and the heights ou the ieit hav
ing a wry steep declivity, the force* were solidly !
•Direuched aud cove ad with artillery, foe aibed |
advanced upon tbeaed flicuit poaitiona with
unprocedeut4.d vigor. It is to the cry of ive
rEmpcreur* that our soldiers have carried those
which were in tbeir front. The b*t: ! e of Alma
lasted four hour**; it is a splendid debut for our
arms. The French troops have had 1,400 ujen
killed and wounded I do not yes kuow the losses
of tbe Eoglieh army, which has valiantly fought in
presence ot an obstinate resistance.
“Saint Arnacd.”
From the Commander oj the British Forces.
“Bxvouacx o* the Alma, Sept, gj, Jss4.
“The allied armies >e*terdav attacked the voli
tion of the enemy on the helots above the Alma
and carried it, after a desperate battle, about an
hoar and a bail beiore souset. Nothing- could sur
pass the bravery and excellent cor.daat of the
troops. Toe poe-lion was very formidable, and
defended by a numerous aruderyof heavy calibre.
Oar osa, 1 regret to add, is very considerab e, but
DO general officer has been wounded. Tire main
body ot the army of the enemy was estimated from
*5,000 to 50,000 intautry. A few prisoners, among
whom a-c t »ogeneral officer*, and two guns have
been taken by the English army. Rauuan."
The details of this conflict were not expected to
reach Lcndon beiore lh« «oh inst.
On- London correspondent writes that the re
ported espture of Betas epol it backed by strong
probability. The news has reached Eng and by
varions rentes, vu : from Belgrade, by a Turkish
despatch received from Omar I’acbs at Bucharest;
by a French steamer from the Bosphorus; and by
te egraph from Vienna; ail of which despatches
unite in eutirg that Sebastopol, with all the mate
rials ot war there collected, toge-her with she fleet
and garrison, had surrenders-. We annex several
of the deep*,cnee alluded vo, viz :
Vianna, (Sunday,) Oct. I.—The Knsviaa loss at
tha baU'o ot ibe A.ma, on the 40th of September,
i* «t. mated *t 6.000 killed and wounded.
Bccbaxbt, Sept 25.—The Russians have been
totai j difeaied on th* river Katcha, alter several
hour-' aengoinary conflict.
T bey were pursued to the trensfce* before Sebas
topol, now become untenable.
The Allies took aii the forts on the right bank of
Sebastopol harbor.
The »arr*ndet of Sebastopol is reported.
Vienna (Saturday,) S-pt. 50.—Authentic advices
from Bucharest state that a great battle has been
fought, whioh ended ic the victory of the Allies
and the taking ol 6eb»»u>pol.
The steam, r which carried this news frees the
Crimea to Constantinople ocmmunicated it to An
Other steamer bound irom Constantinople to Var
na, wne-.ce the glorious tidings was forwarded to
Omer Pacha.
Caxf at UoiwaClt, Saturday. —l have only just
time to eehd yon toe .ollowing importart ioulli
gauoe, via. that the Emperor, while PP the field.
yweiv'ed a despatch, alter reading which he torced
round to his generals and the troops and eaid,
Sebattopcd eet pritP * Tbe news was received with
ienmenae cheering. ,
Vienna, Mokdat Night, Oct. 2 —Advicea from
Bachareet of tbe 60lb ult’mo etate tbst a second
Tt/iar from Coiihtautinopie confirms the intell -
gence forwarded at noon. So e details vary ;
others are added.
Fort Constantine was blown up. Tbe other
forts, with two hundred cannon, were taken by
the Ai-'iea. Twenty-two thousand Roawanfi were
made prisoners. Six Russian line of-bHtt.e ships
were destroyed.
Prince MeiiaetkofT, with the remaining ships,
withdrew into the inner harbor, and threa-enen to ]
blow them up if the attack continued; wbereupon
six hours’ consideration were given on grounds of
humanity. I
Constant! nopie will be illuminated for ten nights.
This news is fully credited, though the details ,
vary.
Omer Pacha is at bilistria.
Vienna, Monday Evening.—lt is currently re- i
ported that Gortscbakoff, tbe Buaeian Ambasaadof <
here, has received later advices, confirming the i
inteli geoce of the complete surrender of Menschi- <
keff; bat this is not yet autentic.
There arc other despatches substantially the |
same as the two last of the above sene**; and I
have, per contra, the following accounts from Ber
lin and Vienna:
Vienna, (Tuesday) Oct. 8,1554.— Several private
despatches received here to-day confirm the intel
ligence received from various quarters relative to
the fall of Sebastopol. No official confirmation,
however, has reached us, and an official despatch
irom set. Peterhbu r gh, da’.ed the Ist inst., stating
that advices from Prince Menschikofl of the 26*.h
make r.o mention of disastrous events, cause* some j
anxie'y here.
Vienna, Tuesday,) Oct. 8, 1854.—Prince Mens
chikoff’s de-patch to Bt. Petersburgh is doubtless
dated the 20ui ; not the 26th, for his last despatch
w&» eleven days en route. The local papers pub
lishes the following:
hive hours after the bombardment Fort Constan
tine blew up. Ten thoa**and Rosaians were buried
in its ruins. Prince Menachikotf fled to Fort Al
exander, where 18,000 Russians surrendered. The
Allied fleets simuitaneoa.-ly destroyed the outer
harbor, forts, and vanguard of the Russian fleet.
Prince Men cbikoff i» reported to have uncondi
lionally surrendered < n the 26 h.
Bibun, (Tuesday,) Oct. 8, 1854. — A telegraphic
despatch has been received here direct from St.
Peteruburgh. It says that Prince Menschikoff has
telegraphed, under date of September 25, that he
has withdrawn his troops unmolested from before
Sebastopol towards Baktschi serais. There he will
await reintorceraea’s from Kertsch and Perekop.
He adds that had not been attacked up
to the 26th of September.
Correspondence of Ou London Myrniwj Herald.
EXTRACTS FROM LATE FOREIGN PAPERS.
A4tfltlooal Detaila of tbe Landing.
September 14 —To-day all the troops, with tbe
exception of tbe cavalry and some of the horse ar
tillery, were landed on this pail of the Crimea,
under the most favorable auspices. Cortaia-y the
Crimeans have aa yet taken tho matter ▼©ry cool/y,
for the men had nothing to do but walk ashore as
if they wero landing at Gravesend. It was about
2 o’clock in the morning, all were on tho alert for
tbe signal, aud admiring the grandeur of tho scone
around, when the dead stillness was broken by the
deep tremendous boom of two ol tho Agamemnon’s
guns, while two signal rockets shot into tho air,
leaving a broad trr.il of flro across the heavens.
The 1 tter signal was iostaotly repeated from ship
to ship, so tnat in a moment tbe wholo bay was il
luminated with the red glare as the rockets shot irp
with a roar, like meteors springing from the
sea. Ia another minute the whole scene wa
changed, and all was bustle and confusion. Yet
though all was used, it was still an affair of
thren hours, so great was the mass of shipping, to
get all in motion.
W hen some of the large French war steamers
had landed their troops, a few of tbe heaviest arm
ed continued alow:y steaming south, rocounoitcr
mg tho coast toward Sevastopol. They had only
proceeded a few miles when they came abreast ol
Alma, the little town and river where, as I stated
in my last, it was originally proposed to land tho
men, and wheie a Russian force of aome 10,000 or
12,000 was encamped on tho hills above it. As the
Fronch steamers slowly steamed up to within 6"0
jardsofthe shore the Russians most unwisely
advanced as if to meet them on the beach in mass
es of battalions. Not content with t-ris display of
courage the anctoy brought up some thirty or forty
light field pieces aud commenced firing on tbe
frigates, which were completely wit Inn range, but
against which they might as well have used pea
shooters as six pounder guns. Tho French, who
1 look the matter very coolly—as they well might—
-1 replied with murderous volleys from 56 and 68
pounders, shot au<l shell. Iu a second the lius
• fciana were convinced of their error and commenced
nrctroat; but tho French continued their firing
while iu range, and as a part ng benediction »li the
frigatos engaged gave a genera! broad&’dc. The
l French had not a wngle man killed, and I believe
not oven wounded. Tho Russians left both dis
) abled guns and ammunition carriages, wit i< a nnm
• bor of killed upon the mound from which they
' wero fo'lish • nough to engage tho frigates.
While tho French wore thus “fraternizing” with
% tho Ru-sians, our own men were trat,cruizing with
, tlia “natives” iu the most oordi' l manner. Strict
orders wero given to the troops not to cheer, and as
■ u m'ittor of oourse. when they landed, they did.
The unusual sounds in thut remote aud desolate
i region (at least, so it seemed) attiactod some ut-.
tontion, and soon a mixed poputu’ion ot Tartars
and Turks came down to tho beach with horses,
i arobas, and camels, to tend assistances on an oeca
Sion which they firmly believed was ouly a ship
wreck of unusual magnitude.
, By this time it wiis near five o’clock, tho wind
and tho Boa had riscu, and both were setting full
i and heavy upon the bt ach. Tho rain had been
i incessant since 1 o’clock, and promised to bo
i equally atten’ive throughout the night. Every
ouo made an effort to bo jolly; but like all efforts
under similar circumstances, they wore soon giv
en up as miserable failures. There Is no disguis
• ing the fact—our first night upon tho Crimea was
i about the most cheerless which any mau in the
English army ever passed. Ido not know wheth
& er any of your readers have ever bivouacked; if
• i ot, let mo beg them to rest content wit h tho do
t script ion, for the reality is enough to kill a horse.
;. I had no idea of tho hardships of campaigning
s until then.
As I havo said, the ground on which we lauded
was a mere inarah. The higher locality of Staroo
OuUepleie is soft, tenacious c'ay, into which one
aank ut every step up to his ancles. However eli
gible lor diseuburging troops, Kalamita Bay, as a
sieoping place, has not one solitary rocomtnenda
tion; yet on its shores, without a rag to shatter
thorn Irom a regular tompest, some 80,000 English
had to pass the night. The Kreuoh boldiors, who
carry thoir own tents among them, wero pretty
well oif; bo werelheTuris <. Our poor fellows had
only their endurance, a blanket and a great ooat
to oppose to a tropical storm of about 16 hours’
duration.
About 6 o'clock aomo 100 barrels of ammunition
for artillery audumal! arms were landed, and care
fully covered over with tarpauliugs, and 1 think
they wero the only objects on the beach that night
that did not get saturated. After that, and before
it grew quite dark, it case of a night surprise, the
forces wora got into a defensive attitude. Tho
light division pi advanced, outlying pickets wore
posted in ail directions, while the main body drew
up in regiments and divisions, then piled erma
and lay down upon the wot ground beside them
to pass the woary night as they best could. All
the rubbish that could be l'oand was collected into
heaps and some hugb fires made, whloh hissed
and struggled with me rain, canting a faint dull
glare, liko the light of a foggy morn. At 8 o clock
the rain was lading In corrects, while a cold fierce
wind blew lit from the sea which seemed to peu
etraui to the vory boue.
