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Chronicle & Sentinel.
ECROPEAN WTEL LICENCE,
Fr-mtkt S. T■ J&ralt, Oct. 81.
DETAILS BY IH* PACIFIC.
Th v t«u.*b.rC.«, ofof
iS'‘ Dd 18 * hoar8 -
mean time. Jacket arrived in tfceMer-
Tne Clipper *>• *P *. flnpdav. the 16th, with ad
-0» ■ '*’• ■S?'A&ost 1, hiving ac-
SSuh. rou.r U trip in TB# day*, not with
rjvr? u.vii.g lo*t sometime in the ice. The
i Jacket tr.de ihc ran oat, from the Mersey to
ihc"»nohor«go st Melbourne, in 69>< d»ys, thus
completing the voyage from Liverpool to Austra
lia and back in five months and eleven days, be
ing the most rapid voyage ever made. On her
voyage out her average days work was 206){ miles,
ue si lilies: progress 50 miles, and her greatest
4 m.iesin 24 hours. On her return the average
apood w k 25miles, smallest days run El mile*,
greatest 870 miles. The J acket brought 45,-
u■ ■ ounce- of gold and 28,000 sovereign-. She
reports the Lightning and Cairngorm dippers ar
rived out. The Guiding Star had also arrived at
Liverpool with 60,000 ounces of gold and Mel
bou i e dates of July 85.
The Canard steamer Asia arrived off Holyhead
at noon, and at Liverpool at seven o’clock evening
of Saturday, the 14:h, bringing no news whatever
of the unfortunate Arctic.
The Canadian mail steamer Ottawa arrived at
Liverpool at 5.16 P. M. of the 18th, also without
intelligence of the Arctic.
Ti i follow, og notice was posted In the Under
writers rooms at Liverpool:
T. o royal mail steamer Canada, spoken on the
morning of trie 6th inst., by the steamer Arabia,
made greet exertions to commanieate with the
latter, hat the only word heard was “saved.”—
hhe then telegraphed the Arctic’s number and so
vcr-i other signals, but the vessels were by that
time too far apart for tncra to be made oat.
Tin. erri-.iil ol the Hermann was looked for with
anxi' y, n the hope that she might bo the bearer
of gratifying news.
The zar 1.... declared martial law in the govern
ments of Chartow, Poltawa and Kiew.
T; o Council ol Tanaimat has been appointed in
accordance with the d cree of the Sultan, men
tioned x ■' .mo s lice. Ali Pasha i? president,
but huii i Lffjadi is the ruling spirit. TneConncii
cou. ot A . Pasha, Mebemet Enchdi, Eitaat
and llifr Pachas, Euchti Holla Ltfandi, Fund
Edendi.
UortnehakcfT, it is said, Is appointed Generalissi
mo of the fo’Cea on the Austrian border.
At the recoDt great fire in lieinel the whole
place would have been burned down bad it not
been tor the exertions of the American and English
sailors .nen in port. ... ..
Mr. Upton, an Englishman, settled in the
Crimea, son of an ongineer of fortifications in
Sebastopol, lias been tssen prisoner by the Brit
ish, and i- sent to Lord Kaplan’s headquarters! to
have information extracted from him respecting
the work..
Advice* from Portugal are very unfavorable
both is. regardo the wine districts, and the general
position of affairs commercially. At Lisbon,
numerous failures had oocorred, including some
of the Flench houses established there, as well os
several firms.
Cholera continued tospread in Dablin.
La-patches from Madrid of October 11th state
that the foreign refugees have received orders to
leave that city wit hin eight days. Tho.>e only who
Can give good reasons for their residence, or can
offer security for their good conduct, will be al
lowed to remain. . ,
The Bulletin do Lois contains an imperial dc
cree reinstating M. Jerome Bonaparte in h.e quali
ty a* Frenchman. Hi* non, Lieutenant Bonaparte,
ba« ioined tho army of the Ea*t.
The follow »if telegraphic intelligence, of the
Ulb ult from Constantinople, is from tho Fresae :
__ it for tho lirrsi time for four hm ■cl red yearn, a
cr oHH was poblidy erected in tho Turkish ca* ital.
j, Wl „ w iii c a funeral muss was read lor Marshal
fl.. A-nau'l.”
Thu London Times nays The accounts of the
gtate of ir«iio in the raanu’acturing towns during
t io pa-t wc :k show fomo dullness, although with
tin? exception of Manchester, confidence is every
whore maintained. At that place the transactions
l.uvo been limited, and tho depression caused by
the recent failures has not passed ( ff. Tho Bir
mingham reports describe no alteration in the iron
tru Tho demand is generally steady, and in
tho manufacture of plates for shipbudding there
it> iucr - isod activity, caused by the government
o» li i :• for gunboats, to bo complete 1 by the spring.
Notwiths’nuring the present maintenance of
pr; •>i -omo persons entertain doubts regarding
Its permanence, owing to the continued augmenta
tion of f irnaocs. In ’ho < opper trade there is re
new' 1 firmucs.*, and th 1 : business of the district
altogc' -r is still characterized by freedom from
failure, being in almost a'l instances well
me’. Ai Nottingham, although the American or
dors in consequence of tho embarrassments on
that side, are unprecedentedly small, quotations
are rtLuiy, and tho home demand is active. In
tho w rollon district* prosperity still prevails. The
Irish linen markets continue heavy.
Tint War—The news from the Crimea is—no
thing! A multitude of private letters, tclegraphio
nod revivals of old nows, is found in
tho Eng’i b and Continental papers, but none of
ti. so r fie that Bo has tonal is tuken, nor that the
allies have ma io much progrosH towards taking it.
Lord Raglan’s late despatches say that heexpec
ted to “open tiro” in a iew days, and private let
ters add that an attack on the outworks was fixed
for the yth inst. Menscliikoff kopt tho field to the
northwest of Sebastopol. Tho positiou of tho al
lies was strong, a d easily defensible against on
attack from the landward. Tho allied extreme
right leans on the slope of tho mountains east of
Halaklava, which run down like immense walls to
Aloushta. Tho body of tho right wing 1b at Ka
n.ara, nod outposts aro posted on th« Bluek river.
The centre occupies the roads hading from Kudi
koi to Sebastopol, and from Bakshisoral to Balak
lav i The body of the left wing ie at Karani: the
ontposts ot Khutor. Tho allies’ siege artillery,
with 60,000 gabeons fascines and piles, have been
disembarked, ami have mostly readied the camp.
Monscbikoll has 100 field guns with ids army.
On tho 4th a oauonadetook place between some
KngUsh steamers and the tjuarautme fort at Odes
sa; nothing resulted.
Russia continues :o amass troops upon the Aus
train frontier, but has scarcely a rogiment on the
Prussian. The inference i» plain. Tho Czar at
lerrnh distrusts Austria, and has on arrangement
with Prussia. Confirmatory of this supposition,
rumor at Vienna says that a secret treaty actually
does exist between Russia and Prussia with le
aped to tho Turkish war, in which treaty Russia
strio'ly lavs down the limits within which Prussia
may make u sham alliance with the German Pow-
"Vn iho orovod ol so-oallod “itespatolies,” tho
following uro tho only onoa that indicate any pro
er. »■* in the operation* ; ~,,,,,
ViknmAi Oct. 16 —Evotuuf?. —Lord Kagland has
written to Omar Pacha that tho regular aoigo of
Sebastopol would bos in on tho sth mat., and, ho
thought, tho fort rose would bo talton in ton duys.
Vienna, t.'ct 17,1654.—1 tis reported fronyUon-
Bta ui’ioplo, 5Mi inst., that tho Hussions, 20,000
strong, nndor Uenscldkt if, have boon win bea
ten and that the southern heights (of Sobastopol)
art taken. The aurrondor of the city is looked
fbr between tho 13th and lflih inst.
.A-ninst those set tho following, received from
i-t' 'Pktvusuoho, Oot. 15, 1954.—Nothir g of im
portation hid ho 'll undertaken against Sebastopol
ton h ot O-tnbor, being last novices.
The K issions seem tolly determined to defend
the Crimea, oven should Sebastopol tall. Asa
proof of the importance attached to the defence,
ft is currently given out iu Kussia that the Grand
Duko Constantino will himself tako command of
the Southern army. Tho question is discussed
with much earnestness as to the possibility oi roin
forcetnonts reaching Meuschikoff, soas to enable
him to assnniotho otleu- ive i.. the field against the
allies, and compel them to raise the siege. Tho
Russians have alreadv 80,< 00 tnen entrenched at
Btkshisorai ns a nucleus for tile expected reinfor
cements, and the army of the Crimea will be, by
toe middle of October, in a position to operate with
60,000 man in the field, in aid of the bo ieged gar
rison, which numbers SO,OO0 —the total Russian
force thus being 90,000 men.
To meet this torce, tho allies havs at ‘ho prosent
moment, at sea, and on shore, an equal number—
that is to say, 90,000 men, an* they areoontiuually
bringing up rein'orcements, having, of course, the
free command of the sea. Eight thousand addi
tional Td ks nru under orders to embark from Var
na, and th Egyptian otra contingent of T,OOO will
proceed direct from Alexandria to tho Crimea.
The Russians will thus be out numbered, and as
the allies, have scigo artillery, (for which 800,000
shot and shell are already landed,)and all arms of
warfare, there is every probability that Sebastopol
will fall, and perhaps speedily But it by no means
follows ilia: its tail will cud the war. Turkoy is
weil nigh exhausted oi' recruits; Trauce, it is true,
has still, 150,u00 meu to spare; England has not a
sing'a regiment, unless she brings forward hor
Sepoys from India. R , sis, on the contrary, has
immetiso rese yes, and may protract the war inde
finitely.
Tim llAsras.—The Turkish army is ready to se
cond the operations of the allies, and we again
hear that Otoor Pasha is preparing to aesnmetlie
offensive in Bi-sarabia. It is supposed that his
operations wdl ec.mmenoe on three points—the
Truth, tits Dobrndaoha, and the sea.
Tns Bautio.—There can now be little doubt that
the Baltic lie,;. will return homo, without attempt
ing am further operatione. All the smaller Eng
lish s 1 renters have already left, and the whole of
thu French fleet ie on its way to France. The
English Rkihiig fi.et. under Admiral I’lumridge,
was tit Kiei Bay. Admiral Martin, with a small
steam squadron, was among the Aland Islands and
in the Gulf of Bothnia. A squadron, an ter Cap
taiu Watson, wascruis'ug otf tho Gulf oi Finland,
Riga and Onorland. Sir Charles Napier, with the
acre a line of b ittlo ships, had gone to take a last
look of the Unssiaa ships at Helsingfors.
Pot-.mi—There ere various indications, little in
themselves, but amounting to something in the
aggregate, that tho oonrls of Franoe and England
iiavo actually miier consideration the practicabil
ity of re-estaViislung the kingdom of Poland ss an
independent power. Such astrokcof policy,lt ia
believed, is a lavori project of Napoleon 111, who
hopos thereby to cripple Russia’s influence over
the tin man 'Powers, and as the influence of R is
sia diminishes, to build up that cf Franco iu ita
room.
(i rAl> 71,0 Paris corre-pendent of the London
New- writi'g onOt'iber 14, savsThe Xude
reudanoe mentions a rep’ tl that In consequence
of "he rer ated disturhrannes on the Spanish fron
• ss ’he l.ttle repu die of Andorra is to bo parti
ti- neci oic huff he g anneued to Spain, and the
IsV.r grouch department of the Ariego. I
think th s news very unlikely to he true. The
nomine' independence of the pastoral inhabitants
of t> « Valley cf Andorra w»s respected even by
Napoleon I. A very strong ease of necessity meet
be til.. Ie out before either ibe French or Spanish
governments would like to accept the responsibili
tv ot an Bit which would link like an arbitrary as
sertion of dig! over right. Tradition* widely
spread by certain popular operas and tnulo dramas
would enlist s great amount of public syiupatliy
on behalf ot the Andorra shapbordt against any
violent interference with !ho»r vested riff hi to eels
government. Switzerland would tremole at the
precedent.
On the sth the police of Perplgnau, on ropresen- !
tations made by tue Spanish author kits, arrested ]
the Carliat Genera allae M&rsalo, with j
bi* r-ocretary, At the moment when they *crp !
a ' ut lo enter Spain to take part in the imuirrcc- (
lion.
It is. confirmed that Q'toen Christina will come
to hU® visor, f>r the wii tor, bni t-he will »uy yet
a^n«*.rnc at Rayneres de Bigorre. The French
government fca* declined to comply with the re
onr • of tfee cabinet of Madrid, to prohibit her
fro® reeidirg within fifty ieagcee of the
BpaniMi 1 rentier.
Tb* e ect or t are going off quietly. All the min
iate** are named deputies.
