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BY WM. S. JONES.
\i ( l, I. A SENTINEL.
terms, &c
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u I'll LI mt»M every \V«ilnr«dny
AT TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM
il paid strictly in advance
//• ,Vo7' t Afl) V.V ADVASCE,
HiiEE DOL£iAU3 PER YEAR
| O , r,l HS e INOIVIDUAES MaMline a* Tea
I si X cpiee of the paper will is* put for one
...... t .miTurn'Minm? tlie pajirral the rate of
SIX COPIE3 FOE TEN DOELABS,
t'f to nil who may procure u- 1 ivr eub
re, ao.l fi.rirnwl «.. the money.
TJIE CHiiOinCLE & SENTINEL
iHlht IMi TKI'WKKKI.V,
•»t , ja , ij ii.i* nfliec, ami mailed t«*uh
-■■ nil's*,namely:
)>'■ v B w-t k. if f.-u* by mai!,...*/ per annoiß.
I 'A ( . il l V I-AI Fit o
Tmm of A*v«-rlUln«i.
IMI U t.KKi.r--K. veoly-fivK iron per square
i iui,i. : .. f v thi lii.-l inn rtKm.vul lifty cent*
nr . - I. qwioit insertion.
FOR SALK.
"rOR'sALE,’
i 4 ,j tariffdr-«Mfrtr 'if leavingth£ Btate,
1 ' , .vote-ate. all f-n HU A!, EHTATB in
. ■ W.v' ii ( .#uuty, (lx . r.yfwinting
. ‘f - . c"r h -i I- I Machine,
I i, o ?’all J* to* It, tog. iJicr with ail hi* huiithed
• , „ to rwt-nty tb*>»;«and dollars worth of
t vh -tJi of, at pood prices, at thi*
. . lu rtth*.
.vt-inrig to j/tirchae®, ire respectfully invited
r ... i:l hr given at any time, to suit the pur
.. GLOItUK L BOHIIER
, . :•ft * on, l .a.. June 5, je7wtf
FOR SALE.
f VOW *r « uty LANDS and PLANTATION on the
J hoe river tor sate. It lie* 21 mile* north
nr-., ..tel one mite south of the Boswell Cotton
, :iv, in o«»i*h and I>eKalh comities, containing
j ! i !•« i|’ Ait.” i,inre <<r le**, with 200acre* in eulti
,•; t ~1, i,t the river. Thcretaft good Fr»ine
,-fnd • 1 her .'omuion Building*, with tine Or
\ . j,. |i,.q, he™, and OJierrie* . a rtr*t <%»tt**n
ft Pi-rry u imme»J :ately on the
,1k ■ , ii- Atlanta to Vftper Oe<»rgiß For stir
, . iin-i-t/ir .ipi ty to ih« nuterriberon the premise*.
■ r ‘ WM S. CtUoUAN
FOR SALE.
( t»; ?.i»* •• FARM f»»r *.di\ In Oglethorpe county
1 < ~ .... Grovt Creek, three mile* north
I ii i .n ‘ ijni;.- nitout nine hundred aeri *.
; j. ij I i j<• :rn l prufiuitive, one hundred acres
T for- ill* it land part under good fence,
i: Tin* entire l*nrui being under g**od
v.'f.j.l well watered. On the jmnntaes there i* a
. de. ■ Inn negr«» ln>u«ob, and other necenaary
. n large Uni Hon e and Packing Screw, both
i Thei. up.b . J’laeh an*l Apple Orchards
■ I i lit. Tl.e i.laee is healthy, am! w illiin three
C f. n |irptti A good bargain will In* given.
WM. J. OOILVIK,
FOR SALE.
f for snle my entire Kfv«r PLANTATION,
> Mibn* Ua.. in Harimur
i tut ho h«< ri% er, contain*
i ■ i;Hii» in a line, -late ut cultivation and
- r iii i ■ n . acroiM the
. h. i; i. The aliove will he. for aale ai any
i . .|JS • -'.-I ,i'! pi *•>.>; . i *ii given. Term* hi an it pur
i iiui I If; M A I Tlll’.W AVF.IO; I T
T MiN or TASTE AND CAPITAL.
'4»r‘ irlfter. n tailing to rente-. <t t.» .Smith western
s ». if 4 . nu.pi.‘t .to sell hi* pl.-e-e near Cave Spring,
v- ut'. Valley, FI- yd coUilty, tirt, eoutaillillg dl7
i • lit Ist ipialit v oak and hickory
l v «/* i ill It ltd -urho e uiil to w■(• it ; -souie lt»t) aeres
•1 .j’»d e ~.hu c- .ltd id lag**; tin* t einaindor genet ally
t-m.i. If lots s.n ei*ai •pflngv ufeooi Itittb Limu
ii v:i ,r. t«i* Cmistniit atreuiu , :tn etTeetive water
'\«m vt i'.'intU il.tiunig, orelutrdn of many well seloeted
• ~ rilly ofitpple.-i, and a larg** and cotninodl
lir.eti I' V ling. Mirt-muidetl by lint* .menery, and
■ ■ nil, - mile of the \ iihige, lung noleil for it* educational
. :• i • AU w Jto have examined the preiui.se.s, coti
. .i ‘ ■•.M.ini'Hi that Litis pixre uoiiiiiiiieH tlio cicinont*
■ r;y. let t ility, i*</uv'4.-ut: nc<> and heaitUfuiiMM* to an
a 1 ■ : lum, .t iver, «({uaile<! in thi* country. Hut
• ■ vmir * Ives, and the el.aracter, location
el i • mire#!- ,(if thn place can letrdly fail to Matlsfy you
. i . N’«. I Oi'iie.lO, not Miiiijeet to the Hurt nations
fiher.tarteci ! .>r apply oil tiie premises.
W. I) UOWDKKY.
Ik jyUi-wtf
VALUABLE PLANTATION FOR SALE!
, 'ITf \ /I’D in l. nvmiet county, Ala., on tin* road
< " l * i* I. n llavniivillefo It m>ton, ten miles from
■ I •! m Said farm contain* Itift) acres of land,
c fi.-.l Hide,- g.,od fences, well ditched, and in a high
*• i i tiitvatioii. The improvement* comprise a good
■ ds' I li»i y !■'<*. < oiti.lining fiolir rooms ; a large two
n 1 *l,n House and a lino Screw, recently put
e niKchle and a gotnl .Mill hoiue. The uniui*
id f lll id e v.efl tipihered stud of superior quality.
: plan ».j iia : advantage* over any other in tho
• niih.-rj.oo i, oue lu*il‘l«’i»ig level with rich black toil,
i n o’ i,.H' .‘.Hint luumuoek, lying in the f<*rk of Ash and
i, i.ie d . the m.iir'ie portion of the farutiKahnu*
h *l. oat ieit hy w elite, and tho Kandy by a number of
in* • iV’.e < *prio eonvonlent to the negro tjuar
< • • ileal, having excellent range for
, urd d.i mil! 'I lie plantation will Ik* disposed
.. K it. i . f..p a division ol an ostaU*.
A ini ■. -..i‘ •■ i i elaring to it ran be obtained by ad
- I ■ me, at Tifk K‘ ‘ Macon eounty, Ala. Those
call <>ii tlie Over.-eer.
TIIOS. P. GARY, Fa r
ii,. : u ‘tin f the « .date of W. L. Gary, deeeasud.
. . LLS TOR SALE.
A -v * .. 'Li m*d i-d. roll . to move to Southwes
\ ti ia, i.. m.w offer* his MllXSand LAND
Milt - are united on the Ogeochec River,
• t h bait i. i! from I'owelton, on the road to Cum
■ "I W igt'-u—the liaek parsing daily—has four
• i >v .wo ivheit. and two sorn. Tho Flour
i mi (voiiipb-tid anew. Tho corn eustoiu
< . dii amtaiiy iv. o mill* on tho river, and tho
■v • :„.u il i j.ialauy one. The house is so situ
t . t maiu iu ii ami i c the Saw aud Grist Mills iu
n i mod lie, I' uu'oi k county, along the Ogeechee
m d 1*(. I'l'ek, The Land contains 7!M acres,
,• * < , and will equal any land iu the county in
:• e.u c..rn. vvlmaf, ci :ion or other grains. Those
v\ ’mm . ?'■ lux , w ili. rtll and see for Hiem elves. The
pi.'.ci lu'ii; :li> and bn.-an exeeUimt Well of water in
tn I iu fact no pi Hitation is better fund shed with
.twain. COLrMHUHF. SHIVERS.
WALTON STEAM MILL FOR SALE.
i LI. bo . old, on the ih. t Tucsdar in JULY next.
Ts ("'f-utf the Lo'wrt House door in Monroe, Walton
■mi , v aiualKe Ni gixi tnuti, John, about 30 years old.
t he il • ise .ipd Let formerly occupied by liavis Mc
l m v o'-ar the Steam Mill, containing one half acre,
id'wr !<■ . Tw o Log Carts and appurtenances ; One
t h<r W.i ;• n Also, Forty Shares in the Machine
ry and Isiyld.ii will be offered for sale, and possibly tho
.. ;«• m-•, v wot tie -.dd Thu aU>ie property sold by
• vidor « f the Stockholder*.
Ml i.ci ns . ni> 'uod to said Company aro requested
~. id -n: .a* turllier tudulgtmoo canuot be graut
l) H WALKER.
Ag’t aud Att'y for W. S. M C.
J nne Igfgj. w2t
FORMAN’S IRON PLOW-STOCK
'VIJJ anler a 1. having purchased the patent r»ght
I i ’ lie .itn.ve xalnabb* an*! popular PLOW for tho
ne. - ■ o Richmond. Columbia. Lincoln, Burke, Jeffer
*.V.i i.ni Svi»riMt aud Kmanual, are prepared to
t i.l to planter* nr vlie inanutW. lurer's price. Thi*
.> inch h iu.:do entirely es wrought iron, is a South
*. ut «m \ .<i ; i- been >ndicieuiJy tested to prove
■ ..n m > e • e.dv. breaks and pulvuriso* the soil
'lm.ougldy, e le*s in rough land, ia more easily
tod f<*r deep ... shallow* plowing, hold* the shares
. - i "be. last. incomparably longer, and is, in tlie
n r than any other stock now iu use. Tlii*
■ fi> fully mi stained by numerou* certificate* in
-.-. ion from tho most practical and successful
ii the oeantry. We will have pies lire
. i .-a i uvular containing some of those certificates
. ! a ui re (eirt ic.ilai* description of the plan, to any
ho would like to see them. We are willing to
, , .‘*nt who W given this Plow a fair trial lu
\. . \\i ..i ihe .Southern Cultivator, p. 345, the edi
. ii'-ii w .vk says- “After giving this Plow a fair
i , ,;rl trail xv t: can truly say. that we regard it as
\ 'bi.i l do improvement on all common woodeu
it' >f the kind »•■w in use. For general efticien
t mV enamce, n-. w ell as sp»*cial adaptation to deep
i .th-vM.itig, we know of nothing that surpas>es
■ C ii*!i* «>u the s»s»re of ec.uioiny and durability, it is
. tm. ivaled No plow w ith w hich wo are faini
>. eit • dcniated to re-ist the careless and dos
• .a Plantation NegroO*. aud we doubt not
.... cat . at Co duct ion would be of very great pccu
. .u ;u planting intvn'st of the ooulU."
.s. uis adapted t*' six di*terciit shares or poiuta
every \ ui- ty which a planter will need
i. , . ung t«» the e.\d of tlu* year. These shart**
V J irn Ucd XX iti* the Stock, w hen desired ; though
~j .. .mi smith can make them after ouce seeing
t; hr - f«u . .ninth's, fur Shops, or for Plantation*, will
•v « \ ,•-> r. M- natde terms. Apply at the Hardxvare
n \ ti : ; -I.;, or address 1. C. KITTEN Sc Co.
. l"' wtf Augnsta, Ga.
A BEAtmrUL FARM FOR SALE.
\1 T •J. Lbe sold. het\*r** the Court-house door in the
If , wa ot Summerville. Chattooga county, ou tho
• '! i.v •‘dux’ iu JVI.Y next, the F ARM known a*
i, V.** bid i . the estate of John K Moore.
-v f.M (be pn. f dtstvibufom lu tween tho heirs of
• , .? • { Families in the Uautiful valley of
i ,r :rv.» th«*CJurtt»*»' : ra river, and c«*i,-tats x»f near
. u * . of-fb'st quality laud, about oue huu
u»d * v . ; vxhivh is riv.V Ivottvxm—one hnmlusl
< r. au d,. well tVocvst. aud very productive There
■ m s'u- ;»»»■ r asa h.-gc v tYaioed Dwxlling House,
CIO-, r . i .'ns, well finished good Negro
, . ; l mild mgs; go d w ater, and in fact, ail
... • .*iy to »uakc thi* (As it is universally eon*
a. oft!.* rno-i desirable Farms iu all that
l •* .mV fell lufonnatum In regard to the aU»ve
v * - .'c;v»c apfdv l*v lott**r. »»r jhTsxuuvllv. t«»
>\ v K ooivT, iMWlii, or JOHN B MIM>KE.
i erms xv ill be made to suit the pur-
JANE MOORE,
Adm’x of J R. Moore, decoascst.
N i' 'T’u» almve can hr disposed es at private sale,
> -’ •« ' U -f full ace wrD-td
S4O REWARD."
|> Fx V\\ \\ il-.' silis riboronlth Mav. t Xmto
I l M i mu • t NYASIUNUTOS. about 45 years old.
* n n«' 'aches high, weighing about lbser
•b> i. - » s, !x he wdl make his wav to Tennessee,
Xax rwtx‘y . vrs ag* . and stay etfiu Madiaouv die
,'v, M- .us . inly, lennessee, about nine mouths .and
■v ... , *. Uwho ho belonged to. He has in rompxny
\, ■V in lieUm.uiug to W. W. Simps,*r.
