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EUROPEAN INTELLIGENCE,
BY THE ATLANTIC.
r.BABCE.—The French aod English papen > give
stall detail!respecting the birth bou baptism of the
•on of Napoleon and Eugenie.
According to official announcement, the Empress
wba taken Til at 5 o’clock on Saturday morning, the
15th Notice of the fact was immediately sent by
order of the Prinoesa of Easling, Grand Mistress of
the Empress’* Household, to all the members of the
Bonaparte family, the Minister*, Senate. Deputies.
Council of .State', and high functionaries of the Gov
ernment.
The Senate soon afterward* assembled at the Lux
embourg and the Deputies in their Chamber, where
they remained en permanence The officer* of State
assembled and remained ail day and night of Satur
day, in a chamber cloee to that of the Empress.—
The Emperor, the Prinoeaa of Ending and Madame
Montigo, the Empress’* mother, remained in the
Empress's apartment. The Municipal Council of
Pan* assembled en permanence at the Hotel de
VUle, and crowd* of citizen* gathered around the
Tuilerieu.
At a quarter to 3 o’clock on Sunday morning, the
16th, the child was born. The Paris paper* describe
the infant a* of “so robust a constitution, that he i*
nearly a* large a* the child <»f hi* nurse, who i* two
mouth* old.’
All the officer* of State above referred to wer©
present at hi* berth. The ceremony of on/loiement
or preliminary baptism, wa* performed with much
pomp in the chapel of the TaUerie*, Cardinals Du
pout, Gotia*et, Donnet and 51 arlot, the Bishop cm
Nttncy, and inferior clergy assisted, and all the dig
nitaries of the Empire were present Maas waa cel
ebrated by the Biship of Adras, after which tue Ab
be Deplace preached a sermon from the text, “Bles
sed i* he that oometh in the name of the Lord,”
ar.d concluded with a prayer for the child in these
terms —“Bestow on him the genius and magnanim
ity of his father, the kindness and inexhaustible cha
rity of hi* mother, the sincere faith and devotion of
both; and, to sum np ail in one wish, bestow
on him a heart worthy of his destiny and hi*
dame.” A name waa then Lestowedon the infant
—*■ Napoleon Eugene Louis Jean Joseph, fils de
Fiance.’’
This appellation wa* entered in the parish rois
ter, and signed by the Emperor, being witnessed by
prince Murat, the Duke of Alba, Marshal Vaiilant,
Minister of War, M. Troplong, President of the
Donate, and Count de Morny, President of the Ixv
gislature.
On bunday morning the Senate and L'gisla
tnrs met at 8 o'clock, and received the official
announcement of the birth of an heir to the
throne, which was greeted with the utmost cor
diality.
Addresses and congratulations continue to pour
into the Tuilleriet. Paris has been generally illumi
nated. The latint bulletin is in the recognized
phrase, “Mother and child are as well as can be ex
pected.' Pope Pius is the prince's godfather, and
the Queen of Sweden hi* godmother ; in return for
which, it is reported. “Napoleon and Eugenie un
dertake to act as godfather and godmother to all Ie
gitiiuato children horn on Sunday,the J6th, through
out France.” Flag* were hung out and salutes
fired in the principal oities of Great Britain, in honor
of the young Bonaparte's birth.
From an immense amount of gossip and exciting
articles in the French and English papers, we select
two or three anecdotal paragraphs :
Hhs suffered at times very considerably, but there
were many intervals of comparative case. The ac
coucheurs frequently thought in the course of .Sat
urday that the crisis wo* at hand, but repeated un
expected cessations of the pain* postponed the
looked for event. During the intervals her Majesty
enjoyed some calm sleep, and sometimes walked
about the room. The Emperor never quitted her,
and it is said when her sufferings were acute he fre
quently consoled her by saying that all Pari* was
Unliking of her, and that all the churches were
full of the faithful, praying for her safe deliver
anos
A little before thro© o'clock this morning her Ma
jesty’s state was such that it was thought proper to
introduce into her chamber the grand dignitaries
convened to be witnesses of the birth. On seeing
so many people about her bed, the Empress appear
ed troubled, and the action of nature was awhile
suspended Terrible pain* followed, and it is stated
that the aooonchears found an occasion to draw
lorth the exercise of all their skill and presence of
iniod. 8h« was “ sorni chloroformed.” The birth
was at last happily effected. The child is a remark
ably fine and healthy one. It is ntated by some
that he is as big as many n child of two mouths old,
and that when Ui© Emperor saw him ho exclaimed,
'• No wonder the Empress suffered so much.”
It is stated that the Emperor wept abundantly,
anil that falling upon the neck of his cousin Prince
Napoleon he said to him, “ You will, I am sure, love
and protect this child.”
For some time the Empress would not believe
that it was a boy. At length being convinced she
clasped it, and held it firmly to her bosom, and, in
fact, it became necessary to force it from her em
braoa.
The Imperial infant, a* I learn from a credible
eye-witness, and not from the tattle of courtiers
jsay* the Daily New* correspondent,) is really as
fine and robust a boy as ever was seen. He is de
scribed as rosy plump, well made, fully developed,
and with a surprising abundance of chesnut colored
hair, resembling his father’s. The name given to
him is Nnpoleon-Engene-Louis Jean-Joseph. The
reasons for the*© names aro very simple He is
called Napoleon and Lmisafter his father; Eugene
from his mother Eugenie; Jean after the Pope,
who is to be his godfather, and Joseph in oompli
ment to his intended godmother, the Queen of Swe
deu, whose name is Josephine.
Before the private baptism of the Prince, the
members of the Imperial family and the Court at
tended moss in the chapel of the Tuillierie*. The
Court preacher took a text appropriate to Palm
Sunday—“ Benedict ut qui vend tn nomine Domini ”
“ Blessed is he who cometh in the name of the
Lord."
After making an ordinary application of these
words, the preacher exclaimed, “but your ideas an
ticipate mine public gratitude mingles with the
new beuedictions at the triumphal pomp of the Sa
viour of the world.” Then, with an apostrophe, he
proceeded—“ Lord Jesus, supreme Master of kings
and people, Thou hast heard our prayers, and hast
grunted the wishes of the sovereign and of the coun
try We return thanks to Thee before our altars for
having given to an ugust union that fruitfulness
which forms the Joy of this great day.
It is Thou who host blessed in an heir to the throne
both tin* faith of the Prince who proclaims before all
the world his mission, ami tin* charity of the pious
princess, who honors herself in being the protect
ress of the unfortunate ami the mother of Thy poor
Complete Thy mercies. O Lord! Watch over this
cradle, the depository of so many hopes. From him
Thyself to bo the happiness of a great people. Give
him from his father genius ami magnanimity ; from
tos mother kindness and inexhaustible benevolence;
and from both sincere faith and devoted religion.—
To sum up all, give him a heart worthy of his desti
ny and worthy of his name.”
Spain.—lu Cortes, the Minister of the Interior,
in answer to a question, declared that the Govern
ment was firmly determined to maintain order at
Bqjnr, where it was in danger of being disturbed by
dissensions between masters and workmen ; ami he
added that it would energetically maintain order
everywhere. Accounts from Manilla state that
bands of brigands were scouring the country and
spreading incendiary proclamations against the
Spanish.
Bw it* Em. a no.—The Tirinete (iaxette announces
that th« ratification of the commercial treaty be
tween Great Britain and Switserland were exchang
ed at Berne on the 6th. Berne pa|>crn state that the
Federal Council of Switzerland had commenced
discussing the question of tiio separation of the
canton of Ticino from the doices* of Como and
Millan. The clergy of the cautou have sent in a pe
tition against the separation, denying several of the
assertions made in its favor by the Ticinese Council
of State, and declaring that, incase the seperation
should take place, they would prefer t ho establish
ment of a bishopric ot Ticino, to being incorporated
with a Bwiss bishopric.
Italy.—The Minister of War at Turin had, by a
despatch of the 9th ult., authorised the Commander
in chief of the Sardinian forces in the Crimea to
grant leave of absence for forty da vs, iu certain
specified cases, to the officer* and soldiers under hit
orders.
Dinmarx—The conferences at Copenhagen, on
the question of the Sound Dues, had been again ad
journed, the Government of the United States hav
ing oonscuted to prolong the obligations of the trea
ty for two mouths after the 14th ol April, the time at
which the notice previously given would expire,
Denmark pledgingherself that some decisive step
should in the meantime be taken by her toward the
abrogation of her dues.
The Londou Time's thinks that as these Sound
dues are the staff of life to Denmark, and as the
Danish foreign debt has been mainly contracted in
England, that therefore England should offer such
remuneration to Denmark as would induce or enable
her to dispense with them. The London Shipping
Gaxette ridicules the proposition.
Norway.—The charter grnuted by the King of
Swedeu to the American cit aen, Mr. T. P Schaff
ner. containing the exclusive permission to lay down
a submarine telegraph wire between the coast* of
North America and Norway, is dated‘24th of Jan
uarv. and contains the following articles:
1 The company it permitted to lav down a tele
graphic wire from the continent of North America
to the coast of Norway, and to establish a telegraph
station there, but permission is not granted them to
continue the hue by land through the dominions of
Norway
2. The concession granted by these presents is de
peudeut on the company's subscribing the sum ne
cessary for the undertaking within five years from
the present date, and completing the submarine tel
sgraph before the expiration ot another period of
tWe years.
3. Should any Interruption of the communication
take place after the opening of the line, the com
pany is bound to repAii it at their expense as
soon as possible, and not later than after a year a
delay
4. The Norwegian Government engages to con
struct separate lines of wires on the telegraph of the
State, for the purpose of forwarding the despatches
from America, if so desired, and on the guarantee of
a minimum amount of receipt*.
&. The companv, and their agent, and set Yarns,
shall be subjected to the same laws and iuriadietion
ss Norwegian subjects, as far as regards the tele
graph in the s-a and land dominions of the King of
Sweden and Norway.
6. Should a war b'reak out between Norway and
the United States, or between Norway and any other,
•tats through whose territory the proposed telegraph
shall past, the Norwegian goverumrut reserves to
Itself the right of suspending the communication
during the continuance of the war. without detri
ment to the privilege* contained in this charter.
Till Ciumsa.—Rustem Pasha, convicted of mal
versation, has been sentenced to a term of impris
onment and to refund several hundred thousand
francs. The Sultan bad received the Hnapodar
Ghtka Five hundred Bashi Bazouks have been
brought back from Constantinople. The state of
the hospitals has improved. Two French Surgeons
bad died The dealers at Kamieaeh are homing to
sell to the Russian troops during the armistice.*—
Ounaral Mitchell has replaced Ocr.eral Vivian, who
l« still sick. New Russian troops have arrived at
Beearabia The Tartars at Eupatoria are represen
ted as fearing the consequences of a peace, and it is
said that a great number of them wifi follow the Al
lies wheu thev retire.
EeTfT —The Viceroy has appointed a new coin
mission to explore the sources of the Nile He
kae confided the command to Count d’Escavrac
its Lautore, well known for his travels in Africa.
Th» First Marriage—Adam’s Weddiko.— -An
Eofh*h journal. the Britannia, ha# an amusing arti
cle Dmi«r the head of “Adam's Wedding." The
•dttor says that he likes abort courtships, and in
this Adam like a sensible man—he fell asleep a
baehelor. and awoke to find himself a married man.
Be appears to have “popped the question immedi
ately after meeting Ma'auii*-lle Eve ; and she with
out throat ion or ahyneae. gave him a kies and her
aeit Os that firs: kin* in the world we have had.
however, our own thought®, and sometimes in ekhtU
eal mood have wished we were the man that aid it
lkit the deed is or was done. the chance was Adam's
and ne itupr 'ved it We like the notion of getting
married in a garden ;itis in good tasre. We like a
private wedding, and Adam's was strictly private.
Vo envious beam* were there, no croaking old
maids, do chattering aunts, and grumbling grand
mother*. The birds of heaven were minstrels, and
the glad sky shed it# light upon the scene. Oar
thinking about the first wedding bring* queer idea#
into our heads, spite of scriptural truth. Adam and
his wife were rather young to be married ; some two
ut three ve&rs old, according to the sagr*: specula
tions of ideologist#—mere babies—larger, but not
older—without a house, without a pot or kettle
nothing but love aud Eden!