C bin a.—Letters from Hc-ng Kong of Asgast 2i,
•tate tfca* political afiun Canton remained in
the aama critical *ti*., and dis&fi'aetion was spread
ing. The insurgents were in f>rce in the
aurtotrvlipg country, and three attempt* were
made to t*k*the city, which, however, faded.—
Bon .m, opposite Croton, era* threatened, and tee
E&t ,n A t w'L revolt
BiMor co nToyc , a>l > •*
»p prosene.' to W fcwnpos l»*h by i.nd snd wii®
were 1!. possession ot the Sttsargcnts. The ir»c«H
of tree bed txwn stopped by thehssvy exactions
dctnsnded; and inquiry for goodd In ,\ng ...-. ;
the bu'ines? at demon bad been limited to ship.’
ping off the toes that were on the tuerket. Ah at
tempt had boeu mad? to effect a compromise with
the Imsnrgects. hnt un«BO-'ese(uily.
The vinaro of Coetoo, oa the onpoeite site of
Hong Kona bey. we* taken possession of on the
night ot the 19 h Augosi, by a band ot piratea.
The nrigborbood w»s occnpied by banditti.
Sir J >bn Bowring, the British Commissioner,
had Visited Foochow, and had uu interview with
the Vioeroy, and with the Cutuose authoritie* a:
Amor. Fighting was going on between the two
fuiiit at Bhangbw, bat U* iotperiaiauappw to
make little progress towards the recapture of the
city, fcamqaa, the late Taouta, had been ordered
to Pekin, to answer Borne charges of the public
censor. Leu had been appointed in his place.
Commissioner McLean had arrived from Shanghae
at Hong Kong. It was understood that he would
return there shortly, with Sir John Bowring, to
nettle the duty question, and would attempt a
trade op the Vang-tse Kiang.
The news of the insurgents in the north is very
scanty, and the impression was that they were
meeting with reverses, and were on the retreat.
The latest Pekin Gazette, dated June 28, contains
nothing interesting. Ali was quiet at Nicgpo to
August 4. At Foochow much activity was going
on in the shipment of teas; a fire had destroyed
1,000 houses. On the 18th, all was quiet at Amoy,
and a fair trade gring on. There w»» no change
in political matters at Namao to the sth of August,
the insurgents being still around the city.
Commodore Perry was to return home next
month, (September.) The American ship Lady
Pierce had arrived at Hong Kong after visiting
Jeddo and Si modi, at which places fthe met with a
favorable reception. The United States ftfcip Sup
ply was at Canton. The British Admiral Stirling
remained at Shanghae, awaiting the arriva of the
French Admiral Lagaerre, in the French frigate
Jeanne of Arc. On’his arrival the onited French
and Enwlish fleet were to proceed to Sitka, to at
tack the Russian ships and forts there.
Later from Australia.—The Red Jacket brought
advices from Melbourne to the Ist August.
Mr. Smith O’Brien has been presented with a
cap of Victoria gold, the proceeds ol a public sub-
Bcri ptioi..
The escorts for the week had brought down 83,-
827 ounces of gold.
There were only about 100 men at the Mount
William diggings, in the place of 700 to 1,000 for
merly. Provisions were exceedingly dear, and £ls
had been paid for a bag of flour.
Gold remained ot £4 per ounce, and stock was
decreasing in consequence of the principal banks
purchasing at the diggings.
There was little change in the labor market, be
yond the fact that the continued influx of emi
grants had kept up a good supply of zna.e and fe
male se/vants. Wages had experienced a slight
decline.
Melbourne, July 81.—Gold still remains at £4
percunce, and a decreasing quantity offering, in
consequence of the large quantity being purchas
ed at the diggings by the‘banks. 12,000 ounces
were received by our principal bank alone last
Monday.—The quantity which has passed through
the hands of the brokers has therefore been very
small. The banka have reduced the price of gold
at Ballarat to 81s. per ounce. The quantity of
gold brought by private hand is largely on the
increase; this is easily deduced from the amount
shipped as compared with toe escorts, the former
having been upwards of 10,000 ounces per week
more than the latte? for the last sue weeks; this
plainly shows the ftffi Aeuoy of lb« police proto*
tion on the roads, and the little reliance to be
placed on the amounts received by escorts as the
total yield of our several fields.
Toe Very Latest .
Ten thousand additional troops are to be in
stantly forwarded from the camp near Marseilles,
to the Crimea. Ode thousand French Marines are
at name time, to be sent to Greece.
Trade at Marseilles is very dull.
There is a report that 20,000 Russians made a
sortie from Sebastopol and were very badly beat
en; no date mentioned. Intercepted letters of
MerischikofTa say that the city cannot hold out;
but this is donbtful.
Lout week the report waa that Schamyl was
beaten; this week, that he is victorious. Possibly
no battle has been fought.
Constantinople letters state that, to tho 4th inst.,
stormy weather had prevented the embarkation of
the Turkish reserve for the Crimea.
A Russian despatch, via Vienna, says that the
French General Canrcbert, after having chosen his
point of atttack, and made every disposition for
the service of the siege, ordered that tho Russian
outposts should bo driven in, on the 12th, to the
main wull before Akhtoar, and that the construe
lion of batteries should be immediately com
menced.
A letter from Marseilles, dated on the 16th Oct.,
says: Each ship ol the allied fleets is to furnish a
company of marines and eight guns, making a
total of two hun .rod guns, to assist in the siege
aud assault on Sebastopol.
Admiral Parseval Deachcnes quitted Kiel 0!> his
return to Franco, wi*h the Inflexible, the Auster
litz, and two steam frigates.
There is overy certainty that immediate steps
will be taken for putting an end to tho indirect
truth; with Russia, carried on through Prussian
ports.
London. —Tho deaths from cholera in London,
week ending 14th Oct., amounted to 249.
From the Detroit Tribune , Oct. 27.
Awful Catastrophe.—-Collision on the (>rrot
\Ventern itailroad.
Through the kindness of W. O. Rnggles, we
are able to givo the particular* of the moat heart
rending and terrible railroad disaster that ever oc
curred in America, iio says a few minutes after
21*. M. yesterday, wo left Niagara Falls with tr e
first class and two second class passenger cars, one
expresa and one baggage car. Afior leaving Hamil
ton wo wero detained about midnight between
Hamilton and London by a froight engine being
oq tho track. After a delay of an hour we started
and reached London six hoars behind time. About
throo miles west of London tho cylinder head of
our engine burst, which delayed us two hours.
We backed down to London, took a now engine
and started again for Windsor. A bout oue o’clock
and about thirteen miles west of Chatham, on the
Baptist Creek Fiats, going about twenty miles an
hour, wo came in collision with a gravel train of
fifteen cars, backing oast. The collision was fright
ful in the extreme.
Our locomotive was completely thrown over to
the right, the express car thrown over and crush
ing tho first and second class cars into mere splin
ters, demolishing the next and making a wreck of
the third car and driving in the end of the fourth.
The passengers in the last cars escaped unhurt or
with slight bruises. Almost tho entire load of the
second class curs were killed or wounded, some
cut completely in two, others with mangled heads
and bodies, and without limbs. The screams and
groans of the mangled were awful in tho extreme.
Every effort was made by the conductor and pas
sengers to relieve the Buffering ; but notwithstand
ing tho almost superhuman efforts to relieve them,
all were not extricated until more than four hours
utter the collision. Among those whose exertions
wore conspicuous in saving the victims arc Thos.
F. Meagher and Junk, the baggage man; Mr. O.
A. lirownson, and others of tho passengers. Heaps
of the dead and wounded were found in the ruins,
piled together in all mangled shapes.
One poor fellow was cut out of the express car,
his limbs hanging out of the side fifteen feet from
the ground. One of the strongest features of tho
accident is, that all the gravel oars were demolish
ed and piled upon eaob, with the tender of the en
gine stove in. The conductor of the gravel train
was on tho rear car, with his signal light, and a
negro boy at his side. The conductor saved him
self by jumping; the negro wus killed.
At the time of the collision there as a denso fog,
it being almost impossible to see lights. Whore
tho blame belongs in this awful catastrophe, wo
know not; but ttiero is gross and culpable negli
gence in the affairs of th > road. The conductor of
tho gravel train says he was ordered out by the
superintendent of tho gravel pit.
Wo ought to mention that on the third car from
the rear, wo had no light at tho time of the collision
and were in total darxness, nor had we anything
hut pieces of oaudles stuck in tubos at any time.
Those had gone out at the time of the collision.
Tho dead are lying around, and being mostly
emigrants, their names cannot bo readily got; but
about iitty are killed outright and many of the
wounded must die, rs which there are about forty
alive. There was one woman buried under a mass
of ruins, and lay there over four hours before she
was cxtiicated. bno must dio. Wo wore thirty
two miles from Detroit aud thirteen from Chatham,
tho surrounding country for miles a vast swamp
and uo aid or physicians at hand, which with the
denseness of tho fog aud frightful screams of tho
wounded for help aud water, rendered it the most
appalling soene imaginable. It was heart sicken
ing. Yet ail was done that could be during the
long flro hours that the miserable unfortunates lay
waiting their turn for assistance. One mau had
six friends with him, all killed. There are whole
families killed, and wo cannot ascertain their
names.
We are informod by R. P. Toms, Esq., of this
city, who was also a passenger on the train at tho
time of the collision, that uo blame can bo attached
to theengineer of the train, as ho had taken every
precaution by telegraphing from oue fetation to
another, by waiting for tains to pass, and by the
strictest orders to run veiy slow to avoid any acci
dent. The censure, he thinks, must rest solely
with those in charge of the gravol traiu, and with
the watchman left to give notice when the last
train had parsed, who, instead of attending to his
duty, seems to have fallen asleep—at any rate ho
gave false information to theengineer. Why the
gravel train wus on the track at such a time, is for
those to explain who have thus caused this fearful
loss of life.
Mr. Toms informs us that wh n he left the scene
of tho disaster, it had been ascertained that 25 mon,
11 women, and 11 children had beon killed, and
21 mon and 20 women and children badly injured
—one half probably fatally. It was thought that
as many as 15 dead bodies were still buried in the
ruins when lie left. Our reporter is now on the
spot, aud will furnish additional particulars,
which we shall publish in an extra. Our citizous
will rejoice to know that Mr. Toms, and a son of
B. H. Holmes, Esq., who wero on board, have
escaped uninjured.
Dr. Watson and family, of 'Williamsburg, were
on tho 11 o’olock train, and rendered great assist
ance to tho wounded.
11 o’clock. —There are about 50 dead and bo
wounded. Some whole families are killed, and no
trace can bo found of their nam s or residence.
Everything is being do no to alleviate tho suffering
of the wounded. Physicians have arrived on the
ground from Chatham. G V. Nutter, the con
ductor, is doing everything in his power for the
distressed.
From tin Detroit Free Press, Oct. 2S.
One of the most dreadful railroad acoiderta that
evor occurred, took place yeaderday morning,
about thirty miles from thia city. The passeuger
train on the Groat Western Railroad, duo here at
11.20 P. M,on Thursday, came into collision, at
five minutes past five A. M. on Friday, with a gra
vel traiu, a sho 1- ' distance cast of Baptist Crock,
i'ho loss of 15 .o ' let ensued was very great. _
The pas*e.%«f train, of which Mr. G. F. Natter
was conductor, and Thomas Smith engineer, iett
tho Suspension Bridge at the usual time on Thurs
day at tornoon. The train consisted of four firet
i class, two second-class, an i two baggage cars, and
| had on board a large number ot paaeengers. At
! St George it came up with a gravel train which
i was off the track, and was delayed in cousequence
j about an hour and a half. When the train had got
j under way again, a freight train was in advance,
\ which it was obliged to follow as !ar as Price ton,
thereby losing considerable more time.
! At lA. M. the train left London. After having
! run three or four miles from tnat place the cylin
der head of the locomotive bursted, which of
eourao brought the train to a standstill. An en
gine wo.- sent from London, which drew the train
back to that place, where another engine was at
lathed, and the train Again started for Wicsor, go
ii g quit£ siow—tho conductor having given orders
to the engineer not to run at a rapid rate, aa the
night was dark and foggy. When the train leit
London the second lime it was about four hours
behiud time.
A tew irinates alter 5 o’clock, when near bap
tist Greek, mo passenger train, which was pro
ceeding at the rate of about twenty miles an hour
came in collision with a grave! train, which wa
backing t wards the east at the rave of about ten
or twelve miles an hour. The gravel train w.is
composed oi fifteen cars, heavily leaded tw:lh wei
gravel. The shock produced by the collision wrs
tremendous.
The second class care was smashed into atoms,
and nearly every person io them killed or drea i
fally ii jured. The first class car was also badly ;
emasned, and moet of the passengers in the front
part of it met with the same fate as the passengers
in the second does cars.
The scene presentea after the collision wt« a !
horrible one. Intermixed with the fragments of j
the broken cars, dead bodies lay i . profusion, \
many of them maag-.c j in the mo t dreadful irian
i er; while from oat the heap of ruins proceedea
the groans and shrieks of tne wc tainted.
The passenger* who were so fortunate as to e*- *
cape ninjured immediately set to work to uraw
out the wouoded and the dead frem the heap of 5
ruins in which ttiey »*s■, As 11 o’clock A. M., the
bodies of twenty five men, gjeven women, and ten |
children, had t een brought to light, and it vra* ;
supposed that from ten to twenty cthei* yet re ;
maicusd to be discovered.
