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TIIIKTV-FOCKTII CONtiKE!*!*— art* M-~it.li.
IN SKtfAXE #■*#* *V
Mr. IHTugl*., from the eommittco on famtonr*.
lviKirted » bill authorising the people of Kwiwt* to
form a constitution and Inate government prepara
tory tomdinissioti into the Union a# »**oa an ®ht slum
have the requisite population.
Mr Clayton addressed the Senate relative to the
lint i«b construction of th** Clayton-Bui wer treaty
and Central American affairs generally. He was
gratified, he said, at the extraordinary degree of
unanimity «Hoim during the discussion in the Senate
with regard-to the construction of tltat treaty. AH
hud agreed in repudiating, tut utterly unworthy their
regard, the new construction given the treaty by the
British government, namely, that it was only to
have a prospective operation, thus leaving Great
Britain in undisturbed possession of that ooantry,
and all the rights she had prior to JHSO. while is de
barred the United State# trotii any right or poa#*-*-
#ion whatever. Such constructi«*n was an after
thought—an attempt to evade treaty obligations.
He alluded to the great importance of that inter
ix'eanie canal. He had looker) at the report# of the
explorations for the Pacific railroad; and while he
vnv* sorry to dispel an illusion so pleasant, be be
lieved that no railroad to the Pacific would be built
f<*r many years to come, and, if such a rood was
made, it would not answer the purpote* which we
desire and should obtain by a passage through the
Isthmus. Unless this country should t>e btessea more
than any other, before any such roar) could possibly
b« built we should be involved in a war with some
of the greatest powers of the oartk.
Ue approved of the whole conduct of tbeaaunn
istration in relation to the with Ungland,
eulogized Mr. Moray's and Mr. Buciiauans State
paper*—wen- gratified at the energy with which the
administration had put down filibustering schmnes
and demon need Walker as a ruffian, buccaneer and
pirate. ll* Air. Clayton) wa# no pytizan of the
Prsshleut. but when our foreign relations wore eon
ducted with such signal ability, he was willing to
giving tlic administration credit. Ho alluded in the
coume of Ins address to Walker's seizure of the ves
*u -of the Transit l ompaay.
Mr. ♦v-v .**l naked whether th* Nicaragua Com
pany had not connived at Walkers move moots?
Mr. Clayton said he had seen such a statement,
but he did not know whether it was true or not. Jt
If was, ho thought that e van-hand sd justice was
likely to restore the poisoned chalice to their own
‘I'Uo morning hour having expired the chair nn
m>uneod the special order, when Mr. Clayton said
be would finish bis remark# on a future occasion.
Mr. Weller gave notify that he should l*avesoine
thing to say also, for be differed from the Iterator
from Delaware very widely in relation to the ehar
ue'er of Walker.
Mr. Busk said he alio lt#td xomethingto say on the
Pacific Railroad when the subject cams up again.
Th». special oi dor, the ttircc million bill, was prist-
Ismell, and the deficiency bill wh# taken up and
made the special order for Wednesday next.
'i'h#- Senate then proceeded to eoumdor the inter
nal improvement bill, and passed bills for the im
provement of the St. Clair and HP Mary’s rivers, in
M u lagan, for the removal of obstructions at the
mouth of the Mississippi river, and forth© improve
ment of the harbor at s«n Xliego, California.
The .Senate then adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr. Galloway advocated the passage of the reso
lution empowering the ommaittec on elections to
►*-nd for jieiiums and papers in the Kansas case.—
He said that the country demands a full investiga
turn in order that the rascality of those who thwarted
the public will in the territory may be exposed and
[.■inished proportionate to their offence. While do
ii uding (tov. Reeder, lie said that .Shannon had been
buried above ground by the people of Ohio, but the
President had put out liis angling rod and golden
buit in Belmont Cemetery, fished him out, breathed
into him new life and sent him out to govern the
people Kansas. [ Laughter.J
lie contended that flic organic law ha* 1 been vio
lated, and that its legislation throughout is founded
on fraud.
Mr. Valk spoke against sending for persons and
papers, arguing that Gov. Reeder comes before the
House without a foundation to base hi# claim upon.
T«> him must be attributed the djaoord, anarchy, aud
confusion in Kausux.
Mr. Robiimon sjM*k« iu favor of, and Messrs.
Kiehaidsop and Millson against the ponding reseda
tion.
Astor further debate; the House adjourned.
IN SENATE March 10.
The Senate passed the Military Academy appro
priation bill.
Mr. Clayton concluded* his remark on Central
American aflniis. He stated with authority of Mr.
Vanderbilt, the President of tlie Transit Steamship
Company, that there never was any aet done by
that Company which in any uianuor encouraged the
invasion of Nicaragua by Walker.
lie referred to Walker's seizure of the property
of the Company, amounting iu value to nearly a
million dollars, and read a letter from Mr. Vander
bilt to Secretary Aiaicv, in which the former asks
the interposition of this Government for redress.
The seizure was made on the ground that the Com
pany was indebted to Nicaragua. He denied any
Much indebtedness, and refused to submit to the
award of arbitrators.
With regard to the settlement of your difference#
with England, three propositions had been made.
Arbitration eould not be countenanced, because
the passage of the Isthmus is necessary for ua, and
not for Great Britain ; and because with un impar
tial umpire our cmc would bo clear. The abroga
tion of the treaty would give a chance for Great
Britain to got possessions where she could annoy
us and as to giving notice to Great Britain to ▼«-
oalo the premises, it was not proper to do so at pre
sent. He propped to continue the negotiations,
endeavoring to bring Great Britain to reasonable
argument.
Meanwhile, we should arm iu our own defence,
protect our coasts, build fortifications, increase the
navy not, however, to make our country the rival
of Great Britain. Wo should take time to do so.
This is our right at any time, war or not. This is the
weist time we could engage in a war with Great
Britain. She i# armed rap-a-pie, and is capable of
throwing folly thousand troops from the Crimea ou
our coast#, and with the greatest naval equipment
i:\er known in the history of (lie world, while wo
a?c almost dolencflesn. If England see that, we arc
resolved to enforce our rights, pursuing the doctrine
laid down by Washington—“ In time of peace pre
pare for war,” —toe tlmt wo are building up our for
- and naval power, tho people of that
oountry will compel their government to yield its
positions.
Since the publication of the correspondence be
tween 1/ord Clarendon and Mr Buchanan, public
opinion in England has been rapidly tending to an
acknowledgment of the justice of our construction
of the treaty Mr. Clayton said he lia<l oil this point
received such information as left no doubt of the
fact that an appeal is from the British Ministry to tho
Bi itish people, who wish to engage in no unjust war
with us. At any rate be the consequences what
they may, if we arc driven to tho alternative of dis
graceful submission or war, w e must tight. Heoould
not, however, believe that there was any real dnn
gor of war. If Senators and Representatives stand
firm and present an undivided front ; if wo all agree
on our right* and manifest a determination to en
force them, they will be respected.
The British people will turn any Ministry out,
rather than fight such a nation ns this.
The deficiency appropriation bill was then consul
cred. Three hundred thousand dollars were appro
priated to continue the Washington aequeduct.
Mr Hamlin made an ineffectual effort to make
appropriations for various Custom Houses and Ma
rine Hospitals.
The donate boro adjourned for want of a quorum.
HOUSE.
Mr. Howie spoke against Gov. Keodor’Sclaim and
against granting power to send for person# and pa
per* iu the Kansas case.
Air Hickman said it was ad mitt cm] that there had
been an invasion of Kansas by an armed force from
Missouri, and the rights of the people virtually sub
verted. Had not tho committee a right to inquire
into these tact# ? lie attributed the present trou
bles to the repeal of tlu* Missouri Compromise, but
l,« would not > ote for its restoration. It wasfikhed.
I.nselv, ignoiuiniously, and gone into the arm# of
debauchees, deflowered, dishonored, polluted, and
cannot bu restored to its original sanctity ami purity.
lie could not, therefore, again take it to his arms.
lie looked forward to the day vrhati those instrumen
tal to this net of wickedness or folly will repent in
sackcloth ami MMhea.
l'uu Home now votoil under tho operation of tlio
provioua question.
Mr. It. •mtftt, of Mississippi, had moved to amend
the committee's resolution to send lor Persona ami
jmper* by Biilkstituting Jtieepli H. BradW and Sid
lu V Unxier am Commissioner* clothed with full
power to take testimony.
The House adopted by the vote of 104 against PI;
in lieu of Mr. Bennett's proposition, a substitute of*
b red by Mr. Omni, namely;—
That a committee of three members of the House
In* appointed hv the Speaker, who shall proceed to
inquire into and collect evidence in regard to the
trouble* in Kansas generally, and particularly with
regard to anv fraud or force attempted on practiced in
reference to’ any elections in said territory, either
under the law* organizing the territory or under
any pretended law which nmv be alleged to have
taken effect therein since. They shall fully inves
tigate ami tak*» proof of all violent and tumultuous
proceeding* in said territory at any time since tl«e
passage of the Kansas ami Nebraska act, whether
engaged in by residents of the territory, or by any
pi non* from elsewhere going into tho territory and
doing or eneom aging etYmra to do any act of voi
lcuee or public* disturbance against the laws of the
l Vuod States, or the rights, peace and safety of the
resident*, of tin* territory.
The rtwolnlions give the commit too full power in
tl»* premises . amfpower to employ clerk* and ser
iuts-at arms to aid in the investigation. The suuiof
ten thousand dollar* is appropriated to nay the ex
penses, and the President is requested to furnish
mihtarv protect ian if necessary.
Mi. Cobb, of Georgia. said a* there was now no re
maining proposition which ought to be adopted, he
mo\ ed to lay the subject on tho table. Negatived,
v»*as 93, nays 110.
Mr. Dunn* prequisition, in lien of the original
resolution to send for persona and papers, was adop
ted by a vote of 101 against 92.
Adjourned.
IN SENATE March IS.
Mr. Iverson gave notice of his iuUwtion to Intro
duce a bill to increase the compensation of mem*
U'rs of (Vugross, and fix tho time of aunual meet
tU iJr. Hamlin introduced a bill regulating the ap
praisement of imported metvhaiuiize.
Mr Houston presented a memorial, signed by
members z‘f the Legisla'ure of Marylaud. ondorsi ig
the resolution ot the Virginia legislature, condemn*
torv of the actions of the Nava! Board. Mr. Hous
ton said ho rejoiced that the Old Dominion had spo
ken on this subject, as her pro ti Ml in the emteae
mor gav great weiglil to her utterances. Afteral
tadtngtoUie unjust manner in w! ioh Lieut. Maury
had becu treated by the Board, he said it was npt
because of inefficiency that officer* had been atriokou
down, but it was a system of espoinage—as was
SR! d |,y a victim of the Beard —black conspiracy J
crushing gal’ant men. and giving position aiut pro- i
unit ion to those who. grasping the sceptrv. wielded
it with sway.
Mi Houston* remark*aboundedinpersonalities:
tbiobusffton Captain Siribbling and Dupont
were froely commented on, as also other mom
l*eis ol the' lioard In reply to a remark report
mg Captain Dunont. Mr.’ Clayton asked noou
what authority the statement was made f Mr.
Houston said that he luid not read the whole of the ;
document to the Aena f *. but he had got the infer- I
mat ion from it
Mr Clavton. You know nothing about it!
Mr Houston alluded to ih« remark ot Mr Mallory, |
th«l there wots some e;.*«s of hardship in the action
.»l the Board, and said that scum of the harden casts j
tvuiain*du» the N av\ fl-aughter ] 1 assail no man's
, Uaracter; 1 only read tour document* . I don’t aav !
ikey ara not gentlemen, but 1 may have my private
..pinion, [Renewed Laughter ]
In reply to another remark, Mr. Bayard said that
g Mr It could austain hi* assertion by the doett
meut advanced, he had v«t pourr* of txrrersoi
• renter than he had exhibited m tho Senate to-day
to concluding his IpCWk Air. Houston wii.l that
|M .rdalitr and acMwhmuß were the only oommemla
i ton of the Board.
Mr Butler vindicated Commodore Shabnck
from Mr Houston'* attack, eulogising the brilliant
itchiveuients of that officei on the Pacific coast and
t Ww where
Mr. Bayard spoke chief y in defence of Capt- Du
pont. At some future occasion he said, lie would
express his views at length of the Naval Board. In
hie opinion the Senator * remark r«sjN»eting Capt.
l>nptiut was au attack wauton in the extreme.