~! |’d - .dH*ut years old about 5 feci oer 10
.. \x, glis about ItiO or 170 l&s., both dark eom
i hey were !:k-t seen UCAT LcxingUxn, Ogle
.» v* Ga . with passes to gw to Ohio. It they
*k« Yfashincton will uot t«‘ll his owner if he can
M • will pay the above reward to any person
- *" MRrthem x taker pnt them iu some safe
,kr :::■»! wccuu Them; or: went v dollars for either
: • »ASHINGTON H. BRANTLEY,
>V W biMPSON,
l " • P 'V. ts. c„ HaawK'k county. Ga
K*y \ Vi...' copy f var t ;u H xg au d forward
d to U.t» * invr 4x>r pay meat. my 2l
reward -
! l\H l ay tie. uL ve sum f r the M*preheo*iou and
I o*. • ! U v xs..y H ARKV Should he
m u a ' '-lam. t»Hi Aug*and the pen* n
h»» eke -.! to bneg huu home, I will pay. i n fc .i
' <K« tv all tin* i). < e-sary exponae* attend U \g
a v . v, lisi*>*y xM.irt T u)i« a ftrsi-rate Brick-layer and
. - atvout iie > * ar- of ape, black cotupu a ion, erect,
. .t *• - pc*. ! -ably ibj pounds. Ho » g*'ing about the
% - .' v:t it any an
tv. It, duabtioss has a false ticket. He claims a
tli m ar vooviUx'. and one also at
i Schi: y*s lbo'burv. 1 tiave heard of hp l*e.ng in
. .■ V, . - . -
. • . ui'-: !vov. or any of Biy other ck-chanks, wuh
u; •K'-i' u trotti me or civ Agent
m> - x,f JOHN H FITTBN. Augusta, fit
sic" bewasd!
frem the-ul scr bor on tfle eight <tf lho|th
• • "'• * —-■>» ••!« • »'I>CKKT*BOOK. mi
- sue > (vr t«>hi money, and two note*; one
f c 5 and XK-H' cents,-nia.le by James M. and William
K W'iae, ptyiN® lb i&«. 4xi«il 2i-th January, due
: : txx diH'inu.-, the otkx r for J§47 50, made by A. E.
payable t * J A St-me, dated at*«■•»« the 2*l of
L-'bui 1 asr. uur one (luy after .late, and <'no small note
,v*eiC which I had pant and P'ru txff the name. 1
v u* the aU<v«; i reward for the recovery of the pep<xra,
kBO .pies;i llf AD i>crs*>Tw anp hereby cautioned
ua ■ 'Tr.,iu'fxtr &a*d iu*lc-. and the makers not u> pay
; eveept to me. G. l>. DANNELLY.
February 13, \«Ad
s3Frbwa*d! ~
I> \N \\VA Y, from the subscriber, residing in Put
k muu eottuly, near Morrill, iu Aagmt bn»t, my Negro
Man FR VNK, 'He is about years old, five feet ten in
v!i • ldtdk ry f »ed«un sb*.e, has a slight imptHiiment inhi*
-;.<*cxji,andb.t h-1 the sight of one eye. He wa* raised
in V’■ginla, aipl has been in Georgia about two years.
T!-■--Vte rc xpurd w»U be paid for his delivery to me,
■ . ,n urn flub that t can get him.
rs JOHN A nARRIS.
*i* : ,.. > .;itb«*rtt R<*cord©r "Will publish till forbid, and for
w a dac *.iat to thi* office for payment
Chronicle &
Iluchnnan —f ln> The “ Itarguin and t «r»*up
\Vk J.ope every reitder of tl/w journal, however
be may have admired or oppoeed that pore pa*not
and eminent statesman, Iltvuv Ci.ai, wV.\ read
the subjoined artieie from the Louinvitie J nrual. —
It pint***# Mr. Hunt an an iu hi# true position, and
hold* him up to th** world a# the only man iu that
great urn! eventful crui# wiui contemplated or ut
tempted to cowuminate an election by bargain and
corruption. I>-t the people look upon this fai t and
then determine whetlnT -neh a man is worthy the
confidence of the Americau people :
F»om thf fjouisvillf■ Jourrutf.
llkskt Clat AM) JaM4B JJI . HANA>NV( hoj*(
tliat what we are alxtut to write w ill command the
attention of all how *t and lioitorable men, awl espe
cially of Old-Line Whig*, the foroier supporter* of
Henry L’lny, and the present reverent of bis ineiiio
r y The boa#t ha# b*-eJi made that the Old-Line
\Vhig* will a- a general rule *opport Mr. Buchanan
for tli** Presidency. V\ •• shall #ee.
All of our old politician* have a vivid recollection
of the tending event# of the election of President
t,v thi.* House of Representative# in the early part of
Mr. City wa# then a nw-mber of the llou#< .
and he cunt hi# vote and influence* in favor of John
(Quincy Adam#, who w#h elected over Gen. Ju< k#on
and Mr Crawford. Mr. Clay was #ubsequently
elected by Mr. Adam# as hi# Secretary of State.
At a later period, Mr. Clay wa# charged by hi# po
litical enemies with having sold hi# vote to Mr.
Adam# for the Secretaryship, and we all know ti.at
this eruei and monstrous charge, though abundant
ly refuted in every form in which refutation wa#
possible or conceivable, involved to a great extent
the ruin of Mr. Clay’s political fortunes. But f«u
that charge, he would afterwards have been elected
President of the United State# almost by acelaina
tion.
Foremost among tltose who charged that Mr.
Clay’s vote was given to Mr. Adamson account of
a promise of the Secretaryship of State wa# General
Jock# m. The General gave the name of Mr. Bu
chanan a# his authority lor tin* truth of the charge.—
Mr. Buchanan had held a pri vale conversation with
him upon the #ubj«*ct, making such statement# as
left no doubt upon the subject in the General#
mind, in fact the General did not hesitate to say,
after that interview, that Mr. Buchanan had come
to him with full authority from Mr. Clay or hi#
friend# to propose term# to him in relation to their
vote#, that is, to propose to vote for him tor the
Prenideney if he would promise offlee to Mr. (May.
Os course Mr. Buchanan wn> called on to put into
the form of a letter what he knew upon the subjeef,
and what be hud slated to Gen. Jackson. He ac
cordingly wrote the letter which afterward# became
famous in the controversy. That letter was most
adroitly written with a view to relieve the author
from tin* excessively painful position in which he
stood. He dared not #ay that he ever had any au
thority from Mr. Clay or hi# friends to propose term.,
to Gen. Jackson, vet lie carefully so shaped hi# lan
guage as to afford Mr. (.’lay's political enemies a
Inetext for repeating the atrocious calumny against
lim. He expressed hi# own belief of the bargain
and corruption story. He said : “77 * ftirU nn h,
Jon' //<(* world Unit Mr. ('lay stud hi* particular
jricndM made Mr. Adamn Vrr*tth-nt , and Clay Sec
retary of Stole. The people n il! draw their on u
inference fnrm sue/, conduct ond the circumstance*
connected with it. 'They Will judge of the cause
from the effect.
Mr. Clay and hi# friends regarded Mr. Buchanan’#
letter as exculpating him and them from the charge
of having authorized Mr B. to propose term# to
General Jackson in relation to their votes, and so
indeed it did. And yet it was so cunningly written
tliut I lie whole of Mr. Clay’s political enemies
throughout the nation considered it and treated it
not as a vindication of tin- Kentucky statesman but
a# “coiilirmation strong” of the truth of the accusa
tion against him. Thus tin* whole culumny origin;*,
ted iu Mr. Buchanan s statement to General .lack
j son, and, when the author of the statement w;i# re
quired by Jackson or hi# organ to write it out in the
shape of alett«*r, lie no performed the appointed task,
ns, while shrinking from any direct confirmation of
tin;impression he had previously given toG« n.Jnck
son, to afford a pretext, to the whole Jackson par
ty to assail Mr. Clay as a traitor to hi# country,
and there was not a Jackson newspaper or a
Jackson |s*litician in tlie nation that (lid not treat
Mr. Buchanan’# letter us evidence of bargain, in
trigue and corruption between Mr. Adams and Mr.
('lay.
The specific charge, ns already stated, which was
made nguiiist Mr. Ulay, ami which Mr. Buchanan
was cited an a witness to prove, wiih that Mr. (’lay
hod proposed to make General Jackson President
it ho himself could be Secretary of State. This charge
involving the inference that Mr. Clay did vote lor
Mr. Adams forthe promise of the Secretaryship, was
the charge by means of which the party that Mr.
Buchanan tiioiiaetcd with ami ever afterwards acted
with, broke down the greatest and best man of his
age.
And now fellow countrymen, we nuk you to mark
the final development of facta. Tim real truth in,
that, instead of Mr. Clay’s KiiggoHting to Mr. liu
chanun during the pendency of tin- Presidential
eleetion in the House of Representatives in 1825,
that lie and his friends wouhlsupport General Jack
son if he could have the Secretaryship of Stall* un
der him, Mr. Buchanan himself actually sought Mr.
Clay, anil, in the presence of a third gentleman, ex
plicitly declared to him, that, in the event, of his vo
ting for General Jackson and the election of the hit
ter, lie would have the Secretaryship. Mr. Clay]s
intimate personal friends often heard him make this
statement in the alter years ofliis life,and we, with
half a dozen others, heard him say in the Presiden
tial campaign of 1811 that he would not be willing
to die without leaving it on record. And lie did not
die without leaving it on record. A few years ago Mr.
Calvin Colton published the Life of Henry Clay, in
the preparation ot which he visited Ashland and hud
free access to|many of Mr. Clay’s private papers, lie
devoted u considerable portion of his book to the
old bargain, intrigue ami corruption story, and Mr.
Clay wrote out one passage of it with his own hand.
That passage was incorporated in the volume word
for word as it came from tlie venerable statesman’s
pen. Ijet the American people read it and ponder
u pou it. Here it is.
“Some time in January, eighteen hundred and
twenty-five, and not long before the election ol
President of the United States by the House of
Representatives, the lion. James Buchanan, then n
member of the House, and afterwards many years
a Senator of the United States from Pennsylvania,
who hud been a zealous and influential supporter of
General Jackso in the preceding canvass, and u s
supposed to enjoy his unbounded coufideiiee, called
at the lodgings of Mr. Clay, in the city of Washing
ton. Mr. Clay was at the time the in the room of Ins
only messmate in the House, his intimate and con
fidential friend, the Hon. R. P. Letcher, since Gov
ernor of Keutueky, then also a member of the
House. Shortly after Mr. liuchanan’s entry into
the room he introduced the subject of the approach
ing Presidential election, and spoke of the eer
taimy of the election of his favorite, adding that- he
would form the most splendid cabinet that the coun
try had ever had. Mr. Letcher asked, how could
he have one more distinguished than that of
Mr. Jefferson, in which were both Madison and
Gallatin ? Where would be be able to find equally
eminent men ? Mr. Buchanan replied, “he would
not go out of this room for a Secretary of State,"
looking at Mr. Clay. This gentleman (Mr. Clay)
playfully remarked that he thought there was no
timber there fit for a cabinet officer, unless it were
Mr. Buehanau himself."
Mr. Clay, while he was so hotly assailed with the
charge of bargain, intrigue ana corruption, during
the administration of Mr. Adams, notified Mr. Bu
chanan of his intention to publish the above occur
rence ; but by the earnest entreaties of that gentle
man, he was induced to forbear doing so.
This passage, we repeat, was written by Mr.
Clay’s own hand. We learned the fact from Mr. Clay
himself, from Mr. Colton, and from an eminently re
spected relative of Mr. Clay. The great Kentucki
an, who had borne the weight of bitter calumny for
more than twenty years, and seen,his highest politi
cal hopes crushed and blasted by it, did not choose
to submit to it longer out of tenderness t*» the repu
tiation of an old political enemy ; nud the deepest
regret felt by his best friends is that he submitted
to it so long. Mr. Buchanan it appears, might, when
called on for his testimony in 18*25, have testified
that Mr. Clay, far from having signified that he
would supjvort General Jackson for the Presidency
iu consideration of the Secretaryship of State, had
positively rejected such a bargain, profered to
him bv Mr. Buchanan himself. Whatever of dis
honor, whatever of infamy,there could be in bar
Siin, intrigue and corruption, attached to Mr.
uchanan, we do not believe that he had any au
thority from General Jackson to say wlmt he said
to Mr. Clay, yet he professed to utter fact and not
opinion. He undertook to assert, ns from authority,
that General Jackson would form tin* most splendid
cabinet the country had ever had. and that Mr.
Clay, if he should support him, would be his Secre
tary of State.
Mr. Clay stated in the passage lie wrote out for
Colton’s biography of hnn, that, while he was so
hotly assailed with the charge of bargain and cor
ruption during the Adams administration, be noti
fied Mr. Buchanan of his iutcution to publish the oc
currence iu question, lut was indue d by that gen
tleman's earnest entreaties to forbear doing s.».
Mr. Coltousaid in his biography that he had under
stood that several times in latter years Mr. Clay had
intimated to Mr. Buchanan that it might be h's
dutv to publish the facta, and that he was dissuaded
from it bv Mr. Buchanan. We also know tlm; Mr
Clay, often, between 1825 and 1*45. contemplated
publishing the facts, and was vehemently urged
by his political friends to do so. ns a matter of jus
tice not merely to his own fame, but to his party,
and that he was prevented only by Mr. Buchanan’s
entreaties. Govemomor Letcher, who was present
at the interview in January, 1825, and heard all that
passed, was always of opinion that Mr. Clay ought
to make the publication, and often told him so. but
Mr. Clay was long suffering, and carried his generos
ity too far.
Mr. Ijftteher, it seems, after the interview of Jan*
uary 1825, rebeved Mr. Buchanan's apprehensions
bv the assurance that ho would not publish the facts
of the interview without Mr Buchanan’s consent.
But so strong and deep was Mr. Letcher's convic
tion that th« facts autrki to be published that he
wrote to Mr. Buchanan upon the subject during the
Presidential conflict of 1*44. declaring, however, in
liis letter that he would not violate the pledge he had
originally given. Mr, Buchanan replied, deprecat
ing the publication and requiring the observance of
the pledge The reply was made with Mr. Buchan
an $ characteristic cunning, and we give it beiuw
entire. One might thiuk, from the language of his
letter, that he had no distinct rocolWtiou of the
conversation with Mr. Clay in Mr. room in
January 1825, and yet that very conversation, ex
ceedingly emphatical as it was. had boon, from
the very first and through all the ensuing years, a
matter of the deepest anxiety and even agitation to
Mr. Buchanan, wlio, as Mr. Clay has testified under
his own hand, bad earnestly entreated that it
might not be given to the world. Here is Mr. Bu
chanan's latter to Mr. Letcher:
Mr. Buchanan to }L P. Letcher.
Lancaster, June 27,1844.
.My Dear Sir : I this moment received your very
kind letter and hasten to give it an answer. I eann* >t
P* ,w ' ve what good purposejit would subserve Mr.
Clay to publish the private and unreserved conver
sation to which you refer. I was then hie anient
friend and admirer and much of this ancient feel
ing btui survives, notwithstanding our political dif
ferences Msec. 1 did him ample justice, but no
more Iran justice. both m my *pe,4i on Chiitoo’s
ivoolulwu* m tt , er to UcuenJ
Jack sou.
\ have not myself any very distinct, recollection
ot m hat transpired in your room nearly twenty
years ago, but doubtiews I expressed a strong wish
to himself, as 1 had done a hundred times toothers,
that he might vote for General Jackson ; and if he
desired it, become his Secretary of State. Had he
voted ft*r the General, in ease t*f his election. 1
should most certainly have exercised any influence
1 might have possessed, to accomplish this result ;
andlhis 1 sfaonM have done from the most disinte
rested, friendly, and patriotic motives.