Twenty cue men and twenty women and child- j
reu were found obe badly injured—many of th?m |
n** ver *l of the dej»d wtsre crashed out of j
siihu mAn Bhape » preaeatieg a Lean eickenicg j
brunt or?h ftCC ° clfts< cars ’ which bore tbe main
eo«*ra M iZUZIZVI
?X£22 ;a bQ ‘ —•-
JJr- 8. T. Totne, of ikia citjr, who *« on
the ill fated train, aud from whom we derived the !
greater portion of the foregoing melancholy par- 1
ticulars, informs us that, in the opinion of the pas
sengers, no blame attaches to either the conductor
or engineer of the passenger train.
The train was thrown behind time by a series
of unfortunate circumstance® over which its
officers had no control, and every measure was
taken by them to guard against the occurrence of
eccident.
From all the facts we have been able to ascer
tain, the fault of the accident rests upon a watch
man, who fell asleep upon hie post, and on awak
ing informed the master of the gravel train, that
the passenger train had passed. Supposing this
to be the fact, the gravel train started, and in a
short time came in collision with the passenger
tram. Two men on the gravel tram were killed.
The engineer and fireman of the passenger
train escaped almost miraculously from serious
injury.
Among the passengers on the express train were
Thomas F. Meagher and O. A. Brownson.
At an early hour ia the forenoon yesterday sev
eral physicians from the city left for the scene of
the disaster.
Latxb. —Our reporter has jast arrived (12 P. M.)
from the scene cf me casaality. He reports the
number killed at forty-seven.
The Coroner’s jury will meet this morning at
Chatham, wither the bodies were conveyed last
evening.
Twenty-four men, eieven women and sixteen
childrenj are badly wounded, and were taken to
Chatham. A large number of the paesengere are
more or less bruised.
From the New Orleans Picayune, 2 9th uU.
Later Trom Texas.
By the arrival of the steamship Perseverance last
evening from Galveston, we have San Antonio pa
pers of the 19th, Austin papers of the 21st, and
Galveston papers to the 26i.h inst.
The Western Texan learns from some gentlemen
who arrived from San Antonio from Las Moras, on
the 17th inat., that just as they were leaving there
an express arrived, which left Gen. Smith at Eagle
Springs, this side of E! Paso, stating the fact that
James Campbell, Esq., who left San Antonio a few
months since with some eix or eight others, with a
drove of five hundred cattle, bound o California,
was attacked at Eagle Springs by Indiana, and
plundered of ail his drove—no lives lost aa far as
heard from. The Western Texan furth r learns
that Mr. Campbell met with Gen. Smith at Eagle
Springs, and that he was to accompany the General
to the station at Las Moras, where they were ex
pected to arrive about the 25th inst. The report ib
that the Indians were Muscaleros and Lipans.
Major Stein, commandant at Fort Belknap, was
recently on a visit to Austin. He informed the
editor of the State Gazette that, at last accounts,
ali was quiet among the Indians at Fort Chad
bourne. The old chiefs had arrested ail insubor
dation among the men.
A meeting has been held in Austin to devise a
plan to relieve the community from the pernicious
influence of the Mexican peon population. The
State Times says:
The evils arising from this class of citizens have
become imupportable, and the difficulty of con
victing one of crimes, unquestionably committed,
leaves no other plan than the ejectment of those
against whom snspiciou is so very strong that
summary proceedings seem perfectly justifiable.
Hence, the committee have resolved to expel those
Mexicans guilt is apparent, “peacably it
they can, forcibly if they must.”
The State Times learnß that the Rangers called
out by the late proclamation of Gov. Pease will be
placed in immediate service.
The W r aco Era has the following account of a
bloody tragedy in Carthage, Panola county, on the
22d ult.:
J. K. Williams and several of his friends assaul
ted Jonathan Auderson and his bods with double
barreled sho* guns, and discharged three Bhots be
fore the Andersons returned their fire. The en
gagement soon became general on both sides. A
man by tho name of Jonas Miller was killed dead
on the spot. John C. Turner, merchant of Car
thage, was seriously wounded, and several of the
Williams party received flesh wounds. All of the
Andorsou party escaped unhurt. Afierthe assail
ants exhausted their tires, they retreated to the
second floor of Mr. Turner’s store-room, carrying
with them the killed and wounded. The cause of
the affruy was an old foud between Williams an i
Anderson. Tho belligerents have suspended hos
tilities, by mutual consent, for four months.
Tho Brazoria Planter says the sugar planters are
busily engaged iD grinding the cane, and the crop
ib turning out better than was expected.
The Lavacca Courier, of tho 18th, speaking of
the yellow fever in that place, says :
There aro but few cases as yet, and the disease
is not near as virulent in its character as it was
last year, bat yields readily to medical treatment.
There is a good deal of other sickness in town,
mostly chills and fevers, caused, no doubt, from
the unsettled state of Hie weather.
The Bronbam Enquirer learns that tho Know
Nothings are become quite numerous in that place.
There were eleven interments of yellow fever
victims in Houston during the week ending tho
24th October. The Star, of tho 25th says tho dis
r.ow mostly confined to tho outskirts of the
city, and tho mortality chiefly among the unac
climuted population.
The .Dallas Herald learns that Major Blanch,
civil engineer of the M. aud P. R. Company, has
probably selected Fenton Bluff, about eight miles
below Buffalo, as tho most practicable crossing of
the Trinity, near latitude 82 deg., for the Pacific
Railroad.
A Good Story. —The Rev. Mr. Franklin was ar
raigned iu the city court yesterday, charged with
forgery. Ho is a fine looking person and said to
be exceedingly intelligent and ready with that mi
nute instrument of power, the “grey goose quill.”
A good story is told of him, tho truth of which,
in advance of a trial, wo cannot of course vouch
for.
When tho Reverond Gentleman was on his way
to jail, he addressed the officer having him inous
tody in tho following strain : “My dear sir ! could
you know tho inexpressible anguish which now
fills this heart of hearts ! (laying his hand patheti
cally upon that organ,)—could you fool the horror
that 1, as a clergyman, at this moment feel, at a
chargo so prepostorous, so dreadful as this, you
would then know that I was innocent—innocent
sir as . Here his feelings overpowered him—
the liov. Mr. Franklin gave way to grief, and like
Haines Bayly’s soldier—
“ Wiped away a tear.”
Arrived at the city jail, a soarch was made, and
tho prisoner soeing that a “crisis” had come, pull
ed suddenly from his pocket a forged check and
attempted lo swallow it. The dry paper was a
gag—a muscular movement of the throat, of a very
violent kind took place—it evidently was a bitter
pill. Immediately an officer caught him about the
jugular vein and chocked the check back into day
light ! It was “all day with him,” aud he “caved
in.”
Now thoro was a prisoner named Armstrong, iu
a cel!—tho man who recently was convicted of a
felony, and‘sentenced to tho Penitentiary. When
Franklin entered, Armstrong recognised his voice,
though ho could not see him, aud called out :
‘‘Halloo, there!—l kuow that voice; isn’t that
Franklin I” “Yes,” said the officer. “Franklin,
my old boy,” cried Armstrong, as the Rev. gen
tlernan oatno iu sight, “how aro you?” They’ve
got us again ! How have you been siuao we met in
Illinois? This was answered by Franklin going
up to Armstrong, shaking him by tho band, and
acknowledging the acquaintance. They wore per
mitted for u few minutes to enjoy the re-union in
tho same cell together.
“Franklin,” said the officer, who wo believe was
our gentlemanly Sheriff, “what about that heart of
hearts now.”— Mobile Register.
Explosion of the Daniel Pratt. —lt is ascer
tained that two persons wero instantly killed
Thursday afternoon, by the explosion of the Daniel
Pratt, and four wounded badly. The killed are
Patrick » white deck hand, and a negro,
owned by Mr. Sibley—the names of the woundea
are unknown to ua. The officers escaped injury.
Indeed, it is so difficult to got tho precise truth
in relation to tho matter, that we must be content
with giving two different accounts expressing no
opinion ourselves as to the oauso of the disaster.
One oi our informants states, that tho boat was
running with such rapidity that sho would have
made this port inside of two hours, thus accom
rlishinga distance of twenty five miles, from tho
floet tothe wharf, in usual time. The pilot observ
ing the peculiar nature and color of the steam
from the scapepipo, called out through his trumpet
to the engineer, that if the steam was not lessened
the boat would blow up, which admonition, was
disregarded. Another account is, that the Pratt
carried at the time of the explosion only one hund
red and thirty pounds of steam, whereas, she was
capable of carrying easily one hundred and fifty
pounds and that her speed was moderate. The
engineer is said to be one of the best on the three
rivers, and was employed for that trip alone. It is
furt her statod, that there was water enough in the
boilers. In the event of a thorough examination
of the matter, tbe true causes may be developed—
if so, our reaaers will be informed of them.
The wreck ol the Pratt has been towed to the
city and lies at Hitchcock’s Press.
It is remarkable that in the history of steam,
nothing is so difficult to determine as the causes
ot explosions. We remember when the Antoi
nette Douglas blow up with the terribleness of the
explosion of a magazine, that twenty reasons were
given for the calamity, and yet that was consider
ed by many scientific men as a perfectly plain
case.* There iskreater diversity of opinion re
specting those disasters,than upon any other sci
entific subject we know of. Hence it is, that few
persons ha ving charge of steamers are held amena
ble to tho law—a law severe in its penalties and
intended to be rigidly enforced.
It is to be hoped,that tho time will arrive, when
this powerful element will be thoroughly under
stood, and that IPe will be no longer imperilled
by imperfect knowledge, and more imperfect me
chanical construction of the machinery, which is
designed to bold in check tho great propelling
agent of the commercial world.— Mobile Register,
28th ult.
Earthquakes in Central America.— The city of
Gautemala has been offiicted with a series of earth
quakes, which have done somo damage and caus
ed general alarm. The first shock was a slight
one; and occurred on the 14th of July. Next
day tnree mo<e took place, and on the 16tb three
more, still slight in character, and no shock ex
ceedingone or one and a half seconds in duration,
the direction being from South to North, unac
companied by DOise. On the 17th, about
o’clock, A. M.’, a smart shock of two seconds in
duration occurred, with a hollow rumbling noise,
; and a subsequent vibration of the earth. The
| same day, about twelve minutes before two o’clock,
j P. M.. came two shocks of great violence with
loud noise, doing considerable damage to public
' and private buildings throughout the city, throw
irg down several small ones, and re opening the
i o*a cracks made by the earthquakes of 1850, be
sides making many new ones. All the chur
ches had large cracks iu them, rnd that of St. Au-
I gustine wap badiy damaged. The streets wero im
mediately filled with affrighted people, the cry
! of Dies fuerte resounded on every side, some
! knelt in the streets to pray, and others hurried to
j the churches. The duration of the shocks waa
! about four seconds each, the course as before, and
! the motion of the undulatory or horizontal kind.
At three o’clock another severe shock occurred,
followed bv other* throughout tbe afternoon and
nigh", accompanied with vibratory motion and a
rumbling noise, the entire cumber of shock**
thiougbout the day a d night being thirteen. Ad
vices from San Salvador state that occasional
* hocks of Aartf: quake* Are still felt there Many
faroi cn have returned to the ruined city, from the
fact that they are unable to find shelter elsewhere.
Nothing has yet been done t awards commencing
the building of the new capital, owing to the gen
era] distress and want ot money that cxiat. m
formation b&s also been received, through the u»
zette of the State of Ohiapaa, that in the last week
cf the month of May, the large Indian puebla of
jamhtepeque. in the State ot Uaxe?, dietant ten
leagues from the city, was entirely destroyed by a
pool* »ion of shocks of earthquake. TLe loee of
life is Nwd have been great.
Szm Jobs Fka»HJ» roe me Eir«pmo«—Tka
Criw tit mz T»a:.oo wot tn UwarYtAmD.—W «
yesterday gave a paragraph in reiation to the ex
pedition o* bir Jebn rretiliiin, in whiob »» •«•
deavorad to *how, that while the statement of lir.
hie i> catenated to inaka u*a ia*prea*ioo ih*t feir
John and the craw of the hretju* **y»ahed by
starvation, the late of lha crew ol the Tarror, C#j>-
ta'.r.• v.roiiur, ’-ha ether ship of ihe expedition, u*
still itsvo,vad in mystery. A friend whoae atten
tion was directed to u»* subject by our paragraph
Ui invcftigated the facta etui further, and he
arrive* ** the same oocciosion, to wit—that the
remain* of a*i ujj# property found thoa far, be
longed to the ere*- of the J&rebua, B*r John
Franklin, and that not uu •/*>!• bel* ngu.g to any
cdember of the crew of the Terror. f apt. Crosier,
ha* ye*, been diaoovtred. It* probable therefore,
that the two atrip* neparated, and that either U.*
arew ot the Terror are still alive, or pedabad in
the sea north of our continent. It should also be
observed that the Indiana in their account, »p«*k
of a sAtp. and not of in connection with the
voyager** who were seen by U xtan. The hope of a
single survivor i» of court# faint, bat let as cherleh
it to thi last.— Fkuo. Iny.
Additional by the Arabia.
The Arabia's dates are Liverpool, Oct. 81st. The
Liverpool Cotton market had gained Borne buoyan
cy, but closed dull with a downward tendency.