Air Houston rejoined saying that he made uo at
tm-k* excepting what w«-re sustained by official do- !
euio«ttU lie should wait for the printed sp* «*oh of !
Mr. Bayard, he said, aud reply to it as it might de- ;
* Mr. Mallory defended the Naval Board individu ■
ally iiresollwtirdv.
Mr. Clayton gave notice that he would reply to- i
morrow.
Adjourned.
HOUSE
Mr Smith, of Virginia, opposed the resolution to |
Ulld for psrsoua and papers in the Kansas eleetnm ,
Messrs, Granger and Barbour advocated the res
olution, and Ale—rn Hale, of lowa, Lake aud other*. I
spoke in opposition to it. and the debate was non- |
juiusd up to Ike hour at I
IN SENATE March 20.
The Senate Chamber is soffocatingly crowded by
per#*>n* eager to hear Mr Douglas reply to Mr.
Trumbull on the Kansas question. Ladies’ ’) com
ing early have preoccupied the reporters’ seat*
and thus render note taking a thing next to impos
sible.
Mr. D#jfcgWa proceeded to reply to Mr. Trumbull.
lie referred to the Legislature of Kansas a« a spuri
ou* Ixxty. He said it was admitted tlmt the elec
tion in seven districts was illegal, and Governor
Reeder denied the members their certificate; but
in the other fifteen there was no protest nor proof of
illegal voting, consequently there was a dear ma
jority of the Ivgisbit urc elected. He charged that
the minority report had suppressed evidence in or
der to make out a case.
Mr. Trumbull replied tlmt a# to the absurd pro
position inode by him, that both should resign, he
had only to say that the people had sanctioned him
recently byetecting him. lie maintained that the
Kaunas Legislature were fraudentiv elected. When
a question threatening civil war. disunion, and the
I>cace of thirty millions of people, is at stake, aud
the cause of Itepublicanism i*» involved, into w hat a
significance do these petty sqAabbles sink.
On motion of Mr Hale resolution# were adopted
enquiring of tiie President whether the boundary of
of Mexico i# established ami whether the remaining
three million# have been paid and to whom.
Mr Seward submitted a substitute for Mr. Doug
las' bill admitting Kaunas.
Mr. James, of Rhode Island, reported a bill to pre
vent fraud# on the revenue and for other purposes,
lie made a apeefch elucidating the measure and
i showing the necessity of a revision, of the ol«i system
find explaining, the opcrifiou of the Dill which he
submitted.
The Senate then adjourned to Monday.
HOUSE.
Mr. Campbell, of Ohio, from the committee on
ways ami in-uu#, reported the navy appropria
tion bill.
Mr. Benson, from the committee on naval affairs,
reported back the Senate bill providing for the
construction of ten sloops-of-war, with an amend
ment providing that th* Secretary of the Kayy may,
in hi# discretion, cause two of th**m Xtt be btuit witii
Hidewhcel# and equipped witii a view to the great
e#t i attainable w ith a due regard to their etli
ciejicy war vessels.
Ob motion of Mr. Grtaan wood, a resolution was
adopted; testmeting tJie comtniUeetni Public Budd
ing# t*» inquire into tin* expediency of purchasing
square d? 5, and part of square 576, w ith a view to
the extension of the Capitol Grounds, made neces
sary by the erection of the two wings to that edifice.
Mr. *Brenton.in committee of the whole «*n the
State of the Union, made a speech against tho ex
tension of slavery.
The House then »<ljoumcd till Monday.
EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE,
BY THE PERSIA.
Speech of Ihe Emperor of the French.
The session of the Senate for the year 1856 was
opened on Monday, March 3d, by tho Emperor in
jiMwon ;
Ilia Imperial Majesty delivered the following
Speech :
“ Pfsrn and Seiuifor* :—On the last occasion of
assembling you aeriouaanxieties prevailed. The al
lied armies were engaged in a scige, where the obsti
nacy of the defence raised a doubt of success. Eu
rope, uncertain, seemed to br? awaiting the end of
the struggle before it pronounced itself.
“To maintain the war, I asked of you a loan,
whb h you voted unanimously, though tho amount
might have appeared excessive.
“ Tilt* rise in the price of provisions threatened
the laboring classes with general inconvenience, and
n disturbance of olir monetary system caused a fear
that business and labor would slacken. Thanks to
your aid and to tin-energy displayed both iu France
and England, and above all to the assistance of Pro
vidence, thc.se dangers, if they have not entirely dis
appeared, have been for the iiio#t part averted.
** A grand feat of arms at last decided in favor of
the allies a struggle unexampled in Ids tory for its in
veteracy. From that moment the opinion of Europe
was more openly expressed. Our alliances were
everywhere extended and strengthened.
“ The third loan was completed without difficulty.
The country gave me a fresh proof of its confidence
by subscribing for a sum live times larger than I
asked for. It ha# supported with admirable resig
nation the sufferings inseparable from the dearness
of provisions—sufferings alleviated by private char
ity, by the zeal of the municipalities, and by the
HU'*oo,o4'o distributed to the deportments. The ar
rival of foreign grain has now produced a conside
rable fail; the anxiety caused by the disappearance
of gold has diminished, and never has labor been
more abundant or wage* higher. •
“The hazards of war have revived the military
spirit of the nation. Never have there been so ma
ny voluntary enlistment#, nor so much ardor amongst
the conscripts designated by lot.
“To this brief expose of the present sit nation must
In* added fact* of great political significance.
‘ Tin* queen of Great Britain, desiring to give a
proof of her confidence and of her esteem for our
country, and to make our relations more intimate,
has come over into France. The enthusiastic wel
come she received has proved to her how profound
were the sentiments her presence inspired, and was
of a nature to strengthen the alliance of the two
People#.
“The King of Piedmont, who, without looking
hehiad him, embraced our cause with that courage
ous spirit which he had before exhibited on the
field of battle, has also come to France to conse
crate a uuion already cemented by the bravery of
his soldiers.
“These sovereign# have beheld a country* lately
so agitated and disinherited of it# rank in the coun
cils of Europe, now prosperous peaceable and re
spected, making war, not with the momentary de
lirium of passion, but with the calmness of justice
and the energy of duty. They have seen that
Franco, tlmt was sending *200,000 men across the
seas, convoking to Paris at the same time all the arts
of peace, as if she meant to say to Europe. ‘The ex
isting war is to me only an episode. My idea# and
my power# are always partly directed towards the
art# of pence. Let iis neglect nothing for a good un
derstanding, and drive me not to throw into the field
of battle ail the resources and all the energy of a
great nation.’
“This appeal seems to have been understood, and
the winter, by suspending hostilities, favored the in
tervention of diplomacy. Austria resolved on a de
cisive step, which introduced into the deliberations
the entire influence of the sovereign of a vast em
pire. Sweden linked herself more closely to Eng
land and France by a treaty that guaranteed the in
tegrity of her territory. Lastly, the advice or entrea
ties of alt tho cabinets reaching St. Petersburg, the
Emperor of Russia, the inheritor of a situation he
had not created, seemed to be inspired with a sincere
desire to put an end to the causes that led to this
sanguinary conflict. He determined to accept the
propositions transmitted by Austria. The honor of
his arms satisfied, it was to his own honor to give
way to the clearly expressed wish of Europe.
“The plenipotentiaries of the allied and bellige
rent powers are now assembled in Paris to decide
on the conditions of pence. The spirit of moderation
and equity that animatesthem all necessarily creates
the hope of a favorable result. Nevertheless, let
us await with dignity the end of the Conference#,
and be equally ready, if necessary, to draw the sword
anew, or extend the hand to those with whom we
have fairly fought.
“Whatever may happen, let us occupy ourselves
with the means calculated to augment the strength
and tho riches of France. Let us, if possible, draw
closer the alliance formed by n community of glory
ami sacrifices, ami of which peace will far better ex
hibit tho reciprocal advantages.
“Finally in this solemn moment for the destinies
of the world, let us put our trust in God, to the end
that. He may guide our efforts in the direction
moat conducive to the interests of humanity and
civilization.”
The Emperor was most enthusically received in
his passage to and from t lie* Salle des Mareehaux.
The Fall of Kars. —The papers relating to the
fall of Kara have been laid before Parliament, and
published in a bulky “blue book.” They embraeo
the wlmle subject of the war in Anatolia, the de
fense and fall of Kars, the conduct-of l<ord Strat
ford, the proceedings of the allied generals, and the
poliey of the allied governments.
The book discloses some singular circumstances.
On the loth of July, 18T»5, Geu. Simpson forwards
to liis Government the particulars of a conference,
attended by Gen. Pelissier, Gen. Marmora, Admi
rals Lyons, Bruat, Stuart, and Gen. Simpson, at
whieh Omer Pasha endeavored to induce them to
send a portion of the troops from the Crimea to
Asia. Omer offered to proceed with 25,000 men he
brought from Eupatoria to Asia, for the purpose of
relieving Kars. All the Generals and Admirals as
sembled were unanimous in rejecting his proposal ;
and, a* he still maintained his opinion, he left for
Constantinople to lay the plan before the Sultan.
In ordei to counteract Omer's proceedings, Gen.
Simpson wrote thus to Lord Stratford de Redcliffc :
“Use vour powerful influence to cause our opinion
to prevail over that of his Highness, for great public
interests are at stake, and serious consequences
might result from his success.” Omer Pasha’s plan
wag to make a powerful division from Redoubt
! lvnle, with a view «>f menacing the communications
of the Russians and compelling them to raise the
siege of Kars. This project found favor in the Turk
ish Council* at Constantinople. Lord Clarendon,
also, seems to have approved of at least a trial of the
plan, and attributes the opposition made to it to the
French Government. He therefore
wrote to Lord Cowley, the British Minister ii. Paris,
in these terms :
“l regret that the French Government should op
pose the expedition, and the British Government
would doubt whether it were wise, even if they had
the right to do so. to object to the adoption ot such
a course by the Porte, siuee the void made by the
w ithdrawal of Omar Pasha's troops from the Crimea
might be tilled up by sending Gen. Vivian’s contin
gent to either Bulaklava or Kupatoria.”
On the 4th of August Lord Cowley replied by tele
graph :
“The French Government will not oppose the pro
jected expedition to Asia Minor, under Omar Pasha,
provided that the members of the Turkish contin
gent before Sebastopol are not diminished.”
On the same day Clarendon telegraphed to Lord
Stratford de K< tlehffc :
“Omar Pasha can go to relieve Kars, provided he
does not diminish the Turkish troops before Sebasto
pol, nor disturb the garrison of Yenikale. Vivian to
hold himself in readiness to go to Kupatoria with his
Turkish contingent.*’
Xapoleoa seems to have interposed some new ob
jections, for, on th 29th of August, Lord Cowley again
'writes to Clarendon savin? ;
“The Emperor has uo objection to the removal of
the Turkish troops from Babiklava, and to their be
ing replaced by others, provided that the allied
v’oimwanders-in-Ctiief have no objection . but he
will not take niton himself the responsibility of say
ing mom'*
tin the 10th of Dt-eeuibor Gen. Codrington writes
to l/<>rd Stratford:
“ 1 wrote to Marshal Pelissier in the general tone
of your letter, expressing to him the great object
it seemed to be to get the Turkish troops to Trebi
zond. and that, if done at all, it should be done at
once; and offering my assistance, if I could, by
communications with our navy 4o further that ob
! jeet. His answer was that he could not consent to
ilieir leaving Eunatoria without the express sanction
of the Emperor of the French.”
Gen. Williams mckntime eontinueil to semi note
after note to I,ord Stratford, and ai length complains
that he had written fifty-four despatches and fifty
loin - private letters, and the only reply he had re
ceived. was a request to try and r«v»*ver some Rus
sian ladies who had been carried off by a Turk. At
length Lord Reth'fiffe vouchsafed togiTe the follow
inghuue explanation:
• It rematna for me to say a word respecting my
silence towards Col Williams. It has, in truth, con
tinned longer than 1 intended. It originated in my
anxiety not to occasion disappointment by an
nouncing measure* which might or might not be car
ried into effect. I knew that during the winter sea
son little, comparatively, could be done; and I pre
ferred. under the pressure of business flowing in
abut: inntly from other souic«s, to give my corres
pondent an answer in full, rather than keep up a
succession of par leal communications!”
Mitritaneou* n» lies.