This conversation of mine, whatev er it may have
been, can never be brought home UrGen. Jackson.
1 never had but one con versa tkm wit h him on the
of the then pending electiou. and that upou
ihe street, and the whole of it, verbatim cl hter&tw
when comparatively fre«h upon my memoi y, was
Sto thr public in my letter of August, 1827
übn cation, then, of this private conversation
•erve no other purpose than to embarrass me
and force me prominently into the pending contest—
which I dee ire to avoid.
You are certainly correct in your iecolkction
“Yog told no fxplicitly that yog did not feel at lib
V Mr.
v*p**ar. d, ail *iratic organ# wi re -tartled
bv it. Mr. Buchanan was then no candidate for
fid imp re. sion U:un it would otherwise have done,
l*ut we vividly r«*mentber the sensation manifested
byth- l>cm.s*VatK.*pap**o-, . pe t i«lly tho,, oi JVtm
from the m. ,t prominent and influential of them all,
declaring, a# several of the rest did, that Mr. Bu
pally! Ai.’.i « ... and W.”7. st"i7
llem>- (>l> an': i l t\ c'-u-i7r »7i;.' K’ti'vin- ti.
forth. But he replied not. He uttered no word.—
He could not be induced either by the warning
threat# of political friends or the loud defiance and
demands of political opponent# to oi>cn his month.
Humbly lie bore from i’ o greatest man then living
upon tin* earth, a public charge, which, if true,
exhibited the m«o* it redeemable iu finny« n liis part.
And now. w«* ;:.- k 1 he old friends ofllenry Clay—
we ask tlie OM-Lim- Whi-s—we Jisk all honorable
men—we ask the whole American people, what they
think of .fames Buchanan, and how thi y mean to act
toward him. O, what a shame—what a burning
#ham<—what an everlasting #hame it would be. if
the American nation, aitei having Urtice rejected
Henry Clay from the Presidency on account of a
charge of bargain and corruption, resting on the al
leged authority of Jr. ::t - Buchanan, and all because
Mr. Clay listen* d to the ear nest prayers of Mr. Bu
ebanan, the real proposer of bargain and corruption,
and spared him for nearly the life-time of a genera
tion, were now to elect that same Mr. Buchanan to
tin* Presidency. Truly, it would be almost enough
to make a man #’* k of hi# species.
tiiscrb an Ku’.lv in Troup.
We rejoice to find in the LaGrange Reporter , the
following call upon the American party of that coun
ty to rally—to rally a.ound the standard of the Con
stitution, the Union, ami American liberty—to rally
again to bear aloft the banner of conservatism,
which the intelligent voters of that noble county
have bo long and so triumphantly unfurled to the
breeze. \V . commend it# suggestions to tlie Ame
rican party throughout the State.
American Kw.i.v!— I To “judge a tree by its;
fruits, 1 * cannot be otherwise than fair and right.
When Mi. Fillmore, by ttu death ofGon. Taylor,
become President, he found the whole country agi
tat«*d, excited, and sectional feeling greatly embit
tered. Abolition!, m was furious, and pat riot# every
where trembled for the s-.fety of the Union. But,
by tin- close of his otlicial term peace was restored
to the country in all our borders was conlideiicc,
the South had ceased t.» b ar, an I abolitionism was
not respectable at h*uue.
In this happy conditi *n the or. sent administration
found our people. I low .-it with us Dow f In doc
trine, we have Squatter Nu t »« iguty, uunoturnhzrd
foreign suil’rage, prosciiptioi. ol Americans for be
lieving that our own people ought to rule our own
country, tlie right of all h i cigii government# toseud
their indiscriminate population here at discretion,
and the right of this population to equality with our
own people in the division of our lands and the
choice of’onr rulers, and a constant, wilful, slande
rous and malicious misrepresentation of the Ameri
can party us religioui# proscriptiouisls. Infcud, we
have agitation, ahusr of the ballot-box, abolition ’
ism more powerful than ever before known ; na
tional men proscribed, freesoilers in power, foreign
ers converting /// iciUg, > into riirhhj and making
our hospitality the occ.iisioii of our übiiA«*, a positiv*
C. i* k
actual civil war—our ow n people shedding our own
blood on our own soil Can lie; administration
Wide!) hold# tin.-, d •< tliii» # mill produces these
fruit# A. ■■ night t Shall i! lie continued / Mr. Bu
chanan endorse# it and promise# il# eontiuuance it
eh-eted, and adds to the catalogue other monstrous
|m.p.R.ilii.i.s in r. -nr.11.. . tir 1..r. i-.i 1n.1i.-y whirl!
<v.■■ <e n I’i. lt c roiilillr.linHH-i.vr! Mr. l"lllllmr«
is again at our hidding, and nobly pl. dge# as' iupu
lou# eoutiuuauee of that eouslitet nmul ikilicy which
gave ll# peace heh.r, . M. Budianuu is but to ag
gravate that policy which gives us #o imu h trouble
U.iw. XVhil h -hull tt. 1.r.-I.T >
Am.-ri.-fu- ..I Ti -up i-=.;u.i v, eo-.m- up tn thrC- m l
Hmisi-. nil thi- lit-Hl In. - in July n,-\t, nnil li tu»
consult together, and for ourselves at least, deler
mine this .jiiestion. We wish then to protect our
county organization ae» ording t«» the iecoinmeiidn
tion# «»f our Stall; (*• nv*-ntion «*J I). «•* .nb**r lad, and
also to end deh gate# to the Convention to a##tnbh*
at M.e-on, on the -Sth of July Come up, and begin
to the work ill the right spirit.
Bern. 11. Hill, U. A. T. Uidloy,
A. K. Cox, if. J. Morgan,
A. A. Roberts. J. K.Morgan,
\V. V. B. asley, Jesse MeL ndon,
J. Bradtield, Win. M. Latimer,
1). B. Turner, 17 C. Evans,
And others.
Trans-Att.ant n Tki.ruraimi Company.—The
bill chartering li.e Tran - Atlantic Telegraph Com
pany passed the Lower Hous<* of the Canauian Far
liainent. The route proposed by this Company is
byway of Labrador, Greenland, Iceland and Faroe
Islands, when it j# proposed that two lines shall
diverge, one eastwnrdly to Norway, and the other
southwardly to the northern coast of Scotland. Tho
llnitial State# Navy Department, the Journal of
Commerce states, has ordered tin* steamer Vixen,
(’apt. Berryman to be equipped for service in ma
king soundings across the Atlantic, to ascertain tin*
practicability of the tele:,rnph project ; and ii may
he presumed that tin* n»ub* above indicated will be
among those examined Tim fact of its furnishing
four land stations, no two of which are separated by
a space exceeding .'>oomiles, gives it. in this respect,
a decided advantage over the more direct route via
Newfoundland. Il.nnee \\. Tebbetts, Ksq., the
grantee named in the (’uuudu charter, has been for
many year# engaged iu prosecuting this enterprise,
and has associated with him capitalists ot respecta
bility and energy, who cherish sanguine exp« Ca
tions *>l establishing a line of telegraph across the
Atlantic within the three years limited by the char
ter. — Halt. Amrr.
A Sl<. \r Flam uion in Liukria.—J. M. Rich
ardson, a well known colored muu of New York,
who emigrated to Liberia three years ago, w rites
back as follows:
“The first sugar 1 planted was four acres, which
the Rev. J. B. Finney cn in the ground when he
was here. Last year 1 increased it to fifteen acres.
After making inquiries among the other sugar
grower# I * aim* to the eonclusion that it would not
do to grow' sugar under the system they were fol
lowing, that is having huudmiils and depending up
on the natives to turn them, besides carrying the
cane to the mill ; and I concluded that-in order to
make sugar pay it must te grown and manufactured
ou a large scale. 1 have now cut and will commence
planting, in March, 7f> acres, and shall absolutely
need a steam sugar mill by next dries. Let me tell
you of what my farm consists. Besides 412 acres,
I have 12,000 coffee trees, including scions two years
old ; I have one yoke of oxen—the only oxen in the
country—and one horse. I employ constantly twen
ty-five natives and six Americans, but have now
employed some sixty hired hands cutting and clear
ing land and making bricks—of which 1 shall make
108,000 this season—all of which has been done off’
of S7OO which 1 brought with me when I came.”
Among ottier articles written for, in the letter
above mentioned, were a double and single horse
plow, two ox-carts and a wagon, all of which arc
now on board id the Elvira Owens, which sailed
from Norfolk and Savannah with emigrants last
week.
J)kQQuin cy,ky, the Enolish Oi*ii m Earer. —11
i# relate d, as an instance of De Quincey’s careless
ness in money matters, that having been once ar
rested for a debt of twenty pounds in'Edinburg, lie
was dragged to jail, when; he remained for two
weeks. During tlie period of Ids incarceration his
daughter frequently visited him, and one day
brought him a new waistcoat, the <>ue he then wore
being somewhat shabby. After De C 4 >uineey had
taken elf his old vest, ius daughter carelessly exam
ining the pockets discovered a bank note for thirty
pouuds, of the existence of which her father had no
knowledge whatever, and with which, of course, the
twenty pound debt was instantly discharged.
I)e Quiucey, when he writes, flings each sheet as
soon as finished, over his*shoulder, and never sees
them again. His daughters gather up tlie scattered
leaves, arrange and correct them and hawk them
amongst the magazine editors for sale.
For a long time I>«* nervousness from
opium was so great that he was obliged to walk
fourteen mil* s a day in order to procure two hours’
*h cp at night. The way in which this was acooin
p ished was curimis. 'The dreamer hud a mile mea
sured on a neighboring road, and at one extremity
placed a heap of seven stones. When the journey
was to commence Do Quiucey to**k up a stone and
carried it to the other end of the mile, then returned
for another, until the pile was exhausted. This ne
cessity of carrying thesU.nes prevented DeQuincey
from forgetting the number of miles he had walked,
whieli would otherwise be highly probable.
Thy Wooi.i.y Horse President.- —The Rich
mond Dispatch . avs : A man in Connecticut writes
to the New \ ork Expr* to know whether there 1#
such a man as Fremont, or whether hi# nomination
is u joke, got up to hoax the eov.ntry people. IL*
say# the only Fremont ever heard of in Ins neigh-
Imrhood, is the man Barnaul hired to catch his
woolly horse in the mountains. He thinks, if he is
the man, Fred. Douglas ought to be put up for
Vice lWub nt, so as to have a Woolly Horse Presi
dent am! a Wooly Head Vice President.
Fremont claims to be the first man who discover
ed Stilt Lake, and the Express think* he will mak*
another discovery b. for** long—Salt River. His
life has been principally led among woolly horses,
wiki men and wild bens:*: but, even as unenter
prising hunter, his qualifications for the Presidency
are not equal to those of Gordon Cuming, the fa
mous Scotch Nimrod, or Lieut. Gerard, the French
lion killer. Fremont has made many hair breadth
scapes in lii# time, but !u will beat Van Amburgh
if he comes out with a whole akin from the Black
Republican menagerie of t igers, hyenas, wild cats,
anacondas, crocodiles and black snakes.
Savannah, Albany & Gt i k Kaii.romj.—Dr.
Striven. President of the Savannah, Albany &
Gulf Kor.d, has just returned from an excursion along
the Koad from thiseity, to the Alatamaha.
We are gratified to leant that the bridge over that
river in the bauds of the energetic and skilful con
tractors Messrs. Holcombe, is progressing favora
ble. Without unforeseen dirticulties theytare con
fident of their ability to finish this great work by the
first of January next. The bridge over the Great
Ogeecbee is nearly finished—that ovei the Little
Ogeocheeis done.' Tlte track laying, suspended for
a while, awaiting the completion of the bridge last
meutioncsl, will be resumed tit that place in a few
days. The grading and earthwork lor the whole
line of road from Savannah to the Alatamaha. is
near about finished, lty next January, the cars
will probably be running for the distance of fifty
three mUcs trout this city.—.s’.?-. O'., gi.-i.
The New V rk lit : :> nt. —ln the Savan
nah Jt.'nuHieaK, of the -11th hat., the following
statement is given ■
The Et.on went.— We sum .sc it is by this time
pretty generally understood that the parties alluded
to by the New York press ..shaving recently eloped
to Europe arc Major Phillip Ke-arnev. Jr., hate of
the l’. S. lb-age, ns. *nd admit,’, ter of Him. Hugh
Haxwell, a distinguished New York lawyer, who
was Collector of the Customs in that city under Hr.
Fillmore's Administration.
Yl .or Kearney, in lb,", was ;d-de-camp to
Gen.Macomb, and in lstl—44 to Gen. Scvut lu
ISvlti be was captain of dragoons, and commanded
the Ist Kegimeut in the v alley ,Mexico. He was
breveted Major for gallant and meritorious conduct
in the buitit s’ of Contreras and Churubosco, August
20,1 S to. where he was wcundcd, and lost his left
arm while charging with hi? command near the San
Ant.tuio gate. He resigned his connection with the
anny on the 2th October, lkjl.
Between Major Kearney end his wife there is
said to have teen for s,.me tiu.i an c-trangcinent,
but no divorce. They had several children. His
residence ,sui New Jersey, near Newark. He is
reputed a wealthy matt His age is about fifty,
that of the partner of his ciopement about twentv
four.
*- Murder.—The Khy.vtcv.ile X.: rth Carolinian
teams that on Nitorday tact. Tin-raas M. Lennon de
liberately shot his step-daughter, a gi?; about thir
teen or fourteen years old, killing her instantlv Mc-
Lennon was tried about six ye.uS ago for the murder
of Joshua Bryan, and acquitted. Brvau was the
reputed father of the mtmlercd girl. McLeimou has
been arretted.
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY 2. 1 SAG.
I. ( KOPKA N I NTU.IJ i: KNf ’E.
nr THE ATLANTIC.
By tho Atlantic’s mails we* have European news
to the 11 rlt inst.
Th#* Asia arrived at Liverpool 7 A. M. of Mondev
the'.hb. Koik e of Mr. Criuiipton’s <li#mi#s»l wa#
expt-eted by the Asia, and a t* h*eraphi«* statement
from the Washington correspr.odent of a Now York
paper, seeming to confirm it. tl.e dismissai was r<*-
ceived as a feet anil commented upon accordingly.
It caused but little excitement, and Lord Claren
dons statement .11 the Houst* of Leads, that up to
the 27th of last month, Mr. Crompton had not re
ceived aey notice to quit, caused still l»*ss. The
L-mdoii paperu all have editorials on the subject. It
is now argued, that as Mr. Crumpton’s ease is a per
sona! one, there is no necessity t** send away Mr
Dallas, who, at tlie present moment, is the reverse
of unpopular.
The Times exhibits its usual feeling towards the
United States, and make? the letter of‘ A Now
Englander ‘ in its columns the peg on which to hang
a great deal of what can only be described as abuse.