A Fcil Oaown “Bchoolmamii.** — I There i# a
sehooi mistress teaching school in tho town of LU
bou, who stands, in her stocking feet, six feet seven
inches Her name is Wilkinson, and, we are in
formed, is the shortest of a family of four children—
three women and cue man, whose united length it
jwr 28 feet 6 inches “There were giants in those
Ta* C. 8 Bream* Water Wit** —This ves
sel, which has been absent about three vears.
under the aommand of L>eut. T. J. Page, engaged
In surveying the rivers of Craquay and Parana,
ip fiouOi America principally. m«v be expected, savi
the 8 tat to Mtusn te ths United btatesß? ths Ist 'of
June.
Correspondence of the Baltimore American.
THIRTY-FOURTH CONGRESS— lnt Session.
IN SENATE March 31.
Mr. Clavton. in making an explanation regarding
his remark* the other day. said that the whole cost
of Wilkey's Exploring Expedition, during the four
year* in which the expedition was employed, indu
cting the printing of the narrative, amounted to
about $1,250,000. .
The Senate then resumed the consideration of the
resolution submitted by Mr Iverson, providing that
a committee lx* appointed authorized to summon
the officers of the Naval B<>ard. for the purpose of
•goertainiog the reasons which govern the action of
the Board.
Mr. Ivoraon reviewed the action of the Board,
sympathizing with the unfortunate victims of that
extraordinary tribunal. He could find no bettor
parallel for the summary manner in which they dis
posed of the rases of naval officers than the excla
mation of the “hump-backed tyrant”—“off with hia
head—so much for Buckingham.’
Mr. Iverson stated that upon the meeting of the
Naval Board one of the officers submitted a resolu
tion that their proceeding* should be held opeuly,
but it was voted down by a large majority, thus
showing that the board acted like a band of secret
conspirators. They were in some respects more
than the Spanish inquisition, for that heard the ac
cused in his own defence, but this struck without a
h Mr"Slidell oppose*i the resolutions and defended
at some length, the Boaid from the attacks of Mr.
Iverson and other*.
31 r. liutler objected to the legal character of the
Board, and stated his conviction that they bad not
conformed to the law' under which they were or
gauized,
Mr. Clayton denied that any injustice wan done
to officer* by removing them without notice, a*
they held their office during the pleasure of the Exe
cutive.
Mr. Crittenden made a few remarks, when the
.Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
Mr. Haven introduced a bill, which was passed,
for the enlargement of the Custom House Poet
Office and Court House buildings at Buffalo.
On motion of Mr Phelps the military committee
were instructed to inquire into the expediency of
accepting the services of volunteers to aid hi the*
suppression of Indian hostilities on the Pacific
coast .
The general appropriation bills were made the
special order of the day on and after the 15tu of
April, excepting Mondays, Fridays and Saturdays.
Mr Campbell, of Ohio, from the committee of
Ways and Means, to which had been referred the
bill for the suppression of Indian hostilities in Ore
gon and Washington, reported a substitute appro
priating $300,000, to be •-xpended under the direc
tion of the President of the United States, for restor
ing and maintaining the peaceable disposition of the
Indian tribes ou the Pacific coast; and $12,000 for
the purchase of gunpowder. Mr. Campbell said
that the original bill contemplated rather a warlike
movement, but the committee thought it would be
better to report a measure looking to peace on ike
frontiers, as recommended by the Secretary of War.
Mr. Allison said that while he was not disposed to
throw an impediment in the way of the passage of
the bill, he was of the opinion that the charge of
General Wool against Gov. Curry, saying that the
latter, by calling out men, purchasing horses, pro
vender, kc., was involving the Treasury to the ex
pense of two or four millions of dollars, ought to be
investigated.
Mr. Campbell, of Pcnsylvania, understood that
largo forces of friendly Indians could be procured
and used by the Government to repel the warlike
tribes. He would vote the money forthwith. The
House could hold the Administration to a strict ac
count hereafter.
Mr. Reading said he would vote for the bill. It
was sufficient for him to know* that hostilities exist
in the territories.
Mr. Lane, of Oregon, proceeded to show that the
war wa* commenced by the Indians and not by the
whites, whom he eulogised as orderly, peaceable ami
gallant.
Mr. Anderson, of Washington Territory, showed
the existing necessity for the appropriation.
After further debate, without coming to a vote,
the House adjourned.
IN SENATE - April 1.
Mr. Mason, from the committee on Foreign Itela
latioiis, reported a joint resolution, amending the
Act of March, 1855, to remodel thr? Diplomatic and
Consular system of the United States. He explain
ed that the resolut ion proposed to change that t>a
. tare which seemed mandatory on the President to
elevate all our foreign ministers resident, to minis
ters plenipotentiaries, and to affix the salary of each
mission. Congress has no power to command, but
1 could only recommend this to the President. The
resolution passed.
1 Mr. Clay ton resumed his remarks from yesterday,
•n the subject of the Naval Board. In order to
> prove that it was no disgrace for officers to be
5 placed on the retired list, he cited the fact that,
’ in England, the heroes of the nile and Trafalgar
were released from active service, and receive
* less than tic* officers of the same grade on this re
-9 tired list. He replied to Senator Houston’s attack
1 on Captains Pendergast, Dupont, and other naval
officers.
Mr. Bell, of Tennesse, followed, sustaining in
9 the main, the proceedings and action of the Naval
* Board.
3 The Senate then adjourned.
HOUSE.
j Among the reports from the Standing Committees
0 were bills establishing additional land districts in
0 Nebraska and Kansas.
9 Ten thousand copies of the Central American cor
e rospondence, together with that between the Uni
, ted States and Great Britain, on the arbitration
” and enlistment question, were ordered to be print
_ ed—also the same number of copies of the document
on tiie commercial relations of the United States
D with all foreign nations, statistics, comparative ta
riffs, dre.
p The House passed the bill appropriating $,300,000
j for restoring and maintaining the peaceable dispo
* sitionofthe Indian tribes on the Pacific *coast, and
$130,000 f«>r the purchase of gunpowder.
Mr. Bowie, of Maryland, presented the petition of
, sundry citizens of Charles county, Md., praying
Congress to take such measures as may secure the
p construction of the Pacific Railroad. Referred to
the Committee on Post Ronds.
The House resolved itaell into a committee of the
i, whole on the state of the Union, (Mr. Mace in the
I Chair,) and resumed the consideration of the Presi
dent's annual message.
Mr. Warner, of Georgia, argued to show the right
H of the South to remove with their slave property in
to the territories of the United States.
e Mr. Allison, of Pennsylvania, addressed the
II committee in opposition to the extension of slave
ry, when the committee rose and the House ad
journed.
IN SENATE April 2.
Mr. Seward reported the House resolution for en
larging the Custom House, Post Office and Fede
ral Court buildings of Buffalo, which was passed.
Mr. Mason, from the oommitteee on Foreign Re
lations, reported a joint resolution permitting Dr.
Kune and the officers associated with him on ins ex
pedition to the Arctic St as in search of Sir John
Franklin to accept such token of acknowledgment
therefor ns the Government of Great Britain may
pleuse to present iu accordance with its wishes on
the subject.
Mr. Butler said he could not vote for the resolu
tion unless ho knew what the British Government
intend giving Dr. Kane.
Mr. Cass said he hoped the resolution would be
immediately passed.
Mr. Crittenden said he was quite willing that all
proper acknowledgment should be given to Dr.
Kane by this Government, but he thought it a bad
precedent to depart from the ancient usage.
Mr. Seward inquired whether, under the resolu
tion, a little nobility could not be conferred on Dr.
Kaiic.
Mr. Mason said he had no idea that the British
Government would think of offering an ac
knowledgment ofth&tkiad, which it might well sup
pose would be unwelcome to a citizen of the United
States.
Mr. Seward djjuivd to express, in behalf of Hen
ry Grinnell, Eslff of New York, who furnished
the funds with which the expedition was prosecuted
with so much energy, so many sacrifices and such
great results, his hope that the resolution would
D© adopted.
Mr. Bayard opposed the resolution.
Mr. Mason admitted the wisdom of the provision
in the Constitution relative to the reception of pre
sents from foreign governments, but ns that in
strument has given to Congress discretionary pow
er in the matter they could determine whether this
was not a proper occasion to make an exception to
the general rule. Ho cited the instance of Lieut.
Maury, who had been permitted to receive a gold
medal from the King ot Sweden.
Messrs. Toucey, Reid and Bayard spoke briefly
on the subject.
Air. Benjamin moved that the further considera
tion of the joint resolution be postponed until to
morrow, as the hour had arrived for taking up the
special order. Agreed to.
Mr. Jones, of Tennessee, promised in a few days
to present a triumphant vindication of Lieut. Bart
lett, of the navy, from the assault of Mr. Slidell, the
other day.
The special order (the Naval Board) was passed
over iti order to enable Mr. Fessenden, who was
obliged to leave the city, to express his views on the
three million bill. Mr. V. alluded to the enlistment
question and thought that Mr. Crampton ought to
be dismissed, for, after the publication of the cor
respondence it was impossible that he could receive
that respect which ought to be entertained for the
representative of a foreign power. He took up the
Clavton-Bulwer treaty and censured Senators for
taking so much pains to prove that Great Britain
has no good title in Central America, for if our con
struction of the treaty was correct, it made not the
least difference whether her title was gi>od or bad.
or whether she had any at all, since she abandoned
it all. be it more or less.
Mr. Cass followed on the same subject. He lmd,
he said, watched the manifestations of public senti
ment in England, aud he could sec no use in con
tinual protesting unless more definite action was ta
ken. lie did not Bupposeth«t England would re
treat at all . aud it was not probable that she would
declare war with us ; why should she when she has
got all she wauts ? The true question was, what
ought we to do f Shall we continue to submit, or
shall we take a decided stand that we will enforce
and maintain our rights ? Great Britain had chang
ed her grounds three times in regard to the Clayton
Bulwer treaty ; a* she was driven from cue untena
ble position she took refuge in another.
Mr. Butler gave notice that he should discuss this
bill in the light of a war measure.
After a brief discussion of matters connected with
the late Naval Board the Senate adjourned.
iue laic ,>avai isoara tin* donate adjourned.
HOUSE
The House was engaged in the consideration of
ihe Senate's amendments to the Pension ami West
Point Academy, and the Deficiency appropriation
bill#, but came to no conclusion on the subject# be
fore tlu* adjournment.
IX SENATE ~ April 3.
The bill for the relief ot the widows and orphans
of the officers and seamen of the marines of the
sfoop-of-war Albany, and the joint resolution de
claring the manner in which the Pensi&nlaws for the
benefit of the Cherokee Indian# shall be executed,
were passed.
Mi. Collamer proceeded to show by the practical
contemporaneous construction of the power of Con
gress. relative to slavery in the territories of the
United State#, that Congies# has never submitted
the question of freedom or slavery to the people of
the territories in any form to be operated upon while
they were territories. The people of a territory, in
forming a State government, must of course have
powerto form that government like any other State* in
the Uniou, as they please, so it be a republican form
of government, in order to be on an equality with
the other Stale# Nobody denied that—it required
no argument to prove it ' but that was not the jx>iut.
The question was, how the subject of slavery—the
existence or regulation of slavery—should be ar
ranged while it remained a Territory.
Inis question had never been agitated by diacus
tion or legislation about any of the Terri tone# them
•elve# and therefore, he insisted, that tl»e present
attempt to introduce that question was a new expe
riment, aud the very fact that it was a new experi
ment was almost enough to con Jenin it in his esti
mation. He went on to show, in the next place,
that l oneree# had exercised the power which they
possessed over slavery in the following way: Where
“•very did not exist to any considerable extent,
Congress by general or particular laws tor that ter
ritory or that country, had prohibited it from time to
time, all the way along : but in the territories where
slavery was existing, Congree# without doing any
thing which wouldjustify us in saying that it repu
diated the exercise of power in the' premises suffer
ed it to remain there, regarding the fact that it i.ad
been introduced by the people who Lad gone there
as a la.r indication of the adaptedness of the terri
tory to the institution. Congress in many cases did
exercise power over slavery aud from that he con
cluded that they had this power.
This conclusion was based upon tie contempo
raneous construction of their own act# Whatever
new view# of the Constitution might be got up now.
and however plausible they might be, yet if they
had the effect to construe the power of Congress
over the territories a# to derive the power from
any such source as to e vise rate it, those view#
were new, and consequently unfounded, being in
consisu-ut with ooutemparnneous construction.
lie a-#o deiended the emigrant aid societies, and
read from Charleston. South Carolina, papers to
show that the South had adopted similar measures.
as perfectly proper.
Mr CoLamer did not conclude his remarks Be
ing somewhat indisposed, he gave way to a motion
postpone the snlpeat until to-morrow At^ourn-
HOUSE.