The majority of tbo divisions moved about four
miles inland—only tho 4th, recently arrived from
Englaud, remained eios« to the Sea. Each Brig
adi;e, as it arrived at its appointed station, seut
out its picquot; and the remainder huddled them
selves toge her in their coats and blankets, and so
eitliug, or lying almost, in pools of water, passed
the night. Sleep was out oi the question, for the
rain and wind seenud to be striving for the mas
tery. B> \l o’clock, the flres on the beach wete
completely exiUgo>*hod. The regiments further
inland had none, for there not a vostago of wood
la to bo had. The country, in fact, is a mere
maruh ; and for a space of thirty or forty r iles not
even a shrub is to be seen. Went addod to the
misery of the seen© was, that some of our poor
fellows we»e attacked in the night with cholera,
aud ciad upon tho bare ground in the course of
two or throw hoars. For there unfortunates there
was neither shelter, warmth, nor even light, so
he terrible disease had its own wav in a very snort
time. Tho knowledge of these latter fact* added
to the gloom of the real of the men, who, numbed
and weary, wai od in bitte* silence, tqore expres
sive than murmurs, for tho break of day. For
tunateU at aocut % o’clock, the wind lulled, and
at 4, tue weather cleared up aud became dry and
calm. It was not light nntd about 6 o’clock, and
from that till 3 was perhaps tte worst time of uli
for wo wet 6 all saturated, and the raw keen
morn'Dg a r was even worse than the rain. Auer
that, the sun came up hot, and the men, leaving
their coats, greatcoats and blankets to dry, began
scouring the country,
Ou the 15th the shore was an extraordinary
scene oi bustle aud excitement. Hundreds of
launches, pinnaces, aud cutters, aud cutters from
the men-of war were coming in every moment
laden deep with bag* ot bisemt and beef, or hay,
an 1 buckets of fresh water, As they came in,
sailors with life belts ou jumped overboard, and,
with a hawser, B‘ruggled through the surf to land
as they beet could. Three-fourths of the men near
the shore were ae naked as they were born, hav
ing stripped off all their clothes, and left them on
the sand to < ry. Some were bathing in the sea,
othors, who seemed to like the exoiteinouu of the
scene Altai the freedom of “undress,’’ wore gal
lop ing up and dowu the shore like savages. Many .
were ill irom cold and exposure, an I lay about with
a quiet 1 'slices indifference, pitiable to behold. A I
large crowd was gathered round tho great water j
tub, clamoring fiercely tor a drink, while others j
wandered up and down eamrly searching among .
the atones and sand for sufficient rubbish of any j
sort with which to make a tiro. Every now and (
then men wouid arrive irom other divisions far i
tber inland, with alarming accounts of the ap
proach c.f Russian*, or their deteat and capture, j
and such news would for a time ah-orb all inter j
•st, *u4 lead to discuss : on regarding the length of •
time na«e©sary to uko Sevastopol, for non* of the !
men nave (ha faintest doubt but that wo will j
take it, and that speedily. The dnke —the \
vary idol oi the soldiers and officers out here, j
rather thinner than formerly, bwtai! sunburnt and i
hetity—was basy as a bee cheering up tbo men, !
and toiling knee deep through mud and eai.u, try i
ing to make Ml comfortable. Commissaries were ;
looking after the landing ot supplies, artillery offi- ]
eers the guns and ammunition, and tffieers, Eng- ;
lish sod French, naval and anbury, or &il ranks
and varieties, were galloping, shouting, «ud ges I
ticalating to working parties, amid a ceaseless «oar j
from the sea. whic£ was enough to deafer. ;
everv one. Vet amid ail tins, guns, wagons, ar- I
tillery, horse* 4 , cows, casks of mm and e** rtdtfee, j
cases of shell and bags of biscuit, trusses ot nay j
av 1 sacks of flour, b©*k*r> of water and hogsheads ‘
of be*.*, officer*’ icggagc, rope, trenching loo's,
ambulacctHS, light ca. ts, tents, hospital air tchers, j
bags of rice and aofffea, boxes of spare ammuni- j
tioc, saddles and harees#, medicine chests and !
cols, spars and c-imp ketSes, betas elites, sad, ;
in fjet, all tho indispensable necessaries oi a large 1
fore*, being deposited every minute all \
along th* tJaore for a distance of nearly three 1
n ile>. Swab a scene of hurry, and excitement, I
bovlle and eoafoaioe, i never witnessed, aud shall
probably never Every one was |
55®?’ ® v ® r >' °ue loosed aive/ ’hemseivea. j
iuosc that d d not went to the wad.
Va « D -rhe stockholders of the
b aw > ork and bew Hwen Railroad Companv have
obla-a-d several highly Venable lairal opinions -vs
to the liability of the Company for the recce*': on
of the acts of the Tranter Agent, liessr**. G; ce
C. Bronson, Daniel Lords, Charies O’Oonn* -. and
C. f*. Kirkland coincide in opinion -.bat the Com
pany can be held liable. Mr. KirK:!*..,j is of opin
io* that the deepen in the co* } of the Bank of
Kentucky, where the Schuylkill Bank oi Per*
de?pfcia was the u."redited agent, and Levis, the
(.'astier, acted cn ts bohaif, and mad** over issue?
to a large amount of Kentucky Bank Stock, covers
the whole ground. The Conns of Penney l va-ia
and the Supreme Court ct the United States deter
mined the entire liability Ot toie Schoj k»d Bank,
which w&w rained in a_ a the dec
ejenev was afterwards m&it np to Uia
er*, after some deiay, by the Back of Kentucky.
Deiib or Col. 6. P. Stokbs.— Dorsey’s Despatch
announces the death of this gentleman at nis resi
d«nc# in Wetnmpka. Bodied cn the Ist inst.,
after a protracted illness. There were bat few
more useful or betUr men. We knew him inii
mately in Georgia thirty vears ago, where he was
much respected, and held a fie position ct the
oar, abom twenty s ear* since no removed to We
utepaa, where he nast-ince reside*;, and continued
to f racuce law, ani increase his reputation and
fnecd*. A good man has gODe \-j_la. Mouticr.
The Washington monument has reached the
height of ©De hundred and sixty-*!* fa*, not quite
Olio-third iu comtempiated altitude.
Wreck ol the Arctic.
The following recapitulation of the saved and
missing of the pa. j ß2tigers and crew of tbe ill fated
Arctic, pre?ents a melancholy record :
known to be saved 21
Officers d 0... .d 0... .do 4
Crew do d0....d0 &)—ls i
Kucwu to be dead * j
Missing of Passe j
Missing of Crew (about) !
Total Passengers and Crew S? 8
From the Statement or Mr. Gilbert —Tbe fal
lowing will read w: b interest as relating more par
ticularly to the effjrns made to save some of tte
lady passengers:
About an hour after the collision, I think, they
commenced to gel tbe second boat ready lor use,
which boat I understand was the one by the fall
mg of which several passengers were precipitated
in o the sea and lost. This boat was left suspen
ded on the port quarter by the bow at about en
angle of forty five degrees. The next boat that 1
saw got ready was ;be jolt guard boat. I went to
it with the ladies of my to endeavor to get
them in. In going, however, Mrs. Allen inquired
tor her husband, say ing sbe could not go without
him. The momentary delay caused by looking
for him prevented us from being in time to get
into that boat. When we approached, it was al
ready filled.
I then asked Capt. Luce if he could_ not get a
boat to save my friends. Ee said, “Yes—bring
them this way,” pointing in the direction of the
port quarter boat, which was still suspended. I
then went to the party, consis’iDg of Mrs. Brown,
Mrs. Allen, Miss Brown, Mrs. Stone and Miss
I Stone-, Mr. Allen, Mr. Brown, and two children,
ar.d said, “Capt. Lace says we can get in this
bo-t —come this W3y.” They followed me from
the saloon deck to the bulwarks on the port side.
We found there Capt. Luce and a sailor waiting
for us. Two firemen were in the boat whom Capt,
Luce ordered out. Tbey refused to get out of the
boat, saying that their lives were as good as any
body’s else. He reiterated the order, and threat
eued to take tbeir lives if they did not leave the
boat, and at the same t me he raised an iron mal
let which be had in his band over their heads.-
CJpon *hi» tbey lelt the boat, and Capt. Luce said
to me, “Now get in.” I saw that, by reason of the
angie at wh ch the boat was suspended, it would
be impossible for a lady to get in without some
one was there to receive her, and sprang over the
bulwarks, saying “pash tbe ladies over to me,”
aud let myeelf down to The now of tho boat by the
fall. I repea ed the- words “pass the ladies over
several tim -s rapidly. I placed so far below
the bulwarks that 1 could not see what wa3 going
on on the ship.
I gatner from oilier sources that the ladies were
thrust aside, and Ilfoun#tbe boat in a moment fill
ed by others, lowered and the rope cut by a sailor.
All this waa done more rapidly than I can write.
As I was carried away from the ship, I saw Mr.
EJward Sandford standing on the saloon deck.
He saw me in the boat, and. with a smile on hia
face, waved his hand to me as quietly as if wew ® r ®
about to leave him for a short excursion. Mr.
Brown I saw standing on tho guard alt of the
wheel house. He bowed his head to me but I did
not hear him epoak. I told him, in brief terms
my agony at having failed in my efforts to assist
his party. I afterwards saw him on the saloon
deck; J r*aw none ot the ladies after 1 got over the
side. Mr. Gihou, who was near mein the boat,
states that he saw Mr. Geo. Poarson, who was car
rying Mrs. Allen’s child. Some time before get
ting into the boat, 1 asked one of the waiters to
ge .me some biscuit. He brought me the biscuit
tiod up »n a napkin, which I handed to the ladies;
When I accompanied the ladies to tbe s.de of the
vessel, I picked up the nupkin containing the bis
cuit; when the ki.ot became untied and the biscuit
were scattered about on tho deck. I then picked
up two or three and put them in my pocket, which,
during the t rne we were on the boat, 1 dealt out
to tho rmu in email parcels as they were wanted.
This wus ail the provision wo had on board.
Marine and Life Insurance.—la the present
state ot excitement with regard to the deplorable
loss of life and tho painful state of uncertainty
respecting tho fate of many of the passengers, tho
pecuniary losses involved seem of trifling consid
oration, and have soarcely been alluded to.
The valusof the ship and furniture,
as recorded on tho book ot tho Atlantic
insurance Company, New York, was $2 C 5,000
Value ot the engine and builor 245,000
Total 6540,000
The Arcric ship and cargo anpear to be wholly
insuied. The insurance has been principally
etf cted in Europe; but it is said that the Atlantic
Marino Insurance Company will bo heavy losers.
The gre it number of persons who have los3 their
lives by this shipwreck will also involve the pay
raont cf largo sums of money by tho life insurance
companies.
We hear of $25,000 insurance on the steamer
in Boston, divided as follows : Washington office,
, $10,000; Hopo $10,000; Metropolitan $5,000. —
, There are doubtless other sums on merchandise,
cover d by open policies at Boston offices.
An Incident.—O le of the escaped seamen of the
Arctic shipped on board tho Atlantic on Saturday.
Just as the steamer was about to sail ho was dis
covered by Captain West, who took him by the
collur and marched him ashore, saying he wished
no such men to go to sea with him.
Ebie Railroad —Tho Report of the Erie Rail
road Examining Committee has been published in
the New Yoik papers and gives general satis f ae
tiou to the friends of the road. The Committee
have made a thorough examination ot the affairs
of tho road since Sept, 3'), 1852, and with tho ex
ception of the payments of dividends wheu noi
earned, fl id but little censure. The mis-state
ments in regard to the amount of the floating debt
appear to have been the result of making offsets
of various kinds. Tho report shows net earnings
on tho capital stock for the year ending SOlh Sep
tember lip-t, part estimated, at $745,< 80, nboiv
per rent. The cost of working tho road is placed
at per ceut., but this, it is thought, will bo
largely reduced in future. The present manage
ment of tho road is complimented, and its im
value freely admitted.
The total coßt of the road is stated by the Com
mittee at $32,876,956. The additions to this after
Juno 80, wili be $218,000 ior new locomotives
contracted for, and SIO,OOO for work at Nevisink.
After which it is recommeuded t at the account
be closod. Tho total debt and stock accounts to
Beptomber 80 amounted to $84,850,004. Ot this
total $678,111 remains to be founded or paid off’.
