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SOI TiIKRN CILTIVATOR,
A JIO.VTBIiV JontSAI.,
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FOR SALE.
FOR SALE.
I,\'OW for nalo my entire River PL ANT ATION
U 8 or 30 mile* south of Coluinbu*, Ga.. in Barbour
county, Ala., lying on the Chattahoochee river, contain
ing 2400 acre*, 1200 in a fine state of cultivation and
good repair A good Water Gin and Ferry across the
Chattahoochee river. The above will be for sale at any
Mine until sold and nossession given. Tonus to suit pur
c-1 tasers (Janttl-tf) MATTHEW AVEKETT.
TO MEN OF TASTE AND CAPITAL.
rn HE subscriber, wishing to remove to Southwestern
i Georgia, proposes to sell his place near Cave Spring,
ti Vann’s Valley, Floyd county, Ga., containing 317
acu-s, more or less, returned Ist quality oak aud hickory
mostly of soil aud surface not to wash ; some ICO acres
•iear«*d and under good tillage ; the remainder generally
well timbered. It has several springs of cool blue Lime
stone water, two constant streams, an effective water
pow er without darning, orchards of many well selected
varieties, especially of apples, and a large and coinmodi
uh Brick Dwelling, surrounded by fine scenery, and
within n mile of the village, long noted for its educational
advantages. All who have examined the premises, con
cur in the opinion that this place combines the elements
of beauty, fertility, convenience and healthfulness to an
extent seldom, if ever, equalled in this country. But
come ami see for yourselves, and the character, location
and resources of the place can hardly fail to satisfy you
that it is a No. 1 article, not subject to the fluctuations
ofthe market. For terms, apply »n the premises.
W. I>. COWDREY.
Cave Spring, July 10, 1856. jy!3 wtf
Groat Accession to the Georgia Land
OFFICE, AT AUGUSTA.
f>OO,OQO ACRES OF LAND.
I 'SPECIAL attention of Northern and Southern
j Capitalists is called to the large quantity of valuable
Laud now for sale nt our office on commission. These
Lauds are located in the counties of Baker, Randolph,
Decatur, Early, Lowndes, Lee, Thomas, Clinch, Ware,
Wayne. Appling, Coffee, Charlton, Irwin, Worth, Dooly,
Houston, Wilkinson, Miller,Colquitt, Hall, Fulton, Hab
ersham, Kabuii, Columbia, Polk, Paulding, Carroll, Mus
cogee, Marion, Gwinnett, Chattahoochee, Cass, Meri
wether, Taylor, Macon, Laurens, Stewart, Lumpkin,
Sumter, Fannin, Union, Gilmer, Murray, Floyd, Cbat
tooga. Cold), Cherokee, Forsyth, Whitfield, Walker,
Dad.-, DeKalh, Coweta, Heard, Telfair, Campbell, Mont
gomery aud Seri veil, which has more diversity of soil,
clime and products, and more railroad facilities, than the
lands of any other State in the Union.
We say t<> the planters and farmers of Virginia, North
and South Carolina, seeking new homes, come, we can
suit you in farms and plantations, from the Florida line to
the Mountains, ami from the Savannah to the Chatta
lioochee rivers, adapted t » all the Cereal Grains, long and
short staple Cottons, Sugar, Hire and Spanish Tobacco.
\\v to ilie Northern Ship--builder, Come-—bring
your capital and ship yards south, where, in our mild and
salubrious climate, you can labor in the open air the
year round. We can furnish you with Live Oak, White
oak, Black Cypress, and the best Yellow Pine Timber in
the world , also. Iron for your anchors and bolts, Copper
for youi sheathing, Hemp and Coinage for year sails and
rigging, aud if needs lie. man ami victual your whole
mecantile marine, and Navy besides, cheaper than in
any other market, as our t» etning granaries are connect
ed bv railroad with the sites for your Ship-Yards.
We say to tin- Turpentine men, come—we ean furnish
you with a field for your enterprise and labors, surpass
ing North Carolina m her best (Turpentine) days.
We say to the Miners, come—we can show you in the
ftmr great mineral belts of Georgia, rich mines in Gold,
Copper and Iron, intact, a California East of the Moun
tains.
We say to the Capitalists seeking safe and profitable
investments, come—we can furnish yon with Stocks tliaj
will increase twenty per cent per annum for the next five
y ears We say to the speculator, come—we can sell you
Lands which will afford you pleasing margins.
We ay to the owners of improved or unimproved lands
throughout the State, and wishing to sell, send us the
number of your Lots, the nature of your titles, if clear,
(as w e register none other) with a fair description of your
property, its location, »Vc , with lowest limit of price, and
w,• w ill" offer it for -ale in the best market in Georgia. No
charge unless sales are effected. Persons addressing us
to obtain information. Will please enclose postage stamps.
i tun stupendous wonder of the world, THE STONE
MOUNTAIN, with its Hotel, 1700 acres of good farming
Land, well wooded aud watered, building Lots in town,
and ail its appendages, is new offered for sale at this
office We have for sale one of the best Mineral and
Medicinal Spa's on the Lookout Mountain, ever discover
ed in Georgia. Also, several rich and valuable Gold and
Copper Mines. We expect to receive, in a few days,
boxe-of specimens of the Vein Ore and Casing ofthe
Veins, ami surface indication*. We desire that no Lands
he pi '-.cniod for registry unless the owner can furnish
a clear title. " „
I>AVI St >N. GIR A RDEY, WIIYTE A CO.
The Columbia Carolinian, Washington Union,
and Raleigh Register, will publish four times weekly,
ami - mi accounts to Davisou, Girardey. Whyte A Co.,
Atign Qq, nthl M&twlA w,t
FOSMAN’S IRON PLOW-STOCK.
ri'HE undersigned, having purchased the patent right
1 to the above valuable and popular PLOW for the
counties of Richmond, Columbia. Lincoln, Burke, Jeffer
son. Washington, Ncriven and Emamial. are prepared to
furnish it to plant. ; at the manufacturer's price. This
stock, which is made entirely of wrought iron, is a South
ern invention n »d has been sufficiently tested to prove
that it runs more steadily, breaks aud pulverizes the soil
more thoroughly, dogs less in rough land, is more easily
adjusted for deep or shallow plowing, holds the shares
more firmly,* lasts incomparably longer, and is, in the
end, far cheaper than any other stock now in use. This
statement is Billy sustained by numerous certificates in
our possession from the most practical and successful
planters in the country. We will have plesure
in sending a circular containing some of thsse certificates
and a more particular description of the plan, to any
person who would like to see them. We are willing to
refer to anv one who has given this Plow a fair trial. In
the Nov Jio. of the Southern Cultivator, p. 345, the edi
tor of that work says : “After giving this Plow a fair
aud impartial trial we can truly say, that we regard it as
a most valuable improvement on all common wooden
implements of the kind now in use. For general efficien
cy aud convenience, as well a* special adaptation to deep
iilage or subsoiling, we know of nothiug that surpasses
t; while on the score of economy and durability, it is
altogether unrivaled. No plow with which we are farai
iar. is so well calculated to resist the careless and des
tructive usage of Plantation Negroes, and we doubt not
that it* general introduction would be of very great pecu
niary benefit to the planting interest of the South.”
This Stock is adapted to six different shares or points
—embracing every variety which a planter will need
from the beginning to the end of the year. These shares
xviil he furnished with the Stock, when desired ; though
any plantation smith can make them after ouee seeing
1 Right* for counties, for Shops, or for Plantations, will
be sold on reasonable terms. Apply at the Hardware
Stores in Augusta, or address 1. 0. FITTEN A - Co.
dec It* wtf Augusta. Ga.
$lO REWARD :
STOLEN from the subscriber, on the night of the 4th
in*! a small bine leather POCKET-BOOK, cen
tal- o li: some #l3 or sls to money, and two notes , one
f a5U | some cents, made by Janies M and William
K. White, payable to me, dated January. 1850. d -•
at twelve months; the other for *4. 00, made by A. L.
Dannellv, payable to J. A Stone, dated about the 2d of
December last, due one day after date, and one small note
ou myself, which 1 had paid, and torn off the name. 1
will pay the above reward for the recovery ofthe papers,
and ask no questions. All persons are hereby cautioned
not to trade for said notes, and the makers not to pay
them, except to me G. S. DANNELL\.
February 13, 1856.
S3O REWARD.
t) ANA WAY, from the subscriber, residing In Put
t nam county, near Merrill, In August last, my Negro
Man FRANK. * He is about *25 years old, five feet ten in
ches high, of medium sire, has a slight impediment uih >
speech, and has i.«*t the sight of one eye. He was raised
in Virginia, and has been in Georgia about two years.
The above reward will be paid for his delivery to me.
or to anv jail so that 1 can get him.
JOHN A HARRIS.
The Southern Recorder will publish till forbid, and for
ward account to this office for payment.
S2O REWARD.
KAN AW VY . from Wuv Johnson, about the 15th of
l>ee*mbcr. 15*53. a negro man named JOHN— he
sometimes calls him-cit WESSLEY. He is about thirty
five years old. about five feet eight or ten inches high, es
a yellow complexion, with some of his front under teeth
out and a small scar over one of his eyes, 1 do not recol
lect which eye The sabstriber will pay the above ro
wan! for the deliv,-rv of said boy to me, or his confine
w.-n- in iai: »o th»t I m»T pel him.
Dmisvillc. Ga . Oct- 17-wftm* E. >5 JOUNmJN.
*■ FUL ON HOUSE”
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
BY A- W REEVES.
4 877.000 FEET OF LUMBER.
THIS will certify that the Athens Steam Company
built for us a Circular Saw Mill, on which we have
sawed four million eight hundred and seventy-seven thou
sand feet of Lumber board measure, (fiom I,l h
July. 1854. to the 17th January, 1856,) in eighteen months
or about tea thousand five hundred feet per day. But s o
rc*ilv t»awed from eleven to twelve thousand feet per
day for we supposed the Mills has been standing in the
•ighteen months at least two months for want of logs and
occasional repairs The above account is taken from a
b-'ok in whuJi vri charge all the Lumber as we ship it
from the MU About one-half the Lumber sawed is Ra.l
Road stringers, 6 by 9 inches, and the balance weal her
board#. flooring. iuch boards, and some one and one-half i
(1 and two (2) inch plank.
The improvement in the head-blocks works fine, and
would advise you to use them on all your Mills.
Yours, respectfully, WADLEiV & REPPARD.
77 Mila P st, Canural R. R.. Geo., Feb. 19.
The above can b# sustained by other certificates,
which we think not necessarv. since we are building the i
****** CIRCULAR SAW MILLS, (iron frames cast in
onep ec*.) with improved Head-Blocks and Carriage
to order ; wether with STEAM ENGINES
SHAFTING. Mining and Mill
M ACHINKKA. PVMPS, Ac. Iron and Brass Castings
of every d» - -npt-.on. Wrought Iron Work, Finishing and
Repairing promptly executed
Our aaaortment of ¥ louring and other Mill Patterns are
not exeeLed Sou**!, oemg the improvements and accu
amlatioa of ycxri.
Comratuiiettlaaa will receive prompt Mteniion »tl
dr.-M.- •» RET BEK NICKERSON,
Ag*Bt Athens Company.
Athens, Geo. mh 10 v.3:n
' JOHN D. REILLY,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Augusta, Ga. will pmr
tic* in Use Courts of Law and Equity in the counties
of Richmond. Burke, Jefferson, Scriven, Warren and
Wilkes. ( nffee :n Mason,r Haii Building. nih.v-.y
At"OK A\i> tl.tt KLHEI.—
10 casks choice Tonne Moo Bacon HAMS ;
10 " •• “ SHOCLDEBS,
* bU» S«.» M ACU&i-L. naw crop. Tor sale by
..u ROW ARC * DVQA*
Weekly Chronicle & Sentinel.
Cbnnticlf tic
Complaint* \«ain*t Gen. Wool.
Is the late news from Oregon, it was announced
that tbe Legislature of that Territory had memo
rialized the President to remove Gen. Wool from
-be command of that division of the army. As the
jublic may be interested in knowing the precise na
ure of the complaints against this veteran officer,
we copy the memorial at large, together with some
comments thereon by the San Francisco Herald , in
ts number of the 4th of March. The San Francisco
Chronicle , of the 29th of February expresses its
, iews of the war in a strain similar to that of the
Herald. The following is the memorial :
To His Excellency the President of the V. Stales.
-Tour memorialists, the Legislature of this Terri
tory, respectfully represent : That early in October
list the people oi Oregon and Washington Territo -
ie« were startled by a generai outbreak among near
ly all the Indian tribes in the western and middle
,portions of those Territories. These hostilities, un
provoked on the par: of the whites, were character
zed by the usual inodes -.f Indian warfare, and in
iiscriminate slaughter of all our citizens who fell in
-heir hands without regard to age, sex or condition,
tud the pillaging and burning of dwellings and the
Jest ruction of property.
The people in the most defenceless parts of the
country, alarmed by the danger to which they were
xposed, called upon the Governor of this Territory
or that protection which they had a right to ask.—
We are happy to say that this cry for relief was not
unheeded by the Governor, and that our citizens,
•vith a promptness and zeal which a sense ol danger
done could call forth, volunteered to go out in de
fence of their country. Leaving their homes
and the various avocations in which they were en
gaged, they have nobly discharged their duties, un
ler many adverse and trying circumstances, and
are still in the heart of tbe enemy’s country, which
they have conquered.