The Daily News wonders that aggressive America
should cite the annexation of India as a ptdiiation of
iier own propensities—lndia being entirely an ex
ceptional case—not to be understo*>d by strange:# (!)
The News lurthcr says that it is with the Northern
States of th« Union that Britain should come to an
understandim', for the Northern States would rather
dissolve the Union than go to war with England !
The News, however, thinks that the dismissal of
Mr. Dallas would serve no purpose except to ripen
animosity. The Morning Chronicle thinks it “cow
ardly” to make a scapegoat of Mr. Cramptou—“a
valuable public servant, for having only too faithful
ly done his duty.” The Morning Post uses the
Americau news merely as a means of administering
a rebuke to the refractory members of its political
party. The London Morning Star (organ of the
Manchester men) has an admirable editorial, setting
forth the merits of the dispute in respect to Central
America. As to Mr. Crumpton the Star thinks that to
involve some fifty or sixty millions of people, of the
same race, language aud religion, in desperate and
deadly strife, in order to avenge the dignity of a
Crampton, is too great an absurdity to be tor a mo
merit entertained. Nay, indeed, it is pretty clear, that
like the removal of oue of those small insects, which
in tropical climates burrow under the skin, and ir
ritate the whole surrounding flesh,this gentleman s
expulsion from the United State# will serve great
ly to allay the inflammation which his presence pro
duced.
The Ni'e, ‘JI ; the Shannon, 51 ; the Pyladee, 21,
and the Cossack, 21 guns, have been telegraphed
to prepare for foreign service with all possible des
patch. Their destination is believed and correctly
reporte d to be North America.
The reports from the corn districts of France not
affected by the inundations are still very promising,
and should the blooming season, now commencing,
pass oil well, there is good hope that notwithstand
ing the immense destruction occasioned by tin*
Hoods, I he corn crop throughout France inay not fall
very much below no average. ' .
It is reported in Kerlin tliat Prn«mu ami Sat
iliiii.i haw both demamli il to be admitted into the
I’oitmiiK-ion for re oigaiiizino tlie Danubian l’rim i
ualiti.a.aud that the demand lias b.-cu acceded to.
11 was di tlie alt to refuse Prussia in her quality of a
great German Powe , interested iu Stales borderinK
the Danube. Sardinia was therefore admitted to
maintain the cquilbrium on tlie side oftlie Western
Power.
Letters from Milan statu that the Austrian gov
eminent lias resolved to erect the Lombardo Vene
tian provinces into a kingdom of Coper Italy, aud
to place a prince of Itnliam birth—the Grand Duke
of Tuscany, win) is also an Austrian Archdukt—on
Hu- throne. To this determination the Cabinet of
Austria is said to have been brought by its anxiety
to unitialise tlie growing popularity of Piedmont.
Atelegruphicd.-Bpat4-.il from Trieste, fonvardir
news from Alexandria, announce* that Aral.ia is still
ia a stall- ofinsurreelion. I I,as declared il will no
longer recognize the rule of the Sultan. The Go
vernor of the lli-djiiz holds out tirmly, but is will
relief or support. Another despate.h,. f doubtful nu
th.-nlieity, records a great fermentation among the
Turks ou the subject of the lialti-Kuinaioun
AI Poilgorizza, it. is said, tho Turks have burnt
Iwo Catholic churches, aud killed two Christ inns;
al Xis.-ki, near Montenegro, the Christians, in or
der to avenge I hems,dvrs for the continual outra
ges they meet with, have attacked aud pillaged a
earavan coming from linguae ; fourteen Turks wen
killed.
A letter from Odessa, of tho tilth alt., states that,
lie town was tilled with strangers, mid that
mmv Ilian thirty Liverpool nndGmißlantinop!. tin.is
had established themselves there, ‘-to the prejudice
oflhesmall traders.”
Ii is said dial 70,000 masons (ire to rebuild Sebas
topol.
Lord Clarendon lias sent a despatch to Sir James
Hudson, tho British Minister at Sardinia, respecting
tie- occupation l.y foreign troops of limne and the
Legations, in which he entertained a hope dial the
measures agreed upon try the governments of
Prance and Austria will lead to a gradual withdraw
al of their respective forces, and to bettering the
condition of the subject* of the Pope. A copy of
this despatch is to be read aud given to Count Cn-
A telegraphic despatch from Madrid announces
that tl.e new Portuguese Cabinet lias been formed
as follows Marquis de Louie, Minister of tlie In
terior au.l President; Sada Band.-ira, Marine and
K.n-cign Altairs , Lou. iro, War, Silva Sanchez, Pi
unneoa; Souza, Justice.
There was a iumor that Mr. Ilorsmon, the Secre
tary for Ireland, had resigned; but the report was
doubted.
CoxseriiAC-v to Assabsjnatk tub Quk.kn or
Sr us—The Madrid journals of the 111. report that
considerable sensation had been caused by tlie dis
covery of a conspiracy to assassinate the Queen.—
The following are some details of the affair given by
the Diario
“A man named Rcndnudo Marquez organised a
secret society three months ago, and a young car
penter was drawn into it. It having been resolved
to kill the Queen, t his young man was designated
by lot to do the deed, and lie was told that if lie fired
on her Majesty a sum of 2,000 piastres should be
given to him, and that if he failed to do so he should
be certainly put to death by his fellow conspirators.
On the 28th lilt., attheinomentnt which the [carriage
of the Princess of the Ashmens approached the
Calli del Arenal, a young man named Fuentes drew
a pistol from his pocket, but a police agent seized
his arm and prevented him from discharging the
weapon. On being interrogated he made known
t lie facts above related. Just after his arrest Ken
dondo Marquez went to the palace, on pretext of
making revelations r< the conspiracy. No
arms have been found in any house of the Calli del
Arenal. Marquez is a native of Alinadeneios, in.
the province of Ciudad Real. His politico) opin
ions have always been Carlist. He is. a bold, en
terprising man, and has been imprisoned for forge
ry.”
The following are some details of the affair given
by the Naeion : —“The military precautions which
were token on the 26th ult., .on tlie occasion of the
visit of the Queen to the Theatre del Principe, and
which have given rise to a good deal of conversa
tion, were, it appears, caused by the discovery of a
plot to destroy the Queen in the Calli del Arenal,
near the Calli de la Duda, as her Majesty was re
turning from the theatre. The Government receiv
ed the information on the previous day by means of
au auonyraous letter sent through the post. Some
suggestions were given in it for baffling the conspira
cy. The government afterwards learned that an
other attempt was to be made on the 29th, and it
took some new precautions. Whatis curious, is that
Uie anonymous letter was written by the very man
who was to have fired on the Queen with a pistol.
He is a young married workman, named Fuentes.
It results from his declarations, and from those of
other poi sons who have been arrested, and who,
like him, belong to the lower classes, that the chief
of the conspiracy was an officer of the National
Guard, named Kendondo Marquez, well known in
the capital. This man has hitherto escaped capture,
though it is said that he is secreted at Madrid.—
Amongst his papeis were found written permissions
to enter the palace and speak to the Queen ; he.it
appears, obtained them by pretending that he was
in a position to make disclosures respecting dark
plots against the Queen.
Relief for the Victims of the Inundation in
France. —The subscriptions deposited in the Trea
sury of France for the relief of the victims of the in
undations amounted, evening of June 7, t0384,324f;
those collected by the Prefecture of Police to 740,-
027 f: those received by the Constitutionnel to 85,
5971'.: by the Siecle to 39,000 f., &e.
At Lyons, the private subscriptions down to Fri
day evening, 6t.li, produced 358,300 f., indepont
ly of 125,000 f. voted oy the Municipal Council of
the city.
A suggestion has been made by a correspondent
of the Morning Post that a subscription should at
once be set on foot in London for the benefit of the
sufferers : “the act,” he remarks, “would do honor
to England, and cement that good feeling which sub
sists between the two countries.” The Daily News
strongly supports the proposition, and wishes the
subscription to be opened, not only in London, but
in our great commercial marts. “The resources of
of France, 1 ’ says our cotemporary, “are amply ade
quate to bear the devastation that has been wrought
in the long run, but friendly aid at the moment may
obviate prolonged suffering on the part of individu
als. Let the English public haste to tender its aid
on this pica, expressing a confident conviction that
French benevofence would have been equally on
the alert had England been the scene of the ele
mental war. Let us show to the world that not on
the battle field alone, or in the thorny and tortuous
paths of politics, but also iu the brotherly inter
change of support aud consolation under domestic
afflictions, Frenchmen and Englishmen are hence
forth “one and indivisable.”
News from India and Austalia. —The steamer
Australia arrived on the Bth inst. from Alexandria,
which port she left on the 3d of June. The Indian
mail was at Alexandria and was to have left on the
sth of June, with advices from Calcutta of the 4th
of May, and Bombay of the l'ith of May. Trade
in India was dull. Shipping was in good de
mand. The cotton market was active. Exchange
in Bombay 21| ; at Calcutta, I|. The money mar
ket was tight.
By this arrival, we have advices from Melbourne,
via Ceylon, to the 28th of March.
In the week ending 28th of March, the ship
ments of gold from Melbourne amounted to G 0,827
ounces and £ 10,000 in specie by the Morning Star
to Bristol, and 45,672 ounces and £IIO,OOO in specie
by the George Marshal to London.
The shipments to England iu five weeks were
337,000 ounces of gold and £350,000 in specie.
The gold fit-ids were yielding more largely than
ever—at the rule of nearly £20,000,000 per annum.
The produce of the first three mouths of 1x56 is near
ly double that of the corresponding three montlis of
1855, being close upon 700,000 ounces. Trade con
tinued steady. The balance was in favor of the
colony. In five weeks the value of the exports was
£1,917,000, against £1,400,000 imports. The ne
cessaries of life m ere moderate. Immigrants were
wanted and invited.
At Melbourne they had been 108 days without
advices from England, and the Legislature had
voted £75,000 per annum to re-establish a steam
communication.
In New South Wales, ns in Victoria, the first
attempts at a responsible government were uusuc-
In New Zealand, the natives ofTarauaki were
still unruly, but that colony, like Australia, was gen
erally peaceful and prosperous.
Latest.
tiuutka at [Jon, Jutu 11. 1856—The Alma sailed
for New Yoik at daybreak this morning, after hav
ing her propeller repaired. After proceeding as far
as Cowes, the feedpipes broke down, and she has
put back here again for fresh repairs.
The luumlatioua in France*
The Juu >tuii tie Flntire et Loire, of the 7th inst.
gives the following description of Tours on that day •
The Rue Royal presents the ap}>earauce of a canal,
and boats are plying on it incessantly, carrying re
kef to the unfortunate inhabitants who either would
not or could not quit their houses The Mail is like
a torrent, aud all sorts of things brought down by
the Loire and the Cher are floating about it The
ornamental trees about it have been torn up. The
railway station, the centre of the commercial ac
tivity of the town, is still surrounded with water, as
high as the wiudows. In the garden of the prefec
ture opposite, nothing is to be seen but the tops of
the trees ; the walls of the garden are thrown down.
The Rues de Paris, de Bordeaux and du Rampart
built on the oki ramparts of the city, are under
water.
At every step we see the ravages of the
water, and from the Route de Grauimout we per
ceive m all-their horror the effects of the catasiro
l*he in the adjacent country. As far as the eye can
reach there is water. The inundations were not
able to auimouut the obstacle caused by the Route
de Bordeaux, but they rose to a great’ height, aud
t!„., tkere sir. w, •: v. ifii ; aitic!esotfirrnitare,4h**hmg.
and woodwoik. P - Pont If l Arehex-eqn. threat
t-ns to fall in tin* vmJru-t of the railway to Nantes.
houses that eacnot !••■ inhabited for a long time h,
( *nn*- «-\ ci; 1f Lg v «*an <*vi*r be iniiabited ngum,
ami' \>'d :!.<> ’ :.ds *>f victim>g:
gctliifwl'heut s'-eilltfee d withont t.SHI. Ev.-I tl„
dark Suit ua-rtav struts of the oidoity, oee -p.»d by
the tln-erclass-*. Wive not escaped. From the Uu<*
Borgftt'- U th- . ...o.vitts 1.1 La Kiel..-, lroin tin-
de Mm's to the Mail, and from the Place de
Autmjy.t to Sr.'. J S itvei.r. .s tin mimenst lak-.
.Stn-li"is'T:.V.-h.ti- of our city nil it live itays of mortal
anxiety and indr.-i tilail ’ - i-;.hamty.
Ti«-ne*-..m.». tt.-m S.-a>mtir ••! the ir.x.-..- i
milled l.y the I elite mV. the Authion ure ev-.-n nmre
ia-pii.mdth.’ ‘mlv'd'V -' y'f tW:.A- gave a
hi»i* «ikfiinpl«* ot i-t'U:::-: V. ;!::u iKUMcuiU h-‘- r.i-y
into tlit* Witter with tlu;ir horses, tlu-v saved
many utvalid# ami infinii persous fromcerta u d**ath
' -
im»s. Tlu* cl« rjy lik« wis*: displayed cm:# dt-ruble
ami t*fi* rte 1 miuV’i in combatinjr the strange
determination «*1 ike peojtle to remain in their
liouse# Ay« rung curate swam to a ’.nan who Was
clinging t*» a tree, and succeeded in landing him in
safety.
From Isvons we learn that ns the waters rroetle
numerous botlie# are discovereil, all Iu frstatc <»f
decoiniiosiuon. Workmen are employed Ri binld
ing wooden huts on the. Biace &t. Fothiit for the
receptixm ol the person# who arc without h**ine3.
The directors of the Mediterranean railway have
placed a number of railway carriages at the disposal
of the Authorities for the* temporary accommodation
of the houseless. When the Emperor came to
Lyons he gave I,(MUf. to be divided among the en
gine drivel’s and other ’employee sos the train. r I hat
sum has been generously given by these mc.i to tlie
subscription opened at Lyon* for the sufferer#. A
letter from Arles states that the extent of thy coun
try inundated in tliat neighborhood is at least twen
ty leagues. Although th* waters are going gradu
ally down, gun# are ctiil frequently heard iu difl’er
ent parts around, as signals of distress from the in
habitants of the inundated houses. Boats are mo
ving aN'Ut in all direction# to render assistance.