Various reports of do general interest from the
Branding committees were presented.
The amendments of the Senate to the Pension
bill were concurred in. and several to the West
Point Academy bill were rejected.
The House, in committee i f the whole on the -
State of the Union, discussed the Senate’s amend
ment to the Deficiency Appropriation bill, but came
to no conclusion thereon.
Several gentlemen introduced bill* which were
appropriately referred.
The House then adjourned.
IN SENATE April 4.
Mr. Seward gave notice of his intention to intro
uce a bill supplementary to the copyright law of
831 *
The Senate then took np the bill making extra
allowance to George P. Marsh for Diplomatic ser-~
vices rendered by him in his special mission to
Greece. , ~..
When 31 r. Foot had concluded, the bill was post
-1 Mr. Sebastian reported back the House bill ma
king Appropriations for restoring and maintaining
the peaceable disposition of the Indian tribes on the
Pacific, and for other purposes, and asked its imme
diate consideration. It was then passed.
Mr. Collamer resumed hia remarks on the Kansas
question.
Mr. C. contended that the people of Missouri went
into Kansas to cam'the elections there. This he
showed by the assertions of Missouri paper*, the
statements of the Free State men in Kansas, and
the admissions of the majority report that there was
some illegal voting. What did they go for, if not
because they feared that the Free State men would
carry the election unless they interfered ? They
went there for the purpose of out-voting the citi
zens of the territory ; and what good would that do
if they had only carried the elections in the seven
district* where their interference is admitted ? That
wa* a minority of the whole territory ; and hence in
undertaking to control the election they spread over
the whole territory, and the result wa.-* that onlyone
Free State man was elected in the territory. He
believed that there were more than five thousand of
these illegal votes cast, and that the inhabitants
were driven away from the polls and did not vote at
all in any of the districts.
In reference to the abrogation of the Missouri
Compromise, he thought it rather hard that the
North having made a bargain which they were not
very well satisfied with, but which they were con
tented to abide by for the sake of good faith, should
now lose the little advantage winch they got from
it. He presumed gentlemen were familiar with the
story of the Vicar of Wakefield, and remembered
how Moses traded off his horse for a lot of green
spectacles with shagreen cases. He did not sup
port*- the Vicar was very proud of that bargain ; but
he never had heard that the horse iockey after using
up his horse, had come back to demand his green
spectacles again! [Laughter.]
Mr. Douglas replied briefly to some of Mr. Colla
mer s criticisms on the majority report.
Mr. Douglas maintained that the purpose of the
Free State men in Kansas was to resist the Federal
Government if their application to be admitted as a
State wa« rejected. They had given notice that
unless they were admitted they would resist to a
bloody issue, and had procured Sharp’s rifles and
organized the Kansas legion, with its horrible oaths,
for the purpose of being prepared for such resistance.
Yet the Senator from \ erinont had omitted all these
facts in his two days speech.
The Senate adjourned till Monday.
HOUSE.
Mr. Evans introduced a bill to authorize and fa
cilitate the construction of Northern, Southern and
Central Pacific Railroad, and Magnetic Telegraph
line. Referred to the select committee ou that sub
ject.
On motion of Mr. Underwood, the committee on
the Judiciary were instructed to inquire into the ex
pediency of regulating and making uniform the right
to challenge jurors iu criminal cases before the Fed
eral Courts.
The House resolved itself into committee of the
whole on the state of the Union, (Mr. Mace in the
chair,) and took up the Senate’s amendments to the
Deficiency appropriation bill.
Mr. Smite, of Tennessee, entered into an argument
to show that the South is more conservative than the
North. Hence the accession of slave States hus a
tendency to strengthen the Union, lie launched
into party politics, reviewing, in condemnation, the
Republican and American organizations, particular
ly the latter.
Mr. Granger, of New York,argued that slavery is
incompatible with the Constitution of the U. States
and is therefore illegal.
The committee here rose, and the House adjourned
. till Monday.
Important from Central America—Flight of
i li«* CoMta Rican* before the Americans.
The steamship Star of the West has arrived at
New York, with dates from Punta Arenas to the
‘23d ult. By this steamer we have obtained the fol
lowing news of the proceedings of Gen. Walker’s
army on its march against Costa Rica ;
Virgin Bay, March2l.—An army of *2BO left this
place u week ago for Costa Rica, under command
of Col. Schleasiuger, who was rejected as Commis
sioner to the Government of that Republic. Re
ports from the army have described several skir
mishes with small companies, but nothing ns yet of
importance. Guanacaste was to be entered yester
day. There is no expectation of much resistance,
though the Costa Ricans are reported bravo, ana
they nave several hundred Mime rifles. Recruits
are ordered for the invading army from Leon and
M assay a, which will be replaced from the new arri
vals expected from California and the East.
The Brother Jonathan has come down from Cali
fornia, with 250 passengers, in 15 days and 7 hours,
the longest trip on record for years. Tin* Sierra Ne
vada is confidently expected soon, with at least 300
troops. The Sierra Nevada was attacked by the
Nicaraguan Government. Same day; on steamer
San Carlos, met the Virgin with 150 troops from
New Orleans, and a small company from New York,
and Col. Ilomesby and Parker H. French. Horns
by will join the invading army—probably take the
lend of it —and, with an army of seven or eight hun
dred, descend upon San Jose. The news from the
sent of war by the next steamer will boos more in
terest.
Virgin Bay, March 21—f> o’clock, P. M.—We
have this moment received the inclosed letter by
courier from Zapoya, the dispatches for the Presi
dent go on to Granada by land. An officer has
also arrived who confirms this intelligence, and says
Col. Schleasinger would enter Guanacoste at 9 this
morning.
The steamer from California was one day over
time. News-of her arrival reached here this morn
ing. She brings but few men for Walker.
A native colonel states that a regiment of native
volunteers have tendered their services to this Go
vernment. Ex-Councilman Kerrigan has had per
mission to resign his commission as second lieuten
ant, and returns to New-York.
Zatoya, March 18.—We entered this beautiful
place at 5 n. m. The enemy was in sight, num
bering 800, and was strongly posted. We sent out
two companies of Fry’s Regiment as skirmishers.—
The enemy ran. Population 3,000. The people de
serted all their dwellings We captured two brass
nine-pounders, and three carronnues with conside
rable ammunition, and at least 300 mules and horses.
Some of the men found considerable sums of money.
The Colonel lias taken the greatest part of it. Don
Juan Buis is said to be in the mountains with 400
men, intending to make a diversion upon Virgin
Bay.
The correspondent of the New York Tribune ,
thus describes the state of affairs in Nicaragua,
and the treatmant to which Colonel Schlessiriger
was subjected by the Costa Ricans:
Town of Virgin Bay, March 9. —Mattel's become
more interesting daily, and I hasten to inform you
of the leading facts as they occur. As you are in
formed ere this. Major Schlessingcr, Adjutant Gene
ral of the Army of Nicaragua, accompanied by a
Capt. Sutter and a native named Aguyla were sent
/is commissioners from this Government to treat
with the Government of Costa Rica. On the arri
val of the commissioners at the town of Guanacostc
they were detained till an order for their reception
or rejection by the Government of Costa Rica, lo
cated at San Jose, could be received by the Gover
nor of t#it province. While the commissioners re
mained at this place, some soldiers insulted Major
Sehlotesinger. who promptly punished the offender on
the s|H)t, and told the Governor if any such conduct
was tolerated by the authorities, ammo satisfaction
would not only be demanded by his government
but enforced. After a delay of some eight days, a
courier brought intelligence that Costa Rica was
not at preset prepared to negotiate, and ordered the
commissioners to withdraw from the State.
On their arrival at Punta Arenas, ou the Pacific,
they were rudely treated, and ordered to go ou
board of a schooner. To this. Major Sclessinger ob
jected, and positively refused to leave until a writ
ten order for his expulsion was produced. After -
considerable parley, and some two days’ delay, du
ring which time Schlessiriger planted himself in a
hotel, and ordered all he required, the order was
handed him.
The party boarded the schooner, and was eleven
days reaching San Juan del Bur, a distance of
about two hundred and fifty miles. Various rumors
preceded the arrival of Mqjor Schlesainger at this
place.
One or two persons reported in my hearing that
eleven hundred soldiers from Costa Rica were
on the march with six field pieces to attack this
place, which is by many considered the first point
to be attempted by the enemy, if any should ap
preach.
I have heard much of backwoods and frontier
sharp shooters, and how they love a fight, but
never saw a full development of the real spirit
untji the afternoon of the 7th inst. The foreign
population of this place, all told, consists of about
three hundred persons, who, I supposed, would
have prepared to leave for Rivas; but Instead,
almost every mail quietly took his musket or ri
fle, rubbed it over, examined carefully the lock:
if loaded, fired the charge, cleaned the inside,
then reloaded, put his gun back to its place,
held a meeting, and passed a resolution to march
out, meet the enemy, whip them, and take the
cannons.
While the plans were about matured for an on
slaught on the supposed enemy, quite a youthful
looking gentleman walked up to one of the leaders,
and in a quiet, easy manner, told them he would not
permit these excitements or alarms for the future :
there was no danger of our attack : there were no
soldiers coming from Costa Rica, aud the next man
he found circulating false reports should be severe
ly reprimanded. This young man is Major Brewster
of Fairfield county, Conn., now Military Comman
dant of this Department. This produced a sad ef
fect : the rifles and muskets yet lie quietly in the
comers of the hotels*
Such a disappointment you have rarely seen.—
There are probably two hundred and fifty men in
Nicaragua from all parts of the world, who are not
now in and never will enter the regular armv of
this State, who, the moment the first shot is fired
by Nicaragua, will dock after and around the
army—each man to some degree fighting on his
his own hook.
March 11.—The steamship LeVenzm arrived
here tl is morning from Granada with Gen. Walker,
his staff, and about 500 men. As soon as the troops
were landed 33 sentinels were posted around tne
town, permitting no egress without a passport.—
The nu n all looked wen. Gen. Walker breakfast
ed, rode to Rivas, returned in the afternoon, re
viewed his soldiers, and returned to Granada the
same night, leaving Maj. Schlessiriger in command
of the Department who. I am informed, is promoted
to the rank of Brigadier General, to the chagrin of
some few others.
March I*2.—Company F. First Hide Regiment,
commanded by Capt. Rudler, who, with the mom
bers of hi# company, are not only respected, but
honored through this country for their uniform good
eouuuct, arrived here ia*t night, aud are now on
their march to San Juan del !>ur with the remain
der of the troops, who, it is presumed, are bound
to Guanacoete. Costa Rica, in accordance with
the reply to the declartion of war. or extermination
of all Americans from Central America by the
Costa Ricans The army was joined here by about
twenty independent volunteers, who pay their own
expenses.
Two hours ago. the street* of this now quiet little
town were alf hurry, bustle, bugles, trumpets,
drums, fifes, officers in all manner of dress, many
in glittering uniforms, equal to any in the United
State#.
This town i? about deserted—none remaining of
the natives except those who say they are compelled
to live or die* by the American party. I have con
versed with several of the most intelligent natives,
who say their opirion is there will be little if any
fighting in Costa Rica : that nearly all the soldiers
have run away.
A French gentleman, lately from Costa Rica,
while there, conversed with the present chief of the
army of that State, who was then an overseer on a
large estate, and expressed a desire to qnit his pre
sent position The Frenchman, an experienced
military officer of high rank in the French army, re
plied ; “Sir, you have had considerable field expen
enre . you had better remain where you are, as, if
you command the Costa Rica army, many of whom
have no locks to their guns, you will be left alone
on the field. The reply was that to make up all
deficiency in arms, be would attack at night, when
ihe enemy could not see his arms.
The American or Walker forces here at present
are, at San Juan del Sur, 600 ;at Leon. 3»XI a t
Granada, 200 ; Castillo Rapids, 150: San Carlos.
100 *, Chanaudega, 20U : Massays, 2UO; Rivas, 160 . j
St. George s. 75 ; total, 2.625 soldiers. To this may ;
be added about 150 outsiders, who nr# in for a free ;
fight anywhere. The soldiers are not all in uniform, *
but all of them are clean, comfortably clothed, and i
well rationed.
I am thi# moment informed by a getleman from j
Coeto Rioa that h# h*4 discovered a gold min# i
there, for which he has paid $250,000, and would
not now take $2,000,000 for his claim. He also in
forms me that a strong party of the inhabitants are
ready to take sides with Walker : while another
save'the inhabitants will fight desperately, and that
all of Walker’s party will perish. One thing is
most certain—defeat is death. No mercy will be
shown to any American who falls into the hands of
the enemy.