No change, however, to note in prices.
Chillington’a circ iar reports the sales of the
week at 46,000 bales, yesterday 4000 bales on spec
nlation and 5000 for export. The quotations are
Fair Orleans Middling Fair Uplands 6;
Middling s>g. The market fell off towards the
close.
The Havre Cotton market appears quiet. Prices
deares-ed.
Manchester trade dull.
Breadstuff* were very active, and prices about
8 shillings in the three days, and 6s. to 7s. perbbl.
higher for the week. Canal was quoted at33s.6d.
a 39. Baltimore and Philadelphia 405.a415. Oh o
423. per barrel. Accounts from the United States
of a supposed short supply aDd the uncertain con
dition of affaire in regard to the war, had conspir
ed to produce this advance. The market closed
firm. Wheat had advanced Is. per bushel during
the week. White 125.; Ked lls. 6d. Corn ad
vanced 2s. per quarter during the week—quoted
40a423. Indian meal advanced and in good de
mand.
The London money market was stringent. Con
sols closed at 94%a94%e. United States Securi
ties unchanged but dud—State securities very dull.
The iate arrivals of gold from Australia and oth
er quarters had largely increased the amount of
bullion in the Bank of England.
The affairs of Mr. McHenry who failed recently
are not in so oad a condition as were apprehended.
Political News.— The advices from the Crimea
expedition and of Sebastopol were rather indiffe
rent, and not much in decline. The very latest
despatches states that the bombardment, by the
allies, of Bebastopol had commenced with only
two pieces of artillery. No great headway had
been made. The Russians were holding out man
fully aod defending the place with wonderful
courage. Menschikoff, had been largely re-infor
ced, which give his army renewed spirits and they
were prepared for a desperate defeuce.
It wcs i uinored that a vast army was in the rear
of Sebastopol, and about marching to reinforce
Menschikoff, in addition to those already arrived.
The commander was represented in better Bpirits,
and bnoyed with the hope of maintaining his po
sition. He has, however, determined that the city
shall be reduced to ashes rather than it.shonld fall
into the bands and occupancy of the allies. Orders
have been issued give battle to the very last.
Omar Pacha has gone to Crimea to attend a
Council of war, and it were e pceted his entire
army would be dispatched to Crimea.
A report was again circulated in Paris, Vienna
and London, simultaneously, that Sebastopol has
actually fallen, and large stock operations were
made on the faith of this movement. The people,
however, were slow to believe. The government
employers say that no definite or reliable intelli
gence is looked for from Crimea, before the Ist of
November, at which time they hope to be able to
announce authoritatively, the capture of the place.
Gortscfcakoff has superceded Menschikoff in com
mand. There was no news of a definite characte
from St. Petersburg.
There are serious intimalious that the forme
naionalitv of Poland is to be re established and th
she will be turned agianst Russia with a grt
power and vigor. Events pretty plainly indicate
this design to be effected at no distant day.
In the absenoe of actual and reliable informa
tion from the seat of war, the papers are merely
filled with accounts of the positions of the troops
the projected operations at various places, &c.
Accounts from Odessa to the Bth say that Gorts
chakoff was at that place.
The Russian corps of 15,000 men was posted
near Sebastopol, ana the opening of the great op
erations effectively, was duly expected.
AllVus in the Baltic and in Asia wore about as
before.
Large reinforcements were being sent off from
England and France.
Intense anxiety prevails throughout these coun
tries. The Eastern question absorbed all interests.
The advices from Spain represent the insurgent
movement as nearly quelled, and comparative
tranquility reigned.
Prussia is daily manifesting a more kindly dis
position towards Austria, and it is believed both
these powers will soon act in harmonious concert,
to the advantage of the Allies.
T ore was much excitement in Poland, and a
strong revolutionary spirit was being manifested.
In Hungary the spirit of revolution exists to a
considerable extent.
Italy.—Nothing reported.
Affairs in Ireland were tranquil. The Arabia
brings no further accounts of the steamer Arctic.
No more of the passengers or crew heard from.
General Canrobert has notified the French Go
vernment that the allies position was impregnable,
being defended by eighty thousand men and 200
guns, and could be held against 200,000 Russians.
Constantinople letters to the 12th ult., say that
8,000 of the foreign legien and 4,000 Turks had
just left lor Crimea.
In consequence of the correspondence found in
Menschiken’s effects, captured at Alma, several
important arrests have been made at Varna.
The British steame r s have been ordered to the
sea of Azof to bombard the town of Kurtch.
Lord Eedciifle had succeeded in procuring a fir
man to suppress the trade in Circassia and Geor
gian slaves.
A largo portion of the French Baltic fleet had
returned to Cherbourg.
A rumor waß current that the Danish Govern
ment would probably permit the British fleet to
winter at Kiel.
The Journal of St. Petersburg, of the 14th, con
tains a telegraphic dispatch from Vienna stating
that the commissioners of the Western Powers
and of Austria and Turkey had met at Constanti
nople to arrange the question of tho protectorate
on the basis ol the proposal made by the Austrian
Cabinet.
Enoland. —The British Parliamont will be pro
rogued on the 16th of November,
Tho English papers publish a list of private
soldiers Silled and wound at Alma.
A national subscription far the sick and wound
ed had reached £6,009, and a regiment of women
had been organized as nurses to bo immediately
sent to Sebastopol.
The British steamers Gangeß and Persia, with
troops on board, came in collision with the Sea of
Manuora, and were badly damaged. An offic:r
was crushed to death in his berth.
Tho affair cf Edward Oliver had been nearly
arranged by his creditors.
France. —There is nothing new of interest from
France. Tho accounts of the battle of Alma had
aroused the old war spirit, and further tidings
from Sebastopol are watched for with an anxiety
unprecedented.
Spain.— The Spanish Ministry had abandoned
the project of drawing up a constitution to be sub
mitted to tho Cortez.
A royal decree orders the payment of the No
vember dividends.
F'rom the China Mail.
America and Japan—Mr. fellas R. Barrows, with
bis Clipper fehtp in Japan.
The American clipper ship Lady Pierce, Captain
Burr, fitted up at San Francisco, in a most costly
manner, for a “poaco expedition” to Japan, arrived
with her owner, Mr. Silas E. Barrows, at Hong
Kong, cu the i4th of August. Mr. Burrows de
scribes his visit us having been attended with the
most pleasurable aud satisfactory results. Wo
have been favored by him with the following notes
from his private journal:
The Lady Pierce arrived in Jeddo Bay 16 days
after t ommodore Perry had left, “as a tokeo of
amity and peace, and without any preparations for
war,” and the high Japanese officers said tho visit
was much more pleasing to them than that of Com
moclore Perry, who had with him “too many big
guns and fighting men.” The Japanese, however,
expressed the utmost regard for the Commodore
and his officers*
Tho ship had boon supplied at San Francisco
with every comfort and luxury likely to gratify and
interest the Japanese, who were surprised to find
such an elegantly furnished vessel used as a pri
vate gentleman’s jaoht. Her dimensions were
taken by artists, together with delineations of her
guns, t cklo, Ac., the authorities saying the Em
peror intended to have two vessels built on the
setne model.
On board wAs a Japanese seaman, the solo sur
vivor of a crew of fifteen men belonging to a junk
which had blown out to sea, and was picked up
near the Sandwich Islands after having drifted
about for seven months. This man, Dee-yee-no
skee, was received with the most lively demonstra
tions of pleasure by his countrymen, who listened
with much delight to his graphic description of
his rescue from the junk, and kind treatment by
the Americans especially on board the Lady
Fierce, in which he had been, by the kindness of
her ownor, permitted a free passage to his native
country. The Japanese, especially the lowe* 1 or
ders, were profuse in expression, by words and
gestures, of their gratitude to Mr. Burrows, who
seems to be ol the opinion that Dee yee no-skee, a
man of fair talents, is likely, by his account of
American manners and customs, to accomplish
more than hosts of ambassadors towards forming
and cementing an iulimacy betwixt Japaneso and
foreigners.
Shortly after the arrival of the Lady Pierce at
Uraga, orders were received from the capital that
Mr. Burrows should be supplied with everything
he might require, and received with *• similar hos
potality to that displayed towards Commodore
Perry.”
With a party of the Uraga officials on board, the
Lady Pierce proceeded to within ten miles of Jed
do, and her owners expressed a desire to anchor
off that oily; but this was objected to by the offi
cers, who said, “ It is not good ; Commodore Per
ry did not go there, and we hope you will not.”
Durng the stay of the vessel, every part of her
was crowded with visitors, who were profusely re
galed with tho refreshments with which the vessel
had been provided, fresh oysters and peaches be
ing their favorite delicaces, with champagne; and
although tit oue time there must have been several
thousand in and around the ship, and though every
thing, silver were included, was thrown open to
their inspection, not a single article was stolen.
Large presents of silk, porcelain, lacquered
ware &c. f woro made in the name of the Emporor
to Mr. Barrows, who however, was requested to
give pnoticity to his determination, that henoofor
ward, in accordance with stipulations in the treaty,
no foreign intercourse whatever would be permitted
with Jeddo, but that all vessels must proceed ei
ther to Simoda, or to the other ports thrown open
to American trade.
From Jeddo Bay, therefore, the Lady Pierce pro
ceeded to Simoda, under the pilotage of three
men sent on board by the authorities, and escor
ted by a goverment cutter manned by two officers
and tweuty men who had received orders to ren
der every assistance that might be required.
During the entire stay of the vessel no guard
was placed over her, nor was any restriction put
I upon landing, of which Mr. Burrows twice took
j advantage while in Seddo Bay, and on both occa
| sions was received with every mark of courtesy.
I lie is, however of opinion with the officers of the
United States squadron, that no extensive foreign
commerce can possibly, at lest for many years to
come, be carried on with Japan. He says he ap
plied for coal, and was told at first that “Govern
ment had determined not to dispose of their sea
coal;” but, after reference to Jeddo, he was in
formed he might have as much as he required at sl.-
05 por picul, or S2S a ton—snch coal as he saw at
tho depot being of a very inferor description to
that sold in Oregon at $S a ton.
| Mr. Burrows says tho Japanese are fully aware
I of tho present disturbed Btato of China, which
they impute entirely to the effects of foreign in-
I terco irhi; and conaidera the enormous prices flxnd
upon such commodities aw he desired to purchase
j a certain index that fear alone dictated their Em
peror's acquiei-eonce in the demands made by
Commodore Perry.
J He likewise aesorts tho Japanese to be a nation
of Aih* mis, denying the existence of a (lod, and
(•electing an au object of worship eithei the Spirit
ual Kmpesor at Mcaco, or auy other Japanese.
| lie was told by the interpreter* that former y their
I religion was similar to that of China, hut that the
i*!ief in a Hupreme Being had latterly been en-
I tireiy die*iar<l»*<l; and they protested to he much
| nhockep on Dee ye no *kee declaring hia belie!
I in tee Deity, to whom, and not to the Spiritual or
I Temporal Emperor, bu said his auooeesful applica
tions for, and thankful i ckuoVfiedginenLs of de
liverance Horn the drifting junk had been direc
led.
An ifttj>ortaut arrest of counterfeiter* waa mad*
at North Madiaoo, Indiana, on the fcfrh ultimo,
and fifteen hundred dollars in counterfeit mousy
was found concealed, mostly in folia on the
bouthci n iiank of Kentucky. Two counterfeit
plates, tCsaod fjO’a.on the same hank, and press
used for printing the counterfeit money, bogus
tx*o. tan- cent pieces and Ud dollars, dies, moulds
aod >afjo«e kinds used in counterfeiting
were a'ae T4g afttnft ha* created quite a
stir ‘o Modieon, as il«f« Idß !*»» neraon* in
that city who even suenccied iwil lliff dffendsnU
wooid up guilty of such act*. It is cipooled thai
o i *er srreate of s hk-c ch* acter wid be made at
other point* in a few d*>#,
The challenge to the World by W. KtriPggald,
to leaf the Plows of Mr. T. K. C. Hriuly, sgsii.at
the plow*of any olb*r manufacturer, for SI,OOO
$&oo forfeit, whicn appeared in the Louisville
CL«wter a few days sines h«e been accepted by A.
M. Jaimaon, of Ohio, and th* forfeit deposited.
2“ 1 . uk **fcj** J® lUoiUWHi county, Ohio, on
tho loth dsy of OetoUer, lUt.
From tit y. y- £tmint Poat.
The lam fc&rUily Rertfn* Plwe or 6lr John
Frmnklin.