The Emperor Napoleon returned on Saturday
evening, the 7th iust , to St. Cloud, from his visit of
mercy tojtlie districts inundated by th<- Isfire
During thiß visit, says the Moniteur, his Majesty re
ceived tlie kame marks of affecti*>n ami gratitude
as on bank# *»f the lvl.;*ue; everywhere the
population deeply moved, crowded round him, and
from their heart# showered blessings and thanks up
on him.- Tin.; Emperor handed from his private
purse 2tJ,ooof. to the Prefect «»t the Loire!. btMIOf. to
tin* Ma£or of Jlenugt*in v,2o,(H?m'. to the iYrfect of
the-'Loire-et (Mieiv stl,(HHli'. t«. the Ferfift of the In
die **t-Loire, and lie sent also a sum of .»U,(»Hllf. it*
the lVrfecl of tin* Main*: et Loire. On Monday tin*
Kmjieror again *** I out to > ‘.#it another seen** of the
inundation, lie went bw tin* way of Cliaitres to
Angres, where the slate *fluArries have been cmi
plet. lv overwhelm! «l with water, and lOJHIU pers.m's
have‘consequently been thrown out of work, and
at the same lime deprived of riielt.-r by the des
truction of tl.eir cottages. Nothing like an accu
rate estimate of tin* daumge d*in«* by the inunda
tions has been publml.ed : but it has been roughly
estimated that !•),(HD people have been rendered
houseless, and that Ififi.OUU have been thrown out of
employment.
From TV. )\ Cam. Aden ttser of Monday, l X\d inst.
Violent Sioiut—Los*, of Life iYe.
The excessive heat yesterday culmiimted in a
thunder storm, which burnt over the city and the
adjacent country about IFoYlock in the ultcrm.on.
The wind blew with great fury, the tl.mnler and
lightning were severe, ami the rain fell in torrents.
Tin storm was of short dmutinn. being all over in
less than one lu.iir but agn at deal of damage was
done to property, and we r* gu t to record the loss
of several lives.
11l tlio niqa-r part ol'lla- i-ily, trues «-.-r- torn up
ami some inji.iy was ilmm, in Mm iv.ij- ~t
new houses. Gollin s Hoist, I,ml of Cana! street,
(.•ornei ol \V. I,] wax struck l.y lip'litniai;, but fortu
nateh* no p., -..n was injur. .1. fart of the roof was
torn away, amt It..- Imililinjc was ilaniao.-.l .ihout
st(H> Ttn- tlixusl. r i-n-atn! mm I. . xi-it.-m.-m am. n K
the huiiicis many of whom ran into tl.e sir.-. I. One
in two othu houses w. iV-arimk in the Thirl,-en l.
waul. A Imililmo ...«nj.i. ,1 as a rvaar simv, in
Gannon street. li.-i.l a pie.-.- cat off il„- i..p l.y
inq, hut Ir.ilin.at. tv .... on- n a* injured.
Tin- ehi.nui-y top ..( house No. .'.-ii, Gran.l street,
was st.uek .in.t km.eke.l elf l.y liql.lninu at,mil
five o'clock last eveminq. Tim lluiil passed .town
tlm side 111.- lions.-, hrmikinq a show window in
the first story an.t doiiiqollmr.lamaqo. Noon, was
‘The sidewalk ill front of a dwelling in Barrow
street, near Hudson .ii.-et, eave.l in with Hire.-
men upon it, exposing an old well about forty
feet deep. John J Union, of No. JJfi street.,
fell into the well, and was got out much injured.—
Tlie other two d injury. Tin* well was sup
posed to have been filled, but was nnlv ccv* rod.
A sloop (name unknown) which w*s coming down
the river, was overtaken by tl.e squad, and before
her sails could be lmuled in, was driven with great
force against the dock, foot of Laight street. Fart
of her bow was carried away, and one man was
knocked overboard ; but he was soon rescued by his
associates on the sloop.
Several s.tii boats tilled with excursionists were
capsized in Gowai.us Bay.
One boat, belonging to Red Hook, contained
Margaret Crane, Catharine Sullivan, Robert Han
nin, and tw*. other#, a brother and sister of Miss
Sullivan. The two latter -succeeded in saving
themselves by clinging to the boat, but the three
unmet were diowded. Another boat, contain
ing two women ami one man, was capsized.-
The women were drowned, but the man was
saved. Tlu-y were seen from shore. Names uot as
certained
A boat containing nine persons—among them
Hugh McNichol.--. Tho* ilavs, .-m,l Win.Monaghan,
was missing, ami disustronsVunsequeuecs were fear
ed by their friends, :»* nothing was heard of them up
to '»o’clock last evening. Boats were sent out after
the storm to rcuder assistance where required and to
search for the missing.
The bay was literally covered with bouts during
tin* afternoon, and it is feared that more persons are*
lost than we have yet any account of.
Three boat* were upset in the North River,
but none of the persons on board were lost.—
Those on board two of them were res ucd l.y the
yacht Julia.
The rain did not extend to the upper part of the
city, none having fallen at YorkvHie or above*.
Duriog the storm, the liglituing struck Die house
of Mr. York, in Atlantic street, between Vanderbilt
and Underhill avenues, Brooklyn, instantly killing
his wife Catharine. She was sitting near the fire
place nursing her babe and talking I*, her husband
who was sit hag on the other side of the room. The
lightning struck the top of the chimney, glanced
down, and entered the room immediately over
where Mrs. Y. was sitting. She leaves six children.
The baby and Mr. York were unhurt.
During the storm, a row boat, in which were four
persons, a young man and three of his sisters, was
upset off the Atlantic Gardens, in Hoboken. Alarm
ed by the storm, the young man rowed the boat
alongside of a schooner, and the young women were
getting on board, when the boat capsized. They
were rescued by the hands onboard of the schooner.
Three other boats were upset off the Elysian Fields,
but no one was drowned. A number of trees were
blown down iu Hoboken. A large number of per
sons iu the Elysiun Fields were overtaken by the
shower, and during the storm aud immediately after
it, not less than a thousand persons, thoroughly
drenched, made their way to the ferry.
In the city of Hudson some damage was done to
houses and shrubbery, but nothing of a serious na
ture occurred.
In Jersey City an unfinished three story brick
building at the corner of Erie and North Second
streets, was partly blown down. Four persons
had taken refuge in it from the storm. One of these,
a lad about fourteen years of age, son of John Max
well, ropemaker, was instantly killed. Mr. James
Br&nn, a young man who is studying for the Roman
Catholic ministry, was so badly injured that his life
is supposed to be in danger. Il** was taken into
the Roman Catholic church m Erie street, where Dr.
Lutkins attended him, ;*id lu* was thence taken
home insensible. The others were slightly hurl.—
Tlie building belonged to Mr. Mohan. A lad about
six years of age was crossing Newark Avenue, b«-
low Henderson street, when lie was prostrated under
an unmanageable horse by the wind, anil was run
over and had his hip broken. The frame of a build
ing in course of erection in Monmouth street, for
Peter Ilall, was thrown down. A number of trees
were blown down and shrubbery was damaged to a
considerable extent.
A “Good Yarn£ —The editor of the Albany Po
lice Tribune tells the following:
Some five years since two well known Albanians
left this city to seek 1 heir fortunes at, Washington.
We will call them Mr. A. and Mr. B. Mr. A. got a
contract from the government, and made a snug
little pile, some $ 10,000 worth of real estate. While
acquiring this property, Mr. A. contracted about
$7,000 worth of debts, "$“.500 ol which belonged to
Mr. IJ. Mr. A. is not any more honest than the law
allows. So he thought he would ge! rid of “those
cussed bores,” his creditors, by making over his
property to his niece, a fine-looking young lady,
aged about eighteen. He accordingly went, to a
lawyer, made out the papers, and assigned the
whole of his real estate to his niece, the interesting
young lady already spoken of. Having concluded
his arrangements, he thought he would go South and
look at the country. This took place last summer.
During his absence in pursuit of quietness and cot
ton fields, Mr. 13. ascertains nil about the assignment
and goes in for making all t ilings square. He com
menced operations by courting the niece aforesaid,
and finished up by marrying her. When Mr. A. re
turns from Georgia he finds he has been done—that
Mr. 15. has not only got the value of his debts, but
$37,b00 worth his real estate in addition. Mr. Ais
now swearing in eight syllables, and insists that it
is a conspiracy.
Thf. Mummy of Nf.buch ande/.zar.— lt is stated
that Colonel Rawlingson, who is prosecuting the
discoveries commenced by Layard and Botta, and
iu exhuming from the mounds of the long-lost rival
cities of Nineveh and Babylon their instructive re
lics, lias lately discovered, in a state of preservation,
what to be the mummy of Nebuchad
nezzar. The face of the rebellious monarch of
Babylon, covered by one of those gold marks usual
ly found in Assyrian tombs, is described as very
handsome—the forehead high and commanding, the
features marked and regular. The interesting relic
of remote antiquity is for the present pitserved iu
the museum of the East India Company. Os all the
mighty empires whose names have escaped obliv
ion. none has so completely perished as that of As
syria. More than two thousand years have gone
by since the two “great cities.’’ renowned for their
strength, their luxury, and their magnificence, have
crumbled into dust, leaving no visible trace of their
existence—their very site* forgotten. Even the
name and the fame of the great Nebuchadnezzar
might have been buried in the ruins of his splendid
city, and forever obliterated from memory on earth,
hod not God made him a beacon to display his pow
er, and illustrate the sin and folly of pride and vani
A chance traveller Layard, riding through the
Mesopotamian valley, discovered “the buried city
and with a success that will immortalize hi* name,
has commenced to unroll the book of Assyrian his
tory and civilization, whi«*h of all the histories of
the first period of the world, is most clearly connec
ted with the subsequent destinies of the human race.
The discoveries already made furnish ample testi
mony to refute the sceptic unbeliever of Scripture
truth.
Treaty with Ecuador. —lt has already been
reported that a treaty had been concluded between
the United Slates and Ecuador. A letter from F.
C. Whm, Esq., published iu the Utah Herald, fax
uishes the following particulars:
I learn from a correspondent iu South America,
that Mr. Philo White, our Minister resident at Qui
to, and who was specially commissioned as plen
ipotentiary. to negotiate a treaty with the Go
vernment of Ecuador, in relation to neutral right-,
Ate., lias succeeded, after a protracted negotiation,
in concluding a convent ion with the Executive au
thorities of that Republic, with stipulations, I un
derstand. similar to those contained in a convention
between the United States ami Russia, recently rat
ified at Washington, that lays down and establishes
the philanthropic maxim, “That free ships make
free goods/’ as a sealed principle of international
law.
It is reported that the evacuation of the Roman
State- by the French and Austrian troops is to Com
mence on the Ist of October next
Tlo- siimtiij s.hoct.
L Y * US. L. It. Stool K s ET.
Orxnj> after Krmtj. srejjarheriiuf—sik-U ns press’d
i »■*«•»* t*> their Savior’s arm- . and gently laid
Du*ir < Wab heads ujiun his shielding- breast.
1 u.-agli sterner the fond approach forbade;
Group oiler group glide on with noise less tread.
And i'*mnd Jehovah’:- saoj*» «1 alt nr luret.
IV here h» .y U**-::*j ; .is iu inlaid hr-arts are bred.
Ar.J L-*:y words their ruby lips rep* at.
Oft with a chastened glanc* in niodnlatkm sweet.
Yet some there are np*m wh >e childish brows
IN an ]*oveity hath done tin- work of «*:uc:
L' u >k up, ye sad ones » ’ita your hou>e
15eu* nth whose consecrated dome von are.
M'*n- gorgeous ml . \ * see, ami trappings rare.
And watch th** gaud:er forms tli.u gaily move.
Ami *l* tm, perrhanve, mistaking as.y u are.
'I ii;*. t “coat of many colors" proves his love,
Whose sign is iu tJu* heart, and hose reward ;d*ov e.
And ye. blest laborers in this humble sphere.
To deeds of saint-like charity inclined.
Who. from your cells of meditation dear*
(h me forth to guide the weak untutored mind—
Yet a.'k no pavmeut but one smile refined
Os gratefui love—one tear of contrite pain :
Meekly ye forfeit to your mission kind
The rest of earthly Sabbaths Be your gain
A Sabbath without« ml, ’nml you celestial plain.
Hkvi.tii Statist!# or Cot.rMmp.l’s.—\\Y have
been furniskt <i by tin; City Sexton with the follow
ing statement of interments in the City Ceuu t. ry
from the Ist of April to tlie 2-Mh of June :
WHITES.
Adults from Measles S
“ 4i ether diseases 22
Childreu Q:om Measles 21
“ u other causes fi
lILACKS.
Adults from Measles C>
“ “ other causes 10
Children from Measles 8
4 * “ other causes 5
Total 2!)
Total in 2 months aud 28 days 80
Os the whites, 0 were from the country. Out of
the 80 deaths which have occurred in tiie city, 40
were from Measles.
Columbus contains about 10,000 inhabitants.
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Nicaragua Affair*.—Tlie Galveston (Texas)
Xows ot the 17th inst., slates :
A. Wynn, Eaq., of Houaton, has this nioruinq re
t umed from Niearaqua direct. He inloniis us that
Walker-* Government is firmly establiaed, and all
he waul* is an occasional supply ol Money to pay
off his I roops. Mr. Wynu aay* f.i* army now eon
sishs of about Silll men, hut that a atauelinq force of
-1011 is all that lie necls. 11»- think* there is no
i i'll 11, in Ihe report of any attempts hy the other
( 'enlral American Slates to make offensive war up
on him. r l h.-y are all iu dr.-d of him. lii* enemies
all fear him, and his friends nr.- nil devoid lo him.
Al! the natives ofll.e eounln are his warm friends,
with the exception of a handful of thus.- who op
posed him on l.is arrival tltere. These have nearly
all now left the country, lnivinq joined tin-Costa
Tin: M KOITKIiIt AN KAN AM. TIIK EUPHRATES.—
The London eon.-sp.mdent ofthe N. V. Commercial
At,rnliner writes:
The company for estahlishinq the route to India,
by a railway of eighty mil.-s from the Medileirn
run.-au to the Kuphrut. s, have issued ll.ei, prosnee
tas. The eapilal required is only X 1,00(1,IMI0, the
whole of which will te promplly" suhserih.-d. The
liii.U rlakinq will pr.dml.ly he completed within a
couple of years, and il is believed Ihal the dislm.ee
h.-lweeu E.iqlaud and the East will then he
shortened one half. This will l.e a quiet i. volu
tion, bill one ofthe u.osl inn,..riant Hint could take
P ,aoo ' __ ,
5..1 r.IC-UIGI.INA AM) TH E ClN* IN X ATI Co.XVJX-
Tiu.v. —Tlio Charleston Evening Arms, of lb.* 2'>tli
inst , states:
Tli**r«* can be no iloubt that our people were <-n
--tnipped into t’n Cim-iiiiiati Cimveiition in th.* naim
of Mr. Fierce. Ami also, that the Southern del.-
gates t.» that parly caucus were somewhat cheated
in th** nomination. All this must rest on the head#
of those, through whom ii was consummated.