On the evening of Sundav. the -d in*t., a soiree
♦ook place at tht* TuillerieS. wlien the Emperor
and Empress received about four hundred visitors,
including the Plenipotentiaries and the most dist n
guish» d persons at present in Paris. A dramatic en
i tertaimneut was driven to the company in the Salle
j de Kk>re
Tito FUnsbnrart r Zeitun# states that on the Cd
I ultimo tin- Danish Government proposed to the
various repivseutaiivt a assembled at the Sou id
l)ues'Couft J eui es to abolish them on recei\Tng tiie
pnvment t>f 30.000,000 to 36.000.000 thalers, to be
; defrayed by the various States interested, ac
cording to a table drawn up by the Government.
Ttim projK'sai was accepted at once by the Rus
sian rejwesentative. Tcngobor»ki. without any re
serve. although Russia** share would amount to
about one tlnrd of the whole. It i* that
this pnject met with so mutdi favor with the
representatives as to lead to the ex
pectation of its being adopted by the various Go
vernment*. _ , ...
advices from Constantmme state: —Me
learn that Ixwd Stratlord de Redchffe had presented
a iK'te from the English government, asking the
Porte, as a guarantee for the lately conceded re
forrns. to aiiow the ix'oupaiion by English troops of
Varna, Gallipoli and Cmadia for an indefinite period.
St Petersburg letter* again speak of the retire
ment of Count Nesselrode. They now say that ti?
definitely decided on, and add that among the per
sons who are spoken of as his successor is Baron
Hranow.
The lyondon Chronicle, of Alarch 6, say* : —Our
last advices from Egypt report tlia* a new African
empire has sprung info existence. Kasa, the broth
er in-law of one of the petty king* of Abyssinia.
a«s dethroned hi* rotative, and assiunad ths t ank of
EmjK*Tor. with the title of Theodore I. making also
an offer of his friendship aud alliance to the Viceroy
of Egypt.
England s difficulty with Persia was brought un
der the notice of the Ilou.« of Commons on the 3d
in#f., by Mr. Layard, in aa anti sdiAinistration ad
dress of much length. Lord Polin' r.-tou replied,
saying that it was the pokey of his Cabinet to keep
Persia nt-utralduring the war with Russia. He re
viewed Mr. Murray’s court-*- at Teheran, and de
precated a premature of the subject.
In the House of Commons on the 6th inst., in an
swer to Mr. Baxter, Lord Pslnentosiaid, that up
on inquirv at the Foreign Ofltee. he found that the
papers relating to Central American affairs could not
be laid on the table before Easter.
Advices from Pari# of the 6th uust., says :—Accor
ding to reports very g. ucrally c .vrrei.t to-day, the
aceoucbineut of the’ Empree# mnr be looked for al
most immediately, instead of from the 15th to the
20th inst., which was the originally sp-*xen of.
CovenL Garden Theatre in Ruins . — The total de
struction by fire of the Royal Italian Opera House,
Covent Garden, London, on the morning of the sth
inst.. is detailed at great length in the English pa
per.-. During the whole night the theat re had been
the scene of a Onl masque, under the management
of Professor Anderson, the so-called Wizard of the
North, and the revels of the dancers had not cop
eluded when the conflagration broke out. The
theatre was wefl filled throughout the *. veiling, and ,
the entertainment# were kept up with the vigor
which generally characterize* such recreations.—
Many of the- dancers left between 2 and 3in the
morning ; others remained much later; and as 5
o’clock approached, not more than 204)persons were
assembled in front of the temporary orchestra, which
on this occasion, was thrown back to th*- extreme
end of the stage. At this moment a bright light was
observed in tile Carpenter* room above th.-* stage,
and on the firemen hastening to the spot the flames
burst forth with the greatest violence and all hope of
saving the theatre was given up. The guests made
a precipitate retreat, and in a short space of time
nothing but the ruins of one of the finest theatres
in Europe remained.
The value of tlie properties destroyed is something
fabulous. An approximate estimate maybe formed
from the fact that in producing the several operas
contained iu the repertoire of ttte theatre, when un
iter the management of Mr. D'dafield, no less than
£60,000 was expended, of which tin* four operas,
the “Fropliete." the “Huguenots." “Lucretia B<»r
gia, ‘ ana “La Donna del logo,” cost £25,000. The
valuable dramatic library belonging to the theatre—
unique of its kind—is gone in tl»e general wreck.—
The original MSS. of the “School for Scandal," the
valuable operatic scores, some of which can never
be replaced, u# the “Elisir d’Amore” of Donizetti,
ami the “Oberon* - of Weber, and hundreds of other
interesting works are lost The armory, consisting
of more than one hundred suits, occupying n series
of rooms, is wholly destroyed. In fact, nothing is
spared. Four original pictures by Hogarth, repre
senting the “Season*,” which hung upon the walls of
Mr. Gy o’* private room, within only a few paces of
the Im»’x office, eould not be saved, so rapid was the
progress of the fire. As to the origin of the calamity
nothing is known at present. The building was un
insured and the Kemble family are heavy losers. —
The only ins'iiram**# were £B,<H)fion the properties,
and £2,000 on Anderson's machinery. The Opera
was to have opened under Gye ou tlie 29fli, ana he
will probably make some arrangement* to her Ma
jesty's theatre in order to complete his engagements.
‘He hud leased the house to Anderson during the re
cess, and only gave his consent to the mask ball af
ter repeat fed solicitation*. On the afternoon of the
fire the Queen and Prince Albert visited the ruins,
and expressed their regret to Mr. Gye at the loss he
had sustained. The theatre bad been built 47 years.
On its stage, John Kemble, Mrs. Siddons, an! Ed
mund Kean, gained some of their greatest triumphs,
and Macready, Fanny Kemble, and other eminent
performers, made their first appearance.
Tl:e Bi»r Slefgh-Kide.
Yesterday, by previous agreement, Medina, Cuy
ahoga and Summit counties met, by four-horse sleigh
representation, at Richfield to dispute the right of
possession to the flag previously won by Summit
county from Cuyahoga, for getting up the largest
sleighing party. The Cuyahoga* people were very
confident yesterday morning of outnumbering all
competitor#, and so assured were they that they pro
cured a squad of artillerymen to take out a jjun, that
they might announce to the listening world that tlie
Cuyahoga* had won the field —but, alas! “ the race
is not to the swift, nor the batde to the strong,” and
the poor artillerymen, after dragging their heavy
gun through fifteen miles of deep snow drifts, and
being soused into four foot snow banks several times
bv the upsetting of their carriage, arrived at the
village just in time to learn that Cuyahoga’s honor*
trailed in the snow, and tlie banner still huug from
Summit’s outward wall, untouched. Cuyahoga as
sembled a procession of 151 four horse teams, occu
pying over two and a half mile# of road; Medina
140, and Summit 171. One who was there says it
would be within the truth to estimate the number of
person# at 10 to each sleigh, the total number, there
fore, meeting at Richfield, was at least 4,620; the
number of horses attached to the sleighs were 1,848,
and the cost, estimating at £ls for each sleigh, was
nearly £7,000.
Who ever heard of a slcigh-ride tlie 14th of March
in Ohio, over roadways packed with more tlmn two
feet of snow’ ? We are informed that apparently no
impression has been made by the sun on the snow in
the country, and it is at least two and a half feet
deep on tlie average.— Chid and Herald, 15 th inst.
Arms tor Kansas Arrented.
The good steamer Arabia, Capt. John S. Shaw,
arrived at our wharf about sunrise this morning.—
Immediately on landing, a committee was de
spatched up-town to inform our citizens that a per
son from Massachusetts was on board, having in his
possession one hundred Sharpe’s rifles anil two can
non ! destined for service in Kansas, and sent for
ward for the Massachusetts Aid Society. This in
formation brought together many of our most re
spectable and reliable citizens, when a conference
was had with them by Mr. “Start” with a view of
inducing him to leave the “ dangerous’’ weapons
with our citizens tbr«safe keeping. This he assented
to, and delivered tlie “goods” up, subject to the re
quisition of Governor Shannon, or his successor in
office. The proceedings were orderly, and although
the determination to arrest the arms was decided,
no one talked of violence to the poor tool that could
so heartlessly lend himself to such unnatural work.
The arms were boxed up and marked “ Car
penters’Tools.” The discovery that they were on
board was made at or below Glasgow, from a letter
dropped by Mr. S. in the cabin, aud picked up by a
boy and handed to Mr. Shaw, bv whom it was read
aloud in the Social Hall. The passengers and
officers were highly incensed at the disclosures,
but no indignity was offered to the miserable disor
ganizes
The “ Carpenters’ Tools arc now stored in this
city.
Great credit justly attaches to Capt. Shaw, and
his under officers, for the just and manly course pur
sued by them in this affair. Three cheers were
given the boat as she pushed off.
Singular Bottle Stories. —Capt. Beecher, editor
of Hu l English Nautical Magazine, has compiled,
within the past ten years, the following most curi
ous voyages of bottles, thrown into the sea by unfor
tunate navigators : “A good many bottles, thrown
into the sea next to the African coast, found their
way to Europe. One bottle seems to have antici
pated the Austral-Panama route, having traveled
from the Panama Isthmus to the Irish coast; another
one crossed the Atlantic from the Canaries to Nova
Scotia. Three or four bottles thrown into the sen
by Greenland mariners on the Davis Strait, lauded
on the northwest eoast of Ireland. Another one
made a very curious trip; it swam from the South
Atlantic* ocean to the West coast of Africa, passed
Gibralter, went along the Portuguese coast, passed
the bay of Biscay, went byway of France, passing
Brest, and was finally picked up on Jersey island;
the direct line touches at least all these places, and
makes it more than probable that it took this route.
One bottle was only found after sixteen yenrsswim
m mg, one after fourteen and two after ten years.
A few only traveled more tlmn one year, and one
only five days. This last was sent oft by the captain
of the Racehorse, on the I ?th April, in the Carrib
bean Sea, and was found on the 22d, after having
gone through three degrees of longitude in a west
ward direction. Capt McClure, of the Investigator,
well known since his discovery of the Northwest
Strait, threw a bottle into the sea in 1850, on his
way to Behring Strait. It swain -IfiOO miles in 200
days, and was picked up on the Honduras coast.”
A work like that of Capt Beecher cannot fail to
throw some light on the different observations of the
current of the ocean.
Ravage* of the Cholera in Brazil. —The Cor
reio Mercantil, published at Rio Janeiro, of the 23rd
January, announces the reception of intelligence
from the Southern provinces on the previous day by
the steamer Guaiiubnra. The cholera, which had
been prevailing every where, lmil at length disap
peared in Amazonas and Para. In Pernambuco it
had not manifested itself with great intensity and
only in the Southern portion of the province. Great
fear was felt in the capital of tho province, in antici
pation of its appearance; but no well authenticated
cast* had yet fieoii recorded. From Alagoas, ac
counts sent state that no province of the empire had
suffered so much relatively from cholera, as itself.—
The ravages at Piassnbussu and Penedo, especially,
are said to have been terrible. The number of vic
tims at Piassnbussu, containing about one thousand
souls, is calculated to have been eight hundred. In
Penedo, whose population is estimated at fourteen
thousand, and the surrounding places, official re
turns show that about twenty-five hundred fell by
the scourge. The centre of the province suffered in
like manner, tin* northern part alone escaping its
severity. The President, Senor Site Albuqurqtte,
had won tin* wannest gratitude and esteem for the
manner in which he had acted in the terrible con
jecture : \ isiting various places, having old ceme
teries filled in and new one* opened, measures token
to secure supplies of good water, enforcing cleanli
ness , and administering aid. In the capital itself,
whose population is given as four thou* nd, one
hundred and eight had already died, and about one
hundred and fifty were attacked daily, the deaths
averaging about thirteen. Tho population, how
ever, were by no means dispirited. There was no
check observed in the ordinary diversions, or in
business.
In Amazonas, five soldiers out of duty, who had
just arrived from Maranhao, had died of the disease.
In the city of Para, there had been only forty-nine
deaths from cholera during the month of Decem
ber; of yellow fever four.
•Similar accounts to the foregoing are given from
all parts of the country. — Balt. Ann ncan.