Grenada. March 17. 1856.—1 am now here. I
shall not trouble you with any description. Having
heard this place was so fatal to Americana, I was de
termined to examine for myself. I found a well
regulated hospital, urnler the charge of an expe
rienced surgeen, Dr. Moses, now Surgeon General.
I saw quite a number of Europeans, as well as
Americans, who have resided here for years. The
whole secret is. these people use fruit only pru
dently, and are temperate in their habits. Al
most’all the deaths here are from imprudence. The
climate I found similar to that in Washington in
summer.
Philadelphia Items.
April I.—One evening last week. Judge Conrad,
our Mayor, was waited upon at his residence by two
gentlemen, who stated that a carriage was at the
door, and him if he was ready to accompany
them and “ deliver that lecture.” The Judge was
surprised, as he made no arrangement of the kind ;
but his visiters showed him a paper in which he was
advertised to deliver a lecture on “Woman's Influ
ence,” and stated that the audience bad already as
sembled. The Judge finally concluded to accom
pany the committee who had taken such a liberty
with his name, and although the subject was one he
had never before discussed in pubhc, yet he deliv
ered a lecture which afforded unmingletl satisfaction
to a large audience. This beats the modern “ sur
prise parties.”
Dnring the three months past, commencing on the
first of January, the report of the Board of Health
exhibits the fact that there have been, during that
period, 2,809 deaths in this city, of which number
1.448 were males, and 1,366 females; 333 of the en
tire number were boys, and SOI girls ; 750 were un
der 1 year of age . from Ito 15 years, 809; from 15
to 30 years, 3*96; from 30 to 60 years, 551; from 60
to 70 years, 120 ; from 70 to 8t) years, 89; from 80
to 90 years, 56; and from JO to 100 years, 15. The
deaths from diseases < f the lungs, during the three
months amounted to 485; the number in each month
being about the same. There have been 195 deaths
from scarlet fever, all of which were children ex
cept 10 ; from small pox, 230.
A letter received here says that on last “Thursday
night, a man caine to Mr. Oberhaltzer’s, Lancaster
county, Pa., knocked at his bedroom window, and
called him by his name, demanded fifty dollars of mo
ney in a liuiTV, or he would set Mr. O ’s house and
bam on fire. Mr. O. did not do as requested, and
the barn, together with 47 head of cattle, horses,
sheep and hogs was in a short time entirely con
sumed by fire. A man, after the fire was over, was
found under the foieshot of the barn, burned so bad
ly that he could not bo recognized. How he came
there nobody knows.
There have been slaughtered for the Philadelphia
market, since the Ist of January Inst, exclusive of
those killed and sold by farmers, 12,175 beef cattle.
70,600 sheep, 24,450 hogs, 1,445 cows. The sale of
sheep the past three months has amounted to
nearly as much as was sold during several en
tire years since 1843.— Correspondence Baltimore
American.
New York Item*.
April 2.— Another appropriation by the govern
ment of nearly a million of dollars, it is stated, will
be required to finish the steam batten' which the
Messrs. Stevens are now building at Hoboken, for
the defence of the Jiarbor. Estimates have been
forwarded to Washington to that effect. The bat
tery is to have two propellers, and each propeller
will have three engines to work it.
We have a disputed Comptrollership case before
the Supreme Court, the merits of which are briefly
these : Mr. Flagg, Democrat, claims to have been
elected by a majority ot 179 votes, and is sworn in
by the Mayor. Giles, American, alleges that he
was elected, exhibits his affidavits to Judge Whit
ing, who forthwith swears him in, too. So that we
have two Comptrollers, and the question which the
Supreme Court is now called upou to decide is,
which is right ?
Yesterday was Mantilla day among the fashiona
ble ladies. Canal street was in all its glory, and
judging from the crowds in the leading stores, the
money market above Bleecker, must be rather
plentier than it is down in Wall street. Prices take
a wide range, according to quality—from $lO up to
$l5O. — Corresp<mdenec Balt. American.
April 3.—Private letters from Liverpool, written
by parties there having friends and relatives on
board the ill-fated steamer Pacific, “give her up,”
as do most persons here. The insurance offices there
hud come to the same conclusion. On Sunday
next masses are to be said in the Roman Catholic
churches here for the repose of the soul of Bishop
Bayley, one of the passengers in the lost ship.
Colonel Graham who killed Colonel Lonng, last
summer, at the St. Nicholas Hotel, is said to do ly
ing very ill at the State Prison at Auburn, a fact
which has induced his friends to renew their appli
cations for Gubernatorial clemency ; this time, they
think, with better hopes of success* than beforo.
The divorce case, in which Her. Dr. Morris, of
St. Matthew’s Church is defendant, has had a pre
liminary hearing in Chambers. Mrs. Morris charges
upon him bad treatment, abandonment, &,c. De
fendant submits affidavits, showing that plaintiff
was addicted to strong drink, &c. An answer to
this is to be put in on the part of the lady, on Satur
day, next.
A demonstration was made by the police yester
day against the street beggars. In Broadway alone
about a dozen were taken in custody, many of them
having children in their arms, which they had bor
rowed or hired, in order to excite the sympathies of
the passers-by. Three were arrested on the steps of
St. Peter's church, Barclay street. Nearly all of
them ore Italians.
Several of the passengers who arrived here yester
day from Nicaragua, in the steamer Star of the
West, state that the army of General Walker is in a
most deplorable condition, and that quite a number
of his men had deserted, and others were so reduced
by the unhealthiness of the climate as to be of but
little service. The soldiers were poorly dad, and not
very well equipped. They expected to fight but did
not appear to care much about success. The whole
force of Walker was 1,200, of which he conld only
count on some 500 fighting men.
William B. Astor, Esq., executor of the late John
Jacob Astor, paid yesterday to Samuel G. Ogden,
Esq., the agreed compromise of $125,000 on account
of certain unsettled partnership transactions. — Cor.
Balt. Amer.
Cotton in Algeria. —The Paris Moniteur con
tains a report from the French Minister of War to
the Emperor, on the subject of the cultivation of
cotton in Algeria. According to the document, the
cultivation of that plant in 1805 increased considera
bly more than was expected, ns it was thought that,
from the high price of corn, the attention of the colo
nists would have been more particularly directed to
that kind of produce. One very material fact is
mentioned, namely, tliat the natives have entered
with great eagerness into this, to them, new branch of
agriculture. The quality of the cotton grown in Al
geria, rivals, the report declares, that of any other
country; and the American Commissioners*of the
Universal Exhibition admitted, that at no distant
period Algeria would equal all ot her countries in the
abundance of its production. The report then al
ludes to the encouragement given by the Emperor
to the cultivation of cotton in Algeria, by an annual
prize of 20,000 francs from his privy fltarse, for five
years, to the planter who lias cultivated cotton to
the largest extent, and produced the finest quality.—
It then goes on to state that in the province of Oran,
the attention given to the cotton plantations had
much increased, and that the labor lmd been per
formed in a much better manner. In many parts,
the Louisiana, or short staple, had been substituted
for the Georgia kiud, and had been found to answer
much better. Even in the province of Algiers,
where the cultivation oftobucco employed a great
number of hands, and occupied a large extent of
ground, the cotton plant has made material pro
gress. The natives have successfully competed for
the provincial prizes established for their encourage
ment. The natives in the Districts of Milah, Bou
cada, Bathua, Djigelli, arc particularly mentioned,
as well as several Arabs. The subdivisions of
Mascara and Tleincen, and the plain of Tafna also
possess some very fine plantations. The jury, after
a very careful examination of the subject, has
awarded the imperial prize of 20,000 francs, for the
season of 1855, to MM. Masquelier, Jr., Sc Co., and
Dupre, of St. Maur, proprietors of St. Denisdu-Sig.
After the above, came in the order of merit, MM.
Adam, proprietor of the agricultural establishment
at St. B&rbc ; Grnillat, proprietor at Mostaganem ;
Sibour proprietor at St. Denis-du Sig ; and Rou
chouse’ representing the Compagnie Meridionale, to
all of whom honorable mentions have been award
ed.
The Nicaragua Fever.-— The New-Orleaue ßee
'►of the 31 81 ult., says:—The news brought from
Nicaragua by the Daniel Webster has created no
little stir iu this city, and large numbers of restless
fellows, tired of these “ piping times of peace,” are
making preparations to go by the first ship to the
relief of the chivalrie Walker, against whose govern
ment the neighboring states are now waging tmeh a
causeless and unjust war. Those who go now will
doubtless have plenty of sport in the way of hard
fightiug, but there can be but one opinion as to the
result, provided that foreign squadrons on the coast
do not interfere in the contest. With the two thou
sand American riflemen whom Gen. Walker has
under his command, he will be able to defy all
Central America in arms. Now is the time for
those to go who would win laurels “ on the field
of gloryand such as brave and survive 1 he present
dangers and hardships will be likely to find a rich
reward when peace is restored to that splendid, but
misgoverned and distracted country. The brig
Eureka is to sail for San Juan to-morrow, and we
are informed as many men as she can convey, will
go out on her : and the steamship Charles Morgan,
of the Texas line, will be despatched by her owners
for the same port on the 10th inst. In the mean
time the brave Gen. Hornsby, Walker's second in
command, who 4ed in the attack at the battle of
Rivas, and greatly distinguished himself by his he
roic conduct in that severe action, will be in the city
raising men to go to Central America on this last
mentioned v ssel. It is rumored that the govern
ment will take measures to prevent the sailing of any
reinforcements, but the agents here of the Nicara
guan government do not apprehend that the emi
grants will be molested.
The Earthquake in Japan. —H. H. Doty, of
California, who was at Simoda when the news ©f the
great earthquake at Jeddo was officially proclaim
ed, gives the following account of the calamity :
“On the 11th November, at 9 hours 45 minutes.
P. M.. a shock was experienced, which aroused the
inhabitants, who rushed into the streets. About
three minutes subsequently another shock occurred
which oscillated the earth northeast and southwest;
the crash of falling buildings was heard throughout
the city; fires broke out in thirty different places,
covering an extent of seven by fourteen miles
square. Another shock, which threw everybody off
their feet, succeeded, when the earth opened in the
northeast part of the city, and closed over many
thousand houses and inhabitants.
“The exact number of inhabitants, temples, and
dwellings had not been ascertained by the govern
ment, but there had already been shown by the dis
trict records of the city that 30,800 people, five hun
dred Budhist and Sintoo temples, one hundred and
one thousand dwellings and stores were destroyed,
and it was thought when all the districts made their
returns, these numbers would be greatly increased/’
He also states that at Simodn/which is 6i miles
from Jeddo, buildings were slightly damaged, and
the people could not keep on their feet
Vari able Bible.—At a recent sale in England
of the library of a deceased gentleman named John
Albinson. Boston, a Bible was sold, which cost orig
inally. with the oak cabinet containing it, the sum
of four thousand guineas. It was sold under the
hammer for five hundred aud fifty pounds sterling.
It consisted of forty-five volumes, elegantly bouna,
; and illustrated by at least six thousand engravings,
executed by about six hundred of the most celebra
ted engravers, and from the works of eminent ar
tists from the year 1150 to the time of completion.—
Mr. Bowyer.a publisher, commenced the work of
getting up this edition of the Bible, in London, in
the year 1800. and speut more- than twenty-four
years at it. He produced two follio copies, one of
which is in the British Museum, iu seven volumes.
It does not contain the engravings mentioned, but
the magnificence of its printing, lhnminating, bind
ing, etc., makes it a cariosity. The other copv is
the one sold as above slated. Tite cost of the
engravings was £3,300. It i.-contained in a richlv
carved antique oak cabinet wu.cu cost £l5O. This
splendid work is known by the name of the Bowver
Bible.
Manufacture of Gas.—Tnepn>ceas of making
coal-gas is much simpler than many people imagine.