Tho Committee recommend that no further divi
dends bo declared from not earnings, until this
floating balance is adjusted. The gros earnings
of the year wore $5,376,278, an 1 the whole charges
on this business was making tho net
earnings on $10,017,700 of stock—s74s,oßo. Tho
transportation chargos proper amounted to the
sum of $2,740,961, or 51 per cent, of gross earn
ings. But to ttys is added $398,565 viz: for the
support of the Union Railroad in New Jersey,
$3o,000; loss in running steamboats on Lake Erie
and the Hudson, $85,35f1; interest on Floating
Debt, $162,718; arrearages ot previous yoar,
$42,532 ; and hire of engines and cars, $24,859 ;
making altogether an additional charge of 7% per
cent, on the gross business of the year, exclusive
cf the regular interest ou the Funded Debt. The
summary of charges and profits is as follows on
the gross of $5,876,273.
Transportation expenses $2,740,9fi1, or 51 percent.
Incidental char es » (, 8 565, or 734 per cent.
Interest on Fun ied Debt 1,49 > ,661, 0 r preent.
Net l'roflts 745,060, or 14 per ceat.
Total .... $5,876 2 T B, or 100 per cent.
The prospective revenue ot 1854-55 for tho
financial year ending 80th September next, is es
timated ot $6,000,000. This is the Directors’fig
ure, and the Committee havo such confidence in a
decided increase over last year, as to eay, “Wo
fully agree with it.”
F'-om the N. Y. Journal of Commerce .
China.— Extract of a letter dated Canton, July
80, 1854. —Almost a total cessation of business
exists hero. Thousands of families have alreauy
left the city, and daily others are leaving in
crowds. Tho streets continue barricaded and
guarded, aud tho shops almost entirely closed,
except those in old and now China streets. En
gagements take place nearly every dny North of
the city, within a couple ot miles of tho walls, and
the apprehensions are great on tho pait of tho
Chinese, that the city itself must oventually be
captured. Tho Mandarin vessels stationed at
different points ot the river west of the city, to
keep off the rebels, completely succeed in cutting
offa’l commuuioation with those places through
which teas and silks are brought to market, and
the consequence is that none, arrive. The La
drones on the river between this aud Whampoa to
the Eastward, continue so numerous, and so ut
terly regardless of the government, which they
seem to hold in great contempt, that chop boats,
with curgocs for the foreign vessels, are still towed
down to Whampoa by the river steamers.
It is impossible to describe the atrocities and
barbarities committed ou either side, when priso
ners are made. Several officers ol high rack have
been killed in the different battles that have taken
place, and many soldiers, all of whom it is difficult
to roplace, while tho like casualties on the part of
the insurgents are constantly made good. The
operatives of every branch of industry arc out of
omploy, aud this in any other country but China
would occupy the serious consideration cf the
authorities. Their numbers, too, are vast, and it
is not improbable they will join the discontented
to st are in the spoils of the city. Thus far, this
state of things has had no effect ou tho price of
teas, as there are very few in Canton, und they
are in warehouses on tho banks of the river,
wk nee they could be easily moved in case ol
lire, while those stopped at various points on the
road to Canton could not be brought to market for
delivery, oven if sold. Prices therefore continue
high. The expert to i egland compared with
’his time last >oar is 2,600,1KK) pounds short, and
instead ot there being 80 to 100 chop 9 iu market,
as iherc would be in peaceable times, there are
only 11 ofcorgos. The “Kathay” for New York
is loadit g, but it ic impossible to say when an
other ship will loai here to for the tame
dent'nation. Imports unsaleable. Silk piece goods,
rein itu Ah of slock mostly, a«o being disposed of at
t.om 10 to 15 per cent, lower than havo been
known so; acme time, but no Chinese will under
take a contract to make any.
The Transatlantic Teli graph. — We copied a
paragraph recently irom a New York contempora
ry, stating that the construction oi a direct trans
atlantic telegraph line had been checked by the
impossibility to construct a battery that would
eefv e ? line of more than five or sis cundred miles
in length. The matter, however, appears to be
one upon whien much difference of opiuion is en
tertaintd. The disriugnished European ravans,
j Dr. LardnerandM. Levender, have satbnjdtbem
1 selves in regard to the practicability of Gonstro3t
; ing a battery capable of serving a lino or ele‘trie
I cable between the nearest points cf British Ame-
I rica and the Wes’. Coast of Ireland, a distance of
1,6 >0 miles. Dr. i,srdcersays:— Balt. Atne.
In the experiments made by M. Laverrier and
myself, messages were transmitted over a space of
or.l mile* of wire without intermediate
battery power, with a termif al batieryox very
limited power. In thaw tese three hundred and
| thirty *ix miles of the wire up*G tyhich the cur
rent was transmitted were iron, a very indifferent
conductor and the ret*.»ih ; ng seven hundred -nd
forty-six miles were copper wire oi extremely
small diameter. It is certain, therefore, uigi by
reason of the inferior conducting power of the one
part, and of the very email Transverse section of
the other part, this ength of on© ’.kensand and
eighty-two miles iff. red *a much greater resistance
;o tMd cf the current than would
sixteen hundred miles c* copper wire, such as is
usually selected for submarine w*ide*.
But’indepeu .lent of ’hese considerations, co
thi-jg be easier than to the copper wire
enclosed in the cables ch a thicknes*, end to ap
ply to it such batteries, as would ensure the trans
its ion .a current of sufficient intensity.
Casals ts. Bailboads. —Klr. McAlpine states that
j 44 the freighting bnaineas of the New York canals
j exceeds the combined cosiness of Orcadian
and Pennsylvania canals, and the Jsew Yors and
1 Pennsylvania and the Baltimore acd Ohio Kad
; roads oy forty per cent., and that the Western bu
siness done by the New Y'ork canals is’fcree t r mcs
• as the aggregate business cf all the other
j Hues: and also that the chief part cf the business
i done by these lines is local traffic of the country
j through Wi.:ch uiey pass. The cost 01 transport
i by the?* routes, as staled in the last report, limit?
the ex cut of their competllion for the trade of the
ana nenee the rivalry for this trade ;s be
i U.e water lines leading to New York and
J those leading to New Orie&ne. When the eniarge-
I men: ot the Erie Canal is completed the cost of
I transport wdi oe so much rednoed that the pro
duct* of the Weat can be brought to the N. York
! market from as far a» the conSaence of the Ohio
and Mississippi rivers cbeaper than 10 K-. Orleans.
Whenever this is done a will add to the business
of the New York canals the traos cf one-fcnrtb cf
the States ot Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky, of one
hah of the St-.tea ot I linoisacd Wisconsin, and of
L*e whole of the Westarn M VMiey above
the mouth of the Ohio.”— Albany Aryus.
The sh’’p Evengeiins, Gapt. Fairlam, whieh won
tfce pr a? of fits) for mining Cue quickest trip be
tween New Orleans and Liverpool aunrg tfce last j
year, is a British iron dipper, oi'ioottl7oo to££• 4
From the M bde Tribune.
'l'ljo Production of Opium in Alabama.
Diversity of labor and production constitutes ;
tbc wealth of a Stare. If we are enabled to add to 1
the number already profftably followed, another |
braces of industry equal or greater in return than f
any previo .>.!>* discovered, a benefit is conferred *
onV claves of the commanity. It is believed
that tbc cultivation oI the white poppy and the
manufacture of opium therefore can be made more
profitable in the southern portion of the United
States than that of any other single aiiicle grown
from the -oil—regard being had to the land culti
vated and the labor employed.
Ts e labor is light an 1 the work such as can be
performed (and should be) by females.
Tee following remark> are taken from a work
written by a man of gr:at practical sense, and are
submitted to the consideration of our horticultural
friends.
“Upinm is made from the white poppy, which is,
or can be, cultivated in ail our gardens; it is pro
baoiy a native of the warmer parts of Asia. Some
attempts have been made to cultivate it extensive
ly in England—but the climate .of that country
seen l - to present an insuperable obstacle to its be
ing cultivated as a prodnc’ive object of commerce.
“The United States, however, and particularly
the more southern and western portions of the
Union, on the score of climate and eoU, present no
difficulties in the cultivation of opium, in amply
sufficient abundance for the consumption of all oar
citizens.
“This is another proof among several others
which I have adduced, evincive of the indepen
dence of our country in the production of impor
tact medical drugs, if we will only employ industry
and energy. The fact is, that enormons sums of
money are yearly expended for opium which go
into the markets of foreigners which we could
easily produce from ou’ own soil.
“Tne leaves, stalks and capsules of the poppy
(which capsules mean the cases containing the
seeds)abound with a milky juice which must be
gathered when the seed are nearly ripe.
“The manner of collecting this juice is as fol
low** : After the sun has gone down, or about the
twilight of evening, make several incisions or cuts,
lengthways, on tee surface of the capsules or
poppy pods. This is to be done when they are
not quite ripe—and is the best performed with a
knife made for the purpose, having four or five
lades.
“The milky juice which flows out from these
cuts during the night, must be collected the fol
lowing day, after a sufficient time has been al
lowed for the milky fluid to become inspissated
or thickened by the heat of the srn. It is now to
be collected by a thin iron scr?per made for the
purpose, and pat into an eartbern vessel. This
is t he whole secret of opium making.
“ The operation of cutting orsacrifying the pop
py pod, in the manner I have mentioned, may do
repeated every evening, or as long as the pods
will famish the milky juice. When a considera
ble quantity of this juice is collected, you have
no'king to do but to work it with a wooden knife
or spoon, until it becomes of a proper consistency
or thickness, and to enclose it in tne leaves of the
plant itnolf.”
Perilous Mountain Ascent —lt has long been
known that some of the peaks of mountain ranges
in Oregon aro of great height. Our California ex
clii r.ges bring us very interesting accounts of the
ascent of tho loftiest of these, culled Mount Hood,
which has now beeu ascertained, by actual meas
urement, to be full 18,361 feot in height. This is
the highest peak out. c American continent, and
o:o of the highest in tho wholo world. Thapa*-ty
which made the ascent was composed of a Mr.
Dyer aud Capt. Travaiilet, who lett Portland on
the 4th of August, for the purpose but were after
wards joined by Mr. Lake, Capt. Burlow, Judge
Olney, and others. Alter getting above the snow
in e i: was discovered by'means of a te’escope
that the mountain is volcanic, smoke being seen
to issue from the summit. Ou the Bth the ascent
of U o upper mountain commenced on the southest
by et'-st side. After ascending several thousand
feet of over-continuous snow fields at an angle of
almost fifty degrees, three of tho parts (Mnjor Hal
lam, Capt.Travaiilet, and Judge Olney) gave out,
and had to stop in consequence of dizziness evused
by tiie rarifie-l atmosphere. From thence upward
the angle was more steep, until it reached 7o>£
degrees, an Indian be'mg the guide and tho road
lying along a ledge of rocks perpendicular with
the mountain. At 2>£ o,clock P. M. on the Btb
the summit was attained, and was found to be ex
trumeiy narrow aud crescent-shaped. From this
peak mountain tops five huudred miles distant
were distinctly soon. Tbe peak of Mount Hood is
thus described by the account before us :
We found the top similar to that of Mount He
len’s—extremely nurrow, laying in a crescent
shape ; Mount St. Helen s facing the northwest by
a crescent, while Mount Hood faces the southwest
Tho sharp ridge on top runs from the southwest
to the north, making a sharp turn to the west at
tho north end. The main ridge is formed of de
composed volcanic substances ol a light reddish
co.or, with cones from twenty to fifty feet high at
intervals of a tew rods.
Theso cones or rocks are lull of cracks or fis
sures, as if they had been rent by some convulsion
ot Nature at a remote period. Between theso
cones then are numerous holes, varying from tho
s ze of a common water bucket down to two or
three inches in diameter. Through these breathing
holes (a: we call them) and through the crevices
in the rocks there is constantly escaping hotsm *ke
or gus or a strong sulphuric odor. In passing over
the ridge for near halt a mile we discovered those
breathing holes; through some the heat wus more
intense than in others.
We did not carry up & thermometer; therefore
y/o could not get the exact degree of tbe heat; but
from holding our hand over several of them we
l ave no doubt that the thermometer would have
shown “boiling hea‘” in some of them.