The Steamer PaeiJSe. —The ut w York Sun con
tains tho following paragraphs in relation to this
missing vessel :
“The steam propeller Edinburgh, Captain Cum
mings. whose report of pieces of wreck siren on the
ice on the outward passage has already been given,
arrived here on the return trip yesterday, making
the following much more definite statement of the
occurrence :
“Feb. 7th.—Ou the outward passage, in latitude
4t> 37 longitude 45 44', at 4P. M.. passed two oak
doors, the knobs of which appeared to be white ; ai
so two windows, with Venetian blinds, and a work
box or desk. At the same time saw several pieces
of wrecked stuff. ‘
“This seems to bring the matter home to the Pa
cific in something like a tangible shnjK*. She had
doors and windown with Venetian blmds, similar,
certainly, to those here spoken of. among the fittings
of her upper saloon state-rooms. Other vessels,
however, have articles precisely similar.”
.Vrrr.c from Cuba. —Fq>ih Havana we have files
and letters to March Id. The absence of the Cap
tain Geueral had been taken advantage of by the
slave dealers to effect thv landing of a cargo of ne
groes at Sierra Morelia the nrevious week.
A Dominican friar, named Huelvea, died on the
9th at Guanabacou, a: the age 117.
A captain of the Civil Guard has been imprisoned
in the More Castle ou a charge of being concerned
in the murder of the overseer of the estate of
Madame Scull, near Guiness. of which we publish
ed au account a j-hort time since :
The Archbishop of Cuba has entirely recovered
from the effects or the wound recently intteted up
on him by the hand of a cowardly assaasin.
The Pn sident of“th Spanish Bank" of Havana
ha* published a call requiring twenty-five pci cent,
of the amount of shares subscribed, to lie paid in
within fifteen days ot the date of said order.
The business the week showed, a tendency
downward in the figures of staple sugar, and bvfore
it eloeed it was expected that the reduction would
amount to nearly a dollar pvr quintal.
.4 Fr>'*ch Story. —lt appears that in the drawing j
!*3r the eoascription in France a son of a widow is j
in all ease* exempt. The Paris correspondent of j
the New York Express says that when the last an
nual drawing took place, a p *er man. whose idolized j
and only son had oven so unlucky as to draw a !
number which made him a lawful prey to the Gov- j
eminent, went quietly irom the scene to his dwell- j
ing. and was found the unit morning hanging dead
in his garret. He sacrificed his life to save hi* son \
from military service, and tlia child, now the son of j
a widow, was exempt from the much-dreaded con- j
seription.
, &pc <l ‘ * n Xehr t r> ka —The Nebraska City
News sav* that a iaml frvt-r is ragins there. Claims
of oik- hundred and sixty arcs, within two and a
half miles of that city, arc Behmg at from SSOO to
)980. For one farm joining the < ity on the west,
the owner has been offered so,oik) ia gold, which
was refused.
The first steamers of the season, two in number, *
arrived at New tfrieaus from the upper Arkansas |
river, on the 17th in*t. One of them had been four- ;
teen months, aud the other twelve month* and one ■
day, kicked tip iu the Arkansas river by the low j
stage of water. Both brought down heavy foods of
cotton aud other produce.
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Southern C'nltivntor.
The April number of this popular, standard agri
cultural journal, which is exclusively devoted to the
interest# of the Planter and Fanner, has been laid
on our table. We might exhaust the vocabulary of
panegyric, and would fail to bestow' any higher
praise than is furnished by the following table of con
tents. That it is a work of priceless value to the in
telligent, progressive Farmer and Planter, is now
universally conceded by the most sagacious minds of
the country of all classes of society.
Vlantalion Economy and Miscellany. —Work for
the Month ; Agricultural Address of Col. Henry J.
Cannon; Cotton Culture; The Preparation and
use of Manure; Georgia and Mississippi Planting;
Rotation of Crops-*-an improving Plantation; Plant
ing Sweet Potatoes , Distemper in Dogs; Agricul
tural Societies—Constitution, General Regulation,
&.c.; Report on the Culture of Flax and its Prepa
ration for use, from the Committee appointed by
the Newberry Agricultural Society ; Rain Water
Cisterns ; The True Policy of the South ; Spaying
Cows—lnquiry answered, Alc. ; On the proper time
for Manuring, &e.; .Japan and Oregon Peas—Vine
yards, Ate.; Cultivation of Fishes ; Agricultural So
cieties—Constitution, Arc.; Cold Weather in Mis
sissippi; Help One Another; Mean Temperature
for Six Years ; A Farmer’s Life ; Bermuda and Nut
Grass; Gauging or Measuring Corn in Bulk; Cottou
Seed Oil: liovv to Feed Young Horses; Home
(poetry) ; East India Cotton ; Art of Milking; Cul
ture ot Sweet Potatoes ; Cure for Bloody Murrain ;
Red Camomile to Destroy Insects ; The Vineiu Ala
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(illustrated) ; Subsoiling vs. Drouth ; Birds Earn
their own Living ; Beauty ; Hints intended to Pro
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Apple—-Persian Black Mulberry ; Snap Beans for
Winter use: Fruit better than Physic; Curious
Plants.
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Bite or Spider Sting ; To Extract Grease from Cloth;
Watermelon Molasses ; A new Protection against
Insects ; Creosote for Warts ; To Preserve Sweet
Corn ; Cholic in Homes ; To Cure Hams ; For the
Cure of Croup, Acc. ; Pickle for Beef; To Make
Corn Bread; Macassar Oil; Custard Pudding;
Veal Minced with Potatoes ; Artificial Manures lor
Fruit Trees.
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time ; but we know no remedy for the evil, unless
it be to turn out of office the miserable imbecile ad
ministration of the Government. We can only say
to them that our papers are regularly mailed, and if
they do not reach their destination in due time, the
fault is in the Postoffice Department. But why they
should fail to reach Warrcnton and Waynesboro*
regularly, we are wholly unable to account. At
each place subscribers should always receive their
papers on the day of publication, if the Postoffice
officials do their duty.
Pence or War.
The question of peace or war in Europe is yet un
decided. The Paris Conferences still drag their
slow length. Napoleon avows himself eager for
peace, but still prepared for war. Russia is doubt
less in the same position, and as France and Russia
have the most potent sway in the Hall of Confer
ence, we may infer that a peace will be patched up
to last perhaps a few months, but more likely only a
few weeks.
The elements of discord are busy on all sides.
Turkey, with her Greek Christian subjects raised to
power, will have men ever scheming to oust the Mo
hammedans from their position, and ever greedy to
accept a bribe to betray their country. Rusgia, al
though yielding for the moment to the pacific views
of the Emperor Alexander and Count Nesselrode,
will not be deaf to the war cry of the Grand Duke
Constantine, who, it is well known, looks upon peace
in the present state of affairs, as humiliation to his
country. France has nearly half a million soldiers
more ambitious to revive the glories of the first
empire than to share the vices of the present. Na
poleon’s financial }>oeition is becoming so despcraic,
that action must be sought to keep the public gaze
from his administration of home affairs. An English
writer says that: “including the two great loans the
belief is, that siucothe coup d’etat, Napoleon has
borrowed 1,700,000,000 francs. The expenses in
eurred by the muuieipalily of Paris ou account of
the arrangement as to the price of bread, reach be
tween fifty and one hundred million francs. For
the embellishment of the city, the Parisian authori
ties have contracted three loans, loan extent of 135,-
000,0 th) francs. The sums borrowed fur similar pur
poses by the deportments and communes are stated
to us at 300,000,000 francs. These facts and figures
are alarming enough; what is yet more so, is
the establishment of the Credit Mobiiier, a so
ciety for borrowing and lending on various secu
rities, and on an enormous scale. Scarcely one
of the Ministers, or men connected with the
Emperor, is free from the reproach of stock
jobbing; their fortunes have been made, either by
gross favoritism, or by speculations in the funds,
which, in ineu placed as they are, and with sinister
and secret means of information, is little short of
swindling; and the riches thus questionably won are
spent in a style of lavish aud somewhat vulgar lux
ury, peculiarly offensive, both to the taste and the
poverty of the cultivated and the noble/'
England, apart from her politicians,
is averse to peace. She cherishes the belief that
another campaign might blot out the memory of the
defeat that she sustained before the Redan. Her in
competent Ministry likewise know, that to sink
1 tack into peace is to cause a cry for reform to arise
throughout the land, which they dread to meet.
The revolutionary parties of Hungary, Italy. Po
land and Germany, aud even France and England
would welcome death rather than this unpropitious
j*eace. On all sides, there is an insatiable thirst for
war among the revolutionary parties, because on all
sides injustice and oppreoskm have weighed down
the people.
Wild ( atiaiiH.
It affords us sincere gratification, as vre doubt not
it will every true friend of sound currency, to learn
that the “Merchant’s Bank of Macon,'* the'“Bauk of
! the Interior,” at Griffin, and the “Atlanta Bank, oil
Wild Cats, are in process of winding up their affairs.
We rejoice at this, because we desire to see the
banking system of the State a sound and safe one,
aud because it augurs well for the intelligence of the
people and the soundness of their views on the cur
rency question. There are yet four other Wild '
CaU in the State, which the people will soon drive 1
out, if they will protect themselves against a spu- *
rieos uud worthless currency. We allude to the ‘
• Manufacturers Ac Mechanics’ Bank, at Colum- 1
bus, the “Bank of LaGrange,” and the two at Dal
ton. The people have only to will it, and the kill
ing of them off is but the work of a day. J
Profitable Wed*. —Mr. Thackeray realized 1
the sum of over and above expenses, from i
the five Lectures he recently delivered in New Or- 1
k-&nt—beiog on the average S3BB per Lecture. i
Financial Operation*.
A correspondent of the National Intelligencer
gives the following comparative statements in rela
tion to Great Britain, with the object of showing that
whilst the country is certainly not diminjahing in its
power to sustain'the pressure of the debt and its
consequence*, that pressure rests steadily diminish
ing until the stli January, 1854. The war has, of
course, changed the state of things. The grand to
tal of ftmdetf and unfunded debt in 1816, when Eng
land, emerged from the last great war, was £840.-
850,491, requiring an expenditure of £32,038,000
per annum. On the sth January. 1854, when Eng
land was about to engage in the present war, the
aggregate amount of funded and unfunded debt was
£770,928,001, and the total annual charge £27,-
804,845, or about £3. 13e. 7d. per cent, per annum.
The debt had thus diminished £69,92f.490. The
cost of annual management in itself may appear a
trifling affair; when applied to the entire debt of
£770,923,001, it amounts to no less than £99,577.
The above paragraph, which asserts that Eng
land's National Debt had diminished nearly £70,-
000,000 between 1816 and 1851, is liable to mislead
the public. Daring the years intervening between
1797 and 1819, cash payments had been suspended
in England, and the one pound note bad steadily
depreciated until it was only worth 66 per cent, in
specie. The greater part of the debt, however,
had been incurred in depreciated notes, and in 1816,
the interest continued to be paid iu depreciated pa
per money. In 1819, the currency laws of Sir Robert
Peel were passed, and the country returned to cash
payments. Hie pound was declared to be twenty
shillings, instead of thirteen shillings and four pence,
as it hadbeeu a day before, and the country found
itself indebted the same number of appreciated
pounds, as it had borrowed in depreciated money,
or in plain terms, the National Debt of England, by
this financial operation, was increased one-tliird—
say in round numbers, £280,000,000. Instead,
therefore, of the debt having diminished between
1816 and 1854, it had increased at least £210,000,000.
We allude to this subject because the financial af
faire of every country engage t«*o little of the atten
tion of the people, and even pass unregarded by
those who profess to be statesmen. How much the
capitalists of England made by Sir Robert PeeFs
famous currency laws—which affected every out
t anding lease aud bond—and how much the great
mass of the people loot, can never be told. It is
known, however, that Sir Robert Peel’s family
gained greatly by the exchange, that Mr. Ricardo,
an active agent in the transaction, added vastly to
his fortunes—and that in truth the measures were
dexterous and unscrupulous acts of financiers.—
Had the people have comprehended anything about
monetary laws, such a gigantic fraud could never
have been perpetrated.
Lonmnonxering in Europe.