The recent and momentous despatches abont Sir
Johu Franklin has naturally awakened a curiosity
to know something more of Us sponsors and of the
character of the climate and country in which Sir
John Franklin seems to b® ve . •
Mr. Eae, the author of the despatch has been tn
the employ of the Hudsons Bay Compay
more than twenty years, and has loDg !
reputation of bean* one of its boldest and most
capable officers. 1n1546-’7 he wasappojh'ed by the
company to the command of an expeditio
plore aid survey the unknown of
nortkest angle of the American con.me »
expedition, consisting of thirteen persona, started
from Fort Charchill in July, 18*b, en
dnring almost unparalleled hardships and
coming incredible difficulties, accomplished the
object for which it was undertaken, t
the coast of America betwoen Lord Mayor s Bay
to withiug eight or ten miles of the . *
cla strait and proving Boothia Felix to be ai pen -
sula. The London Times ot November 1,1847,
contains a very unassuming but highly satisfactory
despatch from Mr. Kaetotbe the com
pany, setting forth the nature and exte >-
discoveries. He and his party ar "T® ,
safety at York Factory—the place where the tot
trace; of Sir Sobn Franklin were disooyered-in
September 1847, after an absence of on y a little
TCe Simpson has been Governor of the
Hudson’s Bay Company for twenty years and up
wards. He is 1 the of/‘Simprons Overland
Journey aroand the World in lb4l- 2, published
in London in 1847, which contains more
mation about the population, geography and phys
ical condition of that portion of our globe lying
north of the fiftieth parallel of latitude, than can
be found in any other book. In that expedition
he displayed all the most desirable qualities of a
hero, a traveller and a geographer. ..
For a description of the country and climate
about York Fort, where the last traces of Sir John
Franklin were seen in 1860, we have referred to
the pages of a work entitled “The Hudson s Bay
Territories and Vancouver’s Island, with an Ex
position of the Chartered Rights, Conduct and
Policy of the Honorable Hudson’s Bay Corpora
tion, by R. M. Martin, Author of the History of
the British Colonies, published in 1849, from
which we quote tho following :
“The northern territory, which was very im
perfectly explored until the recent journeys jf
Dease, Simpson and Kae, from 1837 to 1847, is in
tersected with lakes, marshes and rivers to a
’'■°ater extent than any part of the known globe;
•'A*rn as if the inner springs of the
■■■j, : e parts investigated
a» tr ? • Vi . station ceases
;—no land is
seer p> • 'i t the ole surface is
alleys nearly
. The soil at
H; ■ Vs Bay Corn
nine degrees
extremely bar
ren reeky, t:y ad for several
aiioi ; V i -io * . ables are with
-•'Hi. r* l. 1. n latitude fifty
•i. 'v , . , de uinety-three
degree ,v 3t. ; rshy, and equal
ly unproductive, w ' trees are larger
than those inland of Fort Uuu. .11, they are still
knotty and dwarfish. The country around the
factory, although elevated above the river, is one
entire swamp, coveted with low stunted pine ; and
perfectly impenetrable, even in July, when it is
infested by clouds of mosquitos. The land seems
to have been thrown up by tho sea, and is never
thawod during the hottest summer, with tho ther
mometer at ninety degrees to one hun : red degrees
in tho shade, more than ten or twelve inches, and
then the soil is of the consistence of clammy mud;
even in the centre of tho factory it is necessary to
keep on the platforms to avoid sinking over the
ankles. About Albany Fort, in fifty-two degrees
north, and Moose Fort, in fifty-one degrees twenty
eisht minutes, the climate is raoxe temperate, the
soil bettor, and potatos and garden produce are
roared, but with difficulty.
Proceeding further west, the temperature im
proves, out ail around Hudson’s Bay, particularly
at Fort Churchill, the climate is extremely s-evore;
and from tho middle of October to the Middlo of
May the country is buried under snow. The ice
does not break up generally until July, and at
York Fort, two degrees south of Churchill, the
thermometer in January has been at fifty degrees
below zero. Even in rooms at the factory, where
a fire is perpetually kept up, brandy freezes into
a solid substance; the rivers and lakes, ten to
twelve feet deep, are frosen to the bottom, and
the Hudson’s Bay Company’s European servants
are obliged to observe the greatest caution agidrst
the effects of the cold air, which is frequently filled
with small particles of angular ice, and driven by
the wind against the face or hands, raises the skill
in white blisters, which break out in thin watery
issues. As soon as a room is thoroughly heated,
and the embers burnt down, tho top of the
chimney is closed so as to exclude the air, yet the
walls of tho apartments are found covered with
ice two to three inches thick.* The Europeans in
tho service ot tho Hudson’s Bay Company, not
withstanding their precautions, and the use of a
large quantity of woollens and furs, are frequent
ly frost-bitten, and many of the natives fall vic
tims to the severity of the climate. Tho sun is
often obscured for weeks by thick fogs, which are
causod by watery vapors ascending trom the sea,
which, being condensed by cold, hang all around
tho coast, and extend inland to a considerable dis
tance. The ‘ Mock Suns’ and Moons, called
Parahoiia and Paraselene, appear very frequently
in the coldest months. The temperature of tho
air is subject to tho most capricious variations;
rain sometimes falls abundantly with a serene
sky, or the sun will burst forth in the midst of the
heaviest showers. Such is the region in which
several of tho Hudson’s Bay Company’s establish
ments are situated, and which could not be main
tained but for the possession of some more tem
perate regions, from whence food is procurable.”
* In the Quarterly Review, No, xlix., vol. xxv., 1821, Sir
Jno. Barrow adverts to this remarkable occurrence on
board Capt. Parry’s ships, Heclaand Griper: “ The month
of March set in mildly (at their retreat in Winter Harbor)
so that the solid ice, which for some time had lined the
ship’s sides, began to melt. It therefore became necessary
to scrape off this coating of ice, on which occasion Capt.
P rry observes: ‘lt will, perhaps, be scarcely credited,
that we this day (Bth March) removed about 100 buckets
full, each containing from five to six gallons, being the
accumulation which had taken place in an interval of less
than four weeks; and this immense quantity was the pro
duce chiefly of the men’s breath and of the steam of their
victuals during meals.’ ”
The Constitution as Mr Summer understands It
—Mr. Summer writes the Intelligencer a letter in
confimation cf his position as a citizen ofthe Unit
ed States has a right to execute the law as he un
derstands its contitntional obligation. At a time
when men were divided by their allegionce to two
great parties, the assertion of Gen. Jackson of a
right to Administer the government as he under
stood it, did not attract that universal reprobation
which was dne to this structure of our govern
ment. The obligations of that period have passed
away, and men can now acknowledge the danger
of committing our government to the discretion of
a single man. Il‘ Mr. Summer moans that a pub
lic officer boing required to exercise a descretion
in the execution ot a law, shall in the absece of
any judicial exposition, make his own opinion of
constitutional obligation tli6 rule of his actions,
no one will gainsay his proposition. But if he
moans that an executive officer has a right to dis
regard the judicial exposition of the law made by
that supreme tribunal which the constitution has
appointed to interpret all controverted law, Mr.
Summer affirms what no rational interpretation of
our constitution will we think justify. When he
goes farther and affirms that every citizen may
obey the law or not as he may choose to say he
considers it obligatory upon him or not, then Mr.
Summer affirms a doctrine worse than anarchy,
because anarchy implies an immediate necessity
for re construction, woereas the political libertin
ism of allowing men to respect or resist the laws
according to their own interest, imposes all the
burdens of government upon honest men, and
exonerates all who aro bad enough to “understand
the constitution” to their own advantago, from all
obligations whatever. —Baltimore Patriot.
The ArgHo Regions. —Tho mosquitoes are moro
troublesome in the regions of perpetual ice, than
they are in hot latitudes. Some of the officers of
the British sloop-of-war Trincomalee, recently at
San Francisco from Port Clarence, in Behrrmgs’
Straits, say that tho mosquitoes were more nume
rous than in Central America. They inhaled them
by tho mouthful, aud could not walk out without a
kandkerchief or veil over their faces.
The natives are extremely docile aud very intel
ligent, but as is the case with the Esquimaux gen
erally very l£»y. The only wood they can procure
is that drifted lrom—no one knows whore—out of
which by management of walrus tusks and whale
bone they contrive admirablo spears and bows and
arrows, lor killing the seal and bear, of which an
imals their winter stock of food is formed. Da
ring the latter purt of the winter they are reducad
to a slate of semi-starvation, aud then are even
content to eat the hides of animals, in which faro
their dogs—a noble looking breed—have a share.
One mode they have of catching tho bear is by a
piece of frozen blubber, in which is doubled a pie'n
of whalebone, the animal greedily swallows it—
the blubber thaws—the whalebone stretches, and
the brute dies in agony.
This vessel remained at Honolulu from May 19th
to June Ist, during which time the frigate Diana
was at the same port. Entire good feeling existed
between the British aud Russian officers, attending
balls and fraternizing heartily together, notwith
standing it was supposed at the time that war was
declared, although no official notice had been re
ceived to that effect.
A New Vkbsiow or the Bible. —This subject
has of lato attracted considerable attention in the
religions world, the result of which has been to
awaken moie thorooghtly, the public mind, to the
alleged necessity for a new version of the Bible.
The fact is announced by a learned committoo of
the American Bible Society, that the received ver
sion of tho Bible published by King James contains
errors no less than twenty four thousand in num
ber. Some of these errors havo afforded metorial
for many of the most plausible arguments against
the divine authenticity of the old and new testa
ments. This is illustrated in a report made to the
American Bible Union, by a reference to Voltaire’s
Commentary upon Proverbs, 28, 81, “When tho
winegiveth its color to the glass.” From the fact
that drinking glasses were of large invention, Vol
taire concluded that the book of Proverbs first
saw the light in Alexandria, and was composed at
a period long subsequent to that in which Chris
tians have placed itsorigin. But, it is alleged, that
the term in the Hebrew, signifies a enp, without
denoting the material of which it is composed; so
that a correct translation,if tho latter interpretation
be correct, removes at onoe the foundation for this
infidel argument.
Among the recent failures In Cincinnati, was
that of the banking house of P. B. Manchester, in
which many persons in humblo life had placed
their savings. His affairs are in the hands of as
signees, ana the assets have ben found insufficient
to meet the liabilities, the failure being earned by
stock speculations and extravagant living. Since
his failuro it has not been safe lor him to be seen
abroad in Cincinnati, and accordingly ho left the
city. At Lawrenoeburg ho was arrested by one of
his victims, just as he was stepping on board the
mail steamer Highflyer, and having a large trunk
with him it was attached by the Sheriff. The
claim was about S7OO, and ho tried hard to evade
the payment, saying that although the case was a
hard one, there were many widows and ophans
among his depositors much worse off, but fiually,
as the claimant was about to force open tbe trunk,
ho nrodneed the key, opened it, took oat a largo
package of securities and paid the amount, alter
which he was allowed to depart. Subsequently,
ho arrived at a hotel in Columbus, registered a
false name, was detected, and another depositor
proterred a ciaiinof seven hundred dollars, accom
pained by a threat of lynch-law unless it waa paid.
This waa done and the fngitlvo allowed to depart.
Tho Message of Governor Koyco to the Legisla
ture of Vermout is an example of brevity end
compeo litre worthy of Imitation. Bo duoe not
advise, ho saye, any radical or extensive changes
In the laws of the Kuna, ilo thinks, in main, they
are calculated to (five tiio people rijual rigids and
to dispense bcncllia. On tho subject of
he ocines dimly in favor of tho con
tinuance of the prohibitory system ami the fully
carrying oat the law. He reoouinio d* the am
poinlmant of a board of oduoatiun and the estab
llalniiont 0 f ehelter militia ayalom. lie urges tiie
erection of a hospital for thu sick in oonnextion
•ith tiie HLaUi prison, ami suggests that the for
feit ura of lend to Ilia Hta!o whore taxes are not
hajil is heller than a aale of land at auction. He
then comiuenta very concisely on the repeal of tiie
Missouri 1 knnprouilae, and umptalifiadly ooudeuuta
that measure.
( ounietoii iWoe cue t ssrasl Koan —(>u Monday
evauli.g last two freight trains on tiie I'entral
Uaiinmi cams ill Collision about fit* miles from
this cits The ku»ino*r upon unit of the trains
mac ty. me j. fw , u ,„ B imug mu ol order,
had slopped to arra." . -„t. this train was
»»• ! at Hie tune of the aOOm. ■ —snot
atandlng still upon the track. Iho shook s
ct oae.p.aolly as violent as U *°.Si' l M*we
••u, amt no one opon either t .
5ar v , sri«s: s?gdjSa,“S
WEEE!
Cjjroniclt &
AUGUSTA* GEORGIA.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOV’B. 8, 1854-
GEORGIA STATE FAIR !!!
FURTHER POSTPONEMENT!
In order to allow the citizens of Augusta to
make ample preparations for the coming Exhibi
tion, the Executive Committee of the “ Southern
Central Agricultural Society,” have finally con
cluded to postpone the Fair until the first Mon
day in December.
Therefore, the people of Georgia and the ad
joining States are respectfully notified that the
Ninth Fair of the Society will positively be held
at AUGUSTA, on
MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1854,
in accordance with the Rules and Regulations
heretofore published. A full Programme and
Order of Arrangements will appear in a few days.
The Press, throughout this and the ad
joining States, are earnestly requested to give this
notice the widest possible circulation; and thus
aid the glorious cause of agricultural, mechani
cal and artistic progress in the South.
D. W. Lewis, Secretary.
Come Home! Come Home!!