In this distressing state of affairs, and while the
Oregon volunteers were surrounded by hostile In
dians, it was with no little satisfaction that your
memorialists as well as the people of Oregon hailed
me arrival in this country of Major General John E.
Wool, of tbe United . tales army. His past services
uad led us to hope that he would at once have sent
the forces under his command to the assistance and
relief of our volunteers who were desirous of return
ing to their homes. It is with regret we confess that
m this respect our hopes have been disappointed. It
is with regret that we are, compelled to say that
Gen. Wool has hitherto remained inactive and re
fused to send the United States troops to the volun
teers, or to supply them with arms and ammunition
in their time of need ; that he has gone into winter
quarters, and left our settlements exposed to the
ravages of our enemies ; that he removed the great
er portion of his troops from the Indian territory to
Vancouver, a military post remote from the scenes
<>i war, and that, too, while our volunteers were
threatened by an overwhelming force of Indians ;
that he refused to go to the relief of a number of our
citizens who had settled in the valley of the Walla
Walla, and who had fled from their homes for safe
ty ; and that he refused to send any of the forces
under his command to protect the people in South
ern Oregon, whose lives and property were almost
lady being destroyed or endangered by the In
diana.
l our memorialists would have borne all these
grievances in silence, and left these publics acts and
commissions of Gen. Wool to the just judgment of
tin- people of Oregon and Washington Territories,
and the approval or disapproval of the proper olii
cers of the United States Government; but so it is
that Gen. Wool, not content with the inactive and
inefficient course which he has hitherto thought
proper to pursue in this war, has departed from his
inactive policy only to censure the governor and
people of this Territory for their commendable zeal
and in defending their country, and to thwart their
efforts to procure supplies for the Oregon volunteers
now in the field. Instead of offering aid and en
couragement to our people, he has shown u disgrace
ful activity in his endeavors to persuade our mer
chants and those of California not to furnish am
munition and supplies for our volunteers in this their
trying time of need. Instead of attending to the
duties of his high office, he bus become an in
tenneddler between the people of Oregon and the
Government of the United States, and publicly de
clared that this influence will be exerted to prevent
the payment by the United States of the just claims
incurred in the prosecution of this war.
Therefore, as your memorialists as well as the peo
people of Oregon have lost ull confidence in the
williugjfifeg of Gen. Wool to assist and defend them
in their present Indian difficulties, they most res
pectfully ask that he may be recalled from the coin
maud of the military department of the Pacific,
and your memorialists will ever pray, &c.
The San Francisco Herald says: This memorial
is tilled with false charges, the object being to de
ceive and divert public attention from one of the
boldest schemes ever concocted to plunder the
Treasury ofthe United States, not of a few hundred
thousand dollars, but of several millions. The. Le
gislature charges the General with inactivity ; that
he left the inhabitants of Oregon exposed to the ra
vages of Indians ; and that he refused to send the
forces under his command to protect the people in
Northern Oregon. These charges are in every par
ticular false. There has been no war in Oregon,
except in the Kogue river country. In no other
part of the Territory have the inhabitants been ex
posed or attacked bv the Indians. If the volunteers
were required at all for the defence of the inhabi
tants of Oregon, it was in the valley ot the Kogue
river, and no where else. Gov. Curry, however,
instead of sending all his troops to suppress Indian
hostilities in that region, nt enormous expense com
menced a crusade against the Indians occupying
the Territory of Washington, east of the Cascade
mountains. He not only went beyond his own ju
risdiction, but made war on the Walla Wallas, from
whom the Oregonians had no danger whatever to
apprehend. His sending a regiment against this
tribe was wholly uncalled for, and under no circum
stances can be justified. The result of his measures
has only contributed to complicate our difficulties
with the Indians, whilst it Ims added several tribes
to those who commenced the war. Had he sent this
regiment to Southern Oregon, there might have been
some excuse for his immense outlay in equipping
volunteers against the Washington Indians, which
he and Ins Legislature are determined shall be de
frayed bv the United States. It is this attempt to
impose on the United States that Gen. Wool lias
condemned as unjust and wholly uncalled for.—
Hence it is that the Legislature assails him with false
charges aud demands his removal from the com
mand ofthe department of the Pacific.
It is but due to Gen. Wool to say that as soon as
he heard of the defeat of Major Haller, he sent a
company to reinforce each of the posts of Fort Lane,
Fort Vancouver, and SteUacoom, and at the same
time applied to the Government for at least a regi
ment. The regiment arrived early in January and
passed on to Vancouver and Steilacoom, eight com
panies to the former and two the latter. The win
ter has been very severe in the north, so much so
that it lias been impossible to operate in the Indian
country east of the Cascades. The \ oluntecrs nt
Walla Walla last all their horses for the want of
forage or grass. The General will prosecute the
campaign against the Indians as soon as practicable,
and we doubt not with complete success.
The Present Danger and Future Prospect.
—A letter of the latest date, from a reliable source,
to the Editors ofthe National Intelligencer, alludes
to the commencement of the war and the pros
pect of terminating it. We make the following ex
tract :
“In October last twenty five Indians, ot whom
eighteen were women and children; were ntet bv
Major Lupton and liis party of volunteers, and all
were barbarously murdered. These were friendly
Indians going to the military reservation for pro
tection. In December last two similar massacres
by volunteers were committed on the north and
south side of Kogue river, near Butte Creek, about
fifteen miles from Fort Lane. Such conduct causes
all the difficulties which General Wool has to con
tend with.
“In Southern Oregon there are not to exceed two
hundred warriors in arms against the whites, al
though the citizens report three hundred. To meet
these, in a few days the General will have six hun
dred and fifty regulars in the field. With Lieu
tenant Colonel Buchanan and Major Garnett in
command ofthe forces in the Kogue River Valiev,
the General anticipates the most favorable results,
provided the citizens of Oregon will abandon their
determination to exterminate the Indians aud give
up private war, and withdraw the volunteers from
the field.
“Joel Palmer, Superintendent of Indian Affairs of
Oregon, is now moving, under a strong escort from
Fort Lane, four hundred friendly Indians to tlie
coast reservation. The inhabitants on the route
have threatened to kill not only the Indians, but all
who may accompany them Such conduct needs
no comment.” _
Tobacco Statistics—American Support to En
gland.
The New York Post has compiled the following
tables from Mr. Flagg's forthcoming Commercial
Report, prepared at the statistical office of the State
Department at Washington :
Tobacco exported to England from the Uni
ted States in 1855 ....His. 54.003,000
Tobacco exported to Franco from the United
States in 1855 tbs. 40,866,000
Population of England. Scotland aud Ire
land 27,810,630
Population of France 30,000,000
Quantity of United States tobacco consumed in England,
less than 1 lb. per capita.
Quantity of United States tobacco in France 1| tbs. per
capita.
The Post states that the war with Russia has
largely augmented the exports of tobacco to France,
as it is indispensable to the French armies. The
average anuual exportation to France from the U.
States is about 12,000,000 lbs., 15,796,000 lbs. beiug
the quantity exported in 1803. Were the great
monopoly abolished in France, and the duties in
England* lowered to a reasonable standard, those
two countries would open a market for every
pound that could be exported from the United
States.
To indicate the revenue derived by Great Britain
from this single article of tobacco, the Post remarks
that the duties upon the total export of raw and
manufactured tobacco from the United States,
yielded Great Britain last year the enormous sum
of twenty-two millions, four hundred and thirty
eight thousand niue hundred and seventy-four dol
lars. This is a subject of the first importance to
Virginia, and at the late session of the Legislature,
her Senators aud Representatives were instructed
and desired to uuite with those of Kentucky in
using their best efforts to secure a reduction of* for
eign duties on tobacco. Virginia and Kentucky,
however, are not the only parties interested, for. as
the Post correctly states, almost all parts of the
l nkm are well adapted for the cultivation of tobac
co. some ol a very tine quality being now raised in
the valley of Connecticut.— Rich Dispatch.
Singular Trial.— Two persons of wealth and
position, named K. B. Morton and R. T. Morton, of
Whateley, Mass . are on trial in the Court of Com
mon Pleas of Franklin county, in that State, for ab
ducting Isaac T. Sheldon, a nephew of the former
and grandson of the iattei. and conveying him to
Wisconsin, beyond the custody of his legal guardian,
Harvev Kirkland, of Northampton. Mass. Young
Sheldon is but ten years old, perfectly blind, with
out father or mother, brother or sister, and the heir
of property left by his parents to the amount of
s:>u.ooo. on the death of his father in 1852. Mr.
Kirkland was appointed guardian of the children
bv consent ot &.! parents. In 185 b the mother
placed the boy in Dr. Howe's Asylum for the Blind,
South Boston* aud a few mo:.the afterwards she aud
her little daughter died, leaving the boy without an
immediate relative. When he attended his moth
er’s funeral, he was suddenly conveyed to Wiscon
sin by his uncle, to get him out the custody of Mr.
Kirkland. There the uncle was appointed liis guar
dian by one of the Wisconsin Courts, but subse
quently this was reversed, and Mr. Kirkland was
again declared his guardian. He was restored, and
to the Asylum at South Boston .and suit has been
entered against the Mortons for abduction.
■ A n InterePictTke.—Mr Buchanan. the
A inenean minister, has sent home from London an
original portrait of John Hampden, the celebrated
English patriot. who was one of the first to resist the
encroachments of the Stuarts, and to assail the pre
rogatives of the Crown, in the great struggle for
popular rights which led to the establishment of the
English Commonwealth, and subsequently planted
on this soil the republican genus which have grown
up into a nation of thirty millions of freemen. This
portrait belonged to Mr. John McGregor, member of
Parliament for Glasgow, aud is presented by him.
through Mr. Buchanan, to the Congress of the Uni
ted States. It is one of the only two original por
trait* of Hampden now in •xiateuce
Foreign Slave Trad** Carried on by Citizens
of the United States.
| A Scir Kind of Slave Trade. —A letter from Cal
lao (Peru; says : “The only business transacted at
| present is selling of Chinese slaves, landing from
, American and English ships. Language is inade
! quateto express the horrible condition of these
! miserable wretches. Stolen from their homes and
families, smuggled on shipboard without their con-
I sent, on the passage treated like brutes, they are
j brought to this coast and sold to men who have no
mercy, for a nominal term of eight years, although
j in some instances no term of service is mentioned.
An American ship sailed from China with 605 Chi
nese, and lauded 404 ; leaving 201 who either died
or drowned themselves on the passage. The average
price realized for this cargo of human flesh was $256
per head. The horrors of the African slave trade in
the palmiest days were nothing to be compared to
this, for in other countries there are laws for the pro
tection of the slaves; but here the master is clothed
with absolute authority, and can govern his slaves
as he sees fit.”
The above is an extract from the Boston Journal
of Saturday, the 16th inst. Who the writer of the
letter is I know not; but his statements in regard
to the nature of this trade are correct. It is time
public attention should be drawn to this inhuman
traffic. Actuated by no interest or motive of anv
kind in reference to this matter, except that which
every member of the community may be. expected
to possess, and having become acquainted with the
circumstances merely through accident, I call upon
you, Messrs. Editors, to do your part in laying these
facts before the public.
A few years ago a political movement in Peru
i*id to tlie liberation of the native slaves of that
country. A demand for laborers of some kind was
thus created. To supply it, natives of China were
shipped to Peru and sold there as slaves. This has
now become a regular and systematized commerce.
Permission of importation being obtained from the
Peruvian authorities, the victims of this traffic,
who belong to the lower order of the Chinese pop
ulation, are purchased for a trifling sum and trans
ported from the smallest ports of China and Peru.—
Here they are sold as slaves to the highast bidders.
That a color may be given to the pretence that this
is not a slave trade, the usual bargain is that these
men shall be retained in service for only a specified
term of years. But never was there a more miser
able trick devised to avoid the odium of a name,
and to hold out to an unscrupulous lust for gain the
mockery of a justification. If these wretched men
are so unfortunate as to live to the end of the pre
tended time, they have no conceived means of pro
curing their freedom. As stated in the above ex
tract, there is no law to aid them. The Peruvian
Government is interested in keeping them forever
enslaved, as it is itself indirectly an employer of
many of them. It may well be imaged that tlie hu
manity of those who ship and sell them is not very
actively exerted in regard to their future welfare.—
What miserable hypocrisy is it, then, for those en
engaged in this traffic to pretend that it is not a
a slave trade.
On being sold some are taken in labor on the gu
ano islands which lie off the coast of Peru. Others
are carried into the interior to work on farms. The
condition of the former is, perhaps, the more wretch
ed of the two. With but a rag about them, they la
bor till their strength or their patience fails. Tasks
are set, which task their powers to the utmost, and
if they do not perform them, they are scourged in
the most horriole manner. Some hang themselves ;
others throw themselves into the sea. Those who
do not put an end to their own lives, die in a few
yean from exhaustion, for no powers of endurance
can sustain for many years tlie dreadful labor to
which they are subjected. Under ordinary circum
stances the most brutal master of slaves must exer
cise a certain forbearance in regard to them, for he
has a strong interest in their life and health. But
even this last restraint upon cruelty is here of little
avail, for tlie price paid for these men is so incon
siderable, that a few years of service will amply
compensate the buyer.