The readiness with which the British government
last month raised a loan of £5,000,000, and the wil
lingness of loan mongers to advance money to six
times that amount, show that people are still eager
to increase the indebtedness of the country. An in
genious gentleman, named Norman, wrote a book
in London a few years since to prove that the Na
tional Debt was a blessing to England, ns it aroused
the energies of the nation to the utmost in order to
meet the yearly demand upon it for the payment of
interest. Mr. Macaulay, in Ins History of England,
when alluding to the establishment of the Bank of
England, speaks of the apprehension which persons
expressed a century and n half ago of the baleful ef
fects of a public debt, and says that their astonish
ment would have been great to learn that the debt
would increase to its present extent, (nearly £BOO,-
000,000,) and yet the country would still be steadily
progressing in wealth and general prosperity. The
brilliant historian does not stop here, but ventures
to prophecy that when the present debt shall have
been doubled, England will still be flourishing, and
the interest on the debt will be paid with greater
ease than ever.
Thero is a homely maxim about the last hair
breaking the earners back ; but doubtless so fine a
writer as Mr. Macaulay Mould never heed a truth
so simple. We are aware that lie docs not mean to
be paradoxical, and assert that the more a country
is indebted the more wealthy it becomes ; but that
he refers to the elasticity of English commerce,
which might enable a person to pay two dollars to
morrow, with’more ease than he can pay one dollar
to-day. But we have a right to expect in history
something more than trite sentences and shallow
prophecies; we have a right to expect that the
writer will possess an analitical viind, and a pro
found insight into first principles. The anomaly of
u country like England being so wealthy, and yet so
deeply involved in debt, should be explained. Is it
not owing to the wealth never having been fairly
represented by money that this huge debt hus been
incurred ? Government in the first instance, had
not enough funds to carry on its legitimate func
tions, and instead of creating more money, it com
mitted the blunder of running into debt.
Thus loanmongcring, the modern word for usury
became a legalized business ; and millions of people
Mere doomed to toil unremittingly in order that capi
talists might grow more plethoric. So much of the
earnings of the industrial classes in England is seiz
ed to pay the loanmongers, that the workman, after
a life of labor, is as poor as when he began ; Mobile
the idle fundholder, after leading a life of utter
worthlessness, may leave an accumulated foftune
to his heirs. This system is a cancer eating into the
heart of the body politic of England, which none
but a superficial writer would have failed to dis
cover.
The loanraongers are the masters of Europe. They
j have their seats in the council chambers of princes ;
they decide whether war or peace shall prevail;
whether such a country, if too jealous of its honor,
will be able to pay its annual interest; whether
l another might not take part iu a war so os to make
money more precious. Statesmanship is in abey
ance in Europe, and Shylock has usurped its place.
* Reckless Running of Atlantic Steamers.—
• A passenger by the steamship Arabia, on her last
1 voyage from Boston to Liverpool writes from Lon
don, Feb. 29, to the Ncw-York Times, censuring the
system of running the steamers at full speed in foggy
weather. Ho says that on reaching the banks on
Sunday
rying maintopsail, reefed foretopsail, and all fore
and-aft sails, with a fair strong wind, and going very
rapidly, fourteen miles an hour, the fog all the time so
dense that vision of the sea extended seldom so far as
the ship's own length before us. The captain stood
constantly under the lee of the weather paddle-box,
looking ahead ; the officer of the deck walked near
him, keeping his eyes on the lookouts, two of whom
stood at the cat-heads and one on each paddle-box
Another man was stationed near the mainmast, and
the third and fourth officers relieved each other as
quarter-masters, near the wheel. No bell, no gong,
no steam-whistling, no gun tiring, and the remainder
of the watch on deck were permitted to lounge or
caulk under shelter. Suddenly the captain quietly
said to the officer of the deck, “ All hands, sir,
shorten sail.” At the same moment he stepped back,
ward and touched the engineer s alarm bell. The
writer cast his eyes forward on the turbid water and
saw pieces of ice not larger than a tumbler, and then
more and more ice.
“ Hard a-port!” shouted the captain in a voice to
be remembered. “ Hard a-port!” was repeated aft;
the engineer’s bell sounded, “ Stop—turn back;” the
sails swung aback or flapped idly; but in a moment
the Arabia was rushing, yet at full speed, into the
close, white field of ice ; in another moment clear
water was beyond our vision on any side.
The captain rang “stop,” and the engine rested as
the ice struck the paddles. After the ship lost head
way, they were again turned forward slowly, while
the crew furled the sails. Slowly we parted the
surging surface of ice, which was so broken that the
pieces averaged in size not larger than a bucket;
slowly moved on, heading southwest, until at length
we ran out into clear water agaiu. About fifteen
minutes afterwards, the lookouts forward shouted
“ More ice!” The helm was put down to briug
the wind against us ; paddles stopped and backed,
as before ; but again, though w f e weiethen moving
much more slowly, we had presently run some ship’s
length’s, I judged* into the “ field.” Again the ship’s
course was made southwest, and the engineer’s bell
was rung to turn forward slowly. I walked to the
stern ana leaned over the counter to see if the paddles
were at all injured. While I was in this position, I
heard an exclamation, and, raising my head, beheld
the most frightful object that in more than fifty thou
sand miles sea-sailing I ever encountered—right
abreast of u*. and not a hundred yards distant, yet
spectral iu the fog, a dead, ghastly, and unblemished
white iceberg, just about as large above water ns
the City Hall in New-York.
We passed it quickly and silently ; many of those
on deck, even, did not see it. A few minutes after
ward the ship ran into clear water, and we weut
driving on, at fall speed.
Our Treaty with Japan.— The San Francisco
correspondent of the New Orleans Picayune in the
course of a conversation with Capt. Morehouse of
the American schooner Page, who recently arrived
from Japan, was informed that our treaty is a fail
ure. Capt. Morehouse could not purchase a caigo
in Simoda and was barely able in Hakodadi to get
about half enough to fill up his vessel of only one
hundred and fifty tons, by giving out the idea that
lie was acting as agent in the purchase of provisions
for a large fleet of American whalers at the Bonin
Islands. He filled up the balance by purchasing
from the bark Greta a portion of the cargo she
brought from China to Japan, and which she was
obliged to discharge there that she might take in the
crew of the Russian frigate Diana, wrecked some
mouth since in one of the Japanese ports. They
have doubled and trebled the prices, charged to the
first American vessels on almost all kinds of articles,
to keep off purchasers. Everything must be pur
chased through the Government agent. Two
thirds of the purchase money is retained by the Go
vernment as its share of the trade. Capt. M., says
the people appear anxious to trade, and desirous of
a freer intercourse with foreigners, but their Go
vernment ha; the most absolute control over them,
and that the finding of the least thing in their posses
sion, that had £not been purchased] 'the Govern
mental permission, would be punished by instant
death.
Capt. M. was at Jeddo at the time of the earth
quake. He says the earth opened in various quar
ters of the city, engulphing whole rows of buildings,
and then, closing up immediately, left no trace of
habitation!
The Late Accident on the Seaboard and
Roanoke Railroad— Official Report. —As soon as
intelligence of the lamentable accident on the Sea
board Railroad had reached the Company's office,
the Superintendents of the Road, repairs and ma
chinery were despatched to the scene of the catas
trophe to report as to the cause. They state that
after a careful examination, they come to the con
clusion that some violence was done to the trestle
work daring the passage of the train over it: they
find that one of the axles, under the tender to the
engine was broken, and from the position of it when
found, and the appearance of the break, there is no
doubt bat that was the cause of the accident. They
discredit entirely the statement of the unsoundness
of the timbers of the trestle work, and assert that ,
ail the remaining timbers, (much of it was con- ,
sumed by the fire) are perfectly sound.
Dangerous Cut. —We find in a Southern Anti- 1
American paper, a wood engraving, representing
Sam as walking off with a brandy bottle in Lis <
hand. The Anti-Americans are very imprudent, \
says the Louisville Journal, to represent him thus.—
They will have all their own fellow; running after 1
him. <
Gubernatorial Contest in Wisconsin.
The National Intelligencer publishes an interest
ing statement concerning the right of William A.
Barstow to the office of Governor of Wisconsin,
wfijch firs been xoutcstvd by Coles Bush ford, his
competitor at the last election. The question lias
been for some time under consideration by the Su
preme Court of the State. Governor*Barstow de
nies the jurisdiction of the Court, and resists its or
der upon pie ground that the proceeding of the
Court is a boM aud dangerous usurpation of power,
and an encroachment by one department of the Go
vernment upon another. The ease is said to be
without precedent iu the history of the Government,
audits final disposition cannot fail to excite general
interest. The election took place last August; the
vote between the parties was close. The returns,
as usually gathered aud published by the newspaper
press, indicated the election of Mr.Bashford by five
or six hundred majority, but the official canvassers
eventually gave the return to Governor Barstow,
who was in possession of the office by virtue of a
previous election, the term of which was about to
expire.
It is alleged by the friends of Mr. Bashford, that
the decision of the canvassers was based on frau
dulent returns, purporting to come from new comi
ties, in wriiich there are not near as many inhabitants
as there were votes returned ; mid it is to investi
gate these facts that they demand the judicial re
view which is resisted by the Governor.
Governor Barstow issued a message to the Legis
lature on the Bth Last., in which he states that on the
17th January last, he was served with a writ, com
manding him to appear before the Supreme Court
of Wisconsin, at Madison, to answer unto the State,
and to an information upon the relation of Coles
Bashford, filed by the Attorney General of said
State, in the nature of a “quo warranto,” by what
Warrant he, the said William A. Barstow, claims to
hold, use. enjoy, and exercise Ike office of Governor
of the Slate of Wisconsin, and to abide by the or
der, judgment, or decree of the said Supreme Court
in the premises, upon what shall then and there be
made to appear.
Governor Barstow was satisfied that the Supreme
Court had transcended its constitutional powers and
jurisdictions in issuing this writ, and felt that he
should be justified in disregarding it: but to avoid
any seeming disrespect, he employed as counsel,
Hon. Jonathan E. Arnold, of MMwaukie, Harlow S.
Orton, Esq.,of Madison, and Mat. H. Carpenter,
Esq.,'of Beloit, to take such steps as should be ne
cessary to bring the question of jurisdiction to the
notice of the court. The proceedings taken by
these gentlemen is shown in a letter which they
wrote to Gov. Barstow, dated Madison, March Bth,
when they state :
We have argued at length, but iu vain, against
the right of the Court to interfere with you while
discharging Executive duties, by removing you
from your department. On the motion to dismiss
the proceedings, we argued that the court must ju
dicially know that you were the Governor of the
State ; -and that the court had the same knowledge
of your official charcter as you had of theirs, since
in your case, as in theirs, the same officers had de
termined aud officially proclaimed the fact.
But the court held that the effect of the motion to
dismiss was to confess the averments of the informa
tion ; that the court could know nothing outside of
it, aud must conclude that you held an office with
out “color or right,” as a mere wrongdoer and usurp
er. We certainly did not suppose, when we filed
the motion, that it would, or that any pleading or
proceeding could, deprive the court of its official
knowledge of your character. But as the court held
otherwise, M*e went beyond what we as counsel
thought you were bound to, and presented to the
court copies of the determination of the State can
vassers that you hadbeeu duly elected by receiving
the greatest number of votes cast for Governor at
the last general election, the certificate of election,
aud your oath of office, all authenticated under the
great seal of the State, and submitted to the court
that they had no right to entertain further jurisdic
tion of these proceedings.
We regret to say the court held against us iu this
and assert fully and absolutely the right to remove
you from your department. Believing as counsel,
that the court has no authority whatever to enter
tain these proceedings, that we have done for you
out of courtesy to the court all that the honor of your
position will permit, wo submit that you have no
further need of our services. We think the ques
tion has always been political in substance, and that
it is assummg the political form also. The friends
and partisans of the relator evidently so regard it, If
we may judge from the oft-repeated, never punish
ed applause with which, in open court, they greet
the remarks of liis counsel. And as the judges, in
canvassing the votes to ascertain who is the Go
vernor of the State, are performing no judicial func
tion, of course you need no professional aid.
Thereupon Governor Barstow directed his coun
sel to leave the court, but previously, to deliver and
read to the court a communication addressed to it
by him, in which he states, that if lie were to con
sent to a jurisdiction of the court, it would at once
destroy the harmony aud balance of the three sov
ereign departments of the State government, and
concentrate in the judiciary an imperial power,
which would be the end of Republican government
iu any form. He alludes to the certificate of the
board of State canvassers declaring him duly elect
ed Governor, together with his oath of office having
been twice presented and spread upon the records
of the court. Whatever his political opponents may
state, lie considers that the court should presume
that all the officers of the State have done their duty
until the contrary appears, lie adds, that he lias no
knowledge of any unfairness, much less of any
frauds, in the vote by which lie has been declared
Governor, and that he is clearly satisfied that he was
returned by au uuquestiouable majority. He re
spectfully, but peremptorily and officially protests
against any further inteiference with the depart
ment under his charge as Governor, on the part of
the court, either by attempting to transfer its pow
ers t© another, or direct the course of Executive ac
tion. In conclusion, lie states that he shall deem it
his imperative duty to repel, with all the force vest
ed in his department, any infringement upon the
rights and powers which he exercises under the Con
stitution.