Liberia — Au arrival at New York brings Libe
ria (b.tes '• 16th August. Intelligence from Cape
Pulmas a bounces that the people of Cape Palmas
have dissolve i their connection with the Mary
land Btate Colonization Society in the Unted States,
and declared themselves a sovere'gn, independent
people. On the 29th of May last, tbeir Constitu
tion was adopted by the people, aud on the 6th
ins\, an elec.ion of officers took pluck under it,
aud Gov. Prout was inaugurated on the Bth. The
same day. according to previous arrangements,
Gov. McGiii resigned his office as the representa
tive of tho Maryland State Colonization Society.—
Cape Palmas is now to bo called, pursuant to tho
vote ol the people, “State of Mary'and in Liberia.”
The Ho i. I) Harris, a prominent Liberian, wbc
ha* occupied several official stations, died on the
14th August We find the following particulars
in reference to the wreck of a Baltimore veseel.
The American brig IlarD- Capt. Camden, of and
from Baltimore, with a fuU cargo of merchandise
aud >ome twenty or thirty emigrants, arrived in
our harbor cn the afternoon of the 81st July.—
During the night the wind blow strong from the
when about midnight the vessel com
menced dragging her unchor, and about 2 o’clock
In t he morning took the beach r little to the north
ol the entrance of tbe livor. Tho &urf was very
nigh where she struck; she soon bilged, and of
course is a total loss. By great exertion the pas
sengers ana crew were landed in safety. A large
force is now employed in landing what can be
secured from tho wreak. Very iittle, however,
can be saved.
Our. Relation with Spain. —The Paris corres
pondent o- the N. Y. Journal of Commerce sends
tho following interesting paragraph, translated
fr m ihe Paris Sioolo of the Ist inst. The Siecle
v. tne channel of the publications of Mr. Soule,
Jr., respecting lie duels at Madrid :
‘•We observe tho presence, simultaneous in Pa
ris, cf five or six Ministers of the United States;
they r.re Mr. Dudley Mann, Under-Secret**ry of
•>*ate in the Cabinet of Washington: P. Soule,
Minister at Madrid; Cass, Minister at Rome; Dan
iels, Minister at Turin; O’Sullivan, Minister at
Lisbon, and A. Belmont, Minister at the Hauge—
without counting the members of tho Legation in
Paris. Added to these diplomats, Mr. Buehannan
the Minister in London, is expected, with his Sec
retary, Mr. Sickles, whom ho had recently sent on
a mission to Mr. Souk. We are assured that
sev ml of these personages are soon going to
liable, to hold an important conference, and that
they &Tb there to deliberate on American policy in
general, and especially in the t-ffiirs of Spaio.—
Does not this meeting afford tho key to the cause
of ti e departure from Madrid of Mr. Soule, which
bns so mystified the Spanish PressT”
We apprehend that tho American Ministers in
Eu r ope are about to commit a very foolish trans
acts ?nd one that will bring them neither hon
or abroad nor credit at home. Wh;it exigency in
our ."flair* with foreign nations requiros this Con
gress of Diplomats we aro not told, but that it is
err eilily at varience with a!! former precedent as
well * with the understanding that our Ministers
act upon instructions from Washington and not
upon a; y agreement among themselves, there can
be no rnunner of doubt. That Mr. Buchanan has
any concern in the movement we must still dis-
Ve.ic7c. Ho ia certainly too old and too expe
rienced a statesman to be caught by tho silly stago
off c s which Sickels and company delight in pro
dnciLg.—BaU. Amer.
The Ebenezer Communi y, a peculiar body of
people, who htwe a settlement near Buffalo, Rre
*..«* irous of breaking up their establishment in or
der t o remove to some of the new States or Terri
tories of the West, where they cau obtain & larger
domain ! and, perhaps, with the additional motive
of becoming more isolated than they can be in
their present location. It is stated that they havo
$5,600,000 for their property, which
i.-* $509,000 shorr of their asking price. Their do
m ui. i- . bout eii; t miles from the city of Buffalo,
ou the old Seneca Kc-sorva’ion. The agents ofthe
Society purchased about 6,000 acres of the land of
the Ogden Company, soon after tho Gillott Treaty
in lSi2, and about 8,00'.' have beeu added by anb
sequent purchases. A large portion of it is very
largo fiel more thoroughly cultivated than any
lauds in Western New York; indeed it is almost
a garden instead of field cnltivati n. The Ebe-
Kcz-*• s are « Communist, or Common Property As
soci:« i«*n, of a distinct r. iigions type. Too cr
gv. 2att n had i s rise in Germany, on tho banks
of the Rhine, and has existed nearly an huudred
years. Thev have an elective Board of Governors
or eloers—tnirty in number—upon whom devolves
all tbe legislation of tbe commanity; but they ap
point a single executive officer, upon whom de
volves tbe entire superintendence of their varied
enterprises. In addition to their other enter
prises, they are becoming large money lenders.
Horse Breaking for Harness.— Before the horse
i* attached to any vehicle, the harness should be
allowed to remain on him in the stable several
hours during two or three consecutive days; he
should be led out so that he may become thorough
ly accustomed to the tappings, and a cord six or
or seven feet in lergth should be fastened to each
trace. With this the horse is quietly led about,
one man performing that duty, while another fol
lows, holding the aforesaid cords, which, as the
animal moves forward, are to be strained so that
he feels a slight pressure of the collar upon his
shoniders.
The intention cf this treatment, must be ob
vicns ;if the horse is alarmed by the effect of the
c l ur, the man holding the cords which are affixed
t; the traces can im-tantlv relax them ; and again,
when he ands his pupil i* reconciled, he may re
new a moderate s'rs’n, and Anally as much resis
tance as he has power to create.
Bv rhis means, the most timid horse will gain
cOLsdere- acd by perseverance the most refracto
ry :-v overcome. A horse when first encum
bered harness, ir immediately attached to a
vehicle, is astonished, when required to move, at
finding a pressure on bin »hog)rters which ha h&a
ncvarbffore experienced. He discovered another
neve! apnaratbi Jc‘ T confine • entj ho is, in ffict,
trammeita, and endeavor® tc * a cape; brobably he
hicks, or rears, and become® difficult to
inanSge; by the simple process just reconi
:uei.d :-a &il this is ©b:ialed, —Hints on Training,
Spain. —The Madrid correspondent of the Lon
don rimes teUs us tnatt-e government has receiv
ed ic *~* T ns&ioM iCarlist movement in Catalonia,
headed! it i.- <-te brothers Tnstany,
whowe'e well known
ii.-t in^:'-motions. In the presen* insiauCT * t6Dd
cf Car ets n’co* France entered the province oi
Gerona, and being pined by other rate's surpris
ed and defeated a company of infantry or the line.
A letter from - military officer at Figueraa also
mentions severs other small rebel bands, which
he we- about to pursue with his troops. These
seemtrifiins mevements, but in aland of revolu
tions 1 ke Spain, there is no telling what they may
grow into, especially at the present juncture,
when Queen Isabella is so universally unpopular i
and odious in consequence of her azimaa, political
and persona s .. The correspondent of the Times j
thinks there is little doubt that the Cari'3*s are j
about to make a combine’> effjrt, in which case
Catalonia will He the chief scene cf their opera
tions. —Malt Amer.
Good Dividend. —Taking into consideration the
pesti.ential season through which we are just
pasting, and which caused a general suspension
of business in onr community, the dividend jast
declared by the of Directors of the Bank of
the State of Georgian-five per cent from tbeprefi s
for the last six months, equal to twelve per cent
per annum—speaks well of the efficient manage
ment of that njatitetion. The dividend will be
payable to Stock holders, on and after Monday
Lcxt the £Bi iaat., as will be seen by the aaver
tisemeLt in another column.— Savannah Mepuo.
WEEKLY
Chronicle £ gtnfinti.:
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY MORNTNO, .UoCTB. 25.1854' ,
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Health of tk® CUT* (
The very cool, bracing Northeast wind which
has prevailed for several days* has produced a
marked, and we think, favorable effect upon the 1
health of the city, and we confidently believe, if it £
continue* for a few days, will completely extormi- i
nate the epidemic. We heard of very few new cases ]
yesterday, and we feel confident the number will (
daily diminish unless an unfavorable change in j (
the weather occurs. The opinion, however, is j
general, that absentees should remain away yet ;
awhile longer—perhaps till after a rain, (of which
we are very much in treed) unless the disease shall
disappear before.
The weather was quite cool yesterday, with a
bracing wind from the North-west, and a favora
ble prospect, at the time of writing, for a frost.
The number of new cases was not so great as for
several days previous, and we hope the weather
may have had, and is having, a favorable effect.
That the great mass of cases iB of a mild type, is
very apparent from the comparatively small num
ber of deaths.
The Board of Health report six deaths from Yel
low Fever within the last 48 hour 3. We deem it
proper to state, as a warning to our absent citi
zens against returning to the city yet, that several
deaths occurred from Y r ellow Fever yesterday,
which are not contained in the report, as the Sex
ton had not at the hour of making up his report,
received the bodies for interment. Th y will,
therefore, appear in the report to-day. The num
ber of new cases occurring, we are pleased to state,
are not so numerous, but many of them, we regret
to say, are of a virulent type. This has been the
case during the last several very cool days.
We can but hope, therefore, that absentees will
remain away. We have, in all conscience, a great
abundance of subjects for the disease now, and
we do not w ban note.
"We will t . rj in notifying t
the moment .ik it »4-'e for them to return u.
the oity.
The folic >* is lo • iji! number of cterment--
in thecity f>r ttiaivet ■- iicingMonday, bl' M
Frank Bche 1 agau 21 rs, Germc"
Richard Ha rgerty, aged l! year- jreiand.
Elizabeth M. Bayp, <■ ad 2S years, Germany.
John Hefifei .n, jga year®, Ireland.
Caroline Artly, age 8 years, Georgia.
Mrs. Johanna Seaei '-ri sob, aged 88 yrs., Poland
Willis G. Thompson, of-ed 1» rears, Anprota*.
Peirvier, “ *5 “ Franc
Lewis Smith, aged ? years, Germany.
Barbara Espi i, aged . ? vean < ermariy.
Mrs. Ann Co»(t">ve, »,’ed 80 jerrs, Ireland
William Corbi' aged s yea: .
Henry Goodin, aged i.o years, South Carol m
H. DeWolf, e ■ Raw
John Wilson, aged ‘.l yeirs, Ireland.
Mima, col’d., |'oper. >f ( . fi'itt, aged 85 ; irs
Daniel, 60yea s, property ot C J. Jennings
♦Died out or the CY
Basra o' .esiiu R. oertg.
llebktofoui .he 1 rd ci' b ave ni l
their daily reports frotatfes repo, u phyi
cians. In the oirlie. a».ige3 us he isease th
physicians r. orted prompts/, d ;he rei r'
were accordi « y -t.ry nearly ot a ace '>.■•
This is not, b warai us ease Mu e-:,
have folly dov Oped
Yesterday, . I m reports:'.
two deaths fr ■ yet ■ v ?. :cv~
others, and a ed t ■ .ud ,»
thoro were sr . I he con ot r
snob information as to feel justified in adding thiir
names.
This state of things shenld not continne a day
longer. W e are satisfied that omissions havo bet n
previously made. We suggests, therefore, that
tho reports of the Sexton alone be relied on in fu
tnre, and let him make his reports daily at three
o’clock, P. M. This will correct tho evil at oi ce.
Otherwise the reports of tho Board will be a mire
farce.
The Board of Health’s Reports.
Thx following Otfioial and very extraordinary
Card of the Board of Health, in reply to onr re
marks of Friday morning, was published yester
day:
BOARD Os HEALTH.