Os the horrors of the passage from China to Peru,
I shall say nothing, but merely refer your readers to
the above extract, and to an account published a
short time ago in some of the newspapers, which de
scribed an officer of the American ship as ordering
boiling water to be poured over a part of a cargo of
these men, and stifling others by scores.
If it were not in our power to move a finger in
this matter, it would be well to know that such things
exist. But there are circumstances which brings
these deeds home to our own doors. Some of those
persons who are directly engaged in this trade are
citizens of the United States; some of them are citi
zens of New England. The business, it is understood
lias provedfa profitable speculation; and it is likely
to be continued a long time by those who have de
rived so much honorable emolument from it, if pub
lic attention is not drawn to the matter, and public
sentiment effectively expressed.
The c itizens of Massachusetts may well find food
for reflection in these facts. Their zeal upon the
subject of internal slavery is often and vehemently
exhibited. But it is folly to compare this system
of servitude, as an outrage offered by one class of
human beings to another, with that to which atten
tion is now called. It is not probable that there is
on the face of the earth a class of men whose lot is
one of such unmitigated wretchedness «as that of
the victims of this trafic. Nikit Humanum Allenum.
—Boston Post.
From Havana.
A correspondent writes : The illiberality of the
government of this island has never been more fully
exemplified than in its conduct in relation to the fol
lowing circumstance: —The failure of the sugar crop
in Louisiana, has rendered certain intelligent planters
of that State desirous of obtaining a change of seed;
and with this view, some four or five months since,
an order was sent to a mercantile house of this city
to ship to New Orleans some four or five thousand
sugar caues suitable for seed. These caues, packed
in hogsheads, were accordingly shipped from Car
denas. More recently, a gentleman from Attakanas
arrived here, proceeded to Matanzas, chartered a
small vessel of about a hundred tons burthen, pur
chased a quantity of canes and shipped them on
board of her for New-Orleans. Some ot her parties
at Mat anzas, desirous of following his example, yet
more recently purchased a quantity of canes, and
were about to ship them, when they were informed
by the authorities that an order had been received
forbidding the further shipment of sugar caues; and
consequently they were not permitted to ship those
they had purchased.
Among the recent deaths in this city is that of
Senor Don Jose MariaCagigal, the head ol’the cele
brated slave trading house of Joaquin Goiuez’s
Nephews. He was buried with great pomp, on
Tuesday evening last. There were no less than
ninety-nine volantes following his corpse to the
Campo Santo. lie was aged fifty-three years, and
died from a cancer in his stomach.
Tiie American clipper ship Sword Fish, Osgood,
master, has arrived from Ilong Kong and St. Hele
na, bringing 37 5 Asiatic colonists.
Yearning for Thraldom.— The New York
Herald, of Sunday, contains the subjoined para
graph :
“About two years ago .a negro woman named
Diana was purchased from her owuer, S. F. Gould,
Esq., of Edgefield, South Carolina, by Abolitionists
residing in this city. Among the contributors to the
fund for freeing her was Rev. Henry Ward Beecher,
whose rifle practice has gained him such notoriety
lately. Diana came to this city and nursed her
mother until she died, when, having no relatives or
friends here, and being out of employment, she na
turally, enough desired to return to the home of her
childhood, where her husband and children are still
living. Hearing that Col. M. Frazer, a neighbor of
her former master, was in the city, she called upon
him at the Astor House and piteously begged of him
to take her back to her old home, as she was hearti
ly sick of freedom, and yearned like St. Paul ‘for her
kindred after the flesh/ Col. Frazer consented to
do so. Before leaving for the South yesterday, he
brought her to the Herald office, to afford us another
instance of the fact that a sensible negro prefers
slavery, when it is associated with home comforts,
to freedom, such as the blacks experience at the
hands of the nigger worshippers nt the North. Diana
is a stout, healthy woman, about forty years of
age. She was originally bought for $250, her
owner freeing her for less than she was worth,
at the solicitation of her well meaning but mistaken
friends.”
Commutation ok the Danish Sound Dues.—
I have, says the Copenhagen correspondent of the
Daily News informed you of the latest proposal of
Denmark to the maritime States to abolish the
Sound Dues for an indemnification of 35,000,000 rix
dollars (about £4,000,000.) The following is the
way in which the Danish Government calculates
the*amount to be borne by each State, in proportion
to the value of its Baltic trade ; England 12,000,000
of rix dollars (£1,300,000) ; Russia, 12,000,000;
Prussia, 5,000,000; Denmark, 2,000,000 ; Sweden.
2,000,000; Holland, 2,000,000; Norway, 1,000,000 ;
Fram e, !,'*OO.POO: Belgium, 500JIOO ; United States,
500,000 ; Mecklenburg, 500,000 ; Lubec, 250,000 ;
Hamburg and Bremen, 200,000 together; Hanover,
150,000 : Oldenburg, 75,000; Spain, Portugal and
Italy, 262,000 together; South America, 17,000;
and the other (not Baltic) States, 595,000 dollars
collectively. It is further proposed to leave it to
the option of each State to pay the amount at once,
or else the interest at 4 per cent, per annum, to
gether with 2 per cent annually to the sinking fund,
terminable in twenty-eight years.
The Slaver, Mary E. Smith, recently captured
and taken into Bahia, with a cargo of slaves on
board, many of whom died from suffocation, was
fitted out at Boston last August. The parties were
suspected, and the United States Attorney attempt
ed to arrest them, but they went down the harbor in
the night with a steam tug. She was pursued and
boarded, but the pilot who had her in charge, re
fused to bring her to, ou the ground that the Deputy-
Marshal had uo authority to stop the vessel. Having
no sufficient force to back him. the Deputy Marshal
was obliged to leave the vessel, and she went to sea,
and we now have the results of her then intended
voyage. Subsequently the pilot was tried before
the District Court, Judge Sprague, for resisting the
Marshal, in taking the vessel to sea, but was ac
quitted, on the ruling of the Judge that the pilot was
not bound to stop the vessel in order to enable the
officer to make the arrest ofthe captain and mate. —
The Boston Post hopes that the vessel will be sent to
Boston with the captain, mate and crew, that the
law may justly punish all engaged in the perpetra
tion of this atrocity.
Accidents to Steamers.— Two hundred and
twenty-nine accidents have occurred to the steamers
subject to the law of 1852 between the 31st of May.
1853, when it went into operation, and the 30th of
September. 1855. Os these two hundred and twen
tv-nine accidents, forty -two occurred ou the Atlan
tic and Pacific oceans and contiguous bays and one
hundred and eighty-seven on the inland lakes and
rivers. The cause* of accidents in eightv-six cases
were ascertained, and thirty-six of these were trace
able either to direct mismanagement or neglect of
rules on the part of vessels coming in collision with
others. As a res* 4of these accidents, six hundred
and ninety-six passengers and two hundred aud
ninety-one of tLe crews lost their lives. The total
number of st rainers subject to the inspection law is
stated at *j6 35. with a tonnage of 409,795; num
ber of tly je not thus subject, 735—with a tonnage
of 12,871 J
Meb Jiants Protesting Against General
Wifctß. —It is stated that S. L. Wood 5: Son, U.
States merchants at Greytown, have addressed a
a formal protest to the President against the exac
tions of Gen. Walker, whose troops recently took
forcible possession of S3OOO worth of their goods,
without tendering any remuneration. They there
fore beg the intercession of our government in their
behalf as citizens of the United States, and entitled
to the protection of its flag. It is also stated that
\\ u.ker levied eontribututions upon the folllow
ing merchants after he had taken the city of Gra
nada :
Widerman and Berscho. German merchants.
SSOOO : Duke and Derbyshire. English merchants.
SSOOO Mr. Solari. Italian merchant, SSOOO ; the
Brothers Lacavos, Nicaraguan merchants. $12,000
Mr. Bernard. French merchant, $250 ; Pedro Roux.
French merchant. $250. As well as others to a large
amount. The respective governments of these suf
ferers will probably interfere in their behalf.
Col. Buford and the Kickapoo Rangers.— The
Montgomery Journal of the Ist inst. says :—From
private letters received by us by yesterday's mail,
we are pleased to learn that Col Buford of Alabama,
with his whole emigrant force, will be in Kickapoo
City as soon as navigation opens. It seems that he
intends making this place his headquarters on ac
count of the great reputation it has abroad as being
the stronghold of the Pro-slavery party, and also
to make the acquaintance of the Kickapoo Ran
gers.
A Dry Spell.— Late advices from Isle an Sal.
Cape de Verde, state that the Island was very
healthy, but water was exceedingly scarce, no rain
having fallen for four years, which*caused the cattle
to die m great numbers. Breadstuff's were held at
very high price* —flour at $lB per barrel, and bread
at $lO par oag
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 9. 1856.
War between Nicaragua and C’oj*ta Rica.
The details of the news from Central America, re
ceived by the Daniel Webster at New Orleans, will
be found of a very exciting character.
On Monday, March 10th, General Walker issued
a circular announcing hastily the hostility of the
Americans in Nicaragua to the Servile parties
and Serve Governments of Central America.—
We take this proclamation from El Nicaraguense of
the 15th inst. as follows:
To the People of Central America : —Invited to
Nicaragua by the Democratic party of the Repub
lic, the American force under my command has
steadily struggled to carry out the principles for which
the revolution of 1854 was undertaken. In order,
however, to consolidate a general peace, we were
willing to bury past differences and endeavor to
amalgamate the two parties into one. For this pur
pose we have, since the Treaty of October last, held
in check our old friends, the Democrats, and have
attempted to conciliate the men formerly attached
to the Government of Estrada.
With the same view, the Provisional Government
of Nicaragua, although differing in ideas and prin
ciples from the Government of the other States of
Central America, attempted to establish frank and
friendly relations wi*h the neighboring Republics.
Our overtures of peace have been rejected. Our
propositions of friendship have not only been disre
garded, but treated with scorn and disdain. Con
tempt and contumely have been returned for the
amicable messages we sent to the other Govern
ments. The only reason given for such conduct is
the presence of American forces in the State of Ni
caragua.
The self-styled Legitimist party of Nicaragua has
repulsed our efforts at conciliation. They have
maintained communication with their fellow*-serviles
in the other States. They have, by all means in
their power, attempted to weaken the present Pro
visional Government, and have given aid and en
couragement to tlie enemies of Nicaragua outside of
the Republic.
In this condition of affairs, nothing is left for the
Americans in Nicaragua but hostility to the Serviles
throughout Central America. A very large propor
tion of the so-called Legitimists of this State are
either open or secret enemies to our presence on this
soil. They owe us lor the protection they have had
for their lives and property ; they have paid us with
ingratitude and treachery.
Against the Servile parties and Servile Govern
ments of Central America, the Americans in Nicara
gua are bound by the common law of self-protec
tion, to declare ’ eternal enmity. Our proffered
friendship has been rejected. We can only make
them feel that our enmity may be as dangerous
and destructive as our friendship is faithful and
true.
The troops of the Army of the Republic will as
sume and wear the Red Ribbon.
By command of William Walker,
General Commander-in-Chief.
Ph. R. Thompson, Adjutant General Nicaraguan
Army.
On the 11th Patricio Rivas issued the following
Decree:
Republic of Nicaragua, )
Granada, March 12,1856. $
The Provisional President of the Republic[of Nica
ragua to its inhabitants :
Whereas, The Government of the Republic of
Costa Rica lias wrongfully refused to recognize that
of Nicaragua, and has interfered in its home affairs.
And whereas, the said Governments has thrown
odiums upon the ruler of the destinies of Nicaragua,
by refusing to receive an ambassador sent on an
amicable errand for the purpose of establishing a
fraternal alliance, and by calling upon its inhabi
tants to take up arms in its otTensive proclamation
of the Ist inst. And inasmuch as the Government of
Costa Rica is responsible for all the injuries which
may be occasioned by its wrongful conduct and un
just proceedings ; it is hereby
Decreed—Art 1. That war is hereby declared
aguiust the Government of the Republic of Costa
Rica, and that Nicaragua does not consider itself re
sponsible for the injuries which this declaration of
war may produce, for the reasons alleged above, and
because it is forced to this line of conduct for the
purpose of vindicating its honor and rights.
Given at Granada, on the 11th of March, 1856.
Patricio Rivas.
The next day a formal declaration of war came
from the Costa Rican Government, and an address
from the President of Costa Rica to the people of
Nicaragua, calling on them to rise and exterminate
the Americans.
The President of the. Republic of Costa Rica to all
its Inhabitants.
Fellow-Countrymen, to Arms ! —The hour that I
foretold to you has arrived. Let us march to Nica
ragua to destroy that wicked phalanx which has re
duced her to the most shameful slavery! Let us
march to fight for the liberty of our brethren.
They call on you, they expect you to rise up
against her oppressors. Her cause is our cause.
Those who to-day rob, revile and assassinate them,
audaciously defy us, and endeavor to bind upon us
the same bloody chains. Let us fly to burst asun
der those of our brethren, and to exterminate their
executioners to the last man.