Anecdote or Theodore Hook.— At a dinner
parly al George Canning’#, some thirty year# ago,
C.»h ridge, in his usual maimer, monopolized the
eonvei-sation, making Spain the text of about a
t-hree hours’ sermon. He gave a sketch of tl.e
M.hus; whs very pathetic over the fall of lteabdil ;
elaborate 1v ileserilied the Alhambra , epitomized
Don (Quixote ; quoted nearly half ol Calderon ami
Lop** *le Vega; drew a vivid picture of Ferdinand
and Isabella ; denounced their neglect of Columbus
and hastily recapitulated the Fcni.isular War, in
eluding a few bull-fights, auto ih fe's , «fee. At
length he concluded by saying “all these reflections
rose to iny mind in consequence of my meeting,
on my way in this hospitable mansion, two of
those, gallant soldiers, the Life Guards, who fought
iu the Spanish war under the immortal Welling
ton.”
Hook exclaimed across the tabic, “What an es
cape we have hud ; only suppose Coleridge had met
the regiment!”
French Fkf.i.ino Toward.-} the United States.
—'“LaPatric,” (Palis,) May Hist, announces the
reception of news from the United States, of the re
cognition of Fadre Vijil,—but defer# comment, it
says, until President Pierce’s Message to Congress
shall have been received. The editor says, that the
United States having now recognised the Govern
ment of Nicaragua, of which Walk* r is the master
spirit, they are inaugurating, in r* sped to Central
Americana policy of aiincxaiton-a policy which, in
its first operation tears up and scatters to tho wind
the Clayton Bulwcr Treaty. In this case, the ques
tion is presented to Europe ami the world,—wheth
er it is good, or just, or prudent, to allow the nation
that already extends its empire from the St. Law
rence, to “Lu Columbia,-’ should possess its. It like
wise ofthe countries laved by the seas of tlio An
tilles and the Mexican Gulf, with a monopoly of all
the routes of transit to the Pacific, across and in
cluding the isthmus of Panama. The question is
one of importance,—und “we hope in due time and
in the proper place, it will be the subject of serious
examination.
The “Putrie,” in an article on the relations of
Spain with Mexico, says there is reason to believe
tlmt war will be declared against the latter power
if she does not make good the demands upon her,
fur the liquidation of tl.e bonds given to Spanish
subjects,—but now dishonored.
Shamekui..— Onthe resolution adopted by*tfr
Cincinnati Convention admitting th- Hartt rtf
tional Democracy of New Y'ork, am! giving them
an equal division of votes with tho Free-soil wing
(the most liberal proposition ofiered for the Hurds,)
the States of North and South Carolina, Mississippi
and Florida voted unanimously against, it; Georgia
gave 1 votes for the resolution uuaG against it; Vir
ginia and Louisiana voted unanimously for it. The
entire South was about equally divided on the ques
tion, and the North gave a majority for it! Thus,
in order to secure the vote of New York undivided
for Pierce, these Southern delegates were willing to
cut the National Democracy of New York and fra
ternize with the Free soilers !
A Clean Back Down ! —lt is telegraphed from
Washington on the lGtli inst., tlmt “Mr. Marcy has
notified the Danish Minister that our commerce
will continue to pay the Sound Dues, under protest,
another year.” After the previous course of the
Administration on this subject—after giving posi
tive notice to Denmark tlmt. th** dues would not ho
paid longer than tlx* 12th of April, then gruciously
extending the time to the 12l!i of June to allow
Denmark to come to her senses—how ridiculous and
vacillating must such conduct make us appear in
tin; eyes of foreign nations !
But the Cincinnati Convention resolved that “the
Democratic party expect the ne.rl Administration”
to pursue a more energetic foreign policy. The
country has not forgotten, however, the bluster that
was made a few years ago about the whole of Ore
gon, “fifty-four forty or tight, 5 ’ fee.; and if wo re
member rigidly, one James Buchanan was the very
man who negotiated a treaty surrendering to Great
Britain till above forty-nine.— Columbus Knq. .
Humbugging Mu. Cuampton. —The Blue Book
Crumpton documents contain a letter from “Major
General Ruthven, of the Tennessee Militia,’’ to Mr.
Crumpton* offering, for the sum of one million five
hundred thousand dollars, to raise and inarch a
division of six thousand men to the various ports
in the United States, thence to be shipped to the
Crimea.
The question now is, who is major General Ruth
veil ? Is there any such man ? If there is, he must
be fond of a joke. lie bamboozled Crumpton aw
fully.—Richmond Despateh.
British Foreign Legion. —ln the House of
Lords,on the 9th inst., Lord Panmure stated, in re
ply to a question, that the troops of the foreign le
gion consisted of 9,552 Germans, 3,013 Swiss, and
3.535 Italians—making together 15,100 men. The
Swiss and Italian legion would, he hoped,be disem
bodied in the course of a very few weeks. With re
spect to the German Legion, it appeared that a
large portion of them were desirous of being trans
ferred to the Cape of Good Hope. Iler Majesty’s
Government thought that such a course was highly
desirable, us those Germans were of the same char
acter as the original colonists.
Steamer Net tie Miller , on her upward bound trip
to this port from Paducah,in coming into the land
ing below Dover Shoals, near the Iron landing, on
Saturday last, came i n contact with a log which
caused her to sink instantly. Steamer insured at
Nash’s Agency in this city. Cargo all saved, being
principally liquors and oils, taken on at Eddyville,
the same being a part of Steamer Eclipse’s Cincin
nati freight, on which we understand there will be
salvage exacted.— Nas finite Bonner.
American Locomotive for Egypt.— Mason &
Co., of Taunton, Mass., have just finished two superb
engines for the railroad between Cairo and Suez,
ordered by the Egyptian Viceroy. They are to
furnish a comparison of American skill with the En
glish engines of Crampton and Stevenson, running
between Alexandria and Cairo. They weigh 25
tons, bum c-oke, and on a recent trial on the Taun
ton road, ran four miles and made a stop in 3| min
utes.
The Exiles’ Return. —Letters from Dublin (Ire
land) of May 31st, says : “Three of the Irish politi
cal exiles, John Dilion, John Martin and Kevin
O’Doherty, have this week arrived in Ireland, and
Smith O’Brien may be expected here in the course
of next month.”
Reported Ind’an Outrage. —A correspondent
of the New Orleans Picayune writing from Fort
Mclntosh, Texas, under date of the sth inst., states
that information lmd been received there- that Pay
master Hill and his escort had been attackedjiy In
dians at Devil’s River, corporal of the party killed,
and the major badly wounded. The escort number
ed twcuty-iwo, the attacking Indians about fifty
warriors.
An Old Man* Dead.— Col. Henry Moore, of
Vicksburg, died at sea, on his return home, on the
ISthof May last. He was a native of Newport,
Rhode Island, and died at the advanced age of 80
year?. It is said that he had taken by the hand
every President from Washington to Pierce.
Steamers Between Baltimore and Sayan-
N vii.—The Baltimore and Savannah Steamship
Company announce the purchase of a steamer as the
pioneer of their line between Baltimore and Savan
nah. which will be despatched for Savannah on the
sih day of July. This is an important enterprise,
and we have no doubt it will be liberally sustained
by the merchants of the two cities.
Slaveholders. — The white population of the
slaveholding States amounts to 6,222,218, and the
slaveholders to 347,525. Virginia has the largest
number of slaveholders as well as the largest white
population* the former being 55,0t>3 and the latter
894,800.
Riding the Centuar.— Henry Clay said in 1850:
“Os all tLe bitterest enemies of the unfortunate ne
gro, there are none to compare with the abolition
ists», their pretended friends : who like the centoar
of old, mount not the back of the horse, but of the
negro, to ride themselves into power.”
Presidential Election.— The itey fixed for the
election of electors to elect a President and Vice
President of the United States, is the first Tuesday,
after the first Monday, in November. It will fall
this year upon the fourth day of the month.
The London Daily News was seized in Paris, on
the 22d of May, for an article defending Lord Ka-
S lan's memory against the aspersions contained in
[. dc Bazencouxl’s new work.
The Missin., Clipper Ships Driver and
Ocean Qi eek. —The New York Herald of the 22d
inst., says:
The clipper ship Driver sailed from Liverpool on
the 12th of February last, with a crew of twenty
two men mid six officers, together with three hun
dred und forty-four passengers, since which time
she has not been heard of, and her owners give her
up ns lost. The Driver was a fine clipper, two years
old, ofl,4fil tons. She had on board a Liverpool
cargo of dry goods and salt, and was fully insured.—
Daniel Ogden was the owner of the vessel, and Tap
scot t A- Co , the parties to whom the cargo and pas
sengers were consigned.
The Clipper Ocean Queen sailed on the loth of
February, from London, and was heard of at Ports
mouth on the 17th of the same month, since which
w hich time all traces of her has been lost.
It is supposed tliut both vessels encountered the
ice, whieli was then present in the Atlantic in such
large bodies, and were foundered or broken to
pieces during tlie violent storms so prevalent during
all «»f hist winter.
Tlie Ocean Queen was about six years old, and
ot 1,200 tons burthen. She was owned by Gria
wc.d. Morgan & Co., and partially insured.
Disturbances in Arabia.—A letter from Con
stantinople, the 15th, in the Nord of Brussels,
say# : “ Hie disturbances iu Arabia are assuming
the proportions of a general rising of the country. A
tiling unheard of in the history of the Ottoman Em
pire, tlie name ofthe Sultan has been suppressed in
the public prayers, and the Grand Council of the
( la iks and I mans have just declared him a heretic,
and consequently fallen from the Khalifat. In Tur
key, «ll the revolutions are directed against the
Forte and against tlie government, but never
against the sacred person of the Vicar of Mahomet.
During the long rebellion of Mehemet Aliof Egypt,
the name of the legitimate sovereign was never
suppressed in the Divine service, even iu tlie pro
vin ys which submitted to the rebel Pacha. The
Gadi recently appointed to Mecca, mid who is com
pelled to take up his residence at Cuiro, writes from
tlmt city that he must have ail army of 20,000 or
JOJXifl men to enable him to penetrate into Arabia.
All Yemen has embraced the cause of the rebels.”
French Crops and Finances.— France is not in
a condition to endure even a partially bad harvese
and yet the unfavorable weather aud damage dont
to the crops by inundations, which lmd not yet sub
sided, threaten iliat calamity. The Coustitiitiouncl
speaking ofthe budget, congratulates the country
that there is an estimated surplus of fifteen million
tVams for ISSO, while it acknowledges that the
budget of 1854, despite a promised surplus, ended
with a deficiency to the extent of seventy millions ;
and that of 185t>, despite also a promised surplus,
shows a deficiency of fifty millions. In fact, the
sum total of deficiencies on past years amounted to
nine hundred millions. Nevertheless 1857, like pre
ceding years, is already endowed with a surplus
which will, in all probability, be found at its close to
be quite the contrary. These deficiencies, the go
vernment paper adus, have been caused by tin* pub
lic works, but as then; is not the most remote proba
bility of these onerous works being bought with th**
ordinary means of the budget, further animal defi
ciencies will be caused which must be met by loan#
or new taxes.— Balt. American.
Improyk.ment in Iron Manufacture— Some En
glish gentlemen have recently taken out a patent iu
England, for an improvement in the; manufacture
of iron. A mixture of any of the purer oxydes of
iron combined with combustible material, is intro
duceejintv the moulds, wheu»the molten iron is run,
producing, thereby, a chemical action by Yvhich the
nature of the pig iron is changed in such a manner,
that after the* process of puddling, it is more cusily
changed into mall* able iron. The quality is also
much improved, and by the addition of the other
oxyd* >■*, A: e., either ut the time of introducing into
tlie chills or moulds, or subsequently, may be chang
ed Tlio oxydes iff zinc and tin are also found \'al
uable in improving the quality of certaiu kinds of
iron. The oxyde of tin produces closeness of grain,
hardness, fineness of texture, and the iron is well
suited for surfaces# tlmt are subject to much wear.
Certain salts of the metals, und the oxydes of the
earthy bases, sucli as those of calcium, barium, &e.,
are useful in the conversion of pig-iron into mallea-
Western Progress.— One year ago the town of
Clinton, in lowa, on the Mississippi, was not. know'll
on any mnpoflowa. To day it contains ft popula
tion of 1,000 souls, and has three hotels, seven dry
good stores, three grocery stores, two hardware,one
furniture, one clothing, one boot and shoe store,
one bank, (and another organizing,) mic church, one
wan house, two doctor’s olliees, four lawyer’s offi
ces, one brick yard, two limekilns, two saw mills,
on* lumber yard, and two stone (marries. There are
over one hundred buildings that nave been erected
during the past nine months, and in every direction
tliatjt.he cy»* turns the frames of other edifices may
Gratitude. —A biographical sketch of Col. Fre
mont states that lie was educated by some ladies of
Charleston, S. C., at their own expense. He shows
his appreciation of their kindness by leading a cru
sade against the Southern States.
Dogs Transmogrified into Buttons.— Since
the second of June, nearly 500 dogs, of all ages and
conditions, have been captured by the legally ap
pointed dog-catchers of Philadelphia, and given to a
man in Jersey for the manufacture of oil, buttons,
&c. Heretofore the city was compelled to pay $2
a carl load to get them out ofthe way, but now they
are taken from the general depot free of charge by
this enterprising Jerscyinan.
Puih.ic Libraries in New York. —The public
libraries in the city ot New York contain altogether
JJ7,2'.)0 volumes, of which number 80,000 are in the
Astor Library, 40.000 iu that of the New York Socie
ty, 47,0(H)iu the Mercantile Library, 25,000 in that
of tin* New York Historical Society, 24,000 in those
ot Columbia College, the same number in the Union
Theological Seminary, 18,000 in the Apprentices’
Library, 15,000 in the Free Academy, and 12,000
in the Episcopal Theological Seminary.
The English Convict Bankers. —The English
papers slate tliat the memorial presented on behalf
of Bates, the banker, having been referred to the
Judge who tried the case, Baron Alderson, it has
been intimated to the friends of Air. Bates that the
difference between his position and that of his part
ners, Mr. Strahan and .Sir J. Dean Paul, has been re
cognized, and that a mitigation of punishment may
b* looked for in this ease, although his immediate
release from captivity cannot be expected. SirJ.
Paul, together with Mr. Bates, are at Pentonvillc,
Mr. Strunam in one of the convict prisons near Lon
don ; and it is thought, when these two arc sent to
their final destination, that the clemency of the
Crown will be extended to Mr. Bates, and nis liber
al ion take place.
There has been another considerable decline in
land warrants at New-York, and the market is too
unsettled for quotations. The supply is considera
bly in advance of the demand. At Washington
land warrants are quoted as follows : IGO’s
80’s 91 iv 9o,l2o’s tiff’s 85 </■ 90, 40’s lffff to
$lO5.
Authentic information has reached tlie State De
partment at Washington, that, as the islands called
“Mona” and “Monita,” are claimed as dependen
cies of Puerto Itico, and, consequently, as belong
ing to Spain, it is expected that guano will not be
removed from them without the permission of the
Captain General of Puerto Rico.