The editor of the Chronicle A Sentinel in his
paper of yesterday (Friday) morning, denies the
reliability of the Keports of the Board of Health,
and suggests that hereafter the Report of the Board
be made up from the Sexton’s Reports, handed in
daily at 3 o’clock, P. M. It is a sufficient reply,
iu the opinion of the Board, to him to state that
the Reports of tho Board are , and have been, daily
made from the Sexton’s Reports, delivered at 8
i o’clock, P. M. D niel, reported by the Chronicle
of yesterday morning as dead, did not die until late
in theforenoon of yesterday, (Friday) hours after the
paper was in tho hands of the public. The Board
think it as well, perhaps, to wait until a person ac
tually dies, before reporting his or her death.
By order of tho Board.
David L. Boats, Sec’y B. H.
Bnt few words will suffice to expose the mis
erable effort at evasion which this Official docu
ment displays—a degree of quibbling worthy the
brightest conceptions of a pettifogger. The Board
say “ their reports are and have been made up from
the Sexton's reports delivered to them daily at 8
o'clock, P. M." This is simply untrue, as we shall
proceed to show. The Chairman of the Board of
Health admitted to us, within tho last three days,
that the reports of the Board wore made np from
the reports of the Physicians, and complained to us
that all the Physioians did not report all the deaths
occuriug up to three o’clock of each day t He also
admitted that the Board had, in consequence of
the neglect of the Physicians, omited to publish
several deaths (six we think) that he knew ot from
yellow fever; but said they would appear in the
monthly report of the Sexton I This is very
strange. Will the Board inform the public how
these omissions occurred, if “ they have made their
reportefrom the Sexton's report dailyV ’ The public
might be enlightened, aud perhaps the seeming
discrepancy between the official statement of the
Board aud the admission of the Chairman recon
cilod.
As the Board, in their Official Card, did not have
the manliness to Btate how their reports are made
up—-to tell the plain unvarnished truth, we will
do it for them. Tho Pnyeicians generally (some
omit) make up a report of the deaths and new
cases that have occurred in their practice within
tho preceding twenty-four hours, which report
they send to the meeting of the Board of Health at
BP. M. Hence persons who die at any time, even
ten minutes befure 8 o'clock, if known to the Physi
cian, are reported to the B >ard. The Sexton is
sometimes at the meeting of the Board, sometimes
he sends a messenger with his Book, and when he
is not there, the Board read the reports of the
Physicians and from them make up the reports of
the Board of Health, adding what additional deaths,
if any, may be on the Sexton’s Book. Hence it
often happens, that the Board report deaths that
the Sexton had never even heard rs l And this is
tho manner in which the Board "have made up their
reports from the Seaton's reports .”
The Board say that “Daniel, reported by the
Chronicle of yesterday (Friday) morning as dead,
did not die until late in the forew on of yesterday,
(Friday,) hours after the paper was in the hands
of the public.”
Our reply to this is, that the official statement of
the Board is untrue . Dr. H. F. Campbell, the at
tending physician, assures us that Daniel died at
one o’clock, P. M., Thursday, and was shrouded
that afternoon. Our report of his death was,
therefore, strictly true.
Our object throughout the prevalence of the epi
demic has been to obtain, if possible, fmll and true
reports of the mortality and progress of the disease.
Hence our remarks of Friday morning. And if
the Board had made a frank, open aud mauiy re
ply, such an one a3 should have emina.ed lrom
such a body, we should have published it without
a word of comment. But we could not permit
their quibbling and «w|nn to pass without ex*
posure.
Wo deem it due to the Board to state, in conclu
sion, that we never suspected them of a desire to
conceal or suppress anything. We thought and
knew the manner of obtaining the information on
which their reports were I ased, was loose, and con
sequently not fully or the most reliable. We there
fore desired that the evil should be corrected—if
it is done in future, our object has been accom
plished.
Frost.
Tkub-dat morn ing fro6t was visible in various
parts of the city, and favorable localities were
rendered quite white by it. fear, however, it
was not sufficient to arrest the progress of the
epidemic At the time of writing, the prospect
is favcrablo for a similar one this morning: though
we cannot leasonably calculate on a severe frost
till we have rain—the atmosphere Is altogether too
dry now.
Another Fro«t.
Tax frost yesterday morning was £ Teat€r an on
Thursday. The wind during the day was cool
and bracing from the Northeast, and prospect fair
so? another frost. A continuance of such weather
wili certainty arrpst the career of the fever very
soon.
Health of the Mayor.
We were pleased to greet Mayor Bobebtson m
the street yesterday, having recovered from h.s
re*nt attack of fever. He looks somewhat bleach
ed and is still quite feeble- bat we trust, with care,
he will *oon be himself fgain.
T- 1
Icol Ice 11 .
_ . paragraph scout
Wt have no •• - <"•» eaagoea cf
those two or three (which wge u
the Reynold street Ice Company, which, strange
iy enough, have never be«n heard of, that we
know of, gave in the statement, oi a member.oftbe
; Ice Company ; (we fear that vessels, cargoes and
crews have all been lost at sea;) bot simply to
state, that Ice waa formed yesterday morning, in
\ 'be open air,three miies from the city, on the Geor
gia Railroad. Te saw it, and know what we state
to be true,
Speaking of the lost cargoes, we are wholly un
able to satisfy the public curiosity, not to say anx
iety, as to the fate of the unfortunate vessels and
crews.
Fifty years ago a celebrated mode in Maesa
chosetts of curing the insane, wee to whip them
severely and then immerse them in wster until
they were insensible. It was claimed that they
would recover their oonadoueness and sanity at
the same time.
Hardy Mobley Id Cincinnati.
The following account of Hardy Mobley’s ap
pearance before tho Cincinnati Conference, will be
read with interest by our city readers, by whom
Hardy is so well and generally known. Hardy
is a man of truth, and was therefore not the right
sort of a customer for the fanatics. He won d
have been much more cordially received if he \ ad
followed the example set by the Stowes, who
pander to the tastes of the fanatics with so much
success. Hardy is a man of good practical sense,
of irreproachable character as a servant, a clcae
observer, and, of course, familiar w ith the institu
tion of slavery, of which ho has been so long a
member. He cannot, therefore, be gulled by the
syren songs of tho fanatics about freedom in the
non-slaveholding States. Having travelled in
many of the free Stale*, he is familiar with the
condition of his race in both the free and slave
States, and he shews his open avowal of his prele
• rence for the slave States for a residence:
! A Negro Liberian MissinNAßY.—Thero was a
queer, but very sensible specimen of a negro be
fore the Methodist Conference on Thursday. He
was introduced by a letter from J. Morris Pease.
E?q., Corresponding Secretary of the Pennsylva
nian Colonization Society, and awked the assistance
of the Conference in purchasing his wife and
seven chilcren, held as slaves in Georgia. The
colored individual’s name was Hardy Mobley, a
good preacher, it is said, who wishes to goto
Africa as a missionary. His f. mily will'sell for
three thousand dollars* lie was a slave for forty
years, aud had been free but two years.
The Reverend gentleman who heard him state
his case, were very much disappointed, of course,
as he said that, though be had served under vari
ous masters, no one had ever chastised him but
his mother, and he had always been woll sod, com
fortably clothed, and that he would never say a
word about the evils of slavery. His was u higher
mission. He would leave jabbering politicians to
alk of the evils of slavery. He wished to labor
for the elevation of his race in Africo, and if he
had to live on this continent, would rather bo in
the South than the North—for in the North, as in
the South; his people were degraded—were slaves.
If he ould not go to Liberia, he would go back to
Georgia, where he could live easier than anywhere
else, and be with bis family. His wile was a good
woman and his children were well treated, and
allowed to live at homo. Two of them could road
the newspapers, and thev would be tiained up to
be useful when he was gone.
There was quite a *tir produced among the
brethren by the practical remaiks of tho negro
Sreacher. They wished to know whether Brother
lobley appreciated tho blessings of freedom ?
, Bome of the brethren were opposed to giving the
i ol d fello v. anything, because hedid not understand
i slavery as they id. But, mercy on ns, they were
■ afraid an unfavorable impression might be pro
duced, and wished him questioned privately 1 The
question whether ho thought be could live easier
us a slave ia Georgia than as a freeman in Africa,
he was not permitted to answer in public.— Cin.
Commercial.
The Charleston Mercury—Mr. Boule.
The letter ot Mr. Socle to the members of the
“ Liberal Press ” of Madrid, who recently celebra
ted their late trinmph, is very p-operly rebuked
by the Charleston Mercury . Unfortunately for the
oountry, there are tew Administration journals,
who, like the Mercury, havo the independence to
condemn the acts of those in power—their devo
tion to party is altogether superior to their patriot
ism—hence they either indulge in fulsome pane
gyric or silently acquiesce in every act and ap
pointment of the Administration. It is certainly
fortunate for the country that this mero adventur
er, Mr. Soclr, who has, by some e traordinary
and unaccountable means, secured the appoint
ment of Minister to Spain, (though he is a very
appropriate representative of the Pierce admiuis*
t rat ion,) cannot, iu any manner, affbot the reputa
tion of the government by his impertinent inter
meddling with the factions of Spain, and the an
nunciation of his Red-Republican doctrines to that
servile population.
But to the Mercury'B article:
“ The ‘ Liberal Press ’ of Madrid recently cele
brated the triumph of their principles by a ban
quet, to which they invited Mr. Some. Ho excus
ed himself from attending ou the score of health,
but sent a letter, in which he not only makes him
self a hot partisan with them, but denounces the
opposite party in terms little short of abusive.
Thus, in tho midst of a bit f er struggle between
factions, in which every thing ia in turmoil aud
jeopardy, the American Minister, to whose hands
have been entrusted the most delicate and impor
tant questions, and whose course should have
been one of conciliation and moderation towards
all, ha« acted iu this imprudent and unbecoming
manner. Is it the business, wo would a;-k, of a
foreign representative to take sides in the domes
tic revolutions which distract the Government to
which he is accrea ted? Is it consistent with his
position and duties to permit his ideas of liberty
so to oontroi his conduct aw to betray him into a
step which makes him odious to one half of the
people and involves his own country in tho con
sequences of his hasty zeal f Such a course is as
contrary to all the maxims ot diplomatic prudence
as it is opposed to the whole current of American
foreign policy. If wo cunprehen J that system, it
is one of strict non-intervention in European af
fairs. And surely thus far tho country has seen
no cause to regret or change it. The democratic
efforts in Europe have all signally failed, and as
ranch, too, from their own inherent incapacity and
rottenness as from the formidable foes with which
they havo had to contend. We do not regard tbe
revolution in Spain as by any means successfully
achieved. Mr. Soule’w conduct, therefore, so far
as wo can judge, has not the argument which suc
cess holds out to justify. His advent in Spain
was foreshadowed by circumstances favorable
neither to himself nor his ministerial duties. His
speech before the Cuban Junta in Now York on
tho eve of his departure, prejudiced him in the
minds ofthe Spanish Court and embarrassed him
in his simplest official acta. This last step only
complicates the more his relations with that un
fortunate country.”
Railroad Collision. —A collision occurred on
the Georgia Railroad, bj the misplacing of a Bwitcb,
yesterday morning, about 5 o’clock, at Belair, be
tween the down passeuger train and a freight train,
whioh resulted in slight damage to the engines
and some of the carß. No person hurt. The
freight train was standing on the turn-out, on
which it had boon run the evening before, and the
switch left unchanged. Hence as the passenger
train came down, it was thrown by the switch on
the turn out, and came immediately in collision
with the freight train.
Since the above was in type, we learn from a re
liable source, that the damage to the engines and
cars is under one thousand dollars.
Railroad Collision.
Another collision occurred on the Georgia Road,
at Buckhead, on Friday night last, between the
passenger trains. The up train arrived first, and
was waiting the arrival of the down train, (that
being the place of meeting,) which came down
upon them at full speed, injuring both engines
and some of the cars, but to what extent we have
not been able to learn, and wounding one of the
firemen in the foot. The engineer on the down
train, it is said, was asleep, and therefore did not
blow his whistle to put on the brakes, or make
any effort to arrest the speed of the train. H>s
conduct so enraged the passengers that they were
determined on lynching him, bat could not find
him. Such rookle-sness deserves to be sevorely
punished.