We do not go to contend for a piece of land or to
acquire ephemeral power; not to achieve miserable
conquest, and much less for sacrilegious purposes.—
No ! we go to struggle for the redemption of all our
brethren from the most iniquitous tyranny. We go to
help them in the fruitful work of their regeneration.
We go to tell them, “ Brethren of Nicaragua, arise !
annihilate your oppressors. We come here to fight
by your side, for your liberty, for your country!
Union, Nicaraguans, union! Bury your internal
differences forever! No more party fueds, no more
fratricidal discords! Peace, justice, and liberty for
all! War only on filibusters!
To the conflict, then, Costa Ricans—l march at
the head of the national army. I, who rejoice to see
this day your noble enthusiasm, which makes me
proud to call you my sons, wish always to share
danger and glory with you.
Your mothers, wives, sisters and daughters ani
mate you. Their patriotic virtues will make us in
vincible. In fighting for the safety of our brethren,
we shall fight likewise for them, for their honor, for
their existence, for our idolized country, and Spanish
American independence.
All the loyal sons of Guatemala, San Salvador
and Honduras are in march upon that horde of ban
dits. Our cause is holy; triumph certain. God
will give us victory, and with it peace, concord,
liberty, and un'on in the great Central American
family. Juan 11. Mora.
San Jose, March I, 1856.
Walker responded with a declaration of war
against Costa Rica, and that evening attended 350
soldiers across the Lake, in the steamer La Virgin,
to Virgin Bay. After waiting there a day to secure
shipping, he sent 280 men, in a battalion of five
companies, into Costa Rica, under the command of
Col. Schlessinger, until Walker himself or General
Hornsby should join him. Major J. C. O’Neal and
Capt. D. W. Thorp were next in command. Up to
latest advices they had not had even a skirmish with
the enemy; but had supplied themselves with horses
and on March 21st were to proceed for Guano Cas
tle. A correspondent from Virgin Bay, on the 13th,
in regard to tl«j battalion, says :
“Immediately after their arrival, outposts were
stationed at every point where it was possible to
enter or’leave the settlepient,and strict orders given
that no person should be allowed to pass out. The
men, without arms, were then marched to Rivas,
where they were to be provided for, amounting to
about one hundred and fifty. The Commissary
found it very difficult to provision the battalion, but
the men seemed resolved to be satisfied, and I did
not hear a growl during the day—if I may except
the host of curs, who were startled out of their native
quiet by the unusual bustle and confusion. It is
generally believed that the battalion will march on
Costa Rica to-morrow. Their first effort will no
doubt be the seizure of Bona Casta, the destruction
or capture of the Government stores, mules, cattle,
&c. The soldiers are all in excellent spirits, and re
solved, if they get a chance, to make their first fight
tell. There were four companies, all recently ar
rived, one from New York, under command of Cap
tain Creighton, one from New’ Orleans, commanded
by Lieutenant Coleman, a German and French
Company. The Cushing Guards delivered up their
arms to the Regulars. General Walker went to Ri
vas with his staff, and returned this evening about
7 o’clock. I believe he will leave for Granada to
night.”
We find, on the Spanishside of the Nicaraguense,
the following interesting items :
San Salvador. —On the 12th inst., Don Raphael
Campo President elect of the Republic of San Sal
vador for the period of two years, entered into the
discharge of his duties. The new’ President intends
to maintain with the Governments of Central
America the most intimate ana cordial relation. In
view of the position in which Nicaragua finds it
self, he w’ ill bestow upon that Government all the
aid in his power compatible with his duties and obli
gations.
Martial Law.— ln consequence of the alann
which prevails in some of the Departments of Nica
ragua, from the actual state of hostilities, the Presi
dent has issued a decree, Ist declaring the depart
ment of the Centre and that of Guamacaste under
martial law, and compelling all the inhabitants to
take up anns when required so to do ; 2d, ordering a
trial by the rules of war of every person who shall be
found giving aid or comfort to the enemy ; 3d, con
ferring judicial pow’ers, both upon the civil and mili
tary authorities; and, finally, granting to Walker
extraordinary pow’ers to carry on war against Costa
Rica.
An Ambassador had arrived in N icaragua from
San Salvador with dispatches of a peceable charac
ter, but asking Gen. Walker why he brought so
many Americans to Nicaragua ; and report says he
offered General Walker $25 a piece to take them
from the country !
An extra from the office of the Central American,
published at San Juan, dated March 15, gives a
translation of the declaration of war by the Presi
dent of Costa Rica, and adds thereto the following :
War has been declared against Nicaragua by the
Government of Costa Rica, and 3,500 troops are
under way, headed by Gen. Mora, the commander
in-chief.
Baron Buiow is in the field with 500 men.
We are informed that the Transit Company have
been notified to stop running their boats upon the
river, or Costa Rica will not be responsible for the
consequences.
The Foreign Vote in Kansas. —The Hartford
Times, the Democratic organ of Connecticut—a
journal by which the faithful of that State swear,
: *The strongest probabilitv of Kansas becoming a
free State is derived from the facts that the numer
ous foreign-born citizens who are pouring into the
new Territory are all free State men, who will vote
against the introduction of slavery. The so-called
Republican party in Connecticut, in order to de
feat the Democracy, are uniting with the Know
Nothings—an order that opposes and proscribes
this very class of foreign-bom free State men.—
The Know Nothings would deprive them of the
right to vote. Are these sham Repulicans, who,
profess such devotion to ‘freedom to Kansas,’ con
sistent in thus uniting with a party opposed to all
foreign-bora citizens ? Opposed to the very means
which will make a free State ?”
Foreign Coins. —The bill submitted in the United
States Senate by Senator Hunter, the object of
which is to dispense with the use of the depreciated
foreign coins now in circulation, provides that all
quarters, eighths, and sixteenths of the Spanish mil
led or Mexican dollar shall be received at all the of
fices of the United States at twenty, ten, and five
cents, and made legal tenders for all sums not ex
ceeding five dollars, and that these fractions of the
dollar of foreign coin, when received, shall not be
again paid out but shall be recoined. We fear that
this law will be found of very slow and uncertain
operation in relieving our currency of the disfigured
fractional foreign coin now in circulation. So long
as that coin will pass elsewhere for the value it rep
resents. but little will find its way into the mint at the
depreciation of 20 per cent placed upon it by the
bill An additional provision proscribing the circu
lation of the coin at a higher rate than paid for it by
the U. S. seems necessary in order to give the law
full efficiency.
Reniarkable Case of Abstinence from Food. —The
Rockingham Virginian of the 21st inst says: Samu
el Henuy, who resides about two and a half miles
from Spartapolis, in this county, has totally abstain
ed from food for fifty-seven days ! and he’ may yet
survive several days. For some time he has been
in a rather melancholy mood, and about two months
ago he refused to eat. and since that time has not
taken any thing except water : and. strange to say,
he is still*alive, though reduced to a mere skeleton.
Neither physicians or friends can induce him to take
any nourishment. He declares he can swallow
notliing, though he does every now and then take a
drink of water. He will doubtless persist in this
deiasion until he starves to death. He is a respec
table fanner, about forty-one vears of age, and has
a wife and six children. This is one of the most
remarkable case* we have ever heard of. We have
our information from the most reliable source, and
the facts ab given may be fully relied upon.
Latent from Rio de Janeiro.
We are indebted to an esteemed commercial
friend for tbe perusal of a Rio Circular of February
12, from which we extract the following*:— Ball.
Patriot.
Coffee. —Our market opened on the 23d ult.,
from which date to arrival of the packet on the 2d
inst., 60,000 bags were disposed ot at 5J|050a5!J600,
according to quality, principally at s||ooOas||3OU for
round lots of all grades ; 5{|600 having been paid for
selections of good firsts to superiors. The market,
upon the arrival of the packet, being firm at s||4oou
-5(|500 for lots, and s|J6ooas|j3oo for selections. The
news from the United States, per the packet, caus
ed increased firmness in the market, and dealers
advanced their demands to s|{sooao||6oo for lots,
and sj|Soo for selections. Since her arrival transac
tions have been restricted to 12,000 bags at 5||600
for the United States. As predicted in the early
part of this crop season our receipts have fallen off
very materially during the past two months, and
the most sceptical acknowledge that we must have
moderate exports and high pnees for the rest of the
season. We quote lots sJ|4ooas||6QO ; good firsts and
superiors s[j6ooas|jSoo per arrobe.
The export of coffee for the month of January,
1856, was as follows :
New York 19,290 bags.
Baltimore 25,731 “
Philadelphia 8,401 “
Boston 1,500 “
Charleston 1,550 44
Hampton Roads 4,710 44
Savannah 2,950 44
Mobile 3,650 4i
New Orleans 12,711 44
Total 80,496 44
A correspondent of the Journal of Commerce gives
the following account of an occurrence that had ex
cited some feeling at Rio :
A few days ago, an incident of rather an alarming
nature occurred, "Which threw our nuiet city into a
state of unwonted excitement. Nothing else was
talked of in town, but ihe arrival of a Russian pri
vateer, which had entered the port under the protec
tion of the American flag. It was generally report
ed and believed that this vessel, a steamer, called
the “America,” would no sooner reach the Pacific,
where she was bound, than she would cast off ail
disguise, hoist the Russian flag, and commence
hostility against the commerce of Lhe allies. To give
substance to this report, the English men-of-war in
the port were making preparations for following
the suspicious stranger, and inquiring into her
business on the high seas, in which event she was to
be protected and defended by tlie American Com
modore.
The follow ing is a true statement of the facts rela
tive to the supposed privateer:—
The steamer “America,” under command of Will.
11. Hudson, formerly of the American Navy, left
New* York for California in the early part of Janu
ary, and touched at Rio for coal. Captain Hudson
being in want of men, shipped several here, and
among others an Englishman whom he shortly af
terwards discharged, having found him incompe
tent to perform his duty. This man, out of spite,
made a statement to the English Admiral that the
vessel contained munitions of war, was filled with
Russians, and was intended to act as a privateer.
Without examining what truth there was in the
statement of a drunken sailor, the Admiral assumed
the right of examining the vessel, and stopping her
if necessary. This Captain Hudson very properly
refused to submit to. He subsequently consented
to make a declaration that he had nothing but a
fowling-piece and a few* pounds of powder aud small
No. 6 shot on board, in the shape of munitions of
war.
The English Admiral, it appears, was forced to
acknowledge that he had acted hastily and incon
siderately, and declared himself satisfied. The
whole affair thus appears to be a second edition
of the “Maury” proceeding at New York, which
has ended in ridicule in this instance, but might,
if persisted in by the British authorities, have
precipitated two friendly nations into the horrors
of war.
New Y’ork Items.
March 20.—The packet-ship Caravan, Captain
Sands, arrived at this port on Thursday evening,
from Liverpool, and landed her passengers at Castle
Garden. They are 454 in number, and are Mor
mons. They came from England, Wales, Scotland,
Ireland and Denmark. These people generally are
from the lowest classes of society. Among the
whole four hundred and fifty, there was scarcely
one face that showed that its possessor was greatly
elevated above the animal. Dissipation had done
its work with many.
Every day new facts are coming to light with re
ference to the depredations committed bv the mys
terious vitriol thrower ou the dresses of ladies when
leaving theatres in the evening. Scarcely a day
passes out some complaint is made by ladies whose
clothing has beeu ruiued, and much indignation is
expressed by the sufferers. The police are on the
track of the miscreant, but their utmost vigilance
has so far been baffled. A reward of $l5O has been
offered by a citizen for his arrest. Another who
signs himself B. L. Green, says, I will deposit SI,OOO
in any bank in the city as a forfeiture, which shall
be paid to some benevolent institution, if I do not
kill this vitriol thrower if I can find out who he is.
It is very likely that the scoundrel will get his de
serts yet.
The receipts for the tickets to the Grand Charity
Ball, hist evening, at the Academy of Music,
between SB,OOO and $0,000; the expenses, about
$2,000 —leaving the handsome surplus of $7,500 for
the “Nursery for poor children.”
The proceeds of the late trade sale of books, at the
ware rooms of Leavitt, Delesser & Co., are said to
have netted something like $200,000. To-day they
are selling the stereotype plates.
. Great activy prevails just now in the shipping bu
siness. Freights are firm and high.. The deal
season is about opening. The rates iroin St. Johns
to ports in the United Kingdom are from £4 10s.
to £5 Iss. Several vessels have already been en
gaged.
Theie is likewise a brisk demand for vessels for
the guano trade, checked a little, however, owing
to certain diplomatic questions with Peru, at Wash
ington. Twenty-five dollars per ton is the rate from
the Chinchas to the United States ; £5 to Valencia,
Spain and £4 15s. to England.
March 31.—The auction sales of real estate for
the season are drawing to a close. Among the
transactions in improved property on Saturday, was
the sale of the house and lot corner of Broadway
and Great Jones street, to Rufus Prime, Esq., for
the sum of $50,500. Another lot corner of Spring
street and Broadway, occupied partially by the
Collamore House, was sold to Robert Carter for
$55,000.
The shipments of specie from this port during the
week foot up $158,706, making a total since the Ist
of January of $3,802,543.79. There have beeu some
heavy shipments lately for China. The ship Haidee,
for Hong Kong, Wednesday, took $153,423 in Mexi
can dollars.