Governor Barstow in his Message to the Legisla
t ture, designates the proceeding of the court as a bold
aud dangerous assumption and usurpation of power,
3 which it is the duty of every department of thego
r vernment, and of every good citizen in the State to
j resist to the last. He submits to the Legislature,
. whether any, and if any, what proceedings should
. be taken by the Legislature in relation to the as
r sumed jurisdiction of the Supreme Court. The Le»
3 gislature referred the Message to a Select Commit
* tee, which has not yet reported. The Supreme Court,
1 after receiving Governor Barstow’s communication
on the Bth, adjourned to the 11th inst., when Mr.
r Bushford’s counsel moved for judgment in the case
j of the contest for Governorship. Attorney Gen
eral Smith argued that Bash ford was only entitled
[ to an interlocutory judgment, and that the evidence
s must be taken. Mr. Bashford’s counsel read from
the constitution to show that if judgment of ouster
i- alone is given no one could act as Governor, since
* there would be no removal, as contemplated by the
T constitution.
The court took time to consider as to its judgment.
Robbery at Greenville, Ala.— ThejGreenville
South Alabamian says that on Saturday night week,
the house of Mr. Anthony, tax collector of that place,
was entered by a thief or thieves, who robbed him
of S6OO with which he had prepared to start next
* day for Montgomery. The rascals it appears set fire
» to Mr. Anthony’s corn crib, and while he aud his
t wife rushed out to save their corn, deliberately en
; tered his house, seized his coat containing the mon
ey, and made off without detection.
Large Fire in South Carolina. —The Ander
son Gazette of tlie 19th inst. states that the Mer
chant Mills of Mr. F. E. Harrison, were burned
down on the night of the 14th. The fire, which it is
suspected was the work of an incendiary, was dis
covered about one o’clock in the morning, but too
late to arrest it. The mill was a very superior one
and cost about SIO,OOO. There was an insurance of
five thousand dollars upon the building and ma
chinery. Some eleven hundred bushels of wheat
and a quantity of flour were consumed. The total
loss amounts to $13,000.
Seizure of a Suspected Slaver.— On Tues
day morning the schooner Falmouth was seized in
New-York on suspicion of being fitted out for the
slave trade. The U. S. District Attorney, his Mar
shal, and twelve marines, got on board of her as she
was passing the -Narrows. They found the Fal
mouth to be a long, black craft of about 250 tons
burthen, with raking masts, and altogether having a
very piratical look. In the cabin were found charts
of the west coast of Africa. There were twelve men
on board, all of whom were Portuguese. No one
would admit that he was captain, aud tliree declared
they were passengers, although they knew' nothing
about the time or place when they had paid their
fares. The vessel was placed in the Navy Yard, and
the men were committed tojail. It is said there is
considerable suspicion of the Portuguese Consul,
Senor De la Figaniere, being implicated in the
matter. _
A New Line of Steamships for Nicaragua. —
The New York Herald of the 17th inst. says:—it
does not appear yet that the withdrawal of Mr. Van
derbilt’s boats from the Nicaragua line will be so
serious a blow to Walker as has been anticipated.
We are informed that a steamer of the new line,
under the auspices of Mr. Charles Morgan, will be
sent forward from this port on the Bth or 9th of
April. The California passengers, who w ill leave
San Francisco on the 20th of March, will be brought
to New York by the Panama steamship George
Law, which will call at Punta Arenas fort Lat pur
pose. _
A New Steamboat Project.— The Baltimore
Patriot says :—We learn from a gentleman con
nected with the enterprise, that a project is now' cn
foot to establish a line of steamers between Balti
more and Havana and Greytown, to touch en route
going and returning, at Norfolk, Virginia. Several
prominent mercantile and manufacturing establish
ments in our city and vicinity are understood to be
connected with this commendable enterprise. The
capital stock is $200,000, to be increased as occasion
requires. One side-wheel steamer, of fifteen hun
dred tons burthen, is to be put on the line at firet,
and others added if neceasarv. Stock to the amount
of $40,000 has at present been subscribed, with flat
tering prospects us the entire amount being taken at
no distant day.
Santa Anna’s American Claimants.—Presi
dent Comonfort, it is stated, has ordered the pay
ment to the American claimants under Santa Anna,
of the million and a half still due to Mexico, on the
last purchase of territory by the United States. It
is understood that this order is in consideration of aid
furnished to Gomoiitort by these claimant-! iu fitting
out his expedition against Haro y Tamariz, against
whom Comonfort was marching on the Gth instant,
with ten thousand men and forty-two cannon.
Mount \ ernon. —On Monday both Houses of
the General Assembly of Virginia passed, by accla
mation, the Ladies' bill for the purchase of Mount
\ emon, by the patriotic exertions of the women of
the United States.
The Vitriol man is once more busy in New York.
On Monday night, some ladies boarding at the Astor
House, bad their dresses coin pie Lely spoiien as they
were leaving the Academy of Music. Another par
ty as they were leaving Wood's Varieties were i
treated in the same manner.
Ohio American-.
Our exchanges bring us the following telegraphic
despatch :
Goli'MEl's, Ohio, March 21.—The American
State Council last night, after astormy-sesrinn, adop
ted the majority report js*f the committee ap-
on the subject,
ot k iiunore and Donelson, ami endorsing the
course of the seceders from the Philadelphia Con
vention.
This action on the part of the majority of the
American party in Ohio, hnsTwt surprised ms, and
we can but express our sincere gratification at tin
result. The great mass of Hie people of Ohio, of all
parties, have been for yearn hostile to Southern in
stitutions, and we njoice that the split hus taken
place, that the party may be purged of its Black
Republican elements. We trust that a similar
fate awaits the party in all the free States. We
shall then preseut to the world a party organized
upon, and cemented by great and brqjjd national
principles. Os such a party MillYrd Fillmore
will be the appropriate and well chosen standard
bearer, in whom conservative, national, and constit
tutional men of all sections can safely confide.—
Ilis principles and sentiments are too elevated for
Black Republicans, of whatever political associa
tion, aud we rejoice that they repudiate him.
Reform in the Tariff*.
The new bill drawn up by the Secretary of the
Treasury, and presented to the Senate on Thursday,
will tend very much to simplify the tariff. In the
tariff of 1846, we have schedules at 100, 40, 30,25,
15, 10 and 5 per cent., besides the free list; in the
reformed tariff*, which it is proposed shall go into ef
fect on the 30th June, 1857, there is schedule A with
a duty of 80per cent, ad valorem , comprising noth
ing except liquors aud cordials ; schedule B with a
duty of 30 per cent, ad valorem ; and schedule C,
containing articles exempt from duty, among which
is wool, and all articles of raw material forinechun
iee aud manufacturers. All other uncmimerated ar
ticles, sugar among the rest, are to pay a duty of 20
percent, ad valorem. The reduced revenue is esti
mated ut $10,000,000.
The members or the Senate Commit tee have care
fully investigated all cases of fraud upon the reve
nue which have been discovered, aud believe they
will put a stop to it in future, ns importers who have
partly evaded the tariff by giving the simple cost of
the raw material, will now have to add every item
for dyeing, printing, packing and freighting the
same. We are not so sanguine as the Committee,
that fraud will be defeated by this precaution ; it
may, however, be diminished; but so long as there
is a Custom House iu the country, there will be
evasion, deception and fraud under the ad valorem
system of assessing duties. This system of collect
ing the duties is, therefore, objectionable, because
it opens the door to, and tempts to so many frauds
ami perjuries. The only protection against these is
a system of specific duties.
Arrest of Burglni's.
Thf. parties concerned in the burglary at Messrs.
Lallerstedt Sc Dealing's store on Friday night last,
have been arrested. They consist of Sharkey and
wife, Rodey and wife, and a man named Gibbons.
Sharkey is a blacksmith, and in his house the Silks
stolen, in value about $ 100, were found. The whole
of the parties have been committed to jail, and will
be brought up for further examination to-morrow at
10 o’clock.
The Recent Burglary. —The five perssus charg
ed with having committed the burglary at MesSls.
Lallerstedt Sc Deming’s store, on the night of the
14th instant, were brought up for examination yes
terday. The whole day was occupied in receiving
the testimony of witnesses, when the prisoners were
remanded to jail. This morning, at 10 o’clock, the
argument will be opened.
The Recent Burglary. —Thomas Gibbins,
John Rhody, and John Sharkey, the men arrested
on the charge of having committed the robbery at
Messrs. Lallerstedt &c Deming’s on the night of the
I4th instant, were yesterday, after patient investi
gation before the Magistrate, committed to jail, in
default of finding bail to the amount of $2,000. The
two women who were arrested with the male pri
soners, have been set at liberty.
Griswold’s Divorce Case. —The New York
Express of the 17th says : —Our readers will observe
that a case of divorce, which has been just decided
to this extent, in Philadelphia—that there is no evi
dence, that Mr. Griswold, who is now married to a
third lady, has ever been divorced from the second
lady, now Mrs. Griswold, of Charleston, 8. C., —and
who thus would seem to be his only legal wife. This
decision of the Court, as it stands, leaves him in a
very extraordinary and alarming predicament.—
What adds to its interest, is—that Mr. Griswold ob
tained from the New llaveu Railroad, after the
well known catastrophe, some thousands of dollars,
for damages to the person of the second lady, whom
the Court now does not recognize as his wife. It
may also be added—that the Philadelphia Court,
which has made this decision, is the very Court be
fore which Mr. Griswold alleges the divorce was
obtained.
3 New-Hampshihe Election. —Returns have been
? received from all but übout a dozen small towns iu
l this State, which cannot, says The Boston Atlas ,
3 linae east 500 votes altogether, anti the result for
Governor foots up as follows : Metcalfe, Am. Rep.,
3 30,979; Wells, Pierce Dem., 31,493; Goodwin, Whig
2,337 ; Scattering, 141.
1 The Senate, according to the latest intelligence,
- stands 8 American Republicans and 4 Pierce men.
• The returns arc not quite complete, but the result
1 is not likely to vary from the übove. The aggre
gate vote for Senators, which shows the relative
! strength of parties in the State—there being only
two regular candidates running in each district—is
as follows: American Republicans, 33,205; Pierce
Democrats, 31,643. Majority against Pierce,
1 1,562.
> The House stands 162 Opposition to 135 Pierce
men.
> The Council will probably stand 3 American Re
• publicans and 2 Administration—possibly 4 Ite
' publicans and only 1 Administration.
A Father Killed by his Son.— The Trenton
(Tenn.) Journal of the 13th inst. says :—Mr. John
Iv. Cribbs, an old citizen of this county, was shot on
i the night of the 3d inst., by his son and died of the
wounds on last Saturday, Bth. Both were under the
. influence of liquor at the time.
Main Trunk Railroad. —The Milledgcvilleße
corder says : The Commissioners under the charter
j of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad Company, arc ex
pected to hold a preliminary meeting at Milledge
ville on the 31st of March, for the purpose of putting
the ball in motion.
Frightful Massacre by the Indians.— The
Savannah Evening Journal, of yesterday, pub
lishes this startling information :
By the Florida boat (just in) we have the follow
ing painful intelligence from the Peninsula :
News had just arrived at that post of an attack,
by the Indians, on the settlers on the Alalia, about
30 miles east of Tampa.
Four men, one woman, ami three children were
killed and scalped, their houses were burnt, and nil
i the outrages and barbarities that savages could in
vent, were committed.
The Nicaraguan Army.—A correspondent of
the New Orleans Delta writing from Granada, on
the 28th ult. says the following is a correct list
of the number of men in service capable for duty :
At Granada, Col. Fry’s com., numbers 347 men.
At Leon, Skeritt’s “ 353 “
At San Curios, Capt. Litons “ 83 u
At Castillo, Lieut. Baldwins “ 98 “
At Cliinendaga, Col. Sounder’s “ 115 “
At Rivas, Major Brewsters com. “ 147 “
At Masaya, Capt. Averat’s “ 91 “
Coveleseants in various hospitals “ 28 “
Total 1262 “
besides a corps in this city composed of Quartermas
ter and Commissionary Clerks, citizens, &c., num
bering Rhs men.