Death ot Christopher Low.
TITe melancholy duty devolves on us of chroni
cling the doath of another good citizen, Christo
pher Low, who died Saturday morning last of a
disease of the heart, involving the lungs, with
which he had been long afflicted. He was a native
of Ireland, “a generous, warm-hearted Irishman, 7 ’
but had loog been a resident of Augusta, where
by the amenity of his manners and his kindness
of heart he made many friends, who mourn his
death. He has been gathered to the tomb at a ripe
age, after a life of untiring devotion to business.
Peace to his aßhes.
Health of Savannah.
The Board of Health report three deaths, all of
yellow fever, for the 24 hours ending Friday,
9o’clock, P. M.
The Republican announces the death, on Satur
day P. M., of H. K. Preston, a much respected
citizen, formerly a member of the Legislature
from Chatham.
Yellow Fever in Charleston.
There were 79 deaths in Charleston for the week
ending October 15th, of which 47 whites and one
black died of Yellow Fever.
The Due De Grammot, a young French noble
man of distinguished famJy, was among the pas
sengers lost in the steamer Arctic. He was sent
to the United States as an attache to the French
Embassy at Washington, and is described as an
intelligent person of exceedingly amiable manners.
He was appointed more than six months ago to
the post he was on his way to fill, but his depar
ture had been repeatedly put off by family circum
stances and other obstacles. A New York paper
says, that he was but twenty-one years of age, and
the last of his race. He was a lineal descendant
of Coant Philibert de Grammont, a famous wit
of the Court of Louis the XIV, who when ban
ished from France, went to England, and became
equally famous at the dissolute of Charles the
Second.
Mr. Catherwood, the distinguished artist, was
on board the Arctic, on his return from a brief
vUit to England on private business, and is proba
bly among those who were lost. Mr. Catherwood
will be recollected es the artist who painted the
beautiful panoramas of Jerusalem, Lima, and other
cities ; also, as the companion of the celebrated
traveller, John L. Stephens, on his visit to the
ruins of Palenque in Mexico and subsequently to
Central America.
Dkxadxul Mobtauty. —A letter from an officer
of the United States steamer Saranac, dated at
Spezzia, September 18, states that when she was
at ConstantinoDle, the combined English and
French forces had lost tome thirty ihomand men
by cholera, and they were still dying in great
numbers. One English frigate had lost one hun
dred and seventy men daring one night. It is
impossible to imagine the horrid state they were
in. The writer had several conversations with
British officers, and he concluded that they were
very doubtful of success of Sevastopol, owing to
the dreadful condition of their meo
Peistiko on Glass. —Mr. Whipple, of Boston,
-•.teat*'! t r-ti’Xoi 01 engraving or printing
. « wiae Reid fgr mccbas-
On glass, which opens _
ical industry and ornamental taste by reproducing
rapidly and cheaply on the surface of glass vessels
Os any usual form, or even upon ordinary window
glees, any device desired. Measures are now in
progress to establish a manufactory for the pro
duciion of glassware thus ornamented, in competi
tion with the imperfect and feeble engraving
heretofore only prepared by a tedious process of
grinding dexterously upon a revolving stone.
L.ke the old procea#, this method of engraving is
purely mechanical, no acid or other corroding
agent being employed, except in,the preparation cf
the batterna.
In front of a fine dwelling in Marlboro 1 , Maes.,
there are six majestic elms, which the owner keeps
insured against injury from lightning or fire, in
the sum oifiee hundred doliare t
Dr. Stotcabury— Yellow Fever.
We find in the Savannah Republican tho follow
ing letter of Dr. Stotesbcry, a Physician, who
nob y volnn eered his services and repaired to Sa
vannah to aid her distressed people. His success
has been most extraordinary, and we only regret
that ho did not state what ''the Ref orm Practice" is.
We presume however it eschews the use of Calo
mel altogether:
Savannah, Oct. 14, 1854.
Messrs. Editor: As the epidemic with which your
city has beeu visited, is about to disappear, and
feeling that my services are no longer necessary, 1
am about to leave for my homo. Herewith you
have my report of all the cases treated by me, from
the 3th to tho 28’.h of September inclusive, being
twenty days, at which last date I was myself at
tacked wi h the fever. My only object in making
this report is, that it may be serviceable for tutnro
reference, au<l that the community may know
what success a*tended the Reform Practico.
With respect, P. Stotesbcry.
Report of Dr. P. Stotesbury's cases , attended by him
from the B th Sept, to 2S th inclusive.
Total cases in 20 days 187
Deaths S
Weut to Hospital 4
Went to tho Infirmary 1
On the 28th requiring attention s—lß
Convalescent 118
Among the deaths but two were attended through
the attack : one, an old lady, (60 years,) the other
a drunkard* some of the remaining number wore
cases which hau received attention, but unfortu
nately their physicians were taken sick aud left
them, as 1 was compelled to do others.
Rusk and Orr.—lL appears that both these gen
tlemen have been suggested for tho Presidency.—
We imagine it will scarcely go beyond a sugges
tion in either ease. — Edgtjield Advertiser.
We are pleased to see that our contemporary of
the Advertiser takes such a sensible view of tho
“ suggestion." When we saw it, we thought it
simply ridiculous, and concluded it was the pro
duction of some paid letter writer, or perhaps some
office beggar, who hoped thereby to secure the
kind offices of Messrs. Rusk and Orr. Bnt then
we wero reminded of what common Pres
idents are made now a days. And as men are
now solocted for that high office either for their
obscurity or because they never did anything. We
did not know what their chances might be.
An Original Idea. —The Atlanta Intelligencer
calls “ Sam Houston ,” of Texas, a “ Statesman ”/
Verily it is the first time we over heard such a
suspicion littered against the “ Hero of San Ja
cinto." We did not suppose that “ Sam" over
aspired to anything above domagogueism l It is
certainly a slandor to call him a * Statesman .”
A serious and moat alarming accident happened
on the 19lh to a passonger train conveying from
two to three hundred passengers, on the Leeds
Northern Railway, while it was passing through
the Era nhope tunnel, consisting of thirteen car
r ages. The tunnel is about two miles in length,
and when the train was about half way through
the arch suddenly fell in, with a groat mass of
superincumbent earth, severing the train in two
and crushing the two foremost of the carriages.—
The engiue passed through, the carriages, with
J the exception of those that wero covered by tho
false arch, run back, the line being on an ascend
ing grade, until they came in contact with a truck
of Irish reapers. One person only, however, was
seriously injured, and ou oxtricating those who
wero buriod in the tunnel it was found that, with
the exception of a lady who had a leg broken, no
one suffered severely except from fright. A groat
quantity of earth and stone, however, had fallen,
leaving a chasm ovor tho arch twenty feet in
heigh:, and it was supposed that some weeks, if
not months, would elapse before the travel could
be resumed.
The complexion of the next, or 84th, Congress
may perhaps be judged of by the members who
have been already elected—l 9of whom are friend
ly to tho Administration, and 67 opposed. In the
present Congross the States that have thus chosen
the r members, aro represented by 48 democrats
an 1 88 Whigs—showing a gain to the opposition
in 84 members elected, of 53.
Sir John Franklin.
Tho Savannah Republican contains tbe follow
ing derpa’ch:
New York, Oct. 20.—A dispatoh has been re
ceived at Montreal (Canada.) from Sir George
Simpson, Governor ot tbe Hudson Bay Territory,
giving a full and melancholy narration of the par
ticulars rolativo to the discovery of the remains
of Sir John Franklin, and the company under his
command, who, from the facts ascertained, were
starved to deatii, iu tbo Sp ing of 1850, near Fox
liver, in tho vicinity ot the North Pole.
Mr. Soule, our Minister to Spain, who has re
cently boon on a visit to France, complains of hav
ing been very closely scrutinized by tho authori
ties of that country. An honeßt man will bear
watching, and not only will not suffer thereby,
but will, in consequence, appear to bettor advan
tage.
Great Suffering.— Recent accounts from Hong
Kong mention that the ship Hygeia had been
wrecked and completely lost on a shoal in the
Chinese Sea. She had on board five hundred
Chinese passengers, who landed upon a small Is
land where they could obtain neither wood nor
water, and for twenty-three days had no other
means of sustaining life than by eating grass and
roots. The sufferings of these poor people can
scarcely be imagined. The United States Survey
ing brig Porpoise was despatched to the wreck,
and succeeded in taking them all off, and convey
ing them safely to Hong Kong, except four men
who died on tho island, and one who perished irr
mediately after getting on board the Porpoise.—
The latter was so crowded with this throng of
passengers that her crow had actually to sleep in
bertopa.
South Carolina Congressional Election .—John
McQueen, William Aiken, Lawrence M. Koitt,
Preston 8. Brooks, James L. Orr, and William W.
Boyce, tho present Representatives in Congress
from that State, have all been ro-electod as mem
bers of the next Congress. In the districts repre
sented by Messrs. Aiken, Koitt, Orr, and Boyce
there was no opposition to their re-election. Mr,
McQueen was opposed by J. . Wilson and Mr.
Brooks by A. C. Garlington.
There ia considerable donbt whether the vote
in Pennsylvania will not be adverse to a Prohibi
tory Liquor Law, notwithstanding the movement
was greatly aided by its connection with other
popular issues. In Philadelphia and Pittsburg
the vote in favor of it was largo, but the farming
districts are said to have voted against it general
ly. Lancaster county give 2,000 majority against
it.
A grand onslaught of the borers and applicants
for special legislation is to be made at the next
Congress. They build their hopes of success on
the fact that many of the members have not been
re-elected, and that with les s fear of their constit
uents they will be more open to the influence of
friendly presents, long running notes, and free
champagne suppers.
The celebrated “Doostickß,” describing a New
York boarding house, says you can always tell
when they get a new hired girl by the color of the
hairs in the biscuit.
The Steamer Atlantic sailed from New York
for Liverpool on Saturday the 14th mat., carrying
$894,675 in specie.
The court martial for the trial of the deserters
of the Independence, was closed on the North
Carolina on Monday last. It is «aid that Hazzard,
the ringleader—the man who threatened to kill
Midshipman Miller—was found guilty of the
charges preferred against him, and sentenced by
the court to the Penitentiary in the District of Co
lumbia, at h*rd labor, during the term of hiß na
tural ilfe. President Pierce has mitigated the sen
tence of Hazzard. He made the punishment two
years and a half in the penitentiary, about the pe
riod for which he enlisted in the naval service*
Hazzard and two others, all double ironed—that is,
hands and legs—left New York for their new quar
ters, on Wednesday afternoon, in the steamship
Roanoke, for Norfolk, in charge of a marine guard.
There are now six candidates for the office of
Mayor of New York, supposing all the nominees
accept the profferod honor, viz: Whig, John J.
Herrick; Hard Shell, Augustus Schell; Soft
Shell, Fernando Wood; Independent, John N.
Genin; Reform, Wilson G. Hunt; Temperance,
C. C. Leigh. The Know Nothings will no doubt
have their cardidate also, baton the other hand it
is not probably that Mr. Genin will accept.
The Vermont Standard reports that Mr. Alonzo
Lillie, of Bethel, Vt., has been detected in a series
of forgeries to the amount of some $15,000. He is
now in austody, but it is supposed that a compro
mise will be effected by which he will escape a
trial.