Packet ship Aurora, from Liverpool, March Ist,
brings 411 steerage passengers. She reports en
countering immense quantities of ice, and was
obliged to run into the Gulf to escape it, also reports
on the 14th, lat. 43 26, exchanging signals witn the
steamer Arago, hence for Havre, 9th inst.
The City Inspector reports the total number of
deaths in the city and county of New-York, for the
week ending on Saturday as 421, being an increase
of 60 as compared with the previous week.— Cor.
Balt. American.
Indus/rial Growth of Massachusetts. —An offi
cial statement is about to appear, in relation to the
material of Massachusetts, and intended to show her
industrial growth since 1845. The annual product
of the State is now put down at $300,000,000, show
ing an immense increase in ten years. The value of
cotton manufacture has increased from twelve mil
lions to twenty-six millions, yearly; that of calico
from four to five millions; and that of woollens from
eight to twelve millions. These are the identical
branches of business that were to have been ruined
by the steps that were taken in 1846 in the direction
of free trade, but they appear to have been revived
in a very agreeable sort of away, the aggregate
amount having increased from $24,000,000 to $43,-
000,000 in the very years that saw “protection” dis
carded altogether in theory, and to a considerable
extent in practice. The value of the shoe business,
however, has increased in the greatest proportion,
rising from fourteen millions of dollars in 1845 to
thirty-eight millions in 1855, which is a very hand
some figure indeed.
Imported French Pears. —Several varieties of
superb pears were imported by one of the Havre
packets to the order of Peter Archdeacon, fruiterer,
us a venture, and the experiment proved a very suc
cessful one. They filled twenty cases, and came in
excellent order, packed in paper cuttings. The va
rieties are known as the Easter Beware, Winter
Bon Chretien, Catalick, and Belle Angenue, some of
which are grown in the United States, but not to
the perfection attained by the French cultivators.
The largest weigh about one pound, and sell readily
at one dollar each ; smaller ones retail for seventy
five cents and those of ordinary size for fifty-cents!
The flavor and juice are well preserved. Each of
the cases contains from 125 to 150 pears, ami they
cost in France about $lO per case. The fruit was
all crown in the open air. Large profits might be
realized by American fruit growers, were they to
devote themselves to their calling with diligence and
determination. —Joturnal of Commerce.
Locking the Stable Door after the Horse has been
Stolen. —-The Legislature of Kentucky, in view of
the loss of so many slaves by crossing the Ohio to a
free State, have at length passed an act, which, if
enforced, will go far towards their protection here
after. It woula seem that self-preservation would
long since have shown the necessity of some pro
vision of the kind. We hope it may prove effica
cious. The act makes it a duty of the county judge
and a majority of the justices in the counties on the
Ohio River, to appoint patrols to their respective
counties, and to make such patrols removable at the
pleasure of the judge, or the county court, and a
majority of the justices; requires thatall water craft
at the Kentucky shore, not in the immediate charge
of the owner, &c., shall be chained and locked, and
the oars removed. A negro or mulatto is made
competent to testify against any person charged
with stealing slaves, or enticing a slave to leave his
master, or forging a pass, &c., or concealing a run
away slave, &C.
The Cradle and the old Arm Chair. —No house
is completed without two pieces of funiture—the
cradle and old arm chair. No house is full that hath
not in it a babe and grandfather or grandmother.—
Life becomes more radiant and perfect when its
two extremes keep] along with it The two loves
which watch the cradle and serve the chair are
one. But how different in all their openings and
actions. To the child the heart turns with more ten
derness of love. To the aged parent, love ij borne
upon a service of revenue. Through the child you
look forward—through the parent you look back
ward. In the child you see hope, joys to come,
brave ambition, and a life yet to be drawn forth in
all its many sided experiences. Through the silver
haired parent, you behold the past, in its scenes en
acted, its histories registered.
The Great Artesian Well in Paris.— This extra
ordinary well is bored in the centre of the Court of
the Abfcatior, goes 1,700 feet into the bowels of the
earth, and the column of water, nine inches in diame
ter, rises in a copper tube 112 feet above the surface.
From this elevation it descends by means of another
tube to the ground, and is conducted to the reservoir
at the Pantheon, whence it is disturbed for the use
of the inhabitants. The temperature of the water
is constantly 80 degrees Fahrenheit. It holds sever
al salts in solution, among the rest iron, which colors
glass submitted to its action, and is highly charged
with carbonic acid gas. This is the deepest well yet
bored, and the facts connected with it serve to ex
plode the old doctrine that such wells were mere ex
amples of a jet of water having its head on some
mountain or high table land passing under ground
and springing through the outlet up to the height of
its head. The supply of water from this well is
3,400,000 gallons in twenty-four hours.
French Love of Scandal. —A French provincial
paper contains tne following paragraph :
“A trial took place at our Assizes. It promised
rich food for scandal. All the ladies of the town be
decked themselves in their smartest toilets, and
crowded to the court house. On seeing this, the
--esiding judge rose and said, ‘Persons here assem
bled as spectators are not aware of the nature
of the case. I therefore invite all decent women to
withdraw.’ A pause took place without a single
female moving to retire from her seat. Seeing this
the judge again rose and said : ‘Officers of the
court, now that all the decent women have retired
turn out the remainder. ”
The Caxtons. —An article in Fraser's Magazine
goes to show that the entire plot and character
of Bulwer’s Caxtons, thought to have been the
opening up of a new style in novel writing, is but a
plagiarized disguise of the plot, style, thought* and
character* in Star nr« Tristan Shandy.
Grain at the Lake Porta.
There is a valuable and interesting; statement in a
recent number of the Oswego Palladium, giving the
stores of flour and wheat on Lake Ontario and the
Upper Lakes. The writer of the article in the Pal
ladium agrees in the opinion generally expressed
here that “a verv large proportion of the last year s
crop is still in the hands of the producers, both in
Canada and at the West, owing to the decline in
prices and bad roads, and will not be likely to come
out very early this spring.”
The following is the statement prepared by the
correspondent of the Palladium:
Grain and Flour in stare at Lake Ports.
Lake Ontario.
Flour. Wheat.
Hamilton and Toronto 60,000 25,000
Other Points 2*2,000 67,000
Oswego 30,000 250,000
Or. W. R. U. and vicinity 30,000 45.000
Lake Erie, Canada side 20,000 80,000
Lake St. Clair and Huron, d 0... 5,000 65,000
I-ake Erie, American side 30,000 90,000
Buffalo 25,000 *400,000
Detroit and vicinity 40,000 20,000
262,000 1,042,000
Lake Michigan.
1855. 1855.
Porta Flour. Wheat. Flour. Wheat.
Chicago 10,000 425,000 25,000 162,000
Milwaukee 65,000 530.000 45,000 250,000
Other ports 18,000 450,000 8,000 130,000
93,000 1,405,000 78,000 542,000
On the Canada side of Lake Ontario ; on the line
of the Great Western (Canada) R. R.; from the ports
on Lakes Erie, St. Clair, Huron, and Georgian Bay ;
on the Canadian side of Lake Erie, Detroit, &c.;
along the Michigan Central Railroad and to Michi
gan city, and from Ohio and Indiana, the Palladi
um's correspondent says the “quantity of produce
held” is far m excess of last year. In reference to
coarse grains this is especially so. On Lake Michi
gan he WTites : “The increase of corn is far beyond
any former year, and only requires a moderate price
to induce a very increased shipment over any for
mer period. There is also an increased supply of rye
and oats, not only upon Lake Michigan and that vi
cinity, but throughout the West and Canada, as well
as the State of New York.
The lumber trade of Chicago exceeded that of Al
bany last season by 80,000,000 feet, and that of
Bangor by 114,890,000 feet. The following are the
figures :
Albany 245,921,652 feet.
Bangor 211,669,193 “
Chicago 326,553,467 “
* The Buffalo Republic puts the quantity in store there
at (JO,OOO barrels of flour and 700,000 bushels of wheat,
but our correspondent did not get such figures on the
ground. The Republic may bo correct. —Albany Re
gister.
Wonderful Musical Automaton. —A most inge
nious piece of musical mechanism was exhibited at
Boston on Wednesday evening at the store of
Messrs. Kelley &. Levin. It is the invention and
production of Mons. Van Oeckelen, (a musician of
much ability who has recently arrived from Hol
land, and is in the full form of a lull sized anatomical
figure of a man, the body of which is filled with com
plex machinery by which it plays quite artistically
upon the clarinet, &c. The illustration is so perfect
in all respects that at a short distance the figure
might well be mistaken for a living artistic.
This andriod, being six feet in height and dressed
in a very elegant Troubador’s costume, is indeed
worth seeing as an extraordinary production of ge
nious and labor, both by its playing on the clarionet
and its various bodily motions. Acting entirely by
the force of its own springs, it produces by internal
wind every tone upon its instrument, on which it
plays with its fingers in such a graceful, life-like
manner that nothing could be preferred to its exe
cution of a rondo of Weber, a fantasy concertante
from the Freischutz, a varied andantino of Beetho
ven, an introduction with the variations of Beriot,
&c., and it is not exaggeration to sav that the per
formance of every piece is united with such a taste
ful expression as has hitherto been peculiar to high
ly cultivated artistes alone. The cresendo, dimi
nuendo, affeetueso, &.C., are applied with so much
accuracy that the inspired musician can hardly sur
pass this iuanimated image.
As soon as Mr. Van Oeckelen sits down at the
piano to accompany the obligate of the player on
the clarinet, the automaton begins to act, turning itp
head and eyes in different directions, while the whole
body follows these motions in an easy and natural
manner. After looking round a moment or two it
turns its face to the pianist to give the signalof com
mencement ;it then brings its instrument to its lips
to wet the reed ; this it repeats twice, and then be
gins its solo with all that peculiar motion of head,
eyes, mouth, and body, either each separately or in
such a happy combination that the most accomplish
ed musician on the clarionet could have no more ac
curacy, neither better expression of feeling nor
higher energy, in a word no more efficacious and
delightful handling of an instrument.
By its elaborate und artistic construction this cu
rious figure can give thirty-two tunes, and adapt
every motion with the greatest ease by blowing and
fingering. Sometimes the piano, having several
measures of solo, the android not only follows its
pauses, but also marks them softly with its lips. It
can likewise be made to perform sixteen tunes on
the coronet-a-piston. After a labor of six years this
ingenious production of art has been brought to a
perfection which encourages the hopes and ambition
of the inventor and maker that the admirers of talent
and ingenuity, as well as the public in general, will
warmly interest themselves for his long labor and
studies.— Transcript.
Another Instance of Spontaneous Combustion. —
The Galveston News relates the following : A few
days since we published au instance of spontaneous
combustion of cotton seed, and consequent loss of
considerable property by fire. A friend has since
handed us a fetter from Col. Croze, written from his
plantation, on the lOthlustant, in which he says : “I
came near having my gin, mill, and thirty or forty
bales of cotton burnt up, a few days since, by the
pile of cotton seed that had been thrown out, taking
tire, in consequence of being overheated. Fortu
nately, some hands, who were working near by,
discovered the smoke and gave the alarm. Mr. La
motte hastened to the spot with all his force ; and
with hoes and water they succeeded in putting out
the fire, but not without’the greatest difficulty, la
boring from 9A. M. till 1 P. M. Would it not be
well to have planters put upon their guard against
the great risk they run, in permitting large heaps of
green cotton seed to accumulate around their gins?”
There is, indeed, no doubt, that many of the fires by
which cotton gins and large amounts of cotton are
frequently consumed, originate from the same
sause.
Abolition Raving. —ln a speech at Albany, the
other dav*fiernt Smith, the great Abolitionists, thus
spoke of Mr. Fillmore—“lt is but five vears since
Millard Fillmore, a shameless servant of the slave
power, signed the Fugitive Slave bill. And what
a shameless insult is it to caU upon us to cast our
votes for that shameless servant of slavery. Mil
lard Fillmore is for dragging back the fugitive into
the hell of slavery,” &.c.
Such is the language employed by the Abolition
ists to injure Fillmore at the North. At the South
his enemies call him an Abolitionist. Such is the
nature of the cross fire to which he is subjected.
Reception oj the. Nomination.--- The Louisville
Journal says : To our political friends everywhere
we can say that the prospects of our party are bright
and daily brightenmg. Throughout the whole South
there is not an American whose voice is not strong
and enthusiastic in favor of the American nomina
tions, and there is every reason to believe that long
before next November the entire conservative
strength of the country, North, South, East and
West will be enlisted in favor of it. Let our friends
of the Union do their whole duty, and the victo
ry of next November will be one of unparalleled
glory.
A New Motor. —We learn from the Selma (Ala.)
Reporter that the stream of water from an artesian
well in that city has been turned upon a large wheel
at the Central Warehouse, to draw up the freight
car from the river to the top of the bluff. The
power was sufficient to draw up the loaded car, and
the Reporter anticipates that the proprietors will find
the experiment entirely successful. This enterprise
of going five or six hundred feet into “mother earth”
to tap and bring up one of her natural elements
wherewith to work machinery, is a striking instance
of the power of human genius.