To Brandy Drinkers. —The London Times says
that it lias become quite customary in England tor
dealers in liquors to buy up empty brandy casks,
bearing the brands of the most noted Cognac
houses, to send them to Hamburg. Antwerp, and
other places, have them there filled with inferior
spirits, and re-shipped on board of vessels bound to
the British Colonies, etc. According to the New
York Journal of Commerce, the same practice pre
vails on this side of the Atlantic, as high as $8 and
$lO being paid for empty casks bearing a well
known brand. When a suitable number of these
arc collected, the branky is manufactured from raw
whiskey, which sells al 25i®2Ci cents per gallon.
This “Cognac” is then shipped to California and
elsewhere as genuine.
Wh at England is Worth.-Tlic material wealth
of England is set down in value at £4,447,000,000.
Its cultivated soil is valued at £1,700,000,000, its
mine# at £120,000,000, its dwellings and factories
al £450,000,000, agricultural implements, live stock
and manufactured goods each over £200,000,000,
and ils mercantile shipping at £40,000,000.
Alarm in Mexico.—A dispatch from Washing
ton states that intelligence from Mexico indicates
that much alarm is felt, by the government respect
ing the .Spanish expedition, and foreshadows an ap
plication for the protection of the United States.—
Southern members of Congress, it is added on the
dispatch, suggest the granting of protection on the
condition of a cession to u# ofthe Tehuantepec route
with the circumjacent territory.
Hon. John C. Breckenridge, the Democratic nom
inee for the Vice-Presidency, addressed a Buchan
an ratification meeting at Lexington, Ky., (his
place of residence) on the 9th inst.
Mortality in the Sandwich Islands.—A
member ofthe Sandwich Islands legislature, who
was convicted of polygamy, has been unseated on
that account. The married ladies of Honolulu have
presented a petition paying for the suppression of
theatre# and circusses, on the ground that they kept
their husbands out all night.
Mr. Edwin Booth, the son of Booth the great tra
gedian, seems to have achieved a high reputation as
an actor at San Francisco. The papers of that city
state that he has been performing |to crowded and
delighted audiences.
A private letter from Nicaragua states that Mr.
Watson G. Haynes died at La Virgin on May 9 of
yellow fever. Mr. Ilaynes was known in this coun
try by his services in procuring the abolition of flog
ging in the Navy.
Heavy Defalcations.— The New York Journal
of Commerce of Monday afternoon, says: Some
excitement has been caused here by the reported
defalcation ofM. Place, connected with the French
Credit Mobilicr, who, it lia said, Ims absconded
from Pari?, leaving a deficit of 18,000 f. Report
states that he has gone to Constantinople. Forth
an- entertained that this will give a shock to public
confidence ut Paris, and cause a great reaction in
monetary affaire.
Sunday Law in Germany. —The States of Ol
denburg have agreed to a law for the better obser
vation of the Sabbath. According to this, all out
door labor, all noisy in door labor, and all places of
public recreation are forbidden—that is, until after
the termination of morning divine service until about
mid-day. An attempt was made to extend the re
striction untii after evening service, but it was re
jected.
It is said that a Synod of the Rabbis of France and
Algeria is abont to be held in Paris shortly, with the
object of examining the propriety of transferring the
observance of the Jewish Sabbath from Saturday
to Sunday.
Large Robbery at Lauderdale Springs.—
We learn from the Mobile Tribune, that the Iron
Safe, at Lauderdale Springs, Miss., was forced open
on the night of the Pith inst., and a large amount of
valuables, iu money and evidences of debt, stolen
therefrom. Among the money were two SI,OOO
bills, State Bank of Louisiana ; one SSOO bill Bunk
of Mobile; SI4OO to SISOO gold coin; sßs9South
Carolina funds. The proprietor, Thomas Adams,
Esq., offers SIOOO reward.
Lola Montes Whipped by a Woman. —The
Ballarat Times of March 3, contains an account of a
whipping at length administered to this most terri
ble whipper, by one own sex. Lola Montes
was engaged to perforin at the Ballarat Theatre, lor
Mr. Crosby. She quarrelled with him about ac
counts, abused him, and was then set on by his
wife. Mrs. Crosby broke a whip on her oppo
nent, then seized Madam by the hair—the rest
may be imagined. The Ballarat Times says that
I.»ofa Montes will not be able to appear for a long
time on the stage.
There is a physician iu Troy, N. Y., who starts
business up when it gets dull, by giving a juvenile
parly, aud so crams the rising generation with pas
try and warm lemonade that in twenty-four hours a
cholera morbus gets among them and that keeps
him employed for the next three months.
England a Republic. —An exchange tell* ua
that “by an act of Parliament, passed May 91st,
1640, England was declared a republic ; and that the
act remains unrepe<-d upon the statute book of
Ur gland to this day.”
Dickens has his thrust at the huge dry goods bales
which women make of themselves now a-days, in
Little Dorrit- He speaks of “a countess who was
secluded somewhere in the core of an immense dress
to which she was in the proportion of the heart to
ike overgrowu cabbage.
VOL. LXX.—NEW SERIES VOL. XX. NO. 27.
WH«tiiuMioii on I lie Adoption ol tlie C’on-
Mtitution.
A correspondent of the New York Post states
that during a recent visit to Orange county, ho
found an original letter written by Washington to
(ion. Knox, in 1788. a copy of which is annexed.—
This letter has never been out of the possession of
the relatives of Gen. Knox, neither has it been pub
fished before :
Mount Vernon.
My dear sir: I pray you to accept my acknowl
edgments of your favors of the 10th and Nth ultimo,
and congratulations on the acceptance of the pro
posed constitution by the Mate of Massachusetts.—
Had this been done without its concomitants, and by
a larger majority, the stroke would have been more
severely felt by the anti-federalists m other States.
As it is. it operates as a damper to their hopes, and
is a matter of disappointment and chagrin to them
all. Under the circumstances enumerated in your
letters, the favorable decision which ha# taken place
iu that State, could hardly have been expected.—
Nothing short of the good sense, sound reasoning,
moderation and temper of its powerful advocates,
would have carried the question, the decision of
which will be very influential oil the equivocal
States. Os tho two which are next to convene,
(New Hampshire and Maryland) there omi l>e no
doubt of the reception of the proposed constitution,
and but little in South Carolina, which makes nine
State# without a dissentient, the force of whieh
argument, is not to be combatted by locality and
sophistry. Candor and prudence, therefore, it is to
Ih* hoped, will pave the way to a unanimous adop
tion of the proposed form; and yet, there are some
characters among us, I believe, who would hazard
everything rather limn cease their opposition, or
give a chance to the evidence of its merits, to con
vict them ot the tallucy of their prediction respect
ing it, by which the saeagicity of their foresight
might be impeached.
This day introduces the elections of delegates for
the convention of this State, whieli will progress as
the court day# in itsliull arrive; after which a more
accurate opinion may be formed ofthe probable de
cision of the State.
From the latest European intelligence I have
seen, the political state of affairs iu France seem to
be in a delicate situation. What will be the issue,
is not easy to decide ; but the spirit winch is diffus
ing itself umy produce changes iu that government
which a few years past could hardly have been
dreamt of. All these things advance the importance
assumed by Great Britain on occasion of the turn
her disputes with France have taken, und the unset
tied condition of other European powers, are strong
additional inducements for us to establish a high
toned government.
Mrs. Washington joins me in every good wish for
Mrs. Kuox. yourself, family, and with sentiments of
the most friendly and affectionate regard,
I am, my dear sir, your obedient and obliged,
G. Washington.
To General Knox.
This letter was written by General Washington
to General Knox, and received by him on the dd
March, 17 88, as appears by the endorsement there
on in the handwriting of General Knox. Mrs. Caro
line H. Smith, a grand daughter of General Knox
and daughter of Judge Thatcher, of Maine, present
ed the same to tlie subscriber.
Signed, John F. Smith.
November 3d, 1842.
The Great Northern Lakes— Statistics rela
ting to our great Northern Lakes, their extent, im
portance, and the influence they exercise upon the
settlement and prospects of the country ; the won
ders of their commerce, the marvellous growth of
the cities on their banks, and the rapid influx of
emigration which is concentrating within their area
and in the contigions territory, a great north west
ern empire, are constantly presented in our public
papers, sometime in isolated facts and at others in
prepared articles. Yet with this constant int<‘ration
of the subject the impression created of the immen
sity of the Lake country, the vastness of its produc
tive resources, and rapid increase of its population
falls short of the reality. The extent of tho whole
coast line of our Northern Lakes exceeds three
thousand miles iu length, and embraces portions of
Vermount, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michi
gan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and the Minneso
ta Territory, on the one side, while the line is of
nearly equal reach, and in some parts if not inferior
fertility, on the Canadian shore The greatest
length of Lake Ontario, is 180 miles; that of Erie,
240, Huron, 200; Michigan, 320; and Superior,
355—making a total length of 1,555 miles, and an
area of 90,000 square miles.
The entire area drained by these grout inland sea#
is estimated at 345,515 square miles. They empty
their waters into the ocean through tlie fct. Law
rence, which is navigable from Luke Erie down
wards, to all vessels not exceeding 130 feet keel, 20
feet beam, and 10 feet draught. The aggregate
traffic of tin* lakes is at this time, stated iu money
value, much more than $300,000,000, employing
eighty odd thousand tons of steam, and 138,000 tons
of sail; though as late as the year 1800 there was
scarcely a craft above the size of an Indian canoe
trading on the lakes. The first American schooner
on Lake Erie was built at Erie, Pennsylvania, in
1797, but she was lost soon after and not replaced
for some time.
Os these lakes and their rivers the commerce in
1851, foreign aud coastwise, was valued at $326,-
593,335, being earned on by means of enrolled ton
nage of 77,061 tons of steam, and 138,911 tons of
sail, or an aggregate licensed tonnage of 215,975
tons. Os Uiis amount of trade the value of $314,458
went coastwise, and $12,110,877 Canadian or for I
eign. The actual money value of the coastwise ex.
ports, by the lowest estimate, was $132,000,000 iu
round numbers, being the mere value ofthe proper
ty passing over the lakes, exclusive of passage mo
ney, passengers carried, cost of vessels, expenses of
crews, or anything iu the least degree extraneous.—
During the season of 1851 the amount of grain
alone transported equalled an aggregate of 27J(82,-
801 bushels of cereal produce.— Baltimore Amer
ican.
A Significant Change.—-Dispatches received in
California by the last mail announce that by a de
cree mucie on the first of March, Mr. Dillon, the
French Consul at San Francisco, has been relieved
from that post and promoted to the appointment of
Consul General and Charge d’Affuires at Fort au
Prince in St. Domingo. There arc only four Con
suls General of France, who at the same time have
the powers and title of Charge d’Affaires. In virtue
of that title, Mr. Dillon will have the entire direc
tion of the concerns of France in St. Domingo, Cuba
the rest of the West, Indies, Nicaragua and Central
America. In view of the present position of affairs
in those regions, and the policy which France baa
seen tit to pursue in interfering to counteract the
movements of the United States, the appointment
of so inveterate a disturber of international traquil
ity as consul, may be regarded with suspicion and
distrust. Since the accession of Louis Napoleon to
imperial power, the foreign colonial policy of
France has been aggressive every where, ana this
man Dillon has been one of the most effective instru
ments of mischief. He was used for that purpose
in the Sandwich Islands, and in California, and on
the West Coast of Mexico. In St. Domingo, the
field of operations open to him is so large, amt the
trouble already so serious that there is reason to fear
the result. —Philadelphia North American.
The Commerce of Great Britain.—The Liv
erpool Courier, of the 4th, contains a return of the
number of vessels and tonnage entered inwards and
cleared outwards at each of the twelve principal
ports of the United Kingdom during the year 1854 ;
and also a return of the declared value of British
uud Irish produce and manufactures exported from
the respective ports to foreign countries and British
possessions during the same year. The following is
uu abstract:
Inwards. Outwards.
Vessels. Tonnage. Vessels. Tonnage
Loudon 10,943 2,667,823 8,174 2,127,419
Liverpool 4,493 2,190,404 4,551 2,161,265
Hull 2,789 504,348 1,884 374,859
Bristol 694 162,538 2*96 101,273
Newcastle 3,048 441,193 6,671 1,122,126
Southampton 872 262,276 861 279,658
Leith 1,086 130,586 393 71,545
Glasgow 514 125,482 914 256,519
Greenock 377 144,152 179 71,572
Dublin 337 71,602 148 44,793
Cork 461 87,323 325 62,071
Belfast 204 53,837 128 33,988
Total 25,814 6,846,564 24,524 6,697,688
An analysis of the calculations upon which these
tables are based would doubtless show that the real
differences between Liverpool uud London is much
less than it appears above, a larger proportion of the
trude of London being carried on by coasting ves
sels, making short trips. The export returns are
thus stated :
London £22,-330,272 Glasgow £4,905,557
Liverpool 46,719,077 Greenock 554,508
Hull 10,003,122 Dublin 41,478
Bristol 751,718 Cork 148,096
Newcastle 1,521,551 Belfast 28,755
Southampton... 2,:i34,141
Leith 527,697 Total 89,866,072
Showing that considerably more than one half the
entire trade of the twelve principal ports of Great
Britain goes to Liverpool.
Import Trade ok Baltimore.—The following
table, for which we are indebted to Ex Governor
Thomas, Collector of the Port, shows that the
foreign imports of Baltimore, as indicated by the
collection of duties, has been largely increased dur
ing the last five months, as compared with the same
period of 1855 :
Amount of duties received on Import* at the Balti
more Custom Home during me first fire month*
of 1855 and 1850.
1855. Amount. 1850. Amount.
January.... $ 70,094.75 January $ 70,890.10
February... 33,962.15 February 23,842.80
March 103,182.70 March 131,380.80
April 07,350.85 April 106,293.90
May 46,595.60 May 148,893.30
$321,180.05 $547,306.90
321,150.80
Increase for the first 5 months of 1850...5226,120.85
[.Baltimore American.
Strike among Captains.—The Buffalo Courier
says nearly one hundred captains of various boats
belonging to forwarding companies, quit their poets
on Monday week, for the reason that their employ
ers w ould not allow them full pay for the time spent
at the breaks along the canal. The contract be
tween the parties provides that the captains shall re
ceive so much per month while in active service,
but while the boats are lying idle, they shall receive
$2 per day. The captains refused to accept this
rendering of the contract, and left their boats as
stated. Two of the boats were provided with new
captains on Monday, and had proceeded as far as
the Erie street bridge, when some of the “ strikers”
boarded them, drove off the captains, and tied up
the boats. Some of them were arrested in conse
quence.