Captain Luce.— The New York Express states
that Captain Luce is a native of Alexandria, in the
State of Virginia, and was regularly bred to the
profession of a seaman. He at one-time comman
ded a ship from the port of Petersburg, Virginia;
he was afterwards, for some years, commander of
the ship Const- Uation, 'one of Hermit's line of
Liverpool packets, from which ship he was trans
ferred to the command of the steamship Arctic—
the finest and most costly of the Collins atesmers
—and be soon rendered himßelf a popular favorite
among passengers, by his true seaman like quali
ties and courteous manners. Captain L'oe is
ibout 47 years of age, and lives in Yonkers, New
York.
Wild Cat Money. —The Wash'ngton Star cau
tions the public against the reception of the notes
of the Arlington and of the Farmers' and Mer
chants' Banks of Washington. Both are worth
less, being mere Wild Cat machines started there
for the purpose o? floodiog the country with their
I irresponsible issues.
' p *'« oldest church now existing in the U. States
is one near Smituuv.-, ' r,h «rtes i, ba
ginia. It was bnilt in the reign o, ~_
tween the years 1380 and 1635. The brick, lime
and timber were imported from England. The
timber is English oak, and was framed in England.
The structure is of brick, ereoted in the most sub
stantial manner. The mortar has become so hard
ened that it wili strike fire in collision with steel.
The Columbia Carolinian regrets to learn from s
private source that Col. H. W. Gist’s gin house, at
bis “ Home Place,” with forty bales of cotton, was
destroyed by fire some time last » eek.
The most melancholy pert of the accident was
that a negro boy perished in the flames. It is
thought that the fire was caused by the friction of
the machinery.
Ohio and Penns' lya ;xa Railroad. —The follow -
lag i» a comparati es dement of the business of
the Ohio and Pennsylvania Railroad for the month
of September:
Receipts in September, 1354, $l2B 441.59
Receipts in September, 1858, 80,674.88
Increase, 142,567 21
Receipts in first 9 months of 1854, $754 914 92
I>o. “ •« 1858, 445,728.24
Increase (69 por cent.) #8v)9,191.68
The receipts of 1854 were estimated by S’. W.
Roberts, Esq. Chief Engincor and Superintendent,
at $900,000; but from present indications they
will exceed a million.
An Amkrican Piuma Donna. —A new artistic
star hca arisen recently in Daily, that boasts of
American origin, in the per on of Madame Lucia
Escott. She has already achieved wonders in Daly,
whore she has been educated, and the English
press speaks delightedly of hor recent perform
ances in that country. Her farewell benefit, pre
vious to visiting England, was a triumph scarce
known since the days ot Malibran. It was attend
od by the officers of the frigate Cumberland, who
applauded their giftod couutrywoman most raptu
rously.
During the months of June, July, August and
September, there werj 911 deaths in Buff 10, be
ing an average of 227% a month or 57 por woek.—
The population of Buffalo in 1850 was 42,261 ; so
that tho mortality por woek has been os one to
every 741 of the population. The deaths by chol
era, during the some period, have been 545.
The Ohio and Indiana Railroad is finished to tho
State liae of Indiana. There is now a continuous
railroad from Pittsburg to that point, spanning
the great State of Ohio. Three miles and a half
of iron remain to be laid to connect Pittsburg and
Fort Wayne. In a few days the road will bo open
ed to Fort Wayne.
Daniel Chandler of Concord, N. H., has been
sentenced to tho State prison for life, on convio
tion of having altered a switch, which caused a
train of oars to be thrown from tho track of tho
Concord railroad.
An invention has been patented to close a hot
tie by a common cork, without wiring or tying.
Ihe cork, instead of being inserted, as usual, in
the neck of the bottle, is inserted into a passage
nearly at right angles to the neck. The pressure
of the gas acts upon it laterally only, and not on
its end, and therefore does not tend to expel it.
We regret to learn from a private source, says
tho Columbia Carolinian, that Col. W. H. Gist’s
urin house, at his “ Home Place,” in Union District,
with forty bales of cotton, was destroyed by fire
sometime last week. The most melancho'y part
of the accident was that a negro boy perished iu
the flames. It is thought that the fire was caused
by the friction of the machinery.
According to tho census of 1850, the total num
ber of churches in Virginia was 2,858; thoir ag
gregate accommodation, 850,416; total value of
property, $2,856,076. Tho Methodist had tho
largest number of ©hutches, namely, 1,025; tho
Babtists, 649 ; Presbyterians, 450 ; Episcopalians,
178.
The Rev. Mr. Bassets a Roman Catholic Priest
of Bangor, Maine, was tarred and feathered, and
ridden on a rail at Eiisworth, in tho same State
on Saturday evening. Ho had been previously
threatened.
A Panic. —The Louisville Journal ot Monday
Bays a good doal of constornation was caused in
tbatoity on Saturday by the refusal by the brokers
and merchants of tho notos of the Indiana free
banks. Tho cause of this is that n largo amount
of this money is now held by the brokers and tho
business community, and tho banka decline to
redeem it thoinselvos or convert it into Eastern
exchango unless at a heavy discount. Tho hanks
will probably make some arrangement for its
redemption, or windup.
The late venerated Dr. Sharp (himself an En
glishman) was reported to have made the follow
ing remark, daring his last and only visit to his
native country, to some one who spoke slightingly
of the statesmanship of America: “It you can
point me to a succession of as talented and virtu
ous Sovereigns of England as you find tho eleven
men who have filled oousecutivoly the Presidential
chair of tho United States, then I will yield.”
There was no reply to this.
Snow. —The ground was covered with snow to
the depth of two inches in Montreal, on Monday
morning, 16th inst. Tho hills of Vermont were
likewise white with snow on the same day.
The Plymouth Roch, said to bo the mOBt elegant
river-steamer ever built, has been placed on tho
route between New York and Boston. Her di
mensions are: Length of keel 825 feet; length on
deck 885 feet; breadth of hull 40 feet; breadth
over guards 72 feet; dopthof hold 18 foot; regis
ter, 1,700 tons Custom House measurement.
Another Tbeatt. —A letter dated Porto Cabollo,
September 26. says Mr. Eamos, American minis
ter, has sneceeded in “negotiating a treaty be
tween tho United States aDd this republic, a copy
of wltioh has been transmitted to Washington.
Senor Don Jnan de Dios Ramos Yzynierda, a
Commander in the Spanish Navy, m now visiting
Portland, Mo., on business eonnocted with the
Spanish government. He is intrusted with a
commission to select the best place for building a
number of vessels for tho use of the Spanish Na
vy, and is examining the advantages of Portland
with a view to that purposo.
The Bangor Whig learns that Thomas Drew-
Esq., recently deceased, has left by his will tho
sum of $20,000 for the establishment of a Farm
School for boys.
The Armv. —Six officers and three hundred and
forty-five men will leave New York on the 20th
inst., for Corpnß Christi, whence they are to he
distributed among different military posts, to fill
vacancies occasioned by expired terms of scrvieeß,
desertion, &o.
Chootaws Returned to Mississippi. —The Jack
son Morcury Bays that orowdsof Choctaw Indiars
have been passing through that city for several
days, returning from Arkansas. The Mercury
surmises that they will have to bo removed again
at Government expenses.
Cbarleiton Board of Health.
Office of Cut Rkgjsteb, i
8 tnday, Oot. 22, 9P. M. |
There have been 10 deaths from Yellow Fever
fir the past 48 honrs.
JOHN L. DAWSON, M. D., C. R.
Emigrants for Kansas are etill flocking wert
wardly, notwithstanding the advanced state rd the
season. The fourth New England party started
from Worcester on Tuesday. It is the largest
which has yet gone out from thence. Another
party of thirty two from Maryland has passed
through Alexandria for Nebraska, as the telegraph
says, bat no doubt for Kansas. At Culpepper,
Vi'ginia, thoy were to be joinod by another party.
It has been proposed at Washington to erect by
subscription, m the Congressional Cemetery, a
monument to the gallant and faithful Holland,
who die ! firing the signal gun on the ill-fated
Arctic.
A Madrid correspondent describing the interest
the poorer classes take in a bull fight, says that a
week or two ago a man actually cutoff bis wife’s
hair while she was a sleep, and sold it, in or to
raise money for the purpose of seeing the fight.
In the Canadian Parliament the Attomoy Gen
eral has introduced the clergy reserves seculariza
tion bill. It gives the entire fund to tho munici
pal councils, and secures all the claims of the in
cumbents.
New Phase or Democbaot .—The Baltimore Ar
gus Bays that “new organizations aro already in
the field, whose objects are tho overthrow of the
Constitution and the establishment of a tyranny,
without law, basod simply upon the will of a
majority." What a wonderful change adversity
mukes in the views of a professional politician.
“The majority” has heretofore been regarded as
infallible and almost omnipotent.
There were 272 interments in New Orleans for
the week ending on Sunday, the 15th inst., at 6
a. m. As compared with the previous week, this
shows a decrease of 66 on the total number and of
78 on the yellow fever oases. One or two cola
snaps will doubtless destroy the latter disease en
tirely.
The number of those who have died since the
commencement of the Christian era, is estimated
at three billions one hundred and forty millions.
The Ohio Central Railroad is to bo opened about
the 80ta of this month from Wheeling to Colum
bus.
IttZUBRECTIONAHY MOVEMENT AT RlO.— A curious
insurrectionary movement has taken place at Rio
Janeiro, growing out of the passage of a law by the
Chamber of Deputies depriving the officers of the
army below colonel, and the Corresponding offi
cers in the navy of the right of marriage without
the consent of Government. This caused a de
tection among some of the troops and ten of
the officers were arre ted and imprisoned —
The women were active in getting up the excite
ment by the reproaches with which they assailed
the officers whenever they appeared rn public.
The member who introduced the obnoxious bill
would have been mobbed but for tho protection
afforded by the police.
The Brazillian government was considering a
bill for the opening of the Amazon to all nations,
and it has bought back the exclusive right to i
navigate it, which it granted some years ago to i
some of its citizens. It pays $55,000 per yoor for t
20 years to get it back. It is now thought it win 1
pass before the session closes. — Balt. American. -
Brrasme Tradx.-Io » n ( X , p?™wfpßP«
with one of th ® P r ,° ( P r ‘® t Q»°hi informed us -iat
Manufactory, at A \ .’ Ilum ber of shipments of
he ha. recently »»*£ £Cn 8 Utica a'd has re
printing P a P®?j® from Kew York than he could
2LW40» l interfering with the auppliea
D 6“ : ■ * goaihern customers. A ebon time
n«i in this sod e num-
_ * r—wi Hew
since nearly all the P 3! -
her of the adjoining States was imported
York and Philadelphia.- Atlanta InUUxgmcer.
A New Test — a ®ar >tal thing that wsb of A. F.
Bell of lonia, who by the way never said a bad
thinlr in his life. A knot of democratic politicians
were collected after the Congressional Convention
of Kalamazoo, on Thnrß Jay, when the subject of
State • ffiiera came np, and the name of Sullivan,
of Case county, waa mentioned in connection with
the o£S<m c f Attorney General. Tne person who
recommended him was arked, “What kind of a
man is he 1” Oh, first rate fellow, was the answer.
‘•A got si lawyer, a perfect gentleman, and an up
right hence t man.” Hold on there, said Bell, “we
want no new testa Introduced into oar patty.
Ftr the Chronicle cfc Sent nd.
Soul ern Maaonic Femalry College.
Mr. Editor - VY i I yon grant me a space in your
journal for 'he purpose of bringing before tho
minds of it o M asonSc fraternity, and to thoir favor
able notice, tie. r interc:. , ... .| win ■ lit to he
their prido, tho Son'.hcru Uuaunio h'< male College
that tho inquiry may bo instituted in i|. , r
“ What ought to bo done for ti e Mi. ouic F male
Collage?” For ton ethiug should ho done—some
thing must Do done. Shall tin. Grand Lodge, a‘tor
adopting it, permit it for waut ot wholesome nour
ishment and proper eultotr, to languish, pine ai d
die—die ingloriousiy— starve ? Shall u, O |; lt | 0
bantling, fall of worth in itself, bo led 10 die lor
want of pecuniary aid ? Did the Grand Lodge ro
eoive it us a g.Xt through mere courtesy, noh a
view to let it eke itaown support and life, or dwin
dle out a miserable exiatenoe, and with its expir
ing wail, cast on unfading and mnUorous stigma
on Mas jury ? Or to carry it o:t with fostering care,
watching over it with -I the deop devotodne.-s of
maternal solicitudo until it shall attain maturity—
tower aloft as 010 of her most majestic temples
whoso altarshall prove cue of learning’s noblest and
most sacred sanes— sending forth itstripple waters
cf ianb, Hope and Charity from a fountain pure!