The Credit Mobilicr. —The Paris correspondent
of the Allgemeine Zeitung writes as follows on the
4th of March, concerning the recent operations of
the Paris Exchange, &c. “ The enormous sum of
two hundred million of francs was necessary for the
last month’s settlement ( liquidation) at the Bourse.
Seventy-two millions was supplied by the Credit
Mobilier, and the rest by Rothschild, the Insurance
Companies, and other capitalists. In the Budget
for 1857, submitted to-day to the Legislative As
sembly, the ordinary receipts are estimated at 1,-
709,345,226 francs, the ordinary expenditure at 1,-
641,493,164 francs, and the ordinary expenditure for
building, &.C., at 52,434,714 francs, showing an over
plus of 15,417,348 francs.”
Armstead P. Stokes, tried and convicted in
Wilkes Superior Court of murder, and to whom a
new trial w’as granted by the Supreme Court, when
brought up for trial, pleaded guilty of voluntary
manslaughter, and was sentenced to the Peniten
tiary for three years.— Wilkes Republican.
The Custom House at New York gives employ
ment to 972 persons, at an aggregate compensation
of $930,490.
Mill Burned. —The Flouring and Grist Mill of
Messrs. Field Allen, in Spalding co., was destroy
ed by fire on the 25th ult., the fire was without doubt
the work'of an incendiary—valued at $3,000.
Railroad Damages. —George Neuer, of Harris
burg, on Wednesday recovered $4,000 damages for
personal injuries from the Pennsylvania railroad
company. It appears Neuer was crossing the track
of the road in a covered wagon, when a locomotive
without warning came along, shivered his venicle
to pieces and dangerously wounded him.
Railroads in Spain. —The Grand Central Com
pany has obtained the concession of the railway
from Madrid to Saragossa, with a grant from the
Government 0f55,000f. per kilometre (five-eighths of
a mile.) The same company, conjointly with the
house of Rothschild, has purchased from M. de Sala
manca the railway from Alicante to Madrid. These
two railways will form one line from the south to
the north of Spain.
Copper. —According to the Savannah Journal,
there are now lying at the Central Railroad Depot,
in that city, 1917,boxes of copper ore, awaiting ship
ment to the North.
Boston , March 30, 4 P. M.—The steamer Canada
has arrived here, her mails will be sent South by the
evening train.
New York. March 31.—The propeller Arctic has
arrived, but brought no tidings of the Pacific.
Flour is improving, and 8000 bbls of Ohio were
disposed of at < .94 per bbl. 19,000 bushels of wheat
changed hands at $1.75 per bushel for Red. Cora
is worth 64c. per bushel. Freights are dull
Sentenced. —The Barnwell (S. C.) Sentinel, of the
29th inst., says : “Xbe case of Gumsey, for tne kill
ing of Randal, came up this week, and was pro
nounced manslaughter. He is sentenced for 11
months imprisonment for the first offence—the kill
ing of Foreman—and to pav a fine of three hundred
dollars ; for killing Randal he is to be imprisoned
one month, and pay a fine of one hundred dollars.
“The iury in the ease of Jasper McMillan, who,
it will be recollected, killed Madison King, in
December last, have returned a verdict of murder,
and the sentence of death was passed yesterday.
He is to be hanged on the 25th day of July next.”
The bodv of Josi&h B. Kilboura, of the firm of
French, Vi ells dt Co., Boston, who had abused the
confidence of his partners, and disappeared in No
vember last, leaving a note that before it reached
his family he woula“be over Cambridge bridge,”
was found, says a Boston paper, on Wednesday near
the bridge. The deceased was a director in the
Grocers' Bank. It was thought he had sailed for
Europe.
John D. Morrell, of Lynchburg, Va.,died recently
in New Orleans. Mr. M., it is said, was the wealthi
est man in Virginia.
Col. F. A. Lumsden, of the New Orleans Picay
une, charged with having been privy, and instigated
an attack upon Denis Corcoran, of the Delta, on the
night of the 9th of February, has been honorably
acquitted by Recorder Bright, there having been
no proof whatever adduced to substantiate the ac
cusation.
Generous Endowment. —s6o,ooo hare already
been subscribed to the University to be located at
Greensboro’, Ala., and its friends’say they wiil start
it with $400,000.
Capital Punishment. —The Wisconsin Legisla
ture nave refused to re-establish the punishment of
death in that State.
Jurisdiction of Justice Court.
\ We have been furnished with a 'certified copy of
3 the law of the last Legislature raising the Jurisdic
-3 tion of J ustices of the Peace in civil suits. The Act
will be interesting, we presume, to our readers gen
l erally, and especially to that portion of the officers
s ottheJudiciary department whose duty it will be to
i attend more particularly to the alterations which it
i makes. Here is the Act: — Columbus Enq.
An Act to raise the Jurisdiction of Justices of the
> Peace.
_ See. \. Be it enacted, <s•<*., That from and after
the hrst day ot March next, the jurisdiction of Jus
tices of the Peace shall extend to the amount of
fifty Dollars principal, with interest.
See. 2. That it shall and may be lawful for all
promissory notes, accounts, and all other evidence
of debts that do not exceed fifty dollars, to be sued
before a Justice of the Peace in a Justice Court, in
the same manner as is now prescribed by law, and
when any person shall be sued in a Justice Court
on a sum that exceeds thirty dollurs and a judgment
obtained against the party defendant, the ilefendant
within four days after the adjournment of said Court
upon paying all cost that may have accrued, and
giving good and sufficient security for principal and
interest involved in the case, shall have the right to
stay the Execution sixty days, and on all judgments
obtained in a Justice Court where the amount is
thirty dollars or under, the stay of Execution
shall be the same time as is now prescribed by
law.
Approved March sth, 1856.
European Items. —A Vienna correspondent of the
London Times states that the mystery of the recent
ly improved relations between Austria and the Uni
ted States has been cleared up. An Austro-Amer
ican commercial company is about to be formed,
in order to open a direct trade bet wen the two coun
tries to import cotton and other products direct from
Ameriea, instead of London and Liverpool.—
The writer intimates that a treaty of commerce
will soon be concluded between the two govern
ments.
The Paris correspondent of the London Times
states that on two points Russia makes ample con
cessions—namely, the neutralization of the Black
Sea, the dismantling of fortresses, and the non-re
construction of Bomersund.
Col. Hodges, the British.representative at Ham
burg, has made representations to the Hamburg
Senate respecting the quantities of ammunition which
had been left there for Russia. An examination
proved that these supplies in most instances, were
torwarded on account of two houses of high standing
in England, in which one member of Parliament was
interested.
Mr. Moses Goodenough, of Gorham, N. H., while
out hunting deer a week or two since was attacked
by a bear. Finding that he had no chance to re
treat, he thrust Iris hand in bruin’s mouth and seized
his tongue, to which he clung until he could get out
his knife; with which he succeeded in cutting his
four-legged enemy’s throat. But in the mean time
his hand was considerably “chawed up.” The bear
weighed about two hundred pounds.
The greatest clothing establishment in the world
is that of M. Godillott, in Paris. It employs sixty
six sewing machines, kept in motion by a steam en
gine of nine-horse power, and which sewed all the
overcoats for the Crimean army. The superintend
ent of the establishment is the Emperor’s tailor,
Dussantoy, who has invented a cutting-machine
capable of cutting out fifteen suits at once, almost
with the rapidity of lightning. Besides the ma
chines, one thousand women and girls are constantly
engaged at sewing.
Mr. Fillmore's Opinions. —A private ’letter writ
ten by ex-Presideut Fillmore in January, 1855, to
Isaac Newton, of Philadelphia, is published in the
News of that city. Mr. Fillmore status that lie voted
for Mr. Ulhnan for Governor of New York, and
proceeds to set forth what he conceives to be the
danger of foreign influence. He deprecates the
effect of the “foreign’’ vote of the country, and re
grets the large number of foreigners in office. As a
general rule lie thinks the country should be gov
erned by native-boni Americans.
Western Emigration. —The New Hampshire ,
Patriot says : “We hear of persons in all sections of
the State who are starting for the West or preparing
to go, while many have already gone this spring.
In one day last week an agent on one of the great
routes to the West sold fifteen tickets to men going *
from this vicinity. There is no doubt that more
people will leave this State for the West this year
than have gone in any three past years.”
Old Documents arc Dangerous Things. —We see
it stated, says the Mobile Advertiser, that the Hon.
James Buchanan delivered a Fourth of July ora
tion atLaucaster, Pa., in 1815, in the course of which
he said : “Above all, we ought to drive from our
shores foreign influence, and cherish American feel
ing. Foreign influence has been in every age the
curse of Republics—its jaundiced eye sees every
thing in false colors. The thick atmosphere of pre
judice by which it is ever surrounded, excluding
from its sight the light of reason.”
Well, what of it ? asks the N. O. Bee. Didn’t
Mr. Buchanan once declare that if he thought he
had one drop of Democratic blood in his veins, lie
would let it out, and is he not now a patent pure
steel Democrat ? Consistency in politicians is alto
gether a novelty.
Later from Texas.— -The Galveston News of
the 27th ult. says :
We find it to be the general opinion of our mer- '
chants, as far as we have inquired, that the total 1
amount of cotton that has been, as is to be shipped (
from the Trinity this year, will not be less than tliir- j
ty thousand bales. '
The Seguin Mercury has the following item from •
a letter dated at New Braunfels, on the 12th ult: !
“To-day, a week, at Post Oak Hill, between the )
Guadalupe and Cibolo, four Indians were surprised f
ip camp by several German citizens, and all four 1
were killed by them. ]
Great Ratification Meeting in Louisville .—The
mass meeting in Louisville, to ratify the nomina
tion of Fillmore and Donelson, is described by the
Journal as having been “the most glorious and en
thusiastic meeting ever held in Louisville.’’ While
the committee on resolutions were engaged, an
“enthusiastic letter from that ardent and able ad
vocate of American principles, the Hon. Garret.
Davis, was read and received with reiterated shouts
of applause.”
The meeting was subsequently addressed in elo
qent and soul stirring speeches by a number of gen
tlemen. “At a late hour,” says the Journal, “the
meeting adjourned. About 3,000 persons, more
than one-half of the voters of Louisville, were pre
sent, and the greatest unthusiasm prevailed.
Tarred and Feathered,.—We learn from the Can
ton (Miss.) Commonwcath that Clias. Wheelnck, by
trade a plasterer, was tarred and feathered in that
place on the night of the 19th ult., and then ordered
to vamos the ranche. It appears his offence was
tampering with slaves and propugating abolition
sentiments.
Negro Diplomatists. —The London correspondent
of the New York Herald says:
“The negro representative of Soulouque made
his appearance this week at the Queen’s levee, and
in spite of all the affected sympathy of the English
for free “niggers,” he was avoided as something
“odious and not to be endured.” A good joke of our
Minister at Paris, Mr. Mason, has come over here.
He was at a Court ball lately at the Tuilleries, and his
eyes happened to light on the Charge d’Affaires of
Soulouque in France, a fine looking black. Some
one observing his steady gaze, said : “Well, Mr.
Mason, what do you think of yonder blaekee iu his
embroidered coat ?” “Think,” replied Mr. Mason,
still regarding the negro with the eye of a con
noisseur, “why, clothes and all, I think that fellow
is worth a thousand dollars.” This is “Old Virgin
ny” all over, and every body is laughing at the bon
mot."
Pacha Donizetti, a brother of the celebrated com
poser, died at Constantinople on the 9th February ;
le had displayed great skill and ingenuity in train
ing the Turks and forming their military bands,
which have now attained to considerable proficiency
in the musical art. He had amassed a large fortune,
and had been pensioned off by the Sultan, a short
time before his death, with the rank of Pacha.
Hon. IF. W. Hilliard , of Alabama. —We learn
that this distinguished orator has accepted the ap
pointment to deliver the address before the Phi
Kappa and Demosthenian Societies of the Universi
ty of Georgia, a* Athens, at the approaching Com
mencement iu August. •
Lieut. G. Walton, of the British Navy, has pre
pared a mixture of sawdust and caoutchouc, under
the name of kamptulicon, as a lining for the in
terior of war vessels. The inventor claims that,
from its elasticity, it will immediately collapse when
penetrated by a ball, and thus prevent the entrance
of water. It also deadens concussions, and by its
buoyancy will keep a vessel afloat though it should
be riddled with shot, and will prevent loss of life
caused by splinters.
Battle between the Mexicans and Upan Indians.
—From the San Antonio Reporter of the 18th, we
extract the following:
“A company of about seventy Mexicans, under
the authority of the Mexican Government, recently
pursued and overtook about one hundred and fifty
Indians—said to be Lipans—had nn engagement
with them, and completely routed the whole of the
Indian forces, and scattered them in every direc
tion. The victory of the Mexicans over the In
dians was complete, though the Indians numbered
more than two to one. The Mexicans succeeded in
capturing nearly everything the Indians had with
them.
Mkthodism in the Crimea.—lt is said that there
are two hundred Methodist soldiers in the British
anny in the Crimea, that meetings are held regular
ly on the Sabbath for worship, and in the course of
the week as often as possible. The soldiers occupy
for this purpose an old Greek church. A missionary
has been sent to them, and they contribute out of
their pay to the support of missions. Protestant
worship is also held among the French Protestant
soldiers.