Reform in the Church of Sardinia.—lt is
stated that nine articles proposed for the reformation
of the church of Sardinia, will be brought before
the Parliament at Turin during it* next session. It
is earnestly hoped that such measures will l>eadopt
ed as will uproot some great abuses. The most im
portant of these articles are : —“ The entire indepen
dence of the church of Sardinia of Rome; the de
nial of tradition as a source of dogma; permission to
all the people to read the Bible and interpret it for
themselves. abolition of compulsory celibacy of the
priests; and the use of the popular language in the
church services.”
Death of the Hon. S. W. Trotti.—We regret
to learn that the Hon. 8. W. Trotti, formerly a re
presentative) from this State in the National Legi«-
lature, departed this life on Monday last, near JJlick
head, 8. C., where he was on a visit.
Mr. Trotti occupied a very prominent position as
a consistent and unwavering advocate ot State
Rights, and duriug his short career lie made many
warm friends and admirers, who will regret bis loss
For some time past a rapid decline in health had
driven him into retirement from the busy scenes
Os life. —Columbia Time*.
tP Fur moke in Connecticut.—One of the largest
meetings ever held in the State of Connecticut, waa
convened in Naugatuck on 1 ueeday mtfht for the
inauguration of a Fillmore and Donelsqu Club in
that tow n, and to stimulate like organizations m
other parts of the State. There were delegates from
New Haven, Westvifle. and several towns on
the line of the railroad, including one hundred
from Waterbury, who came in wugons, teams,
omnibuses, and all sorts of vehicles. The enthu
siasm ran high, and a State Convention will soon be
called.
Among the illuminations in London iiTceleWatiou
of the peace, one device was a combination of the
initiate of tlie Queen, Priuee Albert. Ixrais Napo
leon, and the Empress Eugenic*. The result of this
arrangement was a display of the letters V. A. N.
E , wh'o'j suggested to the philosophic mind a c >u-
I i.ectioo betweeu popularity and the weatheroook.
/•'/•<>m the London 2Ws, June 11.
The North Amerlenn mul Went India Pleef ol
Kurland*
The Shannon is not yet commissioned, but ws*
yesterday put ill hand to In* prepared l«»rnc;<>v
with the utmost despatch, ami axast body oi uj ri
tioers wereset upon her to expedite her readim*
All the commanders of the g unboats at Portsmooth
were also culled to the Port Admirals ye*terdfn
morning—it hi rumored, to receive just met ion* tin
having their respective vessel* ready for active,-, r
vice at telegraphic notice. When llieso vess.-L sad
there will be upon, or on their way to, tin* Norrh
American and West India station the following
licet:—Nile,S|, Captain 0. R. Mfindy; Powerful.
84, Captain Massie; Bosuawon, ,70, (ling,) Captain
Glanviilc ; lummn, 72, Commander M*»vri.-h ; Pern
broke, 60, Captain Seymour, C. 11.; Cornwallis, till,
Captain Wellesley, C- IL: Kuryalus, 51, Captain ( i
Ramsay, C. 11.» Auiphion, 84, Captain Chads ; Vcs
tul, 26, Captain T. P.Thompson; Kurydire,26, (’
tain Tarlcton, C. 15.; Termagant, 24, Commodore
Kellett, C. 15.; Cossack, 21, Captain Faiwhaw.*;
Py lades, 21, Captain D’Kyncourt; A tael on. IS,
Coummndcr high field ; Malacca, 17, Captain Ear
qulinv; Falcon, 17, Cammander Campion: Archer,
15, Captain Hcnihercortc; Mariner, 12, Coimiinn
der Pearce ; Daring, 12, Commander Napier Buz
zard, 6,-Commander Debbie; Argus, 6, Comuif'li
der Purvis; liasilliak, 6, Commander Crolton ; 8
Master-Commander Parsons; Hermes, 6, Comnntn
der W. K. Gordon. Only one third of the above are
sailing ships ; the steamers, although mounting Imt
few guns, mount the heaviest canted, and good
crews. The Gile, Pembroke and Cornwallis, iov
screw line of buttle ships. Euryalus is the heaviest
first-classfrigate; Termagant, Cossack. Pyhnh s, and
Malacca are the heaviest.class ol corvette* carrying
68 and 81 pounders. The. Vestal and Eurydice tiro
heavily armed “donkey” frigates. The Amphioii
is a heavily armed frigate. The 12-gun sloops me
the newest and most etiicicnt of their elas*, nil car
rying long 32’s; and the 6 gun steamers arc mount
od with now, stern and tiro a aside gnus of the
heaviest metal and longest range; and if a Hot ilia ot
gunboats be taken into consideration, about St) of
the heaviest and newest guns of the longest range
may be added to the computation.
The light squadron of despatch boats and gun
boats, under ilie command of Captain Watson,
8., in the Impericuse, of 51 guns, and comprising ,
of the first named class, tlio Wanderer, tin Victor,
the Ringdove, the Lapwing, the Pioneer, and t!*--
Intrepid -.land of. the second elu**, the Starling, tin*
danus, the Beaver, and tke Drake, all arrived in
Falmouth oil Sunday, ami will till up with coal and
provisions immediately, in consequence of the r.
ceipt on that day of an Admiralty telegraphic b«
s patch, which was conunUuicated to tin- l Vir.m.i
(fore, theu otV the port, by one of the gunboat*. Tin*
evolutions of the past week embraced uadi iig, steam
ing, gunnery, and various other exercises, which an*
now suspended, as it is surmised that these ship.*, will
all proceed to the American coast forthwith. Th.
Mohawk and other steamers are expected to join at.
Falmouth.
ller Majesty’s ships, Nile, 1)1, Oapt. "Mundy
Shannon, 51, (new screw frigate); the Pylades, 21,
(’apt.. D’Kynecourt, and Cossack, 21, Captain Fan
sliawe, have been telegraphed to prepare for son
(‘‘foreign service") with all possible dispatch. Their
destination is believed and currently reported to be
North America. The Cossack has had orders for
some days, we have been informed, for Halifax, and
this, we doubt not is the intended destination of the
squadron now so instantaneously ordered to pro
pare for active service. The Arrogant had received
instructions to fit out for the conveyance of the Bri
tish Ambassador und staff from England to St. Pe
tersburg, but she has now returned the fittings and
supplied their places with something more substan
tial. Last evening, ut half past 6, the Arrogant
steamed through Spithead and down Channel under
sealed orders.
Tlio Great Cent nil lloiMph,
The Cincinnati Railroad Record, in speculating
upon the future of Railroads in* the West, predicts n
great change in the course of inland trade. The Bai
tiinor« ami Ohio und the Pennsylvania (lentral Rail
roads, it thinks, will event ually become the principal
outlets to the immense trade, which New York sue
Cockled in diverting irom the great Cental rente»
over the mountains by the construction of the Erie
Canal, it is well known that previous to 1820 Bul
tiinore and Philadelphia were the foci of W< stein
commerce; and that after Baltimore had completed
her Railroad to Cumberland she presented the most
natural route as well as the most ac cessible Atlantic
port for the trade and productions of the < >hio Val
ley. But New York having built the Erie Cn.ual,
had only to connect with the Ohio Canals in order
to appropriate to herself a large and rapidly increas
ing trade, which was pursuing a non direct, if not a
lion-expeditious route. Ami we need not wonder
that that city, with this new source of wealth and
greatness, added to her inonoplyof the Lake trade,
should at once become (he great emporium of the
country. But the Record thinks that another in
volution is taking place—that Baltimore and Phil
adelphia are about to recover all that they lost,
by the construction of the Erie Canal. It argue*
thus :
This great motor of equality lias been found, in
the Railroad. This road, however, had to go not
only to Philadelphia and Baltimore, but throng?*
the entire west, to the banks of the Mississippi.—
At length this has been done also, and we are now
to see the effect. One of the fin-t effects .was seen
here, iu the shipment of great quantities of lard, Im
con and other similar kinds of produce, by the way
of Wheeling and Pittsburg. The next whs seen in
1855, in the fact, that after making due ullowanot
for short crops, the arrival of the western produce,
by the Erie Canal, did not increase. The next was
the obvious fact, now seen in the operation of the
Erie Canal, that the shipment of western produce,
by that route is retalirrly decreasing. Now, the
Erie Canal is not, losing the Lake trade proper, but,
it is fast, losing that immense trade, which came from
the great Valley of the Ohio; and which under the
influence of the great Railroad lines, terminating at
Philadelphia auu Baltimore, must be diverted in
that direction. There will be a great change, but,
that change will only be found, in restoring trade 6*
its natural channels, und iu giving new outlets to
the west.
That we muke no mistake iu the cause or direc
tion of the change going on, we give the follow in,'-•
returns of the Pennsylvania, Central and Baltimore
nnd.Ohio Railroads, which are now before u*, fm
the month of April. The sameincrease lias taken
place iu each mouth since the Ist. Fobi uary.
1855. IKfib.
Pennsylvania Central $355,3!•)
Baltimore and Ohio 386,711 512,25(1
Aggregate $692,060 $1,12*3,219
The receipts of the Pennsylvania Central Road
for 1856 will probably reach nearly six million. .
which, considering Us length and cost, will exceed
anything in the way of Railroad receipts heretofore
exhibited in the United Slates. The Baltimore
Road, though it will not equal that of the Pennsyl
vania Road, will show much larger results than
we have yet seen.
While we are thus pointing out a great commer
cial change, now going on, we may as well reply
to one thing, so often said ns to be believed. This
is, that railroads have not the capacity of ennuis. If
the railroads have double tracks, well laid, when
is the limit to their capacity '! The fact is. that the
tracks and machinery of a railroad can always b*
adapted to the amount of its business -, and that Im
siness will always pay, when the machinery i; adap
ted to it. Steam is the great conquorev over all mo
tors, and in that, the locomotive triumphs.
Mutiny on Board an American Ship. —The
Marseilles journals speak of the arrest of the
entire crew of an American vessel under the
following circumstances: The clipper Atalanta
left Marseilles on the 201 h May with a crew ol I
sailors, composed chiefly of Italians. The hx-ii di.
played from the commencement a mutinous dispo
sition, which induced the captain, named Moitell, to
place the most mutinous in confinement. The ship
was then off the coast of Valencia. Captain Mor
tal, in order to try the intentions of tin* men, sent
the crew to do something connected with the navi
gation of the vessel, but was not obeyed. The mat**
on arguing with the men on their conduct, received
several stabs with a knife, whilst the captain was
multrcufed and bound with ropes. The mutineers
then took eomniandof the vessel,and changed h. i
course to the Levant, but in passing by Marseille*
they determined to anchor somewhere near t he const
to get an additional supply of water and provision:
They accordingly signalled for a pilot and one soon
came on board. This hitter was informed by the
captain of the state of affairs, and he promised to
communicate with fcbe officer of the American fri
gate Constellation, then at Marseilles. This was
done, and forty marines speedily boarded tin*. Ala
lanfa and ordered the mutineers to surrender. The
latter took refuge in the rigging, but were pursued
by the marines, who by dint of sabre cuts forced
them to descend to the deck, where they w ere taken
prisoners and conveyed to ForlHt. Nicholas by the
naval gendarmerie. Bo the matter remains at pre
sent.
Lord Landsdownk on Punr.ir Speaking.—Du
ring my drive yesterday with Lord Landsdmvne, in
talking of public, speaking, 1 asked him whether lie
had ever experienced that sort of bewilderment in
delivering himself which he might have observed
came over me at the Deviz< s dinner, und which I
had once before experienced for a few moments du
ring my speech at the revolution meeting in Dublin
some yews since, but recovered my.-eli <m that no
casion almost immediately. He said, to my sur
prise, that he hardly ever spoke in the House with
out feeling the approaches of some such loss of self
possession, and found that the only way to sur
mount it was to talk on at all hazards. lf«* added,
wlmt appears highly probable, that those common
places which most men accustomed to public speak
mg have ready «.ut and dry to bring in on all occa
sions, were, bethought, in general used by them us
a mode of getting over those blank intervals, when
they do not know wlmt to say next, but, in the
meantime, must say something. —Diary of JVwiftan
Moore.
Lamartine'* Work*.—lt. hi now stated, on what
flooin* to bo excellent authority, that f/amartmc’a
literary prefect in an utter failure. A coirre*|U*n<lenf
of tJie Independence llelge thinkh that lii« twenty
thousand aubneribere in America, ami twenty thou
sainl more in France, have been over stated by at
leant one lmlf, and wonders how he could 1 litiifc of
getting up a work in the style ho proponed, ami pay
ing off ho large a debt, by the mere profit*of a lit
erary venture. Lamartine now owes about four
hundred thousand dollar*. lie is one of the lurgent.
wine-growers in France. When upon the death of
hi* father he came into pouseHaion of the estate he
now owns, he found It burthened with a mortgage
of about S'4UO t QOO. Since the y£ftr ISIS the disease
of the vine has nearly mined him, and the hwtseven
years lie has had to pay off the interest on his debts,
and to feed and clothe nearly fiOO men. women and
children living upon and cultivating his estates. —
This, it is Raid, accounts for the other
Thk Late Sik Koukkt Pkkt..—A London piiner,
in noticing the publication on the |Mirl of Sir Jv»f,ei »
Peel’s literary executors. L»rd Mahon, now Karl
of Htanhopc, and Mr. Cardwell, of a portion <*!
flume literary remains, belonging to the dn eaaed
baronet, of which they were left custodian*, rc
marks: , . .
“It api*>ar*. from a very scanty introductory pre
face to the volume now issued by the editors, that
Sir Kobort Peel has left behind him in munusermt,
from his own pen, a vindication of his conduct r. la
tivc to the Hire.; great epochs <d his life—the mis
aiuif of the Catholic Emancipation act in ; the
history of liia own ministry frointlie limn he was
called to power in November, ISM, until tie relin
quished it in tin, spring of fBS-> ; ami the details nl
the great (struggle wliicb ended in the repeal of llio
com taws and tie breaking up of the Conservative
party. Tbe vel um; now published is exclusively
devoted to the first of them; event*, arid although
the facta are not new, tin- public art introduced for
(he tirst time to stale secrets of more than ordinary
interest. lit thin record the motives and conduct of
Sir liobcrt Peel aVe set forth in a [Miint «f view
w hich shows him to be a conscientious nod at the
same time a timid man—too timid, at least, to en
counter a social revolution, which it was his belief
his own far-sightedness had spared the countiy
twice iu his lifetime.
Pai-al Biuotbv.—Ail English Indy lately lost n
daughter at ltome, and on the tomb (which was in
the English Protestant cemetery) she wished to have
the verse from St. Matth-w. -Jli. aged arefho pure in
heart, lor they shall see God,' 1 imerilied ; but It ap
pears that some officer e.mneeU-d w ith the censor
ship entered the workshop of the statuary who was
working at the tomb, and forbade him inset thing
more than the first half of the verse, as he said it
was neither right nor just that here lie.; should see
the Lord.
Mr. Barnuin, it is said, has received an offer from
tbe Sydenham Crystal Paine. , in England, of five
thousand dollars a year, to go over ther. amt take
charge of one of its departments.