How joyful will the sound of those words
“some homey 11 make the hearts of hundreds of eur
absent citizens, and yet they will not excite more
sincere heartfelt joy with them, than the procla
mation of them affords us. Joy that the epidemic
has abated—and it is therefore sale tor them to
return to their homes and firesides—aye, and joy,
in the anticipation of so soon meeting and grasp
ing them by the hands to welcome them back
again to their homos—to our beautiful but stricken
city.
Come home, we repeat, come home, to all ab
sentees. We can invite you the more cordially
now that we feel assured there is no longer any
danger to your health ; and you know we would
not advise your coming if we thought there was
any danger whatever.
A Day of Greeting.
Yesterday was the most pleasant, agreeable day
that Augusta has known for weeks. We do not
allude to the weather, which was quite unexcep
tionable, but to the smiling faces, which every
where met tho eye. Our citizens who had for
weeks absented themselves, in groat numbers,
made their appearance yesterday in tho streots, and
it may truly bo called a day of greeting—aye, the
most cordial aud sincere, for whorever tho eye
turuod, it routed upon the warm-hearted, cordial
grasp of friends, just then met. A few hurried
words were exchanged in relation to the health of
each and their families, if they hod any, and off
they hurried to business, holding in reserve the
incidents of the last few weeks to be talked over
at some subsequent time. Now the first thought
is of business, and every man is making tho most
hurried preparations to resume it. All, all is bustle
and hurry, and will be for a day or two, until
every man gets his house and store arranged.
All are rejoiced that thoy are at home again—
that the epidemic has disappeared—that Augusta
is onco more hersi-lf, or will be as soon as our ab
eontees all return, which will b rin a very few days.
Death of Horace Clark.
Among the many oxoellent citizens, who have
fallon victims to the pestilence, which has cast
such gloom and desolation over our beautiful
city, it has hurried to tho tomb no better man
than Horace Clark, tho Senior partner of tho
house of Clark <fe Co., Jewelers, who breathed
his last between 12 aud 1 o’clock yesterday (Fri
day) morning, aged sixty-eight years.
He was a native of Danbury, Conn., but for the
last thirty years has been a resident of this city,
where by his gentleness of manner, his never
varying courtesy, and his strict integrity, he had
established a reputation above reproach. His was
a quiet, unobtrusive life, and with an assiduity
peculiarly his own, he pursued “the even tenor of
way,” “doing unto others as he would that they
should do unto him.” A life thus spent, could
not fail to attach to him all who knew him, and
they only could appreciate his worth. While there
fore they deplore his loss, it is a melancholy
pleasure to reflect, that he has boon gathered to
the tomb at a ripe age, after a well spent, virtuous
life—an upright, honest man.
Such in truth was Horace Clark 1 and we feel
well assured, now that “ life’s fitful fever is over,
he sleeps well.” Peace—peace to his ashes.
Death of William Holmes.
The friends and acquaintances of this worthy
man are invited to his funeral to-day. He was
attacked two or three weeks since with Paralysis,
under which ho lingered with scarcely a hope of
recovery, until Sunday night. He had been loDg
a resident of Augusta, and by his upright con
duct, his uniform courtesy, and his amiablo dis
position, had endeared himself to a large circle of
friends. Ho was a worthy and good citizen—
whose highest object was—ever to de right.
Board of Health.
Council Chamber, 1
Nov. 6, 3 o’clock, P. M. )
The Board report six deaths from Yellow Fever
for the week ending Monday, 8 P. M.:
Sarah J. Burnett, aged 44 years, North Carolina.
Anna Hendell, aged 87 years, Bohemia.
Michael J. Roberts, aged 65 years, England.
John M. Roberts, aged 24 years, England.
Horace Clark, aged 68 years, Connecticut.
Wallace, (colored) aged 28 years, property of
Mrs. Jno. B. Turpin.
Tho Board of Health take pleasure in announ
cing that tho fever iB rapidly subsiding. On
Wednesday last the physicians of the city repor
ted to the Board twenty-one casos under treat
ment. To-day, a report from all the physicians
but two showß but nine cases under treatment, of
which three are new cases. The Board of Health,
in view of these facts, are of the opinion that the
disease has ceased to bo epidemic, but they aro
unwilling to assume the responsibility of declaring
it safe for absentees to return. The Board prerer
to state the facts, and leave the pubiic to exercise
their own Judgment in the matter. In this opin
ion tho physicians generally concur.
The following resolution passed by the Board :
“Resloved, That in view of the rapid subeidence
of tho Fever and of the recent frost, the Board of
Health deem a continuance of their daily meetings
and reports unnecessary, and that they now ad
journ to their regular meeting on the Thursday be
fore the first Saturday in December next.
DAVID L. ROTH,
Secretary Board Health.
Froat.
Yesterday morning there was a fine white frost
in the city, and Ice was formed in several places in
the immediate vicinity. At the time of writing
the prospect is favorable for a frost this morning.
Our Agricultural Fair.
It will bo so m that the Fair of the Southern
Central Society, will positively be held in this city
on the ilrat Monday in December. The epidemic
having subsided, we hope the preparations for this
important exhibition will go vigrously forward,
and that the Ninth Fair will eclipse all its prede
cessors. All future arrangements connected with
the Fair will be duly noticed in our paper, and
we shall be greatly oblige! to our exchanges for
giving the official notice which we publish to-day
the most extensive circulation possible.
New Pablftoatfona.
Hermit’s Dell. From the Diary of a PenciUer. —
New York: J. C. Derlt, 8 Park Place. 1854.
The “ Hermit’s Dell ” iB a neat volumne of 285
pages, with illustrations. It treat*, mostly, of the
pleasures of country life, and is written in that
dreamy style of re very, so peculiarly characteristic
of lx Marvel, and others of his class. If not very
inspiring, it is at least harmless reading; and cal
culated to beget a taste for a simpie, quiet and
pure life.
It may bo found at the Book and Music Store of
Geo. A. Oates & Brothers.
The Cabin Bot’b Stcbt. A Semi-Nautical Ro
mance. By the Author of “The Lawyer’s Story,”
“The Old Doctor,” etc. Large 12mo, cloth, 440
pp., and illustrated from Designs suggested by
tho Author. Price sl. New York: Garrett
& Co.
“ The Cabin Boy’s Story ” is one of the most
interesting works we have perused for along time.
It is published in a handsome 12mo volume, by
Garrett & Co., of New York; and we venture to
predict for it a large circulation.
It may also be obtained from Geo. A. Oates <fc
Brothers.
Late accounts from the African republic of Li
beria say that the culture and manufacture of sugar
on the St. Paul’s river was rapidly increasing. Fine
large cane fields wore to bo seen in every direction,
and daring the current Beason it was tbongbt that
fifty sugar farms would be laid out. Some of tho
new sugar already landed at Monrovia is said to
boos fine quality.
Txit Thousand Dollaks Stoae.n. —The Macon
M*t**ng«r of the Ist inst., says: Considerable ox
citoment was eroalod in our oity on Monday raorn
ing, by the announcement that Samuol D. ScoviU,
Bookkeeper in tho Agency of tho Marino Bank at
this place, had absconded with SIO,OOO of the
fuuds of the Institution. It has subsequently ap
peared, that he left this oity at 8 o’cock, Sunday
evening on tho train of tho Macon A Western Kail
road for Atlanta, but beyond that point it l as been
Impossible to Irate hia progress. It is supposed, as
the advertisements of fugitives usually read, that
ho is “ making his way to a free Stato." Mr.
ScoviU has heretofore borue a very good charac
ter for industry and sobriety, snd the snuounce
rnenl of his small Khuylerum astonished every
one. Ill* parents we believe, were northern peo
ple, who resided for eoioe tlmo in Twiggs Cm. Oa.,
where be himself was borne. Kobt. Sloppy and
lleywood Hughes, JCsqrs., of thsl county, we
lesru, are the securities upon Ida bond for $7,001).
Ilia stated that tbe coat to tile Susquebannab
Kaitrv ad Company of tbe Fourth of July collision,
fa ao far, Including tbe damages paid to the suf
ferers, about SBO,OOO, there beiug but oue more
Claimant yet to aettle with, who demands $5,000
for tbe !r„ ,art ** **• " u,Ui | l<Kl -
A census ofßKibmond, Vs., hi* fort been tekeu,
and Bhowa a population amounting to 8»,*6» per
BOO*.
The Meeting Yeaterday.
Wb wore rejoiced to see ihat the mooting called
by the Mayor, to express the deep souse of obli
gation which this community feol to tho Howard
Association, and Dr. S. L. Campbell, for tho effi
cient aid rendered tho sick, was so well, (nay
largely, considering our present population) at
tended yesterday. This was right—as it should
have been. For it afforded unmistakeable evi
dence to the most casual observer, that the hearts
of the people moved them to tender thelributo of
their unfeigned graiitude. It was a meeting of
generous, grateful hearts—such an one as wo re
joiced to witness, where nothing was done, or
attempted, for display ; and all gave the proceed
ings a hearty approval.
Drs. Campbell, Cheeseborough and Bignon,
were all present, and briefly, but most appropri
ately, returned their acknowledgments to tho
meeting for the favorable mention which had been
made of their services.
The following aro the remarks of Dr. Campbell :
“Gentlemen qf Augusta: Allow me to concen
trate the scattering energies of my mind, and enjoy
one of those noble privileges that was guaranteed
to us by those individuals, who inscribed their
signatures upon that sacred instrument which will
ever be dear to the sons aud daughters of these
United States. Every period of human life, from
cradled iufancy to the infirmities that pave the
pa h of second childhood, is surrounded with
numberless objects, circumstances aud influences
that make deep and abiding impressions upon tho
human mind. The year of 1853 in New Orleans
made on impression upon my mind that time cau
never obliterate. When tho bill 3of mortality in
your neighboring city, Savannah, arrived at thoir
zenith, 1 was among the first in Now Orleans to
agitato the subject of tho Howard Association
sending a delegation to Savannah and Augusta.
Tho Howard Association hold a meeting and so
lectod mo and my friend, Dr. Cross, to accompany
two of their number to the State of Georgia, with
ten nurses.
“The manner in which I have discharged my duty
to the Association is for you to judge aud to de
cide—not for me. The memento that you have
resolved to present tc mo will evor bo remember
ed a3 an oniblom of tho intellectuality, benevo
lence and hospitality of the citizonß of Augusta,
Georgia.”
Dr. W. B. Cheksbobough said:
“ Mr. President and Gentlemen : If I have been
the humble instrument, in tho hands of Him who
rules above, in alleviating the sufferings of one fel
low mortal, during the prevalence of tho epidemic
that lia3 visited your city, I havo been more than
repaid, as I have done nothing but what I conceiv
ed to bo my duty in remaining amongst you. For
the very flattering manner in which my services
have been noticed by you, as indicated in the reso
lutions just passed, be pleased to accept of my
heartfelt thanks.”
Dr. A. F. Bignon made tho following remarks :
“ Mr. President and Fellow- Citizens: Having lo
cated myself in Alabama but a sow months, and
hearing of the epidoa ic in Augusta, I considered
it but my duty to return and do all in my powor to
alleviate, as much as possible, tho misfortunes of
the suffering poor of this, my native city. Your
thanks have more than repaid my feeble sorvices.”
Health of Savannah.
The Board of Health report three deaths, ( none
of yellow fever,) for the 48 hours ondiug 9 p. m.
Sunday.
The Republican of Tuesday morning has tho fol
lowing :
The Yellow Fiver Disappearing. —For the past
two days there hqs not been a single death from
yellow fever, and not a now case that we could hear
of. This is truly encouraging, and is ovidouco
that if the epidemic has not entirely ccasod, tho
healthfulness of our city is nearly restored. Tho
weather, however, during yestorday, was warm
and rather sultry, and at evening hazy. At 10
o’clock last night the thermometer marked 70 de
grees fahronheit, and had been considerably high
er during tho day. Those who returned to the
city within tho last sow days, in consulting their
safety, and in order to “make ussuranco doubly
sure,” cannot bo too careful with themselves in
their habits of living. Much apprehension was
felt ou their first coming lest their early return, bo
fore a heavy frost, might induce a spread of tho
disease among them; but that apprehension i 3
gradually ceasing, for latterly wo hear of none such
becoming victims—attributable mainly to thoir
keeping out of the night air and from otherwise
exposing themselves. To thoso who can keep away
from tho city, a sow days more of absence would
be more advisable than otherwise. To such as
comtemplate an early return to their homes—bo
oaroful, however: not too early ! —wo would again
impress upon thorn the importance of having pro
per ventillation of thoir premises attended to be
fore they occupy them; and tho use of -neb agon
ciesas will dispel miasma arising from tno confined
condition of the unoccupied apartments which
have been closed for woeks, and in many oases
months past. Fires should be made in each room
with the windows and doors closed, to rarefy the
air, after which all should be opened for free von
tillation during clear weather. This is necessary
to secure wholesome aud pleasant apartments at
all seasons, and particularly tho present.
Two deaths, (none of yellow fever,) occurred in
Savannah on Monday.
The Board of Health on Thursday adopts the
following resolutions:
Resolved , That as no epidemic prevails in this
city at this time, it will be perfectly safo for our
absent fellow-citizens to return homo.
Resolved, That tho Editors of our city papors be
directed to discontinue the publication of the re
solutions adopted by this Board on tho 11th Oct.,
just past.