Turkey.—Twenty-five years ago, the Bible de
pot in Constantinople was a single small room in an
obscure warehouse, without a sign, and opened
only once a week. Now it occupies tnree rooms in
the busiest street, and a sign in six languages an
nounces to the passers-by the nature of its divine
treasures.
The English Government has granted a pension
of £2OO per annum to Mr. Francis P. Smith, the
inventor of the screw propeller, in consideration of
the services he has rendered his country as the first
proposer and fitter of the screw to the mercantile
marine and fleet of Great Britain.
One Bird Devoured by Another.—The Al
bany, N. Y., Journal describes a curious fight which
tooK place in that city between two biros of the
American hawk species. After a furious combat of
three quarters of an hour, the battle resulted in the
total annihilation of one of the birds. After maim
ing his victim, the victor set to work and devoured
its antagonist, scattering its plumage on the ground
and then flew away.
Ship Building at Cleveland.—The Cleveland
Herald gives a statement of the ship building now
going on at that port. The total number of vessels
is thirty-three, of which four are thiee-masters, ten
propellers, and nineteen four-and-afters, costing
in the aggregate $684,000, and having a tonnage, by
custom house measurement, of 13,36e.
Singing by Congregation. —The Washington
street Orthodox church at Beverly, after a variety
of experience in having singing' by a choir, last
week voted to dispense with the services of a regu
lar choir and have the singing done by the congre
gation. The new plan, was tried on Sunday last
with excellent success, the people joining in the
singing with admirable promptness and good effect.
—Boston Traj;.
Rivals in Business.—We find the following in a
California print: “Mr. Brown, of the firm of Brown
Brothers, was blessed by his wife with twin boys,
which somewhat perplexed his business relations;
doing business, as he said, in the name of Brown
Brothers, he could not see the consistency of his
wife’s being interested in bearing-brothers"
Books by the Pound.—The Chinese booksellers
have an odd way of selling their volumes. They
are disposed of not according to their value, at a
fixed price, but according to weight. If on weighing
them they are too light, tne seller coolly tears some
leaves from another b<x>k and throws them into the
scale! There are many books published in this
country that are heavy enough to he sold by weight.
Even some volumes of our light literature might
come under this category.
More Money Missing from Boston Banks.—
Within a day or two, says a Boston paper, the sum
of $3,600 has been missing from the Hamilton Bank,
and the sum of $2,642 from the Suffolk Bank. The
packages containing these amounts both disappear#d
m tome unaccountable way during the night.
VOL. LXX.—NEW SERIES VOL. XX. NO. 15
Nicaragua. —The Washington correspondent of
theNew-York Evening Post writes as follows un
der date of the 24 th inst. :
Mr. Vanderbilt’s application to the Government in
behalf of the Transit Companv receives little favor,
though, I understand, it is backed by Mr. Joseph L.
\\ hite and Mr. Marcoleta, the recognised Minister
from Nicaragua, both of whom are now here It is
desired, I also, learn, to show that Mr. . Vanderbilt
and other stockholders, associated in urging this ap
plication, were not concerned-in granting aid to !
Walker's Government, and that whatever assistance i
has been furnished was entirely unauthorized by
them. Whether they will succeed in establishing
this point is more than I can say ; but if not they
may as well abandon their undertaking; for the
company, as such, is considered estopped trom claim
ing Government interposition by its recent declara
tion that it was a corporation independent of the
United States Government, and bound primarily by
its obligations to the Government from which it de
rives its charter. This declaration was put forth by
Mr. White as an excuse for non-compliance with the
order of the Administration prohibiting the trans
portation of emigrants who might desire to enlist
under Walker.
The report of the late extraordinary increase of
the British and French squadrons on the Atlantic
coast of Central America is not confirmed by official
authority. The only fact upon which it is predica
ted is the arrival of the French war vessel, the Am
buscade, at the port of San Juan.
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad.—' The Board of
Commissioners of the Atlantic aud Gulf Railroad
Company, assembled in Milledgeville on Monday,
31st ult., in pursuance of previous notice. Present:
lIon.E. A. Nisbet, Dr. J.P. Screven, N. Collier,
Esq., Hon. W. J. Lawton, Hon. Joel Crawford,
Hon. E. C. Anderson, C. J. Munnerlyn, E. R. Young,
W. B. Hodgson, Hon. £. H. Colquitt, Hon. James
M. Calhoun, Dr. Thomas Hamilton, Hon. James
Hamilton Cooper, Hon. Charles Spalding, Hon.
Alexander Atkinson, Maj. Jno. H. Howard, Hon. C.
J. Jenkins.
Juuge Nisbet was called to the Chair and J. W.
Duncan, Esq., appointed Secretary.
The Minutes of the previous meeting having been
rend and approved.
Ou motion a Committee was appointed to prepare
business for the action of the Board. After con
sultation, the Committee, through their Chairman,
reported resolutions, the substance of which is as fol
lows :
That Books of Subscription to the capital stock of
the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad Company snail be
opened at the following places on Monday the 12th
of May, to wit: At Milledgeville, Augusta. Savan
nah, Columbus, Thomasville, Albany, Troupville,
Wareaboro’, Bainbridge, Brunswick, Magnolia, Ma
con, Newton, Fort Gaines, Blakely, Atlanta, Mor
gan, Isabella, and in the counties of Telfair, Appling,
Coffee, Irwin, Randolph and Lee, under the super
intendence of certain Commissioners, and to remain
open for three months.
The Commissioners also provided for the adver
tisement of the times and places for opening Books,
and for the re-assembling of the Board on the 26th
of August, or such earlier day as may be designated,
when the Secretary is notified that the required
amount has been subscribed. The official proceed
ings will be furnished to ourreaders under a Resolu
tion of the Board in our next week’s issue. The
leading measures are given above.— Recorder.
Another Wreck. —The ship Sea Lark, arrived at
New York from Antwerp, was for four days in March
from the 4th to the Bth, amongst icebergs but fortu
nately escaped without coming into actual contact
with any ot them, though at times the danger was
imminent.
On the 20th instant in lat. 38° 5& and long. 63°
30', the wind blowing a heavy gale from the north
west, the wreck of a large vessel was seen. Her
topmasts, with all rigging in apparently perfect con
dition, were upright, and in the subsidence of the
waves, after a heavy swell, the topgallantmasts, and
even the lower masthead, were visible. The Sea j
Lark passed to windward of the wreck, and kept a
good look-out for boats or rafts, but none were dis
covered. From the size of the masts of the sunken
ship, the captain supposed her to be about 1,000
tons burden. No flag was flying, and it was of
course impossible to learn anything further about
her. The fate of her crew is wholly a matter of con
jecture.
A Great Feast. —At the entertainment given by
the Marchioness of Londonderry to the colliers ou
her domain of Chilton Moor there were thirty tables,
with seats at each for ninety men, and room in the
gallory for five hundred women and girls ; eighteen
bullocks were served up, fifteen sheep, forty bush- 1
els of potatoes, one ton and a half of bread, a ton of
plum pudding, and fifty barrels of strong beer. Earl
Vane, son to the marchioness, presided, with his
mother on his right and his wife on his left hand.
From the address of the marchioness delivered on
the occasion it appears than chapels for different
persuasions, schools, and good wages are provided
for this portion of her tenantry or serfs, who have
neverstruck for higher pay or privileges. Herspeech
was received with great rejoicing, and several of
the colliers afterwards made addresses. One of them
toasted the handsome young Countess Vane, and her 1
husband produced great hilarity bv giving in reply, j
“Sweethearts and wives: the single married and the ■
married lmppy.” J
The Scotch.—Macauley, with all the pride of a
Scotchman, thus describes his countrymen : —A peo
ple whose education and habits are such, that in
every quarter oi the world, they rise above the mass
of those with whom they mix, as surely ns oil rises
to the top of water; a people of such temper and
self-government, that the wildest popular excesses
recorded in their history partake of the gravity of
judicial proceedings, and of the solemnity of reli
gious rites; a people whose national pride and mu
tual attachment have passed into a proverb; a peo
ple whose high and fierce spirit, so forcibly described
in the haughty motto whicti encircleß their thistle,
preserved their independence during a struggle of
centuries from the encroachments of wealthier and
more powerful neighbors—such a people cannot long
be oppressed.
Major Chauncey R. Johnson, a veteran of the
war of 1812, died in Washington City on the 27th
ultimo. lie served on the northern frontier as a
non-commissioned officer, and was at the battle
of Plattsburg in September, 1814, as Sergeant Major
of the 31st U. Infantry.
Dying Out.—The State of Maine (Whig) says :
“ We saw the statement a few days since in a relia
ble anti-Nebraska paper in Massachusetts that, re
gret it as they might, the feeling of opposition to the
Nebraska bill was dying out.
It is estimated that during the current year five
and a quarter millions of dead letters will be opened.
Since the first of January, 2,434 dead letters of
value were found by the openers, and handed over
to the clerks for entry, and returned to the writers.
The amount, in good money, enclosed is nearly $17,-
000, and $350 in spurious bills. A good portion of
this money lias been returned to its legal owners.
An Item about Coffee. —It may not generally be
known that the trade in Java coffee is a monopoly
held by the Netherlands’ Trading Society. All of the
coffee produced on the Island of Java therefore pas
ses through the hands of that Company ; and the val
ue of this exclusive trade may be estimated by the
fact that there was to be sold at auction, iu the Com
pany’s name, on the 31st March,at Amsterdam, 225,-
694 bags of coffee, and on theAi of April, at Rotter
dam, 167,362 bags makingo93.U26 bags, to be
sold almost simultaneously. This, by the way,
is the Netherlands’ Trading Society which pro
poses to enter upon the direct cotton trade with the
South.
Iron Hoops for Cotton —The Memphis Appeal
states that at MeCanibs press in that city, iron hoops
are used in the place of ropes in baling cotton. It is
cheaper than ropes, more expeditious, and preserves
the bale more securely.
Here is a sentiment as beautiful us it isjust: “He
who forgets the fountain from which he drank, and
the tree under whose shade lie gamboled in the days
of his youth, is a stranger to the sweetest impressions
of the numau heart.
Why are the ladies of the present day like the lil
lies of Scripture ? Because they ,4 toil not, neither do
they spin ; yet Solomon iu all his glory was not ar
rayed like one of them.”
Mortality among Butchers. —According to the
London Medical Tunes, the highest rates of mortal
ity ure found among the’ butchers. The writer
states that the red injected face of the butcher has
produced a wrong idea as to the healthy nature of
bis occupation. Butthiß idea has been corrected
by careful observation and an analysis of the last
census.
Expense of Returning a Slave. —During the late
slave case trials in this city, four hundred persons
were sworn in as special or Deputy Marshals, to
each of which u certificate hud been issued for
twenty-eight days’ service at two dollars a day,
which makes in the aggregate twenty-two thousand
four hundred dollars. We havelurther learned that
these certificates of service have been purchased at
sixteen dollars discount on each, which gives the
snug sum of six thousand four hundred dollars,
which goes into somebody's [>ocket. These state
ments are made on good authority.— Cincinnati
Gazette.
A Formidable Petition. —In the Senate of Penn
sylvania, on Tuesday, a remonstrance 190 feet in
length, was received from citizens of Philadelphia
against the incorporation of the Franciscan (Jesuit)
Brotherr of Cambria county. 11 was signed by over
6,000 persons.
A Sensible Resolve.— The Alabama State Senti
nel (Democratic) opposes the re-nomination of Gen.
Pierce, and declaree its purpose to support Mr.
Fillmore, in such an event. There are thousands
and tens of thousands of Democrats who have un
conditionally resolved to vote for Fillmore and Don
elson no matter whom the anti-Americans nominate.
Whilst the Alabama State Sentinel has made a wise
resolve it would be a wiser one without the condi
tion annexed. — Organ.
Milwaukee , March 27.—The Assembly to-day by
a vote of 37 to 9, recognised Mr. Bashford as Gover
nor. Mr. M. Arthur has concluded to act as Lieuten
ant-Governor.
The Legislature of Nova Scotia has unanimously
voted the sum of one hundred and fifty guineas for
the purchase of a sword for General Williams, the
gallant defender of Kars. He is a native of Nova
Scotia.
The number of steamers on the Western waters
is 824, valued at $20,000,000. The tonnage is 204,.
364.
The New Dome of the Capitol building at Wash
ington will cost, according to the estimate of Mr.
Walters, the architect, about a million of dolllars.—
Its construction was commenced with an appropria
tion of SIOO,OOO.
Disturbed State of Montevideo—Attempted Assas
sinations. —A correspondent at Montevideo writes,
und**r date of Dec. 31st, that the present condition
of that country, the finest of La Plata, is truly dis
tressing. Everyday there is an account of some
disturbance. The followers of the bloody Oribe dai
ly grow more bold, and already cry out in public,
"viva Oribe." A young man was stabbed in the
street for riot joining in theory. Gen. Logos was al
so stabbed in the street, by mistake, it is said, for an
Italian with whom he was walking.
Gov. Reeder, it is said, will accompany the Con
gressional Committee to Kansas.