Bituminous coal is thrown into a h*«t cy Under of iron,
the mouth of which is closed carefully by an iron
door with the edges cemented with soft clay. The
vapor of arising from the coal is received into a
tube, by means of which it is permitted to escape
into a series of vessels, where it is cooled and de
posits much of its impure matter. It is then pass
ed into another series of vessels, containing quick
lime. which robs it of its sulphurous and other inter
mixtures. From this receiver it flows purified, as
we find it in use into the gasometer, and is thence
distributed as may be needed, through mains and
service pipes, into various parts of the city. The
highly-charged bituminous coals are found best
adapted to the purpose of gas making. In the man
ufactures of gas from Newcastle coal, a chald
ron weighing 27 cwt. is found to yield 8,650 cubic
feet of gas. 14 cwt. of coke. 12$ gallons ammonicai
liquor, 12 gallons of thick tar. Cana! coal will vield
upon an average 16,000 cubic feet gas to the cWd
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Again, you can aid me by sending me new subscri
bers. If each of you will send me one new sub
scriber. and many of you can easily procure ten or
twenty, you perceive at once how great you will
aid me. You w’ill thereby place in my hands the
means to engage additional efficient talents in the
conduct of the paper, and thus carry out my desire
to improve it in every respect. Nor is this nil, you
will not only contribute to improve the paper, but
you, at the same time, increase and extend its influ
ence, and aid in the dissemination of those great con
servative principles of which it has always been the
earnest aud zealous advocate; and to whatsoever
extent it may be improved, you and each of you
will be beuefitted.
I have thus, as briefly as possible, disclosed to you
my purposes aud desires ; aud, as I am satisfied that
none of you will require an argument to convince
you of the correctness of my positions, I cherish the
hope that you will most cordially aid me to the ex
tent of your ability to accomplish my wishes.
Very Respectfully,
W. S. JONES.
Augusta, January 30th, 1856.
All money sent by mail is at my risk, and
whether received or not the paper will be sent, for
whatever time the amount sent would pay.
Letter from Mr. Fillmore.
It affords us great pleasure to invite the readers’
attention to the following letter from Mr. Fillmore.
The reader should recollect that it is a private letter,
written to a personal friend and never designed for
publication. Hence, they may be considered his
real sentiments ; and like the man, they are con
servative, consistent, and American—just such sen
timents ns might be expected from every enlight
ened, true-hearted and citizen.
There is nothing of the cant and cunning of the
demagogue about the letter—they would be out of
place in a letter from Millard Fillmore. Read
it oarefully and study it thoroughly :
Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 3,1855.
Respected Friend—lsaac Newton: It would give
me great pleasure to accept your kind invitation to
visit Philadelphia, if it were possible to make my
visit private, and limit it to a few personal friends
whom 1 should be most happy to see ; but I know
that this would be out of my power, and I am there
fore reluctantly compelled to decline your invita
tation, as I have done others to New York and Bos
ton for the same reason.
1 return you many thanks for vour information on
the subjects of politics. lam always happy to hear'
what is going forward ; but independent ot the fact
that I feel myself withdrawn from the political arena,
I have been too much depressed in the spirit to take
an active part in the late elections. I contented my
self with giving n silent vote for Mr. Ullman tor
Governor.
While, however, I am an inactive observer of pub
lic events, lamby no means an indifferent one. I
may say to you in the frankness of private friend
ship, that I have for a long time looked with dread
and apprehension at the corrupting influence which
the contest for the foreign vote is exerting upon
our elections. This seems to result from its being
banded together, and subject to the control of a few
interested and selfish leaders. Hence, it Ims been
a subject of bargain and sale, and each of the great
political parties of the country have been bidding to
obtain it, and ds is usual in all such contests, the
party which is most corrupt la most successful. The
consequence is, that it is fast demoralizing the whole
country, corrupting the very foundation of political
power, and converting the ballot-box—that great
palladium of our liberty—into an unmeaning mock
ery, where the rights of native-born citizens are
voted aw’ay by those who blindly follow their mer
cenary ana selfish leaders. The evidence of this is
found’ not only in the shameless chaffering for
the foreign vote at every election, but in the
large disproportion of offices which are now held by
foreigners at home and abroad, as compared with
our native citizens. Where is the true-hearted
American whose cheek does not tingle with shame
and mortification to see our highest and most covet
ed foreign missions, filled by men of foreign birth to
the exclusion of the native-born ? Such appoint
ments arc a humiliating confession to the crowned
heads of Europe that a Republican soil does not pro
duce sufficient talent to represent a Republican na
tion at a monarchical Court. I confess that it seems
to me—with all due respect to others, that, as a
general rule, our country should be governed by
American born citizens. Let us give to the op
pressed of every country an asylum and a home m
our happy land, give to all the benefits of equal laws,
and equal protection ; but let us at the same time
cherish as the apple of our eye the great principles
of constitutional liberty, which few who have not
had the good fortune to be reared in a free country,
know how to appreciate and still less how to pre
serve.
Washington, in that inestimable legacy which lie
left to this country—his farewell address—lias wisely
warned us to beware of foreign influence as the most
baneful foe of a republican government. He saw
it, to be sure, in a different light from that in which
it now presents itself; but he knew that it would ap
proach us in all forms, and hence he cautioned us
against the insidious wiles of its inllucn r c. There
fore, as well for our own sakes to whom this invalu
able inheritance of self government has been left by
our forefathers, as for the sake of the unborn millions
who are to inherit this land—foreign and native—let
us take warning of the Father of his Country, and
do what we can justly to preserve our institutions
from corruption, and our country from dishonor,
but let this ue done by the people themselves in
their sovereign capacity, by making a proper dis
crimination in the selection of officers, and not by
depriving any individual—native or foreign born—
of any constitutional or legal right to which he is now
entitled.
These are my sentiments in brief; and although
I have sometimes almost despaired of my country
when I have witnessed the rapid strides of corrup
tion, yet I think I perceive a gleam of hope in the
future ; aud now I feel confident that when the
great mass of intelligence in this enlightened coun
try is once fully aroused ; and the danger manifested,
it will fearlessly apply the remedy, and bring back
the Government to the pure days of Washington’s
administration. Finally, let us adopt the old Roman
motto, “Never despair of the Republic.” Let us
do our duty, and trust in that Providence which has
so signally watched over and preserved us, for the
result. But I have said more than I intended, and
much more than I should have said to any one but a
trusted friend, as I have no desire to mingle in po
litical strife.
Remember me kindly to your family, and believe
me, Truly your frieud,
Millard Fillmore.
Major Donclson and John C. C'allioiin.
The following communication from Mr. Calhoun,
when Secretary of State under President Tv lor,
was sent to Major Do nelson, and will show the high
estimation in which the American candidate for the
Vice Presidency was held by that distinguished
statesman. The letter accompanied Major Donel
son’s appointment as Charge d’Affairs to Texas :
extract.
State Department , 1 6th Sept., 1844.
My Dear Sir : The state of things in Texas is
such, as to require that the place (Charge d’Af
faires) should be filled without delay; and to se
lect him, who under all circumstances may be
thought best calculated to bring to a successful
decision the great question of annexation, now
pending before the two countries. After full de
liberation, you have been selected as that indi
vidual, and I do trust, my dear sir, that you will
not decline the appointment, however great inay
be the personal sacrifice of accepting. The great
question must be decided iu the next three or four
months, and whether it shall be favorably or not,
may defend on him who shall fill the mission now
tendered to you. I need not tell you how much de
pends on its decsion for weal or woe to our coun
try. and perhaps the whole continent. It is suffi
cient to 'say, tnat viewed in all its consequences,
it is one of the very first magnitude, anu that it
gives an importance to the mission, at this time, that
raises it to the level w ith the highest in the gift of the
Government.
Assuming, therefore, that you will not decline the
appointment, unless some inseperable difficulty
should interpose; and in order to avoid delay, a
commission is herewith transmitted, without the
formality of waiting your acceptance, all with the ne
cessary papers.
Signed, John C. Calhoun.
Maj. A. J. Donelson.
Judge Holt’s Illness.
We are glad to be able to announce that Judge
Hclt’s health is improving. Up to two o’clock
Friday, there was a decided improvement, and
strong hopes of his recovery are entertained.
The Interior Bank at Griffin. —A statement
has been going the rounds of the press, that the In
terior Bauk is winding up its affairs. This is not
the fact, nor is there ahv authority for the report. —
Will our cotemporaries do the institution justice by
correcting the error ?— Griffin Union.
We have published the statement, which we
found in some of our exchanges, and hoped it was
true. We regret to hear that it is not: for we de
sire to see Lhe State rid of all the Wild Cat Banks,
because we believe them unworthy of confidence.
We shall continue to warn the people against re
ceiving their bills in circulation.
Hung in Seitz of a Reprieve.— The Montgome
ry Ala.) Mail of the Ist says:—We see iu the pa
per* an account of the execution of a convict, by
the sheriff of Franklin county, in this State, after
the receipt by him of a respite, from Gov. Winston.
He is said to have pronounced the document a
forgery.
The Schooner Tempter, which was destroyed
by fire on the 25th uIL, wls cleared at Charleston
on the 21st ult., for Providence, R. 1., by Messrs.
Holmes Sc Steney, with 6 ha’s? of Sea Island Cos
ton and 642 balsa of Upland Cotton, and 148 bbls.
Rotw. Tbt creir hare arrived at Bot too.
Mr. Fillmore’* Pint form —The Sonita.
There are those at the South who affect to be
lieve (we have no idea that any intelligent man en
tertains any such opinion,) that Mr. Fillmore
would not be a safe depository for the maintenance
of the rights of the South. To all such, whether old
line Whigs or Democrats, we commend the follow
ing extract from his annual message to Congress in
December, 1851 :
“ It was hardly to have been expected that the se
ries of measures passed at your la*t session, with
the view of healing the sectional differences which
had sprung from the slavery and territorial ques
tions, should at once have realized their benifieent
puqiose. All mutual concession in the nature of a
compromise, must necessarily be unwelcome to men
of extreme opinions. And though without such
concessions our Constitution could not have been
formed, and cannot be pennanentl;.' sustained, yet
we have seen them made the subject of bitter con
troversy in both sections of the Republic. It re
quired many months of discussion and deliberation
to secure the concurrence of a majority of Congress
in their favor. It would be strange if they had been
received with immediate approbation bv people
and States, prejudiced and heated by the’ exciting
controversies of their representatives. I believe
those measures to have been required by the cir
cumstances and condition of the country. T believe
they were necessary to allay asperities’and animosi
ties that were rapidly alienating one section of the
country from another and destroying those fraternal
sentiments which are the strongest supports of the
Constitution. They were adopted in the spirit of
conciliation, and for the purpose of conciliation. I
believe that a great majority of our fellow-citizens
sympathize in that spirit, and that purpose, and in
the main approve, and are prepared, in all respects,
to sustain these enactments. 1 cannot doubt that
the American people, bound together by kindred
blood and common traditions, still cherish a para
mount regard for the Union of their fathers; and
that they are ready to rebuke any attempt to violate
its integrity, to disturb the compromises on which it
is based, or to resist the laws which have been
enacted under its authority.
“The series of measures to which 1 have alluded
are regarded by me as a settlement in principle
and substance—a Jinal settlement of the dangerous
and exciting subjects which they embrace. Most of
these subjects, indeed are beyond your reach, as the
legislation which disposed of them was in its charac
ter, final, and irrevocable. It may be presumed
from the opposition which they all encountered, that
none of those measures were free from imperfections,
but in their mutual dependence and connection,
they formed a system of compromise, the most con
ciliatory and best for the entire couutry, that could
be obtained from conflicting sectional interests and
opinions.
“For this reason, I recommend your adherence to
the adjustment established by those measures, until
time aud experience shall demonstrate the necessi
ty of further legislation to guard against evasion or
abuss.
“By that adjustment we have been rescued from
the wide and boundless agitation that surrounded
us, and have a firm, distinct, and legal ground to
rest upon. And the occusion, I trust, will justify
me in exhorting my countrymen to rally upon and
maintain that ground us the best, if not the only
means, of restoring peace and quiet to the coun
ter, and maintaining inviolate the integrity of the
Uniou.”
This is plain and straight-forward, and every well
informed and candid man in America believes he
would sustuin these principles in his administration.
But there are those ut the South, ns we remarked,
who affect to regard Mr. Fillmore unsound on the
slavery question. If there be a Democrat who af
fects so to believe, we invite his attention to the
following extract from the Democratic Platform of
1852. It was pronounced by the democracy of that
day all that the South desired or had any right to
demand. Read the Struct and decide how much
sounder the democratic platform is than Mr. Fill
more. Here is the extract:
THE DEMOCRATIC PLATFORM OF 1852.
“That Congress has no power under the Constitu
tion to interfere with or control the domestic in
stitutions of the several States, and that such States
are the? sole and proper judges of everything apper
taining to their own affairs, not prohibited by the
Constitution ; that all efforts made to induce Con
gress to interfere with questions of Slavery or to
take incipient steps in relation thereto, are calcula
ted to lead to the most alarming and dangerous con
sequences; and that all such efforts have an inevi
table tendency to diminish the happiness of the peo
ple and endanger the stability and permanency of
the Union, and ought not to be countenanced by any
friend of our political institutions.”