Shall the clouds of inalteu ion aud neglect bedim
lorevor this embryo sun ot virtue, li'erature aud
liberty, and prevent its effulgent rays of light
from falling with benign inlluenco abroad ever our
country—f-om waking many a giant intellect from
the gloom of ignorance and its imbecile slumbers!
Or shall Masons eo.no to the rescue, and make her
not only the prido of the “sunny South,” but of
the entire fraternity—a monument worthy to per
petuate to“-al! coming time tiie truth oi Masonic
charity ?
Brethren—Shall we see h'r proud swelling form
and flue growing proportions dwindle, die, uu
helped and unattended? Oh no I let na all come
round wilh opon hands and liberal purees and de
posit upon her ho y sltrino that which alone is
suffioietit to keep one. aid her growth until sic shal
tower aloft a splendid light-house, a polar star to
beckon to fio de of \irtuous and literary ronewn
our daughters—to guide them in tho paths of re
ligion aud soienoe, that thoy may go forth to the
h gh destiny that awaits them, os Minerva from
tho brain of Jovo, armed for hor holy purpose, to
answer the demands of society, to swell tho tide
of virtuous action aud to become competent mo
thers.
Bat wo must consider tho motives that should
prompt ns to action, aud tbc incentives that de
mand of us to do. Firstly, Covington is a healthy
locatiou with n society high-toned, moral and re
ligions, and is easy of access. Sooondly, it has a
f lenity second to none i the State, wilh na apara
tus fall and entire in every department, with but
few equals in tho South. Thirdly, it is Masonic
adopted by tho Grand Lodge, ami tho only iusti
mticn of tho kind in tho State, and ought, by al 1
moans, to bo maae a gem. By whom ? By tho Mu
sjnio Fraternity. “For ho oho will not provide
fir hie own household ia worse than an ii.fidel.”
Why by them? Became it is the child of llto
Grand Lodge. Who arc tho Grand Lodge? The
oflleets of Biuo Lodges, and . aoh Blue Lodge Is en
titled to a reproscutuLivo. Thus wo see that the
Blue Lodges are composed of tho ontiro f.-aternitv
and they elect officers as their Leads and t o renioßon
thorn iu annual convocations, and this body cr as
semblage is tho Grand Lodge. Therefore, the adopt
tiouofthoCollego, is but tho nctol the whole frater
nity. Then brothren, lot us no longer bo inaotive
aud see our child, which should be oar darling, die 1
no, our character is at stake. Then oomo up to
the work, aud lot us or.dow it. Yes, givo it an
endowment of O.io Hundred Thousand Dollars.
This will not only cloar it ot all eueumberanoes,
bat the income will bo amnio to the education of
all tho orphan daughters of worthy deceased
brethren, and also, tho dnugnlors of poor and in
digent brothers; and not only this, hut othora out
side of our own pale, that arc destitute could be
educated. What a grand aud pleasing contem
plation—ah 1 that affords heurt-folt pleasures. Is
it not worthy our bust efforts ? Then hero is the
field for our bonevolent labors, and an object
worthy the bestownn-ut of our charities.
Then, come one, come all, and let us make a
pall—a strong pull—a long pall, nod a pull ail
togolbor. Lot the College be endowed. Let hor
course bo gloriously onward, aud aho shall prove
one oi tho mightiest refining agent.-’ upon socioty,
and the world, and advancing civilization and en
lightenment, with their thousand toug ed choirs
shall proclaim the woudorous achievements of her
benevolent deeds. And if Masonry will foster hor
as it ought, when her sister institutions be left be
hind in her tapid advancement, or ago, with his
wasti g years, shall shuke them ta their rain, and
leave them tottering, or falling fabrics, sho shall
stand one alone unchanged by time—only for the
better, uninjured by decay—only growing more
sublime hy tho dignity of its accumulated years;
but amid tho jarring strifo and struggles of par
ties, sects, creeds, and tho world—aided by tho
strong tie of unity, accompanying and aiding in the
men ai and morul oulturo of n unkind, shall stand
as serene and puaceful—
its srnie fall cliff that lifts Us awful form,
Swells from ttie vale and mid way meets the storm;
1 hou. h round its brea-t the rolling clouds aiest read,
Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
A Mason.
Atlanta, Hu., Oct. 12th, 1554.
State lilcrlton.. _
Pennsylvania,— Tho official returns, so faros re
ceived, givo Pollock, for Governor, 83,8E7 majori
ty. The cottmicß to hear from will probably in
crease this mujotity somewhat. In twenty two
oountios—all from which tho returns have yet been
received—there is u majority rs 12,009 against a
Prohibitory Liquor Law. Tho Stute Seriate will
consist of 1? Democrats, 14 Whigs, and 2 Ameri
cans. Tho House will consist cf 82 Administra
tion Democrats, uni 1 08 Whigs and Anti-Nebraska
Democrats.
The Ohio oloction has resulted iu the choice of
the following tnombets of Congrcs-, all of whom
are opposed to tho present national Ado inistra
tion:—lst district, Timot by C. Day, Whig; 2d dis
trict, J. Scott Harrison, Wing; lid district, Lewis
D. Campbell, Whig; sth district, K. Mott, Demo
or. t and Anti Nebraska; 7th district, Aaron Har
lan, Whig; Bth district,BenjaminHtunton, Whig:
9th district, C. K. Whitson, Auli Nebraska Demo
crat; 10th dl.-trict, O F. Moor", Wing; 11th dis
trict, Culver, Freesoil; 12 h cistrict, 8. Gellowtiy,
Whig; Ifltb district, J. Hhormi n, Whig; 14th dis
trict, P. Bliss, Freesoil; 10th district, W. If Sapp,
Whig; 18th district, Kdy.-i.rd BhII, Whig; 18th dis
trict, H. F. Loiter, Arli Nebraska Democrat; 19th
district, Edward Wade, Freesoil: 2(nh district, J.
H. Biddings, Freesoil; 21st district, J. A. Bingham,
Whig. Hamilton county, in which the city of
Cincinnati ! s located, gave Pierce over four thou
sand majority for President in 1862, but now gives
the American ticket seven thoni-and majority.
Indiana. —The following members ot Congress
hr.ve been elected in this State, all with tho excep
tion of tho two first named being opposed to the
Administration:
Smith Miller, Wm. H. English, Goorge G. Dunn,
David P. Holloway, Will Cttmhack, Lucian Bar
bour, Harvey D. Kcolt. Dank 1 Macs, Schuyler Col
fax, Samuel Brcnton, John U. Pettit.
Michigan —Upton (Ami-Nobraska Whig) is
elected o I r Graveraat (Detn.) in tho Lake Superior
Senatorial D'strict by a small majority. It i- the
first time that country e'er returned a Whig.—
Baltimore American,
Laud Rktenvxs or the Umtbd Statk-i.—The
joint influence of high prices >cr 1 cod, i:r- i im
migration, and tho extension of railroad facilities,
have imparted to land settlements an extraordina
ry stimulus during tho past year. The quantity of
land sold has been a» follows to June
Quarter. 1852. 1853 1854.
September 30 581,892 415,940 1,480,562
December 81 589,"46 248,587 2,228( 70
March 81 024 858 422,< £9 2,012 908
Juno 80 247,943 585,622 2,745,798
Total 2.043,240 1,007,085 8,470,798
Total in 1851 2,852,802
Total in 1850 1,859,894
Tho result is a very remarkable one in this par
ticular, viz: that large as has been tho increase in
the customs revenues of the federal government,
it has been less than the increase of rovonoo de
rived from lands, Tho sum of th ■ sales is $8,470,-
798—a larger amount than has been t old in *uy
one year Rince the famous “specie circular” stop
ped tho credit suits of ihe public domain, in the
year 1820 wus sold of the public lands 20,074,871
acres.
1841 1,164,796 1847 2,521.805
1842 1,129 217 1348 1,867,658
1848 1 605 2 4 1849 1,892,902
1844 1 754 793 1850 1 4 >5.838
1845 1.848 527 1851 2,i >66,120
1840 2,268,781 1852 884,779
Total for twelve years 19,856,606
Tho sales of the present year are over 6,“00,000
acros, notwithstanding that large sales fur settle
ment have been made by laud companies, under
grants from government. Tho high price of food
in 1847 gave a stimnlus to the purchase of land,
of which the aales were larger in that year than
any other of tho twelve. During tho past year
this impulse has been very much urea’ or, because
tho extent of ruilrouds opened in the new districta
has made tho land available.
The Gbinnell Expeobinb Exhibition.—The
New York Herald publishes a letter from Mr.
Adamsj i-urgeon of the brig Ad vance, commanded
by the intrepid Kano, written in Baffin’s Bay, in
July, 1853. Tho health of the persons composing
tho expedition contiued good, and on enlhusias
ticdetermination to presevero in endeavoring to
ascertain the fate of the long lost Franklin ani
mated ouch and all of the gallant party. Accord
ing to the i>lan agretd upon before tho Advanco
left New York, her arrrival there may be looked
for daring the present month or early in Novem
ber. Should she full to reach port within that
time, it will probably be because Capt. Kane had
determined to continue hiß researches in tho
Arctic regions for another season. The searching
expedition under Sir Edward Belohor, whose re
turn to England has been announced, state that
they were unable to obtain any information of the
American expedition alter it loft Apernvik. —Ball
Amer.
A Model Clerk.—Young man. I called to
see about ti e clerkship >ou advcrUsod as vacant.
Old Gent. “Hem 1 Have you got a grid watch
and chain, a fast horae, diamond rmg, six tn ts of
clothes, a ball dog, a thousand c.gais, a cask of
brandy end an as-ortment of canes?’
Young man. “Yes, sir, got’em all.”
Old Gont. “Then you’ll amt. My other o’erk
furnished himself with all these out of the till, so
as yon’ro supplied, I’ll save the expenoe.
Loss or tub Ship St. Thomas, ox New York.—
Capt. McGowan of the steamship Crescent City,
arrived this morning from Havana. Informs us or
the loss of the ship St. Thomas, of New York, from
Manzanila (Cuba) for London, with a cargo of ma
hogany, cedar, &0., on the 15th August, on J .rdi
nefie bank. Capt. Merrill, of the St. T. came homo
in the Crescent City.—A. Y. Com. Advt., lith inst.
Fatal Kbnoontre. —ln a rencontre at the house
of llr. B. Br-ke, of this oounty, we learn that a
young man by the name of Thomas Moultrie, of
Washington county, waa accidently shot with his
own pistol, on Thursday, tho 12lh inßt., and died
from the wound on the following Tuesday. This
is another iDstauceof the evil of oarrying concealed
weapons and dratn-drin in Southern iUccrder
-■ -in, « white frost, we are
Whits Frost.— lot,- '”ve,ter»
gratified to learn, in tne upper wants u,...., „
day morning, and it was to eool last night as to
induce us to believe that in a day or two we ahall
be enabled to announco the advent of Jack Frost
himself.
At Summerville, yesterday morning, white frost
was also visible—the thermometer indicating, at 8
o’clock, 88 deg. At noon the mercury stood at 80
deg.—OA. Cour.
Boston, Oot. 16.—The Hon. Jared Perkina, the
representative trim Che-hire in the last Congress,
died at hi* residence in Nashua on Saturday last.