Horrid Affair.— The Sparta (Tenn.) Herald
says: We understood that Mr. Humphreys, a school
teacher in Overton Academy in Livingston, shot a
Mr. Wendle in that place on Tuesday last, from the
effects of which he died immediately. We have
not heard enough of the said affuir, to give particu
lars. They were both respectable gentlemen.—
Mr. Humphreys was a highly educated man, from
one of the East Tennessee institutions.
Indian Outrages in Florida. —The Savannah
Republican gives the following account of the bar
barities committed by the Seminole Indians upon
the whites iu Florida :
It appears from the accounts that the savages
made a descent upon the Alalia settlement, some
thirty miles east of Tampa, about ten days ago, and
at a time when the greater part of the male popula
tion were absent to defend, r«a they thought, their
more exposed neighbors. Four men. one woman,
and three children (names not given) were inhu
manly murdered and scalped, and other outrages
committed on their persons. A number of houses
were also fired and reduced to ashes by the savages.
It is supposed that these outrages were committed
by the same party who burned the house of Mr.
Snell and murdered a Mr. Cuuningham, near Mana
too, but a few weeks ago.
The Governor has issued his proclamation, requi
ring the officers of the several banks in this State to
make out and transmit to him, within thirty days
from the 13th inst., a true condition of such banks,
with the names of their presidents, cashiers and
stockholders,
England and the United States.— The Bal
timore Sun of Tuesday, says: It is stated that Mr.
Buchanan’s letters by the Arabia announce that the
feeling iu political circles in England is much modi
fied towards the United States on the present differ
ences. The reaction is even stronger than is indica
ted by the press, and is favorable to a reasonable ad
justment No difficulty is now anticipated on that
score, although there had been no very recent con
ferences, owing to Lord Clarendon’s absence at
Paris. Lord Palmerston’s government is regarded
as tottering, it having been twice beaten in Parlia
ment, including the peerage question, and one police
measure withdrawn.
Mr. Thomas Francis Meagher, the Irish pa
triot, will issue the first number of a new weekly pa
per, in New York, on Saturday, the 12th of April,
bearing the title of The Irish News, and “dedicated
to the service of the Irish at home and abroad.”
A shock of an earthquake was felt in Madison,
Conn., on the night of the 12th inst. The shock
lasted about thirty seconds, and was followed by a
sound like distant thunder. The shock was felt in
the neighboring towns. No damage was done, al- i
though some timid ones were frightened. i
The U. 8. steamer Arctic, which was despatched *
in search of the Pacific, has now been out thirty-five *
days, and no tidings of her have reached us. She
has on board five officers, a crew of fourteen men, j
with coal and provisions sufficient to last several j
months. ]
Frank Allen. —The Columbus Times learns j
that this celebrated racer has been purchased by a c
company of gentlemen of that city, for the round
sum of $5,000. j
The Salisbury (N. C.) Watchman, of the Bth inst., f
states that there was kiiow in that town on the 13th, h
which covered the ground to the depth of an inch. q
The Emperor Napoleon.
It is a significant sign of the times that England
is beginning to weary of landing the Emperor of t he
Coup d Etat. The ermine does not cover the criufinal
80 completely as it did a few mouths ago. The
writers, who were vowing that. Napoleon was mas
terot the situation, have probably discovered that
he Wuuki wish to become master of them. The
tliialdoin ot the press in France, coincided but little
n .th the freedom of the press in England ; and when
tlw Emperor had succeeded in proscribing editors
from Jersey and Guernsey, it was time for English
writers to look to their rights. Prince* Albert, it is
well known, has publicly avowed that the British
pro* is too free, and is wrath at witnessing the
rapid progress of thought among the many. Cheap
newspapers, he thinks, will make princes verv
cheap. The Prince, however, can do little more
than eniuphuii, for he lacks that ouc thing, which
Napoleon undoubtedly possesses—courage.
In the January number of the National Review,
Napoleon is drawn with great power by an English
writer:
••It was the fashion,” he says, ‘do underrate Nn
poleon lormeiiv : it is the fashion to overrate him
now. Personally, we have had no means of judg
ing. though We have gazed with intensest scrutiny
on that hard, sinister, impassive countenance, with
out one noble lineament or one genial expression :
but we have had opportunities of ascertaining the
judgments of several who have known him intimate
ly and watched him long; and their opinions are
neither doubtful nor discrepant. If is forte lies in
meditative* habits mid a strong volition, lie lias no
genius, his education has been imperfect, and his
knowledge is not great. Mis views are usually nar
row, but sometimes singularly sagacious; and when
he is on the right track his courage, coolness, delib
eration, and unscrupulous resolution, give him enor
mous advantages. * * * He is tenacious, reso
lute, and vehemently imperious in carrying out the
purpose of the hour—but this purpose often changes.
One project or fancy succeeds another with strange,
almost infantine rapidity. Hence, though anything
but vacillating, he is very changeable. Ho learns
little from others, for he rarely listens to reasoning
or exposition, though he is silent with an appear
ance of attention, while in reality he is thinking, not
hearing.” * * * ‘*in one point he is singularly
at fault. He has slight iYisight into character, and is
apt to choose his 111C11 ill. ’ * * * “If his natural
capacity were greater, he would be a safer man, and
his course far more predictable, lie lias made the
most of the faculties with which he was originally
endowed ; but these were both limited in range and
incomplete in number, and it is impossible to say
when they will fail him, or whither they may lead
him.”
“Whither they may lead him,” is a question of vi
tal import to England. “That hard, sinister, im
passive countenance, without one noble lineament
or one genial expression”’ is one that should have
been read more attentively in days gone by.
Though France and England were alike interested
in checking Russia's march towards Constantinople,
Napoleon und the English had no feeling in common.
The alliance would be certain humiliation to Great
Britain, and its close would leave her weakened and
exposed to assault on every side. “Whither they
may lead him,” is indeed a question of momentous
interest.
A Dark View of Nirarngin,
A Mr. Wm. 1). Snyder, who describes himself as
a farmer in Greenwich, Conn., who, bping unem
ployed during the winter, left New York on the 2*lth
of January last, in the steamer Northern Light, for
San Juan, simply to see the country and ascertain
what the inducements really were for farmers, mer
chants, mechanics, and persons engaged in other re
spectable callings, to make it their future home, re
turned to New York last week, and in the Tribune
of the 17th iust., gives the result of his experience*
On his arrival in Granada, Mr. Snyder, presented
a letter of introduction to the American Consul, who
very kindly sent a servant with him to seek for
lodgings in the town. After an hour’s search, he
could only obtain the privilege of swinging a ham
mock in the court of one of one of the houses. lie
afterwards removed to the house which one of his
fellow passengers had succeeded in getting, but he
still continued to sleep in n hammock, which was
hung high to avoid the lizards that abound there.—
His next two weeks were occupied in looking übout
the country in the vicinity.
As far as Mr. Snydkr could judge, the Govern
ment land, for agricultural purposes, is worthless. —
He thinks that the labor of clearing land enough to
raise an aore of corn would be more 1 ban any one
could endure, as the land is covered with an almost
impenetrable underbrush, which forms the retreat of
countless snakes and scorpions. Eight fanners, who
had been lured to the country by the promise of a
free gift of 250 to 300 acres of land, had been fcllow
pussengers of Mr. Snydkr. One was taken sick in
Granada, and died. Four of the others went out
from Granada with other parties to examine the
country, and were gone over three days. They
hired mules and went to Messiah. Two of the num
ber were taken sick with the fever before their re
turn and died. The other two returned to Granada,
where one died with the fever three days after.—
The remaining three loft, determined to get out of
the country as soon as possible. Numbers of farm
ers, who had gone out for the purpose of taking up
laud, were in Granada, some sick, some dying, and
the others without the means of getting away.
Many mechanics arc unable to obtain employment,
und either fall victims to the fever or fly the coun
try. The young men in the army express a general
dissatisfaction and disappointment. Their food is
very poor, and their pay is barely enough for their
washing expegpes. The captains receive only six
dollars per week, and sickness prevails in the army
to an alarming extent.
The Nicaragua Transit Company.—A meet
1, ing of the Board of Directors of this Company took
place in New-York on the 20th inst., when the recent
* act of Gen. Walker in annulling their contract and
, seizing their vessels, came before them. An official
, announcement was mode that the allegations upon
which the decree of the Nicaraguan government is
bused, are totally Take.
The government drew annually for the $10,600
stipulated to be paid for the canal charter, and their
drafts for the years 1819-’SO-’sl-'52-’SS end ’54
were paid in cash.
In 1855 the government drew for the SIO,OOO, pay
able in September, but before the draft appeared,
the company had notice of an assignment of the
claim, and were legally enjoined by the holders
of tin* assignment from paying Manning &, Ulenton
said draft.
After numerous and fruitless attempts for several
years to effect a settlement, with the government,
L the company succeeded in inducing them to send
: commissioners here, who arrived in tin* summer of
» 1855, with very full powers to settle all matters in
difference, ana to ratify their own acts without, re
ferring them to the government at Granada.
The Nicaiagua Commissioners offered to take
• $40,000 for all claims of the State upon the Compa
ny, deducting from that sum all amounts that had
been paid by the Company to the State on account
r of the 10 per cent profit of the transit across the
Isthmus. The Commissioners of the Company
deemed this claim too large, and arbitrators were
; appointed to finally settle the matter. A few days
afterwards a letter was received from the Nicaragua
government, dated November 12 last, requiring the
Company to send two Commissioners to Granada to
settle the differences. This the Company declined
to do on account of the Commissioners having al
ready been appointed in New-York according to the
charter. On the Kith January, 185(1, the govern
ment of Nicaragua issued a decree assigning all
claims upon the Company to Messrs. Maiming A.
Glenton. Early in February, a copy of the paper
was served upon the Company, and so the matter
stood when the news arrived of Nicaragua having
annulled the charter.
Kansas Meeting in Columbia, S. C.—A meet
ing of the citizens of Columbia, was held at the City
Hall on Saturday. Col. it. 11. Ooodwyn presided.
The following resolutions were unanimously carried
by the assembly, which was not so large as was ex
pected :
Resolved, That an Association be formed to pro
mote the settlement, of Kansas by Southern Emi
grants, loyal to the Constitution, and acknowledg
ing obedience to the laws, whose mission shall be as
permanent settlers to uphold the Government in the
maintenance of the just rights of all parties to the
federal compact, and to vindicate the rights of the
South against an armed usurpation.
Resolved, That this meeting constitutes itself such
Association, with the addition of the names of such
citizens as shall subscribe the same, and culled the
Richland Kansas Association.
Resolved, That a Central Committee, to consist
of twenty citizens, be appointed to apply the funds
which may be raised by subscription in such man
ner as in their judgment will best promote the ob
jects of this Association.
Steamboat Explosion—Loss of Nine Lives.—
The steamboat Alabama, while on her upward trip
from New Orleans to Minden, on the 15th inst., when
some five miles above Grand Ecore, burst her boil
era. The wreck, immediately alter the explosion,
took fire and burnt to the water’s edge; the boat
and cargo becoming a total loss.
No less than nine lives were lost outright by this
disastrous accident. The names of the unfortunate
victims ore as follows :
T. S. Bell, Ist clerk ; S. Parker, watchman ; 11.
M. Prothro, passenger; Joseph Ogden, assistant
engineer; C. Butler, deck hand ; Patrick Kelly,
Tim Flaherty, Stephen McDonough, and John
Laughlin, firemen. Several others were badly
scalded.
Bear it in Mind.—While Millard Fillmore oc
cupied the Presidential Chair, says the Columbus
Enquirer , not a disorganizes North or South, re
ceived an appointment to a post of honor or profit.
The consequence was, fanaticism and dissatisfaction
were almost starved out when he left the office. His
successor came in and lavished the patronage of the
government upon abolitionists, secessionists and
freesoilers, and the Union is on the brink of dissolu
tion.
Death of Capt. McNeill.—The following
announcement appears in the Philadelphia papers :
“Capt. D. F. McNeill, of the U. S. Marine Corps,
died at his residence in Spruce street, on Thursday.
The deceased was 40 years of age, Capt. McNeill
was a citizen of Georgia, and entered the Marine
Corps in 1834, having been in the public service
some twenty years. He was buried witn the usual
military honors.”