Resolved, That the foregoing resolutions be pub
lished in the city papers.
Tho Republican of Friday morning says; There
wero but two interments yesterday—one a negro
who died of Dropsy, and the other an infant, of
Spasms. It now being unnecessary to give tho
daily reports of interments, as no epidomic exists
among us, they have been discontinued. This af
fords ua pleasure, aB tho occasion so fully warrants
it, and our city may now bo said to enjoy its ac
customed health—no diseaso save catarrhs that wo
can hear of, and these brought about by tho ohau
ges of weather which usually produce such. We
commend our estimable Mayor for this course, and
congratulate the community ihat it is so justifiable.
The thanks of all our citizens are due our worthy
Mayor, John E. Ward, and to Dr. J. P. Screven,
who aided him in the duties of his office, for their
manly, sympathetic and generous conduct during
the calamitous season through which wo havo just
passed ; and to the ministers of tho gospel, benevo
lent associations, Medical Faculty, and private in
dividuals, for their unremitting attentions at the
bedside of the sick, and in the alleviation of dis
tress that for a time pervaded our city.
Hoalth of Charleston.
Tea number of deaths in Charleston for tho
week ending the 28th October, was 42. Os those
28 died of yellow, only one of which was colored,
14 were foreigners; 0 native Children, and three
natives of the United States.
The Courrier of Friday says wo aro truly gratified
to perceive from the subjoined reports that the
Board of Health has officially declared that tho
Fever has ceased to prevail as an epidemic, and
that consepuontly the Daily Reports of the City
Register will be discontinued.
Office or City Register, I
Wednesday, Nov. 1,9 P. M. J
There has been no death for the past 24 hours
from Yellow Fever.
J. L. DAWSON, M. L., C. R.
At a meeting ofthe Board of Health, held this
afternoon, the subjoined resolution was unani
mously adopted I
Resolved, That tho Yellow Fever having ceased
to prevail as an epidemic, tho Register ii authoriz
ed todisoonti-iue his daily reports.
Nebbo Stealln#, Ac.—On Sunday morning, the
15th inst., says the Fort Valley (Ga.) Herald, of
the 27th, a well dressed white man, accompanied
by a valuable negro servant, stopped at the first
station west of Fort Valley on the Muscogee ltail
road, and breakfasted. "When the train for Co
lumbus passed, they took tho cars. In tho course
of the day it was ascertained that the nogro was
the property of Mr. James Hollinshead, of Macon
county, and had been stolen. By the next daily
train a messenger started in pursuit, and we hope
he may be successful in recovering the boy, and
especially that tbe white villain will be arrested
and punished. The twain stole two horses, one
the property of Dr. Crocker, the other belonging
to Kev. D. F. Wade, neighbors of Mr. Hollinshead,
which they roe within a few yards of the depot,
and turned into a field on the Everett estate.
These are tho chaps, doubtless, who were con
cerned in stealing two horses about five miles west
of Girard, on the Sand Fort road. Mrs. Swearin
gen and Mrs. Kinney each lost a horse about the
time these “ birds” must have passed along that
way. They were in Girard on the 17th, hut left
there on that night, and the horses left also. Mrs.
8. offers SIOO for the horse with the thief and proof
sufficient to convict him.
The same paper mentions another bold theft
committed at Fort Valley, one day last week. It
seems a ..gentleman from Dooly, was passing
through that village, and had his trunk cut from
his carriage, and from thenoe it was taken to the
woods near by, and rifled of its valuables, except
a pocket book of money and some jewelry. Two
negroes have been suspected, but tho proof is not
sufficient to convict.
Mr. Edward Olliver, it is stated in our English
files has his name upon a larger amount of paper
than was at first supposed, and the hope of a
surplus will prove altogether delusive. He was
mixed up with McHenry & Co. and Allen & An
derson. With respect to the affairs of McHenry,
it is now commonly reported that he owes £500,-
000, and that his assets will not yield more than 5
per cent, of that amount. Tho prospects of
liquidation in the case of Allen & Anderson are
bad, as thoy arc under tood to have committed
tbemselvea with McHenry to the extent of making
themselves liable as partners.
Our adviocs from Australia are to the 24th July,
The various colonies were steadily advancing in
populatim and wealth. The total number of ar
rivals at Sydney alone from the 24th May to the
12th of July was 12,508, and an increase of 2,542
over the departures. These arrivals were from uli
parts of the world, including England, tho United
States, China, the South Sea Islands, .to. li. the
Council of Sydney, on tho 7th of July, a series of
resolutions wore introduced to the effeot, that
there is an increasing demand for labor in tho
Colony, but that this demond can only be fully
and effectually met from tho population of Europe
and America, and protesting against the Coolio
plan, or tho bringing in of tho Negro race.
Costa Kiea papers to October 7th gives us later
dates from Guatemala and Honduras, but we seo
nothing very remarkable going on. Guatemala
continues in quiet; Carrera was getting on as wo!
as nsnal. In Honduras there was some disturbanoa
in the province of Yucatan. Nicaragua is yet in a
state of semi revolution; but Chamorro seems to
be master. He now has some naval forces on the
lake, with three hundred men on board.
Medical Journal*.
Our time has been so occupied, during the opi j
dcmic in our city, that wo have not had the time to j
notice the various Medical periodicals sent to us— j
the consequence is, they have accumulated on our
table; but wo have so repeatedly recommended
these works, through our columns, that it is only
necessary for us to say they havo beon roocived,
and all contain tables of contents rich with the
improvements in tho scienco of Medicino. Tho
following works have boon received, and wo can
most confidently recommend thorn ns Journals
conducted with ability and zeal, and should bo on
the table of every practitioner that wishes to keep
pace with the scionco—and who is it that does not?
The Medical Examiner, for October—published
in Philadelphia by Lindsay & Blakiston, and edi
ted by Samuel L. Hollingsworth, M. D., at $3 per
annum, in advance.
The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Jour
nal, for September, edited by Bennett Dowlxb,
M. D. Published bi monthly at $5 por annum.
New Orleans Medical News and Hospital Ga
zette, published semi-monthly, by an association
of Physicians, at $8 per annum, in advance. The
September number is on our tablo, the October
number not having reached us. This is a splen
did Journal, and we do not like to miss a number.
We hope our cotomporaries will supply us regu
larly. Editors: SamuelChappin, M. D., C. Beard,
M. D., K. Sohlater, M. D. Address either of tho
above.
The American Medical Monthly.— This work
is conducted in New-York by an association of
Physicians, and edited by Edw. H. Parker, M. I>.
Price <8 por annum, in advaneo. Address Ame
rican Medical Monthly, No. 697 Broadway, Now-
York. Tlie October number has not yet roached
ns, and we deem it to good a work too lose a num
ber. We hope onr cotemporaries will send us the
October number.
SCBTHEEN MISDIGAL AND SoBUIOAL JOURNAL.—
The November number of this valuable Medical
I’oriodioal is on our table, and wo recommend it
to the Profession as one among the most valuable
works in tho country. It is oditod by L. A. Dcoas
and published in this city by James McCaffertt,
at <l3 por annum in advance.
At tho presont time human iugonuity seems to
be taxed to the utmost to suggest moans by which
tho lives of passongers may be saved, even if a
vessel goes down at sea. The lust, and perhaps
the best, wo 6mi in tho Boston Transcript. It is
the suggestion ot an old soa captain, and contem
plates a sufficient number of life boats to acommo
dato tho passongers and crow, each boat to bo pro
vided with a compass, wator and food, and to be
numbered and placed under the eommand of an
offioor of a vessel. As each person takes passage
in the vessel ho is also ticketed for a position in one
of tke life boats, so that in ease of aoeidont, each
one knows where he belongs.
Tho assessed value oi rent and personal proper
ty of all kinds, in Washington City, including
bank and other stocks, for the year ending June
80, 1855, amounts to <24,852,773, which will yield,
when collected, about <161,816, after dednoting
the discount for prompt payment, expense of col
lecting, &c. The total taxes received for the first
quarter of tho present fiscal year, amount to <llO,-
295.26. Tho funded dobt is <798,250.
Tho Boston Fivo Cent Savings Bank started in
May last, has now on deposit over <200,000 from
5,380 depositors. In consequence of this suoces.
tho direotora havo just resolved to increase the rute
ofintorost, allowed depositors, f,om4tosporoonts
per annum.
Early Snow.— The chronicle of tho first fall ot
snow this season, is as follows: Throe or four
inches of snow fell at Montreal on the 10th inst.
On the 16th iUBt., there was quite a covering of
snow upon the ground in several towns in the
north part of Worcester county, Mass. It was
two or three inchos deep in the town of Princoton
in that county. It snowod quite hard in tho towns
of Mason and Now Ipswich, Now Hampshire, on
tho 16th inst., and ulso in some parts of Vermont
More Gold.— Tho steamers George Law and Star
of the West have arrived at Now York with Cali
fornia dates to the Ist October, and one million
eight hundred thousand dollars in Gold.
A letter from Gautemala states that tho inhabi
tants of the capital are in a high state of alarm
caused by recent violent earthquake shocks. It is
greatly feared that Gautemala will suffer from tho
same disaster that has laid San Salvador in ruins.
Information Wanted. —The Warronton, N. C.,
News, says: Os O.Hancocka Journeyman Printor,
who left Warrenton, N. C., in July 1853. He is
about five feet six inches high, medium size, has
a scar on his face, and has but one eye. He was
last heard of in Wilmington, N. O. Any in
formation concerning him will be thankfully re
ceived at this office.
Papers throughout the South will confer a favor
on a distressed mother by copying tho above
notice.
Flour and Wheat.— The lbany Argus, allu
ding to tho fact that the Canal navigation will con
tinue only a low weoka longer, says that the ro
ooipts of flour are over one million of barrels
short, and the lulling olf in wheat is equal to
600,000 barrels of flour. Ad an offset, however,
to this, the receipts of corn show an increase over
last year of over 6,000,000 of bushels, and wiil
probably continue increasing until tho closo of
the season. No doubt more wheat and flour will
find its way to market via canal, during the re
maining few weeks of navigation, than has reach
ed tidewater in double that length of time.
An Old Man.— There is now living, says the
Annapolis Republican, in the lower sootions of
this county, a man by tho name of Mr. Richard
Crandall* who is one hundred and six years old }
and is said to be very active and sprightly, end
speaks of tho improvements he intends to make on
his farm like a man of forty or fifty.
A few days ago Mr. Samuel S. Rambert, a weal
thy plantor, residing near Memphis, Tenn., and
having a wife and seven children, eloped with the
daughter of Dr. Dubose, a neighbor and relative,
also very wealth. By moans of the telegraph, how
ever, they were overtaken and arrested at Hick
man, Ky. Miss Dubose is only thirteen years of
age. Mrs. Rembert is thought to bo deraDgcd.
Tho King of Bavaria, it seems, is a suitor in tho
courts of justice of New York, an action having
bc°m entered in tho Superior Court, on Wednes
day. in the name of Maximilian, the second, King
of Bavaria, as plaintiff, against Jacob Noustadlerl
(now established as a merchant in Now York) to
recover thirty thousand florins (about $12,000) al
leged to bo due and owing to said plaintiff. Tho
Express understands that tho ciaim Ib on alleged
advances in establishing a silk factory at Bavaria
some six yoars ago. Tho answer lias not yot been
put in.
A number of cases of smuggling have lately been
detected at New York. In one core, belts con
taining watcheß to the amount of $5,000 were
found secroted around the bodies of two German
passengers who came by tho steamer Washington.
In another instance a package of smuggled linen
goods from Franco, of tho value of S2OO, was dis
covered on board the Havre packet ship William
Layton.
Persons who have visited the printing establish
ments of London, Paris, and Loipsic, have re
marked that the book presses in universal use
there require twice tho amount of manual labor in
producing about half tho work of tho “Adams
press,” commonly usod in this country. Within
a few weeks a member of an Edinburg pubPshing
house, on a visit to New York, has ordered the
Adams press for his establishment, and taken out
American pressmen to work it. The higher prices
of books abroad is in some degree owing to tho
inferior machinery employed for their proas work.
Mr. Merrick, a very oxtensive miller and dealer
in Flour at Oswego, is reported to have failed ; his
liabilities amounting to about a quaiter of a mil
lion of dollars. Several others, it is feared, will go
down with him.
Rev. S. Black, a Southern Methodist Minister,
lately preached a sermon on William’s river, in
Nichola county, f'a.) which was the first one ever
delivered in that region of the country, although
it has boon settled for fifty yoars.
The Philado'phia North American says : It ap
pears that though there is a majority against the
liquor law on tho direct vote, a majority of tho
legislative districts, both Senatorial and Represen
tative, have voted in favor of tho law. Thus tho
Representatives have given majorities for prohib
ition. On this ground'the correspondent of tho
Pott3ville Journal advocates the passage of the
law by the Legislature.
It is stated that the scientific men of France are
at preeent speculating on a recent instance of a
young man being brought to life after being frozen
eleven months on the Alps. The blood of a living
man was infused into the veins of tho frozen
youth, and he moved and spoke. The experiment
was afterwards tried on a hare frozen for the pur
pose, with complete success.