“That the foregoing proposition covers and was
intended to embrace the whole subject of the slave
ry agitation in Congress; and, therefore, the Demo
cratic party of the Union standing upon the Nation
al Platform [what Platform ?] will abide by aud ad
here to the faithful execution of the acts known as
the compromise measures settled by the last Con
gress, the act for the reclamiog of fugitives from
service, included; which act, being designed to car
ry out an express provision of the Constitution, can
not with fidelity thereto, be repeuled or so changed
as to destroy or impair its fttieiency.
Resolved' That we will resist all attempts at re
newing, in Congress or out of it, the slavery agita
tion under whatever shape and color the attempt
may be made.”
Mr. Fillmore was the almost universal choice of
the Southern Whigs for President in 1852. Possi
bly some of them, under the influence of new lights,
may pretend to want confidence in him now. If
so, we beg their attention to the following extract
from the Whig Platform of 1852, and ask which is
the more sound, Mr. Fillmore’s or the Whig Plat
form I —with which they were then not only perfect
, ly satisfied, but delighted. Here is the extract:
THE WHIG PLATFORM OF 1852.
“That the series of measures commonly known as
the Compromise, including the fugitive slave law,
are acquiesced in by the Whig party of the United
States, as a settlement, in principle and substance—
a final settlement—of the dangerous and exciting
questions which they embrace; and so far as the fu
gitive slave law is concerned, we will maintain the
same, and insist on its strict enforcement, until time
and experience shall demonstrate the necessity of
further legislation to guard against evasion or abuse,
not impairing its present efficiency ; and we depre
cate all further agitation of slavery questions as
dangerous to our peace, and will discountenance
all efforts at the renewal or continuance of such
agitation, in Congress or out, of it, whatever,
wherever, or however the attempt may be made ;
and we will maintain this system ns essential to
the nationality of the Whig party and integrity of the
Union.
There yon have the three platforms; read them
carefully and scan them closely, and determine
whether either is better than Mr. Fillmore’s. So
far from it, every candid man will be forced to ad
mit, that both the Democratic and Whig parties of
1852, only followed in the track marked out by Mr.
Fillmore’s Message in 1851, more than six months
before either Convention assembled. And they as
sured the South that they could not desire or demand
more for the protection of Southern rights and insti
tutions than their plat forms claimed.
The Nashville Banner publishes the foregoing ex
tracts, and says what no man who values his reputa
tion for truth, will pretend to controvert : “Now, it
will not be pretended that Mr. Fillmore Ims de
parted one iota from the positions occupied by him
in 1850, and rc-affirmed in biannual message of
1851.”
The Banner continues : “As the opinions, then,
of the candidates for the Presidency on the subject
of slavery and slavery agitation are to be considered
the test of merit; as the Democrats and Old Line
Whigs still profess adherence to their respective
platforms of 1852 ; and as those platforms, or the
portions of them which relate to the subject of slave
ry, are Fillmore all over , what better can the De
mocrats and Old Line Whigs do than support Mr.
Fillmore —what safer and truer man can they hope
to find thau he !”
The liuperinl Baby.
The Empress Eugenie has presented Louis Na
poleon with a son. All France is said to be very
much delighted at the event. The dynasty of the
ex-special constable is supposed to be secured. As
the title of King of Rome was not a very fortunate
one to the last possessor of that name, it is intended
to call this child King of Algiers. What the other
monarchs of Africa will say to this latest aspirant to
an ebony crown is not known ; but if the juvenile
King should be heir to his father’s vices, these sable
monarchs will become quite fair in comparison with
him.
Concerning the chances of the baby ever mount
ing the throne of France, the odds appear to be
slightly against Eugenic's little pledge of affection.
The French have no great reverence for heirs pre
sumptive or apparent, and an especial dislike to the
rule of babes or sucklings. If Louis Napoleon were
soon to die, it is most likely the French would be
come Republicans or Orleanists. The life of the
French Emperor is not very secure ; imprisonment,
dissipation and care have made his eight and forty
years bear as heavily on him as would sixty
years on one who had led a peaceful career. He
has already arrived at the age when his uncle was
compelled to surrender the crown of France for the
rock of St. Helena, uud unless he can place himself
at the head of his army and prove himself to be a
warrior, it is most probable lie has already reached
the culminating point in his career. A reign of
peace is not for him : and battles won by a genera*
of a higher calibre than Pelissier or St. Amaud,
would raise a dangerous rival to power. The throne
of the father may be made to rock as much as the
cradle of the child, and ere the Imperial infant is
able to distinguish between a coral and a crown,
the curtain may have descended on the last scene of
the imperial drama.
A Wild Cat Banker in Trouble.
The Postmaster of Chicago, it is said, has been
dabbling extensively in the whiskey trade, and wild
cat banking business, being the principal owner of a
saloon and a wild-cat bank. But the charter elec
tion drew so heavily upon the latter that it collapsed
soon after, leaving his credulous depositors minus
about $35,000. He and his friends nave been .en
gaged for some davs in attempting to ascertain
whether a ‘‘bank,” like “truth, “when crushed to
earth will rise again.” After a careful investiga
tion they have found that it “won't,” and so they
iTave determined, as we learn from the Chicago
Democrat, to distribute its assets pro rata, to the
depositors aud other creditors. It appears that $25,-
000 of its funds have been loaned to his saloon,
upon his own endorsement, and $25,000 more to him
self. The whole assets of the defunct bank, inclu
ding this sum of $50,000, amount to $85,000. Its
liabilities amount to $120,000. Only 85,000 have
been accounted for, leaving a deficit of $35,000.
This is an admirable picture for the study of the
people in those sections of Georgia where the cir
culation of the bills of the Wild Cat Banks are tole
rated, and we commend it to their attention. It
may be set down as a fixed fact: whenever yon see
a bank or individuals resorting to all sorts of tricks
and devices to evade the law, and to do what the law
never contemplated they should do, that they are
not honest, and are unworthy of confidence. Watch
the career of the Wild Cat Banks and Bankers, and
you will see ihis remark verined.
Negro Murder near Mount Meigs. Ala.—
A brutal murder was committed on Saturday last on
the person of Mr. Thomas J. Capeheart, who was
acting overseer and sole managar of the plantation
interest of Mr. John G. Williams, of North Carolina,
by a negro man named Harry Gauze, belonging to
said Williams, whose plantation is situated within
a few miles of the village of Mount Meigs, in Mont
gomery county, Ala. Mr. Capeheart was about to
chastise Harry for being idle, when the negro rushed
behind him and felled him to the ground, and then
stabbed him with a knife in sixteen different places,
either of the wounds being sufficient to produce
death. Two negro women, in endeavoring to pre
vent the murder, were severely cut by the despera
do. and their recovery is attended with doubt. Mr.
Capeheart was a native of Bertie county, N. C., and
during the two years he had lived in Alabama, he
had drawn around him many friends. The murder
er took to the woods, and has not since been heard
of. The citizens of Mount Meigs offer a reward of
S2OO for his apprehension. We refer to their adver
tisement in another colume. It is supposed that the
murderer is attempting to make his way to North
Ceroiiaa.
The Secretary of the Treasury on the (’nr.
rencs.
The state of the finances appeareutly causes
much uneasiness to lion. J ames Gi THniE, Secreta
ry' of the Treasury of the United States. He calls
the attention of Congress to the matter in his recent
report, and after alluding to the number of small
notes in circulation, exprsses an opinion that the
Constitution was not intended to allow the charter
tering of banks by the States, and that “the grad
ual increase of banks, banking capital aud bank
note circulation, calls for repressive action under
appropriate State legislation’’ and adds, that “if the
States shall continue the charter and multiplication
of banks, with authority to issue and circulate
notes as money, and fail to invest Congress with
the necessary power to prohibit the same, Congress
may be justified in the exercise of the power to levy
an excise upon them, and thus render the authority
to issue and circulate them valueless.” In an ap
pendix, we learn that the bank circulation of the
country in 1835, was $103,000,000, while in 1855, it
had increased to $187,000,000. The number of
banks, which in 1845 was 707, had advanced in 1855
to 1307. Mr. Guthrie looks with alarm to the day
when these 1307 banks shall be increased to two,
three, four or five thousand. As a panacea for his
financial difficulty, he suggests the prohibition of
the issue of dollar notes, and the gradual exten
sion of the prohibition to notes of a higher denomi
nation.
Mr Guthrie seems to be one of thoso gentle
men who are afflicted with two hobbies, called cen
tralization and a hard cash currency. The attempt
to interfere with States’ Rights, and to transfer to
the United States Secretary of the Treasury or Con
gress the power to decide what amount of currency
each State shall enjoy, merits the severest censure.
It is rather late in the day for Mr. Guthrie to call
in question the constitutional rights of States to
charier bauks. Newly every State in the Union
has asserted the right, and considering the power of
money and the helpless position the South would be
placed in if at the mercy of unscrupulous men in
Washington, there should be no right wo should
more jealously maintain. Centralization is but the
modern name for tyranny, and it would require a
man of far higher intellectual capacity than Mr.
Guthrie, to cause the word to fall smoothly on the
ear.
The increase of banks and bank-notes has been
in proportion far less than the increase of population
or commerce, during the years Mr. Guthrie names,
and can be no cause for alwm. All we have to
guard against are the bauks of Wild Catiana and
their spurious issues. ,The suppression of small notes
would not exterminate these, for they spring up,
fungus like, in a night, and live only on the credulity
of the people. The State and the intelligent citizen
can deal far more effectually with these pests than
can the Federal Government. As regards the ’gra
dual increase of solvent banks and bank issues, it
should be a subject of rejoicing rather than bewail
ing- It speaks well for our enlarged wealth and our
enlarged numbers.
Has any one among us too much money, that Mr
Guthrie should cry out against increased issues ?
Does lie suppose that the amount of currency which
sufficed for thirteen million people would be enough
to-day for twenty-six million, or that the amount
which we now have will be enough for thirty or for
ty millions of people, that he Bhould grieve at the
anticipated increase of the bauk circulation ? The
suppression of one dollar and larger notes would ne
cessurily reduce the currency mid prove disastrous
to commerce, and the suggestion should be summa
rily condemned.
The hard cosh theory is so supremely ridiculous
that it scarcely deserves notice in these enlightened
days. It is founded on the strange notion that nature
stamped gold and silver for money, and that these
metals will always be productive enough for the pe
cuniary wants of man. At a time like the present,
when the specie in this or any other commercial
country docs not represent one thousandth part of
the commercial transactions, the advocacy of this
doctrine borders upon imbecility. If we were lim
ited to a specie currency, we might bid farewell to
our commercial greatness aud all ideas of progres
sion, and resign ourselves to the sad fate of rapidly
falling into the rudest state of barbarism. Mr.
Guthrie’s notions would have been admirably
[ adapted for ante-diluvian days, but since the flood,
we have been so borne on the onward tide, that we
cannot appreciate a school, which was founded, we
t presume, by Noah’s grandmother, and of which the
Secretary of the Treasury is almost the last survi
f ving disciple.
Walker and FilihuMterriom.
Now that the war in the East has come to an end,
and Gortschakoff, Todelben and Pf.lissier
have won a name, for their gallant defence and at
tack on Sebastopol, and General Simpson is attend
ing to Ids rheumatism, we turn to General Walker
and Central America, rather than full back listlessly
on the piping times of peace.
Very amusing is it to witness the quandary in
which certain writers are placed, concerning the he
• roof Filibustcrdom. They know not whether to
praise or abuse him, being uncertain whether he will
succeed or not. They are all afraid of what “Mrs.
Gkundv will say.” Like Mr. Marcf, they would
be glad enough to recognize Walker, if they could
preserve their gentility at the same time; but they
do not like their polite cousins on the other side of
the Atlantic calling them filibusters, especially
when they are doubtful about the success of the
cause.
When that gallant English filibuster, Rajah
Brooke, took possession of Borneo, a few years
ago, there was no hesitation about recognizing him
in Great Britain. Messrs. Cobden, Bright and
Hume called him pirate, and many other harsh
names, but they were in a most woful minority in
the House of Commons, and at last thought it advi
■ sable to be silent. When that notorious filibuster,
Louis Napoleon, gained a foothold on France,
the English Ministry eagerly acknowledged him;
the French war in Algeria was a filibustering affair;
the British conquests in India, and in every other,
quarter, are filibustering movements; Russia’s in
vasion of Poland and the Principalities revealed the
same filibustering spirit; in fact, the three great
European powers, England, France and Russia, are
incarnate with the spirit of Filibusterdom.