Snow in South Carolina.—At Greenville, S. C.,
on the 13th inst. snow commenced falling rapidly in
the morning and continued till evening. The snow
melted as it fell, or it would have been four or five
inches deep.
Death of Commodore Conner.—Commodore
David Conner, of the United States Navy, died at
his residence in Philadelphia, on Thursday, the 20th
inst. Commodore Conner was a gallant officer, and
distinguished himself on, various occasions during the
war of 1812; while in the struggle until Mexico he
rendered efficient service to this country, as Com
mander of the Home Squadron. He was high- |
minded, chivairic and brave, and was beloved and
esteemed by all who enjoyed the pleasure of Ids ac- 1
quaintance.
Never Sa r Die.—Capt. Ericsson has nearly com- 4
pleted a caloric engine to furnish motive power to a
large manufacturing establishment in Now York.
He has constructed a 30 horse power engine for a €
party in Europe. Scientific menwho have witness- c
ed its operation pronounce it a complete success.
The Kingdom of Oude, lately annexed by Great e
Britain to her Indian possessions, containing twenty-
four thousand square miles, and three millions of in
habitants. The soil is full of saltpetre, and nourishes h
all agricultural products. 1
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Admission of Kitnsns.
The following are the provisions of the Bill intro
duced into the Senate by Mr. Douglas, from the
Committee on Territories, to authorizelhe people of
the Territory of Kansas to form a Constitution and
State Government preparatory to their admission
into the Union when they may have the requisite
population; width was read und ordered to bo
printed :
The first section provides that whenever it shall
appear, from the taking of the census, that there are
93,120 inhabitants m the Territory, they be autho
rized to hold a convention and form a State consti
tution preparatory to admission into the Union on
an equal footing with the original states iu all re
spects whatever.
Second, That the said Convention shall be com
posed of delegates from each representative district
within the limits of the proposed Stateand that
each district shall elect double the number of dele
gates to which it may be entitled to representatives
iu the Territorial Legislature ; and that at the said
election of delegates all white male inhabitants who
shall have arrived at the age of twenty-out*years
and shall have been actual residents in laid Terri
tory for the period of six months, and in the district
tor the period of three mouths next preceding tbo
day ot election, and who shall possess the other
qualifications required by organic act of the
territory, shall be entitled to vote, and that none
others shall bo permitted to vote at said election.
Section three provides that certain jfropoaitiona
be ottered to the said convention of the people of
Kansas, when formed, for tlifiir free acceptance or
rejection, and. if accepted bv th* said convention,
and ratified bv the people t j u , e \ wl \ on f or t | lo
adoption of the Constitution, shall be obligatory on
the United States and the said Territory of Kansas.
Ist relates to a grant of sections Mi and 3G, in
every township, for the use of schools, \
2d. Seventy-two sections of laud shall besot apart
lor a State University, to he selected by the Gov -
truer, subject to tho approval of the Conmnssiom-r
of the General Land Office, &e.
3d. That tun entire sections, to be selected by the
Governor, iu legal subdivisions, shall be granted to
said State for public buildings, to b6.erected under ’
the authority of the Legislature.
•!th. That all salt springs, not exceeding
in number, with six sections adjoining, be granted
to said State, to be selected by the Governor within
oue year after his admission as a State, provided no
right vested in any individual, or which may lion
alier be confirmed or adjudged to any individual,
shall be granted to said State.
&»h. That fly.- p„ r rant, of the pmacrak of alt
land* solil I IV l onunna after said State in admitted,
after deduct intr expense* incident to the same, »ledl
be paid to that Slate for purposes of internal im
provement, ns the Legislature may direct; that said
State shall never interfere with the disposal of the
soil by the United States, or with any regulation
Congress may find necessary tin* securing the title
in said soil to bona jide purchasers thereof; that no
tax shall be imposed on lands belonging to the
United States, and that in no ease.shall'non-res:-
dent proprietors be taxed higher than residents.
The Body ok Robert Schuyler. —The New
York Rxftrfbs of the 20th Inst., says : \Ve have good
reasons for knowing, that the body of this umn whoso
name alive was once so potent in Wall street, came
here in the steamer Arago, from Havre wrapped up
Uke a package of goods. The body wus here uncall
ed for, in a warehouse from Saturday to'Monday,
and on that day was Uikeil by his relatives for in
torment.
Breach of Promise ok Carriage.—Miss Ra
chel Willis, who is described as a rather gooddonk
ing young lady, about twenty-one years of fig.*,
brought an action in the Supreme Court, New York,
on Wednesday, against Klonzar Crabtree, a sea
captuiu, for breach of promise of marriage. The
jury gave a verdict for the plaint iff, and laid the
damages at $2,500.
The Rev. Henry Bacon, a prominent Universnl
ist Minister in Philadelphia, died in that city oil*-
Wednesday, aged 14. He was for nearly -twenty
years the Editor of The Ladies' Rcposi/ory, n cor
respondent Os many leading religions and secular
periodicals, and the author of several religion*
•volumes.
We learn that flic telegraphic report' stating that
the house of John R. Habersham, of New York,, is
a branch of the firm of Messrs. K. Habersham &
Son, of Savannah, is an error. The amouiTt em
bezzled by James McGrath, the book keeper of
the former, was given as $14,000 ;-whereas it will
fall far short of that sum.
Great Fire in New York. —On the night of the
19th inst., the large building known ax the Uuion
Steam Works, on she corner of Second Ayenueund
East Twenty Second street, New York, was discov
erod to be on tiro, and before assistance could l>v*
rendered, the greater part of thu premise# were gnt
ted, destroying most of the property therein. Tim
building was occupied by various machinist**, f«>
gather with Mmslon «Jk Knox, firearms manufac
tory. Tbo total loss may bo estimated at about
$ SO,OOO, a portion of which is only covered by ipmi-
y Rev. Richard Cox, an Episcopalian -clergyman,
i- of Zion Church, New York, hus brought an action
!- for divorce against his wife, Ellen
i, Cox,formerly a Mis. Van Wyck, on the alleged
- ground of adultery. The case commenced In tbo
>f Superior Court, New York on Monday,
l " The Hon. William l*nrmalee, Mayor of Albany
P N. Y., died in that oily, on Saturday, th* 16th inst
Calvin Lewis, the escaped convict, who was a
few days since arrested in ChorHeston, hus heon.de'-
livered for re-commit tal under his sentence tonu of
* lice of the Georgia State Penitentiary,
ll
j 8 Wright C. Stanley, Esq., a prominent luem
j ber of the Mobile Bar, died in that city on Saturday
x evening last, from an attack of apoplexy.
y The Great Fires at Macao.—Wo tarn by the
China Mail that two large files broke out on the 41 h
and sth of January, at Macuo, and destroyed Hie
greater portion of the Chinese town, including the
k bazaar. Upwards of 1U(H) Louses are. Raid to have
been destroyed, and property lost to I Ik-extent of
* more than a million dollar*.
11 Mil. Herbert Ingham, the proprietor of the
11 London Illustrated News, has become a member of
the House of Commons. Ho professes very liberal
sentiments.
r Australia.—The last acconnta from Melbourne,
1 by the dames Baines, state that the new Const itmt ion
had been proclaimed. Jn Victoria, the population
I during the last ye%r had increased to the extent of
e 50,000 souls, and the yield of gold continued to ave-
Jj rage 50,000 ounces per week, or befcw«*en eight and
nine million* annually.
Slarlmch’smachine shop, at Tmy,N. \\, isroaf< d
| with iron shingles. This roof is but little more ex
pensive than other fire-proof roofing
ii The New Orleans Picayune, of Wednesday, says .
- “We understand that the First Presbyterian Church
and congregation of this city, at a meeting held ou
l! the Kith inst., gave a unanimous caff to the Rev. 11.
M. Palmer, D. I> ,of Columbia, S. C. Dr, Palmar is
esteemed among the most eminent divines in the
presbyterian Church. Helms a large numWqf
e ' warm friends and '“admirers here, find wc sincerely
y hope lie will accept this second onll and take up hie
0 abode in our city.”
s . ,
n the Military Force ok Great Biu/aui.—rOn
Lite 21st ultimo, the public statements were submit
ted to Parliament, and go far to •substantiate Eu
j gland’s claim to be considered a military nation.
These enlistments.show that the military force of
Great Britaiu, including the regular uTufy (275,006
( men ;) the embodied militia, completely armed and
II trained, and the volunteer corps, mpmmted to 419,-
970 men. The military force for Which Parliament
is asked to provide amounts to 391,fi00 men, for
wlioso pay the sum asked is £ 14,600,000, or about
£37 10s. each. This is exclusively for pay.
Railroads in Italy.—A correspondent of the
'Newark Daily Advertiser, under date of-Geuou,
Feb. 22d, says: “These revTvedprospeobtofGenoa,
I are producing the natural effects upon Hie Imperial
j Master of Vetiioo and theTapal States, ami recent
(movements indicate that wc may have, within the
next five years, a central railway from th® decay
ing old ‘Bride of the Sea,’ to Rome and Naples.-
. A Convention of Engineers lias been summoned at
Vienna to consider the subject. The Papal Govern
1 ment is also considering a project for a railway bo
tween the Eternal City nnd its port of CfVita V(lo
chia ; nnd British and French contractors, who are
pushing enterprises for their own benefit all over Ihc
| Continent, arc now contending for the privilege of
* connecting Rome and Naples by rail. They pro
pose a part of the old Appiao Way, and to include
Tenacinaand Goeta in the route, which, it is said,
may be reduced to four hours. An important iuei
- dental benefit would be the draining and coloniza
tion of the Pontine Marshes.”
Terrible Accident.—The most horrible occur
* renee that wc have heard of for a long time, Buy*
1 the Gallatin (Miss.) Argus of Fridy the 14th, oc
- eurred eight miles from that place, on the Jackson
, road, at the store of Mr. Allman. Allman was
t smoking in the store room, and being called to
breakfast, started*out, and, it is supposed, passed
i over a keg of powder, dropping fire into it. The
3 house was leveled to the ground by the explosion
that ensued, and was soon wrapped in flames.—
Some persons near by ran to the spot, and succeed
t ed in getting Mrs. Allman from the ruiiis, badly,
, but not dangerously, hurt and bruised. No proper
i ty was saved; and a gentleman just from the spot
says that the skull and ribs of the unfortunate All
man were all that remained visible of him among the
smoking ruins.
A Fortune for Mrs. Mowatt Ritchie's Fath
f.r. —A compromise has, it appears, been mude in
the New York suit of Ogden versus Aster, which
1 was brought for the recovery of between three and
' four hundred thousand dollars,alleged to have boon
due to Mr. Ogden, the partner of the late John Jo
col) Aster, previous toor about the year 1820. Mr.
Ogden was in China, and transacted business for
Mr. Aster there, being entitled for his services to ons
• fifth of the profits. He has since deceased, and his
brother sues for the amount which it is claimed is
due as his share of the profits, with interest from the
date on which it was payable. The amount for
which it lias been compromised, is, we understand,
$125,000. It inay be interesting to know that Mrs.
Anne Cora Ritchie is a daughter of the claimant.
The Rachel Troup*.—The Paris correspondent
of the Boston Atlas writes :
“The tribe of Felix have returned to Paris, and
acknowledge their losses to amount to $60*006.
America has destroyed the profits of their Russian
tour. They say Mile. Rachel has written n letter,
which describes ber transatlantic tour in the style »>f
‘American Notes for General Circulation. VVe are
to have a full account of the expedition, under the
title of ‘ Rachel ami the New World, by young SI
I jeon Beauvallet.”
A meeting was held at the Astor Horae, New
York oil the tilth diet., hy about 200 English rosi
d.-utu’ when it was resolved to memorialize yueou
Victoria, to grant a full pardon to Mr. John Fret,
one of the British Chartist*. Mr. Frost was present.
An expedition for Liberia will sail from Baltimore
about the 10th of May, touching at Savannah, for
emigrants, June Ist.
ftov. Ci.atik, of New York, has been burned in
efflgv for having pardoned some men who had been
convicted of dentroying ballot boxes.
Mr. Edward Harwood, a highly respectable mn
chant of Charles City county, the Petersburg Ex
press learns, was murdered in Ilia store house on
Monday evening lust by a negro. The murderer,
whose object in committing the deed is supposed to
have been robbery, has been oaptmsd by the eiti
zeu*.