The Chancellor of the British Exchequer, in a
statement made to Parliament, estimates the cost of
the two years’war with Russia at £43,564,000, or
about $200,000,000 ! Add to this sum equal
amounts for Fi ance, Russia and Turkey, and we have
a total of $800,000,000. It will take, perhaps, one
thousand millions of dollars to pay all tbo expenses
of the war.
A resolution was offered in the Louisiana Legis
lature recently, to prohibit the sale of lottery tickets
within the State. Mr. St. Paul, who offered it, stated
that the city of New Orleans pays annually
twelve hundred thousand dollars into the coffers of
the Queen es Spain for Havana lottery tickets, and
that a quarter of a million is paid for a similar pur
pose to Alabama and Maryland.
Obstructions in the Savannah River. The City
Council of Savannah has voted an appropnation of
$‘25,000 for the removal of obstructions to the paa
sagi of vessels up to that city, known as the “KnoiL
This is an accumulation of sand, oyster-sheila, iso.,
near the mouth of the river.
■Henry Meiggs, the California defaulter, writes
“ m Chili that he lias a good ehanoe to go into
buainese iu that country; he wishes his u.d creditor*
to stay proceedings anil he will pay all his old debts
when he shall have made the money.
A New York paper calls President Piers* “tfcs
whited satsiiahr* of dsatoamsis hot**"
An »in«ii»hinan in Ainericn.
°P ,nt ° n °S England and thn
United states.
The following article appears in the London Siiin
ptng aud Mercantile Gazette : B I
S’^. 1 have now made the tour of the States of
North America, and think it probable I can give
your readers some useful information. 1 landed at
j New I ork city ten months ago, and have spent un
tune in studying the character and customs of thesS
people and must confess that if 1 remained here' 111
m"? 'vouhi be the same ; and X know
very little about them. But one point—national
pride-men, women and children arc all alike, and
them t,f K'.rope, or the whole of
them put together, conquering this country, is per
foe ly absurd to them. Everybody reads the papers
and a good humored urchin of twelve years used to
rate me soundly at Philadelphia for our failures at
Sebastopol. The best version of American sympa
thy was given me a few days since. When the war
commenced the Turks were the weaker power and
pur sympathies were with her. After the alliance
it was three against one, and our sympathies went
tor Russia; but, should France join Russia to-mor
row against England, our government could not
prevent its citizens. from not only sympathising with
England, but assisting her with material aid. Thisll
heard from a very intelligent mail, who I do not
think suspected my nationality; aud 1 firmly be
lievett. In the South 1 spent some time upon the
plantations, and many times had long conversations
with the slaves, and always with the same result
1 hey are much better satisfied than I suspected, and
when I spoke ofthe probability of a war I was an
swered that, “white folks wouldut let nigga fight ”
“But,” said I, “the blanks from the West Indies
will come here and help you gain your freedom.”
" hat 1 black soger come here ; let ’em cum, den,
massa let s light de nigga I know, and Gar A’might y
we give em gosh!” If not expressed in the same
language, the same feeling was ever expressed.
I have visited all their national armories, and al
though the country is at peace, the greatest activi
ty prevails; all the old arms are condemned, and bv
next spring nearly 1,51X1,000 Minis rifles will be
ready for distribution, besides Colt’s, Clark’s and
others A Mr. Alger, at Boston, is now engaged on
a new kind ot gun for the navy. The range, with
solid shot, IS nearly five miles , with shell, some
what shorter, and the explosion of the shell renders
conflagration certain to a great distance. These are
called by those at work on them, the secret gun
But what the secret is I could not ascertain. Since
the war rumors 1 have been observant of nil and
every tiling that could give me a clue to the feel
ings of the people. This is not difficult to come at,
for the feeling is general, and their confidence is so
great in their own strength that tile most diffident
speak only of the consequences and tin- re-nit. In
company with a party of merchants, most of whom
were engaged in trade with England, I broached
the war subject, and was astonished to find them so
indifferent about the consequences. One of them
largely interested in clipper ships, in answer to a re
murk of niiue, that he would have to lav up his clip
pers—“ Not a bit of it,” said ho, “they will make
capital privateers; the Government nil! furnish
guns of long range; no British man of war can
watch them except a steamer, and they cannot in a
good breeze, so we must take chances ’ -‘But
where will you get men ?” “Where! We have
81,000 enrolled fishermen who will flood our sea
ports, aud will tell you candidly that in less than six
months alter war'is declared there will befiOOof
the fustest vessels in the world afloat as privateers,
and an English merchantman will not lie able tii
allow herself at sun. What if we lose a few, we will
make it up in tiie end. Two steamers were launch
ed u few duys siucc, each about 1,000 tons, built in
eight months, aud it is just as easy to build fifty in
the same time or less.”
“ But your coasts are not defended. Remember
you have no Sebastopol nor Cronstadt.” “ Nor do
we want any. We have a lew very pretty forts,
but should any nation attempt an invasion we will
meet them with hands and hearts equal to any, su
perior to most; and we can concentrate 500,000
men at any point on our coast in a few days. Lot
the alarm be sounded at this moment, and in a few
hours near 50,000 men will make their uppearuueo
armed and equipped.”
This sounds like bragging, but it is a fact. This
city (New York) has near that number enrolled and
equipped ; every man keeps his rifle at home or in
the private armory of the company to which he be
longs, and I find it the same throughout the coun
try. I have frequently met with boys of 12 and 14,
with guns and game-bags, starting at early dawn
for the woods, for here they can shoot game wherc
ever found. War is argued ugainst by everybody
as something to be avoided, but the idea of backing
out to avoid it does not appear to enter the mind of
anybody. Some of the papers speak of the Presi
dent’s message dispuragihgly, but the people arc
with him, and I candidly believe he would be deet
ed if the election came off to-day. And I regret I
canuot defend my country at this time as I would
wish. The Bulwer-Clayton treaty is plain and ex
plicit. and tliese people don’t and won’t understand
double meanings iu tactics. They say the man with
the white hat does not refer to the individual in the
white cap, nud my. Lord John Russell acknowledges
the American interpretation. There are thousands
of men here that the Americans would be glad to
get clear of, but that does not justify England in
breaking their laws by enlisting them - and my Lord
Palmerston’s instructions were something like tel
ling a man to stab his neighbor but not hurt him.
If the treaty (Clayton and Bulweij is adhered to,
we have the States pledged never to occupy it.
(Cnntral America,) tor, say what we will, they will
stick to the treaty and it will never be annexed;
abrogate it, and in less than ten years it will be one
of the States of the Union. The Canadians are u
very loyal set, and think they could take possession
of the States at a moment’s warning. They have
caught the habit of bragging from their neighbors
without having the wherewith to brag on. A trip
up the lakes is the most convincing proof we can
have of the difference of the two people. In the
American are well finished cities and towns, saw
mills, railroads running in every direction-—in fact,
you seldom lose sight of the locomotive—-and there
are innumerable steuniers at every lundiug. On the
Canadian, where there are settlements, you see the
well-kept, comfortable dwellings, thesmooth sheared
lawn, and everything wears an air of comfort, but
little or no business, with the aceeption of the great
railroad. However, they are rapidly improving,
but should there be war, the lurgest ami best por
tions of Canada arelost to us. Quebec Halifax, and
other points would bother them. But to sum up my
own observations after every opportunity that, one
man could have afforded him, the result would be as
follows : Mexico, Cuba, and the whole of Central
America would be annexed in the South, and I have
little doubt of Canada, in the North ; millions of
treasure and thousands of lives lost to England for
ever; our commerce crippled in every sea, and
some fighting that will gladden the lieurts of our tried
soldiery.
Now, what can we gain ? A font of territory -
We don’t want it; and if we did, six feet for the ma
jority of our brave fellows, I fear, would be the ex
tent. Nuval or military glory we don’t want, and
as for the sand beach of the Mosquito King, it is a
decided humbug. What would he the result to this
country ? It would put her back in prosperity for
half a century; it would ruin thousands who are
now in affluence, but would enrich thousands who
are now poor. But the great advantage tlie Amer
icans have is that they can produce and manufac
ture everything they want; the different climates
afford this. They would get accustomed to their
own goods and discard ours forever. But the great
est injury to all parties, and I may say to tho
world, would be the making of this nation of
25,000,000 a warlike people, and, once infilled with
the love of war, the propagandists of Europe would
have a fearful ally. The last year's crop of wheat is
officially given at 170,000,000 of bushels, and every
thing else in proportion, so that we cannot starve
them out; and, from my own obeservutiun, I would
rather see England contending with the whole of
Europe than against tnis country. lam no croak
er, nor have I any doubt of the power and wealth of
my beloved country, and, if need be, could again
handle a musket for her honor and glory; but the
day that war is declared between these two mighty
rivals, a contest will be commenced that will bring
more horrors in its train than the world ever yet
witnessed.
There is another item which I am like to forget.
Many of my countrymen place great dependence on
the abolitionists, or friends of freedom in this coun
try ; but I assure you their greatest protection hero
is their insignificance. They flourish as long as
thought harmless, but the slightest suspicion of their
collusion with a foreign foe, and they would be an
nihilated ; in fact, I have proved to my entire satis
faction that those terrible and exciting questions aro
only intended for political effect, but attach any
importance to them affecting the interests of tho
country, and they are gone. You would, no doubt,
be astonished to hear that many children of foreign
ers, and, iu fact, foreigners themselves, are know
nothings, sturted to proscribe them, but such is tho
fact. I have extended my remarks further than I
intended, but they have one desirable feature—that,
is, truth. Should they prove acceptable, I may
again intrude on you. I remain, yours,
James B. Warren.
Buffalo, New York, Jan. 11, 1856.
Diabolical Attempt at Murder.— -The Natch
ez (Miss.) Courier of the 28th ult. says :
A friend writing us from Wilkinson county, in
forms us that an attempt to commit murder was
made on Friday last, near Buffalo Creek, by a ne
gro boy, upon Mr. Joseph Ells berry, the overseer of
Mr. Jesse Ogden. It seems that young Ellsberry,
with Mr. Ogden, started very early in the morning
to hunt wild turkeys. They soon became separa
ted, and young Ellsberry sat down near the public
road, waiting for daylight to appear, when Mr. Og
den’s negro man, Jim, came along, on his way home,
having been oft' during the night without permis
sion. The overseer inquired where lie hau been,
due., and ordered him to go to his work in the field,
and he would attend to his case on his return. Jim,
instead of going to work, went to his master’s bouse,
took a double-barrel gun which was loaded with
squirrel shot, and hastened back to where he left t ho
overseer. Creeping up on him, he deliberately
took aim through the fence, and discharged the
whole load into Ellsberry’s left side, directly over
the region of the heart; wounding him, however,
not very severely, as Ellsberry had ou a thick blan
ket coat, which alone saved his life, as Die distance
he shot was not exceeding ten feet. Ellsberry im
mediately fired with buck shot at the negro, but did
not hit him. Jirn made his escape. The neighbors
are in pursuit of him with dogs, aud he will soon be
taken.
Decease or a Millionaire.— The New Orleans
Crescent gives the following biographical notice :
Mr. John t>. Murrell, a native of Lynchburg, Vo.,
and for the past 27 years a sojourner in our city, died
at the St. Charles Hotel, on Sunday morning, the
*23d March, aged GO years. Commencing life in the
humble vocation of clerk, and arriving at manhood,
coining into the possession of a small competency,
he embarked in the dry goods business in bis native
town. By perseverance, industry and frugalitv,he
obtained a great start; and, removing to Louisiana,
he accumulated wealth to the amount of one million
and a hall of dollars, though it is believed by many
the amount will approximate $2,000,000. In his de
portment and intercourse with the community ho
was unpretending and unostentatious, pursuing the
even tenor of his way. The pomp, glitter aud show
of the world had no attractions for him. He never
was married. No will nor documents have boon
found denoting what disposition Le ma e of his
property, and it is presumed it will go to his heirs
direct, who are, a brother residing in Arkansas, ni -
other brother residing near Jackson, Mies.,a
and two children of a deceased brother in Virginia.
The Modern Inquisition of Home. —A news
paper of Turin publishes n letter from Horae, iu
which the writer thus speaks of that dread tribunal,
the Inquisition : “The old palace of the Inquisition
having been turned into barracks for the French
troops, the tribunal has been transferred to the inte
rior of the Vttticmn, where the Dominicans occupy a
part which none but those who have grown old in
the palace can ever find, such is the intricacy and
multiplicity of the stairs, passages, and secret corri
dors that lead to it. When the inquisitors want
either to arrest or question you, they neiiher send of
ficers of justice or a warrant—such extreme mea
sures are only reserved for those who attempt to es
cape ; but a gentleman calls upon you in a quiet
way, and informs you that the Holy Office requests
the*pleasure of your company. Should you happen
to expostulate, the quiet gentleman politely suggeMs
the expediency of being punctual. When you reach
the outer court of the Vatican, you find a priest who
conducts you to the tribunal, und if you are only
summoned as a witness, it is he who conducts you
back. When in the presence of the inquisitor, you
Hi e made to swear that you will speak the truth.—
Your answers to the question* put to you are set
down in Latin, and before being released, you must
take another oath you will reveal nothiug.’
A Morman paper, wrm me title of the Western
Standard , has lately appeared in San Francisco.—
It advocates all the Mormon ultra doatnnoo—olu
patlttjr of wirm among tho rest