The charge of filibustering, when leveled against
Americans, may be borne very philosophically.
The title of Border Ruffians, spitefully bestowed on
Southern men in Kansas, lost all its sting when they
calmly accepted it. So with filibusterism, when we
admit that there are restless, ambitious men born
among us, who wander forth to seek adventure aud
sometimes profit by it, we may as well give them a
name. Walker, the filibuster, sounds well enough.
A man of stem courage, indomitable will, and won
dreus energy, who creates order out of disorder, and
a land of promise out of Chaos, rises up before us.
The -rank of Commander-in-Chief of the Nicara
guan army, he uobly wins. The government which
he establishes is as legitimate us any that preceded
it. Fifty revolutions, full of sound and fury, had
gone before it; why should the one aud fiftieth be
unacknowledged solely because American citizens
were connected with it, and it augured better re
sults ?
The war which Costa Rica has declared against
General Walker, is caused solely by the jealousy
which the Spanish half-breeds have against Ameri
cans. Walker proffered them friendship, and they
returned him insult. Not only this, but they sought
to raise an insurrection in Nicaragua by vilifying
the Americans. In the battle that is waging be
tween the Costa Ricans and Gen. Walker and his
little army, we confess that all our sympathies urc
with the latter.
(‘oiifiiHion \Vor«e Confounded.
The blunders which European journalists com
mit in discussing American affairs have more than
once been exposed of late. The London Morninp
Rost, (Lord Palmerston’s organ) appears to have
reached the climax of absurdities in n ponderous
editorial on Central American affairs. There, Pre
sident Rivas, of Nicaragua, is supposed to be the es
tablished authority of the country, against whom
General Walker is making war, and the refusal of
Mr. Marct to recognize Col. French, is declared
to have been merely a pretext to avoid recognizing
the envoy of Rivas. Finally, the Post soberly ar
gues the question whether in the event of Rivas de
claring wur against the United States, the allied
Powers of Europe should not view Nicaragua us a
weak stute, subjected to the aggression of a power
ful one, as was Turkey when assailed by Russia,
and come to the rescue of Rivas and Nicaragua,
from the assaults of Walker and the United States.
The Post has been proverbially deaf, but we scarce
ly thought that it was so blind. The idea of En
gland in its horror of filibusters coming to fight
against Walker, in defence of his brother filibus
ter Rivas, is certainly rich.
United States Statistics.—ln 1850 the popu
lation of the United States was 23,211,167 ; for 1855
it is set down at 27,368,661. Increase in five years
4,127,497, or 18$ per cent. In the Northeastern
States, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa-
chusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Fork,
New Jersey and Pennsylvania, the increase for the
live years amounted to 11 percent. In the South
eastern States, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Flori
da, the increase was 11$ per cent. In the South
western States, Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Missouri, Arkansas, and
Texas, 17 per cent.; and in the Northwestern States,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, lowa,
and Minnesota, the increase was 29 per cent. The
maximum and minimum of increase in the States
composing these four divisions were as follows :
Northwestern—Massachusetts 14 and Vermont 3
per cent.; Southeastern—Florida 26 and Delaware
and South Carolina 5 percent., (increase in Geor
gia 22 per cent., Maryland, next greatest, 11 per
cent.:) Southwestern—Texas 75 and Alabama 8 per
cent.; Northwestern—Minnesota 500 and Indiana
20 per cent. In the States enumerated it will be
seen that the largest increase was in Minneeto, and
the smallest in Vermont.
In the Northeastern division the largest increase
of wealth, from 1850 to 1855, was in New York and
Connecticut—3o per cent—and the smallest—2 per
cent—in New Hampshire ; Southeastern division,
largest increase in Florida—loo per cent., (Georgia
and Virginia 20, Maryland 11 per cent.;) smallest,
2 per cent., North Carolina; Southwestern, largest
increase, 100 per cent., in Texas, smallest, 6 per
cent., Tennessee, (Kentucky 33, Louisiana 30 ; )
Northwestern, largest 210, lowa, smallest. 40 per
cent., Indiana. In 1875 the population of the Uni
ted States will be about sixty millions.
Death of a Veteran of the Revolutionary
War.—Capt. Josiah Parris, father of Hon. Virgil D.
Parris, died on the 23d ult., in Buckfield, Maine, age
96 years and 7 months. When but about sixteen
years old, he enlisted in the army of the Revolution
and served through six campaigns. He was with
Generals Green and Sullivan, in the Battle at Rhode
Island, August 21, 1798, and was supposed to be
the last survivor of that hard fought contest.—
Capt. Parris was born in Pembroke, Mas*., and set
tled in Buckfield in 1793, where he has resided ever
since. Os about ninety revolutionary soldier* who
aettled ia that tow a, ho was fee look
A Pence Problem.
Peace is once more dawning on Europe, and, as
at the close of the last great war, financial embar
rassments are being felt. Norway and Turkey are
suffering from monetary crises, and commercial men
m France look forward to the announcement of
peace as the forerunner of distress. It seems strange
that a return to industrial pursuits should bring with
it misery and want, and yet such is thought by some
to be undoubtedly the prospect in Europe. France,
from the reckless speculation earned on there under
the sanction of the government, is peculiarly sus
ceptible to a panic, and all that her financial men
can do is to retard the evil day as long ns possible.
They cannot avert it. The bubble must burst, ex
pand it as they may. Iu enquiring into the cause of
distress being the attendant of peace, we shall keep
the present condition of France from our view.
\\ hen peace was proclaimed in Europe, after the
downfall of Napoleon, there was rejoicing for a day’
but soon consternation seized the minds of commer
cial men in England, and trade, which had flourish
ed for many years, became almost stagnant. Con
fidence was destroyed, and the rumor that the gov
ernment intended to return to a specie currency,
paralyzed the nation. The threat was shortly car
ried out, and bankruptcies became general. During
the long season of distress that ensued in England,
it is thought not too much to say, that as many lives
were destroyed as during the whole of the win's of
Napoleon. Peace has its victims ns well as war;
but while the latter frequently die to save their
country’s honor, the former too often perish solely
in consequence of the callousness or ignorance of
statesmen.
The long reign of peace and poverty in England,
offers a striking instance of the truth of the Swedish
Chancellor’s words, “You know not with how little
wisdom the world is governed.” With war, En
gland enjoyed proMmty, because she had an ex
pansive currency; with peace, she suffered dire
want, because she had a contracted currency. At
the time when it was natural to suppose that popu
lation and commerce would increase, her ministers
passed a measure that caused her people to starve
and her trade to stagnate. The gross blunder that
the ministers committed, originated in supposing
that with the elose of the war the expenses of the
war would cease, and that a restricted currency
would serve the purpose of an increasing population
ami an expensive commerce.
As the war in the East has been waged at an im
mense outlay of money and an increase to the in
debtedness of nations, so must peace bring with it
misery, unless the monetary laws be changed. War
is, in fact, a Jtime for loans, and peaco a time for
settlement, and whether a country agree to pay the
capital, or merely the interest thereon, it must
cause distress if its means are still as restricted as
before. This result is believed to be inevitable and
will sufficiently explain why Europe is dreading the
difficulties that peace will bring in its train.
The remedy for this evil would boa revisal of the
currency laws; for so long ns gold is made the basis
of all so long will it be the fate of the mil
lions to be steeped in poverty and wretchedness.
Money must expand with the growth of a people,
aud this it can never safely do while it is dependent
on the yield of a precious metal. One would think
from the blind reverence offered to gold that the
Supreme Power had commanded us to worship it,
instead of selfish men iu the darkest ages of the
world’s history having converted it to a use for
which it was never adapted.
The Lecture of 31r. Simms.
One of the most interesting Lectures that we
remember to have heard was deliveied at Masonic
Hall last night by Mr. W. Gilmore Simms. His
subject was the Ante-Colonial History of the South ;
and lie sought to show that a race whose origin was
to be traced either to the Northmen, Irish or Welsh,
had inhabited Georgia and Carolina several centu
ries before the advent of Columbus. The ruined
cities und temples which have been discovered, ho
concluded, were built by this race; and he sup
ported his theory by many striking facts, such, for
instance, ns the Indian tribes having Irish and
Welsh words in their language, and of their reciting
legends of battles which their forefathers had waged
with a great people, who dwelt in cities.
The second Lecture of Mr. Simms will be delivered
to morrow (Saturday) evening, and will be a con
tinuation of the same theme.
Mr. Simms’ Second I.ectue.
The continuation of Mr. Simms’ interesting series
of pictures from the Ante-Colonial History of the
South, on Saturday evening, at Masonig; Hall, trea
ted of the Iberians and the Gauls in their search for
adventure and treasure on these shores in the six
teenth century. Columbus was named but cursori
ly, in nliuding to the dificulties that he had to sur
mount before he could set forth on his wondrous
voyage. The true man, God appointed, always
brings the hour, said Mr. Simms ; and the dreams
and superstitions of the Spaniards tended to great
results. God forbid, exclaimed the lecturer, that
we should ever cease to dream of conquering the
impossible! Glowing descriptions were given of the
explorers who preceded DeSoto, but he was made
the chief actor on the scene, and from his parting
from his young and loving bride in Cuba, to his sad
death on the banks of the Mississippi, his career was
delineated with amazing power. The French Hu
guenots, who sought shelter in South Carolina from
religious persecution at home, were described ; and
their poor knowledge of colonization, their dissen
sion among themselves, and their cruel requital of
the love of the fair Indian maidens, dwelt upon.—
The last band of Huguenots met in Florida the reli
gious cruelty they had fled to avoid, and were mas
sacred by the satanic Spaniard, Melendez, on the
spot where St. Augustine now stands. The retribu
tion that followed the fanatic soldier was portrayed,
and the brilliant lecture closed with an earnest ap
peal to the nascent poet or painter who might be
present, to enter the grand art-wilderness that these
and many kindred scenes promised to him, and
thus give to the records of this country an imperish
able renown. _
Mount Vernon.
The Carolina Spartan , of March 20, (published
at Spartanburg, S. C.,) publishes the following let
ter very recently addressed by the proprietor of
Mount Vernon to a lady residing in that town, and
who is prominently interested in the ladies’ move
ment for the purchase of Mount Vernon.
The very curt note to Mi’s. Wofford, sounds
very like this descendant of Washington felt that
his dignity was insulted by the proposition to buy
Mount Vernon, although he was quite willing to
give it to the Government for five and perhaps ten
times its value. We think he is a fit subject for
having Col. Benton’s operation, “cutting for the
simples,” performed on him :
Mount Vernon, March 14th, 18o(».
To Mrs. Maria S. Wofford —Madam I have
received your letter of March Gth, respecting the
purchase of Mount Vernon by the Indies of different
parts of the United States.
In reply, I respectfully inform you that Mount
Vernon is not for sale.
I am, most respectfully, your ob’tserv’t,
John A. Washington.
Mount Vernon.—A writer in the Alexandria
Gazette says that Mr. Washington will sell the Mt.,
Vernon estate to the State of Virginia, but to none
else. The sale to the State of Virginia, the writer
says, was not included in the recent letter of Mr.
Washington to a South Carolina lady, in which
he stated that Mt. Vernon was not for salo. The
Gazette expresses the belief that the writer state*
accurately Mr. Washington's views on the subject
Execution of a Hardened Murderer.—
John Fitzgerald, the young man who murdered
his father, mother, and younger brother in the town
ofSterling, N. Y., on the night of the 27th of August
lust, was executed at Auburn on Monday. Jle dis
played the most callous indifference to the last, and
stated that if he could only have managed to kill his
brother Patrick, he should have died content. The
day previous to his death, he was visited by quite a
large number of citizens. He demanded of some of
them twenty-five cents each for the privilege of see
ing him. On one occasion, when quite a number
were waiting in the hall, lie said that in order to de
spatch business more rapidly, he would “show him
self to the crowd for one dollar." The most of the
money he collected in this way, was distributed
among the other prisoners in the jail. On the scaf
fold he preserved the same stolid indifference ; but
the last words he uttered, were in a whisper to Mr.
Morgan, his counsel, when he asked, if the sheriff
had any chloroform to give him.
A Boy Torn to Pieces by a Cuban Blood
hound. —The Cleveland (Ohio) Leader , of the 3!at
ult, records the death of a boy named Ephraim
Whitehead, aged eight years, who was attacked
in a field, near his father’s house, in that city, and
torn in a most awful manner by a bloodhound slut,
owned in the neighborhood. The poor little fellow
only lived half an hour after he was found. When
he was discovered, the question was asked whether
it was the bloodhound that attacked him. He had
scarcely strength enough to half articulate “Yen.” —
The hound has since been killed.