The returns of the New Orleans custom house
show that for tho three months past tho imports
into the city have been 45 per cent greater than
they were for tho same period last year, and the
exports were over 78 per cent greater. The total
exports for July, August and September are $15,-
245,7-1, against $7,755,690 of last year.
Tho securities deposited with the Auditor of
Indiana, by the various Free Banks, of that State,
amount, in the aggregate, to $7,321,730, and are
i comprised of the stocks of eleven different States,
i including $2,750,000 of Virginia stock, $3,000,000
oflndinna, $271,000 of Pennsylvania, and $186,-
000 of North Carolina. It is said that within tho
last 60 days betweeu $900,000 and $1,000,000 of
their notes have boon sent in and redeemer.
Tho brig Acanthus, Captain Marsh all, bound to
| Liverpool, was destroyed by fire when 19 days out,
and a boy, who could not be roacued, was con
-1 gamed by the flames. Tho captain, mate and
crew, ten persons in all, were picked up and
landed at Bermuda previous to tho 11th ult.
They suffered great hardships in an open boat
fifteen days, subsisting on fiitcou pounds of bread
and fifteen gallons of water during that period.
“ Tom Hyer ” has publUhedju card in a New
York paper denying that he fought at St. Louis.
It ia said that on the day of tho pretended fight,
Hyer was riding cut with hie family on Long Is
land*
/ J
Tlie a-'rihern M ,n.
The Charleston Courier of Friday eontalns the
following intoligeuco in relation to difficulties be
tween the Department, and the Charleston Hail
Road Company.
fiiE Mails.-—We fear that tho Mail service not
only oi onr State, but of tho South and South
r e u ,1 ? nv m ? oru r ily cli9or K«oizQd in consequence
of tho culhc'jity botwoontho Postmaster General
and tho South Carolina Rail Road Company not
having as yet been adjusted, and that comequeut
•v tho only mails that will bo carried on the Rail
Koad, tor u day or two at least, will bo tho Nor
thern, from Kingsville to Columbia. The sub
j >iued dispatches will show how tho matter stands
The first is dated
“Washington, D. C., Oot, 81.—The mission of
Col. Andres from the Chamber of Commerce to
the Postmaster Genoral, has boon successful.
The Postmaster General does not order a change
of Schedule, and tho Rail Road Comnauy will go
cn with tho present schedule.” 6
On tho receipt of the above yesterday, a des
patch was forwardod to Washington, asking
whethor tho Postm Goneral agrees to the ar
rufgctnont made between Mr. Caldwoii and Mr.
t rierson—as stated in Mr. Frierson’s letter of the
KUh ot August—both as to the schedule and
amount of pay, to . ich the following reply was
received:
l 'W ashingtox, Nov. I.—The Postmaster Gener
al has authorized Col. Andrew.-, to tolegraph that
no change of pay or fck.’edulo will bo ordered nu
ll after a iroo interchange of opinion between the
Chamber of Commerce and tho Department. The
. Company will receive tho sumo pay they are now
| receiving. Tho Dopartmcut is about ■’ondingout
an agout.
A copy of the above was forwarded to the at ut
ot the Associated Press in Columbia, with a re
quest that ho would show it to Mr. Caldwell, and
ask whethor lie would coiitiuuo the mail service
until the arrival of tho agent from Washington,
and tho following answer was roturned :
“Columbia, Nov. I.—l have sent the message to
Mr. Caldwoii. but think it useless, as ho takes tho
grounds that be is bound to carry out the r. solu
tions of the Board of Directors, and that tho
i bitmaster General mutt aay officially, and in pro
prut persona, that ho will carry out the contract as
heretofore existing.
'•‘Mr. C. Mortimer lias seen the Postmaster Gen
eral, and having received a favorable reply, begged
Mr. Caldwell to wait a few flays; but he isinexora
bio. 1 will let you hear shortly,”
Soon after tho above was despatched, tho follow
ing came ro hand, wljien ,vaa also forwarded forth
with to Columbia:
“Washington, D. 0., Nov. }—io P. M. [Receiv
ed in Charleston, N . 2—12.30 A. M.J—lf the
South Carolina Rr.il Road continues to carry tho
mails after the Ist of November, until a free inter
change of opinions eua be had between the Cham
ber ot Commerce und tbe Department, tho De
partment will uot oonaider the continuance .of tho v
service as outaUing uny additional obligations On**'"*
tho Company, but will regard tho ooutraeW£\
Stood on the Ist Os November.
A. O.
To the above, 2 A. M., when the Telegraph of
fice elosod, wo had .eoaivod no roply. Wo are in
debted to Messrs. I'.iugham and Edwards, tho
operators in this city, mid also the operators in
Columbia, for their politeness in keeping their offl
cos open to so late ... i hour.
The Mails.
Tho Charleston Courier of yesterday says: Tho
public will be gratified to perceive from tho sub
joined correspond , that tho difficulties under
which tho commercial community and tho punlio
generally havo been subjected lor tho past two
days, by tlio inter ption of tho usual mail facili
ties are—at loast for the present—satisfactorily adr
justed. Tho President of tho Railroad telegraphed
la#t ovoniug to the different points on tho road, to
his officors, to roceh tho mails as usual:
“ Postoffice, Charleston, S. C., Nov. 3,1854,
“ J*reßid :>t atul J)h ectore <N. V. R. Co.: /
“Gentlomen—l cor»idor myself fully authorizfi
to protect tho public’ 1 crest, by providing in fie
best practicable manuor, against a continued stjjb
pago of tho mails.
“1 propose now, oitber in my official or versoncnL
capacity, ns you may prefer. to‘ contract with your „
Company to carry • > mails lor ton days,or untill the
differences now pend in;; between yourselves and
the Postmaster Genoral shall be adjusted.
“ I am, gentlemen, vory rospeotfully,
Your obedient servant,
“Alfred Huger, P. M.”
“8. C. Rail Road, )
harleidon, Nov. 8,1654. J
“non. A. Huger, P. M., Charleston, S. C.:
“Sir:— l have the honor to acknowledge tho ro
ocipt ol your letter of this dale. Tho contract bo
tween tho Post Office Department and this Compa
ny being no v annulled, and a large eutu due the
Company upon that c> ntraot, v\o will not make a
now one of a permanent character until tho arrears
cf pay are satisfactorily settlod. in order to afford
tho Department lime to effect this settlement, and
make a now con .ract it they desire it, wo are willing
to ougnge with them through you to transport tho
mails for ton days bofweon Charleston and Au-
Gnsta and Columbia as heretofore for tho sum ot
SIBSO
“Vory respectfully, your obedient servant,
“John Caldwell, Prcsidon?.”
“ Pcstoffice, Charleston, Nov. 8, 1864.
“J.Caldwell, Esq., President, <fce., S. C. K. R. Co.
“Sir—Your note of thin date, in reply to my
own, is just received, and I eonsidor tho terms
proposed to carry the mails for ton dayß, for the
sum of thirtoon hundred and fifty dollars, such as
I am fully authorized to accept, und I accordingly
do so, with tlio understanding that operations will
be resumed to morrow, and the public bo rolievod
with the least possible delay.
Vory respectfully, your ob’t serv’t,
Alfhid Huger, P. M.”
Tme Outrage at W oroesteh, Mass. —The tele
graph has already a ’onneud that a riot has oc
curred at Worcester, Maas., the heart of tho State,
and the very core of abolitionism. It seems that
Mr. Asa O. Butman, an officer attached to tho de
partment, of the United States Marshal at Boston,
rendered good sorvicc in energetically carrying out
the directions of his superior on the occasion of
tho arrest of Sims and Burns, fugitives from ser
vice. Mr. Butman was also one of tho officers
doputod to deliver Burns to custody of his
owner, and his conduct dieted tho approbation of
the citizens of Richmond, to which city tho slave
was taken.
A dispatch to tho Now York Associated Press
dated Worcester, Oct. 80, says:
“ Abu O. Butman, tho person who arrested Thos.
Sims and Anthony Burns, was discovered booked
at the American House in this city yesterday, and
wus immediately posted throughout tho city. In
the evoning a vigilance committee of citizens sur
rounded tho hotol and watched Butman’s move
ments. lie fesritud a pistol at thorn, and
threatened to use it; whereupon a warrant waß
issued and ho was immediately arrestod, and this
forenoon brought before tho police court, charged
with carrying concealed worpons. Tho care was
postponed two weeks, and he wp.s required to
givo bonds for his appearance.
“A largo and cxc ed crowd gathered around
tho court room, and it becoming evident that
Butman’s life was in du ger, Mr. George F. Hour,
freo-soilor, and son of the venerable Samuel Hoar,
appealed to tho crowd to let Mr. Butman go in
safety out of the city. The crowd gave way, and
Butman, acc rnpariod by a strong guard, went to
the depot, followed by the populace, where the
colored men fell upon him, ami would undoubt
edly have takon his Mo but lor tho interference
of Marlin Stowell, James A. Howland, Mr. Hoar,
Rev. T. T. V. Higginson and Stephen 8. Fostor,
all abolitionists.
“Butman was placed in a carriage, accompanied
hy Mr Higginsou, and thus escaped with his life.
Mr. HigginsoQ was considerably cut by the mis
siles thrown at, the carriage, and Butman wus
poltcd with rotten egg aud atones, and was kicked
and beaten almost to death.”
To Persons In isicUness aud In Health.
Tho pursuit of hoalth seems to bo tho groat ob
ject of life with a larg proportion of tho human
family. Diogenes, with his lantern, never sought
more diligently for an honest man than do those
whohavo lost their health seek for the means to
regain it. Dr. J. S. Rose, of Philadelphia, gradu
ated from tho Unive r ° ; ' yof Penney]vania in 1820,
and is an honorary member of tho Ph ladelphia
Medical Society, and us the reques t of many of his
patients has put up a class of his celebrated Family
Medicine?, each suit? d to a “ particular disease.”
No family or porson rl uuld bo without a copy of
his Medical Advisor. It describes in a clear and
comprehensive manner tho diseases of our variable
climate, and the mode of treatment. It contains
much good advice to invalids, as well as persons
in health. This book is for gratuitous circulation,
and caa bo had of all Druggists in this city and
throughout tho country, who sell his valuable
Medicines.— Com.
A during attempt wits made in New York on
Saturday afternoon la*.., to blow lip Earle’s Hotol,
in Park Kow. The facts of the case are as fol
lows : In a small leather '.ravelling valiso had been
placed a small keg of powder, holding twelve
ponnds. In ono end of tho kog was inserted the
muzzle of a small double barrelled pißtol, and
aguinßt tho triggers of tho pistol was placed an
iron ep'ing, made to st. ike the triggers and create
an explosion at a certain time, regulated by tho
running down of weights attached to this trigger
spring. The valiso was one of an ordinary ap
poaranco, and could be placod, Ai it was, in tho of-
flee, among the baggage, without exciting 1 anysns-"*
picion, and at tho hour fixed upon, the machinery
would so resolvo within the valise as to perform
tho futal work intended. At the time of the ex
plosion, fortunately, thoro were only three or four
persons in tho office. The infernal machine was
placed behind the counter of the office, and the
clerk being in the office at tho time, was, singu
larly enough, lifted from his foot and thrown on
the outside of the oonnter without receiving any
injury. One of tho waiters of tho hotel, named
Peter Mourn, was badly burnod about tho face
and hands, and taken to the City Hospital, whero
ho now lays in much pa.n; bnt it is his
life ia not in dangor. His clothes immediately ,
took lire, and he ran int the streets oovered with
flame. In on instant his clothes wero torn from
his body, and bat for the speedy rolief of his cloth
ing ho might have been . irnod to death. Ono of
guests of the hotel, Mr. It. Dowd, was also badly
burned about tho face, but not dangerously.
PaomAßLi Caomse.—AY o loam from a com
munication in tho Marietta Advocate, that Mi*
Josiah M. Daniel of Cobb county, raised upwards
of ono thousand bushels of corn on twelve acres
of “branch bottom.” Tho best aero measured one
hundred bushels—tho whole lotaveraged upwards
of eighty-throe bushels to the acre l This will do
pretty well for a dry season.
Cholkba in Eocuvir.LE.-The Louisville Times
of Sunday morning soys: AVe regret to loam that
several deaths hove resultcdin this city from chol
IPoyd and Treston, nnd about dark there had been
ton cases reported, of whom fur had died. A
strong force was immediately set to moaning and
'liming tho street*. It is hoped that a better re
port will bo furnished to-morrow.
The total number of deaths in the city ofßoston
for the week ending on Saturday last, was flfty
flve, and the city was represented as being remark
ably heaithy.
The official Keport of tho City Kegtster cf New
that time, twenty-four ofwhiehwemfrom cholera.
A frightful explosion took place at Earle’s Hotel
' „ ruTk c :ty, on Saturday afternoon. A keg of
*** I, -which ha ,een plrced near the book-
CeP: desk in a valise, exploded, doing great
dlmago, but fortun .o!y injuring no person se
rious v, though many wore in the immediate
vicinity. inveetigetton was made,and it was
ascertained that tho cxpiosicn proceeded from M
machine.