The Improvement of Ireland.—We are in
debted, says the Philadelphia Inquirer, to a friend
for some official statements, showing the extent of
the sales of the Encumbered Estates in Ireland,since
1850. The aggregates are immense. The total
amount of the public sales is thus given:—
£ 14,318,594. Private sales, £3,013,073. Total,
£17,331,667. Or something like $85,000,000. The
changes effected by this system in various parts of
Ireland, are of the most remarkable kind. It is
stated that of the 2,800,000 acres in Mayo and Gal
way, which, a few years ago, afforded nothing but
picturesque scenery for the tourist, nearly one third
are now in the possession of new owners, who arc
draining, erecting farmsteads, and cultivating on
approved agricultural principles. The wages of la
borers have doubled, and an independent middle
class is springing up, and in such hands all the re
sources of the country will be developed.
Visit of the Georgia Hussars to Charles
ton. The Georgia Hussars, of Savannah, have
been on a visit to Charleston, where they attended
a military display, on Washington Course, on Tues
day morning, and in the evening were entertained
at a banquet given to them by the Charleston Light
Dragoons, at St. Andrews’ Hall. The following
toast was drank, with all the honors:
The State of Georgia .- Founded by a noble old
patriot soldier, her son. and
maintained the spirit and exampleof Oglethorpe.-
Broad as she is in area, m resources, and >n physi
cal advantages, she owes her proud appellation ot
“the Empire State of the South, to the genius, pa
triotism and valor of her sons.
Small Pox is Lcmpkin.—A case of Small Pox
has occurred in Lumpkin county, in the person of a
negro boy belonging to Mr. Palmer, about twelve
miles from Dahlonegah. The citizens held a meet
ing and resolved to adopt prompt measures to ar
rest its progress.
The Savannah Republican of the Ist inst., states :
We learn from planters, that the recent freshets and
cold weather have interfered materially with the
planting of the rice crop on the Ogeecliee and Alta
maha rivers, especially on the upper and inland
plantation*.
Monarchy Ahead.
• r l he correspondence on the enlistment question,
which Lord Palmerston has withheld from the
British Parliament, Ims reached England through
the American newspapers, and the London Times
and other journals have been- busily commenting on
the subject. As usual, the Times is foremost in
extravagance and dUingenousness. Ic opens the
case with special pleading, and, taking np Mr. Mar
cus charge against Mr. Cramtton, of having dis
regarded the sovereignty of the American people
in their own territory, attempts to show that as sov
ereignty is not defined by law, wo can have no
sovereignty. It then vaguely asserts that Mr.
Marcy is well aware that Mr. Crampton has not
transgressed our laws ; whereas Mr. Marcy in his
last published communication dearly proves that
the British Minister has violated both our municipal
and international laws. The most rcmarkuble part
of the article, however, is the warning given to ua
by the I’tmcs in these bombastic words :
The American journals seem generally to tako
neither the legal iior the transcendental view of the
question. They go at once into material resources
und political consequences. The United States they
consider to be better prepared for war than any
other people in the world, even though their small
quantity of shipping and stores might put them a
year or two iu the arrear. They have the men, the
wealth, the spirit, the territory, and everything that
gives smews to war—and, of course, it would *be
successful against this old aristocrntical country —
would wake the sleeping spirit of democracy, and
drive England to prefer the good will aud example
of America to her own ancient institutions. HV are
ready to concede Hint there is on amount of proba
bility in these calculations. We believe the United
States to be, in most material conditions, about the
wealthiest people in the world. Nor do we think
that England could suffer the frequent defeat of her
expeditions, the destruction and disgrace of her ar
mies, the loss of her merchantmen and the obstruc
tion of her trade, without great cost and loud com
plaints. But these are, to say the least, very dau
gerous speculations. They have often been indulged
m with equal confidence aud constantly disappointed.
\\ ur rarely does anybody any good, unless it be the
few soldier adventurers whom it raises to the first
ranks in society and extravagance. Such a war as
the American papers seem to desire, and for which
their statesmen are ho anxious to find cause, would
be quite as likely to affect the relations of American
society as those of the English. It could hardly fail
to hasten that inevitable day when the republic , like
all other republics , particularly those of the New
World , is to bloom into empire.
The fight between the baker and the chimney
sweep, where the flour and soot were so freely
beaten about that it was difficult to say at the con
clusion which was the baker, and which the sweep,
was nothing to this. A war between England and
the United States, according to the Times, is to be
avoided, because it might mukc Great Britain* a Re
public, aud America an Empire. The growth of
liberal principles is very apparent in England, and
the old ship, the British Constitution, is so drifted
about on troubled waters, that she may at last tako
refuge in a Republican port ; but these United
States sinking on the quicksands of empire is more
than wc can credit. The sentence is so pretty, that
it loses much of its solemnity. “It could hardly
fail to hasten that inevitable day when the republic,
like all other republics, particularly those of the
New World, is to bloom into empire.”
Our great and glorious Republic is a bud—a ten
der, fragile bud —that is to bloom into an imperial
rose! The fiat has gone forth : it is the inevitable
fate of republics, and we must follow suit. linpe
’ rialism is like the measles catching. The spectacle of
s royalty in Europe is so imposing that Republican!*
cannot resist its influence. The memory of W ash
ington, and Jefferson, and Adams, and their
compatriots, is to fadeaway, and Lons Napoleon
3 a:id the squawling King of Algiers to rise before us.
3 That royal and very costly puppet, Victoria, with
* h*r endless family; that amiable cut-throat, the
; King of Naples and Maccaroni, and that elderly
, gentlemen, the Pope, with his Romish prayers and
French bayonets, ure 100 seductive. Wo have,
however, one difficulty in our way, which puzzles us
1 mightily. Where is our royalty ? Can we persuade
3 Frank. Pierce or Mr. Marcy to don the imperial
- robes, or will General Walker, when ho has
[• whipped the Central Americans, proclaim himself rou
1 Emperor ?
r To be serious, does the Times , which prides itself
l on being the first journal in Europo believe that wo
do not sec the humiliation and shame which royalty
I and aristocracy have ever brought upon the world,
not to profit, by the warning ! Every year our Re
publican institutions are more endeared to us, and
their benign influence is more widely fell : and the
millions of victims from imperial and monarchical
oppression, who tuke refuge on our shores, reveal
l ° distinctly the advantages which our Repulican eoun
l " try possesses in their sight. The Times must start
II some other bugbear than Imperialism to fright our
k- woll j H
Outrage on a Judge in New Orleans.
During the examination of a case connected
with the late contested election for Sheriff in New
Orleans, on Wednesday lasi, before Judge Robert
son, of the District Court, a man named Daunoy
intruded himself between the Judge’s sent and the
Clerk’s desk, and upon being ordered to stand out
of the way by the Judge, refused to obey. He was
accordingly forcibly expelled from the Court by one
of the deputy Sheriffs. There was some difficulty in
accomplishing this measure as Daunoy forcibly re
sisted, but Judgo Robertson cried out “remove
him, and if there is any resistance mode, kill him.”
The Judge, then wrote out his commitment for ten
days for contempt of Court, and orderedjlie deputy
to execute it. In the meantime, the friends of Daij -
noy had assembled outside the Court, and had de
termined to prevent the arrest. Mr. Randeli
II unt, the eminent counsel, seeing the threatning
state of affairs, advised Judge Robertson to ac
cept the apology of Daunoy. Accordingly Daunoy
was called into Court and on disclaiming all eon
tempt was discharged.
The iext morning as Judge Robertson was go
ing to Court, he was met by Daunoy on Toulouse
street. At first the conversation assumed au aniiea
ble tone, but Daunoy suddenly changed his man
ner, and said, “I want you to apologise for your
conduct to me yesterday.’’ “Apologise !” replied
the Judge, “you have mistaken your man if you
suppose I can apologise for performing my duty.”
Daunoy immediately pushed him off to have him
within reach of a very heavy loaded cane, with
which he struck him a tremendous blow on the
head, which was followed by others in quick suc
cession. The Judge tried to draw his pistol, but one
hand was occupied in parrying the blows, aud he
could not succeed.
Two or three friends of Davnoy’s then jumped
upon the Judge, catching his arms and choking
him, while the chief assailant continued his assault.
The Judge at last succeeded in.drawing his pistol,
but it was wrested from his hands at once. The
beating lasted for some time. One of the Sheriff’s
deputies, who was fortunately passing by, came up
and rescued the Judge from the grip of hismeroi
less foes. The wounds inflicted are very severe.
Southern Medical and Surgical Journal.—
The April number of this valuable periodical is on
our table, freighted with its usual variety of valua
ble information to the Profession, and we take plea
sure in recommending it to them as one among the
best Southern Medical journals of the day. It is
edited by Professor L. A. Dugas and Henry Ros
•ignol, M. D., and printed in this city by James
McCafferty, at $3 per annum, in advance.
The Medical Examiner.—The April number
of this old Standard work is promptly on our table
We have so repeatedly called the attention of tin?
Profession to the merits of this work, that wo only
deem it necessary to say that it contains its usual
variety of original and miscellaneous matter. It is
edited by Samuel L. Hollingsworth, M. I).. and
published in Philadelphia, by Lindsay & Blakim
ton, at $3 per annum, in advance.
Mail Robbery—Five Thousand Dollars Sto
l len. —The Indianapolis (lud.) Journal, of the 27th
8 ult., states that on the 7th or Bth of March, Mr.
3 Demino, the mail agent, missed u Chicago mail,
1 and lie had reason to believe it w r as lost at Michigan
f City. Accordingly special officers w'ere appointed
to detect the thief, and suspicion having fallen upon
r Thomas McDonald, an Irish watchman at the
railway office in that place, he was closely watched.
A few days after, the mails failed to connect, and
! the bags that were lying over were placed in a room
1 which was under the eye cf the officers. There
McDonald was observed stealthily to enter by a
window, and one of the officers immediately raised
a pistol, and ordered him “to stand or die.” He
was secured, and the officers proceeded at once to
search his house. There they found a mail bag, full
of opened letters, envelopes, &c. They demanded
of the prisoner’s wife the money and papers which
her husband had taken from the letters. She show
ed them a trunk in which the “plunder” was con
cealed, and on opening it they discovered SBOO or
S9OO in cash, and near $ 1,000 in drafts. This made
a tolerably plain case. McDonald was shipped for
Indianapolis early next morning. His wife, quite
a good looking young woman, accompanied him.—
McDonald is a stout and not a bad looking man,
who had, up to the time of his arrest, bore a very
good character.
Condition of Walker’s Army.— We have so
many and such contradictory reports of Walker's
army in Nicaragua, that it seems quite impossible
to arrive at the truth.
The New York Sun pretends to have private in
telligence from reliable sources us.to the condition
of the army, and says that “the reports sent to the
United States, or fabricated here, regarding the dis
satisfaction of Walker’s troops, are utterly base
less. Men and officers, with rare exceptions, are
contented, and enthusiastic in the cause they have
espoused. They are paid regularly to the last fartb
ing, and every way better provided for than they
could have expected. The reports of sickness huve
also been exaggerated. Not a man hue suffered
from sickness except from dissipation or his own in
discretion. General Walker will not want for
money or means to defend himself against his ene
mies in Central America. There are capitalists at
New York and at tho South who are advanoing
money. They advance as muob and as fast as is
w'anted.”
It is proper to remark that do not re
gard the Sun very reliable authority, although its
statements may be true.
The Spiritualists.—The missing Collins’ steam
ship Pacific, is made a theme for spiritual manifes
tations in New York. One Mr. Brittor state*
that at a spiritual gathering on the evening of the
23d December, a Mrs. Porter exclaimed, “the
Pacific will be lost, and all on board will perish," and
this communication purported to come from Brit
ton's deceased son. As soon as the exact number
of passengers on board the Pacific had been received,
and all hope for the steamship had been abandoned,
these charlataus had another communication, stating
that the vessel was really lost, and giving the num
ber of passengers as reported in the papers, and a
fancy sketch of the wreck through a collision with
an ioeberg. It is time these stale and misohevious
tricks were thoroughly exposed.
Sad Occurrence.—Mr. John F. Demrhiski, a
Polish exile, committed suicide in Savannah on
Wednesday. His age was about 26, and poverty is
stated to hays b»*n the mum of his ttou&ini&g ths
*t*l dssd,